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Long wood Tennis Players Capture Match With Height
L. H. Fitch Only
Singles Winner
On Local Team
When a Feller Needs a Friend
- By BRIGGS
(Copyright, 1920, New York Tribune Inc.)
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Yankee 'Vets'
May Pay Visit
To Hot Springs
Dean Mathey and Hugh
Kelleher Take Doubles
From Wright and Johnson
By Fred Hawthorne
Ry capturing three out of the five
matches yesterday on the Heights Ca?
sino courts on Montagu;- Street, Brook?
lyn, the lawn tennis team of the Long
wood Cricket Club, of Boston, won the
annual interclub and intercity match
from the Casino forces by a total of
7 matches to 2.
L. li. Fitch was the only man from
the local club to win for the Casino in
the singles, and this he did by defeat?
ing Raymond B. Bidwell. of Longwood,
by a score of 3 6, 6? 4. G?2. Dean
Mathey and Hugh Kellcher won the
second match for the Brooklyn club by
taking the measure of xvving C. Wright,
*nd Harrv C. Johnson, of Longwood, at
7?5, 6?2.
Niles Outplays Beekman
Nathaniel W. Niles, the Boston star,
took a fine three-set match from Leon?
ard Beekman, the sets going at 5?7,
6?2, 6--.'i. in the other singles match,
and, paired with Richard Harte, his
club mate, defeated Mathey and Beek?
man by a score of 6?3, 3?6, 6?3.
Lawrence B. Rice and Bidwell scored
the third victory of the day for Long
wood when they triumphed over T. H.
Beardsley and G. Roberts by a score of
??3, 6?4.
The gallery was large and enthusi?
astic at the afternoon session, and
after the finish of the last scheduled
match in the team series everybody
wanted to see Mrs. Franklin I. Mallory,
the former national woman champion,
in action. Mrs. Mallory was present,
unprepared to play; but she finally
yielded to the "voice of the people" i
and consented to play two sets of mixed ?
doubles.
Harry McNeal, the casino profes?
sional, then hustled about, and within ?
five minutes had "signed up" Mrs. de
Forest Candee, former casino cham?
pion; Mathey and Irving Wright. Mrs.
Mallory and Wright were pitted against
Mrs. Candee and Mathey, and the match
was on. ? The famous Norse "whirl?
wind" and her partner took the first
pet at 6?1, but Mrs. Candee and
Mathey squared the match by winning
the second at 6?2.
Beekman, who is in the throes of
mastering a new forehand drive, pat
tened after that famed "wallop" of
William M. Johnson, of California,
managed to take the first set from
Niles at 7?5, playing very well most
of the way. The Bostonian, however,
did not get going at his best game
until the second set, and then his
returns began to cut the lines with
remarkable consistency.
Little Waste Motion
Niles plays the gamo witl little
waste motion, and achieves the maxi- i
mum of results with the minimum of
effort, particularly when at the net ?
position. He curbed Beekman's best
efforts yesterday with fine volleying, ,
and he was a dangerous opponent when
it came to "killing" lobs, so that the
last two sets went to him without |
great difficulty.
Niles and Harte formed a smooth ;
working combination in the doubles,.
forcing the net position with great
success when they faced Mathey and
Beekman. Harte, particularly, was
deadly overhead and finished off his
points with a finality that left no room
for doubt. Mathey's volleying wai
brillir.nt, if inclined to be unsteady.
N'iles was more effective than Beek?
man, and although the match was never
one-sided, the Bostonians seemed to
have the winning edge most of the
:ime.
Master Johnny Ross, the Brooklyn
prodigy, who had gained fame on
Saturday by his work as a linesman in
the women's doubles matches, was
i'mally prevailed upon to officiate again
when Mrs. Mallory started to play in
the exhibition mixed doubles match.
Mere pleas, expressed in words, could
not persuade the scion of the House of
Ross to accept the post, but at this
critical point of the negotiations some?
body recalled Johnny'? gift for making
cake disappear.
"There's chocolate and orange and
locoanut cake to-day in the tea room,
Johnny; won't you please take the
line?" said a knowin person, and
Johnny grinned a chocolate and orange
and cocoanut cako grin and accepted
the job. Later he claimed his reward
in three generous slices, while his dot?
ing mamma and papa and his envious
eight-year-old sister watched Johnny at
his favorite sport.
