New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1917, Page 8

k Rourke Works Colgate Track T Few Changes in Major and Minor WORK KEEPS LERS IN FRONT ders Bowlers Head Race for Rotory League Ghampionshipr il [ When a Feller Needs a Frzend Land;m, Frary & Clark com- |. bowlers are setting a pace for er members of the Factory ng league, that is making’ the for championship honors very in= ting. Tovdate the Cutlers have xed seventeen victories and four with the percentage of 809 jd average of 409. Two members of & qhintet arc also setting the pace high individual average, Freeman 3. Wright, who arc tied at 100 . The Stanley Rule . & Level jmpony quintet are much’in evidence the fight for first place, being but games in the rear of the league o1 The complete standing and of. qm league are as follows:. W. L. PC. Ave.’ seees 17 . <809 ¥ Rule & Level 15 2714 686 491 ‘in Signt. final games in the Berlin Con- : y: league, will ".be y . evening. The four teams, is as fol- ‘W. L. P.C. Ave. 26 17 .595 368 .22 20 .524 356 .19 23 .453 354 - ,}8 24 427 357 SRS ‘various leagne games and other /for the coming week at the ‘alleys, are as follows: ~-Landers vs. Paper Goods, : vs. ‘Stanley R. and L., Stan- lorks ‘league. jesday—New Britain Machine vs. & E., City Engineering league. sdnesday—Berlin . Construction (last games), Elmwood league. tnir vs. Union Mfg., pley Worke vs. Berlin Construc- Girls’ match. ‘ Stanley Works League, ‘Sfatistics of the Stanley = Works L are as follow: % b ok ! P.C. 683 .588 .583 .250 H. Winsch .... Wylie ..\ Pease Crowe .. Marwick * . Johnson ¢ Glasle Kencfick Barrett .... Smith “Rojanski 0. Wunsch .. griffin ners T re ... 8. %Grifin Local Mechanics Win. The Danbury Junior Mechanics urney to this city Saturday evening, {0 engage in a match with the local hanics, and as a result, the vis- were forced to accept a three- defeat. The scores: New Britain. p 141 145— 454 172— 508 170— 478 137— 505 765—2342 153— 420 122— 379 177— 439 183— 451 158— ‘441 738—2130 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME Yale and Princeton to.Decide Titln Wednesday in Flm City—Kinney \ Has Chance for Honors. New Haven, March 12.—Yale and Princeton will fight it out for the intercollegiate basketball champion- ‘ship when they clash in the final game of the league scason here on ‘Wednesday night. Pennsylvania, Dartmouth,Columbia and Cornell all ‘wound up their seasons last week. s the Cornell captain, holds his lead in m$ race for individual honors by & 'slender . margin. He scored 123 points in the league sea- son, one. more than ‘Sisson of Dart- mouth. ' Kinney of Yale, however, with one ‘more-game to play, . will probably pass both, because he ‘al- ready has 116 points. - - el 0 Individual Seoring. “7‘.‘ ,Field Gl ul Ttl. Name, Team, Pos. - Own. Op {Pts Ortner, Cornell, f... 33 22 (57 123 Sisson, Dartmouth, g 30 30 62 122 Kinney, Yale, f ... 13 40 116 Leonard Columbia, ¢ 14 55 93 McNichol, Penn. g . 21 56 82 Haas, Princeton, g . 8 63 Paulson Princeton, f 5 63 Olsen, Yale, f 27 60 Parmele, Princeton f 9 58 Farer, Columbia, g . 30 56 Mudgett, Dart. g . 16 54 Garfield, Yale c 12 40 Mallon, Yale, g ... 11 38 Latouy, Columbia, f 32 Taft, Yale, g .. 32 Jefford, Penn. c. .. Roberts, Columbia, f Kendall, Cornell g . Lavin, Pehn. f. . Houck, Cornell, g .. Flock, Cornell, f ... Katz Columbia, £ .. Emery, Penn. f, ... 11 Aishton, Dart. f. 8 . 12 2 16 13 13 19 Princeton Pennsylvania Dartmouth . Columbia Cornell CaANHM NEW BRITAIN CAILY HERALD. MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1 = - By BRIGG3 { SPORTDOM SPARKLERS) ‘What should prove to be the classic in local basketball circles this season, | will be staged at the Y. M, C. A. ‘Wednesday evening, when the cratck ' Delphis of Hartford will line up against a-picked team of Y. M. C. Al players at the association gymnasium. Preceding the game, the banquet for the members of the Saturday night league will be held. The contest will’ bring together Harry Schofield,” who played the game before Fort Sumter was fired on, who will lead the visit- ors ‘and Warren S. Slater the elusive director of athletics at the assoclation. The battle between these gladiators should prove interesting. The game is open to- the public and .a big rowd is expected. The Kamels basketball quintet will Journey to