New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 28, 1917, Page 8

ankees Southpaws Bend 'Em Over Pan---Giants Recruits Batile For Infield Position---S1. Joseph's . M. A. A. Plan Membership Campaign---Union Works Bowlers Continue Taward Bottom of League UNTS' RECRUITS ‘SHOW UP STRONG ilduf and Young Both Play Wel | Around Infield Positions |Marlin, Tex, Feb. 28—Pio Way was | e first member of the Giants' squad | ! get to work yesterday. ile grabbed |s bat at 5 o’clock this morning and | B0t out on the baloncy on the sec- ! id floor, where a band of shrieking | -rtx had gathered for a The cats scattered as soom as they | tted Pie, and he gave chase. Tnto hotel dached the cats, and up and ~9Wn the hall they raced, with Way { Mot pursuit. The din by this time Rd aroused several of the other piay- | s who had rooms on the floor. and | ey gathcred in their doorways to Pic on. The fun ended when @ cats spied an open window. All f2do_their escape without inquiry, ve onc, apparently older and more ! eble than the rest, which was ma. rially helped in making its exit by ! pay's vat. As a result of the episode of th. ! ts all the players were on the field | ight and early for the morning 1. The weather was much cooler an on Monday, and the men were (bit sore following their first work- jit. Acting' Manager McCarty rea- ged that there would have to be | little let-up, and the men ook v merely loosening up efr arms. In the afternoon the sun ced the clouds and the players d no trouble in getting up a per- biration. First Inficld Practice. ‘The feature of the afternoon’s fractice was the drill given the ‘n- elders. For thc first time ground- 8 were hit to the men and the ball s tossed from base to base. Holke jod Kelly took turns covering firat, hile Joe Wagner guarded second. he rest of the infield was made up It Shepner and Kilduff at short and oung and Barrs at third.; The battle ween Young and\yagner for tho 1ty infield position’ Both b musical. Zilduff showed A itiahort as as his fielding Went, bt doeés not ' Ppear to be so’goot o hitter as the ' her two. 4 The: pitchors used. a. Jittle morc ed in ‘throwing the ball to the bat- ars than on Monday, and the ou‘- me was that some of the 'recruits nd it more difficult to drive the into safe territopy.’ gave the imprés start the season Tigh! off last year, when he flod with ] Chase for the leagu&; leddership. 'W matle several long hits and only jce failed to send the sphere put of i e infield. . Moré Long Fouls for Benny. | Benny Kauff again exhibitea his ialty of ‘smashing fouls over the gnce. He Jost four balls this way on onday and four more yesterday, much to the disgust of Henry Fa- bian, who is getting worried for fear he will not have enough balls to last gntil he can get another supply. Benny still persists in endeavoring to gend tho Dball out of the lot every ime bo g From pres ent indidations ill achieve his mbitlon many times during the sca- son. I or veleran twirlers, reau, Schupp and Benton did but Jitt!s pilching to the hatters, most weork falling to the n m- Tesrenu Indulged in four el while Rube Benton got warming up through chasing flies about the outfleld. He didn't got ncar enough to any of them to make a catch. Two more players joined the squad yesterda Hans Lobert and Jose Rodriguez made the trip here from Cuba. Hans organized a lengue on the island last fall and Rodriguez played on one of the teams. Hans did no playing, but appears to be in trim, as a result of the swimming he did each day. According to Hans, the revolt against the government .in Cuba came very near preventing his |departure from the island for some time. the Jeff Tes- 01a Master Starts for Oincy to Take Up the Job at Which So Many Others Have Failed. New York, Feb. 28.