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Show GOTHAM SURE OF I BALL MRS I Resignation of MeGuire as Manager of Nap's Brings Big Surprise. REASON IS ATTRIBUTED . B TO SHOWING OF TEAM ill Donlin Says He Doesn't Have j to Bat .300 on Stage and; Praises Wife. I BT MANHATTAN. . J By Leased Wire to The Tribune. 11 MB NEW YORK. May 13. Baseball is in- IU S sured tor years here. President Joha T1. wnl K Brush of the New York National league NW H baseball club has completed arrange- BjtJ fj ments for a lease of the Polo grounds llufra for a term of years equal to the present tan ft life of the National league. R William O. Hayes, the cross-country jn U rider and trainer, who arrived from fa ff( France a fortnight ago, speaks in glow- - mlf vm ing terms of the racing on tho other side. lajBI Mr. Hayes says that Nash Turner. Win- iajlH nle O'Connor, Ben Rlgby and other Amer- EnlK Jean horsemen are in their best form and mm winning races dally. . fitfUli Rampart, the horsa Hayes shipped Km 87 abroad last year, went wrong. The pop- IttlSl! ular turfman will get together several ZmM good chasers this summer and take thorn Blfjjif to France. ' SmK! The resignation of Manager James Mc- fflBlBr Gulre of the Cleveland American league lllHI' team has caused much surprise here. 11 if tin The team-work has been unsatisfactory iHlBt to him. He said he did not care to have ' imm his name associated with a failure. IB! if MeGuire has seen twenty-five- years of BRlfft service in the big leagues. He was once fiiiTBt a catcher in the New York Highlanders. filrifSI In the early part of 1903 he acted as Mlfiitt scout. When Lajole resigned as manager all IH In August, 1909, MeGuire rejoined the filllffil club and was made manager. B Ell By The team finished sixth in 1909. Last nlllU year it finished fifth. MeGuire will qon- mmm tlnue with the club as scout. ffivilK MeGuire left the Highlanders to as- wit Hi sume the managership of the Boston Eitlffii Americans. When released he w.ent to ffllsili! Cleveland to act In an advisory capacity nluBj to Manager Lajole. George Stovall, cap- IuUk tain and first baseman, has, been put in ilnffi charge as temporary leader. iff UN Donlin Praises Wife. Bit ffl Mike Donlin. who has been described IbhJEi as one of the bost ball players that cvn lltlfla lived, says mncernlng his butterfly life mWml on the stager IS n "It lias its advantages. One doesn't IftiBj liave to bat .300 on the stage, and there Wmln isn't the umpire to contend with. If you QiSflH make a hit the crowd says so, and that 1S1IF goes. Then they've got to keep still atid IjMff) can't rattle you by calling you choice : iiHfls ones when you miss a line, and they can't jlBHl throw pop bottles and lemons at you IIIfuB when you make a bad play. WIuHj "Sometimes, though, you wish the HfllH crowd would say something, and that's Iffliri when It gets so quiet that you could ffftln hear" the pitcher putting saliva on the aBllfl ball if you were standing at home plate. will Hi It's a harder crowd to please, loo. They ffiSlra sit back In their seats and dare you to Ififflffii put one across the plate if you can. So AW II far I've been pretty lucky, and they Uvjik haven't got me yet. The only reason Is RiRlffi that I had a good trainer In the person of lUltU Mabel Hite. my wife. When I first went fjftllfi on she used to talk to me till my cue lu ll came, and then push me on before I had luiffj time to think." Eulfn Hard Tennis Schedule. BRlJa The schedule of the Brown University ffflffl tennis team Is one of the hardest in jcHul years. This season will open Saturday PuB?B against Boston University and will close Ntfttji at Longwood the Intercollegiate meet nKKk' According to the rules of the Swedish iittTM committee in charge of the Olympic WHlRf games all entries must be In by June 1. filmf! England has already set up a howl at raRlfln this and America will 'have a hard tlmo tfilntLi putting out a team If the rule is en- wftlMJ rCouch Daly of the Williams College It football team has arrived . at Williams- ISflJiti town and taken chargo of the squad. WRw Ah effort is being made to revive bi- fUB t cycle' racing at Providence and a petition has been circulated for a license to open Wj jh the old Melrose track. Wliljfi Spring football practice started yesler- ffl JL dav at Bates College and forty men re- iffiM ported for the early workout. Captain taffSVoP Cole had charge of the squad and an- OTHlift nounccd that practice -will continue for mmm several weeks. i mmm Unless Chicago bowlers raise $10,000 by H JilWj June 20 the American Bowling congress BiyJlf tourney will be awarded to' Milwaukee. Sjjjfff |