The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-31

II. h.. DuS udle IS trying 10 secure
the management Of the Portland team
IN the Pacific Coast league. he was
in Portland last week and had a long
conference with the owners Of the
Portland franchise, but left for Seattle
again without coming to any under
standing. When Dugdale sold out 10
the outlaws he wanted to get control
OF the Seattle club. but President Cohn
would not turn down Park Wilson.
who fought for the outlaws last sea-
son under edverse conditions. Then
Dugdale laid wires to secure the Port
land CLUB, and he may yet get this
place. The papers who fought Dug
dale last season, however, are trying
to keep the fat boy ous of Portland
The late Or. cyrus Edison was q
great athlete in his youth and to the
last he was not prouder OF his fame
as e physician than of his fame as an
oarsman. Or. Edison rCwed in the no
table Columbia crew Of 1878 at Hen
ley
Talking one day about athletics
abroad. Dr.. Edsor said: Our college
yeIls are an amazing thing to Foreign
ers, who have no yells themselves. The
tiger sis bOoni-ah' Of Princeton, she I
veil, veil, ycu' Of Cornell. and our
k-ek-co-ax' and 'who-rah' and
so on amuse the good people across
the water enormously.
II well remember the visit of the
Cornell crew 10 London some years ago
and the COMMENT on this crews yell
that an Englishman made Cornell
was TO row the London club, 20 which
the Engiishman belonged. He re-
peated, with a laugh. the Cornell slo-
gsn-'COrneil. J YELL yell, yell, Cor
nen'-and then he said:
1T would never do for us 70 adopt
o similar yell, would it? It would
never DO for us TO shout; london,
done. done, In done London,
Young Gibbs, who will be remem-
bered as having been around this city
nearly ali Of the past year. is now in
Kansas Cizy. where he has taken "
fighting agaiH. lie met fighter named
Leary down there last week and the
bout went twenty rounds. Gibbs geS-
ting the decision. The reports Of the
fght say cihns had his man all but
cur and asked the referee TO stop the
night. rot wanting 10 inj6re Leary.
Tho referee, however refused anC
! Leary went the limit.
+ Jimmy Carroll. the former pugilist,
tells an interesting story Of a fighter
! being knocked out and yet remained
standing. The tale was brought out
; in a discussion as to whether HanlOn
! was knocked out By COrbett in his
late fight at san Francisco. Carroll
/ Eavs;
About hftcen years age, in Indiana,
3 q. fellow Rsgeed FREEMAN met another
pugilist known as Flynn, The scrap
was even until the fourth. In the
9th. though. Brennan rushed and
Swung a hard right-hander to his oP-
ponent's jaw Suddenly. at the top
ct his voice. Flynn began to sing and
: dance. He did not know where he
was. and when the referee declared
( the fight against him and touched him
on the shoulder, ne s2io: Take your
partners for g waltz Yet Flynn was
. knocked out and standing no at that.
man who refuses 10 pay a wager
on a knockout if the referee stops q
/ battle is "a Welcher. pure and simple.
I've seen fighters deliberately quit III
"a ring by lying down and feigning a
knockout. Yet it would be unjust to
say so because when man takes 10
the door from a blow. whether the
punch IS a hard one or not ano re-
fuses to get up, he is knocked out II
IS different. however. If a man in the
he ha had enough and refuses to go
ON with the match. He u then a quit
ter in the trua sense OF the word. But
in cases such as the late Hanlon- Cor
I bett encounter the referee should ne
the sole judge If he says Hanion was
knocked out, his word stands. and nine
+ cases out Of ten any referee IN the
same position would say that the bat
{ tie terminated with q knockout.
The Fiynu-NFalsh twenty -round contest
st Pueblo last week was q rather tame
affair according 70 all reports or the iishL
4 Neither man suffered q kuock-oOWn uof
was either mSn injured 10 any extent
/ The decision Of draw was Wen FsceIN 60
! by he crowd Efforts are being mace "a
match them again for another contest
II Pueblo.
The fact tlat it took Eddie Hanlon