In All Fairness
- . . ? By W. O. MrGEEH**aN v-e.--........,.,.,......
THE ARRIVAL of the football seaaon i? decidedly refreshing
after the late lamented baseball series. which haa just per
ished mirerably on a strictly 60 and 40 per cent basis. The
pros-**ects for Rome surprises in the gridiron game are excellent thia
year. If the early indications count for anything, Harvard will not
_______ roller ita way across the football field this year. There will
be tighter seores and gamfs more evenly fought.
The defeat of Harvard hy Tufts, while it was entirely unex
peeted at Cambridge, ia no indication that the Crimaon team is de
plorably weak this year. The same Tufta team came to Prineeton
Saturdav and gave the Nassau eleven aomething of a tussle. Har?
vard caught an early rising Tartar, and Prineeton came within a
field goal of the same experience.
Both Prineeton and Yale have strong teams this year. At both
universitiee they are quietly confident that they will take Harvard's
measure, though the coaehing staffs are very lugubrious. In the
Tufta game Prineeton proved that John Harlan Rush has some ex
eeUerit material this year, and that he is developing it slowly but
aurely. The Prineeton eleven played almost straight football with?
out a trick play against Tufts. Thry fumbled frequently, and they
showed that they were in nothinp like midseason form, but they
showed at the same time that the reserve force and the potentialities
were there. Fy the time Prineeton is scheduled to meet its ancient
rivals Rush will have all of that force in harness and all those poten?
tialities fully developed.
Last year the Prineeton eleven seemed to be keyed to battle
strength a little too oariy. In the preliminary games the Blaek and
Orange eleven seemed to he perfect, hut in the games where it should
have looked its best it was at its worst. Prineetonians. therefore,
are rather rejoieing that the eleven Feems a bit raw at present.
The Winter Boxing Prospects
1*?HK winter boxing season il approaching in a eoy and bashful
fashion. perhaps because the houts in sight are nothing much as in*
dieated. The chances of a bout in whieh a title will be involved to any
senous extenl are alim. Jesa Willard, the heavyweifht ehampion.
has made enough oul of tbe circui throuph the summer to rest in
peaee throuph thc winter without the wolf pettinp any too close to
the door of his palatial Kanaaa bungalow.
There ia no middlcwcipht championship to he fought. because
the alleged title holder. Al McCoy, of Brooklyn, ia only ealled eham?
pion in a humorouB senae. In the welte.-8J_.g_i. division the eham?
pion ia Tod Lewia or Jack Britton, depending upon whether the in?
formation ia Buppliod by Jiramifl Johnaton or Dan Morgan, the rival
manapers. Both are preat long-distance talkers, and their debates
have netted ahout fifty-tifty to date. In the near future Britton and
I-ewis will boa for the alleped title. If? a habit rather than a con?
test.
ln the liphtweipht division Freddie Welsh still has the strangle
hold on the crown, There is half a ehanee that he may ri.sk it in an
encaunter with Johnny Kilhane. the lepitimate featherweipht eham?
pion. But. even if this mateh il arranped, Freddie and Johnny prob?
ably will dance throuph the ten rounds and collect their percentape
without any aerioufl quarrel. Both are noted for this sort of thing.
The bantamweipht division still musters two pretenders for the title,
but all the kmp's horses and all the king'? men do not seem able to
bling Kewpic Eltk and Kid William.- topether apam.
No wonder the coming boxing tx a.-on approaches coyly and with
a hesitatinp atop. lt has thc _ama .-heepish look and the same cauli
flower ears 'hat ue -aw last year.
Ban Johnson's Arraignment
BAN JOHNSON, president of the Ameriean Leapue, let forth a
wholc.-omc bla.t apair.>t commercialism in baseball. basing his
_rrai_rr.me.-r,. on cuii_.t__iia aho_*n durinp the late lamented world's
seriea. The ticket acandala, whieh attend all world's series pames.
were more than normally offensive. The series. because of the di
-. erpence -,n clasa between the Red Sox and the Rohins, furnished only
mediocre baaeball, for which Class A prices- and then some?were
charped.
