The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 5, 1910, Page 2

A EERE SON = | » MARCH 5, 1910. THE STAR--SATURDAY raroo rset | DS THE WORLD OF SPORT | Au@ see I1°S HERE, 1T HAPPENED ‘an fe eee NO NOTHING THAT The Simple Life for John SOME RUNNERS OF 30 VES TOMMY BURNS TO FIGHT LANGFORD Within the past week the jhaw brought me a number of . quirles from Beattle »port f \ odin as to long distance running F |formances, past and present. Or Bee | correspondent asks In it not o« if ——— that Marathon runners A lack the stamina and ap |men who were kn 20 years ago? | claim t |the ease, and believe t that the 26-mile r | 1894 until the other day, whe Meadows beat it w York |my argument, | have a bet on t Former Champion Decides to Re-enter Ring and Will Probably Fight “Beggar Sam’ in London at Catch Weights May 24. wn to x the ‘ord stood f and would like to hear from | pugilistic champton, is going to re lenter the ring. His first fight will be with Sam Langford before’ the| | National Sporting club of London, sccording to the statement today | | This, and other queries along th same lines, led me to dive rath | deeply into the dope, and while u |records speak for themselves, it seomea to be a matter of individual opinion ae to whether or not ners of the past were better than St. Yves, Marsh, Dorando an others of present day fame SOME GREAT PERFORMANCES Thero re not wanting athictes of the old schedh the Marathon runners of the present day do not grit and balldog tenacity that characterized the long of 20 to 30 years ago, This conte 1 would seem. extent when erence te made to the “Bests on Record” at from 20 miles up to 100, made by both curs and. the "60s and ‘00s, At that period good runners who could miles or more at nearly nine mile hour were “ ous; at the present day it would be difficult to pick from the world’s greatest distance tae who could keep dcha 1b. Out a ee i ih ie at all for the full journey. As some of the existing amatea match with the winner of the Mo john wuitivan's wife, to whem he was ma a few 0, hae present veteran with # an, Genes 09 fexsional records from 36 miles upward will doubtless | Vey Jeannette Tight. farm, and upon hie return trom Ireland, John L. and hie bride their home in the suburba—N. amie cae wis eon} [Bets anxious to attain long-distance celebrity im ‘ae phercye, He said this afternoon that the! '*™ is given below, with the miles, name, year and thne: London offer was so much better > 36—J, A. Squires, 1885, than the opportunity afforded in 40-—-G. A. Dunning, 1879, (ty Valted Press.) |the French capital, that he will 60—J. B. Dixon, 1886, 6.18.2 LOS ANGELES, March 5.--Tom | abandon his ‘plan for an invasion | 100-—J, Saunders, 1882, 17.36.14 my Burns, erstwhile heavyweight | of France PROFESSIONALS. 20--G. Mason, 1881, 2.15.9 40—J, Barley, 1881, 4.24.27 50—G. Cartwright, 1887, 6.65.4 1-2 100--C, Rowell, 1882, 13.26.30. ROWELL A REAL STAR, i Charles Rowell, the last named in the foregoing wil prime undoubtedly the finest long distance runner ne of Joe Woodman, Langford’s man ager } | Woodman says that he has a }tempting offer from the National] jelub to pit bis “tar baby” against Burns. The former champion, he | sald, already has signified hin wilt lingness to fight Langford, The of }fer came tn a cablegram from Lon don’ today According to the proposition of |fered by the Londoners, the men| lwill fight at catch weights on} Derby day, May 24 They | travel over a 20-round route, Wood jman bas been planning to take |Langtord to Paris to try for « Fc nomen Name a ne A a en eo en Boxing Makes Real Men But Prize naan Fighting Develops Some Rowdies BY TIP WRIGHT. leary of to thetr liking Boneh tn- fmowt shit example just now of It's too bad a great aport Hike box eens omar get th . —s ar- | the an ot ; ing in bad. He's sme i mn i s rested for diaarderly conduct. figure jeverything, from getting sloughed jin should be foulty murdered by & in divorce courte, and altogether act | for speeding his eas wagon to slug jlot of chumps, (Chumpe standing /in a manner which would be suf-jging a brother who wanted him to |for stronger language which the | fictent to turn another man’s friends |drink beer instead of bubbles, Men sume names. in many atte . ag (from hire in dingust like Johnson ought to be suppressed the case of Jim Flynn. postal regulations forbid.) 1 knew | di ie oe eee doing. a dot of uaht to of the champions have §\ an old gambler, now departed, whose yan 4 vetati «te aiking sbout the retatite merits of | On the other hand Jim Jeffries hax boar og under ow own pean Se mines ber, a favorite expression was, “There's # Jim Jeffries and Jack Johieon. As |never, to my knowledge, indulged in jack Dempecy, Tommy Ryan, Staniey Kei and Tommy sucker born every minute—and some a matter of fact, deep dows in our jegraceful do JAPANEGE DASEBALLS BCARE MANUFACTURERS (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, March 6.