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A SCHOOL SUGGESTION
By Tad
Copyright, 1913. International News Servlet.
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Why Not Stage Elimination Bout Between Johnny Dobbs and Kid Elberfeld?
MANAGERIAL TANGLE SEEMS MIXED AT NEW ORLEANS
By 0. ]>. Keeler.
OMES now r rumor that the
Dobbs-Lookouts deal Is entire
ly off, with both sides shedding
grief to resemble a lawn-sprinkler.
The rumor is twofold—a sort of
Siamese rumor. In fart.
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.
It comes right out and ways J.
Dobbs 18 under signature with C.
Prank to operate the New Orleans
breadwinner In the next campaign.
• • •
A 1-L 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 C. Frank's overseeing job next
seawon?
Hardly.
If so, you would envy J. Dobbs as
co-manager with the Pepper Kid.
would you not?
You would not-
• • •
N OW that it seems certain I!arr\
Welchonce finished in front of
Dave Robertson by «i 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
have won the Rose medal had it
been awarded like the Chalmers
tropnies in the big leagues?
• • •
c
not<
daloualy economic.il figure, by the
way—has just been exercised by John
McOraw, who has hauled the big
slugger out of this league to join his
Giants
It is said to be Muggsy’s intention
to use Davey in most of the remain
ing games this year, provided the
race doesn’t grow top close—which it
won’t.
A good many fans around the
Southern League, by the way. don’t
know that Dave primarily is a pitcher
wdth a busted shoulder A football
game accounted for the bum whip,
which since has worked aroui I
good shape, so that McOraw has a
combination in the new rnan.
But we ca»- t see Dave nosing
Matty, Tesreau. Marquard or Demu
re** out of a regular turn on the slab
Not next season.
i \ UR old friend, Slim Love, com-
monly known as the Human of
fice Building, is making quite a hit
in Washington.
Slim got into a game for one in
ning the other day and dazzled the
opposition quite successfully, being
plncltk batted for in the next frame,
however.
The hunch is that W. Johnston has
taken a fancy to the tall boy’s fast *
ball Walter having quite a fondness
for stroke, p seems—while Boehllng,
another forkhander, is teaching Slim
to throw hooks.
A good curve would he a huge as
set to Slim, especially If he could
approximate the control with which
he directs Ins fast one Slim’s curve
ball while with the Crackers looked
about the size of a shoe-hook, or
perhaps a glove-buttoner.
• • •
H ERE’S one on Tris Speaker, who
is remembered around the
Southern League circuit by reason of
his terrific hitting and long-distance
pegging.
Kilbane Is Out
To Battle All
Foes This Fall
C hicago, sept, is—johnny kh-
bane, the Cleveland colt, who
holds the featherweight title,
is out with the announcement that
he will be as busy ns any champion
in the business this fall. Little has
been heard of the featherweight boss
since he was held to a draw by John
ny Dundee at Los Angeles In a cham
pionship fight. 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 Labor
Day for the White-Grifflths quarrel.
Kilbane was there with his manager.
Dunn The latter was betting money
(»n White to win. Kilbane. with a
talk with Lewis outlined his plans
for ihe coming boxing season.
"I will admit,” he said, ‘‘that I have
not been very active In the defens
of my title of late. But I am going
to get bu*> soon i will make no
more careful tights from now on.
Every-bout 1 engage in w ill be a bat-
t < 1 intend to become the Terry
McGovern the feathers and stop
as many challengers as I can. I have
spent most of the summer on a farm
eutcido cf Cleveland and now weigh
■bout 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 class. Where is there
a boy of that weight who has n
chance with him? He will not risk
his 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 one like Abe Attell at his
best.”
35 WILLIAM MEN REPORT.
WILLIAM STOW N. PA., Sept 13 —
Thirty* lv*» candidates have reported for
positions on the Will lama College foot
ball team.
Some smart guy recently bet Tris
a suit of clothes 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 thought 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 helghth.
Tris tried a number of times, to the
Imminent danger of twelfth-story
windows, and then gave up the Job
Another surprising feature of the
ad vein ure is that St. Louis has a
building 223 feet high.
YY7ITH 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—notes 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
times this year, and is getting some
shorter hits, too. First base always
was easier for him to play than sec
ond—to hear him tell it—and there
may be something doing for Keene
in ills Home Tuwn next spring.
FODDER FOR FANS ~j
Baumgardner, the spit ball hurler of
the Browns, so completely lost control
of one of bis vapory flings yesterday
that the ball Whittled into the fourth
tier of the grandstand at the Polo
Grounds, when* a masculine fan 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
With each of them enjoying a lead
of eight and a half game% over their
nearest ravils. it seemed an absolute
certainty to-day that the Giants and
Athletics would win the pennant in their
respective leagues
It a!so seemed a certainty that unless
the Athletics get hack into the stride
they used earlier in the season, when
they piled up a huge lead, the Gianti
will he rather easy victors in the
world’s series games.
• • •
For more than a mqnth the hatting
"tbs of the Quakertown sluggers ha\t
been very dim. the fielding has been of
the wobbly sort, while the pitching staff
lias been "shot to pieces." Plank, the
veteran southpaw, has been drivt r from
the box in nearly all his past ten starts;
Bender, the Indian, has fared little !>*-t
tot Connie Mack has had to depend on
his youngsters to pull games out of the
fire, and they have been going none to<
well In the last month, a*-- is shown b>
'• «■ fact that the Athletics have not won
' alf the games they have played in that
time.
