New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 2, 1917, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1917, GIANTS AND WHITE SOX BOTH PROVE GOOD FINISHERS—NELLA DILLON EQUALS WORLD’S RECORD FO CHAMPIONS LOOK VERY BAD—NO VARSITY FOOTBALL FOR PRINCETON—HIGH SCHOOL TO HAVE ATHLETIC MEET—PLAN TO RETAIN BOXING —~——. FOR PRINCETON ming Rivals Both Maintained | Dean McClenahan Declares Only 1 Fast Pace to the End ) New York, Oct.,, 2.—While the win- ing of a pennant and the resultant | this season will be represented Freshmen Will Play This Season Princeton, N. J.,, Oct. 2.—Princeton in articipation in the World Series is|football only by ‘a freshman eleven, sed upon the number of 'on during the- cntire season of lea- e play it is as a rule the final ecks of the schedule in which f¢hampionships are clinched. 4 riod of the play the leading teams each league are putting forth their | wanted other branches of test efforts in an attempt ure first place and each lruggle is fought out to the finish. games | according to a statement yeterday by Dean Howard McClenahan. Lack of material was given as the reason. All the | but one of the 1916 regulars have en- At this | tered some branch of the service. The dean stated that if the students athletics to| they could have them, but as football day’s | practically supports the other sports it would be a difficult proposition to OF this reason it has frequently been | finance them this year. d that the true speed of a team in the b , Based upon this assumption AN | uates and alumni The board of athletic control meets ‘World Series can be gauged from | on Friday and it will be decided then power of its play near the point | whether or not Princeton will partici- ere the pennant was mathematically | pate in contests with other colleges. A great many of the undergrad- |A Handy Man Around the House have accepted as of the work of the Chicago | final the announcement that Prince- ericans and the New York Na- tlonals In the closing weeks of the t season should afford a some- v general outline of the form which may be expected of these two olubs when they meet in the Worlds {Series of 1917. On the first day of September the Chicago White Sox ‘were leading in the American League 4 1-2 games over the Boston Red while the New York Nationals led the Phillies in the senior league by 9 games. |t In neither case was the lead t that the runner-up clubs did not | 56280ns. have a chance to overtake and pass pace setters. Under the circum- nces the New York and Chicago were forced to play their best | t0 157 e and despite an accasional de- the records show that they ravelled at high speed up to the very nent that the flag was won beyond g dventure. " During the first twenty days of ptember the New York Nationals ton will not play any football. Others have expressed belief that it is not too late to have a varsity squad out to prepare for another season or even play one game with Harvard. ‘With the present understanding that there will be no varsity con- tests a series of interclass games is being arranged. Princeton is looking with more than usual interest at the freshman squad. . It appears to be the most likely lot of Tiger cubs in several The eleven average 165 pounds. The line, with an average of 178 pounds, is 21 pounds heavier than the backfield, which averages up Keck of Mercersburg, Sweet of Lawrenceville, Pennry of Blake School, Ball of Exeter, Opie of Pea- body High and Robinson of Ashe- ville have all showed up to advantage in the backfield. For the line Mc- Caul, a tackle from Lawrenceville, Lynch of Kiski, Speers from Hill and ed twenty-three games of which | Dean of Lawrenceville are likely men 6y won sixteen and lost seven, show- & winning average of .696 for that Cooper of Hotchkiss are waging for the tackles. Sheerer of Hill and a riod. In the same number of days |Strong fight for the pivot position, and [Bre Chicago White Sox played fifteen | Hawke and Carpenter of Lawrence- mmes of which they won all but | Ville and Wood of Hill are sizing up hree for an average of .800. ifteen ' games the