THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEK: DECEMBER 15, 1907.
Tiie Omaiia Sunday Bee.
OMAHA, Bl'NDAT, DKCE11BER 15. 1907.
WHILE the magnatM of the Mg
leagues left undone one thins;
they mlKht have done, they did
do something to help the game
along-. T require waivers before
drafted player can be returned la going
to atop "covering tip." This will work
some hardship on crafty minor league
magnates, but will give those who are
honest or devoid of big league connections
A fair ihow at their own players. The
draft rule has been now amended until
It la about aa harmless as It can be made,
but all that might be done has not yet
been brought to pas. With one Boston
team carrying fifty players and the other
carrying thirty-six, and other teama In
the big leaguea loaded In similar degree,
the fate of the little fellow Is easy to be
seen. Something ought to be done to put
a curb on the grabbing of players by the
big leagues. It a player Is taken subject
to a tryout, and doesn't make good, he
ought to be allowed to go back directly to
the team from which he was taken. The
waiver rule Is well Intended, but It has
Its disadvantages, as was shown In the
case of Shipke, who was taken from
Omaha returned to cs Moines, by the
hocus pocus route. Similar deals have
been perpetrated, and comment engendered
thereby has not been favorable to the
magnates. Hut, so long aa big league
owners are permitted to have working In
terests In minor league clubs. Just that
long will the law of base ball be broken
In spirit If not In letter.
Whether McGraw or Joe Kelley got the
better of that omnibus trade of players
the other day la not the question that
chiefly concerns the lovers of base ball.
though fans may derive some pleasure In
the pastime of discussing the merits of
the txchange. The main point Is and It
must appeal with gratifying force to men
who want to see the game progress it la
"an unmistakable sign of a determination
on the part of Manager McGraw and other
managers to infuse new life into their
teams and bring them back to a standard
of work from which they have descended
In the last few seasons. And It would be
specious pleading to say that new life
could not be infused where old men only
were employed. The fact is patent and
universally accepted that an old man
seemingly at the end of his line ef useful
urn on one team may revive and play
'several seasons of his best ball when
transferred to another club. Experience
offers ample evidence In support of this
argument. While no one will say Fred
Teuney, for Instance, or Frank Bowerman,
has passed his stage of good service, there
can bts no doubting the fact that both men
have room for improvement In the work
they have done of late, and perhaps that
very Improvement will come with their
exchange of places. Tenney, of course,
nuraes some soreness over managerial de
velopments, and there may be some spe
cial reason why Bowerman would rather
not continue with the Giants. It Is grati
fying Indeed to note this evident determi
nation on the part of New lork and Bos
ton to strengthen their teams and get
I hem back Into the class of great ones
where they were for so many years. And
the same preparations on the part of man
agers of several other American and Na
tional league teams gives additional cause
for satisfaction .In the minds of the fans.
Munarrhlsm triumphed to some extent In
tho National league meeting in New York
the other day. The amendment to the con-
stltutlon vesting in the president of the
league final power in the discipline of
players Is the case at hand. Perhaps thi
will work an improvement In conditions,
perhaps it will not. At first glance It would
seem to rest largely with the character of
the president. Certainly it would be a
dangerous enlargement of authority to
make In the case of at least one individual
. now. holding the title of president of a
league. .The unscrupulous men who domi
nate and dictate In all of his executive
actions would create a condition of things
that would soon become intolerable. For
tunately, however, the president of th
National league Is not such a person, and
if there ' is a league president anywhere
capable of exerclatng such powers without
abuse it is President Pulllam.
St." Louis has discovered the champion
base ball fan and rooter. The discovery
was a simple matter. The method employed
was simply to have all the base ball fans
and rooters in the United States assemble
at a post-season game In St. Louis and
root. Judges has been appointed to pick
the best rooter and the lot fell upon the
St. Louis man who is now proclaimed to
the world as Its champion rooter.
Murohv'i recommendation for
nln
games instead of seven for world's chain
pionslilp honors is coming toward t
point. Old Top Anson has many fans w
the
1th
hire In his advocacy of fourteen games
on
the theory that fewer than that Is
enough to decide supremacy between
two blirh srrade. well matched teama.
not
any
Ana
mutt fUure It will never be Cubs against
Ttgers again.
