Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 14, 1909, Page 28

TH MiAHA SunNDAY Ber OMAHA, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 190, BARY and Cook, men of Intellectual dttainments, might learn some- thing in soclal amenities from two distinguished men whose vocations per me does not give them the same rank in the social scale as that accorded to the disputants in the North pole discovery. ‘These two men are Honus Wagner, short- stop for Pittsburg, and Ty Cobb, right fielder for Detroit. When the time came for world's championship battle between the Tigers and Pirates, admirers of the two stars began making comparisons and speculating on how one would show up the other. The controversies might easily have provoked jealousies between Wagner and Cobb, but what did they do? Neither man had ever seen the other pl After the serfes Cobb said of Wagne: have not seen all the great ball players, of course, but Wagner is the greatest I have seen. 1 only Hope that some day I may be as great” Of Cobb Wagner said: “I did not know a man could be as fast as he is. He fs a perfect ball player. I cannot think of & thing that a perfect player re- @uires that Cobb does not possess.” IHere those two eminent men of learning, Peary and Cook, unfortunately pitied against cach other in & great contest presented & spectacle, before the world that has di Kusted most serious-minded men and made mention of the North pole a joke. The fact 18 Cobb and Wagner, mere profes- wional ball players, are big, broad men, and, only two of hosts of others, engaged Willus Britt's Sad End Due to Easy| Money. | PUGILISTS CAN'T STAND RICHES | N 300 d death of Willus Britt, Stanley Ketchel's young manager, was partly due to sudden wealth easily scquired. Britt, always a soldicr of fortune, brought Ketchel east last spring and arranged two battles with Philadelphia Jack O'Brien Wwhich netted about $25,000. Of this amount the reckless voung manager received nearly 8 third and with it he proceeded to cut & wide swath. Nothing was too good for him. Late suppers with an abundance of wine, automobiles, fine clothes and other luxuries woon put a crimp In the bankroll and when Ketchel failed to knock Papke out inside of twenty rounds Britt lost $2,500 In wagers—ail that was left. Britt bor- rowed mors money and bet every dollar of It on Ketchel to beat Jack Johnson. When | the big negro won by a knockout Britt was penniless, his vislon of a great fortune was £onp and his heart was broken. It was the same old.story. Squandered wealth earned in pugilism proved to be a fatal weakness. It has often been sald that no persons supported by the public live in such reck- less luxury as star pugllists and their closest associates. A great fighter may reign only for a few years at the head of his class, but during that period he is gen- erally a high roller and goes the route. He has a far more rugged constitution than the rich man's son Who was never as fan: to T the ®ood bail players have dropped out Every major majority twenty-five men develop the Pacific Coast Groom, vanced to the big league in one year. The California country has done after year and they are sending a lot of thirteen men out for trial in the National and American league that the base ball y don't expect TH E OMAHA SUNDAY PRIZE RING WEALTH FATAL|California Turns Out Many Big Stick Men| Coast State Still Has Some Three Hundred Hitting Timber for Big Leagues. EW YORK, Nov. hitter when it com - many year the Pacific leagues, and it of base ball big into big Oaks, Madden Basterly, Sutor, a & out In the Golden come back. 'he scouts have cleaned fans out there hoped their favorites would be passed the clubs in that league will lose popular | The White Sox, under the leader- ship of Hughey Duffy, will yers. Bllis, Calitornia is to turning out | In addition to that they | a good fighter. league springs no less than a dozen players on the is surprisin, haif of that number deliver the gosds. The managers consider | themselves very fortunate if they get | that have been touted league caliber and find two that league material, league should have a medal pinned on every clubhouse door for turning out speedy men for the big tent, can be easily figured out when such boys Heitmulle ad- P nd Gra this up that some up. get Zeld: | that | That year | carried the Cali- | fornia league of all the good material and |4ls0 by an | WITH THE COLLECE ATHLETES Doings in the Field of Sport in East| and West. ! GAMES USED AS COLLEGE ADS nt of Overdevotion to Sports —01d Rowing Days at Prince. ton—The Spring Dual Meetn. | A writer of sditorials for a Prineeton publication expressed the exception he took not long ago to what some person down at Virginia Polytechnic institute said abaut the advertising effects of the close foot ball game between Prineston and Virginia | Polytechnio institute. The New Jerssyman | obected to the statement by the Virginian that the good fight put up by