Albuquerque evening citizen., 1905-12-01
SPORTlNC...
...BREkITTES

Chicago won the western foot bail
championship yesterday by defeating
the University of Michigan by a score
of 2 TO in a gridiron battle devoid of
spectacular features, but hotly con-
tested throughout,
Corneh lost to Pennsylvania yester-
day by the score of s TO S, In the
most stubbornly contested game ever
seen on Franklin field at Philadelphia.
The score in the foot ball game be-
tween Indians and Ohio universities
resulted In score of IL to 0 In favor
Of the Indiana eleven.
The Haskell Indians we're blanked
Thanksgiving Day by the University
of Colorado's eleven. the vlctors win
ming by score of 80.
California ring followers who are
watching the preliminary work of
Fitzsimmons and O'Brien for their
match at C5lma, December goth, have
picked O'Brien as the winner, and
will lay their money on the Philadel-
phian Old Fitz is striving hard to
get his hands and feet in condition
but is having considerable trouble in
doing so.
The pick among the European stars
have arrived in New York for the
bicycle races which begin at Madison
Square Garden, December 4th. The
foreign teams include Gougoltz and
Vanoni, the French-Italian team; Cor.
singer and Gussat, the French team
Trouseller and Decot, French team
Van Derstuyft and Stol, the Belgian
team. and Hall. who has not mate as
yet.
Six Wisconsin veterans will leave
the foot ball team at the end of this
season-Remp, Bertke, Bush, Wander.
boom, Findlay and Donovan. The pro
posal to drop one of the big games
next season is meeting with great
favor, and it Is almost assured that
Wisconsin will not play with Mime
sofa in 1906.
The signing of third baseman Cnas.
Babb of Brooklyn, to manage the
Memphis team in the Southern Lea
que. assures the Tennessee town of
an aggressive player for the position.
George Siler, the occasional referee,
of Chicago. is having a dreadful time
all by himself, arguing the question
OF who was the first Queensberry
champion of the ring. He has proven
to his own satisfaction that it was
neither Sullivan. Corbett, Fitzsim-
mons or Slavin, and so the public
ought to be satisfied--and continue
in the belief that nearly all of these
men at one time or another held the
championship honor.
One OF the disheartening features
of the meeting between the Army and
Navy foot ball teams next Saturday
will be this chorus of a song the Mid
dies will hurl at their Army opposi-
ton:
Army mule, army mule,
You can kick and balk and bray
But foot ball you cannot play.
Army mule, army mule,
Haw-he, haw-he. haw-he, haw-he,
Army mule"
Young Theodore Roosevelt having
recovered from his New York news
paper injuries. which consisted of
broken nose, torn ear. flattened
chest, wrenched ankle, a broken
neck, a few displaced ribs. discolor-
ed eye and some minor injuries, he
can now settle down to his studies
with the diligence that characterizes
the Roosevelt family. How he escaped
being killed by the New York news
papers Is one of the wonders of the
foot ball season.
Pacific coast fight fans will see two
good bouts on December 20-O'Brien
and Fitzsimmons at Colma and Au-
relia Herrera and Kid Herman at Los
Angeles. Herrera and Herman will
90 20 rounds at catchweights
That the agitation for open play on
the gridiron will bear fruit next sea
son is undoubted by close students of
the game. While the game, as the
leading college sport, is more popular
than ever before, and drew more peo-
pie to witness the contests this year
than any previous year in its history,
the fact remains that the protests
against the mass play, the profess
ional coach, the paid player and vari-
GUS forms of brutality Is more vigor-
Gus and widespread than in years. The
of the rules will elimin-
ate the causes of the general com
plant and place the game on a sound
er footing and higher plane than ever.
President Roosevelt's timely criticism
Of the game and Coach Reid's declara-
tion that the rules must be modified
or the game abandoned have been the
soundest utterances and sanest criti-
cism yet offered.
Manager McGraw expects to make
fewer changes in the personnel of
his team next season than any other
in the National League. Nc
Graw believes the men who won the
pennant still OvertOp any youngsters
coming up from the ranks of the
and that it is better to de-
pend on seasoned material than take
chances with the uncertain talent to-
be secured by way of the draft.