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HEARST’S ST'NPA Y AMKRTCAX BASEBALL AND U'lrfEK SBOX'I'S SUNDAY. APRIL 27. 101:) 11 D FEATHER TITLE j L feff ’ Wil 1 Have to Spend All h Us for Arnica :: :: :: :: :: By u Bud” Fisher My W. W. Xaughtou. ■, ■ . FRANCISCO, April 26.—For a while the heavyweights, light, weight* anti middleweight* will to take a back seat. Wo have iHsy featherweight event to focus ■ ic" on now, and by the sunn, h ts a world's championship Alftiii. MoCarey's arena at Vernon will he ili.. scene of the encounter and next Tuesday Is the day. The principals ; will be two Johnnies—Kilbane and Dundee—and unless all signs fall the bout will be a memorable one. i Kilbane has said frequently that . the go with Dundee will mark his 1 farewell appearance as a feather weight. Johnny has advanced a Uou- : hie reason for his desertion of the 122-pound division. Increas'ng weight Is the main thing which Im pels him to throw' In his lot with the ltghtwolghts and he Is also Influenced by the reflection that Dundee Is al most the only featherweight left (O fight. i "When I box Dundee, who Is there ft,: me to meet?” Is Kllbane's favor ite way of putting It, It Is a notorious fact that when a champion ringman says anything his remarks are shredded and analyzed by critics and others w'ho -want ,o satisfy themselves as to whether any hidden or double meaning lurks in them. The usual course Is being fol lowed In the case of Kilbane and some one has discovered that John ny's reference to the scarcity of op ponents, Increasing poundage and a onsequent change of class suggesis that the champion Is laying the foun dation for an alibi In case things go wrong In the clash with Dundee. The fellow who looks ahead is tue wise guy," said a man who in dues to the belief that Kilbane is in tentionally ambiguous. ‘‘If Dundee ins it will not surprise me If Ktl- bane says: " T knew I would weaken myself making the weight and I was foolish to try it. I had already given out that it was to be my last fight as a featherweight. The one before !■: mid have been my last.' " mm* T liS merely goes to show how a *■ lempion’s word may be weighed. j: t be said, however, that if K »:tne is assailed with an atom of " /it* in respect lo the result of next Tuesday’s bout he is concealing the onderfully. Everything he says eathes of tilt utmost confidence. He • even accredited with the desire to t'k himself to the tune of $10,000 it • this is probably one of the inno cent bluffs that high class feathers i >■ sometimes allowed to get away with. If any backer of Kilbane were to say "what odds do you give.” Kilbane • would probably say "I want even > money,” and as supporters of Dundee can do better than that in the open market, there is small probability of Kllbane’s ten thousand dollars being tapped. The chances are Kilbane is sincere about joining the rangs of the light weights. He has frequently shown himself to be possessed of an ambi- , tion of that kind and now that he is getting heavier it is natural that a .move of that description should be close to his thoughts. As an augury of success in his new field Kilbane points to the fact that he defeated Joe Rivers shortly be fore the latter blossomed out as a lightweight. He thinks he can step over into Rivers’ present class and repeat the performance and from wiiat the sports of Los Angeles are saying, it is evident that quite a number of the Southern sport fight fans agree with Kilbane. * * * I OS ANGELES inhabitants are be- ginning to lopk upon Joe Rivers as b fighter who has shot his bolt. The bout with “Kayo” Brown show’ed weak spots in Rivers’ condition and his later affair with Leach Cross helped to give color to suspicions that had already formed. Whatever the cause Rivers ha* shown a. falling away in several of h’> recent fights and in the absence of any other explanation some of his friends are insisting that there is a very old proverb which says: A young man marries as a man that’s marred. It will be time enough to talk of a Rivers-Kilbane match, however, when the Kilbane-Dundee contest is a thing of the past. In the event of Kilbane winning it is practically a certainty that he will be signed with Rivers. But it may be that the pro gram will be changed or at least that there will be a postponement in the 1 vent that Dundee relieves Kilbane ‘>f the featherweight title. Certainly a deefat