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Show GREAT PROSPECTS FOR 1803 FOOTBALL SEASON IN WEST Tsams of Conference Colleges Moro Evenly Matched Than Ever Before Champlonehlp In Doubt. On the eve of the 1908 ftmtbull gnme, Indications are that the game will huve a most prosperous session. Never before have the conference universities been so evenly matched. Where heretofore It has been a foregone conclusion that victory would go to ono or two teams, the sit uut loo this fall, according to experts, Is decidedly different io that all 'conference teams seem to be about equal la g "Johnny" Evers, the polished little second baseman of the Chicago Culm, believes that Frank Chance Is the greatest Insldo baseball pluyer In the game Speaking of last in the for supremacy year's struggle When National league, Evers says: you take Into consideration base running, fielding and at the bat moat of Chance's plays seem to have gone and ninny Inside plays worked on the opposing teams by the champions were at his Instigation Tinker is a very tricky Inside man, his fooling the base runner on an out field fly being a good one. I remember how he caught Magee of Phlla dclphta three times in as many days on this same play. Magee was on first each time and each time started to steal second when the batsman hit a fly to our outfield. Tinker scram bled for an Imaginary grounder or apparently took KUngs throw at second, and when Magee learned of his mistake he was an easy out before he base. could get back to first Evers tells another good story of "head work, and Schulte of the Cubs Is the hero. It seems there was a man on third and Schulte was on first base, with one man out. The Chicago club was playing Cincinnati. Capt. Chance told Schulte to block a double play If possibly so that the man on third might score. The ball was hit to Second Baseman Huggins and be tossed the ball to Tom" Corcoran, who, In attempting to complete a double play, hit Schulte straight In the forehead, knocking him unconscious. When Schulte came to he simply said: I was told to block a double play and I guess I used my head this time. But Chicago won the game and subsequently the worlds championship. to-du- Sensational Climax in the Career of Peerless Carl Sutherland, Who Failed at. West Point, Who Robbed, KJlted, tOCTES f tintoi in, iCltj, Harried and Tried to Reform, Failed Afain. Wrote a Confession and a Poem, and Pat a Pullet Into His Pram. his "attempts at reform," and, finally, the change in the tide the turn of the card that ended his meteoric career. It Is a story that Is none the and less frank than thrilling, yet one that 03 .ANGELES.- - "Red Dev- The Iut fatal moment IsheJustwillahead, soon be almost curdles the blood and leaves the bandit knows il" Sutherland, the late dead; the Impression that, after all, Robert those was of one when Uow lonesome you must be, outlaw, your Louis Stevenson was, perhaps, milder know finish you charyou eee, and you In his treatment of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. must meet acters that Byron would A violent end. Tour past Ilfs before you Hyde than human nature Itself. have put Into a Corsair files, and a voice within you cries, Were Jesse James and the score of poem, and around whom Oh, for another chance to mend." But other outlaws of his Ilk, who robbed, to and teeth hard, you your grit Louis Stevenson would have pillaged and murdered In the early distant friend men a thrilling romance. The young Bid some Good-bPard," and your enemies days, alive, they might marvel at tbe bandit himself made a dash at both you try to rend, while they are story of Carl D. Sutherland, a modern these literary bids for fame, hut fate you with lead. Dick Turpin, written before he' enA vas closing In on him too fast. countered Capt Auble, laid the fearTOO LATE." By Carl. can who really means business about less officer low with six shots fired In killing others and then shakes hands How wise we are when tls too late, and rapid succession, then ran away to die a glance we backward cast; with death Itself can better express a few hours later by his own hand. we have We done, should know Just what himself In deeds than In poetic numIt was addressed to Jack Henderson, when the time for doing Is past. bers. a private detective and guardian of While an entire city was mourning Tbe strange. Inscrutable, baffling Westchester place, a fashionable resiand of of bravest "one loss its truth remains that this same despera- the dential section of Los Angeles, and citimost devoted defenders of clean do was of tbe stuff that genuine herbegan: oes are made of that his very zenship, a woman the wife of the Dear Sir You will, no doubt, be 111 and helpless bandit lay crimes traced their Inception to qualmuch surprised to receive this very ities which, when developed Instead on a cot In a rude cottage by the sea- letter. In to her all unless fact, youD.won't receive It at of perverted, cause other men to be shore extolling what appeared I, Carl Sutherland, alias honored, knighted, sainted and sung to be