Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-13
NEWARK BOY GETS
AMHERST LETTER
Johnny Strahan Awarded His
a. for Baseball Playing
at Amherst.
COLLEGE SPORT ACTIVITIES

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COLLEGE SPORT ACTIVITIES
Johnny strahan. a NewarlSer. 80
/ among those awarded their letters fer
baseball at Amherst College yester-
+ day, when the athletic association
voted las" to the following: Parten-
heimer. Proudfoot. Searle, william
son, 70: Decastro. Kimball. Robins
son, sWasey. rs; Goodridge. WASH
burn. '16; Bailey, Is, and Shaw.
Strahan is well known in this city
/ having had MS early education a.
/ Newark Academy He is a ball toss-
er Of excellent ability and will Lead
/ the varsity nine at Amherst next sea-
son. strahan plays the position o.
backstop.
Pichegru Wolfolks. Of Richmond,
/ right tackle, last night was elected
/ captain OF the University Of Virginia
football team. He succeeds Robert
Gooeh, who recently resigned as cap-
tain-eiect 70 accept q Rhodes sclol-
arship at Oxford University.
Word has reached here that re
ROTATIONS are under way for a foot
4 ball game IN New York city Hexz
fall between Washington and JefIer-
son College and the Carlisle Indians.
/ II the game is arranged there viii
probably be three big games iocai
fans vii nave an opportunity Of wit
4 Messing next year at New York.
Brown and Cornell have ALREADY
planned to play there next fall, and
1t is likely that the Army-Navy game
viii also be played again at the Polo
Grounds.
rip Quinby the former Barringer
High School athlete is again right II
line for seat IN the Princeton var
sity boat this spring. Quinby rowea
against Yale this fall, when the
Tigers left the Els far astern in tbs
dual ardce.
The new Yale bowl. now in course
of construction, Is TO provide place
for track athletics also, II the present
agitation toward that end succeeds.
The track supporters are up in arms
against the movement to reserve the
bowl for football alone. It Is the
contention of the gridiron fanatics
that even II d track were installed.
neither Harvard nor Yale would run
over It. This, It seems, is not a fact
as both Harvard and Princeton
agreed to meet the Ellis on the track
In the bowl. in addition to which tho
intercollegiate Association Of Anna
teur Athletics has formally petitioned
to have track included in the plans
for the bowl.
Princeton and Trinity replace Har-
ward and New York University on
the Williams College football schedule
for 1914. which has just been an
/ nounced. The game with Princeton
Is the first ever scheduled between
the two institutions. The schedule
follows: September &c, F. P. l.. az
Williamstown October 10, Dartmouth
at Williamstown; October II. Spring
| field Y. NJ. c. A. College at Williams
town; October "A, Trinity at Hart
ford; October 81, Princeton at Prince
ton; November Z, Wesleyan at Will
iamstown; November "A. Amherst az
Amherst.
Mike Dorzias, the Greek strong
man. who will appear in the Greek
American indoor games next Fridar
night at Manhattan. is perhaps the
busiest athlete that ever attended
Pennsylvania. One afternoon last
week he worked out W tn the foosks[
squad for an hour, then went
other end of the field and put
teen-pound shot for a while
which he closed his afternoon
else with a thirty-minute wrs
drill. Dorzias is wanted by am
every coach in Penn. Three homo
lay open TO him, the Intercollegiate
heavyweight wrestling title, the IN
te-collegiate shot-put Championship
and the all-American football honorss
He intends TO get them ALL
''Duckey Dolan the former 81.
Benedict's College star catcher, who
last year played such sensational ball
for the Penn freshmen was among
the candidates that answered the
cali for battery aspirants yesterday
at the Quaker college. Schwert and
Rooms, of last years varsity, wers
also out. but Dolan's work for the
Penn Cubs was of such quality that,
# he repeats this spring. he is sure
to get into the game.
Cornell will play Franklin and
| Marshall in football this fall Me-
gotiations to play Cornell on No
venber at Cornell field were con
eluded yesterday by the Lancaster
College. Charles W. Mayser. the for
mer Newark Academy mentor, Is
football coach at Franklin and
Marshall.
The forward pass is all right as Il
is now and there should be no change
in the rules with reference to it, IL
the opinion Of DR. Albert II SHARING.
head coach at Cornell. DR.. Sharpe
does not believe any material changes
will be made in the football rules this
year and declares that the game has
now reached q high STANDARD and
that It would gain little by any rule
changes. The forward pass. he says.
has been an asset to many college
teams, while IL also serves to spread
out the defense. Moreover, DR.. Sharpe
says that by opening up the game
it has made football doubly interest,"
ing TO spectators.
) Wabash College, of CrawfordsvilIe.
Ind, has taken the place of Notre
Dame University for the Thanksgiv-
ing Day game in the University Of
Texas 1914 football schedule just an
nounced. The game win be played at
Austin, Texas.
A team representing the Dartmouth
Outing Club win meet McGlll Univer-
sity in four-nliie ski relay race at
Montreal February 81. under the
auspices of the Montreal Ski Club.
This Is the first intercollegiate compe-
tition in winter sports scheduled by
the Dartmouth organization. and viii
occur at the time of the Montreal ice
carnival.
JUAREZ FAVORITES LOSE