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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-10-16
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| Let no man represent his college
that is to say, play upon his college oil
university team-for more than one
year, says Cyrus Townsend Brady IN
Illustrated Sporting News, adding: AT
first glance this will strike the reader
as revolutionary, which it is, and alb
surd which it is not. | have discussed
| it during the past year with a number
of college men, young and old, inclnd-
ing undergraduates. who have in many
cases come to agree that it is not only
feasible but eminently proper. If it
| were brought about--and I am firmly
pei suaded that some day it will be-
nothing but good would come from the
change.
The object of college athletics, take
it, is not to win games. That is the end
in view: but the accomplishment of it
is incidental. When a large body of
youths and young men are assembled
for educational purposes, it is right
and proper that some effort correspond
ing to the mental stimulus that is APP
piled to them should be made to de-
velop them physically. Most of the
great colleges now have physical direc-
tors. who occupy honorable positions,
and whose function is the looking after,
so far as may be. the physical develop.
ment of the students. Perhaps as we
become wiser, efforts in this direction
will become more persistent and more
systematized. Possibly we shall have
professors of physical culture. who will
be as scientific in their views and
methods and as necessary to the proper
constitution of the college faculty as
professors of mathematics or of the
languages.
In athletics football occupies a unique
position. 1t is by far the most popular
sport which the American boy enters
Upon. its only rival being baseball. 1t
is a difficult sport, and the pursuit of il
is attended by no little danger. Some
times it results in injuries fatal to play
zers. 1t is urged against those who de
precate such game that the prepare
ton for it affords the very finest posi-
-ble training, and that more than that, it
enjpins a mental and spiritual training
as well. Self-control, self.restraint, sub
ordination. obedience, qusckness of
.thought, ability to grasp the critical mo-
ment. and grim and persistent deter
mination, bullgod courage, are all
brought out in the development Of a
tsucoessful player. It is these arguments
that overhear those who think that
football should be banned on account
of its danger.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-10-16
AL HEREFORD
and HIS
BLACKS

| A peculiar state of affairs is said t
exist in regard to boxing in Baltimore,
where the people are very fond of the
sport. In the state of Maryland there
Is no very definite law in opposition TO
boxing and the matter is principally one
of local police regulation. In Baltimore
the recently elected mayor is an athlete
and very fond of all sorts of sports and
exercise. He is especially lover Of
properly conducted boxing bouts. The
members of the police board are also
more or less favorable to boxing when
properly conducted, and among the peo-
pie generally there is no feeling hostile
to the sport. There is, however, de-
matching of white boxers against color
ed men. So strong has this feeling
grown of late that the sporting public
there will not stand for a negro boxor
beating up a white man. AL Herford
is the leading promoter of boxing IN
Baltimore, and he is also manager OF
two of the best colored boxers, Light
weights Champion Joe Cans and Young
Peter Jackson. HEREFORD, it is alleged,
insists on his right to match his men
against all corners, and rather than
stand for the opposition by the public
to matches of this kind the mayor and
the police department of the Monument
city will not allow the sport to be car
ried on at all.
HEREFORD. who has club charter, IN
tends to have the courts settle the
matter.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-10-16
TOURNEY AT
BOWLING
ALLEY

Tonight the club members Of the
Occur dAlene bowling alleys will at
tempt to Guido those who rolled last
Friday night and at the same time
make as high an average as possible
in the hopes of being among the five
highest men who will be selected after
about four weeks to represent the
alleys in the coming championship
games. Owney Patton, manager of the
alleys, stated last night that the club
is meeting with fine play and success
was already assured. He is confident
that before winter is well along he will
have developed the champion bowlers
of the city.
Dutch Jake" spends most of his
time on the alleys now during the day
and there are few in the city who
can hand him anything in the rolling
business.
Jake got his initiation into the game
in the old country, where every other
back yard is equipped with an alley
made of clay. There it is the national
game, and it's poor bob indeed whose
backyard don't have the game.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-10-16
Brothers Will Sue.

