Triumph of Braves in Baseball, Capture
and New Records on Running Turf
of the Polo Cup by the British Team
Made Year Memorable in the Annals of Sport* -
at lelmont Park with Mrs. Paya?
Whimsy's Gainer in the Jerome Haadi
up. Stromboli carriad 117 pounds an?
Gainer 107.
It is interesting to note that ?th?
ether fast times were made over th<
Mexican track. Jeff laivinaston's Irai
Mask, which he bought from H. P
Whitney, lowered his own world's rec
ord for six furlongs in January. Car
r-ring 116 pounds, he stepped the dis
taaee in 1:09 3-6. Iron Mask also sel
an American record for five and a hall
lurlongs. 1:03 2-6. with the crushing
i moo st of 150 pounds.
Supremacy, a two-yeari-old from th?
atables of James Butler, clipped a fifth
?f a second from the world's reoord fot
three and a half furlongs, running th?
distance in 0:Si 1-5. The mark was
fennerly held by Caliese, a Texas bred
mare
Most of the old fttures were re?
newed last season. The Metropolitan
Handicap was won by A. H. Roobins's
Buskin, which lost the Brooklyn Han
...csp by a head to Buckhom, owned by
K. .1 Mackenzie.
The Futurity, which carried the rich?
est purse of the year, $22,110, was won
V?_v an outsider. Trojan, from the
Qalaey Stables, m a veritable sea of
mud.
.1. E *".' drr.er's jumpers, Relluf and
* ompliment, captured most of the hon?
or?, la steeplechasing. The former won
the American tirana National and the
Whitney Memorial Steeplechase, and
? r latter, the Corinthian Cud.
Although racing was good, it was a
? -?ri year for the good horses. Pen
H. P. Whitney's Futurity -winner
of the year before, went wrong and
4vas thrown out of training after one
performance st Belmont Park. Old
Rosebud, the wonder two-year-old of
1913. bowed a tendon in the running of
the Withers, his first race as a three
??ar-old in ?he East, Luke McLuke,
another Western horse of much prom?
ise, which won the Kentucky Derby
???ruer in the season, siso went wrong
I midsummer.
Of the older horses, perhaps the real
'svonte with the crowds for her game
and honest performances was Captain
I". H Caaaatt's Flying Fairy. Her most
notable victory ivas in the Brookdale
Handicap at Aqueduct on July 4. H.
P. Whitney's Borrow, which had been
?ampaigning in England, did not show
Vis real form until late in the season,
?lis best performances were in the
Yorkers Handicap, when he lowered the
?rack record at Empire City for a mile
and a sixteenth, and in the Saratoga
Handicap, when he won from a field of
good ones in fast time.
There ?*ss no lack of good two-year
olds. Early in the season Comely, from
the James Butler stable, virtually
swept everything before her, and num?
bered among her victories the Keene
Memorial. In fact, all the. Butler two
year-olds, but more especially Pebbles,
showed to advantage on the Eastern
tracks all season.
Few two-year-olds were unbeaten.
H. P. Whitney's Regret made perhaps
the best showing of them all. The
chestnut son of Broomstick-Jersey
Lightning won the Saratoga Special
the San ford Memorial and the Hopeful
hi? three ?tart?, and then retirad foi
the season, with 917.090 in pur??? tv
hie credit.
Iron Duke, from the Madden atables
and Last Coin, owned by Jame? Butler
showed well in the fall meetings. On?
of the most promising of the two
Tear-olds, Vanitie, was ?old by John V.
Madden to Walter Winana for raclni
in England.
The?? and Maddan'? Paris. Pelit.i
and Charter Maid, ?I-?--* with Kaa
kaskia. from the Ontn-k Stable.?, and
Schuyler Pitrsons's Phosphor an?J
Sharpshooter teemed to be the like?
liest of tho-juvenile erop.
An American horse on the dittaf.
side carried the ailka of an American
first past the winning post in the
Derby. Therefore all honor to H. rl.
Duryee end hie Durbar II!
Perhaps the greatest thoroughbred
of the year abroad was Sardanaple,
ow-ned by Baron Maurice de Rothschild.
In ten races he won 1,000,000 francs,
about $200,000, in purses. These in?
cluded the Grand Prix de Paris, the
Prix du Jockey Club and the Prix du
President de la R?publique, all French
turf classics.
Aa .veil as the regular meetings, there
?ere th? usual amateur gatherings at
Piping Reck and Belmont Park Ter?
minal in the spring and fall that added
the more colorful touch to racing: here?
abouts. These, too, are growing in
popularity.
While the purses were not so large
aa in years gene by, although the
Ownei-s' Fund contributed royally, the
fields were large in the main and the
racing was of the keenest.
