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C U. Karland ixn'l going to re’tra
HTCAOO. ILL., Dec. I.-Parke/
from the rin* Chicagoa gen
tleman boxer, and without question
til® greatest ring man since rhe best
days of TounK Griffo. to-day mail*
this statement, following a question
of whether he would quit the ring aft
er joining the ranks of the benedicts.
A story that tile stockyards battler
would retire on his wedding .lay
prompted the question.
Par-key is to be married In April to
Mias Margaret 1-oughran, a Joliet
heiress and society girl, but the ring
will not lose him, save for the bri -f
period of his honeymoon, which he I
believes will stretch over four months.
And even in that time tho squared
circle will ha\e tile pleasure of the
Chicagoan, but only in the form of
tsixing exhibitions, it is McKanumrs
plan to tour the world witli IT bride, i
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-Mrs. Moran
Not to Retire.
“Why should J retire?" With ail
the seriousness Ilia 1 human rnind pos
sesses. McFarland asked that ques
tion ‘Fightln* to me is a business
.lust like any other business is to our
leading business men. I don’t -* *e
«nv of our successful business men
retiring when in their b^st years, *■»
why should 1"
"1 have made a deep study of the
game, am one of the leaders *n nr.
profession and, I might add, a rre lit
io the game; «* why quit? True. I
have a small fortune, ilie harvest for
my years of ring toil, but Rockefeller
and others lia\e millions and thi.\
are still at the grind. I’m young »nj
active, and so long as the boxini
game brings me no regrets 1*1! con
tinue
Pat key *tiil has several years to go
1n the ring, judging from ills present
work, for there’s hardly a man of iis
weight who ran give him what s
commonly termed a run for lus
Money.” The stockyards iad admitted
that on several occasions he had de-
* lared he would retire, but such slat* -
inents were forced, he says. In lix
talk he made It dear tiiat there isn't
m man in the ring to-da? he f'-ars
lie believes no lightweight or weite' -
weight alive can give him more ih iit
* good work-out. but he goes on the
theory why battly the big mrn wli A n
v<>u ran gel plenty of good men who
ran make from 13t«* HO rounds
Fights Against Being Marked.
"When the flgniimt game become*
such that T must take a beating tor
ihe money It brings me, when I must
be disfigured 'ike Bantling Nelson,
Johnny Thompson and some of 'lie
Ait her men who have been marked for
life by the vii-iousness in the squared
circle, then 1 will hoist up the Hag
and say quits, but such a time seems
far distant to me," declared the Irish,
man.
1 studied tire game not to be »
*1 t*ggcr and mauler, but to be a box-
nr -the manly ait of self-defense, in
ell these years l haven’t been murkt 1
* -why go in for the brutal stuff now ’
T ien, too, the bigger men meaning
in matter «*r weight the more k»uel-
ing the battle, the more punishing.
Some day I’ll box it 14£» or 150 pounds,
but that time isn't near. I'm a fight
er. as they say. hut no one dreads
more than l do to see what la i« rnn d
*t slaughter in the ring
‘I nave been studying law for al
most two \ears now. Some dav I
hope to be admitted to the bur and
be one of »’hicae-o’s big lawyers \t
*-uch a time, of course. I’ll retire"
Class Follows Packey.
M» I 'ariand w ent on at !en°'h to tell
of his ring earnings, which reach al
most $200,000 -included in this bebig
the profits of his various investments
--but he laughs at the glory published
recently that he would quit the game.
Vackt > has worked up a following!
among ilie lovers of the manly art of j
self-defense such as few men of the
ring have, if any
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Four Champs of His Class.
S AN FRANCISCO, CAB.. Dec 8 -
While watching Harlem Tomm*
Murphy at work In his gymna
sium and noting the evident zest
with which he tackles his exercises
and the energy he infuses into the
things he does. It is hard to realize
all i he sturdy little New Yorker has
been through in tHe boxing line.
The fact remains that Murphy has
flourished contemporaneously with
four world’s champions In his divi
sion that he has seen three of them
pass into defeat and out of the lime
light. and is now about to box the
fourth after many years of waiting
for a chance at the blue ribbon.
To those who do not know Murphy
or have not seen him in action, a re
cital of this kind might suggest tha»
if is hardly fair to expect such vet
eran to cope, successfully witli a
strong young fallow like Wi'lie Ritc h
ie. but that’s the wonderful thing
about Murphy.
A glance at Murphy’s record is
highly Interesting. it contains the
names of such performers ;•« Kid
Broad, Young Corbett, Benny Yanger,
Terry McGovern and Frankie Ne!\.
lighters who have been out of (lie
game these many year*
When the Buuhng Nelson Joe Gnus
feud was at its height ’Pommy was
fighting such men as Reach Cross.
