The evening world. Newspaper, January 4, 1908, Page 6

eerie THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4,” ——» STORIES OF SPORTS | TOLD BY EXPERTS | BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK - “ano Wate written ! Athletesand Lovers of Amateur Sports. Write Their Opinions to Evening | World—Greatest Coward Is the | Anonymous Letter Writer. FILE there has been a Jull tn W the storm of protest against the selection of Matthew Halpin io represent the United States as manager of the American Olympic| team «at London in the spring, public} Interest in the controversy has by no means died out. ‘This is evidenced | by the many letters that come into The Evening World office in every| malh Some of these are from athletes who have won championshipa, and de» fended the athletic honor of their country in many hard fought con- tests of th» cinder path. The following 1s a letter written by one of our greatest athletes of ten years agc, who, as a schoolboy, ran with Walter Hipple and Herbert slan- vel, and later successfully represeuted the Knickerbocker A. C. This letter is selected, as it seems to represent the general sentiment of the others, and iu a brief and concise manner. Mr. M. T. Waterman's letter: Tecetved in this connection, and the only “I have been taking much interest in| one in {ts pecullar literary style. the articles in regard to Mr. Halpin.| ‘The letter begins with what purports and the ‘specific’ replies from a ropre-| Halpin, and the biank space at the| Bentative body of athletes, {t would ap-| end of it shows that the writer was pear that Mr. Halpin has much the] either unwilling or afraid to sign his worst of the letter writing campaign. It} name. seems strange that so many men can| This letter runs as follow. year are serious, and will only tend to| *77%, {hat 1 didn’t see you. Jower the status of American amateur| will see you if you athletes all over the world. ‘The for-| #4mes, or if not, will send it without @ignera are only too glad to debar| **!! the day after. i w. American competitors on the slightest ‘So you would not take your hotel bill You scurrillous fathead. in which you could im which so gloriously represented| verbal hammer throwin, nature come from the manayer of the The only way t next statement will make y. that if I were in the position that Mr.| take nourishment. pear end Sacrifice myself even though I were| [TN answer to this, I'll say that the PILE la\tcrde? (ty) avolaine) asacaus greatest coward in the world Is the which cannot but hurt our athletic|” ®Monymous letter writer. There's standing in foreign countrtes. I do not nothing more despicable than a man mao think oe Halpin can be qonsidered selt-| Will use the mall to send a threat or a| crificing, judging from his statements, | “roast” that he ts afraid to deliver in! Sinateur ‘athletes hat ‘coud wornany | BeT#om. and then will sneak into. hid-| Tepresent tals country in the next Olym-| !& Under the, subterfuge of leaving his pic games in England. name unsigned. “M. T. WATERMAN. Whatever may be said for or against man's comment Is an anonymoue|CNard: The statement he sent out was epistle received in the same mail.! now have a copy of it in my possession. I would not be so unfalr to Mr. Halpin| As for you, my anonymous friend, you as to believe that it was sent by any| Could have signed your name with’ per- friend of his, or with Mls knowledge, Tt) f¢t,Jmpunity. I don’t frequent the free is the ONLY anonymous letter I havel ity that we will ever meet. ms § PUBLIC'S INTEREST IN HALPIN CONTROVERSY STILL HOLD “CHAMPION ATTELL DECLINES ~ THE RACE TRACK PEOPLE HANE VISIONS NUT THANKS © OF NGKT WINTER — viel ATTENTION j HOCKEY SEASON OPENS TO.NIGHT AT THE ST. NICHOLAS RINK. in force at the intercollegiate championship neeton teams, and a close and exciting ga hip will come off or DERBY WINNER HERE ey always will remain, but Mr. Nicholas Ring to- between the vers of both teams are tn good shape ne is looked for. when the Yale and Harvard —_+ ‘olumbia and or the tussle his old friends in though he is living the es I can't send it at this writing, but|of @ gentleman farmer in Ireland, was come up to our] proved on the arrival of the Lusitania be wrong and he right. Furthermore, pcoston es iletc Association, eter Street. the charges that he makes in a general «trom Wille D to Mattie P.” way against so many of the American| I looked for you at the Garden with | Olympic team that were at Athens last] €00d intentions as regards the ten, and Powers, and now that atiorinastitetee tra as its own rink in New the champlonshtip. Hampshire, 1s expected elr practice this year ¢ collere games The game between Dartmouth and erely, One of the first persons to rush down and framed, D! EATON, | the gsangplank after the big ship had) combinati been made fast alongside the dock was! blood Evelyn Gleeson, a near neighbor Croker, who | Nicholas Ring. could and always will ni pretext, and to have charges of this| Decaues you did not win your event | tiny jbeat the English Be py aY|and warm friend ‘WIZARD HAS HAD CUE IN HAND HALF A LIEETIME [wh s a hard those to irdisty, made, s what made of all billian® Jake s.1 Dalle blem, atton put y day at the table ig contest, and| 88 come to America to exhibit spec!- jan the Stars and Stripes abroad appears to| ten You would draw a Slank. Haipin| mene of Irish rugs, carpets, me to be unpatriotic, at least. I believe | Nath (@nd to your case. by and by. Hislang bookbinding at the Irish Fair and Exhibition that will Halpin finds himself in now, I would — Square Garden Tuesday. er hand was securely wrapped paper parcel, and as she spied P. was toward him and, holding ou! “Take it quick. ing ‘her breath, dear, NEWS IN SMALL PORTIONS CHARLES “WHITEY ALPERMAN, cond baseman of BOILED DOWN TO BRIEF at Madison | (Sol? OF ALL Oh 1 was won by Centre sompored of Lip small, a dig crowd. with its team, Hass, Dughan and Markowi catch-| sprained his leg during the last week season of 1W7 while sliding into & bag at Boston, has signed a contract ley Dodgers nex Alperman was she continued has been the tre No. 2 took five firsts. Uttle parcel in| WHAT PROM bane of my life ever since Mr. handed {t to me in Ireland, bidding me ‘as more valu- PRACTICE HOCKE: aA THE FIRST ROUND FOR scent Athiatic offered him and lost no {s signature to a con- able than gold or precious stones. What written over his own signature, and I| oes it contain? Charles Ebbets, Q™=: a contrast to Mr, Water-| Mt. Halpin he {e not this kind of a|to be carvful of it, as and her votce dropped to an awed whisper, “‘one of the plates that the Irish colt Orby wore n he won the Derby, defeating very best that England ever produced. “The other three plates are THE SCORE OF 9 MADE 0° Tee contests wil Manual Training wi! School at the Se HAS GIVEN Club a number ‘ophies for club fixtures Inst 419 made hy High School cided before the Pacifle A. C.. of Los (xy eles, Cal., on Jan. 17, The fact that Barry Agree to Box Ten Rounds} was witing to box Flynn winner take all is probably what caused him to call off A the bout, Sam Langt is at Los Angefes on YUL ect Harty instead,” Phia °wiltbe thelt Janu. 21, Bob Deady Secures Contest at Last. Matchmaker Bob Deady haa finally a 3 cured a matoh for his Industrial A. C., of BY JOHN POLLOCK. Philadelphia. He hae signed Jimmy Gard MATCH between two real good | Re to meet Eddle Carter, the Quaker City A fighters was inched last nicht |@bter, for six rounds tn the main event at the show to be held by the club Jan, 10, at Los Angeles, Cal., to be fought t Los al, t This will be the second fight that Gardner before the Pacific A. C.. of that city. | win engage In ues week he cies tein, gon Jan. 2% The men signed up for the| matched {0 fent doe "Walcott wt the “Ae contest were Jack Twin" Sullivan, the} oy vA eiuggg Bottom OB Tueeday night clever New Enztand pugilist, and Joe Thomas, the California miadie-weisie | J8¢K Blackburn to Boy Jack Bonner. who reventiv give “oun, Ketehetis | 34k Bonper, the teh ayyemeint of | the Montant figster, such a hard battle| te cing and sapped on ney feturned to} fn a twenty round bout {n San Pran- PRALO WIL RESTS rounds at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., hi he cisco, jmaten on bis hada, He tian ‘signed ericies Fight Promoter McCarey, of Los An-{ Hiackourn whtehe wil eens Oat (mate peles, Recured the match by offering Toned the men 60 per cent, of the gross re-| Neary and Indian Gregg to Fight. 