New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 6, 1917, Page 8

i i \ Fraternity Demands Dismissed by Commission---Haughton’s Proposed Changes in Rules Assailed---Jack NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1917, i arry Chosen to Manage Boston Red Sox---Basket Ball League Opens at Y. M. C. A. Tonight| NER ANNOUNCES RAT. TURN DOWN ue Head Says Concessions Do Not Reler to Majors W York, Jan. 6.—President John ener returned to the National JJue offices here yesterday after at- [{ing the National commission ing in Cincinnati. . Upon his [fn, announcement was made that fj commission had dismissed the lon of the Players' Fraternity Ph was sent to the commission at ame time that it was sent to the flonal Assoctation of Minor leagues. fihe four concessions sought by the Prnity, the commission held -that fle of them did not refer in any ll to. major leagues, and therefore that they were internal affairs jithe National association, and d come before the commission ' ‘on appeal. 2¢ fourth concession, asking that ers be paid during the period of bility from injury received on |playing field, was also dismissed. | commission stated that in the 1917 contracts, which were ap- ffed by that body, this request has [hdy been granted. The supreme [ft of baseball, in taking this ac- says: finasmuch as the commission has [#r approved a major league con- empowering a major league | to suspend a player disabled in ervice without pay, and as the th of contract approved for 1917 ires a club to retain a player in- in its service, for the full term, quest in so far as is relates to fPr league clubs is dismissed be- * the condition complained of [} not and cannot exist.” fhe 1917 form of major league con- It relating to this subject says: ; @ the player become disabled ‘als ability to perform his duties any manner or from any cause patred at any time during the term JAla contract. the club owner may terminate this contract by to the player written notice election to do so, or suspend player without pay until the dis- bity 18 removed; provided, however, § the provisions of this paragraph not apply to disability incurred ‘ he player from injuries sustained nd resulting directly from the ? ition on the baseball fleld of ser- under this contract, and during jme of such disability and until i ermination of this contract, the f{er shall receive his full compen- Jpn specified in' his contract.” }} its finding the commission re- thes: it winl be notea that the right of cannot be exercised by the when a player is injured while fduty and he is entitled to salary fthe full term of his contract.” esident David L. Fultz of the fBball Players’ Fraternity, stated Herday that while he had not seen fbpy of the 1917 contract recently lbted by the major leagues, the re- ed change in the clause relating jayment to players injured on the il fleld while incapacitated was litactory to both officers and mem- J of the fraternity. do mot understand,” said Fultz, reference to the request being sed ‘because the condition com- | hed of does not and cannot exist,’ bwed immediately by the state- it that the 1917 contracts contaln Héw clause rectifying the very in- lice of which the fraternity com- ned, If the conditions complained have been removed, as stated, ever, the method of reasoning is terial. I'he dismissal of the requests that ed to conditions under the ju- . fetion of the National association ‘broadly, a semi-legal technical- Tt will be followed by an appeal he National commission, on the it of the fraternity., from the reso- | flons of the National association, Boh will bave the cffect of bring- [l the entire matter before the com- fsion again in the form of an ap- ', as outlined in the statement fs- fa' by that body.” DPDLEBURY GRID SCHEDULFE. jimont Boys to Open Season With Trinity at Hartford. ; r K. M. Gorham has an- :n‘:i"tha ‘Middlebury college foot- schedule for the 1917 season. fough incomplete as regards (v\'vo Ine games, Manager Gorham ex- ts soon to fill these dates. The ven of Stevens Institute, Unbolcen, 3., will be met on October 27 at o le follows ule follows: b h;t::;}:!:: 29, Trinity at Hartford; ober 6, open; 13, Brown at Provi- hce; 20, open; 27, Stevens at Ho- en; November 3, Nor\*{\ch at hfleld; 10, Williams at Willlams- n: 17, Boston college at BPoston; Vermont at Middlebury. We Are 'C'aiejrirrlg‘ to Afternoon Bowling Pin Men Always on Hand AETNA ALLEYS, Church Street SMOKE DXMOOR BASKETBALL AT Y. M. C. A. Four Teams Await the Blast of Ref- erec Slater’'s Whistle to Start Sea- son—\Who the Players Are. Referec hiw At 8:30 o'clock tonight, Warren S. Slater, will