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BASEBALL. AUTOS, i ATHLETICS. SQUASH, TRA'EL. RESORTS JiiTHE EAGLE'S SPORTING SECTION TllliKi: CENTS NEW VOIJK CITY. Kl'NDAV, FKIiltlWHY CAN ROBBIE WIN ANOTHER PENNANT WITHOUT THIS GALAXY OF HOLDOUTS? Problem Conf! ting Robbie If Remain Firm Even by Nimble Juggling of All the Talent Now Signed He Will Have Three or Four Positions Unfilled and No Substitutes Might Use JVlerkle in Outfield.

By "RICE" ELEVEN Brooklyn National League players were cut in for 1917. Two of the regulars so cut have been signed salary But, lilt if ') I 'If fsiu 4 fr Mar even at that, there are more than eleven holdouts to date among the. men who won the pennant last season. Can Brooklyn win a pennant with eleven or more of its pennant-winning team of the previous year sticking to their farms and other places of endeavor away from the ball field? The answer is distinctly no, but the silver lining to the cloud is that the magnates do not expect the strike of the members of the Baseball Players Fraternity to become a reality. As the days go by the ranks of the prospective strikers are not being increased by young huskies, while the number of players in their prime who are signing is fit i -Ms lb vv and so did Johnston or Myers.

Thus are accounted Tor the other two men who, with the previously mentioned seven, made up the nine on the field. The their with pitcners who were not cut did share of work and alternated the two regulars who were cut. on the increase. The magnates say that they will either break the strike or that it will fritter out and not need breaking. Whether or not the optimism is justified cannot be told until the athletes are due to report for training camps anywhere from February 20 to March 15.

Two Regulars Left. Thus, of the nine men who went to bat every day, only two who were in there every day are left, so to speak. They are man for first and one for the outfield. Four of the six regular pitchers are left, but two of those who carried a heavy share of the burden are among the cultees. Suits Were Cut.

President Ebbets seems lo tiavo played no favorites when he did his slashing of salaries. The men who were reduced for 1917 because they held war-time contracts in 1916 were- Pitchers Pfeffer and Smith. Catchers Miller and Chief Meyers Second baseman Cutshaw. Short stops O'Mara and Olson. Third basemen Getz and Mowrey Outfielders Wheat and Stengel.

These men represent the backbone of the team. In fact, they are seven out of eleven who played every day weather permitting. Of those named! only one pitcher, one catcher, one short stop and one third baseman could play every day. Of course, the two pitchers did not pitch every alternate day, but they are regulars in the meaning of the present resume of the situation. Possible Bean-angi-mcnl.

Summarizing again, and from another angle: Daubert is a first baseman, purely and simply. Merkle can be used elsewhere in the infield, and he can play outfield. The latter is where ho would probably go. So, we have Daubert at first, and an outfield of Myers, John, ston and Merkle. Four fielding positions and a pitcher could be filled from among those who have no salary kick.

Tin n. Boss Ebbets says two regulars have come to terms. Who they are is not stated. That would leave five or six fielding positions, provided one of the regulars is not a pitcher, and a pitcher who has not been reduced, to take the field. This juggling of talent still leaves your Uncle Wilbert Kobinson with Zarh Wheat.

Shi oil Smith. IKdl yj 1 CUTS MAW GEORGE Ollle FLUSHING SEVEN TIES COMMERCIAL Xine men compose a baseball team. 1 tim.An 1 ukiu mne wno were there in the field are among- the salary hold outs. To nil the places of those seven and their four alternates, and win another pennant, is some Job for Manager Wilbert Robinson if they fail to report. inree or tour regular positions not filled if the frat members stick to- gether.

Supplying those vacancies with talent Just up from the bush will be a hard way to win a pennant. No catcher at all is arranged for in the most hopeful scheme, and also no utility players. The situation Is further complicated by the fact that Hi Myers, one of those not cut, and Best Came of Season in Schoolboy Hockey League Results in 3 to 3 Score. Ir 4 Those Not Cut. The other members of the Brooklyn team on the list of twenty-one who shared in the world's series and who were not cut were: Pitchers Dell, Coombs, Marquard, Cheney, Appleton and Mails.

