The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, February 21, 1909, Image 10

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Newspaper Page Textr- THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY lvlORNING." FEBRUARY 21, 1909. WRESTLING IS DELIGHT OF FAIIDd Nothing lias occupied Hie minds of the sporting fra ternity so much as wrestling inee the O'Connell-Young Hackenschmidt match of, Thursday night. In which O'Connell won because Young Hack could not tli row him five times in an nour. enschmidt and O'Connell opened the, eyes of the public to what real wrestling in. They were at it hammer and tongs ' through the entire 60 minutes and the aggressiveness which characterised the work of each won the hearts of the fans. It was far and away the beat thing that has been seen in the wrest ling line on the coast. -When O'Connell foiled the attempts of a man like Hackenschmidt for 0 minutes, when the latter weighed Mme thing like 20 pounds heavier, the Mult nomah instructor's stock went soaring. Hack paid him a great compliment Here are his words: : "Say for me that O'Connell is the gamest welterweight I ever saw on the mat. I found him practically invul nerable at many points. I found him a man who profited by a mistake. When I caught htm in three minutes in the first fall by that arm roll and heel trip. I confidently expected to find the same opening again during; the 60 minutes. It never came. . ; , Avoided toe Trap. , "O'Connell carefully .avoided the trap, .i.i.wiii that h i a man of treat clev erness. He twisted and squirmed so 1 much while I was shoving his shoulders to the mat, that he came near getting j ' away. There is a possibility that had , we been sweating and slippery I might . not have caught him so easily. As it j was we were still cold and I could hold j on. I want to compliment him on hi; knowledge of the game and his splendid j wrestling abillty.T ; i f L ! Berg is still limping around from his anklet which was hurt .Again in the match. He thought that It would hold out without any pain but the cords were still tender and when he gave It a sudden wrench the pain was excruciat ing. This slowed him down some, but he easily showed thltt he was one of the speediest big men in the game. It will probably be' a couple of months and maybe longer before Hack will go on the mat again. He says he, will do no - work in the meantime and intends to give the wounded ankle a long rest. Oosstp had it that Hack and Mike n..r niinipd.un for a match in Portland, Hack to throw Mike three times in an hour. However, it proved to have no foundation, when the referee at Thursday's matcn pacaen i m mr, ... hied, himself back to Chicago FiMay evenln-ti M Own WaUfht. f While O'Connell acquitted himself oi. rnt rrrllt Thursday night preventing a heavier man irom inro ing him five times in an hour, there was a general sentiment mo welterweight should seek a man more , his own weiaht for his next irili .nlinn nf the little tete-a tete with Strangler Smith several months ago, O'Connell has met no man weighing less than .150 pounds. The " fans are thoroughly tired of seeing him lSg surplus bulk around the ring There has been soma mi. i n -n ,nH run Knlli van. Sul ' I WWII VV' 1 1 X .... 1 aau . . ,-. , livan wants to weigh in at IBS: pounds, i, wm mo thnn O Connell. This Is not so much, but the fans are wondering why O'Connell does not meet a man of his own weight when there is one in town clamri"gfra match. He is none other than Con Albright the Rochester grappler. who mg the ullflowered look like IT monkeys in the preliminary ' to the O'Connell-Hack match. Parker had been telling the bunch that some wrestler and a few of the gulble even fell for his talk. But Albright showed him up to be the worst sort of - ..k finnnlm him twice in about O'Connell was In Corvallls yesterday and his plans for the immediate future i" h inhle. However, there in .n.hahiv be a conference of the . i tnninrmv. when It Is ex pected that something T definite can be Lnnri for the edification of the fans. Arcadia Race Results. x v. v.v fMiMst Lut(Hi WirO clVrrr Anit Park. Cal.. Feb. 20. Re . First race, five and a half furlongs . tr.i.w I Itxtrirt' won. nusrKMi ocwiiu A W urt Shirrt Time 1:06. v"l three find a half fur non ii won. Medallion second i.