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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05
He Is Dead Anxious to Do
Something, With Nelson
on His Mind.
WANTS TO MEET BATTLER
AGAIN BEFORE RETIRING
Admits That Cans Is Better
Man Than Nelson on
Even Terms.
Tribune Special Sporting Service.

Tribune Special Sporting Service.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4,-"Jim-
my" Britt is seldom seen these days,
The little fighter is camping across the
bay, and he manages to visit the White
Way only once or twice week jim
my came over to see show Friday.
He was in fine spirits, though he would
have been more cheerful If he had been
matched with Battling Nelson. Jimmy
is dead anxious to do something. He
has been out of the ring long enough
TO have the fight fever in it's worst
stage. 81 still have Nelson on my
mind,' said Jimmy. 81 would give
most anything to box him twenty
rounds, but don Z see the clubs MAX
ing any big move to pull off fight that
will set the gang 10 talking. Every
thing seems to be dead. Tell me some
thing-what are the clubs figuring on9
How many fights are they gong TO have.
and what is doingq You sec / am hv-
ing In the country now and am not up
to date.
Britt was furnished the latest dope
on the light situation. which interested
him. Later the conversation driftcd on
the Thompson Burns fight at Los An.
geles, Jimmy said; "That fellow
Thompson is mighty rugged fighter.
He is tough in this way. He comes in
with his arms folded across his face
and you have to fiddle and dance around
to find place to punch him. Then,
besides, he can take an awful lacinp.
After fellow has banked away for
ten or fifteen rounds at a fighter like
Cyclone he tires and wants TO rest up.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05
Photo By Scott.

pruncs and prisms \ blackboard is not
needed by any of these rollicking, happy
lasses, and embroidery work is too
much waste of time,
The girls have the fullest approval
of principal, teachers and parents, Prin-
clpal Kccler encouraging the girls by
every means in his power to make their
team the best in the State. There arc
several other teams III the city, and the
girls are forever trying TO get 2 game.
Organized only since tho first of the
year, the team has been whipped into
shape i'll wonderful fashion and play
hike experts.
81 think girls are much better play
ers than boys said ono scornful lit
tie maid as she rested minute ''We
go to lots of boys games and they
don't begin to do the team work we
do Besides, they are so fearfully-
rough. OF course, every ono realizes
that the girls game differs materially
from that played by boys, The mascu-
line game is quite brutal and is capable
of Furnishing player very severely,
The team plays IN the Webster school.
yard. which has been arranged for their
use. Zach day OF practice finds admir-
ing mates gathered around, while teach.
crs Will ofttimes neglect other enter
tanments Just to see their girls win.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05

thc trorb!c wac. had = great time quiet
ing them.
The girls practice several times a
week, practice and game days being
looked forward TO eagerly.
The personnel Of the team is most in
tcresting, Probably Il greater contrast
could not he afforded than sturdy,
blonde haired Irene Rich and tiny. but
scdate. Bessie Young, Thco the littlo
Scotch girl, Jean MaclENcss, comes
next, lovablc Mary Stuart. Nellie
Brooks, who docs wonderful team work,
and. think Of it, Matte Gibson. who,
though but y years old. weighs 40
pounds. Her dear friend, LaNon
Browning. whom she calls her partner,
. wee doll of thing, assists her. Mat
tic ellison plays center, and she IS II cen
ter 'as Is . center, fer no matter how
fierce the assault Matte s l4O pounds
Will not waYer an inch,
Bat to hear those girls discuss "team
work -; 10 hear them argue about a
"play' and "tactics" would make tho
o!d-fashioncd mother faint. The sight
OF the scrambling, happy girls III their
boomer suits. as ithe and active as any
boys, would cause her horrifcd visions
of her own small daughters who wore
backboards, did embroidery and said
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05
SKAT LEAGUE CONTEST.
Over $4,000 N Prizes Have Been Pat
Up for international, Event.
ibune Special Sporting Service.

