New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 23, 1919, Page 8

19 10, YALE FOOTBALL PRACTICE MARR e e ED BY FUMBLIN S PLANS SU IT WHITE SOX OWNER—H ERRMAN N SAYS THEREWILL BE NO PROFI- | TEERING IN COMING BASEBALL CLASSIC—LEONARD AND TENDLER MATCHED TO MEET IN 15-ROUND BATTLE IN CONNECTICU_T O_N THANKSGIVING DAY PLANS FOR SERIES SATISFY COMISKEY Vhite Sox Magnate Not Concerned Ahout Where Games Start Chicago, Sept. Z3.—Arrungements or conducting the World's nade at the 3aseball commission in Cincinnati, terday, harles A. he are highly satisfactory Comiskey, president of Chicago Americans. “Playing two games in Cincinnati, pnd then comin ight so far resident won the here for as I am Comiskey said. toss for the three is all concerned," ‘If we had opening gzames t would have bee all the same to jpe. It makes little difference where he series starts.” Approximately 2,000 applications or world's series tickets have piled 1p at the White Sox park and must e returned to the sende as the beserved and box ts been old. There has been the usual pro- esf. front disappcinted applicants in he mcthod of awarding the tickets, put officials explained there was no bther course to pursue. The pennant race in the American eague cannot be settled before Wed- 1esday as neither Chicago nor Cleve- ad plays until that day. Chicago as five games remaining. The per- fentage figures show that if the \hite Sox win one cr Cleveland loses pne Chicago will win the pennant. If ‘hicago loses all five of its hud Cleveland wins four the flag will o to Cleveland. E Players Are Named. It wus announced that twenty hree players on each club are eligi- le for the series. They follow: Chicago—E. Cicotte, E. Collins, J. Collins, Urban Faber, O Felsch, C. \. Gandil, Joseph Jenkins, Joseph Packson, William James, Richard {err, Harry Leibold, Grover Low: ermilk, Byrd Lynn, Harvey McClel- an, Fred McMullin, J. Mayer, iddie Murphy, Charles A. Risberg, Ray Schalk, J. Sullivan, Georg Weaver, R Wilkinson and Claude Williams. Cincinrati—Nick Bressler, Jacob an, Ray she se ave H. Allen, Datbert, L. H. 0. Eller, Edward . Gerner, Henry Groh, Willlam L. opf, Adolpho Luque, S. W. Magee, R. Mitchell, A, Earle Neale, iam A. Rarlden, Morris Rath, James Ring, Ed Rousch, W. H. Ruetner, H. . Sallee, Charles H. e, James L. Smith R. N. B. Dun- kchreib Wingo. J. G. Taylor Spink of St. vill represent the national commis- on as official scorer, wkile Joseph M. McCready, secrefary of the Basc- ball Writers' Association of America, vill represent that crganization. Phese two officials v ill work in both vitles and will he assisted by one ember of the local chapter of the writers ‘association in each of the ontesting cities. Revert to Pre-War Prices. The commission voted itself 1,500 ickets for distributidn hetween and Ivy Louls ountry. Presidents eydler jirst 100 envelopes uests for tickets here. On account of the war last ear maay 1adical changes were fnade in the arrangements governing he world's series between the Bos- on Americans and the Chicago Na- ionals. The National commission ade a number of innovations to eat the nwartime conditions, but de- plared at the time this was not to be permanent. One move was to cut prices to just double the regular briced charged during the season. f'his year, howeVer, they have voted return ‘o the old scale, the prices aving been annoticed some time hgo. ast yvear it was possible to Johnson containing re- for the gam pur. e box seats for the baseball clas- | $3, while the erandst seats sold at $1.50. peld Qe rurchased Mbleacher seats were prices @1d not incigde the war anded By ire ‘gdVernment. ,attacks on Mr. Herrmann at time are inopportune,” declared ter ths meeting, ‘in ctement by Mr, hum&a Nationals, sheuld Wesign from hip 6f the commission. glven something like seven- = jyéérs to baseball,-and to attack o ? this time, when Jris gjb has won“& champihship, §s af insult to Ihige Inte , B MraJohnson Had notommcnt to fnake' in regard to the action taken y_certall club ownérs to, oust him trofh the Amerkan leagte, ‘‘WMén be time corres for me to_talk, I wili do 50’ Mr. Jonnison Baid, “but until Ithat time I pave nothing to say. The 0okh of ot league are always ready for inspection 4t an¥ time. i "It was arnoupced ‘that President Mfenocal of CuBa” had wired that ho Wwas on his way here to attend the serich £ 1 2 Son < BagAvorld’s Serics Fans, More' :; ‘roo,ooc =ong sheets, nd Pavillon for 81 50 cents. hiefly #®s on - familiar sair: written {mefonor off th§ Beds ard (o berdistributed to the s in Gindin- natt /during the forthcomirg,world's aries: ¢s, and commumnit] singin lconduc by t¥enty ¥song leaders (Will Be & pro-game; fye&tur:; each day. MBUS TRJ? POSTPONED. unibus, Ohio, &épt. 23.