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NEWS AND NOTES..

FOR THE SECOND TIME NEW
York lost to Pittsburs in the latters
billiard parlors In the National Amateur
Three-Cushion League. Capt. +. r.
Trump of the winning team made a
great finish In the final game or the
series tonight A. G. Strasser Will repre-
sent P%ittsburg and Magnus will again
play for the metropolis.
THE NAVY ELEVEN HAS AR
ranged the following football schedule
for next fall: Oct. Z. Johns Hopkins
Nov. II, Western Reserve; Nov. Is. Penn
~sylvania State: Nov. Is. New York Uni
versity. Princeton will play at Annapo-
lis either on Oct. Il or Oct. Is. and the
Army-Navy game will be played Lee. g.
HARvARD's FENCING DATES FOL-
low: Jan. 10. open foil meet at Boston
A. A.: Jan. II. triangular meet al BIOS
ton A. A. with New York Fencing Club
and Boston A. A.; Jan. 81, Springfield
Training School. at Cambridge; Feb. Is,
Princeton. at Cambridge; Feb. 2s. Yale,
at Cambridge: March 4, West Point. at
West Point.
THE COLUMBIA GYMNASIUM
team have a busy year ahead OF them.
Besides taking part in the inter-col-
legiate meet. the team will participate
in dual meets with Lehigh. Rutgers. and
the Bronx A. C. away from home.
will tackle a number OF other colleges
at heir own gymnasium. Capt. Wheel
err has his men busily engaged In round
ing into form. He Is being materially
aided by the coaching OF Mellitzer OF
last years team.
WINTER GOLF ENTHUSIASTS ARE
interested in a project launched by
Thomas Wells. the famous Van Cort-
landt Park instructor, who has just
opened an indoor golf course at No. a226
broadway. Wells. who Is probably the
best expert In America, has trained
many we'll known New Workers In the
outdoor sport, and most OF them are
taking to the indoor game. which Is
played practically the same. Already
a number Of matches are under way.
YOUNG AHEARN OF BROOKLYN
is one of the angriest boys in the city,
and all because some one went TO
Augusta. Me-. last Thursday night and
used his name. the ringer being
knocked out by George Alger OF Cam
bridge. Isn't hat enough TO make a
perfect fighter mad
NEW YORK UNIVERSITIES BAs-
ketball team foun Georgetown easy AZ
Washington, winning by a score Of 20 to
IS because of good team work and tho
fine goal tossing OF Strennsand.
THE TRI-STATE LEAGUE HAD 4
stormy session at Harrisburg. at which
a salary limit, for each club. Of 5000 a
month was practically agreed upon; the
Sis individual salary limit was elm
mated and the optional rule, which per-
mits the major leagues to hand over
players with a string to them, was sus.
tained.
! ADRIAN WON FROM ALFRED
the Great BY . nose In the six-turlony
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RUNNERS BEGIN WORK TOO EARLY,
SAY SHEPPARD AND HHLMAN

years now ay do 1t. I'm strong faller.
Ay could no run ven I vas a kid-ay vas
Weakness in the knees. Now ay run an
break records for maybe ten years
more" said he.
Yes, I've heard that you never saw a
running track until a couple of years
ago. said Sheppard to the diminutvs
Swede. Lots OF other men who have
never thought OF competing could come
out n make corker. I see men every
day that / know would develop into
stars II they would take up the game
NOR who have never even seen . run
ming shoe"
Harry Hillman was over eighteen
years OF ago when Dutch Arnold. Of
the old knickerbocker A. c.. told III
that he would make a good hurdler.
Harry had never given the proposition
a thought up TO that time. He laughed
at Arnold's statement, but within a Few
months he was winning consistently
Taylor Started Running at rs.
Taylor, the great colored runner OF
Pennsylvania. did not do any running
until he was twenty-five years OF age.
and his athletic career was not In any
way responsible for his death a couple
OF years ago.
George Bonhag did very little hard
running during the first years OF MS
career, and 1t has only been since the
time that he came into his full strength
that he has been in record breaking
form.
Eighteen years had passed over Law
son Robertson's head before he took to
the game. and he also says that early
running is often injurious.
Billy PAUL., the great miller. Is one OF
the most notable exceptions for he start
ed competing while still a ~youngster.
-
T. ]. Lowell Of the A.. G. has
taken up light training, and Coach Robertson
says that this young hurdler will be better next
season.
J Many members Of the New York A.. G. are
clomorng for the renewal ~ boxing at the club,
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Team in Training to Win Back
"Met" Title from the
Winged Foot.

