Till OMAHA SUNDAY VA'A':
RANKING THE TENNIS MEN
larned the Leading Player of ths
Seaton,
L1SCCS THROWN OSCE MORE
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UO DOUBT A3 TO FIRST PLACE
Prnhlrnt la Plarlaar Other Prcmlanl
Karqeet Mrs llobart Probably
tmn4 Cloth Irr Had a
Poor Year.
NEW TORK, Sept. 14 Any attempt at
ranking the lawn tennis players of this
rountry for the season must Inevitably put
William A. Larned, the national champion,
4 the top. That la an honor to which
he la entitled by force of being the cham
pion and in selecting him no regard la paid
to. the prevloua tournament of the aeaaon.
If It la true In the caso of Larned that
he ahould be ranked first oa results of the
Newport tournament. It followa presumably
that all the other playera of prominence
who appeared there ahould be Hated on the
baala of that tournament alone.
' However, that la not In general the Idea
of the ranking committee, compelled thla
aeaaon of A. I.. Honking, chairman; Edgar
sP. Leonard and Thomaa C. Tra.sk. They
have been at work with the Idea of keeping
watch of the season's play of the varloua
tennla men, and thue may be expected to
count other tournamenta than that at New
port. However, thla will apply more strictly
to the playera outside of the ranking ten.
The minor playera who do not venture
to Newport have to be judged on the baala
of their work In various state and; open
tournamenta under the sanction of the
United Btatea National Uwn Tennla asso
ciation. One thing that makes the whole
tank hard thla year la the lack of continu
ous performance to judge by. Some playera
have taken part In only a few tournamenta,
and although of admitted ability, have
done hardly enough to Juatlfy ranking them
at all.
Good Men Oat of Matches.
For Instance, Beats C. Wright and Karl
H. Behr, well known to be among the best
American playera, were not active com
petitors In many tournaments, Before the
. Davis cup matches neither did much ex
cept to practice In Invitation tournamentai
After the return Wright played and won
t the Meadow club, Southampton, but
did not take part at Newport, and Bohr,
apparrntly off form after the trip abroad,
waa beaten successively at Southampton
and Newport.
Raymond D. Tattle waa another of the
good men whose appearance In tournament
play has not been so very frequent 'this
year. He waa a contender In the Middle
States tournament, but waa beaten In the
challenge round by William A. Larned.
Little did not appear at Newport, so that
element In placing him Is lacking. How
ever, Little on the occasions that he did
play showed himself extremely capable,
and he Impressed many persons as play
ing the best tennla that he has shown in
some seasons. In fact that Is just where
the difficulty of ranking comes in. Should
a man be rated for what he has done In
a few tournaments or ahould he be ranked
on the basis of his known and compared
abllty? That Is the question that the rank
ing committee has to solve and does solve
In making Its announcements.
. Clothier's Poor Year.
In rating players sometimes curious ques
tions arise. For Instance, those wHb know
and follow tennis believe that William J.
Clothier, the champion of lSS. will be
ranked fairly high. In fact he may be
put in aecond place by the committee.
There la no real reason why he should be
Ranked second thla year. Defeated at
Orange by Little; beaten at Seabrlght by
Little again; outplayed at Longwood by
F. C. Colston, Clothier withdrew from the
Meadow club tournament and later was
forced to default his championship by an
Injury to hia leg. It haa been set forth In
Clothier's behalf that he Is a very late be
ginner In rounding-to form. Even taking
that Into consideration and marking his
play In the doubles at the Creacent A. C.
directly before Newport, it roust be re
marked that Clothier was not the cham
pion by a great deal.
Hia play up to the time of the Newport
tournament forces a ranking below Little,
who defeated him twice In undeniable
form. Utile beat Colston at Longwood
directly after Colston had beaten Clothier,
so there Is a triple link of Inferiority to
Little. It apparently would be the part
of fairness to rank Clothier on his aeason's
play below the champion of 13M, but again
there remains alwaya the fact that Cloth
ier was champion and the prestige of
having been title holder remains In his
favor and doubtless will be remembered
by the ranking committee in placing the
tall Phtladelphlan.
llobart aad LeRoy.
