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Wa STORIES OF SPORTS TOLD BY EXPERTS > ace _THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, ww TAD JONES , C YALE) LIAKING HIS 50 ¥D.. FOUN AGAINST PRINRETON. » JNDERTAKER CALLED ___ TWICE FOR WALTHOUR [gtan. ‘The pace-maker rode An- the hospital for, ridden before a million of spectators and crowded the other mders. @uring his season abroad: and the fur |¢lals Wouldnit pay ‘any: attention to the Sher information that in Germany, a/ Protest and the foreign riders didn't forowd of 35,00 is not extradrdinary | form fo care, They are absolutely carey fwontd tend to belle the impression that | ‘ ah iig ext Face ct 5 erest cycling is dead. maker rode too close to somebody and} iotatert eed "had completed ar-| thtew hun. Five men went down urd u tr named ‘om, standing ut the; Fangements for riding in the six-tay | ¢ ne rack, waa Killed, sel Face he dropped into the Evening World! ‘‘At Spandou, Peh a pacemaker a Mea clad in a long gray overcoat and|® man crossing the track and killed bred weet. ‘There were other things, (Mm. When I fell T was latd out cold. - but thede were the most prominent. | P any one the people who visited me there. other: fall me jn HE appearance of Bobby Walthour in New York with a bank roll of none race I protested against 2 too | ‘The offi | dered the attendants to throw @ blanket over me to bide the ‘carpse’ from the Spectators, My wife for her w: In and_told them to take the blanket off 80 could breathe. The doctor said ‘Oh, he doesn't need to breathe. He's all through with that. You go home is 2 4 and Ww attend to burying him.’ Hut! players in the country, fmariced. 2 she insisted and they pulled the blanke:; On gen. # UMPretty mood for @ man who his been jaway frommy face Ree Sy a “T guess hat save fe, hey Ey pronounced dead twice within a year.’ | oo nts a hospital. The same 'his % Feplied Walthour. Tenpened on anor! occasion. The doctors looked me over and or- ICKING an (Walthour looked as cheerful as a man. maturally might look whose income| from bloyole racing during the past ten | Years has amounted to nbout $150,000, } ‘You fook in pretty good shape,’ I re- the pix ‘Robert. Edgren. iron Stars of the Year and Tells Why. All- American team with impartial fairness ts no easy task. in fact it 1s impossible for ¢ man to nee all of the wamer played or to keep close track of all the | team cun be picked from the best of} nilege teams {n the East. Mich: They. igan poobably represents the best In the} STARS OF GRIDIRON BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK ah NOVEMBER LMMARING HIS GREAT Ss 80, SELECTED BY — ( 7@Corucre (PRINCETON ) FULL BACK 30 TRAIGHT-THROUGH 1907. : “ ry ,|UP TO DATE, NEWSyY! | AND WELL WRITTEN ROBERT EDGREN Se YARD FLUNGE YALE'S CENTRE . Chooses the Grid- HERE is Pullen, of Weat Puint, whom I have selected for one of the All-American tackles. It is true that Pullen is out of the game now at the end of the season. But he {played until disabled, and his work was brillant ss a flash of lightning on a durk night. °No one who saw. Pullen in the des- Perate-no-score-gaie between Yale and West Point can'torget that’ red head of |his, bobbing up and down wherever e fighting was fiercest, moving ri K While shattered ranks of Hive fors broke before tim: Hen seemed to pla whole |wame himself. It was Pullen, you mixht lnay, who carried the Yale team on his jshoulders and held it back from the Soldiers’ goal Une. Pullen stands six feet and an inch In height. He welghs 1S pounds. He tx all made up of steel wire and nervy {or electricity. He 1s a good example af the fact thet a man wyo excels {n ath- |lettc sports ts necessarily a good man I around, for he always stands among he firet five men in his class, Pullen was the first cadet appointed from Alaska. He played three years at sally selected’ an All-American end and tackle. Under the that coach, he became a star of magnitude. the first ISTER, of Princeton, was unlyer- ‘ In snares to my ea es Abra Slacovered signa of Ii zand: axain tole stiuate Weal, and on the (pacine Cosel) sally) selected’ ag, "All American prise he went-on; “Yes, twice In-Ger-|!mr to the hospita . pnt iey have fallen to the le bye end last year. Wister {s one of. came to, they were gone to give me STAM HOE GHDINEAM Ge! [ Mnany they threw a Dlanket over mo to chloroform before newine up the ents | ind Ore AO URN Wh ne vanias cannot | the swittest enda in the gaine, He Is feover the corpse.’ Those German tracks )in my head. I yelled and mv wife caméy clans either wx a team or individually | a wonder at getting down the feld. th® most dangerous In the world, Ijin. They did the sewing without chloro-| Win the Eastern stare, which leaves! Quick as a cat, he ia a hard man I guess chloroform would have Killel me In that condition tThey nay good money In Germany | land the eame draws great cro t *tn the five races I rode in Germany. LpBeriin they mn phere BK 00) pee ata 1 Pfell in/four races out-of the five, Once |aian, with two delava for chinsine PX was gent to the hospital for five days jieoken wheels At Berlin T rode 84 went to sD n eae & ‘and a queer thing about that fall, is | kilos, about mites one cement trp ok ‘that I can't remember anything about it|{n an hour | aint Tm going beck in| @r shout being in a hospital or about! Yvan weoks.” m i Will never ride on them again. They are | forming mo. fll of cement. Two men were killed | outright and several more badly Injured {tt playing alon, And this year all the Atlantic slope. of the big ly what might “anap,"’ ances stand out so strongly in eld to the teams that have been teams developed so many great players even a selection made so near home be termed But after seeing the big games playec theresare certain men whose -perform- memory that they cannot be overlooked stop, end es a tackler he has no su- |perlor. He ia the surest of all ends at andiing the forward pass. HHOMPSON, the huge Cornell guard, looms up like a landmark wherever he plays. For all of hia alze he is fast, Hin 241 pounds of Nghting welght givea him a great ad- yantage over men In the Opposing Mnes for he the IN BETT | Rtead-of Moir ruling favorite. Tur ~ AURNS F ae ts Vnow the tnost fancied, odds of 6 to poe silent ane: Evening “Wankees Abroad Have Piles) eine orered that ne receives tho de-| Wong ocduy received the following é cision, ‘Thousands of dollars have al-| partegcam trot Tommy Burnat of Money to Bet on the teady been wagerod on resu “Infernal Me about me ‘kuock- i —\tha febt, and It tx expected that bY | sno) Jemries. Feeling flne and “American Champion. $50,000 will be posted on the outcome. the time the men enter the tink close tol one to win. Will wear American | fag and do.my best to defend tt." and carries no fat. The way T sets on his toes and rips through every Cornell play, Thompson has played three years at tornell. “He played four years a « and when he entered col Tivieh AOUght after by c {natitutions of foothall_and. Jearoing It ik a curious thing that many or me Dest players th_thecountr ike -T von, have light hair and light blue eyes, HERE !s Burr, or instance, of Harvard, the other guard. Burr out he has the same and Nght eyes. Ught ‘blue eyes Sharyshooters' eyes, | The battle has aroused considerable | Interest among the sporting men and) ye 51 others in England, and at present noth-| nine [Ing else in being diycumsed at the ho-| § te bx and cates over there but th ghampion of this country, wilt ei Danny Maher, the Amert-an | (i ting favorite in-thé bot- | Jockey, Intends to bet heavily on)‘ tog she icine, Burna’a chanesy, and, It js paid that | ° Mitchie} also’ expecta to have ja swell bet down on Burns, Record Price Asked for Tickets. Hesite te behind wate Only BY JOHN POLLOCK. 