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money might do, and declaring that he
could make a place in Pittsburg for
Dineen.
Barney Anxious.
r. No doubt Barney had in mind the
dressing down that Sir William
gave his boys two years ago. Still,
it was not the act Of good sportsman
to NEEDLE with an affair that inter
ested the player and club able to look
after it's. own affairs without even a
suggestion from the little man from
"old Kentucky Mr.. Dreyfuss
should ever be apprehensive of the
sign, "Keep Off the American League
Grass.
The National league can i'll afford to
lose dignity by underhand work with
the players of the American league, and
no man with broad mind could expect
to get away with such move.
!. Larry Lajoie is out for practice
| every day the boys go out and says he
feels no i'll effects from the serious in.
iurysof last year. Lajeie out of the
game is serious proposition for the
American league, for he is by. all odds
the greatest drawing card, and the pub
lie must have a chance to see the kings
of the diamond, and, to my thinking,
Lajoie stands out conspicuously as~the
greatest ballplayer the game ever pro
/ duced., ] doubt if he is today what he
was two and three years ago, for in
iuries set man back; and Lajoie is
human.
The large number of ballplayers that
journey to Hot Springs about Febru
airy each year usually join their club.
later short Of change as the result Of
trying to pick out the winning pony
Year after year the same players g
! thru the same experience, altho all ad
NIT that the Hot Springs game is th'
! toughest in the world to beat.
Money Talks.
i A young ballplayer increases. hi
i chances of remaining in fast compan,
9 by having a little money in his poke
during the preliminary season in tn,
south. It's interesting to note tn
. young fellows making a touch OF
the treasury before their contract be
gins, even long before it IS settled tina
! they are to remain with the cuban,
the awful Relation when they lear
that the experienced managers will no
stand for loan. Ballplayers carr,
very little money on their person on tn
road, even these with fat bank &C
. counts, and are untouchable when i
:. comes to handing something to nez
man in the business, althc the oil
leaguers are ready to divide up wit
each other.
The loss Of Joe Cassidy to the Wash
ington club means much to tie Wash
ington game. Cassidy was one of tn
great players for the present day an
coming fast. His fellow-players fe]
I keenly his death and on every hand
!, heard him praised for his all-round goo
qualities. Poor joe went down an
: out just when all looked brightest.
l At this time last year Howard Girl
z fifth, the Jersey City attorney, was pas.
t ing thru this city from California d,
3 claring war on the Southern league if
4 failed to arm and follow his lead Til
e was the fatal mistake made by that f;
t nous board Of strategy, for the clul
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Bowlers Are Thru.

