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New Britain herald., 1916-01-19
MEN WITH BALES 0F
 kALEN NOW MAGNATES
Recent Purchases Of Clubs Show l Wealthy Men Are Entering Sport

New York. Jan. 19-The announce ment made by Charles Weeghman, that among his partners in the re- gently purchased and reorganized ! Chicago National league baseball club are J. Ogden Armour, William Wrigley, Jr., in addition to one or two other unnamed business men of great wealth, calls attention to the entry of fresh millions of backing into the big leagues within the past year Four major league clubs have changed ownership in a little more 2 than twelve months and in every q case the buyers are men who have made large fortunes in other lines Of business and to whom baseball will always be more of a sport than a dollar and cents proposition. Yet these men have either made millions or increased fortunes left to them by S ancestors, through shreWd business ability and up-to-date efficiency, and they will naturally expect that any ball club in which they have money invested will be conducted along the &same lines.
 It only requires cursory glance al sthe list of the new club owners and $ the money they. have invested and represent to realize that a new era is Mdawning in big league baseball A little more than. year ago Colonel &Jacob Ruppert, Jr., and T. L. Huston &paid about $40. 900 for the New York &National league club. The combined 8wealth of these two men is more than NS25, 100000 and they have already Demonstrated that they are willing @to spend big money to secure proper Ndiamond talent as the recent purchase
 &Of Lee Magee, at assf1gure of more
 @than $20,000 proves.
 Following the peace agreement be- #tween Organized and Independent Baseball the Chicago Nationals and @he St. Louis American changed hands. i MWeeghman was the moving figure in :
 @he purchase of the Cubs, and it now ] Sdevelops that Armour, Wrigley anu i Possibly one other capitalist are ]
 hmong the stockholders. Close to half i @ million was paid for the Cubs and ! < he combined financial resources of @he new owners is easily $75,000,000. s#Fo it can be seen that the Cubs will #haye excellent backing in the future & Phil Ball. Otto StifeI and J. W. #sarneau were the announced pur-
 #ehasers of the St. Louis Americans, #and the price was given out as $525,- goo. At least one of the trio is un- #1erstood to have the backing of a &91lllfonaire so that it is safe to set Flown the rating of the new owners i @ts close to $5, 900, 900. The sale of the # oston Nationals to Percy D. Haugh- #on, Arthur c. Wise and others for @bout $500. 900 brings another group HDf capitalists and keen business men l %nto baseball with resources placed at ! to $30,00O, 900. 1
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19
BOWLING LEAGUE
 AMONG STATE TEAMS
Teams From Meriden, Wallingford. SOuthington, Bristol, Middletown
 and This City to Roll.

The Inter-c city Duck Pin league was formed at a meeting held yesterday afternoon at the Aetna alleys in this city Teams were entered from Meri- den, Wallingford, Southington, Bris- tol, Middletown and New Britain. Officers were elected as follows
 President-Geo. c. Rogers, New britain.
 Secretary-E. B. Carr Wallingford. Treasurerz-F. F. Mclaughlin, Wal lingford.
 Each team is to put up s20, making a total of $40 for prize money. Roll ing starts next week and the first games are as follows: New Britain at Bristol; Starlights of Meriden at Wallingford; Southington at Casino Meriden. Middletown not rolling the first week. A local team will be made up that will give them all stiff run for first money.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19
WANTS TO EXCHANGE CAMPS

I. Boston, Jan. 19.-An exchange of spring training camps is the subject of negotiations between the New York Americans and the Boston Nationals Manager George T. Stallings of the Braves said yesterday that he wished to have the local team train again at Macon, Ga, instead of at Miami, Fla, where it has leased grounds for five years. Accordingly
 he said, he had asked Captain Huston of the New York club, which leased the privileges at Macon after Boston abandoned that place last spring, to enter an arrangement whereby the clubs would exchange camps or to al- low both to train at Macon. Tn the latter event, he said, the Miami plant would be offered to another team
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19
One on NIr. DOOIey.

