THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, MAY 25. 1907.
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BEN HOGAN IN TROUBLE
Former Pugilist, Now Preacher, Maa
aglng Hobos' Retreat la
Chicago.
Omaha never warmed up to the puglllstlo
profession to the extent of encouraging a
permanent colony. Way back In the very
early '70a, however, townspeople took un
common Interest In the activities of Ben
llogan and Tom Ailen, two puglllBts of the
heavy-weight class, who selected Omaha
as training quarters preliminary to the
fiasco later pulled off In the bottoms near
Hamburg, la, Hogon was the Omaha fa
vorite. Always genial and gentlemanly,
unassuming and approachable, he made
friends of . all acquaintances and became a
local hero. During the off hours of train
ing he could be found In the vicinity of
Thirteenth and Douglas streets, then the
center ut intellectual and religious life. A
church stood nearby, and on the north
west corner the Omaha Herald had Its
habitat. Dr. Miller printed many a kind
word for Hogan, boosted his prospects and
condoled with him after the Hamburg flx
aia. Whether the nearby preacher sided
with Hugnn deponent knoweth not, but
tradition has It that nearly every reverend
and deacon In town was unexpectedly called
away from their solemn duties on the day
Of the scrap. The preponderance of active
churchmen over editors In Hogon's retreat
ing host from Hamburg seems to have
sliaped his future, and he passed up the
call to Journalism for the inspiring lure of
the pulpit
In the sucoeedtng years the reformed
pugilist conducted an individual salvation
crusade In various cities and la now chief
manager of the "Hobo's Flop" in Chicago,
which has been condemned by the health
authorities.
- "I am getting old," he said to a Chicago
Tribune reporter, "and I would like to see
great movement started for model houses
that would care for and truln these lost
men of the streets. They must be taught
to work and be breathed upon by the love
of Christ before . they can take up their
crushed life anew. This talk about baths
and cleanliness is all . right, but there has
got to be a greater purity than that. Clean
out ice dives that rob and poison these
men. killing them by the hundreds every
year."
"Do you preach to your lodgers V . be
was asked.
"Well," he said, "I gave up preaching
many years ago. A friend oneo told me he
thought In had fallen away from grace, but
I told him I thought he knew nothing of
Qod's grace. There was I preaching and
In the streets were men starving. That is
what hit me. Tea, I talk to the men. I tell
them they must stop drinking or it will get
tne better of them,
talk. I help them.
"I was on the point of giving this up a
few years ago, because of hypocrites who
AMERICA AT DISADVANTAGE
Olynp'.o Gamsi Froeram lot to Isolnds
Htamer and Weight.
DISCOVERY THAT HAY PUT OUR MEN OUT
Dlsova, stone and Spear Threwlic In
tea4 f the Cempetitloas at
Wnich the TsskM Ath
letes Art Adept.
American weight threwnrs will have very
little opportunity to roll up points tn the
Olympic games In Cngland next year, for
the events the hammer and shot at which
the Yankees excel, will not be found on
the profrram. Instead of these now uni
versal exercises for the big men there win
be the dtpcus, stone end spear, and they
will be hurled In the Grecian style, as the
method Is considered the most classic and
In traditional keeping with the Olympian
festival.
In the last Olymplo games at Athens,
EM gland did not have an entry In the
welrht events, and the fact was the cause
of cjnlte a lot ef comment after the team
reached home. It was suggested what a
number of points was lost to the British
because they were not adept at these
events. However, there wna some consola
tion for the Englishmen when It was fig
ured that America fared but poorly In the
discus Oreek style, the spear and the stone.
A second In the stone was the only score
to the credit of the Yankees, the Swedes
had the spear honors all to themselves,
while the Finn won the discus, a Oreek
and Hungarian being second and third, re
spectlvely.
The British Olymplo committee has been
working on the program for several
months, but It will not be officially given
to the public until after the International
conference at The Hague witMn a couple
of weeks. Of course, the general makeup
of it has been an open secret for some time
and It was known to Include a fine list of
distance runs. There will he very little
jumping, and what the weight events will
be can be gathered from the Sportsman
thus: '
"It Is characteristic of our Innate con
servatism that, despite the Mgh reputation
which as a nation we have so long enjoyed
for all-around athletic proficiency and love
of sport, there are certain games and exer
cises, new in one sense, but old tn another,
but not In any sense to be despised. In
which we are so far from excelling that It
would be scarcely poslble to find through
out the length and breadth of the land
even a moderately skilled exponent of them.
