Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-09
NEWS OF ALL
KINDS. Of SPORTS.
lohn F. Madden Talks Interest
ingIy of Turfs Future in
America,
AN INDICTMENT TO BREEDERS.
Was Eddie Ilanlon Knocked 0nt2 Eddie
Grancy's Opinion-The Foul Strike
Modest Ball Player

Those who are interested In the sport
of kings" and there are many such In
Salt Lake. will feel encouraged In
reading the opinion Of John D. Mad
den, one OF the greatest turfmen In
the country on the outlook TO- the
game In this country. He Is full and
trimming over with optimism about the
future of the great sport. He says
that inducements to turfmen and breed
trs are greater now than ever before.
as the earning capacity Of first class
racers is constantly increasing While
IN st. Louis recently, Madden said.
AS to the so-called intricate science
OF breeding in. so blending the blood
OF sire and dam that winners may be
produced in numbers, though Of alb
sofbing interest TO the student and
thCCrlst, the practical need contine
himself TO the formul3/only Of breeding
good mare TO a great horse, taking
into due consideration the varying
qualities Of each, and putting his trust
IN like producing like, or the likeness
of some good ancestor. He will have his
share of winners, his good and his bad
years, and the experts viii tack figures
on TO the pedigrees Of his winners, and
tell how II happened"
Recently Madden sold 40 mares at a
public auction, and he Is now going TO
hal 10 at private sale He says his
object In reducing his band OF brood
mares Is 10 enable him TO train all of
his yearilngs from them, and offer none
for sale at that age. II have no culls,"
h. says.
II am very well satisfied with the
showing that some Of the cracks that |
furnished 10 the turf In 1903 made Irish
Lad won the Brooklyn handicap Broad.
way stakes at Saratoga, and Champion
stakes, Gunfire won the Metropolitan
handicap; Witful won the Crescent City
Derby and the New Orleans handicap"
II fighter is beaten by an opponent
until he can scarcely stand up and Is in
a condition where It would be a shame
10 permit the fight 10 90 on. Is he
knocked out or rot? That IL ques-
ton now being discussed by fight fans
here and elsewhere, since the defeat OF
Eddie Hanlon by Young Corbett." II
IN well known that, when a lighters
seconds throw up the sponge, the de-
feat Is recorded against him as
Knockout. But where the fight Is stop
ped by the referee, there il some dis
pute about the defeated man being
Knocked out In the recent champion.
ship struggle. Hanlon was not. techni.
cally speaking Knocked out. because he
was on his feet at the finish Of the fight
and the fatal 10 had not been counted.
But In view Of the fact that he was
beaten until he could hardly hold up
his hands, much less defend himself,
and that to continue the fight another
round might have brought fatal results.
IA II not fair TO say that he was really
knocked out? The question was passed
up TO Referee Graney a day or two
ago, and here Is his answer:
1T was equivalent 10 a Knockout"
said Graney. 81 know some authorl-
ties contend that a man TO pe knocked
out has 10 stay on the floor 10 seconds
but | never agreed with them, hold
that II a referee steps In or seconds
throw UP the sponge 10 save fighter
from unnecessary punishment. il is the
same as a Knockout. i know IL had
bet that Hanlon would not be knocked
out | would consider that lost It,"
Columns have been written and much
valuable ink has been wasted of late
over the discussion that has arisen
anent the foul strike rule. But Frank
Bancroft, manager OF the Cincinnati
club has It sized up about right. He
says: why. this foul strike business
is Joke. one would suppose that the
entire universe was wrestling with the
problem as to whether a foul will be n
strike or Just foul next season. Now
who cares what II is? There has been
much more paper and ink wasted I'm
this discussion than was used TO tell OF
our Victories In the Cuban war. III
wager that 1t won't draw anyone TO the