New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 10, 1921, Page 4

LERS TO ROLL LOCALS TONIGHT AT ROGERS ALLEYS—NOTED NEW YORK LAWYER TO DEFEND GAMBLERS IN BASEBALL CASE—RE 55 MANAGER OF REDS HAD PICTURESQUE RECORD—WHITE GETS A DRAW: WITH CHAMPION LYNCH—BINGHAM HARVARD TRACK COACH | | | Represent g at Trial L s=Willlam Jules his recent the jury dis- n Chicago on I for Rachel Sullivan, gam ors were indict h the throwing games of 1919 b the Reds that Mr. Fal- member of the , also would ted members ricans— Weaver nlght he said retained by any fund col- of Brown and asked. of, answered \ for Abe At- nt?” the law- J. w. trial Lhe replied. within reach so jo on March was asked there on time “or mot” he re- laws of Illinois 't the slight 3 Of course baseball com- trial, but that the law. I that none of be convicted, any one. | of IMinols ad- that the indict- became public L prominent at- the bellef that | Fing the cases of samblers. ] well known owner, ap- and fury in Chi- ‘was given a i name had | Il and others X financially of the games anything to do talking | Bt s possi- | might have one in con- on the series first one to laugh & baseball sories. the triat win \ayldence that y York last fir" I haunts. “In Boston, e tor Chi- T GIANTS. _M- League he »signed second base- R of 1921, was In b offices yos- Joseph D. Jast evening that | would with the 1 not have much s for his home is “ old, covered | the San Antonto | o last year | observers | @8 he made eluding 16 ith a home | measure. His 2 and his | SWIM. Australian pehip. . 10.—Ludy ! and Hawalil 440-gard His time ds. F. E. ‘was second. | | Judge Landis of Chicago, organized baseball, | Pteiffer 'BRASS CITY BOWLERS K"‘ LESLIE O'CONNOR BASEBALL'S SECRETARY- “czar” of has named Al- torney Leslie O'Connor, also a Chi- cagoan, as secretary of the new base- ball commission. WESLEYAN DEFEATED West Point Cadets Overwhelm Mid- dletown Basket Tossers, 32 to 18— Many Speoctacular Shots Made, West Point. Feb. 10.—Army beat Wesleyan at basketball yesterday, 32 to 18. The visitors covered well dur- ing the early part of the game. The Methodists lost many chances to score from the fleld through Inaccur- ate tossing. The Cadets took the lead early and were never headed The score half time was Army 17, Wesleyan 12, Dabezies, the Army “jump” man, and Pteiffer, who has a keen eye for long distance shooting, featured with sen- sational baskets from the field. The lineu Army Vichules (32). Wesleyan (18). Robertson French slalelolate right forward. Hartman (capt.) center. Dabezies . ’ Hosdowick left guard. (capt.) SE00CG right guard Goals from fleld, French 2, Dabez- fes 5, Vichules 3, Pfeiffer 2, Kessler, Robertson, Robinson 2, Hartman 3, Ryalls; goals from fouls, Kessler King French 6 out of 12, Robertson 3 out of 9, Hart- man 1 out of 2; substitutions, Smythe for Pfeiffer, Ryalls for Robinson, Depper for King: referee, Tom Therp Columbia: umpire, Ed Thorpe, Do La Salle. FOR RACING IMPROVEMENT Secretarics of Fairs Discuss Plans for Better Troting and Pacing Philadelphia, Feb. 10.—8ecretaries and managers of the Pennsylvania fairs in the eastern district met here yesterday. Willlam M. Halstead, pres- ident of the Park Driving Chub of New York, was one of the principal speakers and explained how the fairs may improve racing. He said that the three heat race system will do away with the oftimes very tiresome old system of best three and five heats, which produced long drawn out racing pProgrammes. The nomination of officers résulted as follaws: President, Hal White, Indiana, Pa vice-presidents, Wal- | ter R, Buckman, Philadelphia, Abner C. Deysher, Reading; C. G. Breneman, Altoona, and C. R. Cummins, Erie: secretary and treasurer, Jacob F. Seldomridge, Tancaster. More than a show | score of fairs were represented at early | the business meeting and banquet. In- cluded iIn the list of visitors were H. P. Murphy of Syracuse 8. 