The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-09

are all fight promoters and they are
all immensely wealthy. One thing is
| sure. they have doomed the fight mar
ket until now, when Toncpah, Rhyolitc,
Goldtield, Ely, Manhattan or any other
Of the camps cut in on the bidding,
the old clubs might as we'll put up the
shutters.
President Ban Johnson says the AM
erican league will take positive action
to prevent betting on ball games. He
says: In some of the cities in the
league the betting has grown to such
proportions that drastic action will
| need to be taken to stamp it out. Legis-
lation that will cffectually put Il stop
to betting is difficult to enact. but
am sure We can find some way to stop
it, for betting is 4 menace to baseball"
There is a; present Il good foreign
demand for high-ciasS trotting stock.
The veteran trainer and dealer John
Splan says that he has had more for
eisn orders for horses this season
than any previous one. and adds That
1T seems impossible to find the goods
TO fill the orders. All classes of ami
mails are scarcer than ever seen them
before. especially so in the case of
breeding animals. \ good brood mare
or tirst-class stallion. for racing or
breeding purposes. is hard to find"
y bad feature of keeping the weight
scales down is that it silortens the
usefulness OF jockeys almost to the
vanishing point. Our Jockeys. like our
horses. thrive Il season or so and dis
appear. Nowadays Il rider who cam
not staeadily make 100 or 102 pounds
is OF little use. The ninety and ninety
five pound boy is the rage. One who
rated Il heavyweight. and ilisup to him
TO abroad or take up steeplechasing.
When our Redferns. our Odoms and
our Martins and Lynes reach discrim-
mating age. and when. because o:
training experience and bodily strength
they should be at the summit of their
powers. they are back numbers. They
get so little riding to do they find keep
ing in condition difficult. Horsemen
are loath to put them on for fear en-
forced idleness may have injured their
usefulness. The horseman. perforce,
turns to the midgets-the Millers, the
Engianders. the Roses and the
Brussels.
Comiskey OF the White SoX was talk
ing half to himself about Dick Padden,
who was about as quick thinker as
ever played the game. Il can't UNDER
stand it," soliloquized the Old Roman.
He can't hit: he can't run; he isn't
good on ground balls; he's not any too
sure of thrown balls. Darnei if he is
a good catch of fly balls. and his arm
is bad He stopped moment and
then added, But he's HI of a good
ball Observation-Disclosures.
There has been no racing in Chicago
since 1904. Ed Corrigan left New Or
leans several days ago en- route u
Chicago and stopped off in Lexington,
and while that city gave out a few
statements which would indicate that
there will be an effort made soon to
start racing again in the Windy City.
The tip is out strong that at least two
tracks will be allowed to race Il linz
tied number OF days there this next
summer. Corrisan refused to hazard
an opinion as to the rumors afoat Of
Harlem and Hawthorne opening next
summer.
The governor of New Mexico praises
automobiles in his annual report to the
secretary of the interior: 50 Avery
successful motor car line has been es-
tablished between Roswell, Chaves
the Ell Paso & Northwestern railroad,
putting the constantly growing sec
tons of the Pecos valley in much
closer communication than ever before
with the rest of the territory. These
new line of communication and others
"iitSA ello III prospect nave S"usSu q
large influx of settlers, and q far
greater amount OF government land
has been entered by the prospective
settlers than ever before in ii single
year in the territory's history
Was Well Pleased.
Devils Lake Journal: Emil S. Eich
was in Grand Forks last week attend
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