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VOL. XXXIX-NO. 29.
OMAIIA, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 2, 1910.
SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS.
Sport Season Pays at Nebraska; H. Chandler Egan Champion Golfer; Foot Ball in Old England
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MONEY ON HANI)
PROM SPORTS
TJnirersity of Nebraska Athletics
Leave Nice Balance on Hand
' After Tear! Gamei.
TWELVE HUNDRED TO THE GOOD
Lou of Three Hundred Dollars from
Previous Year.
SUCCESS IN SPITE OF BAD LUCK
Foot Ball, the Money Maker, Polls
'- Others Out of Hole.
EXPENSES HIGHER THAN BEFORE
Deficit for BM Ball HUner Than
(or Several Seasons Bnsltet Ball '
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LINCOLN, Jan. 1. (Special.) University
of Nebraska athletici were financially suc
cessful for the year of 1D03. The annual
report of the Board of Control, Issued to
day, shows a credit balance for all Corn
bfoker sports of ll.214.S2.. This In con
traat with the report for 1908, which re
vealed a deficit of $324.82 and Isan enj,
eouraglhg sign to the management, for tt
!e proof that university athletics can be
made to pay despite poor success by the
various teams of the institution In play
ing their games and the year of 1909 pro-,
duced no victorious teams for Nebraska.
The total receipts for the five sprts
recognised by the athletic board foot ball,
base ball, basket ball, track and cross
country were $28,620.58 and the expendi
tures In the same branches were I22.006.2H.
Besides the amount placed ' to the debit
account of the five sports there was a sum
of $6,025.49 charged to "general expendi
tures that was used In equipping the new
athletic field.
Though the receipts fcr the sports In
toto exceeded the expenditures, only one
branch produced a credit balance. It was
foot ball; the four othr sports lost money,
cross-country not even making a cent, but
causing an expenditure of J1C2.40 for equip
ping and sending a team to the western
Intercollegiate meet at Chicago.
Foot ball brought a surplus of I3.3S9.33 for
the season, which had to be drawn upon
to pay the deficit incurred by the other
sports, amounting to 11,176.01. The deficit
in track athletic was the largest, being
I7K6.66, or $104.67 more than It was In 1908.
The expenditures were much more ' than
they had ever been before, this being oc
casioned by the expense of maintaining;
training table for the cinder path athletics,
a burden the sport never had been forced
to bear before laBt spring.
Base Ball Deficit. ; 1 ,
' In base ball the deficit was larger than
it had been in several seasons, amounting
to $214.77. In 1907 the deficit was only
$07.44 and In 1908 It was but $G8.88. The
reason for the Increased defltit of last
year Is found In the fact that the Coru
huskers had to play their games at Ante
lope park and pay tribute to the Western
league management for - the use of that
ground. ,
Basket ball gave the lowest deficit since
1907, being behind only 112.18. The basket
ball games at home and those on the
regular schedule made money for the Corn
hufckers, but the championship series for
the premier honors in the valley, which
were played at Kansas City after the close
of the regular season, did not pay well
and the expenses of meeting the Jay
hawkers there ate up the surplus that had
been accumulated during the season.
The foot ball receipts were larger In 1909
than they were In the previous season,
Although two more games were played In
908 than In 1909, ten being on the schedule
year before last. Then, too, the games
way from home in 1908 did not profit the
Cornhuskers so well as they did in 1908,
showing that the games In Lincoln paid
very well.
At Omaha the Cornhuskers did not fare
ao well financially In 1909, as they did tho
year, before. -The Ames game in 1908 gave
tb.4 Nebraskans, as their shire, $2430.79, and
the Minnesota game last fall gave them
2,867.72, but out of this latter sum the
AJornhuskera were forced to take money to
sect bleachers and transport them to Lln
colli after the game, so that they were
not netted as much In 1906 as In 1908.
