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New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
HOCKEY BATTLE STILL ON
Crescent A. G. and Wanderers
Meet in Deciding Game.

Although several games In the Ahateui
1Iockev League series remain TO be playeo'
tho important game which Will actually
decide the championship and possession ol
the be silver trophy will take place on
Friday night at the ST. Nicholas hlhh'
,,.ber the Crescent Athletic Club team ana
,bo scrappv little bunch Of Canucks VINO
call themselves the Wanderers meet IN
their second and final game of the series
Roth teams are tied in the lead with the
Nev York Athletic Club seven in thlrd
Mace. hut too far away at this period In
the struggle TO give the leaders mucn
cause for anxiety. The st. Nicholas ana
tIockev Club teams are hopelessly out OF
the fight. although both teams Will be in
act;op once again before the season ends.
lust what the outcome OF the deciding
game will be is as much Of an enigma to-
dav as il was at the termination OF the
first half Of the season, when four teams
were tied In the lead. The Wanderers and
crescents have each lost one game IN the
tournament. but the fact that the former
defeat was at the hands of the Crescents
may have a significant bearing upon the
result of the final and deciding game
The other game this week will ne
played tomorrow night, when the New
York Athletic Club and the Hockey Clup
meet for their final game.
The standing OF the teams is as follows:
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
Roth. Mohawk A. C. Comet, Wins
Biu Race-0ther Meets.

The balmy weather OF yesterday ac-
counted for the large fields which accepted
the invitations from the metropolitan
clubs holding 'cross-country runs. Thirty
sturdy runners mustered at the Morning
side Athletic Club. in Harlem. They tur-
njshed one of the best races of the season
Arthur Roth, the comet of the Mohawk
Athletic Club, was the ultimate winner
with a hundred-yard advantage over JACK
Hopahan. of the Franklin Athletic Cluo'
who was second. The Bronx winner Gov
cred the distance In 1914. which Is only
one second behind the record performance
established by Joe Malone, a cluomate' IN
an open race two years ago.
John ]. Williams the speedy MorninGslde
boy. who led for three Of the four miles
at a cracking pace. found his energy eX-
hausted when challenged by Roth and
Honahan, at the third mile, finishing in
third place, two hundred yards in the
wake of the Franklin club athlete.
Hooley, Of the Pastime Athletic Club who
has led home packs on nine separate occa-
sions. had TO retire at the second mile.
when among the leaders. owing TO a severe
stitch in the side. lie was conveyed In an
automobile to the clubhouse.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
Clash of the Rockies Is
Scheduled for St.
Patrick's Day.
rnr Telerraph 10 The tribune


San Antonio. Tex, Feb. 2S. A junior
worlds series game between the freshmen
now trying for berths with the Giants ana
Philadelphia Athletics is now one OF San
Antonio's prospective sporting events A
plan to have the pick Of McGra"s ana
Mack's young players meet here IN On ex-
bibition game on ST. Patricks Day was
one Of the developments Of McGraWs WISH
TO san Antonio to-day.
NcC;raw ran down from Marlin last nlsht
IN spend the day with John T. Brush Inc
New York mogul is quartered at the Men
ger Hotel, where Connie Mack lew Gays
ago brought his young players. Almost the
6rst person that McGraw met in the Men
Ger was Mack, and they had a long In
for,ral talk in the lobby. Mack invited Nc
crow out to see the young Philadelphia
p,avers at practice, but McGraw decllned'
as he returned to Marlin at o'clock TO-
rigbt and wanted TO spend the afternoon
with Brush.
The possibility OF clash between tho
Rockies Of the two big league champion
teams was dilated on at length SATURDAY
NIGHT bv Philadelphia correspondents tol-
Lowing a conference between Mack and
Brush. ,McGraw was besieged for informa-
iion hut was non-committaL He talked the
matter over with Brush. who seems 10
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
FINCKE KEEPS H|SaT|IlE.
Amateur Racquet Champion,
Beats Gordon Douglas.
MATCH GOES FIVE GAMES
Douglas Played in Determined
Fashion, Winning Third
Game by Placing, 's