First basemen Daubert, Merkle. Outfielders Johnston and Hi Myers. Daubert or Merkle played every day, heezer Dell, an uncut pitcher, have promised to stick by the fraternity, regardbss of their salaries. If Myers holds out, four fielding positions will be unfilled and the supply of pitchers will be reduced from six to five. It is a pretty mess, any way it Is viewed.

WALLACE IS BEATEN BY JIMMY DUFFY By long odds the best game that has been played so far in the recently, organized Long Island Intersrholastlo Hockey League was witnessed at the, Brooklyn Tee l'nlace last night. The contending schools were Commercial and Flushing. At the end of the first half the former Institution was leading by a to 0 score. In the second period the boys from Long Island came through with a rush und tied the Albany avenue team in the final minute of play. The final score wai 3 to The result of the game gives 1 point to each institution in the raca for the Crescent prizes and the championship of the League.

The work of the Albany avenue lads was a decided surprise. It was their second game in the championship series, and they showed up far better than in last week's meeting with Jamaica. Thomas Trask, a teacher ut Commercial, is chiefly responsible for lilllllllSllllli OTTO I I MlL.LE.ti Ivan Olson. Casey Stengel. Fast Jabs Put the Finishing Touches to Manhattan Lightweight's Superiority.

Ouimet Chain Letters Suggest Other Kind Whether the spirit of world conflict has got into their blood or whether they delight in seeing dirty golf linen washed in public, the I'ine-hurst golfers seem determined to make of the Ouimet case a sort of Bamiuo's ghost that will not down. It Is said that there was recently started at Pinehurst a chain of letters through which the opinions of golfers on the amateur rule as applied to Ouimet might be put on file. Several hundred letters were received within two weeks after the dispatch of the first letter. Now, a second chain is suggested to obtain the opinion of golfers as to what they think should be done with Ouimet for concealing the Crosby letter from the Woodland Club, or what should be done with the Woodland Club for concealing this letter from the members of the U. S.

CI. A. It was the concealment of this letter either by Ouimet or by Woodland and the duping of the golfers of the United States that resulted in all the scan-1 dal of last year, and unless the golf- N. H. MAXWELL WINS PINEHURST TOURNEY the showing of the lads.

He has I'MiV fit1 feat ed Philips Arulover Academy. Time, minutes lj 3-3 si'Minds. FlWay race, yards Dartmouth freshmen tif'feated M. T. fteshirmn (second) and Holy Cross freshmen (third).

Time, 3 minutes 12 Bf-cnnds. Keluy rare, yards Harvftrtl (Toschner, Hnwse, Minot, WtUruxi tltd'eated t'nrnWl (Watt, Uarisch, Achesou, Ciim). Time, minutes seconds. Hunter mi if Won by M. A.

Devannr-y, Mill-r-ist A. New York; secmd, J. W. Ityan, HuDtnii A. thini, Ivan Myers, lliinuis A.

Time, 4 minutes l-i secnn.ls. l.miO-vRid run. handicap Won hy liiKKins, Irish-A merit an Athlf tic Club, New York (scratch); second, A. O. Baker, Yale (10 yards): third, H.

Malioney, Una-ton A. A. (9 yardK). Time. minutes lit 4-5 seeomls, equalinK traek ri-ionl.

Relay race. 3.1 a'J yards Syracuse rie- taught thini the fudanientals in a manner that produced excellent results. Both teams kept their places far better than the institutions that played on Friday night. Tile statement is particularly true of the Flushing players. The scarlet Jersies of the Long Islanders were always well spread out on the line.

The wings held their positions, and the center men seemed to understand that Jimmy Duffy, the Manhattan West Side lightweight, defeated Eddie Wallace, Charley Harvey's battler, in a sizzling star bout at the Clermont Sporting Club last night. Wallace easily bested his rival in three of the Hrst four rounds of the Hght, but after that Duffy, showing superior skill in infighting and an aggressiveness that had Wallace backing up for the greater part of the time, had the hief Meyers. Young Philadelphian Defeats E. C. Beall in Final of St.

Valentine's Competition. I hockey is best pluyea when line play DEVANNEY WINNER OF HUNTER MILE ers are not all bunched around the puck. feated Dartmouth. Time. 7 minutes 42 2-5 seeomls.

