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New Britain herald., 1916-02-11
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The Case of Francis Ouimet.

We see where Francis Ouimet, ex- Open and eX-Amateur champion, is planning to retire from tournament competition rather than be forced out Ey the U. $. G. A. for opening a sporting goods store
 It Is something more than a shame that such fine golfer, such a clean, square type of sportsman, should be crowded out. Ouimet is well above the average in high class sportsman ship, credit to the game, and no more professional than any number of others who have not only been tolerated, but welcomed. By Ouimet's retirement, amateur golf in America will suffer a big lOss for he has done as much to add to the games popu- larity as any other of the older stars.
 Ouimet was selling golf supplies some time before he was recognized as any star-some time before he was heard of beyond the borders of Mas sachusetts. As an average golfer that was his business. Now the sue cess he has gained, in place of help ing him as it has helped so many others, is about to end his competi- tive career.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11
TC PLAY SUFFIELD.

One of the hardest games on tlle schedule of the High school basket~ ball quintet, will be fought out tomor~ row evening in Suffield, when Cap- tain Schmidts boys will face the strong five representing the Sufidd Literary Institution. While the home boys are confident of victory they realize that the game will be a hard one Naugatuck High school is playing the locals at the gymnasium this afternoon. Dancing preceded the contest.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11
WHITE CHOSEN REFEREE
loss of Coin Ends Squabble-Wil-
 lard Coming to New York to

s&E
 New York, Feb. 11.-Charley
 8ENraite. @the veteran boxing referee,
 kfas yesterday chosen as the third Fran in the ring for the Willard Koran bout at. Madison Square Gar
 hen on March 8. White was the al- ornate referee for the Jeffries-J John- 8on fight at Reno several years ago, And in the days of the Horton law #he officiated at many of the big bouts ssn this city. White was chosen after the man. zagers of the two heavywe1ghts had Eliminated the names of all the pro- Sposed referees except White, and | Lack Skelly. Tex Rickard, who IS Sprom oting the bout, decided the ques- stion by a toss of a coin.
 Willard has been training at the NChicago A. A, and will come to New MYork tomorrow to start training for #the bout Jones stated yesterday that Willard now weighed 276 pounds and has only twenty-four days in which to get into condition for the fight. When Willard won the heavyweight title from Johnson at Havana he weighed PAT pounds. -. ''.' < Moran left last night for Saratoga B to start training. He will finish his preparation at Dal Hawkins road house near Westchester. .-
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11
No SALE OF NEWARK CLUB.
Three Offers of $25,OOO Will Be Passce
 Upon Next Monday

New York, Feb. 11-Edward G. Barrow, president of the Interna1ioral league, said yesterday that TO sale of the Newark baseball club franchise had as yet been concluded.
 Ihree offers of $25,OOO lave been made TOT the club and although these meet the price that is asked, no def mite action will be taken until Mon day, so that Newark men may have another opportunity to purchase the club if they so desire.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11
LOCAL BOWLERS ARE
 BEATEN BY HARTFORD
Rangers Stack Up Against Better Quintet-Kensingto Trims East
 Berlin-Nut League Results.

The Ranger bowling team suffered defeat last evening at the hands of down in three straight frames. The locals were never in the running, and the boys from the Capitol City had things pretty well their own way throughout the contest Bower for the Victors was the star, hitting the cen tury mark in two frames, and came within 10 pins of making it one hun dred in the other. Clancy was high man for the. locals with 276 with Kahms a close second. The scores:
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11
COOMBS TO TRAIN ROCKIES

Jack COombs, of the Brooklyn Ma tionals, who is spending the winter here, is under orders today from Manager Robinson to proceed to Hot Springs, Ark, Feb. 2S, to assume charge of the work of getting the Brooklyn batteries in condition for the coming baseball season. Seven pitchers and three catchers will re- port to Coombs, going later to Day. tona, Fla, the teams training camp
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11
SWEENEY GRANTED LEAVE:

Pottstown, Pa., Feb. lit was au- thoritatively stated at the Hill school yesterday that Michael k. Sweeney, for twenty years physical director there, will be granted a years leave of absence to become general athletic adviser at Yale. He will take up his work there in the spring, and in all probability will then return to the Hill school
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11
GIANTS HAVE HAD
 ACHECKERED CAREER
The Biography of New York Club Is In No Way Lacking
 Variety.

