The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-22

membership in the
league, and there is likelihood that Du-
luth and Detroit, and possibly st. Paul
and Minneapolis, will be included as
well. 1t is only during the last few
years that the great Canadian winter
game has made much Roadway in the
states, and during the past two seasons
its progress has been notable. 1t was
introduced in the copper country some
years ago, and from the first it gained
favor. The result was the organization
of stock company at Houghton and
Hancock and the construction at
Houghton of one of the finest ice Kinks
in the country. A hockey team, play
ing under the name of Portage Lake
and composed of men who had achieved
fame on the ice in the dominion, was
organized, each winter the lineup was
strengthened and for the past three
seasons the seven has held the ma
tional championship. Sault Ste. Marie.
too, took up the game last winter,
had team which only ranked second
to Portage Lake, and this year prom
case at Houghton, a big rink particu-
larly designed for hockey, was built.
going into commission last season.
Pittsburg was one of the pioneers in
introducing the sport into the United
States. A considerable number of the
best men who have played the game in
Canada have been imported to the
smoky city, and while some of the
stars among these have been drafted
by the Michigan teams, there still re-
main more than enough to constitute
formidable aggregation. The 500 is
already signing fast men and will be
stronger next season than last. Lau-
rum is looking about for men both in
the States and Canada. Whether Port
age Lake will be as strong as last year,
when it rather ran away wi.l the ma
tional honors, is question, but in any
event it will have a seven that will
at least figure in the race. As far as
the league project is concerned, 1t Is
argued that such an organization would
assure the highest class of hockey
played in the world. 1t would give the
states an association equally as great
as any in the Dominion, would lead to
an interchange of games with Canadas
crack teams, and in this country would
give the game the same standing as II
accorded baseball.
An endurance swimming match from
the Brooklyn bridge to Coney island,
under the supervision Of the United
States volunteer life saving corps, has
resulted in victory for a man with one
leg. The winner was Charles Siegfried,
of Bay Ridge, who negotiated the dis
lance in five hours and AZ minutes.
Albert G. Franklin, a noted western
trainer and partner in the firm of ].
G. Greener & Co., owners Of Olseau, is
dead at Sheepshead Bay village of ty-
phoid fever. He was for a score of
years one of the best known charac-
tiers about the tracks at Chicago, st.
Louis, Louisville and New Orleans. He
came from Nashville, TennH Fl
C. M. Daniels, of the New York Ath-
letic club, has established new
worlds record for swimming 100 yards
in the eleventh annual swimming
championships of the Atlantic associa-
ton Amateur Athletic union in the
Schuylkill river at Philadelphia. He
finished in 0:62 As six yards in adj
vance of David Gaul, half-mile Atlantic
champion. The previous record TOR 100
yards was 0:65 1-5, made by Charles
Ruberl, of the New York Athletic club.