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Homeward Bound.
By O'Loughlln.
MERCURY IS OUTDONE
THE CAMERA DEFIED
SPEEDING LIKE WIND
Daytona, Ma., Jan. 27.Mercury as
typical of speed has been outdone and
replaced by the motors of the automo
bile that have accomplished a long
thought impossible feat of speed, and
have actually gone a mile in 28 1-5
seconds, or at the rate of 127.5 miles
an hour.
Marriott's wonderful mile on the
beach course Friday afternoon awed the
beholders. Standing with camera in
hand and watching the oncoming car
required nerve. Nature said "bolt,"
but the newspaper spirit whispered,
"Get him," as /he flashed by with the
peed of a light wave, the car roaring
against the wind pressure, seemed some
wild incarnate rather than the creation
of the mild-eyed man, who stood near
by and watched his driver snatch the
highest automobile honors from the
congress of dare-devils who had gath
ered upon the course from all parts of
the world.
Cameras Too Slow.
I snapped the shutter on this per
formance at a speed of 1-400 of a sec
ond, and no matter how weak the pic
ture I will give it to^The Journal
readers. There are no shutter, plates
xr lens sufficiently rapid to eliminate
motion such as this, but the effort is
worthy of trial.
The wires of the week have carried
the race results in sufficient details.
On the straightaway course the races
do not possess the thrilling interest in
the events on the mile track, but they
are safer. The supremacy is settled
early and the cars flash over the fin
ish so far apart that the crowd does not
enthuse so much as where it is possi
ble to watch, them all of the way
around.
The Minneapolis pilgrims have put
in a busy six days. Starting from
Minneapolis' Saturday night over the
Burlington they reached Chicago Sun
day mormng. The train was lmmecli*
ately turned over to the Big Four, and
the supper hour found the gophers at
the Grand in. Cincinnati.
Take Boat Excursions.
Monday morning brought Chattanoo
ga and the day was spent on Lookout
mountain. Tuesday morning found the
Minnesotans at St. Augustine, where
they visited the old Spanish fort, the
cathedral, slave market and other
points of interest.
At midnight Tuesday the special
train was sidetracked at Daytona. A
Spaniard climbed aboard and greeted
the excursionists with the "Haw."
Wednesday was spent on the race
course. Thursday a steamer was char
tered and the party ascended the Hali
fax to the Tomoko river and spent the
day in winding thru the picturesque
bends on the steam launch, which was
secured, a la Fresco, and the return
trip ended at 5 o'clock.
At 7 Thursday night came the big
event of the week, the dinner for thlT
Minneapolis automobile club party at
the Florida East Coast Automobile as
sociation clubhouse. The tables were
beautifully decorated with fruits and
flowers, all Florida's products, and in
the center stood the Minneapolis cup.
Attend Big Ball.
An elaborate ten-course banquet was
served and during its progress Colonel
F. M. Joyce, on behalf of the Minneap
olis Automobile club, presented the cup
to the Florida association.
Mr. Paine responded gracefully and
was followed by Secretary Bachelor of
the American Automobile association,
iWebb Jay and other speakers.
The favors were tobacco jars for the
gentlemen and vases for the ladies.
They have pictures of President
Paine's home in Daytona and were
highly prized by the recipients. The
affair was the work of Mr. and Mrs.
Paine and proved one of the most en
joyable features of the outing.
Friday night many of the party at
tended the Dig Auto ball at the Or
mond and at 8:18 p.m. Saturday after
noon the trip northward started. Sun
day evening will find the crowd at Cin
cinnati. Monday will be spent at the
Chicago auto show and Tuesday morn
ing the party will arrive at Minneap
olis. Many of the tourists tho will re
main in Florida for several weeks.
Minnesota Best State."
The only drawback or annoyance of
the trip has been rain, which, however,
was accepted by the tourists with good
grace and turned into chaffing over
comparisons of Florida and Minneapo
lis weather in January. The gophers
invariably invited the natives to visit
Minnesota in January to see a real sum
mer climate.
The entire party has enjoyed excel
lent health. G. A. Sebring has as
sisted Mr. Paine in every way in enter
taining the Minneapolitans and Mr.
Therion has also added his aid. Both
are Minneapolitans.
