New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 7, 1916, Page 8

Rupperr Replies to Claims of Fultz Regarding Unfair Treatment Rickard May Match Darcy With Carpentier---Curtin Lauds Work of Georgetown Star---Gates to Lead Yale Gridiron Team in 1917 RICKARD MAY SAVE LES DARCY A CHANCE Willard’s Ex%essive Demands May Mean Carpentier-Darcy Bout New York, .Dec. —When Tex Rickard rose yesterday morning and looked through nis newspaper his ar- dor about having Jess Willard meet Georges Carpentier in the proposed bout here suffered a cooling off. . The first thing that met Rickard’s gaze in the sporting columns was an item drom Chicago to the effect that Tom Jones, Willard’s manager, had de- clared he would insist on the cham- pion’s getting $75,000 in addition to certain other royalties and emolu- ments arising from moving pictures of the bout. Rickard is not usuall figures, but Jones' mode: took Tex by surprise. It will be remembered that Willard got something like $47,- 000 for his bout with Frank Moran here last spring. The size of Jones’ demand made Rickard believe that it might perhaps be a better match to send Les Darcy against Carpentier. Darcy Iis be- lieved to have landed in Chile last month and to be on his way here now. Rickard declared that he expected a cable today from Paris informing him that Carpentier, had signed the con- tract sent him some time ago. Wil Be Fought Herc. ““As soon as I get Carpentier’s sig- nature,” sald Rickard, “I will be in a position to go ahead and arrange with the man who is to be his op- ponent. It may be Willard but frank- ly I would as soon put Darcy in the ring with the European champion, for it would be a better match physi- cally, and the fame of the Australian might make him a better drawing card than Willard. However, that is a detail that will be settled after I/ get definite news from Carpentier. “Of one thing you can rest assured | and that is that the match, no mat- ter who the contestants may be, will be staged in New York. T confidently expect to get a lease of Madison Square Garden, but if there should be failure in that direction then T will build a club for the purpose. New York ig the proper spot for so im- portant a.bout as the one I plan, and it is going to take place in this city. My plans will develop rapidly as soon as the sale of the Garden takes place.” Darcy a Better Opponent. Among those familiar with pugilis- | staggered by Bowlhng Methodist Bowlers Add to Famec at Aetna Alleys—Captain Johnson’s | Quintet Defeats Captain Wright's. The Methodist Baraca Bowling | league furnished the thrills for the alley enthusiasts last evening some | fine work being displayed by the vari- | ous plavers In that circuit. The Athe- ! nians won a pair of games from the | Wesleyans and the Trinity quintet downed the Epworths twice. In the Wright-Johnson mixed party series, latter aggregation won another A new league opened last evening among employes of the Ber- lin Construction company, the Owls winning from the Ducks and the Kagles downing the Hawks twice. The scores follow: Baraca League, Wesleyans 80 92 86 the | match. Hart Stotts .. R. Wilcox Dummy 79 Athenians 79 87 92 79 337 Trinity 79 76 81 82 78 85 90 78 331 Johnson Shepard Burr, Relay 347—1015 H. Demerest Jones Flower Cook Camp 94 94 81— 96— 254 266 — 81 85— 270 82— 159 344—1030 103 77 318 368 Spworths 84 Tl Smith Anderson 91 85 82— 267 69— 225 Battles Rich Allison 80— 236 96— 280 327—1008 341 J. & W. Match, Johnsons' 56 qTT Miss Brown Mr. McAvay ... Mrs. Johnson Mr. Duke . .. Miss Stefniok Fred Johnson 64 65 61 80 66— 186 87— 209 57— 190 81— 241 59— 163 B! 79— 230 | | 409 Wrights’ Miss Bergstrom. 60 F. 8. Johnson... 61 Mrs, Johnson 66 Mr. Lind 91 Mrs. Wright 44 Mr., Wright 93 415 409—1219 Berlin Bowlers. Eagles. Hartney C. Warner F, Hickey 56 109 89 87 91 Seaburg McQueeney GATES ELECTED CAPTAIN Brilliant Tackle of 1916 Ileven to Lead Team Next Scason—dJones and Staff Will Return to Coach. 7.