The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-10
SOUTH CATCHES
BASEBALL FEVER
Many Schools Are Preparing
for Football Season Regard
less of New Rules.
H0RNER CUTS ICE TO
KEEP IN CONDITION
West VIII Make Strong Bid for
National HOnOrs With the
Oars.
BY MANHATTAN.


vania university relay races on the thir-
tleth may be resolved into a tussle be-
tween the east and the west. The Uni
rersity of Texas slgnified willingness to
send representatives TO this meet. and
at some time in the future a team will
be sent from Leland Stanford univer-
sity in California.
Penn's most promising sprlnter this
season is Texas Pamsdel and IL would
be very Interesting to have team from
the biggest state IN the union contest
ing against an eastern team, the star OF
which is named Texas,
The University OF Chicago and the Uni
Nersity OF Michigan will be represented
IN the four mile race.
Every promise is given that this years
meet Will eclipse all others gone before,
Nearly fifty colleges In the east and mid
die west VIII be represented, not includ
Ing Texas university.
The letter received from the Athletic
association OF Leland Stanford stated
that quartette Of runners would be sent
from there after they had developed a
team able to compete with the eastern
stars.
Thus. in the course OF time, this may
become our big national scholastic meet.
The South has the baseball fever. The
hookworm is a thing with a past. The
reason for this is not far TO seek. The big
league teams congregate in the South
tate in the winter and play long series
OF exhibition games in the spring. Hence
il comes to pass that several months
are given over to the sport south of the
Mason and Dixon line.
The Giants, Highlanders and Brooklyns
have been transforming in northerly
direction for two weeks, After showing
big league sport in Shreveport, Chatta-
nooga. Birmingham, Mobile, Atlanta.
Nashville. Norfolk, Lynchburg, Winston
Salem. Columbia. Spartenburg. Augusta
and Roanoke, not to mention other towns
IS little wonder that baseball is BOOM
Ing in the Southern states.
The outlook for the Southern league
This year is very bright. And the South
srn league can thank the National and
American leagues for a good deal OF the
interest OF the Dixie fans.
Japanese and Indian athletes are com
mon. but il is not often that Chinese
displays interest in muscular develop
nent' However. a surprise cropped out
n New Haven recently when Nun Yin
Chung, Chink member OF the fresh
man class, announced himself as cam
1idate for the baseball team. Nun sur
prised the coaches by his agility In the
field and his batting eye. He Is can
didate for the outfleld.
Daniel NJ. Chung is another Chinese
student at Yale who has taken TO ath-
letics He is one Of the best coxwatns
of the freshman rowing crew and has
currents down TO a science.
Evers Gains Weight.
Little. Johnny Evers OF the Chicago
Cubs gained thirty pounds Of flesh dur
ing MS winter layoff from baseball. Even
now he tips the beam at 165.. but says
he will lose fifteen pounds of this be-
fore the active playing starts.
II expect To play at $50 pounds this
season." says Evers.
When Charley Murphy saw Evers he
got suspicious. He glanced at the in
creased avoldupois Of his second base
man and asked:
What are You drinking"
Why" asked Johnny, perking UP,
Were you thinking OF buying some
thlng?"
II remains now for practical demon
stration OF the new football laws evolved
that there can be adverse criticisms Of
the changes made and suggested. The
intercollegiate committee gave a definite
idea of what they were about TO do
weeks before they acted, and allowed
time for all the criticism and comment
that colleges, coaches. instructors and
sion has made real strides and those
strides have been in the right direction.
The number OF deaths and accidents In
college games regulated by these rules
will be- lessened next fall.
But this fact remains: There have al
ways been A number Of fatal accidents
in games played by amateurs. This same
thing will continue this year, because the
boy players will use the same old rules
which they have always used. 1t VIII
take some years before the new style
game is universal.
safety device. The four periods OF inter
mission ought TO strengthen the game
and save the players. The rule against
vent bruises and hurts. Modification OF
the onside kick is another good thing
There are other changes, but these are
sufficient to show the good work already
done.
How Horner Trains.
When a college athlete IS so anxious
to shine upon the field that he is Willing
To work upon an ice wagon during thu
vacation season TO keep In condition, h'
deserves TO succeed. Joe Horner, tht
new Michigan track and field star, hal
reached the top Of the flrst rank not alon.
by native brilllancy, but by hard worl
and perseverance,. Even In the summer
he does not drop training. Three sum
mers ago, the year before he went Il
Michigan he worked on an Ice wagon Z
keep in condition, Horners home is y
Grand Rapids. and he says that he VII
do Ice wagon duty there again this com
ing summer If possible. 1t was though
that when he went TO Michigan he ha'
developed as much as he could, but unde
Fitzpatrick his work has shown marke!
Improvement. Not only is he fast In boil
the dashes and hurdles. but he can pu
the shot. throw the hammer discus an'
javelin. high jump nearly six feet. POI
vault eleven feet, and broad jump nearl.
twenty three feet. The only events i
which he has never taken part are TN
distance runs.
Several southern colleges signified thei
intention OF continuing football, no mat
ter whether the intercollegiate commit
tee did anything helpful or not An
now comes the prepared schedule of foot
ball dates from the University OF Flr
ginia.
While Andrew Carnegie Is endowin
churches with pipe organs and filling j
braries and John D. Rockefeller is build
ing universities. James Patten. the ric
Chicago wheat king, is helping out indoo
athletics, Mr.. Patten has given tn
Northwestern university at Evanston. III
the biggest gymnasium on record. Nj
.Patten has thus made indoor baseball pos
sible, for the athletic hall Is 2l5 fec
long and 100 feet wide.
Minneapolis. of the American associa
tIon, has one OF the fastest teams in tn
league this year. ! was glad TO hea
that Jesse Tannehill, the veteran pitcher
who was sold TO Minneapolis by Wash
ington WAS getting into good compan,
Jesse protested against going into m
nor league. but after his contract wa
sold there WAS nothing more for him
do