The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-26
OF A SPORTING NATURE

A lawyer in Howard. Kansas, ad dressing a jury. said The average motor car driver has less sense than the horse he meets",
 Finding that there is no use in expecting his teammates to do any batting for him. Walter Johnson has started hitting homers. triples and all that sort of thing.
 The English fighters and boxing promoters are joining the colors The latest to enlist are Dick Burge the prominent promoter. Dal Roberts one of England's best lightweights Duke Lynch, Jack Goldswain and Jack Waybo
 On the bulletin board Of nearly every sports room on the Outside newspapers is the clipping which the New York World published dur, ing a big series in the National League several years ago. The story went on to say that the teleg raphers who handled the baseball games on the wires were threaten. ing 10 strike. because of the follow. ing line of stuff: "Donlin got caught off third, and was run down between bases. Dahlen to Devlin. to Dooin to Dolan to Doolan to, Dahlen and Dolan to Dooin."
 w C. Edwards. general manager of the Jamaica race track, 10 which sporting interest has been shifted, has planned an excellent list of over night events and made acCommoda- tions for nearly 300 horses. Through the efforts of MT Edwards. large number of entries have been secured for selling races and handicaps, which always have been extremely popu- lar at the Jamaica track. The purses are liberal and the conditions have been framed to provide interesting sport. The Metropolitan Jockey Club has spent nearly S30,O0O to put the popular course in first class shape.
 Dave Danforth, an erstwhile mound minion of Connie Mack. now twirlins for the Louisville team of the Amer ican Association. has just been grad uated from the University of Mary land as a full fledged molar ex- tractor.
 If Cincinnati Were as great in other positions as at short. where Herzog holds forth, and behind the bat, at which place Clarke, Wingo and Dooin are seen. the Reds would be champions, sure enough.
 Old Battling Nelson, the Hegewich real estate owner and former light retirement several years ago has dis carded his cane and come out with a challenge to Freddie Welsh, the present champion. Only this time the battering ram" wants to meet Freddie for nothing, just plain no thing, for his services, provided the Englishman agrees to a twenty-round bout Nelson says that if the Den yer promoters give Welsh a s20,OOO purse and himself carfare, he will fight the Englishman any old time. Spokane's New Athlete.
 Spokane has the best broad jump CT in schoolboy class in America and also the best 100yard dash schoolboy in the whole country.
 The old time followers of athletics don't know much about hurdles and iavelin throws and shot puts, etc, but they do know about running and Jumping. the oldest form of ath- letics known to man, and it means something that Spokane has produced models for young America to marvel. Record Jump For Johnson
 Carl Johnson set new Chicago nterscholastic mark in the running broad jump at Stagg's annual invita- tion meet at Chicago recently and came within seven -eighths of an inch of new national interscholastlc record. Twenty-three feet four and onehalf inches in the hop for a high school boy, Can you beat it: And then to show that broad jumps aren't his only forte, he ran second 10 Chicago boy in the low hurdles in the startling time of 25 3-5 sec onds, and was fourth in the high jump.
 Evan Pearson, of North Central, at Spokane. won the 100-yard dash and was second in both the 220 and 44C ward runs He beat the hitherto in vincible negro sprinter, Butler, in the century dash, only to lose him in the furlong. He was beaten by short foot in the 440 He tied for high in dividual honors at the meet and put his school, single handed, into tie for second place.