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He Isjfrieidly Page Six THE DETROIT TIMES: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29. *9*®- EDITED BY 1 HONEST OPINIONS Latest news THE TIMES SPORT PAGE HARRY NEILY IWONDERFUL TALE 15 (onausivt phot shot does hot hit HOPELESS HOPES, m that ARE WHITE PUGS O’LEARY 11 W OF DANIEL ■—gg—ge~'■■■■ -I ’ll",-■ ■u .. i ■■BB— I BF HERE PROCESSION OF WOULD-BE HEAVIES COME AND GO WHO PLAYED BUT NOBODY LOOKS ABLE TO GIVE JACK . JOHNSON A BATTLE. MR. SPINK RELATES YARN CONCERNING OLD-TIME I CLEAN • DETROIT STAR WHO KNOCKED to him, hope fit hope* and hope®. They hut as a he will not IvvlOPfiM. unless blasted BUT WAS CALLED OUT. ILJ I have been tbe ohief stock in as a one. HOMER game Another hope is Con O'Kelly. The r »*• .* I pugilistic j i. 1 1 I trade to the topheavy. r since Jack Johnaon defeated name is perfect, but Con is Kelly made his advent Into the went to the saloon proprietor, who James J. Jeffries Woodsmen, AN O’LEARY play sporting us a wrestler. In his once, place where his players farmers, teamsters and motoriuen world ed in Detroit owued the first appearance New York, he was the hung out, uud mortgaged his share all poshed themselves to the In awav back in have 1 pronounced a huge mat man. when of the gate receipts for front hopes, haven't Joke as a early 80s afternoon's as and those who of who SBOO, bet his team only waiting the oppor- and some the critics saw hint the national pas- which he also on done so are well night before the game. Dan tunity. wrestle declared that he was time wasn't con “The named "CON." the hud, by otTariug to buy everything the The white man has waxed enthusl ducted on Hut it is as a fighter that Con ha® it is saloon proprietor had in his place tne astlc over every one of them. The same lines as his reputation. has up to night, Induced him to close his very a man who Is made He today. O'Leary next mention of white hipped nearly opponent®. the place and a meeting of the players build has started the date w all hia was one of of Herculean up by that great ring general. was called by O'Leary. The man- pulse workiug and the heart throb- Picked original characters Tommy Ryan, who saw wonderful pos- an<l ager hail prepared himself by having bing In every white man's breast with of the game sitdlities in Con as a hope. Con wus •V end of a full stock of drinkables in his own the hope that the hope had been kt p* v., . they tell no carefully Then was given h»> room, and lie kept his players under Jack Johnson is due to be tutored. he about the funny stunts found nnd a match and made good. Another and and work his own eye,, until every saloon in annihilated, yes, to be obliterated led. He was a left-flelder for night. another has followed. Con has been terles Sam Thompson, town waa locked up the from the surface of the globe. daya when ■■HaHMaHBSMKBMKHBBaMESiiiSEaaasHaaHaMHSRKP 1* kept working, and he has demonstrat- Players Hep. of these hopes have ejr Bennett, and a few others Get But. alas! none ed his ability by performing like a vet- good. They have eliminated in their prime. Hitting waan t "Next day the players heard about made eran. us hope haa great start by hopes Con a a jf hia atrongest points. A. H. the heavy betting their manager had themselves one one. Red on With Ryan direct- yarn Apropos of the controversy as to at various speeds from 20 to 60 mMe* circle Sportsmen who hope to "got” sprung up, too, and the white Miles McLeod. tells the following good done and were suspicious that it was have ing his ring destinies, hope “ there is "The charge from a shotgun an hour past a gunner, at ranges their quarry because a gun "scat- has been ready to swear hv them O’Leary in his greut book: the pay money. Isn't this pay day?’ whether the Il- man for him. He. too. has height, reach ters” will do well to study this Anyone, so long as he can whip the nal Game:” they asked Dan. “string” when fired at a moving ob- varying from 30 to 40 yards. No may pay and weight In his favor over Johnson. many lustration. It cause them to that obscures the in O’Leary was one of the ‘“Maybe,' Dan replied, and then he ject, conclusive proof to the contrary matter what the sped of the car, the shooting owe black cloud R van is ready to match O’Kelly tor figured in base- how placed mon more