New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 9, 1917, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1017. - y,i-ulzz Becomes Chagrined Vv hen Players Sign Contracts---Yale Club,td Dine Jones and Football Eleven lan. 19---Bankhart Refuses to Return to Colgate as Coach---Penn is Added to West Point Schedule AYERS SIGNING AKES FULTZ SORE ' and Ritter, of Giants, Get jternity President’s “Goat” W York, Jan, 9.—David L. Fultz, dent of the Baseball Players’ Tnity, took no pains to conceal Mlisappointment and displeasure at nnouncement that Pitchers Slim b and Lew Ritter had signed new ‘i ts with the Glants. ’ 1 have a statement to make,” [Fultz, “so soon as I have definite- fablished the truth of the matter. scarcely bellsve that Sallee 4 & 1917 contract with New . He was a Fraternity member gave his solemn assurance that d not do so so long as issue een the Fraternity and organized 3all remained unsettled.” giber than this Mr. Fultz would He would not admit that of Sallee could affect tg®> Bde of the unsigned fwever, a full statement d from him at any . was any question of a ture annowyncement from the ig the doubt was dispelled fleo John A. Heydler,' of the [bnal teague. Mr. Heyvaler stated flln new contracts of Sallee and ¢ had been promulgated by the [ p league office and returned to pMces of the New York Nationals. [seball men about town yesterday a more cheerful view of the of the two Giant pitchers in flon. They belleye it 1s a sign the plavers never were serious in foromises of strike they may have }e to David L. Fultz. They point bat the great majority of the most frious stars are already held by contracts; that the recruits com- up would not dare to incur the tleasure of their emplovers; that nsigned middle men—the players rage ability—would never take shance of being ground between 'wo extremes, except in a few ed cases where the axe of omy struck unusually deep. § ! \ KER MAY WITHDRAW. ity Stockholders of Columbus m Must Agree to His Plan. lumbus, Ohio, Jan. 9.—Joseph er, erstwhile manager of the Chi- Nationals, arrived in Columbus ay preparatory to attending a ng of the minority stockholders e 'Columbus Association baseball b § 1 | to be held today. is reported Tinker intimated that s the stockholders agree to his nization plan he will withdraw id for the stock. Local baseball u sts refuse to take this report usly, the genera] opinion being } Tinkéer is very 'anxious to gain ol of 'the Columbus club. KAISER IS DE! er Walking Champion Il Only i Short Time. [lew York, Jan. 9.——There was much { circles | Fred ow expressed in athletic day over the death of i Jier of the New Yark A. C., who | in St. Luke’s hospital last Sun- night after a short illness. iser won the national three mile | 1911 and | Jking - championship in the national seven mile walking in 1913. He was of a lovable osttion and made many friends in realm of ‘athletics, | DOOLAN A MANAGER. i w York, Jan. 9.—Doctor Michael hlittle, better known in baseball as e Doolan, will relinquish his post firet aid to the Giant infleld and Tnanage the Rochester Interna- hals next season. Mike was named | hester chief at a conference here rday between John. McGraw and tes P. Chapin, owner of the bhester elub. McGraw was to leave Coba Saturday, but purposely Te- ined in New York to help land a | for Doolan. CHICAGO BIKE RACE. Phicago, Jan. 9.—Chicago’s hual six-day bicycle race will d February 11 to it was an- inced yesterday. Twenty-two rid- among them the stars of the rt, have been entered. third be | SYRACUSE BEATS PITT. bittsburgh, Jan. 9.—The University Pittsburgh basketball team was de- ed last night by Syracuse five by to 17. ,HIGH SCHOOL HAS GAME. ptain Hibbard’'s basket tossers 1 stack up against West Hartford sh school Friday afternoon in the n hall of that place. DXMOOR MILD, PLEASANT Sc CIGAB We Are Cat'erinéit(i) ¢ Afternoon Bowling Pin Men Always on Hand AETNA ALLEYS, Church Street {to coming to Brown, Barry, _Red Sox Leader, Only Playing Pilot of Year Boston, Jan. 9.—The announcement of Jack Barry, when he signed to manage the Red Sox, that he intends to play regularly at second base next season breaks the solid front of bench managers such as prevailed when the 1916 campaign closed. Car- rigan was the only manager who did any playing during the latter half of the season, and he performed so sel- dom that he was classed as a bench BROWN KEEPS ROBBY Football ‘Coach Offixes His J. H. to a | Three Yecar Contract—Next Year's Prospects Very Bright. R. 9.