Show KNOCKOUT l PAINLESS Ryan Says Point of Chin Jugular Vein and Stomach Are Vital Points There Is no more pleasant sensation known to mankind than that of being knocked down in a boxing match says Champion Tommy Ryan in the Kansas Kan-sas City Star To the tired and discouraged dis-couraged fighter helplessly awaiting the end It la the Hwoeteat sensation imaginable imag-inable The sensation a man has When he Is knocked down Is about the same kas that which goes with hitting the fplpe x > r fidlritTMnra rubber tlied carriage 5 car-riage The reaction comes when the worsted man recovers and it Is far from prcafeanl I While Ryans knowledge of the sensation sen-sation following the final blow has come to him almost entirely through hearing his vanquished opponents of the prize ring describe It he has made the subject sub-ject ti study and therefore knows whereof he speaks Regarding knockout blow of modern mod-ern boxing Ryan says If delivered correctly cor-rectly and at the proper angle It Is I absolutely painless to the man who goes down and out The final blow used by I uptodate boxers Is not the oldtime John L Sullivan vicious swing It Is a scientific lightninglike short Jab delivered de-livered from a forearm action of not more than a few Inches and landed when a man IK advancing to strike The blow and its recipient meet halfway half-way and the result Is a sudden Jar which Han says makes the victim enter at once upon a dream of home bPAitiful women or plate glass booze bars just as his habits and tendencies dictate Some Queer Ideas There are some mistaken ideas n l about the knockout blow existing in S the minds of people Ignorant of the ways of rfRxlern boxing said Ryan I t Pcopl6 cem to think thatbecause a f man 1ft put out suddenly he suffers y J pain In receiving the blow Such Is not the case When a highstrung I fighter or a tired one bet hl sleeping medicine the sensation before he dozes i off might be compared to that a man who has been carrying a millstone feels when he Is relieved of his weight Have you eel felt Well Ive done my best and It has dine no goodnow Im going to give It up and sleep Well there you have the feeling of the boxer who goes down and out The knockout sensation la pleasant I believe it Is the samcus the death sensation sen-sation Discussing the modern forearm Jab which ho and other boxers use In putting put-ting their men to sleep Ryan said It Is a gentlemans blownot a bruisers There are perhaps five hundred lighters light-ers In the world today of which perhaps per-haps ten are scientific men These use the shortarm Jab The vital points which a clever boxer tries to reach with this infighting Jab are the point of the chin the Jugular vein and the pit of the stomach The shortarm Jab or hook pnthppQlnt of the jaw at the proper angle jars the brain and stops the man The jugularvein blow hinders the flow of blood to the heart to a certain cxtont and does the work hfcely The stomach shortarm blow Is Just as effective as either of the others and perhaps easier to land The hardest of the three blows to execute exe-cute Is the Jugular blow however as the vein Is guarded i so closely by the chin and head movements of the alert lighter There are other kindu of shortarm Jabs used in boxing but the three mentioned are tho ones most universally univer-sally used by good boxers The chin and jugularvein jab can be successfully success-fully landed while the antagonistic fighter is swinging for the head or when both men aro Infighting The stomach blow comes In handiest when head lighting Is being pushed 1 and when the other man Is watching for punishment cboc the collar bone All three of the ahortorm Jabs are swift and almost unnoticeable by all except the men In the ring and they arc the surest blows scientific fighters use Too Quick for the Eye Ryan says the shortarm blow when successfully used Is frequently the cause of claims of fake from the audience audi-ence They do not see the blow I struck he said and they therefore think the man who drops and la counted out is faking That was time care In my last fight with Mysterious Lilly Smith I I1nlshed him with a shortarm Jab which did not look steamy enough from the audience to do tho work They thought Billy was fakliig and yelled fake at us Smith was out good and proper The light was entirely on the square but the Jab fooled em and they went home thinking we had things fixed Boxing has changed wonderfully In the last ten years continued 1 Ryan Nowadays a man fights with his head and feet In the days of the old London prizering rules when Sullivan Sulli-van and his class of men fought It was brute force that counted In those days a fiftyround fight was common Now fights eldom last over fifteen rounds at the most The scientific sci-entific shortarm work finishes them In short order when properly used Jeff ries fights with the closein short crouching methods that 1 use and which were practically unknown ten years ago In all the years that I have been fighting I have never been In a brutal slugging match yet and never will be In one A Change in Rulcs Favored Ryan thinks that modern boxing methods should have one amendment added to make them practically perfect per-fect Tho additional rule he thinks should 1 be one authorizing