Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 9, 1909, Page 3

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Telephone 45. dec2d Do It Now Have that old-fashioned, unsanitary plumbing replaced by new and mod- ern open plumbing. It will repay you 3 the increase of health and saving doctor's bills. Overhaullag and re- fitting thoroughly done. Let me give you a figure for replacing all the old plumbing with the modern kind that will keep out the sewer gas. Th work will be first-class and the price reasonable. J. E. TOMPKINS, 67 West Main Street. auglsd CHIROPODY and MANICURE Treatment of Corns a specialty. Also Hairdressing and Shampooing, Puffs, Switches and Pompadours made #rom your own combings. MRS. B. BURTON, Ghapman Block, =~ - Broadway. oct7d A. D. S. ALL CEREAL COFFEE only 10c a Ib. LIBRARY TEA STORE Iy24STuT THE PLANK Meadquarters for Best Ales, Lagers, Etc,, in Town. JAMES O'CONNELL, ‘Telephone §07. No Building in Norwich will ever be too large for us to bufld. All we ask 1s an opportunity te bid for the job. Competition is keen and eompels close flguring, but years of experience has taught us the way to figure close and do first-class work. Proprietor. act2d C. M. WILLIAMS, QGeneral Contractor and Builden, 218 MAIN STREET. 870. “Phot ~——OPEN— Del-Hoff Cafe Business Men’s Lunch a lp‘uillt;. Also Regular Dinner, fifty cents. sy9a HAYES BROS. Props. DOMINICK & DOMINICK, FOUNDED 1870, - Members of the New York Stock Exchange. Bonds and High Grade lnvestments Orders executed in Stocks and Bonds, Grain and Cotton. NORWICH BRANCH 67Broadway Telephone %0 FRANK O. MOSES. Mgr. ‘We are headquarters for NARRAGANSETT BANQUET ALR, Ny trade supplied at 60c per doz. Oldfield Puts Up New 50 Mile Mark—Over Frozen Track —Radiator Filled with Alcohol—Six Day Bike Riders Gaining on Past Records. Dallas, Tex., Dec. 8.—With his face wrapped in woolen bandages and wear- ing heavy fur gloves and a fur over- coat, Barney Oldfield drove hic 120 hores power Benz racer in the teeth of a Texas norther today and broke the fifty mile world’s circular track record, which has stood for over five years. He covered the half century in 47.18, as against the old mark of 48.40 1-5, made by -himself in ¥resno, Cal, in 1904. Oldfield got inside the previous record in thirty miles and broke evéry indi- vidual nark to the end of the run. Oldfield’s feat was sensational, The track was frozen in places and the ra- diator of his car was filled with al- cohol as the only preventive against freezing. . H. R. Green, member of the Ameri- can Automobile association contest board, acted as referee, and as the meeting was sanctioned the record will be accepted as official. PACE 1S KILLING. Weaker Bike Teams Losing Ground— Leaders Gaining on the Record. New York, Dec. 8—A killing pace is gradually pushing the weaker teams into thes rear of the six dlg bicycle race at Madison Square Garden, Just before 7 o'clock tonight, Clai the Australian sprinter, climbed high up on the outer edge of one of and shot down into the saucer again at the top of his speed. Befors the field could get under way he had open- ed up a lead of a quarter of a lap, and a desperate struggle for lost distance followed. Trainers swarmed about the railing, routing out fresh Zm.rtnerl, and for & time it seemed that all the riders were on the track at once. For twenty min- utes the furious drive did not slacken, amid such confusion that the scorers had difficulty in reckoning the distance. When the men grouped themselves in some semblance of order again it was announced that Cameron and Krebs, Mitten and West, Anderson and Va- noni, Hill and Stein, Galvin and Kee- gan, and the Georgets had all lost a lap, and that the leaders were fourteen miles four laps ahead of the reacord. DeMara fell exhuasted from his wheel just after he was relieved. - At 10 o'clock the men had gained another mile and three laps on the rec- ord, with positions unchanged. At 135 this morning the manage- ment announced the withdrawal of Patrick Keegan of Lowell, Mass., from the Irish-American team of Keegan- Galvin. Physicians say Keegan has congestion of the lungs with a tem- perature of 104. Galvin has four hours to find another partner. Efforts are being made to induce Krebs of New- ark to withdraw and thus give his team mate, Cameron, a chance to ride, with Galvin. The pace grew brisker in the early morning hours and at 2 o'clock the men were 31.3 miles ahead of the record of last year. The score: MacFarland-Clark, Rutt-Stol, Root- Fogler, Lawson-Demara, Walthour- Collins, Halstead-Lawrence, Pye-He- hir, 1,477.2, Anderson - Vanonl, Mitten - West, Cameron-Krebs, Hill-Stein, 1,477.1. Calvin-Keegan, withdrawn; Geor- ia;’-szet’ 1,477; Germain-Carapezzi, 1.2. ACADEMY SWEATERS SN . FOR FOOTBALL MEN. Manager Worth Reports Balance on Hand—Choose Captain Next Week. A meeting of the Academy football team was held Wednesday afternoon after school to hear the report of Business Manager Joe Worth for the season. This was presented in satis- factory form and showed a successful conduct of affairs, leaving enough of a balance on hand to provide sweaters for the team. There will probably be dark red with a block letter N in white. ‘The meeting adjourned for a week, when the team will meet to elect a captain and other officers next year. It is reported that John McCormick, the fullback, will be the probable choice for captaincy. 