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Dallas's Runners Put Over Clean-Up Wallop at Finish
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of Indoor Track Season Motley Ran 100
Yards Semifinal in 9 4-5 Seconds
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rnilE Meadow brook indoor track season, which was nil so far as any
carnlal was concerned, ended In a blao of gloij Saturday nlglit
fwuen tlio Wanamaker bo.s cleaned up at the Johns Hopkins games In
- BfiHImnrn nnrl in the CpntraV-irich rlnsslns nt Vpn-irl. R.tin Ttii1.io'i nfl.
letes didn't show much In nnj or the big games outside of those last week.
Tills can bo atttlbuted to scci.il things, but liialnly to tho fact that most
6t the entries, wero lads letuincd leeently fiom the venire In "-plcndld
physical condition, but not In good running foun
It took Lou Spellman some time to set the MejilowlirooK. athletes in
shape, but once they t'ot off tho mail, as In esterjeais the. sptang into
the deserted llmellglii. The Wunamaker bojn (an led Philadelphia colors
nto first place In fUe events at Baltimore and the local leluy team, which
had Ted Meredith at anclioi ran second in the lnliruu iela at Xewarl.
The most Mauling featmes of (he Baltimore classic were tho oii-u
tlonal exhibitions of 1'reil Pollard, foi nier Brown football hoio In the hui
dles, and t'red Mutlc, the foimer Colgate athlete in tho splints. Pollaid
tracked the woilds lndooi lecord for tho H'O vard hurdles, running his
final in 112-3 seconds. Uoth his Hist heat and scmifltiil weie captured in
12 seconds flat. Motle was clocked for the centuij struihtawaj in 10
seconds flat for the final, but in his emiflnal he was timed In 0 4-j second'-,
Record figures for the eent
Dewey O'Brien proved that h was m his best foun of the season when
Je copped the Inlf-mile in - minutes 1 3 u seconds from scratch. Windhovei
had to do onlj j feet ! inches lor a win in the hljh jump, and riliman
proke the tape in alio l!.'n in 24 seconds Hat. Kkiii'.pehii, unuther Meadow -brook
lad, who competed for t.afjjette, tool, two seconds, one in the S80
and the other in the mile Boo Cuwford, fonmr 1'lushing Illgn star, who
also is under Coach Uruce at Uifajette, wun the mile In 4 -31. Ci aw foul
and Kleinspehn beat Diesser. the famous Cornell mnner, who came In thlul
'TED 2ILIWD1 I'll )un the last iuaitci foi Philadelphia in Xruail
in 512-5 seconds, uhuh piovcs that tin; McndonbrooL ram-
palgner still has a lot of good taies left in htm. 1'ianh Shea, the
PUtaiuigh champion, did onlu 5" ? , it 7ns iclay at Iialtlmoic
Training for Outdoor Season in Full Suing
rnHE Meadow brook athletes will resL for a bit and then swing into tiam V
- ing for the outdoor eason There will be onl a hort acatiou for
the distance men, for their net big uce will be a cioss-countij net
month. All of tile college athletes are weil on In their tiamlng for the
outdoor eents, the first of which will be the Penn iela carnival at
Franklin I'ield on April '25 and 2C
Carl Johnson is one of the -visiting competitors who will be watchc!
with keen interest In the lelavs. The Michigan star is listed to contest In
four events the sprint medle) on the (list daj of the games and the hur
dles, broad jump and high jump on .Saturday. In the high jump he shduld
be up with tho winners if he doesn't land first honors. In this event In
the Conference games at llvanston, III., last Saturday, he took first place
and defeated several star Jumpers, including L,lnn, of Northwestern, who
has a record of C feet 1 inch. Johnson' has cleared this height. In all the
meets this winter he has not been defeated In any event, and ho has shown
great consistent by winning the sprint, the hurdles and the high jump
In each meet.
Next month Johnson will be pitted against the best college athletes of
the country In each of these events, and the fact that he will be favored
Tiy many to win all of them shows what a remarkable athlete ho la. In
the hurdles he will meet Urdman, of 1'i.nceton, the Intercolleglato cham-
br-'Plon, ana Smith, of Cornell, tho indoor American champion and record
holder. In the broad Jump he will meet, amors others, Vanders and
Smalley, of Penns) lvania, Butler, of Dubuque, the winner here two jears
ago with a leap of 23 feet 3 inches and Teller, of Cornell, the intercol
legiate, another JS-foot jumper.
