The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1915-06-07

Boston bull terriers could manag,
even the Philadelphia baseball club
Jess Willard may be one of the
features of the San Francisco Elk
position within a few weeks. The
big champion received an offer from
the manager of the special events
department recently but the price
WAS too low to suit Tom Jones The
latter wired asking for $40 900 The
exposition officials are CONSIDERING
the matter.
II. T.. Whitney has retained Jimmy
Groth. the clever lightweight jockey
of the West, to do part of the riding
for the stable this year. Groth rode
eighty winners in 1912. and in 1912
had l06 winning mounts. Last sea
son he piled up total of l20. Groth
rides at Up pounds. He is wide
awake at the post and strong fin
isher Joe Not,er. also is under
conf!ne his riding to races in which
the horses have their weight up.
Every one who drives an auto
should know the simple method Of
checking skid The car skids
when there is momentum tending
to turn it about the center of gravi-
ty When the forces about the cen
ter of gravity are balanced the car
will not skid. If the steering wheel
is Immediately turned in the direc-
ton of the skid the skidding Will
cease, because this will cause ten
dency TO rotate in the opposite di-
rection. After little practice the
swing Of the steering wheel becomes
instructive.
Harry Smith. the former two-mile
champion, is doing light work on
the Crotona Park track He is still
about eight pounds over his racing
weight.
When the open championships are
contested at Balturson this month.
golf player in the world. is expect
ed to participate. Nardon was here
two years ago with Edward Ray,
but was beaten by Ouimet in the
now historic match that surprised
the golf world. American golfers
already are preparing for the second
invasion of Vardon.
Jimmy Kelley, former Pirate, who
jumped to the rebels, has been
benched for his poor hitting. Jim
can and will hit; and il won't be
long until he is back on the job.
If the European war comes to an
end before J. Watson Webb grows
too old to sit in the middle of
saddle and swing a polo mallet eff
fectively, there will be at least one
sterling candidate for an interna-
tional team on this side Of the Wa
ter Webb, who is an fastener,
and has played on many occasions
at the Meadow Brook Field Long
Island. is now playing on the Mid
wick Four in California. According
to word from the coast he is show
ing from that might even be the
envy of Deveeaux Milburn, the
greatest of the big Four" players
Bill" Coe, the big shot-putter who
holds the worlds record for num-
Der of schools and colleges attended.
is home again after nine months
on the other side. and says that it
will be many years before European
athletics recover from the loss Of
athletes in the war.
After trying to make a big Lacquer
out of Jim Thorpe for two years,
McGraw has given it up as bad
job and sent the Carlisle Indian ath-
lete TO Jersey City. The trouble
with Thorpe, it seems. is that his
legs, arms and brain cannot work
in conjunction.
When the ST Louis Browns bought
Laudermilk and SEVERED, Louis
vile battery, for $4,000 last fall.
everybody laughed. Hedges, how
ever, has had his laugh this spring,
and it is all the better for the long
wait.
An enthusiastic fan arises to sug-
gest that on September 20, of this
year, the baseball magnates COM
memorate in some fashion the sew
entieth anniversary of the adoption
of the playing rules which form the
basis Of the present code of the
game. These rules were adopted by
the Knickerbocker Association of
New York in 1S45
Benny kauff. who recently made
vain leap from the Tip Tops TO
the Giants. made final landing