New Britain herald., 1915-12-27

Gral days investigating aCnletlC COH- ditions at Wisconsin, is reported to have decided that conditions, are so bad athletically that the only way to cure the disease is to kill the pa tent The committee is to report to the board of regents January IS, and the report is said to be so far formu- lated as to threaten seriously the cnd of intercollegiate football a move which is said to be ardently desired in faculty circles of some other "big nine'' schools. When the Amateur Athletic Federa- l tion stages it's annual wrestling cham | pionships in Chicago next month sev- i eral new rules will probab be in 1 force. The method of deciding winners which formerly repended upon rolling falls, will be done away with and the pin fall will be substituted The wrist lock will he relegated to the scrap heap together with the hammerlock, strangle hold, toe hold and other ille- gal grips.
 It is a long, long way to Hawaii for national swimming Ichampi Alships, but the fact that Kahanamoku is the
 marvel of all our sprinters and that, besides he has done great things for the glory of American swimming,
 warrants serious consideration on the
 part of A. A. U. championship com-
 mittee. The competition is limited to
 very few men and the question of ex- pense is, therefore not such forbid ding proposition as in case of most
 sport teams. There are only three or four men from the east and middle west that have any license to go
 against Kahanamoku
 The chamber of commerce of Mi ami, Fla, has offered a silver cup for the proposed outside motor boat race from New York to Miami, to start about February 20 so as to arrive at Biscayne Bay in time for the annual winter motOrboat races. Captain Thomas Fleming Day, who is promot- ing this race, has entered the power yacht Lady Baltimore, of Baltimore. The distance covered in this race will be about 1,50O miles and will take about five days
 Benny Kauff has thirty-fve new bats-pippins, he calls them-and un- limited conceit besides. That may stampede some pitchers, but there are
 
 galluS young man.
 Portland has been dropped out of the Pacific Coast League circuit. That city will not have a club in the coast league unless the transportation com panies return to the rates formerly given ball clubs in the coast league. Portland owners will be satisfied with the change, as they will enter the Northwestern circuit, where the salary limit is $1,SOO a month, against the s4,5OO of the coast league.
 ' Purdue undergraduates are antic1- pating great things next year on the cinderpath when the new track ana field coach. c. N Wilson, assumes
 charge of the men. Wilson once be- 1 fore headed the track men at Purdue and has been coach and trainer or l athletics for several years. He is cred 1 ited with developing some of the pest athletes that ever represented Purdue Pitcher Kantlehner, who gives great l promise of developing into a star ] pitcher of the Pittsburgh team, also
 does other things aside from pitching. ! The averages show him to be the best
 hitting pitcher in the older organlza-
 tion.,
 Jimmy Viox of the Pirates, heark- l ening to the advice of Fred Clarke,
 has bought a farm according to re-
 ports from Pittsburgh. It is only | eight acres, but it is large enough for
 a chicken run. The new purchase Is 1 near Lexington, Ky
 Vnrk A ~ swimmer, has nephew, Tom Buddy, l who is showing much promise as a swimmer. He is student at Stuyve-
 sant high school in New York and is
 doing Inn 3s in the 100-yard event.
 Columbia has a 250-pound plunger in Morton Levy who has shown sev-
 enty two feet in recent practice. Most plungers are whales" though Hurtig,
 the National champion, is not.
 Arthur Irwin, the former New York American league scout, and Joe Hlg- gins, scout of the Detroit Tigers, are
 recruiting a team which will invade Cuba, Porto Rico and Panama. Irwin
 and Higgins are forming a team of New York semi professional stars, bal fanced by some major league players. The party chaperoned by Higgins and Irwin will leave New York January l and return March 15.
 The Louisville baseball club of the American association will do its spring training at Sanford, Fla, next season. According to present plans the team will report in Louisville March 10. The squad will leave on Saturday
 morning, March Il. and will arrive at Sanford, Sunday afternoon, March 12, in time to make their arrangements to start preliminary practice on Mon-