New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 21, 1917, Page 8

CORNELL FOLLOWERS CLAIM FORDHAM WAS UNNECESSARILY ROUGH—CALA s s e NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVE ITY HOWLERS MBER 21, RE HURTING BASEBALL GAME—YALE FRESHMEN PRE- PARING FOR BATTLE WITH TIGER SATURDAY—PETRA CARA BRINGS $2,250 AT OLD GLORY SALE—SHARMAN WINS GOLF TOURNEY AT PINEHURS —— YALE PREPARING . FORTIGER BATTLE Preshmen Elevens to Clasti at New Haven, Nov. 21.—Coach Brides of the Yale freshman football eleven &unounced last night that only one 1 scrimmage drill would be held s Tthe 1921 kickers in preparation % for the Prinoton feature e in the i Bowl at the end of the week and this practice would probably take place tomorrow afternoon against the in- | formal team. Brides says that the . mateh Baturday will be the taugh- @st of the Blue schedule despite the ' ¥ocent developments which makes . Yale the nominal choice for football honors among the Big Three. The Crimson's victory over the ,&:l’.rm,ton players by a 24-0 score and l.ithe Yale win over the Harvard men | last Baturday by a 14-0 tally would ;.:B‘M the enthusiasts to the conclusion | ‘that Yale should triump by a record Bcore but Brides says in this instance j yeomparative scores should receive but 3 o attention. . Lay and French who were knocked jbout in the Stadium have fully re- g?ond and the Blue fullback should A in good shape to do a lot of long- 'distance punting against the Tiger ..“hl. Nevethelss Brides figures the I Swin over the Harvard team has pulled e -back a bit and explans this rather ‘ullar thing by pointing to boo of football coaches, Ver-confidence. . It.can easily be realized that a first- player is a bit more apt to have . hia head turned by a brilllant victory ‘@and in the case of a aYle man, rather | ‘turned by a win over Harvard. Brides | has complete confidence in the ability bi of the team when primed far a battle f 8nd says he wouldn't give a rap for a | kicker who isn’'t a bit cocky before i the big game but is lecturing his I eharses every afternoon on the dan- [:Wer of over-confidence. The practice vesterday was one of “the easiest of the entire season, in I fact it was more or less of a limbering ‘p drill and that is all. b i The team ran through signals and ere some drilling on the for- ‘ward pass and the kickers were busy for half an hour. Coach Brides said he would not anpounce the lineup of the team for the Princton game un- | til Friday. Few changes are looked | the viz., for although it is probable there will e more substitutions in, the game | '@aturday than In any gathe cxcept the Andover match, this year. ' TROTTER BRINGS $2,260 . l By Briggs_] ! Twoy um Ta 1 SHARMAN'S CARD BEST Heavy Rain Affects Part of Large Entry Ficld m Autumn Meet Pinehurst. Pinehurst, N. C,, Nov. 21.—A heavy rain drove part of the fleld to cover vesterday at Pinehurst shortly after the opening of the qualifying round of the faurteenth annual autumn tournament and less than fifty players completed the round. The scoring of at Cara Becomes Property of Brooklyn Man at Old Glory Sale in Madison Square Garden. New York, Nov. 21.—Many horses went under the hammer at the Old Blory sale in Madison Square Garden ay for the proverbial song, but ' Bhere were others which brought big .rcel. More than 200, of all varie- les and breeds were disposed of and #ach went as a bargain. The top price of the sale was paid Er Petra Cara, a trotter. She is a | Bne looking chestnut mare, by Peter jthe Great and Guycara, and has a mord of 2:12. She is 6 years old and won scores of races, including | Bnany at matinees at Mineola. After some spirited bidding she was gnacked down to W. H. Leese of ooklyn for $2,5650. Mr. Leese is ployed by H. W. Hannan, the noted oklyn turfman and exhibitor, and ‘was sald at the sale that Mr. Leest de the purchase for Mr. Hannan, . Another horse which brought a high ice was Ashlook, a chestnut gelding Ashland A. and Miss Look. He is pacer and has'a record of 2:05 3-5 . F. Kingsley of Medford, Mass., got for $1,800. RACE MEET AT JUAREZ OFF. | Wnited States Passport Regulations Necessitate Action. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 21-—There will be no fall and winter meeting at Rhe Juarez race course. Announcement to this effect was ade here last night by Col. Matt J. 'Winn, manager of the Juarez track, who saild that recently adopted pass- rt restrictions on travel to and m Mexico had made the holding ot B meeting impossible. It would be necessary, he said, for n:l;nnn of the track going from EI to obtain a passport from the American authorities and that this ort would have to be renewed for each trip to Juarez. UNDEE ,OUTPOINTS BRITT. SKalian Earns Honors in Ninc Round Bout in Boston, Boston, Nov. 21.—Johnny Dundee " of New York danced his way around Young Britt of New Bedford hero Jast night in a twelve round bout, the Beotch wop winning just about as he eased. In nine of the rounds Dundee a big advantage. His blows wero polid ones for the most part. The elght, however, belonged to Britt, who came across with several rights to the New Yorkers jaw. In the third mnd fourth the youngster from New Bedforth held his own. Durkee showed little effects of his bout the night before with Chaney in Philadelphia. He was in and out like a humming bird, using that left hand of his like a piston and bound- ing back off the springy arena ropes ‘with a momentum which several #imes resulted in annoying DBritt. those who remained on the links was about as poor as was to be expected. An 84 for R. R. Sharman of Youngs- town was good enough to win the medal, and R. C. Shannon 2d of Brockport took second honors with Franklin Gates of Bronxville and Clarence Hobart of New York, re- spectively winner and medalist of the recent Carolina tournament, finished in the early nineties. A card as high as 97 provided admission to the first sixteen. Two sixteens and an eight qualified for match play. The first sixteen follow: R. R. Sharman, Youngstown, 84; R. C. Shannon 2d, Brockport, 89; Franklin F. Gates, Mogre County, 90; ‘W. M. Crooks, Mount Everett, 90; F. D. Mackay, C. C. of Virginia, 90; T. A. Kelley, Southern Pines, 91; B. Hudson, Northfork, 91; J. D. Arm- strong, Shennecossett, 92; G. M. How- ard, Hallifax, 92; H. G.. Phillips, Maore County, 92; Clarence Hobart, Bellaire, 94; C. L. Becker, Ekwanok, 95; John R. Goodall, Belleriver, 95; S. A. Hennesse, Cooperstown, 96; Howard Wrenn, Exmoor, 97: Gordon F. Wood, C. C. of Virginia, 97. . PRACTICE IN SNOW STORM. Dartmouth Gridders Prepare For Con- test With Brown. Hanover, N. H., Nov. 21.—Dart- mouth's football team ran through | signals yvesterday afternoon In a | blinding snowstorm. The men were kept out and worked hard in an effort to get them on edge for the Brown game. The spirit /of the undergrad- uate body is running high at present and they expect the team to come back with a victory over the Provi- dence team. It was definitely given out today by the trainers that Healy would not be in condition by Saturday, but that S. ‘W. Holbrook had recovered from his injuries and will play. ONLY 3 CORNELL MEN MISSING. Rest of Football Squad Dons Togs For Practice. Tthaca, N. Y., Nov. 21.—Although .—.; number of Cornell’s first string men | showed visible cffects of the wear and tear of a disastrous season varsity squad men donned togs and engaged in light practice. The mis- sing men are Ackerknecht, and Spegelberg. who have been much troubled with injuries this fall, Carry and Vanhorn, were on the fleld. LOBFRT TO COACH WEST POINT. New York, Nov. 21.