Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-30
BASEBALL 0N TRIAL
 SAYS DEAN BRIGGS
Chairman of Harvard Attn letics CriticiSeS Tricks
 of the Game

BOSTON, March 30.-Dean IaBar- on R. Briggs, chairman of tho liar. ward athletic committee. in making his rep"r' for the year l910-11. treats of the four major sports Of Harvard and in criticism of sharp practices de clareS baseball is on trial as game for gentlemen He says:
 In the four major sports Harvard University teams won reasonable share or victories. The football score was to against Yale, was almost universally regarderddd radshdIrucmi universally regarded as a defeat for Harvard, since Harvard was believed to have a stronger team than Yale and the strongest team in many years The record of the track team was sad Harvard not only lost to Dar mouth and Yale but was distressing ly weak at the intercollegiate games qualifying with six men and winning only six points and not a single first place.
 The crews have sustained the repu- tation of the Harvard crews in the last few years. The base ball team with mediocre material and eXperi- mental pitchers, played and won its first Yale game at New Haven and won again at Cambridge. rendering third game unnecessary. The players were drilled and disciplined with strictness and intelligence; the men who directed them were masters Oi the game to whom an earnest team could not but respond.
 Raps Tricky Baseball.
 Drfuue af lauprh the subject of baseball and tersely of the game in the following way: If it is baseball to bank up a DOT ton Of the field in a fashion scarcely noticeable to visitors, and to practice Junting into sloping places carefully prepared for ones private use-li this, of which at least one important university has been accused, and Of which, according to Mr. Fullerton any professional baseball team may be guilty, is baseball, baseball is DO game for a decent man. Granted that no two persons will draw precisely the same line between difference, be- tween honorable strategy and a low trick there remains & fundamental dif- ference between sport and sharp practice that even a child can under stand.
 If students are wax in the hands Of unprincipalled coaches, if generos- ity to Q rival is ignorance Of the game, il, in short, the game Is not the game but an intricate collection Of such devices as would ostracize man in anything else, college baseball should Ge stopped at once and forever. II q Is the duty of patriotic students Co make all the noise they can while the visiting pitcher is facing their rep ! resentaiye, if it is the duty ot the | catcher to ''steaEly the pitcher bJ remarks that GncidentiyJ unsteady the batsman, if baseball must. as the | Yale Alumni Weekly puts it, ''dege nerate into vocal competitions on ths
 part of the players, or in efforts ;a rattle the opposing pitchers, on the part of grandstands, the sooner We | have done with the game, the betier | Says Baseball Is on Trial. [ PaseIall is cn. trial at Harvard. aa- cnrdiug to !Iern i3rigEs. who declares 4ftcr cuoting an article at len stn hy
 Hugh Fullerton on the trials of base
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 "1 quote this at length to give Mr. ] FullertOns article chance to show
 with some fnlness my reason for
 believing that baseball-which ] re- gard as almost or quite the best game [ in existence-is on trial as Q game for