Joe and Jim Delehanty, who have
been playing in the Southern league
and brothers of Ed Delehsnty, the
Washington player who met death in
the whirlpools below Niagara falls, are
authority for the statement that efforts
will be made at an early date to get
financial recompense for the death Of
their brother. The Delehanty brothers
have left for their Cleveland home.
The Delehanty brothers think theil
brother was on his way to Cleveland
when he met death. His body wa.
picked up near the foot of the falls or
the American side. His clothes were
missing and one leg cut off. 1t il
stated that he carried diamonds on hi,
person and these were lost.
The suit will doubtless be watched
with interest by the baseball world.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-10-16
DO NOT LIKE
PLUNCER
BOLD

Officials of the eastern race tracks
are having lot of trouble this season
in attempting to regulate evils and
undesirable features arising from the
betting. Early in the year an attempt
to check "Pittsburg Phil" was made by
an order refusing further entries from
that horseman. Phil had to sell his
horses, but all reports that now come
from the east agree he is the biggest
winner this year on the American turf
in money won in the betting ring. In
other words, Phil, with no horse OF
his own to bother about, has won vast
ly more than he did before his hors rs
were barred. Recently John J. Ryan,
a man who never has contributed any
thing to the good of racing, but has
for some time been high roller in bet
ting ring and poolrooms, had a streak
of luck on the New York tracks and
pocketted many tens of thousands of
dollars. This grated harshly on the
stewards nerves, but they could devise
no way to stop Ryan. The latter
stands barred on the western tracks
because of his connection with winter
merry-go.rounds, but the east has not
recognized this ruling.
John A. Drake recently made a big
winning on one of his own horses, Trim.
ity Bell. Drake previously had lost
heavily on this same animal, it is said !,
but when he finally won with her it
aroused the wrath of the eastern stew.
ards and they started an investigation,
which resulted in nothing except news.
paper notoriety. As a result of it all,
however, the eastern officials are agreed
on one point, and that is they must ds.
wise some means to discourage heavy
betting. They make the incontrovertible
point that racing, if conducted as it
should be, is not for the big betters, but
for the amusement Of the general public
and shat the heavy gamblers who take
100000 out Of the ring in one day
should be dispensed with.
Nobody is going to dispute the desir.
ability of this, but just how it can he
accomplished is not SO easy to see. If it
is permissible for man to make "rea'
sonable" bet, it may not be so tolerable
for him to make big wager. but how is
dividing line to be established? Then
there are those who say the wealthy
eastern men must begin to reform a lit
tie nearer home. The charge is made
that while the aristocratic men who
control the sport do not themselves go
into the betting ring and wager large
sums, it is not unusual for them to do
so through persons known as "club-
house betting commissioners" If the
other big bettors are to be barred, what
about the clubhouse commissioners?
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-10-16

the services of Yost for 1900 and he
made a championship eleven for the
school.
Chas. Baird secured Yost for Mich
iean and the result even the kindergarten
classes know. In his home Yost was
considered a good ball player, having
played with Chas. Hickman. the Cleve-
land American league first baseman, as
youth.
CHAS. BAIRD.
Chas Baird came to Ann Arbor in
| 1890 and entered the law department
That fall he was sub quarter. The
next year he entered the literary de-
partment and was elected to the ath-
letic board as its freshmen representa-
tive. He played end on the eleven and
won his IN" In '93 he was elected
football manager and held the position
for two succeeding years. In 95 he re
ceived his degree as A. b., and by res
son of his business ability was employed
as manager of the eleven for the ensuing
fall.
In '98 his services were needed anc
he was called to the position as gradu
ate manager of athletics, which position
he now holds. His interest in devel
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-10-16