-J!.i. a u third. Time :40. Third race, seven furlongs Harrlgan won. Semnronium second, ureen a 'i.';,eth race, one mile Orbicular vt Pvmull second. Far West Fifth race, one mile and a furlong iu.. .,! won. Niblick second. Crack i . Kivjf Time 1:52. Sixth race, six and a half furlong Maiden of ootnam won, Sorrowful third. -Time 1:20. Seventh race, five and a half fur longs Haael Thorpe won. Shirley . n.m,.r second. Taxer third. Time 1:0. . - ' " EnifTTrille Kacea.- rieart News br Vaagtmt leased Wlr.i Emeryville etracK, -.. reu. 20. 4 furinncs Trois Temp won, Sil ver Stocking second, Raleigh thifd. T ''Three and one half furlongs Gerando won. Indian Maid second, Balronla ililrrf Time. 0:43 3-B. Mile and a half Greagha won. Clam or second, Kogo third. Time, Z:43. Mile and seventy yards Firestone w-.n. Nailm second, Rose Queen third. Time, 1:60 4-6. J , Mile and seventy yards Fuiletla won. Ktle Powers second, Rotru third. Time. ?:63. Six furlongs Marian Casey won. Ag noio ond. Green Goods third. Time, 1:H i-5. Bcndor Mill Quit OaiiM. . n!l4 Pre Iae4 VHr.) PhUailolTihia. Feb. 1:0. Charles A. Tl',nar great Indian pitcher of Philadelphia American league, said tieT that he has qalt playing baseball. I1 " '!Lh" nn(l to devote his time to match txmUnj which . he finds i more agreeable toWa tealtn Com. e Muck, aianaar of the PhHadelnh la Am.rieaaa aui.l tonight that he thnhf Bender , meant what mvaaii thount The infield of the Newark -..,- lH-ni teswr loks to t pre, -Well fiM.ng. Bud Bharpe at first 1,, s- t,lBfly at m?4 Bill U.ud-4 at1.;" M Manager Welverton at third look, I ke a good combination. , ' JY1? VM' Griffith and Ms string 'f h"' plUli-rf- are expected is At SCHOOL ATHLETE IS GETTING BUSY I'rosptH'ts of Various City Teams in All Branches of Sport. Intnrscholastic league athletic work Is agMln coming to the front and every fine afternoon these days finds the track teams of the various schools out on the hills and highways taking their early training in the way of cros coun try runs, preparatory tor the coming contests. - During the last two weeks the ath letic associations of nearly all of the schools have met and track and base ball meetings ot extraordinary enthu siasm have been held. The managers and enptains of all the school teams have been chosen and they have r langed with competent coaches for the season's work. Foremost of the baseball teams s.t present is the aggregation representing Columbia university, because, as usual, they have been able with their big in door gymnasium to get in about a month s training before any of the oth er schools, could begln.i Charles (Dolly) Gray, the well known former Mult nomah club shrtfctop. who broke int, the professional game two years ago by signing up in the Northwestern league, is coaching, the Columbia team. One of the first practice games of the season is to be played between Co lumbia and a team of former lnterschol- 1 astic players composed of the thne Meyers brothers of Portland academy, Barry, Columbia's former shortstop of two successive seasons, and others. Joe Clancy has been chosen to man age Columbia's ball team and Franois' Black, will guide the destinies of the track athletics. As yet very little is known of what Columbia will do on the cinder path. The contests which will be the hardest fought for this spring will, witho-it doubt, be the iqo and zao yard dashes between Campbell of Columbia ami frenn ana JttODerts or win Military ! academy. Already the track fans are wonder ing who will carry off first honors in . these races, and as far as conclusions go practically everyone picks thee three men for the places, the onlv dif ference being that the order is changed by different prophets. Columbia Will nacK i. amp Don to tne man and rl. M. A. with its two crack sprinters feels even more confident of winning in both the loo yard and the zzo yard dashes. Jack King, who has started the sprinters in the school leagues for the past decade, says that all three of the lunners could make any high school track team in their events. Campbell had things pretty much his own way last ycarJjut neither Prehn nor R6b erts, both of whom had won big, laur els In previous years, contested againBt him. In the other events not