Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 150, Hammond, Lake County, 12 December 1916 — Page 7

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Before the end of the week the Ha-m roond Clabbys will have divided th -profits of the season between them and wound up all the affairs of the lootball season of 1916 one that -will long be remembered. Prospects for crack professional team next fall are excellent. The Clabbys will lose only two of their men, GaJvia and Kuffner, according to the present situation. Calvin will probably never play the game again because of the Injury to his knee which disabled him this fall And Ruffner has decided to quit the game, feeling he has played his share. Ths team Is splitting1 tip more than J2.000 which gives over a hundred dollars to each man and for the season amounts to about ten dollars a game apiece. This is satisfactory, considering the conditions, to all excepting Galvin who states he had a verbal contract calling: for a guarantee and that he needs the money too badly to waive it. He intends holding1 the club to the guarantee. Galvin states that he turned down better offers to remain !n Hammond where he was acquainted. He intends getting another year of jpchooJ. Talbot, carrying an unsigned contract Tor 1917 with Davenport, is leaving for Linton. Ind.. to visit his folks. The scrappy South Iako-ta halfback Isn't going to take the Davenport joto, no more than Frank Blocker is going to Fort Wayne. Quarterback Finn will be in these diggings next -fall. In the spring he will try out with the Parduhn baseball team, as he plays . nasty second base. Young, Ford. Bbert. Sellegar. Meyers, Koh!, Elair, Frank and Ted

Blocker, Heribst. Schillo. Plum, Green, Nolan, Stinchfteld. Finn and Talbot I have promised to report in Hammond

HE FAVORS THE SCHEME "I think THE TIMES is right in proposing that Hammond should see that Frank Blocker's services to the city should be recognized in a substantial manner," said a wellknown business man today. "I will be glad to lend all the encouragement I can to start the ball rolling. Blocker's services entitle him to recognition. When a man unselfishly passes up a good thing for his companions, the world ought to come across and make good. I don't know how other fans stand on the propisition mentioned in your sport editorial of yesterday but I'm for it and we ought to get busy right away."

first before they arrange to go elsewhere so that who ever 'has the club in 1917 wil have option on their services. Paul Farduhn is bidding for the dabby A. C. and there is talk of a stock company. A word for E. L. Green, the Hammond coach. Green, formerly of Pennsylvania University and now connected with an advertising agency in Chicago, has been of the greatest value to the team in coaching it from prairie to professional football. He has given his time and services for very little compensation. The team and public like Green and want him 'back. If Ruffner is really going to retire from the game he is young to swear off it is only right that he receive a tribute. Prohahly no one on the Clabby eleven this year knew as much football as Kuffner. Wrth Ruffner out the great line that held Pine Village for downs when only inches were needed to win and staved off , the attack of the Cincinnati Certs, will be weakened. The C. A. C. needs Ruffner next year and as he is employed at a local industry it may be that the fans can get him oack in the lineup. Ruffner and Blocker are made out of the same piece of cloth. As coach of the freshmen for two years, at Purdue Ruffner has had valuable experience in that line. The players can not complain of Hammond as a football town. A dollar gate admission fee was unheard of last September in this city. Tet the ante has been raised twice, from twenty-five to fifty cents and then up to seventy-Are and a dollar. And the fans continued to come. True, fourteen to fifteen hundred was the limit

in Hammond this year but next, with the reputation the Claibbys have at-

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In the opinion of the sporting writer of the Renselaer Republican, Hammond outplayed Pine Village. He says in his story of the game: "It was in the closing minutes that sensational football was played. Three times during the closing period did Pine Village carry the bail to striking distance of the Hammond goat, tout always the powerful Clabby line arose to the emergency and held the plunging backs of the Village. "A large crowd was at the game, and the special from Hammond to the scene of the battle was overflowing. A large number of fans from Rensselaer went, both by train and automobile. It was the consensus of opinion that the Clabbys outplayed the Village. Pine Village played a kicking KAme and time after time they

punted when it was only the first down, in order that the pigskin might be kept in Hammond territory with the hopes that a fumble might come their way. The work of the Clabby line was wonderful and outcharge'd their opponents. King, of the Village, was the star on the offensive for the Village. Bergie. the Carlisle Indian who played the past- season with the I'itcairn eleven, made half of the Village tackles. Johnny Finn. Talbot. Blocker and Ebert featured for Hammond. "At one time in the game, Galvin, the Hammond back, raced through the Pine Village, team with the exception of the safety man and a touchdown looked imminent, tout he was brought to earth and Hammond's best chance went with it."

