New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 9, 1917, Page 8

Tigers 1 JUCK SETS PACE INFACTORY LEAGUE assell & Erwin Anchor Man Fops List for Individual Honors Huck, the clever bowler of the Rus- & Brwin guintet, continues to set e pace for the individual honors in e’ Factory league, with a top mark £ 99. Right on his heels however. Iy ight, I'reeman and Bertini, with rerages- of 98. While the Landers contintie to lead the league, the gin of advantage is so slight, it one night's play will change the ptire complexion of the first . four ms. 2 | The scores, averages br the week is as follows: T, PC. 8 7T 10 12 12 16 18 18 19 23 29 _ Iugh Averages. Huck .. Wright Freeman Bertini Anderson Thompson Johnson W. Myers Tuttle . Hoffmann ... Cusack ... Erickson ‘Woerdelin Leupold Stotts Neurath Blanchard O’Connell . Robertson ‘ H. Myers . Kahms ... Bowers ‘Westinan ° Nichols .. Schedule For Wcek. Monday—Union Mfg. vs. Jorks; Berlin vs. Skinners. ‘Tuesday—Stanley R. & L. vs. Faf- “Wednesday—Union Mfg., special tch. Stanley R. & L. Girls; mixed f Friday—R. & E. vs. Paper Goods; B. Machine vs. Landers; Tigers vs. . M. C. A - TURNER READY . RIS o f Mute to Mcet Cherokee Indian in Local Fans to Attend Mill. Clay Turner, who meets “Silent” [ n at Dan Butler's all-star boxing thibition in Waterbury Thursday ning, is a full blooded Cherokee n. For the past year Turner jas showed wonderful improvement his work, and there are numerous lowers of the boxing game in Néw [¥ork and Philly who are of the opin- , that he 1s the coming champlon his class. In Martin he is booked mest a tough boy, and the battle ch is over the twelve round route romises to be one of the best ever taged in Connecticut. Al jubert has notified. the man- ment. that owing to an injury to hand he will be unable to meet nkie Burns in the star bout. Man- er Butler has secured Dutch Brandt Brooklyn to meet the Skeeter and the Brooklyn boy has two drdWws his credit with Burns, indications point to “some battle.”” . Local followers of the game have [been afforded a fine chance to witness the battle, through Manager Butler's ding some choice seats here for le. Thesé pasteboards are obtain- ble at the Hotel Nelson, or from Jimmy Talbot or Billy Bullivan. A ial train will be run to and from & bouts. . . WOULD CONTINUE SPORTS tenant McNair of Annapolis Op- posed to Discontinuing Athletics in Colleges Because of War. Philadelphia, April 9.—Major M. . Pickering, the graduate manager of athletics at the University of Penn- sylvania yesterday "-received from b Commander F. V. McNair of fAnnapolis a communication express- ing the opinion that !‘the present agi- tation of a number of our colleges to ncel all athletic activities is well : nt but misdirected enthusiasm.” jZdeut. Commander McNair continues: ' “Logically, colleges wishing to de- ‘welop a military routine would pattern ir daily work on the lines of our military instructions, viz: West ofnt and the Naval Academy. f .“Neither school has the slightest 1 of not carrying out its athletic [ Bchedules, except on orders from % ishington, which are unlikely. In ot the Navy's schedule will be car- | yied out in spite of the graduation of the senior class and the loss of the three: graduate coaches, / 'Only a few years ago a certain admiral made efficiency in fleet ath- letics count second. only to efficiency in target practice. ' “Let us have college athletics and anore of them, just as the British are playing football behind the lines in Flanders.” : schedule Ave. 485 485 460 469 462 465 453 466 456 436 dess tanjey W. & L... tanicy Works ... fnion Mfg .. Faper Goods ..... feriin Con. f. B. Mach. nners afnir Stanley £ | th l When a Feller Needs a Friend | | To act as marshals of golf rules and to answer questions that may be propounded to them by players, Af- teen members of the Upper Montclair Country club have been chosen by the club to act in conjunction With the golf committee. Members mak- ing a properly attested score of 79 on Saturdays and holldays will be awarded a medal, while any member who first breaks the course record of | 68 will be awarded a box of balls. All ! prizes won during the season by the club members will be retained until the end of the season, when a’ prize dinner will be held and thé prizes formally presented. The season will begin April 28 and end November 3. ' Thirty entries have been. received for the amateur boxing tournament to be held under the auspices of the Pastime Athletic club at the .Fair- mount A. C. Arena, 137th Street and Third Avenue on Tuesday and Thurs- day evenings. Among the compet- itors will be some of the best boys in the Metropolitan Assoeiation. Announcement was made at Hart- i ford yesterday that the New England tennis tournament had been called off, on account of the war. Amos Etrunk, *the fastest player on the Athletics has been ordered out of the camp by Connie Mack and given ‘his transportation to Philadelphia, Strunk’'s refusal to obey instructions and his reticence toward Mack was the cause of the flest-footed player being disciplined. Strunk refused to run out fleld-hits