The summaries of the team match
follow:
Inter-club team match singles?Nathaniel
W. Nile?, liOngwooA C. C, defeated Leon?
ard Beekman, Heights Casino, 6?7, 6??,
6?3; Xj, II. Kltoh, II. C, defeated Raymond
B. Bidwell, L. C. C, 3?6, 6?4, 6?3.
Doubles?Richard Hurte and N. W. Nile?,
U C. C. defeated Dean Mathey and Leon?
ard Beekman, 11. C 6?3, 3?6, 6?8; Law
?Tice B. Hloo and H. U. Bidwell, L. C. C,
defeated T. H. B-jardsly and G. Roberts,
II. ('.. 6?3, 6?4; Deun Mathey and Hugh
Kelloher. H. C, defeated Irving C. Wright
and Harry C, Johnson, 7?6, 6?2.
Three Track Meets
Listed This Week
For Greater City
The present week promises to be a
busy one for track and field athletes
as three meets are on the calendar.
On exhibition at all these gatherings
will be several champions from out of
town. They will make their first ap?
pearance in the games ofthe MillroBe
Athletic Association at Madison Square
Carden to-morrow evening.
Charles Paddock, the Pacific Coast
star, who bowed to Jack Scholz, Mis?
souri University, in the 40-yard da*h
at the, Boston A. A. games last Satur?
day night, hopes to redeem himself in
the 70-yard fixture at the Millrose
meet. Paddock was unable to do him?
self justice in the short dash and
.-hculd do better in the longer race.
Tho performance of Mike Devaney in
finishing second to Joie Kay in the
Hunter Mile, is pleasing to many of
Devaney's friends in this city.
On Wednesday evening, the Todd
Shipyards A. A. will hold its games at
the Fourteenth Regiment Armory,
Brooklyn, with champions listed in all
tho events. The feature attraction is
the Todd 880-yard run, which will find
Homer Baker, winner of the two last
"specials" in the city, on the starring
line against seven rivals.
Tho busy week will end with the
Central High School games, at the
First Regiment Armory, Newark, on
BaXurday, when all the schoolboy stars
of the East are scheduled as com?
petitors.
? ?'??? m
Shaw in Millrose Meet
Charlie Shaw, the mainstay of the Co?
lumbia track team and former Inter?
collegiate half-mile champion, will run
in his first race of the year to-morrow
evening at Madison Square Garden in
the annual games of th? Millrose A. A.
The Blue and White flyer, who has
been laid.up since last fall with a knee
injury sustained in a football game,
?ill be one of a quartet qf Columbia
runners who will compete in the one
mile relay race. Princeton and Har?
vard will also enter team? in thia event
Appel, of Harvard Club, Wins
From Harvey in Squash Play
Victor Will Meet Jay
Gould This Afternoon;
CobumWins by Default
By A. C. Cavagnaro
John W. Appel jr., of the Harvard
Club, gave an impressive exhibition in
decisively defeating Harold D. Hart-ey,
Princeton Club, in a first round match
of the National Squash Tennis Associa?
tion at the Columbia Club courts yes?
terday. The spectacular playing of
Appel, winner of the "patriotic cham?
pionship" tourney of 1919, pula to rest
the rumor that the 'Cr'rn.son player was
in a '-slump." Harvey succeeded in
collecting only four points during the
match, two coming in each of the two
games.
Appel electrified the small gallery
present) by his terrific smashing and
his continuous change of pace that
compelled Harvey to run all about the
court to intercept the ball. Appel n
"kill" shots fairly slid along the side
walla, making it almost impossible foi
Harvey to return them.
Appel clinched the opening game ir
surprisingly quick time, counting hit
aces in clusters to down Harvey aftei
eight hands. With the opening of ser?
vice Appel gained the first point with
a "kill" ovQr the telltale, and aftei
collecting two more aces Harvey forcet
him out with a "soft" drive to th<
back-wall corner.
The next four hands found Appe
adding to his count. With the score
standing 7 to 0 against him, Harvej
gained his first point when his riva
drove into the telltale. Appel adde<
seven moro aces before Harvey woi
his second point on a smash by Appe
outside the boundary of the court.
After ending the first game with !
run of 6 points Appel increased thi
single effort to eleven consecutiv
points when he opened the second gam
with a count of ti points before Harve
finally succeeded in putting hia riv?
out of service. This second game foun
Appel playing more brilliantly, for h
brought the tussle to an end after si
hands.
In the upper half Ralph G. Cobun
Harvard Club, winner of a prelimir
ary round match yesterday, advance
into the second round when he won b
default from Alan Corey, Yale Club.
