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P O C^ S Robert in Danger. UW TJB SS the dope goes wrong In a hopeless style Buby Robert will receive his in plentiful style Irhen he stacks up agains Philadelphia Tack O'Brien. Robert is going against the stiffest game of his later days. He is not the Robert of even five years ago and when a fighter of his age engages to take the measure of a man of O'Brien's youth and speed there is likely to be a demonstra- tion of the adage that "youth will be served." There are many reasons why I do not believe that Fitz has a lookin with O'Brien. The old chap has been the daddy of all of them at his weight in his day and won thru the power of that punch and his footwork. The only thing he has left that will do him any great amount of good is the old head on his humped up shoulders. I is small, oddly out of proportion to the shoulders, but it is crammed from chin to crown with the know-how of the fight game. The punch has faded^ the hands are bad and the footwork is not expected to come anywhere near the former standing. O'Brien should be able to beat down the' old chap's guard and chop him to pieces altho the red one is going to ju blinkers on the eyes of O'Brien before the trick is turned. He will reach the younger man, but the followers of the kangaroo doubt his ability to put the sleeper over on the Irishman. Fitz is defy ing all ring records if he wins. There are many friends who are going to re gret to see the game old chap slaugh tered, but that is how the fight looks today. If he wins he is the athletic marvel of this age, ages past and ages to come. It will be a rough house bat tle and all of the noise coming from the coast about Fitz being a possible winner looks like a play of the press agents to catch the sucker money. I cannot, for the life of me, see wherein Robert has any more show to win than the lamb has to kill the butcher. A. A. U. Foolishness. HE Amateur Athletic union has wiped out all of Arthur Duffy's records. According to the A. By L. L. Coffins. A THE end of the first season of organized western freshman football the "1909" team of the University of Minnesota must be conceded second place among the "Big Nine" freshman teams. Only Wiscon sin with her aggregation of fast and heavy freshman players can outrank the gopher youngsters, and Wisconsin won from Sig Harris' wards only after fierce, even struggle. That defeat by the badger team was no disgrace was shown when the Wis consin team shut out the Chicago fresh Jnen without a score and succeeded in crossing the maroon goal line twice this with Walter Steffens in at quar terback for Chicago. The Chicago team partially redeemed itself by de feating the Illinois freshmen, but on the basis of comparative showings the Minnesota team, with its victories over Iowa and Northwestern and its 5 to 10 score against Wisconsin, must be rated second in the west with Chicago third, Iowa fourth, Illinois fifth and North western sixth. The other teams of the big nine supported no officially recog nized junior teams. But Two Defeats. In the Minnesota record of seven games played there are two defeats, one by Wisconsin and one by North high of Minneapolis. North high won from the freshmen by a score of 5 to 0, playing the men who had been dis qualified by action of the high school authorities. To those who had watched the play of the North hi^h team during the year the defeat of the freshmon was not unexpected, as the high school team, with lineup intact, was a wonder ful preparatory school aggregation. The work of the freshmen team dur ing the year has been extremely satis-' factoiy to university followers of foot ball and to those who have conscien tiously followed the freshmen play the work of Coach Sig Harris in rounding out a team that could run up a total of 62 points on the Northwestern aggro ation has been one of the creditable eatures of varsity football during the fall. From the time of the first gather ing of the freshmen candidates for the team Harris faced difficulties which would have discouraged any coach, and the fact that the Minnesota team ranks lecond in the west is due largely io his perseverance and resource. The idea of a freshman team wos new at Minnesota, and while a large number of candadates appeared tor practice, the material was not encouraging. Very few big men answered the call of the freshman coach and there was a dearth of backfield possibilities. Harris made the best of the situation and began drilling speed and football knowledge into a squad that looked almost impos sible. Men Lacked Weight. The handicap of lack of material has