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ITEARRT’S SUNDAY AMERICAN’— BASEBALL AND OTHER SPORTS — SUNDAY, MAY Jl, IM13.
STARS LIST IT
COLLEGE PILES
By Tunis Brown.
I T may be all right for the national
game of basebftll to spread over
, the length and breadth of the land,
ihvading the small towns In an or
ganized form, but if it does, said
•preading will cause woes untold to
college coaches of football and base
ball. A number of the small towns
in this and adjoining States are now
enjoying league ball for the first time
in their existence, with the result
**hat every hamlet and village Is being
uombeC. for ambitious young ball
players, who hope to pick up a few-
easy dollars, and at the same time
affoTd themselves an opportunity for
£ tting into the game professionally
r larger things.
Owing to the fact that these towns
have only a limited population from
which to draw their patronage, it is
nece.ssary that they establish a sal
ary limit that will not permit their
managers to sign up anything other
than youngsters who have never
had league experience, and in a ma
jority of cases, who have never even |
played college ball. Many of their
players are either "prep - men, or els-
boys who have shown more progress
In playing ball than they have in
class work, and are not even attend
ing a good preparatory school.
• • •
AT the present time there nre a
** number of good ball players in
Southern institutions who nre barred
SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT
Harry Tries to Crab His Honor’s Game
Copyrtuht. 1913, International New* Service
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from playing because of the fact that
they have received money for play
ing. Only last season eligibility rules
knocked Pitcher Wilder off of the
tSeorgia team, when he was giving
promise of showing great stuff in
college circles. The same thing hap
pened at Vanderbilt two seasons ago,
when Bob Brown was declared ineli
gible. At the time he looked to be
the best bet 1n the box that the Com
modores had been able to unearth
since the days of Spencer Love.
At the present time, there are no
less than five valuable ball players
at Washington and Lee who are un
able to play college ball because of
The fact that they have played pro
fessionally. In fact, these are so
good that they have played In various
jeagues from the Appalachian League
up to the American League.
However, it Is not with the colle
gians, after they have entered college.
That trouble is likely to arise. Onoo
in university, most players will show
enough loyalty to the institution to
Stay off of the (professional stuff,
until they have completed their
course. The trouble is rather with
the youngsters who have developed
Mifflciently to attract attention before
they reach college. There are many
these, who would have to do from
two to three years preparatory work,
before they can make the require
ments at a university, and it is these
■fellows to whom the allurements look
especially strong.
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AKK the case of Hickman, football
star at Riverside during the pres-
ycar. Owing to the regulation
th<» prep association, he was al-
rd to piny football blit has been
oflT of the baseball team. This"
was good enough to size up with
beat in the Appalachian League,
I would certainly have made some
- t football player had he entered
and been allowed to play,
wever, his baseball experience will
him off from college football in
i It appears practically certain that
leoilege eligibility rules will have to be
• revised, else college athletics In this
•section will suffer, provided those
•small leagues make good. Of course,
tit is a practical certainty that many
lof these are gtiing to spring up, run
ra *»lv>rt course and then die over
Jnight. For the limited drawing cn-
Jpacity to which they are restricted,
intakes 1t a fact that many toe the
'mark, but few 1 check in at the finish.
* • •
'T’H'IS, however, will mean little to
* the youngsters who spoil their
amateur career by going into profes
sionalism. In fact, it will mean noth.
*ing, save probably that they will wind
-.up a season with a few dollars back
|salary due from a defunct tfeam.
• whose treasury has long since been
^depleted. Then* is a lot of satisfac
tion, and some glory, to the local
• enthusiast who puts up a few dol-
liars in real money to organize a
fleague team, but it is another thing
‘to have to keep digging down for
the real mazuma to maintain the
• team when the boys are going bad
♦and the gate does not register a cor-
Sporal’s guard at the games.
