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NIHNINI SINIIMENI Ni IANIS
Leader of Stamford Five Tells
About “lnducement” That
Was Offered
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IN liSK SININIIY
Pays Respects to Manager God-
frey and Individual Players
of Sixth Company Team
I MAN 31
'acer Godfrey,
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INNPI PIIYINN SNNINNII
1 Pass Pavorable Vote on Arrange-
ment of Games—Gypii Goes
to New Britain
for tlte sake of the game
111 Norwalk. that he devise somo‘
scheme 01' think of some plan whereby ......—
tin,- crowd that attends tlit1 game at With every “’“m in the ”“5“" '9'“
\111 1111111 1111111111111 to show pr'opci res 1111111111111 ”I" 11111111111111» “I ”I“ 0°“
It (I to 11 tisitinu “,9",- Members 0f3 necticnt [that-bail league at a meeting
a visiting team “1,059 chin 1s cut 099“ 'hcld at the Garde hotel, New Haven,
bv one 111‘ the spectators whose arm iiil 1sterda31 afternoon by “I unanimous
sore 101' it week after the game b1' 9131'0111,n
blow rece11 cd from a club either from “‘3 ”WHO’I' NW” OI III” IIIOI'WIB Md
9 991199 091,191, 01 woman” or who 111111 fault whute111'1r to find with the
while going to the dressing room, inclul‘l'Hnglng of games, and all were of
struck from behind by one of an an ”‘9 °IIIIII°II III“ S“ CII‘IIII‘II IIIHL" had
gr,'.1 or shall we say ci'itious 11101), and done “gm ”5’ 9M“ ("I9 "I IIIGIII BIII
loath to 9,9,. another 99,99 011 91,93 twentv minutes were consumed in the
court 9.99. 9 ”1999 things 99,; 9how-1511111111111; of business matters, and Pres-
this be the unfortunate lot of many II‘II‘III Jeems 0 ROIII‘I‘G breathed ii EISII
teams that go to Norwalk, the Sixth I“ ”1qu WIII‘II II? Wits “I901“ I0 shell
Compant- would be obliged to give 1111— (“It thir-tb' dive cents for 111s fare back
hlbitionlgaines. One of 11111 members t0 mitigation. Before leaving Uncle
Manager Justus 1i. Fenneli manager
of the iSetcnth Company basketball
3, team. 01‘ Stamford, came out with an
explanatory letter in yesterday's Stain-
i‘ord Advocate, explaining what he
knew of the offer of an “"induccnient ‘
to tit1'011'the game by one of the N01“!
walk players. Manage-1 l-‘ennell names
Spot Dagon as the culprit, but explains
that Mr. Dar, 011 made no inducenicut.‘
simply making a casual statement
that it. would be policy to let Norwttlk‘
win the game in question for the pur-
pose of increasing the receipts at the
gate. The statement brings relief to,
Norwalk fans and substantiates our:
contention that an error was made by
those who reported the incident. Mati-
agcr Fenncll. however, takes" the
Armory crowd to task. although these
statements are made on evidence. pro~'
duccd by the players. The Stainfortl'
titan pays a compliment to the Sixth»
Company players and to Manager 1".
C. Godfrey. The letter is as follows:
“The writer has been endeavorlug
for the past week or so to keep his
promise to give an official statement. as
to certain inducements offered the
Seventh t‘ompany team to throw the
recent game held at Stamford, but for
various reasons he has been unable to
do so before this,
"In the first place. he regrets 11x-
ceetilngly that ho was obliged to be
out of town 011 the day of the game,
and the information obtained in re.