If Ur. Johnson is sincere ar.d there ia no reason to believe that
he il not--he will follow his words with a few deeds, as some of the
eampaipn oraiorr ao praetically suppest. The late baseball season,
whieh was prohtable on the whole for elub owners. wound up in an
__ati*cl___ax Thc game that clinched the National Leapue pennant
for Brooklyn !eft a bad taste.
Mr. Johr.s.n's outburst, pives some hope that there will be some
readjuitmen's in orpanized baaeball next year. There are men in it
who are ttrr.peramcntally unlit to guide its destinies. They should
baprrt rid of. lf only for the sake of makinp the pame more profitable
?o tbo-e who are fit. The poose whieh has laid the polden epgs for
baseball mapnates has been a touph old bird, but its health is now
be.ng threatened by apathy due to mismanapement.
Are Still Discussing MeGraw
SINCE John J. made what the players insist upon calling his cele
brated "squawk" Pro Bono Publieo and Vox Populi have been
very busy with thi pen an^ stationery. Pro Bono Publieo holds that
John J. was right in panning his hired men and leavinp the field.
Vox Populi is more charitable toward the players. He maintains
that MeGraw was unjust and that the players did their best. It was
Batura. for a team that won twrnty-six straipht to slump, Vox main?
tains.
That the pame was a listless one must be adnritted, when Grant
land Rice, tbe fairest and most ohservinp of the sporting writers, says
ao. It wms apparer.t that the Giants felt that there was nothing in
paftJeular to be aceomplished by beating Brooklyn and that they did
not play with the fire- and dash they showed while they were winning
the twer.ty-six straight.
A lot of betting people fraffered through the apathy of the Giants.
One aperulative person etood to win a small fortune if the Giants won
third plar*. Their chance for this position went plimmering when the
Gianta loet that particular game to Brooklyn. The team owed it to
the poblie to play to the bitter end and with all that it had. We are
not weeping for the person who lost his wager, hut the theory of the
game of baseball is that it should be fought to the tinish.
So murh for that side of it, MeGraw either said too mueh or too
'rttie. If he is certain that any players were purposely apathetie and
Hatleaa it ia his duty to presa home sperifie ehargea. If he is not cer?
tain of this ha should be sportsman enough to withdraw the eharpe.
Tha National League will make him do one of the two. The explosion
made too taoch noiae to be ignored. It gives material to those who
rjeliava that tha battle of Waterloo waa flxed and that Napoleon pur
pcavely quit to a__w?rt that baseball is in the control of the r?mhlers.
The Democrata and Baseball
THE RL'MOR that Waahington will lose ita Ameriean I*sague fran
chlae perriata. It rasema that the prr-wnt Adrmnistration doea r.ot.
?jatrrmire haaeball very extrmsively and that Walter Johnson has been
pntAing ta empty seata too many timos during the current season.
The _s__-_r8_Bg Dernorrata who rama to the capital with William Jcn
axnga Bryan do not patroni-e the national game.
The b-ast yrar rrt the Washington team was the last of the Taft
\_raini8trat_on. Tbe p*fde<-<*'-?')r nf Wflaoa was a patron of the
game and an er.thusiastir fan. But ifaica the Pcmoerats erowded
Washington tha Bt_and_U>_8 at 'hr- bail ga___M dwindlr-d until now it
it a loaing elub. And in tbes*. da- ? fga* club has any licppso
ta loea mtmry.
The frani-hia*? which Waahington will ]o-a-? most. probably will go
_? ToTOJTto, l-anada. The Canadian rity has developr-d a tromendous
in V-aaebaJl, and the Amerie?n I/*-igu-* rrragnatea, who are
mra firat, figure that the Intereet wtll develop to a greater
tt tha Oanadlana aa* a rhtirre, at getting aome big league baB*
halL 'Waharr Johriaon and Clark Grifftth are v?-ry likely to be battllng
rrnnmr the flac of the Dominion r.?*rt year.
