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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FERUAIIY 20, 1910.
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J'f,IE Omaiia Sunday Ber.
OMAHA, HI NKAY. FEURUAIIY 20, 1910
SEW YORK'S BIG BALL TEAMS
Prospects of the Hillmen, Giants and
Brooklyn!.
WHAT GOTHAM WILL SHOW
1
ItKADKK of The Bob recently aiked
why In this column the American
league tin Ro often commended to
the disparagement of the National.
The reason ia that the American
league rnnducta Its affairs In a business
like, manner, free from petty Jealousies and
puerile bickering, w hile the National league
tce not. If our friend challenge our right
to thin view, perhaps he would concede the
privilege to ):army Dreyfus, owner of the
National league world champions. Mr.
Dreyfus, who certainly cannot be criticised
for a pro-American league prejudice, says
"The National league magnates are acting
P like a lot of Jealous chorus girls." With
out any desire to cast aspersions upon
chorus gliiH, we Huhmit that to our friend
as an Impartial Judgment. The fact Is, as
every unbiased man who knows anything
about the situation Is free to admit, that
the National league Is disrupted Just now
by two or three men whose personal freed
blinds them to the larger Interests of the
league or base ball In general, to say noth
ing of the Interests of their fellow mag
nates. And these men have not stopped at
tho most truculent methods to promote
their avarice. Knocking, bickering and
backbiting goes on In season and out, at
meetings and away from them. Men of
large munied Interests carry on like a lot
of school boys over a game of marbles.
True, the American league Is the product of
piracy, and our critic tells us things about
j the personnel of some of the magnates
which we could not print. We might admit
for the sake of argument that all he says
Is true which we don't believe still that
would not alter the fact that the men who
are running the American league are doing
'at It on a strict business basis, to the edifica
tion of the game and the admiration of the
public. Ho long aa they get such resulta
. . Y. . -I . 1 . .
' u me patrons or the game care
whether they are as black as the ace of
j spades, or undeflled angels? Ban Johnson
and Comlskey had a row once, but thev
confined It to personal relations and didn't
let It Interfere with the progress of the
league, and then one day they got together
like two big, brainy men and forgot that
they had any differences. All this trouble
over National league presidents, trouble
uiat sent one good man to his grave and
unseated another who should nave been
kept In office, Is due to the fact that cer
tain team owners are too small to sink
their own personal Interests In the welfare
of the league. PuIIiam was hounded till
he took his life, Heydler was ousted be
cause ha refused to dance while an un
scrupulous man or two fiddled, and Lynch.
unless a reform Is effected, will go the
same route, for no man, not even with
Synch's strength of character, will ever be
J)le to satisfy the demands of that league
so long as naif tho magnates are deter
co in iuio or rum. ii may De as has
been said that Murphy's elimination would
solve the whole problem, but how are you
going to eliminate Him?
Managers Have I. aid Plaaa for the
Peanant Hir Points t'oarera
ln( the Many New Players
to Re Tried.
It is a bad thing for a man to become
known as a chronic kicker. Don Dee pa In,
the young man who burst Into the base ball
business at Lincoln toward the close of last
season, has assumed this role In the West
ern league. If he pursues It It will bring
up to nis ruin, but will not have much ef
fect on the league. Pursuant to his es
pousai, uespaln kicked on the league
schedule meeting being held In Chlcaao
He Insisted on Its going to St Joseph. In
this he simply made himself ridiculous, for
his Ignorance of what la best for his club
and his league. At the very time when
One Western league magnates were meeting
Chicago the magnates of the big leagues
and the American association were there
in business up to their necks. There was
the opportunity for Despaln and his col
leagues to get in on the ground floor of
ome good deals for players, and It af-
lorded mm the splendid privilege of rub
blng elbows with the men who are really
running this business of base ball; to hear
them talk, to get their views, to become
acquainted with them. Any man Just en
terlng a business he knows nothing about
could scarcely ask for better advantages
i.ay mess over against the benefits of
meeting In St. Joseph. What have you
Absolutely nothing tangible. The only rea
son In the world for ever thinking of St.
