New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 5, 1917, Page 8

b BROWN AND CADETS OUT OF RUNNING LEAD IN — BOWLIN WESTERN ELIGIBLES FOR CHAMPIONSHIP--BURNS FAVORED TO NEW G LEAGUE—DEFEAT . OF ~—— BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER'S, 1017, WEST POINT AND BROWN UPSETS FOOTBALL DEFEAT HERMAN FOR TITLE TONIGHT—MILLER MAY LEAD CARDINALS IN 1918 a Fried - - - | When a AFeller_ Ngeds : l Saturday's Defeats Removes Ther L Elevens From Charmed Circle Intercollegiate foothall happenings § last Saturday swept the Army and rown from the select list of unde- feated elevens and in many other b ways indicated that this is not what j _might be called an informal season Far the first time In two years the My was forced to accept a beating, d just when it least expected it, tre Dame winning by 7 to 2. Brown, h from its triumph over Colgate, iffered an unlooked for setback from Pyocuse by 6 to 0. For Brown it {88 only the second defeat in two 57" The Hastern soclety of unbeaten . consists of only six members. Burgh, Dartmouth, Washington \Jefterson, Georgetown, Stevens #pd Willlams, which has, been tied. B¢ thess Washington and Jefferson is 3 eleven whose goal line has . besn crossed. In fact Sol Metz- s “combination has not yielded a igle point in any way, a feat which 5 ‘pélieve has not been duplicated by ‘other eleven in civilized football. I8 oll this country there are only mteen unbeaten elevens, and quite Bumber of them have been tled. In b h the list consists of Georgin Boh., Auburn, (Alabama, Sewanee Tulane. In the middle West the n slate brigade includes Ohio ; INinels, Chicago and Michigan. ¥ F Verpity of Denver holds the lone or, while on the Coast Washing- te is the one undefeated ag- ton. Navy Leading Scorer. it comes to scoring points PRIm must be awarded to the vy, which has gathered 334 and owod only 7—the fateful seven l\¥hich marks the lone defeat In the | wd of the midshipmen for the . West Virginia took the meas- | Second ! e of the Navy by 7 to 0. in scoring goes to Georgia ., Which has tallled 322 and up 138. Ohio State is third with and” 3, Penn State fourth with i and 24 and Rutgers fifth with 193 | Pitt has scored 162 and 15, 9 to West Virginia and 6 (5 e Y Pennsylvania. The Ariny’s defeat by Notre Dame us to scratch the cadets from - list of really great teams of the bason—beaten or unbeaten. Never it thid stage of the season have we in ‘g eleven so unprepared, so ude; so. Jamentably lacking in the nowlddge of theory or the ability to do. Wet, this estimate of the Army ust ‘not be taken as any, aspersion on the cadets. They should glory in t condition. It reflects far more dit on Gapt. “Jeff” Keyes' squad % n if it had whipped Notre Dame ‘a standstill. ; No Excuses for Brown. i~ Brown presents no excuses for its eat by Syracuse. The latter out- d the Bears and thoroughly de- d its success. The Syracuse for- held the Brown line attack in ek and the Syracuse ends smeared Brown running game. The Up- rs ' were just as strong in the ckfie]d as they were in the line and h & first class general like Chick Meehan running thinga they gave a did _exhibition. Since Pitt defeated Syracuse by 20 ," the ‘vigtory of the Orange ap- further to emphasize the of Glenn Warner's eleven. & preparation for the game with on and Jefferson next Sat- Pitt took things easy with tminster. Metzger's players rest- ‘sn Saturday. wtmouth had quite a time taking measure of Penn State, by 10 to Btate recently was beaten by W. J., 7 to 0. It was a last minute /& goal by a substitute that saved tmouth from a tie. Even Dart- F mouth men had to confess that there 2 little to choose between the con- " ‘testing elevens, and that in Robb and & hin ‘Way, the quarter, State had two men | who outshone anybody on the Green combination. Next Saturday Dart- mouth will tackle Penn, which de- feated Lafayette on. Saturday by 27 to 0. g A Feat by Rutgers. In holding West Virginia to a tie ®t 7 to 7, Rutgers retrieved some of ~ the honors it lost in the defeat by [} Syracuse and established its place among the topnotchers. It was un- fortunate that Rutgers took on Syra- cuse so early in the season, but