• It does not seem likely that a re
vision of the eligibility rules of the
iSouthern Association will be made at
Jan early date. This contention is
{made that It is next to an impossi
bility to draw- the line between a
j,player who has received money from
»a semi-pro club and one who played
Jin organized ball. As a matter of
Jfact, cleaner eligibility requirements
•could be established if the faculties
lof the different institutions would see
Jto it that men who play on the teams
• are past the dead line in their class
J work.
• • •
’AT the present time there should
*** be little or no trouble in keeping
• track of these matters. A few years
Jago, with few’ exceptions, members
• of the faculties of Southern institu-
Jtions paid little or no attention t
.athletics. However, whether throug
ta pure love of sport or an apprecia
Jtion of the fact that a winning ba
• team affords very valuable advortis
ting, you can now s. e most of th* -
fprofessors lined up in attendance a
• both football and baseball games, an
fit is not an uncommon thing u> >< •
(more than one of them show up the
*in«nst enthusiastic freshman in the
I way of rooting Tor the t- am.
5 Furthermore, many of them know
Jewry member of the team intiimu*- >.
• their acquaintance extending from a
iknowledge of the locality from which
ithe players come, to an ability to giv<
Iih«ir pedigrees for a coup ■ of gen-
J( rations back. more especially if aaid
jj edigree involve* athletic pruwes> mi
I part of some preceding male month.-r
I of the family. In view of these fact'
Ithere is no reason why Southern
liege faculties should not he able to
• pass readily on the standing of its
♦athletic aspirants of itself without
tcalling on outside regulations to make
Jthem come to time.
• If the Southern Association can see
*Bt to include summer basebai with
1 certain limits, it will allow a good
’number of youngsters who w ould oth
erwise be barred#!o take part, and at
»the same time allow them an oppor
tunity tr earn vacation money in
amounts than they would like,
oc able to earn otherwise.
Says Game Is Extremely Comic
At last the Britisher's idea of basc-
bal has been put into cold type. Mr.
Charles Spok#s, a w’ell-known sport
ing authority in England, wrote the
following story on baseball as he saw
it for an English paper, and it is re
printed on their favorite sports:
The Englishman who fares to thfc
other side of the Atlantic—whether
to Canada or the States, for in this
matter the two nations are ns one—
is at the first loftily contemptuous
towards the national game of base
ball. Complete ignorance of the game
(except that it Is a kind of grown-up
“rounders”) is largely the cause of
his attitude, for. notwithstanding the
large number of exoteric pastimes
which have become acclimatized Jn
England—-such, for Instance, as base
ball or diabolo—baseball is never seen
hen , and the EDngllshman is apt to
sneer at baseball as being childish
with the same readiness that Ameri
cans laugh at cricket as being a thing
of “white flannels and afternoon tea.”
What especially amuses the Ameri
can is the dignified showness of
cricket. The three days’ match, the
all-day batting session, the Intervals
for lunch and tea, tickle his imagina
tion when compared with his /own
beloved “ball game.” For baseball is
a thing of frenzied excitement: when
each side has nine Innings and the
whole business is over in two or three
hours, it follows there are no pro
tracted or flat periods. Baseball is
realy rounders. Who expanded and
codified the children’s game is a mys
tery. but for all his Ingenuity lie did
not bide the original. Hit and run—
that is the principle. Off a hit which
is not a foul ball or within foul ter
ritory', the batter drops his bat and
runs as fast as he can to the first
base, or beyond that to other bases
if e can do safely.
Never Called Batsman.
Four bases make the round which
"secures a run. each runner halted at
a base resuming his running directly
the succeeding batters (they are
never ealed “batsmen”) strike, and
often stealing bases whilst the ball
is in play elsewhere. The only change
of consequences that has been made
is that till' ball Is not thrown at. to
hit, a runner, to put him out of play,
which is necessary (if my recollec
tions are correctly) in rounders; at
the first base a fielder from the op
posing team has only to have the ball
in his hands and hii foot on the base
plate before the runner reaches it; at
the other bases the fielder ran either
have the ball in his hands and his
foot on the plate, or, with the ball
in his hands, touch the runner with it.
