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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-10-28

distance from Iankow Co puking ~ ia
the ncghburhood % 500 miles Tho
county swnrms with people. and the
road connecting the two must be very
profitable. AZ y .nk0w there are extern
rlvs railroad sh0pa There are rolling
miilr. foundrios and machine shops
which have altogether cost millions 81
dullnra The shops cover. ! should say,
nt least twenty-five acres. and IN them
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-10-28

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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-15
a SOUEAL.
The Columbus journal Tries to Dodge X,
sponsibiIity for its Error.

The Columbus journal Tries to Dodge Re
sponsibiIity for its Error.
Columbus Despatch
The article in yesterdays Desnatch
fixing the responsibility for the mis-
take whereby the All-Wheelings now
have $500 which rightly belongs to the
Columbus All-Stars, has called forth
a pathetic story from the State Jour
nal in an effort to dodge the response
bility.
The fact of the matter is that the
Journal published an incorrect score
of an important match and that score
was accepted as correct. The wrong
side won the match as a result of that
mistake.
The writer unfortunately does not
draw a salary from the State journal
for reading proof for their sporting
page, and, knowing that the scores
which appeared in the Despatch were
correct, it never occurred to him that
those in the Journal would not be the
same, for the sporting editor of the
Journal copies his scores off the De-
spatch sheets at the conclusion of the
afternoon games.
The Journal lays great stress upon
the fact that the scores which were
published in its columns We're not Off
cial and should not have been used in
deciding who won the match. 1t is
peculiar how conditions alter cases.
Over at Wheeling one of the members
of the All-Star team told the Journal
man that he must be mistaken as the
Despatch had published a number of
times that Columbus had an adyant-
age of lis pins in the Columbus games.
At that time ne seemed to think that
the Journal scores were official for he
said: "Oh, l know that this is right.
for l took it right from the official
| scores" 1t certainly would have been
wise had that statement been given
some consideration with so much de-
pending on a difference of ten pins.
Hereafter when the sporting editor of
the Journal goes out of town on any
official business it would be we'll for
him to consult the Despatch to make
| sure that he is properly posted TO start
with.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-15
SCIENTIFIC BASKET BALL
How inc Game Has Been DevelOped--Th Cham
piOn Team of AmeriCa--NeW Styles of pI0y.

MES. This seems to be the case espe-
cially in regard to the separate COM
panies in the towns along the Hudson
river. Their armories form an ideal
playing ground, and the men find it
a splendid variation from the tedious
ordeal of repeated drills
Several changes in the game have
been advocated, the principal one being
championed by DR.. Dudley A. Sargent,
OF Harvard University, and Mr.. G.. NJ.
Martin, of Youngstown, o. The
changes as suggested by these two gem
tlemen would make radical innovations
in the style of play, but they differ but
slightly from each other. Their pur-
pose is to make the game less severe
and to allow more players to take part.
DR.. Sargent would divide the playing
space into three divisions, the players
in each section being required to stay
in their own part. This in a great
measure would abolish mass plays and
give star players less of an advantage
over their more mediocre adversaries.
Another suggestion is that removing
a ball from an opponents hand be con-
sidered a foul. These changes would
lessen the spectacular interest and are
not likely to be accepted by the profess
SIGNALS at any rate.
CHARLES E. EDWARDES,
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-15
A HIGH TIME

The hop which will be given by the
Rum Dunn bowling team of the Wheel
ing League pl omises to be the greatest
affair of the kind this season, and the
boys invite all the boWlers of the
Wheeling leagues and their friends,
and promise all who attend a time not
soon to be forgotten, and will also give
strangers to bowling an idea how the
game is played, as they will construct
a temporary alley in the hall, having
already secured the necessary balls and
pins with which the game is played.
Big Bill has been secured to perform
on the alley in the afternoon and
Sheeney Kromrick in the evening. Bill
Hastings, the clogg dancer of the South
Side, has consented to entertain all
who attend with a few shakes of the
shoes that he wore last week. So af-
ter carefully reading the above, how
can one well stay away. Tickets on
sale by any Rum Dunn.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-15
F|1E IS REAL MID.
9e Says He Will Fight Sharkey at
Any Time.
THE CHAMPION INSISTS HE IS THE
REAL THING, AND IS NOT A
FAKIR-TOM SHARKEY GOING
ABROAD-THE LATEST NEWS
OF THE PUGS ALL AROUND.