this spring and in- stead of taking kindly to the advice glven him by Mack, sulked anhd in Charlotte failed to put in an appear- ance for the game. Mack stated that he would not have any disgruntled star upon his team and that Strunk had not spoken to him for 10 days. His patience was reached yesterday when Strunk stayed away from the ball field and he then decided to pun- ish his star. Before the team de- parted for the South Strunk and Mack had differences over the contpadt and Strunk for a long while refused to sign, only coming to terms before the club left Philadelphia. The boxing card under the auspices of the Lenox A. C. at Meriden has suffered a weeék's postponement, and will be staged Thursday, April .19, The reason for the week’s delay is that the management found that there were so many attractions in the Silver City this week that the boxing card might suffer from too many amusements, and put over the card for another seven days. The program of fights will be the same as has been previously announced, IRelmer, the mili N tary boy, as the star SPORTDOM SPARKLERS with Bobby. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1917. ie Giants in Sprng erzes---—%usyfiWeuék-?lahnd for' Local Bo Thursday Evening—--Annapol o fithifis rr /T ' W, « Cepyrighted 1917 by 7/ ‘ NN \\\\i\ R\ o TR 7 pr ) % n 1’{, / i tlnte et .(,' 7/;/ The Tribune Assce. (New York Tribune)- /\Wi performer, against Charlie Pitts of! Bridgeport. These two scrappers will g0 over a twelve-round route and have agreed to meet at 135 pounds. Athletic contests at ‘West Virginia University will be discontinued on ac- count of the war, it is announced. More than 600 students at the uni- versity are taking military training which will be substituted for ath- letics. Spring football practice was dropped last week and it is expected that announcement of the canceling of the baseball games' will be made within a few dayse. The Boston College baseball team, having cancelled its Southern trip in which the Georgetown University and Catholic University nines were to be played, iast night agreed to meet the Boston Natlonals at Braves fleld on Tuesday. #Harvard was scheduled to play the Braves on that date, but the Crimson has abandoned all its con- tests. — The New York Giant Reserves were defeated by Dave Driscoll's Jersey City nine in the first baseball game of the season yesterday afternoon, the fina] score reading 6 to 2. No action has been taken as yet by the Brown athletic board in calling oft organized athletics for the balance of the season, although announcement of some s=ort is expected when college resumes. Thursday morning after the annual spring recess. The mem- bers of the ‘varsity baseball squad have all remained at college during the vacation period, and have prac- ticed daily when the weather has per- mitted. Only one member of the team, Robertson, an outflelder, is an enlisted man, he being enrolled in battery A, a National Guard unit made up largely of Brown men. Oth- er members of the baseball squad are active in the Brown Officers’ Reserve Corps, but thus far the hours have not conflicted with baseball practice. Jack Britton has performed with such consistent skill and earnestness that his name has never been asso- clated with any questionable bout. Now comes the ‘Boxing Commission .of Columbus, Ohio, and enters an or- der of suspension against the welter champion on the charge that he did not put forth his best efforts in a bout with Bryan Downey in that city. The commission is also investigating the actions of Downey with the avowed purpose, in case the charges are sustained, of giving the local man the same dose. According to the ac- cusation lald against the champion, lhe boxed with Downey when both were training in a local gymnasium, and so far as spectators could see he did not extend himself any to hold his own. As a result when their real fight in OHio came off there were charges that Britton had slowed up to enable Downey to make a good show- ing. The Toledo American association club again defeated the Boston Amer- icans in an exhibition game vesterday. The score was 6 to 1. Vance and Brady held the world’s champions to four scattered hits, their only run be- ing scored on a plate error. After a successful run of several weeks the all around athletic contests at the Y. M. C. A. have come to a close with George Holmquist the score man in the senior division. R. Bradbury is high score man in the High school class; H. Hall and J. El- liott are the high score men in the employes B and A classes, respective- ly. The high score for the junior class was made by Davis. Two events will be held in the High all around aquatics today. An innovation in the social side of the gymnasium work at the. Y. M. C. | ers, Travers A New York, April 9.