—Yale's foot- ball captain next year will be Arte- mus Lamb Gates. His selection w made last night at the annual banquet tendered to the ecleven at the Ilotel Taft by the football association. The sixteen playvers who figured in either the games against Harvard and Princeton were entitled to vote and the choice was announced as unani- mous, in ‘accordance with Yale cus- tom. Reports were current, however, on the campus that George Clark Moseley of Highland Park, Ill, end rush for two seasons, had received some of the ballots, Before the meeting Clinton Ruther- ford Black, captain the past season, stated that he desired not to be con- sidered a candidate because of uncer- tainty regarding his plans for next season. He and Moseley are mem- bers of the senior class of Sheffleld Scientific Schoo] and are contemplat- ing extending the three-year course into the four-year course of that de- partment and returning to the eleven next fall. Gates' election has Deen expected for several days. He played end rush last year and started the season which has just closed in the same position, bhut was moved tackle in mid-season because of the New Haven, Dec. Neurath Quay Graham Miller McCarroll 369—1137 281 | 313 ¢ 268 | 267 | | 6-—1129 | 120— 2 0 2 2. 9 8 8 PERCY LIKES NUMBERING | Haughton Favors Plan at Harvard But Football Committec (‘om.lmles’ to Oppose Movement. Boston, Mass.,, Dec. 7.—Now that | it is stated the majority of the foot- | ball committee favors making the numbering of playérs compulsory, in- stead of merely advising it, it de- velops that P. D. Haughton has been { in favor of numbering the Harvard | players for more than a year, but has | been overruled by the Harvard foot- jand McGraw !utility inflelder. | His MUGGSY AFTER TILLY Giants’ Manager Would Welcome Re- | turn of “Scented Letter” Infielder. | New York, Dec. 7.—Another effort | will be made by the Giants to coax | Tilly Shafer, former third baseman, out of retirement. John Foster an- nounced yesterday that McGraw in- tends to give Shafer another invita- tion to rejoin the team. Ti_gnfd of playing every day be- came ¥ tiresome to Tilly in 1913, will offer him a job as | With Zimmerman, | 1 staff which guided Yale to | it_certain lack of the strong material for the place. He had played tackle on freshman eleven two years ago and on the eleven of the Hotchk hool, Lakeville, where he prepared for Yale. Gates’ brilliant tackling and following the ball was a feature of both the Yale games against Princeton and Farvard the past fall. His recovery of the ball fumbled by the Yale Flarry Legore of Yale gave his team- | mates the oval only e:ght yards from the Harvard goal and paved the path for the Yale followed directly, winning the game for the Elis. He is 20 years old, weighs 180 pounds, and is 6 feet tall. home is in Clinton, Towa. He is a member of the junior class of the academic department Under the new Yale athletic regime which has placed control of affairs in the hands of an athle Gates will not have the selection of coaches and it is expected that the victories over Colgate, Lehigh, Virginia, V. ash- ington and Jefferson, Princeton and Harvard during the past fall, will be azain selected as the resident staff, It that' Tad Jones will again head the coaching department. SPORTS PROVE A FAILURLE, to | touchdown which | council, | The Amateur Tangle. There are now in this country, in- and the female of | the species, close upon two million | & 1 cluding the male people playing golf or tennis. These two games have been recruit- | ing entrics so fast in the last few| vears that vast armies have now grown up ,armed with the niblick or the racquet. And the end isn’t yet in sight, or even approaching the same. Naturally enough, with so many people at play, golf and tennis have grown into industries where millions upon tens of millions are spent each year. Which brings us, in full blast, upon the most intricate, the most involved, the most complicated problem that ever came upon a sport—and that is the amateur question as applied to golf and tennis. The Tangle Incarnate. This amateur guestion will be one of the big features of the winter cam- paign, with the two armies, halding opposite beliefs, facing each other for the battle ahead. The tangle at present is terrific. And before it can ever be straightened out two things must develop: 1. The tennis and golf committees who are leading the movement for a cleaner amateurism must recognize the fact that there is quite a bit of loglc on the other side, 2. Those fighting any advance must realize that the tennis and golf com- mittees, in a thankless task, are doing their best to handle the most compli- cated sporting problem of the day for what they believe is the good of the game. Selling Supplies. here is no debate about the status of the man who plays or teaches for This