Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-31
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Eugene Sandow, the champion of
physical culture and famous man of
muscle, has arrived in London after a
tour of Africa and the east, and has
brought back a native from every
country he visited, 80 in all. They in.
clude Chinese, Hindoos, Hottentots,
Kaffirs and natives Of Punjaub. These
he has Systematically trained. San.
dow conducted a mission during his
tour, the gospel he has preached be.
ing the duty man owes to his own
body.
Hackenschmidt and Alex. Munro,
the wonderful Scotch wrestler, are
matched to meet. They are booked
to face each other on the last Satur
day of this month at Glasgow. The
contest is to be for the catch-as-catch.
can championship of the world and
no doubt will be a spirited betting ev.
ent, because Munro has lot of fol.
lowers in his country. Munro has de.
feated all the noted champions of Eu.
rope at both Greco-Roman and catch.
as-catch-can styles and is confident
that he will take the Russian lions
measure. If he does it is safe to as
sumo that he will make enough mon.
ey to last him the rest of his days
New York, Oct. 3O.-Theodore Roose
welt, Jr., looked over all the athletic
clubs in and around Boston and Cam.
bridge and elected to join the Doug
las Athletic club, a well known box
ing club of Chelsea, says a dispatch
to the World from Cambridge, Mass
Mr.. Roosevelt decided in favor of the
Douglas Athletic club because of it's
boxing and he was voted into mem
bership at special meeting of the
directors after the presentation of his
name.
Judging by the result of the con
test between Higashi of Japan and
Alexander Swanson the other night
1t will be some time before another
jiu-jitsu match is decided in New York
city. The sports as we'll as Hagashi
himself are thoroughly satisfied that
the Japanese art of self-defense has
had an excellent test. Jiu-jitsu is not
so dangerous a pastime as the public
has been given to understand, at least
as illustrated in the Higashi bout
The latter had every opportunity to
display those bone-crushing holds jiu
jitsu is supposed to consist of and was
found wanting. The conditions were
according to his own views and al
the rules of the game were religiously
lived up to. George Bothner, who
acted as referee, gave Higashi more
leeway than the crowd thought he was
entitled to. He did not make one
mistake, and the contest ended in q
satisfactory manner. Even Higash
admitted that he had received fail
play and agreed that he had been
beaten on his merits.
BY reason of his victory over Tom
my Burns of Detroit in Los Angeles
Jack (Twin) Sullivan of Boston is
matched to meet Jack O'Brien early In
December. He recently fought O'Brier
to draw in Alaska and says he will
post $4,000 that he will defeat Jack
Sullivan made an excellent showing ir
the 20 round bout with Burns, anG
had the scrap gone a little farther the
result would undoubtedly have beer
knockout.
FitZsimmons is seriously considering
proposition to purchase tract o.
land near New York and erect gym
nasium' for the purpose of teaching
physical culture and treating those
who have impaired constitutions. L
will be styled after William Muldoon's
institution. Fitzsimmons believes HI
can make the opposition success
His friends suggested that he head ;
company capitalized at 100000 AM
commence operations at once.
Christy Mathewson, the Giants ia
nous pitcher, has been offered S.
Uo0 for 1O-weeks' engagement on tn,
stage. The turn which Matty is t.
do is of little consequence, as tn,
principal thing required of him is t.
show humself during the performance
and work in demonstration Of hoy
he throws his various curves.
During the past five years there ha
been a great cutlery against the mas
play in football. 1t has been state
| and stated again that it was the caus
of by far the majority of injuries +
players and should be eliminated Of
that account. 1t has also been sal
that the mass play is undressing fron
the spectators standpoint and tina
| it should be eliminated on that az
count. There is by far more virtu
in the second objection than in tn
first. The mass play does spoil tn
spectators chances for following tn
ball, but the mass play does not dc
serve all of the criticism that ha
been heaped uOpn it by reason of tn
injured players it is said to have beel
accountable for.
However the mass play has becom
less used. It's elimination has bee
brought about by the two causes
FIRST, it was done in Precipitation @
the popular Outcry' against it's seen
ing brutality, and secondly. it was
concession made to increase the spec
tators' enjoyment of the game. Sine
this has been done, however, a cal
vass of the players will disclose tina
they like the open game even bette
than the mass play, but not becaus
the lack of mass plays reduce tn
chances of injury.
The serious injuries in football com
from two causes. First of all, m,
mentum, and, second, the position {
runner and tackler, which proven,
them from protecting themselves frol
the effects of their violent impac
The best illustration of this was a
forded by the frequent injuries to full
backs in the days when the forward
breaking through to block kicks, inva
iably plunged into the kicker. alread
off his balance and unable to prOte,