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THE KINDLY MR. McFARLAND
Tales Told At the Ringside
By W. A. Phelon
PETER BOYLE, pugilist, was getting on in years. He was baldheaded, some
what wizened, and a little wheezy in the windpipe. Also, sad to say, Mr.
Boyle, as often happens in the fistic world, was short of money. His fight
ing days were done; a political job had fallen down and Pete Boyle, once an idol
in the middle west, was up against it.
Mr. Boyle sought out Packey McFariand, the great battler, and, in his salad
days, a pupil of Mr. Boyle. To the sympathetic McFariand Peter lold his troubles,
and as he listened a great light broke upon Mr. McFariand. "Petey," quoth the
great fighter, "I'm your friend. Always have been. 111 do anything for you, and
right now, to show, my friendship, PH go get you lots of money."
"I am too old," objected Boyle, "to climb a porch or yegg a bank, and be
sides" "No such crudity," chirped the merry Mr. McFariand. "Down at South Bend,
Indiana, they wish me to meet somebody, anybody, for ten rounds, on a percent
age. You can still step some. I will meet you. You shall be Jeff Boyle, Canadian
lightweight champion. Put up the very best fight you know how. Go to it like
you did when you were a boy. Fight me as hard as you can tickle that crowd to
death and you shall have every dollar of the money. I won't even hold out car
fare, just to show my friendliness. That good, old face of yours, Petey, has been
very dear to me for many years, and I want to see it smiling in prosperity."
The game though antiquated Mr. Boyle trained bravely for the next ten
days, and before a big crowd of South Benders, faced the great McFariand, once
his pupil, now the star, ,and his rescuer from sorrow. The gong clanged; good
old Peter capered and catacoled even as fifteen years before and McFariand,
absent-mindedly, belted him one on the nose. They clinched, broke free, banged
and mixed. Old Peter warmed by the fray, made a showing that set the crowd
crazy. Suddenly a ton of brick fell on him, and he was getting it off his chest
when the bell sounded.
In the second round, P. McFariand cuffed his former master on the chops and
beak, rammed him in the ribs, and biffed him on the ears. "Welcome was the
gong, and old Peter sat in his corner, breathing hard but still uncowed. In the
third Peter swore the populace were throwing gloves at him. And so it went on,
through nine merry rounds, till the beginning of the tenth saw the crowd in joy
ous frenzy, and Mr. Boyle somewhat resembling a Hamburg steak, inferiorly
assembled.
In the tenth, P. McFariand lit into the good old war horse with gay abandon.
Bang and c, whack and smite, he drove poor old Petey round and round the
ling. Three times Peter found the floor. Three times he bravely rose, taking
a storm of punches, and when the gong rang for the finish an aged warrior, bat
tered into a bald-headed jelly, was still in the ring.
P. McFariand, true to his word, handed all the money to Mr Boyie. "I'm
tickled to death, old friend," said he, "to give you all this coin, I told you I'd
rather see that old face of yours smiling in happiness than anything in all the
world!"
Mr. Boyle sighed through his frazzled features. "I appreciate your gener
osity," said he, "but if you were so fond of this old face of mine, why'n'ell did
you go and alter it so it will never be the same face any more?"
1$ALL fjOTE 'Bjr Jf. M. Walter
JOB "WOOD Is another product of
that wonderfully fertile land known
as Kansas. Joe developed back
there on a sod house ranch and he was
pitching hay before he pitched a base
ball. Joe Is as much a natural pitcher
as Mathewson is a cultivated Pnt.
Before he knew there was a baseball
league. Joe was slowing them over the
plate in the backlot sansas leagues
and making them break the way He
wished. Joe admits that he developed
all of his own curves, although he does
not pose as a self made master of tne
giiUe art of flinging.
Wood's first work was done as a
freshman In the University of Kansas.
There, in company with tho other corn
belt boys, he played on the college team
.md surprised the natives by his work.
Hutchinson. Kas., in the big stlcK
league, captured this prize package
after he had higher educated around
Lawrence for one year. Joe was
sleuthed by the big league cruisers
and finally towed into the Boston camp
by one of the Nick Carters who was
scouting for the frijole consumers.
Upon Wood, the world series largely
depends, slanting it from the Bostonlan
angle. Wood is but 22. New York
batters must not lay any odds on this
youth's age, for he has been in the
game long enough to get the timothy
out of his Gflettes. Joe will go into the
first game against the Giants, if the
Boston brew is good. What he does in
this Initial game will decide his im
mediate future, xlf the overgrowns
smash out his benders, Boston will
have to hustle a pitcher from the dis
card. Nothing of this kind is antici
pated or feared. Wood Is as steady as
an eight day Seth Thomas and is as
husky as a house mover. He may be
depended upon for as many games as
Jacob Stahl may request him to pitch.