much is heari. Doris, who took third place in the all-. northwest meet last year win attend H. M. A. this spring. Bome of the men from other schools who will contest against him are Miller, East Side High's captain:' Barber and Wright, also of Kast Side, and Masten and Hosruer of Portland academy. East Side (Washington) High is boasting of having Forrest Smithson's small brother with them. Young Smlthson will probably go out in the same events as the world's hurdling: champion. Home or tne other men at Washington High are Stanard. Munlcy, Frazier, Kelsey, Johnson, Burdick. Rob erta. Wells. Starr, Kuster and Jackson. Herman Oberteuffer is managing the team. Henry Hewett is manager of the base ball team, a captain of which is to be elected early this week. Washington will have practically the same team as last year. Houek, HeWett and Kl log are to do the twirling. Cason will probably be stationed at the receiving end of the battery and Moreland. Cor nell, Jones and O. Cobb will play the ir. lield. Hedges, Brlggs, Cozens snd Wells are trying for outfield positions. Coacii Fenstermacher will be back again this yar. Iilnooln X,oses Good. Men. So far Lincoln High's chances In track are badly crippled by the loss of practically all of her former athletes. Smith in the weights fbeing about the only one of last year's men who is back and he is attending on a post graduate course. Their weakness in track, however, is in a measure bal anced up by the prospects of a winning baseball team. Bix old men are back this year. The West Side school also stands an excellent show in the pro posed tennis tournament with McAlpin as their representative. Portland academy aathletes have done nothing as yet but will turn out this week if the weather permits. On their track team will be Norrls, Brace. Heua ner. Bacon. Beuhner, Bell, Hosmer, Mas ten, Wilson. Summers.- Leonard and oth ers. Ton Lftdd Is back to catch on the ball team. Karl Cobb is slated for the bo. Some of the others are Summers. Cock inghara, Rummelin and Harding. Dr. Payne and Coach Thorne will oversea the track and baseball teams respect ively. The first meeting among baseball players other than Columbia, was held ut H. M. A. last week. Only three for mer league players are now attending the military academy. They are Hughes and Hlncks of , last year's cadet team and Thomas of the last Allen Preparatory team. All the rest are new men. The Allen Preparatory school is con sidering putting a team in the league again this year, but as yet hys taken no definite action. A. meeting of the league representatives from all the schools is to be held soon and a sched ule drawn up. Tt is probable that the Alln team will make known its inten tions then. . . ' i ' lj 1 I j : ! AT PORTLAND. AT SEATTLE. AT TACOMA. AT SPOKANE. AT VANCOUVER. AT ABERDEEN. ! April 17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24-15 June 8-9-10-11-12-11 April 28-27-28-29-30. May 1-2 May 8-4-5-8-7-8-9 . June 1-2-3-4-5-8 PORTLAND........... June 1 5-HS-17-18-1 9-20 , August 10-11-12-18-14-15 ' Julv 20-21-22-23-24-25 July 26-27-28-29-80-31. Aug. 1 ' August 8-4-5-6-7-8 September 21-22-23-24-"25-26 September 28-29-30. Oct. 1-2-J . ; '. ' '. . t '-' ' ; - , July 8-7-8-9-10-11 ' June 1-2-8-4-6-8 May 10-il-12-lS-14-15-16 June T-8-9-10-U-12-1S July 20-21-22-23-24-25 SEATTLE September 14-16-18-17-18-19. - July 27-8-29-30-81. Aug. 1 - July 18-14-16-1-17-1 August 13-24-25-26-27-28-29 September 7-8-9-10-11-12 ' May 10-11-1 2-1 S-l 4-1 5-18 v April 28-27-28-29-30. May 1-2 - May 3-I-B-8-7-8-9 May 24-25-26-27-28-29-J0 August S-4-6-B-7-8 TACOMA July 13-14-15-16-17-18 June 22-23-24-25-26-27 July 6-7-8-9-10-11 . July 1- . , S ' w . August 24-25-26-27-28-29 September 28-29-30. Oct 1-2-3 ; September 7-8-9-10-11-12 July 19-20-21-22-23-24-25 ' ' ! . T I , - Aug. 80-81. Sept l-2-3-4-5-8-2) i May 24-25-26-27-2S-29-30-31-(2 June 29-30. July 1-2-3-4-6.(2) May 17-18-19-20-21-22-28 ' .: June 1-2-3-4-6-8 June 8-9-10-11-12-13 SPOKANE.. August 31. Sep.t l-2-3-4-6-6-(2) August 10-11-12-13-14-15 August 17-18-19-20-21-22 ' September 20-21-23-23-24-25-26 August 34-25-26-I7-28-39 . ' ,'. t . - .' S -...' '-. ..;- - , ; j : : -t 1 : 1 T " : j : June 22-23-24-25-28-27' May 17-18-19-20-21-12-23 April 17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24-2S Jne 16-16-17-18-14-20 Mv 10-11-11-13-14-15-18 - VANCOUVER September 7-8-9-10-11-13 . August 17-18-19-20-21-21 jMu 'V. July 8-4-M2) $&t&llw4.l , , July 13-14-16-18-17-18 . ' ; r , - , i - ' . , ' ".' 