New-York tribune., 1910-01-11
SPORTS OF THE DAY
HOCKEY TO THE FORE.
Griffith Has Lost Faith IN
OzCner of the Cubs.

Hockey will hold a prominent place this
week in the world OF sport. four games
being scheduled at the st. Nicholas Rluk.
The Crescent Athletic Club seven viii mako
its first appearance OF the season tonight
in game with the Hockey Club of New
York The Crescent team. which held a
place al the top so long, was not uD to
the standard last season. and. so FAR az
can be judged. will not measure up to
championship calibre this year On Thurs
day another game I'm the Amateur League
series win be played that may have a de-
cided bearing in the winning OF the title,
as the Wanderers and ST. Nieks will cross
sticks.
The Wanderers played such a rough gars
against the New York Athletic Club last
week that they did not present their fuu
strength on the ice long enough 70 prove
their skill as team II they pay more
attention TO the puck and less 70 their cp-
ponents on Thursday ths ~. Nichoias
seven will find foe worthy Of its stsel.
Two intercoIlegiate matches are seized
ulsd Dartmouth will line Up against
Princeton tomorrow evening in a game
originally set for Boston, while on satrr.
day the Harvard ssven will make It's last
appearance In this city. playing against the
Tigers
Clarke Griffith manager OF the Cincinnati
Club of the National Leas1s. Is quoted as
saying that he has lost faith in Charley
Murphy. owner OF the Chicago CUBS Grit
fifth SAYS.
Murphy and I talked over a scheme Of
getting Mordecai Brown to Cincinnati and
giving somebody in return Now Murphy
comes out hat-footed and denies that there
is anything to that story. IN admit that il
should never have got to the public. but
just the same IL was talked about. ard was
talked earnestly at that. II looks TO ms
IL Murphy Is so afraid of himself that
he's really scared when he looks IN ths
glass"
According TO Barney Drsyfuss Jack sffi-
Ter. second baseman Of the Pirates is not
holding out. He said yesterday In Pitts
burg: II have not forwarded a contract 70
Miller as Yet. so how can he be hold
out?''
For the first time in several years ths
fans will get glimpse of the Yankees On
their own field before the league seasen
opens. in April According to the Prince
ton baseball schedule. the Tigers will play
the Yankees on April IL The Giants always
open the season here with Tale. and now
that Princeton will play The Yankees ahout
the same time fire chance will be offered
TO compare the two college mines.
On Thursday night the Riverside &c. skat-
ing rink at aod street and West End ave-
nue.. Manhattan. Will hold Set Of skating
races. including a haf-mile novice and a
one mile handicap open 70 al skaters reg
istered with the Eastern Amateur Skating
Association. The entries include Miller.
Taylor. Smith and Kuehn. Of the New York
Athletic Club team: Moeller. Wray. Merlo
and Burkholder. OF the Riverside Rink
team. and Mcmillan. Holmes. Gron and
Belts. OF the Fort Lee Skating Club. as
we'll as many speedy unattached knights
of the steel blade.
The track measures twelve laps TO the
mile. with wide. sweeping turns and,
being a fast course II is possible that some
outdoor records will be broken. Entries
will close tomorrow night with j. c. Hem
nent. No. los Fulton street
A letter under date OF March s. 1873.
from Louis Ruhenstein. president Of the IN
ternational Skating Union. 70 F. H Cnurs.
secretary Of the Eastern Amatsur Skating
Association. In which the IatterTs action IN
IHe case was upneICs mas now eeS7
photographed. to be used. no doubt as an
exhibit in the pending controversy between
the two bodies over the control Of skating
The letter follows:
Your letter to hand, and in reply would
say that 1 do not feel hard against YOU
about your previous letter in reference TO
Ianly: think the action of E A 8 A cor
rect, and he should be made known that he
must be registered 10 compete irrespective
OF who the skater Is or all skating asSocia-
J1onS should go out Of business