New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 1, 1917, Page 8

<EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1917 ational Commission to Meet Tomorrow---Junior Athletes Gather in Buffalo---Poggenburg, Noted Bil- dzst Dies---Clan Douglas Bowlers Conquered. at Last---Olson Wants 1o be a Manager---Other Sports|. PORT OR ATHLETES ADY FOR MEET Jork -Glubs Send Stars to o Championship Contests York, Jan. 1.—The athletes of opolitan association who are [pete in the junior national Ind fleld championships in the eld Artillery, Buffaio, tonight, |yesterday for the scene of ac- o the van was the team of the | Athletic association, which n at midnight Saturday, while hirty entrained at 9 o’clock RY morning. In this last jwere the New York Athletic lys, who were confident of suc- defending the team honors them last year. local contingent is an exceed- trong one, and in all likeli- Il come back with most of een individual titles that will fested. Both the Millrose Ath- soctation and the New York club will ‘compete in the relay race ,but the athletes e to show a fine performance the representative of the [ Athletic association and the ‘Athletic club, who will op- recent try-outs for local the New York Athletic club scored the greatest number Among the most promi- nged foot competitors were man, who easily won the jl& walk; Dan Crockett, who p8 best among the hurdlers: ‘Whalen, a fast man at 600 and Ralph Runyon, the fleld only nineteen men earned ite the games by their per- 8 in the try-outs last week, ntatives from this city will “sbout forty athletes. In the } Brookes Brewer, the sensa- Maryland Agricultural college start. He will be opposed J. White, Bernie D. Wefers, d Andy Pendleton. e and Cornell univer- 1I' be represented, the former hamed several athletes to ‘John M., Watt is the only Cor- but he will surely make e felt in the 7T0-yard hign @vent. Watt is one of the aber toppers that Jack Moak- he' Cornell coach, has in this track squad. BH SPORTSMEN KILLED. « ers Included in the Latest ./ List of Casualties, fon, Jan. 1.—Casualties among *_‘ sportsmen of England fe' to grow, this week’s list con- the names of a number of every branch of sport. Col. “Taggart, D. S. O., wounded, is PSgnown sportsman. He played for the Lancers in the Inter- putal. The steeplechase jockey, Woodland, who won the Grand 1 in 1903 on Drumcree and in jon Covertcoat, and who was pre- ly reported “missing, believed ) is now officially announced to prisoner in the hands of the btain C. H. Dwyer,”killed by a while on reconnaissance duty, cated at Lees, Hoylake and jbury. Captain T, I. W. Wilson, in action, rowed in the Cam- University trial eights in 1903. Jr A. A: Torrens has also made the jaerifice. - He played on the Har- even. y / ifers will regret to hear that Wal- 0, younger brother of the us C. H. Mayo of the Burhill LA, E. Firstbrook, who was ffient in the west of England haments; Young Thorne, formerly nt to Tom Williamson, and jur Gray, brother of Ernest Gray, holds ‘the record for the Prest- course, have all been killed on battlefield REPORT PRAISES BOXING. homs Board Says Sport Is No Longer on Trial There. | J lwaukee, Was., Jan. 1.—Boxing o longer ‘“on trial” in Wiseonsin, irding to the annual report of the boxing commission, issued today. report says that as a pastime box- has become as popular as base- here have been no serious injuries ontestants in more than 2,000 s in this state. The conduct of ve 18 more orderly than the aver- high school basketball game, the mission says. Since the creation he commission $29,132 has been fiinto the state’s general fund in f and taxes. ‘The public pald 51 in admission fees during that e, the report adds. We Are Catering to Afternoon Bowling Pin Men Always on Hand / AETNA ALLEYS, Church Street SMOKE DXMOOR MILD, PLEASANT 5c CIGAR i The New Dealer—1917. Deuces or aces—whatever you've got All ready to slip to the band; { There's a new pack at large and our chip’s in the pot, So come on and deal out the hand; And maybe we’ll get what we wanted to get, | And maybe, agatn, we will fall, But the least that we want is a chance for a bet To open ’er up, or to trail. | There’s a new pack at hand for a plunge