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Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-11
TALES TOLD
AT
THE RING Sid e
Nv w a. pheIon.
OLD BOB IN THE TABERNACLE.
BY w. A. PheIon.

Billy Stiff, once powerful factor
at about 165 pounds-a man who never
was a champion but who made the
champion hustle hard to beat him-1s
decent, steady-going citizen these
days, and stands well in his church.
The ring is past for Billy Stiff and
he will never draw on a pair OF padded
gloves again.
Memories of the old days are strong
with Billy Stiff, despite his CONVEX
sion and his active religious work. and
now and then q good story comes to
the surface. He told one the other
day on old Bob FItzsimmons, and it
sure hit off the life's ideals of the Cor
nishman.
''Once upon q time-jUst a little
while before old Bob passed into the
list of discards," says Mr.. Stiff, at so
the coast and I WAS with him as a
travelling companion. We intended to
stop off at Salt Lake and see the
sights of the Mormon city. OF course,
our guides steered US, as soon as pos
Sible. to the great tabernacle-ons of
the grandest houses OF worship ever
built by any denounination-and We
were taken up in the lofty gallery.
CAS- we stood in the great gallery,
gazing over the majestic structure, the
mighty organ of the tabernacle began
to play. The sacred music for the next
tones swept through our very souls,
and completed the awed mentality first
created by the sight of the gigantic
building
Il stood, hat in hand. and gazed up
and down the huge pillars, the wide
stretches of seats, the ample eisles.
surveyed the enormous balconies the
| Incompatible sweeps of space, the
wonderful arrangements by which the
Mormon builders conquered the acous
tic difficulties OF so vast an auditorium
turned and looked at Bob Fitzsim-
mons. There he stood, his lips apart
and his breath coming in q Kissing
| whisper as he stared big eyed at the
noble scene He was literally overcome
| with reverence and awe, and his eyes
ranged up and down the imperial am
phitheater. At every turn he saw
something to admire, something al
| which 20 marvel, something to make
! mere mortal man bend the knees In
conquered admiration The grim old
Cornishman, hero Of 800 battles, looked
back and forward, up and down. a
though he could not feast his eyes
sufficiently. And at last, with great
sigh, he turned to me and spoke
.Bli-Ine, Bill, old pal, what a, plyce
| to old a fight in!'@
AiopsIighted hs ;. L. Rpaaia,l
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-11
RIVAL TO M'FARLAND.
Mick Sheridan Looms Up as Possible
Stockyards Champion.

Chicago. Jan. 10.--Packey Mcfarland
is not the only fighter who will have
the distinction of being the stockyards
champion. Packey has a rival for the
yards honors. Eddie (M1ck) sheridan
also halls from the South Side and his
home is back of the yards. And IL
looks count for anything all the boy
wants is a chance and he will soon be
dividing the honors with the present
stockyards champion. Sheridan Is a
lightweight, a real lightweight. which
means that he can easily do 1873
pounds ringside. There's no disputing
that, for in his fight yith Tommy Kill
bane at Windsor Dec. 2S the articles
called for 1913 pounds at o'clock and
Sheridan made the weight with ease.
Eddie got his rough experience as
fighter back Of the yards. wrere it's
kick, bite, gill and gouge, and where
nothing is barred. And In the fight
with Kifbane, who has a reputation for
being bad in the ring, the Irish Kid
showed at his best. Tommy started to
rough it as soon as he saw that Sheri-
dan was no chump. And he did most
everything but bite Eddie's leg off dur
ing the eight rounds Of battling, and
when finally. in the eighth round, he
gave Sheridan the knee in the hope of
saving himself from knockout, the
inspector general of police stepped up
to the ring post and told the referee to
stop the contest and give it to Sheri-
dan.
Eddie begged the referee, Billie
Rocks, not to interfere. and remarked:
Hes Irish, and so am I, SO let Us go
to it,
The impression that Sheridan made
on the Detroit Windsor fight fans was
fiattering. to say the least.
Such good judges as old Bob Farrell,
Kid Lavtgne Danny McMahon and Bill
lie Rocks all think that as a fighter
Sheridan comes up to the brightest
expectations.
While it is true this boy has a Tong
way to go TO get as far as his rival,
Packey Mcfarland. he has, neverthe-
less, q, great many things in his favor
that Packey at the present time lacks.
The latter dislikes fighting? Sheridan
wants to fight. It's his business and
he hopes to DO a champion. He wants
to beat Packey to It and be the first
boy from back of the yards to become
a worlds champion.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-11
|LANCFORD SHOWS UP JEANETTE
Sam Had Decisive Lead Over New Yorker in ID Slash
ing acknowledgements Down For Count Of Eight
in First

