Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-19
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The Cincinnati Reds will play
bunting game next year. Ned Hanlon
says so, and he ought to know, for
he's to manage the team next year.
1T was bunts that won three pen
nants for Baltimore when l managed
the Orioles" declares Hanlon, and
if the Reds can become successful
hunters they'll be in the pennant race.
So you can put it down that the bunt-
ing game will be their specially next
year He will devote the biggest part
of next years southern training trip
to bunting practice. There will be solid
hours devoted to nothing but learn
ing how to dump the ball in front of
the plate on those Texas diamonds.
Lobert and Higgins are already ex-
pert at the bunting game, but they
can learn something, and there are
lots of other Reds who don't under
stand the A. B. c. of the bunting art.
In Cincinnati a few days ago Bat
ting Nelson saw for the first time
the moving pictures of his fight with
Cans. After he had seen the pictures
he made speech and said "Siler's
decision has ruined him and made me
famous. shall make no comments on
the fight, You can see the pictures and
judge for yourselves. Pictures never
lie and you can see that it was Cans
who did the dirty fighting and not L.
Concerning Siler's suit for damages,
Nelson said: He might as we'll have
sued for a million for all the good it
will do him."
Nolan has commended all along that
at the time Nelson delivered the
blow that knocked the negro out Siler
was directly behind the Dane and
could not possibly have seen where
the blow landed On this point there
need be no further argument, as the
pictures plainly show Siler standing
at the side of the contestants and very
close to them and apparently looking
for something of the kind to happen.
The blow that put Cans hors de COM
bat was either foul one or fair
one, and no one sitting at the ringside
that day was better qualified to settle
that point than George Siler himself.
Indeed he was in much better position
to see what was going on between
the men at the time the fight was
brought TO an end than any person sit
ting at the ringside and the pictures
are very clear on this point.
The fight shows the "Battler" showed
through the ropes in the fourteenth
round and Cans STOPPING down and
assisting him back into the ring.
They also show Nelson displaying hi 5
appreciation for the kindness by strik-
ing Cans before the latter could get
into fighting position. They show the
Dane down in neutral corner in the
fifteenth, and again showed through
the ropse in the sixteenth round. They
further show Cans knocking Nelson
clear across the ring with a righthand
punch to the jaw, but they also show
Nelson returning for more as soon as
he could steady himself-New York
Telegram.
In the two big leagues the following
players are those who started theil
base ball career on college teams:
Tenney, Boston Nationals, formerly
of Brown; Lynch. Pittsburg Brown;
Clarkson, New York Americans, Har
ward; Meier, Pittsburg, Princeton
Hildebrand. Pittsburg. Princeton
Hahn, Chicago Americans, Oberlin
Hickey, st. Louis Americans, Ohio
Wesleyan; Stahl, Washington, Illinois
Lundgren, Chicago Nationals, Illinois
Falkenberg, Washington, Illinois
Powers. Philadelphia Americans. Notrt
Dame; Mathewson, New York Nation
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