been present all during the season. Something of the difficulty whichCoach Harris faeed may be realized from tho fact that of the eleven men who line.I up against the Northwestern freshmen sevon did not appear as candidates for the team until weeks after the sejison started. On Sept. 29 the freshmen' scrimmaged with the East high squad and the show ing made was anything but encouraging. The high school held the freshmen prac tically even. The work of Bly at full back was an encouraging feature of the game, however, and Harris started, to. construct a backfield that would com bine speed with strength. Th first regular game of the fresh- i man schedule came on' Oct. 7, when the team of the Wisconsin business college A. XL, Duffy is nit and never was. There is nothing doing in his record line and never will bea regular sort of forget it operation. How if the A. A. U. would just come out here and operate upon the Wiscon sin victory over Minnesota in the same style it would cause a heap of satisfac tion. The Amateur Athletic union, however, is about the funniest organi zation on earth unless it is the branch of the S. P. C. A. that sent officers to watch a football game down in Iowa with instructions to make arrests when ever the opposing centers got to biting each other. Cresceus BalkedThey Say. HE -string fiend leads a merry life. One day he is busy with field work the affairs of state, the next he is "querying" the world on scandal and then dips intp sport. The latent fine young tear-squeezer comes from Toledo, Ohio, and concerns M. W. SJavage's recent purchase, Cres ceus. The dope ster tells how Cresceus balked when it came time to leave the old homestead, would not enter the car which was to bear him away and finally compelled the gentlemanly hosslers to blindfold him be fore he could be torn from the place where he had spent his happy childhood days down on the farm. It was a good liewell told and will cause sil ent tears in every booze parlor in the country where the half soaked horse jockey reads it. But it did not go half far enough. The Toledo liar should have told how Cresh. reared up on his hind legs and waved one of the fore ones, adios, as he caught the last sight of Ketcham's hired girl on the roof of the old barn at home. He might have ha.d Cresh wipe his eyes on one corner of the blanket and say "neigh! neigh!" when invited aboard the parlor car. Some of these liars are thoughtless when it comes to making a good story. The writer, however, threw in one master stroke when he says, in describ- Freshman Football Team Made Good Record in the Season's Play Wisconsin team was wofully weak and little could be judged of the football ability of the twenty freshmen who were given a trial in this game. Fryk man at halfback played for the first time for the freshmen and his work was a feature of a rather monotonous game. On' Oct. 15 the freshmen played their first game against a strong opponent and defeated the North Dakota aggies by a score of 6 to 0. The North Da kota team outweighed Harris' proteges man for man but the campaign for speed was beginning to tell and the game was won thru the speed of the backfield men and the quick charging of the linemen'. Heavy line candidates had not yet appeared in any numbers but the light men got the charge on their opponents and won a creditable vic tory. I Was Defeat. Iowa came the next week and the Minnesota youngsters played their first big game of the year against a heavy Hawkeye aggregation. _In this game Maloney and Forker played the tackle positions while Ertle, Merrill, Frykman and Moore made up the backfield. Both of these combinations were new but the men went into the play with spirit and won by a score of 5 to" 0. The work of Eaki'n's at guard was conspicuous, both on defense and offense. On Oct. 23 the Faribault mutes played an interesting game against the fresh men but the university men had taken a slump during the week and altho the freshmen won, 23 to 0, the deaf a'n'd dumb players gained a great deal of ground against their heavier opponents. Wisconsin came" the next week and the freshmen tasted defeat for the first time. The team won the good will of the spectators by its plucky fight, how ever, and when the whistle was blown five minutes early in' the second half in order to give time for lining the grid iron for the big game in the afternoon, the Minnesota team had the ball on the Wisconsin 15-yard line and Bly, the freshman fullback, was carrying the ball for repeated gains of from three to five yards. i The Second Defeat. The second defeat of the freshman season came the ndxt week when North high