Clarence llobart and Robert L Roy arc
two of the best players of the year, on the
season's showing. Neither man played In
many tournamenta, but In what they did
enter they made a decided showing. The
best work done by Le Roy was In the na
tional championship, where he achieved the
final bracket. He was defeated by Iarned
in straight acts, aa was not entirely un
expected. The eaay victory was the more
anticipated because Le Roy had to play
five aeta on the day before to put Henry
H. Mollenhauer out of his way, whilo
Larned waa having a straight aet tussle
with Hobart. Still, In justice to Le Roy,
one would .have to rank him below Hobart,
remembering alwaya that Hobart defeated
Le Roy In that much discussed final at
Longwood. Hobart waa not a contender
t Southampton, where Le Roy and Reals
C. Wright qualified for the final.' Hero
again Roy waa defeated. Hia best
record, outside of the til-state tournament,
consists, therefore. - of - three runnera-up
trophies. '
llobart's career waa brief1 but .more or
less triumphant. He played a little at the
Crescent Athletic club before the departure
of the Davta cup players for the other side,
with the object, according to report, of
showing that, he waa not Inferior to many
of the younger and supposedly better play
ers of the day. Hobart displayed at Bay
Ridge a persistent and hard to beat kind
of game, but nothing remarkable. How
ever, at Longwood and Newport he did very
well Indeed. After winning the Longwood
tournament he defaulted to Larned. as a
protest agatnst the -system of having the
holder , atand out. Any question that tfiere
might have been aa to which waa the better
player was partly settled when the two met
at Newport subsequently in the semi-final
round. Larned, on his game, had no trou
ble with the older player.
There are then these playera, Larned,
Hobart. La Roy, Little. Clothier. Wright,
who have been- noticed thus far. - Wright's
biggest performance after the Southampton
tournament waa In the trt-state.. . Ha ap
parently la entitled to a place ahead of
Le Roy. Utile, who in addition lu-ijls de-feats-f
Clothier, . won the Seabrlght cup
from Alexander, was beaten by Le Roy
and Larned In various tournamenta. He
did nut appear in the Newport tournament.
Apparently It would not be unfair to rank
biro below Le Roy.
. Jtmt Easr to riaeo These.
There an many other players whom It
will opt be easy to place. Taking only
a few of them, they are Harold H. Hackett,
Irving C, Wright. Herbert U Weetfall.
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Henry II. Mollrnhnurr, F. C. Colston, K1
gar W, Leonard nril the westerners, Nat
Emerson, U II. Waldncr und others. The
question as to what they have done Is
hard to answer.
Hackett Is the New York state champion
again, having defeated Westfall In the
challenge round there. Westfall boat
Frederick O. Andi rron In the llnnl round
at Travers Island. Anderson Is another
player worthy of favorable mention, al
though he has not played this yr as well
as In some other seasons. Westfall did
fairly well in many of his tournaments,
showing that his game has Improved con
siderably. However, a player can hardly
bo ranked on what he is likely to do next
aeason, so that Westfall will have to Walt
a little for his greater honors. Irving
Wright lias come o(T well In some minor
tournaments and is a fair player. His
victory In the Long Island championship
was his best performance.
He defeated Mollenhaucr there after
Mollenhauer put out Hackett. The Kings
county man, Mollenhauer, has played very
good tennis this year, the best In three
seasons. He was In the final four at New
port and has been doing well In all his
tournaments, although not a winner, per
haps by the chance of the draw In some
cases. He deserves to be ranked well up.
Edwin P. I.arned, brother of the champion,
haa done nothing better than winning the
recent East Jersey cup. He may, how
ever, receive a fair ranking.
What the committee can do with the
westerners Is hard to say. Judging from
the way that Alexander went through
Waidner in his two sets In the semi-final
at Chicago, Alexander might well have"
been the western champion. His default
after winning two sets ended the matter.