Joseph as a meeting place was purely sen
timental. It was simply an Impulse of
good-fellowship to give St. Joseph the glad
hand and cheer It on for the fine showing
It has made In Its re-entrance into the
Western league. It was a good sentiment,
a magnificent sentiment, but one that not
even St. Joseph could seriously urge as a
reason against such reasons as existed for
holding the meeting in Chicago. If Mr.
Despaln, In this morning of his base bull
oxperlence, aspires to be a brusher all his
v life he has taken exactly the right tack.
But If he expects to become a base ball
man he will have to broaden his views
and start out on a new line of action. Big
ger men than this one have discovered the
folly of setting themselves up as the mon
itor of the Western league. A certain sea
soned veteran who preceded Donny as
owner of the Lincoln team, not so many
.-eara ago, has found, even In the evening
of his varied career, that It won't go.
Whatever the players may say of It,
Western league fans will welcome the MS
game schedule adopted by the magnates,
it will give them twelve more games In
the season, lengthening the playing period
about a week at each end. Now that the
schedule Is disposed of, we may sit back
and wait for the sound of the gong. in
the meantime the team owners will have
nothing to do but complete their rosters
and get ready for the try-out day to com.
We observe from the schedule that Omaha
gets one game at home on the Fourth of
July, playing In the morning at Lincoln
and In the afternoon at home, which will
put rather good sized day s work up to
the men of the two teams We also get
Labor day at home and Decoration duy
at Pes Moines, which is all right, since
the eccentricities of our Nebraska statutes
outlaw base ball on that day. Omaha
once more opens the season on foreign ter
ritory, this time at Wichita. So far as ap
pears, this city has t.othlng to complain
of In the schedule, and. for that matter,
no other city has. since the schedule It
seems, haa been made out with a serious
Intention and effort to do etiual Justice all
round as near as possible.
Those prearranged plans for Jeffries to
hunt lions In Africa and sell his hot air
to jnagaalnes, provided he whip Johnson,
l need not be mentioned too often If the
promoters wsnt to stimulate public con.
fidence In the merits of the coming fight.
"Tli National league magnates v finally
compromised on the 14-game schedule,
but you observe that the president of the
Chicago club was not among those who
yielded a point.
The Ty Cobb who won a pr;xe fight lo
Xaltiipe the othet-dav was not the same
Tv who won the pennant lu the American
leagvas last year.
NKW YORK, Feb. 19. Within a week
Manager John J. McOraw and some of the
players who hope to be regular Giants this
year will be hustling on a ball field at
Marlln Springs, Tex. Before the end of the
first week In March the veteran members
of the team will report to the little leader,
while the Highlanders and their recruits
will be taking orders from Big Chief Ptal
llngs at Athens, Or. Then will come the
gathering of Brooklyn's players, under the
command of Manager William Dahlen, at
Hot Springs, Ark., and the preparations for
the two big pennant races will be well
under way.
What will the harvest be? Thousands of
base ball fans In Greater New York, eager
to hear the crack of the bat, are wondering
whether one of these three major league
teams can flnfam on top. These fans are
always filled with hope In the spring, and
they usually remain loyal to the end of the
soa son. If good base ball 1 provided. But
they must have a winner, and whichever
team makes the best bid for a ohamplonshlp
will find plenty of money pouring through
the box office windows.
Both New York clubs have spent money
freely for new playing talent, but the
Brooklyn club has not been so lavish
President Farrell of the Americans gave
Manager Stalllnga permission last fall to
get players at any cost, with the result
that $30,000 was expended in this manner.
