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1U I J Ill O OU1U//1 I » ” - 1 Sunday American Spc 1 »rti ng 1 Pages I ^ead Ail Others MORE DARING AVIATORS By Tad Copyright, 1913, International News Service. SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT Wolgast Will Surely Box Again +•+ +•* Sports andSuch Loves Game Too Much to Quit Fernando Altimani Covers Over Eight Miles in One Hour—Is Youngest at Game. By James S. Mitchel. (World’s Champion Weight Thrower.) A "I out-and-out walking: "phenom" has come to the front in Italy, and he has begun to make athletic history In such an astound ing manner as to make the European experts gasp with awe. The name of the young wonder is Fernando Altimani. and he has been at tho heel and toe gnine only about two years But. young though he Is, the lad from the sunny land knocked flinders off the one-hour world’s record at Milan, and to make sure that there was no fluke about the style of walking or the time, several outside expels on wulklng and ex perienced timers were invited to wit ness the performance. In the hour Altimani covered 8 miles 677 1-3 yards. This blotted out the world’s record of 8 miles 4SS yards standing to the credit of G. E. learner, of England, since 1906. The Italian is also far ahead of tho professional record made many years ago by Johnny Meagher, an American, who had no equal for fairness and speed in his day. Earlier in the season Utlrnanl made sn assault on Earner's mark an i heat it bv something like twelve rf.r., r.xd this close shave aroused more or less suspicion that the cor rect rules of record-breaking wore not observed. Those who doubted the youngster's effort were not aware that he had undergone a long and careful preparation for the ordeal, and that since he was seen in the Italian championships he had im proved vi oncerfully. Big Hockey League Now Being Planned CLEVELAND, Sept. 10.—An organiza tion has practically been completed of s hockey league composed of several crack teams in the United States and Canada. The promoters back of the league say that hockey has become the most popular winter sport in this coun try and the professional games last win ter were largely patronized The promoters believe that with such cities as New York Boston. Pittsburg, Cleveland. Montreal. Toronto and sev eral other largo cities in the league the [prelect will prove a big financial suc cess. S AN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13.—-Ex- Champion of the World Ad Wol gast is a victim of conflicting emotions. On the evening of the day on which he lost to Joe Asevedo in ten rounds at Oakland, Wolgast satd: “I’m through. I have enough money to live upon and I'm not going to stay around and be a chopping block for fellows who would have been pie for me a couple of years ego." Sitting in the writer's den a few nights later, Wolgast said: "Well, I would not exactly say that I'm through. It would be awkward if I made a crack of that kind, and then an offer came along guarantee ing me three thousand or so to box somebody eix. eight or ten rounds. For that matter I have had a couple of offers already. I'll say this much, though: I don’t think I’ll light again this year. I’m not sure that I'd grab at a chance to box next January even. But I’ll keep right along lighting, just as sure as you’re born, and you’ll heap from me, too.’’ It is the writer’s belief that if a suitable proposal comes along u couple of months from now, Wolgast will forget ull about his determina tion to hold aloof for the balance of the year. For If ever there was a case of vacillation personified, Wol gast. comes pretty near to being it. The trouble with Wolgast is that fighting is his hobby. Some dethroned ring idols can find relief from their troubles in hunting, fishing, automo- blling or what not, but f»>r little Ad the clang of the gong is the siren's song. When he has no fight in prospect he mopes about like a lost sheep. When he attends a glove contest as spectator he is the most wretched be ing the lamps beam upon. Some fighters can enjoy a night off. blit Ad, when he sees ’he other fellows get ting ready and hears the bleachers bellowing, it looks as though he was railing at fate for keeping him out- sid<- the ropes. Knowing these things. 