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'Mcaisel Will Make
Good if He Bats
But .250'-Donovan
‘What Are You Going to Do About
It?’ Is the Way the Chicago Boxer
Answers Promoters Who Demand
That He Scale for Rival Ringmen.
By Otto Floto.
P ACKEY MFARLAND’S old gag
of “What are you going to do
about It?” worked only partly
m 11 in Milwaukee recently. The Box-
,ng Commission of Wisconsin took a
hand in matters and the Chicago
welterweight who has been getting
away by fighting lightweights had to
across and show what he
weighed. But then only, remember,
,, one member of the commission.
Pine state of affairs when matters
ure sifted to where they belong. The
telegraphic dispatches tell ns that
McFarland weighed 147 pounds while
Britton weighed in at 135.
For several years McFarland has
been signing to meet lightweights. He
would attach his name to the articles
all right to do a certain weight—but
,io promoter ever saw the color of
Packey's coin when it came to de
positing forfeits to make that pound
age. Then McFarland would go
along and train faithfully and when
it came to weighing in time he would
either absent himself like he did with
Cyclone Thompson in Kansas City
and force the promoters to make a
search for him, or he would come in
time to look on while his opponent
weighed in and then step away.
When he was asked to get on the
scales by the promoter he would
shrug his shoulders and refuse.
* * *
.iVOU’LL have to pet on and weigh
I in, Packey,” is the manner in
which they talked to him. “I’ll do
nothing of the kind, for that hum Is
pretty lucky to get a chance to fight
me,” came back McFarland. Then
there would ensue a long and heated
argument which generally wound up
by the promoter Insisting that Packey
weigh. But McFarland, knowing that
a big advance sale had taken place,
only smiled and asked, “What are
you going to do about it? Either I
get in the ring as I am or call the
fight off.” No promoter could afford
to do that and consequently Packey
was allowed to meet his opponent at
catch weights.
If there is the semblance of sports
manship in such actions we want to
be shown. All will have to give credit
to McFarland for his cleverness and
the shrewd manner in which he has
handled his business for the past four
years. But from a real sportsman
point of view we can’t much admire
a fighter who is a bona fide welter
weight—in fact, a near middleweight
that should be meeting .Timmy Clab-
by, Eddie McGoorty and others, in
sisting on battling against light
weights. There is one thing the fight
fans won’t stand for, and that is the
uneven break for the under dog. Mc
Farland is a great card and there
fore his actions are condoned by the
promoter, who probably has a lot at
stake himself. But the great public
that go to see the bouts, and which
have made Packey possible, will wake
up one of these days and such hoot
ing and hissing as will meet his ef
forts will bring him to a realization
of the real facts and of the unfair
methods by which he has enriched
himself at the game.
If McFarland has a right to battle
Dartmouth to Take
On Cornell Next Fall
In Gridiron Games
HANOVER, N. H., Dec 20.—Cornell
has been added to the Dartmouth foot
ball schedule for nepct fall, making four
big teams that the Green will meet on
the gridiron: Princeton. Pennsylvania.
Carlisle and Cornell.
Definite arrangements regarding the
location of games nave yet to be made
Cornell wisiies to play Dartmouth in
New York, while the Dartmouth adher
ents are holding out for a game nearer
home, preferably in Springfield. Mass.
Manchester, N. H.. has made a bid
for the Princeton-Dartmouth game to
he played there and also for the I’enn-
K.vlvania-Dartmouth affair. It is prob
able that one or the other of these
games will be played in Manchester
No location for the Carlisle game had
been decided upon.
Loss of Mike Murphy
Hurt Penn Eleven
against lightweights. then also
have Mike Gibbons. Jimmy Clabby
and others. There isn’t four pounds
difference between McFarland and
the two mentioned above. The sur
prising part of it all is that the Wis
consin Boxing Commission consent
ed to allow him to weigh in in the
presence of only one member. Why
not step on the scales in public be
fore the commission sitting as a body
of the whole? How do we know that
some “hocus-pocus” wasn’t worked
and one commission member forced
to overlook the real facts? Why was
publicity denied as to the real truth
and the statement given out “the
commissioner was satisfied?” It isn’t
the commissioner, it’s the dear pub
lic that paid its money that should
be enlightened as to just what is
being handed them. It’s only proper
to say that it’s gaining money under
false pretenses when a club bills a
lightweight attraction, when men who
attend wager their money in igno
rance that one of the principals is a
lightweight and the other a welter.
