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- SUNDAY MORISIXCt, JULY 31. 19p7V m' Hj The Salt ILake Tribte: I THOMAS F.IIELV THE IRISH GIANT Champion Athlete Has Long Record. Began His Career When but Seventeen Years of Hos Won Nine International Gold Medals Beside Winning- World's t Championship. Thomas F. Klely, the premier all , round athlete o the world, was born i at Ballyaeal, Carrlck-on-Lulr, County Tlppcrary, Ireland, thirty-three years ago. His parents are prosperous stock raisers. "Tom" was brought up on the farm under the influence of the fractlonless home life characteristic of the Irish, i He entered athletics at the age of 17 1 and signalized his first appearance by winning the TJpperary county cham pionships. The lad of 17 has developed Into the Ideal athlete of the century. He stands six feet one inch and weighs 106 pounds. Klely's appearance In street costume Is very deceiving. Ills face laoks thut congenial smile so characteristic of Pelts. The smile Is replaced by a more serious look, as If his thoughs were centered on a far more deeper subject than athletics. He's Irish All Right But If you have any doubts as to his being Irish all that you have to do to be convinced of his native country Is to hear him talk. Then your doubts pass Into oblivion and you realize with Hl a vengcar c that he Is truly a son of H: Erin. V' Kdy is undoubtedly the brightest i tiar that the athletic Armament has ever known. A glance at his marvelous record reads to the average athlete like 1 a fairy tale. M, Never In the history of athletics has anJ' one achieved the enviable rcputa i tion that Thomas Klely retires with ( To have won over 1G0O prizes seems' to our youtliful athlete a.s a "taste of 1 Paradise." B' These were won In all branches of ( athletics, running, jumping and weight ( throwing. He won the all-round cham- plonshlp of Ireland In 1S02, 1893, 1894 ' and 1S0S. He has won the hainmer-throwlng I championship of England six times '1 amJ oC Ireland twelve times. H'; Hns Won Nine Internationals, fl ' He has won nine gold International medals in the annual contests with j j Scotland, besides over sixty gold cham- plonshlp medals In Ireland. A few of his best performances are s follows: Created a new world's rc-c-i ord with the 56-pound weight, Irish ftyle (one hand), at the G, A. A. cham plonshlps, held at Cork in 189S, distance i 38 ffiet 11 Inches. Klely threw the 16- i pound (straight handle) hammer from the circle 1G1 feet 11 Inches. Hi At the Aherlow sports in 1899 he i jumped 23 feet 2 Inches. I At the arrow sports In 1S99 he made j a record of SO feet 9 Inches In the run- nlng hop. step and jump. ! He holds the Scotch record In the broad jump, from a grass take-off. with an actual jump of 22 feet 10 H1' Al tnc G. A, A. championships In 1S99 he won the 120-yard hurdles In :1C flat f on a grass track, and ten minutes af- torwards threw the 56-pound weight 37 feet 7 inches. H); At the Limerick sports he created a few world's record by throwing the M 56-pound weight 40 feet 2 Inches, but, unfortunately, the missile was found i to be four ounces light, and -his record i was not allowed. H, At the Celtic sports held In Belfast i' in 1898. Kicly put the 16-pound shot 42 feet 7 inches. He Jumped 5 feet 7 inches , the same day In the high Jump. 1 Klely had practically given up ath- 1 , letlcs since 1899, but acting upon the j advice of friends, both In Ireland and I here, decided. In the early part of the ( year, to try for the A. A. U. all-round j championships held at the World's fair I Stadium a fortnight ago. This championship he won from five I of the best athletes in America. To 1 1 accomplish this was Indeed no easy task, for all the world will tell you that America is the home of the ath lete. Considering that men like Hare and Gunn are now in their prime, while Klely has already reached his zenith, his victory seems all the more bril liant. Some Events Were New to Him, In speaking of the A. A. U. cham pionships Klely had the following to say: "Several of the events were new to me, and I had been some tlmo out of some of the others, consequently my task was a hard one. "Any one who understands athletics