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Show WRESTLING POPULAR Frank Gotch Earned Over Fifty Thousand Dollars Last Year. "DEADLY COFFIN NAILS" TABOOED IN BASEBALL New York Highlanders Are Through With All Diamond Dia-mond Mascots. BY MANHATTAN. By Leased Wlro to The Tribune. NEW YORK. Fob. C. Wrestling ls taking the place of prize fighting In this country. You may tnko this for a radical radi-cal statement, but not so. Wrestling has not been Interfered with by law. Wrestling Wres-tling bouts can bo held anywhere. It is a popular sport. Frank Gotch earned 552,000 last year! How ls that for a llvo-wlro sport? Doc Roller, the ex-plll roller of Seattle, has found wrestling so profitable that he has been traveling about tho country for n year. Thero is no moving-picture Institution Insti-tution to spoil wrestling, although heaven knows how long tho sport will be allowed to go unhlndored by this twentieth twen-tieth century spoliation of legitimate sporL Tho sport In also popular In Mexico, Mex-ico, and a lurge number of Americans have emigrated across tho border- Zbyszko, tho Polo, and Mahmout, the Turk, aro matched for a wrestling bout in Chicago this month. I am informed that tho tenth annual bowling tournament which will be held in Detroit from February 2S to March 15. under tho auspices of tho American Bowling congress, will be the most successful suc-cessful In the annals of bowling. . Two thousand ;lve hundred bowlers from every section of the United Stales aro expected expect-ed to compete, and there Is no reason why tho mooting should not be a success. The number of five-men teams alone will total -100 combinations. Many pin experts, ex-perts, not officially delegated, will be present. Quito naturally, Detroit will havo big representation; nbout 150 teams will represent tho Michigan city, I understand. under-stand. Teams from other cities are Chicago, Chi-cago, 50; Cincinnati, 40; Indianapolis, 15, Milwaukee, 20. Teams will also bo present pres-ent from St, Louis, Kansas City. Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, Pittsburg, Baltimore. Denver. Omaha, Washington, Buffalo, New York and elsewhere. There Is talk that a race may be arranged ar-ranged botweon Harvard oarsmen and tho famous eight of the Royal Club Nnu-tlquo Nnu-tlquo do Gand of Belgium, as the principal prin-cipal feature of tho championship regatta, re-gatta, of tho Natlonnl Association of Amateur Oarsmen In Boston Basin during dur-ing the coming summer This would mean some royal sport, for the Belgium crew is at the present time the holder of the grand challcngo cup, having won that trophy at the Henley regatta In England Eng-land last July. Tho project was officially official-ly considered at a meeting on Wednesday of this week, when tho delegates of the New England association assembled. The race between America and Belgium would be an event of International Importance and would hoist American oarsmen to a position to which they havo long been entitled but never have held. The deadly coffin nail, the samo being tho festive cigarette, Is under ban in the camp of the Boston Red Sox baseball team. Along with it is all-night poker sessions. President John Taylor of tho Red Sox, who Is spending the winter In California, has issued tho imperial decree. "When the boys assemble at Hot Springs I am going to give them a fatherly talk on tho cigarette question," said Mr. Taylor. "I hato to do It, but this uctlon ls necessary. 1 will agree to furnish cigars for the team from April II to October -5, If they cut out the paper pa-per tubes. All cigarette smokers Inholo the smoko and this cuts tho lungs and kills the wind. It , causes nervousness and Insomnia, too. Tho other question on which I shall lecture 13 all-night poker playing when the team Ib making long trips." There Is a rule In all the big league camps against cigarette smoking, but It is not always enforced. Cigarettes aro deadly, not only to bnscball players, but to all athletes. Thoy are more harmful than drink. Tho Carllslo Indian school will not havo a baseball team this year. The fact has been established that the Redskins arc not adapted for the gnme. A savage may bo a porfectly good football player, but he Is not cut out for baseball playing. A baseballlst makes a fine Indian on occasions, oc-casions, but an Indian can never ba a ballplayer. No more mascots for tho New York American league team. Frank Farrell, owner of the club, received this letter this wcok: "Dear mister Farul I am u mascot out of a job nnd want to hook up for the cumlng seeson. I wud llko to bo with tho New Yorks though If you don't want me I may go with tho PIruts. .1 am an all round mascot and can put It over a bllllkcn forty ways frum tho jack. If you want good luck for tho season hlro me. AH 1 want is eighteen dollars a week and traveling expenses." The last mascot tho Yankees hail was two years ago, when he kept the team in hot water all tho time. Farrell was kept busy keeping the boys out of jail through tho pranks of the mascot. It ls safe to say this "all round mascot" will not get a berth. Tho old question of "What becomes of the pins?" has given away to the new query, "What becomes of tho baseball umpires in winter?" Aside from this general query, l would like to know what has become of our old friend. Tim Hurst. Tim used to umpire a gamo between collegians col-legians occasionally and he could nevor understand tho temperament of tho college col-lege baseball player- In a cortaln Yale-Princeton Yale-Princeton gamo some years ago, big "Jim" Cooney was catching. Princeton was being beaten and Cooney could not figure out any way In which ho could turn the tide all by himself. At last two big salt tears rolled down Coonoy's face tears of rage. It look Hurst wcoks to recover from this novel sight In base-bsill. base-bsill. He could not understand why a big. strong man should weep under any provocation. Morgan Bowman was captain cap-tain of the Yale team at the time. Attar the gnme Bowman went up to Hur.U and said: "Mr. Hurst, you are one of the best umpires I ever saw. Why don't you got a job umpiring in one of tho leagues?" It took three men with sllw.r tongues all tho way back from Princeton Prince-ton to explain to Hurst that Bowmanwas not "Joshing" him, and had really never heard of him before. For three weeks thereafter "Tim" was as mild mannered a man as ovor called down a ballplayer. It took even longor for his pride to ro- luvui uuwiciy i rum um shock. Dr. C W. Hctherlngtoii. athletic director direc-tor of tho University of Missouri, has Invented In-vented a now brand of football. Ho has hopes of seeing It adopted generally and particularly of having it adopted In Missouri Mis-souri this spring. Ho calls It "combination "combina-tion hall." It Is a cross between English Rugby and association. Tho player In this game cannot run with the ball, but can only pass or kick it. "This game," says Dr. Hctherlngtoii. "will develop tlv nervous system so that it will have hotter hot-ter control of the muscles. Tho men who report In the fall for practice cannot run. and have not proper control of themselves. them-selves. Combination ball teaches tho player to run. pass and kick." Exactly what tho good doctor Js driving at docs not seem quite clear. Have you seen Christy Mathewson's new book? Christy Is about tho most vcrsatllo chap In the big league. Whan ho isn't winning games for the Giants he Is coaching collegians or selling Insurance Insur-ance or studying law or delving Into lit- craturo. Christys Into the ranks of fWm Doyle et al. with fact, and The globe-trotting oj the chapeau of 'ff.l tin Sheridan of OlvmPfMj will take part In championships la tai" but nft.-r that ho " LVJj the world glv ngj MH cal prowess In mWiJ'' Is a wonderful aMMJgm best all-around aX-THX ls already Paring o c l is corresponding SmW t tlons in, pthcr coun mg I disport .1,lnKwlFbo.3Bf moroIOtnan n yean xJMfj Tho national ski SmW held at Coleralnc. y and 20. A nn,,,er2i t SSrthwest will eoBipotA |