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Mclnnis One
Of Baseball's
Wonder Men
Not Built According tc
First - Rasing Standard.
But He's "There'
John (Stuffy) Mclnnis, first basemar
of the world's champion Boston Ret
Sox, has been for many years now
past one of the striking wonders o?
the game. If one were looking foi
a first baseman among a crowd of uni
? formed men on the bench Mclnnis is
about the very last man he would sus
pact of class for the position. Phys?
ically he is a living refutation, in ap?
pearance, of everything a good first
sacker is supposed to be in these times
of highly developed specialties.
To begin with he is a chunky looking
fellow who belies his five feet ten
inches. He is somewhat deliberate of
action off the field. His arms are
short and he does not appear possessed
of the reach or "stretch" which has
come to be associated with the first
base type. He is a right handed throw?
er in a day when southpaws are in
demand for the position.
Yet Mclnnis comes very near to be?
ing the class of first baseman of the
American League, a circuit which
boasts of a number of rare profes?
sionals of exceptional merit, Wally
Pipp and George Sister among them,
the last two mentioned of the south?
paw variety of course.
To* begin with Mclnnis is one of the
niftiest and surest infielders of the
game, for if he lacks any way in phys?
ical handicaps he more than makes
up for the deficiency in agility. And
if he foozles a wild throw now and
then that a bigger man?a Chase or
a Pipp?might get he more than makes
up the difference in the deadly punch
he curries at bat. For Mclnnis is a
..'100 hitter in every accepted sense of
the word.
In the last nine campaigns, since he
first gained recognition as a regular
player in fast company, Mclnnis has
failed but twice to bat better than .300.
His successful campaign last season
with the world's champions witnessed
his lightet hitting performance. He
batted only .272 in Boston. Once be?
fore, only, he failed to qualify in the
charmed circle. That was in 1916.
He clubbed for .295 that year as a
member of the Athletics. But it was
only..-a remnant of the old machine
with which Connie Mack had won four
championships and three world cham?
pionships. Mclnnis at the time was
the sole survivor of the illustrious
"hundred thousand dollar infield."
In 1912, the year Jake Stahl's Red
Sox nosed out the Athletics, Mclnnis
had his best hitting year, a .327, and
that year, too, he stole the most bases,
_'T. The next year, when the Quakers
beat the Giants for the second time
in the world's series, Mclnnis hit
,|526. In 1911 he clubbed .321. He hit
.314 in each of the seasons of 1914
and 1915, and .303 in 1917, his last
year with the Athletics. It can be
seen, then, that Stuffy is a consistent
as well as a brilliant hitter.
Mclnnis was one of many brilliant
phenoms unearthed and schooled by
Connie Mack for the purpose of re?
construction after his great team of
1B05--which was beaten by McGraw's
Giants in the world's series?had gone
to seed. The list included such other
illustrious personages as "Home Run"
Baker, Jack Barry and Eddie Collins,
all of them still in the game and go?
ing strong as ever, apparently.
Connie Mack, in those halcyon days
of rich financial return before the Fed?
eral Leaue raid, kept close tabs on the
schools and colleges. As early as 1905
or 190G he had scouts watching young
Mclnnis perform with the high school
nine cf Gloucester, Mass. Mac had a
string on Stuffy when he broke into
professional baseball with New Bed?
ford, of the New England League,
away back in 1908. Indeed, it was
Mack who planted him there, with the
idea of hiving the boy developed into
a shortstop. At the time Mack never
suspected a first baseman in embryo.
When Connie finally called Mclnnis
in to the Athletics in 1909 the lad had
little opportunity to show his worth.
Baker. Barry and Collins were fast be?
coming fixtures of that memorable in?
field. The hard hitting veteran, Harry
Davis, was slipping, but still able to
hold his own at first. Because of the
fact that Davis was on the wane and
the other infield positions were so ad?
mirably filled already Connie began to
have Mclnnis understudy Davis. His
uevelopmpnt from the start was phe?
nomenal. By 1911 he had supplanted
the aging slugger. He has played the
position regularly ever since.
Strange to say Mclnnis never showed1
a great deal of class in any infield
position but first. Connie experi?
mented with him at third, at short and
at second. He found himself only after
he had been assigned to the initial
bag.