1 take no stock in anything Wolgast may say tr reference to temporary retirement. • • • HP HE w riter witnessed the Asevedo- A Wolgast ten rounds and made up hus mind that it marked the passing of Wolgast as a provider of sterling Queensberrv entertainments. But Ad. after thinking matters over, is there with an alibi. ‘'You’ll admit,” he said, ’‘that I came out of the ring without a, mark. You have to admit it, for that fel low did not place a glove on me hard enough to kill a fly. Now for my end of it. I was a sick man. I contract ed a heavy cold a day or two be fore the bout, and had to stop train ing 1 had sharp) pains through my chest anrl under the shoulder blades Xiicie wno lexer to sveuk of, and 1 thought that when I got into the ring and warmed up a bit I would feel better. 1 soon saw’ that I was up against it, so far as getting started was concerned. “It hurt me to breathe, and it hurt me when I bent over. I ducked just once, and I thought something snap ped at the nape of my neck. It w’as the same when I tried to crouch. The only way was to stand up and cover. You noticed how r he shoved me around. Well, he is a strong boy, all right, but if I had not been in such poor shape he couldn’t have taken liberties like that with ine. •’lie used to got his head under my chin and shove. Why, I’m the oiig- mal kid at that kind of stuff, only that day I couldn't bend my neck. At that I was a little surprised when they gave him the decision, for I hurt him more in one or two rounds than he hurt me in the whole contest. “To make a long story short. 1 know 1 can do better, and I’m going to put myself to the test. The only thing I’m sorry for is that some of my friends lost money on me. You know when you are champion every body bets on you, but when you have had a reverse or tw’o, it’s Just your friends that stick to you and place Their coin on you. And it’s for these friends I am sorry. “I have just come from the doctor, and he tells me I have a touch of pleurisy. That's what ailed me when I fought Azovedo. I was in much the ■*ame condition as w hen I boxed Jack Redntoiio once in Milwaukee. But these things pass away and I’m going to get right. If I felt the way you critics seem to feel about it, I’d never pull on a glove again. But I’m not satisfied, and that’s why I’m going to keep right along fighting.” H AVING got lUmself thoroughly worked up. Ad broached the sub ject that is dearest to his heart. He hates to let go as long as there is even a remote prospect of getting an other crack at Willie Hitehle. It’s a way the ex-champions have— or, at least, the ex-lightweight cham pions. Battling Nelson always called Wolgast a “cheese champion.’’ Ad refers to Ritchie as a “fluke cham pion.” Said he: “I don’t care if Ritchie is defeated before I get around to him. 1 Just want to show that Wolgast ii Ritchie’s master. He admitted as much even after he won my title away from me on a foul. He said that afternoon in the hearing of some of my friends In the Turkish baths that it would be & cold day when he would give me a return match. “Now, it's my aim to place him 1n such a p>o sit ion that he will have to light me. But, <*f course. I’ve got to show the public something or I won’t receive much eucouragement,” A LA MR. BRYAN. O H, MUGQSY M'GRAW. So it's true that you draw Only twenty-five thousand, my dear, For knowing the science Of gutting those Giants On top of the heap every year. You've sure got the punch Hut slip us a hunch, Now ain't it the most you can do To exist on your wage Without woiking ihe stage When the Giants and Mackmen are throughT * • • B AN JOHNSON says an attempt will be made to prevent star .baseball players from “covering the World's scries for newspapers." It is well. Is there any reason why Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson of Hughie Jennings should join the field of “experts’* for one or two weeks out of the year and draw’' a big wad of mon**y for so doing? Why wouldn’t it be just as proper for some well-known base ball writer to be entered as a pinch hitter during the big series? Surely the baseball writer has as much right (spelled right) among the ranks of the players as have the players among the ranks of the writers. But how’ will Ban Johnson and his mighty commission prevent the stars of the baseball firmament from becoming bud-ding journalists? It has been tried before and with out success. At that. Ban is right. The ball players should confine their activi ties to the diamond. * * • r*f,:MM ER ilny* are fading fast. nJ And so on the baseball host H’iJJ join the dim forgotten past. And tee'll read of Hcis and Yost. • • • Y\J IIILE our canine pets can not ^ play golf, they do my there’s many a dog go os to the links. How ever, don’t let this persuade you to quit eating sausage. HE pennants ice win in the spring, tra ta. Ritchie Says He Wants To Be Real •I* • *!* v • v • *t* • v v • *r* *{*• v v«t Declares He Will Fight Every Champion *•*••!