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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-27
7inb Of Braves in Baseball the Polo Cup by the BRITISH Lean
Memorable the Annals or

and Dartmouth sixth. mammal
Union won the Northeastern IT,
title, the upstate FIVE earned
ward place in the ranking.
Cornell continued to hold svsv 4.
'cross-country running. II retaissl
the title in a race run at New Evss
Il was the fourteenth time In slstss.
years that the Cornell team triunphsS
The team scores we're:
Cornell, IS; Harvard, n; Yale. n.
NJ. I. T., 113; Pennsylvania, III
Princeton, 119; Colby, $50; DsrtmeuM
III; Brown, 1876; Columbia, 2l4. ~
c. {. ". Y, 25l.
Harvard swept the board in laeros..
lawn tennis and shooting. The Cnr'
son lacrosse players did not meet !,
winners Of the southern division Of ~.
intercollegiate series, but the team. 4,
splendid playing in the games viii
Cornell and Hobart, showed its su.s.
riority in no uncertain fashion. 4,
lawn tennis the Crimson won the dss-
bles, and was defeated in the sirris,
when r. Norris Williams bowed 1.
George NJ. Church. In golf Yale fsTsS
TO show its oldtime form, and Ia
championship, which has gone to New
Haven almost annually, found its var
TO Cambridge.
Pennsylvania won the soccer title "a,
the first time. The Quakers had 10
stars on their team, but they played
fast game and every man knew snd
PLAYED his position. Harvard was sec.
ond. Cornell third, Columbia four,k
Princeton fifth, Yale sixth and Havsr
ford seventh in the final standings .,
the intercollegiate League. In golf
Princeton broke Yale's long winning
streak.
Yale was powerful in swimming srs
carried off the title after a splendid
race. Pennsylvania was not shaken a
until the final meet. The Quakers vers
second in the race, Princeton third. c.
c. N. Y. fourth and Columbia fifth.
Princeton retained its hold in water
polo. Yale was second in the league
race. Columbia third, Pennsylyspa
fourth and c. c. y. !. NTH,
New York University broke into the
championship column By winning the
gymnastics title, while Yale won the
ouadrangular chess championship, and
Pennsylvania was on top in the Tn
angular League. A tournament between
the two leagues resulted in victory for
the Triangular League.
Columbia won the fencing champion
ship, defeating with ease the skilled
foiismen Of the Naval Academy. l-e-
much as the army team did not take
part in the tournament, the champion
Ship was not beyond doubt:
Hobey Baker, single-handed, was re-
sponsible for the Princeton teams vic.
tory in hockey. The Tigers defeated
Harvard in two out of three games, and
took two straight contests from Yale;
There was no league, and tae fnsl
standing of the teams was thsrefors
in doubt, with the exception Of Prince
tons.
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exercises control and jurisdiction-st
least ii did so before the wRr-over
something like three millions of soccer
players. An alliance with the A. A. U.
has also been formed by the United
States Football Association. 1t is
planned to organize an American team
TO take part in the international con-
tests at the next Olympic ga es, where
ever they may be held.
Second only to the National Chsl-
lenge Cup competition was the cup
tie of the American Football Associs-
ton, the oldest body of its kind in
this part of the country, but now
affiliated with the u. S. F. A. The
Bethlehem Football Club, of Bethle-
hem, Penn, eliminated by Brooklyn
from the U. S. F. A. series, showed
splendid form and captured the cup by
defeating Tacony at Newark by a
score of l goal to 0. 1t was Tacony
petition by a score Of goals to !.
In addition to acquiring the U. S. F.
A. cup, the Brooklyn Field Club won
the championship of the National Foot
ball League without the loss of q game.
The Brooklyn Celtics carried OF chief
honors in the annual series of the New
York State Football League. Clan
the second division Of the New York
State League.
The eleven Of the Crescent Athletic
Club Of Brooklyn was victorious In the
Field Club Soccer League Of New
York and New Jersey, regaining the
title from Staten Island. The st.
Georges Football Club won the first
division of the Metropolitan and Dis
trict Amateur League, while the YOnk-
ers Thistles were placed first in the
second division. .,... ...
