The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1911-01-07
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In Sports
What the wrestlers, Boxers and Base
Ball Artists Afe Doing.

The London Graphic describes a
game of American football, between
teams from the battleships C9nnec-
ticut and Michigan as follows:
There was never a dull moment. !"
1t tells how soon after play started
1.-THE twenty-five footballers were piled
up on the Connecticut goal line.
Now" says the English writer,
if the Michigan player with the
ball who was at the very bottom Of
the pile was over the line five points
had been scored
He then proceeds to tell how the
supporters of both teams lost con-
troll Of themselves and the Ameri-
can naval police had to rap the spec
tators over the heads with clubs to
keep them from taking a hand in
the game.
To make things worse" says
the English scribe, both brass
bands went mad, utterly mad. One
musician, having no more wind at
his disposal, banged, the big drum
with his cornet. In the words of
the poet, they twanged the spirit
stirring fife like anything. and bang
ed the melancholy piccolo's sad
string
Meanwhile the officials were
busy removing the players from the
heap; but it was some minutes be-
fore they arrived at the man with
the ball. He wore broad smile,
but this changed to look Of disgust
when he found he was six inches on
the wrong side Of the line. The
EConnecticuts won finally by II
points to 0. From spectators
point of view the American game
l'does not compare well with our own
Rugby. The Americans keep the
ball very tight and one soon tires of
seeing players jump on one an
lother."
| A 100 yard dash between the
South African sprinters, Jack Do
madison and r. K. Walker, was
spoiled when Walker, at 60 yards,
stumbled and FELL. The race was
for the professional championship
and the holder had a slight lead
when Walker lost out. Donaldson S
time was 81 seconds, only a quarter
of second slower than his world 8
professional record.
Connie Mack was one of the trick
siest catchers the game has known.
Connie worea rubber band around
his glove. When he would reach
out for the ball he pulled and let
go that rubber band, and nine times
out Of ten the umpire called the
batter out on foul tip when he
had missed the ball by a foot
Later umpires refused to stand
for Mack's claim that he wore the
rubber to keep the mitteh from
bulging. Then Connie developed
the method of arching the gloved
hand over the ball and Swapping
one of the fingers of his left hand
against the glove. Game after game
was won by Pittsburg by one snap
of Mack's finger against his glove
!, Another trick Mack worked with
success was bat tipping. He would
stand closer to the bat than any
catcher stands to-day, shove out his
glove as the batter swung and LEI
the bat as it came swinging around
glide over his glove, regardless o.
the ball. In one game between
Pittsburg and Baltimore McGraw
struck out five times by bat tipping
Edmund Lally at Saranac Lake
N. Y. broke the worlds amateur
22O yard skating record, negotiatin,
the distance in II 2-5 seconds. Thil
clips 2 2-5 seconds from the recort
> of 10 4-5 seconds, made by Lero,
See in 1900.
Mike" DAILY, former lightweight
pugilist, was found dead in cell il
the police station at Bangor, Me.