or a stall ‘Where Fate may be tender or raw; But our eyes are all peeled on cards as they fall, With our ears well attuned to the draw; . | And maybe we'll get what we figure is | due, And maybe we’ll come to a jar, | But our<eyes are all peeled on the shuffle is through, ‘We'll know pretty soon where we are. the “What forms the most spectacular sparting feat of the past year?” a by- stander desires to know. Offhand we should say it belonged in fairly equal portions to Tris Speaker, for beating out TY Cobdb, and for Chick Evans’ conquest of the open and amateur golf champlionships. The fight game had no particular feats of any outstanding proportions, while football produced no one star of 'the all-around value of Ned Mahan from 1916. Another Viewpoint. | Sir: by a number of sporting writers against Les Darcy for his failure to en- from his country at a critical period, I think this mistake has been made— who can look for-any great degree of mentality, patriotism or refined cour- age among the average lot of prize- fighters? Daroy is being judged upon the grounds of sportsmanship, where- as there is practically no sportsman- ship in the fighting game, eitlier from the managers or the fighters them- selves. One may like the fighting | its representatives are of a very low order, It is my opinion that Daroy should be- judged in this countty not as a citizen but as an average prize- fighter, no better and no warse than any of the others—counting out the few exceptions. RINGSIDER. The Darcy Viewpoint, | it, is not so much that Darcy should . be hounded out of the country as it | any conquering hero. It was his privilege to stay at home and not enlist. But it is hardly the privilege of any citizen to hide out and slip away from his country when its existence is at stake. Tt might very well be that a number of those criticising the Australian would not enlist. But neither would most of them, with enlistment threatened, duck from the country. ‘Which is another angle, | Pollyanna—Plus, Says the King of Rumania: The valor of our armies shows that we can look into the future with the greatest confidence.” If the genial Rumanian King was manager of the Cincinnati Reds he would undoubtedly pick them to win the National league pennant and thereafter the World Serles. The New Curtain, The curtain rolls back, day by day, Where we may look within, To find our part of pain and joy, Of mystery and sin, Of war and peace—of life and death— Ot happiness and woe, All ready with their scrambled parts Ot buoyant hopes and broken hearts, Sped onward by the mystic darts From Fate’s clastic bow. The curtain rolls back, foot by foot, Where we may look beyona, To see what waits along the road For king and vagabond, Tor all whe mingle in the game Or wait around the tee, For in advance no man may know The arrow’s way from Fortune’s bow, Nor who will stick—nor wha will blow, Nor what the score might be, “I played with a goifer a little while ago,” confides Jekkel, “who was the most ignorant guy I ever saw. He couldn’t count over 6.” Big league camps are now planning a general peace conference on these terms—complete disarmament of the Detroit outfield and the dissolution of the Red Sox pitching staff, In the last ten years only three clubs have won Amuierican league pen- nants. They are Detroit, Philadel- phia and Boston. In the same period five National league clubs have finish- ed in front. Philadelphia and Boston in the American league, have won the last seven flags, which indicates that it is about time Fate was reshuffling the cards. These two clubs split up aver $500,000 since 1909, Jess Willard boxed a total of thirty minutes through,1916, but in spite of | matter of the Batting Elye as it is the | | In regard to the stand taken'’ list, or for his act in running away |loOWs: game and yet be forced to admit that | is that he should not be taken up as. {at the Liederkranz club. LIGHT Grantland Rice | 1914, in the East, found Harvard on top; 1916 fell ta Cornell; 19168 be- longed to Yale, so far as Harvard and Princeton was concerned. No won- der Princeton is looking to 1917 with vearning eyes. The Tiger, even thaugh it be at odd intervals, must be fed. Home-run