1009.
INTEREST JTJ BOXING
REVIVED DOWN SOUTH
MULTNOMAH GROUNDL
History of Careers of Jim Jeff rics'and Jack Johnson
TOO WET FOR GAP,
By C. L. Van Loan
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THC OKL'CON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21,
' '" l!y Will JT. fcUUi rr.
K'uo I'miicls.io. Nov. 20. The arrival
of Ad .Wulgaat, IU Mllwauka cyclone.
In Kan' I'tatioieoo has apparently re
vlveit th hilecret lit light i lht circles,
Which tta prsclically been tlrad since
.Nflon beat ' (tans the last tuna and
Puckey Mch'arland turned welterweight.
, The coming niauli betwen Wolfc-ast and
Lnw i'owrll of tills city la expected to
develop a aultahla opponent for Battling
Nelson, and a right for tha lightweight
championship of tha world la looked for
, during the coining aprlng or summer.
Wolgaat haa never fought In San
Kranclaco, hut since he flattened Henri
net, the Frenchman, In" New Orleans
1 laat Kunday afternoon, the local fight
fans have apparently go pa daffy over
. hi in. llo la rated aa a.slugxur and a
knocker-out, and tncldenlslly, lit la very
' mucJi Impressed with hl own Impor
tauca and la not at all backward In
Inglng his own praises. '
- "I came out here to, wipe FoweJl off
tha lightweight map." oald Wolgaat
upon his arrival. "Now, when I am
( through with him, I will give Nelson a
; chance. - Nelson has gone, back; and I
do not look for much of a fight from
Mm. I had hint beaten In 10 rounda In
Lob Angeles laat July.' I am bettor now
. than I waa then, ao there la no reason
why I cannot repeat the trick thla time.
' I think Towel I will give me mora
trouble than Nelson.-
Attell Boftot Kim. 1
Tea." I will -meet Abe Attell for tha
featherweight title, too, when. I have
swine of the 6thers out of 'nir way.- I
can rnnke 113 pound for Attell. Thla la
take tha tip and sign up with the win
per of the next llglilwt-lgiit go.
Welsh la ons of tha most thrifty of
the modern ring performers. lie l In
a ilaaa with Jimmy lirltt and Tommy
Htima, '11 cam to the Pntte.l Htstrs
two yeara ago with nothing and lull
spring ha went back to hla, native land,
Wains, with about IJJ.OOO la hla Mis.
riluce then, lyi haa doubled tola amount
by fighting an J beating audi aoft ones
aa Flet. Johnny Siiniinrra, Young Jo-
eplia and ether quinces, ' which ha
plucked from tha European trees.
Helng the only great puglllat that
Wales has ever turned out. Welali waa
received like' a 'king bark In hla native
land.;- Jit could have anything he anhod ,
for and ail ha desired wua a. few easy
marks to beat and theaa were accord-
Inglf dug up for him and the little pug
waa satiafM. , -
Xas JTo Eijnal aa Soxer.
Aa a boxer, Welsh haa no equal In
the game today. Hut you have to atop
here, lie cannot punch and he will not
ml It up with any of them. There
fore, none of the wlae followers of the
game concede the Welshman much of
chance agalnat NeleoiT If they
meet In a long distance battle.-
Jim Coffroth wanta to match" Nelson
with Owen Moran, the Brltlah feather
weight champlorr, for a 45 round con
teat to take place at tha Mission atreet
arena on New Year's afternoon. Thla
only goee; " to show how ' popular the
lightweight champion la right now. They
are all figuring Hhat Nelson 'has about
run his course and that moat any of
them can beat him. ' And the man who
ever
soft for me. He haa challenged me and I does -wrest the title from- the Battler
I am ready to accommodate him. Hut I can quickly make a fortune for himself
he will have to go over the Marathon
route. I know what Attell Is. Just as
everybody else -does. Let Mm agree to
go the- distance with me and lie can get
all the action he Itkcs for hie money.".
