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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03

son. Football is no worse, not as
bad, in fact, as many others. The
turf season claims its quota Of VIC
tins every year. Yachting takes men S
lives in large number. Polo, antomo-
billing, in fact Aevery form of outdoor
sport is attended by some element of
danger. Those who, participate in
athletics run some risk The percent
age between those who play and those
who give up their lives is so small as
to make almost any sport seem safe.
There is nothing of heartlessness in
| this. | have only sympathy for those
whose friends or relatives have lost
their lives thru football, or. any other
sort of sport, but when game is at
tackled as generally as is football and
with so little real cause it does no harm
to stop and look the facts squarely in
the face.
Football is not a sport for young
boys. 1t is not a sport for men who
are not trained to play it. All of the
big teams have competent coaches and
trainers and this explains why mem
bers of these teams are so rarely found
in the list Of those injured.
/ am at loss to see where football
can be greatly modified. Walter Camp
has been yowling about increasing the
| downs distance to ten rather than five
yards. This will mean a great deal
more kicking and more kicking means
more tackling in the open. The tack
ling is one Of the dangers of the play,
but tackling cannot be eliminated with
out running the game.
3 There is brutality-too much of it
in football, but that is the fault of the
individuals and not the game Coaches
do not teach foul tactics. If man is
a brute and thug he will be a brute
and thug at a Sunday school picnic or
in a football game. If he is a gentle.
man he will play clean football. The
rules should be changed and more
severe penalty imposed for smuggling
and brutality such as the forfeiture of
a game or the barring, for life, of a
man who deliberately slugs or attempts
to MAIN an opposing player.
This would put it up very strongly
to the officials and they would have to
be men of great fairness and without
prejudice. Football is a great game
and is suffering much from attacks
based upon Misrepresentation and
| Ignorance. Inc rules committee, that
body of mastery inactivity and mutual
admiration society tendencies should be
given one more trial and then if they
do not do more than they have in the
past they should be kicked overheard
and the colleges Of the country get to-
gether in representative meeting and
attempt to free the game of it's objec
tionable features. The people who dc
not know a kickoff from a goalpost
have, no business in the readjustnent
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03

ent tears in every booze parlor in the
country where the half soaked horse
jockey reads it. But it did not 60
half far enough. The Toledo liar
should have told how Cresh reared up
on his hind legs and waved one of the
fore ones, adios, as he caught the last
sight of Ketcham's hired girl on the
roof of the old barn at home. He
might have had Cresh wipe his eyes
on one corner Of the blanket and say
"neigh! neigh!' when invited aboard
the parlor car.
Some of these liars are thoughtless
when it comes to making a good story.
The writer, however, threw in one
master stroke when he says, in describ-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
C0FF0RTH MAY CANCEL
:HlTz:,.0,BRlEN BOUT
ern freshmen, @.
BY Publishers Press.


San Francisco, Dec. 2.-Rumor came
from the east last night that there was
chance that Manager Cotforth would
call off the Fitzsimmons-O 'Brien fight,
carded for Dec. 20, on account Of the in
ability of Fitzsimmons to get his hands
and feet into proper condition. A dis
patch from Chicago stated that this is
talk current in the lake city. Cofforth
is due to arrive in San francisco to-
morrow. Ill.,. :, &
Eddie Graney, who has conducted
Cofforth IS fight business during the lat
ter's visit east, when asked about the
rumor, said: "These two men, Fitz and
O'Brien, are signed up to fight before
the Yosemite club Dec. 20. They have
posted forfeits. IF either one Of them
fails to appear ready to fight, he will
forfeit his $780,. That 8 all there is
to it. The club is going right ahead
with preparations for the fight and has
no idea Of calling it off,
These are days of Importance for
Fitz. His last fight here with Gard.
ner was such as to render it imperative
for him to "makes good' this trip OF
else permanently retire. The fight
crowd here by the Golden Gate is a
"show me'' crowd, and will watch
Fitzsimmons very carefully in training
before an opinion is formed. - .s.. =. I,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03

ponent and the
doctrine of the
b a G k-h e e l. He
spends a stated
number Of hours
on the mat, per-
hitting the flu
t ure G. e org e
Washingtons to
wheel him around,
a proceeding that
must look like a
sky terrier at
tempting to clean
up a butcher IS
pull pup.
Wrestling will
be Of great bene-
fit to the army. In
the future thsre
will be no repeti-
lions of the now
famous Taggart
case. This trained
wrestler officer
will lift the SER
pent from the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
VIOLETS FOR WATKINS
Eastern Papers Casting the Flowers at
--s'.. Baseball Magnate. II

