1
BASE BALL AS PL AYED IN ISbOp nV.tbeYweT
lantks drew about UWi persons and was
1 wen by the Atlantic. 15 to M. The third
Curiosities ai Revealed by Some Old or "'"nnuorinn main..- as it i
.. . .railed, was plaved on tli "spacious
- inppingi.
GAME WAS DIFFERENT THEN
Tn Ron In imr l.amr hj On Plajrr
Rnnqirlt from the ladles
cries Drlfrrrn Esrcllnr
(nd Atlantlcs.
NEW OHK. July 27-Evcr hear of a
ba ball playr risking Cn runs In one
g,m: m.i- ' ,, " "! prllrd suspension of the game.'
-iir. rii.i nBainsl the Hudson Hlvers or,1
Mound' of tin1 I'utnain club In East New
York and l.'.t0 spectators were i hand,
ri.t-re were at least l.ooo women and chll-
ih. n.
We very much regret to add." ssys the
writer, "that on this occasion the first time
In the annuls of base ball In this vicinity
tire game was Interrupted by the scanda
lous behavior of an outside crowd of noisy
vagabonds, who Indulged In hooting, yell
ing an.l insulting remarks toward a por
tion of the players, and by their disgrace
ful action In seeking to Intimidate and In
fluence the decisions of the umpire com-
Newhiiigh. H was Koine time hgo, to ii" :
sure; so ling ago that the, Warners and !
l.aJois and Keelers and Eumleys were un
burn. The score of the game relerred to
as 13 to 14 In favor of the Excelsiors
and Hie game was played In New-burgh In
July, 1V. Ten runa by one man In one
game Is a practical Impossibility In latter
day base ball As n general thing one
t'-am la glad to pet te n runs, to say noth
ing of one man.
A reader of the Hun sends In a book or
I'osslhlv ttiere were ancestors of the
Hrouklyn bottle throwers of recent date
Hitiona; that rowdy mob. but-In any event
(ataln I.rggett of the Excelsiors could
not stand it and withdrew his team In the
sixth limine:. The score at the end of the
fifth waa 8 to 6 In Excelsior's favor. The
umpire, n. H. Thorn, decided that the
game was won by neither party. There
has been many a disorderly scene on New
Voik grounds since that time.
The Atlantlra won two out of three games
from tin; Ecklords. and this series also
flipping of the principal games r'aci ... w hj? . T old.tlme chronicler
JWiO and It is full or ..uamt cxprei-sion am. l,r.U.!, , Hlr,H.OUI( pun n telling of
curious incid.nt. The article "Hie played , B-..i.ir. nd Ht.
a much nine prominent part In anle-bel-lutn
diamond nanatives than now. "Me
reached the Mist base by an air ball."
"Jones played the second base welt;"
Smith had two put, nits at the third base"
--always "the" before base, something that
would make present day chronicling of
frames seem Very old-tlniey. There was no
batter then; he waa the "striker.'' an ex
jresslnn that has become obsolete and given
way to 'batter."
srorrm Fared Mell.
There Is hii account of a game on June 8.
WA between thf AHantlca of Brooklyn
and the I'nlons of Morrisanla In which
"we have to thank the committee for the
attention to the members of the press,
for everything requisite for their conven
ience was at hand. The Atlantlcs do these
things np on the square on all occasions."
(Everything requisite" may have Included
leadpencils, lemonade and a book of rules.
The last named at least would nut be amiss
for aome present-day scours.
The scoring system of 160 was nothing
like as elaborate as It has since grown to
be. There were only two columns In the
bog scores; one for ouls, the others for
runs. Bometlnies Instead of outs there was
n abbreviation, H. I... meaning hands lost.
There was no record In the printed scores
f hits, errors, assists, double plays, dls-
ance hits and other details, without which
no modern score Is complete.
tin June 2 the Eagles nT New York en
countered the I'nlons and "of the Kagle
lut Yates played the first base hand
somely," while "of the Unions Parker
played most expertly as pitcher, very few
balls of consequence passing him, and also
batting well." The records are. of course,
Blled with big-score games, and it would
have been of historical Interest had the
time of Ihe games been kept, but little
mention Is made of that detail.
The Gothams of New York played the
Newark club on June 2 and won, 2K to 14.
