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Show (tKNKIIAIi SPOUTING. f LOTSAM AND JCT5AM FROM HERE AND THLRE. l lrrna rrrerlin tor tlie tool- j ail Krea.in Ths I tlnl lllryrlv Nlar - I nglUti Athletic MethmU - The I'rUs lllni.. MIR t OUT II til. :. f"7T..r-"- (HI Til A LI. I . U.-ruj ,,rlu.,(., M ' 1 the Culver- -smsjJ a 1 1 y of V ' . rr-nnsy v a- ', j1 V IS ,,nv '"' V -l 'V USTU )',' fore the tiMkpi ;r ,oo..cg, ,y,,"m Y$i' of grailuntet Vx) coaching YJ will be In- H a ti g united tyiVr with the ' p r e 1 1 in I nary practice, and Head Coach Woodruff Wood-ruff will have eight of Pennsylvania uiuat prominent gridiron slurs to help teach the game. F.a-faptuln Hare. John Gardiner, Vail, Whealon, Ho ..en-garien, ..en-garien, Dlckaun, Iloyla and M nils are tbe members nf the board of coachea. Their work will be larg -ly In ooa hlug the candidates In the plnylng of the Individual positions leaving the development de-velopment of team work to the head coach. Pennsylvania will be without the service of seven of her last yisr't eleven and th present outlook Indicate Indi-cate that th Red aud Blue will have a weaker team than tlm Wi- The retirement of Hart and MeOrarken leave a gap almost Impossible to All thl. year. Wallace at left tickle, Holge at and, Wood ley at quarterback, add John Uardlnor aud Potter, halt Im ike. are Ineligible and there are no tn n on last year's scrub who ars as strong. Th candldatrt will start practice without a captain. Wallace, who wna elected, will not return, but a choice will probably not he mtde until the plght before the Lehigh game. At Princeton the teuton otiened Kept. 10. whllt at Yale Drartlce will not be gin till Sept. 23. Yale's first game will be with Trinity on Sept. 2. Captain Cap-tain Pell of Princeton la making every effort to grit Ihe randldntea Blurted well and th outlook fur tha Tlg'-rs Is bright At present It seems fair to estimate Princeton's rhsnns about equal with thme nf Yule. Comparing th outlook of thoae two elevens st present It would seem that the one cannot boast of much greater things than tha other. On the one hand, Yale's players that atll remnln for Princeton , but the latter team remain re-main almoit Intart, while Ynle must vary largely build up a new team. Both teams will be roocm d by the b at football atara of other yeara, and a for th Tiger they will b led through th seaaon ty on nf the strongest combinations of coaches that ever trod a gridiron. While the Yale game I th principal contest of th year every effort will be made to play a consistent consis-tent game throughout th season. Th Carlisle Indians hsve a promising promis-ing lot of msterlsl for the coming season sea-son a ever stepped upon a gridiron. Coach Warner will return to the Indian In-dian achool aliortly nd hard practice will at once be begun. The Indiana will not play Yale or Princeton thlt year. They will meet IVniiaylvan'a on Nov. 16, and Columbia on Nov. 2D. BNUI.iail ATIII KTIt' MITIIOIIS. Mr. W. Y. Wlnthrop. th famout Camhrldi hot putter, whose muscu lar flgur wat a feature at the Inter-university Inter-university pnrtt and chief athlet e meeting In England between aeven-teen aeven-teen and nineteen year ago, writes, apropos of the proluilile International meeting between Joint teama representing repre-senting Oxford and Cambridge and Yal and Harvard, as follows: rJslvsrslty rreenilnenee, "It It generally acknowledged In thlt country that out of the multitude of American iinlvertllles. Yuln und Harvard Har-vard occupy iar.illil pisltlou on th t Id to what Oxford and Cambridge do on the other. And they unquc-.tlon. ably him a sure title to thlt claim of pre-eminence fli st, on the ground of seniority; secondly, for what they have accomplished, alnce they have figured at exemplars mid patterns for all the other American Institution of Ilka nature; thirdly, on account of the roll of dlrtlngiilahed altiniul who have received their education within their now llme-honoicil walla; and, fourthly, fourth-ly, for the high tlnndatd of honor and sportsmanlike (ualng the word In Ita best tense) gentleniunly feeling that have ever characterised their respective respect-ive meeting and proceedings. "There la little quea'lon that Yale pproilmatee more nearly to our Eng-lltb Eng-lltb unlvenltlet than does Harvard. I mean by thl that In the former, as st Oxford and Cambridge, the field I open to talent, and thai family and society Influence weigh less In the cale than they do In Ihe latter. 