Relay race, l.nfiO yards Holy Cross de- feated Boston College. Time, 3 minutes 9 4-5 seoonds. Championship of 1 ti 0 yards UnU versliy of Maine defeated Bowdoin. Time, I'lii-diini; lit Xot Disappointed v.miiice nau inree rounds, the first, third and fourth; two were even, the second and sixth, and Duffy earned crs of this country enjoy such exhibitions of scandal they should be eager to suggest some form of pun ishment or reprobation for the guilty i inniuitfM Minima Relay race, 1 i 0 yards Harvard defeated Yale freidimcn. Time, 3 1 1-5 seconds.

xne nun, sixth, eighth, ninth and tenth. At the beginning Wallace's left jab, lightning fast and delivered at long range, proved too much for the Manhattanite to solve, but once Duffy learned how to aet insido li party which will make the recurrence of so deplorable a controversy quite unlikely in the future of the U. S. O. A.

That there can be no doubt that New York Runner Takes Feature Race in Big Bos-ion Meet N. Y. A. C. FENCERS WIN MANRIQUE CUP Capture Junior Foils Championship at the Central Y.

M. C. A. The New York Athletic Club fencing team, composed of Van Buskirk, Nunes and Allison, captured the Man-rique Trophy, emblematic of the junior foils championship, last night at the Central Y. M.

C. by defeating the representatives of the New York Fencers Club by a score of bouts to Only two tennis failed to appear, Yale and Harvard sending regrets because of examinations. The only Brooklyn team in the tournament was the Central Y. M. A which was eliminated in the first round by Columbia.

The winning team fought its way to the tinals by defeating the New York Military Club in the preliminary round and Columbia in the semi-final, both by a score of 5 to U. The Fencers Club had a clrtse call from the University of Pennsylvania in the semi-final, winning by the margin of one bout. Summaries. FiUST KOIWU. of Pennsylvania ol.

n. A. It. lapp ami l'orshayl Npw York Turn-Voreln u. I' Kuettger, 1'.

the concealment of the Ouiniet-C'rosby Winning. Flushing felt disappointed in not winning. After the game the Long Islanders stated that two of their regulars were missing. However, the visitors should have been satisfied, as they came through in great shape near the end of tile contest and pulled what appeared to be a sure defeat out of the fire. Young Tom Howard of Iho Hockey Club refereed.

After the contest he said that lie was surprised at the way the boys played, and predicted that there would be some high-class schoolboy hockey in Brooklyn before the season came to an end. The was an easy one to referee as thcr! FORTESQUE LOSES FORCUTTINGCORNERS short punches correspondence brought about the dis- punishnl badly with agreeable and useless agitation of last to the heart and bodv Special to The Eagle.) Pinehurst, N. February 3 Xor-man II. Maxwell of Philadelphia won a decisive victory over K. C.

Beall, Fniontowu, in the finals of the St. A'alentine's tournament here today. Maxwell won by 8 and 7. Beall had been playing fine golf throughout the week, establishing the. season's record for the Xo.

2 course in one match with a 7 and winning against Lee. Maxwell in the after being 4 down at the thirteenth hole, but he started off with two mis-plays today, which cost him the first two holes, and from that lime on he played ragged golf. Beall missed a two-foot putt for a 4 on the first. hole. He outdrove Maxwell on the then trapped himself on his iron shot and lost that hole also.

The remarkable feature special to The Eusle.) summer is made plain by the position In the ninth round things lool-rd of the Boston Transcript, which was particularly bud for Wallace' Dnffv the firm defender of Ouimet, and suddenly changing his tactics st-n-tr-ii Woodland for the past year, but I with both left and right Jabs with thn which said in its report of the animal result that Wallace was pntlrnh. 1 Boston, February 3 Mike Devanney. tlie. crack distance runner i of the Millrose A. A.

of Xew York. defeated a classy field in the huuti-r i mile, the feature race at the annual 1 A that tt ortn intrc-LiMB yi iowaro me eiut of the round clinched a was a pity mat ine uuiiuei it-iirr anace grew weak anil had not been known last spring, for, lot. I wer nnsides than were seen if it had been, the country could have i The six-round affair was between' been spared the time spent In the K. O. Sampson of I'hiladelnhl-i who useless defense by Woodland time I weighed 171 pounds, and Bixby Camn I that could more profitably have been bell, a colored Brook'vn bov who devoted toother matters.

