New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 15, 1917, Page 8

e e A NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1017. e A BARROWS’ NEW LEAG‘JE PLANS BADLY D‘EFLATED—MIKE O’DOWD WlNS MlDDLEWE!GHT CROWN KNOCKING McCOY OUT IN SIXTH ROUND—CORNELL OARSMEN HONOR VETERAN ¢ . ACH——*ROWN SMOTHERS ENGINEERS ELEVEN OF CAMP DEVENS —STARLIGHT BOWLERS DEFEAT AETNA ALLEYS TEAM BARROW'S PLANS MEET WITH DEFEAT Hinor League Magnates Oppose New League by 11 to 2 Yote Louisville, Ky., Nov. 15.—There will bo no formation of a new quasi third major league to include the Louisville, Indianapolis and Toledo clubs of the . American association, and certain tlubs of the International league. This was definitely decided yesterday when the National association of baseball leagues voted down an amendment resolution offered by Edward Barrow ‘president of the International league, 1o redistrict every minor league in the country. The vote was 11 to 2. The original resolution, drafted by ;1'the committee on revision af the con- Etitution, had provided for the redis- ‘{tricting of only the smaller leagues {of the cpuntry. President Barrow caused a surprise, however, by offer- fing an amendment to include all ‘|leagues so that the Union league could be formed. There was stormy debate on the proposal and only two league ex- | |ecutives—Barrow and A. R. Tearney j |of the three I leagues—voted for it. The proposal was received with a storm of protest and half a dozen league presidents attacked it in bitter || terms. After the averwhelming vote had been cast against it, Tearney asked that the resolution be with- j | drawn. d M. H. Sexton, president of the Na- [ tional association, declared there could “be no withdrawal of the Louisville, | Indianapolic and Toledo clubs from the American association nor the ' formation of a new ‘-league without the unanimous consent of all of the ~clubs in the two organizations. It would have been criminal ta de- | - stroy the American association, which | | represents an investment of $2,000,000, | with the majority of the club owners gainst such a move.” “It was a surprise to me that Mr. Barrow had offered’ such an amend- . ment. The vote plainly indicates that gomnlzed baseball is opposed to any | mave .to wreck the structure of the | game,” said President Hickey of the . American association. Internationals’ Meeting. President Barrow of the Interna- jonal league was unwilling last night to make any prediction as to whether . his organization would take the ficld | next season. The club ewners will mcet in New York on December 10 tn take whatever steps are necessary. “Bevond that I haven't a word to gay.” Barrow said. “The merger plan apparently has fallen through. | think it would have been a good | thing for the game, especially in the ~war time conditions we must face.” Club owners of the American as- sociation tentatively decided to open their seasan about May 1. three weeks Jater than the opening date a year g0, and discussed the feasibility of re- | ducing the player limit. | President Hickey said a meeting . ‘would be held in Chicago on Decem- __ber 17 to decide on plans for next Beason. After defeat of a resolution offered by A. R. Tearney. president of. the Three, I leagie, demanding the . re- duction of the present membership of the National Board of Arbitration | from ten mebers to five, President Barrow of the International league pttempted to have the expense accounts of these officials eliminated in the } interest of economy. The motion, - however, was lost 8 to 6. Club owners of the Western and Central leagues met last night to con- | R slder plans for the coming season President Dickerson of the Western Jeague stated positively that his or- ganization wonld start, but the Cen- tral league most likely the lcagues that will decide to pend until the end of the war. May Change Player Limit. August Herrmann, chairman of the WNatioral Baseball Commission. ap- peared before the minor leagues Yes- terday afternoon and pledged the sup- port of the major leagues to any cause that will be of assistance ta the small organizations. He declared that