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New Britain herald., 1915-11-24
DECLINES TO PLAY TRINITY,

The football team of Trinity col leee. which, because of the ineligi- bility of Brickley, its star fullback, has found itself in several difficulties, especially among the local colleges lately. met with another rebuff yes- terday when the management of Fordham refused to play the Hart ford aggregation in special post season game at Waterbury next Sat urday.
 While the Trinity management did not open up the negotiations with Fordham directly, it was done through the managers of the Wator. . bury Home Week committee. who have been trying to add to the in terest of the celebrations of this week by bringing Fordham up te meet it's old rival.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-24
BRING THEM ON
 ALUMNI SLOGAN
Locals Await Coming of H. P. H. S. Alumni For TOmorrow's
 Big Contest.

All arrangements have been com- pleted for the annual clash between the alumni teams representing the Hartford and New Britain schools, at Electric field tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Considerable rivalry is at- tached to the game, each eleven be- ing bent of breaking the tie that exists from past games, and 1t is the firm belief of the followers of both elevens that this will be accomplished.
 Captain Naedle has selected one of the strongest teams that has ever gotten together for a similar event. It comprises present and past star collegians, and if the local boys are to be successful they will have to step some against the Capitol Cityites. The visitors will line up as follows:
New Britain herald., 1915-11-24
BIG FOOTBALL MONEY
 MADE BY HARVARD
Handsome Nest Egg is Accumulated During Past Season-Iiaughton
 Favors System.

Cambridge, Mass, Nov. 24.-Ths Harvard football team attracted near ly $225,000 in gate receipts during it's season of nine weeks, 1t was estimated yesterday and the gross returns to tho Harvard Athletic association will be close to $125,000. The expenses of. the football team will amount to s30,- 900 or $35,000, leaving a net profit from this years team of more than $85,000.
 More than 165, ,000 persons saw the Harvard team in action this season. The record crowd was at the Yale game last Saturday, when 49,000 persons paid $9S,000 to attend the game. The second largest crowd was at the Princeton Harvard game at Princeton, N. J., when 3O,000 persons paid $60,000 to witness the contest. The Harvard Brown game attracted 2O,000 persons and the Cornell and Penn State games both drew gate of 15,000.
 In defence of an established sys- tenn for coaching football players, Mr. Haughton said
 "I have heard it said that Shevlin, of Yale, disparaged the football sys- tenn. Without reference to either Shevlin or myself, I think l may say that the result of Saturdays game speaks plainly in favor of system and shows the value of established channels through which the players are forced before they come to their ''
New Britain herald., 1915-11-24
BARACA BOWLING LEAGUE.

The members of the Methodist Bar aca class will meet Wednesday eve- ming at the Aetna Bowling Alleys, Church street promptly at 7:30 Four teams are to be organized in tho class and will bowl this winter. Suit- able prizes will be awarded to the winning team, also for high scores. A great deal of interest has been manifested and it is expected that other organizations in the church will put in teams also.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-24
Maxims of the 18th Hole.

The Temporary Putting green giveth the ball an unseemly hop; but in return it giveth the golfer an added Alibi, which is not to be despised
 There are a number of golfers who enjoy playing in the snow. And yet they are shooting Cossacks over in Europe.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-24

The Yale coaching situation re- minds Us of one of Bill Kirk's odd verses anent scattered Reds-Craw- ford, Dolan, Overall, etc. Playing great ball--but not for Garry Herr mann.' Yale men have been coach ing great teams-but not for Eli Yale.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-24
LING RESULTS T AETNA ALLEYS
ms Still Losingg-Tribunes Wallop Live Oaks

|New'tons of the Herald bowl que lived up to their reputa- 'sterday afternoon, when they
 own to three straight defeats Dewdrops. Lou Barker who |lted for the Dewdrops featur- afternoons sport when he Is teammates with a mark of Elif Trewhella for the Pump |as the high man of the after when he accumulated 113 in bond game against the Star It may be said that the tins were the losers, two out of Eatncs. The scores follow:
New Britain herald., 1915-11-24

 With raw souls wrenched from the breast Each night in the trenches of blood; Where three million skeletons rest Face down in the slime and the mud; Come-let us give thanks for the peace And the ease into which we are drawn But give it so low that the dead will not know Nor the thousands who'll die before
 dawn. Where shrapnel sweeps earthward
 like hail And even the bravest must reel, Where myriad ghosts take the trail In the wake of the salvo of steel-- Come-let us give thanks for the
 cheer That covers the land where we dwell; But give 1t so low that the ghosts will
 not know As they swing into heaven-or hell.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-24
CUBS WANT CALVIN.

