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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25
FRESHMEN TRAIN
FOR DARK HORSE
Practice in Secret for Saturday S
Game with. Unknown Fari-
bault Team.
BY l.. L. Collins.

Coach Sig Harris of thesi freshman team
adopted a secret practice ~ stem last night.
baseball diamond behind the closed gates Of
Northrop field. Harris is not afraid Of spies
and would be willing to have all Of the fresh
men work open to- spectators, but 1t has been
impossible to keep back the crowds on the open
campus and the work Of the team has been serl-
ously hampered. .
:, The signal practice took place in the open
last night and the spectators saw enough to
Judge that Harris will devote the next two.
weeks to drilling speed into his team. Sidney
Stevens, assistant varsity coach during the
past three years, will have charge of the fresh
man second team and under his tutelage the
scrubs should be able to give the regulars the
best kind of q fight. 80 ...-.- f..
Altho it is late in the season new men are
constantly turning out. Last night Rutledge, a
colored lad of massive build, reported for work
and at guard. He showed the earmarks OF
good lineman. He is the heaviest man on the
squad and has had football experience Moir'
a big man with experience In high-school foot
ball, also donned moleskins for the first time
this year and announced himself candidate
for a place at guard or center. He, too, is
heavy and should prove a good lineman.
All Of the freshmen regulars except Oscar
Frykman reported for work last night and the
regular lineup was used, Hubbard taking Fryk
mans place at left halfback. Hubbard is one
Of the most conscientious players on the team
and he is rapidly learning the finer points OF
the game. He will probably be used against
the deaf mutes Saturday.
merrily on with Castor and Rogers princt.
pals. The two men are both fast and either
one will make a satisfactory regular. Gas
tor played creditable game against the Iowa
freshmen Saturday, while Rogers did good work
against the North Dakota aggies j..
The deaf mutes of Faribault have never
played in Minneapolis and little Is Known Of
their team this year. In the past they have
turned out some of the best preparatory teams
in the state and a game with them is Away:
interesting the spectators have chance tt
see signals given by signs. ~ ...
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25
NOVEL FIRE ESCAPE
Basket Suspended from Cornice Rail
Quickly Moved Down.
New York Harold

4NGW LUX h6TdlQ.
10 demonstrate that it is possible to
buildings and yet will provide a ready
means Of rescue as well as a handy de-
vice for hosting fremen and apparatus
to lofty roofs, Robert Watson, an in
ventor, who resides at 124 West Elev.
enth street, gave a public exhibition of
a new device at st. Boniface g parochial
school building, in East Forty-seventh
street, near Second avenue, Saturday
afternoon.
Men, women and children were raised
and lowered on the apparatus from
ground to roof with the utmost rapidity
and ease. -.. H.
The apparatus consisted Of long iron
|rod, fastened to the front Of the build
ing at the cornice over the top story
windows and extending across the full
width Of the building, like a trolley
rail. There was also q vertical iron bal
| from roof to ground.
Attached to a pulley which moved
along the horizontal bar was a smooth
brass tube like the sliding poles used
in engine-houses. This tube, it was dem
onstrated, could be moved easily to any
point of the front Of the building ano
men and boys slid down it.
To still another pulley cagelike bas
ket was attached and in that children
were carried speedily up and down.
The Rev. John S. Braun, rector Of st
Boniface's church. Captain Donovan Of
engine company No. 8, and a score Of
firemen witnessed the exhibition. Father
Braun said he intended to keep thu
apparatus in the building and to have
regular drills with it: Captain Donovan
said he thought the device was the sim
plest and most effective he had eve7
| seen. H.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25
INDEPENDENT FOOTBALL

