New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 8, 1916, Page 16

N JEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1916. Tener Claims Reserve Clause is Essential to Success of Baseball---Black Feared Tradition in Declining Captaincy---Nutmegs’ Manager Arranges Two Star TFootball Attractions-- BLACK’S AGTION A “Ice Skating Craze Has Hit | COMMENDABLE ONE Cupid Feared Re-election Would Be Regarded As Tradition New Haven, Dec. 8.—‘‘Cupid” Black could Yale football team for another year, but out of what he declared to be re- gard for Eli tradition he was prompt- ed to decline and give Art Gates a chance. It is extremely difficult to see wherein Black would have violated a tradition in acepting a second term, for examination of Yale records proves that the Blue has had four double term leader: Among the two captains were such s as Walter Camp and Frank The first double term: Barker in 1876 and 187 1878 and the following season Camp i led the Blue, while in 1882 and 1883 R. Tompkins was the captain. Hink- 1 ey piloted Yale in 1893 and 1894. | Hinkey led his men to victory over | Princeton both years, and while Yale ilost to Princeton in 189 6 to 0, it | defeated the Tigers in Hinkey's sec- fond vear of leadership by 24 to 0. In view of these facts we are still |looking for the tradition which Black feared to violate. However, it was ex- !tremely thoughtful and sportsmanlike jfor Black to have held the view he taid. He will be eligible next season, and while he will not be the captain ?he will still have a chance to exert ithe influence for good which was so |big ‘a factor in Yale's success, especial- {1y at Princeton this year. Gates should maka a first class }leader, a captain of a rank that should " be in keeping with his calibre as a player. Gates was a remarkable tac- | Kle this year for the reason that he ‘had been converted from an end and possessed the qualities of good per- Iformers in each specialty. QUAKERS TUNING UP. fFolwell Putting Finishing Touches on Penn Eleven for Oregon Game. Philadelphia, Dec. 8.—The football iseason has gone to sleep in the east except at Franklin Field, where Bob | Folwell is drilling his clan for their biggest battle of the season, the game with Oregon at Pasadena, Cal., | on New Year's Day, and the big news in the Red and Blue camp is that Howard Berry, the miracle man, is going to play on the Pacific coast. Penn is training just as hard as if the season was just starting, but in a Folwell way and under the Folwell systém, which means that the gates are open to strangers at all times and that there is scrimmage only once a week. The exact Penn machine that glew in order Lafayette, West Vir- ginia, Wesleyan, Michigan and Cornell will go into action against the great umbeaten Oregon eleven, INDIANA SELECTS{CAPTAIN. Bloomington, Ind., Dec. 8.—Rus- sell G. Hathaway of Linton, Ind., was elected captain of the Indiana univer- sity football team of 1917 today. He is a junior and played fullback most of last season. have had the captaincy of the ; Blade Artists of New York TR W e ek T e st e i s.—Ice hockey hold an any day one can New York, Dec. seems to have taken a firm the girls in this city. Almost in any one of the local rinks see hundreds of young ladies chasing the puck around the icy surface. Re- cently a six club hockey league was formed, and the battle for champion- ship honors will begin shortly. When the promoters sent out notice that a league was to form at least 300 girls made application for positions on| teams in the circuit. Upper photo| shows girls playing ice hockey; lower | one a squad of girl hockey players Teady to start in their favorite sport. YALE SCHEDULE OUT, 'st Contest on Schedule Is at Dur- ham, N. C., on April 5. Dec. announced last contains twenty-eight games with provisions for third games with Harvard and Princeton, if necessary. The schedule is as follows: 1 Southern tri April—Trinity, at Durham, N. C.; April 6—Agricultural and .Mechanical Arts, at Raleigh, N.‘ C.; Apri] 7—University of North Caro- | 8.