'A man's a man for a' that.' and If hla merit tnd behavior wurrnnt conald-rtlon, conald-rtlon, Ihe ion of a butcher thould stand on an equal footing with th on of a baron. nd the offspring of a milkman can do his university a much honor on the river or th running run-ning track the heir-apparent of a millionaire. Claims llrltlah Superiority. "I think the idvanta.es of the English Eng-lish vanity tyitem art manifest botb from a social as well as an athletic point of view, moro especially in the l latter; the emulation excited AiTion the various colleges Inducing a very j much greater number of men to go I in for some form nf exercise than In I Anieiiciin vaisltles with their one col- I lege system. The dlfienlliim. The I yunter Mile Clrrult Championship J hml In It inn h claws men aa ltwson of Buffalo, Kramer nf East Orange, S Cooper of llctri.lt. Tnylnr of Worres- f ler. Ki-nn of Waterhury, McFarhind f of .''nn Jose. Kreeman of Portland, and i llousinan of New Haven. Kramer and I ' Taylor took the two r-nil-flnnls. with u ' Ijtwson and Kreeman In the second I places. In a field like this, a race t. la worth going far to see. In the ex- t hlMtlon open. Joseph Kulton of J,' ' i Springfield riding against the world I amateur I mile pneed record of mln- t litis seconds, reduied It to mln- ut.s 2 15 seconds. Waller Smith. V thereui on. mile snalnst Fulton's rec ord niul brought It down to ? minuter r t.3 second. The fastest mile ever rid- R den by tandem on a bicycle track wns covered by llenshaw and lied- ' ,. stiom In 1 tuiniite 111 2p lecnnds. ! "'' 1'KI lllT rillMTRHB, Of all Ihe champions who have worn the title In thla country, John Mor- ' rlsey, Jim Corbet! and Fltinlmmona have been the shrewdest and the best oft In monetnry matters, write Macon McCormlrk. Corbett haa made mor money than any American fighter that ever lived. I know that It la commonly common-ly thought that that distinction belonged be-longed In John L Hulllvan, but th statement I make la the true one. Sullivan, Sul-livan, however, "blew In" more money, having a good lime with all that that Implies and Infers, than any fighter that ever lived. Fltislmmuns wasn't a money maker worth calling such until un-til he msrrled hi preent wife. Bht ' I reputed to be an excellent business ' woman, and a ah ha great Influenr ' over her huttiand It I very fortunate) j for til in that he ha hearkened to aiHia . to her good advice. The rlrheat fttMy ! that America ever produced I Johnuy Newnll, of Pltlshurg. I am told that ; he own half a million' worth of real estate In th Smoky City alone. j Charley Mitchell I tb richest present ; day boxer. He I probably worth tlOO.Ooo In real estate. INTKrlKBT I.AtiB. Although Jeffries and Ruhlln ar bnth In Han Francisco, which will b ' tho seen nf Ihelr coming battle, Interest In-terest In pugilism doe not seem to revive. Very llttli attention Is paid to the big fighter on th coast. Thl apathy may be due to the warm Sep-lenilier Sep-lenilier weather. Tha fight manager, ' at all events, look to see mattera pick up by next month and Interest grow In , the liout for tho championship. "Billy" ! Madden, Ituhlln' manager, ha been t In hot pursuit of Jeffrie for sum I Km anit f hf)rr)ty-Tieer-tnejt-tii 111 ' ' I man I matched wtlh th champion. r "I honestly believe that Ruhlln la a butter man than Jeffrie," say a Billy. He I young and In perfect trim and r think h can win th chainploneblp." flHKAT INIIIAM KiUNNKBV, On of th greatest runner of th day I a Ute Indian, Jerry Pierce, who la said to be possessed of speed Ilk unto that of ths great Deerfoot In a recent contest at Boston th Indian gav an exhibition of hit great run i nlng power In a three-mile race, j which he won from Dick Grant, th J champion at that distance. Tb pace ! from the start waa a fait on and at two mile all th contestants sav Grant and Pierce dropped out. Hall I a lap from tb finish Grant quit and 1 th Indian won In a walk. H was I apparently a fresh a when he atarted gnd appeared able to run three mile , mors. . t LATMT IlltVCI.a IT A It. ( Harry Elkes. tb Glen. Fall. N. T., j boy who for th put couple of year ' ha tuccesafully defended the tlU of king of tb middle-distance blcyol BOBBY WALT1I0UR. j rider against all comer, I now com- pelled to atep one aide, while a new i figure appears decked with the Cham- I plonshlp rrown. The new champion I f Bobby Walthour, of Atlanta, tla., who f by hard and consistent work ba placed himself In tha forefront of n- f die-distance racurt. Walthour tu , never regarded as a championship po- ! lblllty until Istely. He wa known I . as a "pluggor," one who could stick l to hla task, no matter whether h was i first In a rar or lust, until th and, j but did not show any great tpeed un-til un-til thl season. Twice within a few week Harry Kike ha had to bow to hi superior racing ability. Dan Creedon I contemplating a trip to England. The once noted Australian Austra-lian middle-weight say that he ba been taking good care of hi health and hi appearance doe not belle thla statement. Creedon Is anxious to try nls tl.ill agalnii Jack O'Brien. |
