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Kilbane Outpointed by Valgar in Slow Eight-Round Bout?Yankees Sign Bob Shawkey
ChampionAgainDisappoints
Crowd of 10,000 in Newark
Challenger Holds the Upper Hand in Nearly Every
Round of a Poorly Fought Contest in Armory;
Title Holder's Sparring Partner Is Knocked Out
By Fred Hawthorne
Johnny Kilbane went to sleep last night as the featherweight cham?
pion of the world. It was no new experience to Johnny, for he has been
doing just that thing these last eight long years, but the fact is merely
mentioned this morning because last night Kilbane went through eight
rounds with Benny Valgar, described as a "French Flash," in the 1st
Regiment Armory, of Newark, and left the ring with his title "on the hip."
Valgar was entitled to the honors
that were distributed, outpointing the
champion in every round except the
fourth and eighth, which were even,
but his performance was not an im?
pressive one. A younger man than
Kilbane by several years, with a longer
reach and only half a pound lighter on
the scales, Valgar failed again to show
a decisive punch. In fifty rounds he
might have won from the champion,
but the chances are that Kilbane would
fall then only frov". exhaustion, not
from any punch the "Flash" handed
out.
Valgar's most effective blow was a
long, fast left jab to the champion's
ribs. Johnny's skin reddened under the
punches, and he evidently did not relish
the persistent pecking at h?8 midriff,
but Valgar could do no real damage
with these punches, and in the last
round Kilbane was certainly as active
as the Bowery Frenchman.
The featherweight king fought most?
ly in flurries, rushing Valgar two or
three times in each round and making
a show of furious fighting when they
were chest to chest, but he landed few
clean punches, whereas Benny's blows
were cleanly scofed, even if they did
lack the old TNT stuff. The boys ought
to "go well" on their next appearance.
New York Boy Winner
AI Ziemer, a bantamweight and
sparring partner and special pet of
Kilbane, did not fare so well as his
boxing mentor, for he was virtually
knocked out in the sixth and last
round if his bout with Abe Attell
Goldstein, of New York, after out?
pointing his man all through the first
rive sessions. Ziemer is a clever little
man. with a clean, snappy left and a
crushing right, and several times he
spun Goldstein around with right
crosses to the jaw.
But in the sixth round Al forgot to
stop one of Abe's wicked right hooks to
the jaw and went down for a count of
nine. When he arose, groggy, Gold?
stein finished him off in merciless style,
clouting the youngster twice more on
the jaw and hanging him on the ropes
before "Slim" Brennan, the referee,
stepped in and stopped the bout. Then
Ziemer fell forward to the floor and
had to be carried to his corner.
The largest crowd that has ever at?
tended a fight in the Newark armory,
estimated at 10,000, had crushed a
pathway through the doors long be?
fore Kilbane and Valgar entered the
ring. Two and three men to a chair
was considered a luxurious accommo?
dation, and yet there were still several
hundred worshipers of the God of
Swat outside the building trying to
jam their way in.
It was announced by Joe Humphries
that Kilbane had weighed in at 3
o'clock in Newark at J25V* pounds, and
that Valgar had'moved the beam at
124*4. As the articles of agreement
called for Valgar to scale an even i
124, Johnny claimed the $1.000 forfeit
money put up by the Frenchy from the
Bowery, and got it before he would
consent to leave for the ring.
The bout began with both men cau?
tious, but. finally Valgar started the
assault by poking a long left into Kil
bane's ribs. He went in on these
punches with a crouch, so that Kil?
bane found it hard to reach him. Val?
gar had the round and the next two
by a goodly margin, although he was
not doing any damage.
Champion Trades Blows
Once or twice Kilbane traded blows
with the challenger, countering with
a snappy left to the jaw, but his
punches did not carry the. sting that
they have shown on previous occasions.
In the fourth round Kilbane, who had
been on the aggressive throughout
more than usual, started hostilities
with a rush, carrying Valgar to the
ropes and pummeling him hard in the
clinches.
