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New York Yacht Club
First Race To Be Sailed
July 15 Off Sandy Hook
I Dates and Course Compromise of Requests of
Rival Yacht Guh?; Series To Be Decided in
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Three Out of Five Races, on Alternate Days
England and the United States, allies in the World War, will be
friendly rivals in a battle for the yachting supremacy of the seas begin?
ning July 15, when the first race for the America's Cup is scheduled, over
. the Sandy Hook course. This was formally announced by the New York
Yacht Club here late yesterday afternoon in accepting the challenge of Sir
i Thrtmn* T.intnn throno-h tho Povnl Ulster Vnr*Vit PluK nf Ttol-Foaf T?*?,,,*
Sir Thomas will attempt to win the?
world-famous yachting trophy with his
challenger Shamrock IV, while the New
York Yacht Club will defend the cup
won In 1851 with either the Resolute
or Vanitie, launched for that purpose
In 1918.
In announcing its formal and definite
acceptance of the challenge the New
York Yacht Club --made public corre?
spondence with the Royal Ulster Yacht
Club, which Bhowed that the dates and
course were the result of a compromise
of the wishes of the two yachting or
ganitatlons.
Favored Newport Course
The American club in agreeing to
race off Sandy Hook, beginning on
Thursday, July 15, and every alternate
day, not counting Sunday, until one of
the competing yachts has won three out
of five races, abandons its original de
?ire that the regatta be held off New?
port about August 1.
Th? challengers In turn acquiesce
to a later date than the one first men?
tioned in the correspondence, which
was June 24.
Considerable discussiotW'oassed be
j tween th? clubs regarding these de
[ tails and the sail equipment to be used.
I In general the New York Yacht Club
? acceded to the wishes of the Belfast
i club with one exception. This referred
j to the rule of measurement of sail area
\ which, it stated, "We must decline tc
j' change."
? The final letter of the correspondence
j* addressed to R. L. Garrett, honorary
1 eeoretary, America's Cup committee
[ Royal Ulster Yacht Club, which em
? bodies the decisions reached by the
r New York Yacht Club under date ot
j January SO, is as follows:
Final Letter of N. Y. Y. C.
"Dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of Decem
| ber, 1919, whica 1 have sub
\ mitted to the New ?ork Yacht Club
| America's Cup committee, which have
instructed me to make this reply:
"First, as to the dates for the
? races: We observe that you say in
your letter 'with regard to course.**,
i we had understood that the agreement
of 1914 would be observed a3 far os
possible, and yet in the challenge
| you have widely departed from the
' dates fixed by that agreement. It
[ Is not quite Clear to us why you
f felt that this agreement should be
observed as to courses but not as to
dates, particular y as, under the deed
of gift, it is the challenging club
that fixes dates, but the challenged
club that fixes courses, in the absence
of agreement.
"However, we accept your decision
that Thursday, July 15, be the date
for the first race.
"Second, as to courses, we have
considered the three grounds you
give for preferring the Sandy Hook
courses.
j "As to the first, whlah is that they
'aprroach neutral waters' as far as
possible, we do not quite understand
I what is meant by this. If by
f 'neutral waters' you mean that these
t courses are fairer for both contest
! ants as requiring less special knowl
? edge o local conditions, tides, winds,
L etc., we entirely disagree with you.
Argument?? for Newport
r "In our opinion the courses off
j Newport, with the starting point
? fixed sufficiently far to the south
\ ward and eastward from Brenton's
j Reef lightship, are much more free
from peculiarities of local conditions
than those off Sandy Hook, and are
i therefore much more fair to the
5hallenger, who is not presumed to
ave special knowledge of local
1 conditions, and this point is abund?
antly confirmed by our experience
in racing In that locality.
"The second reason you give is
that off Sandy Hook is tho historic
course for America's cup races.
t This is undoubtedly true, but it is
s equally true that courses off New
York were for a great many years
? :
the historic courses for our own
races, but as time passed, changing
conditions led us to substitute the
Newport courses, and we were in?
duced to make this change for the
very reasons for which we suggest?
ed a like change to you.
I "The third reason, relating to the
j attendance of the public, we believe
j We discussed sufficiently In our for?
mer letter.
