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Yankee Players Contemplate Suit to Secure Money Due Team Finishing in Third Place
National Commission May
Next ?e Haled Into Court
m
Two Meifibcrs of Local American League Club
Who Have Retired Expected to Launch
Movement; Stars Slow to Sign 1920 Contracts
By W. J. Macbeth
Whatever the sentiments of the public at largo over the litigation
instituted against Ban .Johnson and his five supporting club owners it
can be said that the revolutionary element has the best wishes of the
talent under contract or reserve to the New York American League Club.
It is more than probable that several of these Yankees, emulating the
example of their employers, will soon take steps to have the law on Mr.
Johnson and his associates cf the National Commission for moneys alleged
to be due from the last world's series. This money, which had been
awarded to third position clubs of both major leagues, has been withheld
by the commission because of a protest lodged by President Frank J.
Navin on behalf of the players of his Detroit team.
Bob Shawkcy, star right-hander o?fi
the Yankees, was in the city yesterday.
During the course of his visit Bob the
Gob dropped in at the New York Ameri
can League Club's offices in order to get
some line on the prospective payment
of the prize money in question. Rob \
declared that he. like the other mem- ;
bers of the Yankees with whom he had
been in correspondence, could use the
money to good advantage right now and
that his patience was practically ex?
hausted.
A number of the players, he said, had
told him they had been advised by
friends of a legal turn of mind to
ru> the National Commission fc r the
amount withheld under protest. Shaw
key would not pro so far as to admit \
that he was prepared to enter the lists
of the civil courts against the Trium?
virate, but he is of the opinion that cer- !
toin members of the Yankees will not !
hesitate to take the step unless the Na
tional Commission shows a disposition ,
to act in the very near future.
Ultimatum to Triumvirate
It is understood that one of the I
Yankees, who lives near Cincinnati, has !
been delegated to act, as spokesman for j
his team associates at the annual meet?
ing of the National Commission in Gin- j
cinnati en Mond?ay, January ?r> next. He '
is expected to ] resent an ultimatum to j
the Triumvirate. If this does not get a '
rise out of the Big Three on the ques- !
tion of the disputed money, it i? un- !
derstood. two of the Yankee veterans !
who have announced their permanent
retirement will take up the cudgels for :
the common cause and hale the Na?
tional Commissioners into the courts.
That President Johnson of the Ameri?
can League, for one, does not intend to
recognize any Yankee claim to third
money nn'il he h,?s fought out the!
Mays case before a jury ?nay be sur- j
mised from the admissions of his sec- i
retary that two lists of "officiai" aver?
ages have been compiled for the einer
gency one including the games of
Mays while a Yankee and one eliminat?
ing them. It is ?i d i!i day, indeed, that
doesn't develop some new form of legal !
action in the American League tight.
The ball player, in these days of soar?
ing prices, is sh-.wing no undue haste ?
in subscribing his name to a 1920 eon- !
tract. Most of the major league clubs ;
huve mailed their contracts. It is ob?
ligatory for them to do so or to serve
notice that they wish to exercise the
option for reserve before January 1 |
???ach year. Several kicks already have j
been registered in local offices, show- \
ing that the "hold-out" problem next
spring is likely to prove more serious ]
than usual.
A number of National League pro- j
motors blame the early signs of unrest '
to the tight in the American League.
They say the players are taking advan?
tage of the split to use the club as it
was used in the Federal League war
days. The impression seems to have
gained credence in the ranks of the
players that the Big Three of thti
American League may go to the ex?
tremities of an open breach for the
purpose of launching a new league.
Such a move, of course, would be water
on the wheel- of the player.
"If this trouble leads to rupture,"
declared Johnny Fivers, who was in
town a day or two ago, "and Comiskey,
Ruppert and Frazee attempt to or?
ganize a new league they will 1'md all
the players of consequence with them
to a man. I'm an example of the
gratitude that was shown the players
who stuck by organized baseball in the
Federal League war. The stars who
jumped to the 'outlaws' were all par?
doned and came back at increased sal?
aries. Myself and others like me who
turned down flattering offers to jump
our contracts were dropped like live
coals to make room for the returning
'renegades.' Believe mo, the same mis?
take never will be made again."
