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v [ Former Soundly Spanks Bulldog While Latter Avenges Itself On Michigan — Four Undefeated Eastern: Teams Crash Into Casualty List Saturday —| Harvard-Princeton This Week. | HIGH TEAM EASILY EELE L BEATS VERMONTERS e mtioss ot e o oo NeW Britaid Swamps Eleven of w< | Troy Conference Academy THE BIG ONES GRUNT HARDER New York, Nov. 1 (® - driving hoofs of an Army mule the battering horns of a goat are steadily clearing the path For the third time {n as many weeks, the All-New Britain football team was forced to remain idle through the anger of the heavens which showered the surrounding | country for several hours again yes- |terday afternoon. What queer trick of fate it is that makes all week days falr and all Sundays rainy, | cannot be explained but it works to |the great discomnfiture of the foote | ball fans of the tity who have been |anxiously awaiting an opportunity of once again seeing their team in ac- tion. Yesterday's attraction best of the season so far. The Navy | submarine Base eleven of New Lon- | don was schedul-d to appear in this city. The Whaiing City team is the |strongest in years und had threat- |ened for the past two weeks to beat of New. London. the New Britain ¢even, but the score stands tie nuw with the weath- erman being the only one to have come in ahead. Looking over the chart for the |coming week with regard to the | weather, we see that rain is predicts PENNSY'S HIDDEN ay and rain again for Saturday and Sunday. he predictions have come Ilinois Tronnces U. of P, 3-0— Big Ten Ontlook out right during the past thres weeks and judging from this, it ap- that no game will be played Sunday Manager Ed. Dailey, stunned by the capricious elements which frus- Chicago, Nov. 1 (PA—While |trate every attempt of his to stage | western conference pot la football game in this city, hadn't today awniting the mee |today signed with any team for a State and game here next Sunday. He has T {hence, mid-western fans several good attractions in mind, but inches of water covered the Polo | hesitates to book any of them for Crolmas York | tear that rain will again prevent the S team from playing. National Just when the local management aaiie et (et T will be given the chance to recuper- il run e seven mile el ot ate its losses eustained so far this Yonlers had to be dnesiled: season, is problematical. The man- En are, |agement has dropped conslderable A vaudeville syndicate has an- money this year and with rain pre. nounced that Gene Tunney will ap | venting the playing of games Sunday pear before the footlights in a short after Sunday, it doesn’t look as it dialogue with a partner not yet se the team will play again in a hurry. lected. He will also box a round or two. The heavyweight champion will receive $7,000 a week, the an- nouncement. said. A ation in Bermuda is filling Tunney's time just now. Newport Torpedo Team Appears Here Sunday Navy STARTED RING CAREER IN 1913 The United States Torpedo Station football team of New- port, R. I, will oppose the All- New Britain team in this city next Sunday afternoon, Manager Edward J. Dailey of the local team announced this morning. The Newport team is one of the best service station teams in the country and only ‘a few weeks ago was defeated by the Holy Cross college team by a 7 to 0 score. Manager Dailey succeed- ed in booking the Newport sall- ors for this week through the recommendation of Iieutenant Mather of the Submerine Base foo! day could get no thrashing flanks time in 15 vears trounced Yale sound western stampede of crushed Navy last sliower of thuddin s helpless a in-for-man defense of Balt more as Navy the best cfforts of Oos- terbaan.” The er the RAD NO CTIONS OC%E GuGe OPPONENTS was a game was the Middie: calmly “Friedn | UNORTHODOX FIGHTER. AND "WINDMILL SWINGER. ruined 10 ailors, in fipe condition aft- | 10 to 0 victory, have noth- Boston ne e G~ 1ON PEEVER soason, scorer of HELD TWO CROWNS AT THE SAME TIME after a the simmered ng of Ohio Michigan two weeks ilted the hurdle of sectional interest and con- |sidered the possibility that the | Army-Navy game on Soldiers’ Field {here might determine the natonal {title holder, TLast Saturday’s conference games placed three tcams in a tie for first |place and added to the uncertainty |of the outcome. Michigan, which uled a favorite a week ago, moved down a notch as the result of its unexpected defeat by the Navy, while Ohio stepped just that far | ahead in popular estimation, al- |though its won over Coach Stags's | much defeated Maroons was not un- IN THE PASSING OF HARRY GREB 1 FAME LOS 3 U TG | DESPITE A DECIDEDLY UNORTHODOX STYL T i ABLY HE WAS THE BEST MIDDL VIEIGHT SINCE SPURT BRIEFS Toyola, of