New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1917, Page 8

i 7 3 .dignant than any onc else is the aver- ' S NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, i SATURDAY, NOVEMB ER 24, 1917, FANS CONTINUE 10 - HAMMER JOHNSON On All Sides Indignation Is Ex- - pressed at Exemption Idea New York, Nov. 24.—The populms glamor raised by Ban Johunson't ridiculous suggestion that the Gowv- ernment should exempt 288 major league players increased in volume #on is being lambasted as few base- ball officials ever have been. Ho has been offered the presidency of the In Bad Club and has been informed there will be no use in him declining the office. He has been elected by prac- tically unanimous vote. Rditorially Johnson hn been panned to a crisp in the leading East- ern and Southern papers. The most Bitter denunciation of his action has Ucularly in his own league. Tho idea 18 so repulsive to the New York Amer- - masm, one of whom is now at the front, that Col. Ruppert sees red whenever he things of it. One shudders to | of what Cap. Huston will do ! e reads ‘“somewhere in France” & newspaper containing the story of Ban's suggestion. However, the man who is more in- B American citizen. The writer had ! the privilege to hear several citizens , ‘'sxprees their sentiments abount Ban. | They would have done credit to a | | Tommy. President Tener of the Na- tional league had the foresight to sec Yesterday rather than subsided. John- | eome from among bas<cball men, par- | ican League club, owned by military | 7 { that phase of it as soon as he read Johuson's suggestion for the first time. | H Few Ball Players in Service. | “What will the man in the street | msy?” sald Tener. “What will the ers, fathers, brothers and sisters : X Sbon now in France or in our train- | Ing camps say to such an abhorrent : wuggetion? I can well imagine it. I} kmow what I would say if I had a son in service, and I would shout it from the housetops.” The more one analyzes Johnson's plan or suggestion, call it what you Itké, the more audacious it appears. The audacity of an amusement pro- moter putting “the high standards” : of his particular amusement above the welfare of a country at war is! shocking to the sensibilities of the | average American.: The fault with baseball is not that it has given too | many active athletes to the country, but too few. Another brazen part of Johnson's suggestion is the manner in which he / offers his bench warmers and extra pitchers to the Government, saying “we would willingly sacrifice’ these men.” As a matter of fact all clubs are contemplating cutting down to eighteen men any way. But the idea of turning his least competent players | over to the Government strikes at the heart of the democratic idea behind the selective draft, whose primary aim was to put the millionaire's son on the same plane with the son of the vil- lage shoemaker and the $15,000 a year Tris Speaker with the $1,500 a year f colt pitcher . Were such a plan adopted it would be favoritism of the rankest sort. There is no doubt that Johnson's stupid remarks have straned the re- lations between the two big leagues. | “It has given baseball a hard knock, and we must suffer with the American | league because of it. However, Pres- ident Tener’'s strong statement will help a lot to show exactly where we stand. I think the Governor hit the nail right on the head. His statement on Johnson's suggestion was the best | he has made since his connection ‘with the National league. Ebbets Explains Stand. Charles Ebbets and Ed McKeever, owners of the Brooklyn ball club, | have sent a circular letter to all the clergy of Brooklyn explaining their stand on Sunday baseball. The Dodgers’ owners point out that inter- fering with the sanctity of the Sab- bath is furthest from their thought. Ebbests quotes the old blue law of 1787 which prevents Sunday baseball, and if carried out to the letter would also prohibit shooting, hunting, fish- ing, playing, gaming or other public sports, exhibitions or shows on Sun- day. He shows that this law is only enforced inasmuch as it pertains to baseball and that its repeal would per- mit citizens to enjoy mild forms of Sunday recreation which are now per- mitted only by subterfuge. OHIO TEAM NTERTAINED. Greeted By Troops at Montgomery— Play Auburn Today. Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 24.