The Tigers would like to arrange games with With
Eddie Hurley, 1928 Fourteenth avenue N, or
telephone Main 4646 LIZ.
The Campbells defeated the Browns by score
Of 20 to 0. The stars of the game were CLAM
and Perkins.
The second Indians defeated the Daytons Of
st. Paul by score of g to 0. The winners 1er
pound team, SUBMITS preferred. Address Charles
Lindblad, Great Western Printing company;
The Calnmets defeated: the Glenears. 125,
pound aggregation, by a score OF 10 to Q, and
will play the Coliseum team at Thirteenth and
University avenues sE Saturday morning me. The
left tackle Waist left guard: Aldrieh, center;
right end: Bloomquist, quarterback; Willet, left
half; Whipple, right half; Ross, fullback. One
hundred and twenty pound teams wishing games
address w. J. Fish. SIT Fifteenth avenue Sc.
The Mohawks from the Watkins ID to u.
At the end Of the first half the score stood
hawks braced and won out. Dahlgren scored two
drop kicks from the 4O-yard line for the win
ners. These. with the line bucking Of Warner
and a eighty -hve-yard run by ostland, con.
tributed largely to the victory. The Mohawks
will play the Indians at the Steel and Machinery
grounds Sunday and would like game for
SATURDAY..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25
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pORTING
NkSpOTLlGHT:]
HS88aANAzI ~
N|lI8@IM O,LOUGHZM

M. w. Savage is as mad as a wet hen.
He telegraphs from Toronto that he is
not in jail for stealing Dan Patch and
that the king Of PAGERS is IN Memphis
preparing for an assault on the I'M
paced record for the mile.
The owner Of Dan Patch says that
the man who claimed Dan, did not
it would only require 100000 to start
suit the Port Arthur man failed to
come up to the scratch. The telegram
reads in part: as,
This story is worthy of top of column
position with the false and malicious dis
patch from Sioux City claiming that Dan
was sired by Domineer, who never sired
high-class horse in his life. A certain
correspondent in Chicago threatened to
do all the dirty work possible against Dan
Patch, and guess he is getting busy. I
cannot decide which is the biggest lie but
can assure you that I am not in jail.
When it comes to weaving the king 8
English into whipcracker it seems
that Tummas Lawson Of Boston is not
such a lone pebble after all. <
y n ~ - ~
Coach Booth of Nebraska, says Yost
has team Of elephants and they evil
IDENTIFY look bigger every minute he
thinks about them. He will also get
Michigan off his mind along about
Nov. 10. "
..-.--
The Lincoln, Neb., papers in COM
menting upon the freshmen controversy
say DR.. Williams is not popular at Ann
Arbor. Probably not The DR.. Williams
mentioned in the Nebraska paper is
the same DR.. Williams who dropped a
football fly into the Michigan athletic
ointment in 1903. Minnesota $ athletic
director has a style Of nipping little
schemes in the bud which does not make
him loved either in Ann Arbor OF
Lincoln. f..
Dick Padden will manage the st.
Paul club. It is a hopeful sign that
some Of the saint s. athletic affairs are
to be managed. (This must not be con
strued as a knock at the automobile
carnival Of last July.)
| IT #,*s!j
Gil Dobie punted very nicely yester
day for an aged man. HPunk' Web
ster was as short of wind as a fat
policeman and Emil Boeckman showed
disposition to lay on his back and de
star-gazing stunt. 10.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25
BADGERS DRILL x .
FOR BIG FIGHTS
Hard Practice Shows Precision in
Work of Eleven that De-
lights Following.
Journal Special Service.

J0ulHa1 0pec1aI 5erV1oos
Madison, Wis, Oct. 25.-The real work Of
getting the Wisconsin football team into shape
for the remaining two big games on the
schedule began last night, when the
men were given long, hard signal prac-
ttce. The team showed much speed and
precision in the execution Of the plays, tho the
work not sufficiently finished to satisfy
the coaches. Much attention is to be given
during the week to drilling the team in the
usual plays. Drop kicking, punting and sprint
night.
All Of the men except Findlay and Gelbach
were out last night, Clark taking the formers
and Deertng the latter's place. Loseth is still
somewhat weak from stomach trouble and REM
Is suffering from injury to his ear received il
the Chicago game. Both, however. were out fol
practice.
Some scrimmage work will probably be done
this afternoon and Friday. Captain Wander
boom. who was in poor condition last Saturday
| Is gradually rounding into his old-time form
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25
BROOKLYN IS AGAIN
0USTED BY A RUM0R
Journal Specfal Service,