Tribune Special Sporting Service,
CHICAGO, May All arrangements
have practically been completed for The
tenth annual congress Of the North
American Skat league, which will be
held at the Coliseum IN this city on Sat.
urday. June s; Sunday. June 9. and
Monday. June To- Although estimates
Of the number of players who VIII par
ticipate in the big event vary, the ON
ciaIs confidently believe that over To-
900 viii enter.
The cvent will have an international
flavor. in that a number of contest tants
will enter from Canada and Germany.
Four entries have already been rccelycd
from the latter country, the delegation
to br led by Robert Fuchs, president of
the National Skat league Of Germany.
Nh. Fuchs halls from Altcnbaye, "the
home Of skat, - and is ut present ar
ranging with the directors of rho or
ganization of which he is the chief
executive To offer prize for the big
congress.
Other entries from Germany have
been received from NJ. Klesatt, Bern
burg; Jacob Wachtel. Gothn, Saxony;
and G.. X. .Taeusch, Hamburg. II is
rather coincidence that President Max
Wortsmann of the North American
league has offered roundtrip ticket
from Chicago to Hamburg as one OF
the prizes for the congress. Mr.. Worts-
mann won a similar prize at ST. Louis
in the national congress several years
ago.
Prizes to the amount of $4,000 are
TO be awarded. Tho first twenty-fv
awards will be valued at over $4,000.
In ALL between 400 and 500 prizes are
to be awarded.
The North American Skat league has
offered the first prize, which will be a
$1,000 United States gold bond. The
second prize will be u $50 piano. and
the third $500 silver service, both do
mated by the Chicago Skat league. The
fourth prize will be S400 hall clock
donated by the ST. Louis Skat league,
and the fifth prize gold cabinet valued
at 5000 donated by the Detroit Skat
league. Prizes six to eleven will be
valued at 5000 each, and from twelve
to twenty-five at 500 each.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05
Chess Is Crazy Mans Game.
ecial Sporting Service.

IT~GNe SpecIaI sporting Service.
LONDON, May As chess as popular
as IL was? correspondent expresses
the opinion that chess is gradually losing
It's vogue. People arc beginning to rca
lize. he writes. the mental dangers OF
game In which the brain Is strained
beyoEd endurance. Most people who play
chess are mad. or will be, Few OF them
are Eood for anything else The better
ior chess, the worse the business capa-
city II you take q plebiscite OF gov
of the Inmates are good chess players.
~ Is not game al all; II is a hardship.
o, punishment, My experience based on
observation in restaurants and clubs, is
Eor Of draughts and dominoes, more es-
pecia!lY dnushts, To my mind, draughts
rs cleverer ganle than chess. and pos
.esses the additional merit of enabling
the player TO retain his sanitv,'
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05
WILL CLAIM CHAMPIONSHIPS.
Joe Thomas Says Men Are Side e-Step-
ping Him for Others.

Tribune Special Sporting Service.
PHILADELPHIA. May 4.-Joe Thomas.
clever welterweight who made Honey
Melody, the welterweight champion, look
like a novice I'm their sIx-round fight In
Philadelphia is about to claim not only
the welter championship. but the middle
lody kept away from him. but Tommy
RYAN the middleweight champion, has re-
fused TO pay any attention to the offer
of Thomas to fight him. Both the alleged
welter and mihdlewelghL champions have
been TOO busy picking lIp easy money over
the country to tackle genuine fighters,
who might put their titles in jeopardy
For month Thomas has had up a for
felt of $1,000 by which he offers TO fight
anyone in the world up to 161 pounds, The
nniddlewoight maximum, Tommy Ryan In
PARTICULAR but no answer has come from
Tommy. Nor has Melody had anything
TO say about the proposition.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05
BOOK RECORD BROKEN.
Thirty-six Players Drew in Today; Good
Gard and Large Crowd,