The second round of play this aftei
noon, beginning at 5 o'clock, promise
many brilliant matches, with the eagei
ly awaited duel between Appel and Ja
Gould in the lower half. The victor i
this match will be looked upon as tli
ultimate winner of the national fixtur
Other important matches schedule
are: C. J. Maguire, Yale Club, v
Anderson Dana, Harvard Club; Ot
Guernsey, Yale Club, vs. E. C. Old
Princeton Club, and A. J. Cordier, Yal
Club, vs. Roy E. T. Riggs, Squash Clu
?
Boxing Bout Too Tame
For Fans of Madrii
MADRID, Feb. 8.?An attempt i
stage a pugilistic boat here last nigl
between Frank Crosier, who was d
feated by Jack Johnson in 1916, and
fighter named Namaeff, ended in a di
mal failure.
The crowd, which filled the ha'
treated the fighters much as th<
would have treated bull fighters, ai
became so excited that instead of oi
fight three dozen fights were procee
ing in the hall at the same time. Tl
scheduled fight had to be called o
The referee gave the decision
Ont**
De La Salle Team
Sets a New Record
For Medley Relay
A NEW schoolboy record for the
one mile and a quarter medley
relay distance was established by
the De La Salle Institute team In
winning this event at the Erasmus
Hall High School games at he 23d
Regiment Armory last Saturday
night. It was the third victory for
the team in so many starts. On one
occasion it equalled the record of
5 minutes I> seconds and on the
other came within three-fifths of a
second of (he record.
The De La Salle quartet coverel
| the distance in the Erasmus meet
in 4 minutes 59 seconds. Tom
Darcy, who ran on the team for the
j first time, was largely instrumental
i in creating the new standard. 8.
Baron, E. Osborne and J. Campion
arc the other members of the team.
Girl Sets Cage Record
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa., Feb. 8.?The
girls' amateur individual record in
basketball is believed to be established
by Miss Elsie Schink, a senior in Slip?
pery Rock State Normal School. She
made a total of 61 points, 21 field goals
and 9 fouls out of a possible 12. The
record was made in a regular game
with the girls' basketball team of
Woodlawn High School on the floor of
the Normal School gymnasium.
Leonard to Battle
Dundee for Eighth
I Time This Evening
Benny Leonard, lightweight cham
j pion of the world, and Johnny Dundee
! will clash for the eighth time to-night,
?when they meet in the ring of the
! arena in the 4th Regiment Armorv of
1 Jersey City. As a result of their
? long siege of training, whi h came to
] an end yesterday, each boxer expressed
! himself as thoroughly satisfied with
j his condition and extremely confident.
"I've had to work pretty hard to
save my forfeit for weight," Leonard
admitted yesterday, "but I'm down to
a notch below what I am required to
make and can therefore take things
easy until time to enter the ring. Be?
sides, the early weighing-in time will
give me a chance to get a little sleep
before fight time.
"T his will send mo into the ring at
: my very best, and if I do not dispose
of Johnny to-night I'll say that he is
the one man who I cannot knock out.
However, I'm in there to try, for it
means a whole lot to me."
Dundee has not been worried by any
neccessity to shave down his weight.
Johnny is a natural 133 pound man,
and whether he trains or not he usual?
ly balances around that figure.
"I've taken on a lot of muscle," the
! little Italian said last evening. "You
know, in most of my bouts with
! Leonard I weighed nearer to 130
! pounds than I did the lightweight limit.
This time I'll enter the ring at exact?
ly 188 pounds. I've grown three
pounds, and it's all where it will do
the most good.
Soldier Out for Olympics
COBALT, Can., Jan. 28.?Sergeant
Angus McGillivray, who enlisted here
in August, 1914, has- just returned
home after serving over five years with?
out a seratch. He is champion of the
army and navy at 100 yards, and in?
tends trying for a place on the Cana?
dian team for the Olympic games.
ID. I. Bradley, With 94 Breaks,
Is High at N. Y. A. C. Shoot
?Team Captained by Dr.
Martin DefeatsThat Led
by O'Neil, 383 to 380
Eighteen gunners reported for the
week end shoot over the Travers
Island trapB of the New York Athletic
Club yesterday. In addition to the
regular events the field was divided
in half and a most interesting team
j shoot was held, with nine men on each
', side.
! Dr. G. A. Martin was the captain of
j one and J. O'Neil led the other team,
: The gunners shot at fifty "birds" each,
making a possible total of 450 targets
a team. When the final "bird" was
trapped it was found that Dr. Mar?
tin's aggregation had won by 383 to
380 targets.