1 '.. v- 1 ' "" 'r '" ' '-' i . - - T" , , 1 . ! ! ; I 1 1 1 '-. .'1 p 1'";--'-"- - " 1 j-'. u' I-;' - I May 17-18-19.-20-21-22-23 ' May J--"-'-'""".-...,..'" un H1"1.7."1.1,9-2.0. . PHl. 17-4 8-1 9-20-21-23-23-24-25 April 26-17-28-29-30. May 1-3 ' ABERDEEN.. -..,.. June 29-30. July l-2-3-4-S-(t) May 24-2S-26-7-28-29-80-31-f2 September) 14-16-16-17-18-19 ; June 22-23-24-26-26-27 July 6-7-8-9-10-11 - , j I August 17-18-18-20-21-23 -. August 31. Sofpt 1-2-S-4-5-6-U) V V, July, 27-28-29-80-31.. Aug. I ' August 9-10-11-13-18-14-15 '' " 1 . .y- ..- ; :. - . September 2 1-22-23-2 -25-26 ' 1 - -, ' Sept , 27-38-29-31). Oct 1-2-8 , ' - IZAAK WALTON RIGHT UP -' ' - ' '.343 V ' SSZ?' HAVING-, I . t BASEBALL NEWS FROM THE SOUTH Fisher's Team Had a Qreat Trip Prospects of War Disappearing. San Francisco. Feb. 20. Mike Fisher and his merry band of oriental base hall invaders are back on the job, most ly poor, but happy. They all had the time of their lives in the land beyond the broad Pacific, but the coin of th realm was not so plentiful in the far east as it is in the land of the stars and stripes, so that Fisher's trunks and suit cases were not overloaded with either the golden or the silvery metal when the good ship pulled up at her dock. It was one of the most remarkable trips ever taken by any baseball aggre gation and it marked the first Invasion of Japan, China and the Philippine isl ands by a regular professional Ameri can team. The tossers were received by the higher officials In every city they visited and got the best of every thing, save money. They awed the natives with thair work, though their batting averages are said to have been far better by night than they were by day, and nobody blamed them for this. Most of the tossers are still here. Gladstone Graney; the Portland ptlcher, is on his way north, while Babe Danzig, the other Beaver who made the trip. Is speeding toward New York. He is sup- fiosed to play with the Boston Amer cans next season, though at the pres ent time, he does not know Just how he stands. There Is a rumor that Dan zig will have to account to his boss for making the oriental trip without the latter's consent. Thus far. the outlaw California .; .-(', "' I Northwesterri League Schedule Season 1909 state league has not succeeded in in vading either San Francisco or Oak land, and the prospects of the war be ing declared off look very bright at the present time. The general belief is that, Moering and the men behind him. were unable to raise sufficient capital to carry on the fight with anq in this case, the outlaws probably will go ahead as they did last season, though they wfll be badly crippled through the loss of the hard hitting Sacramento club. The capital city bids fair to be rlghtj in uie run aiier me pennant mis sea son. It is a strong lineup, from catcher to right ' field and nearly every man can hit the ball a bit. Behind the bat there will be 'Charley Graham and Jimmy Byrnes. In the box are three of the best pitchers ever produced In the coast league Fred Brown. , Jimmy Whalen and Charley Baum; in the in field, the Senators will have Joe Neal on, Fred Raymer, Bill Enright and Janslng, formerly with Seattle. The outfield Is not completed as yet, but GVorge Hildebrand -will be there in left and within the next few days Graham promises to sign up two more fast ones. s The annual rumor that Benny Hen derson, the former Portland twlrler, and one of the greatest pitchers who has been seen on the Pacific coast in years, la yearning to get back Into or ganized baseball now rolls up and down the line. Henderson started this same talk last season, but -when playing time rolled around, lie promptly signed up a Stockton contract and remained with the outlaws. Now, however, Henderson is credited with saying that lie will gladly get back into the fold, provided that he Is traded by Portland to some other team. He Is evidently very bit ter against McCredie and vows that he will never work for the northern man ager again. John I. Taylor, president of