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ALL THE REAL SPORTING DOPE OF THE DAY Tom McCarey, manager of the Vernon fight club of California, is planning an ambitious program for the next few weeks. His lat est addition is a planned match between Johnny Coulon and Joe Mandot, to take place some time v in the spring. McCarey inti mates he has almost completed arrangements for the scrap. Jess Willard and two other promising heavies are possibilities for an other elimination tournament to find an opponent for Luther Mc Carty. Sammy Trott and Bud Anderson open the ball Saturday night. This go will be followed by Kid Williams of Baltimore, and Eddie Campi of Frisco, Feb. 12. Joe Rivers and K. O. Brown have the Washington, birthday date, and the winner of the Cam-pi-Williams bout will be sent against Johnny Coulon in March if the Chicago boy agrees. Mc Carey is doing his best to restore prize fighting by putting on real matches. The loud explosion tomorrow will be Dan Morgan, manager of Jack Britton, and Emil Thiry, manager of Packey McFarland, trying to arrange a match be tween their boys. Neither man ager can talk more than 200 words a minute. Sheriff William Smith of Cleve land is the real fox. Mayor Baker ordered him to stop prize fighting. Smith's first act was to swear in Johnny Kilbane, feather champ, as a deputy sheriff. Kil bane pledged himself to help stop boxing in the city. Knockout Brown of Chicago punished Billy Uvick so badly in South Omaha that police stopped the bout before the first round was over. Uvick was down three times. According to reports from St. Louis, Ed Konetchy, first base man of the Cards, has demanded such a large salary that the own ers want to trade him to the Cubs or Pirates. Konetchy is a slugger, but is flat-footed at field ing his position, and handles him self like a wooden Indian around the first corner. As long as the Cubs have a young comer like Vic Saier there is no place for Konetchy. President Murphy's statement that the Cubs would pull a big trade in a few days has started the pipe artists puffing clouds of dope. If a trade is pulled off, the Cubs will add a pitcher or two to their string, and the man will come from the Phillies. Red Dooin wants extra infielders and outfielders, and the Cubs are well supplied with both "brands. In exchange he is willing to let go of Earl Moore, and possibly Ad Brennan. Brennan is a south paw, and would fit in nicely on the West Side. Moore is an emo tional gent, and won't pitch un less his surroundings are pleas ant. He is dissatisfied in Philly, and has wanted to get away for two years. Some of the material Murphy secured from Cincinnati, as well as Tom Leach and Jim Sheckard, can be used for trading purposes.