New York. Feb. 1.-The New of ups and downs in the thirty-three years it has been a member of the National League. It was a great ball club in the early days when it first be- came famous as the Giants. Then came long period when the club enjoyed a little success. The Giants
 again rose to their old supremacy
 with the coming of John J. McGraw 1 as manager.
 During the past ten years the team
 has made a great record. It has won five National League pennants and one worlds series in that period. In the thirty-three years the Giants have won the pennant seven times. New York has become the center of the baseball world and up to the time of the building of the new stands at Braves Field in Boston the Brush Stadium at the Polo Grounds held the record for attendance, 38,281 wit messing the worlds series game be- tween the Giants and the Athletics on Oct. 14 1911.
 Some of the greatest players in the history of the game were members of the Giants, among the stars of the earlier days being John M. Ward, Buck Ewing, Tim Keefe, Amos Rusie, and Roger COnnOr.
 The New York club has had only five presidents during it's long career, John B. Day, c. C. Van Cott, Andrew  N. Hampstead.
 In this period, however, the Giants have had a long. and imposing list of managers, probably more varied and numerous than any other club From 1883 to 1895 the managers were Jim Mutrie, for nine years; Pat Powers, one year; John w. Ward, two years. During the regime of the late Andrew Freedman, from 1895 to 1902. mana gers came thick and fast They were George Davis, Jack Doyle, H. l.. Wat klns, Arthur Irwin, Bill Joyce, Pop Anson, John B. Day Fred .Hoey. Buck Ewing, George Smith, and Horace Fogel John McGraw has been man. ager for the past thirteen years.
 Jim Mutrie's favorite slogan was
 We Are the People, and in 1885 he iiau tle whole cOuntry'S attention centered on the Giants In 1888 and lS9o the Giants won the pennant and New York was frenzied about the game.
 Disaster overlook the Giants in 1850 and the Brotherhood war wreck ca the once great team. The Play CTS League played on the field next to the present Polo Grounds and the competition was very keen. The new club persuaded nearly every member ot the Giants to jump. The National League survived the war and some of the old players were taken back
 The National League and the Amer ican Association was consolidated into a tWelve-club organization in 1892 and Pat Powers was made manager.
 In 1895 Andrew Freedman bought the club. Ia 1896 Arthur Irwin was made manager, and was folIowedl bv i ScrappY Bill Joyce. Then. in 1900 Buck Ewing was brought back as manager. Tn 1902 Horace Fogel was of the club. It was in this season that Christy Mathewson joined . the Giants During a period of five years, at this time the Giants tried no less than forty-two pichers
 1t was on July 19, 1902, that John ! J. McGraw joined the Giants as man. ager.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11
ONES BELIEVES
 PLAYER SUCCEEDS
" Yale Coach Sought This
 Method to Defeat Harvard

