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

NEW BRITAIN LEAGUE BOWLERS ROUTED IN MERIDEN—SECRETARY FOSTER SUGGESTS PLAN TO SIMPLIFY WAR TAX_LEOC HANDICAPS AT PIMLICO—SYNDICATE WILL SELL YACHT AMERICA WITH RESTRICTIONS—SOLDIER ELEVEN FROM NORTH DEFEATS SOUTHERNERS OSTER HAS PLAN T - - - = - - By Brigs ||LEOCHARES WINS [MERIDEN BOWLERS . b1 10 SINPLIEY TAX — SERIAL HANDICAP, OUTCLASS LOCALS | Seceary of Giats Favors See st E. B. McLean's Sprinter DeIeats’Starlights Take Three Straight of Stamps to Cover Law Select Field at Pimlico Track i Games From Aetna Alleys Team~ | e |It Happens in the Best Regulated Families NOW TuaT (| HAUE IT HERE 1'm _NOT So SURE THAT 1T HARMONIZE BiLL 1 WASH Ybu'D GO WITH ME AND SELECT THAT I THiNK THAT witt Do~ WELL - New York, Nov. 8.—A baseball pass ih the future will cost the holder $6.16, according to John B. Foster, secretary of the Glants, whe has sug- igested a plan for simplitying the col- tlon of the government war tax on Mnusements, which, 1f perfected and dopted, might work to the conven- 8’ of the government, the amuse- _ #ent promoters and the patrons alike. | L /He suggests the sale and circula- lon of stamp books of the various de- nations necessary to meet the erent admission prices, which could "boe. used at all amusement Pimlico, Md., Nov. 8.—Edward B. McLean's fast and consistent sprinter Leochares won the Serial Handicap No. 2, the feature of the program at the race track here yesterday after- Putting up a battle that proved as effective as the Itallan army’s stand against Gorizia, the once-famed bowl- . ing team of the Aetna alleys went | down to three straight defeats last, noon. The old gelding showed his ! evening at the hands of the Star-® best form and beat a high class field | 11ghts of Meriden on the Silver City over the one mile route in clever | 2llevs. Headed by Von Buelow Bren- fashion. Among those he left behinqa Necke, the invaders from the Hard- was Westy Hogan, the renowned | Vare City were outclassed from the three-year-old son of Dick Wells, be-/| Outset. The bright feature of the longing to Wilfred Viau. A. K. Ma.| 83Me was the work 'of Prillwitz, of comber's Star Gazer finished third, | Meriden, who smashed the pins for @ Leochares sped over the course in | total score of 356 in three games. His 1:39 2-5. , best’ score was made in the second l ilaces and would probably be very ‘much like the present postage stamp. “Thoe idea is that these stamps could Do ‘used at a ball game, a theater or tflr amusement place, and the hold- ‘would have less trouble, while the ent would have a uniform of collection. At the same :the amusement promoter would an easler time accounting for the The only thing necessa: for ke guocess of the plan would be :g‘ means of cancelling the stamps, /prevent their use over again. Dots of Trouble. ‘Foster got his inspiration from watshing the collection of the tax at pass gate at the Polo Grounds some of the recent football L les played there. It took two men A a great boxful of small change %' make the collection from a very Manited number who came in on ‘passes. *We will ‘cirtaljly have to devise {'sgme better means than that for this “oollecting the tax,” said Foster. ¢ anly really good thing th . the biggest ald they have ever had | | red. . place. They are the ones who con- . musn. : e inecrease in the number gate when the baseball season @apena next year, or we will be all day “Can you imagine the task of making | ahange for the number of people who come through here on a Saturday, ®nd the confusion that would follow?"" * It is not, of course, the intention to the present method of mak- change at the gate. Unless some means as, for instance, the one above is adopted, all passes will no doubt bear the government _stamp, which will have to be paid for Wwhen the pass is issued. This same tax, by the way, is the war has done for baseball. The club owners sre glad to see it come, whether they admit it or not. They regard it as fn reducing the number of requests of s issued since the beginning of \the Federal league rumpus has finally gcome a matter of serious consider- tion with the magnates. The pass has become an evil. It represents one of the main channels through which | rofits are drained and losses incur- ' Yet it has been a difficult thing fo cut down the number of passes without offending persons whose friendship the clubs wished to keep. | - Fewer Applicants. But the addition of a tax of 10 per oent will no doubt have the effect of reducing the number of applicants. Next season it will cost the holder of B geason book $6.16 for his book. For ‘the