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New Britain herald., 1915-10-29
HOPES FOR PEACE.
Weeghman Thinks Conditions More Favorable For End of Baseball War.

Chicago, Oct. 29.-Before the state ment that the outlook for peace in baseball was more favorab ble now than at any time since peace negotiations were first proposed, President Weegh- man, of the Chicago Feds, yesterday advanced little further information concerning the move to end the war.
 He did say, however, that the death of R. B. Ward probably was the only thing that prevented the conclu- sion of peace immediately following the meeting of Federal leaguers and representatives of organized ball held in Philadelphia during the worlds se- rieS.
 Should any eleventh hour event spoil the plans for peace, Harry Sin clair, Of the Newark club, will go ahead with his plans to put a team in New York" said MT. Weeghman, "and the Federal league is prepared to go ahead with the 1916 schedule" /"
 It was said that the whole situation of peace. hung on the sale of the New York Giants to MT. Sinclar.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29
TANKS SIGN TALLEST PITCHER.

No matter what the Yankees may do next season, they at least will hold the distinction of having the tallsst and thinnest pitcher in either of the major leagues, and the rest of the country might be included without robbing them of the honor. Edward H. (Slim) Love has signed his con- tract with the Tanks, and Slim stands 6 feet 1-2 inches in height, so that Carl Wellman of the Browns, Slim Sallee of the Cardinals, and one or two others who have prided them selves on being the leaders in this respect will have to give place to d Yankee recruit. Love is rated as quite
 a pitcher. Slim comes from the Los | Angeles club. He had a record dur ing the last season of 21 victories and l 13 defeats. The teams which opposed l him were at bat 1,194 times and 1 secured POP hits. Scout Davis dis
 covered Love, who is a left-hander.
 "A years old, and he was secured in the draft.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29
APPEAL IS SENT TO
 RAISE THE BAN
Yale Gets Letters From Princeton
 and Harvard Officials

New Haven. Conn, Oct. 29.-The path is opened for Yale to reinstavo the five athletes who were disqualified last week Letters have been reciv- ed from Harvard and Princeton re- questing that the athletes who have been retired be again declared eli- gible and be allowed to again rep- resent Yale in Intercollegiate ath- letes.
 It became known last week ttmt Harvard, acting through Dean Briggs had sent such a request, and last night it was announced from the off, ces of the Yale Athletic association that Princeton had sent such a re- quest through Dean McClenahan. The statement said that it was the wish of not only the Harvard and Princeton players but of the under graduates in general that the five dis qualified men be allowed to compe-t against Harvard and Princeton th.s fall.
 The letters were received by Pro- lessor Robert Corwin, chairman of the Yale Athletic committee. He was out of town last night and could not 1 be interviewed and no statement could i be obtained of the probable action of the Yale Eligibility committcs.
 which consisted of Professor CorwN.
 John Field, and John Fitzpatrick, all former Yale athletic stars, but no- body could be found at Yale who
 would admit that the five men should
 not be restored to full athletic stand- ing. & Captain Lou Middlebrook of tlie Yale nine last spring, and Assistant Coach Bernie Tommers in a sign4d statement last Monday assumed fs- sponsibility for the negotiations at ] Quogue last summer, in which five I members of the nine LeGore, Easton.
 Milburn, Rhett, and Pumpelly, receiv- 1 ed their board free for two weeks be- lieving they were personal guests of one of the directors of the Quogue nine. As soon as the Yale Athletic
 committee received notice of the fNvt that the players had received their 1 board free they declard the five play ' CTS ineligible to again represent Yale
 in athletics. LeGore has been play 1 ing on the Yale ineligibles eleven f since his disqualification and Easton has been assisting Billy Marting to 1 coach the freshmen.
 This is the first instance on record | of a university urging a rival to Se-
 store to eligibility an athlete whoFor
 some reason has been disqualified. It
 is believed that whatever action is
 taken by the Yale Athletic associa-
 ton will not occur until next week. This will prevent LeGore. easily tho
 star of the Yale eleven, from playing i in Saturdays game against Colgate.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29

