New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 4, 1916, Page 8

NEW ERITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1910. Di;avj Fuitz Issues Annual Report of Fraternity---Changes in Football Code Would Aid Game---Local Boy on Meriden Fight Card Tonight- 1,205 MEMBERS I¥ FLUTZ’S FRATERNITY Davy's Repou Shows Indians ~and Afbletics Non-Hembers New York, fourth annual report ers Fraternity, day, Dave Fultz, detailed account of the bencfits the players, hoth major and minor leaguers, have obtained through join- ing the or ation. Fuitz in his re- port. states that .the organization, which has just completed its fourth year, continues in strength and is | demonstrating its ability to accom- piish benefits for its members. he report shows that only eluhs in the major leagues, Phila phia and Cleveland American Lea clulls, are not members of the fr: ternity The players of one otier | club, the Chicago White have shown a lack of interest. lack of interest, however, has more than offset, according to by the large representation parts of the country Dec. 4 of the In the Baseball Play- made public yeste president, gives I two fel- Their been Fultz, in all to has | AA an leagues, according A the fraternity niade rapid strides. Three Class clubs, Baltimore, Indianapolis anc the organ tion rship in the others is large. Every c in the Southern Association is r nted with entire strength except the Mobile club. There is room for improvement in the membership from the Western League says Fultz t The return of a number ! of Federal League players in:reased | the active membership considerably during the past season. The total en- Tollment consists of 1,215 members. Players Forbidden to Join. President Fultz states that, accord- ing to reports made to him. play have been forbidden to join the fra- ternity from the Philadelphia Amer- jczns, Indianapolis and Denver clubs, adds if this be true, all three have violated the fraternity | £greement which that there shall he no discrimination against the fra- ternity membe: As to what h been ofilcially since October i savs that in 540 cases advice has been giverr to pla Monthly sinancial statements have been furnished to the directors, seven bulletins wers sent to i1t.e representatives of the foriy-four clubs which compriss the o tlon, forty-seven meetings with va ous clubs were held at which an aver- age attendance of 80 per cent of the membership was recorded. accomplished 1, 191 iz Claims of Player Many claims of players werc taken up by the fraternity on formal aifi- davits during the past vea Of these €leven were decided in favor of the piayers by the National Comunuis: which in every instance su claim. Out of eleven ca: brought before the national board seven were decided in favor of the players, threce met with adverse decisions and no action w. taken in one claim. Five out of six complaints of players | against clubs were allowed and : xeel others which were placed with ai- firnex for suit, were adjusted. The sum of $7,521.98 was recovered $rom club owners through the jnstru- mentality of the fraternity, and in ad- dition the validity of certain contructs was established, saving $2,775 tc the | players involved. McGill Denfes Report. Indianapolis, Dec, 4.—James D, Mc- Gill, president of the Indianapo club of the American Association last night denied that his players had been forbldden to join the Players' Fraternity, ag was indicated in the annual report of David L. Fultz, presi- dent of the fraternity. McGill said he | and his players had never discussed the fraternity membership question, | and he denied that he d|mr1lmn1tr’fix against fraternity members. He said none of his players, unless some re- c;ently acquired, belong to the frater- fty. McGill formerly was president the Denver Western League club, mentioned in Fultz's report. Won, of also Still Another Denial. Philadelphia, Dec. 4.—Connie Mack pfter reading the report of Dave Fultz, president of the Players Fraternity, emphatically denied last night that he had at any time prevented his players from jolning the organization, as Fultz contends. Mack in his statement that none of the Athletic have joined the organizatlon because they see no benefit in becoming members of the ! Iraternity. Any dispute between the elub and its players always has been pettled amicably by the club owners, hence there never has been any need Jor outside interference. We Are Catering to Afternoon Bowling Pin Men Always on Hand AETNA ALLEYS, Church Street SMOKE OXMOOR A MILD, PLEASANT Jc CIGAB all | & 234 A Ballade of the Clerk League, There's a big advance in the rent on i flats; | It costs