It was an even round, but Valgar
returned successfully to his attack to
the body in the next three rounds,
causing Kilbane to draw in his stomach
in the effort to avoid the blows. In the
seventh round the champion and his
challenger went at it like a couple of
wildcast, but the'kind of wildcats that
had their teeth and claws extracted
beforehand. There was a lot of swing?
ing and clawing, but little actual dam?
age.
Kilbane came out of the melee with
a little stream of blood flowing from
a cut on his under lip. Valgar's left
??ye was slightly puffed.
in the last round the champion kept
<>n top of his man all the way, smoth?
ering many blows and roughing Valgar
up in the clinches. He seemed stronger
than the challenger in these scrim?
mages, but his showing was nothing to
boast of, and it was the "consensus"
of opinion among the spectators that
the bout was a disappointing one. For
every man who felt that way you could
find two who were willing to be the
eomplanant's "yes man."
Belmont's Tracery Sold
In London for ?53,000
LONDON, Feb. 25. August Bel
mont's Tracery brought the highest
price ever recorded for a horse of any
kind to-day, Se?or S. J. Unzue, of
Buenos Ayres, buying the noted stall?
ion for ?5S,000 through a broker.
Tracery will be shipped to South Amer?
ica at the end of the present stud sea?
son. He is now standing for a 300
guineas fee in the South Court Stud.
Tracery is by Rock Sand Topiary.
In 1919 he won in total stakes ?19,171,
including such stakes as the St. Leger,
Eclipse, Champion and St. James's
Palace. Tracery was third to Tagalie
in the 1912 Derby.
The highest previous price paid for a
noted horse was ?40,000, bv J. B. Joel
for Prince Palatine.
I ?-?-m ?_
k Indians Off for Camp
M CLEVELAND.. Feb. 26. ?The first
m squad of the Cleveland baseball club
W left here tonight for the spring train?
ing camp ?t New Orleans, in the party
were Trainer Percy Smallwood, Scout
Jack McAllister and seven pitchers
The other pitchers and catchers will gc
direct from their homes. The fielders
will report March 4.
Naughright Breaks Even
R. T. Naughright broke even in tw<
matches of the Metropolitan Associa
tion championship three-cushion bill
ard tourney at the Broadway Billiart
Academy last night. He first lost tc
Gus Gardner, 30 to 22, but subsequent?
ly defeated Arthur Wickers, 30 to 20
In another match, H. T. Rose beal
Louia Servatius, 30 to 26.
' Smooth Fox Wins
Best Dog Trophy
At Boston Show
From a Special Correspondent
BOSTON, Feb. 2B.--In the last classes
of the regular judging at the show of
| the Eastern Dog Club to-day Doiran,
jthe Westminster winning Chow Chow,
1 was beaten for winners dogs, by Green
? acre Red Knight, owned by Mrs. R. K.
Lincoln, of New York, a heavily coated
red, which also won last week at Phil?
adelphia, where Doiran was not shown.
In old English sheep dogs Morris
Kinney, of New York, took winners,
dogs, with his Weather Optimist. The
1 Westminster victor, International
Weather, owned by W. A. Jamison, of
New York, was among those beaten in
this class. Winners, dogs, and the spe
, cial for the best of the Shepherd dogs
went to Star Medor. an American-bred
: shown for the first time, owned by
; Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Holmes jr., of North
i Adams, Mass., trained by R. C. Mc
: Callum jr., at Baldwins, L. I. The
resume winners, Ali Von Hoheluft, was
entered by John Gans jr., of Staten
Island, who also won winners in bitches
with Beauty Hoheluft.
There was a large closing attendance
despite a snowstorm. The variety
classes and unclassified specials were
the afternoon and night features. They
were judged by Charles W. Keyes, of
I Boston; Charles R. Wood, of Philadel?
phia, and John G. Bates, of New York.