gard to the matter in question came
from the members of the Seventh Com-
1 puny team: but. inasmuch as it was
stated without any solicitation on his
part, and knowing his men as he does,
full faith and credit is given to what
of the Sixth Company second team, JCL‘mH stated thilt tht1 fuming Benson
who played in Stamford last Saturday will WTDRBB any as the league IS on
suggested that the first row of benches a firm foundation and everylhing is
be moved bat. k a toot 111 more so that coming along—in great style ()1 'ROlllke
tones in the hands of 11111 spectatortIlias yet to hear front Owuci Murphy
could not I111. used to trip opposing 01 New liritain and Gene 111110111111 01
nib-yore. 11 seems as though he has Bridgeport 1"1111111111 to the $2 .0110 bond
noticed some uncalled-for conduct on but as they have until the first of next
the part of the patrons at Norwalk! month to file it with O'Rourke, there
111 this orcurred at the game on Fob-- is little \1orr1'lng being done Mau-
ruary 2-1 at Norwaik. Yet. not 11 word nacr Cameron of the New Haven 11111111
from the sporting editors of the N01'- tiled his bond with O'Rourke at the
walk papers to that effect. That's meeting yesterday afternoon. An
one way to hide the Condition which Item of great interest, locally, was the1
exists there. but not to better it. purchase 0f Frank Gygil. the New
“it is this condition which exists at Haven first baseman, by Owner Mur-
Norwaik which has prat'tit'ali:.' LINE!" phy. of New Britain.
mined the Seventh Company 11111111111 Both ‘1'tmmron and Murphy had
never attain to play the Sixth Company I been in conference before regarding
in the Norwalk Armory. 'l'lli‘rv' “Willi—111m deal and the final announcement
however. be glad of tiny Olilml'tllnit)’ 10:01 the sale came ystcrday. ("amoron
play them on any other court either inIrt-fuscd to give out the amount of
v I ‘ I
Massachusetts; New \ork or (ounecti- : money “won—pd 1“ 11.9 deal. Manager
I'III- IJtick iloey of New Britain likes Gygii
A'TI‘III‘IIIIi-‘i IIIIS III part. “IIDHIIIIIIIuif'fiIand is of 1.1111311111111011 that the latter
your statotnent‘madc heretofore. 1 beg, W111 put up 9 1,9119“- game 193 New
'0 mumbl— 1311111111 that ho 11111 down at. the
Prairie. Those present at yesterdaYS
Illlt'elInL',‘ were President. Vice Presi-
“Very respectfully.
“.T'USTU.‘ .f. F‘Ev‘NNICld"
T'MST- SBI'OIIIII 00- BNSIIerIIII “11111.";de Secretary and Treasurer O'-
' Rourke; Sir Challenger; (‘ameron
of New Haven, blurphy of New Brit-
11111 Mettann 1.11 Brltigchrt, O‘Neil of
liolvokc. Carer of Springfield. The
latter also acted as proxy fur Hart-
NINNIS PNNNNNI NN 3
NNN NNLININ NINNNNN
.McGraw Keeps His Men Busy BATE FOR
I Despite Wretobed Weather HIGH WESLEYAN OIUIILET
they had to say. '
“The ‘inducemeui‘ referred to 1.11
none other than the 1'1-111111111 made by,
Dagon of the \orwalk team to the Soy
enth Company team that in order to
increase the attendance at the Stain
ford- Norwalk game in Norwalk, as
well as the attendance at Stamford t'it
any future time \1 lion waalk 1111113;
the Seventh Company. it. would be. lld‘t
visabie to allow the Norwalk team to
win the game on 11"“11111111111 21 last
which resulted in 11 victory fot Stani-
ford. ‘He might also be referred to a
similar statement made to one of 1111.12
Seventh Company team at Not-walk
on the night. the Sixth ("otupany 111in
ad C'lut'k House Fuller 11111111111 011111.-
Clark House team being present as
well as a resident of Statuf‘md. il‘Olit‘
.whom this information is dcrited. For
obvious reasons. front a
standpoint. this may not seem to bed
suggestion that would call for any
criticism; yet we wish to assuic each
and every patron of the game, either
In Stamfordor Norwaik. that the.
times urges its team to play the best
basketball 11 known how, and. it do-
‘ footed. only to submit to a superior
team. or suffer defeat because of some
unforeseen and unintentiotntl slump on
the part of its players: and that It
takes particular delight at any time
to defeat a team from Norwnlk.