President Brush did not buy another Mar
quard for 111.000, but McOraw gathered In
fifteen youngsters, for whom he paid more
than 120,000. Just what will be the result
of these purchases will not be known until
after the spring training In the south has
been practically finished. Then Stalling
and McOraw will decide whom to retain.
Stalllngs will take thirty two men to
Athens, where, aided by the veteran Arthur
Jrwln, the club's scout, an excellent line on
the new material will be obtained. Of the
experienced Highlanders who will prob
ably remain with the team much can be
said. The team appears to have been
strengthened behind the bat by the addi
tion of Lou Crlger, who was secured from
the St. Louis Browns in exchange for
Demmltt and Lake. Crlger, while not a
great hitter, is a star backstop of wide ex
perience. If he enjoys the best of health
It Is believed he will be one of the Amer
lean league's best catchers and conse
qunntly a tower of strength to the High
landers. He Is an expert at handling young
pitchers and In this respect he will be of
Invaluable service.
Sweeney and Klclnow, who did the bulk
of the catching last year, will be retained
for a time at least. Sweeney made rapid
strides toward the close of last season.
He developed Into a steady worker and
a hard hitter and Is expeoted to Improve.
Kletnow, when feeling In the mood, always
could catch great ball, but he became un
reliable In 1908 and his hitting fell off to
a marked degree. Stalllngs has two other
catchers In Mitchell of the Toronto East
ern league club and Joe Walsh of the
Bocky Mount club, which played in the
Eastern Carolina league. Mitchell, form
erly a National league pitcher, caught
ninety-two games for Toronto with nine
passed balls and an average of .947. He
stood sixth In the batting average with
.296, making 101 hits. Including twelve
doubles, six three baggers and a home run.
Walsh stood second In the catchers' field
ing averages with .982 for fifty-seven
games and made forty-one hits for a
batting average of .330. He Is said to be a
splendid all around athlete, being a star
foot ball player.
Stallngs believes he has a powerful
staff of pitchers. He will take thirteen
of them to the training camp and is pin
ning his faith to last year's experts, King,
Brockett, Walter Manning, Jack Warhop,
Joe Doyle, Tom Hughes and. Jack Qulnn.
But he also has confidence In Big Jim
Vaughn, a left bander, who helped to win
the American association championship for
Louisville last fall. Vaughn haa terrific
speed and la a young giant, for whose ser
vices Clark Griffith of the Cincinnati Reds
made a strenuous fight, until the National
commission awarded him to the Hlllman.
There's another promising left hander In
the bunch, Frill of Newark, who won six
teen games and lost thirteen last season
before he was purchased by the Hilltop
club. Fisher, a right hander from the
Hartford club, of the Connecticut league,
comes here with a big reputation; for he
led the pitchers In that circuit with twenty
four victories and five defeats, Incidentally
striking out US batsmen. After President
Farrell had landed this man ha refused
an offer of $5,000 from the Boston Red Sox
for his release.
Still another classy boxman Is Russell
Ford of the Jersey City team, regarded by
many good judges as the best pitcher In
the Eastern league last season. Ford Is
a spit ball artist, cool headed and nervy.
With a tall end team behind him he won
thirteen and lost thirteen games, with 189
strikeouts to his credit. Dick Carroll from
the Akron club of the Ohio and Pennsyl
vania league, comes highly recommended,
having won twenty games and lost nine,
which placed him third In the pitchers
percentages In that organisation. Clunn
halls from the Portsmouth club of the Vir
ginia State league, where he did some brll
llant work on the slab. Wolter, a Callforn
lan, was recently purchased by waiver from
the Boston Rod Sox, with whom he did
not receive much of a chance to shine, but
ia well thought of by Hal Chase.
Two of the Highlander' infield positions
are regarded as fixtures. Chase, the in
comparable, will cover first base, and Earl
Gardner, the youngster who was a star in
the Eastern league with the Jersey City
team last year, will play the second bag.
