New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1919, Page 8

R u to.be_withd Atimare contingent of the Federal kagués. after a few days dence | whs heard. It was Delieve@d then that’| prganized baseball had settled with he Baltimoreans out of court, \V\l\‘ khis evidently was not so as the RLH\A more directors reopened the case and fiad it transferred to a United States district court in Washington. The case | will come up for trial an March 10. | Assists Minor. { Heydler ed Benjamin Minor, | Joresident of the Washingion club and egal representative of the .\mmu‘"«n feague in making arrangements for he defense of the reopened suit. Heydler also di: cussed the muatter in >hiladelphia with George Whartoa 'epper and Samuel (lemen Jr 6unsel for the National leagu The suit is the ocutcome of the eace settlement with the Federal | LISTEN DEAR- B - YES | Kmow FRUT LUS TEN- NERES Tus POINT- You —1 WHATTY P Yas our wHAT To SAY! RSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1919, 10—MAJORS AGAIN CONFRONTED WITH SUIT OF BALTIMORE FEDERALS— ETON TAKES MEASURE OF COLUMBIA QUINTET MY WIFE HAS AUWAYS) SA\WD To BRING You OUT - THATS The RIGHT SPIRIT- WELL WHAT Do You Krow ABOUT ThAT !1? FoLks BLaw AND WE'RE RULL UP- SBNDS HER LOVE \ | ) HELLO DEAR- HELLO Homey- LisTew DEAR M BRINGING A FRIEMP oLvT To | several THe wWiFE'S N Towmn ToDAY THE wiFE AND ~ eague three winters ago, which mado o provision for reimbursement for| he Baltmore Federal league club. 11 ddition to the 16 major league prosi- ents it also implicates James Gil-| nore, former president of the Iederal | po g o, eague; the Ward estate which con- | folled the Brooklyn Federals; Harty| Qualifying Round in St. Valentine Binclair, former president of the New- l | | MRS. HURD IS VICTOR Golfer Wins Medal in rk Federals, and Edward winae Tourney at Palm Beach. Slerals g o pittsburgh | gemer bro figent of th | Pinehurst, C., Feb. 13.—Mrs frederals B Dorothy Campbell Hurd of Pitts- In view of the v burgh, north and south golf champioa he - rehabilitation = of and former holder of the national and baseball the coming up British titles, won the medal in the moro suit like a spocter of qualifying round of the St. Valentine most distressing .l""" tournament for women yesterday. IO, "“'h“}‘”::;"‘;“,'fl\ e i She covered the No. 1 course in 48, vofltlpef;"é““\ sgain regained their 45— and led the field by margin big gues ag 83 af three strokes. Johnson to Confer With Ruppert ee strokes, ] l![()(::: far the question of the cha Miss Eleanor T. Chandler of e lelphia and Mrs. F. Talfourd ans ¢ the commission came up | @ X 3:1-’3:1,',‘»' oould not say. It is under-|ing of the Agawam Hunt club R od that Johmson will confer with|Mrs: Hurd a hard: flght. & The ol ]'mt president of the Yan- burgh golfer played the first *ol. Ruppert, preside e Yar 1 v ; kees, W x‘uh‘ he is here. Ruppert is holes in even five K a4 led e mber of the American league: Chandler and Mrs. Keating by ommittee to select a new chairman | strokes at that time. Then of the commission, the other member | Hurd slibped up o the ninth e Nain “of " the Detroit club.|stroke to each of her two rivals and R anE art Said soveral days ago that he|10st another strake at the eleventh, AR 5 e any person for | where Mrs. Keatiag went down in par kie office » and Miss Chandler sank a long putt The three for a brilliant 2. At that stage of the tional league committee on telegraph | proceedings Mrs. Hurd and Mrs. Charles Ebbets, William F. Baker | Keating were tied at 57 for eleven nd Barney Dreyfuss, presidents of| holes and Miss Chandler stood at 56. | the Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Pitts-| - purg clubs—met Hevdler at the| Palm Beach, league offices and also had a_confer- | second round i tace Jater at the Biltmore. This trio, | South Flarida golf championship yes- bapecially Baker and Dreyfuss, arel|terday eliminated J. N. Van Buren. the. National league club owners|Sherwood who stands tied for the Hoost inaistent on a change In the|medal with W. J. Baxter, Oakland, o mission, and they have recom-|and produced a 20 hole match n O ied that (he two major league|which Q. Feitner of the South Shore nmittees promptly get busy. Baker|Field club of Loag Island was elimi-| o member of the National league|nated after being dormie at the four- committee teenth. Tt also saw the return to fine - form of J. B. Elwell, Apawamis, Who'! . though in the third flight led the en- BEURTE tire ficld with a medal score of 32 at - .. |the turn. He won, 5 aad 3, from H Golf Assoctation Officials |y “yapiinson with a card of 57 for| All Events by Invitation. | the 15 holes, which is equivalent to a| 69, granting par for the bye holes, UL thel (Hich were not played. Elwell, med- annousiced vear ago and until this season alist AmMALENr| 4 lways found in the first division, Was| tournament set fori ,e nis game until vesterday | Sunset club, St. Louis, ‘ | of 3 uestions in ! professionai of the Balti- of the past is big league the case the feet. a Phila- Keat- gave Pitts- eight Miss two yet consi men composing the — [ F1 Feb. 13.