New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 14, 1917, Page 8

ational League Voies io 3reak nouth---Starlig ATIONAL LEAGUE REPUDIATES UNION reement is Drawn and Fultz | Will Not Be Recognized L ew York, Feb. 14.—The National gue, at its annual schedule meeting terday afternoon at the Waldorf- lioria hotel, abrogated and repudi- d its working agreement, as a part organized baseball, with the Base- Players’ Fraternity, ‘he Fraternity on jts side—at least, inconsiderable part, as represented a radical faction—repudiated its ident, David L. Fultz. ese two striking facts were the ef developments of the first chap- of the great annual pow-wow fich clears the decks for real hos- ties each spring. / Che afternoon was enlivened by vy by-plays and counter moves. It an old-style meeting of the Na- league vintage of a dozen years The various factions called each ier hard names, and were not par- ilar to use the soft pedal in these Jolamations. Condemn McGraw’s Action. ohn J. McGraw, manager of the York Giants, unknown to any er Natlonal league power (as he pizelf admitted), permitted himself be used as a go-between for the nity toward a compromise or nistice. McGraw met Fultz at a 6l not far removed from the Wal- ' -Astoria under a flag of truce. jitz asked McGraw to carry an olive lhnch to the henchmen of John K. He did that same thing. | wiee PEN A FEW LINES To MY LADY FAIR- TELLING HER jut, instead of being commended diplomacy and tact, the Little Na- on received the yery coldest re- tion of his long and varied career. . only would the National lague ‘eountenance any communication the head of the Players’ Frater- but they scorned to receive Mc- into the council chambers. @Graw’s overtures had to be made ough President Harry N. Hemp- d of the Giants, whose vote went pake the repudiation of the Fra- pity unanimous, ater, semi-publicly, McGraw ex- d his action in the conference Ih Fultz as an unofficial move, cal- ated to clear up regrettable mis- ferstandings. “Fultz, in his conversation with me,” flared McGraw, “asked nothing but at was fair. Were I moved by per- 1 and selfish motives only,” he stinued. “I should rejoice at the; htinuation of this strike situation. ub, almost to a man, has been ¥ . It is the other National league bs that are placed at a disadvan- . : as compared with me. Organized Jseball has no right to refuse Fultz ring. He impressed me as being cere 'and honorable in his move for gettlement. The trouble could be tled in twenty minutes if the pow- b of baseball were' not so arrogant [d headstrong.” IMcGraw was informed of the action repudiation of the Fraternity the tional league magnates had taken. “It’s news to me,” he said. “T think ¥y were unwise to act in haste or flithout due reflection. “Fultz Must Get Out.” While, unknown to Fultz and Mc- faw, the National league was going Tecord as gpposed to the players’ bion| the various factions of this or- jon were nat inactive, The kecutive has called a meeting of the aternity for today. Already many the ball players have assembled. CLAN DOUGLAS WINS rotchmen Jave Easy Time Trimming P‘ o. A, On Rinks Last Night. S. of Carpet Bowls Clan Douglas, O. §. C., carpet bowls am experienced little difficulty last rening defeating the team represent- }g Washington Camp, P. O. 8. of A hall. The score was 55 to 2 Douglas, skip Gal- raith, 21; P. O. S. of A., «kip Schnei- er, 13, Rink 2—Clan iond, 20; P. O. Douglas, skip Drum- Rink 3—Clan Douglas, skip Robb, bi. B. 0. 8. of A, skin Parker, 8. Lexington lodge, I. O. O. F., weet Council, O. U. A. M., this eve- LOWRY ELECTED Indianapolis Mogul Chosen National Amateur Baseball Association Pres- ident—Pittsburgh Gets Final Games Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 14.—James flowry of Indianapolls was elected hresident of the National Amateur pascball Association at its fourth an- ual convention here yesterday, suc- eeding Ralston ity. The .invitation extended by the Pittsburgh City Association that final hampionships series by played there as accepted. Winning teams of sec- jional tournament that will be played In the North, East, South and West, 111 be sent to Pittsburgh to take art in the championship series to be late in August. The champion of Pfttsburgh will also play in Goss, also of this | resentative of that ciuh. Middle West is to Lose Two Athletes Shortly: S. of A., skip Houck, | New York, Feb. 14.