When Gardner Joined the Hillmen In the
fall he quickly showed that he could fill
the bill In every way and also did so' well
with the bat that he had an average of
.329. Gardner, In the opinion of no less a
person than Connie Mack of the Phlladel
phla Athletics, will be one of the game's
greatest lnflelders this year, fully capable
of measuring up to the standard set by
such experts aa Eddie Collins and Johnny
Evers. Ha is a natural ball player, clean
cut, ambitious and self-possessed, and
Stalllngs believes he will help the High
landers wonderfully.
While Long Jack Knight may excel at
shoit field now that the trouble making
Ulbcrfeld has been canned, he may have
to show phenomenal skill to keep the posi
tion away from eHhei Roach or Foster.
Roach is a finished player who attracted
attention when with the Lancaster Trl
Sute league team last year. He took part
In US games, making 123 hits for an aver
age of .302. with a fielding average of .929.
Foster, a mere boy. Jumped into notice
mlth the Jersey City team. He made 11
hit In 148 games, ail average of .243, lining
out fourteen doubles, ten triples and six
homers, while In fielding he tried for
everything and acoepted U chances out
of 7
Jimmy Austin, the youngster who played
hustling hall at the third corner of the
diamond lost year, lias a formidable rival
In Otis Johnson, a big fellow from Tort
land. Ore., In the Pacific Coast leaKue.
Johnson Is described as a hard hitter and
a lively fielder, with skill enough to hold
his own In the big leairue. He played 20."
games last season, knocking out 1 1 lis.
Including forty-one two-baggers, x three
bEpgera and thirteen home runs for an
average of .23. He stole forty-five bases
and at the third bag he had a fielding
avers tre of .920.
Clyde Engle. Charley Hemphill, Willie
Keller and Birdie Cree are the former out
fielders, but there are two newcomers,
Dnnlels of the Altoona Trl-State league
club, and Madden of the Utlca, New York
Rtate League club, who may secure regular
positions. Daniels Is a student at Bucknell
college, which produced the great Mathew
son. He played under the name of Ayres
ast year and took part In fifty-two games,
hitting safnly sixty-three times for an
average of .835, and having a fielding aver.
age of .M9. Those who have seen this
young man in action say he may develop
into another Ty Cobb, but time and a
grueling trial alone can demonstrate this
prediction. Madden stood fifth In batting
In his league. He played In 1.14 games.
made 150 hits, stole fifty-seven bases and
had a batting average of .316. He made
fourteen errors In the outfield and had an
average of .930. The veteran manager,
Charley Dooley, who owns the Utlca club,
says Madden Is booked for a brilliant major
league career. The entire Highlander out
fit, with the batting and fielding averages
of 1909, is as follows:
NEW YORK AMERICAN LEAGUE CLUB.
Oneida Indian from the Marlon club,
Ohio State league, will also receive a
thorough trial In the outfield. He Is a
whirlwind on his feet and Is said to be
a corking hitter. He stood fourth In bat
ting In that league last year, playing 130
games, In which he hammered out 140
safe drives, including twenty-one doubles,
six three-baggers and six home runs. His
batting average was .H2, and he stole 23
bases. In the outfield he made eight j
errors and his average was .971. Williams
Is six feet tall and a fine all-around ath
lete. He will find a companion In Myers, j
the red-skinned catcher. ' I
Hersog and Devore will also receive an-
other chance In the outfield, while Shafer
and Fletcher, the young Inflelders, who !
showed up well last year, will be retained
for emergencies. McOraw, therefore, has
plenty of material, and If he develops a
winner at the Polo grounds he will re
ceive no end of praise. His motto Is hard
work and plenty of It, and his players are
going to live up to It. The statistics of
the Giants, old and new, are as follows:
NEW YORK NATIONAL LEAGUE CLUB
Player and Position. Batting Fielding
Schlel. catcher 84 .OT;
Myers, catcher 277
Wilson, catcher 2S
Hnodgraea, catcher )
Mathewson, pitcher
Ames, pitcher
Wilts, pitcher
Raymond, pitcher
.2a
.074
.200
.14
Batting. Fieidtm
.170 .986
.2i7 .947
.22H .!