—The of match play in the TO BROADEN GOLF Western ‘Would Open 13 of aciation the western Chicago, Feb. Western Golf 3 vesterday that championship June 16 at the would be open vitation This to all players by in- ! PAVING WAY FOR RICKARD? is expected to bring out some| of the best players from all sections,| Fiftcen Round Decision Bouts Pro- including the east nia. The last championship was played | at the Midlathiaa Country club here in 1917 and was won by Francis Oul- met of Boston, who entered by in tation posed in Penusylva Scranton, P Feb. 12 has started local | to a change | posed State Boxing that { mitted in bill iecision It is the contention of the interested having the Four | changed decision in the | help the in —Agitation hoxing fans in the commission will be Just now round been by have madc pro- law per- the no £0 decision bouts T s 3 o Pennsylvania. NAVY CREWS ON brovides for houts, ¥our Boats Sent Over Two and a Half s Mile Course. local men rezulations will in that sport Md., Feb. 13 LoLit eights were afternoon Annapolis, Naval Academy water yesterday being the first of rowing to get into the open this s of the boats were from th and two from the fourth class men Coach Glendon had not expected t the crews on the water but the squad is full of begged to be allowed to pin They rowed to the ad bridge and back on the Severn, a distance of two and a half miles. Ai‘]'i‘NA BOWLING ALLEYS. Church Street. For Your Amusement. on probably = institutiosn | HAVANA I ason. Two | Bo main squad | American RED SOX. The club received from a i Boston an group to play during the Manager Ed- proposition the club could "ampa, its train- difficulty, league vesterday men of of games trainin in- of a vitation husines Havana in tous to 5o soon, | serie: | spring ward B said might be pted, | get to Havana f | ing quart without Cuba spirit and a the acec to FAMOUS MARATHONER DEAD. Ont., Feb. 13.—“Jack” Caffery, in his younger days a noted long distance runner Who twice won the Boston Athletic association mara- thon, died at his home here | 4a¥ from influenza. Hamilton, vester- | { ketball LIEUT. CADMORE BACK Robins Star Pitcher in “God’'s Coun- try" After Service in France— Ready For Baseball Scason. New York, Feb. 13.—Lieut. Leon Cadore, Company G, 369th Infantry, one of the best pitchers in the Na- tional League, arrived home from France yesterday and said that as soon as Uncle Sam is willing he will change his uniform of khaki for that of the Brooklyn Robins. “Never felt better in my life. Noth- ing like warfare to keep a man trim. Fortunately, the bhreaks in war game, such as bursts of lead, not come my way “I was knocked explosive shells in the did down by two high and a hand grenade fell beside me in a trench, but failed to explode. Not wounded once. Hope I'll have luck like that in the pinches next summer.” That was the med up his war experiences left for Camp Merritt. He went to France with a machine gun replacement company in August after training at Camp Hancock. He was commissioned in France and as- signed to the 369th Regiment, in which were New York iiegro fighters of the old 15th Regiment They | fought in the Champagne sector be- tween two French regiments, and the Germans thought they were Mor- and were deadly afraid of them, Cadore said. He did a lot of night patrol work, taking out ten men at a time and squinting the enemy over HAVANA NINE University Ball Players Five Weel Philadelphia, Feb. versity of Havana way Cadore sum- as he rocans COMING. Arrange For "Tour. 13y—The Uni- baseball team will make a trip to the United States this spring and is planning to play the big colleges in the East and mid- dle West, according to a letter re- ceived by K. R. Bushnell, acting graduate manager of the University of Pennsylvania from Richard Grant, former two mile intercollegiate | champion, who is the athletic direc- tor Havana Grant said the trip would extent from April 16 to May 9, and