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unday Bee PART V. mm ::a oseuebts PACES 1 TO 4. Omaha i HE SPORTS t VOL. XXXVII NO. 37. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 1, 1908. x SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. Base Ball Teams on Training- Trips Afford Best Possible Evidence of Balmy Spring's Approach j 7- . I . . "ft 1 1 Pi t : ili i ' ? ) 1 J i 1 k-1 ' CRHGOTON IS ON THE UST Athletio Relations with Nebraska Arc Hemmed. All SPOUTS TO BE INCLUDED' hraka Will Send Track Tram li Khmi City This Moitk Team to Ga Mtl-laoa- LINCOLN, Neb.. Feb. 29. ffi pedal. )Ne . bralta will rraume athletic relations with Crcljrhton university and the Omht school will probably be given a place on the Corn husker foot ball schedule next fall. A fetlslon to yili effect has been resehed by the tnlver!tjr of Kobraska athletic authorities. The Cornhusker management has iiiumcd a friendly attitude toward Crelghton again and the policy adopted over a year a (to of not scheduling; athletic content with the Catholic Institution will be discontinued. From now on Crelghton will b given a regular place on the various CVrnhueker athletic schedules. This year the two schools may meet In raw ball and foot ball. The foot ball managers of the universities are negotiat ing for a gridiron game to be played next fall, nml If a satisfactory date can be ar rnnRid the contest will be scheduled prob ably for Omaha. Manager Eager of Ne hrarka' on his way to Minneapolis Thurs day stopped off at Omaha to talk over Tleis for the game with the manager of ' the Crelghton eleven. Before leaving Lin coln Manager Eager hinted that the Crelchtnn game might be played In Omaha on Thanksgiving day If the Wabash con test which ho ha been planning to play In the mctroprlts on that day falls to mi ' Serial's". Just what arrangements Manager Kager made with Crclphton regarding the contest will not be known tintll he returns from Minneapolis Monday. The Nebraska nd Crelghton base ball teams will play two games this spring, providing suitable dates can be arranged. The Cornhuaker schedule has been made out for several weeks and It may be Impossible td find any open dates that can be agreed upon for the contests. Trouble wllk Crelfthtoa. The ..thletle relations between Nebraska nd Crelghton were never formally severed, but after the annual foot ball game of the two schools In V.a, the Nebraska manage ment JecWec" to drop Crelghton from the CornhusVer schedules. 8ince then the two schools have not met In any athletic con tests, .ind until rectntly the requests of the Crelghtor- matagement for games with the rornhuskrs hnve been turned down coldly. When the . Nebraska authorities dropped Crelghton from the Cort.husker schedules, ' t;iry srild they severed relations because of the t'nrrcr:smanllke conduct of the Crelgh trn I'tym at the foot ball game in Omaha In IW, when tie score s?ood 37 to 0 in favor cf Neliasl-a. It was claimed that the I icirhun ic rn !uyd a "dirty, slugging ( g-" , and nr'en iid to disable the Corn h:'. cf plafii s i fi.u: they would bo In loir fchare (or ti e I- onsas game on the followers fsmrt'ay. Many of the Nebraska yorr. a' l.uM, i enured to Lincoln in a rcd-ui ictiditlnn and feeling very hos- ti towaid C:eli;liton. This Caused the Ne- lissiia players and students to protest a-alnst scheduling any contests with the Omaha school In the future and Crelghton et droppid. After the relations were r'vfifd. the Crelghton au:horities made so I sny t-rforts to have thm resumed, and t i r niiMinon wero so friendly, that when lie at', od fir a foot ba.l game for next f.-ll. the Col n'.u'skcr maragement decided t.io Lest thing to' do would be to forget the last and give the Catholic institution a contest, rrov'dlng suitable arrangements for the game could be made. The foot ball managers of the two universities are now trying to agree on terms and date for the contest. - There Is still some opposition among the atudent body at Nebraska to competing with Creightou in athletics, but the general sentl tent of the school Is that the resumption of relation Is a good thing for both Insti tutions and that by U they will come to have a better understanding of each other. Traek Team to Kmu City. Nebraska will send a track team to the annual indoor athletic meet at Kansas City, March . 