Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-25
AGE DOES NOT
UNFIT THEM.
Many Living Contradictions Of
OSler Theory How About
TOday's Ball Team?

The team of local business and
professional men, former baseball
stars, who will play the Metuchen f.
G. at Metuchen this afternoon, need
not fear defeat on the score OF their
ages being gteater than their oppop-
ents. They can still move lively and
catch, stop 2IG hit a ball with great
agility.
1t is to be expected that they will
prove to be the goods for Father
Time has no terrOrs for champions
who properly are for themselves. re-
Gently declared a sport statistician.
Lave Cross, of Washington, began
in league company at Altoona in
1885, in the Pennsylvania State
League.
The term of service of Jim Nc
CURE, New York American Gather,
has been quite as long, and Jake
Beckley, of st. Louis, and Kid Glea-
son, of the Phillies, each have put in
their score OF years on the diamond.
Fitzsimmons has long been rated
as the wonder of the ring. No one
knows just when he was born, but
he owns that forty-eight years have
passed since he came into being at
Helsingfors, Cornwall.
A polo player at sixty-fve. There
is only one. He is p. f. Collier, own
or CT Golfers Weekly, a man of
wealth, father of the editor who re-
Gently downed Town Topics and Col
onel Mann. Mr.. Collier is the most
ardent of ~horsemen, and has been
playing polo for twenty-five years.
He is a member of both the Lake
wood and Rockaway clubs, and has
ben connected with teams that won
championships.
Men young enough to be his grand
sons are no more skillful than the
gray-haired veteran. Tennis, like
polo, keeps a man on the go. There
are few more e%xhausting games.
From the time the first ball is served
to the finish it is a ceaseless strain,
and the least weakening may bring
defeat.
The trotting season has just open
ed, and the best harness horses are
purses. 1t is noticeable that in the
roster of drivers who will hold the
reins in the big events is to be found
the name of Ed. Geers. He is an
other old-timer who declines to be
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one years old.
Billiards has a number of noted
experts who are closely pressing the
three-score mark. VignauX, Slosson
and Schaefer though lately forced to
yield the championship to young
Hoppe, are next to him the best play
ers in the game.
Jacob Schaefer's billiard eXper-
sA,,nA tA11g 4IA s-N@-, ~ A.. --.
in this country. He has been play
ing for ~thirty-three years, and began
when three-ball caroms was the form
of billiards by which the champions
were determined.
Cricket is a game those votaries
are able to play until well along in
life. Thus DR.. w. G. Grace, I'M
doubtedly the most famous figure in
the world of cricket, the first man
who ever rolled up a century of cen
turtles, is now past sixty, yet still
manages to be picked to represent his
country in contests for the champion
ship of England.
The eye does not seem to lose its
craft for shooting even after age
would be expected to dim its aim.
Thus Buffalo Bill, who has been be-
fore the public in various guises for
the last four decades, is still a mar
velous expert with the rifle, and can
perform all the feats hat first won
the admiration of the public and the
undying affection of the small boy.
George Kistler, of the University
of Pennsylvania, one of the foremost
swimmers of the United States, who
is shortly to make an attempt to
swim the English Channel, is rapidly
approaching the fifty mark, but he
has few rivals when ii m to dis
lance swimming.
In 1868 a wiry, muscular man of
twenty-five startled the sporting
world by walking from Philadelphia
to New York in less than t~wenty-four
hours. This feat was then consider
ed little less than marvellous, and the
time made then stood for forty-three
years. A few weeks ago the record
was broken, the time being reduced
by twenty-seven minutes. The man
who lowered the record was the same
who had established it-Edward Pay
son Weston. Although forty-three
years had elapsed and the youngster
of twenty-five had become the veter-
an of siXty-eight, he was a better
walker than he had been way back
In war times.