the virtues of the man who by alias Jack Ames, alias Palmer, Joseph was the admission perpetrator Carl Sherwood, etc., am dead. ibcut. He had heart, courage, gratit- his own ude, loyalty to friends and chivalry of scores of the most daring train robreason that I write this letter that to "The is because toward women. His debut as a bandit beries and other I was Impressed you v&s made out of boyish admiration have ever come to light In America. with your personality, and decided r for the On a recent Saturday afternoon, that you were a brave and an honest who had taken his part against a bully. His last thought when the clock In the big'tower of the man. In fact you looked a great deal was to provide for the wife whose Los Angeles county courthouse stroked like my father, and if there ever was love and trust he had never forf- two, there was witnessed a scene the a man that was the soul of honor, he eited. like of which has not been enacted was. the death of Yes, Carl was a bad man, and de- In this country since Since I have been 15 years of age served But he owned up to It President McKinley. As the body of I have never yet Been the man I was without a snivel, and took his medl- - Walter Auble, oldest member In point In the least afraid of, and yet I have met a few whom 1 recognized as more than my match. When I saw you I knew in a second a man that would rather take a man alive if possible; but that would take him if you were after him unless he was quicker than etranger-tban-flctlo- A n y, flll-i- self-slai- n wrong-doing- s hl 1 ion In liirioj mbJi VltbiD BMW train-robbe- . 1 . I - :ies you with his gun and killed you. Asks Aid for His Wife. "Liberty is far more dear to me than life, and If I am ever taken 1 will be taken dead, and I leave you this and 1 beg you to do the best you can with It and If you can make any money out of It I beg you to see that my poor little sick wife gets a third or fourth of It I know I can trust you to do this, for I believe you to be honorable and It is not more than right, for my wife Is a good, true, honest and little woman; a lady by birth and nature and from a good old southern and Kentucky family. She deserved a far better man 10 Bit- - Vn ( ah. hard-workin- g than more bravely than some better might have done. An amazing story of crime that the daring escapades of Jesse lames and the coterie of bandits who terrorized the whole, country a quar-'e- r of a century ago has just been regaled in Los Angeles, after the mur-l- r of a brave police captain, In the :ld handwriting of the murderer alniaelf, who died a suicide rather 'ban be taken prisoner. Stirred by Recital of Crime, Not since the old days, when there r no railroads and men , seeking toelr fortunes In the far west were Compound to cross the plains In pral-wagons and stage coaches, has ll1 entire stretch of country west of toe Mississippi been so stirred as by tola astounding recital of crime by one who, In the closing chapter of his elerate career, penned his ifwn in the following words: elne n re-all- s d epl-too- k of active service In the Los Angeles police department, was being borne to its last resting place, every man, woman and child In the Angel City" stood with bowed and uncovered head, that fitting tribute might be paid to the memory of an officer who died while In the performance of his duty. It was such a scene as Broadway witnessed during the "silent hour when the body of William McKinley was in transit from his late residence In Canton, O., to the grave.' Perhaps no city ever paid a higher tribute to the memory of Its hero dead than did this big, bustling town that nestles among the orange groves and flowers of Southern California. Modern Dick Turpin. But to return to the life of Carl D. Sutherland, scion of honest middle western parents, who turned black and died laughing, jeering, sheep cursing his ups and downs, relating I. When it Is known that I am an outlaw, and have been most of my life, most every one will say: lies a bad one,' and that's all. I wish the world to know the truth, for there are a certain few whom I want to know that I was not as bad as they are Bure to paint me. If I am killed I am sure to become notorious, as much of my past Is sure to crop out and my name Is disgraced, and as that is the case I may as well have the truth told as just part, and maybe a wholejugful of lies added to it." After giving the place of his birth as Lamar, Barton county. Mo., and the date September 29, 1882, this remarkable autobiography of Sutherland deals with his family. It speaks of his father being fire marshal of Pittsburg, Kan., then deputy Bherlff, and of hlB relatives having "fought In every war this country has been engaged In from 1775 to the present time, except war. the Spanlsh-AmericaBlack Sheep of Family. All have been honest too honest, In fact, but I," wrote the young bandit. "I am the last of my race and the one black sheep. From a delicate, timid and refined boy I grew into a desperate young rascal, ready to shoot any man. . Next is the account of his meeting with