The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-12
LEAGUE PLANNED
 BY SPORTSMEN Representatives of Sports Will Meet in New York BALL PLAYERS SIGNED President John I. Taylor of the BOs- ton Club Says He Has Only
 Two Men on Bonus
 System
BALL PLAYERS SIGNED
BY MANHATTAN

sportsmen generally together on Febru- ary 15, where, after a feast, 1t Is proposed to organize them into league of sports men, whose mission it will be to oppose legislation against racing and public eorts
 N is planned to hold sportsman's din- ner at the Waldorf-Astoria February 15, which is expected to surpass anything of ebc kind ever held 10 the city. The idea suggested itself because many sportsmen will be in town on account of the follow ing: The Westminster Kennel club dog show, February 13 to 16; annual meeting of the Hunts committee. February Is; annual meeting of the Masters of Fox hounds, February 16; meeting of the Ma tional Beagle club, February IA, and the westminster Kennell club show of fox hound and beagle packs, February ,l6. Members of the following turf and field clubs have been invited to attend: The Jockey club, National Steeplechase, and hunts association, Hunts committee, Master of Foxhounds association, West minister Kennel club. National Horse Show association, the Polo association, and the Gentlemen Riders of America. James E. Sullivan, chairman advisory committee of the Pastme Athletic club, recently had a conference with pr. George J. Fisher of the Young Mems Christian association, and he secured the o:1e-mile Young Mems Christian associa- tion relay championship for the Pastime games at Madison Square Garden, March IA This event will bring together all the crack Young Mems Christian associa- ton teams The men now competing on the Young Mems Christian association teams are faster than any before, and a new record for the organization mile relay will probably be hung tp, With the inter er-city-inter-bourough mile relay Young Mems Christian association relay championship, three standing broad jumps, scratch, ten-mile run the Pastime club will have four feature events that outclasses anything offered the athletic fans this winter, and as usual the meet promises to be the leading one of the indoor season. #E
 John I. Taylor, presidentsof thet Boston club, says 1t is not true that his pitch CTS have signed under percentage agree ment. Only two men have been signed under bonus system, and they under bonus for keeping in good condition f In regard to cutting salaries, Presi- dent Taylor says~he has not done so ex- cept in three cases, and that to- those men he gave an opportunity to make it up by percentage.
 
 coralled and sighed by the Red soxsclub are Frank Sniith.f Benjamin sFg Hunt, Charles Hall, Martin McHale, Walter F. Moser. Thomas J. O Brien. c. J. Mahoney, Joseph Wood, Edward V. Cicotte,s Jean Dale. George T. Pierce. Thomas F. Mad cen l.. c. Nunamaker. Charles D. Thom- as, H. F. Bradley, William Purtell, Charles Wagner and H.. c. Janvrin.
 The University of Michigan may be represented on track or field by one or more Chinamen. There are fl Celestials in the university. Also there are IA in the gymnasium taking athletic training Jack Barry, the Milwaukee outfielder has quit baseball to become associate with land development company in the state of Washington.
 Smashing the worlds ice skating record for 220 yards recently in the Boston arena, Fred J. Robson. Toronto Rowing club, went the distance ] 1-5c seconds faster tfan his own old mark and beat a fast field in the first event of the finest speed and fancy show ever given in this city The new record is IS seconds.
 "I object to football" said Dr. E. E. Elosson of Chicago. Not because it gives pain to players, but because it gives pleasure to the spectators. Let students H-dy- IOOlDdll as InuCH as they llke ana stop when they get tired, according to any rules or none. If there is nobody watch ing them they will not injure themselves much and others not at all. The evil of the prize fight lies not in the fight, but in the prize.
 "The real value of an athletic contest may be presented by fraction whose enumerator is the number of players and whose denominator is the number of watchers. present or absent As the lat ter number increases, the game degener- ates into sport, the sport into spec tacle and the spacoacle into a gambling device. For every man who takes part in an athletic contest personally there are 100 who take part by proxy and 1000 in absentia.
 ITO the multitude watching the game the numbers appearing on the bulletin board, the ticker, or in the papers might as we'll be produced by a roulette wheel. This. in fact, may be expected as the next step in the evolution of the game. As the fox hunters have dispensed with the fox and the produce exchange with Ii oduce and the policy shops with the lottery wheel the football of the future may be conducted without players. This , will save some 30 lives year and great deal of misspent energy, and will afford just good an opportunity for the dis play of college loyalty through the stalk ing of desires or currency
 
 Lafayette college team will not play a football game with Princeton next fall, This information was corroborated final ly a few days ago when Manager J. D. Lindsay of Lafayette received letter from Manager B. D. McClare of Prince ton to the effect that the Tigers would be unable to arrange the game. It is probably that Princeton now intends to take on both Harvard and Dartmouth, which gives old Nassau enough hard games.
 At the dinner given by Col. Robert M. Thompson. president of the New York Athletic club, several announcements were made by him showing that he has a leaning toward athletics, track and field, notwithstanding he is fond of all sports. He said that in order to retain their athletic supremacy 1t was neces- , sary for the club to from time to time rcplenish it's team. and there was no bet ter body to draw from than the Public School Athletic league. He suggested that championship meeting of the high schools of this city be held next June under the auspices and management of the club offering prizes for this meet.
 Lacrosse at Columbia is dead. The Ath- letic association has abolished the game on account of lack of inteerst. ' It is believed the game was abolished because the association expects to be ''hard up" before the year is over. The general student body feds that instead of m q that aaldOn1