The variety novice class winner was
the smooth fox terrier Sabine Rotary,
owned by H. G. Galsinger, of Detroit.
? The sporting class was won by the
pointing griffon, Lottie B., owned by
E. A. Watson, Lynchburg, Va. The
non-sporting ribbon went to the bull?
dog Censor, owned by Mrs. W. N. Gil?
bert Clark, of this city.
The variety terrier class was won
by the smooth fox terrier Ch. Sabine
Fernlike, owned by T. R. Varick, Man?
chester, N. H., second place being taken
by the Misses B. and G. De Coppet, of
Manhattan. The win paved the way to
a victory by Ch. Sabine Fernlike for
the best-at-the-show trophy.
Daley Elected Captain
?f Stevens Ball Nine
John J. Daley has been elected cap?
tain of the baseball team of Stevens
Tech. Daley has been with the team
for three years and has made his let
i ter twice in that sport, playing at
shortstop.
Practice is being held every after
I noon in the gymnasium. On Wednes?
day and Saturday afternoons the fifty
I candidates who have reported to Coach
Durborow warm up on the indoor dia?
mond, while the batteries have their
innings every day of the week. All
except one of last year's nine are on
hand, with plenty of promising material
from the freshman class.
Notre Dame's Eleven
Again Lists West Ponit
SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 25.?Notre
Dame's 1920 football schedule, which
has been a matter of conjecture, espe?
cially since it was announced that a
scheduled game with Harvard had been
cancelled at the request of Notre
? Dame authorities, was made public to
? dey. It developed that a decision of the
faculty to allow only one Eastern trip
was responsible for cancellation of the
game with Harvard shet for October 9.
The schedule follows:
Octot>or 2. Kilam?7xx); fl. opvn : 18, Neforaaka, at
l.triroln; 23. Valparaiso; 30. Army, at We?t Point
Noremb?iT ti Perdue; 18. Indiana, at Blooming
ton; 20, Northwp.itr.rn. at Evanston; ?!5, Michigan
Aggies, at East Lansing
White Outpoints Delaney
CLEVELAND, Feb. 25. ? Chisrles
White, Chicago lightweight, outpointed
Ca! Delaney, of Cleveland, in a ten
round boxing contest here to-night.
I Power Boat Men
In Annual Confab
At Palace Show
Interest in the motor-boat show in
| Grand Central Palace yesterday cen
| tered in the annual meeting of the
| American Power Boat Association,
I which was held in the afternoon. It
I was expected that important details
regarding the elimination trials to de?
termine the boats that would go
abroad to race for the Harmsworth
trophy would be thrashed out, but, r.s
Commodore A. L. Judson pointed out.
nothing can be done in that respect
until there is a meeting of the Motor
Boat Club of America.
The racing committee of the associa?
tion accepted the trophy offered by the
New York Yacht Club for a cruiser
championship race to be staged over
the New York A. C. course, on Long
Island Sound. Cruisers from 30 to 45
feet in length are eligible, and the dis?
tance will be from seventy-five to one
hundred miles.
The committee reported that it al?
ready had received and accepted three
challenges. The Huguenot Yacht Club,
i of New York, has challenged with the
Uonda, owned by Lieutenant Com
j mander A. B. Duryea; the Columbia
i Yacht Club, of New York, has chal
i lenged with the Farad, owned by C. F.
? Chapman, and the Keystone Yacht
I Club, of Tacony, Pa., has challenged
with the Marguerhea, owned by Com
I medore A. B. Corthell.
The New York A. C. has responded
! by entering the Victory 40, owned by
! Commodore H. A. Jackson; the Turtle,
? owned by Thomas Farmer, and the
I Maiilene, owned by Commodore H. M.
I Williams.
