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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Athletics May
Be Compulsory
At Cambridoe
General Athletics for Alls
Specialized Sport for None-
Motto of Sargent

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Feb. "a ~,
tenn Of compulsory athletics ia ma.
than likely to be put in force At w.
ward after the war. The inaueurst;..
of such plan at Cambridge is stan.,
ly approved by Dr.. Dudley A. Sargent
director of the Hemenway gymnasium
and Fred W. Moore, graduate MANAGE,
Of the Harvard Athletic Association
These men admit that the pr...,.
war has shown them that college AZ
letics, as they have been conducted q,
a number Of years, are all wrong; .h,,
the attention paid to the speciaI.s,
few, to the detriment of the MANI u.nn't !:
objectionable, and that now with 10
country in need of the well-devessss
youngster for mans Job oyerss..
the American colleges can give oniv .
handful, when rightly they Should H.
contributing by the thousands.
81 certainly DO favor the adontio, =,
form of compulsory athletics at Hsr.
vard," said Fred W. Moore, who hs.
virtually abandoned his desk at H.
Offices Of the H. A. A. in order to carr
out his new duties as captain in tho
! quartermaster's reserve CORPS. 4cr.
colleges have learned to their sorrow
that the system in use for the furthsr.
ance of athletics is dead wrong. W.
have been following will o the wish
as it were, only to have been blown. So
far away by the war that hope i
never returns. l cannot say that Har-
ward will adopt such a radical though
rational step after the war, but ner.
sonally favor it."
Something Lacking
DR.. Dudley Sargent has been Syt.
contended all along that something wa s >
lacking in modern college sports.
"My motto for collegiate use wou,d
be, General athletics for all; special.
lied sport for none,'" said DR.. Sargen.
Gust think, from Is to 50 per cent esa q;
our young men are physically rnpre.
pared for military service. Isn't that a
striking indictment of the system Of
athletics IN vogue in our country?
Gymnastics and athletics were oripi.
nal!y practised for the purpose of pre-.
pairing men for war. And all were inn.
pressed into service. Any college sport
that becomes so highly specialized That
only men Of special aptitude or ability
can take part in it should not have
standing as of practical service in a
democratic community. Such sports be.
come pastimes only fit for occasional
amusement or entertainment.
II sincerely hope that our colleges.
grown wise to the evils that they have
encouraged in athletics all around them,
will adopt compulsory athletics until
such a, time comes when the students
themselves will recognize the obligation
they are under to become healthy citi-
zens and stalwart defenders of the
country. And the American colleges
must lead the way in this respect"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Present Officers Expect In
dorsement of Their Work
and Policies
BY Fred Hawthorne

Followers of lawn tennis the county
over await with keen interest and
anxiety the results of the meeting %
the United States National Law. Zen
mis- Association, to be held at the Wal
dorf-Astoria next Friday afternoon ard
evening. Matters of the utmost i'm
portance to the future Ct the game
depend upon the action of the dele
gates at this meeting, and among the
most important of these will be the
annual election of officers.
1t requires no student Of lawn tennis
matters to realize the tremendous
strides the game has taken under the
tenure of Office. Under Major George
Townsend Adee and his fellow officers
tennis has arisen to place Of i'm
portance among the major sports that
must ever rebound to the credit CT
those whose guiding hands led il safely
past the crisis raised by world a..
war.
When Major Adee last August tempo
rarily abandoned the Office of presi-
dent the executive committee named
Julian S. Myrick, of this city, as acting
president, and there could not have
been wiser choice. Mr.. Myrick has
SAO"il IAC SdAuC 1dIc faculty. LOT con-
structive work and legislation that
Major Adee brought to bear in his con-
duct of the office, and if the ticket
named by the nominating committee
viz, Major Adee for president, Mr..
Myrick for vice-president. Edwin Fuller
Torrey, secretary, and George Wight
man, treasurer-is elected next Friday.
then followers of the game may look
forward with confidence to an even
more notable administration.
The U. S. N. L. T. A., with these men
in control, has taken leading part in
directing the trend Of athletic affairs
since the start of the war. 1t was the
first organization to recommend the
abandonment of title play after the
United States entered the war, before
the draft law was in effect. and was
likewise among the first to offer it's
services to the government in any ca
pacity.
How the association equipped and
completely manned an ambulance sec
ton for active service in France is too
we'll known to need detailed DESCRIPTION
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