The intercollegiate championship was
competed for twice during the year,
owing to change from q spring to a
fall schedule. Harvard was the win
ner In the spring and Pennsylvania
in the fall. Manual Training High
School, of Brooklyn, after a tie with
Curtis High, of Staten Island, won the
New York High School championship.
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man undertook to bring peace TO the
warning baseball organizations, with
out success. Connie Mack startled the
baseball world by asking for waivers
on Plank, Bender and Coombs. The
first two went 10 the Federal League.
The next overturn in the state Of
affairs was the beginning Of negotia-
tions for the sale of the New York
Yankees, which probably will eliminate
in the transfer of the club to Colonel
Jacob Rupert, jr., and Captain Til
Huston. Some little time before the
completion Of these negotiations
Connie Mack sold Eddie Collins, the
most valuable player in the world, to
the Chicago White Sox for $4,000,
record price in baseball. Comiskey had
still another surprise for the followers
of baseball in Chicago, and shortly
after the Collins deal he announced
that he had signed Clarence Henry
Rowland, the manager of the Peoria
club in the Three / League, as leader
of the White SoX.
A case which promises much in the
way of legal complications began with
the leap of Walter Johnson, Washing
toms great pitcher, to the Chicago Fed
eral League club. A little later, upon
the representations of Clark Griffith
that the old contract was still binding,
Walter Johnson hoped back again.
Much of the news of baseball for the
year concerned the courts. The first i'm
portant decision was in favor OF or
ganized baseball, for Killifer was al
lowed to play with the Philadelphia
Nationals, although he had signed q
Federal League contract. Later, how
ever, the Feds won victories in the case
of "Indian" Johnson, whom the Ma
tional League sought to restrain from
pitching for the Kansas City club in
the new league, and still a more strik-
ing victory fell to the newcomers in
the Chase case. In this controversy the
court decided that either party to a
contract had right to invoke the ten
day clause, which was at that time in
all baseball contracts, although it has
since been dispensed with in many
documents.
Two new managers will try their fort
unes in the National League next year
Pat Moran has succeeded Charlie
Doom as the leader of the Phillies, and
Roger Bresnahan returns to the man
agerial ranks as chief of the Cubs.
One of the features Of the year out
side of the regular league races was
the trip around the world by the
Giants and the White Sox. This began
in 1918, but the players did not return
to this country until the spring of
1914, when they landed in New York.
1t was in 1914, too, that the most
notable game of the trip was played,
before King George Of England. The
return of the players at the height Of
the Federal League raids resulted in
some sharp bidding for men, which
enabled Iris Speaker, of the Red Sox,
to obtain a salary of $4,000 a year
from the Boston American League club,
the highest salary ever paid to base
ball player.
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New League and Braves
Add Test TO Baseball

league. He also began vigorous
campaign which ended in the elimina-
ton Of Murphy as president Of the
Cubs, although there still seems to be
some doubt as to the holdings Of Muir
rhy in the club. The league eventu-
ally took Evers from Chicago and gave
him to Boston. Evers signed a con-
tract for big salary, and also re-
ceived n big bonus. In all his base
ball profits for the year were close to
$4,000, and this was another baseball
record.
The season saw three new managers
in action in the National League.
Wilbert Robinson, the former assist
ant manager of the Giants, led the
Superbas for the first time, and
brought the Brooklyn National League
club home in fifth place with a per-
centage Of .487. This was the highest
Brooklyn had reached since 1907.
Charlie Herzog finished last with the
Reds, while O'Day was fourth with
the Cubs.
Miller Higgins, by big deal with
Fred Clarke, put the st. Louis club
into the running for the pennant.
Pittsburgh finished last for the first
time in Clarke's managerial career and
hkHci " 'oVO Iva w.
first time in his baseball career. Jake
Daubert, for the second year in sue
cession, led the league in batting, and
Bill Doak, of the Cardinals, was the
best of the pitchers in the league &C
coiding to the averages.
The Federal League, although turn
ing in nc great profits, came through
its season intact, and with much
brighter prospects for 1915. Indian
apols won the pennant. Brooklyn,
under the leadership of Bill Bradley,
finished fifth.
Ty Cobb held his batting honors in
the American League and Dutch Leon
ard, of the Red Sox, set new mark
in pitching efficiency by limiting his
opponents to 1.01 earned runs per
game.
