.é-Y
1
"lid-hie- were together on the Cubs
_ inn; each other without hurting, yct
‘ i " Mud Whammy;
85.8 latch: on firidgepflt}
Lit: lune 13-16 hdlsite i
NEW roux, tan. is.—For the flrsti
unit. ever the metropolitan Golf “,1
variation has decided ‘to carry one
of ‘iis championships into Connecti-
J‘cut. The BrooklaWn club, Bridget
Imi'l, woo yesterday afternoon award-i
vd the amateur June 13-16 inclusive:
i
my the executive committee. The
Wykagyl club, New Rochelle, thought;
as iIt was the only other active ap~i
piicant, that it would be successful”
‘ especially as it held the Metropoll-i
in; open mayoral years ago and like
Buoklawn has a line nev‘liome open-
ed only last season.
Like Brooklawn .100. street cars
pass. the grounds. However, the
committee decided that the claims of
the important, nearby. sound shore or-
yarizations could no longer be ig-
nored. 'l‘he Brooklawr. course is ap-
proximately 6,450 yards long. The
'Bll‘troiolitnn open wait to the. North
{Shore club, Lang Island, for July
1213, while the Metropolitan junior
will but at the Siwénoy fliib Mount
t'eruon. June 26-37. With these two
June dates taken, Oakmont is scarce-
‘ly likely to congest the schedule by,
trying I
firm.- Scp ember to June. i
l-‘lmiluy Douglass was this often.
diutJl reelected captain of the Neil"
giuljlnl‘ Lash-y cup team and this
handicap rm‘umitlt‘e was named: A.
F“. Robinson. Ardslcy, chairman;
(.hzirics W. l'Connor, Gilbert Green-
‘r.'.iy: .ir. Nathan Schroeder and Au-
from i“. Kamuier.
llMM All) new usn
‘ l0 iiil nuts
Former Chicago National League
Players-t Used to "fake. Great Dc.
light in' Attracting an Audience by.
Putting an imaginary Scrap.
.Wiion Heine Zimmerman and Lew
inc-y took a keen' delight in having
fiilte‘iighlni. They had the art. of hit
at the same time, making the blow
dunno like a crack cf :1 sledge ham
mer. Both were adopts in tho knack
of i"nlling_with 4 mod. Uilcn they
would practice them: fightn in the soil
dude oi their hon-i room and oilier
numbers of the team have Opened
mt“ door‘in title to see either l-lcim‘
ni‘ liitcliie loll headlong in the tire
I 13““.
Finally they got. so they woult.
dingo the straps in public. The;-
zrorlo wait until a mun happened ti
use and then sinrtcd arguing. llui‘
word.» would follow, and finally r.
I‘an‘t-ized crowd ,would be attracted
ltclure long one or the other- would
Jau'l a terrific uneh knocking thr
ir-iom‘l member of’ihe pair lntotlic
:slificr or on the cement sidewalk.
and the crowd would Scatter to thr-
lour winds, being afraid of a pinch.
it. taken o‘clever acrobat to fall
uiih a crash to n marble door witln
out .‘lnjury, but both Ritchie and
Heine- could do it to perfection. it
Lhiy could score a few permits into
‘ts-caiing it from the seat of danger
they would consider they, had a pro-
fitable day of it.'0f the two men,
Heme was perhaps the stronger and
. mom powerful. but they evened up
nonnfin lhc long run—the nus be-
lng about 50-50. '
TRAP SHOOTING ‘ EVENTS.
. _ '
£aslern Tournament to ac Held at
jflartford m. June.
mar; for tile Grand American
'l‘rnpahot thisyear have. hummus:-
«l already by Elmer Shanon who
manages the tourneys of the Int -
nine Travail-noting Association. I
hit: ovnt'wiil be hold this your at
('hicuo.under the am of the
Math shore. Country Club. Aumnt
‘20 to 2‘. Infinite. The Mu-
.(n'iktochuflfl has added m In
prim I'll! be m ill m I!!-
]nu- The list for jibe mm k}:-
gm? immigrating event! With “do
aullld in the order they are to it
lulu. h a fallen";
If» 0. o. lib-Tia more m
«M W. um
WW linua"hn«MI ' -
shift the National amateur."
