Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-02-16
SPORTING NOTES
Exposition Auto Show opens in Pitts.

GAPoSitiOh Auto OuON OpSuo Ia iltS'
burgh tomorrow.
Cleveland's annual motor car dis
play will be held next week.
Fifth annual Minneapolis auto ex.
hibition will be started tomorrow.
National Motor Boat Show will be
held in Madison Square Garden during
the next eight days.
Columbia's annual relay meet in
New York tomorrow will attrNct the
best runners of the East.
Seventy-fourth Regiment Athletic
Association will hold its athletic games
in Buffalo tomorrow.
Cincinnati's automobile show, open
/ ing Monday, will. be divided into two
sections and last two weeks.
Omaha and Binghamton will be
among the cities having auto shows
next week, and the Toronto show
opens Wednesday next.
Figuring skating contests and speed
skating races, both for the champion
ship of Sweden, will be held tomorrow
and Sunday
/ st. Nicholas Rink, in New York, will
be the scene of this years indoor
American championship skating meet
tomorrow.
Wrestling has received the sanction
of the Harvard athletic committee as
a regular branch of sport and a dual
meet with Yale will be held Monday
Basketball games scheduled for to-
day include Yale VS.. Columbia at New
York and Cornell VS.. Princeton at
Princeton. Cornell will play Pennsy
tomorrow.
Columbia's fencing team will meet
Harvard at Cambridge tomorrow when
the Yale swordsmen will also open
their season against the Military Acad-
envy at West Point.
Harvard has scheduled nine football
games this fall, including Maine, Holy
Cross, Williams, Amherst, Brown,
Princeton. Vanderbilt, Dartmouth and
Yale. All but the last named will be
played at Cambridge.
RUDE Waddell, the former big league
star, has started on his way back to
the bushes. RUDE has signed to play
the 1912 season with the Minneapolis
club of the American Association-and
that may be fast company for the old
timer.
John j. McDermott, open golf cham
pion of the United States, will go to
Scotland next June to make an at
tempt to add the open championship
of Great Britain to his string of titles.
This is the first time an American-born
golfer has entered British champion.
ship meet.
New York Giants will pitch their
training camp at Marlin, Texas, next
week and begin to swat the ball and
timber up for the opening of the big
show in April. Connie Mack will also
start south next week with his worlds
champion Athletics, and all the other
big leaguers will soon be on the wing.
This years American Henley re-
gatta will be held on the Schuylkili
at Philadelphia on Saturday, May %,
according to the decision of the board |
of stewards of the American Rowing |
Association. The events will be the |
same as last year. Commander Lam |
ming of Annapolis and Fred Allen of |
Yale were elected to the board of
Owing to the recent revision OF rules
by the football doctors, there is sure
to be lot of scoring done in the grid.
iron games this fall. Last year most
Of the contests between the big eiev-
ems were scoreless or had low scores.
until the rules are
changed again-it will be possible to
score touchdown on the forward
pass
Willie Hopes fifth meeting with
George Sutton in New York recently
clearly and finally demonstrated the
of the boy Wonder over
his old-time antagonist, the ex-cham-
Dion. Sutton ought to be convinced
now that he isn't in the Comeback"
class. The score was 500 to $50, and
he great disparity about represented
he way the two players compared.
New York boxing club managers and
managers of fighters have been busy
Turing the last ten days collecting
names for petition against the pro-
posed repeal of the Frawley law, un-
Ter which box-fghts in the metropolis
Ire now conducted. They expect to get