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Referee Smith Would Have
Given Decision io Mandot Over
Wolgast if He’d Been Allowed
B\ I'M. W. Smith.
I Referee of Fight and Sporting Editor
of Hearst’s Chicago American.)
NEW ORLEANS. Nov. P Joe
Mundot had a shade the bet
s ter of the last two rounds of
his flglit with Champion Ad Wol
here, and that shade would
have earned him the decision had I
been allow ed to render one.
I was not compelled by the agr. .
rnent between the men to render
any verdict. 1 am not cowardly in
those things, but I am mighty glad
that I was not called upon to give a
verdict, for It would have taken the
champion's laurels away from him.
Wolgast had the best of the In
fighting. but Mandot clearly out
boxed him, especially in the last
two rounds, and he hud scored the
most points. I would like to see
these two game little warriors hook
up in a battle over a route. It
sure would prove a hummer, and I
• don't know which man I would buck
should J make a wager.
There was too much clinehlng in
many of the rounds, especially the
early ones. This was dim to the
tact that neither boy understood
thy Other’s mode of attack Toward
the end of the bout, however, the
lighting was much yle,iner and more
scientific.
Wolgast Started Fast.
Wolgast Started off in the Hist
round as though he nu ant to finish
Mundot right then end then With
head lowered, tin champion sailed
right In, slamming away with tights
and lefts to the body. Mundot took
some of these, but blocked most <,t
them.
Toward the end of this opening
session Mandot found himself. 11, j
held Wolgast at bay \gitii a long
left jab that didn't earr.t a heap of
•team, but, nevertheless, counted
for points.
During the next s ■ rounds it
i was a case of give and take .ill the
way, Wolgast getting In iminx
damaging body blows while at close
| quarter- <>n tln other ham!. Man - I
I dot used a right cross to the h. ad
I that worried th, npl.m not a
I iil: '
Wolgast Slipped to Floor.
In the seventh, Mundot s- friends
|« claimed he had kt ocked Wolgast
I (town with a left to the jaw but
I It was not a knock down b\ atix
means. Wolgast'* feet, wliich wer,
ROUND BY ROUND STORY
CF WOLGAST-MAN DOT GO
, Round 1 Mandot start'd the :.c
B gresaor. with M olgast holdir.it on 'l l. y i
gjatnch Wolgast drove hard oft io |. ( .,,\
and h<*vy Infighting foitow<>: Moig.isi
I tended heavy body blows and Mandot
Clinched. Honora were even
Round * XX'olgast landed lift to tody I
. and swung to jaw Mnndot clinch... 1
Wolgast landed hard left t- lasiy an. ;
?! tnteaed a awing to the jaw They dm. r.ed i
bln center of the ring Wolgast was ,
: aggressor. landing another left to body I
£>nd two lefts to the Jaw tn a clinch
Mandot landed right an.' let: on jaw
and Wolgast clinched. Hound even
Round 3—Wolgast n d wit: left t. body
He followed with btt ar.u Maud ■■ t.■'
countered him with right " olgast '
tended left to head heavy interning
followed. It was Mandot - tour.,
Round ♦—Wolgast landed a: unnei.'.it
on the jaw and vtelously forced Mui :»t
to the ropes. Wolgast staggered Mui
•with left and received tw lefts ’n r<
turn Wolgast scored heavy left on hva..
and heavy infighting follow.. Honors
•ven
Round s—Wolgast forced th. tight.ng
and landed left on jaw. and rtcelvt
heavy left In return on the head. Wot
i gust landed on Mat dot - body and btu I.
B Hiving heavy body blows In return It
"ll.'
a, i. i
fc .
MMBandot scored hard oi law Wklkhsl
pStellow • I Mandat all over the ring Mati
** slot landed heavy left upper, nt . t n. ■ k j
right on bo.i' Infighting follow,.
;. < .i
wet from an overturned water
bucket ill his coiner, slipped from
underneath him, and he was fulling
when th, New in leans lad tapped
him with a left.
Tin eighth round was a pippin.
Wolgast opened w ith u stinging left
to the jaw. The punch spun Mun
dot abound, but before the cham
pion could follow up his advantage,
Joe covered up ami went into a
clinch. As I brpke them .Mandot
stepped In elo»e and worked both
hands to the head. <me of these
punches caught Wolgast on the
nose and made it bleed profusely.
At the bell they ware tearing into
each other and both w, re weak.
Wolgast Down in Ninth.
In the ninth round Mandot flared
Wolgast with a right to the jaw.