The veteran scribe, Tim Murnane, in
the Boston Globe, the other day, had
this to say Of another veteran baseball
man: y 81
I'm the American association w. H.
Watkins Of Minneapolis has come to
the front as the strongest baseball man
in that organization-a safe man, one
who stands well with organized ball,
and a man who will keep the trouble
makers in their place. Tip your cap
to Watkins as the new power in the
American association
The subjectof this laudation, William
Fl. Watkins, is reall yas clever in base
ball diplomacy as he is clean and able
in character and conduct, and he will be
a great factor in keeping the American
association not only intact, but always
at the front Of the baseball table. He
and Mr.. Bryce rendered invaluable serv.
ices in settling the war of 1902, and
since then these two have always been
forces to be reckoned with not only in
the American association, but in the
greater National association Sporting
Life.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
Freshman Football Team Made
Good Record in the Seasons Pav

be granted their class numerals by the
athletic board Of control OF these
nineteen Maloney, Coughlin, Foker,
Eakins, Dunn, Castor, Moore, Frykman,
Ertl, Merrill, Smith and Hubbard have
played in two or more Of the three big
nine games. Atkinson, Schain, BLY,,
Knocke, Murphy, Morse and Kaiser
have participated in one of the three
championship contests and it is prob
able that the board will award these
men their class sweaters altho the
varsity NJ is only gained by participa-
ton in two Of the big games Of the
year.
Experiment Successful.
Altogether the freshman season has
been remarkably successful. The expert
ment Of turning out freshman team
was practically new one at Mime
sofa as in the history of university
football there is record of only one
freshman team. In 1900 a team was
organized among the members Of the
class of 1904, but no games were played
with the freshman teams of any of the
big nine institutions and the team re-
ceived little backing from the univer-
sity rooters.
Great interest has been taken by the
undergraduates in the freshman team
this year and altho the games have
been played in the mroning good
crowds have turned out to see the team
play. Undoubtedly Minnesota will be
represented by a freshman team again
next year.
The freshman record for 1905:
Oct. Freshmen: 20; Wisconsin
business college, 0. 49,. : *
Oct. 15-Freshmen. s; North Dakota
Agricultural school, O..
oct:o 2l-Freshmen, 5; Iowa fresh.
men, 0.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
Being Div ers and Sundry Ref
,tions Upon the Passing Show

