New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 26, 1917, Page 8

RUTfiERS VIGTORY {‘ When a Feller Need; a Fne-nd - - - i o8 i - definite purpose behind their battle, FOOTBALL SURPRISES FEATURE SATURDAY’S CONTESTS—SAM CRAWFORD MAY SUCCEED DAVE FULTZ AS FRATERNITY PRESIDENT—EDDIE COLLINS . MAY JOIN CONSCRIPTED ARMY THIS WEEK--NEW YORK BOXING FATE TO BE DECIDED THIS WEEK—CHARLES VIBBERTS TO LEAD H.S. ELEVEN IN 1918 R o T et S UL N S o~ o ok i “organinea” baseoi| REIMER FIGHTS THURSDAY rather than against it. - ADDS T0 PRESTIGE One More Upset to Dope When: Black’s Team Fails New York, Nov. 26.—This fast wan- , Ing football season will leave behind it ‘a record for form upsets and sur- | prises unparalieled in the history of | the game. Under ordinary condi- tons gridiron critics expect the “dope” to be upheld for a percentage of about -860, but this campaign has been ! averaging probably no better than -850 in the major contests. This is | due largely to the unsettled condi- ; tion of the sport, the general loss of | veterans and the uneven development of green material. Rookies who played like veritable tyros one Satur- day have come back the next week ! With a dazzling exhibition worthy of | the stars of a stellar year. 'fiew York football followers last rday got a chance to see what | most of them were pleased to call a ! big upset, but which in reality was only a natural consequence. = Rut- | gers, with s team of youngsters, not only defeated Cupid Black’'s All- Americans from the Newport Naval Reserve force, but thoroughly out- ‘played the older and more experi- enced men every minute of the battle. Having beaten Brown by 35 to 0, Harvard 14 to 0 and divers other good teams by big scores, Black’s eleven wag expected by most football fol- lowers to tear the Rutgers team asun- der. Whatever tearing there was went 10 the credit of the collegians. They | made Black and Schlachter, the other All-American guard, look like school- boys. They stopped Chuck Barrett, | Gerrish, Gardiner and Hite, outgen- eralled and outwitted the naval play- ers and displayed enough power both on attack and defence to warrant ! placing Rutgers among the select few of the season. Auburn’s Great Feat. ‘In the national consideration of football the most vital result on Sat- urdey was the scoreless tie between Ohio State and Auburn at Mont- ; gomery, Ala. Fresh from winning the Western Conference champion- | ship for the second year and by West- ern critics rated the greatest eleven In the country, Ohio State was ex- pected to wade right through the Southern Engineers. Auburn had been defeated by Davidson by 21 to 7, and Davidson in turn had been whipped by Georgia Tech by 32 to 10 and by the Navy by 27 to 6. Once more the ‘““dope” got a severe jolt. In individual honors Chick Har- ley, Ohio State's All-American back, was held better than even by Monk Ducotte, the Auburn back, who not only played a remarkable running and smashing game but outkicked Harley and nullified Ohio State’s su- Princeton Cubs Get There. periority on attack. Yale-Princeton day at New Haven ‘The game once more emphasized | was celebrated in a way that reminded the fact—for to us it is one of the | the Elis rather strongly of the fact few eatablished truths of the season— | that & war was on hand. The Prince- that Georgia Tech has the greatest | ton freshmen defeated the Yale cubs eleven in all the country. Georgia 'by 9 to 7, a close margin of victory, Tech's position with regard to the | but altogether out of line withjexpec- best in the East already has been | tations. The Yale frosh had beaten made plain by its victories over Penn | the Harvard colts and the Harvard 41 to 0, and the Carlisle Indians, 98 | lads had had an easy time with the to 0. Just how it ranks in compari- | Princeton boys. Then the Princeton son with Ohlo State in a great meas- | faculty made Sweet and Herzog, the ure will be indicated on Thursday, | brightest of the frosh lights, quit the when Tech plays Auburn. eleven, and Princeton was ready for a Feather in Sanford’s Cap. beating by at least five touchdowns. Pvery one of the Rutgers lads was But the Tiger cubs louglr:t‘% splsndm a star in that triumph. Those who | P2ttle and save poor o S ather trip to the canvas. had held that, while Foster Sanford, | In local football circles the victory the Rutgers coach, was a wonder for attack, but at the expense of defense, | Of NeW York university over Columbia OSs A *| was more or less expected after got enough evidence to make them | . 