—The middle west is going to lose two crack ath- letes shortly. Joe Lockwood, the former University of Pennsylvania sprinter, has joined the New York A. C. and will sport the Mercury foot as soon as he gets into condition. Joe is in training today for the graduate races in conjunction with the col- JOHNSON ACTIVE American League Boss Intends Make Test Case of John Henry—Has He Got the Goods ? to Chicago, Feb. 14.—President John- son of the American league, accom- vanied by Owner Comiskey, of the White Sox, left yesterday for New York to~attend the American league meeting, and it is the intention of the league head to make a test case of John Henry, catcher for the Washing- ton club and Players' Fraternity rep- (1egiate indoor carnival at Philadel- phia on March 3. Another promising addition to Mercury foot ranks is Kohler, the former University of Michigan shot putter, hammer hurler and dlscus thrower. Kohler be- lieves with more competition he will be able to establish some new records with the discus and shot. Photo shows Kohler putting the shot. —— e Johnson declared there was not much chance for flenry if it is proven that he has been sending out letters to ,ball players agitating a strike. His words regarding the matter were about as follows: “I understand that Mr. Henry has been in communication with ball players in general agitating a strike. If that is so he is a menace to baseball and will be considered as such at the mecting of the American league club owners this week. Clark Griffith has control of the Washington club, of which Mr. Henry is a'member and if Clark Griffith does not put this player under the ban I think the American league will take the case off his hands % ,and act.” With Fraternity Members---Ca Tis LOUE DEAR BEART THAT RULES THE WORLD - TS LoOVE - Somegovy 1S ALWAYS vanaugh Quits Coaching Job at Dart- hts of Merideu Soft Picking For Aetna Alleys Five--Clan Douglas Wins at Carpet Bowls. BY BRIGGS l Copyrighted 1917 by The Tribune Assoc. (New York Tribune)d Four hundred and twenty-five fol- lowers of the light harness pastime, coming from all parts of New Eng- land, congregated in the Boston City Club yesterday afternoon and last night to attend the annual banquet of the New England Horsemen's As- ' sociation. They represented all branches of the turf sport—the track ! owner, secretary, horse driver . and trainer—and the new rules, as passed | { by the joint committee meeting of the National and American Trotting Associations recently were given a real “third degree.” East and West shared honors in the annual games of the New York A. C. | in Madison Square Garden last night. The Buermeyer special and the Bax- ter mile fell before the flying feet of two Eastern athletes—Tom Halpin of the Boston A. A. and.Johnny Overton of Yale University—while Joie Ray ! of the Illinois A. C. and Joe Loomis | | of the Chicago A. A. harvested glory for the West. Ray won the two mile handicap from scratch in thé new American flgures of 9:112-5 and Loomis captured four first places. In doing so he equalled new figures in another event. Young McAuliffe, Bridgeport’s clever featherweight boxer, who holds the | state title, closed last night for a ' match with Young Johnny Mayo of | Philadelphia in the Olympia A. A. in Philadelphia. The bout will be held { on the night of February 26, and will mark McAuliffe’s first appearance in a bout in the Quaker City. The boys are carded to box six rounds. On his return from a hunting trip | at his home in Runge, Tex., vesterday, Dave Davenport of the St. Louis American pitching staff was seriously wounded when his rifile was accident- ally discharged. A bullet passed through his chest and also inflicted a scalp wound. President Charles Weeghman of the Cubs was five hours late in arriving in New York from Chicago and stat- ed last night that he expected to open negotiations for Grover Alexander, the star hurler of the Phillies. How- ever, he sald his delay in reaching the scene had prevented him from going into the matter with President Baker of the Phillles. Weeghman an- nounced his readiness to make the Phillles a fat offer both in players |and cash for Alexander. “Our offer will make the Collins and Speaker trades look sick,” said Weeghman. As soon as Fred Fulton completed his short task of poking and jabbing Charlie Weinert until Referee Brown