One Btate->.man of the p_*_aent Adminfartration doelaraa that th-?
ark rrf ir,t>r?*at in the WukhingtOTt bail ttann ia rather to the rrvdit. of
?he prenfr t oAea holdera, ll ia1 Um kaorvlng P-*mocrat?
are not of a f_.VO.0_i t jrn Of rr.-.r d. Oh* ?**?!_, ;? ail depends on the
p*-_nt af vie-ar. Baaeball is allegf-d to bl t>.? great Amenran game, and
fJba. ?___. that Toronto la more enthrjaiaatic ovor it than tha capital of
__? C-H-M Fte .aa U ratharr atartllng.
When a Feller Needs a Friend
By BRIGG5
T_> tto*
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FRet-iooS
?XO CXr*TA^
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-ae-Sj-laiO-TC
Yale Eulldog Recovering Old-Time
Ferocity That Bodes III for Foes
Wilh Tad Jones at Helm
Eleven Is Terribly in
Earnest
By GRANTLAND RICE
That ancient war sonjj, "Here's to
good old Yale, drink 'er down, drink
'er down," wil! come closrr to a revi
vaj this fall than it ha.*, come since
1.10.
Larneat yountr. students and sueh
nare eontinued rhantinjj the old re
frain for the last five yeara, but
around the Harvard frame each fall
the "drink 'er down" exhortation has
been mned in with a chokins; procevs
| around the Adarn's apple.
These few lines are not meant to
in('ir*te any Klue war dance upon the
prostiate forms of Prineeton and Har?
vard.
It is no part of a certainty that
Yale wi]] win either -ann*. But, un
lesa we are mightily mistaken, a turn
that would break no records, the Bull
dof* is nearer his oldtime system
than he haa been for at lea.-t six
years.
More Moral than Phyaical
It isn't that Yale has any wonder?
ful material piled up. The ehange ls
more moral or spiritual or psyrho
lofj'cal than physical. The chance Ifl
a shift in spint rather than in force
and apeed. For flve years what used
to bt known as Yale Spirit has been
upor. the wane. This was shown
rnainly in the number of prnrms.r.c
sv-irs who either flunked or refu*e<l to
keep training.
N'ow, with Tad Jones at the helm
and Cupid Black leadinj- the daily ex
ALL-LEAGUERS LOSE
TO JERSEY SKEETERS
Winding up their barnstormins*; trip,
the AIl-Leaguera, comrmsed of mem
hem of the N'ew York (iiants, were (__
feata?d ia eleven inninfjs by the Jersey
City Skreters at I>enoi Oval yeeterday.
The score was 1 to 4. Irving brought
the (fame to an abnipt <-'.d when he
doubled with Brugge, O'Kourke and
Stallinga elogfrinf? the bases.
Schupp anrl uliotoa engag-ed in a
flve, inning pitching due] in the aecond
game, each team sconng one run.
The line-np follow.:
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HallarXm artiirpr, arfl K'?-h.r ClBMaa and rV-ner
? ? ' filled 'a-. arrmin* V 1(rt' -aa
Lonrdes Nine Champions
The I.o-irdei ('. C . flf Bl
! "ni Catholir I.earriie rhantp Bfl of
. greater New York. 1 .'??!r-1 ?? *a criiinr.1 'he
I Utla hy handing a 4 to 0 defeat to the
formarly ln*-inethl* 8t. Jarome'a C. C ,
rhamplona of tha Manhattan Bronx
GathoHe Laae-tie. yaatardsr at tha Pa
ri*o__>a>oa rmrk.
hortation, Yale is terribly in earnest
She is headed somewhere, and tho
sr.mewhere iaat down in the morass
nnd the bogs.
Better Sign
Yale beat a good Lerhigh team 11
to G Saturday, but in place of being
content Captain Black. Tad Jones and
mort of the squad left the field
Kcowling and muttering things be
eaase it wnsn't a good deal more.
Thia sounds more like the old Yale
of other years.
So far as material goes, Yale laat
any too richly blessed, but for all
that she i- pretty well fixed. She has
a lme that can stand off a rugged as
' sault and a backfield, headed by I.e
Gore the Brilliant, that will bear
n.orr than casual inspection If young
Smitl bears out the early promise he
has shown at quarter, the team will
l.r wdl lixed at this highly impor?
tant sec'ion of football play. Smith
Ifl p fast, snappy young man, with a
.-'*ol head on his shoulders and a show
of magnetism. If his generalship
holds up he ^hould be one of the best
quarterbac'ras in the Hast.