.Wolgaat is a tough,, sturdy looking
and some wise promoter and manager,,!
trui in tne meantime, the nattier la
doing his own thinking. He admits him
self that he will only make one
two more ring appearances and he la
going to feather his nest ere he start
little fellow..y Me is built on the lines of again. He will demand all the best of
the - purse :s.nd picture privileges, and
for this reason. It is going to ba a dif-
ucuii mauer to sign mm up with any
or nis many challengers. , Moran Is
bit too small .for Nelson., but he Is
tough, rug-god little chap and should
Joe Wolcott,' very near the' ground, but
-'. very broad of, beam and 'well muscled,
. lie drinks beor and smokes big cigars.
. Just like Sam Langford. '.Ha says that
jie.-wll bet his money on hla chances
.against Powell. It is. likely that the
rttjng will be even money now ,alnoe put up wbirlwind go with the cham
. Wolgaat has laid the Frenchman away, I pion. . ,. r. ; . t
woigasrignta oweu ocrore tna mis- i Xne Jeffries-Johnson talk has about
39. - He looks to be in good shape after
his mlxup with Piet But he will have
to show a lot of speed, as he has only
about a week in which to get into shape
for his next ring? encounter,
died out-for the present at least an
M . JOCKS to be in good shape i aner thar. wm be ,,.. or n'otlnK stlrrln.
till after the bid has been awarded in
New York December 1, As far as the
bidders are concerned, they stand Jus
There is a possibility that the win- B " V" J"0"10,
ner f th Wnlnaf -Pnwoll hnnl win he " -.o"80 u" " nvia im
j pitted agalnat Freddie Welsh, tha Brit- I " " """L,lc vruiuoior m u
ish lightweight chamolon next month. vrraney, wno wui leave
Welsh is now on his wsv to this coun- Ior e.w-1.or lew aays to put IE
i-v n.rnr. ha t ha BnnnKnna a-oh I bis bid with the , others who - are al
M irrfat fr nf tmimnata that ha . Wra I ready On the ground.
on his way to the United States tol- Ther a bare possibility Uiat aiea-
amn unnn the frati nf Miin Hn,. son and Coffroth will finally combine,
ever, whon h find nt tha ' Kpinn Pol their interests and forces and thus
probably will not meet him till after no" .Oraney out. .- This is the latest
he has beaten .either i Powell - or WoI-on Kiaito.; Two months ago, when
gam, tne cnancea are that-Welsh will I mav -mivm, nimoun
came 10 coirroui here and made
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a
proposition for a combination. Coffroth,
then believing that he had the inside
track, refused to -listen to Uleason. de
I clarlng that he would land alone or not
i at an. - . -
But since then Gleason has' been com
ling strong. .He has succeeded in get
! ting a big arena near Berkeley, with an
angel to back him. A few days ago
in New York, Coffroth. went to Olea
son and made a proposition to him. Now
the scheme is up in the air. i It looks
v.., va.i, xt on ti,. I uiuuju me wm yet g lotreiner
nMn. aaaann naVf Ill 1 I tUIIJB to 1UO COnCiUSlOn 11181
successful since, the old days before the f.r"ney,7"1. b8 ',n ?"Klon a
. aptl-betting law was enacted. accord
- Ing to all the" Indications of the present.
Ever j since- the court Of Appeals last
week sustained 'the lower courts in de-
clarlng that oral betting was legal.
. there has been a ' steady, current . of
plans for next season which speak vol
umes'.for racing to come. '
It must be admitted 'that taps was
Bounded On racing In the east this
year-under the most unpropltloua elr-
-. cumstanoes. ' : The season - ended " was
- ' quite . a strenuous one at times, but
never satisfactory. Indeed the outlook
c became so gloomy at the end tnat tht
t. Empire Gity meet of , six days was
called off, ringing down the curtain a
week before, the usual closing season.
The revival in tracing i.ext -year will
JiaV e the support of .John H. Madden,
August Belmont. Harry Payne Whitney,
James R. ! Whitney. S C Hildretn and
others of wealth who' fol'ow the sport
Many oi. the wealthier of the urfmen,
, like the 'Whitneys. w ahderbllis, Keenes,
and Belmonta. will sptit r their stables,
lioldlnt . some - ef -r their- strinft on this
' -side the : water and . sending other
racer aoroaa.
