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ERNEST J. LANIGAN
JOHN E. WRAY
JAMES J. CORBETT
FRANK MENKE
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A Wise Hombre Says That Yale s Greatest Confribution to 1914 Football Was a Stadium
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Some Day a Scribe Will Create a Sensation By Trading Heine Zimto Some Other Team Than the Giants
TUB DIFFERENCE.
Joe Mandot, the boxer, eats
little before a fight. A lot of
promoters and scrappers eat
little after a fight.
RBOKLBSS JOHN!
Jena XcOraw b eertotaly a
glutton for pualnhmcilt. He
wuiied when the Feds handed
Marqaard back o him.
B!G LEAGUES OUIT BARNSTORM
E MILLS IS
REAL RACEHORSE BUGS
BY TAD
SPORTING PAGE
II;
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Finn mis in
Takes Off Fine Edge of Players' Form, Besides Being
Unprofitable From Financial Standpoint; Veteran
Wrestler Bothner Won't Retire; Clabby
Loses Bet to Shrewd Fight Fan.
Iir FRANK
NEW YORK, Jan. 5. Barnstorming
by major league clubs en route
north from the training camps is
no longer popular. Very few of the
clubs wiipiay more than elx games on
their way home next spring And moat
of them will be against .other major
league clubs.
There are two reasons for the shift
One is that the playing of about a doz
en games en route seemed to take the
edge off the players' form. Another
reason is that the games in small
southern towns rarely produce enough
in gate receipts to make it worth the
major's while to linger around. It
costs from $200 to $100 for a club to
atop over at one of the small' towns,
and very often the share of the gate
that the major league club got did not
meet the expense. i
Most of the clubs In the American
and National leagues have refused to
schedule the small town cltSbs, and
will be content to play from three to
six games against clubs In the rival
league, n an effort to get back part
of the training expense money.
46- &
At the age of 48, George Bothner, the
most remarkable wrestler in the world,
denies reports that he is going to re- i
tire from the mat.
"Why should IT" he asks.
T'm as
good now as I ever was.
Bothner is right about it, too. Just
the other night he grappled a heavy
weight wrestler and pinned his shoul
ders to the mat in Jig time.
Bothner has been wrestling for IS
years. He has been in actual competi
tion more than 2000 times. He never
was thrown by a man of his own
eight. Bothner rarely has weighed
over 135 pounds, yet he has met mid
dle weights. He has defeated most of
them.
"I keep in shape by wrestling an
average of 3 men a week," said Both
rer. "I conduct a wrestling school and
grapple with all my pupils. I don't be
lieve in strict training. I drink when
I feel like it and I smoke, big, black
cigars. And. I inhale them, too. It
doesn't seem to have hurt my wind."
Sherwood Xagee, once Phlllie out
fielder, who has been traded to the
Boston Braves, is quite a slugger. Also
he's a reliable fielder. Here !s his 11
year major league record, which shows
that Magee, as a hatter, has been im
pioving Instead of slipping during the
oast five years.
Tear. Sams.
1904 , It
1905 165
1906.-. ...114
1907 IS
1908 142
1909. 142
1910 154
1911. , 122
1912 132
3113 138
1914. 151
B. A. r. A.
J77 .021
.290 .9(3
.282 .982
.3M .978
.283 .970
.270 .970
.331 .974
.288 .981
.300 .903
.300 .968
.321 .963
Jimmy Clabby. middleweight scrap
per, drew a seat in a cafe one day
alongside of a very talkative fellow. His
talk was about the ring game and prize
lighters. .
"This fellow Jirrimy Clabby." said the
Stranger, "is a pretty good fighter, but
1 don't like him very much personally."
"That so?" queried Clabby. "Do you
know Clabby very well?"
"Know him? Why. I've known him
since he was a kid," responded the
stranger.
Clabbv didn't recall the stranger's
face. He figured he was boasting
about his acquaintanceship with fight
ers, as is the case sometimes with
fight fans.
"Tell you what I'll do." said Clabby.
TU bet you a ten spot you don't know
Clabby when you see him." '
"You're on." answered the stranger.
The ten spots were placed side by
side on the table.
"How'll we prove that you know
Clabbv'" asked Clabby.
"Easy enough," answered the stran-
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ger. Til let you he the Judge. I say
that you are Jimmy Clabby.
.AI1I
rlghtr
Without waiting for an answer the
stranger picked up the two tenners and
walked away, smiling at the dazed
Clabby.