that would like to play the opening contest with Pennsylvania, which has scheduled for that date. Mr. Bushnell has turned the matter r to the baseball committee. of he no game oVt MAY PLAY NUTMEGS. manager of the Nutmeg bas- team of Hartford is trying | to get the Collegians of New Britain, | a newly formed team composed of | former colleze to meet the | Nutmegs in Hartford. He offered | | | The them suitable guarantee. Such stars as Stephanian, Cabelus, Solo- mon and Billy Dudack comprise the | Collegians. Billy Kopf is also pected to play with the college GAME, Leaders will travel Southington Saturday night to with the Rowe Calk basketball This will be the deciding game, team having won a game on floor. The Leaders will have following men in their lineup: vall, Restelli, Sheehan, and Demarest, a men. LEADERS HAVE The YV clash team. each their the Du- Danielson BOWLING NEWS New Britain Machine. First Floor. 86 90 Facey Street 3 Begley 84 102 Tool Inspection. 86 95 a3 86 94 100 Williametz Howe .. Coffey Roth Spencer 84 81— 5 93 91 99 444 451 Dept. 410. 89 106 89 92 86 90 Kupper ...... Wacker . .. Leupold Johnson Cusack 93 Dougherty Foster Morrissey . Bloodgood Puringten Stanley Works. Foremen. Humphry ...... 80 Zmmons 94 Collingswood 80 Cochrane Mor Conlon 99 101 81 87 98 443 Power. 39 Wooding 80 Lawyer Hughes Hart Nelson Sas 99 96 84 421 380 Shipping Luebeck Shailer Elliott .. Maerz McKeon . Maddocks .. Preston Kalen Wilson Baehr office. Schroedel T Johnson Keough .. Marsh ... bt Wilber ... 88 48 105 101 100 462 460 Factory. Hoffman ...... 86 RichardsiSt o o1 Scheidler .. 94 Gaudette 91 Lantone .. 80 84 83 82 93 101 443 WADDELL MAY ED Friends of Dantel M. Waddell nounce that he will be given support if he will consent to run councilman from the First ward, will probably be endorsed spring primaries if he consents Py TER RACE, 19 19 1 19 19 P PR an- strong for He the | ‘ | PR S | ANOTHER GAME FOR TAFT. Watertown School Hockey Team Beats Canterbury by 6 to 0 Score. Watertown, Conn., Ieb. feating Canterbury school of here yesterday afternoon, school hockey scored consecutive victory of the The score was 6 to 0. The local skaters outclassed outplayed their rivals from start finish, easily breaking through Canterbury defense, while the sive efforts of the latter team were successfully beaten off. At the end of the first half the score favored Taft by 3 to 0, Captain Valentine Ely, J. Stevenson and Chapin accounting for the goals 13.—By de- Milford, the Taft its sixth | season. seven ! and to the offen- LAUREL GUN CLUB Lakewood, N. J., Feb. 13.—William Norton of Lakewood won the trophy for high score at the special holiday shoot of the laurel House Gun club vesterday afternoon. His score was G, A J. McClure of the local club, shooting from scratch, won the prize for high gun. His score was 95. Other good scores were: W. B. Harker, 83, 6—84 K. Robinson, 83, 9—92; A. J. Murphy, 93, 0—93; B. Henry, 80, 8—88; R. Millard, 84, 1—88 SHOOT. 13 1,500,000 CHILDREN WEIGHED, 65 Under Five Per Cent. of Those Are Checked. Washington, Feb. 13. than 1,500,000 children in the United States In Wisconsin, More been have weighed and measured since “the children’s year” campaign to save lives lost from preventable dis- eases was inaugurated by the Chil- dren's Bureau on the first anniversary of the war. Of six million record cards sent out, one-fourth have heen re- turned already and will he used in figuring out the new weight and height standards for American chil- dren. ‘Wisconsin has returned more cards than any other state—a total of | 166,000, or about 65 per cent. of the state’s population under five years of age, Connecticut and Rhode Island have sent in cards representing about one-half their pre-school popula- tion, and Massachuse:ts returned cards for than one-third of its children. has more Conrad E. Spens Will Have Charge | of Country’s Business March 1. Washington tion Feb. 12 Direction of the nat export business will be transferred March 1, from the gov- | ernment exports control committee to Conrad E. whose appointment as assistant director of trafic in charge of export and import traffic, was announced today by the railroad administration. The permit system for exports will be continued until further notice is Spens, ———m COMING “The Hell Cat” SHE FOUGHT | New | two won OTHER FACTORY QUINTET TO MEET IN SERIES New Britain Machine Co. Champions to Play Sclected Team in Post- Scason Event. To extend the Saturday night bask etball games after the end of the fuc- league