~ HE bowlers are thru with Louis
vile and if the press ,! stories IS
coming out are to be credited, it
is about the last time that the congress
will 90 to the land Of the multitudinous
colonels and majors. Schedules were
changed and the playing plans did not
seem to suit the pin knights.
It was too big an undertaking for
Louisville. Southern hospitality-the
Kentucky brand-usually consists OF
filing up the visitors on cheap brand
Of corn whisky and putting them to
bed to sleep it off in a poorly ventilated
room. The Kentuckian throws three
drinks Of red ruin under the belt OF
tourist and then expects him to GO
home and dwell on the beauties Of the
blue grass country as long as he lives
Kentucky is generally overestimatetd
It's blue grass is to be seen chiefly or
the lawns Of the boss distillers. Its
famous chooses have way Of run
nEMs FROM THE YOUNG MASTERS
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Special to The Journal. So
Atlanta, March 31.-Outside Of New
Orleans the people Of the south take
little interest in the games played be-
tween the major league baseball teams
and the local mines. The great players
Of the profession come south to pass
on unknown, which is, to some extent,
appreciated by the players, as they
get all the notoriety they care for
around the major league circuits dur
ing the league season.
The south has several minor leagues,
and in the Southern association, so well
handled by Judge Kavanaugh of Lit
tie, Rock, it, has a superior organiza-
ton, fully as strong as the Eastern
league or the American association;
in fact, the southern class as body
has the advantage Of witnessing the
work of the youngsters being tried out
by the major league clubs and making
the first bid for their services. Then
the weather down this way gives the
discards Of the big aeague new life,
until the clubs of the south are well
provided with brains and speed. The
old fellows are furnishing the former
and the army Of youngsters the latter.
counted forty-four players on the
ball park here last Monday, in uniform
practicing before the Boston Atlanta
game. The Cleveland club was repre-
sented by twenty-five more players II
the grandstand, or sixty-six profes
sional ba1lplayers at Piedmont park
that afternoon--nearly enough players
to start an eight-club league, as Elmer
| Frick expressed it. Here were three
ball teams that will certainly eat uI
| 100000 the coming season in the way
Of salary and running expenses. A
Cleveland Cheered.
| The Cleveland players sat in tn,
! grandstand and cheered the Boston
i players as they came to bat. Cy YOUNG
| opened the box work for the Collins
team, as he has. each season since tn,
club, was organized. 1t is Young I
seventeenth straight year in majo
league company, and he is acting a
1 well as ever. Billy Dineen took hal
! the game and looked well. Both ar
just from Hot Springs, down fine, blu
/ in need of work in the box. Graham
the. new Pacific coast catcher, was care
4 fully sized up by the Cleveland men
who were surprised at the fnishe,
style of the new catcher.
/ The Hot Springs delegation of Geve
land and Boston players joined thei
4 teams here and had many interestin
stories to tell Of the water-cnre resort
The impression / got from talk wit
] the boys was that Criger would be on
of the game until after July 4, and pei
haps for the season.
| The everlasting greed of some me
s in the business will often place them i
the limelight of impossible sportsmea
8 and from what. I learned from the ETC
], Springs party, President Barney Dire,
4 fuss should be stripped Of his gol
q badge for distinguished honesty j
81 baseball. Mr.. Dreyfuss, finding ths
Billy Dineen had not affixed his 81,
mature to a Boston contract, was. col
!, stantly on the trail of the Syracus
man, with insinuations as to- whs
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BOOTS a1ad BoosTS->6S The DUTGHUNcLE
Il ME2a Reflections pn he Pa@n5o


lttner probably has mandolin hidden
in his boarding house, and I wouldn It
be surprised to hear that Percy Brush
had taken up the jewsharp. The fac
.ulty had best recant before this sort
of thing goes too far.
If it keeps up, Professor eddie /"
Nicholson will be adding autoharp and
either to his department, and Dean
Pattee will be forced to add ocarina
and picelo instruction to the law
school curriculum.
i + !.
Signs of Peace.
IF ALL signs do not fail in wet
weather, peace is coming to the
American association and the Ma
tional baseball commission is coming
down off it's perch with something Of
a fear that it will get knocked off il
does not. The reopening of the Kel
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The Bellicose Burns.

~ OAH BRUSSO of the st. Clair
IN fats is the latest victim of
\ chest expansion. This humble
svoyageur managed to get a decision
over Marvin Hart, the prime pugiistic
dub Of the century, and has started to
take himself seriously. Listen to the
singing of this French Canuck dodo
bird:
eyes I appreciate the fact that I
am Champion he says. cit is the
goal which I sought since 1 first entered
the ring. I accomplished my ambition
by hard knocks and systematic efforts,
and I propose to defend my title.
81 prefer<to take on Jack O'Brien,
and I believe I will be able to defeat
him more easily than I beat Hart I
saw the bout between Hart and, o 'Brien
in Philadelphia and am sincere in the
statement that o 'Brien was very fottu.
nate to stay the limit y. .155 = .f,5s
go 'Brien cannot, in my opinion, take
the punishment Hart stood for, and ]
know that O 'Brien's tender spot is his
stomach. He cannot fight the battle
put up by Hart and stand for the
stomach lacing the Kentuckian took.
t'I shall not issue any challenge. ]
am champion, and those who want to
| meet me must come to me.''
Gee, but it must be great to be
crazy! ,..-=..,.-.
Whenever Tommy Burns-Brussc
starts in to eliminate O'Brien the fur
will be fast and furious. Hart is
about as graceful as the bird they cal
the bear and wades into his battles
with his brawny front as open as a st
Paul souse studio on Sunday. Brusst
simply stepped in. butted a bit and hac
Hart going. O'Brien has been talking
of licking Jefries, which was largely
press agent activity, but no one doubts
that he can box and fight.
"Those present. are going to Sc,
some lively gymnastics if Noah starts
in to do his massage stunt on 0 'Brien
stomach. They will probobly , Sc,
O'Brien break ground for an instan
and then come into Mr.. Burns like tn
piston rod of a mountain engine
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.RunAtNa THE BAsss
AZ rEnPAAS.