20. Missouri, Kansas, St. Louis, Washington and Washburn will also be represented. Last year the Cornhusker tram, although handlcaaed In moat of the events, made a very good showing, and it Is believed that the team this year will be able to carry off some of the best prises. The Nebraska men who will go to Kansas City next month w 111 make a much etronger team than last year's and unless too greatly handicapped on account of their university records, will be able to take some first places The one event of this meet tha Corn liuskers have set their hearts on winning Is .lie triangular relay . race. In which Ne braska. Kansas and Missouri will be the contestants. Rivalry among these three schools makea the Interest la the event very treat. The Nebraaka relay team la prac ticing dally In preparation for this race and will go to Kansas City determined to defeat Kansas and Missouri for first place In it. The other events of the Indoor meet will be as follows; Fifty-yard dash. 60-yard J.urdle rate. W-pound shot put. pole vault, running high Jump, and the quarter and half-mile run. Nebraska will be represented at the western Intercollegiate gymnastic content t Madison In April. The Cornhuskers took second place in the contest Ut year Wisconsin being the winner of flr.t -Mac. At the contest in uiiu, .u..- wta, Chicago. Illinois and wiaconsiu m .i 4 in have Iso have Mini enierea. mi ' vTy'ram as not been selected aa yet. but llliera are several men trying out for It I ' - . . 1 1 ,4 - t The most prommina u ....-. re Mitchell, Bwltsler. Mueller. H- U. Prhmltlt. Meoehouse ' and Shumway. Mitchell wti in last year's team and Is I junsldered one of the best gymnasts lu sAhe state. Bwltsler haa been showing up nicely In his work this winter and prob sbly will be able to do aome excllent work If he Is sent to the annual con test. Klsselbach and Johnson, the two i tars of the team that won second place at Chicago Urt year, will not be able to tnter thla spring. A local gymnastic canteat will be held In the university armory March 17 to select the Corn l.ueker team for the weatern event. Frmterwlty Athletic Cwateet. Arrangements are being made to hold tne first annual Inter-f raternlty athletic .onteet In the armory March 14. The Tvents for the meet will be as follows: Vwenty-ftve-yard dash. twelve-pound slot put. pole vault, fence vault, rope c imb. a Lauding broad jump, three broad j-inipa. tug of war and obstacle race, '.here wilt be three entries la each event lCvnUav4 oa I" Two.) LATE PLANS FOR THE OLYMPIAD Reports from Committee ladleate tkat Arraacemeajta Are Berks; Rapidly Completed. NETW TORK. Feb. 29-ReporU from the Olympic committees of both England and this country Indicate that rapid progress Is being made toward completing the final arrangements for both the respective try out games and the International contest to be held In the stadium at Sheppard's Bush during the month of July. WhHe It Is con ceded that other countries aside from the two mentioned wUKenter formidable athle tic teams. It Is expected that the real bal tle for the premier track and field cham pionships will eventually center upon the aggregations of the United States and Eng land. With this In view the committees In Icharge of the organisations which will rep resent these nations are working without ceasing to perfect the assembly of athlete, who. In the flnaJ struggle for the Interna tional championship, may fully demon strate the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race In amateur track and field sports. In London the date for the trial meets which will Indicate the athletes best fitted to represent England has been set for Sat urday, May 30, the same da.y on which the Intercollegiate games of the Intercollegiate Amateur AthWtlc association will be held In Philadelphia. The English games will precede the American tryouts In Philadelphia and Chicago by one week and will be worked up to by several seta of games,' also to be held In the London stadium, which will serve as preliminary tests to the final contests which will de cide the mnkeup of the English team. Un less there Is some change In the schedule as arranged at 'the present time the first big meet will be held In Sheppard's Bush amphitheater on May t, when the Flnchley Harriers will open the stadium with a gi gantic athletic meet In which a number of French athletes have been Invited to take part. J Other similar meetings will follow In quick succession, the more prominent of which are the games of the Queen's Park Harriers on May IS. the Highgate Harriers on May 23, and the combination athletic sports of the Polytechnic Athletic, Cycling, Swimming. Wrestling and Boxing clubs on June S. for which a long program of open events have been prepared. The prixes for this meeting will exceed 11,000 In value, and these contests, taken In conjunction with the English tryouts, are expected to give those in charge of the selection of the English team a most complete Idea of the ability of the athletes which will represent that country In the Olympic contests, which are set for the week beginning on July IS. While the committee In charge of the arrangements have been busy their co workers, whose duties have solely to do with the stadium proper, have also been hustling. The arrangements, aa announced by these gentlemen, are said to be rapidly assuming their final form, since the struc ture Is In the last stages of completion. Every effort will be made to fumlah the most up-to-date accommodations for the contestants In order that there may be no repetition of the