New Haven, Feb. Had Jones,
 new Yale football coach, was
 aduated from the Sheffield Scienti-
 school in 1908. He was varsity
 arterback for three years, and in & senior year was captain of the $seball team. During his time as
 ach at Exeter, the latter has not
 a single game to Andover. Jones'
 ss at Yale. was 1908, the same as
 at of his brother, Howard, who &eyed end and who coached Ted #y's team in 1909.
 &Aithough weighing considerably Fer 1S0 pounds, Tad is generally con- #ered one of the best quarterbacks
 tle ever had.z His reputation as Q &Iayer loomed after his sensational
 ay in that famous 12-to-10 game #rh Princeton in the fall of 1907. 2Tt was in that gruelling contest
 at Jones won his fame for the in-
 Florence and assistance he offered #v in making those two spectacular [&achdowns in the last half. He was # less reliable in the 12-to-0 game &ainst Harvard the week following, Though the strain of the Princeton little told severely On both him and
 e mighty Tad. Sse 7 &Jones aroused considerable com- 3ent because Of his alleged praying
 r victory over Harvard in the final <otball game of his career at Yale. l is said he admitted at a Yale ban &et that he had done some quiet laying in his room before the liar zrd game. ~+7-'7' '--s' @
 Another version of the praying bus less is that he once took to his bees between4vth halves. Anyway ke prayer story got out and even lose who could not quite believe 1t knitted that the act was not at all hIfke Tad Jones. ..
 He recovered from the. effects of lis adventure, but his first season E a coach was unproductive of artling results. He was engaged to bach the Ohio State eleven for Q bar, but left thereto guide the foot hn destinies-7of Philips Exeter. |With4the aid of his wonderful foot ar instinct he .reassembled run pwn football machine and in 1914 hw his team beat Philips Andover sI f4 Hed at the time that Andover's asc hdown was due to the fact that aacs' prayer was interrupted for aSe to three seconds.
 Had Many Offers.
 sTones was one of the, most sought sl7ege baseball players in the his iy of the game. He caught for the ale nine. and received an offer om John McGraw to come to the iants. Christy Mathewson was dele ted to secure his signature to 2. ,ntract, but Jones had an aversion lre professional ball. He promised eGraw at the time that if he ever ,clded to break. into. the big league
 Would be under him as his man. yer
 When Jones assumes active charge the Yale squad he will renew grid on a.cuuaintances with a number of ,ung men he had in tow at Exeter aese players are Capt. Clinton Black, hose scholastic difficulties would ad one to believe that he did not mount to much as theolog1cal nd ent7. under Jones' tutelage; Mc- rath,ea guard; Kirkpatrick, a tackle; ozn eford, an end, and La Roche, 1rntington and Savage backs.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11
TO COACH U. OF CINCINNATI

Cincinnati, O., Feb. 11.-Ion J Cortright, a graduate from the Michi- gan Agricultural College and coach of the football team of the University of South Dakota in 1914-15, was last night appointed coach of the foot- ball eleven which will represent the University of Cincinnati next season. Cortright will also handle the basket- ball five and assist in building up "a tract team. ...a.-..-.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11

Suppose a golfer bets $10, $50 or $500 on match against a friend. If he wins, isn't hetaking money through his skill as a golfer How many earn or make money this way? Not over 9O,OOO golfers rated as simon pure amateurs.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11
B. Jufgen .......... 82 9S
Kcnsington Wins.

A special match between the East Berlin five and the American Paper Goods company team, was played last evening ,and resulted in a vic- tory for the Kensington quintet after an extra game was played Each team won a frame and tied at 422 in the third, and on the roll off the Paper Makers were victorious. The scores:
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11
The WObb.c Glove.

This might be a good system for Willard or Moran to use. By an nointing a section of the right glove with quicksilver it could be made to Wobble on it's way to the jaWbone, and therefore be excessively hard to block.
 Your dizzy opponent couldn't tell whether you were swinging for the waistline or the bean.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11

St. Paul. Minn., Feb. 11-Winter's sportsmen have been having their innings here for the past couple of weeks. All kinds of winter pastimea skating, sleighing and carnivals--- have been in order. Pro obably the most interesting sport on the program was the fancy ski jum ping contests In this event the honors were captured by Axel Hendrickson. The latter's stunts thrilled the spectators from start to finish. He did all kinds of tricks on the skis. In one jump he looped the loop around the telegraph wires and in a straight jump went the remarkable distance of 110 feet. Up per illustration shows Hendrickson before he started his fancy skiing.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11
BOXER DIES OF JNJTRv

Augusta, Me, Feb. 11.-Arthur Cote former welterweight champion of New England, who was recently injured in a fall while training for a match here this month, died yesterday. He was thirty eight years old.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11
Full Many and More

Full many a shaft at random sent
 Finds mark the archer little meant; Full many a drive rapped from the tee Finds traps the Duffer didn't see.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11
More VerS Tibre

An amateur they say, is one Who never makes any money out of
 his game; Which is all very well enough But whothehel wants to starve to
 death?
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11
Larned and BrOOkeS.