the Virginia | Polytechnic institute would tend to attract many more students to the Virginia school. | “If his is the spirit of the Virginia Poly- ' technle Inslitute the sooner it is eliminated | from our schedule the better,” was the idea of the Princetonian. | This sort of thing leads naturally to a discussion of the value of athletics as ad- | vertisement and how far that ought to be in schedule making. Members of | | alumni associations who want to see their | | college teams in action are the folks who | | most often try to attract such teams into sections a distance removed from the more immediate circle of rivalry. Not only that, but managers attracted by guaranties and the opportunities of giving trips that will attract material are apt to ar- range contests that carry the teams rather far away from the home towns 1t is regarded as the function of athletic sports to advertise a college, however little | ot | er, | BEE: NOVEMBER 14, | nually an education to fit him for the ministry teaching was a rare bird. The law studied chiefly in fice and the other Professions seemed to be got more by prac- {tice than by theory. There were not many big colleges and naturally they more attention the academic side commencement time and others But the of the alumni has | grown enormously. There are hundreds of Institutions in this country turning out an more and more college men n with the first changes in spirit came a heart liking for athletic wports. That was modeled on the British plan, from which the education scheme of the colleges necessarily was drawn. With the vastly growing gfoup of gréduates came w wns got on ot body college HOW HE CURED ws CATARRH I wrote you some time ago, sufferings with an awful case of giving you an account of my Catarrh. I had all the symp- toms which accompany this disease, such as mucus dropping back into the throat, a constant desire to ‘' hawk and spi feeling of drymess in the throat |1t gives a chance to the Willlams alumni the increass in every manifestation of the | college's activity. | The institutions do not complain of great | reunions at commencement time nowadays. | They like indeed to have the old-timers | come back. They are pleased with that| because it means that old X still has| power over the hearts and minds of fts | sons. But some of the same persons who survey with approval the gathering of alumni for class commeneement week look | with decided disfavor on lesser attendance | at athletic contests. That doesn’t please them. That means frivolity and an ove devotion to athletics. It all depends on the | viewpoint Why Interest Grows. It appears only natural that with the growth of everything connected with uni-| versity and college teaching In this coun- try Interest In athletic sports as con- ducted in those colleges should grow too. | When a base ball team of some college, as Willlams, goes west to play against some middle western team not strictly its rival of that district to thing that will remind days at Willlamstown. see in action some- them of the old It helps to keep cough and spitting upon arising, scabs forming in the nose which required much effort to blow out, sometimes causing my nose to bleed and leaving me with a headache. I had thus suffered for five years, all the time trying different local treatments of inhalations, snuffs, douches, etc., with no real good effect. Of course I was greatly discouraged. Assoon as I heard from you I commenced S. 8. 8. as you advised and after using it a short while noticed a change for the better. in the blood, and S. S. S. made a permanent cure for me. now entirely free from Catarrh. I continued to take it believing the trouble was Tam JUDSON A. BELLAM. 224 Randolph St., Richmond, Va. The symptoms Mr. Bellam describes in his case of Catarrh are familiar to every one who suffers with this disease. had endured the discomfort and suffering, and was greatly discouraged as one treatment after another failed to cure him. realized that Catarrh is a blood disease, he knew that the former treatments had been wrong, and only a blood purifier like S.S.S. could produce permanent good resuits. For five years he When at last he Catarrh is not merely an affection of the mucous membranes; it is a deep-seated blood disease in which the entire circulation and greater that may be either the intention or desire |8llve the old spirit punlor the system are involved. It comes from impurities n'ocumulnl— of those who have the college teams in| 'hen Yale sends a base ball team on|ing in the circulation, and as the blood goes to every portion of the charge, whether directly or indirectly, [® 1ong trip through the south and west| hody the catarrhal matter lirritates and inflames the different mucous Whether a large Institution would be justi- | that s a good thing for the Yale folih| 5\\rfaces and tissues causing an unhealthy and inflammatory discharge, fied in dropping from its list & smaller one | Who are loyval, but who can't set back | o Tl g in o the other wclfknown symptoms of the trouble. that rejoices in the possible financial gain (10 New Haven. When Pennsylvania | N0 Pro uctvng e 0 3 1 to the administration becauss of a good |S°Nds @ swimming team to the middle he failure of local treatment to groducc permanent good results showing, In foot ball say, is something that | West It fsn't an athletic junket. It gives|in Catarrh is due entirely to the fact that such measures do not reach rests outside the considerations of ama- | 0 ?'