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Show MEL SHEPPARD I WOULDJETIRE I Olympic Hero Plans to Quit the Game After Stupendous Athletic Campaign. i . MAJOR LBAGUK .SCOUTS i LOOKING FOR MATERIAL I . I Oarsmen Looking Forward to National Rowing Regatta to. I Be Held This Week. R BY MANHATTAN. I By Teased "Wire to The Tribune. NEW YORK, A tiff. G. Mel .Slicjipard, the Olympic hero and nil around smasher smash-er of records, is coing to retire from nthlotics but not until ho lias broken four or five moro records which he has in view. Ifo -wants lo retire as the greatest athlete in the history of the Tho fact .that Sheppard planning a stupendous athletic campaign is known; Shcppard has announced that. But he has only announced privately to friends V that he is going to retire from the track and field after he has accomplishes accom-plishes his marvelous record. On August 2H Shop will go after the half-milo classic at Poughkccpsic. In September ho will try to set a new record for the mile run. In the incan-whilo'hc incan-whilo'hc will try to break Lon Meyers 's records for tho MO and S00 yards. Shcppard says: "A chap only gels in Ihe condition that I'm in now once in a life time. T am better now than T ever was. My trials convince mc that 1 can carry out my campaign successfully unless T am hurt." "Peerless Mel's7' friends arc urging him not to retire 'before the next Olympiad Olym-piad is hold in Stockholm in 1U12. Shcppard won't promise. However, if Sheppard docs compote in the international interna-tional ovent it will bo his last try aftor athletic honors. Looking for Recruits. Tho major league scouts who have boen watching the small leagues about the country in search of available talent for the big clubs are now turning their attention to tho American Association, even though they can draft but one player from each club of that association. associa-tion. The major lenguc clubs figure that if thev cau land a young star, they can well afford to pay a good price, for real stars arc scarce. They do not want tho old. ones, nor those who havo been up and failed to make good; but they want tho young players. Of the young players in the associa-lion associa-lion who look good enough at tins time for a trial in faster companj', might be mentioned tho following list: Pitchers Yingling, Boise. Otis and Basketto of Toledo: Kaler and Packard Pack-ard of Columbus; O'TooIc and Ryan of Sc. Paul; Schardt, Santwell and Cutting of Milwaukee; Dccanniore and Eichlcr of Louisville; llardgoro of Indianapolis. Pirt-t base Hunter of Kansas City, and Autrcy of St. Paul. Second base Bowns of Columbus and liiiichman of Toledo. Third base Boucher of St. Paul. mrB, n- ShortBtop Butler of Toledo, and Me-Woffi Me-Woffi ' Cormick of St. Paul. ifl W Pioldors Murrav of St. Paul, Mornn i; and Raferty of Kansas Citv. Chad- PV boumo of Indianapolis, and Reilly of igbVB '-ft- Columbus. Iqai Of tho pitchers, Tingling. Otis, "ltk- xn Yw ara, uocannu-rB inu uinuu -n Kjfi lit hnnders. Yingling gives great promise. IT IS Of tho young right-handers. Kaler and orjj tifc Hardgrovo look good, also Schardt. and ulir Bf O'Toolo and Ryan are booked lor the 9! ft. big leagues. ' 4 Hy" West and Robinson LerSj If of Toledo are both good right-handers c?S I? am'' Reserve a place, in faster company. K Hunter is a promising first baseman, 39 i being a fairly hard hitter, big and lire- lersj v lv. Downs will no doubt go to a big .gnts If league club, and it will not bo aurpns-entf aurpns-entf ft ing if St. Louis lands him. Jfofit K St. Louis would have given consider- m I able to have had Jimmy Williams back,! tfuH Vl but Joo Cantillon refused to listen to K offers Hodges made for him. llarrv Aw It Clark of Milwaukee and F.lwcrt of ' K Toledo arc both good third basemen and . m ft. "0 easily better than some now in d&Mr faster company. Alt izcr. whom Charley M54I Comiskey let go lo Minneapolis. 1ms Silt bccu i,,ay"'P firs1, b:i'JC tor 1,1,0 M,1,crs-i kvJojK National Rowing Regatta, I : gfljjlE? ' Oarsmen all over tho United States; 'flit' aro now primed for the national row-J fffll! ing regatta which will be hold next I' n-1 JwsY dav and Saturdav in Washington upon TiSIts the Patomac river. Despite the fact "TtffP that Washington oarsmen were accused vfllv EOinc weeks ago oi la.vny in uiu .iri.iu'- ; JIMP- nuMils, they pitched into tho prcpnra-lions prcpnra-lions with a vim after this criticism DswWK hoenme general. wi51k Secretary Yortmeycr of the National .1)921;! Rowiii" Regatta savs there will be more '3M 't new clubs represented at this meet than rectWl rver before. jstnlwl . Clubs ok far ninth as l.alveston, ies.. iivort lvps; to c;!in Francisco and north to jlsU'gl c- Portland, lie. wrote That ihoy would "Si . attend Ihe rcgatln. while places ill the tJgivt'h middlo wppf Mich :ir, i'L Paul. Minno- ,vorleJ jfi jmioIis and Cincinnati, will bo represent- sveappU 1 rd. The WaKhiuglon ooumuttoo worked r beitil hard raising i lie finances lo carry the iv ;L affair to a success from a money point ' tMJ $' 1' Canada the club.