ANN ARBOR, Mich, Oct. 10
Western football knows no trio bet
ter than the "big three" of Michigan
-Yost, Baird anu Fitzpatrick, coach,
manager and physical director of the
famous point minute" team.
"HURRY UP" YOST.
Fielding, Harry Yost is acknowledged
the greatest one man coach in the
country. He began his gridiron work at
the University Of West Virginia, where
he played two years, and went to La
fayette and played tackle on the best
team that school ever had, defeating
Pennsylvania to 4.
He began coaching at Ohio Wesleyan
In 81, when that school won the state
championship and held Michigan 90
IN '9S he went to Nebraska and took
ylarge Of a team of raw men, which
Through his efforts, won the eastern in
tcrcollegiate championship. Then he
coached the Kansas university team
That years story is football history
the eleven becoming western cham
pions. Leland Stanford then secured
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-10-16
when JEFF
met THE
SWEDE

Many stories have been told regard
fng the first fights of Champion jim
Jeffries, but none yet has told of the
real initial scrap of the big fellow. we
have in Spokane an old schoolmate Of
che champions. who is well known in
the northwest, named Tom Smith, and
better known as Colonel Tom" Tom
might be called a real tough kid in the
DAYS when Jeffries and he used to
''swipe'' coal from the Southern Pacific
in Los Angeles. and many are the sto-
ries he tells of the now world-iamed
Jeffries. Colonel Tom was in remin-
iscent mood last night and when the
Jeffries subject was preached he i'm.
medately started string of tales OF
he early days of the champion that
would make the big fellow shudder.
Talking about the first fights OF
the champions" said Smith. but |
think Jeffries first found out that had
the real scrappy qualities in his when
he went up against big Swede in Los
Angeles. named Ole. There was a Ger.
tain saloon keeper there that boosted
hhe possession of a bulldog that could
Sck anything in the chewing business
IN southern California. Over ON the
west side some Swedes also boasted
She possession of bull that was touted
es being able to lick seven kinds Of dew
Us out of this other dog. Well, the
Npshot of the whole matter after the
most of those interested had got into
innumerable fights over the fighting
qualities of the dogs, was that match
Ras finally arranged.
''On the morning when the big fight
vas to come of We oil laid Of from
work and about I o'clock saw all on
Our way to the west side and out for
gore. We kept the matter . great
tecret so the cops wouldn't get next
q the game, and had It all arranged
Mithout their knowledge. Jim Jefris1
Tho was then an apprentice In boil.
.ermaking establishments, was placed
d the corner with our dog, and in the
sorner Of thesenemy vas great, raw
boned Swede boy, who next to the bull
nog was about the toughest PROPOSE
on in a fight that ever happened. We
bon had the dogs hard at it and tb<
uAxt thing We knew It was wound w
p a frse-for-an. and I found myself
ksnaled up with a mess Of Swede.
that had me all in when Jim came ia
my assistance and got into the game
himself. Then the tough Swede start.
I'd to 60 some, and the way he and
Teffries fought was a treat. It was
about standoff. when someone yelled
bolice,' and the bunch scattered. Next
Hay we fixed UP the first glove con-
Rest JsHries had ever been in. All the
preliminaries were arranged for the
next Sunday, and at the appointed
hour we brought them together. Both
were stout lads-simply couple Of
Houng bulls. The ancient gladiators
were not in it, and those two fellows
fought rings around anything have
aver seen since.
"Along about the tenth round the
Ewede was all in, and Jsffries landed
shat left of his which has since made
him famous in all his battles. 1t cop
ped the Swede, all right, and for 4,
time we thought it was case Of tax
ing to the woods, as Ole's jaw was hi
10 hard he was out for fully an hour.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-10-16
What's Doing in the World of Sport.
WHITMAN TO
RELY ON
SPEED