He may not get away with all of his
games, but that lanky Kansan will
come out with credit
Exhibit C. the same being Hugh Jen
nings's contribution to the cause of
contemporary baseball history regard
ing the world series. Frank Chance
picked the Giants, Clark Griffith the
Boston Reds. Now Hughie pulls some
grass to the general opinion that it Is
McGraw who is the main stem ip the
championship series, thereby throwing
the preponderance of evidence on the
side of the National elub. McGraw,
In Jennings's admiring estimation, Is
the greatest little leader who ever
managed a baseball team or fought a
battle. Jennings sidesteps he real Is
sue by saying that neither team will
play up to Its game and to pick a win
ner on form would be to reverse the
running. Not discrediting Jake Stahl,
mind you, Hughie proceeds to laud the .
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New York manager for all that is good
and holy in baseball. He says Jawn
croeds -when crowding wins games,
eases off when the strain is a bit
tense, jollies the soreness out of a
player's bean and roasts the rules into
a sulker. Upon McGraw depends the
outcome of the world series, Jennings
says. Same being the final analysis of
the situation to date and being a tout
for the Giants.
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Horace Fogel has followed Charles
Murphy's lead by declaring that the
Giants won the National league pen
nant through the crooked umpiring of
the National league umpires. Fogel is
president of the Philadelphia Nationals,
which team Is owned by the same syn
dicate as the Chicago Cubs. Murphy
said that the Cubs lost because they
boozed, when the fact remains that
they lost because they could not play
fast enough ball to win. Now Fogel
lays it on the umps., the poor, old, long
suffering dictators who ha-re had to
dodge pop bottles and side gate mobs
all season. Coming when it does, Ho
raclo's squeal is a little late. If he
knew anything of crookedness In the
National league umpiring he should
have exposed it before the end of the
season.
Fred Clarke will lead the Pirates to
victory next season. He has adjusted
his differences wtih president Barney
Dreyfuss, of the Pittsburg club, and
wllr direct the destinies of the fero
cious pirates again In 1913. Clarke
disliked Barney's butting in when he,
Clarke, was running the smoke clt7
team. Barney threatened to force Fred
to resign by omitting his pay check
from the envelope. But friends inter
ceded, Barney promised and Fred prom
ised. Now everything is lovely and the
pennant hangs high on the Pittsburg
pole for next year In Messrs. JJrey
fuss ard Clarke's minds.
Only four more days, barring the
weather, until the New York and Bos
ton nines play a ball game.
ABCHDALE AND HILLIE BURKE
MEET AND 3IAKE RECOUDS
Columbus, 0 Oct. 2. Dudle Arch
dale and Billy Burke met on the grand
circuit track yesterday In a brilliant
contest that brought records to both.
The Archdale mare won the race, tak
ing rank as the best of turf history for
four heats by trotters. The time total
is a second better than that made on
the Columbus track last year In the
Soprano-Grace conflict.
Billy Burke's part of the perform
ance was an opening mile in 2:03 1-4.
the best trotting lime anywhere this
Tear. He broke turning home in the
second heat, and Dudle Archdale won
easjly.
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WERE HEAPED lPAROUND
HIM AND THE GRINNING
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IN BASEBALL TOURNEY
Amateur teams -will compose the
baseball tournament of the Os-Aple
Jubilee, according to the decision of
president Burt Orndorff, and Art
Woods, president of the City league,
has been appointed as the cxecutire
chairman of the baseball committee
-which will have the tournament in
charge. He -will have the entire base
ball end of the Os-Aple Jubilee under
his control and has already started to
arrange for his teams. Lieut. Dean
Halford, of the 22d Infantry, has been
appointed vice chairman of the base
Call committee and other members of
the committee already appointed are
Lieut. Mar B. Garber, Harley Kiefer
and I Perkins.
There will be four teams in the three
days tournament, two of them being
from El Paso. Art Woods plans to
have one of the teams made up of sol
dier players, the nine men on It being
picked from the ball playing material I
AMERICA!? LEAGUE.
Won. Lost. Pet.
Boston ..... 103 46 .691
Washington 89 60 .597
Philadelphia 89 60 .597
Chicago .-...73 77 .4S7
Cleveland 72 77 ,'S4
Detroit 69 SO .463
St. Louis . 52 96 .347
New York 50 99 .338
Game Thursday.
Boston at Philadelphia.
Washington at New York.
