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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-16

1t was a most interesting battle for
the first twenty rounds. filled with
thrills, excitement, h~alf-scissor hooks
and steel-like left hooks. The pace
was terrific, and the wise ones in the
crowd shook their heads and predict
ed an early finish. No man can go
the pace with Nelson. mixing it like
the little Michigander was doing, and
survive. they argued.
And it looked as If they were right.
In the twenty-frst round Ad was
jaw and he grew wabbly. Then came
another, and the Wildcats eyes were
CLASSY, his legs gave way, and he COL
lapsed to the floor.
1t looked like the finish.
Every one began moving toward the
exits and warm f1resides. But the
little brown boy, summoning every
energy. managed to reach his feet in
time. Those on their way to the ex-
its paused-only paused, mind you, as
1t looked a certainty that Wolgast was
doomed to be listed under the TX. o."
sign. Nelson was waiting for him.
But they only paused a few short mo-
ments. then hurried back to their seats
seemed superhuman, was battering
Nelson around the ring.
After that round the battle settled
to a grind quietly desperate grind,
with rarely for a cheer.
The audience was deathly still, con-
versing in whispers, as each held him
self tight to keep warm. The dark
ening skies hung low and threatened
to increase the slight drizzle into a
storm. Only the shuffling Of the feet
and the thud, thud Of the ~bloodsoak-
ed gloves could be heard as the rounds
wore on.
It began to grow dark.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-16
SPORT INVASION TIDE
TURNS TOWARD SHORES
Of THE UNITED STATES

New York, Aug. 1s.-The tide of
sport invasion has again turned to-
ward these shores. Several English
and French professional golfers will
be seen in action at the United States
open championships scheduled for
B%rookline, Mass, September 1918.
The Woman's national championship.
to be played at Wilmington, Del, Oc-
tober 1913, is also expected to at
tract several Of England's best women
golfers. including possible the title
holder. The open golfing contingent.
consisting OF Edward Ray. Harry Var
don. Wilfrid Reid, Arnaud Massey and
Louis Teller. are already practicing
for their contests against Americas
best professionals. and some stirring
golf is expected when the foreign x
perts tee of at Brookline.
German yachtsmen with their SON.
der boats will start the autumn inter-
national contests at Marblehead early
in September. The small racing craft
are now being tried out at the scene
Of the coming races, and, judging from
the reports Of the early trials, the
contests for the trophy should prove
as interesting to the amateur sailors
as the golfng will be to the deyotee
Of the ancient and honorable game. At
Camp Perry the expert rilemen az q
dozen nations will also be matching
their skill as marksmen during the OPP
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-16

out clearly that no fighter in the
world could 60 forty-one rounds with
the Durable Dane without getting the
battle Of his life. Nelson handed out
more hardest battles" than any other
fighter that ever lived.
So, then. this was Wolgast's.
And what a battle it was! Wolgast,
training out at the beach in Frisco.
went through his short spell Of train
ing in his usual confident, contempt
uous way. and Nelson. out at Jae Mil
let's. grinningly and l~istlessly work.
ed out the kinks as he made remarks
about that fresh kid. Wolgast."
/. rained all morning-all the morn
ing Of February 22, 1910, the day Of
the hght-and the crowd moving
down to the ferry looked like the roll
ing ocean as thousands of umbrellas
bobbed up and down.
The battle was to take place in the
open air and afternoon at a point
about fifty minutes across the bay
from San Francisco. Instead Of cross
ing in the morning. as Wolgast did,
Bat, with a couple of kids for sec
onds, rode a crowded, wet, and surg
ing boat so loaded with people that
he had hardly Dom to stand, and, ar
through the rain and slush to the
arena. one-half mile away.
Eddie smith-he is dead now-the
finest fellow that yer lived, brought
them together shortly after the hour
Of 3, and the long, hard grind began.
The battle was like all the battles
that the old Battler was a party of
slam bang, with never a backward
step or slackening Of pace. Wolgast,
brown Of skin, and in perfect con-
dition. contrasted sharply to the mar
Bile wilderness Of the not-to-well con-
ditioned Dane, a. he stood toe to toe
and gave as good as he received.
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MoLGAsT