Apparently Alexander did not want to
have" to defend the title, as id's subsequent
announced withdrawal from tennis seems
to Indicate.
When Will Ilehr Land?
What the committee will do with Behr
Is another big question. He showed up
poorly In his tournaments here after his
return from Kngland, being beaten by
Samuel Beardsley at Southampton and
by Richard H. Palmer at Newport.
Palmer, by the way, Is likely to 'be rated
well up on the basis of his play at New
port. Rldgewood and Cincinnati. His de
feat of Uehr was classed by many aa a
fluke, but Behr Is the last person In the
world to take advantage of such a thing.
According to reliable report, atter some
persons had called the victory of Palmer
a fluky one, Behr wrote the Rldgewood
man a letter to say that he was In his
best condition and that Palmer's victory
was clean cut, regardless of what com
mentators might say. Whatever the fact
may be. It waa an Intensely sportsman
like action. Behr ranks high for that. If
not for his tennis playing.
It seems, then, that -on the basis of the
facts recited a ranking for the first ten
might well be something like the follow
ing: Larned, Holiart, Wright, LcKoy,
Little, Clothier, Emerson, Hackett, Mol
lenhauer, Palmer. There are players wno
will be ranked close to these, such hs
Westfall, Anderson, E. P. Lamed, W. B.
Cragtn, Jr., Wallace F. Johnson, the Intor
seholastlc champion who defeated Hackett
in Chicago; N. W. Nllos, Kemp Uuss, o.
L. Wyeth and others already mentioned
with no attempt at placing l tie in in any
significant orifr-r.
It Is understood that the committee will
attempt to rank th wumep's singles pluy
ers, too. This will raise a nice question
as to Miss Sutton, who, while undoubtedly
the best American player, will have to fol
low MIbh Hears, the winner in the Phil
adelphia tournament, If she is ranked
at all. Miss Marie Wagner and Mrs. W.
H. Pouch also are very prominent women
players. -
In tho men's doubles Hackett and Alex
ander, Of course, arc the ranking players
as champions. Clothier and learned ap
parently are next, and then It -is a ques
tion whether Grant and Westfall, the
runners-up at Ixuigwood, are supeilor to
Grant and Thornton, the southern cham
pions. And then, again, Hackett ind Lit
tle, who beat Grant anJ Wcstlall at
Orange, and Colston and Torrenee, who
won from them at Southampton, also
have claims to being ranked.
' Veterans of the Game.
Curiously enough, Larned and Hobart,
the leading players, are two of the old
est at the game. As for the matter of
ages. It Is understood that Larned Is about
St years old and Hobart in the closo
neighborhood of 40. Hjbart never hi
been national champion; Lamed has be; i
title holder three times, in 1901, 1802 un I
I90T. Hobart wdn the all-comeis' oa.-e
only. In 1891, and aftVrward was beacon
by Ollle CatupbelL Larned won the all
comers' twice, In 1900 and 1901. Ho'oart
was the runner-up In the all-comers' in
1905, when Beals Wright defeated hint.
Larned has been often a runner-up, In 1S9J,
1894, 1825 and 1898.
Hobart, with F. H. Hovey, won the na
tional doubles In 1MB and 1KM. He and
Hovey won the all comers' Id 1S93, the firet
year they were champions, meeting O. 8.
Campbell and R. P. Huntington, jr., for
the title thereafter. It Is almost twenty
years ago sir.ee Hobart's name first ap
peared In any Important tournament. In
litfcg he and E. P. MarMullen were runners
up In the all comers' doubles to the Co
lumbia players .and then intercollegiate
champions. Q. 8. Campbell and V. O. Hall.
In V&i Hobart and Hovey were runners-up
to tho Chlcagoans, Carr R. Neel and 8. B.
Neel. Hall and Hobart won ths eastern
doubles In 1890; Hobart and Hovey In 1S&.
Thla year was the first thai Iraed ever
has shone In doubles, as he and Clothier
woa the Eastern at Longwood.
