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

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1919, FULTZ DEFENDS NEW SYSTEM WHICH EXEMPTED MINOR LEAGUZ STARS FROM DRAFT—MEXICO MAY SEE BOUTS TO A FINISH—SCHAEFER DISPLAYS SKILL IN BILLIARD TOURNEY IN NEW YORK—EARL D. WINS FEATURE RACE AT SAGE PARK—YALE SCR == = e UBS DEFEAT VARSITY—RUTH A HOLDOUT? BY DRAFTEXEMPTION S0 Says Dave Fultz, Head of In- | ternational League New York, Oct. R emption from the draft has been a great boon to the mmor leagu particu- larly leagues of higher classi- flcation, and there is no likelinood ot the minor leagues again entering into an agreement with the ‘Which the baseball drafts will be ve- sumed. So said Dave Fultz yesterday | in discussing the minor leaguc | tion. Fuitz is president of the New International le: ue and a member of | the national board, the executive boay | of the minors. Fultz will represent his league at the minor I which been called far Springftield, Mass., November 11. \While Kultz declined to predict any legislation which might be transacted at the annual meetin the minor leagues, he said the meet-| ing would be one of the most wmport- | ant ever held by the National Associa- | tion of Minar Leagues. It will be the | first session of the minors since the | abrogation of the old national agree- | ment “I can, of course, speak only for the ! Internatianal league, 1 have no doubt the With the draft was one of the great sings that ever came to the munor gues. ! Frecdom Causes Prosperity “Much of our returned was due {o this new aur clubs majors hy situa- ( | | ue has | on | conference that doing away prosperity | freedom. It gave | prestige with their own fans. Jack Dunn of Baltimore es- | timates he madc about $50,000 this year, and he attributes every penny of it to the elimination of the draft. Iven | with a championship club he would | have been unable to draw in Baltimore | With the old draft rule still in effect “But last year he was able to ga to | the Baltimore public and tell them that if Baltimore developed any piay- ers they would be kept in Baltimore. The result w that the fans patron-! ized International league ball In Baiti- more as seldom before. nother thing proving the value ot draft exemption to our leaguc is the increased value of minor league clubs from last winter to the present. To show the way the value of our fran- chises have gone up I will cite some v made for the Binghamton nau,,i more amton will not be in the lea- | gue next year, but instead of the lea- glue searching for a place to locate the franchise the offer AT coming to us and we can take our pick. We one offer for this club which I five times as much as the sum which we let the Reading I go last winter. I Also Will Help Playc | | | have | Just for | nehise “And in the long run exemption from the draft will be of value to the players. The renewed this draft exemption our league 1d other: are means that we players more moncy. body of players must mino it is to their minor league warrants Clubs disposing of majors also got continue to interest which has brought to | situated we igain can pay As the play in inte to high our | great | > | the | so0 | pay as its bus- | the will liko their of | club | have to likes to. him, gone by would players to prices and Some clubs may o to keep and it A i satisfaction to a minor owner to know he doesn't sell a player unless he merly he had to sell the star wasn't date some club in the draft. “We certainly are satisfied with the mew arrangement, and I think most | of the other leagues will vote at the Springfield meeting that the firs year under the new conditions was marked with great success and a new zest for the entire minor league fleld. | “Personally I do not see the need ©of any agreement between ourselves ' and the major leagues. We had bus- iness dealings with the majors last | season, as before, and ecverything worked noothly. All that seems necessary is for the major leagues to Tespect our play nd territory, and for us to do the same. In that event I do not see any cause for Zfriction.” Winter Sport Resumed. The favorite winter sport of the Red Sox again has been re The 1920 number of th rial will be released. James A. Gt the Bostonian