4 behind To BURNS, the heavy-welght ay th walle the $20.0 each, co) fight Sing over “Gunner” Moir, the Eng)ish shampion, for their great twenty-roi bate before the National Sporting ‘Club, of London, on Monday night for} of» certal: etting very %. ‘The prices of the tickets for the fisht ‘are fi the heavy-welght championship of the thy jargeat ever asked for & fistic battle rh Reetyl World. Bo anxious are the Americans | si: Hiem waa frat Introduced. In | H8, Hance, If Solr had com to Americe t now.in England to bet on Burns’ country tickets for a big OnSMID | Would e surely offered the men & puree tle coat from $5 up to £35, fight the generi 3 for baseball EXTWEEN the flare of the life of alt to make donlface and the limelight of a t has: f to tell of h maf league ballplayor, Billy Gil-' Apart alana $15,000, of tle have given battle to-night Another International ill ht In this couttry ‘off In the milladelpuia, ‘aid in It are Johany Engilsh boxer, and Quaker city “pus the flehters whi ‘Summer Willie tat, cla clover hey would Joni bu bert a undecided. The former second {in Pitishurs « + Pasaman of ‘the Gtanta made much a/jliPred the batting Fesord st Trenton that the St. Loul if CewaAy eClub put tn a dratt for him, and Gilperi | wuthering, next Row has the opportunity of retur “to fagt company to vindicate his ability we mmking money out of the Mo! There wes ti polltan Cafe, which he and Arthur Liy-) PMO, 8h, i ingMo; are running at Columbus aye |ers. ma, i ve and Sixty-f¢th street. | busebal ‘The rall of the diamoyd is very strong | with Guibert, bul ke attractivencas ts | ' ‘ofteet by the opportunity to make mr. Amengy OUR Uf his cafe, At present st ]7 $ a t Jooke av iecGlibert, hes inado up. dls naire i ind to quit the diamdnd for all imo come. % Baker, who Harry the Raye tw round abut ance to { magnates at held at Gilbert place | i ak dinner. ponular Danitamwelgnt, Cullen hae n Philadel phi © Quaker City boxers’ in qulek t Little Fellows to Battle. Johnny Chicago weight, ke tw the Coulon, in the this fighting for about never folRnt (a good wiright at the. ringside, Murgny. of this elty, Dolton, “Hli., ch Dee: legitimate unde 1 box sents and the next them will cow these member: Uewls Will be allowed to witnes: Fighters Will Get Little Money. Kreat {mportance the for a auaranteed £10,000 and probably would Summers to Fight Again To-Night’ Tt will of the National. A They will box six clover Calffornia Champion Abe will meet Babe erent: been'é boxing having beaten | jm. bantant: | who his father ts trying te make 4 105. country although iw, yo wht for ten 9 The: 100 pounds weigh in at @-P. a | they say at Harvard. Burr does most of the kicking for the Crimson. Occa- sionally he punts as far as sixty-five yards, and he drops the ball on the Aowired spot an accurately as a gunnel drops a whe)! from a siee gun. Left End—Wister, of Princeton. helght and wetgha 172 pound Lett Tackle-Pullen, of West 10! Linch In helgtit and weighs 133 poun be height and welgsn« 241 pounds, Centre—Grant of Harvyanl In height and welghs 173 pounds. Right Guard—Burr, of Harvard. in height and weighs 14 pounds, Right Tackie—Biglow, of Yale. néght and welghs 189 pounds. inchew in he Quarter-Back—Tad Jones, of Yale. id welghs 174 pounds, Left Halfback—Hurlan, of Prince! {n helght and walghs #5 pounds. ¥ullback—Mo ‘mick, of Princeto: ~The average helght of thix teany In “Tie avevage welght tx 185.8 poun the expert, principles, the American|coaching of Cutts. the fain Harvard ja as hard as nally all the Ume| miny | or thing In the way is a feature of the! ING OVER MOIR! fa’ lese stocky than ‘Thompson, | Statistics of Players‘ ° on Robert Edgren’s Cho tor All-American Team. Left Guard—rhompson, of Corey. Ia twenty-four yeam_old, @ feet in Is twenty-three yenrs old, ¢ Is twenty-three years old, 6 feet 1-inct Right End--Exendine, of Carliale. Is twenty-five years, ht and weighs 185 pounds. & Inohes in height oud weighs 158 pounds. Right Halfback—MoCallie, of Corn inch in hetght- and weighs 185 pounds. The avemge age is twenty-twp yeura and four months, THE TEAM. Left End—Wister, Princeton. | Left Tackle—Pullen, Wes: Point. Left Guard—Thompson, Cornell, |Centre—Grant, Harvard, — Right Guard—Burr, Harvard. Right Tackle—Bigelow, Yale. |Right End—Exendine, Carlisle. Left Half—Harlan, Princeton: ALL-AMERICAN FOOTBALL ELEVEN OF 1907 eS M