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New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
BASKETBALL TITLE
 AT STAKE SATURDAY
Naugatuek and New Britain High
 Schools in Battle Royal.

What promises to be a Titanic strug- basketball teams in the state, Nau- gatuck and New Britain, and the out come of which may decide the Con- necticut Interscholast basketball championship, will take place Satur- day evening at the local High school gymnasium The very names of Naugatuck and New Britain excite i'm agination when they are associated in sports, especially in basketball, and these ideas of this coming game can be held as no idle fancies. The game will, without a doubt, be the best of the season, and of the most importance to both teams.
 The kind of basketball team which represents New Britain needs no de- scription to those who have followed the record of the five through the season, but for the benefit of those who do not know how good a five represents New Britain, it can be safe ly said that it is the best team since the championship quintet of 1911. The team has been practicing hard and zealously in preparation for the Sat urday contest and has rectified all their apparent faults of the New Ha- ven game. The basket shooting in particular, has increased greatly in accuracy, which has caused the stock of the team to jump about fifty points. The regular five of Schade, Anderson, Tuthill, Dudack and Ginsburg are del egated by the school to trim Nauga- tuck for it will be a trimming and not a One-sided trouncing.
 "Naugy'' Has Clean Slate.
 Naugatuck has played three league games and has won three league vic tories. Two of the three games won were played on hostile courts which speaks we'll for the fight in Nauga- tuck. Four weeks ago Naugatuck played Hartford in Hartford and at the close of the first half was prac- tically beaten with the score to 1 against them. They came back in the second remarkably strong and de- feated Hartford 16-1O. They over whelmed Middletown in that town and they severely defeated South Man
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
TOMMY BURNS WILL
 FIGHT D. T0RT0R|cH:
This Bout VIII Be Outside Iha
 RinQ and With POCstlbOOkS.

New Orleans, La, Jan. 2S.-Do omi | nick Tortorich and T. J. McCarey, ' former Los Angeles promoter, have dissolved the partnership which they formed about two months ago when prize fight war seemed imminent be. tween the two men. This means that Tortorich will produce fights, Mc- Carey will do likewise and Tommy Burns, former heavyweight, who has closed a deal for the use of a large building on Howard street, near Canal, will also break jntot the local prize fight game about Febru- ary 13 with his fight, which he claims will be between Jimmy Clabby and Eddie McGoorty.
 Just what caused the break be- tween Tortorich and McCarey Is hard to state, as neither will make a statement. For some time, though. men in touch with the situation knew there would be a break, since the two promoters seemed widely at va riance, and McCarey was not satished with the view A. B. Greenwsll, This former Los Angeles friend, took of the local field.
 Both Tortorich and McCarey agree that two big clubs cannot be made to pay here, and it is believed by many that after producing one fight here, probably right after Mardi Gras or during the week previous to it, Mo Carey will withdraw from the local field, having found that the prospects are not as rosy as they once looked.
 Burns announced that he was deter mined to place enough seats in his arena to seat between 900 and 1o.a 900 persons. This will leave llm and Tortorich to fight out the local situ- ation between them.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
BRUSHES ESTATE IS
 APPRAISED TOO LOW
Re-appraisaI Is Ordered As Controller Says State Is in Danger of Los-
 ing COnsiderab ble Money

Albany. Jan. 2S.-Eugene M. Travis, state controller. has ordered a re-appraisal of the estate of John T. Brush, who owned the New York National league baseball club. He said that the value of the estate had been greatly underestimated and that un.ess it is increased, especially in regard to the stock, in the National Exhibition company. which controls the Giants, the state will lose a large sum in taxes,
 No consid iteration was given, said Travis, to the money Brush and his colleagues paid for ball players, the nur. her of players owned at the time of his death or the value of the league franchise:
 The appra isal was filed on the Ia day William Sohmer. former con- troller, was in office. The gross value was set at $470,102; the net value at $415,625. The principal asset was 1906 shares in the National Exhibi- tion company. appraised at $348,7O2 Harry N. Hampstead and the other executors had rated the stock at S130, 1000. The lease on the Polo Grounds was appraised as Of no value for taxation purposes.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
TODAY IN PUGILISTIC ANNALS,