when leaving the featherweight division would not lend | eolat into Kilbane’s entry into the ' lightweight ranks. • * * * l-TERE in the West it is believed tha *■*• Dundee is he most formidable boy Kilbane has tackled since he be came champion. San Franciscoans "ho have seen Dundee in action In the East proclaim him a second Ter- ! rv McGovern and if there is anything in the suspicion that making 122 > pounds is no easy matter for Kilbane .hist now, it would appear that the title holder wold do well not to spec- <t* so much on the future but give - ndivided attention to the task that *nfronts him next Tuesday. Whichever way the thing goes there is a treat in store for the pat- •ns of Vernon. Kilbane is a prime favorite down that way on account of his extreme cleverness and it is fMt that willing Johnnie Dundee will force Kilbane to employ all the clev erness he is possessed of. WILLIE RITCHIE WOULD SIGN TO BATTLE MURPHY BOZEMAN, MONT., April 26.—Wil h* Ritchie will meet Harlem Tommy Murphy. “We shall be glad to meet M irphy if the money offer is a good ne," said Billy Nolan to-day. Nolan aAded that Ritchie had received offers t0 meet Joe Rivers or Leach Cross «nd was willing to battle either, tak ing the one that made the better Proposition. got six 6cu.a*s r cam't Get Hitfl To Gntc tAp anv. heu'Cr't r.qttj SPtTND Cn NOTED LOCAL FAN WRITES T CHANCE STILL YOUNG. , NEW YORK. April **.— "If Hans 1 ’gner and Napoleon '' pan plas J. veil as ever, there’s no doubt about 'tank Chance.” says’ the veteran Dan Brouthers. “Chance is 33 years old, much younger than Wagner and La- ■’°le. and he ought to remain in the #»»%.I«jv-e£Y*ral seaspfls yqt," Bv Charles A. Lamar, I N 1854 the New York Giants—and 'they were giants in stature, all right—under the management of John M. Ward did their preliminary spring “practice” in Jacksonville, Fla. Amos Rusie, the Hoosler giant, was then in his prime and his high fast ones whizzed over the pan with a hop, skip and a roar and that’s the dope guaranteed not to spying a leak. “Duke” Farrell, a finished catcher anti a great baseball general, caught his corkscrew benders and got away with It without turning an eyelash and it required real work, coupled with the “eagle eye” and the supple wrist bone, for the hostile gents to bunch their hits on Amos. Ask Hughie Jennings. John McOraw, “Rowdy” Jack O’Connor, Bobby Wal lace and others of the old regime — they know. The gabfest engendered by the real ly remarkable “speed” displayed by Walter Johnson, of the Washington team, as compared with that of Ru sie,* has raged like a fire in a furni ture factory for several years and the solution is as far distant now as when the famous debate started. And so it goes. When did a man ever get anything, or anywhere, in a baseball argument? That’s the question that’s agitating the board. As the Hon. Bard well Slate would say “What’s the use?” And he was right. But let us get down to brass tacks. The same year the Baltimores, with John McGraw at third, Jennings at short, and Joe Kelly in the outfield and the now famous Fred Clarke, then with Savannah, faced Rusie in the South and oddly enough Clarice was the only guy in the outfit who could rise to the occasion and cut in with the pinch, or any other kind of a bingle and that was bingling some, take it from an onlooker. Rusie’s speed was fierce, but he was not forced to rely on that, be cause he has a, corkscrew' curve that couldn’t be hit with a gatling gun. And he could stick it over w*hen in a hole and make good at that. How many pitchers of the present day can do that, aside from Mathewson and Rucker? As the Japanese school boy would say: “I ask. to know. The passing of Rusie was pathetic to a degree. He was a giant in stat ure. an ideal athlete and endowed with a lovable disposition. He never troubled the umpires, being content with making trouble for the batsmen. But the misguided fans in New Yo“k made a demi-god of him and he fell by the wayside because of his habits. What a commentary on the folly of strong drink. He is now Ashing for pearls in the Wabash River in In diana, with varying success and with no chance at all to "come back When he was traded to Cincinnati for Christv Mathewson by the Giants in 1900, he realized the beginning of the end and sighed: "Well, I see my finish. I had a $10,000 arm and a 10 cent head and that’s the answer. And so it was. GRIFFITH PROTESTS AND DEMANDS CATCHER EGAN NEW YORK, April 26.