Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-06

conference squabbles and give rise to
an opportunity for final game be-
tween champions of the east and west.
Now that horse race betting is dead
in the east it is said that bookmakers
are also behind the movement of hold
ing three Yale-Harvard, Princeton
Dartmouth and ornell-Pennsylvania
football games in a season. Futurity
books are being planned, according to
reports, on the third Harvard
game in 1912. OF course anyone you
try to talk to seriously about the idea
will say there are practical objections
and hindrances-but let that pass. An
autumn with the principal football
contests in the east made triplets and
all the big college teams playing each
other, and then a final championship
match between the east and west
would be a novelty.
Since football as played by eastern
varsity teams has beenN discarded for
| Rugby in the California institutions
the westerners have been trying to
spread the alien game to other parts
of the country. The cries of abolish
football have risen louder in Rugby
sections than anywhere else. Presi-
dent Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the
University of California says that the
introduction of Rugby football into
American schools is moral issue. He
is quoted on the subject as follows:
"The superiority of the Rugby game
for high schools and colleges is so ap-
parent, so certainly established, that
the issue now presented as between
this and the old intercollegiate game
has taken the form of a moral question
and moral issue. The old intercol-
legiate game deserves to be driven out
of all American institutions. No one
who is we'll Versed in the two games
can say anything else. The perpetu-
alton of the old game can be only re-
garded as ethically wrong. All the
oft-repeated artificial efforts to re-
model it have proved ineffective. The
great and in fact the only remedy is
the introduction of the Rugby game.
1t can readily be seen that the public
appreciates all these points" continued
DR.. Wheeler. This is shown in the
increased attendance. The crowd
which watched California and Stanford
play was the greatest in the history
Of California football. This interest is
bound to increase from year to year
as the public becomes more familiar
with the Rugby game"
The announcement that George Sut-
ton has recovered from the illness
which forced him to retire from the
billiard championship play last season
is welcome news to the followers of
the cue and worries. After a six
months rest on his farm in Michigan
the 1872 balk line player has come forth
with the statement that he will set
sail after Willie Hoppe and the title.
When Slosson forfeited his challenge
for the 1871 title Sutton started prac-
ticing that style of play.
ALTHOUGH tho f,1o1v;ycr ,,fcturoe, of +Ia
Jeffries- johnson fight have been dis
played in various parts of the United
States, Canada. England and Austria
liza for more than four months it is
said that the gross receipts so far
have been rather disappointing. The
syndicate which bought up the inter-
ests owned by the pugilists and by
Rickard and Gleason paid nearly $780,
600 for exclusive rights, so that in the
long run it is believed the pictures will
not yield the huge fortune that at
first was looked for. Rickard and
Gleason each retain one-twelfth of the
pictures, and SO far each has received
$780, it is said, although Rickard
was reported some time ago to have
purchased half of Gleason's interest.
Jeffries and Johnson therefore were
wise when they sold their interests to
the syndicate for spot cash. which
reached a total of nearly $100,00c.
The vigorous crusade against the
pictures which began Immediately after
the fight undoubtedly caused a heavy
loss. 1t was impossible to show the
films in many large cities, while the
fact that Johnson won kept them al
most entirely away from the southern
states. The downfall of Jeffries, too,
served as a damper in other parts of
this country, for it is said that the
pictures did not begin to draw the
money that was expected by the pro-
moters. Including cash paid for fight
ers' and promoters shares the cost of
taking the pictures. transportation,
shipments to foreign countries and
other expenses it is figured that in
spite of money received from various
theatrical syndicates the proprietors of
the films are disappointed with the
general result. II Jeffries had won,
however there would have been a fo'
different story to tell, 1t is believed