davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25
Too Many Officials Spoil
View of Spectators at
Meets in This
Vicinity.
By A. X. KIYLAT.

At the old Manhattan Field, on Sep
TENDER 81, 1895, the New York Athletic
and London Athletic clubs held their
dual meet, in which the former took
every first in the eleven events At
this meet there were used only fifteen
officials-a referee, three judges at the
finish, three timers, four inspectors.
three field judges and one scorer. This
was an international meet, the pick of
the United States against the pick Of
Great Britain.
Nowadays an athletic meet must have
at least eighty-five officials, and in
many cases the number runs to loo.
The spectators have little chance of
seeing what Is going on when so many
are on the field. Why should there be
so many?
In many cases q competent official Is
left of the list and friend Of the pro-
noter Is used TO judge a weight event
or track event. Perhaps the friend
never saw a meet and knows nothing
about Il. Too much friendship and pol
itics interfere with the best interests Of
Amateur Athletic Union meets.
Where is that list Of the competent
men TO be used as officials which was
10 be made up by the Amateur Athletic
Union and given out with every sane
ton granted? This was 10 be the only
list. and the promoters and various or
ganizations were TO pick their judges
Timers. etc, from this group.
WHY not start with the national ten
mile run and the seven-mile walk
championships next Saturday at souta
Field, Columbia University!
On Saturday afternoon, October 81.
AZ the Polo Grour DIS, through the court,
esv of II. n. Hampstead, president OF
the New York Baseball Club, set OF
athletic games, sanctioned by the
Amateur Athletic Union; and soccer
Tootball carnival will be held. This is
for .he aid of the UraniA Tubereulosis
Preyentorium Society.
In the 18th Regiment first annual
monthly games the lo0-yard handicap
nroved to be the best race Of the night;
Eir.hon started from scratch and
Stephenson two yards back OF scratch,
which makes his time for 102 yards a
fraction less than 10 Is seconds.
Owing TO the success OF the hrst
camel che 18th Regiment will run an
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25
De ORC AND MOORE READY
Cuban to Defend Three Cush-
ion Carrom Billiard Title.

Alfredo De Orc, the three-cushion
billiard champion of the world, and
George w. Moore, the challenger for
the title, and the Lambert trophy that
goes with it, are oil edge for their
match, which begins on Wednesday
night at John Doyle's 42d Street acad-
envy. Both men have been practising
faithfully every afternoon and even
ing to prepare themselves for the test
of skill, and both are confident Of sue
cess.
The men will play blocks Of so points
on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
nights, and should De Orc succeed in
retaining his title this time he will
win permanent possession Of the Lam
bert trophy, having defeated all chal-
lengers for the period of fifteen months,
according to the conditions governing
the trophy.
De Orc, who has held the title sew
sral times, won 1t from J. ". Horgan
in June, 1918, and his since defended it
against Joe Carney and Fred Eames, at
Doyle's, and against Charles Norm, in
Chicago,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25
Henry B. Joy Believes
Present Car a Standard

tined to become o great factor in in
dustry, more we believe than any OF US
now realize, as has been emphasized
bv the wonderful use Of motor trucks
and motor cars on the good roads OF
Europe during the now something more
than two months of the European war.
personally, my feeling is that com
mercial motor vehicles are only be-
ginning TO come into their own. II
they are suitable for conducting mill
tarv operations in Europe, they Will
become fully recognized as good and
useful and economical and beneficial
in conducting the operations OF INDUS
try and commerce IN America:
"The chief handicap TO American
industry and commerce and agriculture
Is the atrocious conditions OF Ameri-
can roads and highways generally.
We as a nation are IN the position or
having the most advanced means-a
wonderfully advanced meanS--of high
way transportation, over anything
known since the beginning Of time, and
vet we are utterly unable to avail our
selves of the great benefits Of these
rev motor vehicle transportation
methods by reason Of the fact that
we have no proper, suitable highways
upon which to get these benefits.
"The wonderful activity, largely as
the result Of the Lincoln Highway
propaganda, which has arisen not only
along the Lincoln Highway but
throughout the United States, in build
ing hard-surfaced permanent roads
will, in my judgment, prove stimulus
TO the use Of motor vehicles, and also
will be Of far greater value to the
American people as an Industrial and
agricultural nation than the Panama
Canal or even the railway systems Of
the United States.
"The financial conditions which
were precipitated upon the country by
the declaration of war among the ma
tions Of Europe have introduced an
other element requiring conservation,
and although this situation has very
greatly improved in sixty days, and is
daily improving. yet IL Is still factor.
requiring conservative outstanding OF
financial strength. We look hopefully
70 the future BY reason Of our expert
snes Of maintained sales during the
last fiscal yean"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25
Every Handler of a Car
Should Be Required to
Show Ability.
RECKLESS DRIVER
is GREATER MENACE
Secretary of State Points Out
That License Is Not a Guar
antee of Skill.
BY MITCHELL MAY, Secretary Of
State

