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VOL. XL-NO. 29.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1, 1911.
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Records of All Sorts of Performances Shattered by Athletes During Last Year
Iowa Youngsters Who Made an Excellent Record
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SPORTS
STUDENTS SHOW
MOREJNTEREST
Success of Cornhuiker Foot Fall Team
changes the Jitatas at the
University.
IN A MORE HLALTHY CONDITION
Factional Trouble on Athletic Board
Has Been Removed.
BEST OF SPIRIT NOW PREVAILS
Foot Ball Team Makei Profit of Seven
Thousand Dollars for Year.
WILL CARRY OTHER SPORTS
Big Vietorlea Over Kansas and Amt
Him Regained Ita Lost Position
la the Mlnonrl Valley
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LINCOLN. Neb.. Dec. . (Special.)
Twelve months have wrought a great
change In the athletic standing of the
Cornhuskers. Under the regime of "King"
Cola and his victorious foot ball warriors.
Interest In sports has been revived and af
fairs at Nebraska are In a more healthy
condition than they hava been slnca Booth
left Nebraska.
Two elements have been largely Instru
mental In bringing- about this change.
Pactional and fraternity -fights, especially
In the years of IM and threatened to
seriously endanger the athletic standing
of the school. Nebraska lost the premier
honors In the valley to the old time rival,
Kansas, and was defeated in both basket
ball and foot ball. Only In track' , and
field meets were the Cornhuskers able
to retain the laurels and that by a nar
row margin.
But a better time Is coming at Nebraska.
The factional trouble on tha athletic board
has been largely removed. The trouble
between members of the foot ball team
has all been, eradicated and the best Of
spirit prevails In all of the branches ot
sport. '
Temporarily, at least, the undergraduate
body lost faith In the athletic board and
tha foot ball team during the years of liWd
and 1909. There waa a spirit of discon
tent In every branch of athletics, b-t the
brunt of the criticism fell on the . houl
dera of King" Cole. Olven his .oppor
tunity to make good under favorable con
dition the Michigan man satisfied the de
mands of his harshest critic.
Athletics Go Behind.
The loss of confidence among tha un
dergraduate body and the alumni of the
school had a more potent effect than
breeding discontent. It took actual effect
In cutting In en the finances of the board
and after the close of a disastrous year
In. athletics, tha board found Itaelf deeply
In. debt and . with little hope, of securing
Immediate asairtance. Plans of Improve
ment for the athletlo field during the aum
mer had to be discontinued, and the sod
ding of the field, which had been planned
for a number of seasons, had to be given
up.
Cole and his prbteges made money for
the athletic board during the last season.
Manager O. Eager Is nearly tS.OOO to the
good for the entire year, while the foot
ball season alone netted 7,000. After he
has paid off the outsandlng Indebtedness
Eager will have a balance on hand of
nearly Sj.OOO. but this will be slightly re
duced before the end of the school year,
inasmuch aa other departments of sport
are financially a failure. Basket ball alone
neta enough to pay the expenses of the
aeon.
Nebraska has regained Its position In tha
Missouri valley conference. Its victories
over Kansas and Ames left no dispute aa
to where the foot ball championship be
longed. The basket ball outlook, while not
no bright aa In past years, figures well
for another championship. Ames and Kan
sas, the Cornhuskers' hardest opponents
have teams composed of entirely new men.
The track team should be the strongest
ever representing Nebraska, with Reed and
Powers, both available for tha sprints.
Towers for the hurdles. Munson for the
board Jump, Graham for tha pole vault
and the high Jump, Harmon and Collins
for tha weighta. and Clark, Anderson, Me
llrk and Anderson for tha long distance
rune, . Batea la also a promising miler and
two mller.
All la ow Harmony.
The members of the board are now work
ing harmoniously and It is likely that
another split will take place over the at
t:tude of the Cornhuskers to the new Mis
souri valley conference rulings.
