New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 7, 1918, Page 8

hat comparison z [ihe official earncd-run ratings The value of rating pitchers on the latter system is again demonstrated. Basing the effectiveness of a pitcher solely on nd lost, it would »w the Y Iy v Yorks head- the J hupp, wdditio th os WOn w0n record thie ef. itchers clubs their - setive of where finished Cincinnati race wneider, of won rated for illustration, barely more t: yet is fourth ir earned-u figur of poor games the with an \s far as o 1 standing fielding stages of €0 of the 128 1 made after him wer offered yosite casc uns hane been sid Me: to reti tha Sth res won and lost 26th in the official—all due to the fact that 91 the 99 runs during the s Phil Douglas createst G R 50, Alexander (8) also 1 pitched right e of in g was dows fouis, 1son were carned mes—51 with in the number nes. of Boston scored most shut-outs te game led the with 201 weing © him e left-hand of 195 din comp Alexander an with 35 nders out of 1 Vaughn, of ( ; ers with the higher of 1,215 chances Sailee percenta ike-outs out In consecutive vic Schneider tied with a games each, the record from June and the latter durir streak of Cincinnati July 26th. Two victories in one July 1st by gainst Pittsbur; Alexanc¢ Brooklyn 18th, by Doak. of St against Brooklvn The outstandin the 1917 haseball history in Chicago May when Cincinnati, and Vaughn, of Chicago, went nine innings without allowing a e hit to either side. Tn the tenth, Vaughn allowed game 1 0 tinued unhitable no-hit season, 10, ind run nine hi 16th, inning former 10th to Augnst the June ma om 9th to Afternoon Cincin- were scored oney, of nati, d, by against of Philadelphia, and on September Louis, also son—if not < the g Toney, o Toney nd pitched the only game PLANNING MORE DEALS. Weeghman's Next Will elipse Others Is Claim of Mitchell. deals which from Boston he Chicago. Jan. 7.—The brought Alexander and Philadelphia and Tyler to the Chice eclipsed by one now, plannine ger Mitchel). Mit 000 with which Wee to buy a championship nearly exhausted and that trade of the season will he In a few days While he would concerned, Killifer from ionals will sident W hman cording to Ma 1 says the $2 is he 50 man st team the innounced ed ont not bigzos not indicate was intimated Hornshy, it that was negotiations for R shortstop of the St were still under way er Louis SATLORS WANT GAMES. The ( Naval station Loathou a ve strong ket am to n Reserves N tes Yale nized a and anvious with fu 2 t of the High sta past the d. Al be addre 1 to P. O. Drawer 30, nited the W are Somd nd colleg imnication heger Dieck Haven, Conn of the 3 on < may Now NG PDANS Cieveland, Jan. 7 ames C. Dunn piweldent the Cleveland baseball tewin, and Basincs: Managet S, Lurnard have arringed, it was said Saturday, for the Cleveland team to leave here M 16 for their reguiar training grouuds at New Orleans and | | sitched | pitched | h; on September | I3 will contest and on Satur | | pitching feature of | Winner of of modern | miemlavedll two hits. losing the | member of the Chi Psi fraternit however, con- | Won his letter at forward on the team of the Nationals' 1917 |footh who Nationals, | i his | nis DF NATIONAL LEAGUE PITCHERS — VENTRES DEFEATS PETERSON IN WHIRLWIND WRESTLING BOUT— Y. M. C. A. QUINTET HERE TOMORRCGW NIGHT—HARVARD ADOPTS WAR TIME SPORTS — BOWLIN e e b Friend - - - - - - - BfBrig?gs‘é ( JSH NOW ¢ E VourR HANDD 1S COLD e UNTIL THEY Capyright. $817, by The Tribune Assoclation (New Rork ®sinamed ADOPTS WAR SPORTS Put A ATHLETICS ts Y. I C. Scason All-Around Ever Harvard Plans to ticld This Afternoon at Association | Bayonet and Hand Grenade Teams Gymnasium, in Field., Jan. T.—Harvard adopt- sterday with bayonet all-around athletic Cambridge, mes at the Y. M. C. | this afternoon in the .\ hat gymnasium with the High school boys | | 8 as the contenders. This evening ; team would be placed in the field this boys of the employed class A, wil] | 5eason and would meet Yale, Colum- the contestants.. The events con- | bia and other m-up;:c& of the 1-lap run and the run-| Jules Leslabay, fencing coach, is to high jump. On Friday evening | have charge of the new team which members of the employed <lass | meets tomorrow at 8 o'clock for or- : gan on fter- | will compete. Ordina vonets will of the ed a wartime sport y, A taged announcement a the sist ni the rifies, be wands and spring noon the junior c i 3 used in the practice LS ions the intercollegiate outdoor track this spring includes a hand gre- throwing event, Harvard will start the organization of a team In Middietown, —Richard J. | each of these sports. Keeler of Wi Minn., has been = ¢ ected captain of the W t‘sl(‘} an bas- TOO COLD TO PLAY CHESS, ketball team. He junior and Ho ooklyn, N. Y., Jan —Shortage of coal in Brooklyn caused the post- ponement of the league chess match between Staten Istund and Ocean Hill at the Boys’ Welcome hall, which was not heated. The teams agreed to meet i at Stapleton next Saturda KEBLIER W ur Sports Chosen | ¢ Basketball Leade nade ar. eH last fall v; 1l quarterback. Keeler has won letter in four sports—track, ten- basketball and football Wesleyan athlete has won four letters in different sports since Arthur B. Dearborn, 1906, who w the discus thrower for the American team at the Olympic games in Ath- ens, gained the distinction. Dearborn in France with Pershin Tast was No other ZIM SIGM w York, Jan. 7.