Putnam patriot., 1908-12-18
The World 0i Sp0rts


 The World of Sports
 Two hundred or more local sports were highly entertained by the Padel- Io-Cellins wrestling bout in st. John q hall last Friday evening il "as Pa dello night all the way through, and the wiry Bay.Statef was seen at his best. The bout was catch as. eaieli ean, pin falis and best two out of three. Padello secured the fiat fall n 29 min utes and x seconds aith scissors and half Nelson The second in l2 min utes and l8 seconds with the same. PadeiIo looked in the pink of condi= ton, while Collins wa, showing the effects nf cold from which he had been suffering for the past Two weeks. Immediately after the match Collins issued another challenge to Padello, which was at once accepted. Padello also challenged Fritz Hanson who was present at the fingsdc.
 The preliminary matches were be- tween Young Dnmas and Kid Nan Bon Occur both of Patnam and Young Dubriel of Putnam and DesauIniers Of GrosvenofdaIe Each match went i5 minutes without Il fall. JosepbGauth- fer and and Albert Langlois, both Of Putnam, also went on for n spafring match of three rounds that Was very evenly contested. Eugene Emmons was the referee.
 Meetings of the National and Amer ican base ball leagues were held nNew York iast week. The American league adapled rule governing preliminary practice. 1a this forty minutes ls To be given befote eaeb game. thirfy min. utes lo Che willing team exclusively and ten tn ihe home team solely. tns pires are To hase charge Of the field dnf ing lhis tune to enforce the rnie. m5 pifes are to be instructed That runners on balls thrown Into the hleaohefs ale ta be eivefan additional base instead of being allowed to gu all the way home.
 The National leaene voted 10 eome piete fund for the erection of q monu ment to tic memory of the late iIen4A Chadwick, '.the father of American baseball and to provide for perpetual care of the plot in which he K buried Manager eofdier has good match on fof Christmas afternoon. Fritz Hanson of Worcester, will meet Bar fett, the Canadian wonder, of Montre- al. Barrett agreeing te get two falls in an hour. There will not be better bout pulled of anyw here in the coun. try than the one in St. Johns hail. The preliminary bouts are yet 10 be ar ranged, but big bill will be ready when the bell rings.
 Putnam High eNened up with Xii. lingly High in the basket ball game ,in Afmoly hall, Friday evening, getting the long end ef ssi-e4 scare The game WAS closely contested all Inc way through, and WAS anSbodNs up to the final whistle
 Jimmy Collins, the one time idol ef the Boston fans, has been given hts fe-
 
 a loose bully, although t has been an. nonnoed that he has been offered the management of the Toledo, Ohio, team. War Eagie, the Indian wrestler of Auburn, N. Y., k after Fritz Hanson < scalp. He has just challenged Hanson to a match with side bet of any part of gtahl that h. .,a., haaI hit.s
 The press writers of the major leagues recently organized and arc to try to i'm. prove the conditions and devise means to bring about more uniformity in SCOT ing. Any person who has attended the games and read the different pa pers the next morning with their vari- cites of tahuiated scores, must have been impressed with Inc fact that per haps the reporters had their favorites in the game as we'll as other individu- als.
 MacFarlon. Moran was the team that won the six day bicycle race al Madi. son Square Garden last week. They came from opposite sides of the nlied States, Mcfarland being a California boy and Moran coming fromst helsea. The winners beat ihe previous world is record established hy Miller k Waller in issa, bs 2 miles and laps, making n total distance of szS5 miles and lap. X peculiar feature of these physical strains is the fact that the men gain weight, heihg aecoan.esi :for hy the enormous amount ef water that they drink.
 Al lhe annual meeting of the Anden hnse ball club tue following officers were elected.
 President, C. \. Andem.
 Secretary, EEhelbert Aldrieh.
 Treasurer, l.. ]. peffeauls.
 Manager, ia. A. Calm.
 Directors, Officers, and Tfudeau, An. defson, and Alland.