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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-23
BEAR BLOCKED HIS PATH
Portland Oregonian.

Conductor "t'Dave' Houston Of the
Southern railroad, who is taking ten
days. vacation at Seaside, had thrill
ing experience with big bear which
he will not soon forget. He told only
few Of the incidents, as he desired to
keep it quiet, but the story leaked out.
Conductor Houston is great. fisherman,
cast line. He had hardly got settled
at the seaside when he went out on the
Necanicum river to have fish all by
himself. He made his way thru the
brush until he came to a log, one end
of which projected out into the creek.
"That 8 the very place. thought the
pole, he crept out on the log, where he
found himself comfortably perched
above the cool water of Necanicum
creek. Houston lighted his tried and
trusty pipe and then cast his line. He
fished and smoked perhaps an hour
without getting bite.
Suddenly there was, movement in
the bushes back Of him, and then he
felt the log he was sitting on tremble.
InstinctiveTy the conductor turned
around, when, to his amazement, he
gazed into the face of a black bear.
The latter seemed to be sizing him up
and estimating how much of meal
the conductor would make. and wheth-
er he would scrap when ne came
to the point. For The conductor there
seemed no escape. The bear sat COM
placently on the shore end Of the log
and it was not possible for Conductor
Houston to get past the monster. The
bear held him there for several hours
before hunter came along and killed
| the animal. The bear weighed 250
pounds when dressed. Conductor Hou-
| ston now has a few more. gray hairs
in his head as the result of his expert
ence.
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NORTH HIGH IN
FIRST GAME TODAY
Managers and Coaches Are Going
Easy with Their New Ma
terial. -
BY Kit.

North high is playing it's first game today,
meeting the, alumni the high-school field.
The lineup was not given out this morning by
Coach George Nye, but it is expected that try
Ing out will be given to all the men who have
been showing up we'll The past week has
shown some strength and some weakness, with
a prevailing tendency to s1owness. The brisk
practice and cold weather has shaken so1ae of
this out of the men and the game will give
good line on their real strength.
Football enthusiasts who have been watching
the game say that Captain SErtle has material
at hand for one Of the best teams in North
highs history. What it needs is Development
hard work, and plenty of it.
Captain Edward Chestnut Of the South high
football team has had his men out regularly
for the past two weeks and has been Installing
football theory, lore and practice into them
Practically new team will have to be built
up this year, altho there will be two good line
men TO- fall back upon Solem and Ornes, and
Erickson will be found at fullback.
Nevertheless, the outlook is not bright, as
the new tertal is light and has had practically
no experience. The work far has been entire
ly devoted to the rudimehts of the game, and
only short scr1mmages have been attempted.
No game will be played tomorrow, as it is not
thought best to subject the men to hard
contest until a better organizat ton has been
effected. - -. -
East high has been at work for two weeks
under Captain Frykman and Coach Earl Wy
man, ana while the work is encouraging the de.
velopment is slow. For this reason it has been
thought best to keep the men out of hard scrim.
IMAGES, and no game will be played this week.
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| MARKLE THINKS
| WELL OF DAKOTA
Heavier Team Is in Prospect for
the Season at Nit
chell.
Suecial to The journal.

Special to The Journal.
Salem, S. d., Sept. 2S-Mesrs. Tanner and
Shearer, members of Dakota university football
team, passed thru Salem yesterday to Mitchell.
football at the university this fall and In dis
GUESSING the situation says:
If the material which we believe is coming in
shows up, Dakota university will have the best
purely amateur football teams in her history.
Many new and strong men are coming. The
first team that the old men will have to look
to their laurels. As see now, we will have a
team that will average ten to fifteen pounds
heavier than last year, making 160 to ITO
pound team The positions Of quarter and
fullback vacated by Brown and Peck, have sew
eral aspirants, and some Of them look good.
Burton Tanner, who played on Northwestern last
Of the back positions, and can play end. Coach
Mccormack said that up to the time Tanner
was hurt last year he was one Of the best men
the team. Durkee weighs 230 pounds and is
6 feet inches tall. He has the reputation Of
being able to handle two ordinary men. Gust
and shearer will be in line for guards. Weak
and Captain Evans will do the tackling stunt.
The latter may be brought behind the line If his
place can be acceptably filled.
The need of strong, heavy and quick backs
may necesstate this change. Evans demon
strated these qualities last year. Both of last
be in. We also have Herbert Hardy, Howard
Seaman, Burton Tanner and his brother to make
these important positions secure. In the back
field will be Tanner, H. Kingsbury, George Dis
brow, Eugene Hager and a brother of Professor
Lardner's who has had several years. experience
with the pigskin. Besides these there are sew
eral men coming In who claim knowledge of
linebucking from the rear: The schedule, so far
as made, calls for five games, Morningside two;
Yankton ono, Redfeld and Brookings one.
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PREPARING FOR
THE JACKRABBITS
VARSITY rs TO HAVE A PONY
BACKFIELD.
Big Harris Agrees to Play II His Studies
Can Be So Arranged as to Permit of
His Playing Without Injuring His
Chances of Observation-Disclosures
PROSPECTS.
BY O'Loughlin.