—The Grand. Cirguit harness races ~were P&t tgoneds #day on account et el e G, B 34 [ Tl L PR Series, | meeting of the National | to | zames, | Wil- | Henry | the | ajor and minor league clubs of the| and | drew from a large box the re- | MUCH FUMBLING BY VALE CANDIDATES ‘Squad Is Worked Hard hy Dr.| | Bull—Braden Pratices Kicking Cambridge, Mass., Sevi. 23—Anoth- | er heavy rain the Harvard coaches from starting their t preventec am into Saturday’s opening the for to used swing game. freshmen the cticed in the stadium, wher is new turf. inate scrimmaging for the da other cut was made by Bob Fis reducing the first steing squad about forty men, or enough for complete elevens. These, after the sual preliminaries. were sent through v signal drill. The team ‘A" rushline will probabl Saturday w at center, ( Cwing big squad, | | which pri its own field, varsity there It was decided to elim- and the one start the Bates arranged with ark and Woods Sedgwick and Hubbard and Phinney and Weatherhead wings. Clark bhandled him- and with Phinney repre- 1916 varsity squad ich une Pniibin tizckles on the 1£ ents | on the The combination husky one. The ends weigh about 170 pounds cach, bringing down the average to about 186 pounds, as the others, from tackle to tackle, will average more than 195 pounds. Eddie Casey was not out yesterday owing to a lame ankl» Burnham also was not in the backfield, which comprised Murray at quarter, Ralph liorween at full and two quarterback ndidates, Wharton and Conlon. The iwo quarterbacks are light, but are slivppery open field runners. Paul “Withington's squad of freshmen in- cluded some big boys, and the coach expects to have more than 150 in his squad within a few days. is @ New Haven, Sept. —The Yale football squad showed the effects of the over Sunday let up when they got cut for practice yesterday afternoon. |'The weather which made the gdir- iron wet and sloppy didn’t help mat- tors and a lot of fumbling resulted. | The team was put in charge of Dr. “Rilly” Bull and Trainer May. 7he men were put through a lot of preliminary work and then came A long signal drill, Zollowed by a Il in line charging and in tackling by the halfbacks® Practice ended with a lineup for punting practice. Fraden was tried out 1n the punting The ends went down the field tackled the man making the h. The ends were too slow, but the j backs caught well. Braden also got a tryout in dropkicking and scored several times. When the teams changed places French was tried out, punting and dropkicking. His drop- Kicks fell short. The second men couldn’t hold the varsity. The teams werj made up as fol- Graham and irkpatrick and Walker, Hamil and Galt, guards; Cal- (captain), center; Laroche, quarter; Fay and Neville, halfbacks; Braden, fullback. College—Otis and F. P. Hefelfinger, ends; Munger and Dickeps, tackle: Tripr and Seidenberg, guards; Gal- vin. center; Kempton, quarter; Eagan and Aldrich, halfbacks; Fredericks, fullback. Allen, lahan LEONARD AND TENDLER Joc Mulvihill Announces That Cham- pion Will Meet Philly Newsboy in Connecticut on Thanksgiving Day. y * * New Haven, Sept. 23.—Announce: | ment was made here last night by J. P. Mulvihill, boxing promoter, that articles of agreement had been signed calling for a fifteen-round no deci- sion bout between Benny Leonard, | ighiweight champion, and Lew Tend- | er of Philadelphia. Mulvihill said te bout would be held in this state on Thanksgiving day ABBATH SPORT T Protest of Vermont M Matter to Head. isters Brings | ! are Brattlehoro, V prohibiting sporf ties on Sundays is to be tested trials of golfers, baseball players, garage keepers and merchants. On complaint of State Attorney Ernest | Gibson two golfers and two ball | players were .arrested yesterday | charged with violation of the Sunday | | law, and it Wes announced that mer- | | chants and garage keepers would be | taken into cpigtody later. | Those arrested were released | | their personal recognizance pending | Arrangements for jury trial of the ! charges. Complaints regarding Sun- | baseball were made by ministers | the city with the result that it | decided to proceed against other | violators of the law also. ept. 23.