New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-21
Comment and Gossip
On Sports of the Day

large extent older horses Of high class.
but the quality of this years crop OF
tWo-year-olds has been OF kind TO
lend much promise for another year.
and IL seems only question Of time
when conditions once more viii be nor
NAL.
Herman CouklinG assures me that
enough horses have been promised for
the nvc-day meeting at the Empire
City track beginning tomorrow TO in
sure some excellent sport, Most of the
leading stables, of course, will be
shipped to the Maryland tracks, but
enough owners have promised their
support to che meeting hore, from all
accounts, TO give those who cannot 80
far siicld further taste Of racing.
The meeting deserves support.
Football mobilization has been COM
pleted. and the first skirmishes are at
hand. Cornell will open the season
against UrsinuS on Wednesday, while
Yale, Harvard, Princeton and most OF
the other colleges and universities will
take the gridiron on Saturday for their
first engagements Interest in these
early season games is confined largely
to the coaches, players and critics as
means Of throwing some light on posi-
BILE strength or weakness. The real
flip to the sport, however, will not
come until the days grow shorter and
the worlds baseball series is over. This
may be said: The outlook was never
brighter for an active campaign and an
interesting season. There are fifteen
big games now to only four or five sew
eral years ago. and the first Of these
will come tumbling along about the
middle Of October.
Most everybody picks the Philadel-
phia Athletics to win the worlds series,
but most everybody thought that the
American polo team would beat the
English invaders, that Maurice E. Nc
Loughlin would win the national lawn
tennis championship, that the Giants
would romp home in the National
League pcnnant race, that X. Norris
Williams, the conqueror of McLough-
lin. would beat Church for the inter
collegiate lawn tennis championship,
that the American golfers would make
"a good stand OH English links, that the
Davis Cup would stay in this country,
that Hans Wagner would go on batting
800, that the Washington Senators
would give the Athletics a fight. Con-
mic Mack must look alive. 'Tis year
of strange happenings.
George NJ. Church deserves much
credit for beating Williams on Friday.
There was power to his game and much
finish. but the fall of another champion
was disconcerting. Anything is pos
sible in this year Of grace nineteen
hundred and fourteen even Charley
Brickley may lose the cunning OF his
good right leg in dropping goals from
the field
The passing of Franch Chance brings
TO mind the needs Of the Yankees. A
manager is wanted with the brains of
q Connie Mack. the genius Of a Nc
Graw and the skin Of an elephant.
Frederick B. Alexander, who handled
the junior metropolitan lawn tennis
on the courts Of the
West Side Tennis Club, at Forest Hills,
last week. did much for the future OF
the game in this country. The tourna-
mcnt brought out boys whose game
showed remarkable promise, needing
but the ripening experience OF years 70
place them we'll up in the ranking list.
himself was startled by the
form shown and expressed his conf
dcnce that from among these youths
VIII be developed the players who Will
light for the Davis Cup in the years to
come. In carrying off the chief honors
IN singles Harold Throckmorton, the
Princeton interscholastic champion,
fulfilled the predictions of those who
lave before this noted the excellence
If his game, but others, even younger
than he, gave evidence that they will
lave to be reckoned with in the near
future.
Tyrus Raymond Cobb felt out Of
place as a trailer in the American
League batting list, so he banged out
enough hits in the last six days to ia Ike
his old place ut the front-a place he
is quite likely to hold in his present
mdod. The pitchers just love Cobb
The challenge of the Federal League
for q part in the worlds series has
fallen or deaf ears; but the toes Of or
ganized baseball are still aching from
a good deal of trodding thereon.
These mutterings Of city series be-
tween the Giants and the Yankees IS
sad commentary on the fighting quail
ties Of some fans. 'Tis a worlds
series, not q city series, that should be
anticipated It the Polo Grounds.