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W/iy Not Stage Elimination Bout Between Johnny Dobbs and Kid Elberfeld?
MANAGERIAL TANGLE SEEMS
AT NEW ORLEANS
By O. B. Keeler.
C OMES now a rumor that the
Dobbs-Lookouts deal Is entire
ly off. with both side? shedding
srief to resemble a lawn-sprinkler.
The rumor is twofold—a sort of
Siamese rumor, in fact.
One end of it has Johnny aching
to get on with the Honorable An
drews. and prevented by some occult
influence, merely hinted at in veiled,
guarded and scary terms.
The other angle has a certain bold
ness about It.
Tt comes right out and aays J.
Dobbs is under ignature with (V I
Frank to operate the New Orleans |
breadwinner in the next campaign.
• • *
A LL of which moves one to inquire
what has become of K. Elber
feld
Or is it possible the Pelicans will
require TWO managers in addition
to i\ Frank’s overseeing job next
sea FK>n ?
Hardly
If ®o, you would envy J. Dobbs as
co-manager with the Pepper Kid, j
would you not?
You would not.
• • •
N OW that it seems certain Harry
Welchonce finished In front of
Dave Robertson by a batting spurt
at the wire. It does seem rather a
pity Harry isn't to be decorated with
the medal of honor
Dave's slump came coincidentally
with that of his club, right at the
most important stage of the whole
race.
Harry’s sound walloping kept step
■with the sprint of his club—and
helped the sprint.
Not heaving Irish confetti at Dave,
of course—but which batsman would
havt won the Rose medal had it i
been awarded like the Chalmers j
tropnles in the big leagues?
• * •
PEAKING of Dave, however, it is
noted that a $500 option—a scan
dalously economical figure, by the
•way—has just been exercised by John
AfcGraw, who hap hauled the big
is lugger out of this league to join his
Giants.
It is said to be Muggsiy’s intention
to use Davev in most of the remain- i
ing gamer this year, provided the
race doesn’t grow too close—which it !
won’t.
A good many fans around the j
Southern League, by the way, don’t j
know that Dave primarily is a pitcher
with a busted shoulder. A football j
gav* accounted for the bum whip.
wTic» Mnce has worked around in
good j*. so that McGr..w has >
cdmbinfttkn* the new man.
But we i s ee Dave nosing j
Matty. T • . c «u Mtrquard or Dem.t-
4ee out of a -ilar turn on the *iab.
Not next seab, a,
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VICK O'. J; .end, . La- om
itc nlv known as tne Human Of-
fee BuiiJ'ng. is making quite a hit
Jn Washington.
Slim got into a game for one in
ning the other da\ and dazzled the
opposition quite successfully, being
pine b; ml. • in the next frame.
taken a fancy to the tall boy’s fast
ball—Walter having quite a fondness
for smoke, it «voms- while Boehllng.
another forkhander, Is teaching Slim
to throw hooks.
A good curve would be a huge as
set to Slim, especially If he could
approximate the control with which
he directs .•* fast one. Slim's curve
ball while with the Crackers looked
about the size of a shoe-hook, or
perhaps a glove-bqttoner
• • •
H ERE'S one on Trip Speakev. who
Is remembered a r o u n d the
Southern League circuit by reawn of
his terrific hitting and long-distance
pegging.
Some smart guy recently bet Trls
a miit of ilothes that he couldn’t peg
223 feet. That sounded pretty soft,
but there was an additional stipula
tion that 223 feet must stand on end
-the peg must go straight up in the
air.
Tris still th night the proposition
was easy, so he went out into Fourth
street in St. Louis and tried to chuck
a baseball onto the top of the Pierce
Building, just 223 feet in heighth.
Tris tried a number of times, to the
imminent Ganger of twelfth-story
windows, and then gave up the job.
Another surprising feature of the
adventure is that St. Louis has a
building 223 feet. high.
YY71TH reference to that first-basing
** job with the Crackers next year
—where it must be confessed Joe
Agler’s shoes loom up very large and
empty—notew from the Springfield
club in the Central League have
Browne Keene, an Atlanta boy. play
ing second base with much fervor
and knocking the pill over the fence
with astonishing regularity
Keene has rung the bell fourteen
tlines this year, and is ge ting some
shorter hits, too. First base always
was easier for Dim to play than sec
ond to hear him tell it--and there
may be something doing for Keene
in his Home 'luwn next spring.
