New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 11, 1917, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDA¥; APRIL 11, 1917. \Penn Decides to Continue Athletics---Jamaica Racing Card Looks Strong---Welsh Wants to Be a Soldier =--Several Colleges Vote to Aban UTLOOK GOOD FOR RATING _SEASON gourteen Stakes fo Be Run Over Jamaica Course i —_— ‘New York, April 11.—Thorough- fred racing will flourish this year as pver before. Such at least are the idications, judged by the number of oung horses nominated to start in| .36 stake races to which they arc igible. Fourteen stakes will be Tun uring the May and June meetings of e Metropolitan Jockey club over the BAmaica track, and no fewer. than Bventy-one horses have been named > start. (In every one of the more important ices to be held under the ausp!c:‘s| I the Metropolitan Jockey club th trics outnumber those of last year. J@ some instances, notakly the South- fapton Handicap, for three-year olds, [iperc is an incrcase of miore than 100 Richer prizes are largely ible for the greater interest on part of the owners. \ [The net value of the Southampton 11 be $3,500 or more. The Kings ounty and the Long Beach handi- ps will carry a value of some $4,000, hich is a substantial increasc over are larger prizes being ered by the local associations, but Saratoga as well. It was an- jjounced at the headquarters of the ackey Club yesterday that two of four more important steeplechase mdicaps would be of greater value §an, herctofore. The Saratoga will ave $2,000 added money, an increase £ $500 over last year, while the erwyk will have $250 added, and 1 be worth $1,250 in all The forth American and the Shillelah andicaps will be worth $1,000 as iey werc last year. These races will ¢ on Manday, May 7. jouriess, August Belmont's great by Negofol—Hourglass II, has n nominated to start in the Stuy- nt handicap along with seventy- l¥o others. Last year only thirty- jlne were named to start in this race. fr. Belmont's wonder horse will pete against the hest blood cf the g&f, including Tumbler and Hwfa, Harry Payne Whitney's stabl indrew Miller's Ticket, W. R. Coe's ick Mount, which is named to start WHEN You Leave YouR HOUSE ON A cLOUDY MORNING INTENDING To TAKE AN UMBRELLA, AND LEAVE WITHOUT (T - AND HES\TATE DowWN STAIRS AR O DN N MORNWG| in the Kentucky Derby: J. O. Whit- low’s Westy Hogan, Gifford A. Coch- ran’s Mary Powell and a host of athers well known to racing enthus- jasts. The Excelsior hdndicap, for three- year olds and upward, at one mile and one-sixteenth, has attracted the best af horses. Strombolli, Pennant, Chicle, Hwfa, George Smith, The Finn, Boots, GhHe Prudential Outfitting Co. Clothe Yourself the PRUDENTIAL Way. We Are Located at 9 Washington Place (South of R. R. Tracks, Rear 310 Main Street.) There is no delay in selecting your Clothes as we have on hand Ladies’ Coats, Dresses, Suits and Skirts All the Latest Advanced Styles of the Season, Men’s Suits and Topcoats All the latest varieties in colorings and Styles. - REMEMBER ! Ours is a CREDIT SYSTEM—Cash or Charge Ac- count, - Payment of $1.00 Per Week Is Acceptable Strictly Confidential. We Invite Inspection. Ghe Prudential (Iuttitling Go. AND FINALLY DECIDE To TAE A CHANCE AND BACK AND DISCOVER NOT Ain’t it a Grand and Glorious Feelin’? - AND AT LUNCH HouR 1T SimPLY POURS 4 ONLY An UMBRELLA BUT ALSO. YOUR RUBBERS You HAD LEFT THERE 'The LAST Time ) IT CLEARED 0P, Eld Crump Dodge, Spur, Star Hawk, Sortie, Sand Marsh, winner of the event last year; Ormesdale and many others will try conclusions. Practical- ly the same fleld has been named for the Long Beach and the Kings County handicaps. No fewer than 104 two-year-olds: will fight it out’ in the Youthful Stakes, which is at five and one-half furlongs. Ten of the juveniles of the “Wickliffe Stable have been named for this race, while James Butler has named seven and H. P. Whitney six. ! The Rosedale Stakes, for fillies ex-| clusively, received ninety-seven en- tries, 2 WELSH WANTS T0 FIGHT, { baseball club to the Newark club of Lightweight Champion Writes Gov- ernor Whitman That He is Ready | to Organize a Regiment. New York, April 11—Undeterred by the misfortunes of Jess Willard, whom the naval authorities have de- clared too big to be a sailor, Fred- die Welsh yesterday sent a letter to Sopwrichind 1017 by The Toibune Assce. (Now York Teibumt); SPORTDOM The National league opening be- tween the Giants and the Braves, scheduled for today was Braves, field being covered with snow last night. The first game will be played tomorrow. The Giants arrived late last night from Indianapolis, where they ended their spring junket. The Polo Ground- ers are in the best of health, with the exception of Manager J. J. McGraw, who is suffering from ptomaine -pois- oning, contracted at Kansas City. Outflelder Eldred was released last night by the