8. Toman of New York. and INOCREASE FMPIRE PURS $67.500 to Be Distributed in 16 Fea- turcs of July Mecting. at | Robinson | [ | | Wooas | Rebbitara New York, Feb. 10.—A general in- crease in the value of the stake events to be run during the July meeting at Empire City is the fea- ture of the ulans which have been made and approved by President James Butler. The sum of $67,500 will be distributed in the sixteen fix- ture of the plans which have been which formerly carried a guarantee have been made added money stakes. The Empire City Derby will have $5,000 added and the Empire City Handicap will have the same amount. The East View Stakes, which is for Juveniles, will have a guaranteed value of $10,000, which is an increase of $4,000 over last year. UMPIRE HARRISON IS TLL. National League Arbiter Carricd From Train at Saranac Lake. p N. Y., Feb. 10.—P. pn, National league ved here yester- 0. He was so frogm the 10 ROLL LOCALS State Champion Fred Teller, Will Appear With Visitors Tonight Waterbury bowling one of the strongest will open a home-and-home at The rated quintet, in Con- necticut, series with the New Roger’s alleys tonight. of the Brass City team known stars as Teller, Stokes and Harper will be tound bowling tonight. Teller ptured the s e onc-man championship in 1920. Foote, Free- man, Frisk, Narcum and Eddie An- derson will roll on the local quintet. The match will be for $200 a side. A three-man team from this city finished on the short end of a match at Rockville last night, by a 22-pin margin. The trios are battling for a purse of $400 a side, and the next meeting will be at Roger's alleys some evening next week. The follow: Britain In the lineup such well team New Britaln. a1 100 % 101 101 111 85— 472 111— 491 103— 100 100 17 Foote 56 Narcum . 83 E. Andy.. 92 288 312 317 Rockville, 96 0 120 110 a7 261 309—145T, [ a1 Donlon 94— 46 Ladish O'Brien s a3 114 3 . 296 bowling results on local alleys: jon Opticians. Other Sharp Davis . McGuire Reddell Woods scores | | FIRST You Do Am ISADORA DuNcAN OuUT OF YourR BED FEELING CHIPPER AS A LARK T“EN You micw T YoursELe How To Start the Day Wrong THEN DU TURN OnS THE HOT WATER FAUCET SINGING THE WATER T WARM, AS You WAT For THEN AS You LATHER YooR FACE You HUM THe. REFRAW —~AND BLeeDs? -AND SO You SHAVING wWiTH A o LIGHT AND BLITHESOME" ART START RUINING ENTIRE DAY Guite Martin Olson Potrus Richards Penny Jacobson | Mecane | fchmaltz CORBIN | Daley Corr A. Berg Sunison Sorrow Longe Ryberg | Kisselbrack Griswold Vile Heck Kiley Squires Rradbury Reamer Person Carter P. Berx 368 400 382—1150 CENTER CHURCH FELLOWSHIP CLUB. “Ground Wogs." Miss H Ahlstrom Miss C. Bewlo oo Miss Helen Ahlstrom. . Mrs. Boardmon .... Miss Crawley Mr. Boardmon Mra. Stearns —— | Harry Stovey, Hall Hall Bacon Hall . Lockwood . Bergami Stevens 479—1437 86— T1— = M 194 Mr Mrs Hagen Skinner Mr. Skinner R. Schaefer . Miss Ramage . Miss Miles Mrs. Hagen M E, 3 F. Duguid Lockwood MacGregor Andres F. Baker Mr. Mordon Lummy Din Hornheh! Bates Narqum Shields. Stearns -..100 Engel 5500 7 Defatiey, /ob C0ii s i Bibeanit . 9% BOXING AT WATERBURY Mulligan Arranges an At- 'BANGROFT'S RECORD A PICTURESQUE ONE 274 | | National league baseball Reds’ Business Manager for 80 Years, Retires From Baseball o Feb. 10.