New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 6, 1917, Page 8

l a iz - NEW BRITAIN DAILY. HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1017, s NEW B_kl'l'l-llGH SCHOOL ELEVEN PREPARES FOR HARTFORD GAME—SPUR NEW RECORD AT PIMLICO TRACK—SAMMIES FAIL TO AROUSE ENGLISHMEN WITH BASEBALL—PETE HERMAN GAINS DECISION OVER FRANKIE BURNS—MORE GRIDIRON PRACTICE TIME FOR CADET ELEVEN — 11GH SCHOOL TEAM“ ni i Gl o P! Y Ean | HAS HARD JOB AHEAD Deating Hartlord This Year Wil Be No Cinch New Britain High school football whizh faces Hartford High school next Saturday on the gridiron in the most important game of the season, has entered Into practice to fit them £ for he fray, and when the referee sounds the whistle for the opening of the game at St. Many’s playgrounds, ‘Lth Caplta) city team will be called L upon te extend itself to the utmost. {>Socrlt practice will be the order this seek, Coach Bearce having removed his charges from Walnut Hill park ‘where they have worked out all fall, to “somewhere in New i Britaln.” This will thwart any at- ‘on part of Hartford High spies learn the many trick plays that the cals are 3 Have a Line on "Em, ‘The localy were on hand at the between Hartford and New iven last Saturday afternoon on ity fleld, and after watching the est team that New Haven has placed on the fleld, hgld the ch touted Capital city aggregation @ 10 to 0 score, the hopes of the fsrdware city eleven went soaring. ‘ivery member of the locals left the d with the oconfidence that the ‘ ng string of victories over #Hartford ifwould be added to next Satufday. Hartford is Strong. There is no denying the fact that ptain Dunn has a fine team behind . him wearing the Blue and White of the H. P. H. S, but other great teams ive faced New Britain, only to find “that the Jocal brand of ‘‘pep” proved %00 much for them. In Herbert and ‘Sammy Sulsman, Hartford High has iwo players that are to be reckoned dangerous at all times. The man- or In which Suisman tosses forward i Dasses proves him as one of the best in these parts in High school circles. n more than one occasion last Sat. rday Suisman would place his team a position to score by his clever andling of the spherold, and usually lerbert was the fellow to catch the “pall. Herbert closely resembles “Bill” Dudack In several respects, but ‘not as a player. His ability to find i ‘holer in the line makes him a valu- | ble asset to his team. ‘‘Tanny” Da- vis, the little dusky flier, is holding ‘down a halfback position, and his Work is on par with that of last sea- fi8on, when he starred. Captain Dunn who was out of Saturday's game, will be in shape to play next Saturday, and t should prove worth the time to ‘watch the battle between him and Kalin at center, | Coach Bearce will probably send . Johnson to the line in place of Dyson _and Zapatka, who played a stellar , game in Holyoke, may replace Waters, in case the latter is not in better #hape than at present. i A Speedy Quartet. ‘ The local backfield is one that Is ibound 'to cause Hartford plenty of trouble, Hibbard, at quarter, Hagear- and Vibberts at halfback positions nd Captain McChristy, at fullback, eing a quartet that is hard to cqual. ‘Williams the 180 pound tackle can . be depended on to take care of his po ‘sitlon, and woe be to the opponent & ¥ Who tries to get funny with him. The | ‘Jocals have a fine set of ends in urns, Olcott and Ashley. Ashley is thowing wonderful improvement his work, and he may get a chanco 0 play In the hackfleld during the ming contest. Vibbert’s kicking thould prove a big factor in the suc- icess of the locals. The Hartford leven falled to make much of an im- ression booting the ball. ' Director Moorhead is making ar- ngements for handling a mammoth erowd. There will be 10 policemen on hand, and at the opening of the \eontest they will be placed inside the . fleld to keep the crowd back. An ad- ditional tax of three 'cents will be placed on every patron entering the admission gate, W AWAITING WORD FROM PURDUE. " Al Other Members of “Big Ten” Have Consented to Charity Game, Chicago, Nov., 6.