Here is a golf yarn that MT. Peter Dunne can deny if he cares to. But they are still telling it on him at Pinehurst.
 One day, playing around with Thomas Nelson Page, Italian Ambas- sador, as we recall the hazy details, MT. Dunne recorded an 8S. His chest expanded several inches and he was walking on high ground. It was what is often known as Great Stuff.
 After the round MT. Dunne and MT. Page sat on the porch watching other golfers finish. A few minutes later MT. Dunne noticed a certain lady ap preaching the eighteenth green. Her hair was of that very light variety that, in the sun glnt, looked to be gray-white At this distance she looked to be about sixtytwo. What fun," said MT. Dunne. "do you suppose ar old grandma of that age gets out of playing golf? Why, it's a joke"
 A minute or two later the lady in question stepped up on the porch MT. Page recognized her. "How did you play today?" he queried, "Not very well," she replied. 'I was a bit eff and had an 84."
 At which point MT. Dunno promptly swallowed his cigar. It so happened that the lady in question was under forty years of age and that she was lso one of the very best of the IEastern golfers rated almost even with the champ ionship clan.
 New club owner desires to strengthen Braves.' We only know of fifteen other major league owners c,bsessed with the same burning de- sire.
 In Baseball The saddest words that ever were 1
 written ''They're playin' all right but they 1
 ain't a-hittin' "
 Tn the frosty interim, what has be- come of the "tall and rangy guy" variety of pitcher? We haven't
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19
TO PLAY MIDDLETowN.

The New Britain High school
 basketball team will play the Middle town High school team in that place tonight This will be a league game
 and the first meeting of the teams this Beason. The local team will be minus Ahe services of Hubbard, because of a Heath in his family, and Buell. will Splay in his place. Cabelus, center, will Probably be out of the game because 2of an injury to his foot. Bachu1us, East substitute, will play center if IEabelus is unable to appear
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19
BOXING BILE AGAINST DECISIONS

Albany Jan. 19:-Senator Joseph, R1emocrat of New York, yesterday in
 Produced a bill which would prohibit Sany referee of the state athletic com snission or any member of a club hold Eng alboxing match to render any de-
 scision. The bill makes into law the S1ecision of the athletic commission
 Rgainst the rendering of decisions in
 sprize fights, and is understood to have Ahe indorsement of Governor Whit Snan, who has approved the recent Pulling by the athletic commission that 4shere would be no decisions in fights #n this state. ee -s-..
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19
HOGAN MAKES BIG SCORE.

Jimmy Hogan hit the duck pins for a 166 score at the Aetna alleys last evening. He came within one pin of highest score ever made on the Aetna alleys. His big string started off with 6 spare, which was followed by three successive strikes. Jimmy is a mem Der of one of the Union Mfg. Go. teams, which leads the factory league, and has improved this season to such an extent as to be among the leagues high average bOWlers.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19
CRACK SPRINTER FOR MICH.

Chicago, Jan. 19-Earl Eby, ma tional junior half-mile champion, who has been attending the University of Chicago, has quit the Midway High school and will attend the University of Michigan It was learned yesterday
 Eby won the junior half-mile event at the Panama-Pacific championships in San Francisco last summer. t'
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19

Boston, Jan. 19.-Percy Haughton, president Of the Boston Nationals al
 ready has exercised his authority over
 players. Announcing himself as op-
 posed of injury, he has written per
 sonally to Walter Maranville caution ing ham against taking part in indoor games. Maranville had stated his in tention of joining team which would
 include. several big league players. Haughton says that George Stallings is going to be absolute boss of the Braves and that no Harvard football method will be used in handling the team. HaughtOn is to repeat in a speech to the players what James F.
 Gaffney told them about rowdyism by letter. He is going south on the spring training and may have a few jaunts around the circuit with the club, but other than that MT. Stallings will be a real manager. There will
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19

be no college methods used in the Braves. This club is going to be a Boston baseball club, pure and sim pie, said Haughton recently. 'Stal- lings is a genius, a sort of baseball WOnder,' he continued. Put it os strongly as you like that Stallings will have absolute charge of the base ball end of the Braves. To be can did, the fact that Stallings was signed as manager for a couple of years in fuenced us as much as anything in deciding to buy the club. What George says will go all the time.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19
Picking the Winner.