even a wee bit. and he promises to be
ia the best shape possible during the
summer.
George Bonhag may make this his
last season on the cinders. but there Is
some doubt about II. Retiring from
the game seems about the easiest
thing the old champions do. But most
of them can't keep away from the lime
light for long.
Frey Got a Record.
,E. A. Frey. who started running a
year ago for the Thirteenth Regiment.
was not as good outdoors as he was on
the boards, but he managed to break one
worlds record during the season. The
9O-yard sprint title went to him. Frey
may improve more rapidly this year
than last, but the indoor work seems to
be his forte,
Fifty-nlne American and worlds rec
ords are credited to athletes OF the
|. A. A. c., a remarkable thing when
you come to consider that the club has
only then athletically in existence since
1900. Sheppard has established nine OF
these records; Jack Eller, six: George
Bonhag, fourteen: Jim Crowley. six; r,
Cloughen. two; John Flanagan, even;
Martin Sheridan. Ave; d. Ahearn: two.
Five relay records art held by the relay
cams: b.. Brodd, one; Frey, one. and
the 60-yard dash record is held Jointly
by Archer and Heating.
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Best Amateur Runners Enter
for Games Under Auspices
of Post-O Office Clerks.

~ HE special prizes that The Eve
ming Word will give 10 the win
= ming teams In the six-mile team
race 81 the games 20 be held by the
brooklyn T.. o. clerks at the Forty
seventh Regiment Armory. Jan. q,
have brought out the very best am
ateur distance runners in the country.
and b race promises TO be a corker.
obermeyer and Kramer will represent
Brooklyn; Bailey and Fitzgerald. the
y. Y. A. c., and Carr and Devanney
and Clark and Jordan will make up
two teams from tho Xavier A. C. Other
teams have been selected n their
AL fou Of the first named men have
been running In great style during the
present indoor season. and az they are
now In strict training It would not bt
surprising II one OF the teams estab.
lished a team record for the six miles.
Even the walkers viii b. given q
nance 70 pair up at the p. o. clerks
games. The event Is for two miles, and
Sam Lebgold and Miles McHugh, Swart1
and Louis Mann and Ray and Boyle
have already sent in their entries. This
will be the fret race between walk
ers that has ever taken place in this
country.
Up to date Manager Fqeeson has re-
ceived over GOO entries for the games
The NJ. A. L. will be represented by re.
Jay teams from all OF the regiments ano
those who follow the soldier boys will b.
ahle 70 ~ . Dood line on what may b
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Bull Anderson
Gets O'BUen'S
Goat in Sixth

Marty O'Brien, who claims the light
weight championship OF New Jersey.
was knocked out in six rounds by Bull
Anderson, the Brooklyn lightweight. In
a battle scheduled to 20 ten rounds be-
fore the Bedford A. C. of Brooklyn.
In the first two rounds the New Jer-
sey man held his own and did most Of
the forcing, using his left to good ad-
vantage. At the opening Of the third
round Anderson rushed from the corr
ner and forced O'Brien back with a
left on the side OF the head. lie then
crossed with his right to the same place
and O'Brien went down TO the mat.
Anderson dropped him again In the
nrth round with q left hook to the jaw.
After he got up O'Brien held on until
the bell. After two minutes OF fghtiax
in the sixth round Anderson sent out
his right. which caught the New Jersey
man on the point of the jaw. O'Brien
dropped to the mat like a log and was
counted out.
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CHAMPIONS UNDER COVER READY
FOR COMING ATHLETIC SEASON

bug and may decide to 60 after the
money before the season Is over. How
ever. the rumor may be incorrect.
About the same time that Ahlgren
Joined the club Young Pepis. a good
quarter-mller. asked for his release
from one Of the smaller clubs. and he
will prove a splendid second string"
All OF the clubs old champions say
that they are anXious to see the Irish
American A. c. come back and retake
the championship of the district, and
most of then Will work harder than
ever before to get into the best Of
shape.
Sheppard Coming Back"
Mel" Sheppard is doing light work
now, and II is believed that he will be
able to ON back and dc some more
wonderful running. Last season he
broke q bunch OF worlds records before
ne went stale. A long rest has done
MIN a world of good. and there's no
reason why he shouldn't be about as
good as ever by the time the big games
come along.
Il suppose I'll be defeated by most o,
the boys in the first few races I run
said Sheppard last night, but III take
hings easy. the way ! did last year
take 'em easy until ] get back into
shape. and then watch outl'
Great things are expected OF Babe
Mcdonald. the weight a He Is get
ting to be n terror with the heavy shots,
and as II Is his n ambition to smash
some OF Ralph Roses worlds records
he may be n Of the clubs new record
holders by tho end of the coming sea.
son.
! Archer. relieved of the responsibility
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Youngsters Take Up the Game
Before Developing Proper
Strength.

