Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 26, 1916, Page 3

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We understand New London has the Eastern League 1917 penmnant al- ready C)nchcd Frank Mordn proves that he is one of the most consistent losers in the heavyweight clas: It is certainly wrong for the mag- nates to expect their men to play baseball between meals. Since Jim O'Rourke from the Hastern has been s has retired League, buttermilk tched from the wine list. Ban Johnson has decided that if there is any writing to be done in the American league, he will attend to that. Ted Meredith will not quit the run- ning game this season, as first re- ported. Meredith will compete in many of the indoor meets and is said to be going to return to Sweden next sum- mer. BELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package provesit. 25cat all druggists, Announcing the most complete line of Magazines in Eastern Con- necticut. Subscriptions taken for every periodical here or abroad at the lowest rates that can be obtained anywhere. Also a choice line of Cigars out of the finest case in the city. 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Fortunately, the story about the short second period in the Yale- Harvard game puts a little spice into football statistics, especially as there has been some talk since then, of substituting a certain number of plays per quarter instead of a certain period of time, as is now the rule. Such a step would be so radical that there is great doubt of it receiving rec- oginition if adopted. It would neces- sarily change the generalship of foot- ball as it Would fail of its purpose to speed up the bame. Indec?, there seems no logical ground for it because the one game- (Yale-Harvard) which is supposed to be the cause of this talk was more rapidly played than the other big Kastern contests this fall Statistics prove that in it thero were 175 plays, 89 in the first half. to 86 in the second, rather a startling compar- ison when the kick about the short second quarter is recalled. The Yale- Princeton game had 156 plays, the Penn-Cornell 146 and such epocal bat- tles as the Brown-Colgate and Har- vard-Brown contests went to 129 and 134 plays only. It is unfortunate that I do not have a similar record of the Pittsburg team in its major games. It's high speed of play and the fact that it had little punting to do would place it ncar the top. The strange thing about the figures given above is that the Yale-Harvard game was the most rapidly played in spite of the fact that these two tcams punted 37 times and attempted 17 for- ward passes, two styles of play that unquestionably costume _mcre time than the running attack. Indeed, Ilar- vard used the forward pass as much in its Yale and Brown games as Penn- sylvania in it Cornell fame, theugh with far less effect. The Crimson passes lacked solid planning and trust- ed too much to praver to make them ed too much to prayer to make them successful. The fact that some of the Harvard passes were incompleted be- cause the ball was passed from a dis- tance back of the line short of the necessary five yards is proof of this. Based on the records of the fiv games here recorded the average num- ber of runs, kicks and forward passes in a full game is 148, 74 to each half, snd by actual compilation the average number of plays actually run off in each half half of these five mes was ex each half of these five games was ex- actly that number. Well traine@ foot- ball players, therefore do 1ot tire after the first half. In fact biz zames usually prove the opposite” if points are to be considered. The best.team of two makes most of ifs points in the second half and in_ close gd¥e: last quarter is the deciding ome. curately kept figures of the play Washington and Jefferson this past fall in all games also proved this con- clusively. This eleven 247 points to 100 by oppone period was the fourth, w ed 73 to 68 in the first, a perlod bkad everything in its favor minor games, for after it w: substitutions were frequent. And also the last period was its strongest de- fensive one, this in the fact of the fact that the eleven averaged onder 165 pounds. Football men have long superior weight is of adv: team. Even those wh forward pass as a p! set this advantage cannot facts. The statistics of play in our big games rather clearl deight advantage actually else being