01 ceipts to battle for, They will clash in ir fe Gregg has at last finally teen a ten round boui, and ag they will be nae ee about evenly matched they should put} ici s toneenne rather Up.a slashing fgh bs in Mii Flynn Flunks Out of Barry Bout. | flat at 153 pounds, weigh Jim Flynn has flunked out of Landers and Bonner Battle To-Night led ten-round bout with Jim. Barry his clud and not shance. to aa Jack Me= Chicago fighter, which was to have be ALLEY OWNERS’ ELECTION. The annual meeting of Alley Owners’ Association of officers Will Have to Make Weight wtown High w«, Tectinical Sc! «nj Second ay Erasmas Ha Mommerce are up and pennant POLYTECHNIC tute gymnast the weekly Institute in a He was constantly pound- kinds of caroms, figuring the largest count and voring to perfect hig ss the ivories like nen astride tl me sort of practize sare now for for thelp elphia. and Sut r their game ime amateur champion of fajl Arthur TO RE. TH | most successful athiette meet ever held br the Pastime AC. q take place in Madison Square Gari ” Gritrithe won the pool champtonship on Monday evening. Jan. 27. Entries Crescent A. C, the recent tour are pouring In every day for the differ vy cr one arene ocp Mel gnC oem | ent events. and it is expected that close | ond, baving won six games. C2 to five hundred am! participate. ous athletes will | —— CRESCENT A. C. MEN RESIGN. The Crescent A.C. has lost two vatuable JAMES B. HAGGIN IS THE LARG est individual nominator to the Futur. of Board ot erry ity and the Brighton Produce Stakes eo inthe He entered 30 brood mares in enc Rulceprenid event. This 18 a record for one breed The Fututrity (1910) will be worth 00) and the Produce Stakes (1910) & 004 offered for naking the eecond | CK OUT-OF-TOWN coming here the best there is ANOTHER Another cup,{ dilllard player orillard offer: THOMAS SIGNS UP WITH “TWIN” SULLIVAN Barry to Fight Langford Again —Other News of the gage in games with amateur billiard take final possession arrive here on HUNDRED Growth of Manufacturing In- dustry Marvellous in Few at Maurice Da and Broadway OF GAMES ed Centre No, THE SCHEDULI chance to box Jack Goodman, the local Wht the junior! surely attract | AMERICAN OARSMEN TO ROW ON ENG HAT one hundred million of dol- be spent In America year for 1,000 automobiles is estimate of -American manufacturers. Nelson Signs for Two Battles. metch with Kid LISH THAME Other, ofticare elected 1907 for the 1,176 cars of That's the rela- Amerteans In | foreign manufactur value placed upon the cars as shown by thy Amertosn prefer- Meyer and ‘J. Capt, Biglow, of the Yale football squad, | wing again in the spring. | was an oarsman of whom considerabie f athletes to the Olym- ext summer, fe to take-up The growth of the manufacturing in- dustry in automobiles In America dur- vears has been s0 ing the last phenomenally when one con! the real intere: a passionate Interest—appears. No other form of sport 1s as costly for the hundred millions representa only PR EONS IAA a. Thames, preliminary en discussed at nes Pilking- National Asso- the figures that st may well be called of Berlin in the National created a great the German oarsmen t country, and it is ble that a crew may be sent over for deal of interest amon his return tot LION FOR AUTOS THIS YEAR 1s only about five to elght year! —_——_- It was only abou: stx years ago that the manufacture of automobites was | 40,000 Machines Valued af attempted on a large scale in America. t60 cars man. | $80,000,000 Were Turned Y in 1904 there we Hee ina eae Brio CHE Gene Out During 1907. 12131 were runabouts and valued at $8,800,000, and 7,220 were touring cars, value, at $11,781,000. Gui cera Irian er aS ralaed aa came from Paris manufac h following vears iaiiie/ fg uren) forbs Uo WALL eas ii Of the other countries, Italy fare not accessible, bu: for the ¥€T furnished 1, Great Britain. 10h; Ger just ended {tis conservatively estl-| many. 61, and other countries 27 0 at the future holds out, none can mated that the total Aa of a tell, but if Pade uawelleye arn ut by American makers press agents a: e big auto shows canes oat pein value was $0,000,000, /#nv It is nots dimcult to believe that 40,000 an he he “ in ten vears the outpit will be Increased This 1s a low estimate of $200 per q nundredfold, which would make eve car. For the present season It 1s esti: | Rockefeller wasn at the values, will be manus =e the mated that 50,000 cars , A Bolleau Girl Art Calendar for 1908, factured in this country and thelr 44 Oct. distributed with The Suse value will be $10,000,000. day World c , The number of licenses i#sued tn | New York only. Gi New York State Inst year was about lendar of the vear. 20,00) and many of these licenses ere duplicated. : The Imported cars have kept @ simi} arly steady increase. the total !mports of 1901 being 2h cars valued at $3,000 while the Customs books show that 12 and 19, Great the net. Prettiest the big regattas thie season, @ part of the real expense, cludes the cost of chauffeurs, These eaally figure up And the life of an auto Scroggs to Fight a he American | epheand are prominent candidates as! and incidenta! 