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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13

terday when all alike had only their land
and their labor is but a little way back
of them These Nebraskans are real
Americans, developed by hard work and
that faith in God which has been
carried from New England across a
continent.
Against this background of simple
life and blue skies and yellow corn-fi fields
looms one of the leading figures of the
present time Without holding any
official position to lift him to public
view it is nevertheless curious fact
that the personality of William Jennings
Bryan has prominently impressed itself
on the country. To be great is easy for
the man who succeeds. But here is the
man who failed, and has grown great
and more great. Only a ruler or
general has received more public atten-
ton than he. Princes and potentates
have entertained him. Yet he is only
Americas most eminent private citizen.
AS such he is rather worth looking at
back among the home folks who know
him best. The rest of us have seen him.
the smiling, silver-tongued orator in
evening dress, on a platform in a
crowded auditorium, bowling to deafen-
ing applause of approval. They have
seen him perspiring in the bayfield, and
drawing a load of his own grain to
market. In Nebraska as in Cooper
Union he is the Great Commoner.
He lives in substantial red brick
house four miles out of Lincoln, at a
little settlement called Normal The
trolley will take you there, tall sun
flowers brushing the car window as it
passes through In the little country
church Just at the edge of his own corn
field, he worships on Sunday. Some
times he breaches there. His wife and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-17
ST. VIRCENTS SCHEDULE
Aggies of Logan Meet Them This
Year in Place of Utah
University.

In letter received last week from
Coach Hemple of the St Vincents foot
ball team, he has the following TO say:
You may be interested in the foot
BAH schedule of St Vincent's college,
Los Angeles. the team which defea ted
the University of Utah and Denver last
season.
The prospects are bright for a much
superior team TO last years eleven.
Practically an entire team viii remain
over from last fall ana the prospects
for a large influx of new material are
exceedingly bright
The '0S schedule has been made with
an idea toward deciding the western
championship, and teams from three
states will be played All the games
will be played i'm Los Angeles.
oct ~, San Diego Y. NJ c. A.
Oct 10. Los Angeles High school.
Oct 81, Colorado School of Mines
Nov. Z, University of Arizona.
Nov. IA, Utah Agricultural college.
Thanksgiving day, Sherman Indians.
Very truly yours.
(Signed) WALTER HEMPEL."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-17
PICK STRONG TENNIS TEAM
America Names Best Players to Meet
Englishment at Quail
fying Match.

New York. May l6.-The COMMITTEES that
will have charge OF the selecting Of the
American lawn tennis team which will
meet the English team in this country in
the international challenge matches for
the Dwight F. Davis cup is beginning TO
take notice of the ability OF the various
eligible candidates for the team.
The ten players who finished the best
in the tennis season Of 1907 are the ones
which will again be requested 10 try for
the team. They are W. A. Larned, r. q.
Wright, Karl Behr, r. d. Little, Robert
lie Roy, Clarence Hobart. K. p. LaFned.
r. c. SeaveF. Irving c. Wright and F. c.
ColstOn. Although not ranked last year.
". j. ClOthier and +. j. Alexander are
also named as eligible competitors.
Ii has been settled that the preliminary
matches will be played in this country.
For a while il looked as though the Eng
lishmen would fulfill their threat and in
stead of sending their team here would
send il direct to Australia The BTitons
wanted TO get the American entries III
the Olympies. However, ii is said that
everything has been satisfactorily ar
ranged and that the John Bull repre-
sentatives will arrive here IN the latter
part of July and they will compete in the
national championships at Newport.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-17
Keep Your Eye on KetcheIl.

Just keep an eye on this fellow Stan
ley Ketchell. Practically unknown A
year ago, Ketchell has fought his way
TO the front until today he is one of the
best fighters in the ring. There is none
who can dispute his title of middle
weight champion of the world unless il
is Pspke, and the Illinois thunderbOlt
is busy. and has been for some time,
sidestepping all proposals for match.
There are a number of tight critics
who come out boldly and claim that
Ketchell can defeat Tommy Burns. 1t
must be remembered that Jack (Twin)
Sullivan had a draw with Burns, and
a few months later gained a clearly
earned decision over Burns. Jack Twin
was certainly put to the bad by Ketch-
ell, and on this line of dope the Mon
tana slugger should stand a good
chance with lemon-picking Tommy.
Should Burns ever return to America,
Ketchell is just the man to go after him
for a fight and, should they meet,
Burns will not be such favOrite in the
betting as some think he will
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-17
Apology Due From Boulder.