BY MITCHELL MAY, Secretary Of
State.
In New York State, as Is we'll known,
my person Is permitted to drive mo-
tor car upon the public highways, ac-
companied or otherwise, providing the
machine is not driven for hire, when
chauffeuris license is required.
The operator may be blind or deaf;
he may know nothing about the con-
struction or running of the car, and he
may be in blissful ignorance OF the
rules Of the road and of the oblige:.
lions he owes TO other traffic; still
he Is legally authorized to drive q car,
regardless Of age, skill OF character.
Thus described, this condition of af-
fairs looks so ridiculous and unbusi-
| nesslike that IL Is not surprising that
/ the question whether every operator OF
a motor vehicle should not be required
| TO pass some preliminary qualifying
| test in the hands of the properly con-
stituted authority is one which period
| ically comes up for discussion.
An answer In the Affirmative may be
given from two points Of view. One is
that Of the mamie may or may not be
motorist--whose person or property
has been damaged or exposed TO dam
age through a car being driven badly
| or ignorantly. The other Is that of the
owner who has had his own car dam
aged through the incompetence of a
paid driver.
For, the latter little sympathy should
be felt, for IL the owner is foolish
enough to engage a driver upon the
strength OF license certificate with
out making any further inquiries as to
the mans capabilities he has only him
self to thank for any accident attrib-
utable to bad driving that may befall
him on the road.
There are schools which conscien-
tiously train their pupils and do not
pass them until they are competent,
and the certificates they issue to them
are, Of course, with q consideration,
but there are others, il Is to be feared,
which care for nothing but to rake in
fees and turn out finished" pupils as
rapidly as possible.
Again, the owner who desires his
driver to be a skilled mechanic need
not be surprised if damage Is done to
an expensive car II he has accepted the
candidate upon his own recommends
ton, without knowing that a really
skilled mechanic IS the product of a
long course of training. There is no
! Justlncatlon Tor setting up system OF
official examination in order to save
owners from this sort of folly.
From the point of view Of the public
the question of examination is moro
difficult. At first sight It seems wrong
that any one, no matter how ignorant
or inexperienced he be, may be let loose
upon the public highways in charge Of
powerful car.
Yet it must be admitted that this
system, haphazard though It may APP
pear. does not work so badly when
practised, and that the number of nc
cidents which are due merely to un-
skilfulness Of driving is not unduly
large in proportion TO the number of
cars on the road. What the public
needs to be protected against is not so
much the unskilled as the reckless and
| inconsiderate driver.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25
High Mortality
in Motor Trucks.

The explanation Of the hinge nur-
chases Of motor trucks IN this country
By the warrfss nations Of Dusope was
brought out . few dsys aso By one OF
tins men Interested.
asines the war staztcd." be said. the
reports 20 the French scvsrnment show
that tho svsysss life Of . motor truck
I'm active miiitar, service IL On days
soue. Of course. through good luck
and scoa handling. last for several
weeks. bot others last only dag or
less. One shell n,sy destroy half
dozen tTuchsi others brcsh down hope-
lessiy, and the severe nature OF ths
work accounts fer the sbsndspruont OF
others because % deteriorstien. Never
thsiess. they have proved Of wonderful
vsfus, and tho supply must be kept an"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25
COMMERCE RUNNERS WIN
Barringer Loses in Close
Gross Country Match.

