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greatest team in the history of base
Ball in Indianapolis. I will begin at
once to strengthen the team and the
pennant is ours right now: 1t will be
a great year in Indianapolis.
f. J. Bryce, Columb us-We will have
the greatest team in the history Of
baseball in Columbus. | will begin
at once to strengthen the team and
the pennant is ours right now. 1t
will be- great year in Columbus.
George Lennon, st. PaulLWe will
have the greatest team in the history
of baseball in ST.. Paul. I will begin
at once to strengthen the team and
the pennant is ours right now. 1t
will be a great year in st. Paul.
Charles Havenor, Milwaukee-We
| will have the greatest team in the his.
tory of baseball in Milwaukee. I will
begin. at once to strengthen the team
and the pennant is ours right now
It will be a great year in Milwaukee
George Tebeau, Louisville and Kan.
sas City-We will have the greatest
teams in the history of baseball in
| Kansas City and Louisville: L viii
Ebegin at once to strengthen the teams
and the pennant is ours right now. II
will be great year in Kansas City
and Louisville.
(They may not have been at Chi.
cago and may not have said these
things-but they will inside of ninety
days.)
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the Michigan man. Eckersall did
clever bit of acting to get Curtis out
of the game, but Curtis certainly put
a few pounds of pressure on the Chi
cago man.
Michigan should learn the ethics of
craftsmanship. The wolverines are
poor losers and the old poker adage
that "those who can't pay had better
not play" will fit pretty well in their
case.
Hereafter when any football team
defeats Michigan it will be well for
them to raise the umbrella as soon as
the game is Overland keep it up for
three months.
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MANSFIEIaD'S YACHT 49,
- FOR CHICAGO MAN?
Actors Famous Boat May Be Added to
to the Columbia Fleet.

: to the Columbia Fleet.
Journal Special Service. . -. ~, ~. -
Chicago, Jan. 13.-Richard Mans
field s steel schooner yacht Amorita,
which is one Of the handsomest pleas
ure sailing vessels in American waters,
will probably be added to the feet Of
the Columbia Yacht club this spring. A
member of the club, who will not al
low his name to be used, is negotiating
for the purchase Of the vessel, which
was placed on sale in New York several
weeks ago, and has gone so far to Sc
cure a price on it and travel to New
York for an inspection.
If the purchase is made this boat
will be the largest and handsomest
.afloat on the Great Lakes. It was built
in 1895 at cost Of about SAC, 900, and
was remodeled in 1901. It is not alone
a magnifcently appointed yacht, but an
unusually fast one, valuable either in
racing or cruising. The boat has a
racing length Of SO feet, and is 99.5
foot over all. It's depth is 1876 feet
and draught II feet.
Two more yachts from the Hamilton
(Ontario) Yacht club will also probably
be added to the local fleet.
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sleep on a corkscrew and never fall
out Of bed. The public was given the
rinky dink, the double cross, the high
roll and the ground fall. AS a result
the. game fell into a disrepute which
still clings.
There is another cause for the
crookedness Of wrestling. That is the
limited number of men engaging in it.
There are many wrestlers, but there
are only few as compared with other
sports. A man, if he is good at the
game, soon gets to place where he
has no opponents and cannot make a
living following the game. Usually
the first thing he does is to permit
second rater to throw him and then
comes the inevitable return match
probably q t'no fall' deal-followed
by third match in which the good
man pins the counterfeit to the mat
after the manner Of naturalist i'm
paling a: prize butterfly. Then the
good man goes out and repeats the per:
| Torrance with some other false alarm.
The wrestlers are not always alone
in the fakes. Sometimes the officials
are as deep in the mud as are the
wrestlers in the mire. A story Is told
Of Chicago match few years ago
which will bear repeating.
A big man was to meet a little man
and the little chap was to win. The
referee and promoters were all in the
game and was expected to make 6
killing in the betting. The match was
catch-as-catch-can strange hold barred
On the night Of the match, after the
sure thing crowd had placed all of thei1
available cash the outsiders grew wise
to what was going on and getting tt
the big chap who was 10 lay down
offered him more money to "doublf
| E44lo nhon ond throw him
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CndC ITeIo Is d
string of broken
hearts following
h i m about t h 9
country. T h 9 n
comes the story
that the new Mrs.
Kid Mccoy has
persuaded the Sell
by boy to for
swear the roped
arena Tor the less
strenuous career
of a jewelry mer-
chant in n e W
York. Right on
the heels Of this
comes the wild
skidoo Of Mrs.
Fitzsimmons, to
Dakota, the pur'
suit, pleading and
reconciliation, the
dog fights, the col
lapse of the floor
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ANOTHER INDIGNANT DENIAL
Fitzsimmons' Press Agent Gives Him
Up Be6euse Of Reconciliation.

