New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1917, Page 12

AT APPARENT FRAME-UP RUN' BAKER RD SACKER| | MEET PETERSON IN BOUT JAN. 5—J. FRANKLIN BAKER LEADS AMERICAN LEAGUE THIRD SACKERS—NEW YORK SPORTS — MOORHEAD ORGANIZES BASKETBALL LEAGUE NEW BRITAIN CEMBER 20, 1017. o e 8 IN GRAMMAR SCHOOL—DARTMOUTH TO PLAY' SYRACUE e~ o~ o~ |A Handy Man Around thé Hoie oo F WISE BIRDS SMILE " Corner Guardian L With Average.of .049 Dge. 20.—Despite the oifh Franklin Baker, third {AHe Yankees, generally is X o have gone back’ a lot in Stank’itsone of ‘the . few “who gsnbtched any honors ‘American League fielding Frank is tied with Buck of the White Sox for the hip among the regular third bp, both having an average.of ever, Baker played in 148 &t third base, against 107. for \ figures.. X would belie the that aker does not cover mt of ground that he should. | ‘total chances handled cleanly, 38 credited with fifty-six more any other third baseman in the 2 He took care of 519 chances, h) % Gardner of the Red Sox g with 463 successfully han- ‘thances. Both players took part 46, games. r had 202 put outs. The third thietics, with 168. 8 Gedeon, alse of the Yankees, the nomrinal leader of'the second He hasg an average of .983 rty-one games. George Mog- the left handed pitcher of the 18 incjuded among the four r pitchers who went through @eason without an error, Mog- made the credible showing of -seven chances fielded Witho!{l "High Third Best Outfiélder. Hughie High, the midget outflelder ‘the Yanks, ranks third among the nlar outflelders. The former champion Red Sox had n lead in the department of fle}ing’ with an average of .792. Red only 181 errors, ty-four less than the new world’s plon " Chicifo White Sox, who second in figlding with an ‘aver- jge of .972. The Yankees held their n pretty well in club flelding, rank- g third, only two points below the White qax.-th‘e New York rating be- Ing .965. . - . £ Chié Gandll of the White Sox led 1 basemen with, an 1 Gandil's rating is 8§ of the highest ever hung up by ji big leagu t baseman. ' Playing ¥ 149 games k& made only eight nces. Pipp ofithe d among the regu- Strangely enough Browns, considered the day first basemen was he regular first basemen. ty-two errors, The | ni'Red Sox second base " 36d 4n hoth the second base and stop; positions, Jack Barry, the on manager now in the navy, led reguiar-eecond basemen with .973, Tverett'Bcott led the shortstops “Henry*Deads Catchers. Includity Sdthelders who took part ~100 games or more, the three Ing" fly chasers ‘were Jacobson of \E Bt. Louis Browns, Strunk ‘of the hletics .and~High of the Yankees, Jacobson’s ave was .988 and each the other twoiwere listed at .986. Johnr Henry of Washi n led the gatchers with an aversge, of .988 for ) Efifty-mine games. Four regular pitch- ¥ : on of Washington, Schauer if the Athletics, Hamilton of the ns gnd Mogridge of the Yankees perfect flelding average. Soott of Boston played in the most ‘YHe'dook patt.in each of the games played by his club, while played In each of the 156 played by Cleveland, . Eddie in-eacl of-Chicago’s 158 games ‘Wallie Pipp in each of the 155 es performed by-the-Yankees. Bwede Risberg of the White Sox the.-leading- errox maker of the with sixty-one, while Harper of E 'ashington, a pitcher, had the lowest ' felding average, .827. . | _Cleveland made the most double fi‘l&vg. 139. The Yanks are third in this line with 136. Detroit made only ninety-four double plays. New York, Detroit and St. Louis éach made one ‘triple play. A [ Weri"the star pitcher purchased by the * Chicago Nationals from Philadelphia, stated vesterday that he figured $10,- .090 would be his,fair share of the pur- ‘o price paid Philadelphia, and ho pought the latter club should pay it. 3*T'm not making any threats,” said Adexander, “but I think the . public should know the sltuatjon. Seven ! azo Thiladelphiaspaid $750 for _inc. They rold me for $50.€00. Hard \works Lrought about the boom in my £lock and the man who did the work ; ofight to get some of it.” = Alexarder sald hs cxpected to lcave B0 for his Home at St. Paul, Neb., to- i +t. He has not yet signed a con- :t with Chicago. . 2 (¢ = i ABSOLUTELY +NOTHING - ON THE \ I Yl il clogpst to him is Bates .of; DARTMOUTH SCHEDULE 0UT! Green Football Management Arranges Eight Contests for 1918 Including Game Wijth Syracuse Grounds. at Polo ‘Hanover, N. H., Dec. 20.