The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-16
Gossip Of the
Sporting World

The University of Michigan football
team will Not do its preliminary training
at Whitmore lake as heretofore, but in
stead will go to Mount Clemens. This
arrangement is mainly due to the fact
that the Mount Clemens Athletic asso-
citation has employed Dutch Ferbert and
Bin Allen to give its football team some
coaching, with the agreement that all
varsity players who may wish to re-
port may come there as the guests of the
association until college opens up. This
will prove a mutual advantage. as it
will give the Mount Clemens team some
idea of high class football and will af-
ford the varsity men opponents to line
UP against 1t is not expected that the
varsity players will show up before Sept.
l. Michigan has a hard schedule this
fall and will start out crippled with the
loss of Riley. Cunningham, l.. Baker and
France on the line. and also Half Back
Wildman, who has decided not to re-
turn to college.
A New York sportsman is at present
training a pair of antelopes in trotting
harness which he expects will considera-
bly, lower the worlds best trotting record.
The antelope has never been considered
seriously a racing machine, but those
familiar with them believe that they can
be controlled by careful training as well
as a horse and are capable of wonderful
bursts of speed.
The owner of the first team of racing
antelopes is Donald Burns who is IA
NOUS as an animal trainer of wide ex-
per.ence. Mr.. Burns is at present run
ming his trained anteopes on a track
near his home at Babylon, Long Island
and expects to have them in condition
TO take part in regular track racing
events some time this fall. When Mr..
Burns was seen last he expressed himself
as confident that his strange racers would
better the worlds trotting record of 2:03
by from to seconds.
1t has been found in training this pair
OF antelopes that their peculiar nervous
ness or wildness gives them an immense
amount of life or spirit on the race
course. The average antelope, if its
| training be commenced early enough, can
| be brought to mind the whip and rein
| when about two years old. and their rae
| ing life after that is about the same as
| that of horse. They run very low, as
| the expression goes. the body falling sew
| erai inches when they move at their
| best speed, while their long thin legs
| move with great regularity and even
ness.
| Their stride is somewhat different from
| that of a trotting horse, the step being
| slightly longer, but it is sufficiently ike
to allow them to enter a regular trOt-
| ting race. Another popularity of antel-
| opes is that they can only travel at their
| best pace for comparatively short dis
tances. In their natural wild state they
cannot sustain one Of their spurts OF
speed for more than half to three-quar-
| ters of a mile. and it is only by careful
| training that they can be made to cover
| a mile.
This is due to the fact that they are
naturally very short winded. and their
| muscles are too slight to withstand any
long exertion. Their speediness is due
| to the fact that they weigh from 800 to
500 pounds less than horse. while their
| legs, with comparatively the same reach
| of stride. are lighter and more nimble.
| The sight of a pair of antelopes with
| their slender bodies and long horns trot'
| ting peacefully about the country has
| naturally attracted a great deal OF at
| tertion. The residents of Babylon, l.. /
| have decided that this curious means oil
| CONVEYANCE is merely the freak of some
rich man, and the fact that they are &C
tralIy training to beat the worlds recort
with much promise OF success mas peer
kent secret.-Philadelph Times.
s.rThe skinner says in Town Topics;
"The showing made by Shamrock il
mot calculated to fill the hearts of Amerl
can yachtsmen with glee II we are l'
take the cable reports as authority Inc
| tea. caddy boat is a wonder. Ihere seems
| "a he a consensus of opinion that this is
| the case. and l am inclined to think thai
| the Irish boat will give us the best bat
| tie for Americas cup that We have eVel
| had, If the description of the shamror J.
which appeared in the London Daily Maj
las. Tuesday is correct, she is the mos
remarkable yacht that was ever huilt
| The Mail, l am informed. is Sir Ihofha'
| Lipton's official organ, and some Coior
| lent to this story by the publication there
| in of the alleged secret of the Shamrock :
| construction, hitherto so carefully guard
ed. According to the Mail article th'
boa: is a swan and hardly leaves rlpp4'