Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-23

Princeton is expecting hard game
from Dartmouth Saturday, and tn,
Tiger coaches are putting their mel
through the severest kind of drills
Dartmouth. always formidable, is ex,
ceptionally cocky this year, and shs
really believes she is going to beat
Princeton. The Tigers, however
seem to know better, although they
make no bones of the fact that they
expect a gruelling game. Princeton
about two touchdowns to nothing. Ii
the way the Princeton adherents size
up the situation, two days before the
game.
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Yale is beginning to show some
football Importance and she is at
tracing more attention than usual
since her open display of form
When Yale is good she is mighty, and
when she is bad she is always in evi.
OI4ANC Will AEAAl SPitAN ehilo y
strong grit. Yale this year seems to
be back in her stride and she will
take some beating from her two
greatest rivals. 1t is early for the
Ellis to show their best. but It is
claimed that they are exceptionally
strong in all departments of the game.
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The rawlings over Harvard are get
ting less boisterous every day. The
Crimson team opened the season in
high favor and her play was well up
to expectations. Soon. though, Prince
ton began to display a formidable
front, and now Yale is coming strong
as the days of the important games
draw near. Harvard still has the
call, on her last years form, over
Princeton and Yale, but she will have
a better team to beat this year in
each instance than she disposed of
last year.
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The Newark Club hasn't budged an
inch in the last twenty-four hours,
but something definite is expected in
the way of a transaction at a meet
ing to be held in Krueger's Audi
forum tomorrow afternoon. Then 1t
will be decided just what the local
business men will do in the way of
paying something like 1926, 900 for the
holdings. 1t will be a case of I'VE
will'' or 1--WE won't" tomorrow, and IL
the Newark men who are now
negotiating for the franchise say the
word and produce the money there
viii be a change in ownership. Mr.
Ebbets and the McKeevers, who con-
troll the stock in the club, want to
sell, but they are holding out for a
price that many seem to think is
rather steep. That. of course, is up
to them, and they should be the judge
Of the value of their own property.
If they are unable to get their price,
1t is said, the Brooklyn men will hold
on to the club for another year, at
least.
G
The hope is general that the club
will be sold to the men now decker
ing for it, but on the authority I
quoted in these columns yesterday, It
ooks as if there would be nothing
DONG. Complaint is being made
among some of the men interested
n the transaction that too much no.
.oriety has been given to the matter
The fact that a local paper
S declaring right along that all the
money has been subscribed and that
al hands are satisfied with the price
asked doesn't seem TO please some
Of those who have given their word
that they would go in on the deal.
"Why do so much boosting to have
Newark men pay more than they
would like to for the club?" Is the
way one man put it to me this morn
ng. I'VE want to buy, but we don't
want to pay any more than we have
70. 1t was foolharoy enough to print
he statement that We would offer
$4,000 and eventually go as high as
1000, but to say that all the money
'or the club is subscribed and that
we are willing to give what the
Brooklyn men ask for their stock is
The silliest kind of rot. It isn't fair
leal to us, and it looks as IL some
Body is overanxious for the local men
to pay a high price for the club. The
are, however. that there
won't be any SALE"
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The tip as to what the alibi will
le if the prospective deal for the
Newark Baseball Club falls through
has been given publicity. In order to
save itself from being made a laugh
ng stock, the claim will be advanced
hat somebody" interfered with the
ieal, which, of course, viii be a base
lie. AS matters stand, the Newark
men have a clear field as far as local
are COilCSiilcu- heSSTS. Mill
on and Uppercu are not in the mar
1et for the Newark club and you
coax them to buy it, either
fey have declared to me. New York
parties have made overtures for the
but Mr.. Ebbets, l know,
would much prefer to see local men
get it. But that old alibi will be
working overtime If dreams do not
come true"
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If the Newark Club is not sold,
Charles Ebbets. jr., it is said, will
succeed George Solomon as president.
At one time it was planned to place
Henry Medicus at the head of the
club.
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Harry Smith, manager of the
Tigers, has a champion who doesn't