Weak nn Klcklng
Yale was too weak at the kicking
game Saturday to beat either Prinee?
ton or Harvard, if no Elj improvement
la. Smith and I.a Roche handled
punts we]| enough, but Yale's kicking
wh~ fuil of spots.
No weak kicking team is going to
beat Prineeton this fall, for Speedy
TY AND COLONIALS
TIE THE RED SOX
New Haven, Oet. 15. The ehampion
Boston Americans and the semi profes?
sional Coloniala played a tie exhibition
came here to day, the contest being
calied at the end of the ninth Inning,
with the score 3 to .1. The Red Sox had
their regular line-up, with the exeep
t.on of Hooper and Gardner.
Ty ( obb, of the Detroit Ameriean'
??V ed first base for tha lo.-als and had
the unusual record of making eight as
sists. He got two hits.
Score by innings:
a a r
n a-r* I I 8 8 1 8 8 8 it- % l i
(oiori.ia t*t*i>tittt\ * i
l'.t,*rl<_. Rntli ar.d <~ad? P ralaer. K.i-lri an.*
Hudson Golfers Win
Golfers of the Ihinwoodie (raun'rv
t'liih found the Hudson Rivflfl ( ountr>
? 'lub represontatives a much stronger
gmup ef players in a dual meeting an
the lalt.'r'a lmk*. yesterday. In the
sinffles Hu.lson River won twenty three
anl Hunwoodie five, while the foursome
competition trave eight victories to the
home team and three to Dunwoodie.
Most Prominent Weakness
So Far Is in Kicking
Department
Rush has a wonder in Driggs and a
drop kicking star in Tibbott. But
given the needed improvement in this
part of her play. an improvement that
ahould come with Le Gore at his best,
and the Yale team of 1916 will be the
best eleven Yale has sent to the field
for at least six years. This improve?
ment will be due to a far better morale
and to a greatly increased efficiency
in football elementals, sueh as tackling,
blocking, handling punts and protect
ing the runner.
Yale's Chance
Yale must still go quite a distance
ti beat the eleven that John Harlan
I'ush will send to the field on Novem
b-r 18. For Rush is one of the beat
football instructors in the country and
the experience he picked up last fall
will add more than a trifle to his 1916
worth.
Harvard, too. will be another eleven
by the time Percy Haughton has put
iri a few weeks on the job. But despite
these two powerful barriers, Yale can
look forward now to the best season
she has known since Walter Camp
stepped down and out. She mav lose
to both Prineeton and Harvard, but
the manner of her losing will not
cause any Eli supporter to look for a
quiet corner where he can strangle
himself with a towel.
One of Yale's main assets this fall
will be the earnestness and the field
leadership of Captain Black. Thi?
Italerart young citizen in Blue harness
is out to make a success of his regime
or know tne reason whv. He has put
enough spirit into his play to carry an
entire squad forward and the result is
already beg-inning 'o show. For foot?
ball this fall at Yale is going to be
something quite different from the
football Yale has known since her de
' scent into the bogs.
MALLORY YACHT WINS
AGAIN ON SOUND
Greenwich, Conn., Oct 15. In a good,
stiff breeze from the southwest to-day
the Ranl, owned by Commodore Clifford
B. Mallory, was the first to cross the
finish line in the second race between
the arrow class and one-desicn yachts
for the cup offered by a member of the
elub In the October series. A. Burton
Hart was at the wheel.
Tha course was seven and a quarter
milea. A handicap rf seven and a quar?
ter aeconds waa given to the one-design
[ yachts, whteh started at 11:20 a. m. The
! arrow class yachts got away at 11:27
a. m.
The summary follows:
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lltwi FUip'. II rVi.m arenw. 1 04 ?n
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rltuhfwtwst John 8 t_wts (ena dsslflB) 1 nr 11
?ti ?:.?" Jrthn li f*hsaaa_R arr.?j<
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CHICAGO ELEVEN HAS
HOPES OF THE TITLE
Chirago, Oct lo Championship as
filrations ara haddlng in tha camp of
he I'niversity of Chieago football
eleven as a resnlt of its surprislngly
clean cut victory near Indiana Saturday
in the first R-ame of the "big nine" sea?
son.