.2!t5 .947
.230 .92
.283 .931
.182 .982
.128 .931
.1B7 .9H6
.128 .974
.is .m
.11)6 .93
.13(t .929
.143 .975
.219 .923
.119 .
.IM .
.244 1.000
.283 . 973
.S2 .945
.298 .938
.231 .928
.293 . 980
.m .901
.302 .929
.242 .84
.278 .94
.243 .97
.264 .9fi
.262 .949
'.$.35 . 949
.SIS .930
Player. Position.
Crlger, catcher
Sweeney, catcher
Klelnow, catcher
Mitchell, catcher
Walsh, catcher
Brockett, p4tcher
Manning, pitcher
Warhop, pitcher
Ioyle, pitcher
Hughes, pitcher
Vaughn, pitcher
Clunn, pitcher
Frill, pitcher
Fisher, pitcher
Carroll, pitcher
Ford. Ditcher
cjulnn, pitcher
Wolter. pitcher
Chase, first base
Gardner, second base....
uaporte, second base....
Austin, third base
Johnson, third baee
Knight, shortstop
Roach, shortstop
Foster, shortstop
Engle. left field
Hemphill, center field..
Keeler, right field
Cree, outfield
Daniels, outfield
Madden, outfield
Manager McOraw has a difficult task
befol-e him. He has a regiment of new
material In the south and hopes to pick
up a few competent young- men to fill up
the gaps. Base ball men In general say
the Giants need a first-class catcher, a
couple of new pitchers, a first baseman
and an outfielder, and nobody admits this
fact more freely than the New York man
ager. He has four catchers, Schlel, Chief
Myers, Wilson and Snodgrasa, who were
wrth the team last year. Schlel Is the most
reliable one, though he does not measure
up to such backstops as KUng, Gibson,
Bresnahan, Doom, Berger, Archer and
others. Myers, a good hitter, (s a weak
thrower, a fault that Is usually costly. But
In Wilson and Snodgrass McOraw thinks
he may have a chance to strengthen this
department in a marked degree.
Mathewson, the king of pitchers, will
be the Giants mainstay on the slab again.
and McOraw counts on him to pitch at
least forty games. The big fellow has been
playing Indoor base ball during the winter
and will not require much strenuous work
in Texas to fit himself for the coming race.
Wlltse, the crack left hander, is another
ace and Ames may pitch some high class
ball. But Marquard, Raymond and Crandall
are not reliable enough to fill McOraw with
supreme confidence. The little manager
therefore has nine other pitchers to try out.
Drucke and Klawltter, who were secured
from the Texas league last fall and pitched
some clever games for the Giants before the
season closed, are highly regarded and will
receive plenty of work In the early games.
George Daley, from the Springfield club
of the Three-Eye league, is regarded as
a possible success. He won twenty-three
games, lost eleven and struck out 152 men
last season, also pitching a no hit game
gainst Rock Island. Pitcher Bell, from
the same club, won nine games and lost
six. Dickson, from the Birmingham club in
the Southern league, won sixteen games
and lost eleven. Buckingham, from the
Wlaon club In the East Carolina league,
Is a Colgate university boy, who had a
record of eight victories and seven defeats.
Parson, from Bucknell college, which pro
duced Matty, pitched for the Marlon club
In the Ohio State league, winning fourteen
games and losing seven. He Is a six footer.
has the nerve and Is well recommended.
Scott, a native of Philadelphia, made his
mark with the Johnstown Trl-State league
club by winning twenty-two games and los
ing sixteen. Temple, who was purchased
from the Norfolk club of the Virginia
State league, pitched seventeen victories
and nine defeats.
