Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 23, 1910, Page 27

-4 & 2 § |} - ¥ } ! hnz OMAHA SuNDAY Brn ! | | | OMAHA, BUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 1910, HE American league, at the Insta of President Johnson, promises some reforms this season that wiil be P— JUDGMENTS heartlly greeted by the fans. They are roforms calculated to make players stop wasting time. From the mo- ment a side goes out until the next one takes te the fleld the players will be kept on the 0. Umpires will be especlally urged to | impress this new rule on the players and o enforce It, too. This is a good reform, one that may profitably be adopted by othe leagues. There are many ways of wasting time that come as near as anything to destroying interest In a game. One of th 18 the abominable habit pitchers have of rubbing the ball on the ground, a thing once prohibited by a law that has never been enforced. Another Indulgence that does not seem necessary is the five- SN} warming-up privilege of a pitcher just going into the box. Then after he hds Pitched his five balls, the catcher must peg one to second and then that worthy must haye the delightful privilege of toss- ing the ball to third, whence it is sailed to first, from which station it Is lelsurely passed over to the pltcher, who then pro- @eeds to rub It Into the ground for a while, And all this time the sun is gradu- ally working its way toward the horlzon and several thousand fans, probably, how- ling, “play ball.” This performance may be repeated In the course of one game. There are yet other' ways of this kind that need correction and when they are corrected the game will be much more enjoyable. Further than that, it may be worth some- thing In dollars and cents to the magnates. Many a busy business man, if assured that | the game would be played with all possible @ispatch, might attend ‘would not. who otherwise | ‘Western league magnates and fans are stirred by the talk of fraud in the “offictal" averages of players as given out this year. This isn't the first time that| similar charges have been made, though | it is the first time these charges have been | 80 ‘persistently and loudly proclaimed. President O'Nelll has wired an intimation from California that all Is well, but still| the magnates do not cease protesting. And maybe there are good reasons for this lin the finul—Yank" SUNDAY BEE ATHLETES QUIT THE GAME About Half of Olympic Champions Now in Harness and Training. NEW BLOOD TO THE FRONT [ Tenm that Taite World cnst Over the Lan Some Sti11 Defeated the Athletie Now Scattered Hroad , Althongh Train. NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—About eighteen months ago the Amateur Athletic union, after a series of tryouts of various sections of the country, selected a team to repre- sent Amerfca at the London Olymplad. It proved to be one of the greatest colle~tions of athletes aver gathered together to fight for a common cause, and easily defeated the rest of the athletic world, That was only a year and a half or so ago, and yet today not more than two- thirds of the members of that team are actively interested In amatenr athletics. One of them, John B. Taylor, jr., one of the best quarter-milers that.ever drew on a running shoe, dead. Some few have turned professional. Almost a core of the others have found that business and ath- lctics do not mix and have given up the game, If Yank Robbins is sincere in his deter- mination to quit running, athleties will have lost every man who represented America In two events—the 1l0-meter hurdies and the 400-meter flat race. In the former four Americans—Forrest C Smithson, Johnny Garrels, A. B. Shaw and W. E. Rand—qualified for the final heat. They have all retired from athletics and are following different careers. The last heard of Smithson he was headed for MBritish Columbia, with the Intention of taking up a farm under the homestead |laws, The 400-meter flat race hed three Yankdes Robbins, J. C. Car- penter and John B. Taylor, jr. Taylor died of pneumonia about a year ago. Car- penter has not appeaed in competition since his return from England, and only the other day Robbins declared that he had chased his last medal. This announce- ment, however, Is not taken very seriously. Other events have not suffered so much, but there s hardly one that has not lost some one. Take the sprints. Nat Cartwell, /& point winner in both the 100 and 200-meter sprints, has turned professionial and 1s run- ning as such In England. Jimmy Rector's {parents objected to any further participa- protest. Intelligent fans who sit by all season and watch the game with a critical | eye, keep close tab on idividual players, have a right to be amazed at