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HEARSTT? SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1913.
All the News of the Boximsr World on These Pares
PROMOTERS FOR
Tl
Slain Fighter Did Not Possess
Sufficient Skill to Cope With
Boxer Like Willard.
B ECAUSE a novice, a sparring
partner and hanger on around
training camp* died a« the re
sult of a match In which he engaged
laat week at Ix>* Angelo*, a great
cry le raised by opponent* of the
game In all parts of the country. They
are making more stir over the acci
dent to an aim oat unknown boxer
than la made If a doaan men are
killed playing football, baaeball, polo
or other aporta, a* they are each
Am a matter of fact death* ooctrr
every onoe In a while In ronniry
race* through overexertion and tber?
ha* been quite a number of deaths
In wrestling contests. The Los An
geles fatality was due to a good
man being aent agalnat a boxer if
no close at all. the latter being ao
badly beaten he succumbed. The
promoter* of the one-sided match and
not the boxing game In general should
be blamed for the fatality.
The cases are few and far between
of ring fatalities where the contest
ant* are well trained boxers some
where near equally matched. Some
time# the promoter* become over-
greedy. a* aeems to have been the
case In Ivo* Angeles, and match good
men against men they outclass sim
ply because a good gate can be
G RWE7DT promoter* and in com po
tent referees are more often re
sponsible for deaths In the ring than
are the contestants. Capable ref
erees will #top matches In which one
of the contestant# Is beaten down io
the point of danger through a hard
blow, as the Willard-Young bout In
Los Angeles should have been
stopped Rut It should never have
been staged Willard Is a fairly clas-
•y heavy weight and one of the big
gest men who ever crawled through
the ropes Young was big and that
about let him out
Much ado was made over Luther
McCarty's death, yet It developed
afterward that hi* heart was very
weak and that no blow that his op
ponent landed greatly Injured him,
his death rather being due to overex-
ertlon than any other cause. Grand
Rapid* saw a death several years
ago that was due to the referee not
stopping the contest when for several
rounds before the unfortunate boxer
hit the floor with the back of his head
■with fatal result It wai plain to be
•een he *tood no chance of winning.
• • •
T~\OWN In Hasting* last spring two
A-* amateur boxers engaged In a bout
that was part of an athletic program,
they traveling together and being the
best of friends. Overexertion caused
the death of one of them. Th it
caused the ban to be placed on boxing
in Michigan.
Those States which have legalised
boxing and appointed commissions
which pass upon promoter* and hava
the power to forbid one-sided con
tests have the right Idea. They h1s>
Insist on capable referees and place
safeguards around It that none wltn
the he*t Interests of the game at
heart will oppose. There alvr .ys have
been *uch contests and there always
will be boxing in America Why
not surround It with all possible :afe-
guardsT
Bull Young they called the #o-
cslled boxer who met hla death In
the California mill. Tt Is doubtful
If one In 100 of those who follow
the game closely had ever heard
of him. Yet he was matched against
a top-notcher among the white
heavywdKhta.
S, D. 11, FOOTBALL Ritchie-Welsh in Next Title Go
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I[AM SHOULD BE ChampionHasDodgedToughOnes
Charley Herzog May
Be Traded- to Cards
Recent Deal Between Piratss and
Phillies Not Completed. Say
Pittsburg Rumors.
ST LOUTS, Sept- -The recent trade
between the Pirates and Phillies which
sent Bobby Byrne and Hctward Camnlt*
to the Quakers and “Cozy” Dolan to
the Corsairs has brought out consider
able comment In different baseball head
quarters. According to a tip received
yesterday, the swap Is not completed,
but will otuM several more changes
during the winter season
One rumor from Pittsburg la that
Bobby Byrne will land with the Giants
and that Charley Herzog will become a
Cardinal The Phils, having Hans Lo-
bert on third, surely can not find any
room for the St. Louis boy. anil Bob la
far too clever to be used for utility pur
poses.
When the Cardinals sent "Doc” Cran
dall back to the Giants. Manager Hug
gins announced that he was to receive
another player from McGraw, and, ac
cording to the reporta, Herzog Is the
one who will conn- here during the win
ter That will leave a vacant’) in the
Giants’ infield, but the trade between
the Pirates and Phils is expected io ship
Byrne over to the Giants
Byrne joined the Pirates In 1W9, being
traded by Roger Bresnahar: when < .*»
of the Cardinals, for ".lap” Bar beau
and the late Allan Storke. Tli* North
Bide boy really saved the pennant for
the Pirates that year, and wh- a star In
the world's series with the Tigers
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Six Veterans to Return for Places
on Second District Agricul
tural Gridiron Squad.