Beauty was there lo admire and presum
ably chivalry, for "the ladles of Newark
rallied In strong numbers as spectators of
the trial, and at lis conclusion presented a
beautiful boquct to (he players In each
nine who had made the most runs." The
floral favorites, according to the score, were
fohen, catcher, und Orlswold, shortstop, of
the Gothams, and Wnmbold. pitcher, and
Pood, second baseman, of the New-arks.
I mnlrea Juat ihr Sam.
On June 28 the Excelsiors, one of the
strongest teams of that day, defeated the
fltnrs 16 to 6. and on the Excelsiors was
Crelghtoii one of the best pitchers of his
time. Dickey IVarre, another noted old
tuner, was a member of the Atlantlcs. He
was with them when they beat the Put
nams, and among other deeds of valor put
out Waniler on a "fly tip." "The Atlantlcs
chunged the position of their playcra oftener
than we ever hav known them, and the
Putnams followed auit to a limited extent."
That may account for the fact that Wan
alrr, first baseman in the box score, "played
well behind." "We hope to see the boys'
play of disputing over the dcclslona of
umpires entirely done uway with." says the
account. Forty-seven years have paused
since that was written, but the "boys- play'1
nt 111 goes on.
There was a game between the Manhat
tans and the Charter Oaks, and In the des
cription .hereof Is the following:
Every man of the Charter Oak nine played
well, but Shield s pitching and Murphy's
i-utchlng waa the flower of the game on
their side. The fence of this ground Is very
close behind the catcher and Murphy and
Hhlelds have the management of the fence
reduced to a aclcnce. Shields pitches a
swift double and twisted left banded ball
that would be apt to puszle the best striker
in the world, and he Is aa sharp as a cat In
watching the bases.
Wonder what Mathewson knows about
the double and twisted ball?
Puge of the Manhattans had not recovered
from bis lameness when the game with the
Charter Oaks was played, but the historian
raid that "by the next game we think he
will be all right and decidedly 'pecuna.' "
The account does not translate "pecuna."
but maybe Elmer Flick ts one of that kind.
Soma Moveltles of the Game.
The Sunday Mercury of June, 1860. tells
of a game In Rochester between the Ex
celalora and the Flour Citys, which was
won by the former by a score of 21 to 1,
"the most complete victory on record."
Notwithstanding the amount of scoring,
the game wes played In an hour and fifty
minutes. The klhertys of New Brunswick
played a game with the Hamiltons of Jer
sey City In which "there waa very little
rnuffy play on either side." There was.
however, aome objection to the half round
arirT pitching or bowling of the liberty
pitcher, which the umpire said was all
right.
There was a queer play in the game be
tween the Kckfords and Greenpoint and
the Stars of South Brooklyn on July 11.
J. drum was the Eckford pitcher, and In
the last Inning "Tlcknor was on the first
base, when Tracy (his successor) took the
bat, 'and as h struck Tlcknor ran for the
second. Orurn. .however, took the ball
from Tracy's bat on the fly. and Ticknor
having to return Grum outran him witU
the ball to first base." A double play,
unassisted, by a pitcher, would be a de
cided novel! v these days. The Eagles
plsyed the Oothams on July in, and a fly
missed by Brlnkerhoff of the Eagles was
caught on the bound by Hlxl.y.
The Excelsiors returned from a tour in
July In which they beat the champions of
Albany S4 to . the Victory s of Troy IS to
t, the Niagaras 60 to 1!, the Flour Citys
B to.l. the Uve Oaks 17 to and the Hud
son Rivers 6 to 14. Then came one of the
most Important games of the season, thx
first of a series of threa between the Ex
relsiors and Atlantlcs. It was played In
Pouth Brooklyn before a "vast assem
blage," between 8.000 and lO.OOu spectators.
Vhe Excelsiors won, 3 to 4. The "analysis
of tha fielding" shows that nine of the Kx
ealslors wera put out on the fly, six on
tha bound, tea at first base, ore at second
ta and on at tha horn base. Of the
Atlantic tan wars ratlred on flies, nine on
tha bound, five at first base and om at
cond baa.
Karly Dar Hawalrlsui.
A ti garr.e, In which each side made
twwntr-fl'?'- runs, was what took place
4rben tlia Ootr.ams and tha Mutusls bat-
a game between the Excelsiors and Ht
ijeuiges. The Excelsl-ira "skunked" their
opponents, a to 0, the latter proving them
selves a "very 'nouglity' set uf boys."
t'larra of 1 MHO.