4 The Mohican football team wishes to ask the followers of the game if they consider the Mohicans in the second class or a champion team. An article in The Bulletin stated that the Baltic team defeated the Mohicans. They never placed the Mohicans. As all games arranged, Manager Larkie knows about, but the Baltics played a picked team from Norwich, but the Mohicans never played Baltic. They did try to arrange a game for Thanks- giving but when they were to receive carfare one way and the chances of walking back or digging down, there was nothing doing; not cold feet, sim- ply cold cash, and common sense. And if Captain Henry er any other sport of the teams consider the Heavy- weights chai ons simply because they defeated Itie, why they must be dreaming. What did Baltic show? Why should they be classed in_the first ranks? The best thing the Bal- tics and Heavywelights can do is con- solidate and play the Mohicans for a final game and let newspaper talk cease. Attention, 145 Pound Boxers. Young Allen, the local boxer, is won- dering whether Buck Falvey of New London does not reply to a recent challenge issued. If any 145 pound men are looking for an engagement in the squared circle, the Norwichyboy will accommodate them. Hueston Accepts Pool Challenge. Kansasg City, Mo., Dec. 8.—Thomas Hueston, world’s champion pool player, accepted the challenge of Benjamin Al- len of Kansas City for a pool match for the championship tonights The match will be played In Boston, De- cember 21 to 23. Three blocks of 200 balls each will be played. Westerly Five Coming. A duckpin team from Westerly is to come here Friday night to roll a Norwich five, /Neither five has yet been announced. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. STOCK PRICES HIGHER. Most of the Gains Wiped Out by a Final Reaction. New York, Dee. 8.—Prices of stocks moved upwards again today with peri- ods of interruption and hesitation, a final reaction wiping out much of the gains. The opening rise brought in a considerable volume of profit taking sales from an element in the specula- tion which has come to expect an al- ternating current in the price move- ment from one day to another. The way in which thesc sales were absorb- ed decided the later upward course of the market. The renewed operations on a large scale in United States Steel on a rising scale also had an important sentimental effect on the general tone. The action of that stock was not ex- plained by any news development, but tho idea persists amongst professional speculators that th® price is destined te rise to par some time before Christ- mas. Since its advance to 947-8 on October 4 Steel has risen above 93 on three separate occasions, and has then fallen back. On Tuesday of last week it touched the lowest level since the 94 7-8 quotation, selling on that day at 851-8. Its advance today to 921-8 has been Lnusually rapid. The buying of stocks was accompanied by profes- slons of satisfaction with the tome of. the president’s message, which was called moderate, conservative, and as ‘warranting expectation of circumspect treatment of the topics reserved for fu- ture special messages, such as the pro- posed amendment of the anti-trust and interstate commerce laws. The feeling on the subject was enhanced by the circulation of advices from Washington alleging the llkelihood of the suppres- sion of attempts at radical measures in congress. One interruption to the rising tendency of prices was due to the acute weakness in Third Avenue, which sold as low as 121-2 as a result of the computation of the return to be had by payment of the propdsed as- sessment and the price of the new se- curities fixed by nominal transactions in the outside market. There was a show of strength in the soft coal car- riers as a group, 'unexplained except on the ground of the small part taken by these stocks in previous advances. The advance in fact was spotty amd wa3 not comprehensive at any time. Published reports of the ripening of plans amongst raidroad trainmen for a concerted demand ipon the railroads for an