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PILLSBURY GOES
IN FOR ATHLETICS
3 Bdg Jumping in Prospect at the
Contests in Feb-
ruary.
Special to Journal..
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1 OwatonnaThe Min Dec 27 As soon as school
reopens the basketball uquad at PiUsbury acad-
i' #my will begin active work and the manager,
Howard Freeman, will arrange a complete sched
i vXe of games with the leading .preparatory
I schools and coUeges of the atate. *I*ast year's
turn contributes Smith, Rugs, Dunton and For
ter to the nucleus for thi
season'st
tam, and
the only regular missins Is. Ber Bly who
played center on the 1905 team
& Freeman 1B a former Minneapolis Centrarboy
and expects to be able to arrange for games
1 with several of the Minneapolis schools. While
A Plllsbury is somewhat handicapped aa to this
sport, and until last year had never given it
any attention, yet the cadets hope to develop
a strong team and one which will rank fully
equal to the best "prep" teams of Minne
-iota. ,_
The Plllsbury girls will also have a basket
ball team and will likewise have a srbedule o+
outside games-
O last year's squad. Misses
VTbidden, Waite, Foster and Nlssen are out for
places on the team. Freeman is also manager of
this team. A competent coach has been secured
*nd dally practice will be given In the Pills
bury gymnasium.
The open winter has banished the talk of a
hockey team, and It is probable that hone will
fee organized this year, altho the academy main
tains an excellent skating rink and one adapted
to the playing of hockey.
Most of the Athletic talk, however, centers
around the brilliant prospects for baseball which
the academy has Ihis year. It is confidently
I expected that Plllsbury will have the strongest
baseball team df any school in the state, hardly
excepting the university itself Last year's
team is practically intact, and has been greatly
strengthened by the addition of new material.
Forty men will report at training table the mo
ment the orders are Issued for baseball candi
dates to, so appear. Among these will be Lynn
Porter, without a question the best preparatory
backstop in/the state Leslie Pierce, who pitched
eight successive games for the academy last
year Ted Smith, shortstop and last year's
captain Alfred Erlokson, last year's find, at
I second Robert Knatvold, at third Delmar Har
rison, one of last year's stars on the Owatonna
high team Jerome Johnson, who has twirled on
one of Towa's leading preparatory teams Bruce
Middlebrook, another pitcher with a record Arba
i Season, one of last year's surprises Toiand, a
1 La Crosse player with a "rep," and probably
Belina, the best young pitcher in this section
1 of the state.
A schedule will be arranged which will caxl
for games with the leading schools and also
with several of the atate colleges A. good coach
has been procured. The team will be strictly
"all-PiUsbury," as usual, and no coach or
other outsider will participate In any of the
games.
Plllsbury win also have a fast track team.
Malcolm Jones, tMe little fellow from Minneap
olis, who won honors for the school last year
at Minneapolis and Chicago, is captain, and sev
eral track and field men of ability are
paring to go Into training.
pre-
YACHTS TO RACE
IN THE PACIFIC
Co.itest in June, to Start from
I Frisco and End at Hono-
i San Trancisco, Dee 27 There will be an
i other ocean race rest season, not across the
i Atlantic this time, but half way across the
I Pacific.
Way out in Hawaii there is a progressive
yacht club, and the recent race across the
Atlantic for the German emperor's cup proved
too much for the spotting proclivities of the
i Haw ailan yachtsmen to withstand.
Accordingly a contest has been arranged which
calls for the starting at San Francisco and the
ending of the race at Honolulu.
T. W. Hobcon, commodore of the Hawaiian
lub, recently came to San Francisco to interest
yachtsmen here, and he found them In a re
ceptive mood. It was at first suggested that
the race should be from Honolulu, to some Jap
anese port, but there were objections to this
course, and It was finally decided to start the
race from San Francisco.
The distance of the race Is 2,069 miles as the
bird, flies. The time set for the contest is
[next June. It is certain .that there will be six
Starters, and it is expected that other yachts
men will arrange things so that they can com
ete. The trophy which has been offered for the
ning of the first prize is worth $60. Suitable
rices will be given to the winners of the sec
and third places.
HATTY AFTER THE
COLLEGE PLAYERS
Journal Special Service.
