El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-04-30
Sport Gossip About All B,
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Sorts Of Sports and Things 7u,n
By
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Turner

muscle call it sport to sit for As hours
and indulge in no more exercise than
| tossing cards on a table and now and
then saying. Pray do"
Others refer TO sport like this: Tai
a stick and knock hall oEt-i.4+o the
landscape. Then walk after the bali
until your caddy finds ii. and your ap-
petite for a Scotch high is properly
worked up Then hit the ball again
! and so on, ad infinitum.
Others: 1t is sport TO watch two men
stand up and punch one another until
the least in strength Gt seldom is
science) falls to the floor. with his nose
bleeding and couple of floating ribs
! wrecked.
Still others: Sport in its truest sense
consists in sitting in the sun and watch
ing nine men throw a ball around
vacant lot while a tenth man occasion
ally hits the ball and then runs as if
catching a train
Many contend: Sport consists in read
ing in a newspaper how a number of
horses ran around in circle at some
place 800 miles distant
So sport. after all is only sport
through the individual telescope. What
is sport for some is pain for others,
and what is pain for some is sport for
others.
Fresh from lion killing. storming OF
Paris, bombarding of Rome, Theodore
l. will make next conquest of the air.
That is if Theodore is game.
Aeronaut Lee s Stevens. member OF
the Aero club, has announced his in
tention of inviting the conquesting ex-
president to take ride in his airshlp-
Stevens has suggested TO make the af-
fair of national interest by special
program of events on the club grounds.
Now. according to Stevens. all the
club members are highly enthusiastic
about the matter. But yet it is TO be
learned just how enthusiastic Roosevelt
becomes. Lion killing is one thing, and
ballooning another But it's all sport.
Quoth big Jim J.:
Its hell 1 say.
To punch this bag, all day, this way"
Quoth trainer B.:
II disagree.
Take my bunch. keep up the punch.
or you the bag will be"
Prize fight press agency has been
guilty of many crimes. a suffering
public long has endured mere dope Can
it be that the sporting public bikes it?
Maybe, lack a day,
ingless matter is a good example There
! have been many weeks of it. and after
all nobody knows more today than at
the beginning. All that is sure is that
Jeffrles is training at some place no
body ever heard about. That alone is
news.
First in importance is the clever way
the agent keeps the public worrying
To begin with, big Jeff lost a leg-or
was ii an arm--in an accident That
was denied Then all breathed of re-
lief Next big Jeff was worried about
his wife, and would not train. Then
his wife recovered and all went well.
More recently big Jeff broke out
not as convict does-but all over his
big, broad back. Horrors, Has big
Jeff the measles, or is it the smallpox
Neither, he has bughouse blood. Ali
that's better. but still bad.
And this week-sad TO relate-big Jeff
awoke one morning to find a boil on
his neck OF all things, a boil and
OF all places, on the neck, 1t is feared
that the boil viii cause the postpone
ment of the big battle. Fierce.
Now comes a whisper from coast to
coast, breathed, first, by fight followers
then by the newspapers Big Jeff is
worrying too much about the coming
fight; is puzzling 700 much about his
training; in other words. is suffering
from the curse of thought.
- Here. hear, We scribes of prize fight
rot We-the dear unsuspecting public
will worry about the arm-or was it
a leg-will lie awake night about that
rash; will fret about that boil, the one
on the neck.
But We refuse, absolutely. uncondi-
| tionally, point blank, to worry about.