New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1917, Page 8

S CHALLENGES—BAS o e e R PETERSON DEFEATS VENTRES IN WRESTLING BOUT—DOWNFALL OF MICHIGAN AND DARTMOUTH FURNISHES SURPRISES ON FOO URDAY—CHAMPION MIKE O’'DOWD DELUGED WITH £ -— MANY SURPRISM |When a Feller Needs a Friend - - - SATURDAY'S GAMES Gollapse of Michigan and Dart-' mouth Features Day of Upsets | Michigan's collapse against Penn- sylvanla—or shal] we say the rise of | Bob Folwell's eleven over the wreck of the Wolverine tractor?—made a ! rather sensational feature for an aft- | ernoon replete with football surprises | last Saturday. “Hurry Up” Yost's | team had considerable distinguished | company in its fall, for Dartmouth got | a terrific joit from Tufts and Wach- | ington and Jefferson was handed a | thoroughly unexpected setback by ! est Virginia. Colgate’s defeat by looked for, but not in the ratio of 7 to 26. Similarly Fordham exceeded expectations in whipping Cornell by 27 to 6, the Navy outdid iteelf in pil- | ing up 80 to 3 on Villanova and Elmer Oliphant's eleven restored the Army’s | confidence by smearing Lebanon Val- ley by 50 to 0. The outstanding result in national ; football was Georzia Te‘h's success ! over the Carlisle Indlars by 98 to 0. | We entertain no doubt mnow ‘that Georgia Tech is the strongest eleven in the country. In the way of vic- tories the Indians have done nothing | worthy of mention this season, hut | any team that can pile up 98 points on the redskin outfit must be atout ) as strong as therc is anywhere. The Indlans held West Virginia to 21 | points, but the following week fell be- fore the Navy by 61 to 0. To have exceeded the feat of the Midshipmen | by 7 points stamps Georgia Tech as | mone than the real goods. Dartmouth’s defeat by Tufts. a team which had been swamped by Syra- cuse by 58 to 0 and by the Army by 26 to 3, is one of the biggest upsets of the vear. The game was played at Manchester. N. H. Tt seems that every time Dartmouth goes to a neu- | tral gridiron it iz hoodooed. Last season it spoiled its record by being | beaten by' Georgetown at Haverhill | and some years ago. after it had gone slong unbeaten, with a claim to the Fastern title. it was swamped at the Polo Grounds by a Carlisle Indian eleven which had not becn figured in the Green's class. Tufts’ Remarkable Rise. “Tufts owed its victory. to no fluke. It developed a remarkable efficiency with the forward pass and the line held Dartmouth off like a stone wall. Partmouth had the misfortune to Syracuse was | | BASEBALL IS GROWING IN ENGLISH FAVOR strike Tufts just at the time when ! the effect of Dr. Whelan's coaching reached its zenith, and what makes it all the worse, “Doc” Is a Dartmouth graduate. Any attempt to reconcile the Tufts score with beating West Virginia and holdinz Penn to a touchdown will re- sult in a severe and protracted head- ache. If you hold that Dartmouth was overrated, what about that West Virginia game? It was unfortunate for Sol Metzger that just when his Washington and Jefferson eleven had established it- self among the very few close sec- onds to Pitt for the top honors it should have been whipped by West Virginia, 7 to 0. It looks like another anti-climax. W. & J. had heen point- ing for the Pitt battle, and with that put of the way and a close defeat the result the W. & J. man suffered a natural and almost inevitable letdown. Fordham's viotory over Cornell was accomplished mainly through the use of the forward pass. When a team starts passing and gets there nobody can stop it. Yet that offers very lit- tle consolation for Cornell, particu- larly as it must meet Penn on Thanks- giving Day. Fordham attained the form which it had been promising all season. New York University rose to un- looked for heights in holding Stevens to a tie at one touchdown each. Here too, was another case of a team find- Ing itself after an all season struggle, for it had been conceded that N. Y. U. had the power but did not know how to use it. Stevens was lucky to es- cape a defeat by a point and finished its season as no other Stevens eleven had finished it, with