Boston, Jan. 10.-Sam Langford of
Boston defeated Joe Jeanette of New
York In a slashing bout of twelve
rounds before the Armory A. A. tonight.
The Boston negro had a decisive lead
in every round but one and in the
first round dropped the New York col
ored man for a count of eight.
Throughout the entire fight, with the
exception of the third round, Langford
far outpointed his opponent. He used
right and left swings to Jeannette's
face and straight jabS to the body al
most exclusively, but he was unable
to land a knockout blow. Jeanette
forced the battle in the third round
only, the rest of the time fighting de-
fensively.
In the opening round Jeanette drew
first blood and, apparently angered by
the blow, Langford landed a swift left
hook to the neck, dropping Jeanette
to the mat for count of eight. In
the second round the New York colored
man was unable to ward off Langford's
terrific uppercuts to the head and the
gong alone apparently saved him from
being knocked out, but he rallied in the
following round and had a shade the
better OF the argument. The remainder
Of the battle was entirely in the Bos-
ton mans favor. When the gong
sounded at the end of the twelve round
battle Jeanette walked to his corner
with evident difficulty. Charley White
of New York, the third man in the ring,
gave Langford the decision.
In the preliminaries Frank Moran of
Pittsburg knocked out Ken Swisbury
of Arlington in the second round.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-11
NORWICH BULLETIN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY II, 1911

naturally comes UP more slowly and
just lobs away from left handed bat
ter. but Russ can get the same break
with his fastest ball
He can hand up a. splitter that will
break in or out or straight down If he
telsl it to. Players wouldn't believe
that until a few of them stood behind
me when warming up Ford and he'd
tell them which way he was going to
break it. That boy has something no.
body else has. Take it from me, he
uses something outside of baseball.
It's not natural what he does with that
ball sometimes. ! don't know what he
uses, and 1 room with him, but if every
pitcher could get 1t I'd never hit .o09.
Russ has q younger brother who's a
pitcher Stallings asked him if he
thought he could teach his brother to
use what he does, and Russ said he
could. Stallings put the boy in an ex-
hibition game one day and they made
three hits off him in five innings, using
only the stuff he had himself without
Russ showing him a thing. Just watch
out for that boy too
Ford admits that when Sweeney was
injured in the first game between the
Giants and Highlanders last fall he
could not pitch with his usual effect
iveness. 81 couldn't use the splitter
with confidence" he declares, "and that
let me OUT
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-11
NOW eoTcH CAN WREsTLE.
Champions Fianoe Gives Her Consent
to Have Him Meet Hack and Others.

The latest announcement from Frank
Gotch is that his fiance has reconsid-
cred her refusal to allow him to
wrestle Mahmout, Hack and Zbyszko,
game to defend his championship title.
A Chicago man was instrumental in
getting Miss Oestrich's consent to the
programme outlined for Gotch.
The worlds champions first public
appearance will be in Chicago Jan. Is,
when he will open a ten weeks the
atrical engagement, his first week be-
Ing at the Empire theater. He will
not work continually on the stage, but
will intersperse several wrestling
matches into his theatrical pro-
gramme.
Gotch will not take on a hard match
until he has had about three weeks
work on the stage to get into condi-
ton. According to Herk, the champion
should be ready for a hard match by
Feb. 1.
The big Iowan has harbored grudge
against Hackenschmidt ever since the
Russian Lion spread stories through
out Europe to the effect that he lost
the championship through Gotch's I'M
sportsTna Unlike treatment in their match
at Dexter park pavilion in April. 1908.
He has wanted to pin Hacks shoulders
to the mat ever since then but refused
to announce his willingness to wrestle
until he had gained his fiance's per-
mission.
IT want to meet Hack just once
more said Gotch on a recent visit to
Chicago. IF we get together I'll guar
antee that it will not be another Mara
thon contest like our match two years
ago. 1 am going to make him go to
the mat and I'll beat him quickly"
Gotch will be married at Humboldt
Jan. II and he and his bride will come
to Chicago the following day.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-11
GRAND CIRCUIT SCHEDULE.
Dates from July to October-Goshen
Gets Preference Over Dover.