"Allow the here. to pause a moment.
to pay mv sincere respects to the man
moment of the Sixth Company team.
on well as to ouch and every player 011
the telin. They have been courteonsI
In our relationship with them, and
while pinyinu the some, do not. In-
dulge In more rough tactics than the'
Norwal 113
Seventh Company management at all'
1
Conditions I
3 ,3 3 , ‘ 3.1111'111111—2'1'1111'x, Mnl'clt 111.—-—11. \v.
.\l.\lti1i.\. 111.11.. Mnren 1:1.-~Tltt.- Ilcbir of,\\'1trcestcr, the basketball
Giants Were 11 tnud-bcspattered I01 118
111111 camt romping in from their work
lthis afternoon and McGraw declares
latter ft 111-111 more of fills the team
oupht never to kick again about. hav-
'iuu to play 111 the rain or on a Wt-t
Iiiciti. in 1 :11'11' 111111111111; rain soaked
11111111151111 i’ark. and the heavy black
‘mud 11111111 to the players shoes like
'1'1111111 111.
, ()1'11111111'111' )1'1111'1111' would have been
If'fllllt at with a road tttn btit the teilin
expert who selects an All New 111111:—
qud basketball team each year, has
chosen the entire Wesleyan tire for
‘llGS 11 positions. 111111 11111 Iivt'1 best
players in Nev. England should all be
on one. team is considered a remark
able happening. 111 making his se-
lection Mr. fishir says he. took into
consideration team work, individual
playing and conduct on the floor and
decided that. he could not find a bet-
ter man for any of the positions than
‘is gradually 1111111111, itself into shape, the Wesleyan "10333 Capt. Davidson,
and he will not ilI""t 111111111111: to In— Hayward. Parkinson. Crane and Eat-
I t'n-tv' '--,..-~ ...
1““‘“ ““I‘ 1”" "' 1‘” ”hum from on. The entire team will hc 111 coi-
' 111111 on. It. was stifl. ruining when tht!
Iltout' 111'1'111111 for mourning practice,
land that had to be called off. The
players were greatly surprised when
:11 it o'clock McGraw ordered all of
them to get dressed and hike to the.
park. The weather was warm and
Iplcasunt, and the pitchers got. it good
chancc to try out their arms, but. the
. inileldct's anti outflcltis found it impos-
Islhlc to do their legs any good.
loge. next year and the. prospects are
good for it fast team. Wesleyan will
make a try for~admittituco to the in-
tor-state collegiate league, which con-
sisted this year of Columbia, Dart-
mouth, Pennsylvunin. Yale, Cornell
and Princeton.
BREAKS WORLD’S RECORD
Filil 8K| JUMP
CHIPPIGWA FALij Wis. March
Exceeded That for the Past Five “irr—OHCRE 03313316380313 of the North
Yearl3 In tha State. SIRI‘ Ski club, of “INS CIty, estabnahod
llAR'f‘l-‘(lltib Mart-b 13.——Thc Febrn- a new world's record by making a
my death rate In 1912 in 111111 state 5mm, of 133 feet, at the annual tour-
exceeded the average for that month nument of the Gusto Bakkcn Ski OIUI)
'fot' the past five ,1'.ears The, total at Modtim, Norwaik on Feb 18 ac-
number of deaths during the month cording to advices received here yes—
I was 1,51'10.Thls was fifty less then In “1—day
'Jannat‘y and 115 more than the five- Thé jump was given its an exhibi-
your average. tion. The (lust lialtltcu hill is the
The death rate was 169 for the longest ski bull in Norwalk. The pre-
large. towns, for the small towns 14.7. vfoue record, 147 feet was held by
111111.101 the whole um. 16 6— 511111111 1111111011. 013 Fctgus 11111111 Minn.
The deaths reported from Infectious ..s__.._.1.‘-....-
NORWALK CLUB POOL.