To Coach Carolina Eleven
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, Feb. 25.?My?
ron E. Fuller, Yale, '11, line coach at
West Virginia last fall, will be head
coach at the University of North Caro?
lina next fall, according to an an?
nouncement made to-day by Graduate
Manager Charles T. Woollen. Fuller
played guard and tackle at Yale, and
has coached at Stevens Institute, Colby
College, Haverford, Swarthmore, Hog
iElana shipyard and West Virginia,
New Zealand To Be Scene
Of Challenge Round Tennis
? 7
Draw for Preliminary !
Matches Will Be An?
nounced Next 2 Weeks
The cabled news received yesterday
in this city that Australasia has re- !
ceived and accepted, "with pleasure,"
the challenge of the United States j
Lawn Tennis Association for the Davis ]
Cup, while expected, will serve to still
j further stimulate interest in the great
I international matches and to offer a
stronger incentive among the leading
players to "make" the team.
For the first time in the history of
the famous trophy New Zealand will
be the scene of the challenge round
matches, and it seems to me that Aus?
tralia is paying a graceful and de?
served tribute to the memory of that
gallant sportsman and great player,
the late Tony Wilding, in this naming
New Zealand the land of Wilding's
birth.
Many splendid players have come
from New Zealand, but Wilding was
the greatest of these, the fame of his
exploits on the courts having become
worldwide prior to the day he was
killed in action in France, "fighting
the good fight" against the German
hordes. It will be eminently fitting
that the cup that Wilding helped to
win for Australnsia in 1914, when he
and Norman Brookes triumphed in the
challenge round on the West Side Ten?
nis Club courts, should be again con?
tested for on the late player's home
turf.
It is expected that within "the next
two weeks Australia will announce the
draw for the preliminary matches, and
, where they will be played. This will
enable the United States to know
; many months before the actual
! matches just what nation she will play
in the preliminary tests and on what
courts. All entries must be receieved
in Australia by March 1, and at pres?
ent it seems that the United States,
the British Isles, France, Belgium,
South Africa and Canada will bt
among the challengers.
The great tournaments throughout
this country next summer, including
the national singles and doubles cham?
pionship eventB, and the tourneys at
Wimbledon and at Antwerp, in the
Olympic games, in both of which this
country may have a team, will serve
to give a pretty definite outline as to
who will be the best men to represent
the United States in the coming inter?
national battles for the Davis Cup.
New Zealand must be on the eve of
a great forward movement in lawn
tennis, to judge from reports coming
from that country. Several players
from New Zealand made a trip to Syd?
ney, Australia, last month for the sole
purpose of witnessing the challenge
round matches for the Davis Cup be?
tween the British Isles team and the
Australian?. Nothing much is known
here about the quality of the New
Zealand turf upon which the next
Davis Cup matches will be played, but
it is a safe conjecture that neither
Brookes nor Patterson would recom?
mend that country as the site were
they not entirely satisfied with the
playing surface to be used.
Hockey Captain Injured
EASTON, Pa., Feb. 25. ? Captain
Frank Hart, o* the Lafayette College
hockey team will be lost to the Maroor
and White team for at least a week
Captain Hart received a severe bump
on his knee in the game last Wednes?
day with Pennsylvania at Philadelphia
He left here last night for his horn?
in Orange, N. J. A game with Fordharr
is pending for this week-end.
New Yorkers Win on Ice
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25.-The St.
Nicholas hockev team of New York
defeated the Quaker City seven at
the Ice Palace here to-night, 1 to 0.
Cadets Lose on Court
TARRYTOWN. N. Y., Feb. 25.?-Irv?
ing School basketball team easily de?
feated Stamford Military Academy here
to-day, 38 to 12.
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Winter? Where?
Who says it's whiter?though the gales be blowing!
Who says it's winter?though the skies are gray?
Who says it's winter?though it's sleeting or it's snowing
And a raw wind ripples in a drive across the way?
Hotv can it be winter?though the rate gale capers?
How can it. be winter?though it's muggy and it's daw}>.