For illustration, one may turn to the Olym
pian games at Athens a year ego. To the
detached onlooker, personally unconcerned
In the various contests and merely view
ing the whole as a spectacle, not the least
Interesting feature of that remarkable fes
tival lay In the performance of modern
athletes in the classic games of the an
cient Greeks. It was noteworthy that in
none of these exotic events. If one may
torm them so, was there a single British
competitor, though In each case the field
Included representatives of almost every
country which had sent athletes to the
games.
"Throwing the discus, the stone and the
javelin were the three contests which, by
reason of their unusual nature and the
historical interest attaching to them, at
tracted peculiar attention;' and .seeing the
success with which foreign athletes other
than native Greeks competed in them, It
is a matter of much regret that no British
name appeared among the entries. If
these games have found favor with French
men, Germans, Swedes, Norwegians,
Italians and Yankees, and by them been
practiced with good results, why should
thoy continue to be ignored in this coun
try T
"Throwing trie discus, as a traditional
pastime of ancient days, Is familiar, of
course, all the world over, for every one
has seen in picture. - chotograDh or fac-
But I do more than j simile the sculptured "Discobolus. ' It may
readily be Imagined that curiosity among
the spectators at Athens was great to see
the famous game, not only played in
criticised me, but I thought it all over and actual fact, but played in the ancient
aecmea to stay on. I hardly make enough
money to keep It going, but my subscrip
tions do not amount to more than $200 a
year. It doesn't agree with me to ask a
man for money.
"I started this house eleven years ago.
It was during a winter when the city was
full of homeless, starving men. My soup.
Kitchen was filled night after night. I
started a bath system, but after a time I
had to gtve up the soup and some of the
baths because all my money was gone. I
put In bedclothlng first, but in three months
I had to throw It all away, so I decided to
have wooden bunks." 1
"What would you do if you' had plenty
of money T"
"I would give the poor man something to
do establish a farm of some sort. But the
world cannot be bettered by beginning at
the wrong end. Ws must , begin with the
children. Every boy ought to be an edu
cated mechanio or artisan of some sort, for
the world Is full today of educated book
fools."
Unitarians Coatlmne In Session.
BOSTON, May The fourth day of
the Unitarian anniversary observances
opened today with an address by Rev.
KODert Collyen of New York. The first
meeting was the sixth annual gathering
m uuimiftu jiisiuncm society.
The touring-car is not built
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v A few very high, triced, high-powered auto
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Stadium, upon the very ground trodden by
the godlike athletes who vied one with
the other for the branch of olive.
"The discus Itself is of wood, iron
rimmed, and faced on either side with
bronze plates. Llntlforra In shape, it has
a diameter of 22 centimeters, or Just under
inches, and a weight of i kilograms, or
just over 4 pounds. Two styles of throw
ing are now recognised the 'free style'
and 'Hellenic- style,' respectively. The lat
ter Is an endeavor to reproduce the ancient
method and Is based upon the attitude of
the 'discobolus;' the former Is a conces
sion to twentieth century up-to-dateness.
"The Invention ef tha free style Is, In
deed, characteristic of the modern athlete.
When discus throwing was first revived as
a feat of strength and skill It was fondly
Imagined that the latest discobolus, exhib
iting a fit and proper reverence, would
model himself upon his famous prototype
and emulate in the living flesh the dex
terous grace of the sculptured stone. Not
o, however, the Ingenious modern athlete
speedily discovered In the person, need It
be said, of a Yankee, that by whirling
himself round and round after the man
ner of a hammer thrower and so gaining
an Impetus otherwise unattainable, he
could launch the missile further by many
yards than by the traditional method.
pose he as gracefully on the pedestal as
you please, rt Is difficult to conceive of
any artist finding in the modern discobolus
a congenial subject for his chisel; but
what would youT Ws live in a progres
sive age, and records must be broken,
whatever the coat
"One la Inclined to doubt, however, if
even In the Hellenle style of today the
methods of the original discus thrower are
truly reproduced. The framers of the rule,
basing the latter upon the attitude In which
the sculptor carved his figure, have in
sisted upon the thrower assuming and
maintaining an initiative pose which is so.
