Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-07

England pool tournament at Camp bells, Hartford. Goodenough of Unionyille has withdrawn as he con sdered tho field was too fast for him.
 Word comes from Cuba that the Havana race meeting at tho new Aimendares track cannot live long unless there is an increase ill the paid attendance and better class of horses to run for the purses. The meeting opened on Tuesday with 1,200 persons present, while on Wed nesday less than 300, nearly all Americans, turned out, Only the cheapest class of selling plate took part in the races on those days.
 In the west a new name has been created for the pool room. It is called laying shop"
 Joseph Marrone says he will go to Washington in q few days 10 press his $50,000 damage suit against the Washington Jockey club which he brought last year because he was charged with doping" the horse S Joseph and was subsequently barred from the Bcnnings track.
 The Patchen Wilkes Stock Farm company has sold to G. G. Moore, St Clair, Mich, for $12,00O, the two year-old colt Robert C. By Peter the Great, 2:07 A T., dam Cocoon, 2:l5, by Cyclone. Robert C took fourth mon ey in the two-year-old division of the Kentucky futurity and won the Lex ington stakes in straight heats in 2:13% and 2:14A driven by Ed Willis. This Is the highest price paid for q tWo-year-Old here In years.
 Boston motorists are excited over the report that efforts are to be made to sell the famous one mile track at Readville, Mass, where the Bay State Automobile association holds it's an nual race meets. As Rcadvile track is the only one situated near the Hub the Boston organization may lose one of It's effective means of revenue.
 The consensus of opinion of 25 football critics produces the follow ing All-Eastcrn eleven for the season just ended Ends. Scarlett of Penn sylvania and SchildmilIcr of Dart mouth; tackles, Draper of Pcnnsyl- vania and Fish of Harvard; guards. Tobin of dartmouth and Gocbel of Yale; center, NOursc of Harvard; ; quarterback. Lange of Annapolis; ; halfbacks, liollcnback of PennsyI- vana and Tibbott of Princeton full- back, Coy of Yale.
 Someone who has had nothing special to do for the past several months and who has deemed mission ary work in foreign fields too difficult to carry on, has compiled list of the Yale men who have gained their Y's since that honor was established, and the list was placed in q large frame and hung in the trophy room at Yale | In the list up through last spring there are 1881 men who have won
 the coveted Y.
 l . Director Julius Flcischman of the | Cincinnati club gives three potent
 reasons for Cancels release as man
 ager. They are: His stupidity in
 nearly completing deal with St 1 Louis whereby Lobert would have 1 lost; his failure to secure Thomas when he was offered to him for all most nothing and when his club need cd an outfielder; and his putting Me- Lean and Dubuc, a careless battery, in against Chicago in the deciding
 game of the final series.
 "Of all sports designed for use in |colleges, football is superior" says
 Walter Eckcrsall, the former star quarterback "ROwing is purely
 physical sport Rythm and harmony are all that is required to bring about ! team work. The metal element does
 not figure beyond the coXswain s
 duty. Eight oarsmen acquire physical
 stamina without mental develop
 ment. To be sure it takes nerve to
 row four miles at ones best but | qulCk tnlnklnR ana opportunity to
 use the power of discrimination never
 enter. In fact rowing has the effect
 of slowing up the mind Football, 1 however, is the ideal sport for college
 men at this formative period of their lives It offers every occasion for
 the development of the physical, men 1 tai and moral man. Indiyiduaism
 Is not suppressed inordinately to team play. or collectiveness 10 indi-
 vidual effort. The game offers, in
 deed, the most liberal education for symmetrical upbuilding of the
 youth who Is on the threshold of a professional career"
 A dispatch from Baltimore says that Herman Long, the Old-time
 shortstOp of the Boston Nationals,
 who was reported dying of consumD- tion in Chicago awhile ago, is to be 1 the manager of the Alexandria,, Va 1 team in the new league just formed. p0OT cNuCnTTTC