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TTEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, 0A„ .SUNDAY, DECEATBER 21, 7TH3.
unday American Sportin
ED 10 FIGHT MEN OF
‘What Are You Going to Do About
It?’ Is the Way the Chicago Boxer
Answers Promoters Who Demand
That He Scale for Rival Ringmen.
Ri’ Otto Floto.
P ACKEY M'FARIBAND'S old g»g
of "What are you going to do
about It?" worked only partly
well In Milwaukee recently. The Box
ing Commission of Wisconsin took a
hand In matters and the Chicago
welterweight who has been getting
away by fighting lightweights had to
C4*me across and show what he
weighed. But then only, remember,
to one member of the commission.
Fine state of affairs when matters
• re sifted to where they belong. The
telegraphic dispatches tell us 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
no promoter ever saw the color of
Darkey’* 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 bx the promoter he would
shrug his shoulders and refuse.
, • • •
• « VOU'LJ, have to get on and weigh
* in, Paekey," is the manner in
which- they talked to him ‘Til do
nothing of the kind, for that bum Is
pretty lucky to get a chance to tight
me," came back McFarland Then
there wouffl ensue a long and heated
argument which generally wound up
bv the promoter Insisting that Paekey
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 l
get In the ring as I am or ('all the
light off " No promoter could afford
to do that and consequently Paekey
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. Al! will have to give credit
to McFarland for his cleverness and
the shrewd manner In which he has
bandied his business for the past four
fears. But from a real sportsman
point of view w f e can’t much admire
a fighter who Is a bona fide welter
weight—In fact, a near middleweight
that should be meeting Jimmy 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 Paekey 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 factH and of the unfair
methods by which he has enriched
himself at the game.
If McFarland has a right to battle
against lightweights, then also
have Mike Gibbon*, 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 wofrked
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 185 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.
Tan 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 Paekey
Insist- that he Is a lightweight uhd
really feels hurt when referred to as
a w'elter. 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. Trus he Is
one of the best boxers we have ever
seen pull the gloves on. But w’ould
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
scheme of allowing a private weigh
In well, a few more like that and
the commission will be a Joke. ’Twas
ever thus.
Dartmouth to Take Griffith Peeved at
On Cornell Next Fall |. Walter Johnson for
In Gridiron Games Off-Season Work
HANOVER, N H.. Dec 20.—Cornell
has been added to the Part mouth foot
ball schedule for next 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 have yet to be made
Cornell wishes 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
b« played there and also for the Fcnn-
sylvania-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 has
been decided upon.
Anderson to Tackle
Cross in Return Go
On New Year’s Day
—
NEW YORK, Dec 17.—Leach Cross
and Bud Anderson have signed articles i
of agreement with Promoter Tom Mc-
Carey to battle 20 rounds at the Ver- i
nor Athletic Club of Los Angeles on I
Xf*w Year’s day They agreed to make
135 pounds two hours before the fight.
Young Shugrue, the crack Jersev City j
light weight, has signed for a bout w ith I
Willie Beecher, of the East Side, at
WASHINGTON. Dec 20.—Clark Grif
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 sfrood against the New
York Giants. Here is what Griffith has
to say on the subject:
"I am very much surprised to hear
that Johnson has been pitching at top
speed in games in the West since the
season closed," said Griffith, ‘it seems
to me that he should appreciate the ef
fort I made last season to keep from
overworking him. He has a wonderful
arm. no doubt, but there Is u limit to
everything, and by pitching those games
he is not treating himself or the club
as he should.
"I know from experience that It does
a pitcher no good to work after the
season is over. It shortens his career,
and I shall have an understanding with
my pitchers In the future on this ques
tion"’
RACING
RESULTS
AT CHARLESTON.
FIRST Five and a half furlongs:
Loretta Dwyer. 102 (F Murphy), 6.
2, even, won; Ancon, 107 (Martin),
17-10, 7-10, 1-4, second; Coreopsis,
111 (Davenport), 15, 6, 2, third. Time,
1:08 2-6. Tom Holland, Semiquaver,
Pluvial, Vlley John Marrs and Ve-
neta Strome alao ran.
