The day book. [volume], March 17, 1913, Image 9

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BOXING ALL THE LATEST DOPE BASEBALL
Go
Gunboat Smith-Jess Willard
Should Be Next Big Card.
This is pa. appropriate day for re
marking that many of tne green ball
Archer and Murphy Can't Agree
, Cube Leave Tampa Tomorrow.
Jimmy Archer, the Cub catcher,
who is holding out for a salary in-
players in, southern .training camps '. crease.is not to be sent a new con-
will soon be blue.
Charles Murphy was one of i.ese
flourishing the green today. It was
not the Well-known long green which
jimmy "Archer is after.
Gunboat Smith, who defeated
Bombardier Wells in New York last;
, Friday night, is kidding himself into
believing he is the only real live
heavyweight, in captivity and is hot
for a match with Luther McCarty for
the title. Al Palzer is another fighter
who believed a win over. Wells proved
him invincibie. Al's meeting with
McCarty showed how mistaken he
was:
The' logical way for Smith to pro
ceed is to take on Jess Willard, and
the winner of that ifight will have
prestige-enough to force McCarty in
to the ring. Smith is not a wonder,
though he did get Well's in. short or
der. The navy-named person is as
slow as the Illinois legislature, but
not nearly as shifty. He could go to
school to several men and learn a
whole lot of science. His punch is
a money-getter. So was Palzer's, buts
it failed to shake McCarty to any ex
tent. McCarty is the. champion; he won
his title by Jickingan succession the
two best,men who 'could; be found to
LD gainst him, and is entitled to full
credit for the feat. He is no Fitzsim
mons, Corbett or Jeffries, but the
best of a poor crop of big men. It
is up to Smith to drop this talk about
an immediate meeting with McCarty,
which he can't secure, and take on
Jess Willard.
Tommy Burns evidently believes
green-is the state, of mind and not
a decoration. The ex-heavyweight-says
he will .fight Luther McCarty in'
Calgary, May 24,- -
tract, according to President Murnhy.
The Cub owner says he' has Bent Ar
cher the papers and it is up to Jim
to sign or not.
Murphy, who has just closed an
agreement-by which Tampabecomes
the permanent, training grounds
the. Cubs, will not lqave for phicago
until tomorrow, when the team goes
to Jacksonville. This means he "will
reach Chicago too late for a confer
ence with. Archer, if the latter sticks
to his determination to leave here
Tuesday. Archer wants $7,500 a. year, which ,
he believes is. about what Bresnahan.
will receive, And Archer is worth
the money. His catching has kept the
Cubs above watef the past two sea
sons, and last year he blossomed as
a clouter, -stinging the ball for a
mighty sweet mark. We do-not agree
with the fellQws. who declare Archer
is a better catcher than -Bresnahan.. .
Mechanically Jimmy is as good. He
is as-good a pegger, but slightly
wealcer'with the bat. But Bresnahan
is as, valuable a man to a team-like
the Cubs, with a. pitching staff that
must be developed and built around ,
a nucleus of two or three men. Few
catchers in the business can handle
ihe young blood like the ex-St. Louis,
manager.
It's up to Murphy to come across
with the coiri for Archer, which will
end the discussion as to the, ability
of the two .catchers, a discussion
which will only breed discord.
The last game of the Cub stay at
Tampa will be played today between
the yanigans and regulars. !ach team,
has "only three games. Tomorrow
Evers will leadhis men qn""their
northward journey, a stop being
made-a- Jacksonville for a single.
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