It was a terrific punch, but the
champion proved that he is a hard
nut. for he arose in a jiff} and
fought Mandot to a standstill lor a
minute. 'Toward the end of the
round, however. Joe began to forge
to the front and he handed out
many telling blows, both to the
!u a,l and the body.
Hard Fighting in Tenth.
The tenth round belonged to Man
dot by a shade. When the bell
started them on their wav in this
spasm, both came out of their cor
ner- very wild. They uncorked
•swings that they brought up from
the floor, but none of them landed.
Mundot was the Hist to settle down,
and he shot a right hook to the
head ttiat sent the chathpi m up
against the ropes. Mandot closed
in fiist and, with the champion's
back bi nding' oVei the ropes. jam
med two rights to tlie body and
then crossed a right to the jaw.
Wolgast finally eased himself Into
close quartets, and. although he
was dead tired, he fought like a
m idd< it. d tiger, crow ding rights
and h its to the body with telling
effe, t.
Hut Mandot was not to be denied
long, and as soon as I tore them
aj.a t, tie Now Orleans lad began
| 'looking both hands to the head,
and al the bell he had Wolgast on
the run for the first lime during the
len-lound session.
$lO 000 For the Champion.
The ehampion received SIO,OOO for
hl- end, while Mandot received 30
b- r cent of the gross receipts, which
w> e it, mt s2S,otm. Between 7,000
and s.OOO persons saw the battle.
’■ ill" > " - IgiiM landed body blow,
t Mat . .. to the jaw when VVol-
—. st t. . Mandot landed
I ‘is I. -. . . ... \V..|g;:M follow, d With
bod. ..nneh.s Man.lol (ought Wolgast
i'" lot's w.th bar.! rights and lefts
mpiott clinched. \\ olgast
1 I'leed'.ng, and had worst of round.
R 8 The men clinched. Mandot do-
I. go..I infighting Wolgast landed left
' f slit I. kali ays Mandot
uppercut W olgast The h eal man io-
V. ive.l 1. rlgl I an.l lett t. n , head Wol
gast bleu.tig . f.isely M.-t fighting
Cautiously ■r. . enter i f ring. e.'ioh showing
' KJts 'd ' it. ■ - w o’ga• ■r< reived heavy
’ hl-’ «s M e round ende.:. with honors in
• uver of Mam: ,t.
Hound M.lgast swung left hard to
| I ' Mat det landed heavy left in clinch.
Mandot bleeding from nos» Woteut
' a.T eked to knees with right Hose and
' ' .ght Mat Ct tv the ropes. Wolgast
. . kii’g th. w■ : ?<■ tor w« ;y. .Mandot hit
.’•■nn and lume.l some l .-avy rights on
i.ac \\ . 'g.i-• climbed. Mandot showing
. nr." generalship Wolgast received heavy
pumslnnent and bit wild, tut still strong
ll'. it men toon much punishment. Man
I <!..< a round
Round 10 Maudot was the aggressor,
landing ■o heavy lefts or tin- law.
" K.fst . Iln.'i 0,1. miaalng a left for Man
'." s til’d. Mand.'t landed two lieavv
rights \\ ■ ’Kilting followed with the
■ l ampion . u the rope- Wolgast clinch..l
In u 'ally in the ..mter of the ring Roth
! men «. il> Mai d.lt re.eiv.-d heavy rights
I >n file 1.... and staggered " olgast with
a I nil .r S'- .Uriel I>. speratc lighting
lo.low ed " Olgast • aggress.. . with
j Mfitiii’ii t !jr.. r:g lT»th iiM»n w«»re
.. \TT.AXTA GEORGI AN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 5. 1912.
Georgia Needs Juvenile S. I. A. A. and a Whole Slather ot Reform
PREP SCHOOL ATHLETICS ARE IN AN AWFUL MESS
By Percy H. Whiting.
I { ET after the prep school
I ■» athletic conditions again,”
a prominent prep school
football cpach whispered in our ca
pacious ear the other day. "Give
'em thunder. They are worse rot
ten than they ever were before
hiring players, buying players and
till such stuff.”
No doubt all he said, and much
along the same line he didn't say,
is painfully true.
Prep school athletic conditions
are unquestionably bad. And get
ting worse. Players are hired like
farm hands. We don’t know this,
but it’s true and can be proved by
anybody who is willing to make the
effort.
A man who awns a big prep
school told me onr*e: “We hire play
ers. Sure. What’s wrong with
it? There's no rule against it. We
don't belong to any association. We
don't violate any rule by playing
hired hands.
