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 ords is no longer in the amateur class. according to the International Federation of Swimmers Beaupere has been appointed by the govern ment of Victoria to supervise the swimming in the public schools.
 the New York lightweight will go to Australia in quest of fighters. if he is unable to obtain matches with the big fellows whose scalps he seeks just now. It is stated that an Australian promoter has offered Britton s1OOOO for five bouts. Jack recently pulled a shock for the pug | iliStic world by challenging Mike | Gibbons to ten or twelve-round contest
 Ire rumor will not down that the | Highlanders are to be sold and there 1 is much speculation as to the prob i able purchasers. Frank Farrell i laughs at the idea of selling his | club
 Tom Andrews, who conducts the biggest boxing club in Milwaukee and who has the record of the big gest house for a no-decision ten round bout has returned home after a tour in search of talent for the coming season In the Brewers City. { Tom says he is through with giving fighters guarantees. His policy in the future will be to insist upon a fellows taking a chance on the house. no matter If he is cham pion. Tom will not be close in the matter of percentage, but the fight CT who does not want to talk that kind of business will not be favored with much of Andrews time. Chinese As Players
 If you do not think the Chinese can play baseball you will be treat ed to the surprise of your life in seeing a performance of the doughty team of the University of Hawaii, with it's mighty pitcher Apau Kau, and it's star first baseman. Chin. And there are others. says an Out side newspaper, all of them cap able players These Moneolian youngsters have taken to the Ameri- can national game as though it had been theirs for long generations. only they have orientalized it, so that some of it's outward signs are puzzling to the beholder used to strict convention.
 Four thousand persons in West Philadelphia recently witnessed, with no little surprise. the defeat of formidable local team by the "Yel- low Perils" Here is how a techni- cal spectator summarized if all:
 Tt is doubtful if the Victrix pa irons have ever before been treated to such an exhibition of inside base ball as was witnessed. Purposely dropping fly balls to enhance double plays, running bases apparently wild but with an express motive in view and working the squeeze to a nicety were only a few things to embellish the one-sided contest The base running of the Chinamen was to many an enigma. their cunningness. speed and agility bewildering at times the players and spectators"
 Who knows but that the willy Apau Kau of the elusive shoots and gathered into the major leagues? tAlll tue great tHlll, dDlt "llll lIlt stick, fleet of foot as stag and all-round good player, may not he also have like future? There were three men pitching against Apau Kau-three good ones at that but he prevailed until the tri umpant end.
 Players Union Criticised.
 While there is no doubt that ball players have the right to be organ ized into protective association like those of other laboring classes. says the Portland Oregonian. there is no doubt that it has hurt their popu- larity among fans. Even calling tFeir organization a fraternity" in stead of a union, has not helped much towards disguising it's real nature and purpose.
 Baseball magnates were opposed to the formation of the fraternity. and most of its preliminary negotia- tions were conducted with great secrecy, so that it was not generally known who were behind it until it was launched full grown, on the unsuspecting world. The reason the magnates were and are opposed to it was and is the same as the req son why most magnates In any oth- CT line of business dislike to see their employees organized. It means the curtaling of their power. and the consequent necessity of dealing with employees as body instead of as individuals. It is much eas- fer to handle a hundred individuals than it is to handle a union with a hundred members and president and walking delegates and such
 But organized baseball might well have opposed the fraternity for the subtler reason thtat it would atten- uate the gate receipts to have the public regard the players as work ingmen instead of heroes. Both players and magnates apparently walked in without having considered this phase of it. Fraternity" name of the body. may indicate that President Fultz had taken this fac tor into consideration.
 Ire historic example of the Bro therhood league has lost much of it's freshness and application, be- cause the ball-player of today is con- siderably further along the line of development than the athlete of the EOS. The real menace that threat ems baseball today is the Players Fraternity. Not because players have no rights, for they have, and not because the magnates are lofty minded philanthropists, for they are not, but because baseball today has k