. For the Ames game in 1908 the receipts
war slightly less than they were last fall
at the Minnesota game In Omaha. In 1908
the receipts of the Ames game were $6,022.65
and In 1909 the receipts of the Minnesota
game were $6,350.60. In 1908 the Diets Park
association received $913. $9 for the use
of its field and last fall William Rourke
was given. 10 per cent of the gross receipts
for the use of Vinton street park and this
amounted to $63606. The Diets Park as
sociation's share of the receipts for the
Ames game was larger than Kourke's share
of the Minnesota receipts, because the
former equipped the park with bleachers,
and last fall the Nebraska management
waa under the expense of doing this Job.
In 1908 for playing at Minneapolis the
Oat Receipts Compared.
Cornhuskers were given $3,593.79 as their
' share; In 1909 for playing the same team
at Omaha they received a sura that was
only $1,736.07 less than their share at Min
neapolis, with two big cities to draw from.
Last fall when Iowa played in Lincoln
the receipts were only $1,231, and for the
Kansas game here the year before were
but $2,064. The receipts for the Kansas
game In 1908 were about $1,000 less than for
the Nebraska-Kansas game In Lawrence
the year before. The Nebraska manager
says the receipts of the Iowa game look
mighty small In comparison .. with the
$6,022.66 taken In at the Ames game In
Omaha in 1908.
The Kansas gams last fall netted the
Cornhuskers mora money than the Minne
sota game. The receipts were $5,558, less
than the Gopher game, but the expenses
of the game at Omaha were larger than
fur the Jayhawker game at Lincoln. The
teoelpta for the Katsas contest were the
largest ever taken in at a foot ball game
In Lincoln. The exceptional Interest taken
In the Kansas game was due to the deep
rivalry between the teams and the fact
that the game settled Nebraska's cham
pionship aspirations. t
At Denver, when the Cornhuskers clayed
tlie University of Denver, the crowd was a
disappointment, and the Cornhuskers se-
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MEN WHO CONTROL BASEBALL
Pointers About the Major League
Club Owners.
BEFORE GETTING IN SPOTLIGHT
Basj Johnson, Dictator, Ones a Cln
clnnatl Reporter Marpay of the)
Cabs Also Srlbbler from
the Same Tons,
NEW YORK, Jan. 1. "Who are these
base ball magnates? Where did they come
from, and how did they break Into the na
tional game?" This question was put up
to The Sun man during therecent con
clave of major league club owners In this
city. A combination of good fortune, en
thusiasm and business acumen may be
said to have produced many of the moguls
now In control of America's moat popular
sport. Borne magnates have brains and
money, while there are others whose sole
equipment Is unadulterated nerve and
plenty of tt. A few may be regarded, as
base ball accidents, but there Isn't one
of them who Is not a thirty-third degree
fan. All of them are naturally out for as
much money as they can gather from the
public, but not a few of them are Inter
ested In promoting the sport for the amuse
ment and notoriety to be derived from It.
The biggest man in base ball Just now
Is' Byron Bancroft Johnson, president of
the American league. Fifteen years ago be
waa a reporter on a Cincinnati newspaper.
In reporting the games played by the Reds,
Johnson became a close friend of Charley
Comlskey, then the manager of the team.
Many evening they spent together at the
Ten Minute club in Rcdland, where the
members made, a practice of calling a
waiter at the, expiration of ten minute
Intervals. It was there that Johnson and
Comlskey hatched a plan to organise the
Western league, which was later expanded
Into the present powerful American league
of which Johnson Is the recognised leader
and Comiskey, the owner of the Chicago
White Pox, is the backbone. -
Jo ft son was a first class newspaper
man. He did general work at times, one
ov his famous stories being that of a
lynching bee In Kentucky. He reported
the Corbett-Sulllvan fight at New Orleans
and other famous glove, contests between
champions, but he made a specialty of
base ball and became an expert. Johnson
draws a salary of $15,000 a year now as
the chief executive of the American league
and Is signed up to a contract that has
seven years to run. He is a big man,
physically and mentally, and is the
possessor of an Iron will. When he de
clared recently that John M. Ward could
not be elected president of the National
league without a base ball war the mag
riates, of both major leagues knew that
Ban meant what he said, and he was
allowed to have, his way.