—The law and other activi- by | on day | or alleged | | BROOKLYN ROBINS BEATEN. | | Hearr urg, Pa., Sept. 23 The Kle hocolate company's team de- | {feaied the Brooklyn National league | in an exhibition game at Eliz- | thtown vesterday by a score of | 210 1. The scora: | . r. hoe| 000000100—1 7 1 00010100x—2 8 0 | Wheat; Plitt and | ooklyn Ricin Dlichell Trout. and M | tiofivd, | athletic | Senator « | had | no trace : - | - AND I FEEL 8 FOR \T- | CAN TURN_ OuT MORE WORWK AND BETTER_ WORK * SINCE _JULY FIRST Joe — ' FEEL_L\KE | COULD GO TWENTY ¥ ROUNDS_ WITH ANTSODY. LooK AT MY CHEST THERE'S NO ARGUMENT Joe— PROHIBITION 1S REALLY A GOOD THING FOR US AND WE MAY AS W L ADMIT JUST LIKE THE GooD oLD DAYS HEY Jog T COLT'S GIRLS BASEBALL TEAM PLAYS ST. MARY’S TOMORROW The senting Si. baseball teams repre- Mary's playground of this city and the Colt Manufact company of Martford, will meet the diamond at the Berlin grounds tomorrow afterncon. 7The contest will te one of the big sport- ing features of the day. teams have met on two occ sea- son, and the locals wer Loth times. The Hartford out for revenge tomorrow. The lo- cal girls are also on eoge for the, game. Manager Hennessey will bring | i girl on Fair team s | b Burn shortstop: Miss ¥ Intyre, Miss C. ager Aleer tery his strongest team 19 yeffort submitted the followins game Nelson, catcher; iss Mahl, to Miss Mis thirc cente; Patt A and for the down Miss illiams A, Pilz will Alice Schenck as NUTSHELL "BASEBALL IN A St. Louis 5 Other teams Cincinnati New York Chicago Pittsburgh Brooklyn Boston St. Louis .. Philadelphia New York Brooklyn Chicago in in AMEi Resu No the fam locals. He lineup for Patterson, pitcher; Miss Dacey, second bas 1 hise: Miss Jennette, right field; r field; Miss Doyle and erson, substitutes. Man- use Helen Me- the bai- in an has the Miss first H Hickey loft field Miss Mc- Chicago Cleveland New York Detroit Boston St. Louis Washington Philadelphia the Roston locals. PRIZES SECURED. The prize cups for the St. meet at the Berlin fair Saturday have been bought Iicianey, district deputy of the Na- tional A. U. and are now ready for distribution to the would be win- ners. The cups were secured from the Middletown Silver company through the courtesy and co-operation of Postmaster McCarty of Middle- town. The cups number fifty and the most beautiful cups ever of- iered here for prizes at the fair. The | meet to be held 1y sanc- under the National A. A. and will bring out some of the hest s in the ntry Joseph's this week by W. is N co o HUMBF DROPPED. “American Contracts Not Charges Are h Pressed in Frer Court. Paris, Sept. —~The case against | rles Humbert growing out alleged ‘‘American contracts” has missed by the court. of been d e in July there we 1 examina- tion before the court of evidence tend- ing to show that Senator Humbert, who was acquitted in May of a charge having dealing the enemy, tried to corrupt officials in th matter of contracts in the Unite States. At the hearing a letter was read from former Deputy Attorne General Becker of New York who d been found iff banks o ions witn | | of vith | a| facta which Jproached bert could be re- Called to court children from school, ) OV mother told the progeny numbered 20. Kingston, ‘ Judge hf*r‘[ Fine remitted, | F Havana, | members | society, this port | ihat | near telief helplessiy while | verished, | Picked | they | for | Valetti | abardonment of the projected vovage cans, to signed terda SPIRITUALISTS GET MESSAGE FRCM DEAD m to Ha Spanish 1 of an o a tugbo: shor -due tly nea lo The spiritualist cei e con from the Va Cape that t dr many 30 ) by rroceeding he memt intend a search inte HAF Boston, the outfielder the fi his his sign ne Spanish era which official reports declare sank recer Lrobable sal before Philadelphia Penn varsity Herb sent De; ve “Spook Tip” That | the veteran feam in their have not ap in whilc Frank, and Neylon, « | the 1918 s A tackling viciou Steamer Valbanera Still Afloai. been ept. 2 “hartered Dr. Vale rganization at hy | the Antonio of spi is expected to rtly big Ben the varsity i {Tlace. The that w v-eather vesterday zame with in search of the long steamship Valban- r Key of all on claim imunication the spirit of lhanera was They declar steamship ifting at sea, of those on board have survivors have been a small