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The Washington herald., 1912-09-29

he said. 1T was won long ago on the
football fields and on the baseball dia
monds scattered over the United States
The spirit that took or boys up thai
slope in the face of twice their number is
the spirit they learned back home when
they struck out their man with the score
tied in the ninth inning-the spirit they
learned when they played through foot
ball game with broken fingers"
Robert Bacon, formerly American Am
bassador to France, is an excellent polo
player, and in his youth rowed in a Yale
crew. His father stroked the first Yale
four-oared crew TO defeat Harvard and
he was also captain of the crew.
In his winning boat was a man named
William W. Scranton, of Scranton, Pa.
Mr.. Scranton to-day is worth a large
fortune, and so powerful is he in the
community in which he lives that he is
popularity known as the "Feudal Lord Of
Scranton" When William Scranton was
in college the coal fields of Pennsylvania,
where his father had made his fortune,
were in a wild, lawless section Of the
country. 1t needed strong men, as well
as brainy, to fight for what was theirs
and hold it.
1t was young Scranton's athletic train
ing at Yale that made it possible for him
to go into his fathers iron works as
puddler and work straight through the
smelters and furnaces until he knew the
I, IL.
when he wanted the secret of how tie
Germans made steel, Thu same Scranton
went to Germany and worked In several
factories as a puddler, concealing his
identity until he had learned all there
was to know about steel making.
= Men in the business world are beginning
to realize the value of athletics. Espe-
cially do they recognize that the associa-
tons and friendships formed By . man
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| team. This standard is above the aver
age required for a passing mark, but the
men attain it easily. They seem to learn
more easily than others and they know
what hard, gruelling work means and
are not afraid of it.
"An work and no play makes Jack a
dull boy, is an old adage, worn thread
bare, but ! cannot help quoting it, be-
cause It is 30 trae."
round to this way of thinking it must be
so, for they would be the last to cham
pion athletic sports if they did not be-
lieve them really beneficial The college
professor is frequently regarded as lean,
misanthropic individual. whose trousers
flap wofully about his skeletonized legs
when a breeze blows, but the day of this
type of man Is passing. Nearly every
school and college has a faculty baseball
team, faculty football team and what
not, and sometimes they excel the young
sters at their own games.
DR.. Finley, president of City College, is
a strong exponent of athletics. He
tramps thirty miles across country in
day, and it does not fatigue him. He
says he longs to get cut on the football
field or the diamond and play with the
students, but, of course, his position will
not allow that.
Men prominent in every walk of life
these days all indulge in some form Of
sport DR.. Henry Van Dyke, the writer,
spends his vacations padding a canoe
and fishing in the Maine woods or in
Canada-and that is strenuous work when
you have to carry your outfit and walk
miles over rugged trials.
After the battle of San Juan Hill Presi-
dent Mckinley expressed his appreciation
of the idea voiced by Professor Bryan.
at was not alone on that bullet-swept
hill In Cuba that the battle was won,"
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in life. He Jumps the pistol" as it
were, on the fellow who has spent his
study days porting over books to the ex-
Hoerenburg, who used to play end on the
Columbia University football team before
athletic sports there were denaturalized.
He was twice selected for the All-Ameri-
can football team.
when was kid" said Van Hoeven-
burg, 1t was question with my folks
whether to send me to Tombstone, Ariz.,
for the dry air or to sea for the salt air.
l had never done much in the way of
out Of door sports, and l showed il physi-
cally. There was something the matter
with me, but what it was 1 didn't know
any more than did the doctors.
Some said it was weak lungs and
others said it was malnutrition, and every
one of them recommended something diff
ferent. The family had just about made
up their minds to try Arizona on me
when along came friend of my father
and said ARIZONA nothing. Send the
boy to college and let him get into
athletics
"My mother was Mortified and my
father skepticaL but at last they decided
to it for year. l went to Columbia.
Football seemed to be the big thing at
the time, but l was built for football just
about the way hippopotamus is built
for flying.
Nevertheless. went out for my class
team. l was so skinny that every time l
got mixed up in scrimmage the other
men threatened to get pinchers to pick
splinters of my bone out of their flesh.
