The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-09

IN .HSI Oh eighteen 1ntefcOleSldIe
sports in which eastern colleges and
universities competed during 1914
eight won championship honors. Cornell
and Harvard are tied with five each
with Columbia next with three and
Princeton following with two.
The abandonment of the famous
English Henley Regatta for 1915 will
leave the principal trophy, the Grand
Challenge Cup, in America for another
year at least. The classic prize for
eight cared crews was won by the Har-
ward university S second crew last sum-
mer and under ordinary conditions
would have been returned for competi-
tion again this spring in accordance
with the deed of gift which made the
Grand Challenge Cup a perpetual prize.
This trophy, the oldest and most ia
nous of the six Henley awards, was do
mated in 1889, the initial year of the
regatta. 1t anti dates all other trophies
ami has been raced for each year since
the first contest more than seventy
i've years ago. Although won by Bel
gium and Australian crews in past
years it is strange coincidence that
the first break in the annual regatta
should come the season following the
triumph of an American eight.
According to Harry Hillman, ath-
letie trainer at Dartmouth College, it
will be fully twenty years before any
European nation can hope to compete
successfully against the American ath-
lete. Hillman, a famous runner and
member of Olympic teams in his COM
petition days, stated that in his opinion
the European war and the advanced
training system and methods in vogue
in America formed handGcaps that
would prevent the foreign athlete from
reaching the general standard main
tanned in this country for a score of
years at least.
An umpire in close. touch with base
ball conditions throughout the country
forecasts a great season of prosperity
in the National sport in 1915. He
says: II umpire in different places,
where there is lots of different kinds of
business, and have a chance to hear.
Employe and employer give their diff
ferent view in regard to conditions in
their business and as viewed through
ont the country, and all admit that
business has been on steady decline
the past three years, and reached its
lowest ebb in 1914. In speaking with
those people and asking them to give
their views in regard to business and
relation to the decline in attendance at
the baseball parks, the past season and
almost to a man they will not mention
the Federal League, but will tell you
that business has been so dull that they
cannot spare the money to go to ball
games very often, as they need their
money for real necessities.
That is the answer that the mag
nate must not overlook in shaping his
plans for 1915; and in shaping his
plans he must remember that owing to
the European War, the business men of
this country are planning for one of
the greatest years of prosperity ever
known in the country. Business is al
ready on the upward bound, and bust
ness will be on the boom by next spring
Now, when the baseball fan is working
steady he feels that he can afford to
think and enjoy his favorite pastime,
and send some of his family once in a
while and let them have little enjoy
ment With this increase in patronage
the big leagues can afford to 90 out in
1915 and buy and draft more players
than they have the past season. The
minor league club owner. with the sale
of players and increased patronage,
will have a chance to recuperate some
of the losses of the past season, as he
is bound TO have a very successful sea-
son in l915'