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■, ■ . FRANCISCO, April 26.—For a
while the heavyweights, light,
weight* anti middleweight* will
to take a back seat. Wo have
iHsy featherweight event to focus
■ ic" on now, and by the sunn,
h ts a world's championship
Alftiii.
MoCarey's arena at Vernon will he
ili.. scene of the encounter and next
Tuesday Is the day. The principals ;
will be two Johnnies—Kilbane and
Dundee—and unless all signs fall the
bout will be a memorable one.
i Kilbane has said frequently that .
the go with Dundee will mark his 1
farewell appearance as a feather
weight. Johnny has advanced a Uou- :
hie reason for his desertion of the
122-pound division. Increas'ng
weight Is the main thing which Im
pels him to throw' In his lot with the
ltghtwolghts and he Is also Influenced
by the reflection that Dundee Is al
most the only featherweight left (O
fight.
i "When I box Dundee, who Is there
ft,: me to meet?” Is Kllbane's favor
ite way of putting It,
It Is a notorious fact that when a
champion ringman says anything his
remarks are shredded and analyzed
by critics and others w'ho -want ,o
satisfy themselves as to whether any
hidden or double meaning lurks in
them. The usual course Is being fol
lowed In the case of Kilbane and
some one has discovered that John
ny's reference to the scarcity of op
ponents, Increasing poundage and a
onsequent change of class suggesis
that the champion Is laying the foun
dation for an alibi In case things go
wrong In the clash with Dundee.
The fellow who looks ahead is
tue wise guy," said a man who in
dues to the belief that Kilbane is in
tentionally ambiguous. ‘‘If Dundee
ins it will not surprise me If Ktl-
bane says:
" T knew I would weaken myself
making the weight and I was foolish
to try it. I had already given out
that it was to be my last fight as
a featherweight. The one before
!■: mid have been my last.' "
mm*
T liS merely goes to show how a
*■ lempion’s word may be weighed.
j: t be said, however, that if
K »:tne is assailed with an atom of
" /it* in respect lo the result of next
Tuesday’s bout he is concealing the
onderfully. Everything he says
eathes of tilt utmost confidence. He
• even accredited with the desire to
t'k himself to the tune of $10,000
it • this is probably one of the inno
cent bluffs that high class feathers
i >■ sometimes allowed to get away
with.
If any backer of Kilbane were to
say "what odds do you give.” Kilbane
• would probably say "I want even
> money,” and as supporters of Dundee
can do better than that in the open
market, there is small probability of
Kllbane’s ten thousand dollars being
tapped.
The chances are Kilbane is sincere
about joining the rangs of the light
weights. He has frequently shown
himself to be possessed of an ambi-
, tion of that kind and now that he
is getting heavier it is natural that
a .move of that description should
be close to his thoughts.
As an augury of success in his new
field Kilbane points to the fact that
he defeated Joe Rivers shortly be
fore the latter blossomed out as a
lightweight. He thinks he can step
over into Rivers’ present class and
repeat the performance and from
wiiat the sports of Los Angeles are
saying, it is evident that quite a
number of the Southern sport fight
fans agree with Kilbane.
* * *
I OS ANGELES inhabitants are be-
ginning to lopk upon Joe Rivers
as b fighter who has shot his bolt.
The bout with “Kayo” Brown show’ed
weak spots in Rivers’ condition and
his later affair with Leach Cross
helped to give color to suspicions that
had already formed.
Whatever the cause Rivers ha*
shown a. falling away in several of
h’> recent fights and in the absence
of any other explanation some of his
friends are insisting that there is a
very old proverb which says:
A young man marries as a man
that’s marred.
It will be time enough to talk of a
Rivers-Kilbane match, however, when
the Kilbane-Dundee contest is a
thing of the past. In the event of
Kilbane winning it is practically a
certainty that he will be signed with
Rivers. But it may be that the pro
gram will be changed or at least that
there will be a postponement in the
1 vent that Dundee relieves Kilbane
‘>f the featherweight title.
Certainly a deefat when leaving the
featherweight division would not lend
| eolat into Kilbane’s entry into the
' lightweight ranks.
