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Dunn’s Pharmacy 50 MAIN STREET of | | | | i \ l on List. g E High school students led other vic- t.ms in football casualties, 9 of the 13 FULTON LOSES FIGHT ON FOUL Heavyweight Title Claimant Ruled Against by Referee in Bout With Harry Tate at in First o~ ~ Little Rock, Ark, Dec. 26 —Harry (Texas) Tate was fouled by Fred Fulton of Rochester, Minn., in the first round of a scheduled ten round bout here today. Fred Fulton, claimant to the world’s heavyweight championship, lost his bout” here today with Harry (Texas) Tate of Nowata, Okla., in the firdt round by a decision of Referee Billy Baack, who ruled that . Fulton was using foul tactics. Soon after the start of the fight, which was scheduled for ten rounds, Fulton floored Tate as they were com- ing out of a clinch. Club officials de- clared the blow had been a foul, but the referee warned Fulton and the fight was resumed. Near the end of the round, after a clinch, Tate was thrown through the ropes into the crowd. Referee Haack then stopped the bout and censured Fulton. Tate’s back and head were slightly injured by the fall. The crowd would not lis- ten to Fulton when he attempted to speak from the ring. . FANS DISSATISFIED WITH RECENT DEAL St. Louis Rooters Warn Branch Rickey —Philly Followers Threaten to Boy- cott Teams. The methods of frenzied finance which are being adopted by club owners in the major leagues are al- ready causing much unrest among baseball fans which will have a seri- ous effect on the game next summer. The latest blast from the fans comes from St. Louis, where they will pre- sent a petition to President Branch Rickey warning him that if he sells Rogers Hornsby to the Cubs they will not go near the National League Park. It is expected that the peti- tion will have more than 50,000 names when presented to Rickey. In Philadel- phia the fans are preparing to show their disapproval of the methods of both clubs by withdrawing théir pat- ronage. The big offers which are made to ball players excite dissatisfaction among the clubs and create a lot of bad feeling, which often breaks up the harmony of a team. This happened a few years ago when Manager McGraw of the Giants made a big offer for Sherwood Magee of the Phillies. When thé Phillies refused to let Magee come to New York he was dissatisfied and has never played as well since. Now he has been conditionally " realeased by the cinnati Reds. The frequent made for Alexander caused friction amiong the players on the Philadelphia Club and it was partly because of this that Baker Je- cided to sell him. The fans in Cin- cinnati now fear .that the big offers Weegham has made for Groh will cause Heinie to become restless and want to be shifted where he can get more money. It is the same in St. Louis. So many big ofiers have been made for Hornsby that this player is beginnig to believe that there are several teams which cannot gei. along without him and he will be more per- sistent than ever about forcing his claim ror a three-year contract at 10,000 a vear- o« 3 The action of the Philadeiphia - and Chicago clubs in carrying out their big deals is_in direct violation of the ad- vee of Presdent, Tener , who point- ed out to the ciub owners at the meet- ing here last week the folly of making sale of star plavers in such unsettled times. and although both Baker- and Weegham apparently approved of President Tener’s suggestions while they changed their minds immediately after leaving the segret chamber, for they agreed on the terms of the lex- ander-Kilifer sale a short time after leaving the National League meeting. offers which of the were Phillies FOOTBALL CLAIMS 13, Nine of Victims Came from High School Elevens—No College Players victims of the great college game for 1917 being high school vouths. Not _a college football player: rumbered in the victims. Of the other four, one was a mem- ber of a navy vard team. two belonged :o0 college freshmen teams and one was a professional player. The 13 Qeaths this year, while not setting a new low record, showed that the danger in the game has been low- ereds as it is estimated 50 per cent. taore football has been played this year than ever before, the increase being caused by games at army camps. It is of interest to note that of all the thousands who