—Yale’s base- night New Haven, ball schedule, MEET THE SPRING ! m FLORIDA Don't wait for tardy Spring to bring you the out-door life and sports you enjoy so much. Go to Florida or the Gulf Coast where it's always June— where you can golf, swim, sail, motor and play tennis all winter long. The trip south on fast express steamers is a de- lightful experience i itself. Direct service to KEY WEST, TAMPA, MOBILE and GALVESTON ' affording ‘convenient connection for MIAMI, PALM BEACH, ST.FETERSBURG,HAVANA New Steamer “Henry R. Mallory,” 11,700 tons displacement, and other bigvessels in service. Write for interesting free literature. A. W. PYE, Passenger Traffic Manager CLYDE-MALLORY LINES Pier 36, North River, New York or call upon Local Rallroad Ticket Agents SMOKE OXMOOR A MIED, PEEASANT 8o CIGAR lina, at Chapel Hill, N. C.; April 9— Catholic University at Washington, D. C.; April 10—Georgetown, at Washington, D. C. | Out-of-town games: April 11—New; York Nationals, at New York; April 16—Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia; May 10—Holy Cross at Worcester; May 26—Cornell, at Ithaca; June 9— | Brown at Providence; June 16— Princeton, at Princeton; June 20— Harvard, at Cambridge. Home games: April 17—Fordham; April 21—Lehigh; April 25—Amhersf April 28—Columbi May 2—Wil- liams; May 4—Virginia; May 5—Vir- ginia; May 9—Dartmouth; May 12— Pennsylvania; May 16—Brown; May 23—Lafayette; May 30—Cornell; June Princeton; June 6—Holy Cross; June 13—Tufts; June 19—Harvard. In case of a tle in either the Har-' vard or Princeton series, the third game probably will be played at New York on June 23 or 26, RED SOX AND ROBINS AGAIN. Series of Exhibition Games in South Planned by Frazee. Boston, Dec. 8.—The world cham- pion Americans and the Brooklyn team, champions of the Boston | their baseball struggles of last Octo- ber in an exhibition series of games in the south next spring. Harry Frazee, the new president of the Bos- ton club, said last night that Presi- dent Ebbets of the Brooklyn club favored the idea, and had already i partly made arrangements to trans- fer the Brooklyn training camp from Daytona, Fla, to Hot Springs, Ark., where the Red Sox will prepare. The tour hag the approval of President | Johnson of the American League, ac- cording to Mr. Frazee. Frazee and Hugh Ward, the Red Sox owners, came here last night for the first time since they purchased the team from Joseph J. Lannin several weeks ago. Lannin will meet them today to complete the detalls of the sale. Most important of the prob- lems confronting the owners will be the engagement of a manager for the team. President Frazee said that a strong effort would be made to induce 1 National League, probably will renew | CRIMSON TRACK MEN OUT. Two Vacancies Exist by Graduation— Football Players Are Candidates. Cambridge, Mass., Dec. T.—Harvard track candidates yesterday reported for the winter season for the first time. Special attention will be given to the shotputters and hurdlers while the relay men are getting the kinks out of their legs. Two vacancies oc- cur in the short distance relay teams this year, caused by the graduation of Bingham and Pennypacker. Minot and Flower, both football men, look like the leading candidates to run with ‘Willcox and Captain Teschner. Among the leading candidates for the long distance team are Cogge- shall, Feeney, Townsend, Donahue and Bassett. In the hurdles Mark Noble, a senior, is expected to return to form, and Ed Rowse, a junior, who won his “H” in the Yale meet last year, should do well. M. H. Simons, a sophomore, is &lso & good timber topper. The fresh- men will do little work, with the ex- ception of the relay men, until spring. Harvard again appears to be weak in the fleld events, but with theaid ot Pooch Donovan’s coaching good men may and should be uncovered. ‘WILL LOSE STARS. Peck, Herron and Thornhill Among Those to Leave Panthers. Pittsburgh, Dec. 8.—Seven of the twenty players of Pittsbung’s unde- feated football team received their 'Varsity insignia, played their last game for the Panthers against Penn State on Thanksgiving Day. Their loss will leave a big hole in the Pitt eleven next fall for among | those who will not represent the | Panthers again are such stars as Cap- ‘tain Peck, Herron, Thornbill, and | Soppitt, all from the line. The other three are Ammons, also a line man, and Stahlman and Friedlander from the back fleld. This brings Coach ‘Warner face to face with a serious problem, but Pitts followers are con . fident he will meet it and produce another victorious eleven, who HARPER RE-SIGNED, Notre Dame Football Coach Signs for Three More Years, Notre Dame. Ind,, Dec.. 8,—Coach Jesse Harper yesterday accepted a contract to remain as director of ath- letics at Notro Dame for three years, The following men will raceive monograms this year: Captain Cotall. John Miller, Bergman, Phelan, Bau- jan, Coughlin, Bachman, Rydzewsk, Degres, McInerney, Whipple, Slack- Willlam F. Carrigan to return as leader for at least another year, | ford, Grant, Fitzpatrick, Phibin, Ward, Androws, King and Meagher, 1 FINE GAMES ARRANGED Nutmegs Management Secures Hum- phreys of New Haven and Reming- ton Arms Elevens to Play Here. Manager James Clinton of the Nut- megs, has completed arrangements for two football games for his team, that should afford the followers of ! re-entered with an old rival