man who attends many games this will not be a big tax, and he will Ilikely pay it willingly. But for the man who desires a pass chiefly to show his standing with the club of- fAcials and to have to pass around to his friends there will not be so much ‘willingness to pay. are many pass holders who resent the wery thought of having to pay any- | Navy Yard eleven. e O ement fled the Harvard athletic ! ment yesterday that he preferred to specially privileged | have the Crimson informal varsity go t thing to get into any sder themselw®; . characters. There is no question but what th magnates intend to seize upon the present situation to cut down their pass lists, The necessity of economy xnd,retréenchment all along the will be used as the argument cutting many names off the list. Tne war tax will help to keep others off the The ill winds have at least blown baseball some little good. CAMP WADSWORTH WINS Boys From North Prove Too Strong on Gridiron for Southern Lads— Noted Collegians With Victors. Union, 8. C., Nov. 8.—New York! woldiers from Camp Wadsworth, wal- . loped the Camp Sevier team, com- | sed of Southerners, on the gridiron &t the Unlon County Fair Grounds yesterday. The New Yorkers out- played their opponents in every branch of the sport and won by the score of 52 to 0. Representing the Gothamites were several well known collegiate stars. Purdy, who .ran the team at Brown last year, played quarterback and his work was consistently good through- out.'s Wyth of Princeton, Houcke of, Cornell and Cox of Yale also did fine | work. The game was replete with forward passes, open field plays and delayed trick plays. The New York team was accom- panfed by the Seventy-fourth Infan-: try band. All the soldiers were loud in their praises of the hospitality ex- tended by this county, which recent- | 1y earned fame for being one of the few counties In the country that did not have a man called under the draft law. R. F. Jenney refereed the while Harvey Cohn, former game, Irish ! the former title-holder is, but a shadow of his former self. { his hair is rapidly ' WOLGAST DYING Former Iightweight Champion a Pa- tient in Milwaukee Sanitarium— ‘Weights Only 86 Pounds. Milwaukee, Wis.,, Nov. 8.—Ad Wol- gast, once champion of all the lizht- weights, and one of the ! fighters to ever step inside the roped arena, is nearing the end in a local sanitarium. sturdiest According to Ad's brother, Louis, in “truth, “Ad only weights 86 pounds and turning gray,” stated Louis Wolgast, in a letter to a friend. never leave the sanitarium. “The chances are he will “Ad wants to become an instructor | {in boxing in the United States Army, but, of course, he could not do that. His physical condition would not per- mit it.” “CUPID” BLACK CANCELS GAME. i Will Not Play Leary’s Team in Stadi- um on November 17. Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 8—There will be no football game In the Stadi- , um on November 17 between “Cupid” o e hach ! Black's team of Newport Naval Re- nd then there | erves and Leo Leary's Charlestown Capt. Black noti- manage- o Newport rather than bring his e 'team here, and Harvard will keep the date as arranged. Yesterday afternoon the varsity showed great improvement in a scrim- line mage with the navy yard team, Har- for vard scoring four touchdowns. Hoff- man and Horween each ran half the length of the fleld. Harvard will meet Percy Haughton's team from Camp Devens in the Stadium on Sat- urday. SIGNAD DRILD AT BROWN. Minor Injuries Keep Several Regulars Out of Practice. Providence, R. I., Nov. 8—Although the regular weekly military drills in- terfered somewhat with football prac- tice at Brown yesterday, Coach Rob- inson and his assistants were able to put their charges through a strenu-! oug signal practice. The varsity line- up again showed several changes due for the most part to minor injuries recelved by the first string men. The game with Syracuse on Saturday demonstrated that the Brown team is far from proficient in the forward pass and other open plays, and consider- able time is being Jaken to remedy this weakness. POST SEASON FOOTBALL, Pitt Eleven to Play 320th Regiment of Camp Lee on Dec. 1. Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 8.