New-York tribune., 1911-03-13
Baseball x Auomoblng Golf Basketball Bowling Country Running Il oh

40 strong in sprInters. weight men and
runners AZ Il Is in distance runners. the
intercollegiate games in the Harvard
stadium the last of May would be as good
as won. The making Of worlds relay
record for four miles Few DAYS ago is
another indication that cornell Is even
stronger. perhaps. than In recent years III
men who can so distance at top speed.
Even now IL can be predicted that the
monopoly that the Ithacans have had on
the cross country championship will not
be busted" this year. 1t is a case of hats
of 10 Jack Moakley.
Basketball is quite as much in need OF
reform as ever was football, and more So
The game has been barred at Harvard. 1t
has been discontinued In the Boston
schools and 1t is under pressure nj other
places. Poor officials have done much to
injure the sport as the rules appear TO DC
plain enough TO cover undue roughness,
but that does not excuse or palliate some
OF the exhibitions given this year. Ine
Yale Daily News, in commenting edi-
to,ially on the subject in its issue of March
6. says.
The number Of games won or lost py
Vale during the season is lost sight OF IN
the criticism that has been' made OF Inc
rOughnesS of the plajmg. III the ne W
papers of the country are IN accoIu III
Sucakinc Of a game as extremely ana .'l-
NECESSARILY rough. the result OF n-Wheli'e.
won or lCSt-matters little. We reailEe , 'IitV
these newspaper accounts We're ol.en - ~ !,
distorted, but they At least nal sVhlg VH
grounds for their criticism. II odsNetu"ii
is 10 continue the game should be pldEsu
differently than il has been TINS seds"n
For. while the rough playing was coliilSu
TO one or two men almost altosetner' uiS
, taste left Is none the less decidedly Ddu
Something must be done by the SUP, supip'n Nio',,
OF the game to assure hereafter sucn Iielit s,a
playiue as that which CharacterIeu uIc
last two games played and 70 arouse hioic
general interest in the sport
THE Yale Alumni Weekly" goes further
by saying.
Greatly as all graduates will regret nc ne,
occasion. public discipline OF an oHenulns
Vale team was necessary. Inc pldNlnS ~
tho team had made scores OF ldIe I ldu-
u9fes indignant and heaped most unn!eds-
ant accusations OF unfair pay upon rrol i"'|
f.riate sport is of an order that makes far
PLAY ana control Of temper lmposSi olcaa, s, 10
We can hardly imagine Yale unoers' a1u. ~
etcs adm1,ting such a thins-then the
ouickeT we put IT on the retired list the
better for all concerned
With McGraw trying 10 show his new
Giants how to hit 'em where they alnt .
with Arthur Irwin trying TO discover an
other Russell Ford: with Hal Chase train
Ing some OF his Yankees in the art Oh
throwing snowbals. and with Bill DAMIEN
dreaming OF winning a remnant with MS
Superbas, the baseball training season went
merrilv on last week-and the real fun only
four weeks and two days away
king" Brcckett is welcome ADDITION
10 the pitching staff Of the Yankees Hav-
ing seen the error Of his ways. he mas
decided TO come back II IS only neces-
sary for him 10 show some Of his oldume
form to he a thorn in the side Of his oppo-
nents.
An English exchange says that simpson
a famous soccer football PLAYER OF scot
land. has been sold 10 the Rovers. or
Blackburn. for S9Co0. Soccer stars appear
to be in as much demand tbroad as base
ball stars are in this country.
HERBERT.