Two rules have been passed during the
j ear 1910, which are of importance' to the
Cornhuskers and the other schools In the
Missouri valley conference. The one rule
forbidding the playing of the annual Tur
key day game on the gridiron Is perhaps
the most sweeping and has already aroused
a storm of protest from Kansas, Nebraska
and Missouri. Tha other doing away with
coachea for each Individual branch of
sport and providing for an all year coach
aa a member of tha faculty waa not un
locked for. It la not believed that the rul
ing will affect tha athletic situation of
any of the member of the conference.
Manager Eager has not announced the
revised schedule of the Cornhuskers for
ll'll. Eager was not satisfied with, the
schedule prepared by Ir. R. G. Clappand
l oach field, when they attended the Mia
ourl Valley conference meeting at Dea
Moines two weeks age. and set about to
change the dates. He attended a meeting
of tha members of he conference at Kan
aa City tha latter part of this week, but
bad nothing to aay when he returned.
Dr. Clapp, tha Nebraska delegate to tha
meeting of the Association of American
Collegea. la In New York City, lie will
remain In Pea Mulnea next meek to attend
tha meeting of the Missouri Valley con
ference, where he la alao the Nebraska
delegate. Home speculation la arouse rver
the outcome of the fight which Dr. Clapp
has been instructed to wage at the meeting
by the Cornhuaker athletic board.
Mar Allow tinaanaer Baa Ball.
Ir. Clapp was Instructed to secure .either
the withdrawal of the rule against summer
base ball or to take a position against In
cluding base ball In tho Hat of collegiate
porta. tinc the action of the Nebraska
board aeveral other mem here of the con
ference had taken a stand aKalnst the
rule and It la exiweted' that summer base
tall nlll again be allowed.
No progreee. aa far as the final seiee-
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FEAR OUTLAY MOTOR LEAGUES
Auto Racing Public to See Unusual
Thing Next Season.
RIVAL MEETS ARE TALKED OF
Barney Old field Adds to Goralw, Declaring-
He Wilt Back the Racing;
Trnst with Independent
Rnoea at Hla Own.
NEW. TORK. fec It begins to look
as though the automobile racing public
will see some unusual and Interesting In
cidents next season. , Professional base
ball ha heard of wonderful -outlaw-
leagues, and now It la motordom turn
to heed the ranting of "outlaw promot
era. At present It 1 possible that race
meet will bo held In all the big cities in
opposition to the regular event sanctioned
by the American Automobile association.
However. lnce the manufacturer mane
possible the peed game that attract
thousands of spectators, the roily or out
law" meet 1 evident. The maker are al
lied with the A A. A., and It 1 easy to
sound the depth of the pit Into which any
"outlaw" project wltl fall.
A Is to be expected, the proposed stag
ing of rtv attraction come from Bar
ney Oldfleld. A report from Io Angele
quote Mm a follow:
"Since I was placed on the blacklist of a
certain organisation of twelva men closely
associated with tha racing trust , who
boasted that they controlled tha racing
game, I have had hard row to hoe.
Kill Oldfleld off eem to be their Slo
gan. But I am glad to find tha people
with in, and I am In tha fight to tn
death. I will not resort to toe -court..
Lawyer tell me I hava tha best of
chance to lnvoka the anti-trust law
against tha racing trust. But I am going
to win a more decisive victory against tha
promotors who rule the three A'. I am
going to put my case before tha Jury of
the great American public. I am going
io rc In all tha big eitlea of the country
an. If the publio wants to ee me people
wiil .fcouiw jad I will keep going. Then the
racJi ff tr st will loee its power. , But one
thing Is sure, I will never bend the knea
to the racing trust"
The foregoing would be amusing were It
hot for the fact that it shows how sadly
Oldfleld 1 being advised. Prior to' the
last meet at the Los Angele board motor
drome Oldfleld waa informed aa to his ex
act status with the American Automobile
association. He was told that If he
showed himself willing to recognize the A.
A. A. by ceasing all foolish "outlaw" chat
ter and keeping out of racing for a Urn
his reinstatement would be considered.
After th long conversation with one of
the leading powers In motorcar racing
Ohiflold admitted: "There haa'to be a gov-'
erultig body In automobile racing," and
added that he would show hla good faith
by patiently waiting for his case to be
brought up.
Then Oldfleld's manager led him away.