Comlskey has worked his way from the
ball field, as captain and manager of the
famous Kt Louis Browns, who . won four
American association pennants in a row
twenty-five years ago, to the position of
one of the most influential and wealthiest
club owners In the country. Comiskey Is
a fighter and a thorough base ball man.
He knows the game from Alpha to Omega.
He has been so successful with his Chicago
American league club that he is reputed
to be worth more than $500,000. Comlskey
does not travel with his ball team, how
ever, but takes life easy.. He leaves" the
wear and tear of thj ball season to a man
ager who Just now Is Hugh Duffy, once a
star Chicago and Boston player.
Charles W. Somers, vice president of the
American league and principal owner of
the Cleve:and club. Is a millionaire coal
merchant whose money. In a large measure,-
helped Johnson and Comlskey to ex
pand the American league circuit. When
funds were needed to put clubs In Cleve
land and Boston Somers was there with
the coin, and It Is a fact that he stood
ready to finance the club placed In this
city if Frank J. Farrell had not been dis
covered. Homer's partner, John F. Kll
foyle, Is 'a Cleveland real estate man who
has plenty of money and Is for the Ameri
can league to a finish.
Farrell, - the owner of the New Tork
Americans, waa a turfman of note for
many years. At one time he was a part
ner of Julius Flelschmann, former mayor
of Cincinnati, and together they cam
paigned a powerful string of horses here,
including the famous Blues. When Flelsch
mann retired from racing Farrell went
ahead on his own hook, buying many
thoroughbreds with a lavish band and
always betting extensively. On the tracks
he met John McGraw, who was anxious to
transfer his Baltimore American league
club . to this city, and after some persua
sion Farrell agreed to put up the money
for the venture. But McOraw suddenly
signed with the Giants, and Farrell then
determined to get Into base ball at any
cost.
When the American league, having lost
Baltimore, decided to Invade this city,
Farrell got the franchise and spent $110,000
In building the present park on the hilltop
before he opened the gates. That was eight
years ago, but It Is said that Farrell, be
cause of many reverses, has so far been
unable to show large profits on his In
vestment. The Boston Americans are owned by
General Charles H. Taylor, proprietor of
the ' Boston Olobe, and his son. John I.
Taylor, who Is the president of the. club.
The general paid more than $100,000 for the
franchise and players several years ago
and has received this outlay three or four
times over. Young Taylor controls the
club's stock in his own name and has dis
played much skill In the development of
a fast team. He has picked up some star
players himself and Is one of the most
enthusiastic fans among the magnates.
Benjamin F. Shlbe, chief owner of the
Philadelphia Athletics, Is a millionaire.
He has been the maker of base balls for
many years In conjunction with A. J.
Reach and A. G. Spalding Bros. He had
no Idea of becoming a magnate until
Johnson, Comlskey and Connie Mack be
gan to talk business with html Uncle
Ben, as ha Is familiarly called, was not In
the best of health at the time, and he
feared that his duties as a club owner
would prove too great a strain. But
nowadays, hale and hearty, the old fellow
The Washington club has had many
owners since the American league took
that city Into the circuit, but the moat
progressive and enthuslastlo Is T. C
Noyes, owner of a newspaper in the na
tion's rapttal. Mr. Noyes has set out to
get a winning team, and last fall he se
cured James McAleer aa manager at $18.
00 a year.
R. L Hedges, the owner of the 81 LouU
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Stoddard, Shaver, Stewart (captain), Ncff, Colburn and Lincoln.
Foot Ball May
Be Abolished
Urfcle Sam May Forbid Indian Wards
to Indulge in the Great
. College Game.