—Eight games, including a contest with Syra- cuse at the Polo Grounds in New York, are listed in the Dartmouth football schedule for next year, is- sued by the athletic council last night. Syracuse was not met this year. Only one team new to Dartmouth football, Boston College, appears on the list. ‘Boston will' come here on November 16, taking the piace of Tufts, which defeated Dartmouth last month. The game with Brown will be| played againin Boston on November 23, while Pennsylvania will be met in Phfiadelphia on November 9. Springfleld again will come here.for the first game of the -season and the Massachusetts Aggies will play the second contest. The Aggles had no team this year-but are sure of getting ‘oit ap eleven neéxt Autumn. Penn State, which played at Hanover for the first time last month and nearly defeated the Green, will return. The schedule- follows: October 5, Springfleld Y. M. C. A. at Hanover; 12, Massachusetts Aggies at Hanover; 19, Penn State at Han- over; 26, Syracuse at New York, No- vember- 2, New Hampshire State at ‘Hanover; 9, Permmsylvania at Phila- delphia; 16, Boston College at Han- over; 23; Brown at Boston. OFFERS $60,000 PURSE Secretary Gabricl of Army Athletic Association Wires Champion Propo- sition For Battle 'With Fuiton. Little Rock, Ark., Dec. 20.—A purse of $60,000, which would be turned over to the American Red Cross, was offered here last night for a. fight. between Jess Willard and the winner of the Fulton-Tato fight here on Christmag Day. The offer is made by Paul R. Ga- briel, secretary of the Army Athletic Association, which has been staging i battles in North Little Rock this win- | ter for the benefit of the forty thou- sand soldiers stationed at Camp Pike. The fisht would be staged on March 16 or 18, in an open air arena, and would be scheduled for twenty rounds. Secretary Gabriel telegraphed tho proposition to Wil- | Jard. [ Chicago, Dec. 20.—Jess Willard said “ last night he would fight Fred Fulton { or anybody else for the Red Cross. ‘‘Any man, any time-and any-place, will suit me,” said Ji ‘“How about Fulton?'” he was asked. ‘“‘Oh, Fulton. Yes, he’s all right, fine-fellow, hds a splemdid-press agent, very energetic fellow.” Jess expressed mild surprise that Fulton was claiming the champion- Dec. 20.—M. ‘G Bris- ywn Canadian cricket yesterday following e was a member of cricket teams which Unfted States in in- es. He was forty- tow, & widel: viayer, died _ship, but. allowed that he would just as.lieve slzp Fulton around for the Red Cross as any one else he could think of. BOWDOIN NINE’S-OAPTAIN. Ralph ‘W. Pendleton of Boston, a pitcher, yesterday was elected captain of the Bowdoin college baseball team to succeed Orin S. Donnell, recently .called into military, service, > 4 % ‘ | GRAMMAR Director Moorhead Organizes a Fast of Seventh and Eighth Grades. Physical Director Moorhead has or- ganized a basketball league 'in the seventh and eighth grades of the Grammar school, five quintets com- prising the makeup, viz: Yale, vard, Princeton, Brown and Annap- olis. Games are played twice a week, on Monday and Wednesday °~ after- noons. The players on the various teams are as follows: Yale, La Har, Downes, Gilbert, Onarato and Trav- ers; Harvard, Landino, Gassner, Gor- | don, Frost and Eisenberg; Brown, Syenski, Gindza, Danson, Hackney, Leonard and Cooke; Annapolis, Reyn- olds, MacArthur, Carlson, Sherman and Cosina; Princeton, Steele, Frick, Hargis, Fredel and Gripp. In the opening games this week, Harvard downed Yale 9 to 7 and An- napolis scored a shutout over Brown, 10 to 0. Yale won from Brown 12 to 8 and Harvard defeated Princeton, 6 to 4. The standing of the teams is as follows: Harvard, won 2, lost 0; Annapolis, won 1, lost 0; Yale, won 1, lost 1; Princeton, won 0, lost 1; Brown, won 0, lost 2. Director Moor- head plans to add three more teams to the league after Christmas recess. In ‘order that some of the talent known to exist in the High school may be given an opportunity of playing, the director is organizing a league to contain players weighing less than 115 pounds and not over b feet 4 inches in height. Many -of the stu- dents have evinced an inclination to play the game, but fears of being “shown up” by the more experienced ones has caused them to refrain from varticipating in the sport. The idea of the physical director is an excel- lent one and should bear fruit. The games in the new league will be played on Tuesday and Thursday aft- ernoons. Har- RUTGERS BASKETBALD DATES. SCHOOL LEAGUE| ARTA FIVE BEATEN Basketball League Among Students Ninc Games Will Be Played by New Brunswick Team. New Brunswick, N. J., Dec. 20.