Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-06
.AM0NGSP0RTS

American bicycle riders will be well
represented in Paris next season. The
stars of both the L. A.. w. and the N.
C. A. have declared their intentions of
making the trip and besides Cooper and
Kiser there will be Major Taylor, Harry
Elkes, Harry Gibson. F. A. Mcfarland,
the Buffers, o. L. Stevens, A. A. thinner
man and many others. This will leave
Slim picking for the meet promoters in
t4is country, but what a graft some Of
the p%ot4hunters will have!
The announcement that Zimmerman
Will go to Paris does not occasion much
surprise. Zim has always been the one
champion in the eyes of the French.
who fairly idOl2ze the man who made
their champions look like selling platers
four or five years ago., and h really
taught the foreigners What they know
about the racing game. It Is related
of Zim that when he made his first APP
pearance in Paris, years ago. just altar
having left the amateur ranks, the en-
tire audience went wild and each indi-
vidual insisted on shaking hands with
lie Yankee Volant," or the Flying
Yankee" as the American was styled.
To pacify them the Grinder had to go
into the stand and shake hands all
around.
It is hard for the French to believe
that Zim has refrigerated. They still
thlink he can heat them all for h
reason clamor for his temperance on
the track. Now, Zim is not boasting OF
his bank account these days. SO it is
more than probable that he will COM
bine business with pleasure and make
the trip. 1t is a certainty that he will
not compete and that he will devote his
entire time to exhibition work. which
pays well and also satisfies those en-
tfuslasts n crave to see the one man
who in his time stood head and shoul-
dels above any other cyclist in the
world.
Zimmerman tried racing last spring,
and met Eddie Bald in a special race.
This old champion was riding coed at the
time and should have won. Bald cut
generated him, though, and captured the
race. This broke the spirit that Zim
had been months in arousing, and after
that the man from Jersey contented
himself with exhibition work. 1t is
doubtful if he ever rides another race.
II he does he makes a big mistake. Let
the glamor of the past hover over him,
for the public dislike to see their old
idol in the light Of a has-been.
Prof. r. w. H%uffcutt, the president of
the athletic association Of Cornell, writes
that he has just completed a careful sta
tlst:cal examination Of the question Of
the scholarship of football men, and that
there is no indication that their work
IN. the fall term is below their work
when they did not play football" Says
Erof. Huffcutt: My own observation
tends to convince me that playing, or not
nlaying. football has but little to do with
~asstudent's class standing. Men will take
klsure for something, and energetic men
Ike to take vt for outdoor sports; others
IKE the same amount of leisure for 9TH
"A things, musical clubs, dramatic clubs,
eeNc4hess clubs. college periodicals, and the
like; or, perhaps, in mere social pleasures
EQr plain 'loafing.' A students class stand
ffhg is therefore but very little influenced
by the particular form of leisure amuse-
nIent in which he indulges."
sfTo these opinions, from men whose
authority on the question is undoubted.
II is only necessary to add figures taken
from the frank list of Harvard to
make the case complete.
This list. for the year 1889, shows
that no less than 20 men who were
prominent in football took honors in one
or more branches, while more than 20
received two or more honors, Captain
Burden, who is at the same time presi-
dent of his class and .senior marshal,
taking six.
Ten of the baseball squad similarly
distinguished themselves, and over 20
Of the track athletes were on the list,
besides a goodly number of the crew.
Above all, Klein, the Harvard strong
man, received hOnorS in 10 courses.
And so it would seem that the New
York Post, and the other papers tina are
pleased to attack college athletics, have
a rather difficult case to make out in the
face of the facts which are apparent to
even a superficial observer of the ath-
letics and athletic conditions in our
! American colleges.
Little John Reiff, better known as
Midget" Reiff, the American jockey, Is
causing a sensation among the English
racing men. Although a mere child of Is,
and Weighing but 81 pounds, he is hard
after, the honors held by Tod Sloan as
premier jockey. In fact, his percentage
Of wins for the past two months almost
equals hat of Sloan.
The fact hat this boy, with hardly
strength enough to hold up his horses
head, can ride n or more winners near
ly every day has caused at least two
English jockeys to adopt the American
are remarkable in that he does not pick
his mounts. He will ride any horse Of
fared him, and to equal the average of
Sloan, who has Lord William Beresford's
sAable to choose from. is truly a spendid
RECORD.
The "Midget's' elder brother. Lester
Hein, who rides at 100 pounds, has also
&3ne remarkably well on English tracks
t[is season.
q -
The in which shotguns are
advertised In the sportsmen's publications
OF this country is amazing in the ex-
treme. Pick up one of them and read
| the gun announcements.
What do they say? Generally that in
q certain match a certain individual was
NE user Of the In question and won.
! EVERY shooter knows that the three
| deciding factors In the matches are the
man. the ammunition and the gun,i in the
4 order given. As to relative Importance,