the Bos ton Americans, seems very anxious to get hold of Henderson, but there is al so rumors of a tilt between htm and Mc Credie. They had eome trouble over the exchange of certain players which has not as yet been adjusted. It is barelv possible, however, that Tavlor .and McCredie may fix up some sort of a deal wnereDy Henderson will go to Boston in exchange for a couple of Tay lor's men. Handerson is rather an independent TO DATE chap. He receives a good salary for playing two games a week with the outlaws and incidentally, he holds down a nice soft Job in the assessor's office. This is made possible for the reason that Cy Moring. manager of the Stock ton team, Is the county assessor and anything he says goes In the office. ... There was a great reunion the other day between Billy Sunday, the famous evangelist, and Bill Lange. the former right fielder of the famous old White Sox, but now a big real estate dealer here. The pair met in the St. Francis hotel, after being separated for nearly 20 years, and they pulled off a fanning bee that broke all records of this city. Incidentally. Sunday paid Lange a great compliment. "'Lange, or 'Little Eve,' as we all knew him, was the greatest outfielder that ever lived," em phatically declared Sunday, "and I don't think that the game will ever see his equal. At hitting, fielding, running bases and getting away with Inside plays, he had them all beaten 40 ways from the Jack and I have seen them come and go In the big leagues for the last 26 years. - This is the reason why I pick Big Bill as one of the outfield ers for the everlasting All-Amerlcan baseball team. They don't turn out the players now that they did some years ago. The old timers did not get so much money, but they did. more and far belter work." California Nine Beaten. . (Hearst . Neva by Loosest Leiied Wire.) Los Angeles. Fb. 20. The TJnlver-. slty of California baseball team was de feated this afternoon at Chutes Park by the crack 8t, Vincent's team by the score of 5 to 8. Catcher Bob Motilton of the Berkeley team was injured in the seventh inning to . the extent that he was forced to rejlre from the game. He was kicked on the ankle by Bhute of the Saints as the latter was slid ing for home. Happy Hogan, captain of the new Vernon team In the Pacific Coast league, and Lane officiated as umpires. Frank Nishljlma. a native of Japan, will rm In the Los Angeles Marathon on Washington's birthday. He .is called "the running messenger boy," surely a misnomer, for there has never been such a thing since the creation of the world. ALL SIGNS TO NELS0N JOHISN Y RE AG A IS STAR TS A GAlli TOMORROW San Francisco.' Feb. !0. All pugilistic indications now ooint to a match - be tween Battling Nelson, the lightweight champion of - the world and fighting Dick Hyland, the Bturdy little Califor nia n who has been meeting and beating the best of them throughout the country for the past three years. As Hyland is the only available opponent in sight for Nelson and as 4he Battler is evidently primed up for a flght.-ftll the' fans look for the match to be made within the next week or so ir not sooner. ; . Kelson is in town, having arrived yes terday from New Mexico, where he was roughing it around the country and in ctdenlallv attending to a little business he had on hand. He wpuld rather fight Freddie . Welsh, tne urtusn cnampion, but this seems Impossible at present, for the reason that Welsh insists upon 25 rounds and as everybody knows, the champion is a Marathon runner and will not eorisent to anything short of. 45 in the future. ..:.; ; Although Hyland haS never blossomed out as real star In the firmament of pugdom, still he has a world of experi .Hft. ikMintfiiniil thA : Miinlrv. and. inci dentally, ha never taken the count of 10,. though several decisions nave Deen given against him when he faced clever fellows like Leach. Cross, Packey Mc Farland and .those of this stripe. He la flehtlnr. tearing lad who keeps coming all the ' time Just like Nelson. He apparently never tires ana in ne past has always finished just as fast at the end of 20 rounds as he .was when the fight started. . Hyland is another Callfornian who was forced to seek the eastern field In order to gain recognition. He started out here as a