—When Manager Griffith learned Horn the press reports that Catcher Ben Egan, of the Athletics, had caught a game for Baltimore, he lost no time in send ing Ban Johnson a telegram protest ing against the player being allowed to get out of the league without his having waived on him. The rules provide a fine of $250 on any club which sends a player out of the league without having received consent, and Griffith proposes to have this rule enforced, and in addition ex- pects to get Egan or know the reason why. _ • M’CUE A BUSY BOXER. RACINE, W1S., April 26.—Many McCue, the Racine featherweight, has two matches on his hands at the Pres ent time. On April 28 Matty will clash with Posey Williams before the South Side A. C. in a six-round botfL while on May 15 he will meet Jeff O'Connell In a ten-round bout at Ra- cine. KRAUSE ELECTED PRESIDENT. INDIANAPOLIS, IND . April 26. —J. Edward Krause, wealthy hotel man. yesterday was elected president of the local Federal League baseball club. John A. George and James A. Ross, attorneys, were made secretary and treasurer, respectively. Charley Kolehmainen, Brother of Famous Athlete, to Be Devel oped at Distances. NEW YORK. April 26.—Unless their plans go badly astray during the next few months, Willie and Hannes Ko lehmainen will bring another of the famous family of distance runners to America some time during the present year. Charley Kolehmainen. the youngest of the four famous brothers, plans* to come to the United States to com plete his development as a distance runner. Charley has been training for some time. He wanted to start in the Olympic games last July, but his brothers would not let him. The reason that Willie Kolehmai nen wants brother Charley to get his athletic education in America is “competition.” Said Willie: “My young brother can learn more about running here in a month than he would in a year at home. We do not have the money to have so many meets as the Americans do. Charley is good already, but he is not ready to race as yet. He is too young.” Willie was then asked w'hether or not Charley showed signs of being even faster than Hannes, as has been written. The little Finn smiled and said: “That all depends upon Charley.” The Kolehmainens make no secret of the fapt that they are pointing their young brother for the Marathon at the Berlin Olympiad in 1016. They reason out that Hannes will still be running fast at that time, and well able to take care of the distance tracks events. Should Charley develop under the system mapped out by Willie, the Kolehmainen family will be fairly represented in the big meet that will be held in Germany three years hence. ATHLETE. COMING H. S. 0. Ashington Is Said to Be Superior to Mighty Indian, Jim Thorpe. W' HEN the Oxford and Cam bridge athletes come here to meet Harvard In a dual meet this summer American followers of track and field sports will have an op portunity of seeing one of the best athletes in the world. He Is H. S. O. Ashington, of Cambridge. Not in recent times has an athlete shown such remarkable ability on the track and field as has Ashington. Even the mighty Jim Thorpe never did what this young Englishman did recently. At the recent Oxford-Cambridge meet Ashington won three events— the ]20-yard high hurdle race, the running broad jump and the half- mile race. He captured the hurdle in 16 1-5 seconds, smashed the meet record in the Jump by clearing 23 feet 5 3-4 inches and won the half mile in 2 minutes 1 1-5 seconds. To win the hurdle and Jump was not so remarkable. Many athletes have done the same. But to win them and then defeat a classy field in a half mile run is considered by ex perts to be little short of phenomenal. They cite the fact that no athlete since the days of A1 Copeland, the famous hurdler, ever won a middle- distance run against a fast field after winning a jump and a hurdle race. Experts who have seen Ashington in action predict that he will smash several records this year, and say that if he specializes for one event he will make a world's record that will stand for many years. JOE MAND0T TO OPEN STORE IN NEW ORLEANS NETT ORLEANS, April 26.