method is direct, and is therefore professionalizing beyond any | argument. The whole uproar is over the mat- ter of selling golf or tennis supplies. Tennis and golf committees believe such salesmen should be barred from amateur competitions. The ruling committees believe such | salesmen, in many cases, are commer- | cializing their golf skill. We don’t know how the majority of | tennis players feel about this Trule. But 90 per cent. of the golf players! we have talked to are against barring | those who are employes of golf supply | houses. Tt is on very rare occaslons money. apart of from §3,000 to $4,000 a year. the beyvond. Tocal der whose capable ability as manager of the Georgetown University | football one of the most the history of the institution, in a let- ter tribute to John R. Gilroy a membecr of country the player has lead with*18 touchdowns and er touchdowns. Gilroy in this respect wa the Army star who scored 124 points. Curtain feels that Gilroy has earned a American eleven for 1916. mouth PORT LIGHT Grantland Rrce :lean amateurs, who in lines well from golf supplies have bene- ited by their golf skill to the extent | | These are the complications that | be taken into consideration. show further the intricacies of situation that has now grown CURTIN LAUDS GILROY Boy, Assistant Manager of | Georgetown Warm | | urtain of this city, un- | istant | Football Has Words of Praise for Player. William F C eleven recently completed successful seasons in to a local friend, a high the team, and regarded hy many as the premier football player of tho today. In his laudation of Mr, Curtain points out that the country in points scored having piled up 147 goals aft- The nearest rival to Oliphaat Gilroy, With these figures as a base, M easily mythical All- Such’ ex- cellent authorities of the game Coach Frank Cavanaugh of Dart- and Tom Thorpe football ox- pert for one of the metropolitan dailles have in their selection of such a team, given Mr. Gilroy first choice for one of the halfback positions. place on the PREFERS AIR TO RING. Carpentier Knows Nothing of lough For Willard Battle, Paris, Dec. The personal de- sire of Georges Carpentier, the French aviator and champion heavyweight pugllist of Europe, is to remain with Fur- the French Flying Corps at the front, a desire he has expressed each time an offer from the United States to ar- range a bout for him has been ceived. re- The report that he has been given a furlough for a match in New York with Jess Willard is at least premature. | citea the cases NOW ITS THE COL. WHO S AFTER DAVY Ruppert Denies That Injured Plaj- ers Were Unfairly Treated New York, Dec. 7.—Colonel Jacob Ruppert, president of the Yankeges, returned yesterday from French Lick] and lost no time in issuing a sweeping] statement contradicting the statements| | which David L. Fultz, president of thef rela- treat s made club’s Players' Fraternity, he tive to the New York ment of injured players. Ifultz ha of Dizzy Vance and Ray Keating, Yankee pitchers, as ins cidents where the disability clause of the players' contract worked againsf] the welfare of the players. Colone Ruppert explains these and several other cases to show that the Nev York club was libral with injured players. “When the facts of the Vance case were compiled by the National com- mission it was shown that Vance’ claim did not have a leg to stand on,} said Colonel Ruppert. ‘“Vance was rg leased by us to the Columbus clu which assumed his New York gon tract. When he reported to Columbu he complained of his pitching arm) which he undoubtedly injured, as have been informed, pitching winte! baseball in California. When it | borne in mind that Vance was no hurt in the services of the Columbul club I think that they were more thai fair in paying him over half his salJ lary.” Mr. Ruppert declares Mr. Fult gave the wrong impression to the pub: lic by saying that Vance was suspend ed without pay by the New York clu} for disability. Later Fultz admitte to the commission that he would no| have presented the Vance claim if h had known of a paper given by Vance to the Columbus club. Describes Keating Case. “We inherited Ray Keating's con jtract in 1915 calling for $5,000 salj {ary,” continued Colonel Rupper | “Keating pitched two months tha season and then began to have troublt with his back. We engaged phy! | clans in every city on the road, an: | finally Keating’s back was