T tFTON, GA., Sept. 0.—looking
at It through the typewriter,
before school has opened and
the grueling gridiron battles begun,
the 1913 pigskin team of the Second
District Agricultural team is going
to be the best ever put out by this
institution of huskies.
At the present time It looks as
though the team for this year will be
better than that of last. Six of last
year’s warriors have already signi
fied their intention of returning to
the fold, and with thorn will come
a number of men who have had ex
perience at other schools, besides the
scrubs of last year and the raw ma
terial
Probably the brightest hope of the
new students is Hancock, from Worth
County. He Is the lad who won the
marathon race from Albany \o Syl
vester Hancock Is well acquainted
with football, having had experience
on the Norman Institute team.
• • •
THE old men bark are Bob Glover,
1 captain and full back of the
team, and Ia©o Jones, right end. It
was the Glover-Jones forward pass
combination that made the 1912 team
possible. Then there are Owens, the
big center, and also the best the
school ever had. and Kid Reynolds,
right tackle This kid was the fast
est man on the team last year. Jen
kins, left guard, and Royals, left half,
are both coming back. The old play
ers will constitute the most important
j places on the team, and with them
! back It looks like a walk-aw&y this
year for the Aggies.
• • •
PROFESSOR J. M. THRASH is. of
I * course, coming back. Coach
Thrash served his time under the ma
chine man of Tech, J. W. Helsman,
and he must have been a mighty apt
pupil, Judging from the plays he has
taught the Farmers. Word from
Coach Thrash at his summer home
states that he has evolved a number
of fast and tricky plays during the
summer, and Will Jump right Into
teaching them to his team when he
hits the campus.
It wouldn't be half told to tell about
the Farmers without taking a glance
Into the back yard of that N. 1. camp.
There are a number of the old boys
coming back to help N. I. try to win
from the Farmers, among whom are
Noble, fullback; Austin. Arzo and
Berry Scoggins, the three brothers;
Cochran. Lee, Welch, White, Elrod
and McMath. Which is nearly all
of the old team. However, It Is good
to know that X. I. is to have a good
team. No one likes to see a walk-
two y. Professor Scoggins will coach
his brothers and the team.
By W. W. Naughton
S AN FRANCISCO, Sept, 6.—The
next contest for the Ufrhtwaierht
championship of the world will
take place on British territory- The
principals will be Willie Ritchie the
title holder, and Freddie Welsh, who Is
the proud possessor of the I.ord Rons-
dale belt, for superiority on the Eng
lish side of the water.
So far the match has had Its share
of tribulation and trlala September
1 was the date originally set, but
owing to an accident to Welsh the
plans were changed. It was a
sprained ankle that kept Freddie from
living up to his agreement with
Ritchie, but now the wrenched foot
Is right again and new articles have
been drawn up calling for a bout on
September 20.
, F Freddie is careful, there Is noth
ing to prevent everything going
as merrily as a championship bill, al
though many of the harder headed
sports who were skeptical In regard
to Welsh's chances, have grown more
skeptical still. They know that a
sprained ankle. Is a treacherous thing,
often taking months to heal. They
argue that if you scratch a fighter he
Is merely human and that when it
comes to a matter of twisted liga
ments there Is no reason for suppos
ing that a ring man will recover
quicker than a man In any other walk
of life. ,
However, there are sprained ankles
and sprained ankles. It Is lust possi
ble that Welsh suffered from a very
light form of the visitation and that
he "rounded to" quickly. He is said
to be a worldly young man. and. sup
posing the match is what It Is adver
tised to he, a genuine struggls for
the mastery, it is hardly likely that
he would risk his prestige unless he
knew himself to be thoroughly sound
In wind and limb.
While the writer has held, ana still
holds, that others among the world's
lightweights are as much entitled to
a crack at the championship as
Welsh. I am willing to concede that
he is the flower of the British light
weight flock. He has beaten Matt
Wells, who recently vanquished
Hughie Mehegan, champion of Aus
tralia, and that places him at the top
of the tree.
• * •
W HILE I believe there are several
youngsters in this country who
could defeat Welsh If given the
chance, 1 am free to confess that he is
more thoroughly a national represen
tative In pugilism than Ritchie. The
latter has not shown himself to be
the best lightweight In America He
has sidetracked a meeting with Har
lem Tommy Murphy, on the plea that
"Murphy will keep" and If there Is a
suggestion of reciprocity anywhere
concealed about the fighting game he
owes Ad Wolgast a return match.
