UNION FOOTBALL PLAYER PIES AFTER N. Y, IL GAME. INJURIES TO HEAD FATAL? CHANCELLOR MAC CRACKEN CALLS CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS. Harold Moore, right halfback on the Unie College football team, which played New-Yor University yesterday afternoon, died in Fort ham Hospital at -5-40 last night from injuri. ! received in the game. The cause of death wa given as cerebral hemorrhage. His father, wh was at the game, accompanied him to the hos pital, and was at his bedside when he died. The accident occurred in the first half of th game. Moore was ihe star player on the Ohio team and had been doing splendid work in ever play. The game was close. Scarcely anythin but mass plays were used by either team. Moor dived into one of these to break it up. and whe: the referee's whistle blew he was under bot! teams, unconscious. _Dr. Chester F. Whitney, who looks after th physical condition of the New-York team, am Dr. John P. Munn, a spectator of the game tushed onto th. field and tried to restore Moor to consciousness. Seeing; that his condition wa serious, Dr, Whitney ordered an ambulance. K S. Darjing offered his automobil* to tha physi eians, and Moore was put in it and carried t< Fordham Hospital without regard for the speet regulations. T'i? r-oc_-.T-s there did everrsrhb.*- ir the-;- po?"-1-? to save the young man's life, bui til their efforts -jere in vain, and he died with? out regaining consciousness. Moore's head was injured in the game betwecr Wesleyan and Union a month ago. It wa. thought he had completely recovered. CHANCELLOR MACCRACKEN ACTS. Chancellor MacCracken, of New-York Univer? sity, was informed of the tragedy last night by a Tribune reporter, while visiting his son-in-law, F. E. Stockwell, in Beverly, N. J. The Chan? cellor immediately sent the following telegram to President Eliot of Harvard University: President Charlea W. Eliot. Harvard Univer ity, Cambridge, Mass.: May I not request, in view of the tragedy on Ohio Field to-day. that you will invite a meet? ing of university and college presidents to un? dertake the reform or abolition of Toot bail1. HEXRT M. MACCRACKEN. The Chancellor said: I am Inexpressibly pained and shocked to hear of Mr. Moore's death. I will say that I have, within the last thirty days, said to members of the university faculty that I have only waited Tor some of the older and larger universities to lead, to favor either the abolition or the com? plete reform of football. T repeated this at the last meeting of the faculty. I have no.t felt it to be the duty of New-York University to take the lead in this matter. We have dis? couraged any attempt to play football on a great scale here, and have never allowed the desire to ..in to affect our requirement of mod? eration. Following the custom, the Alumni Association of Union College entertained the football team at a dinner in the Caf? Boulevard last nifiht. The New-York University game has been the last one of the season on the Union College schedule for several years, and the players have broken training, and had a general good time on the night following the last gam?. Instead of the usual hilarity Which attends the aiTair it was a gloomy and solemn occasion. The men talked In subdued tones, and as soon as they had gone through the formality of eat? ing the company disbanded. COMPANIONS EXPRESS SADNESS. G. A. Vedder. manager of the Union College team, was seen at the Caf? Boulevard last night. He eaid: The fellows feel so deeply over the death of poor Moore that they can't say a word. It is such a blow to us that we cannot realize that he is dead. I was standing on the side Unes when the play that proved the death of Moore was started. He ran at the man who had the ball and tackled him very high. At the same instant a Union man tackled The runner from the rear, with the result that both the New-York University man and the Union man fell on Moor?. We knew as soon as the play was stopped that Moor? was badlv hurt, for his head hit the ground with a great deal of force. It was an entirely accidental play, and no one was to blame. G. Shutler, the fullback on the Union team. who played beside Moore, described the accident exactly as did Vedder. Harold Ranson Moore was twenty years old. He lived in Ogdensburg. N. Y. He was a sopho? more and was taking an engineering course. This was his second year on the 'varsity eleven. Ho was also a member of the basket-ball and hockey teams of his class. He was a member of the Phi Delta Thetf. fraternity, and of the Tiger's Eye. a freshman society. His ability as a football player won him many friends almost as soon as he entered college, and he was one of the most popular men there. Marshall Mills, Princeton. '02. head coach of the New-York University team, said last night: A signal was given by New-York University for the right end to tarry the ball through left tackle. As he came around and was tackled by Moore, a Union man who attempted to help Moore stop the play struck Moore on the chin with his knee, which resulted in Moore's death. -C. C. Cragin. captain of the New-York Uni? versity team, said: Moore was forbidden to play football by his physic'-.?