New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1917, Page 17

- START SOUTHWARD Little Corporal Beligves Success Is Headed Giants' Way New York, Feb. 23.—John J. McGraw, for a dozen years the great- est idol of this great metropolis, today made his first ttrategic move for another National league pennant. In charge of a great brood of fledglings and a fair sprink- ling of old roosters, «he master of the Polo Grounds coop set out today for baseball Marlin, Tex., to groom his birds for | the big main that begins in these parts April 11. Little short of a world series held “exclusively at the Polo grounds next fall will satisfy the enthusiasm of local fandom. Every believes Bill Donovan's Yankees have as good a chance as any rival club to take the fiag in the Johnson circuit., And cveryone believes McGraw has the eory fi with which té start out against a fleld that does not measure up to strength of some against which he tri- | umphed in vears gone by. The last ra{, in which McGraw’'s club | hung up o world record for imajoy league baseball in taking twenty-six | straight games, in which each of the seven rivals suffered reverses, has this old city worked §p to that pitch of enthu m that prevailed through the | championship career of New York’s| Nationals from 1811 to 1913. t Non-combatants in Party. The interest is reflected in the num- ber of non-combatants who entrained with McGraw’s, first squad at the Grand Central station at 10:30 this morning” More than a score of fans will make the trip to Texas to watch the development of the club and to | root it home through the joint tour | with Hughie Jennings' Tigers. i Occasignally there is a slip 'twixt cup gnd lip. McGraw admits it. He | one ments. pionship club of 1905 a real set-up for the 1906 race,’ Those veterans of | WOTK of O'Brien; anchor man for the | twelve years agp all went dead on Mac apparently overnight, while sick- | ness and injury raised havoe with the | Hlines of the locals leaned against the ' SUré to put up a fight for the vacant great Mathewson and other youngsters Wwho were destined to star later on. It was just such another crumbling of ! & his th ime champions that left *® McGraw at the bottom of the heap | at the close of the 1915 ra 1 ~Last venr's race was a bitter dis- appeintment to McGraw, He figured his club one of the very best he had over commanded. The 1916 career of the Giants is a psychological riddlo | that defiies solution. There was a team that won seventeen straight mes at one stretch and later took twenty-six ir. a row. and yet barely managed (o finish in the first division. In some resrects it was a repetition | of the history of 1906. Certain vet- erans, amongz them Doyle and Merkle, went dead or the Little Corporal. Gionts Stronger Than Rivals. Yet, unless fate has in store the resurrecticn of such a gigantic foe as Chance developed in the Cubs of 1906, it is hard to see how McGraw | can be foiled of his purpose, this coming season. On (ire form the team displaved after JHerzog and Zin- merman were corralied the New York National league club appeared at least 25 per cent. stronger than any other first di n team. McGraw started for Marlin,a Tex., serenely confident and with the con- fidence of the city behind him. He | has a veteran cast for the inner and | cuter lines and a galaxy of youngsters to bid for the reserve piaces. He has in Lew McCarty a seasoned catcher | of worth—a commodity that was sad- 1y lacking the first halt of the 1916 journey. He has last vear's veteran pitching staff intact and a lot of high- Iy, commended rookies from fast niinor leagne clubs, enough of whom | should be developed to keep the club | zoing till the veteran tywirlers round | to form. T ailure of these old tossers | to reach their highest effectiveness hefore late July cost New York last pennant, les the Mewspaper men and the civilian econtingent, heaged by Dr. Beers and ex-Captain Fitzgerald, of the fire department, a dozen or more unattached players have requested sion to {ake course in Me- Marlin ool. THE RUBBER GAME Kenllworths -’I:I_d l'i:);Cfi to Meet in _€rucial Clash at Y. M. C. A, To- morrow kvening, The third clash of the season be- tween the Kenilworth and Pioneers baskethall quintets, is scheduled to- evening in the Y. M. C. A. will be the sec- n¥orrow league. The game ond of the night and should prove very interesting. Xach team has won a game from each other this season, the Kenilworths walloping the Pio- neers on the first meeting, while the lacter reversed the tables in the sec- ond clash. However, the Kenilworths will not bo as formidable tomorrow evening, having lost Jacobson their crdck center, and it is doubtful if " Bill Kopf can be prevailed upon to enter the fray. Although the Vikings have been unable to win a game in the league, the team has been putting up a fine game, and in the encounter with the } Nutmegs tomorrow evening, the *sub- %4y champs” hope to break the hoo- doo. Captain Miller's boys have been i club of his brilliant career | the | lerful finish of the Giants | i eek elcome Week WELCOME WEEK AT LYCEUM THEATRE