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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17
ARTIFICIALIZING DOGS
Some of the Tricks Resorted to by
Would-be Prize Winners.

New York, Dec 16-The case of
Eastover Lancelot, a Boston terrier,
whose numerous wins at prominent
shows have been protested because, 1t
is alleged, his beautiful screw tail had
been "faked,' is now before the West
minister Kennel club for adjudication.
No matter the decision, the inquiry,
if it serves no other purposes than to
call attention to the matter of doc,
toring' for show purposes will be we'll
worth the time spent on it. .'..
Indeed, the question is an important
one as to how far fanciers can go In
producing artifcially certain exagger-
ated effects, and not seriously lnJure
the breed Take the bulldog, poor ma
ligned beast, supposed by. the lowly to
be the most savage of animals, but do
Gle, patient, loving and really delicate
in constitution.
Fifty years or a century ago the bull
dog was a terror. He is not that now,
for " doctoring' has done him lot Of
harm. One young dog was shown at
"a big show in Madison Square garden
that had been so tspread that he was
unable to stand.
Unquestionably he had been kept for
long time in plaster cast, which in
such cases is carried around the chest
and under the shoulder joints, the fore
legs being drawn far out from the
joints and kept spread until the plas-
ter sets.
Richard Croker, Jr, had his famous
Rodney Stone at the same show, and
Rodney Stone, tho he captured the
blue ribbon and was then in his prime,
hobbled along like an old man.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17
THE END OF BRUTALITY

The coaches came at Teddy's call and prom
lsed to amend
Our glorious game Of football; all brutality
must end.
For man to gouge another, they said, was
most unfair
Nor did they call it strictly Hoyle to yank
each others hair
The laymen all applauded, while the fans gave
their assent,
And a murmur Of approval turnout the nation
went
1t looked as if all mankind had blossomed ont
again, then
Penn slugged Harvard and Harvard biffed
Penn.
Bill Reid went back to Cambridge after hear
ing preXys spiel,
And showed the boys at Harvard how to play
the game genteel.
He declared as how twas vulgar to soak and
soil the face,
Alleging that the soaker was thus rendered
vile and base.
He taught them that no longer must the
tackle ever try
To eliminate rival by poking out his eye.
Other coaches took the cue and were making
PROCESS, when
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17
The Sporting Whirl.

" IF'E must be a, weary task for the
81 folks who live in Florida and
@@@ California. In those climes it is
necessary to play teonis, baseball golf
and race automobiles the year around.
Up in this neck of the woods it is diff
ferent-vastly different. We have all
sorts of weather and all sorts of sports.
One pastime never lasts long enough
10 get tiresome.
In the summer the young mans
thoughts turn to baseball and to the
outdoor sports Of the milder sort. We
always come pretty close to winning
the pcnnant, but do not land, the chase
furnishing excitement between spring
and football. TheD comes the pigskin
game which keeps the sportsmen busy
until after Thanksgiving. Just as that
ends the owners of the steppers cut
loose on the ice, the bowlers bowl, the
curriers' curl and the ski Jumpers skip
all over the state. The iceboats 90 so
fast that they shoot icicles into the
vermiformus appendix Of the man at
the ruddcr every time he lifts his head
to spit and the skaters and coasters
arc as thick as fleas on a Scotch collie
Sporting life in Minnesota is one con-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17
S Upon the Passing Show

