NbW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 191& R9H5 OLD OUT IN MAJOR LEAGUES THOUSANDS GATHER AT BIER OF JOHN L. SULL1 --BASKETBALL AT Y. M. C.A. TONIGHT CANADIAN HOCKEYISTS BEATEN SMOKELE MOURNERS GATHER tys Taking the Joy Out of Life By Briggsl HOLDOUT EPIDEMIC That's r AT SULLIVAN'S B ER IN MAJOR LEAGUES all right jWJHV Your vuate-- WH ( A800T The FLAT WiUU BUT DO YoL KMoU TIVS FREEZE, Ti-- v-i- if J AT" i i a rc Gt inJMlKG Evenj There's flMLY A LV t TLE A LOT OF R'SK LEAV'M6 Men, Women and Children Gaze Many Players Resent Actional Your UMOCCuntu house rr7 V. LK6 That f lor Last Time at John L. Magnates and Refuse to Sign Boston, Feb. 5.. An almost un- New York, Feb. r. When the cltih broken lino of men, women and chil- owners of the major leagues decided dren yesterday and last night passed to cut salaries this year they argued; before tho bier of John L. Sullivan, that because of the war conditionsand' the last of the old guard of heavy- because of the big supply of available weight pugilists. The body of the minor league players the holdout dead champion Jay in the darkened would be a thing of tho past. Tb& parlor at the home of his sister, Mrs. baseball players have taken the salary, cuts in ancfi Annie E. Lennon, in the Roxbury dis- just the opposite way, from indications there are going to" trict, while relatives, friends and ad- be just as many holdouts as ever this mirers of the old gladiator called to spring a.nd perhaps more. gaze for the last time on his features, It cost President Weeghman just Meanwhile final arrangements were $5,000 in coJd cash last week. to soothe made for tho funeral, which wiil be the dissatisfied Alexander who, in ad- held from St. Paul's church, Rox- dition to this bonus, has a salaTy ot Re- Al 1 Dom" vajamT To bury district tomorrow morning. $12,000 a year. Mamaux already, YOU BUT I'LL 1 gret was expressed at the Lennon refuses to play with Brooklyn unlesat OP SCARE home last night when word was re- he gets more money. Jack Smith and! S- - BurnJ ceived from Col. Theodore Rooso-ve- lt Rogers' Ilornsby are holding up Pres- - RllRLAR TneYltJ BtT They'll - w " DOWM vvjooe- hovj that he would be unable to at- ident Branch Rickey, of St. Louis, for1, YoiR SHACK ofl -r MY INSURANCE of his old friend more money, and Erskine Mayer, ,- 5FTF5N) tend the funeral m s KAPMi ,s f II ? ? ? because of a speaking engagement in the Phillies, refuses to accept the cut Springfield Wednesday noon. in salary which he has received. Theso 7h(: CREPSMAM6G The Rev. Peter C. Quinn will off- are only a few of the holdouts who iciate at the funeral services. Hun- have already bobbed up to add to the dreds of men in the sport- club owners' worries. prominent a few cf the ing world, representatives of temper- Except for prosperous ance societies and others from far clubs there was a general reduction In ( llaries both TEL no 92 89 98 and wide sent word that they would throughout leagues. at funeral. While some of the club owners an- be present the nounced reductions 311 274 317 287 1S05 was that tho Rev. Wil- that the salary 116 It hoped would be jmall, nevertheless the tar- Single Men. liam A. Sunday, the evangelist, who con- L. won diness of the return of signed declared that John his great- tracts shows there are goirr ten SO 84 lfrl-- when he booze the that 9t 90 464 est battle "gave be many more balky ball piayers this vA. - .Anderso n knockout," would attend the funeral. spring than the club owners bar- 93 114 110 r06 113 536 "Jake." Kilrain, the pugilist, who gained for. ERreimecke battled seventy-tw- o rounds with Sul- The Giants, the Chicago White Sox, 101 95 107 122 92 517 livan in the old days, is also expected the Cubs and the Boston lied Sox have-no- t to bo here. adopted any wholesale plan of re- 284 3X)3 801 318 3061517 Plans for a memorial for the dead ducing salaries; in fact, some of the were considered to- an Harware -- S. champion being players on these clubs have had fA. day, but no decision as to the nature increase for their good work last sea- Seliroedel ..... 80 103 82 265 was reached. W. Covert of are v Arthur son. The other clubs, however, Conkm 123 99 95 317 New came salarfCs 104 87 121 312 York here yesterday with not in a position to boost and Keough Copyright. 