— Manager Henry R. Perkins announced the Rutgers basketball schedule yes- terday. It consists of nine games. Four of last year's team are still in college and should form tke nucleus for a winning combination. The sched. ule: » January 5, New York university at home; 7, Yale at home; 12, Lafay- ‘ette at home; 19, Stevens at Hoboken. February 2, Allentown .Ambulance Corps at home; 9, University of Penn~ sylvania at Philadelphia; 13, Prince~ ton at home. March 1, Ursinus at home; 2, La- fayette at Easton, . Williams Auto Go. Office and Service Station, 287 Elm St. Copyrighted 1917 by Tne Tribune Assoo. (New vukmm‘:-l. WRESTLING BOUTS 10 BE HELD JAN. 5 Ventres to Meet His Congueror in Turner Hall-Raymond Vs. Mamas AT WRESTLING BOUT| Lewis-Draak Engage in “Terriic Struggle” Not on Program New York, Dec. 20.—The wrestlers went back to their old tricks at the Lexington theater last night. What apparently loaked :like a riot during the Lewis-Draak match was, accord- ing to the wise birds, no more than a pleasant little frame for, er—adver- tising purposes. When Draak and Lewis were called to the center of the mat, Draak pro- tested against Lewis’ headlock, which has won him several important matches in the current tournament..| Referee Bothner ruled that the hold was legal and that he would referee “accarding i to the rules.” Battle in Wings. With that the men started and Draak rushed Lewis into the wings of the theater, where the men fought madly. Afterward Draak slugged Lewis and generally “played his part” to the queen’s taste, even to making a great show of weakening after each head hold that Lewis slipped on him. Finally Draak flopped, amid wild excitement, leaving the impression that Barnum was right. ‘There were two great factors against taking this match too seriously. One ! is that it was ‘“played” too well and another that the police had been ‘‘re- «uested” not to stop it. Turther than that it may interest some of the pop- oved enthusiasts who wcre doing the loudest yelling lact night that Tommy Draak is supposed to be Lewis’ train- ing partner and in his pay. Outside of that it was a great exhi- bition—in fact, it was, anyhow. New Britain wrestling fans are to have another opportunity of witness/ ing a first class exhibition in this: city, January 5, 1918, when on the mat in Turner hall, A. Peterson the chams pion of Norway and the conqueror of Aiva Ventres, will give the *Berlin Blacksmith” an opportunity of re« dceming himself, for the defeat ad= ministered in this city several weeks' ago. Peterson, by his fine showing in this city -on his two previous appeard ances, made a host of friends, and| thicse who did not see him work willj Do doubt afford themselves the' coming opportunity. When Ventres: was downed in the last meeting with: Peterson he immediately asked for & return bout with the weight to be somewhere near his own. Peterson corsented, and plans have since beem’ arranged. The bout had originally, Leen arranged for December 29, but thae Norwegian asked for more time to get in proper condition. Th& - coming bout will be to a finish, twe falls out of three. Jack Raymond and Harry Ma who figured in the’ sensational semi final at the last show held here, ter: minating 'when Mamas was the.lpsers: will again come to grips in the: secs ond’ star bout of the evening. Raya mond is at present working out with! » Ventres and is in condition for the hardest bout of his career. Mamas has held the middleweight champions: ship of Connecticiit for several years; being the only grappler who ever forced “Smiler” Livingston's shoulders to the mat. s Two excellent preliminaries have been ‘arranged, thé most important being the battle between Sam Chowts of Hartford apd’ Patsy McCarthy of ¢ New Haven. ~These grapplers collided on the .evening.of the- Ventres-Ben- jamin’ fiasco, Apd. ‘neftiier: man was. able to.-secure.