[ -"However, as our suggestion of
I a change of courses was made in
j the belief that it was for our mutual
! advantage, and if accepted would re?
sult in a better and fairer test of
the contesting yachts, and you do
?iot agree with our views on the sub
?ct and we prefer to avoid differ?
ences of opinion so far as possible,
Wa have decided that upon this point
also, v c will accept your decisian,
and that the races shall take place
Off Sandy Hok.
Rit; Left to Challenger
"Third?As to the 'Marconi" rig.
J? our letter of October 20, 1919, we
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i Two College Relay?
At N. Y. A. C. Games
I A* ?nal th? annual Indoor games of
the New York A. (.'., which will be
?taged tn the 82d Regiment Armory,
??xt Saturday night, will have a col
i leglate flavor. There will be two col
1 "*? r?*?fty-**. ??? of them a match two
f mile affair, In which Harvard will at?
tempt to avenge the defeat by Yale in
} the recent Boston A. A. games.
? The Crimson four will be a differ?
, eat one than that which -Was led home
. by the Elis, and Harvard is confident
Of turning the tables on its ancient
rivals.
The other relay will be a one-mile
fir. In which Lawson Robertson's
if four from the University o?
nsylvanla. pushed hard by Prince
Cornell, Columbia, Rutgers, and
rgetown, hopas to hang up a new
?or Amerioan one-mile relay record
f -.
Stcdnbugler Wins With Cue
Hebert J. Stelnbugler defeaiod Sid
Mf M. Br?ssel! last night in the na?
to penal Class B amateur 18:2 balkline
| all Hard championship tournament at
> fib? Brooklyn Billiard Academy, by a
?corn et 200 to 189, in forty-two in
mhifa. Stoinbugler's average was
I 12-4* and his high runs 48, 14 and
If Brturscll's avorag? was 4 19-42 and
kta high-runs 32, 18 and 16. The loser
lad ontll tn? last two or three in
atng*. when Stelnbugler put together
?avara! ana clusters.
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Princeton Beats Swarthmore
WUNCITON. N. J? Feb. 17.?Prince -
ta iafaatad the Swarthmora basket- :
MtmT*a?Tfa*!!*** bjr * 0M" j
discussed the question of tho so
called 'Marconi,' or leg o' mutton rig,
and informed you that we would
; leave it to you to determine
i whether this rig should bo adopted,
but that If you determine this In i
the affirmative, then both vessels j
should be held to it throughout the !
races. I
"You now inform us that you will ?
not adopt the 'Marconi' rig, and we
therefore accept your decision as ap?
plying to both vessels.
"Of course, you understand, as
your lettor clearly shows, that by
the 'Marconi' rig, to which we re?
ferred and which our letter dis- j
cussed, we meant that type of rig
under which, as you express it, 'tho
whole of the area abaft the mast
is in one sail.'
"Our letter did not refer to the
type of topsail to be carried if a gaff
mainsail was adopted, and upon this
point we are of opinion that either
vessel, so long as she carries a gaft*
mainsail, is at liberty to adopt what?
ever form of gaff topsail she please,
but we must decline to change our
rule of measurement of sail area to
accommodate any particular form of
club topsail.
"Having, as we understand, now
reached an agreement upon the va?
rious points which we have discussed,
I beg herewith to o-nclose conditions
of the match for the America's Cup,
which are the same as those which
were agreed upon for the proposed
races in 1914, with the exception of
the points which we have discussed
with you in our present correspond?
ence and the conclusions reached
upon these points are embodied
therein.
"We are sending these conditions
to you in duplicate and have caused
them to be signed on behalf of the
New York Yacht Club. 1 trust you
will find that these conditions cor?
rectly set forth the agreement which
we have reached and that you will
return a copy signed on behalf of
your cjub.
"G. A. CORMAGK,
"Secretary, America's Cup Com?
mittee." '
Preparations Soon Under Way
In accepting these conditions as out?
lined by the New York Club, the Royal
Ulster Yacht Club'cleared the way for;
a quick acceptance of the challengo i
i and with these formalities completed |
! th actual preparations for the regatta |
?will soon be under way. In the main, j
! the conditions will be the same as
' would have obtained had the races i
i been held in 1914 and the challenger !
! will be the Shamrock IV, cutter rigged !
j with an approximate water line length I
I of seventy-five feet.
