New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 8, 1917, Page 8

Benedicts Outclassed on Aetna Alleys---Tener Issues Ultimatum to Strikers-- Folwell Is Engaged As Penn| / ‘ootball Mentor---Boxing Bill Receives Little Suppori---Kamels Hoop Tossers to Meet Travelers s CHELORS STAGE | FINE COMEBACK : IGES tter of Supremacy on Alleys [ wercoming a 240 point Jead due to ldicap, the single men bowlers of |Rangers ciub defeated their mar- 4 brethren on the Aetna alleys last ping. Four games were the bachelors annexcd thre m by substantial leads. jan proved a tartar for the mar- L mcn, the k Factory league nding out a -totai score of 404, ling all his mates and competitors. my Clark w sceond h man the victers with two contributions over the century figsure and a to- G For the Ic Anderson were the stellar perform- of e Johnson-Wrizht mixed sex zle howlers were the fors over their or ponents again i i u the Rerlin Clenstruction company les won a pair of from the Hawks and the Owls aned up with the Ducks, winning ee straight gam Phe scores follow Marricd 1th iub Hembers Seftle lled, | Jimmy | WHAT D'YAa Know "BOUT TwAT Joe f { WAS Gomme To SLIP You THAT Ten | OWED You AND SOME BODY. COPPED IT OFF OF ME Jom — 1 LOT OF INSURANCE DUE AND | HAD T use ALL MY SPARe HAD A You THaT TeEN NEXT geK PodiTIVELY CASH - BUT I'LL HAND IF The CHAP You LoanED tMonveY To SPRINGS TH\S on You ~AND A LATER Trus — AND AGAIN HANDS You SOMETHING Tue SA Liwe Yuus = [os THE NEXT weesw — FEw DAYS CONTINUES LINE OB«TaLk LISTEN JOE- YL HAVE THAT Ted FOR You NEXT WEEw SURE — JoE~ | HAD A LITTLE ToUuGH LUCK' THE OTHER DaY- | WAS Going To GIVE You TmaT Ten BUT — IN You'tL 8& JusTiFieDd THEY Can'T ARREST YYou For THAaT ! BY BRIGGS Jo= 1'VE HAD | A LOT OF EXTRA| EXFENSE LATELY BUuT fLL SLWP i You THeaT TEN | T FIRST OF TH WEEK SURE DOING 'Tus — boxing exhibitions are now being con- ductcd, ard there must be sopie sen- timent in favor of the sport, when promoters take the chance of violat- ing the law, and they are sanctioned by the police, he said, though illegal- 1y held. Ii was a matter of surprise that so few present to favor the bill, but Sen- ator Koppelman explained this, by saying that those whom he asked to favor the bill preferred to leave its fate to the committee. FOLWELL GETS HIS BERTH BACK AGAIN Penn Faculty Reappoints Popu- lar Football Mentor { Philadelphia, Feb. 8 —Complete vindication of his coaching methods was had by Robert C. Folwell yester- . day when he was reappointed coach of the University of Pennsylvania’s foot- ball squad for next year. There is one . clause in the contract, however, which | makes it possible for Penn to abro- | gate the paper. This clause does not ! reflect upon the ability of Folwell, but makes it possible for Penn to cut down expenses should America go to war with any other country. This is the first time in the history ! of Penn's athletics that such a clause has heen inserted in a coaching con- ! tract. The uncertainties of war | prompted the faculty athletic commit- | tee to make this exception. The clause | BY PRES. TENER National League Head Says “Its Cut or Quit” for Players New York, Fep. 8.—President John K. Tener of the National league yes- terday issued a war warning to strik- ing ball players. The warning amounts practically to an ultimatum. Tenet's league has informed the ball players they had better come into thé fold now at the figures written in their contracts or they will come at greatly reduced salarfes—if at all. “Our club owners have cesased to worry about this strike situation for two mighty good reasons,” shif ‘Tener. ‘First, the bottom seems have fallen out of the strike ,an: second, a club owner during thesy perilous times is very fortunate in net having a lot of heavy salaried men under contract. This strike mAy y# prove to be a blessing in the gatpe.” ' “The major leagues have not yeL taken any official action on players rée fusing to sign contracts, but 1 cah tell you what our club owners will de in the event war is declared on Gef- many. Each unsigned player will Bé . immed‘ately advised to return Mis contract, signed or unsigned. § “In the event. he returns it um- signed or does not reply at the ex- piration of the time limit that young man may receive another contract a salary in fitting with the tlmlz' 4 'WARNING IS ISSUED { ! B | states that the agreement will be void | . [in the event of war between the | nch 7 the event of War g ok { United ftates and any other nation. | ) pe one of the first steps to B “The reappointment of Folwell fol- | yoie P¢ B8 O S A a cut to ! Jows @ campaign of popularity which | e‘ghmjem_m_ ever sixteen players. . H found students, alumni and sixty mem- | “Players Must Come to Terms.” ! hers of the Pennsylvanta State league | .1t ponceves players to wake up 6 [ lined up with Folwell and against the | . Tt beRooves BIavers 2o ta s o | faculty committee, which announced £ £ v £ There is no question that it a playek | two weeks ago that Folwell would not | Z220¢, 18 B0 F0 e o) e | be retainea. Foiwell objected to be- " ! ble his club will endea: |ing ousted from his position, and AR Possibie bls o il cndeey " Then in the event of war a very 105— 391 518—2102 Single i 88 96 9 85 110— Uopyrighted 1917 by The Tribune Asspc. (New York Tribune). J. i Mayried %8, J. Johnoon. § wJohnson 8. Wright " Johnson . rs. F. Johnson. atilotte dss Brown | e wamaGs CONSTRUCTION BRLIN LEAGUE Eagles 104 103 83— 282 .. 