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Show I i When Dinosaurs Some footprints on a piece of sand tone plowed up in South Hadley, Mass., by a boy in 1802 caused much excitement. They were atjlrst thought by the devout people to be the tracks t Noah's Raven" maue in the mud of the subsiding deluge. When some flagging stones were quarried in Mon tague for the streets of Greenfield in 1835 a less religious Mr Wilson called them turkey tracks." Then an attempt was made to decipher them scientifically by Dr. James Deane and the eminent scientist Prof. Edward Hitchcock, both of whom Joined in the opinion that they were the footprints of prehistoric birds. As bird tracks they continued to be popularly known for more than half a century. But developments in ichnology and paiaeonotology throw a new light on these mysterious footprints on the sands of time. Dr. Richard Swann Lull, associate professor of the Massachusetts Agricultural college at Amherst, the emb cent paleontologist,, in a recent memoir issued by the Boston Society of Natural History, states that these footprints must have been made by dinosaurs. The fossils of American dinosaurs have been found mostly In the Rocky mountains, and that region has come to be regarded as the former home of these ancient monsters. It now appears that right here in New England this strange race of animals lived and flourished in countless varieties from the size of a small monkey to two or three times the height of a man. About 15,000,000 years ago, according to Dr. Lulls calculation, the Connecticut valley was a tropical Jungle, in which disported these creatures, more grotesque than can now be found in an African forest. These creatures, with the tail of a reptile, the body of an animal and the head of a snake, stood nearly upright on their hind legs and walked or ran with almost human gait. Ancient Beings of New England. It was the red and gray sandstones and shales of the Connecticut valley :TH Lived 3 with the cooling of the earth's crust he has been forced to retreat south ward, till the true crocodile is now found only Ju African rivers. Dinosaurs England. The first fossilized bones of dlno-sau- rs found In the Connecticut valley were near Windsor in 1818. Another skeleton was found wear Springfield by Prof. Hitchcock and described by him in 1865 under the name of MegadaUlus. In 1884 Prof Marsh made another discovery near Manchester, Conn , of the bones of a larger size, but closely resembling the one found near Springfield. These bones indicated an animal six In New to eight feet long From the teeth as well as other things, it is thought to have been carnivorous. It Is also certain that other larger forms of dinosaurs, which were herbivorous, existed in the Connecticut valley, from footprints found, but no bones of suqh have been discovered. The anchesaurus or carnivorous dinosaur of the Connecticut valley was one of the most slender and dell cately formed of all the dinosaur fam ily. For the most part it walked erect on its hind legs. That its fore feet or hands or paws, whichever one chooses OR. PORTS I Ople thai It Is not ninth sport. It American Team Wins Race. the Blx day bi- Is to ti.iuh hkti locomotives running cycle rae at Madison Square garden, on struck" which came to an end at 10 oclock Stol and Dec lit , and $2 500 Cjmp Wants Football Changes. the cleverest foreign team Vvtlter that has ever competed here, finished (amp Yale's athletic ad second. The American team was rep- visn niav b regarded as the most in resented b young Root, and In the flutglai ni in connected with college footfall m America final sprint won first by ten lengths. His suggestion s rain al a of for dash final who rode the in Stol, change in the rules as the tape for the foreigners, madeALto nquln a ten yards advance of the desperate attempt to win in the last hall in tK future where a five yards' lap, but was not speedy enough to ad'ince has been required In the past, Is tie most vital change proposed in beat the New York man. The final score and the order 'of the conlectien wtth the great game in 10 ears It has elicited a great finish was: Miles. Laps. varltty of opinions among players and 2 388 8 Root and Dorton I oolbge athletic officials and will con 2,388 Vamieistuyft ami Stol 4 tin 2.3X8 Samuel-toto he a subject of discussion unand Williams 2 388 Keegan and Logan the next til 2.388 meeting of the football I Krebs and Fogler S.38S I ml Committee. Breton and Gougolts I 2.14 Turville and Mettitng The riders were 346 miles and 8 Ups krrange International Bomplel. behind the record, which is 2,733 Arisiu out of the visit of miles and 4 laps. the Scot tlsh curling team to Canada in 1902, an International Offer Bowlers Much Money. curling tournament ha been arranged. It will take The National Bowling Tournament place Company of Milwaukee, which is to at Adelboilen, Canton Berne, Sw Itzer-Uid- , from Feb. 5 to Feb. 8. 