• * * *
l-TERE in the West it is believed tha
*■*• Dundee is he most formidable
boy Kilbane has tackled since he be
came champion. San Franciscoans
"ho have seen Dundee in action In
the East proclaim him a second Ter-
! rv McGovern and if there is anything
in the suspicion that making 122
> pounds is no easy matter for Kilbane
.hist now, it would appear that the
title holder wold do well not to spec-
<t* so much on the future but give
- ndivided attention to the task that
*nfronts him next Tuesday.
Whichever way the thing goes
there is a treat in store for the pat-
•ns of Vernon. Kilbane is a prime
favorite down that way on account
of his extreme cleverness and it is
fMt that willing Johnnie Dundee will
force Kilbane to employ all the clev
erness he is possessed of.
WILLIE RITCHIE WOULD
SIGN TO BATTLE MURPHY
BOZEMAN, MONT., April 26.—Wil
h* Ritchie will meet Harlem Tommy
Murphy. “We shall be glad to meet
M irphy if the money offer is a good
ne," said Billy Nolan to-day. Nolan
aAded that Ritchie had received offers
t0 meet Joe Rivers or Leach Cross
«nd was willing to battle either, tak
ing the one that made the better
Proposition.
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CHANCE STILL YOUNG.
, NEW YORK. April **.— "If Hans
1 ’gner and Napoleon '' pan plas
J. veil as ever, there’s no doubt about
'tank Chance.” says’ the veteran Dan
Brouthers. “Chance is 33 years old,
much younger than Wagner and La-
■’°le. and he ought to remain in the
#»»%.I«jv-e£Y*ral seaspfls yqt,"
Bv Charles A. Lamar,
I N 1854 the New York Giants—and
'they were giants in stature, all
right—under the management of
John M. Ward did their preliminary
spring “practice” in Jacksonville,
Fla. Amos Rusie, the Hoosler giant,
was then in his prime and his high
fast ones whizzed over the pan with
a hop, skip and a roar and that’s the
dope guaranteed not to spying a
leak.
“Duke” Farrell, a finished catcher
anti a great baseball general, caught
his corkscrew benders and got away
with It without turning an eyelash
and it required real work, coupled
with the “eagle eye” and the supple
wrist bone, for the hostile gents to
bunch their hits on Amos. Ask
Hughie Jennings. John McOraw,
“Rowdy” Jack O’Connor, Bobby Wal
lace and others of the old regime —
they know.
The gabfest engendered by the real
ly remarkable “speed” displayed by
Walter Johnson, of the Washington
team, as compared with that of Ru
sie,* has raged like a fire in a furni
ture factory for several years and the
solution is as far distant now as when
the famous debate started. And so
it goes. When did a man ever get
anything, or anywhere, in a baseball
argument? That’s the question that’s
agitating the board. As the Hon.
Bard well Slate would say “What’s
the use?” And he was right.
But let us get down to brass tacks.
The same year the Baltimores, with
John McGraw at third, Jennings at
short, and Joe Kelly in the outfield
and the now famous Fred Clarke,
then with Savannah, faced Rusie in
the South and oddly enough Clarice
was the only guy in the outfit who
could rise to the occasion and cut in
with the pinch, or any other kind of
a bingle and that was bingling some,
take it from an onlooker.
Rusie’s speed was fierce, but he
was not forced to rely on that, be
cause he has a, corkscrew' curve that
couldn’t be hit with a gatling gun.
And he could stick it over w*hen in a
hole and make good at that. How
many pitchers of the present day
can do that, aside from Mathewson
and Rucker? As the Japanese school
boy would say: “I ask. to know.
The passing of Rusie was pathetic
to a degree. He was a giant in stat
ure. an ideal athlete and endowed
with a lovable disposition. He never
troubled the umpires, being content
with making trouble for the batsmen.
But the misguided fans in New Yo“k
made a demi-god of him and he fell
by the wayside because of his habits.
What a commentary on the folly of
strong drink. He is now Ashing for
pearls in the Wabash River in In
diana, with varying success and with
no chance at all to "come back
When he was traded to Cincinnati
for Christv Mathewson by the Giants
in 1900, he realized the beginning of
the end and sighed:
"Well, I see my finish. I had a
$10,000 arm and a 10 cent head and
that’s the answer.
