The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-11

| 1 Of the four leading universities of
 the east. Princeton appears to have | the best football prospects for 1916. lCoach Speedy Rush will have an excellent squad of varsity and first | substitute material to open the Tigers l gridiron campaign. Princeton loses | nine players out of a squad of about
 forty by graduation; Harvard sixteen | out of forty; Cornell sixteen out of | thirty and Yale thirteen out of some 1 thirty odd.
 In actual points lost Cornell is i heavy suffered for 216 out of total
 score of 2s7 will be lost as a result
 of the passing of close to half of the
 leading players and substitutes in. lcluding Capt. Barret, who scored 162 1 points for the Ithaca eleven this sea- son. Harvard loses 1O7 points out of 164 including Capt Ma.han who lead l the squad in scoring with II points to | his credit. Princeton will drop thir- | ty-two points out of 136, Law being | the heaviest scorer to be graduated. i At Yale thirty-four points will be lost
 by graduation in addition to fourteen
 by the 1915 barring of Le Gore, out of
 a total of s3 points.
 i A comparison of the worlds series land major league pitching averages ] show that Alexander, Shore and Eos l ter did not dGV1aJos- to any 0AC01Ats HI l the championship series from the form shown during the long pennant race in their respective leagues. AL | exander figures in forty-nine games
 and 376. innings of hurling during the 1915 National league race with an av- craze of 1.22 earned runs per game l charged against him. In the World's 8 Series he pitched 1s innings against ! the Boston Red Sox three runs be- | ing scored off his delivery for an
 average of 1.5o earned runs per 1 game.
 l Shore, who was third among the American League pitchers ranked for
 the past season, had an average of ' 1.64 for the season. In the title
 series he pitched two games, losing the first and winning the second with l a total of four, earned runs charged
 against him. As both contests were ] nine inning games his record for the Worlds Series was 200 earned runs per game. Foster also figured in 1 two games for eNRed Sox defeating l the PhiIIies both times, the total earn 1 ed runs made off his delivery being l four. As a result his average for l the series was also 200 as against | 2.12 for the entire season of league splay.
 1 Rowing authorities in charge of the Poughkeepsie and New London in-
 tercollegiate regattas state that there
 will be no change in the program for
 the. 1916 races either in the colleges
 represented or the distance of the
 contests. Yale and Harvard will
 meet in their annual four mile eight
 pared race on the Thames on Friday. June 23z while the Poughkeepsie re- gatta will be held on Saturday, June 1 IT.
 Cornell, Pennsylvania, Syracuse, l Ia1xv 15F1c1 college crew in the Pacific Coast 1n- Intercollegiate regatta will make up the
 field. The officers of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association state that they
 are not affiliated with the American
 intercollegiate Rowing Association,
 which is working for on intercollegiate
 regatta along the lines of the English
 Henley.
 1 A new game, which is a fcon1bina< | ton of football and basketball. is be- | ing tried out at Cornell. "Gridiron" is
 the name of the new sport which has | been invented by Professor c. V. F. l Young. It is played with rugby l fc otban on the regu1ar gridiron. by 1 teams of eleven men, but has some l likeness to basketball. Running with | the ball for n1pre than five yards is H.
 legal taclling below the waist IS Tor bidden, and frequent passing of the 1 ball is encouraged. The game may | be developed to take the place of l soccer in collegiate sport at Cor i nell.
 The letter written by President i James E. Gaffney, of the Boston Ma | tional League Club, to each player on 1 the Braves payroll informing them | that he will not permit any form or
 rowdyisTn by the members of the club
 next season has made marked inn ] pression among the other magnates i of the senior league It is probable | that the communication will be dis
 cussed informally by the club own l CTS at the coming annual meeting and
 several others are understood to la
 vor similar action in their own clubs. There has been a marked improve
 ment in the department of the big
 league player on the diamond during
 the past few years but some of the
 magnates believe that there is still
 room for betterment in this respect | Professional baseball has not travel | ed a path of roses in recent seasons ] and the club owners are earnest ad-
 vocates of any move to increase it's popularity. To conserve the keen l competitive spirit of the game and l yet eliminate umpire batting, futile | disputing of decisions, loud repartee i among the players, similar abuses and