schooner which it port society say their plan the spirit of Dr. na counsels West, with hoard. have re- recent Valetti | atloat it their still and the The to for at Dy stiil a he is o Wms the that ALEHE: St. Paul, to some d o | sesterday : by of to carry nless Goable-header With a City left nine rve and the to " HOOPER SIGNS, pt. 2 arry Hooper, 1f th lose of the Boston Ameri- member of that team | 1920 contract Hoaqper xt year papers here President arry th Lansas City ten games, giv row m in of for the title. NATION. s and Thomas guards, and placed places. their work the last few varsity slowed Bucknell American Minn., won the American Bl wins all L LEAGUE. Results Yesterday. Chicago 3 not scheduled. Standing of the Clubs. Ww. 93 81 70 66 54 51 16 L. 43 51 61 66 69 79 81 84 Games Today. in Boston Philadelphiz Loui: CAN LEAGUE. Its Yesterday. games were scheduled. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. 48 52 7 3 1 5 5 Games Today. in New York PENN HAS SHAKEUP. Replaced By Frank and Necylon. . Sept. 23.-—Coach Fol- well made a sweeping change in his line vesterday and ( when he iter arl the Frank and Deiter and owing the Thomas, to second Thoma necessary days, a substitute last year, aptain and tackle on T. C. eleven, have been sly in every scrimmage and making trouble for the regulars. Derr was n Danny in a up by team started its recently 2t fullback on McNichol' scrimmage the hot 1 work scheduled on Saturday. Association Pen- nant. Sept St. Paul ssociation pennant taking one game of the here with Columbus. game lead on Kansas having 3t. Paul could °n games and still ten games lose its eason championship remaining seven | sames the St. Paul club will have won TWo more games and lost n Kansas City, their one the event its remaining ing the Saints the nar- in half a game clear lead | more | that | | a | 5 {and earned a round of applause when | saturday. Neylon ; practice | number were: ! to fall win ! EXTERMINATOR WINS I:imer’s Great Horse Turns the Tables on Commander Ross's Cudgel at Hawre de Grace. Havre de Grace, Se Sharp Kilmer's Exterminator the tables on Commander J Lioss's renowned Cudgel in rublic Handicap at the race liere yesterday afternoon. At Sara- toga Cudgel beat Exterminator and his stable mate Sun Briar in a gal- lop. Yesterday Exterminator was much the best in the race. He carried 124 pounds to Cudgel's 129 and evened up the score. Andy Schuttinger rode perfect race on the Kilmer horse —Willis turned B, the track he returned his mount to the scales. Cnigel was second and Slippery Elm third. The race was at one mile and a sixteenth, and Exterminator covered the distance in 1:45. le Page Brook purse, the cndary feature, went to Rapid Ray, the gelding on which Puck Forman won a fortune a few days ago. War Club finished second and Mother-in- Law was third. BUCKNELL TO PLAY PENN. Colleges Complete Plans For Contest Next: Saturday. ~Buck- foot- Lewisburg, Pa., Sept. 23. nell will play the Pennsylvania bal eleven on Franklin Field next Arrangements for the game were completed yesterday, when Major M manager for the the Pennsylvania, asked Lewisburg collegians to open season in Philadelphia Although Bloomsburg Normal was originally scheduled to appear on the Orange and Blue team’s field next week, the Bloomsburg management agreed to postpone their game with Bucknell until October 1, which wa an open date on Bucknell's slate. The switch in dates will compel Coach Raynolds to push this week to bring them tion to meet Penn. his into condi- WESLEYAN STARTS PRACTICE Middletown, Sept. 23.—A score of sity men were out in togs yes- ifternoon to report to (oac it the opening of football at Wasleyan. Among the Berlew Harman, K. V. Dixon, E. E. Dixon, Brown, Webb and Lawson. All were in the service last fall. A captain will few days. The choice upon Anderson, last in a is likely vear's tackle MOHAWKS WANT GAMES. The Mohawk clul is to repre- sented on the gridiron this season with a fast eleven, and the manage- ment is desirous of arranging dates ecedy teams. Communications Id be sent to Manager Gec %0 ast Main ctreet bhe KNIGHTS WIN TITLE. Cleveland, Sept. 23.