The prospects of racing in !9Ij loom
up brightly. While the Jockey Club
has not announced the dates for the
coming season, it is safe to say that
there will be quite as much if not more
racing than last year, although more of
he old tracks around Vew York may
not be opened.
lt will be better racing, too. Last
year there was: not an over-supply of
good older horses, but there will be
no lack of good two-year-olds in 1916.
Then, too, the earlier nominations for
the juvenile ?takes at the Saratoga
Springs meeting presage another ban?
ner season for that class if breeding
and number? count for anything.
It's an ill wind, says the adage, and
the war in Europe will boom racing on
this side of the water. For a number
of American owner? have already
brought or are making ready to bring
back their strings from Kngland and
France.
H. P. Whitney i? among those who
has already brought back one consign?
ment, which included Harmonicon, the
youngster which showed so well on the
English turf last season.
Ko jockey stood out frorr. his fel?
lows last season. Of the lot Butwell
rode the most winners, with McCahey
a close second. Joe Notter was a con?
sistently good rider, but his weight
precluded his frequent appearance.
Neylon did well in the West.
Soccer on Crest of
a Wave of Popularity
-occer football players hsd little to
? '.plain of on the score of activity
and advancement of the sport in popu?
lar favor during the year 1914. In Eng?
land, to be sure, the players, both
amateur and professional,.are being ex
?"-"?"?ed to criticism and ridicule for
continuing to play instead of joining
| the colors, but here everything remains
serene and the present season, which
has remained open thus far, givers
promise of attaining excellent results
in devloping the game.
Last season's prosperity was in the
main due to the organization of the
Cnited States of America Football As?
sociation, which, under the effective
and untiring leadership of Dr. G.
Randolph Manning, its president, placed
the game on a plane it had never be?
fore known in this country.
The first series, or cup tie conte: t,
arranged for the national challenge
trophy attracted over forty clubs from
all parts of the country, an entry list,
by the way, which has been doubled
in the competition under way at this
writing.
After all the other teams had been
eliminated, the contest narrowed down
to two teams, both, by an unusu.l
coincidence, representing clubs in
Brooklyn, namely the Brooklyn Field
Club and the Brooklyn Celtics. The
final rouni. between these splendid
teams was fought out at Pawtucket,
R. L, before a crowd of 10,000 people,
and the Brooklyn Field Club emerged
the victor by a score of 1 goal to 0.
The parent body in this country,
which has since curtailed its title to
the "United States Football Associa?
tion," is affiliated with the Interna?
tional Football Federation and was
represented by Dr. Manning at the
annual meeting held in Christiania,
last June, when the American body
received permanent membership in the
international association. That or?
ganisation comprises twenty-five na?
tional associations and in this way
exercises control and jurisdiction?at
least it did so before the war?over
?something like three millions of soccer
players. An alliance with the A. A. U.
has also been formed by the United
States Football ?Association. It is
planned to organize an American team
to take part in the international con
testa at the next Olympic ga es, where
ever they may be held.
Second only to the National Chal?
lenge Cup competition was the cup
tie of the American Football Associa?
tion, the oldest body of its kind in
this part of the country, but now
affiliated with the U. S. F. A. The
Bethlehem Football Club, of Bethle?
hem, Penn., eliminated by Brooklyn
from the U. S. F. A. series, showed
splendid form and captured the cup by
defeating Tacony at Newark by a
score of 1 goal to 0. It was Tacony
which put Brooklyn out of this com?
petition by a score of 3 goals to 1.
In addition to acquiring the U. S. F.
A. cup, the Brooklyn Field Club won
the championship of the National Foot?
ball League without the loss of a game.
The Brooklyn C?ltica carried off chief
honors in the annual aeries of the New
York State Football League. Clan
the second division of the New York
State League.
The eleven of the Crescent Athletic
Club of Brooklyn was victorious In the
Field Club Soccer League of New
York and New Jersey, regaining the
title from Staten island. Tbe St.
George's Football Club won the first
division of the Metropolitan and Dis?
trict Amateur League, while the Yonk
ers Thistles were placed first in the
second division.
The intercollegiate championship was
competed for twice during the year,
owing to a change from a spring to a
fall schedule. Harvard was the win?
ner In the spring and Pennsylvania
in the fall. Manual Training High
School, of Brooklyn, after a tie with
Curtis High, of Staten Island, won the
I New York High School championship.
English Spring Surprise
By Their Victory at Polo
One of the greatest upsets in thi
held of sports during 1914 was wit
nessed on June 13 and 16, on the pol?
field of the Meadow Brook Club, a
Westbury. Long Island, when the Eng
1ish challenging four from the Hurl
ingham Club, of England, defeated th?
American four, Devereux Milburn, J
Ma Waterbury, jr., Lawrence Water
bury and Rene La Montagne, in tw?
games, by a score of B*i goals to .
snd 4 to |%.
The totally unexpected victory gevi
the famous Westchester internationa!
jx la oup once more to Englana, un
using the brilliant work of the yeai
??T-vious. when EL P. Whitney, the twe
W aterbury* and Milburn defeated th?
four sent over by the Duke of West?
minster.