-Mr, Madden is going to keep near the
. easfdurlng tne coming winter,, anu has
Jeaaed the Homedaie Stud farm in New
Jersey; where he will quarter his year
lings.; This Is a rauical departure for
this 'turfman has' always shipped-bis
string; to Kentucky for the winter. i
strong fight against them. With those
two shrewd promoters working against
rum. uraney win stand but a slim
chance to grab the great match. .
: McCaray Works on Jeff.
. Tom McCarey, the tios Angeles pro
moter, is. endeavoring to work Jeff
through personal friendship. As Jeffs
home Is In Isoa . Angeles- it is. barely
possible that he may yet hearken to the
pleading of the southern promoter. Mo
Carey says he wilL hang up a 1100.-
000 purse for the match. : t
Though the .big match has not even
been made yet. Be tun g Commissioner
Tom Corbett already has $10,000 which ;
he has been instructed to place onTjeffs I
chance's at tho best possible odds. Cor
bett has received this money in lots
ranging from $100 to 11000. As there
is no Johnson money In sight 'yet, Cor
bett believes that the odds on Jeffries
wilt be something like 10 to 8 or 10 .to
Corbett is the shrewdest, judge of
ring prices in the business today and
his word is law in the ring.
. a5 a J msr rm
yf" .o o9tV,
? " Jim 'Jeffries, undefeated heavyweight champion, and Jack Johnson, the present holder of the title
with a few of their earlier opponents; The picture in the upper left hand corner. is that of Sharkey, taken
at' the time of hla first fight with Jeffries, which the latter won by a decision. Peter. .Jackson and Gus
Ruhlin, two more of. (the big fellow's earlier victims, are shown in the lower left band corner. In the
lower right hand corner is a photograph of Ed Martin on the left and George Gardner on the right, two
of the men that Johnson conquered when he first started in the game.
JACK JOHNSON.
"I will handle at least half a million
dollars on that match." he says. "About
half of this money will be bet by San
Francisco people and the other half Will
come from all over the . world.:. One
prominent New Tork sporting man has
wired me that he will bet $20,000 on
Jeffries at even money .Tight now. I
am afraid that the rush of Jeff money
wm-ourt me -price."-. - , -
CHAPTER III.
New York, Nov.. 20. rOeofge Gardner
was always willing to fight anything
on two legs, and after the Chllds affair
San Francisco took another look at
Johnson in a matchf with a good white
man several pounds lighter than him
self. ' .
Johnson was a surprise to the north
erners, who were rather Inclined to re
gard. Johnson 'as a southern .California
product,' hence a . lemon or something
else of the citrus variety.' .This was a
year before Gardner thought hlmaelf
good enough to beat Fitxsimmons for
the light heavyweight championship,
the class which Jeff's bulk made neces
sary, .--.J ,s r v ;."'.''- " -
Gardner took Johnson as a pickup.
and was walloped, consistently through
20 rounds. The negro was too clever
for him and as In dozens of his other
fights- Johnson might . have waded . in
and won by a knockout had be been so
inclined. ,' !f ..
Dark Spot on Beeord.
Next we come - to one of " the dark
spots on Johnson's record.- Since first
appearing in Los Angeles, he. had -not
lost a decision bet for his adherents,
and the impression gained ground that
Johnson .-was a good, safe man on
whom to place a bet. The gamblers
figured that the worst they could get
would be a draw for their money.
Fred Russell, a whale of a heavy
weight with all the appearances of a
demon, was brought down for Johnson,
and the betting began. , At the laat
minute it was discovered that : all of
Johnson's friends had been betting heav
lly on Russell, and the club manage
ment took Johnson into a side room and
informed him ' that If he did not fight
to win he might as . well -figure- his
career closed.
In the-eighth round Russell clinched
and said to Johnson:
"Are you going through with it?"
. A Deliberate Pool'
Johnson did not "go . through with
it," and as a result. Russell, who was
no gamer than he should have been,
the fatal round. He knew he had the
fight won. and though Martin was
dased for six rounds he was boxing well
at the finish.