In the high Jump Johnson will hae ab his main competitor Wether
don, cf New York I'ni-. e-slt, with a record of G feet 234 Inches; Paro,
also of New York, who has done C feet, and Ilugus, of Pittsburgh, who
has cleared 6 feet 1 inch
'pill! Keenest internal ulll be sltown d: Johnsons performances
' 7icrc. It lie should cany off the triple cicnt he irtH do ichat
has ncici befoic been done at the relay carniial.
Women s Swim Title at Stake Saturday
rpiIE women's national 100-jard swimming title will be at stake Satmday
-L night in the Turneis' tank, and it Is likely that the ctyampionbhlp.will
be landed bj a local mermaid. Elizabeth Ran and Eleanor Uhl hao been
entered from Meadow-brook. The former stands a great chanco of lifting
tho crown. The Middle Atlantic men's title race also will bo decided on
if , ou.uiuaj, unu .ucuuoh urooii puis iaun on ita cm, rom (Jowells, van
h 'Itoden and Don Leopold.
.Leopold recently was elected captain of the Penn swimming team.
It will be his first race for Meadow brook. The1 former Central High boy
has been swimming speedily for George Kistler this last winter, and Dallas
aspects him to be in there with tbo same good fortune for Meadow brook.
JUtE 'AVOW BROOK has ta!;en oier the Columbia tanli and unll
"" hold a dual meet with the Xeiv York A. C. in the near future.
Borne thought was given to a xcater polo team, but President Dallas
felt that it was too lata to organize for matches this season. A
water polo sextet irilj represent Meadowbrook in 19!0.
Plenty of Open-Air Boxing This Summer
"PEN.AItt boxing Is certain to flourish this season. At least four parks
v-' will operate in this city, Leon P.ains, assistant manager of the Olym
pas has leased the Phillies' park. Johnny Burns will hold open-air shows
at the Cambria us usual. Three promoters alreadv are after Shibe Park,
While the new Point Breeze motordrome will bo used for boxing enter
tainments. Open-air boxing thrived here last summer. AVith conditions In tho
sporting world much improved and boxing more popular than over, the -flpen-alr
game should thriv e.
' ATLAXTIC VI fY is virtually again ed of tltc open-air game. The
baseball park at the Inlet is to be conierted into a boxing arena,
according to a well-founded report from the shoie. The season
should be a prosperous one.
Kilbanc Must Redeem Himself Herd
A MONTH ago a Kllbane-Fox rriatch was much discussed. Slnco the
IS cnampion s setuacK oy oirown and urown s suosequent reverse by
,'ji, Artie aloot, Kllbanes nstlo .stock has taken somerorop. Kilbane must
Sfjiregain. 'mis prestige in ms next uattio, tnat against Johnny Mealy on
tfonaay night at the Olympla, or virtually count himself out as a top-notch
Srawlng power here.
g$j ? If Kilbane stages a successful second attempt at a come-baqk and
isngages in a number of winning battles, he is certain to be a big attraction
St with Fox during the summer months.
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1 A CCORDING to word which limped along the telegraph wires this morn-
gy'-SJ. lng from Jacksonville, Manager Miller Hugglns, of the New York
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Tho erratic star boarder has ienored all the Yankees' terms and
Llalr to be a regular holdout, if he doesn't weaken as a result of
Ibis's latest move.
lUBBlns has sent his final bid to Leonard, and unless the former Bed
1 'Qx''twlrler accepts the terms he will be suspended. 8ttll more, if he
y ugpts tho terms ho will be given only a reasonable number of days in
' Wch to get to Jacksonville from his home In San Francisco. The offer
gi&falia for an increase over Leonard's contract with the Boston team. Leonard
p a cnap who lanes on w eigne easuy, ana aiuggins realizes mat ne will
ttwof little, bensflt to the club the first month or six weeks of the tjeason
i4nle he comes to Jacksonville at once. '
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' Day Session at Charlotte
CRAVATH IN PRACTICE
! EARL MACK WITH ; Summer Weather Causes , mm imi
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yard Baseball Club
George Burns to Report
Star First Baseman Dons Uniform and In
dulges in Some Fine Batting Practice; to
Pylay West Point Saturday Afternoon
SEASON OPENS MAY 3 Hoses Park. Jacksonville, Kla. where
the Athletics did their preliminary train-
' ing last spring, at no time during their
With the announcement that the Dela-lstay presented a more Ideal picture of
iwaro filler Shipard Baseball League I early spring than 1U1 fcliibe rarK 5 esier-
vlll open the season on Saturday. May 3. da' ""ernoon. It was as if t Florida
, ., ., temperature, palms and all, had been
nearly all the teams are making plans lcnporarllj transferred north especially
for the inaugural games, and in the for the" benefit of Manager Mack and his
meantime are booking exhibition con
tists with tho best clubs available.