1S62-Jem Mace defeated Tom King in 43 rounds at Godstone, Surrey. This bout was for the English champion- ship, then held by Mace King was 6 feet inches in height, and lowered more than inches above the slen- der gypsy. Mace weighed only 16O pounds, and King also had big ad vantage in reach. Moreover. Ton, was clever and quick, not not clever enough for the shifty Mace, who out fought him at every move. The giant managed to punish Mace severely. bur Jem returned it all with interest, and in the 4Srd round King received a terrible blow on the neck that stretched him senseless and deaf to the call of 'Time'' In later battle King tri- umphed over Mace, but Tom relin- quished his title rather than fight Jer again, and Mace again became cham pion. After defeating Heenan in 1863 King quit the ring and made fortune as a booknrak ker
 1s97-Dick Burge and Eddie. Con- molly fought. 10-round draw at Bir- mingham, Eng.
 19O3-Adam Ryan defeated Charlie Weary in rounds at Fond du Lac. Wis.
 1904-t<id Herman defeated Jack McClelland in 20 rounds at Kansas City.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
RECOVERED FROM WRECK.
Letter Returned to London Went
 Down With Empress of Ireland.

London, Jan. 2s, Correspondence of the Associated Press) A strange miscolored enevlope arrived a few days ago at the home of Miss l.. Rudge, Cover street, London. It was stamped "RecoVered by divers from the wreck of the steamship Empress of Ireland,' and had come from the dead letter office at Ottawa,
 Posted at New Glasgow, N. S., on May 25 of last year, the letter had gone down with the big vessel the wreck of which in the St. Lawrence cost more than thousand lives, and though under water for months, # reached London in surprisingly good condition. The mucilage which had held down the flag of the envelope was gone; the stamp was missing, and in places the ink of the address had run. The letter, itself however, was perfectly legible.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
BRETON GETS HIS
 CHANCE AT WELSH
Title Holder DefieS lhc World ;
 Will Meet All Corners.

l New York, Jan. 2S.-Freddie Welsh l or to be more exact his manager, 1 Harry Pollock, said yesterday that 1 the shifty little Briton was now ready | to box all corners for ten rounds, or over distance, to a decision by a referee. Harry declared with em- phasis that no real recognized con- tender for the championship will be barred This statement will be re- | ceived with glee by Scotty Montieth, manager of Johnny Dundee, and Dan ny Morgan, who guides the destinies of Jack Britton, who since the only "Packey'' Mcfarland, has retired is regarded by many as the cleverest lightweight in the ring.
 Dundee had his chance at Welsh in & ten-round contest in New Orleans, and at the end popular opinion varied. It was the consensus that Dundee had given the Briton a, terrific fight, and that he might have won in a longer match. Montieth made every endeav- or to have Dundee take the place of White at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night. His task was fruitless for Pollock gave the rather original and at the same time enigmat:cal answer to the challenge that Freddie has not had sufficient time to train for Dundee" But Freddie had been working for two weeks for Charley White, who is one of the most dan gerous men in the ring.
 Britton Entitled to Bout.
 Jack Britton, in the opinion of the boxing fans, is the man most entitled to consideration from Welsh. For a, year or more before the Briton beat Ritchie, Britton hurled challenge af- ter challenge at him, but Freddie could never be induced to meet him. And now Welsh is absolutely deaf when it comes to hearing Britton's howls of defiance.
 In the opinion of many keen judges of boxing ability, Britton has no su- periOr in the lightweight class. He has gone right down the line whipping them all, with the exception of Pack ey' Mcfarland, and "Packey" has yet to meet his master. Although Charley White has had his share of publicity of late, it will be remembered that on July 4, 1913. Britton knocked him out in eighteen rounds. White said then that he would never box Britton again and he has kept his word. The other lightweights have profted, it would seem. and they, too, fight shy of the shifty Chicago lad
 Britton is working right along in the hope that some one will happen along and give him chance to prove his worth. He is going along, boxing welterweights and light middle weights, although he never tips the beam at more than 137 pounds, and can light at 133 in good condition. Just now he is matched to box Kid Taylor in New Orleans, and has engagements in the south and west that will keep him busy for some time to come.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28

to Broughton. The idea was not en- tirely original, however, for the an cient Greek boxers used gloves of a sort, The caestus, as they called their style of glove, was made of hides, but metal, instead of hair, was used for filling" Most of their pug ilistic encounters were to the death; but occasionally a magnanimous vic- tor let his vanquished foe off with caved-in countenance or a few broken ribs. Such was the case in the famous battle recorded by Virgil, next to Homer, the greatest of an- cient sport writers, between Entullus, the champion and Dares. Old K. O.. Entullus, after licking Kid Dares, an- nounced his retirement, declaring, 'Henceforth l lay aside my gauntlet and my art until the gods make ready for me the path to that bright coun- try beyond this life' Some orator. was John L. Entullus.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
Sp0rt0graphy
 BY "GRAVY."

