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n ilil II lit iS'SIX BAY BICYCLE RACE REALLY A SPORTING I -Z" ll i ' Bull mill m " i "1 11 1 ' n i' TTTTTTTiTIiijiZr.' " '''ti ' D 'v 'l"IWl ' i -I MUil DWI i nrM- miotot by American Prws Anoelkttoa. I Jeki CUrk raading absut (print btwn th making of tham. 2-Du . Buy having a atiff knea rubbed. 3. Taking a nap in a bunk baaida the track. 4. Verrl eating a meal. 5 Bobby Walthaur ready to relieve hit partner. By OSCAR DOYLE. kHOULD a, aix day bicycle race aa now conducted be called a aportlng event? Various an were would be returned to the query If It were put to (porting writers, and many of them would b In the negative. Indeed, there are many aportinf editor over the country who poke fun at thf .bteycla race juat ,aa, they 4 at &es add checkera. They say It lacks the elomenta neceseary to a aport There can be no doubt that the six day bicycle race have been largely commercialized. The same riders with few exception take part In tb races In Boaton, New York. Kansas City, Denver and other cities. They rid In teania to conform to atat laws which prohibit contestants In athletio events from putting In more than twelve hours UNIVERSITY PUTS BAN ON ROWING RACES THB tTnlvrslty of Wisconsin crew .has been prohibited from -taking part in Intercollegiate boat races by the board of regents. Ths sctloq of the regents sustains the recommendation of the university faculty. This action followed a recommendation of th ath letio council based upon a careful study of th health condition of the boating squads made by the medical clinic. Th study covered th men who have participated in crew activities for the years 1111-14. Of the fifty-nln candidates for freshmen crew tn ths years 1010-11 ths cllnlo obtained medical records of flfty-slx. Six had cardlao hypotro phy before they began rowing. Dur ing on season's training twenty-two developed cardlao hypertrophy, making a total of twenty-eight freshmen oars men with this trouble. "The records of the varsity crew can didates' say th report of the ath letic council "are essentially subse quent histories of these men, aa th Has Been a Great Year rPHIS has certainly been a great year i for sporting upsets. The surpris ing and impressive wsy In which th Brave trounced .the Athletics and turned the trick In the shortest num ber of games In world's series history, too. Is only the climax of a series of ivents in vhlch th "dope was given a most severe jolt. Ranking next to th' ueces of th Brave again the Athletics is Bos ton's phenomenal rise la the National league from ths: position of gusrdlan of th cellar to winner of the pennant Baseball critics all over concede.! ih cbampiotwh of th older league to the Giants, but the (tar willed other wise, and Messrs. UcGraw, Matty, Marquard et ai. wr forced to tak on th Ysftkee. In sddUlen to th sud fen jump of ths Srsves there were sev ire! minor upsets In th National league, St Louis finishing Utfd, where . u it had been accustomed to bring up last place r pretty nar It Th ee sort of surprises sot off to a great start With the play'14 f th in teruat!oial polo strles. As: lea waa affrdd I s I to 1 shot but tb "big four," ve much after tHe Soanner of th Athletic In th world's series, went to pieces and th Briton romped toey with the cup. Lawn tenno has alio furnished ft Mg upsets Usuries D. McLoughim. ih)Bplea of the wor 1 by virtue of vic tor! over Antheay f. Wilding and (lormea E Bmoke In ta Davis cup aai:ng round, went into th national Bnal a 1 to 1 favorite ovar It Norn " Wllilaios ld."ths Harvard YoutICTh result Is tennis history aow. Williams disposed of th Calif omtaa 1st sc sight rasa my wu'isss vow 0 1 out of twenty-four. Th arrangement of th team la some time don by th rider and often la arranged by thUhoe day there wa the tet pf taml maaacefs. of th races, .Jta many case LaVnd aoduranoe, and if the leader left th surviving members, of two disrupt ed teams will be united to form an other taam. . Until a dosen or fifteen year ago riders In ihese six day events plugged away Individually, and In those race th condition of th men was pitiable after four or Ave days of the weary grind. Some of th men remained on their wheels for twenty hours out of th twenty-four, drinking soup and munching sandwich as they tolled varsity la almost