New York, Jan. 1s.--s.Yes, they've
made up, and I IN good and disgusted
with them both, - said Leon Fried
man, the manager Of Bob Ftzsimmons,
last night.
"I'm done with him, and her, too.
No more for me. The minute he gets
here I intend to square accounts with
Fitzsimmons and resign. l won't be
the fall guy. Everybody'l say, now
that they We patched things up, that
it was Friedman planned the whole
thing for an advertisement or some
thing else, and won't stand for that.
I've been Fitz's manager and his
friend for two years, and stuck to
him when he did not have dollar nor
friend, but when he goes and plays
the fool like this IN thru.
"I have been negotiating with man
ayers for vaudeville dates, but I'll de-
clare everything off now. Fitz does
not need manager-what he wants is
a guardian
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flies riding on the wheel of the car
riage and remarking to each other
''just see what dust we are rails
ing. F."
But we are for peace. The repose
Of Milwaukee has been broken and
there is serious danger that the row
will attract attention from Milwaukee s
only real sport: The skat season Is
on and the wooden shoes Of the hop
settlement should not be disturbed any
further. Let peace descend. Please
pass the pigs knuckles and the pun
| pernickel. - ) = ~, ..>-r'@
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complacency Of the big Lacquer. He
was out to get the scalp of Grillo and
has evidently succeeded.
can association and announced for his
reason that he did not propose to allow
johnson to control his vote as johnson
was reported to have claimed that he
would. This naturally ruffled the COM
placency Of the big Lacquer. He was
out to get the scalp of Grillo and has
evidently succeeded.
Ban johnson is big man in base
ball. He has shown wonderful powers
of organization and in the face of a
stiff fight built up the American league
until it is the peer of the old Ma
tional. He is too big man to be
butting into the affairs of the minors
and the general followers of the game
will resent the dabbling into the af-
fairs Of leagues other than his own.
johnson is said to aspire to the posi-
ton of car Of baseball and the Grille
resignation is sample of his power.
Too much Of this business will put the
public wise to how baseball is worked
and then ping-pong will get popular
with those who follow sport for sport s
| sake
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Taking Themselves Seriously.

~ HEY say that man can tell a
\ story SO often that he finally
~ becomes imbued with the idea
that it is. true. This looks to be the
case with lot Of those yensan con-
sumers at Milwaukee.
The minor league magnates took it
into their heads to insert the harpoon
into George Tebeau and Grifiths at
the Chicago meeting this week and did
so with ease and elegance. Then to
rub salt into the smarting wounds these
magnates turned around and elected
j. Ed. Grillo to an important office.
The scribes who have undertaken the
defense Of the frightened three Of the
American association became as busy
as cranberry pickers. They touted II
that the minors had ridden rough shod
over the big leagues, all because the
leading light of the frightened trio
had been the recipients Of the prod
The fact was that the Watkins, Kelley
Grille, Bryce quartet had won in 8
fight carried into the minor league
council. The others had lost. These
scribes have written the partizan story
Of the American association wrangle
SO long that they have come to believe
it. They are something like the two
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-14
BARNEY TO BE STOPPED
oldfeld May Be Arrested If He Tries
Record Run in New Jersey.