SECOND—Six furlongs Dart-
worth 111 (Buxton), 11-10, 1-4, out,
won; Gold Cap 118 (Turner), 11-10,
1- 4, out, second; Luquesne 109 (Mc-
Taggart), 40, 8, 6-2, third. Time
1:15 2-5. Also ran: Yenghee, Char-
tier, Royal Tea.
THIRD—Five and one-half fur-
10ng» Brave Cunarder 118 (Deron-
de), 13-5, even, 2-6, won; Old Ben
106 (Byrne), 6, 2, even, second; De
posit 103 (Buxton), 4, 7-6, 3-6, thlrfi.
Time 1:09 1-5. Also ran: Dainty Mint,
Water Lady, Tlktok, Miss Gayle,
John P. Nixon.
FOURTH—Mil® and one-sixteenth:
Donald McDonald 119 (Buxton), even,
2- 5, out, won; Floral Park 109 (Pau
ley), 3, 4-5, out, second; G. M. Milier
115 (Byrne), 18-5, even, out, third.
Tim® 1:49. Lochlel also ran.
FIFTH—Six furlongs: Ford Mai,
106 (McTaggart), 11-10, 2-5, 1-5, won;
I>r. Jackson* 109 (Byrne), 3, even, 1-2,
Nicond; Bernnrdotte, 114 (Martin), 12,
4, 2, third. Time, 1:17. Sunguid*\
Handstette. Snowflakes, Juarqujn,
Terra Blanco, Captain Jin Isa and Belle
Chilton also ran.
SIXTH—Mile and 70 yards: Joe
Diebold, 110 (Goose), even, 2-6, out,
won; Pardner, 110 (DeRonde), 11-5,
1-2, out, second; Colonel Ashmeade,
108 (Turner), 12, 3. 6-6, third. Time,
1:58 1-5. Llndbrook, Ethel Ore, Har
ry Lauder and Over The Sands also
ran.
AT JUAREZ.
FIRST live furlongs: Brlghtstone,
103 (Ford), 8-6, 3-6, 1-5, won; Amity,
98 (Metcalf), 2, 7-10, 1-4, second;
Spirella, 98 (Stevens), 4. 8-5, 4-5,
third. Time, 1:06 Mawr I^ad, Mo
ment, Frank Wooden and Gold Dust
also ran.
SECOND—Five and half furlongs:
Annual Interest, 108 (O’Brien), 5, 8-5,
4-5, won; Ben Stone, 112 (Estep), 2,
4-6, 1-3, second, Cool, 108 (Hill), 2,
7-10, 2-5, third. Time, 1:12 1-5. Nob
by, Mandadero, Belle of Bryn Mawr
and Oollnet also ran.
THIRD—Five furlongs: Old Gotch,
106 (Neylon), 4-6, 1-3, out, won;
Clarlbel, 95 (Haynes), 8. 5-2, 6-5, sec
ond; Iaaestrella, 110 (Cavanagh), 3,
even, 1-2, third. Time, ,1:06. Cash-
girl, Thomas Hare, Alabama Bam.
Mary Pickford. George also ran.
FOURTH—Five and a half furlongs:
Sosius 106 (Neylon), 8-5, 1-2, out, won;
May L. 100 (McDonald). 6. 8-5. 7-10,
second; Paw 107 (Groth), 9-5, 1-2, out,
third. Time, 1:10 4-6. Also ran: Bird-
man, Prospero Son, Edward Luce.
FIFTH Five furlongs: Swede Ham 108
(Taplln), 6, 3, 4-5, won; Sinn Felnn 111
(Cavanagh), 4, 7-6. 3-6, second; Sena
tor James 103 (Taylor), 2, 3-6, 1-3. third.
Time, 1:03 3-5. Also ran: King Stal
wart. Miami and Chilton Trance.