ing with Masten Park high school,. He
was but Is years of age. Scott Kerr,
among the list of the dead, is alive
today and only has bruises to show for
the injury which was heralded as fatal.
Horace Knight. Of Exeter, N. H, died
Of meningitis, but the death is laid to
football. Joe baltimore, the colored
rubber of the Northwestern team, was
drowned while bathing, but his death
is charged to the brutality of foot
ball." Howard Montgomery, aged II,
received spinal injuries which resulted
in his death.
John Beehan was Is years old, Will
lam Moore 10, Herman Noorgard II,
! and James Squires l6. John Summer.
gill was an Independent player dying
from injuries received in Sunday
game. Two more. young boys are cited
to complete the list and one case is
pointed out where the player, in run
| ming, fell and a weed ran up his
nostril bringing about death. This
could have happened at playing tag OF
footrace and is not true charge
against football, altho included.
In the anxiety to make out bloody
record against football the agitators
did not stop to analyze and look into
their statistics. They carry their owl
story. >
| The boys whose lives were sacrificed
were too young to think Of playing the
game-too young to think Of undergo
ing physical training such as is neces
sary to protect the player in any of the
track or field sports. The elders killed
were Independent players having nc
connection with universities or colleges
and the heavy chance is that they were
not in anything like physical condi
tion. The Hurley case is the only one
where player on a well trained team
received anything more than severe
bruise, or the possibility of a broker
bone. r.. *@
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~~ lOOGDdll HI IIc pTCStHG COIu>
motion and furry is the un-
fairness of the assertions made against
the game. A lot of people who know
nothing of football are yelling like
Sioux Indians at beef issue about the
dangerous form Of the mass plays when
men are hurt, more often, in the open
field work. More players are injured
| in running back punts and in the open
work after the kickoff than in all of
the mass plays.
Football is not gentle game. It is
not for weaklings and if the aforesaid
weaklings do not have sense enough
to keep off the gridiron they should be
kicked off. Most of the injuries, in
fact almost all of them, are to imma-
ture youths playing against heavier
and elder opponents. School boys rang
ing in age from IL to 10 years have no
business in anything but the shortest
and lightest sort Of games. 49,
1t is questionable if young man
under Is years Of age should be al
| lowed on any football field The pub
| llshed list of a week ago shows not a
varsity man in the list Of victims.
| The Hurley case is an exception, but at
this writing Hurley is alive, altho dam
gerously i'll. A consideration Of this
list Of the Chicago Tribune is interest
ing when it is dissected.
James Bryant, who heads the list of
dead, was too young to be playing the
game. He was killed on field at
Canon City, Col. Miss Bernadotte
Hecker was killed at Cumberland, Nd.
Football is not game for. girls in any
sense Of the word, but it claimed vic
tim in what was apparently trial at
play rather than play.
J. c. Rondere, an independent player,
was killed at Jewett City, Conn, Oct.
%, Sunday game. Investigation will
doubtless show that this man, playing
Independent football was not trained
and in no proper physical condition to
engage in the sport. Arthur Foote
killed at Salem, Mass, Nov. "a, was but
l3 years Of age-far too tender an age
to undertake the task Of playing foot
ball. 49,.
G.. G. Ficken, al independent player,
of New Orleans died as result of in
juries received on Nov. 20. w. J.
Kelly was killed at Buffalo while play
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
SORE AT SULLIVAN
Western Athletes Tired Of the Domino
tion Of the East
Special to The Journal.

special 70 Inc Journa1'
Chicago, ILL.,, Dec. 2.-Friction among
the Amateur Athletic union officials
continues to crop out and the breech
between the eastern and western fac
tions appears to be widening to such
an extent that open warfare is likely
at any moment. A clash between the
rival American committees to attend to
the American end Of the Olympic games
at Athens in 1906 has caused the latest
trouble and as result the western
committee has resigned and refused to
take any interest in the Greek contests.
The Westerners blame James E. Sulli-
van, secretary of the A. A. u, for the
misunderstanding. The eastern man is
head Of the American committee and
Immediately after taking charge sent
word to the western committee that he
had not been Informed of such COM
mittee and had gone ahead on entirely
different plans and intimated that the
western body was not needed, as he had
enrolled in his national organization all
the men that were needed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03

If it could be
traced at this late
day I believe that
J as t S e a S O ms
deaths from base
ball would far ex-
ceed the deaths
from football. The
agitation against
the game may re-
suit in an i'm
provement. The
talk of legislation
against it is folly
and comes from
the people with
more hair than
brains about theil
heads.
! Sports of every
Z kind demand q
=, certain toll OF
lives every sea.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
NEW BLOOD In THE
}. BIG HOCKEY LEAGUE
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Calumet, Mich, Dec. 1.-The Interna-
tional Hockey league will open it's Sec
ond annual season Dec. IL. The men
signed by the various clubs have re-
ported and are practicing every day.
While applications were received for
membership from several new clubs, the
directors of the league decided to stick
to last winters makeup and Calumet,
Pittsburg, Houghton, Sault Ste. Marie,
Mich, and Sault Ste Marie, Ont, will
be the only teams in the league. Next
winter the circuit will be considerably
expanded and it is likely that some Of
the fastest clubs in Canada will be tax
en- in.
Pittsburg, which presented rather
weak team last winter, has the most
formidable club this season. Some of
/ the fastest hockey players in the
signed and the smoky city aggregation
promises to put up hard fight for the
Ipennant. .rt .'.
Portage Lake team Of Houghton will
be stronger anad faster than last year.
The lineup follows: Riley Hern, goal;
Walter Forrest, point; Barney Holden,
cover point; bruce STUART, cenCer ana
captain; Joe Hall, rover; Fred Lake,
left wing; "Grindy' Forester, right
wing; Harry Bright, substitute. The
team averages fifteen pounds heavier
than in 1904-5.
| Calumet's team has been greatly
weakened by the absence Of Hold Stuart,
who captained the club and played Gov,
er point last winter. Baxter, who
takes his place, is an excellent player,
but there is not another player like Hold
Stuart. - ~. -
The two $780, teams will be strong
er than ever, the weak men having been
REPLACED by faster skaters and better
stick handlers. The American $500
had same brilliant men last winter, but
was lacking in team work. This sea-
: son s team should work together better.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
Sport Section.