both of these famous players fell into
hard lines. Kelly drifted down the
line of the minor leagues and died of
pneumonia in 1894. Clarkson s break
up has been gradual and even before
the alert mind gave way it was known
that he could not live long.
Clarkson was one Of the, early g heady
pitcher He chad everything and
despite his powers in this line he used
the thought in a style that made him
the pitching wonder of his day. In
1886 Clarkson was just in the full
bloom of his greatness and electrified
the baseball world by letting the then
famous Detroit club down without a
hit to their credit. He was cool headed,
never lost his nerve when the bases
filled up and when things looked squally
Clarkson was standing up with an air
of confidence and putting them over
with the deadly accuracy and choice
that had won him fame.
He was born in Cambridge, Mass, in
1861, and started out in baseball as a
catcher on a school team. He went to
the Beacon team Of Boston and while
working with that organization fell
beneath the notice Of George Wright,
who knew ball player thru brick
wall. Wright shifted him to the
pitchers box and built him up in that
work Worcester was then in the
height of it's glory as baseball town,
in the NATIONAL league, and Clarkson
was sold to the old saucemakers. -
He did not make good as a pitcher,
got charley-horse and was transferred
to the Saginaw team Of the Northwest
ern league This was in 1883 He
did not show form here and it is said
that he was slated for the bumps. The
Saginaw team was having a red hot
struggle with Peoria and as all Of the
pitchers were off form Clarkson was
sent in and in the final series pitched
three games and won all of them. Sagi
nav disbanded in 1884 and Clarksor
went to Chicago and then went to thu
Boston club thru the famous sale.
There, working with Kelly, thr,
three years Of work Clarkson gained
his greatest fame. His work still stand
phenomenal and he remained will
. Boston until 1892. In that year h.
was Internationally released on &C
count of an injury to his arm an
later drifted to Baltimore where h
failed to show up his old skill. H
went back to Bay City, Mich, an
opened cigar store. His last turn i!
, baseball was in 1895, when he manage
the Bay City team in the Michiga
State league and could not make it &C
He disbanded the team and went bac7
J to the little cigar store to spend hi
days in brooding over his former great
ness. His health gave way, reason tot
; tered and he was sent to sanatoriun
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17

Penn soaked Harvard and Harvard banged
Penn.
There are times when all reforms are ripe
to win the day,
When cleaner methods seem about to sweep
the dirt away;
The critic takes his pen in hand and adds his
little mite,
The parson and the teacher jump in for what
seems right.
A halfback cannot punch q guard until he's
dyed him red 49,
Without bringing condemnation upon his luck
less head
Such brutal acts are obsolete; the game seemed
rescued when
Penn punched Harvard and Harvard poked
Penn.
The motto, Love your brother man." was
put to test again
Not far from where it got its start from good
old William Penn.
The giants from DIP Boston way, all decked
in crimson hues, Z
Essayed with honest motives to give Quaker
Town the blues. .
But honest motives don't advance the ball 50
very far;
For victorys sake men will take q
conscience with scar,
And so it came about that there were bifs
and maulngs when
Penn whaled Harvard and Harvard clawed
Penn.
Chicago ecord-Herald.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17
PACIFIC LEAGUERS
WANT HUGH LEACH
Minneapolis Ball Player Can Have
Contract with the Portland
- Club. To-. s.~ -,

Hugh Leach, assistant manager Of
athletics at the university and former
captain of the university baseball and
basketket-ball teams, may be enrolled
as a member Of the Portland Pacific
league team next season.
Leach is senior law student at the
university. His work as catcher of the
Grand Forks Northern league team last
summer attracted the attention of the
Portland arrangements, and negotiations
are now pending for his engagement as
catcher for the Portland team.
If Leach accepts the offer of the Port
land management his ball playing will
end at the close of the season, as he
intends to begin the practice of law
next fall. He is one of the most popu-
lar men in the university, and has held
many undergraduate honors during his
college course.
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game went to tie and Michigan imme-
diately raised yowl about rough play,
giving that as reason for not playing
Minnesota the following year. There
was no basis, save chagrin, for the
charge. 1t was hard game and men
playing seventy minutes without head
gears can expect to get bumped The
officials did not disqualify man for
rough play in that game, and this
showed that Michigan's claim was
without basis. All of the wind was
taken out of the wolverine sails when
Curtiss was thrown out Of the Chicago
game for roughing Eckersall, and the
wolverines will be forced to keep quiet
in future about rough play:
The west knows that Michigan has
great team and that Minnesota has
one of the same variety. Minnesota is
willing to measure strength at any
time, but Michigan attempts to claim
championship honors without winning
them upon the field of play. Sports
men are beginning to smile at the side
stepping of the wolverines. It looks,
all other considerations included, that
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17
FAST TIME MADE At
LAKE Of THE ISLES
Warm Weather Set the Horses to
Going Great Guns on
Ice.