But 1 didn't get killed the first year, and
next year went back a. 1t. / had gained
some forty pounds and made the scrubs
varsity, and-well I was picked for ALI
American end"
Innate modesty prevented Mr.. Van
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Hoevenburg from going further into his
life's history, but here is the rest of the
story, as told By q close friend who
knows all about II.
BY the time Mr.. Van Hoevenburg left
college he was an OK for strength. After
a couple of years in business in New
York he went to Alaska. At Nome he
dallied with the goddess of chance one
evening and she deposited $1,000 in his
pockets. On the way to his cabin he was
set upon by four men vino were armed
with knives. Van Hoevenburg had moth.
ing but two fists and infinite nerve. The
first man who rushed him he tackled and
threw SO hard against the second that
they were both dazed for q second.
While they were gasping for air Mr..
Van Hoevenburg drove his fist SO hard
a gainst third mans face that one of his
knuckles split and what happened to the
face he could not tell in the dark. At
any rate this fellow gave no further
trouble, and the former football player
confined his attention to the three re-
robbers. BY the time the sounds
Of conflict attracted a constable there was
only one man able to resist arrest, and
that was Mr.. Van Hoevenburg. Of
course, he was released.
DR.. Jacob Gould Schurman, president
of Cornell University, recently appointed
to Greece by President Taft,
says that athletic sports have done quite
as much for Cornell as scholarship.
''Of course" said DIR. Schurman, study
is what colleges were made for, but /
mean to say that man must play along
with his work. We can't do either to the
exclusion of the other and get the best
results. Our men on the football field
stand quite as high as any in their studies.
They and the other athletes are required
to live up to certain standard before
they are permitted even to try for any
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athletics systematiZed AMI engaged IN
earnestly.
President Taft is 4 good example. He
is an ardent player of golf and vastly
enjoyed horseback riding before 1t be-
came necessary for him to ride horse
of such generous proportions that the
animal was unable to afford him the ex-
hilaration of speed. All know how ardent
a baseball fan is the President. Mr.. Taft
once said in an interview
IAN men are not able to engage in
systematic athletic contests, such as
amateur races or intercollegiate contests,
but even if they are barred from this by
press of business or physical disability
they may at least derive benefit from
some mild form of sport, though 1t be
only walking.
1T has been my experience that the
men for big tasks, men with spirit and
courage, are very likely to be men who
have had athletic training in their youth.
The. spirit of do or die which is inculcated
into them on the baseball or football field
or in the rowing shell never leaves them.
They expect hard knocks, and when these
come it makes them fight the harder.
For a red-blooded man there is an
irresistible zest in q good contest against
other men. Despite many theories to the
contrary, believe this to be quite as
beneficial as is the mere exercise which
athletics affords"
1t will be remembered that President
Taft while at Yale played baseball with
his class team. John d. Rockefeller Is
another national figure who extols athlet-
les. Though physicians have repeatedly
told him that he was broken man physi-
cally, the great financier still enjoys the
most difficult golf course.
Perhaps one of the greatest advantages
athletics gives man is 4 good fast start
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, engaged in athletics are of value in
business career. Not long ago a college
man was looking for a place. There is
no need TO mention his name, because it
would carry no weight, and he would pre-
fer not to have it divulged. We might
call him Jones.
Jones wanted to work In a bond house.
and having been referred TO a certain firm
he called at the managers ONCE. His
neatly folded diploma was in the inner
pocket Of his coat and he had a gold Phi
Beta Kappa key.
College man." asked the manager.
Yes, Columbia" said Jones.
What did you do in co!lege?" asked
the manager. ---
Il studied economy, ancient and mod
ern history, German
Certainly, certainly, that's what they
all study" broke in the manager. Il
mean what did you do, with a capital D?
Did you do any thing in athleticsf"
Il -rowed on the crew and did some
running" said Jones.
That's interesting" said the manager.
Il guess Wen try you, young man" And
he gave Jones a place.
Governor Woodrow Wilson is another
big man who believes in athletics. He
plays golf well and is fond of long, hard
walks. Every Saturday you will find
outgoing trains thronsed with business
men. They are all bound for the country,
but not to lie around in hammocks TO
grew fat. They are going to play golf,
tennis, basebsll-anything to give them a
taste OF athletics.