New Orleans, has one the youngest football teams in game. With two cxceptions all the regulars are sophamores. Car- ried over from a powerful freshman | The coach, Eddie Reed, is where the New Giants and Brooklyn scheduled to meet in head Orleans readily as hibit The have six Manager Dalley expects to have |an important announcement to make | this week providing things work out. rightlz. Just what the nature of expected. The Northwestern Wild- [this will be is a question becatse cats also are riding with the lead- the manager did not care to make ers with two conference victories, |known what he has in mind. He including last Saturday’s defeat of states that if things go rightly, he the outfit q - products youngsters straight games sectional contests. man, home ure youngest play of the and after the by the New won ha red At well but at wa game. PLAYER BREAKS LEG Sat old purchased liam DuPont ish two-y Wil- oximate- Jr., diana, this on's Big Ten goat. her times its s Harvard, tickled over a football youngster that in games has grown for a sickiy infant, plastered with defeat, to a figure of threc fourth periods and the other first- tring men took turns with their stitutes. Further, the cadefs did not attempt the worward s a |single ime, using wholly the slower but safer straight football; in this respect the game was perhaps L E—NE W BRITAIN HIGH SCHOOL ELEVEN SWAMPS TROY CONFERENCE ACADEMY TOWARD 26 CHAMPIONSHIP ' BY ARMY'S POWER WASHED OUT BY RAIN | Gives Wretched Exhibition— S t Indi i ives Wretched Extibitio Spectacle—Chart Indicates More Rain For Next Sunday — Manager Dailey Hesitates to Book At-, Spect h : . e 7 New Steven: Nove 1a e at ferss Announcement During Next Few Days For Fans. relentlessly through a faltering Yale eleven in the Bowl Saturday after- and for the worst defeat the Blue has suffered in years. Not alone in loss overwhelming to Yale, but even more so in the wretched exhibition les, and dropped passes co-operating to make Tad Jones' team look like a to 0. The | had something of an alibi in that it Michigan that It team of warriors wag playing without a backfield and was | came here to battl th New Brit- fhardly excused the tactical and n High school team at Memorial | mechanical mistakes made by the e It el | All five Army touchdowns follow- our periods of a merclless 81- 1, Yale blunders. Captain -Phil in the final mINUTES |41 e of attempting to snare a crazily 2 |hounding put with the Army ends B . e Aviny same than Wi waiting around him and later fumbl- Yirginia W van, which mar 1 \u]..r:\ (’_\( u;«)\n ; Org: ':f] sl::‘”\, |instance Born took the ball off Bun- 3 shlegeetene ol |nell's hands and stepped across the this and Georgetown, rm\vl:.l he 1 v'm"'\lr: aure, ;n}"( m!n:st |faction and disdain, whils a touch- ; time, of secing team he has been | 00 poiacad the second within points. Army ean expect no seri opposition fre and Mar- | nally defeat the eleven which repre- |y 150009 punt, and an intercepted U MR |forward pass started the Army on of the Notre Dame Yankee H stadium November 13 will have no | {0 play against New Britain High s 5 ool last year and although he had | The Yale team was sadly rattled z and could not carty out the elements on the eastern ranking. Thus the : i e iddies s Fdels may Tohirney amb] was not reach- : b : but he could not gain and exhaust- i e 'h‘v shataplopal tunity carae beautiful run. y east as a side issue to th New Britain had been unsuccessful |1ast quarter were brilliant, but the £ g 2 best exhibition was that of tiny E Jslern) Cofnat oy o Schmidt who was standing on his | Jarterback Switm whe lef the e Four undefeated castern elev ; | substitutes ong adv: 3 | 5 P o 00 pounds of |scries of well-concelvod and baffiing | (BTORGVIGEISYS) urday. Columbia, aided materially by | (1a boest tonnagze New Britain has | ¢ . el 2 ¥ ¥ [ the best tonnage a : : s 1o | heavyweight champion of the world, | BT rite work o Cuptals ¢ ey b e b ¢ ot |useless, but the patchwork line made | JWEIED s groduced he exablisd e Hall opc ok o wonderful though unavailing stand | bad just returned to his home frone Garr of Syracuse to take the lead | | ; s |against the crushing power of the | him. He to the left toward the P ke AR inc « 0] Core W A v ards he L Vel @ X | among - indiyidual polnt scorors With | aafern side of the field, dodged ont [ATIMY forwards, = The ends were | Jrasf 8t RACE o o to 9 win, the first in s, Penn- | ¢ O i ; passes for sure touchdowns. , he egde of the field w his team | - sylvania made a starting bow hefore s o Asie Even with so little opposition, the | Greb, and the tragic rceult of the “ mates cut off ons after the other of PP At An b ia1E aaea The fireman successor of iceman Grange | oo “l0 G0 e e Tonz, nerve- |attack and defense. The highly | : at Illinois, 3 to 0. and rugged Mis- |G ERESI TS 10 CNs praised eadet line further enhanced | touched Dempsey’s conqueror. i ek i, va 3 a clown 0. An undefeated team had to fall » i) s . in on every play and down the field | commented Tunney. 