When the bug starts turning over pages in the paper
To gather in the gossip from the training camp?
This has been a wonderful winter for ski jumpers, if that can operate
in the capacity of a cheering: thought in your behalf.
Another One
Here's another help-settlc-an-argument : "How do the Giants and
Reds compare as to infields?"
Daubert has it on Chase. Rath last year was better than Doyle, who
was in only fair physical condition. Fletcher is a more valuable man
than Kopf, and Groh will be well above any third baseman McGraw can
get. The Red infield is considerably stronger, or will be unless Frisch
turns out to be a sensation.
The Best One
As to the best infield in baseball?there isn't a great infield left?
nothing to even approach the old Cub infield or the Athletic quartet.
They are all spotty, with at least one or two weak position?, no
matter where you look. The best ones last spring looked to be Mclnnis,
1 Barry, Scott and Vitt until trouble arose.
What's the Idea?
Is it the desire of the New York L?gislature to arrange a bill that
will promote boxing?
Or to arrange a bill that will promote two or three fat and useless
jobs for political workers who must be taken care of?
Any time that sport gets into politics you can figure that sport will
get all the worst of it.
You can always gamble that there will be very little sport left by
the time it emerges from any politician's grip.
Boxing, to survive, should be placed under the control of a small but
carefully selected committee that has no axe of any sort to grind, that
has no political connection and that is looking for nothing beyond the
control and development of the game.
Until this is done there will always be an upheaval and a blast.
Let 'Em Flow
You that have sad tears to shed prepare to shed them now,
, For athletes who will soon start South where beads will crown the brow;
Where beads of perspiration start within the boiling sitn
As they are forced to catch a fly or score a practice run.
Alas! How cruel it all seems that one should have to turn
From bracing weather we enjoy to where the sun rays burn!
So you that have sad tears to shed, prepare to let 'cm flow
For those who hove to leave behind the wind and slush and snow.
"New York Icebound and Can't Dig Out." What piffle! A hundred
normal duffers armed with niblicks will turn the trick in two days if
they will go after the ice as lustily as they go after the turf of various
golf courses.
This thing of ice cracking should be ideal practice for any golfer.
And one of the main attractions is that you never are called upon to re?
place any divot.
"English and Scotch golf professionals will come over a month in
advance to get acclimated." How can they with the nineteenth hole in its
present demoralized state? And acclimation at $17 a quart won't start
very many Scotchmen leading the cheers.
"Babe Ruth would like to collect. $15,000 more.*' In which the Babe
has practically nothing on 100,000,000 of his fellow citizens.
Ty Cobb will start his fifteenth major league campaign this season.
He has lost so much of his early speed that he has little hope of batting
much above .370. He was up above .380 last season, but then he was
only serving his fourteenth year. That may make quite a difference.
We can see no particular reason in bringing the goal posts closer
together. A field goal is one of the big spots of any game, whether it is
made or missed. It is all very well to encourage rushing the ball, but this
will be of no great help when the other team persists in checking your
rushes. Which the other team is fairly sure to do whenever it possibly can.
In the mean while, what bizarre era has come upon us when one of
i the spring headlines announces "Giants and Cubs Hope to Stop Cincinnati
Reds"?
French Champion
To Meet Caddoek
In Garden Match
Earl Caddoek, former champion
heavyweight wrestler, has been signed
to meet Salvadore Chevalier, the
French titleholder, in a finish match in
Madison Square Garden next Tuesday
night. Another bout will bring to?
gether Jim Londas, Greek champion,
and Ed ("Strangler") Lewis.
The appearance of both Caddoek and
Lewis on the same card will give the
wrestling followers of this city a
chance to get a line on the two cham?
pionship contenders. Both of these
men are keen for another struggle
with Joe Stecher for the world's title,
nut it is possible I.ondos and Chevalier
may upset their plans. Chevalier is a
World War hero.