Chicago, Nov. 24.-Malcolm Calvin le University of Wisconsin football bd baseball star, has been offered d bntract with the Chicago National
 ague club it became known today.
 Calvin withdrew from football be- ause his eligibility was questioned. Ie was charged with having played baseball as a pitcher dur lg vacation.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-24
COmDaratiNc Scores.

Princeton beat Syracuse to O.; Syracuse beat Colgate 3S to 0: Col gate beat Yale Is to 0.
 Ergo, Princeton was exactly 56 to o better than Yale. Which didn't prevent Yale from beating Princeton 1 3 to '.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-24
BAsTON MINNESOTA CAPTAIN.

Minneapolis, Min, Nov. 24.-Albert Baston of Hopkins, Minn., for he last two years left end of the Univer- sity of Minnesota football team, was elected captain rfor 1916 at the an- nual football mems banquet last night.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-24
Mcrkle Luck.

Fred Merkle had his usual luck last season. One more hit one more pass, or one more sacrifice would have put him up in the 300 crowd
 Whenever Unkempt Fate runs out of target he fires a broadside in Merkle's direction just for old time S sake.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-24

And, speaking of Yale coaches, there is George Foster Sanford who is one of the best football instructors that ever taught the Young dea how to buck and block and tackle.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-24
Tho 300 AVerage,

How many ball players, upon an average, range into the 300 class? Last season there were exactly 250 ball players registered in the National league.
 From this count five finally finished above the 300 mark So one out of 30 seems to be the answer, if the laws of division are sound.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-24
Taking Your Pick. |.

Now that the returns are all in," writes Fossil. what was the line of least resistance this fall?'
 The coroner's verdict returns draw for Yale, Michigan, Penn and Carlisle,
New Britain herald., 1915-11-24
Tn the Tronchac

Thanks for each day that finds us
 marking time And not face downward in the bloody
 slime.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-24

Half the critics gave that first muffed punt to Bingham, of Yale, and the other half gave it to Van Nos trand. The gentleman who didn't make the huff, but was so charged, can render thanks to the unsports- manlike policy of university in failing to number the men.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-24
D. 3!SHg }:j|;;!;! J!

Each in his turn is the greatest football player that ever lived"-until the next elastic star comes along for another outburst of over-dramatiza- tion
New Britain herald., 1915-11-24
TED LEWIS KNOCKS OUT DUFFY

Boston, Nov. 24.-Ted Lewis, a British boxer, knocked out Jimmy Duffy of Lockport, N. Y., in one minute last night.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-24

"1s Mahan, in his game, as great as Cobb in his?"-S. K. H. One has earned his fame through three years and twenty battles; the other through ten years and 1,4OO battles. Which Is sufficient answer?
New Britain herald., 1915-11-24
The Return of Doyle.

Last spring John McGraw was on the verge of cutting Larry Doyle adrift for poor batting. From a great hitter Larry had dropped two years in succession deep into the rut.
 Then, just as he was supposed to be slipping from the cast, he returns and leads the league in batting by five points. Doyle and Fritz Maisel get more fun out of baseball than any two others in the game, always barring Hans Wagner, who even enjoys July doubleheaders in St. Louis, which leaves them entitled to all the boosts at hand.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-24

The locals held practice last eve- ming in the Model school gymnasium, and the work was highly pleasing to Coach Hutchinson.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-24
Why They May Render Thanks.

