Intercollegiate baseball league talk and racing notes
A proposed eight team intercollegiate baseball league would rank Cornell Brown Princeton Yale Harvard Pennsylvania and Columbia as top six with flexible last two. The piece discusses schedules and potential member changes and cites Cornell Daily Sun editorials urging a formal league to settle titles. It also covers mileposts in auto racing golf rules and amateur athletics and notes Harvard Yale Princeton rivalries and student attitudes.
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Oxford Cambridge Boat Race Set for Close Struggle
March 23 Putney. The Oxford and Cambridge crews near race day April 4 with renewed expectancy. Oxford reportedly first clocked 19 minutes 37 seconds in a secret trial while Cambridge matched or beat it in a paced trial of 19 minutes 16 seconds. Weather and influenza hit training hard. Cambridge the favorite in betting. Crew weights listed.
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Busy Return of Pro Golfer Scene as Season Opens
With milder weather pros return home from abroad and home clubs resume activity. George Low of Baltusrol leads a group back from Scotland while Alec Smith stays near Nassau and Tom Anderson tends Montclair courses. Various pros resume duties at Fox Hills Dunwoodle Englewood Apawamis St Andrews and other clubs as Vardon wins in Nice ahead of Massy Braid and Cassiat in the opening major event.
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Baltusrol
Bonnie Scotland
Trayside
Low
Metropolitan Golf Association
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Nassau Country Club
Edinburgh
Tom Anderson
Montclair
Anderson
Isaac Mackie
Fox Hills Links
Jack
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Jack Hobens
Englewood Golf Club
Willie Norton
Lakewood
Herbert Strong
Apawamis Club
Willie Tucker
St. Andrews
Morris County Golf Club
Dave Ogilvie
Ogilvie
Willie Weir
Morris County
Dave Hunter
Essex County Country Club
Hunter
Dave Honeyman
Arsdale Golf Club
Tom Gourley
Forest Hill
George Fearson
Yountakah
Martin O'Loughlin
Plainfield Country Club
Southern Pines
North Carolina
O'Loughlin
Gilbert Nicholls
Piney Woods
Nicholls
New Golf Ball Uses Rubber Cord Cover Innovation
A foreign market golf ball now features a radical cover. The standard gutta percha layer is replaced by a pure Para rubber cord wound spirally into concentric circles. Proponents say the thin, homogeneous casing is highly resilient and unlikely to crack or gouge.
Stone Wins At Traps In High Score Cup Shoot
A J Stone with a 22 handicap broke 95 clay pigeons to win the weekly cup at Larchmont traps in the 103rd match. Stuart Scott took 2nd with 88. Bostwick won a leg for the Accumulation Cup with 40, and in the Saver gun shoot-off Scott vs Ballou Ballou won. Stone also won a leg for the Lyon Cup with a full score.
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Larchmont
Stuart Scott
A. ¢ Bostwick
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Ballou
J Stone Bostwick
BSI
Ross Collins
A. C Bostwick
Bauer Gun
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G. Young
Plea for Racing Men From a Sheepshead Bay Rector
Dr. Thomas Alexander Hyde, rector of a Sheepshead Bay church, writes Governor Hughes urging against anti racing bills in Albany. He argues racing is no greater sin than other industries and warns of hardship if laws end racing, defending patrons including religious people and denouncing reformers abroad.
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Sheepsheed Bay
Hughes
Albany
United States
Princeton Notes No Cuts to Major Sports Schedules
Princeton faculty and students oppose cutting major sport schedules. The discussion favors lengthening football and baseball seasons while reducing winter minor sports like basketball and hockey. A midyear focus is urged with more emphasis on college work from Thanksgiving to Easter.
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Wilson
New York
New York to Paris Race Heads Toward Death Valley
The last Italian car left Goldfield Nevada on March 29 bound for Death Valley as the homestretch across the continent begins. The De Dion car is en route to Ely, while the Protos from Germany remains at Ogden for repairs.
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Proposed Ocean Race From Palos to Canary Islands
Enthusiasm grows among Spanish yachtsmen for a proposed August ocean race from Palos to the Canary Islands marking the Columbus anniversary. The event, led by Palos officials and the Royal Mediterranean Yacht Club Malaga, seeks entries from Spain and the Americas. Start is set for August 2 at 6 a.m. high water, with over sixteen foot yachts required to anchor outside Palos harbor. An estimated 100000 spectators are expected along the river banks, with King Alfonso possibly in attendance.
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Princeton Crew Practices as Carnegie Lake Expands
Princeton prepares for spring rowing with new shells donated by wealthy alumni from New York and Philadelphia. A new north shore boathouse will store eight shells and provide a crew locker room. No varsity team this year, but a potential eight may row in minor regattas. annual spring regatta planned during commencement week with four class eights competing for the Carnegie cup.
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Army Navy gridiron clash may be postponed this year
Telegraph dispatch from Annapolis reports a deadlock over the Army Navy game date. Army demands November 22 or earlier, Navy refuses to move from November 29, amid arguments about practice start times and weather. Officers expect a resolution or pressure for a date.
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Brandt Named Navy Fencing Captain After Close Loss
E. S. R. Brandt of New Jersey was elected captain of the 188 Navy fencing team after the unit lost the intercollegiate championship to Army by a single bout. Brandt, a three year veteran and plebe year N winner, will lead a team losing Burdick Knauss and Everson to graduation.
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Clarendon of Hoboken edges Port Chester for final showdown
In the Sunday New York Amateur Association Football League final, the Clarendon club from Hoboken defeated Port Chester 4 to 0 at Bronx Oval securing a spot against the Camerons, Sunday series champions, in the championship decider likely on April 19. The muddy field slowed play but teams produced a fast, competitive match.
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Lorz Dominates Muddy Five Mile Handicap Cross Country Race
Fred Lorz won the Mott Haven Athletic Club handicap cross country in five and a half miles in 35 minutes 2 seconds from a 94 runner field amid heavy rain and mud. E Kisby of Mercury AC was second, Eddie Carr won time prize in 33 minutes 5 5 seconds, with H J Smith and J P Edwards taking other prizes. Mohawk AC claimed the team title with 36 points, Mercury 47, Mott Haven 1, Dowd of Mercury won the novice prize.
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Mott Haven Athletic Club
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E. Kisby
Mercury Athletic Club
Mott Haven Club
Xavier
Eddie Carr
H. J. Smith
J. P Edwards
Pastime Athletic Club
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