These are facts with which the pub
lic is entitled to share.
Of course things of this kind can
not be kept, for the reason that there
is always a leak somewhere or some
place. Just like the inmates get
news from the outside world by the
underground wireless, so do these
sort of secrets become known to a
few who whisper them about until
finally there is no longer any mys
tery about it. McFarland weighed
147 pounds at 6 o’clock the night he
fought Britton. When he entered
the ring he must have weighed 149
pounds. His opponent, Jack Britton,
weighed 135 pounds at 6 o’clock, and
possibly two pounds more when he
went into the ring, so that McFar
land had a clear advantage of twelve
pounds over his opponent. Some ad
vantage, we should say, when real
lightweight conditions are analyzed.
Can’t Blame Ritchie.
Can any one for a moment blame
Willie Ritchie for not consenting to
meet the Chicago boxer. Not on your
tintype, for Willie is content to re
main a lightweight and not fly off
into the welterweight realm. The
queer part of it all is that Packey
insists that he is a lightweight and
really feels hurt when referred to as
a welter. The old saying about every
dog having his day holds good in this
instance, for sooner or later the pub
lic won’t stand for these sort of
matches.
McFarland is clever. True he is
one of the best boxers we have ever
seen pull the gloves on. But would
McFarland appear as clever if fight
ing men of his own class as he ap
pears When battling against lighter
opponents. That extra ten or twelve
pounds tells an awful tale as the
fight drags along.
And incidentally a word to the Wis
consin Boxing Commission. Your ac
tions will not go a long way in es
tablishing confidence in your body to
the rank and file of fans who attend
these bouts. That Kenosha flivver
| by which Ferns was robbed of sev
eral hundred dollars and now this
I scheme of allowing a private weigh-
| in—well, .a few more like that and
! the commission will be a joke. ’Twas
1 ever thus.
Griffith Peeved at
Walter Johnson for
Off-Season Work
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Wild Bill |
Donovan, manager of the Providence :
club, of the international League, tried •
to snare a couple of players from the j
big league managers for his team, dur- i
ing the National league sessions here,
but was unsuccessful. The former De
troit pitching star found time to say a
few words in praise of Fritz Malsel,
third baseman of ihe Yankees, who was
secured from Baltimore last season, lie
said:
“If Maisel can bat .250, and eh ought
to be able to reach that mark, I be
lieve he will prove one of the most
valuable players in the game. His
wonderful speed makes him a danger
ous man every time he gets on base.
There is no question as to his ability
to field. He made a great hit here
with his work at third base, but, as a
matter of fact, I believe that be would
shine even more at shortstop, where he
played most of the time with Baltimore.
“Maisel is a fine young fellow of ex
cellent habits. He likes to have plenty
to do, and would cover much ground
at short. Whether played at third or
short, however, Maisel will make a
name for himself.
Boston Gets Garden
From Battle Creek
BATTLE CREEK. MICH., Dec. 20 -
ITobably for the first time in the his
tory of major league baseball a major
league team next season will have an
entire outfield that graduated from the
same minor league lot. The Boston Na
tionals have drafted I>arry Gilbert from
Milwaukee, Pete Compton from Kan
sas City, and Dutch Zwilling from St.
Joseph—and every one of them is a
Battle Creek player who jumped to
bigger fields.
Compton was sold to the St. Louis
Americans. Last fall St. Louis let him
go to Kansas City, where lie proved a
whirlwind.
Zwilling came to Battle Creek in 1910
from Bay City. He batted .326, third
man in the league, and was sold to the
Chicago White Sox. who later let him
go to St. Joseph, Mo.
Larry Gilbert joined the club as
loft-handed pitcher. In 1912 Manager
McKernan decided to make him an out
fielder for his hitting Milwaukee took
him in the spring of 1913.
The 1913 draft included all three, and
hv an odd turn of fate Boston got them
all.
Daredevil Aviator Coming to U. S.