'Tt will be much harder to pick the National league winner this season" suggests an exchange, Ion account of the number of Fed players to be dis tributed.''
 Yes, much harder. Do you recall at this stage two years ago how many millions were picking the Braves to win the N L. flag, and how at this date last winter vast multitudes were picking the Phillies, who hadn't lost any stars in two years except SeatOn, Magee, Knabe, DOolan, DOoin and rcssibly three or four more?
 The Red Sox are still American league favorites, but in the Na'ti tional league the Delphic Oracle in mid season form, pitching masterly ball with a hop-to-it' s-fast-One and all the rest of it, would never dare take 8 chance If the perfervid dope works out properly. which of course it never does, the N. l.. Race should be one of those that curl your whiskers. .
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19
RANGERS OPEN
 BOWLING LEAGUE
Shamrocks and Emeralds Start Right by Taking First Honors-
 Other Games.
Other Games.

The recently formed bowling league gers club opened last evening at the Aetna alleys with the following re- suits:
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19

Baseball peace has given the mag nate chance at last to get even With the ball player" comments writer. If the magnate uses peace for this pur- pose and operates in a spirit ot re- venge, there will soon be more trouble than ever. The time is now as ripe as it will ever be for both magnate and player to cast aside all greed and to put the game on fair, clean basis. | sportsmanship doesn't develop now, after all the trouble baseball has been through, it never will develop. But we believe that both magnate and player at last have picked up a Eeeded lesson and are headed Tor the right highway after foundering a number of seasons over in the bogs and barren lands.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19

Answer: In the opinion of the writer and many of the alumni of the New Britain High school, the honors for the best all-around athlete of the school belong to Dave Dunn
 Dunn it will be remembered was a member of three championship teams in one season, football which team he was captain of the team, basketball in which he starred as center and baseball as a catcher. Dudack a pre- sent pupil in the. school, has proven his versatility as an all-around athle- tic playing on three teams in one year, but in only one did the team annex a championship; basketball in 1915. Sporting Ed.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19
Enc Big Jolt.


 The game may have a greater bunch
 Than both were at their best; The game may have a grander pair
 To shoot against the test; There may be those with finer stuff
 To lead the yearly skit; But things will never be the same
 When Hans and Matty quit The future may produce some star
 That has both beaten down: Some mighty pitcher may come on
 To wear the olive crown; Some mighty slugger with the kick
 That deals the winning blow; But things will never look the same When Hans and Matty go However good guy may be,
 A better bloke comes soon: There is no king whose reign may last Beyond a f1eeting moon; l know the gap is soon plugged up
 Though countless stars may flop; But something goes no man may fix
 When Hans and Matty stop.
 Oldtime fans of another day prob ably felt that baseball was headed for the soup trough When Pop AnSOn passed out and Mike. Kelly faded over the ridge; or when Radbourne ceased firing and Buck Ewing made his final peg to second base. It would be hard to name the greatest popular hero the game has ever given us. There would be votes enough for Anson and Kelly, RadbOurne and Ewing, ClarksOn and Walsh. But none of these surpassed Hans Wagner and Christy Mathewson in general popularity. Offhand, we should say that Mathewson led the list
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19
Sounds Like an Argument.

Sir: I see where Taber is credited with the worlds mile records in all the leading record books. If crew picked a perfect day and was paced by another fast crew and the record was broken, would this stand? Would a record of this sort stand in any other sport-a record not made in actual competition?
 BYSTANDER.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19
SPORTING QUERY.
3 Editor Herald:

Sporting Editor Herald: ..5 '<"r Sir:-Please state in your sporting columns the answer to this question Who is the best aIl-around athlete that ever attended or attends the local high school? X One who played in all the sports preferred. Thanking you I remain.
 Yours truely ~
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19

'Why should left handers,' asks l.. F. J., be nuttier than right handers?' Simple enough. Why should water in the Atlantic Ocean be damper than water in the Pacific?
 A Cinch.
 He who putts and looks away Will have another putt to play.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19
PAPER GOODS LEAGUE. 8 =js$r: PifotnC

(Other Sporting News On Following
 Page)
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19

Jess Willard and Moran may be worth a s50,O00 purse, and we may be worth $30O,0OO And Jack Johnson may be as white as snow.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19
2?SHr }!:;!::! T!
 N.Y. Gay1za7d Rice

ls-mped this one popular phrase in at least two months.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19

Tn the frosty interim, what has be- come of the "tall and rangy guv'' variety of pitcher? We haven't
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19

'Tx is the happy smoke. just packs the smokers calendar 20 plumb full % 4 rant delight that gloomy % day 1n mt crowd itself the joy of pipesmokng and regular intending procession of happy days.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19