baseball in general was facing a criti- ! cal situation. “The next season will be a serious one both in the major and minor leagues,” Herrmann said. “There will have to be retrenchment everywhere It we hope to exist. The miner leagues need the majors and th& major leagues need the minors. It is ta our mutual Interest that we should extend aid. T can say with all frankness that the National league is seriously consider- Ing policy of retrenchment which in- cludes the reduction of the player Hmit.”" J. W. Ford of Fort Dodge, Towa, president of the Central association, one of the ten leagues forced to s pend last season, appealed to Mr. Herrmann for a ruling that would! snable these leagues to protect their player rights. Ford contended that 5 some or their most promising players wcre spapped up by other leagues when thc Central ociation sus- pended. He seeks to have them re- turned or the clubs reimbursed for their loss. R. Blewitt of Seattle, Wash., presi- dent of the Northwestern league, de- clared that unless such a rtuling was made his league would face a serious problem in starting next season. He said that other leagues had taken the crcam of the players from his organization and will endeavor to will be among | sus- was| 'BROWN SHOTHERS | | A Handy Man Around the House S By Briggs' CAMP DEVENS TEAM Providence Collegians Pile Up 40’ Points against Engineers HENRY- wWownT You TPLEASE FIXx THaT CHAIR NOW- Providence, R. I, Nov. 15.—Brown vesterday got even up, in a measure,. for her overwhelming defeat by the| Naval Reserves team last Saturday, by trouncing the 301st Engineers’ team 40 to 0. Not once was the col- legians’ goal line threatened and ‘only ; the substitution of many untried men prevented a much larger score. Only twice were the soldiers able to gain first down. 1 The game with Colby next Saturday is expected to furnish tougher opposi- tion and will serve to give the locals : a real test of Brown’s chances in the game with Dartmouth a week later. The lineup. Brown (40) ‘Albright i 301st Engineers(0) “WHAT DID You SAY You WANTED mE To Do 7 Fre TuAT, =g @ g A Lanpher Murphy Herriott Right hallback Armstrong Fullback Nouchdowns—Samson Armstrong, Herriott, Kittredge, Goals from touchdowns—Albright 4. Sub- | stitutions—Coulter for Samson; Hov- | ing for Black ;Brooks for Pierl, Grabb for Lanpher, Nichols for Mur- phy, Samson for Coulter, Pieri for Brooks, Black for Having, Kittredge ; for Armstrong, Samuels for Croft, Strait for Lowe, Referee—Mr. Hal- loran, Boston. Umpire—Mr. Marshall, | Harvard. Head linesman—Mr. Ber- gin, Princeton. Attendance—1,000. CHAMPIONS FADING FAST 1t Was a Tough Night for Title Hold- | Ask the Aetna ; T0 HELP GRIF'S FUND Baseball Men at Louisville Vote to set Aside One Day in June When Re- ceipts Will Be Given. Loulsville, Ky., Nov. 15.—Clark Griffith’s Bat and Ball fund received a great impetus here yesterday when the members at the baseball conven- tion voted -mmnanimously to aid the sol- diers. It was decided to set aside onc day in every league next June for the cause. After an appeal for aid by Grifith a resolution was introduced by A. R. Tearney, of Chicago. Tt called for the taking out of 25 per : cent. of the gate receipts and the tak- ing up of a special collection for the fund. Griffith declared that he would make a similar appeal at the conven- tions of the American and National League magnates. ‘It was our army that developed baseball during tho ! Civil war, and between $75,000 crs—If in Doubt Bowlers. Two champions. felt the heavy hand | of defeat last evéning, Al McCoy, rec- ognized throughout the country as ! the legitimate camouflage title holder | in the middleweight division of pugil- ism, who wag rocked to sleep by Mike O'Dowd of St. Paul, Minn, in six rounds, and the New Britain bowl- [ ing quintet, champions of the Inter- | City bowling league in 1916, who were downed by the Meriden Starlights. It . required over 15 minutes for Sir Miquel to produce the wallop that brought him the honors, but the cpn- quest of- the Silver city lane men oc- cupied more time than that. but was just impressive. Pa_ Rudolph hurled a towel in the padded enclogure for his beaten son, hut George Rogers kept his team plugging away to the end. The victory gained by the 8il- ver city boys was clean cut and de- cisive and further relegated the local | fallen idols into the discard. Through the good work of “Yen” Larson, the locals managed to snatch the final game, “Yen's" score of 133 being the material factor in the accomplish- ment. The md details follow: New Dritain. 