WASHINGTON, . . Jan. 1. The i Indian
service of the Department of the' Interior
of the national government Is apt to
abolish foot ball at the government Indian
schools. Such a ruling would affect Car
lisle, Haskell Institute and the Grand
Junction school at Sherman In California.
The loss of Carlisle would leave a big
vacancy on some of the most important
schedules in the country.
. That the Indian service contemplates
abolishing foot ball In Its Jurisdiction Is
not only a new phase of the universal
crusade against the game, but It Is under
stood that the trouble over the Pennsylvania-Carlisle
game and the death of a
Haskell substitute from Injuries in a Kan
sas game has something to do with the
rumored agitation.
BOWING BATES ARE EARLIER
Colleges Seem to Favor Move for aa
Early Start.
NEW YORK, .Jan. J-rudglng from the
announcements from the rowing camps of
the leading eastern colleges, the annual
regattas will bo rowed earlier than usual
next spring-. While Yale and Harvard have
not as yet decided upon the exact date for
their regatta on the Thames at New Lon
don, it appears certain that the event will
be held at least a week or ten days be
fore July 1. which was the date of the
races last season. While there is no con
nection between the two bodies, a similar
aotlon has been taken by the Stewarts of
the Intercollegiate Rowing association and
a date fixed for. the annual boat races on
the Hudson river at Poughkeepsle.
According to a statement by one In author
ity in the association, the intercollegiate
regatta will be held on Wednesday, June
22, over the regular four-mile course from
Krum Elbow to the finish line off Oaks, a
mile below the railroad bridge. The pro
gram for the regatta will not vary from
those of past . Years and will consist of
three events, as has been the case for
some years. The regatta will open with
the usual two-mile race for varsity fours,
to be followed by - the race for freshman
elghU over a similar distance, The big
race of the day will be, of course, the four
mile event for varsity eights, and all three
races will be rowed downstream.
It Is not expected that there will be
much variation in the hours set for the
starting of the races. The varsity four
contest will in all probability be started
about $ o'clock in the afternoon, with the
freshman race some forty-flvs minutes
later. The varsity four-mile struggle will
be set in motion about 5 p. m., unless
weather conditions showld necessitate a
postponement. According to the latest tide
Ubles, it will be high tide at Poughkeepsle
on June 22 at 11:30 a. m. and 7:61 p. m.
This will cause the big event to be rowed
at slack tide if the usual hour for the big
event la adhered to. Under these condi
tions the first two contests will have the
advantage of an outrunning tide; but the
tide will be Just about at the turn when
the big race gets under way.
At the present time there Is no Indica
tion that the field In the regatta will be
any different from that of this year.
Cornell, Syracuse, Columbia, Pennsylvania
and Wisconsin will all be represented, and
there Is a possibility that Georgetown will
return to the scene of the big .regatta.
The United States Naval academy will not
send a crew to the races and there ap
pears to be no chance that any of the
far western collect will have an eight In
the big race, despite the gossip from time
to time to the effect that the University
of Washington may send an tight from
Seattle for a try at eastern rowmg honors.
Gotrk Throw Two Mea.
MILWAUKEE. Jan. 1. Frank Ootch
threw two men In eaxy fashion here lo-ni-ht,
flooring Jack McCormlck in four
minutes with a half nelson and Jim Asbell
In seven minutes and thirty seconds with a
crotch hold. Dr. Roller failed to -throw
Con O'Kelly In fifteen minutes, losing a
handicap match. Jim Jeffries and bam
tterger boxed three short rouwi.
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Auto Races to
Be Run Same
as Last Year
Plan for International Races This
Year Seems to Have Fallen
Through.