The trip has been successful in every
way, but the party is coming back with
the opinion that they would not trade
Minnesota for any state in the world.
Sport Section.
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KNOCKED FOOTBALL
SIX CENTURIES
Agitation Against the Game Is
Nothing New, After
All.
London, Jan. 27.W, J. Wilson, the
secretary of the Surrey Football asso
ciation, has been Btudying up *the his
tory of the game recently. So much of
an authoritv has he become that he re-
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cently lectured to a large -number^ of
football enthusiasts here in' London,
dealing especially with the ancient
laws upon the subject.
Sis Cteotuxles Olcl.
Mr. Wilson authoritatively declared
that football was six centuries old.
Shrove Tuesday had been associated
"with the game from the earliest times,
and -in the fourteenth century, in the
reign of Edward I., football was played
by so many youths in the streets that
the merchants appealed to the king to
put the game down, as it interfered
with the commerce of the country.
But football was strong enough to
defy the law, even of the king, both in
England an Scotland, despite agita
tion and much condemnatory writing
against the game.
In the sixteenth century the game,
tho unlawful, was played in the streets
and fields, the goal posts ranged from
such objects as bushes to houses and
were often miles apart. One special
prayer was disseminated by a writer
named Stubbs decrying football on the
Sabbath on the ground that it was a
"bloody and murderous gam'-/,
backs,
legB and necks being indj** viminately
broken/'
Gave Men Courage.
Another writer, more generous, de
clared that the game put courage into
the hearts of the players and stimu^
lated them to meet the foe eye
kto~ qye
without flinching. After showing Some
amusing lantern slides treating of the
lighter side of the game, Mr. Wilson
wound up with a lucid explanation of
the offside rule.
The growth in number of municipal
golf courses in England has been a
noteworthy feature of the year. In
most cases they charge a small "green
fe e" to players, about sixpence, and
this has made the courses not only self
supporting, but in many cases actually
profitable. Bournemouth has just
opened its second municipal course of
eighteen holes. J. H. Taylor did the
planning, and the links cost about $60,-
000, including the lpcker house. The
course is 6,021 yards long. On opening
day about 5,000 spectators followed
Vardon and Taylory Braid and Herd, the
latter pair winning the match by 5 to 3.
EIGHTY-ONE BUT HE
RIDES tl A 5ULH
Oldest Race Driver in Country
Is Discovered at Merchant-
ville, N. J.
Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 27.Probably the
oldest man regularly engaged in train
ing and driving trotters is Daniel Bo
dine of Merchantville, N. J. He is 81
years old and drove his first race in
1853. Last season he raced a few horses
and is wintering some now which he
expects to race next season. Mr. Bo
dine enjoys remarkable health, which
he attributes to the fact that he has
never used tobacco in any form, nor
spirituous liquors of any kind, and that
he has lived so continuously in the open
air. Among the more noted of. the ear
lier trotters that he drove, are Ameri
can Jackson and Victor Patchen. He
also developed the mare May Queen, by
Alexander's Norman, and sold her to
"General" John E. Turner for $1,600.
For Turner she became a grand-circuit
sensation, taking a record of .2:20 and
being sold by Turner for $10 000.
The old-time pacer Major Wonder,
2:09%, that amazed Buffalo racegoers
one day back in 1893, and leaving a
lot of them with empty pocketbooks,
by not only beating, but also by dis
tancing Mascot, 2:04, and Flying Jib,
2:04%, died a few days ago at Worces
ter, Mass., where for several years he
had been owned by a man who used
him for speedway and matinee racing.
Major Wonder was 20 years old and
back in the early nineties was one of
the stars of the grand circuit.
Pitcher Jacobson says he is "tickled
to death'' to get away from Washington
and is glad his new berth is to be with
St. Louis.
CARELESS BAKBER.
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FRED MARRIOTT, IN HIS STANLEY STEAMER,. RIDHMG FASTER THAN A TWO-MI LE-A-MINUTE CUP.
ALFRED VANDERBILT DRIVING HIS TOURING CAR. CLUBHOUSE AT ORMOND WHERE MINNEAPOLITANS WERE ENTERTAINED,
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Record Victory Over Pardello
Would Bring Spurs Minne
apolis Boy to Best.