The victory of the British team cam?
as a double surprise because of th?
fact that all attempts to get together
a repr?sent?t*?.'* tout in England met
with failure when toe challenge was
flrat issued. Just when the English
representatives had slmost decided to
i eral I the challenge of the Hurlingbam
Club for the trophy. Lord Wimborne,
a wealthy sportsman, announced hit?
intention of getting together a team to
play the defenders of the cup. After
much difficulty be succeeded in gath?
ering a team composed of four army
officers, Captain Leslie St. George
Cheape, who had played for the Eng?
lish challengers in 1913; Captain
Vivian Lockett, also a member of the
191.1 four; Major F. W. Barrett and
Cat-tain H. A. Tomklnson.
Lord Wimborne's team was not re- j
rarded seriously In England as a con- '
tender for the international cup, and ;
?ven the members of the team gave.
the impression that thry were not at
all confident of making more than a
good showing, When the Englishmen
arrived in this country, toward the and
ef May, they came branded as "for?
lorn hopes" by English newspapers.
All this aided in making the Ameri?
can defenders hesvy favorites before
the first game was played. The open?
ing maten was scheduled for June ?,
but a few days before that date, Cap?
tain Cheape, while playing a practice
game, was struck in the eye by a ball
and ?o severely injured that the Polo
Association generously granted a post
i ponemer.t until June 13, although Lord
Wimborne did not ask for the favor.
When time was called on the first
day the defending team was lined up
as follows: No. 1, La Montagne; No.
2, J. M Waterbury; No. 3, Milburn,
ar.d back, L. Waterbury. The English
four took the field in this form: No.
1, Captain Tomkinson; No. 2, Captain
Cheape; No. 8, Major Barrett, and
back, Captain Lockett.
Remembering the fate of the English
I team that unsuccessfully challenged
I for the cup in 1913, when the Ameri
! cans swept them off their feet by the
j fury of their attack, the Englishmen
. began the first game with a wonderful
bunt of speed, clearly outplaying and
' outriding the famous American four
i and taking their opponents completely
; ty surprise.
The great throng of 86,000 in the
stands sat in stupefied silence as the
challengers swept the defenders before
them and won the opening game by a
acore of 8?-? goals to 3. It seemed al?
most unbelievable, vet the Englishmen
wen strictly on their merits, the play?
ing of Captain Lockett and Captain
Cheape being spectacular in the ex?
treme.
Tht second tnd deciding game wts
played on June 16, and again the Eng?
lishmen triumphed, but this time the
game wat far more evenly fought, with
Devtreux Milburn again in his old
place at back and Lawrence Water?
bury at No. 3. Both teams acored the
aame number of goals, five each, but
America wat penalized 2?4 goals, while
Hurlingham lost only one goal in that
manner.
Aa i.t the first game, the English
team started with a cyclonic rush,
earning three goals to none in the ftrsl
two periods. Then the American de
fenders awoke to the desperation oi
their cause and played with whirlwind
speed, scoring four times in the fourth,
fifth and sixth periods. No scoring
was done in the seventh chukker, but
In the final period Milburn shot the
ball between the goal posts after one
minute and forty seconds of playing.
Major Barrett then made England's
final tally and the series for 1914 was
over and the cup belonged once moro
to England.
The English ponies, which were sup?
posed to be inferior to those of the
defenders, proved to be even speedier
and better trained, and materially
helped the challengers to victory.
Outside of the international matches,
the season was not noteworthy and
the game lagged somewhat in this
country.
The four known as the Meadow
Brook Magpies, had a highly success?
ful season, defeating the Aiktn Tigers
at Narragansett Pier, R. I., for the
junior championship and later van?
quishing the Narragansetts on t-he
same field for the open championship.
The Atlantic Cup, presented by Will
iam A. Hazard, was won by the New?
port team, which defeated the Phila?
delphia Country Club f?>ur in the final
match by a score of 11 *? tv 4%? Point
Judith won the Gladstone Cup by de?
feating the Bryn Mawr team by a total
of 1\ goals to 7.
Several players of promise were de?
veloped in the West, where the game
flourished unusually, the impetus
given by the visit of the Hurlingham
team to this country evidently having
' its effect in bringing out polo candi
New League and Braves
Add Zest to Baseball
Baseball saw in 1914 the birth of a
new major league, the rise of a new
world's championship machine and th .
breaking up of a team which was once
rated as the best of all time. The Fed?
eral League, which virtually came into
being with the leap of Joe Tinker late
in December. 1913, grew by jumps and
hops during the winter of 1914, until a
climax was reached in the invasion of
Brooklyn by the Wards. A number of
stars was induced to join the new or?
ganization, among them being Tom
Seaton, .Miner Brown, Artie Hoffman,
Cy Falkenberg, Otto Knabe, Steve
Evans, Arthur Wilson, Danny Murphy,
Al Bridwell, Claude Hendrix. Mike Doo
lan, Marsang and George Stovall. Loter
Fielder Jones, Chief Bender, Eddie
Plank and Lee Magce were added.
