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DARCY LEADS THEM ALL IN VICTORIES
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Les Darcy, the sensational Austra-’K-
lian middleweight, won more fights in
1915 than any other fighter of promi-
nence in the world. He had 13 bouts
and won 12. His only defeat was by
Jeff Smith, whom he beat twice later.
fcDarcy’s victories included two knock-
fouts over Eddie McGoorty and a deci-
sion over Jimmy Clabby, which gives
him a good claim to the middleweight
championship.
Charley White runst second in vic-
tories with ten, nine of which were
knockouts. He also boxed seven no-
decision bouts and one draw. Bat
Levinsky had the most fights—28. He
won one, lost one, boxed one draw and
25 no-decision boni#. The record of
Freddy Welsh, lightweight champion,
is a joke. He was in 19 bouts and all
were no-decision affairs. Freddy re-
fused to risk his title.
The same goes for Jess Willard,
heavyweight champion. He was in
the ring once in 1915 and that was
when he won the title. The records
of the leading performers are as fol-
lows:
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Battling Levinsky ........1
Jack Dillon ................4
Ted Lewis .................. 8
Freddie Welsh ............ 0
Charlie White .......  10
Johnny Dundee ............ 3
Ad Wolgast ................ 3
Jack Britton ............... 1
Johnny Ertle ................5
Young Ahearn ............ 1
Johnny Kilbane .......... 0
Leach Cross ............... 3
George Chip ............... 4
Les Darcy .................12
Johnny Griffith ............ 3
Joe Mandot ................. 2
Matt Wells ................0
ddie McGoorty ........... 6
mi Reich .................... 5
Jim Coffey ................. 8
■"George Chaney ............ 4
Kid Williams .............. 2
Jimmy Duffy ....... 1
F. Burns (J. C.)............ 3
Eddie Campi .............. 0
Jimmy Clabby .............0
Charles Winert ............ 1
Willie Ritchie .............. 0
Mike Gibbons ..............0
Jess Willard ................ 1
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PREDICTS MORE SPEED
Great Runner Does Not Take
Pessimistic View of Outlooks
Believes That Within Year or Two An*
other Crop of Fast Ones Will Come
Along — Distancers Show
Much Improvement.
George V. Bonhag, probably the
greatest long-distance runner ever de-
veloped on the American cinder path,
does not take a pessimistic view of
the present condition of the distance
game.    !
“I believe,” he said, “that it is pure-
ly a question of cycles. Just at pres-
ent there is a lull, where a few years
ago we were turning out fast distance
men by the dozen. Probably within
a year or two another crop of fast
ones will come along. One thing is
certain, our distancers, as a class,
have improved marvelously in the last
decade.
“What we need now,” continued
Bonhag, “is a distance champion com-
ing from the ranks. He will take to
running fast and set a standard. The
hoys who will try to beat him will
gradually work up to that standard,
and when they have reached it the
real champion will move along to a
still faster level. I know it was that
way when I was coming along at my
best. The last year .1 was running
fast there were a dozen men who
could smother the performance I did
when I first won the two-mile cham-
pionship.
“Had Hannes Kohlemainen devel-
oped in this country, running against
our distancers, the chances are that
he would have carried half a dozen of
our men along with him, and as a re-
sult we would have had just so many
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READY FOR EASTERN REGATTA
Stanford University Eight Hard at
Work Preparing for Big Event
at Poughkeepsie.
/ Brimful of confidence inspired by
their showing at Poughkeepsie last
season, the Stanford University eight,
the California Giants, are hard at
work preparing for the big event to
be held at Poughkeepsie next June.
Western rowing experts entertain the
opinion that the Cardinal crew, with
the experience gained last season, will
be more formidable. The ship’s com-
ipany which lost to Cornell only by an
eyelash will be practically intact. Bill
Bloesser, a victim of the five-year rule,
will be the only absentee.
A coaching launch capable of mak-
ing 17 miles an hour has been installed
for the use of Guerena and will facili-
tate his work in polishing up the Car-
dinal oarsmen. As Stanford has been
invited to participate again in the
eastern regatta, whether it wins the
coast title or not, a strenuous effort
will be made to include the coast title
in the Stanford’s crew luggage when
it goes east. The entire university
has been aroused to enthusiasm and
determination over Stanford’s show-
ing on its first trip into foreign terri-
tory.
Si. Louis Stockholders.
St. lA’iiis American league stock-
ibolders are listed as follows: Phil
‘Ball, 2,350 shares; Otto F. Stiefel, 733
shares; James W. Garneau, 109; L. D.
(on Wiese and S. L. Swarts, 4 shares
bach.