-»hon'd result in a craze. for outdoor
a?
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Niiitiiil commit
inflation
up. cm of Baseball, hoarding
, to President Ban lolmow Will
Refuse to Take Part in ma .i
Opinion...
1' By. "nusn
. \\
. 4
and u‘rossip ‘
Norwalk basketball fans are- now
buy arguing over the respective mer-
its of Joe Dreyfus. and Joe Ashmead.
Truth 09m Ma’s
CHICAGO, Jan. VIE—Settlement oil,
gtho threatened baseball [iiuyf'il':i
strike- tests with the club owners and'
presidents of, the- No major leagues”
President Johnson of the American‘
lenguognnounced today on his not
turn from New York. The National!
bare ball commission, he said, will
.lake‘no part in the controversy. ,
t “This strike propaganda is clear-(to; nothing.
the base ball world," Johneou Hair! .gegg than 50 per cent. of the gate re- Weinert, Jim Coffey, and maybe Earl
"it simply is a move on the part of
a few players and'president Fultz oft
gthe base ball players fraternity tol
maintain his salaries. Salaries thatl
i
fight"
l’resldcnt Johnson said that the inn-
joriiy of American league players
will report even if a strike. is called.
Nearly 100 have already signed. he
said. He also said he had received
a letter from Manacer Griffith 01 the,‘
Washington club advising that mcm-'
hero of the club are signing, and that!
no trouble was expected. '
Johnson said the Washington club:
was supposed lo~~be the strongest tori
'illc fraternity in the American lcal‘
rue. Ray Schnlk, catcher of the Chi-f
calm Americans, signed a 1917 con-
tract tonight Wdefinnce of l"0 0111 j
0m issmd by Fultz. Ho Enid hc hm”
received an increase in salary andI
lid-.2 no rcnsrm in hold out. I
W i
nvucm out: .
Pill trunnion,
Secre-ta'ry Rubicn of A. A. U. Believes!
1m Athletica Would Be Stimulab:
ed if Youtha’ Day's Work Endedl
An Hour Earlier by the .Sun.
NEW YORK. Jan. 20.—-Alhlt‘llcu
would be greatly stimulated through-
out the country if the “daylight unv-
ing" plan were adopted, according to
n statement here tonight by Fred.
click Rubien,»oecretarydrensurer of
tho‘ Amateur athletic union:
“Under present working hours,"
fluid Illr. llubiou. “thousands of
yunhe who have intent athletic abili-
‘v nrr deprived of the opportunity of
".‘li‘l'CSSim‘, in the sunlight. 'l‘hcir
dzu’r work’is finished too into lior
input to get out on the track and
practice before it in dark.'-Bui by
eudtngtheir dnyfs work an hour
earlier by the sun, the chance to
train in the daytime would be theirs.
Would be Beneficial.
“Those nixty minutri: of sunlight
on the links, tennis courts. nnd at
thchnll game and non nhore, too,
i
lil‘JCl‘SlOllH sweeping the country. And
onto the public as a whole takes up
out door exercise in the sunlight, at
that time you will see a material de-
velopmt‘lit iu the physical well-being
of the people.
Mr llubien says he expected to ill-1
md the. national daylight "saving con-
vention to be held in this city .lunu‘~
1.1‘ 30 and Ill nud-"ondorsc the move-
nicni from the health standpoint." [This is a little trick which line notl’
.__...__. iyetbeen turned by any visiting as- in
HARTFORD CLUB BUXS ‘DiA.
MONO ‘
llAfl'l‘it‘ORli, Jun. lO-Jamcs ll.
