New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-10

The need is great Here's hoping 'he
committee will act.
Football has improved under the code
revised last winter. y better balance mas
haon struck between the attack and the
defence. a greater continuity exists ana
the game is fare more natural. Few
changes. then, are desirable. While am
strongly in favor OF giving football the
rest cure" for 9 few years still some
thing should be done 10 break tie games
which are unsatisfactory at best ana
doubly so in football. In this connection
/ would like 10 repeat a few words said
on the subject on December =. or all
sports the American college brand OF FOOT
ball is the only one in which some effort
is not made to break tie at once or 10
MAY il off at some future date. There are
extra innings in baseball. extra periods in
hockey and polo. extra holes in golf, extra
sets in lawn tennis, and then, railing 10
reach a conclusion, the game or match is
repeated, so that one side or the other
or one man or the other, may be declared
the victor. Not so in football. tie
rama Is a tie game, and nothing else
The eIevens run off the field satisfied TO
Iet n stand. and the onlookers accept II
with such grace as they can command.
Football is strenuous game and more
NV 1ess exhausting, which accounts for the
fact that no extra periods are ordered and
.,o games replayed. This in Itself, how
ever. is q confession Of weakness, and now
that the game under the revised coue Is
less dangerous, less eXacting ana more
natural, Il is high time that those VINO
. govern the sport should make some pro-
vision for bringing about decision ana r
truer expression of the respective merits
OF the two elevens Extra periods OF nVe
minutes each and not TO exceed two would
he a forward step and without too great a
demand upon the players.
Cornell's decision TO play the Pennsyi-
vania game at philadelphia once more, in
stead OF Ithaca, as planned, is due to the
fact that the new field is not quite ready
,rbe eleven. by the way. faces strenuous
season. with the Indians, Harvard AND
pennsylvania on the schedule
II is cause for cOngratulatlon tnat
dartmouth and Pennsylvania Will meet on
the gridiron this year, as suggested In
this column week ago. IL VIII be
great struggle.
Major league baseball schedules Will be
approved and adopted this week, while
the owners will take the centre or the
s,ape without making anything Ike
.tvvo-base hit for the last time OF the
nrasent closed season, unless Charles
Webb Murphy RECEIVERS his equilibrium
and breaks cut afresh from time TO Time
Now that Herr Horace Fogel has been
lost 10 baseball, over which no tears are
hejng shed. end that Chubby Charley has
been urged TO show some consideration
Tor baseball. II not for himself, the fans
find themselves waiting with more Inn
patience than usual for the real fun 10
begin. when the identity of the owners Is
completely lost in the activity OF the
players. With the schedule meetings dis
posed OF the way will be open for the
training trips now at hand and the real
noise OF the opening of new pennant
races. which promise to be quite as inter
esting as any that have gone before. The
fans" here are keenly alive TO prom
ised baseball treat with the Giants striv-
ing to win the National League pennant
for tho third year I'm succession. with the
Yankees trying 10 regain lost prestige
under the management of such a master
az Frank Chance, and with the Superbas
opening n new home in Brooklyn which
will be a credit TO the sport
Word comes from the West that Au-
gust Hermann. owner Of the Cincinnati
! Reds and chairman of the National Com
mission. wants 10 declare war or some
, other foolish thing against the Amateur
/ AtfJstic Union TO protect the integrity Of
| baseball. lie Ia quoted as saying: "The
stand which tho rulers OF amateur a,ll-