- o month ago on account of a weak hefcH. _'? .1? .. . ?.._.: .. S?*?-- ,-hysb_a_ " .rid??? tion would have finished th-? g->T>>_*. ?ven if he hud met with the parne accident. Both Mills and Cragin were deeply affected by the tragedy. They both agreed, however, that football should not be held responsible for th_ itcoident. William B. Cragin, father of Captain Cragin. .a?' the game. When told that Moore had died he expressed deep sorrow, but immediately said: Moore tackled his opponent too high. After the accident a Union College professor told me that Mooro had been injured in a football game three weeks ago and that he had a clot of blood on his brain. Coroner'? Physician Curtain, of The Bronx, performed an autopsy on Moore's body lagt night. He decided that Moore's death was the r*__jult of cerebral hemorrhagos. with concussion or the brain. William . G. Moore, the young man's rather, -.*{._> ps-eeent at the auivpsy and obtained permission to have the body transferred to Ogdenidurg. I., Y., this morning. DIES IN FOOTBALL GAME. Indiana Player's Heart Punctured by Broken Rib. Rockville. Ind.. Nov. 2.5? Carl Osborne. eight? een years old. was instantly- killed in a foot? ball game between Marshall and Bellmore high schools at Bellmore to-day. He staggered after a tackle and was picked up dead. One rib had been broken and driven through the heart. WHEELER ATTACKS CAMP Says College Presidents Will Revise Football Rules Themselves. Chicago, Nov. 25.?A dispatch to "The Record Herald" from San Francisco saya that President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California- in an address to the students yester? day diacuseed football., and used very plain words. He said: The game has outgrown its intentions. The trouble with it is it is too highly developed and specialized for the average student. Men have to be in an artificial state vf preservation to play the game as It is played to-day. I never objected to it on the ground that it was rough, but that it is not within the sphere of usefulness for the ordinary student. The great trouble is that tha game is in the hands of a self-appointed, self-organized committee of rules. I refer to Mr. Camp and his associates. Thev have promised reforme, but have done nothing Now tlia college presidents have lost patience. We will revise the rules ourselves. and the changes will be radical. THE LIBERAL SPLIT. Rosebery Refuses to Follow Lead of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. London. Nov. 25-Speaking at Bodmin Corn? wall, tonight. Lord Rosebery repudiated the lead taken by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. leader of the Liberal party, in favor of home rule for Ireland, during his speech at Stirling on Thursday night, thus emphasizing the split in the Liberal party. Speakinp deliberately. Lord Rosebery said he objected to raising the banner of home rule, not only on account of high constitutional objections and also on ac? count of the welfare of the Irish people, but mainly because it Unpaired the unity of the free trade party and indefinitely postponed tasks of social and educational reform. "I state emphatically and explicitly." he con? clude, "that I cannot serve under that ban? nes*'' PRICE FORCED TO COVER. Bear Cotton Leader Unable to Withstand the Bull Attack. Theodore H. Price, the cotton operator, who has been leading the bear side in the fight against Joseph H. Hoadley and others, princi? pally cotton planters, astonished Wall Street after the close of the market yesterday by is? suing the following statement: Pursuing the policy of frankness which I en? deavor to follow in regard to my operations In cotton. I desire to state that I have to-day covered the bulk of my short Interest in the market. My reason for taking this action is my fear that the forthcoming estimate of the Agricultural Department will indicate a crop of under ten million bales. While I personally be? lieve In a much larger crop than this, and while all my study of the question support^ that be? lief, it la Idle to ignore the fact that the size of the cotton crop has to-day become a political and sectional Issue, rather than a statistical or commercial fact, and political forces ar? not amomr thoae that I care to canten! with.
