Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-27
HE intercollegiate Athletic a,

~ HE intercollegiate Athletic As.
ISOLATION is down to meet to-
morrow in New York to go ovel
the college football situation with a
view of improving the game and at the
same time of lessening it's dangers.
The organization includes sixty col
leges in it's membership. but the big
Four. is not represented. A special
rules committee will be appointed by
this body to confer with hat headed
by Walter Camp, the idea being to i'm /.
prove the game. if possible. The meet
ing is fraught with more h IA ordinary
interest.
The peri;s of football, it is true, have
been exaggerated, but the game thai
demands SO many lives in such a short
time is hardly conducive to the best re-
suits. People look at the fatalities ana
forget all about the thousands OF
cripples and injured whose i've are
not what they should be from injuries.
Revision is necessary.
@
President Harry Pratt Judson. OF the
University Of Chicago, today announced
that he favored soccer football for
Western colleges next season. II be-
lieve In the possibilities of soccer foot
ball as a college game said President
Judson. 1T gives many more students
a chance to play. Soccer will add much
interest to next seasons games, and 1
am sure the spectators will be glad to
see it. Coach Stage is in favor of soccer
football. and it is my opinion that his
enthusiasm will result in it's increased
4 popularity"
Well, poor old Bob Fitzsimmons had
4 better go back to chicken raising in
4 this State. This much is proven though,
that Bob as a 47-year-old, is a won
der to stay in the ring twelve rounds
with a fighter Of Bill Lang's age.
o.
Barney Oldfeld went fifteen miles
Xmas Day at Los Angeles. in 10 AZ LIS,
AJedsAang the former record nearly 15
seconds. ~
It would be a good idea If President
Lynch's suggestion could be followed
all over the country, viz: Have the
newspaper men inform the president of
the league of the bad work of the UNI
pires, instead of panning them. That's
a good thing. If the presidents will only
listen. No newspaper mar wants to
have anybody lose his job. The trouble
is some presidents do not know how
good or bad their umpires are, and won't
listen to any complaints about them.
Empires, as well as players. should be
censured for inexcusably bad work.
o
Ran Johnson argues for the shorter
schedule continuously. Having given
the matter some thought, we agree with
Ban, because generally the weather in
the early and late parts is anything but
good for baseball.
1t looks at present as though Will
lam w. Roper will be elected to act as
athletic advisor of Princeton Univer-
sity at a meeting to be held at Manhat-
tan Wednesday. 0
Now Jim Corbett denies he's going
to train Jeffries, but says he'll give
forty days before the fight and his serv-
ices in the ring to Jeffries free of
charge. oh you press agent.
o.
To the. Sporting Editor of the Evening Star:
To settle an argument, will you kind
Nv let us know in what year 1t was
that the Giants and the Athletics
played the world championship series?
Also. what was the score of the last
ramec w. w. r.
The Athletic-Giants series took place
In 1906. The score Of the last game
was: Giants 2, Athletics 0.-Ed.
.
TO the Sporting Editor of the Evening Starr
Who had the better batting average
for the season of 1908, Cobb or Wag-
ner? BEHI.
Wagner, 1854: Cobb, 324-Ed.