And so it was.
GRIFFITH PROTESTS AND
DEMANDS CATCHER EGAN
NEW YORK, April 26.—When
Manager Griffith learned Horn the
press reports that Catcher Ben Egan,
of the Athletics, had caught a game
for Baltimore, he lost no time in send
ing Ban Johnson a telegram protest
ing against the player being allowed
to get out of the league without his
having waived on him.
The rules provide a fine of $250 on
any club which sends a player out of
the league without having received
consent, and Griffith proposes to have
this rule enforced, and in addition ex-
pects to get Egan or know the reason
why. _ •
M’CUE A BUSY BOXER.
RACINE, W1S., April 26.—Many
McCue, the Racine featherweight, has
two matches on his hands at the Pres
ent time. On April 28 Matty will
clash with Posey Williams before the
South Side A. C. in a six-round botfL
while on May 15 he will meet Jeff
O'Connell In a ten-round bout at Ra-
cine.
KRAUSE ELECTED PRESIDENT.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND . April 26. —J.
Edward Krause, wealthy hotel man.
yesterday was elected president of
the local Federal League baseball club.
John A. George and James A. Ross,
attorneys, were made secretary and
treasurer, respectively.
Charley Kolehmainen, Brother of
Famous Athlete, to Be Devel
oped at Distances.
NEW YORK. April 26.—Unless their
plans go badly astray during the next
few months, Willie and Hannes Ko
lehmainen will bring another of the
famous family of distance runners
to America some time during the
present year.
Charley Kolehmainen. the youngest
of the four famous brothers, plans* to
come to the United States to com
plete his development as a distance
runner. Charley has been training
for some time. He wanted to start
in the Olympic games last July, but
his brothers would not let him.
The reason that Willie Kolehmai
nen wants brother Charley to get his
athletic education in America is
“competition.” Said Willie:
“My young brother can learn more
about running here in a month than
he would in a year at home. We do
not have the money to have so many
meets as the Americans do. Charley
is good already, but he is not ready
to race as yet. He is too young.”
Willie was then asked w'hether or
not Charley showed signs of being
even faster than Hannes, as has been
written. The little Finn smiled and
said: “That all depends upon
Charley.”
The Kolehmainens make no secret
of the fapt that they are pointing
their young brother for the Marathon
at the Berlin Olympiad in 1016. They
reason out that Hannes will still be
running fast at that time, and well
able to take care of the distance
tracks events.
Should Charley develop under the
system mapped out by Willie, the
Kolehmainen family will be fairly
represented in the big meet that will
be held in Germany three years hence.
ATHLETE. COMING
H. S. 0. Ashington Is Said to Be
Superior to Mighty Indian,
Jim Thorpe.
W'
HEN the Oxford and Cam
bridge athletes come here to
meet Harvard In a dual meet
this summer American followers of
track and field sports will have an op
portunity of seeing one of the best
athletes in the world. He Is H. S. O.
Ashington, of Cambridge.
Not in recent times has an athlete
shown such remarkable ability on
the track and field as has Ashington.
Even the mighty Jim Thorpe never
did what this young Englishman did
recently.
At the recent Oxford-Cambridge
meet Ashington won three events—
the ]20-yard high hurdle race, the
running broad jump and the half-
mile race. He captured the hurdle in
16 1-5 seconds, smashed the meet
record in the Jump by clearing 23
feet 5 3-4 inches and won the half
mile in 2 minutes 1 1-5 seconds.
To win the hurdle and Jump was
not so remarkable. Many athletes
have done the same. But to win them
and then defeat a classy field in a
half mile run is considered by ex
perts to be little short of phenomenal.
They cite the fact that no athlete
since the days of A1 Copeland, the
famous hurdler, ever won a middle-
distance run against a fast field after
winning a jump and a hurdle race.
Experts who have seen Ashington
in action predict that he will smash
several records this year, and say
that if he specializes for one event he
will make a world's record that will
stand for many years.