ing more interested at tho time in
pitching ouoits, which was considered a
sport better suited to an elderly but
fairly active gentlemen.
But from all we can gather, there
was more to Dickey Pearce than showed
on the surface. He was ball player
with brains. We understand precisely
the claim we are making, and we are
lrrefutably correct in the assertion that
be played with Brooklyn. We repeat
Pearce was a ball player with brains.
1t was he who invented the bunt hit.
One warm summers day back in 1866,
when nothing except the usual dozen
runs stood between Brooklyn and VIC
tory, Dickey ~ ed said, said he:
"There are lot of suckers who want
to knock the ball loose from it's trench
coat every time they come to bat. Thi:;
results in the infield playing back and
the outfielders being SO far away that
they are practically commuters Now,
the only way to beat this frame-up is
to dump the ball in front of the plate.
1T will surprise the inlielders so greatly
they will promptly drop dead, along
with the catcher and the pitcher, and
while the outtielders are running in to
fall on the ball will reach first base"
Dlckey''s scheme worked perfectly
While the infelders failed to drop
dead, as he had hoped and expected
they might as we'll have done so in so
far as their chance Of nabbing him at
first was concerned. Thanks to Dickey
Pearce, the bunt hit came into exist
ence there and then, and since that
time some of our leading ball players
have become so efficient in bunting that
they can hunt into double play on an
average of three times out Of five
"
drce Dickey Pearce irto this chronicle
but as matter Of fact the bunt hit was
only one of number of things invent.
ed by this infelder who played for
Prooklyn and had brains. According ia
the earnest and veracious Mr.. More.
land, it was Dickey Pearce who also
originated the fair foul hit, in 1871
Through an oversight, Mr.. Moreland
does not explain what fair foul hit is
but it sounds pregnant with possibility
The great trouble with most fouls is
that they are just fouls and never viii
be anything else.
From what we have learned of Dickey
Pearce, it was almost unnecessary te
tell us that it was he who originated
the idea Of dropping fly ball pur
posely to make double play. 1t wa:
almost cinch it would be Dicke,
think of that. 1t wasn't his fault tina
later the rules committee took an un
fair advantage of him and changed the
rules so that his brilliant inspiration
was nullified.
We wish now we had gone over t
Brooklyn in 1866 and met Dicke,
Pearce. There is bound to come a tim,
in the course OF ffty-two years when
man would like to visit Brooklyn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Fordham After
Game From Home

The Fordham football management is
casting around for game next season
to be played away from home. All of
the games thus far arranged are for
Fordham Field, and Manager Higgins
is eager to arrange contest for for
eign field. The date of November 16
was kept open week, in hope that the
Navy would need an opponent OH that
day, but yesterday Annapolis informed
Manager Higgins that owing to the
acceptance of prior offers the schedule
was filled.
An offer from Colby for game away
from home is now receiving considera-
ton. Negotiations are also under way
with West Virginia. Wesleyan and Vir-
ginia Military Institute for games at
Fordham Field.
Holy Cross, one of Fordham's ancient
rivals, will not be played because of
the uncertainty at Worcester as to
what extent the Purple will participate
in the gridiron sport next season.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Banzai! Kun1agae
Will Pay Us
Another Visit

~ ANZAI! Ichiya Ku,na~
y gae, the auomderful lit
tie japanese arho stood
tennis playing America on
its head IN 1916, When he
came ont of the Far East,
qUon the Ne1U York State
championship, defeated WiI-
lam NJ. Johnston ON the
courts of the Newport Co.
slno and 1Uas ranked at No.
5 IN the first ten" is coming
back to Ne1U York and to
American la1Un tennis.
Word 1vGs received last
aUeek to the effect that Ku-
magae aUiU ar7lue here sUme
time neat month and 2UiU es-
tdbllsh q permanent resi-
dence IN the metropolis, for
he aUiW enter the employ of a
japanese importing firm.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Soldier Athletes to
Compete in Big Games

