Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-15

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stances, and the arguments are pre-
scented to suit the times. August Bel
mont was solely responsible for the
knocks and raps and, finally, the
death of racing. He was the auto
crat at whom the blow was struck.
Belmont never dreamed that racing
could be so thoroughly destroyed,
and he played the meanest kind of
game. The Jockey Club, which was
Belmont, played high cards, but one
day along came the public" and
trumped his best trick. The game
died, and now Belmont and the
others who threw the poor public
out of their race tracks when it was
willing to pay want the good people
10 come back and see the racing for
nothing. Maybe the public will fall
FOR the bait. Maybe it will. But if it
does, the public" ought to be horse
| whipped. If Belmont wants racing.
let him pay for it. The public paid
him big revenues when the sport was
on high plane.
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The day hasn't arrived, it would
seem, when the amateur and profess
sional athletes will compete at the
same meet, but it looks very much as
if the time for such an event is not
far off. Athletics are a wonderful
sport and they should vie with the
great national game of baseball for
attention. Yet they never will while
the amateurs and the pros are kept
apart. If it should come TO pass that
a man like James Z. Sullivan, the
leading spirit in the Amateur Ath-
letic Union, ever looked with favor
on the proposition TO consolidate the
amateurs and the professionals the
game would become popular and
profitable Right here in Newark,
where baseball and cycling have been
known to have attracted more than
26,0 600 between them on a single sun
day, athletics in a year or so would
give both of these sports a hot race
But the game must be made big, and
to do this the professionals and the
amateurs must be allowed to compete
at the same meet, but not necessarily
. against each other. The amateurs
: would be no more than they are now
t and the pros would be a hang-site
better. We would have more attn
c Ietes and better athletes all around
and the amateurs would be rea
semi-pros.
The question of a mixed athletic
. meet came up as a result of an ap.
: plication on the part of the Scottisi
CLANS. of New York, to conduct suct
a set of games. The vote was close
1 being to 4 against, and Mr.. SUN
van has taken sufficient interest II
the matter to suggest that the asso
Citations that desire amateur and pro
fessional joint meetings should Sent
to the secretary of the A. \. U. NIT
DAYS before it's annual meeting, WhlcI
is held in November each year, al
amendment to strike from the book
/ from competing at meetings sane
toned by the A. A. U. Such a cours
will bring the matter up again and
will be interesting to watch for In
results In way, it is PRACTICAL
all I'D to Mr.. Sullivan. He is the hi
power in athletics and his wor
would carry any movement through
I don't know that Mr.. Sullivan is f.
anv such plan, but il would seem z
if he were not against it to any cor
siderable degree. He would be alb
TO control the situation in the ever
| of a consolidation of professional az
iii amateur interests even more pos
III lively than he does now. lie h;
shown his great strength and h
superior Judgment in all the big a
fairs of recent years, and he wou
he lust the man to be at the hes
of the game when the two factio
ioin hands. Later on it is bound
come. but we may not have Jam
e. Sullivan to guide the good sh
I then.
III England is having her troubles wi
III her polo team, but now that Capta
III Cheape has consented to play, thin
are beginning to brighten up. T
class and caste fight has been mel
one, and the polo team has suffer-
But the Englishmen are goi
III through with their challenge a
III they are coming over here to play
- game. For that, we would say til