The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-07-23
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COLLEGE CHAMPIONS.

"A Baseball Pennsylvania A
a Rowing Cornell A
A Track athletics r.. Harvard A
A Basketball Columbia a
A Cricket Pennsylvania a
a Chess Pennsylvania Princeton A
A Gross country running Cornell A
a Association football Columbia a
A Fencing :. West Point a
= COLI Yale a
a Gymnastics -. Columbia A
= Hockey harvard =
"A Lacrosse -. Cornell A
a Swimming Pennsylvania A
"A Shooting . Yale A
A rife shooting Geoi Washington 4
A Tennis. Pennsylyania-Haryard A
a Water polo ., Yale A
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The refusal Of Sam Langford to
fight Stanley Ketchel at Ely, New,
for one-fifth Of the $4,000 purse, is
regarded by fight followers as an in
dication that Langford daes not con-
slider Ketchel so easy proposition.
Sporting men agree that II Ketchel
and johnson were as easy to whip
as Langford has publicly declared
them to be, he could afford to fight
them without any financial interest
In the purses to be. offered. o.
Al Kaufman will mot fight Jack
Johnson before the Mission Club In
San Francisco in August. Announce
ment was made TO this effect by Bill
" Delaney, his manager, who said
Kaufman will not fight Johnson in
August or September. He will take
his time and Will not be rushed into
q fight. When Kaufman enters the
ring he will be in the best possible
shape"
To engage in a game of baseball or
football while at any college or school
either chartered or receiving financial
aid from the state. will become
criminal act, If the bill introduced into
the Georgia legislature by Represen-
tative Adams of Hall county is pass
ed The measure Is entitled IAN act
TO prohibit and prevent football and
baseball games between institutions
which receive state aid Or hold state
charters and to provide penalties for
all violations" Not only are the stu
dents who engage in the games to
De arrested and punished as INSIDE
meanants, but the members OF any
faculty who permit or encourage the
playing Of the games are equally gull
fy and must go to Jail, too. After
a conviction any school whose stu
dents are found guilty loses its state
aid II 1t be sttae institution and its
charter IL 1t be private school or
college. Adams says he will give the
committee good reasons for a fayora-
BILE report when the time comes.
Umpire Weeks, who worked short
time In the South Atlantic League.
declares Castro to be the boss Of the
whole business. Castro does just as
he pleases," says Weeks, "and takes
things as easy as il he were ruler
OF the universe"
The more daylight" movement,
now being so strongly pushed by the
National Daylight Association of Gin.
cinnati. and by its friends throughout
the entire country, is one that meet.
with the hearty approval Of the sport
Ing world,
Walter $. Mayer, chief Of the post
office inspectors of New York, is in
xestEanng the truth of reports from
cincinnati purporting to explain how
individuals in that city have of late
0een receiving winning tips" on the
races by means of letters mailed sub.
sequent to the races, ante-dated by
some clerk In New York postoffice.
4. Il. Pell Of New York, indoor ten
mis- champion of the United States
won the southern championship tttle
IN singles by defeating DR.. Nat Thorn.
ton OF Atlanta three straight sets, 6-1.
81, 60. Pell clearly outplayed his
opponent in nearly all departments of
the game.
i I'm view OF the increased price OF
manufacture, the price of crude rub
Der having doubled within the last
three months, the American tiremak-
ers have Issued circular to automo-
bile manufacturers and dealers, an
nonncing an advance Of from Is to Is
per cent in all tires.
a shadow Of his old self. Terry Me.
Govern, once featherweight champion
pugilist of the world, was taken to
saRitarium at Amityville, L. |. III
want to so home so: | want to 90
home,f he pleaded when friends tried
10 get him into an automobile that
Was 70 take him away After much
persuasion, he agreed to go ii his
mother would ride in the car with
him. McGoyern had been in the OBJ
servation ward Of the Kings County
Hospital Since his arrest on a charge
OF iatoxication.
The independence Day attendance
this season in the major leagues was
reduced in the total through the pre-
vention of two National League games
In Chicago and one American League
game in ST. Louis; but the average
Was up to expectations and previous
recMs me The six National League
not yelldrew 70,922 persons, with
corn / undoubtedly breaking the