Ed Barrow, manager of the Red Sox
in the spring of 1918, attempted to
make a third baseman out of Mclnnis.
Boston was strong on first sackers with
Del Gainer and Dick Hoblitzell, but
badly oil for a guardian of the near
corner. Stuffy was a terrible "bust"
at the position. It did not take Bar?
row long to discover tho truth and re?
store the young man to his proper
sphere of activity.
Maybe, in the case of his third-bas?
ing activities in Boston it was the
proposition of trying to teach an old
dog new tricks. Whether or not Mc?
lnnis might have developed into a star
third baseman, a star ?ihortstop or a
star second sacker had Connie Mack
not been blessed with Baker, Barry
and Collins, the fact remains that he
did develop into a wonderful first base?
man under Connie Mack. And as such
be needs no excuse in any company of
the present baseball generation.
Kramer, King on Bike,
In Mile Race To-day
Prank Kramer, the national cham?
pion cyclist, and Arthur Spencer, of
Toronto, who won the title from Kra?
mer in 1917, will meet in a one-mile
watch race, the best two out of three
beat?, at the Velodrome, in Newark,
this afternoon. Kramer won his first
race this season last Sunday and cele?
brated hi? nineteenth year as a profes-:
lionai rider in doing so.
In a special mil? match Eddie Mad-i
'?ln' _f -N*wark. will face Alfred Goul- ?
;et, the blond Australian, in a one-mile j
.'Hatch, beat two out of three heats, win
?**r take a||. There also will be four
outer professional races and four for
amateur?.
Tuft* Awaiting Coach
?f'^^rHl*" ha" ?i?fned ul> " coach i
?2i? .?. T *_ e,oll?K? *'*v?n ?"d will '
tato? up hi? dtttiaa with the Brown ?nd ;
7lJll ,* adv*???'y board, is await- j
>n* the return of the veteran mentor, '
.1 * A" 1?Ti<?. w?th th? medica]
?MM. Should he h? able to vi?it the i
HjH before the end of the academic ;
yr?r, the football ?quad may b? put !
through a ii*bt $uau_ax ?ri?. * j
-4
Harvard Athletes
Feel Confident
Of Beating Yale
CAMBRIDGE. Mass., May 10.?Har?
vard will take a track team to New
Haven next Saturday that the Crimson
enthusiasts believe will be able to take
Yale's measure. The squad will be
strong in the dashes and middle dis?
tance runs, as well as the running
broad jump, with a fair chance in the
hurdles. The Elis seem to have the
upper hand in the 440 and 880 yard
runs and several field events.
For the sprints Harvard offers Cap?
tain Billy Moore, Edward Gourdin and
Hank Flower. Moore is a ten-second
man for the century dash, and looks
like a winner. His chances are not so
good in the 220. Gourdin finished third
in the sprints in the Tech meet, both
of which were won by Moore. Flower
is handicapped somewhat by poor feet
and may not run.
Jim Nally, Charley Page, Bill Good?
win, Joe Dugan and Algy Douglass are
the best of the 440 and 880 Harvard
men. In the mile Dennis O'Connell is
Harvard's best, and Dana Hutchinson
in the two-mile. Burnham Lewis, cap
; tain of the 1918 team, and Fletcher
I Wason are other good men at these
; distances.
George Krogness's chances to land
j the high hurdles aro very good, but
: Shedden, of Yale, will probably push
j in ahead over the low fences. Both men
i met last season as freshmen, when the
Harvard lad was the '21 track captain.
Bob Harwood, doing 12 feet in the
i pole vault, and Tubby Clark, at 40 feet
| in the shot-put, are the best men in
; these events. Harwood is the only
i vaulter of experience with Eddie Far
? rell's field event squad, and he has a
j hard task ahead of him against Gard
? ner and the other Yale cracks. Captain
: Jim Braden, of the Elis, will probably
I take Clark's measure, but he will have
j to fight to beat the doughty Crimson
'? footballer
In the running broad jump the Crim
? son has a trio who can do 22 feet, and i
j may make a clean sweep. Flower is
good for 23 feet S inches, his mark in
? the Tech meet, while Krogness and
: Gourdin perform consistently.
