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By GUY BUTLER.,
Funny how the so-called baseball
experts are riding the two clubs that
Just finished the world series, Some
of them—the ma. YEAEwmmcrez s
Jority—say thel
best club lost, put |
it's dollars to A
doughnuts they @ el
all said this be- iy 7
cause they had 2 ‘ i
either wagered on 7 i 1 %
the Sox or had ,/.;"'t.u
“doped” them'R
out as the win- ‘
ners of the series e |
and didn’t like to . |
see their selection ;
trampled upon. .
Such things as X
“dope™ are pure
rot. How can a
man have little -
CNOUR D reason Wi v bikaiead
about him to at- Guy Batler,
tempt to pick the winners of each
game, the exact scores, number of
hits, errors, etc.—all of this in public
print—weeks before the series gets
vnder way? Some of them do it, and
never in the history of the world se
ries has one of them been known to
pick even the score of one game, and
very, very few winners of the single
games.
OUTPLAYED ALL AROUND.
It is hardly likely that the best
ciub lost. Eight games were played,
and that is just abhout enough to de
cide the better club between any two.
Cinecinnati outplayed, outgamed, out
fought, outpitched, outhit and out
fielded the Sox. What more could
you want? In addition, the Reds
outgeneraled the Sox, both in the
box and”at the other positions. “Kid"”
Gleason was outgeneraled by Pat
Moran, and probably Chief Bender,
We may never get the details of
Bender's work in this series, but it's
a safe bet that the venerable chief
played a prominent part from the
coaching lines and the bench.
Anyway, the best club won, in my
* gpinion. Of course, there are many
who think the Sox the stronger team.
Perhaps they are in eight positions,
but what about the pitching staff?
Isn't a pitching staff just as rhuch
a part of a team as the first base
man, or catcher, or shortstop? As a
matter of fact, pitching 18 something
like 60 per cent of the game. Any
team can win with air-tight pitch
ing nine times out of ten ,but no
team can win many games with loose
hurling.
1t is admitted that Ray Schalk is a
better catcher than either Rariden
or Wingo: Gandil may have some
thing on D'Aubert, Risberg may even
be better than Kopf, and Weaver may
be the equal of Groh; Felsch, Jackson
and Leibold and J. Collins may look
better than Duncan, Roush and
Neale, But Eller, Ring, Reuther,
Sallee and Luque certainly smeared
it all over Cicotte, Willlams and
Kerr.
TOO MANY VETERANS.
The main thing about the Sox per
haps is the oversupply of veterans.
The New York Giants showed this
yvear that aimost a complete set of
veterans can’'t get very far, The
Sox had Gandil, Cicotte, Weaver,
Jackson, L.eibold and J. Collins, all
of them veterans of many years on
the diamond. And even Eddie Col
lins must be slowing up. They have
Jost some of the zip that charac
terized their early ptay, which is but
natural, while, on the other hand,
Pat had quite a flock of youngsters.
Kopf, Duncan, Roush and Neale are
voung men., Groh is not very old,
while the pitching staff, with the ex
ception of Sallee and Fisher, is a
young crew.
Young blood, fighting hearts and
good pitching won the series for the
Reds,
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Dobie Uses 3 Sels
Of Backs at Navy
ANNAPOLIS®, Oct. 11.-—Three complete
‘slnyor,« bent on keeping Pat Page from
weaking through the line yesterday, broke
Page's leg, and the Maroon footb&ll hopes
Are not so promising now The small
bone of the leg was broken below the
kne and Page will be out of the game for
the rest of the season
Had it been A, A, Stage who was put
out there could hardly have been a more
disastrous accident, because much depend
«d on Page this year
Pat had earned the title of “invincible'
because he had gone through ten seasons
of play, including three ycoars on nwl
Chicage eleven, without an injury Onee |
in his student days he was knocked un
conscious by a flying tackle made hy
Nels Norgren, but that was the only time
that Pat was forced to call for time,
Pat Page Breaks Leg;
Ma " H D
: roons’ Hopes Drop
CHICAGO, Oct 11 Five freshmen ,
gots of backs were used by Coach Dobin
in the practise at the Naval Aoademy
yesterday afternoon. The weather has
:ruwn cooler, and with two hours at their
isposal the practise, which included a
. jong scrimmage, was one of the best of
the season. The backfield men who were
in the play so rthe first time at one time |
or another were Cruise, Doll, Tay ‘,.{
Watters, Brandenberger, Benoist .‘;.;H\.."