Chicago, Dee. 87.Captain Fred Balrd of the
Jnlveralty of Chicago baseball team received an
ffer yesterday to play with the Indianapolis
Ijaxnerican association team at a salary of $250 a
{month, Baird declined. Ho will not play pro-
gCSssional baseball either before or after he re
ceives his university degree.
TO-TO-DATE BASEBALL
Hans Wagner is going on a hunting trip in
jtb* vidnlty ot Selo, Ohio, next week.
Frank Selee and Arthur Irwin are the most
nromlnent candidates for the management of
he St. Louis cardinals.
Colonel James A. Hart, former head of the
Hhicago nationals, declares the addition of
Sheekard and Moras makes the cubs a penant
wsibility.
Banker Walsh, who failed at Chicago, has
vered his connection with the windy city
atlonal league team after having been a
lavy owner for many years.
Cy Young dreads Spring training so much that
nee more be threatens to retire from baseball,
means months of denial and suffering tor
oung to
getk
into condition.
Conni Mac expects to take thirty men to
Montgomery, Ala., with him for spring practice.
1 vack makes it plain that no one player's position
"\n the athletics Is absolutely sure.
i|, Chauncey Bill Stewart, the former local base
iall football player. Is back from bis Kansas
iifltThangthfroteam
oil fields for the holidays. He expects to
fign with the benedicts In the near future.
1
Clncinnatlswil !p
will go south Marc 4 and
all have thirty-sevenh days of
trainin the time the souad reaches Mar
fin, Texas, ttntu Chicago opens In the queen
&ty on April 12
i Harry Steinfeldt thinks that the Chicago club
ill be nnoh stronger next season. "Can any*
am line up a better outfield than can be picked
Schulte, Slagle. Sebring and Sheekard?"
lays Steiny. "Pat Moran will ^lso strengthen
3he team behind the bat Chicago's one weak
Joint last year was batting, and Sheekard and
fkoran will do a lot toward helping out in that
particular 5 It is stated that the record of 18 1-5 seconds
r a circuit of the bases, made by _iart Hogan
Youngstown, Ohio, will be placed in the offi
ial records of the Association of Protected Base
iill CIUJS as the official world's record for base
Sinning. Record was made at Indianapolis, all
fie conditions fulfilled, and. tho it was made
*n years aaro, it has but Just now been recog-
$?ed officially.
Jack Heydon, the' Baltimore outfielder, who
tand ed his contract last summer ahd was black
ited by th National commission, now threatens
bring suit against the commission in the courts
Tf law Heydon, like most of the other contract
simpers in the Trlstate league, is anxious to get
*ick into eood standing He was sold to the
jjleveland club and wants to report there, but is
Irred by the commission's decision
S WINONA, MESH,Harry McCormick,
i horn numerous burglaries here nave- beep at
-United, pleaded guilty to burglarizing the store
J. J. Speeter at St. Charles He was sen
need by Judge Snow to a term in the St. Cloud
iformatory.
ALBERT LEA, MINN.A man supposed, to
tp Thomas Spring, who arrived here a few days
&o and was taken ill at a restaurant near the
lock Island station, died at the hospital. He
lid be had no friends or home
LITTLE FELLOWS
HAYE THE SWAY
"Big Nine" and "Big Six" Dele
gates Not at Football Dorcas
^Society.
Journal Special Service.
New York, Dec 27.The football conference
of universities ahd colleges which is to meet
on Thursday at the Muiray HW hotel, will
manifestly deserve the name of national, which
appeai-3 on its letterheads There will be dele
gates from at least eighteen states of the union
and from about half the whole number of possi
ble colleges and universities which may be called
active in athletics It will be the most tboioly
reprtwentatne meeting of colleges ever seen in
convention
The following is a list of colleges whlah have
appointed delegates, with the name of each
delegate that has reported so far heard from,
beginning with those at the greatest distance
From the west: State University of Nebraska,
Professor James Lees, Creighton college,
John T. fcmith, Colorado pollege, Dean Florian
Kajori State University of Colorado, Professor
William Duane, Leland Stanford university,
Professor Mas Farrand University of South
Dakota, Professor Alex Bell
From the middle west State University of
Missouri, Professor ot Physical Training Clark
W. Hethuriugton, St. Louis university, a dele
gate ^.Carlton college, Northfleld, Minn., L. N.
Wood Beloit college, Professor B. Q. Smith
Bi-tleL college, Indiana, E Wingard. No less
than elgh,t universities and colleges in Ofiio send
'delegates.
