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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-10
No Champion in 90.

Cornell mas beaten Princeton and
Yale has lost to Columbia; Pennsyl-
vania tied Chicago, and Lafayette was
victor over Cornell; Yale tied Har-
ward. and TO add to the list, Prince
ton has triumphed over the Ellis.
There really is no champion team
this year. Princeton is urging it's
claims because it won from Yale and
Yale tied Harvard. which beat Penn
sylvania AS it stands Princeton has
been defeated, and no team in that
condition can have an undisputed right
to first honors. OF course it beat Yale,
which now has two defeats and one
tie game to its credit-not a very cred
liable record for a first class team
but could the Tigers win from Har-
ward? Cornell, if it had beaten Lafay-
cite and should end the season by a
victory at Philadelphia, would have the
best claim to the eastern champion
ship. Lafayette has won from Penn
sylvania and defeated Cornell, but the
former looked very like an accident,
and the latter was only by goal
kick after a touchdown against Grip
pied team, so that does not seem to en-
title it to first place, even though it's
record has been of the best. AS it
stands Harvard is the only unbeaten
team
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Yale has played Princeon 23 times,
the teams having met every year since
1876. OF the games played Yale has
won 10, Princeton has won six; in 1881
the game resulted in tie, the score
standing to 0. According to the rules
in vogue at the time. the games in IT,
10 and 80 were draws. Following is a
list of. the games played, with the re-
suits:
1s76-Yale 2 goals, Princeton 0.
1S77-Yale 2 touchdowns, Princeton 0.
1S7S-Princeon 1 goal, Yale 0.
1S79-Princeton safeties, Yale 2 safe
ties.
1sso--Princeon ii safeties. Yale 5
safeties.
1SS1-Yale 0, Princeton 0.
1sS2-Yale 2 goals, l safety; Prince
ton ! goal, / safety.
1SS3-Yale l goal, Princeton,0
1ss4-Yale 1 goal, Princeton / touch
down.
1ss5-Princeton goal from touchdown,
Yale 1 goal from field.
1SS6-Yale / touchdown, Princeton O..
1sS7-Yale goals. Princeton 0.
1S88-Yale 2 goals, Princeton 0.
1SS9--PrincetDn 1 goal, 1 touchdown;
Yale 0.
1s9o-Yale 80, Princeton 0.
ls91-1ale goals, 2 touchdowns
Princeton 0.
Ioo-- L are SOdlS, TFllCelol v.
1S93-Princeton l goal, Yale 0.
1S94-Yale "a, Princeton 0.
1S95-Yale 20, Princeton 10.
1S96-Princeton "a, Yale 6.
1S97-Yale 6, Princeton 0.
1S9S-Princeton 6, Yale 0.
1S99-Princeton II, Yale 10.
"A peculiar fact in relation to the
deal whereby the tiremakers in the
cycle trust were swallowed by the Flint
rubber trust" reports the New York
Sun, is that while the bicycle men are
bound not to make any tires they are
not on the other hand obliged to buy
them of the Rubber Goods Manufac-
turing company. In this particular the
deal would seem to be one offering a
big loophole to the cycle makers, but
the spirit of the deal will be observed,
and riders who have found wheel max
ers eguipping their machines with GER
tain tires and advocating them will
probably find the same cycles htted
with the same tires as previously. Inc
technieality, however, will enable the
cvcle makers who desire a change to
make it. At any rate, the privilege per-
mits of an open competition in the
market. AS tires are the most costly
adjunct to bicycle and have to be
renewed more often than any other
part, the shifts of the market should
be quite as interesting to the general
run of cyclists as the changes in the
cycle trade itself"
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Corbett and Jeffries,

What chance, if any, will Corbett
have with Jeffries? The champion in
his last fight with Sharkey was far from
being in the pink of condition. AS a
matter Of fact, hew as not within rs
per cent. of the trim he was in when he
defeated Fitzsimmona Has he deterio-
rated physically, or was his lack of con-
dition due, as Billy Delaney alleged, to
improper methods of training? He has
great recuperative power and he is so
young that he may round to next time
and toe the scratch las fit as a fiddle"
Then, again, he may not. as many old
timers do not think that a man of his
loose build and soft fiber will be long
lived in athletic ability Time alone
can tell which of these opinions is right
Meanwhile there is no reason for
thinking that either man isn't on the
level or that either will not do his very
best to win when they meet.
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The Poes of Princeton,

