New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 26, 1917, Page 8

Plon ~Sox Smothered “By Robms--flcGraw Szgns New Contract Callmg For Princely Salary--= tol Bowlers to Roll at Aetna Allies Tomorrow--One-armed Pool Champ to Play at Elmore Parlors S SET PACE AST FOR S0X! Boys Form Rear ol‘ By BRIGES l Who Says They Never Come fi’aek? o Here’s a Quartet That Looks Gooi I:' When a Fel_ler Needs a Ffier;d L Bt Gane Springs, Ark., .March 26,—The bins, nh;lnaion tl\o gue, 80d’ the Bo pions ‘of the’ umverle real ball game here yester- | noon for six innings, and Meyers put on his started a massacre. Elevea war’ " lifted by the, Chiet and’| ‘palefaces’ before ' Silk n put an end to the alaugh- !’ le-lu only fell to the lot from the same cup wmle Was on. lt‘t’:h Larry chenny were pitchers when the game ‘afid botlf; save for .a’ littlo were at' their best., ,Fred the only Robin !.’J get a Babe in the four innings “worked, and Brookiyn chance to acore. Larry also on balls and’ 'made a ut SHIT held his dpponents tightening. up ‘in the b was succeeded in the fitth by ho ‘and Cheney gave.way 8 Smith, | Shore kept up the of his' predecessor in this '-he nen. but ‘the seventh e The-hits which 50 rcw ua far between for . came now fi¥-a Iflthnch ciroanl the, started the Inning Shore’s downfall mo-t in- how the fans 114 ed two ‘wide s %0 the m to on 'his Hext ball wu right over, . oy . t - of th%fiw cwlnn that | %( the Polo. Grounds fanss Y 2 . Phe ‘wail shot, o on: Janvrin’s head, gathered ! d as it travelled on bet: | | H l right, and. finally -ended, with & resounding crash fon: Neediess to say, by the had’ lumbered “second Cutshaw, Myers on were. doing a fox trot in e Robins’ bench. f Conndmw fested tn unmapu ,Clover club. of " achievement, and ranks dangerously close to Phil Carter's famous 66, Mo met as Shore Dddis. ~ Sherrod Smith took, the Cll‘f. ‘who was gazing th- lw-u plate longingly from -at second base. Sher- mt it would take consid- rt on his part to bring the desired Zoal, so he gov- 1 spcordingly, . ‘He hit #6 hard and far that it sailed hrbpd wire feénce about o ooklyn Institute Chess club Sstyrday night. ' He.made & score of Strat- o¢ m 2. lossos and raw. :Ben- mur:'lm'“:u P m“m Ty jain H. Feuer, s S Brgrany oific boyud:rerhwmthoalyuro ohnny Hayes, of New York, will alsa Adefeat ham show ltn & 10 found bout. b e plag. 4 port and Young Me! — a Bdrpd feet back of which Duffy s ‘was playing in left field. Duffy T made an attempt to go after ‘ball’ and Bherrod and the Chief d’In ‘to fhe accompaniment; fur- d by the' delirious spectators. Robins got busy again in the d made life miserable for . who had replaced Shore on | mound. Four runs resulted from ‘patting spree. The score follows r. ‘h ~es 000000614—11 0 1 000000101— 2 14 0 turlu Cheney, Smith, Dell and r.and Meyers;: Ruth, Shore, Pen- and Cady and Agnew. 'Tigers Trim Dallas. D ‘Tex., March 26.—The De- ' Anierican regulars outhit las . Texas league team here yes- 7 #nd won, 4 to 3. Litschi, for , got the first home run of the &t the local park. The score: 26.—The 'Wash- md«m the Cin- Nationals in an exhibition the : hfll ‘Bill Morrisette, a ' young - Mwm with -the Glants, this &fternoon recelved his ord to lu.ve an m return to his N‘\ -Bal Marrisette got his nlnu*!nm ln:- Graw the other day but was held Yesterday he refused to omm orders of Hans Lobert, acting man. .ager: in the absence of McGraw, add Lobert M‘I;d his chief in San An- tonio. is afternoon Labert word from McGraw to give xormz his final walking papers. Morrisette, who pitched for the Baltimore Intér- |nationals, sot his. release from Jack Dunn in order to take a tryout with the ‘Giants. Heé failed to show any lenthusiasm in his work and capped the climax by disobeying orders. Spring footbail. mflu starts at Harvard on' Tuesday, 0, and will continue for omé. lufifl' Coach Leo H. Leary and Captain, Wheeled are to have charge. In the svent of war there will be no practive. AV Young McAuliffe, the Bridgeport featherweight, who boxes Al. Shubert, of New Bedford, at the Arens on Thursday night in a 12 round decision bout before the Ryan A, C., is one of the most popular ring workers jn Con- mecticut. McAuliffe has proved this from a box office standpoint and is the only outside boxer who has on several occasioris come' into New Haven for the reason that in nearly levery instance he has received big money, much more than is ordinarily handed state boxers for performing here. 2 1 Two strokes were clipped from the 's amateur record when Parker . Brooklln.. ‘went aver. the 5 fn 88 m.mu'«nm o2 14 in trcluded ons bad Hols, A, lnn,wiw-.hu Mk ) | | ighth, ‘Whittemore ‘'make up ome of thé thrée B‘emu of tho recent tempting weather which has raised the hopes of " the Yale ‘baseball players, C&vtfln ' Harry LeGore has decided to try to oben the seasoh neanly a week earlier than was originally planned. A game { has been arranged for next Saturday with the Coldnials of New: Hayen, al- though it had not been planned for | the Yale team to play a match be. fore .they reached .the south on their Faster trip and met Trinity college in North Carolina, April 5. The Colo- nials will include & number of old college stars in their membership. In’ case there is no.change jn the present weather outlook, Yale will be able to secure several days’' outdoor practice before fhe nine goes south. Rarely is this possible. Yale has broken a record for material this season with fourteen players who have been regu- lars before, There is a wealth of re- serve material and, although the Veterans of longest experience will un- doubtedly be allowed to begin the season, some of them are likely to be crowded aside before the lively com- petition has proceeded for. The Joliets defeated the MacDuffs by a score of 6 to 1 yesterday in Chicago, in the third round of the national soccer championship series of football games. The Joliéts now will mest the Csledonians at Detroit. 5 — % When Keene Fitspatrick, the Tiger track coach, called out his men for the spring ‘practice the candidates for the first time used the new Palmer Memorial stadium track, The path, bullt last year and allowsd to settle for two wintets, will hereafter be the scens of all Princeton track n&mel The matarials used and the ments of the. strain, together with an m drainage system, have onn!trucu on April 21 " will gtart the spring schedule for the "Mgers. On the following Saturday comes the Penn relay carnival, fol- lowed by the Vigginia and Yale dual 8. - The le will. be com- 4 : BELL CITY QUINTET NEW fiflNTRAfl Gimx' lnllfi' to Share in Chab's " Recsipts. - fafi Antonio, Tex., March 36.—John J. McGraw last night signed a new contract with the Giants. By the terms of the agreement as revealed McGraw will share in profits which } will accrueito the Giants during the next five years. McGraw's original contract, which carried with it a sal- l ary of $36,000 a year, would have been up|at the end of this season, ‘The new salary is not stipulated. ‘The mp-rn Which were signed in this historic. place; were . not - exhibited. G new contract,” said' MéGraw, “practically makes me a partner. It is thoroughly satisfactory-—something that 1 have been looking 'for. for a long time.” The announcement was made at a dinner giver by McGraw. It was sup- posed that the repast was to be served in honor of the forty-second birthday of McGraw, or the twelve thousandth anniversary of the ddy that 8am Crane threw out Phardoh at first in the late lamented Egyptian league—or some- thing like that. CHAMP BURNS HERE Frank Burns, considered the .peer of one-armed pool players in the coun- _try, will give an exhibition this eve- ning at the Elmore Billiard parlors in § Lee’s block, meeting the best players in the city. - The games will commience’ at 8. ¢’clock sharp. Manager Neil Murphy: has made arrangements with Mr, Burns wheréby he will remain in this ¢ity tomorrow, giving exhibitibns lfl,u.‘lun and evening. s, which™ is Burns' hme state, his reputation ranks highest, and many two-handed play- €rs of the popular ganie have fell vic- tim to his prowess. In a recent match game in New York, Burns made the remarkable record run of 95 balls. Besides playing the regulation game, Burns will show a number of trick and fancy shots at which he is very 0 MEET- LOCALS Em Allcys Will Be Center of Smt Interest Tomorrow llight The Bristol .0'“.‘ quintet, which' is making strong bla for honors in /the Inter-city Bowling league, wil] be the opponents of Managsr Roger's ge- lection, tomofrolw _evening on the Astna atrips. - The game will be ' the third meeting of the teams this sea~ #on, the locals having the: victer on previous occasions, this. - has, [ tended to rouse the of the Bell city fiye and they are coming to this city tomorrow evening bent gn a ¢lean up victory. ' ‘Interest in the Mry leagiie . con fl:nxu wt 8row each ‘week, the remilts recent games arousing’ much ien- thusiasm. The Langers five contifiue to set the pace, e gap having widened between the mearest conipett. tor by the threé-time defeat of th Stanley Rule & Level company at the huxdn of the Russell & Erwin team. Lockmakers advanced to a tle wlth the Rule Shop pin smashers for second place. Cutlers and the Union Works will meet this ev and the