If Tenny comes baok able to play his
old gams the Giants and their followers
will rejoice; but If the veteran falls Merkle
will probably get a chance to become the
regular first baseman. McOraw has a
youngster named Spencer to try out at
this bag, but his record with the Ports
mouth Ohio State league team last year
was not particularly brlllant, for he hit
for only .334, had a fielding percentage of
.971, made ten sacrifice hits and stole eight
bases In 10S games. Brldwell, however,
asked McOraw to try the young man, who
seemed to need experience and coaohlng.
Shaw, pus-chased from the St. Louis
Cardinals when waivers were asked, may
get a regular place in the outfield and un
der McOraw's methods he may fill the bill.
But the Giants' manager has four recruits
to subject to a test, and one of them may
afford a surprise in the person of Zacher,
of the New Haven club in the Connecticut
league. Zacher was in general demand last
year when the New York club landed him.
He played 124 games, made 151 hits, of
which thirty-five were doubles, eight three
baggers and eight home runs, for an aver
age of .317, at the same time scoring sixty
three runs, making thirty-five sacrifice hits
and stealing nineteen bases. He showed
brilliant work In the outfield with only
eleven errors and an average of .903, stand
ing third lu the list. Good Judges say
Zacher Is one of the most promising play
ers coming from the minor leagues, and
they predict he will make a hit with the
fans at the Polo grounds.
Kommrrs, hailing from the Beardstown
club In the Illinois-Missouri league, did
excellent work with the stick and In the
outfield last year. He faced the pitchers
In lis games, knocked out 139 safe hits,
including twenty doubles, eleven triples
and two home runs for an average of .319.
In fielding he made thirteen errors and
had an average of 961. He Is a great
thrower, as his record of twenty-five as
sists would Indicate.
Another outfielder of promise Is Collins,
from the Cedar Rapids club of the Three
Eyed league. In 140 games he made 147
hits for .274 and stole 17 bases. Covering
left field in 130 games, be had 296 put-
outs, 13 assists and only one error, his
average being .97. Collins also played
fifteen games at second base, accepting
68 out of 71 chances, with an average of
.994.
John Bull Williams, a full-blooded
Marquard, pitcher 148
Crandall, pitcher 244
Drucke, pitcher 174
Klawltter, pucner tu
Bell. Ditcher 200
Buckingham, pitcher 1!2
Daley, pitcher ii
Dickinson, pitcher 142
Parson, pitcher 22
Scott. Ditcher 139
2
.93
.986
.Ml (
.923
.972
.913
.923
.941
.90
.942
.949
1.000
.966
.974
.972
.933
.908
.95
.976
.971
.940
.934
,940
.81)3
.TGO
.94")
.923
.97
.947
.997
.914
.9M
.971
.13
Temple, pitcher 2IW
Tenney, first base 236
Merkle, first base m
Spencer, first base 234
Doyle, second base 3U
Devlin, third Dase e
Brldwell, shortstop 294
Fletcher, Infielder H
Shafer, Infielder 1
Shaw, left field 248
McCormlck, left field 290
Seymour, center field si"
Murray, right field 2H8
Collins, outfielder 74
Hersog, outfielder
Kommers, outfielder 319
Williams, outfielder 292
Zacher. outfielder 317
De Vore, outfielder
Manager Dahlen of the Brooklyns will
make very few experiments. He has a lot
of seasoned players and believes that suc
cess depends chiefly on the perfection of
team play. The Brooklyns have a powerful
pitching staff In Nap Rucker, the star left
hander for whom President Ebbets says
he would not take $25,000; Harry Mclntyre,
Doc Scanlon, Bell, Hunter, WUhelm and
Cy Barger, who helped to win the Eastern
league pennant for Rochester last season.
Bell commands the confidence of Dahlen,
who says he will be one of the National
league's greatest pitchers this season.
