New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1916, Page 12

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1916. PENN COACH PICKS | Vidal of Army Eleven BULL DOG TO WIN Folwell Says Yale Spiri Wil Dis count: Harvard’s Attack “Within the last fow days Yale's foot- Ball team has: rallied quite a number jof coaches and critics’to its stand- d. after the Yale-Princeton game was strongly in avor of Harvard to defeat the Elis omorrow, but the factor of Yale ghting spirit has since taken on for- Sentiment immediate midable proportions. In further search of opinion from Heading football figures, Bob Folwell, Bead coach at Pennsylvania, was dught yesterday. Folwell Dbelieves hat Yale will win. He sizes up the game as a test between spirit and plendid schooling, and he holds that fight will turn the tide in favor of 'ad Jones' eleven. Folwell also thinks that the quality of substitute kmaterial is to be regarded as a major gctor, and that on their showing ggainst Brown the Haughton second tringers cannot be ranked with the [¥ale substitutes, . "Incidentally Folwell makes the as- gertion that Harvard's first team would have been whipped by Brown, nd that Haughton sent in his sub- fitutes in an attempt to hide the tact that the Bears were the superiors of the Crimson and to avoid the moral effect of a beating for Harvard. Here's iwolwell’s, dope: ; ‘Wagers on Fighting Men. | *Yale’s spirit will meet the highly chooled Haughton machine, and I hink spirit will win. Harvard hid ome of its strength when it plaved Brown—how much is a question that one must deal with in making a haz- ard as to Harvard's real strength. I do not think the Crimson concealed much of its power, but that Haughton khot in some of his second stringers alcloud the fact that Brown was the better eleven and to avoid the moral ifect of a licking for his first team. ‘It's/Bn old saying that a team is ji9' stromger than its substitutes. Wi, Earvard ‘subst'showed nothing s&ninst Brown, wheteas Yale has a briking second string of men with all fthe spirit of its first. string. Har- is in#good condition and a fight, Middies Confident. Annapolis, Md., Nov. 24.—Cohfident in the ability of their favorites to ard's -second string cannot be near he perfect machine as the first play- , therefore another edge for the le team. “Haughton’s cool, almost faultless achine may win, but I would wager pn the fighting man with his‘heart set pn mastery. I think Tad Jones has instilled this spirit into his men.” Crimson at New London, New London, Nov. 24.—Harvard’s ootball squad of thirty-one players, accompanied by coaches and trainers, arrived here edrly last night from INew Haven to remain until Saturday orning, when they will be taken to ew Haven on a special train for the annual Yale game. The practice in the bowl vesterday Infternoon was cut short by a drench- ing rain. Horween, Flower and Minot jpunted to the backfleld men and the iine charged down the field. Coach [Haughton made a wager with Rob- Ingon that he could not score a drop kick from the muddy field, but the quarterback sent over two goals in puccession, after which the Crimson mentor pald the bet and called fur- there wagers off. The squad attended a theater last night and retired early. The re- mainder of the squad is expected here from Cambridge this afternoon. Army Team Selected. ‘West Point, N. Y., Nov. 24.—Head Coach Daly of the Army eleven last night announced that the line-up and approximate weights for the game with the Navy at New York Saturday would be as follows: House (165), left end; Jones (200), left tackle; O. Knight (203), left guard; McEwan, Captain, (192), cen- ter; Meacham (185), right guard, Butler (192), right tackle; Shrader (168), right end; Gerhardt (145), guarterback; Place (170), left half- back; Oliphant (171), right half- ‘pack; and Vidal (173), fullback. The Army squad of 56 players with coaches, trainers and rubbers left bere for New York at 8:40 a. m. to- day. The battalion of officers and cadets will follow Saturday morning. The soldiers went through their final workout in a heavy rain yester- day. Except for a brief praetice at the Polo Grounds this afternoon the €leven will do no further work until they meet the Navy..A. short ses- elon at position drills, and a brief punting drill comprised the work yes- terday. Coach Daly