'y y.-Stevens tle of the week change tl:.eir imn_resslon »ur the old before. Once more Columbia proved Yale star's coaching efficiency. The . itself the champion fumbler of the Rnlxce;'a linalpla)ed lalmcst as well as| " "Not once this season did Co- the lgate line of last year. R = sleven fighting lads playing with somo | {15 (% "Cose it tho games with Am- backed by a love of thelr collegs and | herst: Williams and N. Y. U. jealousy of their record, invariably - will defeat a set of stars playing faot- - ball for the mere playing thereof. [ECOTBATDERES UL TS, Brown's victory over Dartmouth by | Trinity 20, Vermont 6. 13 to 0 was in line with the expected, | New Iiritain High 25, New but it had been thought that after the | High 0. crushing defeat by Tufts, Dartmouth| Princeton Freshmen 9, Yale would be even easler for the Bears.|men 7. As in other defeats this season,| Brown 13, Dartmouth 0. notably that by Pennsylvania, Dart- Notre Dame 3, Washington mouth late in the game opened up 2| ferson 0. forward passing game that might have) Army 13, Boston College 7. Pennsylvania 26, Indiana 0. given the contest a different com- plexion had it been flashed earlier.| Rutgers 14, Newport Naval Re- serve 0. Brown scores were made possible by fumbles by Sid Holbrook and Mc-| Pennsylvania Freshmen 6, Cornell Donough, so the triumph, though sat- | 'reshmen 0. lsfying enough after eleven vears of | Camp Devens 7, Camp Upton 0. Inaction against Dartmouth, was not N. Y. U. 9, Columbia 7. quite. as brilliant as it/ might have| pordham 28, Pelham Bay N. R. 0. Boston Navy Yard 34, All-Colle- been. giates 0. Worcester Tech 18, Camp Devens AT 0 Wisconsin 18, Chicago 0. Syracuse 21, Michigan Aggies 7. Allentown Ambulance Co. 20, Camp Meade 14. Allegheny 33, Akron 0. Lehigh 78, Lafayette 0. Johns Hopkins 0, St. John's 0. Georgetown-Susquehanna, cancelled. Northwestern 21, Michigan 12. Ohio State 0, Auburn 0. Minnesota 27, Illinois 6. Indiana 37, Purdue 0. Swarthmore 67, Haverford 7. Marines 29, Camp Lee 0. by Brickley. The coach did not like a decision late in jthe game and went out on the field to protest, a 15-yard penalty followed and put the Army in a positian to score the winning touchdown. Haven Fresh- & Jef- ‘West Virginia U\psct. A form reversal just as surprising as the Ohio State-Auburn affair was the defeat of West Virginia by West Vir- ginla Weslevan by 20 to 0. The We: leyan eleven, with Calac, the old In- dian star, in a leading role, had been pointing for that game for local su- premacy and took the battered West Virginians by surprise, West Virginia ad held Pitt to 14 to 9, had held Rutgers to a tie at 7 all, and had heaten the Navy by 7 to 0, while the \Wesleyans had been beaten by Penn State and Washington and Jefferson. A line on how Penn would have stacked up against Georgia Tech now, had their proposed return engagement gone through, was obtained in Penn’s game with the Carlisle Indians. With- | out the services of some af the stars who had played against Georgia Tech the week before, when Tech won by p3 to 0, the Indians gave Penn g hard | Plon. played sixteen simultaneous battle and lost by 26 to 0. games, six of which were against op- The Army wound up its season with } ponents in consultation, in the uni- a hard-earned victory over Charley | versity dining hall here Saturday irickley’s Boston College eleven, 13 to | night. Only one game was scored 7. The Cadets might have heen held | agalnst him. This went to the credit to a tie but for a “boneheaded” stunt: of P. W. Silzer and R. F. Todd. TEST FOR CHESS EXPERT. Princeton, N, J., Nov. 26.