New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1917, Page 8

4 nearly | Gohaeh ase---Conneff’s Record Lowered by Ray---Penn Rowing Coach Favors Abolishing Four Mile Course INNEEF'S RECORD HATTERED BY RAY cago Boy Runs 11-2 Miles in 6:45—Meredith in Form W York, Jan. 25.—Joie Ray cf Illinois A. C. of Chicago uston- 10,000 persons at the €5 of the Millrose A. A. in Madi- Square Garden last night when ron the Rodman Wanamaker one- one-half-mile scratch race from a of five of the best long-distance lers in the country, and in doing de the fastest time for the Ais- that has ever been accom- d in this country, indoors or oors, Ray's time was 6:45, and best previous time was 6 2-5, @ by the great Irish runner, Tom- Conneff, at Bergen Point on Sep- ber 2, 1895. 's starting performance, in *h he showed his heels to, among b s out, dssippi man in that race. ith plenty to spar mish in the first ars in this cvent = al % in the oc streaked over the st L versity of 2 ake the piace from Loomis. r John W. Overton of Yale, the l-yard national and intercollegi- eross-country champion, came kgn the night's sport, and marked ginning of a series of triwmphs estern athletes, who made their real invasion of the east of tae ent indoor season. The little Chi- who! proved his worth as a ince runner when he won the mile national championshiy ark last September, never gave vals. a breathing spell. At the of the starter’s pistol he rushed e front, and, with a-stride that resembles that used by Conneff is best days, kept going with un- hting force that never gave his petitors a chance to pass hinu. aother western success cam: in 70-yard invitation dash, in ‘which honors went to Joe Loomis of the ago, former 100-yard champion. long, lithe blond sprinter came ugh in easy manner in his heat in ‘h the best man he had to beat F. P. O'Hara, Massachus-tts & Alvah T. Meyer, the Irish-Am- in sprinter, was another former apion ‘who came back to life ting hf§hcat, with Brooke Brew- ‘e M@ryland sprinter, in second Lagmis' trial heat had been "so casfly that he was a big fa- 6 for the final. Meyer, however, rised the crowd by getting the P on_the westerner and leac for the first forty vards. Thenu | ground-devouring strides of the ! #go man began to tell, and he { ed alongside of Meyer iwenty 8 from the tape. Meyer fongl:t ely. jhe end, but Loomis beat 3 a yard. Brewer finishel & Thg'fime, 0:7 2-5, is a fifth of ond slower than the record. th Defcats Strong Fieid. Meredith, recently recovercd ; R an attack of pneumonia, Westerners their first setboc he won the Millrose 600 from a of great distance men, which ided Walter A. Miller of the Ii- LA. C.. dnd a notable south on M. Scott of the Mississippi culturat college, the half-mile @pion. ‘Tkd had an old scor: to as he finished behind the e aid 15 Scoit failed three. All the tuyed in the cast, Trish-Ameri i Higgins of the . finishing second, of the Poston A bert F. Simy anpdler if not of appearance by making a *d low hurdle lized his firsi rd in the 90- ads and left in his wake Jack r, who' madc the old record of seconds in 1910 and equaled it, id his brother, Bob, in 1911, Tis ry made another for the wesl, as champion hurdler hails from the Simpson led - with Loomis pressing him. Jack Eller got up in time The : and he wi he fin starters were 0 Mur hur L. Engels, New York A. C. | | > and Hamilton inchurst, snament gue of RICE WITH WINNERS. n Victeries on Pinehurst Links. N.'G. Jan. of the Winter Golf Advertising Interests the md match round was played y o cal candidates for the first division | Is on ladeiphia f fo. at the ninetcen ay in all eight of the men's di- ns. Rain fell au; of the day and W yons a number of the matches going default.- The ' tWd. divisions of en players postponed their ds until today. rantland Rice and D .A. Hamilton ew York, who are regarded as eadil Y ble aturday next, won their ches yesterday by narrow mar- Rice defeating J. C. Martin of 1 up, and Hamilton ing Charles Hart of New York h hole. SMOKE DXMOOR MILD, PLEASANT 3c CIGAR We Are Catering to Afternoon Bowling 2in Men Always on Hand I AETNA ALLEYS, Church Street at | —In the ' ON THE LANES Captain Johuson's Sextette Again Forced to Drink From 'the Cup of Defeat—Suburban Bowlers Battle. Some of the best games in the Johnson-Wright bowling argument, were staged at the Aetna alleys last evening, and as a result the outcome was in accord with the results of the | pust conflicts, Captain Wright's team | being the victor. The close attention paid the lane