New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1916, Page 12

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1916. Tany Colleges Plan Intersectional Football Games in 1917---Wanderers Move up Nearer Second Place)| In City League---Miske Outboxes “ Bearcat” Dillon---Fastern Magnates Cover Territory For Next Season e ANGERS NO MATGH OR THE WANDERERS Brenneke’s Quintet Within a Few Points of Second Place The Wanderers jumped up another Peg nearer second place in the City leaguc lust evening, when the Rang- ers were forced to submit to three Btraisht defes With ‘Windish and Brenniccke In top form, the Sand bank bovs wefe confronted with a formidable opponent, but fought hard in every game. Clancy of the Rang- ers topped-the st for honors for high Bcore with with Blanchard but jone -point in .the-rear. After losing the 'first game to the Bouth Ends ,the Live Oaks the ieague leaders, “nicked’ their opponents for the remaining two games of the match, thereby. strengthening their hold on the coveted position. The [eoming champs were not as brilliant es in some of earlier season games, [Cage being the only wood toppler 'who bowled in consistent fashion. hompson. with 295 was next in line. In the American Paper Goods league, the All-Americans won two [games from the Pirates and the Russians accorded the same treat- ent to the D. T.s. The scores follow ‘Wanderers. 91 107 98 85 86 81 100 92 97 104 472 479 Rangers. 108 89 90 89 77 448 450 South Ends. 80 89 110 90 95 .e .97 e 108 JA. Anderson Windish .... loreen arson .... [Brennecke . 99— 287 107— 300 86— 253 94— 286 98— 299 484—1425 v 80 89 95 89 95— 78— 116— 98— 96— 481—1379 295 2417 294 282 261 112— 281 91— 291 94— 189 81— 267 97— 288 —_ T4 89 88 74 1 { | 5 ‘Why Indeed? | We have grown fat in girth and heart | From episodes beyond the sea; | And so, for any finer part, | Why should we train for what might | be? | Train off this precious fiesh of aurs Through sacrifice that may not please, | The while we dream in sheltered bowers Ot gold corpulence and ease? We have grown fat—what more {s there ! To ask from Fortune or from Fate? | Has ecither greater gain to spare | Where Time and Destiny await? The long reach and the flashing eye? | The spced and strength for future strife? ‘Why are these foibles worth a try Where one can live the softer life? | “Ideals,” you say?—And what they, I beg of you, but whosts of dreams? Or tell me what per cent. they pay In yellow gold that glints and gleams? ‘When one is soft and thick and round, Well fattened in the feeding pen, Where is the comfort to be found In getting lithe and lean again? are | Adding to the Attack. “We have tao little good batting,” says certaln magnates. Who evidently have never faced Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker and Joe Jackson, Leaving any unseemly levity aside, the attack or offense in baseball un- doubtedly needs bracing. Only a few ball players now range above .280, and the general average is over 30 points lower. The batsman who can average one safe blow out of four times up is on | a par with the-fleld at large, Base running is at even lower ebb. Almast any pitcher can keep the fast- est sprinter in the league tled to the bag. The enforcement of the balk 485 430 475—1390 Tdve Oaks. ! 101 78 102— 281 95 101 108— 304 93 97 106— 5 84 86 103— 273 80 99 79— 258 497—1411 i ntone 453 461 A. P. G. LEAGU. All-Americans 76 88 . 83 T4 110 95 +106 101 375 358 _Pirates. 97 97 80 84 358 344 3551057 | Russians, | 91 109 103—303 73 84 85— 242 96 96 103— 295 99 91 96— 286 359 380 387—1126 D. Ts. . 93 92 81 99 1 80— 244 33 85— 290 A11—.318 . Wright Malamey . Moore 352—1085 ; 277 260 249 271 99 8 80 87 e 85— 89— 100— Btromfors [Fitzgerald IB. Corr . O’Connell &. O’Connell . Malarney . . Emerson . Benardo 86— 85— 260 70— 239 98— 291 339—1045 [Rice j=. McMu Haywood fuancaster rray “BULL LOWE ELECTED CAPT. etter Men Choose Right Tackle to YTicad the 1917 FEleven. New York, Dee. H. 20.—George Lowe, right tackle “on’ the Fordham ! nniversity football team, was unan- jmously elected~ yesterday as captain pf the 1917 eleven by the seventeen players who received th varsity “F” on Monday night. Lowe, who is a freshman in the Law school of Ford ham, is eligible to represent the Bronxites for two more years. In 1914 he was captain of the Exeter Academy eleven, and plaved left end. Tast season he worked at left tackle at Lafayette, but after deciding to take up law he entered Fordham in Beptember and had no trouble in win- ning a regular position. TED LANG'S SUCCESSOR. Middlebury, Vt., Dec. 20.