But the Welsh-Rttchte match has
been consummated, for better or for
Mrs. Locke Joins
Women Club Owners;
Controls Phillies
PHILADELPHIA. B«pt 6 Woman's
rights art* becoming real and earnest In
| Hie major leagues. To-day three wo*
I n • n control the majorlt> stock In three
: National League clubs—Philadelphia,
i New York anti St Louis. The hand of
i Providence gave this power to the wo-
i men in each instance.
Mrs Locke, widow of the president
«-f the Phillies, Is the most recent of
the trio of women magnates. She ob-
i tained a controlling interest in the lo-
< al National League club recently when
I her husband died In Atlantic City. Al-
1 though no official announcement was
made at the time Mr. Locke purchased
i the Phillies last January, it is under
stood that he was able to provide enough
capital i•' get a big block, sufficient to
control the club.
i Sin-f Mrs. Locke is said to be the
| sofe hene$ciar> of his estate In Mr.
Locke’s will, that stock will revert to
her, unless some other arrangement Is
j made.
MORE RACES FOR DECATUR.
DECATUR. ILL. Sept. ♦>.—As a re-
} suit of the success of the Great Western
race circuit meeting here, it has been
decided to give a September race meet-
I it g. Entries are now being received.
I The dates selected will be In the third
week of the month.
BOXING CLUB IS CHARTERED.
MADISuN. Wls , Sept. 6 -The Secfe-
; tary of State has issued a charter to the
j South Side Athletic Club of Milwaukee,
vhich will be a competitor of the
Jueensberry Athletic Club of the same
lty in giving boxing show* next win-
I ter•
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Plank andMathewson
Will Renew Old Feud
NEW YORK. Sept. 0 —Since the Ns
tlonal Commission has seen flt to set at
this early day the opening date of the
world's series it Is In order to remark
that pitchers may he Christopher Ma-
thewson for the Giants and Eddie Plank
for the Athletics.
It will be a sort of continuation of
their long-standing feud. "Matty” has
been pitching about the same number of
years as Connie's star and both are go
ing great now
Back in 1905. when they were both
comparatively youngsters, they began
their battle and they continued It In
1911, but the result was satisfactory to
neither Plank nor to Mathewson.
They are regarded as the mainstays
of their teams Therefore about them
are built the prospects of the expected
clash between the Athletics and the
(Rants. They both will be primed for
J the struggle
"Matty” Is going to be better than he
| has in some time. Hank's breaks and
shoots are still puzzling good batters.
! Under such conditions it is but logical to
i expect that It will be a battle royal be
tween them when they meet on the field
in the opening clash of the biggest event
in baseball, provided, of course, their
respective teams win the honor to sup
port the standards of the National and
American leagues.
Matty" has been pitted '’«ralwst the
Athletics before and his teammates have
already predicted that he will have them
so sized up by the time the contest
comes there will be nothing to It but
"Matty" and the Giants. Hut this is
purely a New' York viewpoint. Is there
j any reason to believe that Plank will
not have Just as much of an edge on
the Giants?
He has pitched against New York be
fore and he knows how to u*e his head;
therefore, why should he not know when
a batter likes a curve and when he
i likes a fast one and when he likes ’em
I on the side and when he'd rather have
| them euisAis, ahigh ana lew?
worse, and It 1* to wait and see what
comes of It.
There Is considerable shrewdness in
Ritchie’s contention that "Murphy
will keep." It is the sage remark
of a youth who prefers tackling the
easier Job first. For, no matter what
Is really In store for him when he
face# Welsh in the Vancouver arena
on September 20, Willie believes that
defeating Welsh will prove a less
strenuous task than conquering Tom
my Murphy.
• • •
'T'HIS much is gained from a man
* who was in Ritchie’s confidence
when the successor of Wolgast was
touring the vaudeville* circuit. While
Ritchie has given out very little about
his ring plans, he was watching the
trend of affairs pugilistic closely and
talking a good deal In private of what
would happen when his theatrical en
gagements came to an end. Like the
brainy youth he Is, he classified his
prospective opponents and placed
them and considered the least dan
gerous on the preferred list He
promised himself that he would box
Jo© Rivera Leach Cross and Freddie
Welsh, if possible in the order named,
and that the others "would keep.”