(larltin armor of the Hartford club
in tin: Eastern Ba ll Lemme. nn
roumcd today the purchnsc by hint
of the baseball ground on Weathers
:eid avenue. heretofore occupied or
air loner. lic- uh» bought a largo
l
Israel adjoining. 'aamntlniz motel hu. maybe the Drills-wort": will below-n pulled oil and more are film“ '-
z~hlu to spike th‘ jinx this mm. ”V"-
trm thirteen urns.
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Some followers of the some hold Aub-
mead to be the better performer, but
others back last year’s idol against
all comers. Well, there is room for .
argument.
.4-
it. these days of 350.000 conversa-
itton, you wouldn’t believe that Jet!
lSmlth Mould 'flé’lt‘ Les Darcy for
Perhaps he meanmotbing
mime—Bridgeport Farmer.
.0-
,one of the best boys in
Joe Dillon
eWe paid durilg the Federal league Ithe boxing game, Will be in town,’1i5rir51}hree opponents in an "3’
ion January'fi. lie viii probably
try to arrange a match with home
of the local boys.
4”.
Winter swimming is quite the rugo
in the Third District. This is co-
peciztlly true amongst the youngsters
Ill'illo have no greater delight than \tcinh in.
"‘gciiing Won the Mill pond.
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Fortune smiled lovingly on old Eli
last night. and the New Haven swim-
mere downed Penney while their fel-
low student's were. handing out a. bus-
ketball defeat to Columbia.
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Rh‘nc lGihbwv went four rounds
with Battling Kunz, yesterday. Shine
‘wns in good condition and made it
click showing.
.9—
"l‘lie Sentinel will have its sporting
ll‘
lmnhury. Monday. A full account of
:t will appear in Tuesday's paper.
4..
With twobig fccds pulled off last
owning, dyspepsia is the rage today.
iliii sprints"
amour mam
Two great games will be played
Monday night (it the armory. The
Knickerbocker and tho Norwnlka
u ill mect in the big noise of the oven-
ing, and the Bosnian and the Mon-
tauks will clash in the "prelim."
'l‘hc Boobies have been training for
the coming baltlc for non.» time,
under tho leadership of “Von" Broth
mien, tho ntnr gourd who will show
hi2. wares Monday evening. "V03"
has got his boys trained down to a
line cdge, and is confident that he can
“cote" without much dilliculty.
Notwithstanding llic int-t that the
Nor-walks trimmed .tllo Knickerboclt-=
N‘s last year. 40 to 35, it appears
.jlmt the locals will have to travel
mighty hard and lost in ‘get away
will the Gothmu hoop shooters this
season. ~ The Knicks will bring a
grout lineup to Norwulk for the ex-
prceo purposo'of handing out a trlm~
mime to Not-milk on her own floor.
t'rt‘gutlon tins year and Joe Aahmead
a: ( 0: don't think it will be accom-
piinhed Monday night.
'i‘tzt'ulny night the finickerbockem
will go to Bridgeport where they will
hon sound. The Kaitlin rurc had the
/
iudiau nlgm on the Ribbons but year.
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an covering the Knox-Pitta fight in,
.w ~........... .0... w...» .. b... .. . -
..u.uz recently received a challenge
.rtzm Danny Ridge through the int-
: manugor, Silver Burns. Ridge
..ne of the toughest boys in the
game and has met men like Knock-
'I.‘.‘0'..n. Willie Beach, Walter
t, . h 1. Bloom and Young.
Pic: ce Battier has decided that
If:
too tough a nut to crack.-
Fred Fulton in about to start an
elimination campaign among the bea-
vyWeights. Fred. will tackle fibril-lib
.Morris tint, and will tbcnv'lalte 'on-
aFrank Moran. if the lanky tighter
is any good at all he ought to‘xdetoa'l
:and decisive manner.
‘9'- ,
most of the tight tons who are go?
‘2" to linnhury ”will go by a bus:
NM. leaves South Norwalk at “ii
fink. The champion" will go up
'3 in the afternoon in order to
hp”
Willie Marlow, the champion ban-
inm weight. of Long island, has chat;
lenged Run: to a. ten—round go. All
Marlow weighs but 108 pounds the
fight will never be pulled on.
