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“men Like Hanlan and Ten College Rowers in an Endur Themselves Up Now by Goi Are Fully Developed. Eyck Would Outlast Average ance Test— Youngsters Burn ng In for Athletics Before They By William Abbott. in sports chest- line. Statistics show we're not strong as we imagine. Young joa, instead of gaining from training methods, lacks the ina of athletes twenty years This applies both to champions the youth who merely exercises. According to Jim Rice, Columbia ing coach, this startling sitwa- comes from the evil of young 4 overtraining and retarding their Siricpeient. This practice has al- taken toll of present - day jons, and the Cclumbia vete- insists that in tests of etrength lasting power Jack Dempsey ld be no match for old-timers Bob Fitzsimmons, and that row- college football players and other in games requiring en- ce ©~would be outclassed by jetes who displayed prodigious of physical power twenty and years ago. | Rice, now fifty-two but with the r of a youngster, has coached jhe answered. “More speed is nec \Sary, but the duty of the linesmen ts about the same, It has been my ob- servation that the lincsmen to-day cannot withstand the battering and bruising of forwards in the period when football was a real battle of brawn.” Rice not only names what he be- Neves to be an athletic malady, but has a cure for It, He would restrict the exercise of young boys and girls, This would ‘be accomplished by mild weather work until the yo th had reached sufficient size to eng.ge in strenuous competitive sports, Such a course would include more attention to eyesight. According to the Columbia veteran, no athlete is stronger than his eyes, for a success- ful star must have good vision to get accurate co-ordination between the various muscles. Rice says children are goth school eariler than ever Before, ‘Phay advance rapidly, which puts an add tional strain on the eyes. This weak- ens the visions and interferes wits progress In athletics. R ce figures out Gefective eyesight brings on nervous complaints, which in turn materially impair physical strength, Talking about nerves, Rice recalled a little incident about James Court- ney, late Cornell rowing coach. Courtney suffered 40 much from eye y thirty years. He's been row- coach at Columbia nearly sixteen Years and in that time has kept im touch with all branches of ties. Despite the employment of tiie coaching methods, Rice h surprising conclusion that country’s young athletes are de- ting. START TOO EARLY ” ATHLETICS. © “We're overdoing athletics,” argues F “Bnthusiasm is getting the best us. Trouble nowadays ia that our start too early and harm their pment from too much sport ition, Give you an example. last Monday while passing the machines @ gaunt youngster for the doctor, Gald he felt a dizzy. “Thought he was about eighteen, discovered he was barely sixteen. boy told me he nad been“on the tl squad and wanted to ‘make’ crew. I chased him away from wowing machines, Told him he gain .en pounds in weight and come back to resume practice. rey ‘was enthusiastic but irst thing he knows his begin to miss. College ig Sbroughout the country com- of an increasing number of We have many at C)- - Raed all comes from unnec- bey siowta attain his growth be- part in strenuous com-, jut they won't do this y Start in the public schools with mae set perepsece come out for Co- 18 possessing weak hearts. tia to overcome their poor fe strive to upbuild the body re encouraging strenuous exercise, epg ed we are going to have a ci ae crew. Perhaps in the members of this Phe strengthened to try for Same thing in wrestling. recently of our mat per- thought they should take weight. in order to enter one of smaller classes. Columbia dis- all this and urges the young 0 try for a bigger clase. Taking weight is bg? worst thing a grow- boy can do.” u rpotioce what he preaches on own son. James is _sixtee 6 feet 2 an ‘weighs 1638. t of @ husky, but his father, ful coach, permits him only to ‘@ little shadow boxing every day swim once around the Columbia | ahh EXERCISE OF THEIR OWN SONS. ‘the ease of young Rice ts similar to tof Bernie Wefers, whose famous was the butt for much criti- because he refused to let his e in competitive races be- ing sixteen, Yet when the id Weters did compete he