Cleveland at St. Louis.
Chicago at Detroit.
Tuesday's Results.
At Philadelphia B, H. E.
Philadelphia. . . 4 8 5
New York. 3 7 3
Eatteries: Philadelphia. Seamon and
Pennock;Now York, Keating and Swee
ney. At Washington R.
Washington.-. 3 7 5
Boston. 12 13 1
Batteries, Washington, Groome, En
gel and Henry; Boston, Bedlent and
Thomas.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Won. Lost. Pet.
New York t 101 46 .687
Pittsburg 92 57 .617
Chicago 89 59 .601
Cincinnati 74 77 .490
Philadelphia 71 77 .480
St Louis 63 88 .417
Brooklyn 57 91 .385
Boston .... 48 100 .324
Games Thursday.
Philadelphia at Boston.
New York at Brooklyn.
Tuesday's Results.
At Boston R. H. E.
Boston. 1
Brooklyn. . 0
Batteries: Boston, Tyler and Rariden:
Brooklyn, Allen and Miller.
At New Toik R. H. E.
Philadelphia. 9 9 l
Boston Breaks Groom's Winning" Streak
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5ARNEY THE E-SOLK IER
WHO SCRAPED KHS SUITES
ATFORTTOTTEN WAS AS
CLEAN ftS A WHISTLE AND
HIS BUNK FOR-mE NIGHT
WAS A BENCH IN MADISON
SQUARE. IT WAS RAINING
CRTS AND "DOGS WHEN THE
METROPOLITAN CHIMES
PUNCHED THE PJTMOSPHEJSQ
IX WALLOPS. A COP WHO
HAPPENED ALONG SOARED
BARNEY ONE ON THE SMFLI.F1?
AND TOLD Him TO MOSEY ON.
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THE TOWER AND HOLLERED,
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of all of the army forces stationed in
El Paso. The team will not be made
up alone of the 22d infantry players,
like the one already in the City league,
but players will be selected from the
two regiments of infantry, the three
regiments of cavalry, the artillery bat
tery and the signal corps.
Besides the army team. El Paso will
haTe a team composed of the cream of
the civilian players of the City league.
On this team chairman Woods intends
to use the players of the Globe Mills
team as a plan to work on and the
weak spots of the team will be filled in
with" players from, both the Bakers and
Sheltons. As the Millers are prominent
in the City League championship race,
the team will be allowed to wear the
Globe Mills suits.
Other teams to be represented In the
tournament will be Pecos and Hurley,
which have already signified a desire
to send amateur teams, to El Paso to
take part in the games.
New York. 2 11 3
Batteries: Philadelphia, Chalmers
and KUHfer; New York, Marquard, Tes
reau and Myers, Wilson.
At Chicago v R. H. E.
Chicago.., : 1 5 3
Pittsburg. 4 12 0
Batteries: Chicago,' Cheney, Reul
bach and Archer; Pittsburg, Adams and
Gibson.
At St Louis E.H.E.
St Louis. .' 3 7 0
Cincinnati 2 6 0
Batteries: St' Louis, -.Redding, Bufke
and Snyder; Cincinnati, Suggs and Sev
eroid. PACII-IC COAST, LEAGUE.
Tuesday's Results.
At San Francisco R. H. E.
Los Angeles 5 7 0
San Francisco 1 3 1
Batteries: Los Angeles. Chech and
Brooks; San Francisco, Miller, Arlett
and Berry.
At Sacramento . R. H. E.
Vernon 2 4 3
Sacramento . 1 5 0
Batteries: "Vernon, Baum and Brown;
Sacramento, Arellanes and Cheek.
At Portland Portland-Oakland game
postponed on account or rain.
NOT ENOUGH MONEY;
PAPKE BACKS DOWN
New York, N. Y.. Oct 2. Billy Papke
refused to meet Frank Mantell, of
Providence, In a scheduled 10-round
bout here last night because there was
"not enough money In the house," al
though a large crowd was present
Frank & O'Neill, of the state athletic
commission, said that that body would
blacklist Papke here.
Papke Is due to sail for France to
morrow to meet George Carpentler, the
French middleweight champion.
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1 BRUCE BROWN KILLED
IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH
Milwaukee, Wis., Oct 2. David Bruce
Brown, the automobile racer, died here
this afternoon from a fracture of the
skull, caused by the overturning of his
car on the Vanderbllt track this morn
ing. Brown's mechanician, Tony Scude
lari, is said by physicians to be im
proving. The wreck occurred while Bruce
Brown was racing a few yards behind
Teddy Tetzlaff in another Fiat. Bruce
Brown had Just driven the fastest lap
of the dav's tuning up trials and bad
set a. new record of five minutes, fifty
three and eight-tenths seconds for the
7.88 mile course. He was endeavoring
to better this record and had just at
tempted to pass Tetzlaff when the
crash came.
