| Show O A I i f ft BATCH OF BREEZY t ti b br 4 i 1111 r 11 r I tt l p pa II II H n O a 1 E n q v y v v T T Y Q I 1 T TiltS TIfiS season aon of the year col AT A Ile trainers and amI coaches art are Ilu bury with squads quAd ot of who ar are to become fatuous on the cinder path or Clr on Ute the leW ner exer and Lr try outs out and various Indoor meets are being held to brill bring the most likely ones anti l to the front These fhe later Inter III en will be further tried In the annual dUAl and the t beat beal ot of the bunch wilt will I be selected for the honor of representing their college at 1 the Intercollegiate meet next exl May Ia and at UI the oth other I Important tint tant events or of the months A larger larler number or of aspirants are In I training this winter than for several seasons past pul The Th international games ame that took look plan III ht Pare and London last year did to renew In track athletics The Th fact act that all as great events fent will be held next summer Bummer In connection with the exposition hu has Induced many tin an ath Inclined young fellow to go In into to 10 training with the ho hope of obtaining a plan on his varsity team selected to compete at Buffalo alo aloI aloIt I It would seem HIm to the unprejudiced oh ob obI server as though the thit professional nth ath athletes I letes In all lines linea of sport were engaged In a great grent conspiracy to kill I the geese Guse that lay their golden eggs ens they are arr to sitar share In Inthe the stalls and some are meditating get Iet getling ling up UI professional football leagues It If they 11 de II i will be the 1 beginning of the end and Jr a few e years there will be no nomore more interest in III college collell or In any other football than I b nowadays dl din played In an baseball game A me Ernest and lInd Paul Pons are ready to meet shortly to settle the dill die question u aas to which of them to really entitled to 10 call himself the wren champion of the world orld The two contests In whIch the F hu has hubn been a principal since he landed In this country have not given gln much of II a line lineon on hi his abilities and Ind other bouts bouta In which tine the two men have taken part do donot donot not much aid us UI was defeated L by and In tu turn n Overthrew the Danish el Olsen how easily or with ss Ith what the American champIon put lut down Olsen In n their Lout bout at Copenhagen lost last September few tew per None Ions know Pans claims to have wree tied with Olsen Oln for three hours wIthout losing lOlling or gaining II a fall Call lie He easily downed soon arrIving In but la is not in III the tho same chase as was wasI I say SIY WIlS wast advisedly because there are n a great many followers or of the game who blI believe vo that while Jt ber In his prime coull haws downed Pons the for former former mer Is no noty 1 somewhAt ot of a hlll has been and that ago age and lark lack or of practice will militate against him In III the coming bat battie battie tie Fo o far ns as Jonn Ionn abilities ma may Lo be Judged whAt h he has already done on this side It must mut be Je that thaL he has hll shown none of the keen klen knowledge of the guise and ability to 10 take allan advantage tage ot of his opponents mistakes that has evinced In the past Whether Major Taylor Talor the Amen Amerl ran Ian cycling champion lon and Jacquelin the premier wheelman of Europe meet In n this country or on foreign tracks next season the contests between the tho two Iwo men should be the must ever eer held While Taylor hB has frequently demon demonstrated that Ill is I b by all odds the fastest cyclist In America It Is doubtful If his abilities as II a have been beell tried to their utmost III Hs alwAYs rides n as though he had II a good bit of reserve power which he could drAW on In case or of need While Jacquelin is 18 II a past at the European stI style of Jock jockey jockeying Ing In a race lace and of going out In the thelast thelast last furlong with a terrific jump It ItIs Itus us Is moro more than likely that the colored man will hold his hili own with the French Frenchman man at this game SI Speaking of Major Taylor Talor It Is II not generally known knon that there tiler are two well known professionals In this coun country country try whom the colored phenomenon hn has never defeated In n a 11 race One of these thelle Is Old Owen Kimble ot of Jt It la I said that Taylor Talor pre preferred to meet mett nn any Otter ther In man n In n a race than the tall Kentuckian blood always rebelled at the thought of being defeated b by n a colored rider and andon andon on this account when In B a race rIt In which Ta Taylor lor WOK was alno a contestant hll he always rode like II a veritable fiend and when Kimble pint Iut all his hili energies to It he was unbeatable At any rate Taylor could never get hi his wheel home In front The other man Taylor Talor never defeated is III Tom Butler Hutler When cycling wu was In its 1111 prIme some years ago aMo and Taylor Talor and huller Butler were doing tile the circuits circuit the lat bet better tr ter ens RII speciallY enjoined b by the firm for which he rode rooe that he must always manage to cross crots the tape ahead of Tay Taylor tor lor The latter soon caught on to hut Bul ieta same game And It resulted In some In duels on their wheels In one particular race time the spectators were amused ell to see fe when the nut first bunch of riders rs crossed the track and the race wu was really over oer Taylor and Butler nearlY n a quarter r of n a mile behind Net Nel Nether her seem seemed to be aware that the con cont contest t test st was over and both Were jockeying awn away no as If the they were the on only two men In the event mt The spectators at once caught aught on and cheered the two to men In their endeavors The real winners of I the race race were forgotten In hl this bit Lil ot of I byplay which ended nil as usual In Butler comIng home ahead ot of his dusky riyal rival B |