Trenton, N. j., Jan. 13.-The auto
mobilists Of New Jersey have officially
condemned the proposed effort OF Bar
ney Oldfeld Of New York to speed his
auto across the state.
Police departments in this city and
elsewhere along the road between
Philadelphia and New York have made
arrangements to arrest Oldfeld It he
attempts to run his car faster than the
law permits.
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Barney Dreyfus, the prince of base
ball club presidents, says he will not
reduce the salary of one of his players.
Dreyfus made more money last season
than ever in his career, and he intends
the men who helped make it for him
shall be remembered handsomely. Drey-
fus never retains man who .loes not
care to play for him, and does not hold
onto him in the hope Of getting $ big
price for him.
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it Is well to hide
your watch and
leave ]. your cash
with your wife be-.
fore you 60. to the
hall. The wrest-
lers have them
selves to blame
for this condition
of affairs. If con-
Quoted on the level
wrestling is a
great game, but
unfortunately it is
seldom on the
level. T., ..-
| Twenty years
ago wres t Ii n g
looked to be the
big sport, but the
leading mat artists
started out on a
career which made
them so crooked
| fhot thov no,,J Il
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the American as
ISOLATION. Now
comes the state
ment that John
son would not
agree to the draft
price asked by the
minor leaguers,
unless Grillo re-
signed.
Grillo started
his fig hit o n
O'Brien for presi-
dent of the Ameri-
can association
and announced for
his reason that he
did not propose to
allow johnson to
control his vote as
johnson was re.
ported to have
claimed that he
would. This natu.
rally ruffled the
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The appointment Of such COMMITTEES
means there will be such a body. There
is no opposition to that idea. This is
one Of Julian Curtiss pet notions and
mentioned by him last fall when the
football agitation was beginning to get
torrid.
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soon as CnS VOL
verines get back
to their own set
Element.
In 1903 when
Minnesota tt e d
the M i c h i G a n
team at football
the howl was de-
ferred until the
wolverines h a d
reached Chicago.
Then they start
ed to sling scandal
and have been at
it ever since.
In 1905 Michi-
gan encountered a
snag for the foot
ball airship and
all of the gas
leaked ut on
M a r s h a ii field
Curtis was thrown
~ u H.
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AAs ~ y
Minneapolis We
W i'll h a v e t h e
greatest team in
t h e history Of
baseball in Min
neapolis. I will
begin at once to
strengthen t h e
team and the pen
nant is ours right
now. It will be
a great year in
Minneapolis.
j. Ed. Grille,
, Toledo-We will
have the greatest
team in the his
tory Of baseball
in Toledo. / will
begin at once to
strengthen t h 9
team and the pen.
nant is ours right
now. It will be
a great year in
Toledo.
w. H. Watkins.
indianapolis We
will have the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-14
Saints Are Coming.

Ut. PAUL horsemen have followed
- the lead Of the Minneapolis reins-
~ men and are" now having ice rae
ing at Como. If the saints will just
keep on following the "forward Min
neapolis'' idea we will soon have them
trained up to the point where they will
not get scared at automobiles and will
not keep on trying to pull the corks
on the bottle-shaped pins in the bowl
ing alleys. A.
p We have great burden, as mission
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LA ~ VA'AA
batters to fan at his curves, but never
would the big boy get out in front Of
a crowd and not do his best to make
a monkey Of the batter. Rube could
not throw game that way.
Another point against the stories
about Rube is that he was "fxed.'
Rube's makeup is such that no one
would think Of engaging in bad deal
with him. He is too apt to fly off
the handle and tell all he knows about
the affair to the first reporter he en-
counters. They are barking up the
wrong tree in the case of Reuben. In
my opinion he is like wrestler once
knew who was always ready to fix a
match, but it always had to be for
him to throw the other fellow: Any
time Rube Waddell gets into frame
up it is a safe bet that the Philadel,
phian will be the winner. The stories
told of late won't hold water.
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sides.
Hardly anyone
believes that Rube
Waddell is guilty
Of throwing games
or quitting in the
world s champion
ship series. He is
not built that
way. He is as
fond Of the lime
light as some peo-
pie hereabouts are
Of the pronoun I
and if there was
= any "fxing'' it
is a cinch that
Rube W a d d 9 ! l
would have it so
arranged that he
was to be the
prize pig in the
exhibit. R u b g
s1L e. - I'LL
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Crooked Wrestlers.

