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Show Ifuciviin'htnidt i not the on'y one who yt-.'ed, 'oue'n.' Ba'-k 'o thm womls. you common pnrf5t football , will soon be in our T.;ilM. Instead of hollrrin' Hnout it. Billy Pnpkc 1 luekv to Kt a lookin on the fii.uls, after his lant fiasco. It ' .1 j;ood rainp it happened nt t lneufio. Over at Reno they wotiM live culled it oitehinj else. .Affording to Wulurd Mark, the aeror, who now lives near the home or 1 nnmv BnrnH in Alberta. Tommy ' cminii hark." Ve have heard Wil-!r.t.; Wil-!r.t.; mv that about certain otheru we ki.ow, loo. Kar be it from us to introduce a touch .f sdnewi right here in the mid-st of b.iebM, golf. Icnnis, yarhting and other yen tie sports, but on must re-memlx-r that both the football arnon and tho hunting time is toward. Nice little -work for the undertaker, eh Tha Salt lek hifli ehfMl b1 mada a 1 Trise choice in thr upleetion of Henrv Richardfon ax athletic dirntor. Rieh-ardson Rieh-ardson has been a true and model athlete) ath-lete) to hia seholaittie and collegium ea-rer ea-rer and is draerving of the recogni i tion. In addition to that, he sffordn t good eiample for t he red and blaek athletes to follow. Whether or not hi will mako good as a coaeh remains U , be seen, but here is a little prediction j that ho does. If Wolgast is careful he will make a? much or more in the next six month as he has in the nant. His first "kill-, Closkey will never return to Butfe. I look for Mac to become located either in Boise or Og leu. Twin Kails has made h) plication nnd I have it from good authority that moneved men of that tity will baej; a team Thlg littl-? city has been mighty jealous of Boise this season. I expect great things at Mifettoula next season and, incidentally, let me remark that there is one of the prettiest and moyt up to dato little cities 1 have ever seen. Boise 1 another an-other cracking good town, but w always al-ways knew that, .lack Codv has given the people of Boise a ball vark that, would do rredit to almost any league in the country, major or minor. I look for some trouble when the league directors di-rectors meet here this month. If. may not materialize and 1 hope it does not, but Jack odv of Bois and Preident Liros are surely at loggerheads and each expects the other to do the npnin-qi.ing. npnin-qi.ing. True, Lucas cares liltle whether he :s retained for next sen son or not, but bt's hope that the directors wi'l n ake no such mistake as to let him ct nway. Let's hope, on the other hand, nnd 'for the good of intermountnin base ialLJhat Lu-a and .rody wilLJ-'-jd: to tm get their little differences. Wlmt will bo the outcome of the inv.-tjj t-tion t-tion info the charges that ("irent I'm?!s his violated the salary limit of ?l.itn, or what action the agu directois v,il tike ;s n matter of conjecture. Pri dent Lucas has h. sworn aftid.i'- its of eevv player .n the Orest Kails Iith setting ont the sal'uies which they ;tre si.t posed to be g.Miing. One of th.m wf-ais that he is playing ball ;'or t? n tnonth and right t here it. wtil. to doubt, end. No mutter what nwy h.p pep at the leag't meeting more power iud greater suei--ss to the little Ksne. ing" will Vie in tha MrKarlatid match in filwaukec. He ia guaranteed l."i.0O0 and has a per cent privilege. Ha ia alao to get lia.rifio for fighting twenty rounds with Freddie Welsh in Ixis An-galea An-galea later. Pretty anft for the for mer rider of the blind baggage gettir.c such puraea as these. And his father did not want him to be a fighter, although al-though he haa given his parent, one of the bst farma in Michigan, the only thing they ever had. Wolgast. had to bum his wav on a freight train to the Aral fight he ever saw and he went to fighting directlv afterward. We have received some mighty had reports re-ports about a certain wreatler who ia at present in this city and who is making quite a killing. Most of them hail from Nashville. Tenn., and thev come from some pretty good people. The wrestling game has slowly hut aurelv been brought hack to the hearts of the fanf in thia city and let 'a hopn that the wrestler in question ia not preparing things and paving the way for a big "killing' because if such'a thing occurs oc-curs here it will kill the game aure-Oood aure-Oood sportsmen should do all within their power to prevent such an occurrence occur-rence and if any such plana are in the wind thev should he sifted down and the guilty wrestler (if guilty he is) should be chased out of the state. Perhaps the biggest surprise and up set in fistiana'wss the tasty trouncing handed tn Knorkout Brown by Mat Wells, the Knglish light weight cham pion, at New York. From all reporte it was a masterly and finished exhibition, with the wonderful metropolitan luminary lumi-nary acting as the auhject. Brown at last met hia match, and hia rushes were of little avail against the boxing of the fair son of Albion. Brown gave awav a little in weight, hut it waa only a trifle, but