The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-15

HOMAS
W l S E

The trip of the Stanford university
baseball team to Japan next May will,
no doubt, do a great deal to boom the
American national game in the realm
of the mikado.
Records of census of manufacturers
for 1905 show that 5000 carriage and
wagon builders last year turned out
100000 horse-drawn vehicles, valued
at $97,0O0,000. Family and pleasure
carriages numbered $4,000, worth
$57,O0O,OO0; business and farm wagons
$4,000, worth $37,OOO,O00.
Joe Thomas is disguised with the
fight game and threatens to resume
his trade, which pays several dollars
a. day. While Thomas has been very
successful winning battles, there has
been little doing in the box office.
Heavy expenses have eaten up his
earnings, and he is now little better
off than when he started out. 1t is
tough when champion can't make a
go of it. Thomas is entitled to some
big purses, but luck seems to be
againts him.
Another lemon has been picked for
Joseph Cans, former oyster merchant
of Baltimore. Word comes from Tono-
pah that Cans and Jimmy Britt have
signed articles to fight to a finish in
Tonopah for purse OF $4,000 at 133:,
pounds two hours before the fight, the
winner to take GO per cent and the
loser 40 per cent. If this affair goes
through it will be like taking candy
from a child for Joseph to pick off
60 per cent of that purse.
Manager Fred Clarke of Pittsburg
will take only twenty men to Hot
Springs in March. He has asked
President Dreyfuss to dispose of all
those players who have not already
shown major league form, as he is of
the opinion that it is a waste of time
and money to develop players, pre-
ferring to take those already ripe for
the business. The records show that
only about 10 per cent of the young
sters make good the first year out.
Marvin Hart is after Jack Johnson
The big Kentucky pugilist has an
nounced that he is not only willing
but anxious to meet the son of Ham,
whom all the other heavies avoid, in
a fight to finish. Not that he ex-
poets any particular glory or profit
from whipping johnson, but he knows
that If he turns the trick the other
squabblers over Jim Jeffries' throne,
who have passed up Hart just as they
draw the line on Johnson, will be
forced to fight him and he will have
a chance to get back the title which
he says he lost through carelessness.
Jim Hall, one of the greatest box
ers Australia eyer sent to America,
was reported few years ago to be
the victim of consumption, looks now
the picture of health. He weighs about
200 pounds. Hall claims he arrested
the dread disease by eating onions
Il would eat one of those large Ber-
muda onions every night before re-
tiring," said Hall, "and it was only
a few weeks until began gathering
strength and flesh.
They are touting a new wrestling
wonder in Iowa, Jess Reimer by name
Charles Hackerschmidt claims the
credit of the discovery.
Charles J. Woolley, fifty-one years
old, at one time the featherweight
champion fighter of England, died re-
Gently at his home in Newark, N. j.
He had been out of the fighting game
for number of years.
Robby Walthour, the bicycle rider,
was treated to big blowout in At
lanta on his return home after the six
day race in New York.
Superintendent Landers of the Sara
toga race track says that horsemen
will have no kick coming about the
course at next summers meeting. The
track has been rebuilt and is practical
ly a new course.
New racing parks and speedways
are being built all over the country
and a town without a driving club
nowadays is considered behind the
times.
BOBBY BURNS CELEBRATION
There Has Been no Arrangements
Made for One In Grand Forks as