The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-12-02
Early QuiverS Promise d
Big Earthquake Shock
When Rival Baseball Mag
Mates Gather in Annual
SeSS on Next Week.

y AsEBALL has been undergoing
prel!mina. Y Quakes and Qu.vers
that will develor into some
thing very like an earthquake shock
before another week has passed. The
baseball magnates have decided that
something must be done to make
competition hotter The frs. shake
4. occurred when four OF the National
League clubs removed their man.
ayers for being poor discipl!n.
arians New managers will take
warning, and next season the train
: Ing camps will be as rigidly guarded
as military posts in time of war. ANY
payer who shows a fondness for hos.
and pretzels. or playing checkers oftsr
+ A. or Tor dancing at unseenolv
hours' or for any of the other thinrs
'na' may possibly interfere with pen
haht winning, will be condenned ~,
solitary confinement on bread ors
water. u
Surlousiy enough the 'disciplinarian"
reform touched the headliners and near
headIihers. Boston, Brooklyn. ST. Louie
ana CIno-anatti have taken new MAN.
ayers and have felt the iron hand IN
me glove of the magnate. In tho
Tsai .ean league the Highlanders will
Aeei new grip on the collar.
~ view OF these changes there wifi
psooaoi! be more twelve inning games
heAt summer than ever before
THE National. Indoor Champion.
ships, finished last night at Madi-
son Square Garden, brought ont
scores of athletes who would have been
alone in their class few years ago.
Athletic competition is getting hot.
Grea; athletes are being developed every
season, and few old time records stand
on the books. New records are SO far
ahead OF the old ones that famous
champion OF half a dozen years ago
would class as a second rater to-day.
Only few years ago athletic proph-
cts predicted that Jim Mitchelrs rec ,
ords with the weights would never be
broken unless he added 10 them himself !
Yet to-day dozen weight throwers can /!
easily top Mitchel's best performances.
and new champions seem to spring from
the ground. The last of M!tchell's rec
ords was that for throwing the fifty-six
pound weight for height. lie won that
event easily for years. but to-day Nc
Donald. McGrath. Gillies, Sheridan, and
perhaps others can beat the best of the
oil marks.
When a school boy, Weighing only l3j
pounds, can come ont and put twenty
four pound shot over thirty feet, IL is /
time for the old champions to sit down, !
look on. and wonder what is coming |
next.
What athletics call form" is the
thing Responsible for so much record |
breaking Form" is being constantly
studied in all athletic events. Now and
then some new "knack' is discovered. .
and some athlete hurdles faster and
more clearly than older record holders.
or throws a weight further, or covers a
fiVe-mile run with less eSertlon and eX-
haustion and more speed. The best pro-
fessional coaches study form all the
time. and impart their ideas 10 new
athletes. \ boy entering athletic COM
petition now can learn more about the
right way of doing things in a week
than the athlete Of ten years ago could
study out unaided in year
our. American life, and in time. no
doubt, We will have men who can equal
the tabled feats Of the ancient Greeks.
1t took a thousand or two Of years for
the Greeks to arrive at the zenith OF
their athletic powers