If the reports of the action of Boul-
der in refusing to meet the University
of Utahs track team at Boulder last
saturday are true-and ii is believed
they are true-it is up to the Colorado
university 10 apologize to Utah and to
pay the expenses of the Utah team 1t
was one of the most unsportsmanlike
actions on the part of Boulder that has
ever appeared in western intercollegi-
ate athletics To the unprejudiced it
looks like a simple case of cold feet.
How long will il take Boulder TO
learn that it cannot pick its competi-
tors teams? Some schools think they
have right to say who shall make up
the rival team, but this Is generally the
case in a two by four country school.
whose experience in athletics has been
rather limited
Boulder knows that the University
of Utah uses props in athletic teams.
and always has done so. Knowing this
if Boulder has objections, il should not
schedule meets with Utah Instead.
without word of warning. Utah is in
duced TO make a trip of 600 miles and
have a ban placed on member of its
team, who alone would win points
enough TO capture the meet.
If charges of professionalism had
been entered against BrintOn and the
charges were true, il would have been
different, and Boulder would nave been
upheld in its action. Instead. here is a
boy, not yet out of his teens or near
il, simon-pure amateur in every sense
of the word-the very kind of an ath-
lete schools should develop above all
others, barred because he is a prep. or
to give the true reason, because he is
too fast for any man in the Colorado
university
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-17
MANY COLLEGES
IN CHICAGO MEET
Seventeen Teams With Nearly
Four Hundred Athletes
to Compete.

Seventeen track teams have entered
the conference meet. which is 10 be held
on Marshall field June 6. In addition
to the big eight" there will be squads
from Leland Stanford, Grinneli, Ames,
Michigan Agricultural college, Law
renee, MOrningside, Olivet. Drake and
Beloit. There are in all 325 individual
entries, as against 300 last year The
list was closed yesterday at p. m, and
was issued by President Horton OF the
graduate committee. Six more colleges
are expected TO enter teams, and were
wired yesterday that the entries would
be received until Monday The institu-
tons in question are Missouri, Cornell
college, Oberlin, University OF North
Dakota, Lake Forest and Knox. The
revised list of entries closed May 80.
The 1908 event will make up In class for
the loss sustained last year through the
reform" rulings. Many Of the college
seniors were caught in the retroactive
effect of the three-year rule last yeai.
but the colleges will have the full
strength of the sophomore, junior and
senior classes in the coming meet
While many of the 1907 winners have
graduated from college athletics, the
crop of newcomers will be larger than
ever and the coaches are looking for
topnotch performances from the new
material. Chicago and Illinois are the
big eight favOrites for conference
hOnors. Neither school, however, has a
well-balanced enough team TO look for
high total. and this fact makes the
dope" on the winner the more uncer-
tain. Illinois won the 1907 conference
with a total of 81 points 10 Is 1-3 for
Chicago, but the meet seems sure TO go
at a lower figure this year.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-17
S P O. R Toll -G-Y
BY w. o. RIsHEL.