—Heinie Zimmer- ! man, third baseman of the New York National League club, Saturday signed 1 contract for the 1918 - | HEINTE | is now army. The Most Excitiug Mystery Novel Arthur String‘er Has Ever Written Does love excuse what Baddie Pret- low did? Even with millions involved should she have done it? Would you have accepted or refused the startling proposal she received? Don’t miss the thrilling novel, “THE Housk oF INTRIGUE” in PICTORIAL REVIEW For January N SALE NOW, Competitive | | Office and Drill Room Teams of Skin- ner Chuck Company Tied For First Place—sStanicy Worlks Standing. The « compar ing len weel itistics of the and the Stanley zues at the clos as follows kinner Chuck Works bowl- of the past East Gato Hardwure Dept. No Mill Humphry Humphry Hard Hardware 200 re Humphry Kilduff Conlon & Molyneaux Preston Hepper Keough W g Tupper McConn .. W. Schroedel Wylie Smith Anderson Judd Blood=o00d H. Schrocdel . ges jachr . Richards Crowe Skinner Chuck League. W 19 19 18 Office Drill Room Tool Room Shipping o Bowers—150. Bowers—3 Tool Room-—345. Tool Rooni—S891. Averages Bowers Lindgren . Kahms Bloom Haugh Adomitis Jones Helander Thornton oot North Hartan Trevithan Morton Baseball Magnates Unable to Reach Cincinnati on Account of Blizzard— Will Convene Tomorrow. SATURDAY NIGHT GAMES Senccas and Nutmegs Have Little Dif- —The meeting of bali Commission set | weinnati was postponed | last night until Tuesday, because of a cere snow storm which prevented the prompt arrival of club owners and : | commission members, it was an- BV ved | nounced by B. B. Johnson. M, O, A Mr. Johnson and Charles Weegh- together. } yyan, .nt of the National league With | ¢lub, were unable last night to get latter | {ransportation to Cincinnati. the |~ The schedule committee of both or- 1 rizations will convene just before points. A Peterson scored SiX of the | {ne meeting tomorrow. e polnissfagpulofloncns: | John A. Heydler and Barney Dreyfuss The “big” game of the evening was | o¢ pittsburgh will arrange the between the Nutmegs and the Kamels, | ({0111 league dates, while Pre the former quintet being victorious, | per® jorteon ang Seeretary William score 24 to 15. Kallfiren at center for | 5% SO IR (Ve care of the Ameri- the Nutmegs put up a stellar game. | .., Jcague end of the schedule. | STATE CHAMPIONS COMING VECAS RAMBLI Restelia | Middletown Quinet to Meet Y. M. C. the N today ficulty Downing the Ramblers and i Kamels in Opening League Games. | The first games in the night Basketball league, Saturday evening at the Y. The curtain raiser brough the Senecas and the Ramblers, cery damagin results to the five, score 24 to 8. Kopf was big scorer for the victors, tallying aturday ple | ! presid s Norfeldt A. Peterson | Kopf anner ; W. Walters .. > \. Team in This City Tomorrow Poterson | | ht—Dancing to Tollow. Abrahamson Kelley Hallen The crack Middletown basketball Score, Sene Ramblers S: | five will furnish the attraction at the goals from field, Kopf 6 Norfeldf, | y. M. . A. tomorrow evening, when Abrahamson, Kelley 2, A, Peterson, | they line up against the association Banner; goals from fouls, Kapf team at 8:30 o'clock. The visitors are Norfeldt, ‘A. Eeterson 4 unquestionably one of the fastest NUTMEGS | teams in this part of the country and ievnoldy ve the honor of capturing the state championship in 1916-17. In the line- {up of ¢he visitors will be found such | celebrities as, Ahern, McConochie, the Spear brothers, Salmonson, —Schuitz. | At the close of the contest dancing will | be enjoyed. There will be no prelim- inary game. KAMISLS Hannon Miller Je Kallgren arpson Stepanian Donnelly Siegrist B Ginsbure Ig Score, Nutmegs 24, Kamels 15 from field, Revnolds, Miller gren 5, Stepanian, Hannon 3. Jones 2, Donnelly, Ginsburg: zoals from foul Miller, rofere Slater: timer, Olson FOOTBATL ARS TO FLY. 4 S Fifteen Newport Na Reserves Have Gone Into Aviation. Newport, R. I, Jan. 7.—Tifteen members of the Second Naval District Rl L : ! foothall squad—Cupid Black's famous PREPARING BOXING BILL. mmjn e At New York, Jan. 7.