100 83 98 96 83 460 Starlight. SEis2i03 .106 101 . 95. 103 .132 90 111 118 526 and $100,000 will be necessary to provide | the material for the American sol- diers,” said Griffith. HONOR COURTNEY Member of Cormell Crew Extend Greetings to Veteian Coach on Six- ty-third Anniversary of Birth. Ithaca, Nov Charles E. Court- ney, Cornell’s veteran crew coach, and the only collegiate oar tutor success- | fully to hold a post as head coach of | a 'varsity squad for thirty-three vears, i has passed his sixty-eighth birthday. Yesterday he celebrated that event quietly at his home, receiving only members of his crew squad who called ; to pay their respects to the Grand Old Mari of the rowing world. Courtney started his well known rowing career at the age of nineteen, when, in a boat of his own building, he won his first race on Cayuga against veteran rowers. Under his direction at Cornell the Red and White crews have won forty-nine races in seventy-cwo start: 1010 96— 133— 3 86— \00— w]6~1479 A. Anderson Larson i Foote 8 2 ! E. Anderson 2 90— 93— 93— 96— 99— 471—1512 Rohinson ! Daley = Pr.\1“|t7 Hagerty Brooks 293 318 | 326 515 TRAVERS TO SUBSTITUTE. Jerry Will Play in Place of Ouimet in Englewood Tourney. New York, Nov. 15.—Francis Oui- | ——— met will not be able to play at En- | Coach Sharpe Has Squad of Sixty Try- glewood next Saturday, as planned, | ing For Cornell Quintet. but this, will not causc a postpone- Ithaca, N. Y. Nov. 15.—T ment of tho bl fg\u;t;‘ftllof‘i‘]:em;tch’;‘ ond practice for the Cornell 'varsitv arranged for the ben i basketball squad brought out a num- 1C. A. war fund. { ber as lar; ini s 'ge as the initial call, so that | Jerry Travers has consented to take Al Sharpe now has sixty players on | Ouimet's place, and will be paired !with Jesse Guilford against J. G. An- Juo edusdyforaihSieatiztialning facas der=on mnd Oswald KERRDy | Of this number, Allen, Cross, Hen- L | r¥, Hubach, Kendall, Lurio, Schnee, WEEGHMAN BUYS OUTFIELDER. | stewart and Tripp were all members Louisville, Ky., Nov. 15.—Presi- |of last year's squad. dent Charles Weeghman of the Chi- —_— | cago Nationals vesterday announced the purchase of McCabe, outfielder of i the St. Joscph, Western League club {in exchange for Shay, shortstop, and a cash consideration. McCabe, who was one of the leading hitters in the Western Leazue last season, will join | the Chicago club on ity spring train- ing trip. BASKETBALL PLAYERS OUT. TOW HELPS AT A\(HER&T. | Assists in Coaching Team For Game With Williams. Amherst, Mass., Nov. 15.—With the odds slightly against it Amhersts foot- ball team is plugging away each day in monotonous but spirited style pre- paring for the annual classic struggle with Willlams on Saturday. Yester- day was used in dummy formations against the scrubs. Coach Gettell has been assisted throughout the week by i Bill Tow. quarterback on the 1915 team, which defeated Willlams 31 to 9. A huge mass meeting and rally will REDWOODS PRACTICE TONIGHT. All the members of the Redwood footbal team are requested to be on hand this evening, at 7 o'clock, at Paradise Park.on the corner of Smalley and EIm etreet. Coach Gor- hold them. President Sextan pmpowered to appoint a committee of three to settle the issue with the Na- Bonal commission. man has several new plays which he is going to explain in preparation for the game Sunday with the Columbias of Hartford. be held tonight in College hall to per- fect Amherst support from the side lines. “WHA' SMATTE wiTHR T @pyrichted 1917 hv The Tribuns Ammac (Mew York Tribuned) \T WwWoN'T MORE' N & “WRERE 'S THE HAMMER ? sAr- TaaT s A FUNNY BIRD BELIEVE ME- (QH-w- GET ouT or MY WA= | CARN Dy IT MYSELF _ {MOTOR RACING CHAMPION ADDS ONE | BOXERS GET EXEMPTION MORE WORLD’S RECORD TO' LONG LlST|..p0,k,n Fiynn and Jack Savage Are D PALMA AT RUBE OLDRING WILL PILOT JERSEY FARM Rube Oldring, Connie Mac great outflelder, is done with baseball for all time. He says he never will don the spangles again and in the future will devote his entire time to the farm down in Jersey. IINISH OF - RECORD-BREAKING SPIN ! racing champion, world’s speed added LA A A, | tion-motored car ten miles in The time made by De Palma, dition to lowering the world’s record for cars of 231 300 cubic inches, broke the European record. 