—The Ohio State University football team, champlons of the Western conference, arrived vesterday for the game with Auburn today and last night tho players were entertained by the Ohio troops stationed at Camp Sheridan... HOCK! T HARV Cambridge, Mass., Nov. is to he played at Harvai this winter on the same basis as that of football this fall. A mass meeting will be held next Monday for men who wish to report as candidates for anm informal team. No games will be scheduled with other colleges, but contests will be arranged with mili- tary and naval sevens, the proceeds to be devoted to war relief funds. FOOTBALL TOMORROW SEYMOUR PARK, v | court yesterday morning and pleaded ll One of the Saddest Spectacles in the World - Conurighted 1917 by The. Tridune Aswec. (New York Tribamal BOXING CLUBS T0 BATILE IN GOURTS New Polo A. C. Follows Suit of Broadway §. C. I | i | | New York, Nov. 24.—The Polo Ath- letic Assoclation, at 129th street and Park avenue, one of the oldest clubs in Harlem, last night put to the test | its right to hold boxing bouts under the membership plan and went through the same formula as the Broadway Sporting club of Brooklyn. While the boxers in the various bouts | were jabbing, hooking and uppercut- ting half a dozen policemen, headed by Capt. Patrick O'Neill of the Forty- third precinct, and Lteut. Butler of In- spector Morrison’s office looked on and took notes. There was no interference by the police, it having been agreed that the result of their observations would be submitted to a Magistrate, who prob- ably woud issue warrants. The police took the names of all the contestants and also of the club officials. These were John F'. Kirk, manager; Thomas Murray, president; William Moore, vice president, and Peter Kirk, secre- tary-treasurer. The police also examined the club charter, which was dated December | 31, 1901. The New Polo A. A. is the oldest boxing club in Manhattan. Some | of the boxers who had been engaged to box, feaning arrest, did not appear but the manager got others to take their places. Manager Kirk said he had no desire to defy the police or courts, but as the club had held bouts under the mem- bership plan plevious to the enact- ment of the Frawley law he did not see why he could not now conduct them. If the courts decided against him he would certainly not persist. In the main event of six rounds Corona Kid defeated Young O'Keefe | by a shade in an interesting six round contest. The preliminaries were four rounds each, and evenly fought be- | tween the following pairs: Charlie | | Haves against Willie Myers; Mike Er- !ra aginst Young Brown; Battling Gimp against Young Madden. These | ! bouts were so closely contested it was | impossible to pick a winner in any of them. Plead Not Gudlty. John Welsmantel, president of the | Broadway Sporting Club, who, with his subordinates and some of the box- lers who engaged in contests at that club, was taken Into custody Thurs- “(my night, appeared before Magistrate | Howard Nash in the Gates Avenue | not guilty to a charge of having wviolat- ed law against boxing. Frank X. McCaffrey, attorney for the club, then asked to have the hearing set over for a week and the Magistrate granted the request. McCaffrey will arrange the club’s case and will be ready for the hearing next Friday morning. Weismantel sald there was a mis- taken impression to the effect that there was a conflict between the club {and the police. “Nothing could be EAST STREET, 2:30 p. m. Colonials of Hartford Versus Redwoods. further from the fact,” said he. “In- spector McDonald has treated us with much consideration, knowing that we were quite willing, to have the ques- tion at issue tested in court.” The bouts arranged for the Broad- PLAYER, NOW FIGHTING FOR UNCLE SAM| R s Tom Seaton, immediately after his contract with Los Angeles expired, wag notified by Walter McCredie that he had been turned over to Portland by the Ghicago Cubs for next season in part payment for Dave Hollocher. It is not at all certain, however, that AT Have CHRIS? PLAYING WEATHER / THIS YEAR< 74 £ AR-H-p- TS WEATHER GIVES ME A PAN— You Haiow WHERE RIGHT ToDAY - SIX HOLES : WA Two OVER FOURSS f/ cLug 72 % Z TOM SEATON, FORMER MAJOR LEAGUE i Seaton will appear in a baseball uni- form next year. Fe received notice to report to the army at American Lake and left for that point. As he hasn’t claimed exemption and figures to pasg the physical examinatlon, it is probable he will see service with tha bulls-eye men in France. - way Sporting Club will take place to- night, according to program. Italian Joe Gans and Walter Laurette will ap- pear in the chief event, while K. O. Circus and Joe Leonard will clash in the other contest. SEASON CLOSES. Before Today’s Game Started the Yale Units Gave Exhibition. New Haven, Nov. 24.