Of course this individual could not bear to
see his "charge" remaining Inactive when a
little currency waa to be plrked up from
"outlaw" exhibitions. Bo a "Barney Old
field meet" wa run off at Ascot Park,
Cat., and that driver chance of A. A. A.
reinstatement went asailln. It la not
Oldfleld who raves about "the Jury of the
great American public" as quoted In the
Loa Angelea Interview, but a narrows Is
kined corpa of advisers. They really have
made Barney believe that he Is "gteater
than the A. A. A.," and that the "public
U with him."
As a matter of fact the motoring pub
lic never saw Oldfleld to anything wonder
ful In the competition of recent year and
never will. Hi best work I done In ttme
trials, that lack in the tension and grip f,
wheel to heel driving. Either Oldfleld or
one of his numerous "clooe advisers" re
cently used the late P. T. Barnum's famous
remark. Doubtless It aa applUnl to
Barney's barnstorming tour on half-mile
dirt tracks. This latest "outlaw" effort of
Oldfleld s puts his chances of A. A. A. te-
Instatement at four figure odds.
The Key to the Situation Be Want Ad.
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Sixty Americans -Will
Compete in
Olympic Contests
Committee Plans to Send Strong
Squad of Athletes to Big Meet
) at Stockholm.
There ie' now not the least doubt, but
tha United State will send a big team
to the Olympic guin.es at Stockholm, and
from now on the American-Olympic com
mittee will have It hands full arranging
the detail of the trip. To Judge ' from
what has already been said on the subject
the biggest team that ever left America
will be mustered and enough men will be
taken to cover every event on the pro
gram with first and second strings. In
all about sixty picked crack will represent
the Stars and Stripes, so that If two
event of a kind should clash or come the
same day there will be separate men for
each.
At the last Olympic games In England
there was some trouble about the entries
and the tryouts, and In 1906 the team had
to be taken on chance without any tryouts
on account of the early date of the Athens
festival. It promises to be the same case
with Sweden, for it ta understood now that
the games will be the first week In June
or the end of May. A the entries will
have to be In at least a month ahead this
would mean that the tryouts would have
to take place about the ehd of April, aome
thtng which would not be the best for the
boy here. Around that time each year
the crack performer are In their very
worst condition after being fagged out
from the Indoor work, and ara usually
about beginning to sneak out In the open
to get a sniff of tha osone.
Another thing which would be against
tha early trial 1 tha state of the ground
at that season of tha year. . Tracks tn tha
east ara generally wet and soggy, but this
could ba overcome by going a little south
for the tryouts. A member - of - the
Olympic remarked casually a few days ago
that the tryout meet could be taken to
Jamestown. Va., the location being only
one day' Journey from the metropolis. The
question of the tryout and their location
Is not half aa important aa the fact that
tha team could not have the service of
tha college men if the gamea ara held
In either the latter part -of May or the
first week in June. Jut then every quarter
of the United Statea Is preparing for the
college meeta and every Institution will
need Its best men and they would not
consent to let them go abroad on a team.
When the team went to Athens E. B.
Parsons of Yala waa the only notable
collegian and he had a hard time to get
away from his studies, and he had a still
harder time getting home In time for the
Yale-Harvard duel meet, which came a
week or so before the Intercollegiate
championships. He took a hurried de
parture from Athens Immediately 'after the
8"0 metres. Two years ago the American
Olympic team had plenty of college' ma
terial to draw from, aa tha Intercollegiate
meet waa over In the east and the con
ference championships In the west and out
aa far a the Pacific coast tha college man
war Just fresh from their apell of spring
work and thorcughly keyed up. Ferhapa
the Swedish gamea may not be so early and
may go till July, and the later the data the
better for the American team and thoae
Interested on this aide of the water.
WALTER KAGLE TO PITTSBURG
Loa Angelea Man Added to tho Drf.
, fnaa Squad.