won from the 1909 team by a score of 5 to 0. In this game the freshmen took the ball within five yards of the North high goal twice, only to lose it by fumbling. The spirit shown by the freshmen after these two defeats was the best of the year and the team put in a hard week of practice resolved to-swamp the Methodist freshmen in the last game of the season. The swamping process materialized -and the North westerners went down by a score of 52 to 0. In this game the strongest team of the year represented the gophers. Morse at tackle, and mak ing his first appearance for the uni versity, played a remarkable game, and Kiser, on the regulars for the first time, played strongly at the other tackle position. Atkinson, who had been playing halfback on the freshmen scrubs, made his debut as a quarter back and did the most spectacular wo^ of the year. With the Northwestern game the sea son's work for the freshmen team came to an end. 'The games won had been won fairly and by good consistent foot ball and the games lost had been lost by remarkably narrow margins and only after the hardest kind of a strug gle- i' Will Get Numerals. .^V^s, 'As Jresult .^ffiSduat *fi^ 'Sflflrt Section: THE MINNEA^b^IS ^dURliii.^ ing the apothesis that ."those who wit nessed the incident do not attempt to explain it along psychological lines." It is a good thing they don't. I im agine the average rubber around Ketcham's stable would have a rather hard time attempting to argue upon the psychology of anything. Knockers on Football. HAT angers the friends of football in the present com-* motion and flurry is the un- lished list of a week ago shows not a varsity man in the list of victims. The Hurley case is an exception, but at this writing Hurley is alive, altho dan gerously ill. A consideration of this list of the Chicago Tribune is interest ing when it is dissected. James Bryant, who heads the list of dead, was too young to be playing the game. He was killed on a field at Canon City, Col. Miss Bernadotte Hecker was killed at Cumberland, Md. Football is not a game for. girls in any sense of the wbrd, but it claimed a vic tim in what was apparently a trial at play rather than play. J. C. Rondere, an independent player, was killed at Jewett City, Conn., Oct. 22, a Sunday game. Investigation will doubtless show that this man, playing independent football was not trained and in no proper physical condition to engage in the sport. Arthur Foote, killed at Salem, Mass., Nov. 24, was but 13 years of agefar too tender an age to undertake the task of playing foot ball. G. C. Ficken, an independent player, of New Orleans died as a result of in juries received on Nov. 20. W. J. Kelly was killed at Buffalo while play- be granted their class numerals by the athletic board of control. Of these nineteen Maloney, Coughlin, Foker, Eakins, Dunn, Castor, Moore, Frykman, Ertl, Merrill, Smith and Hubbard have played in two or more of the three big nine games. Atkinson, Schain, Bly, Knocke, Murphy, Morse and Kaiser have participated in one of the three championship contests and it is prob able that the board will award these men their class sweaters altho the varsity is only gained by participa tion, in two of the big games of the year. Experiment Successful. Altogether the freshman season has been remarkably successful. The experi ment of turning out a freshman team was practically a new one at Minne sota as in the history of university football there is record of only one freshman team. In 1900 a team was organized among the members of the class of 1904, but no games were played with the freshman teams of any of the big nine institutions and the team re ceived little backing from the univer sity rooters. Great interest has been taken by the undergraduates in the freshman team this year and altho the games have been played in the mroning good crowds have turned out to see the team play. Undoubtedly Minnesota will be represented by a freshman team again next year. The freshman record for 1905: Oct. 7Freshmen. 29 Wisconsin business college, 0. Oct. 15Freshmen. 