Evening journal., 1913-12-30
Baseball
Odds and Ends

his appearance as pug. He is anxious
to squint at any l22-pound boy from an
opposite corner. Harry has had some eK-
pericnce in amateur bouts, but cxpects
10 make his professional debut in =
Philadelphia ring IN the near future.
The Wilson Line five is another team
in local circles worthy of recognition
Eddie keefcr the clever little forward,
is making name for himself by his
clever floor work. Wlitcside is also dis
playing much of his od-timc form. The
Wilson Line boys are anxious TO meet
Brownson seconds.
Hook Walter Earren is proving
valuable man to the Delaware Hardware
team He has scored % points in the
last four games.
Jimmy Murphy. the aggressive little
lightweight. who has been cleaning up
the '26-poundcrs in Philadelphia lately
added another victory to his list on
saturday night. On that date he Jour.
neyed 10 Norristovn, where he defeated
Willie Straub in the main bout of an
all-star show His recent victories over
Preston Smith and Buck Fleming have
caused considerable talk around the,
east. Pat Mcconnell the old-tim
Wilmington pugilist, is handling th,
Murphy affairs and is well pleased witt
the work OF his pupil. Pat" has match
ed Murphy to meet Johnny Daley o.
Pittsburgh for January j at the Olym
pia Club, Philadelphia. Murphy has th,
carnarks of conner and Judging from
the regularity of his millings, he must
be delivering the goods in true blu,
style,
Billy Rogan, who played a stellar
game for the Concord Heights football
team last season. is considered one ol
the fastest cage tosscrs in the city. He
will play in the Salcsianum. Alumni
school game tonight.
Time and again there have been
lectures on golf and articles on its
Psychology but it remained for the
University of Illinois to add to its
curriculum course in golf links
construction. To further this plan
the university viii acquire enough
ground for an 18-hole course. Pro-
fessional experts will be secured to
put the field in condition, after
which lessons" in the great game
Will be assigned. The idea of adding
some sort of pastime to the college
course making athletics compul-
sorry one. is getting to be quite rage
among the big universities of the
country. 1t is not surprising to see
Illinois among tho first to get in line.
Professionalism has proved to be
stimulus to amateur soccer, and the
line. which is so closely drawn in this
country. is evidently a mistake. For
example: In London there are 10 pro-
fessional soccer teams, a very small
number when il is considered that be-
tween 10000 and 10000 amateurs are
playing Dr. David Starr Jordan, for
mer president of Leland Stanford
University. who attended the fftieth
anniversary of the founding of the
Football Association of England.
wrote to friend that wherever the
professional has made his way the
amateur has prospered exceedingly.
The alarmist VINO continually shouts
from the housetops that the profess
sional must b. kept out of amateur
sports may change his views a bit
and help professional as well as
amateur sportsmen. The profession
ais experience is hound to benefit the
amateur if the two are encouraged.
BY this it must not be understood
that professionals and amateur
should compete in the same events,
but they should be given little
more scope than at present. The
Amateur Athletic Union authorities
now have question before them as
to whether the amateur is to be en-
couraged by competing with the
best professionals in matches to ere
ate better records.