1 gone through tho entire New | 1 4 ek when Lafayeite and washington ,;,-nv;il:r\”h 2 = ahead of every punt, made Yale|called him a windmill and a freak, ing dash of a substitute in the dusk | U B@% FIe 8 ends. T backfield fully held up | Nghts mainly because he had speed of the final minute to play whipped | 111<Tho08 A0€ (" lits end, Harry Wilson | and could keep slapping and cuffing g through broken fields for long galns. | vania mects Penn ¢ Columbi Tt % falv s Harding performing ubiquitously in “To me Greb was a great fighter. faces William West Vir ;5 Indeed, I think he was the greatest Dr S them and punts back for good dis- ette plays Rutgers i el tances, Captain “Tiny” Hewett burst- flicts of the ing w gathering. New Britain is pos |ball, and Murrell doing less spec- S rAneh K power which has |tacular brt really more solid work The seheduls so far has been an |interference was nigh perfect and one. This must not be taken |Delped Wilson and Harding partic- prides off the lid of the annual big %055 made {he | Army Could Have Done Better three conflict with the 20th Prince- ¢\ Sy o0 \coro chosen had always| The Army could probably have 69 to 6 Saturday and tallicd more | o,y none that thisyear was an off it almost treated the game as a frequently than any mson eleven | Lo ror them all. Suffield, Norwich |minor one and did not at any time ton walloped Swarthmore 27 to 0. 1merce, Collegiate Preparatory |the gridiron. Captain Hewett play- Yale has an €NEARE- | (ool, and Troy Confer hefore trying d 3 the Tiger claws, Nov. 13. rs n hurt them all Fans Are Disappointed As Deluge Prevents Football tractions For Next Week — Promises Important ble Army steam roller ground noon for one of its greatest victories the matter of the 33-0 acore was its which it gave, fumbles, missed tack- Cadets group of grammar school boys. Yale under a | from Troy Confer my that |ith many linemen injured, but that turday, but it Was a ven- | demoralized men who did play. K the Red and Gold team, which | g, pnayy panged two scores directly 10 through finally for a ing more serious on the schedule ; 2 7 5 re F, 1 e-| 3 o e for the home- |40 in a_scrimmage. In the first| i ¢ | to cross colle goal line e~ crooked road from Poultney, VeI~ ijin, ith a smile of mingled satis- high the east with hing for the past six years fi- two plays. A fumble by Hoben, a shall and Urein come Leonard Schmidt had the chance |its other scoring marches. more than a psychological effe y reat pa T he tie-score game, oty Gl of football. As predicted, Hoben Chicago to scttle the west 1h t , The o O s e o e autital pon. |ed himself. Ordway's gains in the nual historie conflict, 5 making a first down a yunted in making a flrst down and punted | o /o hack: Swits, who led the Blue erashed into the casnalty list S ace aht Vow Y Vo SRS : P Ehot [Plays. The other backs were almogt | New York, Nov. 1.—Ggne Tunney Madden, who jumped “Whippet" | o air 45 a big lineman dove at |° Pittsburgh, where he was a pall 63, slammed Cornell about for a 17 | ooy woey fik et amond helpless, and Fishwick dropped two and sped like a crazed demon down iy e e et nran (bR ihe the capable boot of Frost Pefers, Rl i e [Army showed great power on both the opposition. He crossed the goal y I's e e sourl flattened West Virginia 27 to ‘of the rest of the field, He |itS reputation, and Harbold and Born | "livervbody said Greb w “ Jefferson collided but only the e S weep more than ever for a pair of | & tircless puncher who won his a whirling | the Presidents 16 to 10. Pennsyl- RATIATR Tinik away. e intercepting passes and running ginia tackles Pitishurgh 3 fighter, in spots, T ever saw. He k. s sl Kl et it ling through the line like a cannon Harvard-Princcton Do tning viag tpressed o =¥ el in repeated short gains. standing in any pigskin com 3 “dig” at Coach Cassidy. When |ularly. ton meeting. Harvard battered Tufts fy . "1t 41 top of the heap but it |rolled up a much larger score, but in a single game in 3§ years. Prince- Academy, Springficld High of have its complete regular line-up on intersectional ment with Maryland demy under ofdinary clr ¢ York University's undefeat crenee demy b , after dispersing Fordham, . meots the strongest foe of t season In Carnegie Toch, victor over Detroit. T to 0 Holy Cross, congueror to 7 Little is left of the Dartmouth In- after football at times. Captain hit the line hard and of several first downs Schmidt threw sever- [unique. vt