asserted that the team We Are Catering to AFTERNOON BOWLING Pin Men Always on Hand "AETNA ALLEYS - Church Street. jboth of which ries, twelve hundred midshipmen yes- iorday afternoon hauled ftheir’ team through the streets of Annapolis and gave them a real send-off when the start was made for New York, where on Saturday the inter-service football classic will be staged. The Navy team admittedly has shown much more real football prowess this year than for many seasons past, and the Navy rooters see nothing to it but a Navy victory by a decisive score. The Middy backfield this season, while admittedly made up of excep- {ionally speedy men, has the handi- cap of being composed of players who, until this year, had never played in a big game. The Navy coaches, how- ever, profess confidence in their men. ROAN HAL SOLD FOR $3,100. Champion Pacer Goes to H. T. Grady at 01d Glory Sale. New York, Nov 24.—Roan Hal, the champion pacing gelding of 1916, brought only $3,100 yesterday after- noon when sold at auction at the Old Glory Horse Sale in Madison Square Garden This great pacer went to H. T. Grady of Philadelphia. That he brought such a low price was due probably to his age. He is a gelding, 9 ars old, and experts who admired him yesterday declared that his great racing career was near an end. He is by Hal De Facto, dam Maud C, had a record of 2°00 1-4. His best mark was 2:00 3-4. Dr. Elmore, a bay colt by J. Mal- colm Forbes, dam Mendosa Worthy, which earned the title of champion yearling trotter of 1916, brought the top price of the day. He was sold to the Brook Farm for $4,200. BINGARA BRINGS $30,000- Sire Bought at Old Glory 200 Sold Again. Bridgeport, Nov. 24—Benjamin A. Bulkeley, a Southport horse breeder, has just purchased the stallion Bin- gara, America’s leading sire of stand- ard performers for the past years. The purchase pric nounced as $30,000. Bingara was first sold Monday at the Old Glory sale in Madison Square Garden to E. J. Trantor, an auctioneer of the sale, who paid $5,200 for.the animal. Trantor, who declared he bought the animal as a speculation, immediately turned it over at a profit to a second party, who in turn sold it to Bulkeley. Sale for three is an- AWARDED MONOGRAMS. Captain Lang and Clesson W. Par- ker were among the membpe of Middlebury college football eleven fo secure monograms, at a recent meet- ing of the faculty athletic board. In appreciation of the work of the team during the past season, Ebenezer Saunders a wealthy New York man- ufacturer who is making his home in Middlebury tendered the boys a ban- quet Monday evening at thé Addison House. toasts was Captain Lang. break the series of West Point victo- | Among those responding to 1 Has Proved to be Wonder in Backfield This Season West Point, Nov, 24.—Army foot- ball experts boast of the fact that they have two of the best backs of the season in Oliphant and Vidal. | men are also star all around athletes. 1\Vith Oliphant behind the army line ji son. Vidal, the recruit from South Dakota, is one of the fastest and | trickiest of the running backs who | have been uncovered this year. He is a ten second man in the hundred, a javelin thrower and an all around track and field man. | first line Vidal is dangerous. He is as elusive in a broken fleld as any of the backs. He has a tricky way of swerving and melting through the clutches of the tacklers. In addition he is perhaps one of the best drop kickers of the year, He can shoot them from a bad angle on the fifty yard line,and they go true between the posts.with terrific force. A smooth werker in every department is Gene Vidal. Photo. shows Vidal starting one of ‘his runs. BOWLING RESULTS Like Taking Money From a Hughes Backer, Tigers Wallop Pastimes— Besse-Leland Bowlers Show Form. The Tigers are today within hail- ing distance of the leadership of the City Bowling league, having disposed Aetna alleys last evening. were never in the contest, and it was simply good practice for the Tigers. |a pretty race for high honors on the winning team, the former losing out in total pinfall by one pin, the scores being Wright 312, Anderson 313. Fo- berg of the victors was high single score man of the match with 122. Alpress and Scheuy performed the best for the Pastimes. Four teams comprising employes of Besse-Leland company, opened up a series last evening. Using the names interest was manifested by the play. ers and their friends. the Giants in the National pulled for the team of the same name in the bowling league and other fans evinced their interest likewise. Braves fell thrice at the hands of the Giants while the White Sox took two games from the Red Sox. The league gives promise of developing con- slderable interest as well as star bowlers. The scores follow: Tigers. 