at that, Syracuse probably could repeat | now on a lesser scale. Cornell continued its improvement and defeated Carnegie Tech, 20 to 0. The Pittsburghers really expected to win. Next Saturday the Ithacans will foce Michigan and more trouble than Coruell cares for now or any other tink$ this season. @glumbia did no more and no less than was cxpected of it and lost to " Amherst, 14 to 6. It was a poor ~ played game and a carnival of fumbling. Amherst fell far below what had been looked for from it. Wekleyan, which had been lucky to Rest New York University and was hipped by Stevens, sprang a surprise - and ‘held Williams to a scoreless tie. Stevens continucd its splendid work mnd ripped Worcester Poly to pieces, 0. Al McCall has developed a r rkable team at Stevens and de- 5 s a world of praise. Neither Forftham nor N. Y. U. played on Sat- urday. They rested for their battles tomorrow with Georgetown and Trin- " iy respectively. The Navy's scoring 95 points on Western Reserve is impressive fromn arithmetical viewpoint if from no Whe Rocky Mountain division the | i i { THINK CLIFFORD | OR CLARENCE OR WILBUR ARE SO PRETTY other. Reserve is nothing to write ‘home about, even in its own bailiwick, let alone against a strong team like Gil Dobie’s. In the South Georgia Tech added another sensational performance to | its list of sensational doings by scor- ing 83 points on Vanderbilt. The Com- modores had been beaten only once this season, by Chicago, 40 to 0. Se-| wanee and Alabama, both unbeaten, played a tie at 3 to 3, but neither; figures in Tech’s class. SOLDIERS WIN AND LOSE Camp Devens Eleven Wins in Meriden Saturday, But Loses in Bristol on Sabbath. The crack West End football eleven of Bristol, put a crimp in the 301st Machine Gun Battalion team of Camp Devens yesterday afternoon at Muzzy's fleld, the Bell City pigskin warriors downing Lieutenant Daly’s pets, score |7 to 0. The score was made in the ’openmg period. Both teams played a snappy game, and a crowd of 2,000 | cheered” the clever playing of both ! elevens. The soldiers profited by a | sixty per cent division of the gate, | and left with $460, with more returns to be made. A safety scored in the final minute of play at Hanover Park Saturday. gave the Camp Devens team a vic- itory over the fast .Silver City aggre- | gation, score 8 to 7. Stopping a heavy ,onslaught of the home team, near their own goal line, the soldiers | started a procession” down the field , that resulted in a touchdown by Mec- Kay. His attempt at goal was blocked. The brilHant work of Leahy scored a touchdown for the Meriden team and Hart kicked the goal. The wonderful work of Sullivan, the New Britain boy playing guard for the army, was a big asset to the Devens team. Darkness set in toward the last of the game, hindering both teams. The army team rushed the ball to near the goal line, where Meri- ! den braced and secured the ball. Hart dropped back to punt, and the pig- skin went wild, and Leahy fell on it, giving the army two points and the | game. The New Britaln quartet, Jartman, Robtroy, Sullivan and Kop- | lowitz were much in evidence by their splendid playing. SPARTANS IN TIE GAME. . The Spartans football eleven, journeyed to Meriden yesterday and played a scoreless tie with the crack Record A. C. team of that city. The locals played a superb game, but the breaks were against them. Rush, the big fullback for the Spartans, played a smashing game, ripping up the opposing line time and again. Stabert of the Spartans also put up a good game. The Spartans have an open date next Sunday, and would like to meet any 125-130 pounds team In the state. Communications should be addressed to Ray Carlson, 484 Stanley street. The team will meet for prac- { tice tomorrow evening at the corner of | Whiting ana Stanley streets. i | ALWAYS LIKED REGINALD oR GW YNNE Capright 1317, by The Tribune Assoclation (New Yark Tafms: - - - ByBrigss | HI8 PAPA WANTS To CALL HIMm BILL OR JIM- BUT THOSE ARE SUCH ROUGH NAMES- | THINK PERCIVAL SEXTUS AFTER HIS GREAT UNCLE 1S "SuycH a NOQBLE SOUNDING T0 TBACH BOXING I1eonard, McFarland, Levinsky, Mitch- ell and McCoy Engaged by Govern- ment