The High School Of Commerce cross
country team scored another victory
in defeating Barringer High School, of
Newark, yesterday, by score of 26
points to 20. 1t was over a three-and-
a-half-mile course, around Branch
Brook Park, which was in good condi-
ton.
Robert Merker, Of the local squad,
was the first runner home, traversing
the distance in the good time of 10
minutes % seconds. He was followed,
twenty yards behind, by Edward Salz,
a schoolmste, who helped him set the
pace for the greater part of the jour
ney. James Granger, captain Of the
Newark team and brother of William
Granger, Of Dartmouth College, was
third, fifty yards behind Salz.
The positions scored by Commerce
were first, second, sixth, eighth and
ninth, while Barringer was credited
with third, fourth, fifth, seventh and
tenth places.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25
NewS and Gossip OF
the Amateur Athletes

other set on November II. The events
are the 44O-yard run and bicycle race,
both for novices, and the handicaps are
220 yards, $50 yards and one mile, and
a two-mile bicycle race. No admission
is charged to these games, and the reg
iment welcomes the public.
AS to the 18th Regiments regular
fall games, which had been announced
last week in this column as TO be held
or November 81, the date has been
changed to December 20.
The Irish-American Athletic Club
announces that it has added to its pro-
gramme for the indoor games on No
yember 2S at Madison Square Garden
a one-mile relay, closed TO state, fed
eral and municipal employees. The
prizes will be the regular die medals,
solid gold, sterling silver and bronze.
To the winner of this relay THE
Chief" has donated a large silver low
ing cup to be competed for annually
at the above games, and to become the
property of the department winning the
trophy for three years.
The list Regiment athletes are
working out daily for the coming in
door season, and especially for their
annual games on December 81. Cap
tain De Lany, Lieutenant Potter and
Harold Dibbler will again have charge.
According to a local club trainer, the
national two-mile champion, Harry J.
Smith, Is studying journalism at New
York University. Is Handsome
Harry" trying to pull TON Halpin"
on us by learning how to write about
his own races,
The joint games of the % Naval Bat
TALON and the Observation-Disclosures
Athletic Club on November Il at the
formers armory, in South Brooklyn, are
attracting more than ordinary atten-
ton from the athletes. The prizes,
solid gold medals, with diamonds, in
the open Amateur Athletic Union
individual events, are the best offered
around New York in some time. The
entry list will go over the 500 mark.
In a handicap race between an auto,
a horse and foot runner at the recent
Brockton Fair, F. J. Madden, winner Of
the Brockton Marathon, defeated both
auto and horse. The moving pictures
taken Of the race show Madden win
ming by a yard, the automobile second
and the horse about thirty yards back
Lawson Robertson, coach OF the
Irish-AmericAn Athletic Club, has been
asked to take the position OF coach with
the 23d Regiment, and the 22d Regi-
ment athletes also want him to train
them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25
SUTTON LEAGUE LEADER
Tops ALI in Champion Billiard
Players Tournament.

Judging from reports from the vari-
Gus cities where matches have been
played, the success of the Champion
Billiard Players League Is now as
sured. The attendance has been better
than the promoters of the tour ex-
pected, and it is believed that by the
time winter sets in interest in the ap-
pearance Of the players will increase
greatly.
George Sutton is leading the other
seven players, with fourteen victories
and one defeat, closely followed by
Calvin Demarest and Ora Morningstar,
who are tied for second place with
eleven wins and two defeats. The
grand average Of the three leaders
Is 10.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25
THREE KNTGHry GAME.
CASSIGN0L TO MAKE TOUR
French Billiard Champion and
Slosson Are to Play.

Firmin Cassignol, champion billiard
player Of France, and by many experts
regarded as the greatest player in the
ranged to play q series Of exhibitions
with George Student" Slossop on a
tour that will embrace all the leading
cities of the West and Southwest.
Slosson himself says that Casslgnol
is a marvellous player, and at masss
execution the superior Of Yamada,'
while Maurice Daily believes the
Frenchmsn will give Willie Hoppe, the
balkline champion Of the world, hard
fight for his titles. Cassignol is cred.
tied with a practice run of sos at 1874,
as against Hopes 622.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25
CUPS GALORE FOR GOLFERS
Conditions Announced for Fall
Tourney at Lakewood.