can see that the programme of the A. A. U. championships Js the severest test that an athlete can be put through, but when one has to go through It In five hours In the face of a blinding rainstorm on a new clay track, soaked with water and mud, Is something more than I care to attempt again. "I doubt If any of us who went through It on July 4 will do many bril liant performances during the remain der of the season. "For my part. I have achieved the height of my ambition and retire from the track with deep regret. "I also wish to mention the fact that I have met with nothing but the high est courtesy and sportsmanlike treat ment from officials and -opponents, while contesting for the champion ships and truer sportsmen than Messrs. Gunn of Buffalo, Hare of Pennsylva nia and Holloway of New York I have never met." Has nn Athlete Brother. Klely has a younger brother, now 22 years old, who will probably Come over next year to compete for the A. A. U. championships. Klely thinks that Hare Of Philadel phia Js .the coming all-round man of America. Kiely will compete In the Irish Na tionalist sanies, to be held at the old fair grounds Sunday afternoon. This will be his last appearance In St. Louis. From there he goes to Chicago, and from there to Boston, whero he make's l now- - p? sjf-&n& avmw at his euuovm itrt-rrte Q'3Q)hA TIULTHE STAR5 melt I NO C0fJJ g ft CARTOONIST TAD'S IDEA OF MACK O'BRIEN WHEN HE TACKLED FITZ. his farewell appearance on athletic flelds. After that meet he intends returning to Ireland, and enter the stock-raising business with his father. ' BIG LEAGUE GOSSIP. Ames, who has pitched no games for McGraw here this season Is likely to have a show at several of the games in the near future. His good showing In Pittsburg is a favorable sign. As the Glanto' big three. McGlnnlty, Mathew son and Taylor, have had a little more work than was good for them on the trip just closed McGraw is anxious to case off a bit and will use both Ames and Wlltse. The foul strike rule will not down and ita unpopularity grows apace- Here is what Henry Chadwlck. the "father of baseball" has to say about 11: "Watch any contest and take notice how many batsmen really have but one ball allowed them to strike at, owing to their hitting two foul strikes at the start. Then too, watch how many run ners are sent back, often almost steal ing a base owing to the call of 'foul strike.' One-half the put outs? on strikes are due to the foul strike rule, and not to the failure to hit the ball, owing to the skill of the pitcher." "Father" Chadwick attributes the fall ing off In hitting, run getting and base stealing to the foul strike rule. f Taken as a whole, the Western teams have had the better of the argument by long odds lii the series Just closed In the National. League. New York is the lone exception, having ten victories and six defeats to show as Its record. The West versus the East showed a victory for the former, as the West won forty flve games and the ISast only twenty. Half of these latter were won by the Giants. The Giants have Improved in the stick work, and "Danny" McGann, the first baseman, leads the list with a percen tage of .320 in batting. Devlin has fallen to third place, and Bresnahan, with .303, has second place. McGraw's team ha-, an average of .306, a gain of 33 points during the week. They lead opponents by 80 points In batting. Dougherty leads the New York AmeH- cans In batting, with an average of .332, a gain of 12 points over lost week. Fultz and Klelnow are next with tied averages of .310. The club gained 12 points in batting, but lost considerably In team fielding during the week. Pope Bicycle Teams. Teams for the grand circuit of the N. C. A. are now complete and the fight for the championship Is In full swing. On the Columbia team for the spring racing are Eddie Root, the Bos tonlan; Oliver Dorlon, the Coney Island lad who scored so well in the six-day race, and George C. Glasson of Newark, who was one of the amateur champions last year. In addition to the three named above, Boble Walthour, the middle distance champion of the world. Is also a mem ber of the Columbia team. F, A. McFarland. the lanky Callfor nlan, heads