So Rude Unholz stayed full ten
rounds in front o. Joe Cans. Good for
Unholz! He did better than was ex-
pected of him. but then perhaps Joe
felt kindly toward the Boer and al
lowed him 10 remain little longer
than he would under ordinary circum.
stances. The fight. according To re-
ports, showed that Unhoiz put up
game losing fight from the start and
never Tor minute WINGED under the
blows of the colored wonder. He did
not damage Cans 10 any extent ana
only proved more cOncmsiYely that
Cans is the best of them all
The hSht does not put Unholz our of
the running, and he is still good
card. Cans did no more to him than he
has 10 every other fighter, with the sim
gle exception of Battling Nelson. I'm
hOlz can now, and prOba bly, will. drop
back to the second division. and there
command good purses and the respect
of all other fighters in the lightweight
division.
Now for Cans. There are but two
men left for him to fight. One is
Packey Mcfarland and the other is
Battling Nelson. Mcfarland and Mel
son are practically matched for Mil
waukee. 1t is for ten rounds, which is
another way of saying Mcfarland wins
the decision. When this fight becomes
history an effort will probably be made
TO get Mcfarland and Cans together,
but Packey will not be anxious To
meet the negro. About this time Nell
son will bob up and if both Cans and
Nelson are wise they will sign articles.
They will get the biggest purse ever
offered i'm prize ring. II is bound to
come, unless the unforeseen happens,
and Nelson is sent down and out by
Mcfarland.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-17

or route. and see if he will travel the
journey? Remember. no knockout has
as yet been scored against him.
This being the case. why then call
him poor old Bat? We will admit
that in ten-Tound bout the Dane is
not as strong as he is when he goes the
distance. He depends more on his
Sameness and his ability TO take pun
ishment To carry him through success
fully than he does on his cleveTness.
which a best was never anything to
starjle the boxing world. A man may
best him In ten rounds that would suf-
fer defeat if it went twenty OF thirty
rounds N is for that reason that Mel
son must be careful in matching him
self with clever men like Packey Nc
Iarland ana Gans."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-17
MAY II IN THE
ANNALS OF SPORT

lSSs-At Minneapolis, in a game be-
tween the Minneapolis and Milwaukee
clubs, Jantzen of the former, made
three clean home runs.
lS9S-At Philadelphia, Hamilton of
the Philadelphia team opened and con-
Guided game with the Washingtons
by home-run drives. the last bringing
In the winning runs i'm the tenth inning.
lSS4-At Pittsburg, William Clear
water scored 100 10 in a pool contest
with Frank Munsev.
l9o4-At San Francisco, Dick Hyland
Knocked out Frank Fields in the third
round.
1sO5-At Chelsea, Mass, Aurelia Her.
rera won from Kid" Goodman i'm fif-
teen rounds
1907-Aibert Clement killed in auto
mobile race at Dieppe, France.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-17
MAY RfJOIH WHITE SOI
Isbell Not at All Satisfied With the
Minor League Bench
Joh

Frank Isbell, for years the popular idol
of Chicago baseball fans and one OF the
most valuable players in the game may
vet wear a White SoX uniform this sea
son, according to gossip noised about IN
American league circles. 'Izzy," as he Is
fOndly called, owns the Wichita franchise
in the Western association. He is alse
manager of the club, but is forced TO sit
on the bench. as he is still under reserve
to the Chicago American league team
1t is said that the life of a maEnate in
Wichita is not a bed Of sweet roses, and
"Izzy' is anxious 10 get back 10 a berth
which brings him a certain pittanee every
month. He might be better satisfied ct
the head Of the minor aggregation il he
could play himself.
II is not President Comiskey who is
keeping the big athlete out OF the game
in Wichita. but the laws OF organized
baseball which provide that waivers must
be obtained on all major league ball play
ers before they can be let out 70 the
minors. There are several clubs Ia the
TWO major leagues which would be only
too glad to land the versatile Isbeil, and il
would be an utter imp0ssihility for the
Old Roman to secure the required waiv-
ers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-17
IFS FUTURE PLANS
Wrestler Has Made a Success
ful Business Out of
Game.

York. Nav l5.-Frank Gotch. the
x champion, SAYS he has three
all larger than himself and an
|1letes, but they are no match for
y SAYS he has made a business of
estling game. He says he has
et a dime on himself in the last
Is. Prior 10 that time he did make
layers. He also says he has never
ahy one or asked any one 10 bet
He says he names his price
IS H. That much he Is sure of.
II away and has accumulated a
Is he has made more money in the
Il game than any other wrestler
TIE is now giving exhibitions in
Invest. After that he will come
five weeks. then he viii return
Irm IN Humboldt. Ia, and rest un-
Oct. !.
u atrest. and | am going 10 take
|aid-y Il am going TO hunt during
Ter, and no man can inVeigle me-
hatch before hen unless he gets
liza the next TWO months.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-17
sunday SCHOOL MEET
|ndred Entries Expected Among
the Boys of the
80 Y. M. C. A.