The personnel of some of the leading
teams of the season of 1860 was as fol
lows: Excelsiors Tttissell. first base; Flan'
right field: Whiting, third base; Polhemus,
center field; Brnlnerd. left field; Reynolds,
shortstop; Mulder, second base; Leggett,
catcher; Creightnn, pitcher.
Alantics- P. arce, catcher; Smith, third
base; MeMahon, center Held: P. O'Brien,
shortstop; Price, first base; Oliver, second
base; Hamilton, right field; Joe Oliver, left
field; M. O'Brien, pitcher.
Empire Haydock. catcher: BloomfleM.
right field; Loper, third base; Orant. center
Held; Slarr. left Held; Newkirk, llrst base.;
Bowman, pitcher; Ownstead, second base;
Dewey, ahortstnp.
Jotliams Van CM, third baae; Burtls,
catcher; Wa.lsworth, first base; I'urtln,
pitcher; MeKeever, shortstop; Mlmne, right
field; Hacked, aecond base; Cornell, right
Held: Cohen, center field.
Mutual A. B. Taylor, first base; Me
Mahon, shortstop; H. B. Taylor, right field;
Oavagan. third base. Beard, catcher; Mott,
left Held: Burn, pitcher; Bogart, center
field; Harris, second hase.
Eckfords Manolt. left Held: Mills, second
base; John drum, pitcher; Campbell, second
base; Beach, catcher; John Snydar, center
Held; Josh Snyder, shortstop; . Orum,
third base; McCutcheon, right field.
Eagles Yatea, center field; Williams,
pitcher; Brlnkerhoff, flrst hase; Schwab,
left Held; Commerford, catcher; Blxhy,
second base; Van Nice, right field; Slote,
shortstop; Howe, third baae.
I'nlons (llfford, first base; Bogly, short
stop; Balcom, center field ; Plckney, pitcher;
Hannegan, l.-rt Held; Onrell, right field;
Parker, catcher; Ahram, second base; Kln
lock, third hase.
Putnams-Burr. center field; Pakln,
pitcher; (Slllesple. third base; Maaten.
second base; Wanzler. catcher; McKlnatry.
shortstop: Brown, first baae; Van Valken
burgh, left field; Chapman, right field.
OLYMPIC MEN ARE TO BE PICKED
Committee Will Choose Contestant
to Hepresent America.
NEW YORK. July 27. -The latest de
liberations of the committee In charge of
the Olympic game in England next July
mean that all American universities, which
have been planning to annd Individual
teams abroad will be disappointed. It has
been decided that In track and field sports
no country can enter more than twelve
men In single event. Furthermore, the
selection of the American team will be In
the bands of the American committee, and
no entries can be accepted unless they are
mado through tha American committee.
The I'nlverslty of Pennsylvania, as well as
Harvard and Yale, had been formulating
plans to send their teams to these game
Irrespective of the plan made by the
American committee. The Pennsylvanians
wanted to repeat their success of 1900, when
their team won about everything on the
other side. Yale and Harvard had been
planning to hold a dual meet with Oxford
and Cambridge, previous to the Olympic
games, and then to enter their teams In
the Olympic meet.
The method of selecting the American
team changes all this. The American com
mittee has not announced its complete
plans as yet, but from what Is has an
nounced the American team la to be picked
only after an exhaustive series of elimi
nation tests. It ts planned to hold sec
tional meets throughout the country at
which all bona fide amateurs may compete
and then to have the point winners of these
games meet In a national set of games
at which the whole team may be aelected
on a competitive basis.
After the unfortunate manner in which
the American team was selected for the
Athens meet laat year this plan will meet
with unqualified approval. In 190S the
American team was made up for the most
part of the then American Athletic union
champions, and there was no competition
for the selection of other candidates. This
worked a very great Injustice to several
American athletes, who ought to have
been placed on the team. One of these
was Melvln Sheppard, the fastest middle
distance runner in America at the time.
Of course there were hardly any college
men on the 'team, this being due to the
fact that the games were held during
the college year, -when it was impossible
for undergraduates to get away.