Chicago Amertican league the International league, according to Secretary Grabauer. Bruno Haas already has been sent to. Newark by the White Sox. Military training for ball players is to be' adopted immediately through- out the American association, Presi- dent Hickey announced last night ‘Heretofore only two clubs, Milwaukee and Indianapolis have pursued the policy . Gov. Whitman offering to form a reg- | iment for service in France. Welsh says he will finance the project by boxing challengers for the lightweight title. He will turn his share of the purse over to the authorities. Welsh assured Gov. Whitman that all his interests were in the United States, that his wife and children were American and that he felf called upon to do his bit for the colors. The champion asked the gov- ernor to arrange a_conference with one of his military gids in order that | his proposal may be acted upon. BURNS-BRANDT BOUT Local Followers of Boxing Game to Be Out in Force at Brass City Ex- hibition Tomorrow Evening, New Britain will be well repre- sented at the baxing exhibition ‘Waterbury tomorrow evening, Frankie Burns and Dutch Brandt will clash in the star bout of fifteen rounds. , The semi-final affair bring- ing together Silent Martin and Cla Turner is being watched with even i | with Caddock. ! fall and Caddock the Joe Stecher, claimant to the nation- al catch-as-catch-can wrestling cham- pionship, explaining his failure to ra- turn to the ring for the third fall of his 'match with Earl Caddock last night, said he was in his dressing room preparing to go on with the match and did not know the time was up when informed that the match had been awarded to Caddock Stecher denied his manager's state- ment that'he had refused to wrestle and declared he wished another match Stecher got the first second. Then Stecher failed to appear for the de- ciding fall. » { Williams college recently announced as having cancelled the baseball game with the Army, has reconsidered and will cross bats with the cadets here today. Jack Egan, former American league in ympire, is the new manager of the when proyidence team. Eagen was selected at the elev-« International league enth hour instead of Otto Knabe. The leader of the Grays already has somo good players to workj with. They are Rehg, Eayrs, Kane, Peters, more interest than the star go, the gcnyits, Gilmore and E. Onslow. Egan deaf mute having a number friends in this city. of has lines out for several youn Young Mack of | flaoiline . b > | Meriden, who has announced his In-!anq the Cincinnati Reds. | players now with the Boston Red Sox The Provi- H | tention of retiring, will face a “tough . gence club is owned by Ik " i y local business bird”. in Art Lard of Waterbury. men including John Gammos, a for- lMIkc Farrell and Billy Richards will make up the remainder of the bill. | A spectal train. will leave this city for the bouts returning at the close of the The management has sent to mill. this city a number of choice which are obtainable at the Nelson. CARS TO RENT CLOSED AND OPEXN CARS FOR WEDDINGS, RECEPTIONS, ETC. TEL. 948-2, MORRIN’S GARAGE, 200 E. MAIN STREET Keeley’s Garage Elm and Franklin Streets. Dealer for Overland and Cole Cars. Livery Cars for Hire. Storage and Supplies. Repairing a Specialty., Tel. 1228 mer Brown university baseball and football star; Mike Lynch, who once pitched for the Pirates and Giants; Gov. Beeckman, Senator Perry and others. George M. Cohan offered to seats | yake over the franchise, but the Prov- Hotel idence men decided to keep it themselves. for Fifteen hits for a total of twenty- five bases, together with eight bases .on balls and two hit batsmen, netted the Cleveland Americans thirteen runs and defeated the Toledo American As- sociation club, 13 to 0, in an exhibi- tion game at Toledo yesterday. Johnny Dundee stopped Jimmy Powers in the ninth round at the Pioneer Sporting club in New York last night. The release of Joseph Coffindaffer, pitcher, and William Ratsch, out- flelder, to the Springfield, Ohio, club of the Central league was announced by officials of the Pittsburgh National ! SPARKLERS| ~———— league club today. - The two men will report ta the Springfield club at once. postponed, | Robert B. Peck, captain of the 1916 University of Pittsburgh football team i and twice selected by football experts for the All-American team, has signed a contract to take charge of athletics at Culver Military Academy, Culver, Ind. Peck will coach baseball, bas- ketball and football, Steve Yerkes, second baseman with the Chicago Natianals, was released last night to the Indianapolis club of the American Association. Yerkes, a former Pittsburgh Federal player, is under a Federal league contract call- | ing for $6,500 a year. His release is taken to mean that Larry Doyle will !be in condition to play second. Va., recently selected as an umpire