Evidently, i weighed only let) nnu'mlu One of the best races at the sixth annual games of the (Ireek-Amerlcuii Athletic Club at the Seventy-first liegiment Armory. Manhattan, last night, was the feature 1, 000-yard A. A. I', handicap. Frank K.

Whelan of the IX. Y. A. running with a fen-yard I handicap, captured first place after I his team mate, Charles Ti. Fortescue, with 35 yards had been disqualified cutting the corners continually as the (onicst.q on l-iulay night.

Th 11 i-M period was all Commercial. The Scarlet and Cray players ut unco started the attack and kept things busy for Cleason, the Flushing goal. Time and again lie was forced to turn tKnn thn Irttai. hint hcill 'tttw 1p( 1 llllit Cun.i.K.n of the match was Maxwell's 37. one the i vmji7ni uown rour times even from the Transcript, which car- last for the knockout in 11,0 games of the Boston Athletic Association here luniyht.

The New Yorker exhibited some brilliant runninp and covered the distance in 4:25 1-5, fast time for the small track. Devanney'? strong sprint at the finish enabled him lo beat out J. Ityan, Boston A. last year's Baxter-mile winner, and Ivan the outdoor mile champion from the Illinois A. C.

In the best of the many relay races, the New York A. four lust to the third over pur, lor the first nine holes, aside shots, principally from tho Ouimet in the round. ried on its crusade for course Xo. made under difficult sucks or i.oin. ioncn null liutmnn, dark.

After it minutes ami seconds of in conditions, as today's wind was strong 7 as Allows: Bat- 1 it 'I- Johnn5' Epan, 1' reddle feomers stopped Krankie Mo I'll hetsc'ld and Joe Uon-ard defeated Marty Kelly, I Uomhiin itnl A. tn 1. land cold enough to provide a passable i h( c.1)(1(.rs (if U)B followers of Commercial. The secon This is the second big victory since I goal was s'a mini Into the net by Kor- Ebbets Selects Eastman As the Superba Camp New York A.hlctif lull iH. Van limklrk.

I'luli iH. he went around the track. The race was run in a heady fashion. The men with heavy handicaps were allowed to hold the leai for about half the distance. At that I aiui M.

AHintni (lefemeil York I i I Soldici ItarfHcId Defeats ten and one called at the minute before time was end of the half. Boston A. A. Harvard won its annual I Kurtz (It unii Milltri. to ii.

New York Konrern I'hib iM A. men from Cornell. I Uroaduiy Club. In a letter to The Eagle, President Ebbets announces that he has selected the Hotel Eastman asv the Cr.lilior i UPtB ni'Ourt Hi iiaiiminu ui'ifuii'ii nprniK- Karl Thorn. the Western hur- point.

Harry Nickels of the Morning-idler, who now attends Dartmouth Cnl- side A. was leading and was beins no) pounds. Ue-i niii y. m. i a.

i'. miiii, r. i'. Hum- fcateil Dave Kurtz. 151V.

i ir.iTHtfln an.l K. H. Uovk-yi. to u. training camp of the Superbas at Hot lege, equaled tne worlds record in the; trailed closely by M.

Ornstein and A. Jho players are due al the the main bout ut the Broudw.v a I .1 rn i I i i i i in March. resort the first week nights of to the last iii-yarn iniroie race, wnne Joe llig- Harrison, the latter of the gins, Irish-American A. equaled track mark in the I nn. Anthony.

On the next Flushing Scores in Second IVriiMl. At th" very start of the second period tlie excitement began. Martha, wlio was playing a good game for Flushing, secured the puck and tallied the first goal fur the Long Islandeis nttor 3i seconds of play. The shot was a clean one. The enthusiasm was short livid.

Commercial naatn uu last nism. The contest was eol:) lui" rough und hard-fmiKht throushout I did most of the leading and N'n' York olumt.la. Xovember for Maxwell, who is only 1 0 years old. On December 2 he won the final of the Laki wood tournament by defeating (birdiner W. White of Flushing by 2 anil 1.

