New-York tribune., 1908-03-30
COMMENT ON SPORTS.
R1SEBALL At COLLEGES.
Ners and Tiesrs on Current Topics,
amateur and Professional.

La referring a week ago 10 the coiese o"s
season now at hand, ten teams were piekeo
ont TO form a mythical league. TO the END tna'
the mines might be ranked from time to time IN
80. -,s,en,a,ic way The colleges selected
xrere Cornell Brown Princeton, Yale. Harvard
pennsvIvauia Columbia. Williams, Dartmouth
and Amherst The choice was based on INC
standing a year ago and on the outiooh -.
strong teams this season. and consequently 'Na'
more or less arbitrary On further oeiipei i'
based on close study of the scheouies Oh '"e
araous teams IT seems better to reduce TINS So
called league to eight colleges to avoid SO iai %
possible the necessity of ranking by con'pSia-
e.. .,,re~ which * more unsatisfactory even
.han in foefhaIl Dartmouth. for instance VIII
take the Geld only against Harvard ana Aifi-
herst o. the ten teams named, SO must '
dropped first leaving Williams. Amhers' anu
s-oiuynbia to fight for the last TWO places' mac
much as there can be little or no quesuoh ap'u'
IN. night and title OF Cornell Brown, PIlncetoii'
vale Harvard and Pennsylvania to the first SIX
places The schedules of Williams anu Aiiife
sre better arranged than that of Columbia for
-.nkinr purposes as the Blue and White team
Will not meet Princeton, Cornell. HarVafo'
Brown Williams Amherst Still Colurnpia
on q line through Yale and Pennsylvania iiiieN'
be deserving Of a more forward place thah AIN
herst or Williams. that the rlght is reseiNeu
OF changing the last two teams by dropping oie
and advancing another as lle sedsoii ou'
and the need appears TO arise This makes IL
POSSIBLE to consider other teams such as west
Point. Annapolis. Holy Cross and Wesleyan
Among the leading teams conditions are rnuef
better for fair ranking this season than year
age. as Cornell and Princeton will meet IN l"o
games whereas last season no games "eie
scheduled. The chief cause of regret Is the lach
Of anv games between Cornell and Brown. the
NJ a
and Brown and Princeton, which were so close
-orether last season that a series between them
xro,,ls have aroused unusual interest Stu
these teams play so many others that fair
chance for comparison will be possible unless
rerchsnce they are close together as year
ago. when the critics are likely to spit once
more In this so-called league Yale VIII meet
Princeton Harvard. Pennsylvania, Cornell'
Brown and Columbia leaving Amherst and
Williams out Harvard will play princeton
Yale Cornell Brown. Williams and Amherst
leaving Peunsylvania out Princeton will take
The field against Yale. Harvard, Cornell. Penn
svlvania William and Amherst, leaving Brown
out PENNSYLVANIA viii be opposed TO frlncetoh'
Yale Cornell Brown, Amherst and Colunpia,
leaving Harvard and Williams out Cornel VIII
meet Princeton Yale. Harvard pennsylvania
and williams leaving Brown and Amherst OUT
Brown will play Yale. Harvard, Pennsylvania,
Williams
Cornell out From this ii viii be seen that the
ea-calie6 intercollegiate championship may be
decided this year in a way to leave no cloud on
q title which was claimed last year by Cornen'
Brown and Princeton and which many, including
Yale and Harvard sympathizers, conceded 10
Princeton In the absence of any regularly or
sanized intercollegiate league, Of which there Is
need, this plar may provide some entertain
rnent for followers of college baseball
Cornell has come out strongly in favor of an
intercollegiate baseball league. as has been ad-
vocated in this column so often In comment
ing on the season just beginning, the Corneh
Daily Sun says. editorially;
The opening of the baseball season once again again
conditions the last game OF the collegiate year VIII
have brought no ] Vii he rlaned by two
more aggregations and the settlement Oh ol ',e u,
be the court OF last appeal in baseball and foot
ball the sofng a1 ndi19Is &ere canan 5 for the title
and although the laures We're mainly accofde9 aat19
one There seem few difficulties in the
. Wax Of an inieTcolegiaie league whose solons
would arrange schedules adequately TO declde
the championship beyond a shadow or do9Dl
and which would put an end 70 =, the popular sn
Tnl'rg UNI frans gbies IN the N past have shown them
selves worthy competitors for hrst pace Wo4Iu
out Of The present chaos OF miscellaneous seized
ules Some claim that az io E Is
IT1e that fheY are not the highest aim Of sport
dice in favor Of determining who is champion: ana
nowhere is this more evident than among unoer-
OF championships is the final end in lnterco-
Iegiate sport is an interesting incident IN con
nectien with It and some provision should oe IlGe
to provide premiership IN baseball al ieast:
that game which is so highly specialized OUTSIDE OF
the colleges.
Eustace H. Miles. who was practically irwin
cible among the amateur court tennis players OF
Great Britain until Jay Gould, the youthful
American champion. defeated him for the Eng
lish title last year. has been defeated four times
by Latham. the professional champion, since
his arrival in this country in quest Of his old
title on the other hand. Jay Gould beat
Latham in a well played exhibition match
Using a racing phrase, the dope" points to
Gould in his coming match with Miles unless.
rerchance, Latham had a reason 10 mislead the
form players
The decisions recently handed down by the
rules of golf committee of ST. Andrews and dis
tributed in this country emphasized the neces-
sity for careful revision Of the rules, If for no
other purpose than to save the committee much
srduous labor and TO a large extent the thank
less task Of answering the same questions
and over again Anent this subject The Lon
don Field" in q recent issue suggested a small
fee 10 correct a growing evil. saying in part:
g. One cannot help being struck more and more
with The similarity Of points which come up time
after time FOR decision Tho fact that questions
are being redupicated shows that the earlier de-
cjsions which are issued either consulted by
way of reference that. II a slight conflict OF
10 tighten The burden which should Justly fall on
the PLAYERS 10 make inquiries themselves by adopt
;ng the Jess troublesome solution oi saving, LEI
Us refer ST Andrews. The rules committee
when obviously confronted with ms rfcufrlf1: @
disposition of players TO refer every ioca dentae