In Bergen, who caught 112 games in
1909, the Brooklyns have an aDie Daca
stop, but they also have a good man In
Erwin from Rochester, the leading catcher
In the Eastern league last year. Not only
a good batsman, Erwin caught eighty-
seven games for the champion Rochesters,
having eight passed balls and a fielding
average of .9TB. He Is a fine thrower to
bases and possesses a head filled with
base ball brains. If Tim Jordan, the big
first baseman, finds that his legs bother
him or he meets with an accident, Dahlen
has a substitute in Daubert from the Mem
phis Southern league club. This younff
man led the league In batting last year
with an average of .314, making eighty
nine hits for a total of 107 bases In eighty
one games. He also led the first basemen
In fielding with .995, making only four er
rors. It is probable that Hummel, the crack
utility player, will cover second base reg
ularly, as Dahlen has been unable to make
a deal for a new man. Lennox will be at
third base and he Is one of the best In
the big leagues. It Is Just possible that
Dahlen may play shortstop himself unless
McMillan Improves In his stick work, al
though the manager prefers to direct the
play from the bench and the coaching
lines.
In the outfield Wheat, Burch and Lum
ley look like fixtures and they appear to
be an excellent combination. Wheat, who
was purchased from the Mobile club last
fall, made an Instant hit with the Brook
lyn fans by his heavy batting and general
play. In fact, he was regarded as a real
find and he Is expected to be one of the
team's best men this year. This will be
Dahlen'a first experience as a manager,
He has had wide experience as a player
under Anson, McOraw and Hanlon. He
Is aggressive, headstrong and believes that
he must be the boss. President Ebbets
has unbounded faith In his ability and has
given full authority to him to handle the
Brooklyns as he sees fit. The Brooklyn
team's batting and fielding averages of
last year follow:
BROOKLYN NATIONAL LEAGUE CLUB.
Player. Position. Batting. Fielding.
Krwin, catcher .
Rucker, pitcher
ScsnUn, pitcher
Hunter, pitcher
Wllhelm, pitcher 228
narger, pitcher
Jordan, first base
Daubert, first base
Dahlen, second base
Hummel, second base...
Lennox, third base
McElveen, third base....
McMillan, shortstop ....
Limley, outfielder
Wheat, outfielder
Burch, outfielder
Downey, outfielder
.189 .97.1
.275 .959
.118 .944
.273 .971
.16 .938
.171 .!MI
.228 . 923
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WASHINGTON ROWS BADGERS
Will Send Team to Madison During
Month of May.
CHICAGO, Feb. 19.-Tlie twee between the
eight oared crews of Wisconsin and Wash
Ington, to be rowed at Madison some time
In May probably. Is assured by the favor
able reply sent by Wisconsin's council to
the Seattle folks. E. H. Ten Eyck, who Is
temporary athletic director and permanent
rowing coach at Wlsconson, sent a wire
to Seattle not long ago agreeing to a race
Immediately thereafter a mass meeting
was held at Washington and collecting
begun to raise $1,800, the trip will cost.
Out In Seattle they are talking of trying
to work up Interest in rowing races for
middle western and far western crews, to
be held annually at some place on the
Mlsslaslppl, preferably Minneapolis.
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Foreign Auto
Racing Dates
All Dates Bequested Are Granted by
the So-Called "Calendar
Congress."
EULES FOR FRENCH RACE MEET
small far Motoring: Kvent Scheduled
for Jane.
NKW YORK, Feb. 19. The date and rules
of the "Coupe des Volturettes" race,
France's sniall-csr motoring event, have
been announced. The contest will be held
on June II over a closed circuit. The
length of the race will be about S76 miles.
F.ntrles at single fees will clone on March
SI, and st double fees on May 31.
