The Alaska citizen., 1914-11-16
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old, Is about 10 start on loHI ot the world From this country. he goes to Australia, thence to India and perhaps the war zone of Eu- rope. if the fighting is done by next July. He is appearing in vaude- vile sketch.
 Win Bailey of the New York A, c. who formerly held the tenmile champiunship of the United States, has returned to Montreal after spend ing the summer engineering in West ern Canada Bailey did a little run ming in the summer without any training and took several second prizes He reports that there is a new sprinter in Winnipeg named Armstrong. who is ripping things up in the Northwest Armstrong creat- ed tremendous surprise at Winn- peg not long ago, by easily licking A Howard the crack colored sprinter
 We'll. all sorts of things are being predicted for the Athletics. There are those who declare that the Nackmen will never come back with their former push. Their confidence has been shattered and their heavy hitters checked. Other American league teams have been shown that the Athletics can be stopped. and they will now go after them with much less respect for their prowess. On tie other hand while they were bewldered and swept off their feet by the power of the Boston on II, ! of much of their self-esteem and awaken the old fighting flame.
 Only Cox and Murphy of the big line trainers will be back in the East this fall, The balance of the fellows with important stables un- der their direction will move on to the big California money to be raced for next season.
 Trey say that cheese is becoming scarce in America, yet the average man has the names of forty or fifty ball players and fighters right on the end of his tongue.
 Practice in throwing the javelin has been taken up by Dartmouth. and it is understood that the event will be placed on the list of those for the interclass games this year and in the future. With this move on the part of the Hanoverians, perhaps other colleges will follow with the result that in time the event will be adopted by the Inter collegiate A. A. A. Throwing the iavein is an excellent event, and has been included on the Olympic list in the A. A. Y. meets and at colleges on the Pacific coast.
 It seems as if there are several promising lig'tweights in New York who would be exceedingly glad to get a match with Joe Rivers. the little Mexican. who, some writers say, is going on the blink Rivers stoutly denies the statement, how ever. It is claimed that the reputa tion of the Mexican began to fade after his bout with K O. Brown. Of late he has been losing decisions to q rather alarming extent and does not seem to possess the same old fighting fury But Joe says therell be no Mexican in the light weight list for a while who will be able to take away his honors.
 Athletics at Columbia university have had a bad set back as result of the recent burning of the gymnas- ium, which was one of the finest in the country President Butler has assured the students that the gym will be in shape as soon as possible | and the work of repair is already splenddly under way. It is stated that the rowing machines will be fully restored to usefulness by the time it gets too cold to row on the river Coach Rice has a squad out for practice on the Hudson daily
 Manager Joe" Birmingham of Cleveland says he will try tthe Stal- lngs system of three pitchers next season He will rely on Mitchell, Steen and Morton to do the Rudolph, James and Tyler act Morton is the Waterbury graduate. Birming- ham also says Elmer Smith, anoth- CT Waterbury graduate, will be d regular outfielder next season.
 Ohio has the distinction" of hay ing two major league tail-enders. Perhaps it is some consolation to the Cincinnati fans that their team did not pass the 100mark in games lost, as did the Cleveland team.
 With the props under baseball collapsed completely for another sea son, college football has come into its own Each week brings more important games and this condition of affairs will obtain until Thanks giving The time was when the only question of the early season games was the size of the score. Fortunately for the sport this time has passed. Surprise even now is expressed at the early season de- feats of this team or that which from long years of custom are ex- pected to go up to their big games with practically clean records.
 According to reports. Howard Drew has no alibi to offer for his recent defeat by Parker the Olym pic A. c. sprinter. Drew claims that the Californian champion Is, one of the greatest finishers he ever saw, and will be the talk of the athletic world before another year has flown Friends of the colored runner persist, however, that Drew waited too long before getting up steam," understanding the ability of his opponent.