.NEW YORK, Jan. 1. All the wonderful
dreams that motorists of this country had
Indulged In relative to the possible staging
of international automobile races on a
large scale have been dispelled ruddy. An
nouncement has been made by the Auto
mobile Club of America . that the. racing
formula for stock cars ks recommended
by the Manufacturers' Contest association
was not considered at the Congress of Rec
ognised Automobile Clubs held In Paris
on December 7. Indeed, no 1910 racing
formula was discussed. This means that
the rules adopted last year will be in force
for another twelve months.
In his report to the Automobile Clubs
of America, W. S. Horgan, the American
delegats to the conference, said:
'To my great regret, the American Auto
mobile Manufacturers' proposal was . not
dlscuBsed, although Baron de Zuylen very
kindly called the delegates' attention to it,
and I gave each delegate a translated copy
of the recommendations in brief, which
were sent me. It may, therefore, be said
that it was officially submitted, although
not discussed. In fact, as stated In the
minutes. It was received too late, and has
been postponed until the next meeting of
the association, some time during the com
ing summer.
"I had hoped that the other questions on
the calendar would be disposed of rapidly
and that it would be possible to discuss
the American Automobile Manufacturers'
proposal, but, although the meeting was
prolonged long after lunch hour, the dele
gates departed without having been ab'.e
to take the matter up, and In any case
they could not have taken any decision
concerning It without referring . to their
respective clubs.
'HowevSr, I questioned several delegates
on the subject of this proposal, among
them Count Lledekerke (Belgium), Count
Slerstorpff (Germany), Colonel Holden
(Great Britain), Marquis Ventlmlglla
(Italy), and Chevalier de Knyff, president
of the Bportlng committee of the Automo
bile club de France, and put forward a
number of the arguments advanced by the
American manufacturers. Count Llede
kerke and Marquis Ventlmlglla said that
the idea of a stock car race was very
favorably received in Belgium , and In
Italy, and that the. proposal would have
many supporters in both countries. .
'I feel I cannot Insist too strongly on the
Importance of these meetings and the ex
pediency of preparing for them as far in
advance of time as Is possible. It Is, In
fact, necessary that delegates at such
meetings should" receive full Instructions
In good time' to enable them to prepare for
discussions, which are sometimes very
beated and where one has to literally feel
every inch of ground.
'No racing formula was discussed, nor
did any question of that kind figure on
the calendar. But I am taking the matter
up with the International association, and
will ad viae you on the subject in due
course."
AMP'S VIEWS OS FOOT BAH.
Vale Maa Makes Novel Rosgestloaa
a He vision of Rales.
NEW HAVEN. Conn.. Jan. 1 Walter
Camp of Yale Issued a statement last night
in which he makes suggestions for changes
in the foot ball playing code for next year.
He advocates a rattier novel Innovation in
a rule ahlch would compel all players to
stand in a space only ten yards wide. The
changes favnred by him are:
"Let no player on the attack or the de
fense line up outside two lines running
parallel to the side lines, each of these
lines being five yards from the ball, thus
making the scrimmage line ten yards In
width. The back field men on the attack
and defense must also keep within these
lines until the ball is put into play.
"If It Is desired still further to favor the
attaok.' double distance might be given for
any run which crosses the line of scrim
mage more than ten yards out from cen
ter Persistent advertising is tiie secret of
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HIRING AN AUTO IN FRANCE
Traps American Tourists Should Look
Out For.
HOW THE FRENCHMEN WORK IT
Extra Expenses and Mishaps of
Party 'Wko Contracted on This
Side for anv Automobile
' Trip to Paris.
NEW YORK, Jan. L "Automobillng in
France Is all right for anybody that owns
un automobile and can afford to spend
money," said a young New York lawyer
who has tried it, "but for persons who
have not the coin It may prove an unwise
luxury. Especially la this the case if you
hire a car from this, side without abso
lutely knowing what you are up against.
"You can talk about Ironclad contracts
and all ' that. When you get to France
what does such a contract amount to? If
you seek legal redress you are up against
all sorts of delays and expenses, and the
simplest way is to pay up what they de
mand. If you don't It will coat you more.