Once more Johnson played it safe.
but until Martin was knocked down, the
fight was A thriller. After the .knock
down. Johnson was under wraps. Per-
JIM JEFFRIES
. . By Goal Judge,
No game was played In the assm ta
tlou football Isague yesterday and none
Is acneduled for this afternoon. Yester
day's fixture was to have been betwe-en
the Multnomah Amateur Atbletlo club
eleven and the rejuvenated Nationals.
It was called off because of flooded
grounds.
This leaves all aoccer eyes turned
toward the next league game, over
which there la an amount of subdued
excitement not often attained in any
branch of local sports. It will take
place Thankagtvlng forenoon on tin
Vaughn street baseball grounds between
Multnomah and the new Queen's .Park
team. It depends' a good deal on the
condition of the baseball grounds
whether this will be Portland's premier
soccer game, If the grounds are dry
and faat. It will be; but even if they are
wet and muddy, 'there wilt lie a des
perate tone to the game that will reward
all the eager soccer enthusiasts, who
for weeks have been looking forward
to a game that la not, unlikely to mean
the. first downfall of Multnomah. For
this Is the keynote of the coming game
Multnomah s soccer bunch haa never
en defeated; the Queen's Park mi
expect -to do It; the soccer following,
outside of Multnomah, is looking to
them to do It and urging them on to It
" All Have Had Chance.
WhlK only three fixtures have been
pulled off In .the association league, all
the five teams have had a chance to
show themselves, and It Is possible to
get a glance at the prospective quality
of ball. In the first place, the standard
Is some 60 per cent 'better than last
year.' and for some inexplicable reason,
this Is one of soccer's fat yeara so far
as playeas are concerned, for there is
a plethora of them,, where last year !
was hard for some of the teams, to
round out an eleven, An Increased num
ber of players naturally means competi
tion for 'places, ana competition for
places In its turn means harder train
ing and improved succor. This game
at best is a hard one to play. It re
quires not only an adaptability to it,
but "in the case of 80 per cent of
players, hard work and steady practice,
When a man starts an hour and a half
game, during most of which he will be
in rapid motion and throughout which
he must take far more punishment
than, most of the uninitiated 'think, he
must stick the game out, else his side
plays one man short. There is no sub
stituting players in association football
Thus the best of condition is required;
otherwise, a man's efficiency begins to
dwindle after the first few minutes and
CHAPTER III.
New York, Nov. 20. After the draws he can't he taken out
with Ruhlin and Choynskt, Jeffries de-J Team of Bootcbxaen.
elded to give his home people a chance The Queen's Park men are all Scotch-
to see mm perrorm in tne ring, it is men. They have a trainer and a coach.
"Ian ftAA thlna- hitl In all hla vaava rf I rni M . I -rtril
haps he was saving Denver Ed for an- r . ,,,, t,w .i C: 1.1 ,
Oiner rignt I chances to Sea. Jaf fries. In tha rlnir anil I trmt olaaa a-nalla la nnt n..Hnln.tln.
The same month saw the first ap- thA f,f Umn ltK , w,'( JV,0., "
naaianra I. la Mn-J Knnlrs Qom I "w srejgs null s ywi U1U III VliC gauiDB, HU UtUia,y 1110 JilttU-
McVftv at renr btoken down flhter and ttlc second tImo aer' non-Playiny trainer and a coach, it
tl? -f fSL if- J?- I an exhibition joke bout with la poaaible to handle the team rlffht
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marof'har'AU 1,0 kw asV rus Hank f a. elecW !f"
In anl imln. hla rlirVil- hanrt I "l ne OBffinning OI 1SVS 1 H peO- I . uuurt a. ura w,irtui
Inhnann maiia a fnnl nt him fnr 9.(1 I P' had decided that there WSS lOmit-
rniinds. hut -even nnee antied in to thing in Jeffries after all. He was in
finish the Oxnard champion. Once th8 place Kaufman occupied before his
more he played the ' decision safe.
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times, and lost the fight on a foul.
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Joe Campbell. the new wrestling in
structor at the Y. M. C, A., who has
been hounding Eddie O'Connell into a
match.:, Campbell has posted 4100 for
feit for a $200 side bet for a match
fight with Johnson folks thought he
might amount to something, If properly
nursed along and not rushed up against
men who knew too much about the
game. , .
Picked Some Dead Ones.