HINT!! -live furlongs: Buck Thomas
105 (J. Howard). 5-2, 4-6, 1-2, won; In-
quleta 100 (Neylon), 2, 7-10. 1-3, sec
ond; La bold 103 (Feeney), 6. 8-5. 3-5,
third. Tltne. 1.04 4-5. Also ran: Moller,
Garter, Lookout, Hlr Alvescot.
ENTRIES
Braves Anxious to
Secure 'Cozy' Dolau
the Collar City Athletic Club
on January 5.
of Troy
SET REGATTA DATE.
CLINTON, IOWA, Dec 20 The ex
ecutive committee of the Mississippi
Valley Power Boat Association to-day
postponed the selection of a place for
the next regatta until January 10. The
annua: convention will b» held In Chi
cago March 6
"THE OLD RELIABLE”
EM EDYfor MEN
fI^ R ~ SG i 8T8>0RTRIAL B0 * By MAIL60.
FROM PLANTEN 93 HEHRY ST BROOKLYN.MY.
% >_J^!_BEW A RE OF IMITATIONS-
ST LOUIS, Doc. 20—The Cardinals
are not through trading. Gaining fame
by passing over Edwurd Koneuhy. Rob
Harmon and Mike Mowrcy to the Pitts
burg Pirates for Pitcher Robinson. Out
fielder Wilson and Infielders Miller.
Butler and Dolan, another deal is ex
pected to be turned shortly
This is the greeting brought home by
Schuyler 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 “Coxy" Dolan.
A cash offer of $5,000 made to Prexv
Britton and Manager Huggins bv
George Stallings of the Boston Braves
but five minutes after the Cards-Pirates
transaction has opened negotiations be
tween the Braves and Cards. But the
price was spurned by Britton, who ab
solutely refused to market a single
player to a rival National League mag
nate. although many other bids were
received. Stallings will look over his
stock of players and has promised Brit-
'.’ii to notify him regarding a trade
within the next few day*.
AT CHARLESTON.
FIRST Three-year-olds and up. purse
$300. selling. 6 furlongs: Baton 115, Gag-
nant 112, Bertis 115. xMlss Primity 117,
Pc trout 112, x Berkeley 107. Willis 111,
Snowflakes 109, Dr Jackson 111, Ger-
rard 108. Pierre Dumas 112. Clem
Beachey 112, xFred I^evy 106, Flying
Yankee 112, Tweed 108
SECOND—Four-year-olds and up,
purse $300. selling. 6 furlongs: xlnferno
Queen 107, Hatwa 103, Monkey 109,
xPlatn Ann 102, Concurran 110, xMad
Man 105, Molsant 112. Sherlock Holmes
112. Lord lardas 112. Dr. Dougherty 112.
Belfast 109, Port Arlington 109, Prince
Chap 110, Silas Grump 109.
THIRD—Three-year-olds and up,
purse $400, selling, mile and one-quar
ter Sohaller 101, Fiel 93. xMycenae 101,
x I ay Pay i06. Billy Baker 98, Cutian
101, xKlla Grane 98.
FOURTH All ages, Ashley handicap,
purse $500. 5»* furlongs: l<ady Light
ning 108, Tarts 112, Ella Bryson 111,
Prince Hermis 112, Samuel R Meyer 110,
Water Lady 98.
FIFTH—Three-year-olds and up,
purse $300, selling. 6 furlongs: Steal
Away 112, xHenotlc 107. Letourno 117,
xFrank Hudson 103, Incision 112, Daddy
Glp 112, xChemulpo 107, Oakland 112,
I*ord Wells 115, Jim Caffery 112, Chester
Krtim 115, xKiva 103, Deduction 112,
Sylvestris 112. Semiquaver 115.
SIXTH Selling, all ages, purse $300,
mile Ruisseau 115, Gerrard 109. xLady
Oriniar 110. xLa Sainrella 104, xMi-
ehael Angelo 113, llarcourt 116. Camel
118, Patty Regan 93. Cynosure 110.