Although it was only a little over Sullivan and Jake Kilrain engaged in ] the last championship battle with the meat hands" under London prize
 ring rules, and it was not until 1892 that big gloves were first used in a heavyweight championship contest,
 boxing gloves are far from being a
 modern invention. It was 168 years ago today, on January 28,' 1747. that 1 gloves were first used in public. The ] man who introduced them, and the | supposed inventor was Jack Brough- ton the father of scientific boxing and the originator of the first code of rules to govern the game.
 Laughter and derision from the noble and commoner followers of the game greeted the first boxers to wear gloves. The occasion was an eXhi- 1 bition of the noble art of self-de- fence' at Broughton's amrhitheater in London. Several third-rate boxers en- gagged in set-tos with the gloves, which were about the size of pillow-ca and were made of soft hair covered With cloth. Until recent times gloves were used only in sparring bouts and by boxing instructors, and their use
 by champions in important battles
 would have been considered effemi- nate and unmanly.
 Broughton had private boxing
 school in the Haymarket, London,
 where he instructed young blades of
 rich and noble families in the art in
 which he excelled. While these gay
 sports were inclined to jeer at pro fessionals who used gloves they were
 more than willing that Broughton and
 his assistants should wear them while giving their lessons. It was the use
 of gloves which enabled Professor
 Broughton" to make good on his ad- vertised promise to give proper in- structions in the art and practice of
 boxing without loss of eye or limb to the students"
 Broughton referred to his gloves as
 mufflers, and, at the risk of arous- ing the wrath of the advertising man.
 ager. one of his ads, published in
 the London Daily Advertiser, is re-
 produced:
 MT. Broughton proposes, with
 proper assistance, to open an acad- emy, at his house in the Haymarket,
 TOT the instruction of those willing to
 De instructed in the mystery of boxing,
 where the whole theory and practice
 or that truly British art with all the various stops, blows, cross buttocks, etc, incident to ombatants, will be fully taught and explained; and that
 persons of quality and distinction may not be debarred from entering into a course of these lectures; they will
 be given with the utmost tenderness and regard to the delicacy of the frame and constitution of the pupil; for which reason mufflers are pro- Hided, they will effectually secure them from the inconvenience of black
 eyes, broken jaws, and bloody noses"
 George Taylor, who ran a rival es-
 ta blishment, declared that he was the
 inventor of the ''mufflers," but pugi- listic historians usually gave the credit
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
BRAVES MAY JUMP.
Mann and Deal Considering Offer
 From FederalS.

Boston, Jan 2S.-Outfielder Leslie Mann of the Worlds Champion Braves has threateneo to jump to the Federa1s, and President Gaffney of the Boston National league club has told him to go ahead, and has as- siured him that the Braves would not stand in the way of his bettering hls position.
 MGrlS foE!CW player. Deal. wi;o did su,h valiant ", rk at third ba ,e dur irg the Worlds Series, is also still considering the matter of signing a Boston contract. Waivers on both of these players were sent out seN- eral weeks sgo and none of the oth- CT clubs declined to waive When Mann and Deal learn of this it may tend to cause them to sign.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28

New York. Jan. 28.-Will Bingham. athletic instructor at the New York Athletic club and the welter-weight champion of England, is to meet Tar TO Miyake, the jiujitsu champion of the world, in match at Browns gymnasium Monday night, February 1. Bingham has long been an expert at jiujitsu, and he has several vic tories to his credit. He is perhaps the most versatile wrestler alive, as he meets opponents in any of the five styles of wrestling jiujitsu, catch-as- catch-can, Greco Roman, collar and
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
20 TO i SHOT WINS.