code is we'll enough known to need no enlargement here, but I'm quite willing to admit that my sympathies are aroused for Trinity. I've rarely met a cleaner, finer lot of fellows, who are anxious to maintain cordial, ath- letic relations with sister colleges, but who feel that they must stand back of Brickley, who was used on the football team with eyes wide open.
 No formal announcement has come from Williams severing athletic rela- tions, although note has been re- ceived from the baseball manager re- gretting that it was necessary to can- eel the game next spring. The action of williams, as announced in the newspapers, is keenly regretted, and it may be said right here that the same feeling appeared to be para mount at Williamstown before leaving there this morning.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29

generally admitted that the case is an exaggerated one-as several other members of the team who have ac- cepted money for one reason or an- other without violating any rule of the college.
 Captain Castator. g. fine looking, manly fellow, frankly said, "Brickley is no more ineligible, from the point of view of Williams or any other col lege, than three or four others. It is only question of degree, For my part, then see no reason to play the hypocrite and sacrifice one man SD long as that man is held in good stand ing by the college faculty"
 This subject is entirely too broad and far-reaching in it's ramifications to take up in detail at this time. As pr. Price, athletic, director and head coach of the football team, aptly re- marked:
 Apart from the question of ethics and right or wrong of semi-profes- sionalism, the case of Brickley is one of policy rather than of principle. No inducements were held out for his entering Trinity beyond assisting him in getting a job which would help him pay his way. No rule of Trinity IS broken in playing him on the team. He is an earnest, conscientious fel- low, with not a single bad habit. His prominence, partly as the brother of Charley Br1ckley, invited attention, but 1t is hard for me to discriminate between the man who signs contract and plays for money and the man who does not, or between the man who sells his athletic services for $10 or the one who sells them for $50."
 Trinity's Position.
 Dr. McCook explained in great de- tail Trinity's stand from the point of view of scholarship. It is hard to ge. in Trinity, it Is hard to stay in Trin- lty, it is hard to get out of Trinity. A man must maintain 8 high standing at all times or go on probation, and there Is no possible chance for rein statement under six months by. spe- cial examination, permitted at some colleges, or any other dispensation.
 This is Trinity's position and once more, apart from the question of sum- mer baseball and prostituting of ones athletic ability, it must be admitted that the faculty and the undergrad uates are absolutely frank and above board. They played Brickley openly under the full letter and the spirit of their own athletic code, and they can hardly be blamed for resenting the protests which come against an in- dividual rather than the athletic ethics of the college.
 My own position on the question of Summer" baseball and the necessity for a strong and binding eligibility
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29

real fight the regulars forced the sub- stitutes back to their two-yard line, and then lost the ball on downs
 During Gilman's continued ab- sence from the lineup Bigelow played right tackle, instead of Gamer. Bige- low started well this year, but his " ork fell off, and since being dropped as a tackle he has put in lot of time playing guard. His return to tackle has been attended by a little improve ment, but not enough to make the coaches feel safe that he could fill the position satisfactorily in an important game. The rushline has improved greatly this week. The center com blnatlon has a lot more speed than when Cowen was at guard. With Gilman in trim again the coaches will be Willing to admit that they see a very good line in sight for the big games, but they also realize that the supstltutes are far from being on par with the regulars.
 Robinson ran the team for time yesterday, and then Wilcox took hold. HIS chances for being the general for the Princeton game are now better than are Watson's. Enwright was worked to the limit both yesterday and the day before. He has been as- signed regular place with King and Mahan, McKinlock still being unable to do any hard running. Weather head, Harvard's huskiest end, has a twisted ankle, in addition to his broken hand and injured hip, and his services as a substitute no longer are counted on. The team will be stronger than was the 1914 team, when it played Penn State. and the Crimson has slight fears that it will not be able to win on Saturday, and decisively.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29
|NITY'S SIDE OF E BRICKLEY CASE
y and Not Principle Is What Athletic Directors Claim

