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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-05
SPORTING COMMENT.
Nesrs and Tic1cs on Current Topics,
Amateur and Professional.

Tho outdoor season is fairly st hand. II VIII
be two or three wrecks before The indoor sports
Will be given up entirely Tor she more attractive
ones 81 the open asr. sat the tiSne VIII be short
The baseball men are the irst 20 take the heia.
Tie Giants snd several other teams arc already
IN the South hard at work. and the Biehlsndefs
the training carnpo viii serve 70 keep the fans
interested sntn tie regular exhibition sa''es
begin The plsy-on az the tie FOR the Amateur
Hockey League championship between the Sres-
cent and New-Nork Athletic Club sevens the
Motor Boat and Sporssuan's show at Madison
Square Garden. which ends on Thursday, and
so-ae indoor ssrneS wi,l 20 the most important
happenings this week There was much 10 aniuse
and entsrsSin lsst week with the Spo-tsnans
Show-ehs figure skating championship. won
by Irving RroksU. hockey, bowling. Billiards.
,acquets sra Indoor lawn tennis. The third
meeting OF tie football rules committee gave
followers a. this branch % sport something moro
think and talk about TWO indoor champion
ships were decided. Percy ID. Haughton. or the
Boston Racquet and Tennis Club. and an old
Harvard athlete won the national amateur
racquet championship by defeating Payne WHIT
hey, OF the New York Racquet ana TENNIS Club.
IN q hard uphill hght. Wylie c. Grant earned
the other title by defeating Edwin p. Fisher for
the indoor lawn tennis championship In straight
sets. Grant the merits Of his play al
though Isshe- made a game struggle. but
r1Rughton. while deserving the more credit per-
hEps for pulling what looked like losing game
out OF the fire. n n lucky TO win.
?ayns Whitney played the better game. all things
considered As indoor lawn tennis player
Grant has few II any equals in this country and
place on the grass and turf courts when the
outdoor season IS on.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-05
OFF FOR. BIRMINGHAM.
american Leaguers Will Start To-
dan for the Sunny South.

The members Of the New-York American
League team who are here will leave town TO-
day for Birmingham Ala. where the spring
training will be done The party will consist
of Chesbro, Leroy. Thomas DouGherty. keeier
and GARRISON
Conroy will join the team at Philadeipni"'
while Williams will be picked up at washington
and Orth at Lynchburg. Va. Ellerfeid' Euuio
Hahn Noodles Hahn. Newton, Mcclure anu
Kleinow who have been training for some tlfhe
at Hot Springs will go direct to the training
camp.
Chase is on his way East from San Jose Cai'
and Hogg will come on at once from Pueoio'
Col Bobby Keefe and James Whalen. the TWO
new nitchers left San Francisco last week
Iaporte who was signed from Buffalo Will go
TO birmingham direct from Uhrichsvilie ONO
and TEN Hughes will come on from Iopeha,
Kan Moriarty. the new Toledo player, Will
start South from Chicago, and Delenanty VIII
set out from Cleveland ~,
Griffith will have twenty-four men at BIT
minEham In a few days and VIII keep theiii
there until March 81. All the men have become
members of the Birmingham Athletic Cluo. so
that they can make OF the gymnasium
shower and plunge baths and the lockers
Exhibition games will be played at Birmins-
ham every Wednesday, Thursday ana FRIDAY
until the Americans leave there for Atlanta on
April l. where they will remain for week or
when they play a game on April I'D at Lyhch-
burg. which is Orths home.
The team will show up FOR the nrst tlnle tnIs
year at American League Park on April Il TOT
a game with the Providence team the chaIn-
pions of the Eastern League, and VIII also NEE,
the Newark team the following day. On April
ii they will begin the championship race mere
with the Boston Americans
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-05
MUSCLE rs. GASOLINE.
Canoes VII Engage in Trg-of-War
7ith Launch at Garden.

There will be four days more Of the motor boat
ana sportsman's show at Madison Square Garden
the exhibition closing Thursday night The finals
In the water sports will be the feature during thu
next rev days. and for tonight tug of-war OF a
decidedly novel character is scheduled
Sixteen men in four canoes will naddIs asa,,.,
the buster Brown launch. The canoes will be tied
tose'her with ropes with four mon in each canoe
Norhhs me paddles. while the pilot OF the Buster
sIowh VIII try to go the other way
scheduled for the next few DAYS ana ,r,,h .aoo
prize at stake the sport sure to be interesting
paViu l. Aoererombie the fisherman. ana I'D
waru Lane as the man fish, will have another
land fhs CI, liSsht when Abercrombie will try tn
Tue lily island life saver with rod arS =. -
races and raGes swimming matches and mattress
au exhibitions of life saving nv the Ifrtta5
tnne5 volunteer Life Saving Corps viii be- con.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-05
CRESCENT A. G. YACHTING.
seventy-Footers May Race in Some of the
Club Regattas This Summer.

