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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-15
BASEBALL OUTLOOK
LESS PROMISING
departure of Star Players Dis
appoints Maddox and
University Fans.

"A xSof disappointment has fallen
Ver what promised to be the greatest
BASEBALL season in the history of the
diversity and a lamentable situation in
.e great national game threatens to
t<ist again this year at the school on
e hill. At the beginning of the school
par. Coach Maddox was able TO frame
two teams superior to any that the
hool had had before and was so en-
uslastic about the outlook that he a {
! ice proposed a Colorado trip and be-
I'm organizing a state league. Things
3ok different now and Maddox IS
ondering how he will get a first-clsss
ne together to uphold the reputation
i the school.
Maddox had a great bunch of aspi-
3nts in sight, but yesterday. when he
FUNDED them up for a preliminary
'actice, he found five of his best men
issing and three of them pitchers.
uinn and Hammond, two of the best
Elrlers in the high school league, who
tered the university at the beginning
the year, had left school ana Mad
fck was sadly in need of these two
len. Hammond pitched for High school
I'D Quinn did the slab work for All
pillows. They are both good batters
ku lnnelders, so they would have
Erenakhened the L team materially.
pen <immy Dunn, formerly captain OF
/ e Righ school nine and one of the
Ist amateur shortstops in the city. and
Iarce, who has played on the L team
r the past two years were also found
be among the missing ones. Mad
Ick was not entirely discouraged be-
use of the departure of four of his
jars, but when he learned that Holds
'prth had departed hastily for Nevada,
was in depsair. HoldsW orth is a
7teran at the game. and is reputed to
| one Of the best third basemen i'm the
tereollegiate circles in this part OF the
&untry.
ne track team will also feel the loss
Holdsworth and Hammond. The for
er is a crack half-miler, and the lat
ran in the sprints for High school
II spring HoldswOrth has a good
|iord on the track at Michigan Agri-
ltural college, where he attended
pool before coming to the university.
be baseball squad works OUT every
enin& and the men promise to be in
fpe or the opening of the intercol-
nate Teague. There are many aspi-
ITS for the team and Maddox still
ieVes that he Will be able to get out
| ~NAAA ~ ~ lloiu It's OWN WIN the
Der sea OILS of the state. In all prob
lily. ne trip TO Colorado will be
.an9eaed.
track men at the university are
1rking cut on the track every after
pm as - weather has permitted out
e worKs lately. The men show ex-
lent condition. The indoor work has
Pm abandoned. as it is Injurious to the
lners 10 do both inside and outside
frk at the same time. Maddox has
Ken ali of the track men off the inter-
SIS basketball teams so that they will
able To devote all their time to track
$rk.
he cinder track at Cummings field is
4ng repaired and many other i'm
pvements Will be made on the field.
e sridiron viii be scraped and lev
and the goal posts will be taken
IVn until next football season.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-15
STOPPED B0B'S BLOW.

The lanky Bob Fitzsimmons went OH
down to COney Island one night with an
easy mark that had been touted as a
giant killer, but who wasn't in it for a
moment. This fellow, whose name was
Martin had grit all right but Fitz made
a punching bag of him.
He stayed through three rounds. At
the end of the third one of his seconds
said to him:
You must get in close to him. Mar
tin. and stop some of those blows"
Stop some of Them" retorted the
painting and exhausted fighter viii
you please inform me as to whether you
saw any of them getting by me?" he
said. as he rubbed his bruised body.
The next round when he stepped to
the center of the ring he stopped one
of Ruby Roberts long-arm swings with
the point of his jaw. and when ne awOke
an hour or two after. he was being at
tended by couple of physicians.
This was perhaps the last fight of this
description that was ever pulled off in
New York state. for shortly after the
event the Horton law went into effect,
which made it impossible thereafter to
pull off a fight of any description in or
about the old city of Gotham. the
stamping ground and battlefield for
many of the great fighters of decade
ago.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-15
Ratter's Work is Harder Today.
CORNELL COMES WEST.
Chicago Is Now Included in Eastern
leans Schedule.