“l:“mj‘;’ by vl"“:;"“:r“‘::““:::;, the cause of the trouble, Temporary relief and comfort may often be eurism or- ‘professtonaiism. blue. - But then comes the objection that | Nad by using some douche or inhalation, but no cure can be effected The college authorities do not generally | Plue. Bu il the blood i ified of the irritating cause. arrange the playing schedules for the|tN!s I8 using an athletic team for purposes | until the blood is purified o ating 3 » teams. The managers .have to apply for | LNt are not to the best interests of the S.S.S. cures Catarrh by cleansing the blood of all impure catarrhal sanctions to meet certain opponents, but |COllestans who make up the teams. matter, and at the same time building up the system by its unequalled tonic effects. It goes down into the circulation and removes every trace of foreign matter or impurity. In other words S. S. S. cures this application is made after the Jimi.| On the other hand nothing of the sort naries have been arranged through the|WOUd be objected in the case of a gloe Catarrh by purifying the blood so that the mucous surfaces and linings of the body are all sup- managers. Therefore it cannot be said to|ClUD OF @ variety show traveling around. bo up to college Authorities when an ef.|LM" does not appear to carry with 1t fort is made by some partisan of a team |N® taint that the athletic team bears. to show that financial benefits would ac- (1t 8 & auestion apparently of whetier plied with healthy blood crue to the institution by having a team | Sthietic sports are inherently and incurably instead of being irritated and diseased from a con- tinual saturation of catarrhal impurities. Whom the majority of the fans convicted | of winning the pennant for the Seals last | season. Zelder, they say on the coast, was | about the best thing they ever saw In the infield for all-round work Browing, a pitcher, who has been highly recommended, will go to the Detroit club, and has been well boosted by Danny Long, who, by the way, sald Chase was the goods. Browing will have Hughey Jen- nings to teach him a few things. Duffy | Lewis of the Oakland club, an outfieider, | and Rice, a pitcher, have been landed by | the Boston club. Out in California they | say that Lewis is a good outfleider and a | great hitter. Bolce, they say, will make ®00d In the pitcher's box. Then there is Beall, the flychaser of the Los Angeles | club, who will be given another trial with the White Sox. Henry Berry has sold some good ma- | terlal, so It is sald, Koestner and Hosp | were two of his best pitchers. Koestner &oes to the Clncinnati club and Hosp goes in (his business whose clement of levity rads 80 many people to misunderstand Its ~#) character. Base ball today Is adapted a8 & voostion by callege-bred young men and the personal side of the business, both With relation to the player and owner, probably will compare favorably with that of any. other calling. It Is an sdmitted A4t that the man who can achieve dlstinet Wuccess on the ball field, where competi- tion 1s so severs and strenuous, is.fitted 1o compete for success in most any other aphere of life. Base ball calls into action ¥ claménts that make for large success. ¢ stdr player Is the one who possesses self-mastery, above all other things, who has skill in_thought as weil as aotion, who thinks quickly and acts speedily, who is | resourceful and strategic in crises and like | Hannibal of old, able to do what the other fellow ia not expecting; daring, vet not venturesome; bold, yet not defiant; o gressive, not brutish; tenacious, not stub- born; alert, aglle and vigilant, Men like | meant for hard wark, for he is compelled to underso a ‘outse of training for & strenuous battle every now and then which provides renewed physical endurance. Ordinary Man Conldn’t Do It “If the brdinary man lived like some of thess pugilists,” said a veteran trainer the other day, “he'd be a physical wreck in less than a vear. A majority of these | fighters, however, do a certain amount of dally exercise to keep their welght down | and In that way they do not feel the effects | of a spree. “If the wise pugilist gets a heavy cold what does he do? Retire to bed like most men? Not much. He dons a heavy sweater and goes out for a run on the road He simply sweats it out if ho can, and if he can't, why he is then forced to seek medical ald ke an ordinary individual. But that seldom proves to be the case, for open alr exercise and cold baths generally’ suffice. “This was the way PFitzsimmons and Tommy Ryan doctored themselves, and of some sort in the field that would be | RfeCtng: “‘:":““““n:‘:‘:[‘::‘:"o;“:h."