Show the Worlds s Latest Sporting news flews eo s and GosI Gos I jl Written for Che ht i J HERE HERD IS DANGER that the Boston team willI will this year finish under the L marie Only four times since 1 1371 71 a period of 1 twentynine years have havethe havethe havet t the failed to Win more games than they lost in any sea season seat I t i r son The last time the Bean Eaters finish finished ed cd below the jUO mark was waz in 1886 when the landed fifth in the race r e with 0 fiftysix games won and lost They are now below the mark with but a few games to play and the chances are that the team picked by b many good judges last spring as a sure pennant winner will come under the wire with more games lost than won The have the record of having won more championship games gaines in a single season than any other team In 1892 1292 they the won games and In 1898 re repeated the performance the next best record being that of Brooklyn which won games last season The recent breaking of the mile trot trotting trotting trotting ting record at Terre Haute by The Ab Abbot Abbot bot has lias set sot the to think thinking inS ing and now it is proposed to bring the record below the th mark with artificial pacing It may be humiliating humiliating ing to the horse but it is intended to accomplish the feat with the use of ot an automobile with a windshield attach attachment ment to set the pace This could be Je bevery Jevery very easily accomplished as there are several ever machines that can make the under this mark It is claimed that a no horse would not follow pace of this kind but with a little training equine experts think the animal would become accustomed to the situation situ and follow with the same case that a bicycle rider does today Horsemen will argue that such records are arti arU artificial and that the wonderful times made nade by eyrie riders are of but little value yet the fact f o remains that a rec record record record ord mile made by a horse with motor pace would attract attention all over the world and perhaps give a line on how now fast the horse really is when all things possible are in his favor Harry Elkes made a marvelous reo 1 ord when he rode 39 niles miles 1045 yards within the hour When the Turville brothers pushed their motor around ar the Salt Palace saucer in for tor the the mile about a month ago aso the crowd went wild with enthusiasm yet Elkes followed pace at the same speed for a full tull hour The fastest pace ever followed on the local track for a single mile was and was made by Charlie Turville Young Hodgert attempted to t lower this t ts I last week and failed yet Elkes rode forty miles and every one of or them was vas two seconds faster than the Utah rec record record ord This new record Is phenomenal from the fact it was made with ordinary ordinary ordinary nary pace and without wind shields Elkes was further impeded toward the end of the hour by a a heavy fog foS which so dampened the track as to make rid riding riding ing inS exceedingly dangerous The old record was 38 miles yards and was made by Chase at the Paris Pads exposi exposition exposition exposition tion about a month ago It was made with the ure um of windshields on the pacing machines quite Quito an item in Chases favor The new Indoor track at Chicago which is ten laps and built for a gait Salt will be opened open ed tomorrow night for fora a weeks racing by the fastest middle distance men in the business The ri rit riem ers em who will compete are Jimmy Mien Mic Micael ael Johnnie Neilson Johnnie Fisher and Eddie McDuffie Each of the riders Is to meet all aU of the others and if the outcome is at all in doubt the leading men will meet in another contest Af Al After Alter 1 ter a weeks rest the men will meet at another distance all around at Kansas City where a weeks racing will be held heldon heldon heldon on the new indoor track From there they go to St Louis where the I will be repeated in the Col Coliseum building at still another distance Through this each of or these the e eI men will meet each of the others at I three different distances which wIllI willbe will willbe be twenty and miles mUes and the hour From these contests will I develop the champion who will face all comers corners at Madison Square Garden From this array of talent it is expected I that all records will have to fall Over half a dozen motors will be employed and each man will wg icv t m T 9 4 a r rS I S f Dana Smith coach of this fu s years Year yearY 2 Y M H C A team filled the position of captain last season He Es learned football at the University of the South which eleven el ven he captained in 98 and it was through his un untiring tiring efforts that hat they captured the championship of the southern states Nelson Kelson E Hargetts Margetts Captain of the Y lL II C A football team played his first game last season and an quick quickly ly developed into a star halfback He played on the Bankers baseball team the past season and was one of the best men behind the bat in this section THa ms friends predict a successful season for this team under his management have throe three in readiness to be used in incase incase Incase case of accident Some Idea of the effort that is being made by b the eastern colleges to secure and hold the supremacy in