YCORMICK, of Princeton, te en- titled ¢o the -honor of being All-American fullback. He is fay. When he starts a pack of wolves couldn't pull him down. Coy te Mc- ‘ormick's closest rival for the position. a work in bovhthe Princeton and Harvard games was brilliant. But or steady, all-around play tbe Tixer “ptain ta hard to beat. It was his farioys plunging that ripped Yale'a ne Ince he went sti entre and dragged half « dozen tack- ers along for thirty yards before they ould stop him, This {a the greatest ain on record this season for such a play, MoCormick graduates in Jone. Ha ‘Right Half—McCallie, Corel. | Fullback—McCormick, Princeton ' RANT, centre, wio plays that po- G sition on the Crimson team, {s far and away the best man in bis position on the gridiron this year. He \Js a tall, sinewy, light-hair Grant is as aure blue. and stands like for As | goals he ts as accurat a kicker of; a rifleman. | VE, right end, plays for Exendine 1s a Delaware Indian. If Wenlmore Cooper , | bad seen him he would have added | football to the accomplishments of hia| dusky heroes. “Exendine comes from Oklahoma. He ts twenty-five years of and weighs 1% pounds. He ts feet ten Inches in height, and | Xendine {x one of the most popular! ayers at Carlisle, He has been play-| ig for six years, For a) heavy man} he dx exceptionally fast. He always! Kix the game out to the Iast round | nd finishes strong, Carlisle boasts it ls Impossible for.any one to get-by Exendine o nend runs. AD JONES! of Yale, has extad- I ished a .falr “claim to quarter- back honors. Dillon, of Prince- , Tuns him close, Ditton's work ts| more brilliant, Uut Jones in steadier. | Jones ig a great allyaround player, He showed his generalsiip tn the Prince- ton game. Where Dillon ran his team 80 fast In the firet half that it couldn't ATG] had the Yale aggregation ronger all the time, and ed ory from what appeared defeat. With an over- he hammered Har-! and won wmifely with a i the touchdowns being the | each time of regular advances | i Hlarverd seemed unable—io head. Jones is a great man himself ax id-gatiner: He made a run ot yards -auwdnei—Hrewn-on—Nov--9; dupliontede-that~ performance} ine Princeton, Thia was one of the most brilliant runs I have. seen this season, There was an exchai Ae lof punts shortly before the kick-off in the=necond half —when score: stood Princeton, 10; Yale, 0, Jones got the ball and dashed through @ broken field, cluding the eager Tigers’ tacklera and reaching Princeton’: thirty-yard line befére Be was pulled down. Then Yale, er hy direction, be A steady nering that Princeton could not out against, and a few minutes the first toucluown came, 1 ! noid ‘inte Choice Is twenty-one years old, six feet in int. als, Is twenty-two years old, § feet Geet 10 Inche old, 6 feet 110 - n Ix twenty years old, 6 feet in height ton. Is swenty-one years old, 6 feet In twenty-three years old, 6 feet in. Is twenty-three years old, 6 feet }) 6 feet 115-8 Inches. ds, i {awkward angi | pounds lighter, Im twenty-two years ol, 6 feet 2 inches in tale an playing the game of football at Exeter, where he prepared for college. gCALLIE. of Cornell, is a ‘grand half. He first played on Chatts- \ nooga High School, then at Da- videon College. Last yeer, entering Cor- nell aa & sophomore, he ineligible for the ‘varsity, ‘but played on. the sophomore team.’ Hix firxt| appearance tor Cornell was in the Princeton’ game, and hie brillant work aldeq much in the Tiger defeat. Since that time he has been an ¢dol with the Cornell stu- dents. He takes an opentng like a p: tle dog diving Into tts hole. On the de- fenag bie wolght and bla atx feet of height make fim very erful, | He can run a fast hundred yards and ts a hard man to tackle on eccount of his speed. ‘0 football team in these days of Improved rules is complete with- out a man who can kck goals from the fleld. The best drop kicker in the country te Harlan, Princeton's famous halfback, Last year Harlan was the sensation of the seagon. Hi drop-kicked pals from all sorta of 41 tances and from