The suggestion that the world series
rules be so amended that all players in
both leagues get a divvy of the pro
ceeds is entirely out of order. The
suggestion is absurd. The only players
who deserve to share in the receipts
are the players who have assisted in
winning the pennants. To give the
other players a share would he Just
about the same as sharing a raise in
pay which you got with all the other
fellows In your shop.
The players who win the pennants
are the fellows who are out on the
diamond hustling all the time. They
don't loaf. They are fighting and
playing every minute. They deserve
all they get and there iBn't a reason
why they should split the extra money
with a lot of players who don't care
whether they win a Dau game or lose
one.
Johnny Dundee, the New York light
weight, lays claim to the distinction of
having bean the busiest boxer during
the 1914 season, jjunaeo mingiea in -
battles during the year an average of
two scraps a month. Even "Battling"
Levinsky, the heavyweight war horse,
didn't fieht as often as that.
Four of Dundee's battles were 20
round affairs. Another stretched
along until the 17th round, while the
others were 10 and 12 round mills.
,
One of the athletic marvels of the
present day is Jesse Carey, who at the
age of 43, ranks as one of the best
roller skaters in the world. Carey Has
been skating for more than 20 years
and he seems to be just about as good
today as he was when in the prime of
his youth.
One of Carey's most remarkable per
formances was that in Paris in 1910,
when he covered 280 miles during 24
hou's. He-skated continuously, never
leaving the track for a minute during
the entire 24 hours. Other contest
ants, much younger than Carey, were
forced to take frequent rests, and the
result was that Carey finished many
miles ahead of his nearest campetltor.
In Brussels, Carey defeated nearly 50
contestants in an unlimited race. He
skated 42 miles without a stop and by
that time every other man In the race
had been forced off the track.
Carev holds everv European and roller
skating record from one mile up to zi
hours.
Carey mingled in the recent 24 hour
roller skating contest in New York and
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me yuuLUM wuu wsru nuie iu aittua uiu
grind. Carey's partner lost a lap dur
ing the last hour of the race, and it
was this loss that lost to Carey the
chance to take part in the great sprint
during the last hour of the grind. As
it was, Carey's team finished near the
top and grabbed off a nice slice of
money.
Carey was born In Fittston, Pa. He
is just a trifle over five feet tall and
weighs only 115 pounds.
A diet In which meat predominates
causes appendicitis, if you wish to
take the word of Dr. Richard C New
ton for it Dr. Newton is president of
the New Jersey board of health. Dr.
Newton says:
"The illness of Charles Brickley, the
Harvard fullback, and the resultant op
eration for appendicitis, leads us to
consider again the question whether
the apparently undue prevalence of ap
pendicitis among football players may
not he due to an undue preponderance
of meat in their diet
"A prominent trainer of football
players asserted some years ago that
for a time before the final and im
portant contest for which he was pre
paring a football team, he would forbid
all use of vegetables In the diet I re
member that at least one member of
his team underwent an appendectomy
shirtly after he had finished this
course of training.
"
"Nicholas Senn was told by the hos
pital surgeons In Africa that they had
never seen a case of appendicitis in a
vegetable-eating African. This immu
nity from the disease is also alleged of
the Brahmins In India, who are strict
vegetarians. Dr. J. E. Kellog told the
writer that he had visited some relig
ious order or orders in Europe, com
prising several thousand members, and
that a case of appendicitis had never
occurred among them.
"The idea that meat eating may
cause appendicitis Is so prevalent that
It would seem to have some founda
tion in fact" ,
FEDERALS GET DETROIT rrTCHER.
Chicago, I1L. Jan. 5. Miles MaMn,
pitcher for Detroit laBt year, Monday
signed a two year's contract with the
Federal league, according to -an an
nouncement by James Gilmore, presi
dent of the league. He will be as
signed to a club later. Main first
pitched with the Buffalo club of the
International league.
Q T
Furnish Biggest Upset in
Season's Bowling by De
feating Cement Plant.
