New-York tribune., 1907-06-17
COMMENT ON SPORTS.
NO LACK OF FIXTURES.
Ne7cs and Vie5cs on Current Topics
Imatcur and ProfessiOnaI.

Il TiNIGN{ ufttt j ~ o"tOitttt-
OF the many fixtures scheduled this week i'm
the world OF sport two stand out aooTe al
Others in the Suburban Handicap to ue run on
Thursday At Sheepshead Bay. and The open
championship tournament of the United States
Golf Association at Philadelphia on Thursday
ana Friday. These compel Il general interest
aside from the particular followers of racing
end golf. and both promise 10 result in contests
worthy Of the high place they hold in the out
s5oor sporting season. But this is not all Yachts
men will have plenty TO think and talk about and
do with the trial races for the sonderklasse
boats attracting chief attention. Oarsmen and
those particuIarly interested in college rowing
VII watch the progress of the various crews at
Poughkeepsie and New London. as the two re
eattas are only ten days off. The under
graduates and alumni of Yale and Harvard are
looking forward To the first OF the baseball
games between the two institutions, even though
the intercollegiate championship does not hang
in the balance. Yale is a pronounced faVorite.
and deservedly the record Of games played.
The team is a good one. and, while poor judg-
ment and fundamental errors have proved cost
ly at times and counteracted otherwise brilliant
work the mines lighting qualities have been
remarkable Victory over Harvard. her dearest
foe will go long way toward making up for
other dsappOintments-
The most important happenings last week in
cluded the winning Of the Women's Eastern Golf
Association championship by Miss Mary B.
Adams. Of Boston, after the most remarkable
matrl - PLAYED by women I'm this country;
% s.c:or5 o. Peter Pan in the Standard Stakes
go Brooklyn Darby. when that good colt estab-
-;sbad once more his right 10 greatness and
r]6ce among the best horses Of the American
turf: the success of DR.. TarTash in winning the
international chess masters tournament abroad.
and the good showing Of Marshall, the American
representative. who. after an indifferent start
c2lne along in brilliant style toward the end and
finished less than two games behind the winner.
and the decision Of the Appellate Division Of the
-.
pre City Trotting CLUB in its fight 10 make the
State Racing Commission grant it a license TO
hold a running race meeting at its track near
YOnhers.
PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL.
Both the Giants and the Highlanders came out
second best in the majority OF their games last
week The National League team is still on its
Western tour. When rain didn't interfer the
Giants were defeated by their opponents. Two
games were played Pttsburg on Friday
and the other Saturday, and the New York
eTs We're defeated in both. Mathewson pitched
the first. and II took twelve innings to decide IT,
Ever since the series with Chicago in this city
2IcGraw's pitchers have been hit hard and none
- the men seem ever able 10 regain their early
season form. The team is batting and fielding
Well but its winning proclivities seem TO have
disappeared for the time being at least. Phila-
delphia is pressing New York hard for sec
ord place, but the Giants should be able 10 re-
turn home in the position as when they
started. After the terrible drubbing Clark Grif-
ftls team received from Detroit the fans feared
the worst from the Chicago White Sox the
worlds champions. But the HighIanders played
wonderful bail on Thursday and Saturday, los
ing the first game by narrow margin and shut
ting cut Chicago in the second The team ia
erratc a. jiInes in the field but strong at the
bat If Griffith had another pitcher the equal
Of Al Orth his team would not be leading the
second division at the present time. As the sea
son advances and his young pitchers gain much
needed experience the team may be expected TO
cllrnD slowly up the percentage table. The first
four teams in the American League are now
having a pretty fight. It would be no surprise
10 see Chicago disposed Of this year Brooklyn
IS having its troubles in the West especially as
the Superbas are now at Chicago.
COLLEGE BASEBALL
With the college baseball season practically at
an end, the need Of some kind Of intercolle-
giate association TO govern this form Of sport
is strongly emphasized. This year. above all
others, has proved that TO determine the college
championship there should be an organization
composed of the big colleges. IN all Of the
minor sports, including basket ball, hockey
gymnastics fencing swimming. track and field
athletics and lacrosse the colleges have organ
lied, and the respective championships are de-
cided beyond a doubt; but in college baseball
this is not the case. A couple of years ago Cap
tain Tilt, Columbia pitcher, made a start in
the right direction but his efforts came to
naught, for there seemed little interest in HIS
plan to form a league of college baseball teams
Now we find Princeton claiming the champion
ship and Yale acknowledging that the Tigers
are champions; how Yale do this is certainly
not plain to many. Princeton, as has been said
in these columns before, has a just claim to first
honors in the so-caed Big Four" But there
are teams that have played better ball than the
members Of the Big Four" and they are Cor
nell and Brown. Without any college baseball
organization, the follower of the sport must re-
vert to comparative scores, whatever NAV he
said against them. Here we find that Cornell
ranks better than Princeton, as does also
Brown. Cornell and Brown are so nearly on 4 mar
that the only satisfactory way TO determine
which is the better would be to play a series
Deshon and Tiff are both grand pitchers There
is little 10 choose between the two teams in
fielding, but il is believed that Cornell is a little
stronger in the batting department Cornell
has met few defeats, and most Of these games
have required extra innings TO decide them In
fortunately the usual two games with Princeton
were not scheduled this year. Had they been
Cornell. it is believed, would be able TO claim
the championship without any doubt AS n Is
Cornell. Brown and Princeton must be ranked in
that order, with the difference separating the
first two infinitely smaIl-in fact too small for
complete satisfaction Cornell has forged to the
front rank In athletics with remarkably big
strides In the last few years. The Ithacans ara
almost supreme on the water, the track and field
teams won the intercollegiate CHAMPIONSHIPS in
1905 and 1906, and now Cornell has lust claim
70 rank with any college in the country The
Big Four is 3. thing Of the past II is To he
hoped that before the season of 1908 draws
around college baseball league will have beer
formed and that next year the charnpionsb,n
may be decided not by comparative scores but
by competition.
AUTOMOBILING