The rules for the coming contest have
been altered In some respects, the mini
mum weight now being (BO kilogrammes,
and the engine capacity being unrestricted
as to the length of stroke, but the bore
being limited, as last year, to 100 mllle
ineters for a single cylinder, eighty mills
meters for a twin and sixty-five millemeters
for a four-cylinder motor. This will be
the sixth renewal of the contest.
vew YORK. Feb. 19. At a recent meet
Ing held at the Automobile club of France
the so-called "Calendar Congress" arranged
the European motor contest dates for the
coming season. All the dates requested
were granted. The schedule follows:
February 20-23 Contest for the Winter
cup and Gothenburg cup (Automobile club
of Sweden).
March 8 Hilt climb at Monlgssaal, Bo
hemia (Automobile club of Prague).
March 22 Appeal ance competition In
Montre Carlo.
March 47 to April 4 Automobile show lu
Prague. . .
March 31 to 'April 8 Contest of elastic
wheels (I'Auto).
April 2-24 Automobile show in Turin.
May 1-24 Small car show In Munich.
May 1 to October 1 Automobile and aero
plane show In Vienna.
May 8 Speed trials at Modena.
May 14-15 Hill climb ajid kilometre trials
(Automobile club of lityrla).
May 24-26 Endurance run around Vienna,
May 26-L' Contest for the oup of Cata
lonia (Barcelona). . ,. , c
May 28 to June 9 Automobile show In St.
Petersburg.
June 3-S Prince Henry endurance, con
test in Germany.
Jun 20 Small car trials In ranee
(IVAuto).
June 21 Large car trials In France
(I.'Auto).
June 26 Hill climb at Valsuaon (L.yon).
June 26-2H Tour through the Austrian
Alps. ...
June 22 to July 6 Touring content fit.
Petersburg - Kiev - Moscow and Russian
commercial vehicle trials.
June 27 Speed trials In Kiev.
June 2 Kilometre trials In Moscow.
June 10-12 Eastern German touring con
test. June 12-18-Ostend week.
August 1 to September 80 international
contest In Thurlngla.
Auauat 1-1D Contest In the Belgian
Ardennes.
August 16 to September 15 Commercial
vehicle trials of the Automobile club of
France.
August 21 Meeting at Salon (Automobile
club of Salon).
August 28 Ventoux hill climb In France.
August 2-Kllometre trials at Oulpuicoa.
P8eptember 3-6 Contest for the Uedererke
cup, Ostend cup and small car cup at
Ostend. Belgium.
September 8-26 French reliability trials
(L'Auto). . , ... .
September 18 Semmertng hill climb In
A October 2-Glllon hill climb In France.
October 20-30 Grand prize race In the
United States.
NELSON PUZZLES ALL HIS
OPPONENTS IN THE RING
F.vrry Fight He Finishes Look I.Ike
the Last One for the
Battler.
NKW YORK, Feb. 19 Battling Nelson
Is one of the hardest problems the Queens
berry nuts have ever been given to solve.
Every fight he puts up looks like his last.
His style of milling Is anything but pleas
ing to the eye, and is apt to deceive one
who Is not fumlllar with the Dane's
wonderful ring achievements.
On the afternoon of Washington's birth
day. In Alameda, ChI.. Nelson will again
put his title up for Inspection, and Ad
Wolgasl will be the principal Inspector.
Avuln the followers of the fistic pastime
will await the result of the battle with
their eyes all ready to read ol me wane s
final downfall. Again they might be
forced to utter a cry of astonishment and
exclaim, "There Is no use In talking, that
lane can't be knocked out!"
NaIb,iii him done no active work fur many
months, esceptlng his short bout with Lang
In Memphis. He has been working the
ihateirui iiunie fur all It Is worth and has
had much of his time taken up in adver-
tiKinir hla book. It remains to pe seen
whether hi continual sidetracking of the
real fighting game for the limelight article
haa Interfered In any way with nis aoiiny
am a fiirhter.
In Wolgast he meets a man who threatens
i.i.na much tousher than Dick llyiand
Wolgast already has gone one ten-round
decision over Nelson.
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