Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-11-04
SPORTING...
..BREkITIES

The fine work done by Ollie Picker
ing in "a minor league during the past
season may recall him to major COM
pany. Ollie fielded in old time form
and clouted the ball with commend
able regularity.
Bulletin - Mike Donlin has not
whipped a waiter for a week and RuDe
Waddell is acting like a normal human
being.
The ranks of the v%egetarians has
lost its only satellite-"Kid' Parker,
who eschewed meats of all kinds for
many months, having broken over and
returned to thick, juicy steaks smoth-
cred with mushrooms. Parker was n
of the most promising lightweights in
the country when he suddenly gave
over his old style of training and be-
came a vegetarian. Whether it was
the vegetables or something else, he
lost his and received several
unmerciful beatings. Now that he has
gone back to red blood producing
beef his friends have hope that he
NAV regain some of his lost prestige.
Coach Stage sees only the brawny
men of Michigan looming up on the
horizon OF the 1905 western champion
ship, and is directing all his energies
TO have the Maroons in the finest pos
sible trim for the Thanksgiving game.
Michigan is playing wonderful toot
ball. and the Maroons will AVE the
toughest battle of their career to take
them into camp.
John w. Gates is preparing to race
one. of the most powerful strings Oh
horses next year in training. He VIII
have for his trainer, Durnell, and his
jockey will be Wiley.
Yale is working hard to strengthen
it's defense, improve the puntlng anu
get new formations perfected to be
used against Princeton. The eleven
is fast rounding into condition, and
looms on the horizon as about the SUI
fest foot ball proposition in the east
Six hundred head of thoroughbred
horses will be shipped by express
from California to New York, making
the greatest shipment OF thorough
breds ever undertakne by an express
company. The horses are from thS
Rancho del Paso of Jas. r. Hagg1n
Forty-eight cars will be required &c
ship the horses across the continent
They will be divided up into toul
trains. and the cost of transferring
the horses will be about $4,000
Breaking up of the Rancho del Past
is a great blow to breeding Interests
on the Pacific coast.
II is said that since Young Ernt
bested Abe Attell and Young Corbet
he has had to order a hat three sizes
larger than he formerly wore. Gouns
Erne is considerably of an in anC
outer. When he fought Corbett twt
years ago he was chased all Owe
the ring, and when he went agalns
Attell in st. Louis his work was 81
bad that he was Kissed in nearly ever.
round. Kid Herman pounded him al
over the ring. But now it looks al
though he had struck an upward strid'
that may yet lane him close to tn,
top. But his head should be reduced
just the same.
In an experiment with tires a me
torist has discovered that the wide
the tire the greater the speed. VIII
a two cylinder car equipped with tWt
inch solid tires he was able TO attal
an average speed of IL to IA miles a
hour. Increasing the tires to w an
one-half inches he got up to 10 miles
With four-inch pneumatics he wa
able to strike a gait of twenty miles
and increasing these by an inch on tn
UdCh wheel save nlm - "itN9 -
hour.
English boxing clubs have adopte
the American way of refereeing tn
fights. Formerly it was the custom /
that country for the referee to sit /
a chair outside the ropes and give a
his orders to the boxers from hi
chair. The counting was done frol
outside the ring and if a man wa
partially dazed, as most boxers al
when dropped from a punch in tn
Jaw, they are not able to realize thf
the counting is being done, and the
are counted out before they are awal
of It. Several important contests,
is claimed, have been lost through tn
counting being done in that way.
Harvard is getting ready for II
game with the Indians Saturda
The redskins are prepared to give
most praiseworthy account of theT
selves. The weakness of the Harval
ends is causing anxiety.
Because he is behind in class wor
Arthus Erwin, Yale's giant guard, M
been declared ineligible by the untve
sity faculty.