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IMPROVES WITY AL
Tommy Leach may be old und de
evepit, Dut he has it on a Mot of big
n league outficiders,
WALTER CAMP 5 NOT IN
FAVOR OF PROPOSED FAEE
ATHLETIGa® OR GOLLEGES
By Walter Camp.
P RESIDENT HIBBEN'S hope. suggested in his report, that
the time would come when the collegian would be admitted
to all his sports at a merely nominal charge, or even free
of any charge whatever, has prompted much diseussion.
One might believe from reading the strictures passed upon
this suggestion that it was a new one. To those who follow the
history of college sport, however, this is one of the old, familiar
remedies due to come to the fron
greeted as a universal panacea f
and then quickly disappears. Ea
a growingsevil that is becoming such
& menaoce that, as predicted in this
column & yeAr aAgo, very serious con
sideration must and will be given to
it. But when it comes 10 the admis
sion charges, these haveé been held at
really phenomenally low figures, as is
sasily recognized by any student of
conditions
In the last ten rears these charges
have not kept pace with the advance
in almost any other line of what
might be chlled the amusemenis of
jife. In the larger colleges, by season
tickets and the like, these expenses
are brought to vefy small figures
Just to take one tem:. A college
MAnN CAD see every important ulhlct‘c
contest on his home grounds during
the entire year, and in fact in most
cases all the athletic contesta of his
entire four-vear course, for less than
1t costs him to take his girl to an im
portant social event of the ocollege
year—the promenade, for instance. A
sum of approximately twenty dollars
will admit & man to all the athletic
contests, whereas three or four times
that sum would barely finance even
economically the latter event, |
The other point in this very brief
comment, which will later be followed
by a more exhaustive disoussion, and
that is that the poor man, the man
who is working his way through, is
given in all the larger colleges an op
portunity to see the important athlet
jo events free by acting as usher
previous to the beginning f the
game. And finally it is the p‘llc. the
graduates who can afford to pay thel
limit of $2.60, who make up nine
tenths of the sum taken in at the gate
in the big game. .
Take the Yale-Harvard xma. for
%xunple. Seventy-one thaushnd peo
ple attended, and it would take Har
vard's total catalogue registration,
plus Yale's total catalogue registra
tions, to account for 10,000 of them,
But more of this later.
Big Penn Carnival. ?
With the first of March in sight, the
college athlete is beginning to awak
en from mid-winter lethargy and look |
longingly out on the opening flelds and
river., Indoor sports, which have
served as a stop gap, begin to find a
waning interest as the sun mounts
higher.
The first of the big outdoor events,
and the one toward which the track
athletic world is already beginning to‘
point, is what is known under the
elaborate title of Intercollegiate and’
Interscholastic Relay Carnival. This
is really the conception of the brain of
Rilis, of the University of Pennsyl
wvania, who more than twenty years
fi started these relay races, with a
schools L‘ompeung'.,f and two or
three invitation events *for colleglans.
This year, on Friday and Saturday,
April 23 and 24, will take place the
twenty-first of these annual meet
ings, and it is safe to say that the in
terest in the event is, even to the col
leges, closely bordering upon that of
the intercolleglate championships;
and as far as the number of people
directly interested on account of the
interscholastic races, this relay car
nival dwarfs the intercollegiate track
and field championships almost into
insignificance.
The great chumplonsh‘p relay races
will be supplemented by two medley
relay races, in which teams from col
leges not entered in the champlonship
relay will compete. In the first of
these the first man covers a quarter
mile, the second a half mile, the third
three-quarters of a mile and the last
man a mile. In the other so-called
‘medley relay the first man covers 110
vards, the second 220, the third 440
and the fourth 880, This will add an
element of novelty to the meet,
Title Relay Pace.
The usual championship relay will
he held for one, two and four miles.
‘The committee, under Mr. Ellis, has
endeavored te group the colleges and
nniversities, rating them in three
,groups, the first group being invited
to take part in the championship re
lay races, for it should be understood
that this is still an invitation meet.
“The big relays will be run on Sat
urday, but on Friday the college
Pentathon, a so-called all-around
track and field champioiaship of all
the colleges in America, will be held.