He expressed the opinion that none
of the three named would hurt him,
and when he said it he meant that It
was not In Joe, Leach or Freddie fo
hurt him physically or damage his
prestige. He showed himself a wise
prophet, «o far as Rivers was con
cerned and It remains to be seen how
his estimate of Welsh pans out.
• • •
H E certainly should have known
more about Freddie than either
of the others named, as he has met him
before And he was in a position to
furnish good reason for opining that
It was not in Welsh to damage him.
At a few hours’ notice he took Ad
Wolgast’s place against Welsh In a
contest staged In Los Angeles. With
out training and little knowledge of
the professional ring, Ritchie made
such a close thing of it with Welsh
that there were times when Freddie’3
friends around the ring were looking
for opportunities to hedge their bets.
Now, if Ritchie, the novice, could
do well against the talented Britisher
a couple of years ago It Is far from
presumption on Ritchie’s part to fig
ure that he can hold Welsh safely
under altered conditions.
Ritchie has had much experience
since then and has all the confidence
a champion should possess, whi:e
Welsh is thought to be less dashing
than he was at the time of th© last
meeting.
But you can’t always tell. Welsh,
while he has had a few setbacks
as far as health is concerned, has
been going strong for several months.
His performance with Wells is suf
ficient to show that Freddie Is far
from a weakling, for Welsh Is as rug
ged a fellow as the lightweight divi
sion boasts. '
Heavies of To-day
Are Lacking in Skill
Some persons have remarked that
more of the heavyweight fighters have
been killed in 1912 by blows than in any
one year that the oldest fans can re
member. Why is it, do you suppose?
Many answersHtave been advanced, but
the most plausible one appears to be
that the present crop of heavyweights
is one that lacks cleverness.
A fighter must have some natural abil
ity and must be fitted by nature to stand
great strain. However, there has been
so much demand for a heavyweight hope
to beat Jack Johnson that many young
men of stalwart appearance, and not
even half fitted for such a rugged un
dertaking. but who have been attracted
by the call of gold, have become mar
tyrs to the game. One has but to cite
the Calgary affair of May. when a
fourth rater killed Luther McCarty by a
blow. McCarty in previous fights had
trained to the minute. Luther, accord
ing to the statements of his trainers
following his death, did not train a lick,
as he w’as confident that he would de
feat Pelkey without half trying. Over
confidence and the lack of physical fit
ness caused McCarty’s untimely end. In
the more recent accidental killing of
Bull Young by Jess Willard again the
lack of condition of the former resulted
in his death. Willard is considered but
a third-rater, and to have killed Young
Indicates that Bull must have been
practically a novice. Willard never has
claimed to be a hard hitter.
The pages of the prize ting history,
when men possessed real cleverness,
show there were no fatalities when Jem
Mace. Jake Kllrain. Paddy Ryan. Jim
Corbett. Jim JefTrles, Tom Sharkey. Joe
Chovnski. Kid McCoy. Peter Maher and
many other big fellows held the public
attention. They fought with real clev
erness.
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First Battle Under New Wiscon
sin Law Will Probably Be for
Bantam Title.
F RANK MTJLKBRN, the newsboy
millionaire promoter of prize
fight* in Milwaukee, Is expect
ing to be first In the field with a box
ing contest staged under the new
ten-round boxihg law passed by Wis
consin.
Mulkern announces that he has
practically closed arrangements for
a bout between John Gutenko, known
as Kid Williams, of Baltimore, and
Johnny Coulon, still bantamweight
champion.
* • •
T HE affair will be ten rounds and
decisionless, but the chances are
that Kid Williams will be there with
the kick hard enough to stop it before
the limit.
Mulkern states that Coulon has al
ready consented and that Sam Harris,
who is handling Williams, has prac
tically agreed to the match, to take
place this month.
• • •
\17HILB the affair can not be strict-
vv ly called a championship con
test, the fact that the two men con
cerned are the two most likely candi
dates for the title will enhance inter
est in the meeting.
Coulon is supposed to be “all In.” If
this is the case, he is picking out a
dangerous foe to exhibit with.
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Food for Sport Fans
~GE
aCOROI ft. PHAI
SU<#1 IS FAME.
“I just got tact vacationing,” quoth l
To one teAs reads the paper every
dag..
And in surprise the lowlife made re
ply-
**1 never knew that you had been
away /”
We shall not go into the details of our
vacation except to say that the shoot
ing was exceptionally good. In one
game we shot six naturals in succes
sion.
Larry McLean feels deeply Insulted
over the fact that a vulgar person In
Philadelphia threw a bottle at him. The
bottle was empty.
