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ADDITIONAL SPORT NATIONAL LEAliUE The baseball struggle is going for ward with Its usual upt. and downs, with the Pirates and Tigers holding comfortable leads In their respective leagues. It Is to be remarked that the runners-up In both leagues, however, are playing winning ball and the lead ers must keep on their tiptoes all the time to hold first p!aee. It- would not surprise me in the least if the end of the season should duplicate the hair raising, heart-stopping finish of last Benson. Let us hope it does. It is strange how evenly matched the American league teams are every sea son. This year it looks a toss-up be tween the Athletics, Tigers, Naps and Red Sox, with the Yanks, Browns and White Sox having a fighting chance. In the National league it is the old struggle between the Pirates, Cuba and Giants, with Cincinnati and Philadel phia off chances. If Mike Donlin comes %aek wftto the Giants the chances of the New Yorkers will be very considerably improved. Mike is strong when the Giants are weak in batting. Unless Mike aspires and Js ofTered the chance to go to work as a regular actor he will find it a ted ious summer unless he plays ball. He has kept himself in good trim, how ever, I hear, by playing handball, tak ing long runs and practicing with var ious baseball teams. According to Joe Humphries, Mike's original friend In New York, the erstwhr.e captain of the Giants is in such good shape that he can get in the game at once. A few months ago Donlin was reported in bad health, but while he is t'hin he Is strong now. Since he has ceased to polish brass rails with his shoes Mich ael has not taken on flesh. The question of Donlln's eligibility Is not an intricate problem. Last spring John T. Brush wrote Mike con gratulating him on his success in Vaudeville although regretting his re tirement from baseball. At that time Donlin had put a price on his base ball talents that was prohibitive. le meant it to be and would have been disappointed if the club had accepted his terms, for he has earned far more In vaudeville than he could possibly have asked for playing ball. Therefore the relations between Donlin and the New York club is a sort of protracted truce. Mike can come back any time and the worst he can expect is the old regulation national commission fine of $100, half of which will be remitted as soon as it is Imposed. McGraw is Just as independent as Donlin. He has not corresponded with Mike and will not run after him to of fer him the old job. But If circum stances bring about a situation where Donlin, like Barkis, is "willin*" Mc Graw will hand over & uniform without delay. That Larry McLean of the Reds has developed Into a great catcher admits of no doubt. There was never a man who could throw a baseball harder Tfrlth less effort. He throws entirely from the shoulder and the only reason that they steal on him Js that his aim ft sn't as good as Bergen's. He can get foul back at the grandstand and snap to third or first base without mov ing anything but his right arm. And thereby hangs a tale. There was some criticism of Lary's throwing in Cin cinnati a few years ago, but the con artant reiteration that he was a bum throwing catcher got on Larry's nerves ,Hfter a while and he went to Garry Herrmann aiid made him a business proposition. "See here," he said, "they say that I am & tramp at throwing to bases. Here Is a chance for you to make some money. Put a clause In my contract by which I am to get a dollar for every time I throw a base runneT out and lose a dollar every time I miss one." Herrmann is a good sportsman and Is always wilting to take a chance when l[ie sees any sort of a chance to win. He gave Larry's offer a long think .and then passed It up. It would sur prise you to know how little Larry's throwing has been criticised in Cin cinnati since. Larry is not a world beater as a hit ter, but there has been little criticism *n his hitting. At heart Larry is more interested in *f.nother kind of hitting. He is firmly Convinced that he can liok Jeffries and Johnson, and his teammates are will to back it up. In spite of his size fast on his feet behind the bat, the Reds say that he is one of the best boxers in the big league. 