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Show he9ga"f" V "" ,LIJA "",fVT iran"1 ,t I t i Trwim ,.i rnrr win iiwriTiinV.il .jml.. ""Tr-.-i i r iT-in-n 1 lillk - . O PICTTJHE ON" LEFT SHOWS HAREER; CENTER, SCHOOLMASTER LEEVER, AND RIGHT SHOWS HARPER, APTER DELIVERY. HARPER, THE STAR PITCHER OF THE CINCINNATI NINE, AND SCHOOLMASTER LEEVER OF THE PITTSBURG, WITH JOE OF THE GIANTS, A GREAT FIGHT OF PITCHERS TOOK PLACES. THE GAME RE- X STJLTED IN A TIE, SO NEITHER UNBEATEN ARE TWO OF THE GREATEST TWIRLERS IN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE. PITCHER CLARKSON MAY YET PLAY FOR CRIMSON i vrnr y ALTER CLARKSON. the mighty Harvard pitcher, denies that WW he has signed a contract with the American league, and some observers eeem skeptical of the denial. But of course Clarkivm will sign no professional contract until ho is through with the college season, for the obvious, reason that his amateur status Jn the yerles with Yale would be knocked endwise. And if there is one thing the Harvard twlrler would like hetter than unother it is to complete a four years' record of atrulght victories against the sons of Ell. He Is In bettor form than ever this year, despite the fact that Princeton got away with the first big game with Harvard. But a pitcher who can shut out the Ajidover team without a solitary hit and allow only twenty-nine men to come to the bat Is at the top of the college class. That he will go into professional ball, following in the wake of his famous-brother famous-brother John, eeems very probable. This Is a famous year for college talent in the leagues. Cromley of Georgetpwn, and Lynch of Brown, have already joined the game In which "Christy" Mathewson is a ohlnlng light. This trend may be a good thing for ba-bnll, but it is open to argument in Its influence in-fluence on the status of a university education. Certainly the founders' and present heads of our leading universities universi-ties and their benefactors? have aimed to build up centers of culture and sound learning, rather than athletic factories. The rules of the Royal Henley Regatta have been criticized as undemocratic In their restrictions, yet the following authoritative comment on the rules seems to point a moral not at all illogical il-logical or unwholesome in theory and practice. "It (the Henley Regatta) has held lt-stjlf lt-stjlf sternly aloof from that half-way class of competitor who is an amateur only that he may make capital ultimate ly out of success galnod in this character." char-acter." This explains why Ten Eyck was unpopular un-popular when lie rowed for the Diamond Sculls, r"id it explains why the Clark-Eons, Clark-Eons, Cromley? and Lynches would be dlfllked were they competing against English university sportsmen The Illustrated Il-lustrated Sporting News- |