—Philip Bower, of Arlington, ., a former Worcester Acaremy star, has been plected captain of the Middlebury Pollege football team for mext year. Bower has played quarterback for fwe years. IKenneth Gorham, 18, wat élscted manager. “ é>ArefiCatering to Afternoon Bowling Pin Men Always on Hand AETNA ALLEYS, Church Street 255 | rule is a joke; or, the balk rule it- self is a joke. You'll ind the aver- age among good base runners isn't one stolen base out of flve games.| Tven Cobb last season, batting over .370, couldn’t average a stolen base as | often as every other game. The Defense Rules, In baseball at present the defense rules, with the pitching 80 per cent.! of the defense. Take the case of Detroit and Boston in the American league. Detroit made 1,870 hits, and scored therefrom 670 runs. Boston made 1,250 hits and .scored Detroit, on the season, made 120 base hits and 120 more runs. than Boston. Detroit averaged almost a run to the game above her Eastern rival, a margin big enough to have been decisive. But Boston had the pitching and Detroit aldn’t. And, under the present system, good pitch- ing is far more valuable than good batting. The tigers were far and away stronger on attack, by this margin: T R T.B. B.B. B.B. ! Detroit 1370 670 1815 - 190 545 i Boston 2500 550 1601 129 465 You will ind from this that the Tigers picked up over 300 baseg above the Red Sox, but since defense counts so much more than attack, the Red Sox won. M The Red Sox lost Tris Speaker all the season and Jack Barry through the stretch. But minus their two v lthrough the winter to get in shape for PORT LIGHT Grantland Rice the big spring and summer drive? This looks to be a grand little winter for an initial test. A\ ORIMSON TRACK DATES. Schedule Same ag Last Year, Begin- ning With Relays at Penn. Cambridge, Mass, Dec. 20.—Har- vard’s spring track schedule will be the same this season as it was last year. The first outdoor competition for the team Will be at the Penn relay games on April 28-29. Entries will be made In the relays, and weight men and jumpers will also be sent to Phila- delphia. The meet with Cornell will be held in the stadium on May 5 and the Yale meet will be decided at New Haven a week later. The usual number of en- tries will also be made in the intercol- legiate meet on May 25 and 26. Har- vard is willing to hold this event again, but is to make no active cam- paign in this direction. The inter- collegiates, when held in the stadium, have always been big moneymakers. “DUG” ALLISON DEAD. ‘Washington, D. C., Dec. 20.— catchers of his day and who will be remembered by old-time fans in Con- necticut as the backstop for the Hart- ford teams in 1875 and 1876, dropped dead yesterday afternoon while shovelling snow from in front of his house. Allison first played in this city on the Hartford team of the Na- tional Association {f Professional Baseball Players, playing through the last year that this association was in existence. That was in 1875 and the following year the National league came into existence. Allison playing for the Hartford club, of which Mor- gan G. Bulkeley was also the first president of the league. MECHANICS BOWLERS BEATE Phenix lodge, I. O. O. F., defeated New Britain council, O. U. A. M. at carpet bowls last evening, score 4 to 30. The results on rinks were as follow Rink 1, Odd Fellows, Zwick 2; rink 3, Odd Fellows, Peterson skip 11; rink 2, Odd Fellows, Nettleton skip 14, Mechanics, Rockwell skip 12; rink 3, Odd Fellows, ePterson skip 17, Mechanics, Bull skip 7. The game tonight will be between Frederick lodge, A. F. and A. M. of Plainville and the P. O. S. of A. At the close of the contest, a drawing for fifteen turkeys will be held. ROWLAND AGAIN MGR. Chicago, Dec. 20.—Clarence Row- land, who managed the Chicago club in the American league last season, yesterday was re-appointed to pilot the same club for the season of 1917 according to President Comiskey of the local club. Douglas Allison, one of the greatest | EAST VS. WESTT0 BE 1917 FEATURE Plans of Past Season—to Be Dupli- cated But More Extensive New York, Dec. 20.