But eve?i the birth of a new major
league was overshadowed by the birth
of a new championship baseball ma?
chine. The Braves, of Boston, led by
George Stalling*, suddenly came to life
en July 19, and, moving up and up,
finally reached the top of the National
League and hung there. In fact, they
i won rather easily from the New York
i Giants, once the original lead of Mc
Graw's men had been overcome.
The failure of the Giants to hold
the advantage which they gained early
! in the season balked John McGraw in
: his dearest wish. The Giants had capt
| ured the pennant of the National
; League three years in succession, and
i McGraw was ambitious to set a new
j record by bringing a winner home for
; four years in succession. That be
failed to do so was largely due to a
collapse of his pitching staff. Mar
; quard in particular Btiowed a fearful
i falling away in form, and lost twelve
I games in a row. The season served to
| set a record for attendance, for on
| Labor Day, with the Braves and the
Giants tied for the leadership of the
league, the teams played an afternoon
and a morning game at Fenway Park
to slightly less than 80,000 people.
The victory of the Braves In the Na?
tional League race was an upse* to be
sure, but it was only an appetiser to
the astounding upheaval of so-called
form in the world's series. Connie
Mack's Athletics won the American
League pennant for the second year in
succession and for the fourth time in
five years. They were not hard pressed
to gain the honors In their league, and
j went into the world's series an over?
whelming favorite against the Boston
, team. Yet the Braves not only de
( feated the Athletics, but they won in
four straight games, a feat hitherto un
'? heard of in a world's scries.
The sweeping victory of the Braves
j necessitated a general change in base
? ball valuations. Dick Rudolph and Bill
i James showed themselves better pitch
I ers than Plank and Bender, while
I Maranville convinced the majority of
j the critics that he was the greatest
fielding shortstop of all time.
The acquisition of Evers by tht
Braves was brought about at the win?
ter meeting of the National League in
February, which caused the elimina?
tion of Charlee Webb Murphy, presi?
dent and owner of the Chicago Cuba.
Murphy deposed Evers as manager of
the Chicago team and all but thrust
him into the hands of the Federals.
Governor Tener, the new president of
the National League, came to the re--;
cue of Evert and saved him for the j
league. He also began a vigorous
campaign which ended in the elimina?
tion of Murphy as president of the
Cubs, although there still seems to be
some doubt as to the holdings of Mur?
phy in the club. The league eventu?
ally took Evers from Chicago and gave
him to Boston. Evers signed a con?
tract for a big salary, and also re?
ceived a big bonus. In all his base
hall profits for the year were close to
$40,000, and this was another baseball
record.
The season saw three new managers
in action in the National League.
Wilbert Robinson, the former assist?
ant manager of the Giants, led the
Superbas for the first time, and
brought the Brooklyn National League
club home in fifth place with a per?
centage of .487. This was the highest
Brooklyn had reached since 1907.
Charlie Herzog finished last with the
Reds, while O'Day was fourth with
the Cubs.
Miller Higgins, by a big deal with
Fred Clarke, put the St. Louis club
into the running for the pennant.
Pittsburgh finished last for the first
time in Clarke's managerial career and
Hans Wagner failed to hit .300 for the
first time in his baseball career. Jake
Daubert, for the second year in suc?
cession, led the league in batting, and
Bill Doak, of the Cardinals, was the
best of the pitchers in the league ac
coiding to the averages.
The Federal Lear-ue, although turn?
ing in no great profits, came through
its season intact, and with much
brighter prospects for 1915. Indian?
apolis won the pennant Brooklyn,
under the leadership of Bill Bradley,
finished fifth.
Ty Cobb held his batting honors in
the American League and Dutch Leon?
ard, of the Red Sox, set a new mark
in pitching efficiency by limiting his
opponents to 1.01 earned runs per
game.
The end of the playing season in
baseball by no means put a stop to
the activities in the game. Sensation
followed upon the heels of sensation.
August Herrmann and Charles Weegh
?STARS OF THF. YEAR IN BASFBALL.
nan undertook to bring peace to th?
alarrinf baaeball organization's, with
out success. Connie Mack startled th?
baseball world by asking for waiver:
on Plank, Bender and Coombs. Th?
first two went to the Federal Leagee
The next overturn in the state ol
affairs was the beginning of negotia
tions for the sale of the New York
Yankees, which probably will culminate
in the transfer of the club to Colonel
Jacob Ruppert, jr., and Captain Til
Hui-ton. Some little time before the
completion of these negotiations
Connie Mack sold Eddie Collins, the
most valuable player in the world, ta
the Chicago White Sox for JiiO.OOO, a
record price in baseball. Comiskey had
still another surprise for the followers
of baseball in Chicago, and shortly
after the Collins deal he announced
that he had signed Clarence Henry
Rowland, the manager of the Teor?a
club in the Three I League, as leader
of the White Sox.