—Albert B. Hodges, former American cham- Of course, | LOOK KENNETH™ LOOK WHAT'S PAPA KENNETH WANT A Go BY BYES ! - PAPA SPANK MAMA NAUGHTY MAMA ALL RIGHT MAMA GET SPANKING- GOT- MR iy’ 1 aquif v l Capyrighted 1917 by The Tribune Assoc. (New York Trihuné)) === = ByBrigss (RAWFORD FAVORED VIBBERTS IS CAPTAIN Clever Halfback is Sclected to lmfl(ll | High School Football Eleven Next Season—Much Praise for Coach | [ Bearce. i Charles Vibberts, one of the most popular members of the 1917 New ! Britain High school football eleven, ' was chosen captain of next year's team at the conclusion of the New Haven game Saturday afternoon. Captain-elect Vibberts has been a member of the football squad but one season, but in that time he has dis- played excellent gridiron knowledge, and under his leadership, the 1918 team should be successful. He was cut in 1916 but retired with a bad knee, Captain Vibberts played in the Hartford game, until forced to retire on account of an injury to his knee, and his absence in that important contest was keenly felt. He is un- questionably one of the best punters developed at the school In several sea- sons, and withithe experience gained this season, should prove ° valuable next season. Captain Vibberts will have many of this year's team back again. Burns, Faulkner, Waters, Za- | patka, Hagearty, Ashley, forming the nucleus for an exceptionally clever eleven. Much credit for the excellent \ showing of the team this season is {due to the untiring efforts of Coach | Bearce. Coming here a stranger, the | coach endeared himself with the boys, who were quick to grasp his teach- ings, and in turning out an eleven that battled to a tie for the Inter- scholastic championship, Coach Bearce placed himself on par with Evan Davis, the peer of coaches at the local High school. To many of the followers of the team, 1t appeared as if the locals ) Played a far superlor gamo against New Haven than that against Hart. ford, and there is a feeling at the school, that the locals would be able {to vanquish their Capitol city rivals 1f a return game was arranged. MATTY T0 PITCH i ‘War Necessitates Return of “Bix Six” to Mound Duty for Cincinnati Reds Next Season. Cincinnati, Nov. 26, ~—Christy Ma- thewson will return to the pitching mound next season. Big Six, for a long time on McGraw's staff of hur- lers, and now manager of the Reds, made this announcement yesterday. The eighteen player 1imit has brought this state of affairs about. Matty says his team will have to get along with six pitchers. Therefore he is going to keep himself in condition and will take his turn on the mound. Mathewson publicly announced that he was through as a pitcher, when he defeated Mordecai Brown of the Cubs at Chicago on Labor Day, 1916, i The players would hope to get i | recognition of such a reorganized fra- E FULTZ ternity through President Tener, of | the National league, himself formerly | a player, who has often spoken of how | —_ a properly organized fraternity might | | be of great benefit to baseball. | Bewails Calamity Howls. | | | New Britain Lightweight Boxer to Tackle Kid Doherty in Putnam On Thanksgiving Afternoon—Rounding Into Shape. :Leuers Are Written 10 Playersl ‘Requesting Change in Fraternity | “Bobby" Reimer, the clever loecal lightweight boxer, is fast rounding in- to shape for his battle on Thanksgiv- ing afternoon with Kid Doherty In Putnam. This will be Reimer's first | Lattle since he was discharged from ! the army last summer and upon his “Give baseball a rest from the calamity howlers,” said President Baker, of the Phillies, yesterday “What is the use of going araund looking for trouble? Persons who are New York, Nov. 26.—A reorganiza- | doing all this squealing now certainly tion of the Baseball Players’ Frater-| are not helping things. nity under a head favorable to the| “There is only one thing to do. Use !leading powers of baseball is a strong | a little common sense and prepare for | 5 ; ) ! nrohull;nfl\ \mfu(,‘»o the present winter | war conditions by reasonable economy. | showing will depend his program for is over. The reorganization is likely| I estimate operating expenses, with |the winter. to come through propaganda fostered, | increased railroad fares and hotel | Rojmer, who came here from Man- i Dot orlaihated JEY certain Sclubiates iuiie FOpericen b lel ek er o emter lizioyell M known | th roughiout To show how far this move, which | meet that. First, cut down to a war | {he state as & s‘;]'i}‘x_le&‘;’; ‘;‘l:"‘;:"’f:: aims to displace Dave Fultz, has gone, | playing limit, and then, instcad of lug- | Ounce &oves B8 RO (& S0 0 it need only be said that a slipping : ging a lot of players around the coun- r'_""mj*ld"}; :1 e s mg star has recently been Writing letters try that you won't use, take along "j”"_‘sl’“ e e el to various players who formerly took ) fifteen or sixteen. If you necd one, Wceks he has D a big interest in fraternity matters. | vou can get him anywhere on the