Kilbane Is Out
To Battle All
Foes This Fall
FODDER FOR FANS j
By Chick Evans.
T HE crisp, cool September weath
er has sent the blood of the
golfer bounding through hi*
veins in a wonderful manner and
made these last few days most en
joyable on the links. Many players
find the autumn, when the terrible
heat ol’ summer is over and compe
titions and crowds are things of the
past, the best season of the year for
golf. There are friendly games, early
and late, and much social enjoyment
mingled ^ith the pleasures of the
game. t
There are still, however, interest
ing events to come. The Ladies-
Western and National have not vet
been played, and there is the Na
tional Open at Hrookline next week
—the very .iggest event in America
—and every one of us golfers Is fair
ly aching to see Rav and Vardon
and Masstv and Telller. as well as
our own players, get off their pret
tiest shots for our pleasure and in
formation.
• * *
T\ T an editorial in that fine magazine
1 called Golf we have the following
quotation from The Spectator. "Ul
timately, in a more perfect world
than promises itself at present, It
N EW YORK, Sept. 13.—The man- !
agement of the Atlantic Gar- |
fien, on the Bowery, which has j
been promoting boxing matches of j
late, helped the manly art of self- I
defense considerably by slipping it j
a shot of ground glass and then wal- i
loping it over the head with a siedge 1
hammer.
They put on John Lester Johnson,
a meerschaum brother, with Samuel
Langford, formerly connected with
the boxing business, but now busily j
engaged In cornering the greatest j
crop of inanimate flesh worn by any |
one person alive.
The management of the Atlantic
Garden, with the aid of a press agent,
had their bout advertised as one of
the greatest boxing matches of the
age. They drew an enormous crowd.
, * •
M R. JOHNSON, a small negro, en
tered the arena just about the
way a man meets the electric chair.
Had he worn clappers on his knees
we might have thought a minstrel
show was coming. Mr. Langford fol
lowed immediately, wearing a green
kimono which just barely reached
around his enormous stomach. Had
he been stuffed for a thanksgiving
dinner a la turkey, he couldn't have
been any fatter e.H trained con
scientiously on chops, cigars, chicken
and watermelon. He was thoroughly
prepared to give New Yorkers the
best fight that was in him.
He looked more like John Bunny
blacked up than he did like a pugilist
who was advertised to be in fine
form. Of course the Boxing Com
mission and the club management
saw that the people were not being
bunkoed, and saw to it that Mr.
Langford trained properly. W T e
may be admitted that It is after all | ^‘‘T dn ' t for a moment, say that
a finer and happier thing to know j either neglected his duty.
1
C hicago, sept. 13.—johnny kii-
bune, the Cleveland colt, who
hold;. the featherweight title,
is out with the announcement that
he will be as busy as any champion
In the business this fall. Little hac
been heard of the featherweight boss
since he was held to a draw by John
ny Dundee at Los Angeles In a cham
pion, hip tight. Kilbane went up to
Oakland. Cal., a short time after that,
outboxed a feather named Fox. and
then went quietly to his Cleveland
home.
When Nate Lewis and Charlie
White went to Canton on I^abor
Day for the White-Griffiths quarrel
Kilbane was there with his manager,
Dunn. The iatter was betting mono
on White to win. Kilbane, with a
talk with Lewis outlined his plans
for the coming boxing season.
“I will admit," he said, "that I have
not been ver\ active in the defens
of my title of late. But I am going
to get busy soon. I will make n-
more careful fights from now on
Every bout I engage in will be a bat
tle. I intend to become the Terr\
McGovern of the feathers and stop
as many challengers as 1 can. I have
spent most of the summer on a farm
outside «;f Cleveland and now weigh
about 127 pounds. However, 122
ringside will still be easy for me. I
am in the finest physical condition
of my life and just itching for fights. ’
Lewis remarked when he returned
to Chicago
"Kilbane looks unbeatable to me at
122 pounds. He will be great for
four or five years yet. probably as
the king of the oIhmf Where is there
a bo> of that weight who ha?* a
chance with him? He will not risk
bit title at any other notch, though
he may box a few lightweights in
short bouts. I asked him to give
Charlie White a chance at the Eng
lish featherweight limit of 126 pounds
but he refused to listen to such a
proposition. He’s a great fighter, and
it will take a wonder to beat him
-some oriv- like Abe Attell at his
best."