Chicago. March 14.-Chicago and Cornell
viii meet in football Nov. IA at Marshall
field Definite assurance of the honed -.
eastern contest was given to Maroon root
ers today when the board of physical
culture and athletics announced its con-
sent TO the game. following the invita-
ton extended BIZ the Ithacans.
The action taken bv the Maroon hoar4
was the result of communication wifi
Coach Stage. and it was withheld until
today. when further information concern
ing the plans was received from the coach
The Cornell authorities asked for the
game with the understanding that n
was to be played at Marshall field. ac-
cOTding to the Maroon professors and The
Midway board agreed on the same IN
derstanding. The arrangements for q
Cornell-Chieago game were cut short last
year. as Cornell did not wish to come
west.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-15
s. 20 R-T- O-L-O-G -Y
6Y w. D. RisHEL.

For the past month there has been
considerable talk of a Colorado Utah
baseball league for the coming season.
So far it has been just talk and as far
as any OF the plans put forth are con-
cerued it is well that it is just talk,
for none of the propositions so far
could possibly go through with any de-
gree of success. Frank Selee, manager
of the Pueblo team and former mana
ger of the Chicago Cubs, is quoted as
being in favor of Utah Colorado
league, but says it will be next year
before it can be carried through. Selee
wants to form a league with Denver,
Colorado Springs, Trinidad, Cheyenne,
Ogden and Salt Lake. Selee says, how
ever. that it would be necessary to get
Denvers consent to put another team
in that city, as he does not believe i'll
outlaw ball. Selee starts out all right,
but instead of Trinidad his league
should have Pueblo. Such a league
should then start out with the firm in
tention of playing outlaw ball if neces-
saTy. and YOU will have to talk for a
long time to convince the writer that
outlaw ball is not preferable to
ganized ball in small leagues. If Sc
lee would go at the head of such a
league he would have no trouble what
ever in getting Pueblo to desert the
Western league. as that town is not in
love with O'Neil's circuit as il stands
today With little trouble. Denver
could be wrested from George Tebeau.
as the Denver fans have little use for
Uncle George Just let Selee. or any
other man with baseball brains, start
out on a Utah-CoIorado league of the
above description, and it can be car
ried through. and what is more the ma
tionaI association will be glad to take
it under its protection.
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Siier on a CoIored Champion.
George Siler says: a certain clique
of American fistic scribes who always
have declared against a cOlOred man
fighting for the heavyweight cham
pionship. and who stood by Sullivan,
Corbett and Jeffries in their stand
against fighting colOred men. seem de-
termined 10 force Burns into a fight
with johnson and this. strange as IL
may seem. is because they believe the
black can beat the white. This is not
consistent with the view these people
took of the situation during the reign
of other champions. If Johnson was
not so formidable and was considered
easy picking one might approve of
forcing Burns to fight him. but as the
reverse is the case the clique, it seems.
wants a colored heavyweight cham
pion. 1t is the first time in the his
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-15

-ory of the American prize ring that
such demand really has been made"
The certain clique of sporting scribes
in this case comes pretty near being
the entire fraternity of America. They
are trying to force Burns to meet
Johnson. not because they wish a col
ored champion but because they be
lieve Burns is a fOur-flusher pure and
simple. He has never made a fight in
his life to warrant giving him any
class and today Johnson is the only
man in the ring who could really put
up a fight in the heavyweight .1ivis-
ion. The prospect of a match between
the same Jack Johnson and Jim JET
fries was not frOwned at for fear
Johnson would beat the bOilerma1e~
and become the heavyweight cham
pion. but because it would have been
suicide for Johnson to get in the ring
with Jeffries. Tommy Burns will new
er be given credit by the American
public as a champion until he beats
Johnson. He can pick all the lemons
he wishes, but the big black stands
in his way, and the quicker Burns
beats Johnson, if he can. the sooner
BunkO will be given credit for being a
fighter
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-15
JEffRIES AS 4 PROMOTER
Ten-Round Fights Are Jokes and
jim Wants Real
Fights.

