The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-10
SPORTING GOSSIP
By MANHATTAN

New York, April 9.-(Special.) )-The men who are fighting for a wide-open Sunday are meeting with more or less success
 Senator SuIivan's baseball bill, which will permit games on Sundays, was re- ported favorably last week by the sen ate codes committee. The clergy are fighting the measure.
 The Massachusetts senate has by a vote of 15 to 8 moved to reconsider it's action in rejecting Senator link hams Sunday sports bill.
 His measure, although generally known as the Sunday baseball bill, per rdts any sport on Sunday. providing tie same is strictly amateur, that the players are not paid and that no ad- mission fees shall be charged.
 The bill which will make possible the playing of Sunday baseball games in Cleveland by the American league and in several other cities of Ohio by the minor leagues, has passed the Ohio sen ate and will soon be taken to Governor Harmon for his signature.
 When it was reported out of the sen ate committee there was not single dissenting vote against it. The min isters served their notice upon both the senate and the house that they will contest this measure in the governor S office. m
 Many of them say that they will make a strong effort to have him return the bill to the legislature. If he allows it to go without his signature for a certain length of time it becomes law without his approval of 1t.
 The Cleveland delegation to the leg islature has taken a personal interest in this measure. called the Greeves bill.
 The latest athletic statistics contain comparisons of the cost of maintaining athletics at Yale and Harvard universi- ties. Last year 1t cost Harvard $127,- 945.
 This makes an average of about $425 day for the ten months of the col lege yeaf. Football was the most 'ex- pensive sport, costing nearly $40,000; baseball $22,sS7, only s576O being made by the baseball management. Track athletics cost s13,369. Rowing. which makes no money on admissions, cost the university over $20,o00.
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 A new system for controlling the football' coaching department at Prince ton has been adopted by the athletic advisory committee of the university.
 Five alumni will compose an Athletic board which will have full control of the coaches and all but financial mat ters connected with Princeton football. The system of coacbing will be de- termined by the committed,
 Efforts are heinz ma fJe a f. tbe mi . versity to. devise. means for procuring a permanent football field. and seating accommodations for 10000 persons.
 It is said for certainty that the Irish American Athletic club team, would be sent to the national championship meet at Pittsburg in June. For the past month t has been asserted that no team would be sent and some of the athletes were uneasy.
 Tie man who opposed, sending the team was Martin Sheridan. a member of the board of directors. His oppo- sition was strong. and heStred to con vince a majority of the members that irasmuch as the club had been victori- ous. so many times it was not necessary to send b team
 tis nowabelieved that picked team of Yale and Harvard track and, field men will visit England this s,lmmer and compete in joint meet against Oxford and Cambridge.s The .contests are carded for July and will ft- in very nicely, coming as they will probably six weeks after the American inter- collegiate championships at Cambridge the latter part of May While no agreement exists to guaran- htee the meeting, there is an Understand ing by which the best men Of Yale and Harvard will compete yagainst the OK onians and Cambridge.