some of the averages accorded those players. At least | three papers on the circuit, in threo cities, | have sald some pointed things about the ‘offical” scoring in Omaha. ‘The Bee hifs not before alluded to this fact, for it is not directly concerned, except that ft, like all true patrons and defenders of the game, wants to ses only fairness and justice done. For the good name of Omaha and the once | certain player who is most benefitted—on paper—-by the figures against which these protests ‘have been raised, It is, of course, to be hoped the charges are not well- | grounded. The charge on its face is so | ridiculous that it would not be worthy of " & notice It it were not made seriously. It's bad for the player. Every ball player wants to stand on his own merit and he should nat be deprived of a credit he has earned, or given a black mark he does not | deserve. If at the annual meeting President O'Nelll can divest these charges of every particle of odlum and prove them to be unfounded in fact, it will be a good thing and every good fan on the eircuit will say, “hurrah.”” Then ifr this is done in the future, when similar charges may be made, they will not have so much welght. Claude Rossman probably has discovered before now, much to his sorrow, that you can't kick agalnst the pricks and get away Wwith It In base ball. Thé young man re- fused to go to St. Louls when Detroit made the trade for First Basemar Jones, though why it is not apparent, and today is at- tached to the payroll of Columbus in the American assoclation. So he gets to play minor ball at minor salary, instead of ajor ball at major salary. Rossman Beems to have got mad at himself because he wasn't quite’as good a first baseman as High Jennings thought he needed and could get. Nobody wishes Rossman il but a man who chooses to pursue the arbi- trary course he has must expect to take the consequences of base ball, which are stern and sure in most cases.’ The passing of Isbell from the White Fox marks the last of the Mohicans who went with Comiskey from St Paul t6 Chicago in 190 to plant his now famous team in the American league. Izsy's career is a great one and he is one of those major league ball players who put In their heyday enough for the rainy day, and as a result he owns the Wichita team, not a bad thing to ow The news that Jim Kano may lose an » oye as & result of a basket ball injury is distressing- news, but it can secarcely be used the basis for declaring war on W this means of exercise during the winter months. Ball players must keep them- welves In athletic conditions and there is no sport in which they may engage that @oes not Involve some element of risk The prospects are for an almost new team as Wwell as park for the South Side in Chicago this year. Comiskey and Duffy are weeding out old men, of whom they have a superflulty. They are going in for @ winning team. A new pennant s a mighty fine thing to hang up in one cor- ner of & new park, as Plttsburg can tes. tity. Ban Johnson will find many to mgree with him in exploiting the anti-barnstorm. ing rile as a protection for the player as well as the magnate. It protects the mag- nate's reputation, or that of his team, and consorvee the good pame of base ball, but it will tend to protect the player against many & needless injury The salary limit proposition is annoying some of the minor lesgues, the Southern, in particular. Limit's too low to suit magnate. Oh, hum—well, we haven't begun t0 count that In as one of our woes up here In this grand old Western, yet ot yet has George Graham given it up he does round to and Kane comes back with that good eye of his, what an infield Pa will have with Kane, Graham, Fox, Schipke and Potts! Tt might be stated, however, that the Fred Clark signed for first base by 8t Joo W s not the manager-iett flelder of Pittsburg bit the first baseman of lasi year's Pueblo team. The one weak point about Jeffries on \Which all agree I8 his lack of wind, ge for a prize fighter 0 lack that. Is thers anything ironical in the fact thet Ducky Holmes has been selocted te wanage the Mud Hens of Toledo? | siona1 tion in athleties on his part, and he re- tired. Recently he joined the Missouri Ath- letic club and may represent the St. Louls club In: future, but for a long time he did nothing. Dan Kelly hasn't been heard from and Lawson Robertson is a profes- trainer, handling the Irish-Amer- fean Athletic club's track and fleld repre- sentatives, Hillman Out of Running. Harry Hillman and Charley Bacon ran for the United States In the 400-meter hurdles. Hillman recently left New York to become coach and trainer of the Dart- mouth university athletes, and it's just about a tossup whether “Han" ever returns