congressman, is new bidder to go after the according to winter league gossip from the Hub. Jim Gallivan, it may be recalled, is the congressmen who got himself quite a bit of worable publicity in February, 1918, 1 ing to Josephur Daniels, secret the navy, asking that twelve members of the Red Sox in the navy bo given tfurloughs for the b hall All that seems to be with the st is that H who is here at present, ye clored he ncver heard of van offer. Fle says no one h 1o offer for the club and he of selling it. ivan is quite nd of mine,” night, “and if he cc any off it is ble to a tell me somethin This is old stuff I am going to sell the Sox. 1 the formulae all written out frankly no one has made fer for the club, and I am \ gotiating with Congressman Gallivan or any one else for the sale of the Red Sox \ “Occasionally I get some better do so. sense cague For- | because if cer capture vin | him elling imed. soon livan, the Red Sox the matter rry K close for the Red ume he ahout it about me denying per sonal lax maolkin Sox would have But any of- not ne me foolish ( | the | auestion | competitc to | four | reat in | which letters responsible persons who suy want to the club, but thoy into my waste basket. The ast time 1 had a deal on for the Red Sox was 1 winter, and I was thor- ughly frank and above board about at the time I named price and gave a thirty day option the club. The option was never exer cised and at its expiration® I with- drew it. Since then I have not se riou considered any offer for the Red Sox. and the club is not now on market. How that Gallivan story originated is beyond me.” SOHAEFER BETTERS BILLIARDS RECORDS Makes High Run of 155 and High Average -of 80 they buy my on ver New York, the Oct. 23, Beyvond predominant feature of national the yesterday’s play in the championship billard Hotel Astor tourney at was the rem: performance of Jacob Schaefer setting o new single average of and high run of for shoot at. In skilful stex new innings youn com- said Fultz, “but | pressed more brilliant executions and | than number of Schaefer points in wre seen in inniy defeated 100 scientitic precision that that 318 times The fact Yamada by itself other was @ The, ou nding feature was Hoppe's (hird victory of the tourna- |, which gives him a He defeated clean the veteral 100 to Z¢l in o game in defeated man played with brilliancy. Hoppe tying the Schaefer figures made a high run of 119. The event of the day was the violent reversal of form shown by Welker Cochran ling the previous set by Hoppe, lamentably in his game with and was beaten, 400 to 62 achieved the splendid and made double his ten innin run was 78 trightened trast to his previous day. . vesterday, Mornin ran awa by 400 to ment, to date. Sutton by the score the ver 80 th nd surprising who high single slumped aver- most Sutton Sutton aveage of 40 figures in nine of high- like con- the although his Cochran amateur in wonderful played sharp play of who better good game, but star was in fine fettle and from the veteran, winni 202. The winner averagec 30 10-13 and made a high run of 149. Slosson ave d 16 10-12 and rolled up a run of 95 was played a RUTH STARTS EARLY “Home Run King” Leads Of in Holdout League—Wants Contract at 20,000 & Year. Babe Ruth really is giving Har Frazee more concern than selling his club. According to a report, Ruth left Boston yesterday for Los Angele: | where he will put in the winter in the + movie | that he will stay in Bube leff wtih the thr movieland unless his three year s him to & new ane. winter Ruth was a holdout. Ho failed to leave for the Tampa training camp with the other Boston players. IFrazee finally compromised with Ruth i gning him to a three con- tract for $12,000 year., Bale hit 29 home: 1t wants that contract torn up one for $20,000 will get it. Unquc greatest individual today. He even ha Frazee s up e year But = seasan nd a new year Perhaps b tionably he is { tar in the ¢ eclipsed Cobb. nee IPRESHMEN PROVE EASY. Syracuse Vi Team, Driven Hard by Coaches, Scores Four Times. Syracuse, N. Y., hour Coaches Kallett drove players in a the fr durir Oct. Meehan, the Syr serimmag men which scored four times, men were unable to The Orange -For one Horr and cuse var: drill against afternoon string