New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 23, 1918, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1918, ONAL LEAGUE MASNATES MONDAY WILL DECIDE FATE OF MINORS FOR 1918 SEASON — POEHLER TO MEET EDDIE ALLEYS NEXT WEDNESDAY NIGHT—NEW ORLEANS FIGHT PROMOTERS WITHDRAW OFFER FOR WILLARD-FULTON BOUT | - o = & ) Established 1886 IS BEEN DOING A7 DON'T WORRY ¢y % Z 7 ¢ & T - ALL DAY DOCTOR ddtyirdrrrz IMPROVING VERY / fe § HE TALWS To Him- i DAY, MY PARTMNER s us BLF AND GETS so DOCTOR APRIL wiLL \TABLE— Do You BE BACK IN A WEEK - 77 . ] fiRic HE'S N HIS / : OoR TEN DAY S AmD LL \ 7 — o gl - PR ~ Y HART, J MISSING P | ; ) CLOTHES are guaranteed all-wool. fabrics $20.00 up to $38.00. 0’ the d b widence / o / 1 p £y ° . eebin wir agtie . B\ Do il : e Exceptional value in the. Several of thegfetub o ’ ve | loarly intimatef® that, (ROVNERERGD- | / / ) _ fi 3T N ; P New Spring styles rosed to a contfnuation of play under | ] Ayl ) he present unsettled conditions inci- I / | i ks 1 [ I I b of lental to the war. Others stand ready ! / é 5 > (it o back baseball for another season % | [ \ [y § i 9 Rt least, but just which side will hold L— / : 3 1 i UL CHILDREN S SUITS & he majority vote cannot be stated be- oA 7 l p 4 | W ; ore the day of the meeting. If it is R < X : gy e | 3 $4 €0 up to $15 00 decided to discontinue the schedule B fois = 3 A p = s here is a bare possibility that one r more of the ¢lubs will form a new earue s 4 s W e L S = - EMERY SHIRTS ity combinations v seasons been a | 't of lower classi- = . : e B : . $1.50 up to $5.00. A decision -on the part of the In- ernational league to drop out would ‘ he & severe hlow to organized base- " ploneers among the minor leagues and . : o | 1 steady and i »ortant factor in the - lievelopment of the game and of play ers for major league circuits. Thoe league was organized in 1892 and con- tinued without @ break until the close of the 1917 season. During the ini- AR o NEW ORLEANS OUT OF IT | MANY WANT JoB played ] race has been along the lines of the ) il : majors Providence, with six championship . e pennants to its credit, leads all the cities which have at various times POEHLER TO BOYYL HERE LA held membership in the organization JOIE BALKS Rochester comes next with five, and o sl : Buffalo and Toronto are tied with four i each, while Binghamton, Erie, Syra- Promoters Tortorich and Hinkle Say 23 Applications Filed For Posi- They Are Disgusted With Actions of Champion Willard. New Jersey. 1 ! New Orleans, La., March 23.— De- Newark, N. J., Marc Big Frenchman Pref to Manage Claving that Jess Willard is stalling Walter E. Tdge of New Jersey, who cuse, Springfield, Montreal, Jersey 1 Roll Hddlo (e K i and camoufluging, Matt Hinkle, the is busily engaged In the task of s City, Baltimore and Newark have each dianapolis ‘Team to Playing With Cleveland promoter who combined lecting a boxing commission to ens captured one titular flag leys Wednesday 1 2. Brooklyn Robins. i itlnuciup d SOt et e HiTr oy e jranconmonlips The outcome of the conference is 5 purse of $105,000 for a twenty-round terday that 123 unselfish patriots had hals to havs s Qistlatt beasieivion Manager George . Rog Clevelund, 0. March 23 Napo- | Championship mateh between Willard announced their willingness to sefto N O e e e Aetna alleys, has compleicd arrang leon Lajoie. whose purchase was an- | @10 FFred Fulton, here yesterday the state without a penny of pay in relation to their plans for the com [ mients for an exhibition gaie of duck- nounced hy the Brooklyn Natlonsl | Withdrew the offer and practically . The governor intimeted thet the pick ing season. Several of these organiza- - = pins between Paul Poehler ton. 1 a e A e v - Mass., conceded to he night that he would not report to the | the bout. but he hoped to name the men within of mind regarding the financial out-| (Copyright 1918, by King Features | would be inferested in me to the eX- small ball howlere in New Fme i T | Hinkle is not going to Chicago to *a few days. look for baseball on the smaller cir- Syndicate, Ine.) | tent of $10.000. But n@ quest that and Kdward Anderson of this cifs cults during 1918 and are likely to be Gldltore ot This & the 2srn | ) » owner of the Indianapolis club, | Hinkle