Schuri lib. Tom Boy 93, Big Dipper 109,
Woodcraft 115. Billy Baker 109.
xApprentice allowance.
Weather clear: track fast.
fT JUAREZ.
j FIRST—Seling, 3-year-olds and up, 6
furlongs: x Bashful Bottle 102. x Forge
| 105, xCon Carne 107. xljady Young 107,
\Jess Amv 107, xRobert 107, Mary Em
ily L07. x La bold 110. Rioja 112. Eddie
Mott 112. Balronla 112 Masai.» 112. EVe-
Una 112. Galley Slave 112, Ursula Em
ma 112.
SECOND- Selling, S-yoar-olds and up.
furlongs: Fort Sumter 95. Barsac 104.
Uidy Billie 106. Mack B. Eubanks 109,
xParlor Boy 111), Pay Streak 115.
THIRD- 2-year-olds Morelos handi
cap, 54 furlongs: Milton Roblee 98,
Jamel 102, Redpath 105, Osaple 105. Em
erald Gem, 107.
FOURTH- All ages. Santiago handi
cap. 7 furlongs B* rt Getty 98, Voladay
Jr. 102. Broilkfleld 102. Just Red 105,
John Rearden 109, Cousin Puss 118.
FIFTH—Selling, 2-year-olds. 5V»j fur
longs: xGen Warren 95. xTransact 100,
Kiltie 100. Woof 105. xPurin 106, Ceos
108, Colonel McDougall 108, Muy Buena
111.
SIXTH Celling, 3-year-olds and up*
IQ: xRake 97. xl>efy 97. xNannie Me-
Dee 00. Wise Mason 105. Sir John 108.
xApprentice allowance.
Clear; slow.
Daredevil Aviator Coming to U. S.
+ • + +•+ +•+ 4-»+ +•+
His Feats Outshine All of Pegoud's
+•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+
Chevilliard Goes Mile Head Down
,ead All Others
Miller Pleased With
Trade, but Wants a
EaiseFromHuggins
BILL JACOBSEN
L
/^IIEVILiAaRD “bank-
Vj ing” his Farman ma
chine with a passenger.
Frenchman Now the Most Cele
brated Topsy-Turvy Flyer in
the World.
CARDS TO PLAY CHAMPIONS.
T4T. 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 nla> a series of games with
Connie Mack s world s champions, who
are, to train at 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 series with the Browns.
GOOD REASON.
Clark Griffith’s reason for not allow- i
ing any of his players to make the i
world tour Is that he wants to run a I
ball team next year — not a hospital.
V A ■■■ ■ •:
■%:
By Arnold Kruckman.
M aurice chevillard
write* me that he will
bring hls loop-the-loop bi
plane to America Just as soon as he
recovers from hls 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 hi* Farman aero
plane stopped while he was flying
head down 1&0 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 Be.achey over here. If the pre
dictions of experts count for any
thing. Chevilliard was due to meet
his end a year ago. Like Beachey,
there is no aeroplane hazard that he
has mV 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 Blerlot flyer,
was the first to loop the loop. It
may sound funny to speak of cau
tion in connection with anything bo
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 “I
dare you!” He is chief Instructor in
the Farman School at Due. With
Farman’* permission he took an ordi
nary stock biplane out of a hangar
one windy afternoon early in Novem
ber and announced he would show
what Ipoplng the loop really was
like.
By way of preliminary he took a
pleasure spin in the 60-mile wind
from Due to Etamps v from Etamps
to Juvl'sy and then came back to Buc
in the howling wind and a freezing,
slashing rain.
In this kind of weather he went up
and banked hls 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 tall
of the craft pointing vertically
toward the sky. At 60 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. Ele performed his stunts at
such a low altitude that the amaz.d
spectators co \ld see 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 Beachey 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.
By Sam Crane.
N EW YORK, Dec. 20.—“Big BUI"
Jacobsen, who has been to*sed
around like a shuttlecock In hls
ambitious efforts to land with the
Giants in the big show class, will
have another chance to reach the goal
of hls desire*.