decided the bout between the two was no longer a contest the Minnesota trowel wielder had qualified in the minds of most followers of the ring game for a crack at the crown of Jess Willard. Frederick created a favorable impression by slamming Tom Cowler into slumberland in less than one round a few weeks since. His quick victory over Weinert strengthened Fulton's claim for a crack at Willard many fold. Wildlam Abstein of St. Louis, Mo., will manage the Hartford baseball club in the Eastern League the com- ing season. This fact was learned {last night by way of a special dis- ' was leading the other Bill | i spatch from St. Louis, where the new manager made the announcement that he had come to terms with Owner James H. Clarkin of the Senators. SPORTDOM SPARKLERS Max Flack, outfielder with the Chi- cago Nationals, wrote to, friends yesterday from his home in 'East St. Louis, Ill., denying that he had signed & 1917 contract. Officials of the club had previously announced that had signed. Flack said, however, that the terms were satisfactory but that he was awaiting action by the Baseball Players Fraternity before signing. Henry Irslinger of Austria, claimant of the world’s middleweight wrestling championship, defeated Luigi Mon- tana of New York, in two straight falls, here, last night. He won the first in 1 hour, 24 minutes, 32 seconds and the second in 8 minutes, 31 sec- onds, A Dbill to permit ten-round boxing bouts in Texas was rejected by the legislature yesterday. Ralph N. Smith of Worcester, Mass., yesterday was elected captain of the Colby College baseball team for the season of 1917. Smith plays first base. The National ILeague yesterday named the following umpires for next season: Henry O’Day, Willlam Klem, Charles Rigler, Robert Emslie, Wil- liam Byron, Ernest Quigley, Al Orth, Peter Harrison and William Brans- field. The only change is that the vet- eran first baseman Kitty Bransfleld will relleve the former Brooklyn pitcher Mal Eason. The National League will resume its meeting today and a meeting of the national com- | mission will be held perhaps tonight. he | 'STARLIGHTS LOSE ON ZTNA ALLEYS 1916 Bowling Champs Prove Fasy Picking for Locals Another bowling quintet from Meri- den fell bofore the superior prowess of |'the Aetna alleys five last night, when the Starlights, champions of the In- ter-City league last season, succumbed to a three time walloping. Anderson Asche featured for the defeated five. Teams from the United Electric Light & Water company and the Peer- gram last night, the former being the victor, two games out of three. The scores follow: New Britain Rogers w98 Hines . .105 Larson ..122 Foote ... .. 96 Anderson 123 545 4956—1542 Starlights, Meriden Robinson . .. 88 90 Daly .100 103 Asche . 99 116 Brooks 102. 104 Hagerty .123 84 512 497 95— 88— 88— 273 291 303 92— 299 467—1476 Electric Light 97 88 79 65 83 76 76 74 78 71 413 380 Peerless 83 68 89 .75 88 Sage Stagls . Mark . Hickok e Smith ........ 109— 97— 94— 98— 93— 491—1284 204 241 253 248 248 | Lynch ... ‘Welsh Egan . Hannon Daley .. 5 87 81 66 95— 253 79— 88— 82— 412—1202 249 229 248 403 DRASTIC STEPS TAKEN Action in, Wellington Case Greates Se- rious Rumpns in Ranks of Amer- ican Hockey Leaguc. New York, Feb. tests broadside and against almost every hockey player in the American Amateur Hockey League the Irish-American A, C. last night practically dug the grave and buried amateur hockey as far as New York is concerned. Not one of the local teams escaped the vigilant eye of Pat Conway's clan. In addition the Boston Arena team was charged with | violating the amateur rule as applied ! to hockey players. The protests from the Irish organ- ization followed a meeting of the league directors last Monday when the directors refused to reinstate Alec , withstanding Wellington had a sheaf of papers which established his stat- us as an amateur, When the I. A. A. C. became cer- tain the league would not reconsider its action in the case of Wellington preparation were made for a whole- sale cleanup “so that there need be no more uncertainty as to the status of the contestants,” as one man put it. Charges were prepared and insti- tuted early yesterday, but it was not unti] last night that the men under consideration were awarc that such proceedings were under way. 14.