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top speed until .the last man was out
in the ninth inning.
Rain greeted the Cubs at Louis
ville, making practice in the open im
possible. O'Day gave the athletes a
rest, but had them at work early to
day in the big stock pavilion. Indica
tions are that the rain may force the
postponement of this afternoon's
game, and a contest tomorrow is ex
ceedingly doubtful.
Since leaving Tampa the Cubs
have not found good' weather, and
there is fear in camp that the team
will be forced to start the season out
of condition. The annual spring trip
of exhibition games through a part
of the country that is riot warm is
responsible. In an effort to pick up
some coin and pay expenses of the
trip, the ownership flirts with the
danger of getting the men out of
shape.
O'Day is bossing a squad, the regu
. lars of which are veterans, and they
need hot weather.
Larry Cheney hurt his shoulder by
being thrown against a door in the
Pullman, but will be out. of the fray
only a couple of days
George Rodel and Tom McMahon
have heeij matched to fight ten
rounds in New York April 4. Mc
Mahon meets Jess Willard in Youngs
town Friday night,
Matty McCue has been matched
with Joe Mandot for a ten-round bout
in Racine April 10. v
HarJem Tommy Murphy, who
fights Willie Ritchie for the light
weight championship; in San Fran
cisco April i7, starts from New York
for the coast today.
Jimmy Clabby and trainer, Ar
thur McQueen, were sentenced to
three years in prison at Los Angeles
for licking a copper. Sentence1 was
suspended and the pair must get per
mission from the authorities if they
want to leave the state. Tfiey also
I had to pay the copper $1,000.
oinai won xne inaoor xracK meet
of the A.. A., F. at the Sportsmen's
Show at the Coliseum last night,
scoring 29 y2 points. Seward regis
tered 2Zy2 for second place, and Vor
waerts Turriers'were third with 20.
The meet was slow and uninteresting.
BILLY MURRAY, COMING "KETCHEL OF RING,"
FAMOUS AS RESULT OF ONE FIGHT
San Francisco, Cai., March 26. .' making his escape only recently from
"A second Stanley Ketchel."
"The next middleweight champion
of the world."
It's a whole lot to say of a young
boxer who .jumped into prominence
as the result of one fight, but that
is what coast fans are saying of Billy
Murray, the young Callfornian, who
so decisively defeated Leo Houck,
considered one of the best middle
weights in the world, in the 14th
round of a scheduled 20-round con
test. And how Murray is to'meet
Jimmy Clabby in Daly City on April
3. The winner of that bout unques
tionably will have the clear-cut claim
to the middleweight, title, Eddie Mc
Goorty's clamor to the contrary, not
withstanding,
the hushes when he appeared in one
of the four-round shows. He boxed
so impressively and won so easily
that a cry went up for bigger game
for the newcomer. Houck was set
tled upon and, although Murray can
do 152 ringside, he agreed to meet the
veteran of many hard-fought battles .
in the east at 168 ringisde. What he,
did to Houck is ring history. He beat
the highly touted easterner so hadly
in .every round that the referee final- t
ly called a halt to the one-sided con- t
test in the 14th round.
In many r.espects Murray greatly
resembles the lamented Ketchel. He
is built along the lines of the Michi
gan terror, although not so sturdily
set up, shifts in the same style, but
Murray has been boxing tw.O.yearsJ not wittf the wonderful .grace aiwi