6ut force of circumstances has made a Catcher of him. If he wanted' to be a Johns fig to Je is %nd tl BUTCHERS, -•—e- -e~ THE Meter Delivery Wagon A Practfcsl ui Econraiic Necessity fit BAKE fighter he would have* to give up a good living and begin from the bot tom in a new trade, and he can't af ford ». SPRING NEW WR4NKUK. We«t»ro Managers Able to Keep Play W in at Night. According to The St. Louis Star, a few of the western ball teams have adopted a new wrinkle to keep their players in line in the evenings. It is well known that a ball player must keep regular hours if he is to do good work on the diamond, and every man ager in both leagues has from time to time invented ways and means to make their men go to bed early, or at least be in their rooms at a certain time, without avail. Now,, some of the western managers instruct the clerk of the hotel where the club makes its headquarters that the time each player arrives and goes to his room must be stamped on a card each night, under a throat of lo^s of patronage. This system has not been adopted by the eastern clubs as yet, and probably will not be. The system seems unnecessary. If a base ball player hasn't brains enough to take care of himself he is not fit to be playing professional baseball, an»l the exactions of the game are so strict these days that it is impossible for a player to lapse from the straight and narrow path without being found out. A first offense means a fine, and a second one indefinite suspension. SOME BOXERS WITH Pi All of the touting of the combined presses in America will not accomplish for a fighter what some solid and un disputable knockouts tacked onto his record will, and the manager of every ring crack In the country knows ttiat this is a fact. Notice may be pro cured by the mile as to the speed and cleverness of a fighter, but the mul titudes come forth when a "walloper" is matched to fight. The populace admires a neat fielding ball player but how they love the lad who can bounce the ball oft the fence now and then. A true footed goal kicker is dreaded when on the opposing team, but of what use is the nimble hoof, if he lacks line-bucking ability, or cannot stop the opposing back« when they come tearing through th' line? A race horse may have the slickest hide and prettiest markin imaginable, but he won't carry a dol lar of the real turfite unless he has shown he is "there."' Therein lies the love of the American fistic fan for the man who can prove beyond press dis cussion or a referee's decision by a clean knockout that he is the master craftsman.' Of all the bantams who have donned the toga of ringdom, Jimmy Barry, of Chicago, carried the largest caliber wallop. He was a terrific hitter and Just as dangerous in the twentieth round as when the gong tinkled for the start of the battle. Abe Atell. as a bantam, was a puncher of merit twenty-seven straight he finished, among them Eddy Hanlon, Terry Mc Govern hit in ugly fashion with both hands. Dixon's Savage Wallop. George Dixon fought most of his men to win the verdict, but when the occasion demanded "Little Chocolate" could drive home a blow which settled the battle the instant It crashed on an opponent's Jaw. Dixon, in all his bat tles, like Gans, waited for the opening to cross his knockout. He did not fight blindly and keep winging with both hands, but kept the right hand ready like the old pistols used in duels, which had to be cocked to fire the instant a lowered guard left entrance Dixon hit. It was like the fisherman awaiting the tug at the line which sig nals ye speckled seafood has accepted the bait a swish of the line and the fish is hooked a flash in the air, and Dixon had battered all the fight out of his foe. Terry McGovern was a par ticularly savage hitter as a feather weight. Young Corbett, In the dayB gone by, could lift his rival from his feet to his back. Solly Smith once had the punching powers most middle weights possess. "Kid"' Lavigne, perhaps the best lightweight this or any other country ever produced, was the hardest hitter of the light weight division. Lavigne had perfect aim, and he shot home his punches like a streak of lightning. He could swing, hook or hit straight, and had the faculty of being able to shorten or lengthen his punches, as 1GRQCER4.. •I-'/lLAUNDklESijV and all merchants who wish to Increase their traffic, expand their business and economize In time and expense. Will do the work of three horse-drawn wagon^ at less expense and with much mora satis faction. Wrltfl fnr particulars and prices COLUMBUS BUGGY COMPANY Northwestern Distributors, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Joe Wslcott, TV», You cannot pass Joe Wa4cot( wbe you dissertate on the slugging brif ade. When the "Black Demon" 1 fly, and he came within inches of hi prey, he usually won right there. Or. man met Walcott who outpointed hii —I^avigne—and twice the "Saginaw Kid" so crippled Walcott that hi: fighting spirit dwindled. "Mysterlou?: Billy Smith," was a hitter. Stanley Ketchell displayed great ability as a welter-weight in fact, Californians claim he was the hardest hitting wel ter-weight the country has produced. BOb Fitzsimrnons was the chief of all the middle-weights when It came to mingling. Some of the heavy weights claimed he hit them harder than any one they came In contact with. "Old Red Top" was able to hit a-s hard after ten rounds of punishment