With the assurance that his chai- :
lenge would be accepted by the New j
j York Yacht Club, Sir Thomas Lipton |
; had Shainrock IV put overboard sev- j
! eral weeks ago at the South Brooklyn I
basin where she has been housed since j
her arrival here in 1914.
j The challenging yacht was taken to1
! City Island on Long Island Sound !
where she is now in winter quarters ,
! at Jacob's yard, undergoing alterations ?
1 recommended by Char'es D. Nicholson |
< who designed the vessel.
Regardless of the very severe winter
weather which has prevailed since the |
| change of quarters, the work of alter- |
ation was not interrupted. The yacht
( is completely housed in a building
i which is lighted with electricity and
well heated so that the workmen were j
not hampered in any way.
Robert Jacob- proprietor of the City
; Island yard, is Aipervising the work of
| alterations. He is in daily commun i
: cation by cable with either Sir Thomas
j or Mr. Nicholson, so that both the
! owner and designer are kept in close
touch with the operations on this side
of the Atlantic.
Shamrock's Keel Shortened.
It is understood that chief among
the changes which are being made on
the Shamrock IV is the shortening of ?
her keel from 85 to 80 feet. JThe im- ,
mediate effect of this reduced keel '
base will be to quicken the action of
the aloon in going in stays. Racing ;
with a snorter keel, it Is said, the vis?
iting yacht will be more susceptible to
heeling to leeward in a stiff breeze
than if the keel had been allowed to
remain the original length.
The change will give the Lipton '
aloo'p a greater tendency to heel to the
? breeze and enable her to sail on a !
longer water line baso. Yachtsmen
look upon Designer Nicholson's deci- I
slon on these radical changes as a !
bold stroke. He is making a bid for j
greater efficiency in windward work,
although the yacht will have the ad
vantage of a centerboard when the oc?
casion requires
Sir Thomas, It Is understood, has
given Mr. Nicholson absolute freedom j
to alter or add to the racing rig of
; Shamrock IV so as to obtain the great- |
est possible speed on every point.
All Favorites Victorious
In Women's Golf Play
PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 17.?All
favorites came through by good mar?
gins In to-day's first round of the j
women's golf championship. Chief
honors should lay between Miss Elaine
Rosenthal and Mrs. Ernest Byfield, j
both of Ravisloe, and Mrs. Q. F. Fleit
ner, South Shore. None of them" had
! matches to-day that were any test, but '
Miss Rosenthal should have a good J
.nitch to-morrow with Mrs. T. K. Mann, j
".uffalo Country Club, who shows con
-iderable strength. Mrs. Feltner will j
neet Mi3s Louise Mitchell, Myopia, and
Mrs. Byfield meets Mrs. Douglas W.
i'aige, Bolport.
Mrs. Fleitner played first-grade golf
o-day and defeated Miss Constance
Robertson, Knollwood, 1 and 6. The
latter has qualified in the Nationals'
:rst flight, hut her game at present,
though good, is not of this quality.
V' F. Taylor, Cornell
Football Player, Die9
ITHACA, N. Y., Feb. 16^-Wilber
force ("Babe") Taylor, le't tackle on
he Cornell 1019 vaTsity football team
and well known as an athlete, died in
the Cornell University infirmary here
.o-day, of pneumonia.
Taylor was substitute tackle on the
championship Cornell team, captained
y Charles Barrett, in 1916. He entared
military service in 1917 and returnei
to Cornell last fall. He was twenty
two year? old. Hi? home wu at Hub
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Dogs Owned by
New Yorkers Win
In Philadelphia
Special Correspondence to The Tribune^
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 17.?New York?
ers were prominent In the opening
day's classes at the eighth annual dog
show of the Philadelphia Kennel Club, ?
which began for two days this morning
in the 3d Regiment Armory. There
were 625 dogs benched.
The winning puppy in the dog di?
vision, from a field of twelve, was ]
Geelong Swordsman, owned by James i
VV. Ball, of Manhattan, and winner of ?
the best honors for a puppy at the j
recent New York show of the Airedale |
Club of America. Geelong Swords- |
man also captured the American bred
class, beating a number of mature dogs.
The winner's class for dogs was won
bv Geelong Gladiator, also owned by
Ball.
