tion officials had not countersigned the little expedition into Florida, the amateur status of neither Mr. Travis nor Mr. Lockwood could now be legally assailed, because the rule passed subsequently forbidding such trips is not retroactive. Therefore, let's have done with it, or, if club committees seek diversion, I suggest they draw up a memorial to be presented to the present official incumbents of the U. S. G. A. when they retire this spring. Surely nothing less substantial could express the real feeling with which sportsmen will view their official passing!

New
Blood
for the
United
States
Golf
Association.

The annual meeting of the United States Golf Association will be coming off shortly; if any of the delegates has had his ear near the ground, he has heard enough to make him at least thoughtful. Usually the delegates take nothing seriously save themselves, but this year it behooves them to give the golfing outlook deep consideration. The truth is, that the U. S. G. A. has become little else than a figurehead, and not an especially pleasing one at that; it has degenerated into a close corporation which exacts a $100 annual fee of the twenty-six clubs permitted to have a voice in the direction of its affairs, and $25 from one hundred and seventy others for the privilege of attending the yearly love feast and sending entries to the championship, which the Association is good enough to allow played under its rules. Beyond granting dates for the championship events, the U. S. G. A. appears to consider it has no duties, and is the most indifferent body that ever governed a sport. Only the high average class of the men interested in the game has kept it in line and moving. If the Association is to attempt national control, it should be national, and diligent and alert, instead of provincial and supine and indifferent as it has been in 1901.

The president should be chosen with great care. He should be strong, broad and determined-a man like Mr. W. B. Thomas, who, unfortunately, declined another term of office last year. The U. S. G. A. needs a president who does not sit passively awaiting things to come his way, but is vigilant and thoroughly in sympathy with keeping the game healthful. The administration of 1901 reflects no credit upon either the officers or upon the Association. New blood is very much needed and imperative if the U. S. G.

A. is to thrive and fulfil its destiny. Otherwise its days and usefulness are numbered. There is no reason why an amateur golfer, member of a good class club, should not be eligible to compete for the national championship. But I see no reason why, in order to be eligible, his club should belong to the U. S. G. A. That would be a cumbersome arrangement. There are fifteen hundred golf clubs in this country, and it would make an unwieldy business, indeed, if they all belonged to the U. S. G. A.

Organization

on

Geographical Lines.

The solution of the problem is organization on geographical lines, which has been making headway, despite the cold water thrown on it in New York and in Boston. There should be sectional organizations taking in the New England States, for example, the Middle Atlantic, Southern Atlantic, Alleghany district, Middle West, Middle Northwest, Middle South, Southwest, Rocky Mountain district, Northwest, Pacific Coast, etc., etc. Each should have its organization, officers, dates of championships, and have entire control of its especial district. With such organization perfected, as it well can be, if given official encouragement, the delegates to the annual meeting of the U. S. G. A. should be from the sectional bodies, and not directly from clubs, and their votes govern for the general welfare of the game. This would return the Association about as much money as it now receives in dues from its allied and associate members, or at least as much as it would need to conduct the annual championship; and beyond all else, it would give the Association a real national significance which now it has in name only.

Something of this character must be done else the U. S. G. A. will lose both prestige and members, for a great majority of the latter are becoming impatient under the toll exacted for the mere privilege of sitting by and listening to the metropolitan solons of this body. Besides, the western clubs, which are many in number and of increasing strength, must have recognition, and on a different basis from that which now is only possible.

Another thing the U. S. G. A. should do at its forthcoming meeting is to appoint a committee whose province it will be to interpret rules and unravel golfing legislative problems.

Official Golf Balls.

There is bound to be some discussion as to the advisability of making a choice of an official ball between the solid gutta percha and the rubber filled, but it seems to me as if at this time sufficient test had not been made for such a step; and such a step must not be taken hastily, for if choice fall upon the newer ball, it may mean the rearranging of golf courses. In England the gutta is still preferred, and it does appear as though we are yet in the experimental stage, and should make haste slowly.

Golfing Elect of 1901.

It is suggestive of golf's development beyond the present constitution of the U. S. G. A., that

many sectional and state leagues already give annual championship tournaments. Purely as a matter of record, if for no other reason it will be interesting to publish here the names of those golfers who won the championships of 1901.