—Edward Robihson of Boston yesterday re- Providence, Jan. by newed his contract with the Brown Athletic Association and will continue to coach the Brown foothall for the next three vears. Robinson 'has been coaching at Brown since 1900, with the exception of two breaks of two vears each. In 1902 and 1903 he coached at Ne- braska, and in 1908 and 1509 he coached the Tufts eleven. Previous | he coached at Exeter during the time that Tad | Jones was a student at that sUhool.I Later he put in a year at the Univer- sity of Maine, in charge of football and baseball. Robinson was graduated from Brown in 1896, and during his col- lege days won his letter in both hase- ball and football. He has been ex- | tremely successful with his Brown ! elevens, the climax coming this last Fall, when he developed the best | team that ever represented the Provi- dence institution, a team that went to the last gamc before having its | goal line crossed. Losing only five men from his squad | of sixty, the prospects for the com- {ing year are the brightest in the his- | tory of football at Brown. Robinson |is a lawyer, practicing in Boston. The assistant coach has not vet been | chosen. rl Sprackling, the all- American back, who has filled that | positon for the last three vears, may |not be able to accept again on ac- count of business. elevens BAKER NOW A BANK Yankee Inficlder One of Incorporators of Trappe Institution. Trappe, Md., Jan. 9.—Frank Baker, famous slugger of the Yankees, is right on the heels of Bill Carrigan in entering the banking business, but just at present Frank is not talking or re- tiring. Nevertheless Frank is ane of the in- corporators of the State Bank of Trappe, Talbot County, Md., which has filed application to the state for ap- proval of its charter. The Trappe iR. Charley Herzog was the last playing manager in the National league, and when he gave way to Mathewson the senior league teams were in charge of leaders who directed the play from either the bench or the coaching lines. A few vears ago the playing managers were almost as numeroull as the bench leaders, but the stvle has chapged un- til only one of the xteen' major league pilots takes part in a game. manager rather than a MEETINGS POSTPONED, Majors’ Schedule Committecs Blocked By Dreyfuss’ Ilness. Chicago, Jan. 9.—The meeting of the National and American leagues schedule committees, which was set for Brunswick, Ga., January 10, was postponed last night because of the inability of Barney Dreyfuss, president of the Pittsburgh club, to make the trip. Mr. Dreyfuss is a mentber of the National League commiitee. B. B. Johnson, president of the American League, said that the meet- ing probably would be held in Pitts- burgh late this week. ODD FELLOWS WIN, Lexingtan lodge, 1. O. O, F. feated Washington Camp, P. O, A, at carpet bowls last evening, 35 to 34. The results on the follow. Rink 1, Lexington lodge, s! Curtiss 18; P. O. S. of Schneider, 6; rink 2, Lexington lodge skip Crocker 8: P. O. S. of A., skip Redden 13; rifk 3, Lexington lodge, skip Narth 9, P. 0. S. A, Carswell, 15. Tonight Fpancis Drake lodge, S. of St. will play Phenix lodge 1. 0. O, T Bronchitis And ‘Other Throat and Lung Ailments Yield to Linonine Nearly one thousand people in c¢ne city alonc have pub- Jicly testified in signed statements that Linonine cured them of coughs, colds, bronchitis and other forms of winter complaints that threatened their very existence. Other thous- ands in o r scctions of the country bave added their testimony and all unite in proclaiming Linoninc the most effective medicine of its kind known to science. Kelief is wrought by removing the swellings and irrita- tions that canse the disturbances. It is 2 truly wonderful remedy and is purc and wholesome, Hcing an emul- sion of Flax-Sced Oil, TIrish Moss, alyptus and other famous reme- all combined in one, and known Pprominent bank will have a capital stock of $10,000. WESLEYAN FIVE TRIUHPHS, Middletown, Jan, 9.—Wesleyan de- feated artmouth at basketball last night, 24 to 18. The locals led at the end of the first half by 8 ta 7. All druggists, 25¢, 50c, $1.00, player. | PENN TO MEET WEST POINT Quakers Only Team of Big Eastern Flevens to Respond to Invitation of Cadets—Schedule is Arranged. West Point, N. Y., Jan, 9.—Impor- tant announcements were made yes- terday 'in connection with the pub- lication of the Army’s football sched- ule for next fall. Chief among the new features will be a game at West Point with the University of Pennsyl- vania on Oct. 6. Only the Quakers of the big Eastern teams responded to the Army’s invitation to come to West Point for a game this year. Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Syracuse, Dartmouth and Colgate were all asked for a4 meeting, but without success. Penn has been here only once be- fore. In 1901 the Army played the Quakers on the *plains” and trounced them soundly by the score of 24 to 0. Charley Daly, now head coach of the Army eleven, was quarterback on the cadets’ team that year. It was also announced that a home- and-home contest with one of thée big Eastern universities would. be an an- nual feature of Army football in the future. Permission has been granted to the cadets to go away every vear for a game in another city. As Penn is the first to respond to the Army’s invitation, it is likely that the sol- diers will go to Franklin Field for .a game with Bob Folwell's pupils in 1918. A similar arrangement will be sought by the West Point manage- ment for return games with Harvard, Yale, Princeton or Cornell. Tt is the Army’s turn this vear to choose a site for the Navy game, by terms of the agreement with the An- napolis football authorities, and the West Pointers will name the Polo Grounds In New York for next Fail's Army-Navy battle. The' schedule follows: $ Sept. 29, Holy Cross; Oct. 6, Uni- versity of Pennsylvania; 13, University yof West Virginia; 20, Springfield Y. M. C. A. College; 27, Villanova; Nov. 3, Notre Dame University; 10, Uni- versity of Maine; 17, Bowdoin; 24, Navy at New York. ALONG THE GLASS COAST Schmalz’s Warrlors Hand the Stock Room Team of L. . & C. a Trim- ming on Actna Alleys. Schmalz’s Warriors Landers, Frary & Clark defeated the stock room bowlers of the same concern last evening, winning two out of threo i games played. Middleton of the War- riors and Weare of the Stock room teams were the individual stars. The . scares: of Schmalz's Warriors. 80 68 90 70 87 { Schmalz 1 Cowburn . . . | Piechart Richards Middleton .. 95— 269 80—226 100— 270 90— 240 97— 280 416—1285 78 80 80 96 429 395 Stock Room, Wright . 88 Taylor .. O’Day Dummy Weare 79— 73— 75— 229 80— 226 117— 293 254 223 424—1225 Schmalz's Warriors having won last night are now waiting for a match with the Humason-Beckley team. The H. & B. Grinders will accept the bowling challenge issued by'Schifialz’s so-called Warriors of L. F. while we brag of no fictitious name we are sure to produce the goods. How about next Friday evening at the Church street alleys? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO LEAD SPORTS IN? IMPORTANT GEAR. This delectable skating cap is gray angora, made with ear laps and a cape so attractive that it needs no beautifiers except that it needs no { Equally novel is a motor hat of white satin, bralded with black soutache. The tippet attached :fastens on the | brim with a black fur button. & Coand| ent. PORT i No one can say just yet what changes in behalf of the attack the rule makers of baseball will an- nounce. But here are two self-evident facts to consider: 1. Baseball, in the main, is played for the money the fan deposits at the bax office. Nine fans out of ten esteem an attack that consists of hard hitting and daring base running as the most pleasing feature of the game, 2. In the last few years the attack, in place of advancing, has fellen badly away, until the defense undoubtedly controls the game today. If this ish't the basis for a desired change in the present order, then conclusive evi- dence isn’t worth three whoops in Grandoldgehenna, Bolstering the Attack. There have been many suggestions offered as to how the attack can be improved. The suggestion involving a change in the present distances from base to base or any part thereof will hardly be considered. There are other less drastic ways that will appeal to the fan. As, per example, to improve batting: 1. The elimination of the spitball and Kkin- dred devices. (Why shauld a player be allowed to chew’ upon the cover of a ball, any more than he should be allowed to dip it in a bucket of water?) 2. To have the foul strike regulation apply, only to the first strike, thereby leaving the batsman two healthy wallops for his hit. 3. A rule providing that a base on balls shall advance also each runner upon the bases at the time. This would be sufficient for a testing start ,and would undoubtedly make for a stronger, more interesting at- tack. To improve base running it is only necessary to have a stricter enforce- ment of the balk rule, or a new balk rule that will give the base runner op- portunity to get a fair lead off first. These changes are not drastic in any way; they could be easily made, and the improvement would bring a certain welcome from nine fans out of ‘ten. Pitching Weary. The F¥Fan Colony at present has grown pitching weary. There was a time when a .300 hitter was supposed to be just a good, normal batsman. Yet last season in the two malof leagues, with over 250 players, there