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H ISA KM > nr.MitA x Awnniv. ;\:n. aiivAInia, i,.v, .madat, i»r.' anitt&K zi, II 13 W AM the News of the Boxing 1 World on These Page S> '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 e 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 s* / 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. 5S 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 tett t 0 / r ,n BLEND asWi rwu a*"*** • P " ^ ; (duukiM Cs. Cis* h i / L / i a