New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 13, 1917, Page 8

e e e Giants Regulars Pound 'Horsehide in MtdpSeason Fashmn--- Yanks Work in Slovenly Manner---Factory). cague Leaders Clean Up Opponents—-East Loses Final T ennis Match--flums—&‘hea Bour T omght UE LEADERS WIN DECISIVELY| farty Stars on Charch Street . W. Leagee Results e Lariders, Frary & Clark and Rule & Level company bow- qllntnu. candidates for first PIICQ - .Factory league, cleaned up ‘rivals on t!n Aetna alleys last g in decisive fashion, both )& winning three straight games. c'nmn encountered the American’ : (2’:;4- five and the Rule Mak- ‘the Skinner church company. The _ES d of pin smashing put up e of the games was. the stellar | 3:312!, jarty of the S. R, & L. tea topped boy secured a score of or his night’s work, in frames 4100, 104 and 125. . Stanley- Works league;, the epers = defedted the = Office ‘thrice,” and the Foremen ad- 1 similar mntm?nt to’rthe 3 leoru folloW' 94 | 94— 87— 112~ 103 102— 107 192— 87 300 279 199 205 811 — 198 —_—N— —— 485 , 498—1487 91— 3 88 104— 288 93— 262 89— 284 89—. 285 451 466—1388 95 6 86-= 268 76— 235 83 103 95— 281 88 87 101— 271 4105 ,100 89294 4417461 s41—1349 SR &L 81 105 89—~ 275 88 88— 279 .'i“ 104 135— 8!!' —_ i | LEAGUE. 86— 265 17— ‘224 83— 340 84— 251 92— 252 4221232 —_—— 92— 268 96— 282 , 83— 286 89— 258 76— 234 436—1263 86— 245 97— 263 95— 292 82— 256, 80— 221 4_!0—1277 101— 274 93— 234 80— 259 81— 259 116— 289 4711315 We '-rlnwe this uniform | qualily everywhere if you in- sist on thc genuine: Full Quarts—In non-refill- Solda by Jeading dealers, clubs, bars, ete, 5 Paul Jones & Co., M’m ,| dash, shot put, Bigh' jump, quarter SPORTBOM SPARKLERS} Wh‘.bunnntwnll.l.& 10U clubs abnounéinig that the head- arters formerly located at.21 Wax- -street, New York, are now at 290 Broadiway, corner of Reade streel.’ The A. A. U. will investigate .the record of: 4 minutes 16 seconds for 'the mile. made by Johnny Overton of Yale on’ Saturday night at\the Mead owbrook ‘club games. Doubt are ex- pressed on all sides whether the track measured up to standard. Arlie lluek. the Giant wel.ht thrower of the University 6t Wiscon- sin, will come east to compete in the national ' indoor champlonships on Saturday night, March 17. ; Buckley High school of New Lon- don will hold its usual indoor athletic meet on Friday, March 16, in the State armory, - New London. All events are closed to the State High schools and are as follows: 35-yard mile run and half-mile run. John F. Mahan, trainer of Jole Ray, has requested the management of the John Wanamaker Commercial [n- stitute games that a special one-mile scratch race be arranged for the meet in Madison Square Garden on March 21 in order that Ray might have an opportunity to meet John W. Overton of Yale, who was credited with a new record for the distance at Phii- adelphia last Saturday. Mahan has agreed to enter Ray only on condition that Overton will accept the invitation which was for. warded to the Yale star last night. If the race 1s arranged Ivan Meyers, who ran Overton a close race on Sat- urday, also will be invited. By defeating Northwestern univer- sity, 30 to 20 at Minneapolis last night the University of 'lflnne-otn earned the right to share the big nine conference basketball championship with the University of Illinois. Each team has won ten games and “lost two. Although handicapped by the | sence of their regular. players Gophers played consistently and result was never in doubt. ab- the the Jack Coombs and Larry Cheney took advantage of the hot weather yesterday and pitched five ‘innings for their teams at Whittington park, Hot Springs, Ark. The pair of veterans took things easily during their stay in the center of the diamond, and finally gave way to the youngsters, Durning and Malls. Durnln' pitched the best ball of the four and flashed sqme classy fielding at times. In his first two innings he had four assists. We Are Catering Aftemoon Bawé;;g / Coombs® team beat that of Cheney by a score Qt_ 2to 1. ) Benny Leonard, the New York lightweight, won easily ' on points from Johnny Tillman of Minneapolis in a six-round bout in' Philadelphia last night. Each man scored a knock- down, but neither was a dameaging blow. In the fourth round Leonard again floored Tillman for a count of four with a left hook to the jaw. The New Yorker was the aggressor througho\lt. : Walter J. 