The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-01
SPORTING GOSSIP
FROM MANY FIELDS

While the European war has killed al
chances of international sports competi
ton on the scale of the Olympic games
and the Americas cup regatta, the com.
ing year will not be without its inter
sectional and international contests. In
fact, the indications point to wider
range of snort meetings during 1916 than
ever before in the history OF amateur
competition in this country.
National championship contests are ex-
pected to draw entrants from all parts
of the continent and with the interest of
all sections bound up in the play of their
Irrespective contestants, the dearth of inter-
national sports, planned for 1916, will be
partially forgotten. The Pacific coast
| will send a powerful and well-balanced
| tennis team to eastern courts for several
months Of tournament play; Stanford
university will enter team in the inter-
collegiate track and field championships
and the winning crew of the far coast
intercollegiate regatta will row at
Poughkeepsie.
An eastern polo team win play in the
middle and far West, while one or more
from these sections will compete in the
national championships later in the sum
mer. With the coming of autumn, inter-
sectional football games win be more
frequent than ever, the South, East, mid
die and far West eleyens meeting in nu
merous gridiron contests.
The outlook for international meets is
not so promising, although there win be
some events along these lines. The base
ball team of Waseda university of Japan
will tour the country, playing the leading
college nines several Australian boxers
are already planning to invade the
States; Christian Mathewson, the worlds
champion skater, is expected to compete
against the leading professional speed
skaters of America during the winter;
an all-Hawaiian polo team will play in
the East next spring; several South
American rifle teams are planning to
shoot in the national tournaments, and
the invasion of the United States by al
large track and field team from at least
one foreign nation is a possibility.
English war eensors work Just as care
fully with blue pencils and shears on
American sporting matter cabled to Eu-
rope, as they do ON news Of far greater
The score of the Harvard |
Yale football game was held up for more
than u hours, much TO the disappoint-
ment of Harvard alumni, who had gath t
cred to dine and celebrate the forecasted
victory. The score of the recent six-day
bicycle race was received with the daily
records of the teams eliminated to a
point where it was impossible for English
sporting editors to make head or tail out
Of what was left. Results of boxing
bouts in Australia are made public from
1ne to two days late, so that the sports
nan at home has little advantage over
lis brother in the trenches.
Shorter training trips and fewer exhi-
lition games are predicted for the big
eague baseball teams during the coming
pring campaign of preparedness.
Wisconsin tennis authorities have de- {
ided to stage a state championship tour /
lament open only to players who are
esidents Of that state. The state will /
Ne divided into sections and each club I
sked to hold a tournament to decide the :
hub championship. These title-holders {
y1lI, III turn, meet series OF divisional /
matches, and when the lists have been 5
educed to winner in each section, such /
uryiyors will meet in a round-robin con. {
est for the state title. Pot hunters I
rom other states viii have to confne i
heir activities to such invitation tourna-
mems as offer prizes in keeping with their Q
leas of their own drawing powers. h
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No date has as yet been fixed for the j
nnual meeting Of the football rules com
iittee, but it is expected that the confer
nee of the gridiron solons viii be held in 4
lew York City early in February. No
ldical changes are planned in the play Y
lg code, and the entire work of the COM
littee is likely to be completed in one
fternoon and evening session.