placed i a cast and he was sent home and worked no more that year. He afe his salary of $5,000 that year, not td mention an additional $175 for med ical attention which the club paid| Keating won three games and lost six{ making his winning games cost ul for his services $1,666.66 per game The disability clause did not keep th New York club from paying King Col | his salary of $3,800 in 1915, togathe | Fletcher, Herzog and Holke to start ' | the season, McGraw is of the opinion ithat he has the best infleld in base- ! ball, but would like to feel that he | ¢ | with a doctor bill of $365, althoug | Cole was unable to pitch all season a the result of disabilities received ou side of baseball.” tic form, the opinion is almost unani- mous that Darcy and Carpentier would make a better match than the Frenchman and Willard. Even it ball committee, which has supervision of this branch of Harvard sport, Haughton might have succeeded in that one finds a golfer in sympathy From the reports received here i with the present regulation that, | appears that Carpentier, by boxiag in among others, has barred Francls the United States could contribute ap- Andover Athletic Association Reports Deficit of Over $1,000. preciably to the war relief funds, and ‘Willgrd reduced to the 245 pounds he weighed when he boxed Moran, the . world’s champion would still have the advantage in weight of 50 or 60 pounds. Carpentier, who is a clever boxer, might avoid the big fellow, but it is unlikely that the smaller man would succeed in landing effectively on the Kansan, and it would look one- sided. On the other hand, there would not be any great discrepancy in size be- tween Darcy and Carpentier, except in the matter of height, the French- man standing 5 feet 11% inches, and Darcy but 5 feet 6 inches. Darcy has had trouble making the 160 pounds, .which is the middleweight limit in Australia, and there small doubt he could enter the ring very comfortably at 165 pounds and be in the best pos- sible condition. Carpentier, in the last houts he fought before going to the front, scaled 170 to 175 pounds, and while he is sald to have taken on consid- erable weight sinoe entering the serv- ice, there is small doubt he would train down to 175 at the outside. There is little question that Darcy would be a great favorite over the Frenchman, for the Australian’'s rec- ord is much the better and he has a punch superior to anyone in the mid- dle or light heavy weight class. The Australlan is also able to take a heavy punch, as was demonstrated in his bouts with heavy hitters like McGoorty and Chip, Carpentier's is hardly rugged enough to stand heavy punishment, | his defeats at the hands of Frank Klaus, Bllly Papke and Joe Jeannette proving that his jaw is not of gran- ite. ‘Would England Object? Darcy has not only established a record as & knockout hitter, but against clever boxers like Jimmy Clabby and. Jeff Smith he astonished his supporters by winning on points in & clever manner. been raised as to possible to Darcy getting Into the United States without a passport. He was called to the colors by Australian military authorities, left his native land without farewell. An expert on declares he can come in here unl the British government should ente @ protest. It is declared that so long as Darcy can show some money and prove that he is in good health there 7ill be no objection to his entry of any United States port the saying XMOOR A MILD, PLEASANT 5c CIGAB The question has | obstacles | and | the subject | having the players numbered if he he did not think it worth while the trouble to fight about. committee is expected to continue its l opposition to numbers, and Harvard = players will wear the tags only in case the rules committee insists. Members of the football committee point out : that numbers failed to enable it to be ' generally known just who made the Yale touchdown against Harvard, ] Harvard’s football committee and ' Haughton as well, favor the deter- | mination of the length of a football | pergpd by the number of plays rather than by time. From sources close to the committee cqmes the informa- tion that the Harvard-Yale-Princeton games next year will be played on relatively the game Saturdays as this vear, despite talk of shifting of dates from year to vear in order to dis- tribute the week's rest between big | games. | | TIGERS GET GOOD START Princeton Basketball Team Defeats | Manhattan Five, 32 to 20. Princeton, N. J, Dec. 7.