5:17:41. to Ralph De Palma, the 1917 motor another record to his already { long list on Sheepshead Bay speedway | at a trial officially supervised by the De Palma drove his avia- in ad- Released From Duty in Nationay Army Because of Dependents. Ayer, Mass., Nov. 15.—Palmer, a halfback, was elected captain of the Camp Devens football team yesterday. lie played in the Massachusetts Agri- cultural college team last year. Daniel “Porky” Flynn, heavyweight | boxer, of Boston, and Jack Savage, & | Brockton middleweight, were re- ileased from military service yester- day because of dependents. They | came to the National Army canton- Vment here with the latest quota of |the draft. CRACK RIDERS ENTER RACE. Egg and Dupuy 1916 Winners to Ride in Coming Six-Day Race. New York, Nov. 15.—Oscar Egg and 1916 | event, will be among the select fleld | of starters in the six-day bicycle race jat Madison Square Garden the week | of December 2-8. These foreign stars ,‘\o#terddv cabled their acceptance of 1\\yllhun H. Wellman’s invitation to compete. The entry of these forelgn stars adds an international tinge to the and Dupuy, who represent \.‘/mlaml and France, respectively, e the best of the European riders, the fact that they won last year’s ce enhances their drawing powers. 1t is quite likely they will ride as a j team again. i i | ! ! Marcel Dupuy, winners of the BROOKLYN BOY HONORED. Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 15.—Chas. | E. Masters, of Newton, has been elect- !ed captain of the Harvard freshman { soccer team. He prepared at Wor- cester Academy. Ford Hubbard, of Brooklyn, has been appointed mana- ger of both the 1931 and Informal teams. The freshmen will play a reg- ular schedule, while the upper class men will probably only oppose neigh- boring factory clubs. SCRIMMAGE AT WESLEYAN. Middletown, Nov. 15.—The Wesley- an team had a scrappy scrimmage with the freshmen yesterday after- noon and was able to score only once, Berlew carrying the ball over. Kee- ler, the varsity quarterback, is out j of the game with a bad ankle, but it is hoped he will be able to play against Columbia. Boots did the punting this afternoon. The fresh- men will play Columbia freshmen on Friday. As long as it was possible to do so we have kept down the price of the San Felice Cigar, so that it could be retailed for bc. However, it becomes imperative for us to increase the price i to 6c. Taxation, raw material and wages have advanced so much during the past year that it is no longer possible Quality Same As Ever San Felice Cigar Now 6¢ to sell San Felice at the old price. To those smokers of fine taste who recognize in San Felice a cigar of un- usual merit we ask your continued patronage. It is unnecessary to state that the same high standard of San Felice quality will be maintained. San Felice Cigar now 6c. . The Deisel- Wemmer Co., Lima, Ohio. MIKE 0’DOWD I NEW . MIDDLEWEIGHT KING St. Paul Boxer Ends Regime of Al McCoy in Sixth Round New York, Nov. 16.