had full strength and continued to tain tbe family reputation on cinder path. “Athletics Is the greatest thing in world,” went on Rice, “but too competition is bad, | Somehow odern athletes burn out quicker ‘do not possess the stamina of in my day. They become soft foeon, ‘Take Dempsey for instance “patvhed Jack defeat Carpentier and ‘s champion in my opinion could successfully stand up nmons and other old-time ‘could both give and take punish- in the old days men like Ned would make modern scullers fgaremen look foolish. In my time A would make better inations now can show or even three miles. The An- in crew that won at Pough- last June was a fine set of Their average was and their 0 big as to cause general com- . But instead of being an ex- B crew like this wan the gen- te wenty year: about colleg going KO. Cyl Aaving in mind the g young giants that pet this was quick on the trigger. He bad material to make good hiv FOR ATHLETIC trouble and nerves that he never slept three nights before a Cornell racs, But Courtney's allment came in ad- vanced years. For the ambitious youngster Rice gives warning to take things ea and firat upbu'ld through a gradust course of training before rushing out pellmell to break world's records, Jim Thorpe Has No Intention of Quitting Football Standing with his feet braced well part in the lobby of the Imperial Hotel last night, Jim Thorpe, by long odds the greatest athlete of them all, took occasion to deny in part a report that he intended to retire from profess!onal football at the earliest possible moment, According to the story, Thorpe, now thirty-seven years of age. was to ro- tire from football and all competitive sport following the Professional football wame that ha: nged between the great Indian fe Cle land Tigers sn Charley Brickley'’s New York Giants next Sunday afternoon at Ebbets Fiel “This might be my last year,” he di ci:red. “but the game against Brick. ley’s team won't be my last. Our team has two more games scheduled, and I am bound to pi in them, barring injuries. However, I can't say anythin, about next year, for you never can te! red you are going to feel about it by ihe. I feel a eel Sy .zeert Hare myself Pafiestutely love #0 well it rd to out of a game They Thrive on Grind and All the Strain Is on the Spectators. ‘7 day race is a great deal more tiresome than riding,” re- marked Joe Fogler as he watched the riders swinging around the Garden track early to-day, “Most people refer to the race brind.’ It ts not looked upon as a sport to the riders. They accept it in the same way they would in being cxiled to spend six days in a rock- ing chair reading magazine. To them it’s like getting money from home.” Joe knows. Listed among the win- ners of the six-day race in the last fifteen you will see prominently in- seribed the name of Fogler. He has been riding with all the stars that have graced the six-day racing world in the last twenty years, “Eddie Root, ‘Peggy’ Moran, Harry Elks and Walthour,” said Fogler, ‘they all con- sidered the six-day race a joke. “Well, dope it out for yourself. Many of the riders will swing around this pine saucer for six days and six nigh You would naturally think they lose weight. They don't. They gain from one to four pounds, that is the more phlegmatic type. Of course there are some riders who suffer from nervous temperament. They lose weight, but you cannot attribute that to the often referred to severe strain of riding. There is no strain in riding. The strain is only a myth. “What do these fellows do after the race is over Saturday night?” we asked Joe. “Sleep for a week?" “Not at all,” retorted Fogler. “After the race these fellows generally sit down to a big feed and discuss the race. Then they EING a spectator at the six- THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1921. ALAS! Copyright, 9p oy & CASE OF WHERE TWO INNOCENT PEDESTRIANS WERE HURT” SPORT NEWS & GOSSIP | Champion Wilson Evidently Isn’t Concerned About $30,000 Due Him From Downey Fight—Inducements Held Out to Cham- pions Now That Fight Receipts Are Falling Off. By Vincent Treanor. ARTY KILLILEA, manager, ot Johnny Wilson, middleweight champion, evidently Isn't con- cerned about the $30,000 coming to d|them from the Jersey City fight with Bryan Downey. It will be remembered that Wilson’s end of the purse was held up by orders of the Jersey Box- ing Commission on the assumption that Wilson didn’t put forth his best efforts on that occasion. Killilea had an appointment with Tex Rickard at the Garden last night, the outcome of which might have been the collection of said $30,000 and the ee ee Six-Day Race Is a Joke To Riders, Says Joe Fogler SCORE—63D HOUR. 4 Miles Laps Lawrence and Thomas .... 