The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-24
Johnny King and Larry Me-
Lean Are Termed Chronic
Baseball Kickers.
PRESIDENT TAFT Is
BOOSTING COLLEGE CREWS
Cree Tells Players How to Get
Next to Curves of Fast
Pitchers.
BY MANHATTAN.


BY Leased Wire TO The Tribune.
NEW YORK, April 23.-Uncle sam
is going to take n hand, or has taken
q hand. rather, TO insure success for
the national regatta of 1910, which is
10 he held in Washington. The news
that the state department of the United
States government would lend ITS co
operation Ia make the regatta success
and an international affair, If possible,
has been hailed with great glee. The
regatta will be held on the Potomac
river IN August. The executive com,
mittee Of the National Association Of
Amateur Oarsmcn worked quietly TO
have the matter made official, and the
Washington representative of that as
sociation. Claude r. Iappone, has
have proper action taken. As is we'll
known. President Taft is a great ad-
mirer of rowing. having pulled in
Yale varsity al New London against
Harvard and last year, on the occa-
sion OF the regatta, lent his influence
10 bring success 10 the meet. and again
this season he is observing with inter.
est the details of the coming national
regatta.
A letter bearing the official seal OF
the state department, and signed by
Secretary Knox, has been sent to all
the representative foreign legations,
urging them 10 call the attention OF
their homo governments 10 the lnterna
tional regatta, and requesting them to
make entries in the various events. II
is a mastery piece OF diplomacy on the
part of the controlling officers OF the
association, and President Pilkington,
Secretary Fortmyer and Chairman Zap
ponc arc coming in for considerable
praise.
When we come to think it over the
two men who made the biggest noise
in the baseball field this spring were
catchers, They were Larry Mclean of
the Cincinnati Reds and Johnny King
of the Chicago Cubs Both were at
war with the team magnates over
infrsctions of the rules. Johnny, after
being out of the game season, evi-
denced a disposition to get back, but
al the last minute he baked at re-
ducton of salary. Larry kept in the
limelight for two months while he
wrangled with the Reds management
In notable opposition TO the noise
made made by these Two catchers was George
Pirates, probably the niftiest backstop
in the National league, When George
quietly signed up for this year, Barney
Dreyfus wept tears of Joy George
dldn Z ask for more money, but upon
reading his contract after signing it,
he was surprised to find that his pay
had been raised $500 for the season.
The University of Texas was unsuc.
cessful this spring in arranging al
schedule for dual track meet with a
team from the University of Missouri,
bur even If the project did fall through,
II is good sign of the broadening of
intercollegiate athletics in the great
Lone Star track team offered to pay
the expenses of the trip if the meet
Texas n " p'f MonlSW, SRth coach ae Cystic Of thc
Tiger track team, decided that another
meet In May would make the team s
schedule too hard, and turned the offer
down.
Few baseball players have stuck TO
one city like Theodore Breitenstein has
TO New Orleans The old fellow seems
10 have drunk of the fountain of per.
petual youth in the Crescent City
Breitenstein is one Of the old-timers in
baseball, but can still hold up his end
with the youngsters.
III the practice inaugurated BY Roger
Bresnahan at st, Louis is carried out
in the future, baseball practice may
be carried on for some time eyery
spring behind locked gates with no one
looking on. l hardly think this posi-
BILE. however, for the fans were saving
harsh things about the Cardinals at the
time when Roger and his Jolly crew
arrived in st. Louis, and Bresnahan
took this method Of spiting the fanat,.
les. Star chamber sessions are some.
thing new in professional baseball,
President Taft will, If be is in Wash
lngton, be spectator when the Wash
ington- Baltimore inter-city Marathon
race is run May T.
A. A. U. Athletics.
I have heard a great deal of COM
plant recently that athletes in small
towns do not strictly observe the A.
A. U. rules all the year round. This
particularly applies to rural districts
and out Of the way places where the
strength of the great governing body
is not strongly felt. The A. A. U.
has big Job in front of it to keep
amateur sport clean. To see the real
raw happenings one has TO travel
do something to uplift the amateurs
rules are never enforced and where
the men can do almost anything they
please. Parts of Pennsylvania are also
pretty bad, the worst being the dis
trict around Pittsburg. People who
have the proper amateur spirit around
the Smoky city are hoping that the
new club--the Pittsburg A. A-will
do something TO uplift the amateurs
there. for indeed thew are badly in
need of it. II is comieal to watch the
actions of the amateurs.
Birdie Cree, tho hard hitting second