Over two hundred and fifty soldier
and civilian athletes will compete IN
the eighteen races to be held in con-
Inectlon with the second set OF bi-wees.
~. preparedness games for the benenI'
OF the Metropolitan Association A. A. y.
war activities fund at the 18th Regi-
ment Armory. Sumner and jefferson
avenues, Brooklyn, on Lincoln's Birth
day Eve, Monday. February II.
The soldier athletes will come from
Camp Upton and Camp Dix, Fort;
Wadsworth, Hamilton, Slocum anG
Hancock, and the sailor athletes wlll
represent the various naval training
stations around New York. 49,,
The most prominent entrants in tns Nc
ooo-yard race are George Dernell, o.
the Boys Club, metropolitan quarter.
mile champion; Eddie Frick,, Nes
York A. c. metropolitan half,mi
champion; Pete White, metropol'taaa
l00-yard and national junior 22o-yaly;
champion; Arthur Reilly, Knight, o., o.
81 Antony; James OBrien. Lough.rm
Lyce"m: Jack Sellers, New York A. -
and Edward Haupt, Bronx Chufs'
House
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

All, yes, Catcher Flatfoot and his
brethren, who are legion, are ir:l-
measurably indebted to Jim Tying!
And who, say you, is jim Tying? We
are not surprised. We, too. never
dreamed of the existence OF Jimmy
Tying until our eye fell on the follow
ing in George Moreland's book of base
ball records:
"Jm Tying, a Harvard student, was
the first player to use a catcher's mask
To Harvard, then, we are indebted
for the discovery of she baseball mask.
1t is not too much to say that pos
sibly the Harvard accent was originally
developed by speaking through one.
How often Jim Tying must have loaned
his mask during his college days!
We often have heard that there is a
hole located directly in the centre Of
many bats used by some of our leading
major leaguers, as we'll as the New
York Yankees, but it was rather sur
prise to us to learn that back in 1880
it was permissible for hitter to use a
square bat. The boys who were running
the old National Association got to-
gether and decided that in baseball
there should be different shaped bats,
as we'll as different shaped heads. They
Immediately adopted the square bat.
Mr.. Moreland spares no pains to tell
the baseball fan everything. For in
stance, he says:
"In games prior to 1858 a batter
could use any style of bat he chose. 1t
could weigh a ton and be as long as the
user wished"
Say what you will, bat that weighed
ton would have certain advantages.
A batter probably would not throw it
very high in the air after third strike
had been called on him. What a stir
ring picture it would be to see noble
athlete swinging three bats, weighing
one ton each, ere he stepped into the
batting box. What forttude it proba-
bly, would take to wait 'em out on the
pitcher when one was carrying ton
bat on his shoulder. 1t looks to us as
though guy might just as we'll go into
the piano moving business. and let it
go at that.
We often have seen pictures of old
time ball players who seemed aged be-
yond their years. Small wonder this is
so when it is explained to us that prior
to 1858 the batter could WELD q club
that weighed ton. Of course, ton
isn't so much to carry-we have seen
auto trucks hold more--but it must
have been fearfully boresome to the
hitter to carry his ton bat from the
CLUBHOUSE ana 20 tIiTouGH ultilHS PIdC-
tice and all the other little details in
which baseball bat figures.
Dickey Pearce used to be the short
stop on the old Atlantics, of Brooklyn
back in 1866. He is the last good
shortstop Brooklyn had, but that was
only ffty-two years ago. No matter!
Personally, we do not remembe,
Dickey very we'll, for the reason that
| we went to few ball games in 1866, be.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Boxing News and Notes
BY FRED HAWTHORNE.

