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I > 4 8 D TTEAltST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, CA„ SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 1913. Sunday Am lerlcar S] porting Pages Lead AH Others COMING BACK WITH THE SAME OLD ACT :: :: :: New, s „v.c.. « By Tad AMD THev opew • N VOf? K m October. AHE GOING ON Oan McKetrick Secures Bouts for Jeannette, Moran, Williams, Dunn and Ahearn. N EW YORK. Aug. 23.- 1 —Dan Me- Ketriok. the dapper little fight manager, is going to make an other trip to Europe. He has been across the big pond so often that he forgets the number of times. On his next Journey to the other side he’ll take with him the largest string of fighters that any manager ever pilot ed to a foreign country. McKetrick has Just received a let ter from Theodore Vienne, naming his terms for the appearance abroad of five American fighters, and Mc Ketrick lost no time in hustling to the cable office and wiring his acceptance. The boxers that little Dan will take abroad are Jo© Jeannette, Frank Moran, both heavyweights; Harney Williams, a middleweight; Young Ahearn, a welterweight, and Mickey Dunn, a bantam. This party will start for Paris the latter part of next month. Most of the battles that will be arranged for them will be held In the Cirque de Paris, the big club of the French cap ital. Two of the boxers named above- Williams and Ahearn—are proteges of Dan Morgan’s, but as Vienne wanted them. Moran agreed to loan them to McKetrick, who is his side partner. Williams has been promised three fights, the first of which will take place within fifteen days of his ar rival. • • • M ORAN will first get a slam at the best of the French and English heavies, after which h e will be pitted against the British heavyweight champion. Bombardier Wells. Moran is confident that he’ll again make good abroad. He was over there once before and made an awful hit He knocked out Tom Cowier and Fred Storback, both of whom have tacked K. O ’* or the Boer, George Rodel. and he also put away Fred Drummond and Charlie Wilson. • • • J EANNETTE has been promised two matches, both of which will take place within five weeks of his arrival tie is likely to get the winner of the bout between Georges Carpentier and A1 Palzer, and also he may be given a chance at Jack Johnson. Young Ahearn. who walk born on British soil. will be matched with Johnny Summers, holder of the wel terweight title, for the Lord Lonsdale belt. He will also encounter the French welterweight champion, and If he wins from both of these boxers he’ll return to the United States and will be ready to fight for the world's championship. Critic Upholds Griffin’s Verdict +•+ +•+ +•+ 4-»+ +•+ +•+ McAllister Lucky to Get Draw By W. AY. Naughton. S AN*FRANCISCO, Auk. 23.—In the ordinary course of things, the Sailor Petroskey-Bob McAllister bout would have been dropped as a subject of discussion by this time. It was in no sense a championship af fair. It was devoid of knockdowns or sensational incidents, and to be frank about It, it earned no more right to live in merifory than any one of the hundreds of commonplace events that are forgotten 24 hours after they occur. The claims of any unfair ruling on the part of McAllister's friends are likely to keep the contest alive as a theme until the men again get to gether It is one of these cases in which the alleged miscarriage of Jus tice looms up as a greater wrong wtth each day that ^passes. In the course of a few months—until the return match intervenes—McAllister sympathizers will, begin to regard Referee Jim Griffin’s verdict as one of th*» foulest decisions ever given in a ring. • • * I T all comes of having too many friends. McAllister’s cronies were semi-hysterical about his promise of future greatness prior to the tussle, and the fall—when he failed to win— was all the greater. If ever a man received every iota of credit that was coming to him. McAllister did when Griffin divided the honors between him and Sailor Petroskev. The trouble with McAllister is that his blows are too light to imbue an opponent with a proi>er degree of re spect. True, so far as speed and de livery were concerned, he landed thr^e punches, maybe, to Petroskey’s one, but what use were they? In latter day boxing cleverness only counts when it accomplishes something, and the McAllister Clever ness on that particular occasion com pares to gold-bearing rock that shows the color and nothing more. This may be putting it a little strong. There were odd punches from Bob that jarred the sailor a bit and even raised lumps, but 1 am re ferring to the majority of leads and his counters and. goodness knows, he led and countered to such an extent that it was hard to keep track of the times he connected. And his average punch was little heavier than a fly kick. * • • P ETROSKEY caught on early in the game, and right here I would like to hark back to another contest I saw Petroskey engaged In. When he boxed Frank Klaus he sampled I one of the Pittsburger’s rfp-tearing uppercuts while the clang of the start’- | ing gong was still in his ears. It ! warned Win there was trouble ahead land he acted accordingly. He covered up and, if memory serves, he re- I malned covered up the greater part i of the twenty rounds. It was very different in the affair with McAllister. The sailor, after taking a few straight, lefts and short rights, discovered that Bob’s stabs and raps did not carry an ounce of weight. The sailor grinned time and again when Bob’s gloves plumped be tween his eyes and inaugurated a policy of boring in which he main tained during the entire