New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 25, 1916, Page 8

Pollard a Star in Various S; orts---Camp Blamed for Team’s Poor Showing---Nutmegs to Meet Tigers Tomorrow---McChristy to Lead N. B. H. S. Football Eleven In 1917---Bowling Results---Other Sports FRITZ POLLARD AN | Cornell and Pennsylvania Teams to Meet ALL-ROUND STAR Brown Craa—% Displayed Ability in Many Sports Probably no football player is caus- ing more discussion today D. Pollard, bac than Fred half- play Brown's sensational Because of his brilliant the Yale successive Saturdays, in both and Harvard games on Brown feated de- two of the ecast's higgest col- leges. There clever negro from phint, but any man who can get out there on the gridiron and pull off tie stunts that Pollard has shown in the last few weeks must have a few good points. Yale players think so ahd the chances are that Harvard figures it the same way. Not a little of the interest in Pol- lard is to be found in Springfield, because of his brief stay there as | a student at Central high school. e comes from athletic stock and his ability in football games seems to be but another demonstration of Pol- lard’s ability along football lines. Pollard had a brother in Dartmouth gome years ago who proved a brilliant nalfback and in 1908 earned his let- ter because of his briliiant play. Old Dartmouth men well remember the strenuous efforts of Princeton to put Pollard out of the game in that mem- | orable 10 to 6 Dartmouth victor Fred Pollard went to Springfield in 1814 to “plug” on one or two subj that he was going to need in course at Brown, and he entered the Central high school as a special stu- dent. He had already been to Brown and found that he was deficient in those subjects and he picked out the Soringfield high school as the plare to advance himself. i He remained at that school for two terms, during which time he was in- eligible to compete for Springfield in | any branch of sport on account of the scholarship standing rule. He was not taking enough studies to make up 15 hours a week and was usted as a post graduate student. He assisted Coach Stone in coach- | ing the track and football squads and also played some baseball in that sec- tion. He is generally credited with the making, or rather the developing of Eddie Sturtevant into a star foot- hall player. Sturtevant was captain af the High school track team at the thne and had never tried for a posi- tion on the fooball eam. Pollard 2ot working on him, brought out the “ormant ability and developed it to such a stage that Sturtevant was able to make a regular halfback berth for | himself on the Powder Point school term the following season. Pollard was kept working on his ‘rack athletics, while he was at Springfiell, going over the timbers every afternoon during the out-of- door track season al Pratt field and working out in the Tech gym in the are critics who discuss the an adverse stand- Philadelphia, Nov. 24.—The elevens of Cornell and Pennsylvania are ready to flash in their annval gridiron bat- tle on Franklin field on Thanksm\ing} day, November 30. Although neither Penn nor Cornell has any champion- | ship claim this season, the annual game between the two elevens attracted considerable interest. the last game among the big college: in the east. Like the Army and Navy teams, these two universities point their elevens for this final contest on their sehedules, has Pen ruling a shight favorite in the beiting, and Cornell adherents have gobbled up a lot of coin at odds. The Quakers in recent years have suf- fered defeats at the hands of the Tthacan contingent, and Pennsylva- nia men heartily believe that this year the red and blue will wipe out old scores. Coach Folwell will have his boys aroused to a great fight- ing spirit and, no matter who wins, the contest should produce a brand of football that will be well worth see- ing, The besetting sin of each team is fumbling, and if there is any one thing that will lose the game on Thanksgiv- is In Final Big Eastern Football Game unless the it s has learned to Outside of that the tcams fifty. 