“:"“l“ able to make a showl appearance of represel - one. " ABAINST & larger| orsity or college In a district Wwhere o for If the college authorities did deliberately | “trictly there s no reason of rivalry arrange for such advertising seheduie | th® Visit is @ thing that should be avolded. \ursued agaiost th 4 Wagner and (obb, who can look past thetr own greatness and see that of a fellow player, are not rarities on the diamond. There 15, Aoubtless, just as large a pro- portion of intellectual men in that ag in the average business today, and it\is because of this fact that base ball has secured 4 permnaent place in the world of American sportsmanship and business. The cheap railery of the narrow prude, or the studied Invective of the ignorant non-attendant, has nothing in it the game needs fear or in fact heeds. It has run the gauntlet of prejudloe, bigotry, ignor- ance and defled the gambler and today stands erect and strong gn a footing of | fame and success uiikhowm #nd unthought of in the histégy of athl and sports. And the Wagners and tl Jobbs are its exponents as well as Ity ,.fl'"“‘ The #ingle draft price urged by President Carson, of the Central league does not seem to be based upon sound logle. He advocated its adoption by the National Associdtion of Minor leagues on the ground* that If a player was fit to be drafted by & major league, he was worth a certain price, whether he came from a (lass €. B or A league, and therefors he scale of draft prices as unjust. The laws of base ball place & higher value, even for drafting Durposes, on a player from Class A than from Qlass. B. C or D, for the good and sufficlent reason that his training in the faster company makes & better ball player of him, and that would seen to settle the matter. It stands to reason that a young- ster coming from one of the lower leagues will require more training than a player from & Class A team, all things being @), so why shouldn't the Class A Qaver 'bring ‘more money? Again, the her, the classitication the higher the salury ‘schedule, which ought to increase the equity value of a player. All expenses, salaries and others, are greater, the higher the classification runs, so that to allow Glass A club owner no more money for «Vman than a Class C or D or B owner, would, bavor a little bit of unbusinesslike | businehs #im Mart knows base ball and might be | ' good mun for president of the National | league, but the fact that Murphy s ex-| erelsing such tremendous energy for his| annot help but arouse suspiclons. G"rphy'n opposition to President Heydler | the form of personal animosity and for that reason alone should be, and ap- parently Is, discounted by a majority of the other magnates. Now that Brush has re- jected Chubby Charley's overtures to join him in decapitating Heydler, the possibil- fties of Murphy's success in punishing lieydier do pot look good. The sooner the Natlonal league gets to the point where pérsonal animosity cannot control the elec- tion of & president the better it will be| for it and the game. The magnates have ab opportunity with reference to Mr. Murphy this winter. Will they embrace {t? In passing it might be wentioned that if Jett and Johnson do fail to pull off this fight, s many, possibly most, people b Meve mow, It will put prize fighting In about the same category with wrestling. Wrestling is & great game—none greater— but it as been discredited and disgraced %0 long by fakers that i no longer gets rious hearing from the sporting fr ternity of America. Blg dubs have been Lrought over trom Europe by the ship load and peddied over this country as wonders sp long and American wrestiers have con- | pived so readily that many people today r-nan if any yrestle s really on the ual Of course, many of them are, but 50 many are not that it has knocked the dport untll ft will require vears to re deewn it. The return to the fold of organized base bRl of the California State league is a significant trlumph for those men and papers that have stood so persistently and pluckily against the outlaw. This was about the strongest outlew league in the render. &l last was apparent from the first. Degree by degree its dluintegration came abot, until finally it had to sue for peace or §o out of business entirely. This does away with & convenient harbor far sore-head players and at the same time removes one source of Annoyance to organized league owners. There is no reason why, under the protection of or- xanized base ball, the California State league should not meet with success. It will have a team in San Francisco, which ough o give it great Impetus. it thet young womaw who protests that he broke he §3.000-heart, they’ll have to make | of 4§ & Grasvo-Romas ma a, they kept themselves