mateh. * * * J-JOWEVER, the bulk of McAllister’s friends felt about it, I know that there were several of them near where I sat who were exasperated over the small degree of force that McAllis ter injected into his deliveries. They thought, as I thought, that he was sacrificing everything to a desire to score frequently. Three punches to the sailor’s one, forsooth, but If he had dropped two of the three and put some driving power into the remaining one he might have removed the sailor’s dis dainful smile and piled up material, credits that would have stood him in need at the judging time. But no. there he stood sending home clips and raps without drawing either el bow’ back an inch to accentuate ihe impact. Cunning little punches of that kind might tell In an old-time blackened* glove contest, but. now aday^. when ruggedness counts for so much In a Queensburv tilt, a boxer must not only be able to hit, but hit hard. • o • \17HEN Petroskey smashed McAl- lister in the fifteenth round it looked to me as though the tide had turned in the sailor’s favor. Nor was there anything that happened between that and the twentieth round to lead me to think that McAllister had re gained the lead. As a matter of fact, I felt sorry for the local lad, with his distorted mouth and his deathly pale face, and while, as a general thing, I do not allow my feelings to sway me when watching a glove contest. I was “pulling” for Master Bob to escape the distress and ignominy of being knocked out. He escaped, and he earned the right to share n draw decision. More than that he did not achieve, and I can not help but think that the opinion that he got lens than he deserved is more the outcome of the club spirit than a careful disconnected review of what really happened. • • • T T may be that there will be an- * other bout. Some of McAllister’s nearest friends are urging him to withdraw from fighting for a year, believing that he will store up suf ficient vitality during a year’s rest to enable him to make more of a mark when he returns to the ring. The suggested move may bit 4 a good one If McAllister follows the advice tendered. His Mhowing since he be came a professional seems to indi cate that a 'ack of ruggedness is his 1 greatest draw back. WATER Fill TIE Says Floods in Early Spring Shoved Champs of World Out of Running. B OSTON, Aug. 23.—Winning a pennant as well as the world’s championship in 1912 and iumb- Ilns down Into the second division in 1913 is the unexpected reversal of form shown by the Boston Red Sox. And in taking this drop the cham pions lire establishing a record for A. L. pennant winners. Never before in the history of the young major league has a dag owner of one season failed to come back as high as Ihe first division the next. Chicago won In 1900 and 1901, and was fourth in 1902; the Athletics won in 1902, and came in second In 1903; Boston won in 1903 ad 1904 and fin ished fourth in 1906; the Athletics won In 1906 and were fourth in 1906; the White Sox won In 1906 and were third In 1907; the Tigers won in 1907, 1908 and 1909, and were third in 1910; the Athletics won In 1910 and 1911 and were third in 1912. And here are the Boston Red Sox fifth In 1913 when they became base ball champions In 1912. Now what has caused this tremendous slump? It has been figured that the in jury to Joe Wood and many other stars kept the Red Sox out of the current championship battling: also the trouble between manager and magnate. In fact, ft dozen more ex cuses have been ottered, but Robert B. McRoy, secretary of the Red Sox, comes out with a new alibi. According to McRoy. the spring training trip, more than anything else, was responsible for the Red Sox losing out this year. "The bovs got ready too soon." ex plains McRoy. "Down in Hot Springs right after the series with the Pitts burg Pirates the team was In condi tion to play major league ball They started out too early, and instead of going through the training stunts gradually were primed bv April 1. "The series wtth Pittsburg actually made them ready, but after that came the series of floods around the coun try, which had the athletes housed In side and kept them off the ball field. "All the work and practice In Hot Springs was wasted, owing to the flood. With no daily practice, stiff arms, stiff legs and other aliments, which arrived rapidly, were respon sible for the spring training being a total loss. "Then, when April ID did arrive, the boys were not In condition. After playing for a month we won but 10 out of the first 26 games. The Ath letics. primed right to the minute, jumped out in first, and on May 14, while we had a 385 percentage! the Athletics had won 17 and lost 5." Need Winner’s and Loser’s End +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ Connie Mack Says Philadelphia Recruit Is Greatest Young Re ceiver He Ever Saw. P hiladelphia, pa„ Aug. 23.