Boston. Feb. 25.-Reginald Fincks -
New York, will continue to be the anna,.r.
racquet champion of the country for !.
other year. In the final round of the a.
nual championship tournament at the Tan.
mis- and Racquet Club he defeated II "
Gordon Douglas. also Of New York thr..
games out of five. the scores being I5--,
15-1i, 11--15, 9-l5, 15-3.
Neither man played the game he ma,
capable Of, yet the match was an intsr.,,.
ing one to witness. Fincke took the A..
one very handily, his run OF 10 aces whsr
In service for the third time being ,ha
feature. The champion was ahead an n.
way through the second game.
In the third the tables were tu-n.a
Each man had many opportunitie. !,
hand, but failed repeatedly to seor.
Fincke took the lead, but his opponent \.
brilliant place Shots put him out OF hars
many times before he had added point.
Douglas played determinedly, and enalIv
piled UP such lead that his opponen, wa,
unable to catch him.
Douglas continued his good placing I,
the fourth game and won IL neatly. After
rest the contestants renewed the hattle
and in the deciding game Fincke ran away
from his opponent, who missed many easy
returns.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
T,xpfor Worlds Series
Planned BY Big Leagues

ho IN favor of such game, but declireu W
,,,sLe a positive statement afterward.
70 .bts game is arranged 1t VIII be the
Mo snorting event Of the training season
q, rovas hut there will be a distinct un-
sa..s,a,,I,,q that none Of the players VINO
participated in the worlds series ias' ye"'
will be eligible. IN ,o, NC da-
Thus san Antonio fans VIII not ue
ceived into thinking that they WIN 'e'
paker hitting against MatheWson OF am
thing like that. None but new players WIZ WIZ
no available. Morris Block owner VI '''o
Co, Antonio team, is urging McGraW 10
oorsort IN a test which would be played on
p,ocly,s grounds Possibly percentage VI
tI,o ao,o receipts would be divided among
Mack has about twenty high class young
stars down here. and right now appears ~
have II on. McGraw in the strength oi MS
Youngsters. McGraw has no young eaten
ors IN hecin with. and does not kho" NO"
his pitchers will shape up
rhe New York manager has always oeeh
onrosad IN interleague games in the sprins.
He figures that pitchers try 100 nalu o. "li.
r,In the risk Of seriously damaging 'nen
arms. but II Brush wants the game ho'
Graw will go TO 1t.
Both managers are not sure wnetner -, suct,
= game would be permitted by the Natonai
Commission, and probably no definite ar
rangernents can be considered until an Of
fetal ruling is made.
McGraw was urged 10 remain mere an
other day, but insisted on getting nach 70
Marlin TO make up for the time lost there
last week.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
PITCHERS TWIRL TO DUMMY
New York University Squad Be-
gins Novel end Active Practice.

Following suggestions of Albert June tiie
football coach. football dummy mas peei
rigged UP in the cage in the basement VI
the University Heights gymnasium As i
result yesterday the large battery s9uau
started In in earnest TO work the hlAs
out Of their arms and get their pitchius
vision trued up. The pitching stan, al
ways New York University's weakest poih'
in baseball, has an unusually large nun
ber of aspirants this year, ana Saplaii'
Nixon is confident Of good results III 'ie
coach's innovation OF the dummy oatter'
The men who reported YESTERDAY are
Moore. Sinnott. Brown. Wade, Corneh'
Comfort. Partisch, Wellwood, McLaugil.n'
Green and Mcintyre, pitchers. and Eliine'
Ayres, O'Rellly and Graham catchers.
The flelders, over thirty in number, VIII
work on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thurs
days, and the batteries on Wednesdays and
Fridays.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
REILLY SWIMS TO VICTORY
New York A. G. Amphibian Wins
Title at Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh, Feb. 25.-No records were
broken In the Middle Atlantic swimming
championships of the Amateur Athletic
Union. held at the Pittsburgh Ath-
ledc Association here last night. The 800
yard championship, the chief event, was
won by Reilly, New York A. C., In e:S2 To-
Ritter, of the City A. c., New York. was
second, and Nerich, Of the New York A. c.
was third.
The fifty-yard race was won by Duke
Kahanamoku, the Hawaiian. in 25 seconds.
The lC0-yard race he also won, In o:07 40.
The 20O-yard relay race was won by the
Pittsburgh A. A. in 1855 4-5
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
ROSE ON OLYMPIC TEAM

