The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-14
World of Sport.

Two Feathers, the Indian wrestler.
and his manager, Jack O'Neill, ar
rived in the city yesterday and to-
day the big brave, arrayedn in his
tribal dress, was an object "bf curl
osity about the streets.
Two Feathers will wrestle Duncan
Mcmillan one week from tonight.
after which he will be taken east to
meet the cracks of the mat.
tional Baseball league made to the
annual meeting yesterday show there
were paid admissions during the sea-
son amounting to $1,932,862. Nearly
two million dollars in one league
alone and then there are some man
aging editors who think q baseball
reporter at Sc a week is a useless
encumbrance.
Senior Enrique Robes, the chesty
Spanish bullfghter, is about to tease
the bulls over in Seattle. A show is
to be put on Friday and Saturday.
and, as there are no attorneys over
in Seattle chasing up fees from a
gullible humane society, there will
be no interference.
Jack Sicily. who fought George
Dixon for the featherweight cham
pionship In 1892, is to be in Seattle
pretty soon looking for a match with
any 12S-pound man. Jack is 10 years
older than his crackerjack achieve
ments in the ring, but he is still
young enough to demand a match
with Perry Queenan-which is likely
to be made for him.
Jack Johnson, the colored scrapper
who wants to meet Jeffries, has post
ed $1,000 for a match with Marvin
Hart. That ought to make a corking
good match.
Rufe Turner, who is in Philadel
phia, where he can't get anybody to
fight. is now begging for a match
with Young Corbett. 1t do beat all
how those fellows liven up after the
unexpected defeat of phenom.
Here's a funny size-up of Frankie
Neill by an English sporting writer:
LAS a boxer frankie Neill is about
the poorest specimen I have ever
seen. His knowledge of the art. is
%oI,v o,Ixy &c,
to bury his chin in his chest, cover
up both sides of his jaw with his
gloves, bend his shoulders forward
SO that his little Mary is difficult
to reach, and then walk in, regardless
of punishment, in the hope of landing
a pile driver.
Concerning headwork and foot
work he is as ignorant as an Eskimo,
and several times during the, contest
went sprawling into the ropes when
Bowker slipped him. But s&what
punch he has, 1t is a hook and it
comes with the whole force of his
body at the head or the mark.
Seldom have l seen so much power
put behind a blow by such a little
fellow He never quite reached a vul-
nerable point in his bout with Bow
ker, but even then he managed to
hurt the Englishman when he hit
him, and Joe will remember those
rib Eenders for a very long time.
at is quite easy to understand how
such an unscientific youngster is
champion of America. They are all
more or less rough and tumble fight
ers in the states, and he is simply
the hardest and strongest of the
bunch.
anyone who will go in and mix
it, with him is sure to come off sec
ond best. and that is just why he
did not beat Bowker.
1.-The latter kept milling on the re-
treat at long range, and it was only
at long intervals that Neill was able
to get to close quarters, and then so
smart was the Englishman that he
never gave his opponent a chance of
finding the mark or the point"
A clergyman of Columbus, o.,
speaking before Y. M. C. A. meet
ing, said he would rather have his
five boys go into the ring as prize
fighters than into a football game.
In the boxing match the preacher
was certain he would know who kill
ed off his progeny, but there was no
such guarantee of knowledge in a
football game.
WILLIE b. GOODE.