journal Special Service. ~. .:-s@
New York, Oct. 25.-Will Brooklyn change
places with the Providence club of the Eastern
league this winter? " .s.~ ~.
The regular fall story of the shift of the
dodgers to tho Eastern league is afloat but this
time Providence is the city named to take It's
place. All Of last winter, up to the spring
meeting Of the National league there was talk
Of plan to get the Brooklyn graveyard out of
the National league, but the spring saw the
death Of the rumor, just three four proceed
ing springs had witnessed the death throes of
similar tales. ---- -=..
I The run,or comes out of Buffalo this time, but
Manager Stallings denies officially all knowledge
Of it. He stated that he had heard nothing OF
1t and declined to express an opinion as to the
value of the plan If It should prove bona fde
league, and this fact gives rise to the stories
Of its death big league city.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25
stage men REST
But PURPLE Toll
Light Work for Maroons Con-
trasts with Northwestern's
Gruelling Practice.
Journal Special Service.

Chicago, Oct 25.-work at the football
camps at Chicago and Northwestern in prepare
ton for Saturdays game Is on an entirely diff
ferent order. At Evanston Mccormack is utiliz-
ing every second of time possible, afternoon and
evening, drilling his team into shape, while at
the Midway, Stage is devoting the greater part
Of his time to his subs and allowing the varsity
to escape with signal drills.
The purple warriors going thr grind
greatly similar to that to which the maroons
We're subjected during the week preceding the
Wisconsin game 1t is considered likely that the
Chicago eleven will enter the game Saturday
after week Of practice devoid Of scrimmages.
Stages greatest fear is the chance of his men
going stale, and he is making every effort to
counterfeit the effect of the midseason climax to
which the maroons were forced by their sched-
ule this fall.
Yesterday afternoon the midway scrubs finally
managed to beat the freshmen for the first time
this year, securing revenge by a score Of 5
to O.. Stagg devoted the greater part of his
| time to trying out his available men who are
not on the regular squad against the frst-year
men In case he is forced to play subs Satur-
day.
Coach Stage reiterates his forecast Of hard
game with the puppies and is confident that Nc
Cornack will put well-drilled, hard-fghting
eleven on the field Saturday.
The Northwestern coach is not overcommuni-
catiVe, but it is known that he believes his
men have good fighting chance. ~. s.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25
HART STANDS READY 49,.
TO DEFEND LAURELS
Journal sperial Service.

Journal sperial Service. =
Louisville Oct. 25.-"I want to fight
Kaufman anyone else to show the world
that I am champion by right Of merit. 1 will
accept the offer Of the Colma Athletic club to
meet Kaufman for purse Of $4,000, the
fight to be for fifty rounds or to finish If
that be arranged.'' t<..i
This is what Marvin Hart said today. Hart
believes that he is twice Kauffmanns master,
as he says that he could put out two such men
In the same afternoon. He is willing to fight
OBrien too, tho he says the Philadelphia mar
would not draw nearly well as Kaufman
Billy Roche says Nolan has made an unsav
DRY reputation thruout the west and that he has
been proven dishonest. Speaking of Nelson's
style of fight Roche said: s#E :.
II refereed the fights between Hanlon and
Nelson, Corbett and Nelson, also Britt AND
Nelson first contest. know Nelson style al
well as anyone. He whipped Hanlon and Cor
bett in twenty rounds and lost to Britt il
twenty rounds. The secret of Nelson's work
aside from his punching power, is his style Of
using his head. He virtually whipped Hanlo1
by butt1ng him the CHM
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25
BOSTON SIGNS PHENOMENON
Gets Giant Youth Who Never Uses
Tobacco or Liquor.
Journal Special Service,

Journal Special Service.
Boston, Oct. 25.-The Boston American league
baseball team has signed a new first baseman,
who is said to be an athletic wonder. His
name is Harry Mureh and he halls from Sebago.
Maine He is "a years Of age, and despite
his youth has cut wide swath in the athletic
meets up in that neck Of the woods. Murch
stands feet 31a inches in his stockings,
weighs 20s pounds stripped, reaches so inches
Give longer than Fitzsimmons and six more
ran 100 yards in 10 s-5 seconds, put the 1e-pound
weight 40 feet and jumped three standing
jumps to 81 feet. He never drank beer, liquor.
the natural young American is wonder.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25
DECLARES CIGARETS
WERE CAUSE OF DEFEAT
Hour,,ai Special Service.