National amateur, Walter J. Travis, Garden City Club; Western, Phelps B. Hoyt, Glenview; Metropolitan, Findlay S. Douglas; Philadelphia, W. Poultney Smith, Huntingdon Valley; Boston, L. P. Myers, Yale; All-Florida, Dr. L. L. Harban; Southern California, Walter Fairbanks; All-California, J. A. Folger, Oakland; Inter-collegiate (Eastern), Herbert Lindsley, Harvard; Interscholastic, Pierre A. Proal, Blake; Central New York, J. G. Averil, Rochester; Lower Lakes League, Walter Powers, Rochester; Canada, W. F. H. Kerr, Toronto; Trans-Mississippi Association, John Stuart, Des Moines; Connecticut, Charles H. Seeley, Wee Burn; Wisconsin, Hamilton Vose, Milwaukee; Colorado, Frank L. Woodward, Overland Park; Maine, Harris B. Fenn, Spring; New Jersey, Allan Kennaday, Montclair; Iowa, Robert H. Finkbine, Des Moines; Indiana, L. Lillard.

Poland

Among the notable tournament winners of the year were, A. G. Lockwood, William Holabird, Louis Livingston, Jr., E. M. Byers, C. Hitchcock, Jr., C. B. Macdonald, W. C. Carnegie; R. C. Watson, Jr., F. R. Cooley, T. T. Reid, Howard Giffen, Jasper Lynch, Arden Roberts.

Of cup winners, among whom are some of the best players in the country, were Walter Egan (runner-up Amateur Championship), Howard A. Colby, Percy R. Pyne, 2d. William Waller, C. M. Hamilton, John Reid, Jr., A. M. Brown, H. K. Hill, W. Hale

Thompson, W. L. Glenny, Daniel Chauncey, Howard F. Whitney, A. DeWitt Cochrane, F. O. Reinhart.

Excellent
Dog Show

by the Ladies' Association.

Great credit is due the Committee for the success of the Ladies' Kennel Association's first show; and to none of its members more than to Miss M. K. Bird, who though not much en evidence about the judging rings, fulfilled her arduous and important duties in the council room with admirable diligence and good judgment. It was a strong committee, which, besides Miss Bird, included Mrs. James L. Kernochan, Mrs. J. J. Vatable and Mrs. D. W. Evans; I may add an exceptional four, who distinguished themselves from the average committee of the gentle sex-and from a majority of those composed of the opposite sex for that matter-by doing rather than by talking. And it was a good show, infinitely better than the one in Philadelphia the week or so previous, and up to any in the country except that of the Westminster Kennel Club-which of course is the first one of America. That the Ladies' Association (why I wonder when the women organize for one purpose or another is the word "ladies" always used instead of the much more significant "women,") cleared expenses in the week preceding Christmas, promises great success for their 1902 show-which will be held the latter part of October.

As was to be expected the showing was strongest in terriers and spaniels, including toys and bulls, and in fox and Irish I have seen no exhibition which averaged a higher quality. The bulldog exhibit was weakened materially by the refusal of the Bulldog Club to show under the judging of Charles H. Mason, whose appointment was one of the few mistakes the Association made. It is undeniable that Mr. Mason's judging has given much dissatisfaction, and that the intimate association of his magazine business with his official duties, has made an unfavorable impression among dog fanciers. Whether or no this does Mr. Mason injustice I do not pretend to say, but I do say that a solicitor of kennel advertisements and a bench show judge should emphatically not be one and the same individual.

Of hounds the showing was poor, both as to numbers and average quality, the bloodhounds being distinctly bad in type and

condition. We do not appear to be even a good second to England in this kind of dog. The great Danes although few in numbers were high in quality as they always are where the Montebello Kennels exhibit; this kennel has not only the best Great Dane blood in America, but is breeding the highest type of puppy; and that is more creditable than buying prize winners. The toy classes were all very full and most of them very good, and pleasing to those who care for themthe notable entries being Nubian Rebel, a Pomeranian, and Rollo, a Blenheim.

Encourage the Beagle.

There was quite a lot of beagles, some of them sweet, and some weedy. The tendency among

native breeders appears to be turning out a bigger, coarser dog-one that stands a perceptible bit higher than the English type, and is not so thoroughbred looking, however good strain it may actually be. The judge appeared to be somewhat confused by the two types, and not at all certain as to which one he preferred, either in or out of the official ring. Even though there may be slight variation in type I am glad to note the increased number of beagles which are annually being bred in America. If ever there was a sweet, companionable sporting dog, it is this creature of the silvery voice. We are only just beginning to really appreciate the worth of the beagle, and the trials last autumn showed a great advance in the quality of the entries and in their handling. There is not much better sport than a run after beagles, and I am glad to note the new packs that are being established. Yale has recently set up a beagle pack, and the good example at New Haven should be followed by the students of Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania and the others, because aside from the sport, it is a developer of just that department of athletics, cross country running, in which we are weakest. By all means let the beagle make his way encouraged on all sides. He is worth loving on his own account, and, moreover we need him.