gamec by the female members of the sextettes, has made them very proficient, and it is the consensus of opinion that a team can be selected that will show Bill Bren- necke's “Matrimony Duckers,” a few tricks in the game. In the Berlin Construction company league, the Owls won two games from the Eagles and the Hawks adminis- tered similar treatment to the Ducks. The scores follow: Johnson's 70 84 73 82 62 Miss Brown McAvay ... Mrs. . Johnson F. Johnson Miss Stefnick Lind 67 71 64 95 47 96 78— 73— 75— 73— 69— 101— 210 228 212 260 178 209 464—1387 433 Wright's Mrs. S. Johnson 69 | S. Johnson 77 Mrs. Wright 69 Selander 32 Miss Bergstrom 61 ‘Wright 216 | 231 195 82— 57— 99— 266 68— 187 91— 296 469—1390 469 Owls. 100 7 270 80— 239 98— 278 93— 276 354—1063 | Corr . 3— Heath Gariepy Myers | | Hickey | Hartney C. Warner O’Connell 95— 269 87— 240 68— 254 | | i The Annual Call of the }an. ‘Where the stench is on the landscape As the winter session grows; Where the garbage cart is waiting As the driver holds his nose; Where they yelp aloud for lawyers Or they scramble for the dough, Give us back the breath of April And the game we used to know. Give us back the breath of April | Where the wallop leaves the stick; Where the pop is on the gurgle And the peanut hulls are thick; Where a Coliins, Cobb or Speaker Takes an inshoot for a ride And the echoes leap to meet him With a “slide—you bone-head— s-1-i-d-e—" Give us back the breath of April And the glory of the game; Give us back the crashing double Anad the fielder’s sprint for fame; Where the fumigating’s over And the smear has reached its close, And it isn’t necessary For a guy to hold his nose, Tt is generally agreed that Team Play is a big part of success in any game. No nation has proved this more than the old U. S. A. Here in baseball and football team play has been one of the main slogans and one of the best developed traits, The queer part of it is that the nation, little else but sport. Apparently. it has never occurred to Capital and Labor, save in sparsely scattered in- stances, that team play produces the winning score. Edging Back? By a queer freak of fate last season | | 1 | McQueeny Seaburg Neurath i 366—1083 I 71— 241 T2— 248 99—287 118— 305 McCarroll Graham Miller Quay 360—1081 i Rumers Abcut National Capital ln-! la dicate That Labor Federation Will fi; a5 the complete | Baker's return around his old mark of Deny Charter to Fraternity. Washington, Jan. 25.—Considera- tion of the application of the Baseball Players’ Lraternity for a charter in| the American Federation of Labor was | taken up vesterday by the executive council of the American Federation. President Fultz of the fraternity was in Washington last Saturday and Mon- day presenting arguments why the fraternity should be granted such a charter. i It has becn reported that the fra- ternity’s rcquest already has been turned down, the argument being that the ball players did mnot consider ' affiliation with the federation until! {hey became involved in & life and death struggle with organized base- ball. However, high federation officiala today deny that any decision has been reached. They say the coun- cil deeision will not be announced un- til the conciusion of its meeting today. | The inference drawn, however, from remarks of lutor heads is that'the fra- | ternity would ‘speedily be granted al| charter werc conditions settled in basetall, but that objection is being | felt in some circles to using the power of organized labor as a club with which to force the issue between the players and the club owners, Whether organized baseball is ad- vancing any arguments to offset those | brought to Washington by Fultz local ! labor lcaders would not say. ELIS BEAT BAY STATERS, Yale Hockey Team Downs Massa- chusctts Aggles, 5 to 3. New Haven, Jan. 25.—The Yale hockey team, with a new lineup, de- feated the Massachusets Aggies hero last night by a score of 5 to 3. Lough- lin and Stanley, new in the Yale weven, plaved well. The Yale forwards started off with 4 rueh and shot three goals before the | Aggics scored. Just before the end of the first half Richardson shot a goal for the visitors and the ° to 1 for Yale. PYTHIANS BEATEN AGAIN. Lexington lodge, 1. O. O. F. carpet bowls team defeated W. L. Morgan lodge, K. of P. last evening, score, 46-33. The results on the various rinks were as follows: Ring 1, L O. O. F. skip Curtis 10, K of P. Clark, . merely a coincidence, one things of which the game Is full, all of Connie Mack’s old