— Connie Mack, famous leader of the Athletics, says that Catcher Walter Schang* is the best young receiver that has broken into the big ring in many a moon. Connie Mack was once a catcher himself—not a great catcher, for he was handicapped by his peculiar build—but he is a good judge of re ceivers. Consequently, when Ma^k whispers that Schang is the best catcher he ever saw, baseball fans are ready to buy ringside seats and take a look at Mr. Schang. Schang Is only 22 years of age. This is his second year as a pro fessional. Born and raised in Wales Center, a small harr’et near Buffalo, he caught three years for Elbert Hubbard’s East Aurora club. In 1911 he joined the Pullmans, a famous semi-pro club that holds forth In Buffalo. His work with that club was such as to cause Buffalo fans to urge George Stallings, then man aging the Buffalo club, to give the youngster a trial. Stallings rather half-heartedly agreed. He had heard town boys touted before, but he needed some one to help work out the pitchers down in Georgia, so he took the youngster along. Schang showed enough on the training trir> to warrant his reten tion. but not until Julv did Stallings begin to give him a chance in ths International League games. It was not long before the tip went around the bir leagues that Buffalo had a most promising young catcher. Scouts began to tell the porters to “put them ofT at Buffalo.” Within a few weeks Stallings was In receipt of a few of fer©. He turned them down, hoping to save the catcher over for the 1913 season. That caused thirteen of the sixteen big league clubs to put in drafts for the phenom. Lucky Connie Mack—he drew the man they all wante This Is how it happens that Schang Is the first catcher of the Athletics to-dav, hav ing relegated Ira Thomas to the task of warming up the pitchers Schang is as good a thrower as there is in the country. He is a timely hatter. If you don’t believe It, ask the Nap pitchers He is as fast as the average infleldcr. He can down to first faster than most of the Naps and can amble around to third with the speed of a Jackson or a Collins. He is death on foul files, handles any kind of de livery with skill and knows what to do with the ball when opposing play ers are running ’’•lid on the bases. He is the Ideal catcher. Three© Start Uncovered. This boost of Schang emphasizes the fact that the 1913 season will go down In history as a memorable one because of the uncovering of threa star catchers In Schang, Schalk and Agnew. and the development of Steve O'Neil, of the Naps and Wingo, if the Cardinals. McKee, of Detroit, is another who can almost be classed alongside of the five mentioned, but he is not quite their equal, although it must be admitted he shows great promise. Ranking Schang flrs\, Schalk O’Neil and Acnew look to b** abtu even up. with Schalk and Ag new having the edge on the Cleve lander in batting. Schalk is also a fast runner. Beaten Men Quit Too Easily By W. \V. Naughton. S AN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23.—The high cost of fighting continues to be a bone of discontent among the promoter© out here on the coast, and If the men who handle Queensberry enterprises will stand by their guns as they threaten to do, the scale of prices will be revised before the year is out. There have been muttering? for a long time, but it wan the Rltchie- Rlvers contest that precipitated the present insurrection among the matchmakers. That affair drew $29.- 000. and out of this Ritchie received $18,000 and others $7,000. Promoter Graney did not have enough left to pay rent and running expenses. The men who conduct the four- round sho v© are also up In arms. At each one of these Friday night en tertainment© as many as eight or ten bout© are provided, yet some of the short-bout specialists have been commanding and receiving as much as $700 for each appearance. In conse quence there have been many losing ventures and quite a number of pro moter© have gone out of business. A discussion of the situation is not taking a hand, and numbers of writ ers are airing opinions to the effect that such conditions are causing the quality of ring sport© to deteriorate. It Is easier of course to suggest re forms than to inaugurate them, and that is why the promoters shrug their shoulders when asked what is to pre vent a return to the old order of things. Mr. Fight Fan—and Mr. Fight Fan is right—©ays there was more spirited boxing in the years when a set of articles called for a winner’s end and a loser’s end. It Is pointed out that under the present system of paying pugilist© fixed sums there is no Incentive to struggle on once he begins to see defeat staring him in the face "Don’t you think Joe Rivers would have taken more interest in his work and have shown more stomach for it had he not known that there was $7,000 waiting for him in the box of fice?” was a suggestive question ask ed after the Fourth of July bout. So as to bring about a new condition, the promoters are talking of standing to gether,. but whether they will do so or not is a mooted question. What they would like to do Is to establish a custom by which championship fights, which are naturally the high est priced pugilistic commodities, do not call for the paying over of more than 60 per cent of the gate receipts. * • • OUT how Is such an arrangement to be established, and what ar© the chances of Its bring lived up to? Even some of the promoters are asking this double-barreled question, and by the same token are answering it in such a way a© to make it ap pear that the situation is in a meas ure hopeless. One of the Queensberry entrepre neurs discussed the matter thus wise: “There are promoters and promoters, and a uniform scale would result in the most businesslike handler of glove contests securing all the attractions. The fighters them selves would go to the pro moter© who have the reputation of being the best money-getters—and | they would be sure to do business with them. This mean© that a fixed rate for championship fights will work to the detriment of promoters who are not as smart as their com peers. And what would be the result? Would a man who has paid for a high priced yearly license and who has a lease on his hands stand by and se? 4 h'© riv^l in business get awav with all the plums? Not on your life. He would approach the champion or the champion's manager with