"Having been deluged with pamphlets
and circulars setting forth the advantages
to prospective American tourists of hiring
a motor car for a European trip before
starting from this side conferred with
three more or less hard working friends,
and we decided that the thing to do for a
holiday was to make a dash Into France
by auto. Then we hunted up the company
that was doing the advertising.
"It was found to be occupying a desk In
an uptown garage, and when It offered to
let us have the use of an entire auto
mobile for a whole week on the roads of
France, together with a chauffeur who
could speak English, for $280, we closed,
signed and had delivered a formal con
tract. This provided, among other things,
that the car should be at Fraacatl's hotel,
Havre, on a certain morning In July at 9
o'clock, prepared and equipped for a tour.
The rental price Included the chauffeur,
his board and lodging, the gasoline, oil,
tire repairs, if necessary, garage, etc We
were to pay $T4 down, and of the balance
one-half on delivery of the car and one
half four days thereafter.
"When we had paid the $56 and received
the signed contract, we noticed that there
had been added a stipulation that there
should be a small additional charge for
sending the car from Havre to Parts. An
Interview with the company elicited the
Information that this would be a negligible
sum, probably $10 or $12. ' Under no cir
cumstances would there be any expenses
except the $40 a day.
"We did not go to France direct but
landed In London, and there the first
Jolt came. . It was In the form of a tele
gram telling me to call on the automobile
company's agent In London. I did so,
and he showed me a telegram from the
owners of the car In Paris stating that
the car could not be sent from Paris to
Havre until the London agent had col
lected $00 from us. v
"This was against the contract and it
caused an argument, but the London agent
said 'No money, no car,' so we decided to
fork over. They had us where they wanted
us.
"Of course we thought this sum would
be credited upon the agreed price for the
hire of the car and that as we bad. now
paid $101 this left a balance of $174 due.
I therefore prepared to pay. the chauffeur
at Havre one-half of that sum, or $)j7.
"We had intended to Join the automobile
at Havre on Monday morning, but found
that the boat from Southampton to Havre
never runs on Sundays. Ws then asked
for first class cabins for Monday night.
but wore informed they were all taken for
weeks ahead. 'Gentlemen's second claws
special reserved bertha are very good, sir,'
we were Informed, so after various tele
grams had been exchanged four. of these
were reserved!
"Ws found the "Gentlemen's second
clawss specials'. They oonsleted of a small
oockplt about ten' feet long and six wide
with a narrow table running down the
center, and along the sides of the com
partment wooden troughs . six " feet - long
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Across Big Pond
Have Run Away from Many Good
Hatches at Home for Eng
' lish Money.
NEW YORK, Jan. l.-Desplte the fact
that the boxing game will' soon be In full
swing In this vicinity and Is also In a
flourishing condition In such cities as
Pittsburg, San- Francslco, Los Angeles,
Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore and New
Orleans, many of our prominent fighters
are going over to Europe to grab off some
of the big money In purse which the for
eign fight club promoters are willing to
offer them for their services.
By the latter part of this month there
will be a host, of American scrappers on
the other side, as they are receiving offers
every day to make the journey.
Stanley Ketchel, Packey McFarland,
Willie Lewis, Billy . Papke, Harry Lewis,
Jos Jeanette, Jim Stewart, Al Kublak,
Sam Langford, Mike "Twin" Sullivan,
George Gunther and a few more will
either be fighting each other or will be
pitted against the beBt. foreigners in battles
at Parts or London within the next three
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BILLIARD MATCHES LENGTHENED
Play Is Now l,SOO Instead of BOO
' Points.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1. Events of the last
week or so ' have proved that the Room
keepers' association of New York is not
merely a social organisation, but a power
ful factor In the billiard world. Less than
a half dozen men vitally Interested in the
game have accomplished something that a
year of wrangling between star players
and the Brunswlck-Balke-Collender com
pany utterly-failed to do. They effected
a more amicable relationship between the
players and those who pay their retainers
and struck a popular chord by the new
arrangements that permits the lengthen
ing of championship matches from 600
points to 1,600.