I'm losing several hundred dollars
worth of business by coming out here
said man going to play golf the other
day. Il ought TO be trading in the cotton
seed oil market this minute, but in the
end day in the open viii be good in
vestment"
The Washington herald., 1912-09-29

before and the men in charge of the
ticket sale are working night and day
to fill orders from all parts of the coun
try. Members Of the National Commits
sion, the Supreme Court of Baseball,
spent a great deal of time during the
last few months to devise methods by
which the confusion which attended last
years ticket sale might be eliminated.
At that time the officers Of the New York
National League team and the Phila-
delphia American League team were
swamped with orders for seats two weeks
before the series began.
They were unprepared for the great
rush, and the result was that many per-
sons who sent money orders and checks
did not receive tickets. Many Of the
checks and money orders were sent back,
but owing to the confusion did not reach
their owners for several days. Feeling
ran high when it became known that
ticket spectators had obtained hundreds
of seats for the games In both cities.
These tickets brought record prices,
and the spectators reaped a harvest.
Every precautiou has been taken this
year to prevent seats falling into the
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erly primed for discussion when they as
semble for the last act of the baseball
drama. That's why the event Is regarded
as a roundup of who's who In fandom.
Prosperous fans win make the journey
from far distant points to be on the
ground when the bell rings for the open
ing skirmish and viii travel back and
forth between the two backgrounds
until the contest is decided. The demand
for seats has been greater than ever
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base this belief ON the fact that the Bos-
ton attendance will be heavier than the
attendance In Philadelphia last October.
They point out that the Philadelphia fans
had two successive doses Of worlds cham
pionship games, while this win be the first
time In q number Of years that Boston
has had chance at the much coveted
honor.
The 179,S51 persons who attended the
1911 series represented only the oficial
paid attendance, the actual attendance
being well over the 100000 mark. The
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hands Of the Spectators, but 1t u next
to impossible to abolish the nuisance Al
together. The men in charge of the sale
are confident that these modern highway
men will be scarcer during the coming
series than ever before. While last years
scandal was still fresh in the public mind
the baseball-ofncials started an investiga-
ton, but nothing ever came Of 1t.
The same rules govern the playing Of
the series every year, the club winning
four out of seven games being entitled to
the big prize. The players share in the
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by Professor L. b. Bryan, president of
Colgate University, in addressing the
Teachers Institute at Pittsburg on
August IS. Now that Professor Bryan
has voiced this sentiment, it is found that
hundreds of other successful men in
America have long held this view that
it is not always the man with the Phi
Beta Kappa key dangling from his watch
chain that has more to do with the guild
ing OF the nation than does the man who
wears q golden football for a fob, signi-
flying that he played on varsity" team.
Not the bookworm who is nearSighted,
nor the grind who plugs far past the mid
nation" said Professor Bryan, "but the
man who is prominent in athletics.
at is the hero of the baseball diamond,
the gridiron and the cinder path who per-
forms the heavy and serious tasks which
confront him in life. God has written in
his own hand, Thou shalt play Play
is the greatest educational agency we
have to-day. 1t promotes initiative,
teaches self-sacrifce and implicit obedi-
ence to the laws of our country. 1t makes
the youth upright and honest. The dia-
nlond and the gridiron are moulders of
the great men OF our country"
CHANGING over the list of men most in
the public eye to-day it appears that
those who are at the top in almost every
walk of life are stanch advocates of
athletics. Most of them are champions
not only OF athletics US means of getting
exercise, but q competitive athletics;
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the players' share the winning team gets
sixty per cent and the losing team forty,
twenty-one members of each team being
entitled to share the teams portion of the
proceeds.
Six games were necessary last year to-
decide the struggle, and the total paid at
tendance was ITO, S51. The total receipts
were $342y 364-30, and of this amount the
players received $127,810.d. the clubs
500, 10S.72 and the National Commission
$34, 236.25. Each of the Athletics received
S3,854.5S, while the Giant players re-
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HE oil which is burned
il midnight yigils over
knowledge does not lubri-
cate the machinery which
makes the world go
round. 1u 4 nutshell,
this is the view expressed
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Hos going to win the worlds
baseball championship = the
New York Giants" of the Ma
tional League or the Boston
Red Sex" of the American
Leaeues
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-12
BROOKI.AWNS EXPECT TO
 BEAT COLUMBIA ELEVEN.