The authorities are sure that Sweden
~will send # team of runners unless
hgfomflms the country becomes
‘involved . war. As last year 300
rp@mh'ud colleg. s were represént
‘ed, it is easy to caloulate that at the
‘present rate of expansion this relay
invitadion meet is rapidly assuming a
B et
.Of course, by the time the Pennre
lay races hav been run some definite
If Freddie Welsh Insists on $25,000 to Box Ritchie Twenty Rounds, They Won’t Fight
That'’s a Pile of Money for One Battler and Big Gates Are Scarce in the Glove Game These Days |
t onee in so often. It is usually
or all the ills of college athleties,
travagance in college athleties 18
relative standing of the coliege track
teams of the country will be possible
But at Cambridge, New Haven and
Princeton they are now lookisg for
ward tos thelr situation In the dual
game, for dual contests are held be
tween these universities, which, so far
as thelr individual performers and in
terest at home is concerned, are auite
equal to their enthusiasm over the in
tercoliegiate championship
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Fielder Jones declares that Roy Cor
han, the San Francisco infiekler, may
claim that he has not jumped to the
Feds If he chooses, but he can’'t deny he
lim2 & two-year contract with them,
and #ccepted "w ln;dvnmw money
The St. Louis i-"«T".n League club is
walting to see what MceGraw does with
Art Kores. If the Glapts send him to a
minor league he will be made a tempt
ing offer. |
oeo : ‘
Almoulh it was reported that the Feds
were trying to lure away Roger Peck- |
Inm‘h from the Yankees, Fielder .|nl|“‘
says he Jdoes not care to sign him.,
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Jones in a recent interview on the
coast sald: 1 don’t think Peck is a
flnnlnn ball player. tle is flnl-fonled‘
and falls short on the offensive end of
the game.” |
oo ofe o,
Johnny Evers has gone to Camden, 8.
(.., where he will endeavor to recuper
ate from his recent attack of pnenmonia
by playing golf
-I-T-I-
At last the deep, dark secret has been
disclosed! Not that it matters a lot,
but the Nationals won 23 and the Amer.
scans 21 of the games on the recent
tour o the all-star teams across the
continent to Hawail
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Pitcher Alexander, of the Phillles, was
the bright particualr star of the tour in
that he (?'p!;gd ten out of fourteen
games. Je esreau won four and lost
nine and King Cole finished with a sim.
flar record.
foohole
Joe Tinker has come to the conclu
sion that Leslie Mann Is too high ‘erred
for the Federal League. The Chifed
boss has oalled off all negotiations with
the Boston outflelder
oo e o
Roger Bresnahan may mfli Frank
O'Rouriw, who once made a bid for the
short fleld job with the Yankees, He
batted 300 with the Wilkesbarre team
in the New York State League, last
soason, and the Cubs may give him &
try-out,
ofe ofe oo
PBabe Borton as manager for the Los
Angeles club? Not much! President
Darmody, ol the .r\nfie-1.-. says he is suf
fering from split lip, so please don't
make him laugh. The Bt. Louis Feds are
welcome to keep Borton, o far as he
is concerned.
ofe ofe ol ;
Pddie Collins writes to Eddie Cicotte
that he is glad to get away from Qua
kertown, where the fans fall to appre
clate real talent.
ohofe ol
Connle Mack is \ry!mi to place a tag
on James Park, the leading college hurl.
er in Kentucky.
oo ope e
Lee Magee, before he departed for in
dianapolis to fight the injunction suit
against him, said that he had refused
to trade Danny Mur.'l;:hy to the Chifeds.
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Nick Altrock. ex-comedian of the Sen
ators, will coach the pitching candidates
for the Naval Academy this spring.
et )
Clark Griffith takes Dave Fultz” to
task for falling to champion the cause
of organized baseball. “Fultz,'' sayvs
Griff, “lost the chance of his life in not
coming to the front for organized base
ball when the Feds started court pro
ceedings.”
