Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-04
SPORTING.
...BREkITIES

Mike (Twin) Sullivan is certainty
up and coming. Getting the decision
over two such clever boxers as Jimmy
Gardner and Mike Schreck within ten
DAYS is a record to be proud of.
The Boston Americans have signed
Ralph Glaze, Dartmouth's foot ball
hero and leading pitcher. Manager
Collins was two years getting Glaze
to enter the ranks of the professionals
as he refused to leave the college
ranks.
st. Louis Athletic clubs will test the
a%nti-boxing law in the courts. Inc
police chief draws the line between
amateur and professional boxers, but
the promoters say the law contem-
plated no such distinction, and on this
contention will go to the courts for a
ruling.
T.
At Traction park yesterday after
noon several of the foot ball players
INDUCED in practice. Signal and line
bucking work were the principal
branches OF the game that were tried
Many watched the pig-skin warriors
al work.
Before a mammoth crowd OF spec
tators graced by the presence OF Pres
ident Theodore Roosevelt, foot bal
teams representing Annapolis anc
West Point played Saturday after
noon. Each team scored a touchdown
and a goal kick, making the score 8
tie, 6 to 6.
An indianapolis man has patented
pneumatic cue which consists OF I
short hollow stick provided with
movable tip at one end and a pistol
and hollow bulb at the other TO turn
ish the propelling power. Pressnr'
on the bulb drives the cue stick out
the distance being determined by tn
quickness of the pressure ON the oulu
IT.
New York police descended on
three-round boxing match the othe'
night, and will make another test cas-
of the law under which they are Delni
held. One Justice has already decided
that th%ree-round bouts are legal, blu
the police hope to find a dissenting
Justice. If they do so, his decision
will be accepted as the true one ant
the boxing lid put on again in Gotham
T.
II mas been discovered that strych
nine ha7 been us9d to stimuiate IN
members of the Spokane high schoo
foot ball team during ne games TN
season. Coach Smith admits tn
charge. and Says the poison was ad
ministered hypodermically by the reg
ular physician of the team. h phy
stefan says no harm can result iron
the slight use of the r%eviver, but IN
parents of the boys take a differen
view and are up in arms TO have IN
practice discontinued.
D.
When Britt and Nelson appeared a
rival theaters the same week In Clevt
land. extra police were on hand u
see that neither of them did any spar
ring whatever. Cleveland is so pain
fully good hat by and by sneezlng OF
Sunday in that burg will be locke
upon as a penal offense. The tw
fighters showed themselves to tn
audience, made a schoolboy sort c
a talk about the big fight" and bacl
ed slomenly into the wings. The al
dience applauded and maybe it wa
happy.
They are getting ready TO Kill tn
boxing game in Philadelphia. Rivi
promoters are al he bottom OF tn
trouble, with conflicting dates tn
bone of controversy. The averae
promoter might be defined as a chun
VINO learns nothing by eXperlenc
With the boxing business dead as
herring in Chicago, ST. Louis and
dozen other formerly good towns
slain by selfish promoters u
Quaker contingent is wrangling al
snarling, preparatory to a final clos
down unless they suddenly mend the
ways.
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According to George Slosson' an
ternational billiard tournament TOT |
new Brunswick -Balke-Collenda u
ply. representing the worlds chaI
pionship al 1872 balk line, Will be ne
in New York this winter, with I
leading players now in Paris and A
erica as competitors. Private adyic
from Paris are to the effect that I
Academy games will soon close
which case Cure, Sutton, Hoppe al
one or two others Will immediate
come over. Slosson also has In vie
a tournament for the leading sho
stops, in which Prof. McLaughlln' .
pert ChlleT, marry hl'lh' VI ! ~"
phia; Al Taylor OF Chicago; and o
or two others, may enter.
o.
A story is going the rounds to
effect that a man named Hyne5 IN.
ed up early in the season at Yale a
gave great premise Of developing II
a siar tackle. He asked cue
IONS than tna ordinary run of can
oates. and wanted TO have all
details of the different plays thorou
ly explained 10 him. He was rec
nized as a man with foot hall brai
but after TWO weeks work with
squad he suddenly disappeared,
was discovered some time lac" d
he was a member of the Virgil
Polytechnic team, and was simply
ting pointers on Yale foot ball. ]
team subsequently defeated W
Point,