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ACE AND YOUTH ON THE LINKS
Men of Fifty-Five or Over to Play at
Apawamis.
SOME CHAT FOR GOLF PLAYERS
Nearly Three Thousand Names on
Maaaaeho?4etta Fall Hnndleap
Ratios; on Scratch nnd
Not Par.
NEW TORK, Sept. 14. At the Apawamis
club there Is always a welcome to vet
erans of the game. The annual seniors'
tourament has been arranged for Thurs
day, September 20, and all golfers who are
55 years of age and over and who are
members of the I'nlted States Golf asso
ciation or the Metropolitan Golf association
or any of tho affiliated clubs are Invited
to take part. The competition will be a
thirty-six hole medal play handicap over
the regular course of the Apawamis club.
There Is a plum tree of prizes for the
best arid second best gross scores, the
best and second best net scores and for
rhe best net scores morning and afternoon.
The tournament will conflict with the threj
day competition of the Morris County Golf
club, but the "old boys," who always turn
out seventy or eighty strong, do not care
Tor the opposition.
Since the curtailment of the Metropolitan
Golf association handicap list to those
rating at nine strokes or under the Massa
chusetts list Is monumental for the many
and very accurate ratings It contains. It
is revised In tho spring and early fall, the
list just off the press containing aver 2,4u0
names.
The system of handicapping In use Is:
"Ascertain each player's best score aver
age, not his average game but his average
best game. If you cannot get trustworthy
figures, ascertain what a player can do at
his best. Abnormal performances should
not be considered. The difference between
the figures of the player's average best
game und the scratch score figures of your
links will give the handicap required. The
table of scratch scores of the Massachusetts
courses Is of Interest:
Albef marie 74 Merrlmac 77
Allston 73 Mt. Tom 70
Alpine 70 Myopia 81
Arlington 74 New Bedford...'. 74
Bellevue 74 Oakley 77
Brae Burn 77 Oxford 74
Brockton 71 Pepperell Ti
Chestnut Hill 71 Runaway Brook. ...
Cohasset 74 Salem 74
Commonwealth ....72 Segregansett 71
Concord 74 Hprlngtleld 72
The Country Club.. 77 Somervilln 74
Crow Point 74 Btockbrldge 75
Essex County 76 Tatnuck 76
Fall River 74 Tedesco 77
Framlngham 70 Tekoa 65
Hoosic Whlslck 74 Vesper 77
Hvannlsport 76 Weston 72
Island 74 Winchester 72
Iexlngton "i Wollaston 75
Meadow Brook 71 Woodland 77
Med ford 76
. The scratch men are J. G. Anderson, A.
G. Ixickwood and W. C. Chick.
"By the par measurement of links there
Is less difference In the total figures of a
short links and the committee's Idea of Its
scratch score than on the longer links,
unless some special allowance Is made,"
stutrs Ralph Cracknell, secretary of the
committee. "To get this allowance right
Is the aim of the committee. If the handi
caps were based on the par scores by meas
urements the man placed on scratch on a
par basis would have less rhrnce to make
the flfrures on the short links than on those
of a longer anil more open test. So that the
par system would not work.
"Fay the par system advocates: 'Such
things should bo allowed for like any un
usual conditions governing the play, of a
hole.'
"With so many things to allow for It
seems ai well to make a scratch score for
the links which It Is known players of tho
scratch class can make."
Rratd anil Ills Clubs.
James Braid, to change from the handi
caps to a plus man, says he Is not a slave
to any particular club, thounh ho has strong
fancies in the' matter of patterns. But
he recommends young golfers to buy clubs,
else be will never git the right ones, but
he must not take It for granted that any
m'sses are the fault of the club and that
the proper thing to do is to buy more.
"Clubs that satisfy are often come by
accldentially," to quote from Braid. "Some
times there seems to be an Inspiration In
the case. For Instance, think of the curious
way In which Harry Vardon came by the
putter with which he won his first cham
pionship. He bad fed with J. II. Taylor
and had to play off two days later, the
event being played at MutrfUld that year.