A Denver sporting writer m the course of
a panegyric tells us that George Tabeau
got his managelal start In base ball on IluC
he borrowed from Packard in Denver In
lsnjO. Packard sho'uld have played the
races. By tho way. can our friend tell
where Brother Pat got his start?
Another week gone Into history and Eng
land has aot yet unearthed another prise
fighter. There Is serious apprehension of
the necessity of returning to sprinting, in
which case some descendant of Charlie
Mitchell might be found.
Winter racing hasn't as yet produced any
of Its customary sensations. The sending
of a long shot across has been unneces
sarily delayed, maybe in transmission.
And to think Ben Henderson goes down
In history solely and simply as "contract
jumper." It la almost too harsh. But
there Is still Edward Vest Quick.
Keene won over Urn). WO on the turf dur
ing the summer, and yet he says his stable
doesn't pay. No wonder they call it "the
sport of kings."
i
Vnlfonnlty In balls as well as rules will
Qiake Hie. visit of the British tennis
brethren to America all the more enjoy
Able. Building new circuits is the rage just
low. But the old one will all blow in aa
isual next spring.
Lrt's wait until Tommy Burns gets back
ind see how many of these haswases will
lawl blTii out.
Fish and "Harrltnan will have to go some
if the Coiniskey-Johnsun mill really do
relopa. We're on the down-hUl pull for April 11
la the maritime Pa has bis gTass sown.
SENDIXC011TFOOIBALLSEATS
Yale Has the Bij Job Down to a
Science.
HOW APPLICATIONS ABE HANDLED
Of t'orry Thaasaad Tickets Distrib
uted for Prlaeetoai aad Harvard
Games This Fall Oaly Three
Meat Astray.
NEW YORK, Dec. 14. There Is more
Work connected with the distribution of
tickets for a big foot ball game, say the
Tale-Frinceton contest, than there Is In
drilling the players on the field, and not
half as much fun. There isn't any fun at
all about the former; It Is a big and serious
business. It does not begin as early In
the fall as the campaign In the gridiron.
but only a week or so later, and It means
over a month of hard and patient labor,
unremitting attention and care and a
thorough system. At Yale, where there
are two bl; games to prepare for only a
week apart, the work of distributing
tickets, with Its vast amount of detail, has
been reduced to a science, this the out
growth of experience year after year as
the slxe of the crowds at the games has
Increased.
If all the work of distributing tickets
for our two big games were placed end to
end and done by one man," says Edward
Thompson, who has charge of this depart
ment at Yale, "it would take him two
years, six months and seventeen days to do
It."
The first move is made on October 1. On
that day at New Haven this year special
forms of envelopes were sent to .Yale grad
uate clubs informing them that applica
tion blanks for tickets were ready. These
were for Yale graduates. Princeton and
Harvard attend to their own people. If
the gam la to be played In New Haven
Yale senda to the other college whatever
number of tickets It may ask for, and If
the game Is not to be played In New Haven
tickets are sent to Yale.
The graduates are reached by means of
mailed announcements to the clubs and by
latter being the source by which the under
graduates are Informed that application
blanks are ready. . . There Is the work of
having the blanks printed, but that Is a de
tail of small moment In the multitude of
others which bear more directly on the
undertaking.
New Haven System.
The system at New if aven provides that
each applicant may ask for three tickets,
and the athletic bureau of distribution
virtually binds Itself to furnish the three
tickets. One idea of three tickets per man
Is that the gTad or student thus may take
himself, his girl and her chaperon. When
it was suggested the other day that next
season only two tickets each might be the
procedure one student remarked that if
that were done he couldn't take his girl
because her mother wouldn't allow her to
go to the game without a chaperon.
As the applications come In they must
be verified care must be taken that tho
applicant is what he represents himself
to be. This la done by consulting the col
lege catalogues, the lists of living gradu
ates, undergraduates and those who at
tended college but did not complete their
course. There are Instances but Infre
quentlyof applications coming In from per
sons who never saw Yale, and cases have
been known of outsiders using the names
of graduates who no longer are in the
land of the living. The completeness of
the record makes it a comparatively easy
matter to detect any fraud of thla sort.
and no tickets get Into the hands of spec
ulators this wsy. Indeed speculators are so
well curbed at New Haven nowadays that
such tickets as may get into their hands
are few and far between.