Bruce-Brown had been in Milwaukee
two hours and twenty minutes when
the accident ocourred. He was greatly
interested in preparing for Saturday's
prlx race, the only event In which he
was entered. He had won the Amerlcan-I
grand prix twice at SaTannah. and he
had hoped to win again this year,
which would haTe'made him permanent
holder of the American grand urir cup.
Although only 25 years old, Bruce
Brown was one of the best known au
tomobile drivers in the country. He
began racing in 1907, winning, his nov
ice race at the Empire City track.
BASEBALL CHAMPIONS
OF THE 1012 SEASON.
National league ....New York
American league ..... -Boston
Southern league , .Birmingham
American Ass'n. . . Minneapolis
"Western league Denver
International league . .Toronto
Connecticut league New Haven
South Atlantic ...Jacksonville
TrI-State league . -Harrisburg
Texas league Houston
Central league Fort Wayne
Central Ass'n. Ottumwa
Canadian league .... . .Ottawa
Western Tri-State "Walla Walla
Central International . .Duluth
Virginia league Roanoke
Michigan State Manistee
New York State Utica
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HORGAN DEFEATS PALM IN
EIGHTY POINT BILLIARD MATCH
San Francisco, CaL, Oct 2. John G.
Horgan, champion three cushion bil
liard player of the world, defeated Dave
Palm, of Denver. In the second block
of SO point billiard match here last
night, by a score of 40 to 17. The total
score for the two nights was: Morgan,
SO: Palm, 40.
The high runs were Horgan, 5;
Palm, 4.
Horgan will meet W. H. Ritter, of
St Louts tonight
INJURIES PROVE FATAL
TO FOOTBALL CAPTAIN
Longmont, Colo., Oct 2. Acton
Schrontz; captain of the Longmont
football team, 'who was injured in a
game with the West Denver High
school here Saturday, died last night
SOLDIERS AVIS POLO GAME.
Boise, Idaho, Oct 2. The First cav
alry team defeated the Portland, Ore.,
team in the first game of the north
western championship polo tournament
here by a score of 4 to 3.
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After Season Of Ups and Downs
Crane Picks the Giants To "Win
Players on the New York National League Team Are
Confident They Will Beat Out the Red Sox For
the World's, Championship Thinks Me-
Grraw Will Outgeneral Stahl.
(By
NEW YORK. Oct 2. If the Giants
were sure to make the showing
in every game of the world's
series that they did against the Pitts
burg Pirates "In the last series, man
ager McGraw would have a right to
consider that he had the gonfalon em
blematical of the nasenall cnamplon
shlp of the unlTerse already tucked se
curely away in his inside vest pocket
but unfortunately, the Giants cannot
be depended on to play steady baseball
day in and day out In fact they have
proved themselves to be in-and-outers
of the most erratic kind.
Since around about July 4, with one
or two short periods excepted, the
Giants have played such a tantalizing,
aggravating game, that any of their
rooters who have seen them play regu
lary have been lucky to keep out of
the nutty or bughouse class of base
ball fans.
But still while in the very thick of
the worst of their slumps they would
take the most sudden and unexpected
braces and reestablish themselves In
a lead that would dumfound their
rivals who were giving them the closest
fights.
Come Back Stronff.
Their reversals of form in Pittsburg
and Philadelphia were two Instances
when they "came back" and restored
the waning confidence of their friends
and supporters.
It was not always either that they
were able to help themselves. The
Cubs, fortunately, took tumbles at un
expected times and against teams that
did not look strong enough to make
the Chicago battlers ''crack."
That they did, though, and while
punctuating the uncertainty of base
ball by beating the Cubs at times when
the Giants were in their most danger
ous predicaments, still those defeats
of their closest opponents came when
the Giants needed such assistance the
most and gave them the opportunity to
revive their drooping spirits and get
Into their winning stride again.
With the Giants enjoying a lead of
16 games around July 4, that ap
peared to be Impossible to overcome,
still they drifted, drifted, drifted from
that big handicap they had forced on
their opponents until they held the
paltry lead of only four and a half
games. They could see the pennant
they had counted on so confidently, and
naturally so, slipping, gliding away
Big Teams Are Not Running
Away With the Extra Down
New JJule AHowine forward Pass to Be Thrown any Distance Gives Lighter
Elevens Better Opportunity in,F6otball Games.
3y HAMILTON FISH, JR.