1In fact, that is the sportively inchined are wa For many Pennsyl sidercd the g with Corn contest ta win season the last few ' rnell has made Penn sit np and take notice. Layout shows some of the Cornell-Penn stars: No. 1, Berry of Penn; 2, Captain Mathews of Penn on left talking things over with Coach TFolwell; 3, Shiverirl: of Cornell; 4, Jewett of Cornell: Brown of Cornell; 6, Urquhart of Penn, fumbling, hang on to ing way the years ia 1 an easy But in me up the Cr afternoon during the colder month 1a the fall he kept himself in trim by donning football togs and pitching st and showing the high school foot- ball team how to play the game. He lcoked after the ends and backs es- pecially. He has been in Springfield reveral tinies since he left to compete in athletlc meets. He holds the hurdle records for the annual Inde- pendence day trask meet. FOOTBALL TOMORROW P ain Tigers of Hartford to 'l Question of Supremacy With Nut- BOWLING Red Men Occupy the Headline Role | on Aetna Alleys—Fusari’s Team Wins as Usual. Last night’s games in the Red Men's league furnished plenty of excitement for the timber topp: The War- riors after losing the first game to | the sannaps, came back and took the match, garnering the second and final games. The Braves secured a - win over the Scouts in one of the best series in the leaguec this season. Wordlin of the victor: stablished a record for high single score with 128 made in the first game. A. Robert- o of the losers bowled a clever same. The Too! Room Chuck company, sustained another sethack last evening, when the Ship- ng Room quintet smeared 'em with 4 duo of defeats. Bowers of the van- quished team placed the high score vecord a little further ahead last aight when he hit the wood for score of 127. In the American league, the Optimi from the All- however, were and Break megs—Brickley 1o Officiate, The Nutmegs of this city and the Tigers of Hartford, will clash for the | second time this season on Fraternal | field tomorrow afternoon. The kick- off is scheduled for 2:30 o'clock and one of the largest crowds of the se son {is expected to witness these gladiators battle in an effort to set- tle the guestion of supremacy. Those present on the occasion of the for- mer meeting of the teams, remember “he corking brand of football dis- played by both teams. The experi- ence incurred through hard games nnd practice since that time, cause the followers of the elevens to feel thelr chances gréatly enhanced. The loeale will use their regular line-up to- morrow, Accompanying the Tigers (o {his efty will be a large delegation of the club’s members. This should spur the Capitol Cityites somewhat. Manager Dorsey in a with Man- Bger Clinton last evening, said that two Biars of the college world has been Rdded to the linenp and with Ashmore the crack quarterback again holding dewn the position, the Nutmegs will face aggregation considerably stronger that on the previous sion. The officials have been 15 by both managers as Meferee, John Schroeder; Ceorge kley. FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAM Fartford Tigers vs. Nutmegs five of the Skinner a) Paper Goods won three games mericans, in so doing, | forced to work over- tie. The scores of the various leagues | foliow: Warriors. 9 87 9 101 94 425 458 Sannaps, Poppel Logan Rittner . Irank Robertson Foberg 283 290 on 79 talk 444—1327 88 79 93 93 Connors e ¥red Robertson. Oberg 86 87 83 82 106 occa- agreed follow ; umpire, 435—1307 Nygren Fusari Wordlin Rerlin .... /100— 250 79— 247 91— 313 101— 283 371—1093 time, the second game resulting in a | RESULTS A. Sandstrom A. Robertson 93 .. 102 391 85 96 Kahm R'oom Bowers Shipping Room. 54 111 102 101 314 Root Hartman Burr Optimists, 84 96 87 84 99 97 Hultquist Moore All D. Malamey Wright McCabe E. Bmerson 334 ANNEX VS. MOHICAN The Annex football {to Meriden tomorrow to play | Mohicans of that place. The game | will be called at 2 o'clock and the following players, after a signal drill at Banning’s field at 9:30 a. m., will meet at the corner of Stanley ancd Church streets at noon: Campbell, Houck, Wilcox, Berquist, Larson, Chalmers, Pechout, Holleran, Fitch, Schneider, Lucy, Buck, Hibbard, Bey- er, Blanchard and Danielson. On Dec. the Annex will play for the city champlionship with the Nutmegs at the Fraternal league grounds. £ TO PLAY. The fast Iimpire football team will play the North Rnds of this city Sun- day afternocn at 2:80 o'clock on the Newington Road &rounds. As both team will go the IRATERNAL LEAGUE GROUNDS ) g ¢ Sunday, 2:30. ) Nelson Nelson . 264 TT— 261 teams have boen practicing very hard for this bottle @ good same is looked for. culated CAMP CRITICIZED FOR POOR SHOWING Syracuse Students Assert Selec- tion of Schlachter the Reason Syracuse, N. Y. Nov. 24.