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Tom Jones Sees Little Danger Ahead for His Cadillac Gladiator
WOLGAST’S MANAGER CAILS LIGHTWEIGHTS EASY
By Ed. W. Smith.
C HR'AGO, Sept. 13.—Tom Jones,
manager of Ad Wolgast, sees
little in sight to seriously
threaten the present standing of
the Cadillac gladiator.
Indeed, the champion is to have
some easy picking for the next six
or eight months if he retains his
physical condition and nothing fur
ther happens to him. Jones always
has his fingers crossed when he
speaks about the future, because
the lightweight champion is re
garded now as the most unlucky
man in the business.
Thomas Edward has canvassed
the -filiation pretty thoroughly. He
remained over in Los Angeles, de
spite urgent calls from Cadillac for
his presence, to see the Mandot-
Rivers battle and figure out the
chance of Mandot against Wol
gast.
Bets Heavily on Mandot.
Also T. Edward had his eye on
the main chance by wagering *1,500
on the French boy against Rivers,
outside of the affair at Reno over
two years ago. Jonesey has not
booked a loser of any consequence.
Hence he was feeling pretty good
when he left for Cadillac. He had a ,
lot of ’hings to say about the
lightw ight class outside of Packey
McFarland.
"It makes me laugh to see some
of the lightweights fight,” Jones
said. "Why, Wolgast can whip
both Rivers and - Mandot inside of
THE BASEBALL CARD.
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Atlanta in Memphis.
Chattanooga in Nashville.
New < »i leans in Mobile.
Standing of the Clubs.
\V L. P.C. W. L. P.C.
B ham. .84 51 .622 N’ville. .65 69 .480
Mobile 77 57 .575 Mont. . .64 74 .463
N or 70 65 .519 C’nooga. 59 73 .447
M’mphis 67 69 .493 Atlanta. 52 81 .391
Yesterday’s Results.
Nashville 10. Chattanooga 5.
Mobile 5, New Orleans 1.
Only games scheduled.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Games Today.
New York in Chicago.
Boston in St. Louis.
Washington in Detroit.
Philadelphia in Cleveland.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. PC. W. L. P.C
Boston .95 38 .714 Detroit .62 74 .456
I’hila. .81 53 .605 (’’land. .59 75 .440
Wash 81 55 .596 N. York 48 85 .361
Chicago 64 69 .481 S. Louis 46 87 .346
Yesterday’s Results.
Philadelphia 3, Detroit 0.
Boston 3. Chicago 1.
W ashington 3, Cleveland 2.
St. Louis 3. New York 0.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Chicago in Boston.
Cincinnati in Brooklyn.
St Louis in New York.
Pittsburg in Philadelphia.
Standing of the Clubs.
W L. P C ’ W. L. P.C.
N York 93 40 .699 Phila. . 63 68 .481
Chicago. 82 50 .621 S. Louis. 56 77 .421
P’burg. 80 53 .602 Br’klyn. .50 83 .376
C'nati . 67 68 .496 Boston . 41 92 .308
Yesterday’s Resuits.
St. Louis 4. New York 2 (first game.)
New York I. St. Louis 1 (second game.)
Boston 7. Chicago 0 (first game.)
Boston 7. Chicago 4 (second game.)
Pittsburg 7, Philadelphia 3.
Brooklyn 1, Cincinnati 0 (first game.)
Cincinnati 6. Brooklyn 4 (second game.)
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Games Today.
Toledo in Louisville.
Indianapolis in Columbus.
Milwaukee in Kansas City.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. PC. ' W. L. PC.
M’a polls 99 55 .643 M’w’kee 72 79 .477
O'bus . 96 60 .616 S. Paul .70 87 .440
Toledo 92 63 .593 L’vllle. . .58 96 .366
K City. 75 77 .193 Papolis. .55 99 .358
Yesterday’s Results.
Columbus 7, Indianapolis 2.
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Montreal in Toronto.
Buffalo in Rochester.
Only games scheduled.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. P.C. W. L. P.C
fornnto. 85 59 .590 Buffalo .66 74 .471
Roch. .83 r,o .580 M’treal. .66 76 .465
N wark. 72 69 .511 J. Citv .64 77 .454
B more. .71 70 .503 ! P’dence. 59 81 .422
Yesterday's Results.
Baltimore 10. Newark 3 (first game.)
Baltimore 3. Newark 2 (second game.)
Providence 4. Jersey Citv 4.
I’oronto 10. Montreal 3.
Rochester 9. Buffalo 2.
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ten rounds if he is feeling right,
and he will be light the next time
he starts.
“I bet heavily on Mandot, be
cause Rivers isn't a good fighter.