Alford, Flood, Haase, Rawlings and
Koster,
Dobie says that there has been no se
jection of a first backfield yeot and that |
he does not consider the work of Saturday |
any test. He does not feel that he has ,‘\|
iet any backs up to the standard and is
eeping his eye on all of these who show
any promise, hoping some uscful men w \
develop. i
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Princeton Refuses to
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NEW BRUNBWICK, N. J, Oct. N
Princeton has definitely refused to give
Rutgers one of the open dates on the
Tigers football schedule or even to play a
ten-minute exhibition with the locals as
part of the big foothall pageant whi ]
to be held here to eommemorate the ret
intér-collegiate foothall game played in
America, which was between Rutgers and
Princeton in 1869
“Rig Bill" Edwards of New York |is
chairman of the Princeton committee for
the football pageant, which is to include
exhibitions of all the styles of football
from 1869 to the present time John W
Herbert of New York is the chairman of
the Rutgers committes A banguet will
be held here at which the Princeton and
Rutgers 'varsity teams will be guests
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Face Carolina
ATHENS, Ga., Oct, 11,—The Uni
versity of South Carolina is the op
ponent of the University of Georgia
this afternoon on Sanford Field, and
although the latter is somewhat
crippled, with Mott and Rigdon out
of the line-up, the Red and Black
supporters feel confident their team
will triumph. .
Coach Cunningham has * been
working his men hard during the
past week, and has been getting
good results. Barchen, the boy
from Riverside, is showing up splen
didly at quarter, the position Mott
has been playing, and will start the
game against South Carolina. Van
diver will fill Rigdon's place. Van- |
diver did good work in the Citadel |
game, |
Buck Hartley, from G. M. A,, will
play right half, and Dave Collings,
from Boys' High, right end, while
Day, last year with Georgia Tech, |
will play center, |
Here is the probable line-up of |
the Red and Black for the game this
afternoon: ! |
Center, Day; right guard, Few; |
left guard, Whelchel; right tackle, |
Vandiver; left tackle, Austin or 1
Reynolds; quarterback, Barchen; |
fullback, Neville: right halfback, |
Hartley; left halfback, J. T. Rey
nolds, ‘
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Fifteen Big Drivers ‘
& ‘
In Automobile Races
CINCINNATI, Oct. 11.—~Keyed up
to the highest adjustment, 15 of the
fastest automobile racing machines
ever built, driven by dare devil pilots
ar’» ready for the 300-mile race at
Clincinnati's speedway at Sharonville,
starting at 2 o'clock this afternoon,
They will try to smash every ex
isting record from twenty to 3u@
miles,
Plenty of rain last night and over
cast skies this morning are the wea
hter conditions. |
Following are cars and drivers: |
No. 3, Mercer, Joe Thomas.
No. 5, Toft's Special, Omar Toft.
No. 7, Frontenac, Louis Chevrolet,
No. 8, Meteor, Dave Lewis.
No. 9, Duesenberg, Ed O'Donnell.
No. 10, Duesenberg, Ralph de
Palma.
No. 11, Peugeot, Paul Harvey,
No. 12, Roamer Special, Kurt
Hitke.
No. 16, Hudson, Toland Nicholson.
No. 21, Stickle, Denny Hickey.
No. 26, Bender Special, Tom Alley.
No. 28, Oldfield Special, Waldo
Stein.,
No, 29, Peugeat, Art Klein.
.\io. 39, Frontenac, Joe Boyer.
No. 41, Frontenac( Qaston Chevro.
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Evers Told Redlegs
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To ‘Ride’ Ed Collins
CINCINNATI, Oct, 11.—Johr* Evers
Is given much cradit by the Reds
1'.3- instilling extra pepper into them.