played football at can- tonments and camps there was dnly one casualty, that at the,Charleston navy yard alreadv mentioned. The lowest number of deaths- from football during a season was in 1911 when a dozen casualties were recorded. Last year there were 17 victims. The other figures ranged from 13 in 1907 to 32 in 1909. ‘The following deaths resulted from football during the 1917 season: Oct. 8—George A. Blewett of Los Angeles, at Berkele: rhage. - Oct. 13—Guy Henry. Athens. Tox., high school student: internal injuries. Oct. 30—Fivin Anderson Tri!xldnd, Colo.; high school rlaye spinal in- Juries. Nov. 3—F. F. Boyes Charleston, S. C. navy yard; concussion of krain. Nov. 12—Harold A. Holtz Indianap. was brain hemor. —— |olis, high school boy; internal iniuries. | Nov. 15—Thomas Ryan, _Alvardo, '_.|‘.',er_l high school boy; internal in- juries. Nov. 15—Harry Leidendecker, Cham- paign, IIl, high school boy; internal injuries. Nov. 15—Roy Groues, Wilsonville, internal in- Nov. 16—Roscoe Batten, Hastings, i‘:‘efib;’.hi‘h school boy; internal in- Nov. 18—Charles Perstand, atudent at Pennsylvania Military acad. zul;z; ruptured blood vessel of the n. Nov. 26—ETlis Hamilton, 17, Detroit; internal injuries. Conn.; wiLLIAm o day,£alis. 38 Hickory $i.. Norwich ~Wiittkatore Crgars Will be $3.90 a 10 from Oct. 1st, 1917. $2 for a box of 50, Same rate per thousand. g, ConaNT, Tuner « A2 Glairmount Ave. .y Massake and General Nursing, Night [qy; Loda, 0 | Marne Nov. 29—Harry Deloff, Detroit; fractured skull . F—Howard 'Wylie, Paxton, brfi)!:.en back, received in game in Hero Wins Paris Swim in Freezing Weather. ‘Paris, Dec. 25.—Gerard Meister, who was five times wounded in the battle of the Marne, today won the annual Christmas swimming contest across the River Seine, a distance of 350 yards. The temperature stood at about the freezing point and the bridges, and s, | Panks of the Seine were crowded with your bus- no spectators who cheered the swimmers | 25 they plunged throush the icy water, Meister won this event in 1913, Round—Crowd Refused to Listen to Fulton. Little Rock—Foul Committed - U. OF P. ANNOUNCES FOOTBALL SCHEDULE. Warner's Pets Have Eight Games to Wade Through. Eight games will be played by the University of Pittsburgh football elev- en. |eastern ions last \meason, during the fall of 1918, according to the schedule issued last night, which bears the official sanction of the ath- letic council. card is one of the most attractive in_the history of the Pittsburghers, as follows: ‘Oct. 5, Carlisle Indians at Pitts- | West Virginia _uni- versity at Pittsburgh: Oct. 19, Syra- cuse university at Syracuse, N. Y. Oet. 26, University of Pennsyivania at Pittsburgh; Nov. 2, Lehigh university at Séuth Bethlehem, Pa.; Nov. 9, Washington and Jefferson at Pitts- burgh; Nov. 16, Carnegie Tech at Pittsburgh; Nov. 28, Penn State col- lege at Pittsburgh. FULTON’S MANAGER GIVES SOME PERTINENT FACTS Enumreates Nineteen Reasons Why Willard Must Meet His Man. In enumerating the reasons why Willard should meet Fred Fuiton in a title match, the manager of the Min- nesota plasterer makes these points: 1—Fred Fulton has knocked out every heavyweight he has met in the past two vears. 2—Willard has had one 10-round bout in the past two years and didn't knock any one out. 3—Fred Fulton is a young and per- fect athlete of 26 years. Jess Willard is a man of 40. 4—Who did Willard ever beat out- side of Jack Johnson? 5—Fred Fulton knocks man he hits and hits. every fights. 6—Jess Willard knows it. 7—Fulton easily beat Willard in a three round exhibition on May 10, 1915, at Rochester, Minn.. Tom Jones pulled the bell gr there would have been a new champion at that time. 8—Wilard still remembers reason No. 7. 9—Fulton has improved 500 per cent. since that time. 10—Willard has sure gone back. 11—Willard perfectly understands reasons Nos. 9 and 10. 12—Fred Fulton has a greater K. O. record than any heavy weight cham- pion of all time. (See Record Book). 13—Wilard knows he cannot beat Fulton. 14—Willard knows that Fulton can easily omtbox him. 15—Willard knows that Fulton is the next heavyweight champion beyend question. 