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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-04-13
SPORT ASSOCIATION is PLAN
Prominent Horsemen After Dinner at
New York Recently Want an
international Body.

The horsemen's dinner held In New
York recently. at which August Bel
mont announced his intention Of Civ
ing several valuable stations to the
United States government, probably
will lead to the starting of an associa-
ton of horsemen, binding together
more closely such organizations as
the Jockety club, the Polo association,
the various hunt clubs and the steeple-
chase committees. AS suggested by
Harry w. Smith of Worcester, who
arranged for the dinner. the organiza-
ton will be hroad, open to all sports
Of turf and field
I'VE plan" lie says, ito make II
open to sportsmen in the broadcast
sense of the word, including members
both here and abroad. From every
foreign country, almost weekly, come
gentlemen who are fond of country
life and have made life study of
horses, hounds and other animals.
THE provision of entry should be
only that the prospective member be
home town. There is no reason for
restricting the membership to certain
cities, for why should one wait till he
takes up residence in some center
of population before he is allowed
to nningle with the sportsmen of
America? The main thing is to re-
strict 1t to sportsmen, for we are
really an exclusive class and the true
sportsman has language of his own
and a meaning to his words which
others can never understand"
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Hans Wagner.

Manager McGraw has shortened
the sign talk to letters for quick work,
When he wants the hit-and-run played
he flashes H-R from the coaching line.
L means delayed steal, and so on. The
other teams know what we use, but
the Giants are so speedy no other play.
ers can catch on.
II was up against It the first time
faced Hans Wagner. l looked at
McGraw on the bench. He flashed
back A. Hans hit high fly, which I
thought was lucky for me, because I
didn't know what ball bothered vim.
asked McGraw what stood for
Anything he replied. That
Dutchman has hit every kind Of ball
mile Just give him anything and
trust to luck and the flelders.'
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-04-13
MAROON IN SHARP CRITICISM
Chicago University 10 Charged With
PrcseIytlng for Students With
Records as Athletes.

Severe criticism Of the athletic de.
partmeht of the University of Chicago
are made by the Daily Maroon, the un.
dergraduate newspaper of the institu'
ton, in recent issue.
In addition to charging the univer'
sity with PROSECUTING for students with
records in athletics, the Maroon at
tacks intercollegiate athletics In gen
eral
Some of the charges are:
Candidates for the football team are
kept at work so long that they cannot
make even a pretense of studying.
Students enter the university largely
because of the opportunity Of exercis-
ing their athletic prowess.
That 80 per cent. of the students
take no part in athletics except to
shrek from the bleachers.
That those 80 per cent. have an I'm
sane desire to win and do not honor
any team which fails to come home
with the spoils.
That the remaining one per cent.
which takes part in athletics is physi-
cally injured by the exercise involved.
These things explain, the article
maintains, why college alumni are
not taking the active part in the af
fairs of the country they should" and
account for 'the commercial and po-
litical dishonesty that furnishes work
for grand juries and the senate com
mitteeS and the iailers
Not even tho most enthusiastic sup
poi Of intercollegiate athletics can
assert that 1t is genuinely student
activity" the editorial says. 1T con-
sists in ensnaring into college by spec
tacular methods students who have al
ready established athletic records in
preparatory schools. Little attempt Is
made to conceal the fact that these
students enter the university largely
because of the opportunity Of exercis-
ing their athletic prowess.
Zone per cent. Of the student body
specializes in athletics, while the other
SO per cent. sits on the bleachers and
gives vent to primitive shrieks.
Athletics is today too much of .
business. It's only object is victory.
Can anybody maintain that athletes
can even make pretense Of studying
when they are kept out on the athletic
field from three o'clock to seven and
eight o'clock at night? Can student
arising from hastily eaten meal at
$3.50 in the evening be expected to put
forth any serious intellectual effort
when he has been battered around on
the football field for four or five
hours?"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-04-13
@cow.ReI chorusr Barred.