It often happens that more than three
tickets are wanted by an applicant, and
as it also happens that some do not want
any tickets. It Is possible to adjust the
two conditions and accommodate those who
want more than the regulation share. The
plan in such cases Is to see that the man
not using his privilege gives proper, author
Timely Tips for
An automobile motor plowing contest Is
to be held in Paris soon and is attracting
a deal of attention.
Bridgeport. Conn., is one of the latest
cities to buy a motor-driven chemical en
gine for . its fire department.
The Quaker City Motor club will hold Its
second endurance run from Philadelphia
to Allenlown, Pa., and return, January
1 and 1.
A recent aid to motoring comfort Is a
water and dustproof circular hat box, made
to be carried in the space Inside the
emergency tire.
The government experts who recently
finished a piece of model roadway at
Clinton, Wi ., are now at work on one at
Huntington. W. Va.
A skirt of soft black leather, trimmed
with black Perklan lamb, la one of the most
striking motoring costumes shown this
winter for women's wear.
With Russian caviare concealed In the
hollow rlma of the wheels of his motor car,
a smuggler recently was caught crossing
the Husso-Austrlan frontier.
Twelve automobiles and a full-sized sight
seeing car are uaed in a production at the
New York Hippodrome, which baa the
largest stage in the world.
8o many New York motorists plan to
attend the Boaton show In March that a
sealed bonnet contest from tt.e Metropolis
to the Hub la under consideration, .
Because several horses have been fright
ened, accldenla resulting, the authorities of
Pateraon, N. J., have forbidden the use of
automobile searchlights In that city.
Probably the youngest motor cyclist In
the world is Clement Marchand, 6s years
old. of Pans, who already haa raved and
has mado his twenty-five miles an hour.
Plans are nearlng completion for a 2M0
mile race from Jacksonville to Miami,
Fla. Much of the distance la over roads
over which an automobile never has been
driven.
An unusual feature of the decorations
of the Detroit show were a number of
automobile cartoons by leading artists.
The general color scheme was green, gold
and white.
A LunUon police magistrate recently fined
an American motorist the equivalent of
H.tKw (or offering a half sovereign as a
tip to a policeman who bad arrested him
for speeding.
Senator Chauncey M. Depew of New York
thought It such a good Joke when his
chauffeur waa arrested for speeding that
he furnished his J.vo.ouO residence as bail
for the man.
During the fiscal year, which recently
closed, the motor vehicle board of the
District of Columbia Issued 9ou permits to
operate cars and registered . DO tars from
different states.
The New Jersey Automobile club will
bring to the attention of the stale railroad
commissioners ail the dangerous grade
crossings in the atate with a view to hav
ing Idem abolished.
Chicago motorists will be hard hit as
soon aa Governor Dtneen signs the Illi
nois wheel tax law, winch mulcts an auto
mobile at a much rig her fate than every
other form of vehicle.
in a recent y twenty-four-hour race at
Springfield, Mass., between two cars of
the same make, one water-cooled, the
other air-cooled, and the former made Jus
miles to the Utter s
Frsnoe exported automobiles worth
.'41 1 ) from January to October, against
J wj.imI for the same period in lie, and
Imported gl.tM.4ts) worth compared to
Il.4l7.3tv worth year before.
Old casings, cut into Is-in eh lengths
with the edges rojnded off. auake as good
tire sleevea as can be bought. Ttey can
be attaached by wire or leather throngs
run through eelets set Into the edge.
Cast aluminum, now coming into general
use for automobiles, is easily corroded,
but may be cleaned with good sand aoap
ity to the one to whom he turns over his
application. The two applications are then
plcnrd together, entered separately on the
books, but the allotment made to
gether. For the last Princeton game at New
Haven there were printed- 1S.000 blanks. The
financial situation this fall made some un
toward complications when the money
began coming In for tickets. Most of the
money comes In checks and during the
panicky tlmea about $i,00 worth of checks
which would not go through the banks were
received. The senders of course thought
the checks were good, but It meant no little
extra trouble to get this matter straight
ened out.
Roughly speaking 33.000 tickets were
printed for the Tale-Princeton game. The
tickets were elaborate and expensive, to
avoid as far as possible counterfeiting.
With this In mind, too, each year there Is a
different design on the tickets. This plan
of different colors for pasteboards for dif
ferent parts of the stands was disregarded
this fall. It was found that there was a
sufficiently large proportion of color blind
ticket holders to cause confusion at the
gates. Those thus afflicted went to the
wrong entrances. So this year Thompson
hit upon the Idea of having "Gate 1," "Gate
i" or "Gate J," as the case might be,
printed on the tickets In large letters.