I was merely taking a chance that
the other fellow was. He proved to
be good enough to whip Rivers all
the way, just as I told Joe Levy he
would. Joe knew I was betting on
Mandot. and he couldn't understand
why.
Levy Makes Bad Mistake.
"You see, Joe made a mistake in
taking that match. Rivers had a lot
of prestige because of the reported
doubtful ending of his match with
Wolgast. He shouldn't have rushed
bim into a meeting that would take
all the glamour away from him. He
should have taken easier meat - .
"They are talking about Wolgast
ciawfishing when McFarland's
name is spoken. That's ridiculous.
Wolgast is the most fearless man
ever known to the ring. Let me
tell you a little incident that hap
pened three days before the Riv
ers match. Ad mashed his left
thumb so badly in training that it
looked as if he simply couldn't get
into the ring. We talked it over,
and I was for calling off the match
or postponing it indefinitely. Be
tween us we had close to *12,000
bet on the fight, but I was for los
ing this rather than risk a licking.
Refuses To Call It Off.
‘ ‘Call off nothing,’ Wolgast told
me. '1 can beat him with one
hand!' Mind you. he had a broken
CARL MORRIS WAVERING
BETWEEN CAB AND RING
SAPI’LPA, OKLA..Sept . 13.—Carl Mor
ris, the big engineer, is hesitating be
tween the prize ring and the Frisco loco
motive. He is in receipt of many offers
from big promoters in the fight game,
some of them proposing handsome guar
tees and percentages of gate receipts.
Alex McLean, of the Pilgrim Athletic
Athletic club m Boston, makes an aluring
offer and requests that Carl meet either
Bombardier Wells or Al I'alzer during Oc
tober. The big Frisco and Los Angeles
clubs are also bidding for Morris.
“The big promoters appear to think I
am still a ‘live one’ and 1 feel encour
aged over it. i am today a better man
than I ever thought of being and in my
next bouts I hope to demonstrate this
fact. The tight game looks good to me,
but the Frisco locomotive is a sure win
ner.”
INDEFINITE’SUSPENSION
FOR JENNINGS AND VITT
DETROIT, Sept. 13. — Manager Hugh
Jennings and Oscar Vitt, of the De
troit American league baseball team,
have received suspension notices from
President Johnson, as the result of
their conduct in Wednesday's game
with Philadelphia.
Umpire Connolly ordered Jennings
off the field, when the manager pro
tested a decision, and later in the
game Umpire Hart treated Vitt, who
had been coaching, in the same man
ner.
The length of the suspensions has not
been learned.
TIGERS PRACTICING NOW
ON OPEN STYLE OF PLAY
PRINCETON, N. J.. Sept. 13.—From
the system of practice which Coach
Cunningham has inaugurated for
Princeton it begins to look as though
the Tigers are going.to depend almost
entirely on the open style of game.
Half a dozen men are practicing
punts daily, while another squad is put
at plucking the leather from the ground
while on the run.
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. ER I DAY. SEPTEMBER 13. 1912
thumb on his best hand. So I
agreed to let him go in. We ban
daged the thumb so that it stuck
right out straight from his hand.
That's the way he fought, and he
whipped Rivers with his right hand
and whipped him good. too.
‘‘Mandot. Ritchie. Murphy and
the rest of them will go the same
way when it comes to fighting over
a distance of ground. So would
McFarland if he ever gets into the
ring to go twenty rounds with Wol
gast.
"Eastern bouts are not as attrac
tive to us as the style of battling
out on the Pacific coast. We had a
half a dozen standing offers out
there to go for the big dough. They
seem to think in New York that
•an offer of $15,000 ought to make
Wolgast jump with joy. Why. he’s
been getting that much for his
fights for the last two years on the
coast.
“McCarey once threatened to bar
us from the coast rings because I
called one of his offers a joke. Yet
when 1 landed there he was the
first to meet me and inside of an
hour we clinched up the Rivers
match. He guaranteed me $15,000
and 48 per cent of the gross re
ceipts. And the upshot of it was
that McCarey cleared $17,000 out of
the battle—for himself. You see.
promoters out there know Wolgast
will draw the money. That’s why
t hoy'll give him big guarantees.
Never yet has one of them had to
dig to make up any deficit in Wol
gast battles.”
CRACKERS OPEN TODAY
FOR CLOSING SERIES
Tito Crackers left Atlanta yesterday
for their final trip and open in Memphis
today. Thej will play at Red Elm to
day, Saturday and Sunday.
The Crackers, will disband after the
game Sunday. Some of them will re
turn to Atlanta before departing for
their home cities, but most of them will
leave direct for their homes from Mem
phis.
Charles Alperman. the manager of
the club and the man who will prob
ably be field leader of the Crackers
under Billy Smith nettt season, will no
doubt return here, and will probably
take up his permanent residence here
for the winter.