rtford, Conn.,, Oct. 29.-George
 ley, student by choice and pro-
 hal athlete for a time by neces-
 will play fullback, on the Trinity ke football eleven for the rest of
 eason, if the undergraduate sen
 t, as vigorously expressed here Fday, counts for anything.
 n1ty takes the stand that it's ath- code, based entirely on scholastic
 tng-a stiff one, to say the least E generally known to Williams,
 York university and other col
 with which games were arranged
 hat it is hard to understand how b can be drawn now against
 who had a trial with the Phila-
 ia Athletics, when summer base &s permitted, as at Brown univer- knd some other colleges.
 John J. McCook, vice president
 e college and chairman of the tic committee gave me his per assurance yesterday that Brick 5 a bona; fide student in good ling, and that he came to Trinity he single purpose of getting an htion. 4s49 gst}
 ere is abundant evidence apart this assurance to bear the gen. contention that the brother of #ard's great drop kicker is an zest, hard working student, that zoes not care particularly for foot and that he is playing only be- B of his regard and friendship captain Castator.s He bitterly re- the position in which he has placed and would give up playing brow if he followed the dictates fs own feelings 8.s can be said here also, with req |ble assurance, that his football l will be hung up for all time at l end of this season, not so much l |use Trinity, too, has been placed l rather unfortunate position, but l |use he has no love for the game shuns publicity. )
 One Side of It. is the feeling here among the that Brickley is in tly the same position-a1though
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29
Green Is Weakened.

Hanover, N. H., Oct. 29.-The Dart mouth squad of twenty-six men left today at 2 o'clock for Amherst. They will stop at the Plymouth Inn until the game. Whether the team will be too greatly weakened by the absence of Captain McAuliffe, Baxter and McDonough remains to be seen. Re gardless of the way the score goes, none of the injured men will go into the game. The probable lineup will be: Dussossoit, left end; Fishback, left tackle; Merrill, left guard; Gile, center; Spears, right guard: Cotton, right tackle; Emery. right end; Worthington, quarterback; Gerrish, left halfback; Duhame1, right half back; Thielscher, fullback. Yester- days practice was light. Much time was spent on coaching backs in handling punts
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29

How dear to my heart are the scenes that have vanished In all this new football that now crowds the map; How dear to my soul is the stuff they have banished When fond recollections return with a snap; The old-fashioned days that developed the best of 'em, Days fraught with danger for skull, neck and spine, Of Hestons and Morleys and all of the rest of 'em, Old Oaken buckers who crashed through a line
 The old oaken buckers.
 The iron-bound buckers.
 The bone-covered buckers
 Who crashed through a line. I've nothing to say of the agile young sprinter Who darts by an end or who catches a pass; I'll probably boost him a whole lot this winter And tell how he wiggled his way through the mass; I have nothing to say of the guy who can shoot 'em, The forward pass heroes, whose stuff may be fine; But give me again, above even long booters, The old oaken buckers who tore up a line
 The old oaken buckers,
 The iron-bound buckers,
 The bullock-necked buckers
 Who tore up line.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29
The Next Lightweight Battle.

Johnny Dundee and Charlie White have both been prominently men, ticned as the next opponent for Freddie Welsh with the lightweight championship at stake.
 Herein we find a large clot of pure bunk Willie Ritchie is still the American lightweight title holder and Ritchie has the only outstanding claim for the opening shot at Welsh. Ritchie was beaten in a close match on points. He was not even punished. He has never drawn a return date
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29
Crimson Shows Improvement.