“You gotta ride 'em,” he kept In
sisting during the week bhefore the
games began. “Ride 'em hard. Never
mind parlor manners. Listen: You
’v:m Bddie Colling a ~——, and eall
Joe Jackson a —— and they'll
i«'h.\kr up and go crazy.” ;
“But,” protested a Red infielder,
l"l don’t think it's right to talk that
way to anyvbody,”
| “Looka here shriecked Evers, “are
vou thinking about playing checke
’-‘r.x" You get in there and you ecall
| Eddie. a in the first inning, or
| we'll all know you're a, member of a
| ladies’ sewing circle.”
| And the playver said it to Collins
and Collins, dazed by the jolt, played
miserably the swest of the series.
' FAST DOES POORLY HERE.
T our Eastern clubs of the Amer
can League in thelr invasions of the West
this season made a poor showing They
won i foMy-three games on Western
'hrms nd lost 116. The Yankees made
the best showing
Callahan' Boys to Clash
[ When Yale Plays Princeton |
Brothers in Grid Contest
When !‘aln and Pripceton meet
this fall in the annual football bat
tle between those institutions of
higher education, the opposing cen
ters will be John Timothy Calla
han of Lawrence, Mass., and Henry
Augustine Callahan of Lawrence,
Mass., the pair of them brothers.
Not in all the history of big foot
ball has the long arm of coinci
dence pulled another such stunt.
On a certain occasion, it will be
remembered, the well known Kil
kenny cats clashed in an encounter
the result of which has become his
tory. &
But the Kilkenny cats have noth
ing on the Callahan brothers in
the matter of Irish. Yale will back
up half -of that siatement and
Princeton will bear witness te the
other half. If “Mike” (that's
Henry) is a devil dog, “Tim"” is a
bear cat, and the question at Yale
and Princeton now is what, if any
thing, will be left of these two
blond giants on November 15 next,
when darkness fails from the wing
of night and the ambulances wend
their way through the Yale Bowl
to pick up the pieces?
: The Callahan beys have been
scrapping ever since one was thr'e‘i
and the other five. Whatever o
liked, the other one didn't. They
pulled each other's hair over their
toys; they quarrelled over their
favorite teacher; they fought over
the girls of their salad days; they
differered emphatically over the
differed emphatically in their
choice of prep schools, and even
today any discsusion as regards
the relative merits of Yale and of
Princeton is likely to start the
choicest kind of a family row.
Charles Sciple, Charles Elyea and
Chick Ridley are the three golfers
who have reached the semi-finals in
the Capital City Club’'s tournament,
which is to end next Saturday. W.|
B. Carlton and Dowdell Brown will
meet and the winner of this match
will be the fourth man in the semi
finals,
Elyea and Ridley are to battle in
one of the semi-finals matches, while
Sciple will take on the winner of the
Carlton-Brown engagement.
The semi-final matches are to ‘be
finished by Wednésday.
DEFEATED EIGHT.
In the defeated eight the following
matches will be played:
Joe Raines vs, R. T. Dorsey.
Ralph Reed vs. Macon Martin,
K. G. Ottley vs, (. B. Bidwell.
IN THE SECOND FLIGHT.
T. Fuller vs. W, K. Harrington,
. H. Tolle vs: George Green.
P. D. Yates vs, V, Gude.
H. Brummelkamp vs. Evelyn Har
ris,
IN THE THIRD FLIGHT.
Dr. H. ¥. McDuffie vs. H, B. Ken
nedy, the winner to play Harry!
Buylor, “
John Lottridge will play the win-;
ner of the match between H. N.
Hutcheson and F. B. Ludwig. \
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Canadian Sportsman
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Wants Boxing Board
Tom Flanagan, the Toronte sportsman,
wants the Deminion of Canada govern
ment to put the sport of boxing under &
boxing commission ocentrol
JUDGE ANNOUNCES SCORE.