equal. If a player weighing from 10 t pounds less than another is tac when carying the ball by the heavier boy he is thrown backwards. Fort- unately the rules give him the farth- est point forward, so he does: ot loss ground after being tackled. Buf when he tackles the heavier man in turn carries for- rad hi slength about two yards, be- 'ore he is downed. There are excep- tions to this, but all else but weight being equal, that is the two players having equal speed and football knowl- edge—this must invariably be true. This two-yard loss, and it is a two- yard loss in each play of the game, becomes a tremendous ‘thing to con- jure with when we multiply it by the over means, all Open Fnutball Fmdmg'flnre Favar | Statistics Show That the Use of the Pass is Bemg Developed by Big Teams, Says Sol Metzger, Coach Washington and Jefferson Football Team. number of plays in a fabe — 148. It gives a total near 300 yards, which is just about the advantage a team which outweighs another 15 pmmdi or more actually has in a game, all else, speed, knowledge, etc, being . equal This 300 yads is times the length of the fleld, and as the average kick-off goes to the 20-yard line, it comes mighty near being four touch- downs. Of course, if we reduce this 38 plays, the average number of punts and forward passes used in a big game, we can take about 80 yards off the total advantage; but this is scarce- ly justificable for the reason that weight counts in tackling in open play as much as at any other time. - Open football proved decidedly: more popular the past fall. The average number of forward passes in the five games mentioned was 17 to 21 punts. Harcard used the pass as much as Penn or Cornell and Yale paved the way for victory in several cases by use of this attack. Harvard and Yale, in their game, did more punting than other teams, more than 1-5 of their plays being punts, whereas in the Harvard-Brown game but 11 punts were used, Brown, owing to-it sstrong attack, punting but four times. Sta- tistics prove that a weak running at- tack or a light team depends-mostly on the punt and forward pass and that the vunt is the favorite play of big teams in the all important game. (Copyrighted 1916, by Sol Metzger.) NATIONAL PASTIME HARDEST NERVE STRAIN OF ALL. Freddie Schupp Tells of the Effect of a Close Game on the Nerves of the Big Leaguers. Having led the National league In pitching, last season, Ferdie Schupp, the Giants’ clever voung left-hander is a big noise in his own home town, which hapvens to be Louisvilic, Ky. Ferdie now gets into print through other means than'a little line in the box scores showing he had-succecded his fellow Schush brother, Rube Schauer, as pitcher to a Giant Gefeat. Terdie gave an interview to a Louis- ville scribe the other morning, through which in a column of space he inform- ed. his fellow townsmen what a nerve cking zame baseball is “Schuppie” that if fans who make a practice watching ball games get an idea that baseball is all play they have the wrong angle. As Ferdinand col'ccted | splinters on the Giant bench for thran seasons and a half before his left hand- curves made the National league . he had a splendid chance to dq a. sit up in the second half of last sea- lot of close observation. “Does the average fan motice the amount of energy nerve force and brain power a ball player going at full speed uses in the course of a season’s play?” aueries Ferdie. *I say brains because the modern player uses brains in large quantity. Take such piavers as Cobb, Speaker and Maranville, and wr th of the remarkable mnervous force they expend during the course of a game. Cobb consumes more en- ergy in a two-hour game-of a ball than the average business man does in three working days. Coupled with his mreat natural ability, Cobb pushes to the front with his brains and reserve nerve force. whom the game robs of all youthful powers long before they grow old. “As an_example in our own lengue there is Maranville of the Braves, a tle fellow who is regarded as one of the game's leading stars. What Maranville lacks in physical strength he makes up by a great stock of ner- vous energy. Long before the Rabbit rows old he is bound to feel the strain he is now working under. “To come to the point—ball players such as are real players, actually are selling their youth. A business man may have more brain power than the average ball player, but the strain