17—Willard knows that Fulton has the longest, greatest, fastest, cleverest. hard hitting left hand that was ever u'ossessed by any heavyweight of all time. 18—In view of above cold, plain facts lard prefers to hide himself and his title behind the guarded walls of a cir- cus tent. 19—Fulten is open to fight any man in the world, winner to take all any time or place. New World'® Record Set by Chevrolét Bakersfield, Cal., Dec. 25.—What was said to be a new world’s automobile Glenn out every man he all of ciréular dirt track was hung up in a race here today by Louis Chevrolet, who_ defeated Barmey Oldfield and Ed- die Hearne, his time being 3 minutes 48 seconds. clipped a second off the world's record h\'dnegoliafing the mile in 45 2-5 onds. d for Foul. Providence, R. 1., Dec. 25.—After re- peated fouling tactics and = cautions from Referee Gardner.” Walter Mohr of Brooklyn was disqualified in the eighth round of his twelve round bout with Soldier Bartfield here this after- noon. The fight was fakrly even for four rounds, Bartfield’s better. condi- tion finally asserting itself. Mohr Disqualifiec ., Zbyszko Defeats Mussane. Boston, Dec. 25.—Wladek -Zbyszko, the Polish wrestler, defeated Youssuf Flussane in a wrestling match an- rounced as for the world’s heavy- weight title here tonight. Zbyszko won the first fall in ond hour and 40 minutes. His opponent was unable to continue. RUPPERT TRIED TO BRING SISLER TO NEW YORK Wanted Sisler, Pratt and Lavan in Ex change for Nunamaker, Peckinpaugh and a Few More Yankees. —— Col Jacob Ruppert, president ‘of the | Yankees, on his return from French Lick Springs, Ind., revealed some of the inner working of the big deal he tried to swing at the American league meet- ing in Chicago last week, attempted to bring Cobb’s leading rival ! baseman, ivan to New York in a wholesale swep i involving Pipp, Peckinpaugh, Nuna- makers, Maisel, Gedeon and the pick | of the New York miteners. “I was disappof ii.lla.bflfl.v to put that Sisler-Pratt- Lavan deal over.” said Ruj It wouid have been a great for the Yankees. Sisler would be a great l;mra in Ne‘: York . At one time looked as though we could it the transaction over, mlfil“ i ball today, ficlder and cleanup hitter, peik of our pitchers. the few first basemen wh Pipp’s place. . which one. He-is to report th> extent of his dickerings - oW X i A . “We still are out to strengthen the record for five miles on a one mile | In a trial lap officially timed Oldfield | club at all costs, and believe sooner or later something wil break favoral for us.’” rem St. Louis vesterday camc the anvour.cement that Huggins ha dbeen in another conference with Busiress MManager Quinee of the Browns on that suliject of Derrell Pratt. Quinn = after the conference that Huggins had made a tentative offered for Pratt but that the player Husgins ofiered in exchange was not the player the St. ouis club was after. SPORTING NOTES Lew McCarty is still suffering from the kink in his shoulder, which he in- jured during the Ilate, and by many. lamented, worid’s seri According to recent figures Trinity ranks second among the colleges of the country im respect to the per-; centage of her student body who have enlisted. Yale is first. Rabbit Maranville of the Boston Braves has been appointed coach of | the Boston navy vard basketbail team He also will play on the five along with other baseball star: Clark Griffith isn’t going to take any chances with his Washington players. He's looking around for a number of minor league piayers to protect him- self and his uclb if the draft starts to get busy with his outfit. Baltimore is elated with its pros- rects of having a genuine big league | team represent it. Chances are that | the nationsl commission will favor tne | idea too. and then next summer will| see Baltimore mentioned in the daily sport sheets. H We can't help wonder, though, whether Baltimore hotel owners are going to charge the players as much for accommodations as they did those unfortunate individuals who were compelled to stop over for the national democratic convention [ On Oct. 15 he passed his 3th birth- Cay, and he stands forth as a living monument of what athletics will do for a man. Although it has been 2! since he has engaged in a boxing bout, he is still active. e is still spry on his feet and has more emergy than many men who are much yvounger. Food regulation is to become a reg- ular item on the Yankees’ training schedule, accordinz to Miller Huggins. The Yankee manager is convinced