football is shown by the way they are calling on all the available reserve football men who have helped to make winners in inthe inthe Inthe the past Walter Camp veteran adviser appeared on the field last week to aid Captain Brown and Coach Mc Bride in handling the four elevens which compose the varsity squad This is the first time his services have been called upon for several years Prince Princeton Princeton Princeton ton as was demonstrated in the game with Lehigh seems to be very back ward in the development of her team this year The material at hand ap appears appears appears pears to be all right both as to quality and quantity but the men appear very slow in rounding into form and so far faras faras faras as teamwork goes the Tigers are ap apparently apparently apparently a full month behind in their work Unless the eleven make rapid progress from now on they will have hard work to get in form by the time they are due to meet Yale and in the meantime may be humiliated by defeat by br either Lafayette or Cornell especially especially the former which she meets next Saturday Lafayette boasts of having haing an exceptionally strong team this year and being farther advanced in her practice work than any of the other big colleges makes no secret of the fact that she expects to lower Prince tons t ns colors this year Leading candidates have hae come to the front for every position on the Yale football eleven during the past week until it looks to close followers of the team that the following men will line Un lineup lineup up against Harvard and Princeton Left end Gould left tackle Bloomer left guard Captain Brown center Ol 01 Olcott Olcott cott right guard Sheldon right tackle Stillman right end Coy quarterback Fincke left halfback Sharpe right halfback Cook fullback Hale These candidates now have the call for first choice but the situation may change before the big games come off and some of the be forced out by new men Captain Brown summoned Armstrong and Chamberlain two vet veteran veteran veteran eran tackles to take charge of Bloomer and the Improvement in his play since he has been matched against these vet veterans veterans veterans erans has been remarkable A A new sensation was sprung on the faculty committee on athletics at Co Columbia Columbia Columbia lumbia college by President Seth Low who asserted that the college must pre preserve preserve preserve serve her amateur status in athletics at atall atall atall all hazards It will be remembered that this college was accused of pro professionalism professionalism professionalism in her football team last year rear A new rule has been made that every special student who takes part partin in athletics must pursue and attend regularly courses occupying at least fifteen hours a week Failure to com corn comply comply ply with this rule will debar him from athletics entirely No o student comes from another institution he has represented in int intercol contests will be eligible to Columbia until after a re residence ot 01 at t least one academic year A these rules has been sent c COpy ot 01 C t to all the tb football players with request that mt th make mak full LM they I reply in the way ay in j whiCh wi they are fulfilling the Protons P provisions from this reply their eligibility to an and S I pia on the team will be This play f course is calculated to do o good go to Co r lumbia and gain the respect of or o the t pub lic lie but to some of ot the players ply rs it t comes co p as an unpleasant setback it is i DoW n stated on excellent authority th ti that t sev eral new candidates of decided ability and with good chances to make link line positions on the eleven will be de d barred from playing Nearly every prominent person con connected connected connected with the fighting business busin has h had bad his say about the recent fight be b tween Corbett and McCoy except old John L who now comes out with his little piece and says it pretty sinGe stron I want to say that In my opinion the th fight between Corbett and McCoy Wasas was wasas as barefaced a robbery as was ever perpetrated The American publia tolerate such proceedings no noman noman noman man who loves to see a good fight fig should go SO again to see men wh who are ara willing to descend to such low trickery for the sake of a few hundred dollars I dont want yant to throw bouquets at t my myself myself self but I would say that I did much to make these men and make It pos poe possible possible sible for them to make big money i took boxing out of the filth of disrepute and made something out of tha th t game same I drew the good men the busi bui business business ness men to the fights men who un under under m der the old conditions did not care to tG mingle with the crowds that then at attended attended attended tended fights And as a result you will see millionaires club members men In la evening dress at the ring side when they Believe honest men are about ta to battle for supremacy I did not get getto getto getto to the garden sarden until after the first round but as soon as I saw the men corns come together I said to myself That set settles settles ties it McCoy has been paid to lose Jose Why he hit Corbitt one good g punch It was Vas the greatest piece of ot robbery I ever knew of or |