—Is Wal- 1y, to blame for the poor show- this vear? ter Ci team authority the Bushwick player, Captain Harold A, “Babe” White, who the Syracuse the ing of Did mix great football Schlachter, high up “Chr former hool and cach | ball. | look {ifty- | Ce, Shakeseare on the Football Situation, PRINCETON. “I do begin to have bloody thought “How use doth breed a habit in man."” “A man I am, crossed with adversity.” “What's gone and what's past help should be past grief. his was the most unkindest of all.” cut HARVARD. time the savage bull the voke.” “And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenge. “The King's name is strength.” BROWN. “My lungs began to crow like chanti- cleer.” I doth beat a tower of MICHIGAN., “A sad tale’s best for winter; one."” I have YALE. be hot i’ the “Ginger shall mouth, too.” “What stronger hreastplate heart untainted?” PITTSBURGH. “Bloody with spurring; fiery haste.” ~ “I know a trick worth two o' PENNSYLVANIA. than a red with that.” “Presume not that I am the thing I { was.” CORNELL, “Where is the life that late T led?” Championships. This being a free country, if you have the price, each entry is entitled | to launch his opinion. One, for example, can figure Brown | the Bastern champion if Brown beats Colgate. Another can award the main plum to Pittsburgh But where rival elevens play entire- ly different schedules and do not meet, one fact only remain That any such championship award is not a Championship but an Opinion. The Old Reign Over., There was a day same ten or fifteen ago when the Big Four—Yale, ard, Princelon and Pennsylvania formed the only Major Leaguc in football and gave the winter the crown. But this ancient regime has been sadly scattered, Those once listed as Minor leaguers have come too far for- ward to be overlooked. on- | | Harvard might play her second eleven ainst Brown, but mnot even Harvard believes her first team could have done much better. The Crim- son regulars might have held the score down a trifle, but they could have done little more. The so-calléd New Game has ripped the old dynasty apart, Its rulership is over. Brown’s Battle. Brown has a great football team. But Brown is not yet safely over the marsh. The Providence eleven to its height against Yale and Har- vard, It must hold this height an- ather week to heat Colgate on Thurs- d Colgate for this game has two lead-t ing assets—a Jowerful machine and the feeling that her team has every- thing to gain and little to lose. Col- gate might well have beaten Yale by ' a safe margin if her offence had been ! conducted properly. : pen, Colgate came here from DeWitt Clinton high | school of fo-called Manhattan in hi of the ball Brooklyn I “All-American” team last fall? gle, ions inquires The ques heen the undergraduates believe heard and have in Syracuse throug hout s on, that been repeatedly the the the which ha cir- of story, sinee announcement, Camp’s’ selectdn, has had a do wiih the miserable show- ing of the . Certainiy, the t(rouble two big fellows ha Syracuse tean. Last fall Schlacter was chosen the mythicai All-American. A days later, White was elected c: of the Syracuse eleven over Schlach- ter. The fight for the captaincy in- volved other members of the squad who have supported Schlachter open- ly attacked the system that had been used to insure White's election, Ieel- ing ran high, and the final upshot was that when colicge closed last year, White and Schlachter were nat on speaking terms, When the squad deal to Orange t this hetween disrupted m season. the the on few ptain reported for work this year, the breach was as wide as ever. Captain \White and the Brook- lyn star played through more than half the games without exchanging a word. Then mutual friends sought for the good of the team to patch up the w and the men shook hands, but that was as far as the friend- ship went. \White had friends on the eleven, as well chlachter, and as a result teamwork suffered, great | 1 i | The stuff is there to beat almost any team in the coun- try. If Brown slumps after her Yale- Harvard conque: which may hap- likely to win, Brown has a great team, But her victorious season isn’t completed yet. The Winter League, Thanks to football, fires in the Old Stove League of bascball have been banked since early October, Football does that