—John (Hans) Lobert, wha Tecently recetved his un- conditional release by the New York Natlonal league club, has been &p- when the squad reported for practice ' ems, yesterday afternoon, all except three ! man, E. T. Madden, Yale. Thomas | Two backfleld men | for secret practice in the afternoon. f\_lg_H:_:;;pggg_inr the Best Re_ghlated Families - - - - - - To MY DYING DAY ('L NEVER FORGET How FUNNY You LOOWED-~ HARRY DAVIS ELECTED TO PHILA. COUNCIL Harry Davis, captain of the Ath- letics and the player who was respon- sible in a large measure for Mack’s teams winning three world champion- ships, has been elected to the com- mon council of Philadelphia. Davis ran in the Thirty-elghth ward on three tickets and polled 8,198 votes. It was a runaway for Davis. He got more votes than any other candidate for whom the citizens of that ward voted. The Thirty-eighth is a great baseball district. In spite of that it once turned down Ira Thomas of the Athletics for the council. OFFICIALS FOR BIG GAME. Beavers, Jr., to Referee Rutgers-Nav- al Reserve Contest. New York, Nov. 21.—The central board on officials, which has the work of making appointments for intercol- legiate football games, has announced the names of the men selected for the game between Rutgers and ‘‘Cupld” Black's Naval Reserves at Ebbets field on Saturday. The list of officials is as follows: Referee, George Beavers, Jr., ‘West Point; umpire, Edward B. Coch- University of Wisconsin; lines- The Newport players will arrive in New York on Friday morning and { they will have the use of Ebbets field Arrangements are being made for the reserves to make their headquartrs at the Crescent A. C. clubhouse in Bay Ridge while the team is here. It is expected that the players will remain here over Saturday night and return to Newport Sunday. BROWN DRAWS DOWN $584. pointed baseball coach at West Point Military Academy, it was learned last night. Lobert succeeds Sam Strang, also a former Giant player, who is now a captain in the army and said to be in Frnce. New Haven, Nov. 21.—Chiec Brown drew down but $584 for his services in the bout with Young Blades at the | Blades re- . Arena on Monday night. . celved $350. $2,339. The gate receipts were - ON — EART MY DEAR- | MUST TeLL You ABoUT HENRY- HE _ALWAYS THOUGHT) HENRY - wHat ARE You TRYE n! Tae CLUB) FOR A - PLEASANT EVENING BALL PLAYERS SUE Manager and Two Members of Terrc Haute Club Ask Award For In- juries Sustained in a Train Wreck. Terre Haute, Ind., Nov.'21.—Man- ager John C. Nee of the Dayton Cen- tral league baseball team, and two menpbers of the team, brought suit against the Big Four rallroad in the local courts today for damages ag- sregating $70.000, for personal in- juries-received in a wreck on the road last August. The players set out that they were permanently in- jured. Nee asks $10,000; Patrick A. Donahu, $50,000, and Fred Derrick, 10,000, Louis Schettler, pitoher, filed suit here last Saturday for $50,000. POLLARD VISITS BROWN. Fritz Plays on Second Team in Scrim- mage With Varsity. Providence. R. I, Nov. though the Brown varsity team dis- plaved greater strength and more pre cision than at any practice this sea- son the presence of “Fritz” Pollar last year's sensational back, on the second team served to reveal many weaknesses which must be overcome before Saturday’'s con- test with Dartmouth. The dusky half- hack ran rings around the varsity players. Time and again he pene- trated their defence. Gordon, who broke a toe in the Syracuse game, was back in the serim- mage, and Shaw participated in the signal drill. Weeks, although much improved, did not participate. PREPARE FOR BOSTON TEAM. Army Begins Work for Clash With Brickley's Gridders. West Point, N. Y., Nov. 21.—The Army eleven began active preparation vesterday for the West Pointers’ final game, that with Charley Brickley's Boston college team here next Sat- urday. The drill today saw all the varsity men in the lineup except Van- degraff, the big Alabama cadet. He was assigned to kicking placement goals and punting. It is unlikely he will be used against the collegians, as his leg injury is still bothering him. Either Dickson or Smith will face Boston college at the uncertain tackie position. The cadets are in splendid physical condition. Olyphant’s kicking improves with each workout. He is doing all the Army’s punting now. WHITE SOX SIGN COLLEGIAN. Lees, Star Backstop of Lehigh Team, to Play in Chicago. Bethlehem, Pa., Nov. 21.