stars—Collins, Baker and McInnis—suffered undue slumps. Baker dropped below .280. MclInnis fell below .300. Collins skid- | ded back a healthy number of points ! from his usual high average As none of these is yet a decrepit veteran, the chances are that the 1916 slump was of those But since there is always the chance that even a star may have reached the peak to begin pointing downhill, it will be interesting to watch the batting of this trio through the year ahead. Baker, especially, will come in for close observation, as John Franklin, of Trappe, while retaining the power of hi punch in a long-distance way, fell v further than the other two so averages went. X 330 would do the blessed Yanks a world of good. Two Ex-Feds, Another interesting section will cover the two ex-Feds—Benny Kauff and Lee Magee. Neither reached the .300 mark last season after leading the now defunct circuit. But McGraw is confident that Benny will cross the Main: Divide by next October and will rank with the leaders of the league. Magee, too, is a better hitter than he showed Ilast season. He may not scramble as high D'You SEe THAT OVER THERE \WITI A CIGAR-T- CLEANED UFP A DoLLARS 6N THE having proved this, has applied it to | BRown DERBY SMOHING WELL THATS CHARLIE PORKAND - PORT LIGHT Grantland Rice \as .300, but he belongs at least points higher' than his 1916 mark. 30 The Ad Golfer’s “Psalm of Golf.” Tell us not in mournful numbers Golf’s a game to build one’s pride. | Where the bunker never slumbers | And the traps are yawning wide. Scores we’ve gathered oft remind us j How we slice to beat the band, | And, departing, leave behind us Niblick chasms in the sand. When Bill Jones and Tom Jackson !and each getting $4 a day, calling a ! strike is no great difficulty. But when Ty Cobb is getting $15,000 and Jack | Hoozis is getting $1,400, the strike ap- ! peal is hardly likely to carry the same { effect. i “Maybe,” writes Hoko, “the players !had the idea in this strike business that they could have three strikes be- | fore being called out.” 1 — ! Golf Advice. Sir: The other day I kept my head down on several shots and just man- aged to reach the green. Then I looked up on three shots, topped the ball, and it ran up within a few feet of the cup. Under these conditions what would you advise? A. DUFF, To pick out & regular golf course. | e ! i FASANE LOSES. Charley Pitts Is Victor in Fast Twen- ty Round Battle. | | New Haven, Jan. 25—Charley Pitts, %the sensational Bridgeport light- ! welght was awarded a referee's deci- slon over the ever-willing Jimmy Fa- sane of Waterbury, at the end >f a fast 20-round bout at the Royal A. C., leorge street, last nigth. Both bovs waged a.furious battle from start to finish, there being little to choose he- tween the two until the later stuges of the bout when the Bridgeporter came to the front and packed up a comfortable lead on points. Nelither boy let up in his work in any of the rounds, both being content at tearing in and doing hig bit to make the go worth while. Fasane waged an al- most incessant attack on Pitts’ body while the Bridgeporter scored most of his points at long range. TIor ten rounds the boys battled fairly even but Pitts was entitled to whatever honors that were forthcoming in the majority of the rounds in the final half. Fasane, despite the fact that he lost the decision, fought an accept- able battle and made many friends by his willingness to mix it whenever op- portunity presented itseif. 3 Jerome Hennessey, who was sched- uled to box Tommy Shea in the semi- windup of eight rounds, failed to put in an appearance and Frank Brindisi was substituted. Brindisi handed Shea a neat little surprise package and at the end of the mill Shea had to be satisfled with a draw verdict. Hrindisi showed any previous and gave the elusive Shea a terrific ] battle from gong to gong. — GuY H A HE MiLLion MARWET TeerE'S THE weALTHY HE'S TERR(BLY TO HNOW Him 10; Rink 2, I. O. O. F. skip Belden, 19, K. of P. skip Dolan 12; Rink 3, I. 0. O. F. skin North 17, K. of P. skip Clock 11. There will be no game in the league tonight. DARCY TO MEET McCOY. Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 24.—Les Dar- ¢y, middleweight champion of Aus- tralia, has been matched to meet Al McCoy in a ten round bout at Madi- son Square Garden in New York on March 5, according to an announce- ment made here last night. Darcy will receive $30,000 as his end of the purse. HERKIMER DILL MANUFACTURER - RCH- | HAPPEM WELL effort | STRIPED SUIT— PUT HIS RAND UP To HIS FACE— WELL THAT'S GEORGE W. FATSHINS - FIFTY MiLLioN - Him WELL FARRELL REPLIES TOFULTZ'S REMARKS Minor Leagues Secretary Denies Statements in Crystal Case New York, Jan. 25.