But the dogs which loom most American prominently in one's memory of Bred the show are Mallwyd Sirdar, a Dogs. superb English setter recently imported, by Mr. G. C. Thomas; Champion Endcliffe Bishop, a fine field spaniel from the Swiss Mountain Kennels; Abertay, the

Craigdanock Kennels Scotch terrier; Mrs. James L. Kernochan's Irish terrier Inverness Shamrock; Mrs. R. F. Mayhew's fox terrier Hands Up, and the black poodle Milo-Fils, with which Mrs. Henry G. Trevor won the Ballyhoo Bey Challenge Cup offered by Mr. William C. Whitney for the best American-bred dog of any breed shown by a member of the L. K. A. Perhaps it is because poodles do not appeal to me, but certainly my choice for this cup would have been either Hands-Up or Inverness Shamrock or both in preference to Milo-Fils, which certainly was not so well turned out as either of the others, and nothing like so well groomed as the poodles on the Continent.

Not only was Inverness Shamrock well turned out, but all of Mrs. Kernochan's kennel were shown in splendid condition, as was also the champion Hands Up; the amateur dog fanciers will do well to take a few hints from the workmanlike and thoroughly sporting methods of these two ladies, Mrs. Kernochan and Mrs. Mayhew, who in my judgment have made the two notable successes of dog breeding in America.

For me, the dogs of the show were Mallwyd Sirdar, Inverness Shamrock, Hands Up, and a sweet beagle of the Windholme Kennels, the name of which I cannot recall.

Speaking generally the condition of the dogs averaged fair and in many cases was exceedingly poor; it is one direction in which American fanciers need plenty of coaching.

The mastiffs and St. Bernards were indifferent in average quality; and that grand animal, the Newfoundland, represented by only one or two good ones. The mastiff I observe is losing type; his face is getting to be that of a big bulldog. And it is not a change for the better.

Cutts of Harvard a Professional.

The recent disclosures of O. F.
Cutts' professionalism

startling; not so much because he had successfully concealed his offense, as that in full knowledge of the seriousness of the deception to two great universities, he should have wished to do so. Knowing he had been paid money for giving boxing lessons, and that he was therefore ineligible to any amateur game, he not only pledged his word falsely to the Harvard Athletic Committee, but allowed that Committee to pledge its word falsely to Yale. 'Twas a pretty stiff price to pay

for the pleasure of helping Harvard win its most important football game. There it is -the curse of the frenzy to win-to win, win, win, win, that is hammered into the heads of our college boys, until there is no love of the game for its own sake left in them. This is why I am irrevocably opposed to preliminary training seasons, to professional coaches, and to all the cursed "business" of college sport, which neutralizes its wholesome, strenuous value, and makes for that madness of sport for the sake of winning rather than sport for the thrill of a game honorably and vigorously contested.

There is no comparison, as I note has been unwisely made, between the "Cutts case" and the "Glass case;" the amateur status of Mr. Glass was never doubted; his was merely a question of complying with the one year residence rule, which Yale, by withdrawing him from her important games, very rightly insisted he should respect.

There is of course no doubting the good faith of the Harvard Athletic Committee, but the Cutts denouement proves again the old saying, that where there is so much smoke there is sure to be some fire, and suggests to the Harvard and to all other college athletic committees, that a student whose eligibility is not perfectly clear should be denied the privilege of representing his university; it is infinitely better to lose, even unjustly on occasion, an important player from a team, than to run the chance of besmirching the fair name of the university.

Harvard must now make the amende honorable. Whether or no she would have beaten Yale without Cutts, does not enter into the question-personally I believe Harvard would have come out of the game victorious, though with perhaps a lower score had Lawrence been played at tackle. but that is neither here nor there; the fact is she grossly violated the rules by playing a professional on her team, hence the Yale and the Pennsylvania game records must be cancelled and the trophy footballs returned. Harvard cannot afford another mistake by failing to make her reparation prompt and complete.

Harvard's margin of superiority was so large that her ranking is not affected by this unhappy conclusion to an otherwise highly creditable season-but I withdraw Cutts from the All-America Eleven of 1901. This will send Bunker (West Point) from

the substitutes to the regular line, and I choose Goss of Yale to supply the vacancy left by Bunker's promotion.

