New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 19, 1916, Page 12

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1916, Dreyfuss to Ask Increased Admission to Watch his Team Play---Frank Moran Looks Through as a L ighter--- Jimmy Wilde Ends Zulu Kid’s Championship Aspirations---Annex Wins Twice From Tigers MOKETOWN RATES | Annual Big New York Six 10 BE ADVANCED ! reyius Announces That to Watch | Pirates Is Worth More Pittsburgh, Dec. Rurn to Pittsburgh yesterday, Barney Dreyfuss announced that Broadway fprices would prevail Forbes Field mext season. Dreyfuss ovidently in- [tends to avall himself of the National e e bleacher sdmissions to & minimum. And the minimum in New York is a mere handful. In fact, for several s thé two-bit bleacherites of the Palo Grounds have been conspicuous Zor thelr absence. | This aotfon of the oconservative Dreyfus lends celor to the rumor fthat Hie'has 1o view a most probable purchaser/ ot the Pirates. In the first place, there is no occasion at this | fime for Dreyfuss to make such an nnouncement-if he hopes to be in mand at Ferbes Field in 1917. le_has _before him the lesson of C. “Ebbets in the late World's series. ‘A" whole winter is open to Flatbush fans to store up their resentment to- ward the Squire, 4 A Fine Stroke. But if Dreyfuss has arranged a sale, fehen' this ‘premature ' announcement hould prove a fine stroke for the new jowners. Barney would carry away th him; whatever, odiim in opinion ight be formed; his successor could foome in committed to a league policy which he had no hand. That something i§ in' the wind there n be little doubt. Dreyfuss always has been strong for principle. He came to New York last week bear- Ing & grievance against Garry Herr- mann and the.National Commission. He seemed most sincere when he de- jared . he would unmask Garry through the press if he was throttled in the National League meeting. He as either throttled or mollified, be- jeause he quit the final session without word, of. comment for publication. _Sought a Truce. Tt comes from reliable authority hat the National League sought a uce with: Dréyfuss at this particu- lar time because of the approach- ng suit. brought by:the Baltimore [rederal League people in a Philadel- phia court. A part of the National [League’s concession’ was assistance in proqucing a_buyer for the Pittsburgh lub at the terms of Dreyfuss, said o.be a million and a quarter. It is nown also that a number of the National League magnates were boosting the value of the Pittsburgh ranchise as a good business buy. 19.—Upon his re- fin *-O. . Wathen, who owns the cham- pion Louisville club.of the American ssociation, is anxious to branch out a major league club owner. He eliev he has in Bill Clymer one of th eatest managers of the age. [Mr. Wathen is very wealthy. Also Jhe is of the old type of magnate; a | horough gentleman and a good gportsman. Wathen tried unsuccess- fully to purchase the St. Louis Card- nals. He could not see the price sked. Now it is saild Wathan is in- v gating the real estate values of | rorbes Field, and that if they prove ps enticing as heralded the Louisville | eportsman may be identified with the PNational League before spring. TINKER SEEKS FRANCHISE. Veeghman Sayy Former Club Man- ager is After Columbus Club. Chicage, Dec. 19.—Joseph B. Tink- jer, deposed manager of the Chicago INational League Club, has opened ne- gotial for the purchase of the olumBty franchise in the American lAssocigtion,” Charles . Weeghman, president - of the Chicago club, nounced on his return from New York yestergay. Weeghman also said that Fred Mit- ehell, the néw manager of the Chi- cago club, will come to Chicago to take charge of the team shortly’ fter Jan. 1. Three trades are pend- ng, Weeghman announced, an- PYTHIANS BEATEN K AGAIN. | | We have drifted with the westwind | Ana w Day Bike New' York, Dec. 19.—8ix day bicy- cle fiends are now having their in- ning here. The annual grind is on in .Madison Square Garden, and the promoters look forward to some new records.