team while the tally. coaches kept the heels of the first-string pointed out their Straight football, forward pass by chwarzer or yesterday the first frosh- right on men and flaws on each play. with an oc Ackley to eithe 3rown, was employed 11 the coaches were pleased, for (he men handled the ball cl Hiatt, 190-pound backfield player, who for- merly played with the University of Oregon, into his first in many weeks and showed up well With Hiatt in condition, every player on the hig squad is now ready to jump into the a the Washington and son team Saturday CRIMSON FRESHIES LOSE "d Varsity Take a usionil iy got crimmage zainst Jefte husky on Good at Yearling Eleven—Arold Ho ween Back in Pogs, Cambrid Mass, Oct Harvard ity foothall day passed up the n with the fr fivst long day lavs this we wlowed 1o take yearlings will Saturday. The men yestor crubs for a serim hmen. It was the s work for Fisher's regu- el and the freshmen wer good banging. Tho play Phillips-Exeter on all | rkable | fter equal- | stroke | ho | Crack | FIGHTS TO FINISH Alfairs of This Kind Should Gavse No Opposition There “ New boxers York, -If yearn ngage in Oct any of our longer the their bouts than those permitted in United States they can gratify through the medium trip to Naco, eral Queensberry experts have at | times bewailed the short distance | | travelled in the average bout in | this country, and have given | pression to the opinion that if the limits were increased they would be | able to win championships i Kid Lewis recently gave voice to the belief on his part that he could | I'in a finish bout conquer either Jack | Britton or Benny Leonard. All that | | . y to enable him to fight to | a finish is to get promoter to purse sufliciently large to | rrant a trip to Mexico. The con- | jonnaire is Josc Dominguez has obtained the permission of Adolfo de la Tuerta of to go as far the of hoxing. The only Mexico is start before vietors might call the gate matters desires | ! o Sonora, Mexico. Sev- ex- some e 2 and Sonora | s he likes in matter | trouble that « with a revolution ring time, off the receipt must be might L just and the | bout or | Theso | into , confiscate | little consideration in the | Johnson once | Mexice, but when he learned the receipts | authoritie: taken arranging for a bout | Mexican border. Jack | thought of fighting in ; he changed mind | the percentage of | demanded by the local | hiis EARL D. A WINNER Hartford Horse, Piloted Dby l-]!l\lm; | Dennehy, in Feature | Event at Sage Park Yesterday. | win The Earl, youngest of working at ernoon oct. driven by I3 the ribbon Sage park, arl D., son of 1dic Dennehy handlers now terday aft- ptured the 2: pace in heats from a field of 10 The victory of the Hart- dewheeler and his youthful pi s a complete surpris Hardly considered by even his most optimi tic followers as having a chance, the sturdy pacer outbrushed all rivals in the stretch, while the youngster in the sulky outdrove and outgeneraled men with more experience on the track than the winning driver is years old. Famous Nutwood, who claimed Hartford as his home al one time, won a five-heat affair from Johnny Skinner and cight others, while the | third racc of the afternoon was tak- en by Radiant, hailing from Sprin field, Mass., and driven by Eddie Rowe. Ono collision marred tha after- noon’s racing, but the smash-up was | unavoidable, and nobody was hurt. In | | the fourth of the 2:19 trot, as the ho were rounding into the | back stretch, Famous Nutwood madec | 2 jumping break, leaping to the right. | . directly behind him, was vans and Miss Alfridi, who were un- able to stop, with the result that the | two sulkies locked wheels and Evans' | | carringe W | him on the track | not hurt by the spill. slight bruise to the ¢ | was placed fourth by (he ju PREPARING FOR COLGATE heat | Coming fast overturned, dumping Driver exc Is Making Frantic 13f- forts to Pateh Defense for Tlard Contest Saturday. Princeton, N. J., Oct. 23.