The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-22
Letters Received Con
corning the Last
Race.
a Military Entertainment
Boys brigade Of Ihe Congregational
Church TO Give One ON April ,
Other News.

To The EditOr-When one reads in tn
papers OF how. the authorities OF the un
versities and colleges Of the country hay
recently been forced To take a san,
against the professionalism and unfair
dealing that has leaked into college ath
eetic contests, and OF the aim in all anna
teur circles TO discOuntenance CROWN,
tendency toward professionalism in IT
worst forms, and of the vigorous meae
ures now being adopted by all athlete
associations and unions to root out thu
evil tendency, one cannot but notice will
something akin to disgust, after reading
the account Of the race at the Park ic'
rink between Thompson and Dayey, al
the state of degradation sport seems to
DE in here in Calumet.
Professionalism, OF course, in one sense
Us perfectly legitimate. although it is of a
lower order than amateur sport, but the
fact that some OF Cabinets so.called
sportsmen deliberately tried secretly to
use the meet between Tn ,mpson and
Davey to make money at the expense OF
Others, who knew nothing of the trans
action, shows the rankest kind of spirit.
Such tactics are the tactics OF 'low-down
thugs" of the worst sporting quarters,
and public opinion ought not to tolerate
ut in Calumet.
Now that the athletic association of
the Y. NJ. CA. has brought about 40 much
interest in amateur athletics. there is a
good field open to 1t to try to keep sport
ON good, clean basis, for there is moth
ing better in the world than a square,
manly, athletic contest.
HENRY s. Cotton, Jr.
1t looks to the News that our profes-
sional sports il they have any regard for
their own characters should take steps,
similar to those often taken by sporting
clubs, by which persons guilty Of such
practices as Thompson claims were re-
sorted to in his late race are for time.
at least ruled off the courses and not al
lowed to take part in any race or con-
test until the disqualification is removed
1t would look that our real sportsmen
should make some enquiry into this mat
Ter and the boys. who now appea~ to
think themselves smart for the part they
took in the would he cheat, she uld be
shown up so that hereafter they may
know the difference between smartness
aud dishonesty.
Ii is reported that one OF the induce
nents for Thompson to lose the race was
the offer OF an annual ticket for the Y. NJ.
q. A; if the boys who are blamed are
VI embers of that association there surely
is some committee whose duty it certain
sy would be to severely reprimand them
for their conduct.
1t would not be proper t, close these
remarks without saying that since they
were written very rude and unbecom-
with the following note:
Mr.. Mackenzie:
by kindly allowing space to the en-
closed you will confer lasting favor on
Will MONROE,
On behalf OF ALBERT DAvEY.
believing that Davey was the proper
person to defend himself young Monroe's
letter would have passed with the mere
comment, that the offer to fake the race
is claimed by young Monroe to have
come from Thompson. The fact that
such proposition was made, it does
not matter by whom, only shows what
a rotten state Of affairs exists in these
sporting (?) circles.
When writing the above Mr.. Dayey, Sr.
appeared with a letter from his son; he
did not know ANYTHING about young
Monroe's letter which had no doubt been
concOcted by some older and perhaps
musical sportsman e? Young Dayey
claims "he does not deserve the false
statements made against him by Mr.
ThonDson and his associates" and
claims that at the first part OF the sea
son Thompson's hacker went to him and
sald" The only way you and Thompson can
make money out of 1t is to scheme; Thorn
con will do it il you will" Young Davey
claims he paid no attention to his taking
idea and says out Of the thirty-two races
he has run, he always did the best he
could and tried to win every race. The
statement OF Thompson and the positive
denial OF its truth by Davey are now
made known and the public will have to
decide this weighty matter. The fact,
however, re nains that a number OF young
men had a considerable amount OF money,
more than is claimed they are generally
in possession OF, to wager on the result,
W ich is suspected would not have been
the case unless they had some good or
bad reason for believing they had cinch
on the result. OF course Dayey might
bayo baau parfocfIv honaaf in his on
deayor to win and might have won the
race not really kno wing anything about
any arrangement with his hackers and
Thompsnn-even II one had been made.
1.-THE above was written for Saturdays
Issue, but owing to other matters inter-
fering was left over until today