SOME GOOD STORIES ABOUT CHANCE.

The conversation in a Chicago fanning bee turned to Frank Chance. "There was a great fellow," said Artie Hofnian, former utility star of th Cubs. "I used to travel around with him keeping tab on our players three or four nights a week. "One night Chance was loafing in the lobby and insisted on my remaining with him to keep him company. We were all supposed to be in our rooms by ll o'clock, but we sat and sat and sat. Finally it got to be half past one. "'Why don't you go to bed, Frank?' I said. 'If I had as much money as you I wouldn't worry whether the fellows got in on time or not.' "Frank glanced at the clock. 'Go to bed yourself,' he snapped. "You're breaking rules." And me sitting up to keep him company: Can you beat it? "And could Chance call a fellow?" continued Hofman. "Well, rather. I remember we had a three-game series with the Giants one week and Ritchie went in to pitch the first for us. He won it. "Right after the battle Chance told him he'd have to work the third, too. Meaning he'd get only one day of rest in between. Ritchie was willing. "That night after he won. Ritchie stayed out late, and what he didn't get In the clubhouse was a caution. Chance landed into him proper. He told him there wasn't a chance for him to pitch. Then, five minutes later, be told Ritchie he had decided to send him in. "Ritchie pitched his head off and won, 3 to 1. As soon as the gang reached the clubhouse, Chance dug into his locker, before he'd even changed his togs, ad drew out a fat roll of bills. He stripped two fifties off and handed them to Ritchie. " 'You're a funny aniy,' said Chance, 'but you surely can pitch'."

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PARIS. .Dec. .12. Unless Miss Anne Morgran and Ambassador Jusserand can obtain permiBBion from the French war office for fleorges Carpentier to make a four month' trip to the United States there is no chance of the French boxer's fighting1 in America until after the war. Francii Descamps, manager of Carrentier, to-day received the proposition signed by Tex Kickard end Tel McCracksn offering 100,000 francs (20.000) for a. match with Willard. Moran, Dillon or Darcy, but no mentioning a definite place for the contest or the number of rounds Miss Elixa.beth JIarbury, who, with Mill E04e De Wolfe and Miss Anne

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tier in New York, and the proposition was delivered by Miss Marbury'i representative in Parle. "Miss Marbury knows we've tried everything there to obtain Carpentler's permission, and it's ip to the men in America who are Interested to get tt," eaid Descamps. "Miss Morgan and Jueserami probably can fix It. I'm translating Ttickard's proposition nd will mall by answering preposition on next boat. "I won't gree to match Carpentier 8gaint any individual until we arrive in New York."

talnsd, the club should draw eighteen hundred to two thousand. The plan to make the team a traveling organization will not be listened to by the fans. They want to see at least a half dozen good at home games next year and one out of town trip to the season will be sufficient.

FIGHT RESULTS At Cincinnati Jimmy Duffy of Uockport, N. Y., knocked out Eddy Melzef in the etghith round laet night. At .Memphis Pete Herman of Now Orleans gained an eight-round decision over Ieo Schneider of St. Louis.