us more to exist each day; | The price is greater on shoes and hats, Wherever we wander we've got to | pay. Everything's booming. hay— A swift advance is the law of the game: But, tell me now, on the level, Why do our from pie to say, salaries stay the same? Only the rich can afford cravats (There was a time we threw ’em Such privolities now as spats Have long since faded from out the play, Whether we go or whether we stay, They shove up the price till seems a shame; I've thought it out till the dawn broke gray, Why do our salaries stay the same? it We buy our butter in little pats An ounce costs more than a last May; They've tripled the price of meat, that's The order of things all up the way. Is anything cheaper? Nay plus nay. The price thipgs bring is enough to maim— With everyting jumping, tell me, pray, Why do our, salaries stay the same? ‘ Don'f think, prince, I am getting gay— This is no jc h with a foolish aim. ton | and The All-Around Star. “Has any football man this season been developed with the all-around ability of Thorpe, Coy, Mahan or Brickley?” a reader rises to inquire. Not that we have run across. For all-around worth, the most notable have been Oliphant, of the Berry, of Penn.: Harley, of State; Le Gore, of Yale, and Driggs, of Princeton. . These could all run, But, take Mahan for a later example. He was also useful in the forward passing game, and Wwith this a valuable man in the backfield, re- ceiving and running back pupts. Mahan was also a drop-kKicker of good ability. Here we have five re- quirements—running. punting, pass- ng, drop kicking and recelving punts. And there are more than one who still fail to believe that Mahan's all- around value was quite as great as that of Thorpe and Coy. kick and pass. Back to Bascball, Which brings in another query from non-combatant, viz: “Has any starred in as many infield Herzog, of the fielder ever positions as Buck Giants?” Not that we recall. Most of the great infielders stuck to one assign- ment. Lajoic, Callins and FEvers at second base: Collins, Bradley. and Devlin at third base. ~Wagner, at third for a brief spell. and at first, reached his crest at short. Barry was about equally bril- liant at short and second. But Her- z0g was a scintillating luminary at second, short and third, where at each job he was far above ordinary play. For one man to play three infleld positions is not quite so unoommon. But for one man fd star at three | jobs is another matter. Next? 15,000 to 18,000 was considered a | good world series crowd ten vears ago, when the Cubs were battling with the White Sox. Over 42,000 saw the Red Sox and Dodgers meet in one game this fall. From 25,000 to 80,000 was ranked as a massive football attendance ten yvears ago, even for the big game: Over 77,000 saw Yale and Harvard in their recent jamboree. And with 77,000 on hand, over 30,- 000 were blockaded through lack of seating space. Those interested in sport are grow- ing in numbers each year. The de- mand is increasing season after season. Ten years from now more than likely a world series could draw 150,000 people, if the room was there to pack them away. And what a Yale-Har- vard football battle would draw is be- yond any estimate. Has the limit of public accommoda- ,tion been reached? If so, the «cramble for tickets a few years from now may verge upon internal war, wherein we will have troops and i armed guards attempting tp take cer- tain big stadiums by storm. The All-European Eleven, Shrapnel, Canister, Bombs, Cannon, Death, Carnage, Seventy-Fives, Forty- Twos, Bayonets, Machine Guns and Dynamite. W, H. L.—We have always con- tended that applying unusual courage to any one university football team is | out of gear. It isn’t 5o much a matter of courage as it is of material, coach- | ing and general efficiency. No one | has ever questioned Yale's ability to fight. But how much did this help in 11914 and 1915, when Harvard had the better material and the better system ? About one-seventh of nothing. PORT | Engine Room | Template Room LIGHT Grantland Rice Meet Willard” club will hold its next | meeting within a few days, when officers will be elected for the ensuing frenzy just ahead. WITH THE TIMBER TOPPERS E. Baraca League. WA LSRGl .533 538 .467 467 Ave. 414 | 410 .402 .400 Trinitva Wesleyans Athenians Epworths High single, A. Stotts, 122. High three, A. Stotts, 331. High team string, Wesleyans, High team total, Wesieyans, 1314. Averages. AtlStottas L b Allison Walker Wilcox Shepard R. Wilcox Flower Hancock H. Demerest Relay Lawyer Scofield Camp Burr Anderson Smith L. Hart Rich Hall 96 Berlin Construction League. W. L. P. .16 8 .666 16 11 583 13 14 481 Laying Out Dept.. 6 18 .250 High single, L. Warner, 126. High three, Trevithan, 329. High team single, Engine Room, 496. High team three. 