JOE
MAND0T TO OPEN
STORE IN NEW ORLEANS
NETT ORLEANS, April 26.—Joe
Mandot is one boxer who has saved
his ring earnings and will probably
never need a benefit.
The French Market crack has never
been a rounder or a "spender,” though
known wherever he has fought as a
good fellow and a better sportsman.
But Joe realizes that the ring life of
a boxer is limited at the best and
that the wise men are those who save
their money. He has been a regular
depositor at a bank near the French
Market, but will soon withdraw a
goodly portion of his savings and
enter into business in St. Charles
Street.
Charley A ss die. one of Joe's best
friends, and A. B. Letellier, another
who has advised him, will not talk
about Joe’s new venture, but it is
said that within the next few weeks
lie will lease a St. Charles Street
store and enter tte men's furnishing
business.
Mandot has an: number of friends
and should do wall in business just as
he hag prospered. in-the ring.
D ETROIT, April 26.—It is the opin
ion of Hughey Jehnings, mana
ger of the Tigers, that the base
runners of to-day are, for the most
part, far inferior to the base runners
of the time when McGraw, Keeler,
Kelly, Hanlon and Long were in the
game.
“Baseball, as a game, has made
wonderful strides in the last ten or
twenty years,” said Hughey, "but the
player of to-day—I am speaking in
general terms—is far the inferior of
the player of yesterday when base
running is considered. There are
faster men, that is, more faster men,
but there are not nearly so many
good base runners, for the reason
that players of to-day do not extend
themselves along this line.
“The good base runners of the two
major leagues can be counted or.
your fingers—almost on the fingers
of one hand. Consider Cobb, Milan,
Bescher, Bush and one or two others,
perhaps, and the remaining players
in the big leagues are let out. Ten
or twenty years ago there were lots
of men who were good on the paths.
Baseball i. Improving.
“It is rny opinion that baseball will
show its greatest improvement in fu
ture years, as men develop as base
stealers. Stealing bases is not a
natural ability. It is acquired. Up
to a year or so ago Clyde Milan of
the Washington team was an ordi
nary man on the paths, but Milan
saw the advantage of cultivating his
speed and learning when to take
chances. Now he is one of the best
base runners in the game.
“I do rot consider Eddie Collins an
exceptional or very dangerous man,
when it comes to running bases. Col
lins has not developed himself suffi
ciently ir. the fadeaway slide, and un
cause opposing teams any undue
til he gets that properly he will not
alarm when he gets on the sacks.
“I do not believe that there is much
chance for improvement along other
lines. It is hardly possible that there
will ever be a player the superior of
Cobb. In fact, if Cobh’s equal is
found it will -be an exception.
Cobb in Class Alone.
Cobb is without a weakness as a
player, and this is something that
cannot be said of any other player in
the game. Ty, however, had short
comings when he broke Into baseball,
but he had sens ' enough to realize
them and willingness enough to work
to overcome them. That is why he
is the greatest player.
“Every baseball follower In the
country knows how, a few years ago,
Cobb was a cinch for Doc White, the
Chicago pitcher. White knew Cobb
had a weakness at the bat and White
preyed on it. Cobb knew the situa
tion as well as did White and after
months of faithful hitting against a
certain kind of pitched ball Cobb
overcame his weakness, and White
can trtick Cobb no more.
“When other players begin to real
ize their faults and try faithfully to
overcome them, then, and then only
will baseball be advanced."
ANDERSON GETS MATCH
WITH MANDOT ON MAY 30
IADS ANGELES, April 26.—Bud
Anderson, the young Vancouver light
weight, is not losing any time gath
ering in the shekels that are bound
to come as a result of his victory
over Knockout Brown recently.
Anderson is keeping himself in the
pink of condition and at the same
time is fattening his purse by doing
a light training stunt a local vaude
ville houses.
He Is matched to box Joe Mandot,
the Southern lightweight, on May 30,
in a, twentj'-round bout at MoCarey's
Arena. McCarey is also dickering for
a match with Murphy and Rivers to
be staged some time in June, with the
idea of matching the winners of these
two fights for the privilege of meet
ing Willie Ritchie in a championship
battle on July 4.