It is the opinion of the Western
writers that the adjourned annual
meeting of the American League will
r?assemble in Chicago within the next
ten days. So far as known, President
Johnson has not yet issued the call
for this conference. But it is under?
stood that a number of matters of
vital importance must be decided be?
fore the annual meeting of the Na?
tional Commission. This commission i
meeting always is held in Cincinnati on |
the first Monday of January.
At its gathering the Triumvirate is
supposed to meet a committee rep re- ]
senting the minor leagues in order
?o effect a new working agreement.
The policy of the National League ]
toward this agreement was arrived at I
during the annual meeting in New
York, but its policy must be ratified]
or amended by the American League, as
mutual agreement is a matter of neces?
sity. At its short and stormy session]
here the American League never got ?
within a thousand miles of any minor ?
topic.
Though no one associated either with ,
the Red Sox or Yankees will admit
there is any foundation for the gossip, j
grandstand managers insist that out-1
?.elder Bobby Roth will be wearing the j
livery of Colonels Ruppert and Huston '
by the time Miller Huggins starts
South with his club. These prophets
also insist that Everett Scott will ac?
company Roth to this city. The story
goes that Huggins will send Pratt and
one of his veteran southpaw pitchers
to the Hub for Roth and Scott, and
that Scott will play second base here.
Provided Meuse] should prove half
as brilliant a third baseman as Coast
critics predict, such a swap would rem?
edy the crying need of Huggins?the
addition of plenty of speed without
sacrifice to driving power. Lewis,
Fewster and Roth would form a faney
garden. Meusel, Peckinpaugh, Scott
and Pipp should combine every excel?
lence of infielding art from defensive
j worth of the highest order to the
' deadly punch backed by unusual speed.
Whether or not Frank Baker returns
! the fact remains that he has practi?
cally reached the end of his rope, be?
cause of his lack of speed. Coast fans
insist that Meusel will soon make New
York fopget all about the former home
: run king, whether Baker is absent or
present.
Platt Triumphs Over Coburn
In Handicap Squash Match
Yale Club Player Ad?
vances Step Nearer to
Final Round of Tourney
Livingston Platt, of the Yale Club,
advanced a step nearer to the final ?
round in the annual handicap squash j
tennis tournament at tin? Columbia
University Club yesterday when lie de?
feated R. G. Coburn, of the Harvard
Club, by a score of G 15,15?11, 15 4,
in the fifth round.
This was the only match played dur?
ing the day, and Platt is now brack
etted in the semi-lina.1 round, in the
upper hilf, together with Donald S.
Raker, a club mate. They will clash
either this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock or
to-morrow at the same hour for the
right to go into the final round.
In the lower half of the draw we
find I. II. Cornell, of Columbia, and R.
E. T. Rigg8, of the Squash Club, and
Frederick S. Keeler, of the Columbia
Club, and Augustes J. Cordier, of the
Yale Club, the low handicap m in in the
tournament, all in the fifth round. Th? y
will meet in the above order at 6:30
k o'clock this afternoon. The two win
? ners will probably meet in the semi
W final round to-morrow afternoon, with
the final round match to be played on
Wednesday afternoon.
Piatt, who is rated at minus 5, and
Coburn. who is handicapped at minus
2, played an uneven match, Coburn
striking his stride first and practically
running away with the first game.
Platt came .stronger in the second
game, particularly in the last half, and
in the third and final game the Yale
man set an invincible pace, scoring
eight points in a row, during which he
and Coburn played some of the pret?
tiest squash oi the tournament.
There was. a lot of swift stroking by
.. Coburn in the opening session, the
Crimson representative sending the
ball around the court at such a keen
pace that Platt was often caught out
of position mid many of his returns
landed in the tell-tale. He established
a big lead on points and was going so
well that it did not seem likely that
his Yale rival could overhaul him.
But in the second game Platt made
his bid, and it was a winning etrort.
