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Referee Smith Would Have
Given Decision to Mandot Over
Wolgast if He’d Been Allowed
By Ed. W. Smith.
(Referee of Fight and Sporting Editor
of Hearet’e Chicago American.)
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. s.—Joe
Mandot had a shade the bet
ter of the last two rounds of
his fight with Champion Ad WnL
<a-t here, and that shade would
have earned him the decision had 1
been allowed to render one.
I was not compelled by the agree
ment between the men to render
any verdict. I am not cowardly in
those things, but 1 am mighty glnd
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 had scored the
most points. 1 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 back
should I make a wager.
There was too much clinching in
many of the rounds, especially the
•arly ones. This was due to the
fact that neither boy understood
the other’s mode of attack. Toward
the end of the bout, however, the
fighting was much cleaner and more
gclentlflc.
Wolgast Started Fast.
Wolgast started off In the first
round as though he meant to finish
Mandot right then snd there. With
head lowered, the champion sailed
right tn. slamming away with rights
and lefts to the body. Mandot took
some of these, but blocked most of
them.
Toward the end of this opening
gessrfon Mandot found himself. He
held Wolgast at bay with a Jong
left jab that didn’t carry a heap of
steam, but. nevertheless, counted
for points.
During the next six rounds it
was a case of give and take all the
way, Wolgitst getting in many
damaging body blows while at close
quarters, tin the other hand, Man
dot used a right cross to the head
that worried the champion not a
little.
Wolgast Slipped to Floor.
Tn the seventh. Mandot's friends
claimed he had knocked Wolgast
down with a left to the jaw; but
It was not a knock down by any
means. Wolgast s feet, which w ere
ROUND BY ROUND STORY
OF WOLGAST-MANDOTGO
Round 1 Mandot atarted off the ag
greaaor, with Wolga_st holding on. They
clinch. Wolgast drove hard left to body
and heavy infighting wed Wolgast
landed heavy bod' blows. and Mandot
clinched Honors were even
Round 2 Wolgast landed left to hodv
and swung to Jaw Mandot clinched
Wolgast landed hard left to body and
missed a swing to the jaw They clinched
tn center of the ring Wolgast was the
aggressor, landing another left to body
and two lefts to the jaw tn a clinch.
Mandot landed right and left on jaw
anti Wolgast • Hitched Round even
Round 3 Wolgast led with left to body
He followed with left and .Mandot cross
countered hint with right. Wolgast
landed left to head Heavy infighting
followed. It was Mandot’s round
Round 4 Wolgast landed an uppercut
on the jaw and viciously forced Mandot
to the ropes Wolgast staggered Mandot
with left and received two lefts tn re
turn. Wolgast scored heavy left on head
and heavy Infighting followed Honors
even
Round 5 Wolgast forced the lighting
and landed left on Jaw. and received
heavy left in return on the head Wol
gast landed oS Mantlets body tin.: luck
receiving heavy body blow- In return In
a clinch Wolgast landed numerous hotly
I blows Mandot landed to thin and fol
lowed with left to nose tVolgast’s in
fighting was a feature Wolgast s round
Round 6 Wolgast led with left to bt.lv
Wolgast landed heavy left on neck, and
Mandot scote. fiard <n jaw Wolgast
follows.. Man.tot al! ov.-i (he r.ng Man
dot landed heavy left upprr.ui on net k
and rigid on body Infighting followed
Round av«n.
wet from an overturned water
btit ket in ills corner, slipped from
underneath him, and he was falling
when the New Orleans lad tapped
him with a left.
The eighth round was a pippin.
Wolgast opened xylth a stinging left
to the jaw. The punch spun Man
dot around, but before the cham
pion could follow up his advantage,
Joe covered up and went Into a
clinch. As I broke them Mandot
stepped in close and worked both
hands to the head. One of these
punches caught Wolgast on the
nose and made it bleed profusely.
At the bell they were tearing into
each other and both were weak.
Wolgast Down in Ninth.
In the ninth round Mandot floored
Wolgast with a right to the jaw.
It was a terrifle punch, but the
champion proved that he is a hard
nut. for he arose in a jiffy and
fought Mandot to a standstill for 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
head and the body.
Hard Fighting in Tenth.
The tenth round belonged to Man
dot by a shade. When the bell
started them on their way in this
spasm, both came out of their cor
ners very wild. They uncorked
swings that they brought up from
the floor, but none of them landed.
Mandot was the first to settle down,
and he shot a right hook to the
head that sent the champion up
against the ropes. Mandot closed
in fast and. with the champion’s
back bending over the ropes, jam
med two rights to the body and
then crossed a right to the jaw.
> Wolgast finally eased himself into
close quarters, and, although he
was dead tired, he fought like a
maddened tiger, crowding rights
and lefts to the body with telling
effect.
Hut Mandot was not "to be denied
long, and as soon as 1 tore them
apart, the New Orleans lad began
hooking both hands to the head,
and at the bell he had Wolgast on
the run for ’lie first time during the
ten-round session.
SIO,OOO For the Champion.
The champion received SIO,OOO for
his end, while Mandot received 110
per cent of the gross receipts, which
were about $20,000. Between 7,000
and S.OOO persons saw the battle.