referees to declare a man out when he Is still on Ills feet but going In other words he thinks the referee should stop a fight when he sees that one man Is not holding his own It should not be necessary for a boxer to knock his man down and keep him down said he A referee should be a man who can see when a man Is losing and he should have aright a-right to stop the fight and force the cakonlng man to throw up the sponge Of course I suppose there would bo complaints from those who had their money on the loser but the referees decision should be final I do not believe in knocking men sojiselcss to win yet 1 have done it under the present way of lighting In connection with his discussion of the shortarm knpckout blow Ryan tells a story of a New York newspaperman newspaper-man named Wright who once called on him and Insisted that he be shown exactly how a man Is put out with the chin blow Ryan explained tho blow as well ns ho could but the newspaperman newspaper-man was not satisfied and insisted that he be shown I just tapped him lIghtly on the chlnmld Ryan and he Link back on his chair and was but for about u minute When he came to ho was the maddest man 1 ever saw What else could I have done for him He insisted in-sisted on my showing him how to knock a man out with the chin blow and I did It Jeffrles was therq i and lie I laughed until the tears came Tho newspaper man wrote a good descrip LIon of the blow however HOW TO BECOME A TWIRLER Control of Ball First Essential Says Park Wilson of Denver Club Tho first essential for a successful pitcher is control of the ball After this speed and his ability to curve the ball will determine his value to the team But as I said as first a pitcher who has not full control of his delivery Is valueless value-less to a club and will never make a success until he masters this part of his II I I a y Y l t 4 rI 4 T E ri t v a s P 1nh r 11 ri 1 1 riIrL f fO I YOUNG THOMAb work The next necessity Is speed although al-though there are several firstclass so men like Clark Grllllth of the Chicago team who do not throw a very speedy ball Pitchers like Griffith are the brainy men of baseball and do more work with their heads than with their arms and that Is why they lat so long Charley Nichols now with tho Kansas City team but for twelve years with the Boston National league team Is I another man who uses his head at all times A man who has both the con NEW FOUL STRIKE RULE In regard to the muchdiscussed compromise measure adopted In reference ref-erence to the rules applicable to the calling of strikes on Intentionally hit foul balls this year the following diagram dia-gram will explain to local fans just what the new rule means It Is Imperative Impera-tive on tho umpln to call every ball a strike which hits the ground foul back of the center line drawn through first and third bases of the appended diagram dia-gram But lithe ball hits foul ground beyond the center line Ills left to the discretion of the umpire to regard the foul hit as intentional or accidental Here Is a correct diagram of the new lines J 1 1 S 0 I L Icr I IL M trol and the speed must have curves to be a finished slab artist It Is remarkable re-markable to what extent some players can curve a ball Eu tIt Is a well known fact that the pitchers who have such extraordinary wide curves do not last very long as It la I too trying on the arm muscles nnd soon wears them out A pitcher must always know just what to do with the ball when hit to him Care should betaken to anticipate antici-pate a play as far as possible The pitcher should 1 review the likelihood of different plays and when determined deliver the ball Too much haste In this respect often results In a wild pitch On the other hand long delays are often dangerous Do not pitch until un-til you am ready but when read do not hesitate Should any kind of failure fail-ure follow any play do not attempt to offer excuses either yourself or tho captain of tho loam If a mistake is made It Is too late to rectify 11 and tho proper course to pursue Is to prevent pre-vent as far as possible a recurrence of the bad play When throwingto base do not attempt at-tempt to hold the ball for any lengthy period U is Just 33 easy to put a man out when he Is midway between the bases as It Is to draw decision close If by chance the fielder should drop the ball after being thrown to him this will give him a better opportunity to recover re-cover It It Is far asler to avoid mistakes mis-takes than remedy them Poor support will often dishearten a pitcher Remember that every one has an on day and while It Is hard on n pitcher to suitor from hick of support when he Is pitching In good form It Is tho pitchers duty to infuse spirit In the members of the team and not give way to petty spite because of unavoidable accidents Should a pitcher display a lazy carenothing disposition the feeling feel-ing often travels to the other members of the team It Is infectious and he should show an aggressive spirit which will Invariably insure him the best of support The necessary qualities which go to make up a successful pitcher are as many as ar edJtcw pitchers possess all the qualifications but the one that displays the greater l number Is always In demand He can nearly always