The best of the female Airedales was
Almonte Peggy, owned by Theodore
Olfermnn, of Manhattan, which took
'irst in the limit, open and winner's
classes and later was placed by J.
Robinson Beard over Geelong Gladia?
tor as the best Airedale at the show.
In Pomeranians Miss Elsie Blum, of
Manhattan, won the American bred,
c'a s, with Sable Sun. defeating the New
i'ork specially show winner, Jomera
i.ian Foxy Jim,, owned by Mrs. M. Koer
.in, of Y.onkers, which was second.
Subie Sun then went on and captured
vinncrs, d igs, and the special for the
best Pomeranian at the show.
Old English sheepd gs bro-ight in
he Wes minster s^ ow winner, Interna
ioinl Weather, which was adjudged
u best ut the C o v show in New York
Isa t..? victi r 'ji the best, at le show
special, lie is owned by W. A. Jami-;
.on. of Manhattan. In ('hows the win- ?
ling dcg was S/n'j, I'o?, owned by A.
Morrison, of Monlcluir, which won a? j
.1 e best at the chow snow in Now York
?. week a?0, bui was beaten at the :
Westminster by the Boston dog,
Doiran. Toe second to Ning Poo was
the Creen Acres Kennel's Crcenacre
Red Knight, owned by Mrs. R, K. Lin?
coln, of Manhattan.
The majority of the breeds went over
until to-morrow, when the New York
dogs should be prominent, especially
in th** fox terriers.
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Rowing Card Calls
For Over a Dozen
Regattas in Spring
More than a dozen dual, triangular
and championship regattas this spring
constitute the most impressive rowing
program in the history of Eastern col?
legiate rowing annals. Every race will
carry the added incentive of having a
bearing upon the final selections of
crews for tho Olympic games contests
to be rowed in August,
The early season dual races will
range in distance from the Henley
mark of one mile. 650 yards to a two
mile contest, with an average of ap?
proximately 1H miles. The intercol?
legiate regatta on the Hudson at Pough
keepsie will be rowed over a three
mile course, while the Harvard-Yale re
?atta on the Thames' River at New
ondon will be the usual four miles for
the varsity and two miles for the sec?
ond and freshmen crews.
The list of the more Important East?
ern collegiate rowing dates for 1920
follows:
April 3, Tale va Pennsylvania, at Phila?
delphia; April 17, Princeton vu. Navy, at
Annapolis; April 24, Navy vs. Harvard, at
Annapolis; Columbia vs. Yale, at Derby.
Conn.
May 1, Princeton ve. Harvard, at Bos?
ton; May 8, Columbia va Navy, at An?
napolis; May 15, Syracuse va Navy, at
Aouapolle; Princeton, Yale and Cornell,
at Princeton; April SS. Harvard vs, Cor?
nell, at Ithaca; May 2?. American Henley,
Child? Cup, Columbia, Pennsylvania and
Princeton, at Philadelphia.
June ?6. Yale va Harvard, at New Lon?
don. Oonn.
July 1, Inter-coUea-Ut? regatta. Poufh
keepsle. N. Y,
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Roush Offered $10,000,
But Refuses to Sign
EVANSVILLE. Ind? Feb. 17.?Eddie
Roush, center fielder for the Cincin?
nati Reds, announced to-day he had
returned unsigned his 1920 contract
calling for salary of $10.000.
Roush said he had not deddod
whether to ask for $15,000 for nis
work this season. He is said to be
opposed to the Southern training sea?
son at Miami, Fla., preferring to re?
main on his farm at Oakland City.
Ind. He did not make the training
tan* U*t mm,
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Va^?y Grantland Rice
(Copyright, 1920, New York Tribune Inc.)
The Village vs. The City
We present herewith an all-star selection with the original habitats
of its personnel?which is slang for where they came from?
Catcher?Ray Schalk, Harvel, 111.
Catcher?Wallie Schang, Wales, N. Y.
Catcher?Bill Killefer, Paw Paw, Mich.
Pitcher?Grover Alexander, Elba, Neb.
Pitcher?Walter Johnson, Humboldt, Kan.
Pitcher?Ed Cicotte, Detroit, Mich.
Pitcher?Jess Barnes, Guthrie, 111.
First Base?George Sisler, Nimisilia, Ohio.