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New Britain herald., 1916-01-19

The saddest words that ever wer, written '"They're playin' all right but the,
 ain't a-hittin y
The Washington herald., 1916-05-17
ARTISTS MEET HERE TODAY.
Senator NeyvIands VIII Discuss cart
and the People,"

At the opening session this morn
ing at the New Willard of the Ameri-
can Federation OF Art, Senator New
lands will make the principal address
upon the subject, Art and the Peo-
Pile" Robert W. de Forest, prssi-
dent of the federation, will preside
and introduce DR.. Charles D. wal
cott secretary OF the Smithsonian In
stitutIon, who will deliver the ad-
dress OF welcome
Other speakers at this morning 5
session will be Mrs. Herbert Adams,
on The Fallacy OF the Short Cut" "
and f. R. Bossange on The Need
Of Realism in Art" Papers upon de-
tails and broad principles of the art
lists work will be given in the aft
ernoon and on Thursday and Friday.
One of the most important meetings
will be that OF Thursday evening at
the Corcoran Gallery of Art, at
which services in commemoration of
the life and work of John W. Alex
ander will be held. President Will
son has been invited to attend The
convention will be concluded with a
dinner at Rauscher's on Friday even
ing. Addresses will be delivered by
Alfred Noyes. poet Horatio Parker,
musician; Cass Gilbert, architect;
Herbert Adams, sculptor, and william
N. Chase, painter.
The Washington herald., 1916-05-17
AT ODDS over
BRITISH POLICY
Wilson S Official Advisers Diff
fer as to Attitude of u. S.
Toward Great Britain.
POLITICS IS A FACTOR
Some Believe President Will Lose
Pro-Germsn and Irish Vote Unless
He Dispatches Firm Note.

Following the Cabinet meeting yester-
day there were indications that the Presi-
dents official advisors are at odds over
the course the United States should pur-
sue in the diplomatic controversies now
pending with Great Britain.
State Department officials, having pub
licly said that they would not permit
Germany to force the United States tc
proceed vigorously against the British
nal blockade and that treaty obliga.
tions limited this governments action tC
diplomat protests, are in favor of con.
tinuing the British negotiations on ar
even keel. They are convinced that all
injuries suffered by Americans will be
adjusted fairly and In due course and
see no reason for unduly pressing for
immediate decisions or for using sharr
language in the diplomatic correspondence
between the two governments.
But other OF the Presidents advisors
are apparently becoming concerned about
the political effect which the pursuance
Of this policy may have especially with
regard to the pro-German and Irish vote
They point out that the President has
an excellent opportunity to deal with tbs
British question now from the viewpoint
OF home consumption" sharp note
to Great Britain, they add, would doubt
less find much support. especially in the
South and West, where the British policy
has been the cause of great financial
losses.
There is already wide divergence be-
The Washington herald., 1916-05-17
SOCIETY GIRL SHOOTS
SELF in BALTIMORE
Miss Mary B. Mordecai Found at
Point of Death After Firing
Revolver.
NV the sun News seryice.)

Baltimore. Md. May 16-Wlth a
bullet wound in her brain and her
skull fractured, Miss Mary B. Morde-
cal. we'll known in society circles, lies
in Mercy Hospital tonight at the point
Of death.
Miss MordecaI was found lying on
the floor Of her room in her suite at
the Walbert apartments shortly after
o'clock this morning. She had shot
herself through the right temple with
a .22-caliber revolver. which was lying
by her side. The bullet had passed
through her brain and had fractured
the back Of her skull. She was hur-
ried to the hospital in a private am
bulance.
Yesterday she appeared as we'll as
usual, but a close friend Of the fam
fly says that she was overworked
and was worried about her affairs at
her Office. She was a stenographer
in the office of the commissioner OF
motor vehicles, and received a good
salary. There is no apparent reason
why she should wish to attempt sui
eide other than mental depression. II
was learned today that she had been
speculating IN the stock market
Miss Mordecai was fond Of out-of-
door sports, and formerly hunted with
the Elk Ridge hounds. She was also
interested in racing and was fire.
uuent visitor to Pimlico. She was a
member OF the exclusive family Of the
Mordecais, Of Green Spring Valley
prominent in Baltimore society for a
century.
At Mercy Hospital tonight the sur
Eeons said that her condition was ex-
ceedingly critical
The Washington herald., 1916-05-17
.BARES CHECKERED LIFE
OF SAMUEL SCHWARTZ
Lansing Send, to House Documents
Showing Prisoner Has Been Charged
With Forgery and Bigamy.