of hcurs of work with him is not nearly es trying as what a player goes through in ore contest. “It might interest the fan to get a close look at a ball plaver in action. Most plavers have wrinkles under their eves and the eyes are constantly squinting. Off the field the players do not get rid of the wrinkles which are The photograph illustrates one of the fro mthe rabbit’s blood is bwnght into methods used in municipal chemical laboratories to protect the inhabitants of ' cities from the substitution of one kind of meat for another—for .ex- ample, the substitution of horseflesh for beef. This is the precipitin test, which is made from the blood " of a certain kind of animal is injected into a rabbit, after a few weeks the serum close contact with a solution of the meat that s tested. If it is the meat of an animal of the same kind as the one from which the original serum was made there will be a precipitate in the the solution. If the meat is different there will be no precipitate. The sub- stance in the serum that causes pre- cipitation is called precipitin, It is such men as Cobb | ors a fellow it is no more than natural that they get all they can out of it Baceball creates and breaks its heroes all within the period of a few short years. When a ball phy‘r drifts out ol the Illn.uxh( his past no matter how ‘rui. never buy Mm the vrlee ot a ml& Ferdie, it ?ll bfll phyer thmw '.he nerve force nto their play which Cobb, Speaker and Maranville throw into fil&fi! Few ball players have the good fortune to develop into Cobbs or Speakers, but it is the duty of all to give their best to their game. Unfortunately, despite Ferdi Schupp and his lecturs on nerve force a great many players loaf- ed perceptibly during the past three seasons on their three year iron bound non-breakable contracts. It is also interesting to note that the players vwho work the hardest last the longes. Statisticians have figured the average life of the big league player in five years. Cobb, with eleven years of big league ball behind him, still is the same wizard at 30 that he was at 25. Speaker at 33 led the league, while Wagner, Plank and Lajoie, all past 40 finished successful seasons. No pitcher in the gama ever used up more nerve force than Plank, yet his sixtcenth vear in the big leagues he pitched one stretch last summer during which he permitted only five hits in three nine- inning bames pitched within eight days. In the event that Bill Carrigan cans rot be coaxed out of retirement the rext manager of the Red Sox will be Roger Bresnahan, part owner of the Toledo club, and former manager of the Cardinals and Cubs. A baseball man just back from the American league meeting in Chmicago is authori- ty_for that statement. ‘While Brasnahan has entensive in- terests in the Toledo club, this nerson says Roger would sever them in a moment if he got a chance to get back into the big leagues as a marager. Bresnahan always has felt he got a raw deal when he was crowded- out of the Chicago club to make room for Tinker, and nothing would suit him better than to _head a club like the Red Sox. EMERALDS DEFEAT G TEAM OF MANCHESTER ing Game Ends With in Lead, 43-29. (Special to The Bulletin.) Willimantic, Dec. 25.—A large crowd witnessed the second game of the sea- son between the Emeralds of this city and the G team of Manchester in the old armory on Valley street Monday evening. The local boys carried off the honors in this contest by the score of 43 to 29 which gives each team one game of the two played. The zame was fast and furious from start and on more than one occasion the fans were brought to their feet by the clever team work of the Emeralds, who led throughout the game. Hig- gins and Lewis, both of whom scored seven baskets frcm the floor, starred for the loeals while Crochett and Madden were the ones to stand out in _the G team lineup. The preliminary game between the 7 Birds and the corner gang was a closely fought contest, the former winning by the score of 30 to 24. The lineup for the main attraction was as follows: Emrealds G Team Chappell ...:...ccvssagones Finnegan Left forward Riley, Higgins .............. Crochett Right forward Lewis Left guard Goals from the floor: Emeralds Kearns 1, W. Kearns 1, Lewis 7, E gins 7, Chappell 3, Riley 1; G team, Finnegan 3, Crochett 4, Fap 3, Mad- den 4; foul baskets: Emeralds, Hig- gins %, Lewis 1; G team, Peterson 1. JEWETT CITY PUTS OVER VICTORY ON CAPITAL CITY FIVE J. Ben Hur Team Goes Down to Defeat by the Score of 48 to 38. (Special to The Bulletin.) Jewett City, Dec. 25.