be depended upon and will often pull a team out of a big hole A pitcher with a sulky disposition will cause dissatisfaction with the other members of the team First the result of the gamo depends upon the ability of the pitcher and secondly I upon the support given him If the pitcher Is equal to his task the fcccond result will follow Association Players Jump Three crack American association players Catcher Tom Mcssltt Third Baseman Clyde Robinson and Outfielder Out-fielder Fred Ketcham deserted that organization here lust week and reported re-ported to Manager Nichols of the Kansas Kan-sas City club of the Western league despite the restialnlng order issued by the Circuit court In Kansas City recently recent-ly to prevent Jake Weiner who had signed with both associations from playing with the Western league Dale Gear manager of the Kansas City American association team who Is here said today that the trio had deserted without giving him the slightest slight-est Intimation Each of them had he said been advanced money and had signed a personal contract similar to I that signed by > < elmgr Mi Gear Int l matod that he wot ltlyet after them by Injunction t mF Reminiscent of Pop Anson During one of the fanning sessions at Excelsior Springs Veteran Torn Daly launched upon the subject of Anson ability as a batter i before his retirement from the position of manager of the Chicago National league club Daly Is a great admirer of the old stonewall infield and his respect for Alisons batting prowess Is no less marked Anson was about the best natural batsman I ever saw said Daly First came his great skill In Judging balls for he was one of the best waiters In the business getting frequent bases on balls Ho usually drove the horsehide on a line with a tendency toward right field or right center though later ho began to pull the ball around the leftfield left-field to fool tho opposition These line hits If they got through the infield were good for a base and If through the dulfield for two or more Anson however was not considered a long hitter in those days for there were more long hitters then than now per luips because the sacrifice hit and hit andrun Game was not so well developed de-veloped and the players tried to drive runners home with long hits But of course that general statement must be modified somewhat You know Germany Smith used to kcp a dope book In which he Jotted down the supposed weakness of the bilsmen he had to face After Alisons name were the ominous word base on balls In the old dayn when batters were allowed to call for high and low balls Anse always called for a high ball the only kind of high ball by the way that he ever touched Later when the rules were changed he learned to hit the low ones but less successfully Anson never was a great base runner run-ner He was rather slow on his feet and when he did steal bases It was more by virtue of the long start he somehow was clever In securing Anson also was always given the reputation of being a great kicker to umpires I think that was because there was comparatively little kicking done at that time I seldom saw him make a foolish kick American Association Victors The American association has scored one aucqess the Western association managers having sent out word that their organization has been completely destroyed The American association Is now very strenuous In Its denunciation denuncia-tion of those baseball rivals who arc striving to accomplish its overthrow alleging that they are gratuitously invading in-vading Its territory carrying away Its players and doing several other things that are dislhictiyto its mind dishonorable dis-honorable and disgraceful Yet the American association was formed to wipe out of existence the Western league and the Western association Il took three of the towns from the Western league J and triedt6 get a fourth It took without the consent of the American association two of the best towns of that body hopelessly wrecking it Then this buccaneer on the seas of baseballdom has the face to claim that It Is being undeservedly berated by those whose business it has sought to render profitless More than that the American association managers man-agers made a wholesale raid 6f the Eastern league for players the num ber tempted and claimed to have been signed having at one time been a large that the Eastern league clubs wore in a quandary concerning the men they were to have Most of the players were > induced to observe their reserve agreement rendering futile the raid It would be as well If nothing more were heard from American asso ciation sources about the methods ta ken to raid their teams which methods are merely the attempts of the differ ent organizations to withstand Inroads made by the piratical new association Regarding Fancy Salaries What some of the clever men In the business think of players who hold out f r acs y b S L I rf e I a Jc s 1 j A t1 tt r tia s t i 1 Y r av BERT MARGFETS Outfielder of the Salt Lake Club for fancy prIces is shown by the following follow-ing from Cincinnati I think It has been clearly demonstrated In the exhibition exhi-bition series here mused Frank Ban croft after the last report that high Q tl 1 r1 I t k fr I I 4 H 1 I L I I j I f f JI I J I FRANK Z SCHEFSKr