dissatisfaction which cropped out at Athens In 19WJ. The ath letes wi'.I have no cause for fault finding, since every possible arrangement has been made for their care and comfort. Each dressing room, of whtcn there will be a great number, will be supplied with shower baths, rubbing tables, chairs and cots, as well as telephones and electric bells, whereby the athletes may be summoned to the track when the events In which they are to compete are about to be started. These and hundreds of other details for the accommodation of spectators, athletes, press and others Interested In the Olympic carnival are being whipped Into shape, and long before the first of the foreign compe titors arrive In London every wheel and cog In the great system of management will be In perfect working order. On this aide of the water equal activity Is being' shown. The committee here is busily engaged In the collection of funds for the transportation of the team which will represent the United States. The dates for the three tryout meets, to be held respectively In Philadelphia, Chicago and San Francisco, have been set, and Invit ations and entry blanks are already being prepared. As will be the case In England, the personnel of the team will be based upon the showing made by the American athletes In the three seta of games men tioned. Only those performers who de monstrate their ability In one of the three meetings will be considered when the time comes to choose the combination. While the committee reserves all rights In the selection of the team. It Is thor oughly understood that no athlete who doea not take part In the tryout games will go to England at the expense of the Olympic fund. Should any athlete be de barred from competing In the trials through Illness or other Inability to bo present. It Js possible that, should hla athletic record within the last six months warrant It. he may be accepted as a member of the team, providing his expense money Is furnished from some source other than the American Olympic fund. The members of the committee have let It be known that It la their desire and In tention that no favoritism or partiality shall creep in at the time the team Is se lected. This is as It should be. for the American team will need to be composed of the very best performers In the various events which will comprise the Olympic program. The best athletes of the entire world will compete In London next July, and the athletic supremacy of the United States cannot be Jeopardised by the presence of any athletes who are not the best hi their respective specialities. There will be no place for star performers who have seen their best days athletically, or for men whose chief chance of making the team dependa upon friendship with some one In authority or who are chiefly eligible because they are members of some prominent athletic body. The motto should be. "Only the best athletes In l! for the best athletic team In the world." JEFF GOING AFTER COLD CASH BIsT Fellow Will Try to Gather Some Alaska Shekels. BAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 29 Jim Jefrrh-a. who was made a flattering offer a few weeks ago by a syndicate of sporting men of Fairbanks. Alssks, to take four fighters from California to that city to engage In twenty-five round fights for big purses. has accepted tha offer, and is at present trying to decide on what fighters he will match up for the two bat t lea The fights are to bo held In conjunction with a big carnival which will be pulled off there on July 4 for which 150,000 has been raised for prises. Jeffries Is to referee the fights and according to tha big fellow t.0u0 of this amount la to be paid out for the two fights. Jim Flynn. tha Pueblo heavyweight, and Abe Attell. the featherweight champion, will moat likely be principle ta ,ths two contests. - - - Champions i Vr ; J VP V f- ' Thomas. McWhlney. WESTCBESTERSTAKEEVENTS Spring and Fall Meeting's Show Eich Fnrtes for Racers. ENTRIES FOB ALL NOT YET CLOSED Metropolitan, Withers, Belmont, Car ter, Ladles' and Other . BIsT Flx ' tores Still Walt Sot Flaal Nominations. NEW TORK, Feb. 29. The Westchester KaclnE association of Belmont park Is-the last of the eastern clubs to come forth with the announcement of stake events which win ha run durine the soring and fall meetings. Besides these races there are many others, which are very valuable, but to which entries closed some time ago. Outside of the national stallion and Juvenile for 2-year-olds and the Withers, Belmont and the ladles' stakes for 3-year-olds the events for the spring and fall meetings will close Monday, March 2. with a sup plementary entry. In the list of events for the spring meeting are four for 2-year-olds, two for 3-year-olds, 'seven for 3-year-olds and upward and six steeplechasea For the fall meeting there are two 2-year-old events, one for S-year-olds and two for 8-year:olds and upward. The principal event for which the entries will close In March Is