V*+ »1‘*T •!••+ +• +
His Feats Outshine All of Pegoud’s
*•* •!•••!*
Chevilliard Goes Mile Head Down
BILL lOBSEN
r' HE VILLIARD “bank-
v_. ing” his Farinan ma
chine with a passenger.
WASHINGTON, Dee. 30 — Clark Grit-
fith does not approve of his pitchers
doing any work in the winter, such as
playing in exhibition games. The Wash
ington manager also states that Walter
Johnson used poor judgment when he
went at full speed against the New
York Giants. Here is what Griffith has
to say on the subject:
*'I am very much surprised to hear
that Johnson lias been pitching at top
speed in games in the West since the
season closed,” said Griffith. * It seems
, io me that he should appreciate the ef-
I fort I made fast season to keep trom
overworking him. He has a wonderful
' arm no doubt, hut there is a limit t"
evervthing, and by pitching those games
he is not treating himself or the club
as lie should.
“1 know from experience that it does
a pitcher no good to work after the
season is over. It shortens his career,
and 1 shah have an understanding with
my pitchers in the future on this ques
tion.’’
Whether the fact is generally recog
nized or not, there is no doubt that the
ah'-nce of Mike Murphy had much to
d" with the poor showing of the Penn
h’oihail team during the past season.
'' hen a man of Murphy’s ability sud-
,; ‘ r 'ly drops out of any organization.
E i- s always great difficulty in filling
hi' place. There was not another man
m America who knew as much about
We training end of the game as Mur- *
The result was that when he I
dieu. it was necessary to put the train- j
ln f of the men in other hands. !
the future, the men of Penn will |
pr* ably find a man who is able to
7 :k care of the athletes’ physical con-
ad n. but to do this in a year when j
th*- methods must be changed, is some- !
g beyond the power of most train-
f r ^ Most of the members of the Penn
had been under the eye of Mur-
•A in the past. They kept in shape
arrying out his orders. Then every-
’ ' g was changed with Murphy’s
uea;h
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iVI NSKY TO MEET COFFEV.
• W YORK. Dec. 20.-Manager Billy j
1 on has announced two heavyweight •
” a: es at Madison Square Garden Mon- j
night. Pueblo Jim Flynn will meet !
* : Rodri n,#> Roe** ui 'l Battling *
J evinsky will fight Jim Coffey, the Dub-
iih giant. ;
Braves Anxious to
Secure ‘Cozy’ Dolan
ST LOUIS. Dec. 20.—The Cardinals
are not through trading. Gaining fame
bv passing over Edward Konetchy. Bob
Harmon and Mike Mowrey to the Pitts
burg Pirates for Pitcher Robinson. Out
fielder Wilson and Inflelders Miller.
Butler and Dolan, another deal is ex
pected to he turned shortly.
This is the greeting brought home by
Schuvler P. Britton, the Cards' busy
president. And the player involved is
not one of the veteran athletes, but in
stead is one of the quint annexed from
the Pirates. He Is "Cozy" Dolan.
\ 0 ash offer of $5,000 made to Prexy
Britton and Manager Huggins by
George Stallings of the Boston Braves
but five minutes after the Cards-Pirates
transaction has opened negotiations be
tween the Braves ami I'ards. But the
price was spurned by Britton, who ab
solutely refused to market a single
player to a rival National League mag-
ra tt. although many other bids were
received. Stallings will look over his
st. i k of j,'avers vd hits premised Brit
ton to notify him regarding a trade
within -be next few' days.
Jeffries Plaus to
Make Tour of World
LOS ANGELES, CAL.. Dec. 20.—Jim
Jeffries is going to make another ef
fort to tour the world. He and Mrs.
Jeffries, Harney Oldfield an/1 wife and
Jack Kipper and wife have completed
plans for the tour, and Kipper has made
one condition, that the three men post
forfeits of $10,000 each that they will
complete the trip this time. They pro
pose to start immediately after tjie
close of the 1915 Panama-Pacific Ex
position, and in order to make it more
certain that they will go all the way
round the globe they will start from
San Francisco for Japan. Australia will
be included in the tour.
A few years ago Kipper and Jeffries
and their wives started on a tour of
| the world, hut Jeffries got enough of it
j after visiting London, Paris and Ber
lin and returned home. Kipper stayed
a few months longer, but did not com
plete the tour of the world.
