The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-07
Gotch Earns Over Fifty Thous-
 and Dollars a year
CIGARETTES UNDER BAN
Red Sox Will Forbid Ills players to Smoke Cigarettes But They
 May Have Cigars
Fly MANHATTAN

fighting in this country. You may talk,
 this for radical statement. but not so
 Wrestling has not been interfered witt
 by law. Wrestling bouts can be helt
 anywhere. It is a popular sport and Frank Gotch earned 2,000 last year
 How is that for d live wire spot? Do,
 Roller, the ex-pillroller of Seattle, ha.
 found wrestling so profitable that he
 has been travelling about the country
 for year. One thing in favor of wrest
 ling is that the majority of bouts art straight, whereas in prize-fighting many boxers are so crooked that they have to
 sleep in circular beds. There is no nov ing picture instifation to spoil wrestling although heaven knows how soon the sport will be allowed to go unhindered by this Twentieth Century spoilstion of legitimate sport The sport is also pop ular in Mexico and a large number of Americans have emigrated across the bor- der.
 Turk. are matched for a wrestling bout in Chicago this month.
 ~ht AHlofHtu lHdt iue Ientn annual bowling tournament which will be held in Detroit from February 2s to March l6, under the auspices of the American Bowling congress, will be the most sue eesstul in the annals of bowling. Two thousand five hundred bowlers from every section of the United States are ex- peeted to compete and there is no req
  success. The number of five-nen teams alone will total 400 combinations Many pin experts, not officially delegated. will be present. Quite naturally Detroit will nave big representation; about 15O teams will represent the Michigan city l under stand. Teams from other cities are Chi cago, 90; Cincinnati, 40; Indianapolis, 15: Milwaukee. 20. Teams will also be pres ent from St. Louis, Kansas City, Phils- delphia, Pittburg, Baltimore. Denver. Omaha, Washington, Buffalo New York and elsewhere
 The deadly coffin nail. the same being the festive cigarette. is under ban in the camp of the Boston Red Sox hasebal II team. Along with it is all night poker sessions. President John Taylor of the Red Sox. who is spending the winter in California, has issued the imperial de- cree
 When the boys assemble at Hot Springs am going to give them a father ly talk on the cigarette question" said MT. Taylor. T hate to do it but this action is necessary. I will agree to fur nish cigars for the team from April IA to October 4, if they cut out the paper tubes. All cigarette smokers inhale the smoke and this cuts the lungs and kills the wind. It causes nervousness and in- somnia. too. The other question on which shall lecture is all-night poker play ing when the team Is making long trips "
 There is a rule in all the big league camps against cigarette smoking. but 1t is not always enforced Cigarettes are deadly not only to baseball players, but 10 all athletes. There ara. in fact, only a little less harmful than drink
 The Carlisle Indian school will not have a baseball team this year. The fact has been established that the Redskins are not adapted for the game. A Savage may be perfectly good football player, but he is not out for baseball playing A bsseballist makes a fine Indian on occa- sions, but an Indian can never be a ball player.
 No more mascots for the New York American league team. Frank Farrell. owner of the club, received this letter this week:
 Dear Mister Farul-I am a mascot oilt of job. and want to hook Up for the coming season. I wud like to be with the New Yorks though if you don't want me I may go with the Piruts. I am an all round mascot and can put it over billi- ken forty ways rum the jack. If you want good luck for the season hire me. All I want is eighteen dollurs a week and travelling expenses. The last mascot the Yankees had was two years ago when he kept the team in hot water all the time. Farrell was kept busy keeping the boys out of jail through the pranlss of the mascot It is safe to say this "all round mascot will not get a berth.
 The old question of What becomes of the pins?" has given away to the new query What becomes of the baseball umpires in winter?" Aside from this gen eral query, I would like to know what has become of our old friend Tim Hurst. Tim used to umpire a game between collegi- ans occasionally, and he could never un- derstand the temperament of the college baseball player. In certain Yale Prince ton game some years ago big Jim" Coo ney was catching. Princeon was being beaten. and Cooney could not figure out any way in which he could turn the tide all by himself At last two big salt tears rolled down Cooney's face-tears of rage. It took Hurst weeks to recover from this novel sight in baseball. He could not understand why big, strong man should weep under any provocation Morgan Bowman was captain of the Yale team at the time. After the game Bow man went up to Hurst and said: MT IJ,.ru nf tl,- ever saw Why don't you get job um- pring in one of the eagues?" It took three mon with silver tongues all the way back from Princeton to explain to Hurst that Bowman was not 'Joshing' him. and had really never heard of him before. For thres weeks thereafter ",r1m" was as mild-manncred man as ever called down a ball player, It took even longer for his pride to recover entirely from the shock.
 Dr. C. w. Hetherington, athletic di- rector of the University of Missouri. has invented a new brand of football He has hopes of seeing 1t adopted generally and particularly of having it adopted in Mississouri this spring. He calls it "com- bination ball" It is a cross between Eng fish rugby and association. The player fin this game cannot run with the ball, but can only pass or Kick it. This game. '' says pr. Hetherington. will develop the nervous system so that it will have bet ter control of the muscles. The men who report in the fall for practice cannot run. and have not proper control of them- selves. Combination ball teaches the player to run. pass and kick" Exactly wha the good doctor Is driving at does not seeln quite clear.