New Britain herald., 1917-04-20
SPORTDOM SPARKLETS

NFVNlUVM NFAkkLEIN tContinued From Twelfth Page.) the seventh with left to the jaw. 1 The only thing that can be said in favor of Mohr was that he took the
 punching without taking the count. 1 Colby College baseball team scored
 a victory over the Maine College nine
 at Waterville, Me-, yesterday The score was 10 to 6.
 Boston College baseball, team de- feated Worcester Tech nine at Wor- cester, Mass, yesterday by a score of to l.
 Raymond F. Shell, of Brookton,
 Mass. class of IS, was yesterday elected captain of the Yale baseball team. He plays second base for the nine.
 Frank S. Danforth, of the North Fork, club medalist in the mid-April golf tournament, and Robert Hunter, of Wee Burn, fulfilled the hopes and expectations of the gallery and the newspaper men by staging a highly
 exciting contest in yesterdays round at Pinehurst, N. C. Danforth was 1 upfat the turn and Hunter 1 up at the fifteenth. Danforth evened matters at the sixteenth. The seventeenth was halved in 3, and Danforth on the eighteenth and the match by sinking a f1fty-foot putt from off the green for a great 3 on this 4O2-yard hole. while Hunters third was lying dead to the cup. Danforth's card was s. ss-77. Hunters 41-ss-7s.
 The state senate today passed a house bill fixing a license tax of $500
 a day for race meetings at Kentucky tracks within twenty miles of cities of
 200,0 900 and $200 day for all others
 except those at state and county fairs.
 An amendment yet to be acted upon by the house applies the license tax
 only to those tracks under the juris-
 diction of the state racing commis-
 sion. The effort would, it was stated,
 exempt tracks devoted to trotting
 races.
 The mayor of Memphis, Tenn, yes-
 terday issued an order barring Les
 Darcy, of Australia, from engaging in any bouts in this city. There had
 been . lot of interest raised in the report that the Maitland boy was to box one of the leading American middleweights in Memphis. but the action of the mayor hands Les an
 other legal knockout.
 Club owners in tho AmeT1can League will be forced to close their parks If a war tax on baseball. sug- gested in the administration revenue program, is demanded from them in stead of from the patrons of the sport. President Johnson Of the American League said today: II have figured that the tax would amount to about $25O.OOO for the season. That would more than wipe out our profits. We would have to close our gates"
 President August Hermann of the Cincinnati Nationals. before leaving with his team for St. Louis Wednes- day night stated he would endeavor to arrange for 8 transfer Of the two games scheduled to be played by St. Louis and Cincinnati in Cincinnati on May 30 (Memorial Day) to St. Louis. The National automobile races are set for that date at Sharonville, Ohio, and President Hermann desires to avoid a conflict with these events.
 Uniforms and other property of the Toledo and Indianapolis American as sociation baseball teams were de- stroyed by fire yesterday morning which partially destroyed the club house and stands in Swayne Park at Toledo, Ohio.
 Johnny Kilbane. champion feather weight, outpointed Matt Brock of Cleveland by wide margin last night ! in their ten-round no-decision bout at 1 Cleveland, Ohio. Kilbane f1oored Brock six times in the first round. but was unable to put over the decisive punch. Brock recuperated and fought ] back hard in the last few rounds, but was outboxed and outfought by Kill 1 bane, Brock not being able to recover entirely from the effects of the first ! round beating he received.
 The Brooklyn National League club | announced yesterday that the Balti- l more club of the International League ] had assumed the contract with Pitch | CT Ed Appleton and will suspend the | player for not reporting. Appleton is said to be on the way. to his home ! at A Arlington Tex