The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-04

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that he could not pass the ice water
at lunch without spilling IT.
"Tbere is no game and no race worth
looking at in which the sprint does not
count to some extent, And 1t is their
ability to sprint when necessary. and
often al the most unexpected stages,
that has put American athletes at the
top of the heap. The. ability TO excel
ones own best performance comes of
the realization of ones responsibility,
and this realization comes to the ner-
vous temperament. 1t is this and not
the phlegmatic temperament that we
need in our athletes, and generally sue
ceed in finding
Donlin to Play Ball Again,
Mike Donlin is expected to resume
ball playing for awhile at least. He
has been practicing here daily.
Donlin has other ambitions that to
cavort in the outficld. He has watched
with envy the progress made by his
former playing mates, who are now
managers. McGinnity, Dahlen. Johnny
Dunn and Jennings are getting lots of
money as generals. He wants chance
to lead a championship team, and Nc
Graw always predicted that Donlin
would make a good manager.
The Giants leader does not believe
that Donin can "come back as
strong as he was three years ago.
But he wants to help Donlin get back
so that he can show just how we'll he
can handle team.
Donlin left the Giants TWO years ago.
not because of i'll ll-health or any kick
with the New York club. Through his
wife, Mabel Hite, he, was successfully
launched in theatricals. He was booked
in vaudeville to the amount of nearly
10000 for season of six months,
When the club contract was sent to
him he refused a salary of about $4,000
when he could pull down $4,000 for
the same period, six months,
Now he is independently comfortable,
but his love for baseball has never
diminished.
Harry Smith of the Pastime Athletic
club track team, won one of the queer
est races ever recorded. He beat Harry
Jensen. his clubmate, in the seven and
one-half mile run of the Brighton Beach
Athletic club, covering the distance IN
43 minutes, but only FIVE men out of
the fifty starters finished. All the ath-
letes really crossed the line, but forty.
FIVE ran out of their course, and not be-
ing checked at the regular points, they
did not count in the official finish list.
The mistake was made at the cross
roads at Sheepshead bay. and only the
leaders hit the right trail, while the
others ran the wrong way, and those
in the rear blindly followed those in
the front. At that time Harry Smith
and the quartette which trailed him
led by such a distance that the ohers
could not see them.
Jensen beat Ahlgren in the last mile.
when the latter had expended all his
reserve energy chasing Smith: G; Levy
of the Glencoes finished fourth, far be-
hind the first three of the Sprocket
Athletic club.
Harvard s football schedule shows
that the West Point. Cornell and Bow
doin games have been dropped.
In place Of West Point, Harvard
takes on Princeton. aud the Carlisle In.
dians take up the date that Cornell had
last year. Holy Cross is added in place
of Bowdoin. The schedule:
September 30, Bates; October z, Holy
Cross; October IA. Williams; October
81, Amherst; October IS, Brown; No
vembcr 4, Princeton at Princeton; No.
vember II. Carlisle; November Is, Dart
mouth; November 25, Yale.
Franklin Rudell. the Yale sprinter,
will become member of the New York
Athletic club after the close of the
college year, He viii! represent that
club in the championship meet.
Sought vindication, Not Money.
Having won his suit for alleged slam
der against President Ban johnson of
the American league, Montgomery
Ward. formerly famous ball player,
said he didn t care a penny for the
verdict of $1,000 which jury in the
United States court had given him;
the vindication was the thing he was
after, He intends TO give the money
to charity.
Mr.. Ward was congratulated on all
sides when the verdict was turned in,
and although efforts were made by Law
yer Elkus. who is handling the case
for Ban Johnson, to appeal the YER
0ict and demand new trial, Judge
Hand refused to grant the request
Merkle is the leading base stealer
in the National league, with John De-
vore close second. New York and
Cincinnati are tied for honors in this
department of the game.
Cobb and Collins are having a battle
royal for. the base stealing honors in
the American league, and this pair has
eonsiderablesl slead for this honor.
Athletes of the Boston Athletic asso.
citation are eongratulating themselves
on the acquisition of Harlan Holden,
the Bates college balf-miler, who broke
the New England collegiate record at
Springfield. He is a promising oandi-
date for national championship honors.
:. 1t does not look as if Yale would
have stadium for the next football
season. The graduate committee is
going slow about recommending large
outlay for new. stands. although It is
the general opinion among that body
that the present stands and field are
inadequate,