A. o., Duffy is nit and never was. There
is nothing doing in his record line and
never will be-a regular sort Of forget
it operation.
Now if the A. A. U. would just come
out here and operate upon the Wiscon-
sin victory over Minnesota in the same
style it would cause heap of satisfac-
ton. The Amateur Athletic union,
however, is about the funniest organi-
cation on earth unless it is the branch
Of the S. P. c. A. that sent officers to
watch a football game down in Iowa
with instructions to make arrests when
ever the opposing centers got to biting
each other. ......
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at Jne Oiymplan
games and classes
them as frivolous.
The point is well
taken. The Greeks
no longer loiter
around wearing
the laurel or
twanging the Tyre,
but are right down
into the CONNER
cial strenuosity Of
the times.
Where a Greek
formerly sat on
the hilltop and
sung Of the glories
of the rising sun
he gets up these
cold mornings and
fires up in the
store to keep the
bananas fro m
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
Automobiles
-.-.....-
Attention!

I take pleasure in advising you
that for the 1905 season I shall make
a specially of building Autos to or
der, in sizes from 25 to so H. P.
I find that a very large majority
Of the people prefer to have car
built according to their own ideas
and to suit their own special require
ments, and In taking this matter up
I have taken particular pains to
make my connections for this work
with a concern that has. had am ex-
tensive experience, not only in build
Ing cars, but engines Of all classes,
as well as Transmtssions, and an In
vestigation will show that they have
the most complete line Of Automobile
Engines and Transmissions Of any
manuf acturer in the United States
at the present time.
A good car cannot be built by
any concern purchasing parts from
different factories throughout tho
country, and assembling them. Meth
er can it be built by a concern that
has not had years Of experience In
Gas Engine construction.
If you contemplate having four
cylinder car for the 1905 season it
will well pay you to call or make an
appointment, and I will be pleased
to call and give you full particulars
in regard to price, etc.
I also handle their complete line
Of stock cars, which can be seen at
my place Of business at amy time.
Trusting to have the pleasure of
hearing from you, and thanking you
for the same in advance, I beg to
remain,
Yours truly.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03

the daddy of all of them at his
weight In his day and won thru the
power of that punch and his footwork.
The only thing he has left that will do
him any great amount Of good is the
old head on his bumped up shoulders.
1t IS small, oddly out of proportion to
the shoulders, but it is crammed from
chin to crown with the know-how of
the fight game. The punch has faded,
the hands are bad and the footwork is
not expected to come anywhere near
the former standing. O'Brien should
be able to beat down the old chaps
guard and chop him to pieces altho
the red one is going to put blinkers on
the eyes of O'Brien before the trick
is turned. He will reach the younger
man, but the followers of the kangaroo
doubt his ability to put the sleeper
over on the Irishman. Fitz is defy
ing all ring records if he wins There
are many friends who are going to re-
greet to see the game old chap slaugh-
tered, but that is how the fight looks
today. If he wins he is the athletic
marvel of this age, ages past and ages
to come. 1t will be rough house bat
tie and all of the noise coming from
the coast about Fitz being possible
winner looks like play of the press
agents to catch the sucker money. I
cannot, for the life of me, see wherein
Robert has any more show to win than
the lamb has to kill the butcher
!. !. :.
A. A. U. Foolishness.
~ HE Amateur Athletic union has
wiped out all of Arthur Duffy g
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
COULDN'T BUNco HIM.