four-rounder in Alex Greg gain's old club along with Abe Attell, Eddie Hanlon, Frankie Neil and others who have become great and who have passed down and 'out in the meantime. Hyland did some fine fighting here as a professional, but somehow or other, the local fans never took to him,-but as soon as he went east shortly before the recent disaster, he was the big- noise there. i,-.' A fight between Nelson and Hyland' should prove to be one of those blood curdling affairs that stirs every admirer of ;th game to action. Both men fight exactly the same sort of a fight and both have met and beaten the same men in the past, though Nelson' string of victories la more numerous. . , . ' Stanley Ketchel, the middleweight champion of the world, and his crafty manager. 'Willis Britt, have solved the Larigford question by taking a runout powder and signing up with Confessor Jack O'Brien for a six round till with pillows at Philadelphia next month. This amply proves that the lion from Michigan is afraid of the big Boston smoke. He has made all sorts of offers to take ebony Sam on here, but he sidestepped every one of them. At least, his manager did. for Ketchel dared not show his face in California while Langford stuck around. Michigan- looked good enough to him. . It's a good thins for Ketchel that he managed to get on with O'Brien in Philadelphia, for there is not another city in . the United States which will stand for the king of rink fakers. The fans would give him a fast ride out of this village on a rail l he ever had the gall to show here again. Ketchel may Imagine he Is making a wise move, but he and Britt will have to step livery If they expect to beat the Phila delphia game. O'Brien is one of the main screws in the club that Is to pull off the bout and it is an even money bet that the Confessor will not get any the worst of it. Johnny Reagan, the greatest little fighter that California has developed In many a day, will get into action at the Mission street arena tomorrow after noon in a 20 round mlxup with Monte PATCH III BRUSH WITH MIIIOR HEIR King of Harness Horses and Heir Apparent Tie in Tryout Quarter. Before a delegation of visiting horse lovers and newspaper men at M. W. Savage's stock farm at Savage, a sta tion near Minneapolis, last week ' the king of harness horses, Dan Patch, and the heir to roval honors. Minor Heir, were formally introduced, allowed to size each other up and for the first time to test each other's mettle for a quarter mile spurt on the farm's famous covered track. "I don't know how Dan Patch will like to have a rival." remarked Hersey, "but now that we have visitors we may as well give the two horses a formal introduction and let them get acquaint ed." Accordingly orders were given and Charlie Plummer. who is the jealous guardian and caretaker of the' world s champion, soon had his charge ready and let out into the sunshine. He was soon followed by Minor Heir, in charge of his caretaker. Krnest Barter. The younger horse walked sedately to with in a few paces of the world's greatest pacer, stopped and made what seemed to the visitors a most careful inventory of the champion's qualification. POINTING - HYLAND GO Attell,' brother of.' ' the featherweight chamnlon and a great .bantam wel fighter himself. Reagan rules a 10 y I lavur-UQ vvifr Alien nnu uivi 4.h- look for him to gain an learly and, de cisive victory,- though - the, last -time the boys met. Attell cleverly fought his man to a standstill in lb rounns. xvea gan, however, . has r i improved vastly since .then, and on form lie -tigures to put , the 'crusher on the cleverv little Hebrew, though, 'tis no cinch. ' . Jim Coffroth is already endeavoring to match the winner with Johnny Oou lon of Chicago for the world's bantam weight championship. Coulon is the le gitimate champion, being the only boy of class in recent years who has shown the ability to make 112 pounds and fight strong. Reagan claims that - he can do this weight and in the event that he beats Attell, it is more than likely that this city will be the scene, of the championship mill wHhln the next few weeks, unless Coulon changes his, mind In the meantime. , -Jimmy 'Walsh, the Boston fighter, is clamoring for' a return go with Reagan but he wants so much money that , none of the local; promoters can talk business with him.