Buffalo, N. Y. Jan. 10.-The stewards
of the grand circuit at their annual
meeting tonight unanimously reelected
last years officers and arranged the
schedule of dates for the coming sum-
mer Much surprise was caused among
the horsemen here when the schedule
was given out. showing that Goshen
had been awarded dates that it had
been generally understood would go to
Dover. n. Fl.
The dates assigned are: Indianapolis,
July 10-15; Kalamazoo, July 1922;
Grand Rapids. July 1879; Detroit
Driving club. July S1-Aug 5, North
Randall. Aug. 7-12; Buffalo, Aug. ID
10; Goshen, Aug. 21-26: Readville, Aug.
2s-Sept. 2; Hartford, Sept 4-9; SYRIA
cuse. Sept. 11-16; Detroit, Sept. 1928;
Columbus, Sept. 25-Oct. z.
Upon the recommendation of the
committee on dates, an effort will be
made to induce Lexington to select
dates following Columbus.
The stewards deciied that rhe grand
circuit should not employ either a pre-
siding or q starting Judge as recon-
nended by the convention of horsemen
yesterday. Each association is left to
engage such official as they see fit. al
though 1t is understood that the men
recommended at the opening meeting
viii be given preference. The officers
reelected are: President, H K Dew
ereux of Cleveland; vice president, W.
Pengleman of Kalamazoo; secretary
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-11
THIRTY-FIvE GAMES IN
TIGERS SPRING SCHEDULE.
Two Squads Will Move North About
March "a from Monroe, La.

President Navin has announced the
schedule of exhibition games which he
has arranged for the Detroit Tigers and
it looks as if the members of the De-
troit baseball club were going to have
a very busy spring. The squad will
come north in two divisions, as usual,
and the two sections are due to play
in no less than nineteen cities, playing
total of thirty-fiv games.
The only major league club TO be
encountered is the Cincinnati Reds, but
contests have been arranged with
teams from the American association
, and the Southern, Texas, Central, West
ern and Three I leagues.
Hughey Jennings will command the
first squad, which will be made UP of
the veteran infielders and outfielders
and the recruit boXmen, while the sec
ond division, composed of the veteran
pitchers and recruit basemen and outer
gardeners, will be piloted by Wild Bill
Donovan. The Tiger cubs will be the
first to leave the training camp at
Monroe, La, starting for Shreveport on
the morning of March "a. The same
evening the full grown Tigers will take
a sleeper for Birmingham, Ala, where
| Manager Jennings will unleash them
the next day.
AS all the players will probably be in
Monroe by March I, they will have
more than three weeks of work before
they start north. Some of the veter-
ans including most of the pitchers,
will go to Hot Springs about the mid
die of February, to start getting into
condition, but the majority of the men
VIII leave for the south in a body from
Detroit.
The first squad plays seventeen and
the second eighteen games. The teams
will probably rejoin each other in De-
troit or in whatever city the Tigers are
scheduled to make their first official
appearance in 1911. Meanwhile the
fates of the different new men will
have been decided and those who seem
to need more seasoning to fit thin for
big league company will be shipped to
various minor league teams.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-11
FoRD's SPLITTER HAS
WONDERFUL BREAK.
Highlanders' Twiriing Artist Has Ev-
erythinq or the Ball.

Catcher Ed Sweeney of the Highland
ers was recently asked to explain if
possible the reason for the wonderful
pitching of Russell Ford last year.
Sweeney is wintering in Chicago and
Is F'ords closest friend, although the
young pitchers home is in Milwaukee.
This is Sweeney's detailed explana-
ton:
when Ford started pitching to me
last spring he insisted on having two
signs for his fast ball. 1 had caught
him before, you know, and pooh poohed
the double cross stunt. We started
warming up and he sent in a fast one
which broke to the right SO far that
missed it. Then he steamed in another
which broke the other way and barely
nit the outside of my mitt. Yes, that's
it. That boy can throw the same thing
as Mathewson's fadeaway with every
thing he has behind it. The fadeaway
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-11