The return of Willie Hoppe and Ora
Morningstar to "organized" billiards was
brought about by the roomkeepers, who
also promoted the tournament that made
Calvin- Demarest a' champion. Under the
new system the experts move from one to
another giving exhibitions, and thus a
patron of any one room se'es them all in a
season.
Eddie Graney, the San Francisco sport
ing man, was the first to negotiate with
representatives of the quarreling factions.
He wanted to take Hoppe and Morning
star out to the Pacific coast, but found
that they . would not play under .certain
conditions. Graney called on Hoppe and
he talked to persons on the other side.
Jack . Doyle, who Was elected chairman
of . the , tournament committee of the
Roomkepeers' association, then set to
work to heal the breacbv He succeeded In
bringing the . interested parties together
for- several, conferences. It .was he who
Induced President Benslnger of the Brunswlck-Balke-Collender
company to come on
from Chicago. Benslnger and Treasurer
Al Troescber dined with Hoppe and Morn
ingstar one night and a truce was patched
up,
- It la understood that Hoppe . and Morn
ingstar are guaranteed an Income of not
less than $7,600 a year, and that their spe
cial matches and . theatrical engagements
will considerably Increase this sum. Here
after, In championship , matches, the title
holder will have the privilege of deciding
whether the title shall depend on a game
of. 600 or one ot 1.600 points. Practically
all of the noted experts have declared in
favor of the longer game.
Hoppe and Morningstar probably will
play their special match this month in
Pittsburg. (
Pirates to Train at Hot Springs,
HOT SPRINGS. Ark.. Jan. l.-The Pitts
burg base ball association, through PresU
dent Barney Drey fuss, has announced the
culmination of a deal whereby Whtttlngton
park in this city is leased for the next
five years for training quarters for his
team. Pittsburg was the first major league
team to come to Hot Springs, but recently
Cincinnati, Brooklyn and the Boston Amer
icans have made this permanent spring
training quarters.
EGAN FOREMOST
AMATEUR GOLFER
Rating of the Sixteen Best Players
of the Past Tear by Hugh L.
' Fitzpatrick.
CHICAGO MAN PLACED FIRST
Egan Returns to Form Which Won
Him So Many Championships.
WALTER J. TRAVIS IS SECOND
He Wins Metropolitan Title and Four
Open Events,
WESTERN CHAMPION IS THIRD
Charles Evans, Jr., Is Regarded aa
Greatest Golfinn Poaalbllltj
Gardner Has Easy Claim
to Foarth Place.
NEW YORK. Jan. l.-H. Chandler Egan
of Chicago Is the foremost amateur golf
player of the' United States for 1C09. ac
cording to the ratings now made publlo by
leading golf authorities In the east A
ranking of the sixteen best players of
lb09, made by Hugh L. Fitzpatrick, recog
nized as the dean of American golf re
porters, who has prepared the ratings tor
several years, was made public today. Mr.
Fltspatrlcks rating follows:
I. H. Chandler Egan, Chicago.
S. V. J. Travis, New York.
5. Charles Evans, Jr., Chicago. .
4. Robert Gardner, Chicago.
6. Albert Seckel, Chicago.
6. J. D. Travers, New York.
7. Mason Phelps, Chicago.
a W. C. Fownes, Jr., Pittsburg.
9. Fred Herreschoff, New York.
10. H. G. Leg, Minneapolis.
II. Flndlny S. Douglas, New York.
12. Thomas M. Sherman, Utlca.
13. H. H. Wilder, Boston.
H. P. W. Whltemore, Boston.
15. H. B. McFarland, Philadelphia.
16. Paul Hunter, Chicago.
Analysis of Year's Play.
