The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-12-02
SPORTS

John NJ. Ward, former manager of
the Giants, is likely to be elected pres
ident of the National League, to sue
coed Thomas j. Lynch, when the mag
mates meet in New York next month
1t is likely that the umpires in the
big leagues will hereafter have to I'M
dergo medical examinations to deter
mine whether they are afflicted with
astigmatism or other eye troubles
which might prevent them from seeing
straight.
George Slosson and Willie Hoppe
are practicing daily this week for the
1871 balk line championship match to
be decided in Madison Square Garden
next Thursday and Friday nights.
A Canadian Glidden tour, to cover
Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan
is being planned for August, 1911, the
course to be 1880 miles in length.
The polo season in southern Cali
fornia will begin next week, and will
eliminate with the big tournaments
to be held at Riverside, Coronado and
Pasadena during February, March and
April.
Toronto will have the biggest auto
| mobile show ever held in the Domin-
ion next spring, the dates having been
set to cover the period from February
20 to March A.
/ Next Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday nights are the dates set for
the pool championship match in New
York between Jerome Keogh and Al
fred De Orc.
a national water polo championship
meet, with the New York A. c.. the
Chicago A. A., the Missouri A. C. of
st. Louis, the Illinois A. C. of Chicago
and the East Liberty A. C. of Pitts
burg as contestants, is among the pos
sibilities.
Yale, Harvard Princeton, Columbia,
Cornell and Dartmouth will all have
strong hockey teams this coming sea
son, and the competition on the ice
promises to be exceptionally interest
ing.
Eight picked men will contest in
London next month for Lord Ions
dale's new heavyweight championship
challenge belt, the bouts to be held
all in one evening at the National
Sporting club.
A total of over $4,000 has been
subscribed for Cornell's new athletic
field, and it will be among the finest
and most complete of its kind in the
country.
Jake Stahl of the Red Sox is think
ing OF starting a shoe store, as he has
ten pairs of footwear given to him by
shoe company for making ten four
bag hits.
/ Whitney's string Of yearlings in
Guiding the 100000 Bashti, daughter of
Adam, have arrived on the other side,
and the master of Brookdale is conf
dent that all of them will give good
accounts of themselves on the British
turf.
Buffalo bowling promoters have al
ready commenced active work on the
plans for the 1911 tournament of the
National Bowling association.
! Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston and
other athletic clubs have been invited
to enter teams in the inter-city relay
race to be held in Madison Square
Garden on January "a next, in connec-
ton with the annual indoor games of
the Pastime A. c.
Participation by baseball players in
automobile races will probably be pro
hibited by ruling to be offered at the
next months meeting of the National
and American leagues.
Further reforms in the football rules
may be made by the National Intercol-
legiate Athletic association at its meet
ing in New York on December 20.
Lewis r. Speare will retire next
Thursday from the presidency of the
American Automobile association, and
will be succeeded by Robert p Hooper
of Germantown, Pa.
London promoters have installed
what they call the First Worlds Ae.
rial Exhibition" in Crystal Palace, and
will open the show during December
and January.
/ Chess players of Canada and New
| foundland will contest for the cham
pionship of British North America at
Montreal during the Christmas holt
days.
New York will have four automobile
shows this season.