The triumph reestablishes ('hicago a*.
a stroag eandldata for ? he Weatern con
ference hoi.ors, although .ritirs agre*
that Minnesota still has the e.ige The
Maroons crushed Indiana with a new
flghtlnf aplrlt. lha eleven was M ner
rent Improved orar tha aggregation that
| took tka iaM a w_*k aga.
ATHLETES FROM
U.S. WIN MEET
AT STOCKHOLM
Loomis and Meredith
Stars in Contests Against
Scandinavians
Stoekbolm, Oct 14 Ma London. Oct
15).?Ameriean athletea carried off tha
lion's share of the honors on the open
,ng day of the track events at the sta
dium here. Competing against athletes
>f the Seandinavian countries, tha
-.merkane to-day captured three races
the 100 and 400 metres runs and tha
"00-metrea relay race.
In the 400-metrea run Ted Meredith,
:he forrner quarter-mile Ameriean na
ional ehampion, defeated J. Bolin, the
-.older of the 800-metre Swedish record,
he winner's time being 49 7-10 seconds. I
Americans took first, second and
hird places in the 100-metres event. the
?/inner being Jo Loomis, of < hicago.
The high jump was won by the Swed?
Kullerstrand, Loomis being second and
?>ed Murrav, of Chieago, third.
The national executive committee of
?he Swedish athletie associations gave
i dinner this evening in honor of the
r-isitors.
The summaries follow: _._______!
ino-metres run I 109 yards 13 inches)
Won bv Jo Loomis, of Chieago;
,econd. Andy F. Ward. of CW? ago;
third. Bob Simpson. Time, 10 9-10 sec
? 400-metre? run '437 yards laHaehea)
Won by Ted Meredith. of Philadel?
phia: second. J. Bolin, of Sweden. Time.
49 7-10 seconds.
800-metres relay race Ameriean
team. .-ontposed of Jo Loomis, j* re 1
Murrav. Bob Simpson and Andy w*_r_>
defea'ed the Seandinavian team. Time,
1 minute 802-i seconds.
High jump Won by Kullerstrand. of
Sweden, with a jump of 1? centimetres
16 feet>; second, Jo Loomis, 1*0 cen?
timetres; third, Fred Murray, 178 centi- ,
metres._
_-?
FASHION HALTS
BEFORE FLOCK OF
RUNNING SUITS
Athletes Battle for Prizes as
Fifth Avenue Promenaders
Look On
By A. C. CAVAGNARO
Promenaders along Fifth Avenue re?
ceived warning yesterday afternoon
that the winter season was approaching
when a field of forty-ftve runners
dashed along the fashionable thorough
fare. The occasion was the four-and
a-quarter-mlle road race of the Hudson
("uild Athletie Association.
As a rule, the competitors kept close
to the curb, but in severai instances
' some of them had to do a running, hop,
step and jump to avoid being struck
by the automobiles and carnages.
With the atart at Twenty-seventh
Street and Ninth Avenue, the pack ran
east to Fifth Avenue and up as far as
Fiftv-seventh Street, where the trail
? ontinued west. Turning down Lighth
Avenue, it then was a straight run for
home. . ,
Fddie Mayo. af the Brooklyn Ath?
letie Association, led the contestants
home by more than one-quarter of a
mile advanfage in the new courae
record of twenty-four minutes. Mayo
far outclassed his opponer.ts. He set
Mich a fast pace that before half the
journey had neen covered many of his
nvals were compelled to .slow down to
a walk to regain their breath.
Sam Frerich, captain of the Ninety
second Street Young Men's Hebrew
Association track team, who r-nifhed
second, 1 minute and 30 seconds behind
Mayo, found that he could not match
his speed with the victor. Louis Zim
merman, a clubmate of Frerich, was
third.
When the pack was released there
were many aspirants for the lead. They
soon slackened down to their real
speed, however, and the more saasoned
runners took command. Mayo and
Frerich became contenders for the
honors after severai blocks of running.
When the test came, going up Fifth
Avenue, Frerich was ur.able to answer
ihe challrnge of Mayo. With a few
bounds the Brooklyn runner had leaped
away to a tive-yard le?d, and after a
few more minutes of raeing lost sight
of his rivals. Frerich succeeded in
holding his position to the rnish, but
Zimmerman, his clubmat*. was rapidly
closing up ground toward the end.