Cleveland, January 14.-Champion
Bob Fitzsimmons does not mince words
in giving his opinion of Sharkey and
the statement of his manager, Tom
O'Rourke. In the language of Fitz,
O'Rourke knows that Sharkey's game
would be up should he fight Fitz.
81 guess 1 fooled EN-, . remarked Fitz
to-day. "Sharkey thought l would re-
fuse to meet him, so he went ahead
and talked 1t stopped him for awhile
when I announced that my money was
up, and any time he covered it and is
sued his challenge l was ready to do
business with him. My announcement
cooked his game, and all the free adj
vertising he expected to get at my ex-
pense he'll not get.
''To show how willing l am to fight
Sharkey I'll close my show the min
ute Sharkey covers the $500 l have
posted and issues his challenge. We
will see if Sharkey has more friends
Sharkey knows he will be beaten if he
fights me and that's why he now says
he is entitled to a rest and that he will
dictate the terms, etc. Tom Sharkey
is entitled to a rest, I'll not deny, but
he had no right to challenge me unless
he intends to fight me.
''There is one thing the American
public can never accuse me of. I'm
not a faker. Whenever l go into a
fight my friends know 1 will fight for
all I am worth. If [ am ever defeated
the men who bet on me will get a run
for their money.
..'As to Mccoy and his statement that
he wants to fight me for the middle
weight championship, l will not pay
any attention to him until this heavy
weight business is settled. If Sharkey
crawls and refuses to fight me, then
I'll take on Mccoy.
when l wanted to retire they would
not let me- Now I am ready to fight.
I'm going to start out this year and
fight all Of them, heavy and middle
weights. [ don't care whether they
have any reputation or not. I'm going
to lick 'em all if I can. Then l will
retire. 1t is dead sure I will not fight
before the Lenox Club. l don't pro-
pose to go against any of Tom
ORourke's game. I will fight any
where but there"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-15
Copyright, 1899

Any man who can play through two
Commute periods in a game of basket
ball and be comparatively fresh at the
end is a first class risk for a life in
surance company. There IS no other
game which is so fast and requires so
much eXertiOn in as short a time. Roll
Ter polo approaches nearest to it in
this respect as well as in many others,
while foot ball is not nearly so hard
on a fellows wind.
For this reason basket ball has be-
come recognized by athletes as one of
the best possible means for keeping in
training during the winter months in
places where outdoor work is barred
on account Of the weather.
Basket ball as played nowadays by
first class teams is very different from
what it was when first invented, IN the
winter Of 1912, by DR.. James Maj
smith, of Springfield, Mass, to serve
as a change in training methods in
gymnasium work.
The game caught on at once, espe-
cially in the Young mems Christian
Association, all over the country. Wo-
mems colleges soon saw the value of
the game and adapted it to the needs
of their students.
In 1895 the athletic clubs, which until
then had not given the sport due rec
ognition, took it up, and it at once be-
came national game, but as it is to
the credit of the Y. NJ. c. A. for having
first taken up and fostered basket ball
and introduced science into the plays
so also it is fact that the associa-
ton contains the best teams. The fine
team representing the Twenty-third
street branch of the Y. NJ. c. A. OF
New York is undoubtedly the banner
one of the United States. Last season
they played 40 games, winning every
one. Some of the other teams of the
association throughout the country are
also very strong.
There are, broadly speaking, two
styles of play now general One is the
passing game. This form of play as
now carried on is done almost eXclu-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-15