In the regular events the high
scratch prize was taken by D. I. Brad?
ley, with a card of 94 out of a pos?
sible 100 targets. The High Handicap
Cup went to J. O'Neill, with a full
score of 100 targets. A leg on the
Buermeyer Cup was won by D, I
Bradley, with 48 out of a possible 6C
targetB.
Dr. Martin took a special scratch,
shoot and a special handicap event
went to E. H. Jones. As usual, legt
on the other weekly cups went to al
gunners with full scores of 25 target?
Two straights were returned. Bot!
were in the shoot for the Byronel Cup
One was made by J. O'Neil and thi
? other was returned by Dr. Martin. Thi
next shoot at Travers Island will bi
on Lincoln's Birthday, when the clul
will hold a special holiday handicap a
150 target?. The shooting will star
at poos?
The Summary
Byronel Prw. I/yon
cup. cup. cap. Sit. & 1/cap
Name. H. T. II. T. H. T. cup?.
B. ?>. Anderson.. 1 25 1 24 1 24 01- 5- 96
.1. O'Neil. 125 2 25 124 93-8-100
R. L. Sputts_0 21 120 0 22 85-6-91
H. I,. Kennedy. 8 23 3 23 3 19 78-12- 90
R. B. Sloan... 0 18 0 19 0 31 77-12-89
F. A. Baker... 2 24 2 20 3 23 82-12- 94
A. Rowland ... 3 19 0 22 3 23 76-18- 8S
J. II. Thlelman. 3 25 3 24 3 24 86-12- 98
C. A. Brown ..325 325 222 90-14-100
R. K. Smith ... 4 25 324 4 25 86-16-100
J. Nlda . 4 25 4 25 4 25 87-16-100
! (}. H. Martin . . 1 25 1 23 1 24 93- 6- 99
R. B. Cole - 2 22 3 25 0 22 89-11-100
H. .Sullivan ... 0 22 123 123 90- G- 95
I. Bradley .. 124 0 24 125 94- 5- 99
F. J. Ham _ 0 21 2 23 8 ?4 82-12- 94
B. H. Junes ... 4 23 424 425 83-16- 9?
WINNERS
High scratch?D. I. Bradley.
High handicap prize?J. O'Nell.
Special scratch prize?Dr. Martin.
Special handicap prize?H. Jones.
Buermeyer cup?D. I. Bradley.
| Parson and Chapman
Win in Pinehurst Golf
PINEHURST, N. 0., Feb. 8^?Donald j
Parson, Youngstown, and J. D. Chap- j
man, Greenwich, to-day defeated L. A.
Hamilton, Garden City, and L. G. Spin
dler, Fox Hills, 2 up, with best ball of
72 to 14. The best individual score was
made by Parson, 88?40?78, on the j
No. 3 course.
The best score in a professional ex?
hibition match to-day over the No. 2 i
course was made by Emmet French, i
Youngstown, 72; second, Charles Moth-!
ersoll, unattached, 78; third, Charles;
I Hoff ne r, Philmont, 75; fourth, George ?
Fotheringham, Richmond County, 77;
fifth. Arthur Raid, Axdaloy, 81.
I
Del Pratt and Former Red
Sox Players on Team
Desire to Take Baths
By W. J. Macbeth
When they arrive at Chicago this
afternoon, Colonels Ruppert and Hus?
ton, of the Yankees, will take up with
Manager Miller Huggins a suggestion to
have the veterans of the club spend a
couplo of weeks at Hot Springs, Ark.,
in preliminary training before report
injr with the other members for the
regular diet of spring training at
Jacksonville, Fla.
Huggins never has been particularly
partial to the idea of a course of baths
at this famous water place, and so
recently as during his last visit de?
clared he would not try to influence
any of his men to go to the springs.
But ho did say he would interpose no
objection if any of the athletes cared
to take the baths. A number of the
older fellows have written the home
office asking if tho. club would not
j please prescribe such a course for
about mid-February.
Among the number is Derrill Pratt,
the second baseman, who called upon
Colonel T. L. Huston Saturday.
"I'd like very much to go to Hot
Springs," said Pratt, "and will hold
myself in readiness to report there at
any time. I have reached the age where
it is hard for mo to take off weight. I
can do myself more good with the
baths in two weeks than I can do by
? violent exorcise in as many months."
