The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-20
All Big Colleges in the United
States May Soon Add
Japanese Art.
LAST CALL FOR FOOTBALL
WILL COME NEXT MONTH
Major Leaguers Preparing for
Spring Training for Base
ball Season.
BY MANHATTAN.

NEW YORK, Feb. 19--If the lead set
by the University OF Missouri is followed
iiu- -jitSu may soon be on the athletic
curriculum Of all the big colleges in the
United States. At the present time the
Missouri varsity Is the only school in the
land Of Uncle Sam teaching jiu- Jitsu to
its students, Six "experts" recently
! graduated and l understand that they
arc getting ready to make q sort OF edu-
cational tour 10 show the advantages of
the Japanese form OF wrestling The
athletic instructor at Missouri claims two
advantages in jiu- jltsu. The first OF these
sport; the second, is the use OF self de-
fense to which 1t can he put Two Jap
anese instructors, ], foshida and G
Mizoguchi: are In charge of the Missouri
| classes. Eoshlda says that Americans are
Just as apt in learning the tricks OF the
game as the Japs Indeed, among the
members OF the jlu-jitsu class there arc
AT present some husky young Westerners
who can throw the Japs every time.
Positively the last call for football
comes the twenty-fifth OF next month
will hold It's adjourned meeting 10 de
| eide the fate Of college rugby" There are
three sets Of rules before the committee,
| one or which VIII be chosen March %
| It is not necessary for mo to say what
rules will be chosen, but to epitomize the
thing the following changes will be
made;
| Forward pass TO be changed.
| Flying tackle and piling-up plays TO be
abolished
Heavy mass. plays with wedge forma
| Onside kick to be modified or done away
| With.
| Exhausted players to be protected.
More rigid examinations Of aspirants
| established
Crashing tandem plays 10 GO
! 1t is evident that something must be
of soccer and ] am sure that all VIII
| agree that the changes ] have noted Will
not Kill rugby. They will merely make
1t safer, and more open Some very, able
| Dudley. OF Vanderbilt University a Nash
vile; DR. Harry l.. Williams. of the Uni
versity OF Minnesota and Coach Stagg
President Jordan of Leland Stanford
university OF California. is perhaps the
most severe critic OF last years style of
rugby but even DR.. Jordan may be won
over by The new rules: once they arc
| formulated.
''EXtry, Extry! Extry'" Bugs Ray
mond Is on the water wagon. Yes. our
old friend Bugs is to get another trial
this year on the Giants. In recent months
| Bugs has been operating a gin mill up
! town but the lure OF baseball led MIN TO
seek another trial from Manager Nc
Graw. Bugs viii be taken south with the
Giants in the spring.
England Raving,
England has been raving over "Amerl-
can nvasions" for so long thau 1t is our
turn to do a little raving. and IL Is being
done now by the stewards OF the Ameri-
can Rowing association. The stewards are
uttering naughty words over the persist
ence OF the American rowing public in
referring 10 the regatta on the Schuyl-
Kill as "the American Henley" copying
! the phrase from the English Henley re-
satta. Plans arc now being hustled for
| the coming scholastic race with repre-
sentatives from Boston. New York Phila-
dclphia. Washington and Baltimore. but
| they dre working even harder TO stamp
| out all reference to the American regatta
| as the Henley regatta.
| When Edward Paysou Weston reaches
| city hall with his message from the mayor
| OF Los Angeles he will be 81 years old
| March 10. somewhere along the line be-
tween the Pacific coast and this city, Mr.
Weston will celebrate his seventy second
birthday peripatetcally. so to speak. The
| aged pedestrian Is now probably on his
last continental 5aunt. lie Is having
harder going this time than ever before.
| for vaudeville or lecturing or advertising
| some new-fashioned kind Of rubber heels.
Hal Chase. the Highlanders' marv ell
Gus Finger, is training the athletic squad
Of the University OF Georgia at Athens.
Hal started on his new Job this week
but coaching is nothing new for him,
/ There arc tricks in every profession.
but the athletic instructors OF the Uni
versIty OF Minnesota are putting over a
band new one There is particularly
! clever track team at Minnesota this year.
but the boys are a little bashful In pub
I lie. Upon the Minnesota field or in the
gym they go through stunts of really
marvellous performance. but with a crowd
! OF spectators looking on they fall down
| miscrably. Now, II happens that the
| track men are social butterflies and are
great favorites In the ballroom, so the
| the problem, Between dances the coaches
call forth the aspiring atheltes and put
| them through gymnastics while the fair
! ones look on And thus many things are
are keeping in condition, they are get
| ting accustomed TO spectators and they
are cementing their friendships with the
girls, for tho latter look upon the boys as
| real Gladiators.
Neal Ball. the only big Lacquer ever
| TO mako triple play unassisted, Will
| play with Buffalo this year.
Byrnes in Training.
Bobby Byrnes, the Pirate third base
man VINO broke his ankle in Detroit dur
| ing the worlds championship series. is SO
| anxious 20 make good in the Pittsburc
uniform this year that he has already
started in training at 81, Louis. Bobby
has rugged mp gymnasium and goes
through light exercise every day Tic
dons his uniform and plays ball indoors
so that his eye will not lose any OF its
Pirates at Hot Springs on March 10.
II is only a matter OF time until base
ball is combined so closely with theatr-
calls that they touch. The proposition 10
use baseball parks for vaudeville when
not used for the National game originated
in Philadelphia some years ago. Harry
Davis. The Pttsburg theatrical magnate;
took It UP at Forbes Field last year and
made money. Davis has already leased
the Cincinnati grounds for the present
year. John T. Brush now comes forward
with the announcement that the Polo
grounds may he used for a hippodrome
show this coming summer
'Tt seems a good idea and VIII not in
terfere with baseball mt all" said Mr.
Brush. discussing the project.
And now comes young Turks, All All
med. Izzet and HALL Hodjs, three cham
plon' wrestlers from the home OF the sui
tan. They arc enroute TO the United
States for tour. The trio is described
as "A combination OF muscle and Drawn
hard TO beat. The Turks arc big, broad
shouldered fierce looking chaps. and are
alleged TO know the science in highly
commendabe way,
For the first time in the history OF