Team honors were :aptured by tha
Ninety-seeond Street Young Men's He?
brew Association.
The summary follows:
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11 c Ho'.r arti Xaftsf
| Frlectami ? ?? BUael * U H *
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li?B. I mturti I Osanaa A A - ?
|a fl sir.r >e.irr| A A . . 4 27 .*.*.
IT H BijInfaM S.rl Btrsf* Y M R A i> M
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Rifle Contests On.
Jacksonville, Fla.. Oct. 15. National
Kifle Association contests begun on the
Ilorida ra-ige near here last week will
be resumed to-morrow, with the Mar.ne
Corpl and rnpid-iire matches scheduled
... th.* only arenta of the day. Forty -
three teams already are here and more
r.re exprcted to arrive dur'iig th* week
50-Yard Run Wins Game
Cleveland. Oct. 15 A sensational
50 yard run for a touehdown in the
last period bv Qunrterhaek Will.amson
ga\.. *he Cleveland Indians a 14 to 1
rietory "vr the Pitrairn football team,
of Pittsburgb. to-day.
Rcsults at Soccer
on Many Fields
NATIONAL I.EAGUE
Ntw Yw- S B-JS-wa* 8 Wfl-_- I
NEW YORK STATE LEAGUE
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OTIIKK GAMES
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Winter League Gets
Ready for Iroubk
Planning to Put Up Stiff
Fight Against Football
and Kindred Sports
SQUIRE EBBETS FACES
PAINFUL TASK TO-DAY
Must Return $50,000 to
Purchasers of World
Series Tickets
By W. J. MACBETH
When, laat winter, peaee waa ef
fected between organlied baseball Bnd
the Federal League lt waa bellered
that thia professional aport would
have an opportunity to emulate tha
shrmking violet during the off eeaaon.
But now it appears the winter league
will put up a stiffer fight against
football and kindred sporta than the
Robins showed against tbe Red Sox.
Charles H. Ebbeta, the genial aqulre
of Fiatbush. is not tbe only major
mngnate likely to command some
sporting space between now and the
annual meetings in this city next De?
cember. For the next week or t**0
the discoverer of the Battle of Long
Iriland and Columbus Day is likely
to bump into a peck of trouble. Af?
ter that his real tribulations will be
?",n> mt u
This morning. at Ebbets Field.
Brcoklvn, the ofnee force of the
Rooms will begin the painful Uak of
leturning checks, money orders an<i
cash t-ent in with requesta for world
series reservations that. for one rea
aor. or another were never honored.
as well as the redeeming of the un
used third portions of the serlea
tickets that were sold.
Quick Paymente Protnleed
"This work will be carried onaa
luickly as possible," declared Mr. Eb?
bets last night. "We have approxl
matcly $60,000 that belongs to our
patrons. We are as anxious to ry
Hcve ourselves of thia obligation as
our creditors can be to get tneir
money back. .
??You will kindly mform the pub
' lie. I hope, that presentation of the
unused third tickets will meet with
prompt payment at face value. Patrons
rraj either apply in person at our
offices or mail the tickete in to us.
In any event our obligations will ba
most promptly met."
Mr. Ebbets declared that hia office
force had employed a checking sys?
tem in the distribution of the ticket*
that would minimire labor and confu
sion in the redemption of the unused
thir- game admissions. By mean
of a triple checking arrangemen'
with an elaborate card system it was
i,o-sible to keep track of every paste
board given out. as well as to ?H8
tinguish the cash paid in for which
because of one reason or another. ne
ticket grants were made. The Brook^
lyn office expecta to hare returned
every pennv of ita indebtedness tc
thc public before the end of the week
It all rests with the public. Thi
? ocner all the demands are ia th?
qulcker the work will be accom
plished.
In the meantime the wcirriea ol
Charles, the squire, will have onl'
begun, for Mr. Ebbets seems senou*
in his determination to retire fron:
baseball. The onlv thing that standi
between him and an extended vacatior
after thirty-four years in the harnesi
jg a purchaser. A lot of prosoeet'v*
purchasers have been talking for tht
notoriety of the thing. So far no oni
has flaunted any great amount of eaat
in the squtre'a face. If all account*
are true lt will take considerable east*
to atir the Robins' president from ht*
lofty seat.
