Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-11-05

Newark CluD, Is Dack N new lori
and he is just as strong for the Fed
eral League today as he was yes
terday or he was six months ago. S
far as Mr.. Sinclair can see, peace |
not near at hand The stories tina
came out, of Cincinnati were true il
part only. Mr.. Sinclair did not e
to Cincinnati to talk baseball. II
went to Cincinnati to talk buslnes
of another nature. but admits he ha,
talk with Garry Hermann, chair
man of the National Commission, OF
baseball affairs. Mr.. Sinclair declare
his conversation was not official an,
that he didn't represent the Fedora
League. He wasn't in any conference
along with Charles weeghman ant
William H. Walker, of Chicago. and
in fact, he didn't see either Of tllest
gentlemen. AS far as he knew. tn,
battle was still as turbulent as ever
and he is just as much of a fighter
as ever.
Peace may come at any moment
but when it does come the odds are
long that Mr.. Sinclair win not get
any the worst of it and that the Feds
will not have anything to feel
ashamed of. As matters stand, the
Feds are better Off than organized
baseball in every way. In the first
place they are in a position to stand
the war better than the National
League and the American League.
the owners of which depend solely on
baseball for their bankrolls. The
Feds are in baseball as sportsmen.
The 0. BIS are in it for the dollar.
@
The whole thing looks as if Messrs.
Sinclair and Hermann simply had a
talk, with peace In baseball as the sub
ject of their conversation. The meet
ing was not official in any way and
no arrangements We're made for an
other meeting. The National League
club owners want peace, 1t is known.
and if this Too Much Ban johnson
thing keeps up perhaps the Feds. and
the Nationals might come to terms
on the outside of the fence. State
ments have been made time and
time again that the Feds would never
be swallowed up by organized base
ball. President Gilmore has declared
times without number that If peace
came 1t would have to be on a fifty
fifty basis. Mr.. Sinclair thinks that
baseball is a funny proposition. He
said this morning, Jokingly, thar
Some people don't seem to care how
they spend my money" This dec
was made when he was dis
cussing the stories that told how he
was going to- buy the New York
Giants for $1,5o0,0o0.
Princeton is looked upon as having
the best football team of the year,
and the game between the Tigers and
Harvard at the Palmer Stadium to-
morrow is considered the big game
of the year With Yale out of the cal
the winner between Prince
ton and Harvard will have first claim
on the championship, though If Yale
should come into form, as many be-
lieve she will, now that Tom ShevlIn
has taken hold of the Ellis, there
might be a dispute over the conten-
tion. However, as matters stand
now, the Tigers and the Crimson are
the ones to be considered.
o
Princeton surely has shown splen-
did form this season. She has come
into her own by easy stages, and she
has developed what might be termed
a sure and safe team. During the last
few days reports have come out of the
training camp at Princeton that the
Tigers were in slump. This may be
so. but college training camp informa-
tion is not always the most reliable.
For instance, in years past, always
the most discouraging reports would
come from Yale, yet Yale would in
variably show improvement in her
on the gridiron. Recently
Yale hasn't been so formidable, but
the reasons have not always been the
fault of the coaches or Of the system.
Yale has been handicapped more than
once by the action of some of her
players. The case of Legore this year
was cruel blow.
o.
Opinion as to the outcome of the
Harvard game favors the
Tigers, but the margin is almost GER
tain to be very small between them
Some are looking for a nothing nothing
score, and no one expects either side
to make more than one or two
counts. The Tigers haven't been
beaten, while the Crimson fell before
Cornell in no uncertain manner. That
alone should give Princeton a. big
shade. However. the figures bring
the teams close together, and one cx-
pert on the Philadelphia Inquirer
sums the situation up in this manner:
"The prevailing impression that this
is an even thing between Harvard
and Princeton is only partly correct.
Harvard is, believe. a trihe stronger
at the ends, and has a shade less sd-
vantage, but still an advantage at
the tackle stations. The center trios
hardly show the difference in the
scales. ! think that the Princeton
back field would prove more alert in
defending against the open game, OF
which Harvard is likely to release a