Chicago players cumulated a total of eighty-two runs their opponents’ fifty-four or an ge of close to five and a half runs per game. The Giants aggre- eighty runs in twenty-three ames for an average of three and ‘half runs per contest while their ponents collected fifty-six. If the sing strength were equal in all mes, which was not the case how- ver, it might be assumed that the White Sox attack was stronger than that' of the Glants while the latter's | Ehiladelphia defense was harder to break thraugh. | St. Louls . fThe fact that these clubs did not, of | Cincinnati . course, face the same opponents must | Chicago not be overlooked. L Edge For Sox Hurlers. Much stress has been laid upon he respective ability of the pitchers of the two clubs and the part that these ftwirlers will play in the winning of the Warld Serles. For this reason a comparison of their box records dur- ing the period under consideration fmay be helpful to the followers of game. The Giants have used Sal- Perritt, Schupp, Tesreau and [Benton for an average of 34 3-5 in- Bnings each in the twenty day perfod 'while Demaree and Anderson have 'worked an average of 17 1-2 each. For the White Sox Cicotte, Willlams Rand Faber have borne the brunt of the ipitching, having averaged forty in- nings. Danforth and Russell be- tween them pitched thirty innings, an average of ten innings. ~ The work of the pitchers of both feams showing innings pitched, hits allowed and earned runs scored off their delivery follows: Chicago. H. E.R. 43 51 20 11 17 ceceesteees 13 DPanforth ) Totals Ballee Perritt f Benton Sohupp Tesreau . Demaree .. Anderson Totals GRIFFITH MAKES PRESENTATION Boston, Oct. 2.—This was “bat and ball day” at Fenway park, with free lfadmission to soldiers and sailors to [ watch the double-header between the fBoston and Washington American league teams. An invitation was ex- tended to Brig. Gen. John F. John- ston, commander of the department of the northeast, to throw out the first ball, and Clark Griffith, manager | of the Washington club, arranged to present' to the army and navy men £35,000 worth of baseball parapher- nalia. MacLEOD CHOS] CAPTAIN. Malden, Mass, Athlete to Lead Crim- son Bascball Team in 1918, Cambridge, Mass.,, Oct.,, 2.—Willard | In these [ well for the guard positions. BASEBALL IN A NUTSHELL NATIONAD LEAGUE. Resultg Yesterday. Pittsburgh, 2; Boston, 0. Standing of the Clubs. New York 96 86 82 Boston ‘Brooklyn Pittsburgh Gameg Today. Boston in Brooklyn (twoa) New York in Philadelphia (two) AMERIOCAN DEAGUE, Results Yesterday. New York, 4; Chicago, 2. Standing of the Clubs. e +100 54 secaws 88 . 88 coens 78 soae T1 cemen 69 . 57 . 64 Chicago Boston Cleveland Detroit ... ‘Washington . New York St. Louis . Philadelphia .. Games Today. Philadelphia in New York. ‘Washington in Bostan. TONG DRILL AT FORDHAM. McCaffery Works to Improve Inter- ference of His Eleven. New York, Oct. 2.—A littte surprise was sSprung at Ford- ham yesterday when Coach Mc- Caffery ordered a two hour drill, in- cluding a thirty minute scrimmage, for the football squad. The players did not come up to expectations on Sat- urday, ang. McCaffery decided the best way tosremoygithe errors was to work them out-.ihstead of holding a bit of skull “practice. Incidentally a drive was started for the game with the all star ambulance eleven at Allentown on Friday. Charging and interference came in for no little attention. Colletti, Frisch, Galligan and O'Connell carried the ball for the varsity. Brennan and Dempsey confining their efforts to showing interference. Gulick, former | Princeton freshman tackle, played well for the scrubs smearing a num- ber of varsity plays. Mullan another tackle, also played in good form. DEAD HEAT AT LOUISVILLE. Hollister and Opportunity Finsh On Even Terms. Louisville, Ky., Oct.,, 2.