8 North Dakota Agricultural school, 0. Oct. 21Freshmen, 5 Iowa fresh men, 0. haiuBiii^ N O O S S-^BJT^GBEfD fairness of the assertions made against the game. A lot of people who know nothing of football are yelling like Sioux Indians at a beef issue about the dangerous form of the mass plays when men are hurt, more often, in the open More players are injured running back punts and in the open work after the kickoff than in all of the mass plays. Football is not a gentle game. It is not'for weaklings and if the aforesaid weaklings do not have sense enough to keep off the gridiron they should be kicked off. Most of the injuries, in fact almost all of them, are to imma- their statistics ture youths playing against heavier i story, and elder apponents. School boys rang-1 The boys whose lives were sacrificed ing age from 12 to 18 years have no Weue business anything but the shortest gametoo young to think of undergo- and lightest sort of games. i physical training such as is neces- It is questionable if a young man sar under 18 years of age should be al- track or field sports. The elders killed lowed on any football field. The pub- we ym $LM& op Row, Standing. Being Divers and Sundry Reflections Upon the PassingShow:'C#5 ing with Masten Park high school He was but 15 years of age. Scott Kerr, among the list of the dead, is alive today and only has bruises to show for the injury which was heralded as fatal. Horace Knight of Exeter, N. H., died of meningitis, but the, death is laid to football. Joe Latimore, the colored rubber of the Northwestern team, was drowned while bathing, but his death is charged to the "brutality ofj foot- ball." Howard Montgomery, aged 17, received spinal injuries which resulted in his death. John Beehan was 15 years old, Will iam Moore 19, Herman Noorgard 17, and James Squires 16. John Summer gill was an independent player dying from injuries received in a Sunday game. Two more young boys are cited to complete the list and one case is pointed out where the player, in run ning, fell and a weed ran up his nostril bringing about death. This could have happened at playing tag or a footrace and is not a true charge against football, altho included. In the anxiety to make out a bloody record against football the agitators did not stop to analyze and look into They carry their own too young to think of playing the to protect the player in any of the re independent players having no connection with universities or colleges and the heavy chance is that they were not in anything like physical condi tion. The Hurley case is the only one where a player on a well-trained team received anything more than a severe bruise, or the possibility of a broken bone. If it could be traced at this late day I believe that last season's deaths from base ball would far ex ceed the deaths from football. The agitation against the game may re sult in an im provement. The talk of legislation against it is folly and comes from the people with more hair than brains about their heads. Sports of every kind demand a certain toll of lives every sea- Oct. 28Freshmen, 23 Faribault Deaf and Dumb institute, 0. Nov. 4Freshmen, 5 Wisconsin, freshmen, 12. Nov. 11Freshmen, 0 North high, 5. Nov. 24Freshmen, 52 Northwest ern freshmen, 0. -V COFFORTH CANCEL jnwmwi BOU 'ij,' r-N* By Publishers' Press.'*'' San Francisco, Dec. 2.Rumor came from the east last night that therfe was a chance that Manager Cofforth would call off the Fitzsimmons-0'Brien fight, carded for Dec. 20, on account of the in ability of Fitzsimmons to get his hands and feet into proper condition. A dis patch from Chicago stated that this is talk current in the lake city. Cofforth is due to arrive in !an Francisco to morrow. Eddie Graney, who has conducted Cofforth's fight business during the lat ter 's visit east, when asked about the rumor, said: These two men, Fitz and O'Brien, are signed up to fight before the Yosemite club Dec. 20. They have posted forfeits. If either one of them fails to appear ready to fight, he will forfeit his $2,500. That's all there is to it. The club is going right ahead with preparations for the fight and has no idea of calling it off.'' These are days of importance for Fitz. His last fight here with Gard ner was such as to render it imperative for him to "make good" this trip or else permanently retire. The fight crowd .here by the. Golden Gate is a "show me" crowd, and will watch Fitzsimmons very carefully in training before an opinion is formed. It is reported that Infielder George Wrigley of Columbus has decided to jump to the proposed new Pittsburg Tri-State League club. Jimmy Downey, who was with Kansas City part of last Season, declares that he is thru with baseball for good. NORTH DAKOTA TEAM MADE GOOD RECORD IN SEASON OF 1903 STATE NORMAL SQUAD, MAYVILLE. N. D. ett to, RightAb^y, ,C#wd*a, SUM*, f*i^ J^iaa^^SLUon,k Green,f|trtRWJ OMIM,-Owm*ittiiksgl^^fM^^ ,*-a^. i.SI nag Mat .