—When Bancroft, for thirty of the Cincinnati club, succeeded in that position by Frank Behle, an attache of the probate court of this city, one of the most picturesque figures that ball ever produced passed from the national game. Bancroft is ill with neuritis and he has been assured by President Garry Herrmann, of the club, that his sal- ary will go on just the same. He be- Cincinnati, Frank C. business manager | came interested in bascball within a few vears after the close of the Civil war in which he served as a drum- mer boy with | ment. He saw the possibilities in the pro- fessional angie of the game arowynd 1874 when he became identified with the New Bedford team. Later he joined the Worcester team. More than forty ars ago he developed two men whose names will live for- ever in the annals of the game— king of base runners for all time and Lee Richmond, per- | haps the greatest left-handed pitcher ! against the winning pitcher and ' Hoss™ ‘record that may never be | Cincinnati club, of the game. In all baseball history there have been eight games pitched where no man reached first base in less than two years' time, Richmond pitched two of these contests. In 1884, Bancroft managed the fa- mous old Providence team that par- ! ticipated in the first worid series. He iloted the team through the immor- | P ! Dempsey-Carpentier tal campaign when Charles *“Old Radbourne made the pitching equaled. “Banny’'s” team won the world's championship banner that year. Tn 1891 Bancroft appeared in Cin- cinnati as manager of Mike Kelly's Players league aggregation and he re- mained after “Kelly's Killers” had gone. He was engaged by the late John T. Brush, then president of the to handle the busi- ness affairs of the club. In the'gen- eration that followed Bancroft be- came one of the most notable of baseball figures. He piloted the Reds everywhere, arranged their training tours, took them barnstorming in the fall and between times took clubs to ! Cuba, Hawaii and California. a New England regi- vears | was | recently base- | STRANGE LAND!—Mlle. Herveux, aviatrix, says she doesn't understand Americans. Frinstance —she inserted an ad in a New York newspaper asking for information as to the whereabouts of her flance. The return mail brought a bundle of pro- posals of marriage. “What's the idea 7" she wants to know. RICKARD IN CONTROL Cochran and Brady Interests in Pro- posed Dempsey-Carpentier Bout Arc Transferred to Tex. Jane New York, Feb. announced today he had arranged for the immediate transfer to him of the interests of Charles B. Cochran and Wm. A. Brady in the proposed match. The transfer, he said, would be made through an attorney represent- ing the other members of the orig- inal promotion project. Jack Kearns, Dempsey’'s manager will take part in the transaction, he added. CONSIDER GOLF CHALLENGE. ‘British Linkswomen to Decide Today on Match With United States. 10.—Tex Rickard ' championship ! BINGHAM SUCCREDS DONOVAN Former Harvard Captain and Half- Miler Will Hereafter Coach Orim- son Track Team. 1 i Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 10.—Wil- liam F. (Pooch) Donovan, who has coached Harvard track teams con- tinuously since 1909, has relinquished his position as head coach to William J. Bingham, Harvard, 1916, who hereafter will combine his duties as director of track sports at Cambridge with those of active coach. i Donovan will probably continue to train the Crimson’s varsity football teams, and this spring will have ' charge of the physical condition of the varsity nine. Track sports are in ' process af reconstruction at Cam- bridge, and the committee of gradu- ates for some time has been consid- ering’ a change in the coaching sys- tem. Bill Bingham is a former Har- vard track team captain, being one of the best half-milers ever developed at Cambridge, He will be assisted by Bddie Farrell, who has been in charge - ?’f Harvard's field event men for some me. i There has been a lagging interest in track sports here, and the coms- mittee is strong for a policy of | graduate coaching, such as has work- ed out so well in football, hockey and rowing. : Captain O’Connell of the varsity team called the candidates together today, and Director Bingham an- nounced the change in the coaching system, which will go into effect im- mediately. NAVY QUINTET WINS Annapolis, Feb. 9.