We fear the worst. Charles Brush"
Harvey, godfather of Marty McCue's
new boxing bill, promised to call US up
last night and give US the ow-down on
the action taken at the meeting of Nc
Cue. Harvey and the sporting writer's
at Charley Doesserick's Pioneer Sport
ing Club yesterday afternoon for the
purpose of suggesting certain changes
in the McCue measure.
Not sound! Not a single Jingle of
the telephone bell! And our fingers are
actually palsied as we try to strike the
keys of this jitney typewriter. The
Harvey silence is ominous, FOR it is
rarely that Charley loses the power Of
speech. What can the matter be?
we darkly suspect that Charles
Brush" McCue and the "press boys"
got so "het up in Offering their sug-
gestlons and counter suggestions that
the Pioneer ring was the only fitting
place in which to settle the MATES
And, oh! how we fear for Charley and
Marty! Think of those twin heroic
souls battling for their lives right in
the middle of nest of Hard Boiled
Eggs! 0''''o
Nothing makes Gunboat Smith sick.
or perhaps he figures that there is
nothing below the cellar, for Yesterday
the Gunner started in training for his
bout with Kid Wagner at Wilkesbarre
on February 49,
Now. that is all right as far as it
goes, but see, Paula, what the old boat
IS going to do next! James JOYOUS
Johnston, the Bland Boy Bandit. who
manages the Ancient Mariner, has
promised" Gunboat to match him with
Ferocious Fred Fulton if he first whips
Wagner. Oh, James! Oh, Bandit! Isn't
that something like promising an un-
suspecting che-ild a stick of dynamite
camoutaged as stick of candye
Danny Goodman, former fighter and
manager Of fighters, is making good
with the boys in khaki. DANNY Is at
present over there" in BROOKLYN. ma.
trolllng the waterfront, at the back end
OF sixteen-inch bayonet, but between n
tours OF duty he has arranged his
programme for the big show he Will 1
stage at the Fairmont A. G. next Tues.
day night. The proceeds will be nsed
for the buying Of boxing gloves 70,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

Goodman's company at Camp Merritt
In place of Irish Patsy Cline, who
was originally scheduled to appear
against Allie Mack, but had to decline
because. of his coming bout with
johnny Dundee, Goodman has fixed an
other bout that should be fully as
1ast. For the main event he will offer
Joe Lynch, the New York bantam, who
recently knocked out Kid Williams, and
Terry Miller. K. O. Circus ana George
brown and Mickey Dunn and Corona
Kid are also on the card, and each and
every little laddie has sworn solemn
oath, cross my heart and hope to die
II he doesn't do his best to knock the
other guy cold.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

here. and those players who were
chiefly responsible for the success IF
the undertaking-Miss Molla Blur
stedt, Miss Mary X. Browne. Miss
Marion Vanderhoef. Frederick B. Alley
ander, Harold A. Throckmorton, Will
lam NJ. Johnston, Robert Lindley Muir
ray S. Howard Voshell and George
Myers Church, among others-have
placed their names high in the regard
OF followers Of tennis wherever the
game is played.
The recommendation of the executive
committee that all championships be
restored this season and all trophies
placed again in competition. follows
as logical result of the enactment of
the draft law: Now that the United
States can obtain all the men she
needs for the service. without relying
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Hackley School
Defeats Kingsley

Kingsley School suffered its most dc.
cisive basketball defeat of the season at
the hands Of Hackley School on the lat.
ter's court, at Tarrytown, n. Y, yester-
day. The score was 81 to IS. Unneces-
sary roughness was manifest through
out the game, as seventeen fouls were
called against Hackley and fifteen
against Kingsley.
The Hackley Boys bottled up" Cav
anaugh, the Kingsley star. and the
close guarding prevented him from
showing at his best. However. he Gagged
four of kingsley's five field goals, but
was able to score in only four of SIX
teen chances from tn. foul line.
Bliven and Tyson were Hackleys
most prominent representatives count
ing q points for their team. At half
time Hackley had assumed a lead Of
Is to s.
Tho 1ipa.un folIore.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Tennis FOLLOWERS Eagerly Avaiting
Association Meeting Next Friday
Women May Change Place
by Holding Their In
door Tourney