The exclusion of the college men from the
American team at Athens cannot, of
course, be blamed upon any one. It was
merely unfortunate that the games should
have been scheduled at such a season
of the year as April. Next season all
these things will he avoided. The team
will be truly representative of the full
strength of this country and the games
will be held at a time of the year when
all our men will be at their best,
SHAKEUP IN BASE BALL AT YALE
Ell la Tired of l.osinat and Propose
Some Change.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., July 27. There Is
to be a shakeup in Yale base ball before
next season, for the poor showing made by
the Ell nines during the last few years is
getting on the bulldog's nerves. The Moses
who in expected to lead Yale out of the
diamond of despond is the newly elected
captain and catcher. Tad Jones, who Is
consulting with prominent alumni to learn
the best meana for avoiding the disasters
of the season Just closed, when Yale lost
its annual series to Harvard. Princeton.
Holy Cross. CJeorgetown, Williams and
Brown. Captain Jones favors rutting out
the annual Easter trip to the south, which
has always crippled one or more player.
This and several other Innovations are be
ing discussed and It is expected that when
the Yale plana for the base ball campaign
for 1908 are announced there will be several
surprises sprung.
COLLEGE SPORT COSTS BIO MONEY
Casey's Revenge
By James Wilson.
(Bflrig a fiily to the famous haac b.ill clus-slc, ' "fa spy at
the Bat.")
There were nrldened hearts In Muchlllo for a week or
even more;
There were muttered oaths and tursos, every fan in town
was sore.
"Just think," said one. "how soft it looked with Casey at
the bat.
And then to think hed go and spring a brush league trick
like that."
All his past fame was forgotten; he was now a hopeless
"shine."
They called him "Strike-Out Casey" from the mayor
down the line,
And as he came to bat each day his bosom heaved a lgh,
While a look of helpless fury shown in niishty Casey's
eye. '
The lane is long, someone has said, that never turns
again,
And fate, though fickle, often gives another chance to
men.
And Casey smiled his rugged face no longer bore a
frown;
The pitcher who had started all the trouble came lo town.
All Mudville had assembled; ten thousand funs hud
come
To see the twlrler who had put big Casey on the bum;
And when he stepped into the box the multitude went
wild.
He doffed his cap with proud disdain, but Casey only
smiled.
"Play ball," the umpire's voice rang out, and then the
game began;
But in that throng of thousands there was not a single
fan
Who thought Mudville had a chance; and with the set
ting sun
Their hopes Bank low the rival team was leading ' four
to one."
The last half of the ninth rame round, with no change In
the score;
But when the first man hit safe the crowd began to roar.
The din increased, the echo of ten thousand shouts was
heard
When the pitcher hit the second and gave "four balla" to
the third.
Three m?n on base no one out three runs to tie the
game,
A triple meant the highest niche In Mudville hart of
fame;
But here the rally ended and the gloom was deep as
night
.When the fourth one "fouled to catcher" and the "fifta
"flew out to right."
A dismal groan In chorus came a scowl was on each
face
When Casey walked up, bat In hand, and slowly took his
place;
His bloodshot eyes In fury gleamed; his teeth were
clenched In hate;
He gave hla cap a vicious hook and pounded on the plate.
But fame is fleeting as the wind, and glory fades away;
There were no wild and woolly cheers, no glad acclaim
this day.
They hissed and groaned as they hooted "Strike him out."
But Casey gave no outward sign that he had heard this
shout.
The pitcher smiled and cut one loose; across the plate It
sped; .
Another hiss another groan "Strike one" the umpire
said. .
Zip, like a shot, the 6econd curve broke Just below his
knee
"Strike two" the umpire roared aloud; but Casey made
no plea.
No roastitg for the umpire now his was an easy lot.
But here the pitcher whirled again was that a rifle shot.
A whack! a crack! and out through space the leather
pellet flew
A blot against the distant sky, a speck against the blue.
Above the fence in center field, in' rapid whirling flight
The sphere sailed on; the blot grew dim and then was
lost to Bight.
Ten thousand hats were thrown In air, ten thousand
threw a fit.
But no one ever found the ball that mighty Casey hit.
Oh, somewhere In this favored land dark clouds may hide
the sun,
And somewhere bands no longer play and children have
no fun;
And somewhere oyer blighted lives their hangs a heavy
pall,
But Mudville hearts are happy now for Casev hit Ihe
ball.
GOLF STYLES OF AMATEURS
Well Taught Yourtgnters Now Com
mand West and Eait.
