Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16
Base Ball, Racing
and Other Sports

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lishmenf of state road commission to be
made up of an experienced road comis-
soner and an assistant commissioner.
who must also be an expert. The bill
provides also that state road fund
shall be created from all the taxes col
lected from automobiles.
AS 1t is we'll known that automobiles
crossing bridges at speed do great harm
to the structures. the New Jersey Auto
mobile and Motor Club is endeavoring to
cooperate with other motoring organza-
tons in an effort to regulate the speed OF
automobiles when passing over bridges.
The Councils Bluffs. Iowa. Automobile
Club has laid plans for big endurance
contest between teams from Sioux City.
Des Moines and Council Bluff. for a state
| automobile carnival. for a series of en-
durance contests between local owners
and for the construction of an automobile
race track.
So rapid has been the growth of the
Automobile Club of southern California
that it has found it necessary to estab-
lish permanent club headquarters. The
directors have secured a lease on the
ground floor rooms in Los Angeles.
In filling the radiator it is good plan
the level over the end of the vent pipe.
If this pipe is clear. as it always should
be. the fact will be indicated by the over
moving of the water through it. If it is
not clear the water will overflow through
the filter cap and not the vent pipe and
it should be attended to at once
May Race for Vanderbilt Cup.
NEW YORK. August lett was said
the other day, on very good authority.
that the men most interested have by no
means given up all hope of running a
race this year for the Vanderbilt cup, and
that If contest is arranged it will be
held on Long Island where all of the
four previous races have been run. The
peace agreement between the Automobile
Club of America and the American Auto
mobile Association. which marked the
end Of the controversy between those or
sanizations, last year, specified that both
the Vanderbilt cup and the Automobile
Club of Americas grand prize gold cup
were to be decided to a racing association
to be controlled by the Long Island Mo-
| tor Parkway.
New Foot Ball Coach.
M1DDLETOWN. August 16-1he New
Hampshire State College will have a new
| foot ball coach for the approaching foot
| ball season. The new man just appoint
| ed is Willard II. Gildersleeve former
! halfback on the Wesleyan VARSITY team
| Gildersleeve will commence his duties
| September 13. The former Wesleyan star
comes of an athletic family. and While
al college he was considered to be one
of the most aggressive players in New
England
Bid for Big Scrap.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 16-Jim
Coffroth is not going to have a clear field
in Frisco when it comes to bidding for
| the Jeffries-Johnson fight Sid Hester.
| the promoter of the Missouri club, wants
the match and has already made an of
fer and says that he will post the whole
amount of the purse if il is accepted
Testers offer is: guaranteed purse
OF $4,000 with a side offer of $4,000 to
Jeffries for signing; or. he will give the
men 10 per cent of the gross receipts,
and figures that he can get in $4,000
house. The fight to he for twenty rounds
in Frisco o. forty-f1re rounds in Colma,
where he will build a pavilion. He figures
he can get in 600 spectators at So like
number at $40 and SIS and 900 at so.
Dickinson's Foot Ball Dates.
CARLISLE. Pa. August 16.-The man.
agement of the Dickinson College foot
ball team has announced the following
schedule for the coming season: Sep
TENDER %. Western Maryland, at Car
Isle; October ., University of Pennsyl-
| vania, at Philadelphia; October o. open;
October 1G Washington and Jefferson, at
Washington. Pa; October %, Ursinus at
Collegevile: October 80. Gettysburg at
Carlisle; November 6. Johns Hopkins, at
Baltimore. November Is. Bucknell, at
Carlisle; November 20 Mount st. Mary's.
at Carlisle; November -, Lafayette, at
| Easton.
Annual Golf Championship.
NEW YORK. August 16.-For the an
| nual golf championship, which this year
| will be held over the Apawamis links,
September Is to IS, the intercollegiate
Golf Association is already beginning to
have things whipped into shape. Accord
j ing to a slight change In the constitution,
any college in good standing may now
be elected to membership but the most
| important departure this year will be
with regard to the scoring for the team
| championship. This will allow OF only
| one point for win in place of the old
| system of a point for the match and a
fraction for every hole up. One matter
of which the officers Of the association
| are proud is the reduction of the debt to
$50. Some five years ago this deficit
| stood at 500.
Murphy to Fight Wolgast.
NEW YORK. August 16.-An important
battle between lightweights has been ar
| ranged between Tommy Murphy. the New
| York fighter. and Ad. Wolgast. Milwau-
KEGS crack pugilist. They will battle for
| six rounds at show to be brought off
| by the National A. c. of Pittsburg at Du-
quesne Garden the night of September /.
IT is said that they will box for purse
| of $3.50. Wolgast recently defeated Bat
Ting. Nelson In a ten-round bout at Los
Angeles. Cal. Murphy has had a good
rest and the battle should result in one
of the best scraps of the year.
To Decide on Tennis Team.
LONDON, August ia team to repre-
sent the British Isles in the preliminary
lawn tennis matches to be played at Phil
adelphia, beginning September II. in or
der to decide whether a British or an
American team shall go to Australia in
an endeavor to bring back the Dwight F.