were just sixteen—nine in the Ameri- can and seven in the National—who finished at .300 or above—an average of just one player to each club. The club average last season in the American league for all eight clubs was .249; in the National it was .247. So the average hitter--not the weak- est, but the normal entry—has been cut down to .248, There was a day when a man batt- ing under .270 was considered a weak hitter. Today he can bat under .250 and still be upon terms with the av- erage, These figures alone are suffi- cient to shaw how badly the attack has been smeared. Defense Far Too Powerful, There are very few ways to improve an attack, save by natural develop- There have been any number of devices found to improve the de- fence—the spitball, the half-balk, the big, soft gloves, the base on balls pur- posely given the strong batter to bring a weaker batter up, etc., etc. Football fell Into the same trouble. The defense got entirely too strong for the attack and the game started down hill, Two evenly matched teams spent the greater part of their time around midfield. Those in charge of football's destiny were wise-enough to see this, with .the result that football today is making such a popular appeal that stadiums seating 75,000 can’t ac- commedate the big game crowds. Those in charge of football had the foresight to look ahead and to work out -ways for development of their game. Those in charge of baseball have been content to talk, and them wind up with the wise declaration that “the good old game is good ‘enough as it i “«I Hear You Calling Me—" “I hear you calling me,” 0O land of sun-blest tee, O fairway, long and green, Far south of drifting snows, Where, down the balmy scene, No wind of winter blows; Where one can rap the pill, Ave, knock the cover off; Where one may joust at will Within the sand-filled trough— O land of sun-baked lea, 1 hear you calling me. E. P. and B, Y.— Why not Elmer Oliphant? 2. Moseley was considered the better end. 3. A. N, S, Jackson, as we recall the episode. Connie Mack should have adopted the German procédure and made peace offerings in the fall of 1914, As it was, in addition to losing all terri- tory at the top while moving back to the bottom, he was forced to cede| Collins, Baker, Plank, Coombs and Barry. Half-Strides. Before starting anything it is just as well to be in fairly close reach of an established exit, To the greater number of entries an ) LIGHT Grantland Rice even break the luck but 60-40. One part of success is finishing with the thought that it might have been a whole lot worse. BANKHART 10 QUIT Unofticial Report States Tha't Colgate's Football Mentor in isw't 50-50, Most Successful ‘Will Enter Into Business, Hamilton, N. Y. Jan. 9.—Dr. Ellery Huntington, director of the Col- gate athletic teams, has not made any afficial announcement yet relative to the return of Larry Bankhart as coach of the football team, but it was learned last night through an au- thoritative source that Bankhart will not come back. The athletic board of Colgate voted Bankhart a substantial increase in salary, but'the offer was refused. board then made a second offer, said to be larger than any college coach in the country, except Percy Haughton, is receiving at the present time, but that also was declined. After these two offers were refused, Dr. Huntington, through the athletic board, asked Bankhart to name his terms to continue, but Bankhart, it is learned, will not coach in 1917 as he has decided to enter business in Lynn, Mass. Bankhart was graduated from Dart- mouth in 1910. He played college football for four years after com- pleting his course at Exeter. Bankhart coached Colgate in 1910, was assistant to Cavanaugh of Dart- mouth in 1911 and returned to Col- gate in 1912, MINORS FACE EXTINCTION. Tearncy Asks Heads of Baschall Leagues to Confcr Tomorrow. Chicago, Jan. 9.—A. R. Tearney, president of the Three I League last night invited President E. W, Dicker- son of the Central League, F. C. Zeh- rung of the Western League, M. E. Justice of the Central Association and James T. Hayes, owner of the Daven- port club of the Three I League ‘to meet in Cedar Rapids, Towa, Jan. 10 for a conference regarding internal affairs within their organizations. Mr. Tearney is convinced that some of the minor leagues in the Central West face a further financial loss and possibly extinction unless radical changes are made before the start of the 1917 season. He hopes to bring about a redistricting of territory in the four leagues. He contends that at least one, and possibly two, of the leagues will not be able to start the season . unless clrdnges are made, There