—Favorable replies from all of the “big ten" colleges ex- tept Purdue have been received re- garding the proposal of a post-season football game here on December 1 for ' war charity between the University of Chicago and the University vof Michigan. In order to comply with the rules of the conference it is necessary to ob- . lain unanimous consent for games not " on the regnlar schedule, but the athle- tic officials of the two institutions are 50 confident that Purdue’s reply wil . be favorable that they have taken up the matter of disposing of the seats at the game. Many of the alumni of the schools have expressed an opinion in favor of auctioning the _seats in order to obtain the largest “\possible revenue from the game. PAYS $10,000 FOR PONY. Nov., 6.—James Cox y, the noted horse show exhibitor, has bought King Tango, a Shetland pony, for $10,000. This is probably " the highest price ever pald for a pony In this country. King Tango, a dimin- utive stallion, was bred by George A. Heyl at Washington, 111, and has won | more than 200 blue ribbons. Mr. Brady will exhibit him at the National Horse show in Madison Square Garden . pext week. in | o WHEN You FIND ON YOUR DESK A LONG ENVELOPE FROM ThHE INTERNAL REVENUE DEPARTMENT MARKED * OFFICIAL RS INESS™ AND You FiNALLY! SCREW UP COURAGE To READ THE CONTENTS OPEN Your LAST INCOME TaX RETURN AND You RE AFRAID T \T BECAUSE You "F‘Q‘RGOT" A FEW SMALL ITEMS WHEN YoOU MADE BACK BY Coprrighted 1917 by The Tribune Assoc. (New York Tribune); — AND FIND THAT You HAVE OQVERPAID Tre GOVERNMEN $462 WHICH You CAN GET FILING THE REQUIRED PAPERY oF AND MANAGER MATHEWSON OF CINCINNATI REDS, IS ANGLING FOR SERVICES OF CHARLEY HERZOG, CAPTAIN OF GIANTS [ Undsemaa¥ & LX Christy Mathewson, manager of the Cincinnati Reds, is after Capt. Charley Herzog of the Glants. Matty be- HOBBY MAY LEAD SOX. Barry in Naval Reserves and May Be in Service Next Summer. Boston, Nov. 6.—There is apparent- ly another managerial vacancy in the big leagues. The Boston Red Sox may have to secure another leader for next season. Though President Harry Frazee declares Jack Barry will be back on the job next year, the fact remain that Barry, who is in the Naval Reserve, has been order to report at the Charlestown Navy Yark, and it is quite doubtful if he will be able to lead the club. Dick Hoblitzell has been mentioned by some of the Boston baseball men as the successor to Barry if the latter is not able to return to the team. Hob- litzell showed signs of slowing up as a player last season and may fit in the job nicely. CROSS COUNTRY IN N. E. Boston, Nov.,, 6.—Favorable re- sponses have been recelved to in- quiries made of the New England col- leges as to the advisability of hold- ing the annual cross-country cham- plonship this fall, and it was au- nounced yesterday that the event would be ruh over the Franklin Park course in this city on November 17. Defi- nite assurances have been received lieves Herzog will round out his in- field and make it the strongest in the country. Matty wants a heavier hit- ter than Shean. It is not likely, however, that Mc- Graw will let Herzog go. He be- lieves hig captain is one of the best players in the game, and figures that Matty has nothing in the Reds' line- up which would fill the gap. that teams would be entered from Willilams, Bowdoin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston col- lege and Tufts, and athletic authori- ties from Holy Cross and Middlebury have sent word that they probably would be represented. TIGERS PREPARING. Rush Has Freshman Team Hard at ‘Work For Harvard Game. Princeton, N. J.. Nov., 6.—Head Coach Speedy Rush and Fred Daw- son, the freshman mentor, had the Tiger cubs out on the fleld early ves- terday afternoon smoothing out some of the rough spots which were very much in evidence when the Blair academy eleven handed them a 13 to 7 defeat on Saturday. The freshmen will play the Harvard youngsters next Saturday, and as the contest is to be a substitute for the game usually held with Harvard or Yale on the day following the general prom more than usual interest is at- tached to it. EASY WORK AT BROWN. Providence, R. I., Nov. 6.—Members of the Brown football squad had 'ight practice yesterday afternoon. The postponement of the Camp Devens | l game from Wednesday to a week later * wing candidates on the Green squad. l to Harold Aldrich, 101 Millard street. Brown less makes the troubles of the squad for this week somewhat acute. DARTMOUTH IMPROVING. Coach Spears Has Light Green Team Playing Strong and Heady Football. Hanover, N. H., Nov., 6.