nary a defeat chalked up against it. Columbia showed marked improve- ment, but so did Wesleyan, and though neither was able to cross the other's goal line Boote's two fleld goals gave the visitors a victory. The game between N. Y. U. and Columbia next Saturday should he a corker. Brown in its firal “reraration for Dartmouth had quite a time beating Colby, the Maine te2w outplaving the Bears in the second half. Pitt had no trouble in beating Carnegie Tech. Willlams, with Pitt and Stevens the only undefeated to°ms in the East, earned a brilliant victory over Am- herst. \ Rutgers which iz to play Black’s Newport Naval Reserve at Ebbets Field on Raturday. had a romp agalnst Edd‘~ Mahan’s Marines with- out Mahan. The Newport eleven de- feated ¥H-orvard. while Yale's lone varsite ivtercollegiate game of the wna- nzht a victory over Trinity. ¥a1 eshmen earned a deserved -~ over the Harvard freshmen, » nreviously had whipped the - -eton cubs. “yracuse established itself among great teams of the vear by de- -ating Colgate by so big a margin. We wonder whether Pitt could win from the Orange by 20 points now. Dartmouth’s - Englishmen Patronize Our National Game in Large Numbers Despite War—Games Attract Good Crowds. TLondon, Nov. 19.—In spite of the war, sports in England during the last summer have enjoved the best sea- son since the great conflict began. | Baseball proved the leading drawing card. From small crowds of 1,000 or so the attendance grew to as much as 15,000, A competition arranged on the | knockout principle among the over- seas military forces of Canada in the i British Isles attracted 101 entries, the {final game being recently decided in { London between the two survivors, the | | Epsom Canadian Convalescent hos- pital nine and the 198th Battalion (Canadian Buffs) from Witley. Ep- som won by 7 runs to 1, due to some wonderful pitching by Sergeant Doyle. The game was followed with intense | enthusiasm by a large and noisy ‘crowd. Next season baseball will doubtless ! carry everything before it, as the pres. ence of the American bovs will give a decided impetus to the strong foun- dation laid by the Canadians during | the last three years. . ‘ Cricket has been largely played all over the country, but e absence of |/any competitions in the South of Fng- iland drove the star players to the | North, where the leagues arranged in | Yorkshire and Lancashire attracted a lot of attention. Golf has suffered more than any other sport, several of the prominent players being on ac- tive service. The exhibition games by the lead- ing “pros” have drawn well, one played last month at Sunningdale, when Harry Vardon and James Braid ! opposed J. H. Taylor and Jack White, attracting 2,000 people, which, with donations and the result of auctions of clubs of famous players, benefited the Red Cross fund to the extent of about $8,600. DRUMMIE QUITS GAME. New Haven, Nov. 19.—Joe Shugrus is authority for the statement that Johnny Drummie, who was originally booked to box Johnny Martin here to- night, has retired from the game. Drummie passed up three matches at the request of his wife, who told him 1a shelve the gloves some time ago. Drummie is employed in New Jersey. REDWOODS WIN. The Redwoods added the Columbias of Hartford to their list of victims Yesterday afternoon at Seymour Park, winning 19 to 0. The Capital City boys outweighed the locals. The play- ing of Campbell, Bayer and Johnson was the feature. The touchdowns for the winners were mcored hy Bayer, ! Campbell and J. Gorman. | \ BU BN ,/ \ mui\i. =/ / ‘ SENT To The PRINCIPAL Coprrighted 1917 by The Tridune Assec.. (New York Tribunad: TITLE FOR NEBRASKA ELEVEN. Clinched Missouri Valley Conference BUNNY BRIEF SOLD. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 19.