completely recruited from the freshmen crews. These crew records show that of a total of fifty six men training for the crews seven had cardlao hypertrophy before, begin ning training and thirty-three acquired th condition a a result of 'such train ing. Included in this list are twenty three 'W men,, of whom four had hy pertrophy before making the crew and sixteen developed It, giving a total of twenty out of twenty-three W men." The following report of the situation was made by the faculty of the med ical school: Ths faculty of ths med ical school believes that the data pre sented by th clinical department show conclusively that ths sever training deemed necessary for prepar ing crews for Intercollegiate contests puts so sever a (train on th heart that an undue proportion c men are seriously injured and that, therefore, a continuation of intercollegiate row ing Is indefensible standpoint" from the health For Upset of "Dope" th tntercollegiat championships to clean up and was cleaned up himself by a young man from Princeton, George W. Church by name. Now for boxing. Willie Ritchie, lightweight champion of the world, took on Freddie welsh in London In what was expected to be an American triumph. Welsh outpointed the Tanks entry In no uncertain manner, and an other upset was chalked up for the topsy turvy year 1814. Right her In America George Chip, fresh from winning the middleweight championship by twice knocking out Frank Klaus, took on AI McCoy for ths purpose of showing how bard Georgle could bit Chip didn't ahow much. He was knocked out in th first round. Is It Tims to Suppress TyCobb? JMTHER th national commission or us Bascoaii n nierw asweiaiwsi should promulg.it some- definite rule with, regard to the lesdlng batsman of th league. It is not fair for Ty Cob to be awarded this honor year after year when he participates In so few game, comparatively apesklng. This year Cobb was not In many more than half the games, whll such players Eddie Collins and Jo Jackson were In nearly every contest Eddie missed only oa gam this year; henc he de serves more for batting; AS S. for ex ample, than Cobb doe for hitting at the rate of Jl, Borne deflnlt num ber of fsmtr antral set l wexrlj not be too man r end if a man did sot play ta that number of contest b should pot b ca!r4. along, often falling, from, their wheel when they dropped into. a. do, but In th track for sleep he was likely to r turn to find he was not the leader, and to regain Aral place meant raor heart breaking efforts at sprinting. Now all this Is changed. Twelve or fifteen teams enter the race and for two or three days go along on even terms; then In a sprint two or three of th weaker teams are lapped and as a result they often drop out, for their chance of regaining the lost lap Is email. If the riders who have lost the Thoroughbred OH iT. 1 7 ' i 1 - - I r tii r am but ,y " -f ' w I I eees' 1 r m .it1;. ., iV"!!J.'""' ' ' iiaJS" 1 T',Av"'t-A-t',t-n', I eBslaHsWlSsBWad-.. ' I IVr-MksVHtiiu 'j. A 'vBsmu . y t't t rt ' ' ' Mrt7 Photo by American press Asaoclstlon. THOROUtjHBREO HUNTER TAKING A TTDrO HORSB Is coming into his own again. Ths closing of most of th large rao track of the country gave the thoroughbred a setback, and many breeders believed that the end of th eejuto rweer wo wlht Thw-44 velopmeot of th automobil Industry also bad Its ffeet, and for a tun th outlook waa certainly Woo, lap star to th race, it Is merely for th daily wags pmf jMhtm if they On Ish, This sum is seldom less than 125 a day, and It tnafb tt or 171, Th promoter of th face, bav to give these guarantee fq order to Insure a bunch of riders that will plainlaln in treat lit th event ed draw a paying attendance. :'f Several Innovations Introduced In the race In Madison Square Garden, New York, this year served to main tain interest In th event. By offering special prizes for sprinting, the prizes usually being f 10 for the rider who was first at theconcluslon of a specified mile, Horse Coming Into His Own Again . t,y. ' g isaaa. I JL-, ?" 