—Although the majority of the Eastern college foot- ball schedules for the season of 1917 are still in the making it is evident that intersectional games will be fea- tured to & record extent next autumn. The popularity of these contests proved one of the outstanding fea- tures of the past fall and it is cer- tain that they will be duplicated on a larger scale next year. If various rumors and reports have any basis in fact not only will there be more of these intersections games, but the larger and more important colleges of the East, Middle and Far West will appear upon the schedules of teams many hundred miles removed from their own campus. | Whatever next season’s play may | bring forth in the way of victory or | defeat, the Eastern college elevens have no reason to be ashamed of their records made in the intersectional gridiron struggles of last fall. Dur- i ing the months of October and No- | vember Eastern teams participated in {18 intersectional games against Southern or Middle Western elevens, winning fifteen, tying two and losing one. In six games against the Middle West five were won and one los., when Michigan nosed out Syracuse by a score of 14 to 13. Tn these six contests the Eastern elevens rolled {up a total of 103 to 64 points. Michi- i gan was the only team to figure in | more than one game, the Wolverines | playlng three, losing to Pennsylvania fand Cornell and winning from Syra- cuse. | Against the Southern teams the | East did still better. All told twelve games were played, of which ten were won and two tied. West Virginia j held Dartmouth to a 7 to 7 score and Rutgers played Washington and Lee a 13 to 13 tie game. The total number of points scored in the in- tersectional contests were East, 270; | South 36, making the aggregate for | | the 18 games KEast, 373; Oppnnenls; 100. If the University of Pittsburgh | | and Georgetown University are con- | siderea as Wastern combinations the score can be increased still further while if Georgetown with the South- ern institutions its victory over Dart- mouth 10 to 0 gives the South one win In addition to the two tics. The complete list of intersectional games in which ern elevens took part, with the dates and results fol- lows: | [ { East vs. West. Oct. 14—Colgate 15, Illinois 3. Oct. 28—Tufts 12, Indiana Michigan 14, Syracuse 13, Nov. 4—Army 30, Notre Dame 10. Nov. 11—Cornell 23, Michigan 20. Nov. 18—Pennsylvania 10, Mich- igan T. 10; Fast vs. South, Sept. 30—Pennsylvania West Virginia 0. Oct. 7—Princeton 29, North Caro- lina 0; Yale 61, Virginia 3; Washing- ton & Jefferson 7, Wesleyan (W. Va.) 0; Army 10, Washington & Lee 7. stars they went on winning through Ruth, Shore, Leonard and Mays, The Red Sox stole fewer bases than any other club in the maljor leagues. But when you have a Ruth, a Shore and a Leonard the rest of it 1s only a minor detail. Or What? | Str: ‘What seems to be thetrouble? A big league ball club can now hardly get along with 26 players for nine positions through injuries, etc.,, and our leading football teams, we are told, can only stand three hard games in elght weeks. Are we, a8 a nation, getting soft, or fragile, or what? THE OLD DOC. And when any one suggests to a prizefighter that he toil over ten rounds, or 30 minutes, the immediate services of a physician are required to bring him around. The suggestion, in fact, 1s likely to prove fatal unless the victim 1s partitlly prepared for the shock. At this snow-bound date last sea- son Hal Chase'was not only all in, but he was to be. blockaded from any major leaguse for life. Yet we seem ta have an indistinct impression that Hal not only got in a game or two, but he also made two or three base hits before the campalgn closed. Paralleling Old Doc Fell, I do not like the winter league; I do'not like its dull intrigue; It fills me with a wan fatigue, I do not like the winter league, Why shouldn’t the enterprising press ‘send 8DOTting writers = South RATHER PROUD OF HMSELF Loss oF APPETITE LOSs oF SLEEP | letic | with the next se Oct. Wesle 14—Penn State 39, W. Va. an 0; Harvard 21, North Caro- Rutgers 13, Washington & 20—Yale 19, Virginia Poly 0. 4—Harvard 51, Virginia 0.. Nov. 18—Dartmouth 7, West Vir- ginia ginia 7; Washington & Jefferson 10, Washington & Lee 6. Va McLEAN WITH REDS. Cincinnati, Dec. 20.