* 'hf’h Contender (Willie Ritchie, world’s lightweight | following the nerve-racking theatrical ohampion, anxious to set the general | game. Go to somebody else in the fall. • * * r HE melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year; When the pennant race is on the bum. And the home club's in the rear. WANTED—ONE PIED PIPER; APPLY TO WALLA WALLA WALLA WALLA. WASH . S*pt 13 — j Dixie. Wnah., is sadly in need of a "Pied ' Piper.’’ The rats are so bothersome that many people have given up the raising of chickens. The rodents have been killing the lit tle chicks and also carising away the egg's. The residents state that cats and guns have not been sufficient to make a I showing against them, i Importation of a number of ferrets is being discussed. a*» it is believed by would be «T- focU-Ytf liga.ust the rata. public right on his exact position the boxing world, has asked this newspaper to publish the following letter. Ritchie invites no criticism on the letter, either favorable or ad versely. He simply wishes to state his position and allow the public to be the judge.) By Willie Ritchie. (World’s Lightweight Champion.) rnpMUS is a plain statement of facts, J given to the general public. I am asking the public to read it, so that my position in the boxing world may be known. I realize that through an unfortunate managerial connection I have been misunder stood, and I want to clear away this misunderstanding and have the pub lic. collectively, as my friend. I want to tell why I am meeting Freddie Welsh, the lightweight cham pion of the British Empire, in Van couver on Saturday, September 20, and I aJso want to tell of my plans for meeting other opponents in quick or der after the Welsh battle, provided, of course, I am fortunate enough to retain my title through this bout. Billy Nolan was my manager. He is no longer connected with me in any way. I regard him as a good man ager and a good business man, ex cepting in one thing. I firmly believe that he has the faculty of making his boxer unpopular. It is this one fail ing of his that Induced me to cut away from him. Above all things in the boxing world, I want popularity. 1 want to be remembered as a popular champion, and I realized that if I con tinued under his management I would absolutely lose this chance. This is the only thing I wish to sav against Nolan. Battling Nelson had the same experience with him. I want to meet everv worthy oppo nent who will draw sufficiently with me to warrant a promoter nutting us In the ring. Right now I am matched with Welsh. After that battle I am planning to take on Parky McFarlan-l, l^each Cross and Tommy Murphy, my three greatest contenders. I am aide- stepping nobody. • • * T AM 22 years of nf?e nnd T had never 1 tasted the delights of being finan cially independent until I won the lightweight title. I wish to leave the ring with sufficient money to form a comfortable fortune for one of my tastes, which are extremely modest. But even at 22 a man has but a short time ahead of him in this strenuous ring gamp. I must make all I can as quickly as possible, and at the sam" time I must let the other fellow have a proper share. I can not become independent by Packey McFarland To Quit Fight Game And Enter College NEW YORK. Sept. 10—Packey Mc Farland. one of the greatest boxers the ring has produced, is through with the game. In a few weeks the wlaard who has delighted thousands during the past few years with his wonderful boxing ability will be enrolled as a student at Notre Dame University, where he ex pects to take a full course of study to fit him for a business career. Unless ho receives more money than he has yet drawn down for a bout Packey de clares that he will not engage In any more public bouts. As McFarland dre« down a guarantee of $10,000 for his bout with Matt Wells here, it will not be very easy to coax him back into the ring. McFarland has had nine years of ring work and he thinks It is enough Dur ing that time he has saved money and I WANT TO BOX—AND BOX AS OFTEN A 8 A CHAMPION SHOULD. This is the reason for this letter. No man, even a champion, can draw- big houses unless he Is popular. Therefore, I am appealing to the pub lic for consideration as a worthy champion. I selected Freddie Welsh for my next opponent after defeating Joe Rivers for two reasons. One is tlfat I could get more money with Welsh than with any other opponent. I am drawing $16,000 and my expenses for twenty rounds with him, and also getting 60 per cent of the moving pic ture profits. Right now moving pic tures of a battle