|aturday. May %, at Wandamere
eur the biggest track meet for
Ter held in the state. It will be
ia annual Y. NJ. G.. A. Affiliated
School club meet. The first
as held in the summer of 1906.
kT entry list of seVentv-five.
years meet at Cummings field
|ere 800 entries. At the rate the
Tor next Saturdays meet are
in, those in charge feel sure
l. entry list for this year will
over the 800 mark. This means
|ere W. be about 400 different
the Meet, representing sixteen
schools.
track meet is A part of the gem
heme of athletics which the Y.
a. has conducted for its afhli-
|lnday school clubs throughout
boys will be divided into three
Z classes according 10 age, and
hts will be as follows:
h7 years. class A-lG0-yard dash.
high jump, running broad
|2-pound shot put, SSO-yard relay
|en).
10 years 6 months. class B-50-
bash, 100-yard dash, running
lump, running high jump, 44O-
lay -four mem.
u years months, class C-50-
Ism, 100 yard dash, running high
cunning broad jump.
|e medals Will be awarded 10
OF first place. Ribbon prizes
bnds Snd thirds. A beautiful
Itch fob viii be given 10 the boy
the most points.
rivalry between the Sunday
is exceptionally keen, and il is
Il that every church will send a
brtion of its membership out 10
II to cheer its junior athletes TO
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-17

riders. There are more men here this
year or on their way to Salt Lake,
than there were last season, and surely
salt Lake did not suffer for lack of
riders then. In the meantime the
Vailsburg management is sending out
all kinds of inducements TO the local
riders TO go back there and ride. So
far none of the local boys have showed
any inclination TO go, and as long as
Saltair runs twice a week, Salt Palace
twice a week and Ogden once a week,
Just take it from the writer that there
will be cycle riders around this town 10
burn.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-17
Utah State League Is Lucky.

Some of the fans are asking the ques-
ton, rs il not rather late to start a
baseball Lacquer" Well. ii is about the
luckiest thing that ever happened to
the Utah State league that it is not in
full swing at the present time. Just
imagine paying out $1,000 a month to
four baseball teams with the weather
man handing out the wettest weather
In years, as he is doing now. Look at
the dispatches from all around the
country, postponed game account Of
rain" and then pity the poor angels
who are paying for ii. Dad Gimlin
said last Thursday night, 1T is a big
mistake TO start playing baseball in
Utah before June !" and Dad is about
right.
The School of Mines at Golden is at
present "all sweiled up over big ce-
ment NJ they have placed on the hills
near their school. They are getting
considerable notoriety over the achieve
ment" in thus placing their school be-
fore the public. Probably Golden has
not yet notified the unsuspeeting Colo
RADIO public that they got their idea
from Utah, but they did, just the same
x X x
There is to be a big game between
the best teams of the east and west
side grade schools next week to settle
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-17
VaIIsbure Sorry for Salt Lake.

The press agents for the Vaiisburg
track are having a fit these days all on
account Of Salt Lake. They cannot
possibly see how We are going to have
races here this summer on account of
the scarcity of bike riders. They are
sorry for Salt Lake, and are busy eX-
planning to the eastern cycle public how
badly they feel for Zion. Well, you
don't hear anybody around this town
kicking about the scarcity of bike
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-17
Good Opinion Of Battling Nelson.