Joe Palmer, alias Jack Wells, the notorious train robber. It was the turning point In Sutherland's young life; he chose the blacker side., Bp. cause Palmer had - taken his part against a big bully on a farm In Kansas Sutherland believed he owed n ' Palmer a debt of gratitude. So, when Palmer and "his pal, Frank Errington, tried to hold up a depot and a rich horseman at Oswego, Kan., and later shot a deputy sheriff and were cornered Sutherland stole a boat and under cover of darkness slipped by the camp of the posse that held the two men on the banks of the Ncsho river, got rainier and Errington and carried them on down the stream to freedom. Events followed swiftly after that. Sutherland and Palmer robbed "an old miser on a lonely road near Cherry-valKan. Joining the other members of the gang later, they held up an M. K. & K. train near Denison, Tex. Then came the robbery of tbe depot at Lamar, Mo. Here Walter Craig became one of the band. When he tried to pull off a second robbery at the Lamar depot, Sutherland's autobiog- e, timber Is developed. Coach Btagg will have a very rough Journey, Indiana Is said to have the brightest pros; ects she has been confronted with In years. The llooslers thorn-selve- s admit this, and rival elevens are taking the hunch that Coach Jimmy Sheldon's 'outfit will have to be reckoned with. The same situation holds In Illinois, despite the wall of the Illinois couches thut they have 'lost all the star freshmen. A number of last seasons veterans have been retained, and, with the new material at hand, It la certain a strong football organization will be constructed. Wisconsin, according to cIoh studark dents of the game, Is the horse" In the west. The Badger elevens got Into the fray late In the 1907 season after a bad start and made things decidedly intereBting. Most of last year's players will be found In line this year, and, with an early start, the team is bound to be heard from In a substantial way. Minnesota liaa lost a number of 1907 etars. With the Jobs of Capron, who did the Tiger's share of keeping the Gophers In the running last year and many of .the veterans, the Gopher club conch will have to develop a number of men to play on the varsity team. There is a whole lot of time Baved In Northwestern will have a fair reprethrowing the hall down low, for If the sentation. Her football battles will bo second baseman has to take the throw confined this fall to Illinois and Puron a line with his head the runner due and Director Gillespy is hopeful slides Into the base while he Is pulling of getting away with at least a .500 It down. Tommy Evers, one time a batting average. second baseman on the Washington club and a swell one In his time, who NOTRE' DAMES LEADER Is an uncle of the Chicago candy kid, Johnny Evers, says that Street has all the motions and the same kind of a throwing arm as had Buck Ewing. When the St. Louis champions were sweeping everything before them, says Mr. Evers, and running crazy on the bases, beating the backstops to It at every point, they blew Into New York with the Idea of making Buck Ewing look as foolish as they had the other catchers on the circuit. The first man up for the St. Louis club was Arlie Latham, the third baseman and a champion base purlolner of his day. Juice tore off a single, and away he raced for first, and never stopped when the right fielder threw the ball over the first basemans head In returning It, and Ewing had to race back of the stands to recover It. Latham, much to the amazement of the Giants, tore for third, yelling loudly that no Giant could put him out. Then Buck, with that terrific whip of his, shot the hall across the diamond, and he had Latham by five feet. During the rest of that game Buck Ewing threw out 11 men who tried to steal on him, and when the Mound City lads finally woke up to the fact that they were up against & real backstop they were the saddeBt lot of ball players that New York had seen In many a day. Yet Mr. Evers thinks Ewing, In his best days, never had anything on Charley Street In the throwing line. raphy says, my old schoolmate, who Was night operator, put a bullet Into Craig's lungs, from which be died. Hiding Place for Gang, After reciting the details of half a dozen other bold and daring crimes, the story shifts to Pittsburg, Kan., "where pretty Nellie Errington was keeping a cottage, under an assumed name, for the gang to run in and rest up, if necessary. Next we find Sutherland In the hands of a vigilance committee which Is about to hang him. The rope la made fast about his neck and he la actually strung up, when the leader, who is rather decides on a council of war and orders Sutherland hauled down. It Is while this "council Is In progress that Suth erland escapes. Sutherland joins his pals a short distance away. Tbe vigilance committee pursues them, and Nellie learning of the committee's movements. Jumps on a horse and goes to warn the robbers. She Is mistaken for one of them and killed. Free-for-ashooting followed, several of the committee were wounded, but the desperadoes