Fast time by green performers was
the predominant feature of the first
ice racing of the season at the Lake
of the Isles course yesterday after
noon. The afternoon was warm and
the ice was just soft enough for the
trotters aud PAGERS to foot it very fast.
The meeting had been regarded by the
horsemen as nothing more than a warm
ing up affair, but some interesting sport
developed.
The three minute pace went to Pine
wood in straight heats, but it took five
brushes down the half-mile stretch to
settle the supremacy in the three min
, ute trot. Billposter came home with
first place in this event. In the first
: heat Billposter looked to be out of it,
trailing in in fourth place. In the sec
ond heat the pace was faster and the
. horse with the signboard name crawled
! up and finished second. After that in
, three heats there was nothing to it but
BiIIposter and the final heat was trotted
I in 1:13H, very fast time for the first
meeting Of the year. The same time
marked the fastest heat of the trot and
some Of the reinsmen think that the
warmth Of the afternoon put the marks
l'll htl ~" IOi Jllc clUlIS Ol luC uOISeS
: in the colder weather to come.
Crowd Enthusiastic.
A large crowd watched the races and
interest ran high. The usual precau-
ions of wiring the course have
:oeen taken and only by runaway is
here any danger Ito the spectators.
The horse lovers out yesterday watched
- he flyers from the ice, from carriages
nd from automobiles. The crowd must
lave been close, in number, to 1000,
J nd if, the quality of the brushes keeps
! Up it will be larger at the matinees to
ONE.
Work on the stables was completed
ete yesterday afternoon and by next
aturday everything will be in first
-, lass order. The horses were trife
TRANCE to the course yesterday ani
ONE time was lost in getting the events
eats going, but within a short time
he officials expect to have everything
Ding with a clocklike precision.
YaStnrdav' events.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17

PoPSio hOI dIuou
the fact that King
and Holt would
return next season
and put up a reg
ular man : eating
team. Now from
the east comes a
story that Philip
has not signed a
badger contract
for next year.
T h re may be
nothing to it, but
to a victim Of the
p o k e + germ it
would appear to
be up to the Wis
consin people to
boost the ante and
see that the kitty
is properly fed.
This might cause
a signature. King
is worth a big lot
Of money and
Wisconsin in get
ting him can feel
safe that she Las
no bargain coun-
ter coach for the
football team.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17

to go after it in an automobile.
This wish Of the magnates is one of
the easiest ever to crafty. All they
will have to do is to scatter those Co,
lumbus pitchers turnout the clubs of
the league and there will be a lot of
free hitting in all of the games. The
Ohio twirlers would be a banquet for
the Banjohnson wagontongue artists.
Of course this will bring squeal out
of the smokester of the Columbus Dis
patch, but that is to be expected.
. !. 4. !.
3. w., Rose Still Studies.
~ ALPH ROSE, the big Michigan
~ athlete, is having a lot of
n - trouble and is still seeking an
education. He has tried it at half a
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17
BOOTS AND BOOSTS---BY THE DUTCH UNCL
eng Diasan dndryR etpnsU mhn Pasngsho

tinuous round Of pleasure and the be-
nighted inhabitants of what the rail
road ads call the salubrious chimes -
find existence as monotonous as a
dramatization of tariff schedule. Of
course, at times, it gets cold enough
in Minnesota to freeze the tail Oft an
Eskimo dog, but that only adds zest to
the sports. .1- +
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17
CHICAGO TO CONTEST.
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service. N
Chicago, Dec. 16:-Dr. Raycroft, of
the University of Chicago, today. mott
fed President Liginger of the central
association A. A. U. at Milwaukee, that
he will enter a big team in the winter
in door championship meet of the as
ISOLATION, which will probably be held
in Chicago. DR.. Raycroft said this
afternoon that there was no conflicting
date at the time and this would enable
the varsity to enter its men. ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17
O'BRIEN IS PLEASED
resident of American Association Re
turns from New York Meeting.
ecial Cable to The Journal.