Los Angeles. March E-Jim Jeffries.
heavyweight champion, is going to re-
vive the boxing game in Los Angeles.
He is tired of looking at ten-round bouts
and has secured an option on a piece
of land just outside the CITY limits
where he plans TO erect monster
arena
Il have backing from some of the rich
est men IN town, said Jeffries TO-DAY
and unless plans miscarry will have
fights to A decision soon. These ten
round affairs are jokes They lead IN
many free fights among the men who
bet on them.
Il expect 10 go to Europe this sum
mer. / want to take my wife over 10
Germany, but expect to have the arena
ready by them Now II Burns and John
son will mix about that time. / will refe-
rec the fight. but Il will cost them s 90
Nothing less goes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-15
HART TO MEET WILLIE.
Joke Match to Open Game at Hot
Springs.

Hot Springs, Ark. March flights
are TO be pulled off again here and. as
all Of the shows held here In previous
years were always well patTOniZed, the
prospects are that the sporting men will
turn out again in droves to watch the
'pugs" battle. The opening show will be
held on March II at Nottingham park
and will be conducted under the auspices
of the Hot Springs Athletic club. The
principals in the main bout will be Mar
vim Hart. the Louisville heavyweight and
John Willie of Chicago. who will battle
for twenty rounds. Hart recently re-
turned TO the ring after an absence of
nearly two years
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-15
JOCKEY SUES BELMONT.
rise fw1ser Said Rider Jumped His
n Contract.

few York, March 1A-August Belmont.
|sident OF the Jockey club and a horse
|ner OF note. has been sued for $l00.G00
a charge of libel by John H. Fret.
|merly employed as an apprentice in Mr..
|monts racing stable. The suit is
bed on an advertisement published IN
Racing Journal. the official organ
the Jockey club. which stated that
biz had left Mr.. RelmOnt's employ with
written leave and had therefore bro
L rule 10 o. the club. Owners and
liners were notified not 10 employ him.
bit claims that he was discharged by
4 Belmont on the ground that the sta
was 10 be given up. and the publica-
|yment.
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Some Advice for UnhoIz.
PIPE FROM SPOKANE.

Spokane. Wash, March l4.-Louis Thiel
of this city. closely connected with base
ball magnates all over the coast positive
~ asserts that the Coast league will m
wade Spokane and Seattle in case the
Northwest league grants the franchise 10
Natatorium park in this city. He states
that the Coast league wilt turn outlaw
and fight the Northwest league in its own
territory. Mr. Thiel intimates that the
traction company of this city is behind
the project.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-15
Noah Discovered Again.

Noah Discovered Again.
Pa ORourke of Omaha has discov-
cred a pitcher. aud says he is a COM
ing wonder. The Omaha manager SAYS
his man is nearly seven feet tall, and
that ne has speed and curves to burn.
He says his man has not had very
much experience, but is diamond in
the rough. Then he goes on and says
his name is Noah. This may sound
good TO the Omaha fans, and il would
have been taken all right here i'm Utah.
if Pa had not mentioned his name. The
same Noah was discovered once before.
and Dad Gimlin of Ogden was the
scout who did it, What the ball play
ers did to their batting averages
around here on Noah's delivery is still
a matter of history.
1t is also noticed that O'Rourke will
keep Slim Hall this season and not sell
him to Pittsburg, as reported last fall.
In Hall, O'Rourke has a live one. but
Omaha fans know this. as Hall was
considered the best pitcher in the
Western League last season.
Salt Lake Had Right Dope.
George Decker the Philadelphia
pugilist, whose best days in the ring
are a part of ancient history, was all
but put out i'm six rounds at Philadel-
phia last week by Johnny Summers 1t
was Summers fight all the way, and
reports of the contest say he could
have put Decker out if he had so de-
sired. Decker is the man who was
matched to fight Dick Hyland at La
COON. Everything was ready to send
tickets to Decker when some of the
sporting writer's of the city objected to
bringing a dead one here to enable
Hyland TO make a little easy money
McClintic set up great howl, but the
objections above referred to went. The
dope was not far wrong on Mr.. Decker.
That Gotch-Rogers Match.
Frank Gotch is coming in for con-
siderable criticism over his recent
match with Joe Rogers, in which he
failed to throw Rogers five times in an
hour. as he agreed TO do. Rogers left
America and went to England to wres-
tie Hackenschmidt, and he claimed the
American championship. AS a matter
of fact. Rogers is nothing better than
a third-rater and Gotch offered to
throw him five times in an hour. This
he failed to do, although Gotch's
friends thought he could without trou-
BILE. One of the excuses offered by
Gotch's friends is that the Iowa farm
er allowed Rogers to stay in order to
throw Hackenschmidt off Others are
so unkind as TO say that Gotch al
lowed him to stay to get another
match.
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Some Advice for UnhoIz.
Rudolph Unholz writes: Until now
I am still a foreigner, but I will take
out my papers some time after my
fight with Cans. / represent Africa,
Australia and England. If 1 win from
Cans l will have. the worlds title. 1t
will be the first international cham
pionship of the world since the days of
Dick Burke and Kid Lavigne."
That is all very nice talk about TAX
ing out naturalization papers AFTER
his fight with Joe Cans, but the writer
would suggest that Rude take out life
insurance papers BEFORE the fight
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-15
BASEBALL NOT
YET PERFECT
MANAGER Boston Americans
Thinks There Is Still Room
for Improvement.