A case which promises much in the
way of legal complications began with
the leap of Walter Johnson, Washing?
ton's great pitcher, to the Chicago Fed?
eral League club. A little later, upon
the representations of Clark Griffith
that the old contract was still binding,
Wulter Johnson hopped back again.
Much of the news of baseball for the
year concerned the courts. The first im?
portant decision was in favor of or?
ganized baseball, for Killifer was al?
lowed to play with the Philadelphia
Nationals, although he had signed a
Federal League contract. Later, how?
ever, the Feds won victories in the case
of "Indian" Johnson, whom the Na?
tional League sought to restrain from
pitching for the Kansas City club la
the new league, and still a more strik?
ing victory fell to the newcomers in
the Chase case. In this controversy the
court decided that either party to a
contract had a right to invoke the ten
day clause, which was at that time in
all baseball contracts, although it has
since been dispensed with in many
documents.
Two new managers will try their fort?
unes in the National League next year.
Pat Moran has succeeded Charlie
Dooin as the leader of the Phillies, and
Roger Bresnahan returns to the man?
agerial ranks as chief of the Cubs.
One of the features of the year out?
side of the regular league races was
the trip around the world by the
Giants and the White Sox. This began
in 1913, but the players did not return
to this country until the spring of
1914, when they landed in New York.
It was in 1914, too, that the most
notable game of the trip was played,
before King George of England. The
return of the players at the height of
the Federal League raids resulted in
some sharp bidding for men, which
enabled Tris Speaker, of the Red Sox,
to obtain a salary of $19,000 a year
from the Boston American League club,
the highest salary ever paid to a base?
ball player.
Epoch-Making Year
in College Athletics
Greater, perhaps, than the many,
glorious triumphs which marked the i
history of intercollegiate athletics in '
the calendar year rapidly drawing to an !
end was the fact that in 1914 more ;
students in the country's educational I
institutions participated in athletics !
than in any previous year.
When a university as large as Prince- i
ton can report that 1,800 student? out
of a total of 1,600 took part in some
form of sport, or when Harvard, with
its 6,000 students, can announce that
more than two-thirds pf this vast army
actively participated in one form of
athletics or another in the fall term
just closed, it is high time for one and
all of the enemies of athletics in the
colleges to admit that university sports
are justified.
Hardly more than a word in passing
can be given to nny one of the many
college sports in such a review as this,
but from out of the year's multifarious
activities several successes stand as
worthy of more than cursory notice.
Greatest in importance of all victories
won by American college athletes was
that of the Harvard junior 'varsity
eight in the race for the Grand Chal?
lenge trophy in the Henley regatta on
the Thames. Although the Harvard
eight did not meet Columbia, the win?
ner of the American college champion?
ship, the crew defeated the pick of the
Old World's oarsmen at the Henley
distance and captured the blue ribbon
of the rowing world.
Next to the success of the Harvard
eight in England was the overwhelm?
ing triumph of the Harvard eleven over
Yale before the greatest crowd that
ever in the confines of one park saw a i
sporting event in the United Stttes. j
? I persons or more ]
crowded the now Yale Bow! for the Yale
11 liwi rd ?' 'i li ??nil witnessed the I
ernthing of tht Yale eleven by the
most powerful and smoothest running
football machine fror turned out at
any instituticn. The score, ,'i?5 to 0 in
favor of the Crimson, established a
record, for never before in the history
of football between these two ancient
rivals hud such a point tally been
made.
Without doubt football is the sport I
par excellence in the collegiate world,.
but the season of 1914 is still no fresh
in mind that a word or two here should
call to mind again its most salient feat- |
ures. Harvard lost the wonderful ;
Brickley on the eve of the season, and
immediately proceeded to build its ma?
chine anew. Despite the crushing blow
of the Harvard game, Yale was more
than justified in its atw coaching sys?
tem, while Cornell again triumphed ;
over Pennsylvania, an upturning of an ?
old gridiron tradition. In the West
Illinois, under the able coaching of
Claude Zuppke, turned out a team
which swept through to the Conference
championship with no one to dispute
the way.
The tenms in the East were ranked
thus at the end of the season: 1, Har?
vard; 2, Dartmouth; 3, Yale; 4, Cor?
nell; ?">, West Point; 8, Princeton; 7,
Washington and Jefferson ; 8, Rutgers;
9, Brown; 10, Pittsburgh; 11, Will?
iams; 12, I.ehigh; IS, Navy; 14, Penn?
sylvania; lii, Syracuse; 16, Colgate;
17, Penn State; IK, Tufts; 19, Lafay?
ette; 20, Amherst; 21, Trinity; 22,
Union; 23, Colby, and 21, Wesleyan.