every impossible a gle. Hin judgment te still 0d, a though he missed two or three ohances by a halr in the Yale game. Agalust | Amherst Harlan kcked a feld goal from the thirty-saven-yard line and from Yale feared Harlan‘s more than the whole weight of iceton Aghting line. F course no “All-American team’ O ever comes together, The All- American Js a: theory rather than & fact, But tf this lot ef pleyers could Prize Fighters, _Runners,-Ball Players Also Drop Weight While in Contest, ous sport in America is shown by the fact that in every hot came the average player enters he comes away leaving five pounds of hls weigit upon the field. Some olayers have pean known, to leave a fogtball gaine-tereiye Te football te the most. atrenu- Bear in mind that theese athletés are trained down to weight before they start, and then the fact that thoy r cover #o quickly from this withoring proceas becomes the more remarkable, Some’ trainers maintain that this loss of weight {s due to physical exertions, while ethers claim that It ts due to mehtal worry, In the Yale-Harverd game of a week ago exact figures were taken, and they. show that the Haryard team: lost sev- enty-four pounds -in welght, enough weight to make a good ‘Aa fitteen men played in the game, would mean that they lost, on an average, five pounds to the man. Not Limited to diridiron. Loss of weight t--physical content, hawever, isnot limited &o the. gridiron: Tho prige-Aghter’who works for two | months to get down to a certain welght will lose from three ¢o five pounds more in the contest, provises it goes as far As_six rounds. x ‘Die runner (ll lose about two pounds in a-race which goes further than 19 | yards, ‘The runner will lose about two pounds ‘The baseball player, with the excep- ton of the pitcher, does. not, aa a rule, Greatest line bucker in America tu- | > tatters in that memorable first half. | ht through the Yale | HARVARD TEAM xame gives him no mental worry. be organized and coached properiy !: | team work ft could make anyother combination of pigskin talent in the lund look like @ potato under a potato- | maahor, GCRAND (IRV ARD) CeATER: GREAT LAMPLIGHTER AUCTIONED FOR $100 peerless Ye Tambien, owned by Chris “5 te Smith and the greatest fily ifr her UCKED awry In an obscure corner in = sn eae at us leet foc of a sporting pag» on the na- ee apt tea ava ss LOllawed Eby, 1 line Hem to the effect that Lamplighter, elson owned dy Cheia, Bait + Fd #ad—ean the © winner of nearly $000,000 on the turf | [ifort -R9e. Pay and for which Pierre Lorillard pala the late Capt. S. 5. Brown $30,000, had beén sold in a Lexington, Ky., sale for 5100. This marvellous old son of Spend- thrift wae sold for &\Jees sum than the Jookey fee in many stake races the son of the great Spendthrtft had won. Lamplighter! Let’e eee. He was one of the iron horses of the turf_His turf record rune something Uke this'in the number of atarts and races won: 1891, 14-5; 1892, 18-10; 18, 18-9; 1864, 10-4) 1995, 8-1. In 66 starts he won 3, was second in 16 and third in 9, being mie- Placed In only 12. * ‘In 192 he won the Twin City Handl- eap, one and one-quarter miles, at Sheepshead bay, in 2.00 1+4, close to rec- . from BangJet atid aiontana. year, as a three-year-old and) pounds Uy Lamplighter was third to Montana (115) with Garrison up, and Major Domo (111) in the Suburban tun in Z0T 2-5, Poet Scout, Pessara (winner of the Metropolitan Handloap that Year) Looohatchee, Tournament, His Highiiees. (second to Peasara in the Metropolitan), Raceland, Russell and Picknicker composed the fleld. Lamp- Mghter, then run under the well-known colors of Brown & Rogers, waa two months later to Pierre Lorillard tor $30,000, It was not alone on the eastern turf that Lamplighter was ‘known: In Oo: tober, @ Was sent west and at Chiesgo, im October, was beaten by the LOST 75 POUNDS 1N GAME caused Lamplighter to lowe, the great Lamp! tor $100, M'GARRY LOSES TO WILLIE FITZ (Special to The Brening World.) BALTIMORE, Md, Nov. %.