The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-09

baseball that some forum of a working I agree1nenst will be reached between the Federal league and the naaJqr's I leagues before the beginning of the 1915 pennant races. Both organized l and Independent baseball Is under stood to be awaiting the decision iIlsE several cases of players contracts now. before the courts.
 The leading officials of the leagaet1s now opposed to each other are ohaaTy about being quoted regarding the pos sibd1it5aof peace pact but it is well l established fact that the discussion of @ plans to bring about the desired re- Bult has not been dropped entirely. A majority of the znagnatas are convinc- i ed that another season of conflict such as marked 1914 will prove disastrous from financial standpoint and n1st be avot1ided df possible.
 Just which side will take the inn eatiative depends upon the outcome of the. caSes before the courts. Once f1n- \ al decision has been rendered and the various interests have learned their legal rights and future line of action, 8 determined effort to reach un- derstanding may be expected. As pointed out by a prominent club own CT inl recent private review of the situation. any other attitude wiAl spell 1 financial disaster. Under the present conditions the only person to benefit by the continuation of the baseball
 war is the baseball player. While ble magnates admit that he is a nec-
 essary adjunct, to the business hnere
 Is no intention to turn the business ! profits over to him in their entirety. 1 The exbent ito which the carrying of a football handieaps the runners speed was the subject of am interest l ing discussion at a recent meeting of gridi iron veterans. ItsWaS pointed out
 that almost wihhotuta exception in a long sprint down field after picking
 up. a funnbIed bali, the runner is gad1r-
 ed upon by pursuing players although
 not always overtalaen, due to an ad-5 l vantage at the start It was the gem
 eral opinion that amy given player could sprint the 100-yartls of the. foot I ball field from a second to a second and a half faster without the ball than when carrying the leather. Several they would experiment. under both
 corditions next autumn in order 10 I test their theories.
 That the proposed tour of South Sl America, by major league baseball
 teams during. the vydl,te1: asI5z1s will be 9 financial success and boom for the sport south of the equator is the confident prediction made by several l American business men conversanlt
 with conditions throughout the south
 ern continent. Baseball is 9freatiently
 played by ATner1cans residing ine the
 principal cities of Chile, Jerl, Argen-
 tinat and other South American coun-
 tries. These games never faia to at
 tract the natives who watch the play with interest. The younger genera
 tions are taking to the game and a1- ready play. fair baseball. Leagues
 composed of native players are pre-
 lioted within the next ten years and speaking on hfais point returned Z American said recently:
 In the natural course of evolution, the intTicacies of American baseball ? will be fastered and the national pass
 time transplanted south of the Pana-
 ma, Canal. CliRnat6c conditions are as favorable to the success of Baseball
 in South America. as in the United
 States while the interest shown there
 in other sports shows the existence of
 embryo baseball fans. I ann certain
 that in time amateur baseball will be E followed by the professdonaa league and it is not a dream to imagine that some day South America will send a
 team north for a real worlds series.
 Norman, S. Faber, former Brown University E11iEe runner and now a Rhodes scholar and member of the re- , lay team at Oxford University in writ
 ing of undergraduabe life at the Eng r fish University states:
 The activities among undergrad uates also tender to broaden the 5 Rhodes scholar for they, too, are diff felent from those i'm An1ieIican alni- l versailles and here believe that in [ one particular at least, Oxford has q
 valuable lesson to teach the colleges $ in the United States This is her e5 sy stem of athletics and yVgaieh~Trovid Eexerclse and competition for everyone 7 and not for @ lin1ited number of stars e In the afternoon, all Oxford men. aI- g most without exception, take part ia1 g outdoor games of some sort. dc g not discount the importance and the : value Of the university teams but
 wish to encourage the building up o1 , a, system of athletics that will cater g to every student Regular exercise 2 and competition on the athletic field ! are essential to both the mental and !. physical development of an efficient D man and Oxford is adequateay sup ; plying hf1ese clements. 7
 In 9 list of is intercollegiate sports
 in which eastern colleges and uni
 evrsities competed during 1914 eight
 won championship honors. CorneT
 and Harvard are tied with five eacf
 with Columbia next with three and
 nceton with two.
 The abandonment of. the famous English Henley Regatta tor 1915 vii
 leave the principal trophy the Crane 2 CT year at least. The classic prize of eight cared crews was won by tn, : : Harvard university second crew las \ summer and under ordinary conditions
 would have been returmed for oornpe g tition again this spring in accordance e with the deed of gift which made tn, ; Grand Challenge Cup a perpetua n prize
 This trophy, the oldest and most ia et nous of the six Henley awards wa d donated in 1S39. the initial year of tn II regatta. It anti-dates all other tro e phies and has been raced for eacl y year since the first contest more thai
 seventy-dve years ago. Although wol le by Belgium and Australian crews il ,t past years it is 3. strange eofncidenc Il that the first break in che annual. re