New-York tribune., 1908-03-23

These teams will be ranked from time to time
throughout the season in this column in an
effort TO establish their standing Unfortunate
y some of the mines do not meet, and IN such
cases comparative scores. as uncertain and puz-
cling as they are must be resorted to-
The road races at Savannah last week. par
ticuarIy the for the $1,000 Savannah chai-
Iense trophy on Thursday, take rank with any
ever hel. in this country. barring those for the
Vanderbilt Cup The meeting was exceptionally
well handled, the drivers showed SIKH ana oar
ing, and the performed in way to ndi-
cate a distinct advance in the building of speed
creations that have value apart from racing
freaks With the Ormond and Savannah meet
ings over, interest centres for the racers IN
the contest for the Brarcf cup over the
Westchester roads on April "A There is GER
tainly a difference with a distinction between
this contest and those for purely racing cars.
The Vanderbilt Cup race, like those 1or the
Grand Prix and Bennett Cup. are interesting, as
showing the possibilities of engineering con-
struction as applied to racing machines Ihe
theory is that the manufacturers who could
build good racing would use the experience
in constructing touring for everyday use.
In the race for the Briarcliff trophy the cars
will be limited to stock chassis. Hence the i'm
portance of this contest to the industry at large
and to the purchasers and users of automobiles
Nobody expects the cars to approach the record
of the Fiat Cyclone, which ran seventy-seVen
miles an hour for three hundred miles on the
Florida beach. but, as F. Ed Spooner says
there is every reason to expect that some re-
narkable touring car records will be made over
the Westchester course, as winding, rolling and
tortuous as it is The race will serve to bring
out the best endurance and running elements of
, the cars. and prove the skill of the drivers as
well.
Morris H. Beall, second baseman at Yale in
1898. and good one. I remember well, has
expressed himself strongly in favor of Yale's re-
turn TO graduate coaching for baseball The
reasons he gives may be worthy OF some
thought other colleges He says in part:
To my mind, there is one essential reason why h
professional coaching cannot De f, IN ' or
twenty first class players and train them SO that
college there are usually two three. first class
players, three four fair ones, and a halt dozen
good reason that there is nobody else to play The
hing for he does not realize the limitations of
charges There are other reasons which mlitate
that of his lack of comprehension as to the pei
sonality of the candidates The reason for TINS Is
is not usually a Yale A professional may be
very good for the purpose of teaching man ho~
comes to developing team as Whole ana map
ping out plan of campaign for the reasons lnd-
Gated. / think Captain Jones is fully 1ustineo IN
the move he has made
The University of Pennsylvania Will play the
host to three of the biggest track and field meets
ever held in this country during the months Of
April May and June The relay carnival VIII
come first followed by the intercollegiate cham
pionship and the try-out Olympic games for the
East 1t is estimated that fully forty thousand
persons will attend the three meets. Franklin
Field is particularly well adapted for these ath-
Ietic carnivaIs but what feast for Philadelphia
and what a famine for New York! 1t empha-
sizes the crying need for proper field In the
metropolitan district The loss Of Berkeley Oval,
as inadequate as it for seating accommoda-
tions is being felt more and What New
York needs is millionaire track and field en-
thusiast.
There is still a chance for some of our lawn
tennis players to beat the ball In serving and
gain an unfair advantage over those who try to
follow the foot fault rule in letter and spirit
The committee of the United States National
Lawn Tennis Association has reported against
a revision of this rule advocated by the Eng
lish association, and contented itself with
| warning to officials to hold the players to strict
account If all officials were competent this
might suffice. but unfortunately the present
rule not and Will not be properly enforced.
HERBERT.