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cJiHest to John Berg
THERE'S MANY A SLIP ’TWIXT THE CUP AND THE ESOPHAGUS :: :: BY “BUD” FISHER
Berg, With Two Straight
Falls, Lands Mat Title
Light Heavyweight Wrestlers Give
Greatest Exhibition Ever Seen in the
South—First Fall Lasts Over Hour.
Struggling desperately and gamely,
but gradually forced to bow to the
superior strength and skill of his op
ponent. Walt Evans, the Knoxville,
Tenn., grappler. lost his match to
John Berg of this city in their contest
for the light heavyweight champion
ship of the south at Beethoven hall
last night. With the victory over the
Tennessee wrestler, Berg is now the
holder of the championship title of
this country in his class.
The bout was decided in straight
falls, but it was only after one of the
greatest contests ever seen in this
city that Berg forced the shoulders
of his opponent to the mat for the
second time. The men were on the
mat for almost an hour and a half
before the second fall was recorded,
although the second pin-fall was se
cured in a short time in comparison
to the time necessary for the first fall.
The time for the falls was slxty*four
minutes and thirty seconds for the
first and nineteen minutes and thirty
nine seconds for the second.
Never in the history of the sport
In this section of the country has a
bout aroused the Interest, nor has one
furnished the action and class of per
formance as did that of last night.
There was action of the most spec
tacular sort from the time that the
men stepped to the mat and grasped
hands until Referee Kelsey slapped
Berg on the back at the end of the
second fall.
Although defeated Evans showed
that he is one of the best men in
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the wrestling game today at his
weight, but he was pitted against a
man w r ho is the best in the division
and this was forcibly demonstrated to
the big crowd last night.
It was speed, a thorough knowledge
of the art of breaking a hold and ab
solute gameness pitted against
strength, mat experience and the
greater knowledge of the holds of
the wrestling game and it was the
latter that finally proved the winning
combination. But it was one of the
hardest tests that Berg has ever been
subjected to and this the victor ad
mitted after he had elbowed his way
through the crowd of spectators that
blocked his path to the dressing room.
Both Men Aggressive.
When the men stepped to the front
of the stage just before the start of
the match, they presented a widely
different appearance. Berg appeared
to be many pounds heavier than his
opponent due to his great develop
ment of chest, arms and shoulders,
while the Tennesseean presented a
uniformly developed physique that
was deceiving to many of the spec
tators. But he was there with the
goods and Berg was forced to bring
into play all of the strategy, strength
and knowledge of the game before he
was able to land the honors. The men
weighed in at noon yesterday and
both failed to move the beam placed
at 170 pounds.
It was a toss-up as to who was the
aggressor during the greater part of
the time that they were on the mat.
During the early part of the first fall
Evans kept after his man at all times
and Berg was tn a number of dan
gerous positions. His strength came
to the rescue on these occasions and
he slipped from the holds. But after
forty-five minutes had elapsed with
out either man having secured a fall,
Berg started to force the work
and kept his opponent on the defen
sive. Several times he had a hold on
Evans that promised to accomplish
the trick, but the latter was as slip
pery as an eel and squirmed out of
the hold and leaped to his feet and
went after Berg.
Twice Evans had the dangerous toe
hold on Berg and forced him slowly
to the mat, but just when he had vic
tory in his grasp the hold would be
broken and Berg would bridge and
thus spoiled all chances of the for
mer of securing the fall. At one time
Evans secured this hold and held
Berg struggling for three minutes. It
seemed to the spectators that Berg
would have to concede the fall to
Evans to avoid a broken leg or foot,
but there is no such a word as quit
I in the vocabulary of the San Antonian
1 and finally by a supreme effort he
broke the hold. But it was a great
tax on his strength and for a couple
of minutes went along at a medium
pace only.
While the local man escaped from
a number of dangerous places, Evans
was just as fortunate. It was his skill
| that saved him early In the contest
I when Berg had half and full Nelson
[ holds, but a twist of the body and
' he would bound from Berg like a rub
ber ball and come back at the latter
like a flash.
At the even hour neither man had
| a decided advantage and the end
Break Many Holds.
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# *
# RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S *
# RACES AT JUAREZ TRACK. *
* *
First, 3 furlongs: Erfolg, "
won; Queen Bee, second; Skll- =ll=
lute, third. Time :35 2-5.
Second, 6 furlongs: Antigo, 4?
# won; Silk, second; McNally, 88
third. Time 1:15 2-5.