Donovan Sweet on Mogridge.
j Wild Bill Donovan of the New York
| Yankees expects George Mogridge,
former White Sox pitcher, to shine
, *s one. of the bright slab stars of the
.season in the American league.
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INTERESTING
• SPORT •
PARAGRAPHS
There are 448 automobile factories
in this country.
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Malcolm Galvin, Wisconsin univer-
sity baseball pitcher and football star,
has signed a contract with the White
Sox.
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The Athletic club has signed Lester
A. Lanning, the star pitcher of the
Wesleyan University of Middletown,
Conn.
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Manager Carrigan of the Red Sox,
will give a trial after June, to Bascom
Shore, a brother of Pitcher Emery
Shore.
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An important phase of the Red Sox-
Phillies world’s series has just come
to light. Neither manager ever was in
vaudeville.
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Roger Connor, famous as a batter
for the Giants in the ’SOs, has been ap-
pointed inspector of schools in Water-
bury, Conn.
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Lee Magee of the Yanks and Charles
Dooin of the Giants both live in Cin-
cinnati, hut there are no other skele-
tons in the New York clcset.
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The University of California and the
University of Nebraska football teams
may play at San Francisco on Decem-
ber 21, 1916. Negotiations are under
way.
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The Saratoga (N. Y.) Racing associ-
ation is expected to hang up close to
$300,000 in stakes for running horse
events at the Spa track the coming
season.
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Miami, Fla., is fixing up its baseball
park and will construct a grandstand
to seat three thousand. Several of the
major leagues will play exhibition
games there this spring.
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If the Washington club cannot use
Shortstop Morley Jennings, that club
will transfer him to New York. In
this event the Minneapolis club will
have to find a new shortstop.
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Mike Gibbons says that neither his
young sons, Robert, age five years, or
John, age four, will follow their fa-
ther’s footsteps in the squared circle
when they grow to manhood.
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Nat Margolin, formerly of Newtown
high school’s baseball team, will go
South with the New Yorks. Margolin
went through the entire season, pitch-
ing winning ball on each occasion.
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It is said the war will cause an in-
crease in the prices of bowling balls
and ivory cue balls. The bov/ling balls
will cost $15 and two and three-eighths
inch billiard balls will sell for $16.
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Kansas City, Mo., is to organize an
amateur baseball league to be run like
similar associations of Cleveland,
Omaha, St. Louis, Tacoma, Washing-
ton, D. C., and other cities of this
country, where the amateur game is
popular.
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England has appointed Captain
Greer, who is senior steward of the
jockey club of that country, sole di-
rector off the national stud which is to
be founded on the basis of Col. Hall
Walker’3 recent gift. France, Ger-
many and Russia have government
breeding studs.
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George V. Bonhag.
runners capable of running closer ta
him than we now have.”
Bonhag saw Joie Ray, the sturdy
Chicagoan, run for the first time al
the New York Athletic club games
and he was greatly struck with the
national mile champion’s ability. “II
that boy ever learns to judge his pace
properly 4 minutes and 10 seconds will
be possible for him,” was Bonhag’s
comment. Recently Ray ran his first
220 yards around 26 seconds, aftei
which he slowed down, finishing witb
a terrific quarter sprint at the end.
BIG REVIVAL OF TURF GAME
Trotting Has Been Regaining Its Lost
Popularity—Boom Predicted for
This Season.
There promises to be a big revival
of the turf game during the year. In
many of the states whfere racing was
abolished a few years ago, there is s
concerted movement on foot to bring
about a revival. In those states where
racing is permitted the meets promise
to be much classier in 1916, owing tc
the fact that there have been imported
many of,the greatest ponies that used
to run on the European tracks.
The trotting game has been regain-
ing its lost popularity during the past
few years and 1916 is freighted with
the promise of even greater success in
the grand circuit affairs and also on
the little tracks, than were the 1914
and 1915 seasons.
Percy Is Harvard’s Strong Man.
George A. Percy, the hockey star
who holds the Harvard university
strongest man honor, weighs only 160
pounds and is about five feet ten
inches tall. Percy won the honor by
his skill in chinning and clipping on
the parallel bars. Percy chinned him-
self 31 times and dipped 61 times,
thereby registering a new record in
the college for these feats. His total
points was 1,442.4.
Brown Is Elected President.
Innis Brown, sporting editor of the
Atlanta Journal, has been elected
president of the Georgia-Alabama
league, succeeding C. i):    Bruner.
Brown formerly a star football player
at Vanderbilt university, is well in-
formed on all matters pertaining to
sport, and should make the circuit a
good executive officer.