PIRATES WOULD TRAIN AT HOME
PITTSBURG, PA.. April 26.—"If I
had as much money invested In a
baseball plant as some major league
magnates have,” savs Fred Clarke, “I
would put un a building equipped for
training at home, and dispense with
these spring trips to the South, en
abling the players to get out in the
open air on good davs. I regard the
plan as entirely feasible, and I ex
pect to live to ape the day- when some
club owner-will try it."
C AMBRIDGE, MASS., April 26.—
That the paid coaching system
Is the one safe means of attain
ing athletic success has been demon-
started at Harvard this year by the
accession of three inter-collegiate
championships, with several more to
follow as possibilities. A trio of teams
all tutored by well paid experts, has
brought top notch athletic honors into
the Crimson cage.
The most remarkable feat In the
sports line at Harvard was the win
ning of the championship in football
this fall. Percy D. Haughton, who
is paid a salary' higher than that re
ceived by the average professor at
the institution across the Charles,
whipped his star material Into a com
bination that took the full measure
ments of Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth,
Brown and other excellent gridiron
combinations.
The winning of the football gon
falon was almost simultaneous with
the ensnaring of the inter-collegiate
cross-country honors—a sport In
which Cornell excelled without mo
lestation previous to last fall. Again
the paid coach, in the person of A1
Shrubb, was largely responsible for
the winning of the championship in
this event.
ALSO WINS HOCKEY TITLE.
The most recent acquisition of
champ honors was in hockey, when
the Harvard seven trimmed Yale and
Princeton and obtained an undisputed
clutch on the first place rung. Coach
Winsor can be given large credit for
this feat.
These three championships have
not come with a rush, however. The
paid coaching system was installed
at Cambridge some years ago, but it
was not until a few seasons back
that it was in vogue in nearly ail the
more important fields of sport.
The Crimson crew, the baseball
team and the lacrosse team have yet
to enter in upon their seasons, and
it is not unlikely that Harvard will
get away with one or two more
intercollegiate championships from
these three possibilities.
There is slight doubt that the
Crimson will defeat Yale on the
Thames at New London next sum
mer. Such a performance has become
perennial.
FOR ROWING SUPREMACY.
But this year Harvard is to meet
the Cornell crews at Ithaca In a dual
race, when the supremacy in rowing
will be firmly established. A victory
for the Crimson over Cornell would
be a wonderful accomplishment and
an honor to Coach Wray. Harvard
has already beaten Cornell in its
other big event, cross-country run
ning.
The baseball team will meet all the
more Important Eastern nines during
its season, giving it a chance to es
tablish a reasonable claim on inter
collegiate honors if the number of
victories makes it possible.
It is safe to say that Harvard
spends over $25,000 a year for the ex
pert services of its horde of athletic
coaches, but the results justify the
expenditure, since Harvard has as
cended to the highest position possi
ble In the realm of college sports.
CARR0LLT0 STAGE BOUTS
FOR ILLINOIS LAWMAKERS
CHICAGO, April 26.—Senator Pat
rick Carroll, father of a boxing bill
now before the Illinois Legislature,
has decided on a plan of staging an
exhibition at Springfield for the bene
fit of the law'makers, the chief actors
in which will be several well-known
prizefighters.
Believing that the best way to con
vince the legislators that there is no
harm in ten-round bouts, he has ar
ranged to stage three matches at the
capital.
Senator Carroll is making al! of the
arrangements himself. The Senator
said that he intended making an il
lustrated lecture of the affair. He
said he would be within the ropes and
make plain the good points of his
bill as they are exhibited blow by
blow by the fighters.
M’CARTY TO BOX MORAN.
NEW YORK, April 26.—Luther Mc
Carty and Frank Moran are both in
this city training for their ten-ronnd
bout here April 30. Moran is working
hard for this go, as he wants to be in
the best of shape for the champ. Joe
Jeannette will train Moran for the
scrap.
SHUGRUE MUST BEAT HOGAN.