siyely by men catching the ball bounc-
ing it on the floor and running rapidly
toward the opponents goal. A heavy
man who is a rapid runner by this
means can generally succeed in getting
down the field and having a try for goal
no matter what the opposition may be-
The greater part of the roughness
complained of last season arose from
the use OF this illegitimate dribbling,
there being no way TO stop a man pro-
crossing in such a manner with the ball
except by deliberately getting in his
path and being run down.
If the game were played outdoors on
turf, the dribbling style Of play might
be tolerated, but in a gymnasium,
where falls are on a hard floor, some
times against apparatus, it is out of
the question.
Basket ball is almost entirely an am
ateur sport, though there is a league
which is practically professional and
which comprises teams in the cities of
Philadelphia, Trenton and Melville, n.
j. 1t is called the National Basket
Ball league, and its rules differ only
slightly from those of the A. A. U.
They play, however in a cage instead
of having boundary lines, according to
the A. A. L. rules.
The distinctive feature of the cage is
that the field of play is surrounded by
wire net so that the ball never goes
out of bounds, and the play is only in
terrupted for fouls This makes the
game an extremely rapid one and is
very exhaustive for the players, for
during the 40 minutes 81 play there
of opportunity to rest 1t is the kind
of game best suited for professional
teams for the purpose of exhibition, but
| is too severe and eXhausting for the or
binary amateur player. The profession
al game, too, calls for but one official
on the field, whereas the A. A. L. rules
necessitate three.
Another difference between the two
sets of rules is that in the amateur
game any number of players may have
hold of the ball at one time, whereas,
according TO the professional regula-
tions, but two may touch the sphere at
the same time. Mr. W. H. Reed, Jr,
the manager of the champion team of
the Twenty third street branch of the
| Y NJ c. A in New York, said in reply
| TO my. query. that he thought the pro-
:
gave less chance for rough play.
Mr.. Reed, by the way, is an authority
on basket ball matters and is very en-
thusiastic regarding the future Of the
game. He says that the reason his
team occupies its present high position
| is not due TO the individual excellence
| of the men composing it, but to the
| splendid team work that has been de-
| veloped.
He says that the game is the ideal
one for indoors whenever there is
room for it and that it more nearly
carries out the aim of the Y. NJ. G. A..
| in fostering athletics to develop the
man all around, in contradistinction to
the prevalent plan of making an ath-
lete specialist in some one branch
of sport.
The game is very popular in the ma
tional guard, and there are some very
strong teams among the militia compa-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-15
EYE SIGHT
Improved in Hundreds of Cases by Mar
velous New Process


velous New Process
The new scientific method introduced
by Prof Shelf, the optician, of examin-
ing the eyes without the use of drugs,
and without dependiS&- in any manner
upon the uncertain statements of pa
tients, has proven a marvellous success.
This method is now in use by the most
successful opticians in New York and
other eastern cities, but Prof. Shelf
who was among the first to adopt it in
this country, has been among the most
successful in its use. The eyes of hun
dreds of patients have been accurately
tested by him, and in every case he has
been able to afford relief and improve
the vision.
Prof. Shelf is up-to-date and thor
oughly scientific in all his work, he
commands the use of the latest and best
appliances, and his patients can rely
upon it that all that the best optical
skill can do for them will be done.
The professor has just returned from
an extended eastern trip in studying
the latest work Of the best eastern
specialists.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-15

Iteams came together and after winning
one and losing the second the Aber
| Nits pulled together, winning the third
| in a walk from Fiddle's boys, which
4 shows Fiddle's determination to have
| last place. 1t looks from past tourna-
| ments that Fiddle Rolf would be lost in
] any other only last and he is trying to
| stay among his own company.
Wednesday night Big Bill, Dad Stein,
Pee Wee Hall the Sheeney and others
! had their bowling clothes on and took
| two from Bill Hastings and came
| near getting the other, but that comes
partly from some raw material Cap.
Hastings was trying and will prove
| corners with a few years practice. Jake
| Steuernagle upon rolling his first ball
made a ten strike and the same with
! the next, when the spectators began to
think one of the Columbus All Stars
had stayed in the city day longer and
perhaps that he was the bowler, but
Jake soon threw off his mask, for in the
balance of that game he never made
another showing. Fink and Bill Rohrlg
were among Hastings raw material
too, but of their work not so much can
be said as they rolled no two balls
alike, while Hastings himself had on
pair CT slippers Of national cOlors,
which kept his eyes Occupied most OF
the time Of Big BIZ not too much
car be said for his rolling was excellent
as compared with past work of his, for
part Of the spares he missed were eX-
! cusable as he came closer than usual,
which shows that Bill is a conner.
Thursday the Cronies took one from
the former leaders by a margin of %
pins. The All Alikes were in fine form,
though, Cochran and Wingerter making
500 strings and 200 scores and by the
good team work they increased their
average about pins to the game. Their
second game is the teams highest game
this season. That Crone team is getting
to be a hot team, with Speidel and
Scheehle at peace with each other, and
in turn the team can put up warm
game at times. The All Alikes dropped
into third place by dropping one to the
Cronies and the latter are only one
game behind Sid Sarver's team.
Friday night Dutchy Wilhelm and
the rest of his unprecedented boys
made a fine showing against the Bowl
ers by winning the first by As pins,
which was unusually poor work for
the Bowlers, every man on the team
rolling below his average, but the
next game they all came forward with
q fine score, winning with total of
lob, but in the last the Puritans again
came forward with another winner
thereby sending the BoWlers down the
line below the All Alikes, much to the
delight of the latter, who claim they
will now hold the place that was pre-
scented to them by the Puritans.
Below will be found the standing Of
! the ten teams, showing the number of
| games won and lost and their percent
age; also the team averages for the
| last two weeks:
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-15
THE CRESCENT I.
Handsome Models for 1899 to be seen at
Howe's