4...
Young Marina has been seen in the
local arena far some time. ‘At pros-
t-m he is trying to arrange u_umtch
with Joe Dillon. Mother one of tboeei
who navel—«mm: back. ‘
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As long as the major league hull
looser: don't strike in July baseball
inns will notaworry. Maybe the ice‘;
cutters will go on a strike next Au-i
gust.
4* 1
0h, Leander. if the. good old.bnse-I
bnll days were only here, . mi.
. . i~
”fins“
. :
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MACK IMAV TRADE TWO P
ERS 'FOR LEONARD.
V‘KJQ...’ ‘
Philadelphia Wanna..- ms Coclded
to Give Strunk a filled Bush and
Schang Will not. Receive a Boost}
rntmnmrnu, Jan. ao.—Coume‘
Mack hns'bu'stcd'up the "triple hold?
out league," according to a statement
tamed by one close to affairs at?
'Shibt: Park. The loan lender, ii in";
said. has decided to rctnin Amos.
Strunk. the epcedy outilemcr and ob.
low Joe Bush and WallrScbnng (to:
hold out as long as they desire. {
in other words, Connie will granti
o‘nunk nn incrémsc in salary. but].
“'iluliot .loe".anti Settling must slim"
:thc orininnl‘iiill contracts or ”30‘.
some place elee. _ I
ii is certainth both Bush andi
Sci-nag will he traded to some otheri
club. Scbanr: in wanted by Boston:
and. according to roports'herc, there).
is .t chance of a trade for “Dutch"
ironord. "‘
Bush pitched one of the three 'n‘o-
ltll. games last year.
nuuunfi—v—u—é—o .
Joe Dillon meets “Dinky" Byrncs
Brooklyn. Saturday. Dillon In" a
pretty slick snapper. but from whwt
i“... have heard of Byrnes. we think:
i that he will lose the bout. _ .
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Norwuilt in pom. "kid" in the sport-i
, {.k‘ J h I ~ - . - i ii»: world manila. Since the not“ ..
. a w o in navy: mick flue Rilr linhtntght-‘ he at 3 o'clock and upped the brain.
glib-r won the champion
whip of the Km Stat:- 1bmh a
idol-o, moral boxing ablation have
a
' , llliEMilDiilE
' mitigation
Show; for the bottle and it was Speed
According“ the "Daily News," a
.1 l’ittsncid, Mann, paper. Harlem Ed-
die Kelley who is .to meet Bottling
Kunz in Music hall on January 31,
is "some" buy. if he is as good as
he Appears to be. Kunt‘v'vill have to
work a little himself in order to re-
tgim his title.
Zine Daily News says as follows:
Matchmaker Garvey certainly ex-
.uwrnied hints 1‘ last night. in show-
.ng the numbers of the 20th Cen-
tury Athletic club one of the great
not lightweight battles between Frau
inc Maclq, ”‘l'h-x Beat-llama Flash"
.ml “Harlem Eddie" Kelly mt:- seen
in this city. The boys were in on.
and action all thE‘wzzy. There was
not an idle moment and the boys
didn‘t him- to 1.32 normed by Referee
win its; Stimulation to get going. They
started going and kept at it contin-
ually. The. boys «fought a good draw.
Kelly was trained to the minute,
but black was not in quite as good
S‘ilnpt‘. He was wkil enough,.iiow'
evrr and tho way they bottled each
other was a caution. "Fiom bell to
hrilhil Was action and still more at:-
iim with very few clinches. They
didn't have time to clinch because
they wanted to use their hands more
frequently than any boxer that has
shown the local clubs in yeam.
lllxht'at the beginning of the main
event Kelly and Muck didn't delay
maleeting each other and they took
to each’olhcr like a duck does to
water. They simply sworn into each
other like u couple of ligcrrcats or
ltulldogn. The first» round was about
men and there was- no choice as
built hit. lfRCh other frequently and
gnardhl carefully.
