The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-11
GOSSIP OF SPORTS
VALE AND PRINCETON TO BATTLE
 ON GRTDrRON SATURDAY.
Racing To Close Saturday, After Most Suceessfui season--Gossip of what Is To Happen In
 Baseball Circles.

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 New York. Nov. 1o--Barring the big foot ball games on next Saturday. not ably the one between Yale and Prince- ton at New Haven. the week promises to be dull period in the sporting world. Even Metropolitan racing will be removed from. the field. the season of 1907 closing at Aqueduct on next Friday. after which the thoroughbreds that have been campaigning since April 15, will either be put out of training or shipped to Washington for the Bennings meeting. New Orleans. San Francisco or Los Angeles.
 The racing season has been not able one. particularly the increased public interest. The attendance at all Eastern tracks except perhaps Saratoga has been the largest on record.
 The most notable winner of the sea- son was James R. Keene whose stable, headed by Colin, Peter Pan, Ballot and superman, took down purses to the value of &f00.s97, the largest amount ever won by single stable in the world in the course of a single season. Of this sum. Mir. Keene's trainer, James Rowe, gets ten per cent, which, added to his salary. which Is sf0.00o year, rave him an income larger than the salary of the President of the United States
 Gossip of what is to happen In base bali circles has started early Veter- ans of the various teams are said to be slated for retirement in favor of young CT blood and the champion Chicago Ma tional League team, it is reported. will be the only club that will take the field with their present aggregation in- sSss.
 The most interesting bit of base ball talk going the rounds, Is to the effect that J. J. McGraw will be superseded bv Roger Bresnahan. as manager ot the New York Nationals. The basis probably is the known dissatisfaction of the owners of the club over the teams showing last season.
 The annual weeding out sales which always follow the close of the harness racing season, will begin this week. when many trotters and pacers will change hands. The sales begin at 1n- dianapolis, Tuesday, and thence will 20 to the Union Stock Yards. Chicago. the week following. After these. VIII come the "Old Glory" sales, the biggest of all. opening at Madison Square Gar 6an ds New york. November 25 and con- tinuinr for ten days. The catalogues embrace seventeen hundred horses ranring in class from Angus Pointer. (2:Oi S-D to trotters and pacers with records of 2:30. Some of the more not . ble horses to be sold are Todd, (2:1A 3-4): Direct Hal, (2:04 1-4); Directum Kelley. (2:os 1-D: General Waite, (2:o6 3-D; and Guy Axworthy, (2;OS 3-D'
 YALE-PRINCETON CONTEsE.
 Boston, Nov. 10--With the end of the season in sight, the attention of the football followers has turned to the big games of the following two weekP which will practically decide the su- premacy of 1907. -,
 vale. Princeton, Harvard. Pennsyl- yania, Cornell. AnnaDolis and West Point will participate in these con tests, but to the minds of many, on the outcome of the battle between 1ale ana Princeton in New Haven next Saturuay will depend the premier honors of the year.
 When these elevens meet the finest hattie of the year should result. pro- yiding the teams have dry field and cool weather. which will permit the last. ouen play of which these teams are undoubtedly the leading opponents. Roth have great field generals in their both back fields are fast, and the lines are strong. Yale seems to have a slight advantage ip her pow ssrfuI line. but this is offset by the speed of the Tigers. Each team will uncover brilliant assort- ment of open plays.
 The only means of comparing the teams is in the game which both have nlaved with Villa Nova and Washing ton and Jefferson. Princeton played he former 45 to B. while Yale rolled m the orange and Black and prevented Villa Nova from scoring. Against and Jefferson however. Tigers scored 40 points. and Yale could make but IL.