On the day In between he was In the shop
of Ben Bayers at North Berwick, and in
a .corner he aaw a little rusty clelk not
a putter at all but Just and ordinary clelk.
A most extraordinary fnncy seised him;
many people wor.ld have said that It was
a very mad fancy. He thought that If
that clerk had a new shaft put Into It
It would make a very fine putter for hltn
with which to play In the greatest and
most responsible game of his life the next
day. So ha bought the old club and had
the new stick put into it. Not the least
queer part of the story Is that when he
played off his tie he putted as well as any
man has ever putted In a championship
before or since, and he beat his opponent."
Travis Haa No Prrjadlre.
Travis of American amateurs will not
admit to aver having, had an Ideal club.
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nnd he Is constantly experimenting with
new lengths, weights nnd shapes. Douslas,
on the other extreme, felt depressed at
the burning of his clubs In the Apawamis
clubhouse lire, and only patterns imported
from Scotland could replace them. When
Fenn was an amateur and winning one of
the Knollwood tournaments with ease his
admiring caddie boy asked leave to take
the cluba home with him to show to Ms
mother. -
"Boy," replied Fenn solemnly, "not for
tl.WO could that set be taken from me
over night."
Americans are usually not so coVistant
to their clubs, and there are players who
have so many that they could start a shop
or rather a museum of past and present
styles. Scots, on the contrary, often be
queath the play clubs to their son and heir.
Is It tho club or tho player that should
be credited for the queer shots that come
off In golf? Harry Vardon admits there are
not many queer shots that you can do
when you try to. That clelk shot sliced
around the tree at the New Haven Golf
club Was one of such shots to come off for
Vardon on his American trip, Vardon thinks
a shot he played at Northwood, England,
was one of his queerest. He had played
the ball right up against the corner of the
club house on the side furthest from the
green, so that Vardon had the building be
tween him and the hole, which was just
on the other side. He played the ball
perpendicularly Into the air with a niblick.
The ball then seemed to get a curl that
took It over In the direction of the hole
and It flopped down right beside It.
Jack Hobena' One.
In commenting on the hole made In one
by Juck Hobens of England In the last
American open championship, Harry Var
don made these statements: "With all the
golf that I play praqtlcally every day of
Ihe year I myself have only done a hole
In one stroke once In my life, and I had
won two or three championships before I
did that. On the other hand, L, Stuart
Anderson, the secretary of the Royal Port
ruHh club, has, I believe, done It seven
times, which must be a record. Twice
within a month It was done by women at
the twelfth hole at Walton Heath, to which
club my friend James Braid Is attached.
Two of the best holing In one feat that
I have ever heard of were the doing of the
ninth hole at St. Andrews (277 yards) in
one stroke this spring by a local amateur,
and the late Jamie Anderson's feat , In
holing In one In a championship at Prejst
wlck, when he had to do that, or something
very much like It, In order to enable film
to win, as he did."
WOMAN'S GOLF AT MIDLOTHIAN
Program for Week of Championship
Play In October.
CHICAGO. Sept. 14-Program for the
women's national golf championshp, Octo
ber 7 to 12, Inclusive, at the Midlothian
Country club. All medal match play will
be at 18-hole rounds.
Monday, October 7. 10 a. m. : Women's
championship medal play round, 18 holes,
best thirty-two scores to qualify. A prise
Is offered by the assoociatlon for the loweat
score in tills competition.
Tuesday, October 8. 10 a. ni.: Women's
championship, first match play round. 1:30
p. ni. : Consolation event for: the non
qualifies; IX holts medal play handicap.
Prize presented by Midlothian Country
club. Entries close for this event Monday,
October 7, at ti p. m.
VS'eunesday, October 9. 10 a. m.: Women's
championship, second match play round.
1:30 p- m.: Wumeji's handicap against
bogie. Is holes. Prize presented by Mid
lothian Country rluti. Entiles close for this
event at 1 p. m.