—George 0. “Speedy” Lees, catcher on the Le- high University baseball team the last four seasons, yesterday signed to play with the Chicago White Sox next !year. Lees had offers from the St. Louis Nationals, Athletics and De- troft. Lees was probably the best college catcher in the country last year. JIMMY RING GOES TO MINORS. Chattanooga, Nov. 21.—Jimmy Ring of Brooklyn, pitcher last season with Cincinnati, has been abtained by the Chattanooga club of the Southern league. The club also has obtained Earl Mack, son of Connie &Mack, of the Athletics, He will play first basc for the Lookouts. 21.—Al- all-American | CITY LEAGUE BOWLING Thrice by Mohawks. After losing the first game of the match between the Colonials and Harpoons of the City league at the Aetna alleys last evening, the former quintet staged a come-back that re- silted in two straight wins. feat of the Harpoons was a jolt in their battle for the league. The work the victors featured. won three straight games from Wanderers. The results follow: Harpoons 8 96 97 ] ceo 443 483 Colonials 89 . 83 fe i . 101 89 82 105 109 92 95 Dickman Wallace Nichols Haugh .. Hines .... 84— 277 94 92 93 134 89 438 502 Mohawks. 91 93 91 100 92 Penninan Care; Windish .. | A. Larson . A. Anderson 271 283 261 321 284 480—1420 | ¥. Richter { Erickson . O’Connell . | Scott E. Anderson 116— 114— 91— 84— 291 108— 304 512—1483 300 314 274 467 ‘Wanderers. cee.. 96 89 . 88 85 102 96 455 WALTHOUR-SUTER TEAM. Starg Paired for Six Day Race, New York, Nov. 21.—Two new teams were combined last night for the six day race at the Garden during the week of December 2, Bobby Wal- thour being coupled with Paul Suter and Tom Bello pairing with Vinciazo Madonna. Walthour has been riding against Suter all summer in Europe and savs the Swiss motor paced cham- plon is one of the fastest men he ever competed against. Suter is on his way from Europe. He is coming here with Egg and Du- puy, the winners of last vear's race. Bello and Madonna will represent i Ttaly in the race. Both riders are new to the six day game and their vouth and strength should keep them well up in the zrind. Schmalz Peterson Herzog Plucker Brennecke 91— 92— 94— 88— 83— 448—1356 276 266 274 260 281 Bicycle NO GAME WITH GEORGIA TECH. Iliness of Players and Train Sched- ule Pitt’s Reason. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 21.—The posed game between beaten football team of the Georgia School of Technology and the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh on November 27 for the benefit of the Red Cross has been abandoned. Word has come from Pittsburgh that an epi- demic of illness in that team has put the captain and two other players on the hospital list. Furthermore the team’s remaining hard schedule will prevent it from meeting the Georgia team. pro- Colonials Win Two Games From Har- poons and Wanderers Are Downed The de- severe first place in of Larson of The Mohawks the 94— 257 287 | 294 254 | = 4381369 three yecar un-' CALAMITY HOWLERS HURTING BASEBALL ‘Tales of Great Losses in Majors | Last Season Exaggerated New York, Nov. 21.-—That baseball is suffering from calamity howlers is rapidly dawning on wide awake base- hlal men. Garry Herrmann, chairman jof the National Commission, and iCharlcy Somiskey, owner of the | world’s champion White Sox, have , both recently broken into print with .remarks which are not benefiting baseball any. In addressing the minor leaguers at the Louisville convention Herrmann, i probably anxious to give a display of sympathy for the downtrodden little fellows, remarked the big leagues also s were having a most difficult row to _hice and that it would be necessary to ' adopt strong retrenchments to weath- | er another war season. A few days Nater Comiskey said Le would favor a suggestion to pool receipts and play- | ers in order to enable the big leagues to play up to their old standards. | In discussing these interviqws a lo- " cal baseball man, high up in the éir- cles of the major leagues, who asked to have his name withheld, pointed out the futility of such utterances. “Herrmann's remarks especlally were greatly overdrawn,” said this