Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24


the world wouldn't get Eddie into
another individual match. He liked
bowling and stuck to it, but he never
could do his best in a tilt with an
other bowler on the alleys. He goes
TO Saranac Lake in high hopes OF
recovering and everybody who knows
Eddie Pierson will pray for him to get
well.
That Charles E. Courtney rowing
coach at Cornell. has come out as
against four-mile races for college
crews is nothing new, yet much fuss
seems to have been made over an able
speech delivered by Courtney not long
ago. Courtney went on record years
ago as favoring a three-mlle contest,
and he holds the same views today.
That other notable coaches should
have different views on the subject is
nothing serious. but Courtney's ideas
as to college races are sure TO be ac-
cepted in the main by those who take
a keen interest in the rowing sport.
Four miles is too much of a gruelling
contest and one has only to observe
the condition of the men at the finish
of one of those four-mile pulls to sat
| isfy himself on that score. AS soon
as the line denoting the end of the
race Is crossed, strong men in the
boats collapse completely-the win
ners as we'll as the losers.
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Coach Courtney is not objecting to
the long race because he fears the
result Cornell has been well able to
take care of herself on the water and
her record will speak for itself. The
coach figures. no doubt. that the
strain is too trying to the men in the
boat, and he is right. In the first
place, it takes months of the most
strenuous training to fit the men for
the fray, and during that hard work
they must naturally neglect their
studies. Besides the hunt for suit
able candidates to man a boat for
four-mile race is no little task, and
after all, the honor of winning race
at four miles is no greater than win
ming a race at three miles. Courtney
is still peer of the coaches in this
country and Cornell is still looked
upon as possessing the greatest oars
men. To say that Courtney and Cor
nell fear the outcome of the long
races in the future is not the sound
logic of a good sport Everybody
knows what Courtney has done and
what Cornell has done. That both
would like to make the big intercol-
legiate races more human is to their |
credit.
James A. Gilmore, president of the
Federal League, is in New York |
again, and I wouldn't be a bit sur
prised to hear any day that there
was something doing in Newark
about placing an OUTLAW team in |
this city Surely, after the way |
Charles H. Ebbets, sr., the owner of
the Newark Club, and Edward G.
Barrow, the president of the Inter
national League, have insulted the
city, the Feds might be expected to
do much better than they would have
under ordinary conditions. I'll con-
fess 1 am very set against those
OUTLAW" propositions, no matter |
what the sport, but if the Federal
Leaguers were to come to town I
would be tempted to join in and give
them royal support.
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Watcher the OUTLAWS" will give
our fair city chance at all is hard
to tell, but I do know that this city
has been mentioned very strongly as
a suitable location for a Federal
League Club. In more ways than
one such a move would be a great
thing for the city. AS baseball mat
tiers stand we have a small chance
to ever become a big league town.
But with a Federal League franchise
we would gain much attention and
we would naturally and eventually
become big league city, for the Feds
are going to be big leaguers under
many years roll by at that I am not
Just preaching for a Federal team in
Newark, but l would like to live in
a big league city, and so would thou
sands of other NeWarkers. 1t may
never come, but I'll tell you. Mr..
Fan, If the baseball moguls around
here got away with their proposed
"didoes" of transferring the Newark
team to Brooklyn and the Jersey
City team to Newark we would have
been one of great many to go out
and demand the Federal League
magnates to come to our city and
give us ball team.
Q
Charley Murphy, the owner of the
Chicago Cubs, has been frozen out
of baseball because he did the wrong
thing at the wrong time, will not
stay out of the game very long, you
can have a good bet down on that
He is a pest, nuisance, a disturber
anything you WILL but he is live
wire" withal. He has brains in a
baseball way and he is sure to pop
up as a magnate of some sort. He
will be against organization baseball,
of course, in which event he is sure
to go over to the OUTLAWS" He may
not be relished by the Feds, but he
may be able to do them so much
good that they will accept him any,
how Murphy will be heard from
again. He is a fighter and will not