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By “Bud” Fisher
Big Thriller Slated for Motor
Bugs at Prince’s Saucer on
Tuesday Night.
A HALF-HOUR twm race 1* to be
the big feature at th* Motor
drome to-morrow night, and
for the really Jammy excitement this
should top anything that has been
staged yet at Jack Prince’* eaucer.
Five teams will be In the long
grind. And what a wrangle the ten
riders had trying to get matched up!
Finally Morty Graves suggested that
the partners be found by a drawing.
Manager Noon Hudson put all the
numbers in his new straw lid and the
result was:
Graves and McNeil, Schwartz and
Lockner, Shields and Richards. Lu
ther and Lewis, Renel and Glenn.
These teams appear to be very
evenly matched. Graves and McNeil
will probably rule favorites, wi»h
Richards and Shields second choice.
No rider will be allowed to remain
on the track over twenty successive
minutes. But each rider can call for
his partner as often as he desires.
The partners who are not racing will
remain In front of the paddock. The
partner riding must drop off the track
and touch his teammate on the shoul
der before the latter can take up the
racing.
It sure will be a thrilling event ff
all goes well.
The Motordrome Sweepstakes is
the second feature event. All the
riders will start, five in each qualify
ing heat. The qualifying heats will
he over a one-mile course, while th^
final will be two miles
Harry Glenn, who defeated j
Schwartz the other night, will meet j
Luther in a match race. It will be
the two best heats in three over a
two-mile circuit. Glenn is a local boy
end he will be backed heavily to
down his worthy opponent.
• • •
T7OLLOWTNO is the complete card
* for Tuesday night:
First Event.
First heat Motordrome Sweep-
stakes (One mile to qualify and two-
mile final.) Starters—Graves. Shields,
Richards, Renel. Lewis.
Second Event.
First heat of a match race between
Glenn and Luther. (Race to be tw'o
best heats in three.) Distance—two,
miles.
Third Event.
Second heat of Motordrome Sweep- |
stakes. Starters—Schwartz, Lockner.
Luther. McNeil, Glenn.
Fourth Event.
Second heat of match race between
Glenn and Luther.
Fifth Event.
Final heat of Motordrome Sweep-
stakes. (Winners of first and second
heats and second man in fastest heat
to start.)
Sixth Event.
Third heat of match race between
Glenn and Luther, if necessary.
Seventh Event.
Half-hour team race. Teams—
Graves and McNeil; Schwartz and
Lockner; Shields and Richards; Lu
ther and Lewis; Renel and Glenn.
(No rider can remain on track over
twenty consecutive minutes.)
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May Sign Articles
LOS ANGELES. July 28.—Eager to
nail down Ad Wolgast to his offer—a
$25,000 side bet for a return match—
Willie Ritchie to-day is making a des
perate effort to get the former title-
holder to meet him to-day and sign ar
ticles. On Saturday, Wolgast posted
with James J Jeffries $1,000, part of a
$25,000 side bet, in a twenty-round title
contest with Ritchie Wolgast specified
that half is to go that he will from the
title-holder in twenty rounds, the other
half that he knocks out, stop or force
Ritchie to uit inside of the limit.
Ritchie lost no time in accepting the
offer when he learned that there was
seriousness to Ad's movements, and he
asked Jeffries to affect a meeting be
tween he and Ad for this afternoon In I
the hope that articles might be signed
Ritchie leaves here for ‘rlsco Wednes I
day afternoon and he would like to close
the match before starting Should the
pair come together they will clash either
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LOVING CUP FOR JOHNSON:
FANS CONTRIBUTE $1,000
WASHINGTON. July 38 — Washington
baseball fans have contributed $1,000 to
fill a loving cup of silver, already paid
for by popular subscription, which will
be presented to Walter Johnson, the Na
tionals' slab artist, on August 21. when
he completes six years in a Washington
JEFF SMITH GETS PARIS
BOUT WITH CARPENTIER
NEW YORK. July 28r-<5eorge S.
Carpentler, the English light heavy
weight champion of France, and
Jeff Smith, of Bayonne. N. J..
have been matched to meet in a 20-
round bout at the Cirque d$ Paris
on October 20 Smith will leave for
Paris early In September.
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S AN FRANCISCO. July 28.—Ar
thur Pelky, the new white
heavyweight champion, pos
sesses most of the facial characteris
tics of the professional pugilist, but
it can scarcely be said that he has h
fighting eye
Now; do not misunderstand me.