—With the Dartmouth eleven showing unusual strength in the games so far this year the Green, it is thought here, has a slight edge on Pennsylvania for the game to be played in Boston next Sat- urday. The style of attack that has been developed at Dartmouth this year is somewhat different from that of former seasons and so far has come through with better results. The light, fast backfleld of Coach Spears, play- ing behind a much heavier line, has been able to make more ground on line plunges that the heavier back- field combination of last year was able to do, although counted as one of the best line bucking combinations in the country. C. F. Holbrook has shown more real stuft so far this season than any of the men who have had varsity ex- perience. Myers is another product of Spears's coaching who has been playing the best game of any of the ~AND You HAavE WIS %1000 °* THE ATLANTA Pen” THE OFFING Ol e AN'T . Uncle Sam'’s service. tonNS FINES WITH N = Bovy! T A GR-R-RAND GLOQB -E- YUS FEELIN' TA TaTa BURNS LOSES DECISION Champion Pete Hrrman Successfully Defends Title Against Jersey City Boy—Burns Fails to Live Up to Ex- pectations. New Orleans, Nov. man, bantamwejght champion, was warded the decision over Frankie Burns of Jersey City after their twenty round bout for the title hers last night, Herman was too young, too speedy and too strong for the challenger, who is 28 years old. However, Burns put up a great battle and at all times was dangerous. Herman avenged his defeat by Burns here in 1915, when the Jerseyman knocked out the local fighter in the twelfth round. At that time Herman was not the champion, the title then being held by Kid. Williams, from whom Herman later wrested it. Burns made a poor start and three rounds was forced to run poor second. He was staggered the second, but came back scored the fourth. Herman back in the fifth. The crowd was late in arriving. When the doors opened at 8 o'clock less than a thousand fans were pres- ent. From then until the champlor and his opponent entered the ring they tripped in by twos and threes and when the first gong sounded the house was packed. The advance sale for the bout almost reached the $14,- 000 mark. Yhen Herman entered the ring hec received a long round of applause, and Lieut. O'Connor of the U. S. A presented the champion with an American flag. Burns too received an ovation when he climbed through the ropes. Among the spectators were many prominent fight fans from New York and soldiers from Camp Shelby. Both battlers weighed in at 118 pounds. Peter Gulotta, otherwise known as Pete Herman, world bantamweight champion, was married here Sunday 6.—Peter Her- for a in and came night to Miss Anna Leblanc, of this city, it became known yesterday. The wedding, it was said, had been set for today, but Herman desired it to take place before his fight here to- night with Frankie Burns. STRACHAN JOINS NAVY. Noted California Tennis Star Enlists As a Yeoman, San Francisco, Nov., 6.—John ‘' Strachan, the Pacific coast tennis star, has dropped his racquet and joined He has enlisted in the Naval Reserves and will report for duty at Mare Island this week. He ! signed up as a yeoman in the navy. “I don’t think it will be necessary for me to abandon my tennis alto- gether,” he said yesterday. “I want to keep that up, and will practico when opportunity affords. Word hasn’t come, but I expect to be located at Mare Island.” TIGERS VICTORIOUS, The East End Tigers defeated the Rangers in a football game Saturday afternoon, score 14 to 0. Lewiskey, right halfback on the Tigers eleven scored two touchdowns. Morrison and Conrad, also played a fine game for the fray, and when the referee challenge to any football in the city or state, averaging 100 to 105 pounds. Answers to challenges should be sent INEW REGORD SET BY SPUR AT PINLIGO James Butler’s Crack, Wins Mon- umental Stake in 1:68 4-b Pimlico, Md., Nov. 6.