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BOXING SPORTS OF ALL SORTS BASEBALL
in three weeks every big league
lall team will be in its 1916 spring
training camp and we will get a rest
irom the political dopeof the game.
With the athletes cavorting under a
warming sun there is little room for
the hot stove discussion. When real
news can be had of the men who real
ly make the game, nothing else is
just as good.
Speculation thisearly as to the
strength of different teams is idle.
Changes have been made which
should bring radical differences in the
playing strength of various clubs.
Men with the Federal league in
1915 have rejoined organized clubs
and their acquisition causes the un
certainty. No one can tell what the
Cubs will do, where the St Louis
Browns will go or how the Yankees
-will stand up with Frank Baker at
ithird base.
This year it will be an even more
open scramble than in 1916, and the
2)est indication of this is the fact that
the Philadelphia Nationals are not be
ing picked to repeat in their league.
And the Red Sox are not getting any
frery heavy backing, owing to the
changes that have occurred in other
(clubs.
Except for the signing of a few mi
bior leaguers, President Comiskey of
Ithe White Sox is standing pat on the
pine-up that went through the 1915
(season, and he is one of the very few
frig league owners who feels satisfied
fthat his last year's aggregation isi
(satisfactory. The 1916 Sox will have
Ithe advantage in teamwork that play
ling together last year gave and
tshould do better throughout the year.
The Federal league will be interreo
iat a meeting here next week, the ob
sequies being postponed because Phil
Ball is detained in New York. The
ceremony will be purely formal
Charley Weeghman is scheduled
for another banquet before the Cubs
go south. It win be held next Thurs
day at the. Morrison hotel and will be
given by several southern friends of
the North Side boss.
Ritchie Mitchell, Milwaukee light
weight, sprained an ankle while train
ing for his fight in the Cream city
with Frankie Callahan, scheduled for
Feb. 25, and will be unable to fill his
engagement Joe Welling or Milburn
Saylor probably will substitute for
Mitchell
Arthur Staff, Northwest Skating
club, is holder of the world's profes
sional record. 'His time of 2:35, made
at the meet of his club at Garfield
park, Feb. 6, has been officially adopt
ed by the W. S. A.
Pierre Maupone, St. Louis, defeat
ed Charley Morin, 50 to 45, in a game
of the Interstate Three-Cusion Bil
liard league at Flenner's.
August Kieckhefer, Chicago, de
feated John Scanlon, Cleveland, 50 to
36, in an Interstate Three-Cushion
Billaird league game at Cleveland.
Joe Stecher, Nebraska wrestler,
flopped Orlando Lupo and Louis
Christensen in a mat show at the
Haymarket theater. He tossed Lupo
in 1:05 and Christensen in 3:10. The
decisive way in which Stecher put his
opponents to the floor made an im
pression on the crowd, and many vet
erans of the game declared he would
ha"ve a good chance with Frank Gotch
if the Iowa farmer decided to re-enter
the arena,
Maurice Vignaux, French billiard
player with an international reputa
tion, is dead at Monte Carlo. Vignaux
had played several times in this coun
try. .
Training no longer js drudgery for
Frank Moran.
Instead) of toiling overtime in a
stuffy gym, infested by cigaret-smok-
ing idlers gathered to watch him slam
sparring partners, clout the bag, skip
rope or juggle medicine balls, the red-
thatched challenger for Willard's
crown finds genuine methods consid
erably different from those usually
