New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-21
SPORTING COMMENT.
Neacs and Vie1cs on Current Topics,
amateur and Professional.

The automobile show. which served 10 MI up
a gap in sporting circles last week, is over and
there is nothing OF the same all compelling IN
terest 20 take its place. There Will be much
20 think and talk about. however. In the next
six days. and there will be lacking the deadly
dulness which characterized the last week Of
the old year and the first one Of the new. Those
Rutomobists who cannot go to Florida Will en-
Soy reading about the tests OF extreme speed on
the ormond-DaytOna beach. where the cars will
fairly fly over the smooth sand at two miles a
minute pace; three hockey games are scheduled
at the St. Nicholas Rink two in the Amateur
Hockey League series on Tuesday and Thursday
and one in the intercollegiate championship on
Saturday; Ora Morningstar and George B. SUIT
ton will meet tonight in Chicago for the worlds
championship at 1872 balkline billiards; the frsT
game IN the match for the worlds chess title
viii be played in this city on Saturday between
DR.. Lasker and Frank j. Marshall; the inter-
collegiate football rules committee viii meet on
Friday and Saturday to consider some tentative
changes IN the CODE while there VIII be the
usual trap shooting, association football. bowl
sng and basketball fixtures. The important
happenings last week were few and far between.
The automobile show held the centre OF the stage
and proved successful beyond the dreams OF the
most optimistic the Grand Circuit dates for the
trotting and pacing meetings were announced,
Yale met defeat at hockey at the hands Of Dart
mouth while the golfers met in annual session.
AUToMoBILING.
cannot soon be forgotten. The motor car has
assumed an almost autocratic sway. and its
devOtees are now numbered in the thousands
where only three short years ago they were in
she hundreds President Hotchkiss Of the Amer
fcan Automobile Association said on Friday
that motoring was still in its infancy. with its
work hardly organized and its functions and
powers little appreciated. This may be true
Il probably is true-but those who went TO Mad
cson Square Garden last week went away with
the conviction that it was Pretty healthy and
husky infant and which had reached a
point in development that makes II power
sn the land. If those who are charged with It's
management approach their duties with a
proper sense of their responsibilities, President
aOtchkiss is right in saying that its Followers
Will be numbered in the tens, nay the
hundreds OF thousands. The show last week
was an object lesson in the wonderful growth OK
an industry barely seven years old. It IS hardly
necessary to say that the show was q success,
the monster crowds each day that driving rain
and whirling snow could not keep away teSti-
and say that the show was a triumph 10 the
skill ingenuity and enterprise OF American
manufacturers and American promoters.
Interest this week will centre in far on Flor
IDA where the lure of speed win attract so
many. The automobile has passed the stage OF
recreation and sport alone. Its Commercial! SIDE
the speed merchants still furnish the attrac-
ton for those who are always craving some
thing sensational, something new. That this
craving will be satisfied this week seems as
sured The word has come from Florida that
Raw w Harroun. IN a specially designed car
weighing only five hundred pounds, has al
ready made new records in trials, and that Mar
riott is ready 10 make fresh inroads on the old
marks The twO-nile-a-mEufe speed became a
reality a year ago. but it IS plain that the limit
has not been reached, and can be looked for
perhaps, in the next few days. and this In spite
os the faoa that the present trend Of motor
car construction IS toward utility and RELIABLE
sty rather than extreme speed.