PITTSIH'RO. De!. 31- Walter Nagle of
the Loa Angelas team of the Pacific Coast
league will be added to the pitching ataff
of tha Pittsburg Nationals. A telegram
as received from President W. IL Berry
of the Loa Angele club recently accepting
PittMbJrg offer for Nasle. the terma of
which are not announced. Another item
of mld-n Inter 'base ball interest is the re
port that President Barney Dreyfus cf the
Pittsburg club, asking Manager Fred
Clarke to deride upon the advisability of
Ufclng Jack Flynn behind tha bat next
summer as a substitute for tlibawn. .There
have been reports of releasing Flynu. He
played first baca tha greater part of last
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GLENWOOD HIGH BCHOOI FOOT BALL TEAM.
PREDICTS ATEETICS TO WIN
Many- Fans Concede Pennant - to
Present Holders.
RECALLS TWO-TIME PRECEDENT
Present Chiamploaia Will Follow fJamal
, Rnle of Great Ball Flaying; tn
chines Will Ran Smoothly
Two Tenra.
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A great many fan already concede the
American league pennant for 1911 to the
Philadelphia Athletics. This aeems Ilka a
hasty conclusion four month before the
season opens. The people who believe ihat
the result of next year' race I all cut
and dried base their conclusion upon sev
eral facts and many pet theories.
First, they point out that In the history
of major league ball the same team 'usu
ally iv on the championship two or three
years in succession. When a manager
succeeded In building up a winning ma
chine he can almost count on It running
smoothly. for at least two year, and It I
not until some other base ball , leader de
velop another first-class team that the
championship takes some time to decay, so
tt also take years of experiment and hard
work to build Up a great team.
Connie Mack ha certainly put together
a wonderful combination and In all prob
ability hla aggregation will b still stronger
next season. To his magnificent pitching
staff he ha added Russell and one or two
other youngster who should make the list
of boxmen even more formidable than it
ha been. Last, year the Athletic broke
their league record for games won and fin
ished tha race In a canter with plenty of
daylight between themselves and the
runner-up.
Considering these things, it looks aa If
those Doraon who bank on tha Mackraen
winning another - pennant were figuring
conservatively: It la tha uncertainty of
base ball, however, that keeps tha Interest
of- countless thousands at fever heat con
cerning our national game. -
It only required the addition ot a few
stars to enable a nine composed mostly
of Washington player to wallop the Ath
letics In the practice game before the
world' series. Mlnu Mack and Collin
tha Champion lost to Cuban team that,
even considering the Philadelphians' lack
of condition, they should have defeated.
Supposing that during soma week early
next season Collins should tear off a fin
ger nail and Barry should bruise one of
hia heels. These might be slight things
In themselves and yet affect the final re
sult of the whole league race. Then there
are other teams which only need one or
two good men to make them even favor
ites for the flag.
: Chicago, strengthened at all positions.
as playing remarkable ball toward the
end of last season and should start with'
a rush In' the spring. In Walsh, Lange,
Scott and Whit they hava a quartet of
pitchers'hard to surpass.'
Detroit needs strengthening, but the Ti
gers have'-over thirty recruit to-pick, from
and If on In ten of their new men can
make good they will certainly ba cham
pionship contenders.
Boston may not show a w ell next year
with Stahl out of the game, but Cleveland
ha added new blood, and. while New York
I somewhat of an uncertain quantity un
der Its new management, many baae ball
follower believe that all these teams will
be well up In the running next year. At
any rate. It Is probable that tha Athletics
will hava a much harder contest ahead of
then. In 1911 than they had this season.
LAKE MAY MANAGE BROWNS
Fred Trany May Also Bo Mated for
tho Boston Nationals.
Fred Lake will manage .the St. Louis
Browns tn 1911. ao they say. Fred Tenney
will manage the Boston National league
team, which I-W waa to have managed.
Gentlemen, make your wagera on , the
"Freda" They've both got tatl-endor with
which to grapple and tb struggle should
be a pretty one.
Persistent Advert'''ug 1 the Road to
Big - Return.
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Change in Water
Polo Rules Gives
New Life to Game
Thrown Goals Permit of Variation in
Plays Without Adding; to Rough
ness of Contests.
NEW TOHK, Deo. SI. Action of tha In
tercollegiate Swimming association . In re
vising It water polo code and permitting
goal to be scored by throwing the ball at
the board, as well as touching ' It, . was
criticised as a measure Introduced to quiet
those who Inveighed against tha roughness
of the game.