thia fact may have also he!ied down the New York star. After the match. Wells issued a challenge to the champion, hut at this early period it may as well be stated that if he can not do better in the weight line than he did in the Brown match, he probably will not get a chance at Wolgast. There is aome talk of matching him with Packey McFarland, and the possibility ia that the two will get together after Wolgai.t and McFarland finish their fiatic ioust. Manv a wrestling fan who went 'o the recent Ootch Hakenschmidt match has returned home regretting the monev he won on l.oteh. but which he lid not collect. That "All beta oft"' -Jecree left a disagreeable taste in the mouths of all concerned, and right now they can't understand whether the bets were called off by Jack Curlev. Hack-enechmidt Hack-enechmidt 's manager, or Referee Eddie Smith. An announcement was made hy fhe official megaphone mnn to the effect, that the referee had ordered all bets TfT, and according to betting rules the referea has the last say. There ia considerable con-siderable talk in Chicago to the effect that Haekenschmidt believed that, (ioteh had been "fixed" to lose and for that. reason alone he conseted to the match. One man who was close to Hacken- , -ehmidt and his following said he he !ieved the Russian had been douhle-"rossed douhle-"rossed bv hia own crowd. "They tell me," said the wrestling ahark, "that the gang had Hack bullied into the be- ief that flotch had conaented to 'lav down." They told him that Gofch would be a strong favorite and that lie had consented and would 'set' hia money in on the lion. Of course. Goteh wasn 't in on it, but Haekenschmidt lidn 't know that. Two daya before the natch, however. Haekenschmidt waa informed that Ootch had decided to win and that caused the 'nervonn' breakdown. ' ' Which sounds ft trifle like the so called Jeffries-Johnson double cross. When ' told the stor Ootrh onlv laughed. "They may have bullied him,"' said the champion, "hut if they did they didn't let me in on it. At any rate, he knew that it was on the X level when I earted out after him. Thev tell me that he wants a return match now. I would like to meet him every afernoon and night for the same purse." Manager I'urley cornea in for a great deal of censure now that the deal is over. For two weeks prior to the match Curley gave out atatementa to the effect tbat hia man was -in the best possible condition. He insisted that he waa fit for the battle of his life, even up to Mondav morning. Then when the fiasco waa over he belched forth a atate-ment atate-ment that Hackenchmidt bad been suffering suf-fering from a bad knee for several weeks. It was belated news and even if true f'urley should have stood pat. If Ualrenkehmi'dt reallv bad Keen iniured Ifats of? to th oiganizers of the Union .-.irociation, for they will tmly finish their first season. There were aome of us who believed that it was impossible, but wo have been abown. Cooley haa made money, or at leaat fiaid for bis park and 'all other preliminary prel-iminary expenses; Cody at Boise must have done better than break . even; Maurice Weisa at Helena told me while I was there recently that he ia several hundred dollars ahead of the game and that onlv the hardeat kind of luck will force him to lose a dime; McCloskey. Keed and the Missoula people, of course, have gone into tbe bole. McCloskey Mc-Closkey will be taken care of for 1912 and Misaoula will be there stronger than ever Whether or not Reed's "angels" at Great Falls will dig again next season remains to be seen. Mr. Van de Putte. the man who put up most of Heed's cash, told me that Great Kalis will he on hand next year and he expressed the opinion that, in view of thia year's experiences, he believed things vrould movo along much ej-oer peyt year. It is certain that John Mi- Curley should hsve informed the publie snd postponed the match. Referee Ed Smith also will have to do considerable consid-erable explaining. As yet he hasn't come through with his alibi as to why he called all beta off. Had the public been informed two weeks ago that tbe . Russian waa injured hut waa willing to go on with the match it would have been all right for Smith to act aa he did. ..BulLJrightBt ,the last moment, aolelr upon the solicitation of Haekenschmidt Haek-enschmidt 'a manager, it was a trifle strong.-- Whv ahould those who bet on Haekenschmidt be protected! Haekenschmidt Haeken-schmidt said that he waa in good condition. con-dition. Smith asserted tha. "Hack'' - j waa in good condition and-'the physi-ciana physi-ciana who examined him Monday morning morn-ing pronounced him phvsically- perfect. It really looka aa though some one was in bad aad Smith waa used as the official offi-cial "goat" to get him out. The result re-sult of the match is satisfying only in one respect. It means that we are through with Haekenschmidt. The "lion" will roar no more in our countryor coun-tryor hardly will have another chance to' ween again. |