New Orleans, La, Jan. 2S.-Wry- neck, s. R. Grieves' bay colt was the. medium Of quite a killing in the third race at the fair grounds ycster- day afternoon. Quoted at 20 to 1, the -year-old, by Tentecost-Sabot came home a winner by a fa.ir mar gin over Jeczail, the favorite, upon which the bookies paid s to for
  place. 0S
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28

chester in Naugatuck. Among their other victims are the Gilbert school and Torrington. Their team this year is said to excel last seasons s championship team and there are three players left from the 1914 quln- tet on the 1915 team and this team seeks still greater honors than the old team.
 The boys from the Rubber City won last years game in New Britain and they hope to repeat Zwick, a for ward for Naugatuck, is younger brother of the local doctor and coach and to a certain degree the game will be a brotherly battle. Kenny is the big man of the invaders and it will be the duty of Dudack to keep his basket total down. Hubbell, a vet eran of three years will again be seen at center, and the last year substi- tutes, Moore and Leary, have been as signed the jobs of covering the New Britain forwards.
 May Decide Championship.
 This game probably means the win ming or the loss of the cham mpionship, and both teams realize this. The victor will have a clean slate while the loser will be showed back into second or third place in the league standing.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28

elbow or Cornish. In jiujitsu there Is no fall until one of the wrestlers cries Enough Being thrown does not end the match, and the victor is per- m1tted to use any holds, no matter how dangerous and painful until his opponent gives up. Tarro Miyake has been in New York several months but has not been seen in public in jiujitsu match. He recently tackled George Bothner, agreeing to throw the American three times in an hour He threw him once and then Bothner threw him and won the match
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
ESk FOR ||hF TODAY League l5 Months, psntd RoIItop.

iCu6 uC S1IlCe lIle khe farmer Keyston e pen the president S pal league headquar- opOlitan Tower for Ry The presidents s nal league office has since the retirement &een months ago.
 s Eovernor of Penn evented him from srge prior to today, ! the former Cub all his time and Tener arrived in 1t to .1elp celebrate
 Charley Ebbetts' who has been base Fener since the lat he National league eded his cilieftain nd says the gover- are to put in three in tais city, either ae office, or at the e Friday.
 n will try to wrest being the mecca of ball during the lat kk, as Ban Johnson ee are also headed rection. Ban and D here on Friday.
 i'll be present when deal will be clasped for good and all le on the same day preside at the first deral league's New
 in New Haven. of the country Gil [e up the proposed nsas City team to Ter, Robert Wards efuses to name the south which has for permission to league farm, it is that the league in ginia league.
 means that Jack face more Federal emains to be seen. ague turns to the
 not be surprising an "Outlaw'' team though the league q for it's Richmond ond the Virginia ly exist, unless a
 financial support e Federal league, ms decide to affil- h the Gilmoreites.
 Mistake.
 a-cup has cropped n league, between
 the Yankees and Tigers. It seems
 a big mistake in
 of Messrs. High axed enthusiastic
 manner in which
 base hits, and eX-
 that if High were
 would be one of in the land. Such 1t, but Bill should e landed the play t Pipp was only a Id little chance to
 the job, and that 0 fight with Pete b as Tank utility B been o. K.
 nas suddenly de- D players are real
 original price for 10 be s3,000, but sted the figure to
 to be still rising.
 the great things B about him, and ks to match the have offered him.
 may be called in 1rchase price be- md the Tigers, but
 up, Ruppert and ese players go. sver, that there is Ugh can jump, as contra ct for 1915, tain the reserve
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
gCHISE SALE.

keep Syracuse i'm hague.
 S.-Announcernent light that the sale
 chise in the New league, sch eduled would be post " 25. The post request of Presi- state league.
 stated that the had mao de no ap- y rights in Syra- ague clubs do not hve the state cir
The Holly chieftain., 1915-05-07
Huge Sugar Industry,

When it Is stated that more than
one hundred million dollars is invest
ed in the beet sugar industry in the
United States, it may be understood
that the effect of the war on this in
dustry in Germany is Of considerable
Importance. The first beet sugar fac
tory in America was built in Philadel-
phia in 1880, but it did not prove q
success. The first successful factory
was started in 1870 at Alvarado, Cal.
1t was in continuous operation until
it was torn down couple of years
ago.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-05-07

Aquarter section II miles south Of
Holly for what have you fot.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-05-07
success Of Typhoid InocuIatlon.

