New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 21, 1917, Page 8

R NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1917. Femor Outclased By Juniors in High School Championship Game--Yanks and Giants Ready to Embark or Sunny South--St. Paul Boasts as Home of Good Scrappers--Alex Delivers Ultimatum--Other Sports tropolis Ball Tossers to Leave This Week few York, Feb. 21.—Although the cago Cubs, who left the Windy r yesterday for spring training r Pasadena, Cal, have the honor Inaugurating the actlve 1917 base- | season, their right to such dis- ition is a technical one. The two v York teams, scheduled for later tts, will, nevertheless, begin train- quite ‘as soon. The Giants and the Yankees, prime orites for the 1917 world's series, | reach their respective camps late iday afternoon. Chicago cannot [::bly better that time. These big league clubs, then, will off next Monday on an equal tng. ) the two New York clubs, the .nts will make the earlier getaway ym the big city. McGraw’'s pros- lve helpers who reside in the East leave town Friday at 10 o'clock r the New York Central for St. Assemble in Mound City. &6 Mound City i§ the real assem- hg place of the Giant clan. A start Marlin, Tex., will be made from Missouri metropolls shortly after yelock Saturday afternoon. The edule time for McGraw's train de from St. Louis to the Lone Star te camp is practically the samé as from New York to Macon, Ga., the Yankees. ‘The Giants leave | York a day earlier than the Yan- because they have a two-day b instead of a twenty-four-hour Pne of the largest parties that ever M the celebrated mineral springs Texas will go out from New York j St. Louis aboard the Giant spe- . Dr. Beers, the well known den- and ex-Captain Fitzgerald, of [} fire department, will head the! delegation of a score and more al fans making the trip with New York Nationals. In addi- h to these clvilians, there are a ! en or more unattached players o0 have asked McGraw to look them | ides a half-dozen correspondents i the retinue of citizenry, the fol- ing players will leave New York the Giants: Beorge Sandberg, the young catch- recalled from Syracuse; Sterling ker, a semi-professional pitcher, tlantic Highlands, N, J.; Pie Way, Yale pitcher; Waite Hoyt, the smus Hall phenom of no-hit fame: die Schupp, the veleran south- » who has just signed; A George jith, the big Columbia right-hander, | the Giants last season; Catchers W, McCarty and Bradley Kocher, tflelder Benny Kauff, Joe Wagner, mer Cincinnatl infielder, and John McGrajyv. Al Schacht, of Newark, [d Fred Harscher, of the Gas House lague, both pitchers, go unattached ih this Gotham delegation. Jack Red) Murr the outfielder, will re- rt at Buffalo. Big Jeff as Marshal: Big Jeff Tesreau, who has a lot of foight to take off, will marshal the cond contingent in St. Louis, vait the Giant special. In inch will be Walter Holke, hseman; Bill Ritter, Jimmy Middle- n and William Morrisseite, pitch- s; J. G, Josofson and Leo Witter, tfielders, and Joe Schepner, in- >1der. William Barrs, a semi-pro infielder Cincinnati, is going along for prac- e. Holke has signed a 1917 con- aot. Middleton is Bill Clymer's ghly touted phenom, supposed to bve won a championship for Louis- fille, of the American Association, Lst year, ! The following Giant recruits and ‘udents of the McGraw school will o direot to Marlin from their homes: | George Kelly, outflelder, from San . rancisco; C'. A. Causey, pitcher, from plort Meade, Fla.; Ernest Kreuger, atcher, from' Mesa, Art Jim ‘horpe, Oklahoma City; Ross Young lflolder San Antonio, Tex.: R. ues, first baseman, Havana; Pete filduff, shortstop, Chicopee, Kan.; L. . Jaynes; North Carolina; Hans f.o- Tt, from Cuba; A. W. Baird. from e University of Louisiana, and Zeke ohman, a free agent, from Cuha The first squad of Yankees to reach con Sunday afternoon, in charge f Business Manager Harry Sparrow nd Manager Rill Donovan. will in- lude the veteran scouts Joe Kelley nd Duke Farrell, eight newspaper hen and the following players: The veteran ' plitchers Russell, hocker. Love. Caldwell. Cullop and ogridge. and recruit pitchers Fer- nson, Piercy, Monroe, Ross, Bob TeGraw, Jack Enright and Dan Tip- ble Catchers Leslie Nunamaker, Al Valters Walter Alexander Ben Shaw nd Julian O infielder Fritz Majsel and outficlders Frank Gil- ooley and Tim Hendryx. We Are Catering to Afternoon Bow'ing Pin Men Always on Hand .AETNA YS, Clulrch Street St. Elmo lodge, K, of PA carpet bowls team defeated Lexington lodge, 1. O. O. F. team last night, score 44 to 36 The Empires bowling team will meet the Cubs’ quintet at the Aetna alleys tomorrow evening. Next Saturday night's games in the | Y. M. C. A. league will be between the | Vikings and the Nutmegs and the | Kenllworths and the Pioneers. The | second game will be the feature, ! Should the Kenilworth win, it will practically clinch the championship and if the Yellow and Black boys cop, |it will mean a tle. | New Britain will be represented by |a large delegation at the indoor ath- 'letic meet in Hartford this evening. Local interest centers around the Holy Cross relay team and the St. Joseph's T. M. A. A, of this city. | Although Governor Whitman sent a special message to the state senate urging the passage of the Slater bill abolishing the state athletic commis- sion no move has been made in the zislature to progress the bill, which lies dormant in the judiciary commit- tee. There is a division of sentiment among members of the legislature as to just what should he done with the bill. The opposition includes republi- can and democratic scnators alike. Some of the legislative leaders belieyve it Governor Whitman would agrec to appoint a new commission a bill would be drawn to permit the continuance ot the boxing under somewhat different lines. Semator Ogden L. Mills and Senator Thecdore Dourlas Robinson are among the republican senators opposed to repealing the law al- together. President Thomas J, Hickey of the American Association yesterday an- nounced the following list of umpires for 1817: Willlam Brennan, Geerge H. Johnson, James A. Murrav. Gerald Haves, W. J. Carney. W. F. Fricl and L. P. ¥napp. Johnson, Murray, Friel and Knrapp were reappointed Bren- nan, Tiayves and Carney displace Joseph ¢'Prien, Frank Connolly and George sehler, who were among the umpire. st year. Brennan is a for- mer maicr leaguer, who jumped to the Tederals. Carnev rames from the We-tern league and Haves returns to the association after an cxtended ab- sence. President Hickey stated the appointment of the ~ighth member of the umpiring staff had not been de- cided upon. O'We Chill of the Ameri- can league is being considered for the place. Jocenh Linley, former wor'd cham- pion amateur bicyclist and holder of the ten mile unpaced record. died at his home in Bridgeport yerterday. On May 30, 1902, in New Haven, Conn., Linley rode ten miles in twenty-one minutes, twenty-three seconds, a mark that has never been equalled. He was born in Sheffleld, England, 39 years ago. The ten-round boxing bout between Al McCoy and Les Darcy, the Aus- tralian, at Madison Square Garden on March 5, seems to be prohibited by a decision of the State Athletic commis- sion, which held that McCoy first must furfill & verbal contract made with the Broad club ot Brooklyn. Te TWE K\TCHEN SANDWICH The decision was announced by Com- missioner Franey, who had \'oted‘ against compelling McCoy to fulfill his | ,verbal agreement. Chairman Wenck ‘ of the commiseion at a meeting in New York yesterday, vated to hold MCCO_\" to the verbal contract and the deciding | vote was cast today by telegraph by | Commissioner Dwyer who agreed with the chairman. The New York National league 'club announces that signed contracts have been received fro First Base- man Walter Hoelke and Pitcher Fer- dinand Schupp. Arthur Nehf, pitcher, announces that he has accepted terms with the Bos- ton National league club. Nehf dia not fancy the contract offered him and demanded a raise. This, he said, he | obtained. Nehf was with the Braves last season. | Having failed to obtain Frank Sny- ; der of the Cardinals in exchange for two Brooklyn players, Squire Ebbeets has now offered Mrs. Schuyler Brit. ton a bundle of cash for the lumber- ing backstop. President Ebbets wired the offer on Saturday. but so far has reccived no answer to his message. ! 