—Prince- | ton opened its basketball season rath- er auspiciously here last night by winning from the Manhattan college five 32 to 20. The Tigers' margin of superiority was not so great during the first half, as they had only a two- point lead at the conclusion. They came into thelr own during the sec- ond half, however, and soon amassed a comfortable lead. Princeton followers feel a little more hopeful over the chances for maintaining a respectable position in the intercolleglate league as a result of the contest. The Manhattan team was frankly feared, but Princeton was able to play a brand of basketball far beyond expectations. Parmale and .ptain Haas were the consistent players for Princeton while the two Houlihan brothers excelled for Man- hattan. i e IFAVORS LADIES’ DAY. Chicago, Dec. 7—Charles H. Weegh- man, president of the Chicago club of the National league, is prepared to urge National league owners to sanc- | tion ladies’ day at the annual meeting 1ot the league in New York next Mon- | day. One day a week at which wom- | en are admitted free to the ball parks |is an essential, especially in citle where the practice is followed by the | | American league, in the opinion of Mr. | | Weeghman. i TUKFTS ELECTS LEADER. Medford, Mass, Dec. 7.—Werling E. Doane of Sommerville was last night elected captain of the Tufts Col- lege football team for the season of 1917. He played fullback this year. The team will lose only two varsity players by graduation. : had someb. cared to make it a personal issue, but ' y,opert. quartet McGraw’'s worry The football | gyer, S iforms were decided The club will return to the violet uni forms worn in 1913. { John McGraw ody else to brace it up but With Shafer supporting this might be The paterns for the Giant 1917 un- upon yesterda The Giants yesterday signed. Sterl- ing S. Stryker, a New Jersey seml. professional, who pitched a lot of win. | ning ball around Atlantic Highlands | last summer. The club offered to take him south last fall, but he was not signed to a contract until v | Second Dreyfuss Incensed by Other Magnates’ | Restless Brand of Talk. ! Pittsburgh, Dec. 7.—President John K. Tener of the National league and President Barney Dreyfuss of Pittsburgh club had a meeting vester- ' day. Last night Dreyfuss bitterly re- sented the fnaction of the National commission relating to the practice of | certain magnates and managers stat- | ing in the newspapers that they would like to have certain players. Dreyfuss says it is done to make the players restless. He particularly mentioned ; in his attitude to Al] Mamaux and President Weeghman of Chicago in saying he wanted some of the Cardinals. | Dreyfuss wants the commission to | penalize any owner or manager of n| team who will publicly state that he would like any player that is under contract to another club. FHe assert- ed he had never been guilty of that kind of a thing. the KELLY'S WORK 1S O. K. ‘ Holy Cross Will Retain Tts Football Coach Next Year. Worcester, M. ., Dec. 7.—Holy Cross athletic authorities are satisfied with the work of Coach Luke Kelly this fall and he can remain in charge of the Purple eleven next fall if hc] desires. | During the past three vears Kelly | handled the Holy Cross candidates! witk practically no assistance, but he ! will be able to devote most of his at- | tention to the linemen next rear if he returns, for it is planned to secure a backfleld coach. Dr. T. F. Larkin, ' former Holy Cross football director, and Dr. Harry P. Cahill, one of the greatest of Purple backs, are men- tioned for the position, STETCHER IS THROWN, Omaha, Neb, Dec. 7.—Joseph Stecher, wrestler, and Miss Frances Ellers were married here yesterday. | Andover, Ma Dec. 7.