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Bank, Sbstucket St. Enlranca stairway near o Thames Telephone 38-3. SPORTING NOTES. Vin Campbell, outfielder with the Newark Federals last vear, has singed with the St. Louis Americans. Pitcher George Kalserling was noti- fied at his home in Steubenville, O., that he has been sold to the Deu‘oit Tigers by the Newark Federal League club. Charlottesville has greeted the ad- vance guard of the Washington Amer- ican League baseball team, consisting of eight pitchers, a ctcher, a trainer and two coache: In playing the American League clubs this season, Connie Mack, from time to time, will be opposed to vir- tually every man who played for him with the old champion Athletics. Joe Tinker says he will stake his professional reputation on what the Cubs do this vear. Tinker alredy has to live down that year at Cincinnatt without doing anything like that. .The Boston American League Base- ball club has announced that all American and National League clubs had waived claim to Forrest Cady and Chester Thomas, catchers, and Ray Collins and Joe “'ood pitchers. Jim Thorpe h going to swing at the ball lefthandedly this season. Since Jim usually swings and swings untfl the umpire tells him to stop his stance at the plate might be regarded as im- material. Such is not the case. Branch Rickey of the St. Louls| Browns has announced that a deal has been closed for the release of Walsh, third baseman; Drake, outfielder; Ru- ell, catcher, and Willett and Tillman, pitchers. to the Memphis club of the Southern league. The St. Louls team retains an option on Tillmon. Hal Vollmer and the other Colum- bia swimmers will meet Princeton for the first time this season at Princeton tonight. Coach Kennedy's men are in fine condition after their victory over Penn Saturday, except Captain Charlle Lee, who, however. is in bet- ter shape than he has been for some time. A rortable wooden track is to be lald down for the senior national cham- on March 18. With the high jumpers plonships at the 22d Regiment armory performing on a cork mat and the foot races contested over the new track, exceptionally fine performances are expected. A number of titles are sure to be carried West by the unusually strong entry of visitors. It is planned to open the season of the Eastern league in the Eastern association end of the circut. Tre New England clubs will be on the road 10 days before starting their seasons on their own flelds. Two games will be played by each visiting club in each city and the schedule committee is banking on good weather at this end to give the circuit an auspicious start. Joe Stecher, Nebraska mat wizard is offering_Alexander Aberg, champion Graeco-Roman wrestler, a chance to get rich quick. He offers to take on Aberg in a finish bout in any city in America, catch-as-catch-can, and if he can remain on the mat 15 minutes after the call of time he will give him $500. For every minute he stays after that he will give him $100. That, at least, is the way Stecher put it up at Chicago. ..Mike Gibbons, probably middleweight title holder, has sold his entire time for one year. The agreement went into effect yesterday. Mike gets $30,- Local Organizations Held Match at Aetna Alleys—Elks Win Two Out of Three—Moose Defeated Owls. The local Elks’ bowling team won two out of three games from the Knights of Columbus at the Aetna alleys on Thursday evening. Frost scored high single, 118 and high three- string total, 321, is credited to Sylvia. NICKALLS CONSIDERS YALE'S ROWING PROSPECTS BRIGHT Hopes to Get Crews on Harbor This Weew — Housatonic Course Advan- The scores: tageous. Elks i s f 89 118 97 — 304| Guy Nichalls, famous Enghsh 86 9 94 — 259 | coach of the Yale oarsmen, and who‘ 89 88 98 — 275 | has already developed two victorious 90 84 90 — 264 | crews in @s many years, can see noth- | 87 100 105 — 293 |ing to it this June but another cham- | TR —- —— |pionship over Harvard. He says that Totals ...... 441 469 485 1895 | the material here is good and althongh Harvard has seven veterans in the K. of C. (tihu;tbfldge eight a;d Yale lost four of St — 321 | their good oars the prospects never- B aemond .. 83 80 85 — 256 | theless ho considers bright. Riordan ...... 