in excellent condition night of merriment that he didn’t hop out star fighters, like John L. Sullivan and and were soon too fat to accomplish any thing in the ring. If they caught & cold they went to a Turkish bath, where they could rest in solld comfort. Johm L. Lived High. Sullivan wi ropes. He lived like a prince and never allowed theatrical engagements or tights to disturb his repose. He drank, ate and for many years. Fitz never indulged In a of bed early the next morning and take a hard run to open the pores. But the other Jack McAuliffe, didn't go to such trouble one of the most luxurious champions that ever appeared inside the to Cleveland. The Los Angeles club has also a catcher who will go to the Chicago National league club. He is Orendorf, who has done some great work behind the platter. The Yankees will get Ole John- son, & young fellow, who Is well touted and comes from the Portiand club. He is an inflelder and said to be a crack hitter. Sacramento will graduate two players— Gandlll, who will wear a White Sox uni- Borm, and Hay Myers, who has been placed with the Boston Americans. Both are going with strong teams. Myers was Ppulled out of the State leaxue late In the season and is a player of unquestioned ability. He got his start at the University | there would be a grave question whether the institution would not be protessionalis- ing the members of the teams in spirit. This is a consideration that is involved chiefly in the competing my smaller col- leges against the greater ones, Advertl the College. It is debatable whether the athletic sports at the larger institutions are not after all much advertising to them, right along, as they are to the occasional small coliege which pulls out a victory or makes a creditable showing against some larger one. For instance—and here is something about Princeton itself—when rowing was strated down there certain’ persons rather 014 Rowing Days at Princeton. An article appeared recently in the Dally Princetonian telling of the old days of the rowing game at that university. Princeton has of late gone back into the sport with the idea It is presumed of returning to intercollogiate competition whenever & proper rowing spirit is de- veloped. ‘The briet story of inter-colle- ate rowing is: Rowing was first introduced here In 1870. At that time Harvard and Yale had already been turning out crews for seven- SSS. PURELY VEGETABLE the throat is no longer clogged with phlegm, but every annoying symptom of the disease is corrected. There is but one]way to cure Catarth—purify the blood, and there is but one absolutely safe and sure blood purifier— S.S.S. We have a special book on Catarrh; we will send this book, and also any special medical advice desired free to all who write. Then the inflammed and irritated membranes heal, the discharge is checked, the head noises all cease, the stomach is toned up, THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO. ATLANTA, GA. teen years. As far back as 1360 there was some agitation among Princeton students in favor of having a crew, but the civil 30 SHAVES AT OUR EXPENSE slumbered when he felt like it. What was the result? From a raw-boned, muscular young giant he became a ponderous ele- phant, prematurely old, welghing = more than 285 pounds. His kidneys and liver went back on him and his physiclan or- dered him to cut out liquor entirely or die. So John swore off and hasu't touched a drop ‘since. “In high life Sullivan was a wonder. T've seen him in the old days get away with a great deal of whisky at a sitting. But he never neglected his appetite for rich food, and in that way he counteracted the effect of strong drink. Sullivan got money %o easily that he did not know the value of it. He couldn't spend it fast enough and he probably ran through more than a million before he settied down and began to save. “A modern ring champlon ocan spend money, too. It comes easy and goes the same way. He generally has a staff of attendants that costs a heap. First comes his business manager, & person who can talk glibly, e challenges, be on the alert In making matches and knows how to get space in the newspapers. Then there is the press agent, who must invent fairy tales concerning the alleged adven- tures of the pug. Then thers must be an advance agent and a sparing partner who can take a walloping with good nature. “In addition to this retinue some cham- pions have a staff of handlers, rubbers, cooks and admirers who try to act the part. 6f entertainers. It's no easy matter to keep & fighter in good humor when he' in training, and those who can succeed in this respect are usually worth something. Pleasure Luxury. “The dally. life of the average champion when out of training is one of pleasure and luxury. He seldom arises before noon. Then after a bath and rubdown the barber gets him fit to sit down to breakfast. If he knows anything at all he orders an elaborate meal and gets special rates at the