SCORES WERE NEVER SO LOW
ome I esaona nt tnmlrnr (hanip)on-
hlp at Kurlld T l'la Tar
(antes o l onaer f.ltrs Op
ponent nine Knnk.
Style In the amateur chami lonship. w on
o gallantly b I t avers al the Euclid club.
Cl eland, presented it direi t contrast bc-
wteen tiie lithe and well taught y ungsters
and those pinycrs who have moulded tlielr
own jian.e by self-tiHining with Hit rye to
lesults father th in to a gi aeefiil swing.
The "styliMs," If the word is allow rili!.-,
had the third round almost completely u
themselves, the exeeption being the self-
taiiKht Travis, and the eriticil mutch of the
tournament without doubt oicurred In that
round httwern Tr.ivers in; 1 Wairen K.
Wood, when the latter s 73 ill-l not save him
from defeat by one hoc.
Every hole in Ihe i!, 1.3 ynrd Ku'-ml i nurse
-the longest ,V0 yards-wat within the
demonstration was that t win at golf 1n
fast company need a ga-ne perfect li
trry part. It la the day of the mechanic
ally perfect golfer.
Impending tournament wMl bring to tin
foreground the players who have been
prominent at Em lid. This week do n
wenlsla club will hold Its nnnunl tout-nil
ment. a fixture In which the Etnns hive
always made fine records, an.l n week liter
the amateur championship of the Western
tiolf association will he played at Whea
ton. li. K. Sawyer now has the title ami
there will be an earnest effort to supplant
him by the youngsters and veterans alike
In the east the nearest tournament will
be at Van Cortlandt Park, amateur play
ing on July .11-31 and professional on Au
gust 1-2. To follow will be the annual In
vitation tournament of tlie Phlnnecock Hills
(loll club. August s-li. anil the open tourn
ament at the I'eal Golf and Country club
August 21 24.
TWO REAL OMAHA CRAMPS
Sprag;ue Abbott and Bob Simpson
Leaders on Golf Links.
NEW PLAN FOR TENNIS PLAY
Doubles to lie Competed l or In Sec
tions This t car.
CMlCAtH). July T.-Sev.-ral new features
r to lie tried m the National l.awn Tennis
loui naiin in. particularly In the doubles.
Ittstcwd of eastern and western tournament
being held, an in past years, and the win
ners, n ei liu; lo dei Idc ti e championship.
powers of every entrant. This maile the I ihe preliminary play will ln dihled Into
scoring lower lliim at any previous chain- I three sections l'hiv in these sections will
pionshlp. for if n pl.ij -r kept straight and ; be held at Atlanth. Chicago and )ing
Kauged his iron shots well each hole became I wood. Mass The w inners of these three
a matter of tutting Yet it was not an loiirfniiirnts will piny Ht the Cus.enl
easy course, for anv laps cost a sitoke. Athletic club, l.ay RidKC. N V. Angus! Ill
and in such fast (ompauy the loss of the and 17. Tin- pair winning this event v III be
FRIENDS NOT LEAST SURPRISED
line W ork nt Both Xln Wlar
rant to Relief They WruU
Win at Illnartat n4
Hock Islatnd
hnle The layers had more respect for
the hazard" with eacit succeeding round.
The way the players in Id together In the
score rounds und in the matches made
the general average of play better than at
anv of the meetings and rfvealed how Ihe
game has advanced. Curiosity is excited.
too. although so far In advance, regarding championship in singles
what will he the outcome should the next
championship be held over one of the test-
calliil upon to play lloleombc War. 1 and
Heals C. Wright for the championship at
Newport, probably on August Jo.
The winners of the several liitcrscholastlc
tournaments In singles will play at Newport
for the championship, play not to commence
before August 2:'. The tournament for the
will he held as
usual at Newport, and play will comm. aco
on August The wlnm r of the toui na-
GERMANS ON THE SCHUYLKILL
la the
-eeral Entries to Br Sent
National llrgnHa.
riilLADKl.l'HIA. Pa., July I?. (ierman
rowing clubs' will send several entries to
the National regatta to be held on the
Schuylkill river, August D and 1". Valdc
lii. ir tiind of the Hellas flowing club. Mer
lin, announced recently that four crews
would represent German rowing clubs. The
entries htc: Adolph Muller. Viking Roa'
club, senior and championship sculls; Carl
Ernst and A. von Gaza, Viking Boat club,
senior double sculls, and R. Moeller, G.
