New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 28, 1916, Page 8

w.Faces May be Secu Amongv ]\}a tional League Magnates Soon---Bowlers Resume Activities on Aetna Ueys---Fitchburg Fandom Spurns Eastern League Baseball---Springfield Promoters After Football Game IDAYS FAIL T0 PEFFECT BOWLING Dty of “Pep” and Enthusiasm at Aetna Alleys ‘Bowling is agaln back at its height flcr o temporary lapse of enthusiasm jic to the holiday season, the merry ash of wood against wood at the ftna alleys indicating this very arly last evening. In the Metho- Baraca class league, two games e played, the Trinity five winning fice from the Epworths and the esleyans improving their standing [ thg,same amount of victories over ofAthenians. Stotts of the Wesley- was the star performer. Interesting games featured the play the Berlin Construction company hgue last evening, the Hawks se- ring a palr of wins over the Eagles. e Owls accepted the short end of e match with the Ducks. Turkey and other appetizing re- enishments, have no effect on the pmen bowlers on the Johngon and right mixed bowling teams, as will seen by the scores registered last ening while Captain Wright's am was winning three games. The scores are as follows: BARACA LEAGUE. Trinity. 71 94 67 85 83 266 236 76— 213 84— 263 90— 254 249— 730 69— 250 T4— 383 76— 238 81 94 268 Athenians 78 T4 72 85 84 96 229 266 Wesleyans 91 83 79 253 218— 721 68— 96— 99— 216 258 279 263— 747 97— 260 119— 809 96— 260 311— 829 BERLIN CON. Hawks 70 S9 104 93 356 Eagles . LEAGUE. 269 3 83 84 83 99 116— 80— 8 97— 380—1085 rey F Queene abury burath 289 349 80 99 104 250 255 284 280 95— 84— 92— 94— piriney ckey arner ‘onnell 365—1069 85— = 273 249 267 269 '‘aham ller . Carroll 89— 341 363—1058 Owls 96 T4 T 100 81 91 83 86— 282 80— 23 100— 268 84— 262 brr hriepy MIXED MATCH Wrights iss Bergstrom 57 nnett a s, Wright nd Jrs. Johnson . 177 201 164 239 215 250 56— 59— 60— 86— 73— 90— 424—1246 iss Brown Johnson s Stefnick 8. Johnson Irs. Johnson .. CUBS SEEK CARD CATCHER. hicago Ts kering With Louis For services of Snyd Chicago Dec. 28.—Frank Snyder, tcher on the St. Louis Cardinals, lay become a member of the Cub m before the close of the week. It was reported today at the Cub ce that President Weeghman had ered the Cardinals Mollwitz, a cher, and money for the backstop. Lavender is named as the pitcher o deal will be closed, sald the re- prt. We Are Catering to Afternoon Bowling Pin Men Always on Hand AETNA ALLEYS, Church Street SMOKE O0XMOOR A MILD, PLEASANT 3¢ CIGAR WONDER WHO HE MEANS | a Fighter Who Loves to Fight—For Big Money. W. O. McGeehan, sports writer for the New York Tribune, under the caption ‘A Slacker’s Letter Home" contributes the following in this morning’s issue. Dear Awkins: The fight game in these ere States | is in fine shape. I ad ardly landed when a lot of Johnnies were after me offering as igh as five thousand pounds for a match. But I didn’t take none of em—not me. I'll wait till they go a bit igher. You know as ow the war spoiled the fight game in Australia. All of the boys who used to pay a quid or so to see & match as gone to the front and a lot of them as got killed and won’t beé able to get a.quid to see a champion in action no more. This country asm’t been it by the war. That's why it's such a good place for fighters. I told one of the newspaper John- | nies as ow Bill Squires went and en- listed. I ad to laugh when I thought of old Bill in that silly khaki. Of course Bill always was a rotten fight- er. That's why the silly old dear ad to go an enlist. . I suppose that my first go will be with the Frenchman, Carpenter, I think his name is. E’s been a couple of years in the French army, so he must be jolly well out gf condition. Those soldier's lead an irregular life, and it’s ard for them to keep in con- dition. I was warned that the sol- dier’s life ain’'t ealthy for a fighter. Anyhow soldiers are rotten fighters. Look at Bombardier Wells. Who did he ever whip? That’'s why I ain’'t afraid of this fellow Carpenter. He’s been eating that rotten army grub, and he don’t get no time to do any road work. Johnnies who have been in the army say that the trenches are always damp and they breed rheumatism. You know that I always gets lots of fresh air and exercise and sunshine to keep