'l‘r-vls. one,of the most prominent figures in American golf, announces that he is through with amateur golf. He had until March 1 to make his decision whether to give up, golf course architecture or continue as an amateur. ravis says creating is more soul ng than winning golf cups. Thé tenth annual women'’s national indogr dawn tennis championship tournament got under way at the 7th Regiment armory yesterday morning with one of the largest entries of re- cent years. Among the players who will strivé to,win the title now held by Miss Molla Bjurstedt are Miss Marie Wagner, New York State cham- plon; Miss Eleanor Goss, winner of the recent 7th Regiment handicap tournament; Miss Gladys. Dowling, Mrs. Jack Anderson, Miss Margaret Anderson and Mrs. de Forest Candee. The New H. n Journal-Courier team managed breeze into the money at’ Gnmd Rapids last night| with a score of 2,713. - This will give them about 25th place. The showing of the téeam proved a bitter pill- fog players and fans allke to swallow, Edward ,Barrow, president of the International league, said yesterday a number of business men would meet at Providence, R. I, for the purpose of forming a stock company which will purchase the franchise and play- ers of the Providence baseball club from W. H. Draper. The meeting will be held at the mayor’s office. It is also reported that George M. Cohan has become the owner of the club. The noted actor-player has been negotiating for the club for sev- ‘eral weeks. | | The Boston Athletic association will hold the. twenty-first annual American marathon run on April 19.. No athlete under 18 years of age will be allowed to compete, and the right to refect any entry 'is reserved. The start will be made at Ashland at noan; and the finish will be in Boston. En- tries close on April 12, The wrestling championships of the ‘Met: tan association of the ama- "BETTER QT =a Camrriahted 1917 by The Tribune Assoc. (New York Thsbunss. teur athletic union and a novice t.onr- nament will be ‘held equnder the aus- pices of the New York Athletic ¢lub on Thursday, April 5 and Saturday, April 7. The competitions in the championship classes will ‘be at 115 pounds, 158 pounds, and the heavy- weight division. The novice class wil}, be at 145 pounds. The hopes, aspirations, ambitions, longing or desires that Grant Hugh Browne and the Garden Tower Cor- poration may have had to conduct boxing bouts in Madison Square Gar- den faded yesterday when the State Athletic commission, in solemn . con- clave assembled, formally took away Mr. Browne’s license. At the same session the commission revoked the licenses of the Olympi¢c A. C. the Empire A. C. and the Hn,rlem Sport- ing club. l Cy. Plen, formerly with the New York Americans, has signed a con- tract to play this season with Mobile, of the Southern association. ONLY FOOLS EXPECT A VOLUNTEER ARMY So Declares General Wood in Point- ing Out Necessity of Compul- sory Military Service. New York, March 13.—New York is ringing today with the echoes of patriotic speeches made by promin- ent men last ‘night at several public meetings. A dinner given by the Economic club developed a spirited centraversy over compulsory mllltn.ry nmee. D Cl\lrles? Aked. leader in the Ford. Peace expedition, declared that “all this” bygsiness of preparation for way for America is lookin ‘ Adolf ‘A. Berl of .Tufts college ‘ar- raigned the lyocates of compulsory service and efended the volunteer system. “Issue.with these views was taken by the Major General Leonard ‘Wood, Mayor Mitchel of New York and Présidgnt Hibben of Princeton. “Of ‘course we want volunteer ser- vipe,” sald General Wood ‘“just as we want voluntary morality, just as we want everything'that is¢ good, but none but & fool expects to get it. The preceding speech’” — referring to Prof. Berl—"is full of those princi- || ples whick insure sacrifices of life— the death of your sons.” . - The Society of Tammany, in adopt- ing a resclution introduced by Chas. F. Murphy pledged themselves should there be'a .call to arms. “to devoté our lives, our fortunes and our: sacred | honor to the welfare of our country.” The mayor's committee on national | began today the clrculation of || defense tecting against unlawful violence on land and sea, in guarding the nation against hostile attacks and in upholding in- ternational right.” formerly a ;.in the Wwrong direction. “Prof. | HARVARD LACKS lHTERES'l‘ College Paper m,‘ Urgmt‘m m Students to Evince More Interest in, Track Team Competition. Cdmbridge, Mass.,’ :umn 13.—A movement . to auuu interest in track ‘sports' at Harvard was started | by leading undergraduates yesterday. In support of the effort the Crimson, the college daily paper, pointed out that at the beginning of winter only fifty men reported for the squad and | that last week only twenty of thes, showed {nterest enough to turn out. In fleld events the lack of material was ‘particularly pronounced, the pa- per stateds In 1916 Harvard had only one entry against eleven Yale: men in the shot put, and the Crimson states it is a common occurrence to have:two.or three Harvard men against ten or eleven men in the weight events. In the last four years Harvard has won only one dual track meet with’ WARM WEATHER | MAKES YANKS LAZY Donovau's Colts Have Little Difli- calty Bea/ting the Regs Macon, Ga., lh.rcfi 13.