New York boxing clubs have de-
cided to suppress recent innovation
at bouts in this city-namely the
Cow bell chorus" by which the ad.
mire~s of various local boxers have
been accustomed to show their ap-
probation Of the efforts of their
favorites.
Recently. club officials state. this or
ganiEed cheering" with horns, bells
and other instruments of noise pro-
duction has become so obstreperous
as to constitute nuisance.
About 80 per cent. of those present,
the club officials declare, do not ap-
preciate the efforts of the noisema-
kers, and will be glad to see 1t done
away with.
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Manager Duffy of the White Sox
says he believes the cant come back
theory is all nonsense.
Doc" Reisling, pitcher of the Wash.
ihgton club, has announced his deter.
mination to quit baseball.
The season oil consistency! Doc Rol.
Ter says the toe hold SHOULD be barred
but keeps right on using it.
Addie Joss arm is in plaster cast
again. Cleveland baseball stock for
1911 has slumped 30 per cent.
Thirty-three John Smiths" were ar.
rested at cock fight in Pittsburg.
Maybe they will get together" after
this.
Just after Howard Camnitz lost his
case with the Pittsburg club, he was
seen dining with President Barney
Dreyfuss.
Kid Mccoy punched Jack O'Brien in
the nose and also in the eye in pri-
Vate workout, and now there Is big
ado about 1t in Philadelphia.
Knockout" Brown OF New York has
ldu on O1JblCo III thC i4uo anu iOoL ODlJ
one. He has scored "a knockouts.
Pretty good for short bouts.
Jack Curley says he has lost all hope
Of matching Hack" and Gotch. Both
grapplers are training to be In shape
ii anything drops" just the same.
In Tex Jones, st. Joseph. a strap
ping six-footer weighing 100 pounds,
Charley Comiskey has hope" for
the first base position on the White
Sox.
Tommy Ryan, too, wants to take a
punch at that old fallacy so often
heard that fellow can't come back.
Maybe Tommy never went back at
that
What has become of the members
of the Holdout league? Some Of them
have transferred their membership
cards to the n't-Come-Back organi-
zation.
Harry Lord of the White Sox has
paid glowing tribute to Hal Chase as
a prospective manager. 1t is now up
to Hal to tell what good third sacksr
Harry is.
Those western college golf players,
who kindly formed western organiza-
ton, might stage match between
Chick Evans and Paul Hunter, and save
a lot Of expense on preliminaries.
Mathewson and Chief Myers are bat
ling about 1928 on the road, but their
zverage is expected to pick up about
..pr.l IL, when they start doing a little
playing" for the entertainment of the
.Jew York baseball fans.
Hal Chase will give Birdie Cree a
chance on his tnf1eld the coming sea-
son. Cree was wonder in the out
field last season, and Chase wants to
keep him in the game for his hitting
and base running again this year
Davy Jones Is the greatest come
back in the American league. The
Chicago Nationals passed him UP sew
eral Vee-N ago and sent him to the
minors. Detroit then took him ID
and Davy was a member of three
teams and is still a
star base runner
President Murphy does not stand
alone in his belief that the coacher at
third base should be compelled to re-
main In the box and refrain from as
sisting the base runners who overrun
The bag. Clark Griffith of the Reds en-
Iertains the same notion and wants
Murphy to make fight to have his
incorporated In the rules.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-04-13

instead of prowling around in search
Of opponents. Nevertheless, the ma.
jority of fightafollower would have
preferred to see him come out in the
open and give them taste of bis quail
ity. There is no denying that Morris
has done all that has been asked OF
him by his home admirers. But 1t must
be remembered that, with the excep-
ton of Marvin Hart, who is physical
wreck In sense, none of the men who
went down before the giants punches
were known to fame in the smuggling
business. 1t reminds one rather of
the many youths who take part In
bush battles" fights pulled of In pri-
yate, and the like; score up long list
Of knockouts to their credit-and then
fall down miserably when pitted for
the first time against some ringster OF
proven quality before bona fide ath.
letic club. This does not necessarily
mean that Morris belongs in the four
flush category. He may be all that is
claimed for him, and more, but the
public likes ito be shown" Booming
a coming champion is all very well,
but there comes day when the long
advertised pudding is put to the eating
proof.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-04-13
NEWPORT TENNIS DATES SET
AIl-comers' Championship to Begin
There on August 21-Players to
Be Sent to Australia.

Monday, August 81, is the date Sc
lected for all-comers' championship
tennis tournament opening at New
port. Though the 1911 contest will be
played on the Casino courts, as 1t has
been for the last forty years, another
movement is on foot to take the an
nual event to Philadelphia next year.
Newport won only after a bitter strug-
gle and the opposition to the fashion
able watering place will be united next
year under Karl Behr and Lyle E. Ma
han.
In the National Lawn Tennis associ.
alton meeting DR.. Philip B. Hawk car
ried a motion that the three best play
ers available be sent to Australia in
quest of the Davis international chal-
lenge cup The details were left to
committee to be appointed. The pro-
posed dual matches with England were
turned over to the executive commit
tee.
The delegates also decided to place
a penalty on any prearrangement of
the draw:
"Infraction of the rule requiring a
random draw renders a club or other
organization liable to loss of their
tournament the following years, except
that In competitions between nations,
states, cities, clubs and similar bodies,
where the competition is between such
bodies and not between players as in
dividuals, players may be placed in
such manner as may be agreed upon
by the management of the comDett
fions I"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-04-13

August Hermann, chairman of the
national baseball commission, when
appraised OF the betting syndicate that
had been organized to operate on the
games of the National and American
baseball leagues during the coming
season said:
While 1t is news to me, yet there
is no danger whatever that they can
ruin the national game. While ! do
not care to divulge the course tho COM
mission will pursue in the matter, you
can say positively that this syndicate
Will do no business whatever. we can
and will stop it Immediately.
There is no question but WHIST bet
ting and gambling would ruin baseball.
We cannot and will rot stand for it.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-04-13
Madden Backs Soprano.