-~The Tiger couches put the va y through an- other long, hard drill yesterday, end- ing with half hour scrimma audnst “Red” ‘t's freshman cleven, The var: ttack appeared to better ad i it hao so far this week whi wept through the yearling cleven with ease. the first ten minutes of the howov the freshmen from then on the first was diflicult and well nd for image, d and progre carned The varsity scored a down, the result of four cach af the hackfield q bing, Murrcy, MacPhec MacPhee going over for the Roper began the day's work long drill in charging 2ni biociing for the linemen. Ial Ballin took the | linemen in charge and coached them on University field, while and Fitzpatrick teok the back dium and driled them there forward passing. comin und nicely, and 1so got off several preiiy r the scrimmage with the touch- uns, one hy d Willmer. score. with @ in punt- ing and Wilimer's kicks are MackPhee punts ¢ freshimen TRINITY M IN. Hartford, Oct With six men in | the hospital or on the sick lst, Coach Buck is working fast to find men to fill the holes left in the Trinity squad | as the result of the clash with Am- Saturd S practice was rted yesterday afternoon in prepa- | ration for the )game with Worcester Tech in Worcester Saturday. Capt, Bresiin sustained several bioken ribsg in the game with Amherst and will ha off the gridiron for the rest of the wm.l son. Y7 1 ]Am’t It a Grand and Glo ‘ious Feelin’? - - wiHEN THE BABY CRIES AT 2! AM) AND You PRY Youwr- SELE OuT ofF BET AND GIVE HER A “ Uiy A — AND THEN SHE YOWLS AS SoonN A3 SHE JDECIDES You HAVE GOT BACK INTO BED AGA!N ~ AND You WEARILY GO IV AND TuURN HER OVER ON HER SIDE - HUMMING A LtuuLABY AND You GET BACK INTO BED AND SHE CRIES AGAIN ~ -~ AND You CRAWL INTo BeD AGAIN AND LIE THERE WIDE-EYED FOR TEN MINUTES WAITING FOR AN OUTCRY - —AND You DRAG YOUuR- SELF oUT oF BED AND You PAT HER ON HER SHOULDER OUNTIL SHE 15 APPARENTLY ASLEEP AND THEN You REALIZE SHE'S ASLEEP= =~ Oh-v-n- Boy!! AIN'T 1T A- GRR-R-RAND AND GLOR--YU3 FEELlNll? | PREPARING Middletown, the other noon game on Saturday. players arc and the prospects for keeping up the record good. Harman, son, showed DARTMOUTH HARRIERS. Hanover, members of FOR UNION Oct. 2 Wesleyan team hard practice in preparation GAME. | country team which will Coach Liston | Svracuse Saturday were chosen by through an-| Coach Harry Hillman yesterday. veste after- | Crathern, from Bennington, Vt., the Tor Union | acting-captain of the team, is the only All of the varsity | man that has run on a Dari- the hospital list| Mouth cross-country team. This was when he was a member of the 1920 freshman team. (oakley, who won fifth place for the half-mile in the intercollegiates last spring, has a sore leg and may not be able to run. His place will be taken by Macomber if it < is found necessary to put in a sub; tute. Other members of the team are Bolles, Sherburne, Allen, Daw, Whit- ker and McGoughr compete in ever now off ofi an In last uncrossed night's pr Boote, Travis, ewhall, Anderson up well. goal-line are ctice Captain Webb, Law- and Steele H., Oct. Dartmouth the TO FIGH FOR TITLE., Mcet in Bridgeport, May Connecticut. Oct the this city or Mike O'Dowd Ratner of pionship of world to be New of St ecither in tween Paul Augie New York Mullens, managers of both bhoxe The weight announced READY-T0-PUT-ON CUSTOM SERVICE WITH- OUT THE ANNOYANCE OF A TRY-ON TAILORED AT FASHION PARK DEVELOPED IN ACCORD WITH THE FASHION PARK METHOD OF HAND-TAILORING THE KNEE-LENGTH OVER- COAT IS A4 PRACTICAL STYLE WHICH SWINGS GRACEFULLY AND HAS OUR UNQUALIFIED RECOMMEN- THE HY-LINE SHOULDER TREATMENT GIVES A4 CUSTOM ATMOS- PHERE SELDOM FOUND IN A4 READY-TO-PUT-ON GARMENT. DATION. The Wil son (1105 Champion O'Dowd and Augic Ratner Preliminary arrangements for the 15 round bout to a decisian for the middleweight cham- staged Haven be- and wero completed here last night at the Hatel Stratfield by Phil Brenstein and Paddy was set 158 pound at 3 o'clock on day of bout. [ at 7:15 p. m. sh at | out ey FORESMAN LEADS HARRIERS. Princeton, N. J., Oct. 23.—Donald B. Foresman of Montclair, J., was elected captain of the 1919 Princeton¢ cro: ountry team yesterday. Fores- man is a member of the class of 1921, and last spring won his letter as a dis- tance man on the varsity track team Princeton will enter seven men in the intercollegiate cross-country mect to be run in Syracuse Saturday FOOTBALL NOTICE. All members of the Yanks football team and all those who wish to tr please report for practice Friday p. |