—The Metropol- | ilan Golf association handicap com- mittee has placed, Jerome D. Trav- the Upper Montclair amateur, once more alone at scratch. The sit- uation is somewhat different from last year. A year ago Jerry not only held the scratch position, but was so far i iregarded in a class by himself that school | A. has been planned by Physical Di- ; rector W. S. Slater and on April 30 there will be a big banquet for all those that won prizes in the athletic events during the year. of the banquet is to keep up the fel- Jowship and social work and to bring the athletes into closer relationship. There are now 104 men eligible but with the close of the equatic events and the indoor baseball season there will be a great many more added to the list. Plans are already under way for a tennis tournament which will be conducted along lines similar to those of last summer’s tournament. HONEYMAN’S AUTO GO, 189 MAIN STREET. Dealer for MITCEELL MOTOR CARS, Vim n.ad Seldon Trucks. Livery Cars for Hire. Storage, Repniring and Supplies. Telephone, 221-4. INDIANA WORM DR .VE A YEAR TO PAY 1Ton ...... ee... $1,385.00 2 . $2,100.00 31 Ton . coose ... $2.750.00 5Tom ... P ... $3,600.00 GOLD CARRIAGE CO., 314 PARK STREET ‘Phone 473-4—1435-2, ‘The purpose . | no one was placed better than two. On the new list the second position is omitted entirely. Oswald Kirkby, the tall Englewood player, who won both FANDOM READY T0 HEAR ‘PLAY BALL' National Pastime Opening Wel- nesday Awaited With Interest - Despite the fact that Uncle Sam is putting on his boxing gloves for what may come, it will take more than war to make him forget that the bhig league season again is here. Uncle Sam can de many things at the same time, and while he will keep both eyes open for submarines, from 3 to 6 p. m. next Wednesday he will find a few moments to take sidewise glances at bulletin boards showing how the sixteen major league clubs are faring in their first skirmishes of the 1917 season. ' According to statements by Presi- dents Tener and Johnson of the Na- tional' and American leagues Tespec- tively, the two major leagues estab- lishéd new attendance records season. Baseball interest runs just as high this spring as it did last and there is far more interest than marked the springs of 1914 and 1915, Federal leaguc years, hence should be a banner year. this awakened interest in baseball is di- rectly due to the fact that the old championship machines ‘of Ceonnie Mack and John McGraw are now only memories and that in the last three seasons three different dark horses won the National league pennant. The Athletics of several vears back composed the greatest team baseball has yet known, but they did more to put a damper on interest in Ameri- can league ball than anything which ever hit the Johnsonian circuit. While Mack killed American league ball in Philadelphia by breaking up his great team, he revivified interest in the Ameircan league. ! When it was only a question as to whether the Athletics would win the pennant by ten or fifteen games there | could be little interest in New York, Cleveland or St, Louis. ‘When one knows before a ball is pitched that the best thing you can hope for is second place he cannot arause him- self to the zenith of excitement. This spring six clubs of the Ameri- can league feel they have a chance for the pennant—New York, Chicago, Boston, Detroit, St, Louls and Cleve- land, while Griffith of Washington be- wlers---Turner is Lieutenant Opposed to Cancelling College Athletics---Other Sports gain ?_l.a—ced _at Bottom of the Pile| BENTON'S HURLINGS the Metropolitan titles last summer, has gone up to one, while the others, John G. Ander- :son and Max Marston, who were at 'two a year ago, are now at three, while Walter J. Travis, because of i his course architect activities, is drop- One other man who shares the three rating with Anderson and Marston is Gardiner W. White, This year's list contains 624 names as against It goes . called off yesterday on ped completely. the Flushing champion. 628 on the previous sheet. from scratch to nine, inclusive. lieves he has an outside chance and Mack of the Athletics says this is the | year he will come back. The fans in New York never had the confidence in a local American league club that they have this spring. their if the| Chicago writers ' are telling readers it will be a miracle year. Louis the fans believe not show true In St. Browns did last fall. champion Red Sox. It is most natural therefore, with so many . entries championship hopes the as they did last season. In the National league have been told so often the that The Bronx. on the Giants. team in the National league, During midwinter Stallings, Moran | Robinsan were gloomy in discussing With their the National league race. teams on the field they have taken on fresh hopes. After what Stallings ac- complished in Boston in 1914 he is | not likely to concede any team the pennant. With all his players signed except Mowrey, and Fabrique a bright prospect, filling the positian at short, life has taken on a brighter hue for Robby of Brooklyn. No sooncr did Moran of Philadelphia get his first glimpse of Alexander than he forgot all about how those four straight defeats at the hands of the Giants on the Polo Grounds last fall beat him out of the 1916 pennant. Even in Chicago they have taken new hope since the appointment of Fred Mitchell as manager, while Cin- cinnati expects