89 88 74 — 249| Nickalls hopes to get the crews out J. Desmond ... 111 92 85 — 288 | upon the harbor this week although D. Young .. 102 85 91 — 278 | of course he will have to wait until all —_ = = the ice gets out of the harbor. In Totals .. 484 469 439 1392 |speaking of the Housatonic course Moose Took Three Games In the match between the Mgose and | Owls, the former won all three games. about which much favorable comment | has been printed, Mr. Nickalls has said: “To my mind the Housatonic course R. Pardy had high total and Bl-|,yo;5 tremendous possibilities. The beault high single with 133. The| jior agvantage of it is that the crews BCote: will be able to row in calm water no Moose. matter how hard or in what direction Follentus . 93 86 86 — 265|the wind is blowing. We have not de- Kennedy . . 96 95 100 — Z‘m‘le\'rrnine(l accurately as yet the depth Andrews ...... 84 93 88 — 265|of the river. It may be too shallw to Pardy ..... . 120 116 99 — 335 | permit .wing at low tide in which Bibeault . 791 107 133 — 331 [case the practicability of the course —. —- — ——|will be greatly diminished. This is Totals ...... 4838 497 506 1486 | the only objection to the Housatonic 1\ which I know of and I intend to go up Owls there immediately to find out about it. Bush .......... 92 95 90 — 277 In any event three crews, the first and Dougherty . 86 88 88 — 262 | second university, and the first fresh- Bruckner ..... 89 92 95 — 276 |man crews will go up there imed- | Oat ... . 9% 81 95 — 266 | jately after Easter to prepare for the Aldt .. 1101 80 100 — 291 | Yale-Princeton-Cornell triangular re- | — —_— —— | gatta on Lake Cayuga on May 27. Of Totals 446 468 1372 course no action concerning the mov- ing of the Adee boat house to Derby can be taken this vear. It will be a very expensive proposition and to say g | the least it is exceedingly doubtful Gardner defeated J. Ferd PoggenburZ| wyether it could be done at all. A here tonight in the amateur b‘l“”nl:zcnz or a temporary wooden boat championship tournament by @ SCOre|},use will be constructed for the use of 400 to 348. The game lasted 50 In-|o¢ ne crews In the spring. Special Gardner Defeated Poggenburg. New York, March 3—Edward W. nings. The score: street car transportation will also be 73G2§d'3§r 400; average 8; high Tuns| ., ..;00q for in order to make the trip to and from the Housatonic as easy and quick as possible. “In regard to the schedule, the only disapointing thing about it is that we were unable to arrange a race with Columbia as we had hoped to do. Announcement of Prof. Abbott's ap- pointment as assistant professor of Latin in the college, together with the ement that he would assist Guy 1| Nickalls in rowing, came as a pleas- ing surprise o Yale men who knew Poggenburg 348: high runs 54, 47, 28. average 6 48-50; Jack Johnson Going to Spain. i London, March 3, 3:33 a. m—Jack | Johnson, ‘the negro pugilist, and his| wife left London last night for Co- runa, Spain. Johnson was ordered | last week to leave England. It w stated at the time that he would s: for South America. MARKET WAS DULL Session Closed With a Number Moderate Net Declines. Com Prod pr Crucible Steel of New York, March 2.—Efforts to lift the market out of its long-continued slough of depression were almost al- together futile today, prices moving with more or less uncertainty during the greater part of the dull s and closing with a number of mo ate net declines. ; The international situation and its attendant uncertainties, as reflected iu domestic political conditions, more than counterbalanced a variety of fa- r- Ore Subs € _cop en Expl mestake . Tilinots _ Central 0 Int Agricul vorable development These latter Tnt Agricul pr included increased copper dividends, e record buying of steel and iron, fur- Bl Gunir ther excellent statements of earninss Int Har N 3 br by railroads and industrial corpora- Int 3¢ A cats tions and the encouraging trade re- X wc view submitted by the federal reserve board. ‘Advances of substantial fractions to a point or more were registered at the opening and some specialties made greater headway, but these gains were soon forfeited on moderate selling or- ders. During the mid-session the ear- ly price level was regained and in Steel Rub & Tire . Lee 0 Lenigh Lig Lorilla: 0 wd