The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-31
COMPETITION TO
BE REAL FACTOR
In A. A. U. MEET
BY MANHATTAN

IN Six years IL looks as tnOuBn tho ho-
tional all-round championship of the Anna
teur Athletic Union, which will be held
in Chicago two weeks from tomorrow,
will produce some keen competition. This
tournament is to decide who is the best
all-round athlete In the allied branches
of the Amateur Athletic union.
John ellis of the Vancouver Athletic
club of Vancouver B. c., Is going into
the games to meet NJ. J. Sheridan, and
from the elaborate training stunts which
John has been going through, 1t is
safe wager that he will be fit to give
Sheridan a tussle for the honors.
Sheridan is holder of the record-the
record being 1885 points-which he made
at the tournament last year. Sheridan
said that II he had had an opponent to
extend him he could easily have stretched
this mark to 5000 points.
| The last contest of any keenness worth
while was in 1904, the year Of the st.
Louis exposition, when Tom Kiely, the
veteran Irishman. came over specially for
the event Adam Gum of Buffalo, a
previous winner, gave Kiely hard run,
but the veteran had enough left in him
to win. Since then the winner has had
more or less of walk-over. Gillis had
tryout recently over the entire pro-
gramme, and though he was not wound
| up as he will be q month from now, his
showing was good enough to indicate that
| he will make Sheridan hustle. In the
| high jump and hammer throw he will
probably break the all-round records
Uncle Sam has baked at furnishing
polo ponies for the students at West
Point. Some time ago l wrote of a
popular movement to install polo as the
chief army sport, following the lead of
the English. However, the controller of
the currency at washington has now
announced that If any of the future army
officers now at West Point want polo
ponies they will have to purchase them.
As result of the controllers decision
Major Carson, quartermaster, United
States army, Is q benefactor to the ca
diets to the extent of more than $1,000.
1t happened this way. Some months
ago the major acting in good faith. pur-
chased for the boys at the United
states Military academy eight polo ponies
The ponies were of the finest that money
could buy for Major Carson thought I'm
Gle Sans future generals should be well
equipped.
Everything went we'll until the time
came for Uncle Sam to reimburse the
major. From every nook and corner of
the Military academy came plaudits for
the qaartermaster
There were not enough ponies to go
around at the academy. All of the ca
diets could not ride or play polo as often
as they liked. But those who could not
appease their equestrian desires were
pacified by the rumor that Quartermaster-
Major Carson was about to buy ponies
for all. Then all was well-that Is, SO
far as the cadets were concerned. But
Major Carson was having and is still
having his troubles trying to make Uncle
Sam pay the bill
| When he turned his accounts over to
| the auditor for the war department that
| official disallowed the item involving the
| expenditure of the money for West Point
ponies. He informed Major Carson that
| payment for the horses was out of the
question. He explained that the appro-
priations annually made by Congress for
"horses for cavalry, artillery and engl-
neer purposesv contained 70 provision
| concerning the purchase of horses for
/ polo purposes He further stated that
he knew of no appropriation made by
! Congress that would permit the payment
| of government funds for the animals.
loser of more than $4,000. appeal from
| the decision of the auditor to the con-
| troller of the currency. That official has
| upheld the auditors decision. which
means that Major Carson is either $1,000
out or some loophoe must be found by
his attorneys or the department officials
to pay for the cadets polo ponies out of
| the United States treasury.
| II the New, yorp american league team
| should win the pennant this year and it
Is by no means improbable, the nag wilt
| not float over the ground upon which 1t
was won. The contractors who have un-
dertakeni the job Of building the new
stands and laying on the new diamond
| for the New York Americans have prom
| ised to have the grounds ready for base
ball at the opening of the season next
year. The new grounds are at Broadway
and 225th street. The plot of ground has
already been marked of and actual work
was started this week.
! Frank Farrell proposes to make this
! new plant the best in the country. The
stands will cost In the neighborhood of
100000 They will be Of concrete and
steel and will have seating capacity
Of a little more than 10000.
| Mr.. Farrell and his associates have the
| assurance of the railroad companies and
street car lines that the new grounds will
i DC more hCc66SlDlc 10 lHo pupuC IMAM the
| present plant at 168th street The New
York Central will run special baseball
| trains when the season begins that VIII
make passengers from the Grand Central
station to the z5th street grounds in ten
minutes. and the fare will be cents.
For several days the fans have COM
rnented on the temporary arrangements
for increasing the seating capacity at
American League park, and this brought
out the information that the HiRhlanders
are preparing to move.
New Orleans is surely getting ambitious
In an athletic way. Now that they are
working tooth ana toe nail In the Crescent
! City preparing for the A. A. u tourney
In the fall, the southerners are looking
further ahead. They want to hold
grand athletic carnival In connection
/ with the Panama Canal exposition some
several years hence. 1t has not vet been
decided whether the government will rec
ognize the New Orleans fair or the Frisco
| fair, but, no matter whether Congress Of
ficially recognizes the exposition at New
Orleans or not. there 10 going to be q
fair there anyway and a big athletic
meet In the bargain.
| Ban johnson Is doing a lot of quiet
work on the proposition to raise a fund
| for aged and INDECENT baseball players
| In his recent swing over the American
league circuit, johnson said that while
nothing definite had been done yet. plan
will be formulated and put into execution
by the END Of the present year. It is sus-
gested that home be erected In some
] city and that exhibition games be played
at intervals the proceeds to go toward
| the maintenance of the place.
| Harvard's football schedule this year is;
October 1-Bates at Cambridge.