Big Schools Are Out.
From the* seven universities and colleges which
are claimed bj the existing committee on rules
no acceptances have been received The greatest
luterest in the conference has been shown by
Harvard Chairman, White of the Harvard com
mittee on athletic sports, after reporting that
they deem it Inexpedient to send a delegate,
adds the following*
"May I add personally that this action does
not Imply any lack of sympathy with the move
ment inaugurated with the conference? Har
vard, however, taking up and working it out in
its own way, and for this reason-It seems Inad
visable to be actively Involved in other similar
undertak js
President Eliot, in writing that the invita
tion had been received to the common athletic
sports, says "I avail myself of this opportunity
to tell you that my own belief is that inter
collegiate football should be stopped for one
year, so that the individual colleges may de
monstrate In practice, each on its own grounds,
a reasonable game of football. There seems to
be a well nigh universal consent that the present
game is intolerable, and surely this Is a great
improvement in the public sentiment For my
self, I find it Impossible to believe that the
committees, coaches and umpires who have
ruined -the game are to be trusted with its
reform or replacement.
Slap a* Experts.
"The experts In the ruined game are not the
persons I should select to advise about the selec
tion or creation of a substitute. The funda
mental difficulty with the present game Is the
bad spirit in which it is played. To get rid of
this vicious^splrit I think we must stop inter
collegiate football for a time.
"On the whole, therefore, I favor separate
action by the individual colleges and not con
ferences and conventions or other attempts to
continue intercollegiate football under new regu-
lations.'*
The president ofVthe State University of lows,
writes that that nniveisity is a member of a
"college conference" along with eight others in
the middle west, and adds "We are under
pact to comply with the rules of this conference
It would not be honorable for us to make other
alliances while holding to this."
It may be added that no acceptance has been
received from any of the eight other members
of this conference. Dean Judson of the Univer
sity of Chicago writes "I am not prepared
to say at this time whether we can be repre
sented or not We are considering the subject
of improvements In the section concerning inter
collegiate football We have not yet, however,
reached a final ground of action. I shall notify
you later as to what the university is prepared
to do
CHIGAGO PLEASED
WITH "HAtt" FIGHTERS
Journal Special Seivioe.
Chicago, Dee. 27.Fred GMmore of the Chi
cago Athletic association got sweet revenge on
Ben Linstedt of the Sentinel Athletic olub at
the Coliseum last night by administering to his
conqueror of a few weeks since a most pro
nounced defeat.
The bout, which was specially arranged at
185 pounds, was the star number of the night's
program of the new Hllnols Athletic club's
second tournament. The match had attracted
widespread attention. Linstedt had knocked
Gilmoie out in one round in the last Coliseum
tournament, a victory whioji gave him instant
fame, as young Gilmore had previously won the
Canadian amateur featherweight championship.
Gilmore outgrew the latter class, however, and
elected to do battle with the lightweights His
advent into the heavier class is chronicled above.
Thru the city all day it was said that Chief
of Police Collins had called off the bouts, had
not called them off, bad Insisted that only A. A.
members would be admitted and similar
things.
As a matter of fact, the present tournament
will not be the financial Success the first was
unless Chief Collins permits a more liberal sale
of tickets.
CUP FOB D. PATCH.. ESQ.
Dan Patch, the world's ohamplon pacer, has
leen presented with a loving cup by the Lexing
ton Trotting association. The cup bears the
names of the donors ana Dan's record M. W.
Savage, the owner, is uncertain whether he will
allow Dan to use the cup regularly or only upon
special oGcaslcns.
BAPTtB IN FOEM
North. Dakota Skater Will Go After
the Flyers*
Neche, N. D Dec. 27.Norval Baptie. the
famous skater of Bathgate, N. nine miles
south of here, gave an exhibition at Gretna,
Man., one mile north of here, yesterday even
ing in the presenoe of a large crowd. Baptie
learnea. to skate in a small rink and his speed
in one is wonderful, there being no man in the
world vho can compare with him on the smaller
rinks. He will return to Gretna on Jan. 5, for
8n exhibition of speed and fancy skating, and
v. ill race anyone who cares to meet bim. Baptie
is in better form this season that ever before,
and his admirers expect to see him carry off the
long ends of the purses put up in the east this
winter
Morley Roberts, the gre?rt Australian
novelist, spent ten of his most active
vears in the far west. "An Exile from
God's Country," is a picture of a thrill
ing* incident in the life he saw at
Painted Bock. Ginger Gillett is the
hero. Ben Habersham vowed vengeance
on Bam Weekes just because the village
chose to think that Mrs. Habersham was
too amiable when Weekes was about.