35 WILLIAM MEN REPORT.
WILLI AM STO\\N. PA. Sept. 13.—
Thirty-five Caini’dates have reported for
< positions Abe Williams College foot-
Johnaon has 1 ball tattn
Baumgardner, the apitball hurler of
the Browns, so completely lost control
of one of his vaj*ory flings yesterday
that the hall Whirled into the fourth
tier of the grandstand at the Polo
Grounds,‘where a masculine tan reached
out and grabbed it just as It seemed
about to crash Into the head of a fem
inine fan sitting alongside.
• * *
Maranville, the brilliant shortstop of
the Braves, who has made a great rec
ord in his first year In the big league.
Is drawing only $1,800 for the season's
work. However, it is stated that his
contract for next year will be for a sti
pend just about double that of this year.
• <» o
With each of them enjoying a lead
of eight and a half games over their
nearest ravils. it seemed an absolute
certainty today that the Giants and
Athletics would win the pennant in their
respective leagues.
# * •
It also seemed a certainty that unless
the Athletics get back into the stride
they used earlier in the season, when
they piled up a huge lead, tlie Giants
will be rather easy victors in the
world's series games.
• * »
For more than a month the batting
orbs of the Quakertown sluggers have
been very dim. the fielding has been of
the wobbly sort, while the pitching staff
has been "shot to pieces." Plank, the
veteran southpaw, has been driven from
the box in nearly ail his past ten starts;
Bender, the Indian, has fared little bet
ter. Connie Mack lias had to depend on
ids youngsters to pull games out i f the
fire, and they have been going none too
well in the last month, as Is shown by
•be fact that the Athletics have not won
half the games they have played in that
time.
* w •
The five straight defeats handed the
Naps by the Senators not only has put
the Clevelanders out of the race, but has
, so loosened their hold on second place
that they were shoved down under the
fast-travel ing Senators by .003 points
yesterday
• • •
The Naps, with a one-game lead over
the Senators for second place position,
open a three-gsme series with- the Ath-
! letics to-day. while the Sox grapp e with
.the Washington outfit It wouldn't he
I surprising if by nightfall the Naps will
be routed from the position of "runner
I up," which they have held practically
j all season
* • •
Another shift in the American League
I standing may come Ttbout to-day. The
I Yanks by handing several drubbuigs to
| the Browns, have lifted themsHves up
| so high and mighty that a victory for
them to-day and a reversal foi the
Browns w ill mean the rea ? za , ion of *ho
all*.' ear d:earn ot Frank Chance—of
seeing his team out of the cellar posi
tion.
* * *
Ray Caldwell, the rejuvenated twirler
of th.' Yankees, continued his wdnning
ways yesterday by again pitching an
article of ball that added one more unit
to his string of victories.
* • *
Frank Baker, the Athletic slugger,
evidently is practicing up for the world’s
scries games. Be punched out a four-
bagger yesterday, which came just right
giving the Athletics the game after the
White Sox apparently had it "sewed"
up
The Red Sox got greai .revenge for
1 the heating widen the Tigers handed
them on Thursday by yesterday mauling
three Tiger pitchers for eighteen runs
and 21 hits, including three doubles and
three triples.
• • •
Walter Johnson was at bis best yes
terday and as a result the Naps got only
one run and four hits off ins delivery.
Nothing More Now
Except Pope ’Sixes'
The Pope Manufacturing Company
j of Hartford, Conn., makers of the
Pope-Hartford motor cars, Pope mo-
! toroyeles and nineteen different makes
1 of bicycles, have made the announce
ment that beginning with their new
1914 models they will devote their
efforts exclusively to the manufac
ture of "Sixes.” Prices have not def
initely been decided on, but it is un
derstood that they will not market
; anything under $4,000.