—John H. Far- rell of Auburn, N. Y., secretary of the National Association, and around whom the threatened baseball strike is centered, broke his silence on the subject of the Playcrs' Fraternity | yesterday, and came out with a repu- dlation of the statements of President David L. Fultz in regard to the case ©of Manager Crystal of St. Thomas, Canada. This is tne first utterance on the part of Farrell since the fra- ternity decided to go out on strike. Secretary Farrell states that in many of the minor league cases, the National Board carries on its dealings directly with the player and not with Fultz as the head of the fraternity. “This is where the shoe pinches in all these cases,” says Farrell. Presi- dent E. G. Barrow of the Interna- | tional League, who is a member of the National Board, said yesterday that it was because Secretary Far- rell negotiated with the players them- selves, instead of ‘through the fra- ternity, that Fultz was so vehement in his protests agalnst the assocla- tlon’s secretary. Farrell calls Fultz's efforts in be- half of the players, ‘school hoy, Fourth of July oratory.” “His state. ments,” says Farrell, “are garbled, re- gardless of the frequent, meaningless flights of school boy oratory about such conditions as the Crystal case being tolerated in a free land.” President Fultz yesterday again de- nied that he had received any infor- mation concerning the rumored rejec- tion of the fraternity’s application for membership in the American Federa- tion of Labor, which is now before the executive council of the organization in Washington, D. C. It is the im- pression among the club owners that the fraternity has been turned down. The fraternity leader stated that the players of the American Associa- tlon had again pledged their loyalty to the organization. He said: “Out of approximately 135 players whao finished the 1916 season on seven clubg in the American association, eighty-five of them have, within the last four weeks pledged their loyalty | to the fraternity. ! The latest Brooklyn player to send back his contract unsigned is Gus Getz, the Dodgers' utility infielder. Gets refuses to accept the contract terms, which call for a reduction in his last season’s salary. It was also rumored yesterday that Zach Wheat, who is a Brooklyn holdout, may de- cide not to play ball any more. Wheat is now managing his ranch at Polo, Mo. There are six holdouts on the Brooklyn team. They are Wheat, _Stengel, Hi Myers, Chief Meyers, Mil- ler and Getz. NAVY STILL AT IT. fine style. TFees of Georgetown shot nine goals from the foul line. The midshipmen have won all their games this season, eight in a row. Georgetown was undefeated until yes- terday. GET READY, HARTFORD Supernumary Police Formulating Plans for 1917 Bascball Season— Four Cities in Proposed League, With four cities already assured for the circuit and plans well past the tentative stage the Central Connecti- cut Policemen’s Baseball league only lacks actual organization to become a reality. Plans have quictly neared completion since last fall with Chair- | man KEdward G. Babcock of the safety | board playing a prominent part in them. Heartily approving of healthy recreation of this type for police and fire departments of all cities, he has given of his time to approach offiicials of other departments. The idea has been received with approval from the Waterbury, Meriden and Hartford de- partments, A meeting will be held in the near future to make arrangements for organization a schedule, trophies eto. Whether the circuit will be enlarged is not known. Some are known to favor two leagues in the state, one as already assured and another to in- clude the cities of the southern and southwester parts of the state, New Haven, Bridgeport, Norwalk and Stam- | ford. The plan would be to have the champlons of each league meet in one or a series of games. At a meeting this week of local policemen interested Supernumerary Policeman Edward B. Kerin was clected manager of the New Britain | department team and Supernumerary ( Policeman William Souney was select- ed as captain, They have already be- gun to perfect their plans. Accord- ing to present plans, practice and time as regular league games. DISAPPROVES SYSTEM i MONOGRAMS GIVEN ~ GRIDIRON CHAMPS High School Boys Receive Letters - for Brilliant Work on Field