88 Third. 6 furlongs: Ned Car- 88
88 mack, won; Nell Flower, sec- 88
88 ond; Gunston, third. Time 1:14 88
31= 3-5. S’
88 Fourth, 7 furlongs: Spohn, 88
88 won; Harrigan, second; Gen- 88
3k eral Marchmont, third. Time 88
88 1:25 2-5. 31=
31= Fifth. 5 1-2 furlongs: Cat, 3?
3k won; Mockler, second; Dubois, 31=
88 third. Time 1:05 4-5. 31=
88 Sixth race, mile and a six- 3?
31= teenth: Buna, won; Little 35
88 Marchmont. second; Colonel 88
31= Bronston, third. Time 1:48. 88
3k 88
31= 3k 3k 3k 3k 3k 3k 3k 3k 3k 3k 3k 3k 3k 3k 3k 3k 3k
HEDGES STILL OWNS
SI LOUIS BROWNS
Announces That Deal for Pur
chase of Club is Tempor
arily Off,
Associated Press.
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 13.—Robt. L.
Hedges, who on Wednesday night, it
was announced, was elected president
of the St. Louis American Baseball
club by the prospective owners, stat
ed last night that the proposed sale
to a syndicate has temporarily fallen
through.
Hedges and his attorney conferred
with members of the syndicate. As to
the status of the syndicate deal,
Hedges said:
"The deal is temporarily off. lam
still president of the club. I have
never been out of office. I have tel
egraphed Rhoderick Wallace to meet
me here, but I have not offered him
the job of manager.” Hedges said
he would have a further statement to
make later.
BROWNS GET GROUNDS
St. Louis Will Do Training Stunts at
Hot Springs, Ark.
Asßnriatpd Press.
Hot Springs, Ark., Jan. 13. —H. A.
Jones, who controls the property un
der lease to the Boston Americans
for training purposes here, last night
authorized the statement that the
lease of the Boston team nad been
transferred to the St. Louis Ameri
cans and that the St. Louis team
would do Its spring training here
jointly with the Cincinnati Nationals,
as the Boston Americans had done
last year. This announcement makes
the roster of major league clubs
scheduled here to Include Pittsburg
Nationals, Cincinnati Nationals,
Brooklyn and St. Louis Browns, with
portions of the Cleveland and New
York Americans to work here.
Elite Rathskeller is the place for
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came as a surprise to many of the
fans. Seeing an opening Berg grap
pled with his man and secured a for
ward half Nelson and cradle hold.
Slowly he forced the shoulders of
Evans to the mat. but the latter strug
gled gamely and made several at
tempts to break the hold. But Berg
was not to be denied and after a two
mlnute struggle Referee Kelsey tap
ped Berg on the back for the first
fall.
The second fall came In a short
time. Evans was the aggressor for the
greater part of the bout, but failed to
secure any hold that Berg could not
slip from. Berg, however, blded his
time and when the opening presented
Itself, he leaped at his opponent and
with a double wrist hold and leg
grapevine, finished the contest.
In the preliminary event Carl An
derson from Fort Sam Houston de
feated Bob Lankau of El Paso, tn a
handicap match. The former secured
two falls in less than eleven min
utes.
Dan McLeod, one of the greatest
wrestlers In the country several years
ago and a champion for many years,
was an interested spectator. He is on
a short visit to this city and an-
that he would like to meet
any man in the world in the middle
weight class. He will remain here for
a couple of weeks.
Referee Kelsey announced that
there would be another contest on
Jan. 20 at Beethoven hall between
the winner of last night's bout and
the best man that can be secured.
Negotiations are now under way and
the opponent for Berg will be an
nounced in a few da’—
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
BOWLERS HAVE BUSY
SESSION ON ALLEYS
Contestants in Tenpin Tour
ney Roll Many Matches.
Salter Jolts Emerson.
Ten Din bowlers had a strenuous ses
sion on the alleys In the individual
city championship tournament last
night and a number of postponed
matches, in addition to those sched
uled for the evening, were rolled. As
a rule the scores were good and a
number of fairly high totals were
made. In addition, the contestants
appeared more evenly matched and
tnere were no overwhelming defeats
handed out.
At the Century alleys Salter handed
out a surprise to the followers of the
game wnen he secured four victories
in the series with Emerson. The lat
ter rolled good ten pins In all four of
the games, but his opponent managed
to nose out by a few pins. But 24
pins separated the men on the total
tor the five games.
Hol.orst showed Improvement In his
match with Richter and took three
of the five games, although he was
Deatenout In the totals by 74 pins. This
match was rolled on the Century al
leys.
