The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-25

A annual indoor meets it has been deemed advisable to recommend a change from given distances to laps for all the relay events in future. This change would enable each relay to start and finish at a given point instead of at frac- tional parts of track like that in Madi- son Square Garden, where there is To- lap-to-t -the-mile track over which the in itial relay meet was decided last May Two new events, a straightaway hurdle and a dash for the longest distance pos sible indoors. have been proposed. In these contests no college will be allowed to start less than four men so that team competition will be adhered to and points awarded as in other events. In each heat. preliminary, semi-fnal and final, the places will count, 4, 8, and in points, so that while the team with the highest ag- gregate score will win, the possibility of one star athlete winning for his college will be precluded. These changes are to be passed upon, and In all probability adopted at special meeting of the as- sociation to be held at Boston on No vember 19, the eve of the day on which the Intercollegiate cross-country run and
 
 be decided.
 With the interstate three-cushion tourn- ament well under way the billiard sea- son promises to be unusually interesting. William Huey of Chicago, who won the three-cushion championship from George Moore in New York last month, said that 1t was the hardest match he ever played. Alfredo D'Oro, the former champion, h8s challenged for the title and this match will be one of the features of the green cloth next month.
 Willie Hoppe the balkline champion, so far oLtclasses the other players of prom intnce at that style of billiards, that a handicap tournament has been arranged in order to bring the leading professionals and the champion together on somewhat even terms. Hoppe will be on scratch in this tourney which will begin in New York November 15. The contest will be limited to six players, each game to be on a 600-point basis under the rules gov ernng 1S-2 balkline with the exception that the anchor spaces shall be seven inches square instead of 3iax7 inches, which formerly prevailed in all champion ship matches. Several experts have been named for this competition, but the most likely participants who will face Hoppe are koji Yamada. George sutton, Ora Morningstar Harry r. Cline and Jacob Schaefer, Jr. Other cueists have sent in entries, but the actual participants with their handicap allowances will be named within the next 10 days.
 ] One of the first matters taken up by 1 Chairman Fred A. Wenck orf the New 1 York State Athletic commission, when he assumed his new official duties, was l the renewal of licenses to hold boxing ex. l hibitions at the New York Athletic cluf e1 al,.I af Droa lxrtS The prompt action of the newly appointed | executive enabled these two organizations to perfect plans for tryouts on October l % and 30 to select men who will takt part in the international boxing cham pionsEips under the auspices of the A. A l T.. at the Panama Pacific exposition, Sal Francisco. early next month. Arrange l monts have been made to have the welgh
 classes so divided that the series cal be run concurrently in the gymnasum' l of the respective clubs
 l Additional interest attaches to these try
 outs owing to the announcement of Secre 1 tary- Fret surer Fred w. Rubien of tht Amateur Athletic union that the proceed!
 will be turned over or to James D l Sullivan memorial fund. This fact ha: brought assurances of hearty co-opera
 tion from many A. A. U. centers. Entriei have been received from Montreal ant l ToIoDto as well as from Boston. Cleve land, Pittsburg. Philadelphia and Buff l falo clubs, So that the winners in tn,
 several classes will be thoroughly repre-
 sentative as the best men in their respec 1 tive divisions.
 | Recent dispatches from Sydney, Aus | traia. say that subscriptions are to b ved-notwithstanding the disturbini effects of the war-by the Australasia | Lawn Tennis association to establish fund. the interest from which will b
 used for trophy to parpetuate the mem ory of the late Capt. Anthony F. Wildinl of New Zealand who was, with Norman l E. Brooks of Austta alia. a holder of tn Davis cup. The cup was regained fo Australasia by the pair in the Unite States In 1914. Wilding enlisted in tn
 British army shortly after the outbreal
 of tine var and was killed in Flanders b the effect of German shell few month
 ago. It is the intention of the associa
 ton to give the Wilding trophy, what
 ever form 1t may take, annually to tn | winner of the Austra la aSian singles cham