j Johtmj Cabtle, who is busy watching
the interests of Hog Island, has his
squad out every day for practice, and
j the opening game theie likely will bo on
ja Sunday several weeks preUous to the
jSt.nrt f,f the shlpard league season,
i 'While most of the teams in the or
1 ganlzation will have good teams, as there
ls hardly ono tint will not outclass
last 5 ear's squad, all practice of the
plater? must be flone nftpr jvorklng
' hour-. It has been derided that no time
will be arowed for drill
The Merchant nln at PTlstol announces
ball players.
George Burns, tho hefty bitter, could
not leslbt the temptation to get In uni
form 5 esterday afternoon. He vv 'as ono
of tho first out. He looks In the pink
of condition Burns did not perform
long around the Initial sack, but dc
oted most of his time in wielding tho
willow. He stepped Into some of the left
handed deliveries with the same vlclous
ness that marked many of his long
drives last summer. Batting just comes
natural to this Philadelphia boy and
swatting the horsehldo is to h.m the
sjpreme satisfaction of ball plajlng.
Manager Mack announc.d tlmt the
first game of the season would be played
with West Point on Saturday. It orig
inally was intended to meet svvartn-
tho afternoon from that of the morn
ing After the men had been warmed
up by tossing the ball around for fif
teen minutes, Mr. Mack ordered a bat
ting practice, with men stationed In tho
infield and outfield. Z'he portable back
stop acted as receiver for all balls the
batsmen failed to find. None of the
pitchers did any thing more than use a
little speed at times. But all had an
opportunity to loosen the muscles of
their salary wings, and at the same time
give other members of the squad practice J
in batting.
Two veterans, members of former Ath
letic teams, were In uniform In the
afternoon They were Bube Oldrlng and
Jack Knight.
Charlotte, . c March 26.
I i .aiv uuojms can still pitch per-
U fectly good baseball.
I Old Colby John, Iron man of other days
when they brought championships and
world series' pennants out to Twenty
, first street and Lehigh avenue, may be
inrougn lis far ns going the long route
day In ahd day out Is concerned, but he
showed a few tricks out of his assort
ment' to the squad of rookies he led out
to the field yesterday.
It was a day of big surprises. The
Philadelphia bunch barely had landed at
the hotel when along came C. Cactus
Gawy Cravath from his point of hiber
nation somewhere out among the red
woods of the Pacific coast, with him
trotted Gene Packard, tho little south
paw dinger Coombs got In St. Louis.
Coombs gate them about seven min
utes to shako tho travel dust and alkali
oft their clothes. He. then hied the whole
crowd off to the ball park out In the
wilds, past a typical southern cluster of
hovels harboring dusky citizens, all of
whom seemed to have a speaking ac
quaintance with Jake Munch, probably
remembering the das when Jako used
to drive them over the right-field fenco
here.
Tropical Sun
The sun was hot enough to make a
porcupine sweat through his quills, and
everjbody was figuring on the nearest
swimming hole when Coombs ordered
tho whole squad to line up and take
turns at bat.
Ho went out to the mound himself.
Jack Adams was the first batter up, and
Coombs nearly Beared him to death by
throwing up a peach of a curvo which
Bill Shettsllne called a strike. Adams
swung at tho next two and missed them
both. Coombs had something and
Adams couldn't seo the pill rami) float
ing past.
Cravath was the first and only batter
to whale tho ball out of tho park. He
slammed one past Coombs so fast Jack
said a prayer, and It kept climbing until
It passed over tho fence, and created
quite a, commotion by landing In a
washtub where a dusky lady was busy
on tho week's laundry,
Gawy s. Jack
Xone of the plaeis knew what to
mako of It when Coombs and Cravath
picked sides and went Into a regular ball
'game, with Joe Oeschger and Frank
Woodward saving them up.
It was a free-hlttlng sort of affair,
mainly because only the heay hitters
on each team got a chance at the bat,
ahd the humorous side of It was that
both Gawy and Jack thought they were
fooling each other by letting the slug
gers bat out of turn.
The population of Charlotte seems to
have forgotten where their ball park Is
located. There were only about twenty
five of the natives on hand to look over
the proceedings and they evidently won
dered who let the nut foundry loose on
the town.