An overhaulng of the names OF the members or
the Crescent Athletic Club reveals the fact that one
hundred OF them yacht owners. SO that the
recently formed yachting department of the cIuo,
under the direction of Arthur F. Adridge, promises
TO start off with flying colors when the season
opens.
At the last meeting OF the Yacht Racing Associa-
ton OF Gravesend Bay the club received date for
Its first race. 1t will be sailed on juno 30 over
courses in the bay of the clubhouse.
j. Rogers Maxwelrs crack 7o-footer Yankee IS
OF the yachts enrolled. and IL IS more than
likely that William X. Vanderbilt, Jr.. may be in
duced to enter the Virginia. w. Ross Proctor the
Mineola and Cornelius Vanderbilt the Rainbow IN
some Of the races
1t is certain that many of the New-York Yacht
Clubs 30-foot class will be IN the races for
Harry Maxwelrs Phryne, the Hanans Nautilus
and several others are owned by members OF the
club. J. B. o Donohues new boat for that class Is
to be named the Crescent There Is also being built
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-05
FINN HOLDS MAROCZY.
Drazcs zcith Hungarian Chess Cham
piOn. Who Defeats FOr.

Two games were finished by Geza Maroczy. the
Hungarian chess champion. IN his series at the
Manhattan Chess Club yesterday. one with A w.
Fox begun Saturday night, and the other with
Julius Finn The visitor won the game with Fox
after ffty-fve moves. but Finn held his adversary
down 70 a draw after forty
In the game with Fox the latter played the Ruy
Lopez Maroczy resorting to the Bird defence of
g. Kt-Q5. In consequence of his opening tactics.
Fox's pawns on the queens side of the board be-
came much weakened. and eventually fell prey to
the Hungarians queen. This left the latter with a
winning ending.
Finn had the move against the visitor. and chose
the Four knights Opening. Exact play enabled
Finn to meet every attempt of MarocZy to estab-
lish an attack and position finally resulted where
neither player, with bishops of opposite color on
the board could afford do than play for
safety. A truce then declared.
This evening Major Hanham will oppose the eX-
pert from Budapest in the final game of the series.
The dntn He'd ccnrac Of tha turn games fnlinp.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-05
BOWLERS NEAR FINISH.
Last Week of athletic League
Series Finds Leaders Bunched.

With the end OF the Athletic Bowling League
series only a week off. the final outcome Of both
team and individual honors remains in doubt. At
present the Roseville Athletic Association flve win
of the title for the last two years. has g two
game lead the New-York Athletic Club. The
former has won twenty-five games and lost eleven
while New-York has won twenty three and lost
thirteen
In many respects the struggle between these two
the championship has been by the other,
and during nearly all the time the personnel of
these rival forces has remained pretty much the
same
Years ago the names of Clute, Arnold Breen.
Klingelhoffer and Beam associated with New
York Athletic Club bowling Sherwood Is the only
recent acquisition. over Roseville way Person.
Meyer. Wood and Van Ness have represented the
Roseville Athletic Association IN Athletic League
championship battles since back in the sos. 1t
speaks volumes for the ability of the veterans on
places year after year in the face OF hundreds OF
RBplr6ntS.
teams has been creditable and there is no telling
now which will eventually succeed in gaining third
place. They at present tied, with twenty games
won and nineteen lost, but when 1t comes to team
average and high total Elizabeth easily shows the
way, with an average of SSS and high score Of
SlS.22 and high score of lob
In the individual average race the beginning of
the final week finds the leaders closely gathered to-
with 1871, but is only a trife more than point
ahead of West of Elizabeth Wood and Van Ness
Chief intsrest in this weeks bowling is centred
In the postponed series to-nigh: between New-Yorl
and Roseville, on the formers alleys, To overcome
Rosevilles advantage New York will have TO do
most of the winning Tonight Thursday night all
will roll the final games. The individual and
team records to date are as follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-05
TO BOOM LAWN TENNIS.
Plan to Recruit Players from School
boa Ranks.