-? anxiously i ?ii nll Jlookci forward lo a trip lo Washing- ; arrlBS0 If- ton. and there is every reason to be Grd11' Jicvo tho statement issued bv Captain '"'1 4 .loscph Wright. r the famous Argn- jB nauls. that Ihcy will bring down more Jo. 1,;in hundred persons and will n finals 1 ravel in their own special Canadian ex Kt' ciirhion train. Wh'.it is true in Toronto r BriCMffir s a'8(J ,v,1 "' Ottawa, where Coach affif ilamcs Ten Kyck is looking after the i-SKjr fast senior crew of tho Ollawas. In -MBr Nova Scotia the feeling is strong, and Wmt O'Neall, the champion sculler and the wllmKr fpuior four of the St. llary's club, will bo present, at Washington, with a bi- following. t T'10 T',v 0,lc Athletic club, whirh ivho d,"3B v.'on the eight-careil chami)ioiiahiji m nf ;mberJ5 )lHt yenr, has been in narnent training n$, for tho purpose of iigain -winning the 1 dmmt bluo ribbon event of tho regatta, tho mUBt ueuior eight-oarcd champinnship. o o'CK In tn's racu w't1' 1,0 tn Argonauts sn'prn o Tororilo, Winnipeg of Manitoba, tOKtJ' J IBfuiwisotaB of SI. Paul, Botroito of Be- troit. Wahncias of Flushing. New York; Unions of Boston; Nassaus, Unions and Hnrlcms of New York; Arundels and Ariels of Baltimore; Po-tomacs Po-tomacs of Washington: and last but not least, the Ycsper club, which won the senior event in the peoplo's regatta on July -1, on the m Schuykill. If the Winnipeg crew wins this event they will be the champions of the world, as tlie3' recently carried off the steward's cup in a raco on the Thames in London. This was the first time in the history of a Henley regatta that a foreign crew carried" off the Steward's cup for sen-! sen-! ior eights. Ralph Good, a pitcher of Cobly university, univer-sity, has joined Boston. He comes from Monticcllo, Me., and is twenty-four years old, stands five feet, eleven inches, and weighs J7o pounds. Ed Walsh of the While Sox says he wants lo pitch sevent3' games this season. sea-son. Comiske sa3's that if Hd can win the aforesaid gamos no obstacle will be placed in the way of his abitiona. James E. Sullivan, secretary of the A. A. U,, speaking of the good effect which Ihe national championships will havo nt New Orleans in October, says: "Tho south has been in line for a big representative athletic meet for a long timo. The cast, the west, the middle mid-dle west and the northwest havo all had big national meets. I believe that the New Orleans tournament will bo a' big stimulus to athlerics in tho south,' Stanford's Schedule. The fooiball schedule for Lcland Stanford university for next fall has practically been completed and agreed upon. W. H. Masters has been attending attend-ing lo the California institution's athletic ath-letic affairs in the absence of Manager Bnrband, who nceompanied the All-American All-American football team to Australia and New Zealand. The schedule included three games for the varsity team against the Barbarians, and three games against the Oh'nipic fifteen gnmes for tho varsity also have been arranged with the Vancouver team, which, as usual, will make the trip to Lcland Stanford just prior to the big game. Masters also is in communication with Los Angeles and Nevada universities. It is probable that games will be arranged at both these centers and anyway one of these places will cet a game. Stanford Stan-ford did not play Nevada last year, but at present tho prospects look very good for a game against the Sage-brushors Sage-brushors this year at Reno. If proper financial arrangements can bo made a game will also be plaved against Neva-jda Neva-jda university on the Stanford campus. Games havo been arranged for the 'freshmen loam with St. Marys college ;and SRiita Clara, college as well as the 'Santa Clara valley rugby schools. Be-l Be-l sides these teams games will bo played 'with Lowell, and Mission schools and Ithc Barlmrjans and Olympics will try the babies put. I The cardinal squads will havo at least ' two weeks' practice before tho first game is played. The freshmen will open the games of the season on September Sep-tember 11. (Copyright, 1010.) |