between Welsh and myself would be the only money makers in this line on the market. The United States is closed to fight pictures. No other lightweight, ex cepting Welsh, shown In action on a film would draw any money In the British Empire, and It is to Great Britain that we must look for the pic ture profits. I have already refused $10,000 for my 60 per cent. I will eventually get almost twice that much, making my profits on this bout alone about $36,000. In the second place. Welsh defeated me before I became champion. I want to w-ipe out that defeat. None of the other challengers ever defeated ma. Then I believe I am entitled to a chance to clear my slate before tack ling them. . . Again, Welsh is the undisputed lightweight champion of the Britl3fi Empire. The battle has an interna tional aspect, and any good Ameri can boy would like a battle of this sort. Not since Kid Lavigne defeated Dick Burge in 1896 has each a battle been fought. . - 1 have been criticised for solng away from my native land to fight. Lavigne \*as not criticised; rather he was lauded. Show me any man who will not desert his native shores for six weeks if he can clean up $35,000 in so doing. XTOW for Ad Wolgast The otgotlsti- lN eal. foul-mouthed. foul-acting Wolgast and his bombastic manager. Tom Jones, rushed into print chal lenging me for $25,(100 a side. I ac cented and told them to show their monev. I am not a gambler and would not bet $25,000 of my own money on such a bout, but within 24 hours after Wolgast made such a statement five prominent Ban Franciscans came to me and offered to place the side bet for me at a moments notice. Then came Tom Jones pleading that I should not hold liirn to boastful challenge beaten and almost out in our cham pionship battle. Now, be must make good his bet, and only when he does w’ill he have a chance to meet me in the ring. The boxing game w-ould be better off without him in it. I am now negotiating for a battle with Packey McFarland, right after the Welsh affair. I will meet McFar land at 135 pounds at ringside, a weight he declares he can make. At that I am giving him at least two pounds advantage, and that counts considerable with little men. • • • MEXT comes Leach Cross, another ^ legitimate contender. I propose to take them all in the order named. I w’ill be in New York right after the McFarland battle, provided it goes through, and if not. right after the Welsh bout. Cross will then be con sidered and the best offer to meet him accepted. Next comes Harlem Tommy Mur phy. The same thing that applies to Cross applies to him. I am just as anxious to meet him as I am to meet the'others. All I want is a reasonable business arrangement for the man who holds the title. McFarland. Cross Welsh nor Murphy can draw only one-quarter as much with any other opponent as they can draw with the champion; therefore, the champion is entitled to his proper proportion of the financial results. This is logic that can not be refuted. P. Sentell Springs Come-Back Stunt; Manager Now Speaking of “come-backs,” Calla han, McQuillen et al. haven’t got a look-in with Peppery Paul Sentell Released by Billy Smith in the midst of the 1912 season as a helpless phys ical wreck and a baseball derelict Monsieur Paul fooled them all by rounding to form in the fall of that year and then further startled the credulous ones by signing as utility man with the Mobile Gulls, the run ners-up, this spring. But Sentell’a greatest achievement is yet to be told He has now signed as manager of the Galveston club of the Texas League Monsieur was alawys extremely popular in the Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas districts, and the proposed series between the Gulls and th« Houston Buffs, when it was thoughl that Mobile wmuld annex the gonfa lon, brought him stll more to the at tention of the Lone Star rfloguls. Aft er a efw days spent in negotiations, an agreement was reached. In order that Sentell might take ad vantage of the opportunity given him, Mique Finn released Paul outright, the Irishman doing the square thing even after he had been soured by the loss of the bunting. Sentell faces a big task at Galves ton, as the club finished seventh this year and must be completely reor ganized. If Paul succeeds in pulling the aggregation up Into the running, it will be no little achievement. Sentell knows baseball from A to Z, and hundreds of his friends in this burg will wish him every sucres* in his new role. AB°VE all, I want the general pub- ^ Pl’clisillff MclttVj ** 11c to know that I am a fighter; T\ 11 n . t> fighter not a seeker after theatrical dates. The biggest error ever made in hand ling a boxer was made in the hand ling which kept me for 26 weeks on a theatrical circuit, and caused a fusil lade of adverse criticism to be direct ed at me from two-thirds of the lead ing boxing writers in the country. Remember, I am not saying that I But in this one matter X must have my own way. Don't Forget Brown CHICAGO, Sept. 13.