The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-09
OPEN SUNDAY
WORKERS WIN
lieet With Good Measure of
Success i'm New York, Massa-
chusetts and Ohio.
ATHLETICS COST HARVARD
AND YALE 1926, 600 A YEAR
Six Nationalities Are Repre-.
sented in Baseball Team
Forming at Penn.
HY MANHATTAN.


NEW YORK, April s--The men who
in.e Sighting for wide open Sunday
eye meeting with mere or less success.
Senate: Sallivsa's baseball bill,
which will permit games Sundays, was
reported tavcrably last week By the
ssaate codes committee. The clergy are
/ fighting the measure.
The Massachusetts senate by vote
os fifteen to eight has moved to re-
c--sider its action in rejecting Sen
a.or Tinkbam' Sunday sports bill,
His measure, although generally
Known as the Sunday baseball bill, per
n,its any sport Sunday. providing it is
strictly amateur, that the players are
rot paid and that no admission fees
shall be charged.
The bill, which will make possible
the playing of Sunday baseball games
in Cleveland by the American league
and III several other cities of Ohio by
the minor leagues. has passed the Ohio
senate and viii soon be taken to Gov
ernor Harmon for his signature.
When IT was reported out of the sen.
ate committee there was not n single
dissenting vote against it. The min
isters served their notice uuon both
the senate and the house that they will
contest this measure in the governor s
of1ire
Many of them say that they will
make strong effort to have him return
the bill to the legislature. IF he al
lows it to go without his signature for
a certain length Of time it becomes a
law without his approval
The Cleveland delegation to the leg
islature has taken personal interest
in this measure, called the Greeves
bill
Athletics Cost s425 Day.
The latest athletic statistics contain
comparisons of the cost of maintaining
athletics at Yale and Harvard uuiver-
sites. Last year it cost Harvard 1927
945.
This makes an average of about S425
a day for the ten months of the col
lege year. Football was the most ex-
pensive sport, costing $3l 900; crew
came next with an expenditure of SIS
4s0.1s. baseball cost Sl1,177,3l, and
track SS994 90
AT Yale the amount used in main
tanning athletics was even greater, foot
ball costing nearly $4,000; baseball
$22,SS7. only $500 being made by the
baseball management Track athletics
cost $13,369. Rowing, which makes no
money on admissions. cost the univer
sity over 100000
It is said for a certainly that the
Irish h-American A. G.. team will be sent
to the national championship meet at
Pittsburg in June. The man who OPP
nosed sending the team was Martin
Sheridan, member of the board of
directors.
To Visit England.
1t is now believed that picked team
of Yale and Harvard track and field
men will visit England this summer and
compete in joint meet against OK
ford and Cambridge. The contests are
carded for July and will fit in nicely,
coming probably six weeks after the
American intercollegiate championships
at Cambridge the latter part of May.
While no agreement exists to guar
antee the meeting there is an under
standing by which the best men of
Yale and Harvard will compete against
the Oxonians and Cbambridge Oxford
and Cambridge have track teams of
exceptional excellence, as evidenced by
the capital work done recently in the
intercollegiate sports.
A remarkable baseball team, to be
called the Cosmopolitans. is being or.
ganized by the students of the Uni.
versity of Pennsylvania. The name is
appropriate, as in the lineup are ma