Kraenzlein Arranges
For Big Dual Match
I Special Cable to The American!
BERLIN. I><( . i;0. Alvin Kraenzlein,
I the ex-University of Pennsylvania track
j star, who is now coaching the German
j athletes for the 1916 Olympic games,
| to be held in this city, lias completed
I arrangements for a dual meeting be-
: tween Swedish and German athletes
this summer.
Ernie Hjertberg. the Swedish trainer,
j lost no time in accepting Kraenzlein’s
: invitation for the dual meet, ami the
tournament has been scheduled for the
! week of July 14.
Kraenzlein has discovered three or
j four sprinters of great promise and is
J devoting much of his time to develop-
| ing these men, teaching them his own
j particular style of covering the short
distances.
Antipodes Net Stars
Still Seek Davis Cup
Special Cable to The American.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. Dec.
20.—Australia will make another at
tempt to capture the Dwight F. Davis
lawn tennis cup now held by America.
Norman E. Brooks and A. W. Dun
lop, two of Australia’s best tennis play
ers, have already booko/l passage for
Europe and will compete in the Brit
ish and Continental tournaments. They
will sail early in the year in order to
he able to round into form In time for
the international contests.
Anthony F Wilding, of New Zealand,
who this year defeated Maurice E. Mc
Laughlin. of Sun Francisco, for the
single championship of Great Britain,
has announced his intention of enter
ing the Davis Cup matches.
McFarland to Tour
World After Wedding
CHICAGO, Dec. 20.—Jimmy Callahan
and his White Sex players and John
McGraw and hjs battling Giants, who
are on a world's exhibition tour, will
have nothing on Packey McFarland,
the-clever and scientific boxer, who is
engaged to marry Miss Margaret Lough-
iin, of Joliet.
As soon as the knot is tied Packey
and his bride will start a tour around
the world on their honeymoon. Mc
Farland will give exhibition* Abroad, but
under no conditions will he engage in
real battles. The pride of the South
Side and Manager Emil Thiry are out
lining the trip and several favorable
offers have been received.
CARDS TO PLAY CHAMPIONS.
ST. LOUIS. MO, Dec. 20.—Manager
Miller Huggins has closed with St.
Augustine. Fla, as a training camp for
the Cardinals. During his stay there
he will play a series of games with
Connie Mack's world’s champions, who
ar- to train ut Jacksonville, only a
couple of hours’ ride away. The Car
dinals will get back to St. Louis about
the first of April to play their annual
spring aeries with the Browns.
Frenchman Now fw.? Most Cele
brated Topsy-Turvy Flyer in
the World.
By Arnold Kruckxnan.
M aurice chevillard
writes me that he will * 1
bring his loop-the-loop bi
plane to America just as soon as ho
recovers from his Injuries. This
blue-eyed, dark-haired, undemon
strative Frenchman with the under
shot jaw achieved the painful distinc
tion of being the first aviator to be
hurt while flying upside down.
At Antwerp, in Holland, two weeks
ago the motor of his Farman aero
plane stopped while he was flying
head down 150 feet above the earth
and he crashed! to the ground before
40,000 spectators, landing with the
heavy craft on top of him. By some
miracle he was not seriously injured.
The machine, as well as the motor,
was completely wrecked.
Over in France they talk about
Chevilliard like- they talk about Lin
coln Beaehey over here. If the pre
dictions of experts count for any
thing, Chevilliard was due to meet
his end a year ago. Like Beaehey,
there is no aeroplane hazard that he
has not risked just a little more dar
ingly than any other aviator. While
he was in the French aerial soldiery
he made a number of thrilling cross
country flights in high winds over
the African desert, as well as in
France.
Little Pegoud, the Bleriot flyer,
was the first to loop the loop. It
may sound funny to speak of cau
tion in connection with anything so
hazardous as turning a somersault
in a flying machine; it is a fact,
however, that Pegoud was cautious.
He turned his somersaults and flew
upside down so high in the air that
the operation could only be seen
plainly through glasses. He likewise
ventured the opinion that it would be
impossible to duplicate his feat in a
biplane.