This and megaphone men all about the
place did away with any confusion at the
entrances.
As the applications come In they are put
away In a big safe, first acknowledgment
being made, until a week before the cloalng
time of applications, when the work of
opening and entering them begins. The
work of distributing Is now on in earnest,
though a force of ten men is enough to be
gin with. As the applications come In they
must be assorted Into their various classes,
seniors, juniors, sophomores, freshmen,
professional schools, graduates and odds
and ends. When enough applications have
been received to start with the working
force gets busy.
Entering; Applicants.
What Is known as the loose leaf system
is used for entering the applications easy
to handle and easy to bind. The number
of the application, the name of the appli
cant and other data necessary to seeing
that his wishes In the matter of getting
his tickets are recorded. One man calls off
and another puts down. As each appllca
tlon is entered the end of the envelope Is
slit open and the money taken out. The
amount of the money Is written on each
envelope and whether the applicant will
call or have his tickets mailed. On each
sheet are recorded the names of the two
workers who handled that sheet, and these
two are responsible for everything on that
particular sheet. The filled sheet goes to
the treasurer's desk and a resume of It.
goes to Thompson.
A record also Is kept of where applicants
want to be seated, and they are accommo
dated so far as is possible with a view to
pleasing them and getting congenial spirits
together. If the graduate from Missouri
wants to sit with the graduate from Maine
his wish la carried out. It takes patient
maneuvering and planning and shifting to
get all the various groups seated and have
the different groups and parties the cheer
ing sections and t,he other sections so
arranged that there will be no friction and
no waste of seats, but It has to be done and
Is done.
A book of applications Is completed be
fore any allotment is made and in one ap
plication book there are nearly 400,000
figures. When the application envolopes
are emptied they are put in boxes made
especially for the purpose, each containing
fifty application envelopes and so marked
as to correspond with the sheet. The
names of all applications are Indexed, the
index being the means of keeping track
of where the application is filed and its
entry on the sheet.
The work of addressing envelopes to
those who are to get the tickets is another
detail or the system. This work Is done
by the Yale force Itself, because envelopes
of uniform slxe to hold the tickets are used.
The Yale folks have found this plan handler
than having applicants send in stamped
envelopes. The envelopes containing the
tickets are stamped In the Yale office and
registered, this being carried on under
the supervision of the postal authorities.
Automobile Owners and Drivers
applied with a stiff brush. A mixture of
emery and washing powder also Is effective.
The proposal to charge from JJ60 to J1.000
for entrance to the great stock touring car
endurance run. near New York early this
spring It is feared will bar out ao many
persons as to defeat the object of the con
test. A Paraslan organisation atyltng Itself
the Society Against Automobile Kxcesaes
will endeavor to have a law passed re
quiring all motorists to support a fund
for compensating persons injured by auto
mobiles. A new ordinance at Colorado Springs re
quires an applicant for a drivers license
to prove thai he la a man of good moral
character and of temperate habits. Visit
ing motorists are exempt from the law for
three days.
Only thirteen of the thirty-six starters
In the S-day, 300-mile sealed bonnet cuii
test of the Chicago Motor club managed to
aurvlve the strenuous conditions, of the
thirteen there wer cars of eleven dif
ferent makes.
The smartest veils for winter motoring
are of lace or heavy tulle, witn deep lace
applique borders. Moat of them are two
yarua square, although some wearers pre
fer them three yards long by one and a
half in width.
itiurtseiiLaUva of the Massachusetts
State grange for the farmers, and of ilia
automuulle cluus, lor the motorists, will
meet to agree upon a new motoring law
to be introduced in tne legis.Ature ol tuat
state tnsi winter. ,
Under policies which are now written'
the owner ot a macniue can insure hiniseU
against accident, uainagu arid liability of
any nature wnatsoever, wltu tne single ex
ception of a bieanauwu ol the car uu to
tauity construction.
Nearly all tne leading representative of the
automobile lnuunuy auenued the unveiling
at Paris of a ataiue in nuiior of i-oiUe leva
aur, pioneer in the business in tuat counuy,
who was killed ten years ago while unvuig
one of his own cars,
Cnder the lead of their Slate association,
Ohio motorists are waging an active cam
paign for an Improvement vt the state
vehicle laws. One plan is to have all
tines collected from law-breakers expended
on road improvement.