—A bill to legal- | yone into the P e /e boxing will_be introduced in the | ,re at present learning to fly. They Legislature of New York State carly Gardner, McAllister, Pennock, next week. Assemblyman Martin o, Crrbl | T McCue today was busily engaged in | pnam, 1l Riward, O'Keefe, Qui sifting pumerous sUb- | oy, Flutchinson, Callahan, Purdy and mitted to him for incorporation in | yr\\ihy bill and he expects to have in hand T e o cononoa rouh draft of a measure by next Fri- | ciiaq parrett and Gerrish havo day. He then will cal a meeting of | cirned commissions as ensigns and those interested in the sport for the |y . jere Newport; Black and Trier purpose of reducing the best ideas to .o in the merchant marine officers’ concrete form. sehool and Schlichter, J. Dunn, W. = Dunn and Burns are in the school for ROGERS SHOOTS ACCURATELY. | officers New York, Jan. 7.—Zachariah Rog- ers equalied the club record of the New Rochelle Yacht club when he broke a straight string of 97 “‘birds” before he missed in the club’s week- ly trap shoot yesterday. The per- formance on a par with that of A. L. Burns, who set the mark thiy scason, score suggestoions s the was I | | | - NORWEGIAN CHAMP ‘Berlin Blacksmith Gets Revenge lor Recent Defeat by Peterson ™ Alva faction Ventres ot Hut thusiasts § hall, that dleweight tion of proved to the satise ling en~ ening in Turnen. of the best mida performers in this sec- Aecisively rson, far severalk Norway, and a water varietys in which both od in this city, was start to 1 resorted to When Referee Bacon togethor in the center instructic Peterson weight at 157 pounds, 152 pounds v little indulged in the ind after the first minute > seen that a long hard fought was Time and find him- what appeared to be Bt »me manner \ to extricate thema ifter 33 minutes had in rele & himseltd cured on Peter~, in order rom serious in- ibmitted to the minutes bes wrestlinge 200 wre turday e he 1w the country Pot of fir 1 onc e At times bath me tactics th finish rough called of the mnounced his ormality N men rinz, for by ors, battle bound to ensue. each stler woud able holds 2ld mar Finall Ventre a bad Ve clapsed, from on > i, ng room, ntres as on@ eweight wrestlers ho ana predicted’ him. Peterson gressive when the imed, L Ventres beiter, and mans both shoulders to thel with a head lock ands The victor was tenderedy 15 he left the ring 4 Hartford, billed to. meet ¢k Raymond, failed to puf in an appearance, and Marvin Reed of Middletown was substituted only to be downed in 1 with a body scissors. Gustave Chovey of Hartford was unable to keep his d with “‘Pat™ McCarthy, due to a previous call from, Uncle Sam and in his stead “Kid” Benjamin of Plainville went on. The Plainville bay beaten, but not bes fore he had rated that he<s Wle to g ccount of him- 1f. A fri ringside volun- teered the that Benjaniin had only sick bed Saturday morning, an attack of ptomainel paisoning. w of this, it may be said that it one gamel little A ful Neclson won for im- | McCarthy the first fall in 14 minutes Amer- | While head hold preved Benjamins \mer- | undo the fall, after § balls | minutes wrestlir The curtain Charles Gruve of | Giovanni Caslingo | protege of Ventres. The Elm city lad blood in 4 minutes and thé the second in .7 mins nds. The bout Tes mi future for E d off on the a match was re proved aged to mat in 15:50 croteh hold an ovation Marry Mamas of A fair skater playing tennis on ice trifie skates at the rink of the Hotel Bilt- more, N. Y. Ice tenmis is fast becom ing popular. The players w skates with spiked edges enabling to stop quickly. A regulation tennis court on the ice and the lines with a pai equilibrium ate over them. BARS BASEBALL 600DS Bats and just a place ar them is laid out ma t which does not affect the players re the of as they was demon L« good at the 1ation Balls Are Considered “Use- less Toys” by Italian Officials—Am- infc bassador Page Appeaied to. left Rome, Jan. are useless Baseballs and is the dictum nounced by Italian custom thorities in placing a ban portation of these article icans in Italy Recently icans purchased the available here, and then ordered more from the United States. Therc is a shortage of not in use being unbroken. Thomas N. Page, the Ame bassador, has been petitior cure an exemption of I ment from the recent importation of all necessary articles. Tt ig ciaimed game is necessary to maintain health of the Americans, bats toy is the pro- au- on the for e second in few was between New Haven and o ington, a raiser al now bats, one scared fir ican i ingion d to all equip am > against the luxuries AW or un the the TABERSKI STILL ( Milwaukee, WVis., Taberski sucessfully defended his title as pocket billiard champion of the world by defeating Ralph (ireenleaf. 450 to in a match h night. Greenleaf won block, 162 to 143, but could not come Taberski's lead. Taberski becomes Taberski’s permanent of the pocket billiard embiem. AMPION Jan. 7 ik over- ow owner R Stackpole, Moore, Tryon Company, 115 Asylum St. Will Remain Open! ——— Few Days More 1 JOIN Before the BOOKS ARE ALL GONE Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes MAIN STR e ———— e I g W s