An innovation of considerable Importance is to De
tried by the lawn tennis organization this season
in endeavor to recruit the top class or players
The scheme is to hold series of tournaments for
the boys of the public schools and high schools,
and then have the winning players of each series
meet for the championship title. This is the same
manner In which the interscholastlo championships
are decided by the lawn tennis associations OF inc
various colleges and universities each year. whch
usually brings out youths who have qualifed from
the Yale Harvard Columbia. Pennsylvania and
other meetings.
The idea in measure was forced upon the execu-
tive committee of the United States Nationai Lawn
Tennis Association when seeking competitors for
the American team that will strive to return the
Dwight F. Davis International Challenge Cup 10
this country this year. After much correspondence
it was found that at best only few men were avai-
able and that these few lacked even good second
rate support. Raymond D. Little. of the west sloe
Lawn Tennis Club. and Frederick G. Anderson, OF
the Kings County Lawn Tennis Club OF BROOKLYN
realized the urgent need of bringing out new men,
not only to strengthen the international teams OF
future years for the Davis cup Is perpetual
trophy but also to raise the standard OF the many
championships and sectional tournaments Oh this
country
n "a MANNED to hold the first series OF tourna-
ments for the schoolboys this season In this city
and TO have every section represented oy as many
players as possible. The Metropolitan Lawn 1enhlS
League, which has accomplished such e1ceAenl
in the last two years Will u4ieCl lho 1O---s>
j ments and the matches will be played on the
courts of the clubs that members OF that Or
ganzation.
The list Of clubs In the Metropolitan League m
cludes the Kings County Lawn Tennis Ciuo tne
New-York Athletic Club. the Crescent Alhieuc
Club the West Side Lawn Tennis Club. the New
York Lawn Tennis Club the Hamilton Grange
Lawn Tennis Club, the Siwanoy Lawn Tennis Clue,
the Knickerbocker Field Club. the Englewood Field
Club and the Montclair Athletic Club This list
will probably be Increased by two other clubs this
season.
Indirectly the national association VIII be asked
to further the project Of bringing the schoolooys
into the sport in the manner that the Ensilsh
Lawn Tennis Association is now DONG IN Nolu n
The Britons have also awakened 70 the lacI e,a'
fresher and stronger material must be developed.
The plans will be discussed at the annual niee.,
ing Of the Metropolitan League this week, and then
brought before the national association, Mltl
view to promoting similar tournaments In Boston
md CShirsgo 1t is the most important movement
that the players OF this city have ever
and promises to advance interest in the sport 10
widespread degree.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-05
Plan FIELD HOSPITAL.
Ne1C Organization To Be Attached
to n. q. n. Y.

An important step for the benefit Of the medical
department OF the New-York National Guard will
be the formation OF field hospital, TO be attached
TO the National Guard Headquarters. Orders for ts
organization will be issued in a few DAYS This
hospital. It is believed. will greatly improvs
the facilities for caring for the sick or wounded
when the National Guard is called out for camp
service or riot duty.
The field hospital will conform TO army method,
far the state service will permit and will
not in any way interfere with the present reg.
mental hospital corps. which will remain un-
changed. The field hospital will be great aid TO
the regimental organizations in many ways and
can supply them with medical supplies such as
drugs, dressings. etc, when they run short. Not
the least important work OF the field hospital will
be it's aid the regmentaI hospital corps in caring
for the sick injured All sick men in care o,
the regimental hospital who may not have recoy-
cred after twenty-four hours can be turned over
to the field hospital. is done in the army. Tbs
field hospital will then be responsible for the sick
injured, and II men are unable TO be removed
20 permanent city hospital they will be cared for
IN the field until recovered. and a regiment will
not be loaded down with sick injured men.
The field hospital Will be equipped with all the
latest government supplies. such ambulaacss.
wagons. stretchers. cots. etc. II will consist 'or
the present OF four officers and forty-six enlisted
men, The latter. who must be Of superior irtsH-
gence, will be enlisted for five years. The con-
handing officer will be surgeon with the rank o.
major. and the other commissioned officers vii %
three assistant surgeons with the rank OF captain
Among the enlisted men will be the proper quoia
of hospital sergeants, men instructed in diet coos,
ing and ordinary cooking, trained nurses. etc. anu
also a sergeant who must be a pharmacist
All that medical science has learned in me Has ~.
japanese War will be taken into account by ,1s
new field hospital. and il will have portaos
laboratory. whereby water. food, ground, etc, Gan
be examined in order 10 prevent disease. New
York. IL is believed. Will be the first state 20 %
equipped with such device. and the orgailI4IiiU5
Itself will be advance on anything or Is All-
yet attempted by state force II can oe sas'H
expanded. In addition to thorough instruction /. \.
medical duties. each will be instructed - -
Workmanship, with and without saddles, ana ~
state will make proper allowance for this ana ue'
expenses of the organization. - .,+
DR.. William s. Terriherry, OF the 18th HesilsiIS5
who served as a medical officer in the war w. W.
Spain. II is understood. will command me ~ NJ
field hospital tie will pro6ao bly, De ASSISTED. "a
William F. Butler OF the sd Regiment, ana y -.
A. Neal late of the 7th Regiment. The tnHU -
sistant has not vet been determined.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-05
FOOTBALL.