Sir Frederick Treves. presiding at
the Society of Arts on the occasion Of
Doctor Sandwith's Chadwick lecture
on War and Disease" was able to
bear witness to the remarkable SAM.
tary conditions under which the pres
ent war is being waged. Particu.
larly did he indorse the value Of inoc.
ulation for typhoid. by which means
that great danger to armies in the
field has been practically eliminated.
Sir Frederick was, in fact. able to state
that not single inoculsted man had
died Of typhoid in the British expedi.
tionary force, and that there had only
been 212 cases Of typhoid, with -
deaths. When we remember the ex.
tent to which typhoid prevailed in our
armies during the Boer war, when the
conditions were probably Infinitely
less provocative Of that disease than
those which must necessarily prevail
in prolonged trench fighting, 1t will be
recognized that Sir Frederick's claim
that the existing sanitary arrange
ments are unprecedented is Justified
London Outlook.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-05-07

cation when with thump or MS
fist-"give you permission, or you may
draw your salary to date and walk
out of this Office"
Miss Wandle smiled 'I shall do
neither, Mr.. Barnes" she answered.
For moment Barnes was stag
gered. Then he thrust his ugly face
close against the womans- showed
his breeding pretty well then. Per
haps you own this ofice?" he re.
marked.
Il certainly hope to after the fifth
of June" replied Miss Wandle calmly.
You see. am going down to Florida
to be married to Mr.. Rothstein and he
is going to give me his share of the
stock as a wedding gift"
The Holly chieftain., 1915-05-07
INCREASES HEAT OF COAL
Sound Reasons Why the Addition Of
Little Water Should Produce
Good Results.

When the blacksmith desires the in.
tensest heat his forge is capable of he
invariably throws little water upon
the coal. The same course is pur-
sued by the stoker who would get the
utmost from his boilers.
And the poorer the quality of the
coal the more imperative the neces-
sity for wetting it.
1t seems paradoxical, for from the
beginning all people everywhere have
regarded water as the one reliable
agency for extinguishing fire. Such,
indeed, 1t really is, If used in proper
quantity, as experience has amply
demonstrated.
Chemistry explains the paradox very
simply, however, when it informs us
that water is composed of oxygen and
hydrogen in the proportion Of two to
one. That is to say, in every molecule
of the fluid there are two atoms of the
former and one of the latter.
Now oxygen is the chief agent in
combustion. Oxydization is syno-
nym for burning. The rusting Of iron,
the corrosion Of silver and the burn
ing of wood are identical processes,
all due to the agency Of this powerful
element which is SO widely distributed
through all nature. To feed oxygen
to flames is greatly to intensity them,
therefore. This is exactly what is
done, in fact, when they are famed.
Hydrogen, on the other hand is a
gas which burns readily and with the
most intense heat.
Very evidently, If water is separat-
ed into its constituent elements. the
oxygen and the hydrogen, no longer
bound together. are able each to per-
form its natural functions The for
mer adds greatly to combustion, and
the latter not only burns readily, but
materially intensifies the heat.
This is precisely what occurs when
small quantity of water is added to
the coal fed to the flames There is
not enough of the fluid to extinguish
the fire. Instead the fire acts upon the
water, dissolving the bonds which
unite its component gases, thus set
ting the oxygen free to accelerate
combustion and converting the hydro
gen into fuel Of tremendous heating
power
In throwing little water upon the
coal therefore, the blacksmith attains
the same results as If he added mate
rally to the draft produced by the
bellows, and at the same time poured
a little hydrogen upon the flames.
The resultant heat is not to be pro-
duced from coal alone under ordinary
conditions.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-05-07
Misplaced Admiration.

The late w. w. Rockhill. who died
in Honolulu, had deep and intelli.
gent knowledge Of the Chinese.
I'VE Americans" Mr. Rockhin once
said in New York, don't understand
the Chinese. We misread them as a
visiting Chinaman once misread an ac-
cident in Broadway.
"As the Chinaman was passing be-
meath huge electric sign, on which q
man was at work. the man slipped and
fell on the Chinaman's head.
We'll, WE'LL said the Chinaman to
himself, admiringly, as he rose from
the pavement; well, well, how will
these wonderful Americans advertise
next? Washington Star.
The Holly chieftain., 1915-05-07
Read the Ads

Let US get you up some sta.
tioncry that will be a credit to
your business-nou a detrimcnt
The price will be practically the
same, and you'll have something
you'll be proud of. The Holly
Chieftain PrinteEy.