New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1917, Page 16

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1917, c¢Graw and His Pennant Chasers Start Southward---Dave Caldwell Breaks 1,000 Yard Record---, Aetna Alleys Bowlers Win in flristol---Clar; Douglas Wallops Pythians--- Basketball Gamesat Y. M. C. A.| ALDWELL SETS WORL'S RECORD b City Runner Travels 1,000 | Yards in 240 {Boston, Feb. 23.—Dave Caldwell of A. A. yesterday estab- e Boston ed a new world’s record of 2 lrythe indoor 1,000 yards run, and cidentally showed his heels to such eedy coursers as the New Yorkers, ke Devanney of the Millrose A. A, Higgins, Irish-American A. C, }a Sid Leslie, unattached. It i1s claimed that Tom Halpin of i Boston A. A. ran a legitimate 1,- }0 fn the\ winter of 1913-14 in 2:15 New York, but that mark was er recognized as a record. It was 1 Kiviat who was credited with the . A. U. record for the distance. He n it in 2:15 2-5 in 1914 at the in- bor national championships, A .A. U., performance duplicatéd last year by W. Overton of Yale. | swimmers at Princeton yesterday SPORTDOM SPARKLERS Largely through the efforts of its captain, Harold Vollmer, the Colum- bia university swimming team suc- cceded in trouncing the Princeton by the score of 39 to 14. Vollmer raced to victory over Eddie Georgi, the Tigers’ star sprinter, in the fifty-yard event in 24 3-5, two fifths of a sec- ond behind the intercollegiate record. Later he won the 220-yards sprint with plenty to spare, and also aided his team in wicning the relay event. A foul goal by Galbraith with only twenty more seconds to play gave Union a 22 to 21 victory over Army’s tossers yesterday. The cadets led at half time. 9 to 7. Johnny Connolly, the speedy for- ward of the Pennsylvania basketball quintet in the Intercollegiate league, is lost to the Penn five. He was first substitute forward and a member of the quintet that won the intercollegi- ate championship from Princeton in a post-season game last year. Con- nolly was operated on recently for appendicitis and will be unable to play again this season. He is a form- er LaSalle college star. The meet yesterday was under the spices of the Ninth Regiment, M. V. [f. The track is ten laps to the mile, ha was O. K.'d by a recognized civil pgineer only vesterday. The timers ere Frank Kanaly, coach of the M. 7. track team; Johnny Magee, coach Pk Bowdoin; Bart Sullivan, Holy Cross loach; Johnny Hallahan, and George . Brown. There were five starters in the race. [arrigan of the Boston Irish-Amer- ban A. A. held the lead until next b the last lap. Then Caldwell, who ad been running in second place, de hig bid, and Higgins, taking ldwells pace, went along past Har- too. Devanney came fast in home stretch and nipped Higgins )y & yard. Caldwell finished six ards ahead of Devanney, and Leslie a poor fourth, with Harrigan lag- CLANSMEN WIN AGAIN dans Make Very Poor Showing Mt the Deague Leaders—Skip W’b Boys in Fine Shape. W. L. Morgan lodge, K. of P, broved no match for the crack Clan Douglas, O. S. C. carpet bowls team ast night, the league leaders win- hing in rather easy fashion, score 62 o 26. The victors piled up a big ead in each of the three rinks, Skip Drummond’ leading in the second by 2 points. The results are as follows: Rink 1, Clan Douglas, skip Gal- brajtf% 19; Knights of Pythias, skip lark, 7. : Rink 2, Clan Douglas, skip Drum- mond, 22%; Knights of Pythias, skip lan, 12. Rink 3, Clan Douglas, skip Robb, Knights of Pythias, skip Clock, 10. Tanight the Phoenix Temple of fHonor team will play Sir Francis Drake lodge S. of St. G. (Other Sports On_Page Seventeeén) . " FOUR ROSES WHISKEY Distinguished for exceptional merit since the first distilla~ tion. Demanded in the better places today because better whiskey. THE GENUINE 1s bottled as follows: Full Quarts, Non-refillable bottles. Full Pints and Full Half Pints, Sealed over cork For Home Use and Travel. At Good Dealers Everywhere. PAUL JONES & CO., Distiilers LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY It the least trouble buying, write or ’phone our Boston of- fice, 311 Colonial Bldg., 100 Boylston strect. “Phone Beach 21. ] The annual indoor track meet be- tween Syracuse and the University of Michigan resulted in a ‘tie at forty- three points each at Syracuse last night. C. R. Creff of Michigan broke the Syracuse indoor record in the shot put, tossing the weight 44 feet, 6 inches. William James, star pitcher of the Boston Nationals in 1914, but since disabled by injuries, notified the club Dillon sends word from Hot Springs that he will also meet Les Darcy at the Garden on March 5. Joe Stecher of Nebraska Ad Santel, Pacific t champion, here vesterday in two straight falls. The men are heavy- weights. Stecher got his second fall in 11 minutes 54 seconds