Ginger watched the vow in his own
quiet way, and at the opportune mo
ment a wild shot, a blow with the butt
of his- revolver, and a bottle of catsup
properly applied settled the vow amica
bly. At all events, Habersham went off
wih his honor intact, and Weekes soon
afterward sat up and proceeded to rid
himself of the catsup. It is a tragedy
converted into comedy in a frontier
town, and will appear for the first time
in The Journal's Sunday magazine
next Sunday.
I you once try Carter's Little Liver
Pills for sick headache, biliousness or
jk constipation, you will never be without
them. Th ey are purely vegetable
small and easy to take. Don't fqrget
this.
MARRIED FIFTY YEARS
MANKATO, MINN.Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Biga
low, residing in West Mankato, celebrated their
goldan wedding anniversary on Christmas Day.
A family dinner was Served, at which many rela
tives were present, Including children and grand
children living in Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Iowa Among theigradchildren was Louis Kiefh
of Minneapolis. $fix. and -Mrs. Blgalow were
married at Vinton. Iowa Dec. 25. 1855. Both
are the same age, 75 years.
The annual poultry show of the Central Min
nesota Poultry association opened in this city
yesterday, 'with a large and Mne exhibit All
classes of poultry are well represented, and the
success of the show is already assured. George
Bolden, president of the American Poultry
association, will judge the birds.
Captain Joseph Zalusky has returned from
Oskaloosa, Iowa, where he has spent the football
season as head coach of the Penn college team.
This has been his second year as coach at Penn,
and this has also been his second championship
team. Penn holds the championship of the
minor Iowa colleges* by virtue of having scored
BOYEY PLANS A
SKI TOURNEY
Strong- Baseball and Track Teams
in Prospect at the
Academy.
Bovey, Minn., Dec. 27.The coming sport of
northern Minnesota is skiing. It has become
the sport and the lapidity with which it is
spreading is remarkable Bovey has the only
ski club in this county, but as the sport haa
grown elsewhere so may it grow heie
Some time in Februaiy a tournament will be
held here, at which time cash prizes will be
awarded to the best Jumpers, besides a contest
for the Hartley cup to be given by C. Hart/
ley, which will be competed
iams 4
xfo by members of
the Itasca Ski club* Representatives of all the
big clubs of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota
will be here, and the affair will be the moat
Important sporting event ever in northern Min
nesota. It is known that somewhere^ among the
noodmen In this northern country are SM riders
who possess King Oscar medalssome of the
best athletes of Scandinavia, and it is hoped
that this tournament will attract these men
and "that some o* them will become partici
pants
The Itasca club has a 300-foot ski slide with a
drop of 140 feet nearly completed, on tile banks
of Trout lake. Sunday the club met at the
hill and besran the erection of a clubhouse and
will probably meet on the following^ Sundaya
until the cabin is completed. It Is the lnten
tion of the club to take runs every two Weeks,
in the end winding up at the clubhouse, where
lunch will be served
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Wednesday Evening, JOTP J^NNEAfcC^fS JOURNAL. December 27,, 1905.
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OF COTJE.SE HE WILL
Sfeoial to The Journal.
Milwaukee, Wis, Dec. 27.The statement
sent out that President O'Brien of the American
association intended to retire unless he was
unanimously re-elected, is denied here by Mr.
O'Brien, who scys.
"I stated that I had* not solicited votes from
any one, which is true. I also said that if a
majority of the magnates did not want me for
president it v as up to them to act. However,
I will not throw down the friends who have been
working for me, and If a tie vote results I will
hold over."
OFF TO CALIFORNIA
Sunshine Boute PopularTourist Oars
fromthe Twin Cities to Los Angeles!
California.
To accommodate the large and_ in
creasing tourist travel to California, a
through tourist sleepingcar line has
been established between St. Paul and
Minneapolis and Los^ Angeles via the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and the"
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railways,
the Sunshine Route.
Leaving Minneapolis at 8{20 a.m.
^very Tuesday, bt. Paul 8:30 a.m., the
tourist has a daylight ride through one
of the most populous and richest agri
cultural sections of Minnesota and Iowa.