1 President FHarry H. Frazee of the Boston American league baseball club has delivered an uitimatum to Pitcher C Mays which, he sxid, applied to all players who were withhoelding their signatures to contracts tendered them by the club because of salary differences. Mays hal written that ‘he would go to Hot Springs and dis- cuss terms thcre. President Frazee telegraphed him in reply that he was at lberty to start when he wished but that the trip wouid be at the player's expsnse and that if terms were agreeed upon at Hot Springs they would be the terms cifered by the these sought by the player. 1 send transportation only to playe ho have signed; others ther stay at home or pay their expenses,” the president stated. Con- tracts of Decics Gainer first 'aseman, and Fred Thomas, fornier third hase- man, for the New Oricans club. were veceived today. The Wesleyan quintet tomorrow ht in the erweather gymna- sium will have a chance to prove their worth against Willlams. The Purple tcar has not won a basket ball game at Wesleyan in six years, <o that the Red and Plack team will have to work pretty hard to keep up jts reputation. Williams has beeni considerably strengthened since the ! first semester and will come here hoping to throw off the “jinx.” Wright, Jones and Beckwith, the lat- ter a freshnman ,prove a trio that is hard to beat. Williams beat Union and Amherst, so that judging from appearances Wesleyan will have to fight hard to uphold their glory on the basketball court against Williams. Tom Griffith, right fielder of the Cincinnati National league club, signed a contract for one year here. The signed contract of Mike Regan, former Kan-=as City pitcher, also was received today. A verdict in favor cf the St. Louis as rather a joke. BY BRIGGS REMOVES FooD FROMm ICE Box P.S. DRAWING AN 1DBA LUKE THIS GIVES OWNE’ A TERRIBLE APPETITE. 774 & Copyrighted 1917 by The Tribune Assoc. (New York Tribune) SPORTDOM SPARKLERS Fulton’s Win From Weinert Set His Stock Going Up! JUNIORS WIN RIGHT Class of 1918 Baskelball Team Does Things to 1917 Team When Cyril Gaffrey and Kopt started their rapid fire attack on the baskets in the High echool gymna- slum yesterday afternoon the hopes lof the seniors for annexing the basketball championship became as cvident as peace in the board of | public safety. These two speedy boys _playing forward positions for the | juniors dropped the spheroid in the net on ten occasions. Kopf securing four fleld goals and Gaffney six. The seniors were outclassed by their | younger rivals, as the score 22 to 9 ! indicates. | By the victory yesterday, the jun- {lors won thc right to contest with the freshmen for the class championship and cup, next Tuesday afternoon at 4:456 o'clock. As hoth teams have shown excellent ability a fast clash should ensuc While the school team has not caused anw tensation in the basketball world this year, many dif- ficulties have confronted the physical director and coach, but with the form shown by the youngsters, it is be- coming evident that the excellent handling of athletics by Mr. Moor- head will have its effect in seasons to come. The lineup and summa Seniors Juniors. Dixon, Yucn Kopf, Kolodny Left Forward Sauter "Right Forward | Sullivan, Bradley Shaw, Dyson Center i Schaefer, Lewitt Shepard Right Guard Left Guard Score, Seulcrs 9, Juniors, 22; goals from field, Sauter, 1; Bradley, 2; Kopf, 4; Gafiney, 6; rouls, Sauter, 3; Kopf, 1; Gaffney, referee Moor- ihead; timer, Mills; scorer, Peterson. The regular team will go to South Manchester next Fr'day evening to | clash with the fast Silk Town quintet. BUTTMAKERS ON TOP Stanley Works Regain Some Lost Prestige Defeating the New Britain with an overwhelming advantage of . 21.