P m some instances exceeded, mainly in consequence of the increased _dis- Yazwell 3 6o bursements declared on Utah, Butte 3 0 Maxwell M 2 pr and Superior and Chino coppers. May Dept Store. Trading dragged in the last half of MexPetol the session, but changes were mainly e downward though orderly. To the 0 Mo. Kan &T constructive side of the account the Power pr Mont Enam & 0 Nat Lead Nev_C Copper .. N Y Alr Brake ease with which prices receded on light offerings was most discouraging. Rails were less active than recently, but manifested more stability. U. Steel hung around yesterday's final quotations, its stolidness showing moderate accumulation. Total sales of stocks amounted to 390,000 shares. H Ontarlo_Stiver The most interesting news from | 6500 Pacide Mail . abroad was contained in cables tell- | 4o oy ™ % 1oL ing of the virtual closing of the Lon- Pitts Coal don metal market, to prevent further Pltts Steel pr speculation in copper and allied pro- Press Pull Quickstlver Ry Steel Sp Ray Con Cop Reading Reading rd pr . Rep I & Steel . Tep I & S pr . Shattuck A © . Seab A L pr 5 Sears Roebuck outh Pecific o P D Sug ducts. This occasioned no surprise in local circles, where the artificial char- acter of the foreign markets for those commodities had long been a matter of gossip. Another large gain In gold consti- tuted the chief feature of the Bank of England statement, _the increase amounting to about $5,400.000. change between London and this coun- try has now reached the level where Sl further imports of gold are highly im- Sl probable. Texas & Pacific Large net gains for January were Texas Co reported by Atlantic Coast Line and oSN ret J, i % Union Bag &P New Haven. 200 Union B & P pr Bonds, including Anglo-French 5's,| 600 Union Pacinc were firm. Total sales, par value, ag- | 100 Union Pac pr . grezated $3,255,000. 188 Uintiet iGiene TU. S. bonds were unchanged on call. | 150 Vatod rous 300 200 United Dy I STOCKS. Un Dy Iv pr 000 and agrees to enter into no bouts ! for one year, except those approved by the Capitai City athletic Club,, with which he made the conract Mike mgrees to fight three bouts during the year with fighters of his class, chos- en by the club In case Mike is knocked out or decisively beaten the contract is automatically nullified. CASTORIA For Infants and Children InUse For Over 30 Years Almyu bears slpwnd THE AETNA. BOWLING. BILLIARDS. MAJESTIC BUILDING. 7 Alleys. 6 Tables, 20 aaverusiag medium im comucu:n equal to The BIl- - 40r DUAIDOES FOSULLS. v | | H ey { den on March 2 |ed time and the attack ceased. |of a Federal law it is not likely that | moters tails of rowing, and will be a valuable asset to Guy Nickalls, who with Charles Wiman, of last year's eight, will be thoroughly equipped to carry out his ideas in the way of develop- ing EH oarsmen. The understanding last year was that Eugene Giannini, after a period of assoclation with Mr. Nickalls, would be prepared to step in and take over the work of coaching Yale crews; but he resigned his position of assistant coach and entered upon another oc- cupation. No one has said so, but the interference taken from Prof. Abbot's apointment is that In time, if he proves qualified, he will be the Yale head coach, thereby bringing the fac- ulty and rowing into some such re- lation as exisiis at Princeton, where Dr. J. Duncan Spaeth, of the English department, is the rowing coach. HARD FOR WILLARD TO REDUCE WEIGHT Surplus of Flesh Sticks Needs Like Glue— More Strenuous Work. After five days of training, Jess Wil- lard, the heavyweight champion of the world has discovered that he is not getting rid of his surplus avoirdupois as rapidly as he expected. In fact, Willard weighs just about as much as he did when he first came to New York. The champion and his manager, Tom Jones, realized Wednesday that the course of training that Willard has been following was not strenuous enough. In the morning, Willrad ex- tended the distance of his road work, and ran around Central Park until he had covered about eight miles. In the afternoon when he went to the Pioneer A. C. in Forty-fourth St., New York for his gymnasium work Jones decided that the champion's road work had been so hard that he would have to cut short his work in the ring. He