1389. Ave, 432 L4356 ! .428 .408 Engine Room, Average. Newrath Trevithan Quay Hickey MeCarroll Myers 8. Warner Corr Brumbaugh Seaburgh Gariepy Giana Miller C. Warner McQueeney . Flesithi £ e Graham Deidrich Hartney McCormick |\v\'hlle on New { soaring to heights never before { down a man ; seems to -Brown Loses But Five FOOTBALL RULES Interest May Be Increased by Doctoring Forward Pass Play Only two games remain to be played } before the football year goes down |into history. Next Saturday at New Orleans Georgetown will meet Tulane, Year’'s Day at Pasa- Cal, Pennsylvania will seek new honors against Oregon. Taken all in all, the campaign has proved one of the most interesting and most successful in the history of the sport. Records for attendance have gone ap- proached. Popular interest has de- veloped with a wider knowledge of the finer points of the game, but there is still great progress to be made before it acquires anything like an intimate acquaintance with the where- fore for everything that happens on the gridiron. It is the duty of the rules committee to simplify and make more explicit certain features of the code. The season has developed new and greater possibilitles of football, but it has also brought out the need for changes in the rules, especially those concerning the forward pass. As we pointed out some time ago, the rule which provides for a pepalty of only fifteen yards for roughing the receiv- er of a forward pass nullifies a lot of the good of the aeriai attack. Most often the roughing is passed off without penalty. It behooves the rules committeo to change the rule so that a pass in which the re- ceiver is roughed should be regarded as completed and an additional pen- alty of fifteen yards inflicted. This would prove a boon for the ‘game in genera] and the lighter teams in particular. Another change called for is the prohibition of the practice of cutting from behind. At the rules clarification meeting last Sep- tember, Foster Sanford made a plea for that change. We have seen nu- merous accidents due to cutting down from behind. The play has no place in civilized warfare and should be eliminated. It is not fair and it is not football, There is likely sault on the goal dena, a to be another as- from touchdown, which was the direct cause for the defeat of several bhetter teams this season. The goal from touchdown have outlived usefulness climinated with Jittl and SOX GOING TO EUROPE. New Owners I’lfln (o (-I\(‘ Foreigners a Line on Game. Chicago, Dec. 4.—Hugh Ward, who with Harry Frazee has purchased the Boston American baseball team and will come into formal possess December 14, is planning to League. 1Ly i2{Ch 7 .740 8 .666 16 Skinner Chuck W 20 16 Tooi Room Office o Drili Room 8 Shiy ping T 20 High single, Bowers, 12 High three. Kahms, .>24 Team string, Shipping, 314. Teani total, Tool Room, 850. Average, Kahms Thornton Trevethan Bloom Bowers McGrath Gustafson Hartman North Burr Wilcox Helander Root Hultgren This Week's Schedules. Monday—N. B. Machine 1eague, Skinner Church league Tuesday—South Ends ers. Live Oaks vs. Rangers. Goods league. Wednesday — Berlin Construction league, M. E. Baraca league. | Thursday—Tigers vs. Annex. poons vs. Pastimes. Friday-—Red Men's league, Goods league, Skirner league. Wander- Paper Vs, Har- Paper Chuck ANNEX TRIM TIGERS. Superior playing gained for the An- nex football the 140 pound champlon- ship of the city yesterday afternoon at Traut's park, when the Tigers werc beaten, score 9 to 3. The game was well played and was witnessed by a g00d sized crowd. The victor's points were secured through a touchdown by Holleran and a goal from the field by Hibbard. Bchroedel booted the sperold through the goal posts for the losers score. EMPIRES DEFEAT SPARTANS. A pretty end run of 25 yards by Mike Gorman sent the Spartans down to defeat at the hands of the Empire football eleven, yesterday afternoon at the East End fleld. The final score was 6 to 0. Through the victory the Bmpires lay claim to the 126 pounds championship of the city. Allison and The “Young's Looking for a Man toOlson played well for the losers, rope some major league baseball soon as the war ends. Iy plan is to send a couple baseball teams over as soon as the league season here closes,” Mr. Ward, who is here today, said. “As for the expense, it will cost less than to send a team from New York to San Fran- cisco. T don't see why these and other teams should not go over to Europe next fall if the war is over by that time.” a of OHIO I)ROI’]'F]? 