In addition to the series with Sum
merfield In which he lost four games.
Foster was pitted against Staudt, and
tne former finally managed to win a
series. Staudt also rolled a second se
ries on the same alleys and dropped
tnree games to Whitley. The scores:
Foster ....143 191 148 144 159—780
Sum’fleld .192 176 159 204 182—813
Whitlev ~ 191 182 163 186 168—880
Etaudt ....193 167 169 168 161—848
Staudt ... 143 162 156 158 150—769
Foster . ..197 166 150 165 122 —700
Hohorst . .106 167 187 151 158—769
Richter . .198 163 162 185 135—843
Salter . ..170 173 147 179 189—858
Emerson 158 139 181 178 178—834
Kohr sent Schwartz further down in
the percentage when he captured three
of the five games rolled on the Cen
tury alleys. The former .hit the pins
well at all times and beat out his op
ponent also in the total pins. In the
other watch rolled on the same alleys
Cahill won four games from Hohorst.
The scores:
Cahill . ..189 185 179 174
Hohorst ..168 140 168 148 176 —820
Kohr .. ..175 214 135 175 156 —855
Schwartz .193 149 132 155 177 —806
Roach made a clean sweep of the
games with Staudt on the Century
alleys last night and in addition se
cured the highest total of pins. Staudt
was off form and made a low total.
Roach had the highest single score of
many games rolled, for he piled up
228 pins in his fifth game. The scores:
Roach . . .174 194 170 209 228—975
Staudt. . . .156 137 135 148 146—722
ST. ANTHONY JRS WIN.
The St. Anthony Juniors, by play
ing fast ball at all times in their con
vest with the St. Louis Juniors, on
the former's court yesterday afternoon,
nosed out winners by the score of 18
to 15. The score:
St. Anthony
Field Foul Foul Pts
Goals goals chances
Henchel, e ..4 0 o 8
Cozard, rf .. 2 0 0 4
Turney. If ..2 0 0 4
Kennedy, rg .1 0 0 2
Hynes. If .... 0 0 0 0
Totals ....9 0 0 18
St. louis.
Carle, c .... 1 0 0 2
Drelss. rf .. 3 1 2 7
Rothe, If ...1 0 0 2
C’twright, rg ! 0 o 4
Mendez, ig .0 0 0 0
Totals ....1 1 2 15
Referee. Jas. Sullivan.
Associated Press.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 13.—Billy Smith,
manager of the Chattanooga Southern
League baseball team and formerly
manager here, denied a recent state
ment that "Wingo” Anderson, the
pitcher, had been bought by Nash
ville. He said the Chattanooga club
had the first choice for hfs services.
Really, a commission ought to be
appointed to look after Farmer Burns.
The aged party's careless use of his
vocal chords when making bets and
posting money might indicate a rat
tling in his encephalon. Memories of
the Farmer are of a man whose finan
cial carelessness is like that of the
man who was so tight he squeaked
when he moved
SMITH WHX BLOCK DEAD.
STANDING OF THE CONTESTANTS.
Plyd. W. L. P.C.
Roach 70 56 14 .800
Thomas 75 57 18 .760
Coy 40 25 15 .625
Ziegler. 70 4 3 27 .601
Schwartz 70 41 29 .586
Maticevlch 65 36 29 .554
Sessions. . . . ..’...70 38 32 .543
Cahill 60 32 28 .533
Richter 75 38 37 .507
Emerson 45 22 23 .489
Whitley 45 21 24 .467
Heieck 55 24 31 .436
Summerfield 70 30 40 .429
Salter. 55 23 32 .418
Kohr 65 26 39 .400
Hohorst 70 23 47 .329
Staudt 70 20 50 .286
Foster 65 15 50 .231
TURNER BOWLERS
ROLL HIGH SCORES
Dukes and Lowther Pile Up
Pins and Break Even on
the Series.
Plyd. L. W. P. C.
Richey 10 8 2 .800
Waters 4 3 1 .750
Fritze 8 6 2 .750
Conring 8 4 4 .500
Gloeckner 6 3 3 .500
Wagenfuehr 6 2 4 .333
Lowther. 8 2 6 .250
Dukes 10 2 8 .200
LOWTHER. 1; DUKES. 1.
Lowther’s and Duke’s teams were
rolling strong last night on the Tur
ner alleys, Lowther's securing high
score of the evening with 354 in the
first game, winning easily from Duke’s
who only made 209. It was in the
second contest that both set a hot
pace, only five pins separating the
winners from the losers, the totals
were: Dukes, 324; Lowther, 319.
