The Washington times., 1916-12-14
OBTHAYER'S
Sporting Gossip
"Every Knock Is a Boost"

record, has been Just trihe liberal
in the matter OF eligibility rules. and
IL Larry Bankart ever coaches at
Dartmouth he will not be able to use
quite the same kind OF material In all
cases. II is nothing new for Colgate
to have CLASSY football teams. Its
eleven In 1905 defeated one OF Dart
mouths best teams. 1s to 10. Frank
Castleman. the track hurdler. played
on this Colgate team. and he had al
ready been an athlete at college for
at least six years.
The spIrit OF Colgate was shown at
n dinner given In New York at the
time. when there was strong asita-
tion in the matter of abolishing coll
lege football. on that occasion DIR.
Merrill, former president OF the Ham
ilton Institution, made a speech, In
which he said that while football
might be a rough game, IL was n fine
and manly game, and that Colgate
would continue to play II as long as
an opponent could be found.
Georges Carpenter holds a pecu-
| liar place In the boxing world. Be
| cause OF his unstinted loyalty TO
France, the heavyweight champion OF
| Europe has placed himself practically
on a par with Jess willard as a draw
ing card. He has done nothing more
| than thousands upon thousands of
| others In the sickening strife abroad,
but because OF his position In the box
ing world he has put himself In the
way, all unknowingly, perhaps TO
| earn a small sized fortune after the
II lE l.. FA.E. NJ ~
| the meantime to earn goodly sum
| for the less fortunate OF his com
radeH. Under the circumstance, then.
Jess willard. or rather Tom Jones
| and his associates In the management
| Of the heavyweight champion OF the
world. have lost momcntsrily the
| power to dictate. There seems To
be n growing sentiment that Carpcn'
| tier should not be sacrificed on the
altar OF wIlIard'S superior buik and
| excessive poundagr. There In no rea
| son why Carpenter. who from force OF
' circumstances has become boxing
idol. should BE- sacrificed TO make
boxing holiday and to fatten the
purse strings of even a worthy char
| ity when n bout OF almost equal In
tcrcSt could be arranged with Lee
Darcy. whose fame has spread from
far.on Australia.
| so the old "gcntlcman's agreement
/ between the Harvard faculty and the
| football interests " To he abrogated
| Hereafter n football player who r.
balow grade as n result OF the No
yemher hour examinations will not be-
| eiigibi. for the Yale game. and this
/ fact helps to account for Coach
I HaughtonE recent spurt OF interest
In scholarship at Cambridge.
"If George SIslor had the aggres
riveness and confidence OF Ty cobb
he would be equally great" IL tho way
Hughey Jennings sizes up the senra
! tion of I'll. 1919 season In the Ameri
can League. Sisler In some respects
IL more rrmarkabl" than Cobb. be
cause he can pitch. play tho infeld
and outncld, and do all OF these
stunts up TO tho major league stand
! ard. Sislcr alone fails TO recognize
| Sisters greatness.
can anyone imagine giving odds Of
] 10 to against a team composed Of
Jim Thorpe, Caiac. Cutey Spears, MIit
OF Washington, and Jen. Dunn Of
| Dickinson. Buck of Wisconsin. and n
few lesser lights? II actually hap.
psned though: but the parties laying
| the odds were separated from about
SIS. 900 for doing so. Thorps'r Can
| ton team was Ia play Massillop, and
! the latter team had beaten all tho Can:
ton teams for years back. There was
/ nothing To this years game but Can
/ ton, as should have been expected,
WIN the series between the InteTna'
tionai League and the American Asso.
citation eventually rupplant the
worlds series In national interest /.
There are those who believe II will un-
less decided changes are made In the
| present methods OF conducting the
blue ribbon series OF professional
baseball. At the final game OF the
1919 series for the worlds champion
ships empty seats could be counted
by the thousands. The fans, sickened
| by the evident desire OF player and
magnate To get the money rather than
the honors of the diamond, simply
stayed away. In some cases tickets
had been purchased at eSorbitsnt
prices for those empty seats, too. The
fans remained away rather than lend
their presence To the support Of the
magnates and the grasping players, 1t
behooves the moguls at the annual
sessions this winter to give deep con
| Alteration TO this question.