Rl b e
GETTYBBURG, PA., Feb. 20..-Five
new seams appear on the Gettysburg)
footbal! schedule for 1915, The annual
game with Penn will not be played,
Cornell will be met at Ithaca on the
opening date,
Western Maryian! and St, John's Col
lege of Annapolis are to appear at Get
tysburg in place of Albright and Leb
anon Valleyv. |
WILLIE ALLEN BACK ON TURF
BALTIMORE, Feb. 27.—~The call of
the truf has proved too strong for Wil
lie Allen. who several days ago an
nounced his retirement. Allen, who is
one of the bes! steeplechase jockeys in
the eountry, has come back and will
ride for col)onel Parr, the local turfman,
Billy Smith’s *Big Three” Will Be Back Again
Browning, Dent and Thompson Are Real Stars
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S § : A,:E‘:‘ Frank Browning is shown on the top alter pitching a fast 3'* % R
g "8 straight one. Below and to the left is Elliott Dent, Billy Smith’s & 1
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/ was snapped after curving over a strike. Note the smile o' '
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Through Early Start
NEW YORK, Feb. 27.—President
Gilmore. of the Federal League, an
nounces that his league would 1r)
to wet an early advantage over the
National and American Leagues (his
vear by opening the Federal League
season several days before the other
major league openings
It was declared on authority here
to-dayv that the Federal l.eague-has
abandoned any intentiop of coming
into New York City this season, and
that there would be no transfer of
fragchises other tnan that of Kansas
ity ta, Newark.
Secretary John A. Heydler, of the
Nationa' League. announced to-day
that he had received the signed con
tract of Umpire Charies Rigler, this
completing the league's sltaff of um
pires for 1915,
Clabby Backs Welling
Agai
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gainst Shugrue
CHICAGO, Feb. 27.—Jimmy Clabby,
stable-mate of Joe Welling, Chicago's
most promising lightwelght, says Char
lie White, to-day placed SSOO in the
hands of a local sporting man (0 go_as
a side bet that Joe can defeat Joe
Shugrue Welling has set Chicago
fans wild with his splendid ring work.
HALPIN QUITS TRACK.
BOSTON, Feb. 27.—Captain Tom Hal
pin, of the B. A. A, has quit racing for
the present, at leas!, and has asked
Manager George V. Brown to cancel all
of his engagements for the remainder
of the season,
NEARSTS SUNDAY AMERICAN ATLANTA. GA, SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 28 1915
‘Loss of Collins Big
Blow to Mackmen,’
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Says Chief Bender
BALTIMORE, MD., Feb. 27.-~Chief
Bender who was signed by the local
Federals, is in Baltimore The ' big
Redman is the picture of health, and
says he will win at Jeast twenty games
for Otto Knabe next season. Bender
declared that Iddie Collins will be a
serious loss to the Mackmen,
“juddie Collins' loss will be the worst
kind of a blow to the flag aspirations
of Connie Mack,' asserted Bender.
“Collins is a wonder, and will make
the Chicago White Sox have a wonder
ful infield. If I were asked to pick the
star player of the world, 1 would name
Collins first and Ty Cobb second.”
Al
Dodgers to Report
In South Feb. 28
BROOKLYN, Feb. 27.—Manager Wil
bert Robinson has notified his players
to report at Daytona, Fla., on Feb
ruary 28.
The complete schedule of spring
training games Wwas announced last
night as follows: ‘
March 6,7, 8, 9 and 10. Brooklyn vs.
Superbas, at Daytona: March 11 and 12,
Stetson (‘,nlle}ge. at Daytona; March 13,
14 and 15, irmingham, at Daytona;
March 16, 17 and 18, Jacksonviile, at
Daytona; March 19, 20, 21 and 22, Phil
adelphia Americans, at Daytona;
March 23, 24, 26 and 26, Long Branch
(Cuban Stars), at Daytona; March 27,
28, 29 and 30, New York Americans, at
Daytona; March 31 and-April 1 and 2,
Keewatin College, at Daytona; April 3,
Jacksonville, at Jacksonville; April 5
and 6. Richmond, at Richmond; April 7
and 8, Washington, —at Washington;
.-\grll 9 and 10, New York Amaericans, at
Ebbets Field; April 11, New York Ameri
cans, at Newark; April 12 and 13, Phila.
delphia Americans, at Kbbets Field:
April 18, Providence, at Providence;
April 25, Newark, at Newark.