features. among them the placing of
chimes in order that the men may
have a better idea of rowing form. On
the second floor of the house Are plac
ed $40 lockers and "a standard rowing
machines.
The call for candidates will be is
sued in a few days and special efforts
will be made to secure members of
last years football squad, many of
whom, it is believed, have expressed
their intention of being crew candi
dates. The object in securing the foot .
ball men seems to be that beef and
Drawn are desired in this years boat,
rather than the light wiry crews of
the past three years, which have been
beaten by the much heavier men of
Harvard.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-11

troduced and referred to the coInm1D-
tee on cities and borougs.
State Oyster Propertiss-
Freeman f. Patten OK Stafford
ner state treasurer. was named .
cial commissioner to work with
state board of equalization in an -
vestigation Of the oyster properties
throughout the state, which work !
nearly completed and with which Mr.
Patten is familiar.
BY Mayor Dunn Of WiIiinn sntio.
A resolution by Mayor Daniel r.
Dunn of Willimantlc that the use II
the hall of representatives be allowed
the democrats on Thursday Of this
week that the party CAUCUS may De
held for the nomination Of p car 'I4 -
for United States senator was Hf-
ed as generously az a similar Tesssff-
ton from the republicans was acced-
Tuesday afternoon.
A joint resolution that Governor
BaldWin's message ne Incorporated In
the journals OF both the house. and
senate and that 1000 copies be print
ed, was passed.
Contested Elections.
The petitions Of John VI. Brooks.
John f. Griswold, Walter l. Morgan.
Cyrus G.. Beckwith and Samuel A.
Flight were referred TO tho COMMITTEES
on contested elections.
At 1890 the house adjourned until
II O'clock Thursday.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-11
Burns Accepts to Fiaht Lane.

Seattle, Wash, Jan. 10.-Tommy
Burns, former heavyweight champion,
cabled to Hugh Mcintosh today an ac-
ceptance of the latter's offer of a purse
of $12,50O for a fight with Bill Lang
in London.
Burns is guaranteed $12,5 regard
less of the result of the fight He is
recovering from injuries received in a
lacrosse game at Vancouver and in a
train wreck near Tacoma, but promises
to report in London within sixty days.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-11
Agony Five.
429 81 397-12
Mohican Clerks.


1t was announced yesterday that
Stanislaus Zbyszko, the Polish heavy
weight wrestler and challenger of any
man in the world, will meet DR.. Ben
Roller in a wrestling tournament in
Boston Friday evening. Jan. 27. The
winner has agreed to meet George
HackenscfInidt later in the season.
While known in Boston, Zbyszl<o has
not wrestled there as frequently as in
the middle west.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-11
COTTON.

New York, Jan. 10.-Cotton futures
closed easy. Closing bids: January
April 14a5. May 1893, June 1903, July
1903 August 14.7&, September 1877
October 1888, November -, December
Spot closed quiet; nniddling uplands
1896, ndddling gulf 1920; sales. 2,e46
bales.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-11
GREENEVILLE NIGHT.
Four Duckpin Teams Hit the High
Spots at Rose Alleys.

Greeneville night with four duckpin
teams participating made Tuesday
evening a hummer at the Rose alleys
and kept the pin boys jumping to set
UP for the multitudinous strings reeled
off by the strong armed shooters. Ri
valry among the four teams was in
tense to make the high figures and
the scores given out were hardly
above suspicion of hot-air initiation in
some cases.
The following was the report made
of the doings of the evening:
Mi I.EEa n&.s1n
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-11
Yale Wins ROUGH Basketball,

New Haven, Conn. Jan. 1O.-In a
rough game the Yale basketball team
defeated the Trinity college five here
tonight, II to 10. The score at the end
of the first period was Yale 10, Trinity
8. Many of the Yale goals were the
result of fouls by the Trinity players.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-11
Discussed Waterbury Controversy.

Bristol, Conn, Jan 10-Although
President Tracy of the Connecticut
league of baseball clubs, George nj.
Cameron of the New Haven team and
Fred A. Winkler of the Holyoke team
were in session here a greater part Of
the afternoon, discussing. as they aG-
mitted, the controversy between Harold
Durant of the Waterbury team and Mi
chael Finn, the teams manager they
would give out nothing for publication
at the close of the meeting. The mat
ter, they stated, would be reported at
the next league meeting.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-11
Papke Was Sick.