Second base?Eddie Cortina, Millerton, N. Y.
Shortstop?Rogers Hornsby, Winters, Tex.
Shortstop?Roger Peckinpaugh, Wooster, Ohio.
Third base?Heinie Groh, Rochester, N. Y.
Third base?Buck Weaver, Stowe, Pa.
Outfield?Ty Cobb, Royston, Ga.
Outfield?Tris Speaker, Hubbard City, Tex.
Outfield?Babe Ruth, Baltimore, Md.
Outfield?Ed Roush, Oakland City, Ind.
The Preponderance
Here are seventeen names that represent the strongest machine that
could be picked from baseball upon the records of 1919.
Of the seventeen names no less than fourteen came from towns that
only an extremely limited few of the population ever heard of.
How many of the millions of fans who ramble through the turnstiles
of the big towns ever heard of Harvel, Paw Paw, Elba, Nimisilia, Winters
or Guthrie?
Yet these are the villages that turn out the major leaguers. From
tha seventeen names only Detroit, Rochester and Baltimore have an entry.
There isn't a delegate from New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia,
St. Louis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Washington or Pittsburgh.
There are eleven major league cities where baseball is played by thou?
sands. Only one of these can enter a name among the seventeen stars
selected above.
Asking the Why
New York, Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis and other big cities go in
with a big rush for amateur and semi-pro. baseball.
Why should the villager outclass the Big Town entry by a margin
of 5 or 6 t-v*l?
Practically all the great names of baseball come from the villages?
Mathewson, Ed Walsh, Miner Brown, Cy Young, on through the list.
Which seems to add another weighty problem to the increasing com?
plications that beset this age,
Rickard Again
After the conclusion of the Dempsey-Willard match, Tex Rickard
announced that he had promoted hia last championship.
But when the bidding for the Dempsey-Carpentier affair is com?
pleted, what odds are you giving that the peppery Tex will not be on top
of the m?l?e in exclusive possession of the battling flesh of both con?
testants?
Another Argument
"I contend," pens a bystander, "that wrestling is the most cosmopol?
itan sport in the world?more so than boxing, tennis, or golf. To help
settle an argument, please shoot the answer."
Judged by names and races our correspondent seems to be about
correct. Golf and tennis belong in the main to America, Great Britain,
France and Germany. Not to overlook Japan.
Boxing belongs to America, Great Britain and France, with Italy
and Germany barely represented.
The main rival would be track and field athletics. But wrestling, to
judge from various menus, belongs to America, Great Britain, France,
Japan, Germany, Russia, Poland, Turkey, Greece, Rumania, and what not,
with what not prominently represented.
Harvard Man Suggests
40-Play Football Period
BOSTON, Feb. 17.?A proposal to
change the rules of football > to regu?
late the length of a game by the num?
ber of plays instead of by time, will ba
considered at the next meeting af the
Football Rules Committee. The pjan,
advanced by Harry R. Coffin, a Har?
vard graduate, la said to have the en
Barnard College Girls
Clash in Hockey Match
Teams representing the senior and
junior classes of Barnard College
clashed for the college hockey cham?
pionship at the Notlek Rink yesterday.
The Juniors won by a score of 5 to 1.
Miss Anne Schmidt scored four goals
for the winners. The seniors' lone
R?J2T?i?*A ^?her Camp' Pfer-cyf?;it*"y wa? made by Miss Margaret La
Maughton and others prominent in the * , , ... . . ,.
sport, i Porte, pla-ing at right wing, a half
The object is to overcome the wide I minute before*tlme was called,
variation In the number of plays in i The teams lined up as follows!
contests directed by different officials, ! Jlin,ori fB) p seniora m
and to prevent a team which Is leading' Dorothy Well..Goal.."Evelrn Orne
from delaying In order to consume ? Ma-ion Ryi-nes.Point.Bve Jacoby
time. Coffin advocates a 40-play per- Mar.inri---Marks.o. P ii>i>n Kriegsman
ted with trip? for ?nol ?fror ffin?-h- Etnel Johnson.R.W.Margaret Laporte
?ZL, -V?5 .i? ?<-? * 8* . tOUCn- HeionSWre.U W.... Alle? Johnson
down and penalties for IOUla not count- Augusta Travers.C. . Bleanor Starke
ad M pugrtt. _Ana? Scarnldt.ft.. ?Margaret Stolml?