—Christy Math- ewson, leader of the Cincinnati Reds, Jeft for the town on the Rhine today to take charge of the pennant hopes of Garry Herrmann and the anvil chorus of Porkopolis. The Old Mas- ter who still is an idol in Gotham de- spite his transfer from the Polo Grounds, has already moved his fam- 1ly to Cincinnati. “We leave Cincinnati for Shreve- port, La., Saturday,” said Matty, “and I'm going over there to straighten out a few tangles. I think I'll finish quite a bit better than tied for last place next season.” Matty is hopeful of effecting a rec- onciliation with big Toney, his star pitcher, before the Reds leave for Dixie Land. Otherwise the team is L pretty good shape, now that Heine h has come in. Of the veteran thers Bchneider, Mitchell, Mose- not yet signed. | beat | bes s i middleweight championship, all the Kelly- NO - HE THINKS HE'S CLEVER- TS ALWAYS A THEY ALL LooK LIKE A CASE oF BLOOD o THAT WINS GUY LIKE THAT | NEVER CoULD STAND FOR HIS LINE OF HUMOR LT AIR'T THAT | CARE [© WIN MYSELF- BUT ANY BODY BUT H.M-'Gse— Anio FOR TH® LWA MIKE BY BRIGGS SHooT !/ ] \ 1S 17 DON'T WANT To WIN ALL TH' TIME-~ MY BUST T AL-L-L RiGHT- EV'BODY ; I'LL GwWE = HE GB ME A QUARTUR Jessa SAME-HEY A FINE oL’ IN S BoY f] GET YouR B y) MONEY READY $ FOR THE PAY SPORTDOM Jack Dillon, the once terrible light heavyweight assassin of Indianapolis, Al MecCoy, who claims the way through .the ten rounds of the main event of the Broadway Sparting club, Brooklyn, entertainment last night. It was the opinion of most of those who sat by the ringside that Dillen is sliding badly. But he's have to reach the stage of long whis- kers and crutches before McCoy would have much chance with him over any distance. Dillon couldn't hurt McCoy; McCoy couldn't hurt Dillon. So there you are, Thirty-nine candidates for fielding positions on the Harvard nine reported vesterday afternocn to Coach Hugh Duffy, who has been working daily in the cage for the last two weeks con- ditioning the men.who seek battery places on the team. Among the can- Adidates today w Captain Abbot, Harry Bothficld, shortstop: Jimm: Knowles, left fielder: Micker Reed, shertstop in 1915; Eddie € , the football star, who captained his fre: man team. and several other membe: of the 1919 nine. George Percy, cen- ter flelder, and several other candi- dates who are hockey men, will not re- port until the ice season is over. Jar- vis Beale, regular third baseman, did not report, and there are rumors that he has been placed an probation, though no offi confirimation of this fact has been forthcoming. MAY PREVENT REPEAL Judiciary Committee Considering, Plan | Whercby Boxing May Be Saved in New York State—Club Membership, Albany, Feb. 28.—The senate judi- clary committee yesterday considered Senator Slater’s bill to repeal tho Frawley boxing law, and after virtu- ally deciding to repart the favorably, voted to postpone the re- port until next week. This action was taken, Chairman Walters of the com- mittee explained later, to give some of the members of the committee ad- ditional time in which ta consider legiclation léss drastic. Efferts of the legislative leaders were directed toward bringing about a compromise in the shape of a com- ! fight | panion bill, permitting the licenses now in existence to remain good until they naturally expire this vear, but preventing the athletic com- mission from issuing any more. The latter provision would become opera- tive as soon as the companion bill be- came a law, Senator Walters, chairman of the judiciary committee, says the purpose of the legislation now befare his com- mittee is to restore the boxing game to the old order of things when ex- hibitions were conducted under the auspices of clubs, whose members alone were admitted and whére no admission fee was charged, If the governor refuses to accept this compromise, it is said, the legis- lative leaders will be apt to leave the law as it stands, as too much op- position has developed against abolish- ing boxing altogether in this state to warrant pushing the Slater bill. Senator Walters said the desired amendments will be made upon the floor of the senate. measure | SPARKLERS Only one metropolitan university— New York University—appears on the Rutgers track tesm schedule, which was made public yesterday. Trinity appears on the schedule for the first | time, replacing Lafayette, an old rival_ The season will begin on April. 