New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 13, 1920, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MfllCH 13, 1926. : o= mrn S SECRETARY FARRELL PREDICTS FINE SEASON FOR MINOR LEAGUES—JIMMY WILDE HAS BEST OF BOUT WITH FRANKIE MASON—FOOTBALL MEN GATHER IN NEW YORK—NEW — e e IRRELL PREDICTS SUCCESSFUL YEAR retary of Minor Leagues Ex- pects Boom for Baseball ew York, March 13.—In forecast- a successful season for the minor @ baseball clubs throughout tho ted States and Canada, Sccretary pn H. Farrell of the National asso- on said a few days ago: “I belicve general prospect for 1920 in the ous sections of this country and were never better. The peo- are turning to amusements and door sports far recreation in er numbers than ever before. year the minor league clubs en- d their most prosperous season in yeoars past. This era of prosperity nded to all leagues in every sec- h of the country and to the far off 3 Canada league in the pro- jces of Saskatchewan and Alberta. minor leagues have flourished un- the national association govern- nt as never before in the histery of ball” rding to the annual repori read the convention of minor league b owners held at Sprinfigeld, s., last November, 15 leagues em- jying nearly 2,600 players, began 1919 season and 13 of these fin- their official playing schedules. International Northwestern closed down on June 7, but the England league paid its players 11 for the full term of the sched- which ended September 1, al- ugh the league closed its season [August 3. All Leagues Are Ready. his year the pennant winning ues of 1919, Pacific Coast, Ameri- Assaciation, Western, Southern, tern Association, Texas, Michigan- tario, Three I, South Atlantic, n Canada, Virginia and Florida te are all ready for the coming sea- 8o are the New England and bastructed northwestern arganiza- hs and in addition there is great ac- ity in reviving or reorganizing oth- ,with every promise of many of jm being ready to begin play early [May. Among these are the Blue ige, Corn Belt, Coiton States, Illi- ~Missouri, Central Association, lahoma-Kansas, New Florida, prgia, Alabama and Nebraska te leagues. Minor Assn. 20 Years Old. e National Association of Minor keball leagues which has been so uctive of good results and the fare of the national game, was or- ized just 20 years ago. At the out- it was composed of nine leagucs three years later it had 23 mem- s and in 1912 it reached the top ch of 50 league members. In that r, those 50 leagues embraced 336 es and towns in the United States i Canada. The launching of the deral league made inroads on the nors as well as on the major es and in 1915, owing to this | hse and the outbreak of the Euro- 40. The three followin years, dur- which every corner of the world interested in the great struggle ng fought on European battlefields, re was only meagre interest taken baseball, but a revival set in last with wonderfully assuring re- and it is hoped by the heginning the playing season one year hence e will be 30 leagues in operation i that two years more will find the onal association operating with a mbership equal to its banner year. GRAW MAKES SELECTION Leader Tries Out Infleld That VIl Probably Be Fixture—Frisch | cintillatcs at Dizzy Corner. Pan Antonio, Texas, March 13.— nk Frisch will play third base for | Giants and Larry Doyle will start geason at second. This solution the vexing problem which has be- John McGraw ever since the close last season was made practically | finfte and official yesterday after- bn when the regulars defeated the the | the ! pruits by o score of 6 to 2 in nine inning game in which o divisions have engaged here. {cGraw lined up his regular in- A4 with George Kelly on first base, le at second, Fletcher at short d Frisch at third. Fletcher has mn working at short in the batting ls, but not until yesterday afte on has he taken part in one of tr ctice games. Doyle played se d base for the regulars on We lv, but was given a Dancing Each Evening Tonight, { [ | | | twice. | Fort Way, o war, the membership dropped | (R, MGy T { cago. [ the ¢ EMERGING ANIMATED CARTOONS BY WILDE OUTPOINTS MASON IN TGLEDO English Flyweight ~Champion Wins by Decisive Margin Toledo, March 13.