New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-12-15
Timely BITS OF SPORT
NEST Point Cadets to Build a
Water Polo Team.
NEW CHAMPION FOR RACING
p;lly Oliver Says Now Is the
Time to Buy Young Horses
for Big Profits.

.z-,,,,a interest has been aroused in
,--;,,- ,,i,-cles nv the report that the
,.r,..-,- Academy at West Point Wouio
-, have a water polo team IN the helo-
-. s5sts nave for some time shown par
.to,y.v 70 aquatic sports and many eood
.,,,ore have been developed in recent
-. hut competition has not been en-
.,,,-aee5 by the officers and 1t has only
-, indulsed in in a desultory sort of
WY.
r,5dentlv things are to be different III
..e future. for the captain in charge or the
.+sr men has within a few days written
- New York for the rules governing the
- I'D one or two of the leading anna
-e,,- coaches have been sounded on their
-.I,.,,e,,.es n visit West Point and teach
Che candidates for the team the rudiments
=. ,be came. The Academy on the Hudson
,,oss-e one of the best pools in the coun-
,rr and has every facility for practice.
college men hope that the innovation at
West Point indicates decision on the part
~ the cadets 10 join the intercollegiate
Swimming Association next season Z. c.
a. Richards. former captain of Yale. has
teen leading q strenuous campaign to in
.eres, all universities fostering aquatics in
-ba formation Of one great eli-en1bracing
league and his efforts are bearing fruit.
Because several Of them hesitated on &C
count Of not having water polo material,
Richards offered to personally coach the
SQUADS until good enough players had been
Developed 10 warrant the formation OF
teams and has already taken hold of the
Amherst candidates He viii probably be
one Of the first 10 give helping hand to
the cadets.
Billy Oliver. known TO ali racing men and
q hcrseman of the old school, is optimistic
on the question of racing in this country
and expresses the opinion that now the
time to buy yearlings and young horses
e good speculation. He is quoted as say
ing in The Washington Post:
Last year there were registered with
the Jockey Club of New York little more
than four thousand thoroughbred foals.
This year the registration will not reach
two thousand. Where have all the horses
gone? To England, France, South Amer
lea, and other parts of the world If racing
Is re-estahlished in this country, as T be
ueve it viii be. thoroughbred horsefesh is
bound TO be more valuable than at any
time in the history of the turf. The man
who buys thoroughbred yearlings cannot
make q mistake. A good three-year- in
we're the horses of that age in the good old
days of racing.
Therefore. it seems TO me that the buy
ing Of yearings at this time is about as
good a speculation as can be had. A man
viii have a much better chance to realize
on his purchase than. he ever had in the
past
II might he suggested that Mr.. Oliver
has some yearlings to sell. Such is not the
case, however, as anybody who knows
Billy will believe. As TO the big jump in
the price of thoroughbreds, everybody IS
welcome to his own opinion, but the breed
ers fear. that even the rehabilitation Of
racing viii not bring such quick profits.
One Of the best preliminary hockey games
of the season will be played at the st.
Nicholas Rink Saturday evening be-
tween Princeton and the University of
Pennsylvania. The Tigers won the inter
collegiate championship last year and be-
lieve they have the material for another
winning team. The Quakers are looking
for chance to get into the intercollegiate
league and have for several years been
building up a team with that object in
view
Manhattan College will face the strong
ST. Lawrence five in basketball at DR..
Savage's gymnasium tonight. An inter
esting game is promised.
Christy Mathewson and Big Chief
Meyers Will sell Red Cross stamps on the
streets Of Pittsburg to-day to help the
tuberculosis league. So says a message
from the home of the Pirates. The cause
is a good one, so what matters if they kill
two birds with one stone and act as their
own press agents as vaudeville stars.
IN spite Of direct statement from Chi
cago a few days ago that -'Packey'' Nc
Farland and Abe Attell would box ten
rounds before the Fairmont Athletic Club
81 this city the question of time and place
Is not definitely. settled. Attell says he
wants to box before the National Sporting
Club. of this city. and Mcfarland, it is
said has signed an agreement with the
F'airmont Athletic Club. SO Il stands, and
for the time neither boy is willing to give
way.
Frank l. Chance, manager of the Chi
cago club. of the National League. has
purchased another orange grove in Cali
fornia. According TO a message from
Whittier. Cal. he closed the deal yesterday
by the payment of 5000 less the sum
put up as an option. The grove is six miles
north Of Whittier and is said to be one
OF the finest in that section. the trees being
six years old. Chance owns another or
chard al q place called Glendorn.