—New York writers are extremely proud of the thirteen years’ work done by Mathew son, and it makes up a wonderful record, all right—but they seem to _ _ forget that Mordecal Brown, in seven will refuse to accept fitiort theatrical ! years, did Just about as much pitch- ' ■ ing as Matty did in thirteen. The old boy with the “pruned" hand crowded an awful amount of toil into his career, and still is toiling. II probably will startle most of the fans to learn that Brown has been in on« more game than Mathewson up to date this season—36 to 35—although Brownie didn t get into shape to work till much later than the New York wonder. engagements in the future, but I am saying, and I am binding mvgelf to this statement, that I will allow no theatrical engagement to Interfere with a real fight, and I am also bind ing myself to cancel any engagement I may have on two weeks’ notice to meet anv legitimate challenger that the public may select. Before I finish with my leading op ponents T am going to clean out the whole lightweight division, or lose my title in the attempt. I am either go ing to be a BFAI. champion or re linquish the title to some other man. My old friend, Harry Foley, Is now associated with me in business and Princeton Coaches Must Develop Her Football Squad PIUNCRTON, N. J.. Sept. 13.—Foot ball practice has started at Princeton, but the coaches are facing one of the most serious problems that ever con fronted men who are trying to evolve a championship team. It will be necessary to develop an al most entirely new squad, as nearly all of the best men have graduated from tlie university. Here’s the loss among the linemen alone: Arthur Bluethenthal. all-Amer ican center; 11. O. Andrews, one of the 1912 ends; W. G. Penfield, tackle; W. J. Logan, all-American guard, and W. G. Wight, end. In addition to this heavy loss, Shenk will be unable to play. This leaves only one veteran in the line, G. F. Phillips, a tackle The line will have to be built from the freshman squad mainly Among the other missing stars are Captain Pendleton, W. L. Dewitt and E. O. Waller, all baokfield men. Both De- Witt and Waller will be Ineligible. The -; I training and he coincides with me in each and every one of the above statements. T am only asking the public to read this letter, thoroughly digest the contents, and then allow me the opportunity to prove that I mean every word of it. invested wisely, with the result that he j freshmen class will turn out some good now has a bank account running well j men. incuding Captain Semmona at up into six figures He will celebrate j ^^rovTit^tftJkle^M.^w"^? : next, and figures that there is yet time around the captain. H. A. (“Hobey’’) for a college course before settling down to some business. McFarland is now’ in this city as the guest of Billy Gib s'*n. and will return home during the Cvniing week. Baker. The field coaches this season are Ar- ! thur Bluethenthal and H. G. Andrews, } succeeding T. A. Wilson and Logan j running',; W. G. Pen lie lei w'-»l act as coach. * New Track Mark Set By Uhlan in 1:59 3-4 HAMLINE. MINN., Sept. 13.—Uhl an, 1:63, established a new State ret ord at the Great Western races here, trotting a mile in 1:69 3-4. Track conditions were not favorable for the champion to break a world’s record. ATLANTA COLLEGE CF PHARMACY Twenty-two years of remarkably successful work. Greater Vmaivi for ott graduates than we can supply. Best attendance south Philadelphia. Begins October 6th. Address GEORGS F. PAYNE, PH. G., President, 255 Courtland lt^ Atlanta, Georgia, PAY ME FOR CURES ONLY ff yo* kwo t*kiM timt•**» t far voofc* nrd kg . . (nii nit jrujr hurt! e.vood motty wit***t Mr*d, «*»'t vm \ * k tlJM w PR. HUGHES' GSANO UFFtSt \ Vo* will cprtulr.iy »9t ^ nut r n«v; saotivy tf not ‘rerfd. 0*»- FZmrTlV*, \ wttnflM a*4 RitairlnatUfl tr* f nt It «»• iwxt HiHtr rfarl, V li 1 dacide tj»*t |'-*cr •endirioo iriU net rMd It no 4Gr A tnuraenU 1 Mh be bgc**t *Hli yo* tad t*i! fm>. to, ted oa» m- W \ c<et your money (Wider A ptaar. t«« of * fure. a , J m. tndnuBt wth suit tf I «U s/to m* m «inc*t rafctsHog dUthtne: ''n KIDNEY, BLABOER AND URINARY N. > TROUBLE, STRICTURE. 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