Members of the 1916 championship football teami of the New Britain High school were awarded with the highest honors the school gives its athletic heroes, when the boys as- sembled in the school hall to receive the new letters designated by the athletic council. The monograms are black, N. B. letters instead of the old H. S. which has been in effect for many years. Before the presenta~ tion Physical Director Moorhead gave the boys a talk on the value of the letters and their significance. Prins cipal Slade presented the letters and also a certificate showing each recipient had earned the right to wear them. The members receiving the mono- grams are, Connolly, Dyson, Dixon, ‘Woodford, Hibbard, Kallgren, Robb, Bachulus, manager; Barton, Williams, McChristy, Peterson, Bradley, John- son and Rosenberg. Physical Director Moorhead has received word from Yale athletic authorities, that the football trophy which was won by the locals again last year will be forwarded to this city next week. According to the Tules of the association, the perma- nent ownership of the cup will be de- termined next year, when the team having acquired the greatest mumber of victories in that period of time in the Interscholastic football league will come into possession of it. At present the chances of New Britain Joe Wright of Penn Sides With Court- ney in Oollege Racing Controversy —Thinks Three Miles Enough. Philadelphia, Jan. 25.—Joe Wright, coach of the Pennsylvania crews, has joined hands with Charles Courtney of Cornell, dean of college rowing coaches, in advocating the dropping of the fourth mile from the annual race at Poughkeepsie this June. Wright, who recently started work with the Penn oarsmen, advances substantially the same ideas as the { Cornell instructor. Wright said yes- terday: “I believe, due to my active partici- pation in the game, that college oars- men are better fitted to participate in @ race of three miles than one of four miles. The men in the majority of college eights do not have the ex- perience and length of time at the | sport to make them equal to such a long grind. “Of course I and the other coaches work the men up to the four mile spin, but I don’t think that they show the best results. If, as I hope, a mile Makes It 8 in a Row Georgetown. Annapolls, Md., Jan. 25.—Navy's basketball team defeated Georgetown | here yesterday afternoon 31 to 23. The work of the Navy lads was far better than that of the visitors. Both teams passed cleverly and covered in by Beating SEE THAT GUY WTH The HE'S JUST HE'S WORTH 1 kow ig dropped from the race on the Hud- son then the men will be able to stand the strain better and be in bet- ter shape than in a race of four miles. “Three miles is just about the proper distance to test the work of an eight in endurance, skill and unison.” Somebody 1s. Always Taking the Joy Out of Life annexing it permanently is very brikht, the standing of the contesting teams at present being: New Britaln, 4 victories; New Haven 2 victories and Hartford non. Should the locals capture one game next year the lo.! cation of the cup in the future will lbe settled. The outlook for 1917 s {very bright, and with Hartford & member of the league, the locals are anticipating little resistance. Having recovered from the severe drubbing administered by New Havep High school basketball quintet last Saturday, Captain Hibbard and his boys returned to the court last even- ing, and handed a picked team a bad beating, score 40 to 4. Barton who was declared ineligible last week on {account of scholastic deficiency, but through earnest attention to work has caught up and is back again with the squad. His playing will have team. Siegrist is expected back with the squad next week. The team will go |to Meriden Friday evening, and om Saturday afternoon Bristol will be | the opponent in the !league on the Bell City floor. The | first games in the inter-class basket- { ball will be played next Thursday af- ternoon at 4:30 o'clock, when the freshmen will tackle the sophomores. On the following Thursday, the sen- jors will encounter the juniors. The winners of these two games will clash on February 15. BY BRIGGS SEE THAT FUNNY LOOKIN' uUTTLE To THE LADY — 7- PACHINHOUSER OF MINE— WORTH WouULD You ™MD LETTIN' ™ME HAVE. A coUPLA BUCKS 'TiLL \ T'MORRA ? N FAT FELLOW TALHIN' JoHn 0 A GooD FRIEND JoHAJ MUST Be TenNS Mu_uu that * much to do with strengthening the’ ool Footbail Clampions Awarded Monograms---Secretary Farrell Answers Fultz in Crystal) Interscholastie.¢