000,000 more, » for the erew to the Imports last year were 1176 cars valued at $4.41 000, France has always held the preference with American purchasers, In 1907, of among oars hi ¥ Mor | lidat F Billy Cordes Brooklyn, who. has prealopntis at Ce h James Rice. of the Columbia mtaers of thls vsroc ition | University crew, is very much pleased in Greater New York and News| With the prospect of an olght-oared race ark, and per cap) nore nioney | wit ard on the Charles River next favinted than any “alley “owners! In| spring, Rice tried. to get the Harvard MANY PRIZES FOR GOLFERS. eabiiie: Heriainy) but ithellatten eT and hie oe Mt et es 3 th Nee Columbia wi nve several other races Derest hinehure vy winners [£08 its eight before the intercollegiate may have to pay excess bara. rates on the Hudson at Poughkeepsie in June. them aii e. The w six in Annapolis race will prob ly be cl qualifying round, | wi aT!" | out as the stewards of the Intercoller pecone af y r tt tition | fat nave requested such events to be all in the big race. Tho freshmen's crew See lof la: year, however, may row tii Oarsman Edward Hanlon Dead. | 2 Hh aes PEN TORONTO, 0 J rd] Henley at Phi Hanlan, « amy n the eerie, : "| Skating Races at Cosmopolitan. jelph York only, Get the set. Prettlest Art ling Rink Noe 102 and {04 West One Hun the only oar He has the advantage COLUMBIA GRE} SURGERY FOR YELLOW STREAK, To decide a bet please publish in your jean won by 18 minutes in a race Young Corbett's around the Isle of Wish e in William by Amerte Did Jack Dempsey and Tommy Ryan ever meet In the ring, and if so was it Pleaee publish the record for the fast- st mile made by an automobile, wher, furnish the | be un entry in the met at Coney Inland, and the firht was stopp the third round. Dempney's last contest, except in CONSTANT READER, Track record 513-5 seconds, Christie car at Birm- ibstitutes will make up a Te was poor ROLLER SKATING RACES, Straightaway, 281-5 seconds, in Stanley steamer at Ormond Beach, aving the mat- consumption, |pany, 21 Warren street, same year. Please publish the date of the Gans- | Erno battle at 1991 and oblige. has come over was won fro mt Americans? A CONSTANT READER. The yacht America was the first! [American boat which wai English yacht Aurora, T times to race English or was mad Would Kraenzlein or Sheridan, man at his best, champtonship? | your decision, tlons favorable | a stir in| ir | American oarsmen can A Bolleau Girl Haye agreed to accept The forthco |‘World’s Almanac for 1907 will who! won the cham-|give you this and many other this seasom, is = better | zecords from ‘pn . } toe Ryan er something A Bollea Clr! Art Calendar for 1908, | 4ash in the remarkable time uf eight min fe ico colors, distributed with The Sun | utes and ‘ourteon secor ain: | in World on Jan, 5. 12 and 10, Greater | ment give Cosmopolitan Roller Skat day World on Jan, 5 few York only Dee beth. year, 4red and o\enty-fitth street, last nlgyt, with Culendar of the year, tor the Hart 1s fifteenth consecutive SPORT QUERIES ANSWERED BY EDGREN ‘Seeuaos ‘ in whiske 3 all-around athlete than Kraens- ity and richness of favor, Tein, Ithough the latter wa a rea aiter tases, sorincer ana] SP SUNTLY BrOOK hurdler. Garrells, of Michigan, : Whiskey the only all-around America in Sheridan ‘an of these qualtt content netween thene two would ioreir wh maeracints e » Shaver lastest SAU Sur jane CE NttY bottler is ecdlod with, the Where can I procure the necessary arpa ‘Green Stamp," ae. Information as to rulos, @c., of the Sod! tall maturity. Ask for ie Gaelle Athletic Association Sunsy Brook Distillery Ce. TROLL Jetlersen County, ky. Write to James F, Sullivan, American Sports Publishing Com- Who holds the record for casting with three-ounce sinker and the distance for | the Broadway A same and such particulars a you may , be able to give regarding some. ‘Uso Big @ tor cnnetared dircharres, inflammations, was March 23, HyA. § irritations oF ulceretions Mr. Hobden, of England, holdx of m7 oue menbraaets win an all-around’ the distance record at 216 fee: Painioss, and not actly (ent or poisonoas, issue of The