RAILROAD LEAGUE RACE
SETTLED ON SATURDAY
The championship of the Railroad
league will be decided Saturday after
noon. when the Bean & Magill and Fort
McPherson teams mix at the Marist
college grounds in a double-header.
Throughout the schedule of 21 games
these two teams have fought steadily,
dropping but two battles each, and
when they hook up in this double
header they will decide the tie.
In the event'that the double-header is
divided, the teams will meet in a sin
gle game at the Fort McPherson
grounds the following Saturday after
noon.
FIELD GOOD. BUT SCORES
POOR AT SOUTHAMPTON
SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y., Sept. 13.
With a score of 84, Fred Herreschoff. of
Garden City, led a field of 106 starters
in the qualifying round of the annual
tournament over the National golf
links of America yesterday. Higlt
scores were the rule despite the fact
that some of the best American and
British players competed. Next after
Herreschoff was John Reid, Jr., St. An
drews. with 85.
ALABAMA RIFLE
TEAM PRAISED
8F WEISS
MONTGOMERY. ALA, Sept 13.
Efferverscing with a description of the
brilliant record made by the Alabama
rifle team at S< r cirt. Lieutenant Colo
nel W. Wkrs, of Montgomery, who
coached the team to its success, has
just returned to the city, the first one
of the squad to reach home from the
New Jersey range.
"Alabama showed up better than
ever before,” said Colonel "Weiss. "We
kept up our climbing record and fin
ished fourth, the highest we have ever
stood heetofore. The marine corps
beat us by only two points. Our ag
giegate score was. as I recall. 2,640.
while the marine corps was 2.642. We
beat states that we never dreamed of
distancing.
"Four members of the Alabama team
were held Jn the final try-out for the
national team to go to Ottawa, Canada,
to compete for the Palmer trophy. 1
have noticed since leaving Seagirt that
Sergeant H. F.-Teat, of the Montgom
ery True Blues, was the only one of the
four to make the national team and
this is quite an honor. The other
three who tried out in the finals were
Sergeant E. H. Pope, of the Blues;
Lieutenant T. C. Locke, Montgomery,
on the staff of the Second regiment,
and Captain Mell D. Smith, of Bir
mingham, unassigned.”
Sergeant Teat has already gone to
Ottawa with the national team.
The Alabama team consisted of fif
teen shooters and six officers in charge
of various branches of work. The com
manding officer was Adjutant General
J. B. Scully, who went to New York
after the Seagirt shoot broke up. He is
expected to retain to Montgomery in a
few days.
The Alabama team was at Seagirt
three weeks. While there General
Scully gave assurance that the rifle
range at Montgomery would be over
hauled immediately and rifle practice
held on a larger scale than ever, as the
war department is demanding It.
FERNS GETS DECISION.
TULSA, OKLA., Sept. 13.—Clarence
(Wildcat) Ferns outpointed Art Ma
gill, of Bartlesville, in fifteen noundr
here last night.
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"Philadelphia lawn’s” Kid Brother, 17 Years Old, Is Meeting Champions
TAD SEES IN YOUNfi JACK O'BRIEN A GREAT BOXER
By Tad.
Gentlemen, we have with
us today Young Philadel
phia Jack O'Brien. This
young lightweight from the Un
conscious City is a brother of the
famous "Phil Jawn,” who a few
years ago won the light-heavy
" eight championship by stopping
Rob Fitzsimmons In 'Frisco!
Rut, hack to the biscuits. This
O'Brien Is the ORIGINAL Jaelf
of the family. His big broth
er. Jawn. was merely nicknamed
with that monicker, his right name
being Joseph
Young John is really the sur
prise of the year in fisticuffs. Do
vou know of another lad seventeen
years of age who has fought all
the champions in his class, figured
In over 30 battles and was knocked
down but once and has never yet
lost a decision? That's the record
of this youngster.
And just remember that the same
steady, industrious work done by
this youngster in any honorable
line of endeavor would have made
a much greater man of him.
He is a college boy, and until last
year attended regularly. The fight
ing bug was born in young John,
and. try as they might, the family
could never kill It. Big Jawn sent
the lad to college, but he hhd a
hankering to fight, and at the age
of sixteen won the amateur ban
tam title at the A. A. U. Jawn
opened the American Boxing duh
in Phllly, and there the younger
aid, anxious to see the bouts, agreed
to work in the box office for his ad
mission fee.
There is a law in Phllly which
states that the names of all con
testants must be handed into the
police 24 hours before any con
test. The management this night,
of course, handed in the names,
but, not being sure of the prelimi
nary boys showing up. wrote in the
names of some actor friends—Ed
die Foy, Pat Rooney, Victor Moore,
George Cohan and Fred Stone.