Reviewing the work of the golfers and
the points of their play which led him to
the determination' of his ratings, Mr. Fits
Patrick said:
"Although there were more tournaments
and matches played last season than ever
before In the United States, the action In
the amateur championship had a mors
than usual significance In determining the
golfers of national position and promt-'
nence. Egan was the pivot of Interest
He revealed a return to the form that has
won for him in former national, western
and, tn the Intercollegiate championship
and that the defeat tn the southern cham- ,
plonshtp of 1908 did not mean anything.
Egan stopped tn turn, McArthur, 7 up; War
ren Wood, up; Sawyer, 1 up, 88 holes;
Evans, 1 up, and lost to .Gardner In the
final, S down. While Gardner had beaten
Travis and Phelps In succession and has
since shown high class, had not Egan suf
fered from ptomaine .Illness before the
final I think he would have won.
Evans a- Comer. -
"As winner of the Metropolitan Golf as
sociation championship and of four open
tournaments, besides being seml-fln&llst
or finalist In others, I deem Travis next
to Egan aside from the British and Amor,
lean championships he has won. Evans
Is western champion and Its greater new
golfing possibility. - Gardner has substan
tial claims to fourth place; he has won
the Yale title since taking the National
among other- honors. Bel k el Is Intercol
legiate and Princeton champion,.
"Travers, national champion of 1907 and
1908, has only played his best game tn
flashes since returning from an- unsuccess
ful venture ' last spring for the British
amateur title. ,
"Mason Phelps Is a former western
champion and won the Lake Geneva tour
nament this year. W. C. Fownes, Jr., Is
champion of the Western Pennsylvania
Golf association. E. M. Byers has been out
of the game on account of the death of a
brother. - Fred Herreschoff Is Metropolitan
runner-up and a tournament winner. H.
G. Legg was . runner-up In the intercol
legiate and Is Minnesota and Transmlssls
slppl champion.
JSf 8. Douglas is a tournament winner
and was national champion. T. M. Sher
man, son of the vice . president, tied with
Evans and Gardner for low v score in the
national and has won many tournaments.
Wilder Is the best national timber and
Whltemore the most energetic of . the
Boston golfers. H. B. McFarland won the
Pennsylvania championship. Paul Hunter
won the southern California champion
ship and in - the national he lowered the
record for the Chicago Golf club course to
71. There are eight western and the same
number of eastern players on the list,
counting Pittsburg with the former."
INDOOR MEET IN THE SOUTH
New Orleans Will Hold BIsT Eveat 1st
Jaaaary.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. l.-The third an
nual Indoor championship meet of the
southern branch of the Amateur Athletic
Union of the United States, will be held
in New Orleans, at the Southern Athletic
club on January 22. The meet Is open to
registered athletes and the rules of th
Amateur Athletio Union will govern the
contests. Entries close on January 16. '
The following Is the list of events:
Twenty-five-yard dash for novices, twenty-five-yard
dash for seniors; 440-yard daais
890-yard run, one-mile run, three-mile ruaV
pole vault, running high Jump, standing
broad Jump; hop, step and Jump; twelve
pound shot 880-ySrd relay race for pre
paratory schools only; one-mile relay race
for clubs.
Gold, sliver and bronze medals will ba
awarded to the first three men In each
vmt and a cup to the college or club
team winning the most points, the relay
race not counted. The Beavers Trophy
will be given to - the team winning the
relay race.
Veterinary Examination.
PIERRE. 8. V., Jan. 1. Special.) Tha
State Board of Examiners in Veterinary
Medicine and flurgery will meet at this city
on Tuesday, January 4, for ihe examination
of candidates for licenses to practice veter
inary surgery In this state and to transact
ar.y other business which may come before
them.
Al Hnaw Heleaaed.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1. Al 8haw, out
fielder with the Kt. Louts team of the
National league, was today released under
the waiver rule of the National leaa-ua to
the New York Giants.