21, when Rutgers wili meet Stevens here, | The schedule - follows: April 21, | itevens at home; 2 Penn Re- at Philadelph Swarth- more at home: 12, N. Y. U. New York; 21, Middie Atlantic championships at Lehigh; 26, Trinity at Hartford. Warren Adams, a first baseman, | has been awarded to the Pittsburgh National leaguc club from the Brook- Iyn club by the waiver route. Adams plaved for the Winnipeg team in the | Northern League last seascn, Pennsylvania. drew another lap ahead of the Dartmouth quintet at Hanover last night by defeating it 24 intercollegiate (ourney game. . Throughout the game the | teams were never miore than four points apart. Dartmouth drew ahead in the middle of the final period, but three baskets in successicn by the Red and Blue a few minutes before the end decided the game in Pnn's favor. | I i | The Syracuze Tournament company, which has been in charge of plans for | holding the Atlantic Coast Bowling | association tournament here next April, vesterday decided to postpone | the event one vear. They acted upan the advice of the officers of the na- | tional association, who requested the | | action because of the international situation. | The first squad of the Philadelphin! ! Americans left yesterday for the SPring training camps in Florida. In the squad were eight pitchers and two catchers, acccmpanied by Manager Mack. They will go to Fort Picrce, and on March 10 will join regul; at Jacksonville. John Ganzel, soctation, annonced Beals Becker, Jack Lelivelt. Berry and. George Simmons have signed contracts. The team will re- port for spring traininz in Arkadei- phia, Ark., March 11. Joe Wood, former Boston pitcher, purchased by the local Ameri- can league team last week, signed ear contract with Cleveland here sterday. Wood will leave with the st squad of Cleveland players for the training trip next Thursday, Claude Ralph D. Bickford of Rochester, N. Y., was unanimously elected cap- tain of the Dartmouth college hockey team yesterday. Walter 8. Smiley, a sergeant in the | United States Army yesterday was as- | signed as drill sergeant to the Chicago club of the American league, which will leave for the spring training camp at Mineral Wells, Tex., Sunday night. Smiley is captain of an army baseball | team. The Chicago club is the first i the league to officially adopt the mil tary training program advocated by Captain T. L. Huston, of the Yankees. | Charles A, (Chief) Bender, the In- dian pitcher, was made a defendant in }& suit for $15,000 damages instituted Mevyers, }v&;ional é h Copyrighted 1917 by The Tribune Assoe. (New York Tribune). amp, Expects to Smash World’s peris 10 aroves Athlet club will smash the world’s record for th mer is over. Moy champion at the mile ent moment a4 product r tem, the same that sprang Joie Ray on the public as record wrecker. John Mahan, the irrepressible lawyer who coaches the athletes of the I1- linois Athletic club in his spare mo- ments, discovered Meyers and now here vesterday by Mrs. Bessie Curran, widow of John Curran, who was killed February 17, by an automobile driven by Bender. Norman Maxwell of the Aronimink club, Philadelphia, won the medal in the qualifying round of the spring tournament at Pinehurst yesterday. Maxwell’s total of 150 for the thirty- six holes was five strokes better than his nearest competitor, Robert Hunter of Noroton. ucclares that this apparently uawk- vard boy is a world's record possibil- in the mile run. “Right now he can give Joie Ray a fine beating in the mile,” said Ma- han of Meyers a few days ago. When it is taken into consideration that Ray stepped a mile in 4 minutes 16 2-5 seconds before he struck the temarkable running streak that he's in now Mahan's opinion of Meyers' ability is certanly a remarkable state- ment,. Photo shows Meyers winning one of his races. Pitcher Neil Brady of the New York Americans, last year with the Colum- bus club of the American Association, and Luther Boone, the Yankee in- flelder, were purchased vesterday by the Toledo club. Wally Schang, catcher, signed his contract with the Philadelphia Ameri- |can league baseball team today. He was the last of the big three hold-outs, Strunk and Bush having signed yes- | terday. YALE OUTCLASSES COLUMBIA FIVE| LOCATING PLATTER | New Haven Collegians