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BY JACK VEIOCK.
NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—“ Kid” Glea
son, hard-fisted little manager of the
White Sox, has injec%d new life and
pepper into the “South Siders.”
The peppery “Kid” has a way about
him that is distinctly his own when it
comes to handling men—a way that
wins the respect and confidence of
every member of hig aggregation from
thie greenest recruit to the oldest reg
ular.
The White Sox, as Gleason took
hold of them prior to the opening of
the 1919 season, were a doubtful look
ing combination. Fans and critics
ro ;v:;;e .ondthe inside of affairs as
ey ained to the Sox enter
well-grounded f‘hunches” th;tmg:;g
were divided against themselves.
Fact is, there was at one time not
long ago two factions in the Sox
camp. The wiseacres whispered that
I!)ese factions were the Rowland and
llins factions, and the Sox machine
failed to hit on all six cylinders as
a result.
‘When Gleason stepped into Row
land’s shoes as manager of the Sox it
was up to him to smooth out all the
wrinkles and make a new start. That
he has succeeded is evidenced by the
percantage column, which shows
plainer than anything else what kind
of results he is getting.
And yet Gleason is a driving man
ager. Like Mitchell, his capable rival
on the West Side, he demands the
wvery last ounce of ability from every
player at all times when the club is
on the field. And he gets it.
COMES FROM OLD SCHOOL.
Gleason was brought up in the old
school. When he was a young player
striving to win his spurs it was the
fustom of managers to take heroic
' “measures to get results. The man
agers of Gleason’s rookie days thought
nothing of handing a player a physi
cal lambasting, and Gleason learned
that holding down a job on a first
elass ball club was a serious thing
that required constant plugging and
mnflagging spirit.
Brought up in such a school the
=Kid” took his bumps and they were
many as a part of the game, and he
won his spurs, all of which proved
the kind of stuff he was made of.
Today baseball is somewhat differ
ent. Players are expected to know
more baseball and possess greater
ability when they come Up to the
majors than they once did.
xur the value of having a club that
ects its coliective punch at one ob
ject is just as imperative now as it
aver was, and to keep the players
pulling together is’ the big job that
confronts every manager.
Gleason will take on anybody from
the bat bov to Comiskey himself if
1# thinks he is right. But after the
elouds disappear the old “Kid,” with
his ready wit, his winning personal
ity and his knowledge of human na
ture, makes the object of his attgn
tions feel almost as though nothing
had happened.
sOX PULLING TOGETHER.
If there really were factions on the
Sox club before, there is no such
thing in evidence now. The Sox are
fighting like wampus cats and all of
their claws are pointing in the same
general direction. That's why the
Sox are looking up toward another
pennant. That's why Comiskey sent
for Gleason. It was Gleason’s person=
ality that Commy wanted when he
saw that a change was needed. As
for Clarence Rowland, there’s this to
say: Rowland, as we know him, and
his friends know him everywhere,
fi one of the most likeable chaps in
or out of baseball. We do not know
positively that Rowland’s troubles
were centered around several of the
older players on the Sox team, and
Rowland was simply out of luck, for
no manager can succeed with any
part of a ball club out of gear in the
way of discipline.
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Baseball in France
Depends on Youngsters
The French “poiln™ ‘can’t seem to fi‘n
the “hang”’ of American baseball, and the
eport won't ever bathe rage in Franos
until the 10-cent ball and the 10-year
old kid are property introduced, is the way
Bill Lange, famous as a cenmter fielder
when he was with the Chicage Ouba,
sizes up the situatior
1 is back in the Tnited States after
period of coaching soldier basebakl
in France for the YM. C. A
*You've got to teach '‘em baseball yw%
or they won't get the enthusiasm for
that characterizes the grand old game inn
country,” explained Lange. ‘“Now,
America, a kid from the time he can
i& tossing a ball around. He r.-
ly Meeps, eats and talks baseball dur
a certain stage of his childhood. The
isn't awkward then and just nutur
ally learns the game right
“Now, in France, the situation s Aaif
mnt. In many sections of the country
. haven't ever seen a baseball game,
and it's a tough job to teach grown-up
men the game. They figure that to learn
the game they will have to-make a show
of themselves, and that doesn't appeal
to them very much. And a Fremchman
fears ridicule more than anything else.