ability is not so much a! location of a right or left field fence. ‘“Peace may arrive soon.” But, whatever the date, it will arrive too late, for at least 2,000,000, who will/ have very little use for it over the rest | of the way. SCOTCHMEN BEATEN Clan Douglas Treated to a Surprise ‘When Phocnix T. of H. Wins Carpet Bowls. Followers of carpet bowls received a surprise Saturday evening, when | Phoenix Temple of Honor adminis- | tered to Clan Douglas O. 8. C. the first defeat of the season after one of the most exciting contests of the sea- | son. The score was 42 to 33. The work of skip Andergon’s boys was the big factor in the victory of the temperance crew. The results on the | rinks were as follows: Rink 1, skip, Clan Douglas, Gal- braith 8; T, of Honor, Anderson, 21; rink 2, Clan Douglas, Drummond, 13; Temple of Honor, Symonds, 9; rink 8, Clan Douglas, Gordon, 12; Temple of Honor, Heisler, 12. The standing of the teams is as fol- at Pts. 647 620 487 508 538 560 514 414 395 376 Clan Douglas St. Elmo, K. of P. PG IHor A .. Lexington, 1. 0. O. F. . Temple of Honor ..... Phoenix, I. 0. O. F. .. 0. U. A. M. x Sons of St. George Masons s W. L. Morgan, K. of P. NOTED BILLIARDIST DIES Poggenburg Ome of Stars in Billiard ‘World Succumbs to Bright’s Dis- w. 12 10 i 7. 6 5 5 4 3 3 ease—Death Unexpected. New York, Jan. 1.—J. Ferdinand The idea in general as we understand | Poggenburg, one of the foremost fig- ures in amateur biiiiards in this coun- try died from acute Bright's disease at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon at his home, 2,864 Briggs avenue, the Bronx. Mr. Poggenburg was apparently in good health as recently as last Wed- nesday, when he played a practice bil- liard match at Daly’'s Academy in preparation for the national cham- pionship at Boston. Thursday he was He was seriously ill and sank rapidly. He was 51 years old having been born in this city December 10, 1865. His death takes from billiards one of its most enthusiastic supporters. Several times he held the national amateur championship, and the | crowning victory of his career was in February, 1912, when he won the American international championship, the trophy representing this being now housed at the Liederkranz club, of which he had been a leading mem- ber for years. After winning this tournament Mr. Poggenburg went to Paris as the representative of the National Asso- clation of Amateur Billiard Players, to compete in an international tourn- ament there.” He was unsuccessful in his quest for this trophy, but his rec- ord was highly creditable. His grand average was 13.51, second only to that of Alfred Mortier, who won the tournament. One of Poggenburg’'s greatest games was played in this tournament against Mortier. He made early runs of 135 and 112, and at one time had a lead of 130 points. With victory almost assured, Mortier snatched it from his grasp by running out the game with a string of 178. the highest run that has ever bee. made in an amateur tournament at 18.2 balkline. Mr. Poggenburg rlayed his first amateur tournament in 1896 at Maur- ice Daly’s academy when that was lo- cated in Brooklyn. This, however, was far from being his start in bil- liards. e had long before taken up the game under the tutelage of Maur- ice Daly and Thomas Gallagher and was a leader among the billiard men In 1898 he won the gold cup, which was then emblematic of the amateur cham- pionship. This was under the A. A. U. In 1899 Mr. Poggenburg fought { the control of billards by the: A. A. U. and was instrumental in forming the Natlonal Association of Amateur Billiard Players, which is now the governing body in the sport. From the first he gave much of his time and energy to promoting its interests and for years held a place on the execu- tive committec. ¢ Mr. Poggenburg first won the ama- teur championship under the auspices of the billlard association in 1905. SOX SIGN A BUSHER. Chicago, Jan. 1.—Fred Henry, a first baseman of Wendell, N, C., has this we understand that he isn’t stale been signed by the Chicago Ameri- or overtrained. what these big fellows can stand, Tt's A wonderful thing , cans, Manager Clarence Rowland an- nounced today. Gibbons, Miske, Dillon and M’Coy Stand Between Les Darcy and Money New York, Jan. 1.