The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-02
Baseball Alliance of Eleven
Will Make Clear They're
to Have a Voice.
FLIPPING ON GRIDIRoN
shakespeare Cited to Prove
That 1t Existed in Caesars
Time-Gossip.
ny WILLIAM b. HANNA.

baseball government--which must be
done II public confidence In the game Is
TO be>retained--toward the minor leagues
is that the latter name one member OF
the proposed three man board of control.
If this isn't already clear to the minors
II will be made so at the Kansas City
meeting November 9. From the start
\ the eleven clubs have had no other
thought than to let the minor leagues
have g. say in their plans for reform.
This ought to do away with talk OF
minors having no say in their govern
ment
The ultimatum the eleven clubs issued
to the johnson five of the American
League, that II they hadn't signifed by
November their intention of Joining In
the movement for the Lasker plan a
twelve club league would be organized.
was obviated by the action of the five
last week in partly falling in with the
wishes of the others.
At present the whole business is IN a
state rather anomalous and chaotic, but
If the eleven clubs keep their backbones
gtin their meeting on November s, fol-
lowed by their powwow with the minors
on the 9th. win clear up the situation
one way or another to a great extent.
1T will be still further cleared II the
johnson FIVE won't sulk and will appear
1T the November meeting.
In the meantime the members of the
eleven say confidence in the game must be
restored only by some big and drastic
step, and to that end they believe in a
non-partisan board such as they adj
vocate. for minors and majors alike,
whose rulings shall be final and binding
| The whole baseball fabric is concerned
the minor as we'll as the major league
Held. 1t Isn't A question of what this or
that league president-major or minor
wants, but of what club owners and the
fans want.
The defeat of Centre College by
Georgia Tech was not surprising. After
the excitement and reaction of the long
trip to Cambridge Centre must have
found It difficult to regain the mental
attitude necessary to win hard games.
It Is true Georgia Tech. in travelling to
Pittsourg and playing. had just been
through similar experience and drain
on pep. but Georgia Tech held Pitt to a
light score and proved 1t would he a
tough test for Centre with the latter at
It's best II a teams chief concern is to
win supremacy In its own territory the
wisdom of long nlidseason Junkets Is
DeuhtfuL
Back OF the Hill-Lawrence school
game at Ohio Field was a full share
OF tradition. There was rivalry as
acute as between Exeter and Apdover or
St Marks and Groton. Two OF the
mosc illustrious names In football are
! associated with these schools Lawrence
VILE ana I'LL each turned out enc of the
best and most noted ends in the history
of the game. respectively Garrett: Coch-
ran. Princeton. and Thomas Sheylin,
ale Cochran and Shevliu--each has
answered the f.ual SUI mov-s, AMI as one
lauses In reverence at the mention of
The names what memories OF heroic grid
IRON days are recalled-what memories
Miller Higgins went West Yesterday.
but Will attend the baseball meeting in
Chicago next Monday. Higgins be-
lieves firmly that changes v-ust be made
IN baseball government or the game
J VIII suffer. He declares there is more
feeling among fans over tn. Grand Jury
exposures than curtain baseball mag
mates seem to be aware Of.
Manager McGraw his released Leo
RDixon. catcher, obtained from the Rock
Island club. to Indianapolis under op-
donal agreement.
In deciding against boxing as an in
tercollegiate sport Harvard did not say
why. A university permitting football
= could not consistently object 20 boxing
| per sc. sport participants IN which
watch the practice on crutches by the
score hardly could point the finger of
ecorn at one just as clean on the field
or battle, Just as manly, with fewer
opportunities for foul tactics, md more
scientific Harvard's objections, though
doubtless good and sufficient, would be
read with interest.
1T appears on good authority"
writes Gilman Coilamore. thai the
practice of clipping. cutting do ~n from
behind. Indianizing. whatever you
please In terminology. antedates the
twentieth century by several football
ears. For instance the big game of
the immemorial season engaged the ex-
peditionary force of Gus Caesar with
the cohorts OF General Mark the Ant.
The Held was located few miles be-
yond Alexandria. If we are to believe
Mr.. Interferer Scarus mark put that
lad Scarus on the eleven on account of
his fearsome name) the game was
played In some acrirnony and with no
little advanced scheme of offence. Be-
tween the halves Scarus whispered
these instructions to his fellows:
Let US score their backs,
And snatch 'em I'D, as we take hare.
behind:
It's sport TO maui a runner (Antony
and Cleopatra. Nv. 7. 40"
Macchia of Tufts did Il again. In
three successive games now has thi.
winged foot end snatched n loose ball
and raced sixty yards or more for a
I touchdown. First Norwich. then tho
Army. then Dartmouth.
There may be and doubtless are
those who do not agree that Columbia
showed particularly we'll oiled attack
against Williams" A we'll oiled at
tack would not have been held for
downs three times inside opponents
ten-yard line. Three times the oil gave
out, and much doubt that Coach
O'Neill was pleased with that part of II
RETURNS AT INTERNATIONAL CLUB.
Gutzon Borgium. the sculptor and chair
man Of the general committee OF the Inter-
national Sporting Club of New York has
rent invitations to members OF the club 20
attend buffet supper IN the ball room OF
| the Waldorf-Astoria tonight 20 hear tho
'telection returns, which the committee has
ARRANGED 20 have transmitted direct from
Headquarters on private wire for tho ex-
Elusive use OF the members
An entertainment. not boxing. will begin
30 Q o'clock.
AMATEURS TO BOX SATURDAY.