Experience has demonstrated .how absurd
was the charge. In recent . matches . the
thrown goal ha held an Important -part,
and It Influence on the style of play ha
been most noticeable. It Is practically Im
possible with the Increased board surface
to 'stop an expert thrower from scoring
and the contention that the ball would al
ways go to the other side on a miss has
been disproved.
New formations have been evolved , to
meet the changed condition and the game
Is more or lees hard on the forwards.
which please both spectator and player.
Under the former rules an exhausted line
man wa called upon to try for an under
water goal, and In hi tired condition he
generally received the severest kind of pun
ishment. Now he merely back to the fifteen-foot
mark and on receiving tha ball, and give
the signal to the two forward to cover
the opposing backs, permitting him a free
and easy shot at tha board. . If the for
wards ara wide awake,, there is an even
chance for their securing the ball again,
even If the goal ta missed. There Is no
doubt that the new rule Is a decided im
provement. Local swimming expert looking forward
eagerly to the visit of tha Cornell water
men for the Coloumbla meet because of tha
report from Ithaca that Maldlner, one of
the Cornelian sprinters, had discovered a
new type of crawl and was getting wonder
ful speed out of it. The report proved a
sell. Wliile it Is true .that Maldlner swims
a stroke of 4ils own, and may eventually
make fast time with.lt. he could not beat
twenty-nine seconds either In the Yale
or In the Columbian meets, and his meth
ods are totally unsulted to one not having
short and thin legs. He thrashes the water
with both feet at the same time, Instead of
alternately, and it s not likely that he will
ever be abla to keep up. such a punishing
action over a greater distance than fifty
yards, or, at moat, seventy-five yards.
Harry Hebner cf tha Illinois Ath'.etlo club
of Chicago, recently placed to hi credit a
competitive 100-yard swim In b'i,'t seconds.
Ha la gradually bring down his time to the
neighborhood of Daniels' records, and as
he is not yet SO years old.' great things may
be expected of him. It is probable that nex;
year he will be In the east, as he proposes
to enter Yale in the fall. He Is now at
Notra Dame university.
STAGG HAS . HEAVY SCHEDULE
Chlraao Coach , Pinna Big Work for
Tm-h. Team.
CHICAGO. Dec.ta.Coach Stagg haa an
nounced a heavy schedule for hla Indoor
track team. Chicago will meet Illinois.
Northwestern and Purdue In two contest
each. . beside competing In the Irish
American championship on January 14 in
New York and In the winter conference
met on March !i at F.vannton. The Chi
cago "Big E-iKht" program will begin with
the Chicago-Northwestern meet on Janu
ary 2S at Bartlett gymnasium, when, tha
'varsity and . freshman team of the two
schools will compete In spearate eventa.
Tills will be followed by a "varsity dual
mett with Purdue on February 1 at La
fayette. The te.m will go. to I'rbana for the first
Chicago Illinois me.-t this year and the
vainlty and freshman teams will both ap
pear in tha contest, which will be held on
February IS. The return meet with Pur
due is scheduled fur March 1 ut Bartlett
gymnasium. Following the meet with
Illinois at Bartlett nmaium on Mann
1U Coach Matt has lited the return meet
with Northwestern tor March 17 at Lvans-ton.
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PITCHERS OUTSTRIP BATSMEN
Man. - in Box Gains . Efficiency at
Highest Rates,
FIGURES SHOW DEVELOPMENT
tatlatlee of ' Baae Ball . Blnco 1ST6
Demonstrate . Waning: . Tendency
of Relative Statu of Abll- ,
lty of Man at Bat.
A base ball statistician haa - figured It
out that lince 1872, when the record were
first kept, 4,000 batsmen have faced the
major league pitchers, and only 150 of them
have shown average of .300 or more. Ever
since the National league was organised
In 1STS the effectiveness of tha pitcher haa
gradually. Increased In spite of rules' passed
to bring . about more batting. Nine balls
originally entitled a hitter to a base, but
the number was soon cut to six, then to
four, while one year the strikes were In
creased from three to four. . The adoption
of the foul strike rule, however, has hand
icapped the batsman and has been of cor
responding benefit to tha boxman. In do
ing away wUu Intentional delay the rule
has been ' a pronounced success, but the
records show that In recent years tha bat
ting has decreased In strength, ' until' last
season the pitchers had a greater advan
tage than ever before.