Kansas City is reached at 8:20 a.m.
the next day. The car attached to the
Santa Fe train leaves Kansas City at
11 a.m. Wednesday.
During the afternoon the train passes
through some of the most thriving
towns in Kansas^Lawrence, Topeka
(where a stop of twenty-five minutes is
made for dinner), Osage City, Empo
ria, Florence, Newton, Hutchinson, seo
nic Colorado being entered during the
night.
The Panorama of the Rockies.
The next morning at an early hour
La Junta, in southeastern Coloradot is
reached, and at this point the first view
is had of the Rocky Mountains, the
train skirting the eastern foothills and
entering New
Mexicot
near Will-
reached a nooRaton. on Friday
This is the junction with the line to
the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, and
a stopover may be had here if a visit
to the Grand Canyon is provided for
in the itinerary of the tourist.
From San Bernardino until arrival at
Los Angeles, at 8:25 a.m. Saturday, the
train runs through the garden spot of
southern California.
"Reasons Why.-"
Briefly stated, the advantages offered
by Tile Sunshine Route from the north
west consists of the shortest line to
southern California a direct route to
San Francisco and vicinity great scenic
attractions, including the Grand Can
yon of the Colorado rive in Arizona
a route less affected by snow than those
through the more northerly Rocky
Mountain passes an easy grade, consid
ering that the continental ranges must
be surmounted equipment complete in
all appointments, and a delightful cli
mate. I
For each double berth (one berth
will comfortably accommodate two per
sons) the price is $6.75 from St, Paul or
Minneapolis to either Los Angeles oj?-
San Francisco.
A
Tickets and Berth Reservations,-.
For the SunsKne Route your tickets
should read via the Chicago, Milwau
kee & St. Paul Railway to Kansas City,
thence via the Atchison, Topeka & San
ta Fe Railway and connections to Ari
zona, New Mexico and California des
tinations.
For ticket, berth reservations in
first class or tourist sleeping cars, ad
dress W. B. Dixon, Northwestern Pas
senger Agent, 365 Robert street, St.
Paul or C. R. Lewis, C. P. & T. A. 328
Nicollet avenue, Minneapolis*"
"*&
WINTER SPORTSSAND PASTIMES^NOW^O THE^FORE
Penn College Team Coached by a Minneapolis Player
THE TEAM OF PENN COLLEGE, OSKALOOSA, IOWA.
180 points to its opponents 86. Half of the 86
points scored against Zalusky's team were 'run
up by Drake, which was coached by Heston, the
Michigan halfback. Additional local interest at
taches to the Penn teatai from the fact that the
assistant manager,. Ptjlrery is an alumnUs of
Central high.
ARTHUR IRWIN
TIRED OF BLOOZ?
_: &
Rumor thai the Old Warrior May
fydt the KJLW Coun-
try.*
Kansas City, Dec. 27.Some speculation among
local^aseball fans haw been caused By the re
port that Arthur Irwin would not be connected
with Kansas City baseball affairs in 1906. The
latest announcement is to the effect that the
genial Arthur will manage the Wilmington, Del.,
club next season, but if any reliance is to be
placed on "inside information," Irwin will be
the leader of the St. Louis cardinals Instead.
Dr. D. M. Shlvely, president of the Western
association, met Irwin while in. New York at
tending the meeting of the National association
there on Dec. 14, and he says Irwin made the
remaxk to him, "I'll not be with you next sea-
son."
Dr. Shlvely says Irwin would say nothing
about KiSfplans or *tenfI3hs, but~freely admitted
that he wis out''of Kanstfs City* basebaif-affairs
for the present at least..
"I would" like to Owffr'l
club there," Irwin
is reported toJaafe^dd,] 4'totsn||E the existing
circumstances, the caances 'tsr gaining control
are worse than dojbffg^fjg^tb.'ia locally-owned
club Kansas City would- be one-,, of the best
baseball cities on the i&ap Look how they
patronized a mediocre club Suppose a pennant
winning team were placed there for Just one
season The preserit ball park would not begin
to accommodate the patronage, and the club
would be a mint for its owners
Irwin is said to have dropped no hint of ne
gotiations with the Robisons, owners of the St.
Louis National league club, but from other
sources Information was gained that points
strongly to some kind of a deal between the St
Louis magnates and the ex^manager of the blooz.