In rowing the victory of Columbia
in the Poughkeepsie regatta stands
out with Harvard's triumph at Henley
as epoch making. Columbia had tried
annually for eighteen years to dupli?
cate its victory of 1895 on the Hudson
and it remained for Jim Rice's match?
less eight to turn the trick. The
Columbia crew of 1914 was, in the
opinion of all who saw it row, one of
the greatest rowing combinations that
ever sat in a shell. Columbia defeated
Princeton and Pennsylvania in a pre?
liminary race before the victory on the
Hudson. Pennsylvania rowed second
to Columbia at Poughkeepsie. Cornell
was third, Syracuse fourth, Washing?
ton fifth, and Wisconsin sixth.
On the American Thames Yale broke
a string of defeats by beating the Har?
vard 'varsity eight by inches after a
gruelling race. Yale had retained its
English methods of 1913 and had added
the genius of Guy Nickalls, the world
famous English oar and coach. The
Harvard juniors, tlio crew which won
nt Bonloy, dofoattd the Yale juniors.
The Cornell freshmen won at Pough?
keepsie, and a victory earlier in the
season over the Harvard freshmen gave
them the freshman championship.
Cornell won the junior race on the
Hudson.
Baseball presented a problem at the
end of the college season that would
have taken a Euclid to solve, and no
master mind having appeared it is best
to group Harvard, Cornell and Penn?
sylvania in the top flight of college
teams. All three had first class nines,
with Harvard displaying greater bat?
ting and fielding powers. Brown,
Dartmouth, Yale and Williams all had
good teams and were so nearly on a
par that it would be folly to try to
separate them and rank them. Prince?
ton, Columbia, Amherst, Colgate and
Holy Cross were not far behind the
second general group.
There was a surprise in nearly every
game. Pennsylvania played erratically
and after beating Princeton and Yale,
and breaking even with Harvard, fell
before Cornell in two games out of
three, and before Columbia in three
out of four. Cornell started none too
well, but played remarkably good ball
at the end of the season. Harvard
had the heaviest hitting team, but did
not apply its power any too success?
fully and thereby lost games that
should have been victories. These
three, however, stood out above the
rest, although the margin separating
them from the second group was not
great. Yale, despite the fact that it
Lad tht WSSmmm noaxbiae?oa o? tht
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1913 championship nine, was a dis
' appointment.
Cornell ruled supreme in track and
field athletics by scoring a decisive
viftory over Pennsylvania in the inter?
collegiate games in May. The Ithaca
team hsd no John Paul Jones on whom
to rely, but they brought a strong, well
balanced team down to Cambridge and :
outscored the Quakers, the favorites,
by twelve points. Pennsylvania was
???coud and Michigan third. A peculiar
state of affairs revealed itself in the
fact that neither Harvard nor Prince?
ton won a first place outright.
Dave Caldwell equalled the record ;
; of the wonderful Jones in the half ?
! mile run. Although all the perform?
ances in the championship games were
j of high order no records were broken.
Cornell hsd a wonderful team for dual
meets as well as for the championship
games and defeated Pennsylvania and
Michigan easily. Yale, too, had a
strong team and had little difficulty in
! defeating Harvard and Princeton.
The team scores in the championship
games were: Cornell, 43; Pennsyl-j
vania, 31; Michigan, 29V<? ; Dartmouth,
23; Yale, 22; California. 18; Harvard.
11
In the minor sports, Cornell and
Harvard had a battle royal for the
honors. The Ithaca men duplicated
their performance of 1913 in winning
the wrestling title and carrying off
nearly every first place. In basketball
they found Columbia had unexpected
strength, and although they fought
desperately to shake the New York ;
team off, they were forced to end the
seaaaa in a tie for the league title. '?
Yale was third in the basketball race, j
Princeton fourth, Pennsylvania fifth '
1 and Dartmouth slxtb. Inasatch ?a
? Union won the Northeaster! ImJl
; title, the upstate five earned a (?'
war?*) plaet in the ranking.
Cornell continued to hold tmmt u '
'cross-country running. It rttt?t?
tbe tibie in a race run at N?? Eotr?
It was the fourteenth time in eixttm
yean that the Cornell team tnit??,i|).
The team scores were:
Cornell, 35; Harvard, 77; Yale, tl
If. I. T? 118; Pennsylvania, n?.'
Princeton, 119; Colby, 150; Dartaottk'
171; Brown. 196; Columbia. 214, tsj
C. C. N. Y . 251. "?
Harvard swept the board in laertMH
lawn tennis and shooting. The Cri?.'
son lacrosse players did not *a-??t u.
winners of the southern divaion ef tfc?
in'ercollegiate series, but the Uta, kr
splendid playing in th? garnet witk
Cornell and Hobart, showed its tap*.
riority in no uncertain fashion. j-,
lawn tennis the Crimson won the Oh.
bles, and was defeated in the aiigu,
when R. Noms Williams bow??j j,
George M. Church. In golf Yalt faiUt
to show its oldtime form, ant tat
championship, which has gone to Ntv
Haven almost annually, found its *#tr
to Cambridge.