1905. At have charge of the American Bowling A meeting held Congress, to be keld in Milwaukee in recently at Edinburgh February, has completed its prize list, It tu announced that a sliver chalthe total prize money being $10,000, lenge cup had been offered, together This amount is said to be 83,500 In ex- with medals for the first, second and cess of the prize money of the Ust thlfi rinks A committee was formed, congress, which was held In Cleve- and it wax decided to send an lnvita-t- l to take land, Ohio. part in the competition to The sum of $3,500 is to be bung up Canadian and American curlers. for 150 Individual prizes, ranging from $200 for first down to a number of $5 .Chicago Man Rolls Big Scora. For the prizes for the tailenders. touts Semones of tofive men list the forty-fiv- e Chicago, rolled prizes, taling $3,500, are headed by a $450 tbiecond 300 score in a bowling con prize. Second money is $350, third te under league conditiors, in the $300, and so on down to a number of Mdaroe league,, in the history of the team prize gae. The big total came in the sec $25 prizes. The two-melist totals $3,000, and starts out with ond game of the contest between the O'Leary i and Halls, his other garnet $250 for first place, $225 for second and $200 for third, ranging down to a bSag 160 and 190. The team totaled 1,611, aided by the big mark. The only seventy fifth prize of $10. other $00 ever made in a league game wai rolled by Ben Stell In Novera Pololsta Organize. Michigan The Michigan State League of Polo her, 1902, In the 'American league clubs was organized at Grand Rapids, when he was a member of the Rival Dec. 6, and franchises awarded to Seances averaged 213 Root and Dorlon won VliJ kW Van-derbtu- n American Baseball League Plana. All the representatives were opposed to the scheme for games suggested by Garry Herrmann of Cincinnati, which provides a sort at round robin tournament in which each chib In the American will make the circuit and play each club In the National and vice versa. This would take too much time and would not make enough of the feature of natural rivalries. By putting the date of the opening of the season one week later than last year the magnates hope to give the weather man time to dump the most of his nasty spring weather. Last year the early games in nearly all the cities were Interfered 1Ul by bad weather. Dio ubs loti of the playing rules at the night session, which was an open meeting attended by all managers as well as the owners, brought out a great diversity of opinion. The foul strike rule was, of course, the chief bone of contention Some want the rule revoked. Rome want It modified, and some want It left as It is. The consensus of opinion can he summed up by the statemert that all would like to see more batting, but are afraid to make a radical change In the rule as it now stands. After a long discussion President Johnson was empowered by motion to appoint a committee on rules with full power to act for the American league In the matter. Comlskey. Mack of Philadelphia and Kilfoyle of Cleveland were appointed on the committee. The rommlttee was no way bound by Instructions. post-seaso- n Rumor comes frtwn Goshen. O., that Sam Leever Btil has his right arm. Pitcher Tat Flaherty of the Pirate, has been appointed and accepted the position of coach to the Beloit college baseball team. Ginger" Beaumont 1s holding up the Pittsburg club for an increse of salary. Barney Dreyfuss says nothing and looks up his dope book. The St. I.ouls club has paid the first Instalment of the draft money on Outfielder Josh Clarke of. JJea Moines, a brother of Manager Clark of the Pirates. Pitcher Overall of Tacoma,, wh claims to have a non reserve contract will not sign with Cincinnati unless he receives as a bonus the $750 Cincinnati would have bad to pay for him had he been subject to draft Bill Stuart who played short for $ie Pirates some years ago, declare that Offa Neal, the lnfielder secured by the Giants from the Three-EyeLeagjte, surely will make good. Neat la a school teacher by winter profession. d American Association Affair. Tommy Andrews, the noted sporting editor of the Evening Wisconsin, of Milwaukee, is spending a vacation ia . the West Indies. v , , had Miller it that Huggins Report wanted to get away from his Cincinnati contract to manage St Paul. He is visiting In St Paul now, add says there la nothing in the tale. Pffesident Havenor of Milwaukee, does not Intend to give np hit claim on Short Stop OLeary, even though the youngster play in Detroit' and he Milwaukee team gets Clyde Roblpson American League Notes. comJimmy Collins is ia favor of a sea- and n youngster instead, for the son shortening to 140 games. ing season. f McAleer Is willing to trade Burkett Manager Watkins of the Mlnnenpo -- 2-- AMERICAN ATHLETE (hat gave the numerous Indication of to call them, were used more for