Beginning Monday, February 26th, the Walter Naylor Players will present UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF GEORGE LeWITT, INC. in the Entire Orchestra will be 25c¢ BRISTOL DEFEATED BY LOCAL BOWLERS ( Btna Alleys Quintet Continues ' on Winning Spurt New Britain led the way in the bowling match with the Bristol five of the Inter-city league last evening in the Bell City, the locals capturing two of the three games rolled. The defeated quintet;however, offered an | hes Had many managerial disappoint- | excellent brand of piece de resistance. | He thought his world cham- | 2ogers, et al., went down to defeat in | the opening game, mainly through the losers, who picked Off the pins for a 130 score, the highest of the match. pins in the second game for a 121 score, leading his mates in high single, Ragers secured high total score, 329, by his consistent paunding of the wood for over century figures in each game. Foote also piled up three figure’ scores in each gome. The scores: Bristol. 117 277 107 93 130 92 92 116 110 87 524 497 New Britain, Rogers . ©. 104 111 Hines 90 121 LAarson 99 93 Foote . 104 105 Anderson 115 90 107— 316 100— 269 92— 315 110— 313 95— 312 504—1525 Bryce .. Kt Miller B Klitka . . Driscoll .. O'Brien ... 114— 329 98— 309 - 95— 287 106— 317 113— 31¢€ 512 520 526—1558 The office auintet of the Spring & Buckley comapany, stuged a come- back on the Aetna alleys last even- ing, defeating their rivals from the shop department, two. out of three games. Scofield of the losing team was the star of the night, with high single score of 118 ard high total, 284. The scores: 91— T6— 67— 84— 118— 248 220 | 200 238 284 Hineven Graham Markey Farrar Scoficld 426—1190 90— 12— 83— 80— 98— 423--1213 Swanson spring .. Eppler Spencer Hayden CRIME TO WASTE FOOD. London, FFeb. 23.—So many precau- tions have been taken by the govern- ment to conserve its food supply that persons caught wasting food are se- verely dealt with. A striking pun- ishment meted out to careless per- sons was given when a sailor was sent to prison for five years for setting fire to quantity of barley worth $400. 'his is not the time,” ¢ the court in passing sentence, ‘“‘when | we can stand the loss of stocks of food.” MEXICO BOOSTS POSTAD RATES. Mexico City, Ifeb. 2 It is nounced that an increase in interior postal rates ranging from twenty-five to one hundred per cent has been au- thorized and shortly will be put into effect. Cosme Hinojosa, postmaster general, has received authority to ar- range with the United States for the vesumption of an international money order service. MONEY TO BURN. Mexico City, Feb. 23.—It has been announced by the department of the treasury that practically all of the is- sue of paper money known as the Vera Cruz issue which was retired in favor of the “infalsificable” issue, has been destroyed by the department. The sum of $515,505,209.92 in bills of the Vera Cruz issue have been burned. Proving that there ain’'t no such animal as “can’t comeback,” the Y. M. T. A. & B. society pinochle play- ers defeated Daly council, K. of C., at the latter organization's rooms last evening, score 39 to 26. The victory gives the abstainers a lead of six Fapidly forging to the front, and en- tertain hopes for garnering the cham- “Monship. . [l L games. The third round will be played at the Tab rooms next Thurs- Py ! quick coaling has been made by the said | ~ OARSMEN BEGIN WORK Yale and Harvard Begin Practice For ‘Annual Clash at New London—Hard Task at Harvard. Harvard and Yale have both started heavy work in preparation for the crew races which will be preliminary | to the annual college races at New London. Coaches Herrick and Haines at Harvard have their work cut out for them to develop a crew which will be able to go through the season with- i out defeat. / | Lund, Talcott, Kreger and Morgan ! have graduated, and Quimby will be | unable to row again. The loss of | these men leaves as a nucleus for the eight Taylor, Coolidge, White and Cab- ot. From last year's second crew will | come Brown, Potter, Higginson, and Cameron. The freshman 1915 crew had some promising material in Em- | mett and Parkman and these men are 1 positions. i Yale has three eights formed for indoor work, and the first eight con- | sisting of Lawrence, Harriman, Allen, ’ Meyer Fox, Salyards, Gamble and Hy- | att, include v}m-ee men who rowed against Harvard last year. Gamble, Fox and Hyatt are members of the second eight, wh6 have been promoted. Hyatt is a remdrkable oarsman, and is sure of his job. Fox is the: football player who won fame in the Harvard and Princeton games. Unless Coach Guy Nickalls can come to this country from England. Profes- sor Abbott, who is now in charge of the rowing, will be appointed as head coach. He coached the freshman eight Jast year and had much experience at Groton before coming to Yale. COALING RECORD AT PANAMA. Ship Stops, Ioads Up and Departs in 24 Minutes. Ancon, C. Z., Feb. 23.