hotel, where he is regarded as an at- traction. Jeffries, Johnson, Ketchel and Nelson, who 1lke to have the best, own automo- biles and use them incessantly. They know how to live well and When out of training they do not keep down expenses. None of {hem at times will draw the line on late suppers and outings with sporty friends. | | Johnson In particular is fond of blowing |in his coln lke a nabob and he spends it as fast as he gets it. Ketchel has got are Ik of in of California. Mye: sluggers of the Sacramento flelder, National club. Vance to the Detroit club. pltcher was drafted and he has shown lots of ability. Before the season opens other players may g0 up from this league. Henley, for He is entitled to a chance to try his hand in faster company. FIGHT GAME IN THE FAR WEST Better Prepared for Big Bouts Than one, ttle to decide first basemen. The lat may be sold. the East. Fistlana's realms ask accardl the eity. having a wonderful arm. has already given Raleigh to' the St Next season it will and Gandil ave the club. ter is a v se; NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—Now that articles © been slgned by James J. Jeffries and ok Johnson to meet In & championship the supremacy of the world's heavyweight division, and the pub- lio is anxiously awaiting the announcement of the acceptance of a purse, making the fight almost a reality, men following the fight game have turned their attention to San Francisco, where the sport is on a firmer basis than here in the east. result of the Pacific coast eity's election, it is thought, will have much to do with the game there in the future. election of McCarthy to be mayor habitues | . With t the question, What effect will the election have on the game in 'Frisco? When it comes right down to the point the election in that city has a &reat deal to do with the Jeffri, at the present time only battles of twenty rounds’ duration are allowed t The pugllists, when they met here in this | city to sign articles, declared that they | wanted the fight to be a forty-round af- fair. If such is the case, McCarthy ruies that the present law re- garding prize fights shall stand as it is, |to the small lad and what formed the there is a silm possibility that the far-|grounds for his teasing his father to let coast seaport will get a chance to stage |him to £o to one college rather than another the battle, local sporting men say, San Franciscans, from the west, have an optimistic view re- garding the situation and believe that the newly elected officers will lift the present restrigtions from the boxing game. ban s lifted finish tights will be the order -Johnson fight, as and Mayor-elect | lieve, then the circumstances of life have ng to I o Both reat rhon Louis This young o be held, | reports ings, pugilistic stars and thel the wayside while at the pinnacle of fame? The many temptations to which they are continually vitality and they finally go down before { with big gloves? squander, big purses, and their dissipation was lim country. But thet it was doomed (0 sur-{ieq, A fighter with big money is often to be pitied, and so are his closest friends away with practically all of his ring.earn- Nelson and Jeff have saved something for & relny day. but wonder that some of associates fal “Ts it any subjected soon weaken tl knockout blow administered by s younger aspirant for fame and fortune. “What would some of the old-time fi ers say If they could come to life and see the way these modern puglilists carry on? What would they think of $50,000 purses The old fellows had & very hard and simple life compared with that of the new comers. they were gl est food and Uy in the humblest places. They had 0 retinues, ng money to wear the cheapest kind of elof 0 automoblles. no theatrical engagements, In former years to be able to eat the plain. Jack Gleason, the 'Fylsco promoter, was being held. While here, according to sev- eral local sporting men, he declared he thought in time San Francisco would see finish fights. He stated furthermore, it Was said, that he Is prepared to build a glant arena in 'Frisco providing the ban is lifted. This arena, he Is reported to have sald, will be constructed outside the ocity limits. Heretofore Coffroth has had much his own way, as he has been allowed to hold longer fights @t his Colma areny than his competitors in the elty. As one can readily sece, much depends on which way the wind will blow in the matter of the official decision. It has been for some time the general opinion in local sporting circles that Cof- froth would become the Successful bidder for the big fight. BGt now that the elec. tion &t Ban Franclsco figures in the mat. ter the situation has taken s mew turn, if the newly clected officers are friendly to the game it 1s thought that the amount of bids will be greatly increased and that the figure for the purse will go over the $100,000 the 1 oy helr ome ght- thes no In this eity while his home election was | banked for the future of aquatics on the reported intention of some lads from prep schools, such as St. Paul's, Concord, to enter Princeton. As one man put it, “Those boys from St. Paul's who don't want to go to elther Harvard or Yale, but who have been doing so because there is rowing at those places, will come . rinceton now because they think we are going to have big doings in intercollegegiate rowing.”” That was the theory, and although the university had no more to do with It than was the case with V. P. L, there might be some objec- tion by other institutions, too. There is no doubt that proficlency in athletics acts generally as a good adver- tisement for institutions of learning. From time to time universities or colleges publish answers made by students to the question, “Why aid you come to X?" Usually there is to be found in such an swers a large percentage of replies based on athletic sports, So-an-s0 was trainer there; such-and-such & team won the championship in what's this, in which the schoolboy happened to be considerably interested; or else Whatyemaycallit, well known athlete, more or less of & hero among the set of boys in the school this lad attended, was at the institution, Some folks call these silly and puerile reasons, but at the same time they ap- plaud the case of some boy who went to| X because his father and grandfather | went there before him. What was the reason In the first instance? Probably in those very early days when the lad's grandfather was a subfreshman athletics was by no means a reason for entering college, but there was something else In the line of an attraction—it might very well not have been studies—which sent the old-fashioned lad to college. If human nature has not altered, as | most folks will be fairly willing to be- na he he |changed; so what was the attraction then war breaking out at this time nipped the plans in the bud. There was nardly any thought of having a crew during the ten years between 1860 and 1870, but in the latter year two so-called six-oared gigs were bought from the Yale navy. One great difficulty to be undergone and be sub- mitted to was tne canal. The bridges were generally closed when they came to them and canal boats were always passing up and down causing great difficulty and squeezing In passing. “In the fall of 1570 the Princeton College Boating club was officlaily organized with the following officers: C. W. Krase, '72, president; S. E. Ewing, '72, treasurer; A. Devereux, 'i2, secretary; H. W. Guernsey, 12, captain. The class of 1872 organized the first class crew and it was an excel- lent one. “For two years the crew steadily im- proved and in June, 1572, they entered their first public contest at Philadelphia. The success attained stirred up enthuslasm anew, almost fifty new members joining the club, and rowing was firmly established at Princeton. The crews had to practice at 5 a. m, but the class crew of 1374 was the only crew that did this regularly. Princeton was elected in January, 1874, into the Rowing Association of American colleges, which was already made up of ten members. Great Interest was now shown In the sport, and money enough was ralsed to bulld & boathouse and to buy seven large shells. “The first Intercollegiate regatta at which Princeton was represented was at aratoga. The first event was a six-oared freshmen race over & course of three miles, and the Princeton freshmen were Vi torlous. Yale and Brown were thelr op- ponents. The race was, by the way, the first time that orange and black figured as the university colors. Each man on the freshmen crew wore ribbons of that color. The 'varsity six, through a serles of mis- haps, won no honors “From this time on the crew continued entering intercollegiate and public row- then | stood | probably no more important {than now. SHomething else merely |in place of the glamor of athleti Why They Choose a College. | 1t is hardly to be expected that & schoo! boy of the customary school age, when boys are peculiarly alive to the athletic | influences, will be serious-minded enough to select an institution solely because of its capabilities of educating him. Such a small boy might in most cases be called |safely a prig. Of course, there are many |nonathletic youths who from the outset are of so studious a tempermament that | they consider exercise and sports as not |only negligible, but a viclous waste of time. The average healthy lad whose | father is financially well enough off to send him to college goes for one or more |of & variety of reasons. | It is hardly likely that he goes because |he has heard that X has & finé Greek department or something like that. He | goes 10 college for some less reason as a rule and equally as a rule he finds him- self after he has been in college a time; | then after orlentation he steers his course | well. This is & common experience In col- | leges, as most Ipstructors can testify Some educators object very strongly