There is nothing in Pelky s look to
suggest that he is lacking in courage,
but, sizing him up as he sat in my
den yesterday. 1 could not help think
ing how different he was from other
brand-new champion.-' I had known.
In most cases the eye of a freshly
fledged champ glints with a mixture
of pride and defiance. If looks could
be construed into words the look
to which I refer would read, "I can
Hck anything that walks in two
shoe*.”
Pel ley's eyes are large and dark-
the evem of a man who broods To
me it almost seemed as if the shadow
of that fearful experience he had in
the ring at Calgary was still upon
him. The suspicion was confirmed
by his evident reluctance to talk
about the recent past and his palpable
inclination to talk about ringmen
other than himself. To the majority
of champions the recital of how they
won their spurs gives unbounded
pleasure To Pelky the recollection
brings a shudder
• • •
P ELKY Is tall, squarely built and
has a strong 1avx and large, firm
ly-kn1t hands He is big enough
to tackle anything in human shape.
He is here with Tommy Burns, once
world's champion In his own right
but now fallen into flesh and quite
content to be known as a connois
seur.
Tommy is Pelkv’s manager, and the
manner in which Burns discovered
that Pelky was worth managing was
not the least interesting thing he had
to tell. Pelky went to Calgary to box
six rounds with Burns. While the
affair was in progress the beauties of
Pelk^s character as a fighter unfold
ed to Tommy. At the end of the bout
Tommy was all in, and an hour later
Tommy was Pelky's manager.
“We are In no hurry to make
matchee,” said Burns “We have
twelve weeks* w r ork In the theaters,
boginning at Panrages next week,
and In the meantime the Gunboat
Smlth-Jim Flynn match will be de
cided and the winner will stand forth
as a challenger of Pelky. If Smith
wins and I think he will ”
“Pardon me," said Pelky in a soft-
voiced way. “I think Flynn will de
feat Smith.”
“Weii, anyway, you’ll be ready to
sign with the winner,” resumed Tom
my.
“And if it is Smith you’ll like it
all the better You have alw-ays want
ed to box him, haven’t you?”
Pelky nodded his approval.
• • •
I>URNS and Pelky were reminded
that Sam Langford, the negro
pugilist, is back from Australia., and
were asked how overtures for a Pel
ky-Langford match would be regard-
ini.
“I want It to be understood that
I w ill never box a colored man," said
Pelkv “Some time ago w’hen the
promoters of the country decided to
discourage the making of mixed
matches and contests were arranged
, to decide who was the white heavy
weight champion, I thought it one of
the besrt moves ever made in pugilism.
I am still of that w’ay of thinking. I
caJl myself the white champion, and
feel that I have every right to do
so. but if the public took the stand
that 1 ought to accept matches with
negroes. I'd be willing to drop out of
the game entirely.”
• • •
THINK he's right,” wild Burns
1 "Of course I fought a negro
when I met Jack Johnson, but if I
had my time to go over again he
w'ould wait a long time for a match.
To tell the truth, I never wanted to
fight Johnson. I was offered big
money by the National Club of Lon
don. and I turned it down. When I
w r ent to Australia and the question
came up again. I said that I wauted
every cent of $30,000 before I'd go
into the ring wdth Johnson. It was a
lot of money, but McIntosh produced
it. and then there was no getting out
of it, far as I was concerned.
“And talking of public opinion In
such matters. I have lived to learn
that a fighter should not lay too much
stress upon public opinion. It shifts
and veers too much. Before I boxed
Johnson I used to receive letters
taunting me wdth being afraid to
meet the negro. After 1 w^ent against
him and lost mv title the letters still
came in. But their tone had chang
ed. I was reviled for having given
a negro a chance at the champion
ship.”
• • •
\1THEJN matchmaking is in order,
it is just possible that a trip
to Australia will be included In the
Burns-Pelky Itinerary. In response to
a messago from out yonder, Burns
has cabled that Pelky will be willing
to take the Journey and engage In a
series of three fights.
Tommy has named as possible op
ponents for Pelky Jim Flynn. Jess
Willard, Jim Coffey, A1 Palzer and
Gunboat SfnllK
Sports and Such
B. JOHNSON’S RAGE.
(In cme week.)
FIRST DAY.
r BE Magnate tore hie seldom
hair
And roared in fearsome rage:
“What's thist Ye gods; What this
I lamp upon the sporting pagef
Jake Stahl is canned—mg own
pick—Jake!
Oh. gimme room to evss!
I’ll show those Boston guys they
can’t
Make us ridiculous
THIRD DAY.
The Magnate speeded to the West—
The wild news speeded, too;
In CUweUind he was cornered by
Reporters quite a few.