—Larry Lean, the veteran catcher, who in former years added more than one touch of high life to the sequestered existence of Cincinnati, is to come back to the Reds. It was learned today that Manager Mathewson has decided to give the erring knight of the shinguards an opportunity to make good a recently announceed re- form. McLean will go South as coach to the battery candidates of the Red- Jegs, and if he behaves he may even be given an opportunity to break into | the game more or less regularly. Long | Larry will be provided with a joh' throughout the summer if his be- havior justifies. In case his days of | active service have ended he will be igned to scout duty under Larry Sutton. Me- WANTED, A COACH. Harvard Looking Around for Succes- sor to Fred Mitchell. Cambridge, Mass.,, Dec. 20.—With Fred Mitchell signed to a contract as manager of the Cubs, the Harvard baseball solons have had to give up hope of his return to Soldier’s field. Among the men mentioned as coach now are Bill Sweeney, former captain of the Boston National league team; Fred Snodgrass, another pro- fessional star; Louis Pieper, well known New England baseball man- ager and magnate, who formerly coached at Harvard; Charley Mec- Laughlin, a former Crimson captain, and Arthur Irwin, an old time player and well known as an able judge of good players. Manager George Parson doesn’t ex- pect to be able to announce Mitchell’s successor until late in January. MURRAY BASEBALL CAPTAIN. Hartford, Dec. 20.—At a meeting of the Trinity college baseball team vesterday noon, Edward F. Murray of Norwich was elected captain of the team for the season of 1917. Murray has played a brilliant game in every game, at shortstop, on the Trinity team in the past two seasons, and his work has been of great help to the blue and gold nine. Murray prominent on the campus, being retary and treasurer of the Ath- ociation, and also a past president of his clas: He is a mem- ber of the sophomore dining club, the sophomore honorary society, and of the D. K. T. fraternity. He has not & amount of materinl to work son, but with Jimmy Burns® at the head of the coaching staff, ought to develop a fairly fast team. a CHANGES IN BASKETBALL TEAM. A shift which is believed by the coach, N. C. Avery will prove bene- ficial to the team has been in the makeup of the New: Britain High school basketball quintet. Captain Hibbard. and Robb have been sent to guard positions, Bassett and ‘Wood- ford will play forwards and Sechrist at center. The team will play Bris- tol Friday afternoon at 4:30 oclock in the ‘local gymhasium.. The. Bell City boys have defeated Middletown this season and are represented by a very fast team. { ERGER FOR PAPER NEXT MORNING - STOCK GoES UP DILLON OUTBOXED But Advantage of Billy Miske at End of Ten Rounds Is Not Wide—A Great Bout, New York, Dec. 20.—Jack Dillon, the Indianapolis light heavyweight, generally regarded ds the leader of his class, met an unpleasant surprise last night at the Broadway Sporting club in Brooklyn in Billy Miske of St. Paul, and at the conclusion of their ten-round meeting the St. Paul aspir- ant for the hLeavyweight title had shaded his rival by the slightest pos- sible margin. Miske’s victory was by na means decisive or convincing, but he nevertheless managed to accumu- late enough points in the tem rounds to entitle him to the honors, It was one of the greatest bouts be- tween men of this weight that has ever been staged in the metropolis, and the spacious Broadway club held what was probably its biggest crowd to date. Dillon, it can safely be said never tried harder or more earnest in any of his local bouts, but he at a disadvantage in the matter of height and reach, and these natural assets of Miske's playved an important role throughaut, There were times when he held his smaller opponent at arm’s length, on the tip of his ex- tended left arm, and made the aggre: sive Dillon miss many of his attempts for the face or stomach, Miske also showed wonderful anility for assimilating punishment, for, while he managed to avoid many of Dillon’s deadly right and left hand blows for the stomach or jaw, a few of them found their mark as the bout progressed, but they failed to make any apparent impression on the tall St. Paul boxer. At long range Miske shawed to particular advantage, and in many of the frequent exchanges in which the boxers engaged on the ropes and in the center of the ring the St. Paul light heavyweight landed the cleaner and more effective blows, practically beating Dillon at the lat- ter's own game, a RUSH RE-APPOINTED. Princeton, N. J., Dec. 20.