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SPORTS
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| TODAY IN PUGILIS
J TIC ANNALS.
? ~'9
1824?Jem Ward defeated Phil
Sampson in 27 rounds at Stony Strat
ford, England. Those who kick at the
arrangements for entertaining present
day crowds at fights should consid
er the conditions under which this
battle of 90 years ago was pulled
off. The ring was pitched on the turf
In an open field. A cold rain fell
In torrents throughout the fight
There were no seats, and all the spec
tators had to stand in the deep mud.
The rink itself was a lake of mud, and
the pugilists were soon covered with J
slime from head to foot. Yet hun-'
dreds of sporting men endured these
discomforts without complaint, and
at the ringside there were moro\thau
a hundred women and girls. Some of
the latter were only from twelve to
sixteen years of age, but they applaud
ed each fall as enthusiastically as the
men. Ward, "the Black Diamond,"
had the best of the argument, and in
the 27th round Sampson was "coated
with blood and mud," and Ills sec
onds tossed in the sponge. Imagine
a modern boxer fighting under such
conditions?or a modern fight fan at
tending such a bout!
1886?John L. Sullivan and Dun
can McDonald fought a 4-round draw
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'"TSmdi onlr by DBS. P. FAHRNEY ft SON. Ha? ag&s&S
at Denver.
1892?Billy Murphy and Tommy
White (ought a 32-round draw at San
Francisco.
1897?Jack Everhardt and Jack
Daly fought 10-round draw at New
Orleans. * . .
PLAY FAIRVIEW THURSDAY.
A (cam made up ot public school
basketball players will go to Falrvlew
Thursday night to play a public school
team o( that town. A good game Is
expected.
TO PLAY TERRA ALTA.
The Fairmont high school basket
ball team will go to Terra Alta Thurs
day night. The mountain team Is said
tc be a strong one and a good game
is expected. The Fairmont high
school team has plnyed only one game
this senson, that with the West Vir
ginia Reserves and pelng defeated by
a single point. The local team is de
termined to win Thursday night's con
test.
JESS WILLARD, THE NOTORIOUS
"WHITE HOPE," 27 TOMORROW
! Pottawatomie county, Kansas, has
, "ever loomed very luminous In the
pages or past history, bnt just
one year hence, come tomorrow, the
people inhabitating that county expect
to hold a great celebration commem
orating the birthday of a native son
who lias achieved a place in the sun
j of f'imo. For the morrow will mart;
I the twenty-seventh anniversary of the
birth fu said county of the Sunflower
State of Jess Willard, the notorious
' white hope" who lias been matched
to practice the rites of his peculiar
Profession with one Jack Johnson.
Many sporting men In other parts on
'.crtaln doubts whether the altitudln
ous Jess, in case he actually meets
Jack, will be able to triumph over his
dusky opponent, but Pottawatomie
county sports entertain no such mis
Sivings. It is rumored that one Potta
watomie plunger has already wagereti
fifty cents against a dime that Willard
will w.ln if he fights Johnson, and other
big bets are being arranged. Joss
will carry a lot of Pottawatomie conn
ly money if he ever gets into the ring
with the world's champion.
Willard was a cowboy before he
started out to disarrange the maps of
ills fellowmen. He spent the days In
punching fractious steers and the
'lights in growing. Every morning he
found that lie had gained an inch or
two during the night, and the process
<!'dn t stop until he had gained an alti
tude of six feet and seven inches
above sea level. ITo has a reach of
inches, and weighs about 235
rounds when in condition.
It was four years ago that Willard
started fighting in the ring. His first
match was with Louis Fink, at Sapul
!>a, Okla., and he lost on a foul. Later'
be fought Fink in Oklahoma City and
P'lt him to sleep In the 3rd round
During Wlllar(, (ook part ln eJght
patties, all in Oklahoma, and won all
?,fc"rst' flve ?f 'hem by knock
o.lts.- The next year Jess set out for
the East and made a good showing
against Luther McCarthy and Arthur
.edkey in New York, besides knock
, ing out Soldier Kearns and other
hopes.'
waY^ "I8' 20 r?"nd enea8en,ent
was with Gunboat Smith in.San Fran
cisco last. year. The big Kansan had
a bad case of stage fright, to all ap.