The struggling figures took on q
weird aspect. They looked like
corpses tugging in the twilight. Only
their yes were alive and they shone
like live Goals in the heads Of a Hal
lowe'en.
And at the n Of each round the
Battler still trotted to his corner.
Wolgast. figuring to preserve his van
ing strength. never advanced to meet
Nelson at the beginning Of a round,
but made him cross the ring. and
the end Of a round always found him
In his own corner ready to drop into
his e a
From the thirty-fifth round Nelson
fought mechanically and without
ness. Ad had his face in a horrible
condition. One eye was closed, and
the left side of his face was swollen
to twice its normal size, but he kept
sending them in, and rocked Wolgast
dangerously many times.
The battle was desperate to the end.
and when Eddie Smith raised the sog-
pushed Nelson. incoherently numb
ling, to his corner, Ad was too weary
to even smile.
It. would have been any ones "hard-
est battle"
I rode back with Nelson after the
fight. He came back on the same
boat tina he crossed on a few hours,
before. He was mumbling as he was
taken from the ring, but he ceased
this in his dressing room and remain
ed expressionless and silent.
And when the boat landed at Frisco
town, a ~screeching newsboy flashed
a paper bearing the emblazoned
headlines, "Wolgast Wins" the Bat
tier looked up and smiled through his
pain.
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COULD FEEL Ar4 GROWING We keR AND WEAKER {"

The day he beat Moran out in Fris-
co town, AID was al the top of his
form for the first time since he Won
the championship. You all will adj
nit that the little Englishman could
fight. So realize that Wolgast handled
him with ridiculous ease, finally put
ting him Il in the thirteenth round,
and, what is more. he probably would
have defeated any other man just as
easily that day.
Then came appendicitis which
tumhled him from the height of his
career to a lowly cot in a hospital.
Hard luck? And it will always he a
question whether Richie or Murphy
would have been able to defeat him
but for this unfortunate operation.
At present AID is walking about
minus his appendix, his champion
ship, and the use of his good right
plaster cast as a result of breaking
it in the last Murphy fight. But his
spirit is not broken-he is. confident,
cocky, and Connected as ever, and as
being a young man. there is nc reason
why he shouldn't come back-and
come hack to stay awhile.
But this story is about his hardest
battle.
AID told me all about it one day out
at the Seal Rock House training quar-
tiers in San Francisco. Then, too, I
saw the fight.
1t was with Battling Nelson-that
forty-one-round struggle under low
ering skies and drizzling rain across
the bay in Point Richmond, when the
old battler's colors were gradually
bent downward in darkness and de-
feat. Ad always had more respect for
Nelson than he ever would admit. Nell
son slurred him so much that Ad re-
taliates by scoffing.
But in the light Of reason it stands
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On the ninth Of month AID
Nolgast essays a stop, turn around,
ana come back stunt. with "Jumpin'
Johnny Dundee, the Italian with a
Scotch name. playing the part of the
turntable. Pardon US while We make
a prediction that probably is not in
accord with popular opinion, viz, that
is not through and tina he
Will again be fighting for the title as
the logical contender.
Wolgast is a greater fighter than
most people think he is, and certainly
a greater fighter than he showed him
self to be.
If ever a champion led an ill-starred
existence it was this little westerner.
Hard luck. broken arms. broken
hands. appendicitis. and, as a result
Of these, poor form. combined with
the slurs of Bat Nelson and the criti-
cism of the press, all tended to obse-
cure his real fighting ability. Then.
to top the summit of his misfortunes,
he lost his championship on a foul.
Particularly in the east is he be-
Titled. Not without reason, perhaps.
as the only battles in which they had
an opportunity to judge him We're his
Tommy Murphy, and owen Moran. In
the enthusiasm over the ever-popular
Kayo, famed by the wind of Dan
Morgan's eloquence, it was forgotten
that Champion Wolgast had just re-
turned to the ring after many months
of %idleness. caused by a broken arm,
and as a result was far out of con-
dition n insecure as to his mended
lailer.
If they had only witnessed some
of the great battles that he fought
soon after in San Francisco opinions
would be somewhat changed around
the big city.
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Giants We're the c%ontending teams. It's
a difficult problem to please both
player and spectator, but l believe
that eventually a more satisfactory
method will be evolved for deciding
the worlds championship"
Should the New York and Philadel-
phia clubs Win their respective league
%pennants, the worlds series Of 1913
will be in the nature of a rubber"
pionship title won at the expense of
the other. the Giants quickly nipped
the championship aspirations Of the
Athletics in their initial meeting of
1905. Under the direction of McGraw
the New York team won four of the
five games played, all of which were
shut-outs. Six years later Connie
Mac secured his revenge for the
Athletics won four out of six games
from the Giants.
OF the players who engaged in the
series of 1905, Bender, Plank, Davis
and Murphy are still enrolled with
the Athletics. although the latter two
are seldom in the regular lineup.
Mathewson and Wiltse are the only
Giants of those days who still wear
the New York uniform. 1t is a sin
gular feature Of the game hat Ben
der and Mathewson. the respective
past masters of the art of pitching
eight years after their initial clash
and may face each other during the
play mex October. unless an eleventh
hour rush by one Of the other league
clubs upsets the predictions Of the
baseball prophets. To date the worlds
series has been an excellent flnancia,
proposition for the New York and
Philadelphia clubs and players. The
two series netted the club owners
s214,3s7.47 and the players $780,.
304.81.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-16
LEAGUES FUTURE
IS Being TALKED
Meeting Of Magnates to be
Held Soon-May be Sew
eral Big Changes.
(Rxy RrIco \