—The sale of Bunny Brief to the Kansas ~ By Briggs| City | backs Coach Murphy of the Purple " GAMP DEVENS WINS 801st Machine Gun Battalion Football Eleven, Adds Silver City Aggrega- tion to List of Season’s Victims. The 301st Machine Gun Battalion football eleven, with four New Britain boys playing an important role, downed the Silver City team at Han- over park vesterday afternoon before a small crowd, score 20 to 13. The boys from Camp Devens, led by Lieu opponents in the final stages of the game. Receiving thé ball on the the ball steadily down the field whei at the twentv-yard line a forward pass placed the pigskin close to the line and on the next plunge the Meriden boys scored. The army boys repeated the per- formance shortly after, when Meriden kicked off to McKay who, by beauti- ful running, passed several of the home tedm and placed the ball in | Meriden territory. Straight football NORTHWESTERN STAR EXCEPTIONALLY FAST AND SPLENDID GROUND GAINER tenant Raymond Daly, outplayed their ! kick-off, the Silver City eieven rusheds# beautiful | TBALL FIELDS SAT- EBALL GROWING IN FAVOR IN ENGLAND—CAMP DEVENS ELEVEN VICTORS | VENTRES BEATEN BY - Il | | | “Mush” Underhill is one of the best | eleven boasts of. He is exceptionally | fast and an excellent ground gainer. CHALLENGES POUR IN TO CHAMPION O'DOWD Arena A. C. of Boston Wants Title Holder to Meet Pittsburgher— Britton on Mike's Trail. New York, Nov. 19.—Although Mike 0O’Dowd, the new middleweight cham- pion, has been deluged with offers for title bouts from ail parts of the coun- try, his manager, Paddy Mullins, has | not as yet accepted any of the prapo- sitions. The most persistent challenger is ITarry Greb, the Pittshurgh. middle- weight, who has accepted an offer of a good purse from the Arena A. C. of Boston for a bout with O'Dowd on November 27. Greb and O'Dowd were matched three years ‘age, but Greb injured an arm in a bout with Kid Graves and had to declare off the { meeting with O'Dowd. ‘I Mullins says he will give due con- sideration to all the propositions and American association club was an- ChismpjonstipSatrday, nounced Saturday by President O. H. resulted in a touchdown, and McKay | that, as O'Dowd is not afraid to de- booted the pigskin through the up- fend -his title against anyone in the ¢ | rights for a goal, tying the score. The | class, Greb will probably get a chance. Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 19.—Nebras- ka university’s football players are conference by virtue of having de- feated the Kansas eleven Saturday. Their title is an indisputable one, Kansas having conveniently taken two other contenders, Kansas Aggies and the Ames Aggies, out of the way be- fore meeting Nebraska. General Allenby, commander of British forces in Palestine, reports that the Turks are retiring on Hebron, closely pursued by British troops, who captured many prisoners and supplies of munitions. The British are carrying all before them on this battle front. The photograph shows a general view of Hebron in Pales- tine, with the great mosque covering the cave of Macpelah in the back- ground. Hebron is the seat of several branches of manufacture, notably glass works. The portrait is of Surgeon General Sir Willlam Babtie, who has the difficult job of keeping the men of the champions of the Missouri Valley | Wathen of the Louisville club. Brie: came to the Colonels from Pitts- burg about the middle of the season. TUFTS CLOSES SEASON. Medford, Mass., Nov. Whelan, coach of the Tufts football team, announced today that Tufts’ victory over Dartmouth on Saturday marked the end of the sea- son for the eleven. college BRITISH IN PALESTINE DRIVE TURKS BACK TOWARD HEBRON the Palestine army in good health. He won the Victoria Cross in the Boer war. 19.—Charles first half ended with the score a tie. At the commencement of the third period, Koplowitz handled a forward pass in fine fashion and ran to the twenty-yard line. A few plunges at ithe line and skirting of the ends by “Yump” Johnson and Perrin resulted in a touchdown. McKay again booted |the ball for a goal. Meriden received the ball on the kick-off. and after be- a2 ing held for three downs without gain, a trick play was pulled off, and !a Mariden halfback dashed fifty yards to near the goal line. Soon after the home team scored their final touch- down, but failed at the try for goal. The army eleven made the final score of the day in the fourth period, on a neatly executed forward pass. {McKay to Horner and a crash through | the line on the fina! play by Perrin. Jack Sullivan, of this city, was a tower jof strength to the winners, figuring {in every play. Lieutenant Daly played |at right tackle and starred for his team. Jartman, Koplowitz and Rob- toy put up their usual brilliant game. { \ KRAMER MAY ENTER | -Day Bicycle Race Promoter Makes Offer to Former Champion to Participate in Coming Event. i New York, Nov. 19.