—A report for new coaling plant at the Panama Ca- nal at the Atlantic terminus. It re- cently delivered 420f tons of coal into the bunkers of a ship and sent her about her business in 24 minutes, and that too with the use of only one of the four leading towers with which the plant is equipped. This single conveyor wss handling coal at the rate of 1,042 tons an hour. There is practically never a ship comes to the plant which can take coal as fast as the plant can deliver it. The conveyors have to be stop- ped repeatedly to allow the coal to be trimmed evenly in the bunkers. ¥or naval purposes the plant was de- signed to have an overall handling capacity of 2,000 tons an hour for an indefinite run, and be capable of speeding up to 3,400 tons an hour in emergencies. Tests for this ca- pacity have been run, and the plant has been found to exceed require- ments slightly. FORMOSA NATIVES REBEL. Capture Police Station After Killing Two Officers. Tokio, Feb. 23.—The Formosan na- tives again show signs of insurrec- tion. A dispatch from Taihoku re- ports that tribesmen in Nanto prefec- : ture in Central Formosa revolted and attacked a police station. Two Hative policemen were killed and two others wounded. The station was captured by the rebels and isolated from all communication. The government- general has sent a punitive expedition into the district. Nanto province is the scene of tho recent earthquake which destroyed over 1,000 houses. SLIDES BELIEVED ENDED Engineers Decline to Prophcey But Believe Panama Canal Menace is Thing of the Past. Panama, Feb., 23.—The slides in Gaillard Cut which have been menac- ing navigation have been overcome. Téday the channel is in better shape than it has ever been before. For a minimum width of 180 feet it is 35 fect deep, and it is at least 30 feet deep clear across the original prism, 300 feet wide. The slides at Cucara- cha and Culebra which have bulged forward as if to smother the water- fay under their mass have been dredged away until they look flat and impotent. Barring some unforeseen | development, such as a new break in | a wholly unexpected place or the’ | Reserve Your Seats Early Box Office Open * All Day Welcome Week UR NEW MINISTER Monday Evening of Each Week will be WELCOME NIGHT and All Seats Welcome ‘Week crumbling of the great cliffs of brec- cia at Gold Hill or Contfactors Hiil, the interruptions of traffic by the sides are done. The engineers in charge will not commit themselves to prophecy but they say the Cut is in the best shape it was ever in, and the fact that they have taken away all but three of the dredges and cut out the Sunday and holiday work is a strong indication of their confidence in the situation. The three dredges are carrying the ex- cavation back of the original channel line in order to establish a defensive zone to prevent encroachments on the channel, Much work is yet to_be done to complete the channel to its full width of 300 feet with a bottom 40 feet ahove sea level, giving a depth of 45 feet, but it is already possible now to give passage to the biggest ships on the seas without any trouble. EXTRADITIONS CEASE. Passport Regulations Keep Criminals From England. London, Feb. 23.—One of the ef- fects of the enforcement by the United States of more stringent pass- port regulations, is that there are no further extradition cases of Ameri- cans from England. During many years before the war there were a substantial number @ such cases, so many that dealing wi them constituted an iraportant a vision of the work of officials ad th embassy. So well have the new re ulations governing the issuing of pa iports served the cause of justice th during the current year there hi not been a single case of an Ame; can criminal or suspect being raigned at Bow street police court fof extradition. go to the movies every day. More than twice that number of Meccas are sold every day. TS S S e ~ - 10c for 20. = / Charlie Chaplin’s salary is 134000000 Meccas a year | $670,000.00! Biggest pay, envelope in the United j States! Quite a piece of change! But enough Meccas are sold every year to hire 7 twenty-four Charlie Chaplins. And there’d be enough £ left over to keep them all in custard pies. You can see Charlie Chaplin for adime. You can smoke Mecca for a nickel. he reason you can get so much for so little is the same in each case. 1 Millions see Charlie Chaplin every day. Millionl] smoke Mecca every day. If only a few people saw Charlie Chaplin or smoked Mecca, only a few people could afford to pay the much higher price that would have to be charged. Fortunately good comedy and good cigarettes a now within the reach of millions. Watch the men coming out of the movies. Watch them pull out their favorite smoke. course. It's Mecca, of Just as the theatre where Charlie Chaplin is ap- pearing is the goal of all movie lovers, so Mecca is the goal of all cigarette smokers. Mecca cigarettes were made to order for real men. Smokers wanted a cigarette combining the flavor of Turkish tobacco with the character of American. man’s cigarette. Mecca was the answer. Mecca is a real Try a Mecca today. See for yourself why Mecca has become the goal of all cigarette smokers. In the 4 handy slide package, 5c for 10; in the oval foil package, A T IncomPORATED