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WINTER SPORTING DOPE NFROM EVERYWHERE Sox Licked, But Show Promise Tourists in New York. Willie Ritchie-Ad, Wolgast Fight Real Championship Affair. Throughout the country they are accepting the impending Wolgast Ritchie battle as a champion affair, and promoters of the mill are receiv ing applications for tickets from ring bugs east and west. The only way Wolgast can win the. championship back, of course, is to knock Ritchie cold. A decision would not give him a" clear claim. But it would entitle him to a return bout over the derby distance .on the coast, and that is what Ad is working for. Some disagreement has occurred about the referee, but not of a seri ous enough nature to disrupt, the ar rangements! Harry .Stout, a Milwau kee man, who has acted as .the third man in the ring in the majority of the recent big fights in the Cream City, is the choice of the commission to direct matters. Ritchie, while not questioning Stout;s ability or fairness, believes that it would be better to have a ref eree with a national reputation. Indi cations are that the matter will be smoothed, out. Leach Cross barely shaded Phil Bloom in ten rounds at New York. The dentist was overweight, and wild and. slow with most of his swings for Bloom's head. In three of the rounds Bloom had a distinct lead, but Cross evening up by rushing to close quar ters. He was unable to land when he stood off and boxed., George Sutton is the only real rival left Willie Hoppe in the 18.2 billiard tournament. He beat George Slosson yesterday, 500 to 160, and has now won two games, and lost none. Hoppe trimmed Demarest, 500 to 369; mak ing his string three victories and no defeats. Sutton played fast billiards and went out In eighteen innings. Hoppe was off form in his match with Demarest. Beaten in their first game against Oakland yesterday, there were, nev ertheless, some promising indications in the performances of the White Sox players. They, hit the offerings of two Coast League pitchers whohave been steaming up for a few weeks, and Big Bill Lathrop, the Notre Dame star, showed that he had a curve or two worthy of consideration.. This Lathrop person is ;?being counted to 'develop, into a-pitcher of regular proportionsable to' tike his stand alongside "the dandy receivers Jhat Comiskey seems to "pick jip with uucanny.iucjt., Like most, youngsters, Lathrop is affected by a wild" streak.- Notlqe that he passed five, gents and. soaked an other in the ribd Itt.,fiv6 innings yes terday, and no further argument is necessary. With that record .and yes terday's performance is no 'unusual occurrence, he must be "pretty good mechanically to get. any considera tion at all from such particular gents as Kid. Gleason and' Billy Sullivan. Lathrop is one of Cleason's hopes. It will be remembered that last swine the Kid strung ,albng with Reb Russell and backed the Texan when Calla han favored letting him go. Reb's subsequent record indicates that the former Oriole is a pretty good judge of .pitching flesh. Trie is touting Lathrop highly, and it is not the. usual spring training camp complimentary stuff. The Kid Is. not built that way. Lathrop was with the Sox during part of last season, but was given no chance to prove" his worth. He was too erratic. In the exhibition games "he will be given all the work he can stand, and before long Is liable to be shunted back to the second team, not because of failure to make good, but to enable