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m BASEBALL SPORTS OF ALL SORTS-BOXING Fred Welsh's Broken Hand Wasn't Even Bent. Freddie Welsh is a good enough prizefighter not to need some of the press agent stuff that has been used in his behalf recently. His backers are not making friends by their tac tics and Fred needs- friends as much .as any one. A few days ago we were informed that Freddie had broken his hand in beating Fred Yelle, who proved a tough customer. The news was given out as authentic. But last night Welsh went into a ring with some fellow known as "Young" Brown at New York and gave him a fierce thrashing in ten rounds. And there is nothing in any dispatch to show- Fred had trouble from a broken hand. Not even a champion can recover from an injury unless it is a press agent one in that short space of time. Welsh showed everything in his repertoire last night. He jabbed, jolted and used a cross with good effect, thoroughly whipping his op ponent, both on points and in pun ishment delivered. It may be that Yelle put up too good a fight and some alibi was needed for the champion. That may he mis judging, but he is Open to such opin- j ions so long as these "DroKen-nana" tactics are keptup , Battling Levinsky needed all his cleverness to get a draw in ten rounds with Tom McCarthy at New York. The Montana heavy battered Levin sky in the first three rounds, but the New Yorker rallied in the closing periods. Bud Logan is stepping up the wel terweight ladder. He won a clear 15 round decision' over Wildcat Ferns at St. Joseph, Mo. In the 7th and 13th rounds Ferns was almost knocked out, the bell coming to his rescue. Baseball Magnates Quiet Sam, Langford in Hard Fight. ' j Baseball magnates were o busy eating yesterday that they had no time to shoot each, other in the back with hot statements direct from the typewriter. And for this milch respite'7 the sporting public should be thank- fuL , j In the past month there has been enough political baseball bunk spilled I to last for several seasons. The worst3 of the affair is, no cessation of ora-j tory is in sight and as long as the war j lasts the club owners will have their innings during the winter. Peace talk has about died away.' It served its purpose, and the Fed magnates, being new to the tricks of, baseball's powers that be, fell beau- tifully. The harmony meetings were held just prior to the annual session1 of the minor leagues and filled the little fellows with the hope that they would be relieved of the burden of. war, which has really been on their shoulders instead of the majors. As a result, the minors passed reso-I lutions declaring their allegiance to', organized baseball and refused to even look sideways at the flirtatious Feds. As soon as the minors were tied, up the peace palavar for some mys-' terious reason died a sudden death and Ban Johnson immediately came' to bat with some more prophecies about the demise of the third league. Something may drop at the next National League meeting. An effort will probably be made to definitely put Charles Webb Murphy out of baseball, a so-called investigation will be made of his holdings here and in Philadelphia and Bome sort of a state ment will be given out by the Na tional leaders. They will tell the pub lic what it wants the public to know iNjg!ii,-g ?sgaraaEgS2SfcM