‘Muck hold a little the upper hand
in the second but the difference was
only the slightest. .
,Kelly came right back in the third
and delivered some punishment to
Mack and the Boston boy was unable
to stop the offensive.
in the fourth round Mack's nose be.
can to bleedwntch of couré'e shown
in Kelly‘s favor on points but aside
from that the round was even. The
fifth was also even while the sixth
Kelly had by a. shade only. ‘
TiteHIcventh was in favor of Mack.
but Kelly was able to land some
etrmghl lofts to Mack's face.
Kelly shaded Mack in lhu eighth
by jumping on his feet and landing
upon the face. Kelly also took the
ninth by a shade. in the tenth Kelly
elected u {knockdown which homo
cord was caused whenfiiock slipped.
The clip started when Kelly 'hlt,
hon over.
’ "l‘he. 11th and 12’th rounds. however,
were entirely in Mack’s favor and he
made such a whirlwind finish that he
certainly fought himself into a draw.
Speed multiplied by speed tells lust
w
irounda and in fact it was all they
saw during the entire battle whirh
proted beyond all question to be one
of the greatest boxing contests evers :65 3-4 secondsnnd broke the‘old rec-l...g convinced that tho
‘staged in‘tliia city by any club or
individual.
LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMP.
l-‘icddy Welsh weighed in for his
bout with Richie Mitchell in animal.
at mmoundn. Yet he ls'lightwalght
amnion ‘anddnyo mean, light-
(2
1
, minnow
Sensational won of loci Jimmy
Was Outstanding feature at 1.016
tun IShodod Plenty of. Speed
New trotting and pacing marks set
last beason follow.~
l.ce Anworthy, mile byrtallion.
illfib‘ 1-4.
1 Real
2:04 1-4.
Volga, three-year-old filly, 2:04 1-2.
May Putney. tour-year-old filly.
2:04 3-4. ‘
5t. Frisco-iliabel 'l-‘rask, dead heat,
£207 1-2. '
lady twoyear-old filly,
Pacino.
liitectum I, half-mile, 0:55 3—4.
Duet-turn i, one and n uixtoenthi
miles, 2:09 3-4.
ini'ectunl i, one and an eighth
miles, 2:16 1-l. ~
Peter Look, three-year-old colt,
2 03
'Young Todd, four-year—old gelding,
2:02 iii.
Ill-'51: Harris 3L, four-ycnr-nla’ mare.
2:0! 1-4.
llrrl'mct “Quecnu
2:16 1-4.
At the conclUsion of each session;
hmsemen. glance over the new marks
established and wag their heads in
wonder when a halt will be called to
“(no development. of the stride of a
hoist. J
.‘xinelccu eixtecn will go down in
history he a great year for fast per-
formances. Twenty world’s rocord-
lii'iililfllt, performances were made. in
“.910.‘ Sonic of the figures battered
have stood for years. ‘_
California tracks were not the
some of a single world's record, al-
though several western bred or own-
in horses are listed in the honor
iciass. Prominent among those is the
Wilbur Lon illly Heliuet Queen. own-
cd by the Helmet Stock farm, presid-
ycarling filly,
ominously
Season in madame him-['73 Tet lent"
,cf $20,000 a year, also that
inst-nuns ,
famous. (in fielder oi _
Received line 1m ‘
- »
Calhfufliwfl
M ..
Contrary to general ' ’
Speaker of the Gievclandd‘
pbe highest ‘salariod ploy
mayor league last year. 8
more than $15,000 from the -
plub, it is .said, .after .
lotai of $35,000 in salarr
ified Sonin “brand 191
learned yesterday that ‘1'
mend-Cobb” of the Delia)!
signed a three years' con
President Navln in 1914 for
;
-U‘3(l. expired last October
Cobb will probably be ..-
atxcpt a substantial cut’in .
when he decides to sign .
mm with the Detroit»- . .
year. Cobb is it member (3!,le-
crs’ union and is expected to
in.“ strike order which hit! . ‘
im- topic in the baseballwortd
. Met Demands." "
The Detroit club decoded . p
demand for $20,000 a yeargin ..
because the. Georgia Peaeh’rl-
Nevin that he could ()an
money from the Fedemljug‘ifiv
vin signed Cobb become.
would have been u hard: . .