He showed faster footwork in getting
about the court and began to score
aces on spectacular "gets " Coburn
stuck to him grimly, and for a tune it
appeared as though he would ..ke the
match in straight gimes. The rallies
were fast and sonsational and those in
the gallery had plenty of opportunity
to applaud.
Platt, maintaining unusual control.
heran to abandon straight, bard hit
up swift and soft shots in such be?
wildering manner that Coburn could
not successfully gauge his own shots.
Platt won this game at 15 -11, bring?
ing the match all square, and then they
began the third.
The Y'ale man soon indicated that he
was out for blood, starting off at a
winning pace and holding it clear to the.
?nil. He showed great cleverness in
his round-the-court shots, and his own
"gets" were spectacular, as he took the
returns in every conceivable position.
'I ry as Coburn would, he did not seem
abl<> to place the ball beyond the reach
of his Y'ale rival, and the points went
steadily in Platt's favor.
In the last few hands Platt hit his
real stride and overwhelmed Coburn
by the variety of his s'iots and his skill
at placement. Coburn was able to
gather only half a dozen points while
his opponent was piling up twenty, and
winning a well played and interesting
match.
Platt's work yesterday has caused a
! change of opinion among those who
. have been following the progress of
? the tournament, and the general feel
i ing last night seemed to be that yes
i terday's winner will triumph over
i Baker, who is on the scratch mark.
' The latter, however, has been playing
excellent squash in all his matches.
I and it may he that Platt's handicap
? may prove too great an obstacle in
i the path to victory.
'? Champion Bethlehem
Soeeer Team Again Loses
What the New York Football Club
accomplished a week ago the soccer
eleven of the Erie Athletic Association
practically duplicated at Clark's Field
in Newark yesterday, when the Bethle?
hems, national champions, were de?
feated in Another championship game
of the National Football League by the
score of 2 goals to 1.
The score stood even twelve minutes
from time, when the 2,000 spectators
were thrilled by Brierley's brilliant
cross to Tom Stark, who shot the win
' ning goal.
The line-up:
' Brie K. A. (21 rosttion Bethlehem (1)
" ard. <l. Pum-an
'?'?'"i.R. B.Fletcher
p??l .I- H.Ferguson
ingrain. It. H.Murray
i-,. . . c ? ? i, ... .,.._,,
H?>U.!.. M.Blakey
I now ''s.O It.Slbbald
Starb .IK.Pepper
Koel.sc h .C.Hani?
Nlelson.I t..Forrest
'; r v.O. 1. .Fleming
Goals: BethlehemPepper, Erie A. A.?
Koolsch, Stark. Referee?T. Flndlajr.
i ,i,,.?.-.,..r {. H Portar :in?l R, Morrison.
When Fellers Need Friends ? ; B* briggs
(Copyright, 1919. New York Tribune Inc.)
"Mathematical^ System Used
In Ranking Tennis Players
Human Equation Lost j
Sight of in Opinion of
Critic of This Method
By Fred Hawthorne
There is no doubt in my mind that
the ranking committee of the United ?
States National Lawn Tennis Associa- ?
tion, in ranking the leading players <
of the country for the season of 1919,j
spent many arduous hours in arriving j
at its final conclusions and did its .
work conscientiously and disinterest?
edly.
That committee was guided entirely j
in its work by the new "mathematical"
process of ranking the players, a more
or less complicated system of obtain?
ing a line on just what a player has
accomplished during the season of
tournament play. I have heard this
system highly praised by those inter?
ested, and the statement has frequently
been made that it is absolutely infal?
lible in its working, the final results be?
ing an exact appraisement of the play?
er's worth.
Where Figures Lie
It seems paradoxical to say it, but
figures lie in this case. The commit?
tee has completely discarded the hu?
man equation in setting up its rank?
ing and has taken up with a mathe?
matical, mechanical process that con?
tinually errs in rating the players.
There are many, many instances of
this. I could pick out half a hundred,
probably, were I to go over the men
and women's singles list and the men's
doubles list.