says there is no further use of Kramer, the bieyclist, and Claude swayed, to some extent, by the exam- Chartadlar e e After supper that night I vlm:lflml day evening. I’ochlc makin v othat if the [nternational league | t'¥ing to do business with the cham- Holgate. who has be. prominent i ple set by the International leaguel nr ™o poer 1o o riting on “John L | (¢ 80 back to Philadelphia. But Fate' tour of Connecticut and will roll Andy doesn discontinue this year I will | Pion. Tortorich practically agrees in amateur sports for twenty-five yemrs club owners. Up to the present time| = =g '~ o e e at nstead of soing back 10 | McCarthy of Havtford in that citv, manage (he Indlanapoils cluls ang T this. Falton haa 1ot the Toral promot- but is not active’ politically, recently less than half of the leagues whichls o o o to¥ W e relates ANV ) (he Quaker City that night I stay over ' Tuesday night. Will Kkeep my word. If the Interna- | ¢rs know that he will fight anywhere had _interviews with the governom s ithel 1617 acasoninave prevaredifly i il b s L s BRI s e i o ol iR o Tk of anything© = The Stanley Hardware five defeated tional lengue suspends T feel T shouiq | and at sultable terms af any tims Kramer had a fifteen minute tal ¥ promuletedfietiiacneauleaplon) s T e sDB6ar Monaay), | .cee t0/do I went fo Koster and Biallsi the Rerlin'. Gonstruction comping hive somethine s o about where I | ““When I offered to take half of the with the governor and later declared 1918 | i i anped ACAY)-§ o famous playhouse of that era, and team in the Factory le: mateh last am to go 1 do not ¢ about going | fight from Tortorlch and my offe that if the other members of thel Mven ander the most favorable con-| The sweeping challenge that Tohn( “blew” myself to a chalr In the cvening winning two sones 1o the o the Nutional league any way, and | was acceptable,” said Hink!c the commission were satisfactoryy he Pilons | it Mts S not i expected i that /T, fesusdlon Marchi 5l 1852 containen| oritestra tleole) two-man mateh between Kahms- can make far more money by manag- | $105,000 offer was not camoufinge. would necept the place the Same there will be the same number of{a “joker”. Frank Slavin and Charlle Looking around the house in an Bertini and Cage-Richier. former Ing McGill's team than as a Brook. | Had 1t become necessary I could pust fime he asserted he was not eages organizations operating as was the| Mitchell were quick to recognize it { absent-minded way L happened to see duo went over the top. The scores: 1vn player the money upon 24 hours’ notice. but for the work Holgate has been case 12 months ago. The records| and from then on were not at all keen | in one of the boxos the face of a man Stanley Hardware, |55 i i St oot varmly recommended to the govern- show that some 23 leagues opened ‘l:’:* to fight the champion. The clause | that 1 knew It was that of Matty Conlon . e 101 107 “From’'the way I look at the whole o Holgat innounced that if h season a year ago and that about 76 K which found mo favor with Sullivan’s | Corbett, no relative of mine, but one hroedel . a1 N4 I BOXING AT CAMP UPTON it Willard New England Duck Pin Champion (o \nderson at Aetna \l- cue team vesterday declared last | ©hded the only bona fide bidding for ing of commissioners was a hard job, a ‘I have given my word to Mr, Me- | meet Col. Miller, nelther is Tortorich Two prominent candidates, Franlg | day was fruitless the Church strect lnnes next Wednes- Gill, 5 T business seems as though was appointed he would make the ver cent. played through the season| foremost rivals was th s: of the most famous of American . Hickey .....122 87 87 is using outsic prothoters to hoost bhoxing clu »e the mark or the major partion of the same. In “T insist upon a slde bet of $10,- ' sbortsmen of a century ago. | had | Keough 10y SN 3 the purse and will finally wind up at It is guite generally believed that 1916, 24 leagues were in operation| ;oo nmet Matty on my first trip to New : Kildufy ) 94 e Than 20,000 Persons Watceh | Milwaukee, Minn. polis or possibly John Smith, the hotel man of Atlantie BRd che year previous the number wis By that John L. meant that any ! York some years before and, although o 5 A Atlantic City. Lf