much good, did nothing else. But within another magnates resume if it fortnight the session, for which picking | W S¢€ no reason to call for any series lusty cheers. The magnate is all very well. He has his part in baseball, and it is an impor 1t part. But for all that, hi are never interesting to the Fan Colony, that looks only to the player for its thrill, Winter Golf, Winter golf, carried into the South, is a pleasing institution, But so f as developing championship farm it i entirely useless. Jerome Travers believed in resting up on the game from October to April. He found that he came back to play with greater keeness and greater of | effect. i Oswald Kirby plays practically no! golf between September and April. Yet Travers and Kirby have been next to unbeatable between April and eptember. On the other side, Phil Carter, who won five consecutive | tournaments at Pinehurst last winter, failed to win a start after April. A few weeks of winter golf might' be of service, But the man who tries to put in twelve months or month’s play will soon come upon stale game, with all keenness erased. *“Ball players may strike this winter. This winter? Yes. But not after April 15, when the fragrant odor of kale is in the air again i “To settle an argument,” writes L. L. T., “who was the best all-around infielder in baseball last season?" Charles Lincoln Herzog, of Cincin- nati and New York, Herzog gave a prilliant exhibiteen at second, short came I PORT LIGHT Grantland Rrce and third, We know of no other in- fielder who was a star at as many infield jobs, George Sisler was an all- around luminary, but his extra power was put to use in the outfield and the box. BANQUET FOR WINNERS pions—Rev, W. 1, e Talk—McChristy Cook Gives Elected Captain. Members of the High school foot- ball squad and the Boys club of the Y M. C. A. numbering about 140, as- CAPTAIN-ELECT McCHRISTY. sembled at the association last even- ing where a banquet was held in honor of the victorious team of the season past. The affair was one of the most pleasant ever tendered a { championship eleven. Emory Corbin | of the club presided as toastmaster. { Principal L. P. Slade was given a vociferous reception when called upon for remarks to which he responded {briefly. Physical Director W. G. | Moorhead also addressed the boys { covering the wo¥k of the team for the Rev. Warren F. Cook of the Methodist church who in his college days acquired considerable fame as a star athlete, gave the boys a splendid talk, on “How Champions Are Made.” The speaker pointed ou* three of the essential qualifications for success on the athletic field, viz hard work, headwork and team work. Dur- ing his remarks the speaker paid tribute to former Captain Charley Brickley of Harvard who he cited as an instance of what these three things will do. Owing to a previous engage- ment Coach Floyd Brown was unable to be present, his absence being much regretted by the members of the team. At the close vast season. of the banquet, the election of a captain for next year's team was taken up, and resulted in the unanimous choice of Walter Me- Christy. Mac was one of the stars of the 1916 team, and should make an excellent leader. He is a junior. TO IN CHICAGO. Commission Discuss Contracts at Se: Chicago, Nov. —The National Bascball commission will hold a spe- cial meeting here next Wednesday, President B. . Johnson of the Ameri- can league announced vesterday. Changes in the new form of players cont “ts will be among the important subjects be considered, Mr. John- son said. He declared the question change in the chairmanship commission would not be brought be- fore the body, but would be settled by the club owners of the two major leagues. National will on. o of a of the INDIANS BEATEN. Alfred, N. Y., Nov —Combining straight football with some brilliant open field play at opportune times, the Alfred university football team closed its season here yesterday by de- feating the Carlisle Indians, 27 to 17. , 27 The Alfred eleven been defeated but once this year. CARLISLE has MORAN New Yaork, JUTON. rank Moran and Fred Fulton were matched here vesterday for a ten-round heavy- weight bout at St. Paui, Minn., on De- cember 22. Moran was guaranteed ) ME Nov. al BASEBALL STRIKE™ IS SERIOUS MATTER Tener Thinks Players Would Make Mistake in Drastic Move ~ New York, Nov. 26.