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Show SOflOT, UlCQII LITTLE ITEMS IXJA 1 dUu3U OF INTEREST NEW YORK, Dee. so. Jirn Rice, long coach of the Columbia crews, who resigned re-signed last summer, specifically denies that he had signed an agreement with Cornell or any other college as rowing coach. He was greatly exercised on hearing that a statement had gone out from some unreliable source that he had agreed to coach the Cornell crew next year. He said : "You have my word that I have not signed to coach any college crew. Everybody Every-body knows that I'm nut going to sit around and do nothing, but apparently everybody, or at least somebody, knows what 1 don't know myself, and that is where I will coach next season. When 1 do know I'll be only too glad to take everybody into the secret:" SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20. Umpire George Hitdebrand he's getting ready for the same old grind has dropped farming and is bn'k in San Francisco for the holidays. holi-days. When the war came along and baseball suffered eclipse, Hilde decided he would go to ranching for keeps. . He came back to California and struck out at once for the ranch. But tho good new s of November II, together with word from the east, that the big leagues will open, has decided George to stick by baseball, lie will remain here until well into Jan-uarv. Jan-uarv. return to the ranch for a few days and" then striko out for his eastern job. Bill Hay ward, a vet era n trainer with tlie University of Oregon eleven, haV been asked to train both the Great Eakes naval training station and tho marine tea ins for the big game at Pasadena on New Year's day. Uayward has trained teams for the New Year's game for tiie last two years. NEW YORK, Dec. 20. Walter Pipp. slugging first baseman of the anke--s. wholeft New York in August to study for a commission in the naval aviation service, ser-vice, was in New Y'ork recently en route from Boston to his home in Grand Rapids, Rap-ids, Mich. Pipp had completed his three months of preliminary study at the Massachusetts Mass-achusetts Institute of Technology when the armistice was signed, and he has since been nlaced on the inacMve list. He stili wears' the uniform of the naval aviator, and he said that he had not been discharged dis-charged from tho service, as had been reported from Boston. However, there is lit'." likelihood tha r be wiil be caHed uv.m to continue in his work, and re undoubtedly un-doubtedly will be discharged long before the time for Miller Hugyins to load southward with tiie squad for spring training next March. NEW YORK. Dec. 2i.Wh"ii Uui-ers college of New Brunswick, N. J., celebrated cele-brated its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary anni-versary two years ago The place of honor was givn to i.lie survivors of the immortal im-mortal P.utgers foot ha II team nf 1"H tiie men who he! ped to defea t 1 'nrc eo-.n in the nrt in tereollecia i & end irr.n ,r :i r : i e.er played in Amor:a or linrr'.a I'd. Th;s game was pla ved a ' S-w Prurswi'-k f"rt - an tiit'-re.-i mg aci-rcint of t)v c,-.sit of the r;va! "Jit s" 1lj,s be u ic. urr'-CLed f.oui the columns of the New Brunswick Freedoniau. The reporter who covered the lirst college match wrote as follows: "Our neighbor, Princeton. sent her chosen twenty-four stalwart men and one Goliath to combat twenty-five striplings. There is not recorded in the history of the Olympic games a more interesting and decisive match played in so short a time by such a number of contestants as this game was. Rutgers ted oft' by winning win-ning the first inning amid tho vociferous cheering of the bystanders. ' "Princeton seemed to play a little wild at the beginning, but in the second inning in-ning they recovered themselves and came out victors. So it continued off and on, one gaining, then another, until the ninth and tenth innings,' when, notwithstanding, Rutgers quickly and boldly followed successive suc-cessive victories, giving them six runs to four of Princeton, thereby coming off conquerors, which was hailed with exultant ex-ultant shouts of applause by the admirers admir-ers of Rutgers." J: :; lingo Bezdek is slated to remain manager man-ager of the Pirates. He is the only big league manager of recent years who has worked without a contract. Charlie Uerzog doesn't seem quite so temperamental these early winter days. He Is taking it as a matter of course that he will be back in the Braves' infield next season. Every day one hears of this or that invention in-vention that will completely revolutionize revolution-ize tho game of golf. Not so long ago an enthusiast came out with a story or a ball that squeaked as it fell to" the ground, thus eiimi na t ing the possibility . of being unable to lind it. Now there eonies a man with a large inventive mind who more often tinds himself in the rough than on the fairway. As a result he : struck tiie idea of a ball which, after it I had been hit and had come to rest, emitted emit-ted smoke to mark its locality. Just how tiie tiung would be managed is not as jet clear to the golfer's mind. X NEW YORK, Deo. 20. Plans for the formation of a collesre football league in the metropolitan district are being con- sidored. N-w York university, Columbia, j Fordham, C. N. Y.. Stevens and Rut-j Rut-j eers will be in the organization if it is formed. & -e The G:p;h.- have offered Pat Moran ) a year to act a? M.-iraw's chief o" 'staff. Tic former Philadelphia pilot is j considering the proposition. lie has thirty day;, in which to make up his , mind. : :f. ! I ester C. Peie, fnr forty ears athletic I instructor at St. Paul's school, i 'oncord. i.V. H., d-ed in ivs honro there Moii'l:tv. Mary famous ath!er,Jf! v'.io had made ! their mark later ;ii y.-.;.-. ,-,nd Harvard wrc coached by him. His specialty was rawing. |