myself in condition. A fight- er as got to do that. It's a duty he owes to imself and the flghting game. ‘What I like about this country is there ain’'t much blooming war talk. You know how that annoys a fight-| er who is trying to keep himself in condition to old the championship. i Ow can a fighter attend to is training : when a lot of silly women are anding him white feathers and taking is mind off fighting by asking im why e don't go to the war and fight. Ow in ell can a fighter fight in the war and why in ell should e? They ain’'t paying no kind of purses over in Flanders, are they? Leastways they | ain’t offering no five thousand pound You mark my words as ow this man Carpenter will be soft for me, going and getting himself all out of condi- tion by breathing poisonous gas and @ letting his muscles get flabby lying around in a trench. E won’'t be able to fight a lick when e gets ere. 1 am sorry to say that a few of the people ere are a bit silly about the war thing, so I ad to say that T would go for a soldier as soon as I ad a couple of bouts. But don’t get alarmed if you should happen to come across that in the papers. You know that there is nothing of the silly ass about me. Awkins, old top, I ain’t going to ruin no fighting career for no silly war. But most of the people are sen- sible. They says as ow I am a pret- foxy boy to ave kept out of this war and to ave kept myself in condi- tion by taking plenty of good food and fresh air and exercise.’ I opes as peace will Dbe declared soon and maybe T will come back to Australia, though I guess the war as spoiled the fight game. No use trying ‘5 make money fighting when every- Yody's away at the war. War is a pretty tuogh thing on us ighters, but T am doing pretty well. 1f you see Old Bill Squires in his silly + give him the rasperry for me. Your old pal, LES SLACKER. AFTER BIG GAME Penn State-Dartmouth Clash May Be Héld on West Springfield Gridiron— Ncgotiations Are Under W Springfield, Mass, Dec. 28.—There is a big chance that the Eastern ates exposition officials may put in a bid for the Dartmouth-Penn State football game, scheduled to be played in Hanover, . H.. November 3 next fall. There is already one game hooked for the West side field, but the Eastern states officials would like to see another big contest played over there and they would like to have this match come about two or three weeks before the Dartmouth-Brown game, which slated for the West side gridiron ovember 24. Penn State and Dartmouth are two good teams and the scheduled date for their meeting would just about fit into the idea which officials of the West side field have mapped out. No invitation has vet been extend- ed to the management of either school to play the game in this city, but there is a possibility that it may be done before long. Publicity Agent Walter A. Parcelle of the Eastern' states exposition said yesterday he believed there was a good possibility that his company would go after that game. He said the Eastern states people would like to have another big contest besides Lhe Dartmouth- Brown game for their field and that the Penn State game qualified well for selection. He said nothing had been done in the line of inviting the teams to play the game here, but he thought this might be done in a i THREE CLUBS MAY | HAVE NEW OWNERS Pirates, Cards and Robins' Sale Is Latest Baseball Gossip New York, Dec, 3 the opening of the 1917 the National league changed ownership. learned from a very reliable source that negotiations for the Dodgers, Pirates and Cardinals have gone very much further than the public has heen allowed to know. ‘While Charles H. Ebbets maintaing that no definite offer has been made for his handsome stadium and the champion club of the National league, and, furthermore, that he has not re- ceded one jot or tittle from the origi- nal valuation set when he appeared more desirous of getting out of base- ball than his present attitude would indicate, a certailn influence close to the inside maintains that no less than three interests are after the Robins: Besides rival syndicates, James E. Gaffney, . former president of the Braves, and his associates in that; venture are ready at any time to talk | straight business whenever Mr. Eb- bets cares. Barney Dreyfuss, too, rather stiff valuation on his Pitts- burgh property. This, like the Eb- bets estate of Flatbush, is situated in a part of the city where real estate values -have increased by leaps and bounds. If' organized .baseball's im- mediate future were guaranteed, it is said, neither Ebbets nor Dreyfuss might secure a fancy price, even if they did not realize their original figures. h .