New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 7, 1917, Page 8

' h‘eidi&e’ Ban Johnson Offers Prize For Best Drilled T eam---Princeton JUTHINGTON FIVE FAILS T0 SHOW UP ' to a misunderstanding, the led, game between the ‘South- -and New Britain Inter-City ) teams at the Atna alleys last failed to materialize when tors did ‘ngt show up. The ‘will be held next week, at a 't0 be announced later. men team match between |’ -Hines ' and Larson-Foote, in the works for:some time, the spectators: were threat- h disappointment on account n-appearance of the leaguers, n int put on this match in-| ; :and it proved to'be a good ' Rolling ten games each, to a decision, Anderson’s team |- _pins, the outceme being E ,2,000. . Larson ‘was the in- star of the clash, with a total 1,030. Hines came next d too strong for the Cubs; straight games, in of over 70 and 80 were nt. iyes of the city engineering rtm: have been effected with ‘gérm, or it-may be that 'they need the exercise. land club held a bowl- -evening, sixteen mem- H. 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That may not mean,K much to the This attitude of Wood became known to Ban Johnson, and it is said that Ban wag strong for a man of that sort that he threatened to make Joe {o ®RaTHER BE - SHoT Twan To Ge Down AND BE NICE To Mordecai ' Brown, twirler, announced yesterday that he had cast his lot with the Columbus American association. club_and will Jjoin the team Saturday for the spfing { trafning trip. Brown has signed the contract offered him by Manager Joe Tinker and will assist the former Chi- cago National ‘league club manager in conditioning the Columbus pitch- ers. Pete Herman of 'New Orleans, claimant of the bantamweight cham- pionship, outfought Jabez ‘White of Albany in a fast, ten round bout at Albany, N, Y., last night. Herman beat White in seven rounds, one ‘was even and White had the advan- tage in two rounds by a shade, John Wilson, the outfielder traded Lto St. Paul by the St. Louis Cardinals for Walter Cruise, has decided to quit the game.. Wilson plans to spend his ;{me on his ranch at South Austin, 'ex. ¥ Eight early closing -events with ! purses ggregating $21,000 were an- nounced yvesterday by the Hudson River Driving Park association for the Poughkeepsie Grand Circuit meet- ing the week of August 27. The trot- ting events aré:” The Knickerbocker, 2501 class, purse $5,000; the Pough- keepsie, 2:11 class. $3,000; the Guy Axworthy, for three-year-olds, eligi- hle to 2:17 class, $2,000; the Cassaro, for two-year-olds, $2,000, and Hudson Valley, 2:17 class, $2,000. The early closing pacing events are: The Directum I, 2:05 class, purse | $2,000; the Dutchess, 2:10 class, 183,000, and the Nelson House, 2:15 Iclau, $2,000. Entries close April 23. | Several high scores were made by minor event players in the American Bowling congress tournament at Grand Rapid, Mich, yesterday. The leaders established in the opening Tounds were: John Theisen and A. Drechting, of Grand Rapids, - who rolled 1,129 in the doubles and Charles Landauer, who dropped 583 in the individual event. All the play- ers were local men. The Exports in the five-man event with 2,435. Cincinnati, Peoria and Bnffalo seeking the 1918 tournament, are The first players of the Philadel- phia National league club to start for the Southern training grounds ieft three ' fingered | the |\, MARCH 7, 1917, ?'ies Yale The Txibuns Asses. (Mew Vork Tribume) N Johnny Dundee easily outpointed .ambitious’ Jimmy Duffy in ' a ten- ,round bout at the Ploneer Athletic j club last ' night. The Scotch-Wop |pmved too aggressive for Duffy, who | assimilated considerable punishment |about the body. Dundee earned | every round except the third, which | was even. Up to the seventh. Dun- dee locked horns. with his rival at close fighting, and landing the more powerful blows, was easily the better man. Reggie McNamara of Australia and { Fred Hill of Boston were leading the | fleld of six day bicycle racers at San Francisco at the end of thirty-three miles and 1 lap, eight miles than the former record, better Senator Sagen’s bill which would have repealed the iaw ' permitting boxing in Minnesota was defeated in the state senate, yesterday after r. brief debate by & vote of 35 to 31. % | . i Word reached New York last night that Denver promoters have made an ! offer of a $20,000 purse for a bout | besween Les Darcy, of Australia, and |.Jack