Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-11-22

...BREEITIES

Manager Coffroth a y IL O'Brien
slows f1tzsimmons away In six or
seven rounds he will Immediately sign
him for a fight with Marvin Hart.
Coffroth has not given up hope of
drawing Jeffries out Of his retirement.
He says that as soon as the purse is
big enough Jeff will be on hand to
fight for II.
Manager Griffiths of the New York
Americans, is striving hard to get
together a strong pitching staff for
next eason He has already pur-
chased three promising men from the
Pacific Coast League and has strings
out for two more. The Highlanders
will train at Birmingham, Ala, and
Ga.
One of the songs sung by Prince
ton students at the Yale-Princeton
game, and which made a big hit with
the crowd, was as follows:
Way down in old New Jersey,
In that far-off jungle land,
There lived a Princeton tiger,
Who will eat right off your hand.
But when he gets in battle
With the other beasts of prey,
He ~frightens them almost to death
In his peculiar way.
CHORUS.
Wow, WOW, wow-wow-wow,
Hear the tiger roar;
Wow, WOW, wow-wow-wow,
Rolling up a GORE. =
Wow, WOW, wow-wow-wow,
Better move along
When you hear the tiger sing
His jungle song.
The tiger fights with all his might
When you say "Play ball"
In January, February,
Any old month at all.
He plays to win, through thick and
thin,
In summer, fall and spring,
And when he'll meet you, he will
eat you,
For he's the jungle king.
Connie Mack says the Waddell par
ody on Everybody Works But
Father" nearly broke the Reuben
ones heart. Connie was always noted
as a kidder.
Hub Knoll, who has played ball in
nearly all the leagues form coast to
coast, has started to manage Dayton
in the Central League next season.
Mrs. Rube Waddell is confined in a
Philadelphia hospital, while the Reu-
ben one is travelling with a "medi-
cine" vaudeville show. His stunt is
to split an inch board with a base
ball.
Walter Fra2tz, the pitcher preacher
of the Kansas City Blues, who has
been drafted by the st. Louis Ma.
~tionals, is said to have only a verbal
contract with Kansas City and st,
Louis may not see him after all.
Frantz is a s%iX-footer, a natural hit
ter, plays the infield or the outfield
equally well and is one of the most
willing men that ever donned a base
ball suit. He is contemplating retir
ing from the diamond to pursue his
studies for the ministry.
Billy Nolan, manager of Battling
Nelson, drinks nothing stronger thar
Apollinaris water. That's my limit,
says Nolan. 81 have seer too many
good fellows lose their grip because
they boOZed. Drinking may do nc
harm until it reaches that stage where
one constantly Graves it. Then the
damage is done and a fellows best
efforts go for naught. l never could
understand why so many prize fight
ers hit the booze game so steadily
An interested spectator at the ring
side during a fight in New York the
other night was Jake Kilrain, who
fought John l.. Sullivan rs rounds
at R%ichburg, Miss, July s, 1889
There has been a great improvement
in boxing since the old days." said
Kilrain.
Jack Madden, said to be former ban
tamweight champion of the world, Is
in a fair way to go to the penitentiary
down in Texas. Madden and young
Choynski" (Jake Skidman) were
matched to fight at Fort Worth, and
had gone one round when the police
interfered. The men are in Jail, AND
under the Texas law can be sent t
prison for five years, as prize fight
ing is a penal offense in the Lone
Star state. ~
Unless Wabash obeys the "Bil
Nine" rule in regard to playing fresh
men that college will be dropped b!
Indiana next season. Wabash is salt
to be the most fragrant offende
against the rule.
Charlie Mitchell's decision to be
come an American citizen with
permanent residence in New York
raises the awful suspicion that he
about 20 claim the heavyweight cham
pionship, too.
The only unmarried men on tn
New York National team r Donlir
Devlin and Gilbert, but the latter ha
had experience; he is a widower.
Jesse Burkett has asked the Bosto
Americans for his release, as h
wishes to blossom out as a magnat
at Worcester, Mass.
Young Teddy Roosevelt says h
would walk 100 miles to see a goo
prize fight. What's the matter wit
paying car fare?
SHAKE 1T OFF.