is to be a meeting of the Cen- tral Association club owners in Cedar Rapids on the date of the proposed conference. ST. JOE'S A. A, MEFTING, Plans for Basketball Scason to Be Discussed at Session Tomorrow. Plans for starting the basketball season and the formation of a de- bating club will be among the business matters to come up for discussion at the meeting of the Y, M. A, A. of St Joseph’s church tomorrow evening. The hall for the basketball will be in next weel., An invitation extended to the High school boys of the parish to attend the meet- ing and to interest themselves in the debating club. J. P. O’'Sullivan, champion half- miler of the Irish-American club of New York, has sent his ;eslgnation to that organization and " will in the future represent the' local club and will act in the capacity of coach. Mr. O’Sullivan is residing in this ecity. It is probable that a monster field day and athletic meet will be given by the clut about the end of May. The { YALE CLUB PLANS REGEPTION T0 TEAM Fat, Etc., January 19 New York, Jan. 9.—An elaborate’ entertainment has been arranged b the Yale club for Tad Jones and his? be guests of the club on January 19 The festivities will open with a recep: at the club. This dinner has besn arranged by former 'varsity men whc have won their Y’ in football, base- ball, track, or crew. After the dinner the athletes and their hosts will journey to the Centus theater to witness a performance of i “The Century Girl:” A notable featur of thic part of the celebration is thatf the entire allotment of seats for the theater on this night has been mad¢ to -the Yale club and will be sold to Yale men only. Fullowing the thess trical performance another dinner will. be served at the club. Thi rveunion of “Y” men, and- it is ex: pected that something more than | complimentary celebration of the vis- occasion. There is a plan to organ a permanent Yale 'Varsity club, o which every ‘‘Y” man, past, preul and future, will become automatical a member upon earning his “Y.” Al ! inyitation has been extended to “Y" men who are not members @ the Yale club to participate’ in t celebration, to. whom the privileges of] the club have been extended. Announcements of the celebratio have been mailed to 4,000 Yale grad ates. Special invitations have b extended to Professor William Howa: Taft of Yale, former president of the United States; to President Arthug Twining Hadley of Yale, and to ¥ H. Platt, predident of the Yale clubg i The members of the commities ] charge are: Noble Foster Hogg Mortimer Norton, Buckner, '88 S; George Townsend Adee, John ‘Watson Dixon, '95, and Ge& Sheppard Chappell, '90. YALE DEFEATS ST. JOHN, Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan, 9.—Yale versity’'s basketball team interru the home winning streak of the 8. John’s college flve last night, w! the Eli representatives triumphed in the annual ti}t between the institutio) on the Brooklyn court by a re 35 to 25, in a keenly contested game. & A large crowd witnessed the conte every available nook of the gymn sium holding its seated or standi basketball enthusiast. When the fi whistle was blown, with the cou posted on the walls of the gymnasi: showing the New Haven five the tors with a ten-point advantage, thel were mingled expressions and ¢l over the loss of the game and pral for the plucky fight the Brooklyn f had made to down thelr more pro inent rivals. o SYRACUSE VS, BROWN. P:pvidence, R. I, Jan. 9.--~Bro is to play Syracuse in thig city on Sati urday, Nov. 3. Coming between th Harvard and Yale games which are % be piayed at Cambridge and New H ven as usual, it should provide a stron home attraction, something that wi lacking in the tentative schedule first announced. Brown played Syrafl) cuse two ycars ago on Andrew's in this city, and Syracuse won score of 6 to 0. It is underatood a two-year agreement has been sign but that the game to be plaved ne year at Syracuwse will come at a mi earlier date, probably on one of t first Saturdays in October. GANZEL AFTER OUBS. $ Chicago, Jan, 9.—John Gangzel, mand ager of the Kansas City club of 1 American Association, conferred witl Fred Mitchell, manager of the Chie Nationals yesterdey in regard to ob taining thiree players. George Plere a pitcher, is one of the players wan by Gangel. One Bottle--> will convince you of the measure of good purity and nourishment this beverage contains. i 2 ON TAP AT LOUIS W. FODT, HOTE L BELOIN, KEEVERS & 0O., MANN SCHMARR, W. J. McCARTHY, WHITE & CO. iting squad will be evolved out of theid victorious Bl football stars, who will :d 3! i tion and will be followed by a dinner H A [ cclebration will mark the firsl £ ¢ 48