Camp Greene, one of the National
Army cantonments, Is located about a
Tho v m r. a Ho.' ninw ci,.n snn,i.imlle irom iowii anu a lew soiuiers
Alliance 'will holil a suimmlnc meet nt tho drifted In to seo If they could borrow
Germantown Y M. C. A tanlt on Saturday . D,.1P h.iReb.ills as the, eamn is Inst
nleht. when more than 200 bojs arc expected8?""; DaseDa,IB " , "ec a"lp '3 . JufL
to compete. about closing up and both tho Knights
Gillespie Rivals Kauff
as Giant Beau Brummel
(fnlnesvllle, Fl., March 26 Benny
Kauff, who has long held tho lime
light as the sartorial wonder' of tho
Giants, has a dangerous rival In this
respect In Jack Gillespie, the diminu
tive Harlem Scotchman, who la an In
flelder In the squad now working out
under John McGraw at Gainesville.
Every time Jack makes his appear
anco In tho lobby or dining room of
tho White House ho has on a differ
ent suit, and his raiment equals In
billllance nnj thing which the Illus
trious Benny ever, displayed on his
person. Jack is without doubt) the
best-dressed rooklo ever seen In a
Giant camp.
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New York A. C. Entry Gains Na
tional Billiard Honors
evvork, March 26. Howard Shoe
niakTrT of the New Yoik Athletic Club,
won the national amateur pocket bil
liards titlo test night by defeating W'l
llam Tilt, of the Cnlumet Club, of this
city, 125 to 25. This was a play-off of
thu tie for first place In the champlon
' ' ,snnnment which ended hero
Saturday. Each player had won five
g. luta und lost one. Tilt was decidedly
uff torm, while Shoemaker made runs
of 2C and 25.
Bates's Athletic Director Dies
lvvUton, tie., March 2rt Itoco D.
Turlnton. director of athletics at Ilites
C'uiltee. died suddenly esterday at a pana
torlum of heart failure. Mr. Purlnton recent
lj returned from France, where he was en
eased In Y. M C. A. work.
of Columbus and the Y. M. C. A. vir
tually hao shut up shop.
Aid Doughboys
Tho doughboys said all they had to
do was play ball, and all they needed to
play ball was a baseball, so they got
one, with a promlBo of moro whenever
they want them, despite the fact that
only a limited stock is on hand.
Ono of th.o rookie hurlers is named
Casazza, and he's a southpaw. That
answers all questions as to his responsi
bility. Yesterday he saw Coombs curv
ing them and wanted to make an im
pression. He curved one at Cravath
and the ball hit tho fenco out In some
tlrgln pastu-e land at he extreme
center-field corner. Casazza's main ob
ject In life now is to get a hook past
Cravath.
The next couple of days will bo spent
by Coombs whipping tho entire squad
Into shape for the opening gamo against
Davidson College on Saturday.
Irish Meuse! Is al3o on his way, ac
cording to Cravath, whllo Cy Williams
Is duo any day.
Yale Has First Outdoor Drill
New Iluvrn. Conn.. March 2(1 Thlrtj
four Yile baseball candidates reported to
Hilly Lauder esterday for the first outdoor
practl'e.
Bo)s' Club to Hold Meet
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that thev hive succeeded In Inducing ! more at Slilbe Park next Tuesday In the
Connie .viacus son. i;arl, to manage the
club at that yard Karl has not been
sought simply ns a baseball manager, as
he has been working at the plant for
a j ear or more He d'd not come ou' for
the team last season and It wap only
after considerable persuasion on t'ie part
of his friends that he accepted the post
of manager.
first regular contest, but Hans Robert,
wno Is coacmng me caaeis, waB m
Philadelphia yesterday, and when ho
asked Mr Mack If he would play at
"tho Point" next Saturdav, Me tall tac
tician readily agreed While It is un
likely that the Athletics will have a
rrgujar team to take to West Point,
Mr. Mack has whed Second BaBeman
Shannon and Shortstop Dugan to report
n wnn no nrtRRlh. Thev mnv he hero
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didates for tomorrow and It U llkelv I tlen before re-enraclnc: in a came.
the first practice will be held on Sundav i Hob Oeary the boy with a "noodle,
afternoon The Merchant jard has
plenty of baeeball talent, provided they
can be Induced to Join the team, and
I with Mack at the helm the athletic com-
; mlttee feels that a big problem has been
aolved.
renorted esterday and enraged In two '
workouts Najlor is now the only
pitcher who has not reported. Mr. Mack
expects him by the lam of the week and
by Monday at the latest.
There was Just a little variation In
I the routine of the Mack battery men In
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