attention to their and pugilistic firmament, will do. e characters that told them he had the here. An automobile fitted shot, fired from an ordinary double- place less dependence upon that vol- the "hope" with Mcl^eod. ago. lie was h ey. Is offered Job tome 25 years shotproof target was shotgun, known as Redskins Fail. Across the briny the English sports hia “Well, why, with a driven barreled bunched within the atile element “luck.” r and also a manager, but talk about ball playing, Down in Orono, Me., they have tried are pinning their faith on one Bom- mostly con- the gerial efforts were those dump rats' went at Wil- stalwart descendants of the aborigines. bardier Wells. In far-away India. to independent clubs, where he liamsport fellows Hke playing fiends lost their scalps quick- Bombardier was a wonder, but in his many inning. Some of them h.e opportunity to perform and made nine runs tiie first ly, others put the white men to battles with a few gunners and sailors have hardly The something like while acta, that would full score was DETROIT EASIES the floor for tho count. The reds have Bombardier exploded, and one expert baseball, but 2ti to and in organized 6. STAKE DECLARES all been failures so far in Maine. who is abroad refers to him as a get i were to his natural bent. "Did the 'Dan O’Leary’s' the Out In 'Frisco, too, they have tried "prize dub." O’Leary taken up night? they "In 1886, had eats and drinks that Did FOR HOME RUN HITS bring a redskin to the front as a A brace of “hopes" eliminated them P venture, manager up by to twaeball In Scranton, Pa., as a not? The set the wine hope. Near-Shot, a Yuma selves at the Armory A. A. in Boston into Charlie mid, aa usual, Dan had entered the case; champagne, too.” brave, tepee in Arizona far the other night. Jlm Gaw and Cy shoestring. In O’Leary living in HE left his now Chica- ; the speculationBfche on a Dan is TIGER FLINGERS ALLOW OPPOSITION 34 FOUR-BASE behind to get a wallop at one of the Black, both of Reading, acted like a not blessed go uud is known now in Vtboee days Daniel was best there ISJFRIEIDLY warriors. Charlie was only a couple of prize hums. Black caressing white -with any surplus coin, as he has been theutrical circles as the leading "first That CLOUTS AND LEAD THE AMERICAN LEAGUE beaten to a fraz- the mat. nighter.” Chicago Coach Denies "Reports near-hitter. He was ! lately. zle and left the land near the great In Pittsburg they have a fellow "O’Leary, years previous to is of the most enthusiastic Michigan in IN THIS RESPECT. several He one He Opposes waters a sadly dejected athlete. named Gil Hart, who is said to be a venture, undertaken baseball fans in Chicago, and rarely hia Bcranton had Hut there Is yet hope of a white near champ, hut Gil has not been suf- handling a team misses game. Athletics. 1 ttha precarious job of a man coming to tho front. Away out ficiently tested to get a line on his players, afterwards long were Crandall, of New York, ten; 3made up of who Not since 1879—and that’s a r av 1 F ALL the pitchers in the Anv- In Gentry county, Kansas, a gigantic ability. Meta of New time ago—has a ball player repeated Ourtls, of Boston, nine; Frock, of Bos- starred with the Old || erlcan, Detroit possessed the furruer is biding his time. Young, There are hopes and hopes, nearly "Dump lots,” most of them, but the greut trick made by L)au CHICAGO. Nov. 29—Coiach Stagg. il making ton. es?ht; Lelfleld, of Pittsburg, sev- York. 1 easiest marks tor strong and ambitious this disciple of all of whom have turned out to he play ball like chained llght- now popular clubman in Chicago., of Chicago university, is out with a 1 11 Sing- en, and Stack, of Philadelphia, seven. I all could a home runs. The Tiger has been wrestling with the huge Jokes. It would be no difficult liking for his and in those days a player of consid- statement today denying that he has Three foun-baggers were garnered by Abel ■Sdag. Dan still had a ers during 1910 yielded 34 crops in the land where the cyclones job for Johnson to take the entire and dearly Dan was with old in any way endeavored to dictate iu the Pirates in one inning off "Mr. the latter erable skill. the home runs, which is four made than gather force and strength, prepared bunch, one after the other.
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