—Before season three of clubs may have It has been has set a Demand Clear Coast. “Plenty of desirable people of sound financial standing,” declares an official of the National league club, ‘would be willing to invest either in Brooklyn or Pittsburgh if the coast were entirely clear. “But they prefer to await develop- ments of two possible crises—the strike threat of the players for pre- sumed contract rights and the suit of ihe Baltimore Federals against or- ganized baseball. Both these points should be cleared up definitely within the next month or six weeks—cer- tainly before the schedule meetings. It organized baseball wins, as it is al- most sure to do, and the owners do not take advantage of the fact to raise the prices, I would not be at all surpri to see Messrs. Fhbets and | Dreyfuss retire from the game. I'd risk a hat that a transfer of the Brooklyn property will be effected be- fore the opening of the next season. O. H. Wathen, president of the champion Louisville club of the American Association, would purchase the St. Louis National league club from Mrs. Helen Hathaway Britton if this lady magnate were inclined to sell at reasonable terms. Mrs. Britton, however, has so far refused to listen to Teason. It is said the seven male club presidents of the National league have urged her to dispose of the Cardinals or institute a more liberal policy toward rebuilding for mutual benefit, Mr. Wathen, it is understood, has also sounded out Barney Dreyfuss on the Pittsburgh franchise. He prefers St. Louis to Smokeville as a base of major league operations, however, be- cause it Is nearer his home and busi- ness. Wathen is a wealthy distiller of Louisville, an aold-fashioned magnate, who loves the game for sport’s sake and who gets more pleasure out of the success of the club than from the financial returns. CHICK EVANS CUBS’ TUTOR. Champion Golfer Will Teach Batting Form to Ball Players, Chicago, Dec, 28.—Chick Evans, Jr., natianal amateur and open golf cham- pion, is going to teach batting “form’ to members of the Chicago National clyb. Iivans yvesterday accepted the invitation of Charles H. Weeghman, president of the club, to make the spring training trip to Pasadena, Cal. President Weeghman helieves that Evans will be able to improve the bat- ting of every player on the team. “There is a form in the drtving of a golf ball.”” he said, “but there is none in driving a baseball. Applying the form of golf to baseball was re- sponsible for the wonderful driving of Frank Schulte and Heinie Zimmerman. It may be argued that Schulte knew nothing about golf, but he uncon- used the same swing."” Svans’ amateur standing will nat be affected, it was explained, as he will not receive any money for his servic He merely will be Mr, Weeghman's guest on the trip. GOLFERS AT PINEHURST. Pinehurst, N. C., Dec. 28.—There probably will be 150 contestants in the qualifying round of the annual midwinter tournament, which will be played on Thursday at Pinehurst over the No. 3 course. Over 130 entries have already been made. The latest arrivals included H. V. Seggerman, Philip Carter, W. A. Barber, Jr,, and R. Fillmore Robeson. RUTGERS FIVE New Brunswick, N. J., Dec. 28— The Rutgers basketball squad has been badly crippled by the 1oss of two of its best players. Frank Kelly, star forward, has broken his arm for the | second time this season and will be unable to play again, while Lawrence | French, first string center, has a bad- | ly sprained ankle that will keep him | CRIPPLED. short while. out of the game for at least a month. | on the Coronado field Eastern Exponents of Game to Par- ticipate in Tourney for the Jessop Trophy. Pasadena, Cal, Dec. 28.