soun: whistle which will inaugurate the & urday Night Basketball league at Y. M. C. A, With four teams appear evenly matched, some basketball should be served up to ¢ lovers of the game. A record break ing crowd is anticipated. John Lue- beck will act as scorer and Robert Middlemass timer, both having acted in similar capacity last season. The first game will be between the Kenilworth and Viking clubs and the second between the Nutmegs and the Pioneers. The respective , managers have handed in the following list of play- ers: Kenilworth club, Jacobson, Jack Martin, W. Kopf, O. Kopf and Nor- feldt; Ploneers club, Cook, Ellison, Grobstein, Jones, Walthers, Sampson, 'Williams and Johnson; Vikings club, Nelson, Sandberg, A. Peterson, H. Peterson, Lindstrom, Abrahamson and Hoglund; Nutmegs club, S. Was- kowitz, E. Martin, Milley, Solomon, 1>ll‘rkop. Howard, Koplowitz and Mur- phy. BARRY NAMED MANAGER Meriden Boy Is Selected by New Own- ers to Lead Champions—A Noted Figure in Baseball, Boston, Jan, 6.—Harry H. Frazee, | President of the Beston American {leugue baseball club, announced last {night that Jack Barry had accepted the management of the team. The contract will be drawn up today. Its | duration has not been fixed. but Mr. Trazee a1id that he would let Barry ‘“:sign for any number of years with- in reason,” and that he would be the sole manager, with the privilege of choosing his own assistants. Before announcing his acceptance B:rry made it known that he desired to ccntinue to play second base, and President Frazee granted his request. | Barry was captain of the team last | vear. The amount of his salary as imnnazcr was not made public last night. Plans for the spring training trip Wil be made at a_conference between Mr., Frazee and Hugh J. Ward, the owners of the club, and Manager Barry tomorrow. The team will train at Hot Springs, Ark., and will play ,2 serjes of exhibition games before .tha opening of the league season. The new leader of the Red Sox, “who is 29 years of age, has ' been } prominent as an infleld member of world’s championship teams in both | Boston and Philadelphia. It was to {'hc American league club in the lat- ter city that he went from Holy Cross later became the famous '‘$100,000 infleld” of the champion Athletics. { When that machine was boken up in 1916, Barry, a leading shortstop, be- came second baseman with the Bos- ton Americans, to whom he brought fresh strength for the struggle that gained them the world’s title of' that year. He is said to be the only major { league plaver who has ever shared in the receipts of six world's series. Last season Barry was injured and 1 could take no active part In the world's series games, but was a mem- ber of the hoard of strategy organ- ized by Manager Willlam C. Carri- gan. VY GAME NOV. Pittsburgh ' Will Not Play Middics This Year—Schedule Completed. Annapolis, Md., Jan. 6.—The Naval academy football schedule for next season was announced lust night. The University of Pittsburgh, which for several years has been the strongest team playing at Annapolis, will not play in 1917. Princeton and ths University of Pennsylvania also de- | clined to play. A big effort is being made in Wash- ington to obtain permission from Sec- retary Daniels for the midshipmen to play Georgetown in The Naval academy eathletic ties are willing. The Army game will be played again at the Polo Grounds, New York, and on November 24, the latest date possible under the arrangements. The schedule follows: September 29, Dickinson; October 6, Catholic university; October 13, Maryland State college; October 20, Washington and Lee; October 27, Rutgers; November 3, Western Re- serve; November 10, Georgetown; No- vember 17, Villanova; November 24, United States Military academy. Washington. authori- YALE WINS ANOTHER. Conquers Harrisburg All-Collegian Quintet, 44 to 24. Harrisburg, Penn., Jan. quintet was victorious over an all- collegian five captained by E. J. Stackpole, Jr., who led the Yale 1916 team, by a score of 44 to 24, here last night. The New Haven players jumped into the lead at the start and were never headed, leading at half time by 22 to 11. Several substitutions were made, including that of Harry Legore, the Yale gridiron star, who took Olson’s place at torwprd on the Yale squad. Legore is not a regular member of the Yale squad. and came here upon the invitation of Captain BStackpole to participate in the game as a mem- ber of the all-collogian five, but was prevented from doing so because of olipibility rules. Among the other former Yale athletes in the all-col- legian line-up were Roth, Herman and W, Stackpole. 