-fHe came out here touted as a champion but he has as yet failed to show any of the local scrappers up. ' Southern California ha developed an other remarkable athlete, George B. Miller, the unknown performer, who beat the far heralded Soldier King In this city's first professional , Marathon race the other night. , Miller finished the long course. 26 miles, 385 yards, ap parently as strong as when he started, and simply ran the soldier off his feet. e gave one of the most remarkable ex hibitions of endurance ever heard of on the Pacific coast and now he Is In demand as a star all over the country. Miller ran the whole route witnout as much as slowing down to a walk a walk J to keenjl le aftslr I or a dor trot once. He seemed un his steady, even pace mile mile and nothing the others did M their efforts to interfere with him bothered the mysterious one In the least. All he did toward reviving him self was to take a wet handkerchief from his traitiers and rub his face with it two or three time's, while all Ms competitors were forced to halt for nourishment on several occasions. An effort will be made to match Miller in another Marathon against Connolly, the acknowledged long dis tance performer of the west, and Hayes, Longboat or Dorondo. Thus far, the eastern stars have refused all of fers to come to this city, for the reason that the game is right at its height around New York end Chicago and there Is big money In sight for the runners. It has developed that one of the anti boxing bills now before the state leg islature is nothing more than a Joker. put In by the friends of the fighting game In this city. According to this ill, any man who has anything to do with a fight, -such as leasing a pavilions handling advertising or the like, is lia ble to be held for a misdemeanor There Is no chance to pass such a bill and the promoters are resting easy In the hopes that the law makers will de. vote tneir attention to mis dummy, But In the meantime, a senator from the southern part of the state is there with one, drafted on the lines of the famous Ralston bill, which nearly car ried four years ago. The friends of the game are doing the best they can to have this one pigeonholed, for In this event, they are safe for two more years at least. Jim Coffroth and a bunch of local DOlitlcians have been busy around Ihe capital, working In the Interest of tne joke pin and according to tne pro moter, he-does not anticipate! further trouble after the solons take 6ne peek at It, ' and one peek should be enough to hold them. - . tah Patch, who has never known before what it was to have a dangerous rival, merely glanced at Minor Heir with a contemptuous toss of his beau tiful head. The photographers of the visiting party quickly took advantage of the scene. It was a photograph of the first meeting of horses whose fame Is world wide and is the only photograph In ex istence of two horses each with records under two minutes. After the horses had been jogged for seven miles and were fairly well warmed up they were allowed to travel at a little faster gait and went a mile together at a good rate of speed. At the last quarter Hersey gave the word. Dan Patch stopped looking at the scenery and, shaking his head in a characteristic fashion, gave evidence of wanting to strike a 1:66 clip. He did not gain an inch on the little brown pacer; however, and the two passed the silent spectators nose and nose. They were pulled up and quickly taken to their stalls for the regular coollng-out process. The first race between Dan Patch and Minor Heir was declared a dead heat This Date in Sport Annals. 1867 jouett Mocktn. who played ball with the St, Paul. Louisville, Washing ton, New York and other clubs, Born .in New Albany, ina. . 1889 At Lexington, JCy., Bell Boy, JT' trotter, sold at auction for $61,000. t 189 At Langtry. Texas, Robert Flt I Simmons knocked out Peter Maher in first round. " 1900 At New York, Tepry McGovern and George Dixon engaged in three round exhibition bout 1907 Jockey Miller finished first In five mounts at Oakland. 1908 At Milwaukee. Packy McFar land gained decision over Freddie Welsh In 10 rounds. 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