Thursday, October 10. 10 a. m.: Women's
championship, third round. 1:30 p. m.:
lh'ivlng, approaching ami putting contests.
Prizes presented by Midlothian Country
club. Entries can be made at the time of
the event.
Friday, October 11. 10 a. m.: Women's
championship, semi-final match play round.
1:30 p. in.: Best ball loursome, scratch; 18
holes. Prises presented by Midlothian
Country club. Knlries can be madu at the
time of the event.
Saturday, October 12. 10 fc. m.: Women's
championship, final match play round. 1:30
p. in.: Mixed foursome medal play handi
cap; 18 holes. Prizes presented by Mid
lothian Countrv c-lull. F.ntriea clone for
this event Thursday, October 10, at tf p. ni.
The competition is open for foreigners j
visiting this country, who may be Invited
by the executive committees of the ussocl- !
atlon. The Robert Cox cup shall be held
for that year by the club from which the
winner shojl have entered, the winner
receive a gold medal, the runner up a
silver medal and the other seml-flnallsts
bronze medals.
NEW TRACK FOR LOS ANGELES
(iraders Are at Work at tho Baldwin
Kanck.
IX3 ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 14-Desplte
the fact that the graders are at work at
Arcadia, on Baldwins ranch, clearing the
ground for a new race track, there are
many who still believe that trie running
horses will be seen In action again this
winter at Ascot Park. While those who
are on the inside will not tell what they
know about the matter, they do not seem
to be very sad over the prospects. The
greatest evidence at hand that Ascot will
be opened Is In the preparations that are
going on at that track. The track super
intendent and his crew are at work clean
ing things up, and, while the gentleman
will admit nothing, the manner In which
he la going about his work would seem to
indicate that It is not being carried on for
nothing. Whether or not betting will be
allowed on the track no one knows, but. as
the county line Is but a few hundred feet I
from Ascot, no trouble Is looked for from
this source la the event of another winter I
meeting. I
Old Greek Sport Taken Up by Ameri
cas Athlete
FEW CHANGES MADE IN THE GAME
Br Modern Ralea Dlao Matt Be Cnst
Pretty Moch After Manner Shosrn
In the Statute of tho
Dlacoboloa.
Throwing the discus in the Greek style
has received official recognition aa a stand
ard event on the American athletic cham
pionship program, and as It Is modeled
after Myron's classic statue of the Disco
bolus henceforth poise will have to bo
studied by athletes. For soma years a sort
of go-as-you-please rule governed the con
test, and even the Greeks themselves were a
trifle at sea aa to the conditions of ancient
limes, but a little while before the Olympic
games of last year the old rules were dug
up and they prevailed In the Stadium.
in part the same rulea will be enforced
hero, but with a little Improvement. That
Is, In front of the throwing box there will
be a parallelogram 13) feet long and 3)
feet broad and a fair throw must fall Inside
of this space, a restriction which will Insure
the disc's being thrown straight.
The Invention of dirk throwing has been
assigned to Perseus, son of Jupiter and
I'a-iae, and It ranked third In the pentathlon
or all around program. As to the exact
welglrt of the discus In ancient times there
Is very little authentic Information.
According to Dninoas, Mllo of Crotin
threw a disc weighing eleven pounds a dis
tance of ninety feet, and about the same
distance was credited to I'lysses and oth
ers. The discus used at the last Olymplsd
weighed a shade over four pounds and the
record achieved was 116 feet 4 Inches by
Juervenln of Finland, so that had Mllo been
present he would easily have held his own
with the modern champion.
Then as to the shape, size and material
of the discus itself at different periods
there Is a lot of contradictory literature.
As well as can be ascertained the missile
in the days of Homer was a mass of rough
Iron called a solos and was used as it came
from the foundry without being shaped by
the hammer. '
At other times the disc was made of
stone and bIbo of hard heavy wood. Most
commonly It was made of copper or iron,
and even to the present day specimens of
these Iron disci are to be met with In parts
of Greece. When on their way to the last
Olympic games the members of the Ameri
can team saw one of the old Iron Imple
ments. It was at Patras, on the mainland
of Greece, where the boys practiced after
landing ' from the steamer Montenegro,
and a resident of the town lent the old
rust-eaten disc for the occasion.
