The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1906-10-23
SPORTS OF ALL SORTS.

Soccer is getting a foothold in several
parts of the country.
Yale is planning for a $4,000 boathouse,
l20 feet long and 80 feet wide.
Milwaukee has organized a canoe club for
the purpose of giving a few dancing par
ties next winter
Billiard champions Sutton and Hoppe,
and the ex-champion, Schaeffer, will play
games at Baltimore soon.
Dan Renear OF Honolulu, well known
as crack swimmer now Is IN the Uni
yersity of Pennsylvania as student.
Pennsylvania is having a motor boat
constructed TO be used as a coaching
launch for the candidates OF the crews
Sir Thomas Upton visited Milwaukee
last week. and BreweTville treated him in
such way as the eminent and square
sportsman richly deserves.
Neither Terry McGovern nor Young
Corbett is satisfied with the result Of their
recent encounter. and nobody else cares,
so they are going to try It over
The massive gold diamond-studded belt,
emblematic OF the championship Of the
world, given to John L. Sullivan by
thousands Of his admirers after he beat
Jem Smith, has been found again in a
pawnshop.
Harvard Athletic Association has been
invited TO send team 90 Chicago 10 COM
pete in the third annual games Of the
New Illinois Athletic Club. which VIII be
held In the Coliseum next March. The in
vitation may be accepted.
a system Of cross-county walks has
been adopted by the Harvard Track Ath-
letic Association for the track athletes.
Inasmuch as there IS always Il good meal
on the end of the trip, the fad has be-
come popular among the collegians.
Perfect bowling scores are frequently
made. but it is rarely recorded that one
man gets two OF the 800 marks Last
week +. LOuisicr. OF Two Rivers Wis,
made d cleanup of seventeen strikes. and
last season he performed the same feat.
A r. Yocmans. the English amateur
champion walker. performed remark
able walking feat not long ago by COW
ering q mile in the astonishing time of o
minutes and - 3-5 seconds. breaking all
former worlds records. both amateur and
professional
Harry Nardon, vino. in spite OF his fine
golfing this season is said 10 be still in
bad health. intends 10 winter in a miider
climate than England. lie has under con-
sderation a visit to Australia for his
health and 10 play exhibition matches on
the various greens there.
The King William " gold medal. in
play annually al the fan meeting Of the
Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St An
drews, was the feature az the famous
links on September - Last year four
tied at 81. A 9. Barry winning on the
az NIT 80
]. Mansfield Hunter. who was here with
the Oxford and Cambridge team.
The indoor athletic season will De !nau-
gurated at Madison Square Garden, New
York. on November and 10. where the
national indoor championships Of the Am
ateuT Athletic Union VIII be held The
members Of the intercollegiate Athletic
Association viii hc well represented. and
teams from Yale Harvard Princeton
Pennsylvania, Columbia, and Cornell have
been promised.
An inventive EHgiishman has brought
out a front wheel brake by which an
attempt has been made 20 apply brake
power 20 the steering wheels or a car
without interfering with the steering.
The object OF the device is To lessen
skiddiug. relieve the transmission brake
OF OyeTWoTk and generally increase the
brakiug effectiveness. Its use is depend
ed upon 10 overcome side slip almost
entirely
The fan regatta al Vale practically
ended regular training for The college
crews. but the cOmbiua tons will continue
a. work together until tho weather gets
TOO cold for rowing. Practice has been
going on for q month OF more. as Yale
is working hard for next springs race
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the class or 1910 has produced better mn
terial for the class crew than most OF its
predecessors.
Windsor r. White of the Cleveland
Automobile Club who was one of the
first to suggest "a private course for con-
tests Ike The Vanderbilt Cup race, has
offered To subscribe $3.50 To any project
receiving the approval of ". X Wander
Bit jr., J. De Mont Thompson. and A
r. PardjustOu. the members Of the spe-
cial committee appointed by the A. A A.
board of directors to examine the various
plans that have been proposed.
International athletics will be- given
quite hllip on November !. when Cam
bridge University athletes will meet the
Racing Club OF France in an inter-
national match II will be the first visit
or English varsity athletes to the CONT
nent. and the event has created a great
stir in track and field circles in the old
World The events 90 De contested are
leo, 4eo. 500. and 4627 meters fiat. Il0 me
tiers hurdles, high and broad jump, and
throwing the discus
Joe Cans is gathering more fruits Of his
victory over Battling Neison al GoIdfield
on Labor Day. The bronzed one is a
member Of a troupe travelling through thu
West In every town he visits the busy
boys interview Cans. and Joe tells them
all that he is still in the fight game. and
wants To meet them all that is. the fellows
that travel down the lightweight and wei
ter-weight pike. 1t is good advertising
and some day the colored scrapper will
get another chance to demonstrate that he
is about ne best Of them.
Londoners are in quite a state of mind.
according 10 report from Consul Cen
eral Robert J. Wynne over the many
motor buses that travel over the streets
Of the British metropolis. He writes that
determined effort is to be made I'm Par
lament and before local authorities TO
check OF modify if possible the noises.
smells. vibrations, smoke. and noNfous
gases caused by the rapidly increasing
use of motor buses. which threaten to
push the antiquated and picturesque
horse omnibus from the streets of Lon
don.