of- ficial. “Judging from some of the stuff recently seen in the papers one would imagine that the two leagues . just went through one of their worst years. That is not the case. The at- | tendance was not as good as in 1916, "a record year, but everything con- sidered it was better than was antici- . pated. H Interest Keener Than Ever. “There is no denying that baseball !interest In the minors is dwindling. This has been brought about by a va- riety of causes, some which the minors might have avoided and others of ,which they were the unfortunate vic- tims. The two year strife with the Federal League left them in a bad way, and pust as they saw a little sun- shine ahead the country became in- volved in the great world, war. “But interest in big league baseball 13 keener thar ever before. There can be no better proof of this than the { wide-spread interest in the last world’s i series, as indicated by the reports of | the country’s biggest news agency. No {Sunday world's serles games were played between 1910 and 1917, but de- spite the war the demand for special . Sunday day service on-the world’s se- | ries last fall was twice as great as in 1910. “You hear talk of a falling off in linterest in the world’s serles games during the last ten years. Five games in 1907 between the Cubs and Detroit FORDHAM IS ROUGH - 15 CORNELL'S CLAIM Ithacaans Claim Maroon Players Used Dirty Tactics New York, Nov. 21.—Smarting un- der the defeat handed the Big Red eleven on Schoellkopf Field 8 urday afternoon by Fordham claims of unnecessary rough- ness on part of the Marcon team are being spread broadcast through- out the state. The ‘“Cornell Dally Sun” has the following to say relative to the charges: - “Fordham knocked two Corneil quarterbacks unconscious in Satur- day’s tootball game, and so injured three other members of the Big Red team that they were forced to leave the game—and then Fordham accom- plished her object. Cornell was de- feated, 27—8. “The contest was easily the rough- est which has ever been played upoa Schoellkopt Field. In the second period, De Moe dived five yards te tackle Nethercott and carried the ‘varsity quarterback flve vards after he hit him. It took Nethercott more than an hour to recover.” According to “The Cornell Dally s Sun” other injuries sustained by the Cornel] players were Thomas’ brokea ankle, Swanson's two broken ribe, sprained ankles to Spielberg and 8. Trowbridge and a black eye for Eisen-: brandt. But five Cornell men whe; began the game were able to finish i while, as “The Sun” declares, “Gallls ¢ gan was the only Fordham player te leave the game because of an ins Jury.” In g letter to a New York news- paper, a resident of Ithaca lets loose with the following: v “I'am not merely a Cornell calam- ity howler. Cornell is playing foot- ball for sport’s sake. The referee saw many of Fordham's illegal playay and in consequence Fordham was re peatedly penalized. On the other hand, Cornell's only penalty camg | when Fisenbrandt objected to the referee because he had received a black eve, after he had taken punthes from his opponent on every other play. g , “I also wish to ask what has haps pened to the four-year eligibility rule, ¢ when De Moe was allowed %o play. T hope that this will not find a rest- ing place in ydur waste basket, but that you “will publish enough of it to warn other teams that may be on* Fordham's schedule what kind of, sportsmen and treatment to expect.”: It might be added that th the first “mucker” charges of the se son. £ Tigers drew 78,068 people and $101,- .728.50‘ while six games in 1917 be- tween the Glants and the White Sox j drew 186,815 people and $426,200.50. | As a matter of fact, the six games last i fall were played to more money than any six games in baseball history. Losses Greatly Exaggerated. “The stories of losses in baseball last season also are greatly exaggerat- ed. The percentage of clubs : losing { money was no higher than in former | years. The Giants and A White Sox again made handsome profits. Cleve- land had only one better season