American

Polo Team to Play at Hurlingham.

At last we are to have a return match for that polo Challenge Cup, which a Hurlingham team won from us at Newport in 1886. The team which lost that day was composed of Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., still rated among our best though he has not played for several years, W. K. Thorn, who spends most of his time in France hunting and automobiling, R. R. Belmont, who died a few years after the match, and Foxhall Keene, then a Harvard freshman, but now the most skilled all-round sportsman in America.

We were very new at the game then, and were overwhelmed by the team work of the Englishmen who were ably captained by Mr. (now Sir) John Watson; and though our improvement has been very great, team play still remains the most formidable factor with which our representatives will have to contend on the Hurlingham field next May. And yet I am not so sure the English rules, under which the match is to be played, will not prove even more disconcerting, because under these rules are allowed the hooking of mallets and offside play-both strange to the American game. Despite the handicaps, however, my faith in the American four's winning, is very great. Our players are cleverer, think and act faster, and our ponies are quicker and handier on the whole.

The team will be captained by Mr. Foxhall Keene, the first player of America, Messrs. J. M., Jr., and Lawrence Waterbury, R. L. Agassiz and John E. Cowdin-will supply the remaining three members; when finally chosen the team will be the very strongest America could muster; and Keene, Agassiz and Cowdin have played on the other side and therefore encountered the offside and hooking mallets style of game. Keene and J. M. Waterbury are rated at 10 goals each on the American Polo Association handicap list, Cowdin and L. Waterbury at 9 and Agassiz at 8.

Twenty-three ponies have already been shipped to England, and these represent the very cream of polo horseflesh, Messrs. Clarence H. Mackay, George Gould, H. P. Whitney and A. G. Vanderbilt having most generously and with praiseworthy sportsmanship contributed from their fine stables.

It seems to be a fact that in the great effort England is making to furnish her troops in Africa with remounts, she is not looking our way for any very notable part of the supply for which the horse-breeding districts of Europe are being drawn upon. With all the facilities we have for raising cavalry horses, yet it is true our own troops are not supplied with an animal averaging so high as used in almost any European service. We export nearly four million dollars worth of horses, but they are largely draught animals. In Europe, where are forty-three million horses of all kinds, or twice as many horses and mules as are to be found in America, breeding cavalry horses is a tremendous industry. Russia, of course, raises more than any other country, AustriaHungary being next, but none are exported. Yet despite the extent of the industry, the European demand greatly exceeds the supply.

A great opportunity is thus lost by American stock raisers who have never appeared to think there is money in breeding the better grade saddle horse, in the very face of the fact that prices for the really good grades of horses have been rising steadily for ten years, while prices for the second and third grade animals have barely held. There is money for the American breeders that will devote themselves to raising only first class saddle horses suitable for cavalry. After viewing the class for horses "suitable for cavalry mounts" at the last New York horse show, no one will deny that we are a long way behind the European standard.

The sale at the Garden after the show proved that, notwithstanding the automobile, there is a continued demand for really good driving horses.

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asked the questions, in a recent paper before the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, "Can the mosquito acquire the infectious agent only from man? would the mere removal of all cases of malaria from a given region eliminate all source of infection?" He answers by saying that the evidence which we now have tends to favor an affirmative reply. Are we, then, to assume," he says, "that, in a wild and sparsely populated tropical region an intermediate part must always be played by man? This seems, at first, hard to believe. And yet it would be rash to express oneself too positively before careful investigations have been made with this point in view. It is often surprising to find how firmly baseless impressions become fixed upon our minds."

An Interesting Experiment

at Albion.

That is an interesting and important experiment which Albion College is making in financing college athletics. And it seems to be also a successful one, for since its adoption, Albion has wiped out an old debt, gained (as a gift) a fine field, which it has equipped from current funds; has employed a permanent Physical Director, who holds rank as a member of the faculty; and has won the Michigan Intercollegiate baseball and football championship. The plan, as they have carried it out, appears to be ideal in securing the best results in athletic administration, and in avoiding politics. Briefly, the plan consists of an Association which every student joins, and pays $3 a year; there is no admission fee to games charged members, and the income of this Association supports the athletics of the college. Legislation is in the hands of a Board of Control, which is made up of, five elected by the students, two by the faculty, and one by the Board of Trustees.

For small institutions it appears to be an excellent arrangement.