the Met ropolitan handicap for 3-year-olds and up ward. In which are sure to be entered some of the best horses in training. This Is the first of the valuable stake events and Is run over a mile. The added money Is $10,000 snd the weights will be announced on Saturday, April 18. The race will be run on the opening day of the meet ing. . Entries for Carter .Handicap. Twenty-six entries have been received for the Carter handicap to be run on the open ing day of the racing season at Aqueduct April 15 and more are expected from the west and aouth. James R. Keene has named Reatlgouche, Transvaal and Gretna Green, while Nealon, ,the Suburban handi cap winner last year. Is entered among others. The full list follows: Nealon. Charles Edward, Don Enrique, Dr. Gard ner, Restigouche, Transvaal, Gretna Green, Spooner. Red River, Alethouo, Old Honesty, Cohort, Melbourne. Cairngorm, Berkeley, Banyah. The Wrestler, Tony Bonero, Pe narrls. The Sliaughran, Roaimiro, Bat Maa terson, Hyperion II, Mike Sutton, Sir Lynnewood and King Cobalt. Rose ben will not race in the Carter this year. Roseben will be sadly missed, but he will tske part In later races, for he has fully recovered from the blood poisoning of last fall. Frank Weir, who grains him, prevailed on Owner David Johnson not to enter the big weight carrier In the early events. "Roseben la a hard horse to get in perfect trim for early races," said Weir when asked why the sprinter was not en tered. "We raced him early several sea sons, much to his injury, for It was not long before he was knocked out. This meant enforced retirement for a month or two. After giving him a fair trial we agreed not to start him until the season was well advanced. He will not try for the arly events and will hardly start before the Belmont Park meeting." In answer to a query If Roseben would start "In the Metropolitan, Weir replied: "No; we have made up our minds that he la not a. mile horse In fast company. Henceforth .he will be reserved for short sprints." At nearly all of the local tracks horses have been passing the winter. Reports are that all show a clean bill of health. There are any number of 2-year-olds which will race for the first time the coming season. They are said to be a very likely lot. The Bennlngs stablej are filled with thorough breds, which are going along nicely, and with fine weather every horse at the track will be In racing trim by the time the sea son begins. The Gravesend and Bheepsbead Bay tracks, where are quartered seme of the cracks which will be seen under colors the coming season, have their barns filled and when the air Is clear the trainers are not slow to get their horses going ar.d they have them out for exercise. James It. Keene has a grand stable at Sheepahead Bay. Most of their work Is under the sheds, with an occasional gallop on the mala track if the going is fair. At this course other prominent stables have thrlr horses stabled and all of them are In good condition, having winters! well. of Two States at - V'- .; - I i v ' f f . v 1 : i ft I - ' Congdon. . - - . ' Carrier. Howard. Nngl. OMAHA HIGH SCHOOL BASKET BALL SQUAD. COLLEGE OARSMEN GET BUSY Crews Take to Water and Look Great Meeting; on Hndsoa Next Jane. to PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 29. The Idea thft the University of Pennsylvania had mote than a good chance for first honors in the Intercollegiate regatta at Poughkeepsie this coming June because of the fact that the entire eight men who rowed in the varsity boat last year are still available has received a severe Jolt by no less an au thority than Coach Ellis Ward of the uni versity who says he is laboring under a heavier handicap thla year than for reveral seasons past. In support of this Ward j argues that the Pennsylvania varsity eight finished fifth of the seven crews In the rsce of 1907, and -that Is a poor Indication of their winning this year. "Why should the same men te able to win this yearT" asked Ward In a recent in terview. "They weren't green men who would develop. They had all rowed before In freshmen or varsity crews and they will not be much better thla year than they were last. If, In fact, as good. Our friends are reckoning without Columbia, for that college's eight finished second last June and seven men of that crew are back in college. Plainly their chances are better than Pennsylvania's. Then, too, I am handicapped by a lack of good material from laat year's freshmen eight. Ordi narily, with a full varsity crew back, the weak spots could be bolstered up with the men from the preceding year's ' freshmen boat, but this year's freshmen are good enough for the varsity." BALTIMORE, Md., Feb. 29.