A ball delivered by the “pitcher”
directly over the batting plate is a
“strike”: not over the plate, a “ball”:
and four “balls.” a body hit from a
ball, a “wild pitch.” entitle the batter
to a base without further ado. On the
other hand, to miss three “strikes,”
to be run out at a base in either of
the ways described above, to be
caught off a fair ball, to run outside
the limits between bases, and certain
other contingencies, concludes his
innings, and directly three men art-
out the aide is out.
Extremely Fast Game.
From Ibis cursory explanation the
uninitiated may probably derive the
impression that the game is childish.
On that opinions differ, but this can
be :it ill t hat baseball, properly
played, is an exceedingly fast game,
and, because of its fastness and fre
quency of incident, a more interest
ing game to watch than cricket or
football. Rugby football is the only
parallel as regards rapidity. Of the
batting l will not speak, except to
point out that with a round bat, only
2\ inches wide, greater accuracy of
judgment is needed to hit a nal de
livered about waist high than with
a cricket bat; nor of the running. It
- I is the fielding and the throwing which
» are truly amazing. The ball is
i thrown from player to player with
- the speed and precision of rifle prac-
1 tlse. Watch the fielders In cricket.
- see how they fumble the ball and
“ make faulty returns, then consider
i j th.. m baseball fielder in the out
1 ! field will send a ball to the pitcher at
e j lightning speed and with so true an
claim that neither have moved from
e | their original positions to catch It. j
luickness w ith which a
short distance as quickly as he could,
reached the base he was out by fully
a second. In the same match a run
ner left a base for the next, but, see
ing he could not reach It in time,
turned back when half way to his old
position. The fielder with the ball
threw it to the fielder at the old base
so that it reached him before the
runner did, and then that runner
doubled backwards and forwards for
five times while this jugglery was
going on over his head, till at last he
was touched.
But this is the serious side to base
ball, and no one follows it for that.
In saying that it is exceedingly fast,
I must add that It is exceedingly
amusing.
Some Do Look Like Tramps.
The players themselves are amus
ing in their quaint costumes—baggy
knickers that come half-way between
the knee and ankle, reminding one
somewhat of a Frenchman’s idea of a
cycling costume, socks with broad,
('rude-colored rings, flannel shirts
with turn-up collars very much like
a Gladstone flaway, and, above all, a
most rediculous hut, something of a
cross between a jockey’s and a rail
way porter's. There is not the grace
ful llssomness of the cricketer, nor
the brawny muscularity of the foot
baller, but a kind of clumsy, misfit,
comic tramp appearance. Add to this
that in baseball chaff and “back chat”
are not only allowed but encouraged,
a little for the encouragement of
players, but mainly for the delecta
tion of not only the audience but the
players too. Baseball has given birth
to a whole dictionary of slang—
“boob,” ‘“mutt,” “bonehead,” “fan,”
“bleacher,” “guy” and “chib” are only
a few with which the novice has to
become familiar: but the greatest of
them is “root.” To “root” is to “nit-
tlc,” otherwise to anoy by abusive
or ironical remarks. To the British
mind this Is bad sport and undigni
fied: to the baseball “fan” it is as
much a part of the game as the ac
tual play.
Everybody Roots.
It is carried on, usually. In a small
falsetto voice—indeed, typical music-
hall “back-chat.” The spectators
root at the plftyers, the players who
are awaiting their turns to bat root
at the fielding team; the batter, as
he swings his bat, roots at th«^ pitch
er, the “catcher” (I. e., the equiva
lent of a wicket-keeper) roots at the
batter, the fielders root at the base
runners, the coach roots at the um
pire, and even the umpire roots at
the spectators. “Now you’ve got
him, kid!” “Want another pitcher,
fellers?” “Chuck that ump off!”
“Gome and do that yourself, then,
you guys!” and so on—a tremendous
noise, generally, and all with the idea
of baulking the pitcher or throwing
tl\e batter off his guard, but generally
extremely comic, and. as the London
hawker cries, 'causing great fun and
amusement and roars of laughter.”
It Is high comedy, pure and simple.