San Francisco, FEB. 25.-Speaking Of
Ralph Rose, who broke his own worlds
record in the shotput with a mark Of %
feet inches last night, Gustavis T. Kirby.
president of the Amateur Athletic Union Of
America, predicted to-day that Rose would
reach mark of 81 feet with the shot Kir-
ny said that Rose would be Americas rep
resentative at Stockholm. He also assigned
probable places on the American team Ia
Sam Bellah, the Portland pole vaulter ana
Forrest Smithdon. the Los Angeles hurdler.
Elimination contests for Pacific coast en-
trants to the Olympic games will be held at
Stanford University on May IS
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
NEW BASEBALL CIRCUIT.

st. Louis, Feb. 25.-John T. Powers, pres
ident of the Columbian Baseball League,
who arrived here last night, said the circuit
Of cities where teams will be located has
been arranged. The re-arranged circuit,
according to Powers, includes Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Louisville. ST. Louis,
Chicago, Kansas City and Milwaukee, or
indianapolis.
st. Louis capitalists are expecting to fur
nish money for the Indianapolis club.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
BOWLERS ENTER FOR TITLES
New York State Sends Nineteen
Teams After Championship.

Chicago, Feb. Diminishing touches to-
day were put on the eighteen alleys over
which the 1912 championships of the twelfth
annual American Bowling Congress will be
decided. The tournament. which will con-
tinue for twenty-five days, will open at the
Dexter Park Pavilions Saturday, March 2,
All records for entries in bowling tourna-
ments have been broken. Five hundred and
ulnety-eight f1ve-man teams, LAP two-man
teams and 2,S91 individuals have entered.
In nearly all 1000 bowlers will compete.
New York state will send nineteen teams.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
M'LEAN A SKATING MARVEL

Cleveland, Feb. &.-Robert Mclean, o.
Chicago. the international amateur skating
champion. won the finals in every event IN
the National Skating Assocition races here
last night, with Wheeler, Of Montreal, On.
fishing second in each race.
The time for the races was: Quarter mia
80 As seconds; three-quarters OF mile,
2:14 3-5; mile and a half, Az lis. These
races are the last of the tournament to bs
held by the association.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
WISCONSIN MAY ROW NAVY.

Madison. Wis, Feb. 25.-An invitation
was received yesterday by the rowing au-
thorities at the University Of Wisconsin
from the United States Naval Academy at
Annapolis for varsity and freshman crew
races TO be held at Annapolis during COM
menoement week. Van. coach OF Wiscon-
sin, is in favor OF accepting the invitation
II the crews could arrange 10 leave here in
time 10 have a weeks practice before the
racAa
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
The Summaries follow

Jack Gleason. Of the Pastime Athletic
Club, clipped eleven seconds from the four
mile course record OF the Bradhurst Field
Club In winning the weekly event. Gleason
gave the fastest performance this season
setting the new time at 21:5s. Eddie Jordan
captain OF the Xavier Athletic Association
team, was poor second, some thirty-three
seconds behind, while IN turn, came Eddl'
Baxter. a Mohawk club runner.
GLEASON for the first three miles pursued
a stifr pace set by William Queal, tho pro-
fessional runner. who broke the worsted In
20:5l. Sixty-eight entrants, the largest held
this season, faced the starter.
b. f..ll..L.--
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
TIE LIKELY AT BILLIARDS
Muldauer Leads in Battle for
Harlem Glass A Title.