NEW HAVEN. CONN.. April 26.—
"One-Round" Hogan, of California,
and Joe Shugrue will meet here on
May TO for fifteen rounds. Shugrue
is training diligently for this bout, as
he has a match with Rivers or Cross,
in case he cstn trim Jiogaq,
THORPE BIS RIM
CIRCUITS IN ATHLETE GIIYOII
CHIU AGO, April 26. Edward
Walsh, the his: pitcher of the White
Sox squad, figures that ho should
have something in his repertory be
sides his speed and his spitter. The
big fellow is working on a slow ball
and an underhand delivery. He de
clares that he will surely use them
henceforth, hut there are several oth
er players on the squad who doubt it.
Developing a slow hall and an un
derhand one Is a hobby with the big
twirler. He has been doing it for
years and will probably continue to
do so for years to come. Every
spring he startles the youngsters on
the squad by getting on the mound
and pitching a slow' one.
Just, as regular as spring and the
training trip come round the big
pitcher gets out there and mixes his
delivery.
Walsh probably doesn’t pitch twen
ty slow ones in a season. Maybe
when the Sox are away in front and
thfere isn’t a chance for them to lose
the game the big fellow' will try it
out. But the moment he gets into a
game where he must pitch to win he
stands by the deliveries that have
made him.
INE
GOLF TEACHINGS
Englishman Has Testing Device
Showing Weight Is Mainly
on Left Foot.
T h
By “Chick” Evans.
Hl£RE is a merry war now in
progress in Great Britain be
tween P. A. Vaile, author of “The
Soul of Golf” and certain British pro
fessionals.
Mr. Vaile, who apparently possesses
a knowledge of mechanics that we
| golfers lack, believes that Taylor,
Braid and Vardo*., whom he calls the
great triumvirate, teach one thing
with thqjr pens and practice some
thing else with their gulf clubs. The
| difference of opinion In this partic-
I ular instance concern* the distrlbu-
| tion of weight during the golf swing,
j According toi tbe great golfers, at
I the top of the swing, certain rules
| being observed, the weight is mainly
on the : ght foot. Air. Vaile Insists
that it is upon the left, and, having
the courage of all his convictions,
has had a'machine made at a cost
of $250, to show' the fallacy of pro
fessional teaching.
Machine Proves Theory.
This weight-testing machine con
sists of two separate sales, to each of
which is attach u a large recording
dial. The player takes his stance
with one foot on each scale, and the
scales are rigid enough not to inter
fere with the stance.
Directly behind the demonstrator is
an upright with an attached handle
which work* on a pivot. The handle
is adjusted to his right hip and rec
ords the slightest swaying of the
body. The movement of the head Is
recorded by a similar device attached
♦o the upright. This, however, has
beer, found to interfere with Un
freedom of the swing and it is said
that a p’ummet fur pended from the
ceiling directly over the player will
answer the same purpose.
A public demonstration of the ma
chine is promised and several private
ones havu already been given, but so
far the triumvirate has held aloof
Makes Public Demonstration.
In a demonstration made by Sher
lock with the prescribed Immobility
of the head and the spine held as the
axis of the body-twist, the weight is
shown to be on the left foot: in the
other demonstration by H. Kill, one of
the school of golf professionals, the
weight is on the right foot, but the
indicator attached to his hip showed
a movement of about one and a half
inches to the right. Both of these
demonstrations support the Vaile tne-
ory.
Mr. Vaile takes for granted these
three things as raught by profession
als:
1. Equal distribution of wefght at
address.
2. Immobility of the head.
3. Th.; spine as the axis of body-
twist.
He says:
If one who starts with the weight
equally distributed is absolutely pre
vented from swaying either from the
hips or the head and uses the spine
as an axis for body-twist, it is a
physical impossibility for him to get
the weight onto the right leg at the
toj* of the awing.
Baseball Magnates Seek Protec
tion Against Excessive De
mands in Baseball Ruling.
T HERE will probably be a salary
limit in the major leagues before
long. The minor leagues all have
salary limits, but the majors have
gone along paying whatever salaries
they desired.