—The Uni- versity of Pittsburgh football team will play a post season game with the eleven of the 320th Regiment from Camp Lee, Va., according to a decl- sion of the university athletic com- mittee last night. The game will be played at Forbes Field, the Natlopal League baseball park here, on De- cember 1. The regimental team is composed of former college players from western Pennsylvania. The receipts from the American champlon distancer, acted as timekeeper. game will be turned into the regi- 4 mental fund, How You CaxM BE So BRAZEN AS-To STAND THERE AND ‘Den - Y T ewv 11, e oo FAMOUS TENNIS CHAMPION TRAINS IN. OFFICERS’ RESERVE AT PLATTSBURG R. Norris Willlams, noted = tennis champion, Is one of the famous ath- letes in training in the Officers’ Re- serve corps at Plattsburgh. Many of the champion athletes of the country are training for officer- ships in this branch of the service. The ranks of the Officers’ Reserve are = —— ) SPENCER IN SIX DAY RACE. National Cycle Champion to Make Debut in Long Grind. New York, Nov. 8—Arthur Spencer, the national cycling champion, who relieved Frank Kramer of the laurels he held for seventeen years, will be | a starter in the six day race at Madi- | son Square Garden the week of De- cember 2 to 8. Willlam H, Wellman made a special trip to Boston in order to sign the title holder, and he re- turned last night with Spencer's sig- nature attached to a contract. This will be the champion’s first six day effort. He is at present caring for his brother, Willle, who is paired with Bob Spears in the six day race, ten hours a day, in the Boston Arena. O'DOWD GETS CHANCE. New York, Nov. 8.—Although Al McCoy, the middleweight champlon, declared a few weeks ago he never would give New Yorkers the pleasure of seeing him in a ring contest for his championship, he changed his mind yesterday and will exhibit his prowess once before the poor old Frawley law draws its last breath. He has con- sented to box ten rounds with the “Fighting Harp” Mike O'Dowd at the Clermont Sporting Club next Thurs- day night, November 14. YOUNG RAINBOWS OHALLENGE. The Young Rainbows would like to arrange three football games with any team in the ecity averaging 95 ta 100 pounds. Address Manager Adolph Cooke, 232 Hartford avenue. WHAT CHAIR You PHCHED oUT| T Aw, UNTIL ) S ) ThaTS - NEV' MIND ‘BOuT MY FOLKS, THEY HAD JUST- AS —GooD AlL-L RighT! TASTE AS YOURS--- You GoT N ABOUT filled with the best possible material, | the best young blood in America. The 5,000 men have arrived in camp and the training is under good headway. It is the largest officers’ training camp in the world. 1n three months’ time these men are expected to be ready to drill the men pro- duced by the selective draft. NURSE’'S SWIMMING FEAT. Miss Cunninghém Goes Across Golden Gate and Return. San Francisco, Nov. 8.—For the first time in the swimming history of | the Pacific coast a woman swam a round trip course across the Golden Gate yesterday. She was Miss Hazel Cunningham, an cighteen-year-old nurse. Her time was 1 hour, 33 minutes and 25 seconds. each way was seven-eighths of a mile. The swim was unofficial, but had the sanction of the Pacific Coast Ath- letic Association. MAILS MUST JOIN ARMY. Former Brookiyn Pitcher Drafted In- to National Service. San Francisco, Nov. 8.—John W. (Lefty) Malls, former pitcher for the Brooklyn National League club, has been certified for service in the new National Army at Camp Lewis. Mails, who at the present time is in Seattle, will leave Friday to join the Marin contingent at American Lake. His home is in San Quentin village. LIGHT WORK AT WESLEYAN, Middletown, Nov. 8.—The Wesleyan football team was put through two hours' drill on Andrus Field yesterday afternoon. Beote and Keeler were used in the punting. There was a long period of running down under punts. The scrimmaging was light owing to the withdrawal of some of the scrub and freshmen to compete in the annual interclass fleld day. The varsity soored several times, Mark- thaler, K. V. Dixon, Keller, Berlew and Boote carrying the ball over. The course | oTH(N' To BRAG ) 70 SELL AMERICA Certain Restrictions. Nov. 8.—C. Taggard and Boston, Mass.. Foster, Henry tain conditions. { for was the deal. American yachtsmen want the his: toric vessel to remain a yacht or having her go abroad. ! comes that Sir Thomas wants ! craft for a yacht but for service, the deal will not be closed. What has led the syndicate to even | consider his offer{is the fact that un- this country lately that Sir Thomas de- sired to purchase the America and present her to American yachtsmen in order to prevent her being broken official reports have come to un. BACKS SCORE 4 TOUCHDOWNS. for Game With Penn, Hanover, N. H, Nov. The first string backfleld, with out in uniforms yesterday. and Shulting, short time the ball was in play. was out of the scrimmage this after- noon. He has a cut on his foot. Ross is barely able to run because of a pulled tendon. Crisp was used in the one armed guard’s place while Freed- herg played end. LONG RUNS AT WILDIAMS, Boynton Stars in Scrimmage With Scrub Team. Williamstown, Mass., Nov. §.