Last Wednesday he eliminated White in the fust round of match play. In the tlrsl consolation or beaten eight, Cardiner White deflated W. J. Maclliinald of Chicago. 2 and 1.

T. A. Kelly of Southern Pines won the lovernor's trophy, In the second sixteen, 11. P. Meiriman of Waferbury, lost in (lie final today to S.

O. Miller of hip, Kortrseue came from behind and was in mini ai ine siaii oi ine. also landed more blows than his rivii Niw York I'lub iiermivj rnivlty l. ii'iyeisitv of final spurt. Whelan was about twelfth iiiinutiv.

sec, iota. in the pack and several yards beliuu; The preliminary bouts rcxni.i I'MUwy'vania. of IVnnsyivaliki, Rptay raop. Stale mtinl. Tinit, HHay raiv, 3 i dining a Kcrtm- ionows: ijutcn brown unit in n.

Yoik Minis in, will, In ilefeuleil I Iw. li iidel'S. N. York rlub I'Viicti's t'lub. i I'liltiy.

Tiini', third i lund to John Murrsv Mn. forced tlie pare and mage Oiiiman tailie seemed to give tin' lads th" game. l-e Ills. k.innm,, ll, 1,. At the beginning ot the dual a point thsi Albany avenuo lap.

Iti'liiy rare, l.o'iil yard -I'nive iinii was stopped In one round by r.t Hales. Time, 3 minutes dele see, hi, Is. Whelan let. out a terrific burst of I I speed and passed the dozen or more runners at the second turn. He main- Cray, Battling Dick knocked Where Superbas and Sox It was then that Flushing rou'ly oui ounff Karnant in the th rd rnnmi ng Barnard in the third round anil Kid Burns finished Carroll Xew York by 5 and 4.

Will- Play 1 heir Games round itselt. On a clean shut Cud-dard made the 3 to 'J after minutes of play. as the gains was ending Claild.ng received a uuoi1 Long Island cluiis contributed no i fewer than eight players fur today's in me second round. In the ten-round semi-final, Silencer defeated Johnny Keyes. boys are lightweights.

Bert The tained ins position uniii ine end oi the home stretch when Forti'scue, who seemed to have plenty of reserve I force, challenged him lor first place. 'The two came down tile stretch neck i and neck. Whelan's speed was spent and he was forced to yield the place I I Oil that nor the pass point Ilelay rare. l.r.C.l yards Institute of Te'-hiioloyy defeated liiolMI. Time.

minutes 1- seeiimts. Kelay rare. l.Tdii) yards Itnston A. A. I.MarlitiB.

Mahimey, 'a well. Malum i New York A. I'. IDaisley. Wefers.

llenrKl. I. Time, .1 minutes seeomis. 40-Yanl diish Won by M. y.

willlama, Krnwii I 1 1 ersity seenml, M. p. White. Hi'owii I'nlveislty; third. W.

B. niton A. A. Time. seconds.

liiuli liia ille -u on Carl .1. Thoni-soii. liarlt.iniilli: S. Mnii.iv. Yolk A.

iliir.l. F. A. duly. I a 1 1 mmi Ii.

tied Flio liiug from Boston, February 3 Plans for the joint spring training lour between tha world's champion Huston Americans and the Brooklyn Nationals, contenders, in the last World's Series, were announced here tonight. The pitchers and catchors of the local club, in charge of John J. Barry, will h-HVH on March 3 for Hut i'p: ST VOll ATT F1VK Writing about his sojourn ut Hot Springs, Kbbcts writes as follows: "1 have been here almost three weeks, spending' a most strenuous time daily. routine has been: Mine at 6 a.m.; take hot bath in these wonderful waters for 25 minutes; then in hot room for i'" minutes'; cool oil under shower for 5 minutes; musfuse and electric treatment for 43 minutes; breakfast rt a o'clock; St 30 to 11:30, lioistback ruliiiK yes. I have learned to ride a nice, easy-going horse luncheon at goU, 18-holes, about 54 mill's chasing a little ball, from 1 i 0 to oiiiner at short walk after dinner; to bed.

so supposed, at 10. but I jtet to bed mole frequently after 11 than before: r.n-sou, that's the only time I have lo read the papers to bain what Is doing in the outside world und tit tend to my mail. strenuous day? Yes, and, believe me. I never feit letter in my life. I ve lost 10 pounds in weight, would have lost more but I in the dining room; caused, I pre; nine, by my hard daily work.