eoial Cable to The Journal. -
Milwaukee, Wis, Dec. 16.-President
D. O'Brien of the American asso,
alton arrived home this evening from
e New York meeting. Regarding the
5'afting system he said; "The minors
d not. get the price asked of the ma
rs, $500, but they get what they
ave been coatending for the past three
Ears, that is one man from each league.
nat will help the class A leagues es-
scfally. The class A leagues will also
8ntrol National association affairs, or.
( least, have an equal voice here
ter. - .r...
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17

w nat s the use OF
the wolverines at
tempting to break
into the charmed
circle Of the east
when there is a
large gap in their
western schedule?
r h 9 wolverines
know that they
can get a game
with the gophers
any time t h e y
want it by max
ing the request.
The Michigan re-
luctance to play
M i n n e S o ia led
to an undecided
championship for
1904 and only de-
feat in the Chi
cago game saved
a question as to
the champions of
1905. The facts
are few and plain.
Michigan encoun-
tered in 1903 a
team which sur
sr1
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17
The Eckersall idea.

~ HICAGO is just now in the middle
of considerable excitement over
Walter Eckersall. There are
shudders of apprehension going thru
the town from the midway district to
the northern shore. 1t is all over the
fact that 'sEck' has drawn a pair of
knickerbockers from the bursar of the
University of Chicago and is going in
for "socker" football. Chicago dom It
know socker football from the nebular
hypothesis, but it takes it for granted
that if The Man Behind the Toe says
it is all right, it is right.
Eckie should catch on in this new
game without great deal Of trouble.
Joe Curtiss gave him fairly good in
itiation into the mysteries of socker'
on Thanksgiving day.
4 4 !.
The Melzner Case.
~ ONE of the badger purists are
a kicking about Melzner graduate
ing next spring and then coming
back in the fall and playing post-gradu-
ate football. It may lose him the cap
taincy of the team. Postgraduate
football may be expected SO long as the
big nine conference keeps up this fool
rule about barring freshmen.
!. !. !.
F. "watty" Is Victim.
fkVw ? ATTY strolls off down to
w New York to attend
baseball meeting and a
New York Journal artist does him up
like this:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17
POWERS TEAM LEAD 6
COMMERCIAL LEAC UE
Roberts and Donaldson Teams
Are Tied for the Second
Honors. -

The Powers team is still leading in
the Commercial league with the Rob-
erts and Donaldsons tied for second
place. The other teams are trailing
with greater difference in the standing
The official average follows:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17

uoAeH co1leSes, dHu
while making a
reputation as u
weight thrower,
he has never been
offered the presi-
dency Of any large
university. He has
been arrested in
California as a
vagrant and ex-
plains his pres
ence on the bump
ers Of a freight
car by saying that
he was travelling
with a crowd Of
hoboes for the
sake of soc1oloyi-
cal study, the re-
suit Of which was
to be published in
a magazine. The
only way that
Michigan, can vim
dictate Ralphy is
to elect him. cap
tain of the track
team and show he
same trust in him
that was displayed
in the election of
~ -
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will be no one to dispute with him as
to whether or not the athletes shall be
fed fried turkey at the training table
and he will be free from many Of the
embarrassments which marked his
coaching at Madison.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17
Cochems in Crackerdom.

EDDIE COCHEMs, formerly a star
r player and later assistant coach
~2S Of the University of Wisconsin
football team, is wanted by the Georgia
crackers as a coach for their football
team. Cochems has been coaching the
Clemson college team and has made a
success of it. The "Kunnel Gathers
of Georgia have been watching out for
a good man and think they will adopt
the former badger. Down there, there
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17
BARRED AT 'KAW.
Ry Publishers Press.