in the Central league for this season, en- | Dorsey V. Jones, of Moundsville, W. ! listed at the naval recruiting station { yesterday, Under the management of Doc Hull | the Newhallville A. C. will present a boxing show at the Arena the night of April 27, in which Al Shubert and Tommy Shea will appear in the star baut of 12 rounds. Other bouts are under consideration to complete a good card and it is expected that Dave - Fitzgerald will referee the fights. ‘William Gershel, a Class B. player won the first annual 18.2 balkline bil- liard handicap tournament for the J. Ferdinand Poggenburg memorial trophy at Daly’s last night by defeat- ing Jacob Klinger, former Austrian | champion, in the final and deciding game. Gershel won four games and lost only one in the final round robin. Francis S. Appleby was relegated to a tie for second place during _the afternoon when he was defeated by his brother, Edgar T. Appleby, by 250 to 204. Outfielder Yardley of the St. Louis Americans and Shortstop Stevenson, , fielder with Rochester in 1915, were !signed by the Little Rock Southern lassoclation club yesterday. James Sullivan, the 135-pound Met- repolitan association champion and runner-up, in the national tournay last week, outpointed Tom Hughes, Paulia Athletic club, in a 136-pound bout in the amateur boxing tourney at the Fairmont Athletic club last night. The bouts were held under the direc- tions of the Pastime Athletic club, which is endeavoring to collect suf- ficient money to replace its clubhouse, which was destroyed by fire. MOTOR TRUCKS I ! For hire for long hauls and excava- |uonwork..capldt1 5% tons. Al grades of Sand, Crushed Stone and Cinders for sale and delivered. 168 Arch St, R.M. HEALEY, “1q i204-3. Distributor for Kissel pleasure cars and Kisscl trucks. Closed cars for rent. Parties taken out. Hudson, Oaklam;, Maxwell Motor Cars Williams Auto Co. lmnee and Show Service Station Room 1 and 3 Main St. 287 Elm St ' cided yesterday to continue athletics “ern university to adopt this ‘from Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Cor- don Sports During War -Period---Fight Fans Going to Brass City| ' HERE are wonderful as- T sortments of clothes in out store, and a clever constant stream of new arri- vals to fill up the gaps in the firing line—maintaining daily the maximum of selections. Little wonder the clothing busi.iess of this town centers in this popular store. There never was a better time to get acquainted with us and our clothes than RIGHT NOW. A 100 Pe_r ‘Cent. Fit for Any Figure The ready made clothes you find in our store provide for every kind of a “build.” Don’t let the fact that you're not a “regular” keep you away. We have a model that will fit every variation in the human form. Suits and Topcoats at $10and $20 357 Main Street, New Britain Waterbury Branch ) 161 So. Main Street PENN DECIDES T0 |FAFNIR BOWLERS CONTINUE SPORTS. ARE OUTCLASSED letes Wil Have Milltary 15-'Rale Suop Lane Antsis Add to straction-Carnival Plans Stand | — Championship Chances “i &) The Fafniy Bearing company bowl- } ing team continues to prove easy pick- ,ing for the other quintets in the Fac- tory league, the latest aggregation to profit by the lack of ability on part of the Booth street boys belng tho Stanley Rule & Level company, which secured three games last evening on ‘the Aetna alleys. The scores were very close, and interest wis at high pitch throughout the match. Young tcpped off the high score for the vie= tors with a total of 304. Erickson was the best performer for the vanquished team. The scores follow: Stanley Rule & Level. Stotts .. 96 86 93— 280 § Wagner -— 11T Jones . 89— 256 Young ... 93— 304 McBriarty 88— toch ..... 84— Iy Erickson Fugo ... McAvay Daley Claney Philadelphia, April 11.—The board of directors of the Athletic association of the University of Pennsylvania de- at the university with every athlete under the military supervision of Ma- jor William Kelley, U. S. A. Pennsylvania is the only large East- course during the international crisis. Despite the action of several of the large Eastern universities in cancel- ling their athletic schedules for the remainder of the season, University of Pennsylvania officials said yesterday this action would have but slight ef- fect on the relay carnival to be held here April 27 and 28. There has been no halt in the plans for the carnival, and it was officially stated that there was no present indi- cation of calling it off. ‘While a number of star athletes nell and Columbia who were entered in the championship events will be prevented from taking part by the ac- tion of their institutions, a large num- ber of entries have been received from the middle West. 92 87 93 74 437 SMOKE OXMOOR A MILD, PLESANT $e CIGUB 3 100— 447—1325 | 441 We Are Caiéfiné t.(; ¢ Afternoon Bowiing Pin Men Always on Hand | AETNA ALLEYS, l Church Street