to the races. He has done little or no train- ing for a long time, and it is even longer since he has appeared in competition. He has settled down and hasn't as much time on his hands \as he used to, America grabbed off more than it's falr percentage of points in the pole vauits, but could not call upon the same men to repeat. A. C. Gilbert of Yale and Eddie Cook of Cornell tied for first place, but both have left college and neither has had time to keep up with the procession since graduating. Gilbert is out on the coast in business. Ralph Rose, another champion from the far west, 1s the next thing to being on the retired list. He Is either studying or prac- tieing law and Lasn't pulled down a medal in & long time. Probably if some ‘of his Tecords were upset he would Jump in again and holst them a few inches. But just now he has too many other things to think of to devoté any time to putting the shot. | C. K. Dearborn, another welght man, has |also retired. For a short time he held the | world's discus record, but Sheridan robbed him of that honor and since the Olympics he hasn’'t been very much in the lime- light. Two of the marathoners—Johnny Hayes and Tom Morrisséy, turned pro long since. Some of the others, Mike Ryan and Lewis Tewanina, for example, are still plugging along in the amateur ranks. Roy Welton and Joe Forshaw, our other representatives in the Windsor-to-the-stadium’ race, have dropped out. Coming back to the shorter distauces, there are Harry Trube and G. A. Dull, college men both, one hailing from Cornell and the other from Michigan. Trube is down in Connecticut and may go back to training next summer, but it is doubtful, Dull graduated from the Ann Arbor insti- tution and left his running togs behind him. Many of the big point winners are still left, but ont rattling good team could be made up from the ranks of those who have either given up the game or have turned proftessional. JEFF REPLIES TO SOME KNOCKERS Says He Will Enter the Ring to Win and Will Do So. NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—The Jeffries ad- herents throughout the country are thor- oughly aroused over the report that it is planned to prevent Johnson scoring a | elean knockout when these heavywelghts battle next July. The story that Jefffries' advisers will throw up the sponge or do something that will dlsquality Jeffries if he is on the verge of @ beating has caused & NOWI LNAt/Nas Deen heara by Jeffries in the far west. Jeffries has wired his friends that the story is being circulated friends with the object of “killing” his all-star vaudeville show. “He wants peo- ple to belleve that I am not fit to fight him," wires Jeffries. *But this is a de- Mberate lle. Johnson, to win, must knock me cold. I will not have it sald that 1 was dragged from the ring to avold a beating. But that nigger can never win from me. I'll give him the worst pound- ing that a man ever received. In my pre- vious fights I always held back some pteam because 1 was afrald of maiming my opponent. With Johnson, however, I am not golng to hold back anything. He will receive the lmit and just one punch y him s0 low he won't get up for MORAN MATCHED WITH BALDWIN Hoston att This Month, BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 2.—~Owen Moran, the clever English featherwelght' and Matty Baldwin, one of the best fighters ever turned out here, have been matched They were signed up by Johnny Mooney. matchmaker of the Armory Athletic as- soclation of Boston, to meet for twelve rounds at a show to be held by this club on the night of January 35, They will battle at catch weights, which will give Baldwin the advantage of about slx pounds. Baldwin Is again in his best form, and as he is also paying strict at- tention to his training he ought to give Wil Box Part of | Moran a tough tight by Johnson's | League for Pros i1s Now Considered Boys Who Run for Coin Are to Band Themselves Together for Protection. NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—For some time it has been whispered about that a league for professional athletes was to be formed In this country, but the first definite infor- mation comes from Gus Sachs of this city who received a communication from a well known business man of New England the other day urging him to manage the New York end of the game. For a number of years Mr. Sachs been fdentified with amateur athletfcs. He Is o member of the Pastime Athieilc club and is Jn high standing with all the ath- letes. He has.glven many fine medals for different wpecial events. Because of his standing here It is sald on good authority that he has been offered the management of the new | The first will be held in New England, and it is the hope of the