Harvard has no hammer thrower in I
, tho class with Otis or Gait. Ames |
Stevens is good for only 130 feet, which j
will probably not even place him in i
,' the meet.
Tho freshman track teams of both
, universities will meet here on the same
; date. Among the Harvard yearling
! performers are Captain Richard Chuto ?
; in the sprints; Bayard Wharton, a fast!
! quarter-miler; Page and Bradlee, jump- :
ers; Brown, a "hammer thrower, and
McCarthy, a fleet half-miler. The meet !
will be held in conjunction with the :
Harvard I?terscholastics.
Gaelic Sport Carnival
A victory carnival of Gaelic sports, :
. will be held at Celtic Park to-day !
under the auspices of the Limerick !
Hurling Club. To add military flavor ?
? to the event, Father Duffy, tho chap- j
? lain of the old 69th Regiment, has been !
invited to be present. The first round i
of the Gaelic football championship of ?
j 1919 will be played between Kerry and !
Galway. Cork will met Limerick in a
hurling contest.
Nine Seeks Game?
The De La Vergne baseball team j
would like to book games with other:
commercial houses for Sunday morn- ;
ings in May and Saturday afternoons j
for June, July, August and September, j
Communicate with Nicholas Richficld,
manager, care of Do La Vergne Ma-1
chine Company, foot of East 138th !
Street.
Pirate? Easy for Vaughn
Jim Vaughn, the Cubs' big pitcher, ?
wishes that all National League clubs
were ax easy for him as are the Pitts- !
burgh Pirates. The great southpaw i
has faced the Pirates twenty-eight
times in his six campaigns in tho
tt?nipr major luagu? circuit and hat
woa twenty-three ?2 (asm game?.
i
Crews of Colombia
Hard at Work
For Cup Race
The Columbia 'varsity and freshman
crews have been practising hard the
past week, getting in the best possible
condition for the impending clash in
the Childs Cup race at Princeton next
Saturday. Advisory Coach Gianinn:
and Coach Fred Plaisted have giver
their charges all the personal instruc
tion possible and will continue to dc
so in the few remaining days of prac
tice.
Saturday Avili be among other things
a test of Gianinni's ideas of rowing
Under his instruction the 'varsitj
changed from the short, jerky but povv
erful stroko of Jim Rice, the forme;
Columbia crew coach, to a longer
fuller and possibly slower stroke.
The junior 'varsity has continuel
under the Rice system, and, judginj
by the ease with which tho 'varsit;
regularly defeats the junior boat il
practice spins, Gianinni's principle
will bo a decided advantage in Satur
day's classic.
The 'varsity crew will doubtless b
tho same as that which has rowe
consistently all season, with possibl
one exception. Schactel, who recentl
returned after about a week's illnes
is again out of the boat and may poi
;;ibly not be back in timo for the rac
Just who would take his place has n<
yet been decided.
The shells will leave for Princctc
next Wednesday morning. It is e:
pected that the 'varsity will row
tho Francis S. Bangs and tho freshmn
will use the Bogue. The rigging i
both these shells has been" recent
changed and the coaches think th
they have been made by far the faste
shells in tho Gould bouthouse.
Tho members of the crews will lea
for the Childs Cup race on Thursdi
morning. Tho shells will be there t
same day, so that both boats will
able to spend two days in strenuo
practico over tho Carnegie course l
foro tho ra?o on Saturday aftcrnoor
Tho boating of the 'varsity ?
freshman crews as they will race a
as follows:
'Varsity -Bow, Abell; No. 2, Wi
decker; No. 3, Neumann; No. 4, Hyd
No. 5, Helwig; No. 6, Schactel; No.
Saacke; stroke, Lott (captain); c<
wain, Cohen.
Freshman?<Bow, Frost; No. 2, Bn
shaw; No. 8, Enslow; No. 4, Scov
N. 5, Schl?ter; No. 6, Park; No.
Wright (captain); stroko, Lewis; c<
?wain, Warteis.
I M. -?? I I I
N. E. League Opens May 23
The first games of tho New Engin
Baseball League season will be pla;
on May 2?1. The games will be: Po
land at Fitchburg, Lewiston at Low
HaverhiU at Lawrence.
