The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-15
Sporting Spiel.

hopes of inducing Battling Nelson to
sign up for fight in San Francisco
in December. He thinks that a third
between the Dane and himself
would be bigger drawing card than
another Gans-Nelson match-but he is
about the only one who thinks so.
Nutboy, the Boston trotter, won
seven races out of eight starts on tn.
Grand circuit this year and cleaned
up $14.772 in purses.
Ed Gaers heads the list of money
earning drivers this season, having
$21,7S5 to his credit.
This season was the fifth for Chi
cago team of the National baseball
league to go over 700 per cent in a
pennant race.
George Tebeau will have to sign
new managers for both his Kansas
City and Denver ball teams next sea-
son.
From financial standpoint the sea-
son was the best in the history of the
Canadian lacrosse league. The figures
for the season show receipts amount
ing to $77.5O0.
Dick Hyland. who defeated Eddie
Hanlon, has been placed on the list
of desirable attractions by all the fight
promoters.
Some of the closest followers of
pugilism do not hesitate to express
the opinion that Jack Johnson. the
giant black, is the most likely heavy
weight in the country today. with the
single exception of Jeffries.
The Washington and Jefferson
eleven surprised the football critics
by playing magnificent game against
Princeton and holding the Tigers to
the low score of to 0.
The circuit of horse shows in the
middle west begins this week with the
annual exhibition in Kansas City.
a baseball scribe recently said:
That race in the American league is
pretty enough to make it look as if
it had been fixed" If it had been
fixed, brother, you can clip the rubber
band and bet your limit that it would
have been fixed for the Highlanders
The moguls of both leagues know that
having the two champion teams in
one city will not do the game any god,
finally at any rate.
Casey, Jordan and Alperman of the
Brooklyn ball club made four hits each
in the opening game of the last series
with Boston.
From present indications the grouse
season in Vermont recently opened.
will be the best in years. This sets
are variance the statements of the
ultra-enthusiastic protectors of game.
who have been crying that between
men and foxes these fine birds would
soon be extinct.
Reports from all over the state show
that never have grouse cartridge
they are commonly called) been so
thick. Where three could be bagged
ten years ago, it is not uncommon for
hunters to now bring in eight and ten.
Sometives even more will be the re-
suit of days shooting.
The reason for the increase is that
Vermont is paying more attention to
enforcing her game laws than former
ly. Then. too, the hot summer has
been favorable. A cold June will kill.
thousands of birds Just from the egg
and dwarf those that mature. 1t is
true that foxes are growing more
plentiful, but they must be dining on
chickens.
1t Is not likely that there will be any
change in the laws governing grouse
shooting when the legislature meets
this fall. The usual effort will be
made to close the season. but the
farmers board too many sportsmen to
make the passage Of such measure
possible. A change may be effected
In the trout law as many demand that
August be made the opening month.
Jack Blackburn is another light
weight who has been doing good work
the past season and his manager
would like to match him against any
OF the top notchers. He has fought
Joe Cans several times and it took the
champion fifteen rounds to get the de-
cislon over him. Blackburn was al
ways there at the finish and is ready
to box the Baltimore man again any
time he is willing. II none of the
come to the front, Black
burns manager says he will have to
take on some of the welters or middles
as the rent keeps going on and it takes
money to buy breakfast foods for the
Youngsters supper. The night after
Cans won his fight at Goldfield, he
sent Geographic challenge there; also
to Manhattan, New. and Frisco offer
ing to back Blackburn against Cans.
Nelson or Britt but he didn't receive
any replies. He is still waiting at the
cho:ch with a fountain pen and a set
or articles of agreement in his hand
but none of them seem anxious to give
him the Office to get busy. He agrees
TO give away lunches of weight If
1t comes to pinch and nobody could
ask more.
Lumley. Mcintyre. Jordan, Wagner,
Chance. "Cy" Young and Moran for
the New York giants next season.
Beautiful dream, but too much It.
The western clubs OF the National
league played to very little money on
their last eastern trip. Seven games
in one day had total attendance
of 4,151.
WESTERN POLO TOURNAMENT.
Associated Press to The Evening Times.
Kansas City, Mo-, Oct. 15.-Polo
teams from Chicago, st. Louis and
Louisville and from various points in
Colorado, Texas, Kansas and Missouri
are here to participate in this weeks
tournament for the polo champion
ship of the west. The tournament was
opened this afternoon on the new polo
at the Elm Ridge Jockey
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