LEO PARDELLO,
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Providing he defeats Leo Pardello
in the wrestling match scheduled for
Feb. 6, Carl Mattson of Minneapolis
could claim the heavyweight wrestling
championship of Jtaly, for his big op
ponent in the Bout, now holds that
honor. Of course, this must be taken
with a grain of salt, for to claim the
championship of another nation by vir"
tue of a victory Vve its holder, neces
sitates defending it against the next
best man or men* in that conutry. At
any rate, honor is at stake, for the
light Minneapolis boy, who will enter
the ring nearly forty pounds lighter
than Pardello.
Both Mattson and Pardello are train
ing hard for the coming match. The
forme* is working in the Midway gym
nasium, while Pardello is supplement
ing the drill received in meeting all
comers in Chicago, with faithful work
after hours. With the man it is a case
of avoiding defeat at the hands of a
boy, tho to fall before Mattson, in his
present condition would be* no real dis
grace. With-, Ma'tfson it is to exert
his every effort to obtain the distinc
tion that a victory over a national
champion and^" a man older in experi
ence and much heavier would carry.
It ean truthfully be said, too, that each
is highly confident of his ability to
win in the catch-as-catch-can match he
will enter at the Masonic Temple,
Feb. 6.
Mattson Improves.
Mattson has shewn wonderful im
provement in the past six months. He
is looked upon ,as a coming heavy
weight champion. Tho only 20 years
of age, he has an excellent mastery of
the science of wrestling, and tho light,
is extremely clever, as his ability to
hi ay thirty minutes in a "free-for-all"
match
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Pardello shows. He stands
about six feet and weighs 185 pounds,
every bit of which is highbtrung and,
powerful.
The Potts-Felkey match whieh will
precede the Mattson-PardeTio engage
ment, bids fair to be a closo one. Both
re instructors, Felkey being at the
M. A. A. A. and Potts at the Cooke
institute. The two have'been trying
to get together for some time, but a
meeting lias been prevented by differ
ence in height.
jrhey have agreed
now, however, to weigh at 135r ring-
side, and should be in shape to pro
luce an interesting battle. Neither
i-eeds an introduction, Jimmy Potts
especially being known for his ability
in th^ fistic arena. Both are training
faithfully.
NE W MARK^FOR^ RECKONIN SPEED
MORE BATTING IS CRY
FROM HOOTERS' BENCH
Connie Mack Suggests Substitutes
for Pitchers to Pad Hit
ting Records.
Ne York, Jan. 27.Baseball mag
nates are discussing proposed legisla-
3' tion that will add to the attractiveness
of the game.
"More batting," is the cry in *he
American league, while in the National
the club.owners say they are perfectly
satisfied with the stick work of their
players. When the rules committee get
together there is likely to be a lively
tilt, The National leaguers favor leav
ing the rules as they are, while the
Americans want some changes.
"Just what remedy will be adopted
to improve batting next year is hard to
say," said Connie Mack while discuss
ing the situation.
"My proposition is to allow a sub
stitute batsman for the pitcher with
out the removal of the latter from the
game.
"One of the other managers at the
recent Chicago meeting had a proposi
tion similar to mine, except that he
wanted the pitcher cut out altogether
and only have eight men take part in
batting. I think this would be a little
too hard on the regular players, as it
would bring each man up at least six
times in a game, and if there was
plenty of hitting the men might face
the pitcher eight times.
"My plan, I think, would be better,
as it would not crowd extra work on
the other players. Every club has a
few surplus players and the public
would often like to see what these men
can do, but under the present rules
these players cannot get into the game
regularly.''
Frank Nevin of Detroit proposes that
the batsman be allowed to take his base
on three balls. "This would make the
pitcher put them over," says Nevin,
"and allow the batsman a chance to
line out the ball."
COACH TO USE MOTOR BOATS
Columbia Crew's Trainer Will Give Up
Slow-Power Launch.
New York, Jan. 27.Practice for
every crew candidate was begun last
week under Coach Goodwin at Colum
bia.
Twelve machines were placed on the
gymnasium floors, where general coach
ing can be done. Four machines have
been placed in the football locker-room,
where individual coaching will be
given. At present about fifty candi
dates have enrolled, but of this number
few are trying for the varsity crew.