Tigers and a pronounc’ol’
Itlm Feds. Cobb. than?!“
down $60,000 for tlirceycnru.
in (outer field. at the, habitat!
ban-cs, and, considering their
the Detroit club, financially”
ticolly. he earned-Abe tnollb
the magnates have decldcd‘rtb
so of the princely salurl -.
the existence of the Fedora .
three years ago nud‘bobb
among the stars wbonniil
to accept less money. . ‘
Annual Increase}.
Ir
ed over” by W. F. Whitier. ofj San
:Frnncisco. This miss paced a mile
in 2:16 1-4' at Phoenix, which in the
world's best mark for a. yearling filly.
Previously she had negotiated at hall"~
nul-x track in 2:02 1-4. Louise carter
it trotting yearling filly, went tho bestl
mileof the season, 2218 14, Just fall-E
in: short of a world's mark. i
The feature of the light harness:
»_\i‘;‘.i‘ was the sensational speed ofi
vtlu- trotter. Lee Axworthy. The stat»
:licn ambushed a world‘s record of,
ilzsfl Li. it was shooting close to}
low mark of 1:58 of the gelding one;
hill.‘ and surpansed Lon Dillon"s dgfi
urns of 1:68 1.12 for a mare. i
Young trotters were especially mi
(their glory. The Real Lady eilectri-l
lit-d Grand Circuit followers by reel-,
in: off a. mile in 2:04 1-2 and Mary}
Putney, n four-yenr-old, had a recordi
of 9:04 3-4. '
St. Frisco and Mabel Traak set a,
l
i
hat the fans SEW in the '1!" “mt number of records foigiaut races and’ much money “possiblewfor.
together went a dead heat in 2:07 1-4.‘
Directum I was the star pacerJle;
‘ ‘ “"1" Mile with;
0er for a mile and a sfitteentih and:
a mile and an eighth.
\‘otmg Todd nuditMins Harris M1. were,
the mung horses to allow improve?l
.na‘iil in BM.
The review of thought int-near}
Samson in the east in interesting and:
rcnrouinginx. it is bm‘lded its thei
trust prosperous in several years. um. ;
tit!- fast performances speak forlhem 9
Inches- in thawing that close clumped
1 lien «on the general mic.
il‘.
ithc 'l‘igera‘ uniform.
it uns in 1906 that Colin" II
For a:
rone it isngured that he (I .0
“LOGO in pay, llith' which ~
"t'l‘il‘li annual increases unit» 1' '
his salary was not less Ch
Then came the three. year _ .
of $20,000 per, which put .0
ahead of Speaker in the 111330 {I
salary lists. it is figured that
in the last ten years, receiveda
than $120,000 in salary from-
‘roii club, which is a record
’csrionul basrbnll plnyerdv. o
unveil a creator part of; bin
“mi has derivcd on income tram
7? loomed-wen] estate; 'wr
t‘cwnnepcr‘a and acting in the
n’ is believed that-he lathe
est player in the inner ,
"lnSSlble exception of Chrlnt'y , .
son. ‘
Niaturaily Cobb, who.
ball Joy-over; is. eager to
a
able services, so that itféozllfl
a surprise if he holds out f
newal of his $20,000“
will not yield to his».
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The. intent rcnorts 00f
.fliaisel, tho'Yankee'vi-l .
tirely recovered :from 1.
shoulder austaineddurinz;
season. He wanna-a M ;
base last, but it ls‘do‘ub ‘
the request will be gran
M
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tililterssiiorls ,
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Norwalk Chronicler