1119 4 Brocco and Goullet . 1190-4 Rutt and Coburn . Bitte, MoNamara and Madden... 1119 4 Drobach and Hanley ..... 1119 4 Lands and Lang 1194 Girandengo and Verri ..... 1119 4 Steffani and Leyrode ..... 1119 4 Buysse and Van Hevel ... 1119 4 DeRuyter and Van Kempen 1119 4 Kaiser and Smith ete Weber and Osterritter ... 1119 4 Grenda and Belloni 119° 8 Bello and Gaffney W198 Billard and Alavoino ..... 1119 2 Leader—DeRuyter. Record 1,287 miles and 9 laps, made by Goullet and Grenda in 1914, customed to it,” replied Joe, “The fans think you naturally would get dizzy and aur, You don't. I used les to keep the dust out es, and with them on the atmosphere was always clear, No, you will never hear any rider com- plaining of getting dizsy.” About fifteen years ago Bemny Mon- roe put an automobile horn on his bi- eycle and circled the track blowing it. The fans thought the race was making Ben nutty, and George Lean- der, his partner, thought that he would have to quit the race, but it was just a publicity stunt with Benny and ‘it went big. “No,” said Joe, “it is not a grind. The riders think they are really get- ng money, for nothing.” ye asked Goulet, Lroceo, Rutt, McNamara, Grenda and some of the other riders if they al! thought the same as the veteran Fogler did about sind day racing, and they all replied, poe Rt W. G. STREET, HEAD OF JAMAICA TRACK William G. Street was elected Presi- hours, get up the next morning and drift to the natural routine of life, In they were in p for about four] Ay dent of he Metropolitan Jockey Club to ' the place left vacant by ¢ jeath of Matty Corbett at meeting of the ctors of the Jamal Ce ‘The choice wae wu: matching of Wilson with Harry Greb for a fancy purse at the Garden. Killilea had told Rickard over the long distance phone from Boston that he would meet him at 8 o'clock to talk things over. Rickard nervously paced the Garden corridor for hours, but up to midnight Killilea hadn't shown up. He sent no word to the promoter and R.ckard finally came to the conclusion that Wilson wasn’t interested in over- tures which might entail his risking his championship title against Greb or anybody else. “Can you tell me,” asks Rickard, “how I can get some of these cham- pions to come into the Garden and fight? “lll give them the house if neces- sary. by that I mean I'll give them 65 per cent. of the receipts and they can practically run the show. Tne Athletic Board says a promoter can't give more than 50 per cent. of the gate to the boxe: Any two of them like Leonard and Britton can pay a pre- liminary bout 16 per cent. and split the rest. “I am not asking them to box any particular opponent,” went on Rick- ard. “Dll give them three or four men from whom to select. “Gibson's objection to risking Leon- ard's honors to the decision of incom- etent judges can be overcome, I be- feve. He certainly cannot say that Patsy Haley, Kid MoPartland, Jack Skelly, John Haukop and referees and judges of that type are incompetent. “I am under the impression that the Athletic Board, while not willing to surrender all its authority, m.ght con- | nt to letting Gibson select his ref- eree and judges from the men men- tioned if Leonard wants to box at the Garden. This goes for other cham- pions as well as Leonard.” It must have become apparent to Rickard that champions are needed if big moncy ts to again be drawn at the Garden gate. Receipts lately have shown a steady falling’ off. Bouts which last year would draw $60,090 are bringing in only about one-third of that. Last week's Mike McTigue- Jeff Smith affair was an example. The house was comparatively bare. With reports of business dépression heard all along the line, it is a re- markable fact that an event like the six-day hlcycle race now in progress at Madison Square Garden !s break- ing all attendance records. Johnny Chapman, who is managing the race, says he can't explain it, unless New Yorkers regard the