There has always been Poe on the
Princeton football team. Arthur Poe.
whose goal from field defeated Yale,
Is the fifth successive brother to bring
honor to Old Nassau. The first of the
football Poes was S. johnson Poe OF
the class of 1884. He played right half
back on the Varsity team of 1882
The second Poe in the line was Ed
gar Allen, named after his great poet
ic relative. He was small in stature,
his playing weight being 1872 pounds,
He was captain of the Varsity eleven
that defeated Yale by a score of 10 to
0 in 1889. He also captained the team
in the following year when Yale won.
Edgar Allen Poe played in quarter
back position.
John P. Poe, ir., took his place on the
team of 1892 and was a brilliant half
back. He, too, was light, his weight be-
ing only 13S pounds. He has since been
of great value to Princeton as a coach.
Nelson Poe was on the scrub or
varsity for the four years he attended
the university. He put up an equally
brilliant game a quarter back and half
! back.
Arthur Poe continued the line, which
has heen practically unbroken from
lSH1 to the present time In his fresh
| man year he played so acceptably on
| the scrub that the following year he
! was made substitute on the varsity.
! He won fame in the Princeton-Y Yale
! game last year by capturing the ball
| When IL vas in dangerous proximity to
| the Tigers goal and running almost the
length OF the gridirOn for a touchdown
that brought victory to his team.
! There Is Vet another Poe at Prince
| ton, He is Gresham Poe. and he gives
! promise of holding up his end in the
football line, The statistics of the Poe
family in Princeton football follows:
| S. Johnson Poe, class 1884, height, =
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To Change the Form.

Several of the leading officials OF the
League of American Wheelmen are
seriously considering the matter of so
changing the form of the organization
as to make it more national in char
acter. The idea prevalent is that much
of the strength of the league Is wasted
because of the many subdivisions OF
working energy in it, and those who are
of this mind would like to nave ie-
orranization providing for an associa-
tion more on the lines of many of the
large secret societies, the difference be-
ing that there will be no secrets. 1t
is probable there will be many sugges-
lions on this line at the coming as
sembly, and if the idea meets with
sufficient favor to warrant EXTENDED
discussion another will be added to the
many important topics that Will be
discussed before the annual meeting
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sntjsfactory to the Clubs.

The National Cycling association
maintains that it's first outdoor season
has been satisfactory to clubs, track
owners and riders. The amateur feat
ure of the sport has received care
full attention and common sense rules
have enabled this branch to flourish
in a very successful manner, especially
in cities and towns which were unable
to secure professional attractions. AS
a natural sequence in the order or pro-
erosion there will be the usual number
of fast amateur graduates to the pro-
fessional ranks in 1900.
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Gimm in Training.

Louis Gimm, the 24-hour winner IN
New York last season, has started
training on the road around Pittsbarg.
Gimm says that regardless of his almost
fatal accident at San Francisco ne IS
now in finer condition than ever. Pro-
vided he succeeds in mating for the
six-day race, he will be a competitor,
and will also follow the indoor circuit
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Nancy for the Racers.

The $4,000 purse for the six-day race
at Madison Square garden next month
has been rearranged in such manner
that the individual efforts of each COM
petitor will bring more substantial re-
ward. The sum to be given the ind-
yidual competitors will be $1,000, tho
sum to the teams $4,000, making the
total the same
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given in his favor as against the player
or captain who INDUCES his bad temper
by kicking. Whenever you see player
or captain who has made misplays and
who wants to throw the onus of 1t on
the umpire, you will find your stupid,
short-sighted kicker at work, sure. some
of these days, when the game gets out
of the ruts of one kind or another it
now wallows in, we will see the folly OF
kicking done AWAY with"
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The Umpire Problem.