Chevilliard interpreted that State
ment as another way of saying “1
dare you!” He is chief instructor in
the Farman School at Due* With
Farman’s permission he took an ordi
nary stock biplane out of a hangar
one windy afternoon early in Novem
ber ‘and announced Ije would show
what looping the loop really was
like.
By way of preliminary he took a
pleasure spin in the 50-mile wind
from Due to Etamps, from Etamps
to Juviey and then came back to Hue
in the howling wind and a freezing,
slashing rain.
In this kind of weather he went up
and banked his machine so it hung
sidewise perpendicularly and spun
around on one wing 150 feet from the
ground. Then he went up 1,000 feet
and dashed earthward with the tail
of the craft pointing vertically
toward the sky. At 50 feet from
the ground he achieved the reputed
impossible feat of levelling his craft
without snapping it asunder. It had
been a pet theory that an aeroplane
subjected to such a strain, not unlike
the action of cracking a whip, would
simply break into halves.
Chevilliard then went up and
turned a somersault sidewise. Then
he went up to a height of 1,500 feet
and performed the unprecedented
feat of turning five somersaults con
secutively and winding up by flying
head down for over a mile, at a dis
tance of only 50 yards above the
course. He performed his stunts at
such a low altitude that the amazed
spectators could tee his shining
white teeth and the whites of his
eyes. He had so far outdone all
other topsy-turvy flyers that France
hailed him as its greatest aerial
daredevil the next morning. And
that, in the classic of George Ade, is
going some, for France.
A week later at Buc he startled
the world by turning the somersault
and flying head down with a pas
senger. It is interesting to note that
Mr. Santoni was the passenger.
There came calls for him and his
machine then from all parts of
Europe. At Pordenone. in Italy, he
accomplished some of the most thrill
ing exhibitions that have ever been
seen in an aeroplane.
During the short time he gave ex
hibitions he earned a fortune.
It is interesting to know that Lin
coln Beaehey made his first aeroplane
somersault at San Diego, Cal., on the
day Chevilliard turned a somersault
with a passenger.
Southern League Star Loaned to
Harry McCormick for More
Seasoning.
Bv Sam Crane.
N EW YORK, Deo. 20.—"Big Bill-
Jacobsen, who has been tossed
around like a shuttlecock In his
ambitious efforts to land with the
Giants in the big show class, will
have another chance to reach the goal
of his desires.
“Big Bill” has been with the
Giants through two spring trainings,
and in his first visit to Marlin was
game enough to pull the badger ir.
the annual dog unj badger fight that
is always pulled off by our Texas
friends for the especial benefit of the
tenderfeet among the Giants.
Bill made a splendid success in
yanking the vicious animal from un
der the barrel, but in trying to side
step the fangs of the wild beast lie
sprained his mind and contracted a
Charley horse in the head. He grieved
exceedingly over this sad accident,
and refused to speak to any one, even
McGraw, for several days, but he
finally recovered his mental cMjuilib-
rium and spirits after he had induced
Gus Frank to pull the badger for the
next fight, and he became one of the
most promising of the recruits.
McGraw, however, decided that the
giant Swede needed another year’s
seasoning in the minors, and handed
him over to Mike Finn, manager of
the Mobile, Ala., club, for further sea
soning. Bill did well there and made
good from the start.
In the opening game of the South
ern League championship season he
cleaned up by making a home run
over the center field fence on the Mo
bile grounds, a feat that had never
been performed nor duplicated since.
Bill was brought back to New York
last spring, but only saw the opening
game at the Polo Grounds, and then
was shipped back to Finn. But he
had seen the Big City and the Polo
Grounds, and was satisfied to go back
to the minors again.
The past season Bill lived up to his
Mobile reputation, and broke back
fences on Southern League ball parks
with reckless eclat and abandon until
he was attacked with typhoid fever.
He was unable to finish the season.
Then the New York club put him on
its “disabled list,” after buying him
from Mobile.
Now Bill has been loaned to the
Chattanooga, Tenn., club, of w'hich
Harry McCormick is manager, and il
Rill shows class he will again get a
chance to break into the National
League as a Giant.
Everybody who knows the big fel
low and his good-natured ways, his
tireless energy to make good and the
ambition he has always shown to be
come a big leaguer will root for him.