The government of Brazil has purchased
three steam-driven patrol wagons for the
use of the Rio Janeiro police from an
American man at aclurer, whose cars are
tarrying the mails of Java and are used
for aulo 'buses iu Japan.
Eighteen different makes of six-cylinder
cars were exhibited at the recent
Olympia show at Lonuon to six single
cyilnaer, eleven with two cylinder and two
with three cylinder. The toiir-cy linuer
machines numbered nearly 2u0.
If black smoke and red flames come
from the carburettor the mixture is too
rich; if-yellow name, too weak, while an
occasional blue flame and a weil-empl:aa.sd
note from the exhaust pile shows Hie
carburettor ia properly adjusted.
By fitting detachable flanged wheels to
his motor car, t. o. Johnson, an olticial
of the McCloud Itiver Lumber company of
McCloud, Cal., Is able to make long runs
on road tracks into the limber country,
where dirt roads are impassible.
Instead of its tourist trophy race on a
limited fuel basis, the Royal Autoraobllo
club will hold a AO-mile road race on the
Isle of Man next year, baaed on maximum
cylinder bore and maximum weignl, tne
horse power not to exceed sixty-four.
Connecticut motorists are muclJ aroused
by the light penalty of Jl without coats
Imposed Jointly on lour boys who tore the
railing from a bridge at Mllldaie and placed
it in auch a manner as to damage a motor
car and nearly dump it into the river.
Caude Panalver, president of the Royal
Spantan Automobile club, who recently a
.elected alcalde of Madrid, has decreed that
hereafter the blame fur automobile ac
All receipts for registered letters are filed
away In order. So complete Is the svstem
thst In esse complaints come In of tickets
not received every one of them sent out
may be traced.
The Itemised bank deposits of check
received wss eighteen feet long one day.
but the bigsrest day was November 1. the
day on whlrh applications' for the Prince
ton game closed. They came In so fast
that an extra day waa required to enter
them. The force of employes meanwhile
had been enlarged as the work Increased
and by November there were forty of them
at work.
The working force outside of the two
or three at the head of the department,
consists entirely of students of the uni
versity. They were mostly poor students.
who by this means had a chance to earn
some much needed money. They received
from SO to M cents an hour and during
the busiest season put In all their spare
time, day and night. In various capncltles
In the ticket distribution.
When all the applications had been re
corded In sheet book there begsn the pre
paring of what Is colloquially known aa
the big dope. This was before the ticket
had been sent out and consisted of reas
serting the applications so as to bring the
spectators together In the proper groups.
Here was where the task of adjusting and
fitting together all the various ends and
divisions so nicely and diplomatically that
there should be no dissatisfaction and no
waste come In. It required clear Judgment
and a thorough knowledge of the plan of
the-stands and their capacity. For Instance
If there weren't enough applications to fill
a certain section set aside It became neces
sary to make the occupants of an adjoin
ing section Jut over Into Its neighbor and
occupy the unused space.
The tickets were grouped according to a
general plan, and this done and the appli
cations all In and recorded, the allotment
of seats was In order. The first step was to
take the sheets apart. The apportioning
of seats for the various sections Is all done
by lot there Is no first come, first served
about It. no preference whatever shown
to anybody, except that certain sections
are set aside for; the various classes and
groups. But there is no preference what
ever for the Individuals.
The first section allotted Is the cheering
section at the middle of the field, and here
naturally most of the undergraduates are
assembled. Of the classes seniors come
first. It being their last year In college
then juniors, sophomores and freshmen In
turn. Next come graduates, and if there
are any seats left over after the distribu
tion they are put out so that reputable
members of the general public may get
them.
Allotment of . ambers.
To begin the allotment numbers corre
sponding with the numbers on the sheets
are placed in a box. A number Is then
drawn out. If it la. say. No. 8L that num
ber is turned to on the sheet. It says John
Jones, so and so whether he Is an under
graduate or what. His tickets are set aside
in the section In which he belongs, at the
same time it being noted and borne In mind
where he wants to go. If he has expressed
a preference In that regard. The number
of his seats are then recorded and his
name written across the face of his tickets,
If he is a graduate his tickets are mailed
to htm, unless he has said that he will call
for them; if he is an undergraduate he
calls for them In person. The undergrad
uates form In line In classes for their
tickets.