The umpire question is still a leading
one for baseball newspaper discussion
and will be until the umpires are made
| to enforce the rules strictly, which the
majority Of the league staff fail to do.
| almost as much this year as last. In
regard to the habit of kicking INDUCED
in by captains of badly managed teams,
here is what Father Chadwick had to
! say dozen years ago about the stu
pidity of captains of teams in this re-
spect for that is what it is, a lack of
| common sense. Here is what ne wrote
| in the decade of the sos:
THE prevailing idea among the gen.
| eral class of baseball captains has been
/ for years that unless they kick against
| the umpire's decision they fail to do
their duty A greater mistake of judg-
ment was never committed. In the first
place, what possible point is gained by
| this kicking? Not a single decision
made by the umpire in which only an
| error of judgment is involved can be
reversed, the express letter of the rules
prohibiting any such thing. OF what
use is it, therefore, to kick? On the con-
trary every kick only adds to his errors
| of judgment. There is sound policy
involved in refraining from kicking and
| in silently acquiescing in the umpire S
decision on called balls and strikes and
in points of play in base running, a
point which a little consid eration would
show any thoroughly competent captain
very plainly how greatly he errs in kick
ing.
There are constantly occurring in
every game points of play in which a
doubt is involved as to whether player
is out or not IL base running, and also
as to whether ball is pitched over the
plate and within the legal range or not,
and the rules making the umpire the
sole judge of play in the, game leave it
optional with him to decide the doubt
in favor of one side or the other. Now,
no matter how impartial an umpire
! may try to be in rendering his decis-
ions, it is not in human nature that he
| should decide such doubtful points in
favor of the side or the player who in
suits him by disputing his decisions.
| thereby questioning his honesty or
| judgment? Just here comes into play
the shrewd point of silent acquiescence
| in decisions, for the player or captain
who does this is bound to have the doubt
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Some Errorless Games.

Baseball games in which no errors are
made by one of the two competing
teams are of frequent occurrence, says
the New York Press. but games IN
which no errors are made by either side
are few and far between. OF such games
there were only II this year. an ex-
tremely small proportion, inasmuch as
there were 904 championship games in
all Thus it will be seen that, though
playing without an error by one team
is a matter of only passing moment,
the chances for two teams doing so in
one contest are slim. Just why this
should be so it is difficult to explain. be-
cause out of 214 games this year in
which one team played without an er-
ror, 1t certainly seems as if there should
be more than IL in which both played
without an error.
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Jeftries. sportsm q !, will hardly com

Jeffries. Sportsmen will hardly COM
mend nor indorse this action on the part
of O'Rourke, but the fact that he has
taken it throws Sier in rather deli
cate position and one from which the
only graceful retirement left him is to
announce his withdrawal from the
ranks of pugilistic referees.
1t also floats out this way from New
York that when Billy got together to
arrange for bout between the present
champion pug and the handsome has
been" the matter of the referee came
up and Siler was voted down. Despite
these sings, however, George Siler
stands to-day as the best referee who
ever otficiated at a prize fight and COM
petent judges of pugilsm indorse most
emphatically the last decision he made,
which aroused all this needless and
puerile antagonism.
Tim Hurst is most frequently mem
toned as Silers successor among the
devotees of the squared circle. Hurst
has a splendid reputation and wide
acquaintance. No decision that he has
ever made has ever been questioned
and he has way of keeping a fight
going which makes him a general fla
vorite. especially with the crowds who
witness pugilistic contest. In this
way the contestants never get a chance
to loaf and the people who pay their
money to see fight surely "get their
moneys WORTH" The last big mill
refereed by Hurst was the Sharkey-Mc-
Coy affair and under his direction it
was a lively exhibition.
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BASEBALL.
'GeeGeeaee@e@e@e@@ee
NInsnates Agree.