1916 Champions of Western Confer- 1917 Schedules. Chicago, Dec, 4.—Ohio State Uni- versity, winner of the 1916 football championship of the Big Nine Confer- ence, failed to obtaln games with either Minnesota or Chicago when the football schedule for the 1917 season was tentatively adopted at the annual meeting of the football coaches and athletic directors of the western con- ference here last night. Neither was Narthwestern, runner-up to Ohio State, awarded games With Wisconsin or Minnesota. The schedule, ence Not on , will be vir- i tually the same DENY WEEGHMA REQU Tampa Officials \\ill Insist on Cubs Training at Florida Grounds. Tampa, ¥ Dec Weeghman of the has requested the Training association from the contract by which the club trains in Tampa, it was announced here last night. Officers of the as sociation said the request would be de- nied. The Chicago a., 4.—President Chicago Nationals Tampa Baseball to release him club pays expenses and gets the gate receipts. Weeghman declares this has proved too costly. The contract has two years to run. BLACK WILL RE I'" RN. New Haven, Dec. 4.—It is now defl- nitely settled that Clinton R. Black, captain of this year’'s victarious Yale football team, will again be in the gridiron uniform when Tad Jones' charges line up for their season's work next year. Although Black has been rated in the junior class on ac- count of the fact that he is taking the usual four-year course in three years, he did not know untll very recently | that he would return to flnish his course. It Is very unusual, however, for a Yale football captain not to finish, and the action of Black in de- ciding to spend another year at the university will come as a pleasant surprise. CHANGESNEFDEDIN | ay LINE OF OVERCOATS I B Football Men By Graduation MISS SEEING OUR GRAND We have some Overcoat inducements that will be hard to get away from! We've the best efforts of the best Overcoat builders. Fall Coats full of swellness —the Chesterfield in all its dignity and comfort — the Swagger Balmacaan, the new Belted Back Coat—the But- ton-through—the Storm Col- lar Coat—the Shawl Collar Coat, &c., &c., all are here at their best. Fabrics of imported Ker- seys, Beavers, Chinchillas, Cheviots, &c. We’ve a Coat to match any Man’s purse and his best Overcoat thoughts. $10, $12, $15 up to $18. Remember, we count show- ing a pleasure. i i’, ll “ zfi!fiy u (“‘ I ! [\ ! L | i | i | Sample $10-$12-$15 Shop 357 Main Street AND SAVE f& l!lz BI6 GAME ECHO Claim Is Made That First Period Was Cut Short Five Minutes by a Faulty Watch, it a careful analysis of Yale game, that the first owing, Boston, Dec. 4.—It now appears, is said, from the Harvard- period was five minutes shart, perhaps, to an erratic watch, and that Harvard was thereby deprived for that amount of time of favoring wind which might have helped to bring about the kicking of another goal. While the number of scrimmages or downs varies somewhat, unless there is some extraordinary cause, they are usually approximately the same in each of the four periods of a game. A glance of the diagram of the game of November 19 shaws that the first period had 29 downs, including the kickoff. The second period had 46 downs, the third perfod 43, and the last period 51. Dr. Carl S. Willlams, the University of Pennsylvania football player, was field judge and time- keeper. He has had experience as an official, and is doubtless as well qualified as any man in the country to keep time. The only suggestion is that his watch might have been wrong. The inc: former se from 29 in the first period to 46, 43 and 51 in the last three periods can be accounted for, experts say, only by a great difference in the actual playing time. Philadelphia, Dec. 4.—When in formed of that the short-timed Carl 8, Williams, who off keeper in the big game, said last night at the Germantown Cricket club: “It's all absolutely new to me. The first intimation that I had of the story was when a Mr. Sullivan, sporting editor of The Baston Globe, wired me today asking for an explanation. My answer to Mr, Sullivan was that I knew nothjng about it.”” Mr. Williams sald furthermore: Yale-Harvard in the first the game was period, Dr. Philadelphian “T timed that game as all the others | 1 have officiated in in recent years. No one questioned the time then or until today, and I can't understand | why the point should be raised now. I notified the two captains and referee and umpire five minutes before the | close of the first and every other period. The period in question seemed about the usual length to me.” He also sald that his watch was in good running order. the charge made in Boston | iated as fleld judge and time- | BROWN LOSES § MEN Graduation—Yale and Harvard Should Be Pleased—\What? ! Providence, R. 1., Dec. 4.