HORE WORK FOR
THE CASKETMAKER
San Francisco, Dec. 27.-*Jack O'Brien, the pu
gilist who recently defeated Robert Fitzsimmons,
authorized the issuance of a challenge to James
J. Jeffries, the retired heavyweight champion.
Any terms that Jeffries may demand, he says,
will be accepted.
OPPORTUNITIES IN
SOUTH DAKOTA
W^
es
The season's record of the team is as follows,
the Penn score appearing first In each case:
Ottumwa high school, 88-0 Oskaloosa high
school 21-0, Drake university, 6-18 Parsons col
lege, 22 0 Iowa Wesleyan, 88-0, Cornell college,
17-0 State normal, 12-6 Des Moines college,
216 Grlnnell college, 5-6.
OLD-TIME RUNNER
DIES AT SYDNEY
Albert Bird Made 100 Yards in
10 Seconds in
1865.
Lyman County Offers Many Chances
Because of Its New Railroad,
Cadet Taylor, in a recent issue of the
Omaha World-Herald, says: I have
just returned from a* trip up in Lyman not vote for him puts him out ot the race en-
county, South Dakota, on the new rail
way extension under construction from
Chamberlain to Rapid City, and the
Black Hills country. This county is
part of the old Sioux Indian reserva-.
tion and has been open to settlement
for some .time, but has been held back
by the big cattlemen and lack of rail
way facilities. The. new railway has
opened up a very fln,e farming country
and an immense immigration is ,going
into that county.
"It is called the $reat White river
valley. The soil is rich, and what little
fajrming has been done shows good re
sults. Wheat from eighteen to twenty
four bushels oats sixty to seventy-five
bushels: orn thirty,to forty bushels,
and barley and speltz a good crop. Corn
was selling at 30 cents and wheat 74
cents. In grasses they have the rich
buffalo salt grass, and are introducing
alfalfa with promising results. Lands
are on the jump, selling from $lft to
$18, according to improvements and lo
cation.
"On Nov. 9 the Chicago, Milwau
kee & St. Paul Railway opened nn forty
five miles, west of Chamberlain, with
stations all along the line, and the pres
ent end of track is at Presho. The
Kradmg is progressing fifty miles west.
"Presho is a wonder. Three weeks
ago it had one house. I counted forty
five new business houses, one and two
stones, course of construction, and
it seemed --that every man who could
'drive a nail was hard at it from early
morn till dfcwy eve. Everybody was
busy and happy. The railway com
pany wss forced to stop trains over
night at Chamberlain for lack of eating
and.sleeping accommodations at Presho.ar
x.,,813"!,
v*t&i homesteads
still available. The county abounds in
artesian wells. The electric light plant
and a mill also, at Chamberlain, are
being operated wholly with artesian
water power, seventy horsepower being
developed. 1
Temperance Towns.
'There was one peculiar thing about
Presho that I never saw in a frontier
town before. T,here was not a saloon
nor gambling house in sight. On in
quiry I found that South Dakota has
a yery strict law that a saloon can
not be located within five miles of a
grading camp, nor in. any tbwn until
the people have voted a license, and
this vote must be taken once a year.
/"It looks to me as j the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St."Pant Railway were
opening up an exceedingly rich farming
country alon its new
extension."rates,tabou
s
^Additionalg information
routes and train service,to Lyman coun
ty, South Dakota, wilKJMy furnished free
by W. .B. Dixon, 365 Robert Btreet, St.
Paul %**$
Sydney, Dec. 27^-By the death ot Albert Ed
ward Bird of Sheffield there has passed away
one of the brightest nrnaments of the pedestrian
world of the late sixties. Bird was a distance
runner of considerable repute in England from
1S65 to 1869, abd left for Australia In the
latter year.
In bis prime Bird was a very fast runner at
all distances from 10 Oyards upward. He was
capable, of breaking ten seconds over 100 yards
on very fair ground, and had covered half a
niHe, in 1 53 He died by the roadside near
Ararat, Victoria, aged 60.
Prior to sailing for Australia Bird defeated
Bob Hindle, Paisley McKlnstray, Glasgow! Jack
White, Gateshead Slsh Alberson, BOotle, and
Hrfff, Willinghall. He beat Hewett of Milwall
over a mile at the Hyde Park ground, Shef
field, for a large sum, but the tables were re
versed in the half-mile match for $250, Hewetl
winning by ten yards In 1'5&.