race as a place where they can stay ovt late and be amused, Last night the box office | statement showed an increase of $11,000 over the Tuesday night of the preceding event last March. The December race of last year was the record breaker of the Garden's his- tory, being $50,000 better than any other similar grind; but even that may be surpassed by the total figures of the present contest. The twenty-four-hour race held two weeks ago was not a financial success, according to Chapman, Nei- ther was it a failure. It paid for it- self. Seven thousand dollars was taken in the first night and $8,000 the next. This, after deduction of expenses, gettled the $2,000 bill for the lumber and track. The once- around-the-clock event proved a good thing for the riders, however. It served to put them in shape for the week-long pedalling, Out as Football Coach. Dec. 7,—After twenty- eh of, the Id) by The Fordham Picks Five for Game With C.C.N. Y. Peparing for the game with C. C. N. Y. Saturday the Fordham paper varsity flve and the scrub quintet went through a hot scrimmage yes- terday, No varsity has yet been de- cidcd upon. Ed Butler has a large as- sortment of players topic from. They include long and short shot artists. ‘Bud" Culloten, the veteran captain of last year's quintet as the out- standing feature of yesterday's work- out. He was all over the floor and sho baskets almost at will. The schedule this year includes Dee. 10, C. C. Ny, Y. at New York Cit Dec. 17, Cathed’ al College, New York City; Jan. 4, St. Josepl's College, Philadelphia; Jan. 6, Yale, New Ha- ven; .Jan. 12, St, John’s College, Brooklyn, Jan. 13, Boston College, Boston; 20, Albany Law, Abesy) Jan 21, Cc. Crescent A. C., Brooklyn; Jan. 2 John's College, New York C 4, Cooper Union, New York Cit: re Seton Hall, Newark; Feb. 11, R. P. Trop, Feb. 16, St. John’s College, New York City; Feb. 18, St Francis College, Brooklyn; Feb. 22, Seton Hall, New York City; Fe Springfield, Springfield; “May 4, ‘Lehigh, Bethle- m. Press Publishing Co, HELLO, dawn, Hows TH’ FAMBLYS .TO erin wir THE CarcHee) BY NEAL Copyright, 1921, (The New York Even! Bicycle cops at Madison Squa boys from stealing a lap. . mile for going to Washington and . Pro-football promoters cldim hurts the game. But lack of cheer column. also have to watch your overcoat. ° Twenty-one game spring sched boys aren't training they'll be ent . Spo-t interest has been trans Madison Square saucer. . A sport that keeps the athletes like ap inhuman race to us. will now have a chance to see wha’ . If travelling is an education, th. footballers have Livi VVIKE® . Six-day race is like a one-arm lunch—open day and night. . A lot of Penn State athletes that entered college last September R. O?HARA. ing World) by The Press Publishing Co. re Ga-den might stop some’ of the Not being Congressmen, the Penn State boys don't get 20 cents a back. . lack of cheering and cheer leade-s | leaders should be in the advantage . " You . ule of Giants proves that when the ining and detraining ° ferred from the Yule Bowl to the up day and night for a week sounds . t the place looks like. . at is cestainly what the Penn State - been getting this fall. Princeton Five Starts Season Against Brooklyn Poly To-Night| | Original Celtics Accept Chal- lenge of New England Basketball Champions. Brooklyn basketball fans will get the first opportunity of witnessing the Princeton University five in action this’ vear when the New Jersey col- lege boys line up against the Brook- lyn Polytechnic Institute at Arcadia | Hall to-night. Under the tutelage of i¢ Soach J. H. Zahn, the Tigers have |rounded. into, excellent shape and wil] enter this evening’s game favor- ites. The squad has been reduced from fifty to twenty-four men, with Wittmer at guard and Brawner and Jefferies, members of last year's team, being retained, King, Gain Wad- leigh and Winfield, members of last year’s fast freshmen quintet are ex- pected to round out the five which will face the Brooklyn boys. Poly- technic has been strengthened for the contest and hopes to avenge the defeat handed them by Columbia last week. A preliminary contest between the Poly Reserves and St. John's Prep will precede the varsity game which is scheduled for’ o'clock. The challenge issued in Boston by the Boston Whirlwinds, leading quin- tet of