&-£all. fxthe allotted: half-hqur, time., ' M hy “has shown® e 210 4010) McGILE WITHDRAWS OFFER. Tndianapols Owner Will Hold On to Hendricks As Manager. Indianapolis, Dec. 20.—The offer to release Jack Hendricks, manager of the Indianapclis American Associa- Starlights of Meriden, Take Game Necessary to Keep Locals Out of Second Place in Inter-City Lecague, The New Britain bowling quintet in the Inter-city league, “blew” a chance to land in second place last evening, when the Starlights of Meri- den won the second game of the match at the Aetna alleys, giving the Silver city lads the position. Entering the battle with the odds 3 to 1 against them, the locals made a game stand for victory, winning the first clash by plenty of room to spare. The Silver city bowlers undaunted by the lick- ing, came right back and captured the second and final game of the eve- ning. ‘The scores: New Britain, 103 105 oo Qi .. 136 98 533 Starlight, 102 91 91 100 79 463 Foote ... Larsoh .. A, Anderson Rogers .... E. Anderson 103— 112— 79— 112— 100— 206 217 170 248 198 506—1039 202 189 209 199 201 100— 98— 118— 99— 122— 537—1000 Robinson Daley .. Prillwitz Hagerty Brooks RABBIT MARANVILLE COACH. Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 20..—Rabbit Maranville, of the Boston Braves, has been appointed coach of the Boston Navy Yard basketball team. He also ‘will play on the five along with other baseball stars. e ——————————— When that AUTO NEEDS REPAIRS, Bring it to! EXPERTS. COHEN MOTOR CO., 868 ARCH ST. RELFABLE SERVICE, Denison Garage 430 MAIN STREET. Livery Cars for hire, day and night Storage, Supplies and Repairing. W.F. Keeley Co. (Elm and Franklin Streets.) DEALER IN REO, CHEVROLET AND REPUBLIC TRUOCKS. Auto- Repairing Prompt and Efficient Service Dealers:in " Chalmers and Oakland Motor Cars. THE AUTO SALES CO. 168 _AROH STREET. - TEL. -2252 MoCarthy n much improvement. fn his’ werk since that time. Chowte is 1o sloueh, and the:coming ‘bout #Hould gerve as an excellent ‘whet for ‘the .wrestling ap-' petites, This, il -will be gf one-halt Y {on, or the best two in ¢ The ™ n rafser will bring to- gether, George of this city end “Hércules” ' Castalihgo, of Berlin, a protege of Ventres,, 1.7 | tion baseball club, for $10,000 was | HOCKEY PLAYERS PRACTICE. | withdrawn yesterday by J. C.'McGHll, | i president of the club, in a telegram . Thirty-five Candidates Report for | received from him by Hendricks. Ne- { Harvard Seven. gotiations have been under way for some time for Hendricks' release, he Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 20.—Thir- | yaying been offered the management ty-five candidates for the Harvard in- | of the St. Louis Nationals if he could formal varsity hockey team are prac- (et away from his contract here. tising daily under Coach Robert cafeh;ofggg’;;‘;fl;e‘glflm‘:;«;ldm"t Gross, himself a candidate for Wing. ! oy clut from MoGill and the other The squad will spend an hour two af- present owners will be withdrawn at 6 ternoons each week at the Boston o'clock Thursday evening, McGill Arena, and the remainder of the daily workouts will be held on rinks on | wired. Soldiers field. Among the men who are candidates for the seven are Bill Louderback, an old St. Paul's school player; Willard Rice and Alick Bright, members of last year’s varsity squad; George Flynn, of Andover; Harry Gibbs, Leon Jackson, Norman Walker, Jeft Cool- idge and Jim Stubbs. PITCHER PFHESTER-GITS $2,000, ' Springfield; * Hl;, - Dee: 20-~A judg- ment. of ,$2,000 against the Western Union Telegraph Company in favor of John P. Pflester, former pitcher of the Chicags~Natiohhls was sus- tained’ by the ‘Tinois Supréme Court | yesteraay:* - Pfiedtér ‘alleged | 'that a telegram ‘Sent by Rim‘addressed to the Milwatiked ‘cfip of ‘the’ Amierican As- sociatidn’ waN‘hever delivered and as a'result "he fost a’‘place.dis pitcher o Jatter'teand.’ > RODGERS FOOTBALL CAPTAIN. Morgantown, W. Va., Dec. 20.—Er- ret Rodgers, star fullback at West Virginia and prominently mentioned as one of the leading backs of the country this year and last, was unan- imously elected captain of the West Virginia university’s football team .at the annual banquet last night. Skis, Toboggans, Sleds, Skates, Snow: Shoes and Sandals ; OUR PRICES ARE POSITIVELY RIGHT F. C. MONIER & BRO. 38-42 Main New Britain; Conn.