Mathewson to work some sort of a miracle there. As St. Louis fans have purchased the Car- dinals they naturally will be greatly interested in their investment, ‘The Pittsburgh lineup is unlikely to bring much glee to Pirate fans. Three teams given little considera- tion in the spring dope won the Na- i to Meet and New Jersey White Sox do not come through this Detroit, after being thwarted twice by a few games, is now con- vinced that some of Jennings' young pitchers have sufficient experience to bridge over the few games which cast the club the pennant in 1915 and 1916, the form until Jones’ men made the great mid- summer dash, and feel the club will ' heavyweight champion of the start in this spring where it left off Cleveland, like New York, believes only injuries beat the club out of the American elague pennant last year, while Boston still has im- plicit confidence in,its twice world’s that entertaining | when the'confiict begins and Ric interest Mitchell, the noted Milwaukee Hght should run high. These clubs should weight, announces that he will enli run neck and neck right to the finish, fans the last Giants will have the pennant won by July that they now are beginning to doubt it— outside of Manhattan and The interest in the Na- the tional league must of neccessity hinge ! Though Brooklyn is i the leaguec champion, every baseball In the opinion of many experts the man knows that last fall the Giants stood head and shoulders above any Ma rimn TIGER POUND Jeuings' Men Even Up Spring, Series—Other Exbibition Games 3 | Kansas City, Mo., April 9—The acri- | monious series between the New York . Glants and the Detroit Tigers ended# yesterday in a drawn battle, when the | Tigers slaughtered the Polo Ground. | ers by a score of 6 to 1. Each team won four games. It was a raw, blustery day, and the game was played on a fleld dotted here and there with snowdrifts. The Giants could not be warmed to the fighting pitch In fact,” they hardly thawed out durlpg the game. The game was perhaps the dullest of a series that bristled with excite- ment ever since Tyrus Raymond Cobh spiked Herzog. The Gilants started for Indianapolis immediately after the! game. The score: r. h. Detroit ..... 400010010-—6 10 1 New York 000010000—1 5 1 Batteries—James, Boland, Cunning- ham and Yelle; Benton, Anderson and McCarthy and Rariden. ’.' Yanks in Tenth. Newark, N. J, April 9.—Frank Gilhooley’s single in the tenth inning enabled the Yankees to defeat the Newark Bears at Newark ' yesterday, afternoon. The score was 5 to 1. It was the first game at Wiedemays ! er's park this season, and about f6 thousand fans huddled up in overs: coats and wraps sat through the tes & innings. Preparatory to the game tha Yanks, headed by Sergeant Smith Gibson, and with Manager Donovan his first aid, paraded ‘around i fleld, but did not go throush gny the drills which were taught them ing the south. Those in the stands and, bleachers applauded wildly as _the players marched around, headed " a2 band from one of Newark’s play< grounds. The score: r. h New York 0100000004—5 13 Newark .... 0000000100—1 6 Batteries—Love, Ferguson. En. right, Ross and Alexander; Wilkinson Smallwpgd and Egan and Blackwelly ] The Pittsburgh National’s secon team lost to the local Southern clation team at New Orleans yester- day, score 12 'to 4. " The Washington American-Colum- bus American assoclation was poned yesterday on account of sno The St. Louis city serles A ! was postponed yesterday on accf o jof cold weather. X L The Cincinnati-Cleveland game W#s (] account * of 8 snow. e ' BOXERS ARE PATRIOTIC —_— Noted Pugilists Quickly Fall in With Willard in Offering Serviocs’ Uncle Sam. Appropriately the men - who kay fought with padded gloves in he roped square are quick to volun » thelr services in the fight e shrapnel will have to be faced in d of hooks and uppercute. Several of the leading pugllists off America announced previous to. declaratjon of war that they . would serve cle Sam, but Jess WAl 1 o ) | 1 | was the airst to formally offer his se: vices. ~ Frank Moran is on record with . assertion that nothing will pleass more than to help man guns of of of our battleships. Jack Dillion declered he certal would be found close to the colol | within a week. Hundreds of other boxers have asi nounced they would go to the and there is small doubt that the bax ing clan will ‘be quite as numerous behind the Stars and Stripes as is th case in the French and British ar: mies. The fact that Les Darcy has . out first papers opens a golden > tunity to take up 'arms for the coun try of his adoption, and Freddl Welsh and Kid Lewis can ailso 3 advantage of the chance to fight for America and their native land. tional league pennant in 1914, 19 and 1916. ‘Where the penn changes so often it freshens inte especially after the Cubs and Gian had so long bossed the league. X0 that reason fans in other citles expecting another miracle and a overlooking the great strength of Mc Graw's team. We Are Catering to | | Afternoon Bowling Pin Men Always on Hand ' AETNA ALLEYS, Church Street SMOKE OXMOOR A MILD, PLEASANT Se CIGLD