Iliwever, It is (loiiiu- me a world of cood If my ear would only stop buzzlny. I'ossibly it is improving, but so silently tint is not perceptible; certainly it is not worse. "I eNpecl to arrhe home IVb.u 12." and Mcored th.i game and save ib-fiati'd. Lino I'lnslli'i! J. asoti i 'n mi lit i lie.lilar.l Mfor 'to Fortescue.

1 lie hitter's ilisqimliliea-I linn, however, gave Whelan first I tinals anil six of the eight succeeded In landing the trophies In their re-spi'ciivi divisions. -sides Cardiner White, Kenneth MeCabc, Brooklyn, annexed the seel etary's trophy by defeating II. B. Keep. Onwentsia, in the third division, 3 and It.

A. Belle, Bay Shore, won the sixtlt trophy by beating ex-Senator Cliat'ie. Cooper, I lakla nd. and I me. I.

se'-oium, nuiallnif worWs ili.looi- honors. Summaries: ttr.t i ti' I i Ut.lmm AeU Till. I'csl of the I vrw I'eein it ShitniuHi, nn- -mlli' Pratt Institute scored an basketball victory over Field Marshall College of Lancaster, on the former's court last night score of 45 to 31). The local easy and by a colle- IV liy srroint. mis II illiiiien I ruuo le ,1 Htm.

1 d.i.lilini,- key riuii. nie IV. Itny. Ilostoli; Xeu i-r. .1 -W in nil.

llilnl. II: (vii. 111 111 I'l. Sl'l nll l. I'ei i i'Ii in nois A.

iliir.l. l.i. I roliegi'. Iin l.i -n, Hi' I Fi I i 11. Ian- in 1 lie HI 'I'liiu Murray.

gians outclassed score al half-time I f- Y. M. their rivals. The was to 13. k.

el.ll in, Ii, I'I'i-iilii lie I 'a in I' lr I "uiti nii'i'i J. 1 1. Kiinisey, Briniklin. seventh division, healing II. I klsv, Xew Haven, 3 and Portlier, limit Neck beat A.

Minmy fe i. Hutch. W. c. M.

I inul II. Inoa lliei.es: 1 1 fi el t.ll llilnl. F. S. Will 1 0 1 1 0 oil 1.

1 1 1 ill I The first exhibition game between (lie two clubs will be played at Hot Springs on March L'7. other games scheduled in the series are: at. Memphis. I'O. Little 30, Oklahoma City, SI.

and April 1. Kansas City. April 2, Davenport, Iowa; 3. Peoria, 4, Indianapolis, and 5, Lafayette. Bid.

shot; SlieUloii. I lain Nru llieilfd. I. nee. tioiin, t.aftviy.

prlnietnn o'ial in Y. A. IH It. mi. clean shot.

link yali: ix ikoxt. It. VVI'e I. C. S' Holds, Clou liidge.

In the sion. 3 and Commodori lenib divt- .1. T. Veil- 'l "I'll I Fln-lltoK tlrirlniiMI'h o'lli KOily, .1.1 Trrtl-fefiteil Tune, lie silo Ion. Brooklyn, lost to 'HI.

ill I. lllilllll' i 'il Y. i M'llllihq. millrs 1 Won le t. Hill I ll'll.

iinilil'm. Kiusk. Bochesti in the truth mi I down. C. It.

on I tnlnl. ltnri yaiil.ii. 1-ieile run 1 Ai.i.rlian A. I If. Is I se, I iJami.i 1 "I Xew Haven, February 3 Yale defeated Institute of Teihnology in Ice liucviivj her.

to ils it I l.elsy lure. 1 illltiirnl t'nll'-g teihlile tn-tliul 8 Boston will play the slit American Axsocla I line, linie, hi ti jluk April i am' Toledo Club Jiiyii In Toledo Il.lll.:. I'f l.i ial- 1 won in the e.Xir.i elr.ii:. defe Bru.vti, liu'iti. 2 uiui mtit.

to 1. I "I 1 1 1 Hell')' ruce, jsi'ls -JJilPin Ettr Acii-.