—Frank Kra- mer, the world's foremost cyclist, has | been invited by William K. Wellman, ! promoter, to compete in the six-day bike race at Madison Square Garden | the week of December 2 to 8. Well- man journeyed to the perennial champion’s home at East Orange yes- terday especially for the purpose of obtaining his entry, but Kramer gave no definite answer. ; Wellman is intent upon malking the | grind the greatest in the annals of the annual winter sport classic and wants to have Kramer and Arthur Spencer among the participants, Spen- | cer last summer relieved Kramer of the championship he held for sixteen | consecutive vears. The new titieholder has already en- | tered the race and will ride with his brother Willle as a team. Should Kramer finally consent to ride it is likely he may be teamed with Alfred Goullet, winner of two Garden grinds. However, Wellman is awaiting Kra- mer's decision before he sets about | finding a partner for the kingpin of: MOHAWKS CHALLENG The Mohawks of New Brit open dates for Sunday, Nov. 23 Thanksgiving and would like to play teamg averaging 110 lbs. The Crim- sons of Hartford and the Nutmegs of Terryville preferred. Address all challenges to Leonard Jackson, 28| 1Trinity street, New Britain, Conn. | n have ! 25 anad ship series. ! Curtis: | vesterday, | Jack Britton, former welter cham- ! pion is also among those who express a desire to box the mew champian. Britton got a referee’'s decision over O’Dowd in a twelve-round bout in | Boston some months ago and thinks J\hc can repeat. | MARSANS' LEG 0. K. Flect Cuban Recovering is Practicing With Team on Island and Will Man- . age Club in Havana League. Havana, Nov. 19.—Armando Mar- sgns, Cuban star outflelder of the | New York American League team, | who broke his ankle shortly before | the close of the 1917 season, ,\*ester-l‘ day took part in practice games here. | He batted and ran the bases with his usual skill and speed. He declared his injured limb is giving him no trouble and that he will be as good | as ever next year, | Marsans will manage a home club | this winter in the Havana champlon- | | | | | ANOTHER GRIDIRON VIOTIM. Chester. Pa., Nov. 19.—Charles Persiani, Jr., of Plantsville, student at the Pehnsylvania Military college, died yesterday as the result of injuries received Saturday In an interclass football game. He played halfback throughout the con- -5t and complained of no injury until two hours later when he was seized with severe pains in the head. He was taken to the Chester hospital, where an operation disclosed a rup- tured hlood vessel in the brain. BRIDGEPORT CITY ADVANCES. Defeats Clan MacDuff in Replay of Cup Tie Match. New York, Nov. 19.—Connecticut aggressiveness triumphed over metro- politan soccer skill at Lenox Oval when Bridgeport City de- feated Clan MacDuff by 2 goals to 1 in the replay from the first round of the cup competition of the American Football association. While the New Yorkers were eliminated Bridgeport city advances into the second round to meet the Cromptons of Rhode Island. $500,000 FOR GOLF LAND. Orange, N. J., Nov. 19.