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A SCHOOL SUGGESTION
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Copyright, 1913, International News Servlet-
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C ‘ UMES now a rumor that the
Dobbs-Lookouts deal is entire
ly off. with both side? shedding
grief 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.
It comes right out and sav? J.
Dobbs is under signature with C.
Frank to operate the N?’.v Orleans
breadwinner in the next campaign.
* • *
ALL of which moves one to inquire
tv 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
season ?
Hardly.
If so. you would envy .1. Dobbs as
co-manager with the Pepper Kid.
would you not?
You would not.
• # •
\1 OW that it seems certain Harry
IN Welchonce finished in front of
Pave Robertson by a batting spurt
it the wire, it does seem rather a
pity Harry isn't to be decorated with
ti;e medai of honor.
Dave'S slump came coincidentally
with that of his club, right at the
most important stage of the whole
ra«‘e.
Harry’s sound walloping kept step
vith the sprint of his club—and
helped the sprint.
Not heaving Irish confetti at Dave,
course—but which batsman would
have won the Rose medal, had it
been awarded like the Chalmers
trophies in the big leagues?
* * •
S PEAKING of Dave, however, It is
noted that a $500 option—a scan
dalously economical figure, by the
na yw-has just been exercised by John
Ml draw. Who has hauled the big
-lugger out of this league to Join his
Giants.
It in said to be Muggsy's intention
. „se Davey in most of the remain-
ttt games this year, provided the
n ,'e doesn't grow too close—which It
wortjt*
A good many fans around the
pifhern League, by the way. don't
I 4IV that Dave primarily is a pitcher
, ill a busted shoulder. A football
lie accounted for the bum whip,
eh since lias worked around In
J shape, so that McGraw has a
ibination in the new man.
it we can't see Dave nosing
Jj- Teareau. Marquard or Demtt-
0 f a regular turn on the slab,
neat season.
* * *
old friend Slim Love, com*
lonly known as the Human Of-
lilding, is making quite a hit
shington.
got into a game for one in-
he other day and dazzled the
osition quite successfully. being
•h batted for in the next frame.
vever.
hhe hunch is that W. Johnson hat
taken a fancy to the tall boy's fast
ball—Walter having quite a fondness
for smoke, it seems—while Boehling,
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 his 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 reawn of
his terrific hitting and long-distance
pegging.
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 heighth.
Trig 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.
VV7ITH 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 somo
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 his Home Town next spring.
Kilbane Is Out j Charley Hemphill
To Battle All On Suspended List
Foes This Fall
C HICAGO, Sept. 14.—Johnny Kil
bane, the Cleveland colt, w\\o
holds the featherweight title,
is out with the announcement that
he will be as busy as 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
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 very active in the defense
of my title of late. But l am going
to get busy soon. I will make no
more careful fights from now on.
Every bout 1 engage in will be a bat
tle. I intend to become the Terry
McGovern of the feathers and stop
as many challengers as I can. I have
spent most of the summer on a farm
outside of 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 lie 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 a
chance with him? He will not risk
his title at any other no'ch, 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 be refusal 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.
WILLIA MST< >V \. PA. Sen) M
Thirty-five candidates have reported for
positions on the Williams College foot
ball team.
CHICAGO, Sept. 14.—The following
contracts and releases since August 23
ftrere announced to-day by President
Chivington, of the American Associa
tion :
Contracts: Columbus, Charles Rob
erts; Indianapolis, Cecil Wetzel, George
Wheeler; Kansas City, Leslie G. Dan
iels, George W. Harper, W. J. Matticks,
Frank Ij&nge. Lewis Richie, Morris C.
Rath; Louisville, Ben White, Thomas
Downey; Milwaukee, Oscar Felsch, Wil
liam Powell; Minneapolis. Joe Lake,
Henry Rondeau; St. Paul, Henry
Schreiber; Toledo, Clarence Teague.
Releases: Indianapolis to Louisville,
Thomas Downey; to Terre Haute,
George Wheeler; to Springfield, Ohio,
J. J. Gettman; St. Paul to Boston
Amerieans. "Walter Reng; Minneapolis to
Detroit Americans. Ralph Comstock.
Suspenisons; Toledo. Grover Land;
St. Paul, Charles Hemphill.
Reinstated: Indianapolis, R. R Cot
ter.
Yale Expects Much
Of Kicker Pumpelly
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 13.—Grover
things are expected by the Yale coaches
this year of Howard Pumpelly, w'ho as a
substitute last year made a 51-foot
drop kick, believed to be the longest
ever made. Pumpelly has been doing
some astonishing booting during the past
few years nnd the coaches are giving a
large part of their time to further de
veloping him.
The squad of candidates will not be
sent into scrimmage work until next
week, the coaches being satisfied to drill
them just now in passing and falling on
the ball.
Umpire Perrine Held
On Insanity Warrant
OAKLAND, CAL., Sept. 14.—"Bun”
Perrine, who was an umpire in the
American League last season, is held
here on an insanity warrant. His men
tal breakdown is sa;d to have been
caused by sunstroke, which he suffered
in a game in Cleveland in 1011.
