The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-01
National Administration Takes
Lead, but Representative
Team Is Lacking.
LAKE INVENTS GLOVE TO
PROTECT FEET AT FIRST
JAMS Will Organize Baseball
League Headed by Ito,
Champion Wrestler.
BY MANHATTAN.

NEW YORK, April 30.-Speaking of
baseball did you ever see anything like
the manner in which our national adj
ministration is taking to the game, from
President Taft and Captain Butt down
TO Mike. the White House cop7 What
a shame it is that Washington should
annually clinch the bottom-most posi-
tion when there are so many famous
and loyal fans in the national city.
Getting by President Taft, who is our
foremost national rootcr. we come to
James Schoolcraft Sherman, generally
known as vice president, who is also
fan and who bears season pass to the
Washington grounds which Will be pref
tv strenuously used this year. Secre-
tarv Knox likes to watch a game and
so does Secretary Meyer and Secretary
Dickinson and Attorney General Wick
ersham, and-but what's the use7
Representative Vreeland, chairman OF
the committee on banking and currency,
likes to play ball as well as watch 1t
played. Representative Tener of Penn
sylvania is An eXNational league pitch
er. Uncle Joe Cannon likes the game
so we'll that he owns a team in the
Central league. Nick Longworth is a
regular when the Washington team is
at home. Joe Gaines of West Virginia,
Cole of Ohio. Cooper of Wisconsin,
Loudenslager of New jersey and Payne
of New York, all members of the house.
are ardent fanatics Senator Crane Of
Massachusetts would rather see a ball
game than revise the tariff any day.
Charles Taft, the president s brother,
is part owner Of three National league
clubs. Isn't this safe and sane ad-
minstration7 Don't you think it can
be trusted now even though Bwana
Tumbo is out of America7
Although New Orleans is in the throes
of money raising festival for the Pan,
anna canal exposition, no fear is felt
over the $4,000 which will be subscribed
for the National Amateur Athletic as
sociation meet to be held in the Cres.
cent City next October The actual
work of getting the field ready on the
Tulane campus has already been started
and has progressed nicely. / understand
The holding of this great meet in the
south will boom southern athletics and
should have a stimulating effect upon
collegiate sports. President Brown of
the \, A. U. took his view of the thing
himself, apparently.
New Shoe Glove.
Fred Lake, manager of the Boston
Nationals, who spent his spare mo
ments last winter devising an ankle
footpad to save his first basemau from
having his foot spiked by the batsman
as he runs across the initial bag, is now
trying TO have the league adopt his in
ventjon.
Lake has contrived ''gIoven to be
worn on the foot. II is fastened on
with strap worn under the sole of the
players foot after the fashion of straps
attached on ski, Tho protection is
afforded by piece of pliable felt which
extends from the toe of the shoe half
way UP the calf of the leg. It is de-
signed to be fastened about the leo
with clip similar to the pants guards
used by the cyclists.
Many young first basemen do not
make good in the majors because they
are afraid to keep their foot on the
bag said Fred Lake. "The sight of
one of these players with reputation
for reckless and daring base running,
tearing pellmell into a bag is enough
to disconcert many hardy PLAYER. muGh
less rocky, and conseonentIy the mn
merous dropped throws or other errors
attributed TO initial sackers'
The middle west as it is represented
by the University of Missouri, Ne
braska, Iowa, Drake, st. Louis. Ames.
Arkansas and neighboring institutions,
has decided not to abolish football The
great college sport will again be on tap
next fall, although there was a time
when its fate was decidedly gloomy.
The resolution calling for the inferment
OF the game after December, 1910. has
been voted down, Some restrictions on
the game have been adopted by the mid
die westerners, however.
Anent football several coaches of
spring football practice at the different
colleges are not exceedingly pleased
with all the new football rules, accord
nrfc
Captain Daily of Yalo declares that
he sees no improvement at all under the
revised rules
Harry. NJ. Wheaton, assistant field
coach Of the 1909 Yale team and head
coach of the United States Naval acad- |
emy team of 1910, says he does not see
the advantages in some of the new reg
,,1 The eo+ rule l.1 forbidding diving tackles
One Of the halfbacks broke a collarbone
In an attempt to body check runner
before tackle under the new rule
could he made.
wheaton also finds, faults in the sup-
gestlon which would cramp the defense |
IN a narrower lateral zone He believes
that the object OF the suggestion was
TO encourage. end runs and open play |
by making line bucks difficult against |
a thlckened line. He has found that |
bucks against the tackles and guards |
Were responsible for long gains. These |
gains were aided by the elimination of
the diving tackle
Average Machine.
In order to insure absolute accuracy
IN baseball averages, the American
league Will use mathematical machine
TO compile them with The machine has
arrived from London, but for some time
the baseball experts were unable to ma
nlPulate it, Umpire Jack Sheridan, in
order to test the device, estimated that
nonus Wagner's batting average this
season would be 7659s76. Then he de.
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