The Alaska citizen., 1914-11-02

Dover. x H. with Walter COX stable last June. has won both of ru
 The boxers still hold whip hand in Wisconsin and if anyone doubts It. there can be cited the recent rarr at Superior when Sam Robi dtau refused to take on Ray Temple, saving that the crowd was too small. A report stated that the patrons of fEo game took up a collection of SiUU as an added purse. but the Philadelphia boxer refused the entire change IL IS not known just what the terms of Robideau's were. but anyway. Superior fans dug down m t cir jeans to finance bout and then We're not able to see windup.
 Someone pulls the combined bat ting averages of the shortstops in the major leagues and deducts that shortstops evidently are not hired 10 hit the ball The figures, how ever. show that the eight shortstops in the National league are averag- ing 260 as swat mark. A fan suggests tfat the averages of the outfitted talent in the league would not exceed that greatly.
 President James Gilmore of the Federal league is willing 10 bet money that Ty Cobb has not signed a Detroit contract for next year Jim offered to bet that Hal Chase would win his case at Buffalo and he did. Perhaps Activity Jim has little N-O-N dope.
 In Johnny Overton. Yale has one of the most promising young run ners in the college ranks. If this boy develops as he may be expected to in the next few months. Yale may have real 420 miller at the Intercollegiate games next spring. Overton. in the mile. is expected to make a splendid running mate to George Brown, the Ellis great half miller. who came within a few inches of winning the Intercollegiate 300" title for the second time last May.
 
 A fighter. like a prophet, may be without honor in his own country and still gather the cake anywhere else Here is Harry Stone. who rated only as a fair small show main bout artist. and a good preliminary boy in the big shows, couple of years ago. Going to Australia Stone made a wonderful hit with his boxing and received decisions over many men with much bigger regulations. In England he was almost as success full as in Australia. Then he came back home, only to be licked, so it seems that unless Stone does better he will be compelled to go back to the Aptipodes where the competition is less strenuous.
 A writer in the London Globe estimates that England. Ireland and Scotland have about three million horses suitable for military purposes. As only about fifty-siX thousand are required immediately for the cavalry and seventy-four thousand for draught purposes. with six thou sand for pack work, the surplus in sight would seem to be sufficient to meet all requirements for some time to come But American horse men who remember that the British army LOOK two uuHultu tIlouotLu horses and mules out of this country for the little South African war will be likely to take the London writ CTS present estimate with good biz grain of salt.
 That Percy Haughton, the Harvard coach. will order more secret foot ball practice this year than ever before is sad news for Harvard un- dergraduates and for others who have the good of the sport at heart, Haughton this year will force his secret practice theory to the extreme length of excluding Harvard's track athletes from the use of the cinder path in the stadium. Another run. ming track Is now being laid down outside the big Horseshoe. so that the track men may have the same practice that they have been accus- toned to without disturbing the solemnity or acquiring the secret of the football mobilization.
 Thomas Hitchcock has an accom- plished jumper in Timber Wolf, the recent winner of the steeplechase for maidens at Belmont park, and now at Yonkers. Timber Wolf is quite likely to go on to greater things
 According to official circles in Pittsburg. Fred Clarke has closed his diamond career this season. The Pirate chieftain who entered the league in 1894, will not be in charge of the Buccaneers next year,
 The big colleges are watching Princeton this season. Captain Bal lin and trainer Fitzpatrick are said to have many surprises in store for the men who have reported to them for work In all probability the shift play on which all Princeton formations have been based for the last few years. will be eliminated.
 Fred Taral. one of the greatest artists ever seen in the saddle. has joined the German army, and so has Willie Shaw, former rider for Pitts burg Phill. Taral in recent years has been training a stable at Baden Germany, and has employed Shaw as his first jockey.
 It is probable as a result of the European war, William K. Wander bilt ST. will devote more time to racing in the United States. For sev- eral years MT. Vanderbilt has raced his horses in France and England with notable success. Although he ic the moving sDirit in the COney