New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-08
TIMELY BITS OF SPORT
Football Almost Sure to Get the
"Rest Cure" This Year.
DATE SET FOR MEETING
Boss of Cubs Sets Price OF
$4,000 Each on Evers,
Archer and Bresnahan.


The intercollegiate football rules COM
mittee will hold its annual session at the
| Hotel Martinique on February II al
o'clock The time of the meeting indicates
that the work in hand can be completed
! in short order. as in recent years 1t was
considered necessary TO begin in the morn
Ing and struggle with the rules all day.
The revised code adopted last winter
was generally approved by players and
onookers during the last season, and in
all probability the changes if any. will be
along clarifying lines, with nothing ne"
or radical. The time has come at las'
when the game can profit by the res'
cure"
The committee of fourteen is MADE up
of the old governing body of seven and OF
seven appointed by the National Collegiate
| Athletic Association. as follows;
! Representatives of old body: Professor
| 4 A. Stage. Yale. SIS. representing the
University of Chicago. Captain 81 W.
Reacham l.. $. A.. Cornell % Percy -.
| Eaughton. Harvard 90 Professor PAU D.
Dashiell, Johns Hopkins. 80. representing
Annapolis: DR.. Carl Williams. Pennsyl-
i
and Walter Camp, Yale. so.
REPRESENTATIVES of National Colcgiat-
| Athletic Association r. X Hall, Dart
mouth: Professor James A. Babbitt, faie'
representing Haverford Professor W. IL.
Dudley. Vanderbilt: Lieutenant V. w.
Cooper. L. s. A.. West Point Professor
! c. w. Savage, Oberlin; Professor S. c.
Williams. Iowa. and Dr. II. l.. Williams.
Yale. 81. representing the University OF
1 Minnesota.
CAPTAIN Bcachams place rs Cornell
| representative may he taken by Dr. \. ~.
! Sharrc. Yale. 90. Corncll's head coach. IL
this change takes place il will make i've
Yale graduates on the joint committee, no
other college having more than one.
Charles Webb Murphy, boss OF the Chi
cago cubs. announced yesterday that he
had insured the lives Of Johnny EVers'
his new manager; Jimmy Archer and
I Roger Brcsnahan for 10000 each. lie
said:
Il do not think / could replace either
| of the three PLAYERS for S0.no. and. as
business proposition. | decided TO insure
their lives for $4,000 for my own protec-
! ton"
! IL paws 20 advertise. and nobody knows
il better than Chubby Charley
Orvje overall. one of the pitchers who
led the Chicago Cubs TO fame and glory
! under Frank Chance few years ago, mas
! applicd 10 the National Commission for
| reinstatement. overall. with Mordecai
| Brown. Ed Reulbach and Jack Phester'
| made up one OF the greatest pitchinS
| staffs ever harbored by any team. the
four being the backbone of the Cubs In
winning four National League champion
| ships and two worlds championships.
Farly in the season OF 1910 overall had
some trouble with his arm, but toward
/ the middle Of the season worked himself
/ into condition and was nursed during sep
/ TENDER for the series between the Phiia-
/ delphia Athletics and the Cubs for the
I big pennant. After being Groomed Tor
/ the engas cement he was batted out OF the
box in the first game, and with his col
| lonse went the hopes OF the Cubs for VIC
! tory. He was unable TO do anything IN
! the series and declared that he would
quit the game. He made good his threat
| and refused to report IN the spring oil
| 1911. going TO his ranch in California,
where he has remained ever since.
! Punors of his return 10 the game have
been current from time To time. as he has
! pitcbed in semi-professonal circles on the
| coast II me is reinstated he Will belong
| TO the Chicago Cubs. AS a general rule.
! the commission is nothing loath 10 let
plavers like overall back into the game.
| Connie Mack. manager OF the Athletics.
has obtained a flve-ycar lease on the
! baseball park at Jacksonville. Fla. the
lease to start in 1914 This indicates mat
! Texas will be deserted for Florida as
| training camp for the worlds champions
| of 1911.
"Der' Howard one OF the leading bai-
tiers in the Pacific Coast League. has
been engaged as scout Tor the Chicago
cubs in the Far West. Howard formerly
was a member of the Chicago team.
II begins to look as If Eddie Plank, the
star left-handed pitcher OF the Athletics,
is real hold out"
A japanese may be official bat boy ,or
/ the Cubs, to succeed Red Gallighan.
who has declared that he VIII follow
I Frank Chance TO the Yankees.
Charley Doom says the Philies will win
100 games this year. II they do-well. it
is only another way of saying they will
win the pennant
! Norman :. Taber. of Brown. who ran
dead heat with John Paul Jones in the
one-Inile run at the intercollegiate games
last year, will try to break the indoor
record for the distance at the New York
| Athletic Club games in Madison Square
/ Garden next Wednesday evening.
LEHIGH DEFEATS COLUMBIA.
/ fBy Telegraph to The Tribune