Jim Londos Gains
Supporters as Bout
For Title Nears
Joe Stecher, the world's wrestling
champion, and Jim Londos, the Greek
titleholdor, are fit and ready for their
battle Friday night for Stecher's
crown. The two titleholaera have sent
word to promoter Jack Curley that
they will have no excuses to offer
when they face each other on the mat
at the Seventy-first Regiment Armory.
As the time for the match draws
near the chances of Londos winning
loom brighter. The prowess of the
Greek Dynamo has boosted his stock
and many of the grapplers in this
city are confident that Londos will wear
out the champion and eventually pin
his shoulders to the mat.
The latest compliment comes from
Demetral, who was beaten by London
for the Greek title. Demetral met
Stecher a few years ago and claimed
he actually defeated the latter, but the
referee refused to allow the fall. Ever
since Demetral tried to obtain a re?
turn match, but could never succeed.
It was Demetral's intention to chal?
lenge Stecher, but losing to Londos
prohibited that.
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A. A. U. to Send Try-Out
Winners to Buffalo
At a meeting yesterday of the na?
tional championship committee of the
j A. A. U. it was decided to send to
Buffalo for the title games on Satur- ?
J day all of the winners of Monday's
j meet held at the 13th Regiment
I Armory, Brooklyn.
In addition, the Knights of St. An- !
I tonv will send Dan Canrio, sprinter; j
I Eliot Balestier, 600-vard run; E. W. i
j Marks, sprint and hurdle and relay !
i team. The Brooklyn A. A. will send
| four men. The local entry list will :
I probably comprise fifty athletes.
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a's Cup Th
Fultz Circuit
Holds Schedule
Meeting To-day
Agreement Between Major
and Minor Leagues Also
To Be Considered
By W. J. Macbeth
The annual schedule meeting of the
New International League will be hold
at the Hotel Imperial, this city, to-day.
At the annual meeting here in De?
cember, it was decided to play 154
games, condensed between April 21
and September 20 into five mo*nths.
President David L. Fultz, chairman of
the schedule committee, has the
draft of dates so well arranged that
the adoption of the schedule will or
should be only the matter of mere
formality.
There are certain other topics of
vital interest which will be discussed.
These have grown out of the some?
what chaotic conditions in baseball as
a result of the abrogation of the
agreement between the major and
minor leagues. The minor repre?
sentatives went to the big Chicago con?
ference last week hopeful of re?
establishing some such sort of work?
ing agreement with the majors as pre?
vailed in the good old days. Little
progress was made for two reasons.
So soon as the dove of peace settled
among the belligerent factions of the
American League all the major league
magnates decided it was time to shake
hands with themselves. They saw in
the settlement a highly profitable pro?
motion saved from disruption througn
internal friction. The celebration is
still going on. Minor affairs for the
moment were forgotten.
And, secondly, though the peace
paved the way for a speedy settlement
of the national commission chairman?
ship tangle no successor as yet has
been named to assume the office
which August Herrmann resigned. It
is felt by the club owners of the
major leagues that the new chairman,
whoever he may be, should have an
opportunity to display his finesse in
the prospective readjustment of differ?
ences with the major leagues.
It was the Class A A leagues that
acted as ringleaders, a year ago. In
the acts that led up to the abroga?
tion of the agreement. The Class A
A leagues now realize their mistake.
Like the majors they suffered little as
a result of the split. But the life's
blood, the bone and sinew of'Class A
A and Class A baseball has been
seriously affected.
The obscure minors, the little fel?
lows who through patriotic pride
were enabled to operate by town sub?
scription have been driven to the wall.
And not enough raw material is being
developed to recruit the higher classes
of the minor leagues.
The $100 and $150 a month player is
no longer known to the sticks. When
Class AA clubs attempt to interest even
untried rookies these talk in $500
terms. The big minors have felt the
kickback this spring. Few of their
players have yet signed. Salary de?
mands at the existing^alary limits
could never be met.