Jim Mcclure, manager of the Boston
Americans. is one of the veterans of
baseball who has followed the game Tor
years. Here is what he has TO say OF
the improvements in the game;
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-05-05
Don't Fold Your Arms.

BY folding your arms you pull the
shoulders forward, flatten the chest
and impair deep breathing. Folding
the arms across the chest so fiattens
it down that it requires a conscious
effort to keep the chest in what
should be its natural position. AS
soon as you forget yourself down
drops the chest.
We cannot see ourselves as others
see us. If we could many of us
would be ashamed of our shapes. The
position you hold your body in most
of the time soon becomes its natural
position. Continuously folding your
arms across the chest will develop a
fiat chest and rounded back.
Here are four other hints which
should be made habits: Keep the
back of the neck close to the back OF
the collar at all possible times. Al
ways carry the chest farther to the
front than any other part of the an
terror body. Draw the abdomen in
and up hundred times each day.
Take dozen deep, slow breaths a
dozen times each day Family Dec
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-05-05
CHAPTER XVI

The night was dark and bolsrerous;
the moon passed fitfully in and out
from great banks of clouds. The
wind tore round them in violent
gusts; but still the slight, dark fig
ure fitted on before them, and they
followed wherever she went. There
was no hesitation, not an instant's
pause or turn. On straight she went,
like a sleuth-hourd on the scent,
through the rough forest paths.
The trees parted to right and left.
they emerged into the open country.
Before them lay the straight high
road, cleaning like ribbon in the
moonlight; then to the right, high
walls, on in front the lights and
shadows OF the trees. The three fol-
lowing her breathed hard, but not
a sound came from their lips. She
went with a straight, swift motion,
so tranquil that at times they almost
thought that it was vision thus glid-
ing before them There were great
iron gates in the wall Arthur reeog-
nized them at once, and knew. with
a shudder. whittier they were bound.
The gates were partially closed, and
yielded to her touch so swiftly that
1t almost seemed as If they flew open,
at her approach of their own accord
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-05-05
Ethics in Japan.

The Japanese have code of ethics
that applies from birth to death, and
on through all eternity, which pro-
vides a rule for customs in dress, hab-
it's, religion, morals and manners.
Each season has its own flower for
decoration, its own religious observ-
ances, duties and games. Twice a
year you fly kites! Twice year you
play battledore and shuttlecock with
gayly colored feather cocks and bat
tledores done up in silken raiment.
Once year little girls play with the
ancestral dolls brought out from the
godowns Cor storehouses) and little
boys play with huge fish. Once a
year you set your house in order and
prepare food for the annual vista
tion of the spirits of your dead Once
you clean house, and no unkind au-
thority intereferes with your putting
all your worldly possessions into the
middle of the street, while you sweep
all the bad out.--Outlook.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-05-05

With less consideration paid in this
country to the theory of substituting
old age, we have gone further in fact
than any country in the world We
make larger annual sacrifices on that
item, asservates the New York Mail.
The Civil War pensions have become
in effect old age pensions. They are
paid not only to veterans, but to men
who never heard shot fired in anger
and to women who were unborn the
day of Appomattox They do not
decrease. About million benefic-
iaries are on the lists, and while the
expectation is that the annual appro-
priation would grow smaller, new leg
islation keeps it up to about $780,
100000, and its tendency is to in
crease rather than decline. 1t re-
mains at practically the fixed proper
tion of twenty per cent. of the entire
National expenditure.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-05-05