—At a cost of $500,000 the Baltusrol Golf club of Short Hills has purchased 300 acres of ground in that place. The property includes the present club golf course of 140 acres and an additional 160 acres which adjoin. This will afford : sufficient room for two 18-hole | courses. The club now has a mom-l bership of 750. e Berlin Grappler Loses First Match of Career—Raymond Wins - After going along smoothly for sev- eral years winning from wrestlers and embryo grapplers, Alvah Ventres of Berlin tasted the pill of defeat for | the first time in his career Saturday | evening on the mat in Turner hall, when in a finish match with Alfred Peterson, champion of Norway, the “Berlin Blacksmith” was downed twice by his heavier opponent after putting up a brilllant battle in the face of heavy odds. Although de- feated, Ventres lost none of his pres- tige, and there are many who be- lieve that.with Peterson ‘weighing anything near his opponent’s weight,” the result would be different. The match started in whirlwind manner, with hoth men hustling mat- ters. Aftcr 15 minutes and 50 sec- ords, Vent: secured a full nelson and leg holil and Poterson was slowly pinned to the mat. The crowd gave the Berlin hoy a mighty cheer. After a five minutes' rest. the performers appeared on t! mat, with Peterson looking refreshed. For 11 minutes | the grapplers tuzzed and pulled, and | Ventres managed to cscape from some ! dangerous holds, bul finally Petérsen { worked a double h2adlock and jaok- knife on the legs, and Ventres" shoulders were put to the mat in 11 j minutes, 20 seconds. = | The Berlin boy went right after his opponent in business-like fashion when the bout was resumed - a time he worrled Peter: s i recuperative power of the Norwegian was wdnderful, and after securihg a full nelson and jackknife hold he managed to down the Berlin boy in 22 minutes 10 seconds for the décid- ing fall. “Tiger” Kent of Hartford, who wits billed to meet Jack Raymond of Boston, failed to put in an appear- ance, and Harry Mamas of Hartford was substituted. The Capitol city boy agreed to meet the Bostonfan in a thirty-minute match. The match while it lasted, was a dirty affair with Meamas provoking whatever bad feel- ing cropped out of the match. He s evidently not one of the followers of | the beefless day movements, as wad shown when he bit a portion of his opponent’s finger off. This seemed to enrage Raymond, who is noted in this clity for his clean method of grappling, and securing a ‘body scissors jon Mamas, he forced the latter to quit in 18 minutes. “ For the remaining 12 minutes the grapplers worked hard but no falls were registered. At the conclusion of the match, Mamas issued a challenge to meet Raymond in a finish match for a $500 side bet, and the latter promptly acceptéd the challenge, the bout to be staged in four weeks. Ven- tres also issued a challenge to Peter- son for a return match for a side bet, providing the Norwegian w,oul'd make 158 pounds. In the preliminary match, Patsy , McCarthy of New Haven downed Alex George of this city twice, the first fall coming in 12:30 minutes with a body hold and the second in 7 minutes wit) a hcadlock and body hold. i | | FOOTBALL RESULTS. Yale 1921, 14; Harvard, 0. Yale Informals, 7; Trinity, 0. Wesleyan, 6; Columbia, 0. Tufts, 27; Dartmouth, 0. St. Johns, 33; Mt. St. Mary’s, 0. W. Maryland-George Washington game cancelled. Pennsylvania, 16; Michigan, 0. Heldelberg, 19; West Res., 0. Fordham, 27; Cornell, 6. Camp Dix, 19; Camp Devens, 0. Williams, 20; Amherst, 0. N. Hampshire, 67; Wor. Poly., 0. Stevens, 6; N. Y. U, 6. Army, (0; Lebanon Valley, 0. Newport Res., 14; Harvard Inf., 0. Nayy, 80; Villa Nova, 3. Princeton Inf., 41; Wissahickon Nav. Barracks, 0. Brown, 19; Colby, 7. Holy Cross, 41; Rensselaer, 13. Syracuse, 27; Colgate, 7. Gettysburg, Bucknell, 6. Lafayette, 42; Albright, 0. Pittsburgh, 27; Carnegie Tech., 0. Lehigh, 34; Penn. Mil, 6. Exeter, 3; Andover, 0. Rochester, 9; Hobart, 0. Georgia Tech., 98; Carlisle, 0. Auburn, 31; Vanderbilt, 7. Alabama, 27; Kentucky, 0. W. Virginia, 7; Wash. & Jeff., 0. Northwestern, 25: Iowa, 14. Minneapolis, Chicago, 0. FRANKIE BURNS STOPS KIDDY. T « Knocks Ont New York Bantam at Spartanburg in Fourth Round. Spartanburg, 8. C., Nov. 19. Frankie Burns, the sensational ban- tamweight of Jersey City, knocked out Battling Kiddy, the former New York bantamweight, in the fourth round here Saturday night. Several thou- sand soldiers were present. Kiddyr was no match for Burns, who landed on him with heavy swings to the face and jaw and ofeen uent stiff blows to the body. Burns left for New York after the battle. SMOKE OXMOOR: A MILD, PLRASANT S¢ CRGGD