Speed will be what Whitman will
rely on this year to gain her victories
on the bridiron. The first game will
be Saturday, at Walla Walla with
the Spokane high school. This is stir.
ring up interest among football men
to fever heat. Captain Brown OF
Whitman said: "The team will be
probably five pounds to the man lighter
than last year, but much faster. We
will line up for the regular positions
next week The whole week will be
spent in perfecting old plays and devel-
oping new ones and above all getting
speed. That will be the great thing
for next week. We will work up more
speed. The men must line up like
That is to be the keynote
of our playing this year"
The game with the high school will
be played on an entirely new plan
There will be two speedy sets of ends
and backs, which will be changed at
the end of the first half. The game
next week will be used by Coach Allen
and Captain Brown as tryout for
the varsity team There is probably
the best back field man about equal.
The men who develop the best in this
game will get places on the team. The
aim in this game will be to run up a
big score and develop fast work.
In undertaking game with the
Whitman college the Spokane team an
ticipate defeat They go out of their
class. Manager Lewis Fassett and
Coach Hooker both accompany the
team. Manager Fassett says:
1--WE hardly expect to defeat the col
lege, but then, you see, we get the ben
eft of good practice and that's what
is needed most"
The lineup of the Spokane tetam is
as follows:
Scott left end: Brown, left tackle;
Nowlin, left guard; Davis, center; Mat
thews, right guard; samuels, right
tackle; Schmidt, right end; Coolidge,
quarter; Allen, fullbacls and captain;
Gregory, right half Substitutes: De.
huff, Rogers, Stambaugh.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-10-16
Broad and M0Watt.

NEW ORLEANS, La, Oct. 16.-Box-
ing is to be resumed in New Orleans
tonight and the Southern Athletic club,
which is to give the initial show, has
arranged good program of events
The principal number on the card is ia
be l0-round contest between "Kid''
Broad of Cleveland and Tommy Now.
att Of Chicago The two men appear
to be in prime condition and an inter
esting contest is exnected to result.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-10-16
Yanuer VS.. Clifford.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Oct. l6.-Boxing be.
ing under the ban in Chicago at pres
ent, the eyes of the local ring followers
are turned toward Davenport, Iowa
whittier considerable delegation will
20 tonight to witness boxing show
slated to be pulled off in that city
The magnet that will serve to attrac,
the sporting fraternity is l0-round
bout between Benny Yanger of Chica
20 and Jack Clifford. The latter comes
from the west with record of having
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-10-16

Walter Camp, the noted football au'
thority, is a champion of the new rules,
otherwise known as the checkerboard
rules, and gives as the reasons for the
new rules the following:
"Any semblance of brutality, how
ever, everyone is anxious to cut out OF
the game and the first and most distinct
step towards this was the rule passed
making it impossible for the back, after
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-10-16
WALTER CAMP.

he had kicked his ball behind his own
line of scrimmage, to run up and put
men on side. This in practice al
ready shows up as decided improve
ment for Jumping on the fullback,' as
it has been termed, has been practically
eliminated and a considerable advantage
made in this way"
He also cites the advantages 81
"open" play over a mass or formation
plays.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-10-16

achieved much success In the fighting
game in Montana, Utah and other sec
tions whereabouts. Among the Chicago
fraternity he is comparatively an IN
known quantity and they are looking
forward with considerable interest to
see what kind of a showing he can
make against such a clever and hard
hitting fighter as Yanger.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-10-16
Herrera and Long Draw

The Herrera Long bout at Vancouver
B. c., last night resulted in draw
neither fighter having any the better
of it, ana both being well tired out
after the finish of the Goth.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-10-16
CossIo Gets Money.

LONDON, Oct. 16.-Mss Ovaja won
the Maiden plate at Newmarket today,
but was disqualified and the race given
to Whitneys Cossio, with Skeets Mar
tin up. Whitney is reported to have
made big cleanup at 5 to |.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-10-16
A Big Cut.