The game the football fans have played Saturday afternoon at New field Park when the Columbia A c. and the Brooklawn A. c. meet in their other Brickley. will play right half back on the Brook1awn team. He is considered one of the heetest play CTS in the state at the present tune and as he is Bridgeport boy his many friends will turn out to see him in action.
 Both teams will hold practice in their camps tonight and will rest up E-fday night so as to be in good con dition for the game on Saturday. This game is for side bet of $1oO and gers for the 135 ID. championship of the city Naturally both Captain Cody of the Columbia and Graham of the Brooklawns are confident of vic tory The sale of tickets is large and a good crowd is expected to be on hand Four twelve minute periods will be played; The t teams ;o Wll ff take ae 2:30. The line up: Columbia A. c. Broolz1awn A. O.
 Left End, Andes, Moran, Bone Marion, Bantle, Anderson
 Left Guard, Mcesras' cen+er railanl Brown, Keating
 Right Guard Logan, Poke, DooIan, Duino
 Right Tackle, Cleary, Hart, Flynn
 Right End, McNabb, McNa1ly, Kinnane, Phillips
 Quarter Back Mckay, McGovern,
 Si1verstone, Lindley
 Right Half Back, Walker, Leo Cunningham
 Left Half Back, Cody (Capt.1 Howe, J. Cunningham
 Full Back, Curry. Graham. (Capt.) Harmond
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-12
CHANGE WILL GET sI8,OOO
 SALARY AS YANKEE MANAGER
Deal Completed By Which Chicago Sends
 Tinker To Cincinnati

weeks Once Chance is turned scot Tree he will be at liberty to accept offered by President Farrell of the Highlanders. It is reported a salary of S1S,000 will go with the New York job.
 Hermann last night won his point when he got every club owner in the National league to waive claim to Chance. who in all probability will be- come an American Leaguer tomorrow in the service of Frank Farrell.
 In granting the release of Corridor flor the good of the American league, Navtn asked in return $S.000 equiva- lent to the sum he expended in get ting Corridor from the Kansas City club. This $s.ooo will be paid by the added in the deal
 One of the surprises of the meeting came while President Johnson was mingling with the magnates and man agers of his circuit requesting them to waive on Corriden. When Jimmy Callahan, leader of the White Sox, was approached by John, Callahan demur- red and announced he would not waive on Corriden. Immediately the league chief and Comiskey's lieutenant snatehes from which had to do with t'the good of the league Once the name of Chance was mentioned, "Cal''
 Before Chance departed for Glen dora, Cal, he had long talk with James R- MCA1eef, president or the Boston Red Sox, and at that time it is said the affair was practically ar ranged. It was also declared that Chance gave his word he would man age the Highlanders if it could be arranged and if the Inducements were suitable The former Cub leader is not through with baseball and has said so himself although many reports have had it that he is to retire. He said only recently that he would come back if he obtained the right proposition.
 The proposition Chance desires will be made to him, according to Arthur Irwin, the newly appointed business manager of the High1anders.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-12

hammer the sense out of him.
 At the end of each round Summers turned down his left sock and touched a rosary that was wound around his ankle, and at the call of the time to start each bout he dropped on one knee and passed his right hand across his face.
 When the fight was over and he had conquered on points after twenty fierce rounds, Summers again dropped to his knees in his corner
 Although in such a place and at such a time the actions of Summers seemed utterly incongruous, there was not even a litter from tn assemblage of sports and fighting men Indeed, not a few present were obviously nov ed by the simple faith and courage of the man.
 Summers has always been very de- vout. He is simple-minded ag a child, and honest and upright as the day in all his dealing both inside and outside the ring. Although his op- ponent was cautioned several times for holding, Summers was ScrupuiouslT fair in all he did.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-12
BROOKE NOT TO
 COACH PENN TEAM
DECLINES OFFER OF $1O,OOO TO TAKE CHARGE OF FOOTBALL
 SQUAD.