—Joe Mandot is one boxer who has saved his ring earnings and will probably never need a benefit. The French Market crack has never been a rounder or a "spender,” though known wherever he has fought as a good fellow and a better sportsman. But Joe realizes that the ring life of a boxer is limited at the best and that the wise men are those who save their money. He has been a regular depositor at a bank near the French Market, but will soon withdraw a goodly portion of his savings and enter into business in St. Charles Street. Charley A ss die. one of Joe's best friends, and A. B. Letellier, another who has advised him, will not talk about Joe’s new venture, but it is said that within the next few weeks lie will lease a St. Charles Street store and enter tte men's furnishing business. Mandot has an: number of friends and should do wall in business just as he hag prospered. in-the ring. D ETROIT, April 26.—It is the opin ion of Hughey Jehnings, mana ger of the Tigers, that the base runners of to-day are, for the most part, far inferior to the base runners of the time when McGraw, Keeler, Kelly, Hanlon and Long were in the game. “Baseball, as a game, has made wonderful strides in the last ten or twenty years,” said Hughey, "but the player of to-day—I am speaking in general terms—is far the inferior of the player of yesterday when base running is considered. There are faster men, that is, more faster men, but there are not nearly so many good base runners, for the reason that players of to-day do not extend themselves along this line. “The good base runners of the two major leagues can be counted or. your fingers—almost on the fingers of one hand. Consider Cobb, Milan, Bescher, Bush and one or two others, perhaps, and the remaining players in the big leagues are let out. Ten or twenty years ago there were lots of men who were good on the paths. Baseball i. Improving. “It is rny opinion that baseball will show its greatest improvement in fu ture years, as men develop as base stealers. Stealing bases is not a natural ability. It is acquired. Up to a year or so ago Clyde Milan of the Washington team was an ordi nary man on the paths, but Milan saw the advantage of cultivating his speed and learning when to take chances. Now he is one of the best base runners in the game. “I do rot consider Eddie Collins an exceptional or very dangerous man, when it comes to running bases. Col lins has not developed himself suffi ciently ir. the fadeaway slide, and un cause opposing teams any undue til he gets that properly he will not alarm when he gets on the sacks. “I do not believe that there is much chance for improvement along other lines. It is hardly possible that there will ever be a player the superior of Cobb. In fact, if Cobh’s equal is found it will -be an exception. Cobb in Class Alone. Cobb is without a weakness as a player, and this is something that cannot be said of any other player in the game. Ty, however, had short comings when he broke Into baseball, but he had sens ' enough to realize them and willingness enough to work to overcome them. That is why he is the greatest player. “Every baseball follower In the country knows how, a few years ago, Cobb was a cinch for Doc White, the Chicago pitcher. White knew Cobb had a weakness at the bat and White preyed on it. Cobb knew the situa tion as well as did White and after months of faithful hitting against a certain kind of pitched ball Cobb overcame his weakness, and White can trtick Cobb no more. “When other players begin to real ize their faults and try faithfully to overcome them, then, and then only will baseball be advanced." ANDERSON GETS MATCH WITH MANDOT ON MAY 30 IADS ANGELES, April 26.—Bud Anderson, the young Vancouver light weight, is not losing any time gath ering in the shekels that are bound to come as a result of his victory over Knockout Brown recently. Anderson is keeping himself in the pink of condition and at the same time is fattening his purse by doing a light training stunt a local vaude ville houses. He Is matched to box Joe Mandot, the Southern lightweight, on May 30, in a, twentj'-round bout at MoCarey's Arena. McCarey is also dickering for a match with Murphy and Rivers to be staged some time in June, with the idea of matching the winners of these two fights for the privilege of meet ing Willie Ritchie in a championship battle on July 4. PIRATES WOULD TRAIN AT HOME PITTSBURG, PA.. April 26.