boxed two short rounds with Jack Hemple and two shorter ones with Walter Monohan. Then the title holder was so tired that he glad- Iy hurried to his room to be rubbed do“- Cuairman Fred Wenck, of the State Athletic Commission, watched Willard box Wednesday, and was outspoken in remarking that the champion was far from being in the best of condition. Mr Wenck commented on Willard’s wind, which yesterday was very bad. He puffed hard after one round with Hemple and after his second round| with Monohan he was blowing like a porpois The chalrman of the Boxing Commis- | sion thinks that Willard needs some rough and ready sparring partners, as his exhibitions with Hemple and Mono- han are tame. Last Saturday after- noon Willard's boxing looked good. but it has developed that it was the same | kind of boxing that he did with Mono- | han throughout lase summer with Wild West show. Chairman Wenc was of the opinion that Willard would have to settle down to much harder routine if he expected to get into the best possible shape for his match with Frank Moran at Madison Square Gar- Tom Jones insists that the champlo is in good shape, in spite of his ap- pearance. Wednesday, in the ring, Wil- ard was slow and appeared tired. When he began to mix it up with | Monohan in his boxing bout and got away from the cut-and-dried boxing performance, the champion got sev- eral hard blows in the face which made him cautious. The work that Willard does in the ring at the Pioneer Sporting Club each afternoon is hardly enough to warm him up. He an dhis manager, Jones, have decided that he must have more strenuous boxing, and hey are al- ready searching mih new sparring | partners, Willard is anxious to get Al Relch into the ring with him. Willard, up to the present, has never | taken his boxing seriously. He is al- ways smiling at the efforts of his spar- ring partners to hit him. When they | do land with the ten ounce gloves he merely smiles. In the meantime Frank Moran, the challenger, is going through the most | strenuous kind of work in the cold and | snow at Saratoga. One feature of Willard’s boxing which was evident yesterday was that his guard was low. He protected his body fairly well but left his jaw open to the blows of his opponents. Time and_again Monohan hit the champion in the face, and in their first encount- er in the afternoon, when Monohan | was mixing it up merrily with Willard and landing on him, Tom Jones call- | I vel 15 upset over our challenge and|Could properly be done to avert Tias Statoa that he would whec $1000 | strike and tonight lcft for New Yor 3 that the Strangler could not throw him | Where they will confer with Generai alone in one hour. Now. here is my |Jarager Whaley of the New Haven r: We further agree to take|Troad. wager of $1,000, agreeing to for- e feit this extra thousand if Lewis fails| Great Non-Partisan AMERICA OBSERVES BABY WEEK, MARCH 4 ~11 Lewis Accepts Wager. Billy Sandow, manager of Strangler | cated the officials of the railroad with- |in a few days. Back of the demand Lewis, assures the Masked Marvel the | for recognition of the union are re- latter's wager of $1,000 that the|Quests for added wages and im Strangler cannot throw him inside of | Working conditions in connection with an hour is accepted. Sandow’s state- | Which, it is claimed, the road mana ment follows: | ment has refused to recognize the | federation. Federal Conclliator William Plack- man and Frederick G. Davis, Inter- | viewed union officials in this city to- day in an effort to determine what “Lewis has agreed to throw any four men, all inside of one hour, on Monday | night at Madison Square Garden, and we stand by that offer. “I understand that the Masked Mar- to throw him In fifteen minutes Mr. Masked Marvel, and we are five minutes the best of it. Now your challenge is ng you forty- Debate in Senate| | | (Continued from Page One) Grant Retires From Baseball. - 2 {In accord with the president:; Senator | New York, March cretary | 3 S . Lodge. the ranking republican, pledged John B. Foster of the New York Na- % - tonals, today confirmed a report that | DS SUDPOTt to the presidents determi- nation to secu ts on the h John Sharp Wil cans their . and Senator ams, just from a sick Eddie Grant, utility flelder of