New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 6, 1917, Page 8

[ it 48 to get into one’s uniform, dnce | " fantry, was second. " one of the most PREPARING FOR INTERESTING SESSION NEXT FINDS GOING T0O N e e FAST ~— e e CANP UPTON BOYS " RAGE FOR PRIZES Moré Than 10,000 Enlisted Hen Officers Enjoy Games Néw York, Dec. 6.—Camp Upton, iw York city National Army iment at Yaphank, had a gala ~day yesterday when the New York club stood sponsor for divi- &} athletic games at the football hiWwhich, in camp parlance, is at ivenue and Sixth street. ré than 10,000 enlisted men and formed a hollow square d" the fleld, and within that re more than 1,500 athletes com- in half a dozen events. They all ® the olive drab uniform of the and they made an inspiring Stureé as they stood cheering and jelling for more than three hours their company and regimental fought and struggled for su- "VA Ing like it in the nature of an 4 meet has ever been seen In country for the competition was ‘the wholesale. Twenty-one . men in ‘the various heats, and in the yard dash, for example, there re seventeen heats, each having ‘enty 'starters, making up a total feld for 340. But so well was the meet organized Glick, civillan director of ics, and the representatives of York A. C., Matt Haplin, Ar- icAleenan and Paul Pilgrim, it 'went through without a hitch. competitors lined up in columns . four, awaiting the starts of the dous ‘events, and as soon as one tch ‘had been eliminated another foved up to take its place. The enthusiasm of both competitors nd spectators spoke volumes for the lendid work the New York A. C. done and is doing for the soldiers, id Indicated that it was thoroughly fpreciated. In fact so enthusiastic | the men that the officials .of the are considering holding another 8t of games next week or the. fol- 16wing week. They will make an an- ‘npuncement of their decision within * &' day or two. The regimental championship was ‘éaptured by the men of the 306th Infantry, ‘who scored a total of 57 © points and took the gold and silver . lenge cup presented by the club. The 308th Infantry was second with 34iPpoints and the 306th Field Artil- R f third with 26. All the prizes for both individual and team fes were of the highest quality. *Tho! Carroll, a private in Colll-n! pany K of the 306th Infantry, was| the victor in the 150-yard equipment . Carroll demonstrated how easy one knows how, for it took him only | 1 minute 47 seconds to dress himse:f in shoes, tunic, leggings, hat and ‘cartridge belt and to pick up his rifle " and then'run 75 yards to the finish MNne. Sergeant W. Cote of the Head- \ lquarters Company of tHe 304th In- Arthur Engels of the supply com- pany of the 308th Infantry, who was| promising voung hurdlers ever developed under the ‘wings 'of Bernie Wefers, fairly burned up the course in winning the 100- ¥yard dash in 11 4-5 seconds. Th= race ‘was run on hard ground, and the time 'was fast, all things considered. John ~Jones of Company E of the 206th In- fantry was second. SOLDIERS DEFEAT AGGIES. . Camp MacArthur Eleven Plles Up 20-to-0 Score. East Lansing, Mich, Dec. 6.— Buperior weight and greater skill in the use of the forward pass enabled ‘the football eleven from Camp Mac- Arthur, Texas, to defeat the Michigan Aggies team, 20 to 0, here yesterday afternoon. The work of McGregor, halfback on the soldiers’ team, featured, he being responsible for most of his team’s “The Man Who Won’t Vote a Straight Ticket for Shoe Style and Com- fort Ought to Have His Feet Disfranchised,” And What MODERN Says Is So oo WHATEVER your party af- filiations you know that all pro- gress dépends upon the man- ner in which humanity’s feet are clad. If you want your feet to carry you gaily throughout the campaign register their size and shape at this shoe shop and we will fit you. MOGERN BOOT SHOP 168 MAIN STREET. " War Tax on “Shells” to Be One of NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, WEEK—CAMP 1917. —— - - - ByBriggs‘ ii Movie of a Man With a Poor Memory - - S1Z€ OF SHAVING Soar “WELL - For Ta' LyvA | MIKE - FORGODT, (o Y T0 REGULATE PASSES Many Subjects Coming Up for Dis- cussion at Baseball Conclave. Chicago, Dec. 6—A uniform method of collecting the war tax on passes to baseball games it was said today would be one of the many subjects to come before the joint meeting here on December 13 of the club owners of the two major leagues, arranged at a conference last night between August Herrmann, president of the Cincinnati Nationals and chairman of the National Commission, and B. B. Johnson, president of the American league. In order to avoid confusion and congestion from an attempt to collect the tax on each pass as presented at the gate, the suggestion was made during the conference between the two officials that $6.16 be collected in advance when each pass is issued at the beginning of the season. That would be at the rate of 8 cents for each coupon. In case a passholder does not use all his coupons it is pro- posed to turn the balance over to the Red Cross at the end of the sea- son. TO HOLD CARNIVAL. TU. of P. Athlctic Association Plans for Relays Nest Spring. Philadelphia, Dec. 6.