AANy ANA"J AA>ANSA
 Harvard-That HaughtOn doesn't graduate this year.
 Yale--That 1t wasn't 40 to 0.
 Shevlin-That Princeton is still on the map.
 Michigan and Penn-That it's all for another ten months.
 Colgate, Virginia, w. & J. and Brown-For what Elihu Yale founded.
 Frank Hinkey-That he Was retired before Harvard came along.
 Yale can't discover any good Yale coaches. but Sharpe, a Yale man, wins the championship of the East; Williams, a Yale man, ties for the cham pionship of the West; Stagg, a Yale man, finishes well up with poor material and Donahue. a Yale man, runs second in the Southern cham pionship.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-24
U. s. GOVERNMENT
 INDIAN LAND SALE

Homesteading or improvements not required. Sold on easy terms at fraction of real value. In Oklaho- mas probable Oil and Gas area. Free Exhibition Car on Railroad tracks at Passenger Station. Visit the car and learn how to secure Q tract of this valuable land without going West. Open from A. M. to r. M.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02
TO Be HARMONY TOUR
President Ripley Will Make Several
Stops on His Trip to Santa
Barbara, Cal.

President E. P. Ripley of the Santa
Fe will be the leading spirit in har-
mony tour this week. The railroad
executive is on his way to Santa Bar
bara, CAL, where he will spend the
winter. He will pass through mere
Friday on his way west.
At Wichita, Friday night, President
Ripley will be the guest of honor at a
banquet at the Wichita Commercial
club, an affair similar to the one given
him in Topeka early in the fall. Sew
eral Topeka officials will attend, in
GLIDING E. L. Copeland, secretary and
treasurer; C. w. Kouns, general man
ager; J. r. Koontz, general freight
agent, and J. NJ. Council, general pas
senger agent. f. c. Cox of Amarillo,
who is now in Topeka attending the
session with the engineers and fire
men, will also go to Wichita for the
dinner.
On Saturday the president will trav-
ell in special train between Wichita
and Amarillo, Tex, stopping at several
towns en- route. Here he will meet the
business men in "get-acquainted
meetings Three of these informal
gatherings will be held in Kansas at
Harper, Wellington and Kiowa- A
dinner will be rendered him at Anna
rillo.
The Topeka officers, with the ex-
ception of Mr.. Kouns. who will return
home Saturday. will go TO Texas with
the Ripley special.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02
BID FOR MEETS
Omaha, DelmOnte and Chicago
Want Golf Tourney.
Western Amateur Association
Will Name Place Jan. IA.

Chicago. Ill, Dec 1.-The Del
monte Golf and County club of Del
monte, Calf, the Midlothian Country
club of Chicago; and the Omaha
Country club have made bids for the
next amateur championship of the
Western Golf association. The bids
also include the Olympic competition
The Hinsdale Golf club is the only
bidder for the Western Junior cham
pionship. Special interest attached to
the bid of the California association.
as it offers to furnish a train to take
care of from 100 to $50 people
Heretofore the distance has pre-
vented any of the Pacific coast clubs
from being considered seriously, but
with that objection removed there
seems to be a strong probability that
the delegates to the annual meeting
here on January will be inclined to
give the coast bid serious considera-
ton.
Several members of the board of
directors of the Western Golf associa-
ton have expressed the opinion there
is no violation of the amateur rule, as
the offer of the special train is made
by a recognized golf association, and
not by any individual.
Ballots for mail votes on the new Of
ficers were mailed to the clubs Wed
nesday by Secretary George F. Hen
neberry Notices of two proposed
amendments were also mailed These,
if passed will permit the president or
any three members of the board to
call a meeting of the board of direc-
tors and will permit the directors to
transact business by mail vote.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02
SENDS OUT A PLAY
The Redpath Lyceum Bureau Will
Present the Servant in the House."

The introduction by the Redpath
for this season of a modern play will
set n new precedent throughout the
Lyceun. world.
The play to be produced is THE
Servant in the House." written by
Charles Ram Kennedy and will be
given at the auditorium Friday, De-
cember 10, under the auspices of the
Topeka local c. E. union
The Servant in the House" con-
tain a story that goes to the funda-
mentals and so touches the common
heart. 1t depicts the love of a father
for his child. carrying that love
through his poverty, degradation and
bitterness. The child, when too young
to realize her fathers condition, has
been placed in comfortable circuin-
stances, but her heart still cries for
her father as her father cries for her.
How that love like a magnet draws
them together is beautifully told in
the play.
William Owen, who heads the COIN
pany of artists who are to present
The Servant in the House. on the
Lyceum platform the coming season
under Redpath management, was for
twelve years at the head of his own
company.
This play has been presented by Hfr.
Owen and his company on more than
100 Chautauquas this summer with
wonderful success
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02
HUSKERS WIN ALL
Nebraska Deserves Title of
Greatest Team i'm America.
She Scored More Points Than
Amy Other Eleven.

Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 2.-The west al
ways did have a lot of crust in sport
ing affairs. 1t recently turned out the
champion heavyweight pugflist in Jess
Willard of Kansas; it developed the
champion wrestler, first in Frank
Gotch of Iowa and then Joe Stecher of
Nebraska, and now it has had the en-
terprise-the east may term it gall"
to produce the champion football
team. Get ready now for the spread
ing of the facts. The University of
Nebraska has the champion football
team of Uncle Sans domain,
The Cornhuskers. as the Nebraska
eleven is known in gridiron circles,
won all of the eight games of their
schedule, rounding out their third
successive season without a defeat
And the Huskers did even more than
that. They lead all the teams of the
east and middle west in points scored
in the same number of games. Rating
scoring power as the surest means of
measuring the strength of a football
team, the Cornhuskers of 1915 are the
champion eleven of the nation.
Figures Prove 1t.
Figures compiled by eastern statis-
Yale game had been played and the
east decided that the gridiron cam
paign had ended, the fasteners began
peddling a table representing lie
scores of the leading eIevens Ne
braska, of course, was not included in
the table. Neither was Chicago, Illi-
nois, the Michigan Aggies nor Notre
Dame. Possibly the fasteners were
unconsciously elf-assertive; at any
rate their table of statistics included
such institutions as Amherst, Bates,
Bowdoin and Colby-teams which
would be soft and easy" for at least
%ff +IN@1T
middle west. And Nebraska, the team
which tops the country in scoring
power, was passed by without a line
of mention.
The Nebraska Cornhuskers, in eight
victories, after playing four teams in
the Missouri Valley conference and
two additional games against Notre
Dame and Iowa universities, compiled
a total of 2s2 points, an average of
35 2-8- Just one eastern eleven scored
more points than the Cornhuskers.
Cornell, champion in the east, scored
a total of 2S7, but Cornell played nine
cans was 81 S-9-nearly four points
less than the Nebraska average.
Other Averages.
The averages of the other leading
teams in the east and middle west are
as follows: Pittsburg, eight games,
so Is; Mo oss Dame tsn eight ., games 1o:
Minnesota, seven games. % 81; Vir-
ginia, nine games, "a SO; Harvard,
eight games, 16 2-8.
Having shown the greatest scoring
power and having topped Cornell,
eastern champion, in the averages, the
Cornhuskers are claiming the national
championship, even without the con-
sent OF the east, and point to the fig
ures for substantiation of their con-
tention. Taking the eastern statistics
as they stand and adding the records
of Nebraska and Notre Dame, the
table of points scored is as follows:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02
NO sooNER-CATHOLIC GAME.
Notre Dame Faculty Refused TO Sane.
ton Post Season Contest in *. C.

tween Notre Dame and the Oklahoma
Sooners to be played in Kansas City
is all off, according to E. C. Quigley,
National league umpire, who was en-
deavoring to promote the game.
Mr.. Quigley returned to his home at
St. Marys this morning after having
officiated in the last two games of
the Notre Dame team in Texas.
Both the Oklahoma and Catholic
teams were anxious TO play the post
season game" Quigley said, .'but the
faculty at Notre Dame thought the
team had played enough football for
one season and refused to sanction it.
The coaches of both schools were in
favor of playing the game
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02
OREGON AGGIEs HUMBLED.
Syracuse University Defeats Far West
erners by % to Score.

Portland, Ore, Dec. 2.-The SYRIA
cuse university football team crushed
the defensive of the Oregon AgTicul-
tural college here Wednesday, % to 0.
The eastern aggregation got the
jump on the Aggies the moment latter
kicked off, and scored two touchdowns
before the western players got their
hands on the ball.
Perfect execution of numerous COM
plicated plays was what gave the vic
tors the advantage on the offensive.
White and Schlater, Syracuse's giant
guards, and the entire back field play
ed a stellar game. For the Aggies.
Abraham, at right half, was his teams
nainStay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02
ONE IN A THOUSAND
Harry HeinZman's Estimate of a Sol
dicr's Chances to Survive the
European War.