advance in wages after the first of the year were without apparent ef- fect at any point. The census bureau’s figures of the amount of cotton ginned te December 1st were taken as having a widespread interest outside the actu- al cotton trad The rapid picking of the crop gave the ginning figures early in the season, and undue promise of the final results and the later figures have widened the discrepancy with for- mer crops rapidly, and bear out the fears in the trade of a shortage and more. The rise in price of cotton to the highest price of the season was considered appropriate to the report, and significant, also, of the prevailing high level of prices in materials. A contrary tendency was shown today by the price of copper, one of the few materials which has failed to share in the almost universal rise in prices. The Western Unlon quarterly report of earnings proved unsatisfactory to some holders of the stock and the retention of the previous dividend rate seemed to bring some disapointment also. The fall in Amalgamated Copper was an influence in the sharp reaction late in the day. Bonds were irre; . To- tal sales, par value, $5,133,000. United States fours coupon declined 1-4 per cent. on call. 'STOCKS. Migh. 1000 Do. pt 100 Do pfd .. 200 Dethlebem 19890 Brooklyn Rapid 4300 Canadian Pacifie . 58700 Cent Hudson. Products 200 Delaware & 1000 Denver & Rio Grands. MONEY. New York, Dee. 8.—Money on call firm; 43-4@5 per cent, ruling rate 4 3-4, last loan 5, closing bid 4 7-8, of- fered at 5. Time loans steady and fairly active sixty days 43-4@5 per cent., ninety days 41-2@5 per cent., six months 41-2 per cent. COTTON. New York, Dec. 8.—Cotton spot clos- ed quiet, ten polnts higher; middling upuands 14.95,middling gulf 15.20; sales 500 bales, Futures closed steady. Closing bids: December 14.68, January 14.81, Febru- ary 14.95, March 15.21, April 15.30, May 15.46, June 15.33, July 15.46, August 14.90, September 18.55, October 13.10. OHICAGO GRAIN MARKET. H Low. Closa 109 107 100 10875-16 107 08 8% % 98 . 8% 58y 6234 615 o1 ilae 61 a% ay d3% “©y « R referring the matter athletics,, but he was ve “This board won't trust the rules the rules so as to make the dangerous,” said Mr. Sullivan with heat, “but it is to accept the recom- mendation of men who do not even know the name of the game which they want to abolish.” ‘Answering Mr. Sullivan, Frederick C. Coudert, a member of the board, de- scribed the fatalities caused the game during the season just closed and added: “It s mot .the intention of athletics to destroy but to develop physical fac- ulties, and Yootball is destructive. The college which has the largest attend- ance in the country—Columbia college —two years ago abolished the game. “They did not do it without due con- sideration; experts were called and opinions were gathered, and after care- ful consideration it was decided to abolish the game, “Mr. Jeffries, who has as much cour- ‘age and knows as much about athletics as our ‘athletic member’ (Sullivan), says that he will bring up his son to be a prize fighter. He say that there a man fights one man squarely and in- stead of fighting- eleven as in foot- Chubby Charlie Favors Ward.. . Chicago, Dec. 8—President Charles W. Murphy of the Chicago Nationals left today for New York, saying that he favored John M. Ward for presi- dent of the National league. Mr. Murphy refused to discuss the report that Charles G. Williams, sec- retary of the local National league club, was a candidate for secretary of the Natfonal league. Princeton Wins Basketball. Princeton, N. J.,, Dec. 8.—Princeton defeated the Crescent Athletic club of Brooklyn at basketball tonight, 34 to 25. EASY TO GO BROKE BACKING A PUGILIST. The Big Fighters Dont’ Value of Money. Know the “Many a thoroughbred sporting man has gone dead broke on a pugilist,” re- marked the old-time fight promoter re- cently. “To back, train, dress and keep a high-flying fighter is a luxury and costs a pot of money. Few fight- ers know the value of money, and many of them would blow in the Bank of England if ‘they had the chance. “If there ever was a man who went plumb broke on_the pugilists, it was ‘Warren Lewis. He had a big heart, a ready fist, an open purse and an idea of honor that would not have dis- graced a churchman. “Lewis never broke his word with the fighters. He offered a $2,500 purse for a battle between Peter Maher and Steve O'Donnell at Coney Island on Christmas afternoon, 1897. This was the coldest frost in the history of local pugilism, for the clubhouse was prac— tically empty. Just before the mill started Lewis’ son tried to get the old man to call it off and refund the money to those who had paid admis- sions. Lewis Never Broke Word. “‘No, my son,’ replied Warren. Tl have this fight for my own amusement. I'll pay the $2,500, sit in my box and enjoy the sport. Let all Coney Island come ir and see the fight.’ “This costly fun lasted only about half a minute, for Maher put O'Donnell out in a punch. The only complaint Lewis made was in a jocular way, when he turned to Maher and said: “‘Peter, I told you not to hit Steve too hard at first, as I wanted to get my money’s worth. “Lewis’ end was pathetic. When his bank roll had dwindled to $47.51 he drew a check for that amount in his son’s favor, took the steamboat Rhode Island and when it reached the dark- est part of the sound the broken heart- ed old sport jumped overboard. In- gratitude had driven the veteran back- er of pugilists to commit suicide. Fitzsimmons Meets Friend. “When Bob Fitzsimmons was in hard luck a couple of years before he be- came champion of the world by defeat- ing Corbett, he met a great friend in Police Captain Charles Glori of New- ark, who fed, clothed and housed the Cornishman until the latter could get on his feet. Fitz at the time didn't ‘have a cent, but Captain Glori became 8o infatuated with him that he resign- ed from the Newark police department to become the freckled fighter'’s man- ager. “Glori secured some easy matches for Fitz, formed a theatrical show that made big money, and finally got a backing which compelled Corbett to make a match. After doing all this, and much more, Glori was deliberately turned down by Fitzsimmons, who also threatened to punch his head. Then the gnod natured captain found him- self high and dry without a show or a position and was forced to accept a much lower position with the Newark police force. “Fighters the world over have been noted for their u tefulness. If you don’t believe it, 4sk Al Smith, Parson Davies, 'Jimmy Wakely, Dick Roche, Pat. Sheedy or any of the old-time sporting men who have had business dealings with fistic idols in years gone by HARNESS HORSE NOTES. Bob Douglass, 2.06 1-4, and Jack McKerron, 2.07 1-4, nearly made a dead heat for the honor of leading money winning trotting stallion of 1909, The former won $11,002, the latter $10,900. Minor Heir, 1.59 1-4, is expected to be represented by a fast performer next season, as his three old pac- ing son, Legal He! hile given a mark of but 2.24 1-4, was a handy second in 2.11 1-4 and showed himself able to pace a mile in 2.10. Legal Heir is out of ‘a mare by Red Pepper, son of On- ward, 2.26 1-4. s ok L The three lines from George Wilkes, 2.22, that are producing extreme trot- ting speed with the greatest uniformity come through William L., 4244, Baron ‘Wilkes, 2.18, and Alcyone, 2.27. The dams of these three soms of George Wilkes, 2.22, were. by Mambrino Patchen.—The Horseman. Al Stanley, 2.11 1-4, world's cham- pion for two and three year old trot- ting stallions over half mile track for /1908 and 1909, has been a most con- sistent race horse, having started in five races in his two year old form in 1908, was first in four and got third money in the fifth. In 1909 as a three year old he started nine times, win- ning first meney in eight and behind the money in the minth. Lon McDonald has bought from Rol- lins farm, Shirley, Ill, four very prom- ising youngsters which he will ship to Memphis, Tenn., with his other horses. ‘They. are Silver Song, a four year old green_trotter, by Onward Silver, 2.05 1-4, dam Sonata by Dictator. This mare has been a mile in 2.10 1-2, a half in 1.02 1-2, and a quarter in 30 sec- ond: Miss Mainsheet, a two year old 1illy, by eet, 2.05, dam by Al- cantara. The other (o st xaexiinca, £ gbfe g gggsi?s CAN'T ABOLISH SPIKES., A Big Asset of the Ball Players, Says Evans—Leather Cleats Wouldn’t Do. To my way of thinking, says Umpire Billy Evans, all this talk about abol- ishing a spike is foolish. The spike is one of the big assets of the ball play- He must have his shoes so equip- ped he can make a quick start as well as stop, and I can see no substi- tute that offers the same possibilities as the steel spike. To anybody who has ever played football all this talk of leather cleats is a joke. More speed is the demand of every baseball manager and owner. A man with bad feet suffers a severe handicap in baseball. Nothing would more quickly ruin the feet of - ball players than the constant use of a baseball shoe with leather cleats. In the first place, the leather cleat would cause the player to suffer from callousness on the ball of his foot. The steel sptke, while sinking into the ground, often causes a player to slow up from a callous. Contrast the leather cleats which do not give a fraction of an inch and one can readlly imagine the result. Players would be suffering from many ailments which are at pres- ent unknown to the