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HEARRT’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1913.
PROMOTERS FOR
DEATH IF THE
Slain Fighter Did Not Possess
Sufficient Skill to Cope With
Boxer Like Willard.
B EC A TIKE a novice, a eparrlng
partner and hangar on around
training cam pa dJad aa tha re-
•ntt of a match In which ha engaged
last weak at Lob Angel an, a great
cry 1b raised by opponents of the
game in all parts of the country. They
ana making more stir over the acci
dent to an almost unknown bo*er
than is made If a doaen men i a
killed playing football, baseball, polo
or other sports, as they are each
As a matter of foot deaths ooonr
Ma Must Have Seen Herseit m the Glass
Polly and Her Pals *** **
'Sol A For
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WTTH
World on These Pares
AH the News of the Boxim
every once In a while In running
rare* through overexertion and there
has been quite a number of deaths
In wrestling contests. The Los An
geles fatality was doe to a good
man being eent against a boxer >f
no clcee at all, the latter being so
badly beaten he succumbed. The
promoters of the one-sided match and
not the boring game In general should
be blamed for the fatality.
The cases are few and far between
of ring fatalities where the contest
ants are well trained boxers some
where near equally matched. Some
times the promoters become over-
greedy. as seems to have been the
case In Los Angeles, and match good
men against men they outclass tlm-
P>7 because a good gate can be
G RHJHJDT promoters and Incompe
tent referees are more often re
sponsible for deaths In the ring than
are the contestants Capable ref
erees will stop matches In which one
of the contestants Is beaten down 10
the point of danger through a hard
blow, as the Willard-Young bout In
Los Angeles should have been
•topped. But It should never have
been staged Willard Is a fairly clas
sy heavyweight and one of the big
gest men who ever crawied through
the ropes Young was big and that
about let him out.
Much ado was made over Lnther
McCarty's death, yet It developed
afterward that his heart was very
weak and that no blow that his op
ponent landed greatly Injured him,
his death rather being due to overen-
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
rodnds before the unfortunate boxer
hit the floor with the back of his head
with fatal result It was plain to be
seen he stood no chance of winning.
• • •
FjOWlt In Hewtlnrs last spring two
* * amstsur boxers engaged In a bou f
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 promoters and have
the power to forbid one-sided con
tests have the right Idea. They al»7
Insist on capable referees and pla.’e
safeguards around it that none witn
the best interests of the game nt
heart will oppose. There always have
been such contest# and there always
will be boxing In America. Why
not surround It with all possible tafa-
guardsT
Bull Yonng they called the so
sailed boxer who met his death 1n
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 agains*
a top-notcher among the white
heavy-weight*
Charley Herzog May
Be Traded to Cards
Recent Deal Between Pirates and
Phillies Not Completed, Say
Pittsburg Rumors.
8T. LOU1B, Sept «.—The recent trade
between the Pirates and Phillies which
sent Bobby Byrne and Howard Cam nit*
to the Quakers and "Coxy" Dolan to
the Corsairs has brought out consider
able oomment In different baseball head
quarters. According to a tip received
yesterday, the swap la not completed,
but will oaue« several more changes
during the winter season.
One rumor from Pittsburg Is that
Bobby Byrne will land with the Giants
and that Charley Herzog will become a
Cardinal The Phils, having Hans l>o-
bert on third, surely can not find any
room for the St. Louis boy, and Bob is
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 reports, Herzog is the
* 01 one who will come here during the win
ter That will leave a vacancy in the
Giants - Infield, b it the trade between
the Pirates and Phils Is expected to ship
Byrne over to the Giants
Byrne Joined the Pirates in 11*09, being
traded by Roger Biesnahan, when boss
of the Cardinals, for "Jap -- Barbeau
and the late Allan Siorke. The North
Side boy really saved the pennant for
the Pirates that year, and was a star In
the world’s series with the Tigers.
catarrh:
OF THE J
bladder;
Relieved la j
24 Hours;
Each Cap- ✓—■>, ,
oule bears the (m|QY) %
name */* ,
JSet/xare of cmiv\ terfHta \
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TEAM SHOULD BE Champion Has Dodged ToughOnes
Six Veterans to Return for Places
on Second District Agricul
tural Gridiron Squad.