—Mike O'Dowd. St. Paul’s sturdy middleweight, is now the world’s middleweight champion. He won the honor by knocking out Al McCoy of Brooklyn in the sixth round of their scheduled ten-round bout last night at the Clermont 8. C. of Brooklyn. The result of the bout, coming as a bolt out of the blue to the majority of those who witnessed it, caused a demonstration that has seldom been duplicated in local box- ing clubs. The fallen middleweight champion, though he was chided while he held, the title for his inability to box up to the standard of previous titleholders, fought gamely and was floored four times before final knockdown camse. Then his seconds, supervised by his aged father. hurled a towel into the ring just as Referee McAvoy reached the count of seven. A title has seldom changed hands under more impressive conditions, for the moment the towel landed in the ring almost over the prostrate, form of McCoy, it was as if a signal had been given, and there was one great rush from all sides of the house, with the ring as the general objective. The enthusiastic and over- joyed friends of O’Dowd boosted him upon their shoulders before he had time to cross the ring to give the cus- tomary hand-shake to a defeated fae, and for many minutes the din threat- ened to lift the roof off the building. The spectators had their first pre- monition of what might happen in { the fourth round when McCoy was i floored on four separate occasions. This, however, was not entirely clear i to the friends of the St. Paul lad, he was himself on the canvas twice. Neither boxers took a count on these * knock-downs. Then in the sixth round the inevit- able happened. Shortly after the bell O’'Dowd floored the Brooklynite with his heavy right to the jaw, but McCoy | regained his feet without taking a count. Another right, almost before | he had entirely straightened out in boxing poise, floored McCoy again, but again he disdained the bemefits of & count. Then O'Dowd went furiously at McCoy, seeing a vision of the world’s title in his grasp, and soon had floored the Brooklyn boxer again. This time McCoy took a count of nine to clear his befuddled brain, and when he regained his feet he was still STOEEY. A fourth time McCoy was sent down with O'Dowd’s heavy right to the jaw, and the falling middleweight champion took a cdunt of ~three. Hardly had McCoy a chance to get erect after climbing to his feet than he was floored with a right to the jaw, which landed solidly and re- sounded throughout the building. The' Brooklynite’'s body stiffened out as he hit the canvas, and when Referee McAvoy had tolled off seven in his count of ten seconds one'of MoCoy's” handlers, with tears in his eyes, tossed in the towel. O'Dowd entered the ring at 157 pounds, one pound below the standard middleweight limit, while McCoy’s weight was announced as 167. The bout furnished a fitting climax to the end of the Frawley law in this state and was witnessed by a bigger crowd than has ever before found its way into the Clermont 8. C. The crowd was not entirely an orderly one, however, for there were several fights between the spectators, and one of thess, coming in the fourth round, after McCoy’s seconds had thrown water on their maa as he lay on the ring floor, threatened . to result in a wild free-for-all. PRAOCTICE UNTIL DARKNESS Army Tuning Up For Visit of Débanon Valley Eleven. ‘Wiest Point, Nov. 15.—Preparations for the Army’s gridiron encounter with Lebanon Valley on Saturday were continued in earnest yesterday. The soldiers’ midweek practice lasted well into the darkness before the coaches called a hal Luce, the 200 pound guard, was in the rough work for a brief period vesterday. Yeager worked in the greater part of the time in the position, but the coaches are hopeful of getting Luce in condi- tion to start Saturday’s game. Vandegraat is out of it as far as’ o | Saturday’s game is concerned. The bix Alabame star may go in againet Charles Brickley’'s Boston college elev- en the following week, but the coach- | es will take no chances with him at present. 3 TOUCHDOWNS FOR CORNEDL. 13 Varsity Finds Scrubs Easy t Nalf Hour Scrimmage. Ithaca, N. Y., Nov. 15.—With sev- eral canges in the lineup the Cormell varsity cleaned up the scrubs in a half hour’s scrappy sorimmage Yyes- terday afternoon. The varsity scored three togchdowns. The exhibition: was gratifying and demonstrated that the team had completely recovered from the effects of the Michigan drub- bing. Nethercott and Cross reeled off sev- eral pretty runs. The whole team played with life and ginger. Harris was replaced at right end by Splegel- berg, hitherto a candidate for center, who has been trying for the team for several years.