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BT HAWITON. (United Fress Staff Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Dec. 12. Eddie Casey, the young backfleld star of Harvard, is one of the most remarkable football players of the age. Hia weight. 155 pound, is the only thing that keeps him from being rated on a par with Oliphant of the Army or Harley Ohio State. A graduate of F:xeter, the scnool where Tad Jones drilled football players and made them future greats before he took up his duties with Yale. Casey went to Harvard, Insisted that, he was a football player, and made it stick despite his lightness. Percy Haughton sprung him on Cornell with a surprise that was so sudden that Cornell hasn't Recovered Its breath yet. He simply ran amuck. Against Princeton Casey again did some starring, and he virtually was the entire Harvard backfleld in the gme with Yale. Given a real good backrield star to help him out. Casey might have kept up that string of ictories for the Crimson over the New Haven Bulldogs. Casey isn't of the plunging, smashing type. His lack of weight prevents any such tactics in his play. But lie can hit a line, and hit it hard.- He is a good ground gainer anywhere. His specialty, however, is the long, swooping end runs, eluding bunche of tacklers. spinning and twisting forward for gains almost unbelieable. Against Yale Casey showed to excellent advantage when he broke around Harvard's right end. shaking off three tacklers In his sprint, running into another nest after a thirty-yard dash, shaking them off. and continuing seventy yards to a touchdown, which, so far as Casey's work was concerned, was legitimate. The thickness of a Harvard lineman who discovered a Yale player In the way and tackled him alone saved Tale. The officials noticed that tackle, called the ball back, and penalized Harvard fifteen yards for holding. But always there Is a next year to football, and next year, it seems, this Casey person will be a force to be reckoned with by Harvard's opponents.

NICK kLTROCK TO TRYJIJT AGT HERE Veteran Ball Player Adds to Horrors of the Stage, So Chicago Says.

GUESS THEY WERE1TT SCARED Say men, what do you know about this? It is a clipping from last Saturday's Lafayetitt Journal: "All sorts of wild rumors have been floating about the part few days In regard to the Hammond lineup in the game for the state championship with Pine Village at League park tomorrow. Perhaps the wildeat ia that Ermer Quillen Oliphant, the former Purdue wonder, has resigned from the Unite.! States milHary academy and will appear in the Hammond back field. "Again report sayeith that Jim Thorpe, the former Carlisle Indian marvel and the greatest football player that ever lived: Dorias, of Notre Dame, all-Indiana and all-we-atern quarterback, and Bart Macomber, of Illinois. all-American halftxk in 1915 and aU-conferenca and aJl-weetern quarterback this aeason. will form tht; remainder of the backfleld. "Mtoombtr will not play with Pine Village, as has been reported. Knute Rockine. of Notre Dame, allIndiana and all-western end in 1915. ' it ia said, may play one of the ends for Hammond. Although the hattle front given out by Captain Blocker- does not contain tha names of any of the above mentioned piayers. many fan are of the belief that Hammond is working under cover and will be loaded for bear." Honestly, wouldn't that shake

you up?

1SI6 AUTO HACING SECT CLOSES IN siLennvN glory Final Classics at Ascot and Santa Monica Win Championship for Goodrich.

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Nick Altrock. who has quit the baseball fraternity temporarily to mingle with the 'White Rate, was hurrying up Dearborn street. Chicago, yeeterday when stopped' by a friend. "Hello. Nick; how's the actor?" said

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"Say, this is the life," replied Nick. "You should have seen me Ua?t week In Chicago Heights. Say. I knocked them out of their seats. I've got a great act. It'll be on tiig time toe-foro long. I'm on my way now to the

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LETTER RECEIVED There ia a letter for Mace Roberts In The Times office. Inquire of sporting editor.

ELECT FRITZ SHIVERICK CORNELL GRID CAPTAIN ITHACA. N. T.. Dec. 12. Fritz Shiverlck, Oornel'l's star quarter back lspt night was elected captain of the 191" team. Phiverick is a junior. His home is in Chicago, where he played on the University High eleven. "He has played two years' varsity football.

CHICAGO. 111.. Dec. 12. In a burst of speed, fitting to end the season of tht fastest automobile driving the world has ever known. 1916 automobile racing taMished Dario Resta champion driver, and Goodrich Silvertown Cord Tires, tha champion tires. AVorld records came literally fast and