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The natural production of
first-class furs seems to be
||    approaching a sure end, and
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mand for them requires
that'the present supply be
supplemented with stock
obtained through domestica-
tion. Experience has demonstrated
that some of the fur bearers may be
raised without difficulty. This is like-
ly to lead to the establishment of fur
farming on a small scale as an addi-
tional source of income on farms in
many places along our northern
border, much as poultry is now raised.
When properly conducted, fur farm-
ing may become very profitable. It
will pay not only in direct returns to
the producer, but indirectly, the nat-
ural and legitimate desire for furs can
be gratified, the extirpation of the
most valuable and interesting of our
fur bearers can be prevented and an
extensive department of manufacture
and trade supporting a large popula-
tion can be continued.
Success in domesticating wild ani-
mals, as in other branches of hus-
bandry, depends on experience, adapt-
ability, and prudence. No one should
engage in the business unless he en-
joys it and is familiar with the habits,
characteristics and climatic require-
ments of the animals he intends to
^‘propagate. The choice.of locaticn is of
prime importance. The best furs come
from cool, moderately humid regions.
If a locality furnishes native furs of
high grade, that locality is favorable
to the domestication of fur bearers.
The climate of the middle and south-
ern states is not well suited to this
industry, as shown by the medium or
low prices commanded by furs from
these areas. The ratio of expense to
income must be considered with care.
One cannot pay the exorbitant prices
animals for stocking purposes some-
times bring, and expect to raise fur at
a profit. Neither can one expect to
raise furs of a fine quality from infe-
rior stock. But given a normal mar-
ket for breeding stock and pelts, a fa-
vorable location, a love for animals,
and an ordinary degree of prudence,
•one may engage in black or silver fox
farming with a good prospect of satis-
factory returns, provided, of course, a
high price for pelts is sustained.
Values of animals and pelts were very
high a few years ago, when the indus-
try was being launched, but are now
on a much lower basis. Persons who
contemplate going actively into the
business or investing their money in
corporations or companies organized
for fox farming should thoroughly in-
vestigate it in all its phases.
The name “silver fox” as commonly
used by furriers, includes the dark
phases of the ordinary red fox, vari-
ously called silver, silver gray, silver
black, or black. It should not be con-
fused with the gFay, or true fox of the
United States, the fur of which is of
comparatively little value. The color
of the red fox of the northeastern
states and of its allies of the colder
parts of North America varies from
red to black, and these extremes, with
their graduations, form four more or
less distinct phases, known respec-
tively as red, cross (or patch), silver,
and black.
The color of silver foxes varies from
grizzly to pure black, except for a few
white-tipped hairs on the back and
rump, in the black phase, the white
is absent from all parts except the tip
of the tail, which is white in all four
phases. The red phase is much more
abundant than the others, but all four
interbreed freely, and wherever one
occurs occasional examples of the
others may be expected. In general
the cross fox is fairly common, the
silver gi’ay scarce, and the pure black
very rare.
No Improvement.
"Don’t you know,” remarked the
humorist, “that it is impossible for me
to think and operate the typewriter
simultaneously.”
“That being the case,” rejoined the
editor, “you are no better off than
when you used a pen.”
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A suspension bridge in Bavaria has
but one tower, the cables at the other
end being anchored ir a high rock
Domestication of the fox was first
achieved in 1894 by. Robert T. Oulton
and Charles Dalton on Prince Edward
island, a Canadian province in the
Gulf of St. Lawrence. Silver fox pelts
have continuously commanded high
prices, and hunters have been corre-
spondingly keen to secure them. It is
not strange, therefore, that the first
successful breeders of this rare animal
were men who had pursued it in the
chase. The two mentioned had hunted
foxes together, and had frequently
bought and sold fox pelts of their-
neighbors. Oulton was once lucky
enough to shoot a silver fox the skin
of which netted $138. Becoming im-
pressed with the possibility of domesti-
cating such valuable fur bearers,
Oulton and Dalton separately experi-
mented in building fox-proof fences
and in feeding and breeding the ani-
mals. After several years’ work on
these problems they formed a partner-
ship in 1894, built a ranch and stocked
it with two pairs of silver foxes. This
became the first profitable fox ranch,
the forerunner of a remarkable and,
for that region, a revolutionary in-
dustry. ‘
At that time black pelts brought
much higher prices than silver pelts.
This prompted Oulton & Dalton to re-
tain their darker animals and dispose
of the lighter ones, and as a result
each successive lot of pelts from their
yards was darker than those of pre-
vious years. Finally in 1910, they
were able to send to the London sales
the finest collection of silver fox pelts
that had ever appeared there.
Disclosure of the results of the 1910
sales was the climax of the first stage
in the development of fox farming.