Miller Pleased With
Trade, but Wants a
RaiseFromHuggins
NEW YORK, Dee 20.- “Of course. I
am sorry to leave Pittsburg, but I am
going to give Miller Huggins the best
that Is in tne,’’ declared Jack "Dots”
Miller, the former Pirate who figured
in the big trade with Ht. Louis, in com
menting last night upon his release,
when seen at his home In Kearney,
X. J.
“I was surprised when I heard tiiat
I was traded,’’ Miller added. "Clarke
was over to see me before the trade,
hut never intimated that I might be
disposed of. While I was a little stir-
prised when I heard the news, I was
prepared for the move, as I knew
something was brewing since last sum
mer.
“I have no complaints to offer. I am
going to play just as hard for St. Louis
as 1 did for Ihttsburg. I guess l am
a victim of that old first base jinx. But
1 held down the sack as long as any one
of them since the days of "Kitty'
Bransfield. That’s some consolation."
"Dots" intimated that he expected to
receive more salary from the St. I»uis
management than he did in Pittsburg.
Miller is a wise chap. He is making
money in his hotel here and also owns
a lot of real estate in Kearney.
Ball Players Find
New Alibi to Spring
Ball players have a new alibi. When
one of the major leaguers is old or
traded he explains it thusly: "They
let me go because I showed too much
‘pep’ in looking after the interests of
the Players’ Fraternity."
That excuse has been made at least
a dozen times. The last to spring it
is Hap Myers, first baseman of the
Boston Braves, who was touted as a
wonder during the season of 1913 and
regarded by some as the man who
provided the Braves with most of their
strength. Myers was released to Roch
ester. He blamed it on his activities
with the Players’ Fraternity. He
pointed out that he was given a raw
deal because Boston did not ask for
waivers on him until the close of the
season, when every club was loaded up
and unable to take on more men.
MS TO GO
FI
Three-Year Contract by Outlaws
Is Interesting Big First Base-
man Recently Traded.
Chip Meets Klaus in
Return Co Tuesday
PITTSBURG, Dec. 20. Much Interest
is being displayed here in the coming
six-round bout between Frank Klaus
and George Chip Tuesday night. !>.>-
cal fans still remember the surprise
Chip handed them about two months
ago when he stopped Frank in <six
rounds.
Klaus has been hot after a return
match for weeks, and will have a
chance Tuesday to prove whether Chip’s
former victory was a fluke or not. The
rival middles eights have been train
ing for the past ten days and appear to
he on' edge for the toughest sort of a
fight
$100,000 Boxing Club
After Big Matches
NEW YORK, Dec. 20. A boxing
arena costing $100,000 and large enoiigij
to accommodate 5.000 spectators. is
being constructed by the Irving A. C.
of Brooklyn. The site is at Broadway
and Halsey street. Brooklyn, and the
building will he ready for occupancy by
February 1. It is the Irving A. C.’s
plan to go after big matches, compet
ing with the Garden A. C. in offering
inducements to leading boxers In the
various classes.
S T. LOUIS, Dec. 20.—An offer of
$30,000 for three years’ work with
the local Federal League club,
recently made to Ed Koney, is receiv
ing serious consideration from the big
first-sacker who was traded last week
to Pittsburg In a deal involving eight;
men Although Koney refused yes
terday to discuss the Federal League
proposition, it was positively learned
that the local outlaws offered to give
him a bonus of $5,000 and an annual!
salary of $8,335, the same to be de
posited to his credit in a bank.
“I have nothing to say that will in
terest the public Just now,” Konev
told the writer last night. “I expect a
message from Fred Clarke or Owner
Dreyfuss within the next few days.
After that I may talk.”
Boost for Mowrey.
Koney intimated that he might not
report to the Pirates, although ho
scorned interested in Pittsburg’s pen
nant chances next season. He con
tends that Mike Mowrey is one of tho
best third-sackers in the game, if
properly handled, and allows thaf
Clarke is the right kind of a man to
conduct Mike through a long season.
Harmon, Koney thinks, will prosper
with the proper kind of coaching, and
with Big Bob to reinforce the hurling
staff of Adams, McQuillen, Hendrix,
Cooper, Duffy and Conzelman, tho
Corsairs should be well up in tha
race.