EVANEVILLE, Ind., Oe¢t. IL-—For the
benefit of fans who were compelled to at
tend ecourt recently, Judge Philip C, Goula
who was presiding at a trial in Cireuit
Court here, announced the world series
score fram the bhench.
When Tim elected Phillips-An
dover as his prep.school, Mike re
taliated by signing on at Phillips-
Exeter. ¥ach hoped to get at the
other, as both became star football
men. But seasons came and went
and the meeting was never staged.
Tim'es two years of seniority was
just ?fflcmnt to keep him out of
Mike's way and so things might
have gone along to the end had not
Mr. Hohenzollern taken a hand in
the world's affairs and at the same
time upset the eollege courses of
the brothers Callahan.
Tim is captain of Yale this year.
His last college game was in 1916
when hé was pivot man for the
Blue. In 1917 he played center for
the Newport Naval sterve team,
and was picked as 11-American
center. Last year he was in service.
Mike will be aPrinceton junior
this vear. He is already being
talked about as a promising candi
date for the captaincy of the Orange
and Black in 1920, '
In the matter of being lucky,
Tim has the edge on his brother.
The Yale captain s 5 feei 10 1-2
inches in height and weighs around
215 pounds in his birthday clothes.
Mike is an even % feet 10 and tips
the scales at a neat 180.
If November 15 doesn't go down
in football history as Callahan day
it will not be the fault of the Cal
fahan boys. Tim’s a gentle man
neyed, mild expressioned, amiable
sort of chap. Tim says poor Mike
will certainly be up ‘against it,
while Mike speaking in those me
lodious and haunting accents that
have made him a favorite in Prince
ton hammocks on spring evenings,
opines that they'll have to come
after Tim with a vacuum cleaner.
REDS BEAT
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SOX FAIR,
P,
--COMISKEY
CHICAGO, Oect. 11.—Charley Co
miskey, owner of the Chicago White
Sox, was all “het up” last night over
the rumors in circulation that his
players threw a game or two to the
Cincinnati -‘Reas in the world series
just ended.
“l will give to any man $20,000 who
will unearth any real information to
the effect that the White Sox threw a
game to the Reds,” he announced. “I
am positive my boys fought hard
every inch of the way, and that they
were anxious to win the serles. If it
is found that they did not play on the
level, 1 would be the first t 0 want to
kuow of it, and 1 have that $20,000 to
offer for any information of that
Kind.
“There is always some scandal fol
lowing a big sporting event, Just be
cause my club was a big favorite to
win, and then lost, tHere are some
who believe they did not try to play
their best. That is not so. However,
1 do believe the White Sox to be
stronger than the Reds, but I saw
the games, and 1 must admit my club
did not play as good ball as the Reds
and deserved to lose,
“The so called experts should be
positive they are right, when they
announce in the public prints that the
world series was not decided on its
merits,” the Old Roman concluded.
Charley Comiskey has been con
nected with the American Leagpe
since it started, and is recognized as
one of the greatest baseball men in
the country, and never has he been
known to be connected with any sort
of a game that was not absolutely
above board.
SOME STRIKIG OUT,
Twenty-one sirike outs n a ten-inning
!ld"h‘ is quite a record It was made in
‘!ln‘ Cubs-Phillies game of September 15
Vaughn and Mcadows fanned ten sach and
Carter made ovne swing
By Tad
Fifth Division l
With Auburn ‘
AUBURN, Ala., Oct. 11.—Drake
Field is going to be the scene of
a good combat this afternoon when
the Tigers attempt to take a few
victorious bites out of the record
of the Fifth Division soldiers.
These said soldiers come well
recotnmended by their past actions
and should furnish food of the
very toughest. variety for the
Plainsmen.
Since the game was moved here
" from Columbus plans are being
made for a large crowd of rooters
who were planning to go there.
| They are certainly going to see
some good football, as the Plains
‘ men are beginning to realize that
it is time they were showing the
stuff they have on hand or take
| the consequences,
| This week should fit them for
| most any kind of game. Up to the
very last 81nute Coach Donahue
’ put them rough their very best
- paces. Every night after secrim
mage they were given a stiff signal
drill. If things should not. result
so well Saturday it is certainly go-,
ing to be no fault of his. ’
The line has been given some
very pointed instruction in the art
of charging and working together.
