The Alaska citizen., 1915-08-02

! ulDIliOu Ol SOll IdItlN Sttn III na- tional tournament. is now motor cycle special constable in the British army.
 For playing summer ball Michigan has stripped Sheehy. Maltby and McNamara of all Michigan insignia they won during the past year The players committed this awful crime last year, but the news didn't leak out until recently
 out of the game for few weeks to have an operation on finger.
 Nick Grady. of Philadelphia has a promising young trotter in Roy Mil Ter, the bay stallion that won the 2:30 race at Freehold, N. J.. on Me morial Day, trotting his heats in 2:17I, 2:19 and 2:16I on the half mile track. He is son of Bingara and is out of Mokoeat, 2:30 by Moko w. C. Brown. formerly president of the New York Central Railroad bred the horse. He made a record of 2:264 as a two-year-old in 1911.
 Water baseball, the acquatic type of the national game, will be popular this summer. Promoters of the sport discovered last year that many things about the rules needed chang ing, and the revised code should make the matches far more enjoy. able and interesting to the specta- tors.
 New figures on the damage done to English football by the war are contained in the announcement that whereas Burnely, the cup winner in 1914. made $1S,585, Sheffield United, which won this year, got S3.7SS.
 Bert Maxwell of the Brookfeds, is in Brooklyn hospital recovering from an operation on his right arm, which was broken last year. His wing never mended enough to allow him to pitch this season. There is a danger now that it may develop dry joint in which event his dia mond career will be ended for good
 Nameoki, H.. has an odd ball team. Every player on it is named Banding. There are six brothers and three cousins on the team. Score keeping for that team must be quite a job. If ones pencil should slip and Ebenezer Banding should get the three base hit instead of it's rightful owner Willis Blandng some one might be in line to get poke in the proboscis
 President Wilson recently issued an order authorizing the use of small island lying about three miles south of Lake Millelacs, Minn., as federal game preserve The island is locally known as Spirit Island and hereafter will be called Mile laos Reservation.
 Fistic fans are an active lot, and also hard to satisfy. Just now there is much talk. about Jess Willard's los ing some of his popularity soon if he doesn't make some move that looks like getting into early action. Fight enthusiasts nowadays like to see their boxing idol in the ring, not on the stage, and the sooner Will lard and the rest become aware of the fact the better for them. Fred die Welsh is about the only one of the big fellows that is busy these days, and deserves much credit for his activity He boxes on the ave- rage of twice month, sometimes more and sometimes little less. But if review of his busy career since winning the championship is taken it will be found that he has been the most active little boxing champion the world has ever had. Great Records Are Made.
 Some remarkable performances were recorded by college athletes in vari ous sectional games during closing days of May. In the intercollegiate games at Philadelphia Smith, of Michigan, won both the 100 and the 220 yards in 10 seconds and P seconds, respectively, while Mere dith, of Pennsylvania, was dual winner in the 440 yards and the S80 yards in AS seconds and 54 2-5 sec. onds, respectively. In the Missouri Valley conference meet Simpson, of Missouri university, won the 12O yards and 220 yards hurdles and the running broad jump as we'll. He eQualled the world record for the high hurdles
 In the Indian state intercollegiate games Myers, of Depauw, was a re- peater, winning the mile in 4 min utes 24 3-5 seconds. and the half in ? minutes l 4-5 seconds. The Pa