CLEVELAND, Feb. 27.—Twenty-sev
en regulars, Includlni Manager Bir
mingham and Lee Fohl. who has been
engaged as coach, will compose the lo
cal American League squad at the train
ing camp at San Antonio.
Boxers Must Work
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No More Easy Coin
NEW ORLEANS, Feb, 27.—Fight
ers of all ranks and classes are now
swarming over the city of New Or
leans. Many are working as walit- |
ers and at other occupations, since «
the game Is not profitable to them {
any more. Other old-timers are )
working as helpers and rubbers to §
their more fortunate brothers of the |
ring, and In this way manage to |
pull out a small weekly salary.
C . 3 .
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ricket Popularity
Waning in England
“While nearly all are agreed that
there is something wrong with the
great national game of cricket,” says
Garden C. Smith, in Golf IlNustrated,
“there is much diversity of opinion as
to what it is, and as to how the de
cay is to be arrested.
“So far as one can gather, the best
opinion is that the game, although
somewhat changed in character, owing
to new conditions, has suffered no de
terioration and is still in its highest
manifestation, as attractive as ever to
those who play it.”
‘Tod’ Sloan Still
For Racing G
LA FAYETTE, IND., Feb. 27.—Al
though Tod Sloan, once greatest of all
jockeys, has long since stepped out of
the limelight, he is still in the racing
game. He has visited Lafayette in
search of promising young horses, which
he is buying up to start a racing string
next season. 4
Sloan, while he is new 40 vears old, is
still dapper, dresses faultlessly and
weighs little more than he did in the
days when he was the idol of the horse
racing world.
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Bill Donovan Strong
In His Praise for
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Shortstop Derrick
. NEW YORK, Feb. 27.--BlllL Dono
[\'un, of the golden smile and mirthful
countenance, may be the most jovial
';mrsnn in the world, but Roger Bres
nalan evidently considers him as a
Ikill—jn,\. “What do you think of my
‘new shortstop, Bill Fischer?” asked
Roger. ‘““You have seen a lot of him
'ln the International League.”
i “He's a pretty good man,” replied
Bill, “but I wouldn’'t compare him to
Claude Derrick, the fellow you let go.
Say, if you could get Derrick to play
the ball for you that he played down
in Baltimore the last two seasons, you
would stop looking for a shortstop.
You'd think you had the best short
stop in the world.”
Derrick i{s one of the mysteries of
baseball, In the minors he covers
ground like a Maranville, but as soon
as he gets in the big circus he be
comes a bloomer. But Bill should
have given Roger his opinion on Der
rick before Radj cut the strings to
him.”
Athletics Will Have
.
New Ball Uniforms
Connie Mack Is authority for the
news that the Athletics this year will
be garbed in an entire change of uni
form under the guldance of Jack Gray
and Harry Long. The A's home suits
will be white flannel with & biue stripe
one inch wide and white stockings with
a black stripe. The traveling suit will
‘be of Hght gray with blue stripes and
‘white stockings with blue stripes. Con
’nie says that he i{s not making the
change because the boys lost the
'world’s championship, but sthinks it is
a stunning uniform and entirely differ
ent from anything tney had before.
l The Phillies' home uniforms will be
white flannel and blue stockings, The
traveling uniforms will be Yale gray
with black stockings. i
l TIP FOR ROWLAND.
} It B 4 Walsh does some real piteh
mmm‘ of running over the
m Californis he may be of
some help later,
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Nate Lewis Sets New
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Style for Managers;
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Demands an Apology
CHICAGO, Feb. 27.—Nate Lewis,
who manages Charley White, the Chi~
cago iightweight, says:
“My man never will meet Johnny
Dundee again until Scotty Monteith,
who manages Dundee, apologizes for
an insult.
“Yes, ves, go on,” coached the au
ditor.