Pennsylvania won the soccer titlt ft:
the first time. The Quakers had tt
stars on their team, but they play?, t
last game and every man knew t-?
nlayed his position. Harvard was ttt
on?1, Cornell third. Columbia iourti.
Princeton fifth, Yale sixth and Hart*
foid seventh in the final standings tf
the Intercollegiate League. In golf
Princeton broke Yale's long winnit|
streak.
Yale was powerful in swimming si?
carried off the title after a spUs-iU
race. Pennsylvania was not shaken ef
until the final meet. The Quakers ?r?rt
second in the race, Princeton third. C.
C. N. Y. fourth and Columbia fifth.
Princeton retained its hold in otter
polo. Yale was second in the IcagM
race, Columbia third, Pennsykun
fourth and C. C. N. Y fifth.
New York University broke into tat
championship column by winning lit
gymnastics title, while Yale won th?
quadrangular chess championtnip, tad
Pennsylvania was on top in th? Tri?
angular League. A tournament bttw??n
the two leagues resulted in victory for
the Triangular League.
Columbia won the fencing ekaapi?-,
ship, defeating with ease th? ?killed
foilsmen of the Naval Academy. l*u
much as the army team did not ttk?
part in the tournament, the ehtmpio*
hhip was not beyond doubt.
Hobey Baker, single-handed, wa? re?
sponsible for the Princeton team's vie
tory in hockey. The Tigers d?fettt?i
Harvard in two out of three gar?.??, ?nd
took two straight contests from Ytlt.
There was no league, and We rtittl
standing of the teams was therefort
in doubt, with the exception of Prine?
1 ton'?.
?Easterners Monopolize
I Bowling Championships
A review of the bowling season c
1914 is merely the tale of one Ion
string of successes on the part of th
Eastern devotees of this fascinatin
game. The West was entirely unsuc
cessful in its invasion of the Nations
Bowling Association's tournament a
Atlantic City, while the East walke,
off with two of the American Bowlinj
Congress titles at Buffalo. In fact
oaly one Westerner, in the person o:
William Miller, of Detroit, who wor
both the individual and all arounc
titles, carried off a championship.
Deward H. Van Ness and John Neg
ley, of the Roseville A. A-, of Newark
won the American two-men, with s
total of 1.246, while the Monko team
of New Haven, brought home the five
men honor, with a total of 2,944. Thi?
combination was led by Mortimer Lind
sey, formerly a national all around
champion.
One world's record was established,
that being at Atlantic City, where th**
Genesee five, of Rochester, won the
title with towering figures of 8.025.
beating the former mark of the Flor
de Knispeis, of St. Paul, at Toledo in
1913 by 29 pins.
The individual performer who was
able to accomplish more than any other
man in 1914 was Jimmy Smith, the
Brooklyn bowler, who recently re?
turned from a highly successful tour
of the West. No matter how brilliant
Smith's performances have been in
ordinary tournaments, his feat in win?
ning the national all around champion
ship at Atlantic City for the second
year in succession stands unparalleled
in the history of bowling.
Going through the records of either
the N. B. A. or the A. B. C, one fails ,
to find where any one man ever has I
won such an honor on two occasions,
to mention nothing of doing it con- >
secutively. In 1913, at Rochester,
Smith won the title for the first til
with a total of 1,928, while his 1$
at Atlantic City repeated for him. I
won the American all round at I
Louis in 1911 with 1,919, and ths Csa
dian all round at Toronto in li
with a world's record of 2,060, or i
average of 228.8 for nine games, whi?
stands high at present.
Legislatively the most important si
tion was that of the National Bowhi
Association at its Atlantic City eoi
vention in disposing of the vexatiel
loaded ball question. Instead of si
tempting to define a "loaded" or ?
unfair ball, the association adept?
regulations whereby a ball may fc
made of anything so long as it is no
balanced "off the centre" more ths
three ounces, tho allowance for th
boring of the finger holes. Mesns s
determining the amount of unbalane
was obtained through an invention o;
Elmer E. Duggan, president of ths otto
ciation, who gave his machine to ta<
organization.
Individual registration was tried an?!
declsred unsatisfactory, but it is ss
?erted by the adherents of the piss
that the idea has been carried too far.
That, however, is a matter for futnr?
determination. The New York Bowl?
ing Association is so closely af*li?t?*?i
with the parent body that a review of
its year would be to tell almost th?
same story.
A table of champions follows:
National Bowling Association? AS
around: James Smith, Brooklyn, 1?*1"
Individual: Harry Krause, Washinr*?*?.
?78. Two men: Glenn Ri.lfk.II si*?