The varsity linesmen were split
into two groups.: They had to
struggle with each other for the
- part of an hour.
The backs have not been neg
lected by a long shot, and they
came in for their share of the in
struction in smashing up the de
. sense and in the manly art of
} breaking up forward passes.
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lPat Moran’s Gift Watch
And Charm Are Stolen
FITCHBURG, Mass, Oct. 11.—A
gold wateh and diamond studded
charm, the gift of the Knights of
Columbus of Cincinnati to Manager
Pat Moran, of the Reds, were stolen
from him yesterday. Moran is a
resident of this city.
MRS. MALLORY NET VICTO?.
. FORREST HILLS, N. Y., Oct. 11.—
‘Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, former
‘women’s national lawn tennis cham
‘pion, defeated Mrs, Barger Wallach
of Philadephia, winner of the 1918
title, 6-3, 6-1, in the final of the West
Side Tennis Club tournament here
yesterday.
BACK IN 16, CICOTTE TRIED TO
TEACH ELLER THE SHINE BALL
& By HARVEY WOODRUFF.
(Item-New York Times-Chicago Tribune Service.)
HICAGO, Oct. 11.—~“Didn't we have him once? asked a fan in the
C upper grandstand of his neighbor just after Hod Eller had
fanned Williams, Leibold and Eddie Collins in the tHird inning,
after performing a similar favor for Gandil, Risberg and Schalk in the
econd of a recent world series game. The conversation was plainly
audible in the press box. .. .... ..
“Didn't we have who? And who the—— is we?"” growled the dis
gusted fan interrogated.
“Why, Eller, of course. Didn't the Sox have him once?
Yes, they had him back in 1916, and Eddie Cicotte tried to teach
him to throw the shine ball, but Eller was a big boob and couldn’t learn
anything. At least that's my dope.. Anyway, they let him ge. .
The fans dope was correct in part, at least. Eller did make the
spring training trip with the Sox in 1916, having been secured from Mo
line, where he had played two seasons. The Sox were pretty well sup
plied with slabmen and Eller barely survived the training trip, being
returned to Moline in April. That fall he was drafted by the Reds, and
in 1917 won ten and lost five games for Cincinnati.
Whether or not Cicotte imparted any of the mysteries of the shiner
io Eller may be doubted, but certainly Eiller was tbout the freshest
minor that ever came up for trial. If he had been a freshman at college
he was the type who would be hazed. He was not offensive, except as
freshness is always offensive to a seasoned player. Instead, he was the
butt of all the jokes it was possible to pull, including acting as referee
at a badger fight.
& %0 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1919.
BIG TEAMS
CLASH ON
" GRID FIELD
By JACK VEIOCK,
International News Sporting Editor
NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—Football is
back again, stronger and more pop
ular than ever before. |
It came back with a post-war rush
that was altogether characteristic
and by the time the curtain is rung
down ' with the playing of Turkey
Day games the grand old collegiate
sport ‘will havé enjoyeds one of the
best seasons it has ever seen, unless
all signs fail. |
The war failed to hust football. It
is true that many a player who
answered the call to the colors was
“downed” for all time before the big
gest contlict in history wds settled
in favor of the allies. But there are
more football players’ today than
ever before. |
The army and navy spread the
gospel of football in training camps
for two years. Thousands of husky‘
young Americans who had never|
played the game got into uniforms
ond worked with company or regi
mental elevens. In the big army
camps, for instance, it was nothing
to see 100 football teams running
throygh signal practice of an after
noon.