New England, has been ac- cepted by the Original Celtics and these two sterling fives will battle it out In an evening contest at Madison Square Garden next Sunday. The Boston team has ‘not been defeated this season and issued the defi after beating the Gloucester five which has been defeated but four times in six years. There will be no game at the Garden Sunday afternoon. St. Anselm's Athletic Club teams are having @ great year on the courts this n. Up to the present writ- ing the Midgets have won ten out of |fourteen contests; the Juniors came out on the long end in five of seven games and the Ssniors have yet to meet defeat, winning six straight | Matches. The latter aggregation kept the winning streak intact by defeating the New York Stock Exchange Seniors jin a recent game by the close score of 36 to 85. J. Batley, No, 694 Dawson Street, Bronx, |s manager of the Seniors, Silent Separates, the fast deat mute * | quintet of this city have a busy ‘sched- month, Dec, 10, they meet erenn Have, at Paterson; Der, 11, Bronx Hacs, at Hunts Point Pal- ace; Dec, 13, Y. M. H. A, at Bridge- port, Conn.; Dec. 17, at Greenport, L. L., Dec. 18, Frisch All Stars at Central Dec. 21, Mamovoneck, . 24, R. B. W. Co, at Port- Dec. 26, at chester; and Dec. 381, White Plains, N. Y. Outside of that) the Separates will have things easy. Another girl's team has taken the] field. This time it’s the Young Peo- ple’s Athletic Association, amateur champions of Northern New Jersey. The female quintet desires games on opponent's courts or home and home series. Communicate with H. H Hahn, No. 57 East Fort Lee Road, Bogota, N. J. The Armory Big Five, Mount Ver- non's crack team, are under the im- pression they can defeat any of the local quintets, They line up with immy Crouch, Willie Marron, Jerry Sullivan, Franeo and Doncourt and claim they are the classiest combina- tion which ever represented Mount Vernon, William Beacom, Mount Vernon, is booking manager. ‘The following teams have open dates Collegiate, Dla ive, Prefer, New York Whirl: AI? Nee Yorks, "erie “Sera MacDow ti tine of. ka strenetn. 18T7 Leaington Ave American, Teaneies, who nave won, ricerca ver McCauley Pire and Bronx Arrows. Play any ¢ve ing. Mansger I. Sawtelle, care Am‘rican Woolen Company, No, 235 Fourth ‘Avewue, city. Murray JU Rive. Light hearrwelant razelling oust a 2 oak fushiek, “Greenvich and” Posi ‘Nester teams Address P.'H. Peterson, No. 308 ii Street, “cits. Brooklyn Majent of Burns, Stch- terry, ene Fervor Pheland. Addr ‘No, 58 Hicks Street, O'Brien Manager J. Wolf, care Hrooklyn, Downtown Catholic Club, heavyweight traveling fram’ Prefer Assumption | Crowns, Vinoenta. ninicale. wits We'd. Mulligan, No 3 East Broadway, city. Mohawk Juntors Championship claimante for Kisten Teland. Home or traveling. Mai Pete Otel No '200 Taslor' Street, West Brighton, 6:1 Asbury Five, sy Klein man, Cohen, riven fiom fraveting ie rd Avenue, cit) Telephone ‘Tremont o nal Spartan Ble, Five with Mot Mire: "aie ang Chen. ‘brat Nor 401 East 172d Stree represented by ites. ‘Levine and i Holds, record of Sha rethmcinih tastes’ and two dsteete “address Freudenmicher, Nor S319 Powell aveaus, eit oe COLUMBIA FIVE READY FOR WEST POINT CONTEST. ‘West Point's strong basketball five, which swamped St. Johns last Satur- day to the tune of 42 to 18, will meet the Columbia aggregation to-night on the endete’ home floor, With Viohitles South Norwalk, , Armory Big Five at) lana Ronsma at the forward’ poaltions |for the soldiers the Blue and White guards wil! meet one of their hard- est tests of the season. Roasma last year was captain of the strong Pas- saic High School quintette, was chosen foe the All-Jersey team, and during the season registered a total of over 280 points in thirty games. Dabezies, the crack centre, is a vet- eran. West Point's greatest strength comes from the ability of the team to stage a fast passing game. The Columbia boys, pessimistic as to the outcome of the fr this eve- ning, spent yesterday afternoon in a long practice session during which the working of formations and the passing game was stressed. A briet serimmage with the second team fol- lowed. Ten men, in addition to coaches and managers, will leave for the Point this noon, and Coach Deer- ing is expected to use ‘all of them during the course of the