Proposing big sweepstakes race,
which will bring together some of the
best trotters in training next season,
John E. Madden the other day threw
down the gauntlet in behalf of Soprano
(2:O7A) by posting his check for $500
to bind race for $1,000 corner, open
to all trotters, except Uhlan (1:58%)
and The Harvester GOD.
The race is to be trotted over the
track that will add most money to the
stakes. Mr.. Madden's stipulation Is
for mile heats. best three in Ave.
Horsemen regard the def as being
aimed especially at Joan (2:04N)
holder Of the worlds record for four
year olds.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-04-13
,RQRz&0VE
GasazR57A
-~

The crop OF ball players from the mi
nors is getting so scarce each year
that some new way has to be devised
for getting recruits.
Battling Nelson announces he will
fight again within sixty days" Why
Bat is going to keep the fans waiting
so long Is mystery.
Digger Stanley is disappointed over
his reception in America, he says.
Considering his two fights it was rath-
err chilly. to say the least
Manager Connie Mack has sold Pat
Donohue, whom he secured from the
Boston Red Sox, last year, to Mem
phis, in the Southern league.
Joe Cantillon has offered wager
that he will tame RUDE Waddell. He
ought to get big odds, as Rube has
worked under many magnates.
1t is a good thing that baseball
keeps Ban Johnson and Charlie Comis-
key busy seven months in the year, or
there wouldn't be any fish left.
President John l. Taylor will use
iris Speaker at first base II he finds
no youngster who is. capable of hold
ing down Jake Stahl's old position.
American bred dogs won over the
foreign rivals at the kennel exhibition
in New York. This was a wonderful
triumph that will be noticed--in New
York
Hofman's holdout did not last as
long as the ordinary players. II he
had started to hold out littla sooner
he would have had lot more adver-
Using.
Wouldn't 1t be in order to walt a bit
before handing the new flag to the
Athletics? There is fresh season
coming along and baseball dope often
goes awry.
Merchants of Jacksonville, Fla,
say business there has been utterly
demoralized by the vampires of the
turf who masquerade under the name
of sport"
Addie Joss is a Swiss, Bender an In
dian, Walter Johnson Swede, Walsh
an Irishman, Reulbach a German,
Mathewson a Scot and Ccombs an
American.
Jim Delahanty has sent out strenu-
Gus kick about the way his name has
been misspelled by SO many scribes.
1t is not Delehanty. but there are two
as to the right spelling.
Keep your old book Of football rules
and go on studying them until next
fall. The code will be the same next
season and a few months study may
give you an inkling of what the game
is like.
AL Kaufman knocked out Jim Flynn
In nine rounds on August 2S, 1908.
Here is a chance for Carl Morris to
shine as brighter hope" than the
man who sold himself for three years
for $4,000.
Mike Mitchell Is working out in
Jacksonville. Fla. Manager Grifilth sent
him uniform. Mike is quite successful
beating the races" However he
thinks he can make more money play
ing ball this summer.
Southpaw Karger and Irving Young
were discarded by National league
clubs and put In time in the minors be-
fore being given chance to come
back and show as members of the Red
Sox and White Sox that they possessed
big league stun.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-04-13
Race Horse az Tip.

"JAck" Strain, bell boy of the
Palace hotel, San Francisco. got a
horse for tip. Not tip on horse.
but real thoroughbred that has been
showing his heels at Emeryville. r.
]. Mackenzie, a horseman, was the
giver, and Kerry Cow, a three-year.
ord of fine breeding, was the horse.
TIE disbanding OF large stables of
thofoughbreds forced by the legisla-
tive act prohibiting betting, caused
the giving Of this handsome tip.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-04-13
xi.ld to Enullsh polo Players.

w. A. Hazard. secretary of the Ma
tional Polo association, has cabled to
the birmingham club Of England &C.
cepting the conditions of that club
that If an international match was de-
sired this year 1t should be played
prior to June 10. Mr. Hazard suggest
ed May 81 and June and as the
dates for the games. 1t Is believed
this removes the last obstacle In the
arrangement OF the international
match.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-04-13
Girls PLAY Hockey.