Matty Baldwin and Packey Me Fa r
land, and this is ample proof that he
wouid have been a fair enough cham
pionship candidate at that time if the
chance had come his way
Murphy was nov4r seriously con -
aideted as an opponent for Gails, but
Battling Nelson, it i.« claimed, reso
lutely refused to sign with the lla
lem boy. giving as a reason that Mm
piiy tried io "put one over" on him
while giving an exhibition with eight
oun. o gloves at the Polo Grounds In
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Eddie Hanlon Gets Go
With Jack Robinson
UNCLE TOM.
Jot I min slum/ upon the bhh7. that
uun >nmftt hid fin him.
.1 itit in liis 1'oit‘e tln'it teas a hopt -
lt‘*s quiver.
In pleading tones tu raised his voive
to Herrmann, cold and grim:
' Ih,n't send me to SI l,ouis down
the rirer
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News of the Ring Game.
F>v O. B. Keeler.
Cycle Demons Off
On Six-Day Grind
VKW YORK. I>a«- * The annual
fix-day bicycle race aiaried a> 12:01
o'clock thin morning in Madlaon
S<iuare Garden Seventeen teams an
swered the allot oT the pistol and
ompleted the Hrat mile in 2:07 1 -K.
Peter Drobach. of tlie Jersey Skeet-
ers team of Urobat h and Halstead,
was leading the bundled ridels
This is the twenty-first race of its
kind to be held in the big.amphithea
ter.
Hast year Rutt and Fogier, the
winning team covered onl> 2.«61
miles, live laps, far behind the record
of 2.737 miles, one lap, made by Mc
Farland and Moran in 1908 Follow -
ing is the list of teams
Jersey Skeeters—Peter Drobach,
trermajiy; Alfred Halstead. Sacra
mento. Cal
Internjitional—Edward F. Root.
New York; Reggie McNamara, Aus
tralia.
Australian -Jackie Clarke, Austra
lia; Paddv O'Sullivan Hehir. Austra-
Mutt and Jeff—John Bedell. lx>ng
Island; Frank Corry, Australia
Italian—Franceaco N’errl, Maurice
Brocco, Italy.
Australian-American—Alfred Goul-
le’, Australia . Joe Fogier, New York.
Newark—Fred Hill, Newark, N J.;
Martin Ry r an. Newark. N. J.
German—Willy Appelhaus, Ger
many. Herman Packebusch, Ger
many
French—Andie Perchlcot, Francs;
Petit Breton. FVance.
Motor Chasers—Elmer Colljna.
Bynn. Mass Bobby Walthour. At
lanta Ga.
Dt»nisii—Norman Anderson. Den
mark; Norman Hansen. Copenhagen.
Iris'.i Melbourne—James Francis
Moran, ‘‘helsea, Mass , Alfied Grsn-
<ia, Tasmania.
Kudo* Hanlon, local welterweight
will be given a true test of his abil
ity when he stacks up against Jack
Robinson, the veteran ringmain in a
fifteen-round bout at Jacksonville.
Fla., on December 16. Eddie will be
forced to give away several pounds
in weight, us Robinson will scale
around the 155-pound figure, while
Eddie can easily make 142.
Billy Rut*, manager of Hanlon, has
secured Frank Baker to work with
1 (union every evening in preparation
for the scrap Should Eddie defeat
Robinson lie will be in line for
some good matches.
In spite of the prevailing prices of
meat, it is estimated that the f>0O pounds
of t>eef exhibited In Madison Square
Garden yonder eve could not be^sold for
30 cents.
The reported death of Yuself Mahmout
is unfounded, but up to date we have
not been aole to learn who threw the
Bui In Bulgaria.
C OMES now n i$ter from some
body signing himself, frankly,
"SORKH EAl) "
\Ye admire frankness, and there'
no danger of our picking out Mr.
Sorehead to fuss with, although he
does not appear, in our humble esti
mation, to he slightly outside the
reservation: as much a» one leg over
the fence, anyway.
Here’s what it’s all about.
But it would be a rather quaint
idea to plaster five thousand Beats out
, back of the Bull sign to be occupied
j twice, or maybe three times, in a sea-
! son.
it is a patriotic idea that Atlanta
> apt to turn out 20,000 fans* to any
important game,. But it would be an
expensive idea to construct a plant
that would hold that many, and carry
that overhead expense aiong day
after day. with only ivfo or three
thousand in the whole works
If they make ir the Big 1J. the
team that finishes in last plat e will have
a ready-made alibi
Leache* Cross complains that his pur
suit of Joe Rivers Is a failure, but there
Is a suspicion that Leaches is pursuing
on low speed
Prep Schools in
Cross-Country Run
In view of the fact that it la against
I'e rules t.» play two shortstops simul
taneously in one game, it is hard to
understand why Fred t’larke wants to
buy Joe Tinker.