—Jimmy Wilde, English flyweight champion, last night outpointed Frankie Mason of their twelve- round bout. Mason stepped throuzh the ropes first at 10 p. m., closely followed by Wilde and Re ce Ed. Smith of Chi- In Wilde's corner were Benny Williams of England and Al Thomp- son of Mason’s chief second Jimmy Barry, former bantamweight champion, assisted by Ralph Cook. Referece Smith called the boys to nter of the ring at 10:06 p. m., instructing them as to the rules. Time was called at 10:07 p. m. boxers received an ovation. In _the first round Wilde landed the first blow, a light right to head, and followed h two more jabs to head. Tason landed a right to jaw. landed a left to stomach. landed a right upper cut as Wilde swung to Mason’s body. Mason held Wilde hooked to body as the round ended. Mason blocked a left hook at the s of the second round and jabh- bed a left to the jaw. Wilde landed two right jabs as the gong sounded. Wilde landed a hard left to the head, and as Mason landed left th clinched. Wilde three times withont receiving turn. Wilde drove Mason back a right and a left to the head. Wilde anded a left to jaw. Mason scored with a right cro Wilde to répes. Wilde missed two lefts and jabbed a right to chin. Wilde put a straight jaw and a left to the start of the fourth round. Ile foi- lowed with a left to Mason’s face and a right to his stomach. Wilde right to body. Mason landed cross and a left hook. Wilde up when Mason landed Mason Whbed to the at the Ij:m without a «Wilde landed a | W | Mason Roth | { ing in the eighth round. “range a straight re- ! with ! i face. landed ' Lard left to the head. Mason jab- bed four hard lefts to his opponent's return. At the start of the fifth round Ma- n landed three hard rights and two lefts to Wilde's face. Mason a little right and a left to They fell into a clinch. The fighting that followed was even. left and a right to the face and a right to the body as the gong sounded. ason Good on Feet. rded a left just as the round began. Wilde tried to > the fighting with Mason show- ing great foot work. Wilde jabbed a left to the jaw. Mason tapped Wilde three light lefts without a return. Mason missed a hard right swin de scored a hard left to the face. was bleeding at the mouth. Wilde scored two light lefts to the head. Wilde scored with a right to the body and landed a solid right to the head at the start of the seventh round. Wilde landed a straight left and Mason countered with a right uppercut. Mason had the edge on hard infighting. Mason landed a hard | right to the head and Wilde scored a hard right to the hcad and a stiff jab to the stomach. Wilde continued to force the fight- Mason re- tried a dozen lefts, all of them. Wilde :ored a left and a right, ! Mason countering to the head. Wilde land- ed a hard right und a left to the face just before the bell. Mason statted the round and scored with a hard right to the jaw Wilde countered with a left. in lon boxing Mason nd then a left uppercut. Wilde sored a right and a left to the head n put a left to the jaw. Wilde straight left to the hody. Wilde left to M head and ed two rights to the head as the round ended. Wilde put a left to the jaw and a left to the body in the tenth round. Wilde put a left and a right to the face, Mason countering with a right io the body and a left to the Mason put a left and a right to the facc and forced Wilde to the ropes with a right to the chin. Mason smiling. Both mis: i zhts and in a hard the bell sounded. Wilde landed a they indulged in Mason scored a treating. Wilde nding nearly son's clash as straizht Jeft and long-range boxin right to th hod “at landed a right i “BRIGGS” AT THE LYCEUM E They Wilde forcing Weights About Even, Mason the inte weight chamy weighed vesterds. and pounds under 3 o’clock. 1-4, bout at odds Ty Q. cision affair title, but Dave Hughes, Wilde’s man- ager, objected to those terms, the contracts were drawn up for a stood toe tional in shortly Mason tipped the beam 106 1-2 pounds, Thacher, sought to have the bout made a de- Mason. Wilde, ¢ bonut pionship one the weig Wilde’s we! Wilde was 4" favorite before the | i of 10 to 8. for the no-decision encounter. Ed. Smith, ously that the drewn vide Wilde ed $5,000. Mason vears old. the same, § had it ove measuring 68 Mason is 65 noticeable in parison wa: on is on ason mea BOWLING RESULTS dericksan o Molyneu Kildufr Bertini tha a Chicago newspaper ' man, was the third man in the ring, Hughes having objected so to Oliver Pecord, boxing commission’s official referee, | the promoter and greed to the change in order to pro- | international down $10,000 for his end of the bout, while Mason accept- is Wilde's senior years, the Fort Wayne boy being 30 The feet 2 1 height his oppone inches, 1-4 inches. the Wwilde 1y ures 5 3- RIAL L Tanders, 107 102 10t a8 04 Stanley Works. 