—Unless weather conditions interfere to make the field unsuitable for play the mid- winter polo tournament will begin on January 1 with competition for the Jessop trophy. The players will in- clude well knawn ride who have been identified with the worthy colors in the Meadow Brook, Bryn Mawr, Rumson, Miami Valley, Point Judith, Midwick, Denver and Coronade. ‘Many polo men well known here will participate in the matches. Play- ers like Lawrence C. Phipps, Jr., Mal- colm Stevenson, Perry Beadleston, Thomas Le Boutillier and many others of conspicuous daring will be seen in the tournament. Probably the most discussed of these is Aexander Smith Cochran of New York. Cochran arrived at San Francisco recently on his magnificent steam yacht Warrior. E. W. Hopping, G. M. Heckscher, Benjamin Gatins, Steve Velie, CIHff M, Weatherwax, Col. Max C. Fleischmann and Carleton Burke are some of the other lesding players who will appear during. the most note- country— season, GANZET: SEEKS BALIL CLUB, Reported to Have Backing of George Ward in Kansas City Deal, Chicago, Dec. 28.—Jchn Ganzel, re- cently appointed of the Kansas City club of the American As- sociation, has opened negotiations for the purchase of the club, Thomas J. Hickey, president of the association, announced here today. Ganzel has offered George Tebeau, owner of the franchise, $175,000, it is understood. Ganzel is reported to have the finan- cial support of George Ward of New York, a brother of Rabert B, Ward, who backed the ,Brooklyn league club of which Ganzel manager. Tebeau is said to be willing to sell. He is in Florida. manager BASKETBALLI GAMES, High School Five to Meet Alumni— Hepburn to Interpret Rules. Two fast games of basketball have been arranged for Saturday evening at the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium, the ITigh school five will clash a quintet composed of alumni bers. between the High school second team and a team composed of employed boys of the assoclation. George T. Hepburn of New York will define the new rules at a ‘ban- quet and meeting to be held at the association next Wednesday evening at 6 o’clock. An invitation is extend- ed to all who are interested. when with NOTED SCULLER DEAD. Oarsman to Take Professional Title From England. New York, 28.—News of the death of Edward Trickett, the noted Australian sculler, at Uralla, N. S. W., reached here yesterday. Trickett, who was born at Sydneyv, N. S. W., was the first man to deprive England of the professional sculling cham- pionship in 1876. In June of that year he visited England and defeated Joseph Sadler, the Fnglish champion, over the ‘Thames course, and it was not until Krnest Barry, the present champion, defeated Dick Arnst in 1912, that the title was regained for England. Trickett lost the title to Edward Han- First Dec. lan, the Canadian crack, in 1880, over | the Thames course. MAY NOT ENTER REGATTA. Syracusc Said to Be Among Discard In Poughkeepsie Event. Syracuse, N. Y., Dec. 28.—Syracuse university may not be invited to com- bete in the intercollegiate rowing re- gatta at Poughkeepsie next summer. This was part of the gossip that float- ed around the lobby of the Hotel As- tor last night. The fact that some of the members of the Duluth Boat club rowed on the Syracuse varsity last year has caused no end of comment and some went S0 far as to say that they were Imported t> the college to row. It also was said that the members of the Inter- collegiate Rowing associatlon were serlously considering omitting the Orange when invitations to compete in the next regatta were sent out. PENN ELEVEN AT PASADENA. Tolwell Puts Team Through Drill on Golf Links. Pasadena, Cal, Dec. 28.—The Uni- versity of football squad, which on New Year's day is to play the university of Oregon’s team, arrived here yesterday. Late in the day the players practised on a golf links. Coach Folwell said his men would go to Tournament park tomor- row, where the game is to be played. The Oregon players arrived yesterday Short, Pennsylvania’'s 1 morning. Federal | was | mem- | The preliminary game will be ' i When Les Darcy sailed from Aus- tralia he should have booked passage on that renowned transport, The Wal- loping Window Blind. Another way to settle peace terms would be to arrange for an interna- tlonal conference among Hans Wag- ner, Napoleon Lajoie, Harry Coveleski, Ping /MBodie and Nicholas Altrocksi, representing most of the nations in- volved. The Fighting Test. Les Darcy is proclaimed by many as the best piece of