In ancient times the athlete threw from
a space called the balhls, which today
has been replaced by a box of dirt graded
toward to front. Then aa now the thrower
had to assume a certain attitude or else
the throw was foul.
The right leg must be In front and
slightly bent, with the weight of the body
mostly on the right foot, which must rest
flat on the dirt. About eighteen Inches
behind should be the left foot resting on
ths toe.
This position of the legs places the body
In a cromped attitude ao that It Is partly
powerless to Impart any great momentum
to the disc as It files away. Were the legs
reversed, that Is, with the left foot In
front, then the swing of the body would
add to the force of the arm and the re
sult would be a natural action of tho
muscles.
,'As the athlete I stands In the box he,
should lean his body slightly forward,
with the discus held above bis head. Then
when he la ready to make the effort the
body should be bent and turned slightly to
the right and the hand holding the discus
should be extended backward to the full
length of the arm and raised level with the
head. s
At this point comes, tha most delicate
part of the throw, for the hand holding
the discus should describe a downward
half circle in the air, while at the same
time the athlete should jump forward
out of the box as If to Increase the force
of the projection. Any other movement
but a downward swoop of the arm In the
act of throwing is contrary to the correct
rules. v
So popular did the sport become among
the Greeks that the distance to which a
strong hand could cast the missile became
a measure of length acknowledged and
ratified by usage. "A cast of the disc"
was an expression as well understood In
ancient times as the range of a gun be
came fater. The same disc was used by
all the competitors and each throw was
marked by a stake or arrow.
DANIELS MADE A
GREAT
SWIM I
Voung American Loses World's Rico
! a Technicality.
NEW YORK. Sept. 14. The particulars
of the 220-yard swimming race for the
championship of th-s world have Just cotiie
by mall from England, and It will be
gratifying to all good American followers
of aquatic sporta to hear that C. M. Daniels
of the New York Athletic club really won
this event, hut lost the decision on a mere
technicality.
According to an eye witness of the eon
test, Paniels swam a great race for tho
first hundred yards of the course, and at
the century mark led his nearest competi
tor by fully eight feet. After this he
seemed to become rather distressed and
was splashing badly towards tne end. I p.
the last ten yards Pe Halmay and Rad
mllovie closed rapidly on him, but did not
beat him to the line, as the cable from
abroad led us to believe.
. The pool at Westoa-super-mer is 100 feet
long, so lhat for the furlong the contes
tants swam it six times and then had sixty
more feet to go. This finish lino was
marked by a horizontal pole which tha
men had to touch to bo counted out. I'n
lucklly for paniels, the pole was some dis
tance above the surface, and, as he came
up to it ahead of the field his hand missed
it, and It was not until his shoulder went
over the line that he could touch It. Of
course the Judges could not count him fin
ished until some part of his body had
come in contact with the pole, and before
tliis occurred both Halmay and Radmllovlc
though behind Paniels, were able to touch
out and were awarded first and second.
The young champion waa played out at the
finish and said he had not felt In the best
of condition for several days.
STANFORD'S COACH IS ON STRIKE
Tutor of tbo California Oarsmen
.Demands a Contract.
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 14.-Rowing af
fairs at Stanford university face a
crisis unless that Institution accedes to
the demands of Pan Murphy, the row
ing coach of the Cardinal school crews.
Murphy declares that he will not return
to Stanford and act as head rowing ad
viser unless he Is given a year's contract
at tl.au). The loss of Zimmerman, the
captain of last year's crew, has been
greatly felt and should Murphy fall In his
demands rowing affairs will be thrown
into confusion. As Murphy is conceded to
be the best rowing authority along the
western coast. It Is thought Stanford will
give in to his demand
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