The big teams, 1 am informed, carry
round with them in addition to the
team, manager, and coach, a man
w hose only job it is to root, and this
is the man who gets the cheers and
the applause. And all the time the
players chew gum—chew when they
bat; run or catch!
Brooklyn
BY DAMON RUNYON. 5
M IKE eyes have seen this morning,
after rubbing them seme rubs,
The figures as presented in the
Standing nf the Clubs;
And uhat is this I’m seeingS Why,
the birds they pegged as Dubs—
It's Brooklyn marching on.'
Mine ears have heard the cheering
nf Evers' gallus Cubs,
And the' moaning of the Pirates as
they’re sinking to the hubs—
Hut wliat’s this scream behind us,
and the flourishing of clubs I
It’s Brooklyn marching on.
“Giants and Senators
Look Best’’--Griffith
Washington Manager Says Speed
Will Win Pennant for Both
Ball Teams.
WASHINGTON, May 10.—Clark
Griffith declares that Washington Is
going to win the American League
pennant and Is equally positive that
the Giants will win in the National.
“And let me tell you something,”
he said. “It ought to be the greatest
w’orld's series that has ever been
played. It will be the first time that
two really fast teams have ever got
together for the big prize. In the
past one of the teams always has been
superior on the bases while the other
was superior at the bat. The Giants
and my club operate along the same
lines, and, believe me. when we get
together it will he some fight.”
“Do you think you could beat the
Giants in a world’s series?” he was
asked.
“Yes.’* he replied. “In a seven-
game series I think Walter Johnson
can beat any club, though up to the
present 1 have considered Mathewson
the daddy of all pitchers. There will
never be another like him, but Johu-
son is younger and stronger now.”
“Don't you seriously think that the
Athletics and the Red Sox have it on
you in batting?”
“They may have,” he answered,
“hut we r.re going to beat them out.
just like the Giants are going to beat
out Pittsburg and the other clubs—
on speed. There is nothing to It - the
day has come when the main thing
in baseball isgast base running. That's
what tlcGraw and myself have.”
BIG LEAGUE TEAMS WOULD
ABANDON TRAINING TOURS
PRICE LIKELi TD
TOR SOUTHPAWS
IN THIS LEAGUE
j Similarly, tin* quickm
I man tii-lds the ball ai
what to do with it
True, this is achieved
stunt practice -practii
practise everywhere
the aid of a catching
the left hand: hovvevi
alter the fact that I
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in the streets.
glove worn on
. this does not
catching the
returning it to
1 immediately
rganized auto-
Probably Had Lead in Shoes.
For instance, I saw this following-
and not in a professional Natioi.i
League match, but in a match b*
tween two spare-time office teams i
a remop part ->f Canada. The Halt*
struck the ball to tin outfield, an
immediately ran to the first base
MOORE AND GRIFFITH TO
CLASH IN 12-ROUND GO
AKRON. O. Mnv 10. Pal Moore,
of Philadelphia, and Johnny Griffith,
local bov. have completed training for
their 12-round scrap here Monday
night. Griffith has fought some of
the toughest lightweights in the game
having recently bested Jack White,
the boy who holds victories over Har
ry Thomas.^Frankie Conley and Owen.
Moran.
SMITH OFFERS M'CARTY
$5,000 GUARANTEE TO BOX
SAX FRANCISCO. CAL. May 10.-
So anxious is Gunboat Smith. the
“white hoj>e destroyer” to meet Luth
er McCarty, that he to-da\ offered
to guarantee Met'art y $f*.OU0 if Mr-
<’artv will meet him. Smith claims
Met’arty has continually evaded
meeting him
THORPE MAY COME AROUND.
NEW YORK, May la. Coach Rob
inson. of the Giants, believes that:
Indian Jim Thorpe will amount to
something as a boxman in due time.
Robinson is showing the former Car.
