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ra Km . The-" I Sportsman f *By Walter Camp New York, Feb. 26 ? That man Clark of Johns Hopkins, who has' been looming up as a dark cloud on, the horizon of the would-be sprint j champions, gave them all another, jolt Saturday night by covering the century at the Baltimore meet in 9-4-5 seconds on on an indoor track. It looks as if Clark's finishing third, behind Murchison and Mc Allister, at the Wilco games, had not frightened him J off. but had merely spurred him on. Gorman, in winning the skating title at Lake Placid, "showed himself worthy successor to Jewtraw, who did not defend his title. Forr in the three mile event. Gorman had to "give all he had and then some" to finish a scant six feet ahead of! Moore and Donovan. At the begin-! ning of this race, Gorman was tied ' up with RUen at seventy points. j Jols Ray looked a bit better at Boston, but the writer is of the opinion that he is doing too much of this indoor racing for his own good. Ray is a sterling racer, and has fine lungs and heart, but other men have found that it is far more killing to drive these organs Indoors than out in the open where there is plenty of oxygen. ARMS AND LEGS BEGIN TO ACHE Early Spring Training Has Begun at Southern Training ('amp* for Many Teams in Ily JOHN B, POSTER. Coyrtfln. 1924. by The Advane? New York, Feb. 26 ? This week actively begins the fortnight of aching arms and lame legs for those baseball players who have been called early to the spring training camps of the major leagues. The Chicago Cubs and the New York Giants are hard at it. The St. Louis Nationals are on the way. The Yankees and the Cleveland In dians are dipping theoiselves in the baths of Hot Springs to reduce winter flesh .and boil tough sinews and tendons into submission. Thus soon, the hopeful old cam paigner has seized upon some youngster, and is beginning to cele brate his achievements long in ad vance of the first game of the. season. For the moment. the: hitherto overlooked youngster holds the stage. If he is good, lie may continue to hold it. If he is only the first spark that glows and is [ consumed almost as soon as it isj lighted, he drops out of the blaze of baseball, perhaps never to be heard from ngain. The Giants are extolling Leete, a pitcher from Amherst. Hank Gowdy Is Leet's ballyhoo man. But Leete had good words said for him ?before Gowdy saw him perform. His neighbors have been boasting aibout his speed and his control for a long time. Shaute of Cleveland is another who Rtarts the season with the gal lory for him. But Shaute was not so bad last year. Every now and then he did something that forecast a future for him. And Cleveland,! more than any club in the Ameri-j can League, is anxious to make friends with pitchers who have fu- j tures. Given a running mate for Ule, and presuming Ule performed i as in 1923, Cleveland would not hej trullng Detroit at the end of the 1924 season. The Boston Sox are in Sanj Antonio, at work earlier than for years. Changed players, changed managers and changed scenes are expected to give them new atmos phere. Yet what they want Is catch ers. and Manager Fohl has request eel exlra time to get his kids into condition. If Uhmke fails to come through again. Fohl has a mighty hard hill to climb. But he Is patient and persistent. By the end of the week, Pittsburg will bo at work In California. Mc Kechnie has more vital problems to solve for his team than almost any manager who has a presumable championship outfit. Not only must he get a corps of pitchers, but he] mast settle on the arrangement of i an infield with many good players] to choose from. If he picks t he j wrong combination, the hammers! will thump. ^ | <X)MI*AltKH lltlSlI FltKKIK)M Dublin, Feb 26 - Minister of Education McNeill, addressing a po 1 1 1? al gathcvtaR in this city re.'ent lv. declared that the people o' Ireland now have control of their own affair* and the making of their own dentines as fully as the people of Spain, the United States Of Jlu? la." .. - Ifix>weH"1 NEWTON'S FLOWER, j; SHOP with the ; ; Apothecary Shop PHONE 400 I 1 Bn ?- ? ; ? ? ? ? Jack Himself! Jock Dcmpsey called at the White House and discussed affairs of the nation with the president. Dempsoy wanted to know why Czechoslo vakia was not given mandate ovor Abyssinia, it Is rumored. CooIFdgi assured Dempsey, gossips have tt that the only thing that stood in th? way was Article X of the League ol Nations, and the two thereupon di? cus?*d the league in de.talL F-OR ?MgamBsake lAWPENCE PCRRY New York, Feb. 26 ? It is rather curious, also a bit Ironical, that in the same week in which the United States Uwn Tennis Association calls attention to_ the growth of the game as a varpity sport among our colleges, an alumni of a great eas tern university deplores the lack of adequate facilities for lawn tennis. The Plaint appears in the Penn sylvania Gazette, published in the interest of the graduates of the University of Pennsylvania. Now Pennsylvania is one of the most im portant athletic colleges 1 in the country. It has a fine gymnasium and her football gridiron and base l>all diamond are set within a sta llum that costs many hundreds of thousands of dollars. llow many tennis courts think S ou has the University ipf Pennsyl vania? An average guess would be between forty and fifty. As a matter of fact there are twelve. And there is many another college th.iit could ibe named which Is no better off in respect to the opportu nities to get out doors and play tennis. In the questionnaire sent to 102 seats of higher learning as to the status of the sport in these institu tions practically all ot them stated that they had tennla teams consist ing of from four to ten players who engage In Intercollegiate competi tion. ~V The U. S. L. T. A.t and the Inter collegiate Tennis Association think this Is a magnificent Indication of the growth of lawn tennis as a sport; And so it Is ? as a com petlve *port foe stars. The pathe tic aspect of the situation is that these teams of from four to ten men j are about the only students who have any regular use of the few courts which exist at not a few col leges. Now tennis is one game which automatically is fitted to varying | proficiency. In no sport can a man, I no matter what sort of game he I plays, find so many of his fellows who play approximately the same sort of game. And two fourth or fifth raters can get as much excite ment out of their match, and as much ? if not more ? enjoyment as the experts. Lawn tennis thus stands as the sport par excellence for all students and if they were properly encour aged. tennis would certainly stand as the most popular Intra-mural sport. But with few courts and these in use by star players prepar ing to represent their institutions in intercollegiate competition, the game takes low rank when the num ber of students engaged in various sports is set forth in comparative tables. Were the U. S. L. T. A. to send out a questionnaire as to the faclli ties.for tennis which colleges and universities give to their students generally, the answers would hard ly afford that cause for congratula ton which resulted from inquiry as to the intercollegiate aspects of the sport. WAKE FOREST HAS BRAND NEW PLAYER Wake Forest, Feb. 26 ? A new member has been added to the coaching staff of Wake Forest Col lege. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry G&rrlty. a son. "Going to make a coach ?'?at of ORLANDO SUITS I THE CINCINNATI That Show Quartered Too IVearhy Was the Jinx Last Year, hut the Team Likes It, Pennant or No. By JOHN B. msTKR (Copyrifh t. 1924. By Til* A*?anc?) Mew York, Feb. 26. ? The first thing that you hear In Orlando is that there is no place like it in Flor ida, which is quite true and the next j is that the Cincinnatis train there to (try to win the championship of the National League, which is also true. Even Cincinnati boasts of It. The ball ground Is In the Fair Ground, at least it was last year. There was also a winter quartered show In the Fair Ground. That show, according to George Burns was a jinx. He insists that the saw dust of the diamond and the sawdust ring do not mix. This year the diamond to be used by the Cincinnatis will be that on the new ground which has been built by Joe Tinker. There is also a much (Continued on Page Seven) him?" a member of the Demon Dea cons squad asked the proud father. 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