• • *
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 bold on secoYwi place
that they were shoved down under the
fast-traveling Senators by .003 points
yesterday
9 9 •
The Naps, with a one-game lead over
the Senators for second place position,
open a three-game series with the Ath
letics to-day. while the Sox grapp’e with
the Washington outfit It wouldn't be
surprising if by nightfall the Naps will
be routed from the position of "runner
up." which they have held practically
all season.
seeing his team out of the cellar posi
tion.
• * •
Ray Caldwell, the rejuvenated twirler
of the Yankees, continued his winning
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
series games. He 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 great revenge for
the beating which the Tigers handed
them on Thursday by yesterday mauling
three Tiger pitohers for eighteen runs
and 21 bits, including three doubles and
three triples
• • •
Walter Johnson was at his best yes
terday and as a result the Naps got only
one run and four hits off hfs delivery.
Nothing More Now
Except Pope 'Sixes'
The Pope Manufacturing Company j
of Hartford. Conn., makers of the
Pope-Hartford motor cars. Pope mo-
torcycles and nineteen different makes
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. Price® 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
been sold from $2,250 to $3,250, will
be disposed of at somewhat lower
prices.
Umpire Perrine Held
On Insanity Warrant
Another shift in the American League
standing may come about to-day The
OAKLAND. CAL. Sept. 13.—"Bull”
Perrine. who was an umpire in the
Yanks, by handing several drubbings to j American League last season, is held
the Browns, have lifted themselves up • here on an Insanity warrant. His men-
so high and mighty that a victory for i ta j breakdown is said to have been
them to-day and a reversal for the , . , fc . . . .
Browns will mean the realization of the .caused by sunstroke, which he suffered
all-year dream of Frank Chance—of j in a game in Cleveland in 1911.
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G-O
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By Chick Evans.
T HE crisp, cool September weath
er has sant the blood of the
golfer bounding through hie
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 of 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 with the pleasures of the
game.
There are still, however, interest
ing events to come. The I.adles’
Western and National have not vet
been played, and there is the Na
tional Open at Brookline next week
—the very biggest event In America
—and every one of us golfers is fair
ly aching to see Ray and Vardon
and Massv and Telllar, as well as
our own players, get off their pret
tiest shots for our pleasure and In-
formation.
• • •
TN an editorial in that fine magazine
called Golf we have the following
quotation from The Spectator; "Ul
timately, in a more perfect world
than promises itself at present. !t
may be admitted that it is after’ all
a finer and happier thing to know'
how' to play a game than how to
win a game.”
This English sentiment, spoken
from a higher plane than most 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
t's 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 plac
er doubts bis 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 highest degree It is
a contest between man and man,
where skill for skill’s sake frequently
gives way to various experiences.
If T were not afraid of being mis
understood I should like to say that
match play bears about the 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 by the condi
tion of another man’s w-ork. can be
made an approximately perfect ex
ponent of pure skill: and the pursuit
of the perfect round is the joy and
the soul in golf.
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 wdth 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. J
The winner is to get a chant**? at
Ad Wolgast or Willie Ritchie. Ad
already has made a bid for the match
and Ritchie recently expressed a will
ingness to battls White.
Sports andSuch
N EW YORK, Sept. 13.—pie man
agement of the Atlantic Gar
den, on the Bowery, which has
been promoting boxing matches of
late, helped the manly art of self-
defense considerably by slipping it
a shot of ground glass and then wal
loping it over the head with a sledge
hammer.
They put on John Lester Johnson,
a meerschaum brother, with Samuel
Langford, formerly connected with
the boxing business, but now' busily
engaged In cornering the greatest
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 crow'd.
• * •
M R. JOHNSON, a small negro, en
tered the arena just about the
way a man meet9 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. eH 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. We
wouldn’t for a moment say that
either neglected his duty.
« • •
T HE bell rnnjr. Mr. Langford
crouched over a roll of fat as hist
as a sack of wheat. Mr. Johnson,
the black demon, hia 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 they counted 400. Mr.
T«tngford then put on his kimono
again, gave three cheers for the box
ing commissioners and the Atlantic
Garden, lit a Dig 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
they will battle with the Georgia Tech
huskies on the Grant Park field.
McGoorty Will Start
Training on Monday
CHICAGO. Sept. 13 — Eddie McGoorty.
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.
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WOLGAST, INLV
I IS FIGHTER
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 w’asn'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.
• • • •
THE ring never had a flashier ca-
* reer in its history than that
shown 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 seven 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 w’hipped 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 was 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.
m * •
/"V NE thing always will stand out
magnificently in the Wolgast
record and it is something that no
body can take away from him. No
more courageous man ever tapped \
pair of hands n the boxing arena
than this oelfsame 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*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 Brow’ns, 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 endeavor
as successor to George Stovall.
The Mound City manager arrived In
Chicago during the morning, attend
ed rehearsal in the afternoon and
made ready to catch a train for Cin
cinnati, where he will be present
Monday at the annual drafting pro
ceedings of the big leaguers.
During his connection with the
Brow’ns Rickey devoted the bulk of
his time and attention to the busi
ness affairs of the club and admit
ted upon his arrival here that there
are many angles in the game on
which he needs enlightenment. That’s
why Jie 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
well up in the pennant race next sea
son.
ANOTHER CINCH FOR SAMBO.
CHICAGO, Sept. 13.—Prom6ters from
Kenosha were in Chicago yesterday tc
close a match between Sam Langford,
the negro fighter from Boston, and Cleve
Hawkins, one of Chicago's best ebony-
skinned battlers. Hawkins immediatelj
agreed to the contest and Langford’s
answer is awaited from the East.
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