—The Naval Academy played a finished game eof basketball here yesterday afternoon When it won from the University of North Carolina by 50 to 24. It was the eighth game the visitors had played on their present trip, which began February 1, While showing clever in- dividual work and a good knowledge of team play, it was clear that the Carolinians were no match for” the Middies. { ARION GUY OHANGES OWNERS. Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 10.—Arion [ Guy, champion three-year-old trot- ter of 1920, has been purchased by H. K. Devereaux of this city, accord- ing to advices from Thomasville, Ga., Last season the colt (2:04%) . won five of six starts on the Grand Cir- [ cuit, finishing the season by winni | the Kentucky Futurity, the flch:' London, Feb. 10.—Proposals that istake of the year. a challenge cup be offered for an in- ternational match between the United States and Great Britain will be con- sidered at the annual meeting of the In Cuba he is known as ““The Fa- |council of the Ladies’ Golf Union, to ther of Baseball” as it was he who | be held at Caxton hall professional | rangements for the ladies’ open cham- He is now 76 |pionship and the English took the first team of players to the island. years old. QUITS CRIMSON ICE TEAM. BEmmons Drops Out of Hockey to today. Ar- closed championship will also be discussed. SPRING IN CINCINNATI. Cincinnati, O., Feb. 10.—The Cin- cinnati baseball club yesterday began The purchase price was not made public. S ENGLISH GOLFERS OOMING. Cambridge, Eng., Feb. 10.—The Cambridge University Golf club has accepted an invitation to send a team to compete in the American inter- collegiate championship tournament. Four men will compose the team and will sail tor the United States in the middle of June. They are G. N. P. Humphries, Trinity Hall, captain; J. Walker, King's College, secretary; H. E. Lebas, Jesus College, and J. H. BATTLE T0 DRAW —— Champion Joe Lynch wnd Jabez on Even Terms at End of Round Bout. St. Louis, Feb. 10.—Joe Lynch New York, and Jabez White of bany, fought eight rounds to a here last night, according to was Lynch's bout since winning the bantan championship from Pete December 22, last. paper men. It Lynch was given the second, foury and fifth rounds and White the seventh and eighth and the” two were declared even. In the seventh round, Whit ed a right to the champion’s stunnéd him momentarily. lowed this with a vicious jab to stomach and had Lynch eovering ' The boys fought aggressively Lynch delivered many blows to head and body in the rounds him. There wWas. no bloodshed knockdowns. Clever infighting both contestants featured the > The champion hit White squarely the right and left jaw in the and fifth rounds, but app failed to hurt him seriously. MARYLAND RACING Commission Arranges %2 Days Sports at Four. Tracks Baltimore, Md., Feb. 10— will be ninety-two H ‘Maryland this year, according to decision of the Racing The commission has allatted dates as follows: racing days Bowie, April 2 to 15, Nov. 15 26; Havre de Grace, April 16 teo Sept. 21 to Oct. 1; Pimlico, May $ 16, Nov. 1. to 12; Laurel, Oct. 4 t6 All dates are inclusive, snd days are excepted. McLBEOD TURNS IN SEVEN] St Augustine, Fla., Feb. 10, Freddy McLeod's turn ye win most of the golf hono links here. der Gish of Washington were feat Pat O’Hara of New Y Roland Clark of IWest Playing superb. went around in 71, two As a result he Mike Brady of Detroit, who was ing with Tom Moore of Wash® O’Hara had a medal score of 74 Brady of 76. “QUTSIDE THE LA} "1.88,92, 83, ¢ i