1317. by Tfefe 'TrUtya Association (New Ywk TiibumJ a tne ot Sulli- to Xilduff 96 88 97 281 view oi Having oody they have been forced retrench. van, lie in stato at Madison. Square A few of th Brooklyn players have 403 377 395 1175 Garden or Carnegie Hall, but this signed, and there are a few instances was opposed by Sullivan's sister as .both where play- 200. throughout leagues Dept. PLAYER-MANAGER- well as C. W. ers are bcund by contracts holding WILLARD WILL DO S PASS by Rowley, attorney Bloodgood 77 93 9 6 266 SMOKELESS DAYS NEXT CHICAGO ATHLETES and confidential adviser of Sullivan, over from last year. The Yankees. Baehr 104 87 83 274 who has charge of the funeral ar- sent out their contracts several weeks Anderson 82 .99 89 270 READY FOR FRONT OWN PROMOTING rangements. ago, but none of the regulars have Molyneaux 96 82 102 280 to Insist on Players Jack Barry's Entry Into Navy Service "Mace" Finnerty, one of Sullivan's yet signed, and Manager Miller Hug- Miller Huggins will commence this weeTf to Was End of Relic of Old old cronies, told at the Lennon home gins 359 361 370 1090 in Condition Urges Team Theory of how John L. round up his players and find out why Keeping yesterday prepared in. I Baseball Days. for the seventy-tw- o round bout with the contracts have not been coming Spirit in Club Ranks. Kilrain at Miss. The major league players figurel BASKETBALL TONIGHT Richburg, Finnerty sal-- 1 The world war has aided in putting said that Sullivan had been ill for that thpv o.in hold out for more New York, Feb. 5 Fuelless day did or at least hold out on a demand not Miller from the final skids on the playing manager. several weeks with typhoid fever ary prevent Huggins Un- to get as much as last season, because Golden- - up to the subject of team This relic of bygone days is now as when he received the challenge. Y. M..C. A. Quintet to Tackle warming daunted his the "Bos- they believe that the major leagues spirit and discipline at his office yes- dead as the bemustached outfielder. by condition, will need every one of their regulars Jacob-so- n no mis- ton Boy," on crutch- rods in Important Contest terday. Just so there may be When Jack of the Boston Red Strong hobbling who are not taken by the draft in or- as to his ideas on the question Barry, es, went to Canada to sign the agree- take Sox, enlisted in the United States Navy ment on der to keep up the high standard of Claims Whistling Championship of handling ball players the new for the bout. Later reach- season snmeone in author-- , as a the last of the his Sullivan play. Last The basketball at the Y. M. Yankee manager made it plain that yeoman, species ing training quarters itv passed the word among the ball game was able to about with a cane. un-- he believed in a strict enforcement of passed. get not to enlist, and to wait 1 C. A. tonight promises to be a star his aim is Finally his legs became stronger, but players Golden-rod- s training rules; and that It was not so ago that man- til were called. This impressed! attraction with the crack "Without or- long ho was not in prime condition when they five of the Y. efficient organization. of the of Hug- the players with their importance, andj Winsted, opposing ball club agers type Bresnahan, he entered the at own-- J M. C. A. state That the ganization," he said, "no ring Richburg, made them realiz that the club champions. can be a winner. All hands must gins, Stovall, Carrigan, Callahan, Miss. Nevertheless he went seventy-tw- o to keen I op-sta- te team is a prs wpre anxious them. worthy opponent and work and a number of oth-cr- s rounds and was acclaimed the do not for the locals can readily be seen by work together, cleanly Clarke, Chance and The major league players over the Middletown aggressively." not only managed their ball clubs, victor. take much stock in the talk c the) their victory one first toward the to can the. five last week. The Coldenrors have As of the steps but side by side with their men Contrary popular impression club owners that thev sign all of the Yankees Hug-gin- s fought Sullivan did not leave much of an es- want. If cherished hopes for annexing the reorganization on the field. minor league players they aj intends to put a ban on all tate. Although he had received a flew of the clubs are able to retain' championship laurels this year and Even if Carrigan should come back the- now that the has been smoking in the clubhouse and ball fortune in the ring and later in most of their regular players the otherl opportunity and to declare all late hours and manage Frazee's White Sox, it in atrical ventures, his friends said to- clubs cannot afford to let their players given with the game with Slater's park have doubtful if he would again don the estate consist- clan, it is safe to assume that the taboo.