—Brown | will lose only five men from its foot- | ball squad by graduation this spring— Sprague, Wade, Ward, Jimmy Mur- phy and Ormsby. Of these Sprague was the regular center and Wade a regular guard. Ward would unques- tionably have been a regular tackle had not injuries kept him on the hos- pital list a greater part of the time. Jimmy Murphy was substitute quar- terback and Ormsby substitute end. ‘With fifty-five of the squad of sixty first and second string men return- ing, with three men of absolute var- si caliber in Shaw, Kowalsky and tordon becoming eligible, and with the usual amount of good material from the freshman class, the pros- pects for 1917 should be the bright- est in the history of the college. Despite the setback of Thanksgiv- ing day, the season just closed was the most sucessful Brown has ever ex- perienced. Both the Providence and Boston alumni have arranged ban- quets for the players and at the first of these to be given on Tuesday eve- ning in this city gold and silver foot- balls will be presented to the play- ers, the gold to the men who won their letters and the silver to the sub- stitutes and second team men. Brown’s schedule for next season is sure to come in for a revision. This year’s anti-climax with Colgate is sure not to be repeated and the sea- son will wind up with a big contest for which the development of the eleven will be properly worked up. ABERSKI RETAINS TITLE. Pocket Billiard Champion Defeats Challenger, 540 to 342. | _ Schenectady, N. Y., Dec. 4.—Frank ! Taberski of this city retaine® the poc- ket billiards championship when he defeated Edward I. Ralph of Highs- town, N. J., Saturday night in the fi- nal of their three nights’ serles. He won by a total of 540 to 842. The score Saturday night was: Ta- berski 150, Ralph 61. The highest run, 21, was obtained by Taberski. The best run for the three nights was 32, made by Ralph | Saturday night. FITZGERALD NEW CAPTAIN. Boston, Dec. 4.—Charles Fitzgerald of Boston was elected captain of next year's Boston college football eleven Saturday night, He plays quarter- | back, Pollard is Not Among Players Lost by | MERIDEN BOUTS TONIGHT Is Taken Il and Man Waltz. Treyball Ready For MocCormack. An eleventh hour change has bes necessary in the Lenox A. C. boxi exhibition in Meriden this evenin; owing to the sudden illness of Jeromd Hennessy who was carded to meef Semky Waltz in the star bout of th evening. However the exhibition wilj £0 on just the same, the managemen having secured Willie Brown of Ne York to substitute for Hennessy. I is said that Brown is a fast boy ind should make the mill very interest. ing.. Another boy named Charle Hayes was named as a possible oppon. ent for Wallz, but the latter preferred Brown. It is amusing to followers of] boxing, to listen to the shouts of th adherents of the “looking glass boxer” about his coming back and getting) ready to claim the title. As near a can be flgured out by boxing fane in Bridgeport, Meriden, New Haven and this city, this has been the best thin that Waltz does and the only way thaf he ever held the title. Should Walt: defeat his picked opponent this ev ning, it is surmised that the clain of the championship of the state will] again be revived. Should Waltz de. feat Battling McGluke of Kenosha Wis., or Kid Mauler of Alberquerque, New Mexico, he would be the feather: welght champ of New England judg ing from the ridiculous claims of hi followers in the past. ‘What should be a dandy mill is thi battle scheduled between Chic McCo: mack of Hartford and Charley Trey: ball of this city. The blond haired bay from the Capito] City is about th best entry into the boxing game tha the city has boasted of in years, hi recent showing against Frank Brin- disl of New Haven stamping him as sure comer. In Treyball he will fao a Jad who is always willing to mix 4 up, and who is a bear for punishmen Treyball has trained faithfully forgh mill and reports being in excellen condition. It is hoped that at some futur show the management will serve up some other preliminary worker othe: than Jimmy Welton who will feac Young Paul of Hartford in the. six] round get-away tonight. Hennessy ment Gets Substitute For JIM THORPE'S THAM WINS. Canton, Ohio, Dec. 4.—The Mpssi-| lon Tigers, holder of the world's pro-| fessional football championship sine 1904, were yesterday defeated by Jim) Thorpe and his Canton Bulldogs, thy local eleven winning 24 to 0 and thereby acquiring titular honors.