Assume Lead in Intercollegiate League New Haven, Feb 28—Yale’s basket- ball five last night smothered Columbia by the score of 45 to 18. PFrom the start the Els led, but Columbia’s stubborn defense held them in check for only a 19 to 11 lead when the first half closed. Kinney hung up a new individual scoring record for the season, accumu- lating 27 points. He was helped greatly by his team mates, whose polished passing presented him with the ball time and again directly under the Columbia basket. Kinney’s eleven baskets from the floor made him a live factor in the race for individual scoring leader in the intercollegiate league, a title gained by him last sea- son. Garfield’s midfield play furnished a link in the Eli’s passing game which did not fail during the evening, and Captain Charley Taft's passing game repeatedly broke up the visiting at- tack. Leonard's basket tossing was the most effective feature of Columbia’s play. With the outcome of the game assured, both fives resorted to fre- quent substitutions during the sec- ond half. - The lineup and summary: Yale Columbia Kinney ..... 1 Righ Olsen .... { Left Forward | Garfield ... Taft ... Mallon . Left Guard Goals from floor—Olsen 3, Kinney 11, Garfleld 4, Mallon 2, Latour, Roberts, Leonard 3, Farrell, Farer. Goals from foul—Kinney 5, Leonard 2. BSubstitutions—Rhett for Garfield, Stradella for Mallon, Horton for Ol- sen, Alexander for Roberts, Newman for Farrell, Katz for Farer. Referee— Reed. Umpire O’'Shea. Time of halves—Twenty minutes. T0 ENLARGE MEMBERSHIP SOUTHPAWS BUSY Yanks Portsiders Try Bending 8 Few Across the Pan Macon, Ga., Feb, 28.—The maost, spectacular feature of the. second day’'s evolutions of the Yankees in Georgia was the drill of the left- handed pitchers of the New York Americans by Dauntless Duke Farrell, the truculent trainer. He convoyed the port siders to a etcluded part of the outfleld and turned thém loole. The Yankeeg are well supplied wica left-handers, so well provided that the squirrels around the ¢ountry arer seen to perk up ahd show consider- able Interest as the squad marchés dut to the field. They have Gaoffe Mogridge, the Rochester Rocket; Bhm Ross, the Tennesse¢ Turbine; Slim Love, the Memphis Mastodon, 4&nd Nick Cullop, the Chilhowie Chipmuntk. Before turning them loose to prey upon the peaceful landscape the duke made the port siders & short aAd {m. pressive address in their nafive tongue. Mr, Farrell 18 one of the few trainers who speaks the language of the left-handers fluently. Becalive of this fact he is frequently suspécted of being related to some left-hander, or even of having a left-hander wom¢- where in his family tree. He tom- cluded with the short command, in English: “There is the plate. when you are ready.” Then he retired outside the thré- mile limit, where he watched the ré- sults of the ehots through his binocu- lars. The result reminded some the older Georgians of the celsbrated visit of the late General Sherman, why spread considerable devastation owér the same scenery. Slim Love Scores Bull's-Eye. | Despite the intensity of the fire, | there was just one serious <casu during the afternoon. Slim Love dld it, and he selected as his ob; " point the venerable anatomy of seph Kelley, the same Joseph who was once the pride and boast of tha Baltimore Orioles, a team which wal more or less prominent in the gres} American pastime some years ago. Joseph was gazing in another direcs You may fite St. Joseph’s Y, M. A. A, Plans to Se- cure Over 100 Members Before Spring—Star Performers Invited. Preliminary steps were taken at a meeting of the directors of St. Joseph's | Young Men's A. A. last evening, to ! increase the athletic membership of the association to over 100. members. Invitations have been sent out to ath- letics in this city and state, who are not members of a club, to align with the local organization. White, a for- mer Dartmouth star, has joined the club, and J. P. O'Sulllvan will soon be eligible to compete under the asso- clation’s colors. Efforts are being made to secure Harry Peterson the Viking A. C. all-around star to join with the club. Another crack, the club