Harold Horton, New York, 1.33?. Tit?
men: Genesee, Rochester, 3.03?.
American Bowling CongTSSS? AH
around: William Miller, Detroit, W"
Individual: William Miller, Ditrs't,
676. Two men: 0. H. Van KOM ?B<?
John Negley, Newark, N. J? 1,245. Pi??
men: Monko, New Haven, 2,944.
Trotters and Pacers
Set Many New Records
Trotting and pacing, or better, per?
haps, the light harness turf, flourished
as never before in this year that is
running its course. Twelve new trot?
ting and fifteen new pacing records
were established, and among them
wert several of the most important?
Peter Volo, which has lost only one
heat in hia life and was unbeaten this
vear, and Etawah, were the lions of
the trotting division, while Directum I,
William, Frank Bogash. jr., and R. H.
Brett and Anna Bradford 6tood out
among the pacers.
Peter Volo reduced the record for a
three-year-old colt to 2:03**, and this
was not the limit of his speed. He is
the first trotter that ever raced to a
world's record in three consecutive
years. As a yearling he held for a
brief time the world's record of 3:19.
In 1913 he cut the two-year-old record
from 2:09*4 to 2:04'.*t, while this year,
aa said before, he added another mark
to his credit. It is freely predicted
that he will trot in 2:01 next year.
Etawah smashed the four-year-old
mark for trotters of 2:05-4, which has
stood since 1893 at least six times, and
set the record at 2:03*??, where it is
likely to stay for some time.
The pacers showed remarkable
flights of speed. Directum I paced five
heats in two minutes or better and
covered the milt on one occasion in
1:58, tht ftttest ever ptced in the
open either in a rice or againat timt.
William ptced ont hett in 2:00 and
three consecutive heats in tn average
of 2:01. When beaten by Directum I
he was timed separately at l:58Vi.
Anna Bradford, a three-year-old filly,
perhaps was the marvel of the year
as she paced one heat in 2:00V a re?
markable performance.
In writing of the big increase of fast
performers A. G. Asdikian, an au?
thority of the light harness turf, said:
"A total of ?eventy-seven names
won? added tt tht 2:10 trotting list of
the year, or an increase of nearly 25
per cent, over the best record for any
single seaaon, namely, that of 1913,
while aeventeen that were already in
the fast list reduced their records.
"Tht new list it htadtd by Brighton
B., Linda Wrona and Margaret Druien,
all with records of 2:06--i, while of the .
total, twenty-three took records of j
2:08 or faster, which it over 10 per
cent, of tht total number of 2:08 .or*
better trotters in the entire ^storr.**
the turf. In the whole list thirty-*"*?
of the total gained their marks "?
starts against time, records arhitti tnu
not interfere with their eligibility ?
races next year, while of the '?T'D*J'
three In the 2:08, only four were itaru
against time.
"For once during the past five yar?
the increase in the number of *???
pacers falls short in companion atv
the number of fast trotters. A am
of 110 new names were added U?
season's fast pacing list, whil* ."?[!;?;
nine pacers already in the aOMW
previous to 1914 reduced their rtesrs?
"The speed exhibition of P??"'"*!'
most phenomenal during *?*? ?**~2
and it was no wonder that is*"?
world's championship marks were io
ered or equalled, all in actual ream.
No less than ten of the new two-w?
ners entered the 2:05 list, while tas
teen others paced to records omm
2:05U to 2:06.
"Headed by Anna Bradford. 2:W*.
the world's sensational three-year-?-?
pacer, the fastest twenty-six in ?J
new 2:06 list showed an average te**
of a shade faster than 2:04*?, wbu?
| the average record of the ten in ?""*
2:05 list was a little faster thsn i.mr?
I ?a speed exhibition which ?as an
even dreamed of five years ago.
"Of the thirty-nine pacers i? ?*|
new reduced list, three entatediaeJm
class, all in races, headed by wteetm
I, l:l>8; Frank Bogash, Jr., 1:59V?, s*
William, 2:00 flat. ,_,
"No fewer than fifteen in thii ?J?
paced in 2:05 or faster, and as aw
three were in the 2:05 list PtavtoatO
this division added an even doien ?
that list, making the additioa or am
season to the 2:05 list exactly tw?*s?7
two. or more than 25 per cent of v*
total number of 2:05 or faster o*c*n
in the complete list previous to WO>
"The 1914 addition to the ttetOM
and pacing 2:10 list, 77 and IjfcB
spectively. brings up the grand to*
of 2:10 performers in the entire bi^
tory of the harness turf to 2.22l_?
which 69? are trotters snd 1.625 pses---.
the respective total number Vjarioaa
1914 being 619 and 1.41*. These Jf,
ures show that the increase ?urtai^
season in the trotting dirisioa ??? ,
shade over 12 per eent and ease?
per cent in pacer? _????
"The phenomenally fest temttaaar.
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