"Look here," he added. ‘ I've got
all my money tied up in this school.
I've got to make it pay—and I do.
The way I do it is to advertise —
with a winning team. A team that
cleans up means added patronage.
If 1 have a winning football and
baseball team 1 can virtually afford
to cut out my newspaper advertis
ing. I can fill my school without
it."
There you have it—winning
teams pay; there's no rule against
it. Therefore, hire players!
...
rxDN’T ask me the solution —and
* ' don't flatter yourself you
know one that will really solve.
The first step and the one that
should have been taken years ago
is to form a prep school athletic
association along the lines of the
S. 1. A. A. That would do some
good, but not a lot. You can’t wipe
out wrongs with laws, as reformers
Fave been finding out for years.
Then what?
Goodnesg knows!
I'ntll you ciin make the men whp
have their money tied up in schools
appreciate that, in the long run.
professionalism in prep school sport
doesn't pay, there will be no lasting
rc forms.
At the rate p‘ogress has been
made in that direction of late years
the desired reforms will be effected
about thirty-seven hundred years
hence.
Please don't understand from
this, by the way. that all schools
are doing things tttey ought not.
A lot of schools in Georgia and the
surrounding states are clean as a
polished diamond in athletics and
in everything else. And a lot of
them aren't.
• • •
q \ID a college coach early this
' fall: An alarming thing is the
steadily increasing number of men
who write me cvety season want
ing to know ‘how much will you
pay me to come to '.” They
seem to think I'm crazy or untruth
ful when I tell them we don't pay
anybody to come to our college.”
What can you expect of a lot of
boys who get paid for going to
prep schools to play football and
baseball? Naturally they expect
something out of going to college.
And do they get it?
Frequently.
When they accept money for
playing on college teams—accept it
directly or Indirectly—they have to
sign an affidavit that makes them
out liars. The S. I. A. A. requires
ihc affidavit If they tell the truth,
they are declared Ineligible—eo
they don't tell the truth.
Os , ourse, few colleges pay a
man real money out of the athletic
ssociayon funds But tile ath
letes get it. just the same.
The most popular methods are.
1 The fake salary tor the myth-
2. The "scholarship.”
3. The "loan.”
In the first case, a man is paid
a nice salary to represent a cloth
ing house, or a shoe store, or a
laundry. There is little or no la
-t bor connected with the jqb. It is
merely an indirect way ,jf paying
the athlete for his services.
The "scholarship” is popular.
And it is one of the slickest ways
of fiaylng an athlete's way through
college. The frantic alumni uffual
ly put up-the money, and it is sup
posed to be for the purpose of get
ting a deserving and education
desiring young man through col
lege. As a matter of tact, it usu
ally goes to some famous prep
school athlete —and a lot of the con
tributors figure on getting their
money back by betting on the
games in which he plays.
It is mighty hard to draw a line
between the right and the wrong
use of scholarships.
When the charge that Sewanee
was using "ringers” was made the
other day, somebody said. ‘‘What’s
the use of saying Sewanee pays its
athletes money? They have a keg
of scholarships up there. When
ever they see a deserving man,
and especially a deserving athlete,
they give him a scholarship. No
wonder they have good material."
It wouldn’t be tremendously sur
prising if the S., I. A. A. some day
took the fnitter in Irani! by ruling
that no man who was going through
college on a scholarship would be
eligible to play on an athletic team.
This would be hard in a few cases,
but it would throw out a lot of
FODDER FOR FANS
The Cubs, Pirates and Dodgers have
refused to waive on Roger Bresnahan.
• • •
Barney Drey fuss wants Bresnahan as a
catcher and Frank Chance to play first
base and is quite willing to pay for them.
• • *
Leslie Mann, of Seattle, equaled Ar
thur Reus' homo run record of twenty
seven this year He is going to Buffalo
next spring, where Beus went.
• « V
Since there has been a Chicago Na
tional league team it has played 4,631
games. Os this number it won 2.712 and
lost 1.919. for a winning per cent of .586.
Eddie .McDonald, who jumped baseball
when tie was shifted from the Braves to
Sacramento, has applied for a job with
the Cubs, and may be accommodated.
• • •
With Billy Sullivan passing out of ma
jor league baseball. Ed Walsh must
have a new battery mate, for when Bill
goes another famous battery will be
broken up. The man who succeeds Sully
will be Ray Schalk.
