The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-06
Frank GOtch Earned Over Fifty
Thousand Dollars Last
Year.
DEADLY COFFIN NAILS"
TAB00ED IN BASEBALL
New York Highlanders Are
Through With All Dia-
mOnd MascOts.
BY MANHATTAN.

country You may take this for radi-
cal statement. but not so. Wrestling has
not been interfered with by law. Wres-
tling bouts can be held anywhere. 1t is
a popular sport
Frank Gotch earned $50 900 last year,
How is that for liye-wire sport? Doc
Roller. the ex-pill roller OF Seattle. has
found wrestling so profitable that he has
been travelling about the country for
year. There is no moving picture insti-
tuition 10 spoil wrestling, although
heaven knows how long the sport VIII be
allowed TO so unhindered by this TWEEN
ticth century Spoilation OF legitimate
sport. The sport is also popular In Mex
leo, and a large number of Americans
have emigrated across the border
-. Zbyszko, the Pole, and Mahmout, the
Turk, are matched for wrestling bout
l am informed that the tenth annual
bowling tournament which Will be held In
Detroit from February 2S 10 March 10.
under the auspices OF the American
Bowling congress. VIII be the most sue
cessful In the annals of bowling. Two
| thousand five hundred bowlerS from every
section of the United States are expect
ed to compete. and there is no reason
why the meeting should not be a success:
The number OF iive-men teams alone will
total 400 combinations; Many pin, eT-
perts. not officially delegated win be
present. Quite naturally, Detroit will
have big representation; about l50 teams
Will represent the Michigan city, ] under
stand Teams from other cities are Chi
eago, 30; Cincinnau, 10. Indianapolis, 10
ent from St Louis. Kansas City PhIla-
delphia, Pittsburg, Baltimore. Denver.
Omaha, Washington, Buffalo, New York
and elsewhere.
There is talk that race may be ar
ranged between Harvard oarsmen and
the famous eight OF the Royal Club Maui
tique de Gand OF Belgium. as the prln-
Clpal feature OF the championship re-
gatta OF the National Association OF
Amateur Oarsmen in Boston Basin dur
ing the coming summer This would
mean some royal sport for the Belgium
crew is at the present time the holder
OF the grand challenge cup. having won
land last July The project was official
ly considered at meeting on wednesday
of this week when the delegates of the
New England association assembled Ihs
race between America and Belgium would
be an event Of International Importance
and would hoist American oarsmen to
position , to which which they hay have long been
The deadly coffin nall the same being
the festive cigarette. is under ban In the
camp Of the Boston Red soX baseball
sessions, President John Taylor OF the
Red Sox. who Is spending the winter
in California. has issued the imperial
decree. when the boys assemble at
Hot Springs | am going 10 give them a
fatherly talk on the cigarette question,
said Mr.. Taylor. 81 hate 10 do II, but
furnish cigars for the team from April
II to October &. il they cut out the pa
per tubes. All cigarette smokers inhale
the smoke and this cuts the lungs anu
kills the wind. 1t causes nervousness
and insomnia. too. The other question
on which l shall lecture is all-night
poker playing 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
baseball
to all athletes. They are more harmful
than drink
The Carlisle Indian school VIII not nave
a baseball team this year The fact has
been established that the Redskins pre
not adapted for the game. A savage may
be a perfectly good football player, hut
he is not cut out for baseball playing,
A baseballst makes a fine Indian on oc-
casions, but an Indian can never be
ballplayer.
American league team. Frank Farrell,
owner of the club, received this letter
this week: Dear mister Farul-l am q
up for the cunning seeson ! wud IKE to
be with the New Yorks though II you
don't want me | may go with the Piruts.
II over a billlSeu forty ways frum the
jack. II you want good luck for the
season hire me. All l want is eighteen
dollars 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
through the pranks Of the mascot II
is safe to say this "all round mascot"
will not set a berth.
the pins?" has given away to the new
query. What becomes OF the baseball |
umpires In winter" Aside from this
general query: ! would like to know what
Tim used 10 umpire game between col |
legians occasionally and he could never
understand the temperament of the col
lege baseball player. In certain Yale !
Princeton game some years ago, big |
"Jlm" Cooney was catching. Princeton |
was being beaten and Cooney could not
turn the tide all by himself. AT last two
big salt tears rolled down Cooney's face
tears of rage. 1t took Hurst weeks to
recover from this novel sight in base
ball, He could not understand why q
big, strong man should weep under any
proyocation. Morgan Bowman was cap
the game Bowman went up to Hurst
and said: Mr.. Hurst, you are one Of
the best umpires ! ever saw. Why don't
you get a job umpirIng in one OF the
lesgues?" II took three men with silver
tongues all the way back from Prince
ton 10 explain TO Hurst that Bowman was
heard OF him before. For three weeks
thereafter Tim was as mild hammered
a man as ever called down a ballplayer
1t took even longer for bis pride to re-
cover entirely from the shock
Dr.. c. w. Hetherington. athletic dircc-
tor of the University of Missouri has in
vented a new brand OF football. He has
hopes OF seeing It adopted generally and
OF having IL adopted in Mis-
souri, this spring. He calls II "combina-
ton ball" 1t Is cross between English
Rugby and association. The player in
this game cannot run with the ball. bur
Fan only pass or kick IL. This game"
says DR.. Hetherlngton. will develop IN
nervous system so that II will have bet
Ter control OF the muscles. The men who
report In the fall for practice cannot run. !
md have not proper control OF them I
selves Combination ball teaches the 4
player 10 run. pass and kick Exactly |
what the good doctor is driving at does I
1ot seem quite clear.
Have you seen Chrlsty Mathewson's {
lew book? Christy is about the most I
fersatile chap In the big league. When
le isn't winning games for the Giants /
he Is coaching collegians or selling insur- q