HIGH FEBRUARY DEATH RATE.
I i
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Smokers of 20 years ago have'
AN OLD-TIMER REVIV ED
pleasant memories of the
Tonight 1111—, Sixth Company basket
ball team will travel to Bristol where
they will meet tht1 basketball team of
that place. All good luck goes with
sonally attend the games at whicbi
theso unfortunate occurrences are said
to have taken place and we are of 11111
opinion that had he been 1111 would
R. H. TEN-CENT CIGAR
We have been fortunate to purchase duplicates of the Havana.
adopted the schedule for the com-1
1111111111111 teem, with the exception of: diseases were 2111. being 14 per cent.
the last half of the game at 'Norwuik oi the total mortality.
on March 4 when. for some uncallch The sixth sanitary conference of
for reason. they mistook basketball for the health officials of Connecticut will
football Strange to any. howevcn be held under the auspices of the
not a tutti was called on No‘rwaik dur-I State board of Health at the Hunt Me-
Ingthttt game. mortal butldin, '18 'Prospoct street,
‘ “I would 11111111111. however, 10111.11 Hartford, on Wednesday, April :1.
in tho Norwelit Club‘s sprint: pool
tournament, A, If. lialdwin, rated 50,
took a some. from it. B. Waugh, rated
1‘10, last evening.
Tonight. .1in 8 Buckley. rated 40.
will play Normm B. Show. 1133034 05.
A5001! battle is anticib‘ “1:"
.1
.11.
not have been quite.1 so severe 111 his
criticism. That, howwcr, is a. matter
of personal opinion and It is now di-
rectly 11p to the Norwalk fans to dis-
prove hte accusation.
the team.
...—..—
Tbo Norwalk High school basketball
quintet expect to take a game in New
llnvon tomorrow. They are slated to
piay the fast How Hart-1.11 team, and
not having had a game, for nearly two ,
weks makes them more anxious to
:get into the 1.1111111: again.
“Delighted." This well worn word
comes In finely to express our opinion
of the. official statement made public
by Manager Fennell, of the Stamford
basketball team. Manager Feunell,
who was not present either at the
13.31110 at the Armory or at Satmford
wlictIlallegod indiscretiona took plat-n.
admi that he is basing his judgment
on heaxeay and consequently speaks
mildly. as is proper. The “induce'
mcnt offered amounted to little, our;
genial friend “Spot" Dagon having in
conversation casually stated that it
might show good business judgment to
enter into an arrangement. This, ac—
cording to Manager Fennel], Is or
worse than whstwas said by a Sev
entlt Company man at a game in the
Armory. Knowing “Spot" as we do
Last Saturday was a moat Inaus-
piclous day for'a gun club to hold a
shoot anti realizing this the shoot of
the Winnipuuit Gun Club was postpou
ed for a week. Tomorrow afternoon
,1f the weather is more favorable than
it was last Saturday the members will
gather at tohlr new cltib house in Win
uipauk and will try out
(in (load Friday it is planned to bade
a big about such as has not been held
for some few months. The member
ship of the club is growing continually
and 111111 1101111111: day of sport is looked
forward to with considerable pleasant
expectation by all qualified to take.
part.
c
we do not lit-51111111 to say that we be—
lieve him not guilty of anything more
than to Indtscretion. which would pro-
bably never have amounted to any-
thing had it been made on another oc-
casion.