100 s [ . 100 111 102 535 492 Pastimes. 99 69 T. Wright Foberg Earnest ... J. Wright. Anderson 89 81 106 103 108 90— 91— 84— 98— 312 103— 313 466—1493 279 299 290 Alpress Nearing Schuey Thornton H. Timbell 86— 82— 82— 76— 79— 405—1225 260 222 257 243 243 Contant Besa, . Johnson F. Johnson 62— 68— 81— 67— 190 218 220 214 298— 842 66 73 75 273 21 ‘White Sox. 64 69 57 83 7 75 89 216 Giants. 78 74 73 84 309 Braves. 70 63 70 76 279 Riley P Chamberlain Altken Flower 71— 12— 78— 78— 204 213 223 246 299— 884 Crean Gibney ‘Wuchert . H. Johnson 92 93 74 90 349 88— 100— 66— 93— 347—1005 2568 267 213 267 i 92 73 94 Lake ..., Scheidler . Hanranhan Crean 78— 80— 80— 96— 226 235 223 266 334— 949 These | one of the football sensations of the ! Once past the of the Pastimes in easy fashion on the | The losers J. Wright and Anderson indulged in | The | MOODY ANSWERS NAFEY Sub-Master Points Out Where Stam- ford on Previous Occasions Have Proved Poor Sportsmen. The sporting page of the Herald recently published a letter from George M. Nafey of Stamford, a form- er local resident, who demanded that sentiment be created for a post-sea- son football game between the local Stamford. The former local man a letter to Sub-Master James C. Moody of the High school requesting that the locals journey down the state and meet the eleven of that city en Thanksgiving Day. In reply to the today Mr, Nafey rea- letter, forwarded to Mr. would not pay any attention to the demands made of them. The letter is as follows: November 23, 1916. Mr. George M. Nafey, 87 Broad Street, Stamford, Conn. Dear Mr. Nafey: I am n receipt of your communica- tion under date of November 21, with regard to our team coming to Stamford to play football on Thanks- giving Day. I presume there is no one here connected with athletics that knows the history of things than I do. If you knew the history of our relations with Stamford you would hesitate in using such terms as ‘‘sportsmanship” and New Britain being ‘“‘afraid” etc. As a matter of fact our ! closed. Even if this would do all in my playing Stamford- In in athletics I have never dealt with a more unsportsmanlike crowd than that representing athletics in the Stamford High school. Three or four years ago we were anxious to get on a permanent schedule for football with yvour school. This was brought about and a two-year contract was drawn up and signed by both schools }we to play in Stamfor and they to play in New Britain the next year. We fulfilled our part of the contract to the letter and played {in Stamford and received royal treat- | ment in every way and congratulated season were not so, T power against champions and the team representing i ‘“‘marooned in Stamford” also penned | Moody i sons why New Britain should not or | One quer. better ! my experience : ourselves that we were on - working | basis with a school llke Stamford. The next year when Stamford was ' due here they ignored the contract absolutely and said they had no place on the *hedule to play New Britain. Two years ago we tried again a game in Dbasketball with Stamford whick was played here. { arrived at gymnasium about the time the game was supposed to have found a dispute in progress over the rules to be used. This matter had Iready been settled between the schools both having signed the rules gotten up by the Headmaster: club to govern athletics of Connecticut. by name, if I remember rightly, save \me a line of talk that was anything {but gentlemanly and sportsmanlike across” and do the right thing I shall exert all my influence not to have athletic relations with the Stamford High school. As much as I regret . this situation I do not feel that I am | justified in pursuing any other course. |” Very truly vyours, (Signed) J. C. MOODY. of noted baseball teams, considerable Rooters for ; league i President Fultz Asserts National League Must Grant Players Re- quests Before Contracts Are Signed. New