as he was at the Instant he faced his opponent at the commencement of the battle. Tommy Ryan and "Kid" Mc Coy both wore heavy artillery in the swatting line, and used similar cau tious ring tactics. John L. Sullivan had a terrific punch. Fitz was a wonderful middle-weight. In the big gun class Jim Hall was worthy of rank, but James J. Jeffries, with his 245 pounds of splendidly com pact flesh, could drive his hand to the mark with the force of a six-inch shell. America. The present generation appears to be turning back to the men of the La vigne type, and they combine a lot of cleverness and speed with their work. GfflS DELIVERED As Joe Gans says himself, his knock out of Frank Erne was the quickest on record in a championship fight. It was almost instant. And never did the sporting world get such a shock. Frank Erne—most clever of all fighting men knocked out in a single punchy by a man he had whipped before. It was incredible. Many of the spectators didn't even see the blow struck—it came so sud denly. The bell rang. The fighters met and spared an Instant. There was a rapid interchange of feints. Men were settling themselves in their chairs in full expectation of seeing the usual 'feeling out," and tBB FARGO KOKtlM AfID 0A1L»I XSPtfffLftAft, SAfTTODAY EVE^HNO, JULY 31, 1909 New Woman's Athletic Underwear i- J? 5 frs bt i -I ,*?? I "HE new woman scorns frilly lingerie. was necessary to reach the mark. Joe Gans was an enlarged type ot Dixon, crafty but careful. Battlln Nelson has a fair blow, but he de pends on his durability and the in cessant gaff he shovels into the bod of the man he Is trying to conque* Jim Carney and Billy Plummer, England, were men who cotild win 1 a single instant with a well-direfetc blow. W you see in the picture in the daytime. *.* Jtv which goes with t'nis combination, but the whole thing Is patterned pretty closely after what the men wear. Notice the sookSI jJfV* She wears pajamas arid—what There is a tailor made petticoat 1 K.' ^7,JV 1 UMSI Ion* and scientific fight. Some looked down to knock the •hes from their cigars—and when iey looked up again there was Frank i me lying stiff and unconscious on ie floor and Joe Gans standing over with a curious expression of sur prise and satisfaction on his lean I Arabian features. Yet there was nothing flunkey about ie great negro's victory. Gans had ways been a student of the game. He still a marvelous boxer, and even w, 85 years of age and battle-scarred teran that he is, can be depended on bring out something new whenever i £#Ms. .Of oourae, Jes is don*. .Xta* y 4 n '&• three terrible fights with Battling Nel son wound up his career, and today he is only the meager 3hadow of the Joe Gans who won a world's championship With a single blow. His strength is gone. They say—although Joe denies It—ttiat he is a victim of the one thing fighters dread—consumption. In any ease he will never make another great fight, Qaiis ATways Fair, Gans was a terrible puncher In his day. And he was a cool, fair, gentle manly fighting man. He never took an unfair advantage. He fought like a man, matching brain against brain, and fist against fist. When he was beaten (and defeat was rare to Joe Gans) he took his medicine without a whimper. Some cowardly fighters pre fer losing on a foul to being knock out. Not so Joe Gans. Joe always had that punch. At flr when a boy, he tried to be "fane Then he happened to see Bob Fit slmmons fight. Joe was fascinated. ll followed Fitzsimrnons about the coun try and watched his bouts when he meeting all comers. He studied, for was always a student. In time he ma tered Fitzsimrnons' knack of hittini and then he began knocking men c himself. His first reverse after this was the battle with "Elbows" McFadd i It was a tough fight. McFadden w Gang down and knocked him out In ii twenty-third round. Three months Iff er he met McFadden again and got a draw. Then he won in twenty-fl rounds. Finally, In 'Frisco, in 1902, knocked "Elbows" out in three roun and settled all old scores. Hardest Left-Hand Hitter, Dal Hawkins was the hardest le* handed hitter in the world a few ye« ago. Clever fighting men knew about that left h^nd, but they could stay away from It. Gans fought hi Joe watchefi the left carefully, yet shot it through a small opening, a Gans suddenly found himself lying the floor. He came too Just in time bear the rsfwrss sar **l«.