People who formerly had known some-
thing of the business were now eager
to engage in it. Those having money
invested in foxes. Others mortgaged
their farms for the purpose of fitting
up ranching facilities and boarded
foxes for a share of the progeny. How
rapidly prices for breeding stock ad-
vanced is well illustrated by the expe-
rience of one ranchman who sold his
first pair of cubs for $750, and other
pairs successively for $3,000, $12,000,
$13,000 and $14,000. In the fall of
1913 good ranch-bred cubs six months
old sold for from $11,000 to $15,000 a
pair. Pairs that had had large litters
were valued at about twice as much
as six-months-old cubs.
In the pioneer days, when proper
methods for handling foxes were un-
known, many failures resulted from
ignorance and carelessness. The ex-
citement following the fur sales of
1910 hastened the improvement of
methods of feeding, handling, and
breeding. It also broke the monop-
oly, and caused a rapid distribution of
foxes and of information concerning
them. Now, with a comparatively
large number of silver foxes in do-
mestication, with a clearer under-
standing of their successful manage-
ment, and with a return of moderate
prices for breeders, a steady, healthy,
and general development of silver fox
farming may be expected. Fox ranches
are established in most of the Cana-
dian provinces and in Maine, New
Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Missouri, Oregon,
Washington and Alaska.
While pelts of all fur-bearing ani-
Exaggerated Optimism.
“Bliggins is trying to be an opti-
mist.”
“The last time I saw him he thought
everything was going to smash.”
“He thinks so yet. But he’s getting
into a frame of mind that makes him
suspect that maybe he’ll .enjoy see-
ing it happen.”
City’s Children Slaughtered.
Upward of 300 children are being
killed each year in the streets of New
Yurk and about 7,500 others iniured.
mals are more valuabLe when pro-
duced in northern localities, furriers
have learned that certain localities
are not too far south to produce val-
uable furs, but the conclusions they
are able to form are of only very gen-
eral application. To determine the re-
gions suitable for fox farming, there-
fore, it is necessary to learn the areas
within which foxes are known to pro-
duce superior fur. Records show that
such localities occur only north of
the southern boundary of the Cana-
dian zone. This boundary crosses the
States of Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Michigan, Wisconsin, Min:
nesota and North Dakota, and ex-
tends southward along tho mountains
in New York, Pennsylvania, West Vir-
ginia, and in all the states of the
Rocky mountain region and westward.
South of the forested regions of the
northern tier of states and western
Oregon, however, the Canadian zone,
although sufficiently cotd, is,Too dry
and sunny for the production of first- $
class fur.
A fox ranch should be situated”
where it will have good drainage and
be partially shaded by a young
growth of deciduous trees. Each pair
of foxes should have a runway of
about 2,500 square feet. They thrive
on a varied diet, including meat, fish,
bread, mush, milk and table scraps.
The reproductive period is about ten
years. The young are born in April
or May, the average litter containing
four cubs; but as only about half of
the captive females produce young in
any given year, the annual increase
has not averaged above 100 per cent.
Foxes bear captivity well. No wide-
spread disease has appeared among
them. Wounds heal readily, and
cases of sickness are usually attribut-
able to a lack of proper care. By
selective breeding the originators of
fox culture produced a superior strain
of animals in the course of a few
years. This fact is an assurance that
even greater improvements can be
achieved by selecting, from different
geographic races, foxes Oj. the largest
size and crossing them with animals
having the finest fur.
The exceedingly high value of sil-
ver foxes has led to the adoption of a
variety of precautions against their
loss. On the more pretentious ranches
the animals are regularly examined by
a doctor and guarded by watchmen,
bulldogs, and burglar alarms. Cats
are kept to act as foster mothers to
orphan cubs. Foxhounds are trained
to overtake and hold without injury
foxes that have escaped, and blood-
hounds are employed to track thieves.
The cost of yards runs from $100
to $150 each for common silver foxe3
up to several thousand dollars for the
best silvers. The price of foxes will
decline as the supply increases. The
profits from breeding silver foxes have
thus far been very large. So long as
the demand for breeding stock exceeds
the supply, the value of the annual in-
crease, or the gross income, will aver-
age approximately 100 per cent of the
vrlue of the breeding stock. When
part of the increase can be disposed of
only by slaughtering for fur, profits
will be less than at present, but even
then they are likely to be much great-
er than from ordinary lines of hus-
bandry involving like capital and at-
tention.
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A Fine Department.
“Got a good police department In
this town?”
“You bet we have.”
“Funny all these burglars that are
working seem to be able to get away
with it.”
“Well, that is queer, but we’ve got
a good department just the same.”
“What makes you think so?”
“Burglars may be able to get away,
but if the tail light on my car hap-
pens to blow out I get pinched before
I’ve gone two blocks.”---Detroit Free
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