Pearances. and the Gunboat got the
tCt?nhbut imm mn,t
(hlng to brag about, and a lot of sports
thought Willard was entitled to tho
?.iado. After the unfortunate "Bull"
to?thn rattJ0 at Ver"0n Jess "turned
in M ? I ?UtPOlnt"1S "Boer" Rode!
iu Ml waukee and giving Carl Morris
the whipping of his young life in New
,- L u Jesa knocked out Rodol
Haven and put a crimp ln tho
! ?ns ifGeorge DavIs ln Bufra,?
These and other past performances
give some basis for Pottawntnmi
county's faith in its natl^Tot
of Jesss greatest weaknesses is his
over/lowing good nature. He won't
fight at his best unless his opponent
When'hTth,'ne t0 ln,Ure hls
When he gets to feeling really peeved
dLTll^W dem0n' If John8?"
meets tha Jawhawker, he will be wise
? S h'8 BOIden 8mlal constantly
." ['lsp,ay' and to refrain from indulg
ing n any rude conversation. Such re
marks is Jack customarily makes dur
r COU"e ?f 1,18 battIes "ould
Jfias and make him feel very
nnnoyed. When he gets that Way,
1lZ aS n0t take a he"rty
at bIs annoyer. Then?ouch"?
ens - two ? three - four ? flvo
s ~ seven eight - nine - ten!
BA8EBALL, BREVITIES.
In addition to Oleen and Wamw
President Hermann of Cincinnati is
SSSSSSSg^sM
Tell Binkiey Is havin' his Ford done
over at th' Creek shlnin' parlor. When
we meet a real gentleman It alius sets
us t' thlnkln'.
be well supplied with diamond candi
dates when it leaves for the training
camp.
Ban Johnson, after almost a year in
the ruck, emerges gloriously as the
world's greatest press agent. To so
engineer the negotiations lending up to
the simple purchase of a ball club as to
completely overshadow the jumpings
of a Walter Johnson and a Rube Mar
quard requires some genius.
Lee Magee has assumed his new du
ties as manager of the Brooklyn Feder
als, and his. first business come In the
offer of a trade by Joe Tinker, manager
of the Chicago Federals, involving the
acquisiton by the later of Danny Mur
phy, outfielder. Magee took the offer
undr consderation.
A suggestion to Charles Comisky for
a Christmas gift to Chicago fans: Pho
tographs of the contracts signed by
Edward Trowbridge Collins and Clar
ence Henry Rowland as captain and
manager of the White Sox, respective
ly. The figures would be very interest
ing and will show who is boss.
Manager MilletHuggins of the Car
dinals has gone to St. Louis for a con
ference with President Britton. Hug,
of course, is disappointed at Lee Ma
gee's action in Jumping the St Louis
club, but he had little hope of holding
Magee to his word after Lee got the
managreail bee in his bonnet.
Athletes in W. Va.
Plan War Benefit
PT. PLEASANT, W. Va., Dec. 28.
?A plan* to raise funds for war
stricken Belgium has been advanced
ty Secretary Boyd Chambers of the
West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic
Association.
This plan is to stage a basketball
game 'n every city in the b'Jate on
Jan. 30, all of the funds to be donated
to the Belgians.
While there is no way to estimate
the amount that may be raised, the
backers believe that over ?5,000 will
bo secuied.
That is tho mark which they will
try to reach. The State newspapers
have been enlisted (in the cause, as
well as every school official in West
Virginia. ?
Footballists Form
Army Battalion
(Correspondence of The Associated
Press.)
LONDON, Dec. 28.?To offset criti
cism against professional football,
which has been charged with hamper
ing recruiting, authority has .been
granted for the formation of a battalion
of athletes and football players to be
known as the 17th Football Battalion
of the Middlesex Regiment.
MRS. THOMAS D. SCHALL.
Wife of Blind Congress*
man Eloct From Minnesota.
(CopjTlfhL)
* Clear, and high and silvery, clear
ing?with a smooth cry as of Insist
ent woe?the uproar of the city's traf
fic down by the Twenty-third street
ferries, rose the call of Berger's bugle,
playing "Taps", as. he sought among
the tenements and butcher shops and
boarding houses for knives and shears
to grind.
It carried to the ears of Bloom, In
his little shanty at the pier-end, where
he was "chief shipping clerk at dock"
for a great hardware, firm, a flood of
memories, all sad?of nights upon far
southern battle fields when Joy of war
was wholly gone from the blue fight
ers, and men sank In sleep of absolute,
death-like exhaustion.
Not one bright reminiscence came to
Bloom, the aged veteran, at sound of
that Intense, pathetic call.
