The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-12
SPORTING CHAT
BY MANHATTAN

New York, September 11.-(Special.) Charley King of Washington, D. C., Grove Athletic association, who has done 23 feet in the broad jump, is about the only athlete in the South Atlantic association who Is sure of representing the associa tion at the na- tional championships of the A. A. U. in New Orleans next month.
 Various stories are going the rounds in the Baltimore and other South At ,1antic papers about athletes who may be sent to New Orleans, but the can ,didates will have to show real class before they make the trip.
 Royal Gill of Baltimore. a good 100 yard man, who has been mentioned as a possible New Orleans candidate, is not in shape and will hardly go.
 Washington man who may get a chance Is Earle Smithson. also of the Washington Grove association, who has done the 440yard run in 50 1-5 sec londs. and has the distinction of hay ling forced out Carpenter at such a fast pace that Carpenter broke the South Atlantic record just before he went Ito the Olympic games in London. I6mithson's 50 Is for the distance gives him a good look-in If he shows his best form between now and the time
 
 will be in the middle of September
 Martin McDonough of Baltimore is credited with having done the 220-low hurdles In 27 flat, which Is pretty good stuff, and of having done the 100-yard hurdles in 12 second fiat, another fine bit of running, but McDonough will have to dem strate that he Is there with the goods and is not flashing.
 The New Orleans people have put up $5000 to help pay the expenses of athletes competing in the games. and have left the selection to the cham pionship committee of the A. A. U., (which will see that the different as eociations pay half and New Orleans half. Dr. D. Elmer Wiber of Wash 1ngton. president of the South Atlantic, has been appointed by the A. A. IT. to pick representativ from his district Twelve of the IS men who comprise Ahe University of California's victor 5ous football team will be back in the game this season. Of these seven made the trip to the Antipodes with the all- American rugby organiza tion. The se- verest loss to California is the absence of Cedric Cerf at half California has lost several of it's best forwards but 1t still has some fair material.
 
 turn out worlds champions at English rugby. Such goal hardly will be reached in a decade, however, if even in Chat time What has been called the s'rugby intuition" is slow growth. The preparatory schools on the coast have not taken kindly to the English game and until they do there will be no men fin the universities equipped with that boyhood experience in the sport so necessary to success. Just at present the Californians are expecting too much of their team-and too soon.
 Congressnan McCredie of Portland Ore. who with other members of the family own the Portland baseball club, has been so successful financially this year that 1t is reported on the Pa cff1c coast that he will cease politics and quit going to Washington and de- vote all his time and attention in the future to the national game If the Pacific Coast league is merged with the Northwest league it will mean even further possibilities for the national legislator.
 understand that the McCredies made $30,000 clear so far this year and of the season
 Michigan Is looking forward to a successful football season. Many vet erans have returned and there is plenty of new material. The new rules auit Yost. the coach, and he is look ling forward to another victory over Pennsylvania.
 Of the prospects this fall the Mich agan alumnus has the following to say:
 "On September 15 the preliminary lpractice for the 1910 football season will start at Whitmore Lake. With l12 "M" men on hand and with an ex- loautionaIly large number of men who