The pair met again In a match rer-mflTrt"
the Hyde Park ground for $500 and Bird won
by six yards in *":29%. Bird made his* first
appearance in Australia with Hewett and Topley
on Boxing day, 1869, on the Melbourne cricket
grounds.
The trto took- part in many races, with vary
ing result, and/ ultimately, when their running
days were over, they became scattered.
While at Newcastle Bird got married and
afterward spent most of his time in Tasmania.
,A. short time back he was in Sydney looking
Up his old acquaintances, but they were very
few, as the majority, especially those who In
the palmy days of pedestrianism were good
patrons, of the game, had, like Bird, arrived
at the end of their earthly race.
ED GRILLO IS ODT
TO DEFEAT O'BRIEN
Journal Special Service.
Toledo, Ohio, Dec. 27Manager Ed Grillo
of the Toledo ball club has come out flat
footed against President O'Brien of the Amer
ican association and will oppose bim at the
election in Chicago Thursday. In making the
statement Grillo says that he will not only vote
against O'Brien, but wUl cast a baUot if there
is no one else named for the office.
This combination of OrUlo with Brlco and
Watklns and possibly Tebeau makes it look
as tho O'Brien would not land the position
.for another year, and If he sticks by his state
ment that be will act only if elected unani
mously, Grillo's positive statement that he will
tirely. Grillo says he has no favorites in view
and will support any good man.
DELANO HIGH QUINT WON.
Delano, Minn, Dec. 27 The Delano high
school baskettall team defeated the South Side
high school of Minneapolis by the score of 28
to 11. On Jan. 1 the Lyndale team of Minne
apolis will play the Delano team at Delano.
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STARS WANT TO"
COACH ST. LU,
Rothgeb, Catlin and Cochems, All
Noted Placers, Apply
for Job.
St. Louis, Dec. 27 If St. Louis university
really wants to secure a first-class Bugby coach
for next season, the faculty of the Grand ave
nue institution certainly has a select bunch of
football men to choose from. Bd Kothgeb, a
former Illinois university star, Cochems, a noted
badger player, and Marc Catlin, end and pap
tain on this year's Chicago university team,
which defeated Michigan, are all out after the
position of football Instructor at St. Louis
university next year. Both Catlin and Cochems
have been beard from at the varetty A. A. bead
quarters.
Rothgeb filed his application for the place
only a few days ago. He is in Illinois at pres
ent, and wrote Dan Dillon, a former St. Louis
jiniversity boy, who captained the St. Louis "U"
team three years ago, but who played quarter
on Washington last year, that he would like to
secure the position of coach at St. Louis uni
versity next year Dillon later received a for
mal application for the position from Rothgeb,
which be has placed In Father P. Bnrke's
hands.
Tommy Dowd, the present athletic director
at St. Louis university, will hardly be retained
at St. Louis university next year. Dowd, altho
he Is a good football player himself. Is a
better track coach than football instructor.
The St. Louis university alumni and players
want a man with a reputation to coach the
football team next season. With Catlin, Coch
ems and Bothgeb to be had by paying toe figure
demanded, St. Louis university can secure either
of the best men in the west.
Washington university is thoroly satisfied with
its showing last season. The chances are that
Fairweather will be retained for another year.
With Rothgeb coaching St. Louis university,
Fairweather, his intimate friend, may consent
to a game between Washington and the blue
and white.
LEPER HUGHES WOULD
G1YE COREY A RACE
Journal Special Service,
New York, Dec. 27.Albert 0. Cory, the
Chicago runner who is contemplating a contest
from the windy city to New York, has an accept
er of bis open challenge In John H. Hughes,
better known as the "Leper." Hughes came
forward today and, altho he is 86 years old,
announced that he would give Corey a fifty-mile
start from Chicago and wager S0.0C0 he would
reach the Hoboken ferry first.
Hugbes prefers, however, a ninety-mile con
test. Cory recently failed to win the ninety
mile from Milwaukee to Chicago In less than
eighteen hours, and the "leper" claims he can
do it in a walk Hughes' records, made in his
younger days, are 665 miles In six days and 160
miles In twenty-three hours and fifteen minutes.