'THE frank genr comas to bat with
1 a roast gf the Atlanta Baseball
Association for not roofing over and
seating the Red Mountain in rlgh*
field at Ponce DeEeon, so that over
flow crowds attending Crucial Series
between Atlanta and Mobile won’t
have to accumulate rheiimaties and
summer colds and influenza and
other brands of Wheeze** from con
tact with Mother Earth.
In fact, he objects to pay ing his
two-bits, or may ban his four-bits, for
a perch on the Red Mountain.
1 T is quite possible the same fans
1 that object to'the S. R. o. sign
om e or twice a year also would be
ready to suggest that some more
money be expended on ball players,
so as to get a team that would finish
high enough up to bring out the S.
R. O. crowds
Wha t ?
The annual crosn-countrv run of
the local prep schools will be held at
3.30 this afternoon
The runners will start at Baker
street, run along Spring street to
Fourteenth street, and return. The
distance for this course is 3.18 miles.
The teams that have entered so far
are Boys’ High. Maris* College. G M.
A. and Peacock-Fleet Each team
will be composed of ten men.
Mr. Herrmann's highest ambition
would be fulfilled if he could only find
a capable manager who could tend bar
under the stand between Innings
Publicity is not always a blessing.
As a result of the report that Packey
McFarland is worth $200,000, he is en
tirely surrounded by politicians.
The most remarkable feature of that
triple play. Zielinski tqfPlaseckl to Dent-
ski. is that the official scorer recorded It
without spraining his wrist.
U7E clasp hands with affectionate
" sentiment on the proposition that
a Red Mountain is nothing to sit on,
especially. If the weather be muggy
and the clay sticky*.
But as to adding several thousand
to the seating capacity of the pres
ent plant, just to provide for the
overflow of a couple, or even as many
as fovr games in the season—that is
something else again.
Wells and Carpentier
In Long Go To-night
NEW YORK. Dec 8 —Bombardier
Wells. English heavyweight champion,
and Georges Carpentier. the French
tltlehoMer. are scheduled to meet in
a twenty-round go to-night at the Na
tional Sporting Club. London. Al
though both have been knocked out.
Wells by A! Palzer and Gunboat Srn th.
and Carpentier by Frank Klaus and Bill
Papke, there is much rivalry between
them Wells claims he was ill when
Carpentier stopped him nearly a vear
ago in four rounds They will fight for
• n purse
Tom Lynch, presiding at the next Na
tional League meeting, will feel some
what like a man attending hla own fu
neral.
INTENSIVE FAKING.
Con til that dag tost whose low de
scending sun
Sees not another baseball fake begun.
I F the present plant were destined
1 to remain in statu quo (!. e., as is)
for six or eight years to come the
suggestion would not be without
merit. But it is pretty certain that
a new grandstand tvill be erected In
less than half that time, and it’s no
gix-xl building new stands just to
make second-hand lumber from in
a season or two.
That’s one way to look at it.
Cross Gives Up His
Quest for Rivers Go
-"“It)' Baldwin, who h*x been «iicuk-
! "K in fistic battles for naariv fifteen
"111 meet Johnny Griffiths in^
'»n-rm„Ki go In -Mcron Ohio" iS-nlghf
Although a real veteran ar th«* »a'me
Many is still capable of siting the^best
of them a tough argument.
Bob McAllister, the Western li K ht-
tteiKht. makes his Gotham debut \\>d-
n ‘Shf. when he tackles Alike
Donut att be tore Billy Gibson s club Mc-
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By R. L. MurdJck.
B oston, mass.. Dec. 8.—By the
sale of the entire western inter
est in the Red Sox to Joseph J.
Lannin, laie of South Boston but now
of Forest Hills, together with the com
ing retirement of President McAleer
in favor of his successor. "President”
l^annin. our old friend and near-fel
low citizen Garland (Jakei Stahl,
takes sweet revenge.
Jake had to wait just about flve
months to take, it out of the hide of
James R. McAleer for that memorable
afternoon out in Chicago when James
.said to Jake:
"Bear, it!"
When James said those classic
words—or something to that effect—
James pulled the pillars of the .Red
Sox temple down around his own
ears.
Both on the Outside Now.