around town, burned figures and said
unladylike things. -. s,.
The collegians are not to be deeply
criticized or burned in effigy. They
made the mistake Of accepting lot Of
knocker gossip at its face value.
Even the. big nine conference dele
gates were sucked in and they are the
wisest people, on earth. .@5
.The charge is generally admitted by them.
+.
" Faculty Responsibility. w
Q~ OTHER night, dropping off an
owlcar after a soul:-:wearying SEES
Of the See En- Small society,
II met Art Larkin, quarterback Of the
gopher football t cam 1905, climbing
upon the car. with a guitar under his
arm. d IS. ~ 5N
. This was the first real tangible i'll
effect l have seen Of the recent big nine
action in grabbing at football. Bill
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tage in weight, but along other lines
they are about evenly put up.
Or MALACHI HOGA1

tage in weight, but along other lines
they are about evenly put up. @
r.. : %z>s ~ Club in Trouble. s z
Speaking Of o 'Rourke, I am remind
ed that the club, the Tuxedo, near Es-
sington, Pa, is about ready to. go out
Of business before it got a start, ac
cording to reports. A twenty-round
battle between boys named Logan and
Carsey was scheduled there recently.
but was prevented by the district at
torney. If there is this much official
objection to boxing in that locality,
there is not much chance that he will
ever be able to stage a bout.
Jack O'Brien-he is too well known
to be called Philadelphia Jacks out
with statement that he is willing to
meet Jeffries, and thinks he has a good
chance to defeat the big fellow. He
his wired Billy Delaney, Jeffries ! for
mer manager, an offer to meet the re-
tired champion at any place and at any
time. ..t
ct am just as confident that / can
beat the Californian down as am that
Fitzsimmons could not stand my inces-
SAINT jabbing,' O'Brien said. ~ am
determined to be the champion Of the
world in both classes. Fitzsimmons
| was for awhile, when he was ten years
my senior and youth is sure to be
served. That is why1 think I have a
great chance.
+ "Some persons will laugh at man
of my size seeking a bout with a giant
like Jeffries. The big fellow would
have about forty pounds the better of
| me in the matter Of weight, but my
superior cleverness would soon over
come that advantage, and You can mark
my word, if a bout can besarranged be-
tween us, will take his measure. = as
| O'Brien evidently has despaired of
getting match with Tommy Ryan,
who has shown little inclination, of
late, Of entering the ring against the
Philad elphian RI Jack was willing all
along and If he does not get match
before long will be accorded the middle
]! weight title by default. .45
/ Three Big Battles.
Three great bouts are scheduled fol
Los Angeles during fiesta week
First, Herman and Britt were matched
Then match was made. between Mel
son and Herrera and last week frankie
Neil and Abe Attell were booked to &C
twenty rounds at 122 pounds. It il
hard to figure out just how a little
i place like Los Angeles can pay FOL
three such attractions even in q festiva
q week.
i They are all high priced bouts ane
likely to draw very we'll Nelson ant
Herrera are to battle for 900
purse and perhaps will be the creates
attraction, altho Kid Herman is prob
ably the most popular with, the fam
there on account Of his showings il
! recent bouts. What remained O.
Britt's reputation after Cans got thr,
! with him will help swell the house,
I, 1T is a tough task that Herman ha
cut out for him and many Of his friend
! are fearful for the result. About hi
only hope is that he can outpunch til
!, Californian and many hold that sthi
: hope is a small one. He probably woul
: have done better against Nelson an,
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~ On1cdSO tHgnC cf1IlCS VINO saw Inc
Schreck- Barry battle at Terre Haute a
couple Of weeks ago came back with
wonderful stories about the form shown
by the Cincinnati German, who won by
several city blocks. Altho he did not
have a champion for an opponent, he
had rugged, willing boxer to battle
with and one whom it takes some kind
Of class to defeat so decisively.
Schreck, Of course, has been known
to the public for long time. He has
at different times been near cham
4 pion, but for the last couple of years
has been counted a joke as far as cham
pdonship battles are concerned. Fans
who saw him some time ago remember
his pronounced crouch, which indicated
to everybody that as long as he used
it he never would get good enough to
reach the top: r. s>t - r
In boxing with Barry it seems that
he abandoned this crouch and assumed
a very stylish position. Everyone was
agreed that he displayed better form
than he ever did before.
From his style in boxing you never
would have known that it was the
sehreck Of old,o said one fan. "He
], boxed like q champion and believe
that everyone at the ringside at the
conclusion Of the bout thought that
he stood a good chance Of being cham
pion some day. 1t was easily his best
performance and entities him to a
match with almost anybody Of his
weight. s
The club which staged the bout was
So fortunate as to have a packed house
= 10 - NV 10 b,,r,
dreds Of visitors as courteous treat
ment as they could receive anywhere,
Hart Up Again.
Marvin Hart, in spite Of his poor
showing against Tommy Burns, has an.
other match. He Is to meet Sandy Fer.
guson in fifteen-round bout at the
Lincoln Athletic club, near Boston
1 soon. Sandy is rather young and does
& not possess much of a reputation. Fol
several days he has been serving a jail
sentence in Boston, but will be released
in time for the, battle.
Some time ago Ferguson was sent tt
Tom o 'Rourke from Chelsea, where ht
was .touted as g. coming champion
o 'Rourke received q: lot Of requests
that he take him in hand and guild,
his fortunes, and accepted. He Seems
now to have less confidence in the boy
IF Ferguson tries and is in any kline
of shape, he can beat ten Marvin Hart
without any trouble" o 'Rourke sal,
the other day. It don't imagine h
I has had any chance to dissipate Will
In Jail, and should be in pretty goo,
shape when he is released. He is
wonder, and if he would behave him
self is the only man, in my opinion, VIII
would make any kind Of a, showing wit
Jeffries. But he is q bad sort. I foun
it out after he had been with me wee
and I ran him away from my hotel an
told him never to come around an
more. You cannot do anything wit
him and after. you find him out 70
don't want to. ''7
AS far as physical proportions g
s Ferguson has little advantage. He
several inches taller and has an adva1
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pair acted as proud as Dacschund pup
and cut all acquaintance on Newspaper
row. At the parting of the ways OF
friendship we will pause to remark that
no true "spenort ever goes back on
ibis old friends even tho affluence has
come to him:
We has spoken.
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ming second to the bunch. Its whisky
well some Of it is good, they say, but
most Of it would bite q hole in a copper
boiler. iss@ III "a .ss
The bowlers did not take to the booze
game. They went to Louisville to
bowl and to get the money. A man
with his hide full of that dark and
bloody ground tiger eye isn't going to
make sufficient number of strikes TO
wade into the cash box The bowlers
did not care for that glad hand hospit-
atty, so warm Of word and so cold of
action. They bowled, paid their
hotel bills and faded away. Looyville
is now memory, on the bowling map.
=. =. =.
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Not Much Loss.