to be Boxing Instructors. ‘Washington Nov. 5—Some of Amer- | ica’s most famous ring stars have been retained to teach boving to the men training for the war army as a means of making them better bayonet fight- ers. The commission on training camp activities announced today that: through Dr. Joseph E. Raycroft of| Princeton university it had arranged | for expert boxers, including Benny | Leornard, Kid McCoy, Battling Lev- | insky, Richie Mitchell and Packy McFarland, to instruct groups of men in the training camps. These groups' in turn will teach the other men. The training will be princlpally | shadow 'boxing, based on a successful ! scheme eolved by Sergeant William | Armstrong of the Canadian army. The | men are placed in lines three or four| paces apart facing the instructor’s | platform. The motions taught arei very nearly the same as those used in actual bayonet fighting. FRANKIE BURNS MAY WIN BANTAM TITLE Jersey Ofty is Favored by Pugilistio Followers to Beat Pete Herman in New Orleans Tonight. New Orleans, La., Nov. 5.—It 1s not improbable that there will be a new bantam champion after to- night's battle between Pete Herman, ' the title holder, and Frankie Burns of Jersey City, the challenger. The contest is scheduled for 20 rounds to a decision at 118 pounds ringside, which is the poundage at which Herman won the title from Williams, and will take place in the Louisiana Auditorium. ‘Win or lose, Herman, who has been | drafted, will at once join the colors. | In accepting Burns' challenge Her- man gave an exhibition of courage. for he once was knocked out by Burns in twelve rounds. It is notable also that Williams carefully avolded Burns after a twenty round bout in which the decision was a draw, although the Jerseyman always insisted he was en- titled to the verdict, Burns scored his knockout over Herman at New Orleans on Novem- ber 15, 1915, at a time when Wil-| llams was the title holder. Herman was in helpless condition in the'! twelfth round and his seconds tossed | in the sponge. PASTIMES OVERWHELMED. The Pastimes of Meriden, went down to an overwhelming defeat at Seymour Park yesterday afternoon, the crack Redwoods of this city being { opponents—Ohio State ond Chicago. INJURIES MAY HURT FORDHAM’S CHANCES Brennan, Frisch and Crovat in Poor Condition for Most Important Game of Season. New York, Nov. 5.—Although sev- eral regulars may be missing from the lineup when Fordham faces Georgetown tomorrow, the Maroon players, led by Capt. Kendricks, are confident of defeating their greatest football rivals. The Fordham leader is banking on his line outplaying the Georgetown forwards, and expects to see the Maroon backs use their speed to advantage against Hxendine's pow- erfu] team. Despite this confidence, Fordham, from present indications, .will be weakened offensively. Frank Frisch, the most valuable player on the team, | has only a very slight chance of breaking into the game. He was con fined to his room yesterday with a torn ligament which he received in Friday's scrimmage. Crovat, the quarter, is also on the hospital list Brennan, the fullback, has not recov- ergd from his attack of charleyhorse. Coach McCaffery, as is customary | on the Sunday before the Georgetown game, gave the players an hour’s drill in running through the signals and catching and running back kickoffs. WESTERN FOOTBALL Ohio State Chicago and Illinois Only Elevens to Figure in “Big Ten” Title. Chicago, Nov. 6.—With the elimin- ation of Minnesota, three teams— Ohio State, Chicago and Illinois—re- main undefeated in the race for the “Big Ten” footbfll championship. Wisconsin crushed Minnesota’s hopes on SEaturday. Ohio Stat kept its rec- ord clean by triumphing over Indiana and Chicago and Illinois played & scoreless tie. Neither Illinois nor Chi- cago has been scored on this season. Defeat of the much heralded Min- ‘mesota eleven was the biggest upset of Saturday’s schedule. Wisconsin, beat. en by Illinois, 7 to 0, early in the se: son, staged a remarkable ‘“comebac! and will be dangerous for its future The thrilling battle between Chica- go and Illinois was one of the most | evenly contested games played