The American intercollegiate Football Rules
conirritte. has all bui completed its labors. At
the meet:ag Saturday further steps were
taken so TO revise the rules to free the game
from its many evil ways. and. far be
judged. until there IS q practical demonstration
~ ectual line up, the commtrss has done its
work We'll. There are. Of course still many the
cries 10 better methods for reforming the
game. but it IS safe to say that not one but has
heen carefully and thoroughly thrashed out by
the fourteen men. who well qualified TO know
the needs and low best TO meet them without
changing the game as 20 make IL unreco8niz-
able as American college football. There is and
has been harmony in the committee. although
one or more have advocated more drastic
changes. Homer Curtis. who represents Texas,
s. one who wanted all chance OF mass plays
killed by requiring that seven men be always in
TIE line Of scrirnmage on the offence Professor
Dennis. Of Cornell freely says. and a majority
OF the committee believes with him. that the
changes have made mass plays improbable
without, however, limiting the attack and going
10 the other extreme. The changes on Satur-
DAY were not so radical as those OF The previous
meetings, but they were none the less lmpoItaHL
and necessary and are bound 10 make for good.
The abolition Of hurdling wise provision
and the definition Of holding and the penalties
for the same viii do much 10 make the game
cleaner and free from unnecessary roughness'
There has always been a rule against holding.
but IL was overlooked and eVaded in every game
played except in pronounced cases where the
hands were used. The locking with the elbow or
knee which put a man mOmentarily out of the
1)lav long enough oftentimes to accomplish the
I,urpose has now been legislated against The
catcher of a punt has been better protected, al
though here the committee might have gone fur
lher
The shortening Of the game ten minutes hve
minutes in each half, was good move, and the
provision that ball cannot be advanced by a
kick along the ground after it has been fumbled
IS for the best. as preventing lot Of scrabbling
and the danger of injury TO player who may
ne falling on the ball just another man makes
. Wild kick AT il All things considered, it looks
as if the game had been reformed and that one
cannot hut agree with the com nittee, which be-
lieves that mass plays viii be conspicuous by
,beir absence that the game will be cleaner and
that il will be open and more interesting.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-05
SOME LOCAL G0LFING DATES.
Leighton Calkins Announces Times and
Places of NJ. G. a. Tournaments.

Leighton Calkius. secretary Of the Metropolitan
Golf Association. has allotted the following tour
nament dates: Country Club Of Lakewood. April
10 20 and 81 Knollwood Country Club. June IA, IS
and l6: shinnecock Hills Golf Club. August !. 2,
and J. In addition TO these are the two Metropol-
itan Golf Association championships-the amateur
AT ST Andrews Golf Club, May g. "a, 25 and &c. and
the open, at the Hollywood Golf Club July 26. q
and IS.
In addition 10 the events mentioned there is the
interscholastic tournament, announced for May II,
IS and 10 over the Garden City Golf Club links.
The exact dates for another important fixture
will be determined to-day, when the executive
1nittee Of the New-Jersey State Golf Association
will hold meeting in this city. Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, May 81, June and ., are most fan
c!ed by the officials.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-05
THOROUGHBRED RACING.

