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ONCE FAMOUS STATUE. Bernardo’s “Appennino” \Attracted Vast Amount of Attention. Gossip of the. Sport World In the Demidoff garden at Pratolino, some eight or ten miles from Florence, there still crouches the monster in By “SCORE KEEPER” stone and stucco called the “Appen-.; Rptiphhbbbbbooo0a nino,” once the glory of the famous Medici garden. Some sixty or seventy August Belmont has refused $200,000 American style of riding, alluded to as statue was more talked yeurs ago the for ‘Tracery. This is the greatest. the “monkey crouch.” It is said that of, but nowadays it appears that few amount ever offered for an American k'Tod Sloane took the style to London things. It tulk know or care for such bred and ralsed thoroughbred. It was sixteen years ago, and almost all the is a good specimen of its style, and a made by.cable by W. Allison of Eng- jockeys have taken It up since. reminder of its existence is Just as land. Allison is a breeder and a com- The chief criticism seems to be that, well. Its‘ height, if erect, would be | mission agent. He probably was acting although shortening the leathers, which about 100 feet,.or say one-fourth the in behalf of one of the wealthy patrons brings the jockey out of the ordinary Paul's cathedrat~ At the height of St. of the English turf. Allison asked to seat. enables him jto climb up on the bgck one can enter into rustic grottoes have the offer remain open until the horse’s neck, lightens the horse's bur into its interior, and from under- built end of the year. The only condition of den and increases his speed, the jockey peuth the hair of the head a cascade the tender was this—that Tracery re- is not able to control his mount, as ip may be made to flow forth ut will over main unbeaten until the end of the the. past. the shoulders and body of the colossus, racing season, says the London Sphere, Tracery is by Rock Sand—Topiary. Manager Dooin Planning For 1914. Buontalenti, the protege of Cosimo four-year-old bay colt. He was Charles Dooin, manager of the Phila. gigantic He is a di Medici, who schemed this foaled at Mr, Belmont’s Nursery stud delphia National league team, who bas thing ‘in 1569, employed the best tal- farm in Kentucky. In his first start been retained in that position for the ent available for the setting of it up, coming season, will bolster up his last year he finished third to Tagalie sculptors, masons, etc., and we are told for the Derby. Later he defeated pitching staff and says he will give all that its abnormal size led,to some of» Sweeper II., winner of the 2,000 Guin- the artists losing all senge of proper- eas, for the St. James’ Palace stakes being rendered unfit for ordi- tion and and Tagalie for the Doncaster St. them losing his rea- nary work, one of Leger. }son us a consequence of helping to Since his first start he has never build the monster. been beaten except in the Ascot Gold ! The audacity of the conception is eup. when he was pulled down by a the great genius, who, train- | worthy of militant suffragist. At the time Tra- ,ed under the eye of Michelangelv, cery was in front by three lengths in hesitated at nothing. knowing that the home stretch. Behind him at the was at his back and | the Medici money time was Prince Palatine he had only to ask when a daring idea of his needed funds. To Continue the English Stroke. This famous boy Bernardo (Buenta- The so called English stroke will be lenti) seems in his day to have out- continued by the Yale crews during shone the Admirable Crichton, being the next year. and W. Averill Harri- painter, sculptor, architect, engineer man. head coach last season, again will and mechanician and much besides. continue in that capacity, assisted by J. O. Rodgers, a former head coach. The Letter M. The Hebrew name of M was Mem, water, and it is curious to note that Soccer Football. Soccer football is rapidly making the original form of this character in the most ancient manuscript is a wav- headway among American colleges. ing line, which to the not too particular Columbia has officially made jsoccer ancients represented water. By some football_a._part of the regular training philologists the letter M as used by the in gymuasium work, which is required Phoenicians is supposed to have come of all members of the freshman and ; ‘Sa sophomore clusses. as from a picture representing the human face, the two down strokes represent- Photo by American Press Association. Fine Stretches of Highway In A Good Example, ing