-There Is trouble at Annapolis over the crew's pros pects of taking part in the intercollegiate regatta at Poughkeepsie again this - year. When the Navy Athletic association ap plied to the authorities for permission to accept the invitation of the stewards of the Intercollegiate Rowing association to row this summer, which must be accepted by March 1, that permission was refuse I. The new superintendent at the Annapolis academy In not clear in his mind as to athletics and It will take a good deal cf urging by others to convince him of the advislbility of permitting the crew to go to Poughkeepsie. The outcome, of the mat ter is doubtful, but the cadeta, who think that they will win this time, hope that the president or the secretary of the navy may see fit to Interfere by suggestion and thus bring about the desired end. An appeal to the president by the cadets would be a serious breach of regulations, but the mii shipmen hope that publicity will bring about the intervention. PRINCETON, N. J., Feb. 29. Princeton's graduate advisory committee has decided to allow no varsity crew, this year, but will devote all Its attention to developing four class crews for an lnterclass regatta on Carnegie lake, during commencement week. The committee la raising the monc-y to purchase four elght-oared shells to be presented to the four classes when rowing practice begins this year, and next year rowing made one of the major sports at the university. NEW YORK. Feb. 29.-Columbia's new eight-oared shell has been delivered at the Gould boathouse on the Hudson river. The new shell follows the general dimensions of lajt year's boat and has only a few modifications. It is a trifle longer and the bow is a little deeper. The most important Innovation Is In the bracing. Sixteen nickel steel braces are used, doing away with much of the wooden bracing ordi narily used. The boat Is consequently much stlffer than the previous shells and nothing has been lost In lightness. The four-oared shell will be ready at about the time when the crews are put on the waur. The shell which was used by the 'varsity eight at Poughkeepaie last June will be used by this year's 1911 freshman eight. The Edwin Gould, the boat in which last year's freshmen rowed, was too badly damaged by the starter of the race in the big regatta to permit of its being used for racing purposes again. All the other boats to be used in the apring training have re ceived a complete overhauling and a num ber of elght-oared giga which have been out of commission for several seasona have been renovated tor this year's work. The coach. Rice, plans to have the crows on tha Harlem within a few weeks, ana. from present Indications he will be able to put four 'varsity and three freshmen eights ou the water. Attendance at prac tice on the niatiitnes U picking up again. Basket Ball ;v t i ' Arnsteln. Neavles, Burdock. WITHTHE COLLEGE ATHLETES Doings in the Field of Sport in East and West. FREFARE FOR TRACK EVENTS Cornell Traek Team's Prospects Not So Bad, Considering? the Men ' Lost E. T. Cook a Star at Ithaca. Cornell has company In Its misery at any event, now that Pennsylvania has agreed to let Guy Hasklns out of college and track athletic competition. Despite the loss of the men whose names appeared in this column last week, Cornell Is not now nearly so badly off as before Hasklns was dropped from Pennsylvania. In fact, it is hard to say Just what one man could have been dismissed from college whose going would have made more difference than that of Hasklns. With him out of the way, the Cornell and Michigan distance men will have a good chance to encroach on the ten points otherwise almost always conceded to Hasklns In the half mile and mile. Incidentlally Coach Moakley'a task at Cornell becomes slightly different. Following the departure of the men who had been dropped from regular standing at Cornell. Moakley has settled down to hard work with the remnants. The Cornell coach Is not making any trips away from home now with his relay teams. The men are going away with the manager, but Moalfley rtays in Ithaca to encourage the runners there to do some work. The little meets on the board track outside the armory are beginning to have more sig nificance. Moakley can be found there right along these days. The mornings he gives up to the new men, the afternoons to the regular track team veterans. In spite of the hard task that la in front of him, Moakley hasn't .lost his nerve or cheer fulness. He had a much harder Job ahead of him when he came to Cornell years ago. The men who are left are now all the more determined to make all the points they can In the lntercolleglates and to win the meet anyway if they can. As usual, or rather, as It has been since the days of Rears, Cornell Is not very well equipped with the sort of men In the sprints who may be expected to do a great deal outside of the dual meets. In Tewks bury and Deering there are two fairly good men. Deering ran Z&i seconds for the 230 yards last spring when he was a fresh man. There is Hurlburt, who ran on the relay team, who may do something in the sprints. A little man named Stetn. who may be able to accomplish fair time for 100 yards, also is in the squad of sprinters. Moakley hopes and expects to get out of these four one man- or perhaps two, who can run 100 yards in 10 seconds. He has no expectation of doing much in the dashes In the Intercollegiate meet, although to some persons Deering would look like a possibility. Sophomores at Half Mile. In the quarter-mile Cornell's sellance will be put on either French or Carpenter, although both have been hitherto promi nent as half-mllers. 