The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-17
SULLIVAN MAKES
 BIG PREDICTION Believes All Existing Records
 Will 6e.Smashed NEW BASEBALL GOSSIP
Manhattan Says AeropIaning Is Sport and Not So Dangerous as Automobile Racing-Re-
 marks of Pop Anson.
sv MANHATTAN.

New York, January 16.-This year will be a record breaking one in all branches of sport even down to flying, unless the Quite wright brothers put too much os crimper upon other aspirants. No man better than James E. Sullivan, sec retary and treasurer of the National Ana teur Athletic union,is is better qualified to make predictions, and this is what he would have me say to you in his name:
 .sIt is safe to predict that 1910 from an athletic point of view will be the pest we ever had There will be more compe- tition throughout the United States than ever before, and 1t is a piece of common knowledge that competition breeds quar- ity. New organizations are springing up in the south and west constantly. The A. A. u of the United States has al- ready scheduled it's boxing, wrestling, symnastic and track and field champion shins for the year For the first time in history championship meet will be held in the far south, New Orleans having been designated as the place. The farthest south that the A. A. U. ever was before was Washington. It would not. surprise me to see every standing record proke in 19i0 Does that sound extreme ana too liberal7 It may sound so, but mere ly ask my good readers to wait. Paul
  Conneff. Erickson or Porter will in all probability smash Mike Sweeneys high jump. The pole vault is another record which will go because the mark has been going steadily up for years. Taylor will likely beat his own two mile run rec ord'
 l Chief of the reforms Manager McGraw | of the Giants has planned for this spring | is a quick jump from Marlin Springs, | Tex, back to old New York. For the first time the annual Junket from the l Lone Star state will be made in forced | marches. There will be no division of the l team and only two exhibition games will | be played McGraw believes that the | transforming which is usually indulged | in by the big teams before the National l league seasons opens does more harm than good.
 1 The old southwest Is surely waking up athletically speaking thanks to the south ern contingent of the Amateur Athletic l union Some weeks ago voiced the fears 1 of the customers who declared that 1t ! was a big mistake to select New Or leans as the, place for the championship meet. It seems, however, that the spirit l of progress is spreading beyond the south | into the southwest. Secretary Benedetto of the Southern Athletic association re-
 ceived notice that 10 more clubs in Texas | wanted admission in the A. A. U. Their
 joining the southern association sweils the | total membership to 30 organizations. The l new members are the San Antonio High l school, West Texas Military academy,
 Peacock Military academy, Garden acad- emy, San Antonio academy, St. Louis col- l lcge Marshall Training school, Y. M. c. l A., San Antonio Turnverein and the Lake, side Classical institute. The association | plans a big meet in San Antonio in Feb
 ruary.
 suppose some one will rise up and
 bite me on the ankle for it. but hence 1 forth shall devote some space and at- | tention to aviation. for aeroplaning is just
 now a sport and a keener sport than
 automobile racing. There is no more dan-
 ger in it than there is in auto racing. | A big automobile race is not success | unless one or two are killed. but at the | international aviation meeting at Rheims, | France, only one man was hurt, and he 7, was only damaged about the nose. When M. Paulhan came to New York en route to
 Los Angeles to attend the big aviation r.eeting there Paulhan said he would give l five flights in this country and wants to spend month roaming around California for he said he had heard much of the
 state and that he should like best to have been Californian if he hadn't been a Parisian His tour, according to the
 programme which he mapped out to me
 with the help of an interpreter extends through Denver, Kansas City. Salt Lake City and New Orleans. Paulhan cannot
 speak word of English, but as flyer
 he Is running close to the records of the "Quite'' Wright brothers. Incidentally l
 hope the Quite" Wright brothers remain in Dayton long enough to allow some
 flying in this country without putting a
 crimp in that branch of the sport just
 when It is being born here.
 understand that Charley Red" Dooin
 the hustling backstop of the Philadelphia