The San Francisco call., 1910-03-29

Jim Corbett says that Jefrles is showing his
level headedness in getting down to work lie
would get right down to business after his long
tour. COrbett il satisfied that JEFF Will be as
good as he was in the old days
Johnny Eyers the Cubs crack indcIder, says
that ball players are very superstitlous. Ihey
are very sensitive about their bats and gloves
and are ever careful OF. the '.JinN.
Eastern sports arc discussing the big fight
now as IL it were but a week Of They are
arguing the merits of the fighters from various
angles. Some say that If johnson gets within
three feet Of JEFF in the first round there will
be gloomy negro on the mat. Others contend
that Jef is not hasty worker but one who
beats his men down and that he will win in
about 20 rounds. Johnson's admirers argue that
he will wear the white man down aud then
beat him in a long drawn out battle
Five Of the six players who will be pitted
against oxford and Cambridge in the interna-
tional intercollegiate chess match at New York
". H. Hughes of the University Of Pennsy /
vania. J. Il. Chandler of Yale, l.. w. Stephens
of Princeton and L. Teiins Of Cornell
According to many oldtimers the largest num-
ber of errors ever made on one chance came on
one afternoon when Mike Grady tried to play
third. He fumbled grounder, threw it wild
over first. muned the throwback and threw over
the catcher This was surely, going some.
Willie Keeler helped the orioles win three
pennants, twice leading the National league in
hitting while member OF the monumental
city's team. He rejoined the Superbas in 1899,
when the Baltimore and Brooklyn clubs were
consolidated. Keeler stayed in Brooklyn until
1903. Keeler has remarkable batting record
his average since 1894 being: 1894, .367 1895
.3s4; 1896 1892: 1897, .432; 1893, 80; 1892
.37e: 1900 .36e, 1901, .855; 1902, .342; 1909
-SlS; 1904 .S4S' 1905 .So2; 1906 .So4-
James Ten Eyck Jr. who is assisting his
father in coaching the Syracuse university
men may coach the Britannia. Canada, boat
club oarsmen this season
Looks as if Otis johnson, stallings' recruit
from the coast, had grabbed his chances by ar
irving long after Roach and Foster had shown
their PAGES. He win have to be a marvel TO
disDlace either Of them now.
1.-The evolution of the game in the last 20
years IS more remarkable in point of patronage
than in the way Il is played said "Connie"
Mack recently There were marvellous players
then and there are marvellous players
1T was a guessing contest between the
pitcher and the batter in the days of Rad
bourne and of Anson. II is no less a guessing
contest in these days Of Mullin and Lajoie.
base runner In the days of Ewing and Of Ham
iltp,n: is Is c stilI So 9 battle in the days Of
''The fan who believes there are no Clark
sons or Kellys Stoveys or Fergusons Or Fo-
ssrtys today IS just Is firmly set in his belief
joss. Killing. Cobb and Crawford greater players
than were in the game back in the eighties
John J. MeGraw made the rather surprising
remark that he expects Rube Marquard to be
one ot his best winning pitchers during the
at Marlin, Marquard has been kept very much
In the background. He has pitched very few
practice games and has done comparatively little
work Of any kind on the side.
Harvard and Yale want to meet Oxford and
Cambridge OF England In a dual athletic
test. IL would be a great thing for both coun-
tries. Each would have chance to learn from
one anOther's training methods, and besides it
ppou hell n 10 in af now
existing between England and America as
result Of the recent Olympic meet.
Entries for the stakes of the Saratoga racing
association to be decided in August closed yes
,sTday and % A. d wno solicited % & EN-
ting California turfmen interested in the fix
lures. Entries were made by Molera & Joseph,
George W. Berry. o. A Bianchi. II. G. Bed
well, W. T. Anderson, Andy Blakely and 7. w.
o'Brien. The latter will start Pluvius. the 2
year old by Infexible. in the Saratoga special,
for which the association gives $500 in plate
and $1,000 in added money. This is annual
sporting race, in which all the money and prizes
go to the first horse There is second money.
In 2l days racing 2s stakes viii be decided
Z O. A. Townsend and Ham Keene will leave
for the east at the end of this week. Keene
VIII proceed 70 the Kentucky farm and weed
out the good and bad ones that are TO carry the
team colors this season. II is possible that those
not good enough 10 the eastern tracks
will be sent to the Salt Lake meeting.
Trainer Ed whyte departed for New York last
evening with Rod Mackenzie's string. The horses
that will race at Aqueduct are Fort Johnson Ra-
dation. Elm Beau Michael Angelo Dune Camp
bell, Pecavvi. Melton Street and Laurier. the lat
ter being full brother to Sir Wilfred Desperate
and three trotters will go In the car as far as
Chicago and be shipped TO Memphis where Mac
kenzie's harness horses quartered.
George W. Berry has returned from Napa
stock farm with news of the arrival of IL foals
six colts and five fi1ies. One is full brother
to Voorhees, and the others out of eastern
mares, including $500 mare by Sandringham