The Alaska citizen., 1915-04-19

appearance of old Bud Doble. the hero of the light harness race driv- CTS of half q century ago
 The great driver of former days away back wonder in war times. when he drove Dexter in 2:17t.- Is alive and well at his California home. and will be up" in several important racing events at the San Francisco meeting next fall. Twenty-Five years ago Bud Doble predicted that if Le lived long CTS by the score. He has lived quarter of a century since he made that statement. As he is still in the land of the living 1t looks as if he may soon see his prediction fulfilled. The 200 pacers are with us and they are becoming more plentiful year by year. When Bud Dobe and Pop Geers clasp hands the sight will be an inspiring one. as they are the two greatest turf veterans.
 It may not be generally known. yet there are some women fanCiers of trotters in the Buckeye state. One of the most prominent and success ful of them is Miss Anna Beverly. of Columbus, who is the owner of E roadsters and show horses. She owns Muscovite (2:20A), a good trotting stallion. Miss Beverly de rives much pleasure and financial profit from her horses.
 Canada's Fighters.
 While Tommy Burns is the only native of Canada in the list of the worlds heavyweight champions, the Dominion has turned out many clas- sy "heavies,' says an exchange.
 For instance, there is Samuel Langford. who started life in Nova Scotia, and who is about as. handy man with his fists as any to be found on the crust of this oblate speroid. Old-time fans will recall many other Canadian heavyweights who made their mark-on the faces of their opponents among whom were two native sons of little Prince Edward Island, Joe Lamar and George Godfrey.
 Lamar, who was born in Charles town just half a century ago, March 1, 1865, was a contemporary of John L. Sullivan, Charles Mitchell, Peter Jackson and other heavyweights who gave zest to the life of the fight fans some twenty-five or thirty years ago. Godfrey best remembered as "Old Chocolate" because of his de- cidedly brunette skin, was too light to aspire to the heavyweight cham pionship. but the game and clever negro gave the big fellows of that day a lot of trouble.
 Like nearly all the Canadian box CTS, Joe Lamar began his ring car ger in Boston. It was about thirty years ago that Joe began mingling with boxers now all but forgotten but fair by prominent in that per iod-such fellows as Danny kelliher Matt Cunningham and Jim Duffy.
 Tn 1885 Lamar went to St. Paul and whipped Joe Brady and Billy Wilson, but lost to Pat kileen. He also bested E. Mckeon at Grand Forks, N. D. Back in Boston he knocked out John P. Loughlin and Frank Herald and fought draw with his countryman, George God frey.
 Lamar got into the limelight in 1887. when he was matched with Jake kilrain for the championship of America Jake then claimed the title because of Sullivan's refusal to meet him and a little later he was presented with a belt symbolic of the title. The Canadian put up good fight, but he was defeated in eleven rounds. In 1889 he fought anotl CT draw with George Godfrey, and then met Jack Ashton who knocked him out in the nineteenth round
 Later that year Lamar and Peter Jackson tried to fight at Revere, Mass, but the cops butted in and stopped the proceedings. In 1892 Lamar fought a three-round draw with Jim Corbett and then met George Godfrey again. The fight was staged at Coney Island, and this time Lamar was knocked out. That ended his career in America, although he later fought few bat tlac in E'DplaD6