A statement concerning the checkered
career Of Samuel Schwartz, a naturalized
American citizen in whose behalf Repre-
sentative Bennett, Of New York. intro
duced a resolution Of inquiry in the
House, was transmitted yesterday by Sec
retary Lansing to Chairman Flood, OF
the Foreign Affairs Committee.
The statement sets forth that Schwart5,
whom Mr.. Bennett described as 'languish-
Ing in an English prison. was wanted IN
Hungary for forgery, that he was a biga-
mist, and that his naturalization having
been fraudulent, he was not entitled to
the protection Of the United States. In
stead OF OBTAINING him. tho British gov
ernment was at one time on the point OF
deporting him to the United States.
1t Il alleged in various criminal rec
ords that Schwartz had obtained large
sums OF money by fraud in Hungary,
where he was known as the Duke OF
Suben." and that he had been impris-
oned in Graz, where he had secured 10,
600 kronen by forgery. He escaped jail
with the assistance OF a woman now
said to be in the United States. His real
wife Is said to be living in Hungary.
The Washington herald., 1916-05-17
AUDIENCE ON JOURNEY
TO LAND OF FAIRIES
Musical Fantasy Presented by Miss
Smithson's Pupils at Annual
May Carnival.

With Peggy. the Little Dream Girl"
several hundred grownUps were waited
TO fairyiand last night at the New Viii
lard at the annual May carnaval OF the
pupils OF Miss Madolin Smithson, when
the musical fantasy, The Land of
Spirits" was presented. AS Peggy" in
the person Of Miss Lila Smithson. with
the audience entered fairyland they were
greeted by the "Dews." 'Moonbeams. %
"Breezes," and "Flower Spirits" The
Queen Of Spiritland" crowned Peggy"
as the Spirit of Golden Dreams"
The principal characters in the oper-
eta were Emma Morgenweck, as
Queen Of Spirits" Edith Van Horn, as
Fairy Spirit" Henrietta Gates as
Spirit OF Night" Lenita Jcnnewine as
Spirit of Air." Grace Tucker as Spirit
OF Love" Beva Fish as Spirit Of Stars, %
and Edna Tyler as Spirit OF Wind"
Among the dancers and singers were
Alice Cush. Bessie Cush, Marion
Sweeney. Catherine Bridges. Christine
The Washington herald., 1916-05-17
ORPET Love LETTERS
PRESENTED IN Court
Tender Notes From Both Sweethearts
of Accused Youth Filed Into
Murder Case.
CBy the international News serviee,)

waukegan. Ill, May 1s.-The soup OF
developments IN the stmmeHng Orpet
trial began to thicken today and give
OF little bubbles Of sensation For ex-
ample:
The love letters Of an innocent by
stander in the Marion Lambert tragedy
were filed carefully into the case. They
were written by Celeste Youker from her
home IN Dekalb to Orpet when he was
at Madison. They will be used by the
prosecution as a barometer of Orpet's
veering affections.
The love letters in frst-primer French
written by Orpet to Marion Lambert were
given a brief airing and then laid away
again in the prosecutions lavender by
order Of the court. The defense was de-
MED a glimpse Of them. II the court al
lows their Introduction, which Is doubt
full they will be used by the State to
show the length to which the Orpet-Lam-
bert love affair had run. Also they will
show, It Is stated, a curious streak OF
erraticism IN the young man.
Frank Lambert. father OF Marion de-
clared that he did not want to see Orpet
die. but did want him sent to prison for
fourteen years or so TO reflect upon his
sins"
When court adjourned only three pros
peCtiye jurors were left in the box.
The Washington herald., 1916-05-17

tween the position which Secretary Ian
sing has assumed on the general subject
of the British negotiations and the posi-
tion which other advisers believe this gov
ernment should assume. From the State
Department the news comes that the
United States will continue the negotia-
tions less vigorously and less expeditions
ly than if Germany had not attempted to
make vigorous action a condition upon
which will rest continuance of the
abandonment Of Illegal submarine war
fare From other official sources how
ever, come statements that the United
States will act with great vigour against
Great Britain and that the President
Is planning sharp action in connection
with the British blockade.