That the European soldier has less
than one chance in a thousand to re-
turn alive and unhurt from the war is
the belief of Harry L. Heinzman. who
spoke last night at the Y. NJ. c. A.
He is at present on the international
committee and recently returned from
England.
Henry Ford's scheme is not very
pra cticable, Mr.. Heinzman thinks, and
peace is only likely to come when the
fighting nations think in terms OF
world citizenship rather than nation
ally He was greatly impressed with
the capacity for self sacrifice of the
people of England. and the truth was
particularly driven home when he saw
the thousands of blind, moaning
wrecks of humanity made by the war.
Hollis A. Wilbur, member of the y.
NJ c. A national committee i'm China.
said that China favored Y. NJ. c. A.
work and told of what the association
workers were doing there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02
fine FEATHERS

An actors Interpretation of a news
paper reporter is always a revelation
to the man engaged in the business
of collecting items" Jack Garrett
who plays the part of Dick Meade
in Fine Feathers at the Grand the
alter the last half of this week, gives
another view of the much lampOoned
reporter. Garrett must have thought
he was playing the part of an auc-
tioneer. A bOisterous youth such as
Garrett depicted wouldn't get a
''story" in ten years.
The Edward Lynch players handle
Eugene Walters family problem play
in creditable fashion. Mr. Lynch
makes the character of Bob Reyn-
olds'' convincing and Miss Diana De-
war, as Jane Reynolds meets the
requirements. The play is short
cast piece, but seven members of the
company working in it. f. w. W.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02

the higher scholarship requireme nts
of the large universities rather than
take the easier way. They would be
better off in the end. in compensation
for the greater effort. AS further re-
ward, they would gain the greater
prestige that the large university af-
fordS.
Football Men Born.
Football men are born, and then
developed. 1t is impossible to develop
some men, as they do not have the ma
tive ability. As good a coach as Pop
Warner found this out when with poor
material at Carlisle during the season
of 1914 he lost nine games.
The size CT student body has very
little to do with the success OF a foot
ball team. The number of firsr-class
athletes who choose to enroll them
selves determines results.
Give me fifteen men naturally fitted
for football, and the student body can
number 200 or 10000 without affect
ing the copyright by Cen
trail Press AssCciation)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02
Sport Wheezes
by CLUG-

Pittsburg's challenge to Cornell
will meet about the same reception
the Normal challenge met at Baker
university.
Few challenges are issued where
the challenger has not much to gain.
And few are accepted where every
thing is to be lost.
The longest forward pass recorded
in the United States during the past
season was the SIS yard aerial hurl by
Spot Geyer of Oklahoma.
Coach Merner of the Kansas Aggies
is planning an indoor track meet to
be held some time before the holi-
days. More than 100 candidates have
appeared for the preliminary prac-
tees.
lei. is the latest recr1it in the ranks
of Kansas Cities having golf courses.
The first tournament, in which rire
pei sons participated, was held severe
Gays ago. Tho lola course. while st:
in the embryo. experts say, offers eX-
cellent natural hazards.
You never can tell what a baseball
pitcher is going to do. Andrew kruth,
a. former Omaha Western league twiri-
er, and two of his brothers recently
invented a grain binder and shocker
which they are reported to have sold
to the International Harvester COM
pany for 100000.
H Con Pollock, manager of Freddie
Welsh declares Welsh is ready to sign
articles to meet Charley White for the
championship belt. Declarations of
this sort have been made repeatedly,
but somehow Freddie has avoided
placing his title in serious danger.
Best Football Yarn.
Under the heading, 1.-THE Best Foot
ball Yarn OF the Season. the Chicago
Post prints a very interesting story
telling how the mistake of a green
PLAYER enabled Minnesota's eleven to
go through the football season unde-
feated.
The incident happened in the Min
nesota-Illinois game, and Sprafka,
hitherto unknown halfback, was the
hero Of the bonehead that saved the
day for his team.
According to the Chicago Post
story, Bierman, the Gopher captain,
was laid up with an injured side just
before the game and at the last min
ute Coach Williams decided to give
Sprafka a chance sF
On the way to Urbana Saturday
morning the coach took Sprafka aside
and endeavored to teach him the sig
mails so that he could go into the
game. All Sprafka knew about the