T IFTON, OA., Sept. 6.—Looking
at it through the typewriter,
before school has opened and
the grueling gridiron battles begun,
the 1913 pigskin team of the Second
Ihstrlct 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 them 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 to Syl
vester. Hancock Is well acquainted
with football, having had experience
on the Norman Institute team.
• • •
THE old men hack are Bob Glover.
* captain and full back of the
team, and Leo 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
places on the team, and with them
back It looks like a walk-away this
year for the Aggies
• • •
PROFESSOR J. M. THRASH is, of
* course, coming bark. Coach
Thrash served his time under the ma
chine man of Tech, J. W. Helsm&n,
and be must have been a mighty apt
pupil, Judging from the plays he has
taught the Partners. Word from
Coach Thrash at his Rummer 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. I. 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 McMuth. Which is nearly all
of the old team. However, It is good
to know that N. 1. is to have a good
learn. No one likes to see a walk
away. Professor Scoggins will coach
his brothers and the team.
Mrs, Locke Joins
Women Club Owners;
Controls Phillies
PHILADELPHIA. Bept 6.—Women**
rights are becoming real and earnest In
the major leagues To-dav three wo
rm n control the majority stock In three
National League clubs—Philadelphia.
New York and St Ixuiis. The hand or
I Providence gave this power to the wo
men in each instance,
j Mrs. Locke, widow of the president
, of the Phillies, is the most reoent of
the trio of women magnates. She ob-
! mined a controlling interest in the lo-
. cal National League club recently when
j her husband died In Atlantic City. Al-
1 though n official announcement was
1 made at the time Mr. Locke purchased
! the Phillies last January, it is under
stood that he was able to provide enough
(•pital to get a big block, sufficient to
J c utrol the club.
Since Mrs Lxcke Is said to be thf
sole beneficiary of his estate in Mr
Locke's will, that stock will revert
By W. W. Naughton.
S AN FRANCISCO. Sept. The
next contest for the lightweight
championship of the world will
take place on British territory. The
principals will he Willie Ritchie, the
title holder, and Freddie Welsh, who la
the proud possessor of the Lord Lons
dale belt, for superiority on the Eng
lish side of the water. *
So far the match ha* had Its share
of tribulation and trial* 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 la 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
comfs 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 Ufa. , . . .
However, there are sprained ankles
and sprained ankles. It Is Just 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 be, a genuine struggle for
the mastery, it is hardly likely that
he would risk his prestige unless he
knew himself to he thoroughly sound
In wind and limb.
While the writer ha* held, and still
holds, that others among the world’s
lightweights are as much entitled to
a crack at the championship as
Welsh. 1 am willing to concede that
he is the flower of the British light
weight flock. He has beaten Matt
Wells, who recently vanquished
Hughle Mehegan, champion of Aus
tralia, and that places him at the top
of the tree.
• • •
\imiLE T believe there are several
VV youngsters in this country who
could * defeat Welsh If given the
chance, I 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-Ritchie match has
been consummated, for better or for
worse, and it la to wait and see what
comes of it.
There is considerable shrewdness 1n
Ritchie’s contention that "Murphy
will keep." It Is the sage remark
of a youth who prefers tackling the
easier lob first. For, no matter what
is really In store for him when he
faces 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'HTfl much 1s 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
Joe Rivers, 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 to
hurt him physically or damage his
prestige. He showed himself a wire
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
<ft 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’s
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 safelj
under altered conditions.
Ritchie has had much experience
since then and has all the confidence
a champion should possess, w’hiie
Welsh is thought to be less dashing
than he was at the time of the las'
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.
First Battle Under New Wiscon
sin Law Will Probably Be for
Bantam Title.
F RANK MTHUCERN, 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 boxing law passed by Wis
consin.
Mulkern announces that he ha*
practically closed arrangements for
a bout between John Gutenko, known
a* 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.
• • •
\17HILE the affair can not be strict-
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.” Tf
this Is the case, he is picking out a
dangerous foe to exhibit with.
Food for Sport Fans
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■y QKOMaa a. phair.
SUCSM IS FAME.
“I just got bad vacationing,” quoth I
To one ic-bo reads the paper every
day,
And in surprise the lowlife made re-
ply:
“/ never knew that you had been
away /”
We shall not go Into the details of our
vacation except to say that the shoot
ing wu exceptionally good. In one
game we shot six naturals in succes
sion. \
Larry McLean feels deeply Insulted
over the fact 'hat 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 'hat a spectator was
seen recently In the Cincinnati baseball
park, but the rumor Is unconfirmed.
