New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-17
IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS.
FACTS FOR AMATEURS AND PROBES
SIGNALS.
REPORT OF AN AMERICAN TEAM FOR THIS
CITY DISCREDITED-HCRLEY TO
RIDE ABROAD NOTES
AND COMMENT.

RIDE ABROAD NOTES
AND COMMENT.
As she season changes the talk that the Ameri-
can League is 10 place rival baseball team in this
CITY continues. but yet there is no evidence to
support the assertion made regularly by r B.
Jahnson the president Of the rival Of the National
League. and his friends. Scouts OF the National
League have personally Investigated many plots on
Manhattan Island. and have made many detours
through The Bronx They have reported that II
viii be impossible 10 get desirable grounds on the
Island and that conditions in The Bronx are about
as SiscoUragng- Rumors are circulated about every
week that Nj Johnson has again gone 10 New
York and that he has closed ARRANGEMENTS for
grounds which VIII prove 70 be as accessible 10
baseball patrons either the Polo Grounds or Man
haitian Field These reports circulated regu-
larry throughout the West. and. as the conditions
n his city are not so well known there as here
more or less credence is given 10 reports. II Mr
Johnson has been in this city often his
friends declared. he would nave spent more than
half his time here in the last few months. Man
haitian slaEo IS tu OF BASEBALL enthusiasts. Yet so
ar as can be leaned none of them have even seen
Is said that several OF the American League club
owners We're IN the city last week and that they
for The purchasing Of The Detroit club 50 ;bsf II
might be transferred 10 P'rtsburg another strong
Nauolal League city This las assertion Insy a
he American League m cials have abandoned the
iaee q paens a IAN here: ana instead VIII De
burg; where suitable grounds are more plentiful
signed 10 play with an American League team here
are known 70 have signed with National League
league team. is only one Of them
From present indications the coming automobile
show al Madison Square Garden Will be the most
interesting exhibit OF the sort ever seen in this
country The manufacturers in the last year made
gigantic strides in this practically new industry
and many models will be shown which will illus
rrste this fact. Some Of the manufacturers are
keeping as quiet about their models as the
bicycle makers did few years ago just previous
10 the annual exhibits The rules that gaso-
lene mast be removed from all machines before
TIE xbbirors as Js - st any SG1eo IN
not only eliminate 70 certain extent an element
Of danger. but viii DO away with doors and much
and out % the amphitheatre in the course OF the
similar models outside Of the building so that
those who wish 10 test the different makes OF
opportunity The American makers are interested
n a scheme invented oy German abroad which
Of power is obtained by so-cailed friction wheels
a H Wright. OF the New West Side A c. who
did so We'll IN the running contests at the Amateur
Athletic Union championships is son OF the Rev.
J. Il Wright Of Portglenone County Antrim.
Wright won several important races abroad before
coming 10 this country two years ago Wright
part in the English championships. He is twenty
three years Of age and is six feet two inches in
height
Marcus L. Hurley. OF che NeW-1ork Athletic
Club. who this year the amateur cycling
championship for the second time intends entering
the international championships al Copenhagen.
Denmark. next year. Hurley has made record IN
The last three years which compares favorably with
the fine work done by the ex-champon. Frank l.
Kramer. OF East Orange. In 1896 Hurley captured
TWENTY-FIVE frsts. three seconds and three thirds.
IN 1901 he made an even better record winning for
ry-seven races. finishing second three times and
tHlTa TOUR tines This year Hurley was seldom out
q the prize list lie won hfty-three races. finishing
second ten times and third seven times. Hurley
IS also good handball and basketball player. and
the latter sport.
Squash bail il ere Of the recent developments -
The general lawn tennis family. Il appears that
hves originated by playing a tennis ball with the
hand against wall lines laid out for a tennis
court This game is stiIl used more or less. Later
wooden bat used. and the game
called bar hves- Subsequent evolution in the
eeEeop1ent OF racket Ike tennis racket ex-
and ten ounces. Eventually sidewalks. backwall
IN ms form il was called rackets Squash is played
m racket court and IS really variation OF that
colleges. A single squash court is now being con-
structed On the roof Of the city house OF the New
York Athletic Club.
after years Of discussion as 70 who is really the
best professional pool player in America the matter
seems about be settled in the proposition OF Car
ence E Green, who viii hold a sweepstakes tourna-
Aaent next month in the Montauk Academy, Brook
lyn Mr. Green proposes that the players deposit
- each on making an entry and he will add 500.
az o. which be divided into FIVE prizes OF $780,
40, 800 So and So The menI will be lin
iec % ten PLAYERS and preliminary contest will
who co not compete in the main contests Will
ceire their entrance money back Two games Of
p points VIII be played each night
What the motor bicycle means in emergency Is
illustrated by an instance detailed IN the English
papers Being called 70 attend a case of lockjaw.
the physician found that the town at which
me necessary serum could be obtained sixty
six miles distant As neither the mail nor the ex-
press could fetch il within thrty-siX hours. he
mounted his motor bicycle obtained the remedy
and reached the bedside Of his patient in time
save his life having ridden the 10 miles In less than
six hours.
The common idea that the recent Cambridgeshire
IN England. was q record TO time is incorrect.
because the course this year some yards
shorter than that over which Berrill won. Neither
Was y a record in point OF the ODDS since Wealth
GROUND, who IN 1850 started az the same price
as Ballaufrae-9 10 4.
The nineteenth annual show Of the New-England
Kennel Club VIII be held in the Mechanics Build
ing Boston, February p 20 IS
Since the lawmakers OF New-York State took
hand and prevented the wholesale slaughter OF
pigeons. some Of the old Long Island clubs have
secured new club grounds IN New-Jsrsey- Several
matches have been arranged 10 take place at the
oid Guttenburg racetrack
NEW YACHT FOR "BORAK KING"