the Tribune team again and his associates arc J. Frank Galvln of Hartford; Floyd Krebs, the Newark sprinter, who was the only man that has defeated Kramer this year In an open race; Joseph Fogler, the blond lad from Manhattan Beach, and George C. Schrelber of New York. In addition to George H. Collett, the former amateur champion, who Is now racing at Salt Lake City, the Rambler team comprises Fred Scheps, the Aus tralian; Frank J. Caldwell of Hartford, Conn.; Charles Hadfleld of Newark, and J. P. Jacobson of New Haven. EXCURSION RATES Via Oregon Short Line. SL Louis and return ?42.fi0 Chicago and return 47. GO Chicago and return via St. Louis.. 50.00 SL Louis and return via Chicago.. 50,00 Through Pullman sleepers via Union Pacific and Wabash lines. Limit 60 days. Transit limit 10 days In each direction. Tickets on sale Tuesdays and Fridays each week. Stop-overs allowed. 0 CttttTffttiftttxTttiP j ' r " -rT1,TEATI0N SHOWS GEORGE H ACKENS CHMTDT, THE RUSSIAN LION, THROWING TOM JENKINS, THE AMERICAN CHAMPION IN THEIR REOT'TJT Tirl-ircm i I WKOTESSED CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD THE MATCH TOOK PLACE IN LONDON AND WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST STRUGGLES OF SiSTSvIr I ''- A.-jkuuimlB9C WAS A SURPRK "Battling" MsM a Cow. p Chicago Youth New SK Trouble With CorbilB ' or Britt. X Rumor That Fitz Has Quit theH Is Probably Untrue EisKic f Gossip. BjS' By Henry F. Burmester, jfl&ttt By defeating Eddie Hanlon itjS Francisco last Friday night, "BityBI. Nelson, the whirlwind slugger foaBjif cago, has placed himself within ftiB, the top rung of the 120-pound cli'B' der. The Windy City boxer 'IKfT to the sporting fraternity thathtliB? of the toughest millers la thebjJRu and he can now very Justly demacjHa with Young Corbett or Jimmy Furthermore Nelson will be abls tojBLJ either of the aforementioned flwBfM tlsts a vigorous run for the gateaBw and even down In California itfc hundreds of fight followers wager their coin that the Cook fjHjftta boy will not take second money. lBMfii last two fights on the coast 'WBP won a name for himself anil madBW friends. When he hung It onByI Canole the San FranclHcaos fH?? their eye3 In surprise. Ana wla"8 handed it to the "Pride of CalltoR last Friday, even the native ni(W'wJ selves were forced to admit thitK worthy of the attention of either B' well or the mighty "Chames EdWBJf's When Nelson came to this cHr.Bj' Chicago a few monthyago hevuBl tlcally unknown. He had agoodrtWt tion In and around Chicago whereiirt fought many good tights, but ouiriHn the Windy City he was not reccriRtl In one of the fiercest mills tvti'Mfci H nessed here Nelson admlnlsterti sleep tablets to "Spider" "Welch. Kr1 the most promising of the CalltaB little fellows. A few weeks B sturdy little Chlcagoan knockMH Canole and lastly Eddie Hankm !M victim to his prowess. Nekoa J'H seeking to arrange a match "H Young Corbett or his connueroniM Is quite likely that he will be act3HB dated. taM B3b Dame Humor has It that "jBp has fought his last fight-Bj freckled one Is "all In" and re?;uj!K he would stand no show with rK the younger fighters In a bout oM length. Upon the heels of tn,iLllB comes one to the effect that i 'j offered to bet several tnoulHf that he can trim "Fashion plalK! O'Brien in a twenty-round go- H It Is hardly probable that thcCHE man has given up the game, 7B considerable left In the old """viH he plainly showed at Phllndep cently. Despite the fact """iH handicapped by Father Time ne gH go fast enough to worry any oi 'H dies Including O'Brien, McUM "Hot Air Tommy" Ryan. 'H An attempt is being made J?H the boxing game In Chicago. has secured a location oUtl city limits and has announced '"TdH ular monthly shows will be &nc?jH days of yore. -cH Biddy Bishop, one of JLflJB formers In the Hcrrera-Downer "TjH back In the fighting game, wcoi ported to have an "unkn0Vn.is tH son City, who he Is against Billy Woods, his -ran YELLOWSTONE PARK E9 August 4. Round trip from Salt VMH This cover all necessary ."mtjUM transportation, and h'' yond Monlda. for the J peH The party will be l,rallefr furtbtfJMB See Short Line agents ' rf llculnn?. and ask for M"8'"1 of. the Park- HP