ioRes which | Another reason why the cadets did abolt mome: Ealnk, not pile up more points was the fre- | make anything on quent penalizing which they receiv- Gordan and ehrer, ed. Sixteen times the officials ST fRai oo tected them in rule violations, main- of New Dritain’s Iy becanse of the too-quick back- by the loss of |field shift which left a man in mo- | r and Trickson at |tion when th> ball was snapped. In r was out with in- the last quarter the winners wanted oo Hutchenson neat bronght could ne. dian's seaip three strai feats, the last Brown, 10 fo 0, It sity offers a vesti Brown has no game Harvard is waiting on Nov. nte the Bear's title possibilities. The form de- The cadets’ | ed only portions of the second and | | Greb,” admitted the champion. | self improve from s incligible. (2 drop-kicker and the quarterback Soft spots and real ey filled the va- d on the upper New York s = . ) Whil 1 1s tangling | cancie Bonaven Col lenee lines which resulted in Cunningham being sent out, hut Bunnell saw this flagrant breach of the rules and his protest gave the Army another |vard penalty. The referce was Yale's best ball carrier. Absence of regulars and Bunnell's early fumble had much to do with Yale's poor showing, but the Army had latent strength which it did not se and still made the Blue look sad indeed. Whether or not the injured Corne 3 was Zaleski's lown in an opening Colgate maetered Saturday, 38 to & little trouble wit winning 31 to 0. GAME IS CANCELLED The foothall game hets New Britain Blues and the I Stonewalls scheduled o b yesterday noon in the Ps city, was called off on the rain. The Tiu tice Tuesday and Th week In preparation for Willlams day's game. All plavers on t e are requested to rey 0 4 S P i o'clock. in wround piay especially his work fn {he final quarter when his long runs vesulted in two touchdowns and the sterling defen vlay of Gordon and Zehrer. vielous tackling was the his or's ghlight of a very black future. shaken and its p problern it perform mir- acles if it is to be rated as a con- tender for the Big Three title, It has two ks to prepare for neeton and a good practice game nst Maryland to make it ready, =0 that spirit, co-ordination and reg- ulars may he restored the ame. Bt Princeton show- nst arthmore that its veloping, and Harvard hdowns nst Tufts & which left no doubt that the Crimson has heen brought to the noint it is one of the fore- most teams in the Yale can only wait and hope—and shiver. Stars May Be Out of Annual Game Saturday Morgantown, W. Va., Nov. 1 (#— vhen W Virginia DeWitt ying strength accour tie hafora WILDCATS WIN GAMI The Oak street Wild wifming streak of 1 taking yesterday's za seore. The touchdown ¢ last fc inutes of play. exciting clash hut when in the intercepte it 45 10 phun, for the only score of both teams was the fo last quarter, cast a forward pas vard to the S line D it center, took t kow erial game ature 19 traditional foe, the University of ts] h, next Saturday, Morrison and Lewls, regular aquarterback and tac . respectively, proh missinz from the lineup. 5 suffering from a severe while Lewis was § o game with Missouri ind is believed t» have fracture of a rib. Morrison “Charley ured in aturday, suffered a WINS AUTOMOBILF, RACE Detroit, Nov. 1 GP—S8am Rose, of Arbor. won the 100 mile dirt utomabile race here yester- ring the distance in 1 hour Cliff Woodbury of Chi- cago was second and Chester Miller of Detroit third. 1tes. made kicking motions to the side- | | out men will return, Yale 1s now facing | Its confidence | | ever saw. university's | foothall team takes the field aganst | bly will be | | Princeton will meet Yale in the an- ! nual foot! all game could box as well as anybody when he tried. He was a hard hitter when he set out to hit. He had a fine defense, and there was nothing wrong with his footwark. “Of course Greb had certain marked eccentricities in the ring. He was not what the game calls an orthodox fighter. But there wae much more to him than clownish gestures and spectacular acrobatics Behind all this was a real fighting background and a rare courage.'" Tunney gives credit to Greb his own gradual development into heavyweight champion. Tunney fought Greb five times. Once Grol beat him. That was. incidentaily the only time in his life he whipped. It was from ( Tunney won the light championship. “I learned a lot in my fights e steamship New York colt will Iy $100,000 is aboare Minney today from be sent to Belmont in the stable of a prominent trainer, | Navy and Michigan had some dif- ficult getting the s=econd their game under way. Eddy, ing off for the midshipment, s first hoot out 1 S. sent York Ri 1 the National | g in Toronto for the scason open Nov. 16 almost like