cramped and contrary to the natural pose
that one Is tempted to think a mistake has
been made and the statue wrongly inter
preted. It Is surely obvious that no right
handed athlete desirous of hurling a disc,
or any other missile, as far as possible
would preparo to do so with his right foot
advanced, thereby depriving himself of all
the Impetus which a body swing would
Impart. It is more likeJy that the thrower
was wont to stand with his left foot fore
most and Just prior to the moment of de
livery advanced the right foot. The possi
bility of the sculptor having depicted the
Discobolus In an attitude intermediate be
tween those with which he begun and
ended ' his performance does not appear
to have been considered. As practiced at
the present day, discus throwing Is a game
in which men of heavy muscular build
excel. Sheridan, the American, who was
first in the free style, is a broad-shouldered
young giant of thickset, sturdj physique.
Jaervlnen, victor In the Hellenic style. Is
a tall Finn, big-boned and powerful-; while
Georgantas, the Oreek. who was second In
both events, is a lusty, bull-built fellow,
deep-chested and strong of arm.
Throwing the stone differs but little
from the modern sport of putting the shot.
The stone a lump of pentellque marble,
oval In snaps and weighing a little under
it:
the three alluded to javelin throwing alone
If1 kUograms s deUveced, howsrw, wlthJAO. no oouldr4 atraoge. fito& Uurov
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the Impetus given by a short run. A line
is drawn upon the ground upon which the
thrower may tread when making his de
livery, but which he must not overstep.
Up to this line aa much or as little run Is
allowed as may be desired and no re
strictions are placed upon the manner in
which the stone is carried during the run.
It must be thrown, however, from the
shoulder and with one hand only.
"From a spectacular point of view hurling
the Javelin Is more picturesque than either
the discus or stone throwing. The Javelin
Is a long spear with slender shaft and an
Iron head, pointed but not barbed. Methods
of hurling It vary. Some balance it. point
upward, on the finger, and with a short
run Jerk It, aa it were, high Into the air.
Most, however, grasp the spear at the point
of balance, where the shaft Is bound with a
twine for a hand's breadth, and polalng it
horizontally, with backward stretched arm
as they run to the mark, hurl It forward
with all their might. Properly launched the
Javelin flies true, Its quivering shaft show
ing no disposition to turn In the air until
the weight of the metal head causes it to
curve gradually In its descent and stick
point downward in the ground.
"The Javelin hurlers Indeed, were perhaps
the most Interesting figures of all tn the
Bladlum, the Swedes In particular, who
took all three places In the contest being
wonderful adepts at this ancient feat of
arms. Borne few who entered for the con
test proved themselves clumsy spearmen
even at their beet, but for the most part the
skill and dexterity displayed were remark
able. The fine cast by which the stalwart
Lemming was proclaimed the winner was
anmounoed as a world's record. Four
years henos the next Olympiad of modern
days Is due, and perhaps by that time there
may be some athletes In the field enterpris
ing enough to sttsln proficiency In the
ancient exercise and acquit themselves
worthily therein at the games of 1SNX Of
ing should commend itself to the weight
putter aa a pleasant variant of his usual
practice with the shot, while discus throw
ing. In the modern free style, at all events
la an art which should come easily to the
experts with the hammer."
NEW YORK'S COSTLY LIBRARY
Original Estimates Swelled from
t?,SOO,000 to lO.OOO.OOO Job
I'nflnlibed.
In 1910 or 1911 the New Tork publl:
library will be completed, at a total coxt
to the city of 110,000,000. That, In a sen
tence, gives the latest development regard
ing the great white structure that has
been in process of erection during the
last eight years In Bryant park. This final
estimate of the cost of the building was
made last week by Mayor McClullan, in
connection with the giving out of a con
tract for $3,300,000 for the Interior work;
the estimate of the time that Is needed to
finish the library Is baaed on the opin
ions of the various officials who ars taking
an actlvs part in its construction.