Several of the New International
League magnates who were in town
yesterday declared openly that they
would vote to have the International
League rescind its rule against accept?
ing playerB from the majors unde? op?
tional agreements. By doing so they
believe they can get the major castoffs
at more advantageous terms, as major
clubs are not adverse to the proposi?
tion of helping pay the tuition of
embryo stars. The New International
League will be better able than a year
ago to stand the pressure of high cost
of ball players. At the annual meet?
ing it increased its salary limit from
$3,500 to $5,000 a month.
This salary limit, or rather a strict
observance of it, will be another bone
of contention. It is charged that in the
past many of the first division clubs
paid little or no attention to the limit,
using every known subterfuge to cover
up "major" operations. The majority
of the clubs will attempt to throw more
rigid safeguards around the salary
limit, so that all will be forced to
operate upon a common footing.
A report from Baltimore last night
stated that Frank Baker had absolutely
decided to quit baseball. The death
of his wife dispelled whatever few
chances remained of his returning to
the Yankees this year, he is said to
have declared.
is Summer
While 1920 brings new
styles and patterns, the
standard of quality is the
same old story!
All-wool clothes.
All-leather shoes.
Hats.and fixings equally
dependable.
"The best is cheapest in
the end."
Rogers Peet Company
Broadway Broadway
at 13th St. "Four at 34th St.
Convenient
Broadway Corners" Fifth Ave.
at Warren at 41st St
Gould to Meet Cutting
In Title Racquets Play
BOSTON, Feb. 17.?The national
amateur squash racquets champion?
ship will be decided on the courts of
the Harvard Club of boston on March
6, it was announced to-day. The title
competition will be held in connection
with the Philadelphia-Boston Inter?
city tournament. Stanley W. Pear?
son, leader of the Philadelphia team,
is the present national champion.
Drawings for the national amateur
racquet championship pTay, to be held
at the Tennis- and Racquet Club her?
next Friday were made to-day. Jay
Gould, of New Yorkj many times
champion, will meet Fulton Cutting,
of New York; E. T. Frelin?huysen, of
New York, was drawn with S. \V. Pear?
son, of Philadelphia; C. C. Pell, of New
York, meets the winner of the first
named match, and S. G. Mort.mer, the
winner of the second.
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George Burns Signs 1920
Contract With Giants
LITTLE FALLS. N. Y., Feb. 17.-*
George Burns, outfielder of the New
York National League Basebn'.l Club,
to-day signed a contract for the 1920
season. The salary figures were not
announced.
Two K? O/s at Bayonne
Steve Latzo, of Hazelton, Pa., knocked"
out Joe Fox, of Brooklyn, in the first
round of a scheduled eight-round bout
before the Bayonne A. A. last night. Fox
was no match for Latzo, who put him
out with a well directed rifht hand
smash to the jaw. In the other bout
Mexican Joe Lawson knocked out Eddie
Josephs, of Staten Island, in the second
round. Josephs was out for fu'.ly five
minutes. Both men are heavyweight!.
Chief Mevers Qttiits Diamond
NEW HAVEN, Feb. 17.-John (Chief)
Meyers, onetime star catcher of the
New York Nationals, has retired from
baseball, it was learned to-night He
was a catcher for the New Haven club,
of the Eastern League, last season, and
had been expected to return to the
team this year. He will devote his
time to developing hw farm in New
Canaan, Conn.
Kyronen to Compete
Villar Kyronen has entered the
Brooklyn-Seagate Marathon, to be held
on February 23. Kyronen won the Yor.
kers Marathon in 1916.
Economies abound in the
Annual Sale of Clothing
Reductions are in force on the major portion
of our fall and winter suits and overcoats.
Overcoat reductions are The Suit reductions are
from $2.50 to $15.50 per from $2.50 to $18.50 the
garment. Sale prices are suit. The Sale prices are
$37.50 to $84.50 $31.50 to $66.50
No Charge for Alterations
Especial attention is directed to the fact that
the sale is exclusively of our regular stocks,
reflecting superiorities of quality, tailoring and
correctness for which these stores are famous.
Weber Se Heilbnoner
Clothiers, Haberdashers and Hatters?Eleven Stores
*241 Broadway 345 Broadway 775 Broadway *!185 Broadway
*44th and Broadway I 363 Broadway 58 Nassau 1 50 Nassau
20 Cortlandt *30 Broad *42d and Fifth Avenue
?CLOTHlNa AT TIUSSB STORKS