With this idea, Jeff's managers and
handlers and he had them even In
those days decided to "sic" him onto a j
few dead ones for the sake of his rec
ord. Five fights to date, three knock
outs and two draws, did not constitute
much in the line of a war history, so
they proceeded to fatten Jim on soft
food. : -
.The first man to be led to the slaugh
ter for the good of Jim's record was
poor old Joe Goddard, the Barrief cham
pion. Now back in the paleozoic age
Joe Goddard was somebody. He was
nobody when Jeff got him, and Jim
made him still less titan that In four
rounds .by the watch.
It was a poor fight, but it was the
best Jeffries fight Los Angeles ever
drew, and Hazard's pavilion was
Jammed to the roof to see the affair.
Then Poor Old Peter.
In less than a month San Francisco.
had another ripe alligator pear for
Jeems. This time It was nobody in the
world but Peter Jackson, What? Ola
Peter? Fre-cise-ly. oie Peter. The
same fellow.
Every sporting editor in the world has
had to settle this question a thousand
times over.
Peter had come back from England
Park men "are plodding in the rain to get
in training and to familiarize themselves
with conditions. They are all outside
workmen, mostly buUiling" ti'ha
ployes, and am alri'iia and hsrX '1 l
Multnotnuh men, with a.ar-ly an r
ceplloq, are office workers and win,
lighter, and In spite iT the MuUii-mii
record. It will prot.ulily take tho ll ;r
of pluck and combination to hIJ u
Qun'e men down.
The Multnomah outlook, howevn". 1
much better than It waa. At the ii,.n
Ing of the season It looked like th t- I
and white was fading. . The rlutm
made a good catch, however, when ih
landed Uut'han, a Bootcb fullback, wii
promlara to fill Crosby's shoes and iiv.
be. If he stretchea himself up to . full
length, outgrow them. Young at rentrr
Is also keen and shaping well. The re
mainder of the team Is the same as l-'i
year's and Is In the same position. Th
eleven la probably almost as good as t li
on e- that ended the 1808-09 lague so
brilliantly, but it has not worked to
gether ss much In preparation for tlit
hard Thanksgiving fixture aa It nho;.:
and in a real hard game some or m
men may not perform as well as they
have bean' doing against weak elevvni.
- Vew Blood tot VatloMU.
The Nationals, after losing their first
game by to l, have annexed enough
new blood to give them nearly a new
team. Their half line, as publlahcd for
the postponed fame of yesterday, is
Tommy Needham, Lawrence and t'oxon.
not the weakest half line in town by
any means. - Nell, Lloyd, Hayfllng and
others who did not figure in the first !
game will play next time and It will
be hard for anybody to run up anything ;
like six goals on the Nationals again.
The Cricketers are the surprise of Urn
season. Everybody felt in his bones :
the Queen's Park team would be strong j
but no one looked for an aggregation
such - ss Manager OJedsted and Cap
tain - Eylea have put out so far. ' The
Cricketers made a good guess when
they put R. M. Karr, an S. P. It S. em- ,
ploye, in goal. Karr is an American, a
baseball catcher and a bundle of pluck.
He takes to soccer like a duck to water
and the way he handled the veteran
Queen's Park forwards last Sunday wan
a caution. In front of bim. the Crick
eter's heavy backs, Pratt and Banham,
are tough propositions to get through. '
Banham is the classier man at present;
Pratt is a classy man but is not In con
dition. The half line Is doing much
fcetter then waa predicted for it and
the forward line is constantly dangerous
with Gray, Albinson. Copptnger and the
others in action. Coppinger is often in
effective when close to goal marked ly
so last Sunday against Queen's Park
but it must be remembered he had
Drake, one of the best left fullbacks on
this coast, to contend with, and Drako
has an effective way of spoiling what
the other fellow tries to do even when
he can't handle the ball himself. As for
Albinson, the sailor, he Is one of the
bright spots of the league. It Is un
fortunate he is hot a permanent resident
of Portland. - .
The Oceanlcs so far look like, the
weakest team but they have consider
able unattached material to strengthen
from and ought to take the opportunity.
ny win meet the-cricketers Thanks
giving afternoon, on the baseball
grounds, making two league matches for
mat holiday.