Nothing More Now
Except Pope ‘Sixes'
The Pope Manufacturing Company
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." 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
been sold from M.1S0 to $3,250, will
be disposed of at somewhat lower
prices.
Golfers Practicing
For Open Tourney
NEW HAVEN. Conn., Sep. 14 —Great
Practically the entire • field of golfers,
both foreign ami domestic, had arrived
to-day for the open American golf
championship, which starts Tuesday on
the links of the Country Club. The
practice has bten almost continuous
during the past few days, and to-day
more than 120 professionals and ama
teurs made tours of the links.
Nearly all the prominent foreign play
ers have made many rounds of the
course. Among the Americans who
played to-day was Jack McDermott, the
titleholder. Verder and Ray, of Eng
land, who have played the course a
dozen times, went to New' Jersey to
day, but will return here Sunday for
more practice.
Walters Hands Out
Beating to Denny
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 14.— Billy
Walters, Chicago welterweight, made it
two wins over Young Denny, of thi* city,
here last night. Outside of one round,
the first. Walters whs the better man
In six of the ten rounds the Windy City
boxer established a clean lead.
Although he put up a clean and cred
itable tight, the local youth was clearly
outfought in practically every round ex
cept iho first, in which he caught Wal
ters off his guard by a tigerlike jump
across the ring
Denny took what probably is the worst
lacing he had ever been called upon to
assimilate in a ring
T HE crisp, cool September weath
er has sent the blood of the
golfer bounding through his
veins in a wonderful manner and
made these last few days most en
joyable on the links. Many plavers
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 Ladies’
Western and National have not yet
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 Massy and Tellier, as w'ell 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 w-orld
than promises itsejf at present, it
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
sess somew-hat of skiil, 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 ills 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 g.ime, while match play, not
to he 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 iR
a contest between man nnd 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 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 work, 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, Sept. 14.—Charley
White finished his training to-day for
his 10-round battle In Racine Mon
day night with Mickev Sheridan. The
latter hopes to upset White and will
find valuable aid in his endeavor.
Harry Gilmore, Hr., veteran light
weight, will second Sheridan.
The winner is to get a chance at
Ad Wolgast or Willie Ritchie. Ad
ahe«d\ has made a bid for the match
and Ritchie recently expressed a wiH-
ingness to battle White.
N EW YORK, Sept. 14.—The man
agement of the Atlantic Gar
den, on the Bowery, which has
been promoting boxing matches of
late, helped the manly set of self-
defense considerably fcj slipping it
a shot of ground glass and then wal
loping it over the head with a sledge
hammer.
They put on John Legter Johnson,
a meerschaum brother, with Samuel
I^vngf^rd, 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 crowd.
• • •
M R. JOHNSON, a small-negro, en
tered the arena just about the
way a man meets the electric chair.
Had he worn clapper,? 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 futter. ell 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 rang. Mr. Langford
crouched over a roll of fat aR big
as a sack of wheat. Mr. Johnson,
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 they counted 400. Mr.
Langford then put on his kimono
again, gave three cheers for the box
ing commissioners and the Atlantic
Garden, lit a olg 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 State* Army,
former West Point football captain, and
all-American tackle, is to coach the
Fort McPherson eleven this fall. Lieu
tenant Devore wan 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 ft number of gridiron ex
perts to he the best tackle of his time,
an eleven to he feared by all contenders
for Southern honors will probably be
developed. . , _
The first gome 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
OH7GAGO, Sept, li Fiddle 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
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McGoorty declares he will beat the
Pittsburg “bear cat” and then take on
Jimmy Clab by.
By Ed W. Smith.
A D WOLGAST hag 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 p\en 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
w’ell by the 30-year mark and wasn't
considered old as iong as lie 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 ILE 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 ill 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 bark
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 ns 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 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.
• • •
O 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 a
pair of hands in the boxing arena
than thin 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 wmuld have been whipped
to a frazzle long before he was, be
cause he never realized the In por-
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 was at his best and the un
doubted champion among the 158-
pounders of the day!
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Rickey Takes Lessons
From Ban Johnson
CHICAGO, September 14.--Branch
Rickey, newly ordained leader of the
8L Louis Browns, attended President
B. B. Johnson’s class in baaebaU
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*
ceedlngs of the big leaguers.
During his connection with the
Browns 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 need* enlightenment. That**
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
well up in the pennant race next sea
son.
ANOTHER CINCH FOR SAMBO.
CHICAGO, Sept. U —Promoters from
Kenosha were in Chicago yesterday to
close & match between Sam Langford,
the negro fighter from Boston, and Qeve
Hawkins, one. of Chicago’s best ebonv-
skinned battlers Hawkins immediately
agreed to the contest and Langfordfe
answer is awaited from the East.
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ami bridge of the note. It is very de
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as the cause of lupus U from Impurities
In the blood supply. The onl> known
method of cure Is to get the blood sup
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on the network of small blood vessels
and glands In the skin.
Not one drop of minerals or drugs l$
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In eloquence over so” ■ tiling “just as
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