** lie got i Women Who Save' They Da It Utile by little difference between the wriWif who saves and the woman wfeft doot not is that the former despises &o sum of money, no matter how email, and that the latter will only consider, large sums. Small ones, she says, take too long to accumulate they are outp ut for pocket money. Now, it is tbe little things Chat oourtl up. The beginnings of nearly all larffa fortunes have been made by saving single dollars, even quarters and Ova cant pieces. IT you wait for large suras to open bank accounts you wait forever soma* times. Take a certain unit, either S5 or 110, and save your pennies toward It. When you have a certain number of these units invest them carefully. This Is the secret of having an income In one's old age. Women who splurge on small la* comes are to be pitied. They always have a gray old age either as de pendents or victims of privation. Youth Is the time to make money and to save It. If the woman of leisure Is foolish not to save money, how much more so Is the woman who works on a salary! If she spends, as many do, all she earns she Is placing herself surely at the mercy of her first stroke of bad luck or fit of sickness. Furthermore, the woman who does not save is ab solutely at the mercy of the firm that employs her. If It does not treat her right she must stay on and endura things. Otherwise she need not she has enough to tide her over a change. This feeling of independence and of self respect which the possession of a little capital brings with it Is by Itself enough compensation for the self de nial required in bringing it about. Dutch Apple Cake Separate two eggs. Add the yolks to cupful and a half of milk, a table spoonful of butter melted and a half teaspoonful of salt. Mix and add two cupfuls of flour that have been sifted with three level teaspoonfuls of bak ing powder, beat quickly, fold in the well beaten whites of the eggs and turn Into a shallow greased baking tin. Cover the top with apples that have been pared, cored and quartered, put ting the rounded sides up, and dust ever with powdered sugar. Bake in a moderately quick oven for half an hour or until the apples are tender. Benrs with rich cream. Cheese Cafei r' l%-y. The finest coaching organization for women in Critics who know the ring game andjnence. who saw Jeff and Sullivan, pick the In the picture Mrs. Thomas Hastings Is driving the others with her are Californian as the hardest hitter since Wagner, Mrs. lselin. Miss Fish, Miss Twombly and Miss Hollins. e i n e i o n o e i n a e i n that of the Colony club, in New York. The Colony is run on the same lines as a smart man's club. Its membership list is made up of women who belong to the Four Hundred or who have attained marked literary or artistic procni- Yolks of four eggs, one cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter, three teaspoon fuls of sifted flour, one-half cup of sweet milk. Heat the milk and butter together, add. stirring constantly, the other ingredients and when well mixed bake in an open crust of rich pastry. The Start From the Clubhouse ft* V j- v I s- IPSwyTB.. tt^ f- •»*.' V w irw 'V, ~**.V i.V -'''M 4 ",4 Y U I K I O y I doubt up just in time. Dal jumped in to fin ish him, and Gan», w -it. managed to whip a right hander to his jaw. Down went Dal. "When my lieu cleared," Gans told me afterward, "I found myself standing there looking at Hawkins, who was lying flat on flu floor." In the next round—the second —Gans put over another right-h&nri< and knocked Hawkins out. A ff-w months later he had an almost exactly similar experience with Hawkin.s, knocking him out this time in tJhe third round. When there were no more light weights ready to fight him. Joe Gans went into the welterwe'rh'r class nnd fought Champion Joe Walcott. That TRY IT was a fierce fight. Gans had the best of it, but was given a draw. Later ho went back among the lightweights, for .here were some new aspirants for his title. Dana Too Muoh, One of these was Battling Welion. For all his wonderful punching power, Joe Gans could not drop the Dane. Their first fight at Gold field ended In the forty-second round, Gans being de clared winner on a foul. It was a ter rible batle. Nelcon continually rushed In, head down, both arms beating the air. Gans deliberately measured him time and again, and drove that crush ing right against the Dane's chin. For 'en rounds he hammered Nelson at will. Then he felt himself growing weak, while the Dane showed no signs of slowing up. From that time on Gans fought with all the skill at his com- he fight out at Gans weakened and at last went lown for the long count. Nelson gave him a return match—so confident was the Dane —and wore him down for an other knockout. They say that In these last two lights Gans hit Nelson hard enough to drop a heavyweight. His terrific right handers, landing flush on the tip of the chin, fairly lifted the Dane from his feet and flung htm backward through the air. Yet while off the ground Nelson 'turned like a cat and landed on both feet, again leaning toward his enemy. Back he came, always in that endless rush. It was perpetual motion. Nelson Oould keep it up and Gans couldn't. We'll have new champions as great as the old, but there Is doubt that we'll ever see another lightweight with a more deadly punch than that carried fcy Joe Gans of Baltimore. 