Tine writer frequently has been ac-
cused OF being too friendly TO Battling
Nelson. His critics say the Battler is
all in and should not be worthy of con-
sidera ton. Perhaps this is true. but il
has not been so proved in the ring.
otto FlOtO, the Well-knoWn sporting
scribe of Denver. seems To be afflicted
with IDEAS about Nelson. Here is WHAT
he has to say:
Doc Old Battling Nelson, That's
the way some of the scribes are dub
bling the durable Dane these DAYS, and
especially is this the application made
regarding his match with Packey Nc
Farland. It's sort of strange fact
that they call him poor old Bat and
yet At the same time one and all refuse
10 meet him i'm forty five-round bout.
Packey wants the limit at ten. and Joe
Cans at twenty rounds. If he is so soft
and So easy as they would have Us be
ieve, why not take him on at the long
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-17
~ MCFARLAND
MAY QUIT RING

Is Nav I6-Packey Mcfarland,
A--sht. says he viii 90 in two
hits, and then. whether he wins
will retire from the ring. He
Eivsd an offer as a cattle buyer
|tock yards concern and has de-
accept First though, he eX-
meet Battling Nelson, and will
10 get date With Joe Cans for
~ at Goldfield. Nev. Packey has
hort but successful career since
the ring. and IL is doubtful If
De willing 10 give up that line of
specially if he has good luck in
bouts he now has planned.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-17
HUSKY MEN FOR MICHIGAN

Detroit, Mich. May 1s.-Ths usual spring
football practice at the University Of
Michigan is to have a new feature this
year as Coach Yost has decided 20 try
TWO regular games in addition 10 the
practice OF punting. taekling and falling en-
the ball. With a squad of fifty eand-
dates. thirty-four Of them veterans, Yost
will pick two elevens and try them out in
full distance contests this month. The
Michigan team will probably average
about 200 pounds next fall. judging from
the huskiness of the men now reporting
for practice, and the eastern teams which
take on the Wolverines may have their
hands full
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-17
CLING GAME
.IARTS IN EAST
per Easily King Pin of
FroWd of Riders Now
at vaiISburg.

hieye't racing season in the east
last Sunday with a meet al
3nrg and, if the attendance at the
meet is any criterion to go by.
nonld be something doing i'm the
Is year in cycle racing. The ac-
say there were about 5000 peo-
FHsent, which is somewhat larger
my crowd that ever gathered at
AXE. A photo - the track showed
k-lap track crowded TO its ca
and the overflow crowd turned
e arena. Kramer, Of course. was
5ole show. From the list of riders
Id appear that Vailsburg is much
up for men now than they are
Lake. The following account
meet from the World gives a fair
how the game is starting out
lsburg:
Thousands Were Present.
Rt thousand spectators were
at the opening meet on the new
hrg cycle track at Newark yes
afternoon and cheered wildly
Frank l.. Kramer won his first
The new siX-lap oval by a few
nom Joe FOgler. The brand
ack has been built inside the old
r-mile saucer, and the same old
stand IS used, with a few boxes,
Ze Dleafhers are over on the
tretch, scrOss the field from the
Many old-time cyclists were
yesterday 10 welcome the re-
outdoor racing, the meet being
ft one at Vailsburg since 1906.
nnal heat of the half-mile open
lee had six starters, one of them
anderson OF Denmark, who was
Danish amateur champion. Fog
for the last two of the three
the race. with Kramer trailing
Kramer got busy on the back
of the last lap and won from
ooklynite by half a foot, Bard
Ping very close 10 Fogler. Kra-
Zarted in the three-m mile pro
Up from scratch with Jimmy Mo
he champion tired of the grind
two miles and a half and
while the crowd jeered him.
Ri at the bell. followed by FOgler
latf7 won by a length without
rtioular exertiOn."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-17

the championship of the city. They
are only kids, but two punches of
youngsters that can go through sea
son and clean up all the other boys
must have some class. Why not pull
this game of down at Walkers field
and give the old fans a chance 10 see
the youngsters play ball? It ought to
draw a good crowd. and ii ought TO be
a game worth going to see.
When Johnny Chapman, manager Of
the Saltair bicycle track. came out with
the announcement that $500 in prizes
were to be given at the opening meet
al the new track, it made some of the
riders sit up and take notice. Five
hundred dollars in prizes for an ondi-
nary everyday bike meet is going
some. No wonder the bike riders are
not anxious to leave Salt Lake.
From fsr-away Philadelphia comes
the report that Dick Hyland VIII not
LET up until he forces Rudolph UHholz
into a fight This is one big joke 10
those who remember the efforts the
Boer made this spring to inFeigle Dicks
into the ring either here or IN Ogden