10Y BRUCE
uluth Aug. 16.-It is likely that
there will be a meeting of the club
owners of the Northern league shortly
after the close of the season. This
will most likely be held in Mime
apolis. At that tim it is likely that
plans will he made for the coming
season though these plans will be
subject to change.
Judging from the opinions of base
a men the writer has talked with.
It Is likely that Minneapolis will be
In the league again next season. There
Is no such assurance in the case of
st. Paul.
Whether Winona will be in the
! Northern another year is a matter
that can only he conjectured. For the
article Of baseball the fans of the
southern city have received this sea-
son. they have failed to give the game
the right kind of patronage.
Winona has generally been up in
the race and has generally had a fast
n aggressive team-and the town
has also generally and consistently
failed to draw very we'll.
Port Arthur is being talked of. II
there was a direct line between Du-
luth and Port Arthur. there would he
portation is n that halted the am
bitions OF the Canadian twins last
season. and it may again prove a bar
rier to organized baseball progress.
However it Is pretty certain that
there will be A strong league in this
part OF the country again next sea-
son, and that the experiences Of the
present season will assist in making
the game even better than 1t has been
during the season that is nearly nt
an end-and that Is not in the least
casting any reflections at the mn
IN which the Northern has been CON.
Quoted during the present Campaign.
John Burmeister has proved an
able and fearless executive. and it is
hoped that he will consent to hold
.ne presidential chair for another
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-16
OF I R
DOGS IN FIELD

AS yesterday, August Is. was the
first day On which the law allowed
hunters to take their dogs into the
field to train them, q number of the
local sportsmen yer out. John Nuss,
L.. Densmore and DR.. Davidson were
among those who took their dogs for
a run The men stated on their re-
turn that they had seen a great many
prairie chickens in the. fields and they
believed that they would be very plen-
tiful this year. 1t is said that it Is
very hard to purchase a bird dog now
as they are all in great demand and it
takes considerable money to make any
hunter sell at this season Of the year.
The season opens Sunday. September
be large numbers of hunters out at
the start.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-16
TICKETS PLACED
ON SALE TODAY
Much Money is Needed to
Break Even-Also to Get
Strong 1914 Team.