Pratt's arguments are substantiated
by last year's performance. Del, espe?
cially during the last half of the year,
looked like his old self of the Browns,
when ho was one of the very best
second baseman in fatst company. He
was ranging as in the old days. In his
first season as a Yankee (1918) Pratt
appeared to havo slowed up to prac?
tical inefficiency. That was just after
he came from the Browns in a big
trade. Pratt failed to take full ad?
vantage of spring training. Ho re?
ported very late and never did himself
full justice all year. As he finished
out last season, however, Pratt is a
very valuable asset and so should con?
tinue for soma years to come.
The ex-Red Sox now with the Yan?
kees, including Ruth, Lewis, Mavs and
Shore, have been in theh abit of visit?
ing Hot Springs annuaily. Until last
year the Boston Americans always
trained at Hot Springs. Ruth and
Mays expressed themselves as greatly
disappointed with having missed the
Hot Springs trip, when tho Red Sox
were touring north in company of the
Giants from Florida last spring.
Colonels Ruppert and Huston are de?
termined to afford every facility for
the proper conditioning of their play?
ers. The American League fight has
made them all the more anxious to
land a pennant, if possible, and they
will spare no expense in their pursuit
of same. It but remains for Huggins
to O. K. the Hot Springs idea before
j the veterans will be notified to take
I the course of baths, if so disposed, at
j the club's expense.
Del Pratt, by the way, is all smoked
I up over tho acquisition of Ruth. Pratt,
who is serving under a term contract,
i assured Colonel Huston he would make
every effort to cut in next spring right
where ho left off last fall.
"We had a good team last year,"
I said Pratt, "and one that surely would
I have won tho pennant if the pitching
i staff had not gone wrong in mid-sea
I son. We will have a much better team
to start out with in 1920. Babe Ruth
I is half a team in himself. I'm cer
1 tainly glad that his bat will be em?
ployed in the New York cause."
_?,-?-?
1 Mathiesen Defeats
i
I McLean and Wins
The Championship
CHRISTIANIA, Feb. 8.?Oscar Math?
iesen, of Christiania, has won the
world's ice skating championship from
Robert McLean, of Chicago. The final
races of the series were held to-day,
and Mathiesen captured both of them,
the 1,500 metre and the 10,000 metre.
? On Saturday the American took the
5,000-metre even while Mathieson de?
feated him in the 500-metre sprint.
The contests were held in cloudy
weather, but the ice was in good condi?
tion. There was enough wind, how?
ever, to-day to prevent new world's rec?
ords for the distances. The royal fam?
ily, with the American Minister and his
! wife, were in the royal box.
In the 1,500-metre event McLean
started out like a whirlwind, making
i the first 500 metres in 40 5-10 seconds,
1 This outclassed Mathiesen's world rec?
ord of Saturday, which was 43 3-10 sec?
onds. But the American apparently
overstrained himself' in this burst of
speed, and Mathiesen succeeded in
passing him and winning by a fraction
of a second.
CHRISTIANIA, Feb. 8.?Oscar Math?
iesen of this city defeated Robert Mc?
Lean of Chicago, the world's ice skat?
ing champion, by two-fifths of a sec?
ond in the 1,500-metre race here to-day.
Mathiesen covered the distance in 2
minutes 27 4-5 seconds, while McLean's
time was 2 minutes 28 1-5 seconds.
Mathiesen also won the 10,000-metre
contest in 18 minutes 39 1-10 seconds.
McLean's time for this event was 19
minutes 2-5 second.
McLean led throughout the 1,500
meter race, but Mathiesen passed him
near the end. In the 10,000-meter race
McLean got off first, but on the first
lap he took the inner-swing for the
outer-swing and seemed to stop for a
moment.
He continued leading, however, up
to the last two and a half laps, when,
he appeared to become exhausted, j
Mathiesen then passed him and won
by three-quarters of a lap. An enthu-,
spastic crowd witnessed the events to-'
day. The King and Queen and Prince
Olaf were present.
McLean was the winner of the 5,000
metre race to-day, leading almost the
whole distance. His time was 8 min?
utes 57 1-5 seconds. Mathiesen claimed
to be indisposed.
McCahill Makes Best
Shoot Total of Year
T. J. McCahill was the high scratch
gunner at the traps of the Larchmont
Yacht Club yesterday. He took the
shoot with a score of 92 out of a pos?
sible 100. It was the best total that
has been registered at Larchmont this
year.
