Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1910 — IN THE WORLD OF SPORT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE WORLD OF SPORT

Abe Attell, Most Remarkable Featherweight Champion.

When it comes to gathering the coin of the realm Abe Attell, the featherweight champion, is the master harvester. Two or three battles a week are merely exercise for the clever Able. And no fighter is too tough, no bit too small, to be overlooked or passed up by the boxing business man. Attell's record since the outset of the present boxing season attests this fact In the last three months the featherweight champion has fought fifteen battles of varying lengths. In no contest was Abie extended. His most recent one was with Pal Moore, the crack Philadelphia lightweight, in New York. Moore was only a play toy on Attell’s hands, and the latter could have put him out at any time he chose. He will meet his master some day; but, judging by his present grand form, it is many years off. AttelJ is the last of the old time champions to remain, r ' Canadian Hockey Rules Changed. A most radical change has been made in the Canadian hockey rules. It appears as though the legislators of the ice game had taken a lesson from the shifts in the American football rules. The number of periods has been lengthened from two to three. This is one less than the division made of football playing time. Canadian teams will play three twenty-minute periods instead of two thirty-minute sessions, as was the case last year. There will be ten minute intermissions instead of five, as was the case last season, t The name of the new organization is the National Hockey Association of Canada. The number of clubs was fixed at seven and the salarj’ limit fixed at $5,000. The Canadian Athletic club and Quebec take over the franchises of Harleybury and Cobalt. Big Walking Match Arranged. E. J. Webb, the English champion walkist, has been matched against George Goulding, the Canadian and holder of the world’s records for one mile and seven miles, the event to be held in Toronto the latter part of December. In a match a couple of months ago at one and three miles Gould-Ing won both contests, but there are those who claim that the seven miles is Webb’s best distance, and they look for a victory for the English champion. Last spring Webb won the English seven mile title in 52 minutes 37 seconds, and he earned the gold medal for the two miles in 13 minutes 56 3-5 seconds In the English championship last July. Boxing Club For London. If the present plans of Hugh D. McIntosh and Jimmy Britt do not go astray the English sporting public and particularly those living in London will have an opportunity to join an athletic organization the like of which does not exist in the British isles. It is to be modeled on the lines of the New York Athletic club, Olympic club of San Francisco and Chicago Athletic association, and aside from the usual features for the furtherance of sport the art of self defense will be more than a side Jssue. ■ Football Fatalities Lessened. Statistics of baseball fatalities show twenty-one for the year, which is Within seven of the number of the football deaths recorded last year. Football deaths for this season are proportionately far below the record for 1909. British Footbait Players Wear Numbers Bristol Rugby players this season are wearing numbered jerseys. These correspond to the, numbers set against their names upon the cards, so the spectators can readily identify the men.