BRITAIN FEARS
11
In vading Horses Had Speed
but Climate Caused a
Lack of Stamina.
(Publisher' Press Leased Wire.)
London, . Nov. SO. British -turfmen
can. look with some little foreboding
upon the invasion of the turf Just as
the French horseman can dothe same
SOUTH PLEASED
I'M riUE
Expected to Get Roast and
Was Not Prepared
for Surprise.
In Los Angeles and on the coast who with Q'Conneil. The match will be and wa on his way to Australia, and he
knew or the : proposed rramerup " i k.ij u Uvi ni Tumv aftemnnn
tween Johnson and Russell, but the af-i r.omK.,i. kvar. think h la - nn.
fair blew, over in time and Johnson waslder and hj8 torao shows him to be a
lorgiven owu no iyugm, w wm i wejj developed fellow.
because
when he went Into the ring.
. Bemember that Johnson's record was
only two year old at this time, -.-Twen
ty-four fights iw two years is fast work
for a new man. - -
' Best righ of Els tlfe. r
Early in 1909 JohnBOn fought the
best , fight of ' his life. : His opponent
TRAINING CAMPS
LIVELY PLACES
Continued from Preceding Page.)
boxer as an amateur.. Two years with
was Denver Ed Martin anybody re-1 the professionals bas made a new man
memoer nimr Denver r.a was raooui I out of him and he will be a strong op
six reer rour mcnes is mi stocKings, nenent for Bennett. He Is' not so
weighed close to .200 pounds and was! sturdily built as Bennett, but is said
about the cleverest boxer, as well as (to possess Just as hard a punch as the
the rtaraesv. oieaneet nuier, in tne i jockey and staying powers that nave
hcavyweignt rnwnt naa gainea aiwon him recognition In all his matches,
great following in Los Angeles by j cerf is a mighty clever fellow with
early killing Hank Griffin with one la rood deal of experience and a reou-
punch. V .. j tation as a man with a brace of hay-
The men who saw tnat right may makers ready to slip out at any minute,
congratulate themselves on witnessing I jje arid Sullivan are expected to put up
one or the rnstest heavyweight nettles i one 0f the classiest bouts seen here in
in history. Denver Ed was Just about years.
at the turning point of his career. He The card for the coming smoker will
waa older than Johnson and probably be every ibit as good as that which
had not the stamina of the younger ( brought the membership of the club out
man. certainly he was not as well I on the first occasion,
equipped to take punishment, for the
giant mulatto had the long "tissue pa
per jaw" of a white man.- - -
Boat Was root.
For ,mor-"tftan io rounds the men
boxed at a lightning fast clip. It was
speed a gainst sprcd, cleverness against
rclavemcas, and punch asVlnst punch, i-erslnst the step toward what Is po-
arid tha way those me big men worked litely termed by the organized powers
for opening was beautiful to see. ss lawlessness, the fans cau reasonably
" I " have forgotten . the exact round expect that all the' talk about deeer-
which took the Hght out of the "draw" tion will gradually die away. .
clasa and threw the viotry to the Walter said yesterday that he wanted
Galveston negrtv but I think it waa t lead another Coast league team and
about the twelfth. that is psramount to saying that-. h
The men w ere working In the mid- will remain In rranlxed baseball.
MOGULS TO MEET
; AGAIN THIS WEEK
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was a sick man at the time. The dis
ease which finally carried him off had
already made him but a shadow of the
dashing black man who gave Corbett
the toughest fight of his life seven
years before.
But Jackson needed the money, and
Jackon was game, and Jeffries needed
P. Jackson, , knockout ' on his record;
so the match waa hurried through.
Oonldnt Hart a Boy.
Peter opened with his old time speed.
bit that was all he had left. His blows
would not have hurt a boy. Jim fin
ished him as mercifully -as possible,
end the referee intervened in the third
round.
Still another fine Urge man for Jef
friesthis time that celebrated man
with yellow paint in his veins, Mexican
Pete Everett. -
Jeff fought three fights inside two ;
months. Mexican Pete was the third
man. He was big., and he had a bold
look, but when it came to real fight.
Mexican Pete quit like a sheep In the
snowj and Jeff was very much dis
gusted with him.