—Racegoers were treated to a dead heat here yes terday when A. K. Macomber's Hollis- ter and W. Woodward’s Oppurnity finished so close together in the fifth race that the judges could not separ- ate them. The race was at one mile and a Wise MacLeod of Malden yesterday | sixteenth and was stirring contest from .was named as acting captain and | flag fall to judges. Fred T. Fisher of Chicago manager of the Harvard varsity bseball team | Opportunity. for the coming year. McDermott rode Hollister and Hoag had the leg on Copyright 1917, by The Tribune Assoclatton (New York Tribune) — — By Briggs THE WIRE IS OFFA ONE SIDE AGNES — VISITING BOWLERS WIN Hartford Aberthaw Employes Prove Too Good for Local Workmen on Aetna Alleys. 5 A bowling quintet consisting of em- ployes of the Aberthaw company of Hartford came to this city last even- ing and administered a three-time de- feat to local employes of the same concern at the Aetna alleys. The scores follow: New Britain. 90 88 84 89 87 89 66 89 82 110 409 465 Hartford. 260 264 263 233 278 ‘White Sloat Short McNeil Brinton ... 82— 81— 87— 78— 86— 414—1288 83 104 84 80— 90— 86— 96— 98— 450—1383 Jackson 252 H. Manson . Rich Batton . Aitken 84 92 113 96 93 95 472 T0 BOOM ATHLETICS Physical Director Moorhead Arranges Track and Field Events at Berlin 262 305 286 Fair Grounds on Columbus Day. Physical Director Moorhead of the public schools is completing arrange- ments for an inter-class athletic meet to be held probably at the Berlin Fair grounds Friday, October 12. The events will take place in the fore- noon and will be confined entirely tative plans call for the following events: 100 and 220 yards dash; one mile relay race, running high jump; running broad jump; patting the 12- pound shot. The revised schedule of the football team is as follows: October 6, Spring- field High, in Springfield; October 18, Waterbury High, in this city; October 20, Pittsfleld High, in Pittsfleld; Oc- tober 27, Holyoke High, in Holyoke; November 3, open; November 10, Hartford High, in this city, (league game); November 17, Naugatuck High, in this city; November~24, New Haven High, in New Haven, (league game.) The following managers have been chosen for various sports at the school: Football, Allyn Bristoll; bas- ketball, Cornelius Prior; baseball, Harry P. O'Connor; tennis, Henry Maier; track, Cyril Gaffney; business manager, Howard Krick; assistant managers, football, Jesse Tomlin and William O'Brien; basketball, Harold Miller. RUTGERS BACK AT WORK. Game With Ursinue. New Brunswick, N. J., Oct., sinus game in good condition. a few days. As a result of the | dead heat Hollister paid less in “MacLeod played secand base on his | mutuals to win than he did for place. freshman nine a year ago las! end was eiected to the freshman cap- Sainay st spring He was $2.80 first, $3.10 place and $2.70 third. $9 and $5.40. | Ursinus. Today hard work will I i week, ’ 2783 to members of the High school. Ten- | Only Hummell Was Injured in the 2.— Mecmbers of the Rutgers faotball squad except Hummell, right end, who has a bruised arm, came out of the Ur- He is expected to be in shape again within Yesterday afternoon the work was light, consisting mostly of correcting errors brough out in the play a,gulrmti be the | started for the Syracuse contest, which ! | will be played on October 13. Rutgeks States naval reserve, in which he en- s looking for a game to be played in Opportunity pald $7.10, | New Brunswick on Saturday of this| his first game next Saturday against SON CLOSE SEASON SHOVINGPOR Yankees Make Windy Gty Glub i Look Like Tailenders ! Grounds. land would be a managerial genius if he could win a pennant in the Three I league with the White Sox as they played yesterday at the Polo | applications filed had been from those : Kauff, Burns and Herzog left The game was put on for CHICAGO FANS PROTEST Many Protests Are Raised Against Al- Club Officials. ! Chicago, Oct. 2.—Vigorous protests from scores ceived yesterday at the Chicago American league park when the first batch of unfilled applications for world series tickets were returned to their senders. Letters stating the ap- send their requests for seats came in by the hundreds. Resentment was expressed by many because the first { which reached the park by special | leged Discrimination Showed byl of Chicagoans were re- | WHERE DID WE GET Tihs PICTURE AGG\E — | NEVER SAW 1T BEFORE GOOp FOR INOTHING HERZOG IN CONDITION Giants Captain to Philly Rejoin Team in Series—Is There Bad Feel- ing Against Him? York, Oct. New 208, | man, left here last night to rejoin ! his teammates in Philadelphia. Her- | Zog, ten pounds heavier than when { he left the New York team without | permission more than two weeks ago, { 2.