—Since his ar- rival here, a little over a week ago, James Leslie Darcy, the Australian champion, has been accorded a re- ception which would tend to convince an uninformed bystander that the new arrival was a monarch from some faraway land rather than a mere ring general. But there may be, and doubtless are, more serious matters facing Demon Darcy. Some- thing of a serious proportion con- fronts him in his quest of the famed BOTTLED AT THE BREWERY Tt BueerT FiscrER B HARTRORD, COML m———————— riches of our land. A casual glance at the possibilities in‘sight would indicate that quite a bale of trouble is walting ahead of the Australian boxer. Several of our aspiring box- ers have been mentioned as possible opponents. Among others are Mike Gibbons, Billy Miske, Jack Dillon, Al McCoy and Battling Levinsky. There are several cities with reputations as centers of the art of fistlana ready and willing to stage the first real ex- hibition on our soil between Darcy ]and any logical opponent. But | mill will probably be held in York. a rather Layout shows three Darcy. | rived in this country. views of the New | Other cities offer a bit better proposition in. the way of allowing 1 more extensive and I drawn out combat. But this slight ad- vantage is offset by the overwhelming advantage enjoved by this city being able to draw a record audience. Les These are the first photo- graphs made of Darcy since he ar- long of HINORY' FATE IN MAGNATES’ HANDS Tomorrow New York, Jan. 1.—The annual meeting of the National commission in Cincinnati tomorrow is likely to be the most interesting affair of its kind. The august baseball body, will be be- sieged by a score of Class AA minor leaguers, who will clamor for the elimination of the draft. g As far as the minor leaguers are concerned, their case already' is squelched, as Ban Johnson of the American league has announced that the draft will not be lifted from the Class AA minors. President Tener of the National league holds similar views. It seems certain that the commis- sion wiil do something to help | minors, and Charley Ebbets’ draft ! plan will likely be adopted. The American league opposed this plan a yvear ago. but it is believed Johnson . | will withdraw his opposition to it, iand if Johnson says the word his league will pass it. What will interest major league fans. more than the minor league question is the remedies the commis- | sion will suggzest for the conduct of world’s series. Both leagues took {action on the world's series at their {last meeting. The American league ! pulse of the public. The National | league recommended that the players’ ,pot be divided among the players of the entire league ,while the American league announced no club in its cir- cuit would be permitted to charze more than double the regular price for any world’s series games. AT T B OLSON SEEKS RELEASE, Dodgers’ Shortdiop Is Entertaining Managerial Aspirations, Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 1.—Ivy Olson will not be a member of the Superbas next season if the Brooklyn shortstop has his way abeut it. . Olson is seek- ing his release from the Ebbets roster in order that he may obtain the man- agership of the Vernon club of the Pacific Coast league. Olson and the Vernon officials now are endeavoring to reach an agreement. Gabby Cra- vath, the Philly outfielder, alsp is after the Vernon place. Tt is possible that Mike Doolan may be seen. in a Brooklyn uniform next vear. The veteran infielder, has bedh in communication with Wilbert Robin- son and the deal may soon be swung. John MecGraw would nat doubt let Doolan go to the Dodgers. Infielder Sheehan, who was drafted at the end of last season by the Superbas, wil be released to the Oakland Pacifio | Coast league team. J ) al =_ /3 Your favorite dealer or our Bottling Department will be glat; to fill your orders. Place now! THE HUBERT FISCHER BREWERY HARTFORD CONN. BREWERS OF CONNECTICUT'S FINEST ON TAP AT LOUIS W. FODT, HOTE L. BELOIN, KEEVERS & CO., HER- MANN SCHMARR, W, J. McCARTHY, - WHITE . &, 00, National Board of Moguls to Meet - théa B8 13 | as usual showed it was closer to thegmal