handsome a
Howe's
Those credited with being posted
upon the subject say the season OF 1899
will see a greater per cent. increase Of
bicycle riders than any of its prede-
cessors, and manufacturers and deal
ers are getting early into the market.
The models of 80 have already appear
ed, and among these none are at
tracing greater Attention than the
Crescents which have been placed upon
exhibition at the Howe Machinery Sup
ply Company's place of business, at No.
2153 and 2157 Main street. These mod
els are attractive to even the casual
student of cycle machinery, and to the
enthusiast their grace, beauty, strength
and evident durability are subjects for
wonder and admiration. The manufac-
turers of the Crescent seem TO have
achieved a paragon of beauty without
a sacrifice of strength. and experts who
have examined the models commend
their Workmanship most warmly. The
manufacturers of these mechines, the
Western Wheel Works Co., of Chicago,
base their claim of superiority upon
the unedualled facilities which they
have at hand for putting up high grade
wheels, and the careful study, compile
mented by long and thorough sys-
tenn of testing and proving every point
of excellence Indeed, it seems that art
and science, and not mere mechanism
and trade. have wrought such perfec-
ton. Considering the thorough trials
to which the Crescent has been put 1t
is not amazing that it has steadily
gained in popularity with the riding
public since being launched into the
hurly-burly of bicycle trade in 1894. In
that year 81 COO wheels were made and
sold, and the following year the sales
were increased to $1,000. Since that
time the figures have run thus: In go,
10000; 81. $4,000; '9S, 100000 This is
in itself a proof of merit. for no wise
man buys the kind of a wheel that was
unsatisfactory to his neighbor last sea-
son. The Western Wheel Works Co.
put out 1000 wheels in a day of ten
hours, and to realize that this immense
product finds a ready market is to ac-
knowledge its merit and superiority,
That a thoroughly up-to-date, high
grade, chainleSs wheel can be sold for
$50 and a chain wheel for $35 would
have been looked upon as visionary
but very few years baC1. The manu-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-15
BOXING NOTES.