As an illustration, and entirely at
randor.i, take the cases of A. L. Green
jr., of Chic"go, and Vincent Richards,
of New York. What magic do the
committee's fijjHrcs contain that can
j elevate Green to the No. 2.1 position
and set Richards, national indoor
champion, at No. ;?2, a full "class" be
?indV
You never heard of Green? What
did he ever win? I can only'tell you
that A. L. Green jr. once won the
Chicago city championship in singles,
and that he was Ralph L. Burdfek's
| doubles partner list season, and that
1 do not believe he could defeat more
?!an three or four of the men ranked
j in the next twenty below ?rim. Out?
side of Richards, we find Maurice E.
i McLoughlin, of California, placed be?
low Creen, as well as Harold Throck
morton, Robert Le Roy and "Peck"
I Griffin; just to mention some of the
, more striking cases.
I have already referred to t'^e plac?
ing of Axel Gravem, of San Francisco,
'in the N.?). 19 position, w''ere he tops
j the men 1 have mentioned, besides
. II. C. ?lohnson. Leonard Beekman and
?? Dear. Mathey.
Hardly of "First Ten" Rank
I am not speaking blindly, for I saw
| Green in several matches at Cincinnati
j and at Chicago last summer. In the
metropolitan lawn tennis district ho
would hardly be in the "first ten"
ranking men at the West Side Tennis
Club.
The committee, in explaining its
! methods, remarks that "the ratings
? speak for themselves." They do, for
| sooth, but what is it they say? Cer
j tainly, not that this new "system" is a
I fair gauge of a player's worth.
To go back to the top of the heap,
I the committee has stated that men
i rrted within five points of ea<"n other
arc in the same class. Yet we find
! William M. Johnston at No. 1 with a
! rating of ?11.6 and Tilden at .5.6. Is
| not Tilden in the same class with the
i champion ?
These two players met four times
? during the season of 1919. Tilden de?
feated Johnston twice, once in the East
W? st matches at Cincinnati, and once
; at the Newport Casino, and Johnston
I was victorious twice -at Chicago, in the
final of the national clay court cham
1 ,-;., ?.; ' .",] t v.-,,?^? v.vu !-.:? f?pn
tomber, when he won the national title
on turf courts by vanquishing Tilden
in tl'-.r fina, round.
On sets won the two were on even {
ttrmr, if I mistake not, and although it
is true that the champion was the win
7 <T in the more important tourneys, ?
there cannot be such a wide margin of
superiority.
The men's doubles ranking ?s afflict?
ed with the same faults as the singles
ratings, and the most striking illus?
tration of this is seen in the placing
of Tilden and Richards at the No. 7
position, with 7.2 points, as against
the ?9.7 of Brookes and Patterson, the .
?5.5 of Johnston and ?riffin, the 0.7 of
Alexander and Voshell, the 1.8 of Me- i
Loughlin and Bundy, the ,'t,7 of Robert
and Howard Kinsey, and so on down
the line.
It will be borne in mind that Tilden
and Richards, then the national doubles
champions, were defeated by Brookes
and Patterson in the challenge round
at Newport in August, after a desper?
ately played match, during which the
final result was frequently in doubt.
No other team gave th?' Austra?
lians such a keen struggle, and it was
the only match that Tilden and Rich?
ards could play in the national doubles
tournament, since they were the stand?
ing-out champions.
Summing up, if the "mathematical
\ system" of ranking can produce the re?
sults detailed above, is it not time that
! we went back to the old method, by
; which some attention was paid to the
knowledge of what a player could
really do?
We don't care if the "figures" prove
that Albert L. Green jr. or Axe! Gravem
are better tennis players than Maurice
McLouglilin or Vincent Richards. Our
common sense tells us that this is not
: So, and it will require a lot more than
"vulgar" fractions to prove to the con
; trary.
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Ratican's Playing Enables
Robins to Defeat Tebo
i The unerring toe of Harry Ratican,
leading American center forward, gave
, the Robins Dry Dock Football Ciub a
,3 to 1 victory over the Tebo Yacht Ba
' sin Football Club, also of Brooklyn, in
the third round of the national soccer
championship at Todd Field, South
Brooklyn, yesterday. Ratican shot two
I of the three Robins goals and his pass
to McGuire accounted for the third
tally for the undefeated Erie Basin
t eleven.