'Much depends, of course, upon how Muench and Hitchcock develop in their work outdoors. Ilotft are sophomores and have run on one-mile relay teams for Cornell in the last Indoor sea son. Hitchcock Is bigger than Muench and apparently haa more endurance. He haa no more fight in him than the little fellow. It does not seem likely that either one of these men will be as good as French or Carpenter. Apparently French may be mile in the lntercolleglates in 16, finish ing fourth in a race Hyman of Pennsyl vania won In 49 2-6 seconds. The year fol lowing Carpenter was changed to the half mile and he won in the lntercolleglates In 1 minute 68 1-6 second Ho was not In college last year, but Vas traveling abroad. Moakley expecta that he will be able to Hhow a good turn of speed in whichever event he competes. French last year was third in the half-mile run in the Invtrcol-It-glale games, and in the dual moet with Princeton won the quarter-mile In 60 1-6 second. As for the half-mile, the chances of the Cornell team depend entirely upon Moak ley's decision in the case of French and Carpenter. Apparently French may be left to take tare of the quarter-mile with perfect safety, so that Carpenter may try or . l -i . s ;0; r V ) i ) i, , iCvnilnuei va Page Iwo j. FAIR HARVARD MAY BE LOSER Favor of Oxford and Camkrldare Re seated by American Schools n Broad Gronnds. NEW TORK, Feb. .-The full signifi cance of the Implication contained In the letter from the Oxford-Cambridge Athletic associations declining the challenge of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletics of America for an International intercollegiate track meet In London next summer appears likely to cause consider able trouble before the discussion ends. The paragraph In the letter which states that It does not "necessarily follow, be cause certain candidates have been or may be allowed to compete In various parts of the British empire or the United States, that such candidates ni-cessarlly conform to the high standard of amateurism which la considered absolutely essential to any meeting under' the direction of the Oxford or Cambridge Athletic clubs," Is likely to be the basis of much hard feeling. This statement. In connection with that found In another part of the letter, which is to the effect that the coming summer may "witness the previously suggested re currence of an old-established meeting of Oxford end Cambridge against Harvard and Tale at the Queen's club," is taken to mean that these two universities are ac ceptable to the English blues, whereiw the other large universities are, to say the least, under athletic suspicion. This Is It self already causing much comment In athletic circles In the east. That this dis satisfaction will be the cause of some ex tremely warm debates at the annual meet ing of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America In this city tonight. In fact. It may result In the loss to Harvard of the annual intercollegiate meet, whleh will be held the last Saturday In May. The University of Pennsylvania, according to certain Influential Quaker alumni, feel that the 190R games should be held at Franklin field. According to them, it was understood in Philadelphia that Harvard would back Pennsylvania In Its quest for the gamea this spring, since Cam bridge held the meet a year ago. It has developed, however, that Harvard Is again in t.he field for the track and field cham pionships and that Pennsylvania can ex pect no help from the Crimson. This being the case, the Quakers will at tend the session In this city prepared to put up a strong fight to secure the games. They are counting upon the assistance of a number of delegates from those colleges which, according to the Implied Inference of Oxford and Cambridge, are not up to the athletic standard set by the English universities and Harvard and Tale In this country- The placing of Harvard and Tale on a plane of amateur athletic purity su perior to that of Cornell, Princeton, Penn sylvania, Syracuse, Dartmouth, Lafayette, Michigan, Columbia and the other col leges of the Intercollegiate Athletic associa tion will, it Is expected, rebound in an. un pleasant manner to Harvard especially when the scene of the Intercollegiate gamea for this year comes to be voted upon. This Is especially true since the rumor 1 as been more or less prevalent for the last f3W months to the effect that the 1908 meeting of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America might rosslbly be the last In which Harvard, Tale and one. or two other large