The Alaska daily empire., 1915-02-06

y o 1915.
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 A smoker wili loo given by lot gist CT tonight in the Juneau Amateur Ath lotic Club, for members only seyei loi good boxing and wrestling bout arc on tho program
 4 week from tonight the Elks VII ! eiye 3 smoker.
 Emil Nlank Frank Golch's manag CT IS in Hol Springs and declare that the wrestling champion has re tired from the game for good Gotol recently refereed match in 9 smal MimeoBt8 town between Joe Stechc' young Nebraska farmer boy, anl John Nelson swede, stecher wal badly ontweiehod. but won in straigh falls Gotch IS stuck on the kid anc has taken him under his wing. Franl looks for stecher to develop Into the greatest wrestler Of them all.
 Fred Faikenberg. pitcher for thC pennant winning Indianapolis Bedem League ball team last year will pitch for the Brooklyn Bedorals the coming season, according to an announcement by Lee Magee oi Cincinnati, manager for the BrooklyuR. Magee also said that Artie Hoffman would play first base and that he would play second base himself
 Eddie Grant has been spending the most of Che winter in New York and looks very fit. Grant did some hard hitting last season and thinks that bis batting eye win be better than ever this year
 The Chicago White Sox will not be held to their agreement to furnish tho Yanks with an inflelder. Bin Don ovan does not care a great deal for either Berger Of Blackburn, and has so notified Charley Cominskey.
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 Melvin w. Sheppard, of the Irish- American 4. C.. of New York, and Jimmy Powers, of the Boston A. A, will contest in a special 4l0yard race in tho Sergeant Steel armory Holy. oke, Massp February 12.
 The Juneau Gun Club will hold It's regular weekly shoot tomorrow alter noon, at o'clock, at the local range. Former Mayor c. W. Carter hopes to retain the Truesdell medal which he won st week
 Though the war has not affected racing In Australia, the interest in cricket has fallen away most decided ly The prospect of English of South African tours Is very vague at pres ont, and players who had been look ing forward to these events are very gloomy
 
 The registered professional associa.I ton football players In the English t'oolbaal Association, the governing body, number LOGO, the majority work .ng at trades and of the 2,0OO who getI .holr livlihood from football, and re- seive S1O per week, two thirds are 
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 Should the courts abrogate the Ma ionai agreement baseball would be in he same conditions that 1t was in the .irst year of the expansion Of thel American League, when the National league. the American League and the minor league association ran inde- ,endently without National agree | nent
 Reports from Sydney New South 1 Wales. Of marvellous performance < Duke Kahanamolu, the Honolulu .quatic star recently reached thisI On Ne@ Years day he not nly beat Barry. the Austrian cham ion. nj a 1OOyard slraightaway race nut established tho worlds record of 9 3-5 seconds. The Hawaiian wonder ow holds Olympian, Americana Ha- ,ailan and Australian records.
 C. |. (Tex) Riclard and wife are l this country from South America rhere they have been making their ome in volla Conception, Paraguay .ickard was one ofthc owners of "phe ,orthern Gambling House in the ear. 2 boom days of Goldfieldi and later ecame famous as the promoter Of the | fight Of late he has cen in the cattle business in South mericu and reports have it that he as made money.
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 Claude Derrick of the Chicago Cubs likely Co be the man sent to Louis He as part pay for Pally McLarry. In Cleveland the prediction is made hot the Spiders will work much arder for Jack Knight than they did l lr sheckard