management that professional games will be held here within a few months. R mors are going the rqunds to the effect that many of the topnotchers in the loc amateur ranks have signified their will ness to turn “pro” if the successful in the horth. Postle, the great Australlan, and Day the English sprinter, have been sent for They both cabled replies to the & land promoter, promising to come over to this country immediately. Hillman, Cartmell and Robertson will be asked to represent America There s go doubt that Harry knew of the proposition before he left for Dartmouth, where he Is coach. A few days before he departed he sald to Lawson Robertson: “Well, Roble, now that I am A 'pro’' I'd like to take a crack at some bf the fellows who have made a reputation chasing the coin. I believe I would have a chance with any of them.” And Robert- sofi has been getting to bed early for the last week or so, Sleep, says Robble, is the one great thing fo E that reason it looks as though he has a race with some of the topnotch “pros” in view. 2, has £oon 8- league proves Hillman Omaha (0 Be Represented High Inss Dogs. NEW YORK, Jan. Much that is in- teresting will be seen at the annual bench show of the Westminister Kennel club in the Madison Square garden, February 9, 10, 11 and 12, chief among the new things being the West Highland white terriers, which will be shown here for the first time and which will have a full classification, @ novelty in new breeds here, as, previosly, four classes have been the highest number made in the beginning. These little terrie are somewhat like the Scottish terriers, but are shorter In body and are white in color, while their hair is coarser and a better rain shedder. They are used exten- sively In fox hunting in Scotland, as they are full of fight and game, and dig the foxes out of the rocks, going in without fear. It Is the oldest breed native to that country. In other breeds there are more classes, especlal attention being paid to American-bred dogs. In addition to the usual long list of regular prizes there are fully as many speclaly, and the club members have, as last year, given a number of special prizes, open to all, for the best dogs of the various breeds in the show. The prize for the largest and best exhibit of any one breed is given this year by William Rauch, and is called the Chairman’s prize. A new speclal is that given, by H. P. Whitney for the best West Highland white terrier, There will be the usual prizes for the best packs of English and American foxhounds and beagles, while a silver hunting horn will be given to the huntsman of the best pack of English foxhounds. The popular Pek- ingese spaniels will have a full classifica- tion this year, for the first time, and a class has been added for Skye terriers since the publication of the premium list, and one has also been added for American-bred bulldogs. by Two —_— W. A. Pixley has decided to send Cap- tain Whitestone to the New York show. Captain won at Omaha against all comers and was adjudged the best dog at the show. He has won at St. Lolis and also at Den- ver against high class competition and his owner Is expecting him to show well at New York, although he Is not in the best of condition. CREWS IN ACTIVE TRAINING Coming Events, NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 2.—The varsity and froshman crew candidates at Yale university have begun winter train- ing. The two squads are working on the machines, tank rowing having been abol- ished at the New Haven institution. At present the tentative varsity elght Is com- posed of the following men: Stroke, Ehrman and Wallis; No. 7, Cap- tain Wodell; No. 6, Buckingham; No. 5, Van Binderen; No. 4, Bogue; No. 8, Van Bilarcom; No. Frost, and bow, Thorne, The only members of last season’s varsity elght remaining eligible are Wallis, Van Blarcom and Captain Wodell. Bogue, Frost and Thorne were in the four-oared shell. |Van Sinderen and Buckingham are men with little rowing experience, but with great physical power. The freshman squad ircludes Averfll Harriman, son of the late Bdward H. Har- riman; Halladay Philbin, hman half- back, and Bomeister, class strong men, In all there are about ninety men out for |the freshman crew and about fifty for the varsity boat. The base ball batteries are at work in the gymnasium under the direction of C tain Steve Philbin. The pitching staff is composed of new men; but Yale has good base ball timber remaining In Captain Philbin and Badger for catehers, Jack Field for first base, Mclntyr second base; Loutrell or Merritt, ehortstop; Log an, third base, and for the outfield, Mosser, Daly, Corey, McKee, Stevens and former Captain Fred Murphy. Billy Lush, who haé been appointed coach, will not come here tlil about March 1. He is now coach- ing the Annapolis basket ball team, JAP AS BASE BALL MANAGER Harvard Breaks Old Traditions Making Appointment. CAMBRIDGE. Mass., Jan. 22.