- The entry list is a large one among them two high class foreign teams. The big bike event in this city is the starting of the long grind bicycle season. From here they go to other cities. Layout shows some of the leading riders entered No. 1, Fred Hill; Alfred Goulette; 3, Regeie McKenna; 4, Fred Kalser; 5, Eddie Root. Songs of the Off-Trail. We know how long we've parted ! From the derams that used to find us; | We know how far we've wandered | From the way we meant to go; But we never think about it | Until oldtime scenes remind us | With the white and scarlet berries | As we face the Christmas glow. 1 ! i 've heard the eastwind plead- ing; ‘We have followed with the sunlight And the starlight out the years; And it doesn’t often matter Which direction Fate is leading Where we've gained our part of pleas- ure And have known our share of tears, But when Christmas echoes gather And the clans are congregating, And the winds of night are cluttered With forgotten ghosts at bay, Then we turn to lost roads pointing Where the ancient heart is waiting As we hear again the story Of the reindeer and the sleigh. The controlling powers in the Amer- ican League are baseball men. The controlling powers in the National League are business men, The rest of it is obvious enough. The Worth of Patrick Moran, Of all leading managers who have achieved a distinct success in the game, it strikes us that Pat Moran, the Philly director, has obhtained far less than his share of praise. Pat won a pennant in 1915 with a ball club that no one figured as a first division team. This last season, with a club rated fourth or fifth, he remained in the fight until Bancroft was injured in St. Blmo lodge, K. of P., went down | the final week Wwith a club that beat to defeat again last evening before the | Brooklyn in 7 out of the last 8 games Lexington - lodge, I. O. O. F., bowls; team, this that fhe three link men have accom- plished the trick this season. pf tho series, a margin of ‘but points separating the teams at Jinish, the score being 42 ‘to 40. pesults on the rinks follows: Rink 1 t. Elmo ‘lodge, Ptolomey iskip, 1 ngton lodge, Curtiss skip, 1 Fink 2, St. Elmo lod Spence ski 17, Lexington lodge, Crocker skip, 1 rink 3, St. Elmo l¢dge, Boyington pkip 11, Lexington lodge, North skip, 15. ew Britain council, O. U. A. M,, and 'henix lodge, I. O. O. F. carpet | being the third time | gays of the The | game was one of the most exciting | two | qualities that the ! needs—firmness, The | the respect of his tribe. * | Phillies are not very likely to be re- D, | The game tonight will be between ! l | through the stretch. away at the peak until within two close with one great pitcher, where the leading batsman of his club was fixed at .283 and where Bancroft, his infield star, dropped to 213. Moran is rigged out with the a winning manager good judgment and Pat was firing As long as the combination of Moran and Alexander is around the | garded again as open faced targets for | any hostile fir The Rough Life, Golf professionals lead the hardest | life we know. In the summer they are outdoors all day in the open country. {and the game, LIGHT Grantland Rice And in the winter they are forced to ! leave the snowdrifts and the smash- ing winds for such places as Palm Beach, Belleair, Pinehurst, Augustd, St. Augustine, Ormond and Aiken. Yet we have never heard of a golf pro strike. Showing again that the Scot comes from a hardy race. Another Version, remember — I remember—four months ago this morn 1 shrivelled in the summer’s sun,, per- spiring and forlorn; But now it gives me even less of hap- piness to know THE air is full of winter ground is full of snow. I and the Football Ethics. One detail that will help football more than a trifie is an improvement in the general ethics of the game. For illustration, if every man taught—not how to hold and away Wwith it—but not to hald an opponent under any condition the Zame would be bolstered in several ways. Proof of this can be found in the enormous number of penalties in- flicted through the past season and the valuable amount of ground lost by beraking some rule. When fulfilling the letter