Dartmouth Pitcher
Holds the Crimson
Hitless and Rimless
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 10.?Har?
vard's undergraduates to-day arranged
for a line senuVoff for their baseball
team, parading to the field with a band
and with their lungs chock full of
cheers. They let loose the cheers, but
their ball club failed to get any hits,
let alone any runs, against "Cuddy"
Murphy, the Dartmouth fiinger, and the
Big Green team from New Hampshire
rolled up a 9 to 0 score before rain was
merciful in the seventh inning and
broke up Dartmouth's fun for the day.
In the fourth inning Perkins, who
had walked, stole second and reached
third on Ross's poor throw. Dartmouth
got four runs in the first inning with?
out making a real base hit, and Har?
vard's errors provided a 7 to 0 lead in
the fourth, also with no damage being
done by the Hanover bats
The Crimson's first pitcher, John?
son, started by passing the first two
batters, and then he and Blair failed
to make plays on bunted balls sent
directly into their hands. Johnson
then issued a third free ticket, forcing
in a run, and, with Hardeii pitching,
Grundman's sacrifice fly and a wild
throw by Stillman put Dartmouth four
runs to the good, with only one man
out
DAimiocTn I HAttVAitn
ab r h po a e I all r l> po a ?
jrt Mur'y, ?b.2 3 0 0 1 0?Knrwlm, If. .2 0 0 3 01
Knppn. s? _312 0 0 01 Kminons. su ..200 0 11
Martin, ob ..3 12 0 1 Ojl'lilnnev. 3b..l0 0 1 0 0
Merrltt, lf.,.811 1 0 Oil'nrklns. 31? ss.2 0 0 1 22
(irey* 1b ...211 6 1 0 lllgnlow. cf ..200 2 00!
Grinidmaii, rf.3 0 0 OOOiMlalr, lb ,. J. 0 0 6 00:
llrttco, cf ...10 0 2 0 Oll'roililn'ai, rr.2 0 0 1 0 0
Koss, 0 .1110 7 0 llMi'IiMxl. 2b..2 0 0 2 31'
JT llur'y, p.2 1 0 2 1 0|Ktlllmun. c.,10 0 2 13l
iOammack, c.. 1 0 0 0 2 0'
Johnson, p ..000 0 0 0 i
llardoll. p ..2 0 0 0 10
Totais ...18 0 0 18 10 8 ;
Dartmouth .4 0 0 3 1 1?0 i
Harvard .0 0 0 0 0 0?0j
Sacrifie? hit?J. If. Murphy. Sacrifie? ;
files?Bruca, Grnndmnn. Left on baso??j
Dartmouth. 3; Harvard, 3. First bane on ?
error??Dartmouth, 4. StlTt base??Groy i
(2). Bruoe (1). Parkins (1), Merrlt (1).
Bases on balls?By Johnson, 8; by llardell,
1 ; by J. T. Murphy, 3. Struck out?Uy
,7. T. Murphy, 1?; by rTnrrlell, 2. Hits?Off
Johnson, 2 In first Inning (nona out); off
Hardell, 3 in c, innings umpire??Messrs.
Conway and Coady. timo of game?One
bom and fifty minutes,
\
Full Record of Mclnnis
In the Minors and Majors
Year. Team. League. F09. G. A.B. R. H. E.B. Avg.
1905-'07?Gloucester (Mass.) H. 8. ? ? - ?- ? ?- ? -
1908 New Bedford, HavcrhilL.N.E. L. Ss. 51 186 24 56 2 .301
1909?Philadelphia. A. L. Kx. 19 ?14 4 11 0 .239
1910- Philadelphia. A. I,. Ss. 38 73 10 22 3 .301
1911 Philadelphia. A. L. 1b. 126 468 76 150 23 .321
1912 -Philadelphia.... A. L. 1b. 153 568 83 186 27 .327
1913 Philadelphia. A. L. 1b. 148 543 79 177 16 .326
1914 Philadelphia. A. L. 1b. 149 576 74 131 25 .314
1915?Philadelphia. A. L. 1b. 119 456 44 143 8 .314
1916?Philadelphia. A. !.. 1b. 140 512 42 151 7 .295
*1917? Philadelphia. A. L. 1p. 150 567 50 172 18 .303
1918? Boston. A. L. lb. 117 423 40 115 10 .272
?Traded January 10, 1918, to Red Sox.
