New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
SPORTS OF THE DAY
AFTER CHESS TITLE.
Baseball Wmuer Requests To
Be Confidential.

Play in the worlds championship chess
match between DR.. Emanuel Lasker and
Carl Schlechter, of Vienna. will begin in
Vienna tomorrow, according to advices re
ceived from England yesterday. Five
games will be played when the scene will
shift TO Berlin. where a further series of
five games will be contested.
The men have agreed to play ten games
only, instead of fifteen, as would have been
the case if London had helped finance the
match St Petersburg also failed at the
last moment, as did Stockholm. the Swed-
ish chess players having had the question
under consideration. 1t appears that the
rate of 500 a game, which the, champion
asked in carrying on the negotiations
proved too high.
The games will extend over a period of
four or five weeks, so that the masters do
not purpose TO be at all precipitate In ar
irving at a conclusion. A purse for the
winner is being raised by subscription on
the Continent, the treasurer being Pro-
fessor ]. Berger of Graz, Austria.
Thomas ]. Lynch. the new president of
the National League of Baseball Clubs. has
accomplished his first reform. BY mail
vote of the club owners it has been de-
as confidential business. The managers of
the various teams have been notified to
observe this regulation. Mr.. Lynch and
John A Heydler left this city yesterday for
Cincinnati to attend the annual meeting of
the national commission.
L. w Dennis, of Cornell chairman of the
football rules committee. has sent out let
ters TO the various members asking them
to name one or more dates in February
that would be most convenient for a meet
ing 10 revise the rules. 1t was found that
a date in January could not be arranged.
Word comes from Boston that Yale and
Harvard will hold a second conference on
football in the near future. 1t is said that
certain recommendations for reform will
be agreed on, which will be presented 10
the football rules committee when il meets
in February.
The annual meeting of the National
Steeplechase and Hunt Association will be
held tomorrow in the Windsor Arcade.
The terms of J. Harry Alexandra Harry
J. Morris and Joseph +. Widener as stew
ards will expire al that time. but it is
understood that all three will he reelected,
George W. WanmakeI, Appraiser of the
Port, in statement given out yesterday
states that 147 automobiles of an appraised
value of $3l5335 81 were imported in De-
cember, 1909 in comparison with 1856 cars,
valued at 1856 1872 90. in December, 1907
Some good sport is promised at the games
of the Xavier Athletic Association in the
22d Regiment Armory on Saturday evening.
In the SS0-yard handicap such speedy run
ners as Paul Pilgrim, E. p. Carr, Dick
Eagan and Carl Walther are entered, while
Tom Collins and George Obermeyer are
named among forty-three other long dis
tance men TO start in the three-nile handi-
cap The entry list is still open.
A one-mile intercity relay race, in which
New York. Brooklyn, Boston and Phila-
delphia have entered teams, will be one of
the features of the annual games of the
knights of Saint Anthony, which will be
held in the 18th Regiment Armory. Brook
lyn, on Wednesday, February ..
Hank O'Day, the well known umpire.
is quoted as saying in Chicago that the Gu
bans will ask for protection under organ
lied baseball. The clubs there are beginning
to fear that some of their best players will
teams in this country without compensation