President Johnson of the American
league, who is a close student of baae ball,
ay h Is opposed to changes In the pres
ent playing code, and Umpire Hank O'Day,
who suggested the foul strike rule, sup
ports Johnson In this contention. - Other
base ball men, including Comiskey, Connie
Mack, Chance, . Fred Clarke and Clark
Griffith, hold similar opinion, a far aa
the -suggestion to reduce called ball to
three la concerned. But all of theaa men
are busy thinking over the proposition
which' Involve the renewal of the raised
pitcher' box. This change wa not sug
gested until recently, and it, has found so
many advocates at the meeting of the Joint
rules committee of the big leagues it will
doubtlexs - receive serious - consideration.
The rained box has been generally . over
looked, but the rule permitting It has been
violated In so many Instances that tha
matter Is now widely discussed.
With the mound built up so that, the
top of It Is two feet higher than the home
plate and . the three corners of the dia
mond, pitchers now have a tremendous
advantage. Those who employ speed a
greater part of the time are enabled to
Intimidate batsmen by ' hurling the - ball
down hill with terrific momentum. They
are in a ponttlon to see the corners of the
plate better, and In that way can keep
'control of the ball with more effective re
sults. By putting the pitcher on a level
with the batKman It Is argued that the
latter would go to the plate with more
confidence and that the hitting, therefore,
would be increased to a marked degree.
The pitcher would be unable to enjoy an
uutalr advantage and would be. forced to
exerclne more care in his delivery.
. It la pointed out that such men . aa
Mathewson, Coombs and Johnson would
not have so many batsmen at their mercy
and that with more hitting the games
would be livelier from the spectators'
standpoint. Base ball men who have
looked Into this matt- Insist thst there
is no good reason why the pitchers" box
should be raised at 'all, unless' It Is for
the purpose of keeping the hitter tn sub
jection. When the box waa on a plana
with the plate thtre waa plenty of first
class pitching, but the records show that
the batting was heavier and that runs
were more plentiful. The ranted box. It
Is said, waa originated by the old Balti
more of fifteen years aKa and It haa been
a growing evil ever since
That the average manager believes that
the auccess of his team depends chiefly
upon the effectiveness of his pitchers la
showp by the fact rTiat twice the number
of twirlers are carried nowadays than was
the rase In 1K'.. Then three of four first-
class pitchers weie sufficient. whereas
nowadays a major league team Is not con
sidered well equipped unless seven or
tight boxmen are on the payroll. The
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RECORDS FALL IN
19108 MAD W1I1RL
More New Marks Set in TweW
Months Just Ended Than in
Any Previous Year.
GREAT SPEED PERFORMANCES
Triumphs for Automobilists, Runners
and Racers on the-Turf.
CHANGES IN PUGD0MS ASPECT
Abe Attell Alone Remains of the 014
Guard of the Decade.
FIRST TWO-MINUTE TROTTER
Vlhan First to Mnhe Time Wltheag
Artificial Aid F.vana Loads In
the Weatera Associa
tion Golf.
The year haa cloaed after a ramarkabla
success of striking record In the natlon'a ,
sport and athletlo diversion. Never he
fore ha the hist for peed and deal re to
axcell been conspic-uoosly apparent.. More
record have fallen before tha onslaught
of M0 than In any twelve month period
before.
From that date early In the year when
Barney Oldfleld fairly launched himself
through apace and went thundering over
a measured mile In his BUtren Bent car
with the speed of a projectile, record ot
one kind or another have been falling
with a persistency that haa not ' become
monotonous for the reason that almoot
without exception they have borne the
tamp of unquestioned merit end marked
a conspicuous advance. Practically every
automobile record from one mile to W)
miles was smashed, while on track and
field. In swimming and light harness rac
ing Father Time was treated with scant
respect.