U. S. F. A. Council to Vote
On Soccer in Many Lands
Matches With Canada and
Bethlehems' Tour
Abroad Up to Chicago
By C. A. Lovett
The United States Football Associa?
tion, in its sixth annual meeting at
Chicago on Friday and Saturday of this
week, is expected to authorize interna?
tional football matches between tho
United States and Canada and informal
international games between the Beth?
lehem Steel Football Club, of Bethle?
hem, Penn., and the leading federation
teams of Sweden, Norway and Den?
mark. Tho two-day meeting will be
held at the Great Northern Hotel, Peter
J. Peel, of Chicago, presiding. Presi?
dent Peel is winding up his second
term at the head of the governing bod\
of soccer in this country.
The international games with a team
selected each season by the Dominion
of Canada Football Association shall
be annual fixtures, it is proposed. The
first of the matches probably will be
plnyed at Toronto, Ottawa or Montreal
this fall. Such matches had been
talked of before the world went to war,
and final negotiations were deferred
until peace times when the United
States was drawn into the m?l?e.
The four-time champion Bethlehem
club will go beforo soccer's national
council with a request for permission
to accept an invitation from the Sven
ska Fothollsforbundet (Swedish Foot?
ball Association) for a tour of Scandi?
navia under its auspices in late July,
August and early September of this
year, according to the agenda for the
annual soccer session issued from the
office of national secretary Thomas
Woolsey Cahill, of New York, last
week. If the invitation is accepted, as
it undobtedly will be, the Bethlehem
club wilt sail from New York in early
July, and upon arriving in Sweden will
train, no doubt, for ten days or two
weeks in the Hindas Mountains, before
proceeding to Stockholm for the open?
ing game in the Olympic Stadium.
Score of Player? To Go.
The make-up of the team that will
go will be announced soon after per?
mission for the tour is obtained, ac?
cording to reports from Bethlehem. A
fquad of at least twenty athletes will
mako the trip?injuries to players prov?
ing a severe handicap to the picked
American sque.d of sixteen which vis?
ited Sweden and Norway in 1916, win?
ning three games, being tied in two
and losing one. It is understood that
Secretary Cahill, who managed tho pre?
vious tour bo successfully, may be in?
vited to handle the Bethlehem team on
its venture overseas. Cahill would not
discuss this probability before his de?
parture for the West several days ago.
There is a strong probability that
various members of Cahill's 1916 team
will be found on the Bothlohem roster
when the 1919 expedition gets away.
At least eight members of that team,
the first international team in Ameri?
ca's soccer history, have been members
of the American expeditionary forces.
Some have arrived home from France,
while several others of note are on
their way or soon will be. Among
these are George Tintle and "Bow"
Ford, of the 112th Heavy Field Artil?
lery, 29th Division.
Sweden will be ready to meet the
Americans at their own dashing play
this time. Superior speed gave the
1916 American team an advantage over
the Swedes and Norwegians. To pre?
pare for their contests with the Ameri?
can kickers this time the Swedes are
importing three English and one Hol?
land Dutch team ahead of the Bethle?
hem outfit. The English teams are
Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and Wool?
wich Arsenal.
Would Check Up Rovers
Some arrangement between the
Dominion of Canada Football Associa?
tion and the United States Football
Association for the control of players
transferring from Canada to the
United States and vice versa probably
will be attempted at the Chicago meet?
ing. This roving practice is becoming
more and more common, and the Cana?
dian administrators of soccer are at
a disadvantage to keep a check on
players entering the Dominion, from
across its southern frontier, and the
status of each such player must be
made clear in Canada, where all organ?
ized soccer is strictly amateur.
Various alterations of the rules gov?
erning tho professionalism in soccer
have been talked since the last U. S.
F. A. meeting, at Pittsburgh, and
some changes probably will be pro?
posed at Chicago.
The question of modernizing soccer
to the extent of allowing substitutions
for players disabled in the course of
a game will come up for consideration,
the St. Louis Professional League hav?
ing brought the matter to a head by
adopting a rule to permit of such a
practice. There is no written law of
football barring substitutions, but un?
til recently it was only rarely substi- j
tutions were permitted on the other
side of the Atlantic. And until very
recently American soccer has aped
"old country" association football right j
down the line and has been handi?
capped accordingly. As the native
born clement comes into the kicking
game the trend away from the mil?
dewed old-country forms is marked.