all i e the Wl‘r‘»h} % "»H»u‘:",l"\“'\ """’“ | man who fought him would have to | didn’t know It then, my friendship 192 454 4 BossliutiUy ivel yihrec-ibrraSni Siiat Lol Lo smmiission more an 4 eagues in he rious 2 i p a2 ¥ wit i s rove > o0st Vi - ] ot v - 5 i Glasalfications thronghout the comater | a5er $10,000 at even money that vith him was to nx‘x‘\ va most }nl”_ Berlin Construction. Round Bou twenty rounds they may cons Of all the candidates entioned he could whip John L., whereas in able of my lifetime: it was to be the | Quay o P00 5 come to New Orleans next for the position none is more p: any contest in which John L. figured | iteway that led to fame and for- | Graham 100 CampiUp tony Y., March 23.—The | giving Day." BAKER AT MACON. it was a cinch that the champion | tune. W. Hickey .... 107 filwls in the divisional boxing cham- | [Hinkle seems disgusted with the EROE SR would be at least a 2 or 3 to 1 After the first act was over, Matty, | T . i g5 g ulonships) were held vesterday after- | action of Willardland said #o. Tore Famous Slugger Reports to Manager | vorite in the betting. And so Slavin | 100king around the circle, caught my | Myers . ... ... & $1 Spae ROCD 1L ansopentalriring feonsiructed ity el also’ saiak S0 Tt Hboks Mo port. Cassidy is a Wengghos of Tankees. l'and Michell were “off”” of John I, | ve, nodded and smiled. Then when , L) '”\“rf”mi’ of the blg infantry pa-1ir Willard cannot box here if man i in sport for pure love of E < 5 They were perfectly willing to fight | he saw that I was alone he wig- ) S QP STOMNS ¢ wanted to. it. and his acquaintance with the dif: Mo Su P I o Bn i but ot sofienily soafdont ts | vaesed for ma o 1oin nis swit i More than: 20,000 oflicers and men | forent eleiment friends nsser Baker and. his big black bat are here. | |\~ 5\ 1" $10,000 that they could, the box. I accepted the invitation | Kahme Vitnessed the six hard-fought contests, | WALKER SHOWS SKII onlad him to fulfill the dumtied The famous slugger got into Macon | (fL =0 ind Matty introduced me to the | 91 bn 105 ug the spectators including Major-Gen e e i ustice Lt 1 a 9 o’'cloc ast ig’ and vill be o % Sl & tiell, commander the Metre 7' - ST S A »:v::i:(.y. a8 .fifl"»f.m‘fl.‘ Nomor. | When T read the challenge of John roun of gentlemen who were With | Bertinie. Hger jof the Metropolitanilny Sintiah Goltl P BG vas Bine public and fairness to the hoxers an fr il 1 | my lifetime was before me; that the Of the highest type. . R R oeuenaly A s . LA 5 i it e % S clusions wih the big and unheaten | troductions to Dick Crocker, Phil : 4 ! | Walker, the golf profe nal, who ax e dition of Pratt and Ping Bodie to the | (IS Deover Tilke Dol s v It was one of the most picturesque | rived at Pinehurst from Westfield, N . : team and predicts that this year's | WATTIOr And T determined to movo | 1) TR ST SREL B0S e— U05ng prosramsicyer Hald miEismerell Loy oo o L eatold rday said that ¢ : batting order will prove a trial to | heaven and earth, If necessary, to as- e SR s 0sRERI0 s i R0 of the country. The ring, which was | champlonshiph course and wound up K te arc in the leay several American league pitchers who | SUre me of a fight with John L. e o Moo yo | Blonters laised about four feet above the |with w 71. Walker put all of his 115 'or positions dolunaissionets { have been having an easy time in the| _!fardly had T finished readinz tha i oa iy 97 83 104 102 96 93 96- ground, was draped with the flags of | pounds into his drive for the fifth hole gy | challenge than T hustled to William | Jim i : “All we needed was . couple of | A Brady, who was my manager at ARt ESRENATL o good right hand hitters,” said Frank. | that time, shoved the paper at him I'm trying to find someone who “Now we have them If the pitchers do thelr share we ought to bhe up | ind, as Billy finlshed reading, T ex. | Will back me in a fight with John L. | &, 3 | 1 there all through the season Billy, 'm going to fight Sullivan.” “The group looked at me in an in- | goes well and City, will get the chairmanship of the than Tom Cassidy of Jersey City + quarter of a century has unseld) oted himself to the promo. hibition at Pinehursi. prome present he is in charg the Allies, and it was a coincidence ' and