—In one of the closest finishes seen at a race track in this part of the country in' several years James Butler's Spur won the Monumental Handicap, the fea- ture of the card yesterday. Jimmy Butwell landed the son of King James home a nose in front of A. K. Macom- ber’s Walnut Hall, which took second honors, a few inches ahead of Frank ‘Weir's Hendrle. In scoring his victory Spur was | compelled to run faster than he ever ! ran before. Pressed hard every step | of the journey, he travelled the one | mile and three-sixteenths in 1:68 4-5, | clipping four-fifths of a second from the old track record. The victory of Spur was a big sur- prise to the crowd of racegoers, but it wasn’t nearly as surprising as was the ignominious defeat . of Andrew Miller's renowned Roamer, which led ! into the stretch and then quit. Roam- | er faltered badly a furlong trom home and finished fourth, eight lengths be- hind the first three horses. When the old gelding quit Spur, which had been running in second place, came with a rush, and as- sumed command. A sixteenth of a mile from the judges Mr. Butler's colt looked like an easy victor, but ‘Walnut Hall, which had been in tight quarters during the run through the backstretch, challenged and | gained ground with every stride. Hendrie, which trailed the field most of the journey, also made a deter- mined bid in the final furlong, but! like Walnut Hall he came too late. The first race, in which a big fleld | of high class two-year-olds competed, was marred by crowding and rough riding. Eyelid, the favorite, suffered greatly. He was shut off three times and forced to go wide at the turn en- tering the stretch. The Porter, the mecond choice, which took the lead early, escaped interference and won easlly by four lengths. Eyelid fin- ished, second and Tenons Bon' was third. The other race for two-year-olds waent to Gifford A. Cochran’s Nepper- i‘ham He had more speed than any of his opponents and passed the judges a neck ahead of Cavan Boy. Paddy finished third. BASEBALL FAILS TO THRILL ENGLAND: Tommy Atkins Admits There IS Likeness to Rounders, However England is making a strenuous ef- fort to understand and appreciate things American these days, and |is making quite a success of everything ¢ except baseball. At baseball England balks, although it professes to see in the game a semblance to a schoolbay game known to the English as “‘round- ers.” A writer'in the Manchester Guard- ian, after having witnessed a game of « basebal] by Canadian soldiers, marvels most at the elaborate protective armar of the player and describes the catch- er as “the man who stands behind the batsman and stops the missed balls.” Detailing tho ‘protective armor” of the catcher, the writer says: “His head is encased in a cage of metal and leather and a thickly pad~ ded covering protects his body from the neck down.” Here s the Manchester Guardian's description of the game: “A Dbaseball match wae played by Canadian soldiers on Fairfleld com-* mon, Buxton, on Saturday afternoam. It made upon the observer's mind a curiously blurred impression of some- thing at once familiar and foreign. We have all played a form of base- ball in our school days, for baseball is the old game of ‘rounders’ mueh, claborated, and in spite of the strange guise in which it revisits us fram across the Atlantic, one gives affec- tionate recognition to it as an old friend, But the enthusiasm of pe- union suffers a speedy check, and is succeeded by feelings of reserve and shyness. “There are puszling chemges both in the form and manner of \the gama, , There is a flerce swiftness and foree in the play which the school sama @id not possess. The rules are different. Surprising, effects follow a catch-out or a complate run around; and what: was there in the school same to cor-: | respond with the equipment of the players? “Most striking is the elaborate protective armor of the plaver whe, for want of knowledge of the terms ' of the game, we will call the wicke keeper—though there are, of course, | | Intensive Military Drill Subsided l Enough at West Point to Allow | Football More Time on Gridiron. West Point, N. Y., Nov. 6.—The Army men were back on the gridiron Vesterday afternoon for a light drill. The team came through the Notre Dame contest with only slight bruises. More time will be afforded the men from now until the season closes, as the intensive tralning in the military drills has subsided enough to give the team an hour’s real workout in togs each day at least. i A general improvement in tho work of the eleven is looked for and preparations for the Carlisle game, | which is the next on the schedule, will take definite form tomorrow. ! On Wednesday the team will have an extended drill. Three more games remain on the schedule before the scason closes. They are with Car- i lisle, November 10; Lebanon Valley, November 17 and Boston college, No- i vember 24. GHANGES AT CORNELL Weight and Beef to Be Added to MORE PRACTICE TIME | Line for Annual Game With Michi- gan, Ithaca, N. Y., Nov. 6.