The scores:
Name Hit H'c.ap Total
A. W. Fitzgerald.... 86 20 100
S. C. Duffey. 75 24 99
W. B. Webb.46 48 98
T. J. McCahill. 92 ? 92
J. C. Andresen. 61 28 19
C. J. Wlnntnger. 80 g gg
H. B. West. 81 4 86
B3. G. Unltt. 60 24 84
B. M. Dalley. 48 38 84
W. E. Knlsht. 63 20 82
J. Mellarse? . 61 20 81
Dr. W. B. Short.76 4 80
L. C. Dallay. 66 24 (0
W. Rosella. 69 19 t?
V. A. Moore. 33 44 77
a Qrohl ..,..^?%. 48 84 ?8
s Casino Team By 7
CHICAGO will justify its claim to the title of Windy City this week
when the baseball magnates of the country get together in
that btricken municipality. The meeting is offered in evidence
that prohibition has failed on another point. It was expected
that with the proper enforcement of the Volstead act there would be no
more gatherings of baseball magnates. But here they are gathering again
as in the damp days of yore, those dear, damp days beyond recall and even
beyond a referendum.
There is the same uneasines:, abroad that hovers just before a session
of Congress. Baseball fans always fear that a meeting of the magnates
may result in something definite, just ?s the people at large fear that a
Congreos may do something. But the meetings of the magnates come
and go and the game goes on forever, just as Congress meets again and
again and yet the country weathers it somehow.
Some of those who have been taking the meetings of the magnates
seriously are fearful lest the magnates will do something that will inter?
fere with the opening of the baseball season. Cornelius McGillicuddy,
the melancholy leader of the lost Athletics, in a fit of lugubriousness,
intensified perhaps by attending a dry banquet, expressed some doubt as
to the existence of the American League this year. But Connie Mack has
cause for feeling depressed. Admittedly a prophet of the cheese variety,
I have no hesitancy in predicting that there will be an American League
this year, also a National League and a whole lot of other leagues, in
spite of the windstorms that are now raging on the shore of Lake
Michigan.
Whether the lawsuits which have been started end abruptly or go on
forever, the little old American League will announce its schedule shortly
and the people of the various cities will not be enjoined from paying
their money at the box office. There will be no locks placed upon the
turnstiles of the American League parks. When the season opens nobody
would know that there was a baseball war, excepting the lawyers when
they come to the making of their income tax returns. It may end with a
fat magnate or two missing, but a magnate never drew a bleacherite to a
ball park.
Nothing of Less Consequence
COMEBODY has asserted that the magnates must get together or that
the national pastime will bounce right against the rocks. I do not
get his line of reasoning. Only the game itself matters. If it is good,
resolutions passed at a joint meeting of the magnates to that effect would
be superfluous. If the game were bad it could not be cured by a set of
resolutions.
The psychology of the baseball magnate is weird and inscrutable.
He bats not, neither does he pitch, but when the limelight is shifted from
his vicinity he utters loud and raucous cries of distress. For years he
has tried to talk himself out of money and professional baseball out of
existence, but the game has withstood the effects of the constant gassing. :
There are a few theatrical magnates who are jealous of the attention
that is given their stars, but the average theatrical magnate has the good !
sense to remain in the background somewhere in the vicinity of the box
office.
From all accounts the magnates will discover at this meeting that in :
all the United States there is no man wise enough and capable enough
| to succeed August Herrmann as chairman of the National Commission.
? The wisdom of the Burgomeister of Cincinnati is such that no ordinary
every-day penny-ante brand of wisdom could replace it. At any rate,
the president of the American League in long conference with the presi
: dent of the National League seems to have reached this conclusion. It
; may be that only a vacancy will replace Garry. But the game will start
i just the same, and whatever is voted at Chicago will have no particular
bearing on it. , ?
To paraphrase Harry Leon Wilson, I can imagine nothing of less
consequence to baseball than the meeting of the magnates at Chicago.
Hearing on Boxing Bills
HPHE battle for a boxing law for New York State begins in real earnest i
next week, when the proponents of a boxing bill and the opponents
will be given a hearing at Albany. This time there is some real organi
zation of those who want professional boxing to have another chance.
The boxing fans believed that the game can be cleaned up and rehabili
tated, and they will come pretty close to putting the thing across.
It was crookedness in boxing itself and not the influence of the Kill-!
joy Association that stopped boxing in New York State. The little band \
of antis, organized to object to anything in the form of amusement, ?
never would have been able to choke off boxing if the game had been worth !
keeping. The new forces behind professional boxing, led by the Army,
Navy and Civilian Board of Boxing Control, will bring the game back
and they will keep it clean. They are.making their campaign quietly,
for, unlike the professional anti, they do not care for publicity. They
are sincere and determined.