SAN FRANCISCO. May A good card
with two handicaps as features drew a
large attendance at Oakland today and
interesting sport was witnessed. A rec
ord for the number OF books operating
was made when thirty-siX players drew
In. The Chitose handicap went to j. G.
Glenn. while Edwin Gum. who was kicked
at the post. finished second Lisaro, the
faVorite, WAS third, after having Il rough
journey. The Prim handicap was taken
by Turnawny,
Phalanx. los .(sandyl, s to /, won: Es-
calante, los (Gross). TO 10, second: Dol
lie Dollars. 90 (N. Kellyl, l6 to /. third.
Time. 1907 2-5. Gemmell, Peggy O'Neal,
Bonnie Reg and Senator Warren finished
as named,
Second race, Prim handicap. four and
a half furlones-Tu 1Os &C. Ross),
to 1, won: Raleigh; Jos CA. Brown. I to
l. second; College Widow. 1l0 (Gross).
to 2. third. Time. "a 2-5 seconds. Gala
moore. ABBEY; Rey Hindoo, Margie D.
Third race. selling. six furlongs-Bu-
collie. 1o6 (Alatrs), to 1, won; Royal. l06
g.. Hunter). TO s., second: Banposal. los
Burning Bush, Silverskin. Nothing, Gil
vonni,, Balerio and Daruma finished as
named
Fourth rnoe. Chitose handioap, purse
$1,000. one mile, c. Clem. o5 &C. Ross),
S TO 1. won Edwin Gum, liz (J. Huntcr),
Is to s. second Lisaro. IL G. Kelly}.
tanla. George p. McNear. Earl i'Tse rogers
and The Borgian finished as named.
Fifth race. mile and n sixteenth, SELL
ing-Bragg. ITO (Keogh), s to ), won: Do
linda. 1o2 Nycurgus(, to 1. second, W,
B Gates. 1o7 "a. Williams), IL to I. ti1rd
Time. Lao As. The Reprobate. Tala-
mund. Belvoir and Dutiful finished as
Sixth race. mile-Sapfara. l05 &C.
Ross). TO 5. won; Bedford. l07 Hunter),
II to 10, second; Tavora, los (Sandy),
Q to 2. third. Time. 40 3.5. Troaslire
Seeker and Woolmn finished as named,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05
Difference in Ballplayers.

Men stopped ground balls as well twenty
years ago as they do at tho present
time and without use OF gloves For
Instance. big Ed Williamson and Fred
Pfeffcr of Chicago Bid" McPhee of
Cincinnati, Danny Richardson of New
York, John Burdock OF Boston, Fred
Dunlap OF Detroit and scores of others.
Who could beat Danny Richardson, bid"
McPhee, Pfeffer. Fred Dunlap. John Far
rcll or Joe Gerhardt on pivot work in a
double play?
Pitchers were as clever ten and twenty
fewer OF the box artists employed, and
the regular men were accustomed to their
work, making a stronger combination, 1
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05
Red SoX Shut Ont

The Spalding baseball team defeated
afternoon on the Fourth South street
grounds by a score of to 0. The lat
ter team did not get by third base at
any time and 1T was easy picking for
the Spaldings.. The lineup of the lat
ter team was Callison, Captain Morri-
son, Young. Luman, GToschner, DeGrav.
Knight, Gibbons and Riddle. The win
ners challenge any l10-pound team in
the State.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05
It Was q Close Game.

Inc Yankees defeated the Shamrocks
saturday afternoon on the Eighteenth
ward diamond by score of IA to l2. 1t
up to the last inning.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05

ternoon he could get all the Singing
hls heart crnvcd, ~ won I go TO the
front, retorted Jimmy with a
gigge, "hut | Will meet some fellow
half way at tho Mint on Fifth street.
The Mint is my battle-ground. When
1t comes to fighting for fun declare me
ont -
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05
WEST POINT 1
FpRc|BlE d
Too Many Hard Footb,,i
" ere Played LastJ
by Team. l
ARMY DROPS HARyll
FROM FoOlsIl
Soldiers Still C,;,I
Friends, the El,I
Games. |