The remaining stock of four-cylin
der models, which have heretofore
sold from $2,250 to $3,250. will
i be disposed of at somewhat lower
prices.
Umpire Perrine Held
On Insanity Warrant
I OAKLAND, CAL., Sept. 13.—'‘Bull*’
. Perrine. who was an umpire in the
American League last season, is held
j here on an insanity warrant. His men
tal breakdown is said to have been
caused by sunstroke, wni^h he suffered
j in a game in Cleveland in 1911
how to play a game than how to |
win a game."
This English sentiment, spoken
from a higher plane than moPt of
us are accustomed to stand upon,
ought to fall as a healing' balm on
the wounded spirits of those of us
who have failed often and yet pos
sess somewhat of skill, for many fac
tors besides skill, ability and courage
enter into a successful golf match.
The trouble with this high British
thought, however, is that for a time
after a lost match even the best play
er doubts his own skill; it has un
doubtedly failed in a great emer
gency and has not met a test of
utility.
But there is a pleasure In a con
sciousness of skill that no mere win
ning can ever give, for golf is not a
business with a deal to be put
through at any cost at a certain mo
ment, but a great sport, perhaps an
art, in which a high average of abil
ity gives an ever and increasing
sense of pleasure as the days go on.
I suppose, furthermore, that most
of us will acknowledge that medal
play demonstrates the highest skill
in the game, while match play, not
to be underrated, shows a business
like quality of "getting there," some
times regardless of the means. It
demonstrates skill, of course, but not
always of the hjghest degree. It is
a contest between man and man,
where skill for skill’s sake frequently
gives way to various experiences.
If I were not afraid of being mis
understood I should like to say that
match play bears about tne same re
semblance to medal play that the
"best seller" does to a bit of real
literature.
One is a triumph of the very ex
cellent and useful American faculty
of "getting there." while the other,
untouched at its best oy the condi
tion of another man’s work, can be |
made an aporoxirnatelv perfect ex
ponent of pure skill; and the pursuit
of the perfect round i9 the joy and
the soul In golf.
_ bell rang. Mr. Langford
crouched over a roll of fat as big
T he
Cl
as a sack of wheat. Mr. Johnson.
Charley White Will
Fight Sheridan
CHICAGO. September 13.—Charley
White finished his training to-day for
his 10-round battle in Racine Mon
day night with Mickey Sheridan. The
latter hopes to upset White and will
find valuable aid in his endeavor.
Harry Gilmore, Sr., veteran light
weight. will second Sheridan.
The winner is to get a cnance at
Ad Wolgast or Willie Ritchie. Ad
already has made a bid for the match
and Ritchie recently expressed a will
ingness to battle White
the black demon, his opponent, im
mediately proceeded to break all in
door records for a mile. He did.
Shadow Langford swung once and
almost fell over. It touched Johnson
on the foot and he fell. Cheers. He
fell again and *.hey counted 400. Mr.
Langford then put on his kimono
again, gave three cheers for the box
ing commissioners and the Atlantic
Garden, lit a oig cigar and eased his
way out.
Lieut, Devore Will
Coach 17th Eleven
Of interest to football fans In this sec
tion is the announcement coming Friday
from Fort McPherson which states that
Lieutenant Devore, United States Army,
former West Point football captain, and
all-American tackle, is to coach the
Fort McPherson eleven this fall. Lieu
tenant Devore was recently assigned to
the Seventeenth Infantry, and arrived in
Atlanta Friday afternoon.
The largest and best squad in some
years has turned out for the fall prac
tice at Fort McPherson, and under the
coaching of Lieutenant Devore, who is
considered by a number of gridiron ex
perts to be the best tackle of his time,
an eleven to be feared by all contenders
for Southern honors will probably be
developed.
The first game on the schedule for the
soldiers is set for September 27, when
thev will battle with the Georgia Tech
huskies on the Grant Park field
McGoorty Will Start
Training on Monday
CHICAGO, Sept. 13.—Eddie McGoortr.
Oshkosh middleweight, spent a few
hours in town to-day before his de
parture for his home city, where he will
spend Sunday with his folks. On Mon
day he will return to this city and be
gin training for his ten-round contest
at Milwaukee with Frank Klaus, the
bout being billed for September 22.