—"If I had as much money invested In a baseball plant as some major league magnates have,” savs Fred Clarke, “I would put un a building equipped for training at home, and dispense with these spring trips to the South, en abling the players to get out in the open air on good davs. I regard the plan as entirely feasible, and I ex pect to live to ape the day- when some club owner-will try it." C AMBRIDGE, MASS., April 26.— That the paid coaching system Is the one safe means of attain ing athletic success has been demon- started at Harvard this year by the accession of three inter-collegiate championships, with several more to follow as possibilities. A trio of teams all tutored by well paid experts, has brought top notch athletic honors into the Crimson cage. The most remarkable feat In the sports line at Harvard was the win ning of the championship in football this fall. Percy D. Haughton, who is paid a salary' higher than that re ceived by the average professor at the institution across the Charles, whipped his star material Into a com bination that took the full measure ments of Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown and other excellent gridiron combinations. The winning of the football gon falon was almost simultaneous with the ensnaring of the inter-collegiate cross-country honors—a sport In which Cornell excelled without mo lestation previous to last fall. Again the paid coach, in the person of A1 Shrubb, was largely responsible for the winning of the championship in this event. ALSO WINS HOCKEY TITLE. The most recent acquisition of champ honors was in hockey, when the Harvard seven trimmed Yale and Princeton and obtained an undisputed clutch on the first place rung. Coach Winsor can be given large credit for this feat. These three championships have not come with a rush, however. The paid coaching system was installed at Cambridge some years ago, but it was not until a few seasons back that it was in vogue in nearly ail the more important fields of sport. The Crimson crew, the baseball team and the lacrosse team have yet to enter in upon their seasons, and it is not unlikely that Harvard will get away with one or two more intercollegiate championships from these three possibilities. There is slight doubt that the Crimson will defeat Yale on the Thames at New London next sum mer. Such a performance has become perennial. FOR ROWING SUPREMACY. But this year Harvard is to meet the Cornell crews at Ithaca In a dual race, when the supremacy in rowing will be firmly established. A victory for the Crimson over Cornell would be a wonderful accomplishment and an honor to Coach Wray. Harvard has already beaten Cornell in its other big event, cross-country run ning. The baseball team will meet all the more Important Eastern nines during its season, giving it a chance to es tablish a reasonable claim on inter collegiate honors if the number of victories makes it possible. It is safe to say that Harvard spends over $25,000 a year for the ex pert services of its horde of athletic coaches, but the results justify the expenditure, since Harvard has as cended to the highest position possi ble In the realm of college sports. CARR0LLT0 STAGE BOUTS FOR ILLINOIS LAWMAKERS CHICAGO, April 26.—Senator Pat rick Carroll, father of a boxing bill now before the Illinois Legislature, has decided on a plan of staging an exhibition at Springfield for the bene fit of the law'makers, the chief actors in which will be several well-known prizefighters. Believing that the best way to con vince the legislators that there is no harm in ten-round bouts, he has ar ranged to stage three matches at the capital. Senator Carroll is making al! of the arrangements himself. The Senator said that he intended making an il lustrated lecture of the affair. He said he would be within the ropes and make plain the good points of his bill as they are exhibited blow by blow by the fighters. M’CARTY TO BOX MORAN. NEW YORK, April 26.—Luther Mc Carty and Frank Moran are both in this city training for their ten-ronnd bout here April 30. Moran is working hard for this go, as he wants to be in the best of shape for the champ. Joe Jeannette will train Moran for the scrap. SHUGRUE MUST BEAT HOGAN. NEW HAVEN. CONN.. April 26.