This final development of the work on
the public library Is in startling contrast
with the original plans. Just ten years
ago the legislature at' Albany passed an
act authorizing the City of New York to
build a library In Bryant park for a sum
not to exceed 12,500,000. Following the pas
sage of this act the trustees of the library
Invited the architects of the city to coin
pete for plans. According to the method
adopted the first competition was an open
one and was engaged in by eighty archi
tects. From these the best six were
chosen by a committee composed of tdrw
trustees, three anhtterts and the director
of the library. A scconj competition was
then held between t!.e six urcliltcru se
lected by the committee and six other
architeota named fejr tLe trustees, As a
result of this double competition the j Library of congress and $7,6H,0o0 more thun
award for the building of the library was , tho Boston public library. Neither of tha
given to the firm of Carerre & Hastings. last named buildings Is of marble. The
It was not until the architects and plans amount of the latter used In the New
were thus determined that the discovery
was mode that the cost of the library
would probably exceed the limit contem
plated by the act of the legislature. Aa
this difference In the preliminary calcula
tions is explained today, the sum of (2,000.
000 was merely an estimate for a plain
brick building about the size required for
York library 00,0u0 cubic feet, five time
as much as that used In tho Btock Ex
change building Is advanced as the main
reason for its great cost. In size the New
York library lu 3i feet In length by Ut
feet In depth, Inclosing two Interior courts.
The Congressional library Is 470 feet la
length and 340 rent In depth. Inclosing four
the library, the erection of which was1 courts and a central rotunda ""-mnualad
roughly figured at a rate of 30 cents a
cublo foot. The city authority's, however,
taking the matter up after the architects'
competition, decided that a building of the
characted Implied In a great public library
called for the best material to be used
In Its construction. This view seemed to
meet with the popular approval, and It
was thereupon determined that the library
should be built throughout with the best
white marble; at the same time the orig
inal plans were somewhat enlarged. This
made necessary a greater expenditure of
money than was at first Intended. An
amendment to the original act authorizing
the building of the library was passed
In 1900, leaving the whole question of cost
to the discretion of the Board of Estimates
It was still asserted, however end the
Idea was maintained until a year ago
that the cost of the library would not
exceed tS.Ouu.OOO, just half the amount that
Is now said to tie required.
The library when completed will be
the largest marble building In the world,
with the exception, of course, of the
capltol at Washington. It Is also said to
represent the second greatest single con
tract for a building that was ever given
out In the Vnlted States, the New York
county court house, erected during the
Tweed regime at a ct of 2M'M b'--lng
by a dome. The Boston library is 23
feet In length and feet In dupth, Inclos
ing a central court. New York Times.
The Create in the Trousers.
"Ild you ever hear the history of the
creuae now unllornily worn In trousers and
occasionally exemllng to the slooves of
coats? No; well. It s a funny one. In
former years creased trousers were the
ii of a hand-me-down suit," says a
fashionable t;illor. "One duy. while on his
way In a run-luge to Hie Uoodwood races
lu Knt;l;iiul KIiik Udwurd happened to spill
a Klas of red wine on his light lawn
colojed broadcloth trousers, and unwilling
to return to the palate he toi,x d at u
rtudy-ioude clothing store and boiiKht u
tiutr. In Ids baste he could not wult to
have the ci earns ironed out. As a con
sequence be was s.-en at the races with
ireus.-d trousers. The fuxhlon was set and
It has stuytd ever since." I'lilladelpina
Itucord.
Musings of the ( rule.
Honeyed words often have a string to
tlw-ir tall.
Many a true word has been spoken un
grammatically.
I rotn io ta to the top and some men. are
a guod bit like troth.
The hot-headvd mini in ant to hate ths
fellow who gets cohl fevt.
Iove must Ind-ed be bllni when a fel
low falls In without looking.
Tim areainesa that is thrust UDon a man
Is apt to Krule on I. is m-liibloirs.
The woiiiiin v ho t-..i;-i a niun to ro-
forii M n shouldn't let I Ini know It.
l he liciu.c if in., i. i is--i ut uiun ra
the fii.it. Taking thu rr.jyir's estimates . p i,, jhj K;t tr:iM
aa a basis for comparison, the New York! ,A doting mother i.iuy ili.lm that her
library will cost I3.6a.000 mor. tha U c$$li& " tUl lwU U