The day book. [volume], November 01, 1913, LAST EDITION, Image 8

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BOXING ALL THE LATENT DOPE
Joe Sherman Here to Flight with the
Leading Lightweights.
Joe Sherman, the daridy .Memphis
lightweight, is working out at Billy
O'Connell's gymnasium while his
manager, Oscar Gutter, is stalking
local lightweights and their -keepers
in an effort to land fights.
Sherman is hot after Jimmy Mur
phy, Mickey Sheridan, Danny Good
man and Charley White, and says
he is willing to make concessions to
get them into a ring and stripped
for action. Two Wisconsin clubs are
said to be willing to sign Sherman
with any of the quartet named.
Sherman is not an old-timer at
the game, having graduated only two
years ago from the position of spar
ring partner of Joe Mandot, the new
Orleans baker. Sherman's best bat
tle was against his former boss. He
lost the decision by a shade, but put
up a stout battle.
Eddie McGoorty may be barred for
six months by the Wisconsin boxing
.r.TnTnioeJnn fnr not zolns through
with his fight with Jack Dillon.
Gunboat Smith knocked Charley
Miller out in the third round last
night in New York. The fight was a
farce, and Miller Is now eligible to
return to 'Frisco and run a street
car. He is through as a fighter in the
East. Smith was outweighed 26
pounds, but toyed with his opponent
until the, third, when he put through
a right to the jaw and followed with
another right on top of the head.
Most of these white hopes would
get nothing but a sprained ankle if
they were hit on top of the head.
Willie Ritchie is now working on a
program that will embrace fights
with Ad Wolgast, Tommy Murphy
and Young Shugrue within four
months. This means there will be an
epidemic of busted ribs and strained
sides.
They Think Jimmy Johnston a Real
Guy Out in 'Frisco.
Jimmy Johnston, the young out
fielder from California who is touted
to fill that long porous gap in the Cub
outer defense, must .be some ball
player, if the esteem in which he is
held by the fans of San Francisco is
any criterion.
Out there they can't see why John
son was let go by the Sox last spring,
and it is claimed he has improved
wonderfully in the season recently
finished. So they are absolutely sure
that his name will appear daily in the
National League box scores unless
he absorbs some of the Zim and Ev
ers temperament and becomes an
umpire baiter.
He is a fighter on the field, but
stops short of warlike outbreaks. He
confines his fight to putting pepper
in his own playing and that of his
teammates, and works hard for every
point or break in the pastime.
His stolen base record Droves his
speed. He copped something in the
neighborhood of 125 sacks. Some
marks he made in straightaway
dashes show that he can move
around his territory on the defense.
The real test will come when John
son faces the big league pitchers with
the bat. He fielded acceptably with
the White Sox at Paso Robles in 1913,
and was a star in the sliding pits, but
Manager Callahan was not impressed
by his swatting ability.
This year Johnston- will be given
more of a ctiance to make good. He
is sure to be carried into the start of
the season, and will be giv.en a reg
ular baptism under fire. He appears
to be one of the species known as a
late starter, so far as batting is con
cerned. More famous men than the Cub re
cruit have been afflicted the same
way. Ty Cobb Is a notable example.
BASEBALL
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