—Yale brought its football season to a close today by elevating to almost varsity importance the freshman game between the Blue and Princeton. Combined with the game were other things which ap- pealed to the under-graduates and the alumni, and efforts to draw the latter here for informal class reunions were g0 well rewarded that week-end ac- commodations for more than 10,000 has been provided. Before the game there was to be a review of the Yale reserve officers training corps, the artillery corps and \the naval reserves. PAGE SOUGHT AS MANAGER. Has Been Offered Position With Douis Nationals. Chicago, Nov. 24.—H. Orville “Pat” Page, baseball coach at the Univer- sity of Chicago, is the latest man named for the position of manager of the St. Louls Nationals. He would neither deny nor conflrm reports yes- St. terday that he was considering an offer to become manager of the Cardinals. ““Nothing definite has been done.' Page said. ‘‘Anyhow, any announce- ment must come from the St. Louis club. I am not in any position to dis- cuss the subject.” LIKELY } SEMI-FINALS REACHED i i s | Autumn Golf Tourney at Pinchurst ! —Armstrong Has Very Hard Luck. Pinehurst, N. C., Nov. 24.—The semi-finals of the autumn golf tourna- ment, played on the No. 2 course at Pinehurst yesterday, provided several unusual courses. In the final sixteen C. L. Becker and S. G. Phillips came through to the final by disposing of | their respective opponents, 7 up and 6 | to play. The scores of the two | matches were all the more surprising, as Wood had defeated Clarence Ho- bart, medallist in the Carolina tourna- ment, in the first match round, and day’s play. vide a hard luck medal for John D. Armstrong, of Buffalo, who apparently | won his semi-final match yesterday ; against R, C. Shannon 2d, of Brock- i port, in the first beaten eight by 2 and 1. only to lose it again by 1 down. Armstrong was 2 up at the seven- teenth, according to the cards, but it then developed that he had accidental- | 1y played with another golfer's ball from the fourteenth hole on. ‘The worst of it was that Armstrong | had won the fourteenth and the re- | versal of that hole from a win to a lose under the rules made the match all square at the seventeenth. Playing <for the eighteenth, Armstrong's ball which had bolted for a short-cut across the links to the racetrack. The | ultimate result was that Armstrong { lost tho hole and the match. | In the second sixteen the match be- | tween C. F. Lancaster, of Boston, and | J. V. Hall, of New York, called for an extra hole, Hall losing to a stymie at the thirteenth. KRAMER IN THE FOLD. Former Champion Cyclist Enters Six Day Race. New York, Nov. 24.—Frank Kram- er has consented to start in the six day bike race in Madison Square Garden the week of December 2 ta 8. The perennial champion signed for the grind last night. Oscar Egg will be Kramer’'s partner. The East Orange real estate mag- nate and world’s champion cyclist for sixteen consecutive years, is the last rider to get into the fold, and his entry rounds out the greatest fleld of cyclists that ever lined up. for the grind. There are seven winners of previous Garden races in the list. Two other formidable terms were signed last night. Alfred Goullet agreed to Freddy Hill as a partner, while Eddte Root, four time winner of the New York race, was teamed up with Marcel Dupuy, the French champion, who with Egg won last yvear's classic. SPARTANS TAKE NOTICE. All members of the Spartan foot« ball team are requested to report for practice Sunday morning at 9:00 on the Pioneer fleld. Bloom, Thorson, was deflected by a runaway horse | CRITICISM IS HEARL ON ALL SIDES CONCERNING BAN JOHNSON’S EXEMPTION PLAN--NEW YORK BOXING CLUBS TO TEST RI 1 TIONS IN COURT—JOCK SCOT WINS SECOND RACE FOR NEW OWNER AT BOWIE—MADDEN KNOCKS OUT JIM COFFEY IN THE SEVENTH ROUND TO HOLD EXHIBI- o~ Established 1886 Globe Clothing House It Isn’t Easy to Get All Wool Fabrics Such As Insist On, And (Would Cost Us More CHILDREN’S BATH and Mackay had beaten Franklin Gates, ; winner of that tournament in Thurs- There is a movement on foot to pro- | HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX They Cost More. SUITS AND OVERCOATS ... .. $18.00 Up If We Had to Buy Them Today.) The Satisfaction Counts When You Buy: Our SWEATERS,.