257 ner 286 KConnc!l . .. ndi eQueencs Aburg Neurath Heath orr rie: 2 Ducks 84 Yoocal Basketball Q Capitol City Next wet Wil Inva Wednesday Quest of Travclers Scalp. The basketball quintet representini the Kamels clab, onc of the latest so- cial organizatio in this city, will to Hartford next Wednesday ev to clash with the fast Travclers five in the West Middle gymnasium. A% fifty of the faithful royal roote accompany the team. On tho of the Kamels club will be fourd t names of some of the crack athle the Hardware Cit cominz g: however, being' ithie initial event which they have played under club’s colors. The team will be selected from fol- lowing player: Wiillams, Schade, “Dolly’ EIl cobson, Martin, Pickop, Jones, Samn- son and Cook. ~ SMOKE OXMQOOR A MILY., PLEASANT &¢ CIG.aM We Are Catering to Afternoon Bow.ing Pin Men Always on Hand ;- - AETNA Y8, ; Captains Foley and Lydall today an- nounced their lineups for the bowling embroglio to be staged on the Actna alley s tomorrow evening. They are as follows: Foley, Cobb and Walker; Lydall, Judd and Parker. Georze Denby’s cup of satisfaction was filled to an overflow yesterday af- ternoon, when with the assistance of Jack Lynch, (special emphasis of the assistance), Archie De Mars and an- other cmbryonic cue wielder was forced to accept a dcfeat, George it revenge, but the other con- tcetants are chirping loudly about luck. i e | The chances of Connecticut having a boxing commission were not enhanced after vesterday’s mecting before the judiciary committee. The Eostcn National league club has obtained options cn eight players who are members of clubs of AA classifi- cation. and is seeking filve more, as a means of recruiting a team in the event of a strike by members of the Baseball Players’ Fraternity, President Perdy D. Haughton announced last night. The men upon shom options have been closed and money pald are among the best in minor league ranks, he sald. In ezch instance delivery of i{he player has been guaranteed, Local opticn clections on the ques- ' b .y ball would he au- thorized by a bill introduced in the New York state legislature yestdrday by Assemblvman Alexander Taylor, of Erie. Referendums would be held upon petit! signed by five per cent. of the votcrs. tion cof Sun Pitteburgh's five defeated Rutgers in | sity crew will be allowed to compete. | basketball last night bi a score of 2 to 21. At no time during fhe fast and beilliant wragele was there a differ- ence of more than three points'in the feore. At the end of the first half the fore stood 11 to 9 in Rutgers favor. astarred for Pittsburgh and ittpenn for Rutgers. v Willams. outfielder ot the Chicarn Nrtionais, hae declined to sign Cecmtract at the terms offered him, <t *Yeeghman announced last ‘pma fo n member of the Fraternity. TTastin Miller and © a twar challene cup has been imnus of the Uni- 7 an . ¢ pean-vlvania to be p'aced in n at the annual relay car- mile relay cha nerica The trophy will th- “Mike Murphy Cup.” of P-nnsylvania’s late ach It iz not a perpetual ehalicnge cup, but will become the of the eollege whose athletes five times Harvard, Missouri, Pennevivania, Princeton and have entered tho 0 of v as te It in merory irnea Tnotball at the Naval Academy re- crived a sethack vesterdav when it be- ~me known that Arthur Gilman of York and Frederick Denfeld of Minnescta. both of the regular guards, were among those who had submitted their regisnations on account of schol- | astic deficiencies. Gilman | beaviest man on the line and one of | the best. He played on the Navy team for two vears and also rowed in the crew and plaved football at Cornmell and Colrate before entering the aca- demy. Denfeld was in his first year. He did good work and promised to de- i i | | George Jchnson. was the! { SPORTDOM SPARKLERS } velop Into a powerful guard. i Herbert J. Pennock, a pitcher, and Oscar Jenkins, an outflelder, sent their rigned contracts-today to the Boston American league baseball club. Jen- kins was secured last night from the Griffin, Ga., club of the Georgla-Ala- bama league. At the Natlonal leaguc headquarters it was stated that the signed contract of Joseph W. Wilhoit had been received, accompanied by a letter saying that the