York, Nov. 24—That and minor league players in all leagues protected by the Baseball Players’ fraternity will refuse to sign their contracts unless the National assoclation, the governing body of the minor league, grants requests recent- ly made upon it by the fraternity, was again indicated by a statement made here yesterday by President David Fultz of the fraternity. ‘“The National association simply must grant these requests: that is all there is to it,” said Fultz. “We have pledges from virtually all our players not to sign contracts unless they get word from officers of the fraternity. “I am more sure ‘than ever that we have the majority of the players be- hind us on this issue. Since the minor league conference ignored our re- quests in New Orleans I have received letters from dozens of players asking that ‘we sit tight.'” Fultz also said he had sent Chair- man Herrman of the National com- mission, coples of contracts entered into last season by Ray Keating of New York and John Henry of Wash- ington. Both of these contracts had clauses exempting the club from pay- ing the players’ salary in the event of injury met while playing ball, Fultz declared. major RECORD CROWD FOR BOWD. 77,453 Tickets Distributed for. Yale- Harvard Game. i | New.Haven, Nov. 24.—A total of 177,453 tickets has been sent out for the Yale-Harvard football game here next Saturday, of which number 28,. 171 have been taken by Harvard, it was announced yesterday by the Yale ticket office. The total also includes 244 press and 300 side line tickets. Two years ago 68,042 persons saw the Blue and Crimson classic. The attendants at the game will be 1,500. in High Schools | Furthermore your coach, Mr. Boyle | and until Stamford is ready “to come | | Chicago beat Tllinois 20 to 7; Wiscon- | sin beat €hicago.3@ to.7. the started* and : | the { Folwell Says, Yale Spirit Will Offset Slick Harvard Attack---Sore Throat Epidemic Causes Loss of Two Eli Ends---Yankees to Have Baseball Stadium---Moody Replies to Stamford’s Claim For Game LIGHT Grantland Rice That in van was Jim Jeffries was 1890 John Lawrence Sulli- “invincible”; that in 1900 “invincible”; thati in 1912 Jack Johnson was “invin- cible.” Willard’s supremacy today is no more marked than the suprem- acy of Sullivan, Jeffries and John- son, They were all super-men, not to be overthrown, They were all beyond the reach of a mortal con- queror. * But at the appointed hour | each in his turn knew what it meant ! to wait, face down in the resin, until the official timekeeper had completed his count. 1Y “We Owe God a Death.” —=Shakespeare. You know your debt; And high ar low or the rest of it, Today, next year—well, the date is set, And getting the worgtior the best of it At the moment picked by an unknown Fate, " stands “for the out-bound | way— it is date When the bill comes due as the duck grows gray, Are you ready to pay? And 't the matter—it isn't the To Retire? We hear, too, that Willard is plan- ning to retire. So Sullivan. Jeffries had already son was to retire after ‘“‘this last fic Willard may break the record. But the betting is 10 to 0 that he doesn’t. Just as he getting ready to step to one side, unbeaten, the chance to pick up another 50,000 or $100,000 “easy money” will lure him on just once too often, One more shot at easy money—and then another “in-, vincible’ i1l take his place until! fate picks the hour for his successor to arrive. | Invincible was not meant to be written against the name of any con- tender who cares to stick around. You know the price Tixed for your brief day in the sun; And it isn’t a burden, ar a sacrifice That misses another, and falls on one, But an equal charge for the high and low, those bay, A price that knows no friend or foe, But only this from the Game's array, Are you ready to pay? Chick Harley of Ohio State has won two big games almost single-handed, as the quaint phrase is often put. If he can add Northwestern's detached scalp to Ris collection Chick will carry Ohio by ‘three or four times the margin employed by President Wilson. was| retired. For at the crest and those at | — | Football Weight. | Episodes and incidents of 1916 have shown beyond the need of further debate that old-fashioned beef is prac- tically null and void in the present game. The stars of the campaign, main, are well below the weight of