By Publishers Press. - = VI -
Kansas City, Dec. 16.-The game Of
football was placed under the ban by
the principals of the high schools in
A resolution presented by Supt. j. H.
Greenwood, denouncing football as now
played as Eboy-killing and education
and gladiatorial SPORT"
was passed by the principals by a vote
of 3S to 8. -, -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17
LYNDAIIEs ARE VICTORS
Basketball Team Defeats Riverside by
Score Of 81 to IL

In their first basketball game Of
the season last night the Lyndales
were victors over the Riversides by the
one-sided score Of 81 to II. The game
was played in the gymnasium Of Lyn
dale Congregational church on Lake
street, and the gallery was filled with
over a hundred "rooters' and basket
ball enthusiasts.
The score fairly indicates the relative
strength of play. The Lyndales were
easily superior to their antagonists
from the Augsburg seminary, both in
individual work and in team play. The
Riverside players worked hard, but
their efforts came to naught thru q
painful lack Of accuracy, and the men,
bers of the team failed to work in har-
mony. They looked heavier than their
opponents, but the lighter men were
much shiftier and in shooting the goals
and the baskets showed the effects of
greater practice.
The teams lined ND as follows.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17

Admiral Lord Charles Beresford
claims the distinction of being the first
European who was allowed, by invita-
ton, to gaze upon the face Of the mika-
do Of Japan. This was in 1868.
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Up to James.

wv YHILE Jeems Corbett is writ
w ing SO much about the prize
w ring he might get real busy
and tell all about that battle with Kid
Mccoy. Tt would make; mighty inter
esting reading matter if James should
follow the plan of the chorus girl who
shocked the pony ballet with the sug-
gestion "Let s all of us girls get drunk
and tell our right names
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17

there is something of saffron tingo
in the makeup Of the Michigan team or
its managers. Minnesota is willing
Michigan won't play-Who's afraid Z
Huh?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17
GREAT DANCER NOT
IN THE MASSED PLAYS
Men Injured at Football in the
Work of the Open
.~-. ~- Field.

President Roosevelt g stand against
unnecessary roughness in football and
the recent fatalities resulting from the
game have brought the subject of
changing the rules imperatively to the
front, says writer in the st. Louis
Globe Democrat. So strong is popular
opinion becoming on this point that the
rules will undoubtedly me greatly modi
fed at the next meeting Of the inter-
collegiate rules committee. How they
will be modified is a problem which is
worrying the expert members of the
rules committee more than it is the
mass Of those who follow the sport
with more or less knowledge Of the pre-
nier college game Of the United States.
Play Is Deceptive.
To the person who derives his knowl-
edge Of the game from seeing a game
or two during the season, the problem
is simple. What looks like the most
dangerous feature of the sport from
the standpoint Of the spectator is the
mass plays and the piling up which fol
lows these. Eliminate these, and the
the inexpert followers of the game rea.
! Dull IL ID d1oo oilonS CllS llu0 Uuttt
notifications of the rules have been
made, but, despite the fact that the
mass plays under present rules allow
of the use Of but five men behind the
line, while formerly all eleven could
mass as they pleased, the list of those
=, injured and killed has grown longer.
AS matter Of fact but few accidents
are caused by mass plays, strictly
speaking. ;Piling up is more likely te
occur because a play is slow in getting
started. There is no hole in the line
! and when the runner hits the latter
he stops, and both teams pile up. There
is comparatively little danger in this
as the players do not gain enough mo
mentum to cause serious injuries, ant
the weight Of players on top Of the mel
underneath is not sufficient, to injur'
the latter. Players fear piling up bu
little. IT,.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17

The substitution Of manufactured
ID cut tobacco for the me-honored
ne has not met with universal ap-
oval in the British navy.
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ANDY Tier. Bearcatcher.

~ UCK FREEMAN has received a
- letter from Andrew Jackson
@A-A Her in which A. j. tells how,
he slew Pennsylvania
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17

Sir Conan Doyle and other public
spirited men have started in to ascer-
tain whether tobacco can be grown
proitably in ireland.
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which caused the accident is described
in detail it is found that the latter
occurred in open play.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17
Michigan Sidestepping.

SA~ HERE is talk that Michigan
4 will play Pennsylvania next
year, remarks a Detroit
paper fors the 'steenth time this fall.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17

He grew worse and the closing scene
is not far away. He was clean sports
man, a splendid player and the old
timers will feel a genuine regret at his
passing.