—The Univer- | sity of Pensylvania Athletic Associa- | tion announced yesterday that it had been decided to hold the annual relay carnival next spring as usual. The final races will be held the last Sat- urday in April, unless unforeseen events should cause a change in the date. collegiate athletic contests of the year, in the past has been divided into a two-day program, but it is uncertain at this time whether that schedule will be adhered to next spring or the races confined to one day. Much, it was said, will depend upon the class and number of entries received. ROBERT McROY BURIED. Chicago, Dec. 6.—Robert C. Mc- Roy, former vice president of the Cleveland Americans, who died at a Milwaukee sanatorium Sunday, was buried here yesterday. August Herr- mann, chairman of the National Base- ball Commission, President Johnson of The meet, one of the latgest inter- | the American League, Charles A. Comiskey, owner of the Chicago Americans, and James C. Dunn, pres- ident of the Cleveland club, were among the pall bearers. CLINE STOPS PAUL. Providence, R. I, Dec. 6.—Irish Patsy Cline, of New York, knocked out Jimmy Paul of the same city af- ter one minute and 30 seconds of fighting at Marieville last night. The bout was scheduled to go 12 rounds. QUARTERBACK TO BE AVIATOR South Bend, Ind., Dec. 6.—Willlam M. Allison, Notre Dame quarterback, given credit by Eastern critics for the victory scored by Notre Dame over West Point, has left college to enter the Aviation Corps, it was announced yesterday. "l CERTHNY GOT To BUY SOME NEW SHAVING VEERGE T - WELC == . o SURE (T TONIGHT * I'tL BE SURE AND GET 1T TomomrRow ,‘}fi KO 40 |EX-CHAMPION WOMAN GOLFER AND TENNIS PLAYER NOW A RED CROSS Miss Masgaret Curtis, three-time national golf champion and once a partner of a doubles team that won the national tennis championship, is o RIGHT PAST A DRUG STORE N NE”“’ MORNING - et 2 NEXT. MORNING DECIDES HE MEEDS BEGIN AT PICTUR "A" ARD CONTINUE UNTIL FRIEND WIFE PURCHASES THE SOAP. i Covyrighted 1917 by The Tribune Assoe. (New Yerk Tribune). WORKER IN PARIS directing the bureau of refugees and reliet for the American Red Cross in Par's. Miss Curtis has long been ac-, tive in social relief work. —_—m-s - _—-—— WHITE GOES TO NEW CAMP. Chicago, Dec. 6.—Charlie White, a Chicago lightweight, yesterday was ordered to Camp Custer, at Battle Creek, Mich.,, to become boxing in- structor. White had been instructor at Camp Grant, at Rockford. He will be succeeded by Danny Goodman, a Chicagoan. - FOOTBALL CAPTAIN ENLISTS. Lafayette, Ind., Dec. 6.—William. Jennings Burns, captain of the Purdue football team, yesterday enlisted in the aviation department of the United States army. He has been a tackle on the Purdue team for the last three vears. He was to have been gradu- ated next June. LEONARD “TAKES” ANOTHER Lightweight Champion Drops Gene Delmont for Count in Eight Rounds After Chopping Him to Pieces. St. Paul, Minn, Dec. 6.—Benny Leonard, lightweight champion, knocked out Gene Delmont of Mem- phis in the eighth round of a sched- uled ten round bout here last night. ‘A left to the'stomach was the de- ciding blow, though Leonard, appar- ently outweighing the southerner, had the better of the battle right from the start. After chopping Delmont for seven rounds, the champion finally backed him into a corner and put over the punch that ended the bout. Tt was said to be the first time Del- mont has been knocked out. ALL CONNEOTICUT TEAM Wesleyan Argus Critlc Selects Star Football Combination. Middletown, Conn., Dec. 6.—The football critic of the Wesleyan Argus has selected an All Connecticut Val- ley football team from the players on five teams, Amherst, Springfield, Trin- ity, Williams and Wesleyan. Amherst shows up the best, with four play- ers chosen, and Williams next best, with three chosen. The team is as follows: Right end, Brown, Williams; right tackle, Anderson, Wesleyan; right guard, Sutter, Wesleyan; center, Olsen, Amherst; left guard, Clarie, Springfield; left tackle, Halstead, Wil- liams; left end, Davis, Amherst; quar- terback, Boynton, Williams; right halfback, Phillips, Amherst; left half- back. Bodenhorn, Ambherst; full- back, Sharpe, Springfield. ROWING AT STANDSTILL. Harvard Advisory Committce Closes Boathouse Untll Close of Holidays. Cambridge, Mass.,, Dec. 6.—Rowing nt Harvard is now at a standstill. The advisory committee has decided to close up the varsity boathouse until after the Christmas holidays. This decision was made as a matter of economy. The heating of the build- ing, for one thing, would cost con- siderable. Early in January c~ndidates for the freshman and informal crews will re- port at the boathouse for voluntary drill on the machines in the rowing tanks. Coach Bill Haines is to be in charge, but the university manage- ment has not yet tendered him a con- tract for spring rowing. In mid-Feb- ruary the regular practice sessions will start and the work indoors will Ye supplemented on the river with the approach of spring. MACK GETS COLLEGE PITCHER. Claude Davidson, captain of the 1917 team at Brown university, has signed up to play with the Athletics £or the coming season. 