fighting machinery for his weight, now in the game. After all. the only true measure of fighting prowess should be determined by just how good a man is for his weight and inches. That measure- ment alone is the only test. What credit should Willard, weigh- ing 280 pounds and standing six feet six, get for beating a man 80 pounds lighter and 6 inches shorter? What more credit than Jack Dillon should get for beating Johnny Kilbane or Johnny Coulon? How much credit would Jim Corbett have received for beating Terry Mc- Govern. Yet Corbett, proportionate- ly, was no larger than McGovern than Willard is larger than Carpentier. Willard is heavyweight champion today mainly because Willard weighs aver 250 pounds and {s a glant in height and reach, Nature, more than skill, speed or aggressiveness, put him on top. The same, in a way, was true of Jeffries. Jeffries was a far better boxer than Willard, but it was the tre- mendous power and bulk of the man that put him on top. Pound for Pound and Inch for Inch. This, then, calls for an argument as tto best fighter for his paunds and inches that boxing has ever known, It certainly isn’t Willard and it cer- talnly wasn't Jeffries or Johnson. One answer might be Terry Mc- Gbvern at his best. Another would be Joe Gans or Kid Lavigne. But the best bet in sight looks to be Bob Fitzsimmons. Fitzsimmons gave away more | welight and beat more good big men | than any other boxer {n the game. i The average heavywelght displace- | ment is around 190 pounds. TIf one! | takes the weights of the heavyweights | for the last 25 years, including Sulll- van, Corbett, Fitzsimmons, Jeffries, | Johnson and Willard it would be 200 | pounds. Fitz won his champlanship | | at 156 pounds, over 40 pounds below | | the last average named. He was| forced to give away from 25 to 50! pounds at every start. This is more, | in proportion, than McGovern or Gans | ever gave away. McGavern, Gans and Lavigne all won well beyond thelr weight. But none of them ever went as far beyond as the Lanky One of other years. Another entry not to be overlooked is Stanley Ketchell. He was another who could give away 15 or 20 pounds and still get by. So, if the list had to be completed'! from the last 25 years it would surely include Fitzsimmons, McGovern, Ket- chall, Gans and Lavigne—measured not only in results, but from the view- | point of so much fighting ability to | the pound. Nat forgetting Kid McCoy, | who belongs as a star entry, Today’s Crop. Darcy and Carpentler 3re now registered as the two best fighting | machines, pound for pound, that the ! present holds. The best man for his weight in America isn't Willard, | Moran or any of the surviving White Hopes. There might be an argument planted for Dillon or Miske or Levin- | sky. But none of these even class with Fitzsimmons or McCoy as pieces | of fighting machinery, pound for pound. | { The Lightweights. ) Welsh, in the lightweight division, | not to be classed as a fighter on the pound-for-pound test with such entries as McGavern or Gans. And no | one can tell just how good the rest of | the lightweights are while Welsh is! blocking the game with his 10-round | no-decision big purse’” barrier, Smaller Stars, We have always figured Frank Hinkey as the greatest football player of all time on the pound-for- | pound basis. | Hinkey was a wonder, from the results achieved by a 220 | pounder. Whereas the Yale star | | weighed under 150 pounds, i Hinkey had no vast bulk or abnor- | mal physical power to carry him! along. He had great power for a light | man, but nothing like the physical power of Shevlin, Kilpatrick, Coy, | Heston and others. Yet no greater | football player ever lived, to take the non-partisan judgment of those who have seen most of the great ones play. In such games as football and box- ing, where weight and strength are vital factors, a small star competing beyond his weight always deserves more credit. Hinkey, of Yale; Stevenson, of Penn- sylvania; Tichenor of Auburn—these are the types that deserve the crest. Tichenor, of Auburn, and Brown, of Sewanee, made the All-Southern for two or more years when each weighed less than 120 pounds. Why shouldn’t a man who is fast and who weighs 190 pounds be a great football plaver? He has all the best is measured l of it, where