The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-05
SPORTING CHIT CHAT.

over and on the whole 1t has been most
successful and satisfactory. There
have been several new and praise
worthy features developed, and the
game itself has been strictly improved
by the new rules. Perhaps the most
important point-because it was the
point on which the life of the game de-
pended in some cOlleges-is that lack of
roughness that has characterized the
game was conspicuous because of alb
sence of unnecessary rOughness all
through the match. Rosengarten, of
Princeton, was not disqualified to serve
as an example to the rest of the team,
or as check to any rough play that
might be going on. He was dlsQuali-
fled because he broke the rules. And
In breaking the rules he made himself
conspicuous by contrast with the rest
OF the team. The same absence of rough
play on the part of a whole team was
marked feature of the other big
games. In fact, the year has been sin
gularly free from a feature of foot ball
which has made the game a by-word
with newspapers heretofore. and with
a large class Of people who knew it
from observation or from hearsay.. If
one year Of the sport has accomplished
this change, and If the change becomes
permanent, then the season Of 1896 has
done great deal for the game.
The English racing authorities are
beginning to dlscredlt some of the re-
markably fast times credited to John
8. Johnson. Regarding his one mile
record Of 1 minute A 1-5 seconds, the
Cyclist says: lowing to the extra early
arrival Of mail from America last week
we were enabled to publish an account
of j. s. Johnson's wonderful ride of
1.760 yards in 1.44 1-5. The figures read
so surprisingly that our own statistician
subjected them to the scrutiny Of Sec
tional analysis. After riding the first
4s0 yards In 20 1-5 seconds, he rode the
next third of the distance at nearly
double that speed, only taking AS Sec
Onds for LAG yards feet, or at the rate
of q mile in 81 3-5 seconds. This will
want lot OF explaining as the first
quarter was so slow; the time keepers
most likely muffed the first quarter by
ut least three seconds. which ought to
have gone on to the next or one-third
stage. Even this alteration would
make the first (fiying start be 1t re-
memberedD quarter mile gait of one
minute A As seconds, and the next Sec
ond one-twelfth OF a mile gait of /
minute 33 3-5 seconds. A misplace of
spectively l minute 40 AS seconds and
minute 45 3-5 seconds-about what
they would be. Then from the half to
the two-thirds there Is a sudden rise in
the speed rates of II seconds per mile,
followed by sudden slump Of nearly
double that per mile, followed by
Guickening Of nearly ten seconds per
mile in the last quarter. Now, the me-
chanical-like pacing of the two quads
would never make such eccentric and
jagged speed rates, and, great rider as
johnson Is, we do not believe he or any
other man, living or dead. can or could
onds."
Captain Wilmington announces that
Lorin F. Deland will be chief of the
Harvard corps of foot ball coaches for
the coming year. J. ]. Ryan, '97, of
North Adams, has been chosen captain
of Williams foot ball team for '96. Ryan
has played right end for two seasons
and Is one Of the best all around players
in the New England Intercollegiate
Foot Ball association. At meeting
ball captain for Lafayette college for
the season OF '96 George B. Walbridge
was unanimously elected. He has
played right half-back on the Lafayette
eleven during the past two seasons and
his work has always been Of a high
order. He is quick and a very heavy
player. and Lafayette men feel conf
dent Of his ability to develop a success
full team.
Two worlds bicycle records were
broken ct Cheyenne. Wyo, Tuesday
John Green rode mile In 1 minute 25
seconds fiat on q straightaway course
with flying start, and unpaced, beating
the worlds record, held by Mcleod, of
1873 2-5. Charles Erswell rode a mile in
I minute 40 seconds fiat, standing start.
urpaced, straightaway road course.
breaking the best time recorded
2.04 2-5. Several hundred persons wit
messed the trial, which was with wind
blowing twenty-elght miles an hour di-
rectly upon the backs of the riders. l..
A, w. timekeepers and judges officiated,