furious in the dying days of the season, first at Santa Monica, where P.esta, by winning tho Vanderbilt Cup. won the premier honors of the season and the A. A. A. trophy, and again on Thanksgiving day at Ascot, when Rickenhacher captured the 130-mile final race for the championship, wonderful time was made a g-enuine tribute to the tire that can stand these Incredible bursts of speed. In the final classic Silvertown Tires wound up their season in a blare of glory. Rickenbacher first made the distance in 2 hours. 13 minutes and 1 second over the hardest track in America. Silvertowns took him all the way. Cooper, second, and ru!len, third, were each half Silvertown equipped. Ruekstall. fourth, went the distance entirely on Silvertowns. Dario Resta was present with the Silvertowns on which he won the championship. He was given a floral design in honor of his first' appearance after the championship had been annexed. Silvertown "ended the season with 21.513 points credited toward the A. A. A. trophy. When one considers that all its competitors combined scored but 6,515 toward the trophy, one can see what a clean sweep Silvertowns made in the 1916 season. In. races of 1316, sanctioned by the A. A. A., Silvertowns won 31 firsts to five by its opponents; 19 seconds to three, and eight thirds to two. Silvertown equipped cars won more than SO per cent of the prize-money positions of the 1916 season and more than $210,000 in prize money. In all these races Silvertowns either established a world's record, a new track record or a new record for tho event. The official award of the championship will be made during the course of the next few weeks by the American Automobile Association. '

The Lafayette Journal says of the Sunday game: "Fighting gamely against team or superior weight and cla&s. the scrappy Clabbys of Hammond lost to the big orange and blue eleven of Pin Village. 3 to 0. at League park yesterday. The contest was hard fought all the -way through, especially in the first three periods, when the lighter but determined Cla1byg held Pine Village to two first downs. Ibut the class of the victors asserted itself -in the final quarter and they opened up with a diversifie'l attack that 9wept Hammond off its feet. "Although d-ae credit must be given the Claotoys for 'r.heir superb defense for three quarters and their unrivaled fighting spirit, it was the opinion of every fair-minded spectator that Pin Village would have won by a larg" score, had the field been dry.' A Moddy Field. "The gridiron was steeped in mu-l ankle high and the athletecs we-? downed, oftimes, before, they couM get started, owing to the excessive! y slippery footing. Hammond fans win probably argue that their favorite would have been returned the victor under more favorable conditions, but Pine Village had the weight and the class and deserved to win under any conditions. Crowd Is Disappointing. "The crowd was a tlg disappointment to the promoters of the game, only about 2.500 spectators feeing within the enclosure when the game began. The rain and snow of the past fe1days put a damper on the enthusiasm of the fans, who did not relish the necessity of standing an hour or tw-j on cold, muddy ground. "The Hammond special, which :- rived In the city shortly a-fter 12 o'clock, lhad over five hundred rootr on board. Upon their arrival, the v tors formed in parade end mar-'-the Fowler hotel. At the head procession walked James Clat" father of Jimmy Clahby, worTd's r ' pion middleweight boxer, aftsr wii-wi the . Hammond 'team is named. T:i band followed and then ear.v :'.v"Howling Host." The Claboylte ' - lot of talking but refused to H?r!; their words with cold cash ar'' ibets were Tted, P-'ne Ytllago vt ' ly being conceded t victory, v-;' the necessity of going throu; formality of playing. Finn Stars. "Johnny Finn, the Hammond q terback, was the start of that aggregation on the offense and was the on'y back who could make any progrr-n

j against the Villagers, and ven Y

could not gain on straight footbn:i. His best work was done In returning kicks and he made se-eral pretty rurn through a broken field that ellcted applause. He returned one kick twentyflveisrds and got by all but one tackier, who stood between him and the goal. "Rlockef staged his usual stellar defensive game nd made a number of vicious diving tackles that stopped the runner In his tracks. Ruffner showed up well in the line, but the H amnion ends were weak. Both teams wvt slow in covering punts but thla vai mostly due to the condition of thn gridiron. Thomas and Ford engage.. in a snappy kicking .duel. but tho honors went to Thomas, who uncorked a couple of sixty-yard boots."

-COLUMBUS!. O.. Dec. IS. Bryan Downey defeated Johnny Harvey' In a twel ve-roound bout here last night.

scoring three knockdowns.

Pal Moran Go Set Back. NEW ORLEANS, LA.. Dec. 12. Inclement weather last night caused ft open air fight between Phil" Vtrgets and Pat Moran until Friday night.

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