would add the game in this city an opportunity of seeing just how good their pets are against some of the best that the Nutmegs produce in the gridiron pastime. For the opener the “Hum- phreys of New Haven comprising the pick of the Elm City will meet the locals next Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at Fraternal field, On the following Sunday what| should prove to be the de luxe foot- ball game of the season in this sec- tion of the state will be staged, when the Remington Arms eleven of Bridgeport will be the opposing team. There is no team piaying the game in Connecticut that carries more pres- tige than the Park City aggregation, and a victory for the locals will be added to their laurels considerably. One of the stars of the visiting team is Stingle, a former local resident and a product of local football training. Stingle prior to taking up his resi- dence in Bridgeport, was a member of the Nutmegs, and was considered the best football player in the city. His friends will no doubt be out en masse to watch him perform. PICKING SOFT ONES. Lehigh and W. and J. to Be Dropped From Football Program. New Haven, Dec. 8.—Yale's football schedule for next fall will be changed in two respects, it seems assured. Le- high and Washington and Jefferson | will be dropped because of Yale's de- termination to frame a lighter playing list of games for next season. Pres- ent plans are to give either Amherst | or Willlams a game in place of Le- high and, to install the University of North Carolina in place of Washing- ton and Jefferson, Yale has played Amherst annually until within a few years, and that col-, lege is slightly favored over Willlams for the opon date, The University of North Carolina was recommended by Dr, Arthur Brides, the Yale line coach who formerly coached there. Tt was stated last night unoficlally that there no prospect of & game being ar- ranged with the University of Penn- sylvania. PORT i Songs of the Off-Trail. (The Vagabond Speaks.) No foot of soil on this wide earth I own: No hearth-side calls me through the drifting years; No town, no state, no borderland may bring Gray ghosts of dreams back to the living glow; And vet T know the whole, wide world is mine— | The flelds, the trees, the rivers and | the sky, And each far haunt to which my rest- less feet Shall lead, if only for the home. night, is There is no wealth to which T may lay claim; No gold nor silver which the world holds dear; And vet T hold the yellow gold which gleams From summer’s ' ‘winter moon. From each far star that out-bound way: And all the silver of the dew is mine In violet vales and valleys of the dawn Through which I wander ghosts of dreams. i i | | sunlight and the lights my with the There is no kith nor kin nor human kind wonder when I come their way again. Yet T am brother to winds, And soul-kin to the roving rains that come Tn slanting aisles to seek me from the hills; Gray dusks of starlight and of sudden storms Are friends enough come to rest Before tomorrow beckons further on. o the wandering when one has “There may be na decisive Eastern football championship,” comments W. N. J., “but what team had the best record 2"'—Pittsburgh, without further debate. Tt would be a fine thing next season to see Penn. upon a Yale, Princeton or | Harvard schedule. Penn.. under Fol- well, has come back to its ald place. The Red and Blue eleven plays clean, interesting football, and to have iti more than a trifle to the general in- terest of a fall campaign. LIGHT Grantland Rice in any such an- hardly know Never having fallen noying quandary, we what to advise. “If they keep on improving (?) golf courses,” comments another irate reader, “by next year I intend to trade in my driver, brassie, iron, mashie and putter for four niblicks. For why laad yourself down with a lot of clubs you never use?” KING POLO REIGNS Western Promoters Beat €anavan ct al, to It, and Gamc Looks Dead in This Section for Present, tion of the country for the return of the king of winter sports received a setback recently, when the National league opened its season out in the Wild and Wooly West. Working very quietly were a number of the old time magnates in the East and it had been expected that a leazue consist- ing of Waterbury, Pridgeport, New Haven, Providence, New Bedford and { Fall River would be commenced be- fore the holidays, but the new turn affairs has changed the entire com- plexion of things. One of the leaders in the game out west is Fred Jean the former local star who has landed in Indianapo ‘With the Big Frenchman are the old favorites Bob Loxon, Ted Lewis and Doc Harold. Other players well known in these parts playing in the new league are, Ferdie Harkins