TOLEDO MAN IS
SHOCKED RY CROOKS
Journal Special Service,
Toledo, Ohio, Dec. 27.Because most of the
wrestling matches today are crooked, Clarence
Mead, a local man, who has thrown some of
the best In the business, made application for
the police force and ws today appointed. He
said he had propositions from the best-known
men in the country to go on if be would throw
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TEBEAU KEEPSjSfr-'
UNDER COYft
Holds the Cards andT Should Hi
Flop O'Brien Would Be'
Defeated.
Bs^ei
At the annual meeting of the American aa
elation in Chicago tomorrow there may
there may not be interesting doings,
depends on the attitude of George Tebean, who
owns both the Louisville and Kansas City clubs
of this strong organization, and consequently
has two votes on questions which come up before
the magnates for decision. Upon the Tebeae
attitude rests the chances of Joe O'Brien oi
Milwaukee for re-election as president.
The American association is composed of tw
factions. Standing together on most questions
may be found T. J. Bryce of Columbus, J. B4
Grille of Toledo and W. H. Watklns, who at
present controls both the Indianapolis and Mia.
neapolls- clubs. Also standing together, but oa
the opposite side of the fence from this quartet,
are Havener, owner of the Milwaukee team, and
George Lennon of the St Paul club. For the
past two years George Tebeau has flocked with
the latter pair, giving that faction four rotes.
It if rumored, however, that Tebeau may go over
to .the other side this year, in which cae*
O'Brien will scarcely be re-elected.
Mr. O'Brien was elected last year over J.
Grillo, who had made an excellent executive
officer in 1904. Messrs. Bryce and Watklns
stood for Grillo, but at that time Lennon con
trolled the Toledo franchise, and O'Brien was
chosen -by five rotes to three, being the selec
tion of Havenor, Lennon and Tebeau. Mr.
O'Brien has been a satisfactory official in most
respects, but there Is a growing feeling among*
the members of the association that the presi
dent should be entirely independent of any fac
tion and any outside Influence Some of tho
magnates are firm in the belief that Mr. O'Brien
whose home is in Milwaukee, leans toward Own
ers Havenor and Lennon too strongly. It is
also counted against him that he is the choice
of President Ban Johnson of the American
league, whose interference in association affairs
is resented It was common talk during the
recent meeting of the National association in
New York that Johnsc* promised a seat in the
national board to W. H. Watklns if the Utter
wolud cast nis vote for O'Brien at the annual
American association meeting. Mr. Watklns is
reported to have declined to sell bis vote for
an honorary position. At any rate, he has been./
consistently knocked ever since by Magnate
Havenor, wbo Is Ban Johnson's closest friend IK
the association This has caused the breach,
among the association magnates to widen still
further.
There is a chance that Tebean will stand
with Messrs. Bryce, Watklns and Grillo at tho
coming meeting. It he does, it is certain that
Mr. O'Brien will not be re-elected, tho there is
no open candidate against him. If the Louisville
magnate flocks with his old friends, Lennon and
Havenor, O'Brien will be re-elected without
doubt, as he will have four votes, and the dead
lock will not be .forced by the opposition.
EAST WANTS TO GET
THE AMERICAN DERBY
Journal Special Berries,
New York, Dec 27.^Several eastern turfmen
have made a suggestion that the Coney Island
Jockey club or the Brighton Beach Racing as
sociation should make an offer to the Washing
ton Park club of Chicago to run the famous
American derby in this part of the country next
year. While it already has been planned to run
the derby at Latonla, it is thought oue of the
two tracks named might be able to secure it IX
a handsome offer were. made.
LT7NDS TO CHASE KITTENS.
The Lund Lands and dhe Kittens will play
gams of Indoor baseball at Monitor hall tonight.
The game will be calleo. at 7.30 o'clock.
Browning.King & Co
ORIGINATORS AND SOLE MAKERS OF HALF-SIZES IN CLOTHING
Broadway at 824 Street fOSMV
Evening Clothes
Lined with serge and silk-faced or
lined throughout with silk. $29 to $38.
Coats, Waistcoats and Trousers sold
separately at proportionate prices.
Inverness, fur-lined and rur-trimmed
Overcoats to wear with Evening Dress.
All the little details, too, from Cuff
Links and Shirt Studs to Neckwear and
Gloves }n approved styles and twist
worthy qualities.
"If the whole outfit is to be effective,'* said Beau Brvmmell,
"the details of Haberdashery must not be neglected."
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