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Show LAUGHTER if JUDJPBE Sullivan Will Try to Chuckle Sunday Bill Through Legislature. . MADISON SQUARE GARDEN TO SELL, SAYS REPORT Miss Berri, Theatrical Singer, Wants to Join National v Rifle Association. BY MANHATTAN. By Leased Wire to Tho Tribune. .NEW YORK. May G. Tho Sullivan senate bill relative to Sunday baseball and other athletic sports provides that the1 common council or the board of aldermen al-dermen of cities nnd tho board of trustees trus-tees of a village or town may, upon its own motion or upon the petition of 5 por cent of qualified voters, submit to the electors at a general or special election a proposition to determine whether or , not athlolio sports between 2 and 7 o'clock in the afternoon on Sundays shall bc permitted. It is alsd provided that when an election has been hold upon such a question another election shall not bo held for two years after. The bill may go through if the friends of It are diplomatic. One of tho reasons why men favoring sporting bills have failed is that 'they are offensive and given to making threats. Sullivan says ho is going to try and laugh tho moasurc 'through the legislature. There have been woo arid desolation in Newark. N. J., because Manager Joo McGlnnlty of the Newark Eastern League club was fined $50 and retired for five days by President Edward Barrow for tho part he played In the trouble at the opon-lng opon-lng game there. Jnck Hardy and Matty Nattress of the Montreal team, who were mixed up in tho trouble, were fined S25 each and suspended for five days. Tho dispute, was on the question of ground rules. Believes in Eagtimo Drop. A baseball fan has como to tho front with, a suggestion which Manager John McGraw believes will bc of practical use. Ned Wayburn, tho producer, always of an inventive turn of mind, has invented tho "ragtime" drop, which, ho maintains, is Impossible to lilt except by chance. Mr. Wayburn Is ono of the most loyal fans in the Giants list and every game, when he Is in town, sees him on the grand stand. Wayburn and his brother, Ralph, were once the prize battery on a brilliant team In Chicago. Ned was tho terror of most batsmen with his many curves. Ho hopes to sea tho pennant flying at the Polo grounds and he believes his new "ragtime" "rag-time" drop will help put it there. So does McGraw, and that enterprising managor recently induced Wayburn to don Tre-beau's Tre-beau's practice uniform and instruct Mnr-quord Mnr-quord in its intricacies. Marquard mastered mas-tered the drop quickly and, with Way-burn Way-burn behind tho mask, ho struck out Miko Donlln four times running. Marquard, who is tho only pitchor In the secrot, expects to win many a game with it for tho Giants. When tho Wayburns were boll plavers they changed places dally, one dav pitching and the next catching. They were good at either, Ned Wayburn Is now a theatrical man. Picks Graceful Team. Ono of tho Giants' financial backers says: "Whilo all-America baseball teams are undor discussion I want to pick a representative rep-resentative team. Tho fact that soma of the best players In tho country figure on It is merely incidental. My idea of the most graceful men in the profession is as follows: Pitchor, Walter Manning; catcher, Sullivan; first base, Hal Chose; second base. Lajoio; shortstop, Brldwell; third base, Leo Tannehill; right field, Browne; center field, Bay; left field, Paskert. Tommy Hayes, representing the Irish-American Irish-American A. C. in tho cross-country races, has tho distinction of winning a prize in every championship cross-country event this year. With most of the loading university teams basoball and track especially in tho south for tho Easter vacation, tho problem of the up-to-date coach is nevertheless little nearer to a solution than when tho first call for candidates was sent out. Approach the coach of any of the bic eastern teamB on the subject sub-ject of the so-called scramble for the varsity lettor. and he will toll you that tho search for the varsity man of high caliber 1b as difficult as the hunt for the blue-nosed Bangor or any other rare animal. Why Small Man Wins. Timo and again the coach will find a big, ungainly chap stumbllnpr across tho campus, keoplng erect merely because ho is falling forward so fast that he simply has to keep putting his feet ahead of him fast enough to keep himself oroct, only to learn that this natural, loose-jointed loose-jointed athlate cares' more for his own comfort than ho doos for his university. To such a man tho idea of team work is ofton a total blank. This is ono of the reasons why tho small man, with nothing but brains and spirit to put him through, often appears wearing tho covoted lettor when tho born athleto adorns the bench. There Is no cure, apparently, for this state of affairs save an awakening of college spirit among thoso who aro only too glad to inveigh against college activities without tho courage to accept a jolt or two in the interests of tho athletic side of the Institution. Insti-tution. ' To tho lasting credit of tho small man be it said that the history of athletics at most of tho onstem Institutions Institu-tions is tho history of tho small man rising to tho emergency. Thoro aro conflicting stories about Madison Square Garden, the great BDort-lng BDort-lng center. Ono 13 to the effect that tho building has bcon sold for ?3,100,000. It Is said that Madison Square Garden has finally been sold. The property was assessed on the 1911 tax list at J3.190.000. The . garden has boon tho sceno of some of the most famous fa-mous sporting events in this country. The building will bo torn down and offlco buildings erected in its pltto. Thore is talk about tho city buying it, Tho report is that an option on the proporty until July 15 has been given to Henry Corn, who Is said to have tho backing of a rich syndicate, but President Presi-dent F, K. Sturgis and J. C. Young, the secretary and treasurer of the company, deny this. Negotiations Pend. "Thoro are negotiations pending with thrco syndicates," Mr. SturglB said, "but no option has been given, and It is hardly probable that ono will bo given, Wo will soil when we have the proper kind of an offer. But the garden will stand another year, anyway." Mr. Sturgis jand tho other directors would like to ace tho garden preserved, but they aro not propnred to nmko further fur-ther financial' sacrlllcuH. Maudo Lillian Berri, a well-known theatrical the-atrical singer, has applied forjmomhor-Bhlp forjmomhor-Bhlp in tho National Rifle association, organized for tho promotion of rifle practice. prac-tice. In a recent gallery contest Miss Berri made a score of 128 out of a possible pos-sible 30, If accepted, she will compote In the modal contest at Fort Perry, Ohio, In July. |