Journal Special Service
Holyoke, Mass, Oct. 25.-Ogarets are blamed
for the overwhelming defeat Of the Holyoke
high school football team by its despised
Springfield rivals last Saturday. Principal
Moriarity Of the high school, asked today for
the resignation of James J. Lee, captain of the
football team the ground that the team, in
Guiding its captain. had broken training rules
by smoking cigarets. Principal Mortarity 8
destestation of cigarets is well known
II have no desire to be arbitrary, but feel
that if the faculty sanctions athletics the schoo!
teams should give creditable performances In
the various trials Of skill said the principal.
tI am determined to eliminate cigaret smok'
ing by members Of the football and other
athletic teams"
The leading spirits among the high school
athletic circles do not coincide with Principal
Moriarity's views. An Indignation meeting will
be held and If members Of the faculty insist
upon attending the proceedings may cause their
ears to Jingle.
The feeling which has already been engen.
dered between the faculty and the pupils will
probably necessitate action on the part Of the
school board.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25
POWERS LEAVES
EASTERN LEAGUE
Old Chief Of Important Organizar
ton Resigns, Harry L. Tay-
lor Succeeding Him.
Journal Special Service.

New York, Oct. 25.-P. T. Powers, at meet
ing of the executive committee of the Eastern
Baseball league, at the Imperial hotel yesterday
afternoon, resigned from the presidency Of the
Eastern Baseball League association. Harry L.
Taylor Of Buffalo, manager of the Buffalo team,
was elected to the vacancy.
The following board Of directors was elected
c. T. Chaplin of Rochester, Walter Burnham OF
Newark, John f. Reitner Of Montreal and How
ard Griffith Of Jersey City.
Patrick T. Powers has for the last eight years
been the mainstay of the most important minol
baseball association in the United States. Fol
seven years Mr.. Powers virtually held the eastern
league together at times when the withdrawal Of
members threatened ruin.
Mr.. Taylor is graduate Of Cornell university
man well liked, not only in the minor leagues
but in the major leagues, and executive heat
Is well qualified to direct the affairs OF thu
greatest Of the minor leagues.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25
SNAPSHOTTING BIRDS
Treetop Photography the Most Ad7en-
turesome Of Camera Sport.
William. Lowell Finley in Pacific

William. Lowell Finley in Pacific
Monthly.
In stalking birds Of prey with a cam
era, one is confronted with the most adj
venturesome kind of wild life photog-
raphy. These larger birds generally nest
as high from the ground as possible,
and it Is never an easy matter to ma
nipulate camera in the treetops. But
treetop photography comes as the most
exciting part in the gamo for one who
engages in natural history picture-mak-
ing. The photographer must be equip
ped with stout climbing irons, ropes,
straps, a good supply Of nerve and a
The nesting positions that are selec-
ted by hawks, owls and eagles always
make it difficult to secure photographs
| Of getting successful snaps at the parent
birds has also rarely been solved. Again
| and again we have tried to picture larg-
er birds Of prey by hiding a camera in
the treetops and attaching long thread
to the shutter, but such birds are always
suspicious. Our efforts have seldom
been successful, for persecution at the
hands Of man for long generations Of
bird life has made these creatures wary
a suspicion in them that strategy can
scarcely overcome.
Perhaps the most difficult task We
have attempted in stalking the largo
birds of prey with camera was the
| taking Of series Of pictures of golden
eagles in their native haunt. For sew.
eral years I had known of a pair of
these great birds that nestled in the
coast mountains Of California. For
three years we had been growing I'M
patient for the chance to try our CAM
eras on such royal subjects.
At the very top Of the range the
mountain breaks abruptly off into the
head Of the big CANYON. This is the ma
tive haunt of the golden eagle. A large
sycamore is rooted in the bed of the
little stream. -Four good-sized trunks
rise from the giant roots. To the
branch bending toward the valley above
the steep, rocky slope. the eagles had
carried a small CARLOAD Of limbs and
sticks and worked them into the forks
where they branched horizontally. to
the ground. It was a platform five feet
across, not carelessly put together, but
each stick woven in to add strength to
the whole structure, as the stones are
built into a castle.
Climbing one of the other trees the
photographer put up tiny platform in
the topmost branches, where the cam:
era was fastened and aimed downward
at the aerie twenty feet away.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25
TIGERS SHIFT GUARDS
Dillon and Rafferty, Change Places,
Strengthening the Eleven.
urnal Special Service,