<<THERE'S any number Of young
fellows who take up the run
ming game before they are Of
he proper strength to stai,d the hero
work." said Harry Hillman to-day.
Take the fellow who goes in for ath-
letics the first year he enters high
school. Hardly one OF them ever be-
comes a star. It's the fellow who takes
up athletics in his last year at school
that makes good. At nineteen q mar
has reached the physical stage at which
he can train without any danger of over
doing It."
Nineteen. eh?" remarked Mel Shep-
pard, who was one OF the fellows hat
pulled a chair up and Joined the circle
at "Sparrow's." 'Nineteen-I agree with
you; that's the right time for a fellow
to think Of becoming a runner l was
that age when I took to the game. and
| had strength galore.
1T was this way: I'd never thought OF
running until one day back In 1901 I hap
pened to get into a park where they
we're running off a set of pro races.
The runners weren't very classy, and i
decided that l would learn how to run.
That's how / got the bug" said Shep-
pard.
Doesn't start Running Till 81.
Here little Gusta Ljungstrom. the
Swedish Marathoner, edged in a few
words in his best dialect A been
twenty-sevan before ay run in race. Two
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Little Men Extend AHeH
More Than the Big FeN0Ws
Joe CoSter and Patsy Kline
Will Make the Champion
Travel Some.
TT ISN'T often these days that Feather

TT ISN'T often these days that Feather
weight Champion Abe Atell goes into
the ring against men OF his W
eig As a rule. he Is stacked up
against opponents from ten to twenty
pounds heavier, and nine times out of
ten Abe wins In a gallop from the big
ger fellows. II seems strange, but II
Is true nevertheless, that Attell en-
counters more trouble beating little fell
lows. that Is boxers OF his own weight,
than he does with the men that out
weigh him. That's what makes the
coming week particularly Interesting
for Attell at least. He Is going to meet
two real feathers. Corners who are
likely to give him some trouble.
Terry McGoyern used to say It was
harder to beat a good conner" than one
who had already arrived at the top, and
SO It seems,
over in Brooklyn, at the Vanderbilt
A.. c., in Clermont Avenue Rink, Mon
day night, Attell will meet Joe Coster
In a ten-round bout. Coster Is a conner
OF the most dangerous kind. lie Is
hrimful OF confidence. and has no fear
OF champions nor their ability. lie can
punch beautifully and with a sting.
His recent bout with Tommy O'Toole.
Philadelphia's best, proves that. Cos
ter put o'Toole down twice and had
him cllnRing like a grape vine at the
end. Can't think of any one right off
the reel who ever subjected O'Toole TO
such rough usage On this dope alone,
Coster Is likely to make Attell stem
some to come through ten rounds un-
scathed,
Even should Abe prove Coster's mas.
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I~nfercity Racquet
Tennis 0UIe.

To-day - First intercity racquet
doubles, Philadelphia VS.. New York.
nj New York.
Jan. 1i-Second intercity racquet
doubles. New York VS.. Philadelphia,
at Philadelphia
Jan. ls to 23-Club racquet singles
handicap.
Jan. II to 1-National racquet
championship doubles at Boston.
Jan. "a to 30-Club racquet doubles
handicap.
Feb. 6 to 1s-Club squash racque,
doubles championship.
Feb. 10 to 2o-Club racquet singles
championship.
Feb. q to March 6-SQuash racquet
singles. amateur championship Of the
United States. at Racquet Club.
Philadelphia.
March 8 to 13-Club racquet doubles
championship.
March 10 to 2o-Club tennis doubles
handicap.
March 81 to 2s-Ciub tennis singles
handicap.
March 20 to 27-Club squash racquet
singles championship.
April ] to s-Club tennis singles
championship.
April 10 to 16-National tennis
singles championship at Boston.
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Dodgers viii Be
First to Journey
To The South