on'! Stagg Field in years. Both teams had chances to count, but brilllant de- densive team work checked each | 'PERCY HAUGHTON PUTS FOOTBALL MEN ;i Forty men, picked from 650 candi- dates at Camp Devens, were put through the first stages of football |prs.ctlce by Percy D. Haughton, for many years head coach of the Har- vard varsity squad, and the old tim- Horween, one of the Harvard foot- ball stars, in action on the Stadium fleld. Harvard has lived up to her old record and is getting ready for the big battles with her old enemies, CLUB OWNERS CONFER American Association Magnates. Dis- cuss Secession Report With no De- tail Given Out. ceav oy f . Milwaukee, Wis,, Nov.., 5.—Repre- sentatives of five of the American as- I sociation of baseball clubs , together with Thomas H. Hickey, president of the organization, met in Milwaukee vesterday and, according to Mr. Hick- ey, took such actlon relative to the re- ported proposal to secede of the Louis- ville, Indianapolis ana Toledo clubs as the interests of the isociation re- quire. Mr. Hickey did not divulge the specific nature of the action. In the conference with Mr. Hickey were M. E. Contillon, Minneapolis; John W. Norton, St. Paul; Albert F. Timme, Milwaukee; Joseph B. Tinker, Columbus, and Gearge E. Muehlbach, Kansas City. Mr. Hickey said that every one of the eight cities holding franchises be- longed to American association terri- tory and that no change could’ be made in the circuit without unanimous consent. The annual meeting of.the association will be in Louisville No- vember 12. . EMPIRES DOWN NORTH ENDS. The Empires football eleven, added another victim to the list yesterday afternoon on the Newington road grid- iron, when the North Ends of Middle~ town were forced to succumb to a 20 to 0 defeat. The visitors tried the forward pasg several times, but the locals found no difficulty in breaking drive. Although scored on for the first: time this season Ohio State continued its championship drive at the expensd of Indiana, which was beaten 26 to 3. In five games Ohlo has piled up 235 points. The Hqosiers outplayed Ohio | in the first quarter and then “Chick” Harley, who had been kept on the side lines, entered the fray. The all American halfback swept over all op- the victor. Touchdowns were scored by Johnson, Gibney, Hart and Bayer, The unbeatep Burnside team will play the Redwoods here next Sunday. position, scoring four touchdowns. | up the play. End runs by Campbell and Conley and the plunging of Alll- son and Stéfnick featured for the vic- tors, while Powers, was the star for the losers. Stefnick scored two touchdowns and Conley one, for the Empires. Goals were kicked by Campbell and Strawheiker. ROYALS SEEK GAMES. Manager Charles F. Schechtman of 370 Elm street, issues a challenge on Indiana broke into the scoring when Captain Hathaway booted a drop kick from the 26 yard line. behalf of the Royal A. C. to the Mohawks and Mohican elevens of this city, for a football game. DOPE— THROUGH DRILL AT CAMP DEVENS! ers showing the best form will be se- lected as'members of the in gridiron battles this month. Charles A. Coolidge, a former Har- vard player, now at Camp Devens, will assist in coaching the squad. Horween is one of the strong ‘men of the team and covered himself with glory in the great Princeton-Harvard game last season, when the Tiger got licked 3-0. MAY LEAD CARDINALS Jack Miller is Mentioned F Berth and is Awaiting Decision of Kearny N. J. Excmption Board. St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 5.—It may be that the local draft board of Kearny, N. J., will give the answer to the lang prolonged mystery of who is to be the next manager of the St. Louis Cardinals to succeed Miller Huggins, who has been appointed leader of the Yankees. That is the home of Pack Miller, Cardinal inflelder, and, according to reports is now the leading candidate for the job of guiding the Cards. Branch Rickey, president of the Cardinals, announced a few days ago that he had preticlly settled on the man to take hold of the Cardinals, but could not announce his name for reasons which he could not divulge. It appears that Miller was eligible for the draft, and while not called yet is In danger of being called any time, Until such time as he could be certain he would be exempted he could not very well be appointed to manage the Cardinals, as a call to the colors would upset all the plans. Accordingly, Miller is endeavoring to get exempted. He is married, and will claim exemption on the ground of haing dependents. Rickey is sald to be walting to hear about the exemp- tion . claim before doing further busi- ness with Miller. ERTLR VS. WILLIAMS. Only Referee to Be Chosen to Settle Question of Title. Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 65.—Johnny Ertle, 8t. Paul claimant to the ban- tamweight boxing title Saturday ac- cepted an effer to box Kid Williams at Baltimore in the near future in a decision bout. All that remains to be settled is an agreement as to referee. Ertle has an offer to meet the winner of the Herman-Burns bout at New Orleans next Tuesday night and will acceptr eleven which will represent the drafted army ¢ ELEVENS LEFT IN | TINBER TOPPERS MAKING THINGS HUM- Live Oaks and Eddie Anderson, in Limelight at Aetna Alleys * The Live Oaks leaders in the City league, stood their groumd well dur< ing the past week, and as a result arg now several games in the lead. Af present the interest centers in thag race for second place, waged by tha Harpoons Mohawks and Annex, each with 12 victories and 9 defeats. The feature battle of the coming week will be staged Thursday evening. at the Aetna alleys, when the Live Oaks and Har poons meet. Eddie Anderson, star of the Mohawks, has displaced Joe Foote for the high single score honor and is also pushing Foote hard for the individual average hanor. Tha Mohawks are leaders in the team total score, and the Annex manage ta,. grip on the high team single. The standings,iaverages and scheds ule of the City, and Skinner Chuck company league, follows: City League. W. P.C. T14 571 571 571 524 476 334 Ay 411 471 471 478 471" 478 n 460 . 153 Live Oaks Harpoons . Mohawks | Annex ... | Colonials Areos ‘Warriors ‘Wanderers E. Anderson Foote 383 Annex y vses 662 jMohawks v...1633 16 12 12 ¢ 12 +11 . 10 L. 6 ® 9 9 E. Anderson Bertini . Rogers .. Brenneck . A. Anderson Hines ‘Windish Shepard C. Larson Young . Lafgren Freeman Stotts .. Nichols . Kohms .. Lantone Hornkohl Scott ... Haugh Skinner Chuck Lengue. L 2P A 667274 584 273 417 289 334 269 Lo 150 Office Drill. Room Tecol Room . Shipping Room Bowers Bowers oF Tool Room: Tool Room Bowers Jones Haugh Helander J. Trevithan Kahms North ...{ /Thornton *. Root ....¢... ‘W. Trevithan Hartman Morton Schedule For Week. | Monday—Stanley Works match. Tuesday—Warriors vs. Wanderers: Colonials vs. Annex. Areas vs. Mohawks, Skinner's League. Friday—Universal League, Baraca League, & FOOTBALL RESULTS. Wesleyan 0, Williams 0. Newport Naval Reserves 39, Maine Art. 0. Notre Dame 7, Army 2. . Boston Navy Yard 28, Camp Dev- ens 0. ! Pennsylvania 27, Lafayette 0. Stevens 32, Worcester Tech 0. Rutgers 7, West Virginia 7. Syracuse 6, Brown 0. Amherst 14, Columbia 6. Cornel 20, Carnegie Tech 0. Bucknell 10, Carlisle 0. Lehigh 47, Muhlenberg 0. Pittsburgh 25, Westminster 0. Swarthmore 28, John Hopkins 7. Springfleld Y. M. C. A. 21, Unlon 7. Allegheny 50, Thiel 0. K Haverford 14, Franklin & Mar shall 0. Harvard Freshmen 7, ter 7. Navy 95, Western Reserve 0. Bates 6, Colby 6. Villa Nova 7, Ursinus . Albright 40, Schuylkill Seminary 0. Tufts 19, New Hampshire 3. < Ohio State 26, Indiana 3. Illinois 0, Chicago 0. Oberlin 20, Rochester 0. Michigar. 62, Kalamazoo College 0. Northwestern 12, Purdue 6. Colgate 21, Holy Cross 0. Hurvard Informals 0, Portland Re- serves 0. : Dartmouth 10, Penn. State 7. Camp Sherman 26, Camp Taylor T2, Boston 48, Rhode Island 0. Maine 14, Bowdoin 0. Anddver 20, Worcester 6. Delaware 13, Gallaudet 7. North Carolina 10, State 6. Rensselaer 35, Hobart 0. Hamilton 18, St. Lawrence 0. W. Va. Wesleyan 40, Bethany 0. Norwich 7, Middlebury 7. Lebanon Valley 42, Mt. St. Mary’s 6. Gettysburg 6, St. John’s 0. Georgia Tech §3. Vanderbilt 0. Al ama 3, Bewanee 3. Auburn 68; Florida 0. Phi Maryland Thursday—Live Oaks vs. Harpoons, .« & s Hxe- |l