®he only way that baseball may be made
@ lasting and popular sport. in France is
to intwduce it through the French chik
dren.”
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Dobie Has Bunch of
New Men for Eleven
¢ By pooling one cent from each paid
sdmission the American Association has
mud s fund of between SIO,OOO and
WOO, according to Jim MeGill The
pannant winning eclub will get 20 per cent,
the second team 22 per cent and so on
down to the sighth club, which will get
what the limtle boy shot ta--nothing.
Players on the clubs watch the erowds
like & hawk, After one of the Sunday
games MeGill went out to his clubhouss
and the players asked him how many
wers in the stand
“The turnstile count was 9,685 an
swered MeGill
“We thought it would go to 12,000,
said the players “It looked that big
to us”
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Athletic Contests in
Macon Labor Day, Plan
MACON, Aug. 30.—Labor Day will
be celebrated in Macon Monday with
}!hlennr contests and baseball games.
here will be a parade, which will
form on First street from Oglethorpe
to Poplar, and a number of floats will
be in evidence. The parade will end
at Central City Park, where a bas
kot diner will be served. The Cen
of Georgia Rallroad teams of
and Savannah will emn in
. ball game, and thers bo a
dance late in the aftarnoon. |
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First Practise
At Tech
Scheduled for
Tuesday
By CHARLES SHONESY.
Only twenty-four hours remain
before the crisp voices of the Tech
evaches will be herd out on Grant
Field. This short space of time
alone separates the football fans of
Atlanta from the first real sign of
the 1919 football season.
Coaches Alexander and Clay, both
back from military service abroad,
are on the ground just wild to get
started. Their work for the first
few days will be simply to get a line
on the men, their names, positions
they are trying for and see that the
men get a bit of limbering up ex
arcises.
About Thursday or Friday the
grand old football man of the South
will be here, the well known J. W.
Heisman. He will be accompanied
by F. F. Woods, and then the real
work will start.
The first game of the season is
still some distance off, but once the
battles are under way some inter
esting contests can be looked for.
Wake Forest and Furman are the
first two teams scheduled to tackle
Tech. They will be followed by
Vandy, Georgetown, Awburn and
Pittsburg,
Among the boys who will be out
for practice soon one will probably
find Buck IMowers, Judy Harian,
Red Barron, Frank Ferst, B. Adams,
Wallie Smith, Frank Searborough,
[Fish Davis, Bob Glover, Shorty Gill,
Bill Fincher, Shorty Doyal, Pup
Phillipe, John Rogers, Huffines, Le
Bay, Staton, Ulrich, Weichel and
Johavoe, begides the many new can
didates who are sure to turn ouf.
Trip to Canada for
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Making 70 in Western
When James Barnes, the St Louis pre,
shot a 70 for 13 holes in the Western
open golf championship tourney on the
‘Mayfield links, he won what is probably
the most unique reward that was ever
dangled before the eyes of an athletic
competitor, the prize being nothing more
nor less than a trip to 'Canada with all
expenses paid,
One of the visiting golfers at the tour
ney was J. K. Wadlay, a multi-million
‘aire lumberman from Texarkana, Ark.,
and a mighty strong supporier of the
English star,
“Jim, I'll take you over to Canada to
play in the Canadian open next week if
sou shoot as good as 70, promised Wad
ey as the rangy Barnes stepped up to
swat his firet ball
Barnes looked at him inquiringly
smiled broadly and remarked that he'd
like to get a chance to play against the
Canucks.
And he did. He shot his 70 easily, and
‘Wadley was one of the first to congratu
iate him.,
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Browns Have Edge on
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~ (By International News Service.)