Goldammer, O. Hoffman and It. Boerger,
Hellas Rowing club, senior and Interna
tional fours. In addition to these, Walde
mar Sand will represent the Hellas Rowing
club In the senior single sculls at Phila
delphia. These oaramen are among the
beat In Germany and were successful in
the recent German national regatta. This
will be the first time In the history of row
ing In the I'nlted States that German oars
men have competed In the American Na
tional regatta.
M. C. C. TEAM IN SEPTEMBER
Kngland'i .Noted Cricketers to Meet
Americans at Xport.
NEW YORK. July 27. The Marylebone
Cricket club of London will send a strong
team to America in September. According
to the latest advices tho following cricket
ers have accepted the invitation t Join the
team: H. Hesketh-Prltchard (captain), A.
O. Jones, G. T. Branston, L. P. Collins, U
G. A. Collins, P. W. Bherwell. A. J. Bnook,
R. O. Schwartz, G. H. Simpson-Hay ward
and F. II. Browning. The team will play
three games at Philadelphia, and a meet
ing of tha Metropolitan Cricket league will
shortly be held with a view to arranging a
game for the visitors against All New York
at Livingston, I L
En
A Ik.
Kama Spent to Keep
Irlcs In the Field.
NEW YORK, July 17. From statistics
recently gathered It would appear that the
expenses attending sports of all kinds
in this country sra enormous. Every baso
ball or foot ball game, every rowing or
salllr.g race, and every other phase of
physical acid venienf represents the out
lay of sums which totalled would go a
long way toward paying the national debt.
Winning base ball teams, racing stables
and foot ball elevens are great money
getters, but there are other branches of
sport where it's "all a-goln' out and nothin'
comln in."
It is not the professional sports that
cost. The colleges expend thousands of
dollars each year in order that some
chosen rival may be downed in foot ball,
base ball or on the water. The early
games of the sesson are really for the
purpose of getting the men In trim f t
the final struggle such ss the Yale-Harvard
foot ball game, the Princeton-Yale meet
Ing on the diamond or tha Intercollegiate
regatta at Poughkeepsle, and each of these
preliminary workouts adda to the list on
the debit side of the ledger. There Is some
return, it Is true, but only rarely do thes
returns balance the expense. The big
athletic clubs, too. such as the New York
Athletic club, and the Irlsh-Amerlcai
Athletic club., which maintain staffs of
amateur athletles. providing athletic
grounds, training tables and trainers for
the men, bring up the sum of moneys ex
pended upon athletics.
For the Intercollegiate regatta on the
Hudson alona tha cost of (tending three
crews, varsity and freshman eights and
varsity four, together with the substitutes
and boatkeeper, averagea about ti.OOO for
the crews coming from the colleges nearby.
In tha case of a crew coming from a long
distance tha cost la correspondingly greater
and this is but an Item In the yearlv ex-
coach's salary is $2,041), although this
varies. The equipment means coaching
launches and new sheila, and as several
new sheila are bought each year. It emails
considerable outlay, which is nowhere
nearly met by the sale of the old she'ls
The returns from this sport are but small.
As an example, the report of the graduate
treasurer of athletics at Harvard shows
receipts of the I'nlverslty Boat club a
nearly $.1.1)00, whereas the expendi'ure.
amounted to $11.L;.;B1. And so It runs In
all the "rowing colleges."
As for foot ball and base ball, there is
first of all the expense of securing and
maintaining a proper field to be considered.
Cornell has recently provided for a new
athletic field, which when completed will
represent an outlay of $35").OW. Syracuse
has an Immense stadium nearly finished,
and the other big colleges have their fields
and stadiums, which must be kept In con
dition year In and year out. Coaching In
these sports, as in running, la the next
largest entry, and there are generally tho
services of at least four coaches and
trainers to be paid during the short season
from September to November for foot ball
and from February to June for bue ball
The receipts from the foot ball games are.
as a general thing, the biggest figures
among the receipts, but $l,00.0o0 annually
would not pay the expenses entailed by the
athletic sports of fh I'nlted States.