1 w. Hasstf 'ST'- ' Condition hsv begun to change. Th closing of th big tracks at Sara' toga, Brighton, Oraveeend and other well known places has been followed by (he starting of smaller meet., Thsrs jsrai elets nam In lilrh llujs are not local meets that hav proved successful. Next year ther will b Unor than sixty such meets around i t i -:;:J!. mta mum .. .v- vJ. 11., .1 - jummmiM . interest In th rao wad fnalnttlnal and the successions of sprints caused tb records; to bs, broken continuously. tst the special sprints a total of 110 was divided among th rider. The rtdsra altogether received about 3M00. . ' v, The aoullet-Qrenda team ; received $V00 for finishing first. Lawson and Drobach received 11,000, Moran and McNamara got 766 for flnlshlng third, and th Egg-Verrl and fogler HiU teams, tied for fourth place, mad aa vn split of 1900. whll Cameron and Kaiser collected ' tStl for sixth place, ' I.. . I ii.i.iHi i ii ..in. i . mnii -w-sl -,Il ft ' ' - S ('.. v .. ' , LLf f 1L- '71 Jr, 4 1 1 FENCE. New York city. The meet attract true lovers of horse, men who prls ths thoroughbred for bis worth and hi beauty and with little regard for bis ability to win prises or defeat book makers, Mteeplerhas race ars popular Tea' lure of these local meets, and as a re sult th brosdarg of hunters an to ding ta addition to the sums vry rldr rctvd a bonus lor vrr 4ay wa on th traok. Qoullct tot fit day for six days, and roglr received laoo a dy. -v. Th riders arnd their money, jMOlaily thos whot d'not,wln) prls and got only their' ('. Ourtng the six days of th osatest Ibe Men had only broken eat napt, mostiy obtained in bunks constructed alongside, ths track, Into which they tumbled with their clothe on ready to b drsggd out at a minute's notice If a sprint started and It looked as If th partner was u- I abl to maintain th fast pao. th demand for their animals growing. This stylo of raoing, long popular la England and Franca has not been de veloped ta th Vnlied States as It merits drv, and th movement to mak It mor popular and general Is tep In th right direction. Oddly enough th European war has also glvsn a boom to th businsao of th breeders of thoroughbred. So long as men will fight they will need boraos to bslp la th wer gam. Aeroplanes and auto serve their owa purposes, but they do sot tak tb place of horses, and cavalry will always be an Impor tant part of any military organisation. War serves fw ussful purpose, ana not th smallest of th gains to be de rived from tb European slaughter will be the increassd demand for horses that possss merits othr than U draft anltnala Shortstop Is Hardest Position SHERWOOD MAOEB, who has play. ed stery position except pltchsr, was recently asked what position oa th diamond he regarded as hardest t play. Hs did not hesitate sn Instant but rsplisd, "Shortstop." Whsa aakod to txplaln further he sld: "Th shortstop Is moving svsry min ute of th fsms unless th pltchsr Is striking them all Out Th shortstop per hi th loosest throw to mak and h hss to mak it la a hurry and from any old position. Bsy there's a man on first basei h's th horttop who ha to prepare to eover In case a stesl Is attempted. Buppos the runner I on secdhd; th shortstop hss to keep bus tling over to force the opponent to hug the bag. Ia fact h has to go over to tax nearly all th throws at th mid dle cushion. "Th good shortstop I supposed to cover a world of ground. If H's a hard hit ball to the left field side of the third baseman the ahortstop I sup posed to get It If H s a hot oh over second th fan eipect th shortstop to dig It up. If It's a slow roller to th right ld of tb pitcher or a ball that hop over th barter's head th old re liable at th shortstop position Is th man who must be on th Job. Some time he'll b on on ear, sgaln bell b twisted Into a sbap that would msks contortionist onvtous, but he si ways la oxpected to make a rood heav to first and get the runner,, or, if It's a forced play, he probably baa to to to second, though h I facing dead away from that bag. And all tb tlma you understand,, hs ha th longt throw and consequently has tss tlms to pick up th ball and set himself then any other Inflslder. "Remember, too, that the shortstop la expected to run Into th outfleld and get fly ball which aro too far tn for th left and center gardener II fre untl had "W catch ' then! wtUTtile back toward the diamond, but he's ex pected to gat thorn all" EVENT? As a rut th partners changed places it Intervals of four hours, but this was possible only when both ma had been carefully trained. " Team that had not been put m condition wer ua 4bi to maintain