College stars from the biggest
schools in the country played with
the new men, taught them the fine
points of the game and coached the
teams. The result is hundreds of
really good football players who
might otherwise never have donned
the moleskins were developed, and
scores of these players are to bhe
found among the many who are
playing collegiate football this fall.
i TEAMS PLAY TODAY:
The world series a thing of his
tory, football now holds the rpot
light! Saturday will see practically
every big eleven of importance In
action against smaller teams and in
the Middle West particularly old
time rivalries between elevens of the
“Big Ten” will be renewed with all
of their former glamor. Many of the
big elevens have already played sev
eral games of . minor importance
Here in the East the “Big Three”
will not be ready to battle for su
premacy among themselves until No
vember arrives, but many important
games are to be played, starting Sat- |
urday. |
Harvard, Yale and Prmeceton will
all be seen in action. The Crimson
eleven will lock horns with Colby at
C‘ambridge, while Yale takes on
North Carolina University at New
Haven, and Princeton tackles Lafay
ette at Princeton. The champion‘
Pittshurg eleven has a hard. game
scheduled against West Virginia, a‘
team that has been coming fast dur
ing the last two or three years.
The Army will have a game on its
hands, too. The Cadets take on Syra.
cuse in the first important game of
their season, and while they are bat
tling the lads from the Salt Lake
City the Navy will be busy with‘
Johns Hopkins at Annapolis. Colgate
will meet Brown, Cornell will pla_v}
Williams and Columbia will take on
Vermont at Columbia. Penn will play
Delaware, ~ ‘
| WESTERN GAMES. |
Tn the West seVeral big games are
going to attract attention. Three
games in particular stand out on the
schedule. They are the Minnesota
' Nebraska contest at Minneapolis,
where Doc Williams' charges, will
tackle the Cornhuskers in a contest
‘that promises to be full of thrills.
The fast Notre Dame eleven will face
the Great Lakes Traiumg Station
‘S[ation team and at.the same time
[llinois will have Perdue battling to
}(-russ her goal line,
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Tendler Makes Yoakum
\ Quit in Round No. 4
| DENVER, Col, Oct. Ill.—ELew
‘Tendler of Philadelphia today has a
‘decision over Stanley Yoakum of
Denver. Yoakum tired of Tendler's
‘barrage in the fourth round of a,
scheduled 12-reund bout here last
inight and quit.
Mike Ertle, of St. Paul, had a wide
margin over Kid Papl, a local boy
in eight rounds, while Kid Fox, of
Dallas, was awarded the verdict over
Jack Doyle of Kansas City, in the
first round of a preliminary.
ILLINI TO RUN MICHIGAN.
TURBANA, 111, Oct. 11.—Cross-coun
try races are to be revived at ‘the
University of Illinois and a meet with
Michigan has been arranged here on
November 15. A return race will be
tun at Ann Arbor next year. It will
e the first time in fifteen years that
a race of this nature has been held
between the two schools.
NO VETS AT PRINCETON,
Princeton has not one veteran varsity
football player to depend upon.
Woods Will Cover
Races for Georgian
~ If you are looking for the
most accurate riccounts of the
harness and running races at
Lakewood Park next week, also
the best written stories on the
races, then you should read The
Georgian.
Cary A. Woods, a veteran turf
expert, will cover the races for
this paper, and there is no man
in the South better fitted for
the job. Mr. Woods is well
kmown throughout the South as
a race horse expert, much of
his work being done in Texas,
where he gained an enviable
reputation smong the writers of
racing.
Mr. Woods’ first work of this
kind was done in Fort Worth
for the Fort Worth Record. He
also covered races for the Hous
ton Chronicle and for Otto Floto
on the Kansas City Post.
His first article will be pub
lished Sunday and he will write
every day on the races until the
meeting closes. :
'N.Carolina State in
Gridiron Game Today
WEST RALEIGH, N. C, Oct. 11.—
The football team of the North Caro
lina State College has been going
through a hard workout and scrim
mage daily in preparziion for the
third game of the season whica will
be played with the eleven from ilhie
Receiving Ship of the Hampton
Roads Naval Base Station on Rid
dick Field this afternoon.
This will be, the second oppor
‘tuniiy for local fans to witness the
work of the Techs, which is being
!watched wiihe grecat interest in or
der to get a line on the protable
result of the ULiggoest game of the
year lor this section which is 1o be
played with Carolina on Thursday of
Fair Week, October 23.