In order to get plenty OF work out of
his players before the season OF 1911 be-
gins. Bill Dahlen, manager OF the
brooklyn National League Club. has de-
cided 10 start for Hot Springs as early
as Feb, !.
Bin has already written to George
Bell and Nap Rucker, his pet twirlcrs.
TO meet him at tie Springs about Fob. :.
so that they can get their arms in shane
and thereby be In hne trim when the
opening game starts.
Dahlen will be the FIRST manager 10
start for the spring training camp.
Several other members OF tho Brook.
lyn Club VIII also make the trim "a
Hot SPRINGS earlier han usual, so as Ia
get the full benefit OF the hot baths Ia
boil out their str joints.
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Barry. too. until the italian began aug-
ging too fast for the youngsters guard
One Of Barry's rights went through
finally and caught Stewart fairly on the
tip Of the chin. Stewart whirled half
way over In the air. Just like Nelson in
his 'corkscrew sum m~ersault." and,
striking against the ropes, doubled over
and hung there like n wet shirt on a
line. He was counted gu with only his
toes and the backs Of his hands touch
ing the floor. ,
JenrIes's Peeuitar Ending.
At Reno Jefries ended in a peculiar
way. He was badly daxed when he
slowly crumpled at last. After getting
up he hadn't time even 10 raise his
hands when Johnson stepped In and
sent him down again with a smash on
the chin. JefYries fell heavily over
backward and landed in q sitting posi-
ton on the ropes. He slid through and
thumped down on his buttocks on the
floor. sitting there with his knees hung
over the lower ropes. First he tried
10 push up with his ai,ma. but the rope
held him back. Then he grasped the
rope and tried to pull himself up to
his feet. The rope was still holding
him of his balance. and he was 30
groggy tina he never thought of the
simple operation that a necessary to
getting up. He might have rolled over.
unlocked his legs from tho rope. and
stepped back into the rang. As the
seconds were tolled on he struggled
stupidity with the rope until his brother
Jack, unable to look on any longer.
jumped up and pulled him to his feet.
This aid lost Jeffries the decision. Rick
ard claimed a~fterward. He was not
counted out. But he would have been in
n few seconds more.
] saw Jim Corbett at Carson dropped
by the famous solar plexus punch. Cor
bett wriggled to the ropes. tried TO pull
himself up. and failing. dropped back
Hat on his stomach. where he was when
the count reached ten.
Erne Landed Cieanest Knockout.
Frank Erne landed the cleanest knock
out / ever saw on Dal Hawkins. Il
was In the middle OF a wild mixup
First Franks left thudded on Dal'i
chin, stiffening him up like n ramrod
bal was knocked out on his feet. Blu
the right followed quicker than a fash
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race. which was the feature of tho
card at the Moncrief Track at jack
sonville. In the first furlong of this
race there was some rough riding, In
which Donau ran Font, who was well
backed, against the fence, and Jockey
Musgrave. who had the mount on the
latter. had his leg slightly injured.
ENGLAND SEEMS VERY ANXIOUS
to see Packy Mcfarland fight over
there again. The Chicagoan has Jus,
received another offer-this one from
Peggy Bettinson OF the National Snort
Ing Club, who offers $4,000, win lose or
draw, and two round-tr!p tickets fro.,.
Chicago. and Betty" says he will ref
cree himself. The offer Mcfarland r..
celved the other day from Hugh Nc
lntosh, who has a club over there nov
Is nowhere near as good.
PING BODIE. WHO HAS wOv
quite a name for himself as a hard -,
ter for the San Francisco Club OF 10
Pacific Coast League, has Just signed
a contract with thu Chicago Am.sLcans
BAN JOHNSON. PRESIDENT or
the American League. says there viii
90 only one conflicting baseball da,o
next season. but won't say in which
city II VIII occur, but 1t is likely tha,
II is Chicago. ~
r. c. NORTON, II. INCREASED
his lead In the competition for Tho
Robinson and kilroe medals, open 10
MEMBERS OF the Columbia wrest,ing
squad, by winning In the bantamweipht
class, and tusSling mint minutes TO a
draw with 8. A. Holman, ia, In The
anal bout Of the f~saehsrwsight d!visioa.
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Dal's arms few straight out. and he
fell rigidly over at full length. crashing
down fiat on his back and lying there
without the twitch OF n muscle.
Lots Of New Workers saw Terry Nc
Govern knock Eddie Hanlon out In
Philadelphia. Terry was a marvel. This
was after his defeat by Young Corbett,
but he was sun the great Terry. Han
Ion was at his best. once he knocked
Terry down and nearly out. Terry took
a MIN count. rose. and tore ut Hanlon
In a sudden and Irresistible fury. lie
beat Eddie across the ring. AS his
back touched the ropes Hanlon in
stinctively threw his arms over them.
Terry WHIPPED blow after blow to his
hin and the referee. seing that Han
Ion was unconscious. hanging on the
ropes, rushed In and pulled Terry back.
IT was n knockout. although Hanlon
didn't touch the floor.
One OF the funniest ] ever saw was
IN Fitzsimnons's training quarters at
Carson. Roeber, the German wrestler,
thought he'd be a fighter. and he was
training Fftz. Roebcr liked to rush and
slug. As Roeber was tearing In Fitz-
simmons looked over TO me, winked,
and punched the Dutchman right on top
OF MS neau. hoeDcr had n Skull like
Johnson's. but he dropped Ike a pole
axed steer, fiat on his nose and out
for ten minutes at least. That punch
broke Fitzsimmons's right hand, but
Fitz concealed the injury because his
Tight with Corbett vas only three or
four days away. lie fought Corbett
with n broken right hand, bluffed him
with Wild swings that he never intended
to land. and knocked him out with the
left.
notice that Tom Jones. Of
Wolgast. Is trying to get Morris. the
new heavyweight. who knocked GU
Marvin Hart in three rounds. Poor
Tom must be tired OF hanging around
the Wolgsst hospital He wants q
fighter who doesn't have a broken
arm when he's challenged by live ones
and n we'll arm when he can fight some
safe old trial horse like Memsic.
Johnny Copeland writes a letter tell.
ing how sorry he Is that Bin Brown
has severed connections with Joe Rosen
thai. cutting out tho Thursday nigh
stays n incidentally the bout betwee,
Johnny Mclean and Tiger Young. I'm
sorry myself. Wanted TO see these tw,
at It again. They surely can cut on
n pace that reminds one OF the goo,
days. Some other club ought to gra
these boys and give us n real live bout.
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NeW Mark Expected in Race
for Evening W0rld!S Prize