—Hard work and lots of it was in order for the Willlamg squad here yesterday. It was long after dark before Coach ‘Walker gave the sign for his charges to quit. The first hour was devoted to a secret,signal drill in the base- ball cage,” affer which the squad went to Weston Field for three-quarters of an_hour mare. The varfty and scrubs engaged in a strenuous scrimmage: Four times the regulars crossed the opposing goal line. Boynton made two sensa- tiona] runs through the entire second term for scores, his last performance covering sixty yards. Brown raced half the length of the fleld for a touchdown ,after taking & forward pass and Strong tallied on & line play. BLADES AND ADAIR DRAW. Providence, R. I, Nov, 8.—Before & house packed to capabity TYeung Blades, champion lightweight of New England, and Barney Adair of New York, fought 12 furious rounds to & draw. The decision of Martih Canole, referee was hooted by the fans as they thought Blades was entitled to a verdict as he did all the leading. | Syndicate Will Diflbose . of Famous | teams develop the fact Yacht to Thomas J. Lipton, With | fering severe slumps, H. W. the | dicate for Saturday’s games that Penn syndicate of Eastern yacht club mem- bers who hold the old racing schooner America, are willing that Sir Thomas J. Lipton have the yacht under cer- A cable asking Sir trouncing from Michigan. Thomas Just what he wants the yacht sent yesterday by Hollis Bur- i gess, who represents Sir Thomas in a marine museum and are opposed to If the reply the foreign Dartmouth Gets First Hard Workout 8.—Dart- mouth’s squad went through a short hard scrimmage yesterday afternoon as the first real preparation for the | Penn game in Boston on Saturday. the exception of Capt. McDonough, is still out of the game, although they were Phillips, at fullback,” and Eastman playing in the other | two back positions, scored four touch- downs against the second team in the Neely W. Smith's old bay gplding New ! Haven scored his second victory in | two days in the two mile steeplechase. | On Election Day he defeated a big fleld of jumpers in a claiming chase, | Yesterday he came back and repeated ; ‘his success. W Stockton’s ~Rhomb finished second and D. Raymond's Garter earned third money. | Bert L. Pratt's colors flashed home | in front in the third race, when his | Game Cock defeated a big field of | two-year-olds. Carrying 107 pounds ! and with Morris Rowan in' the saddle | he took the lead soon after the start and was never headed. Sixteen-to-One earned second honors, and third money went to J. K. L. Ross' Miss Bryn. Jockey Schuttinger rode two win- ners. He guided J. W. Conduit home in front in the opening race at one mile and steered E. K. Bryson’s Reprobate over the shortest seventh race at one mjle and seventy PITT IN DANCER Reports Concerning W. and J. Indi- cate Thrt Glenn Warner’s Eleven Corrigan's | game when he rolled 140, and followed this up with 120 in the closing clash. Hagearty and Robinson, of the win- ning quintet put up strong scores. Fop, the locals, the work of Anderson was the best, the star anchor man bowling over the century mark in each game ana totalling 333 for the match. As an added attraction, the Star- light second team, containing no less a noted sport personage than “Swat” McCabe, of baseball fame, downed the Aetna alley’s second team two games out of three. That McCabe still ré- tains the cye that made him a terror to opposing pitchers back in the days of league baseball In this city is evinced by his work on the alleys last evening. ‘“‘Swat’s” scores for the three games were 106, 111 and 113. Thomp- son’s single of 115 was high for the defeated team, while Bertini led for total score with 298. While all this was going on in Meri- ¥ quintet was entertaining a team from | the Connecticut company, of Hartford, at the Aetna alleys. The Berlin boys had the edge on their opppnents by taking the odd game of three rolled. The scores: Starlights. 91 108 85 120 91 87 Robinson Daley ... Prillwitz Hagerty Brooks 386 306 278 Has"Hard Game Next Saturday. Pittsburgh, Nov. 8.—Reports of the condition of various leading football that both Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania are suf- while Dart- mouth is keeping at normal and Mich- igan and Washington and Jefferson never looked better. This would in- is not in very good shape for the ibnttle with Dartmouth, that Pitt may get a beating from Washington and Jefferson and that Cornell is in for a Pittsburgh was not forced to try very hard against Westminster last Saturday, but at that Glenn Warner's eleven did npt give an impressive ex- hibition. '%elrmln. ‘Westminster's quarterback, tan wild against Pittand made so much/trouble even without the aid of anything that resembled interference that one of the Pitts- burgh writers suggests that he “would be a mighty good man to have in the Pitt back fleld.” 