"Why does he play "Taps?"' he
?cried. "Great. Lord! Why'Taps?'"
He moved uneasily upon bis stool.
"Ach," he said, so loudly that ha
drew attention from tho youths on two
high stools who, as his assistants, oc
cupied the little dockhouse with him.
"Is death so far away that old men,
such as bim and me, must keep our
selves reminded of It with a horn?"
He rose, acutely irritated, and wont
to a little window which looked out
upon the swirling waters of tho slip,
foul and greasy as tho tide paused at
the turn. The two clerks, rebellious
at being1 forced to work under an old
man, grinned, for they could see the
son of the company's president com
ing up the dock and they knew the
methods of that youth.
Their little hearts, not yet devel
oped and expanded by the long pul
sations of deep sorrow and experience,
leaped with an exultation which they
did not know was mean. If young
FuhrBtadt but looked la while Bloom
was loafing, things might progress
upon that dock! Bloom was the only
real old fogy left about the place.
Young Fuhrstadt, since his aged fa
ther bad been forced to stay at home
because of rheumatism, had wiped the
others all away. But, that day be did
not look ir as he passed.
Later, at the small restaurant
where, daily, they had luncheon, Bloom
met Berger.
"Man," he Bald to him, "why is it
that you always play 'Taps?'" ,
"And why not?" Dcrger answered.
"It Is slow and easy. Those other
calls, they are too nimble. 'Taps'
brings trade as well as would the
-'Beveillp.'"
"True," said Bloom, "you were a
cook in army days, no bugler. You
learned late. And 'Taps' is slow and
easy.! I understand. I often won
dered/'
"That is how it is," said Berger.
Next day. Bloom again went to the
window for a moment, and young
Fuhrsradt dldJookln. He was amazed.
"HI, you!" ho cried.
Bloom quickly turned, although be
felt no fear. He thought himself a
fixture on the dock.
"Is it something I can do?" he
asked.
"Yes," was the sarcastic answer,
"get to work."
The two youths bent above their
books, smothering laughter.
Bloom felt that he was standing Id
the middle of the ruin of all things.
Anger first, then panic, seized bin*
Was he, then, who had believed him
self secure, to lose his chance of earn
ing his small livelihood? Was the
fact that he had been the tent-mate
of young Fuhrstadt's father 40 years
and more ago, not to be considered?
For 30 years he had kept the rec
ords of the dock, with what help had
been assigned to him,'with absolute
exactness.
"But?I am old," he muttered, "and
it is a young man's world!"
"You are right in playing 'Taps,'"
he said to Berger when he met him
next. "Quite right For you are old;
and it Is the one call tor me to hear,
I, also, am old. Berger, It is a young
man's world?a young man's world."
Next morning when he went to
work he found a note upon his desk.
It was brief and pointed.
"Call at the offlce and take time," It
said. 'We need young men."
Not even the young clerks could
laugh as they looked at bis face when
ho first raised it from that note.
"Make all of life you can, young
men," he said, as lie put on his coat.
'Tour youth?it passes. Good-by. 1
have .always done my work, but I am
now grown old. Good-by."
I He forgot to call tor tho small .wages
due him, but passed, unseeing, , to his
boarding house. From the distance
came the wall of Berger*s bugle.
Nowhere could he find a new posi
tion. Everywhere they said he was
too old. Dally he trudged the streets,
his only brisk emotions being an In
tense desire to keep clear, of Berger.
But when a week had pamed,
alarmed at Bloom's long absence from
the little restaurant, Berger- went to
the dock to make inquiries. Learning
what had happened,' he was filled with
mighty wrath and formed a great re
solve.
He left his scissors-grinding outfit
in the reetr-urant and sought a drug
store, where he thumbed through a
directory until he found the street
and number of young Fuhrstadt's fa
ther.
' when two hours later, he was.lett
ing the old mail, he called him "com
rade." and furthermore the rich man,'
answering,.said "comrade," also.
CASTO RJA
house sat
SMIll?JSSgren
world. Ia It wa? no place for voter
ana, for "baa-beens," he quoted bit
terly from the younj clarlu.
It waa no place for him, so on the
table lay an old-time pistol, newly
loaded. He had facad death, many
tlmea, in the old days, without a tre
mor. when he ? young, with every
thing before him. Should he falter
now, when nothing was before him?
He had raised the.plstol to "his fore
head, when a thought came US him.
Berger would be passing preaently
with his call of "Taps."