'MAGNATES WARMING UP FOR MEETING Plenty of Excitement Is the Fore- cast of Coming Session New York, Dec. 8.—That the Na- tional League meeting next week will be an old fashioned ripsnorter is be- coming obvious from the prelim- | inaries, There is likely to be quite | a little heated discussion over the pro- posed eighteen player limit, Herrmann may get into a jam with Tener for calling a Jjoint meeting of the twa leagues without consulting his chiei, and Rickey of St. Louis and Weegh- man -of the Cubs are sure to engage in a heated debate over the sensa- tional deal with which ‘“Weeghy” in- tends to knock the boys out of their seats at next week’s battle royal. Rickey found occasion to bawl out Weeghman in some pithy remarks, made in St. Louis yesterday. Rickey says Weeghman talks through his hat if he said that he, Rickey, offered to sell Rogers Hornsby unconditionally for $60,000. “I never made Weegh- man any such proposition,” sald Rickey, “and he has no business say- ing T did. T am afraid he likes to talk for advertising. Perhaps it helps his business. If Weeghman wants o make a deal with me I'l] trade either players and cash for either catcher's release.” A storm-glso is brewing over Garry Herrmann's plan to reduce fo a war strength of eighteen players. De- spite the fact that President Tener of the National League has announced his opposition to the Herrmann amendment and believes it to be for the best interests of his league to tain the twenty-two player limit, both Rickey of St. Louis and Weeghman of Chicago announced yesterday that they were strongly in favor of the Snyder or Gonzales, but I want both R UPTON SOLDIERS PARTICIPATE IN BIG ATHLETIC MEET — FRANK AND WITHDRAWS FROM SIX-DAY RACE—LEONARD, PREPARING FOR CHIC BROWN BOUT, KNOCKS OUT GENE DEMO?{I'N { FRANK KRAMER 0UT . | OF SIX-DAY RACE Veteran Sprint Champion Fiuds‘ Going Too Tongh New York, Dec. 6.—Things hap- pened in the six day bicycle raec in’ Madison Square Garden yesterday. Shortly before noon Frank Kramer retired and left Oscar Egg with lots of enthusiasm but no partner. Tom Bello, who with Madonna had heen riding along a lap behind the field, promptly offered to quit to permit Madonna to team with Egg. Egg and Madonna resumed the grind two laps behind the rest. Last night. shortly after 10 o'clock, the first big jam of the race sent the house into an uproar, and after the whir oty wheels had slackened and the hub- ° bub had subsided it was announced through the blanket of tobacco fos that Chapman and Eager had been, lapped. ' Goullet started the speed soiree last night with a sudden cannon ball burst that gained a quarter of a lap. Magin’ relieved him. Then sprint followed sprint with Egg and Madonna reliev- ing Goullet and Magin at shoofing the gaff into the field. At times the _ riders were strung out the length of the track. After keeping up the dizzy dervish dance for twenty min- utes the field settled down again. Goullet and Magin continue to leaf ) in the Berlin points with Hill-Hanley and Corry-Madden teams pressing = ' | them hotly. The reserving of their efforts for the Berlin sprints still {s causing the riders to maintain a slow average | prace and to drop further behind the record. All attendance records ars going by the boards, however. Yast night one of the largest throngs that ever witnessed an event in the Garden was jammed into the building. LEONARD YVS. BROWN eighteen player reduction. ‘Weeghman Backs Herrmann. “I am heartily in favor of Herr- mann’s plan to cut the National League player limit to eighteen men for next season,” said Weeghman in Chicago yesterday. ‘“Pennants have heen won in the past with only eighteen men, and it can be done | again. That roster would give us six pitchers, three catchers, five in- fielders and four outfielders. We got better work out of six pitchers last season than we did when we carried eight.” Herrmann, Weeghman and Rickey, pledged for the eighteen player re- duction, it looks as though Tener may have a hard task to impress his own views on his club owners. It ig the first time in which any serious drs- agreement has arisen between Tener and his club owners. So far Tener and President Hempstead. of ‘he Giants are the only National Leaguers who have taken a strong stand for the retention. of the present twenty-two player limit. As to that Chicago joint meeting of the "two leagues on_ December 13 which again is mentioned in_ yester- day’s Chicago despatches as an as- sured fact,'Herrmann has used poor teamwork with Tener. The Governor yesterday reiterated his