’isle athlete how to throw the moist
that when
*unner,
ATHLETICS PRAISE CALVO.
| PHILADELPHIA. PA . May 10.—
! ! r.'niv R:iker. !ra Thomas and other
| members of the Athletics state that
|'Y'\ >. th** young Cuban with ('lark
Gnifith’s squad, looks like a mighty
, r 1 t. r uvi a promising young
player to them.
DETROIT. MICH., May 10— Man
ager Hughey Jennings of the Tigers
is not the only major league club
manager who favors the elimination
of the spring training exhibition
tour for a ball club.
Manager McGraw of the Giants,
Mack of the Athletics. Stovall of the
Browns, Dooin of the Philies. Evers
of the <"ubs. Birmingham of the
Naps and Stahl of the Red Sox, all
favor the establishing of a perma
nent training camp and abandonment
of the exhibition tour.
MORGAN MAY BEAT DUNDEE
OUT OF KILBANE MATCH
l.OS ANGELES. CAL.. May 10. -
Promoter Tom McCarey decided that
the public was not enthusiastic over
the prospect of a return Kilbane-
Dundee battle. He immediately be
gan planning for a battle between
Kilbane. who is featherweight
champion, and kiddie Morgan, who is
classed as the featherweight cham
pion of England. McCarey hopes to
get Morgan and Kilbane into the ring
for twenty round* about the middle of
July.
RIVERS VS. MURPHY.
NEW YORK, May 10. Only the
question of weight appears to stand
ia the wav of a ten-n>u#<i bout be
tween Harlem Tommy Murphy and
Joe Rivers here. Rivers wants to
weigh in at 133 pounds ringside, while
while Murphy is insisting on 133
pounds at six o’clock.
WELLS AND CARPENTIER SIGN.
PARIS. May 10.—Bombardier Wells
the English heavyweight, and George
Carpentier. the French champion,
yesterday signed articles for a twen
ty-round contest in this city on June
FLYNN TO BOX COFFEY.
NEW YORK May H». Jim Coffey,
the “Dublin giant" has been matched j
to meet Jim Flvnr. the Pueblo fire
man. in a ten-round bout here on
May 23.
By Percy H. Whiting.
L AST summer, late, when the At-
lahta team was Joy riding—and
by so doing bringing not joy,
but black .sorrow to the hearts of
Atlanta fans, the baseball association
announced that they had bought a
player—a Nebraska Indian—named
Schegg.
They knew he was a left-hander
and that Washington .had picked him
up from a team of roving Indians.
And that was ail they knew. #
In due time the player came.
His first task was to announce that
the “Schegg” stuff was all bunk, that
he wasn’t an Indian, that he was
merely a good Ohio southpaw.
Immediately he went in and dem
onstrated.
But because he had previously
been unheard of and becaifse he came
hr an Indian and then turned out to
be a Caucasian and especially be
cause the whole Cracker team of 1912
was so awful nobody took him seri
ously—even though he had won three
games out of four starts with the
w retched, crumbling Crackers of 1912.
Now Price, has outlasted the other
left-handers of the Cracker staff, still
holds his job and threatens to be
the bright southpawing star of 1913.
* * •
IT is wonderful how many of the
1 Crackers of 1913 came from
Ohio and Pennsylvania. Look them
over. Pennsylvania furnished Al-
perman, Musser, Wally Smith and
Welchonce. From Ohio came Bill
Smith, Agler, Bailey and Price.
And like 'most of the 1913 Crack
ers. Price was born in a tiny towm—
Leesville.
Now Leesville, despite a good name
and the prestige that naturally at
taches to any town that gave Gil
Price birth, has only 600 population
According to Price it just happens
to be there. It isn’t near any city,
hasn’t any Industries to speak of—
in fact, it hadn’t any claim to dis
tinction until Gilbert Price did the
burg the honor of being born there.
* * *
pRICE got the usual school educa-
1 tion and then started playing ball.
He doesn’t recall his first game or
much about his career until he
caught on with the Ashland, Ohio
Club, back iji 1907.
So good was Price’s showing with
Ashland that Walter East, the old
Southern League infielder, then man
ager of the Akron (Ohio) club, went
after him and landed him.