. BT. LOUIS, Aug. 10.—By keeping within
halling distance of the White Sox all
season the Browns have an edge on pop
ularity in 8t Lows Owner Philtp Ball,
Becretary Robert Quinn and Manager
James Burke have beon steadily bullding
up their team, while Branch Rieckey, for
‘busineas reasons, has been compelled to
dispose of some of the Cardinals, The
National League therefore is in much
disfavor in the Mound City, while the
American Laague, ag the result of the
Browns' fine vll:‘fll. now has the eall,
: Louls fans, like those of other eitias,
no use for a losing ball club
Golf Practise Is Essential
Ouimett's Fifth Article
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Must Concentrate Mind
This is the fifth of a series of golf articles being written for The
Georgian and Sunday American by Francis Ouimet, famous golifer and
ex-champion.
By FRANCIS OUIMET. )
(This article must not be released
before August 30, 1919.)
Not long ago a beginner in golf,
who has had ag reat deal of experi
ence in other branches of sport, told
me that he had spent more time on
the links trying to learn the game
than he had ever given to any other
branch of sport in which (though he
did not add this himself) he naa
excelled,
{He had the common faults of
many golfers. Principally he did
not practice. Nearly every after
noon he played a match, and as his
opponents were usually the same
men and all played about alike they
had a pretty good round of fun but
turned out very few good scores,
His other faults were topping the
ball, looking up too quickly and not
following through, especially on his
drives.
Now, I know that most golfers
play for the recreation and fun they
vet out of the game and not for the
purpose of excelling at golf. Ana
while 1T have no argument with
them and, on the contrary, agree
with them almost entirely, it does
seem to me that the real satisfac
tion in anything, whether it is play
or business, is doing it well. llr
this isn't what fun is, then ['m |
wrong. But it looks to me, as [
have set it down here, as hitting
pretty close to human nature. As
proof all one has to do is meet the
winner at a bridge party for ladies
exclusively.
PRACTICE ESSENTIAL.
S 0 to get the most tu‘uu:d satis
faction out of golf the way m
to practice. A friend of mine met
one of the leading wurgeons of Phil.
adelphia down at Falm Beach a few
winters ago. He was an extremely ‘
busy man. He had taken up golf
the year before and was already ‘
rolling around the early eighties—
a mighty creditable performance for
a man who was well along in mid
dle life, never had been athletic and
who rarely had the good fortune to
gpend an afternoon watching others
play. It came out after a brut(
friendship that the learned doctor,
once he decided to play golf, took
many lessons, tried to analyze the
game and eventually studied the
theory of it from books. 'a made
the statement to my friedd that
after a month or so he learned that
he often forgot little points he had
mastered when he missed a few
dave of play. -
How was he to overcome that?
He had hit on the idea of practic
ing with all his clubs every night
before going to bed. Sometimes the
doctor would not get home until 2
or 2 in the morning, because of pro
fessional duties, but before turning
in he had a little session swinging
each elub in his bag. As a result
he was playing golf of a satisfac
tory kind and enjoying every mo
ment on the links, The upsetting
and disheartening feeling of dub
bing shots had long been a stranger
to him. ~
I am not saying every one should
go and do lkewisa, but I do think
the curse of most golfers, or per
haps the reason why some of tnem
have heen reported as cussing on
the links, is because they try to
play without Intelligent practice. I
doubt if any one ever played good
golf who wouldn't give time to
practice and to a study of shots
MUST CONCENTRATE MIND,
Practice tends to make a player
concentrate and one who does not
concentrate, I 8 continually making
errors. -1 know that crack sgolfers
are sometimes criticized for being
80 mad looking and glum on the
links, but there is a reason for jt.
One chap I know very well tells me
that he never began to get any fun
out of the game until he learned to
concentrate, His big fault was
looking up too soon. Once I told
him that caddies were employeao
primarily for that purpose. After
that he took matters more serious
ly on the links and had more fun as
a result.
He told me that previously he
went around poking and laughing
up to the moment he took his
stance. Then he usually topped his
ball. He would resolve to keep his
head down next time, but before
he played he would be exchanging
banters with his eompanions and
forget what he had made up his
mind to do. One day he instructed
his caddy to tell him after each shot
on his way to each lie and just be
fore he took his stance for each
shot to keep his head down. By
dint of much perseverance he at
last overcame his chief fault,
NO GROUCH LEAGUE.
