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| i | Ede hockey, Dasketball, billiards, pocket bil- liar@s, checkers and other harmless sports, but the coming baseball season ‘Was there ever another city so for- tumate as to have such great leaders as Frank Chance of the New York Ameri- cans and John MoGraw of the Giants? If a city boasts of one really competent @ulde it is considered mighty well off. Ané just to think we are to have repre ent us in the major leagues the coming Season two pilots than whom no greater ever cavorted on the diamond. Although !t probably woulfin’t be coming season both the Highlanders (or New Yor! as Chance wants them called) and the Giants are to altemate And wouldn't it be a fitting them fight it out for the world’s base- pall chacmpionshi| Course, it almost seems out of to expect Chance, who is hardly ted with the ability of a player to develop a club that finieh higher than the first division, | things have been done, and! Chance is such a wizard at performing be @amond miracles that maybe he'll per- ‘this one, ‘would have dared predict that Clark GriMith could have taken the perennial tallend Senators and not only had them up in the fight during the entire American League race of 1912, wut managed to land them in second Place at the finish! And the majority of fans feel inclined to think that) Chance has just as good, if not bette! material to ‘work with than had the “Old For" at Washington. Charlie Hbbets and his Dodgers, by the plant reundin, Dahlen may be able re them to make @ fight for the 1 League pennant. DDIN M'GOORTY wil! be seen in action in this city on Wednesday night at the Fairmont Club, when his epponent will be Freddie Hicks, a» battler who has given all the best mid- Gleweights in the country more than they were bargaining for, McGoorty hasn't battled since he fought Mike Gib- bens in their memorable flasco in the Hicks has heard that MoGoorty of form for this bout, te true Geclares @ show of him. expecting to clinch a match any day with Gidone for a twen- before Jim Coffroth'’s club ‘The contest may be held when both of t! jose negotiations with Gib- Paris, where he has Greatest ~unning performed in ! ae & ge i tm this part of the aed @ half minutes’ galloped home a winner in race, covering the dis- ghenomenal time of 61 min. ‘The American reo- fe 62.94 4-6, hela by owing to the fact doubt about the cor- rement of the roads the will probably be ignored. th, champion, by 2 min- cee coming outdoor season en is certain to create that will probably books for years—if not ti 8 UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY | the college's athletic authorities long to FOOTBALL AGAIN AT COLUMBIA IS SPORT'S LATEST President Butler Is Won Over to Game After Eight Years. OOTBALI. is to be revived at C-O-L-U-M-B-l-A—ray, ray and @ couple of hundred RAHS! Yop, the Blue and White ts going to tear things up on the gridiron once more, either next season or fn 1914, This wonderful change has been ac complished by convincing Dr. Nicho- jas Murray Butler that football can again be played safely and success fully at Columbia under the new rales. The great record made by last season football playing was abig fac- tor in causing Dr. Butler to chang his stand regarding Columbia's play: ing the game. ‘The @brence of a single fatality on the Gridiron last year convinced Dr. Butler that the roughness and brutality jn foot- ball, which caused {ts death at Colum- bia, hed been eliminated and that the strenuous sport played under the modi- fled rules wasn't #0 dangerous after ail So, after an absence of eight years, it {a extremely ifkely that the Blue and White will be represented on the Lage fron next eenson, if @ echedule can be ‘amed up in time, or in 1914, at tee ig Now, let the cheering squads sy According to reports that leaked out to-day, Dr. Butler requested opinions trom former stars and members of the alumni on the advisability of siving ack football to the college, The opin- fons have been Grifting in during the Jaat two weeks. As can be learned, every one was unanimous in declaring that the sport could be re- stored safely and successfully at Colum- bia. It 1s believed that Dr. Butler was #0 impressed with the recommendations siven him by prominent membera of the alumni that he mede up his mind to Uft the ban against football, and if Present plans don't miscarry will do so officially in the next few deys President Butler didn't want for vice givers. Out on hie ranch in Mexico Bill Morley, one of the greatest baoke In the game's history, got wind of what was on foot and travelled all the way to New York to tell Columbia's L cynnnd that the gridiron game would sreat thing for his college. Morley had plenty of company too, Harold Woeks, Tom Christie, Harry A. Fisher, graduate manager of