Philadelphia, Dec. 12-The football situation at the University of Penn sylvania is more muddled than ever. When the coach question was thought to be settled through the offering to George Brooke, the Swarthmore coach, a salary of $10,0O0 g season to coach the Penn students how to play foot ball, and when it appeared that Brooke had accepted the offer, the kingpin in the football world at Swarthmore comes out with the an nouncement that he will stay where he is.
 'I shah be at swarthmore next sea son. Brooke told the members of the football eleven ''I have no intention of forsa.king Swarthmore to- coach Penn. That is final.''
 Two reasons, both without absolute verification, are given for the change in front. of Brooke. The first, but not the likely one, is that -Swarthmore has met the $10,000 offer of Penn and the second is that one of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania trustees, who is largely interested in the welfare of Swarthmore, said the offer to Brooke must be withdrawn. This is believed to be the real reason why Brooke will not coach Penn next season.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-12
ANNIVERSARY OF ONLY BOUT PULLED
 OFF IN THE WATER

Tomorrow will be the twenty fifth anniversary of what was perhaps the only pugfltStfc en- counter pulled off in Neptune'S domain. with the Scrappers up to their hips in the salty drink. Jack Dempsey and Johnnie Reagan were the principals in this queer affair. The bout is also notable as being among the last of the championship bouts under London Prize Ring rules. Dempsey was the holder of the worlds middleweight title un- der Queensberry rules, but con- sented to defend his belt under the old code. Kid gloves were used, but in all other ways the scrap resembled an oId-time bare-knuckIe affair. Owing to the, interference of the New York authorities, it was decided cluded spot on Long Island Sound. The ring was pitched on a sandy beach, and the rising of the sun saw the combatants, their managers, and a small company of sports, gathered eight the fight began, with Reagan the aggressor. Johnnie wore cruel spikes in his shoes, and at an early stage Of the bat tie slaShed one of Dempsey'S legs. The wound was deep and very painful, and Dempsey was fairly entitled to the fight on a foul, but he game1y declared his desire to go on. After the flow of blood had been stopped and the wound crudely bandaged, the second stage of the peculiar battle commenced. In pitching the ring the tide had not been taken into consideration. and soon the ocean encroached on driven back, but the fighters, who were giving and taking with 8 vengeance, kept right on. The water rose to their shoe tops, then to their knees, and in little while was almost up to their waists. Naturally the movements of the boxers were greatly Handicapped, and both were thoroughly soaked when, at the end of the eight round, a recess was agreed to. The men rested until about noon, and then re-entered the ring which had been pitched on piece of turf beyond the reach of the sea. It did not require long to show that Dempsey was the better man, but Reagan managed by staIlfng and clinch- ing to keep on his feet until the 1Orty-fffth round Then Reagan's seconds threw up the sprOnge. The nliddleweight champiOn, de- spite the wound in his leg and his bath in the ocean, naturally somewhat cold in the middle of December. finished as fresh as a daisy, but Reagan was in a bad way and did not fully recover for several weeks.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-12
HOBBY BAKER TO
 CAPTAIN PRINCETON
GREAT ATHLETE SELECTED TO LEAD TIGERS ON FOOTBALL
 FIELD,

Princeton. N. J., Dec. 12-H. A. H. Baker, "A, known to the football world as libby" of Manayunk, Pa, was yes- terday elected Captain of the Prince ton eleven for next year. The Prince ton undergraduates are outspoken in their approval of his selection, for he has had a most brilliant athletic rec ord in Princeton. He was also one of the most consistent players of Capt Pendleton's team. This was Shfs sec ond year on the 'vansity football team, having played right halfback last year and right half this past sea son.
 His eighty yard run in the Dart mouth game through a broken field has made him one of old Naseau's football heroes. He was selected by most sporting writers for al1-American this Fall. He played right halfback on his freshman team and right field on his freshman baseball team He is considerably many to be the best hoe key player in the country. He is cap- tain of the Tiger hockey team this year.
 libby" prepared forfPrinceton at St. Paul's school, Concord, N. H. He is 21 years old, stands five feet ten inch es tall, and weighs 16O pounds.