"Ahem!" he said. "About Jake
Stahl—
/ do not care to state
My full conclusions at this time—
I must investigate."
SEVENTH DAY.
At last he makes his lakeside home;
And Fandom stands agog
T" ‘-"till the mighty antiwar put
Those ingrates on the hog!
And now the crushing sentence
comes—
W4fA quite some ’pshaw" and
"pish"—
“In this I can not interfere.
E’en if I had the wish!"
• * •
JIM FLYNN says without a smile
that he is “going to train” for his
fight with Gunboat Smith.
* • *
THERE IS TALK OF PRE-
*erv1ngr Hans Wagner's uniform in
a Pittsburg museum. Posterity's
gtasp of our national game would
be safe If added to this were Ty
Cobb's spikes, McGraw's vocabu
lary and the skull of the peanut
butcher. Any fan will be glad to
contribute the latter.
• • •
JADED.
Bow can I get excited
When the "Standing of the Clubs"
Shows the Giants and Athletics—
And an awful flock of dubs!
• * •
BEFORE FRANK CHANCE
buys any more ball players it
might be well to fire the club
trainer and hire & consulting
chiropodist.
• • •
EVERS HAS BENCHED BRES-
nahan for disobedience, the only
wonder being that in that combi
nation someone was not benched
or blTTed long a&cfe.
M ORDECAI BROWN is not
through. In fact, it looks a?
if Manager Joe Tinker, of the
Reds, said very true words when in
the spring he claimed that the three-
fingered wonder still had a lot of
good baseball left in him. True.
Brown is not hurling the kind of ba'J
he did several seasons ago. but just
the same. Johnny Evers could use
him at present, and to good advan
tage.
After Brown had helped the Cubs
to four pennants and two world’s
championship*, his arm went to the
bad in 1912. When the off season
came. C. Webb Murphy thought he
would not need the three-fingered
boy any more, and shipped him to
the minors.
But Joe Tinker, new manager of
the Reds, thought different. Joe was
with "Brownie” a long time, and when
he was shipped to the A. A., he and
Garry Herrmann arranged a deal
whereby Miner would come back to
the National league. And it looks
as if they made no error in securing
Brown.
Beats Old Mates Twice.
Maybe now C. Webb Murphy and
Johnny Evera see they made a big
mistake in releasing the former star
of the Cubs. Recently when the Reds
were playing the Bruins, the three
fingered hurler took a pair of games
from Johnny Evers' gang, one of them
being a shutout, in which only six
base knocks were made off him.
When Tinker secured Brown, it
was for the simple reason to use
him as a coach for his young mound-
men. He was carried until Mav 1
before he made his appearance on the
firing line. Since the hot weather
arrived, though, Brown's ^ood right
arm seems to be as good as ever, and
he Is taking his regular turn on the
mound for his club
Has Good Record.
Although Brown is not winning as
regular or working quite as often as
he did a few years back, he has a
record which is far better than the
one owned by his club.
Miner has won seven games and
lost six thia campaign. That’s a per
centage of .638. The Reds own a
mark of .380. so It can be seen that
Brownie la 168 points ahead of his
team.
So far this season Brown has ap
peared In 22 games, being used as a
relief hurler most of the time. In
♦heee 22 contests lie has worked 95
Inning a, _ , _
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
Ty Cobb and Joe Jackson are run
ning neck-and-neck for the slugging
honors in the American League The
Georgia Peach has closed up the gap
on the Shoeless One, and from now on
it will be a battle to the finish.
* * ^
It looks as if Rube Marouard is going
to try to beat his record of nineteen
straight games won, made last season.
The $11,000 beauty annexed his ninth
straight yesterday and is pitching in
better from than he was a year ago
* * *
In a sea of mud, the Giants and St
Louis battled for seven innings, with the
Giantg on the long side of the score
Then the deluge came and the game w r as
called. The second part of the double-
header also had to be called off
• • •
The Dodgers are trying hard to get
back In the first division They shoved
the Reds back twice yesterday and a
victory to-day, writh a defeat for the
Pirates, will put the teams on even
terms at the foot of the leading four.
w * m
Bert Garden, of the Roanoke club, es
tablished a Virginia League record when
he pitched two Shut-out games against
Newport News. He Is the first pitcher
in the league to start and finish two
full gamea
• • •
The Cotton States League pennant
race haul been won by Jackson. The de
ciding of a number of protested games
against Pensacola did not beat that team
out of the pennant, as the club had the
bunting cinched.