Girls play strenuous game of hook.
ey in Australia. In recent game be.
tween the Waratah and Thistle clubs,
the casualties were one finger broken
and another severely crushed. an eye
blackened and face irretrievably dam.
aged. knee bruised and shin cut SO
badly that the blood saturated boot,
several mouths cut and number Of
shins sliced through shin pads.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-04-13
| SIGNAL FOR HoNUs WAGNER
Manager McGraw Of New York Giants
Tells Pitcher Vanguard to Give
Plttsburger Anything"

"The giants have signals of their
own, and not team has ever even
come near to getting onto them," said
"Rube" Vanguard, Giant pitcher. eve
tell what's coming off in so many
words. too.
"The old style of lifting caps, tug.
ging at belts, standing on one foot,
and then the other, and gripping the
bat is obsolete with US. We use the
mute language which Dummy Taylor
taught us when he was with the team.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-04-13
Bicycle Trottlng sulky.

frame of the bicycle type, which is
not only very light, but is also very
strong The shafts of the sulky are
connected to the steering post of the
front wheel of the bicycle, so that the
wheel will follow the horse around
curves and sharp turns. The trac-
tive effort required with a vehicle of
this sort win be practically negligible.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-04-13
CUE TITLE GOES TO coNKLlN
Club Carries Off First Honors
In Billiard Tournament.

Charles F. Conklin, member Of the
/. A. C. in Chicago, winner of the
worlds 1872 balkline championship
for amateurs In the concluding match
at the Liederkranz club the other
night and national amateur champion
in 1905; has returned to Chicago. He
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-04-13
LIGHT SULKY FOR TRoTTINe
Vehicle Invented for Racing Purposes
That Takes All Of Drivers
Weight or Shafts.

In order to make sulky that will
be very light, and one in which the
weight of the driver will be entirely
removed from the shafts, an inventor
has adopted bicycle design. The
two wheels of the sulky are mounted
in tandem, and are supported in
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-04-13
e.rmans to Play Football.

The championship for the German
Football club VIII be contested for the
first time in Germany on the occa-
sion of the International Hygiene ex.
hibition In 1911, Dresden.
June 4 has been fixed as the prob
able date and on the same day the
German Football club will hold its
general meeting.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-04-13

believe that after "a hours have
elapsed you will hear very little more
of any betting syndicate"
1t has been learned through persons
given as reference that the syndicate
is located in Newport, KY, and is
headed by Louisville (Ky.) man we'll
known on the race tracks throughout
the country.
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will engage in exhibition matches

will engage in exhibition matches
there.
Not only did the Chicago stereo-
typer capture the title in decisive
manner, defeating former National
Char pion Ferdinand Poggenburg. 400
to 2M, but he achieved the best grand
average mark of the tourney, IL 1862
which Is a distinction tournament
winners always like to have. "Pog.
gle" takes second prize and two
minot awards for best individual
average, a trihe over IS. and high
run, los points.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-04-13
@kld" MCCOY ! pemon.tra,or

kid" Mccoy bobbed up at Philadel
phia the other day as demonstrator
in a local department store. He is
demonstrating an athlehc "consump-
ton cure" and stands in the auditori-
um OF the store four hours every day
endeayoring to persuade patrons that
he IL In the employ Of the concern,
which has an absolute cure for tuber-
eulosia
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-04-13
KERMIT ROOSEVELT A RUNNER
Son Of Former President Completes in
1,ooo-Yard Run at Boston, Fin
Ishing Near End.

Kermit Roosevelt, son OF the ex-
president, without running number, un-
announced and not appearing in the
program. competed in the 1,O00-yard
run at the annual winter carnival of
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-04-13
$4,000 stallion coino to Russia.

Allan Winter (2:061s), the trotting
stallion which in 1908 was sold to
Louis Winans of England for $4,000,
has been purchased by Frank Cation
for one of his patrons in Moscow.
Russia. The purchase price was not
made public.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-04-13
what,s the t,se9

Mrs. Spender-"If we deposit ten
cents a day at four per cent. interest
for baby until he's Of age. he'll have
s1,212." Spender-"What's tho usef
BY that time he can go to work"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-04-13
reach sboemakino.

Students in the technical school at
Northampton, England. one OF the
manufacturing centers for boots and
shoes. get a thorough course in leath-
err and footwear manufacture.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-04-13
onIv Sensible course.

A Chicago man has been arrested
for kissing his sister. This ought t.
convince a good many men that tn
only sensible course Is to kiss som
other follows sister.
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1911-06-01
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