A small army OF baseball supper
ters are out today with booster Sc
RES" tickets, and avery business man
and fan that is DESTROYS Of seeing a
winning team in the field next year is
receiving an opportunity to show how
badly he wants the team.
Aside from the $500 that has TO
facing a deficit of $4,000, and an un-
usually large amour of booster tick
cts will have to be sold to cover the
amount. The booster ticket buyer
can be as generous az he likes as re-
CARDS the price.
When the proposition of financing
the Grand Forks team came up last
spring, fifteen men each placed s200
in the pot to make the team a pos
eibility. They have not realized great
ly on the investment, and if the team
is to be continued next year, they will
have to have the support Of all the
ans and business men in the city.
For this reason The booster series is
being held. and nc one day Is being
set aside for showing purposes.
The Grand Forks team has had an
up-and-down career this year. but if
the proper support is given. the man
At for mex 9 If enough money is
secured some exceptionally strong
players can be secured for next sea-
SON.. A stronger lineup could have
been secured this year. but the man
agement was financially handicapped.
Despite this fact. they secured several
exceptionally good players. but great
err results could have been accom-
plished had there been more in the
treasury.
The booster series will be the last
Of the season in this city. The Grand
Forks and Superior teams will reach
here Tuesday morning. The North
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-16
FRANK CHANCE DECLARES STRUCGEFOR
WORLDS CHAMPIONSHIP WILL Be HARD ONE
OF COURSE. THAT GIANTS AND ATHLETICS WILL WIN
IF THEY TAKE PENNANTs IN RESPECTIVE LEAGUES. COMING
BATTLE WILL BE IN NATURE OF RUBBER.
Few York, Aug. 16.-Basing

New York, Aug. 16.-Basing his
on the assumption that the
Giants and Athletics will be the con-
tenders, Frank Chance forecasts a re-
struggle for worlds cham
pionship honors this autumn.
The leaders of the " leagues APP
pear TO be very evenly matched" said
Chance, in discussing the teams, and
l look for a very close, exciting series.
In my opinion the winning CLUB will
be the hat gets the early breaks
in the play. You can't eliminate the
breaks in baseball, and in a series as
important and as short as the worlds
championship it has always proved a
very prominent factor. In all the
series in which ] have taken part it
has always been present. Sometimes
the breaks came our way and then
again it helped the other fellows, but
l never knew the time when it didn't
play a leading part.
For that very reason ] nave al
ways held that a seven-game series
between two clubs Of the caliber OF
pennant winners was not as decisive
as 1t should be. Fully fifteen games
would De necessary to my mind, to
decide positively which was the bet
ter club. Unfortunately, however,
such a long draw out series would
fail to hold interest. Coming at the
end of a seven months season eighty
per cent Of the fans OF the W. cities
would lose interest in the play before
the completion OF the play. 1t has
been suggested that playing several
Of the games in cities other than those
directly interested might solve this
problem. have no doubt that Pitts
burg. Chicago and Washington would
turn u big crowds for one game
each. even though the Athletics and
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-16
UNCLAUB thinks
WELL OF SHAUER
Says He Will Make Good in
Big Show-Is all For the
Northern League.

Superior, Wis. Aug. 16.-Bob Unv-
iaub, boss Of the Bronks, believes
Rube Schauer will make good. The
minneapolis manager is strong for the
superior beauty and declares that he
expects to see him one of McGraw's
prize hurlers IN the next rear or two.
You can take it from he there are
a. lot of pitchers up in the big leagues
who haven't as much stuff as Ru5e
possesses" Boss Bob says. UnglAab
mas played major and minor league
baseball for nearly twenty years an j.
has a baseball education that makes
his recommendation look good 20
Rube's boosters here.
Unglaub played the infeld on the
Washington American club for ten
years and spent several more years on
major league clubs before goinr to tho
Minneapolis Millers with whom ne
was connected previously to taking
charge Of Cantillon's farm.
He Is a great believer in inside base
ball n his remarkable labors in
keeping his bunch of youngsters in the
first division and at one time fighting
near the top is proof Of ability when
records show that the Bronks are hi$-
ting next to last and throwing away
games on errors
Unglaub has enrolled over 100 play
ers on the Little Miller club and mas
given the blue slip to n%inety-two ,hls
season and is yet fighting for a first d.
vision berth. At the present time he
has only one player besides himself
hitting 800 while the majority Of them
do well to count above 200.
II haven't a championship ball club
this year like Winona." Robert says,
but the youngsters on the team are
all mine and not owned by other
clubs. Several Of them are still as
crude as ballplayers can be but they
give promise and are hard workers.
In Mclaughlin, the high school pitch
er, I think I have a boy that will spr-
prise them next season. Most Of the
team are only graduates from school
teams and the sand lots.
Both Cantillon and myself are sat
isfed with the Northern league and
expect to see the circuit develop into
one Of the best minor league organi-
cations in baseball. Just what the
makeup Of the league will be next sea-
son is a matter Of conjecture. It ma
be that the Minneapolis club will be
transferred to Fort William. Fargo u
st. .Boniface. There is considerable
talk Of those cities entering which will
make the organization stronger"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-16
Makes ANOTHER PLEA
FOR COACHING COURSE
IN ALL INSTITUTIONS

