The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-11-15
SPORTING EVENTS OF
THE PRESENT WEEK.

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New York, Nov. 15.-With the end
Of the football season now only ten
days away, interest in the game is be-
coming intense all over the country.
The abandonment of the West Point
Annapolis game means that the sea-
son SO far Is the elevens of the big
colleges are concerned, will come to
IN end on Thanksgiving day. Tae
big contest of the coming Saturday is
that between Yale and Harvard at
Cambridge. All experts admit that
TO pick a winner between the Grim
son and the Blue is a hopeless task,
so evenly are the teams matched.
Racing at the metropolitan tracks
reaches its finish today and the horse
men are already heading for Latonia,
Florida, Mexico and California. The
Latonia meet will continue thru this
week and up TO Thanksgiving Day.
The Emeryville track of the New Cal
ifornia Jockey Club opens mex Satur-
day. regardless of tle Walker-Otfs
a~nti-betting law. News of a fight be-
tween the Jacksonville and Tampa
tracks N the poolrooms has scared
many Aorsemen from the Florida cit
les and a large number of these will
probably go from Latonia to JuareZ,
Mexico, where peace in large chunks
Is promised. The result of the cleo
ton in San Francisco has encouraged
many hcrsenen to go there, who had
previously decided to steer clear of
California.
The oral betting system, tried out
in New York this season, will prob
ably be tried at Oakland rack. If so
it may be predicted that that season
will be short. In the first place, the
oral system of betting demands a bet
ting public That is personally ac-
quainted with the layers of odds, who,
in turn demand from the betting pub
lie more evidences of financial solid
ity than a whisper in the ear. or an
| appraised finger. And il Is just this
combination of circumstances. more
than anything else. that will put the
kibosh on the Emeryville game. The
norsemen all agree that this sort of
betting has not been developed on
the Coast.
The principal automobile event of
the week will be the racing e to
be held Friday and Saturday in New
Orleans in connection with a good
roads meeting. The program for the
meet includes two five mile and two
ten-mile races for local chauffeurs
and amateurs: one five mile race for
ears of 301 to $40 cubic inch piston
displacement: a fifty miles rae for
FIVE classes of cars, according TO the
A. A. A. classification, n a six-hour
race for the same cars. Cash prizes
a~ggregating $1,000 are offered.
The annual meeting of the Pacific
cast Baseball League is scheduled
for today, when II is rTnored that
President Cal Ewing will hand in his
resignation. There has been some
talk of Seattle and Spokane leaving
the Northwestern League and apply
ing for admission to the Coas League
but such action is not considered
probable. The present circuit, which
consists of San Francisco, Oakland,
Portland, Sacramento, Los Angeles
and Vernon, will likely renai1 IN
changed. The fight between a
Coast League and the California
League has apparently been settled
for all time, the latter ceasing Its out
law tactics and promising to be good.
The -cross-counfry run of the InteS
collegiate Athletic Association is to
be held next Saturday oyer the course
Of the Massachusetts, Institute of Te-
ohno1ogy at Cambridge. This annual
event nas been awarded to Princeton
for three consecutive a and was
looked upon as an institution of that
university. but IL was decided this
year that 1t was undesirable to hold
the run over the courses of any OF
the big universities, which gave the
of the saome team" an adj
vantage through familiarity with the
course