special from Indianapolis says:
President Brush. in an interview, con-
firms the reported reconciliation with
Freedman and Soden.
I'VE are agreed and committed to the
proposition he says, that there can
be no lasting reform or perfect plan of
reorganization without harmonious re-
lations existing between those interest
ed in the promotion of baseball. We
are agreed that estrangement is pre-
judicial to the best interests of the
game, and because of desire to pro-
mote the general interest we have
turned our backs squarely on the past
and will work together for the re-estab-
lishment of the game in it's highest and
best form. I believe that both Freed
man and Soden concur fully In the
proposition that reformation is needed.
While there is no division of sentiment
as to the general plan of advancement,
details are yet to be worked out that
will require careful thought and good
Judgment"
Mr. Brush asserts that rowdyism
must be suppressed with stern hand,
and that a general reformation is i'm
perative along other lines. He charac-
teriZes the so-called American associa-
ton dead issue, unworthy a moments
thought, and he admits that while the
l2-club agreement has some undesirable
features, yet the management has still
two years to run and it cannot be
changed unless by unanimous consent.
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A Rank Injustice.

The injustice of the farming rule is
seen in the case of Outfielder Frisbie CT
the Bean Eaters. Frisbie was turned
over to Tom Lotus of the Grand Rap
ids team in the Western league, along
with $1,000, in the deal for Backstop
Sullivan. This exchange Of dollars and
one human being for likely player
gave Frisbie a right to file a large and
yociferous wall, and he is backed in his
grievance by major league managers.
who are desrious of signing SO promis-
ing player as the athlete who was
relegated to the Grand Rapids farm
In other words. the Boston club handi-
caps the future of a player for the sake
of experimenting with another. In the
obscurity of a minor league Frisbie may
run to seed and his hopes of future
be blasted by the selfishness of grasp
ing magnates.
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THE RING
"eeeeeeeeeeeeeaee@esa
George Dixon Retires.

George Dixon, who is placed by fight
lovers on a little higher pedestal than
any other apostle of the science of biff,
has come forth with the blunt an
nouncement that he has grown stale
and needs rest and that he will do of
his own volition what hundreds of his
opponents have tried to do and failed
ring down the curtain ON his career.
This farewell announcement of a MEM
Der of the low-broWed gentry is usually
prima donna's leave taking, but it is
not likely that Little Chocolates will
be bluff. He has never made it
habit to converse from the corner of his
face, la John L. Sullivan, Jim Cor
bett and other knuckle-pushing lumi-
naries, but has always been up and
doing, always a fighting with his hands
instead of his mouth. ever since he
drifted into Boston, almost a score Of
years ago, a photographers apprentice.
Dixon was a. fighter born, not made.
He has been a victim of the blawsted
wine habit and by his own admission
has transferred into his interior capa-
city enough fizz to keep the keels Of
the navy from grounding.
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A Valuable Trio.

Winnie Mercer, Freeman and Billy
Dineen are regarded as the most valua-
BILE athletes among Earl Wagner's
Senators, and the services of this trio
will be in demand at the league meet
ing. THE New York club says Earl
Wagner, may. make us an offer for
Mercer. Well, if Mr.. Freedman will
give me George Davis, Seymour and a
few thousand dollars for Winnie
would take such an offer under consid-
Grafton. If we had started last season
with Mercer on the third sack and
played him steadily in that position we
would have scored at least dozen more
victories. But it takes considerable
hindsight to discover the merits of a
ball player. as Charley Comiskey once
observed to Chris Won der Abe"
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
THE WHEEL
McDume Retires.

Followers Of bicycle racing will learn
with regret that Eddie McDuff1e has re-
tired after nine years of continuous
riding. and with more records than any
other living racer. McDuffie, who was
married last spring to Miss Jane Whit
beck of New York, proposes to go into
the automobile field, and his caresr
here will be watched with interest.
McDuffie is now almost 20, and was
born In Lawrence, Mass. He was known
in the early part of this decade as the
New England road king. His first
worlds record WIS that for the 25-m mile
distance, 1893, 1:13:26. The next year
he lowered the 10-mile record to 24:24.
After defeating all the amateurs, he
turned professional the next year, and
his career since has been an almost
unbroken round of successes. His first
rapid paced race was at Charles River
park, September rs. 1895 when he de-
feated Michael, just imported. This
season he has defeated every man put
against him, after his great mile at
Brockton in 1:21.
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McCoy's Plans.