with .a double wristlock. The first fall was won in 38 minutes 17 seconds and was obtained with a body scissors and a double wristlock. defeated wrestling Soldier Bartfield again gave proof at the Clermont S. C. last night that he is the master of Marty Cross. The fighter with the military training won an exciting combat and showed he is too rugged, combative and crafty for Cross. The signed contract of Peter Allj- son, outfielder of the local American league club, was received vesterday. Allison was with New Orleans last seasdn. The Princeton basketball five regis- tered an easy victory over Rutgers here last night by a score of 36 to 17. ALEX UP THERE —_— But Five Men in Baseball Drawing Larger Salaries Than Phillies Star Slabman—Two Are Managers. * Grover Cleveland Alexander, after six years in the Natlonal league, has finally jumped into the class of ball players drawing huge salaries. He signed a contract in Philadelphia call- ing for a salary, it is generally be- Oh, Man! ' % CHANGING ISUBIECT NEVER - To | ( MY DYING DAY WILL 1 FORGET How You LOCKED WHEN You HAVE You SEEN ADAMS' STUFF- HERE'S, A GOUD ONE LI\STEN - You FALL ouT OF BED i BLANCHE DEAR- \LISTEN- I'VE GoT M SOMETHING AWFYLLY FUNNY T Telt You WHEN You Come OVER TONIGHT THERE'S SOMETHING YoUR EXPRESSION Now MAT REMINDS ME_OF HEN You FELL OuT {OF BED JoE THINK OF B management yesterday that he would refuse to sign a contract at $3,000 a year. He received $6,500 a year for the past two seasons. Business Man- ager Walter E. Hapgood said no fur- ther offer would be made to James. Exhibition games at Paterson, N. J., on April 29, and at Wheeling, W. Va., on June 10 with independent teams were announced. lieved of $12,500 a year. There are now five men in ball believed to be drawing larger salaries than Alexander. Two of these, John J. McGraw and George Stallings, are managers. Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker and Eddie Collins are the others. They are admittedly the greatest plavers in the game. Cobb is reported to be drawing $15,000 a vear, Speaker $15,000 and :‘,holllgs $15,000. Walter Johnson, of e Senators, is srec v ot the e eceiving a salary of base- The flag of Dorothy Campbell Hurd was planted on the edge of the first green on the No. 1 course at an early stage of the silyer foils annual ffag JUST HAPPeENED To BY BRIGGS YOUR FALLING . ED contest at Pinehurst yesterday, in- dicating that Mrs. Hurd had finished the course and arrived on the nine- teenth green in a total of eighty- nine strokes. And there it stood alone for the rest of the day, marking the most advanced position captured by an army of women players in their attack on the trenches-and other pit- falls which strew the course. The board in control of University of Michigan athletics, at a special meeting yesterday afternoon, passed 4 resolution asking.the board of re- gents to take the necessary action to permit Michigan to reenter the west- ern conference. The vote was 8 to 1. S. Howard Voshell of Broooklyn yesterday won the national indoor tennis singles championship and Frederick B. Alexander and Dr. Wil- liam Rosenbaum of Nlew York be- came the national doubles title holder \ in the final matches played at the \ Seventh Regiment armory. In each case the triumph upset all predictions and left the gallery astonished at the turn of affairs. \ 2 In the second round for the na- |. \‘ tional amateur racquei singles cham- plonship here yesterday Stanley G. Mortimer, Tuxedo, the titleholder, de- feated Jay Gould of Philadelphia, three games to one, and Clarence C. Pell of Detroit beat G. F. Water- bury of New York in three straight games. The other two matches were won by defaults. W 1 The Lehigh university wrestling team yesterday defeated Brown by the score of 34 to 5. Lehigh won all the matches except the 175-pound event in which Armstrong easily threw Henderson. 1HH!HHI////I/I////// 1, Frankie Burns of Jersey City, the grandad of the bantam class, who has been maltreating the aspiring voungsters of the division with per- sistent violence, added a notable vic- tim to his list at the Ploneer Sport- ing club vesterday afternoon mhen he scored & knockout over the Young Zula Kid ir the fourth round. The Philadelphia National league club announced yesterday that Wil- liam Killifer, catcher, had agreed to terms and would sign a contract for the coming season. The contract of Fred Luderus, first baseman, was re- ceived yesterday. heavyweight his manager, Jess Willard, the champion, through signed an eight-month contract here vesterday to appear with a circus. The contract stipulates, however, that Willard may quit the circus on three weeks' notice any time a match is arranged for him. Lieut. Jonas H. Ingram, U. S. N,, SMOKE . 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