schedule well as to share some the profits of the sea- son with the plavers, Physical Direc- | tor Warren S. Slater has arranged for | games to be played at the Y. C. A. following the ast league zame, February 22. The profits of the ecames are to be divided equally among the four factory teams which took part in the games of the season. On March 1, a team composed of members of the Fafnir, Landers and Stanley Works teams will play the Britain Machine team. As a preliminary to this game, the Fafnir Dragons will meet the New Departure team from Bristol, in the second | game of their series | Arrangements are also being made | for a series to be played between the teams leading the local factory league, and the two teams leading the Hartford Industrial league. Two of mes are to be played in this city, and one in Hartford TIGERS WIN ANOTHER Added to Nassau tory of M. Columbia Quintet is Boy's List of Victims—Other In- | teresting Contests. IFeb. 13.—Princeton’s basketball team, which is leading the intercollegiate championship tourna- ment, last night defeated the Colum- bia quintet on the local collezian's court by 16 to 11. It was the Tigers' second consecutive victory of the | tournament and the Blue and Whit fourth straight defeat. New York, 13.—Play- the final night at Namcos of Tor easily Springfield,: Mass, Feb. ing whirlwind basketball half of their game last commerce high with the Windsor, Vt., the jumped into the lead and won 33 to 16. This part of the game marked by a great comeback staged by Al Remmele of the Tops. Of late weeks he has not been shooting too well, During the rush, howeve he dropped in seven twin-counte Four of these came in succession from almost exactly the same spot on the floor. A few minutes later he dropped in two more from the other of the floor. in Red was | any Westfield, Mas Feb. 13.—The | Whip city basketball five bumped the | Hartford Nutmegs for a 26 to 13 win last night at Columbia hall, Westfield. The contest was marred by frequent fouling on the part of both teams, with Gibbons showing the better form at the 15-foot mark. The first half ended 16 to 8 in favor of the Westfield crew. Play in the second half livened up a bit, but the Con- necticut team was unable to overcome the lead. rnie Wakefield, who has been playing with® the All-Holyokes, appeared in the visitors' line-up. a LEVINSKY BEATS GOFFEY Bridmvol‘! Hceavyweight Earns Degi- sion Over Roscommon Grant Aftex 12 Round Mill in Boston. Boston, Feb. 13.—Battling Levinsky the decision over Jim Coffey of New York in his twelve round contest here last night at the Armory A. C. Levinsky took the lead early and held it throughout, despite the fact that his opponent had the advantage in both weight and reach. Levinsky landed often in the elev- enth and twelfth. His steady, consist- ent jabbing was evidently bothersome to Coffey, who slowed down percepti- bly in the closing rounds. Both men showed a willingness to fight in the majority of rounds, and the bout was well received by the fans. LANGFORD PICKS WILLARD. Boston “Tar Baby” Thinks Dempsey Too Smali For Heavyweight Champ ola “Tham” Langford will string along with Jess Willard when the champion meets Jack the Giant Killer Dempsey. In an interview at Chicago “Tham™ said ““Jack is not hig and rugged enough to cope with a man of Willard's weight and strength. Despite all re- ports to the contrary, Willard is as active and speedy as ever and far more than a match for Dempsey. In fact, 1 believe a match between them, if made, would turn out to be a very one-sided and uninteresting affair.” COACH YALE FAVORS RACE. Prof. Abbott Crew Approves of Sending Eli to England. New Mather crews, Haven, Abbott, said vesterday strongly in favor crew to compete Teb. coach of that he was of Yale sending with Oxford and Cambridge or accompanying a crew from Harvard if such a proposition were made possible. He agreed with the sentiment of The Yale News, which represents the Yale undergrad- uate body, that such a meeting would be potent in stimulating international sport and aiding to cement the rela- tionship between Great Britain and the United States, a [ tucky | trol | would | merger | fifth SPORTING NEWS KENTUCKY DERBY TOBE RUN ON MAY 10 | Turf Classic Will Carry an Added Money Value of $20,000 Louisville, Ky., Feb - Derby for three-year-old and a quarter, which has each year without a break since 1875, will be decided this vear on May 10 and will carry added money value of $20,000 Also the much talked race tracks in