Mark Nuldauer, who leads tho tournament
being held at the Morningside Billiard
Academy, 125th street and Lenox avenue,
to decide the Harlem Glass amateur 1S2
balSllne billiard championship, will play
George p B. Clarke, the national Class r
champion. IN the opening game OF the con-
cuding week Of the series tonight. II
Clarke is able to defeat Muldauer four men
will be tied for first place, but In the two
final games between Clarke and NJ Isaacs
and Muldauer and Ed Barnes. the present
holder OF the Harlem title. q final tie in all
probability would be AVOIDED.
The standing Of the players is as follows:
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26

The reserve clause IN baseball contracts
has ever been much mooted question, and
when William A. Whitman, president of the
new United States League. announced, with
blare of trumpets, a few days ago that
baseball slavery Is to be abolished" in
his league by omitting the reserve clause
the controversy was aroused afresh.
read with much interest an editorial on
the subject in the current issue Of "The
Sporting News" and the exposition of the
case is so clear that am glad 10 reprint
It. It says:
Mr.: Whitman makes a play 10 the CALLER
les that will fall fat with any one who has
the least understanding OF the necessary
fundamentals OF professional baseball that
would maintain an organization beyond one
season ANY one with brains enough to
provide for the morrow realizes that the
reserve rule. rigidly enforced and honestly
oDeyed, rs vitality essential to the life of the
game, Without 1t clubs of any league
organization, great or small, would soon
fail Into hopeless chaos, they would break
up IN storm OF quarreng at the end of
the hrst season and millions of invest
uents would be so much junk. No club
could afford 10 spend dollar for PLAYERS
rnless II knew Il would retain title to their
services, and organized baseball as cne
writer has expressed IL, would go TO find
ers II all the cities In every league were
Uniform In population and money resources
there would be little need of reserve
rule. Each would have q perfectly fair
chance aid would compete I'm the omen
market Tor players. If any magnate failed
then, to puild uT' winning team, he couli
be accused Of Stinginess or poor Judgment
IN making selections Utopan conditions
would prevail and everything would be de-
neutrality-suspicious. each team would win a
pennant
But things do not break that way. To
round out an eight-club circuit cities Of
varying wealth and population must be in
ciuded. A reserve rule guarantees the
poorest club the right TO the services of lis
players: no Weather club can grab it's star
performers. II makes the selection of a
team as much a matter Of Judgment as of
ability to bid high: Il gives the club or
manager who is slowly building up a team
patent right 10 his Phiuty Of organization
and selection, for no one can steal his
players as soon as they blossom under his
training. Without q reserve rule the rich
est magnates would soon gather in the
star players and there would be no contest
worth the name: New York would have all
the Walter Johnsons and Ty Cobbs that
Chicago did not get, and Washington and
Detroit would have a standing OF go I'm the
percentage table. Again ~ a club had no
guarantee Of title to its players does any
one suppose that big prices would be paid
for the talent from lower class leagues :?
Would Pittsburg pay 800 for a Marty
Q'ToOle If Chicago could take him away at
the end of a season? The national COM
mission report just issued shows that the
sixteen major league clubs have for the
season of 1872 invested practically a half
million dollars in new talent. Every dollar
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
The snmmarics follow:

Charles Tlmmins, the speed crack Of the
Mornlngside Athletic Club. defeated the
large field In the weekly run OF the PEN
nant Athletic Club. He assumed the lead
at the outset, never to surrender IT. Tim
MINIS won by 200 yards
o,,,,.,,.rt.s foIIn,ys
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
The summaries follow:

Nineteen members Of the Glencoe Ath-
ietic Club competed in the monthly handi-
cap four-mile run of the club, held over
the Harlem course. Joe Bedell. with the
liberal allowance Of $3.50, practically won as
he pleased. crossing the llne in the time Of
1910.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
The summaries follow:

John McDermott, the fast runner OF the
Pastlme Athletic Club, had to exhibit his
best iinishing sprint TO win over Harry
Fliege, of the Mohawk Athletic Club In
the weekly run OF the Rronxdale Athletic
Club.
The summarize fnllnW:
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26