The French champion made his d?but
here a few nights ago in the semi-final
: to the Stecher-Londos match. He won
his bout in quick order. In tackling
Caddoek Chevalier will get a real,
thorough test, ajid if he manages to
conquer the man of "a thousand holds"
he will be in line to challenge Stecher.
Football Rules Solons
To Meet Here March 12
The first meeting of the Intercol?
legiate Football Rules Committee to be
held in several years has been called
: lor this city on Friday, March \Z.
During the war period there were no
! formal meetings of the committee,
: various interpretations of the rules be
i ing considered at informal conferences
: or by correspondence.
Important suggestions in reference
I to radical changes in the playing rules
| are to be discussed, but the chances
! of a majority vote in favor of these
proposed alterations cannot be fore?
cast. The suggestion;-- include a rule
to have the goal kick following a
touchdown made from scrimmage for
: mation, narrowing; the. width of the
! goals, numbering of .players and sev
I eral other revisions which would
| change the present form of play.
?
I Deadlock at Water Polo
To Be Broken To-night
The deadlock for first place in the
| water polo standing of the Intercolle
; giate Swimming League will be broken
! to-night nt Princeton, when the Tigers
| meet Columbia in a league game. Each
? team has won four out of five contests,
! but Princeton has the edge by reason
I of its victory against Columbia in New
I York several weeks ago.
Aftpr to-night's battle the two con?
testants will have only two games re?
maining. Princeton will meet Penn
at Philadelphia and Yale at Princeton,
while Columbia is engaging with C. C.
j N. Y. on Morningside Heights and Penn
! at Philadelphia. The usual swimming
events will precede the water polo
game to-night.
Colleges Enter Title Games
Cornell, Pennsylvania, University o:
Missouri, Princeton, Notre Dame,
Georgetown, Lafayette, Boston College,
Dartmouth, Columbia, Dubuque, New
Hampshire State, New York Univer?
sity, Rutgers, Penn State, Pittsburgh
and Syracuse have signified their in?
tention of being represented in the
national indoor championships which
take place at the 22d Regiment Ar?
mory on Saturday evening, March 13.
Georgetown Five Wins
Georgetown swamped St. John's Col?
lege by a score of 50 to 25, in a basket?
ball contest on the latter's Brooklyn
court last night. The Washington
boys displayed a better all around
game and always had their opponents
or. the defensive. Georgetown caged
24 field goals; Zezzali, Fess and
O'Connell each collecting six.
Senators Sign Bronx Boy
Albert "Kitty" Spark, of the Bronx,
signed a contract yesterday for a trial
with the Washington American League
club during the coming season. In
1918 Spark played with Jeff Tesreau,
Walter Holke and AI Schacht on the
Bethlehem team, and last year held
down second base for Newark.
?
14th Regiment to Hold Games
Colonel Frederick Baldwin, of the
14th Regiment, Brooklyn, announced
??st night that his infantry organiza?
tion would conduct a set of open games
on the evening of April 17. Several
special races will feature the program.
Homer Baker, track captain, will couch
the novice members of the team.
Star Boxman
Takes Big Load
Off Little 4Hug'
Miller, Southpaw, and Mur?
phy, Right-Hander, Cana?
dians, Also Added to List
By W. J. Macbeth
Bob Shawkey, veteran pitcher, strayed
into the Yankee offices at high noon
yesterday and left a little sunshine in
! Miller Muggins's lumbago-clouded life
; by subscribing to a 1920 contract. The
' midget manager also announced the
! singing of two rookie pitchers Ralph
'Miller, a southpaw from Regina, Can?
ada, and Chester Murphy, a right
i bander, who was a member of the
Winnipeg club last season.
Muggins, by the way, intimated very
' strongly after Shawkey bad come to
I terms that that little negotiation had
; taken a load off his back. It is be?
lieved a great many of the club's play?
ers supposedly unsigned have either
I lined up for the coming ?eason or
j have accepted terms. Shawkey and
'? Duffy Lewis were the only veterans in
I whose opinions the Yankee owners
i grossly underestimated playing serv?
ices. Lewis is evidently reconciled.
