The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-14
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1.-THE hippodrome performances of
the double cross artists, but clean-cut,
properly-regulated amateur wrest-
ling. True, it is classed as among the
rough sports, but few men, If any,
were ever killed or seriously injured
in working on the mat, especially if
the strangle hold is barred. There is
Just enough of the latent savagery in |
mankind to delight in seeing two men
ego after each other Boxing is
barred and wrestling is the next best
Minneapolis has large number of
athletes, and from the number should
develop some amateurs of the first
class. The wrestling game has de-
scended to such a plane that profess
SIGNALS plead that unless matches are |
fixed there is not a living in the game |
for its followers. There are enough |
lovers Of clean sport in Minneapolis
to support wrestling matches if they |
are assured that they are ION the
level The season Is late at present
but next fall it will not be surprising
if an attempt is not made to revive
the game, upon a clean basis, IN thus
city. A series Of matches for the
amateur championships of the north
west. at all weights, would be inter-
esting and furnish enough fast, clean
sport to satisfy the cravings OF the
most enthusiastic.
r AJOIE was repeatedly Kissed in
IL cleveland the other day. He had
not ihsulted the umpire or thrown
baseball bat into the grand stand. He
had simply missed making q, hit and
had struck out. OF tickle people,
baseball fans are the worst. Bug
Holiday, at one time big league
idol, has been umpiring in Mime
apoiis for a week past and has been
called rotten and alluded to as a
mud face repeatedly. Arlle"
Latham, the old-time st. Louis brown,
| was slugged in the Southern league
this week by a rowdy player Whlle
the stands chortled with glee. Few
fans stop to consider that these Old
time players, popular in their day,
are umpiring as a general thi1sg from
force Of necessity. The men start
playing ball at an early age and stay
with the game until approaching age
drives them out. In their time they
are "hale fellows well met and
placed upon pedestals by the fans
They are finally compelled to quit
the game. They have no business to
step into and naturally seek employ
Iment in a line with which they are
familiar. Baseball has been their
| life. They seek. appointments as
umpires. The public overlooks the
great deeds of days gone by and In a
temporary rage applauds while these
men are wantonly insulted and
slugged. The Digger Indians are not
so bad, by comparison, after all.
IDITY the man with a fast automo-
I i bile! He is the most miserable
pleasure seeker upon the footstool to-
day, and the faster his car the deeper
his misery. The >man with a horse
and buggy starts out for a pleasure
drive and spends several hours with
out twice crossing the same street or
boulevard. The man with a high
speed car burns a pint or two OF gaso-
line and has used up every available
driveway in the county.
In the evening the automob bile
driver limbers up his car and starts
out to spend a pleasant hour or two
on the driveways. He starts, shOves
, the throttle over to the dog-killing
notch, and before he is aware of the
J fact, his machine has chewed up SO
much distance and so fast that the
driver is home again with time tc
!. lspare He starts out to the country
dllu LINES lO P1Se1oIA Il
; the passing landscape. He goes sc
: fast that he cannot see it,. He arrives
! ahead Of everyone else and is lone.
some for an hour until the others
arrive. The man with horse drives
! slowly and never has his relaxation
! time drag on him. This is not flight
of fancy but the plant of the owner
of one of the fastest cars this side Of
/ Chicago. He complains that his auto.
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T ahead of his friends. He deposes
that he does not care to go around
: the same trip time after time for fea1
that his friends will chaff him an6
gossips wonder who he is looking for
: A lower gear is his only salvation, an(
he has ordered it put on the car a:
soon as possible.
lTHE official scorer is just now com
j ing in for bit of the treatmen
which he has meted out to others il
his long and com aratively useless
j career. A st. Louis sporting writel
has taken the ground that the manner
in which official scores are prepared
makes them utterly useless SO far a.
accuracy is concerned. Scoring il
the major leagues is declared to be {
graft pure and simple. The presi
dents OF the various CluDS are Sal(
not to care how much or how little
the o. S. knows SO long as he is con
nected with some big paper and take:
care Of the dope" in some form o.
other. Friendship" is said to have
more to do with appointments thar
merit.
It is urged that there should be az
official staff of scorers just the same
as an official staff Of umpires. May
be SO.
Official averages are not what the!
seem. was once an o. S. in a bi,
league and got behind with returnin,
the box scores to the president o
the league. They were not sent II
from July to the end of the season
A hunting trip then took three weeks
time after the season closed, and tn
score books were lost. Fear ensuet
every time the carrier called as
peremptory demand for the belate'
scores was anticipated. This ran on t
the first of the year, when the base
ball guide came out with all of tn
averages, big as life and labele
Official Since that time "offcia
averages" have looked like ba
money. The official scorer may
all right. Maybe not. Thor.