rooters of both quintets shouting about victory for their favor- ites. * The league leaders will step on the strips Friday evening when the Fafnolr Bearing company, the subway champs, will be their opponents. No change occurred during Week in the individual averages, Free- the. man, Wright and Huck continuing to fight it out with & figure of 100. | Morse of the Stanley Works has jumped into the lead for high single honors with a score of 132 with Blanchard of R. & K. leading the way for aspirants for high total hon- ors, with 343.. The Landers five is the holder of the high team and high to- tal honors. This week’s schedple is as tonowu Monday—Landers vs. Union: Mf Stanley Works vs: Skinners;:Stanley ‘Works league. 3 ‘Tuesday—Inter-City league; tol v&. New Britain; Anchor club, 9 ‘Wednesday—Skinners.. vs. Construction; Mixed party. Thursday—New Buftain Machine vs. Paper Goods;. Miller.& Olson club; Corbin Screw Girls.. Friday—Russell & Stanley Rule & (‘onnruntlnn.‘ Rule & Level Bris- Brand Berlin n ys. Faf- vel vs, Berlin . Ave. 490 - 468 485 Stanley Wuh Union Mfg. - 163" "& -+ Ends league at Olson’s alleys Saturday eve-.: 463 " 463 ‘466 453 456’ 438 Rerlin:-Con. . fkinner Chuck Fafulr. ..... High single, Morss, 132. igh three, Blanchard, ) High teani string, Landers §27." \ High team total Landers, 1527. The: East Ends defested ‘the South. in -the _Broadwny Bowling nlhg. The South Ends made high sin. gle score with 959 ard the East Endl high three strings with 2661. East Ends ...202 150 .169 178 .185. 194 .170° 145 ..183 169 909 834 South Ends ...137 168 .134 180 .148 209 Jurgen .. .216 235 ‘Walthers .. ....169 167 794 /959 SPORTS 70 CEASE 169— 521 160— 505 247— 626 494 918—2661 J1T4— 479 ° 158— 472 169— 526 151— 602 210— 536 862-—2015 uw spring traiging camp ! the fi:dz: nombla comebs ; e ba lsxx i At lhould.r and neck him, an@ he wents | other members of the the brana of ball that m of the greatest pitchers Now Mathewson fs free n a few turn to pitch, the dyp) |have its work cut ‘out, time that Mathewson did stunt; evetonnhrry himse! He caught in" form, md threw to ! rifie ahot. . There are ‘thn Mathewson and tmhn.ttery that will | on’ifne Polo grounds l me:day in the early’ beat the Giants it w to watch the face of . Hagyy Wolters of th d o IF WAR COMES, Harvand Wil Abanm All Games' i Gase of Trouble March 26.—All athletic sports will be suspended at Harvard as soon as a formal“declara- ' Cambridge, Mass., another decided comebach played in the outfield for t in 1910, . He the greatest oumnlqu Reports:from the Cleveland ™ dicate that Joe Wood {8 in shape as he ever was. of baseball, when he wag'. from a arm, seams t0 Joe a lot of good., T! Wood was regarded as ong pitchers the game had ever tion of war is made. During the period ‘of uneominty that must intervene before congress meets for its special session on April 2, the varsity athletic team will ‘con- tinue their training, in preparation for the opening of the spring season next h itéh anything ke e can pi i month, but all plans: will be given up - ers vs. Stanley and all schedules cancelled &s quick~ jly as the word comes from Washing- ton that, the declaration of war has een made. Harvard plans to abandon its whole system of sports on the grounds of military neceesity. Many of the Crim- son athletes, jncluding the captains of the. Vlmty crew and baseball team, are now members of' the reserve offi- cers training corps, and their service will be needed as réssrve officers in case of war. The university. authorities . have tacitly ;sanctioned. the ‘advance ar- rangément. to suspend all _sathletics, hut the actual decision was left to the of the teams, Captain H. B, cs of the varsity crew and Captalna George Abbot of the varsity baseball team have already decided that they iwm disband both of their athietic com- ; binations if ‘congress performs its ex- pocua function in declaring an exist- ing state of, war between the United nd Germany: - The-other sport leainln Harvard have -;md to fall in gne. % 1 We Are Caldring to :Afternoomlbwhg Pin Men Alw: AETNA Ch The makeup league different thathit of past. Business Men heing the only has played heretofore. O comers, the Ramblers sowed: strong and are bound to /for _other, clubs to/ top speed.. In the first game the feated:-the Vikings, tmme%u- pére’ Norfeld {erson for the winners Bengston for the vanqul The Business Mef,. © 1916, got away to a fivi feating the Kamels, ‘scors: Slater and Saxe were in thi the B. M. while Miller. filled a similar role for £ eral new faces were Seen 1 up of “Bill” Mumn'fi | time, but, perior portunity ot 8) tho vthis mq:t'l‘mlo p High