New Britain herald., 1915-12-28


 yesterday by Louis Pieper, of Lynn at l the request of a number of the clubs. | Notices were sent to club owners or representatives in Portland, Law renee, Lynn, Lowell, Worcester, | Springfield, Hartford and New Haven. |
 Basketball practice at Columbia l University will continue during the holidays. Yesterday morning in the | university gymnasium twenty-five | candidates reported to Coach Harry A. Fisher.
 A golf school has been opened on the roof of the Yale Club, with both practice and instruction courts for the use of the members. Two profession als are in charge, James Maiden of the Nassau Country club and George l.. Fotheringham, former open cham pion of South Africa.
 Two basketball games with college teams are scheduled for the Crescent Athletic club team this week. The New Moon five will play Lehigh to- night and Dartmouth Thursday night The court of the Second Signal Corps Armory will be used for both games.
 The next amateur boxing tourna- ment at the New York athletic club will be held on January 6 and 8. A heavyweight event has been added to the classes, open only to those who have not won a first prize at the club. The other events will be 1O8, 115 and 13O-pound classes.
 Johnny McTaggart the lightweight jockey, will ride next season for w. R. Coe, owner of the Shoshone Stables. J. Carroll, acting for the stable, obtained M'Taggart's signature to 1916 contract yesterday. MT. Coe recently added the yearling lilly Merry Thought, which he bought at the Mackay sale for s4,60O, to his string of 2 and 3-year-olds for the coming season.
 McTaggart rode with success for Richard T. Wilson, president of the Saratoga association; Captain E. B. Cassatt, and a number of other turf men last season.
 Jeremiah T. Mahoney, member of the board of governors of the New York Athletic club and a former cap- tain of the club, will oppose Pow haitian Robinson for the vicerresiden- cy of the Mercury Foot organization at the annual election on January II. Mahoney's friends decided on this action when his name was left off the slate selected by the Nominating committee.
 John ONeil won the amateur Eng fish billiard tournament for the De- war trophy last night at Doyle's Academy, when he defeated Samuel Spicer in the play-off of tie for first place by score of 400 to 264. Spicer and O'Neil had each won four and lost two games. The match last night went fifty-two innings, O'Neil getting a high break of 66 and Spicer 23
 Firmin Cassignol won both of his 18.2 exhibition matches at Daly's Academy yesterday. In the afternoon, playing against F. s. Tppleby, he scored a victory by 300 to 103. The high runs by the Frenchman were 162 and 82, and he averaged 25. In the evening Cassignol defeated Hal Coleman by a score of 300 to 142. ] His best run was TYP, and his aver 1 age 23 1-13.
 Miami, Fla, will hold Winter ten- his tournament this year which, it is ] expected, will attract many of the best players of the country. T. R. Pell will be one of the contestants in the event, which will start Febru' ary 22 and continue to the 26th. Car c. Fisher of Indianapolis has offered a challenge cup which becomes the permanent property of the contestant winning it three times.
 R. C. Leblanc Smith, the famou Cambridge University oarsman, hal been killed in action in recent fight
 ing in Northern France. He repre-
 sented the Cantabs three times in thu
 university boat race. At Eton he me
 with many successes and twice repre-
 sented the college at Henley. HI
 rowed in the Cambridge four in 1911 1911 and 1912, captured the Colqu
 houn souls in 1912, and, with c. V Buxton, won the Magdelene pairs i 1913. His death makes the sixteent . 1 Oxford and Cambridge oarsman t 1 fall in the war, the others being W H Chapman, $. P. Cockrell, P. M ; Maitland, S. M. Bruce, R. w. Somers
 Smith. G. A. Fisher, B. R. Winthrop
 Smith, H. M. Goldsmith, O. A. Carve
 G. E. Fairbairn, E. G. Williams, H
 J. S. Shields. c. F. Burnand, R. W Fletcher and G. S. Maclagan. l The English racing calendar whic l i has just been issued announces tn g opening of the steeplechase seaso e at Gatwick next Saturday. The Stew