Cambridge, Mass, Oct. 29.-If hard work helps Harvard will go into the Penn State game Saturday many points better than it was against Cornell last week. The members of the team not only have learned that they now have varsity rating, but
 the drill this week has been the hard est of the season. Wednesdays drive was followed by fifty minutes of al- most equally hard play yesterday, the Varsity going against the substitutes. That there was no scoring was due to the management of the coaches, but when the teams did settle down to a
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29
ARMY DISTRIBUTING TICKETS.

West Point, N. Y., Oct. 29.-Distri- button of the Army's share of the tic kets for the football game to be play cd with the Navy in New York on Nov. 27 is under way, it was announce ed here yesterday and no more let ters containing applications will re, ceive attention until after the distri- button has ended. Tickets will be mailed on or about Nov D.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29
OId-Fashioned Days.

Dear Sir: I may be an oldtimer, but in many ways I like the old days best. Then & baseball game or foot ball game was decided by the score. A game was lost by an error or a tumble and was won by hit Or a fine play. But now this has all passed. Each game played is decided by the "breaks.'' The breaks win for one and lose for the other. Skill, training, speed, courage, power-what are these to the breaks" passed out by fate and the experts-and the players themselves? Less than nothing.
 VETERAN.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29
WESTERN TRoTTING MAN DIES

Battle Creek, Mich. Oct 29-George D. Connor, Secretary of the Detroit Driving club and a member of the Rules Committee of the National Trotting association. died at his home here yesterday after a long illness. He was born in Elba, N. Y, and was 5S years old.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29
Tigers Gingery.

Princeton, N. J., Oct. 29.-There was a brighter aspect to football mat ters at Princeton yesterday In the daily scrimmage with the Scrubs the Varsity showed more ginger and power than has been in evidence since the Dartmouth game, notwithstanding that three of the regulars, Mclean, Tibbott, and Eddy, did not report for practice.
 One of the encouraging features of the practice was the appearance in the Varsity lineup of Charlie Dick erman Wednesday passed the exami- nation that stood between him and football this season. He appeared to have fully recovered his old strength and plunged through the line in great style. Although Dickerman's be- lated appearance and the reasonable supposition that he is not yet in the perfect physical form demanded by championship game makes it prac- tically certain that he will be used
 only as substitute this year, yet he
 will be useful in that capacity.
 Billy Moore appeared in the Tiger back field again in the workout of to- day. He showed that he can still run
 with the ball from his old position, but just where he will play Is prob ! 1ematical. It seems now that his | injury, in the first part of the season has rendered it impossible for him to be anything but a substitute either at | end or halfback. The change yester-
 day was characterized as only tenn l porary Lamberton again played well | at the end position and will get a | chance to show his worth at that
 place in the Williams game. Ames
 yesterday ran the team through the ] greater part of the scrimmage, Click | taking his place later.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29
FRESH AIR CARS.
Chicago Elevated Railway to Acco- modate Out-Of-DoOrs Devotees.

Chicago, Oct. 29.-Fresh air cars, windowless and unheated, are to be operated on Chicago's elevated rail- way for the benefit of passengers who are out of doors devotees.
 The cars, it was announced yes- terday probably will be run on half hour schedules. Only one coach to a train will be heated.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29
ALD-ANERICANS WIN, 5 TO 4.

North Platte, Neb., Oct. 29.-The Allan erican baseball team, touring the West with the All-National team, scored another victory here yester- day by the score of to 1.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29
The FuIIbacl<'s Inyictus.

Out of the mass than covers me, Deep as the pit from dome to hoof, I thank what ever gods there be If still have an uncracked roof.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29
In the Future.