&ftrM-- v-wfem son. Football is no worse, not as bad, in fact, as many others. The turf season claims its quota of vic tims every year. Yachting takes men's lives in large number. Polo, antomo biling, in factsevefy form of outdoor sport is attended by some element of danger. Those who participate in athletics run some risk. The percent age between those who play and those who^give up their lives is so small as to make almost any sport seem safe. There is nothing of heartlessness in this. I have only sympathy for those whose friends or relatives have lost their lives thru football, or any other sort of sport, but when a game is at tacked as generally' as is football and with so little real cause it does no harm to stop and look the facts squarely in the face. Football is not a sport for yoiing boys. It is not a sport for men who are not trained to play it. All of the big teams have competent coaches and trainers and this explains why mem bers of these teams are so rarely found in the list of those injured. I am at a loss to see where football can be greatly modified. Walter Camp" has been yowling about increasing the downs distance to ten rather than five yards. This will mean a great deal more kicking and more kicking means more tackling in the open. The tack ling is one of the dangers of the play, but tackling cannot be eliminated with out ruining the game. There is brutalitytoo much of it in football, but that is the fault of the individuals and not the game. Coaches do not teach foul tactics. If a man is a brute and a thug he will be a brute and thug at a Sunday school picnic or in a football game. If he is a gentle man he will play clean football. The rules should be changed and a more severe penalty imposed for slugging and brutality such as the forfeiture of a game or the barring, for life, of a man who deliberately slugs or attempts to maim an opposing player. This would put it up very strongly to the officials and they would have to be men of great fairness and without prejudice. Football is a great game and is suffering much from attacks based upon misrepresentation and ignorance. The rules committee, that body of masterly inactivity and mutual admiration society tendencies should be given one more trial and then if they do not do more than they have in the past they should be kicked overboard and the colleges of the country get to gether in a representative meeting and attempt to free the game of its objec tionable features. The. people who do not know a kickoff from a goalpost have no business in the readjustment. NEW BLOOD IN THE BIG HOCKEY LEAGUE Special to The Journal. Calumet, Mich., Dec. 2.The Interna tional Hockey league will open its sec ond annual season Dec. 11. The men signed by the various clubs have re ported and are practicing every day. While applications were received for membership from several new clubs, the directors of the league decided to stick to last winter's makeup and Calumet, Pittsburg, Houghton, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., and Sault Ste Marie, Ont., will be the only teams in the league. Next winter the circuit will be considerably expanded and it is likely that some of the fastest clubs in Canada will be tak en in. Pittsburg, which presented a rather weak team last winter, has the most formidable club this season. Some of the fastest hockey players in the United States and Canada have been signed and the smoky city aggregation promises to put up a hard fight for the pennant. Portage Lake team of Houghton will be stronger anad faster than last year. The lineup follows: Riley Hern, goal Walter Forrest, point Barney Holden, cover point Bruce Stuart, center and captain Joe Hall, rover Fred Lake, left wing "Grindy" Forrester, right wing Harry Bright, substitute. The team averages fifteen pounds heavier than in 1904-5. Calumet's team has been greatly weakened by the absence of Hod Stuart, who captained the club and played cov er point last winter. Baxter, who takes his place, is an excellent player, but there is not another player like Hod Stuart. The two Soo'' teams will be strong er than ever, the weak men having been replaced by faster skaters and better stick handlers. The American "Soo" had same brilliant men last winter, but was lacking in team work. This sea son's team should work together better. Sport Section. SH-H UEIG A Voice from Benville. ~]i FOOTBALL Elaveofa reform has reached the agrarian districts. Mr. Haan, writing in the Henville Star Farmer of recent date points out the moral decline of the Greeks and the English. He points a scornful finger at the Olympian games and classes them as frivolous. The point is well taken. The Greeks no longer loiter around wearing the laurel or twanging the lyre, but are right down into the commer- cial strenuosity of the times. Where a Greek formerly sat on the hilltop and sung of the glories of the rising sun