“Well, it happened this way,” said
Nate. “In New Orleans in 1913 White
and Dundee staged a scrap. Dundee
floored White in the first round. Just
as he sent him to the floor the lights
went out. Monteith, I learn, later said
that I had those lights turned out to
save White from a knockout. That
wasn't true. 1 had nothing to do with
the switching out of the lights. Mon
teith, by making such a statement,
did me a gross injustice, and I'll not
permit his man to fight mine until he
eats his words.”
Monteith refuses to eat ‘em. '
The charge made at the time was
that if the lights hadn’'t gone out just
at the moment that White hit the mat
he never would have been able to
jump to his feet within the ten second
limit, Switching off the lights, It was
said, enabled White's trainers to pull
him into his corner sand revive him.
The lights were off for nearly 30 min
utes. By that time White had recov
ered his poise and stayed to the finish
of the bout with Dundee.
lWolter to Get New
.
Chance With Yanks
[ NEW YORK, Feb, 27.—Harry Wolter,
like Birdie Cree, is to get another
chance with the New York Americans.
The Yankees are dickering with the
Los Angeles club for the services of
Wolter, as glowing reports have been
rfcei'\.(ed regarding his work on the
Coast.
.
Frank Browning, Carl Thompson_
and Elliott Dent Will Be Back
for Coming Season—All Have
Delivered in the Past.
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By Harrv Lewis.
ITH the 1915 baseba SARSON
W drawing near, Billy Smith
manager of the Crackers, % a
busy party these days tryving (o ar
range his team for the start of the
practice games
Although Billy is not saying much
about his players, it can easily be seen
that Smith is banking strongly on his
trio of great griers—Elliott Dent
Carl Thompson and Frank Browning
1o make his aggregation a psnnant
contender during the coming oam
paign
All three pitchers have already been
tried and have delivered in clean-cu:|
fashion Dent and Thoampson helped
the Crackers win the pennant in 19123
both hurling great ball during tha
tail end of the 1913 season. Both alseo
pitched fairly good ball last season
although Carl didn't report for duty
until the s« on was well under was
Browning Mad MHard Luck.
Last seasor was Browning's nrst
chance with ' ocals Smith con
sidered Frank one of his mainstays
He had rather hard luck throughout
the 1514 campalizgn, losing many games
by one run
With Der Browning and Thomp
son on hand from the jum of the
coming season., local fansg should be
treated ' sOmMe grad hurling In a
recent letter received from Dent the
latter states that he is rounding inte
the very best condition of his caree
which-means that Elliott should pla
many games in the win colnmn befor:
the 1915 season is over !
Brownin i pending most o in
time lin Atianta He reports that h
arm is feeling fine nd he is anylousl
awaiting the start of the season
Thompson is taking things easy o 1
his farm, resting for the start of the
fireworks ¢
Several Youngsters on Staff.
Billy also will have several young
sters on his staff, but they wiil have to
show something in the art of twir!
ing before Billy can count.on them to
take turns with the “Big Three.”
“Hack” Eibel and Rivington Bis
land are the other standbys of the
Cracker outfit Of course, Roy Mo
ran should fit in handily, but loca
fans have not seen Roy in action for
such a long time that they wiil have
to wait until Roy starts hauling in
the long flies or smashes the ball out
for timely hits before he can be placed
in the same ¢lass with the above men
tioned plavers
Harry Welchonce would fit in nice
ly, but, of course, Harry will not play
ball for some time yet. It is hard to
dope the Crackers out. Not much is
known of the new men However, ?
with Dent, Browning and Thompson
as the hurlers, with Bisland and Ei
bel as a foundation for the infield 4
Billy has a good start in building his
1915 aggregation
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Pittsburg to Have
.
Continuous Baseball
PITSBURG Feb. 27 —Continuoua
ball for Pittsburg is assured next year
with the transferring of the Kansas
City Federal League franchise to New
ark as announced by President James
A. Gilmore, of the independents.
With the shifting of the Kansas City
club to the East, Pittsburg is thrown
in the Western circuit, the same as
the Pirates in the National League. As
President Edward Gwinner, of the local
Feds, announced that he favored the 4
scheduling of games in the Independents
circuit with as few conflicts with the
Pirates as possible, it is now practically
certain that Pittsburgers will fire favored
with baseball during the entire season
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