The Tebo team, young and light,
showed to great advantage on a field
slippery in spots from snow that ha?i
not been cleared cleanly. It gave the
strongest contenders for the 1919-'20
' national title in the East a hard battle
to win.
West Virginia to Play
? Pittsburgh Eleven Again
MORGANTOWN, W. Va., Dec. 21.
! The date for the 1920 meeting between
' University of Pittsburgh and West
; Virginia University was fixed to-day
j as October 9. The game will again be
I played at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh,
i where Pitt triumphed 26?0 in one of
j the biggest upsets of the 1919 season.
The date is the same relative Saturday
! as this year. This makes seven major
; engagements for West Virginia. Le
! high. Princeton, Yale, Rutgers, Wash
i ington and Jefferson have already been
: carded.
Morse Drydock Wins
Morse Drydock's soccer team of
. Brooklyn was successful in the Na
| tional League game played at Morse
| Oval in Brooklyn yesterday, where the
j Merchants Ship eleven was the visit
i ing side. The ground was too slow
for the best football, but the home
team showed its superiority by winning
hv ?)x-? ?<--%r> rf r. ?-, '-i ? i n.
New Football Body
At Yale Working
On 1920 Schedule
SlH'cial Corrcs-pondcne*
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Di'c. 21.?Yale's |
newly appointed graduate football com- ?
mittee, consisting of Brinck Thorne,
Johnny Kilpatrick, Ted Lilley, Louis
Stoddard and Ray Biglow, has decided
to get down to cases during the Christ?
mas vacation and to discuss the ar?
rangement of a schedule for n?'xt fall.
The work has been b.;gnn by Manager
Trousche of next year's team, in con?
nection with Captain Tim Callahan.
The Harvard and Princeton games
are assured, and it was learned to-day
that four new opponents have been ap?
proached regarding games - West Point,
Colgate, University of West. Virginia
and Lafayette. The Lafayette and the
M'est Virginia games are regarded as
certain to be played. West Virginia
will come here on October 23, with La?
fayette probably October 1<>. The Army
will get an early November game, while
, the Colgate datt? is uncertain.
. The Yale management has made no
? announcement regarding this fall's op
! ponents. Maryland and North Carolina
j made a sportsmanlike impression, but
' they were too weak to aid in the devel
I opinent of the Yale eleven, and it is
! not expected that they will reappear
Ion the schedule. A game with \Vill
? iams has been discussed, but the New
; England colleges aro not looked upon
as quite strong enough for the rigid
i test which Yale will make in preparing
? its schedule next fall.
j Lafayette, Colgate, West Point and
1 West Virginia comprise four teams of
'stronger caliber than any opponent on
the Eli schedule the last fall except
Harvard and Princeton.
The new football committee believes
that the gridiron sport will easily prove
the greatest American athletic attrac
' tion of the fall, if it is encouraged and
developed, and that the Yule Bowl will
: be filled next year by both Harvard
and West Point, and that the other
proposed games will attract crowds of
between 30,000 and -10,000 people.
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]\. Y. A. C. Track Meet
To Be Held at Armory
The athletic committee of the New
York Athletic Club announced yester?
day that the annual indoor track and
?Id ?.rames would take ?lace at the
22d Regiment Armory, on the eve?
ning of February 21.
It was said that efforts were made to
return the games to their old setting
in Madison ?Square Garden, but that it
was impossible to obtain the desired
date there. Fourteen events will con?
stitute the program, of which four
will be the special fixtures of former
years.
Tyrconnell Celts Win
The Tyrconnell Celts noticed another
victory in the Metropolitan Football
League yesterday by defeating the
West New York Blues by -1 goals to 1
on the grounds of the latter in Wee
\ hawken. At naif time, the winners led
: by ?i 1. O'Neill shot two goals and
Vaughan one in the first period while
' Dillon scored for the Blues. Vaughan
I scored again in the second half.
New Sport Policy al Penn
The University of Pennsylvania will
play its major sports of football, base?
ball, track athletics, basketball and
rowing the year round.