But, for that matter, several of the
stanchest supporters of restricted sub?
stitution in this country are men born
and bred in football on tho other side
--among them Harry Dale, the famous
old-time referee of Paterson, N. J.,
and James A. W?lder, of Philadelphia,
sercctary of the United States Referee
Union.
Army Nurses to Box
FORT WORTH, Tex., May 10.?
Army nurses at Camp Bowie must take
boxing lessons, it was announced to?
day. Harry Gilmour, army boxing in?
structor, has been placed in charge of
the athletic squads and will start the
classe snext Wednesday. They will
meet twice each week.
Track Men of Yale Defeat
Princeton by 61-43 Score
The Summaries
120-yard hurdles?Won by Erdman,
Princeton; second, Trowbridge, Princeton;
: third, Shedden, Yale. Time. 0:15 3-5.
One-mile run?"Won by O'Brien, Yale;
second, Raymond, Princeton; third. Fores
man, Princeton. Time, 4:41.
440-yard run?Won by Terrill, Prince?
ton; second, Stewart, Yale; third, Heffel
finger. Yale. Time, 0:52 2-C.
Shotput?Won by Gait, Yale: second,
: Halsey, Princeton; third, Hammill, Yale.
: Distance. 40 feet, 3 34 lnche?.
100-yard dash?Won by Jones, Yale;
! second, Smith, Yale; third, Fan, Yaie.
I Time, 10 2-5 seconds.
High jump?Won by Landon, Yale; sec?
ond, Hitchcock, Yale; third, Baird,
! Princeton. Height, 5 feet, 8 '/i inches.
Two-mile run?Won by McCulloch,
? Princeton: second. Waterman, Yale; third,
! Rogers, Princeton. Time, 10:18 2-5.
Hammer throw?Won by Acosta, Yale;
j second, Morris, Yale; third, Vorhees, Yale.
I Distance, 149 feet, 5 inches.
220-low hurdles?Won by Erdman,
Princeton; second, Trowbridge, Princeton;
third, Heffell?nger, Yale. Time, 0:25.
220-yard dash?Won by Olark. Prince?
ton; second, Jones, Yale; third, Heffel?
l?nger, Yale. Time, 0:23.
Broad jump?Won by Cole, Yale; sec?
ond, Uebelaclcer, Princeton; third, Munsel,
Princeton.
One-half mile?Won by Prlzer, Yale;
second. Penfleld. Princeton; third, Wrenn,
Princeton. Time, 2:06 1-5.
Pole vault?Won by Ford, Rogers,
Sweeney, all Yale men; tied for first at
10 feet.
Final score: Yale 61, Princeton 43.
Athletes of A. E. F.
In Hard Training
For Allied Games
PARIS, May 7.?Athletes of the
American Expeditionary Force are
training intensely for the inter-Allied
games to be held here soon. Harry
W. Maloney, of Leland Stanford, Jr.,
University, is the head trainer in
charge.
Among the athletes in training are
Lieutenant Richard Byrd, who won
second place in the discus throw at
the last Olympic; Lieutenant Harry
W. Worthington, thrice winner of the
national broad jump championship;
Pat Ryan, the holder of five world's
records in the hammer throw; Ser?
geant Howard P. Drew, of the Univer?
sity of California, noted sprinter; F.
C, Thompson, all-round champion of
the American Amateur Athletic Union;
Lieutenant Earl Eby, of the Univer?
sity of Pennsylvania and the Chicago
A. A., runner; Lieutenant Pete Max
field, of Lafayette College, A. A. t?.
shot-put champion; Lieutenant F. L.
M..rks, University of California, high
jumper; Lieutenant William S. Mc
Cormick, Cornell, hammer thrower;
Captain C. L. Speiden. Cornell, runner,
and Sergeant Spink, University of Il?
linois, runner.
Lieutenant J. C. Roach, of the Ala?
meda Rowing Club, is the coach in
charge of rowing for the teams of the
Army of Occupation. The shells and j
boathouses of German rowing clubs \
along the Rhine near Coblenz have j
been requisitioned by the Americans. !