R RR A T R
Alex for Cubs Blanks
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Speedy Fairies, 5 to 0
JANTSVILLE, Wis., Oct. 11.—Chi
cago Cub barnstormers won from
Fairbanks Morse of Beloit yesterday,
5 to 0. Alexander worked the whole
game, holding the Fairies to two hits.
TAD’S TID BITS—By Tad
NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—'T've seen
a lot of great fighters,” said Leo
Flynn, pushing back his iron kelly,
“but take it from me, big or little,
white or black, the grandest’of the
lot was little George Dixon. He
was my idea of a wonderful fight
ing machine. I know that a lot of
the fight fans today never saw
Dixon. He’'s been dead ten years,
vou know, but his fights will live
for ten more, and then some.
“I liked Gans as a fighter, too.
He had almost everything but
speed. Dixon had everything that
Gans had, with speed added. You
must remember, too, that Dixon at
98 pounds was fighting big, stror;g
boys.” He put -on a bit' of weig
later, and then kept on giving away
weight He was fighting big, husky
lightweights along with the feathers
all the time, and was first under
the wire nearly every trip.
“There isn't a fighter today who
can rip with that old left the way
Dixon could. He could rip a left
to the body and upon the chin and
then shoot a right over before a
fellow couwd say ‘scat’ He was a
hitter, a boxer, a ring general, and
‘was cooler than a lemon and soda.
“Kilbane? Yes, a great boy, but
Dixon would have taken him.
Dixon was a better feinter and bet
ter hitter. Kilbane, 1 admit, can
sock, but he can’'t use the left as
Dixon did. There never was another
left like Dixon’s. It was murderous.
That old rip to the stomach was
poison to any one.
“Yes, siree, put me down as a
Dixon man above all others, There
were great fighters, but I can’t
think of one who was a master of
every department of the game like
‘Little Chocolate.””
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AN OLD-TIMER CHIRPS.
Dear Tad:
I read your article the other day
in which Eddie Graney says that
Jim Corbett was the star of our
heavyweight boxers I think that
Mr., Graney knows something at
that. 1 saw Corbett at his best
when he beat Jake Kilrain. He
made a show of Jake if ever a show
was made. I can’t imagine Jim Jef
fries even touching Corbett at that
time. 4
Ccerbett was 24 years of age then,
and he was uncanny in his work.
Jim Jeffries was 24 when he won
the title from Fitzsimmons. I should
liked to have seen the cumber
some Jefries meet Corbett at that
time,
The only fight that I can think of
that would compare with this wa¥
the night that Jem Driscoll made
a monkey of Leach Cross here in
New York. -
Yours for the old-timers,
J. COONEY.
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REVERSE ENGLISH NOTES.
Harry Frazee, of the Boston Red
Sox, has asked for waivers on Babe
Ruth, a left-handed pitcher of his
club.
; .
. Mr Ban Johnson of Cleveland
was the guest of Colonels Ruppert
and Huston at a luncheon re
cently.
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Bat Masterson says that the pres
ent batch of pugilistic champiotis
are the gamest, straightest and best
that the world has ever seen.
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Jack Kearns, who brought Jack
Dempsey into public notice, has
shaken his change for good. Jack
says that Dempsey is “a has been”
and in the future will let him pad
dle his own canoe.
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WHAT THEY ALL SAY.
They were talking about old-time
fighters the other night at Billy
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TOURNEY
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NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—When the
gseven leading balkline players of
America meet in competition at the
National American Billlard Cham.
pionship tournament, which com
mences here October 20, billiard lov~
ers will have settled for good a num
ber of arguments ana disputes as to
the comparative ability of the various
players. ¢
Chief among the controversies to be
ended by results of the play at the
Astor will be the Schaefer-Cochran-
Hoppe dispute, which has occupied
the center of the stage in the bil
liard world ®or a long time. It has
not been many months since Welker
Cochran, the youthful marvel, was °
clamoring for' a match with Hoppe,
his backers claiming for him that he
had earned the right to meet the
champion for the title. Words flew
fast for a while, but much to the
disappointment of tne pilliard fans,
who were eager for the match, it
never materialized, and in spite of all
the efforts made no one was able toi
Yring the two cue wizards to an un
lerstanding.