John Jenkins, of Springfield, O., who
was hurt in the fight with Buck Stelzer
at Columbus, is still confined to his
room.
Jack Bonner and Dick O'Brien will
fight twenty-five rounds before the Nut
meg Athletic Club of Hartford, Conn,
January %.
Frank Conway, a vaudeville actor,
is insane at New York over the Mccoy
Sharkey fight. Conway is under the
impression he won $4,000.
Tod Sloane, Charlie Dwyer and Eddie
Bald, who have been hunting in the
mountains of California for a week,
have arrived at San Francisco.
Several parties from Wheeling will
take in the Finnegan-C avanaugh con-
test, at Pittsburg, Monday night Les
lie Pearce will be in Finnegan's cor
ner.
There is already talk Of a crowd of
Oscar Gardner's Wheeling admirers
taking in the fight at the Broadway
Athletic Club, between Gardner ald
SOlly Smith, February 18th.
Jim Corbett told McGraw that Joseph
COrbett would never pitch for HanlOn
again, as he had advised him not to do
so. McGraw saw Pitcher All Maui in
New York and said he was looking well
and in fine condition.
Chick Brokers' injured hand is get
ting along nicely, and he will resume
his training to-day at FrOmme's place,
in Newport. Brooker and Joe Drummer
are to box - rounds at Marietta, O.,
next Tuesday evening.
A London telegram says: Dick
Burge refuses to adhere to the agree
ment signed by himself and Bobby
Dobbs for a twenty-round fight at the
National Sporting Club, and the match
has therefore been cancelled.
Billy Brady formerly manager of
James J. COrbett, has again entered the
arena of fistiana. and lively times are
expected. Brady has taken Pugilist
Jeffries under his arm, and promises to
make the heavyweight fighters hustle
from now on.
Tom Sharkey viii attend the Eddie
COnnelly-Spike Sullivan tWenty-round
contest at New Haven next Monday
night and bet on Connolly. Sharkey
has no use for Spike since the Irish lad
backed Maher against him a couple of
years ago. Tom always bets against
both Dave and Spike Sullivan.
A match has been arranged at Louis
Vile between Jack Bonner and George
Green young Corbet0, 10 be pulled
off before the olympic Club Of San
Francisco. A purse of $500 has been
offered by that club for the fight. Fred
Began, formerly of Cincinnati
has become BOnners manager.
Both men will leave for San
Francisco in few days. Began also
thinks he will get on with a good man.
Tom O'Rourke is so sure that Bob
Armstrong. the cOlOred heavyweight,
can beat Peter Maher that he is willing
to back him against the Irishman for
s. SOC. O'ROurke further says if Maher
consents to box Armstrong he will give
them so per cent of the gross receipts
to fight twenty-r0und bout some time
next month. 1t is not likely. however.
that Maher will consent to fight Arm
strong for. as he refused to box the
latter at the Broadway Athletic Club,
the indications are he will decline TO
box him at O'ROurke's club. Maher
says he wants to fight no one but
Sharkey. He claims, as he fought the
sailor to a draw. he is entitled to the
first fight with him.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-15
SHARKEY GOING OVER


Tom Sharkey, dictator to the fistic
stars who seek his laurels, has decided
to take trip abroad. Since the Sailor
knocked out Mccoy he has received
numerous challenges, but has refused
to consider any offer at present. He
will take rest before entering the ring
again. After>his vacation, unless sign
I'd to meet FitzsimmOnS, Sharkey will
go to England to fight Mitchell Some
time ago Sharkey signed to box Nit
chell in March, and yesterday informed
the Englishman by cable that the
agreement held good, providing he was
sincere in his desire to ght.
If Mitchell lives up to his original
intention the bout will probably be de
cided in England some time next May.
What the public wants to see, how
ever, is a fight between Fitzsimmons
and Sharkey, and the sports are await
ing Sharkey's acceptance Of the Aus
tralian's challenge. They think Shark
ely should go after higher game than
Mitchell, now that he is champion. Tom
O'Rourke said yesterday that Sharkey
would fight Fitzsimmons, but would
just give Lanky Bob a dose of his own
medicine.
First of all" said ORourke, Tom
will take rest, and next spring will
take a trip to England. If the purse
offered abroad for a fight with Mitchell
is large enough and other details are
satisfactory, Sharkey will meet Nit
chell in May. Whether he will take
on anybody before that time l do not
know. We may decide later"
IF Fitzsimmons is so anxious to
fight now" continued O'Rourke. "let
him fight Corbett. The Lenox A. c.
will give a 100000 purse for the bout.
Corbett is ready to fight Fitzsimmons
at any time agreeable to the Austral-
ian. The eX-champiOn still believes he
can defeat Fitz, and will sign articles
Immediately for a match.
Mccoy holds that he is entitled to
another go with the sailor, but if Shar-
key refuses to meet him he will take
on Tommy Ryan or Jim Corbett Cor
bett does not mention Mccoy in his
def, but says if he cannot get on a
match with either F'itzsimmOns or
Sharkey he will quit the game. Me
Coy's next opponent Will undoubtedly
be Tommy Ryan. The LenoX Club will
offer a percentage for the match. The
fighters may meet in a day or two and
sign articles.