Offhand, we should say that w. A. Larned and Norman BrOOkeS were the best tennis-golf combinations to be found Larned was American lawn tennis champion for about seven years. Since retiring from active tennis competition he has developed into a first. class golfer, one able to slip below 80 on numerous occasions. Norman Brookes, one of the tennis 1narvels, is a first class golfer-one If the best left-handers in the world. He is able to play consistently in the Seventies.
 In the com bination of golf and tennis, Brookes would have just faint shade on Larned; but hardly enough to measure.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11

And yet despite your Snorts, SneerS and the rest of. it, there is a simple method of begging the Wobble Ball that is Of making a thrown ball wobble in the air. All bunk? Not at all To a portion of the ball apply dab of quicksilver, throw with the palm of the hand and the ball wobbles distinctly in it's flight It is much after the same manner of the loaded bowling ball.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11
Why Not?

Sir-If man who sells tennis racQuetS is professional tennis player, isn't a man who sells cOffins a professional murderer.
 DIPPY.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11

Travis, Ouimet, Evans and Gard ner play very little tennis. But Max Marston and Phil Carter are both fairly good at the, racquet game, nothing wonderful, but above the average.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11
Hartford.
432 All 482
Rangers.
Nut League Results.

The following is the result of the games played in the Nut league:
 paanufS
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11

Speaking again of the Wobble Ball, 1r ore than one golfer has putted a golf ball that wobbled-either to the right or the left of the cup-any- where but in ::e.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11

Come to think about J. J. LIS above comment, the sporting page of late carries more financial news and dollar signs than the financial page byr q tO 1
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11
The Batting Decrease.

Is batting falling away, or is the pitching growing more effective?
 In 1912 Iris Speaker batted .3S3 and finished third.
 In 1913 Speaker batted .366 and tinisher third.
 In 1914 Speaker batted .33S and finished third.
 In 1915 Iris batted 1922 and finished third.
 For four years Speaker has held his hating rank at third place and yet in the four years the Red Sox star has slipped from 1883 to .322-a drop of G1 points. But with all this drop Iris hasn't lost his position, for the decline was general-the field slumped with him.
 In a put the same period Joe Jack son has come from .40S to .30S a drop of 100 points, thereby acting AlAe aaaao ts>AA ans War Bride.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11

who throw the Would soon break up the league.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11

With cunning and intrigue;
 could Wobble b1OlSo
New Britain herald., 1916-02-11
40 453 AZ,
Paper Goods Go.

4 9S 49 423
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-01
FIGHTING IN MACEDONIA
Fifteen Thousand Bulgarians Re.
ported Killed and Wounded.

London, Aug. 3l.-The fighting is
very severe all along the Macedo-
nian front, says an Athens dispatch
to the Wireless Press, which adds
that the Bulgarian regiments suf-
Tered severe check at the hands of
the Serbians on the entente left and
that the Bulgarian losses are esti-
mated at $4,000.
The Bulgarian regiments, says the
dispatch, attacked the Serbians in
close formation after the German
style, near Lorovitz. and suffered Sc
yerely. They were compelled to ask
for reinforcements from Valbankeni
and Kastoria.
The Serbians appear to be masters
of the situation at Gomichevo, says
the Athens correspondent, and Bull
garian officers of Roumanian origin
who deserted said the Bulgarians
called Gomichevo another Verdun,"
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-01
Latest Strike Neacs

Brotherhood officials will call
off strike If eight-hour day law
passed, which, President Wilson
and congressional leaders plan,
will be done today.
Railroad officials lining up
forces preparatory to a strike
Monday.
Trainmen say they have not re-
ceived strike order.
Embargo placed on live stock
shipments.
Brotherhood leaders comforting
here.
President Wilson appeals to
brotherhood chiefs to delay strike
until congress has time to act on
legislation he has proposed.
Grand Chief Garretson and
President Samuel Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor ad-
dressed the senate committee on
interstate commerce in opposition
to the proposed compulsory inves-
tigation proposal.
Railroads centering at Chicago
are arranging to pool their re-
sources to keep traffic moving.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-01
RAIL LINES ARE
JOINING FORCES
Presidents Of Roads Centering
at Chicago Arranging to
Hire Strike Breakers.
WILL POOL ALL RESOURCES