Minnesota's second and third team jumped
into the limelight last night and held spirited
tho ragged scrimmage the gridiron at North
rop field. To the everlasting shame Of the Sec
ond team, be it said that they permitted the
third squad to them in a graceless
manner. new man showed up last night In
Stensvad, a. former Carleton end. He jumped
into the third team and made all sorts of fun
for the second line. He rammed 1t, tore 1t
apart, hurdIed it and had the big fellows so
worried that they gritted their teeth every
time they saw him start. Stensvad Is to be
heard from. Another new man who showed
some ideas Of football Copeland late Of
Faystte. He too, looks as tho he might be a
football player with little attention.
Sig Harris Coming.
Another bit Of news which leaked out yester-
Day Afternoon was to the effect that Sig Harris
Aas decided to don the soiled suit and got into
the aerinnaage by the latter part of the first Of
nes& week, When approached early in the sea-
sod, Harris declined to talk or think Of foot
bali Es pleaded that he carrying heavy
c1ussa Of study and could not think of playing
This vas not knockout, but good, stiff body
hio4g for Minpesotas prospects. Friends urged him
% n1aS, and yesterday Sig agreed to go inaif
bis work could be arranged to give him
she tipis necessary for practice without imperil-
ang hts chances Of graduation. Harris Is one
of nae bast students who ever entered the univer-
nSss and his friends think he will have no trou'
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FOR !. !.
OCEAN RACING
Plans for Little Boats and Race
from Continent to Con-
tinent.

New York Sun Special Service.
Paris, Sept. 23.-Some Of the conditions for
the proposed autoboat race across the Atlantic
were agreed upon at a meeting presided over
by Baron Henri de Rothschilds.
The following the principal features: No
limit Is to be, fixed as to the size of the yes.
sells competing for the cup, in regard to- length,
breadth or depth. ri: 80. 80
Any vessel to be qualified must be furnished
with an engine capable of being started in a few
seconds, and must have a minimum speed OF
fifteen knots in smooth water and be capable Of
crossing the Atlantic at least at thirty kilome-
tiers eighteen miles) an hour under normal con-
ditions.
In no event will boat be permitted to take
fresh supplies on board between the starting and
finishing points. There must be at least six
men in charge of each boat, of which two must
be skilled navigators.
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LUTTBEG WOULD WAGER
Thinks He Will Win from Conkle, Sat
-. -. urdaY Night.

Max Luttbeg is not satisfied with the result
last night He has asked for Saturday night
go and has been told he could have the chance.
The match last night was fast one for sixteen
minutes. Then Conkle got a half-Nelson on
Luttbeg and ginned him to the ,. mat. ,.,.,..
the refereeing Of last nights bout. Luttbeg got
what appeared to be Aging falls on two oc.
casions and as flying falls were to count there
keep an eye open" flying fall is hard
thing to determine, but appearances were in
Luttbeg's favor
Luttbeg announces that he will meet Conkle
for an hours wrestling Saturday night and is
comes off the winner of the bout. Mattson
meets Conkle tonight and hopes to again take
down the $25 for staying the limit.
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Pony Backfield Coming.