When Tom Welsh. the well known trainer, got
hack from flying trip 10 New-Orleans last
week he corrected a wrong impression which
had been gained about the methods used in
starting by Mars Cassidy there this win
ter II has been said that he was using his
Nyalk-up system snd getting better results than
were possible under the plan of standing starts
which he is called on 10 use on the tracks in
tile metropolitan district Tom Welsh says that
the starting was particularly good. but that he
did not that It differed materially as 10
method from the one he employs here He
has the horses line up about one hundred feet
behind the barrier and walk up and II posi-
bic. sends the field away without having the
horses come 10 fun stop II the alignment Is
satisfactory. II rot however. he does not send
the field back again, but lines Il up behind the
barrier. as he does in the East This method
diners only from the one here in that he is nor
handicapped by the requirement thar evarJ
horse shall come 20 a full stop before the bar
rier Is released. IN other words, the starter has
come discretion IN the matter, which IL xvorld
be well 10 give him here, at least for q TRIAL
The sole aim OF the starter IS 10 get the field
away on even terms Fortunately the days
have passed when the starter had reasons for
giving one horse an advantage over another al
though there are still some persons that cannot
. be convinced OF it. Those who lack confidence
n the starter and the turf management fn gen
eral would do well 70 stay away from the track
Those who have confidence would like 10 see
the stewards OF tho Jockey Club give the starter
some latitude, il by so doing the starting could
be improved, as no doubt II could. Mars Cas-
sioy is good starter, as starters go and while
some OF his work with the barrier was open to
unfavorable criticism last year, IL was salts.
factory In the main. That HIS starting is more
uniformly good in the South. however, leads &c
the conclusion that he should have the same on
portuplties here to accomplish the same results
The stewards OF the Jockey Club are progress
sive, and they seldom lose opportunity 4
legislate for what may make for good. II seems
then. that they could not do less than give IN,
starter this discretion for time and watch III,
results. II IL did not prove entirely satisfac
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CROSS COUNTRY RUNNING.
Out of Sixty-six Starters Sixty Finish il
Mott Haven A. C. Six-Mile Chase.

The Mott Haven Athletic Club held a sfI-nnile
open handicap country yesterday. in
which there were sixty-six starters. and sixty OF
them finished. The start was made from the club
house. at 13sth street and Third avenue.
1t resulted in a tie between NJ DriscolI. Mercury
Athletic Club. and G. McCherry, unattached. W. 2.
Frank the scratch man, who has been selected for
the trip to Athens, the time prize. The novice
prize by J. Malone. Mohawk Athletic Club.
and the team match was won by the Mohawk Ath-
letic Club The team scores follow:
Mohawk Athletic Ciub-Malone, s; Delnar, S:
Meyer, 6: Katzenstern. IA; De Baum, IT; total 45
points.
Mott Haven Athletic Club-H. berlin, s; Steven
son. 8; r. p. Derlin 10; Haynes Is; Mcdonald IS;
total. IS points.
Mercury Athletic Club-Driscon 2: Higgins. 10;
Mcclellan. 30; Schoenbaum. IS; Fleming 81; total
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-05
SHOOTS PARTNER FOR BURGLAR

Thy Telegraph The Trteunel .
Lebanon Junction, KY, March 4-Sanluei ~
Gruder. of McG-uder & Patterson. was sho, tV]'
early this morning by his partner. Seiby PattersN
He IS thought TO be dying. Patterson says he Hs
took McGruder for burglar. McGauder says !.
had dream that he had failed to lock the 81.
I'm the store, dressed and hurriedly went there
investigate. Patterson. who sleeps in the st0''
saw man with lighted match trying the cor
bination. Then he sent two bullets through ny
Gruder's body. This officers are not exactly sa'H
ned with the explanations. McGruder is the Sc
ond man fred upon by Patterson under the oe''
that he was shooting a burglar
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-05
WANT VANDERBILT CUP RACE.
Petitions Will Be Circulated Among the
Citizens of Nassau County.

Minecla. Long Island, March 4.-The circulation
Of petitions asking that two days fall be set
apart for the Vanderbilt Cup and the prelimi-
nary race will begin tomorrow. and signatures
Will be obtained in all parts of Nassau County.
The supervisors will be asked to set aside last
years such modification OF it as may be
asked for. There seems TO be doubt but
that the application when asked for, will be grant
ed. Chairman Jones of the board is favorable, and
is Supervisor Wietts.
Supervisor Seabury. OF Hampstead. is opposed tc
the of the public roads for such high speed
tests. holding that the automobiiists should de-
velop a course of their own, If they wish to have
high speed races. There only three members
of the board
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-05
CHARGED WITH eRIeiNe POLICE

- EDWARD Mangan. of the East ss,h
street police station. yesterday morn,ns oras,s
samuel Silverman, OF No. % East 18TH street o. :
charge or working building at No Ists Sa on
avenue. Nansan told Magistrate WahIs tbafH
S %nen ayrestsd siyerman put 80 bin into his
Silverman should he charged with trhIr 't ts
ponce, lie was held in $3.50 bail for examIna,tn