They ricked a Un One.
Three rounds the fiasco lasted and
then the wise promoters picked a real
live one for Jeff the man who gave
him the hardest fight of his life and but
for the great difference In the .weight
nl size, might have shuffled the tank
builder to the bottom of the deck-
Thomas Sharkey.
Tom - wss no novice. "He "had been
fighting for six years, and be had a
formidable record. . He ha1 . whipped
men like Australian Billy Smith. Joe
Choynekl. in
die of the ring, feinting so fast "that
It waa next ' to Impossible te folios
, the play ef the gloves. Suddenly John
o shot fcls rl1t hand upward through
' Mania's guard to the chin, and down
went Denver Ed. - '
Martin YtTtr scored.
Msrt'n ver moved for es much as
r -t te Me kneee and etararred to hla
j fwt- Hie eyes were elaewy. bis knees
. rsrp4 -eta-t and his bands at hit
i - Th )et f ceaH have ftn
i ih-d 1.1 m.
! ttw-t w-'e Joheiaos er-d. and town
wt! in. T Ma time he was
rt- mre wln hit be bad e use
r f n he f " j-4 hi fpt
1 t.?t!f. tl so Is t '-4 ttxit th
J n0vit te
The meetlBg of the northern mag
nates will be watched wit If" much inter
est. Hhould President Luces not ar
rive from Memphis before the judre
leaves for Washington to assume his
cooare"onal duties, the meeting will
be held without blm. . ,
Woman Hall Marer IHe Broke. -VI
Iss Daisy H Ver. said to hare been
the best profeinal second baseman
among women beeebell rlayers In the
Vnited Rlatee. wee buried tm Potters
Field at Kansas City, flbe gled In ds
t'to;e e"miiri8taa-s at the city ho.
pifsL
f or Mts Hnorer was cnne-ted
'i.h fhf r-ttr-n r.;ormT" Uirla, It
' By Hiland Baggerly.
San Francisco, Cal.. Nov. 20. Judg
McCredie is not talking like a disgrun
tled magnate who la anxious to graso
across the channel. The invasion has lne opportunity or Decomingr an outlaw,
come from America and while, In the After he reached home there was a
interests of sport the international fea- 8splcion here that he would be less
ture should make it more interesting. Ruaraea in nis language than .when in
the only fear that can be entertained the hands of the San Francisco Inter
ts that the high h6nors of the turf shall viewers. It Is quite natural for one t-i
pass from the hands of Englishmen Into Pak his mind more freely in the pres
the hands of Americans. , . enc ot lls friends, and for this reason
In reviewing the season Just closed, McCredie was looked for to use lan
American horses here held their own Kuage more in keeping with that of mx
in the matter of speed but were-de Insurgent.
ficient in stamina. The horses doubt- Bt what the Portland club owner
less suffered from the change of cli- really did utter was an agreeable eur
mate. environment, food and so forth. Pr'f to th Callfornians. Ills words
To take a horse from an American farm delivered at home had even leas the
and place the animal In training quar- rln of outlawry than those spoken be
ters near Newmarket or Doncaster fore leaving here. Judge McCredie con
would mean as much' as to take the ,esl that Portland had been royally
English horse to America and train it 5,reated b3r the directors of the Pacifk-
there in aUen surroundings. . :'.,.'- I wns league . in every detail save the
Hniuwr the Times considers ehana-alone of refusing it two cluba , In the
of surroundings an insufficient explana-1 matter of making the schedule,-a most
tion because Sir Mastln, an American I ?f1 maiier, it, was tert. entirely
horse owner by Louis Winans, did as ln hl ha?dr aa " was a year ago.
well as he could have done ln America. I The Jndge Pig-hts Bard.'
