The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-02
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Am / Right !?
IF the Minneapolis Automobile club
! carries out the policy it has an
Of subjecting careless members
to suspension or expulsion from the club,
a few thousand pedestrians will rise up
and bless the name of the organization.
The program mapped out by the directors
looks very well in print; it will look still
better II 1t is shown that the directors
mean business am not insinuating that
they don't, but I was born In Pike county.
To be pitched out Of q swell club of
course will hit a member of the jeunesse
doree a good deal harder than a $40 fine.
I understand that the Auto club is de-!
signed to be a most swagger and exclusive
organization; so tony in fact, that any one
who owns gasolene tank must belong ii
he wants to retain his membership in the
local 400. If you don't belong you can't
pose as one of the real smart set, and if
-
1t is delightful to see this respect for
the rights of others manifested by the
chauffeurs.s There lis plenty of work for
the club to do along the lines it has
marked out. True, accidents are seldom
caused by automobiles in this city, but
gasolene rig charging down a business
street fifteen miles an hour or more II
1,ou hi, 70
ollet), gives a nervous man a bad case
Of Jumps. and a good many persons would
as soon be killed as scared to death. Be
sides, it is Just as easy for the auto to
run slowly, as for the pedestrian to
dodge. The law says the pedestrian has
the right, Of way, but most Of us jump
when we see an auto coming, rather than
hear the chuffer toot his horn without
slackening speed as an intimation to us
to clear the track. All automobiles do
not scoot around in this careless fashion,
but there are a few in town who need a
hard look from the directors of the club,
if not 8, slap on the wrist. Here's indorse-
ment of the stand taken by the organiza-
ton, and here's hoping the officers won't
weaken.
The president Of the National Baseball
League has had occasion already to con-
slider measures of discipline for: rowdy
ball players. Why wouldn't it be a good
idea to have a golf tournament as a part
Of the preliminary training Of the sea-
son for each club?- If, there is any pos
sible way to promote good feeling and
courteous treatment Of an opponent, golf
is certainly it's Qnesof the contests at
the state golfi tournament last year
was the most Honse- CASTOR proceeding
/ ever saw. Jones was q member Of the
Minikahda club, anda Brown belonged to
the town and country! Brown was win
ming. =: When he made: a good stroke,
Jones would ay:a Fine work.. old man,
keep it up and you'll beat the course
record Then Brown would come back
with mice putt, Jonss;;f I can see, my
finish And that wasn't an individual
case; it had a counterpart in any one OF
| a dozen games that were in progress on
the links at the. same time 1t WASH t
the native refinement sof the men, alto
gether, because I have seen some aof the
| same men in tennis matches or yacht
races, andsthe Alphonse- CASTOR business
was decidedly a minus quantity. 1t must
| be that golf has O. softening, smoothing
| influence, which subdues the primeval
savage in the human breast.
/ should liket to seeoa golf expert play
football. just to find oft if the improve
4 ment was permanent 6t, n.
/ Shades Of Ananias! !" Listen to the wal
from the camp of Kid Mccoy. George
Grant, manager Of the Hoosier hasbeen
says that Bat Masterson, who refereed
the Root-McCoy fight at Detroit last week
1 lived in the house Of Lou Houseman
Roots manager, and that the scheme t.
hit Mccoy a foul blow was all cooked
and dried before the trio started for De
troit. Says. Grant: ct looks to me as i
| Houseman had Masterson all fixed befor,
the men got together. Root fought foul1.
from start to finish. The talk of Home
4 Selby squirting ANN into Roots fac,
is all rot. If he got any ammonia in hi
| eyes he did not show the effects of it
for he kept on banging the Kid below tn,
belt
And this from Kid Mccoy, who, accord
4 ing to the story Of every sporting write
who saw the fight, disregarded all rule
4 of the prize ring and tried continual.
4 to drag Roots glove down after a punch
SO that he could claim a foul; Mccoy
whose seconds are accused by responsible
men of trying to blind Root with am
monia; Mccoy, whose record is more un
savory than that Of any other man in tn
prize ring And this to BaBt Mastefson
the gamest and squarest man that eve
refereed a bout. Wouldn't it-wouldn'
[it-well, wouldn't it, anyway?
Thor.
TACKLE KENW0OD MAY /!