evening. ae iA TAGK’S GOSSIP AND THLETES OF PRESENT DAY LACK STAMINA OF OLD TIMES THE POOR YANKS 1921, (The New York Evening Wi By Thornton Fisher SCHAEFER ACCEPTS HOPPE’ DEF FOR TIMUR MATE Contest for 18.2 Balktine Championsffp to Be Played | in Chicago in March. | By Alex Sullivan. { OUNG JAKE SCHABFDR, the worid's champion billiard player | | @t the 18.2 balkline game, has accepted the chellenge of Willie Hoppe, the dethroned champion, for a ckance to regain the championship |crown, which he lost in the tourne- jment at Chicago. Soheefer, through his manager, Charles Tonnes, a for- mer newspaper man, has named Chi- cago as the scene of his defense of the title. He has posted a forfeit of | $250, and the match will probably be decided in March, as the famous wizard's son is booked up solid with exhibition matches until that time. | “I am confident that Jake will beat Hoppe next time just as easily as he did in those two great contests dur- ing the Chicago tourpey. He ts a bet- ter player tnan livppe, that’s all’ there |ys to it. We are naming Chicago be- jeause we can secure a bigger billiard academy there than in New York,” suid Mr. Tennes Schaefer now !éads Roger Conti, the | French champion and the only player | who was able to beat him in the Chi- jeago tourney, by a score of 1.417 to |4,296, giving him a margin of 121 but \tons. The pair are playing a matet jof 3,200 points at Maurice Daly’s | academy. | When the new champion and the |foreigner started yesterday's play Conti was leading by 175 points, but jim the afternoon block Schaefer dis- |rlayed the real class that made him champion and he won, 400 to 144, but |ip the evening the Frenchntan gave him much keener competition. This block Jake won, 400 to 360. A capacity crowd attended both per- formances yestefday, showing the re newed interest in billiards hereabouts. Conti's grand average is 46 8-28 to 45 22.21 for Schaefer, Jake had a run of 249 in the second inning of the matinee. SCORE BY INNINGS. AFTERNOON BLOCK. Schaefer—O 249 46 48 3 18 24 0 18. Total—400. High run—249. Aver- age—44 4-9 Conti—17 3 110130001. Total— 144 High run—110, Average—18. EVENING BLOCK. Schaetere-0 153 29 11.182 25, Total -400. High run—t182. — Average— 664-6. Grand average—46 22- Conti—42 40 71 181 76. Total High run—131, Average—72. total—1,296, Grand P. H. Sims, playing for 45 in the Interborough three-cushion handicap tournament at the Strand .Rilliard Academy, defeated Harry Frisch, who plays for 50, by a score of 45 to 19 In a match playe:’ on the preceding evening Frisch ha! defeated Tom Bresnan, the scratc: player of the tournament, in handy fashion, but last night he was no match for Sims, who refused to leave. him anything to shoot at during the entire evening. The match was the fastest of the tournament to date, requiring but innings. Sims had high runs of 5, 4 and 4, while Frisch could do no better than 3 {n any one visit to the table. We distinguish between BOWLING NEWS The women bowlers of the city now have three bowling societies or asso- ciations to govern the game for them. There are the Eastern Ladies’ Bowl- ing Congress, organized almost a score of years ago; the Greater New York Ladies’ Bowling Association now in its third year and the Woman's Bowling Association of Greater New York, Inc. Mrs. Heins, who has held the office of President of the Greater New York Ladies’ Bowling Association for several months wanted to resign yesterday, but the ladies present at the execu- tive meeting would not accept her resignation. Billie Cordes has postponed his weekly eweep- +» from Saturday night to Sunday night, The test {s hardwood ducks. three games, total counting. Entries ¢lose promptly at Grand Central Bowling Academy. Strect, Brookly tal pl 7PM. at the No. $03" Futton The prize team bowling contest held by the kins County, ovat ‘Arcantin “be the Recr Atlot’ eye) rout Out an’ entbustastio. crowd of 2 refous counts. “Atlas soore 2,638, “Gilbert Fred’ Sonic ot he ‘Te! phone agus and te Metal" District Laegue, bad’ high Sagle wore 242 | of the Bronx Central Alleys, af Wet te getting &, atch Tor ‘old champ.» “W ea es more teams TERRE, Bere isere Fe etry J stmcagcands nate poncsastinciow si order takers and salesmen. Our salesmen aim to serve as well as sell. 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