Several important questions have re
cently come up in the meetings of the
directors of the rowing club. The pres
ent launch is in a bad state of repairs
and to place it in a first-class condition
will require a large expenditure. This
being the case, the directors are con
sidering the purchase of a motor-boat
for use in coaching. Several boats are
under consideration and it is hoped
that in a short time a decision will be
reached.
There is an annual expenditure for
repairs, wages, etc., of about $2,000 on
the present launch, and it is thought
there will be a large saving of expense
if a motor-boat is secured. The cap
tain of the crew has been appointed by
the directors the representative of the
rowing club on the athletic council in
order to give him a legal status in that
organization.
The race with Annapolis will be held
again this year on May 21. The race
with the Yale freshmen will probably
be held as usual, in May.
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WHITE WINGS TO RACE
ACROSS TRE PACIFIC
Western Pond Will Rival Atlantic
with Difficult Yacht
Tests.
San Francisco, Jan. 27.Tho the# sug
gestion is but a few months old, the
proposed trans-Pacific- yacht race from
this city to Honolulu is receiving much
attention from yachting devotees.
WORLD'S RECORD MADE 1
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Heretofore the Atlantic has claimed
the interest and attention of yachtsmen
and the sport-loving public of the
world, but the cruise across the Pacific
will surely result in interest being ex
tended to the Pacific coaBt.
While there are many enthusiasts
who indulge in yachting on the Pacific,
the sport has hardly made the progress
that it has in the east. The coming
race will,- however, help matters won
derfully in this respect.
Tho the fleet of starters is not likely
to rival the one which sailed from
Sandy Hook last May in the race across
the Atlantic for the kaiser 'a Ocean cup,
the race will excite fully as much in
terest, for it will be tb* first Jime that
a speed contest of the kind has taken
place across the Pacific.
The bringing about of the race de
pends largely upon the efforts of those
at the other end of the course, and the
mora men that support it and do their
parts as individuals, the greater the
success of the first trans-Pacific yacht
race will be.
The Hawaii Yacht club will present
a $500 silver cup, known as the
"Hawaiian Cup," to be won outright
by the victor in the race, starting from
San Francisco and finishing at Hono
lulu. The contest will be open to the
world and will be sailed under the
auspices of the Pacific Interclub Yacht
association.
A project is on foot for a race back
to California for a trophy to be pro
vided by the San Francisco promotion
committee.
QUITS UNIVERSITY TO
RUN A SKATING RINK
Captain of Stanford's Football Team
Causes a Sensation.
Berkeley, Cal., Jan. 27.Consterna-
tion reigned on the university campus
when it was learned that James A.
Force, captain of the university foot
ball team,' member of the exclusive
Sigma Nu fraternity, and regarded as
one of thet prominent members in the
so-sailed high society set in college, is
to leave college and be the manager of
a roller skating rink at San Jose. The
spectacle of a famous university man,
manipulating the destinies of a rink
where youths and maidens of high and
low degree pirouette about on the giddy
wheels, devoting the hours to execut
ing fantastic figures, is expected to
make the new rink in San Jose an enor
mous hit.
Force is not to be the only college
star in the enterprise, however. With
him, as associate manager, will be
Louis Bunsbach of Stanford, a football
star,-who was captain of his team a
year ago, and acted as assistant coach
last fall. The two college men are both
devotees of the sport of roller skating.
Each is popular in society, each "has a
way with him," and together they are
expected to be invincible in San Jose.
LAJOIE GETS RICH
PLAYING BASEBALL
$39,000 Cleveland Star Has Earned
Since 1902.
With $80,000 stacked up to his credit
for work since June, 1902, Napoleon
Lajoie -will take up his first contract
now for four years some time this
month. The blues' chieftain signed his
first and only contract with Cleveland
while hostilities were raging just four
seasons ago. The date was June, 1902,
and the time covered ran thru the cam'
paign of 1905.
Larry is now in the prime of his ball
playing life, and he should have eight
good seasons left in him yet. This
means that he will draw down $60,000
before he sidesteps the game for good,
more than any athlete has earned upon
the baseball field, with the possible ex*
ception of "Muggsy" John McGraw,
who is to be reckoned with.
Nig Cuppy, who held the record in*
the National league as the slowest and
most deliberate pitcher, threatens to
follow the example of Amos Busie and
Sis
et back in the game. Cuppy thinks
long rest has restored his pitching
arm.