6.—Yale's college in 1908 to win a place in what ; } As Ever and Always, . They were packed upon the Wagon H Just & young rhort week ago; ‘I'hey had canned the bubbling flagan I'or at least a year or so; Now the Toad behind is jumbled Where the mockers stand and scoff At the countless hosts who've tumbled on, Opinions and Such. Opinjons given by those for whose judgments we have respect are always interesting. And one . of the most interesting phases is the wide divergence pre- sented Letween men expected to view thiugs from a common viewpoint, Take the case of California football, Here is Eddie Muaban's viewpoint, in cofiect: “The point that struck me in Far Western football is that the teams do not play with the intense aggres- siveness of Fastern clevens. There is a lack of that fightlug determination to win,” ete. Mahan was one of' the coaches at California University, Against ihis take the statement of Bob Folwell, coach of Pennsylvania, referring to the Oregon eleven: ‘“The Oregon team was in wonderful physical condition and the men played like tigers. I have seldom seen men who played with such flerceness, de- terminaiion and enthusiasm., They were in that battle to win or perishin the attempt, and this spirit was Tof to be denied.” This is not the first time that two men have peered from the same look- out' upon widely different aspects in the same scene. Western Stuff. Brown took a fine eleven to Cali- fornia a yvear ago and was beaten. Pennsylvania took one of the best elevens in the East to the same battle- ground and suffered the same fate, Far Western football receives no great attention in the Middle West or in the East. But the proof lies in the printed record that the Pacific Coast plays football of a high order, well worthy of being compared with the best that any section has to show. The Batting Magrvel. . If you look back over the redords, past and preseat, you will find that batting is as much a matter of physi- ‘cal build as it is of skill and eve, Practically .all the great batsmen have been above the average—Dele- hanty, Lajoie, Wagner, Cobb, Speaker, Jackson, Baker, Zimmerman, Daub- ert etc. The lightest of the present day crop among the stars is Eddie Collins, SCOTS SETTING THE Scotchmen and Pythians Having a Pretty Race for Honors in Fraternal Carpet Bowls League, Clan Douglas, O. S. C. and St. Elmo lodge, K. of P. carpet bowls teams, are having a pretty race for first place in the Fraternal Carpet Bowls league, with the former team leading at pres- ent. The remaining teams in the positions. The spurt of Pheanix Temple of Honor representatives dur- ing the past few weeks has been a acded new life to the league. At present the team is one of the most feared of, and the leading teams are annexing the scalp of the organization to their belts on the next meeting. St. Elmo continued on its winning spurt last night, defeating Washing- | ton Camp, P. O. 8. of A., score 46 to 33. The results on the rinks follow: Rink 1, St. Elmo, skip Ptolomey 15; P. O. S, of A, skip Snyder 19; rink 2, St. Elmo, skip Spence 21; P, O. 8. of A., skip Wesley 13; rink 3, St. Elmo, skip Boyington 10; P. O. S. of A, skip Carswell 11, The standing of the clubs to date is as follows 647 666 520 508 591 560 451 531 411 will Clan Douglas St. Elmo, K. of P, P..0. S of A, ..... Lexington, I O, O, F. Temple of Honor . . Phoenix I. O. O. F. Sons of St. George 0. U, A. M. Ga ‘W. L. Morgan, K. of P, Lexington lodge, 1. play Washingtan Camp, Monday evening. 1 3 6 6 T 8 8 9 9 “SPRING SERIES ARRANGED. Philadeiphia, Jan. 6—The Athletics | will play five games with the Boston Nationals on the spring training trip. Connie Mack yesterday announced a partial schedule for the trip, which includes games with Boston at Miami March 21, 22 and 23; at Palm Beach i March 24 and at Jacksonville March | 29. Other games with Southern teams | will be arranged later. BOSTON GROUNDS SOLD. Boston, Jan. 6,—The grounds in the Roxbury district occupied for | forty years by the Boston National league haseball club, were sold yes- terday to the New York, New Haven and Hartford rallroad for $400,000. I'the stte will be used for _freight terminal purposes. But the battling marvel of | league are well bunched for various! revelation to their followers, and has practicing steadily in contemplation of ; ‘Won Lost Points LIGHT Grantland Rice all time, pound for pound, is Wee Willie Keeler. Keeler for a stretch of ten years had an average second to that of Ty Cobb alone—n better ten- vear average than any other man in the game has ever known, with a mark around .3 Lacking the power of the others, it stands to