For three years Price did great
work w ith Akron. The next season
he put in part of his time with Ak
ron and part with the Flint team, of
the Southern Michigan League. In
1911. Price was with Danville. Ill.,
and LaCrosse, \\ is. Last year he
started the season a hold-out and be
cause he could not come to ti-rfns he
passed up organized baseball and
started with the Nebraska Indians.
Prices great work with the In
dians brought him to the attention
of ('lark Griffith, who grabbed him
for the .Senators and later shipped
him to Atlanta.
• • •
/"ML Price has pitched some amnz-
^ ing ball in his day, but the heft
game of all in his career was hurled
before he went into professional
baseball. He was playing with a
picked team at Dennison. Ohio, and
he took part in a 16-inning 0-to-0
tie game. In th.- sixteen innings he
allowed only four hits.
Price's best game since he has been
playing professional ball was with
Mansfield against Lima. In this
contest he allowed only a single swat
—a home run. Usually when a man
pitches one-hit ball he is beaten on
that one hit. But Price didn't have
’that sort of luck. His club won
that game. 8 to 1.
* * *
THK future of Price is a matter of
A interest to Atlanta fans. Gil ad
mits to being ”4 years old—which
puts him in the no-chH-ken class
among baseball players; and he has
started his seventh year in baseball.
I low eve:, his improvement has been
steady and seems to be continuing.
If he keeps going at the rate he is
now, he call hardly escape a big
league try-out next spring.
Price is a glutton for work. He
gets sore -mentally and physically-
if a manager does not work him a
couple of times a week.
Brice fields his position handily,
has been known to hit in the pinches
and can lay down n bunt and heat it
over to first just a shade better than
any other man on the Cracker club.
When they call on Gilbert for a bunt
you can bet your money he will not
pop one into the air and that after
he lays it down he will waste no
time in getting over to first.
* * *
ALL it-al! Prio - is considerable of
** a p.tcher. No hurler ever came
to Atlanta with less blowing of
trumpets and not one ever proved a
more pleasant surprise.
FROM
RINGSIDE
AND
BLEACHERS
McCarty a Card Despite Roasting
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Heavyweight Has Many Offers
By Ri^ht Cross.
A SONG OF THE SAIL.
Let the landsman dig the lands
man's dirt
To conquer the ocean hoar;
Ere T drive mg keel with steam
and steel
I'll bide on the landsman's shore.
* #
The pine that clung to the thun
dering marge.
The hemp that the waters grew—
We want but these to brave the
seas,
And scoff at the kicking screw.
With these we latfgh at the chmd-
wraek grey
And the wild gale's angry yell.
And the spindrift's sting and the
heave and swing
Of the old Atlantic swell.
11 ith these—and the fear-free
heart of youth.
The heart that grows never old.
While ire dare the course of the
fierce White Horse
To tlic Land of the Sunset Gold!
But I can’t deny there are draw
backs. too.
That every true sailin' meets,
Wh(im the breeze dies down and
you cuss and frown
Borne ump-stecn miles from the
cats.
* * •
BASEBALL IS MAKING A HIT
in Paris, where “la Savate” is also
popular. It is to be hoped that the
French will not endeavor to com
bine the two sports as so many of
our young infielders insist is
proper.
• * •
“IF THE SPORT OF KINGS”
could be confined to kings there
would be no objection to It. A
king bucks the bookie with un
earned money and can afford to
lose.
• * *
SIC TRANSIT THE BUSHER.
(Spring Mcouting with. “Pop"
Wordsworth.)
Young Jimmy Bone was over-large.
But hollow in the bean.
And never guilty of the charge
Of rapid thought. / ween.
One day he stole—bags full, you
know—
That, teas the end of Jim.
Fete heard his boss' words, but oh.
The difference to him!
* * *
DIRECTORS OF THE RACE-
track are going to co-operate with
the New York authorities to elim
inate gambling." Well, why not
Aren't the directors of the Gotham
Police ^Department “co-operating
with the District Attorney” to
eliminate graft?