Round 7 Wolgast landed body blow
Mai.dot landed left to the iaw when Wol
gast slipped to floor Mandot landed
iglit lefts to head W olgast followed with
body punches Mandot fought Wolgast
to the ropes with hard rights and lefts
to body. Champion clinched Wolgast
bleeding, and had worst of round
Bound 8 The men clinched. Mandot do
ing good infighting Wolgast landed left
■ to jaw and a right to kidnevs Mandot
• uppercut Wolgast The local mat. re
ceived a right and left to the head Wol
>;an bleeding profusely Men tight ng
cautiously tn center of ring, each shown g
signs of distress. Wolgast received heavy
■ right as the round etided, with lienors th
t favor of Mandot.
t Round 9 Wolgast swung left hard to
body Mandot landed heavy left in < llnch
I Mandot bleeding from nese. Wolgast
I knocked tn knees with right Rose ;I nd
I fought Mandot to the ropes. Wolgast
• looking the worse for weat Mandot lilt
I clean and landed some lisav\ rights on
- Lea Wolgast ellnelied. Mandot showing
fine generalship Wolgast received heavv
r punishment and hit wild, but still strong
I Belli men to< w much punishment Man
- dot s round
Round 10 Mandot was the aggressor
t latuilng iwo heavy lefts on the jaw
Wolgast Cliruhcd. missing a left for Man-
■ dot - body .Mandot landed two heavy
rights Wild fighting followed, with the
cl umpioii on the ropes. W olgast clinched
itt ft rally in tlie center of the ring Both
I nut weak Mardot received Ik.iv> rights
oi the head and daggered Wolgast with
a right eross--coutit(r Desperate lighting
tollotjed W.ilgast i )| t . aggressor, with
Mandot clinching Both men were des
perately punUbed
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN 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 11. Whiting.
j ET after the prep school
I y athletic conditions again,"
a prominent prep school
football coach 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
all sinh 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 owns a big prep
school told me once: “We hire play
ers. Sure. What’s wrong with
it? There’s no rule agalnet 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 I have a winning football and
baseball team I 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!
• • •
tnoN 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
have been finding out for years.
Then what?
Goodness knows!
Until you edn make the men who
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
reforms.
At the rate progress 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 they 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.
• • •
kJ Ain a college coach earl) this
foil: "An alarming thing is the
steadily increasing number of men
who write me every 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 1 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 fcotball 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
the affidavit. If they tell the truth,
they are declared ineligible so
they don't tell the truth.
of course, few colleges pay a
man real money out of tile athletic
tssociation funds But the ath
letes get it. just the same
The mo»t popului methods ait-
I The take sularj fur the myth
ical Job.
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
bor connected with the job. It is
merely an indirect way of paying
the athlete for his services.
The "scholarship” is popular.
And it is one of the slickest ways
of paying an athlete’s way through
college. The frantic alumni usual
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 fact, 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 matter in hand 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 Dreyfuss 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 Beus’ home run record of twenty
seven this year. He is going to Buffalo
next spring, where Beus went.
• * *
Since there lifts been a Chicago Na
tional league team it has played 4,631
games. Os this number It won 2,712 and
lost 1,819, for a winning per cent of .586.
• • •
Eddie McDonald, who jumped baseball
when he 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.
• • •
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 Joe Wood will get him off
the world's championship club.
• • •
Bill Armour has signed to scout for
the St. Louis Nationals next season
• • •
Bill Lelivelt’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 Galloway—which is
nearly close, but not quite.
There's a queer kink to the Bresna
han ease. He was given his unconditional
release Under 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 sat they
will not let him escape from that league
Fine complication- and brought about by
a Human and a at that.
• • •
The Pacific Coast league is up on its
easily agitated dignity again and swear
ing that it will not be classed with the
bush leaguers by being tied to anv salary
limit
• • •
Making five hits in a game was a
st inch this year and easy enough so that
eight men in each big league performed
It. Bill Sweeney tthree times i. Jake
Daubert (twice). Byrne, Miller. Hoblltz
el. Doyle. Titus. Lobert. Olson, Yerkes
Collins, Cobb. Schalk Carlseh Baket and
Lajole
• • •
Milwaukee will next spring tram right
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
qus 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
la being done, conditions are grad
ually improving.
What the colleges need is:
First—More careful scrutiny by
the responsible heads of the col
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-reci
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
are dissatisfied with their salary, and it
will be no easy task to coax them into
signing up.
• • •
Big Ed Konetchy is one of the plavers
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.
• « •
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.
• « •
Mordecai Brown says he doubts that
Grayson has paid the Cubs for his re
lease. After being assured last season
by Murphy 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, has been
passed on to Binghamton.
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Bat Nelson Would Come Here
To Box; Explodes When Cincy
Commission Says He’s All In
By W. 8. Farnsworth.
A FEW days ago the Cincinnati
boxing commission announced
that they would never allow
Battling Nelson to tight 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 had 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 t-hem that
even a tough young 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
I 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. Pm working for
the fight there November 11.
and the only person who is
going to be the goat on that
night is poor Tommy Gary, my
THE SWIFT. SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA
By “Bud” Fisher
opponent. I’ll havp to give
Tommy a fearful beating just
to show them that I am still a
top-notcher.
“Your old friend.
"BATTLING NELSON."
• » «
r’IREAT day for letters. Received
v -* 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 1
went down to Washington with
Griffith for two days. Clarke
says he will do all he ean 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 SCHEDULI
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Nov. 5,-Th
Yale football squad, after a four day
layoff on account of the death of Guan
York, came back yesterday thorough!’
refreshed for the hardest week's worl
ever put in on a Yala gridiron.
Princeton's style of play agains
Harvard was diagnosed as the sam
wing shifts Yale used last year. Thea
have not been used much this fall a
Yale, being discarded for the more !m
proved shift formation devised by ex
Captain Tom Shevlin, but the. scrub
will use them this week. As Yale foum
ft perfect defense for them last fall
they are not expected to prove danger
ous.
Yale will play Brown next Saturda’
and Princeton the week following
meeting Harvard for the final game o
the season on November 23. All th'
work of the next three weeks will W
directed toward having the team in W
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—2o for 15 cents.
’‘DbHncttuly IndtriJml"
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