SOME BOIX.
There was a young fellow named Vioao,
Who labored in Pittsburg's emplois.
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
K oungster he ever saw. It is said that
e 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.
IVs 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 nuihin’s of
a pill
Frank Chance does not like Bermuda
as a training camp. This la due to the
fact that the odor of onions reminds
him of the work of his athlete*
8 i
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 scribe 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 team*
We note that one Ralph Bell has won
nineteen straight games for Winona.
This reminds us that Winona Is the
place where Bill Taft was knocked off
ths slab.
Those Cardinals, who are alleged to
play baseball In St. Louis are said '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 dags 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
The Last Five Years
Jlmmle Ryan Young Evens..1909
John Vanderbeck.. William Kaney.1909
John Murray John Taylor...1909
Harrison Foster... John Taylor...1909
Tommy McCarthy. Owen Mora*.. .1909
Max Lundy Jos. O’Brle*.. .1910
Frank Cole. ...^.. .Stanley Roger*1910
Gilbert Trehon.... Frank Kelxer.,1910
Ginger Williams... Kid Kranmeth.1910
Alois Wllkowskl... Harry Gilmore.1910
Curley Watson.... Frank lnglla..1910
John Heflin Willis Elder...1910
Fred Castor Wm. Clothier..1910
Kid Fisher Frank Hail....1910
Kid Hyland Fred Munne. ..T910
W. H. Brlnkmeyer. Fred Munne. ..1910
Ed Scully Tommy Welch.1910
Kid Gardner John Kaln 1911
William Lake Joe Choynskl. 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 Vefle Young Rltchle.1912
Tommy Lavelle... Swat Adamson.1913
Bill Allen T'r'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. 6.—Nick
Altrock may find himself released ere
long to make way for youngsters, who
will be given every opportunity to make
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 has
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 his being kept on
the roll.
unless some other arrangement rs
MORE RACES FOR DECATUR.
DECATUR. ILL, Sept. 6.—As a re
sult of the success of the Great Western
I raco circuit meeting here, it has been
decided to give a September race meet-
I ing Entries are now being received,
j The dates selected will be In the third
j w eek of tl e month,
BOXING CLUB IS CHARTERED.
MADISON, WIS., Sept. 6.—The Secre
tary of State has issued a charter to the
South Side Athletic Club of Milwaukee,
which will be a competitor of the
Queensberrv Athletic Club of the same
city in giving boxing allows next win-
Plank andMathewson
Will Renew Old Feud
NEW YORK. Sept. 6—Since the Na
tlonal Commission has seen flt to set ai
this early day the opening date of the
world’s series it Is In order to remark
that pitchers may be Christopher Ma
thewson for the Giants and Eddie Plarik
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 M&thewson.
They are regarded a* the mainstays
of their teams. Therefore about them
are built the prospects of the expected
clash between the Athletics and the
Giants. They both will be primed for
the struggle.
"Matty” is going to be better than he
ha* in some time. Plank’s breaks and
shoots are still puzzling good batters.
Under such conditions It Is but logical to
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
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 •**’Ttinst the
Athletics before and his teammates have
already predicted that he will have them
■m> sized up by The time the contesi
comes there will be nothing to It but
“Matty” and the Giants. But this Is
purely a New' York viewpoint. Is there
any reason to believe tnat 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 use his head;
therefore, why should he not know when
a hatter likes a curve and when he
I likes a fast one and when he likes ’em
j "o Hie side and when he’d rather have
| them outekie, aieo kifh and low?
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 answers have 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 degJh, did not train a lick,
as he was continent 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 bard hitter.
The pages of the prize ring history,
when men possessed real cleverness,
show there were no fatalities when Jem
Mace, Jake Kilrain. Paddy Ryan, Jim
Corbett, Jim Jeffries. Tom Sharkey. Joe
Cbovnski. Kid McCoy, Peter Maher and
many other big fellows held the public
attention. They fought, with real clev
erness.
FELTON REFUSES $15,000
PHILADELPHIA. PA.. Sept it-Sam
Felton, famous ex-Harvard pitcher, to
day turned down Connie Mack's offer
of $15,009 for a three-year contract. Sev
eral other major league clubs are said
W be alter Hit some pitches.
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