I hope people will not come to
the conclusion from reading this
and former articles by me that 1|
am trying to organize all golfers
intoe a grouch league. Fortunately,
there is a happy medium. The
eracks do concengrate when they
play, no doubt of that, but I have
met a good many of them and 1
find that they are mightly likable
chaps. To get back to the bridge
club example again, youll find that
the prize winners are those who
concentrate and think. And nobody
classifies them as grouches, because
thew have to admit it's the system.
Those people leave a table in a
happy frame of mind. Golfers leave
the links in the same state of mind
when thay think and solve prob
lems. The other fellows don't al
ways do so. And no one's happi
ness has ever been affected becanse
he or she gave apt attention to the
problem at hand.
(Copyright, 1919, Sol Metager.)
Old Boys Star Well
As Youth in Tennis
Ternis, although calli for speed and
endurance to an unusual K-m- can show
more veterans of advanced middle age
than any other form of athleties. Twa
of the four semi-finalists In the All-Eng
jand tournament at Wimbledeon were weil
aver 50. They were Ritchie and C, P
Dizon. Dizon nine years ago foreed W.
A. Larned, then among America’s best,
to ‘o five sets in the Davis Cup matehes,
while Ritehie was runner-up for Fnglish
chamnionships in 1902, 1903 and 1904,
There was a State champian out in
Montana for many years, J W MeLaogh
lin, & grandfather, who was 56 years old
the last year he Aefended the title. Bam.
vel Hardy, whe Mgu.n tennis as & con
temporary of Larned, Davis, Wright and
Holeombh Ward, recently foread the na
tional champlon R, Lindley Murray, the
player of most dazzling speed now in the
game, to go a flerca fivewet mateh to
beat him-—and Hardy is now actually in
his thirtieth year of tournament play.
Compliment Paid to
Boxing as a Sport
A fime compliment was pald to baxin
ar a sport when the Prince of Wales nn:
his hrother, Prince Alhert. attended the
bout hetween Jimmy Wilde and Joe Lyneh
in London
After the fight the Prince of Wales
mounted the ring, shook hands with Wiide
—Lyneh had slipped away to his dreasaing
reom-——and made a neat little speseh. He
seknowledged pleasure that the Britisher
had won, congratulated Lynch on hie fine
sporting apirit, and testified to the grost
value which hoxing contests ke this had
in cementing the hondes of Anglo-Awmeri.
san friendship. whith had counted for se
mash during the war.
- J. WELLING
BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Aug. 31.
Much interest centers in the light
weight match here on Labor Duy be
tween Richie Mitchell, the Milwau
kee favorite, and Joe Welling, the
{"hicago lad. These boys are sched
uled to go ten rounds, and an inter
esting battle is expected.
The winner of this bout has been
promised a crack at either Benny
Leonard, lightweight champion of
the world, or Charlie White, the
“Windy City” veteran. This is quit
a prize for either of the contestants
in today's match, and-it's a safe bet
‘?m state that both Welling and Mitch
‘pll will put forth their best efforts,
‘so as to land the prize
Betting is rather brisk on the out
come, with Welling ruling a 10 to 8
favorite. eVry few wagers are made
on a knockout, as it is thought that
both boys are too wise and clever to
be caught napping.
Welling and Mitchell have tackled
the best in the game. Richie was
considered a sensation until he was
rocked to sleep by Benny Leonard
about the time the lightweight king
also put Freddie Welsh and Johnny
Kilbane away. Outside of that one
setback, Mitehell has done real well
against some of the best lightweights
in the game.
Joe has also tackled the good ones
in his division. Recently he gave
Lew Tendler, the Philadelphia cruck,
a tough argument. Joe is now under
the management of Larney Lichen
stein, and the latter sees a bright ana
prosperous campaign ahead for his
protege, 1
Clancy, the stock yards fighter in
George Ferguson’s stable, will appear
in the semi-windup against Tom Hol
derson, Ike Bernstein’s crack. Two
other matches will complete the cara.
