The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-13

oefeated man Il victor. eu
During the World. Fair year s9l Oily
Smith and Johnny Griffin fought at the
Roby Club. 1t was dollars to cents on
Griffin and In the final round the specta-
train to take them back to Chicfso. Smith
was rcelinp all over the ring arg Gri ~ n
had not a mark on him: All expected the
next moment to see Solly on the hoor
taking the count
NOTES OF SPORT FROM MANY LANDS
SKI Jumping becoming n Popular
Winter Pnxtime In Northern Region
WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
Ski jumping promises 10 become the
great winter sport of Northern regions.
The Scandinavian pastime is exciting and
thrilling enough to please the most siren
nous seeker of danger. The ski is sor;
Of skate or snow shoe some eight eight fe q,
them athletes have managed to leap a
chasm 100 feet wide. Deep and. prefer
ably. frozen snow is needed for thorough
enjoyment Of the sport. y misstep is liaole
to result il death.
The English cricket team in Australia Is
cleaning up all the Colonial teams with
consistency and dispatch. AS Il rule, the
Britons win I'm the first inning. playing but
one while the Coonists play two. The
bowling Of the Britohs must be very good
or the batting of the Australians very bad
No great Individual scores are being MADE
by the Englishmen, but every man runs
up Il very useful total.
Owing to the soft state of British
ground. due to incessant rains, horses have
mad uncertain and poor footing IN the
hunting fields and accidents are of daily
occurrence. The sturdy Britons do not
seem to mind them very much. The Daily
News. in its report of run with the
Pytchley. tells of lady of social dlstinc'
ton beng thrown and suffering conclusion
of the brain from the fall. but the reporter
renee that he did not take the trouble tc
find out or publish the lady's name. If d
lady of quality as much as let her hat
blow OFF In America the reporter who
and future hopes. would never write an
other story. for that paper. at least. They
take their sports calmly in England and
grow not hysterical over a mere accident.
Not even the great political crisis in
England can keep the beset Prime Min
lister. Arthur Balfour.. from playing his
Government in the British Empire. but
will leave the Treasury Department any
time he has a chance to play good
match at golf. He likes to play partner
with Vardon Braid or any Of the star pro-
fessionals. especially in opening a new
course.
Those Britons certainly are true-blue
lovers Of all healthy sports Here is an
instace Of answering devotion to sport.
In England they make splendid use of
that musical and delightful dog. the
tie cornetists. the hunters following OF,
foot-!something they find easy to do with
the slow canine musician. who Is as slow
BOYS Of Ensland's great puSiie N1 school,
Elton. have long maintained pack Of
beagles for their amusement. AS the boys
run from ten to twenty miles two days "a
excellent exercise they derive from the
hunt. But some of the superhuman wom-
en- in the neighborhood of Elton protested
to the principal Of the school against the
boys being allowed to hunt the hare. az
urging that 1t was inhu1nan. The pr1nci-
pal replied that the boys received world
OF beneficial exercise from the beagleo, and
that he could not find that the sport they
rtous to the boys, the dogs or tho hare,
which is seldom killed by the slow hounds.
Hence the Etonians will maintain their
beagles.
In coursing match held in England
on Tanners Downs in 1864. the Judge, Mr..
Warick. rode. according to computation,
40 miles in one day and jumped ninety
fences Of more or less Importance. He
used 10 six horses during the day. Not
all the great rides Of history are confined
to America.
The relative speed Of q race horse and
greyhound has never been thoroughly
tested. but a recent occurrence at Dom
caster. England. bears out the general be-
lief that the animals are about Of equal
speed. Two horses were being worked a
mile. A greyhound who was a stable conn
panton OF one of them Joined in the gallop
and had no difficulty In keeping up,
though the animals were given a TOP
speed trial.
The Duke Of Leeds ana Lord Seton
have made q match to each run q grey
hound for a cup valued at 5000 on jan
uary The noble sportsmen can nom
inate any dog in their kennel on the day
OF running.
Great athletes and sportsmen IL the
Britons are. their 100000 people by
no means hold 1ralands 100000 safe in
athletic sport. Trinity College. Dublin's
ye e S assy'K oosss ed
Oxford last week fourteen points to three,
the three being one lucky try-touchdown.
A funny thing, about the Trinity team is
an Irish nsms. re star Of the team 1.-the the
Hogan of Ireland. Is q three-Quarter back
oddly named Easement.
This match was played on Wednesday
and Tuesday. Naxt day Trinity played
Cambridge and won again. playing exactly
the same team as played against Oxford.
Think Of Yale making a long train and
sea trip and playing two first-class colleges
in successive days. Then the Irishmen
went back to Ireland and played third
ians Of Wesley-and lost 8 to O. It should
be borne in mind that in Great Britain the
graduates always make stronger teams
than the undergraduates, and 1t Is seldom
first-ciass team They are too light and
too young.
Ten association football games played,
one on Saturday. in England recently drew
10000 spectators. Admission fees varied
from Il cents to 60 cents Association
football Is to England what baseball IL to
America-the game OF the masses and
classes as well.
English doctors say that locktaw has be-
come very prevalent among athletes. They
account for It by saying that the soil II
full OF the germs Of tetanus, and that
slight scratches and wounds received by
the bare-legged football players are In
oculated when splashed with mud.
TALE OF A DOGS DEVOTION.
Have Peculiar Aptitude for Striking
Up Friendship.
Dogs especially such as live I'm small
towns and country places, have peculiar
aptitude for striking up friendships with
each other. Two Of them usually do this
petitions, or, even worse than this, q
couple more than usually mischievous re-
peAtedly join forces for the purpose OF
doing q little sheep-killing on their own
account.
In both cases fatal results may ensue,
for the "sheep worrters'' are certain to
come to grief In the long run. whilst the
ssy,oo cherS'' run the risk of trans and saIr-