—The basket- ball fans of the town who attended the game at the Bijou witnessed the fastest game vet played on the local floor ‘when the Jewett City five, came out with the long end of a 48 to 38 score, the Ben Hurs being their op- ponents. All praise is due to the Hartford side, who put up a fast, clean game and proved to be good losers. Blake and W. Benjamin, who are home for the holidays, were the headliners in the shooting department, while Martin and Daly and C. Be min were there with a fine exhibition of passing. The Ben Hurs led by five baskets at the end of the first half but the locals came back in the final period and caught up and passed the visitors in the vrst few minutes of play. Crenin and Gustafson star- red for the Ben Hunrs. The lineups: Jewett City—Left forward, C. Ben- jamin: right forward, Blake: center. Martin; _right guard, Daly; lefg guard, W. Benjamin. ‘Ben Hurs—Cronin left forward. Ot. telt right forward, Johnson centei, Larsen right guard, Gustafsen left guard. Baskets, for Jewett City W. Ben- pamin 6,/ Blake 7, Marin 3, Daly 4, C. Benjamin 3; Ben Hurs Croain 10, Ot- telt 4, Larsen 1, Gustafsen 2; fouls for Jewett City, W. Benjamin and_ Martin 1; Ben Hurs, Gustafson 2. Referee, Gingrass, Timer and scorer, Griffin. BASEBALL PLAYERS FEEL THE TOUCH OF TIME [Many of the “Grand Ol Men” “Will Be Seen No More on the Diamon. ‘While there was nothing remarkable about the 1916 baseball season in it- self, nevertheless in years to ccme it lkely will be the most talked of season of any since baseball became the na- tional pastime. Probably ten years from now a promintly basebail man may say, “Yes, it was 1916 that the great Mathewson pitched his last game. The kids of Today think they know something about pitching, but the beloved Matty had it on them all. “Yes, it was in a game with his greatest rival, Mordecal Brown, that Mathewson made hig last appearance on the mound. The great miner also shed his uniform after the same game, ‘What a pair they were, Christy Math- ewson and Miner Brown. Another old-timer, may interrupt: “Yes, and it was in 1916 that old Nap Lajoie played his last big league game ‘What a wonder Larry was! How he could biff '.ham! Thay called him the King Larry, and he was monarch of them all. And old Rhody Wallace quit in the same year, 1916. They talk about boys who can whip the ball around—why, after Rhody the Scot 'was in the game for 22 seasons, he still could 'throw with the best of them.” “It also was in 1916 that old Nap Rucker turned in his uniform,” a third fan with Brooklyn leanings may com ment. “Left handers may come and go, but as for Rucker was the grea: ‘What a tragedy h!lea.reerm! He wore out his arm pitching for years ‘I“bldlmd '1 division elnb'.hwhon ‘hll clul n a pennant the old fel- low was through.’ How many fans have observed thel “'l‘lm i.lfe of 'I‘l\e Party” : promotes’ good Delk!loul as !t is, it refresh- fying wholesome Cheer and good feeling to the occasion. Bass Ale On Draught and In Bottle Everywhere . Bass & Co,, Importers, 90 Warren St., New York — e loss the game has suffered In one sea- son? With the exception of llonus Wagner and Sam Crawford, a‘ one swoop Father Time collected a!l the grand veterans of the game—Christy Matthewson, Miner Brown, Napoleon Lajoie, Rhody Wallace and Nap Rucker. 'o_this list it may be necessary to add two pitching wizards who assist- ed Connie Mack in winning six league pennants and three world's series— Eddie Plark and Chief Bender. Plank, despite his age, still is a capable pitcher, but he has announced that if the St. Douis Browns do not trade him to an Eastern club he will retire. £t. Louis has offered him to the Yan- kees for Fritz Maisel. but the propo- sition was declined. Toronto’s refusal to release a rookie infielder to the Phil- lies has blocked a deal by whick Ben- der was to go to the Canadian city city as manager. ‘Will any one figure how many games a manager would have lost ten years ago had he a pitching staff consist- ing of Matthewson, Brown, Bender and Plank, also Nap Rucker, and a second base combination with. Wallace at short and Lajoie at second” Rucker really is a baby among those veteran players, for just ten years ago he was drafted by Brooklyn and dreaming ‘of a big