90 94 to toe of the before the while that of measur inches, slugging, ontestants in | for the fly- world, 3 o'clock and one-half required at ht was 106 promoter, international and strenu- the Toledo commission attraction. by two! of each is inches. Wilde :nt in reach, . Omne thing ment com- 'S c while that 4 inches. AGUE. 106 102 90 104 106 508 96 107 102 100 SRY WEEK (FIRST PART) Stanley Facey - Barenborg . Leupold 487 8 84 94 482 R. & E. Manufacturing. 98 S4 9% 94 83 Rajune Wagner Westman walker . Freeman 458 FAFNIR. Shipping-Ball. Harper Jacoby Blakeley ... Wheeler .. Welch Gibney Stockney Foster Budnick .. Chamberl Hewitt Lugli .. Franks Aldrich Revnold: 1 IHumeson 504 Grinding Dept. ROUILLARD-LINTON CAMP FAIR ALL ROADS LEADING TO 310 5 iliberating a whole medley This Store is BRITAIN HIGH SCHOOL DEFEATS BRISTOL—BOB FOLWELL SUCCEEDS GIL DOBIE AS FOOTBALL COACH AT ANNAPOLIL Globe Clothing House Spring 1920 Showing of Hats and Caps the Home of Hart, Schaffner & Marx Clothes Emerson Shirts Interwoven Socks Reversib'e Soft Collars N CHANGES MADE IN FOOTBALL RULES Committes Effects Organization With Dartmouth Man at Head 13.—Thirteen men filed Biltmore of March fatigued New, sleepy. Yorl, vawning. out of Room at the hotel in the early hours morning, worn out but fairly well satisfled. They were the solons .of football, the high and mighty foot- ball rules committee, and had finished a tedlously long meeting which began last night at 8 o’clock. After hearing scores of proposals, after weighing, balancing and de- i of plans to change football in one form or another, the governing board of the greatest of intercollegiate sports ad- journed until 10 a. m. today without | having arrived at a single decision. Changes may be made—in fact, con- derable support was evident last night for the plan to make more dif- ficult the point after a touchdown, but until the adjourned ion s finished the gridiron same will re- main without alterati | The necessary organization was ef- fected, however, and the committee, which represents every part of the country except the Pacific Coast, was started on another r of work. E. K. Hall of Dartmouth was re-elected chairman, and Walter Camp of Yale E ry. Clyde ‘Williams of Towa State college was ¢ absentce, but two changes made in the committee. Cap- Pritchard now represents having been named to succeed Lieut. G. H. Franke, and W. Roper is the new Princeton rep- resentative in place of Parke . Da- is. Those present were E. K. Hall, 'Dartmouth, chairman Walter Camp, Yale, secretary; Dr. J. A. Babbitt Haverford; C. W. Savage, Oberli H. Minnesota; V mbeth, Virginia; Captain V. Ces : Dr. Carl Wil- Commander 7. W. this they were Dashicll, Princeton: . Chi- and Al Tufts, of the of the . Sharpe, one of the country. meetis part | 1 | christie MERIDEN BOXING BOUTS Drummie and Coogan Are Headliners on Lenox A. €, Card Tonight—Both tiave Fince Record: ! At the Meriden A. C. in Meriden to- night, Johnnic Drummie Jerséy City and Mel Coozan of Brooklyn, of . Will hox 10 rounds in the star bout. cight-round ser Joe of Hartford, formerly of Philadclphia, will box eight rounds with Young McKenna of Waterbury, and in the six-round tilt on’ the card, ie Hebor, lightweights, will an final Yaung Grossman ard Geor a pair of settle a ring difference of long stand- ing. Young Brown and Younsg Aroff, two New Haven bantamweights, will go four rounds in the opening bout. The bout between Drummie and Coogan should be a hummer as each has been stepping along fast in tho lightweight ranks during the past year. Coogan’s only setback was his defeat at the hands of Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard, but be- cause of his great victory over John- v Dundee he is still a scrapper in the eves of the fans. Drummie, since he left Waterbur has met the best the lightweight divi- sian has to offer. Three times he box- ed 10 raund no-decision bouts with Benny Leonard, and in addition to these has met zbout every lightweight of any importance in the Je and Coogan met once and since thin each has been anxious to get in the ring with the ather again. Dave Fitzgerald of New Haven will referce the bouts. Meriden ANNEX TO MEET. the home o Beaver street, to son. afternoon at Kildufr, 47 plans for the comi CARPENTIER ON WAY. March 13, (Havas) —Geo Carpentier, heavyweight champion of Furope, and embarked today at ilavre United State: Paris res pugilistia. his wifd for tha BOWLING Casino Bowling Alieys OPEN DAILY 10 A. M. LADIES' PATRONAGE SOLICITEH Now in Progress at Siate Armory, Arch Sireet Prize Waltz, Lynch’ Entertainment Each Evening Orchestra