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Show iENKHAL sroi-iTING. FLOTSAM ANU JETSAM FROM HERE AND THERE. Hottlea Vp rani) of the IrUh Rare Mkely to Manimt Itself la rnn-e-tln wllh C oming AIM. tie dents Motes of aport. noTTi.rt. I P KXKHnr. The page of thla newspaper devoted to athletic aporta will follow with eare the pmgresa of the Irlsli-Amer-Ican Athletic club, aaya the Chicago American. Thla organisation la to compete to all the Important coutes'a held abroad. Ita membership la to consist mainly. If not entirely, of men of Irish birth or Irish desernt. it Is an Interesting and extraordinary fact that a collection of the beat Irish athletes ath-letes In the world would ronntltule the plrk of all the world s atrong men. One member of the Irlsh-Amerlran Athletic club recently arqulred la John Flanagan, the holder of the world's record for throwing the sixteen-pound hammer. Another member la I. O'Connor, the holder of the world's rerord for the broad Jump. Thla exlrnonllnary energetic Irishman Irish-man haa Juiniied tweiity-flvo feet and one-half Inch. Measure It out on the ground and you will aee what thut means. Everybody knowa that an Irish-American athletic assorlstl.in would naturally Include such athletes aa John L. Sullivan. Milta Donovan, Corbett, Jeffries, Terry MrOovcrn In fact, the entire list of those that have proved their ability to overcome their fellows In physical combat. According Accord-ing to records In the pnat, you will find Ileenon, "Yankee" Sullivan, John Jlor-rlfary Jlor-rlfary and others all of Irish blood. If thla fighting athletic pecullai'tv of the Irish race meant only muscular development It would not be particularly particu-larly Intereatlng. What lenda Interest to the Irish athlete la the fart that he excels In those particular tames In which victory la due not to muscular force, but to mental energy. There ara thousands of men that can lift heavier weights than could be lifted by the champion Irish fighter. There la no t: man who can beat him. The muscles act In obedience to Inipulsea received from the brain. It la the nervous mental men-tal force stored up In the Irish race that makea the Irlsb dominant in certain cer-tain lines of athletic as In certain mental lines The refined mental force whlrh makea a mental giant of a i tlurke, or a Fox, or a lilllton, la displayed dis-played In crude form In tha energy of John I.. Sullivan or of MrOovern. The amnll spot of the earth a surfare called Ireland has probably contributed to fill tefgf PATRICK O'CONNOn. the world's history more In the way of energetic mental and physical action ac-tion than any equal area of the earth's surfare. It la an excellent thing to encourage thla Irleh-Amerlcan Athletlo association. Not Irishmen alone, but all that are Interested In the develop-meut develop-meut of the human rare, should watch the records and the relative achievements achieve-ments of thla association compared with olhera. There la something extraordinary ex-traordinary In a rnce persistently persecuted, per-secuted, Inhabiting a small and not too fertile Island, aubjert to renturlea ot butchery and misrule, whlrh produces auch men na Wellington, Wolfe, Fox, Ilurke, Swift, I'arnoll and Patrick Henry. |