McGoorty declares he will beat the
Pittsburg "bear cat" and then take on
Jimmy Clabby.
By Ed W. Smith.
A D WOLGAST has moved on. He
says he never will don an
other pair of boxing gloves for
a serious encounter in the ring and
doubts very much whether he will
ever be induced to even look at the
modern tools of ring warfare again
What is happening to the boxing
game when a man is passe at 25
years of age, for Wolgast doubtless
is passe and spent in a physical
sense? Does this incident serve to
show that the general speed of the
world these days is reflected in ath
letics to this extent? In the old days
a man was pretty good until he was
well by the 30-year mark and wasn't
considered old as long as he had a
spark of vitality left in him.
In the present boxing age a man
gets a couple of defeats and he is
considered thoroughly down and out
and past all athletic redemption.
• * •
T HE ring never had a flashier ca
reer in its history than that
9hown by Wolgast. He started bat
tling in 1906, was a sensation out on
the Pacific coast in 1908, became
lightweight champion of the world by
defeating Battling Nelson on Feb
ruary 22. 1910, twice broke his arm
on mediocre opponents, suffered an
attack of appendicitis and went
through an operation, and then lost
his title to Willie Ritchie on a foul
on November 28, 1912.
Less than ten months later, after
vainly trying twice to come back
and regain his old laurels, the Cadil
lac boy, now £^even months past his
twenty-fifth birthday, Is written
down as a dead one so far as possi
bilities are concerned. Surely the
world do move swiftly these days!
, « •
D ESPITE the fact that Wolgast
must be tabbed as one of the
world’s greatest fighting machines he
always had a tough time getting any
sort of recognition. Perhaps it was
an indifferent personality and the
fact that he whipped one of the coun
try's idols in order to gain pre-emi
nence in his class that brought about
the conditions for the little German
Perhaps it tvas a noisy manager
who wasn’t particular whether or not
he made friends that framed these
unhappy conditions for the tough lit
tle Michigan boy.
At any rate, he never was a popu
lar champion, even in the face of
sterling fighting qualities.
• • •
O NE thing always will stand out
magnificently in the Wolgast
record and it is something that no
body can take tway from him. No
more courageous man ever tapped a
pair of hands n the boxing arena
than this selfsame boy from Cadillac.
His fearlessness* was of the dare
devil type that makes the success
ful aviator and the leading jockey.
Had he been less ably handled in
his business dealings with other
fighters he would have been whipped
to a frazzle long before he was. be
cause he never realized the impor
tance of drawing the line closely in
the matter of weight.
I once heard him offer to fight
Stanley Ketchel for the champion
ship of Michigan, and that. too. when
Stanley w r as at his best and the un
doubted champion among the 158-
pounders of the day!
Rickey Takes Lessons
From Ban Johnson
CHICAGO, September 13.—Branch
Rickey, newly ordained leader of the
St. Louis Browns, attended President
B. B. Johnson’s class in baseball
ethics to-day and picked up con
siderable valuable information to be
applied in his new field of enueavoi
as successor to George Stovall.
The Mound City manager arrived in
Chicago during the morning, attend
ed rehearsal in the afternoon ahd
made ready to catch a train for Cin
cinnati, where he will be present
Monday at the annual drafting pro.
eeedings of the big leaguers.
During his connection with the
Browns Rickey devoted the bulk of
his time and attention to the bust
ness affairs of the club and admit
ted upon his arrival here that there
are many angles in the game or
which he needs enlightenment. That’e
why he called on the league execu
tive.
By releasing three players Thurs
day. Manager Rickey reduced the
personnel of the Browns to permit
of angling for ten new athletes at
Cincinnati. Rickey has high hopes
of putting the trailing organization
w'ell up in the pennant race next sea
son.
ANOTHER CINCH FOR SAWRO
CHICAGO, Sept. 13.—Prombters from
Kenosha were In Chicago yesterday tt
close a match between Sam Langford,
the negro fighter from Boston, and Cleva
Hawkins, one of Chicago’s best ebony'
skinned battlere. Hawkins Immedlatel}
agreed to the contest and Langford’s
answer is awaited from the East.
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