— "One-Round" Hogan, of California, and Joe Shugrue will meet here on May TO for fifteen rounds. Shugrue is training diligently for this bout, as he has a match with Rivers or Cross, in case he cstn trim Jiogaq, THORPE BIS RIM CIRCUITS IN ATHLETE GIIYOII CHIU AGO, April 26. Edward Walsh, the his: pitcher of the White Sox squad, figures that ho should have something in his repertory be sides his speed and his spitter. The big fellow is working on a slow ball and an underhand delivery. He de clares that he will surely use them henceforth, hut there are several oth er players on the squad who doubt it. Developing a slow hall and an un derhand one Is a hobby with the big twirler. He has been doing it for years and will probably continue to do so for years to come. Every spring he startles the youngsters on the squad by getting on the mound and pitching a slow' one. Just, as regular as spring and the training trip come round the big pitcher gets out there and mixes his delivery. Walsh probably doesn’t pitch twen ty slow ones in a season. Maybe when the Sox are away in front and thfere isn’t a chance for them to lose the game the big fellow' will try it out. But the moment he gets into a game where he must pitch to win he stands by the deliveries that have made him. INE GOLF TEACHINGS Englishman Has Testing Device Showing Weight Is Mainly on Left Foot. T h By “Chick” Evans. Hl£RE is a merry war now in progress in Great Britain be tween P. A. Vaile, author of “The Soul of Golf” and certain British pro fessionals. Mr. Vaile, who apparently possesses a knowledge of mechanics that we | golfers lack, believes that Taylor, Braid and Vardo*., whom he calls the great triumvirate, teach one thing with thqjr pens and practice some thing else with their gulf clubs. The | difference of opinion In this partic- I ular instance concern* the distrlbu- | tion of weight during the golf swing, j According toi tbe great golfers, at I the top of the swing, certain rules | being observed, the weight is mainly on the : ght foot. Air. Vaile Insists that it is upon the left, and, having the courage of all his convictions, has had a'machine made at a cost of $250, to show' the fallacy of pro fessional teaching. Machine Proves Theory. This weight-testing machine con sists of two separate sales, to each of which is attach u a large recording dial. The player takes his stance with one foot on each scale, and the scales are rigid enough not to inter fere with the stance. Directly behind the demonstrator is an upright with an attached handle which work* on a pivot. The handle is adjusted to his right hip and rec ords the slightest swaying of the body. The movement of the head Is recorded by a similar device attached ♦o the upright. This, however, has beer, found to interfere with Un freedom of the swing and it is said that a p’ummet fur pended from the ceiling directly over the player will answer the same purpose. A public demonstration of the ma chine is promised and several private ones havu already been given, but so far the triumvirate has held aloof Makes Public Demonstration. In a demonstration made by Sher lock with the prescribed Immobility of the head and the spine held as the axis of the body-twist, the weight is shown to be on the left foot: in the other demonstration by H. Kill, one of the school of golf professionals, the weight is on the right foot, but the indicator attached to his hip showed a movement of about one and a half inches to the right. Both of these demonstrations support the Vaile tne- ory. Mr. Vaile takes for granted these three things as raught by profession als: 1. Equal distribution of wefght at address. 2. Immobility of the head. 3. Th.; spine as the axis of body- twist. He says: If one who starts with the weight equally distributed is absolutely pre vented from swaying either from the hips or the head and uses the spine as an axis for body-twist, it is a physical impossibility for him to get the weight onto the right leg at the toj* of the awing. Baseball Magnates Seek Protec tion Against Excessive De mands in Baseball Ruling. T HERE will probably be a salary limit in the major leagues before long. The minor leagues all have salary limits, but the majors have gone along paying whatever salaries they desired. The Detroit t’lub is reputed to pay tlie largest salaries in baseball. Phil adelphia. with Collins, Baker, Plank, Coombs, Mclnnis, Bender and other stars, is several thousand dollars shy of the Tigers’ figure. The New York Giants are also away under and Bos ton's Red Sox are not paid as? much as the Detroit players receive. Charles Comiskey, owner of the White Sox. wanted Sam Crawford last winter, but immediately stopped negotiations when he discovered that the Wahoo man drew down $5,000 last season. “There is only one player on my club that gets as much as $5,000,00 paid Comiskey. “I can not afford to pay Crawford that.’’ The annual list of holdouts and record salaries paid a few stars put the other owners in a bad way and stirs up constant discontent on fhe part of the players. It is human na ture; to figure that one is not paid anywhere near one’s real worth and bail players are only human. Bat.'eball differs from other profes sions and the demands of several stars last winter caused a general demand over the entire major league circuits. Sixteen of the major league clubs have been ufflicted with salary squabbles since the season ’ of 1912 eloped. Owners are complaining bitterly against the demands. They are look ing for protection and a salary limit offers the best means for an excuse that will be backed by baseball laws. If the leagues set a limit the owner can always point to it and show a player where it is impossible to grant him an increase. SOX WOULD PAY $15,000 FOR CLEAN-UP BATTER CHICAGO, April 26.—"They ran say all they please about these scien tific hitters,” remarked Manager Jim my Callahan, of the White Sox, "but give me a man w ho can clout the ball and clout it good and hard. “I am locking for a player to put in the clean-up position on my team. I would give $15,000 cash for either ’Birdie’ free, Sam Crawford or ‘Rube* Oldring." If Callahan could secure any one of those players he would place him fourth in the batting order. Then with a man on second or third, Jimmy fig ures that the base-runner would not linger ’ong with any of the above mentioned players at bat. Star Indian Tackle at Carlisle Promises to Become an Athletic Wonder. J IM THORPE, the world's greatest, all-around athlete and new addi tion to the Giants, Is to have a rival some day. according to latest advices from Carlisle. He is Guyon. the star Indian tackle, who played his first football game for the Red skins this year. Guyon is a brother of Charley “Wahoo,” assistant coach at the University of Georgia. Guyon, according to Warner, the coach and athletic director, is head ed the right way and is as good a natural athlete as Thorpe. In the interests of science. Thorpe has re cently been undergoing measurements on the theory that his development is physically that of just about the per fect man. He is above all a product of gradual development. A couple of years ago Warner ap preciated Thorpe’s aptitude at all- around athletics, and by a careful , Ograduation in his development strengthened him first in the partic ular field events which did not in - v.olve continuous strain, up to the point of middle and long-distance I running and hurdling. At first his exceptional abilities • were appreciated because of the small number of grown male students at ! the Carlisle school, for whom sched- | ules had been arranged with some of the leading universities of America who have enrollments running into ! thousands of students. Frequently Thorpe was called upon j to enter an event for which he was I comparatively untrained in order to give Carlisle a competitor against her rivals in this particular eent. The most notable feature in con nection with his physical growth has been the evenness -with which he has built up to his present propor tions. In no way does he resemble the typical strong man. No dotted or corded muscles out of proportion to his body break the symmetry that is tlie most characteristic feature of his physical makeup. To-day the master athlete of th^ world ns a type stands half-way as a physical product between the sinu ous aborigine who has been ftxund ;it some time or other in nearly every country of the world and the modern ! product of civilization with special ized muscular development. To out- | ward appearances the resemblance to the aborigine Is certainly the more I marked. CANADIANS BAR NEGRO BOXER. TORONTO, April 26.—Johnny Hoi land, the negro, is barred from Cana dian A. A. U. boxing championships because mixed boxing is not conducive to the spread of bixing, is the sum and substance of the official report of the banning of the colored cyclone by the C. A. A. U. THE UNIVERSAL fAR Printer’s ink won’t make the car go. There’s only one reason why 200,000 new Fords can’t possibly satisfy this season’s demand. 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