The Alaska citizen., 1915-01-25

The Chicago Cubs will start for their training quarters at Tampa, Fla. about the first of March After a month of practice. they will play the first exhibition game of the sea son at Atlanta. April l.
 Football developments at Notre Dame university alc uot without inter est in the Hgl of next years plans. It IS not certain that there will be game with Yale next fall There are some who say that Notre Dame IS demanding a larger proportion Of tEe gate receipts than Yale Is will ing to give.
 An odd fact in connection with the list of casualties in the sporting rank. for the year is that so far no member of the polo team which won the cup for England al Meadow Brook last sumner has been re- ported hurt. but another team which almost came over for the contest has te'u wIppea out ty the war. TLere was day when Wodehouse, lnnes-k ker and Grenfell were an nounced as probable players. None of these men. all of whose deaths have been reported recently, made the trip.
 Hold-outs among the minor leag. uers this winter are as scarce as aIlgators in the Arctic ocean. With the all-round reduction in the mum ,f ba league who succeeds in keeping his job at almost any old price can con sIder that he has fair amount of luck. The top-notchers will continue to draw princely salaries, but it is an entirely different story in the case of tie little fellows.
 There is big likelihood that Ar thur DelvIn will not go to Denver, i'll spite of former plans. He is dis cussing a proposition with McGraW to go south as coach of the numerous young infielders of the Giants.
 The wind-up of twenty-round fighting in Los Angeles probably means the passing of Rivers as a real factor in the lightweight divi- sion. Nearly all of his fights have taken place out there under the protecting wing of Tom McCarey. His best fighting has been done in McCarey's arena and he has failed miserably in most o1 his starts else where.
 Connie Mack wept salty tears in Philadelphia when he heard the stor- ies that he would desert his old Uncle Ben Shibe and manage team for the bugs of merry Gotham Mack owns 40 per cent of the Ath- letic stock and says he has no in tention of leaving Philadelphia, even though the Quaker City has grown a little tired of him.
 The boxers at the front in the European War evidently find time to indulge in the other kind of scrapping. for 403 sets of gloves have already been forwarded to them. In England the knowledge of boxing is regarded as one of the most valuable adjuncts to military life
 Jack Barrymore, the gaited saddle horse that defeated all corners in Missouri and Kentucky this year, has been sold to Los Angeles, Cal, where he will be exhibited at the Horse Show to be held in connec- ton with the Panama-Pacific expo sition in San Francisco next spring. He is a gray gelding about 15.1 hand high, and is regarded as one of the greatest show horses of the breed ever exhibited in this country.
 Ernest C. Quigley goes on record as the only all the year around um- pire in the big leagues. Quigley, who is athletic instructor at St. Mary's college, Kans., has just closed a season as Western Conference football official, and he has begun working basketball that will keep him busy until time to begin arbiting in the National league.
 One of the most interesting and withal the best looking of all dogs to arrive in New York is said to be the German shepherd dog, Felz von Gesundbunnen Rude, the property Of Madame Mariska Adrich, the we'll known opera singer. Felz is big strapping dog and has been winning prizes right and left at every show in which he has appeared. Felz had his spell on active service during the present war and was on guard at a bridge for twenty-one days. A great deal more will be heard of him.
 The Detroit Americans are sched uled to play three games with the Cincinnati Nationals next spring, all exhibition games. Heretofore the Cincinnati park has been in no con- dition for these early games and the managers of both clubs are hop ing that they will be able to carry out the program next spring.
 critic on the Pacific coast rises to remark that Charley White is the only real contender for the light weight title. He styles Shugrue as dub We'll since Shugrue wal loped White, and since Johnny Dun dee would have knocked him out in New Orleans only for sharp bit of electrical engineering. MT. Blivins has apparently named the wrong man. In the East, Shugrue is well rated and is entitled to be considered with championship aspi-