New York, Aug. 1s.-In discussing
the freshman athletic problem at Har-
ward William F. Garcelon. former
graduate athletic treasurer, makes an
other plea for an athletic coaching
course for those students who are pre-
pairing for a career as instructors in
school and colleges. Mr.. Garcelon
says:
1T has cen urged for the past five
years that some action be taken on
this matter, but Harvard has stood
still, while nearly every small college
in the country has moved ahead. The
winning Of games and bringing home
of championships to the university
gives us much joy. Athletic organiza-
ton and efficiency is worth while and
should not be and has not been neg
lected; but the boys who do not know
the Joy OF running, Of leaping. or be-
Ing physically active on the green
grass under the blue sky, should be
given q. chance to learn what all that
means. Those who are studying to be
educators should ne given this help, in
order that they may get out Of and
put the most into their work.
During the last fifteen years there
has come a demand from public and
private schools for trained teachers
"AS ~'"A as NdhC 6CIl0IdI IdIkS O1
athletics. Failing to find men who
understood h athletic problems from
a broad study of them. they have gem
orally accepted men who have been
skillful football or baseball players or
track athletes. The appointments Of
flee at Harvard is steady receiving
calls for men who can combine with
good scholarship a general knowledge
Of athletics and physical education.
The added duties in athletics com
mand from $500 to $500 additional
salary. Harvard today does not quail
~ men to fill such places, excep,
through study in the summer school
OF physical education. What is need
ed is a course of lectures and instruc-
lions which would give teachers pare
tice in the fundamentals Of football.
baseball and all other sports and teach
them the relative value Of all sports
Tor growing boys. instruction should
also be given in training methods. IN
diet. and in general athletic organic.
ton and administration"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-16
W|N0NA DEFEATS
F0RKERS AGAIN
Flickertails Go to Pieces in
Sixth Frame-Was a
Listless Contest.
lrimes snenial service.l

winona. Mimi, Aug. 16.-After TAX
ing the LEAD in the second inning, the
Flickerrails blew up in the sixth
frame yesterday, and Winona had lit
tie difficulty winning, 10 to 3. Playing
under a burning sun and with the
thermometer registering 100 degrees
in the shade, the players were unable
to do much and the game proved list
less and embarrassing.
Grand Forks took the lead in the
second inning. when two men We're
sent across or punched singles. This
was the last Of the Flickertail scor-
ing.
Winona was one run behind when
the men came to bat in the sixth. The
Davis crew started a rally, and, al
though only five hits We're made. a
quintet of players crossed the plate.
Three were added in the eighth.
Tho scora.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-16
Booster Series Tickets OF Sale Today-Flnkerta1s Lose to Winona Again
BOOSTER SERIES OPENS
With TUESDAYS GAME
CLAIMS
REMNANT CHANCE

Langdon, ". D.. Aug. 16.-Despite
all announcements to the contrary.
LA ngdon still has A chance at the
Cavalier county league pennant. Ac-
cording to the figures on file in the
office Of the league secretary, Lang
don is but a few points behind Munich.
If the two ame to he played with
Wales tomorrow are victories for the
local team. 1.angdon, so the
ment claims. will be ahead In the race.
Munich fans claim the pennant al
ready. even If 1,angdon wins the re-
mainder of her games.
There has been N difficulty in
the official scoring of games this sea-
SON. Each team has been doing its
own scoring without reporting regu-
larlv to the league secretary. and this
accounts for the miXup at present.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-16
Bell, Winona's Crack Southpaw Has
Fine Pitching Record in Northern

According to the records Of the
league, winnipeg's new
twirler. label, heads the list in pitch
ing, having a perfect record Of seven
victories and no losses. Taking the
standing Of the nex man, however.
1t Is not as big a feat. Bell Of Winona,
has pitched thirty games this season
and lost only six Of them. giving him
twenty-four wins and a percentage OF
800. Schauer is third.
Winona leads in shutout records,
with Grand Forks next to the bot
tom. The feature pitching column IL
decidedly interesting, Bell leading the
list in this.
In team batting winona also leads.
with the local team at the bottom OF
the list.