The Alaska citizen., 1914-08-17
Latest Outside Sporting Dope

! cess to the one-piece battling suit which is universal both there and in Europe This is the costume al fected by Miss Leahy and by the few great Ameican women swim Imers. By these it is insist ed that America can neFer take it's proper place among the rest of the nations before the cum bersome bathing suits in vogue now are abolished
 ! Western pugilists are looking for ward to some excellent sport dur ing the latter part of August and first of September. Denver, Colo rado Springs and Glenwood will te the scenes of the contests. Den yer owners of Polo ponies are especially eager to secure mounts sired by Fayette, the winning thoroughbred at the recent Over land racing meeting. They figure that Fayette has, in addition to the thoroughbred. other qualities, such as gameness. and handiness. which will make for the production of valuable mounts.
 General John C. Speaks, chief game and fish warden of Ohio. has proposed that the State purchase the inland lakes of Ohio and thus preserve them to the people at large and prevent absorption by private parties No official esti- mate of the cost has been made, but the popularity of the proposi- tion is evident in several Ohio cities Columbus. for instance, has secured the land adjacent to the storage dam waters, where thous- ands of people enjoy outings at comparatively little expense
 Jimmy Morgan, formerly third DdSelIdI, out Ao" q ooiAheA' "o7 discovered by Manager Dunn. Morgan was then playing with Georgetown University after play ing him in Providence sea- son. Dunn turned him over to De troit. The player soon tired of the game however, and went into the banking business. He says there is more work to it to get the coin, but the future is greater.
 This is a great year for the vet eran pitchers. Tom Dougherty and Chief Laroy are particularly tied for premier honors in the American League and Christy Mathewson and Eddie Plank in their loops are go ing great guns.
 George Stovall says the automobile craze has knocked the stuffing out of the baseball attendance in Chi cago This may be so, but if George had thought a minute or two long CT, he would also have accredited something to the drawing power of golf
 As sport for women, trapshoot- ing is rapidly growing in popularity, Hundreds of women are taking up the pastime and in many cases are proving themselves formidable com petitors for high honors. Makers of shotguns have perfected sixteen gauge and twenty-gauge guns which women may use at the traps. How ever, considerable number are us ing the standard twelvegauge gun in preference to the smaller sizes. At all of the big shoots nowadays one finds women on the firing line.
 George Gray, the phenomenal young Australian billiar player, ts said to be anxious to meet Willie f1Oppe, tle AlltllCdu NOuutI. IIt has already contracted to visit Can ada next season, and while no dates have yet been booked for Gray in the United States. it is quite pos sible that he may be seen in several of the leading cities as there is no doubt there is a tendency of the men who pull the billiard strings to get combination of the best points of the English and American styles and so procure a game that will afford genuine international competi- tion.
 Another Australian who intends to visit the United States soon is Colin Bell, who has been making an excel lent showing in boxing bouts in Eng land recently. Bell is originally a bull fighter. but since he entered the ranks of pugilism has met such men as Joe Jeanette and Bombardiel Wells.
 Construction work on the athletic field of the PanamaPacific eXposi-