went down in three. Par is 5 and that the American flag floated over the ' the distance 427 yards. Then he orner of four out of six of the win-[threw away two strokes on the short - e i L OoUT O REGATTA, re The men of the different regi- | sixth, but managed to reach the turn Doyl Potheringham and Mel claimed: Sullivan, SRR ments were marched out to the rin®- |, 35, one under par. Lead Ashevilie Field o 5 - side formation where they were | 5 : A R i i carefully ap- | Ithaca Crew Unable Tako Purt i ide in 3 | Coming in he gathered in another A L il oot e credulous way and - carefully ap- AR tke PaXe In. sornied 1 solld panks, and thonsan 15 | engleiian the foicteeatn maae th Asheville, N. (., March 23.—Aftef L e o “Don’t vou know that he insists | braised my slender frame. Then T incal N Cornel] | N0T€ 8aw the bouts from the roofs and [ geventeenth in par three after driv- DlayIng thirty-six holes at the startid 5 3 upon a side het of $10,0007" I’hil Dwyer asked: E et s = OLNE windows of barracks on each side of |ing into a trap, mi d an easy putt the open professional golf tou Boston. March 23.—Tommy Shea “Yog * % 5 You want to fight the great John ' Will not enter a crew in the national e e £ B, o b & 5 Jew Hav. anded a decisior Yes, T sald, “I noticed that Gl £ L regetta of the American Rowing it e iparades at the eighteenth and arrived in 36 lieve vesterday, P. J. Doyle of Bf New EHaven fwas handed & fon “Why, Jim, we haven't gol $10 o eh? 3 e o ghus wo regimontal Lands were pregent | ywalker 'was playing in o foursome N. J. G. L. Fothevingham of over Chick Hayes of Indianapolis in = e IE T relied sociation on the Severn River this | u.3 arter the. tasles o ? | @ as play b S < e ¥ At the. Come | 900 or even $1,000,” commented Billy es, sir plied. St S and after the bugles sounded retreat | match in partnership with W. Wallace York and Fred McLeod of Whshing jeni oundsilast in bt gatihe v opl “and T don’t know of anyone who Ropyouthinlctyounavofaichance lin et i bl or . G iut 4:15 o'clock, all present stood With | o Detroit, The pair finished with ton, . . were tied with scores of mercial A. ( HM"'ht: majority : would back yvou to the extent of $10.. | awainst him?" e e : ) ared heads whilel the “Star-Spangled (ye.¢ halitor 631 ‘The Feason’s. record 188 Walter Hagen of Rochester) on fang believed should have gone to “I feel certain that I can whip |1 ent, whe peRIL el ol VoD I CE N AN ner wasl pliived & Benny Toonard lon the course was lowered today by of the favorites among the fourteed 000 against Sullivan.” the Western lad. The bout was mar . o " was a audac- s referee o e bouts, T ) | i 30 S S | o Nor do [ at this timo,.Billy,” 1 him.” was my reply,—and the audac R S e L s Bl SR DO Ut T e b O e e [ et e e e B R e D (S8 o sy with 1 red by clinchi Joth ght were of three rounds of three min- 37—173 Emmett French of York, Pa, mad h answered. “But T going to And | ity of it certainiy startled each and | ' ¢ R well have led a draw ] nd probably May 25 with Princeton and!jutes each, except whon extra rounds |2 °CUnd o 26 E isah G b @ lake in ong S MCGILL IN A QUANDARY. THR GOLF PROS IN TIE. raduate Manager had been scheduled, a trianguiar con : it someonc cvery man in that group. There was Up through eventh round It was Y thencwns e 5 : pause for a while, as the men ex- |® ! were ordered. The prizes, gold and shade in i ‘; ""V:"”)“"‘" m"‘i“"'“‘I’k'v"""”“]"“”“]“ (,,.]”,;l,;,. Clantestunio e B il :_”"“'mm were unable (o accent | silver meduls, were donated by Rod- friends. So 1t was up fo me | €ay: ““This kid either is the nerviest ;‘“‘\'"L"‘_‘,’h‘”"l’f‘ é % i \””"’]"“* De-man Wanamalker raise that $10,000 -or it neyer | in the world or he's a nut.” aus e date of the proposed regat The most sensational bout of would be raised. The silence finally was broken hy On the following Saturday night 1| Matty, who said i ' ; ‘e Now Ha. | jumped from Philadelphin wher “Tell us, Jim, why you think yom Sen O 3 was a| Prady and T were showing to New |can do the ‘impossible’ Why do you Z8n ma 7| York. At the outset it seemed ljke | think you can defeat John L2 fool's errand. T was almost a total And then T launched into my rea- stranger in New York and when I !sons for the belief that many classed