When boxing is restored, as it undoubtedly will be, it will be up to
these forces to see to it that the game is kept clean. The very men who
are responsible for the abolition of professional boxing are eager to get
back Into the game and mess it up again. Boxing will need men at the
head of it who know the larcenists and who will have the courage to bar
them in spite of their political power.
The Walker bill seems to be the best of the proposed boxing bills.
It would permit fifteen rounds to a decision, and that is fairly liberal. !
The provisions for the regulation of boxing do not matter a great deaL !
Everything will depend upon the selection of the men who will have con?
trol of the game.
The Parting of the Ways?
WILL Benny Leonard and Johnny Dundee sever diplomatic relations
when they meet in Jersey City to-night? It is hard to tell. They
have written each other very many firm notes, and they have met seven
times without either one having his hair seriously mussed. They have
done each other less harm than Damon and [Pythias.
The whisper has gone forth that the ?ads have become peeved at !
each other and that they may attempt to do one another as much bodily
harm as the padded mitts will permit. That is why the multitude is head-1
ing for the distant Jersey shores. They want to be there when some?
body drops. All of which goes to prove that science gathers very little !
moss for itself in the Queensberry game. The boys in the bleachers want i
to hear the flop.
Benjamin is supposed to be really angry at Johnny this time. If !
this is so it does not augur for the peace and happiness of Dundee this j
evening, for they do say that Benny has been under wraps at most of
the other meetings. This may or may not be so. Benny has been boxing
them all, and sooner or later he has dropped every antagonist with the
exception of Dundee. The Sc?tchwop has been outpointed and all that
sort of thing, but he always walks out of the ring on his own feet. He !
says that this is because he is one person that Leonard can not lick
Which sounds like a direct challenge, and may be the reason for the
severing of diplomatic relations, if it really is true that diplomatic re?a-l
tions are severed.
After this bout it is believed that Leonard will take up the matter
of Eddie Fitzsimmons in a serious way, if only to ease the great mental
anguish of that most silent of managers, Dumb Dan Morgan.
Regan and Dunn Victors
In Handball Doubles
Nine Games Arranged
For Bowdoin Eleven
I
Four matches featured the first I
round of piay in the Metropolitan As- j
sociation doubles handball champion- .
ship tournament, which were contested I
on the courts of the Annunciation Club I
in Harlem yesterday. The outstanding
match was that which found Cyril
Regan and James Dunn, Annunciation
Club, victors over Charles Beakey and
Tom Badinelli, clubmates. The score
was 21?4, 19?21, 21?17.
The summary:
Metropolitan Association championship
doubles handball tourney, first round?C.
Regan and J. Dunn, Annunciation Club,
defeated C. Beakey and T. Badinelli, An?
nunciation Club. 21?*, 19?21, 31?17; A.
Badinelli and J. Badinelli, Annunciation
Club, defeated M. Vernon and Robert
Dowllngr, New York A. C, 21?i, 21?18;
P. Ryan and J. MoCann, Pastime A. C,
defeated 8. McMahon and T. Carroll, An?
nunciation Club, 11?a, II?0; D. Dworsky
and A. Waldmaa. City A. C, defeated J.
'-?mane and M. Selohel, Annunciation
Club. 11??j Si?O?.
BRUNSWICK, Me., Feb. 8.?Manager !
M. Lawrence Willson- has announced i
the schedule of football games for tho
Bowdoin College eleven for the 1920
season, which includes nine contests.
This is the heaviest card arranged for
the Main collegians in years.
The list is one of the beat and most
well balanced the Black and White has
had in more than a decade. In addi?
tion to games with the Maine state
colleges, West Point, Springfield and
Trinity, newcomers this year, will be
played.
The schedule is as follows:
September 25, 8prmgfleld College, at
Spring-field, Mass. ; October 2, Tufts, at
Medford ; 9, Amherst, at Amherst, IS, Trin?
ity, at Brunswick; 23, Colby, at Watervilla;
30, Bates, at Lewiaton: November 6. Maine,
at Brunswick; 13, West Point, at We?i
foiatj 29, Wealayan. a? Boston.
to 2 Score
"Extremes" meet at "the
four corners."
Everything warm f0r
cold weather.
Everything cool f0r
warm.
In-and-out-of-season out?
fitting !
"Wardrobe" trunks,
bags, suit cases.
Steamer rugs. Irish wash
ables. Also authentic
Scotch tartans.