Dillon, of Indianapolis, to be { fought on April 30. Dillon has already accepted the terms. The bromoters are in communication with Darcy. Nathan Hall, of Boston, gained a commanding lead in the national amateur billlards championship tour- \nament at 18.2 balkline yesterday, at the expense of the title aspirations of ! Ledyard Blake, of 8an Diego, Cal, The local player ran out the required 400 | points in thirty innings, while Blake i scored 276. "Ben G, Brinkman, vice-president of a bank, yesterday was elected presi- dent of the St. Louis Nationals. His election is part of the re-organiza- | tion plan fostered by J. C. Jones, who has paid Mrs. Helen Britton, princi- pal owner of the club $25,000 as earn- est money of his intent to organize a syndicate to buy the club for $350,- 000. J. C, Reld was elected secre- tary. George Winterburn, former presi- 4 dent of the New Bedford Chicket club ,and one of the best known cricket ! players in New England, died at the age of 46 years yesterday. ., Melvin Gallia, member of the hours last night, having covered 732 | ston Pleased With Yanks’ Military Tactics| For Intercollegiate Homors| p 1% . HUSTON WATCHES MLTARY DRI Youks' Owner Well Pleased With Interest Shown by Men Macon, Ga., March 7. Huston, the Yankee owner, had the ! pleasure of sesing his ball club put through an hour’s military drill by Sergeant Gibgon of the local recruiting ,office yesterday morning. Despits . numerous disappointments, during which yards of red tape were un- n the game in which Dartmouth de- eated Yale in 1908. ' Harvard has entered fifteen men in the eighth annual indoor track meet of the Meadowbrook club, of Phila- delphia, which is to be held Saturday night, Captain Teschner and Billy Moore are down for the 50-yard dash and special dash race, Billy . Meanix will travel the 50-yard hurdles. Ban- croft, the ’cross-country captain, and Jim Coggeshall’ are entered In the 1,000-yard, and Jim Hutchinson, an- other ’cross-country man,sin the mile. E. C. Huntington, jr., Colgate, '14, who in the fall of 19156 was chosen All-American . quarterback, has been named to succeed Larry Bankhart as head coach of the Colgate football team for next year. pitching star for the Pittsburgh Na- | (" 3411 his ball team, and now his tional league team has signed a con- | (o P SO U Cy L ek, tract with the St. Joseph' Western Sergeant Gibson's company . £q! league team, sisted of forty-elght men, inolus SCHAEFERS LOSE |55 S ON F[IUI!_I!A_SE CLouT Manager Sparrow, Scout Joe Coach Duke Farrell, Trainer | Duggan, Groundkeeper Phil § eight newspapermen and one business man formerly conn: e a local militia company. ~There wes - & . only one “slacker’ in camp, & & H ! ing newspaper ::;l-lwhd. ndent, ! 3 2 is to be court-mai v Hans ‘Lobert's Mixed Amy il | With the, aritl startea Huston ™ Sergeant Gibson hope to inf % me i Pmfi Glll!e enough of Macon’s young men in J l[l ce project to form a company of 10 " 5 The players enjoyed the drill showed considerable interest.. The Marlin, Tex., March 7.—Charley ercises were of the . simpler Herzog's . 'appearanceé for his first Only six members of the com; workout at morning practice yester- have had any military g day. completed the contingent of They are Captain Huston, two néi Glants from which John McGraw papermen who served in the P opes to select a pennant winner, | pine insurrection, Tim fi:w‘ A lively joust between selected was in the Florida N Gu teams featured the workout in the Les Nunamaker, who .was, in mwn. Honus Lobert led a mixed Nebraska National Guard, and to a 3 to 2 victory over a simi- former Georsia lar squad under command of Germany . men acted as corporals. Schaefer. Schaefer's crew counted e first when Kilduftf singled in the open- . [ ing inning and ran home on' a 'long Ym wms m‘ - double to right from the bludgeon of e SR Benny Kauff. i - i The Loberts overtook them in the''Wesleyan Quintct no “ second. Jim Thorpe beat out an in- ‘ { A flela roller and galloped home al;:.d Charley Taft, ot ".""".‘(‘ of yong Barrs, who slammed a long: Leadership, arive over Jack Mirray's head in| 1Us for League ¥ left, Jose Rodriguez scored for the! New Haven, March 7.