Athletics: to |. Bunge, Tom Thorp, Dave Smythe and Charles Mawes also volunteered infor- mation to the effect that football would Greatly stimulate athletic interest at Cotum tha, With permission given it will not take round up @ competent coaching staff |and eelect a strong eleven, for there's unlimited material among the 5,000 boys registered at the coll on the heights. In all likelihood it won't be long before the rah, rah of Columbia is heard on Gouth Field. It was way back in 1905 that the death. knell was sounded Columbia on foot all. The game played in those days ‘was the olf crushing, ripping, mass for- mations, The sport was much more brutal and rougher than the style of ame played nowadays. At that time it was @ common occurrence to have five or six deaths result from a season's playing. A movement to abolish the snort was started in many quarters. In 188 Columbia began the season with bright prospects, Tom Thorp, the vet- eran guard, was elected captain. He had a line wo iy astro and backfield fast and powerful. tories fapuny over his and resigned hie captaincy ct the middle of the year, Reverses came thick and fest then. Out of respect to Thorp no captain was jed_and the became demoral- Teams x wn to South Field and Uterally wiped up the gridiron with the once strong Blue and White team, The climax came when Yale ignomini- ously defeated Columbua, & to 0. At this time a player died of injuries re- cetved at the Unton-New York Univer. @fty game and Dean McCracken led a movement to abolish football ae a col- lege sport. He was joined by Presidents Eliot of Harvard and Butler of .Colum- bia, President Eliot rescinded his order xy about the abolition of the strenuous game at N. Y. U. President Butler r mained steadfast in his determination to stop football, and at the close of th: 1905 season he issued an edict forbidding @ Columbia team playing in a foothall contest with any other college orm of protest @rested the Pri nt's order, The students held mass meetings every night againat the stop- page of their favorite sport. They or ped have just well talked to th ers of the Hudson for all the good it id. Unable to play football, the inter> f the boys began to wane in other Soon Columbia was forced into as far as being @ power in col- White will again battle on the gridiron @ schedule will be hurriedly framed for this season, or if that is impossible, one i! ——-—-——— Britton Takes Gage’s Measure |: NOW ORLBANS, Jan. %.—Jack Brit-| ten of Chicago stopped Frankle Gage of \ Lee Angeles in the ninth round of what) ‘was to have been a ten-round scrap at) Orleans Athletic Club, Britton was rg of Gage at all tim: a teerenen suc! manner that he wae! use if a to. aiah him, After toying with! jan to the mat for the gocas. » giving beating. Jack showed! for a while Britton! pes in @ right parmaker to the jaw and) with Yale or Princeton for the for 1914, It is the plan now to arrange games with possibly Wesleyan, Unton, | Feutgers, Trinity and N. Y, U, ‘The on big game will be with elther Penn o | Cornell. It is proposed to give Columbia tryouts with these colleges during the first season for experimental purpos schedule, would be (ike the Progress merited it ' A capable coaching staff could de or ized from former Columbia asta here'd be Weeks, Thorp, y and Binythe to pick from right at the start ‘Ten thousand do remained In the treasury When football was killed ana that sum still is available for instant ‘am is formed. And can you {imagine what would har- this town if Columbia batt chain BEST SPORTING PACE IN NEW YORK -|Baseball Needs Hen Who Play the Game Chicago Magnate for First Time Tells Reason Why He Side- it government| A ue Mircokiyn, malcted Joe Custer 0 onroaGco and present, : e he New England League last year, and Jack Mart!n, , “ f advancii pennant winner of t ct eH 4 4 eran with moro particular reference to ranks |) pe sae who played at shortstop regularly until hit on the head by a pitched bail, i the eam, and wan o Chance as against Johnny Evers, aro] ke and pointedly gays, “My anthusi: |] Co ehe latest to alfx their names to the necessary docuinents, Tho other ed one of the best quarterbacks In Gealt with in @ long aligned article by Charles W. Murphy, Cub President, tn the Chicago Evening Post to-day. the longest career, the first time he has emerged from the ghell of secrecy tn wh has always been hedged. Most interesting 1s his explanation of why Chance was let out and his com- parison of Chance and Evers. “When I adked Frank Chance !f ho wanted to manage the Cubs In 1913," he sttion, position with the President of United States.’ “Without wishing to detract from the accomplivhments of Mr. compelied to use a rather recent expres- sion of Mr, Ted Sutvan, and say often the ahip gota credit when It really belongs to the wave.’ for the eohtevement of the Cubs in the last years and he should get all the credit due him, but it should be borne in mind that he thas been fortified at all tines with @ bunch of ball players who, Hockey Club Players Proving seven are p.aying like champions, have played two games and have won! both, giving then league. | The ahampion Creacents and the St Nicholas team are tied for second place, each team baving won one game and loat one. The Irish-American A. C. clas teum iast pected. which ted Capt. Ghirref to utilize suv: stitute players in two or th tions. in front and fighting to retain their pu- | sition the veteran players, like Limton, | fame, President Russell of the Ama- fomee one gee week "tr from oo pared with The Conspir- | | Dobby and Wall, evinced no disporition , tour League has called a meeting o! October to May. Sum 8\ip, ” | to play, preferring to «ive their younger | the Governing Committee, to be held For full particulars call at “at the ents! SOMEWH RE }LSE acy. teammates @ chance to capture the (thi afternoon, and the young Armory from 5. a fo 40 fm. BAD g [eet Sith ter Wen Now sai BING at the pred 'THTBA., honors, It is now rumored that the player has been asked to ~ NI BLLIOTT ‘4s. M a hockey enthusiasts in the club have fore them with proof of hii ‘TWELFTH INFANTRY, induced the veteran stars to rejoin the | to pla an amateur. -G.N.Y,. team and try to re sition in the race. eevercst tent in this game against tho 1918.” _THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JANUARY £0, EDITED BY ROBERT coh lhaen |Cross and S Shugr ue to Box Before Garden A. C. Jan. 29 © — -_ and will not he abi four weeks “Whoo t “Lowell go after More Than Managers, Says Murphy of Cubs; FRANK CHANCE The Boxers Have Agreed to Weigh in at 134 Pounds Ringside. ‘ tewow EVERY THING ABOUT CAS: BALLi¢ manager of | mee roan of 4300 if 1 would Williams and also bet_me Williams would gop (me, iat | will lose no time tn would maki rT “chusey iy RLES MURPHY easy inane his’ offer.” how commissioner Praait rman of the tate Atle he last mesting. of the u ‘ge 1 coved dovrs, Comte ‘isi to case my vote for Mr, otha, ta Jeaked was elesiod | BY JOHN 1 OLLOCK. FORS ton A. Cy son Square Garten, on W sige W 4 B evening. Jan. Leach Cross will % for Mr, O'Neil,” remarked 30) weet Joe “Young Shugrue, the fast "Twill vote for elt" rentied 1 Ne, where and game lehtweigit, in a ten-round | i Seretary Harvey mae the following OMe “pout at 14) pounds, wetgh In at tie ei) ts elected chairman.” ringside, Billy Gibson signed tho men] prankie Buras, te Jeney to-day after making Cross a flatter!ng | w th - offer, Besides this bout there will be another ten-round go tn which Johnny cal eaves ter Dundee will meet some good fighter. | bent and often, Burne $500 for his tronbie, ray home, Caving ieBt there sammediately after pattie, Cross fights Jimmy Duffy for ten rounds at Buffalo to-morrow night. Jim Savago was tratuing at @ gymnadum tn New Orteans for a bout with Adam Smith, a Souther wearyweight, at the Orleans A, C. rel kout Brown, vt Frankie Down fm New Orteans to-night Kn Hghtweight, will go , the ornck fighter of that 4 bout before the Orleans A. defeated Battling new the other, that Bavege ut on at the une clu’, weal fa Savage io ‘and having him ia bad way at e latter, gesting eR he ndvunee ate"of tickets is Over 4,000. facond. Whien the, el pene, savage is uit $400, Froeived that ‘ammount tor Menting Seth. Eddie MeGoorty i rounding into condition of 10 A. A, for bis ten-round bout wits | water the dooto WELCH T0 CAPTAIN care Ticka of Detroit, wiush wil be fought 96 Peirmont on’ Weducsday git CARLISLE’S ELEVEN, |i. int Eanes een we mane the, weighs A ae sire os » AXLISLB, Pa, Jan, 2%—Another | 10K, a be a, oaderat ca) record has been broken here. For the| °tt 4» haary underclotes and ewesters, first time in locaj football history the Knockout Brown, who will leave for Lag Indians have elected a man captain who had only two years experience. Gustavius Welch, a Chippewa Indian, ts the player to achieve this unique distinc- tion, and no wonder the friends of the clever litte quarterback are patting him on the shoulder Angeles in ten days, wuere we is matched to @esp Joe Rivers for twenty rounds at Vernon, Cal., Washington's Birthday afternoon, thas ‘meet Jake Abel, the (1 weight, for ten founds before a club at Ga. ony nest i lant fai lay night, ‘This will be fore meeting Rivers, — the school, His foutbal ambitions a oe Serene aoe a) date from a boast he made while at- tending, as a member of the Indian Ivania-Indian football The In- New York Americans Signi: Fast; Seven of the Players Already in Line Judging by the manner tn which stgned contracts are coming into the office of the New York American League Club, all the players are anxious te work under the new