The Alaska citizen., 1914-11-23

on the Canadian turf this season, | has determined to retire his great horse for breeding purposes in Cana | da. Great Britain, like Martimas, will undoubtedly prove a great sire , in the Dominion, and a powerful ad- dtion to the breeding interests in | that land.
 Larney Lichenstein, manager of Jimmy Clabby, is not anxious to take on Mike Gibbons in a ten-round bout Ten rounds would be too short an argument for two such clever boys as Clabby and Gibbons" declares Larney For my part, would rather sign up for a twenty ever, if Gibbons will not fight twenty rounds. We will take him on for ten" Harvard Yale and Princeton will play three games with each other in baseball next spring, according to an agreement recently reached by the authorities of the three universi ties. The championship of the three institutions will be decided on a per centage basis under the new arrange ment.
 Adrian Hogan, one of the best mid dleweights in France was seriously injured in the battle of Mons and news recently received from the oth- CT side is to the effect that he may never be able to fight again, although it is certain that Hogan will recover from his wounds. He Is enthusiastic for the fray and seems not to have gotten enough. If they are still fighting when he is discharged from the hospital Hogan will return to the front.
 By adding the s1,0OO event for 2:19 trotters at Brockton recently to his credit George A. Graves trotter Broson brought his total winnings of the season up to an amount that will place him well up among the big winners of 1914.
 Why The Braves Won.
 The interview recently given out by George Stallings in which he, in modest fashion. gave the reason for the wonderful playing of the Braves, probably betrays the real cause of the remarkable winning streak of the Boston club, says the Louisville Courier Journal. Stallings asclibes the success of the team to three things:
 "The wonderful spirit, the old winning spirit, of every man in the outfit.
 The great condition of the three regular pitchers.
 The almost perfect defense which the infield was able to put up in the face of all kinds of hitting" He then goes on to review the work of every man on the team, laudine each playe in turn. That probably is where lies the key to Stallings' success. It explains the first of his reasons. The wonder full spirit, the old winning spirit, of every man in the outfit" The second and third reason, of course, are i'm portant, but they are merely physi- cal and in a large measure the re- suit of the first. It is the old win ming spirit" the psychology of the thing, that counts most. That spirit l in the Braves undoubtedly is due | lO oldllluSS, lut way uc udlultS lllo men. He has each man thinking he Is world beater. Some may call it by that inelegant term bull" but Stallings uses it to the right degree and lis men eat it up, as | they do most of the teams they meet. Scientific Billiards.
 1 The last gun of the opponents of higher mathematics has been silenc ed Those who ridiculed the study of geometry, trigonometry and the rest of the "ometrys" on the ground that they ain't got no practical use" must cease, for Welker Cochran, a 16-yearold Chicago boy, is to take course in advanced mathematics this winter for the purpose of win ming the worlds billiard champion ship
 Welker has been clicking the "Mer- kles" since he was years of age, and only recently announced his intention of entering the professional ranks. At the same time he signi- fled his intention of entering Lane Technical college, postgraduate department of Lane Technical high school.
 The possessor of remarkably even-tempered disposition. young Cochran has shown that he has some
 thing in his head besides ivory. chalk and green baize. He has turn ed his spare moments into cash as a newsboy or other occupation his age and diminutive stature fit him for.
 Now that you know his personal
 characteristics. it Is important to note that he is as proficient with the cue as many an older expert and has already demonstrated this
 in special matches. Although not
 long ago he had technical faults. these have been corrected by local
 instructors. He has already won two tournaments, one at the 18.2
 game and the other at three-cushion.
 This winter he is to play in the
 Champion Billiard Players league,
 WI ere he will have Jake Schaeffer
 Harry Cline, Ora Morningstar, Will
 lie Hoppe. Calvin Demorest. George
 Slosson, George Sutton, Koji Yama-
 da, Albert Cutler and Burton Mank
 as his opponents.-Ex.
 Improving Horse Breeds.
 First crosses are often very valu-
 able and for work or commercial
 purposes often more virile than the
 pure breds on either side, says the
 Great Divide.
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