— After eleven rounds of deaperate fighting Wil- Me Fitzgerald, of Brooklyn, won from Amby MoGarry, of New York, lant night before the Eureka Athietlo Club, ‘The contest was scheduled to go Afteen rounds, but in the eleventh MoGerry, a badly-beaten man, was lying agednet the ropes unable to defentt himself, and Referve Kocep stopped the bout and wave Fitzgerald the decialon. It was Fitageraid’s fight Yrom the Sret cee of the bell. McGarry gave a great exhibition of ability to take pan! and gameneass, but he was no matoh the crafty Brooklyn boy, A right b to the jaw sent Garry down first rotund. In the fourth a right Jaw sent him to the canvas agaia. the sixth he was oorea stn An. eighth, a right-hand sent Amby down for the count of and jithe tenth he was knocked dows three cimes. € The, the just Seventy-tour and a halt Dichen,- hawickr, usually Tones — froth Daa : wo to four pomds,— + at the banat but the The welght-thrower, the jum thi pole-vaulter and that’ class-of athletes do not lose welght, because their ef. fort’ ta over very quickly and there |s no regular wear upon the muscles, Due to Worry, Says Flood, Val’ Flood, a trainer at Princeton, ex- Presses the opinion that the loss in weight of football players 1s due quite as much, if not more, to vheir mental condition as to thelr physical condition. He siya that men tose in many cases from five to ten—not more—pounds at the tlme of games, the loss, how- éver, coming as much before the gamo, ,on account of/worry, as during the ao- tual phyfaical gxertion. A highly strung nervous man, he says, will lose more than a man of phlegmatic temperament, Harvard Loet 74 Pounds. Gosh in nt tho! Tood for feur day HWfell. |-took-pretty mood-care-ot Ga AL the ing, paren not dat tem anything ‘trey, Wean'tcoucite hives and’ ‘that la tha reason they were @o glad to eve a change of food, “Win! Well, kuess"we had the thero. but we nin't «ot the fine points Of the came down. My boys were in As kood shane us. ever oven, an elerpn {n any contest. But they hed an a team against thetn—those Yale fellers, It's nothing nxainst Harvard to, beat by auch a crowd of fellorm’as tl boys. But the Harvard Jads tou E hoy aro a game lot. they are, very eller, that T ever gee play on) «Han yard eleven {s «ame, “iney' fought (till everyone of them. cou! it they hadn't soon have "The team that played againat Yi y ‘come lost seventy ih ounds of weight,’ rary sme tao. Dit Wait! noe stee says Trainer ‘Pogo! joyan, of the! them Yale fellers nan off the eld es 1? - Harvard football team. ‘Phe boya| they were glad to xet out of (he worked hard. and the tact that they fi 2 % Jost five pounds apiece sho Pet tetne ep teed Bead we that they! to tell our fellera twico to get off did not loaf any in the game. | fleld, and. once.the umpire had to put “We played fiften men, and when! @ man off. That sho: rhat our we were all weighed in after the game are mace o. ey vive FIRST GAME FOR COLUMBIA TEAMS when the matterof permitting Interclaas : : xamos at least will probably be decided RACTICH bégina on South Field Monday between the Sophomore In. the affirmative. here {¢ plenty of good material at Morningside Heights from which to. and Freshman teama of Columba | make up strong teams, 1 when prac- thea belns on Monday for the Inter- University that will play on Tuesday, Dec, 10, In tho first foottall game on South Field for three seasons, | The re- sult of thia contest may have much to{ do with the revival of football at Co- lumbla next season and there will also be x largo attendance. The tremendous crowds that have at-| (& tended the games this fall at the othor universities has awakened tite faculty at Columbia to the desire of ratifying he plenty of cans slass mnme there 2 Mantes at hand eS MENANOWOMER, of mus toon, end rwcEvuns CCWIGALOO. yeah a lose wolght. This is due to the fact that h constantly in condition and dot é sam every di a thattel of business, ‘The reeult/ofne Wil keen} oF poleompam Sold hy Dresesiea popular demand for the sport amon local strona. rot, if & meting \

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