1In the older days no sooner said than done, but things are different at Pitt now. While Pitt has been forced to de- velop by leaps and bounds to meet the strength of the various opponents, Washington and Jefferson has been working with only the Pitt game in view. When they meet on Saturday look out for Sol Metzger’s team. Mc- Creight of W. and J. not only is a great back and a forward passer, but he leads the East in kicking field goals, with four. He has carried over four touchdowns and kicked six goals from touchdowns for a total of 42 points. JACKSON OUT OF IT. Petroit Firm Withdraws Forfeit For Match With De Oro. New York, Nov. 8 —The announce- ment last night that the name of Clarence Jackson had been with- drawn as the next opponent of Al- fredo De Oro in a match for the three cushion championship caused a sensa- tion in billiard circles. When Jack- son was asked for the reason oehind | the action of the Sweeney-Huston | Company of Detroit in withdrawing his name and forfeiting $100 he said: “Frankly, I do not know. T pre- sume it has something to do with the big room they have just opened in Detroit. It is true I have not had an opportunity to do much practice work and I am not in as good' condi- tion as I would like to be, but I could probably remedy that. DeOro was as much surprised as I, for he fully expected I would be his opponent.” REST FOR PENN ELEVEN. Folwell Gives Men a Day Off Pre- paratory to Drive on Dartmouth. Philadelphia, Nov. 8.—After Penn's hard battle with the Pennsylvania | Military College eleven Tuesday, Coach Folwell of the Red and Blue | team decided to rest his players yes- 1 491 1540 New Britain. 96 112 108 92 96 | 95 110 a1 521 480 Brennecke A, Anderson . Windish ... Foote . E. Anderson . 112 89 98 478 Starlight Seconds. 115 86 111 85 87 484 90 108 113 108 102 Russell Benson McCabe Johnson Patkoske . 4 1256 | 512 5*1 New Britain Seconds, Thompson 82 116 91 Cage 94 86 Scott 93 98 Kalms 102 98 Bertini 108 . 93 461 2 51 Berlin Construction Co. Graham 82 90 E'merson 67 81 C. Warner . 79 83 Hull 96 324 Connecticut Co. of Hartford. Seaburg 81 91 77 1 Millar .91 T4 L. Warner .. 101 86 Hickey 102 352 353 343 BROTHERS COACH RIVALS Dr. Fauver’s Wesleyan Gridiron War- viors to Clash With Dr. Fauver's Rochester Eleven Next Saturday. o) Middletown, Nov. 8.—For the first | time in the history of,the sport, Wes- levan and the University of Rochester » will meet at football Saturday in ¢ Rochester, where a new athletic fleld is to be christened with this event. The fact that twin brothers, both physicians and football experts, are, coaching the elevens at these two in-! stitutions adds to the interest. Dr. Edwin Fauver is professor of physi- cal education at Rochester and Dr. Edgar Fauver is acting in a like ca- pacity at Wesleyan. They are both old Oberlin football stars and both stud- ied at Columbia before they took their present positions. o i CHANGE IN CORNELL LINEUP. Carry Takes Pendleton’s Position fm Backfield. Ithaca, N. Y., Nov. 8.—Cornell's varsity showed encouraging form in | terday. Only six men were out on Franklin Field yesterday afternoon and thiey merely did some limbering up stunts. The Penn eleven will leave Broad street station at 9 o'clock Friday merning fer Boston, where on Satur- day they will battle with the Dart- ' mouth eléven. The following players i will make the trip: | Miller, Berry, Light, Quigley, Bell, “Thomas, Straus, Maynard, Cleary, Wray, Wolfe, Kammerer, Krause, Ogorman, Rosenau, Jerauld, / Weil, Moche, Dixon, Van Ginkle, Heavener, Dieter, Walsh, Cook and Cresset. yesterday’s short scrimmage with scrubs. The varsity took the ball ot once from the forty yard line. An important change was made in the lineup, which may hold for the Mich- igan game on Saturday. Carry wasg | placed at fullback for Pendleton, the latter remaining on the side lines. Pendleton is not in the best of cons dition. Although Carry had been in- | jured early in tho season while play. ing quarterback he showed plenty of speed yesterday. If Carry starts 4n the backfleld Cornell's offensive will} be the fadtest of the vear because he is a fleet, hard rununing back; A ) 1 | den, the Berlin Construction company route and landed him the victor of the | i W