Tribune Special Sporting ~
NEW YORK, May ssS r.
authorities at West Poin, N.
forcibly brought home ~ :
and 1t was that too man.
had been played for the =
be IN the best of form ,ss'
Navy eleven in tbs Sp,I
year. 1t was declared u
soldiers no longer would ~
such a stiff schedule. on. ,sI
contests with Harvard 'Ss y.,
ton, the latter two Of ~
strongest teams in the WY. ".
The army football sss.s| Ne
fall shows that, as eyn'.! e,Ts
changes have been nsds 1
ule policy, The biggest i.
a really surprising one ons 4
of Harvard from the' ~ y,
gridiron opponents. We, y
Crimson have been msss;s.
but as some big game Ssi!|
der that there would be !, n
hood of accomplishing Il,
the season, the drub6iro !;
Harvard is the one 10 !. (
to Yale.
. The soldiers still elm,
friends, the Ellis, and Vii
usual next fall. The vi.
game is one Of the mors =
interesting fixtures OF Il.
son, for the cadets play sS,I
as they do not agails! =, u
lege team. Next season. =,
Princeton missing, but a.
cial significance in This III
Inc custom Tor several su.
West Point and Prlncets,
alternate years only.
Will Be Fish o.
For The hrst time tAn
game between West Point
this game really taking B
the Harvard contest; bu!
lthacans are quite nksly
difficult focmen to down 4,
arrangements of the dsts
year that the two big coIkaI
not be as much a STRAIN d
years. Harvard and Yl,
played within a week Of
Yale and Cornell will Win:
three weeks apart. The u
take place on October 1s.
nell game on November !.
earlier date than formery
West Point game. The N!1|
have been playing at Wot
the last Saturday in 0ctobs
week in November, a ND
ward. II
VIII Get Breathing
The date Of the Wcsti
game is such that ii will d
for both teams. II is mi1
the Yale West Point aA
Point~Annapolis battles, Vi
lesser moment in betwet,
soldiers needed experens
opponents, and also 4 bfd
in between the more impz
The West Point football I
altogether pleased with
sistencc in the matter Of =
game last fall, but it b
that was considered at u
ing of this years sehedh.
had 1t been feasible the =
have liked one moro crsa
the big one college team y
fcatcd.
Rodney Smith, the fulh'
tain of the West Point el'
at the Ithaca higbschocl,
good deal to do with bnlE
game with Cornell. hr
rett Smith, was a crack dI
at Cornell, and won bis ~
father of the Smiths Is ~
Tourney. the former SiT
West Point, was Cornal
entered the military aesds
son of an army officer -
schedule follows: Oc!ens
and Marshall at West f0Il
at West Point; 10. Yale
26, Rochester at 1t. West p,l',, TO-
West Point; l6, TuIi1 ~. =
%, Syracuse at Wes, , fy
30, Annapolis al Phllaaa
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05

have never seen finer all-round team
work than was displayed by Baltimore.
less II was by the New York Giants ia
1883. -
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05

Salt Lake Photo Supply Co. Kodaks
finishing, framing, 142 Main street.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-20
THE CONSERVATIVES.

New York Evening Post.--When Mr..
Bryan says, as he did at Des Moines,
Iowa, that "If there is a conservative
wing in the democratic party when the
next national campaign is here, it will
not manage the campaign no one
should be shocked or alarmed before
weighing the terms rather carefully.
In 1896 everybody knew what con-
servatives were like. They were a
large tribe, and gloried in their con-
servatism. To the eye of Mark Han
ma a man of the Hughes stripe would
have been abhorrently radical Some
of Judge Parker's doctrines would
have been little better. On the other
hand, only a half despairing utterance
of belief in the ultimate government
ownership of railways saved Mr. Bryan
himself from being catalogued with
the conservatives. a degree below the
standpatters and the corporation sena-
tors. There is still more than year
for the steady shifting to go on before
one must be commissioned to carry
the democratic standard. Mr.. Bryan
must look sharp to see that he himself
is not caught on the wrong side of the
gate that divides the two factions.
Conservative wing!" There may be
one in the republican party. On the
democratic side there is hardly prom.
Use of a feather.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-20
BANS ON WHISPERS.

Kansas City Journal.-An aroused
public interest has again brought for
ward for controversial consideration
the subject of whiskers. In two wide.
ly separated communities OF the coun-
try ,nflammatory protests against IA
cial decorations for the masculine cit
liens have been made, although the
origin and nature of these protests
vary. The state legislature of New
Jersey, which is still holding on not
withstanding there appears no good
reason foI its Continued existence, has
turned its attention to the regulation
of whiskers. n bill providing for the
taxation of men who wear hair on
their faces has been introduced. The
schedule as proposed follows: Ordin-
airy whiskers, SIS per year; side whis-
kers, So: Van Dyke beard, $40; mutton
cnops, SIS, and billy goats $50. 1t is
provided that red whiskers be taxed
$40 extra. and the tax collector is to
receive 20 per cent of the entire whis-
ker tax.
1t will be noticed that in the New
Jersey schedule the mustache has es-
capped penalty. It. is assumed that
while the mustache is reprehensible
1t is not positive menace to the pub
lie welfare. 1t was wise provision
indeed that red whiskers were sub
jected to additional Introduction, mas
much as red whiskered men are more
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-20