Conditions announced for the an
nual fall invitation golf tournament
at the Country Club, of Lakewood, on
November 8, and z, call for an
eighteen-hole medal play round on the
first day. Contestants will qualify in
four sixteens, and cup will be
awarded the golfer returning the best
been provided for all sixteens.
Match play is scheduled to start on
the morning of the second day, and all
rounds will consist of eighteen holes,
The usual medal play handicap is also
on for the last day. Entries for the
tournament close on Wednesday morn
ing, November 1.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25
Put lettering Organiza-
ton at Berlin on Sound
Financial Basis.
CLUBS GIVE FUNDS
FOR WAR SUFFERERS
Alechine Escapes from Prison
and Will Join Russian
Army at Front.

News comes from Berlin that some
wealthy members Of the Berlin Chess
Society have come to the rescue Of the
club and placed II on a good financial
basis. II 10 also stated that the Ham
burg and Munich clubs have given
large sums for war sufferers. The
former contributed 1000 marks to tho
fund and 90 marks as tokens Of love
to members Of the club at the front,
while they supplied chess men and
boards TO various hospitals. The Mu-
mich club gave 200 marks for local war
sufferers,
The "Workingmen's Chess News" has
been forced to quit publication. This
monthly was established three years
ago, and was the official organ Of
twenty-five workingmen's chess clubs
In Germany and Switzerland.
Russian exchanges announce that the
youthful Russian chess master Ale
chine, who was imprisoned along with
other Russian players at Baden Baden,
managed to make his escape to Swift
erlsnd and Is now on his way TO Rus
sis, where be will join the ranks OF
the army az the front. It also Is an
nounced that the Russian master r.
Snosko- Browsh. was severely wounded
at the front.
News Of the death Of two problem
composers Of international fame,
namely Of the famous German Karl
Kockelkorn. in his seventy-hrst year,
and Of the equally renowned Swedish
expert Karl Lorenx Jespersen, at the
age Of sixty-six, has been received.
Eleven metropolitan clubs, including
the Newark Rice and the North Jersey
organization, will begin their annual
championship tourney on November 2,
The pairing for the first round will
be as follows: Columbia against
Manhsttanj North Jersey against Pro-
gressive; Lyceum against Newark
Rice; Washington Heights against
Queens Gambit Associ :tion. and
Ocean Hill against Staten Islcnd,
Brooklyn having a bye.
The Manhattan and Brooklyn chess
clubs will play an extra homo ana
home match on November IL and De
cember IL on sixteen boards. The
first match will be played at the
rooms of the Manhattan Chess Club.
where Frank J. Marshall. the United
States champion. will officially open
the season on October 20 with a grand
Simultaneous exhibition.
Il is doubtful whether there was 3
more ingenious and brilliant master
than the late Irish expert w. II. X.
Pollock. Being once engaged in a sit
ting with an amateur at Baltimore, IN
the rooms Of the local chess associa-
ton, he brought about the following
gem:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25
AUTO ENTRIES CLOSE
Twenty One Cars Named for
Famous Desert Race.

Los Angeles, Cal, Oct. ?t.--Entries
for the seventh annual Los Angeles
Phoenix automobile road race closed
on Thursday, with twenty cars nomi-
mated.
The start will be made here on the
morning Of November 9, with night
controls at Needles. Cal, and Prescott,
Ariz., and the finish will be at Phe-
nix, Ariz., on November II Two noun
tain ranges and the Moiave desert
must be crossed. The course will be
about 700 miles, and the state high
ways will be patrolled by the militia.
A diamond medal has been offered
for the winner. Many well-known
drivers have been selected for the
contest
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25
''tcipates No Great Change
l~ Several Years-Mo-
tor Trucks Coming
Into Their Own.