Middletown next Saturday evening to clash with a team in. that eity. = The trip. will be made in an auto truck, leaving the Y. M, C. A. at l 6:30 o'clock. James Sheridan and Lowell Pickop are making the ar- rangements. For the first time in 26 years, the Y. M. T. A. & B. society pool team defeated the Meriden team at the lo- cal rooms Saturday night. The feat- jure of ‘the .play was the defeat of Cotter the “Silver City crack .at the hands of Tommy Crean of this city., Judge W. F. Mangan presided at the soclal session which followed and among those responding was “Big Ed” * Walsh formerly pitcher for the.'Chi- cago White Sox. 5 4 W. W. Wade, Brown’ '17, of ‘Then- ton, Tenn. Saturday received a wire from J. B, Bender, coach of the Uni- versity of Tennessee, announcing his appointment as assistant football coach at that university for the coming year. Wade has played guard on the Brown eleven for the last two years, and in that time has participated in | all the big games. He has been a member of the varsity squad for the four years that he has been at Brown. ‘Wade, who graduates from Brown in June, will report at the University of Tennessee the first of September. Leaders in both the minor eventa' of the American Bowling congress tournament at Grand Rapids, Mich., yesterday were displaced yesterday. Buffalo taking the lead in the doubles with 1,299 while Brian Bradshaw of Cleveland ran first in the singles with 690. The Solomon Derby, the first of the season’s classic dog races at Nome, Alaska, was won yesterday from five competitors by the' team driven by Fred Ayer, who also won in 1914. The ‘distance was 64 miles.and the time was 6 hours and 57 minutes, ten minutes slower than the record made in 1915. Englehorn, . a former Dartmouth tackle and for the last few years foot- ball coach at the Case school in Cleve- land, ‘will be the line coach for the Colgate football team next fall. He will also act as first assistant to Ellery C. Huntington, Jr., the 1913 quarter- back, who has: succeeded Laurie Bankhart as' field coach. The mandgers of Tommy Carson of Lawrence, Mass., and Sammy Waltz of Hartford, have signed articles for a fifteen round ‘battle to be staged in \fieréden March 22 before the Lenox Yale defeated the Harvard hockey septet Saturday evening, 2 to 0. It was the first victory for Yale over Harvard at the game in many years. Saturday was a great day for Wes- leyan athletes, the basketball team winning from Union, score 20 to 19 while the swimming tea: ‘Willlams natators, 34 to 19. ‘Hugh Rorty has announced his' re- iirement from baseball as an umpire, which' causes a wag to ask, “When was he ever one?” . e ' Prineeton swimmers sustained an- otherdefehf Saturday evening, when the Brown tcam administered a 28 to 25 defeat. ! William R. Johnston and John B. Strachan representing the West, de- feated Harold Throckmorton and George M, Church the eastern repre- sentatives in the tennis tournament, Saturday at Los Angeles, Cal, 6—4, 3—6, 4—8, 13—11, 6—4. T. Henry Clarkson secured third place in the national amateur billiard champlionship in the Boston tourney, Saturday, conquering Edward W. Gardner the former champion. —— The Nutmegs had a rather easy time defeating the All-Stars at bas- ketball Saturday night at the Y. M. C. A. gympasium, the final score being 31 to 20, Pickop and Miller feat- ured for the winners. The final batch of regulars and try- outs for the Athletics team left Phil- m ' defeated | ; | Mor. on ‘thé lce—--Landers Bowlers Contin League Playing Dates- Rowland Expects White Sox to Capture v B | 1 | Chicago, March 12—Clarence RoW- land, manager of the White Sox, s happy over the outlook for his team’s chances in the fight for the pennant in the American Icague this season. In talking about his team recently Row- land said: “I believe I have the strcngest team in Ban Johnson's cir- @uit, and with an even break in luck I am smre we will breeze in. I have one of the strongest pitching staffs in adelphia Saturday for Fort Fla. : Jack Ness, first baseman, who re- fused to sign a contract for this sea- son with the management of the Chi- cago, American league team, yester- day signed with.a semi-pro team be- longing to the City league. Ness was s0ld to Columbus after he refused to come to terms.with the Americans, but refused to