remarks of last Tuesday night that he knew noth- ing of such a meeting, adding that if the two leagues do hold a joint con- ference during the winter it will be nothing more than an informal dis- cussion of baseball affairs. Herrmann Opposeg Tener. In many things Herrmann is ning in opposite directions from Tener. Tener is irying to see the bright side of next season; Herrmann hag been a ring-leader among the Calamity Janes. Herrmann declared Johnson’s .suggestion on the excemp- tion of eighteen players on each team “a good idea,” which might prove a ! solution to the present baseball situ- | ation. Tener termed the suggestion | as “abhorrent” and ‘“the most unpa- triotic thing he ever’ heard of.” Herrmann is the originator of the eighteen player idea. Tener the strongest defender of the present limit. Now Herrmann announces a joint meeting of the two leagues, of which Tener has no knowledge. In passing it might be‘added that the present relations between the two leagues are rather strained, the strained relations anteceding the fric- tion engendered between the two leaghe executives over Johnson's sug- | gestion on exemptions. The leagues are far from being in accord over several questions which developed ! since the two ledgues thought the suit of the Baltimore Feds directors | had been squashed. run- BOXER HELD BLAMELESS. Cleveland Coroner Exonerates Whitey Wenzel for Dcath of Jimmy Wilson. Cleveland, Dec. 6.—Coroner P. J. Byrne’s inquest into the death of “El Paso” Jimmy Wilson, who died {from a fractured skull following a knockout in a match with Whitey Wenzel, of Pittsburgh, last week, de- veloped that all precautions against accident had been taken and that Wenzel was in no way to blame. Coroner Byrne declared that in his opinion Wilson's death was an un- avoidable accident, but suggested that a cork padding for the floor of the ring instead of the present canvas covered felt padding would reduce the With three of the western members Tdghtweight Champion to Make His , First Appesrance in Eim City Ring ' Dec. 17. o Chic Brown of New Haven, ¢ham. pion lightweight of New England, wil{! have a chance at the world's lights:? [ weight title on the night of Dec. 1’ when he meets World's Champlo! Benny Leonard of New York in & ten round bout before the Ryan A. C. at the New Haven Arena. Brown is / ' to weigh in at 135 pounds at .3 o'cloel, {on the afternoon of the contest. '~ ! Boxing fans all’over New Enghnad are much interested in this big clash and there is much betting in New Haven as to whether or not . Brown . will be able to stay the ten rounds against the champion. . For the convenience of the eut-of- town patrons, the club has decided to stage the world’s championship bout at 9 o'clock sharp. If out-of- town parties desire to leave New Ha- ven early they can do so without missing any part of the big bout. A ten rounder between BEilly Fits. simmons of New Haven, formerly of , Yonkers, and ‘“Battling” Lahn of Brooklyn, will close the show. These are two of -the best bantamweights ‘n the game. The opering bout will be one of =ix rounds between Battling Green eof Hartford and Young Mulilgan of New Haven. The show will start a¢ 8:15 o'cloek * and Aiderman Dave Fitzgerald of New . Haven will be the referee, MAY DROP PENN Michigan Hopes to Arrange Contess | With Minncsota in Preference to Bob Folwell’'s Charges. Ann Arbor, Mich.,, Dec. 6.—It f{s probable that the football elevens of Michigan and Pennsylvania will not meet again next fall, although this ¢ annual game has been popular with both colleges. The ~announcement that University of Pennsylvania au- thorities are trying to substitute: a game with Georgla Tech is the cause of some satisfaction here. It is understood that Michigan hopes to play Minnesota and Ohlo State next autumn and that the scheduling of these games would make a game with Pennsylvania im- ¢ possible. Because of the many cour- tesies shown Michigan by the Eastern college the members of the Michigan athletic board of control decided to make no official announcement until the matter is threshed out with the University of Pennsylvania officials. x It is believed here that the first ' step to clear up the situation, and therefore to help Michigan arrange for important conference games next season, has been taken by Pennsyl- vania. WEEGHMAN FAVORS PLAN. Chicago Cubs Owner Joins Ranks of Eighteen Player Limit Forces. Chicago, Dec. 6.—Charles Weegh- man ,president of the Chicago Na- tionals, vesterday joined forces with August Herrmann, president of the - Cincinnati club, in the movement to reduce the National league player limit to elghteen next season. “Pennants have been won in the past with only elghteen men,” ‘Weeghman said, “afid it can be done again. That roster would give us » | six pitchers, three cat.hers, five in- flielders and four outfielders. We got better work out of six pitchers last number of ring accidents. season than we did when we carried eight.”