on volunteers, the last objection to the
holding of title Journeys has been re-
moved and 1t is with the Endorsement
OF the Federal authorities that thew
ore restored to their original status.
1T was not with the intention of see
ing again the great players of last
year playing in thes tournaments that
induced the u. S. N. L. 7. A. to take
the step, but primarily to bring out, de-
Velop and encourage the younger men,
and no one can dispute the wisdom of
such move
This, then, is the record of the pres.
ent administration, the administration
that has been asked to serve again in
1913 Does any man doubt the wisdom
OF electing the official ticket as named
Gan the opposition, however strong its
/, following, put forth any such record
OF achievement? We doubt it.
Inc women players of the metropolis
tan district have started a movement
TO transfer their annual national in.
door championship tournament from
the .7;th Regiment Armory, where i
mas NJ; been conducted since its incep.
G 11on, 10 the courts of the Heights
t taS;lno' IN Brooklyn, where the invi.
tatlon tourney that closed vesterdav
-NiA SNSiA CONSPICUOUS sue
cess. These women you'd like to sec
inc change made this year, if possible
but, in any event, next year and there.
The change would seem to va W; 90
one. Although there are only two
courts at the Casino. the other ad.
vantages so far outweigh anything the
rcglmental armory can offer that there
does not seem any basis Of comparison
Harry McNeal. the Casino professional
demonstrated last week. with an entrv
list of twenty eight players in The
singles alone. that the tournament can
be run off on such an efficient time
schedule as not to cause congestion al
any time. .
The lighting conditions at the Casino
are incompar1bly better than those al
the 7th Armory, and this is equally
true of the surface conditions. the can.
vas court covering of the Brooklyn
courts being far superior to the boarc
floors of the armory. To nail the las1
rivet in the argument, the question OF
expense would be entirely eliminated
ist the Casino.
Over the Bridge, then, with thu
/ women's national indoor tournament!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Schcolboys to PLAY Chess

Two tournaments for schoolboys, the
one for high schools and the other for
public schools, will constitute the pro-
gramme for the first day Of the annual
meeting of the New York State Chess
Association, to be held at the New York
City Chess Club on Tuesday,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Prize Run in Harlem

A prize run will be held by the Har-
lem Athletic League over the course of
the Alpha Physical Culture Club this
afternoon. Officials of the league have
been reviving interest in the Gross
country sport. and it is believed that a
large number of starters will be on
hand. The distance will be five miles.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Harvard Man First User
OF the Catcher Mask
Back in 1876 One Jim Tying Set the Fashion Which All
Receivers of Sants, Shoots and Curves Have
Since Folowed-nventor of Blunt
BY Louis Lee Arms

In these piping strange indeed were catcher to
behind the bat without his
spread mans 1t could convaby
caly him a drawing
Suppose instance
lecture the "Civng Influence of the Ball"
evening Young on that
afternoon Catcher Foot
where would Catcher Flatfoot
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Strunk Refuses to Sign

PHILADELPHIA. Feb. amos
Strunk, star outfielder, who was re-
Gently sold by Connie Mack to the oI zoe.
ton Red Sox. has refused to sign .us
contract offered him by Harry E1sA
manager Of the Boston club. ----~4t''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

Brinckerho:f Parker. Kingsley: Cayansugh 20.
Reid. Goals from eou--Bven on. Of 10; Car
anaugh. 4 ont Of 10: Hacker. l ri !. Substitute
H acker for AfaIp. Referee \ Hastings. N
Witt Clinton High School. Tine Of hslses-Tsenb
and fifteen minutes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

tntwnhpe
girls in imitation
the in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

Joh
fromN player
Of the ingle Mrs. Spencer
Fullerton
all
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-05-18
A BILLION BUSHELS OF WHEAT

Secretary Houston of the department of agriculture is quite
optimistic in his forecast for the wheat crop of the coming
season. He talks of the possibility of a billion bushels, al
though this is far from being a probability. 1t is reasonably
certain, though, that the yield of wheat in the United States
will be far greater than that of last season. Already the i'm
provement noted in the fall-sown crop has lifted the estimated
yield by 100000 bushels over the April forecast. This, how
ever, only provides for 572, $4,000 bushels, which will require
.42Sy 10000 bushels of the spring-sown variety to bring the to-
tai up to the billion point. Last years total for spring wheat
was 232, 900 bushels. so that the crop this year will have to
be almost double that in order to attain the secretary's goal.
In 1915 total wheat raised was a little above a billion bushels, of
which winter contributed 6739i7,OO0 and spring furnished
3i ,S54, 900 bushels. How great an acreage has been sown to
spring wheat will not be known for some time. A far better
prospect than last season is reported. The established fact is.
that unless some calamity now overtakes the crop, the yield of
wheat for 1913 will be much larger than that Of 1917, and a
corresponding surplus will be at hand to feed the hungry
abroad who are depending on America.