Tonr of the tointrr,
pense for the department of athletics. The " 1'raper. rormer j neaa or a
, . ' Michigan orphanage. with his wife,
average annual cost of mamtanance Is daughter und six orrhan children. I
$12,000. of which the principal itecs are
coaching, equipment, training table and
transportation. A minimum estimate of a
country 01 mn auiuuiouue
which hlerally Is a house on wheels in
sn endeavor to raise funds t establish
ao iutluxtt-ufcl soiuioj al lia.lUej
Ing links, such as Myopia, where par Is t ment will be called upon to p'iiy Will am
only within the powers of the exceptional j J. Clothier for the i liamplonship.
luei.ver hiiu m unu me n'ii 01 u niitjt'iuy i'i
the field.
Field Alirny llnnebed.
Yet on such a course as In a four mile
race on the turf the stayer draw away
from the test and the finishes are apt to
be tame and dull. Hut jt Euclid, while the
best player of the hour won, the field was
always bunched to use another turf simile
and this state of atTnirs kept up an un
usual excitement. No less than night
matches were won by 2 up. Five were won
1 up. two more on the nineteenth green
and one, when W. C. Foiirnes beat Travis,
on the twentieth green. The Individual
matches have never shown, such a high
standard of play. The tournament, which
owed much of Its success to the clever man
agement of the Euclid club committees,
certainly scored a unique success as a golf
ing entertainment.
Rounds under So were as abundant as
currants In an August garden. The flrst
four holes are of 320, 2M, "Ofi and 414 yards.
Each I. well bunkered, yet W. T. West, the
Princeton boy, began his flrst circuit at
medal play with four 3s. He netted a 76,
hut Herreshoff. Who began with 4, 3. 3. 4.
Walter Egan, who started with 4, 4. 6, .
aand Travis, who opened with 5, 4. 3, 5, led
for low scores that day with 75. Both
and -Travis, who opened with B, 4. 3. 6, led
record of 71 for the course the next day.
West had 2s on the eighth and tenth, with
three 3s, and Travis 2s on the third and
tenth, besides 1ye Bs. The total of their
halves were the same, 35, 8671. West has
a free and orthodox style, and although
now only 20 he has a fine record In the
game. When tha championship was at
Baltusrol In 1904 West was a schoolboy In
Philadelphia, yet ho reached the semi-finals,
but he has not been so prominent since at
match play. He lias by no means reached
his limit, and West may yet win the title.
Travis has more golfing honors In his bag
than any American amateur. The 71 was
only In the line with past achievements
and he only ceased to be a factor In tho
match play after a twenty-hole match.
I. In Not Easy to Draw.
It may be hazardous to draw the line
between those of the easy, Scottish con
ventional style who qualified and those who
failed to gain eligibility. It is easier to
note that seven of the qualifiers had both
rounds under 80 and that fourteen more
had one of their elghteen-hole rounds under
SO. Travla won the low score prize wiin
146. It was the fifth he has won In the
championships, aside from his triple win
of the title, and the score with which
Travis won In 19H0, 166. would have missed
qualifying by a stroke at Euclid.
Macdonald. who had a monopoly of thor
oughly good s'ljie In our flrst championship,
was one of the five to tie for four places
in the thirty-two to qualify, and a bunkered
second shot put him out on the playoff.
Two of the qualifiers were Scots, Norman
Macbeth and G. A. Orlmston, while two j
were Canadians. George S. Lyon and F. R.
Martin, the latter the only left handed j
player to get In. The most delifhtful of (
the others to watch for case and exact- t
ness of their strokes were most decidedly
Travers, Wood, Chandler. Egan. Sawyer, j
Edwards. Sherman. Behr, Byers. Reld, W.
C. Fownes, Fred HerreshofT and Archie
Graham. Graham, although only 32, won .
the New Jersey championship In and
he is sometimes Inadvertently classed with I
the veterans. Instead Grahan has seldom
played in the- championships, and lie has a :
fine, free style. He made a good fight with
Travers In the final and opl that mystic !
quality known as "class" brat out Graham, j
Warren K. Wood Is as youthful In years j
and- manners as Travers. In I heir match
Travers went out In 3. 3 3. 1 . 4. I. 2 . .
taking a lead on the first two hole? that he :
carried to the luvi by t! aid of the ' on '
the eighth, for Wood wn out In a precise
par on each hole for S3. I,ai"r Wood j
evened the match and hut for rimming the I
cup on one hole the sixteen! h- Me would 1
have halved It at the end. To lose by 1
hole In such fine soorirg was not a rils-
grace, out msieaa an endorsement oi
Wood's high clui-es. The best of It was
thnt whether In the lead or behind neither
of t lie two cracked under the strain of par
golf. A couple of years ago a player had
but to make two or three holes In pir
figures to have his oppoi.cnt eu the rnn.