—John been appointed Harland Rush has coach of the Princeton football eleven for 1917. Appointment of assistant coaches was delayed pending further investigation. jushs two years of coaching have resulted in defeats by Yale and Harvard, but Princeton’'s gridiron advisers did not expect im- mediate results of the Rush system —however greatly they may have hoped for them. What Rush has done has heen to give the Tigers an offensive system, a means of advanc- ing the ball through straight play— something that -had become a lost art at Nassau. While it has to date been expressed more in terms ds than in touchdowns ,there ix every feeling that the future—assuming profit is taken of past errors of judgment in several quarters—will show more subtantial results. FAULKES MAY BOX WILDE. New York, Dec, 20.—It was said yesterday in local pugilistic circles that Buddy Faulkes, the negro -ban- tamweight of Waterbury, Conn., would be the next American baxer to journey to England for the purpose of meet- ing Jimmy Wilde, England’s flyweight champion. John W. Hammel, man- ager aof Faulkes, announced that an offer had been made the Connecticut bantamweight, and that it was prob- able the contest would be staged in February. THE STock QUOTATIONS PAGE EASTERN MOGULS MEAT Magnates Block Chance of Anothex Circuit by Paying Fec on Whole Territory. ‘Worcester, M Dec. 20.—The af- { rectors of the Eastern baseball league met here this afternoon to give the Lawrence baseball situation —another airing. After everything had been said and done, it was declded to let the matter rest for another week. Jo€ Sullivan, whom the league is giving a chance to sell out his Lawren&e franchise, hopes to have his club dis- posed of by next Wednesday. In view of this the league moguels voted | to wait and see how successful Sulll- | van will be in his sale proceedings | At the next meeting, which - will !take place soon after Sullivan h succeeded or fatled in his attempts to sell out to the Spooners next Wed- nesday, the lineup of the Rastern league circuit for 1917 will be an- nounced. . It is a matter of extreme interest to note that President Dan O’'Neil has patd protection for all Eastern league, territory. ‘That includes, of course, all cities that were In the 10-club cir- cuit last year. That includes, on the face of things, the possibility of an- other league in eastern New England based on Eastern league has-beens. It has been suspected in some quar- ters that Lynn, Portland, Lowell ark three neighbors would try to interest themselves in a circuit of their own, If there was ever a chance for such a circuit ,the Eastern league has blocked it by claiming the field ite own with the protection money paid. This is a step in baseball develop- ments that should not be overlooked Hugh Duffy again declares he would not be in Portland another eason. The fact that Fitchburg voted today caused some hopefuls of that burg to nominate it as a league stop in case the town went ‘“‘wet.” Duffy has been suggested for Fitch- burg and a few other places. He isa}'s he does not know “what is going ion.” | Those present at the meeting wete: ! Springfield, Willlam B. Carey; New London, H. Eugene McCann; New Haven, James P. Collins; Worcester, M. J. McMahon and Edward Smith; Lynn, Eugene B. Fraser and Louis Pieper; Portland, Hugh Duffy; Law- rence, Joseph :Sullivan; Bridgepert, W. Zeigler, for M. J. Healy. James | Clarkin:-of Hartford sent word - he | was too busy to -attend. . NEBRASFK SYRACUSE. Teams Will Meet at Dincoln on Thanksgiving Day. | Lincoln, Neb, Dec. 20.—The Uni- | vexsity of Nebraska football team will play Syracuse university, New York, next Thanksgiving Day at Lincoln, it | was announced yesterday. The Notre |Dame game, usually played on Thanksgiving Day, will be put ahead, probably to some date in October. DE ORO IN LEAD. New York, Pec. 20.—In:thé first iblock of the: world’s championship | three-cushioned billiard match here !last night between. George W. Moore |of this city, present titleholder = and Alfredo DeOro, also of New York. De | Oro won in ninety-five innings, 50 to 38. -DeOro had a high tun of 6 and Moore four. The second block of Aifty points. will be played tonight and the lunal fitty Thursday night. | Movie of a Man Who Has Made His First Investment in Stocks v l STocu SHows SUIGHT DECLINE BREAXS EvEwn-~ HAPPY AGAIN