—Figure just furnished by the Athletic asso- ciation of Phillips-Andover academy for the year ending June 30, 1916, show that for ten sports total receipts were $4,059 and total expenses $5,209, | Base- | a deficit for the year of $1,149. ball was the only sport more paymeg expenses. The following nounced today: Baseball—April , Yale 1920, May 2, Huntington school; 5, open; 9, Dartmouth 1920; 12, Princeton 1920; 16, Lowell Textile school; 10, at New Haven Harvard 1920 at Soldiers Field; open; 30, Harvard Second. June 2, Worc :ademy; 6, Cushing Academy; Iixeter at Ixeter Track-—April Harvard 1920, May 12, Harvard Interscholastic at Soldiers Field; 19, Worcester Academy at Worcester; 30, Exeter. Tennis—May 9, Yale 1920 at New Haven: 19, Dartmouth 1920; 23, Har- vard 1920: 26, Harvard Interscholastic at Cambridge. June Worcester Academy; 6, Exeter at Ixeter, than were schedules an- = . Drafted By White Sox to Get Back Salary. GRAY FREE AGENT. Player Cincinnati, Ohio, 7 F. Gray, drafted Dec. Player W, last September by the Chicago American league club from the V hita club of the*West- ern league yesterday declared a free agent, unless he has signed with the Chicago club since heing drafted. Gray med to be a free agent because of the fact that when the Wichita club was turned over to the Western league alleged financial difficultics his salary wa unpaid. The claim of Player ing for $1,000 from tional league club Keating was transfe Joseph club and & owing to Walter K Chicago =, disallowed. d to the St. finished the season with yracuse. He claimed the dif- ferenc in sala between his Chic: &o contract and the amount paid him by St Joseph and Syracuse - the was RECTORS WA The Rectors T GAME basketball team of Bridgeport would like to play any 100-110 pound team of New Britain. Game to be played in New Britain or Bridgeport. Arrangements for a game could be made by writing to Frank P. Dixon, 1418 Pembroke street, Bridge- port, Conn. SMITH Ann Arbor, MICHIGAN Mich., Dec, 7 . Smith of Bay City yesterd elected captain of the 1917 eleven of the University of Michigan. Smith plaved fullback this season. Tie is a junior literary student, LEADER, Cedric vy wa Yale ! football | | Ouimet. Those with whom we have ! talked who are against the present stand include Reggie Lewis, K. L.| Ames, Henry Topping, Hamilton Kerr, | Gardner White, Chick Evans and a long list of others of equal promi- nence. They fail to see where the | selling and the playing ends of the| game have anything in common. | Their contention is this: Ouimet zolf reputation would undoubtedly help him as a golf supply salesman. But so would Evans’ golf reputation help him as a bond salesman, and the reputation of another would help in insurance sales. Back and Forth, | Tach side, if you listen to the lead- ing exponents, has a pretty good case. There are merits in each argument and each argument has its share of flaws It rules and regulations are passed that are without the support and sym- pathy of a majority of players, they are hardly likely to be effective. A law that isn't backed by public apvoroval is too easily hroken. | The two committees should try to i find out as far as possible what the leading players and the leading clubs | favor in the way of future regula- tion, The trouble so far is that too few | clubs and players have made any at- tempt to consider the matted serionsly or to co-operate with the commit#f> The majority can generally get what wants if it goes about the matter the right way Tough Sltuation. The present situation for the i committec difficult beyond imagining, When you have close upon 2,000,000 playvers scattered over 8,000,000 square miles, the vastness of the job can at | least be di understood. | It is no job that we would envy. is an assignment beyond any mittee unless it receives the co-operation of all interested welfare of the game. The golf meeting now only a few weeks further on. The only way to get to this question is for the lead- ing golf clubs of the association, active and allied members, to take a popular vote and express their wishes and beliefs at the next annual meeting. \ Unl they do, they can hardly complain against any action taken. Indirect Benefits, no possible way to prevent the indirect financial benefits of sport- ing success, The advertising that a leading golfer ' or tennis player receives is pretty sure to help him, one way or another, whether he sells sporting supplies, bonds, stocks or insurance, And this is just as it should be, as long as one doesn't directly commercialize hig skill and make the pay he recelves depen- dent upon his We know of lsc\'t‘x*;\l leading undoubtedly i it : in T two all is 1y is It om- aid and in the| t t 1 is 1 « ¥ 1 E ¢ t T Bl There i t 1 ! condition. | the hands of Descamps, Ban may who has brought her football team | canmnot from c the center of the spotlight. mater is said to be considering cal him to the colors. pos g | Cavanaugh as head coach of the big | green eleven has been carefully g1 ed, but it was declared in