Klaus, M. Baetz, Zlzelman, Dukes,
Lowther and Elmendorf rolled high
for their teams. The score:
First game—
Lowther 44 66 69 44 81 50—354
Dukes 24 36 36 35 35 43—209
Second game—
Dukes 48 63 53 62 48 50—324
Lowther. . . .51 62 56 36 58 56—3»9
Scorer, L. Fritze.
How the English love to lose! They
say Driscoll outboxed Fred Welch, and
would have won if he hadn't butted
and been disqualified. By the way,
the winner is one of those "aliens ”
as they have been called since the re
cent British elections. The “aliens”
being the Irish. Scotch and Welsh.
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CHICAGO APPLIES
FOR GLIDDEN TOUR
Windy City Motor Club Asks
Sanction for Holding Big
1911 Road Event.
Associated Press.
Chicago, Jan. 13.—The contest
board of the Chicago Motor Club last
night made application for the sanc
tion to hold the National American
Automobile association tour this com
ing season. This event, more com
monly known as the Glidden tour,
has been an anual feature for sev
eral years.
The following telegram was sent
to the contest board of the American
Automobile association:
“If the manufacturers consent, the
association does not care to indorse
and furnish entries for the Glidden
tour, would the A. A. A. grant a per
mit to the Chicago Motor Club to
conduct the event? The club is well
equipped to manage the national af
fairs with credit.”
PLAYERS SIGN WITH
NEW YORK CLUBS
Associated Press.
New York. Jan. 13.—The New York
American League club yesterday sign
ed Ernest Burbank, aged 19, a left
handed pitcher of Hampton, Va. Bur
bank weights 170 pounds and stands
5 feet, 10 1-2 Inches high. Conk
tracts were received by the National
League from Frank Manush, a third
baseman who was with New Orleans
last year and from Jack Johnson, an
outfielder who was with Dallas dn
1910.
PROMISING COLT IS SOLD.
Specie! Dispatch.
Lockhart. Tex., Jan. 13.—Another
of Lockhart’s fine blooded colts
changed hands yesterday when Arch
Allen sold his yearling filly, Kate
Tito, by Maj. Lockhart, dam by Tito,
to Dr. Marquis, a veterinary surgeon
of this place. Trainer Bankhead
states she promises to be the best
trotting prospect ever produced in the
country, and previous records show
there have been some good ones. The
price paid was J2OO.
An island, as it well known, is a
body of land surrounded by water, yet
correspondents addicted to the hyper
bole refer to the Laughery club as
“Laughery island.” Imagine Garry
Herrmann at the head of anything
surrounded by water, unless it was
aqua vitae. The boss German won't
even ride in a boat.
JANUARY 13, 1911.
Edited By FRANCIS
C. RICHTER, JR
WILL JEFF AGAIN
MEET JOHNSON?
Rickard Contemplates tSaging
Bout for "Heavies" —Has
Consent of Negro,
Associated Press.
San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 13.—To
day's Chronicle says:
Tex Rickard, who jointly with Jack
Gleason, promoted the Jeffrles-John
son contest in Reno last July, is con
templating a return engagement be
tween the two heavy-weights. He al
ready has the promise of Johnson to
sign up for the bout and he is gradu
ally working to the point where he
expects to secure the consent of Jef
fries.
Rickard is not prepared at the pres
ent time to make any announcement
of his plans but it is understood that
he has the scheme well in hand.
SOLDIERS WILL PLAY
A DUUBLE-HEADER
The All-Post aggregation from Fort
Sam Houston will be the attraction
in the baseball contests played on
Sunday at Krisch’s park. This team,
that has been playing fine ball dur
ing the past month, will play in both
the contests scheduled. In the morn
ing they will tackle the Household
aggregation while in the afternoon
they will meet Jack Burke’s All-Pro
fessional combination. The latter
have won the last two games played
between these two nines, but were
forced to rally In the, ninth and tenth
innings do turn the trick. ..
All three teams will present the
same line-up with the exception of the
batteries. In the contest with the
"pros” the Soldiers will most likely
use Van Ottman and Probst as the
battery while the former will have
Adams behind the bat and it is more
than likely that McCormick will do
the twirling.
These winter contests have created
an unusual amount of Interest in this
city and there have been big crowds
at all of the games. With two classy
games on the card, it is expected that
a big crowd will be on hand when the
umpire starts the game. In the morn
ing the contest will start at 10 o'clock
while in the afternoon the teams will
start their struggle at 3:30 o’clock.