cir- the Y. M. C. A. gymnas e 0’ s The letter asks when the club held its | cuit within twenty-four hours. coming bout and expf‘&tbwo e (r‘\sood A\ last fraternity meeting, what interest “Let us stop talking calamity and :?l\dmoq \V)mn the -°n8nsousr_l L:rdzn the club feels in the fraternity and | open the season. After that we can Thursday -Afle}'nootn- S h:urs ;; suggests that a ‘‘big man’” can be of- | sec how the land lies. I for ane do night Reimer spent se R s Ea tained to take Fultz's place as the fra- | not think things are as bad as paintod. #hadow boxing and rope jumping an ternity executive, It contains a veiled ' Let's stop this winter squeali and ! then went several fusf rounds with a attack on Fultz and makes a plea to calamity howling.” . l«nvlu'k‘ of sparring partners. He plans the players to accept & general reduc-| All of which seems to be very good fto continue training until \Ve:incsdny | tion in -salary in view of the present | advice. Furthermore, let egr (t; ;::)_;”1?! when he will rest up for the { baseball conditions. stop offering suggestions on dr hout. i Ite 1slnolsecrct among big league | regulations. At present Reimer is employed at ball players that they lost faith in the Stanley Works, where he went up- Fultz after his strike flasco of last on heing discharged from the army.' | winter. At the time it was believed He was formerly with Company G of that the players fraternity had died, ! Manchester and was transferred to but it retained a bit of life and flick- Company 1 ;){r this td:y 2 m;;p::xc:; ered through last season. According | . s years ago. e went to the Me: B i e e (1 DT pi e L border during the summer of 1016 | the fraternity again, there is no hope with Comypany T and last April also re- of reconciliation with the powers in | baseball so long as Fultz remains a factor in the organization. This ! ! doubtless is a fact, as the bitterness on the part of the owners last winter | was directed more against Fultz than Sl against the fraternity. | statement by request of -the Contract Gp This Year. { President Johnson of the American | Tultz's three-year contract as pres- |league put in concerete form the st FERRRE O J0€, O8N, N oMy e ident of the fraterpity will expire this | uation which confronts professional ford won at Seymour Park, score 1 | year, and it is doubtful if he would |paseball and outlined the problems to i, (. The locals found the offensive | care to retain the office under present |, " oved. He invites frank discussion | of the visitors too hard to stop. The | conditions. of them, with a view to developing a ' home boys will commence prepara- It might be added that the name of | I (iy1o” solution during the winter, | tions for the game with the All-Stars Sam Crawford is again coming up as, 4 1 ing it will be the “height of at St. Mary's playgrounds Thanks- a possible successor to Fultz. It may | go0 8 08 0hq 0 pageball club owner | giving morning, this evening. be recalled fhiat Ben Johnson omee y,groided into the campaign of next | mentioned Sam as a man who would summer.” { be favorable to him as a fraternity SUTYRSRC o g0 nova head and might even be willing to L 4", the administration and | Bridgeport, Nov. 26.—By defeating | grant him a seat on the National |PYSCC, 0 o\ ceq of the order to|the Steam Roller club of Providence, | commission. . | close the gates of the ball parks last | R. I, here yesterday afternoon by, | _Players who are in favor of a new | SP " g devote all the man power | the score of 21 to 2, the American executive in the fraternity point out|®CH " (1)) 15 ending the war, he |Chain company team of this city ac- of b ¢ there would he no use in re-electing | 2, My slesome advice” as to what | quired the New England professional Fultz or any other man unfavorable to e oballic hamsionship the commission. They hope to re-)to do now: IR Ny = Ly !flmffiffi@ President . Wants s to Sugeest ldeas Con- | Club O ners o sponded to the call with the same| OQrganization ' command. He was discharged because', | of dependents while the company was | at Norwich doing guard duty. cerning Future of During War Preriod. Chicago, 111, Nov. —In a formal pres: REDWOODS BEATEN. The Redwoods sustained the first reverse of the season yesterday af- ex- | STEAM ROLLERS FLATTENED. STARTS TUESDAY AT 9 A. M. 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