The Detroit t’lub is reputed to pay
tlie largest salaries in baseball. Phil
adelphia. with Collins, Baker, Plank,
Coombs, Mclnnis, Bender and other
stars, is several thousand dollars shy
of the Tigers’ figure. The New York
Giants are also away under and Bos
ton's Red Sox are not paid as? much
as the Detroit players receive.
Charles Comiskey, owner of the
White Sox. wanted Sam Crawford
last winter, but immediately stopped
negotiations when he discovered that
the Wahoo man drew down $5,000
last season. “There is only one player
on my club that gets as much as
$5,000,00 paid Comiskey. “I can not
afford to pay Crawford that.’’
The annual list of holdouts and
record salaries paid a few stars put
the other owners in a bad way and
stirs up constant discontent on fhe
part of the players. It is human na
ture; to figure that one is not paid
anywhere near one’s real worth and
bail players are only human.
Bat.'eball differs from other profes
sions and the demands of several
stars last winter caused a general
demand over the entire major league
circuits. Sixteen of the major league
clubs have been ufflicted with salary
squabbles since the season ’ of 1912
eloped.
Owners are complaining bitterly
against the demands. They are look
ing for protection and a salary limit
offers the best means for an excuse
that will be backed by baseball laws.
If the leagues set a limit the owner
can always point to it and show a
player where it is impossible to grant
him an increase.
SOX WOULD PAY $15,000
FOR CLEAN-UP BATTER
CHICAGO, April 26.—"They ran
say all they please about these scien
tific hitters,” remarked Manager Jim
my Callahan, of the White Sox, "but
give me a man w ho can clout the ball
and clout it good and hard.
“I am locking for a player to put in
the clean-up position on my team. I
would give $15,000 cash for either
’Birdie’ free, Sam Crawford or ‘Rube*
Oldring."
If Callahan could secure any one
of those players he would place him
fourth in the batting order. Then with
a man on second or third, Jimmy fig
ures that the base-runner would not
linger ’ong with any of the above
mentioned players at bat.
Star Indian Tackle at Carlisle
Promises to Become an
Athletic Wonder.
J IM THORPE, the world's greatest,
all-around athlete and new addi
tion to the Giants, Is to have a
rival some day. according to latest
advices from Carlisle. He is Guyon.
the star Indian tackle, who played
his first football game for the Red
skins this year. Guyon is a brother
of Charley “Wahoo,” assistant coach
at the University of Georgia.
Guyon, according to Warner, the
coach and athletic director, is head
ed the right way and is as good a
natural athlete as Thorpe. In the
interests of science. Thorpe has re
cently been undergoing measurements
on the theory that his development is
physically that of just about the per
fect man. He is above all a product
of gradual development.
A couple of years ago Warner ap
preciated Thorpe’s aptitude at all-
around athletics, and by a careful
, Ograduation in his development
strengthened him first in the partic
ular field events which did not in -
v.olve continuous strain, up to the
point of middle and long-distance
I running and hurdling.
At first his exceptional abilities
• were appreciated because of the small
number of grown male students at
! the Carlisle school, for whom sched-
| ules had been arranged with some of
the leading universities of America
who have enrollments running into
! thousands of students.
Frequently Thorpe was called upon
j to enter an event for which he was
I comparatively untrained in order to
give Carlisle a competitor against
her rivals in this particular eent.
The most notable feature in con
nection with his physical growth has
been the evenness -with which he
has built up to his present propor
tions. In no way does he resemble
the typical strong man. No dotted
or corded muscles out of proportion
to his body break the symmetry that
is tlie most characteristic feature of
his physical makeup.
To-day the master athlete of th^
world ns a type stands half-way as a
physical product between the sinu
ous aborigine who has been ftxund
;it some time or other in nearly every
country of the world and the modern
! product of civilization with special
ized muscular development. To out-
| ward appearances the resemblance to
the aborigine Is certainly the more
I marked.
CANADIANS BAR NEGRO BOXER.
TORONTO, April 26.—Johnny Hoi
land, the negro, is barred from Cana
dian A. A. U. boxing championships
because mixed boxing is not conducive
to the spread of bixing, is the sum
and substance of the official report
of the banning of the colored cyclone
by the C. A. A. U.
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