* « «
Six former" big league players have
been offered the job of managing the Sac
ramento team next year, and a half dozen
have declined.
v * «
The White Sox have a deal on with
their ruddy-hosed brethren for Buck
O'Brien. It is said that Buck's unpop
ularity with doe Wood will get him off
the world's championship club.
* V «
Bill Armour has signed to scout for
the St. Louis Nationals next season.
Rill Lellvelt's bride, formerly Miss Edith
Carpenter, turns iut to have been a "cow
girl" singer at a Denver theater
A Memphis paper has the distinguished
president of the Atlanta ball club figuring
under the alias of Calloway—.which is
nearly close, but not quite.
V « *
There's a queer kink to the Bresna
han case. He was given his unconditional
release Dnder those circumstances, the
other clubs in the league are not given
a chance to get him at the waiver price.
Yet the National league clubs say they
will not let him escape from that league
Fine complication—and brought about by
a woman and a magnates? at that.
• « •
The Pacific Coast league is up on its
easily agitated dignify again and swear
ing that it will mu -be classed with the
bush leaguers by being tied to any salary
limit
• • •
Making five 1-ltg In a game was a
clinch this year and easy enough so that
eight men in each big league performed
It. BUI Sweeney < three tlpieai. .lake
I hiubert (twice), Byrne. .MllU-r. Hobllts
el. Doyle. Titus. I.obert. olson. Yerkes.
•Collins. Cobb. Schalk. Cariscl Bakm* and
I Lajoie
• • •
athletic! crooks.
The rawest of the popular meth
ods of getting athletes into col
lege is the "loan.” A man who has
made a big prep school reputation
as a half back wants to go to col
lege. So some enthusiastic alum
nus or some alumni chapter or or
ganization "lends” him' enough
money to get through college. He
signs notes in due form—which are
shown if there is any yell raised.
He isn't required to pay interest on
the notes, and nobody expects that
he will ever pay back the money.
• • •
NOTWITHSTANDING the many
ways of dodging the S. I. A. A.
rules and for all the dodging that
is being done, conditions are grad
ually improving.
What the colleges need is:
First—More careful scrutiny by
the responsible heads of the dol
lege of the athletic doings. College
presidents would not tolerate ath
letic crookedness in their colleges
—if they knew about it. But too
many take pains that they shall not
know about it, and too many more
are indifferent.
Second —An appreciation of the
fact that, in the long run, athletic
crookedness doesn’t pay.
Third—The development of the
spirit of amateurism and of the ab
horrence that any gentleman should
feel for any crooked methods, ath
letic or otherwise.
Fourth—A reform of conditions
in the prep schools, so that so many
good athletes would not be made
"ringers" before they even got into
college.
in the heart of the bluegrass-and-red
liquor country, at Owensboro, Ky.
• • •
The Naps have Bob Gilks down in Pen
sacola now. laying out the field that the
Cleveland and Toledo teams will use for
training next spring.
• • •
Whoever succeeds Roger Bresnahan
will have his hands full from the very
start. No less than seven of the best
players on the team are due to renew
contracts in the spring. Many of them
arc dissatisfied with their salary, and it
will be no easy task to coax them into
signing up.
• • •
B'g Ed Konetehy is one of the players
whose contract expires. The star first
sacker has long been dissatisfied with
the salary paid him. It is said he will
demand $6,000 next season.
M * M
Mike Mowery, Kid Hauser, Lee Magee
and Ivy Wingo are some of the others
who will likely ask for a boost in sal
ary Magee and Wingo have shown big
improvement the past season and are sure
to put up a kick If they do not get a
raise.
• * •
Moniecai Brown says lie doubts that
Grayson has paid the Cubs for his re
lease. After being assured last season
by Murph} that he would be allowed to
serve out his three-year contract with the
Cubs, the veteran hurler feels badly at
being released.
• « •
Pitcher McGinley, of Toronto, lias been
passed on to Binghamton.
CATARRH ..BLOOD
A polluted and impure condition of the blood causes irritation and in
flammation of the different mucous membranes of the bod}', and we call it
Catarrh. The early stages of the disease are characterized by such symp
toms as a tight, stuffy feeling in the nose, watery eyes, ringing noises in
the ears, irritation of thethroat, and often hoarseness anddifficultbreathing.
If the trouble is not checked it invades the stomach and other portions of
the body and becomes a dangerous disorder. Antiseptic washes, sprays,
etc., are beneficial in removing accumulated mucus from the nose or throat,
but such treatment can never cure Catarrh. S. S. S.’ is the one real de
pendable remedy for Catarrh. This great medicine cures the disease be
cause it nitrifies the blood and thus destroys its cause. S. S. S. goes into
the circ- -tion and removes the last trace of catarrhal matter, and then the
s. s. s.
ettre it as thousands have done. Book on Catarrh and any medical advice
free to all who write. S. S. S. is sold at drug stores.
