Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-22


Newark; but I went down to see
Newark win or lose on its merits.
Some four years ago Umpire Bill
| Byron was jeered and hooted by a
Newark crowd, and later when he
came here he was welcomed as the
best umpire in the league. Umpire
nagging never pleases the real fan,
whom | think is in the majority here.
We can't win a pennant by chewing
the rag, and a protest by ball
player under such conditions as in
Sundays game never yet met With
any reward Swacina hurt his club
by being suspended, and hurt himself
by the fine which will probably be
imposed upon him. Did he hurt the
umpire in the least by his kickingg
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Now that Yale has overwhelmed
Brown, small hope can be held out
for Princeton when it comes down
to the biggest college baseball series
of the year. This situation is more
manifest now than ever before. For
one thing, Yale has been going great
guns all year while Princeton only
lately has been displaying any class
at all Without delving into details,
Yale, by her sixteen consecutive vic
tories, is being hailed as the king
of college baseball for the nonce.
| She has played no better ever and
she has seldom played as well. She
has been fortunate with her men
and her men have been ever ION the
job" Yale, from every angle pos
sible, looks to be just prmed for
the championship this year. That's
the way it looks-but listen!
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| Princeton is just now getting into
her stride. She has won her last
three games, and she has shown rare
strength and marked improvement in
! her work. Young Copeland, the most
is growing better every day. For "A
time it seemed as if he would not do.
He was wild and cratic and couldn't
steady down. But the lookedfor
change has come, and Copeland is
making good with a vengeance, just
as Captain Worthington said he
would.
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the Bulldog when it comes right down
to cases-that is another question.
1t has been so in the past that
Princeton has won from Yale when
Yale has least expected defeat. II
has been so on the diamond and it
has been so on the gridiron. Tige
has won when he has been whipped
flguratively, into submission before
hand. The college baseball history of
1913 will be watched with more than
the usual interest, for the simple
reason that Yale, when she seems so
strong, is sometimes pie for Prince
ton.
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More than one funny little angle to
the Gunboat Smith-Jess Willard
fight might make it appear as II
Smith was well played in the pool
boxes to win, and thus won; but all
the dispatches from the coast, while
admitting that it was poor fight,
also declare that it was a perfectly
honest battle. The trouble Is, the
heavyweights of today are so devoid
of pugilistic class that a good fight
one day doesn't mean that the next
fight will be just as good Smith, we
know, is not much. His victory over
Bombardier Wells gave him lots OF
| notoriety, but 1t was because of nc
| marked ability that he won, but
! rather that he was unfortunate to b'
able to be in a position to win. Wells
clever and all that, couldn't stand the
| gait of a lightweight, and his only
chance was in landing a knockout In
the early stages of the bout, for Bonn.
bardier can hit. too. Yet on thai
| uBut SOl Otlltt il6litS, anu Vi
the Willard fight he will get more
fights. in lieu of which, we might re
mark, what's the use of being a grea
| fighter when the ordinary Smith il
| getting all the battles and all tn,
dough?
Jack Britton, in his recent fights
has not been showing much stability
and in his last battle, the one will
Eddie Murphy at Kenosha, near Chi
cago. was rather a disappointment
Murphy, who is good boy, beste,
Britton in at least seven out of tn
ten rounds. and but for savag
rally by Jack in the final session
Murphy would have been awarde,
the verdict. Not so very long ag
Britton was about written into tn
championship by his most able man
ager, Dan Morgan. Even the glow
ing tributes paid to Kaye Brow
paled into insignificance when com
| pared to the numerous nice thing
said about Britton.. Jack became a