"Big Bill’’ has been with the
Giants through two spring trainings,
and in hls first visit .to Marlin was
game enough to pull the badger in
the annual dog and 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 he
sprained hls 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 equilib
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 w r ith 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 which
Harry McCormick Is manager, and il
Bill 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.
NEW YORK, Dee. 20.—'‘Of oourse, I
am sorry to leave Pittsburg, but I am
going to give Miller Huggins th® best
that is In me," declared Jack "Dots’*
Miller, th® former Pirate who figured
in the big trade with St. Louis, in com
menting last night upon his release,
when seen at hi® homo In Kearney,
N. J.
"I wa® surprised when I heard that
I was traded,’’ Miller added. "Clarke
was over to see me before the trade,
but never Intimated that I might be
disposed of. While I was a little sur
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 I did for Pittsburg. I guess I am
a victim of that old first base jinx. But
I held down the sack as long as any one
of them since the days of "Kitty”
Bransfield. t That’s some consolation.”
"Dots” intimated that he expected to
receive more salary from the St. Louis
management than he did in Pittsburg.
Miller Is a wise chap. He is making
money in hi® hotel here and also own®
a lot of real estate in Kearney.
Ball Players Find
New Alibi to Spring
Bap 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.
$30,000 TO 00
Three-Year Contract by Outlaws
Is Interesting Big First Bas&-
man Recently Traded,
S T, LOUIS, D®o» ^
$30,000 for three years’ work with
the local Federal League elnh,
recently made to Ed Koney, U receiv
ing eerlons consideration from the big
flrst-sacker who was traded last week
to Pittsburg In a deal Involving
men Although Koney refused yes
terday to discuss the Federal Deavr,,
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 hls credit in a bank.
"I have nothing to say that win In
terest the public Just now “ Koney
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 far Mowrey.
Koney intimated that he might not
report to the Pirates, although be
seemed Interested In Pittsburg’s pen
nant chances next season. He con-
tends-that Mike Mowrey Is one of the
best third-sackers In the game If
properly handled, and allows That
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 ooaching, and
With Big Bob to reinforce the hurling
staff of Adams, McQulllen, Hendrix
Cooper, Duffy and Conzelman, the
Corsairs should be well up In the
race,
Koney has no regrets upon leaving
the Cardinal club, although he does
hate to quit St, Louis. He denies that
he ever encouraged mutiny In the
ranks, and on the contrary says he
tried to mediate between Huggins ami
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 hls manager took the
punch out of him and his oo-worlt-
arij.
Koney Raps Huggins,
“You could have taken the Cardinal
team and let it run amuck without a
manager last season, and It would no;
have finished last,’’ Is one tribute the
Big Train paid to hls former boss.
Koney was displeased that he was
not consulted before the trade was
made.
“I had Schuyler Britton’s word last
summer that If I was ever traded I
would know of It before the news was
= __ t = „, luu (J given out to the press,” explained Ko
to aecomrncSa'te's.OOO spectators,'’ U,S iS't’ Tley " "hut I have yet to receive official
Chip Meets Klaus in
Return Go Tuesday
PITTSBURG, Dec. 20.—Much Interest
is being displayed here in, the coming
six-round bout between Frank Klaus
and George Chip Tuesday night. Lo
cal fans still remember the surprise
Chip handed them about two months
ago when he stopped Frank in six
rounds.
Klaus ha® been hot after a return
match for weeks, and w'lll have a
chance Tuesday to prove whether Chip's
former victory was a fluke or not. The
rival mlddleweights have been train
ing for the post ten days and appear to
be 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 enough
to accommodate 5.000 spectators. le
being constructed by the Irving A. C
of Brooklyn. The site is at Broadway
and Halsey street. Brooklyn, and the
building will be ready for oeoupancy 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.
notification. But then there’s an old
adage, ’Every dog has hls day.’ I
may celebrate mine soon.”
Until such time as he has been toM
of hls transfer officially, Koney says,
ho will pursue tile even tenor of hls
way, but then there "may be some
news later on."
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