and the spirit of the rule is as much a_part of instruction as tackling and punting, these constant penalties will be ended in addition, will he upon a much higher basis than it is is get We can imagine after the Fi Punic War or after Persia’s repulse in Greece or after Joshua had concluded at Ajalon, the expression of this gen- eral opinion, to wit:—“Well, this’ll be the last big war. They'll all be too sick of fighting after this to ever start another.” “What would happen, Johnny” some one asked Evers, “if you should make ! an 80-yard run in a football game and the referee should call you back for holding in the line? About what would you say?” “Not a ward,” said the Trojan, “not a word. I'd probably choke to death before I even had a chance to take another breath.” RULE SHOP BOYS WIN. The office boys bowling team of the Stanley Rule & Level company de- feated the office boys of P. & F. Cor- bins last evening on the Y. M. C. A. alleys. The consistent work of the victors featured the contest. Teams desiring games should communicate with ‘A. Schade, care of S. R. & L. company. | teams, Foote, Grind Now on " BOWLING RESULTS Tigers Submit to Defeat at Hands of Annex After Some Fast Work on the Lanes. Lacking the punch, although they fought hard, the membe of the Tigers bowling quintet were, forced to submit to a defeat at the hands of the Annex five at the Aetna alleys last evening. The game produced some fine work by members of both Young and the Wright boys belng the individual stars. In the New Britain Machine com- pany league, the Office five trimmed the J. & L., operators.twice, while the Tool room aggregation smeared the Lathe operators thrice. The scores follow: Annex L1 By ..103 .99 «.115 91 9 86 111 99 Hoffman Young Huck Foote MecBriarty 47 Tigers T. Wright Peplan Foberg . | J. Wright ‘Anderson Swanson Snugg Tryon Logan Allison i Job 97 loenan i V. Woerdelin Tool Room 91 101 83 87 99 388 99 101 06 B R 458 Lathes Boyle .. S 9 Hickey 94 83 Anderson 83 91 Collins % 71 Linn 82 Moran 75 Chalmer: Willimetz Sandquist Burkhardt ! Cusack 410 420—1235 $250,000 GOLF PROJECT Passaic, N. J., Dec! 19.—The Youn- takah Country club, owner of the largest golf course in this section, has decided to purcha a large tract of land in Allwood, near here, for a nesw course and to erect a clubhouse to cost more than $50,000. The entire project will require an expenditure of some $250,000 i { man Mitchell, New Cub Leader, a General, Says Stallings| New York, Dec. 19.—After nearly sixteén years' service in big leagles and class AA league.baseball, oppor- tunity has finally Knocked at Fréd Mitchell's " door, anW ‘the veteran pitcher, catcher, scout and coach is to be given can do as a m In signing him to succeed Joe Tinker as manager of the Chicago Cubs the consensus of opinion among baseball men is that Charles Weeghman has made a master stroke and that the building up of the Cubs has been placed in compe- tent hands | After the Cubs agreed to give Joe Kelly, an outfielder, and some cash, reported to be $5,000, for Mitchell, George Stallings, manager of the Braves, said: “The Cubs have pro- cured one of the best generals the game has ever known. Mitchell is one of the smartest baseball men I have ever met. He knows everything there is to know about baseball. Further- more, he knows a ball player when he sees one, and he knows how to handle him. I am sure he will be a big success as manager of the Cubs. Mitchell's career in big-league-base- | { ball began in 1901 when he was signed as a pitcher by the B league club. The ston -American next year he was sent to the Athletics when the Phila- delphia club was ir give him more mon to the club. TIn 1903 and the Philli In 1 Brooklyn Dodgers. arm, and in 1906, pitched for the Torco the close of 1908 and in 1909 catcher with Toron In 1910 the Yank as a catcher. The gave two players for him. Stallings of the Yanks. Stallings as manage: to Rochester and Stallings, however, falo with him in 19 lings took charge 1913 he took Mitch him. Philadelphia his arm he blossomed was there n need .of pitehers a chance to show what he | That autumn Connie Mack refused to € nd he jumped National. 