~ OoTBALI. is dead at Northwestern
university. 1t was not much Of
a victory for the football ants,
as killing football at the Evanston
plant was something like the task Of
stamping the life out of caterpillar.
Northwestern football for the past
few years has consisted chiefly of a
series Of I" defeated but not disgraeed"
affairs
Northwestern greatest gridiron
achievement was the 1904 eleventh
hour protest of Nose Strathern. Up
this way the grief over the loss Of
Northwestern on the schedule was not
of the keen and poignant variety.
The last time the gophers played the
Methodists they larruped them until it
became a sin and shame to scoro
again. The quitting of the game for
five years was a wise move. It would
have been longer than that before
Evanston could be Illuminated by the
boidres of football victory. The pass
ing Of this institution from football will
hardly cause ripple in the western
situation.
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of the south stood by President Kavan-
augh, to man, and were instrumental
in framing up the plans that relegated
Mr.. Griffith to the tall timber and
strengthened the hands of the great
army of minor league clubs until they
can well protect their rights from all
opposition. ~
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was hardly in a class with Gardner,
who jabhed him frequently and had him
pretty well marked. Jimmy was not
/ hurt much It is probable that the men
will be matched again.
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Twenty rounds with Mr.. y sBr1en anu
there will be a new wreath on the
shrine in Brusso's home town.
4: s9sf
s Drawing the Line.
W = HILE have no objection to
Il" furnishing reading matter for
New York and adding a lit
tie joy to the benighted fatheads of
Manhattan it does grind to have Left
Cross of the New York Evening Mail
swipe the fruit Of our basting oven,
and palm it off as original stuff upon
his managing editor and his readers.
Perhaps tho, it was dull day with
Left Cross and the sporting editor
was yelling loudly for copy. There
isn't much in, real sport going on in
Gotham and the Evening Mail plagiar,
list is to be forgiven, il. he reforms
% The next time, however, that he puts
his pen name over stolen photographic
ss.saE& eEMc rpahmruE
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Purely Academic.