Philadelphia may be a slumbrous ham
let, but John J. McGraw & Gang have
a deep suspicion that It is subject to
nightmares.
It Is rumored tha,t a spectator was
seen recently In the Cincinnati baseball
park, but the rumor Is unconfirmed.
SOME BOIX.
There teas a young fellow named Viox,
Who labored in Pittsburg's emploisr
At fielding he starred,
And he batted so hard
That Fred Clarke sang a paean of
joix.
Hugh Jennings Informs us that Ralph
Comstock has more nerve than any
youngster he ever saw. It Is said that
ne has almost as much nerve as a pea
nut peddler In the grand stand.
LOST IN THE JUNGLE.
A vacation is a pleasure,
A delight beyond all measure.
It's rapture with a sweet celestial
thrill.
But it banishes all gladness
And it fills your heart with sad
ness
When you haven't got the makin's of
a pill.
Frank Chance does not like Bermuda
as a training camp. This Is due to the
fact that the odor of onions reminds
him of the work of his athlete*.
Taking a few observations during our
sojourn in Wisconsin, we found the pop
ulation of the State equally divided be
tween fight promoters and people.
As we understand It, Willie Ritchie
and Freddie Welch will fight for the
world’s lightweight moving picture
championship.
A baseball serfbe avers that there Is
no choice between the St. Louis major
league teams. But he does not tell us
where he has discovered the St. Louis
major league teams.
We note that one Ralph Bell has vgin
nineteen straight games for Winoha.
This reminds us that Winona Is the
place where Bill Taft was knocked off
the slab.
Those Cardinals, who are alleged to
play baseball In St. Louis are said l o
be financially embarrassed. No, Rollo,
yon gentleman in tears is not Roger
Bresnahan.
Tom Burrows, an English athlete,
swung a pair of Indian clubs 97 hours
and then collapsed. And yet English
sportsmen go all the way to Africa to
hunt ivory.
BEAR STORIES.
Oft, as the fall days wane
And dead leaves fall around us,
We feel an awful pain
As football writers hound us,
The howls, the wails, the tearful
tales
Of arms and ankles fractured.
The cries of grief beyond belief
By fakers manufactured.
Oft, as the fall days wane
And dead leaves fall around us,
We feel an awful pain
As hard luck stories hound us.
Boxing Fatalities of
TheJjast Five Years
Jimmie Ryan Young Ev*n#..1f09
John Vanderbeck.. William Kaney.1909
John Murray John Taylor.. .1909
Harrison Foster.John Taylor. ..1909
Tommy McCarthy. Owen Moran...1909
Max Lundy Jos. O’Brien.. .1910
Frank Cole........Stanley Rogere.1910
Gilbert Trehon.... Frank Keizer. .1910
Ginger Williams... Kid Kranmeth.1910
Alois Wilkowskl... Harry Gilmore.1910
Curley Watson.... Frank lnglls..1910
rfohn Heflin ..Willis Elder...1910
Fred Castor Wm. Clothier..1910
Kid Fisher Frank Hill....1910
Kid Hyland,...... Fred Munne...1910
W. H. Brlnkmeyer. Fred Munns. ..1910
Ed Scully Tommy Welch.,1910
Kid Gardner John Kaln 1911
William Lake Joe Choynekl. 1911
Joe Ketchel Billy Walters..1911
Raphael Belli Bill Evernden..1912
George Nusseln.. ..Joe Dragons.. .1912
Clyde Lincoln Reno Tyson... .1912
Kid Rose Sailor Smith...1912
Albert Velle Young Ritchie.1912
Tommy Lavelle... Swat Adamson.1913
Bill Allen TT’m’n Brady.1913
Luther McCarty. ..Arthur Pelky.,1913
John Young, Jr....Jess Willard... 1913
Nick Altrock May Be
Let Out by Griffith
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. • —Nick
Altrock may find himself released ere
long to make way for youngster*, who
will be given every opportunity to m*k*
good. Nick Is a philosopher of the first
water, and knows Just about where he
stands. He has been of great value to
the team this year, and while he ha*
helped turn the funny ones right along,
there is a whole lot of solid good turned
In by the handsomest man in baseball,
which has warranted hla being kept on
the roll.
FELTON REFUSES $15,000
PHILADELPHIA. PA.. Sept * -Sam
Felton, famous ex-Harvard pitcher, to
day turned down Connie Mack’s offer
of $15,000 for a three-year contract. Sev
eral other major league clubs are said
U Le alter the same pit alias.
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