eastern vniversltles would appear as competitors, r hls report was based upon what Is said ti be a tacit agreement for either a tri angular or a quadrangular association em bracing Tale, Harvard and Princeton, with the possibility of a fourth college, all nf which will agree to meet In the various branches of Intercollegiate sport, both in door and outdoor, without regard to any outside contests other than such as might be necessary for preliminary practice. The report which Is given credence In certsln college athletic circles appears to be based upon the attempt of Princeton to arrange a foot ball game with Harvard for the fall of 1908. That such an contest was considered seriously by the athletic authori ties of both universities Is well known, but no definite action will be taken in the mat ter for another year at least. The attitude of the Princeton base ball management in refusing to play further games with Cor nell at Ithaca also fed further fuel to the rumor, and there are those who are not 'it all backward In saying that within the next year or two there will be a reclassification in eastern college athletics which will find three and possibly four large universities drawing apart athletically from the other Institutions of the section on the assump tion that it is time to make distinctions In college athletics such as evidently obtains in England. NEW RULES FOR ROAD RACES Bicycle Riders Will Find Conditions Bllarhtlr Chanced. NEW TORK, Feb. J.-The National Cycling association has adopted and pro mulgated a code of rules for road races, and the fact that thla has been done Is a sufficient recompense for what was re garded In aome quarters as an unwarranted assumption of power. The NaUonal Cycling association haa really gone at this matter In a way that baffles criticism, . because the rules were drafted by the advisory board, composed of the representatives of the cycling clubs in affiliation with the National Cycling association, and by adopt ing and promulgating the new code the na tional body simply ratifies and makes of ficial the deliberations and findings of the advisory board. Important features of the code are the rules concerning entries and the penaltli s provided for Infranctlons of the regula tions. Riders are required to pay 25 per cent of the state's entry fee when applica tion Is made snd the remainder on the day of the race. All entries received after the closing date announced on the entry blank are charged 25 per cent additional. The result of this rule will be a thorough knowledge on the part of the race man agers of the success or nonsuccess of an event before the race starts. The code's penalty clauses are fair and clean cut and the adoption of the new regulations will go far toward clearing the atmosphere heretofore surrounding bicycle road races In many respects. JOE GANS STOPPED AT BROOKLYN Police Herns to Allow Champion to Give a. Dhow. NEW YORK, Feb. . Police Inspector Hussey of Brooklyn sent six of his sleuths around to the Park theater In Brooklyn re cently and refused to allow Joe Gans to give a boxing exhibition with his sparring partner. After ten weeks on the road Gans will leave for California, wbere he ex pect to get on a fight providing enough money Is offered him to meet either Mc Fariand or one of the other lightweuthts. Gans says he will fight any lightweight In tha world If they show him enough money to make it worth his tuna to gt into con ditlun for tka butla. CflAJIPION BURNS' EARNINGS Has Hade $80,000 in the Priie Ring Since 1900. DEFEATING LEMONS FAYS WELL Canadian rnarlllst Received 1.B for Scoria a n Knockout In Ills First ,. Battle rH- Money Picked l"s Later. Tommy Bums, the heavyweight champion pugilist of the world, (with Jeffries In re tirement and Jack Johnson looking for a chnnre to fight for this tttlel, has made l0,or since he first entered the prise ring In 1900. Burns incidentally haa picked up moro soft money than any of the previous champions In his class. In arranging hla matches he does not require the services of a manager, who In his opinion, would be simply so much extra and unnecessary expense- Burns Is lucky, If for no other rea son than the fact that nowadays there axe few really good heavyweight's In tho ring. He Is a scientific boxer himself, also a hard hitter and Is game, but In general makeup ho does not compare favorably with such past masters of flstlana as Jef-,. fries. Fitxsimmons, Corbett, Sharkey and McCoy, any of whom would have disposed of Burns If he had been fighting when these meh were In their prime. But at that Burns, in the estimation of many fair Judges, is the best white heavyweight In the ring today, and when lie has convinced the sporting public that ho Is also a better pugilist than Johnson, the big negro boxer, he will rise even higher In the estimation of all followers of the sport.. , Ilia First Flaht. Burns was 16 years old when he left his home in Canada and settled In Detroit. . A . natural athlete, ho soon developed skill in various branches of sport and also became a star lacrosse player. It was In 1900 that he Joined the Detroit Athletic club, where he saw for tiie first tlmo in his life a glove fight. He took to the boding game . like a duck to water and- was soon putting on the gloves with his fellow club mem bers. One day with several friends Burna, whose real name Is Noah Brusao, went to a suburb to see a six-round bout between Jack Cowan and Fred Thornton, two local sluggers. As Cowan defaulted because of Illness Burns consented to take his place. Thornton was agreeable ' and after five bloody rounds Burns scored a clean knock out. For this achievement Burns received Just 31.25. "Contrary to report," says Burns, referring to this start In the pugil istic world, "I did not bank the first money I received In the fighting business, though I have been careful to put away a good, slice of It since, and I trust the day will never come whan I shall be obliged to look to my friends for a benefit, aa so many unfortunate men in my profession have been obliged to do through their own folly being a good fellow." After this $1.25 fight Bums decided to get busy for a livelihood. He took Thorn ton on again, scored another knockout in five rounds and earned $60. He took part In five battles during 190L putting all of his rivals to sleep and earning small money for so doing. He stopped Billy Walsh at Detroit In five rounds and got $1D0. . Archie Steele was stowed away In two rounds, also in Detroit, and Burns picked up an other "century." It was like finding $100 In the street when Bums knocked Fd . Sholtren out In a round, and It was aJoo an easy $100 for him when In a second-mill Billy Walsh went to dreamland In the sixth round. Dick Smith was also put away by Burns at Mount Clemens for still another hundred-dollar note. Early Winnings SmalL In 1902 Burns again fought five times, yet cleaned up less than $1,000. He got $150 when he knocked Dick Smith cold in nine rounds at Mount Clemens. Then he received $300 for putting a sleep wallop on Reddy Phillip's Jaw in the ninth round of a hot battle at Lansing. Burn's followed, this up by knocking Jack O'Donnell out at ' Butler and earning tljO. Then he got a decision over Tom McCune In Detroit and picked up $100 more. When Mike Be h reck got the verdict In a ten-round mill at De troit Bums' share was $175. By that time Burns had decided to dp more fighting, so In 1903 he entered the ring ten times and cleaned up about $1.W. ,Ho began the campaign that ear by whipping Jim O'Brien in a ten-round affair in which the winner's share was $180. By knocking out Dick Smith in two rounds he added $125 to his flat bankroll and then by stop ping Reddy Phillips In three rounds ha gathered in $115 more. He made Harry Peppers take the count In two rounds and. pocketed $125, after which he won $185 by stopping Tom McCune In seven rounds. When Burns administered the drowsy po tion to Jim Duggan in nine rounds bo grabbed off $160 and then got $160 for fight ing a ten-round draw with Billy Moore. Then came two quick knockouts. Jack Hammond and Jack Butler each succumb ing in two rounds. Burns winning 3 on aach battle. He wound up the year's cam paign with another victory over Jack O'Donnell, who went to the floor to stay in the eleventh round, the winner' share being $150. Last Time In Detroit. Burns took part in ten more fights In 1901. but be was still practically unknown, and his earnings footed up about $2,2u0. He knocked out Ben O Grady in Detroit In three rounds and yet he received only $S0 for his pains. It appears that In that af fair Burns agreed to pay the Detroit Ath letic club a certain amount for the use of the hall and another fixed sum to the box ers who took part in the preliminary bouts, Whn O'Grady was knocked senseless ho temalned In that condition for four days. Bums paying all his expenses In the hos pital and at the same time being held without bail to await the reault of tha beaten boxer's injuries. Bums had enough of vDetrolt after that and went to Chicago, where he assumed his present name. In his first essay in the Windy City Burns got $30 for knocking out George Shroshee in five rounda lie fought a six round draw with Mike Scheck in Milwaukee and received $100. Ji earned $J00 for two six-round battles with Tony Caponl In Chicago, one of which was a draw and the other a decision In Bum's favor. Tommy then went out to Salt Lake City, where he put Joe Waldlnskl away In a round and pocketed $275. From there he Journeyed to Tac-oma, where he ended the career of Cyclone Kelly in four rounds and received $!so. Burna, who was the rage In the northwest then, proceeded to Seattle, where he picked up IT-jR for a flfteen-rounfl draw with Billy Woods. Coming back; ho the middle west. Burns was matched !i fight six rounds with Philadelphia Jfrcks O'Brien at Milwaukee. O'Brien got thf, de cislvn oa point and Burna had to b satis d V