PENN STATE MAT MEN WIN, rrived there I hadn’t the remotoest | as a wild man's dream.” New Yorlk, M i —The wrest- of where T would =0 fo raisc (To Be Continued Monday.) lers of Pennsylvacia State college, neces: $10,000. All T knew competing for the first time for the that New York was a city of intercollegiate grappling titl out- h and that it housed many a third crew as Cornell's opponents nd finished with & close bout with perhuy favor of Hayes. ‘The wighth was easily Sher N may have had : er of the ninth. The tenth 1 111 Hayes and had t e t more frames the | SHIE of Lajoic Makes Choice ot NON BEATE G he . = A CONCANNC S GREENLE: | ta, May 18, falls within the period of | half-dozen was the fifth, betweesn To Manager Difficult Proposition. LEAR, | final examinations at the university Kelly, fth Motor Truck Company, Indianapolis, March 23.—Announce Gornellis second term calendar was | and Al Kaufmen, 806th Infantry, mid- | ment of the sals by the Totonty. club materially shortencd this year by the | ¢leweight Tex = was rather well|af the International league of Napo elimination of the spring vacatlon. | known as a professional before he |Jeon Lajoie to the Brookiyn Natlonals The trip to Annapolls would take | started to worl for Uncle Sam, and the [ gave a setback to the search of James three days of this week, and the Fac- | motor truck Tooters were out in full |G, McGill, owner of the Indianapolis ulty would not consent to such a trip { force to see him win. Besides roaring | American association team, for a man- at the time. their approval of Kelly's activities In [ ager to succeed Jack Hendricks, now The Cornell rowing committec his | the ring. A favorite methad of rooting |with the St. Louis Nationals, Mc(iill e experienced great difficulty In arrang- | was to open up the engines of the |held a tentative agreement with La McCOURT BILTIARD LOSER. ing a schedule this year bt‘l":\\l‘jv of | ”,”‘-"“' .huvl\s In?(‘d along the field, | joie to manage the Indlans provided - Cornell's short spring term. Efforts to | which added considerable noise. the former major leaguer could ob- MCAVAY WINS B schedule a race on Cayuga Lake for —— tain his release from the Toronto club < AT POOL. McCourt lost to Gus Copulos of Pitts- | May 11 proved unavailing, but thed) MONROE PASSES - He tried to reach Lajoie at his home | James McAvay defeated John trusted blindly in luck burgh in an Interstate Three Cushlon [ management is satisfied with having | Macon, Ga., March 2 ~Monroe, | {n Cleveland as soon as he heard of Kula in the pool tourney at Donyhue The entries included teams represent-| Al dav day 1 alternately | Rilliard league match last night, 50 to | secured the Princeton contest | like McGraw, took hls physical ex- | the sale smoke ghop last evening, score’y Ing Penn State, Pennsylvania, Colum- | tramped the ets and wandered | 41, at the Helm academy. The game The absence of the active rowing | amination for the army here. Also, The Indianapolts owner says he has to 86. The last zame of the ‘#irs bia, Lehlgh, and Cornell. Princeton | into hote] 1 in the | received more than one hundred ap- [ round will be played next Thursd w to have contested, but withdrew | that 5 might see someone T knew or®run of 4. "They will play again ‘to- |itrouble, Nol race for the freshman | colors. That's two pitchers the Yanks plications of persons wishing to man- | evening, with Martin Weleh " andl &t the last moment that I someone who morrow. elght has been arranged so far. may lose this summer, age the local team, James Luby as the contestants, New York. March Joe Cofean non swir Iph Greenleaf by cor « 125 to & in the pocket by rd matel it the Jefferson Billiarg) Acndemy last night. The series, be, short tween them will wind up tonighg Concannon, the New York statd champlon, has no fear of losing hy title, as the total score now stang 625 to 481 in favor of the fitle h@lde clased the contestants of four other | sportsmen who were willing to tako | Cleveland, 0., March 23.—Charles colleges in the preliminary bouts in | chance on almost anvthing. And| the Columbia gymnasium last night. | | vague hope |went 71 innings. Bach had high [ coach, John Collyer, has also caused |like McGraw, he passed with flying