The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-05

Francisco. where he played last year, The
newSpepers eadipess tbs we're 9dmpeied to keep 4
cleans UP with Another Home Run
Joe Tinker announces that he has riyer
up the stage for good
Edward c. Landgraf. formerly owne,
team OF the Hudson River league is busy
organizing the old Atlantic League. In ths
league there will be the following cities
wilmington. VIII, Del; Chester, Pa: Allen.
New Brunswick. N. j., Middletown, n
Y, and Newburg. These cities will give
the league population of over half q
Otto Knabe. second baseman of the
Phillies. who has been numbered among
the holdouts, went TO Philadelphia a few
DAYS ago and after a stormy session with
President Fogel signed a contract fol-
three years. but not before Fogel had
changed the figures in the original con
tract and had given Knabe a handsome
salary boost.
The contract of Charles Tesreau, the
Shreveport pitcher, was received by Sec
retary Gray OF the Giants recently Tes-
reau tops all the other pitchers OF Nc
three inches. In the Texas league last
year he won fifteen games and lost four
teen.
Well Stocked With South-Paws.
This will be a very interesting year
for left-handed batters in the American
with left handed pitchers. The list runs runs
New York, Vaughn. Burbank. Ables and
McGrainor; Cleveland, Mitchell. Gregg
and Yingling;, Athletics. Plank. Krause.
Inns. Karger and Hunt; Detroit, Mitchell,
Cavet and Peasley; Chicago. White.
Young and Baker; st. Louis, Bailey and
George; Washington. Gray. Otey and Bus
sey.
The eastern championship skating
races have been postponed until Febru-
ary 1S by the skating committee under
whose auspices the events were to have
been run of at Downing Park lake jan
uary 81.
1t was rumored that Manager Chance is
to send his entire pitching staff of the
quarters two weeks In advance Of the
OF the players. This will be
something new for the Cubs. but Chance
has so many new men to try out that he
Is anxious to have them all in good
shape by the time the balance OF the
team reaches New Orleans.
Cecil Ferguson. once a Giant, has quit
the Boston Nationals to travel for a
hardware house.
Athletics In Universities.
Princeton college makes a speciality of
baseball There are teams without num-
Der, and they play to win. The Tiger
nterclass baseball games are games of
quality, and are as hard fought as any
ates take the game seriously and they
learn more inside BALI before junior
year than do the young men at any
other eastern university. The result is
good varsity teams, with large body
u men scarcely inferior to the varsity
players. At many other institutions the
game is haphazard affair. but at
Princeton IL has roots. and they go deep
down into the history of old Nassau.
A. A. Stages interest in intracollege
athletics. and his determination to push
this form OF competition at Chicago. is
onf civ lie Cfnn i.,
he leading athletic directors who heartily
'avor athletics for the mass of the un-
he is not blind to the fact
hat the general playground Is a good
feeder for varsity teams With an
entire university busy with intramural
the tone of the athletic sys-
EN- is raised. and the coach OF the var
;ity team does not have to go about
,egging for material.
Iaziness Is often at the bottom Of the
allure OF the men to come out for the
cams. Their interest has to be stimu-
ated and there Is nothing like competi-
ion as A stmulsnt. The lazy man viii
BASS the university playground day after
lay. perhaps. but In the end he Will Sue
,umb far more quickly than when pass
ng the varsity squad. Once in the field.
Ind granting that he has the native
cam until he reaches the top.
This in the long run is the only sue
,essful method of building teams. II
g better than a thousand exhortations
rom the coach, better than a hundred
mass meetings or any amount OF singing
md cheering In the effort to stir UP en-
husiasm.