—Fred Fulton’s | thirty-nine pounds in weight and sev- Charley | eral inches in reach and height, pum- son Square Garden | meled Charley Weinert of Newark in- sent up the Minnesota gis among the fight fans, to submission in less than two rounds some of whom | The Jersey boker, weighing only 1831¢ had been inclined to look upon Fulton | pounds, faded into insignificance com. They're now figur- | pared with the 2223% pound plasterer ing on Fulton’s going up to the very top of the heavyweight bunch, who towered at least six inches over Fulton, Weinert’s head. was returnad suit of James C. here yesterday in the Riach against the MAY 0UST COACH 15,000 damages. Reach while at a game his seat by Syracusc Chancellor Opposed to Re- with was alleged that August he was led from knocked inte the stand. The so-called boxing bill to legalize Indiana lection of Willlam Hollenback to suc- house of the ceed himself as head coach of the when Syracuse football team. by the ath- letic governing board on December 2 the Memphis bantam- was against the wishes of Chancellor in James R. Day, head of the univer- scheduled sity. at It was learned last night that Dr. failed to pass the lower taken up again. Pat Moore, , broke his arm last night the fourth rcund of his ten-round go Jack Wolf American league baseball company (Cleveland, the bout going to Wolf, last tention of Hollenback—O’Neil and Cobb Are Mentioned as Successor. Syracuse, N. Y., Feb. 21.—The se- Day will use his veto power to oust Machine Quintet Thrice on Alleys. Another reverse was sustained by the New Britain Machine company bowlers last evening, when the Stan- ley Works five, won three games on the Aetna alleys. With the exception of the last game, the scores were very close and no game was decided until the last ball was sent crashing down the lane. Harold Bertini and Morse showed ‘up strong for the winners, while the work of Leupold and Cusack was creditable. The scores follow: Stanley Works Morse ... . 98 96 89— 283 Dickman .. S B 87 T4— 262 Molyneaux . 96 86 96— 278 Tuttle .,........ 77 101 95— 278 Bertinl . .. 95 103 93— 291 457 473 447—1377 New Britain Machine Hickey ... Lo an 93 75— 255 Robertson ... 84 101 6 Leupold .. . 96 Cusack ‘Werdelin THEY’RE OFF ‘Weeghman and Mitchell at Head of Cubs’ Party Bound for Pasadena— Archer Fails to Meet Terms. Chicago, Feb. 21.—The Chicago Na- tionals, the first of the major league clubs to get away for the spring train- ing camps, left here last night for Pasadena, Cal. There W cighty persons, including twenty-seven play- ers in the 3 Brief sto ill be made at the Grand Canyon and Santa Fe, N. M. The party will arrive at Pasadena on Saturday, practice will be started on monday. The pi | three weeks at Pa Charles Ii. Weeghman, president of the club, and Manager Fred Mitchel were in charge of the party. Catcher Arthur W who is ill at his home in Decatur, IlL, will join the team later. Pitchers Hendrix, Vaughn and Zabel will jcin the party at Kansas | City tomorrow. James Archer, the veteran catcher was the only member of the Chicago Nationals who did not go with the club. He failed to come to terms with President Weeghman, i Hollenback. During the past two weeks Dr. Day had several con- ferences with Frank J. O’Neil of New York, former coach here and Alfred R. Cobb, captain of the 1917 team. It is sai that Dr. Day is anxious to have O'Neil return as coach. Yesterday Dr. Day summoned every member of the football team into his office and asked for opinions about the retention of Hollenback. Defin- ite action on the matter is expected | within a few days. Hagarty, Bradbury | ST PAUL THE HOME TO CONTEST FOR CUP‘ OF MANY PUGILISTS ‘Minn. City Boasts oi Such Ring Notables As Gibbons and Miske When it comes to the boxing cham- pionship of individual citfes, it ap- pears that St. Paul, Minn., has the inside track, with a good chance to hold it for a while. St. Paul boasts more boxers, of the top-notch class than any other city in the country. First of all there is Michael Gib- bons, the “phantom”, who, although extensively criticized by many writers, is nevertheless the best looking boy among the middleweights of America by a long way. Mike's brother, Tom- my Gibbons, is another wonderfully, clever and capable boxer who is com- ' ing fast, and may some day rank among the best in the country. Next comes :Johnny Ertle, who claims the bantamweight title, and who Is recognized as the bantam champion by some of the writers on boxing, while others consider that the bantam division is so tangled up that no one boxer can be rightfully cred- ited with the champlonshp. At any rate, Ertle stands out as a bantam of the top-notch class, and St. Paul is his home. In the light heavyweight division Billy Miske, another St. Paul prod- uct, has proven to the satisfaction of fistic critics both east and west that he has a just claim to a seat in the first row among the near-big fellows, such as Dillon, Levinsky and Darcy. And the biggest of all St. Pauliane is Fred Fulton, giant contender for the Willard skypiece. Fulton is working his way to the top, and he will event- ually be matched with Willard for the championship. Aside from these boxers are & num- ber of good boys who deserve mention.q They are Mike O’Dowd, a good middle- welght; Billy DeFoe, a featherweight; Bobby Ward, a lightweight of better than the average class, and Buff Sei- del, a strong 133-pound boy who has ' been making rapid strides in his di- | vision. There are a few others, but in the list named here we have called your" attentlon to the best of the St. Paul contingent. There is not another city in the country that can show a better hand of boxing stars. NAVAL GAMES TONIGHT Mammoth Crowd Expected to Watch College Stars Battle for Fame and Glory—Thompson After Record. Hartford, Feb. 21.—Arrangements are completed for the sixteenth an- nual indoor track meet and relay car- nival, under the auspices of the Sec- ond division, Naval Militis, at the Ar- mory this evening. Present indica- , tions are that the meet will be a huge ' success. The sale of tigkets has been big, and the class of eévents ¢ould not be improved upon. Never in the his- tory of local sports has so many track ! stars entered and outside ‘of New York city no meet can boast of so many record holders from a high school champion to a world's record holder. Earl J .Thompson, of Dartmouth, the national junior hurdle champion and the man who equalled the world’s record for the event in a spe- clal event at Boston Saturday in & three-cornered meet with Harvard and Pennsylvania, his teammate, W. T. Hobbs, who alsd equalled the ree- ord event both going over the tall timbers in 6 seconds flat, are on the program for the 75 yard high hurdles and it will not be surprising news to near that a new record will be made here. The last man who equalled the world’s record indoors was J. J. Eller, of the Irish-Amerjcan A. C., at Brooklyn, N, April 27, 1914, Arrangements have been made to have a member from thé Metropol- itan association of the A. A. U, at the armory, Wednesday evening, so that there can be no slip in the event & new record being made. DELIVERS ULTIMATUM Alexander Politely Tells Phillies’ Owner That Demands for $15,000 Annual Salary Must Be Met, Philadelphia, Feb. 21.—Grover C. Alexander, star pitcher of the Phila- delphia Nationals, yesterday declined cn offer of $10,000 a year from Wil-, liam ¥, Baker, president of the club. Some time ago Alexander returned his contract, which was said to have called for a yearly salary of $8,000, un- signed. He demands $15,000 and de- clared that if his terms were not met he would quit baseball. After a long conference with the pitcher yesterday, President Beker said Alexander had made it plain that he did not intend to recede from his original stand. “I offered Alexander $10,000 a year,” sald Baker, “‘and I think that is all we can afford to pay. He would not even consider a two year contract at these terms, so I made no further attempt to talk business with SMOKE § OXMOOR' l A MILD, FLEASANT Se CRGUD