no great mnerve is re- quired. But a Hinkey or a Stevenson Grantland Rice must be nine-tenths nerve and cour- age to get by. Golf and tennis are games where big men are likely to be at.a physical dis- advantage; for the small or compara- tively smaller man is likely to have better muscular coptrol than the bigger one in such games. Yet in ten- his reach and physical power is a big asset. This explains why the crowd is al- ways with the smaller man. For to win he must have a greater amount of inside stuff—courage, mnerve or whatever vou label the quality that makes for the will to conquer and the determination to arrive, RANGERS TO BANQUET. Popular South End Club to Merry at Hotel Nelson. An affair which promises to go down In the annals of the club’s his- tory as the most successful will be held by the Rangers club Saturday evening at the Hotel Nelson, when the annual banquet will be served. Mine Host Nelson has promised the boys something good. Inquiries by the committee as to whether a la carte or table de hote would be used brought forth the unanimous replies by the members of “bring them both on and we will eat it all.” After the terrific onslaught on the menu has subsided, President Wil- Ham Holcomb will take icharge of the post prandial exercises which will in- clude an address of welcome and a resume of the year’'s activities in the club. Ex-President Mike Haugh whose pleasing voice thrilled hun- dreds at the Pioneers diamond the | past summer, will read a specially prepared paper on “How I Nearly Be- came Famous as an Ump.” The fea- ture contribution of ‘“‘mouth music” will be handled by James J. Clark, janitor at the club, who is down on the program for ‘brief remarks'. Those acquainted with the janitor's oral powers belleve that brevity will not feature the talk. Make | WISE PEOPLE ARE THESE ° Fitchburg Fans Refuse to Wax En- thusiastic Over Prospects of Sedn‘ Eastern League Baseball. b Springfield, Mass, Dec. 28.—The possibilities that Fitchburg would ‘be a member of the Eastern league next season in place of Portland were ob- literated yesterday when it was an- nounced in that city that the busi- ness men there had decided to give up the idea. Several men in that town were in hopes of securing Duffy's franchise in Portland and moving it to Fitchburg. When the town went dry the prospective buyers thHought that a league team in the city would not be a paying proposition as fang from surrounding cities would net come to the games, so they gave up the idea for this year at least. This still leaves the Portland matter un- settled. The Lawrence affairs which have been worrying the league since the close of the season last fall are also hanging fire. Ever since the close of last season’s campaign the league di- rectors have been waiting for Owner Joseph P. Sullivan to clear up his in- debtedness to the league either by forfeiting his franchise or by finding a buyer for his club. HEach meeting which the league has held since thet time has found the matter but little further advanced. It was declded at the last meeting to give Sullivan one more week to settle the matter be- fore the league would take definite action on it The expiration of the time was yesterday. Presideng Dan O’'Neil has decided that he may be able to help matters along by going in person to Lawrencd and help Sullivan or try to help him effect a sale of the club. President O'Neil will go to Lawrence, and with Sullivan will interview the prospec- tive buyers which Sullivan claimed he had at the last meeting of the leagug. Immediately upon his return from this trip, President O’'Neil will call a meeting of the league, presumably in this city, and the affair will be finally disposed of. TENNIS MEETING FEBRUARY 6. New York, Dec. 28.—George Towns- end Adee, president:of the TUnited States National Lawn Tennis associa- tion, announced yesterday that the annual meeting of the association would be held at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel on February 9, starting at s:g p. m. and continuing through t! evening, with a recess for dinner, CLOSED OUR DOORS Thursday and Friday To Remark and Rearrange Our Gigantic Clothing Stock Sale Begins Saturday, December 30th Watch the Newspapers N. Y. SAMPLE $10-$12-515 SHOP 357 Main Street, New Britain