1t turns out that the reports from Chi
cago a few days ago concerning the failure
Of the American League to approve the new
national agreement were exaggerated.
Frank ]. Farrell, owner of the Yankees, is
responsible for the statement that no es-
sential objections were made by the club
owners, but that it was felt that the wording
Of two or three provisions should be more
carefully constructed. In view Of the fact
that the agreement will not 90 into effect
until next year, or. rather at the close Of
the coming baseball season. 1t was deemed
advisable 10 have the changes made, slight
though they be, TO the end that all who
read may understand the intent and thus
avoid interpretations which oftentimes are
unsatisfactory. These slight changes will
be concurred in by the National League IL
they make for clearness, and those who
tried to see in the action Of the American
League another chance for a possible base
ball revolt must now seek somewhere else
for a scandal
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26

In a measure the reserve clause III con
tracts Is the cornerstone OF baseball II
has been said from time TO time, ana pos
sibIy It carries some truth, that the Cou' 'e
would not sustain an action which give
the power TO one man Of buying ana sen.
ing the services OF another, but the ld|I
remains that the players sign the contracts
IN full understanding and good faith anu
while there are times when hardship 10
worked no otheV plan could be oeViSeo
which in the long run would prove
acui+abIe 10 all concerned. The cry Oh
baseball slavery is sure to be raised from
time to time to shock and arouse thoso
who unknowingly consider that the aver
age baseban player is sadly abused man.
It will matter little, however as 'hoSe
who give the question any thousht W., W."
soon realize that the reserve rule rlg,uy
enforced is quite as important TO baseOah
as the constitution is TO any state or ma
ton.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
d.. : Ro1ng Basketball = BDarEs

Of that money is based on the guara1,c.ee ~
the reserve rule furnishes that the sen SCI re
OF those players shall be secure ui.l ~. dts
club that has paid for them desires 10 ui
nose OF their services And the same tsJ,a
hold good down the line through '"'
minors.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26

It was my pleasure to attend the dinner,
and the atmosphere fairly was charged
with good fellowship. Harry w. Smith
master Of the Grafton Hounds, who was re-
sponsible for the first dinner year ago.
and who worked so hard TO make the sec
ond one an even greater success, is deserv-
ing Of a vote Of thanks from all sports
men. Much was done to stimulate interest
not only in the horse. but in sports Of the
turf and field. It was rather shocking to
hear that out of $4,000 thoroughbreds In
this country FIVE years ago only 5000 re-
main It shows TO what frghtful extent
the decline Of racing has affected the breed
ing Industry, which involved millions Of
dollars. The economic loss to this country
cannot be estimated, and once more I say
that it seems a pity that a blow aimed at
public bookmaking should have fallen so
heavily upon the great and inyigorating
sport Of horse racing.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
COMMENT ON SPORTS
RaCetraCkS the Testing Ground
for the Thoroughbred Horse.
BASEBALL'S CORNERSTONE
News and Views on Live Topics
of the Day, Both Amateur
and Professional

Those who attended the sportsmen's din
ner at the Waldorf Astoria last Monday
evening heard lots about the horse, par
ticularIy the thoroughbred but little about
racing. Many had hoped that some inkling
might be given as to possible plans for the
coming season, but these were foredoomed
10 diss ppointment, as the statement has
been made on more than one occasion by
those closely Identified with the various rae
ing associations that there was little or no
chance Of opening the tracks with the So
called directors liability law on the statute
books. While disappointed in this respect,
not one there was who did not go out well
satisfied that something had been done TO
check the stream of thoroughbreds which
has been flowing out of this country in the
formation Of the United States Cavalry and
Artillery Remount Association, of which
Major General Wood, chief Of staff OF the
army. was elected president by acclama-
ton Colonel Roosevelt has promised 70
serve as one Of the vice-presidents, and
every effort will be directed toward encour-
aging the breeding of horses suitable for
cavalry purposes. Indirectly, the more op-
timistic see in this some hope for racing,
as General Wood himself declared that the
racetrack was the testing ground for the
thoroughbred, and that the thoroughbred
strain is absolutely essential in the breed
ing Of a horse up to the standard demanded
by the War Department
New-York tribune., 1912-02-26

"Packey" McFsrland's hrst black eye has
been a troublesome injury. The optic
which caused the cancellation Of "Packey's'
match with Young Erne did not yield TO
local treatment, and Mcfarland has un-
dergono an operation for relief His match
with one Round Hogan has been postponed
for two weeks.