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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
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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.
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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. .
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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
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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.
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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.
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Attell,' brother of.' ' the featherweight
chamnlon and a great .bantam wel
fighter himself. Reagan rules a 10 y
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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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