The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-24
CURRENT SPORTING TALK.
REASONS WHY I'M BIAS SPORTS
SHOULD BE BOOKED.

Upiveruiy-Auethe Vars About von dor
Ahe on the Besoh = stssr's Reason fer
CHANGING the Football Scoring Relies.
II President Bangs Of the Columbia univer-
pity Athletic Union can be convinced that the
engagement Of q college athletic ground. such
a. could be provided by Manhattan Field, would
not incur indebtedness. he may be induced TO
more seriously consider q question that 10
looked upon with extreme favor by many OF the
students and alumni. As Columbia has never
plunged deeply into athletics before and has
therefore not gained experience In the POSSIBLE
tiles Of gate receipts, the project for leasing q
big ground at q largo rent naturally does not
seem feasible to Mr.. Bangs. With no regular
college ground on Manhattan Island and no
representative college baseball and football
teams which the public would like to support
with liberal patronage, the big universities Of
Yale, Harvard. Princeton, Cornell. University
of Pennsylvania, and others have had few COCA
sions to visit this city, except in occasional
pames between themselves, which have also
been abolished by the faculties edict against
playing contests except on college ground
Il In therefore argued that IL Columbia can 30
cure such q ground and can place o baseball, q
football, and q track team In the field that can
arrange competitions in these sports with Yale.
Harvard. Princeton. Cornell. University OF
Pennsylvania, and other teams. sufficient pub
lie interest will DO worked up to mako large
cate receipts, and therefore cover all expenses.
President Bangs, talking with Thu Sun re-
porter the other day. said that the extrcme DIFF.
fculty he had experienced In raising q few
thousand dollars to defray the expenses Of the
crews last year had not been forgotten, and
that was tho chief reason why he believed that
to branch out further in athletics would In
crease rather than diminish the unions hnan-
cfal obligations. But the difficulty In raising
this money. 1t will be recalled, was due to the
fact that the students were asked to put their
hands in their pockets and make up tho amount.
At Yale, Harvard. Cornell. and University Of
Pennsylvania tho crows arc supported by the
money made out Of baseball and football. These
two sports are profitable at almost every uni.
versity where they. are played. Columbia,
without them, has naturally experienced trou-
therefore are Llu aStr sSar as 5eaSoR aa, az Erg I'll
less do well financially with the big colleges as
baseball opponents at q local field. where the
games, such as Columbia has just arranged with
Cornell, would also be popular. to say nothing
all such events would not begin to be SO attrao-
tive as q series Of football games with the elev.
ground" here: last fall kept away all except
i iGs Ind India sSs% Was a"P played 4 q the the Polo Grounds,
and the gross receipts Of that affair amounted
e sRe s' seT s YofiG SSsl THAT ss se si Rh2sf snS saI ssss
to pay for good football.
The training. of Columbia's baseball, oandi-
dates has awakened some interest In the uni.
yorsity, but there will be far more of It when
t dents sa are four srA players sas !ShS; have aaO already q dis dis.
tinguished themselves in the baseball world.
who. as Yale's pitcher . few years ago, was The
s talk as of b the s iSSinfife5ry 70 d as l. an 9aI pls9 a ea1l d BlSssr
roaitfnp nutaida Of the hoy Dr0vad. Coach
George Davis says that II he car. induce Car
ter to I play on he SsI team IN tS This .y yer, he Ss can ed tmrn
fui work at HaeEensaoE last year attracted
the box for Columbia this year. summersgil.
At ecaoSltnmmdb5iap ''Q He is a spiendid ali.aroSsn;d play iaSc
er. and can. cover any infeld position. He Is
s Slss { ba .ssf fo a90 the 3 gias1fi; last eSs! Year. Tn sn ala Who
was, wanted by, Arthur Irwin for the New
6 GSTas ia 1872 50 that u i e c sGuf 81 seem Rs1sa that a'{cs oao &
Davis has q remarkable nucleus for Q good
s @So viii There be- ds STs %spE IN t thine. expert '0S''r'
Here's another story at the expense Of the
Chris sat on the players bench, and watched
man went to the bat, and q man was on first
base. Chris levelled the glasses at him, and
G ehHqse exc dohseaif in a ~ hoar Sse WHISPER ae'' away
= nNG' p .;I aGGsmi p ss@ f RSat H fss sa1l;n s,a not
hard at the bali. He missed It, and Chris,
still looking through the glasses whispered;
IN .Mei nu G9tt' vat arc you PAID Ter EN- funt'
Again Houseman gwiped at the ball instead
frantic. Still the herman gszed through the
glasses, and whispered angrily: -,
put on I'd der @O ane5p. ur Punt. You 70 b1m tb% bali pisyeri
AlI-a IT. z-i-.a - A..
bail as Il he was trying to Knock It over the
fence. and was declared out on strikes. When
the player came to the bench Chris was be-
IT didn't hear you say a word" explained
Then somebody suggested that Chris had
P pisssss. pTTe od dsyr % e Df fSdSsSt b Ry ali the Svd field d
S moment and ISn then asi as She he walked pIIifedav away ~ from OMIT the
bench he was heard to remark:
we'll, l get new glasses!'
The change that is considered to be tho best
Sdot thSSo s gsfa 3 to by A. tfe A. W s.asg in 6aS new
ten by Stage reads this way:
goal from nsld kick; q goal from !, place kick, 8;
This rule is accompanied by the following
concise explanation:
Tho present table of scoring is unfair. By it It Is
the score OF anorher team superior in everything eT.
cept goal kicking. 1t is too much to allow two points
for a goal from q touchdown. and q goal from the
neld should certainly rarely merit counting more
RSeasier to make than a drop Kick or toaeh atSSG r and
should not count as much.
Instead of making a rule permitting the quar-
ter back run with the ball, Stagg has further
restricted that player, by compelling him to ao-
tually surrender the ball 70. another player in
stead OF simply touching him with the ball, a
trick that makes the quarter back the supposed
third man" It is to be hoped that the regu-
lar Football Rules Committee at its coming
meeting here will give additional power to the
quarter backs instead of further handicapping
them. as Stage proposes to do.
Corbett expresses the fear that Mccoy, Fitz-
simmons and Stuart have entered into a com.
bination to do him. The excitable "Pompa-
dour'' declares that Stuart has put up McCoy's
$4,000 and that II Mccoy finally claims the
be matched against .Ftzsimmons. Wild state.
ments OF this sort, have been emanating from
Corbett so frequently OF late that many ;wearied
''Where does he do his snokingl, Some day