Colinial cupboard, as did P. D. Cliff
ton, Of Pittsburg, it would hardly be
worth while hunting for an old one.
AS a faithful reproduction of a
famous eighteenth century design, it
would be hard to find anything better
than his work. 1t has all the feeling
of the genuine and might easily be
taken for an old piece.
Mr.. Clifton is an amateur who
made the cupboard for pleasure, hav-
ing for model merely a magazine
illustration of the original. The lat
ter is owned by DR.. Coburn, of South
NoTwalk, Conn. 1t was made in 1740,
and has the scroll top. urn finals,
pilasters, rosettes, and other details
which marked the best cabinet-work
of that day. We publish Mr.. Cliftons
cupboard as an incentive to other
amateurs, particularly those with a
china hobby.-The House Beautiful.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-05-05

A Photographer in the London
Sketch laments that Mr.. Kipling
should devote his pen to a crusade of
imperialism" instead of to social re-
form in England Indeed, says this
captious person, NOW that Mr.. Kip
ling is getting to the tractable age at
which some one has some respect
for the opinions of ones charming
aunts it is likely enough that Lady
Burne-Jones may enlist him in the
ranks of the philanthropists. The
Cape Meddler' was the punning name
she long ago gave him; and at the
Cape he now is; but when he returns
to England there are variety of
things in which we should all like to
see him meddle."
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-05-05
Cant See the stare.

United States Senator Nixon s.
opera house. which he presented to
the city of Winnemucca, New. as a
mark of appreciation of the friend
ship shown him by his former towns
people, must be practically recon-
structed- Not until the building was
completed recently was it discovered
that the gallery is so built that the
stage Is Invisible to more than half
the audience 1t must now be torn
out and reconstructed, necessitating
an additional expense of 500. 0OO
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-05-05
Conversation Schools.

What this country of ours needs to-
day, along with several hundred thou
sand other things, is richly endowed
system of institutions for training
the conversational powers. Mr.. Car
negie is giving away libraries by the
score to train the people how to read
and think Who will come forward
and found a chain of schools to teach
men and women how to talk? We
are in bad way in these United
States of ours, a sad way. in the mat
ter Of our daily discourse, what with
our profanity and our exaggerations,
our weather driYel and our personal
health bulletins, our banalities and
our brutalities. We need a doctor
to treat our tongues for their cease
less. pointless, fruitless wagging.
Who qualities Washington Star,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-05-05

Commenting on the round the
world telegraph experiment recently
made by newspaper in Copenhagen
Ferdinand Wagner says in a Berlin
paper: There was nothing wonderful
in the result. Two messages were
sent by the editor to himself at Copen-
hagen. One went via Shanghai, New
York and London, and the other via
London, Shanghai and New York. The
first to arrive at its destination was
the one which was sent by way Of
Shanghai 1t had to be retransmitted
eight times and was received at the
Copenhagen office in three hours and
twenty-three minutes after it had
teen sent away. The time seems
saort to circle the globe, but il the
various stations had received notice
Il advance and if the trial dispatch
! ad been given right of way the time
Foald have been reduced almost 10
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-05-05

The naturalization laws Of the
country have been toned up, and in
some quarters there is disposition to
resist the creation of new citizens
when the material is bad. Perhaps
this tendency is not very general,
notes the Louisville Courier-J Journal,
for we only near of it occasionally.
But the law ought to In rigidly en-
forced, for the addition of mass Of
ignorance and vice to our electorate is
not only undesirable, but is positively
dangerous.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-05-05

The Pittsburg Gazette-Times de-
mands: Let our women educators
show the baneful effects of tobacco
and urge the matter on scientific
basis, not forgetting the classic illus
tration concerning the two drops of
nicotine placed on the tongue of the
unfortunate canine to be found in
every school book. Professor Mey-
lan's effrontery in stating the results
of his original investigation should
not go unrebuked.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-05-05

A sea serpent 100000 years old
has been exhumed in Kansas, which
shows that Kansas had sea serpents
before the Jersey coast dreamed of
them, asserts the Louisville Courier
Journal, but owing to crush of 9TH
err things to brag about, plowed them
under without mentioning them.