: z, - I. 2 y
Purely Academic.
@ H;ADISON, Wis, was the scene
~ of an unusual spectacle the
- other night when the badger
students rose and cut up high jinks gen
orally. They wound up by burning the
effigy Of a professor all Because foot
ball had been abolished for year.
All Of this is the outgrowth Of a
series of articles by sensation seeking
Performers who sailed into football
because it was an untitled field in the
way Of producing small beer money.
The writer's took it up at space rates.
Then the real enemies Of the game, the
humpbacked, spindle-shanked, fiat.
chested academies saw a chance to sink
the .assegai into the game and wrapping
tsholier than thou" mantle about
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These Wrestlers.

IN ARDELLO, the Rousing Roman;
Demetral, the Truly Horrible
Greek, and Madison, the Des-
perate Dane, have been having all sorts
of fun at a local playhouse this week.
Challenges were as thick as box scores
on Fourth Of July night and the blood
curdling, soul-stirring, hair-raising
threats and epithets have been too nu-
merous 70 mention. Huge wads of stage
money have been wagered and cham
pionships of the world have been
thrown around like pair of busted car
pet slippers.
Manager Singer has smiled urbanely
and managed to keep the peace and
track Of the tickets. The wrestlers
have been eating three times each day
and have not been compelled to stick to
corned beef and cabbage, either. 1t
has been great week in the wrestling
game. The water was fine and every
body got in for a dip.
TROM that story Of how Murphy, OF
Chicago, wanted to put up his
E'Chicago Champion ~ pennan'
and put noisy horse blankets on the bus
| HOSScS Ouc! leu W UCllCFCtGudt, az 6Oiiis
time in his career Murph must have
been out with an Indian medicine show
- 4. !.
! q Putting on Style. s5s
49, OVEY' IVES and nBill'
SLEEPER two newspape
friends, are off me calling lis
and whenever they show up at the port
cullis of the castle on the Rhine tn,
seneschal will say " skidoo" to the tw
Of them. When they mount their sixty
horsepower footing car and get to-
proud to recognize old friends, as thei
! chuffer picks his way thru the mazes o
I downtown Minneapolis, friendship
1 ceases.
This happened Thursday afternool
and Uncle was cut to the quick. Th
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every point. He gained the. first round
and seemed fresh for the next. Some
times it is better to arbitrate than to
battle. Both Kel and the commission
appear to have reached this conclusion
about the same time.
AS it is now, both can go their way,
each as stiff-necked as bantam rooster,
and no harm done. 1t was a quicksif-
yer route thru a rather rocky path.
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,Fanciful Doings Due.
rROM the saucy way in which the
Z Cookies and the Red Men OF Red
Wing are bandying about the
Kings English, relative to basketball,
there is a fine chance for knee and
elbow argument in the near future. Just
such differences of opinion as these. lead
! to great battles at times. Sic 'em
| Carlo.
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Drawing the Line.

he will be bawled out in loud voice.
This is just hint. III
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-06
Spelling Bee
Proves Interesting.

The Spelling Bee In connection with
the Presbyterian ice cream supper
last tuesday night proved to be an
interesting part of the evening Not
a great many participated. Mrs. Nancy
Ferry and Mrs. Fred Ferry stood up
longer than the others, both misspell-
ed the word RACINE, then the prize
was drawn for, Mrs. Nancy Ferry
winning.
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best ever seen heIe on a show boat
"Humpty Dumpty'' himself and the
scenic productions were the best part
of the show.
This is Emerson's q Go, g first sea-
son ON the river and it is certain each
year to come a.full house Will greet
the boat as they made good the first
time.
Not the leat part or the show were
Mr.. and Mrs. Emerson.
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Henderson Route
Special Service.

1.-The Henderson Route announces
that two special trains will be run
from st. Louis to Louisville June 1
in order that home-comers may have
a pleasant and comfortable trip. One
train will leave ST. Louis at 1000 q.
m. arriving at Louisville at 1880 p.
m. The other special will leave st.
Louis at 1000 p. m. arriving at