The Washington herald., 1910-02-06

league in the east Nearly all the big
colleges excepting Harvard have fives
organized. but they book games as in
dIYiduals. and there is no organization
or schedule TO bring them together
with any method During the present
season not all Of the fVes will meet
each other, and 10 pick out the strong
est team would be Seer EuesswoTk.
Pennsylvania does not relish the sit
uation, for the Red and Blue has
faculty Of sending a championship
team into the cage almost every sea-
son. Columbia is always a formidable
Zoe. Only n short time ago Columbia
celebrated its tenth anniversary as a
participant in the sport by defeating
Princeton. It is singular that ten
years ago It opened its basketball ca
reer by defeating the same university.
The eastern colleges might add 10
basketball as an attractive sport by
forming q league next winter, so that
the winner can play the victor in the
west for the national championship.
Under present arrangements interest
is likely 10 wGue.
Roofing Out Professionalism.
Michigan athletic authorities are
leaving no stone unturned, apparently.
to root out the last vestige Of profess
sionalism in the university, They have
begun an investigation Of the record
OF Edward Smith. who played center
on the 1909 football team. He is
charged with accepting money as
wrestler before he entered the Ann
Arbor institution. Coach Hurry Up"
Yost has joined I'm the hue and cry
and, IS usual, is willing to talk freely
about IT, Yost believes one Of the
points in Smiths favor is the fact that
he is a wrestler Of ordinary ability.
He also maintains that if Smith Is a
professional he would hardly have
medals in his possession. as charged.
While Smith ought not TO be con-
demned without a hearing it might be
well for Yost to remember that even
professionals sometimes accept medals
along with the cash
Australia Haven For Has Beens,
Australia is evidently a haven for
broken down pugilists. Only recently
the sports of the autipodes poured
money into Promoter Hugh McIntosh's
pockets 10 see the ancient Bob Fitz-
simmons walloped to a FRAGILE by the
Australian champion, Bill LANCE, and
few weeks later TO see LANCE put
away "Boshter Bill" Squires. the Aus
tralian lemon, picked by Tommy
Burns some years ago.
Mcintosh has arranged what is viz
tually tournament for defeated fight
ers, yet the Australians show a great
deal Of interest in them.
He has induced Jimmy Britt and
Rude Unholtz the South African
ounce, both of whom have been pu-
gilistically dead for some time, to go
to his country. and they viii meet in
turn Johnny Summers, who lost the
English lightweight championship to
Freddie Welsh. 1t is also said that
Burns and Ketchel, both Of whom
have been knocked out by Jack John
son, viii be matched soon to fight in
the land Of the kangaroo. With Joe
Grimm, the human punching bag. and
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ground. it looks like rubbing it in on
the Australians, but the latter seem
TO be strong for these near champions
just the same
Baseball Spikes.
Ever since Ty Cobb unintentionally
spiked Young Baker of the Philadel-
phia Americans last summer there has
been lot Of talk about abolishing the
razorlike baseball spike. But this is
not a new movement. Five years ago
one Of the club owners Of the National
league tried to do away with plate
spikes and had the support of almost
every one in baseball, provided a good
substitute was available Inducements
have been held out to inventors. but
up to now nothing suitable has been
offered. This means that the danger
Gus spike VIII stay.