The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-07
LAUGHTER MAY
AID MEASURE
Sullivan Will Try to ChuckIe
Sunday Bill Through
Legislature.
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
TO SELL, SAYS REPORT
Miss Berri, Theatrical Singer,
Wants to Join National
Rife Association.
BY MANHATTAN.

BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.
NEW YORK. May 6.-The Sullivan
senate bill relative to Sunday baseball
and other athletic sports provides that
the common council or the board of al
dermen OF cities and the board of trus-
tees OF a village or town may, upon It's
own motion or upon the petition OF per
cent of qualified voters, submit TO the
| proposition to determine whether or
not athletic sports between and 7
o'clock In the afternoon on Sundays shall
be permitted. 1t Is also provided that
such question another election shall not
be held Tor two years after.
The bill may go through II the friends
OF 1t are diplomatic. One of the reasons
why men favoring sporting bills have
failed Is that they offensive and given
to making threats; Sullivan says he is
going to try and laugh the measure
through the legislature.
There have been woe and desolation In
Newark. n. j., because Manager Joe
McGinnity Of the Newark Eastern League
club was fined $50 and retired for five
days by President Edward Barrow for the
part he played in the trouble at the OPEN
Ing game there. Jack Hardy and Matty
Mattress Of the Montreal team, who were
mixed up in the trouble. were fined SIS
each and suspended for five days. The
dispute was on the question OF ground
rules,
Believes in Ragtime Drop,
"a pdSeDdu IAN mas come In the 'front.'
with. a suggestion which Manager John
MoGraw believes will be OF practical use
Ned Wayburn. the producer. always of
an Inventive turn Of mind, has invented
the 'ra Stime" drop. which. he maintains,
| is impossible to hit except by chance
Mr.. Wayburn is one OF the most loyal
fans in the Giants list and every game
when he is In town, sees him on the
grand stand.
Wayburn and his brother, Ralph. were
once the prize battery on brilliant team
In Chicago: Ned was the terror OF most
hatsmen with his many curves. He hopes
to see the pennant flying at the Polo
grounds and he believes his new rag
time drop will help put 1t there So does
McGraw, and that enterprising manager
recently induced Wayburn to don Tre-
beau's practice uniform and instruct Mar
guard in its intricacjes. Marquard mas
tered the drop quickly and, with Way
burn behind the mask, he struck out
Mike Donlin four times running
Marquard, who is the. only pitcher In
the secret. expects to win many game
with 1t for the Giants,
When the Wayburns were ball players
they changed places daily, one day
pitching and the next catching, They
now a theatrical man.
Picks Graceful Team.
One of the Giants financial hackers
says: while all-America baseball teams
are under discussion want to pick rep
resentative team. The fact that some of
the best -pl players in the country figure on
most graceful men in the profession Is
as follows: Pitcher, Walter Manning;
catcher, Sullivan; first base. Hal Chase:
third base. Lee Tannchill; right field,
Browne; center field. Bay; left field,
Paskert.
Tommy Hayes; representing the Irish
races. has the distinction OF winning
prize In every championship cross-coun-
try event this year
teams-baseball and track especially
in the south for the Easter vacation. the
problem OF the up-to-date coach is
than when the first call for candidates
was sent out. Approach the coach Of
any OF the big eastern teams on the sub
tect OF the so-called scramble for the
varsity letter. and he will tell you that
the search for the varsity man of high
callber Is as difficult as the hunt for the
blue -nosed Bangor or any other rare
Why Small Man Wins.
Time and again the coach will find a
big. ungainly chap stumbling across the
campus. keeping erect merely because he
is falling forward so fast that he simply
him fast enough to keep himself erect.
only to learn that this natural. loose
jointed athlete cares more for his own
To such man the Idea Of team work
is often a total blank. This is one OF
the reasons why the small man, with
through. often appears wearing the
coveted letter when tho born athlete
adorns tho bench. There is no cure.
apparently: for this state state Of 1s, AFFAIRS save
against college activities without the
courage to accept 5ols d or ~ tw9 %. N the
tuition. To the lasting credit OF the
| small man be IT said that the history OF
m sbe or o small man
There are conflicting stories about
Madison Square Garden; the gre great sport. t.
building has been sold for sS.40000o 1t
Is said that Madison Square Garden has
finally been sold.
tax list at s3.190,000. The garden has
been the scene Of some of the most ia
nous sporting events in this country The
building will be torn down and office
buildings erected in it's place. There Is
talk about the city buying It,
The report Is that an option on the
property until July 15 has been given to
Henry Corn. who is said to have the
backing OF rich syndicate, but Presi~
dent r. K Sturgis and J. c. Young. the
secretary and treasurer OF the company
Negotiations Pend.
three syndicates," Mr. Sturgls said. "but
no option has been given. and 1t is hardly
probable that one win be given. We will
sell when we have the proper kind Of an
offer. But the. garden viii stand another
year, anyway"
Mr. Sturgis and the other directors
would like to see the garden preserved.
but they are not prepared to make fur
Their financial sacrifices.
| Maude Lillian Berri, weIl-known the
atrical singer. has applied for r,ember-
ship In tho National Rifle association,
| organized for the promotion OF rifle prac-
| tice, In q recent gallery contest Miss
| Berr made a score OF % out OF a pos
slble 30. II accepted. she Will compete
in the medal contest at Fort Perry. Ohio,
In July
| Hiph,flyers HE to Saltnir Friday