hopes to land, is Maurice Myers, the old Exeter all-around star, who is considering an offer to join. The outdoor training will commence shortly for the first meet of the sea- son, that of the New Haven A. A. in the Elm City, on Good Friday. An invitation has been extended to the club to attend the annual banquet of the New Haven A. A. in that'city next Friday evening. R. & E. ON TOP Union Works Will Soon Be In Ath- letics Class if Defeats Continue to Pile Up. The Russell & Erwin bowlers tight- ened the race for first place honors in the Factory league last evening, when on the Aetna alleys, the U'nion Works five were forced to bow to a pair of defeats. Blanchard and “Pop” Nichols featured for the win- ners, while Jimmy Clark rolled con- sistently for the losers. The scores: Union Mfg. 99 89 89 87 97 g 99 86 92 84— 90— 87— 92— 277 90— 290 443—1366 Gaudette . 272 Peterson Myers .. Hoffman Clark 261 431 E. 88 88 90 98 100 464 99— 84— 96— 277 113— 307 98— 290 490—1431 289 268 Nichols Westman Powers .. Blanchard Hogan .... SMOKE OXMOOR A MILD, PLEASANT ¢ CIGUB We Are Catering to | | " | Afternoon Bowling [ Pin Men Always on Hand AETNA ALLEYS, | Church Street 266 | tlon when Slim Love started to d¢ some fungo hitting, figuring natirally that Slim would not drive them on 4 {straight line, but, with that perverse: iness for which left-handers are d justly famous, the Memphis Mastod: drove one straight ahead. It contiect- ed with the somewhat extenstve bait which encompasses the circumfere: middle of Mr. Joseph Kelley. “Oof!” remarked Joseph, suddenly and sharply. That one word ¢ the conversation for about ten mife utes, Mr. Kelly’s breath had beeit suddenly and treacherously takén away from' him, and he seated himg- self sharply on the fleld to await | its return. When he regained it Mr. Kelley delivered an oration upon the subject of left-handed pitchers, which, | for sheer elnquence, virility and vel | mence, would have made the late. Patrick Henry take the gate on tl’u1 run, i Stark and Shaw Away Wejl. Young Albert Stark, a semi-pro from the lots around New York, who joined the expedition as a voluntéér at his own expense, unlimbered - terday and displayed consldembfsm- ent in the position to which he aspirés, that of sccond base. Another fid who likes to lace them out is Ben- jamin Frankiin Shaw, the pride gf Macon, who is preparing himsslif to horn in somehow into that Yankse outfleld. He likes to lift them out of the lot ,and surely has the fences over this field timed to perfection. Willlam Piercy, the untaméd and untamable native son pitcher, is belhwg spotlighted a whole lot, too. Wl liam’s action is a poem of ease snd i eficiency. He has a lot of smoke agd considerable hop. William should be spoken of frequently in the publis prints after the real season opens. Everett Bankston, the younger out- flelder who was purchased from Rich- mond at gonsiderable pains and @%- pense, arrived today, but will not get into the armor for & while. His home being at Barnesville, a few miles from | here, Evereft, like a dutiful lad, de- cided to report to the folks first. Al Walthers, all the way from San Francisco, arrived in time to pate in the morning workout. reported in excellent shape. The only missing members of the guard now are Slim Caldwell, who is given up for lost, and Dan Tipple, & holdout. Tim Hendryx Mowing Hay, The hardest worker at preseat is Tim Hendryx, who is inclined to pick up a lot of extra tonnage during the resting season. Tim i batting with the avolrdupois, but assembling him- self at the golf course close by mnd shooting about thirty-six holes before breakfast. Wild Willam Donovan himself donned the uniform yesterday and gave the populace a treat. The military manoeuvres of the Yankees will be under way in the very near future. Captain Huston, the militant and military commander of the team, has been trying to ar- range with the war department to have Sergeant S. B. Gibson, a veteram in charge of the local recruiting ata- tion, start the Yankees at thelr drill As soon as the formalities aré com- plied with the baseball players will/ | start in the school of the woldier. 3 { y