the average team. Casey of Harvard weighs 155 pounds. Pollard of Brown weighs 156. | Maubetsch of Michigan weighs 157, Legore is below 170. Casey, Pollard ahd Maulbetsch are not forced to de- pend alome upon their speed. They have been among the hardest runners of theyjgame, driving their way through#with unusual power. {he Greatest Upset. “To talk of many things; Whatithas been the season’s most! Of fullbacks who can back a line, spectactifar upset, a reader inquires. | Of halfbacks who have wings; The following is hard to beat— Of " All-Americans ' as - thick Tllinol¥* beat Minnesota 14 to 9:! Ag ghosts of vanished king The Cincinnati Reds were second in | club batting and third in club field- ing. Their only apparent weakness was inability to win. Being ‘second in batting, third in fielding and last in games won and lost is no sort of a knock, of course, at Red pitching and Red alertness. muchis defence Princeton had a and you may what it got her., Brooklyn finished a bad fourth defensively, but won a pennant. The Time Arrives. “The time has come,” the said, in the | average worth, any- strong de- How Walrus ““The ‘time " hay “come™ Clsighed; “To pick all stars galore, From Berry, Pollard, Casey and From Hastings and Le Gore; : Trom forty-seven quarterbacks Anad tackles by the score. | | “the~ Walrts This, ‘by i 3 i route, would make points better than Minnesota. The fihal score was: Minnesota, 54, Wiscongin %0/ An arrangement that involves a comparative score displace- ment of 95 points should be awarded | Those who are wondering whether laurel bay, with all further | Pittsburgh or Brown will be bedecked YANKEES 70 BUILD - BIGGEST STADIUM Johnson Tells of Plans for Park to Seat 50,000 Chicago, Nov. 24.—News that New York American league club laid plans to build the greatest base- ball stadium in the country, with a double decked grandstand to hold 000 and bleachers and pavilions to make a total capacity of 50,000 per- sons, was given out here last night by Ban Johnson, president of the Amer- ican league. He had just returned from French Lick, Ind., where the plans were ful- ly gone over with Col. Jacob Ruppert and Capt. Til Huston, and announced that practically the only unsettled business was to get the grounds. ThA arrangement contemplated will e ceed the capacity of the Boston N tional league park by about £,000 it was said. President Johnson said the location already had been considered and an option obtained on a piece of property big enough to take care of the playing field and the stands. It is not expect- ed that the new ground will be ready for occupancy until 1918. - “The American league always has been opposed to playing on any grounds but its own,” said Johnson, “and the new venture is in ¥ ping with this policy. The outlay will be over a million dollars. Still New York is big enough for two parks, so we will have one of our own the has OFF FOR NEW Cornell Harriers Leave for Cross-country Race. HAVE Scenc of Nov. 24.—Coach Jack quad of eight Cor- Ithaca yesterday wh2re on Saturda they 'wll complete in the annual if- tercollegiate cross-country race. The team will remain at the Hotel Strat- field at Bridgeport, over Friday night. The athletes will go to New Haven Saturday morning. Tthaca, N. Y Moakley and hi nell runners left for New Haven, PIRATES GO FURTHER SOUTH. The Pittsburgh National ’ieague baseball club will not train néXt sea- son at Hot Springs, Ark., whigh has been the custor for sixteefi years, but “will “go to ‘a’péint farthér south, President Barney Dreyfuss announced at Pittsburgh, Jate yesterday. He said that two places for establishing a camp next season are now under cons sideration, but a definite announces ment would probably not be made un- nominations closed. i with the laurel seem to forget that = Brown still has a team by the name The Invincibles. of Colgate to push out of the way, We note where an expert lists Jess | where the pushing is no part of a Willard as ‘‘absolutely invincible, be- | pipe. vond the reach of any contender in the ring.” If one looks back through the files of thirty years he will also find this vou might add that even heats Colgate it will-only a close shave. In fact, if Brown be by til later in the week. NEW DARTMOUTH CAPTAIN. Hanover, N. H., Nov. 24—F. J. 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