Undoubtedly the biggest upset of the
season in the bowling on the Cactus
club alleys came Monday night when
the Globe Mills team, an almost hope
less tail ender, took all four points
from the Cement Plant boys who, until
the past week, have been leading the
league. The signing of Bill Campbell
showed splendid judgment on the part
or captain iowier it his game Monday
night is any criterion of his ability
as a bowler. It is, of course, possible
that Bill rolled far over his head, but
unless ho did he is going to add a
world of strength to the Globe Mills
aggregation. Monday night he rolled a
total of 531 for his three games, giving
him a grand average of 177. This Vas
only 18 pins behind captain Fowler in
total, and six in average. And Fowler
had to roil a game that Davis, Houck
and Bryan of the big league seldom
beat, in order to beat Campbell. Despite
the long lead which the other teams
have, the Globe Mills five is going to
prove a real contender yet if Camp
bell can continue to roll the game he
showed Monday night
In the other game of the evening, the
Weston team which last week took the
lead, scored three points to the HI Paso
laundry's one and thereby went still
further ahead of the former leaders,
the Cement team. In this game H. A.
Smith had the magnificent average of
191 for his three games. His team
mates, however, were unable to sup
port him and his team was able to get
only one of the three games. Dutch
Nagle of the Weston team also had an
average of 191, Dutch's grand total of
572 being only one pin behind Smith's
673.
Tuesday night the Federal league
teams hook up.
Globe -Mills
N. Fowler 189 joj 177
W. CampbelL. 197 151 igj
Bud Ward 178 127 m
C. Drehner 159 161 1S9
C. G. Mueller..' ig 151 1J9
549
S21
421
473
44
242
S34
429
40S
491
457
852 793 7T4
Cement Plant
K. H. Aber 151 194
J. & Hanson iz9 152
R. Anderson 166 128
A C Hinsdale ug izi
O. J. Btalord 18 171
189
148
121
JUS
149
719 757 752 2219
TVestons
B. Berghauer 140 142 134
J. Rosner 172 149 178
A Dummy let 149 131
Geo. Keys 175 179 204
Bay Nagle 299 182 181
417
590
373
S58
572
799 791 S28 241S
EI Pa&o Laundry.
H. A. Smith.. 17? 213
P. Glenn 102 182
Ray Smith 121 164
S. A Vaughan 167 140
H. B. Debruhl 157 212
182
153
131
141
159
573
442
41S
448
S38
241
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Standing- of the Trams.
Team Won lot
westons . . . 11
Cement Plant 27 25
Pet.
.599
.619
.Laundry team 25
Globe Mills ;2
27
30
.481
.423
Devotees, Beginning With
Occasional Hour, Soon
Give Days to Sport.
New York, Jan. 5. If all the adjec
tives in a fair-sized dictionary could be
arranged In a list, a goodly proportion
of them might be used to explain what
golf is. At least golf is an imperious
and a Jealous mistress, and it is so en
ticing and yet commandeering that it
makes attention to business and affairs
seem so much to resemble a churlish
form of asceticism. By pleasing gra
dations the Saturday half-holiday of
the beginner expands Into a round and
then a couple of rounds on Sunday; an
afternoon Is soon filched from the mid
dle of the week; there follows the dis
covery, that by leaving the office a lit
tle earlier in the summer months a
round in the early evening is possible,
and as the spell is woven more closely
and the conscience hardens, a full day
oii, or a wnoie weeK-end becomes con
trivable, then naturally, a finally,
a thing to be resented if it has to be
foregone.
Play and Talk Golf.
Such Is the facile descent now being
tried by thousands who 20 years ago
really worked and felt bound to apol
ogize when caught their chance
hours of relaxation, and there are
thousands more who think, play and,
worst of all, talk golf from week to
week and year to year.
AVhat la the secret of it3 fascina
tion? One authority asserts that prob
ably It is because it looks so easy and
is so naru. .Nothing seems simpler
than hitting a stationary ball with a
ciuo, dui in actual ract tne humeri body
proves to be curiously ill-adapted for
?ny such task. Nature does not point
he way: proficiency In other games
is no passport There are subtleties
of how to stand, how o swing back,
how to obtain the proper cooperation
of body, arms and eyes, that have all
tc be mastered before it is satisfac
torily accomplished -ne problem of
dispatching that Insolent bill in the
desired direction becomes suddenly ter
rifying. Men wrestle with It as with
a refractory collar stud. The most
even tempers are ruffled by its per
versities. Prodigies of resolution and
will power in other spheres cannot re
member on the golf links to keep their
heads down and their s on the ball.
The Weak Often Prevail.
Weak little men with hardly an ef
fort send it flying a sixth of a mile.
Huge, burly fellows, with a blow .that
would shake St Paul's, hit it 30 yards.