and Barney Doherty with Newcastle, Ind., Freddie Pence and “Red” Wil- liams with Muncie, Ind., and formerly with Jimmy 2 Britain team and with Richmond, Ind. interest, of fine attendance, etc., the game. | MUSCLE EXERCISE | Harpoons Strike a Snag Against Se- lected Team, Sustaining a Double Defeat—Yard Gang Trims Office. The Harpoons and a team themselves the Pastimes, the Aetna alleys calling last evening, with were given a beating. Barlier in the season there was an aggregation in The Run-Makers. The great run-makers of baseball' last season were Ty Cobb, Jack Graney, George Burns and Tris Speaker. These were the only four to cross the home plate on more than 100 occasions. The great run-maker of the four' was Jack Graney. He was next to! Cobb, with 106 precious tallies, against | 113 for Ty: but, despite these figures, | Graney’s work as a tally producer was mare sensational. Cobb batted .371, Speaker .386 and Burns .279. Graney batted but .241. Cobb made 201 hits, Speaker 213, Burns 174, Graney made only 142 safe wallops. | Graney, however, had this advan- tage: He had Tris Speaker to bat him home, and Tris last season rarely ; fizzled in the pinch. When the big! moment was due the Texan was there with the punch. Granting this, it is more than a rare occasion for a .240 hitter to score over 100 runs, | The paucity of the pernicious tally | can be estimated when it is figured | that only four men out of 300 or more | can reach the century mark in a| season. And even 100 runs is con- ' siderably less than an average of one run to the game. Jackson’s Place. Jackson may not be the greatest ball player in the game, but his place as a Son of Swat in the Order of the Batting Eye is fixed, It is a rare occasion when Jackson fails to pro- duce 200 or more hits a season. And when vou figure the number of men | who have accumulated 200 hits in one campaign for the last ten years Jack- son’s batting ability will be better un- derstaod. The Greenville Siege Gun has now been in the upper row for six years. In three of these he has gathered in over 200 hits, and in five of his six seasons he has ranged above 340, Over the full distance Jackson runs next to Cobb, with Speaker and Col- lins in a grapple for third place, The Duffer Rejoins— I do not like the winter winds That sweep across the way; I do not like the frozen greens Where one is forced to play; I do not like the cuppy lies That come in winter's wake— But only think what alibis They make! T do not like the frozen ground That jars a fellow’s hand: 1 do not like the winter traps Replete with frozen sand: I don’t care for the snow-fringed the City league named the Pastimes, but the quintet that defeated the Harpoons last night contained none of these “bowlers.” Two team of employes of the Stan- ley Works, the West Yard and the Rolling Mill office engaged in bowl- ings hors de combat, the former team being the winners in straight games. The stores follow: Harpoons 118 99— 304 Pleucker 87— 17 ‘W. Erickson Wallace Hines C. Erickson 95 104 112 96 Pastimes Larson ..109 Hogan Carlson O'Connell Bertini 97— 28 97— 306 505 West Yard —1468 Hinman Parsons Kilduff Ranges Molyneaux 179 174 169 155 Kenefick Anderson Smith Millerick SCOTS STILL WINNING, Clan Douglas, O. S. C. added an- other victory to their unbroken list last evenin when Frederick lodge A F. & M. went down at carpet bowls on the rinks in Lee's hall. The boys from Plainville were outclassed securing but 28 points to 48 rolled up by the victors. The results on the alleys follows: Rink 1, Clan Doug- las, skip Gailbraith 12, Masons, skip Edwards 9; rink 2, Clan Douglas, skip Drummond 15, Masons, nan 10; rink 3, Clan Douglas, skip Gorden 20, Masons, skip Robertson 9. Tonight's game will be between W, L. Morgan lodge, K. of P, and New Brit- ain council, O. U. A. M. HARVARD GRADS HONORED. Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 8.—Wiscon- sin likes Harvard foothall, and gave formal approval of the work of Dr. Paul Withington, the former Harvard Hopes of the polo fans in this sec- | Quig- Smith's Bob Griffith | Reports in the western press give glowing accounts in clashed on the result that Rogers and his mates skip McKer- | Polo Opens in the West TENER BACKS UP RESERVE CLAUSE National League President Says Rule Is Essential to Game | | New York, Dec. 8.—"The new base= | ball contract recently approved by the national commission is built upon the basic foundation of profe onal base- ball—the aid Pres!