—The ap- pointment of Yonu Aral, the Japanese sophomore, as second uesistant manager of the Harvard base ball team, has been approved by the student council. The only remaining formality necessary for his of- ficial installation Is the approval of the athletic committee. This will probably be given at the next regular meeung of that body. In appointing Arai to the of a Crimson athletic team management at Harvard has established a new precendent. Never within the memory of the present generation, and perhaps \pever in the history of athletics in Cam- bridge, has a forelgn student wucceeded in Qualifying for & position of this sort. managership ‘| turn to the { tion this. | INTEREST IN THE BIG DOG SHOW | Yale Men Are Getting in Shape for| the athletic | MORE CREWS IN BIG RACE With Georgetown Out Field Will Be Larger Than Last Year, WEST TO ROW IN THE EAST University Would Like Send a Crew to Row in th Dig Regattas in June at Poughkeepsie, Washington to ' NEW town YORK, ~Even it George- does not, us now seems likely, re- fold of the colleges rowing at | Poughkeepsie In June, six Instead of five, as last year, may fight it out on the four historic miles of water of the Highlands courre. The far west is making strides In rowing, and the University | of Washington nearly sent a crew to the | Hudson two years ago. The challenge wae | | sent, but it was received too late for ac- | ceptaince by the stewards of the Inter- national Rowing association, which con- sists of Columbla, Cornell and Pennsyl- vania. The other colleges that have from | time to time competed at Poughkeepsie— | Syracuse, Wisconsin, Georgetown and the vy—have done so as guests. | In 1908 Hiram Connibar, coach at Wash- | ington, came on to look over the eastern crows. He saw Harvard beat Yale, that being the year of Griswold's collapse In the Yale shell, and then saw a great race between Syracuse and Columbia. Connibar was decidedly impressed by the eastern crews, but not to such an extent that he| was afrald to match his westerners against | | them. Washington would have rowed here last year if the stewards of the assoclation could have reconciled themselves to al- lowing the winner of the triangular. CUIIL‘ regatta to come east. Washington had | questions of local supremacy to settle with Standford and California, and had no wish to come east as & beaten crew. So, s the coast regatta is held in May, It was sought to arrange for Ité winner to make the trip. But the stewards would not sanc- its | Now Washington is anxious to row here still, and the rowing Is not as flourishing as it might be in California, the crew from Seattle may break away and, llke Wiscon- sin, confine its competitive rowing to the big regatta on the Hudson. Washington's supremacy in rowing on the coast is pretty well settled, and as a sectional representa- tive the Seattle institution would be all right In the opinfon of those who follow the doings of the college oarsmen. More Time to Train. The Washington men can get actual out- door work practically every day of the| colleglate year, thanks to the wondertul land locked lake that borders the campus, It Jim Rice or Courtney has such ad- vantages they would be trying to arrange races with crews from Mars. Money s none too plentiful for equipment out there, though—shells that Cornell had discarded having been the best obtainable. At that, one of Hoyle's boats, even if It is a few seasons old, is a pretty fair vehicle for & crew that knows how to row. Hiram Connibar 18 a qulet, shrewd yan- kee, who knows about all that has yet been discovered about the technique of rowing. He was a great single sculler in his day, and is a graduate of the same school of ocarsmanship that produced Charles Court- ney, Jam Wiay, Jim Ten Eyck, Ned Han- lan and Jim Rice. A skilful builder of boats and maker of ours, he depends on one oar in the rigging of his shells, ana his crews have been made up of well schooled oars- men, thoroughly grounded in'the basic elements of the difficult art of' oarsman- ship. He made a great impression on those who met him in 1%08 at New London and Poughkeepsie, and they have been hop- ing ever since that he would be one of the squhd of coaches that has a crew in the regatta ever since. Connibar has more of an official position than rowing coaches in the east. Ho is & member of the faculty of the University of Washington, and has charge of indoor sports and track dthletes, as well as row- ing. He is responsible for the general in- terest taken in the sport at