I I Manager of Salt Palace Bicycle Track A 1 1 salaries do not always Insure the best ball playing I should say not was tho emphatic de laiaLlon of Manager McPhee There Is many a player in the country today getting his lltle S125 per month who has a lot of 2100ayeai gentlemen skinned There Isnt HO much difference In class nowadays Baseball Is baseball base-ball no matter wJth whom you are playing Let a lot of star leaguers go out and make errors as we have done and the other fellow will beat them early every time Cincinnati could do better hitting by using a little better judgment Harry Stelnfoldt ought to be one of the greatest batsmen In the country and would b If I he snapped at the ball lie Is a strong fellow and with Just the sort of wrists to make a success should he adopt the style It is the batsmen who chop at the ball rather than the ones who swing so hard who are the more valuable hitters on a team Will Play at Salt Lake Boulder Coll April WThe university univer-sity girls basketball team has received an offer from a girls school In Salt Lake City by which the local team is to play the Utah girls for the Interstate Inter-state championship next month The game is to be played at Salt Lake Baseball Guide Issued The Spalding baseball guide has been received Its publication having been delayed by the fight between the big men of the National When the schedule of the big league was ready the guide at once appeared The magnates mag-nates of the Western had expected to get their schedule In the guide but missed connections somewhere The I guide Is perhaps the moat complete ever published ccntalnlng short histories his-tories of all the prominent leagues of the country The new rules for the I government of the game are carefully annotated every point being thoroughly thor-oughly explained The main difference Is In relation to the foul strike By the new rule a foul tip that stops short of a line drawn from first to third bare Is a strike If it goes over the line It Is either foul or a strike as the umpire shall decide FAMOUS TRACK BURNED Maspetli Race Track Destroyed by Fire Maspeth racetrack the halfmile 1 circle that icvolutlonlred racing In i New York Was burned last week The grand stand which seated 4009 tho paddock platform and hotel were destroyed de-stroyed In Its last days It was known as the Queens County parlc a I picnicking I picnick-ing resort r About seven years ago a syndicate of racing men leased the place and built tho halfmile track Strings of electric lights were placed about the ring and the famous nightracing meeting began j Wonderful tales are told by turf gocra of the tricks played there It Is known that In two Instances a horse that ran last was Placed first by the judges because men In power were 1 belting on that horse The electric lights neutralized colors so that many f errors Intentional and otherwise were made In announcing the order In which racers had finished Scandal became so great that racing in this Slate tottered In the balance and finally a law was passed forbidding I s forbid-ding night racing The financial loss caused by the fire Is email Haggin Buys Sheepshcad Farm James B Haggin has paid 200000 for the old Cowenhoven and Ryder farms adjoining the Sheepshcad Bay racecourse The properties comprise l eightynine acres and adjoin the tract which Mr Haggin bought last fall Ho already has started the building of s an extensive racing establishment His neighbors around the Sheepshead Bay + racecourse are William C Whitney + James R Keene Perry Belmont F R Hitchcock and other lesser owners of I thoroughbreds The Keene stables m have Just been completed 1 Golf Gossip The Baltimore Country club has purchased pur-chased for 60000 the clubhouse and twentyone acres oi land heretofore 4 leased I The handicap list of the New Jersey Golf league contains 5S0 names divided among lIne n clubs Five players aro rated from scratch Allan I Kennadny I Archibald Graham C SI Hamilton Louis P Bayard Jr and Howard A Colby Tho Metropolitan Golf associations spring handicap schedule will be completed com-pleted by April 16th The new Auburn Park Golf club of Chicago has applied for membership In tho United States Golf association Herbert M Ilnrrlmnn amateur champion In 1830 played In the preliminary pre-liminary round of the Southern Cross championship at Aiken but failed to qualify for the chief cup The Chicago Golf club Is ambitious to secure the Western championship rho Jersey City Golf club is In luck The realty company which purchased the property will give the club the usa of lime links until December 1st without s with-out rent The St Louis Golf association will probably hold Its championship meetIng meet-Ing In June and proposes to establish a womens championship The ML Tom club of Holyoke and the Ilampdcn County club of Chicopee are probably the first golf clubs to make arrangements for ping pang durIng t dur-ing the summer months German Emperor Promotes Rowing In order to encourage rowlngamong I the students of the University of BerlIn m Ber-lin In the manner In which the sport i prevails in American and English colleges col-leges Emperor William will offer what Is to be known as the Emperors prize for rowing contests between undergraduates of the university |