The rowing centre of the 1st Division !
is at Coblenz, that of the 2d Division ?
at Neuweid and that of the 3d Division
at Unde Andernach. The Army of Oc- I
cupation will hold its rowing cham- :
pionship contests early in June at
Coblenz. 'There will be races for one-1
oar, four-oar and eight-oar boats. [
The tennis matches will be held ?
from May 26 to June 2. Tennis teams
are entered from the United States,
Great Britain, Canada, Australia, South
Africa, New Zealand, Rumania and
Czecho-Slovakia. The New Zealand
team is considered to be a strong one,
and is headed by Mr. Fisher, a former
| member of the New Zealand Cabinet.
Providence Makes Plea
For Sunday Baseball
The Providence Baseball Club has
filed at the Cranston City Clerk's office
an application for acenses for base?
ball games at Weston Field, Arlington,
on Sundays from now until October.
The application is made under the pro?
vision of the statute recently passed
by the General Assembly.
In order to be guided correctly in
the interpretation of the new law City
Clerk Waterman has obtained from
the Secretary of State a certified copy
of the law under which Sunday base?
ball is permitted. This provides that
licenses may be granted by the city
or town councils, except where the
location is within 500 feet of a church
or where more than 50 per cent of
the property owners within 200 feet
of the location object.
Erdman, of Tiger Team,
Wins Both Hurdle Races
?Landon Takes Jump
PRINCETON, May 10.-Yale's track
j team downed Princeton in a dual meet
j here to-day by a score of 61 to 43. Thr
j visitors gained seven first places, while
I the local men collected five, and it was
i the Eli success in collecting second
and third places that gave, it the vic?
tory. The track was heavy and rain
fell throughout the meet, but in spite
of this handicap the performances or.
both track and field were good.
Carl Erdman was Princeton's big ace
with victories in both the 120-yard high
and 220-yard low hurdles. In both in?
stances Erdman showed that he was in
splendid condition by skipping over the
obstacles in fast time. He won the
| high hurdle race in the splendid time
! of 15 3-5 seconds, while he took 25 sec
; onds to win the 220-yard event.
George Trowbridge, another Tipjer,
; was second to Erdman in both con
| tests. McCulloch succeeded in winning
! the. ono-mile run.
Landon, who will be Yale's mainstay
| in the intercollegiate running hifrli
jump, captured his specialty with a
! fine effort.
-.
Double-Header To-day
For Morse Dry Dock
The Morse Dry Dock ?baseball team,
under the management of Bill Dahlen.
former manager of the Brooklyn Base?
ball Club, will feature a double-header
at its home grounds, Morse Oval, Fifty
second Street and Second Avenue,
Brooklyn, to-day. The first game, with
the Newburgh Shipyard team, will be
called at 2 p. m. The second game
will start at 4 p. m., with the Tobo
Shipyard team as the attraction.
The Morse Dry Dock baseball team
is one of the strongest semi-profes?
sional teams in the metropolitan dis?
trict. The Morse team will play at its
home grounds every Sunday during the
coming Season. '
? ?
A. E. F. Relay Teams
In Chateau Thierry
Paris Contest
PARIS, May 10.?Ten teams from the
American Expeditionary Force will par?
ticipate in a relay race from Chateau
Thierry to Paris on Memorial Day.
Each team will be composed of twenty
men, each man to run five kilometres
or a little more than three miles.
The course will be from a point near
Ch?teau Thierry, where the Americans
first met the Germans last Memorial
Day, over the Paris road to the Place
de la Concorde, in the centre of Taris.
The runners will carry a message
to President Wilson written by a sol?
dier who took part in the fighting near
Chateau Thierry. The teams will he
picked from the various divisions, army
corps and base sections. If present
plans materialize, the race will be an
annual event.
On the same day the army of occu?
pation will hold a relay race from
Cochem to Coblenz in connection with
its track meet.
Seven athletes of tho 89th Division
are remaining in France instead of
going home with the division in order
to take part in the A. E. F. truck
championships and the inter-Allied
games. They are Major Paul Withing
lon, Harvard football and crew man;
Color Sergeant Vigge Nelson, tho 100
yard champion of the Third Army;
Captain M. P. Wilder, a pentathlon
star; Lieutenant H. W. Kenasten, half
mile runner, Lieutenant A. J. Clair
horne, marathon runner; Corporal A.