the Gi- | ants, had retired from baseball for the purpose of devoting his time to his| law practice in Boston. Grant entereq | 200 denounced the president’s oppo- the majors with the Philadelphia Na- Pents- tionals In 1807, was traled to Cinecin To Bring Up Resolution Today. nati_in 1911 “ased from| The senate adjourned until 11 o'cl the Reds by New York in 1913. tomorrow when the administrat leaders p o> bring up t Carter Wins Way to Semi-Fi nalx lution e it, thus disposing of | it N iai it finally as an embarrassment to the Cantos, Tmatiatiion Jais & pr nt in his conduct of diplomati; erayel | b st e b i negot ns with Germany. They have the spring gold tournament her n.ms b b e : be mustered against them. by defeating H. C. Fownes, > D R thers on reaoned the| In the house, where the preside | semi-finals were T2 SEn, SVease | B Saced - oalay; erbury; T. A. Kell Southern P'nr\‘ s il e and E. C. Beall. Uniontown. | Carter and Beall are matched to play | tomorrow. | action in Berlin. | the senate debated there came the state department from h convinced officials that on in consress was being ately t0 w dent's hand In ¢ any. | aavie ated t |in the German cap: | from Washington gress stood five Reports Current While SHOPMEN OF NEW HAVEN ROAD VOTE TO STRIKE news Berlin the dis used d to According to Announcement of Result of Referendum Vote. Boston, of the Ne | Hartfora ho are affiliated with craftsmen 1s hav ared t one at against con- to the It was announced Wednesday that the semi-final bout preceding the main ! contest at the Garden would bring to- | geher Battling Levinsky and Jim | Flynn, the Pueblo fireman. There will | also be two six-round bouts. | There was a good sized crowd on| hand to see Willard work Wednesday, those present including John D. Crlm-‘ mins and a party of friends. From present indications there will be no moving pictures of the bout | taken. Several promoters of picture concerns have considered taking on the {rights but as the pictures cannot be shown outside of this State on account they will be made. I'I'O BUILD EXTRA SEATS FOR WILLARD-MORAN BOUT All Seats Provided for in the Original Plan Have Been Sold. New York, March 2.—The state box- ing commission announced tonight that it had granted permission to the pro- of the Willard-Moran cham- pionship match to be held in Madison Square Garden March 25, to provide an extra row of box steas in the arena. It was said that all box seats provid- ed in the original plans have been sold and there is a_demand for more. The commission also announced that it had granted permission to Sam McVey, a negro pugilist, to accept an offer of $50 by Willard to anyone who can floor him during his training for the championship bout. Western Trotting Dates Here are the 1916 dates for the Great Western Trotting circuit, show- ing total purses for each meeting: The Great Western Circuit for 1916. 13200 U S. L_Alcohol 5 504 15 1500 Alfe™ chatmers 0 1. 5. "aiconot Tl ok 1600 Allis Chal pr 1200 VI Rubber . 49% 45 49 100 Am. Ag Chem 500 U. S. Rubber 1 DF . w7 107 50700 Am Beet Sugar T. 5. Steel 80y B0% 8000 Am. Can . U. 8. Fteel r 8% 15% 1600 Am. Car & F Utah Copper . 8% MY AN 200 Am. Coal Prod e Cor Chem 3 3 200 Am. Hlde &L Ya car Coe o 100 Am. H. & L pr 0 Va Car C 50 50 100 Am. Too Sec Wabash . 8% 13% 1700 Am Wabash pr A a3 4% 500 Am Wabash pr B 5% 2% 9800 Am. Locomo Wells Fargo 125 125 300 Am. Loco pr West Mary 26 26 200 Am. Melt pr West Un Tel 8% 88 6500 Am. Smelting Westinghouse 6% 1% 102 Am. Smelt pr ‘“‘_"’l“ & (1; E . “i‘\'v. ":h 100 Am. Smeit pr B 52 Over 2 2200 Am. Btec! Fary 200 Dillys-0. pr f p 102 102 400 Am Bugar 200 Wisconsin Cen 35 100 Am Sugar ¢ Total sales 389,665 shares. 200 Am. Tel & T 200 Am. Tel Tobacoo MONEY. 1500 A Woets s New York, March 2—Call money 200 Am. W P pr 6900 Amer zinc 12250 Anaconds 2200 Atchison 1250 Atchison pr 16000 Bald Loco 100 Bald Loco pr 1100 Balt _&Ohlo 200 Balt & Obio pr 500 Batopilas Min 872 Brooklyn R T . 9000 Butte & Sup steady; high 2; low 1 3-4; ruling rate 1 8-4; last loan 2; closing bid 1 3-4; offered at 2. COTTON. New York, March 2.—Cotton futures closed steady. March 1141; May 1155; July 1175, October 11%0;" December “Spot quiet; middling 1185. 1800 Can Pacific 600 Cent Teather . 