Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-14


Americans has announced his arrange
ments In part for the spring training trip
OF the Highlanders. The team win report
In Birmingham, Ala, on or about March
and will stay in that city until March 81.
Exhibition games will be played with the
Birmingham team every Wednesday, Thurs
day and Saturday. beginning on March H.
The team will leave Birmingham on the
night Of March 81 and so to Atlanta, Ca.
for a week. Games will be played with
the Atlanta team on April 2. 4. and T.
The team then will come north and my
play Jersey City in that city on the Sour
day before the championship season opens
On April and 10 the Highlanders will play
Newark at the American league park and
on April II will play Columbia.
.
President Taylor of the Eastern league
has reappointed Gus Moran an umpire in
the Eastern league. The others selected so
far are Tom Kelley, who started in the
American league last season, and Count"
Campau, the former New York State
league player.
1t has been finally decided that the next
grand American handicap at targets. the
take place at Indianapolis in June, 1906.
Chicago, Denver and Columbus, o.. tried
hard to get the big shbot, but the inter-
state association, which controls the blue
ribbon event. once again selected Indian
apolis, where this and last years handicap
met with such great success. 1t has also
been decided to hold two championship
contests in connection with the grand
A bop ONE will ha a.
tours exclusively and the other for pro-
fessionals. The conditions call for $50 tar
gets each. eighteen yards rise. IS entrance
open to the world. The winners of these
two events should certainly be hailed as
champions in their respective classes, as
every amateur and professional of any ac-
count in the United States will surely be In
attendance. 1t has also been resolved that
in future Grand American handicaps all
contestants must send in with their respeo-
tive applications a specific statement Of
their respective general averages for the
six months prior to the date Of said appli-
cation; II an applicant be a club member,
then his statement must be certified to by
the secretary Of his club. The Interstate
| association has also decided to hold annu-
| ally four tournaments on lines similar to
| the Grand American handicap, viz: One In
| the east. one In the south, one In the west
between the Mississippi and Salt Lake. and
| one on the Pacific coast. These sections
were defined by geographical limitations,
az follows. Eastern section. east OF Buffalo
ana Pittsbure; southern. south OF the Ohio
river. western, west Of the Mississippi river
| and east OF salt Lake City and Ogden.
| From this division of territory It may be
| seen that the Grand American handicap IT.
| self will IN future be held In one OF the
three middle-west states. Ohio. Indiana or
| Illinois.
| rr,,o ,,,nor+anee OF the conference Of coll
| lagos and universities to secure the remedy
| Of the evils that have crept into foot hall
was 10 a large extent lost sight OF In the
| technical questions Of rule revision that
| arose during the meeting. The matter OF
method was perhaps one OF the chief topics
discussed. Obviously unless there Is to De
some big question to arouse general inter
est az the foot ball question has, the insti-
buttons In California and the far west are
not going to send delegates to the east to
convention In any great numbers. AS IN
the east remains the main body OF colleges
the place of meeting must always remain
here. To overcome the difficulty OF geo
era nhical distinctions II Is suggested thai
the country be divided up into sections and
that the sections be represented by half
dozen delegates in a general convention. FOL
this purpose It is proposed to organize 1t
the far west ON each side of the Rockies ar
intercollegiate association composed OF
faculty representatives. In the southwest
embracing the ground from Texas to Ne
brasla. the same Is to be done, while In ths
middle west and In the northwest such al
organization as now exists among what Il
called the conference colleges will be ex
tended 10 embrace all of those institution:
that are not now among the nine here en-
relied. In Ohio and the south, In Pennsyl
vania. New York and New England. ths
same plan is contemplated. By means Of
these district organizations the whole fielt
can be comprehensively covered and gen
eral questions of eligibility that prohibits
professionalism. solicitation, importation
ana kindred ills kept carefully in hand. Tn,
most difficuit problem to handle In this con
nection Is the question OF commercialism. 81
long al Il is necessary TO maintain athletics
at considerable cost and as long as the col
leges themselves cannot AFFORD to suppl,
money for the purpose from their owl
limited endowments that are not suficien
for their educational needs 1t will be neces
sary to employ gate receipts in some form
If intercollegiate athletics are to continue OF
their present extended scale. All that car
be done as yet IL to limit as far as pos
sible the expenditure OF the teams and per
haps to restrict the number OF contests Il
further reduce the cost. To abandon inter
collie giate athletics was almost unanimousl.
condemned, but the advisabllity of eurtail
ing their number In order to reduce tn
! volume Of expenditure was seriously advo
Gated. This would enable the management
OF gate charges to be reduced to the mini
! mum and allow the total of money handles
20 be considerably diminished. II this woul
remove the business atmosphere the adver
tising spirit that has aetuated many o
those In charge Of the games, well an
good II not, other means may be devised.
Coach Yost of the University OF Michigan
, foot ball team is authority for the state
ment that the team will not play Pennsyl
vanIa next fall. His statement on tn
subject is as follows: You can say thi
positively that Michigan with not pla
Pennsylvania next year. Our schedul
} already includes Wisconsin. Chicago. iii
/ nois and Ohio state universities Thes
, games are all the hard ones that we wish
, as Ohio and Illinois look good for nez
season
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