It is the most baffling, tantalizing vex
atious of games. Even when the no
vitiate is passed there are days of in
finite tribulations when nothing will
go right abysmal lapses of form and
loss of instinct such ..s never afflict
one in any other sport
FRAXKIU ItDRXS 'WHIPS
COXWAV IX FOUR ROPMJS
New Orleans, La., .Tan. 5 Frankie
Burns, of Jersey City, won over
Frankie Conwav, of Philadelphia, in
the fourth round of a 15 round sched
uled fight here tonight Conway ap
parently wa sunable to defend himself
and the referee stopped the fight In
the third round a straight left sent
Conway down for a count of five. The
weights were announced as 118pounds
ringside
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Written Especially For This Paper by
AIiMOST unusual batting out of the
order play came up In the Amer
can league last summer in a game
that I umpired. It doesn't seem possi
ble that so freaky a happening could
take place without some one noticing
the error early in the game, yet It ac
tually went undiscovered until the last
inning.
St Louis was playing at Washington.
Prior to the start of the game, I re
ceived the- Washington batting order
from caotaln McBride and the St Louis
jHBetip from manager Rickey. It was
. Br. iticseys original intention u nave
Bobby Wallace bat eighth in tile lineup.
He had Bobby in that position in the
list furnished to me. After making out
the list he gave me, Rickey decided on
a shift and placed Wallace sixth. He
had Wallace In that position in the
list that all managers keep on the
bench for the direction of their team,
but he neglected to make the change in
the batting order handed to me.
Discovery of Mistake.
In the list given to me Agnew was
batting sixth, Austin was hitting
seventh and Wallace was eighth.
In the list on the bench which
the Browns were to follow, Rick
ey and Wallace batting sixth,
Agnew seventh and Austin eighth.
When the game started Wallace batted
sixth, and batted four times up to the
ninth inning out of his announced
place In the batting order. Undoubt
edly, the mistake would have never
been noticed had not manager Rickey
sent up a pinch hitter in the ninth.
After Wallace had batted out of order
in the ninth and singled to right field,
Rickey sent up C. Walker, who notified
me that he was to bat for Agnew. I
Entries Juarez Jockey Club
Wednesday Jan. C 33d Day.
First race Purae; 3 year old maidens:
five lurlongsr
Smiling- Mae ""
Hlrayar Law 119
Jack Rlttler ....11.
PlnKolln 112
Fred T '1!
Doctor Gatlln U2
Woodman H2
57S9
5799
57C2
57S9
5731
5892 Frokendale 112
5635 Astfan US
Second race Selling; 2 year olds and np
warafiflve and half furlong".
5686
xKltty Bianneia
xMrs. Mac 6
xEva Padwick 190
xAllce Teresa 190
Moorewood 103
Dew Drop '. 105
Christmas Daisy 105
Winifred D 105
Dr. 8. P. Tate 107
Kid Nelson 107
xRye Straw HO
S782
5733
5780
5783
5787
5781
5708
5S74
6774
6785
Third race Selling; 4 year olds and up
ward: one mile.
5776 xWoof .... 9
5790 xThomas Hre 98
5788 Lady Innocence 101
5772 xCaatem 13
5786 xClsko 10
57!6 xFirst Star 102
5768 Dave Montgomery 10S
5733 Originator Ill
Fourth race Selling. 3 year olds and up
ward, five and a half furlongs.
. 5788 xEye White ij
(5777) Kuss Sand les
5791 Vlreo I'5
6779 Lady London 15
5695 Mary Emily 105
5785 Faneull Hall 107
4262 Pontefraet 107
5738 Palma 107
5779 C. W. Kennon 107
5743 Forge 107
Fifth race Selling; 3 year olds and up
ward, five and a half furlongs.
5727 x&srtrude B. 4 88
5779 Category M
6779 xMlnnle F, 100
(6711) Bertha V. 191
5791 Fraazle 105
(5780) Swede Sam 107
5749 Dr. Neufer 107
5785 Annual Interest 197
Sixth race Selling; 4 year olds and up
ward, one mile.
5784 xAcumen 100
5784 xAny Port 109
5790 Dryad 103
5784 Voladay. Jr 105
5765 Curlicue 113
x5 pounds apprentice allowance claimed.
Puzzle PL
jruzzie jriays
the Famoas American League Umpire.
glanced at my batting order, as is
customary, simply to verify the change.
It was the first shift of any kind made
since the start of the game, and con
sequently, the first time I had looked J
ai me oatnng order after receiving it
The Washington catcher glanced at the
lineup with me and evidently noticed
the mistake at the same time I did,
for he raised the-point that Wallace
had batted out of order. Manager
Rickey brought me the score that he
always has the trainer of his team keep
on the bench, to show that Wallace had
batted atxtfa.irom the very start of the
game.