O. Ducan, mile runner, and Private.
George Woodruff, pole vaulter.
Lally Is Track Captain
Paul J. Lally, of Niles, Ohio, senior,
has been chosen captain of the Wash?
ington and Jefferson track team for tho
remainder of the season, making his
second successive season as the Red
and Black leader. Lally was opposed
by Edmund J. Riva, of Charleroi,
Penn. Lally was captain of the relay
team at the Penn games recently, and
is one of the best sprinters Washing
ton and Jefferson has produced in re?
cent years, as well as being a low
hurdler.
The season of outdoor lawn tennis ,
in the East will swing into its full ;
stride within the next week or two, ?
and from then on there will be no j
let-up in the continual series of tourna- i
ments until the end of September, !
when the season begins to wane again, j
The open tournament of the Harlem j
Tennis Club, now in progress on the \
clay courts at 136th Street and Eighth j
Avenue, is the harbinger of the season ?
for the metropolitan district, and the j
high quality of the entry, with players
like William T. Tilden, 2d, national ;
clay court champion; Vincent Richards,
national indoor title holder; Ichiya
Kumagae, metropolitan champion, and
Francis T. Hunter, twice winner of the !
massive Tribune challenge cup in the j
North Side championship, is a fine !
augury for what is to follow on Ameri
can courts.
A week from to-morrow two tourneys
get under way, the Essex County ?
Country Club, of West Orange, N. J.,
holding the Essex County championship ;
event in singles and doubles, and the |
New Rochelle Tennis Club, staging the ?
annual Quaker Ridge championships in
men's singles and doubles.
The latter fixture promises to hold ;
unusual interest this year and the
chairman of the tennis committee,
Eugene T. Pelham, expects a record
entry. The name of Lieutenant James
Saunders O'Neale, who died of wounds
received in France last year, is one
of those engraved upon the champion- !
ship trophy. Play will begin at 10 !
o'clock in the morning on the opening
day, and entries close with Mr. Pelham ]
at 2 Hemingway Avenue, New Rochelle,
on May 17.
The first important tournament south !
of Washington, the Old Dominion
championships in men's and women's
doubles, singles and mixed doubles,
will begin on the clay courts of the
Country Club of Virginia, in Richmond, i
on June ?). Ensign E. II. Whitney is
the holder of the men's cup and Miss
Molla Bjurstcdt's name is the last on
the women's trophy. The tourney is
open to all players in the country, and ?
the entries close on .Tune 9 with John
A. Coke, jr., 1111 East Main Street,
Richmond, Va. '
A tournament that will claim dis?
tinction as being the first one in which
a sectional doubles championship will
be at stake, will begin on the clay
courts of the Columbia Country Club,
Chevy Chase, Md.. on May 30, when the
men and women will struggle for the
Middle Atlantic championships in
singles and doubles. The winners of
the men's doubles will qualify to play
for the national title at Longwood,
starting August 11. Entries close with
the tournament committee at the club?
house on May 29.
Edwin Fuller Torrev, secretarv of
the U. S. N. L. T. A., who is also the
most genial of hosts every year at the
Yahnundasis Golf Club, of Utica, dur
ing the holding of the Xew York State
men's championship tourney, has al?
ready begun to receive prospective en?
tries for the event, which does not be
gin until July 16.
In response to informal notices sent
out a couple of weeks ago, Mr. Torrey
has received replies from more than 60
per cent of those players written to
declaring their intention of competing
on the splendid Utica clay courts.
Ichiya Kumagae, who now holds two
legs on the championship singles tro?
phy, will defend his title.
What is even more interesting,
Kumagae declares ho will bring with
him to Utica another Japanese player
who has never before played in tho
United States, in the person of K.
Yumasaki. The latter, according to
Kumagae. is a veteran at the game,
and considered one of tho best racquet
wielders in the Far East. He intends
to remain in this country for several
years, "and I trust he will become pop?
ular with tho tennis players hero,"
writes Ichiya.
I may remark, in passing, that if Mr
Yamasnki embraces even a fair part of
that generous sportsmanship, both
nnd off the courts, that wo have . .
delighted in in Kumngae's personality,
his popularity here is assured. i

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