baseball player, and the average manager who bumped into his share of hard luck will readily tell you that there are enough things that can happen to ‘player without advancing any new pos- sibilities. To ask a ball player to work on a grass infield or outfield with leather cleats as his only means of reinforce- ment would be foolhardy. On a skin- ned dlamond it wouldn’t be so bad, but on a grass diamond such as many mi- nor and major league clubs now own it would simply be out of the question. Incidentally it would tend to greatly slow up the work of the men, as they wouldn’t take so many chances or be so certain on their feet. No Chance for Abolition of Spikes. I can’t see any chance in a thousand for the abolition of the spike. The steel chain in the shape of a triangle that was tried last year utterly failed to bring results. I do, however, think that the present spike can be so changed as to make it less dangerous and still just as valuable to the player. That the spikes used by players throughout the country are too long goes without saying. I have heard players complain and complain about this very feature, and not until near the close of the season, when the spike ‘had worn down considerably, did they really feel comfortable. Many players express the belief that spikes half the length of the present ones would be just as serviceable. Many claim that they always get bet- ter results out of the second year of a pair of shoes, especially the outfielders, who have little chance of being cut down. The rounding-of the corners on the spikes also ought to help consid- erably. It stands to reason that spikes about half the length of the present ones, with rounded corners, would be much less dangerous than the ones now used. Should Runners Slide Head First? It has been suggested that base run- mers be only allowed to slide head first to eliminate the danger of spiking. This suggestion has some redeeming fea- tures as well as quite a few bad ones. If players were compelled to slide head first, the advantage would be as great- ly in favor of the baseman as it is now in_favor of the base runner. Realizing that there was little chance of his being infured by a head first slide, the baseman would invari- ably blook off the base runner. While the possibility of injury to the man playing the bag would be slight, ft would be rather dangerous to the run- ner. Twisted necks and broken and cut fingers and arms would not be un- common. Then again there are few men who slide head first, most of them prefer- ring the feet first slide, as they con- tend it is the more natural way. If the feet first slide was enforced It would necessitate the changing of their style by many players, and as a result one of the brightest features the 8po; base running, would be” com- pelled to suffer. INJURIES IN OPEN PLAY. Eckersall Would Have More Proteo- tion for Forward Pass. If any changes are made in the football code, says Walter Eckersall, the western star, the committes would do well to revert as much as possible to the old game. When this game was in vogue the players, as now, were hurt serfously in the open, and few serious accidents happened in the mid- dle of the line, when the linesmen and backs were taught correct methods of protecting themselves. In the days of mass play and line plunges, the man with the ball did not have an opportunity to gather his speed and when he hit the line he did not have the drive or momentum of a player with a ten or fifteen yard start, Injuries received in this style of play were caused by carelessness on the part of some of the men, who allowed themselves to be caught under a mass with their legs caught under them or in cramped positions. Old gladiators like Heffelfinger, Glass, Hare or De- Witt, who stood the brunt of many a hard attack, seldom were hurt be- cause they never allowed themselves to be so caught. Make More Forward Paeses. If modifications are to be made, one of the best ways to prevent injuries is to take off some of the restrictions from the forward pass. As the play is used now, the man who receives a forward pass in the open is rarely protected, and this is due to the re- striction on the play. Any player who is body checked in the open, when he is in the act of receiving a pass, and when he has no chance to pro- tect himself, is sure to be hurt. It is hard enough for a player to get out in the open. let alene providing an inter- ference fo protect him. If every man on a team were eligl- ble to receive a throw, then a megps of protecting the pass could be devised and one of the dangerous elements of the game would be eliminated. ~To make every man on the team eligible to receive the pass it would be neces sary to abolish the rule that the 1 must be passed five yards either side of the center. Penalty Should Be Abolished. In order to secure a more frequent use of the pass under such conditions it would be a good thing to take off the penalty for an incomplete throw— that is, eliminate the fifteen yard pen- alty, but let the down advance, and, if the throw was incomplete on the third attempt, the ball to go to the oppon- ents on the spot where the throw was made, just as it is mow, This would encourage forward pass- ing and probably make more of attempts successful. It would also do away with penalizing teams, which is one of the tglcre-ble features of the present game. It is a certainty that g}-D""’.