- Stuck by the Rules.
While I knew that the lineup given
me was the official one, I wondered
at the time if I wouldn't be Justified
in letting the batting order go through
as It had, simply on the grounds of
fair play. It would have been pos
sible to argue that since that order
had been followed from the start of
the game, it should take precedence
over the one given me. I thought for
a time to let that batting order con
tiDue as the proper one. In many ways
i; seemed the fair way to act but I
finally decided to stick by the rules.
Therefore, since Wallace had batted
out of order by hitting in sixth place
ln-the ninth inning, I recalled Wallace
from first base, which he had reached
on a safe hit, and declared out the
proper batsman, who, according to my
lineup, was Agnew. Lavan, who had
takpn Austin's place, was the next
batter according to the list furnished
me. C. Walker baited for him and
went out That retired the side and
ended the game. Had C. Walker
reached first In safety, I would then
have allowed Wallace to bat again,
for his proper turn had arrived.
Would you have done as I did had
you been in my Dlace? fConvrlzht.
1S15, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.))
THREE BILLIARD
, GAMES ARE CLOSE
Three games were played Monday
night in the three cushion champion
ship billiard tournament at the Gem
billiard hall. In the first game J. Por
ter defeated J. Moore by a score of 35
to 34 in actual billiards tallied. With
the 15 handicap alloted Porter against
Moore's ten, the former had a margin
of six points. Moore picked up two of
the handicap early in the match, but
Porter forged ahead again a few in
nings later tfnd thereafter held his han
dicap safe. Toward the end of the
match he added av point to it The
second game was also won quite hand
ily, George Weston getting away with
Fred Hardiker by 40 to 31. As both
of these players stop at 40 the real
fi"rw" 1" 1?? " "a.ra.,Ker. . ST"--
ing the former the match by the large
margiH of nine points.
In this match Hardiker forged Into
a small lead early in the contest but
Wesson soon picked that up and, run
ning well ahead about the middle of the
game, was never afterward in the
slightest danger.
In the last game Tom Kelly, who Is
the official handicaper, tied up with
E. Beardsley, one of the best men in
me tournament, and was returned vic
tor oy tne score of 50 to 31, or with
Beardsley's handicap of 10, 50 to 41.
Tom is really the oftly scratch man in
the "tournament now as Buetell has al
ready dropped out owing to press of
business, and Barlow the other man
vm siariea at scraccn is certain to do
so within a very short time. In his
match with Beardsley Monday Tilght
Kelly was in rare form Tom went into
a long early lead and thereafter simply
toyed with Beardsley, who Is by no
means a mediocre player. '
Murphy and Williams will meet to
night in the first game, while Perry
and Harper will meet in the second
affair.
McGRAW GETS L0BERT
IN PHILADELPHIA DEAL
New York, Jan. 6. Manager John Me
Graw, of the New York Nationals, has
obtained "the services of Hans Loberc,
third baseman of the Philadelphia Na
tionals, through a deal which was
closed Monday. In exchange for Lo
bert the Philadelphia club gets Milton
Stock, third baseman; Al Demaree,
pitcher; Jack Adams, catcher, and a
sum of money, the amount of which has
not been made public This announce
ment was made here Monday night by
manager HcGraw
Lobert has been called one of the
best third basemen in the game. Phila
delphia secured him in 1910 from Cln
cicnat: McGraw expressed the opinion
that Lobert would put his team back
in the running for the pennant.
KetcLell Not tke Greatest Middleweight
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At Least Four Figliters Excelled Him
BY J. G.
A'
N article recently published stat
ing that Stanley KetcheU does
not deserve to be mentioned in
the same breath with Fitzsimmons,
Dempeay and LeBlanche. has brought
forth a great deal of comment from
both sides of the fence.
C W. Kennedy, for one, has written
a aalendJd letter 111 which he endeav
ors to 'extol the virtues of Itelchelt
Like most others we believe it is well
to speak of the dead with all possible
praise, and as Stanley was killed prac
tically in his prime in a very unfor
tunate manner, we would be indeed
glad to rank him with our greatest
middleweights. This, however, is utterly
impossible. In addition to the fighters
already named Tommy Ryan at least
should be added to the list of those far
superior to KetcheU.
Mr. Kennedy states KetcheU' s record
entitles him to a place immediately be
hind the great Bob Fltssimmons and
ahead of Ryan. Dempsey or LeBlanche.