It would be fitting that he wait for
the slow bugle notes: they would be
music most appropriate to his old
ears as he was steeled to start upon
the last long sleep, prepared to have
"Lights out" forever for his dim old
eyes. Tes, he would watt
Berger's lips bothered him aa ha
?went downtown In the underground.
He could feel that they had swollen
that afternoon, even beyond the thlc^
proportions to which the previous
night of practising upon his bugle
softly In the back yard of the tene
ment he lived In, had brought them
In the morning.
"Ach! Bloom will be surprised," he
told himself.
And Bloom was not finding waiting
tedious. Putting from it with relief,
until the time should come to take it
up appropriately, the thought of death,
his mind dwelt on far memories.
He placed small keepsakes of his
good old wife in the breast pocket of
his coat?the pocket nearest to hla
heart. He wrote a brief farewell to
Berger, and another to the gray com
mander of his post in the Grand Army.
The letter to the commander said:
rm waiting now for Berger to so by,
and play Taps on his bugle. It kind of
seems to me that as I go to sleep It will
?.S ,V? !i'?r that "Taps" call blowed.
.. Hoveillo" Is for young men. "Taps"?
that is the call for us-for me, and. pretty
bivouacr y0U an<3 tho r?8t' Good-by. I
Then he waited five, ten, fifteen
minutes. He fingered tho pistol calm
ly. Ita chill touch did not terrify him.
It waa to be the instrument of his re
lease, an old man, from a young man's
world.
There was a brilliant smile on Berg
er's face as he went to get his scis
sors-grinding outfit and his bugle; his
step was almost Jaunty as he' passed
out upon tho street with them, and
hurried briskly toward Bloom's board
ing house. As, nearing, ho raised the
bugle to his lips he had to kill'a smila
in order to conform to the small
brass mouthpiece.
"Ah!" ho was thinking, "here Is a
surprise for B' m!"
At the first soft quaver of the
throaty, brazen call, tlje pistol which
had been hanging loosely In Bloom's
hand twitched as the muscles of his
fingers and his lean old wrist con
tracted. He glanced about the room
to see that everything was in good
order.
He bad forgotten nothing, ho assured
himself. Now, as soon as "Taps" waa'
finished?
But?what?
Those which were coming through
the open window were not the long
and mournful notes his ears bad been
expecting. It could not, after all, ba
Berger who was playing.
Some coaching party probably had
wandered to the dingy side street, or I
some Ingenious auto-horn had been de
vised which accurately counterfeited
lip-blown bugle calls.
No, not the notes of "Taps;" quick
and sharp and shrill, they reached
him, without a hint of sadness.
Triumphantly they sang of hope and
energy and joy. declaring birth of a
new day. No farewell was that call,
but greeting?loud, melodious, lnsplr
leg.
"It's 'Reveille!'S he muttered. " 'Re
veille!'"
? Tbere was a clatter on the stairs.
IBerger entered gaily.
i "Did 1 play It good?" he cried. "It
Imaybe braced you up a little, huh? It
braced me up a whole lot to play it.
Yes, It did."
Bloom went to him and laid a trem
bling hand upon the fingers and the
bugle wMch they held.
"It sounded fine," he said. "It
sounded fine. Yes, it braced mo up. It
did me good to bear it."
Prom the street below arose the
notes of still another fashioned tube
of braSB, this time the barking born
of a great touringcar, stopping at that
door.
"Why, Bloom, lfs Fnhrstadt!" Berg
er cried. "He's going to climb out
:We musn't let him?not tied up, the
jway he Is,, with, rheumatii, Be must
have got" to-thinking- and come down
himself."
> "I just came round to say," said
Fnhrstadt, glad to sink back among
the comfortable cushions, "that you
'go back to work tomorrow, Bloom;
and if those kids there in your office
don't do as they are told, you fire 'cm.
II've?seen my son!"
Maybe He Got It
Brown and Jones were leaning on
k polished' counter and talking' in
?timately. Then said Brown to JoneB:
v "Look here.old man. Suppose you
were to come around to my apart
monts.ope of thesa dbys, aiyl should
walk up. to my room and,: receiving no
answer to your knock, should come in
land flnd-my lifeless body': stretched
j out cold across the bed. .Now; in a
teaser like that, what would you do?"
"Til tell yon, ' answered Jones, after
tkinking It over, "I'd institute an lm
.mediate search' for the fire dollars
you have owed me for two years.".,
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late Saturday mnfl x
selling. -A. maa^wa*
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