100 Cent Leather pr . WHEAT Open. TFigh Low. Closs CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET. 900 Cbes & Ohlo u2% 0% iy 500 Chic M & St B . 109% 107% 108% h, % 134 7131528 700 Chile Copper 7500 Chino Con Cop . % 13% 3% ot Lol Ve 43 a 42 1518 . 148 Conmnl Gas ... af 8l 8 July 17-22—Cleveland, O. $32,000 July 24-29—Detroit, Mich. . 36,000 July 31-Aug. 6—Peoria, III. . 12,000 ‘Aug. 7-12—Galesburg, 1I 12000 ‘Aug. 14-19—Burlington, Ja. . 12,000 Aug. 21-26—Omaha, Neb. ..... 12, Aug. 256-31—Des Moines, I Sept. 4-9—Hamilton, Minn Sept. 11-16—Milwaukee, Wis. . Sept. 18-22—Springfield, IN .. 19,000 Sept. 25-30—Sedalla, Mo. ..... 15,000 Oct. 23-28—Alburquerque, N. M. ceae ... 15,000 < Ariz. Braves Leave for Spring Camp Boseton, March 2 — The offictal movement of the Boston Nationals players toward Miami, Fla., the team’s spring training grounds, began tonight when & small party left here for New York. George Tyler, a pitcher, was the only veteran member of the squad, which was in charge of Business Man- ager W. E. Hapgood. Most of _the layers are to join the party in New York. Others have bean guests at Manager Stallings’ plantation In Georgla for two weeks. Wagner to Manage Hartford. Hartford, Conn., March 2.—Charles H. Wagner, former shortstop of the Boston Americans, tt:dnny signed a contract to manage the Hartford team in the new Eastern Ledgue. lof { count was not comple: ederation. an American Labor organ animously n ry president Out of the senate debate ca strik- | which for the moment thre ognition | overshadow the real feature an_an- | contest and probably di ton the count of | basis for the agitation at a referendum recently taken. union officer: "“vh",, Gore Amazed Senate. ment said that the| Senator Gore, while the senate sat but had pro- t ¢ that Preside: th congres- ve no doubt This will be communi- ago had de- e a turn ened to of the ed the the capitol. ess: to =ain re union, accordinz to their of nouncement votes on Internatic made the announ gressed far enough t of the result. sional leaders a week | the sens. BeELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Onepa ] pmm it. 25cat ail drugglsts clared that Germany's insistence on position the submarine contro- 14 res in a relations: that y would be followed and that “a state of war might be of itself and of neces an to this re did not say the story but that it came to him with a concurrence of testimony and such marks of truth that he did not feel that he could dis- charge his duty as a senator and with- hoid it. rmam Stone of the forelgn reln- committee at once repHed that e president never had stated to him, that he belleved, ained the t war between the United Germany would be desirable or 4 result in good to the United States, When the White House heard what Senator Gore had sald, this staiement was Isened Ungua “When zed an terance to ould be at- s toward the pen. ator Jowes of W : ? ‘he ould be v\«-\lngton senator ca ARREST OF FIVE ALLEGED BURGLARS IN HARTFORD. One Gave Name of Louis Brown, Resi- dence New Lcndon. Har!ford Conn March The po- al r nown as wanted in New Yor men made no resis thei fc hah lank detectives tomorrow. o Y ZC LA PROVENCE % Le Provence, sunk in the Mediter- ranean with the loss of nearly 1,000 lives of French soldiers and sallors, oc- cupied the same position in the fleet of the French line as the {ll fated Luns- itania did in the Cunard line, an ‘when she completed her fastest trip . Bept. 13, 1907, was in active compe’ tion with that vessel. She made « that-occasion the fastest trip which u, to then had ever been made between New York and Havre, completing the run from port to port in 6 days, 1 'our and 12 minutes. She was then iWout cightedn months old. She beat "e Lusitania across on that occasion about one hour. Her fastest run for “~ day was 585 miles, which was not r behind the record of those times, 41 miles, made by the.Deutschland. La Provence was launched in 1906 at St. Nazaire. She displaced 13,752 tons and was 602 feet long, with a beam of 65 feet. She belonged to the Com- pagnie Generale Transatlantique and was for years one of the favorite lin- ers sailing out of New York. ince the beginning of the war she had been used by he French government for the transport of soldiers and munitions of! war.