A forca of forty is needed for the heaviest
part of the work, and it is kept going day
and night in shifts during the final week.
As some of the working students are grad
uated each year, new men have to be
broken In each season. The work at Yale
Is rendered more extensive than elsewhere
because of the fact that. the Princeton
and Harvard games come on consecutive
Saturdays and practically the task of dis
tributing tickets for two big games comes
all at once.
Of the 40,000 tickets sent out to Yale ap
plicants for the Princeton and Harvard
games this fall Just three went astray, one
because of anerror in the malls, one be
cause the applicant wrote the wrong ad
dress, one because of an error In the dis
tributing department.
cidents in which pedestralns Ague. Is to be
piaceu on mem ana not on the motorists.
A combination of one-fourth wood al
cohol and three-fourths water will with
stand a sero temrjeratiira withnnt fr....
lng, while 40 per cent wood alcohol and
60 per cent water will not freeze until
n reacnes aoout A) degrees below sero.
Automobile headlights of more than
thirty-two candle power rarely are seen in
r ranee, so, when mysterious flashes were
seen on a recent night In a rural district,
three volunteer fire departments turned out,
to find that an American motorist was try
ing to find his way with an acetylene
searchlight.
By a wild dash of 160 miles in his auto
mobile from New York to New Britain,
Conn.. Dr. Qeorare W. Roberts, a orit.on
of the former city, reached Mrs. Philip
Corbln, wife of the head of the Hardware
trust in time to save her life by an opera
tion. Incidentally he received ,0u0 for
ins irouoie.
On land In New Jersey at present of but
little vslue and convenient to both Phila
delphia and New York, a twenty-flve-mlle
automobile track will be built by the
ownera of the property, who hope to have
the Vanderbllt cup races held there and to
make it the greatest motor racing center
In the east.
Definitely deciding to hold a Vanderbllt
cup race next year, the committee of the
American Automobile association having
the matter In charge aelected October for
the month and Increased the maximum
weight limit for care to 2.4M.4 pounda to
agree with the limit recently fixed by the
European Automobile congress.
The chairman of the various boards of
me American Automobile association for
tne new year are: Legislative. Charles T
Torry. New York; good roa.is, Robert H
Hooper. Philadelphia: tourinir. Frank u
Howur, Iluffulo; racing. JefTraon DeMont
Thompson, New York; technical. N. H.
Van Sii'klen, Chicago; publication, A. U.
oaicneicier, ivew torn.
Interesting experiments by the tchnlcal
rmnniltt.e of the Automobile Clulj of
France to determine the changes causeil
by various atmospheric pressures on the
power of explosion motors showed recently
that at an altituile of mrters. or Z.bJi
feet, a motor losea 10 per cent of Its power,
at 1.750 meters io per cent, at 2) meters
SO per cent, at 4.0UO meters 40 per cent and
at B.ow meters 60 per cent.
iH-laware's new motoring law. which be
comes effective January 1. makes the driv
ing of a car by an Intoxicate,! person a
misdemeanor, punishable by W0 fine or
inirty nays imprisonment or both; pro
hibits the use of cash bail under any cir
cumstances, fixes the minimum age for
licensing drivers at Is and allows a nun
resident registered in another stste to
drive a car in Delaware ten days without
taxing out a license.
Within two hours after La Matin of
Paris announced" its race from New York
to Paris via Alaska, the Beting straits,
Biberlo. Russia and Germany it received
two offers of pilots, one from an ex-sali r.
whose life had been full of stirring ad
ventures In many parts of the world, and
u.e otner rrom Hons, who tried to drive a
trl-car In the Peki.ig-to-Paris rsce. The
first definite entry came from an Ameri
can. C. li. Tangeman of New York.
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CORNELL COMES TO FRONT
Makes Greatest Strides in Athletics in
Last Two Years.
EACH STUDENT MUST TAKE PART
lie May Select Ills Om "port, bnt
Cannot Kscape Easaglag In
Souse Sort of Physical
Exercise.