that Lall plavers as a rule eat too much. Will Mr., Huggins please rise and tell the assefhbled class how anvbody can eat too much with prices as they are at present? The athletic ‘authorities of Croshy igh school in Waterbury have their troubles. The latest is the demand of the rifle team for the right to wear the school letter. At that, it's no worse than at Bartlett in Webster, where the letter is awarded the dra- atic club and the manager's stenog- ~apher. It's up to Grover Cleveland ‘Alexa: der to play his hand now. He has i sisted right along that he must have $10,000 of the money paid to purchase him from the Athletics, and now President Baker of the Philadelphia club has come out wi‘h a flat refusal |to comply with the demand. Alexan- der has already signed a contract with Weeghman. Plans for a series Lasebail games between the Boston Nationals and the New York Ameri- cans. to be plaved on their way homs from. southern training camps in April have been announced by Walter E. (®lapgood. business manager of the Boston club. - The Boston team will train at Miami._ Fla. and the New York plavers at Macon. Ga. of exhibition x Of all the champions who have ruled in the ring. there is none who has en- ioyed more popularity than John I.. Sullivan. Tn the '80s and eariy '90s he was the idol of all. There is a saying in sport that a mar's popularity dies when he retires from active participa- tion—that he is soon forgzotten. It is inot so with John L. Wherever he 8oes he is still hailed as one of the greatest fighters of all time. The success of last year's tour of the Praves and Yankees. when some =mall cities that never before had seen 2 major league ball club were visited has led to a number of requests for dates next spring, but mone are to be Put your Christ money gift into a Victrola for the New Year o et peic s IR That money gift you received—no matter how small or how large—will bring you untold dividends in days to come if invested in a $5.00 Victor Records, your choice. $5.00 Victor Records, your choice. $5.50 of Victor Records, your choice. $10.00 of Victor Records, your choice. 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The deaths of were reported The men were: live tion” and of a_ third { ceived in action al by General Pershin Caney, Meaders. November 13, father o Meaders, Mevers, infantry. killed ember 18, emergency addres Miles (friend) Indianapolis Earl E®Aurand. died Novem from wounds. mother, Mrs. Aurand, Harrisb try. was kilied December plosion. and Private John B. ammunition tr died December from gunshot wounds. Kosthade's father, William Kostbade, lives at Ho- part, Ind.. and White's father, ( ‘nelius White, lives in New York. , These deaths from natural causes were reported by Genera] Persh- Sergeant Charles E. Galavan. tele- announced until early in January. . It is net unlikely that a few of the | routhern cantonments will be visited | Ly the teams. In all, 10 or 12 games will be played during the *first two weeks in April. And this in spite of the fact that John L. for a long time was a gay liver. For long he basked in the daz- zling glow pf the white lights and ab- sorbed more than his share of the joy water. But 'all is past The veteran heavyweight champion has turned over a new leal He is lined up against strong drink. He- is fighting John ‘Barleycorn, and his friends de- clare that he is winming in points, with an exceHent chance of putting over a knockout. MAKING OF HERZOG UP TO MANAGER With” Right Manager He Would Rival Colline—Temperentually Unsuited For Contract With McGraw. Tempernrent, some of ‘em call it. Maybe it is — and then again, may- be you might say a mule’s general| attitude toward temperamént. 