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EARP WINS FINE CUP
IN SENSATIONAL RUN
Shatters Record in 100-Mile Dash,
Tho Running on Three
Tires.
By Publiaben* Virtu.
Hotel Ormond, Fla., Jan. 27.Clifford
Earp, driving S. F. Edge's 80-horse
power Napier, this afternoon broke "the
100-mile world's record for gasolene
racing cars by 2 minutes, 43 3-5 sec
onds, on the Ormond-Daytona beach
course.
This, because the Napier traveled
more than sixty miles on three tires and
one wheel rim, was a result that would
not have been deemed possible by any
one with any knowledge of motoring.
His average mile was a shade over 45
seconds, in spite of the fact that the
elerk of the course says he lost more
than five minutes outright when his tire
burst. But for the accident his time
would have been close to one hour.
Earp's corrected time was 1:15:40 2-5.
Earp's reward for the sensational
race is the beautiful cup posted by the
Minneapolis Automobile club. The
trophy is one of the most beautiful
hung up for the Ormond races and there
was great rivalry among the owners to
capture it and the attendant honor in
the speed its winning would necessitate.
Every one of the best cars down here
was entered and every driver exerted
his every effort to finish first and win
the coveted piece.
Eisked Life to Win.
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Emanuel Cedrino, in a 110-horse pow
er Fiat, finished second after being
ahead for the first seventy miles, be
cause of being obliged to replace a tire.
His corrected time was 1 hour, 16 min
utes, 39 seconds.
William M. Hilliard, in the 80-horse
power, ended third, after slight delays,
in the corrected time of 1 hour, 21 min
utes, 5 seconds.
Fully 5,000 people saw the end of the
contest and waxed enthusiastic toward
the end. Of course Earp took great
chances of personal injury in attempt
ing such a dash "barefoot" after the
JJapier threw a. shoe. The officials de
clared that he was foolhardy, especially
as he seemed to have no chance of win
ding.
There were six starters in this free
for-all, the other three being Walter
Christie in his 110-horsepower special
racer Lancia in the 110-horsepower
Fiat and H. N. Harding in T. W. Sut
phin's 44-horsepower Damler.
The start was at the twelve-mile
post, turning at the sixteenth, making
four miles and their six full laps of
fifteen miles from tue first mile-post
to the sixteenth, a total of ninety,
which left six miles to finish from the
sixteenth to the ten-mile marks, fin
ishing at the club house.
The starts were made with breaks
of thirty seconds each. At the end of
ten miles the order was: Earp, Ced
rino, Lancia, Christie, Hilliard and
Harding.
Earp Pushes Forward.
When the contestants passed the
judges' stand next, at the end of
twenty-eight miles, the order was the
same, except that Hilliard had taken
fourth place from Christie who was
fifth.
Just before Earp had finished forty
miles his tire troubled him and he fell
to third place. Cedrino and Lancia
each moved up a notch to first and sec
ond places respectively, being only
about a second apart.
At this point Christie had dropped
to sixth, Harding replacing him. Ced
rino was dragging his muffler, but at
forty miles was six seconds better than
the world's record.
This was the last time that Christie,
Lancia and Harding passed the judges,
Lancia having trouble with his radia
tor, and Christie with his cylinders.
At the end of fifty-eight and seventy
miles, Cedrino led, with Earp second
and Hilliard third. The Italian was
cloBe to his seventy-fifth mile when his
tire exploded and Earp slipped to first
place, which he easily maintained
thereafter.
The Napier car has been little
changed since last January, when under
McDonald's driving, it won the kilo
meter, mile, five-mile and ten-mile rec
ords here.
The 100-mile record was made by
H. W. Fletcher in the Diedrich in one
hour, eighteen minutes, twenty-four
seconds.
The two-mile-a-minute event went
over to Monday along with the others
after the Stanley steamer had blown
out a cylinder head.
Keef e, one of tne three Pacific coast
pitchers gobbled up by Griffith, seems
to be making a fine showing on the
coast, judging by recent reports. He
may be another Tim.
Just now the big league managers are
telling how all of their minor league
plavers will develop into Mathewsons,ewsous
Keelers, Lajoies and Wagners,
be a different tale by April 1.
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