a football team. The men start work in th orning with setting-up exer ith eat at a training table, have periods “1 of relaxation and even a football learned, among other things, the workout before taking to the Hce ir value of sharp-shooting, for it was the afiernoon. necessary to be a sharp-shooter to match Greb. He was always on the g0, side-stepping, retreating, ad- vancing, always moving. “Fighting Greb, I gained confi- dence in myself. I could see my- club was )+ that heavyweight Rain halted three foothall games in New lay hat the pig is not entirely avaterproof. professional York yester- me Scveral to prove ITugh William, Right Guard On Troy Conference Academy tient At Local Hospital. hid oy Ti team, in 1 William Conference v leg in a crash period of the g v Britain General hospi night last evening. on i - lay ufter on leg ht ng to to take a on an Indian abont it awkwardiy. His homc is in Foultney, ¥ t is doubtful if he w was fractured. own New Britain block but to veturn there for several weecks, There are some 3 nuated officers and officlal; Team, rd on the broke the second me with New Dritain High school team at Memorial field He is being treated at the al where reported as spending a com- the kickoff the lower part of “ment went Vermont, 11 be able | 0,000 superan- | ¢ on Tapanese pension roll which amounts to about $60,000,000 annually. To counteract the debacle of | Michigan in the east, the west had balm for its wounds ‘in Tilinois 3 to 0 win over the invading Penn- |sylvanians, while Tllinois had been given an outside chance to win, few believed that Zuppke's team would |develop fast enough in a week's [time to outplay the Red and Blue. | But it was a case of do or dle | with Tllinois, resnlt of this battle meant a successful or disastrous ason at Urbana, and Zuppke bent 1l his energies to the task of sol {ing the much touted hidden ball at |tack and did, while Tlinois was put {out of the running for the western conference championship by Michi- he |8an. {he team ‘is expected to be a \ |menace to other elevens on the schedule, Ohio State particularly. Pa- his \c- FATALLY WOUNDED Northampton, Mass., Nov. 1 (P— |Bdmund Gross, 16, was fatally | wounded this afternoon when he re- ived a charge of shot in his chest he was removing his shotgun from an automobile on returning from .a hunting trip with two fehums. the (28 fight to fig whipped him. When we matched | again T whipped him even wor “The last time we fought was St. Paul. T could have knocked him | e s it The Days of Real Sport. that night. When the fight| ended Greb said to me, ‘I've fought | you for the last time, Gene. You are too tough. Go and get Demp- sey’ Greb was the first fighter of consequence who admitted I wi ready for Dempsey Tunney says Greb was the most courageous fighter he ever met, or “I think everyone who saw the fight at Philadelphia will admit that T made Dempsey back up more than once. Well, I fought five times and T never made him back up a single time. T knocked him back with punches frequently, | but not once did he ever hack | | Greb | | | mney thinks the quality that | Greb an extraordinary fighter was his native enthusiasm the gam: “on ers, for don’t find but Greb had it marked degree, That's one why ke preferred to fight into condition instead of tral the road and was more fun.” that in many | to a reason himself | ning on in gymnasiums. It fig HONOR WALTER CAMP Memory of Famors Football Coach to Be Observed When Yale Meets | Princeton. | Princeton, | memory of football served N. Nov. 1 (A—The Walter Camp, famous | will be fittingly ob- November 13, when coach on The Yale and Princeton hands, which total 118 pleces, will form fthe word “Camp’ in Palmer stadium play taps between halves. | Bandmaster Ames McGuinness left | for New Haven to help drill the Yale band. and will have an announcement to make that should please the fans of this lcity. We have our guess on what |1t s, | e T 8 Jury Disagrees After Hearing All Evidence New York, Nov. 1 (A—Trial of {thL: $50,000 breach of promise suit |brought by Miss Gene Billington, night club hostess and .daughter of a Sunbury, Pa.. miner, against Dr, Walter W. Davis, a Boston dentis ended today with the jury unable to reach an agreement on a verdict, The jury was discharged. Miss Billington, testifying Friday at the opening of the trial, said that |Dr. Davis, after he had proposed {and been accepted by her, and had }Yn)’l‘.’shn“d an apartment for them, ‘Volrl her he could not marry because he already had a wife. Dr. Davis denied he had ever made a prom- ise of marriage. The first German railroad, built 191 years ago from Nuremberg to | Fuerth, Bavaria, a distance of six | miles, has been sold as junk. — By BRIGGS TN nv, TABW