The Alaska citizen., 1914-02-09
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 Maybe. then the cup nigh, have
 gone to Menzie. If Schooling could have had one more
 chance,
 He thinks he could win a game; But Of all the joo5ors that cove over
 the trail
 He certainly has the name Why. there is Bob Gois. he too, has
 said:
 If only I had been in form could have shown him a trick or
 two
 That would keep Deraui from
 blo8ing his horn" There is Durham, Boyer. Hurley and
 Hess
 They've all got the same excuse, If I eoulj hayn done so and so, There wouldn't have been this
 mess"
 A post mor-em is held i'll the store
 each day
 To talk over the night before And frame uo some job on the game
 10 De pIaEeQ
 Ana see the skip get sore. What they want is some of the Heilig
 curve.
 Win a little push ball thrown in Then some of them may get their
 nerve
 To try a game to win. Beraud has had them all the time With their ifs and how's and why's He's tcen tobhe4 and b9bbed from
 place to place.
 But no attention was paid to their
 cries.
 Yes, if Reraud had not played so
 well,
 If his men had all been up, If the ice had been other than what
 it was,
 Why. the low would have won the
 cup.
 So what is the use of saying "If l. had Teen so and sO,' Or If if had been played the o.her
 way
 The game would have just been
 SO"
 Give the credit to skin that wins, You all may call it luck, Rn if you put more vim in your
 game
 You'll not be SO often stuck.
 F. Rexall C. The manager of q champion pugi- list has many annovances to contend with, and Jim Buckley, who acts as guide, philosopher and maker oi matches for Gunboat Smith. is not immune from irritating experiences by any means.
 One of the things which is disturb ing Bucklev's c0uanimitV at present says the San Francisco Examiner. is he attempt Cn the part of certain well-meaning hut misins sormed Min nesotans 10 make a Dane or Norwo- gian out of Jim's pet heavyweight, It seems a number of the oldest settlers in Nlaca. Ninn.. have de cided that Gunboat is a member of an ancient family named Eckbled They have seen Gunboat's picture !r the papers and .hny are not to De denied
 They have heard that Guoboat hos made affidavit that he is not the man they are after. but thev look un- on this as proof as strong and hol' writ that he is rea'lv he guilty partv They believe if is the proud an haughty Fckh'a7 s0ieit with whicN thev are eo well a"oUoin+od that 's keenire GrnhOa- from admitting that any of the ancien- family could er- gage in anything so sordi1 and say age as boxing.
 Ther are pestering Buckley "itN letters assuring him that it is not case of mistaken identity, and urg- ing him to bring the gunner to Miaca so that he fat ed calf may be killed and bonfires lighted on the head lands.
 "Wouldn't that get your alpaca?' said Jim. flOurishing the most recent communication received from the Milaca folks. Why, Gunboat is not descended from the Norsemen by long shot. His ancestors usen't put to sea in them canoes with big figure heads. No, sir, they handled bikes in the Irish rebellion. Why, when this talk of Gunboat being Norwegian, or whatever it is, first came up. l went to Philadelphia to look up the record of his birth. And there l found that Smiths father was an Irishman named Smyth and his mother an Irish lady named Mary Campbell. Gunboat himself was born in Philadelphia, so that those good -natured, but misguided, folks in Minnesota are barking up the wrong tree"
 Incidentally Gunboat himself isn't perturbed in the slightest over the muddle. He considers it good joke.
 "Hel be differen- after I've taken him On a tour of Ireland and have shown him the green hills where his forefathers dwelt," said Buckley. Then he'll take pride in the fact that he's Irish and will object to be- ing called anything else.'
 1913 TENNIS CHAMPIONS. NEW YORK-Maurice E. McLough- lin holds the place at the top of the list of ranking of lawn tennis players for the season of 1913. Miss Mary Browne is the first in the list of women players in the singles, so both the highest hOnors of the Ameri-