1 Lfrf (XC ekjrea. to smoke one of these "Invincible" cigars in order to FULLY appreciate THE VALUE and satisfaction to be had out of an EL KAH1R CIGAR J-! rn-r "J ••A. Twice Told Tale'* The "Hour City" Tractor Wins Again In the Motor Contest SS'-* '•W-1' In the International Motor f'.-intent held at Winnipeg. Manitoba, froni .July 10th to JWtntlu ItWB, th« Gold M«i»l was a* tin awnrded the •'FLOUR CITY" Tractor. Thp Flour ('it* i» a four rylinder, four cycle engine of thn most modern d«»ign and construction with the rruilf plr Iimlera »nl lar*c diameter driv« wheel*, we hare developed a tractor mt»*'mnrn pnwer with minimum weight, which is a most defer able feHtiir«« iu a Kf*n«»ral f»rni n«ine. Th winning of the Uuli Medal iu 1906 and again ia J909 »peak volurow, aad should beoonvincing evidence to prospective parchsaera, thatothe FLOUR CITY" Tractor is "THE BEST." faUloKne sent on application. KINNARD-HAINES CO. SS7 «4Hi Ave. Na MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. NEW PROBLEM FOR TAFT. rougnt wun au me ferns New England the case against mand, forcing Nelson to the Union and Central Pacific roads, in the work, and only occasionally driving in a blow that would have kocked all any other lightweight on earth. Both were weary and dazed at the lnish, and no one knows who would tave been returned the winner had it not been for the foul. This was the beginning of the end for Gans. He did whip Herman and Brltt, but Nelson finally brought him down. In their second figl't Nelson kept to hta usual scheme of battle, rushing endlessly and battering and roughing without an instant s rest Nation's Railroads Getting Into drift of a Few Men. New York Herald: That a serfM of railroad combinations and central* lzations of control is under way, which In the next two or three years will place the domination of the country'#" transportation Interests in three w four groups. Is the conclusion which officials draw from the movements of the present year, and the closing months of last year. The question i« asked on every hand, "What Is tlta government going to do about ItT* The fact is that everything just n09T Is waiting on some decisions In IBM portant cases pending in the courts. There is the New York, New Haven 4a Hartford litigation, which deeply con- hlh the government seeks to compel the Union Pacific to surrender the con trol of the Southern Pacific and tha Ran Pedro road the action under the anti-trust laws for the dissolution of the Standard Oil Co., which, while not directly affecting transportation, is ex pected to develop, some .important Judicial interpretations of that stntute the commodities clause case, and th4 case Involving the rates throughout the Rocky Mountain west growing outf of or dependent on the Interstate com«i merce commission's decision In tha Spokane rate case. But there is constant pressure t&t some proceedings in regard to the cod* solidations and combinations which are being developed from time to time. Tha activities of the J. H. Hawley inter ests are especially known recently that Hawley and Hill are working In pretty close harmony. Hawley hold his Col* orado Southern to the Hill group, an^ although the fact has not been an* pointed out, would enable Hill very.' come known, according to reliable re«4 ports from the inside, that Hawley hat secured control of the Missouri, Kansag' & Texas. This combination, it la pointed out, would enable Hill very easily to perfect, In co-operation with Hawley, a line from the northweit, through the mountain and plain coua ary, to the Gulf of Mexico at Galveston. Big Reservations Opened la July, 19CX », Uiroo raoro Indian Rom vattons will be opened to the white All directly on, or adjacent to tha Northern Pacific R'y C. The riaibead, til tho v.i'jvi. yioturosqutj part «!ne»t the Rookiw*t. hua 460.000 aoroe of th« vury of agriouliural and grtuuiLU iaiids. A government rwjlamatiori projao* will alao Tinite a iaige part of it very attractive. C. Tbc CM S d'Alene, just east at the city of Spokane. Washington. On Coeur d'Alene Lain, b.ee about 200,000 acres. Including timber lands. C. The Spokane, north of the olty of Spokane, hes i.f Flathoad isuids are appraised at $1.25 to $7 00 an aare -the others not yet appraised. C, Registration for ail these lands extends from July 16 to August 5.1000. Drawing will take place August 9. 1906. Kntries will not be made before April 1,1010. For the Flathead land, registration Is at Missoula. Montana For Coeur d'Alene land at Coeur d'AJene City. Idaho For Spokane land at Spokane, Washington. Wat detailed Information regarding lands etc.. write to C. W MOTT, Gen. Eniig Agent northern Pacific R'y. ST. PAUL, MINN. 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