The end Of the playing season in
baseball by no means put stop to
the activities in the game. Sensation
followed upon the heels of sensation.
August Hermann and Charles WEIGH
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-27

Baseball saw in 1914 the birth of
new major league, the rise OF new
worlds championship machine and tn
breaking up of team which was once
rated as the best Of all time. The Fed
eral League, which virtually came into
being with the leap of Joe Tinker late
in December, 1918, grew by jumps and
hops during the winter of 1914, until a
climax was reached in the invasion OF
Brooklyn by the Wards. A number OF
stars was induced to join the new or
ganization, among them being Tom
Seaton, Miner Brown. Artie Hoffman.
Cy Falkenberg, Otto Knabe, Steve
Evans, Arthur Wilson, Danny Murphy,
AL Bridwell, Claude Hendrix, Mike Doc
Ian, Marsang and George Stovall. Later
Fielder Jones, Chief Bender, Eddie
Plank and Lee Magee were added.
But even the birth of new major
league was overshadowed by the birth
of a new championship baseball ma
chine. The Braves, of Boston, led by
George Stallings, suddenly came to life
on July 10, and, moving up and up,
finally reached the top of the National
League and hung there. In fact, they
won rather easily from the New York
Giants, once the original lead Of Nc
Graw's men had been overcome.
The failure of the Giants TO hold
the advantage which they gained early
in the season baked John McGraw in
his dearest wish. The Giants had capt
ured the pennant of the National
League three years in succession, and
McGraw was ambitious TO set q new
record by bringing winner home for
four years in succession. That he
fo,l I'd - IL L. liza % n
collapse of his pitching staff. Mar
guard in particular showed a fearful
falling away in form, and lost twelve
set a record for attendance. for on
Labor Day, with the Braves and the
Giants tied for the leadership Of the
league. the teams played an afternoon
and a morning game at Fenway Park
to slightly less than $4,000 people.
The victory of the Braves in the Ma
tional League race was an upset to be
sure. but it was only an appetizer to
the astounding upheaval of so-called
form in the worlds series. Connie
Msck's Athletics won the American
League pennant for the second year in
succession and for the fourth time in
five years. They were not hard pressed
TO gain the honors In their league, and
went into the worlds series an over
whelming fsvorite against the Boston
team. Yet the Braves not only de-
fested the Athletics. but they won in
four straight games, a feat hitherto IN
heard of in a worlds series.
The sweeping victory Of the Braves
recessiLated a general change In base
ball valuations. Dick Rudolph and Bill
James showed themselves better pitch
ers than Plank and Bender. while
Meanwhile convinced the majority Of
the critics that he was the greatest
fielding shortstop Of all time
The acquisition of Evers by the
Braves was brought about at the win
ter meeting Of the National League In
February, which caused the elimins.
ton Of Charles Webb Murphy, presi.
dent and owner Of the Chicago Cubs
Murphy deposed Evers as manager of
the Chicago team and all but thrust
him into the hands Of the Federals.
Governor Tener, the new president Of
the National League, came to the res
cue Of Evers and saved him for the
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1918 championship nine, was DIS
appointment. :. ..t and
held athletics by scoring decisive
v;ftory over Pennsylvania in the inter
collegiate games in May. The Ithaca
team had no John Paul Jones on whom
TO rely, but they brought strong, wei
balanced team down to Cambridge and
outscored the Quakers, the favorites,
bv twelve points. Pennsylvania was
second and Michigan third. peculiar
tate of affairs revealed itself in the
fact that neither Harvard nor Prince
ton won a first place outright.
Dave Caldwell equalled the RECORD
of the wonderful Jones in the hall
mile run. Although all the perform
ances in the championship games were
of high order no records were broken;
Cornell had a wonderful team for dual
meets as we'll as for the championship
games and defeated Pennsylvania and
Michigan easily. Yale, too, mad
strong team and had little difficulty IN
defeating Harvard and Princeton.
The team scores in the championship
games were: Cornell, 43; Pennsyl-
vania, 81; Michigan, 29h; Dartmouth,
%; Yale, %; California, IL; Harvard
In the minor sports, Cornell and
Harvard had a battle royal for the
honors. The Ithaca men duplicated
their performance Of 1918 in winning
the wrestling title and carrying of
nearly every first place. In basketball
thew found Columbia had unexpected
strength. and although they fought
desperately to shake the New York
team off, they were forced to end the
season in a tie for the league title.