1 1904 he was with 905 he .joined the He injured his 1907 and 1908 he onto club, Tov ailed him, forth a gue to. ees signed Mitchell New York club and $5,000 in cash was then mana When Chase succeeded r Mitchell w in ent 1911. took him 12, and when Stal- of the Braves in ell to Boston with SEES NO TROUBLE President Adjustment of Bascball Difficulties With Much Dispute at January 8 Meeting, i New York, Dec. 19.—President John K. Tgner of the National league an- ! nounced yesterday that the all-impor- tant meeting of the National Commis- sion to act on all the suggestions re- cently made by the two major leagues would be held in Cincinnati on January 8. It will be one of the most important conferences the body has ever held and its action will have | a significant bearing on next year's | haseball ‘season. President Tener ex- pects no trouble with the Class A leagues over their request for the r moval of the draft. He stated that he believed that conditions in the minor leagues could be improved with the co-operation of | Tener Expects ZULU KID K. 0D Jimmy Wilde, Engl livers Sleep Poti ish Champion, De- on to American Claimant For Fiyweight Honors. London, flyweight champio knocked out 5 Young Zulu Kid, York, in the eleven match yesterday. By reaffirmed his clain flyweight champion Dec. 19 The contest was to have gone twenty | Frankic —Jimmy e (e England, Di Melfi, known of Brooklyn, New th round of their v his vietory Wilde n to the title . of of the world. rounds of three minutes each. Both men were ppeared to be in excellent condition. | and furiou They fought fast tearly rounds were the Young Zulu Kid In the eleventh the Kid to the ropes to the jaw. under weight and The about even, with the aggressor. round Wilde sent with a strong left Clinging to the ropes, the the commission, but just what should | American fighter took a dozen hody be done is a Tener said that players were d the three Class question. Pre: in all twenty-two (fted last season from A A leagues, eight these players coming from the Inter- national league. He predicted that the objections of the minors could bd amicably adjusted. He also stated that he looked for a great improve- ment in the standard. of play in the National league next season. An aftermath of the National league meeting here came to light yesterday when it was learned that during the negotiations between President Weeghman of Chicago and Pr Haughton of Boston that the nted $50,000 for Mana. George Stallings’ release, along with a four years’ contract which called for $18,000 a year. Haughton, it is under- stood, refused to back down from th price, while Weeghman considered it too high in view of the big contract assume. The Yankees’ management got glad tidings vesterday from Pitcher Sam Ross, who was farmed out to Rich- mond last season. Ross was showing great form in the minors when he had to undergo an ‘operation for ap- pendicitis which put him out af the game for the season. He informed the New York office yesterday that he had entirely recovered and had taken on fifteen 'pounds Ross, will report at Macon, Ga., ready for work on March 5. l As soon as the Kid Wilde shot smashir blows to the w, whose seconds, the count, threw PENNS Folwell ¥ Oregon Philadelphia, Dec. ball team Friday for Pasadent University of Orego Year's Day. The two players will be Captain Henry Millc Clem Urquhart, Ludlow Wra Little, will start Bert Bell, flooring 3 without waiting for following C Ingold Ertre: Beh Derr, dent | blows and then dropped on one knec. his feet, | regained hg right and left the ¥ towel. Game, 18.—Penn’s foot- | from here on Cal, to meet the eleven on New twenty- par Mathew: Henning, ang, Lew Hobey n in the er, Neil harley Light, Howard Berry, Alex Wray, I which the Chicago club would have to Young, Al Crane, Johnny Titzel, W ter Berg, Billy Robi Billy Quigle; Bryant and Mannie Penn's entire 'var: Robert C. Graves Williams Vie Weis nson, s Jimm) Wirkman, sity coaching staff, Folwell, Byron Dickson, and Dr. Charles M. Wharton, along with Dr, Charles Lovett wil party. President H. of the athletic asso ranged for the players to alumni associations Detroit, Mich.; Alb and Pasadena, Cal. R. Tait McKenzie, and Manager 1 complete the . Laussat Geyeli ciation has ar- meet the at Buffalo, Y uquerque, M., L to Buf- | Wilde, | MORAN OUTGLASSED BY GUNBOAT SMITH | Californian Forces Mill in Every Round—Frank Looks Very Bad New York, Dec 19.