New-York tribune., 1910-01-26
SPORTS OF THE DAY
TO BOOM ATHLETICS.
King Out of Baseball on Uord
of Joe Tinker.

amateur athletics, the track and field cham
pfonship committee Of the Metropolitan AS
sociation of the Amateur Athletic Union, of
which Frederick w. Ruben is chairman,
has instituted district championship meet
ings for the development of home talent.
The metropolitan association has been di-
sieed into the following districts 10 carry
out the new plan:
state Of Connecticut. State of New Jersey.
portion Of North Trenton. Western New
York. comprising following counties Niaga-
rs. Erie. Chau;auqus. Cattaraugus. Allie
esny. Steuben, Wyoming. Livingston. on
tsTio. Yates Genesee, Orleans Monroe and
Wayne. Central New York comprising fol-
lowing counties jefferson. Lewis. Oswego,
cneiGa. Herkimer. Cayuga. Seneca, Srhuy-
Ter. TcmpkinS. Onondsga. Madison, Cort-
land. Chenango, Otsego. Chemung. Tioga.
Broome. Delaware, st. Lawrence Franklin
end Clinton Hudson River. New York,
comprising following counties Essex. Ham
tton, Warren. Fulton. Saratoga Washing
ton. Montgomery, Schenectady. Schoharie,
Albany. Rensselaer, Greene. Columbia. Sui
liTsn. Ulster, Duchess Orange, Putnam
snd RoCkland. Westchester County, y. Y,
principal cities are Tonkers. White Plains,
Port Chester Peekskill and New Rochelle.
Long Island, " Y. comprising counties of
PAL cities are Brooklyn. Long Island City,
Jamaica and patchogue Borough of Man
haitian Borough OF The Bronx. Borough
OF Richmond.
James z. Sullivan. president Of the Met
ropolitsn Association of the Amateur Ath-
letic Crion. said yesterday, in talking Of
the latest move 10 encourage athletics:
1T probably is the best plan ever hit
upon by any championship committee OF
the Amateur Athletic Union to foster ath-
letics and deveiop home talent. 1t will
mean a great deal for the development of
athletics among school boys and others in
the districts that have teen set aside by
the championship committee and granted
the privilege of holding district champion
ships.
1T is not necessary that a club in any
one district should apply for all of the
events. The clubs in the different districts
can hold a meeting and divide the events
UP. each club holding such events as are
possible TO be held in its own building or
on its own grounds.
''Mr Ruben. who has had years of ex-
perience in developing athletic interests.
and who is a prime mover in the Church
Athletic League Of New York, which is
now a pronounced success. believes in ar
ranging district championships. 1t will
build up district leagues in all sections OF
the states of NeE York Connecticut and
New Jersey. These championships are
closed to actual residents OF the respective
districts regardless Of any club affiliation.
For instance. man who is resident of
Albany would not be allowed TO compete
in the Central New York championships
even If he held membership i'm a club in
Syracuse. nor would New York athlete he
N in pro ,n-aior !,
fined tn Long Island or Westchester Coun-
Il. He must actually reside I'm the terri
tory included in the different districts
"A official die medal emblematic Of
these championships. is now being designed
Included in the design will be the seals Of
the three states which compose the Metro
politan Association, and each medal will lie
suitably inscribed
Alonzo A. Stagg. physical director Of
Chicago University, will come TO the meet
ing of the football rules committee in this
city next week armed with ideas and sug-
gestions for reform as the result of a
meeting called by him of old Chicago play
ers Forty-eight men who had won their
nc In past years responded to the CALL
according 10 the Chicago papers, which
indicates clearly what efforts are being
made in all quarters to bring about a safer
game. Mr.. Stagg had a number of aues-
tons TO PROFOUND, one Of which was:
when playing football did any of YOU
think Of the possibility of being killed?
To this every man answered without hesi-
fancy: No"
Another question was: 'If you entertained
no idea OF being killed. what feature of the
game did you fear most?' Some answered:
Practice: others, open field tackling''
To the question as 10 what appeared 10
be the most dangerous features of the
game the opinion more or less general
that body checking in interference piling
up, open field tackling and the use of the
straight arm brought about the most in
juries
Some favored return TO the old game
on the ground that it was less dangerous
than the new, but Jimmy Sheldon, coach Of
the Indiana eleven, quickly pointed out that
while the forward pass might open the way
TO more injuries than the old flying wedge
the faculties of the various institutions
would not concede it and would abolish the
game forthwith
Ring the curtain down On John Killing as
baseball star" is the way Joe Tinker
actor and shortstop shark of the Chicag go
Cubs, dismisses the recent stories that the
onetime great catcher would return to the
J
instated by the national commission Tinker
has been in Kansas City for few DAYS
and is quoted as saying:
Take IL from me, King Will never re-
turn TO the game. No-o-o ne-ever-r: not IN
thousand years. Why, he is raking in
the coin so fast down in his billiard hall
that there wouldn't be any incentive for
him 10 return to the mere labors of the dia
mond
i had a long talk with him, and l did
my best in trying to persuade him to re-
turn 10 the game. but TO no purpose Killing
simply said that all the rumors which had
come from Kansas City were only press
agents yarns; that he had no intention of
being sold, traded. bought, released or re-
instated. When l went down there 7
thought sure that king would be back in
the game. but he certainly seemed TO be
In earnest when he told me that there
wasn't a chance in the world"
Talk OF big three-cornered trade among
ST Louis. Cincinnati and Chicago is
likely 10 bear fruit, according TO a close
friend Of Charley Murphy in this city. He
said yesterday that the deal involved Pfef
fer and Liese. two pitchers of the Cubs
who were to go 10 St Louis in exchange
for Bob Spade, pitcher of Cincinnati. and
Phelps catcher, CT ST. Louis The Reds