Which is another way of saying
that James has now joined Jake on
the outside looking in and you can’t
discover to-day—no. not with a
Yerkes (not Steve's) telescope—
where James is one nickel better off
than Jake Stahl. No, not as good as,
even, because Jake i» merrily bank
ing out in the wilds of Chicago while
James who is a baseball man by
trade and lifelong practice, does not
know how to bank or how to do any
of those useful things and must per
force seek baseball occupation else
where while Jake is already hooked
up for the winter and then some.
Without going back into the ques
tion of whether James ought to have
wielded the ax so rudely and fero-
i iously and effectively upon Jake’s
neck last summer, it is pertinent to
show*how Jake "came back” to
ehoriTe. which he may safely do when
Joseph J. Lannin takes possession of
a half interest in the Boston Amer
icans. which he expects to do before
next Monday when the annual meet
ing of the club is scheduled to be
held At that time a new board of
directors will he elected and a mem
ber thereof advanced to the pres
idency in place of McAleer.
It is understood that the 500 share?
of Red Sox stock not owned by the
Taylors -of Boston, w'ho own the re
maining 500 shares, have been held
collectively by the Westerners who
produced the $150,000 which bought a
half interest two years ago. That is,
il is understood that none of this
stock could be sold without the con
sent of all of those who were inter
ested in its ownership unless ir was
sold to some other member of the
party.
It is also understood that an agree
ment was made either ai the time
of tiie purchase from the Taylors or
two or three months ago—that it,
t>^ V» a u Ch has been clinched between
Bob AI° ha the crack light heavyweight
of Milwaukee, and .lack FitzceralTT the
I'mladelphla ringinan. TheyLlU Gash
Thursday Inijthi b0ut in ^ -
Won't Discuss Dates
With Ban Johnson
Packey McFarland. If he has been
quoted correctly, has a ,-alm and cheer'
ful theory of boxing, fine for himself
nice for his opponents, but rather se
vere on the public. Packey is supposed
to have said tn Chicago: "1 never trv
o h JT.5Z m l n ' 1 , am perfectly willing
to go along, box nice and pretty, ana
do r.o harm—as long as fhev don't get
fresn and try to hurt me/'
Anti thru, hrforr annlhrr day 8in»!
died.
\Yr »rr Ihr utorp heatedly drnird '
And 1h hk Iht IniKtltall expert's irork
is done:
Hi make* tiro hlnrirs prow irhere
there teas mine.
ANOTHER point
* *• It occurs to us that the hard
ship at roosting on the Red Moun
tain occurred only twice w hile we
were on the job—that is, after Julv
17. '
And Atlanta put on a grand finish,
and drew a fine line of attendance all
that time.
EOS ANGELES. Dec 8. Ap
parently giving up hope of enticing
Joe Rivers into another ring engage
ment In the near future, Sam Wa’-
lach, manager of Leach Cross, to
day notified Promoter McCarey that
Leach wouid accept the Pacific .ath
letic Club's offer of a New Ye.,r'. ;
date to box the winner of the An
derson -Rarrieu fight to-morrow
night. Cross haa a knockout over
Anderson to hie credit.
Cross, of course, would prefer a re
turn match with Rivers, but the Mexi
can lightweight Is hot aPcr White
Ritchie, and unless the champion re
fuses to give him a battle, tho’e is not
much probability of Cross and Rivers
hooking up again. Ritchie has in
formed Rivers lie will give him a
definite reply after Itis bout with Har
lem Tommy Murphy.
Cross will not go to San Francisco
to attend the Rltchle-Murphy strap
Wednesday of next week, but will be
at the Vernon ringside to-morrow
r.iglit to see his two prospe. ,:ve op-j
p ments in action.
According to reports from h;s t'ain- |
ing camp. Anderson Is in tip-.op . on-
'' Temple lias been matched to
meet Joe Sherman in a ten-round bout
at Superior, Mis., on December 11.
Johnny Kilbane and Abe Atteli will
clash In a twenty-round set-to ar San
r ranctsco on February 22.
Loral boxers are having a contest as
to who ts the best tango dancer. Mike
raul and Frank Balter are having a
neck and neck race Meyer Pries is out
Tor the "booby” prize. From his re-
eent perfownance he has a good chance
of landing it.
Frankie Conley. ex-bantamweight
champion of the world, is still fooling
PITTSBURG, Dec 8—President
Barney Drevfuss, of the Pittsburg
Baseball Club, made it plain to-day
tiiat. there can be no discussion of
1914 schedules between himself and
Ban Johnson, president of the Amer
ican League, at present.