Rogers Peet Company
Broadway Broadwn
at 13th St. "Four at 34th St
Convenient
Broadway Corners" Fifth Ave.
at Warren at 41st St
Columbia Surprises
Bv Chess Victory
Over Staten Island
Columbia University sprang s di.?
tinct surprise in the second round of
the annual interclub competition of th<
Metropolitan Chess League, the gimn
of which were wound up in the earlv
hours of yesterday morning, when the
Blue and White team obtained a 5?'
verdict over the strong team of thf ,
Staten Island Chess Club at the room*
of the latter, in Stapleton. It was the
same score Joy which the collegians b.?o
vanquished the N. Y. A. C. in the open?
ing round a week earlier.
As a consequence they enjoy the dis?
tinction of heading the league table, it
company with such famous chess clubs
as the I. L. Rice Progressive, Brook?
lyn and Marshall's, all of which scored
their second victories. M. A, Schaplro,
W. Thompson, H. Jacobi jr.. O. Frink jr.
and M. E. Ross were the live winner^
from Morningside Heights.
City College, playing on seven board*
against the Ocean Hill Chess Club, of
Brooklyn, came away with victory b>
the score of 5?2. New York Univer
sity went down to defeat at Marshall'?
Chess Club, where the latter won b;
6H?IVis. Brooklyn cleaned up at m
New York Athletic Club and the cham?
pion Progressives beat the Swedish
Chess Club by 7?1.
. ??? ? '?? ?- ?? -
Foreign Football Assn.
Facing Disintegration
Disintegration of the Federation In
ternaionale de Football Association, or.
at least, the withdrawal of the Knglieli.
Scotch, Irish and Welsh national foot?
ball associations from the governir.f
international body or association ?f
soccer football is impending. A pro?
posal to eliminate the German, Aus?
trian, Hungarian and Portuguese na?
tional football ?organizations from thf
F. I. F. A. for some years to come h??
virtually disrupted the controlling In?
ternational body already.
The) federation has been .firmly e?
tablished for two decades. At present
it governs the sport in twenty-eifbt
countries: Argentina, Austria, Bel?
gium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark.
England, Finland, France, Germany.
Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxuembnrg.
Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Port?
ugal, Russia. Scotland, South Africa.
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay,
united States and Wales. With the ex?
ception of Argentina, the South Amer?
ican associations are only provisionally
affiliated, as also is Portugal.
The officers of the federation are:
President, D. B. Woolfall. Blackburn
England; first vice-president, C. L. Kor
nerup, Stockholm; second viee-pre?i
dent, Baron de Laveleye, Brussels;
third vice-president, Professor F. Hei?
ner, Offenburg, Germany, and secre?
tary-treasurer, C. A. W. Hirscbaai.
Amsterdam.
Fifteen Meets Carded
For Columbia Fencers
Fifteen meets, in addition to the few
already contested, are listed In tb* ]
complete schedule of the Columbi?
fencing team, as made public yester?
day at the university. The first event
will take place this evening at the Ne*
York Fencers' Club, where ColumMi I
will enter a team in the junior op*1
team championships. Only one ho??
meet is scheduled, that with Pennsyl?
vania next Thursday afternoon?ala??1
day at Columbia.
The complete schedule follows:
February 8, Junior epee team champ****
?hipa at the New York Fencers' ClBO? "
Pennsylvania at Columbia: 16. ^e* Zt.
Athletic Club at New York Athletic CH?
18. epee and srtber Junior Individual ??**'
plonships at the New York Turn Vereg
23, Columbia University Ciub at Column?
University Club. _-.
March 3, Junior national Individual ?<?
championships at New York Turn Veje?.
6. Bowdoin -at Bowdoin; 6, Harvard a?
Cambridge; 13, Yale at New Havenj I*
Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; it, ?je?
Academy at Annapolis; 26, New Ye?
Fencers' Club at New Yerk. Fencer?* OTt;
81, New York Turn Verein at New Tew
Turn Verein. _j.
April 6, French Y. M. C. A at frail?
Y. M. C. A.: 1? (probable?. IntereeUefl?*
championship?, preliminaries, at 1
Aator; 17 (probable). Intercollegiate ease*' ;
plonjrhips, finale, at Hotel Aator.
m ?"?
St. Malachy Five Ahead
The St, Malachy five won a eU0
and exciting game of basketball fW??*
the Holy Name quintet at Mjrob?*?*
Casino yesterday afternoon by a ?****'
of 21 to 20. Next Sunday afteWg
the Original Knickerbocker Phrf? *P
Grimstead In Ite line-up, will ?? ?ft^
opponent of tfce> Bair i?ma Ua*m 4.