—Gunboat Smith, the California heavyweight, Frank rather the Pittsburgh in found Moran, easy opponent the Clermont blonde, an their ten-round bout at A. C., Brooklyn, | one of tHe fen rounds Smith had an last night. In every | | | | | | | | Aavantage his sturdy rival, and the | won ‘because Moran was too cautions his tactic: failed take ad- vantage of numerous openings left by | the. Gunboat 1ad. | On the other hand .Smith followed up every oportunity that was present- ed to get in a telling blow on Morar He worked a left uppercut with. dire effect on Moran's face, and though he niissed more. times than he 6on- nected with his heavy wight back Hf the ear, he hurt the Pittsburgher when he did get this blow home. In only two rounds did Moran ex- hibit the form expected of = him. Momentarily in the seventh and tenth rounds he worried Smith with his heavy right hand smashes to the stomach, and in each session he sent Smith whirling to the ropes. But he neyer took full advantaze of these | occasions and the result was that | Smith had time enough in each to | recuperate and come back to gain | the advantage of the session. In the | tenth period Moran feught desperate- | 1y, trying for a knockout | " He rushed out of his corner and zot I Smith before the Californian could of- | fer” resistance. He smashed a right | neavily against Smith's jaw and Gun- boat went reeling to the There Moran peppered him with seemingly crushing’ blows, but dfter the flirry Smith again gained the up- per hand. He was worried by this shower of Blgws, but never becam flustéred. ‘When it appeared that he: was in a bad way he released a left hook to the chin and Moran stepped »ack a pace.” Then the "Californian kept. the head.ef his Pittsburgh: rival bobbing . with, the. continued use of left-hand jab. Moran could finds.nd defense againgt this punch, and iwas partly in- a:.daze, but fighting hard when the bell ended the bout, Throughout the action was fast, with never-any doubt abont Smith's wdvantage. - Moran . thought too. leng | before he.started his punches. - He would. make-a. bluff as if to shoot: out the right.and then weuld- draw back again. Smith . seon solved -this style and followed it guickly. Most of his effective boxing -was done ‘at close quarters. over forced fighting throughout. He in and to ropes, AWARDED. | Academy’s Football Players Are Hone ored. An low * volis, Md., " has been Dec. 19.—The yel- warded to the fol- lowing members of last season's Nav- al Acamedy football squad Class of 1917—C. O. Ward, Reifel, Wi P. O.. Clark, H. W. son, B. Dashiell. Class of 1918—T. G. Fisher, | Wheelen, O. H. Holliman Class of 1919—H. Goodstein, A. Gil- eman, E. H. Von Heimberg, J. J. Orr. Class of 1920—1J. E. Welchel, W. H- Roberts, W.' A. Ingram, L. §. Perry, I. C. Scaffe, W. Butler. . No midshipman now at the emy is the holder of the “N which is awarded only after | during which the Army team has been | defeatea. The academy amended the W.oar, Jack- J N acdd- Wby, authorities © have prohibition against swimming as a competitive sport and will permit a limited schedule to be | nged this season i midshipmen | greatly in this sport. have improved DUNDEE AN EASY WINNER. New Yorker Outpoints Buck Fleming at_Philadclphia. Penn., 19 Buck Olym- fast the bod¥ hig Philadelphia, Dec Johnny Dundee outpointed Fleming last but and in six rounds at The fizght Dundee’s speedy the night. was a left effective pic one, to head his blows way. Fleming made his brilliant rally in the fourth round, but Dundee was able to beat down his attack. quick, turned the tide of victory usual We Arer Catering to Afternoon Bowling- Pin Men Always.on Hand AETNA ALLEYS, Church Street SMOKE OXMOOR "