When the Christmas holidays end on
January ,r> Dr. Charles M Wharton, di?
rector general of athletics, will issue a
call for all P nn students to report to
him for football.
New Style Golf Clubs
Rumor has it that wooden golf clubs
j will be lighter than formerly. One weii
, known manufacturer finds that prac
j tically all the leading "pros" are lean?
ing to the lighter weapons, and the
claim is made that th? ~veragt ama
I
N ALL FAIRNESS
+ * ?y 1 w- ?-MGEEHAN
(Copyright, 1919, New York Tribune Inc.)
SEVERAL people have asked me to express an opinion as to the
"charges" of crookedness in the last world's series. In my opin?
ion there have been no charges made. There have been plenty
of indefinite insinuations and vague inuendoes, also some inco?
herent demands for investigations. Investigations of what?
In all sincerity I believe that the world's series between the White
Sox and the Cincinnati Reds was absolutely honest, though I was one
of tho.se unlucky prophets who predicted that the White Sox would win.
I did not think that the Reds could boat them until I saw them do it.
It was one of those form reversa^, or my dope had a lot of kinks in it.
One's dope frequently ?rets that way. In the course of a more or less
checkered career I frequently have picked them wrong and I am willing
to admit it.
If I thought that there was the slightest foundation for the insinua?
tions against the playing of the last world's series I would not hesitate
to say so. But it seems to me that these whispers, tkese vague mutter
ings, are decidedly unfair to the only professional sport that has been
kept absolutely clean to date.
Whatever the mistakes of the magnates may have been, the game
itself has been uncontaminated. It may not stay that way. With the
revival following the war there has been so much money earned by pro?
fessional baseball that it eventually will fall into the hands of people
who will want to manipulate it and to make it a gambling proposition.
When that happens they might as well raze the concrete grandstands
that cost so much to erect. The game will be killed.
If there are any real charges against players on either team I hope
that they will be produced. If any players have been guilty of what has
been insinuated against unnamed baseball players I am quite sure that
a man of the stamp of Comiskey will deal with them-as they deserve.
In the meantime I do not see the justice of spreading the scandalous
gossip of a few cheap gamblers who are liars and thieves at heart and
whose mutterings do not merit the attention of clean sportsmen. I prefer
to believe in professional baseball until it is demonstrated that it has
gone the way of all professional sport.
Will Number the Players
AS HAS been announced in these pages, it is certain that all of the
university football teams will number their players next year. Yale,
Harvard and Princeton have decided to make this concession to the
public. It seems that the coaches have been the ones who held out
against the numbering. They thought that it would aid in the detection
of their private strategy.
Numbering the players certainly will give the spectators consider
ably mote enjoyment, and it will not work any great hardship on the
strategists. I know that the game has been a mystery to the classmates
of some of the players on the teams that did not number them. A cadet
captain at the Army and Navy game detailed a few cadets to call plays
and players to the press box at this year's game. The cadets were in
doubt half the time as to who was carrying the ball. I cite this in order
that the football managers of the service colleges may consider the
advisability of following tho lead of Yale, Harvard and Princeton in the
matter of numbering. The service colleges, because the interest in them
is more general, certainly should be keen to take a step that would be so
acceptable to the general public.
American Athletes Abroad
'"pHEY are planning quite an extensive British invasion from Yale next
year. At first it was intended to send over the track team to com?
pete with Oxford and Cambridge. Now the plan under consideration will
include a Yale tennis team and the Yale crew to race on the famous
Henley course. This invasion depend? upon the acceptance of the two
English universities and the backing of wealthy Yale alumni.
A project of this sort certainly deserves backing. Trips of this
kind have a real educational value. It is too bad that the English univer?
sities do not play our brand of football. What matches Yale-Cambridge
or Harvard-Oxford international intercollegiate football games would be.
While the English fathered football its youngest offspring, the American
intercollegiate game, is the favorite child. They tried the English rugby
game out on the Coast when intercollegiate football was banned because
of the fatalities that occurred in the old mass momentum plays. But it
never took hold.
Some Canadian friends of mine who saw some of the big games
this year were speculating on tho chances of getting the American col?
leges to adopt the English game for the sake of international matches.