It is pointed out that A. J. Joyner, I McCredie can't be censured for flrht-
trainer for Harry Payne Whitney, with ling for two clubs at home. He has a
20 horses won 13 races, a notable (certain constituency demanding conttn-
achlevement for a trainer during his I uous baseball which he must take h!
first season in England. coat off for,-' McCredie is the sort of
Incidentally, Mr. Joyner will spend aa man who seeks to please one and ail
great deal of time Here this winter J He has a heart as big as a barrel, but
preparing for next season. It is re-j when It' comes to breaking away an !
ported mat Mr. Whitney will have an going outlaw for the cause he la flelit-
entry In the Derby although he has notng. tnats a horse or another pedigree.
yet spoken on the subject.
hurt Jeff with his full arm wallops, and
Jeff did not . seem to be able to hurt
Sliarkey with his Jolting rights and lefts,
but when the SO rounda had been fought
the referee decided that Jeffries had
won. It was by far his hardest fight
thus far.
The big fellow was beginning to find
himself; to learn how to use his Weight
to advantage and to wade In close and
slam through a pile driving left to the
stomach.
After he has played all his cards snl
lost he will say to the boys:
"Well.. I did the best I could for vnu.
I trlei to give you. two -clubs, but thr-v
beat me. You wnt class A 'baseball,
so the best thing for us is to stick
with the Coast, league. Next' year I
promise you we will have a larrr
league, with Seattle with us, ao bl.ie
your time." ' .
And they will bide their time.
Jack Sheridan, the dean of the um
pires of this country, stated to the writ
er this morning that Bull Perlne hut
mada good with Ban Johnson heyon.l a
Shadow of doubt. heri'1an said J-hi.
men who did said that the sailor ahould
have had a draw, . .
After this encounter Jeff was con
sidered ripe for the east, where there
was plenty of fighting and plenty of
mm.v t J a ,-a ma nn nr.r tha HArklas
eight rounds; fought a I -i, k . f.nr. Ae nM . ..nt.
taw with Corbett su red eight rounds k ... hi,i , i.irn..
with Fluslmmons te win on a fool, a la ( nd to ,how MUm oli Jitm Tork
Earn, and whaled all sorts of lesser, ,.., ,h. ...i..r -a
llghU in the navy where he was surely millt, rrana;e-nent8 to hare Jina
a a they ssy In Wyoming, "a curly . ,.op two mra ,B on. Blfht.
wolf with long claws. , j Th f(r,t mmn vaa Boo Armstrong, a
. m asarveioas aeoort, large negro. Jeff made a lamentable
Oh. by the Way, he has one world's j showing and the east said he vmilil not
refold a strlna of M kimckoun all -do. He brcke the thumb f He right
seared in Honolulu. Must hare j hand eerved him riglit fr Mttlng a
trimmed the entire white population. ma with Lis thumb and so far from
Thla was the demon who waa yhitked J laying Armstrong In the discard, wss
ior the coming f ntrarlon, and of the!nmil to se an lrrtpres1n en tha
two men Sharkey ha 1 far tke better I negro. The fight stands e ijm r-or-l
reemd. He a.s alsr rwtng Tf.Fftni Tof'i a f1gt Weft. I.vjI had be's-iifi jr.in;.
the cbsrrrfenehtp. - - j mre eastern battle tie m r-.
l r aa-n i-jujih in mt. iii ani i ; jrit, wmiifl re gone i-mrw eom n
fruit tmm -,.11
tt.it r"t rnt "vr,.t rnmn t it
r'ght. and tie Iw.r r.-;on. g:r,ej that
lf rtesr fnsn ws a shine.
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t-.f - f,, x f- . -i
The decision was well received by the
men who did not bet n Sharkey. The i son looked upon him as one of the r
or the yesr. Perlne and tiheri.ls
doubled up several times last sa"n i
the Amerkss lesgue. so the laitr I - i
a chance to raaa iu'lg-tnent on his
Ity. - Both Sheridan and Perlne
rura in irrms wun Jr.ns??! for fit
year.
rtMierh, slvsains flaht tt was, sihsi kr
rushed and peased ! with the m-nl-hniM
rfxht ' f--r the fcea4.. sed
Jf fn 'V el lnr t im and tnet him
w'h Til i"!-.'t in l v ttnir.
Fnglish Swear by VeIh.
The F.na!ih nr It my ta
time before they sea a bn-r -,-
wrest the i'twe!ht r .s.r ' '
from fre-ly ttfmh. on Sm.f-v-Preidr
rjesrir dmof,ftt!i lis t,
neas, tlvern.. stitueth ail -
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