—Firing pro- indiscriminately Ban Johnson is due here this morn- ing and the American League meet- ing will be held at the Hotel Walcott tomorrow. At the end of the fourth hour of the six-day bicycle race last night, Ernest Ohrt of the Ohrt-Grimm team nine teams. Nine of the teams had gone 908 miles and one lap, with the remaining team one lap behind. Because of the unusually bad con- ditions of the trall, the twenty-six- mile dog race for the silver trophy cup presented by John Borden, mil- lionaire sportsman of Chicago, and $1,000 prize money, was postponed until Wednesday. After the Imp had sailed eighteen of the twenty miles race for the championship pennant of North Amer- ica the race was called because the ice yachts were unable to make the distance within the required time lim- it of one hour and fifteen minuts ow- ing to lack of wind. We Are Catering to Afternoon Bowling Pin Men Always on Hand AETNA ALLEYS, Church Street SMOKE OXMOOR A MILD, PLEASANT 8¢ CIGUB was the star for the home boys while | less club, asisted in filling out the pro- | 68—223 | i !cut by adverse 104— 310 | QUITS DARTHOUTH Reason for Action According to a Worcester dispatch, Trank W. Cavanaugh has sent his resignation as football coach at Dart- mouth to Joseph W. Gannon, of New York, a member of Dartmouth Ath- letic council. Cavanaugh said no reason was given in the resignation, end he has none to make puRlic. This resignation is significant. Un- ceed in picking a man who approxi- mates his high proficiency, the loss is liable to be reflected in the Green's football prestige in the next few years. He is, without question, one of the great coaches in football, and his teams have always displayed pro- { ficlency in the game.- His retirement does not in any sense meet with ap- dergraduates in general. They are with him to a man, and their view is that the coach was practically forced alumni sentiment. Cavanaugh is man of dominant characteristics, and tact is the least, of his virtues. His friends are strong in their loyalty, his enemies, of whick he has his share. bitter in'their an- tagonism. “The whole nub of this situation,” said a football player at Hanover the other day, “is due to the fact that graduates resent racent defeats by Princeton. But I am willing to leavl it to aily man who saw .the game, whether the 1918 beating by the Tigers was the fault of the coach, I don’t think I'm wrong when I say we a | were credited generally; with playing the better game. And if you look | back you will find ihat Cavanaugh has lost less games than either Yale, Harvard or Princeton in the past, several years.'” } This may be in part the reason for Cavanaugh’s passing, but there are cther reasons. His rough-and-ready methods otzcoaching - have “not sp+ pealed to prominent Dartmouth zlumni, and it has beeén felt that ‘u man of Harry Hillman's ideals and” temperament would be more accept- able. ‘ Again, Cavanaugh ¢id not receive a diploma from Dartmouth. He left in his junior vear, as a result, so the Dartmouth story goes, of some ups iperclass club misunderstanding. This 1act is said to have been held against him by strong college society ins: fluences among the alumni. Cavanaugh holds a ‘threeyear cong tract to coach the Green and this in- strument has yet to run. Whatever he receives under the terms of this contract there is ground for believing that alumni have each season added to the sum so that it reaches $5,000 a year. I'rom sources close to the football team, it was learned . that graduates seeking to dispose of Cav- anaugh had offered him $5,000 clear to quit now--that is, he will receive pay, according to the report, withot coing anything to earn it, unless ki resignation can be construed as 86 doing. It is understood that Cave anaugh, who is a Worcester lawyer, has been holding in abevance an of- fer to coach Holy Cross at a good salary. Probably he will now close with that university. Who will %8 his successor is not clear, since the most logical man, Larry Bankart, of Colgate, has retired to business., and apparently is not avaiiable. i Every Glass-- Every Bottle demonstrates anew the distinctive, pleasing taste of distinctive —ORDER TODAY— Our Brewery Bottling is a step ahead in the perfection bottling of the product of experts. The Hubert Fische: Brewery, Hartford, Conn. ON TAP AT LOUIS W. FODT, HOTEL BELOIN, KEEVERS & 00., HER= MANN SCHMARR, W. J. 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