Show i NERVE AND ANDi i SAN DISPLAYED I Y 1 TH THE fAMOUS 1 TES 1 1 the tile persons who saw and Yale battle hattic In the tho recent t it football contest at New Now Hav Haven u I I knew that they thoy were watching a exhibition of grit and aid pluck ti 10 o part of one of the players over every ono one was thrilled thriller by uphilL ht made 1 1 Ity tho Bulldog tho the vain effort of the Tiger to stave sta lefeat in tho grueling second half ry y man nian on both teams wa was playing panic game aruo of his bis life lifo But greatest tho 1 hem nem all was Brown tho the Princeton jt I t end who played for t twenty five Elites utes with his collar bono bone broken b Fe o a Coaches Marvel j jko ike ike- ikea a tI gladiator who feared let lest his would find hits his weak point wn Wa on never shirking his hisk k arid and never letting letting- up for a moment the tho fierceness of his tackles rho Tho the injury must La have havo vo been His llIs left arm was Tras as use use- and all aU his tackles were made mado with right But his hiB pluck carried him until finally nature could it and nd the coaches coach a sub sub- ite te Even then he be did not leave tho the thoo thea o a willingly Later when the ex- ex nation snowed that his collar bono bone brok broken n the his Ilia pluck though they wore won men meu ac- ac I tomed to w witnessing almost Than T- T ian han an feats of endurance un on ho bo gridi grid grid- rillon rill rill- i T on as Js was Browns Brown's s 's e exhibition pluck pluck tho the history of rs equally amazing to the genera general lic lie In the te excitement of i the tho trained athlete scorns seems to tn be buoyed up tip on oti a i wave of which makes 1 him forget all pain and andI I his nerve neno carries him on until at h last t nature has to gio io in ill In the tho parlance i of at tho the sporting world worM it is called sand and no athlete with a H yellow yel ellow el low streak h has f much chance of suc sue cess Laugh at Injuries They The produce a gain gamo brand of athletes ath letes leles at t Princeton an I an their foot football all allI I players are noted for fOI this quality In 1898 when Princeton defeated lalo Yao at al Ne Now Haven all tho Iho points wore were accorded ac HC ac- ac corned corded to John Do Witt itt who played playe all through the season with a brok broken n hand and anti a strained tl wrist On one OM hand ho wore a- a plaster a.-plaster cast and his hiI other wrist was protected by bv a heavy heay leather guard Fuard 1 I Most ost persons would consider either cither of ot these injuries of sufficient importance to require careful nursing but Do DoWitt DoWitt Witt never nc played pa a belter better game gaino amo than thanin in that year Tho following year car ono one of the greatest of all nIl Tj Tiger er halfbacks played with a shattered collar bone one protected d by bJ a n leather loather harness harnes Water on the tho knee considered by tho the medical profession as DS an especially dangerous dangerous dan dan- injury has no not prevented a n score of players from liko like demons on tho the chalk marked field There Thero have o been a n number of great rat stars who played d before the their r broken ribs had bad knitted anti and lid did not consider they wore doin doing anything heroic e. e To ro pIa play with witha a n broken nose attracts little attention In fact there are arc houses which make a specialty of furnishing foot football teams with all manner of braces protectors and forms of harness s in order that tho the players can continue continuo despite th their il in in- in- in junee j n n es Lovo of Victory Thou Though h tho the football field furnishes many of the tho exhibitions of pluck pluck for for forthe the game amo is still the most strenuous of all sports sports sports-it it is not the tho only place whore horo sand II can bo lie e found in in ance anee On Ozi tho football field Ded it is is simply tho the lovo of victory that leads tho the athletes athletes ath ath- letes on In tho prize fi fighting ring there is still the lovo 10 of victory and oftentimes a championship There Thero havo have been some somo fine examples of grit nt it among tho the pu pugilists tore More than a dozen years ago ao two of the greatest rin ring chiefs Robert Fit FitZsimmons simmons and James T J. Corbett Cor Cor- bett hett met I in the roped arena in iu iu Carson City Nov for tho the championship of the tho world Corbett was at the height of his career fresh from a victor victory over oyer John L. L Sullivan an the greatest of 01 all fighters and Lanky Bob who had worked his way up was the tho challenger er Both were scientific fighters and the thov could hit a u blow which would kill an ordinary man nian Always on the alert to lo take tako advantage ad nil- vantage of tho slightest sign of weakness weakness weakness weak weak- ness on the part parl of his opponent each man fought foucht with great caution but frequently lauded landed terrific punches on the body bod of tho other One of f Corbetts Corbett's blows broke one of libs ribs early iu in tho the fi fight ht But Lanky Bob Dob too wily to show Inn any signs of distress at at tim tho time timo fou fought ht on By and bv by nature was read ready to quit but not Fitzsimmons Tho The Australian faltered and seemed about to I drop believing yio that he lie had I tho the fight won grew reckless Corbett dropped his guard for tho the fraction of a second It was just lon long enough to end cad his career and produce a new cham chani- pion For Fitzsimmons sent homo home the blow that brought him victory Sand Saud Sand in the Prize Ring King Joseph Gans Cans a negro a aid d Battling Nelson an American Swede were opponents op op- op- op in tho prize ring at n n. year a ago o. o Both men weighed about pounds Tho The ne negro ro is a mas master r of his bis craft tho thel whito man a a bulldog JJ ti lighter fighter that is ono one who depends on bruto brute strength Nelson was tho the younger oun er and the winner of many fi fights Gans Cans had a record equally as brilliant The fIle Defro trusted to science tho the whito white man to strength It was a terrific fight ficht and went on for over fort forty rounds The rho negro won and the white man has never nc been as good since Before tho the battle it was thou thought ht that the white man could not bo ho hurt The Tho loser had great reat sand No ono one knows the tho vital parts of tho the human body better than the tho expert ex cx- pert port pu pugilist Gans Gaas is an It was a brutal contest For more than twenty rounds the negro was tho the white whiteman's whiteman's whiteman's mans man's master malter and ho toyed toye with his opponent like a cat with a mouse monse But tho the whito white man fought on until nature gave avo wa way There was no doubt about it being a contest of human brutes but it was a a. wonderful exhibition of sand JJ Professional baseball players are noted for their grit g Injuries which would keep an ordinary man man home arc are pass pissed passed cd over with hardly any attention There were wore several striking illustration illustration tion on the tho New York National team in inthe tho the last laet season Ro Roger er Bresnahan and Prank Frank are arc tho Giants Giants' best catchers Whilo While on ono one of their western west west- em ern trips Bresnahan was wag hit bit on the forehead by a n pitched ball hail and knocked unconscious It was a terrific blow and no ono except a trained athlete could coul have havo survived it Bresnahan was in a hospital for two weeks weeks after he received the injury ho was on the tho diamond n again ain Some of ot tho greatest greatest great great- eat eat- est cst batters have Lave lost their cunnin cunning in wielding tho stick after bein being hit on tho the head They get nervous and draw away from the tho plato plate when the tIle ball is pitched and that is fatal to battin batting hatting averages But Bresnahan never batted batte better than on the day ho returned return cd to the game gamo amo after his injury at Cincinnati |