• * •
Catcher Agnew, of the St. Louis' Amer
icans, Is rapidly Improving from the
effects of being hit by a pitched ball
during one of the Washington games
He will be out of the game, however,
for several weeks.
• • •
Hess’ wildness and opportune hitting
by the Cub9 gave them a close victory
over tne Braves. Zimmerman returned
to the game for the first time since his
ankle was injured and displayed his
old-time speed and hitting powers.
• • •
A report is in circulation here that
Joe Tinker, manager of the Reds, will
5 1ve up his position at shortstop and
lrect the fortunes of the club from
tt*e bench.
Cross-Baldwin Battle To-morrow
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Matty Has Great Ring Record
MAGNATE REFUSES TO OBEY
COMMISSION'S RULING
LOS ANGELES. CAL., July ?J.—
Henry Berry, president of the Los
Angeles baseball club of the Coast
League, aald to-day he would not obey
the baseball law which forbida a class
AA team to carry more than twenty
players in the middle of the season.
"if the National Commission de-
olded that I should pay a fine I will
not do It,” said Berry.
Charles Arbogast, a catcher, Is ex
pected to Join the Los Angeles team
to-morrow This would make 21
players. Berry declared to-day he
would not release any of the old men
for the reason that three of his play
ers were In the hospital.
By Harry Gilmore, Jr.
I OS ANGELES. CAL.. July 28.—
Next in line on the Vernon fistic
slate is the twenty-round en
gagement to-morrow right between
Matty Baldwin, of Boston, and Leach
Cross, of New York City. What bet
ter fistic offering could be asked, bar
ring an immediate championship en
counter with Willie Ritchie as one of
the principals, than those two crack
Eastern lightweights?
Cross and Baldwin have long since
been bitter rivals, and after repeated
efforts on th-e part of Eastern pro
moters to bring them together with
out avail, they will now settle the
old score with twenty round* in which
to bring about a result which should
be decisive. Cro6* has forever found
the Bostonian a thorn in his side, and
carefully analyzing their respective
records it seems he might well have
found him a formidable foe.
* • •
DAIJ>WIN has had In excess of 160
^ fights in the eleven years in
which he has been in the ring, and
has met the best of the lightweights
of recent years, barring the old war
rior, Bat Nelson. Baldwin won and
lost a 12-round decision to Owen Mo
ran In January and February, re
spectively, of 1910, when Moran was
at his best. He had previously drawn
in limited bouts with Tommy Murphy
and Abe Attell in New York City,
when the foxy Abe and the Harlem
scrapper were at the zenith of their
careers. He lost to Cross on a foi^.
in eight rounds, May 13, 1910, In New
York City, when, 1t is claimed, he had
Cross beaten and practically out.
Baldwin visited the coaat Just two
years ago and took Freddie Welsh
for twenty rounds at San Francisco.
June 28, losing the decision after
geing the limit. Only two months
later he was returned a winner In
the twentieth round over the now
present champion, Willie Ritchie. In
April of 1911 he met Cross for ten
rounds in New York, and although
a no-decision affair, the pre«s award
ed Baldwin the verdict. Baldwin has
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since drawn with Joe Mandot, a.nd la
credited with a fairly even ten rounds
just recently with Jax:k Britton, while
best of all. his last engagement, a
decisive win over Young Shugrue In
New York, speaks his praises. Shu
grue took a decision from Cross some
months before the latter came West
for the Anderson engagement, so on
the dope the Boston boy figures very
strongly against his Leaches.
* * *
ATTY has completed training for
the bout, and shows a confl-*
dence that inspires pome of the Cross
adherents to believe that there is in
deed a doubtful chance for their en*
try; and. from present indications,
the getting price will be a pretty even
thing.
”1 know Croats and hia fighting
style about as w^efl as any one of ths
fighters who have met him,” said
Baldwin In discussing the match. "Hs
knows that I have little fear of any,
of the wallops that he carries, and
when it comes to the rough stuff that
is where I have his number, and he
knows it. When I took him on In
New York I had him bad, and would
have finished him had it been a long
er bout. With twenty rounds to go.
I ajn satisfied that I can land a de
cisive victory, and then I want the
chance that I have hope>d for to clash
with Ritchie for the championship.’’
SWEENEY WILL GET $50
FOR LONG HIT SATURDAY
NEW YORK, July 18—Ed Sweeney,
the big catcher of the Yankees, who
had been out of the game on account
of Injun', won J50 Saturday by hitting
the "bull” sign In right field with a
fairly batted fly ball. This is the firm
time the feat has been accomplished
since the new Brush stadium was built.
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