th lively pec tor more than an hour, and often they shlftsd tvsry twenty or thirty minutes. They at their meals la bite and wer often Interrupted when th aeslty for relieving1 a partner became urgent. Capable cook prepared th meals la kltqhens arranged underneath th track, and rubbers provided with !! moat were on hand to keep soren and Stiffness out of weary legs. Fteddl Hill, who with hi part, Joe Poglsr, finished Attn In th Nsw York race, wag an easy winner la th matter of eating. ! Early la th grind ho developed aa appetite of abnormal pro portions, and as th week went along; his rapacity for footf increased, Ilts trainer declared that h wanted tome thing to eat every ttm he toft th track. and sucking half a dosea egg was merely an appetiser.. Each day ho eon turned three dossa sggs, four pounds of chop, th sara quantity of steak, four bunch of Mlary, afuea tups of eoft half a dosea bottles of ai. a dosea ap plet and raor rlc pudding th th cook could timata- Dplt this normous quantify of food h stayed tn good condition, and h dclard that h could keep awak only by eating aU th tlma, - Jimmy Koran, who, with hi partner, McNamara, finlshsd third ta the New York race, announoed that with th completion of that strugglo h was to rtlr from th racing gam. He 1 nsarly forty-thr year old and has taksa tart la more than thirty aix-.r racea During thes races he has msd muon money and has ved and Invest ed it until ho is worth $100,000. ; Host of bla money Is JnvesUd la a farm near bi- Jsa, wber JiO rais hoars and thsrsby makes 110,000 a year. U has been raoing for a Quarter of a ea tury, beginning as a sprinter. Moran Is ia perfect health, and h dcclarss that If a man.l In good condl. tloa th struggle of grinding away oa th track for tut flays wlU oj b barm fuL "shileb" ehu Hyena finOVXR CLEVELAND iXEXAM- D1R of th Philadelphia National league team has beea xprlmentlng with th "smsry b)V which was tue essfully ud by Ray Keating of th Nsw York Amricant nntll a ruls waa promulgated barring ft ' Keating had a small piece of emery paper ta th palm of his 1ov Which he use! t mak a rough spot on th bsii-.;-;;'; ta discussing th hall, Which a can th "sailer," Alexander aaldi -I tried It th other day. and I Want to say that If they'll only let m pitch that 'seller' I'U never los a g am. It will tak two catcher to bold me, howvr, tt will go down tip, la or Out for a yard. It depends upon bow ; you bold th-rough spot'. Th air' catches that rough leather and th friction force tb ball la th opposlt direction from th old whr th nt ry paper waa used.,.-,: -iA-- '.', ' "When I wss trying th laner at our park recently I started tb ball for th catcher toe with tb rough aid held uiiderneath. He actually had to . Jump ta th gir to get th iaU, but, . naturally, ths 'sailer has been lgl lated against and th poor pitcher will hav to go on depending upon bla earn, his fast on aad hi noodl to fool such sluggers aa Cravath aad Ua- 0a4 ' ' " ' --'r-- v i.,yi,v.' '!!. " - "As a matter of foot, 1 am osavtaoed that th greet sscrst of pitching la brain work, somblned With a good arm, of course, - If th batter guesses what you are going to throw hlmh bits tt If you outguess him he mlsse it i Tb man who simply throwo up a fast on or a curv according to hi catchsr s signal or a honch' will be hit hard when th wis batsmen begla to flgvr out what Is coming." . : .. Horsa Show For C!::rii npiIB Rsd and Whit Cross horse shw will b bld la Madison Squar Garden, New York, -during th wk of Dee. f, la addition to tb HI class so new special prises hav brought th valus of th Premium to be awarded to n excess over thos la competition at th ltl! national horse show, which Is supplanted tor -tb preaent year by tb charity feature. 1 - v ; It ba been decided to hold th twelv mil ondursno rac from Vaa Cort landt park to tb garden, for army or. militia mounts, on th first day of th shew, rain or shins. The route will bring tb horse and riders through Central park and 'fifth avenue end furnish an exciting finish within th show ring.. Th Judge wlU be General Mills. U. 8. A, of Washington, and Ma jor Charles T. Beaton a veteran of General Phil Bheridan'a s f. wui serve as starter. He will sera fr.-.m th raeo snr bors that I - dent condition and stcsr oatst -
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