The Cordova daily times., 1915-04-06
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 eral League, after a two weeks ad- Journment, to get matters in order which were left unfinished at the Ruf. falo meeting, is holding an important meeting in Pittsburg to day. Bey- ond a doubt the seasons schedule will will be adopted, as the league has something more definite to work upon in Newark. The new form of con. tracts of the Feds is something of a revaIetion in baseball. Details of the young and established players, which will result in the establishment of conditions which will make the Fed eral League contracts court proof.
 Philadelphia is all excitement over the game of the Meadowbrook Club, which will be contested at Convention hall tonight. A ten-lap track, banked has been laid down for the meet, which will have not less than 1000 entries. Justice Weeks, of New York will be honoarry referee. and Peter Carney, handicapper of the Mid dle Atlantic Association of the A. A. U, will referee the events. Some of the best athletes of the country will compete against each other at this meet.
 There is a feeling among the Wash ington players that Griff's club is likely to be a strong factor in the coming pennant race. The shot-to- pieces Athletics are not reckoned with and the Nationals think that the early dopesters should concede the Griffmen better than a fighting chance to win the 1915 pennant.
 Haywood Brown says that the cow boys contribute largely to the night life of Marlin. Films of life on the plains are the most popular with the men of the ranges. These dramas take the cowboys from reality and make them forget the dull, drabness of their own existence as they watch life they have never seen.
 Anyone that is at all familiar with college athletics must wonder at the training system of professional ball players. The college men who are striving for an "H" or "Y", or what ever his letter may be, overlooks no detail of diet of hygiene in his effort to gain the last fraction of physical efficiency, while the ball player, to whom physical efficiency means not an "H" or "Y", but a career and fortune, trains only on the broadest kinds of lines. Of course, with a few exceptions, the baseball player keeps regular hours and drinks rare ly, if ever.
 Well, the jinx has certainly been the constant companion of Ad. Wolgast. Ad. seems to be the unluckiest of ightweights and declares that he IS through with the ring, for a time at least. It will be months before the plaster cast can be remoyedI from his broken arm. Wolgast has been sue cessively afflicted with a caulihower ear, appendicitis and broken hands.
 Tom Downey, utility player of the Kansas City Blues, for the last seven years, may manage the Topeka club in the Western League this season if George Tebeau will consent to let him go.
 Instead of idling his time away Lar ry Lajoie has been working hard all winter. He has been splitting wood and doing all the hard work about his place. Larry now weighs 195 pounds, and needs to take off only eight more pounds of flesh to get down to playing condition. Larry and Mrs. Lajoie will live with Harry Davis during the playing season in Philadelphia, and will leave their home in Cleveland.
 West Point has one of the strongest basketball teams in the country. From the standpoint of the athletic pres tige of the military academy, it is that the cadet teams are not allowed to take a trip away from home occasionally. The midshipmen also have an exceptionally strong five this season. Both West Point and Annapolis have defeated Cornell. which has been helping to set the pace