Young Jake Schaefer is another of
the younger plavers who has been
asking for a chance at the title
Many times ~a match between _
Schaefer and Hoppe has been in the
making, but has always come 1O
nothing. There are thousands of
billiard fans througheat the country
who believe that Schaefer will suc=
ceed to the titles held by his father,
and their belief has been strength
ened by recent perrormances, espe
cially Schaefer’s run of 307 in the
exhibition match with Welker Coch
ran.
Again, many have never been sat
jsfied with the result of the Cochran-
Schaefer matches and have wanted 3,
real test of strength between the two,
representing as they do the cream of
tile ability of the younger players.
The recent contests played by them
took place in billiard rooms and were
not under the championship condi
tions they will .play under in the
tournament at the Astor Hotél. The
match between Schaefer and Cochran
should furnish real proof of the com
rarative ability of the two and will
be watched with as much interest as
any scheduled in the tourney, for it
would be a hard matter to tell which
is the better of the two players at the
presen.t time.
By TAD,
- Gibson’s place. Some insisted that
the fighters of today were scene
shifters as compared with the old
boys. Others said that boxing had
improved so that the old-timer
wouldn’t have a chance with a good
man of today.
Then Gibson chimed in.
“It’s a fact,” piped Bill, “you can’'t
make an oldt-imer believe that Sul
livan and that gang were not un
beatable 1n their prime. You know
1 took my father to see Jim Coffee
and Joe Jeanette training one day.
Jim was in top form at that time
and Jeanette was priming him up
for me My father watched them
go through three rounds without
saying a word. When the work
out was finished and we were on
our way downtown I said to him,
‘Well, pop, what do you think of
my coming champion, Jim Coffey?’
“The old man gave me one look
and, stepping out faster than usual,
said, ‘Sure, John Morrisey could
lick them both in a round.”” c
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Ungrateful Thieves
Steals Kerr’s Overcoat
CHICAGO, Oct. 11.—Here are the
most ungrateful thieves on record;
look ’em over and slant the fingero f
shame their way: Joe Krabec, 1221 8.
Kildare avenue, and Robert Strauyss
are the guilty ones.
They stole Dick Kerr's raincoat!
~ Dick didn’t take his raincoat teo
Cineinnati on his latest trip, but left
it in his locker at the clubhouse in
the Sox park. Krabec and Strauss
broke in the oher day. Besides the
raincoat they got three of “Swede”
Risberg’s silk shirts and an overcoat
belonging to Bill James.
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Reds May Train in
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b Florida Net Spring
| MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 11.—The Cincin
nati National League baseball club
will train in Miami next spring if
this city meets the league champion’s
‘terms, Pat Moran, the Reds mana
ger, today assured Frank B. Shutts,
'Miami newspaper publisher, accord
ing to a telegram received here last
tnlght from Shutts,
ot
Chattanooga Favorite
Over Oglethorpe Today
CHATTANOOGA, Oct. 11, —Al
though outweighed, the University of
Chattanooga was a favorite over
Oglethorpe University for their grid
iron contest this afternoon. The fray
is the first collegiate engagement of
the season here and a large crowd is
expected.
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Law Prevents ‘Pro’
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Grid Game in New York
NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—Because of
the law horrible there will be no pro
fessional football games played at the
Polo grounds on the Sabbath. After
conferring with Corporation Counse!
Burr, Charley Brickley, the once fa
mous Harvard star, decided to call off
the games scheduled #t the home of
the Giants,
Vernon Wins First Clash
* .
In Minor League Series
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11.—Vernon
won the first game of the minor
league championship series yesterday
from Bt. Paul, 7 to 1. Though hit
freely, Finneran_ for the Tigers was
effective in the pinches. Merrii:
started for the Sainls.&bul in at
tempting to field Meusel's line driv
in the fifth was injured and reliev !
by Williap~