abandoned to the shameless cultiva-
ton Of whiskers than others. ~
Out in Nebraska a society of young
women has also placed tho social ban.
on whiskers. These girls have Issued
a ukase that nenceforth no young man
will be received In the parlor on Sun
day nights who has not provided him
self with "clean shave" Careful
consideration of this purpose leads to
the superstition that any mild addiction
to hirsute cultivation will be tolerated,
provided that faces not covered by lux
uriant facial foliage shall be free from
stubble. If the caller wear mustacae
his chin must be smooth and redolent
Of tonsorinl attention. And If he wear
those timorous mollycoddle draperies
known as "sideburns." the rest of his
visage must be at least "once over"
1t is not a novelty for young women
to object to the presence OF wire
bristles on the faces of their wooers.
The reason is very simple We are
told that the contact of soft and
dimpled cheek with the rasping irrita-
ton of Inarrow-like chin is annoying
and detracts greatly from the usual
and conventional pleasures of enter.
tanning beaux. This being so, it is
entirely reasonable for the young
women to protest They have enough
trouble with .difiident and reluctant
SWANS without this additional and UNI
necessary burden.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-20
WORK..

Des Moines Capital man,
they may tell you about gold mines
and stock speculations but there is
nothing that beats work-plain, old
fashioned work. You near about the
men who grow rich by speculation or
by means of patent rights" but you
never hear of those who fail in. those
enterprises. Rarely does a m win
by luck or accident. Thousands Of
young men think it is not worth while
to try to get start by saving little
money every month, hence they fritter
away ten or fifteen years expecting
something to turn up, mysteriously, to
benefit their condition. Then they be-
gin to say Whats the use?" and from
the inquiry What's the use?" 1t is
easy to drift into spirit of Don't
care" From Don't care" the move
ment downward is rapid History does
not record a failure upon the part Of
any young man who admits to himself
at the beginning Of LIES battle that
nothing can beat working and saving.
Every fortune began in that way. The
time to save is when times are good
and the country prosperous. That
time is now.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-20
COLONEL HARVEY AGAIN.

Davenport Times.-It is certainly
amusing to read that George Harvey,
editor OF the North American Review
and Of Harper's Weekly, calls the
President the king that Is Child
and refers to him as that spectacle
of blatant probity, yawping from the
pinnacle of self-appreciation," which
is aiming at "the destruction Of the
very fabric of free institutions"
Here is a man who is presumed to
be in touch with what is going on in
the world, else how is he competent
to edit national weekly; and yet
he seems to have closed himself in
with the glass partitions OF his den
and worked himself up into terri
BILE state of mind all because, perhaps,
Roosevelt does not jump every time
the editorial pen is put to paper.
1t may be that Colonel Harvey was
trying to be humorous; If so, he sue
ceeded, but not In the way he In
tended. People will laugh at him,
but not In sympathy with what he
says. He cannot injure Roosevelt IN
the popular estimation, and the people
have the situation pretty well sized
up.
Colonel Harvey seems to have en-
tirely overlooked what has been ac-
complished since Roosevelt went In.
to Office. Or it may be that 1t is that
sort of activity that Harvey is opposed
to. Perhaps Harvey is trying to work
up some sympathy with Morgan, Har-
riman and others who have felt the
sting of the Presidents whip.
+
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-20
TWO cAPlToLs.

New York Evening Post-The Min.
nesota Capitol Commission. after four.
teen years Of service, has turned over
to the governor the completed cap
itol. In contrast to Pennsylvania
disgrace, the following from the st.
Paul Pioneer Press is interesting:
The chief glory Of the undertaking is
that 1t has been found as free from
stain or blemish as the virgin marble
from which the building has been rear
ed. No smirch Of questionable deal
ing or even Of carelessness that per-
mitted others to gain at the expense
of the state attaches to the commits
sion's work, though It has served
fourteen years and let contracts cover
ing over four millions of dollars"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-20
THE RACE 70 THE POLE.

Chicago Evening Post-Once again
are those two indomitable explorers,
Walter Wellman and Lieut.. Peary,
preparing to renew their attacks upon
the ice locked mysteries Of the far
north. In spite of former failures, both
are sanguine Of victory at the last.
Both bear many scars of previous
struggles with storm and ice and cold,
yet they are returning to the quest
with enthusiasm unchecked by the
thought of the suffering and peril os.
fore them. Strange and powerful iu-
deed is the call Of the far north
The widely divergent plans of these
two seasoned explorers are an inter
esting study Wellman has invoked
the aid of sciences latest invention.
the dirigible balloon, and hopes liter
ally to fly over seas and ice foes to
the pole itself. Swifter than the flight
of the hare will be the dash to the
north.
Peary, on the contrary, puts his
hopes Of success in the old, slow meth
cd of dogs and pony teams to drag his
party across the ice fields till one SUI
preme effort will bring him to the
point which must forever remain