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Hitchcock Would Bar
Toe Calks on Horses
SARATOGA, Aug. 30.—F. R. Hitch
cock, & steward of the Jockey Club and
who is one of the stewards of ‘the cur
rent meeting of the Saratoga Association,
onnounced that at the annual meeting ol
the Jockey Club next January he would
propose a rule doing away with toe calks
on all racing plates.
“Pwo horses have been destroyed and
three or four badly cut down through the
use of these toe calks at the present
meeting,” sald Mr. Hitcheock, “and I think
it is time that we called a halt.- Toe
calks are forbidden on Englihs and French
courses, and there is an exhibit on all
French tracks of what are termed faif and
unfair racing plates, and the penaity is
exceedingly severe for using the latter
type. 1 would not rule against heel calks,
as no damage could be inflicted with
them.”
‘ Boxing Notes
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ST. PAUL, Al%.‘. 31.—Matchmaker
Jack Reddy es the Paul Boxing Club
h-fldhw#m "..":'.‘.3'.‘.’.‘ o ks’ G
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D e Rest mnm" will &’u plnce
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here on Septem 16.
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CHICAGO, 11, Aug. 31.-——Harry Kaba
koff, the little bantamweight from St
lLouis, is in Chicage. [He expects to leave
for Milwaukee soon, where he hopes to
get on in the near future,
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IRONWOOD, Mich, Aug il, —Dennis
O'Keefey of Chicago bested Charles Me-
Carthy 'in eight out of the ten rounds
that they fought here
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CHICAGO, 111, Aug. 31.~—There will be
no Friedman-s Stevenson match at Aurora
today. The Ghetto battler is suffering
from boils and will be unable to perform
Friedman will give his aillment immediate
attepntion and be ready for the ring &
week later.: Navy Rostran will sit in for
Friedman this n:wmu with Stevenson.
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VIERNON, Colo, Aug. 3L-—Joe (King)
lqopol& the local featherweight, has been
mat for a twelve-round decision fight
with Joe Barman, the Chicago boxer. be- |
fore the Moose Lodge of Colorado Springs
on September 3 . The bout will be fought
in the Temple Theater and will be thfl‘
windup of an ali-star card. This will be
the biggest bont for leopold since his
fight two years age with Kid Williams,
former bantamwasight champion of the
world. l
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CHICAGO, 1., Aag. 31.—Frankie Jum.-'
matti, local bantam star, who made nurh‘
s good fight at Milwaukee last ¥Friday
night with Benny Vogel, has been added
#a% a 4 special attraction to the Hammer-
Mitechell fight at Tom Andrews’ club to
day. Jummatti n:ul: B:snny Vogel again
DETROIT, Aug. 3IL--Jack Dempser,
who appeared in a local theater last
week, announced his plans of building
a residence here this winter, but first
will spend seme time on o Texas
ranch. Dempsey says he believes the
new Michigan bofln' law, rnmnflnt
ten-round bonts, will make it possible
to hold rlumph-flur contests here, and
that he will meet the next challenger
in Michigan if pessible.
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NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 31 - Benny Coster
wants & crack at Benny Valger Hmmy
Marsh, Coster's manager, says he s cars
tain that Coster can trim the French
Flash as easily now as he did In Brook
lyn some time ago
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If Valger doesn't care to meet Coster
again the latter i going to ecamp on
Frankie Burns's trail Cowter has met
Jack Bharkey, Kid Wolfe, Joe Burman,
Duteh Brandt, Frankie Clarke, Abe Pried
man and other good ones and thinks he
ia entitled to matches with the best in
the game
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Mike O'Dowd. middleweight champion |
and Boldier Bartfisld may battle lin 8t |
Paul. Jack Reddy, Twiy City premoter, |
says he Intends to astage the show on
Sepiomber 16, i
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Walter Mohr of Hrookiyn will he Heonny |
Jeonard's opponent in a ten reound go st
Syracuse, N. Y., on SBeptember § |
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fl‘b‘"g:ll ton bout lin Newark
totaled l;“.M Of this sam $1.4795
went to the State as n 10 per cent tax
Mike O/Dowd was guaranteed £5,000,
while Britton drew down a third of the
nel receipts, which was a.“‘
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| Eddie McGoorty, the Armerican glove-wielder, will meet Joe Beckett
in London this month. The above picture was taken of Eddie abroad,
and shows how he looks today.