I suggested that the English and Canadian colleges ought to adopt the
American game. And the war was on. There is no great chance of any
international football games on either basis.
Collegians Take Up Polo
IT BEGINS to look very much like intercollegiate polo next year. "Vale
was the first college to take advantage of the offering of the United
States government; of mounts and polo paraphernalia. Cornell also has
! responded.
To prevent some over-earnest statesman from rising to know why
j the army is extravagant enough to be offering polo oufits to the colleges,
! I might explain that this is in accordance with a War Department order.
i Some of the ranking generals of the United States army have advocated
j polo in the army for its influence on good horsemanship. The lending
I of mounts and polo paraphernalia to the colleges is in line with the lend?
ing of small arms and various accoutrement to encourage military train
! ing in the colleges.
Polo certainly is a game that will appeal to the college athlete. The
I only reason why it was not adopted before this was because of the expense
entailed. Now that most of the expense is shouldered by the War Depart
, ment?and it is an expenditure that is justified?there is no reason why
i there should not be an intercollegiate polo league. By way of sugges?
tion?there are many wealthy college graduates who are interested in
; horses and in polo. It would encourage the game if one or several of
, them would donate a trophy for the intercollegiate polo championship.
Centre College Vindicated
i AM very glad to receive the proof that the.re is not the slightest
suspicion of professionalism in the personnel of the football team of
I Centre College; Kentucky. It is too bad that the splendid record of this
; team was marred to some extent by unjust and unfounded accusations.
| Unfortunately those accusations were too freely accepted by those who
i were incredulous as to the ability of a college of that size to acquire so
powerful a team legitimately.
But when you come to think of it, there was nothing so strange
about it after all. They always have bred a pretty fair band of fighting
youngsters in the Blue Grass vicinity, and it takes lighting youngsters
to make a football team.
U. of Detroit Heard From
; CHOUGH the football season of 1919 already is in the dim distance,
here is a plea from the Detroit Chamber of Commerce that ought
j to be answered :
During the football season of 1919 we had here in Detroit a
football team which we consider second to none. We are tendering
the members of the University of Detroit eleven a banquet in appre?
ciation of their efforts on the gridiron. But we desire to take an
active interest in the football team of which we are so proud. For
that reason \ve are addressing the leading sports editors of the
United Staves, requesting of each one that he aid us in securing the
very best of opponents for the season of 1920.
We of Detroit are a cosmopolitan people, and we desire to see
the best teams of the East opposed to University of Detroit on the
football field. We are very anxious to have our team try conclusions
with the very best in the East. We are particularly anxious to
arrange at least two games in the Atlantic seaboard states for 1920.
We would like very much to see U. of D. play Yale at New Haven
or Harvard at Cambridge. We would also like to arrange a Colum?
bia-University of Detroit game for Election Day 1920, the contest
to be played at the Polo Grounds. In addition to that we will invite
Cornell and other Eastern teams to visit Detroit.
Longfellows Score Win
A clean-cut victory by 4 goal? to 0
for the Longfellows was the result of
"?--???. 0?|>niiplr#p *Vl*?h th" Tt>l-?-?->ri*'
Americans in the New York State Foot?
ball League game at the Ridgewood
Baseball grounds, in Brooklyn, yester
1 dav
Socks for his merry old
sole!
Silk. Wool. Lisle. Cott n
Four-in-hands to tie his
friendship closer!
Rich Bilks
A cane to add to his col?
lection!
? >r umbrella
Traveling bag to lend
joy to his travels!
Suit cas? s. Trunk .
Fur lined gloves?if you'd
extend a glad hand!
?,,- wool lined
Gift order on us so he can
choose for himself!
Everything men and boys wear. Sport.
irri; Goods, Luggage.
Rogers Peet Company
Broadway Broadway
at 13th St. "Four at 34th St.
Convenient
Broadway Corners" Fifth Ave.
at Warren at 41st St
Priiict?ton's Track
Prospects Bright
For Coming Year
Sprcifi! CorrerponJer-C?
PRINTETON, Dee. 21. Keene Fit?