Yale was third in the basketball race,
Princeton fourth, Pennsylvania NTH
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-27

Trotting and pacing, or better, per.
hans. the light harness turf, hourished
as never before in this year that is
running its course. Twelve new trot-
ting and fifteen new pacing records
were established, and among them
were several Of the most important.
Peter Volo, which has lost only one
heat in his life and was unbeaten this
wear, and Etawah, were the lions OF
the trotting division, while Directum |,
William, Frank Bogash, jr., and K. IL.
Brett and Anna Bradford stood out
among the PAGERS.
Peter Volo reduced the record for a
three-year-old colt to 2:03h, and this
was not the limit of his speed. He Is
the first trotter that ever raced to q
worlds record in three consecutive
years. As a yearling he held for n
brief time the worlds record Of 3:19:
In 1913 he cut the two-year-old record
from 2:09A to 2:04l1, while this year,
as said before, he added another mark
to his credit. 1t is freely predicted
that he will trot in 2:01 next year.
Etawah smashed the four-year-old
mark for trotters of 2:05A, which has
stood since 1898 at least six times, and
set the record at 2:03A, where it is
likely TO stay for some time.
The PAGERS showed remarkable
flights Of speed. Direetum ! paced five
heats in two minutes or better and
covered the mile on one occasion In
1853, the fastest ever paced in the
open either in a race or against time.
William paced one heat in 900 and
three consecutive heats in an average
Of 2:01. When beaten by Directum
he was timed separately at l:58h.
Anna Bradford, q three-year-old flly,
perhaps was the marvel Of the year
as she paced one heat in 2:00%, re-
msrkable performance.
In writing Of the big increase Of fast
performers A. G. Asdikian. an au-
thority Of the light harness turf, said:
"A total of seventy-seven names
were added 10 the 2:10 trotting list of
the year, or an increase of nearly rs
per cent. over the best record for any
single season, namely, that of 1918,
while seventeen that were already In
the fast list reduced their records.
"The new list 10 headed by Brighton
B., Linda Wrons and Margaret Druien,
all with records of 2:05ht. while Of the
total, twenty-three took records OF
2:08 or faster, which is over 10 per
cent. of the total number Of 2:0S or
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AZ Belmont Park with Mrs. Payne
Whitney's Gamer in the Jerome Handi-
cap. StromboH carried III pounds and
Gamer i07.
IL is interesting to note that the
ether fast times were made over the
Mex;can track. JEFF Livingstone Iron
Mnsk. which he bought from X. =.
whitney, lowered his own worlds rec
ord for six furlongs In January. Car
rvine lis pounds, he stepped the dis
lance in 1909 S-e. Iron Mask also set
nm American record fer FIVE and half
furlongs, 1908 2-6. with the crushing
impost Of $50 pounds, go.
Supremacy, two-year-oid from the
stables of James Butler. clipped nth
Of a second from the worlds record for
three and half furlongs. running the
distance in o:S9 LIS. The mark was
formerly held by Cslisse, Texas bred
mare.
Most Of the old fixtures were re-
newed last season. The Metropolitan
Handicap was won by A. X. Rohbins's
Buskin, which lost the Brooklyn Han
dcap by head to Buckhorn, owned by
X. ]. Mackenzie.
The Futurity, which carried the rich
est purse Of the year, s22,il0. was won
by an outsider, Trojan, from the
Quincy Stables, in q veritable sea OF
mud.
J. E. Widener's Jumpers. Relluf and
Compliment, captured most of the hon
ors in steeplechasing. The former won
the American Grand National and the
whitney Memorial Steeplechase, and
the latter, the Corinthisn Cup.
Although racing was good, it was a
bad year for the good horses. Pen
nant, VI. p. Whitney's Futurity winner
of the year before, went wrong and
was thrown out of training after one
performance at Belmont Park. Old
Rosebud, the wonder two-year-old OF
1918. bowed g tendon in the running OF
the Withers, his first race as q three
year-old in the East Luke McLuke,
another Western horse of much prom
Use. which won the Kentucky Derby
earlier in the season, also went wrong
in midsummer.
or the older horses, perhaps the real
fsvorite with the crowds for her game
and honest performances was Captain
L. r. Cassatt's Flying Fairy. Her most
notable victory was in the Brookdsle
Handicap at Aqueduct on July 4. II.
p. Whitney's Borrow, which had been
campaigning in England, did not show
his real form until late in the season.