New Cambridge, Conn.,, Oct. 30.- Gus Schmalz, the crack chess player of the Yalevard chess team, was dropped today for professionalism. It seems that Schmalz played summer chess with a pal and during a hard fought combat, just as he was in the act of snagging a castle with knight, he thoughtlessly accepted banana. which he proceeded to eat without recompensing the original purchaser.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29

There are occasions when comm on sense and justice are above all tech nicalities. This LeGore case Is one of them, waiting only for Harvard and Princeton to take up the matter with Yale until justice is done.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29

Yale has her hands tied. But do Harvard and Princeton graduates and undergraduates believe that LeGore, who was asked to play upon a team by a man mainly responsible for his eligibility, is not deserving of rein statement?
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29
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 NY 2y G1a7h.O7d Rice

over the 20-round distance. Welsh should either give Ritchie another chance or surrender his portfolio and beat it to bosky dell.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29

Eddie Mahan is a fine fellow and a clean sportsman. But is there any man in Harvard who will say that he is more of an amateur than Harry IeGOre
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29
COLLEGE ELEVENS
 IN HARD PRACTICE
Preparations for Tough Battles TO- morrow, Causes Gridiron Warrlofs
 to Do Some HustIing.

New Haven, Oct. 29.-Yale's prepar- ation for the Colgate game practlcally | closed yesterday, when another snort | scrimmage was ordered for the Var sitv eleven. They faced the inel1g1bles for a fifteen minute playing period on the defense. The ineligibles had been drilled in the Colgate tandem line at tack and forward passes shown by Colgate this fall. None of the Colgate plays gained ground.
 Playing on the offensive the Var sity, in four minutes of scrimmaging, made the only touchdown of the after noon. Scovil worked his way around the end for twenty yards and Captain Wilson took the ball over through center. Harry LeGore was on the side lines in uniform but did not play. Waite did the bunting and the inn provement he has shown under the tutelage of Dr. Bull the last week points to him as Yale's selection for the final games. --
 Of the injured players Won Holt and Baldridge had light work and will be sent into part of Saturdays game. Captain Wilson has decided not to play Black before next week. Savage may displace Captain Wilson for one of the periods on Saturday.
 Conroy and Way, during their two days trial as tackles, have qualified for a trial on Saturday. Carl Wiede- man was again at right end and will begin the Colgate game there.
 Yale lineup has been entirely re- organized since last Saturdays defeat by Washington and Jefferson and five players have since been shifted, in cluding both tackles, Guard Kent, and Halfbacks Waite and Higginbotham. Yesterdays practice was open but the gallery was small.
 Jim Rodgers and Frank Butter worth joined the visiting coaching staff.
 Evening signal practice has been begun and the players spent nearly two hours last night in the baseball cage rehearsing signals by electric light.
 It is felt that Saturdays game will at least lift a cloud of uncertainty 1 from the football situation. More l graduate coaches have been at the l field the last week than any since the season began, including Field, Kill patrick, Rodgers, and Butterworth as visitors and ex-Captain Talbot and Nate Wheeler of the resident staff.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29

Or as Colonel Byron almost wrote Breaks, breaks, breaks,
 Decide each dog-gone game; Power is punk and nerves the Bunk, It's the breaks that lead to fame" "
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29
Harvard vs. Princeton.

You shouldn't be too sure," writes a non-combatant, that Princeton IS going to beat Harvard" "-
 We have never indulged in any thought of sureness along this line. On the other hand, despite Princeton's big improvement over other years in the football things that count, we still figure that Harvard should rule favor ite. Not from what has happened, but from what is likely to happen in the course of Harvard's November games. Harvard, by the dates of the Prince ton and Yale games, will be quite a different institution from what she has teen. The material there is by no means second rate. It approaches first class. And Haughton can be de- pended upon for the rest.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29

"Mathewson a fair trap shooter. About the only sport that Matty ism good at is giving bases on balls. H could never seem to get the hang O this department of play.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-29

Harvard, however, will meet a better coached Princeton than she ex- poets to find. She will meet Nassau eleven we'll coached in elementary piay-and one that will have more diversified attack than any Princeton eleven of a generation. Harvard will meet a Tiger team as quick to profit by mistakes as Cornell was. But it isn't likely that Harvard will be mak- ing these mistakes in her November games-nor that Mahan will fall heir to another such off-occasion.