than i last, its banner year was 1916. The i Phillies and Detroit again had most profitable seasons, the Tigers breaking i(helr attendance record on the first day of the season. “‘Both the St. Louis Cardinals and | Cincinnati Re had their best sea- sons flnancially in a long time. De- | spite reports to the contrary, the Yan- | kees dld not lose money, but were able to show a small profit at the end of the season. "The Red Sox made a ! little monéy, and though Connie Mack | again finished behind, he had his best | season since dismantling his old team. ! His expenses were low, and he came clogse to an even break. Washington was supposed to have lost money, but Griffith said the club broke even. “The teams which lost the heaviest on the year were the four second di- vision clubs in the National League— the Cubs, Braves, Dodgers and Plrates and the St. Louis Browns in thc Amer- ican.” PENN TO USE SUBS. Varsity Team Will Not Play Against Carlisle Indians Saturday. Philadelphia, Nov. 21.—Bob Fol- well had a number of the varsity and second varsity players out on Frank- lin flield. Coach Folwell said yester- day that he had definitely decided to use most of the players of the sec- ond varsity team against the Indians on Saturday becausé he feels certain they will not offer much opposition to the Penn machine. He wants to keep the regular men in condition and free from injuries for the Cornell game on Thanksgiving day | i BOB NASIT HELPS NFORD. Aids Rutgers ‘Coach in Preparation | for Game With Newport Reserves. ‘ New Brunswick, N. J., Nov. 21.— | Bob Nash, former all iAmerican tackle, responded to Coach Sanford's cal for help and led the scrubs in the hardest scrimmage of the season against the Rutgers varsity yesterday afternoon. The teams were kept at work for an hour. The varsity kept the ball most of the time and tried its offense against Nash, who played | Charley McCourt again A A, U. NERTING ENDS Decision of Holding Title Events fs Left in Hands of A. A. U. Chamy plonship Committee. St. Louis, Nov. 21.—Delegates to the annual meeting of the Amateur Athletic Union, which came to. an end yesterday, left for their h¥mes after a rather mild conclave. Th meeting proved the most harmonious in vears. ‘Whether the annual outdoor track and fleld championship games should be conducted in 1918 was left to the discretion of the championship coms mittee. The formal awarding of the ¥ | games and the place where they are to be held, it was announced, would be decided by a mail vote. Frederick W. Rubien of New York is chairman of the committee. Applications to stage the big con~ tests have been received from .Newy York, Los Angeles and New Orleans. & CORNELL SOCCER LEADER. Brooklyn Boy Selected As Captain for Next Season. g Ithaca, N. Y., Nov. 21.—Emin Has- san, of Brooklyn, N. Y., a junior in the College of Agriculture, has been elected captain of the Cornell vars & sity soccer team, in succession to H. T. Dibble. Hassan has played on the 1916 and 1917 soccer combinations as center halfback. The following members of this year's team are expected back In college to play again next season: Coltman, Heartfleld, Nelson and Spen cer, all juniors; Blanche, Brady, Florsheim, MacKellar and Pierson, sophomores. Coach Jim Campbell, of Rochester, who took the team through the most successful season it has had in many years, has returned to his * home, as the Cornell schedule for this vear is now completed. McCOURT BILLIARD WINNER. Defeats Reiselt, 50 to 46 in Interstate Match. Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. that Monday's victory 21.—To prove was no fluke defeated Otto Reiselt of Philadelphia in an Inter state Billiard league match here last night by the same score, 50 to 48, The match went sixty-two innings. McCourt had a high run of eight with one of six and another of four, while Reiselt's best was four, made in the seventh inning. SMOKE tackle. From now Rutgers will spend the time in perfecting the plays which will be used against “‘Cupid” Black’s Naval Reserves on Saturday. | OXMOOR 7 v