~Yala Schaefers in the fourth. o opened pasketball team last night Wilkes with a single and scurried home on &' gway from Wesleyan, leading 37 %0 & . double by George Kelly. But Holke when the first half closed, and 4§ %o got the run back’ for the Lobert'’s'in 29 at the end of the second Miat. the same inning. He tripled to cen- ' ygle's clever passing game ter and galloped in on a sacrifice fly gooled the visitors deferiss. by Witter. The two teams lined up ‘ygle's regular scoring star, and as follows: ¥, tain Harmon and n i Loberts—Lobert, shortstop; Burns, yisitors starred in the basket tu left field; Schepner, third base; Holke, 7The line-up and summiary: first base; Witter, center ‘field; yale ; W Thorpe right feld; Barrs, eecond. Kinney .. base; Sandberg, catcher; Schacht and. Smith, pitchers, i Olsen LS Schaefers—Murray,left fleld; Kil- Right Forw: dufr, shortstop: Rodriguez, first base; ggrfield . o Kauff, center fleld; Kelly, right field; gl | Wagner, second base: Young, third maf¢ (Capt.) ... Left ' base; Krueger, catcher;. Causey and Lohman, pitchers. M Right Gusrd S fioor, Harmon . Goals trom : m . ENSIBLE SUIT FOR - » \ EARLIEST PLUNGE Kenney, ls%rlm:? X ‘w, en for Keith, Tomiinson for { L \imie of halves, 20 minutes. Princeton, N. J.. March 7. Princeton basketball team We a tie with Yale for the leagud % ship when they defeated Calursbis,. to 13, in the \mlvemty"fl n last evening. Thet Tigot their opponents uld“ul':cs the ‘& halt with the scoro > 4. . bin rallied in the last Yive migutes bf play and furnished the only 2 ment of the game. . BAN OFFERS PRIZE American League Head Will Give #5608, - Chicago, Mn'rc:lfl = of the American league, now v military instructions in their tratning: camps, are to compete for drilting’ honors, Captain Franklin R. K » U. 8. A., in command of recruiting the central d‘t”nfl:“ of the nounced last . b lnCamaln Kenney said. that Presi B. B, Johnson of the American has offered a $500 prise to ‘the arilled team In the league and & of $100 in gold to the . arnl who instructs the winning. : The competition. will be decided July. A board of army. officers Wil be selected to review the players ud‘ make the award. The $500 will be distributed as the players decide. Thetraining plan for ball playérs ¥ has spread to other leagues. m_ ¢ Milwaukee and Indianapolis clubs are among the American Association ; teams that have taken up the moye- ment. o % 1 !No. 1 of Grand Rapids were still high | casual observer of sporting = affairs, " but to players and others on the in- ;side it means a definite triumph for a free agent unless something was done' for him this season. In ‘the meantime Wood set about | New. York yesterday afternoon on > board the steamer Mohawk for Jack-. ‘Washington American league baseball team’s pitching staff, was married last sonville. MITCHELL * MOTOR an athlete who has stood on the grounds of honor and lost more than a year's salary thereby. All of last season Joe Wood laid oft and did not draw one cent of pay. He was on the reserve list of the Boston club and would .not agree to terms. Neither would he agree to be traded until he wa»s @efinitely as- sured his chan to get ‘his .arm in shape. After try- ing everything he consulted a special- ist on muscles. Examination disclosed that the smaller pitching muscles and the nerves leading to the right arm had become bunched along the spine, due primarily to a cold. This con- dition was eventually removed by massage. The return of Joe Wood to the game means that Cleveland has a for the pennant. After sign- % ¥ jokke ball hero The party included Manager Pat Moran, Alexander, Killifer, May- er, Burns, Fish, Paskert, Norman Lutz of Hamilton, Ont.,, a new pitch- er, and G, Hagerty, Jr., of Brooklyn, a new infielder. L ALY MM &S O S G K left for Cleveland. - Joe, you know, lives in New York in the winter time. It was Tris Speaker who insisted on the signing of Wood, and he believes that Joe will have the goods. He be. lieves it because Jap. Saturday at Refugio, Tex., it became known yesterday. His bride was Miss Ethel Hargrove of Woodsboro, Tex. ' Mr, and Mrs. Gallia left immediately !'for Washington, where' Gallia will Join his team. * Jesse Hawley, former football coach at Iowa, has been recommend- ed for the position of gridiron coach at Dartwouth, his alma mater, by the Middle West Hanover The Morning Dip. Over white silk stockings and tights is worn this one piece of maroon and white striped wool jersey built like a slip-on sweater. The conventional silk and rubber cap is supplanted by a coxy one of the together i 5 |a seasonable outfit was a star the 8 0XMOOR A MILD, PLEASANT Se CIGS iy to We Are Cate SO \