‘, st Exact Copy of Wrapper. For Over Thirty Years GASTORIA protect the receiver of forward passes and making eligible the linesmen, who are less susceptible to injury than a light bac kor end, fewer injyries would result. Many injuries have resulted from laxity of officials in enforcing penal- ties for unnecessary roughness, piling on and tackling out of beunds. This sort of playing, entirely uncalled for, can be checked readily if the officials would enforce penalties for such in- fringements. A runner tackled when any part.of the body except his han and feet touch the ground is “down, and there is no need for piling on or crawling. BIG POLANDER COULD WRESTLE FOR HOURS. Has All Others Outclassed in Brute Strength—Doc Roller Will Have to Get“Him Early. Unfortunately Zbyszko, the giant Pole, who defeated Raoul de Rouen the other night, has not had a chance as yet to show a Kansas City audi- ence what he can do on the mat, if he really possesses the knowledge of the game he is given credit for, especially by his hard working press agents, in? cluding Manager Jack Herman, But the foreign grappler is going to have a chance to exhibit his power when he ‘meets Roller here in the near future, says the Kansas City News. If Zbyszko defeats Roller he will have to stay on the defensive until he tires the Seattle physician out and then go after him. It is plain for any spectator to see that Zbyszko’s greatest asset is his staying quality and strength. If he did not have legs like pillars and arms and neck that are stronger than most any wrestler in the world,he would lose to several men, including Roller, Gotch and Ordeman, But Zbyszko outclasses most every athlete in the world when it comes to strength and ability to wrestle for hours at a time. He be- lieves he will beat Gotch by wearing the Jowa farmer out. It may be possi- ble for him to do this. He will have to beat Roller in the same way unless Roller happens to be unlucky enough to fall into a dangerous hold unexpect- ly. Roller is as quick as a flash and is about as scientific as Gotch. He knows all of Gotch's holds, although not as experienced in the game as the cham- pion. He will keep Zbyszko busy for| a time at least bi trying all the holds he has learned through working with the champion. Roller will probably keep Zbyszko on the defensive for the first twenty minutes. On the other hand the Polish athlete is so powerful that he can pick Roller up and walk away with him most any time. Roller cannot hold Zbyszko on the mat If the Pole wishes to get up. In his bout with De Rouen this grap- pler lifted the Frenchman two feet off the mat with his neck alone, and De Rouen is much larger in every way than Roller. For this reason Roller must win the bout in the first forty- five minutes® work if at all. There are but one or two holds which Roller can use effectively. One is a crotch and half Nelson, and Zbyszko is probably too powerful to go down with that, and another is the toe hold, which Roller may not be able to apply because of the Pole’s strength. GET RID OF CLINCHING. English Authority Says This Spo Modern Boxing — Advocates Referees. The London Sporting Life in a re- cent article discussing the question of two referees in the ring has this to ‘Were the question, ‘What is the main fault of modern boxing? put to those most interested in the welfare of the game, the answer would em- phatically and unanimously be ‘Clinch- ing, of course!’ And few would be found bold enough to dispute the sweeping assertion. None with any knowledge of the game cam deny that nowadays clinching and holding have not only become a nuisance but a curse, When two meh meet in which is by courtesy called a boxing contest they devote at least one minute out of every three to mauling, hauling and pulling each other about, and more often than not the referec has to ad- monish them at least twice ere they will condescend to break away and get to business. “The situation is really Gilbertian, for the reason that the Queensbury rules—which were, by the v, com- piled by a gentleman named Chambers, and not, as is generaily thought, by the late Marquis of Queensbury—specially provide that there shall be no ‘hugging or holding’ By the strict letter of the “HERE’S YOUR Dame Fortune is lkely Queensberry rules & man who holds or clinches is by that act disqualified. But were the Queensberry rules strictly enforced, few If any contests wi now_get beyond the first round. Blame Yankee Boxers. “Now, how it is that clinching has become so prevalent during years? Well, it Is safe to say that the American style of boxing is almost wholly responsible. Men who are of the school of Jem Mace—men, that is, who use stralght in-and-out arm work, rarely, if ever, need to clinch, for the simpie reason that a man who punches straight will rarely if ever overreach himself. In the days when the Queens- berry rules were made men regarded & clinch as quite an abnormal state of affairs. Ask J. H. Douglas of the N tional Sporting Life whether clinch were things of frequent occurrence at Lillie Bridge and hear what he says. But with the advent of John L. Sulli- van, who first adopted the swing as his ‘long suit,’ and owing to his wonderful success, almost every boxer has since thought it incumbent upon him to em- ploy similar methods. The result has been—clinching. “It {8 is—or should be—pretty obvi- ous that a man who uses swing blows has little or no control over his own movements. He will, for the sake of argument, start a right hand_ swin from low down by his hip. Now, f that punch lands, it is more than lla- ble to put his opponent to sleep. But, supposing it does not land, and in the case of men llke Mace, Jackson, Plim- mer, Griffo and Corbett the odds against its landing are almost Incale: lable, what happens? Why, the swinger, finding that he has missed his objective point, grabs at somee thing in order to retain his balance. That ‘something’ is, of course, some portion of his antagonist’s anatomy. Having got a hold he is naturally not going to let go until he can see him~ self out of danger, with the result that he bangs on until he can clutch his opponent’s arms and prevent hi doing any damage on the ‘breakaway. It is obvious, therefore, that so long as swinging blows are allowed boxin contests must suffer from an abnorm: amount of clinching. Clinching Hurts Game. “The question now arises: Fow is linching’ to be done away with, or, at any rate, rendered less frequent? The obvious answ of course: ‘Strictly enforce the Queensberry rules.’ But, then, as we have already pointed out, a striet enforcement of the rules would prevent a vast majority of the con- tests from being brought to a conelu- sion, with the result that spectators would- grumble consumedly and ‘gate money’ would become a thing of the past. The American system is excel- lent In its way, but look at the terri- ble mistakes that have been made by men refereeing in this fashion. It is a physical impossibility for a man who is dodging the boxers one moment and tearing them apart the next to keep track of the points. Unless one ma has a painfully obvious advantage it is a mere tossup under these ecircum- stances whether the referee gives the decision to the better man or not. Advocates Two Referees. “Years ago a suggestion was made which was copled Into nearly al the leading American papers and was uni- versally commended, though, to the best of our belief, never acted upon. The suggestion was simply this: That there should be two referees to every contest, one within the ring and one out. The sole duty of the man in the ring would eb to break the men apart and insure a clean fight. The duty of the man outside the ring would be to score the points and decide any knotty problem which might arise. The man in the ring would have absolutely no voice in rendering the decision, which would devolve upon the referee outside the ropes, whose sole duty it would be to find the winner, and whose attention would not, therefore, be distracted by the necessity of constantly adjuring the men to ‘Break away, there!"™ No More Marathoning. Holding that the long grinds are too much of a strain and injurious to the runners, the athletic committee and directors of the Illinois Athletic elub have pronounced the doom of the an- nual Marathon of tifat body and for- mal action to this effect is scheduled for the January meeting of the offi- cials. This movement means the end of long distance running for the Illi- nois Athletic club, and the discourtge- ment of any such feats in its mem-~ bership. Bxing has become so popular In Paris that it is the subject of lectures at the most exclusive halls and the- aters In the city. CHANCE” to say that any day to the man with a good bank account. 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