The local magnate received a let
ter from Johnson, suggesting ihal
the two get together before the Na
tional League's annual meeting to
consider the 1914 schedule.
'.Mr. Johnson is evidently laboring
under a wrongs impression." said
Dreyfuss after reading the letter. "I
have absolutely no authority to make
'A ssi*' Knrl 111 x. f a r* tli,, V,, t 1 r
MILWAUKEE AFTER BLACKBURN
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 8.—The MJlwau
kee team to-day began negotiations for
the purchase of Russell Blackburn, tin
sensational shortstop now owned by
Charles Comiskey. of the Sox. The
owners of the Milwaukee club appre
ciate the fact that Blackburn wm the
keynote of Clark’s championship club
DO YOU NEED HELP of any kind? A
little "Want Ad” will get tt for you
* Iiu autnuiiij t kj uiani
a schedule for the National League.
Our committee will not be appointed
until the meeting to-morrow, and 1
may not be named on it at all. ’
with the boxing gloves. Frankie bat
tles Knockout ’ Mars in a scheduled
Southern League to
Meet Here Next Week
, ri di iit-uuiru
ton-round bout at Cincinnati. Ohio, to-
r , £* lt - boy who gave
Johnny Kilbane a hot scrap a few weeks
ago.
Another bout of interest takes place
to-night between Jim Flynn and Bat
tling Levinskv In New York. Levinsky
is Danny Morgan’s rising heavyweight
star He should have a tough' nut to
crack in this Flynn party, who. although
fading, knows enough to put up a good
bout against the best of them around
his weight.
dition.
The probabilities are that Bantam
weight Champion Johnny Coulon and
Kid Williams will clash for ten rounds
a; Milwaukee February 22 (Washing
tons birthday). While in the Brewer
«'tty last week Harris gave his consent,
and now the club is after Coulon. with
good chances of signing him.
Tho Southern League will hold its an
nual meeting In Atlanta one week from
to-day. at the Ansley Hotel.
The appointing of a schedule com
mittee and the selection of the opening
dates and in what cities the games
will be played will be the most impor
tant business on hand.
The salary and player limits in
vogue last season worked so well that
they will probably be adopted for use
during the coming campaign without
any changes.
GIBSON THROUGH WITH HEAVIES
NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—Billy Gibson, of!
the Garden ttbletfe Club, is through
with heavyweights for ail time to come. I
according to a statement credited to him
to-day The New York public, he said
won t fall for the big fellows The Wii-
lard-Morris botit was The last straw.
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PH] lames Responsible for Forceout
I might all be sold together and rha:
! President Ban Johnson of the Amer
ican League had, more or less au
thority to act as seller for all of rbe
Westerners interested.
Such an arrangement would prp-
serve the equal division of power
contemplated when the Westerner*
bought one-half of the club owner
ship. At that time it was definitely
agreed that McAleer should have full
authority as president without inter
ference from any of the. others; that
Robert M. Me Roy should have simi
lar authority as secretary, and the
manager to be appointed should have
complete control of the baseball team
and not be interfered with by any of
the others. Jake BtahJ was appoint
ed to the latter position
With this agreement in existent®
ami the ownership equally divided, it
seemed impossible to create a rup
ture in the club itself. But a rupture
did occur within the ranks of the
Westerners who owned one-half when
McAleer; acting under his authority,
deposed Stahl. The Taylors, It i«
understood, did not interfere in thi(
matter one way or the other and
agreed to the appointment of Bill
C&rrigan as manager, although not
interfering in the matter of that ap
pointment.
Could Not Restore Harmony.
But after the breach among the
Westerners, they could not act in
harmony together again, and, being
unable to get the stock of Jake Stahl
and his fatlier-in-law, H. W. Mahan,
of Chicago, into the possession of in
terests that would agree with all the
others it was found practically nec
essary to dispose of all the Western
stock in a bunch or let tlie control
drift into the hands of tlie Taylors or
go along without any control what
ever, which, of course, would mean
shipwreck.
The stock, of course, was worth
more held together in a solid on*-
half interest than it would be di
vided in such a way that all of it?
owners except tin* Taylors would be
minority stockholders divided among
themselves.
This condition was brought, about
by the method and manner of Stahl'*
dismissal, and it is understood that
'this was the principal cause of Ban
Johnson’s outburst of anger when he
learned of McAleer’s action last sum
mer. Johnson, it is said, had hoped
that peace could be restored in the
ranks of the Westerners, or that if
impossible some way could be found
to let Jake Stahl out gracefully, in
which case the Stahl interests could
be acquired by the other members of
the Western party or could he sold
to some party who would join in the
mutual agreement which then ex
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