Barney Oldfleld traveled faster than any
living thing except a teal duck, when
ha guided hla automobile over the sand
course at Ormonde beach In the remark
able time of 27.83 . seconds, or at the rate
of speed of 131.73 miles an hour. Melvln
W. Sheppard ran 1.000 yards In I:U"H,
faster than was dreamed of since the days
of Lon Meyers. Uhlan trotted one mile
without artificial help of any kind. In tha
amazing time of IU.9. and so took his
place at the forefront of the light harness
turf. .
These three mark stand out in a bold
way from the many which were estab
lished and are mentioned at this point, to
give them the prominence they so. well
deserve in a recapitulation of the sport
of the. year that, today will have passed
Into history. Two other men also should
ba referred to Charles M. Daniel, who
established several new awtmraing rec
ord, and George' V. Bon hag. who broke
many long distance running marks. .
. Before taking up . the leading sport In
aa few word a possible to emphasise the
outstanding feature, a prophecy msy be
made 'for the future. If the sign point
aright the year ,1911 will prove quite aa
fruitful and quite a striking on track and
field,, on diamond and gridiron, on harbor
and streams, and even In the air, for truly,
the time Is coming. If it Is not at hand,
when the sky pilot will demand a wel
come recognition in the realm of sport.
Boxing;.
James J. Jeffries, the former heavy
weight champion, went' down to defeat be
fore the superior ability of Jack Johnson,
the giant negro, after an unequal fight
which lasted fourteen . round on the sun
scorched plains of Reno last July 4. Bat
tling Nelson lost his title as lightweight
champion of the world to Ad Wolgaat In a
atubbom fight which lasted forty . rounds,
while Ketchel, the middleweight champion
and one of the greatest fighters of the
day, waa the victim of an assassin's bullet.
The defeat of Jeffries and Nelson marked
tha paaslng of all except one of the old
guard fighters of the decade. Abe Attell,
the featherweight, stands alone on tha
pinnacle to which he battled hla way over
om of the greateat little men the aport
ever produced-Gane, Erne, McFadden.
MePartland, Lavlgne. Fitxalmmons, Oorbett
and McCoy, all good fighters-have pasted
out.
Harvard Beat at. root Ball.
Harvard waa . awarded the foot hall
championship of the east, though held to a
tie In the annual game with Yale. The
Crimson began the season with a rush and
had one of the best elevens In Its history.
In the west Michigan, by humiliating the
protegee of Coach Williams of Minneapolis
In the closing game of ibe year. I'ntll
this game the Gophers looked like the best .
machine In the weat, but the ' superior
hand of Fielding Yost thrust out a stinging
blow to the northern school. Nebraska was
crowned champion of the Missouri valley
conference. It suffered but a slnala de
feat during the season, that being at tha
hands of Minnesota. Ths Cornhuskers were
tne strongest In years. Foot ball all over
the west was of sn Inferior grade, due to
poor coaching more than to the revised
rules. v .
Baao Ball.
For the first time since the Chicago
White Bog defeated the Chicago Cubs, m
1006,- the world's championship series was
won by an American league team. The
Philadelphia Athletics, under the guidance
of Connie Mack, defeated Frank Chance's
Cubs four out of five games with hardly
an effort. The American league stars clev
erly outplayed tha National league pennant
winner In all departments of the gam.
It waa a case of age against young blood.
and youth had all tha better of It. Cbl
cagoa pitchere were hit right and left by
the Philadelphia sluggers, - while Mack's
twlrlera held tha Chicago batters safe at
II atagea.
The work of two playera stood out above
all others In the series. Jtk Cor, nibs did
the bulk of the twirling for tha Uhu.
Klephants and did it In a way to stama
him one of the greatest pitchers of hia
time. Kddle Collins wsa second only to
Coombs aa tha hero of the series. Hla
work at second base waa spectacular, and
at the bat and on the base ha was In a
claaa by tilnmelf.
Track At hie I Irs.
Far and away the beat work In IK10 was
done by the two runners, George V.' Bon
hag and Melvln W. Kheppard, both mem
ber of the I rteh-American Athletic club.
Between them they set up new marks
at almost every distance from 600 yards to
five miles. Bhepoard found Harry Glesing
a worthy rival, but carried off most of the
middle distance honors, while Bonha waa