Baltimore 1 could have Cavanaugh's job wanted B ¥ steamship determine which hoat shall carry the Anderson skip, P. O. S. skip, Symonds skip, den skip, 6; Heisler skip, 10, P. O. S. of A., Cars- well skip, 21. his manager, Francols Descamps, said yvesterday that Carpentier might go there provided he received permission. Thus far, however, no definite propo- sition for a bout between Carpentier and Willard has been received here. Carpentier, who is in Parls on a few days leave of absence, was seen today, and appeared to be in excellent Carpentier said he was not thinkihg at present about boxing, but his pugilistic business was always in his teacher from the age of fourteen and his man- ager during all his boxing career. Fly- ing, he added, had in no way slowed | him .up, and life at the front had been excellent training for him. DARTMOUTH AFTER LARRY. ade Colgate Fam- ecnt Mentor. art \Who He ous, Sougl! .—Colgate the coach M., Dec Bankart, Baltimore, lose Lar comparative obscurity to nez Bankart | s a Dartmouth alumnus and The fact that there is serious op- tion to the continuance of Frank guard- | ast evening hy a man close to athlet- ¢ affairs at Dartmouth that Bankart it he CRIMSON IMPORTS SHELL. and English Types to Be Given Tryout. American Cambridge, 'Mass., Dec. 7.—The rvard varsity crew will have an inglish racing shell at its disposal for he racc with Yale next June, a boat urned out by an kr h builder \aving arrived yesterday on the ambrian. The builder has »roduced shells for the Oxford and "ambridge university crews for many cears. Harvard authorities plan to match American products against the inglish shell in trials next spring to “rimson eight at New London. PATRIOTS WIN. The P. O. S. of A, carpet bowls cam, defeated the Temple of Honor representatives in the Fraternal cague last evening, score 39 to 34. results on the rinks were as Rink 1, Temple of Honor, of A., Snyder Temple of Honor, P, O. 8, of A., Red- Temple of Honor, 12; rink rink Clan Douglas, O. C., he league leaders and Frederick “Mr. Fultz has, unwillingly n§ doubt, created in the mind of the pub! lic false impressions of the relation existing between owners and player His time could be better employed in turning his attention to improvin the morale of the profession by urgin indifferent players to do their whol duty Calls Indifference and ¥vil, “During the two years that Captal Huston and myself have been in bas ball we have paid out $25.000 to in. competent players. All major leagu clubs have shared cur experiénce iy this respect more or less. This featur of indifferent playing has constituted an evil in baseball which, as far as have heard, Mr. Iuitz has made ag effort to eradicate. “Injuries in 1916 to players Baken Maisel, Gilhooley, Mogridge, Meges Cullo High, Nunamaker, Bauman and the sickness of Fisher, Oldrir and Gedeon undoubtedly cost us thg pennant, and while the loss of mono; be urately computed | would, beyond all guestion, reach th neighhorhood of $200,000. The medi cel treatment which the club assume for the players amounted to” $3,000 while the actual salary loss on thcesg players for the time of their disabilf ty was $17,000. either Captain Hus ton or myself ever dreamed of ded ing behind any technical Interpreta tion of the disability clause to cas this drain on the club's bank bal ance.” SANDBERG MAY RUN. Eddie Sandberg, the local distancd runner who established a new 10 milg road race record in New Haven Xon day evening, may be a participant if the big classlc run in Yonkers, Y. on New Year's day. Officials of thi New Haven A. A. have urged the lo cal lad to enter the race and hg considering the matter. The Butteg worth cup valued at which M Sandberg secured ‘“‘a leg on' in Mon day's race, will be shipped to *"thi city within a few days, where it wil remain in the possession of Sandbe: until the next race is run for it. TO TRAIN ON COAST. Chicago, Dec. 7.—The Chicago N tional league club will establish itd 1917 spring training camp in Pasa: dena, Cal. The players will depart fo) the coast February 25. Charles Weeghman, president of the club, salf he had offered the Tampa (Floridal Baseball association $1,500 to termin ate his contract, which specifies tha! the Chicago club must train there fof two years more. We Al;e 7C;tering t(; Afternoon Bowling Pin Men Always on Hand odge of Masons will meet this eve- . ning, AETNA ALLEYS, Church Street