$2.50 Up to $8.00 ROBES That Are Made As Well As Our Mex’s Bath Robes, $2.50 higher. BOWLING RESULTS Trinity Baraca and Universal Bowling Leagues Attract the the Church Street Lanes. Results of the in Baraca and Universal Bowling leagues, contests Phillips and Becker Come ’l‘hruugii in | at the Aetna alleys last evening, are ag follows: Spotlight on the JOCK SCOT WINS FOR NEW OWNER . Mrs. Breslef’s,Receut Purchase I | Only Favorite Scoring at Bowie | i ! i | Smith ! Dumnmy Schmidt Baltimore, Md., Nov. 24.—Jock Scot E. Wilcox | was the only favorite to reward the C. Wilcox .. backers of form at the Bowie track yesterday. The other six winners 316 365 865 1046 | came from the ranks of the second and third choices. All the winnérs were well played, however, and there L. Wilcox .. 77—252 | were no surprises. i ?lunc.uck o ol It was Jock Scot’s second victory in jsl:w&erd . S ;?f;h five days for his new owner, Mrs. R. | Shepard ... —263 | J. Bresler. The brown son of Ogden 314 352 306 1003 | had never been asked to go a mile 69 92 80 | Rich | Schmidt Stotts Smith C. Wilcox . B. Wilcox . Rybeck Sweet Oliver Witkin Hardy 66—203 65—223 66—209 86—248 before, and this doubt relative to his ability to go the distance caused a | tendency to play against him. He managed to win cleverly by a trifle over a length, but he had his work" | cut out to" do so as the two-year-old Sweep Up 2d showed him the way to | Allison z8 8 the furlong pole. Jock Scot stood the ! strain of pace better than the young- : 848 317 384 1049 (e and won out in the final hun- N dred yards. % Tdeal was lucky to win the first - 3 DS mereay SISy irace. Partisan, the favorite, was bad- | 29577, lv interfered with at the start and 100373 was unable to find a clear track to "l the stretch where he came with a 385 310 315 96o | rush but just failed to catch the fiyinf Ideal. Zouave earned his second purse of the meeting by capturing the selling handicap at seven furlongs. He raced Peter Jay leg weary early and then won in hand. Congressman H. D. Flood sold his yearling by Ellisdale—Fairy to Max Hirsch, who was acting for George W. Loft, the owner of Papp, the Futur- ity winner. J. G. Graff has sold the three-year- 1 old filly, Fox Trot, to A. B. Hancock, who will mate her with the stallion, Celt. H. C. Biddle has purchased from W. T. Martin the two-year-old, Dry- ‘er, and will race in Cuba. Billy { Oliver will ship his horses to NeW " Orleans instead of going into winter quarters at Lakewood. 357-1110 Stevens Alpres Starr Twigg . Hubert REDWOODS HAVE GAME. Gutowski, Goodwin, Loomis, Yuknot, Johnson, Anderson, Schusler, Rush, Gullberg, Rosteli, Lind, Olcott, Glabau, Samuelson, Barton, Burns and others. The Spartans will journey to Meriden Sunday to play the Mohawks of that place. The truck will leave the corner of Whiting and Stanley street at 1 o'clock sharp. The game scheduled with Middletown has been cancelled. The crack Colonials football eleven of Hartford will meet the Redwoods 63 79—206 90 80—243 69 90—229 73 73—220 398 406 1163‘ 68 71—221" 70 62—201 15T 84 83—257 75 80—223 394 372 387 1133 COFFEY K. 0’ Madden, After Assimilating Much Punishment, Hammers Roscommon | Giant to Slecp in Scventh Round. Providence, R. I, Nov. 24.—Bartley Madden, of New Jersey, surprised & crowd of 2,000 hoxing fans here last night by knocking out Jim Coffey, thq Dublin Giant, in the seventh round of a contest scheduled for twelve rounds, i Up to the last ten seconds of the sixth round, Madden had been on the re. celving end of a storm of shortarm punches at close quarters, and no end | of stiff left jabs. A few seconds be. fore the bell ended the sixth, Madden whipped a right to the point of the ! jaw, Coffey staggering to the ropes. The Roscommon Giant's hands dropped to his side, but just when Madden was about to slip over anoth- er wallop the gong sounded. ! Coffey came out for the seventh ap- parently as fresh as when he started the battle, but in less than half a min« ute was reeling to the ropes from 8 left swing on the jaw. As he caromed at Seymour Park tomorrow afternoon. | off the strands, Madden caught him The visitors have had a very success- ful season and are hopeful of adding the locals’ scalp to their long list. Thanksgiving, at 10 o’clock, the Red- woods will meet the All-Stars at St. Mary's playground. flush on the chin with a right hand swing. Coffey fell hard. Referea Gardner counted five hefore Cofey got up on one knee. At the count of ten Coffey was still on that knee and was counted out. 4