The claim has been made that Nor-
walk fans are not what they should bt'
when It comes to giving a reception
to a visiting team. Manager .Fennell,
who makes tlioailegatfon, did not per-
1111 1111111111111
1111111111111 1111111111
Despite Bad Weather, All Dab-
len’s Men Leave lint Springs
Physically Fit
93”“
The weather forecaster prescribes ATLANTA Ga March lfi--lf the
that the weathen’ts going to he brlghi3 blizzard such as we had in 1883 does
and bunny the remainder of the 110! “like Georgia th" HIIIIOP bail—
month. However, that will not do the l'iIiiit‘i'S will be satisfied. Rant with
Dulilen party any good. as it packed ' ilurrlcs of snow anti a cold wind hit
up its uniforms and puts tonight and 3 the training camp yesterday afternoon
glided away to lilttio Rock. Tho-11111 the players walked to the ball
lliodizers are scheduled to hook 1111.111011111Is at Ponce 1111 1111011 J'ark.
with King Kelley‘s 81.11qu (3111b there There was also it store training nost-
WININY NIASIN NNN’I
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Wolverton’s Squad Practices in
Snow Flurry—Welter Play-
ing in Good Form
tobacco from which this Cigar was
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made and the it. if. is now on
CIGAR CO.
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and invigorator when you are
troubled with that “tired feel-
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licer. There is nothing that
will give you a Spring. appetite
and the vitality to enjoy your
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WNINN SNNNN N111
NAN ISINNN SPIIN
Commerce Commission Officials 1
Believe Limit of Pressure
Has Been Passed
this afternoon., Then they wiil‘I (111 about Georgia to the effect that it
board the rattler death and perform 111 Is likely to snow, rain or half today
Memphis on Saturday and Sunday. and Saturday.
—~-——-—~»—1~—~~ ~ ' In spite of the winter wehther and
1031111 1111131 1110 it: 21213211111211211 111112122:
1111111111 81111111111
for practaice 'l"hc_1 mat to the out-
Ifield 111 the morning for some hitting
Brooklyn Boxer Beats Merchant’s
Substitute, Having Better
practice, with big .lim Vaughn, Quinn
and (‘aldwcll doing the pitching. Af-
of Every Round
ter lunch the boys had to go back for
some more practice under the shed.
10E CAItIIEY L08E8
TITLE TII eoeni
...—..."
33.1011 (foster, of Brooklyn, was too fast
and clever for Young Shuitruo, of .ier- . , , . _,_ 3
say 0111' and outpoinied him by a big lili.\\ ER (”'0‘ March l)..———ioe La
333339313" In a ten-round bout at the Na may of Denver. last night. lost. his title
111111111 5330331333393 Club New York lastlor champion three-cushion billiard
' ‘ ' plavcr to John (Banker) “organ. of
night. in addition to the good judg ‘
i S l 1
11111111 111 planting many blows. Coster's 1‘ I ”MS it though Carney made sixty
'points while the casterner was accu-
defense was pattetically impregnable. _
and Shugt'ue scarcely landed an affeé-22:11:33]]Ih;':ngn;§:::::l$a:? “‘2‘:
the blow during the. bout. Custer r1 " '
, . eruo' 2 .
earned the. honors In every round 111111.110 C 3’ 1]»
The ringside Weights as I‘IIIIWIIC‘IQIHOMMEY AND CHICAGO MURPHY
were: Poster, 126%. pounds. Situgruc” DRAW
130% DoundI' I Packey Honimey fought a draw
W‘”“’"‘ Iwith Chicago Tommy Murphy in the
AUTO PARTY EAI LS Istar bottt of ten rmmds at the Fordon
...C of New York last night. The
TO FOLLOW BILLIIIIII whole ten rounds were a series of
-—--—-—'—- Ijnbs and the men being well matched.
SAN ANTONIO Té‘m March 15‘ both had squat opportunities. The
Illfil. night N0 EOIIOW Th0 balloon Bllck' the beat In UNIS round both were
63' 8. in “midi J H- Wade, 0' Cleve-l strong and It was slugging from start
land. and Thomas Cook, of San Anto- 10 “"131, Each of the fighters 80i—
III" are “IIQmPIIIIK I0 I’I'GIIII III" three rounds and four rounds were
wor'ld s record for long distance 1113th even
returned to San Antonio late last night. ___.._..
1and reported that after following the PROTEST AGAINST YOUNG LAW-
bailoon for fifty miles lost trace of YERS.