NEW YORK. N. Y.. Oct 2. Taking
the opening game between Yale
and Wesleyan as a criterion, the
extra down given the offence in thi3
season's football games proved that
the rules committee had not gona too
far by strengthening the offence.
It was feared by some coaches that
the big college teams would be able to
rush the ball at will against the smaller
elevens, but the result of the Yale-Wes-leyan
game has shown that such is not
the case. The rule allowing the for
ward pass to be thrown any distance
gives a lighter team a better oppor
tunity on the offensive than ever be
fore. Field Goal Still Important.
The change in the score of a touch
down and a goal to seven points has
not abolished the use of field goals. In
the Yale-Wesleyan game, both teams
scored by a drop kick, and Capt Butler
of Cornell -won his own game by a goal
from placement Carlisle, as usual, ran
up a big score In its opening game.
Therefore no deductions can be made
as regards the rules, but a decided con
clusion can be reached as regards the
indian material, which is of the best
Quality. Capt Thorpe, the greatest all
round athlete in the world, did not play,
neither Hd Powell, another veteran, hut
Welsh, the quarterback, ran his team
in splendid shape, and gives promise of
adding his name to the list of great
indian quarterbacks.
The Carlisle team has two new games
on Its schedule this year, one with
West Point on November 9. and another
with Cornell. The team-will be worth
watching, and with Warner as coach,
will make the most out of the new
role.
Big Teams Have Weak Lines.
The provisional 'varsity elevens as
constituted at Harvard, Yale and
Princeton show a decided strength in
the back field and an equally marked
weakness in the line.
Harvard has a pair of remarkable
backs in Wendell and Brlckley, prob
ably the best combination that has
played at Cambridge for a great many
years. Yale has three veterans in
Spalding, Philbln and Camp, all of them
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from them, and the world's champion
ship, with all its big returns of money,
glory and honor, gradually ebbing else
where and to other players.
It is little wonder there was dire dis
may in the Giants camp and untold
worry on the mind of their manager,
John J. McGraw. He knew full well
that his team and himself would be the
laughing stock of baseball fandom the
country over should the commanding
lead they once had be overcome and
the team beaten out In the end. But
that unfortunate contingency will not
arise.
The Giants, as they seem invariably
fated in hot weather to do, slumped
again this season in the midsummer
months. They did so this year by play
ing the heat instead of baseball. They
exaggerated the heated spells In St
Louis abnormally, and just imagined
the torrid weather was too much for
them to withstand, and those were the
times when McGraw was worried the
most
He was more than that He -was mad
clear through, and made no bone3 of
telling his players what he thought of
them.
Then more pleasant and easy times
came. The boys took a brace, and the
Cubs and the Pirates had their slumps.
Giants Are Confident.
The Giants, one and all firmly be
lieve they will beat out the Red Sox
for the world's championship. Two of
the most prominent among them Ma
thewson and Meyers have come out
wth their own signed statements that
tbo Giants will win, but it will be be
cause John McGraw knows more base
ball than Jake Stahl. and it is on that
account that I feel free to express my
opinion that the Giants win beat out
the Red Sox.
Individually I do not think the Giants
are In any way superior to the Red
Sox, but when team work is to be con
sidered, and the coming world's series
surely will be diverted from, individual
Ism to a question of unification, I
firmly believe, for the two teams are
evenly enaugh matched otherwise to
warrant that belief, then Is the time
McGraw and his Giants win flash, and
flash winningly.
The Giants can be depended on. and
with Tesreau to offset Wood and Ma
thewson and Marquard to assist "Big
Jeff," things look pretty smooth to
me.
fast, heavy men and likely to develop
into a great back field. And Princeton
starts the season with Pendleton.
Baker and De Witt the same back field,
that played on the team that beat Har
vard and Yale last year. All three
colleges are particularly weU provided
for in the back field.
In fact this season is apt to be
known as a season of great backs, for
there is Capt Thorpe of Carlisle, Capt
Mercer of Pennsylvania, Capt Wen
dell of Harvard, Capt Pendleton of
Princeton and Capt Spalding of Yale,
without considering- your Brickleys,
Minds, Bakers or Philbln.
The line proposition is entirely dif
ferent Yale seems the best equipped
with Ketcham, an all-American center,
and Bomelster. an ail-American end.
and the rest of the material is fair out
weighing either Harvard or Princeton.
Both Bomelster and Ketcham are
good players, but there were quite a
few foUowers of the game that did
not agree with Mr. Camp's selection of
these two players on his aU-Amerlcan.
not because they were not first rate
players, hut because of the Impropriety
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