- Sporting goods firme today are preparing to fight Japanese competition in the manufacture of bamebe tin While t of them are tn favor of ¢ tariff revision jownward ” most any old thing, the American manufac turer of the baseball is praying fur tariff revision upward on the leather sphere It is claimed that the Japan- ». Last summer he died at Cambridge, England ab r having made a fortune of $100,000 in prize money du | ning career, only to lose ft In speculation on the tent At the time Edward Payson Weston was bringing Here are the names, real and assumed, nationality and age of f them never dia” And if ever an |hearte w one ke baseballs * | pode ’ ‘ working ae thous oi ’ 1» all love the old fleht thing. | in Se tae. -dee ere are able to make bas | pedestrianiam Into popular favor, Rowell was “ prominent fighters whe are boxing under a nom de plume: eston fitted @ situation, this |S@ame won't adsit it Upldly, bat |onenees would have |® and sell them for 9 cents © ®/ship yard at Cambridge, Fired with a spirit ot eniaal Rest Fighter's pee, Nationatity. Age. when appite? to the game of { man will deny to himaelf ¢ beon heralded broadcant Cor fonen on the Pactfic coast be | success, Rowell left the yard to take up his career aga i Stanley Ketchel Polish ‘ «in as played tn this country admires the man whe cap fight! |bett, for a time, after he won the wuse of the cheapness of labor */) which he was afterwards to attain both fame and in Japan The American manufacturers olaim that the horsebid vers alone cost them © conte « It is prabable that oon ver could understand why, Just natural [t's our heritage, hand. | title, seamed to think @ life whi because a man happened to beabictojed down from the age when our | touched only the high spots was ex beat every other man to a whisper, |forboars bounced stones ates bff each |pected of him. But he soon put that he was privileged to go about with- | other's sconces over a diffetence of behind him, and today ia apparently out « keeper, acting the rowdy and | op p phe of Our me Phila. Jack O'Brien tereh dim Flynn Andrew Chiariglion | Italian Huge Kelly Ugo Micheli ttalian Freddie Weish Fred Thomas Welsh Dick Hyland William Uren American attracted the notice of the late Sir John Astley and Mr, jencouraged and assisted by them, he came to this country, | made some astounding records, nearly all of avbhieh stil | be mentioned that previous to his departure for Ameries men Leach Cross Dr. Lowis Wallach Hebrew damf in general nil atte Battling Nelson another wh action will be taken # | habit of running from Cambridge up to London, about Young Erne Hugo Clavin trigh Ther he earthly reason why a/ But while we may dete on the! has evaded making an exhibition of & resolution in * | sult Sir John Astiey on business, one day, and running Tony Rose Antonio Rossilano ... italian man w veer his fists, brain and | game itectf, we do not have to let the himeelf. But these and a few others Representative * \accomplishing the distance in seven hours or lem the physique God gave him, tn the belfry bate get the best of us ring, cannot act the gentleman as| the fightors are concerned. V comfortably os the man who parte have to encourage Uoentl hia name in the middle, drunkenness, rowdyter Harry Lewis Henry Besterman Sailor Burke ....... Charles Prasser Tommy Burns Noah Bruseo Tommy Ryan ...... Joseph Youngs are the e¢xeep Wine, women and song and a trail of golden may have boon re Geised as au fait at one time, but ne | Rowell’s best performances were in the sit days competitions, and moxt of his greatest triamphs were 1879 and 1883 at Madison Square garden | he defeated the famous Corkey in a asix-d errr rr etree tte eee tee et ee te es VRENSKeeVess i a A i i ee i ee i HSCS SSeS eee ee ee eee eee ee Jack Dempsey John Kelley § { adj [other tems for which » ent people abhor it Boxing is Hamilton college in to have alurr », Young Corbett William Rothwell American | a with the mighty F are noted all right, and we're for it, But the ia aching in football, and Wiliam | @Hes. S40 yards, in 12 hours, gnd 156 mi L cent of the champions we| I don't include all fighters in this tough boxers themselves—heraus mit| Moore, “0s. will be the first hend | February, 1882 have had have found It « her neoes- | clans Jack Johnson ane MA TCHED T ¥ ids d es hhadd wake a On one occasion some of the backers of his MORAN oO \2 * fi RTY TW food, with the result that he was beaten in the race ia a jengaged. He was associated with Charlie Mitchell, the ii FIGH ya M’CA R TH Y JAP MAY PLAY sie [nino trained Jake Kilrain for his fight, with Jem ries WONDERFUL LIFE f England, and Charlie Mitchel! for bis great fight with Jelmi ial CRE renee cma | time as Rowell were E. P. Weston, O'Leary, Corkey, Perkin | Brown and G. Littlewood, who on December 8, 1888, | te jord sixday go-as-fouplease contest, having covered I | yards, at New York P (By United Press.) BOSTON, Maas, Mareb 6 of Masude, left fielder, may brace the Harvard versity baseball roster this English Fighter Will Take on Tough Young Cali- siong behind the plow, he saw epoiled in a short time But the vistona in which he was playing things my mother taught me kept ete t eee eee —— fornia Lightweight This wom, according to predi ( < a ses baseball in a regular ball me straight. | never touched liquor LESS INTEREST NOW. , tenn tiade Soaen’ te the A 4 ~ mult, with a big crowd - or tobssco in my life. | never ’ 4 A Month. hos ah ts: eotaee ‘one ~> nee Had « sprite dropped Idodged temptations; in fact, | ex With this dope to figure from, it would seem that ir the tired and footeore iit posed myself to them. When the) today are 3 » just as good, and perhaps better, than the whone shoulders rested tnost of the |boys went out they asked me to go Marathe tance, by ther farm's burdens, bis father being jalong, knowing | would care for|haye held. r+ yap ci ix tng foe a dead, and sald to him, “Cheer up, [them when the t inte difficulty. | te dae tase ae San ek tae at el tee - tt at thin tim, | falling off in class and stamina, is that there is very basehall ground your own right |my bright ft wid have beer | 1008 distance racing today, as compared to a quarter mm this bit of ground are plow. | ———$—$—— = — -_ = a. ing.” Jimmy would have tmagined it a wild dream. Yet this very thing came t Jim O'Rourke's first real baseball engagement was with the Unions, or Ironsides, af Bridgeport, with whom he plinayed Baturday afternoons it was in 1868, when Jimmy, then 16. joined the Onceolas Stratford Masudo is # Japanese. Ho came to Harvard with a reputation as a fly catcher. Since base work began in the gym ages he has astonished the mechos by his ability to straighten out the curves of the leading pitching asptrante He is mid to cover much ground in the outfield, and to : (By United Press) BAN FRANCISCO, March 5. Owen Moran is matched to fight Tommy McCarthy of San Francisco at some date in April in this etty The weight ts to be 138 pounds at 7 the evening Gate is left indefinite because Moran may fight this month r cartier In Apri! @ 16-round go with Matty Baldwin at Kansas Clty Griffin of the Broadway club has the April permit. d the fight wt probably be before his ci =" Kj have an unusually good arm. ee ee ee ed tee teteeeee i i i i i a Mee ed McCarthy is « tough y brick ye qnans wat ke tee re in math! faareviek “4 ir oy, ae The players knew wher a but not 98 oe * — CUNO UIS CIO | | ¢ of Stratford's wealth : oe ae bea | 10 of Bi wd's wealthy ume It require - to m ards ap hich allows | BROADWAY FIVE men. wt ed with, the 3 tae ae coe ea 4 LOSES AGAIN OWEN MORAN { Oeceolas would the " : hides So ae | be. g and take Jim to wrour } x ve aa th bent bet | | SY TIP WRIGHT Mee so oo the Ry i na for wore | Baseball most he a pretty good and president of th | 1 game naman like James H eague, was a t r of . tn son / |O'Rourke, after playing it for 43 ina amd the tw j 4 t ar | illest # neccutive years, says ifolong friends ’ fter K aver Raoul de Rouen, “Fighting | ani heaithy tat there in 4 ——— « t 5 p oppontte rt ia made, iver pe of landing , . » jute of my f aid YRours an the t r of eo SA } t th pa. Frenchman,” Disquali-|iingiy jive Seer , bail pla of nlston cna oe from the | Increase Distance, ‘ Those veare of benet " “ . her trole a 1 bd * ts The second threesraelt Quinn, the 1 rotthe| fied at Denver Last ¢ the wort fa ote Win toate, ike paid Ji ' speed to thretsl H ; (My United Prews : [Blow. The kids come: ¢ fim O'Rourk , third rere : : F n-eighttn apeet , a J . king ‘ twice # day, ali « , ° eo fue ; ss Kn those you ae SHORT SP) R T ) t Bo im a 7 limon del I Hurdlere Jump Teo Higt aking. 1 ae J KO # ' é j ‘They called me ‘Harry Wr . 1 nee twlee dal ee | . ay (iar " me to live with his family, and, had i the} jumping all os | been spoilable, | would have been t . t tr hn day; spring ‘ he hurdle ace wa from three ‘ards with yr gai tty a foul tsvion in ee "| BASKETBALL MEN 2**************s/ WASHINGTON MEN when eo «nak ame foe ia De folees masticating fw fNoveL werting = | S| DISCREDIT CHARGES ; ' fony as eI in PLAN IN INDIA # i BASKETBALL IS | * ‘ ae | fe am ul BEING DROPPED], Usiversiry or 4 : : ' ping Jat emma ne PK 1 Hee BEES PEST A A: | ACE ED , : ' ion egy tg * “ K k Ye: The SPORTS CORNED | epee aE (aie Seas SPORTS NID [aii see ilies Soe for {ico apap : ee er ee ee : ' Is rut * a Eadie D t " + pa bg ee ee es “ 49 t Ventern title | Cook, Keolor, Rabel and St, J ABE ATT s nabbed 42 prinoner Trintdad, Colo. full 1 Ps wore OBe tve year AT ALBUQUERQUE)S peut rr., Thott wom, eae TOG $10 EVERY Jy aus ‘ shy Auroh 5. fr hat ee # tery agree Spy ageeg