go to the American Association team. | Lieutenant J. R. Freeman, who died of wounds received on the Somme, was an all' round sportsman of King’s college. He was captain of the soc- cer football team and champion light- weight boxer of his corps, winning the gold medel in February 1916. A baseball game between two semi- pro teams has been arranged in Cin- cinnati this week. Potatoes may be exchanged at the box office for seats. Frank Connolly, an umpire . last vear in the American association,. has sent in his signed contract for ‘the coming season, according ‘to an an- nouncement made here yesterday from the offices of President Thomas I. Hickey. This leaves but one va- Ireancy on President Hickey's staff of npires,” and it is, understood ‘he is ving to’ sequre Mal Eeason, last year with the thig plages Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd brought her ringer score down to 71 on the No. 1 course yesterday at Pine- hurst, N. C., and is at present leading in the season’s ringer contest. Mrs. Hurd won the contest last year with a score of 65. -Mrs. John D. Chap- man of Greenwich stands second at 78. Mrs. R. H. Barlow, Miss Eleanor Gates and other Teaders among the women players are entered in the competition. SMOKE OXMOOR A MILD, PLEASANT 8¢ CIGAB We Are Catering to Afternoon Bowling Pin Men Always on Hand AETNA ALLEYS, Church Street ! the circuit. . Then, Eddi€ Collins is in much better form now than he was this time a year ago. With Edward going zood it means a whole ‘lot for the White Sox. I am much pleased with the way the team shapes up at the training camp, and’ we expect to set a sizzling pace right from the stait”" Phato shows Manager Clar- ence Rowland, manager of the White Sox. N = "=| FE. CHANGES MADE -_'IN; PLAYING SCHEME Basehall Opening and Closing Dates Same As in Past Years ‘New York, \Mn,rch 12.—Judging from :thé various major and minor leagué baseball schedules made pub- lic to date there is to be little change in the general playing scheme for the Season of 1917 A majority of the leagues have selected opening and closing dates which correspond close- ly to those of the past few years. The chief changes are to be found in the schedules of the Intérnational 'l league and: the American association {In round figures these two organiza- tions have cut six weeks off their regular seasons in order to provide dates for the jinter-league series of forty-eight games to be payed at the close of the pennant races in the two associations. The National and American leagues will open on Wednesday April 11 and close on’ Thursday, October 4, which atignal league,’ to!fill lwlll permit .the initial game of the world’s series being played on Satur- day, October 6, by Eastern or Western teams are competitors, or Monday, October 8, in case the series proves to be an intersectional contest. Iu other respects there are few novelties, thé Pacific Coast league having the longest reason while one or more of the class Dileagues will stage the shortest ‘'pennant races. The list of opening and closing days as an-; nounced to date from official or[ semi-official - sources ‘are ‘as follows: | National league—Opens April .11,[ closes Oct. 4, games, 154. ! American league—Opens, April 11, closes, Oct. 4, games, 154. International league—Opens, April 17, closes, Aug. 5, games, 112. South Atlantic league—Opens April 19, closes, Aug. 11, games, 100. Western league—Opens, April 18, ! closes, Sept. 8, games, 140. | Southern association—Opens, April 12, closes, Sept. 15, games, 164. Texas league—Opens, April 5, closes Sept. 3, games, 154. Pacific Coast league—Opens, 3, closes, Oct. 28, games, 208. American association—Opens April 11, closes, Aug. 5, games, 112. Blue Ridge league—Opens, May 1, closes, Sept. 15, games, 98. Southern leagu April ; April 12, ue at Head of Factory| --Overion Sets New Haly-Mile Record COLGATE ATHLETES PRAGTICE O IGE § _ P, m“mt ‘ ?fhl: 5 €ASOT | jux Rourke's Charges Give Grea. Promise for 1917 Season- The Colgate ‘“Maroon” in & mfl issue, has the following to say regard- ing the track team, which is being " coached by John F. Rourke of this ' city: The candidates out for the track x are working in the open as much @ | as weather conditions wil per- mit. Last week the sprinters were put, | through a series of dashes on.the jce * on Taylor Lake. Motley, '20, as the winner of his heat and Davern, '20, succeeded in defeating the field lined up with him. The latter is a new man in: the sprintd department wha shows much. p . The middle dis- tance men, w! were. the . first to sent out-doors by Coach Rourke, held daily races on the paths around Taylos Lake last week., Starting from ' the' gymnasium ‘the-course led along the willow path past the Y. M. C. A. down Broad street and then up the college entrance path to the gymnasium Loss *17, Doyle and Hayes, '18, all veterans are slowly :rounding. into shape. Among the new' material out for places’ in the quarter, haif-and mile runs are ‘Callahan, ’20, Davis, ’20, loward 20, and Van Bree ’20.. Van . ree has been showing exceptionay forni for so early in the season. The distance men take the outdogt practice over the same course as'the middle distance men. Under theidf. rettion of Captain Harriman they are: making rapid progress. Osterheld, 19! and True, '19, are counted on to figurk; strongly’ in the spring meets. Others out in this department are Callahan, Belden, Gallo, Elverson, Anderson, i. y 4 Riggs and Norman, all first year mens - The hurdlers, jumpers vaulters have not yet had an o tuhity to work outside the gymn Coteral, of last year's squad has ported for hurdle practice but been hampered with & bad | Scott, another experienced man, * being given easy work until t;:} fully recovered from the o appendicitis which he had thi ter. Noble '18, recently reporte Coach Rourke along with some material, the most promising of is Hamilton, "20. R 5 Marsh and Johnson, both new' thet; are going well in the high jump. “The former has cleared the bar indoofsat 5 feet, 7 inches and the coach expects him to better this-mark by more than: pole three inches in the spring competition. - The ' pole-vaulting department s’ still weak. Several freshmen, them Frye, '20, are out for places en* the team. Coach Rourke desires more candidates for this event. i The weight squad is the largest ‘it years. The men hurled the iscus and put the shot in the open several daya during the past week. Gillo, ;n, i showed old. time form. Barton, ‘18, Grotemat, ’20, Woodman, ‘19, Nelan, X and Laird, 20, are all showing up-. well in the first outdoor practice. 5 OVERTON SETS NEW RECORD Yale Runner Clips. 3 1-5 Seconds From Indoor Mile Record Formerly Held by Kiviat—Loonis Wins. ' Philadelphia, March 12.—Yale'w sterling runner, Johnny Overton, 'wou the one-mile run at the eighth an- nual indoor carnival of the Meadows | brook club Saturday night, in the fast time of 4 minutes, 16 seconds, break: ing the world’s indoor record of 4: 1-6 made by A. R. Kiviat of the | irish-American A. C., at New York on,_. February 15, 19183, pushed to the new figures by the runs ning of Ivan A. Myers, of the Iilinol¢ A. C., who finished second, two feel: behind the Yale runner, and N. A. De- vaney of the Milirose A. A., of N Yor! Ovel 1 omonnumk the lead at the and held it to the fifth lap when vaney pushed to the fregpt for & lap The pace was too hot for him, ThoWw- ever, and the Yale man again the lead entering the seventh Myers here cut loose\ | eighth lap passed Devaney. The race was then between Myers and Overton to the tape. ¥ Overton’s time by quartrs — was:/ 1:01 3-5, 2:09 3-5, 3:12 4-6, 4:168. o Earl Eby, the phenomenal » man of the University of Pennsyl running undér the colors of ‘the Chis cago Athletic club, finished second, {wo feet behind the wonderful Mere- dith. Joseph T. Higgins of the Irish American A. C.. New York, was third: and David §. Caldwell, Boston A, Ag a poor fourth. 3 Eby took the lead at the cr: k ol the pistol and held it for hilf a lap when Meredith went out l: front set the ce. Higgins, who ran in . the :‘m lap. worked into thi place at.the beginning of the second lap, but was unable to overtake m? and Meredith. J. G. Logmis of the Chicago A. brought the spectators to their f by winning the 50 yards low hurdi§} ‘handicap race from . scratch a equalling - the, world’s indoor reco! of 6 1-56 seconds. E. J. Thomp of . Dartmouth college, also a scra a close second. ] lap. zames,' 154. - i Eastern _league—Opens May §1 ‘Western “assoclation—Opens, 12, closes, Sept. 3. George-Alabama league — Opel May 7, closes, Aug: 4.0 ! and on the § Overton was | 4 K .3