the contour of the countenance, the Charles Dooin, Who Will Again Mane Colorado Constructed by State V stroke signifying the nose, the two Presient .Hibben of Princeton uni- age Philadelphia Nationals. dots, long since disused, and a stroke versity frequently goes on the field to Prison Inmates Working Un- comers a hard tussle for the pennant. beneath the V representing the eyes watch the football players practice and and the mouth. The old Phoentcian confers with thé coaches as to the Dooin, who is known as one of the der “Honor System.” ablest of managers, won his first fame form of the letter does indeed bear a work of the men. Governors Favor comical sort of resemblance to the hu- Rarely has ‘a college president shown in baseball bebind the bat. the Idea. man face. so practical an interest in football. It 1.—Pathway through ‘the rocks, 2.—Convict Jaborers at work. 3 and 5—Au- is certain that the game would be Fastest Motorboat In tha World. its completion. | toists enjoying the convict built road in Colorado after Our Cornfields. greatly benefited if other college rulers The British motorboat, Maple Leaf RISON road gangs of various 4—An uphill streteh. The combined area of the cornfields condescended to forget their sacred IV., owned by E. Mackay Edgar and states have constructed many of the United States is nearly equal to dignity for a few minutes a day and representing the Royal Motor Yacht placed on the highways Boulder, Jefferson, El! Paso and Pueblo miles of fine roads during the that the state the area of France or Germuny. made personal visits to the gridiron. club, is the fastest motor craft in the gangs. sometimes close counties. They have built 157 miles of last. few. years. The idea of some Men in world. This boat won the British in- and at other times good roddway,. and a great deal of this making road: builders out of convicts to the penitentiary First Submarine Cable. “Monkey Crouch.” ternational motorboat trophy, popular even 200 miles away. has been blasted out of solid rock, seems to be growing in popularity. forty, fifty and The cable between Dover, England, In connection with the Wootton-Sie- ly known as the Harmsworth, cup. in @ not guarded in, the that in Mesa county being the most Striking instances of what convicts These men were and Calais, France, opened in 1850, ver case there has been discussion all series of races concluded over a course super- difficult and heavy work attempted by ean do in this work are found in Colo- daytime at all. Two unarmed was the first submarine cable. over England of what is termed the in Osborne bay, Isle of Wight. intendents had control of a gang of, our men. The average labor cost to rado. The state owes tothe inmates the various counties for the work of of the state penitentiary the Colorado say, sixty men. of train- these men has been 32 cents a day per Springs-Canon City state highway, one It required superintendents the man, and as this cost includes Sundays of the notable examples of roads built ed minds to designate the place for work and to explain how-it Was to and holidays the cost of- the labor of The Height by convict labor. It connects Colorado these men to the counties. fortwo of the Ridiculous A single man, -a.‘trusty,” Springs and the scenic wonders of the be done. camp at night. ‘The camp years, or 731 days. would be $36,725.44. Pikes peak region with the Canon guarded the Traced to Noah. Awful Oversight. | Unnecessary Interference. no wire fence We worked twenty-one state teams, City district and the road to the top of was composed of tents: “They say that chess is the oldest “There is one discordant note in your A woman. mounted the step of a cat It and the feed for these teams cost the around it. no inclosure whatever. carrying an umbrella like a reversed the Royal gorge. It is fifty miles long counties $20 per month per team, game.” remarked the old fogy. garden, my dear madam,” remarked and known not only for its picturesque was located right where the work be- saber. which would amount to $10,080, mak- “Poker is older than chess,” said the the aesthetic Jundscape architect. gun on the road. The men generally beauty, but as a splendid example of wise guy. “What is that?” asked the lady, much The conductor touched her lightly, half a mile to a mile and ing a total cost to the counties for roadmaking and engineering genius. worked from “How do you know?” asked the old alarmed. | saying, “Excuse me, madam, but‘yovu a half in each direction before they labor of $46.805.44.