But this is simply a case of "figures do
sometimes lie." Whom did KetcheU
ever whip that was anywhere near the
equal of the great four mentioned? Ab
solutely nobody. KetcheU did perform
the hitherto unheard of feat of regain
ing the championship from the man
who had previously won the crown
from him, when he knocked out BiUy
Papke in 11 rounds in San Francisco.
Nov. 36. 1908. This bout came only a
little more than two months after
KetcheU had lost to Papke. KetcheU
deserves no great credit for defeating
Papke, for Billy was pronaDiy the
greatest in and outer the game ever
produced.
A Slam Bang Fighter.
KetcheU was strictly the slam bang
type ef fighter who could go in and
slug the flock of middleweights into
submission, because he could easily
shed their blows and when one
of his sledge hammer blows landed
it was curtains. This ability to with
stand punishment coupled with won
derful recuperative powers and a ter
rific blow in either hand enabled him
to defeat the Sullivan twins. Mike and
Jack. Hugo KeUy, Philadelphia Jack
O'Brien, Joe Thomas, Tony Caponi and
numerous others in addition to Papke
But with the exception of Papke, all
were either well on the down hill path
or were the veriest dubs. And in his
last fight with KetcheU, Papke showed
such a reversal of form that it was the
general opinion .that a dozen fighters
who were never considered even good
I second raters, could have whipped hitn.
Wnim't a ftultter.
Mr. Kennedy further states-that Tom
Andrews's record book, shows that Le
Blanche, the Marine, quit in two of his
battles. Tom never compiled that rec
ord, at least. to he is admittedly one
of the squarest- and best versed fight
writers in the country today and one
of the very best we ever had. No man
who has ever seen LeBlanche fight as
Tom doubtless has would accuse Le
Blanche of being a quitter. And further
no quitter could ever attain a cham
pionship, nor defeat "The Nonpareil"
Jack Dempsey, even though it was ac
eomplishei.by what was then called a
foul blow, the pivot Billy Papke is an
other who has been accused of being a
quitter. In a certain local gathering
place for race and fight followers there
is a picture of Billy Papke beneath
which is written. "The biggest streak
of yellow that ever lived." This is one
of the most unjust writings in the his
tory of any line of sport Billy was
simply an in and outer Just as there
are in and outers in horse rasing; foot
racing, hurdling. Jumping, baseball,
football, basketball and all other lines
of sport When Billy was right he was
a great fighter, but when he was off he
was simply miserable.
Others Kxcelled In Science.
But to get back to KetcheU and the
others As has already been stated,
Stanley was simply a slam hang fight
er with a terrific punch, but practically
no science. A great many of his knock
outs came from a "hip pocket swing."
On the other hand Ryan, Fitzsimmons,
Dempsey and LeBlanche were all very
clever boxers, could stand a world of
punishment and could hit harder than
KetcheU. This may , sound somewhat
strange, but no man who ever saw any
of these meh fight will make the slight
est attempt to deny it While Ketchell
had a blow that would fell an ox. he
had to set himself to deliver It and it
was usually that "hip pocket swine; '
while the other four had developed hit-
BRANN.
tini tn an absolute science and could
hit from any angle and land a knock
out blow which traveled only from six
to 18 inches.
No, while Mr. Kennedy deserves
thanks for a splendid letter land for
the cMerest which he has manitested .'a
the sport page of The Herald, we axe
compelled to disagree with him that
KetcheU should rank next to- FitzsUn-
SpeaklntfW Fits im0V toMr. Ken
nedy's remarfl BSSf TTrtt gave away
many pounds of weight en different oc
casions and recalls to mind the famons
fight at Carson City, March 17. 1907,
when Bob won the heavyweight cham
pionship of the world by knocking out
Jim Corbett in 14 rounds. In that fight
Corbett had Fits practically helpless
three times and each time as he started
in to finish the Cornishman. Martin Ju
lian, who was in Corbett's corner,
yelled. "Don't do it Jim. Not yet He's
only stalling. Look out for that left"
or something else. And each time Cor
bett would step back.
When Jim was finally counted out ha
Jumped to bis feet almost immediately
after he count and, walking to the
edge of the ring, shouted: "Boys, I
haven't had a square deal." No one has
ever intimated that the fight was
crooked, at least as far as the fighters
were "concerned. But many have com
mented on the fact that Martin Julian
later became Fltseimmons's brotherin
law and that, despite the fact that Cor.
bett hurled numerous challenges at Fitz,
the latter would never meet him again.
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