he gets up these cold mornings and fires up in the store to keep the bananas from freezing up. Where he was wont to pull the stroke ore in the war barge he now pulls the taffy of com merce. The decline of the English we doubt since a well-remembered time when I undertook to subjugate a 187-pound Rodney from 'Is 'Ighness' army in a bunch-of-five argument in the rear of a training stable. If that fellow was a fair sample we think Mr. Haan's de ductions as to the English are based more upon hearsay than personal ex perience. The Englishman in question had a wallop that was a sorrow every time it landed. England may be morally decadent but not physicallywe can't believe it. Coming back to the subjectc Mr. Haan says that "if one reads the re ports of last Saturday's football game and how thousands behaved themselves in the Minneapolis and St. Paul theaters, on the streets and in the 700 saloons, one who loves the country may well ask,' "Are the American people going down to barbarism?" We really do not know about going down to barbarism, but from Mr. Haan's remarks about the 700 we would rather infer that some of the thousands were going in for bar-barism. 5* *J* Walcott in Trouble. OE WALCOTT is now having trouble down east for assaulting a boy in a poolroom. It would be a kindness to culture to lead the Barbadoes boy out behind the woodshed BASEBALL AFFAIRS Pat Donovan has been in Toledo for several days and gossip is that he will manage the mudhens next year. Manager W. H. Watkins last week signed Mique Kehoe to catch for the millers next season. Billy Hallman will be with the colo nels again next season. He had a bad year fighting malaria'. Hallman is one of the most popular players in the as sociation. Jack Doyle, former first baseman of the Toledo team, has instituted suit against the Toledo Exhibition company for $819.67 alleged to be due on a salary contiact. Infielder Barbeau of Columbus has de cided to winter in Milwaukee. The reason can plainly be guessed after the talk of his recent engagement to a foam city maiden. Manager Dick Padden is not expected to arrive in St. Paul until after the holidays, but in the meantime he will keep busy arranging for players for next season. George Tebeau has informed the peo Louisville that Dan Kerwin will chance to play right field for the colonels again. Dan has signed his 1906 contract. Billy Clingman writes: I am a colt compared to Charley Nichols, Jake Beckley, Kid Gleason and a host of others. Me retire from baseball? Say it not. As long as my soup-bone holds out Willie will take the magnates' money." VIOLETS FOR WATKINS Eastern Papers Casting the Flowers at Baseball Magnate. The veteran scribe, Tim Murnane, in the Boston Globe, the other day, had this to say of another veteran baseball man: "In the American association W. H. Watkins of Minneapolis has come to the front as the strongest baseball man in that organizationa safe man, one who stands well with organized ball, and a man who will keep the trouble makers in their place. Tip your cap to Watkins as the new power in the American association.'' The subjectof this laudation, William H. Watkins, is reall yas clever in base ball diplomacy as he is clean and able in character and conduct^and he will be a great factor in keeping the American association not only intact, but always at the front of the baseball table. He and Mr. Bryce rendered invaluable serv ices in settling the war of 1902, and since then these two have always been forces to be reckoned with not only in the American association, but in the greater National association.Sporting Life. SORE AT SULLIVAN Western Athletes Tired of the Domina tion of the East. Special to The Journal. Chicago, 111., Dec. 2.Friction among the Amateur Athletic union officials continues to crop out and the breech between the eastern and western fac tions appears to be widening to such an extent that open warfare is likely at any moment. A clash between the rival American committees to attend to the American end of the Olympic games at Athens in 1906 has caused the latest trouble and as a result the western committee has resigned and refused to take any interest in the Greek contests. The westerners blame James E. Sulli an, secretary of the A. A. TJ., for the misunderstanding. The eastern man is head of the American committee and immediately after taking charge sent word to the western committee that he had not been informed of such a com mittee and had gone ahead on entirely different plans and intimated that the western body was not needed, as he had enrolled in his national organization all the men that were needed. COULDN'T