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sun during the past two years, but he
always behaved himself and never did
anyone any harm. He says that the
story sent out from Columbus was made
of who!ecloth. He claims that he was
simply dragged into the alteration by
friend Of his and that he had nothing
whatever to do with the cutting of the
ha ckman, and furthermore there was not
another Milwaukee player with him at
the time of the trouble. Dannie says be
has been in ninety-One different states
since he began playing ball in 1890. At
ter this he will be prepared to leave at
a moments notice, as there is no telling
where he will land next. He thinks he
is about due to be drafted again by some
National league club and if he wakes up
some morning and finds himself in Pitts
burg he viii not kick.
George Cross, the Columbus pitcher,
who arrived here last week from Chat
ham, Ont, with Young Crawford, the
new fielder secured by LOTUS, is conf
dent that the Columbus team will be sta
toned at Grand Rapids for the balance
of the season. The people there want
Western league ball, having tired of tho
article furnished by the Interstate league
and will give LOTUS bonus to locate
there. LOTUS had Il conference with
Manager TOrryson of the Grand Ran ds
that the two have reached a satisfactory
agreement. The only hitch now is about
the size of the bonus the people Of Grand
Rapids will give.
At the boxing show in Chicago It's
week Jack Lewis and George Stead tOie
OlsOn) fought six rounds, Lewis winning.
Young Walcott won a decision over
Mexican joe a New Orleans bantam.
kid" Gleason met Kid Abels at 12O
pounds and won the verdict. Joe Leo
of Seattle, Wash, knocked out Charles
Smith Of New Orleans in two rounds.
Danny McMahon drew with Walter
Bloom.
Ted Sullivan says there are scrih's
who get hold CT the wrong pipe once III
while. Ted should be able to fun niSh
| better brand, especially when he has
a. cinch on some of the Cuban planra-
giving out a special brand of Cuban
dope But then there is only one Fed
Sullivan, and if there are any new
leagues in sight he is liable to get mixed
up IN them in some shape or other.
Bumpus Jones says ne cannot pitch the
same kind of ball for three-quarters the
salary he received last season. Bumpy
nay be erratic at times when he is pitch
ing, but he claims to know when he has
| Il kick coming.
Beaumont stands fourth in batting on
the Pittsburg team, having an average
of 400; This is not bad for a young
| man who has been handicapped in his
playing by Manager Donovan.
Jake Gaudaur, champion professional
OarSman Of the world, has issued chal-
lenge TO James Wray, the Australian
now of Boston, to row there or at Rat
Portage, between September 1 and Is,
for the championship of the world and
$500 a side.
Bidding for the worlds heavyweight
championship battle between james J.
Jeffries and Thomas Sharkey, to take
| place in October, promises to be brisk
| Two California clubs are already in the
| held, each with an offer of Il $4,000
purse.
kid" Parker of Denver defeated Jack
Carrig of Buffalo in six rounds before the
| Colorado Athletic club last week
Casper Leon. the New York bantam
weight last week received the decision
over Frank Cabrilliac, in the eighteenth
round Of what was scheduled to be
twenty-round bout at st. Louis.
A fifteen-round boxing match between
Harry Harris and Sig" Hart of Chi
| cagO before the Tri-City Athletic club of
| Davenport was won by Harris, who had
| the advantage at all times.
In Il fast, fierce battle that went the
| limit of twenty-five rounds. Jack O'Brien
of New York was the victor over Dali
Hawkins of San Francisco at the Broad
way Athletic club last week.
Billy Edwards, the Australian weIter-
| weight has returned to 5hi, country and
sions with Mysterious Billy Smith and
Joe Waicott, both of whom defeated the
boxer from the antipo les during his for
| mer visit to these shores.
Ben Jordan, the champion British
featherweight, has notified the manager
of Martin Flaherty, the crack Eastern
boxer, that he will take on the latter
upon his arrival il this country.
Tom O'Rourke IS of tie cninion ll,at
Terry McGoyern can whip Oscar Cad
ner, despite the fact that the latter gave
Dixon one of the hardest battles of his
career
Billy Gray, on behalf Of the Westches-
ter Athletic club of New York, has of
ferred Terry McGovern a purse of S1O.-
900 to fight "Pedlar" Palmer of London.
England, for the bantamweight cham
plonshlp of the world in September
1 ne Evolution of a Trust Drummer
1t IS seldom that manufacturers get
together of their own impulse and form
a trust. The combination is in a great
measure urged upon them-soId to them,
II you please-by an expert drummer,
the promoter, who possesses an order of
twentieth century ability that is not ma
chine-made. His vocation is one for
which there is no training school, He is
neither born nor made. He evolves-usu-
ally from some manufacturer aspiring to
activity IN new, a broader field Some
times he IS manufacturer who, moved
by single purpose, to better the condi-
tons of the trade to which he belongs,
has begun as a genuine pioneer in the
cause of consolidation. Before his task
Tr1t~ bod IL