reason, there- | fore, that Wee Willie put more actual skill and sclence into his hitting than any other ball player on record. “The game’'s most scientific batsman’ is title that belongs to the Wee one be- vond any rebuttal or debate. Small Stars, There are several fielding stars be- low the normal in build at this junc- ture, but Eddfe Collins is the only .300 hitter in either league who under 170 pounds. Frank Gilhooley, men among the lightweights, but .280 was the best he could do. Johnny Evers has always been con- sidered one of the smartest batsmen in the game, and yet Johnny has reached the .300 mark but twice in his career. have to look beyond the seasomufor a suitadble opponent to match his prowess—and it may be that he can find all 'the competition he can carr# [ for a brief spell much closer at hand if some one will kindly page Messrs. : Miske and Levinsky. . Service. If |there is any one who feels that he wmight need inspiration if the call should ccme to service, we recom- mend the following lines from Alan Seeger. the young American killed in a French charge: “God knows ‘twere better to be deep Pillowed in silk and scented down, Where love throbs out in blissful sleep, Pulse nigh to pulse and breath to breath, | Where hushed awakenings are dear, But I've a rendezvous with death At midnight in some flaming town . When Spring trips north again this year. ! And I to my pledged word am true— 1 shall not fail that rendezvous.” This time last week good resolutions were as thick as autumn leaves on the ground. Today they are as thick as { winter leaves—on the trees. | Mounting the Wagon is a simple proposition. But to stick requires all the agility and aplomb of a trained acrobat. And today’s box score of fervid resolutions shows what a pre- carjous existence an acrobat leads. PACE l CRIMSON SCHEDULE 0UT Syracuse is Only New Opponent Add- ed to 1917 Schedule—Dooin No Longer Considered ¥or Coach. +Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 6.—Syra- cuse university will be the only new opponent in Harvard's baseball series for 1917, according to the schedule made public last night. The schedule contains twenty-nine games with provisions also for extra games with Yale and Princeton in case of a tic, and an open date on June 9. Tufts and Georgetown are dropped. No coach for the team has yet been i appointed to replace Fred Mitchell, who recently became manager of the i Chicago Natlonal league team. Forty- two candidates have applied for the { position, according to the baseball management, but the final choice has narrowed down to three men. The Harvard baseball committee and Charley Dooin, former manager of the Philadelphia National league club, were in conference today over the proposition of Dooln's succeeding Fred Mitchell as coach. No agree- | ment, however, was reached, and the committee announced tonight that Dooin no. longer is being considered for the place. The schedule follows: April 10, Boston Nationald; 11, Bowdoin; 12, Maine; 14, West Point at West Point; 17, Virginia at Char- ; lottesville, Va.; 18, Annapolis at An- napolis; 19, Catholic university at Washington; 20, Johns Hopkins at Baltimore; 21, Columbia at New York; 24, Bates; 26, Colby; 28, Ver- mont. May 1, Catholic university; 3, Vir- ginia; 5, Pennsylvania at Philadel- phia; 9, Holy Cross at Worcester; 12, Brown; 16, Syracuse; 19, Princeton: 23, Dartmouth; 26, Princeton at Princeton; 30, Brown at Providence, R. I. June 2, Pennsylvania; 5, Williams; 7, Amherst; 12, Boston college Aat Newton, (conditional): 13, Princeton, (in case of tie); 15, Boston collegs; 19, Yale at New Haven; 20, Yale; 23, Yale at New York, (in case of tie). SCHEDULE MAKERS TO MEET. Chicago, Jan. 6.—Members of the schedule committees of the American and National leagues will meet in Brunswick, Ga., January 10 to draft the 1917 playing charts for both or- ganizations, B. B. Johnson, president of the American league, announced last night. There also will be a meet- ing of the rules committee of the two leagues. Johnson said, however, that no ohanges are expected to be made in the rules. a| weighs | of the Yankees, is one of the best bats- | It may be that one Mr. Darcy may ! { Tool Room PERCY'S PROPOSED | CHANGES ASSAILED Western Critic Can Only See One Tuiat Looks Sensible A western baseball expert Percy Haughton's suggestions con- cerning changes in the rules of the National game. He says that the only one of Haughton's half dozen sugges- tions that is sensible is No. 5, which calls for a more drastic interpreta- tion of a balk. This, so it is sald, is aimed at Eppa Zeptha Rixey, of the Phillies. Rixey