Stro ortville
Strolls Through Sportuill
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
BALLADE OF T HE POLO PONY
I work like blazes at my play,
For play is work with me, you know. ;
And often | hear mortals say \
That certain players get big dough.
It's mighty queer, if this is so,
That up to date !'ve drawn no tin,
| started playing long ago:
" When does my salary begin?
Some man named Dempsey they will pay
Two hundred thousand (say it low)
For dressing up in garments gay
And starring in a burlesque show.
He used two fists to overthrow
Big Jess. | use four legs to win.
They've handed me no gresnbacks, though.
When does my salary begin? 4
The baseball athletes romp away
Each Fall with bank rolls, and they crow
About that farm they'll have some day
When they are getting old and slow:
When | get stiff from head to toe
I'tl have to bear it with a grin,
And I'll be broke as any Bo!
When does my salary begin?
O Polo Players all! What ho!
This Polo Pony's getting thin,
Forever higher prices grow.
When does my salary begin?
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Adj uncts.
A Polo Pony is an adjunct to a great game, like an Umpire.
The Pelo Pony is usually quite a thinking animal, and must do a
good bit of thinking while adjuncting, as it were.
“I don't know what that simpleton on my back would do without
me," I¢ perhaps the trend of the Polo Pony's thoughts,
The Polo Pony, in addition to carrying the rider, acts as his second
and chief adviser in tight spots. In some instances he takes the bit in
his teeth, so to speak, and steps out for himself. His judgment in such
cases seldom fails. If Merkle, back In the old days, could have owned
such a pony, what a base runner he would have been!
These Polo Ponles are said to know as much as their riders,
Noever having seen a Polo game, we don't know whether this is a
knock or a 2 boost
But, voung man, if vou must choose hetween Polo Ponies and the
ponies that run around and around and around, stick to the former, by
all means!'
A Polo Pony certainly has more brains than the man who loses his
morey and other people’s money betting on the other ponjes,
In all these years, through rain or shine,
We never wrote a tpuer line, %
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$300,000
IS REFUSED
SARATOGA, N. Y., Aug. 30.—Al
bert Simons, on behalf of an unknown
client, yesterday offered Samuel €,
Hildreth, the owner of the phenome
nal three year old Purchase, $300.000
for his champion colt. The offer was
declined.
“I refused the offer,” said Mr. Hil
dreth today, “not because I thought
Purchase was worth that muen
money, great colt as he is, but be
cause I would only get a portion of
the sum under the present govern
ment tax. I realize that a man rare
ly ever gets or even sees a horse like
Purchase, but $300,000 is a lot of
money for a man in my cireum
stances. [ have trained itzherbert,
Dalmatian, Friar Rock, McChesaey
and other great horses, but I think
this is the best horse 1 have ever
had in my- care”
Three hundred thousand dollars is
as much as has ever been offered for
any thoroughbred in any country.
There was a number of offers for the
Tracery colt, The Panther, in Eng
land last fall, and in order to give
the public a chance to bid on him his
owner, Sir Abe Bailey, put him up
at auction with a reserve of 40,000
guineas, or a trifle more than $200,-
000 of our money. There was no bid
der, and the horse was passed from
the ring.
The highest price ever paid for a
thoroughbred in the United States
was $140,000 for Rock Sand, which
August Belmont sold to a syndicate
of American and French gentlemen
in the dark days of racing, some
years ago. The late Charles Reed
gave SIOO,OOO at auction for imported
St. Blaise,
Ring at South Bend
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Rainproof Labor Day
CHICAGO, Aug. 30.—1 f it should
rain in South Bend, Ind., on the aft
ernoon of labor Day it will not in~
terfere with the Barney Adair-Mel
Coogan lightweight bout at the base
ball park. The South Bend promeo
tors have provided a canvas cover
ing 60 by 40 feet for the ring to be
used only in the event of rain. AS
the grand stand is well covered, there
will be plenty of shelter for the fans.