. Z
81 we got sure-thing proposition to
moter, confidently.
Absolutely sures' asked tie old
millionaire
No doubt about it.
s.Then keep it yourself, my boy, j
should hate to take anything like that
from yon would seem like rob
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03

Robert is going
up against t h e
stiffest game of
his later days. He
is not the Robert
of even five years
ago and when a
fighter of his age
engages to take
the measure of a
man of O'Brien IS
youth and speed
there is likely to
DC q QemOnStra-
ton of the adage
that ''youth will
be served.
There are MANY
reasons why I do
not believe that
Fitz has a lookin
with O'Brien. The
old ohor hoe Ioop
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03

Threshold and threw him so high and
far that his Uniform will be out of
style before he lights. A little Queens
bury and "jewiit' might be thrown
in as well. Tom Jenkins is working
for the protection of the homes and
will go down in history as a worthy
rival of "Captain Jinks of the Hoss
Marines. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03

Ex-Magnate Charley Strobel has pur-
chased a one-half interest in the Inger-
soll-Hopkins company, owners of Luna
Park, Pittsburg, and the firm will pro-
duce shows in the future under the
name Of Ipgersoll, Hopkins & Strobel.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03

1 oleuO, ou1o, anu
concerns M. W.
Savage s recent
purchase, CIR e s.
ceus. The dope
ster tells how
Cresceus baked
when it came time
to leave the old
homestead, would
not enter the car
which was to bear
him away and
finally compelled
the gentlemanly
g hosslers - to
blindfold him be-
fore he could be
torn from the
place where he
h a d spent h i s
happy childhood
days down on the
farm.
It was a good
lie-well told.
and will cause sill.
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A Voice from Renville.

TOOTBALL reform has reached the
agrarian districts. Mr.. r. HAN,
writing in the Renville Star
Farmer of recent date points out the
moral decline Of the Greeks and the
English. He points a scornful finger
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
Robert il, Danger.

" UNLESS the dope goes wrong In a
Il hopeless style Ruby Robert will
receive his in plentiful style
when he stacks up agains Philadelphia
lack 0 'Brien.
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ing the apothesis that those who wit
messed the incident do not attempt to
explain it along psychological lines. !"
Tt is a good thing they don It. I i'm
agine the average rubber around
Ketcham s stable would have rather
hard time attempting to argue upon
the psychology Of anything.
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JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE.


Just before the battle. mother,
\ L am buck1ing on my splint.
While the surgeon on the side lines
Fixes arnica and lint.
On my heads a helmet, mother;
On my shoulder is pad;
Rubber bandages and nose guard
Shield from i'll your six-foot lad
Just before the battle, mother,
I am thinking some of you.
Still I can't forget the fullback
Whom I've sworn an oath to do.
l. am going to paste Elm. mother
l shall put him in a trance.
See-een now at my suggestion
They have brought the ambulance.
-..- REFRAIN.
Farewell, mother, you may never
Recognize me any more;
But that fullback will be missing
When the battle cries are DER.
New York Times.
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Cresceus Balked-They Say.
~ HE string fiend leads a merry
life. One day he is busy with
the affairs of state, the next he
is "querying' the world on scandal
and then dips intp sport. The latest
fine young tear-squeezer comes from
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03

Mike Kelley declared in Cincinnati
the other day that he would make an
effort to get hold Of the Minneapolis
franchise. This looks as if he had about
given up the idea Of joining forces with
Grille.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
Walcott in Trouble.

zoe WALCOTT is now having
a trouble down east for assaulting
boy in poolroom. It would
be a kindness to culture to lead the
Barbados boy out behind the woodshed
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03

It is reported that Infelder George
Wrigley Of Columbus has decided to
jump to the proposed new Pittsburg
Tri-State League club. ,z...-. -,
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TRAINING GROUNDS.
The following places. have been
selected by the American league
clubs for spring practice:

New York at Birmingham, Ala.
Boston at Macon, Ga.
Philadelphia at Montgomery, Ala.
st. Louis at Dallas, Tex.
- Chicago at New Orleans, La.
Cleveland at Atlanta, Ga.
Detroit at Augusta, Ga.
Washington, Charlottesville. Va.