—Charley Her- New York, Oct. 2.—Clarence Row- | plicants had been among the first to: watched the Yankees and White Sox jfor a few innings on the Polo | Grounds yesterday in the company of , Benny Kauff and Heinle Zimmerman. last night for Quakertown, while Zimmer- | the edification of some three hundred , delivery while those coming through man will go over this morning. of the faithful, who journeyed home advising all thelr family jewels and place it all on the Giants in the coming world’s series. | White Sox in the last league game of the season for the Comiskey. tribe by a score of 4 to 2. It would be rather foolish to judge by their display yesterday. They acted like a pack of schoolboys the day before vacation. They just played to zet through nine innings and wind up i the season. On the other hand, Southpaw ! Claudie Willlams and Righthander Urban Faber were taking their last real workouts before the big series, good. With sharper support they might have fared better. Joe Jack- son played right fleld after the fash- ion Doc Cook of the Yanks used to ‘play it when Doc was at his worst, while the Yanks ran wild on the paths, stealing five bases. Four of these were fliched on young Byrd Lynn, who succeeded Schalk in the sixth. The score: it Chicago .. .. 100010000—2 7 New York ..... 11000011x—1 9 ‘Williams, Faber and Schalk an Lynn; Shocker and Walters. "WIN FINAL GAME Pirates End Disastrous Season 103 Defeats by Whitewashing Braves e 1 0 d of —Few Fans at Farewell Contest. Pittsburgh, Oct. 2. — Pittsburgh | closed a season of 103 defeats with a victory over Boston'yesterday by a score of 2 to 0. The smallest crowd of the season saw the game. Cooper was in good form and al- lowed only two hits after the first in- ning. Scott kept the Pittsburgh hits scattered except In the sixth inning, when hits by Webb, Mollwitz and Carey, with a sacrifice fly by King netted two runs. The score: r. h. e 000000000—0 4 2 00000200x—2 9 2 Cooper and Boston Pittsburgh Scott and Tragesser; Smith. W. AND J. BACK IS CALLED. ‘Washington, Pa. Oct.,, 2.—Charles Walker, Washington and Jefferson halfback, yesterday quit the squad when he was notified to report at the Eastern training camp of the United listed last summer. He was to start ‘Westminster. within earshot to pawn | The Yanks tumbled over the | American | the Sox as world’s series contenders ' and neither of them looked any too ! ordinary mail were unfilled until later. On one day, it was announced, 3,000 special delivery requests were . handled. co-operate with the park officials to | prevent scalping of tickets was adopt- ! ed by the City Council yesterday. The | police were directed to prohibit the sale of tickets in streets or alleys and | to aid in excluding all purchasers of | tickets from scalpers from the park. i GILROY AT GEORGETOWN. Famous Back Has Returned—Opens Secason Saturday. Washington, Oct., 2.—Georgetown’s football eleven, lighter this year by | many pounds than it was last season, opens its football campaign next Sat- urday here with Labanon Valley. Five | ship team, Gilroy, McQuade, Malaney, Whelan and Anderson, have returned. ! The lineup probably will be as fol- lows: Connell, left end; P. Finnegan, left tackle; Zuger, left guard; Ander- son, center; Ahern, Tight guard: Schmidt, right tackle; Whelan, right end; Maloney, quarterbacK, Gilroy, left halfback; McQuade right half- back, Cody, fullback. TO PLAY FOR OCANADIANS. ‘American Military Football Teams ‘Will Meet in Toronto. Toronto, Oct., 2.