WV p RESTING may take booms
w z. here and there but it can
w never seem to gain foothold.
The lovers Of sport always have their
fingers crossed ona a wrestling match
unless it is an amateur affair and then
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-14

The Tri-State league awarded Jack
Deal, formerly first baseman Of Holy
soke, to Altoona, and the player says if
be cannot 60 to Lancaster he will leave
1etS league. r.
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On the Wagon.

I'll 'A0 ""soA'
HARLEY FITZPATRICK, president
a of the Western Skating associa-
~ tion, plans to make us an hon
orary member of that organization. We
renig. Since Jan. l we have been
frozen to the driver s seat on the water
wagon and have refused skating party
invitations from large number Of
friends: p, ~.
IF we should fall from, grace and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-14
Marshalltown High Won.

Marshalltown, Iowa, Jan. 13.-Mar..
shalltown High school defeated the Wa
terloo High school basketball team in
a fast game played in the Y. M. G. A.
gymnasium here this evening, the score
being % to IS.
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Ante-Season Interviews.

wv E TOOK the trouble to inter
,VA view the baseball magnates
at the Chicago meeting Tues
day as to their plans for the playing
season of 1906. Following is the
symposium: se.... ...a.
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Canadian soos Defeated.

Pittsburg, Pa, Jan. 13.-Tonight g
hockey game at Duquesne garden re-
suited in victory for the local team.
Score: Pitttsburg, 6; Canadian 500, 8.
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Where Does Ban Come IMP.

~HE forcing of the resignation of
Edward Grillo, reported to be
Il at the instigation of Ban John
son will cause some wonder in the base
ball world and especially On the part
of those who do not follow the tricky
side of the game. Grillo was selected
by the association of the minor leagues
as a member of the national board of
arbitration. This was a direct slap at
the acknowledgements faction of
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tThe Power of Love.

" Owe o. women is playing promi-
4 nent part in the sporting annals
- of the day. First comes an
nouncements from various parts Of the
Uaited States that Battling Nelson has
more sweethearts than diamonds and
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Of the blacksmith shop and many ham
sandwiches for the string fends Of the
prairie DISTRICTS
When we get time we are planning
to issue from the. cider press an edi-
ton de luxe of "The Love Letters of
a "Pugilist,' done Queensberry, in
punched vellum and tied with true,
love knot. 1t will be great!
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and be strong, while Herrera can do 1913
pounds. but not be at his best. If Her
man holds out for Herrera coming down
to 1873 pounds at 6 o'clock or at 3
o'clock he might have an easy time OF
winning go, but if he lets the Mexican
come in at around 1873 pounds he will
have tough proposition on his hands,
as Herrera is one Of the most dangerous
opponents in the ring that ever slipped
on a glove on account Of his tremendous
hitting powers. 3,-.
Young Oorbett g days in the padded
arena are apparently over. The Den
verite is not and never will be what he
was when he entered the ring in Hart
ford, Conn, in 1902 and dropped Terry
McGovern in two rounds, giving the
Brooklynite his first defeat. Corbett,
whose correct name is William Rothwell'
began his fighting career in \ 1898 by
Knocking out Bert Crater in three
rounds at Denver. He won ten straight
battles after this, and his eleventh bat.
tie he lost to Billy Rothford in twenty
rounds at Denver. ~ RI.
->-> r. His Later Battles.
He lost his next battle to Jack Demp
sey in two rounds, and one month later
he put out Dempsey in three rounds
Benny Yanger, the Chicago feather
weight, administered him his next de
feat, which was the last for year
when he was knocked out by Kid Broat
in four rounds in 1901. He had not los
4 a battle after this until Jimmy Brit
beat him in 1904. In the meantime h
won over such fighters as Terry McGov
ern, Kid Broad, Joe Bernstein, Eddi
Hanlon, Jimmie Briggs, George Dixo!
and many other formidable fighters.
! After he had lost his first go to Jimm
Britt, after winning from Terry McGov
ern, Corbett took the downward pat
and has lost several battles, and hi
fray last night evidently proves tina
he is about all in.
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A New Driver.