When the second "prelim" was to
go on the boy with the Eddie Foy
«moo
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name didn’t show up. On the bill
the card read Eddie Foy vs. George
Cohan. There was a roar of laugh
ter as the crowd read it.
Mr. Foy failed to show, and
’O'Brien a. bit up in the air, called
upon his kid brother to fill in. He
did. That was his first profession
al appearance, and he won hands
down. After that Jawn, thinking
he'had a new champ in the family,
sent the kid out, and in seven
months he fought 30 battles, in
cluding Tommy Carey, Tommy
Langdon, Young Brown. Leach
NEWS FROM RINGSIDE
Johnfiy Kilbane received the decision
over Jack Moore, the Pittsburg negro, in
an easy ten-round bout before the Tlffan
Athletic club, at Tifton. Ohio. Wednes
day night. The featherweight champ out
fought the negro nt all stages of the
game, but was unable to land a knock
out.
• • •
The boxing commission of Cincinnati
has passed a rule that no women would
be allowed to attend boxing shows held
in that city. Heretofore bouts staged in
and near the city have been patronized
the fair sex.
All the forfeit money for the Eddie
.McGoorty-Johnny Thompson fight, to be
staged in Cincinnati Mondax night, has
been posted, which insures the public of
boths boys’ appearance. If Thompson
does not show up better in this match
than he did against George K. O. Brown
a few days ago. McGoorty should have
little trouble winning.
• • •
Joe Mandot and his manager. Harry
Coleman, have arrived in Memphis from
the coast, but will leave for New Or
leans tomorrow night, where the South
ern champion will start a week’s vaude
ville engagement Monday.
• • •
Joe Sherman and Pal Moore have been
matched to box eight rounds at the
Southern Athletic club, in Memphis. Mon
day night The weight will be 135 pounds
at 3 o’clock in the afternoon.
• • •
Jem Driscoll, one of the craftiest box
ers who ever showed in this country (or
any other for that matter!, is scheduled
to arrive on this side in about two weeks.
Promoters are talking of matching Dris
coll with Packey McFarland. This should
be one of the most interesting exhibi
tions ever staged. Roth boys are past
masters of boxing and depend strictly
upon their skill
• ♦ •
Tonight Abe At tell will do battle with
one Harry Thomas, in New York. They
Cross. Knockout Brown, Young
Erne and Ad Wolgast.
The latter was the only opponent
able to score a knockdown.
When we stop to think what oth
er great fighters were doing at the
age of seventeen, we pull in a long
breath. Joe Gans was opening
oysters and boxing “prelims” at
night; Fitzsimmons was helping a
blacksmith. Bat Nelson was a
waiter by day and doing “prelims”
at night. Jack Johnson was a
painter in Galveston and inspect
ing chicken coops by moonlight.
This O’Brien boy is meeting
champions.
i are scheduled to g<» ten rounds, the win
i ner to get a crack at Johnny Kilbane
i some time later on. This will be the
first time Attell has boxed in Gotham
■ since his suspension was lifted by the
s boxing commission, and it will likely be
• his last unless he is able to cope with the
clever Briton.
* * *
i “One Hound” Davis is scheduled to box
I ten rounds with Jack “Twin” Sullivan in
I Buffalo Monday.
i• ♦ ♦
I The match between Freddie Welsh and
Matt Wells, originally booked for October
21, has been postponed until November
> 11. Welsh will probably box in this coun
» try again before leaving for Europe to
. fight for the Ix>rd Lonsdale belt and the
- lightweight title.
i• ♦ •
i Jim Flynn is at his home in Pueblo,
i Colo., en route to New York, where he
> expects to get a match with Al Palzer.
who is his nearest rival for the honor of
being the leading “white hope.”
« « •
! Freddie Welsh has been substituted for
Ad Wolgast to tight Packey McFarland,
at the Garden Athletic club, in New York,
September 27. according to reports from
Gotham. Welsh is in fine trim and will
have to do little training for the match.
The Brjton has agreed to let the stock
1 yards lad weigh in at 135 pounds, which
- is in the American's favor.
• • •
’ Ad Wolgast is some shrewd lad. even
when Manager Tom Jones isn't around.
Billy Gibson asked the champ to post 5566
as a forfeit to guarantee his appearance a
' few days ago. This Ad cheerfully did.
1 However, after tajking on a while, he
mentioned the fact that his contract called
for SSOO expense money. “Suppose you
I just let me have that now and save the
time of sending it to me,” said Adolph
f tu the unsuspecting Gibson, who came
across with a check for 500 perfectly good
iron men. So you see. Wolgast had
merely swapped checks with Gibson, and
i could have run out of the match without
• losing a cent.
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