It anti abndoned the pursuit. CHICAGO, March iii—Tho National
'-< --—-~ Industrial Traffic league at a meet
OAWHER TONNEMAN “053 TO 1113 here. protested against the ap-
MEMPHIS- I pointment of deputy Interstate catn-
MEMPHIS Tenn. March 15'“ meroe commissioners. The protest
Catcher Tonneman was purchased by' 9,99 919999 by 99199" 91 the 199999
MemDhI“ from "I" New “III AmerI‘ and will be forwarded to Washinnton
cons last night The deal was biased 993999 31999999 999,999,999} 19 the
between Manager Bernhard and Wol- 3193999 999999999 1399 199, that the
verton. Who NI 3 W Ill Atlanta, 0qu“: depuu“ would ”8 young Inwyarl, u“.
the long diatom: phone. The pride 9919 to "999 999 933—999 99913999113191
was .1500. Woman 1m formerly 99999139 191,91“; . 33 3
with Nashville 1113131 13.111111111- 131111111 1
3m 0311113. ‘ ’ ' ‘
. remedy which it will require a change
The automobile party which set out’ 1111.1 round of the 119111 proved 19 99.11111“
tt'nsuixnrtix. March 15.—-Tho
wretk 011 the New York Central Rail-
10nd of the Twentieth Century Limit-
ed at ifvdc Park N 1'., Wednesday, is
said by oftliais of the Inter—State Coni-
give you a 1125 Gas Tank for
$16 and your Old Generator----
for your Automobile.
|making,r careful investigations on the". '
'1
’ N
81 Company will
railments have been caused by broken
rails and hate resulted in the death
of 1015 persons and injuries to 443,25
persons.‘
it was stated at the commission ,
that. officials of railroad companies and
of steel manufacturing plants- our
subject and apparently are determin-
ed to locate the difficulty and to core;
rr-ct it
(‘hitf inspector Henry Belnap of the‘
commission is now conducting imestio
gations into wrecks caused by broken
rails in the West and will report on;
the subject to the commission in 13:
short time, when it is believed the
commi5sion will make a strong recs.
mcrce Commission to bear out the re
pett made '111 the commissions ex-
perts that the limit of speed or wheel
pressure has been teathed and prob-'
ahlv surpassed on .ratls of the. usual
width and shape of head and that the.
ten or more wrecks since the first of
the year is a warning of this fact.
Secretary John H. Marble has de-
tailttl three of the most experienced of
the commission‘s inspectors to go to
the scene of the wreck and take pos-
session of the broken trails which
caused the cars to jump tht.1 track anti
fdrward them to Washington to be
tested by the bureau of standard»
It is the opinion among the commis—
sion's experts that the rail god—rally
described as “broken" is one 111111 '11
defect that has come to light only
within the last—few months and to
1
in the making of steel -'.1ails The new"
defect is known as “transverse fis-
sure" and is said to be more danger-
ous than a "piped" or other defective
rail in that its weakness cannot be
disclosed by test and can only be de—
veloped by service.
The commission calls attention to
this defect and expresses the Opinion
an exhaustive investigation
should be made at once of the entire
subject with the. object of securing
steel rails free from this and other
defects. The commission suggests
that Congress make an appropriation
for the purpose and that the. investi-
gation be undci'taltmt by the bureau
of standards On the subject of de—
fective rails the commission says in a
recent re port
1"The attention'of the commission
has been called in numerous and in
some instances startling ways to 'tho
increased number of rail’bad accident;
due, to broken rails. The reports affect-
Iiig accidents made to the commission
by carriers show that In the year end»
ed June 39,1902.eeventy—etgbt derail
moms were caused by broken rail-.1
3w ile In the year ended June 30,1911.
1
Iuhich it belie1 es is necessary and de-
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ouimendntion for the necessary approi‘
,‘piiation to start the. investigation
sirable.
113.
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you that this LIQUOR WINE ebd3331
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‘Our goods are uniformly higlipradop11
—~our prices are likewise, always
sortable. 3
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