expected OF the different organizations
when the NJ. A. l., championships come
along. The ''Thirteenth" will have Jim
my sullivan. Kiviat. Gardner. Riley and
sohaaf, one of the strongest possible re.
lay teams.
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Young pierce Ou~tpointed.

VNNtVIaT 70 TI6 EItHITIg WVTtI1T
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. I'm the feat
ure bout at the Nonpareil boxing benefit
to aid the fremen's fund. Preston Brown
OF Harrowgate outpointed Young Pierce.
the Germantown colored featherweight.
In six rounds.
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Leonar d Defeats Smith.

PROVIDENCE. Jan. Jack Les,,ra
OF Philadelphia won the decision over
Howard Smith Of New Jersey at the
Rhode Island a. c. In a hard fought ten
round battle. Leonard took the agrees
siye throughout. a fact which gained
him the award. Smith, however, showed
good form and. besides taking a beating,
gave back many hard blows.
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ark. Kline is a bear cat" among the
little fellows, not only clever, but with
a knockout punch which he has been
landing on ambitious opponents OF late.
Kline has no less than six knockouts
among his most recent performances
Inside the ropes, He met Attell before
M gave Able a warm session. This
bout gave him an idea that Abe isn't
invincible as far as he is concerned, and
naturally imbued him with more or less
confidence In his W ability. Both these
bouts are likely TO make Attell extend
himself.
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R.Gr~>.


ever sincs II each got the small end OF the purse
ALI Of which reminds me Of SOM funny things I've seen in rings al
over the map
The queerest, perhaps, al the knockout CT Jim Stewart by Jim Barry
Stewart was going like a champion until that night. He started we'll with
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shing Co. The New YORK Word.)
vyyYE we're talking over some OF
NJ those funny k%nockouts. IL
" remember one time" said
the Fight Bug. when two coons were
fighting down at the old Pelican.
They started right hands at the
same instant, both fists landed so
close together that there was only
one thud, and down went both coons.
hitting the floor fiat on their backs
at once. II they had timed II like
buck dancers on the stage they
couldn't have done II better. And
they were both knocked cold and
counted out. I've been wondering
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Irish Trainer Says He
Will Spring a Few Sur
prises This Year.

"A : WI ;: ,. sss e s !: u :' ;sas r. f.;
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ADRIAN WON FROM ALFRED
the Great BY . nose In the six-turlony
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