ssip's from the annual report of
o. 10y. president Of the Packard
Vu Company. throw interesting
VI conditions in the industry at
N part, Mr.. joys report fol-
= future Of the motor car indus
/ usdually, we feel, clearing up
laeturers. The strenuous de-
~ period through which we
/, s going has produced in q few
-, ~ most rapid capitalization in
g vehicle industry. probably
II 'gla han ever occurred in any
s'shsnieal art.
- sais the types Of vehicles, the
ne details Of design, were
= INTO new and unexplored
4 - " remained for manufactur-
mat period 20 listen TO the
4 WI. public opinion and gradually
j me vehicles, In accordance
4 u, Practical and invaluable sug-
4 ouhng nom users themselves.
< 81. resulted in vehicles which are
n 4, . que results OF the expressed
4 throughout years Of use by
49, hothing on the horizon Of
~ -. vehicle art which would lead
$ III sasieal staff away from the
+ yplssl Packard carriages. We
ny s'Iigated deliberately various
4 4, nnds Of motors. We know
Z, 1stits and dement's Of four
!, Motors, Of hve-cylinder mo
,l,ast-eylinder motors and of
j s .S motors, and we know
& ssp,' e9santage 70 our patrons by
4 y ss,l = IN the type Of car which
nj II. making, and which we be-
! w continue to be our typical
& o., - Indefinite period OF years,
srsst.aing startling happens,
A ~, ~ now on the horizon, and
q 'ss, ~ now have no knowledge.
motor trucks are des-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25
ARMY TOOK MOTORCYCLE
Ohio Man Holds Receipt for
Machine from Germans.

Harry D. Gault, of steubenville
Ohio, has Just returned from a motor
cycle tour of Europe, but he returned
minus his motorcycle, which is now
doing duty in the Kaiser's army.
Last June Gault purchased a motor
cycle and started out to see the old
country. He was travelling in Ger
many at the time the war broke out
and his mount was promptly cCm'
mandeered by the Teutons. He was
given a receipt for the machine and
told to present his claim to the Kaiser
at the close of the war. GAult re-
turned to America on the steamer
Baltic.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25
Red Gross Uses Two Wheeler.

Not to be outdone by her father and
brother. who are both in the English,
army, Miss Newman, an English girl
motorcyclist, has offered her services
n the English government and has
been detailed TO the Red Cross service.
She took her motorcycle with her. to
tbe front, and with it delivers supplies
10 the Red Cross workers. When nee
esssry she can also carry wounded SOL
disrs in the improvised ambulance
made from her motorcycle sidecar.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25
Van Dervoort To Head s. A. e

W. II. Van Dervoort, president Of the
Root & Van Dervoort Engineering
Company and the Moline Automobile
Company, of East Moline, H., has been
nominated for the presidency Of the
Society of Automobile Engineers, New
York City, to succeed Henry L. Leland,
Of the Cadillac company, who has oc-
cupied the post during the present
year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25
Speed Boat Races. Postponed

Chicago, Oct. 24.-owing to bad
weather the American speedboat cham
pionship races, scheduled for today,
were postponed until tomorrow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25
% Renew Motorcycle Race.

a1ss for the annual Grand Prize
ne motorcycle race to be held at
asah, &c, on Thanksgiving Day
lose on November 10,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25

Lawson Robertson, coach OF the
Irish-Americsn Athletic Club, has been
asked to take the position OF coach with
the 2Sd Regiment, and the 22d Regi-
ment athletes also want him to train
them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-05
LEHAR OUTLINES
METHOD OF WORK
Observation of Life and Social
Questions to Have Place
in Future Operettas.
from The rrlbuns Correspondent. ]

Berlin, March e. - Speaking TO the
Tribune correspondent. Franz Lehar dis
cussed the question of the revival OF the
art of writing operettas. After paving a
warm tribute to the American theatre
goers. who always, he said. treated him
so we'll and so indulgently. he added:
"Our art has considerably changed in
the last ten years. The era of 'operetta-
kings yes, and 'operetta-s shepherds is
past What we want is TO put as much
realism and as much truth in our work
as Is possible. / believe that the coming
operetta will solely be based on the OBJ.
servation OF life, OF course in light and
cheerful way. operettas may even place
before the public eye some of the social
questions of the hour. Why not? We
will certainly not employ the usual dra-
matte means TO solve these questions,
but will substitute charm for violence.
That. according to my view. is the out
look of the operetta."
Asked how and when he writes, the
famous composer replied:
There is no special way of writing an
operetta. Every one has his own habits,
methods and Ideas. AS far as l am con-
cerned, j first study the libretto COM
pietely and only conclude that study
when the musical framework of each
character Is clear in my head. Then /
begin to live with score of new friends,
viz: the PERSONA of my play. see them
hear them and generally l listen to them
We have great times together and when
they have something to say or to sing
which / think is particularly clever
well, | simply write it down. make
notes necessarily. and that Is the most
pleasant part OF my work. When have
gathered enough OF the right musical
stuff. then begins the labor OF orchestra
ton. And then the fun is over"