manager, Frank Chance, Already seven players have stepped {nto line, Ray (Keating, the promising pitcher from Lawren tracked Frank Chance for Johnny ‘Evers and Explains Mis- take of Too Much Superintending in National Game. Sim Savage, who was kmocke! out by Gunboss Bmith, the California hearyweight, in sorep founds at the Garden A.C. a few ‘months apn, to get @ return Jan, %—The Cubs part with particular reference ax Joo Tinker recently sald, out and do thin Murphy ‘could xo ext year I'm going to get on that . and then there'll be another story 20 Yre. This Address Means Something REMEY’S Cu managers past and present and asm is pretty much confined to thos: men who can play the gane—and n | to tho#e who wish to draw pay for tell- | Ing others how to do it. We don't wan: ja company of superintendents. We wai. more ball playing and lesa managing. As between Chance and Evers says: ‘Frank Chance was successful as a playing manager. I am not prepared to say that he wil prove a wizant as a bench manager. I do not bekeve that he thinks as fast as Evers or Tinker. And it miknt be said in passing that| the country, Last year he played the > ts }same position, and if he had not suf- pitchers Ford and Warhop. In the New England League Keating won twen- P) P00 injuries to his ankle would have ty-six out of thirty-seven games and was caslly the sensation of that or- nen considered ae All-Aruerican ‘candl- ‘anization. He reported at the Hilltop in the fall, but didn't show any ¢. He has made his boast of over dazziing form because he was etale from overwork, Martin wasn't of years ago more than good. much value after being “beaned,"’ so he was traded :o Rochester for ‘Tommy McMillan, but later the two clubs reswapped. PICK OF OUR STOCK five who have signed are: Outfelders, Wolter, Lelivelt and Dantels; It is Murphy's in interview he he Celtics Win Close Game, After deine one gal to the bed at half time to thelr game with the Oritchlevs at Jasper Oval, Thoma White att oegting A 4 eee. Parlor, 1 eo would: Father the New York Celtics, leaders in the New York) SUIT OR, Tot" aturphy continues the old national ‘game ie. Reared ‘up a0 Ratt, Ces: ase Pree, “ee, east] OVERCOAT “Ager Bvere had quccecded to the po- |PO™, tnet fast thinking ls the & sith the lone tally for the Critchlen, while Pat. 1 TO ORDER lor requisite of success. Handling a bal. lps and O'Hare each made « point for the win- Evers @aid: ‘I would not trade . lub nowadays must be done after thi the fashion that the electrical works Whic! “s the modern steel akyscrapers ‘Murphy confidently predicts a pionship seasen for 191), He says Le) has the best furtified team in the majo: | leagues. He waxes enthusiastic over the addition of Breanahan to the Cu staff, and sags he has the best arr of catchers in the world. He also p: Pp dicts success for Evers, “In conclusion, I will say that th club that beats us will win the flag Mark that prediction,” is the way hc closes his four-column statement. Every remnant of $30 and $25 fabrics in our store goes into this sale at $15. Oestreicher 8ros TAILORS 1191 | RAGES JUST HABIT WITH JOE FOGLER RIS, Jen. 20.— Winning aix-day aces {6 just a habit with Joe Fogler of rooklyn. With Alfred Goullet of Aus- traila as his partner he captured the x-day grind just finished here, the pair of them covering 2,780 miles in 14 so hour ‘The French team, Duprey and Laptae, intshed second, with the Americans Walthour and Wiley third, Moran and Chance, I am A Tureen of Soup Receives the final touch by adding ‘ope Teeeroontal LEA:PERRINS' SAUCE ‘THE ORIGINAL WORCESTERSHIRE A perfect seasoning for Fish, Resets (Cheops, Steaks, and Rarcbits. IGGEST AND BEST 1N AT POPULAR JEFFERSON ‘hin, ie “Too Chance gets credit oadway CON Bets, QUENS THURS, EVE, 343 ALAN DALE said The Conspiracy is more v 86.H S. REE: 14, “Drexien Doll Sold by Grocers Everywhere Root were placed seven vivid than Within the MAY Rey ‘Comedieane, Surprise oO mateur eague It was Fogler's second six-day victory ay = adi ACTS ide of two months, In the alx-day : Crescenta on Friday night, Fortunately,| race at Madison Square Garden last " re OW PLAYING at she Gannon THEA, PLORIBAN THEATRES" Eh Hockin Cha acanto the ange | ee nanrner, cout month, the Booklyn soy finished in MUSICAL. | az St, just Last of Broadmay, Continuous, 1 to 11, Popular P je sur-! inented by the old front with Walter Rutt of Germany ae Conductor. | GARRICK ey price the Amateur League. | players and led by Castleman, th: | hi “| at Usually tatlenders, t) ‘former Winged Foot captain, ter was really the most important fn tor in both games that the Hockey Cluy A M’KINLEY SQUARE fesse ia, 6. MARCO TRING, ‘They Ul THE CONSPIRACY | {PORITERION Hor coi sem a ROBERT HILLARD suai HUDSON oi TH: POOR Uittl. 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