seisthe ancient beings that peopled thia ing and holding prey than walking These Indi- upon them, is shown by the fact that region in bygone days. cations, says Dr. Lull, Take the the forefingers terminated In very form of impressions of some part of sharp claws. A distinct feature of the body, either of dermal appendages thia dinosaur is Its small serpentlike or dragging portions of the body, such head and the long slender neck of as traces made by the tall; but by the same reptilian character. Its tail far the most numerous of all the the was slender and flexible like the modprints of the feet, which render to the ern lizards. In these respects It was student a fairly complete knowledge very different from the horned dinoof the size, proportions and habits of saur, with large head and short neck. their maker. This also was a carnivorous animal. Not only can the footprints and Of similar form was the large herbimarks of bodies be seen on these vorous dinosaur. slabs of stone, but the indentation of rain drops and ripples made by an Why Animals Rather than Birds. Dr. Lull la very particular to state ebbing tide 1,000,000 years ago. These Impressions were baked in the plastic exactly what he believes these footnuid by a fierce tropical sun shining prints to belong to animals rather overhead and by volcanic heat from than to birds. The features which below. When the tide came In again separate the tracks under consideraladed with fine sediment the markings tion from those of birds, be aays, are Beveral, though all do not occur in each Instance. They aret First, the presence of a tall trace which Is This may unquestionably reptilian. be a continuous serpentine impression or a aeries of short straight opes as though .the appendage were raised at every step; or It may be a continuous straight line Impressing during the whole of the animal's walk or Just before sitting on Ha heels. The occasional Impression of a fore foot Is another distinguishing character, and the presence of Irregular dermal acntes or tubercles upon the skin, though rarely leaving a record. Is certainly " R EDUCE T SIZE fRACKV OF R1CAT FOOT Of A DINOSAUR were covered np and preserved for future ages to discover.. Dr. Lull expresses the opinion that dinosaurs abounded in this region la great variety. Some were carnivorous and preyed upon small animals and Others fish In the shallow waters. were herbivorous, and browsed on the tropical foliage that then lined the banks of the Connecticut Certain of the footmarks show Hzardlike characters, though no lizards have been known to have lived in so remote a time. Still other tracks resemble earlr crocodiles. " a curkms thing that while dinosaurs long ago completely vanished from the earth, the crocodile has managed to live on with comparatively little change In form or habits. But Hr Is not blrdllke. Though dinosaurs are shaped much like the kangaroo of the present time, there U no evidence whatever among the footprints of a leaping dinosaur; that It, one in which both feet leave the ground at the same time One very Of the Hitchcock peculiar specimen cabinet at ' Amherst seems to have tried to atop so suddenly as to slide for a considerable apace on Its haunches before overcoming its momentum. , The largest of these erect walking dinosaurs of the Connecticut valley was the Otozoum, which had a length of twenty feet from head to tail. R rarely rested its hands or forefeet on the ground, sometimes dragging Its tall and at other time holding It clear of the ground. This animal had a footprint twenty inches long and had a inches. Most stride of about forty-fiv- e of the footprints srs much smaller, twelve to fourteen leches being the rule for the larger species, and dwindling down to tiny prints only an Inch or two In length.. The smallest marks are thought to have belonged to little dinosaurs no larger than cats or small monkeys. Boston Herald. , WINS IN ENGLAND. FS-iCVCH- T Pitcher of the Boston National Loaguo Club. Thia good man la the Rhodes scholarship athlete who earned his way to the oth$r aide for the purpoee of studying at Oxford. Recently he won four events at the Brasenose sports, d the quae thd ran In 0:11 ter mile in 0:43 the mile In 5:07 and the weight-throwith 27 leet 5 Inches, gchutt was a member of the Oxford team for the ran Dec. 10. Hi finished fifth in a large field. George W. Leihy, Jr., representing Detroit; Henry Roller, representing Port Huron; W. E. Munger, representing Kalamazoo, and Austin McFadden, repderesenting Grand Rapids. It w cided to open the Teague championship season December 30 wtth Port Huron at Detroit and Kalamazoo at Grand Rapids. A four months season, with games weekly in each city, with each club playing each other club of the league four games, was decided on. Officers were elected as folio: E. W. Dickerson of Grand Rapids, president; Henry Roller of Port Huron, Vic president? W. E, Munger of Kalamazoo, secretary; George W. Leihy, treasurer ; Austin McFadden, chairman executive board. Foul Spoilt Good Fight In one of the most terrific fights between blfi men that ever took place In a Chicago ring. Jack Root won from Johq Willie on a foul in the fifth round. 