Minnesota is to have pony backheld. DR..
Williams has decided to put such division into
training and his selections should develop one Of
the apsediest backhelds ever known in north
western football annals. The scheme calls for
the playing Of Cutting ut the quarter. Varco at
left half, Hunter at right half and Gleason at
Suilback. Another man, who will be available
for sub on this rony brigade, Is Larkin, the
Mechanic Arts player, and Weisel. The speed
of the halves III this arrangement cannot be
exceeded in any school in the country, east OF
west. Varco and Hunter can both break the tape
in 100 yards with the watches stopping in the
vicinity Of 10 10. Cutting is lighter than either
Earco Hunter and Gleason is candidate for
fullback who will dive into bunch of stamped
ing Texas steers if they his way in a
football game. He run. but Is not fast
as Hunter and Varco. Larkin and Gleason are
among the best punters on the squad. Back Of
the line as constituted at present the pony field
should be wonderfully effective. At tackling
Varco 10 the weak man of the four or five men,
toned, but he generally gets his man, even If
he does have to make second grab at him. BY
the time the fast backheld is needed Varco will
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-23

fighter, It's neither part resembles the
waspish shape Of the victim of tight
lacino., In fact, the forward part is Of
ful, while, singuiarly enough, That por-
ton extending aft from the main gang
way (speaking in sailor parlance),
dwindles rapidly to insignificant pro-
portions. Eighteen and one quarter
pounds is the weight and thirty and a
half inches the length of this crusta-
cean brought in by. the Enos, measured
from the crotch Of the tail to the ex-
trcmities Of the outstretched claws.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-23

BERTHE RETURNS
TO WISCONSIN
All-Western Guard Shows Up and
Joins the Badger
Squad.

New York Sun Special Service.
Madison, Wis, Sept. 23-Wilson Bertke, the
big guard who was last year the only Wisconsin
man selected by the critics for an all-western
team, has arrived and gladdened the coaches
hearts by getting into suit at once. He is in
good condition and weighs 195 pounds.
Stromquist was yesterday the chief recipient
of the coaches attention, and is improving
The squad now numbers forty-fve men. Wis
consin Is still without game for next week,
and Manager Fitzpatrick is further depressed by
the news that Frank Waller, the badger quarter
miller, who in 40 3-5 at st. Louis few
weeks ago, will enter Yale this fall. ~
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SSH! Ss-sHl! SS-s-S-HlH!!l
iowa at Her Dark o. the Moon Foot.
ball Work,

iowa City, Iowa, Sept. 2a.-secret practice
was begun on Iowa field last night, running
signals being the chief business of the hour.
The scrimmages revealed some snappiness and
considerable general improvement. Moore. last
years subcenter, played center on the first
eleven and passed the ball well. He is rather
light but is good. Barry. center on the second
the first time since then He can be used ad-
vantageously at either guard OF center. and his
return encourages the rooters. e 81 g.
Coach Chalmers was startled when Atkinson,
the giant guard and one Of the stars last season,
announced that the schoolroom schedule will pre-
vent him from playing this falA He appeared
on the field but declined to don a uniform.
Great pressure Is being brought to bear to In
duce him to yield the point. as he Is very badly
needed, =:
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BAIRD ENTERS PROTEST
Says Michigan Is Not Tempting Youth
of The Country.

Ann Arbor Mich, Sept. :23.-The circular let
ter Of Charles Pike, president of the Chicago
Alumni club. charging middle western univer;;
Indirectly to secure young athletes Of superior
ability, is taken exception to by Charles Baird,
Michigan's director Of athletics. He said yes
terday:
'Most Of the men who are making our team
right now have been in college, for at least
one year; men who spend a year here with
out making our team and who pass their exam
nations are not bought"
Mr.. Pixies remarks have created amusement
at Michigan, for Of the five new men one.
touted Californian, is a lightweight; Graham,s
260 pounds are mostly fat, and Yost has never
had that sort Of man on his team
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CONvILL TO THE HOSPITAL
Badger Suffered from the Scrimmage
at Madison. :.

Madison, Wis, Sept. 23.-During light scrim
mage yesterday Convll, one of the most prom
ising tackle candidates Of the University Of Wis
consin football squad was knocked down and
received severe injury to his ear. He
dered insensib1e. He will be unable to- report
for practice for a week or more =. .
dummy, passed the ball and lined up for signal
practice Kuehmsted alternated with Jones at
quarter Perry was tried in place Of Convill
at tackle. Vanderboom also took part in the
practice for short time. Considerable i'm,
provement noticeable In the work Of the
candidates. f '-@ Sd. 4. IL zss-..z 800 {
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BIG RACE rs ON
Ten Miles in Nine Minutes on Circular
..,-~.- . Track the Aim.