contract was conditional upon the approval of the Baseball Players Fraternity, of which Wilhoit is 2 member. are some of the Federal league | ‘“stars” of 1916 who now are in the! minors or have been forced to retire: Tinker, Knabé, Doolan, Brennan, Fal- kenberg, Bedient, Ford, Willett, Lord, Campbell, Evans, Tobin, Kenworthy, Dalton Runt Walsh Zwilling Wick- land Borton, Hap Myers, Oakes Shaw Vaughn Roach Scheer Duncan Zinn Easterly Westedzil Drake Engle, Jack Quinn, Land, George Anderson, Per- ring Laporte Ewacina Holt Owens Kirkpatrick, Fred Smith, Hanford, Bert Meyer, Berghammer Hofman Bender Kores Lafitte Bridwell Chad- bourne Blair Suggs Beck McCandless Rawlings Kirby Downey Agler, Bill Bradley, Main Simon Finneran and Here There is a strong possibility that Cornell students will not see their crew race on the Hudson this June. in the Poughkeepsie regatta, because of the conflict between the examinations and date of the race. Cornell’s final examinations fall on June 21, the date |settlea far the regatta, and the stu- dents are even wondering if the var- | Tommy Gibbons. St. Paul middle- weight, outboxed Bob Moha, Milwau- kee, here last night in a 10-round !contest that bristled with action. ! Gibbens had the advantage in five rounds, while Moha took three and {two were even, the major of sport- iing writers agreed. ! i Harry Frazce of the Red Sox is on the band-wagon with Charlie Comis- key, who is easily the most successful arnd popular baseball promoter in the countr: Comiskey's watchword has always been that $1 is as much as {any baseball game is worth. of course, Commie is not in a position to apply his theory to the World's Series, the prices for which are fixed by the National Commission. But is the top price at the South e grounds in Chicago, and $1 will bo the top price at Fenway. This will ap- ply to the box seats and to the five rows reserved on ordinary days (ten rows on Saturdays and holiday: The remainder of the grandstand will rell at 75 cents, with pavilion and third base stand prices unchanged, 50 cents. There will be ne reduction in the num- ber of 25 cent seats in the outfield bleachers. In spite of the fact that Benny Kauff of the G!ante failed to bat in the .300 class last year, John Me- Graw firmly believes that the former Federal league star will show a big fmprovement this season. McGraw declares that Benny had much to learn about inside baseball when he reported at Marlin a year ago. Kauff had j found the Fed pitchers so easy that he actually believed he would lead the National league. He was misrepre- sented, however, when he talked about i himself, with the result that he was unmercifully panned whenever he failed to knock the ball out of the lot. If either Kid Willlams, from whom he won the bantam title, or Johnny Ertle, wha has been a claimant of this crown for over a year, imagine that little Pete Herman is going to tango away from anything that looks like a match with either of them, he is very badly mistaken, Herman stated in making his plans known to- day that he is willing to talk terms for a match with both Ertle and Wil- lams. Also, by the same token, he is not going to be any idle little champion. MURNANE DROPS DEAD Heart Discase Claims Noted Baseball Player and Writer as a Victim While Attending Theater’ Performance, Boston, Feb. 8.—Timothy H: Mur- nane, former president »f the Nevs England and Eastern Baseball leagues, vice president of the National Boar:l of Professional Baseball clubs and baseball editor of the Boston Globe for thirty years, dropped dead at i theater last night. years of age. Murnane was a professional player for fifteen years before he began writ- ing on the game. He was one of the most widely known baseball reporters in the country. LITTLE ENTHUSIASM One Politician and Lone Newspaper- Boxing Commission at Hearing. He was sixty-five man Only Defenders of Hartford, Feb. 8,—The committee on judiciary heard but two persons in favor of the appointment of a boxing commission for the state yesterday af- ternoon, Senator Koppelman, of Hart- ford, father of the bill, and Thomas OBrien, a newspaper man. Mr. Spoon- er of the prohibitionists, who was in the committee room, for another pur- pose, registered his opposition 1o the bill, on the ground that it would le- galize an illegal business Senator Koppelman said such a commission would add revenue to the state, and would regulate the ~no=t a dignified, legal manner whereby vio- Jations of the law, could be punished if engaged in by either promoter or principal. Mr. O'Brien said a large number of R. L. Spotts in Form For Nat:onal Shooting Tourney New York, Feb. 8.