has a motion that is deceptive, and protests were regis- tered on it by players in practically every game pitched by the lean and lanky Virginian last season. The writer th\nkq that Haughton probably | will find baséball men eager to listen to his recommendation for a more rigid enforcement or clearer defini- nition of the balk rule, but believes the other five suggestions are likely to be benched after the first reading. He says: “The first suggestion, which calls for a shortenihg of the distance from first base to home and third base to the landing station, is too revolution- ary even for Mexico. The change | would weaken the defense more than strengthen the offense, and it would be easler for a batsman in the Na- | tional to get a base hit than it would be to strike out in the American league. Haughton’s proposal to elim- inate the spitball delivery has been advocated for so long that it has ceased to be an idea. It's an antique now. His suggestions to allow the batter to take his base on three balls, and also to eliminate the second foul strike, hardly will see any more day- light than they have so far in the newspapers. The suggestion to re- duce the width of the home plate is the prize of the batch. The home plate at the present time is so small that it has caused every umpire in the country to be called blind, and perhaps has caused some of them to become so. There is no chance for any of Haughton's ideas, with the probable exception of No. 5, to be adopted.” ON THE ZTNA ALLEYS Trims Shipping Room Trio After Bad Start—Trevi- assalls Team than’s Work a Feature, After throwing a scare inta ihe Tool Room trio last evening, the Shipping Room bowlers blew up and lost two games, The games were closely fought and were decided upon merit. Bowers for the ‘winners and Root for the losers were the chief point getters for their teams. “The office representatives who have been traveling along at a rapid pace for several weeks ran up against a spag last night in the Drill Chuck trio who cleaned up in three games. The work of Trevithan was the bright feature of the match. Two of his scores topping the century mark and his total score amounted to 314. Teams from the H., & B. company rclled last night, the handle finishers defeating the grinders two out of three games. The scores: ’ Tool Room. 88 87 98 79— 89— 108— 29 267 284 271— 2 shipping Room. | - 96 93 84— 273 | 99 86 101— 286 79 89 77— 245 274 268 Office. 83 92 93 6 94 7 89 262 Bloom ... 270 Bowers . 290 Burr ... Root Hultgren . 262— 804 92— 175 82— 259 89— 278 90 North .... McGrath . Thornton ...... Hartman . 85 96 90 268 271 Drill Chuck. Helander ...... 83 99 Gustafson 84 90 Trevithan .. 102 116 305 263— 802 92— 274 83— 2567 96— 314 271— 845 269 DOESN'T WANT MUCH! Chicago, Jan. 6—Clark Griffith, manager of the Washington American league club, who is here today on his way from Montana to Washington, sald in answer to reports that he was negotiating a deal to sell Walter John- son, his star pitcher, to the Cleveland Americans: “I'll trade Johnson for the Established 1886 GlobeClothingHouse | Hart, Schatfner & Marx CLOTHES ARE INCLUDED IN OUR 31st Annual Sale By Comparison you will instantly recognize the Remarkable Reductions in Price During the Month of Janjlary CLEARANCE SALES OF SPECIAL LOTS OF Ladies’, Men’s and Children’s § SHOES fight he has been in since winning the championship. In the fourth round Kunz appeared in a bad way but the New Yorker was unable to floor him. Kunz appeared “all in” at the finish while Conifrey was as fresh as a dajey. Kunz's nose bled continually after the secénd round. FOOTBALI Washington, Pa., Jan. STARS DROPPED. 6—W. W, Pain, halfback and D. B. Nall, guard, = both freshmen, have been from the rolls at Washington TJefferson college. Fallure dropped and to atts passing grades is given as the reasomns’ Cleveland franchise; nothing less.” CUBS TO USE MANN IN INFIELD. Chicago, Jan. 6.—Leslle Mann, out- flelder with the Chicago Nationals, will be shifted either to third base or short stop next season, Fred Mitchell, the new manager of the club, an- nounced today. Mitchell believes that Mann, who was a member of the Boston club under him, possesses the speed to play the infleld. CHAMP KUNZ BEATEN. New York, Fireman Hands South Norwalk Boy a lacing, South Norwalk, Jan. 6.—Frankie Conifrey, the New York fireman, out- pointed Battling Kunz, state light- welght champlon, in a fast ten round bout here last night. Conifrey, ac- cording ‘to impartial observers, was entitled to the honors by virtue of landing the harder and clearer blows. 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