—“Should the major league players declare a strike because of the refusal of the National association to grant certain demahds requested by the Players' Fraternity, it will be a strike not against the Na- tional commission, but against the very game of baseball itself,” said President John K. Tener of the Na- | tional league yesterday in reply to Dave Fultz's strike threat. Fultz | Thursday said fraternity players will | not sign contracts unless the minor | league concessions are granted. “I cannot conceive how the players can talk of a strike on such an issue,” continued the former Pennsylvania Executive. “Furthermore, it would be the major league players who would have to bearithe brunt of such & strike. The class AA and A minors, | also protected by the fraternity, could | easily sign up sixteen men to the { team, and go ahead with their sched- ules. That would mean that only the major league players would be idle 3 | and losing their means of livelihood | over a trivial minor league matter. | “A sympathy strike by big league | players under such circumstances i would be the most foolish and detri- { mental thing the players. could do. For years the National commission i hag done everything possible for the | betterment and advancement of the | big league player. Mr. Fultz admits the National commission has been { fair and just. I will go even furthet than that. 1In all disputes between. | players and club owners the commiss sion invariably leans toward the player, so zealous is it that the rights of the player be protected. Contracts Prove Rule. ¢ “I see Fultz finally h dug up twe | contracts which have a clause permit- ting a club to suspend a player with- in the event that he meets baseball injury. The fact thal | Fultz can show only two such com | trac a sermon in itself. It show to what lengths the &ommission goes to protect players and how we safes guard their rights, when only twa such contracts—and both of them un- authorized—are in existence. “And the players would strike against us, who have been thelr [ friends and benefactors! The major league players strike because of some petty minor league grievance! Is that just and fair? I repeat such a strile would not be against the club owhers of the National commission, but against the basic foundation of base- | ball “Fultz says his quarrel is with the commission and only indirectly with the National association. Is that so? Chairman Herrmann of the com- mission has furnished itz | with whatever data he has asked for, and his relations with the fraternity | president. always have been courdial and pleasant. If Fultz will recall when the National commission grant- ed the plavers some concessions a few years ago, the minor leagues did not concur in all the commission's ae- tions, and President Sexton of the National association did all the talk- ing for the minor leagues, the com- mission representing the majors. _ Strike Is Unfa h “The minor lcagues maintain & separate organization. In fact, the National assoclation antecedes the National commission. Now, because we do not say to the minor leagues, “You must do this’ the fraternity is ready to include the big leagues in its strike and launch its strike against the commission, with whom the fra- ternity always has had pleasant re- lations and whom the players them- selves admit always has treated them with impartial fairn A meeting of the National commis- sion will be held in Chicago Wednes- day, when the fraternity’s strike threat will be a live issue. The pri- mary object of the meeting, howeter, will be to discuss the new form of contracts which attorneys for the mas jor leagues have drawn up. The suit of the Baltimore Federal league di- rectors, which comes up early next year ,also will be taken up by the commission. ©0. E, 1S Co. I3 C. 3. basketball hich ntade a fine record last season has again taken to the floor and are practicing for a strenuous season. The outlook indicates fine results from the quintet. Members of the team who have reported to Manager Duplin are as follows Paul, Thomson, Captain Pecker, Bloom and Zehter. Teams about the state desiring games should addre: communications to Walter Duplin, 9 Holmes avenue. READY. We Are Catering to AFTERNOON BOWLING Pin Men Always on Hand AETNA ALLEYS Church Street. SMOKE OXMOOR 1000 with a privilege cf 35 per cent. and if either man scores a knockout ‘hc will get §1,000 wdditional, A MILD, PLEASANT S¢ CIGAR