—R. L. Spotts, the national amateur trap shooting champion, is now in rare form. At one of the regular N. Y. A. C. meets i at Travers island he missed only four of the clay pigeons out of 100 and showed that he is getting into form that will make him a favorite for the championship once more. He had one perfect string of (wenty-five. His handicap of four gave him an even 100, but R. R. Owen won the prize for the high handicap. C. Stein and A. L. Burns were the only two outsida of Spotts who were able to drop twenty-five straight. Spotts is consid- ered one of the greatest trap shooters in the country. He has won a num- last ten years. R. L. Spotts, Jr., his son, although only fourteen, is one of the greatest shots in the country and glves promise of keeping up the fam- ily prestige in the trap shooting line. Upper photo shows trap shooters at ber of events in the east during the | Travers island; lower one, R. L. Spotts asked a hearing that he might review | the charges made against him. At! this hearing he was questioned for | half an hour, and at the end it was announced that his name would be placed on the eligible list. Then came the announcement vesterday that he has been reappointed. PENN SCHEDULE 0UT Schedule Calls for Twenty-Five Games —Holy Cross Will Assist in Opening 1917 Season. Philadelphia, Feb. 8.—Twenty-five games will be played by the Univer- | sity of Pennsylvania baseball team this season according to the schedule ' made public today. The season will open on April 4 with Holy Cross, and wlil close with Cornell on June 6. The remainder of the schedule fol- lows: H April 7, Swarthmore; 12, Cornell; 14, Yale; 17, Williams; 19, Holy Cross, at Worcester; 21, Princeton, at Princeton; 26, Columbia; 28, Gettys- burg, at Gettysburg; May 1, Villinova; 5, Harvard; 8, Fourth Street club; 11, Dartmouth, at Hanover; 12, Yale, at New Haven; 16, Swarthmore, at ! Swarthmore; 19, Michigan; 22, Cor- | nell, at Ithaca; 23, Swarthmore; 26, | Lehigh, at South Bethlehem; 30, | Haverford; June 2, Harvard, at Cam- bridge; 6, Columbia, at New York; 9, Princeton; 11, Lafayette, at Easton. WHITMAN STANDS PAT Executive Says His Opinion Remains Tnchanged Relative to Repeal Frawley Bill. of Albany, Feb. §.—Governor Whitman vestcrday denied a report that he was considering the creation of a new state boxing commission, composed of unsalaried members and with Gener- al James, W. Wadsworth, father of United States Senator Wadsworth, at its head. Gereral Wadsworth is now | a member of the state racing commis- gion, also an bhonorary position. “There is no foundation for the re- port,” said the governor. ‘ Tam just as firmly convinced at this moment as s when I sent my message to the slature that the entire law gov- erning public boxing exhibitions ealed. I do not believe quick declaration of war finds him uns" signed he may find himself out in the cold. I repeat what I sald some tii ago, that our league may be m fortunate than the American league view of the fact that -we have lem players signed to big contracts. } “I do not know how a war wil} affect baseball, However, hostill will no doubt leave their mark sports. “We will have all our play signed with a few minor exceptio while Ebbets of Brooklyn has most " his stars out, but just the 4 ‘would not: object to trade pllm‘l‘h : him. Our salary limit still is way tog high, and unless we have every bit & good business this year as last wé face | the possibility of a deficit.”” N No Backdown, Says Fultz. The Tener staternent is in line with the actlon taken by various Natieanl league club owners before the latest war cloud appeared upon the #8ky. Weeghman of Chicago was the fifst to announce a time limit to his players, | and Baker of Philadelphia and oth& club owners have adopted simila¥ | steps. $ President Fultz of the fraternity, who now Is fighting with his back the wall, refused to comment omn | Tener’s statement other than to sayi that the fraternity’s position is un« changed. Discussing the same thing, however, a short time ago, Fults saf i “If they try that the boys will go to_‘ A the limit.” -l At another time Fultz said: “You can’t scare the present day ball pl with threats and interviews t what serious things will happen him if he doesn't do so and so, and &8 none of those things ever happenéd Be. does mot get frightened as easily af he did at one time.” \ that public boxing before miscellaresi ous audiences paying an admission fae can ever be made decent. Some of the recent exhibitions in Madison: Square Garden I regard as simply dis=" graceful. The people do not want anys. thing like that.” Governor Whitman said that the refy peal of the law would not Dreves sparring exhibitions before prival audiences under club auspices. It would be the duty of the police and Aistrict attorneys to see that the law was not violated at such exhibitions,'”| said the governor. The general opinion at the capitol is that the legislature will fall in 1 with the governor’s demands for repeal of the law. The Original Turkish Blend