100-yar- 2-- No Chanee of Cup Race. Oliver Iselin, who has been abroad since July, motoring through England and Ireland and on the continent returned with Mrs. Iselin to New York Dec. t. Asked concerning any future race for the America's cup. Mr. Iselin said be had met no yachting people to interested while, la way, sad hadnot even met Sir Thomas Upton. T did not hear anything that would lead me to think a race was being arranged for next year, be said. Asked races, Mr. his opinion of motor-boa- t ' Iselin replied!'' I do not own a motor bost and never did any of that kind of racing. C. 3-- Oxford-Cam-bridg- crosa-countr- e y Jacob Schaefer In Naw.York. Jacob Schaefer of billiard fame has returned to this country from Parts nd is now in New York. The return et Schaefer ia cloaked in mystery. 8chaefer arrived Nov. 29, but the fact he had arrived was unknown, . his name was not in the passenger list At their Broadway room Mrs. Schaefer said her husband was not in the best of health. Dick" Roach said he understood Schaefer had undergone n operation, not of serious nature, knd In all probability he aeon would return to France. , Pigeon Fanciers Elect Officer. The National Association of Amer at It can JHomlng Pigeon Fancier annual meeting In Philadelphia elected the following officers: President E. F. Baker, Baltimore; flee PresiDr. J. dents. W. Bowen, Chester, C. Simpson. Cleveland; and F. R. Phillips, Chicago; race secretary and secretary, Charles H. Jones, Philadelphia; treasurer, L. A. Mehler. The amalgamation with the national federation, suggested by the latter organization, wras voted down. I.; al for Bay and Josa, but Lajole says nay That Lajole is the greatest player in the world ia the candid opinion of Jimmy Collins. Catcher Fred Buelow is one of the men who thinks (hat Lajole will be a success as a manager. Will McKay, of the Cleveland Leader, claims that club is one of the most expensive in the American League. No doubt of it In Cleveland they have it figured out that the Detroit Club will trade Frank Kotson because he Is essentially a warm weather pitcher. grouudkeeper, Clevelands new Charles Maddocks. of Toronto, Is greatly pleaaed with his new berth and his employer. The players at the end of the season presented him A with a $50 purse! 11s club, has a statesman In the ranks of his team. Frank McNichoIs, who Is a strong utility player. And who made good both at third base and In center field, waa elected to the Illinois leg! : latnre at the recent election from one ' of the Chicago Assembly districts. The Hon Mr. McNichoIs will not give ' . np baseball.. Three-League Tip. The Bloomington Club has secured In Outfielder Peter Pnas, of Marion, O., good outfielder and heavy hitter. I It Is claimed. The Decatur Club has received the contract of Pitchers Hardy and Edwards, and Is negotiating with Pitcher Dodge, of Fox Lake. President Holland think it advisable to Ignore the litigation of the Rockford Club- - and prepare for a enroll with eight clubs. A meeting of Southern Baying. Mike Finn has drafted Outsider the directors will he held la BloomingTheodore Durrett from Montgomery ton shortly to discuss further plana. First Baseman Sunny Jim Hack-et- t, for the Toledo club. , - of ' Bloomington, ' is uadeetded Arthur Goodwin it conceded to have about playing with that etnh next been the star t wirier la the Southern He would like to - rejoin St for when year. summer, last they League Louis and one may it his eyesight imwriter ipeak of the other pitchers says: He almost had as perfect con- proves. trol as Goodwin- .- Arty certainly did Western Winnowing a. live np to the prophecy he made beJoe Qnlno,' Des Moines fore going to Memphis, that he would Is ready to go out again next seasow. make good. Quinn started out aa s player la 1883 of the Whistler champion Manager at Dubuque la. 1905 Many Memphis club, writes; contracts have already been signed, John J. Carter, of New England, has the latest signature to arrive being been secured by W. K. Duncan, presithat of Second Baseman Lou Walters, dent of the Sioux City Base Ban Cluh. the "Slent Man of the Memphians. as manager for next season. Chruey Outfielder Duffy of Birmingham, also will also coach Dartmouth College ell Pitcher team in the spring. lnfielder Tamsett Oscar Streit have agreed to play here Of the Des Molnea pitchers Hotter Is ' next year. In Cedar Rapids for the winter, i wields a cleaver In a hatcher National League News, shop at St. Louis, Stillman .has gone President Pulliam - has taken up back to hi studies at Chicago University and Morrison is in Des Moines. bowling for winter retixatloo. Le4-flc- ld |