The Pittsburg team of the National
league disbanded yesterday after divid-
ing the clubs share of the receipts for
the championship games. The cut-up
amounted to 2l,060 as Pittsburg's
eb
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-10-16

oping his department is only seen by
close observation. He constantly plans
for coming years and to his foresight
is due the present healthy condition of
athletics in the university The alumni
and student body now realize this, es-
pecially since he refused that tempt
ing offer of Killilea's to become mana
ger of the Boston National league team.
He is considered without a peer as q
manager of college athletics.
KEENE FITZPATRICK.
For 10 years the name of Keene Fitz
patrick has been associated with col
lege work. In 1890 and 81 he was
trainer at Yale. He then accepted {
position as director of the new Mich
gan gymnasium club in Detroit. II
was in "a that he came to Ann Arbol
as trainer of the Michigan team.
He acted as instructor of the gym
nasum classes and trainer of the foot
ball and track teams during "a and '95
when Cornell and Chicago bowed dow
to Michigan. In '96 and '97 Keene re
turned to Yale as trainer of the eleven
When Baird returned to Michigan h
| Immediately secured Fitzpatrick a
trainer and director of the new Water
man gymnasium.
Fitzpatrick can spot an athlete oil
sight. His care of the teams is faith
erly He is constantly worrying owe
the players, as if they were his off
spring, and the reason so few Michigan
men are injured is due chiefly to tn
magnificent physical condition he get
them in before allowing them t.
participate in play. Truly, in thes
men, Michigan has a host to b.
proud of.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-10-16

AT Seattle-Seattle l3, San Francis
co 10.
At Portland-Portland 4, Sacrament
to l.
At San Francisco-Los Angeles 3,
Oakland
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-10-16

From the ever lucid football experts
we learn that. while all the big teams
are showing excellent form, the results
Of ~ractice games indicate absolutely
nothing, "A a n q d xyrEe
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-02-10
A Play Given Eevry Ten Years.

The village of Ober-Ammergau the
place where the Passion play is enacted
every ten years, is beautifully situated
in the Bavarian Alps, near the Austrian
line. It's inhabitants, who are mostly
of the peasant class and who earn their
livelihood chiefly in carrying wood.
number altogether about 400 souls, 700
of whom take part in the play and those
who do not perform live in hope that
some time during their lives they may
be permitted to do so. Pictures of the
actors and scenes from the play will
be shown next Friday evening in the
Opera House.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-02-10

K|DNAPPERS
Both ChiltonS to
Go Before a
Jury.
The Criminal Calender
Is WeII-Nigh
Cleared.
Vine Assaulted Deaf
Mute Given Three
Months.

The grand jury made partial report
to Judge De Bolt yesterday morning
returning fourteen indictments The
trial of one of the cases, that of Roger
James. charged with burglary in the
second degree, was commenced imme-
diately, so nearly at close is the work
of the old criminal calendar.
Among the fourteen indictments were
two against Harry B. Chiffon and
Charles B. Chiffon, respectively. The
first is charged with child stealing, and
his father is indicted on a charge of
harboring a stolen child. Chiffon is the
youth who is said to have kept four
teen-year-old Margaret Place locked up
in a cellar under his fathers house for
over week. The younger Chiffon was
arraigned in court yesterday morning,
but reserved his plea. His father had
not been arrested in time for arraign-
ment yesterday.
BOlqD OF SOLDIERS RAISED.
a. Bales. H. o. Carlton, and T. Walton
were indicted Jointly on the charge of
burglarizing Chief Justice Frear's
House on Tantalus. One of the men is
out on bail, and the other two were ar
raigned before Judge De Bolt yesterday
afternoon still arrayed in the Uniform
of the United States artilleryman.
Carlton is out on bail of $3.50, fixed by
the lower court, and Attorney Thomp-
son asked that the bail for the other
two defendants be placed at the same
amount. Judge De Bolt said that he
would not consent to a bond for that
small amount, as the men were liable
to an Imprisonment for twenty years
if convicted. He fixed the bond at $500,
and stated that this was very reason
able