Travers' Fine Record.
Travers is the best player on all sorts of
links this country has ever produced. Ho
will hold his own In a testing course and
the next day visit for the first time a links
In the weeds and beat its par record. He
has a square forehead and a square chin,
and In every shot Travers puts both
thought and courage. He knows every
shot In the bag and plays them all with
the confidence of a professional. At Euclid
Travers played. Including the qualifying
round. 131 holes In MS strokes, only a frac
tion over even 4'. Such golf would win
a world's championship.
In the preceding championships a ding
dong battle to start with lias bu n followed
by the more or les speedy colape of rue
of the contestants. But at Euclid the
matches were fought out to the end. which
did not come In bitterness, for the under
dog was in hope and the leader in doubt
until the balla had been holed on the home
green. In th days of I lie j;'i"a pen ha
ball two axioms in turn held sway. "The
man who can put is the n-ati-h for any
body." was the one longest current and
it passed out before the fact thgt "ar
proacuing wins tha bole." Al Euclid 'Jit
The. Oraha Field chih rViaala twt teat
champions this year, Spragu Abbott, th
Transmlsslsslppl jtolf champion and Pott
Simpson, holder of tho western open
championship, both winning tbdr honor
away from home. When Fimraon won
hi honors at Hinsdale there wero manr
at tho Country club, who were not sur
prised aa ha had been piny Ing moat con
slstant golf all eprltur. When Abbott won
out at Hock Island there, were many mora
who were not surprised aa Abbott had
been playing the course nt tha Country
club with remarkably low scores every day
since spring.
Pprague Abbott Is a glint In stature,
being over six feet six lochia tall and Is
leading an outdoor life for tho benefit t
his ncnlth. He Is a nephew of l O. Ires,
former general freight agent of the
Burlington. He came to Omaha several
years ago and started to raising chickens
north of Florence upon the advice of hi
physicians that he should lead an outdoor
life as much as possible. To chicken
raising Abbott added golf and has been
most persistent In his practice, often play
ing a round In the morning and another
In the arternoon. Ho practically started
his golf at the Field club at St. lm1
eight years ago under Hob Simpson. 11"
Is 27 years of ag and lias the stamina
to play thrnueh a hard tournament llkn
the Transmlssissippl without tiring as dn
most of the other players who do not have
the chanco to practice as much.
snnir liooit Hecords.
Abbott has made some a;ood records St
I Rolf, holding the record for the best scores
on both the Field cluh and Country clurt
courses. He has made the Held cltll
course In 76, the Country cluh in 73, at
Wheaton where the western championship
will be played August fl. In 7C. tho On
wentsla In 73. Ist winter at Ormonde,
Fla.. he won the low qualifying score with
a "6 and two years ago got Into the semi
finals of the western championship at St.
Eouls. He has won the low qualifying
medal In the TransmisslsRlppI for tho last
two years' and is at present state champion,
having won at the state tournament held
nt the Omaha Country club last summer.
Bright things In golf are predicted for
Sprague Abbott as he Is a most ron
slstant player and plays nil branches of
the game well. He Is a powerful driver
and his approaches are heart-breaking to
an opponent and then to finish all. ha
makes a good long putt, after his long
approach.
SWIFT SWIMMERS TO MEET
Pnnleta of Amrrlrn nnd llenly of Aoe
tr&lla In Competition.
NEW i'ORK, July 27. Ever since C. M.
Tianiela of the New York Athletic club
made known his Intention of again seeking
International honors In the swimming
championships of England. eperts and
others have predicted that the young
American would have a walkover In both
the 100 and 220 yard events. Immediately
after Cecil Healy's grent inn yard swim f
fifty-seven seconds, th Australians dorldV
they would like to p't thulr crack sprinter
once more against the "human pickerel."
nit set nhout finding ninBiiR to send hint
to England. They appear to have suc
ceeded, and the Sydney papers announce
his visit ts a certainty. The meeting of
these two amphibious wonucrs will (urnlao
a thrilling race.
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