BUNCO HIM. Detroit Free Press. VY "I've got a sure-thing proposition to make to you," said the youngster pro moter, confidently. "Absolutely sure!" asked tee old millionaire. "No doubt about it." fffi$t\\v Then keep it yourself^ Imy boy, I should hate to take anything like that sag HilU 'S?:^.:^-N and hammer him' in the head with an axe. 4vi45p|. Reflex Pleasures.' ,'[$ INCOLN, NEB., is taking^much pleasure in the Jordan jeremiad against the meanness pf Minne sota. It is the same sort of.pleasure that you take when a friend tells you that the man who kicked you down the back stairs is a low order of brute. "3S Jenkins Has a Snap, "jtp OM JENKINS is having the time of his life. He is down at West Point, on probation, as wrest ling instructor for the cadets. All Thomas has to da is to propound the strategy of "pumping up" the op ponent and the doctrine of the a k-h eel. He spends a stated number of hours on the mat, per mitting the fu ture George Washingtons to wheel him around, a proceeding that must look like a sky terrier at tempting to clean up a butcher's pull pup. Wrestling will be of groat bene fit to the army. In the future thare will be no repeti tions of the now famous Taggart case. Th trained wrestler officer will lift the ser pent from the threshhold and threw him so high and far that his uniform will be out of style before he lights. A little Queens bury and "jewjit" might be thrown in as well. Tom' Jenkins is working for the protection of the homes and will go down in history as a worthy rival of "Captain Jinks of the Hoss Marines." Mike Kelley declared in Cincinnatf the other day that he would make an effort to get hold of the Minneapolis franchise. This looks as if he had about given up the idea of joining forces with Grille Ex-Magnate Charley Strobel has pur chased a one-half interest in the Inger soll-Hopkins company, owners of Luna,, Park, Pittsburg, and the firm will pro duce shows in the future under the name of Ingersoll, Hopkins & Strobel, New York at Birmingham, Ala. Boston at Macon, Ga. Philadelphia ?-t Montgomery, Ala. St. Louis at Dallas, Tex. Chicago at New Orleans, La. Cleveland at Atlanta, Ga. Detroit at Augusta, Ga. Washington, Charlottesville. Va. JUST BEFOKE THE BATTLE. Justam before th battle, mother, I buckline on my splint. While the surgeon on the side lines. Fixes arnica and lint. On my hrad's a helmet, mother On my shoulder is a pad Rubber bandages and nose guard Shield from ill your six-foot lajfc Just before the battle, mother, "7 I am thinking some of you. Still I can't forget the fullback Whom I've sworn an oath to do. I. am going to paste him. mother I shall put him in a trance. Seee'en now at my suggestion They have brought the ambulance. REFRAIN. Farewell, mother, you may never Recognize me any more But that fullback will be missing When the battle cries are o'er. New York Times. Automobilists Attention! A. D. Ekbergh 907 NICOLLET AVENUE. Northwestern Distributor for -'4 1 TRAINING GROUNDS. i The following places have been selected by the American league clubs for spring practice: 13- .1 fil I take pleasure In advising you that for the 1906 season I shall make a specialty of building Autos to or der, in sizes from 26 to 60 H. P. I find that a very large majority of the people prefer to have a car built according to their own ideas and to suit their own special require ments, and In taking this matter up I have taken particular pains to make my connections for this work with a concern that has, had an ex tensive experience, not only in build ing cars, hut engines of all classes, as well as Transmissions, and an in vestigation will show that they have the most complete line of Automobile Engines and Transmissions of any manufacturer in the United States at the present time. A good car cannot be built by any concern purchasing parts from different factories throughout the country, and assembling them. Neith er can it be built by a concern that has not had years of experience in Gas Engine construction. If you contemplate having a four cylinder car for the 1906 season it will well pay you to call or make an appointment, and I will be pleased to call and give you full particulars in regard to price, etc. I also handle their complete line of stock cars, which can be seen at my place of business at any time. Trusting to have the pleasure of hearing from you, and thanking you for the same in advance, I beg to remain, rvr^a ht Yours truly. ^.*i^*| th:'e MODEL.n ^v^ *vv &$&&&: $** '''~T.^tLI also have a number of new and second-hand machines which wish to close out this season, Write for full details or call and see then.