0 pera - consideration of the latest move of Charles Lincoln Her- %0g, second and fleld cap- tain of the New York Giants. o says he will not play ball with Mc- Graw. ference with his- way of running & ball club. He is manager, the highest paid manager in baseball, and he in- tends to be manager. _FHerzog has. _a very high estimation of his own having managed the Cincinnati Reds made it pretty hard. for him to buckle down to the autocratic czardom of —~ —— life was caused by | ward, attached to Company A, First graph battalion. siznal corps, Decem- ber 23, lobar pneumonia. mother, Mrs. Mary Galavan. Chicago. , Private William A. Elmslie. engi- neers, December 20, broncho pneumo- nia, father William Elmslie, Iort Bragg. Calif. Private” Saint Clair Willcox., try, December pulmonanr: culosis, father, J. . Willcox, set, Towa. Private Lawrence L Anderson. en- gineers, December 20. broncho pneu- " mother Mrs. H. Anderson, De- Private Frnest F. uadron. December father, John J. Marsh, .Pa.. - Private John J. Du Bidne. train, December 21, mother. Mrs. Josephine Du Austin, Texas. infan tuber. Winter- Marsh, aero meningitis, Stroudsburg, 2 supply pneumonia, Rlanc, of PRIVATE JERRY WARD DISMISSED FROM SERVICE. Negro Who Shot Carpenter at Camp \ in District of Columbia. Washington. Dec. 25.—Private Jerry Separate battalion of negro troops, of the district national guard, has been sentenced to dismissal from the ser- vice and three years at hard labor for killing Andrew J. Cooper. an aged car- penter, at the quartermaster training camp here st Oct. The verdict of the courtmartial was disapproved as inadequate by Briga- dier Genmeral Eli D. Hoyle, command- ing -the “eastern department, but the court refused to amend it, and General Hoyle finally approved it, he said, only in order that the soldier should not “escape well deserved punishment.” Cooper. in going to work at the camp, tried to enter’ by a short cut instead of tiirough the main gate, and i was in evidence at the trial that ‘Ward. who was on_guard duty, knock- ed him down an embankment and -started up again shot and The court held thé act was involuntary manslaughter under the articles of war. g VERY MILD WINTER IN NORTHERN ITALY Teutonie Invaders Are Aided by Lack _of Snow. : un Army Headquarters in North- ern Italy, Dec. 25.—(By The Associ- ated Press.)—The entire mountain re- glon, w heavy fighting has been going on in recent days, is having unusval experience of a holiday:sea- son with green siopes_and sumits and little or no snow. One of the gen- erals on the froni said that every foot the | ditions in the Ca and the Juli ranges, to the east, through which the Austrians maintain their communica- tions with the invaded ot eastern Venetia. The mildness is sa pronounced that the engmy is able to operate four distinct lines of commu- nication leading to Gori Udine and Venetia. These unusual weather conditions ara proving an important fector in tha campaign, for while severe cold and heavy snows would hold the enemy in thefr grip, the present mild and almost snowless season permits aperations to proceed. The Thames National Bank Norwich c The annual holders of this Ban of Directors and the such other come before them, their of snow was worth dlvisions in ob- 50 structing the enemy. “This is one of the mildest wiriters we have ever had,” =aid the major in charge of ihe weather branch of the high command, “and from a military Sthndpoint the weather conditions are of the highest imyortance both for our troops, and( particularly, in their ef- fect on the enemy’s transpértation of supplies and troops.” The-entire area of the present fight- ing in the Brenta valley is free from snow and weather is Very mild. This is the valley where the Austrian route bri supplies and troops from Trent to the Asiago and Bren Retween i which is_the principal region of the fighting, Monte Grappa, which usually has four to ix feet of snow, now has only from ten to twelve inches on the southern slopes. The temperature is from 5 to 12 dezrees below zero Centi- grade (23 to 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit,) Montes Asolone,- Pertica and Sola- where the heaviest fighting has irred in the last few days, have only a few inches. It varies from three to five inches and seldom lasts, to the mildness. owing | e In the foothills there | is n osnow and the tvmperature is al- ways above freesing. i The renorts show similar mild con- regions held Tuesda CH. ‘}'“x‘n S, 191 AR’y b The Piano Tuner,) 122 Prospect St., Phone 511 What Better Than Cutlery KEEN KUTTER! Quality Warranted AXES,;HATCHETS, SHEARS, BUTCHER KNIVES, CARVERS, TABLE KNIVES and FORKS, POCKET KNIVES and TABLE KNIVES and FORKS at prices of a year ago until after Xmas ALUMINUM WARE Quality Brand, 99 Per Cent. Pure SMALL TEA or COFFEE PERCOLATORS, $2.00 'DRIPLESS SYRUP PITCHER, $1.25 PANS, KETTLES, ROASTERS, ETC., ETC. 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