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Show Manager of Giants Expects to Be in Front Row in Race for "Rag." PITTSBURG BASEBALL TEAM DEPENDS ON HANS Bon hag, Long Distance Runner, Will Not Do Much Work This Season. BY MANHATTAN. NEW YORK, April 2. Tom Burrows, Bur-rows, the old English athlete and club swinger, who recently established a now world's record and boat his own old one by swinging tho clubs for sixtv-scven hours and ton mirintfi;. will make a tour of tho United States upon his return to England from Australia, whero ho sot up this new high mark. Burrows will arrivo in San Francisco soon, and will likely givo exhibitions there, in Salt Lake City, Seattle, Denver, Den-ver, Omaha, Kansas City, Chicago and eastern cities. J. havo not heard whether he will go south or not, but his marvelous facility for club swinging swing-ing would -mako him a drawing card anywhere. I lis world-beating porformanco was given in Sydney, New South Wales. Burrows swung in the open, with only a tarpaulin to cover him in d.-vylight and keep tlie burning rays of tho sun off his head. As lie passed his old record hp broke into a half hour's exhibition ex-hibition of fancy swinging, and thon settled down to straight away work again. John McGraw, manager of the Now York Giants, scuds word to mo from Alarliu Springs that tho only thing which can keep the New Yorkers from whining tlie National leaguo pennant this year is John Barleycorn. Atr. Mc-Graw Mc-Graw bases his prediction upon the havoc which the demon created in Mr. Bugs Raymond. While wo wore all cheering because we thought Bugs was riding upon tlie mythical wagon wo lind that ho was not upon the vehicle at all. McGraw says that if Bugs will reform, nothing can stop the Giants from ending first, McGraw lias tho strength of his convictions, too. for this week ho raised Bugs's bonus from $1000 to $2000 if he would abstain until un-til October 1. Bugs is thinking it over. Hans Wagner, the greatest baseball player in the world, who is again in tho fold this year, after his usual holdout, hold-out, is showing up in his old-time fast form. Tlie Pirates would bo lost without Wagner. Tho whole structure of tho world's championship team sooms to be built around this pillar of strength. With Wagner goue, the Pirates would bo in a soro plight, indeed. in-deed. Howard Camnitz, who did such good work for the Champs last year, is doing some splendid preliminary work. Bonhag May Not Run. George Bonhag, the Irish-American long-distanco runner who lias won so many laurqls, both national and international, inter-national, will compete in very fow races during the coming summer. "I'vo .gone lifolcss and feci that J havo done loo much work indoors during the past wintor." said George the other da v. "I will train but lit-tlo lit-tlo during the late spring, as T do not intend lo take part in many events in the summer. 1 shall koop myself in shape to run up to two miles, but will not take part in races where the distance dis-tance is greater." That star athletes aro not developed in a day is shown in the case of Gaylo A. Dull, the captain of tlie Piltsbur" Athlotic association track team. Dull is one of tho boat-known athletes in the country today, and his specialties arc the races at ono and two. miles, though lu frequently competes in runs . of five miles. lie was graduated from tho University of Michigan in 190S, but returned in 1900 for a post-gradu-ato course, having been elected to the captaincy of tho track team last year i Ho made the trip to London with the .American Olympic loam in JP0S, but, through illness, failed lo make a cred-! itablo showing. Dull was not an athlete ath-lete whon lie entered college. Ho was a. strong 3'outh, and interested in all , forms of sports, but ho had never ox celled at any. Onco in the University of Michigan he became imbuod with the idea that he would like to become a runner. However, ho know absolutely abso-lutely nothing of tho game. Koanc Fiizpatriok, the Wolverine trainer, who is going to Princeton in tho fall, said recently, in commenting upon l.ho development de-velopment of Dull, that, on his en- tranco to eollego,t hoig a more discouraging J A( Gnyc. t-u?mv "The boy was amptrw, said Fitz, ubut I n0 whero T thought ther hope of success, llof however, that 1 did nj discourage him, but gavl T could, and watched A he learned a style, and to show speed. Last iUJgB vard stadium, on , tho 4 annual interco lcgiate M ished just a shoulder J V nor in the two-milo 4 |