—BHll D§no- van's Yankees were about as full of “pep” as a’ keg of molasses yesterday. The players just ooged lassitude. The day. was very warm, so Dono- |vq'n decided to let - .his, pitchers 8o three innings, and stretched the in: trateam game to nveu ‘innings:: He .got more batting, but with It went the most ‘slovenly exhibition the Yankees have given since they assemibled here. In a game which would have shamed two semi-pro nines the Yanigans trlmplad on the regulars by 10 to 8. The regulars plled up five errors, and with- strict scoring could have been. charged with two or three more. The usually reliable Shawkéy was the worst’ oftender. He crowded three flalqln; errors into his three innings, uncérked a wild pitch and ' was thumpéd for seven hits.” ‘While there was: much more hitting thdn in Previous games, the im- provement was mostly among the Yanigans. «They accumulated thir- teen hits 'for 'a total of twenty-one bases ,against sévén hits A for nine bases for-the regulars. The fact that the regulars almost overhauled a sevenrun lead was of less credit to them than it was an indictment against Siim Lqve. Love may have developed a beautiful curve ball, but yesterday he exhibited all 'mer Wild tendencies. The first spring review of the Elmer Love Marching club was held in the'sixth inning when thé lanky (M(m-lpun ladled out four’ passes ‘and. home two runs. The regulars ac- cumulated their entire ~output of tht runs duflng the’ Inve term of ce. In contrgst to Invel pitching was the. splendid- ‘work of Southpaw George Mogridge, who started for the Yant s. It his three innings Mo- mdwmmltud"oqu two' hits and mly ten men luaed him. HONUSTORE’I‘]RE m M Hear Report That Pittshuirgh, iMargh 13—The base ball world may prepare to bid a long tarewell to Honul'Wlxnu “and’all his gmtnm »on the fleld of plsy. It was learndd , yesurdw 4that the mighty Dutétiman intends fo- lay aside the glove and spiked-shoes and. enter the oil businegs with Fred Clarke, former manager and star. nutflalder ot the Pirates. . Clarke has been in blmnm in ‘the oil flelds in fhe southwest for some time, agd, aecording to all re- has been exceedingly ~fortun- | nte. \ Yale, ‘and sinee 1909 has won_ only one intercollegiate: meet. - With 2,500 men to.draw upon, the Crimson ex- presses the ‘opinion that the track feam should get the same support as other liney. of athletics. forced | |GIANTS PflllNll BALL HARD IN PRACTICE z|mmermun and Thorpe 'l'mmp Horsehide Around Mariin Fief™ Marlin, Tex., March 13 —Homb runs by Zimmerman and Wagne triples. by Thorpe, Sandberg ' and ' 2 Young and a double by Thorpe, wers: i ¥ heavy hitting features in a nine in- ning workout yesterday between teams of Giants captained by Herso; and McCarty. The. regulars, undes Herzog, won by- 6 to 5. With the ex-: ception of Josefson, who played right fleld for the Herzogs in place of th departed Witter, the teams were the same that visited Dallas and Waco and gave four exhibitions of light hit-: ting. The missing hits were rounded. up in good style .yesterday, @s nim teen solid blows were struck at 'thq pitching of Perrm. Causey, \Pl and Harschar. It was the first um' sincé McGraw started practice games here that he permitted the teams - go the tull nine innings. Benny Kauff was a downcast mnr man last nuht. Kauff did not get a' ° safe hit in’the two games at Dallas,; and yesterday when everybody else! was hitting he was still in a slu /Pi Way started for the X wml Perritt. shoving ’em over for-the ' Yanigans. Both. served for five ius nings before relief was sent in. Caugey. replaced Perritt and Harschar took ‘Way's place. Thorpe took first hon- ors in swinging the mace with single, a double and a homer. Perritt yielded the double, while Causey wn nicked for the two others. 7 wit® n el m—c«,mmbm fwwm-‘.m City Baitler. New Haven, March 13.—Doe Hull is il prinked up for his big M'u show- which takes place tonight the Arens. He has a card 'M expedts to mk the big -n.fi-‘q- and give the club patrons one of t‘ dest shows .pulled here in some Tommy Shea, the ‘m instiuctor and Frankle Burns, it Jersey City bantamweight and ‘Doxer of champions, are down for th ndffiber on the bill which is listed for 12 rounds to a decision. ~There is,/, much interest all over the: state -.in, this bout and fans from out-of (oim will come in large nunibers.; . - Shea is reported down :to lll poundl. ringside, - He says he. feels nd fast and that he bas & ' md “chance- against the x-omd it Frankie Burns. , Dave Medar and Charlie &rn-#— ought, to provide plenty of interest tn- the ten round . ‘semi-final bout, ' for they, are bitter rivals and 'both will be out to win by the knoekc‘l'lt m Bergen, it is sald, is hittl than ever before. He looks to be in, fine shape and Manager Guilano siys -he is sure of a win for- his boy . against the New Yorker this time. 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