Koney has no regrets upon leaving
the Cardinal club, although he does
hate to quit St. Louis. He denies th«-A
he ever encouraged mutiny in tha
ranks, and on the contrary says ha
tried to mediate between Hugginsanrt
his men until such' time as he real
ized the job was hopeless Even then,
he says, he tried hard, but the glaring
mistakes of his manager took tha
punch out of him and his co-vvork-
ers.
Koney Raps Huggins.
"You could have taken the Cardinal
team and let it run amuck without a
manager last season, and it would not
have finished last.” is one tribute tha
Rig Train paid to his former boss.
Koney was displeased that he was
not consulted before the trade was
made.
"I bad Schuyler Britton’s word last
summer that if I was ever traded I
would know of it before the news was
given out to the press.” explained Kn-
ney. “but I have yet to receive official
notification. But then there’s an old
adage, ‘Every dog has his day.’ t
may celebrate mine soon.”
Until such time as he has been told
of his transfer officially, Koney says,
he will pursue the even tenor of his
way, but then there "may be some
news later on.”
’AWAY
ABOVE—’
EVERYTHING
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500 miles in 6 hours, 21 minutes, 6 seconds
J OE DAWSON shattered speedway records in the
International Automobile Race at Indianapolis, May
30, 1912, covering 500 miles in 6 hours, 21 minutes and
6 seconds—-an average of 78.72 miles per hour.
A CTOwd of 78,000 saw Dawson win the $30,000 prize. Only ten of twenty four
cars that started were in at the finish, and four of the frn broke the old world’s record
established the year before.
Dawson won two famous Southern races in November, 1910—the
City of Atlanta Trophy and Savannah Challenge Trophy over the Grand
Prize Course.
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EARL MACK TO COACH.
I RALEIGH. V. C., Deo. 20.—Earl
I Mark, son of Connie Mock and mana-
i gf»r of the Raleigh baseball team, has
signed a contract to coach the Uni
versity of North Carolina team. He
! will supplant Charles Oiancey. man
ager of Winston-Salem’s championship
! team.
GOOD REASON.
I Clark Griffith's reason for not allow-
j Jrg any of hi*- players to make the
j \> < rhi tour is that he wants to run a
j ball team next year—not a hospital.
REAL GRIDIRON AGGREGATION.
How would you like to be a member
of a small' and frail eleven and line up
against the following aggregation:
Hinkey and Campbell, ends; Cowan and
Hogan, tackles; Heffelfinger and Hare,
guards; Schultz, center: Hckersall.
quarterback; Coy and Heston, half-
barks; Brlckley, fullback? Help!!
ROBERTSON SPEAKER’S EQUAL, i
Manager Mike Finn, who at Little
Rock developed Tris Speaker, says that
Dave Robertson, the Giants’ Southern !
League recruit, is a better batter, a ■
faster runner and a more natural play- ;
er than Speaker was. and just as good!
a thrower and that he will bat .340 or
better for the Giants
WRESTLER ROLLER BARRED.
PORTLAND, Dec. 20.—Dr. Roller, the
wrestler, will not be permitted to wres
tle in Portland. Sheriff Word, who
! stopped professional wrestling here last
i spring among local men, says that out-
; alders are also barred. Roller wanted
j to wrestle Ben Jackson, another heavy-
j weight here.
EDDIE MURPHY GETS MATCH.
BOSTON, Dec. 20.—Eddie Murphy, the j
South Boston ring star, has been |
matched to meet Steve Kennedy at the ‘
Unity Cycle Club, of Lawrence, on !
Christmas afternoon. This should prove I
to be one of the best lightweight
matches staged in New England for I
some time.
Z^/lway <iy4bove Everything”
Sporting records are often made and shattered in
short order, but Lewis 66 Rye has the same choice
flavor which gave it first place among good liquors
nearly half a century ago.
Rich, ripe and rare, with a mellow flavor acquired by a
slow, natural ripening process in evenly heated storehouses.
Case of Foar Fall Quarts $5.00—Express Prepaid
For sale by all leading mail order housea and cafes. Never sold
in bulk. Sold only in glass direct from distillery.
THE STRAUSS PRITZ CO., Distillers, CINCINNATI
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