New York Sun Special Service.
New York, Sept 23-Ten miles in nine
minutes on a circular course is the mark that
two daring operators will try for in the auto
mobile races at Empire City track Saturday
afternoon. Charles Basic. with p. I. Bowden's
1O0-horse power racer, and Carl G. Fisher Of
indianapolis, with the eight cylinder flyer, are
the opposed parties that were matched today for
Basic is the present holder Of the world
fve-mile record Of o:13. but Fishers powerful
racing machine is considered equally as fast:
and it is quite certain that all previous figures
will be lowered at the meet.
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AUTO BOATS MAKE
STARTLING TIME
Vanderbilt Wins the Race, Aver
aging Over 26 Miles an ,:
Hin Hour. : :
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
New York, Sept. 23-W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr.,
steered his autoboat Mercedes to victory yester-
day in the race for the American Power Boat as
sociations challenge cup. The race was started
off the Columbia Yacht club house at the foot Of
East Eighty sixth street, and the course was
thirty nautical miles in length.
The Mercedes made the course in i hour, q
minutes, 80 seconds, averaging 22.s6 knots, or
20. 1877 statute miles hour. This Is the fastest
time made by autoboat in these waters, and
it is said to be worlds record for course
thirty miles long.
The second race will be decided this afternoon
and the third race on Saturday.
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IOWA CITY IN LINE
Double Bill Presented for the Opening
&c., Of the Season. ~

Special to The Journal. ;rr
lowe Falls, Iowa. Sept. 2e.-The football sea-
son will be opened here tomorrow with double
Clarion team and the Ellsworth college eleven
at the Ellsworth college athletic park. AS an
been arranged the opposing teams being Clarion
and Ellsworth college: The high school football
season at the fair grounds in that city, meet
ing the high school team of that place in the
initial game Of the season. = - .
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GIANT LOBSTER
Built Like a Battleship Forward, but
Tapers Off to Pig1ny Size.

Provincetown- (Mass.) Cor. Boston Jour
nal.
Disguised at the continued cold that
has sufficed for the locking Of surface
waters and SO chilled the very depths
that some fish species have succumbed
and Others fed their customary winter
rurous, decapodous, stalk-eyed crusta-
cean family now crawling with cold
feet at the bottom Of Massachusetts,
bay came surfaceward yesterday, seek
ing relief, perhaps. It was aided in
It's escape from the icy depths by Joe
Thomas and Louis Ramos Of the trawler
hauled up the bulky creature on n an lev
trawl line four miles northeast of High
land light.
This is the most quantity modelled
lobster ever landed at ProvincetoWn.
It's bow: end has the torso o2 q prize
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-23
AMOS ALoNzO SCARED
Hands Out Usual Wall About Lack Of
Material.