Kid Mccoy has put new light on
the stories of his illness in letter to
sam Summerfield. The kid" says the
reports were greatly exaggerated and
that he will be in good condition when
ne meets Peter Maher. Everybody
hopes that he will be, in order to give
true form to the battle. The kids"
statements of his intentions are inter
esting. Ele says he is going to quit the
game and open a gymnasium in New
York in partnership with William Null
doom. After his affair with Maher ne
has agreed to close his career with a
bout in Chicago and has offered the
Star theater an option On his services
to meet any man the Fort Dearborn
club can get to go against him, md
the BETTER the man the more the kid
says he will like it. He suggests that
sharkey would suit him best for a six :
round GO
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Notes of the Boxers.


Tommy White and Art Sims will
meet at Cleveland Dec. II.
Jimmy Handler and Jack Stein have
been engaged to go 20 rounds at Pas
sale Dec. Is.
"Sarsaparilla" Jack Smith is boom
ing Andy Daily of South Boston at
New York in great shape, and DAILY Is
doing some good work in that city.
Jim Ryan, the Australian middle
weight, who has done considerable box
ing this year, will have to keep out Of
the ring for at least six months, as his
hands are in bad shape.
Ben Jordan, the English feather
weight who was defeated by Eddie San
try at New York several weeks ago,
probably will be Terry McGoverns OPP
ponent at London in May.
Bob Armstrong is looking for matches
with Gus Rubin and Peter Maher. AS
the latter will meet Mccoy Dec. q,
Armstrong; chances of getting a
match with Maher for at least six
months are very slim.
Harry Peppers has issued a challenge
to meet the winner of the fight between
Al Neil and George Green at San Fran
cisco.
Casper Leon and Sig Hart have been
matched for a 20-round go at Memphis
some time next month.
Terry McGovern, the little Brooklyn
fighter. is now landlord having re-
Gently purchased a house in Brooklyn,
paying $4,000 cash for it. Terry has
made a lot of money since he beat
Palmer and intends to make much more
before quitting the ring.
Tommy Ryan announces that he will
be ready to box either Mccoy or Choyn-
ski within the next seven weeks. w
Tommy West has challenged Tommy
Ryan to box 20 rounds before Gotham
club within the next six weeks.
Kid Lavigne is out with statement
to the effect that he Is in good health,
and has no intention of leaving the ring.
Jeff Thorne, the British middleweight.
has signed to box Jack Bonner before
st. Louis club during the first week
in January.
George Considine, on behalf of the
Broadway club of New York, has Of
fered a purse of $4,000 for a fight be-
tween Gus Rubin and Peter Maher.
Sailor Sharkey says Frank McCon-
nell, the Frisco welterweight, can beat
Tommy Ryan. But then Sharkey and
Ryan are not the best of friends just
at present
Freckles O'Brien and Freddy Began
have been selected to meet Terry Nc.
Govern for 10 rounds each during the
latter part of this month before a
Louisville club.
Big Bob Armstrong now wants to
meet Peter Maher. Armstrong; chances
against the Irishman would be consid-
cred as pretty slim by the majority Of
ring patrons.
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Good Roads.

An inquiry was made in November,
1895, by the United States department
of agriculture. through its office of road
inquiry. Ten Thousand circulars were
sent out to farmers in all parts of the
United States asking them for informa-
ton on good roads Replies were re-
ceived from over 1900 counties, distrib-
uted throughout the United States, and
the results We're carefully compiled.
The weight of loads hauled varied be-
tween an average of 2,409 pounds in
the prairie states. and an average of
1887 pounds in the cotton states, the
average weight of farm loads for the
whole country being 1902 pounds, or
practically a ton. The average length
of haul was found to be IL ITO miles.
varying between $40 in the eastern
states and % $40 miles in the Pacific
and mountain states. The average cost
of marketing ton of crops in the
United States was found to be $500.
1t was as high as $5.12 in the Pacific
coast and mountain states, due to long
hauls, and as low as s1.s7 in the north
ern and eastern states, which are more
densely settled and where railroads are
numerous and haulS are shorter. The
average cost of hauling a ton dis
lance of one mile was rs cents. 1t being
% cents In the prairie and Pacific coast
and mountain states, and rising as high
as 80 cents in the eastern states