journal Special Service.
Princeton, n j., Oct. 25.-The tigers were
There are many places where Improvement
should be made before meeting Columbia, and
these are claiming the particular attention Of
the coaches just now. After hours practice
in signals in formations, the varsity and scrubs
were lined up against each other. However,
no scrimmage allowed the the first
half and each team punted as soon as it re-
ceived the ball. Tenney, the second team
punter, was dtstanced by Bard on the varsity,
who averaged about forty five yards.
change has been made in the line, which
seems to be working very well. Dillon and
Rafferty, the two guards have shifted places.
lips, and Rafferty, at left guard beside Captain
Cooney Dillon and Cooney being the strongest
linemen the strength is thus more evenly
varsity IN the second half and his playing was
as spectacular as usual.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25
COMBINE PROVED
BY TOLEDO DEAL?
Detroit's Hot Quest for Mudhens
savors Of Reality of Freeze
out Project.
Journal snacial Service.

Toledo Ohio. Oct. 25.-Unleas the unforeseen
happens, Toledo's baseball team franchise will
have new owner before next season. Andrew
Rudolph, with bunch Of Detroit capitalists, is
after the city hot and heavy. His known high
bid so far Is $35, 600, but it is claimed that he
has offered more than that and that the amount
for which the loedo owners are holding out
$4,000 will be given II necessary.
This deal was started with Garry Hermann in
New York during the championship series, and
ever since then Rudolph has been hard at 1t. It
is this which leads those concerned to believe
that the major league reorganization Is go and
that Detroit, knowing it viii be dropped, Is
anxious to get the Toledo property before 1t Ia
placed in better circuit and the value CORE
spondingly enhanced.
Secretary Stevens said today: .sIhe offer of
Rudolph Is bona fde, as he has given the best
Of surety Of his sincerity in his offer, and am
OF the opinion they will meet our figure, be-
cause they win undoubtedly be frozen out Of tbs
new combination
"We are not anxious to sell, as we have q
valuable property, but If they will give us $50.
600 1t means so large profit our original
investment that he could not well affo-d to
| refuse to take 1t, but we do not have to sell
and 1t will be our price or none"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25
NOT DEEP MOURNING.
Chicago Journal,

Irishman Ito shopman)-I~ want
somethin' for mournin' wear, but L
don't know exactly what the coostom
is. What do they be wearin now for
mourning
Shopman-It depends a little on how
near the relative is for whom you wish
to show this mark of respect. For a
very near relative you should have a
black suit, black band on your hat,
and black gloves. For some one not SO
near and dear you may have broad
band of black on your left arm, or a
somewhat narrower one for somebody
more distant.
Irishman-Och, is that it7 Well
then, gimme a shoestring. It's me
woife's motherl
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25
DEGREES PROFESSIONAL COACH
President Lancaster Thinks Tutor Evil
Feature of Football,
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service.
Olivet, Mich, Oct. PA discussion of col
lege athletics and the other diversions Of stu
dent life and their relation to scholarship was
the feature of the first session of the college
conference which preceded the Inauguration Of
college. s< --., g. - -..- y =, = =
"The professional coach must co." declared
Professor Seaman Of De Paw university, who
opened the discussion. '"That is the only cure
for the evils which college athletics are now
suffering from. The teams would be the guests
Of the institutions they visit without such dis
plays OF hostility and unfair roofing as we gen
orally see. I am convinced that football at
present makes high scholarship impossible"
lege also opposed coaches Discussing a remedy
for the present conditions President Mauck said:
II believe that if the faculties would withdraw
from the control Of athletics and allow the
students to govern themselves we would get a
higher moral standard in college sports"
President A. T. Perry Of Marietta college made
plea for the young athlete who needs financial
help in college.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-25
APPEAL OF THE LUDICROUS.
~s Dei1v News

! Another story showing how strongly
told Of two Confederate soldiers who
had been wounded in the fight around
Richmond. The army had passed on,
leaving them and their comrades on the
ground where they lie until the hospital
corps could reach them.
How are you feeling, Sam9'' asked
one Of his companions.
stOh, I'm feeling pretty bad, but [ IN
getting good-in fact, I'm getting
holely. I've got two bullets in my left
Leg"
the other. t'I have three in me-"