Chicago, Sept 2s.-coach Stage is downcast
over the football prospects Of the University of
Chicago. He has no big men and no promising
candidates for the team Michigan will have
the heaviest eleven in the history Of western
football. Northwestern will have the fastest
Chicago will have neither heavy nor an un-
usually fast team.
Unless new candidates of promise report on
the Midway, Stage fears defeat by both the
Jurple and the Wolverine teams, and in fact,
altho he has not stated it. defeat all along the
line in the big college games,
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IV0tGK01kr quarter w no w III EICDaDly JON
Squad Next Week.
BILE. The work of arranging Harris work falls
to Dean Jones, who, while stickler for standing
nounoed dyed-1n- e-wool football enthusiasts in
the northwest. With Harris well-known ability
as student, tt Is expected that there will be
no trouble about his arranging his work and get
ting to work with the team in few days.
Il ''Punlc'' Does Stunts.
r +was to laugh" yesterday afternoon
''funh'' Webster was out in pearl-gray suit
baseball gaTb. The play was not going to suit
them, and they decided to get into it. Dobie
took stand at quarter and Punk" was his
center. Dobie gave the candidates demon
strat1on Of passing at lightning speed. After
the pass ''Dobe" went thru the line and liter
orally hauled some of his backs thru by the ears
after him. Webster tore big holes in the op-
posing lineup to the everlasting rumpling of
the aforesaid pearl-grays, but it called to mind
the caption over the old picture, Grin and bear
st, Dadl it's the making Of the pup''
The first team was given another lineup last
night. The arranged follows
Luce, LETT euds Tschabold and Case, left tackle;
right guard, Brush, right tackle; Marshall,
right end, Cutting ana Weissel, quarter varco
and Rurgan,. LETT half Hunter and Kremer,
fellows were taken out the field and chased
up and down on signals until they had overcome
all indications Of chilliness. They were then
taken down to the star chamber at the end OF
the stand, where out Of sight Of everything and
everybody but DR.. williams and migratory birds
they were put thru formation drill. Some OF
j these tactics will probably be sprung on the
! South Dakota Jackrabbits Saturday afternoon
After they had completed their work, the first
/ squad came to the field for run and then re-
tired TO the Turkish department Of the gym. The
scrub teams were kept at each other until
o'clock, and they went at the work as tho they
really enjoyed It. Some of them were enthu
elastic to the point of attempting to land {
punch or two, but this blew over as quick as Il
came up. THE third squadron taunted the second
team on their play, and the second team did moi
Z Saka IN fha lansing
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New York, Sept. 23-Twenty thousand per-
sons saw the grand young mare Beldame
win the first special at the Gravesend track. It
her thirteenth start and eleventh victory this
year, her only two defeats being when she ran
third in the Metropolitan handicap, one mile, won
by Irish Lad, and second to Hermis in the test
handicap, at one mile, at Brighton.
In both these races Beldame was adjudged by
ell observers to have had hard luck In the Met
ropolitan she was ridden by an apprentice, A.
Brennan, and was much knocked about. In the
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probably ha made wonderful improvement ID
his tackling. This plan looks good.
First Months Work.

This week virtually ends one months work
for the squad. The men have been at 1t since
Aug. 20, when they went to Waeonia. won.
derful improvement 10 manifest. The work Of
the month has been almost entirely Of a rud1-
mentary nature, and this has been well done. In
another month team work VIII have
been started and the finished form OF the team
of 1904 will have begun to make manifesto
ton. The Nebraska game Is the first where true
form and staying power Will necessarily nave 70
be shown, and while he has not said so DR.. Will
Hams is probably working the team up to the
Nebraska contest. Not that Nebraska Is the
hardest proposition, but it is the first game where
speed and close play must be the order from
the first blast Of the whistle.
Tomorrow afternoon the jackrabbits Of South
Dakota will make their appearance at Northrop
field. Word has passed that the game Is not to
representative Of sporting goods house was
on Northrop field yesterday afternoon. He had
just left Vermillion and expressed a notion that
the jackrabbits would score on Minnesota. He
said he had witnessed the men of both teams at
work, and from what he saw Of the South Da-
kota delegation he thinks they have heavy
backheld and an exceptionally fast one for this
season of the year. He handed out the 1nfor-
nation that two Of the rabbits backs were
credited with 100 yards in ten seconds, but the
writer will have to clock it himself to take
this without reservation.
Wh1ttemore of Brown.
A. 81. Whittemore is coaching the rabbits. He
is Brown man and received his football educa
ton at the Providence institution. This Is hi
third year in the South Dakota school, and hi
expects to make his reputation the Mike
Murphy of the wheat fields this year. Incident
| ally he will help South Dakota make one. L
this dope is true there will be transactions a
| Northrop field tomorrow afternoon.
1t had been expected to play th1rty-hve min
ute halves, but the rabbits have requested short
er time, and twenty-minute periods will b
played. If the rabbits as fast as claimed TO
them lot can happen in forty minutes. If tn
Dakotans prove easy for the first team. the sec
ond may be sent in for the second half.
| There were coaches to burn" on Northro
field last night. Willis Walker, Harry Loomia
George Mueller, "Punk" Webster and Jimm
rrsfe1d were in evidence. DR.. Williams, a
usual, looked after the first team, while Dobi
and Stevens, with the volunteers, were putin
vigor into the scrubs battling.
The canvas screen plan has been chosen q
the most feasible for shutting Off the public vie0
of the gridiron from the Harvard street en-
bankment. Iron posts will be raised and car
vas stretched between. The work Of fencing
the gr1d1ron is almost complete and by to-morro,
the players will be free from interruption fro1
the friends whose zeal is in excess Of their tude
ment large attendance is expected at th
Saturday game.