That Billy Papke was suffering from
yellow jaundice on the day he lost
on a foul to Dave Smith in Austria
liza, is the information brought to San
Francisco by Rudolph (Boer) Unholz
who arrived on the steamer Aorangi
after two years spent in the Antipodes
PapFe had already had to obtain
postponement and was still sick few
days before the fight He must have
been pretty bad to have lost to Dave
Smith, said Unlholz. '%Fhe latter is q
young fellow and looks to have a good
future but he has not been long in the
game.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-11
WALES NEW BoATHoUsE
Equipped With Mirrors Besides the
Rowing Machines.

With the opening of the new Yate
boathouse, built in memory Of George
Adee, the prelimtna.ries to the spring
and winter practice OF the candidates
for the various crews were commenc-
ed at New Haven on Monday. The
new building is exceptionally well
equipped for the purposes for which it
will be used, there being many new
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-11
REFUTiNG CHARGE THAT
ATHLETES DIE YOUNG.
Statistics by Yale Paper-Records of
761 Athletes.

A refutation of the frequent charges
that athletes die young has been pub
ished with statistics in the Yale Daily
News. The record of 761 athletes who
won their "Y'' in one or more of the
major sports between the years 1856
and 1904 have been compiled. The sta
tistics read in, part as follows:
"Of these 761 athletes, 81 have died
since graduation. The causes were:
Consumption IL, pneumonia. 4, drown
ing 6, heart disease 2, war and acct
dent 3, died from unknown causes or
disappeared 10. from various diseases,
such as fever, cancer, paresis, dissipa-
ton, etc., -.
'Of these 81 men. IS rowed on the
crew, 16 played football, IL were track
athletes and played basketball. The
ages of those who have died show
these extremes and averages:
Extremes Av. Ages
Sport of Age At Death
Crew -. 20 to So years All years
Football ..22 to 81 years 1913 years
Basketball 20 to 80 years 1878 years
Track :. ...21 to 33 years 26.4 years
IF the four men who were drown
ed while young are eliminated from
the crew table the average age is rails
ed to All years.
Turning to the 10 living athletes,
those who have passed 40 may be
grouped thus:
ollG d1Ct thirteen IlGIl al g
between 40 and 40 years; Sc are be-
tween so and So years; 22 men are be-
tween so and So years.
1T is widespread opinion that
athletes are liable to heart trouble. but
only two Yale men of these athletes
considered have died from this cause.
1t would seem more significant that
of the 81 deaths, 16 were due to lung
affections, the sports engaged in be-
ing: Football 6, rowing 4. basketball z,
track athletics a..
A life insurance expert is quoted
with the opinion that college athletes,
barring track men, show a better aver
age expectation of long life than their
mona hletic classmates.
The Yale News quotes a well known
athletic authority as follows:
t'Dr. Meylan has studied the indiyid
ual history of every oarsmen gradual
ed from Harvard in the period Of for
tyrone years between 1852 and 1893
The results show that, compared with
longevity these athletes have had an
expectation of life, barring accidental
deaths in the list, of more than five
years longer than the average stand
ards of the insurance mortality tables.
OF the total number of 152 men whose
records were traced, 1913 were living in
1904. Not one death was In any way
caused by overexertion in athletics
during college years, only two men
having died of heart disease, and row.
ing was not blamed in these cases. Or
the tlirty-two oarsmen dead IN more
than q, half century, six were killed in
war two by accidents and only one
died of consumption"
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-11
MON

New York, Jan. 10.-Money on call
steady, 3@4 per cent, ruling rate 1-2
per cent, last loan 3-4, closing bid
33-4, offered at 4.
Time loans soft and active; sixty
and ninety days 1-2 per cent, six
months 8 3-494 per cent.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-11
Jim Basey Had Too Much Weight.

Oakland. Cal. Jan. 10.-The weight
told on Jim Basey, and Pay Streak
beat him easily in the Imperial handi-
cap the feature race at Emeryville to-
day. The track was still sloppy.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-11
Took Duckpin Match from Mohiean
Clerks by Close Score.

In a duckpin match, total pinfaH to
count, the Agony Five were victorious
Tuesday evening over the Mohican
Clerks by pins, 1917 to 1909. High
individual single and high individual
three string total both went to Trach-
tenberg of the winning team with
scores of 10S and PIT. The detailed