- dent Tener of the National league yes terday upon his return from Chicago where as a member of the national commission he assisted in the drawing up of a new form of contract. “The entire baseball structure i erected on the reserve clause, and the | players need it every bit as much_ as ! the owners. Without it b be a disorganized mass of teams, which a few large cities could get all | the good players. And the New York, | and: Chicago clubs need Cincinnati {and St. Louis to conduct their busi= ness.” | Tener said there was no oppositio from the fraternity to placing the re- serve and ten day clauses in the new, contracts. He says both are abso- | lutely essential to league baseball. | *When we eliminated the injury clause entirely from the new contract | we merely interpreted the spirit of thd ! contracts that have existed in the past,” said the former Pennsylvania governor. “Major league clubs ha always paid the salaries of players injured in its service, as far back as | can recall. Even if an injury clause did exist in the contracts it never was} enforced. | Conferred With Dreyfuss. | “There was some talk that a clu | owner should be protected in th event that a player recovering frony an injury tried to loaf on the job. believe players who would stoop to | do that are far in the minority, buf | there are players who have not hesid tated trying such tactics. For in stance, a player who had hurt his leg | may try to favor that leg long afte | his injury just so he may sit in thel | cool of the bench. However, afte talking it over we decided to eliminatg the injury clause in its entirety.” Tener stopped in Pittsburgh on his way east, where he was forced to lis en to some of Barney Dreyfuss' grie ances. However, the governor di much to smooth out Barney's ruffledd feelings and convinced him that thi ! was not such a bad world after all. Dreyfuss intended to come to tha New York meeting next week de manding Herrmann's head as chair man of the national commission, bu it now is said Barney is willing tc forgive and forget. Both Dreyfuss and Herrmann attended an Elks' din ner in Pittsburgh last night. Pittsburgh reports quote Dryfuss as being anxious to punish McGra for granting interviews in which h said he would like to have Mamaux] on his team. Tener sald, “Such case! are as old as baseball. Suppose som baseball writer should ask Ebbets; ‘How would you like Hornsby on your, club? Ebbets naturally would rep ‘He sure would fit in mighty nice.’ McGraw Case Settled. “The next day the writer may come out with a story, ‘Ebbets wants Hor: by to play shortstop.’ Then the owne of Hornshy's club may accuse Ebbets of tampering with one of his players when Ebbets is entirely innocent and | did no more than answer a reporter's question. That is how practically all of such cases originate.” Whether the McGraw case will come up at the annual meeting of the na- tional league Tenér refused to say. | “So far as I am concerned the Me- | Graw case is closed,” said Tener. | “However, T do mot know what il | happen at the meetings next week. | The various club owners will be here for several days to discuss their bus | ness affairs and I cannot tell in ad- ! vance w. questions they will bring | up.” | | i reserve clause,” J()H\{ COLBY IS DEAD. Ranked High as Football Player at, Dartmouth. Hanover, N. H., Dec Colby of Brookline, M vears a letterman on the football team and one of prominent members of the class o 1916, died early this morning at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospita from pleurisy and pneumonia. The announcement came as a complete surprise for he went to the hospital only three days ago (lolby for three years was on the football team. He man of his junior prom and president of the college club. -He ranked high as a football player. He was one of the leaders of his class in every activity and a very popular man. He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. §.—John N. for three Dartmouth the mos a guar was chair- committee CAPTAINCY, | ., Pittsburgh, Dec. 8.—Charles E. Hastings, halfbackk on the football {team of the University of Pittsburgh, | has been elected captain of the un! | versity basketball team it was ans | nounced yesterday. He will take thé place of Joseph Matson, elected last year, who has been forced to give up athletics on account of an injury. HASTINGS G skies That mar a golfer's game— But think what luscious alibis They frame! “When a man,” gins missing 18 and what remedy would 20 foot you putt. writes Snuffy, “be- star, by engaging him for next year, with the complete staff of assistants, inculding Soucy and his other Har- vard grads, who worked with Wiscon- | 5n the last year. This action is tak- {en in spite of the fact that the Bad- gers did not win any of their import- ant games this year, except that with s, advise?” ' Chicago. We Are Catering to Afternoon Bowling Pin Men Always on Hand AETNA ALLEYS Church Street | | I