Washington, where as many men as can be boated in any fashion are usually out in the spring, whether candidates for the varsity crew or not. Washington is co-educational, and Con- nibar coaches the girls in his stroke and methods as well as the men. They have a couple of barges to themseives, and do & good deal of rowing in a quiet way. Con- | nibar says his Job is unique in that respect. According to him, the girls are apt pupils, quick to grasp the principles of his stroke, as modified for their uses, and enthusiastic in their efforts to learn to row. If Wash- ington and Wellesley were not 0 far | apart geographically, there might be a race | between oarsmen that would compel the | railroads to double deck the observation trains. The stewards of the Intercolleglate Row- ing association, it is said, will be glad to welcome the men from the coast if they de- cide to enter the regatta. It is possible that conditions of some sort may be made, for the stewards do not like crews to fow one year and not the next, staying away in years when a weak crew is looked for. Their attitude in this respect is like that assumed by the intercollegiate association that controls track athletics. DATES SET FOR THE SKATERS Schedule Agreed Upon Betwee Different Organisation CHICAGO, Jan. 2.—The Amateur Athletic union of the United Statés has taken sides with the International Skating union In its fight with the Eastern Skating association. Everett C. Brown, president of the Ama- teur Athletic union, declares that the Amateur Athletic union. will support the International Skating union's action in the Lamy case. The schedule of natibnal and international amateur lice speed skating champlonship events sanctioned by the In- ternational Skating union was announced as follows: , January 2—Milwaukee-Northwest cham- plonship (outdoor.) January 2-Chicago, Western champion- siips (outdoor.) January 2-2i—Cleveland National eham- plonships (indoor:) January 25-20—Pittsburg champlonships (indoor.) January 30—Brooklyn eastern champlon- ships (outdoors.) January 3i—New York, eastern champion- ships (Indoor.) February 3-3—Saranac lal championships (outdoor.) February b-Montreal, plonships (outdoor.) February 9 or 10--Boston, land champlonships (indoor.) February 22-Chie western ships (indoor), conditional of rink. Amateur champlon Edmund Lamy, re- cently upheld by the Weetern asspclation, will tour the elrcult. Two international international Canadian cham- New Eng- cham- on completion More Racing at Onkland. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 22.-Oral betting at Oakland has been so successful that President Thomas H. Williams an- nounces that when the present meeting ex- pires on February 11 forty and perhaps sixty days will be added by the assoclation On several occasions more than 5,000 per-| sons have pald admission to the Oakland track this winter. Williems, who was prepared to lose $100.000 on venture, | | will probably break even and may even the Athletes Are Ready for the Big Track Meets West to Be Well Represented in the Eastern Events This Year, NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—The big coll In the middle west are in line with the east in the post-holiday rush of candidates for athletic honors. From Michigan, Chicago and Wisconsin come reports ot promising material and large squads. The track eandidates at Ann Arbor have begun training for the indoor meets of the winter and the present prospects are en- couraging to followers of Wolverine ath- letics. The veterans remaining eligible are Captain May, West, Cralg, Horner, Towar and Legar and there are three new men who please the coach—namely, Benbrook, Freeney oud Haskins. Benbrook, the foot ball captwin-elect, is & man of about the same bulld as Ralph Rose, and Coach Fitspatrick counts on him for surprising work with weights. Freeney has already broken the Michigan indoor pole vault record by clearing 11 feet 8 inches. Haskins, another last year's freshman, is a Culver Medical assoclation graduate and one of the most promising men at 100 yards and the hurdles that entered Michigan in years. The Chicago track squad Is feeling the loss of Captain Philip Comstock, who was debarred from athletics by his physiclan Comstock was counted one of the best mile runners that ever wore the Chicago Maroon. There are some good veterans remaining on Coach Stagg's squad. He has been train- 1ug the sprinters during the past week and now beging on the distance men, with Strophlet, Baird, MacNeish and Long as the most promising material. Crawley, Peques and Davenport have been his main- stay In the dashes and hurdles. The Chicago basket ball season has opened and the team appears to be selected as follows: Clark and Sauer, forwards; Huddle, center; Huffman and Page, guards. The swimming team reports a strong set of candidates, with a squad of very heavy men out for the polo team Other activities also promise well. Thirty | base ball men have reported to a calf for candidates, and a hockey boom has been started. Coach Ten Eyck of the Wisconsin crew has_twenty-six candidates for the varsity elght, and forty freshmen hopefuls have reported. Last year's varsity crew has lost three men, including Stroke Dinet, and the campus talk gives Jack Wilce, the foot ball player, first chance at Dinet's seat, The basket ball team has no star men, but Coach Noyes believes that the com- bination will work well together and make up the lack of individual ability by team work. The base ball pitchers and catchers are at work in the batting cage, and a series of interclass swimming meets has been arranged. HARVARD ATHLETES LOOK GOOD ‘Well Balanced Team to Represent the Crimson. BOSTON, Jan, 2.-With the resumption of track athletic training at Harvard uni- versity the close followers of the sport at Cambridge are congratulating them- #elves on the prespects for a well-balanced point-winning team in the intercollegiate track and fleld championships next spring. A Crimson adherent, with a leaning toward statistics, has reasoned the case out in this way: It Is possible to score 143 points in the champlonships. There are athletes remaining in the competing col- leges who scored 788-10 points last year. The team members remaining in Harvard this year represent more points in last spring’s meet than were left to Yale, Penn- sylvania and Cornell combined. Harvard has lost by graduation two members of the team which scored 39.1 points. They are former Captain Rand ana Hnrwood.‘ who betwen them scored 5.2 points. | Discounting possible additions of new timber on any of the teams, the Crimson squad looks formidable. There remain Foster, the double winner in the sprints; Blumer, first in the 440; Captain Little, firet in the shot-put; Gardner, second 'in | the low hurdles; Pope and Lawrence, who tled with three others for first in the | high jump; Barr, tled for second in the pole vault; Jacques, third in the two-miles, and Kelly and Watson, fourth in the 220 and 440 yards, respectively, As for the other collegeés, Yale has lost men, who scored 16 points last year. Penn- sylvania has but two of the five-point winners in college. Cornell has but one man left of the team which scored 20.5 points—Taylor, winner of the two-mile run. Michigan scored fifteen points last year and bas lost but one man—former Captain Bull. The Wolverines report some good new material and on paper would seem to be Harvard's most dangerous competitor at this stage of the campaign. TRIAL OF NEW STYLE BILLIARDS Sutton and Hoppe to Try the New- Fangled Game, NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—When George Sutton defends his 18.1 balkline title against Willle Hoppe In Chicago next March there will be a test of the new atyle of 1,500- point game which Hoppe and Morningstar strongly advocated when they were on the “out” with the billlard authorities and which figured prominently in the recent compromise which brought the two “out- laws’" back into good standing. Sutton has notified Hoppe that he has acceded to the challenger's request for a three nikht's niateh, and names March 14, 15 and 16 as the dates. The match will be played in Orchestra hall, Chicago. Each night's, game will consist of 50 points This Is the first time that either of the balkline titles has depended on a game of more than 0 points, aithough many special matohes of more than one night have been played. A majority of the noted experts are in favor of the longer game. Hoppe and Morningstar contend that any player may be in poor form in a short match and that 500 points Is too brief a game to risk a title on. Thelr argument is that a player who may be “off’ one night has a chance to “come back,” and that class will tell more in the long run than in the short gamo where a player may go above or under his real speed. SPRING TRAINING FOR TIGERS Coaches Decide Princeton Men Must Have More Work. PRINCETON, N J, Jan. 2.—The toot ball authorities at Princeton university will inaugurate & new system of training for foot ball candidates this spring. They have come to the conclusion that the Tiger teams have not been in the best of con- dition during the last seasons and that criticlsms stating that Princeton teams lacked endurance were cnly too well founded on taots. To remedy this situation the manage- ment has decided to make spring training as compulsory as the regular fall prae- tice. 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