Cornell university has forged to the front
In athletics faster than almost any other
college during the last two years, and
this has been due In a large measure to
the Interest which President Schurman and
the faculty have taken In all forms ot
athletics. While in Omaha this summer
President Schdsman said he waa proud of
the way athletics were forging to the front
at Cornell and he attributed It largely to
a new system they were trying of having
alt the students participate in some sort
of sport, making it compulsory that each
student should take a certain amount of
exercise each day the kind of sport to be
chosen by the student.
Cornell Is especially proud of Its rowing.
Lake Cayuga and Charles , K. Courtney
have contributed largely to this. Within
the last few years Cornell has added the
field and track athletic championship to Its
list of achievements. In 1905 Tale was
beaten for the championship. Cornell haa
been victorious In cross country running
nearly as often as In rowing. Since that
sport was made Intercollegiate In 1S99
Cornell has won eight times and lost but
once. Tale Is the only college which has
ever beaten Cornell In cross country run
ning, that being in 1902.
No Settled Coach System.
In foot ball Cornell has never been for
tunate enough to reach the top of the lad
dor. This has been due In part to the fact
that until the present year Cornell has had
no settled policy regarding her coaching
system. She has tried the experiment of
securing coaches from other colleges and
the one-man system also, with one of her
own graduates In charge. Glenn Warner,
an alumnus of Cornell, has had more to
do with Cornell's rise in foot ball than any
other Individual, and his team of 1906 came
very near landing on the top. Warner
left Cornell last year to go to the Carlisle
Indians, and with his departure Cornell
Instituted a system of graduate coaches
with Halliday and Schoelkopf, two famous
Cornell fullbacks of other days, In charge.
They In turn have been drawing upon a
host of Cornell stars, and with this whole
band working In perfect harmony the pres
ent Cornell eleven, one of the strongest In
the history of the Cornelllan and White,
has been gotten together. Cornell met an
unexpected reverse on October 19, when she
lost to Pennsylvania State college, coached
by Fennell, one of her old graduates. Two
drop kicks by Vorhls, one of the best drop
kickers In the country, did all the scoring
for the victors. The Ithacans could get
but one touchdown and goal, though they
should have had two. Cornell's defeat does
not argue that the Ithacans met a better
team, for In spite of Cornell's unsettled
condition at that time she gained more
ground that Pennsylvania State. The stig
ma of the defeat at the hands of Penn
sylvania State was entirely wiped out by
Cornell's brilliant victory over Princeton
a week later. It Is true that this victory
was won only by the margin of a goal
from touchdown, the final score being to
6, but the Ithacans outplayed their Tiger
rivals by about 12 to 0, and should have
won by this score.
Victories oa Water.
But the athletic achievements of which
Cornell men are proudest are the continu
ous victories of her crews. And the crown
ing glories of these victories waa that of
1907. when Cornell won that never-io-bc-forgotten
race at Poughket psle by less
than two yards. In this case Cornell did
not win by superior watermanship, al
though the form of her crew was faultless,
but by sheer courage and grit that could
not be conquered. If the Cornell boat hud
not possessed these characteristics Colum
bia would have been the winner In 1907.
In bsse ball Cornell has been coming to
the front with a rush. In l'.iOS the Ithacans,
coached by Warner, were entitled to second
place. This year. In spite of the loss of
several veterana, the team was as good
ss the best In the Intercollegiate world.
The championship honors are claimed
Jointly by Princeton and Cornell, but the
record of the Ithacans seems to have been
the more consistent. It waa unfortunate
that Princeton and Cornell did not meet on
the diamond, but for some reason or other
they did not ploy their usual series of two
games. Hud they done so the "winner
would have been .entitled to the Intereolle
gate championship. The 1U7 team was
coached by Daniel C. Coogan, a graduate
of Pennsylvania. Coogan lias bad major
league experience since Ills collegu d;iys.
and as he has been retuintd to coach at
Cornell next year the Ithacans must be
watched more closely thun ever.
BQTHEES AND FLYNIT TO MEET
Short-End t'haiuploua Will Get An
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BAKERS-FIELD. Cal., lec. 14. Negotia
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December 21. Manager Thomas O J.-ii n
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Ing with tho PueMo fireman, Hhiie Al
Neil has been in communication with the
Australian. Manager O'Brien will gaar
sntee the fighters 75 per cent of a Jii.uOO
house. Neil will make Ms home perma
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Young I'eter Jackson hae i-prts.-U a
willingness to fight Neil In this city, but
the latter has drawn the color line.
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