a New Dr1Ver.
L. A. McReynolds, the well-known
horseman, has been holding a cigar
shower for his friends this week. 1t
is a boy. Mac says he will make his
first appearance On the Lake of the
Isles course next Saturday.
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& jimmy Murray, the former Man
chester outfeldsr. is among the ball
tossers who are wintering in Mexico.
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Automobiles
Attention.!

7 take pleasure in advising you
that for the 1905 season I shall make
q speciality of building Autos to or
der, in sizes from % to so H. P.
T find that a very large majority
of the people prefer to have q car
built according to their own Ideas
and to suit their own special require
ments, and in taking this matter up
have taken particular pains TO
make my connections for this work
with a concern that has had an ex-
tensive experience, not only in build
Ing cars, but engines of all classes,
as we'll as Transmissions, and an in
yestigation will show that they have
the most complete line Of Automo-
bile Engines and Transmissions Of
any manufacturer in the United
States at the present time.
. A good car cannot be built by
any concern purchasing parts from
4 different factories throughout, the
country and assembling them. Mel
4 ther can 1t be built by concern
that has not had years Of expert
ence in Gas Engine construction.
IF you contemplate having a four.
cylinder car for the 1906 season 1t
Twill well pay you to call or make an
appointment, and will be pleased
to call and give you full particulars
in regard to price, etc. 49,
7 also handle their complete line
of stock cars, which can be seen al
my place Of business at any time.
Trusting to have the pleasure o.
hearing from you, and thanking you
4 for the same in advance, ! beg tt
remain -; -" s.:@<s
r.! Yours truly, s....-
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lAUUUG ZIG IOUU0'
~ HERE, has been talk this week
of an investigation of the do
- ings Of Reuben Waddell and
dark hints that the big chap might
have trouble in clearing himself of
the accusations which have been hurled
at him from all
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Talent at Home.

r~ROM present outlook amalgama-
tion Of the football rules COM
a. mittee is certainty and here
after when there is any question as to
the. meaning of the code it will be
real handy to refer the point under
discussion to the Minnesota member Of
the rules committee.
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A Denial.

a N ESTEEMED cotemp. alludes
~ to "we' as chairman Of the
Il a sour grapes committee. IT'S
false. We are doing very well, thank
you, and in checking over the list OF
big football stories published exclu-
sive1y in The journal beginnlng
with the transfer Of the Wisconsin
game and the concluding the season
with the election Of Earl Current as
captain of the gopher team, with the
barring of George Case and admission
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aries, in looking after the progress Of
the residents Of darkest st. Paul.
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Warning for Kalamazoo.

A N EXCHANGE, published at
~ Coffeyville, Kan, says that
Il IA Coach Yost Of Michigan is
already setting about producing can
other western championship football
team. This probably means an awful
drubbing for the Kalamazoo, Mich,
high school in the ides Of next October.
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of Percy Brush thrown in for good
measure feel rather more like an
apple picker than chairman OF sour
grape committee. Come on up sonny
where the fruit is big.
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Rattles for Ann Arbor.

Wv ? HENEVER any western foot
M ball team takes a fall out
w of the distinguished side
steppers from Ann Arbor is it cinch
"a dead moral certainty-that there
will be a howl both loud and long as
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A Raw Deal.
~ HE "rawest'' deal yet perpe-
trated on Minneapolis baseball
II dom was the work of some
string fend who clipped one of those
Milwaukee stories and unloaded it on
the Denver Times under a Minneapolis
date line. The worker was so coarse
| that he did not edit the copy and had
Havernor billed as a resident Of Min
neapolis. Help! -.. ~.
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buckle on a skate we assure Charles
that any misdemeanors committed will
be strictly in accordance with the rules
of his organization.