Adair and Coogan are considered
two of the best lightweights in the
East, and both have worked hard for
the Monday bout. They have done
their @raining in this city, but both
boys will go to the scene of t"-e bat
tle tomorrow and do their final train.
ing in South Bend
Jim Mullin, former manager of
Middleweizht Eddie MeGoorty, will
handle Adair in the Monday mixup.
Adair's manager is Hinil Thiry, but
Thiry will be busy Monday looking
after Jack Malone's interests in Can
itnn, Ohio. Many Chicagoans are
planning to witness the South Bend
show, which promires Lo draw a
[emuahlnz crowd.
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‘Heinie’ Says Hoyt Will
Be Useless to Pelicans
If the national commission does mnot
hand down a favorable decision in the
New Orleans club's claim against the Bos
ton Red Sox for Pitcher Waite Hoyt,
President A. J. Heinemann will be a dis
appointed man.
“I have received word from B. B. John
son to the effect he has referred the
matter to the national commission,” said
“Heine’” recently. “The national ecom
mission can not overlook the fact that
Boston violated all the rules of basebal
by tampering with Hoyt; nor can it heip
but realize that by losing Hoyt our hopes
for the pennant were given a hard blow
and it ultimately will cost our club lots
of money., We paid good money for Hoyt
and needed him. He would have won
| the pennant for us™
! Heinemann peinted out that Hoyt now
would be useless to New Orleans, as, hav+
ing found out he can make good in the /
majors, he would not do his best in a
minor league at a minor league salary,
and probably would not report. In other
words, Boston's tampering ruined a pers
‘fwny good pitcher,
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Peckinpaugh Called Best
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~ Shortstop in Big Show
~ (By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Aug. 30 -~ln the opinion
of baseball sharps Roger P«rknmnfi
nf the Yankees is the pest shortstop
the major leagues. Coupled with his re
markable hatting power, his fielding
makes him one of the greatest ball pb‘z
ers in the profession, Next to Peck
the American League comes Buck Weav
er of the White Sox, followed by Scott of
the Red SBox, and Chauman of the Cleve
lands. The National League's best short
stop appears to he Arthur Fletcher of
the Glants, closely followed b; Hollacher
of the Cubs, Bancroft of the Phillies and
Maranville of the Braves
H.C. L. Hits Athletes;
Ask Mpre Expenses
CHICAGO, Aug. 30.—Five dollars a day
is mueh too small for a star athlete
subsist on, according to a round re
filed today by Jole Ray. Jo Loomis
other Central A. A, U. athletes wuub
Everitt C. Brown, Nationel A, A, 3
meeting in Philadelphia next month.
Beveral of the orack men of the cen
tral district will compete in the Canadisn .
echampionships at Toronto September 6,
and they agreed the high cost of living
had clutched them. They said they v‘::
unable to meet te necessary traveling
living expenses with the association al.
lowance, and then sent their protest to Mr.
Brown,
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Leifling Dies as Result
Of Bout With Aduca
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 30~
Frank l.mflln‘, & boxer of Wilkes-Barrs,
Pa., died in the city hoespital here Prldlz
a 8 & result of & bout Thursday night wit
Manuel Aduca of Pittsburg, wha fights
under the name of “K. O Cirous™ “tfir.
cus”’ was arrested and jalled on a charge
of mansiaughter,
Referee Sam Lewis ~f Philadeiphia is
being held as principal witness. An ins
uest will be held to determine the de
gree of Aduca’s responsibility in the d-u‘:
of Leifling.
Phils Get Lebourveaux,
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Hard-Hilting Peorian
PHILADELPHIA Aug, 30.—Da
Witt Lebourveaux, hard-hitting outs
fielder of the Peoria Club In the
Three-1 Leacue has heen signed By &
the Philadeiphia Nationals snd wilf =
report to tha ub Labor Day, b
veteran sco Larry Button, gra irg
the blg I'renchman, and says he I 8
snother | with the kickory, o
Patsy ('line Drops for
AT P $ ¥
I'wice in Ten Rounds
BORANTON, Pa., Aug. 30 --Iv iy
Cline i easy victory last { »
Ralph scheppard, scoring two il
8 their ten-round mill, S e j
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