Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-24

| New York, May 23.-The prosperous
condition of the leading amateur sport
controlling bodies of the Unied States
is attested by the annual reports now
being filed by the treasurers of the var
ious associations. In almost every case
the close of the fical year shows IN
creased sums in the treasures over the
preceding IL months and indications
are that these balances will be aooed
to during the present season.
So far as actual figures are available
the United States National Lawn Ten
mis- Association leads with surplus OF
close to $4,000, due in part to the rev.
| enue derived from the series OF DAVIS
Cup matches played in this country
! last summer between the teams repre-
senting Great Britain, Australia, Ger
many. Canada and the United States.
The Polo Association also greatly IN
creased it's funds as a result OF the IN
! ternational games at Meadow BROOK
but the exact sum has never been mace
public although it is understood to run
into thousands.
| The Amateur Athletic Union has
more than $4,000 in it's treasury and
the United States Golf Association
about $4,000. The Intercollegiate Am
ateur Athletic Association Of America
has a reserve fund Of more than $4,000
notwithstanding the annual dividend
declared to college athletic associations
conforming with certain rules OF the
organization. The books of the Nation
al Association of Amateur Oarsmen
show a balance Of more than $l500 ana
even the newly formed United States
Football Association had a surplus of
close to $500 at the end Of it's first
years existence.
l. In professional baseball ranks the
financial records Of the leagues and
clubs are not published but in inkllng
Of the heavy expense that the mag
mates have been under during the past
year or SO is given by the report OF the
I National Baseball Commission. At the
chose of 1913 the Commission statements
gave the money on hand at that time
as s27,709.O3 On January 1, of this
wear that sum. had shrunK' to 81, 4S6.07.
To the balance. in the treasury on De-
cember 81, 1913 there. was added SAL
95512 but the debit sheets of the Com
mission show expenses Of $6S,11S0S
|
smaller surplus than has been the case
in many years.
| The present week will witness the
close of the eastern college track and
field season with the holding OF the
intercollegiate Games at Philadelphia.
The coming two days meet of the |. c.
A. A. A. A. will be the 40th annual
games of the: association which held
it's first championship in 1876. AL
though So colleges and universities have
scored points in these annual games
the honor of winning the meets has
been confined to six universities. Har-
ward leads with 13 victories; Yale is
second with nine; Pennsylvania third
with eight; Cornell fourth with five;
Columbia fifth with three and Prince
ton sixth with one.
In total points scored Yale is credited
with 696 81 so; Harvard 617 14-15; Penn
sylvania, 5i4 IL; Cornell 1886 IA;
Princeton, S04 IA; Michigan, 1853 1-6;
Columbia, 137 1-12; Syracuse, los -;
| Dartmouth SO. Twenty-Five other col
leges have also figured in the scoring,
their credits ranging from one to so
points. A peculiar feature of the rec
ords is the fact that Princeton won the
initial meet and Columbia the next
three, since which time neither univer-
sity has repeated. Between 1880 and
| 1896 Harvard and Yale monopolized
first place honors. IN 1897 Pennsyl-
| vania came to the fore and later Cor
nell took it's place as one of the leading
athletic universities Of the country di-
viding honors with Pennsylvania and
Harvard during the period from 1905
! to 1914.
3 Proprietors Of tennis courts rented
| by the hour, day or week. report a
I steadily increasing demand for this
comparatively new system of securing
tennis playing privileges. This is par
| ticularly true of the larger cities of
the east such as New York, Phiiadel-
| phia and Boston. In many cases courts
have been booked for the entire season
and new courts are being constructed
to meet the surprising growth in the
popularity of tennis especially among
| those who are too far removed from
courts are available.
That the high cost of baseball is not
confined to the present day is proved
by the report of the Boston Baseball
club of 1875. The figures of 40 years
ago show that the expenses of the
team for the season was $34,505.99 and
the receipts sS7;167.06 leaving profit
Of s3,261.07 which was less than 10 per
cent Of the grossaFeceipts.
The death Of Anthony F. wilding as
the result Of a bullet wound received
in battle in the Dardanelles, marks
the passing Of one Of the worlds great
est tennis players. His ranking was,
Of course, matter Of personal opinion,
some experts placing both Brookes and
Mel .oughlin ahead Of. the New. Zea-
lander, but in recent years his name
never failed to appear in the lists Of
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