No one in close toueh with basebai
believes for a minute that if Ebbets ll
serious in his desire to retire he 8Ttt)
hold out for $2,000,000, the price he u
said to have set on the National Leacru*
champions. A pretty shrewd club
E. B. MULLER HAS
NARROW ESCAPE
ON SPEEDWAY
E. B. Muller, who drore hia brown
gelding Hindenburg, had a narrow es?
cape from being senously injured in an
accident which occurred in the firat
heat ef the 1:10 trot at the'week'y
matinee of the Road Drivera' Associa?
tion of New York on Harlem Speedwaj
yesterday. A wheel came off tha sulkj
and Muller was thrown into the road
way. Hindenburg took fright and ran
away. Muller. after being dragged a
short distance. was forced to release
the reins.
Hindenburg. running at top speed
was not balted in hia mad flight until
he reached 165th Street, where Police
mm Charlaa Welsa. of the 40th Pre
cinct, grabbed the llnee.
There were many autos and wagons
on the road. but Hindenburg steered
rlear of all of them. Muller was bodly
shaken up and suffered bruises on his
hands. ,,
The summary of the trota follows:
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Eln'ml-jra. br. a lf. B YL.wi. .-.u
owner et tba time of tba world ___,
durinr a chat wlth tha urfa*Lz*
mated tb? tbIbb of tha Bobi_T_?T
twean $1400,000 and 1130^00. **
Land Worth t-M.ae.
"I an sure Ebbets would I.n*, (t
mlllion and a quarter," aaid k7 V
would be foolish not to Tha bh*___"
ineludes 800,000 square f**t, ??**'
leas. A dollar and a ha!f \ f_2"
that locality is a geaaroas aatisuu
for real estata That would ba JL__i
000. The aUnds and Improrti)!.''
repraaent an outlay of S400.000, u _i"
aa I can figure. That brinn {__ __S
to $860,000. *?**"
"Now the question resolrti w,
into one of value of tha frane.'i.
Colonel Ruppert and Captain Huit,.
paid $400,000 for the Yankee fr__c_*_,
Certainly Brooklyn's franchut laa_S
no more. I doubt if it u worth i,
mneh. But la any ever.t yon can r*a<
ily see that $1,260,000 would be a .*_.
priea for the club free of all escca
brancea."
There is mora in the wlnd fer tka
coal stove aeaaon than the ooasible aak
of the Robins. <>n the best authort,
it haa been leamed that no leu __,
! three clubs in each of the two aa;*,'.
j leagues are on the market. (,*,?_-_.,.
gossip associates the names of botk
Boston clubs with possible chsng*. ef
j ownerahip. The world's ehampion Bc..
I ton Ameriean League club might have
! been boueht at any time within ,?,,
| iast year. Joseph J I.nnnln, lt u ui
| is anxious to devote his entire itt**
I tion to his business interest* In \?,
| York He is satisfied to retire with ?>
1ame and funds that accrued from ??
suceesaive world pennant*.
Ihe Boston svndicnte whieh contv
ihe Braves is snid to be sick of its bt*
gain. The patronace of BUlllagS*lsW
suffered heavnv this ae,*?nn becsnif ??
inclemcnt weather. Those on th* -
; side of the deal profe-s to know _.,?.
j it ls possible for thia syndieate, ???
! out srrent financial s.u-ntice. to Ur
i the entire oropoMtion h.ek on tr
hands of the James K. Gaffney ___?
ests.
St Louis. of thfl National letiifui <
the third elub of the T.-ner cireuit tlu.
can be had for a reasonable tr.e*. T-i
Brittona are even more diisatiif.*;
I with the Cardinals than they w*r? ?
! vear ajro. it is said Thev ar* B_BB_
! to shade the price irreatly since tha-*
time. This elub did no bettar th?n *
? tie Cincinnati for last place Th* o?r.
: ership is unpopular ln the Mound (.'",
I because oi" its alleged nlggardly ft
cies. Through the last season them*
r.gement was charrced wlth repienuh-r
1 its eorTors bv the ssle of itan ?*??*??
out making; any effort to spend mor.f
for new talent.