Chicago, Aug. 3l.-While the
statement Of w. G. Lee, president Of
the Order of Railway Trainmen, that
passage Of President Wilson's eight
hour day bill would be regarded as
satisfactory adjustment Of the strike
situation was regarded as important
by railroad men here, preparations
against strike on Monday pro-
ceeded without abatement.
Embargoes covered freight ship
ments on practically every mile of
main track in the country and presi-
dents of railroads in Chicago met at
the Chicago club to discuss their
problems. 1t was said they would
hire new men Though a general com
nlittee and would cooperate to run
trains where most needed,
The wheat market, which broke
extreme Al cents on the Pennsyl-
vania roads embargo yesterday,
opened without important recessions
today. The Chicago Grain Receivers
association notified country shippers
to withhold shipments for the pres
ent
Live Stock Prices Higher.
The live stock embargo was re-
Elected in an advance i'll prices of
live stock at the Union stock yards
today. Hogs advanced rs cents, cat
tie 10 to 20 cents and sheep 20 to 40
cents higher than yesterdays aver
age.
Practically none of the railroad
heads shared in the optimism ex-
pressed in some quarters in Wash
ington that passage of the eight
hour bill by congress would avert a
strike, and according to E. p. Rip
ley, president of the Atchison, To-
peka g. SAINT. Fe, spokesman for
the party of railroad presidents, who
returned from Washington yesterday,
the railroads will proceed on the as
sumption that the strike will come
on Labor day.
Embargo on All Trunk Lines.
Embargoes begin today on every
trunk line in the country. The en-
bargoes, according to present plans,
will become effective in the follow
ing order: ..
Effective at the close of business tomor-
row an embargo on all shipments of ex-
plosives and infsmmables of every kind.
Effective at the close of business tomor-
row an embargo on all shipments of perish
able freight, including live stock, dressed
beef. live end dressed poultry, fresh fruits
and vegetables.
Effective at the close Of business Saturday
an embargo on all freight of all kinds
from all joints to all destinations
The railroads will not carry on the
fight single handed, but according to
tentative plans will pool their re-
sources.
Strike-breakers, it is understood,
will be hired not by individual roads,
but by central committee of all the
roads and distributed where they are
most vitality needed. If one road
succeeds in moving trains while the
tracks Of another are stalled, the
successful road will end a helping
hand to the road in distress.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-01
S-HOUR LAW WON'T
SATISFY RAILROADS
Oppose Pending Bill in Con-
gress, But Will Take No
Precipitate Action,
STATEMENT BY HOLDEN

Chicago, Aug. 3l.--Hale Holden,
president of the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy railroad, who was spokes-
man for the railway magnates at
their recent conferences with the
president, declared tonight that pas
sage of the Adamson compromise
eight-hour bill by congress would
not be satisfactory to the railroads
and would not settle the pending con-
troversy.
"The railroads would take no pre-
cipitate action in event the bll was
passed." said Mr.. Holden. 1--WE
would not be hasty because we would
consider the interests Of the public.
No Power to Fix Wages.
1T is my understanding that the
supreme court Of the United States
has held recently, in two cases, that
the congress of the United States
has absolutely no power to fix wages.
That is what the Adamson bill
amounts to, according to my UNDER
standing"
Presidents OF Chicago railroads
met at the Chicago club this after
noon. Hale Holden, president OF the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, who
headed the committee which con-
fcrred with President Wilson, was
present, as was ]. w. Higgins, chair
man of the Association OF Western
Railways. A brief statement issued
after the meeting said:
Methods of dealing with the con-
ditions which will be created If the
strike comes were discussed, but no
definite and final plans were
adopted"
Similar meetings will be held daily
until the situation has cleared.
Advertise for Breakers.
T he railroads OF the country COM
pleted embargo preparations. En-
ployes were advised to take sober
second thought as to the future be-
fore striking, and advertisements for
strikebreakers appeared in news
paperst throughout the country. As
sociated Press dispatches showed
that everywhere communities were
organizing motor trucks and inter-
urban lines for emergency transpor-
tatiou service.