a side prop osition of some kind and the proposed uniform rate would go glimmering.” • * * «ANYHOW," said the same wise head, “you have the champions to reckon with before you can establish percentages again. The rank and file of the boxing brigade may be willing enough to conform to a scheme of that kind, but champions are differ ent. A champion is a queer animal. He feels that the world is against him, and I guess he is right. You know and I know that there is more joy in sportdom over one champion being humbled than there is over a hundred second-raters being knocked cold. The champion says to himself ‘they want to see me licked and they will have to pay dearly for the privilege. Maybe even then I’ll fool them, but I want my price in any case.” Then he names his figure and holds out for it. The public may rail at him and the pro moter© may tell him that they can not pay such a price and live, but he sticks and finally his terms are accepted. His stubbornness simply increases the craze for a sight of him in action and at the same time, I sup pose, adds to the prospects of seeing him flattened out. “You can see, therefore, that so far as the fighters’ end of it is concerned this thing of exorbitant prices is largely a one-man proposition. A champion stands alone and is master of the situation. It does not look a© if the promoters will get much relief from the rapacity of champions until the boxing game Is controlled by com missions in every place that the sport is conducted. Then If a champion does not conform to the official scale of prices he will be placed under the ban throughout the boxing belt. But I suppose the day is far distant when champion© will be made amenable to official control of such a widespread character.” • • • M EANWHILE the promoters are talking seriously of a committee of ways and means. Successive lean years have imbued them with the be lief that the time is approaching when they will have to stand shoulder to shoulder. Sullivan Made No Appointments, Says Secretary Mulvey Not Chosen as Assistant Director of Exposition Sports, Says Ferris. NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—In reply to the open letter In San Francisco yesterday by President John ElUott, of the Pacific Association of the Amateur Athletic Union, expressing resentment because of the reported appointment of Thomas Mulvey as assistant director-general of amateur athletics at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, announcement was made to night that Mulvey was not given the post but merely had been expected to confer with James E. Sullivan, director- general, in September relative to boxing at the exposition. The letter of Mr. Elliott announced that inasmuch as Mulvey had no stand ing in amateur sport, since he is a fight promoter, the Pacific Association would not allow coast athletes to compete at the' exposition if Mulvey was assistant director-general. The announcement here that the re port of Mulvey’s appointment was incor rect was made by Daniel J. Ferris sec retary to Director Sullivan. Mr. Sulli van is abroad. UMPIRE IS RELEASED. KANSAS CITY. MO., Aug. 23.—Um pire Sigler, of the Federal League, has Wen released, according to an an nouncement made at the headquarters of the local Federal League club. Sig ler formerly was with the Western League. John A. Spinney, of Cincinnati, business manager of the local Federal League team, has resigned. Noted Horseman Will Pilot the World’s Champion in Record- Breaking Trial Sept. 2 M inneapolis, minx., Aug. 23. Following the announcement that Minneapolis was to catch a more or less fleeting glance of Uhlan In action, the State Fair officials an nounce that the great trotter will make his record-breaking effort in Tuesday, September 2, Minneapolis day, and that the driving will be dono by C. K. C. Billings, the millionaira owner of the flyer. Billings has taken a great personal interest in the appearance of hi* great horse at Minneapolis and ha* notified Secretarj r Simpson that not only would he come in his private car with a party of friends, but that he proposes to handle the reins when Uhlan steps out to try to lower tho 1:68 mark made by himself. * ♦ * MINNEAPOLIS day at the Stato Fair also marks the team races on the speed card, and Billings is es pecially interested in team racing For that reason he requested that Uhlan be sent away the same day. Billings is an experienced and clev er reinsman and has owned and driv en many of the famous horses of the harness division. * * • TJE owned Lou Dillon and has only * comparatively recently returned from a long sojourn In Russia, where harness racing is just now on the too Wave- of popularity. He shipped hi* entire stable to Russia, and his ap pearances before royalty were great events on the other side. Heretofore the pacers, with Dan Patch as the leader, have been the feature of Minnesota speed exhibi tions, but now comes the kingpin of the trotters and with a driver as well known and famous as the horse, CUBS SIGN REILLY. KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Aug. 23.-.Tohn Reill;;, an amateur pitcher of this cltv has signed with the Chicago National League club, and will join that team when they return from their Eastern trip. ‘THE OLD RELIABLE” PlANTEN S oR BlA c 18 C ; > c A P S u le; s REM E DYrjR M Ef< -I J?. RUGSI8T8 0RTR *l box by mail so (ROM PLANTEN 93 HENRY ST. BROOKLYN. N.t —^.BEWARE OF IMITATIONS — MONEY LOANED TO SALARIED MEN AT LAWFUL RATES ON PROMISSORY NOTES Without Endorsement Without Collateral Security Without Real Estate Security NATIONAL DISCOUNT 00. 1211-12 Fourth National Bank Bide.