' He is on his way to Jacksonville via
New Orleans and should be awaiting
I the New York Americans when they
! report for practice at their training
j camp Monday morning.
A Willing Worker
For the last four seasons Rob Shaw
'. key has been the leading pitcher of the
, vankees. Me is one of the most willing
; workers to be found in the game, and
barring the season of 1918, the most
. of which he spent with an American
navy squadron in the North Sea, has
always ranked among the top-notchers
of the American League both in the
? matter of effectiveness and in the nura
ber of innings pitched. Beside taking
i !.. regular turn Shawkey is invaluable
i for relief duty. Most of his off days
j he spends in the bull pe.-;.
The good faith of Shawkey assures
Muggins a wonderful pitching staff for
1 the impending campaign. Carl Mays
' and Babe Ruth came from the Red
j Sox under contract for 1920. Mays,
; like Shawkey, is an iron man. Ruth,
since he earned fame as a home-run
1 clouter, can no longer see the old
' glamour to the pitching end of the
' sport. But he still is perhaps the
1 greatest southpaw living, and he is of
a disposition that would readily re
? spond to the call if his presence in
; the box were necessary to the best
I interests of the club.
Thormahlen, the best young 'left
, hander in the league, is under contract.
; Jack Quinn is also eligible. Even with
the staff mentioned Muggins could dis
i count any other hurling corps in his
company. There is little doubt that
! George Mogridge. a willing southpaw;
Ernie Shore and the half dozen rookie
| tossers will not only be in camp with
? the early arrivals, but battling for dear
life to make regular connections.
The rookie pitchers. Miller and Mur?
phy, whose signed contracts reached
Yankee headquarters yesterday, were
among the best of the 1919 Canadian
crop. Miller is a big young kid, twen?
ty-one years of age. He is 6 feet 2
i inches tall and weighs 190 pounds.
, Murphy, who is twenty-three, weighs
160 pounds. He is "> feet 11 inches tall.
The National Commission chairman
: ship will be filled within the course of i
a week or ten clays, in the opinion of !
, John A. Heydler, president of the Na
tional League. Ban Johnson, president
of the American League, was in confer?
ence with Mr. Heydler for several hours
yesterday, before he departed in the
early afternoon for Chicago. The two
major league presidents were in touch
with the local nominations for the of?
fice, so that it was possible for them
. to arrive at a definite basis from which
to work.
Boiled Down to Two
While Mr. Heydler would not discuss
the situation, there is reason to believe
that the possibilities, have been boiled
: down from the original five submitted
by the joint committee of two -Harvey
Woodruff, of Chicago, and one of the
three New Yorkers originally named.
Mr. Heydler will visit Chicago within a
week, at which time the two major
league executives are expected to make
an official announcement.
Every one hopes for a speedy adjust?
ment of the differences of opinion. The
office has been vacant since the joint
meeting in Chicago, and during that
| time at least two important cases have
- developed which will require a decision
| by August Herrmann's successor.
Messrs. Heydler and Johnson were in
I touch with the Western Union relative
I to a contract for news distribution this
j season, but were unable to act, as the
j members of the committees appointed
, by them had not yet reported. Colonel
I Jacob Ruppert, who is one of the two
eommitteemen for the American League,
j has been out of town all week.
The last lingering hope that John J.
I McGraw might accompany the Giant3
to Texas from this city simmered out
with his failure to rpturn yesterday.
The vice-president-manager has given
the office no intimation of his route,
hut it is now believed he may be mak?
ing a water trip from Havana to New
Orleans. Charles A. Stoneham, it was
reported by Judge Frank McQuade, ha3
been in Cuba several days to relieve
McGraw of the management of Ori?
ental Park.