In the Amertcan Learae erur.r-i _
administration are expected la faa>
mjtton and Philadelphia. as 8*8-1 ?<
Boston. Conditions in WsaBiaftaj
have reached sueh a pass that t _M
fer to some other etty * 8erfeaal8a?
sidered. Toronto is regarded si i: t
sible base for the future. thourh a.
Canadian eit. mav not be favorcd B>
til tha close of the wr.rinLv.rot-.
Much of the trouble of Philadelphia.
attributed to the cross .ur. o?m of ?
principal atoekholden < onni* Xc_
controls one-half of the -ap:'*! itoc.
the Shibes control the cther hai..
seems to have came to a case ef __>?
sell for one side or tka OtU*
While Ban Johnson, Joe Lsnni-, ??<
cther magnates of tha Amwitsi
Laaaaa believe Bill Carrigaa al *
consider his announced ?ntentie:i i
retiring from the game, the K*4
playanTone and all think ?helead.rt
the Red Sox has beer. seer. ir ? BB| I
league uniform fer tha ??>',|,m'_ ?
"Bill is through for a-fle*. mm
of the veteran stars of the wo ..
champions the aight of the laal **?
series game in H
??He haa set his heart on the q
life and he is not or.e easily t.
turned aside from his 8818888 ?
not think a question of rr.oi*.**. ?'
influence him in the least iaajaa. ?
a matter of fact, Carrigsii hwc_UJ
money he destres. He had a BMJSW
rnonv of his 8WB, ?rhl-- ?"o**
ed by a legaey fram 8^relative a ?
time ago. ln round ???^1*2
say Carrigan r.as about a UU*U
million. , it.
"Bill is not . W>*%wh#jK?S
the public hurrah He PW?"E
quiet life w.th his fami.y. *-P - ?(
home town in Mame he a *?..*
whole show among the tiUtnn. ?
dishkes the iBC-awaalaaeaa and ??
ries of a major league campa gn. *-??
rigan is through with Daeebail.
FUMBLING NOW
CAUSES WORRY
AT PR1NCET0N
Prineeton, Oct l*V-Tha WjJJ
football team had a Wflll ?8rn*d W
to-day after the long rr?c-:'" '
week. topped off by the hard W
with Tufts on SatirHav Th* ?>?
squad came throuph this tough m
test with no injunes o'her thss
usuel bruiscs. tkt*
The Tigers beat .efta, b "f.
showing left much to b* ????".;
some departmer.'a ?_,.'_T
Rush's time.last waeku?? Cfg|
the eliminatior, of f - < b.,r.,
.(?? Prineeton'. aoral rauil .-'?? ,(
Tn s arill have to Bfl *t*AW*9*
foie the big game.. - rf?
The lina played **ni:*J*/.*._>?
ter.av and the unusus Tut* *
wcra'not allowed to gel ??? 2
but were usually **^0-h'-_* \\*u
making. Red Qeaaert, W c j
was particularlr r.oticeabl* *?r . j
smashing play in hreaWai^5
mations. whieh the KHlb *?* ,
using aa-alnst the ?waraity **1 _*T.
Dave Tibbo't's s iv*- t 'f
prr.ved the decid-.rg r84T-8f ? ' C
of the Tigers. *t:d. a'thou.h n*
**i played before tl I -'?"*??? n'' '
was ss aecurste a* ever r,
At quarterback Jae^ MJT?Jj
quite all that might b- desirw
general, but he gets lata 81 *".Th
the team. and ind-vdna'T " , v#*
whirlwind. Rla paving .\*mLm\
most of the excitement ef ?>? *,
and he should be a fix'^a- <
FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
FOR MONTCLAIR HIC?
halt-W^fi "oth.::n^::
follows: r-eosrs***"
October 20. ?tevens TttfO t>.
School Bl Montclair: P*.***J^_aT J
ringer Rtfh at Newark. gJJJS
Rutherfofd at Montclair: *"?&*
South Side High at N*f****r?;,/ ????
10. Eaat Orange at Vonte.a.r. _
ber IR, A.bury IkMnVf^JJJW^
Norember 24. oper. Novembar ?>
Site High at Newark. ^___*
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