—Cornell mapped out her program for the game with Michigan at a conference yesterday afternoon. Vanhorn, left halfback, whose knee was thrown out of joint Saturday, is the only varsity | regular not likely to get into the | game against the Wolverines. Herri- man, right tackle, kept out of the last contest, will be back in the lineup today, and a tighter and more effec- tive line defense than that shown Sat- urday is expected. Cross, who showed brilllant form against Carnegie Tech, will play left haltback. He has been able to prac- tice but little this fall because of uni- versity work, but the coaches think his work last Saturday showed him to be in fine shape for a big game. Dr. Sharpe will attempt to strengthen the line by adding more weight and beef. Harris will replace Eisenbrandu at right end and Swanson will re- place Harris at right guard, thereby increasing about thirty-five pounds the team’'s weight. CLINE BEATS JACKSON. Philadelphia, Nov. '6.—Irish Patsy iCline had the better of Willie Jack- son in a fast six round bout last night. Both men are from New York and are lightweights. Cline was the aggressor in all ex- i cept the third round, which went to ! Jackson by a shade. ATTENDING BIG GAME. Dr. Henry T. Bray, Judge William F. Mangan, James H. Curtin, Stephen Dudack and John Martin attended the Fordham-Georgetown football game in New York today. ! behind the batsman and no wickets—the player who stands stops the missed balls. His head is encased in a cake of metal and. leather, & thickly padded covering protects his ' body from the neck downward, his} shins are guarded, and he wears on one hand, in common with the men who are flelding, a great padded glove to act as a buffer to the ball . when its swift flight is suddenly =\ stopped. “It is sald that a baseball match, for the uninitiated, at any rate, is a) ‘thing ratheér to be heard than to be seen. It requires not merely skilled players, but a body of properly trained in the art of shout- ing encouragement, advice, warning, and stimulating invective. FARDIG BADLY HURT \ Boston Representative in Six-Day Race Rides Over Top of Track amd Goeg to Hospital. Boston, Nov. 6.—During & sprint early last night by riders in the six day bike race which began hers yes- terday, John Fardig of ome of the Boston teams, rode over the top of, the track and injured his left arm so badly he was taken to the city hospital. Fardig rode oft the track to avoid running over Smith of the New York team, who was thrown by a punctured tire. Webber, Fardig's partner, took his place in the race pending information as to whether i spectators . Fardig would be able to resume rid+ , ing. At 10 o'clock all ten teams were tled at 1432 miles and 7 laps. They were made up as follows: Spencer-Spears, Boston; Caro-Mad. den, Australlan American; Carmans Smith, New York; Bowker brothers, Lynn; Sulllvan-Grimm, New Haven; Hanley-Magin, Newark; Thomas-Law« rence, San Franclsco; Eaton-Cameron,s New York; Fardig-Webber, Boston? Plercy-Drobach, Boston. _—— BLADES TO MEET BROWN. New Haven, Nov., 6.—The Areny A. C. yesterday closed with Young Blades of Woonsocket, R. I, champios lightweight boxer of New England, to meet Chic Brown of this city in a 15 round baout to a decision at thq Arena on Monday evening. Nov. 19th The boys will weight in at 1356 poundy at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and thiu bout should prove the most sensa- tional yet in which the local pride has participated. . STALLION. AXWORTHY DIgS. Lexington, Ky., Nov., 6.—Axwarthy, a 25-year old trotting stallion, ewne:l by the estate of Willlam Simpson. breeder of Lexington, djed at tho farm of R. L. Nash here vesterday. Axworthy was the sgire of many famous trotters, chigf of which were General Watts and Guy Axworthy. Ha | ! s was the first of the long Une of Ax- * worthy trotters and in his rasing was a consisteat winner and with unusual speed,