Ills best performances we're in the
Honkers Handicap, when he lowered the
track record at Empire City for a mile
and sixteenth. and in the Saratoga
Handicap, when he won from field of
good ones in fast time.
There was no lack Of good two-year-
olds. Early in the season Comely, from
the James Butler stable, virtually
swept everything before her, and num-
bered among her victories the Keene
Memorial. In fact, all the Butler two
year-olds, but more especially Pebbles,
tracks all season.
Few two-year-olds were unbeaten.
II. r. Whitney's Regret made perhaps
the best showing Of them all. The
chestnut son of Broomstick-Jersey
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-27
Soccer on Crest of
a Wave of Popularity

Soccer football players had little to
, aplsin Of on the score of activity
and advancement Of the sport in popu-
lar favor during the year 1914. In Eng
land. to be sure, the players, both
smateur and professional, are being ex-
posed to criticism and ridicule Tor
continuing TO play instead Of joining
the eolors, but here everything remains
serene and the present season, which
has remained open thus far, gives
promise of attaining excellent results
in Developing the game.
Last seasons prosperity was in the
main due to the organization of the
United States of America Football As
ISOLATION, which, under the effective
and untiring leadership of DR.. g.
Randolph Manning, its president, placed
the game on a plane it had never be-
fore known in this country.
The first series, or cup tie CONTEXT,
arranged for the national challenge
trophy attracted over forty clubs from
all parts of the country, an entry list,
by the way, which has been doubled
in the competition under way at this
writing.
After all the other teams had been
eliminated, the contest narrowed down
to two teams, both, by an unusual
coincidence, representing clubs in
Brooklyn, namely the Brooklyn Field
Club and the Brooklyn Celtics. The
final round between these splendid
teams was fought out at Pawtucket,
r. l., before q crowd Of 10000 people,
and the Brooklyn Field Club emerged
the victor by q score Of l goal to o.
The parent body in this country,
which has since curtailed its title to
the united States Football Associa-
ton" is affiliated with the Interns-
tional Football Federation and was
represented by DR.. Manning at the
annual meeting held in Christiania,
last June, when the American body
received permanent membership in the
international association. That or
ganizstion comprises twenty-five ma
tional associations and in this way
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-27
Fasteners MOnOpOlize
Bowling championships

Smith won the title for the frst tims
with a total of 1928, while his III
at Atlantic City repeated for him. ~
won the American all round a. o.
Louis in 1911 with 1919, and the Caa..
dian all round at Toronto in 1874
with a worlds record OF 2,O6O, or "a
average of 22S.8 for nine games, VINCE
stands high at present.
Legislatively the most important ae-
tion was that of the National bowling
Association at its Atlantic City con.
vention in disposing of the yexatious
loaded ball question. Instead OF at
tempting to define a LOADED" OF an
unfair ball, the association sdeptea
REGULATIONS whereby ball may %
made of anything so long as II Is nos
balanced "off the centre" more IMAM
three ounces, the allowance Tor tns
boring of the finger holes. Means o.
determining the amount Of unoalanes
was obtained through an invention OF
Elmer E. Duggan, president OF the asso.
citation, who gave his machine 70 Inv
organization. I'D
declared unsatisfactory, out ~
serted by the adherents OF the p,an
that the idea has been carried 700 lss
Thst, however, is a matter for future
determination. The New YORK bosr
inc Association is so closely affiliated
with the parent body that review o.
its year would be to tell aim0s' 'h'
same story. 80,
A table of champions follows; 40
National Bowling Association-M
around: James Smith, Brooklyn, w"
Individual: Harry Krauss, Washlngon;
67S. Two men: Glenn Riddeil sna
Harold Horton, New York, 1888 tive
men: Genesee, Rochester, 5000. An
American Bowling Congress.Ml
around: William Miller, Detroit ies.'
Individual: William Miller, DetroN1
676. Two men: d. II. Van Ness sna
John Negley, Newark, N. j, lao. five
men: Monko, New Haven, 2,944-