The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-11

captaincy Of How
ard Sloan, met the
..--.. e.-.- University Of
Michigan team at
Ann Arbor, that-the innovation was
tried in the west. The last half of this
match has just been finished at Chi
cago. It is not many years ago that
golf was an unheard-of sport among
western universities, but the gradual
spread of the game among the prepar-
atory schools has tended to bring il
more and more into collegiate life.
The annual conference meet among
the western colleges, recently held st
Chicago, was won by the boys from
Ann Arbor and furnished some excit-
ing sport for the "rooters." The VIC
tory gives Michigan permanent possess
sion of the famous Spalding trophy,
thus realizing long cherished hope.
as the college has now been victorious
for the third successive time. The
meet proved the closest in years, Mich
igan scoring 40 points to Chicago's 40,
Wisconsin finishing poor third with
but ten points. In the east Yale won
the intercollegiate championship cup
in most exciting meet by half point
from Harvard. The result of the meet
was in doubt until the running of tho
last event, which was the 220-yard
dash, and the finish was SO close that
the crimson have filed protest
against the decision of the judges.
In the lawn tennis field the pros.
poets are very bright for successful
season, and the list Of tournaments
that will be held throughout the coun-
try is large. In the western intercol-
legiate tournament, recently held at
Chicago, Michigan was victorious in
both the singles and doubles, st. John,
of Michigan, FORGETTING the singles to
Danforth, of Michigan, who was cham
pion last year. st. John and Lee, Of
Michigan, won the doubles from the
Wisconsin pair, Morley and Garnett.
BASEBALL.
College baseball in the west is about
over for the present season and tho
University of Illinois team has again
been returned the winner. The univer-
sity has always turned out fast team,
one that has been able to hold their
own with the best college teams in the
east, which fact was demonstrated
when the team trimmed both the Har-
ward and Pennsylvania mines year or
two ago.
The franchise of the Anderson, Ind,
baseball team in the Central league has
been transferred to Grand Rapids,
Mich.
It is reported that "Rube' Waddell,
the eccentric and star pitcher of tho
Philadelphia Athletics, will tired be-
hind the footlights next season, APP
pearing in the melodrama, "The Stain
of Guilt" just what position he will
play in the production is not yet
known. s 10
Prof. Joseph j. Thomson, Of Game
bridge college, England, recently gave
the following explanation Of curved
pitched ball: "The ball follows its
nose, SO to speak. Hit leaves the pftch-
er's hand revolving downward on q
horizontal axis, it is bound to drop. If
1t leaves revolving upward on hori-
zontal axis, it follows its nose and
rises. When the ball travels on ver-
tical axis, with an inward revolution,
the inshoot is caused. The outdrop il
! the result of the balls travelling on q
slanting axis, with an outward revolu-
tion, and so on. The axis and revolu-
tions are determined by the manner Of
the spheres leaving the pitchers hand,
and there you are.