got away. Did Honest Work for a Time. Sutherland then worked for a time as a delivery clerk in the Creek Nation, after which he committed more robberies and was arrested for the first and only time in his life by the In the National league the featsheriff of Lamar, Mo. He spent some ure pitching performances have been nine months in a reformatory, escaped turned by a trio of south paws, Nap and joined the army as a musician Rucker of Brooklyn, Johnny Lush of under the name of Jack Ames. He was St Louis, and George Wlltse of New ambitious to become an army officer, York. The work of Rucker was perbut Errington bobbed up again, and, He shut haps the most, noteworthy. knowing that he would be found out the Boston team out without a hit or sooner or later, Sutherland went back run and struck out 14 men, creating a to the old life. record for the older organization. The Going to Los Angeles Sutherland only two men who reached first did so and his pals planned several crimes, by grace of errors on the part of the among them the kidnaping of a milInfield. According to Umpire Jim lionaire and holding of him for $200,-00- 0 Johnstone it was tbe greatest bit of ransom. This was spoiled, he pitching he has seen since joining the wrote, because the selected victim National league staff. George Wlltse suddenly went abroad. shut out the Phillies for ten Innings The autobiography tells of numerwithout a hit or run, the only man in San Francisco; of reaching first being hit by a pitched ous car hold-up- s several murders, and then of the time ball. when he married and determined to reform for good. Sutherland continThe peculiar names of the various ued: "I longed, oh, how much, for a star twlrlers and catchers of the fast clean name, a home, friends and to be leagues offer many a play on words. somebody. It Is only natural to suppese that Upp Sutherland was now clerk In the and Dooln ought to be the liveliest batUniversity club at Los Angeles. His tery. Upp Is a south paw with Columwife had been a telephone operator. bus, while Dooln receives for the She knew nothing of his duplicity his Phillies. Lush and Bliss would be she was happy. They double llfe-athe battery. Both are memhappiest decided to buy a ranch In Oklahoma of the St. Louis Cardinals. Hogg bers out of their savings, and were well on and of the New York Amerthe way to achieving the one desire icana,Sweeney, would be the funnies. Their they had so longed and planned, for names sound like a couple, of knockwhen the panic came and all went to about comedians. smash. Sutherland lost his job; with He it went the ranch In Oklahoma. Ground has been broken at Union pondered over his plight. He could Tenn., on what Is Bald to be InCity, see no way but the old way. That tended by Joe Cantillon, manager of was the easiest; he would follow it for Baseball club, as the the Washington a time, then when he got enough home for tired ball "winter greatest money together he and his wife would ever built. The structure is players" go to Oklahoma, buy back the ranch located near the great fishing and and live happily ever after. hunting grdunds of Reelfoot Lake, In So it was, Sutherland found another the Sunken Lands district, noted for pal. They robbed and pillaged; the Its big and little game. Scores of maLos Angeles police found them out, and minor league ball players will jor and 'he reBt of the story has been assemble there In cold months. told. New York World. kind-hearte- ll strength. On the western gridiron, the championship Is open for argument. Chicago, who won the title last full, has been deprived of many of her best players, and unless some high duns (XMCffPMCL lie played tackle and was captain of the Dartmouth eleven in 1903 and was an tackle In 1903. Umpire Owens Making Good. President Pulliam has Introduced a new umpire to National league baseIlls name is Owens, and ball fans. he comes from the American association. The new indicator has made a lie Is a very favorable Impression, man and has young looking powerful a deep bass voice. At times the fans can almost understand what he Is saying, which Is a vast Improvement oa Owens some of the older umpires. had a remarkably good reputation la the minor league, and Is said to have had complete control over the players. Incidentally It Is reported that he whipped one or two of the ball toss-er- s for Insults not on the diamond, but after the shades of night had descended. nd , No Change in Forward Pass. Representatives of all the eastern colleges .met In New York recently to discuss possible amendments In the playing rules for this seasons football. The meeting was held under the auspices of the central board of lntereol-legltil- e officials of the American football rules committee. Tbe chief point under, discussion was the rule governing the forward pass. After argument had been heard from a number of prominent coaches on the subject it was decided that the rule as interpreted last year would be preserved Inits Integrity, thetendency to frequent changing of the rules being unanimously condnm d. m |