Louisville; Latonia and Lexington has finally been accom plished and has passed under the con of a syndicate made up largely Kentucky sportsmen. Charles F. Grainger, president the Louisville' Jocky eclub, thority for these statements and | also announced that no more meet- ings would be held at Douglas Park, one of the oldest tracks in the coun try, and that the spring racing dates of nine days assigned to Douglas Park be added to the spring meet- ing at Churchill Downs, the other track in Louisville This means that both the Kentucky Derby, which as said before, will have an added money value of $20,000, and the Kentucky Handicap, with $10,000 added, will be decided this vear at Churchill Downs, and that the meet- ing, which will begin on May 10, will run for nineteen days All told the new Louisville Jocky club will add $190,000 to the various stakes, which means that no money is being spared to make the spring meeting this year one of the best in the history of the sport. B The plan to give up Douglas Park and to centre all racing in Louisville at Churchill Downs has been under consideration for some time, and now has been brought to a head by the under one syndicate of the Middle Western tracks. Those close- ly identified with the sport believe that a long step has been taken in the right direction, that racing will be the gainer. Eternal and Billy Kelly have been named among others for the forty- running of the historic Kentucky Derby, one of the oldest and most coveted fixtures of the American turf. It was worth only $2,850 when Aris- tides won in 1875, but in recent vears it has been growing richer and richer and will reach the high water mark next May Omar Khayyam earncd $1 he beat Ticket and others in 1917, but the winner this vear will carry off an even greater prize. A full list of eligibles for the running on May 10 will be announced. in a few days. A change has been made in the con- ditions of naming horses for the Gréat United Hunts Double Event Steeple- chase. This year each subscriber has the privilege of naming any number of horses which he may own or lease, for each subscription he takes fifteen days before the date set for the runnming. His choice to carry his silks must be named three days before the race. Heretofore a subscriber could name only two horses at the time of taking a subscription. The price of a subsc cut in half, too. Now $500 will entitle a subscriber to have a starter in each half of the race which will be one of the spring and fall features of the United Hunts meeting at Belmont Park Terminal. The twenty-sixth running of the Maryiand Hunt Cup Steeplechase .will be held some time in May over tha four-mile hunting course at Green Spring Valley. The Ken- at one mile run ar an of merger of of of au- he was and 000 when mong ption has been M. H. S. PLAYING Silver City Team Plays Locals in This City Tomorrow—Other Games, HERE. The Meriden High school team will play in this city tomorrow afternoon in their return game with the New Britain High school team. The game will be called at 5 o’'clock, and Dick Dillon of Hartford will referee. In the first game of the season between the Meriden and the local teams, the New Britain boys were the victors, and expect to repeat their victory'to- morrow afternoon. Bill Burns, who has been leading the team this season both in scoring and in defensive work is sick, and may be unable to be on the line-up. It he is unable to play, the game will be started with Bunny and Woodford, forwards; Brink, center, and Kehoe and Taylor, guards. If he is able to play, he will go in as forward afd Woodford will go to a guard position. The local team will play Suffield in this city Saturday, and one week from tomorrow will play South Manchester in this city. BINLAND BRINGS $9.000. 1,500 Horsemen Attend Farm Disposal Sale. Feb. 3. Over Pa¥ly Springfield, O. Horse« men from all parts of the United States attended the Park farm dis« pasal sale held here vesterday. Sixty, head were sold for $33,190 many of them being brood mares and colts, nd the property of the late John Snyder. Binland, 2:03 3-4, winner Transyvlvania at Lexington, sold for $9,000, being W, Myers of Springfield. Binland will be raced again this year by Trainer Frank Hedryck. Otolamd Axe worthy (3), 2:071-2, was sald ta Charles Nicholson of South Charles- ton, O., for 5,050. Piatara (3), 2:08 1-4, was sold to David Shaw of Cleveland for $4,600. Tt was estimpats ed that more than 1,500 horsemen ats tended the sale. of ¥ the last fall, purchased by J