Patrick, Princeton'.-; veteran track
coach, will issue a call for ail candi?
dates to report at the University Field
House at the close of the Christmas
vacation. Captain Car! Erdman, for?
mer intercollegiate huddles champion,
is regarded as the surest point winner
on the team, and he is sure to bo an
important contender in any race he
enters during the indoor season. George
Trowbridge, junior national A. A. U.
champion, and William Massey will
make Erdman look to his laurels.
S. Harrison Thomson, American all
around champion, also holds the out?
door junior title over the high stick?.
and George Buzbv, Don Lourie .?nd
Huhn make the Orange and Black
hurdling squad probably the greatest
ever assembled outside or" au Ameri?
can Olympic team.
"Turk" Terrel and Boh Clark are
[ the best men in their specialties.
Brown and Stewart are two letter men
who have returned. Penlield and Mur?
rey are the best half-mrlers. Murrey,
; who is better known on the football
field, can beat two minutes in this
event.
Lincoln Adams, last year's scnsR
tional interscholastic champion, is the
star of tin? 1923 team this race.
Foresman, captain of the ci trv
team, is Princeton's hop?
Swede, American inter choiast
holder, and McCulloch. ?vho took the
two-mile run in both dual meets last
. spring, should score in this .-vent tlr.3
spring. Savage and Montgomery and
two other Utter men are among the
distance runners.
"Chas" Halsey, winner of the Penit
? relay, will have a close struggle
'. with Dick Cleveland, winner of the
! same event in the Harvard-Yale
; Princeton meet two years ago. who has
! just returned from the marines in
! China.
"Bert" Brock is the best of 'he
] jumpers, together with Sweet, a let?
ter man in the same event. "Dave"
! Ubelacker is a letter man in the : road
jump, as is Lourie. who leaps more
than 22 feet. Baker is the only var?
sity veteran in the pole vault. ' Mel"
Dickenson and "Pink" Baker r le "oot
ball linemen, are the best
; throwers Princeton has had in :? (2'ood
: many years.
Mors?* Easily Defeats
Merchants at Soccer
Taking the field with *n!> ten men,
the Merchant Ship soccer team, of Har
riman, Pn., paid the full penaltj ami
lost their National League game to
Morse Dry Dock by ? to 0 at Morse
Oval, Brooklyn, yesterday. The play?
ing field was completely covered with
snow, but despite these conditions *h*
prayers put up a fine trame of ' of
Lynch scored the first goal twenty
' minutes after the kick-off, the center
forward breaking clean through the
shipbuilders' defense. The visitors
tried hard to get on even terms, but the
handicap of only four forwards was too
j much against ^uch sterling defender?
! as Lindsay and Page.
The line-up:
Morse D. I?. (6) Pos Merchants S (0)
' Nell . <;,,..I. Hag??
Lindsay.i: .it - : ??'
Pairr?. I. l: -? -
M. Pheraon.R I'M Kir!
Parker.C H B. . . . . . Mckal
McUarrachie.I. ?L 11.. '?'? >?""
Kershaw.o. R
Koike . I. R
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mon
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Refer? ?? W. M ? tersoii
Rooney (Morse) and .). Smith I Mei
, Goals foi Mor? :.'. nch i . ? Pa??
land Lennon. Time of halves 15
Holy Name Five Wins
Tenth Straight Victory
The Holy Name basketball team won
its tenth straight victory at Manhat?
tan Casino yesterday afternoon by de?
feat i n?? the St. Monica five, 15 to 18.
Wassmer and Pideabach star> d
The line-up:
Hob Name t!5) Pos. St. Monica '?'
Pideabach. !.. !?'. Lyi 0
Wassmer. It. K.Willis ?
Connolly. C.,B?r?T?n
j l>rlscoil. !.. O. ' ? ?
; (Jarilnt-r. R. G.Mur ".?y
Goals from floor?-Waismer. S. Pi?i??*
bach, 7; Connolly, 2, prise?,?1. ?lar.iner.
Lynch. S : Williams, Loch, BerK^n. *?
Kouls?Waam?r. 2; Conn.illy. William?.