—An exhibition of now in the United States fighting forces will. be the Canadian Thanks- giving Day attraction at Varsity Field here October 8 under the aus- pices of the Sportsmen’s Patriotic as- sociation. One team is from the United States naval service, aviation section, now at Camp Borden, and the other will be from Battery C, Second New York Atrillery at present located at Camp Niagara, N. Y. Many prominent American college football teams will be represented in the lineup. THEOILOG TO COACH. Washington, Pa., Oct. 2.—Maurice M. Witherspoon, former Washington and Jefferson tackle who refused the ‘ team'’s captaincy to enter the Theolo- gical Seminary, has been appointed as- sistant football coach at Northwestern University and has gone there. WINCHESTERS CHALLENGE. Manager Frank M. Lynch of the ‘Winchester football team of New Haven, would like to arrange a game with the best aggregation in this city, the contest to be played in the Elm city. A resolution directing the police to ! veterans from the 1916 champlon- | American football by college players ! The Philadelphia series will be i used to condition the Giants for the big games with Chicago. Two games will be played both today and to- morrow, and the regulars, after their | lark of nearly a week, will start the | first games. McGraw will work the pitchers he expects to use in the world’s series. As Herzog joins the team reports still are coming from the Giant camp .that he will not be welcomed with open arms by his fellow teammates. It even is stated that the Giant play- ers took a vote in St. Louis as to whether or not Herzog should be per- mitted to play in the big series. FRAMING NEW BILL i Recent Interest Shown by Military Officials in Boxing May Mcan Pas- sage of Bill to Save Gamec. New York, Oct. 2.—As the draws near for the Frawley law to be perfected to rehabilitate boxing in this state under improved conditions. The enthusiasm with which the mili- ing has caused a sharp reversal of legislative opinion as to the value of the sport. law will be introduced at the regular session of the legislature, not at the present special meeting. There is good reason to believe that the bill will be passed, and it is asserted by friends of the proposed measure that if the governor refuses 1o sign it the bill will be passed over his veto. ‘While waiting for the new law the clubs throughout the state will pro- ceed with bouts under the member- ship plan, cessation in boxing entertainments for the patrons of the sport. if Sale on Used Cars—Touring, Roadsters and Truck, See us before you buy. HONEYMAN'S AUTO CO. 189 MAIN STREET TEL. 231-4 MULTIGRAPH LETTERS Feo-simile of Typewriting done ta 1, 8 and 3 colors with signaturea Letter Heads Printed. THE HARTFORD TYPEWRITER CO. INC. 26 State Bureet. Hartford. Cona. TWO-YEAR-OLDS — Giant captain and second base- | time | laild at rest plans are being rapidly | tary authorities have taken up box- | A bill for a new boxing | next | so that there will be no YANKEES MAKE o~ i NELLA DILLON WINS FUTURITY FEATURE Gox’s Great Filly Equals \Hnrld’s-f Record in Classic Event } Lexington, Ky., Oct. 2.—Alexander B. Cox's bay filly Neila Dillon, driven by Joseph Serrill, won the twenty- fourth renewal of the $5,000 two- yvear-old Kentucky Futurity yester- day in spectacular style. In winning the rich stake she equalled the world’ E record for two heats by a two-year- old, made by Peter Volo at Colum- bus, Ohio, in 1913. She also lowered the season's record in each heat by trotting in 2:07 and 2:06 1-4. Peter June, the favorite, driven by Geers, was second in each heat, but was beaten decisively. Sherrill laid in behind until the stretch, when he pulled out and passed Peter June with ease. The Walnut Hall Cup, a $3,000; cvent, was won in straight heats b; Early Dreams. In the first heat he was forced to equal the track record| of 2:04 1-4. In the first heat Early Dreams, Al- ma Forbes, Tma Jay and Busy's Las- sie finished heads apart. Baxter Lou won the 2:07 pace after losing the first heat to Barlight in 2:04 1-4. The summaries: 2:07 Pace; 3 in 5; $1,000. Baxter Lou, ch. by, by Kin- ney Lou (Valentine) Barlight, br, g, Floyd) v Peter Nash, ch, h, Burt K., b g, (Jones) .4 Traim-a-Bit, rn, g, (Jamison)b Spy Direct, b h, (Geers) Time—2:04 1-4, 2:03 2:05. 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