Secretary Joe O'Brien awaits the de?
parture in a state of semi-confusion.
He is having difficulty securing accom?
modations of the lower berth variety
for all of the fledglings. It has been
necessary for the officials of the Giants,
because of transportation difficulties, to
disappoint a number of the friends' of
i the club who have been accustomed
annually to partake of the training
jaunt.
My! How the scissors fly!
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Columbia. 32-10
From o Special Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 25.?Penn??
; band of basketball t03sers four.d th?
Columbia quintet "easy picking," and
, defeated the visitors by the overwhelm
? ing score of 32 to 10 at Weightman
1 Hall to-night. The victory was the
| sixth straight conquest in the inter?
collegiate league for the Red and Blue
players and the fifteenth consecutive
win against all comers so far this.sea?
son.
Mike Sweeney led in the attack
against the Morningside Heights ag?
gregation, with a total of sixteen
points. Sweeney netted the ball five
times from the floor, and was success?
ful in six out of ten tries from the
fifteen-foot line. Mike's heavy scoring
to-night puts him within reach of first
honors in individual scoring, as but
two points separate him from Van
Slyck, of Yale, who leads with seventy
eight to his credit.
Center Bill Grave showed a com?
plete reversal of form in the battle
to-night and redeemed himself for the
"off night" that he experiei.ced last
week against Cornell. Grave scored
four two pointers and was in the ma?
jority of the plays. Danny McNichol
besides playing a great offensive game
held Joe Johnson, the great colored
forward of Columbia, from scoring.
The line-up:
PENN (32) Pos. COLUMBIA (16;
Sweeney.Forward.lohnson
Rosenast.Forward.Horowlt*
Grave.Center.Watson
Peck (?"'apt.).Guard. ...(Cap?.) P'arre'!
McNichol.Guard.Stut?
Field goals?Sweeney (6), '".rave (4).
Rosenast (2). McNichol (2), Farrell, Stutz.
Foul goals?Sweeney, 6 out of 10; Farrell.
2 out of 3; Stewart. 4 out of i; Stutz, non?
out of I. Substitutions?Yates for Grave.
Hunzinger for Rosenast, Boyle for Mc?
Nichol, Zucker for Peck, Weinstein tor
?Horowitz, Stewart for Stut?. Referee
Deeringr. Umpire?Ed Thorp. Time >f
halves?20 minutes.
?-?-...
Columbia Freshman Five
Easily Beats Schoolboys
The Columbia freshmen rasily de?
feated the basketball team from Whit"?
Plains High School yesterday after?
noon in the Columbia gymnasium. Th*
yearlings eaged sixteen goali from field
and held the visitors to four baskets,
the final score being 38 to 13. The first
half ended 20 to 6 in the freshmen'?
favor.
The line-up:
Columbia'23 (88) Pos. Whit? Plains (1*)
Edf-r .R. F . Schunck
SprinKhorn .R. p. Schund
Marshall .Center._01s<m
Farrell .7.. H.??n
Rellly .R. <;.Alrd
Goals from field?Eder (6), Rellly (*)?
Marshall, Wiltshire (2), Heaton Mcskow
skl Snow (2). Rchunck (2). Goals fre;n
foul?Bder itii. Snow (6). Substitution? -
Columbia: Wiltshire for Rellly. Heaton
for Marshall. Moskowski for Sprlnghorn,
Fosdick for Farrell. R.'feree- .1. Foster.
Brooklyn Poly. Time of halves--Fifteen
minutes.
Amtieret Mermen Win
AMHERST, Mas';., Feb. 25.?The un?
beaten Amherst swimming team scored
its fourth straight victory by defeat?
ing Wesleyan, 31 to 22. at ?nderst this
afternoon. Amherst also has to its
credit victories over Syracuse, Har?
vard and Williams. With the relay
the only remaining event, the score
stood 23 to 22 in Amherst's favor, but
th>> deciding race n'ever was in doubt.
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