T”” cv'frr cpfnpr cn C 4
Bat Nelson Would Come Here
To Box; Explodes When Cincy
Commission Says He’s All In
By W. S. Farnsworth.
A FEW days ago the Cincinnati
boxing commission announced
that they would never allow
Battling Nelson to fight in that
city, as they claimed he was too
feeble, too old to ever fight any
good man again.
All of which has caused Bat
tling Matthew Nelson to soar —and
soar good and high, too. It seems
that Nelson wrote me a few days
ago, asking if the boxing game was
flourishing here in Atlanta. If it
was, the Battler wanted to come
down here and do some milling.
Before I bad found time to reply
to his letter, the Cincinnati papers
came out with the announcement
of the boxing commission there
that they would never stand for
him fighting in the Brew Burg.
As a result of this announcement.
Nelson sent me the following let
ter, which arrived in the early mail
today;
“Matty Baldwin is a pretty’
tough citizen. And in Boston,
where I boxed only a short
time ago, they still think me
good enough to hand Matty’ a
trimming in twelve rounds.
Only two months ago I went
fifteen strong rounds with Steve
Ketchel at St. Joe, and when
Ketchel was on the floor taking
the count, in the eleventh
round, his manager, Larney
Lichtenstein, believed me any
thing but feeble.
“I don’t like the city of Cin
cinnati. and I’m not crazy’ about
boxing there, but I’ve accepted
a match with Tommy Gary’
there, and I’m going down to
that city just to show them that
even a tough youjg fellow like
Gary’ can not take any liberties
with me in the ring.
"I am thirty years old. I
never tasted tobacco, liquor or
any harmful drug In my life.
At least half of my life I have
slept in the open air. There is
perhaps no man in the country
who leads the careful life I do.
My diet includes only strength
building selections from the
menus. I have no worries, and
1 have been an athlete seven
teen years. Why should I be
anything but the picture of
health?
"As far as the Cincinnati
boxing commission is concern
ed. I invite the closest kind of
an examination into my phys
ical condition.
“Meantime, I'm working for
the tight there November 11.
and the only person who is
going to be the goat on that
night is poor Tommy Gary, my
blood performs its work of nourishing the
membranes and tissues instead of depositing
impure matter into them to irritai and in
flame. 3. S. S. cures to stay cured. If you
have Catarrh in any form take S. S. S. and
opponent. I’ll have to give
Tommy a fearful beating just
to show them that I am still a
top-notcher.
“Your old friend,
"BATTLING NELSON.”
• • •
/''BEAT day’ for letters. Received
v J one from Billy Smith, too. The
popular Cracker manager is put
ting in some spare time at his
home in Springfield, Ohio. Here is
what he has to say:
“Well, how is things in At
lanta? I have been here for a
week now and am putting in
twelve good hours' sleep every
night. I am going to Milwau
kee to attend the minor leagues
meeting on November 12.
"After the world’s series I
went down to Washington with
Griffith for two days. Clarke
says he will do all he can to
dig up some likely looking ma
terial for me. With his aid; I
am confident of giving Atlanta
a one, two, three club.
"Have had some snow here!
Give my regards to all the
gang. Yours.
“BILLY SMITH.”
YALE GETTING READY
FOR TOUGH SCHEDULE
NEW HAVEN. CONN., Nov. s.—The
Yale football squad, after a four days
layoff on account of the death of Guard
York, came back yesterday thoroughly
refreshed for the hardest week’s work
ever put in on a Yale gridiron.
Princeton’s style of play against
Harvard was diagnosed as the same
wing shifts Yale used last year. These
have not been used much this fall at
Y'ale, being discarded for the more Im
proved shift formation devised by ex-
Captaln Tom Shevlin, but the scrubs
will use them this week. As Yale found
a perfect defense for them last fall,
they are not expected to prove danger
ous.
Yale will play Brown next Saturday
and Princeton the week following
meeting Harvard for the final game of
the season on November 23. All the
work of the next three weeks will be
directed toward having the team in its
top condition on the latter date.
THE sales tell more
money is spent for
Fatima than for any other
cigarette. The Turkish
blend that has character—
“distinctively individual.”
No extravagance in pack
ing therefore more
smokes —20 for 15 cents.
"DlsHnctively Individual"
20
/or
Sa