league career. Of the players mentioned, Wallace was first to start in the big league. He began as a pitcher with the Cleveland Nationals in 1895. Lajoine landed the following vear, 1896, with the Phillies, and four years later, 1900, Mattic join- ed the Giants. Plank came next, bob- bling up with the Athletics in 1911 ana Bender and Erown both came intq the big league in 1903, the chief wilh the Athletics and Brown with the St. Louis Cardinals. Rucker started his career in Brooklyn in 1907. The passing of these men leaves only Wagner and Crawford of the real old boys still in the game and Father Time has a clutch on both. The veter- en Wagner will vacate the position in which he won most fame, shortstop, next season, and will rou=4 out his ca- reer at first base. Sam Crawford was relieved of active duty in Detroit last season and put into the pinch hit re- serve. Wagner started with the Louisville Nationals in 1895 and Craw- ford’s first big game assienment was with the Cincinnati Reds in 1990. Governor Tener of the National league recently remarked: “I cannot how the playing end of the game is going back. The plavers are smarter and discover rew tricks all the time.” But where, governor, are the pitchers who will take the places of Matty, Brown, Plank, Bender and Rucker. and what young players are being groomed to fill the posts held by stars of the calibre of Lajoie, Wallace, Wagner and Crawford BRITISH PREMIER MUST LET BUSINESS TAKE PLACE OF GOLF David Lloyd George Great Enthusiast Over Golf — Duties Prevent His Playing. There is one golf enthusiast in the world today, cne of the game’s keenest tlayers, who has to smash an old maxim. Briefly he has been forced to ‘et business intérfere with golf. We refer to David Lloyd George. Lloyd George, when time and destiny permitted, rarely missed a chance to cet ir 18 holes. And, the one fciger. above all others with whom he en’oyed a round was the late James Braid. Not that the English statesman had a game that could in any way interest the game of Scotland’s greatest golfer. But for all that Braid enjoyed his round with the premfer as much as the prem- fer enjoved playving with Braid. For they entered the match or the round as great men in their different fields. The premier had the highest respect #nd admiration for the big golfer, for the rugged cualities in Lloyd George's nature—those qualities which consider ne odds as insurmountable—feund a parallel in Braid’s play. Of all the golfers, Braid was the one who revelled most in pulling off 2 sup- posedly impossible shot. He liked the leng carries that called for both power and direction. And no one enjoyed these almost impossible recoveries more than his companiog through many friendly rounds over Walton Heath For the time being, at least, i.loyd George’s clubs have gone to their lock- er for rest. His case has proven that there are just a few situations where business must be allowed to take place over the old game. But there are two golf maxims. he has carried into his statesmanship. One is “Keep your eve on the ball.” The other, “Never up—never in." Those who have seen him play say that while by no means ® good golfer. he always gave the ball a chance, and that his mistakss were not those of a flatering touch or a timid approach. The English premier is not tha only one who will miss Braid. The Scotfsh star enjoyed the friendshlp and respect of many of the big men of his country. 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These typified the best things in goif, for they required not only the physical punch, but the nerve and the steady hand that make for direction as well us distance. shots to him Cooper Wins 50-mile Race. Los Angeles, Calif., Dec. 25.—Farl Cooper won the fifty-mile match race at the - Ascot Speedway here today, covering the distance in 4441, an ave rage of 6713 miles an honr. Eddie Pullen finished second behind Cooper. Wilbur @’Alene, the only other en- trant, lost control of his car in_the second lap and crashed through a fence. He was slightly injured. one George Stovall, former firebrand of the Federal league, will quit baseball unless he can land a job as manager of a Coast league club, according to his statements to friends in Los An- geles. It is thought that Stovali will be considered for the leadership at Vernon when Tom Darmody closes for (he club. 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