* • •
DID YOU EVER WATCH A
couple of wrestlers co-operate to
eliminate wrestling?
* * *
“ALONE, BUT WITH UNBATED
zeal.
The Lookouts step on banana peel.”
GRIFFITH RELEASES TWO.
WASHINGTON. May 10.—Catcher
Jack Eagan and Pitcher Bob Austin
have been handed the customary ten
days’ notice by Manager Griffith to
look around the minor leagues for a
job.
Bv Ed W. Smith.
C hicago, ill., May io.—while
all the sport critics of the
East have been putting that
white champion, Luther McCarty, on
the grill and roasting him to a finish
in the last few days or ever sinec he
failed to make much of an impres
sion on Frank Moran, the Pittsbucg
heavyweight, the Nebraska man con
tinues on his merry way, unmindful
of it all. As long.as the promoters
continue to want McCarty’s services
for ring battles and the show end of
the game, Luther is content to take
the short end of it from the critics
and go along about his business just
the same as if they were tossing bou
quets at him. The big fellow has
a thick skin.
Fight fans around the Middle West
and on the Pacific Coast have long
since ceased to regard the Eastern
opinion as one to string along with
or to make many wagers on. Out
here the general feeling prevails that
New r York never could “see" very
much that came out of the West in
an athletic line, and the critics there
have been compelled so often to eat
their.own words that it has become:
something of a joke. Occasionally
they pick out real live ones to laud
and only recently showered all sorts
of encomiums on Mike Gibbons and
Packey McFarland. They couldn’t
help boosting in either case.
New York Roasted Jeffries.
It is well remembered that the first
time that Jim Jeffries showed in New
York he was roasted out of the city.
The critics couldn’t find enough
harsh things to say about him. He
wasn’t exactly a champion at the
time, but several good judges in the
West saw in him the right sort of
material, and the fact that escaped
the observation of the wise men of
the East made no difference to the
Western men, whd proceeded to mold
Jeffries into one of the greatest fight
ing machines the ring ever saw.
Ad Wolgast always was a joke
with the Eastern men and they
laughed him to scorn when he showed
there. Yet out on the Pacific Coast,
where they know a real champion
when they see one. Wolgast always
was regarded as one of the greatest
of the lightweights. Wolgast proved
it more than once, too, over the real
championship route. So Luther Mc
Carty needn't feel so terribly bad
about it. and incidentally, lie doesn’t.
Luther to Meet Fulton.
McCarty and his manager, Billy
McCarney, whose unpopularity with
certain promoters and press agents in
New York may account for some of
the roasts the fighter has been get
ting. passed through here recently on
their way to Kansas City, where they
are showing for four days. They will
be in Omaha on the 8th. and after
that they will journey to Saskatoon,
where Luther will take on a big fel
low named Fred Fulton in a ten-
roufld encounter. From there they
will go to Calgary, where Tommy
Burns has Luther hooked up with
Arthur Pclkey, the New’ England
heavyweight. , '
The four weeks following that will
be spent on the Pacific Coast in a
tour of the larger cities of that sec
tions Nothing further has been book- *
ed for the big- fellow, but it is a cer
tainty that he will get on at one of
the fight arenas there with the win
ner of the Willard-Smi;h fight, the
date to be July 4. McCarney is so
confident of getting a big mfetch for
the national holiday that he thinks it
is an absolute cinch. Billy decline." to
express an opinion regarding the out
come of‘ the meeting between Willard /
and Smith other than to say that
Willard will have to be absolutely at
his best to stick the twenty rounds
with the Gunboat.
Smith Is Tough.
McCarney and McCarjty know all
about Smith and believe he is one of
the toughest of them all Should he
defeat Willard they would welcome a
meeting with him. because it will be
a certainty then that he will be a big
card out on the coast and that he and
McCarty would then draw a bumper
house. Reports that sift here from
the Pacific Coast indicate that Wil
lard ic 'training well for the Smith
fight the middle of the month and
that he will be in the best of shape.
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