—The Favorite Knights of Cleveland ysterday won ; the Class A champianship of the Na- tional Baseball federation by defeating the Christ church team of Cincinnati, 8 to 7, in 11 innings amount | which leaves | priced | games, Re- ! | in { Chicago | St sec- | ond sc | the Brown | piloted the first | back J. Pickering, graduate | | Dewart | He weighs about 200 pounds squad | | Middies Start | footb: i | aging. be elected | NO PROFITEERING IN COMING SERIES Herrmann - Figures Out Where Players Will Get Lion’s Share Cincinnati, Sept Acording to President Herrmann of the for Cincinnati Reds, nine games the world's championship will benefit the players more than their employers. In fact, Herrmann declares that unde club certain circumstances He this manner “From a ticket distribution oes to the 10 per his may lose ’ mones explains the situation it costing is as follows $6.60 the ixty cents the war remaining $6 commission, cent. of this goes 1o the ball players, 2.16 Fifty per cent. of this amount goes to the other clubs #n the two leagues for division, exactly $1.08 to be divided equall tween the two pennant winning clubs. It will be seen that the share of the Cincinnati club from the highest seat on the grounds is only 54 cents, or less than the war tax. That doesn’t look as if the club was profit- cering “We have than 200,000 overnment cent. of the g0 to the national leaving $6.40. Sixty per leaving be more already recelved : seats, applications for f and we cannot accommodate the park more than 35,000 people at the outside. With this tremendous Inters est, it seemed best to us to give the players who brought the pennant here as much reward as possible, and it is mainly for them that the prices have been fixed at the figur: announced. They will be the ones to reap the layg- ! est percentage of the receipts from the, series. “The Cincinnati club will get just 9 per cent. of the receipts from the first five games and only 22 per cent. from the receipts of any subsequent games. We are building extra boxes and | bleacher seats at an expense of about $15,000 and our return from of these seats will not begin for their tion “We are doing this in order many fans as possible and we are not but at an actual the to sale pay ere ; that as may see the doing it fof profit, loss to the club. “When we have taken in $100,000 the gate the Cincinnati club will r ceive for its share of that amount just $9,000."" CARDS DOWN CUBS iley’s Wildness and Robertson’s ror Give Mound City Opening Game of Scries 5 to £t. Louis, Sept. 23.—Bailey's wilds ness, coupled with timely hits by Featheote and Stock ancd Robertsonfé crror in the second, enableg sx,m to score enough runs to beat Ch the first game of the series here yesterday. The score was 5 to 3. The scor r. h.el 1274 10 2 Doak 000101001— 04000010x—5 and O'Farrell; Louis Bailey, Carter and Clemons. SCRIMMAGE AT BROW Elevens in Stiff Workout for Minutes. Forty Providence, R. I, Sept. 23—The ge¢- rimmage of the aeasnnfia-k sterday at Andrews fleld When varsity and scrub battled for 40 minutes. The workout was spirited and many of the older plagers were tried out Samson and Cou r team, while Murphy, who is being developed into a quarter- by the coaches, led the second eleven. Coulter and Samson are rus- ning about even for first string quar- terbaclk. % The new men were Del Fuller, and Holt. Fuller was on the second team in 1916, which Shurtleff is considered hy Coach Robh= inson as the most promising candidate for the tackle position, despite 1B other veterans ovt for the berth. o played on the service team last fall. Shelden place 3 to report vesterday Shurtleff, is an end. VAVY ADVANCING. Second Doble. Week Under Annapolis, Md., Sept The Nawy. r Coach Doble, bez work yesters rapidly, and nd zan second week day. It is progressing the impravement in a number of the back fleld men who substitutes last season hut who must be the main reliances this fall is especially encour- Clark, Alford and Benolst have been showing up especially well, Clark, who has had two years on the squad, is staying strongly. }e weighs 184 pounds, which is considerably more than last season. This will be the last week in which Doble will he able to hold two practices daily. Only the regular recreation period will be available next week v of were RAIN HALTS DARTMOUTH. Hanover H., Sept —Rain kept Dartmouth football squad from mmage or heavy work in both morning and afternoon sessions yes- terday. Coach Spears gave his atten- tion mainly to light signal drill. The back fleld, made up of Youngstrongs Robertson, E. C. K. Berg and Jordsn continues to show improvement. Fid- wards, second string fullback two years ago, is expected back daily.