to| what they call too great stress put upon athletlc sports in the colleges. They objeet | to t(he public attention paid to competi tions In the major sports; to the great | crowds that gather in the stands to wateh | them and to other such side accompani- | was he | colleglate | matertal who help him to spend it. Poor little Britt was ruined by & life of luxury and ex- cesses, which was Que to the easy coln he mark, ereating keen competition among bidders. derived from the fistlo game.” Entries at Billiards. NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—The Roomkeep- ers’ assoclation announces the following entries for the 18.2 worlds billiard cham- plonship tournament, beginning November 22 in Madison Square Garden concert hall: ” — George Slosson of New York, George Sut- | Zbyssko, the Polish champion; Heinrick reall¥ has to go to the mat with | ton of Chicago, Albert Outler of Boston, | Weber, the German champlon; Dr. Roller, Calvin Demarest of Chicago, Harry Cline |the Seattle physician; f Philadelphia and Firmin Cassignol of |Greek strong man, and Mustap) Parls. IS S5 ) 7 Many Join in Wrestling Meet. CHICAGO, Nov. 18.~There are & number of well known names among those to com- Pete at the first wrestling carnival to be held at the Dexter pavilion, under the auspices of the National Sporting Club of America. in Chicago on November 19 The following wrestlers will be seen in action: Protopapas, the Mehme- dof, the latest arrival from Turkey, ments of the present day athletic rela- tions between universities. They contend that it wasn't 8o in the o\der days; that the | college functions that used to attract at- | tention was the commencement day exer- cises and not the athletio field activities, and that in the older days merely because & college man sald a thing or did It that was important, but not because & college athlcte \vas involved. To this the partisans of the other side | find @ recort that is all too easy. Not so mAnY yesrs ago (o be & college man was s rarity. The man who could afford to “waste” Lhose earlier years of lite to get Ing contests with varied success and fluc- tuating Interest until 1884, During this time crews from Princeton entered seven Inter- regattas and got second place in two and third In three. Their average in the public regattas was about the same | Interclass champlonships were held nually and this brought out ail the good in the college. But successive | defeats, hard luck and debt began to dam- | | pen the ardor of the student body for this | Canadian Ice Racing a: branch of sports. In 1884 great opposition | arose to having a navy at Princeton, and | it was given up entirely.” It is an odd thing to note that ton's colors came into being & Prince- regatta | The Medal up it Fully guarsntee Food Law. an- | Bend us you ,\\ pered and bevel ou want reusd or and that Cornell's famous cheer was im- provised on the oceasion of the Ithacans' first trlumphs in & college regatta. | A Busy Track Atnletic Season. Syracuse Is making completely new | alliances in track and fleld sports. Be-| sides the meet with Michigan, spoken of betore this, the Orange is making plans to meet Dartmouth. This struggle be- tween the Orange and the Green is a new thing on the athletic fleld, whatever it may have been a history. Dartmouth thus will have two meets this time instead of only the Harvard games. Harvard will have the customary Dartmouth and Yale dual meets, with, it is said, Cormell as a possible other contestant in the near | future. Yale will meet Princeton and Harvard, as always. The Tigers, it is forcasted, will have the Navy, Pennsylvania and Yale on the list. Pennsylvania is to meet the Navy, Princeton and Columbia in dual games Cornell will have Princeton, but whether any one else is not sure. Columbia and Harvard have been talked of. It Is & chance that Columbla will try to get on a meet with some beside Pennsylvania. It looks likely to be a busy spring season. Nothing further has been heard recently of the plans to arrange indoor college dual meets or Princeton. If this Is taken up very generally it probably will furnish a better field for developing new materlal | than almost any other. It will give the ath- | letes a better line on the capabilities of | the men they will have to meet later. Since | the Cornell-Michigan, Cornell-Syracuse and Columbia-Willlams indoor dual meets of the past this has not been tried in this | section for many seasons. It is done right | along by the middie western colleges and | as Coach Wilson of Princeton comes from that part of the country that may be his idea In starting It up here lee Racing Dates Fixed. MONTREAL, Quebec, Nov. le»-Repnrlli from Ottawa announce that the Central oclation has fixed the date for the. annual races as January | 2 and February §, to he held at Ottawa River Junction. Horses from all parts of Canada and the United States are ex- | pected. 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