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4 S THE OMATTA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 29, 1915. GIBBOUS SPEAKS FOR SELF Phantom Steps to the 7ore and De clares H is Middleweight Champ and Can Prore It HAVANA FIGHT NEXT SUNDAY Br Rl?ioi NTTtV YORK. March 27. Mike Olhbone 1 on the warpath. The otherwise Im perturbable mill wlsard bae been aroused from his lethargy; anil his one-time un- rufflued hair now stands upon end Ilka , the bristles on a tattnted porcupine. When Mike Olbhona la as herewith described, beware. Heretofore Michael haa been perfectly angelic when not facing an opponent In the ring. He was content to forget the padded gloves and roe In when outside the arena. But now ha "talks shop," which In ring nomenclature means that he will talk ahout the fighting game on the slightest provocation. And the gist f 7)1 Conversation runs something Ilk this: ' "It's about time T rot a hustle on, and claimed the middleweight championship for myself. I hare beaten every con tender fiat can make the weight, and the middleweight field la barren. Up to the present I have let the so-called ex perts claim the title for me. I did not want to enter a protest until I had cleared up the list of aspirants for the championship. Now that I hare done that little thing. I wish to plane myself before the pubtlo as the undisputed mid dleweight champion of the world, and 1 am ready to defend my hard earned laurels against all comers." While Gibbons does not make his claim In so many words. 'it Is an ascertained fart that he has broken his silence as regards his ring status and has boldly proclaimed himself the middleweight champion. rew Dfspate Title. There will be few to dispute his claim, for Mike haa sound basis for ouch claim. Bine Ilke haa announced himself as the one and only holder of the title, he haa gone about his business of clarifying the middleweight muddle until today the situation is no longer complex. 1'p to a few weeks ago, 'when the title still liwabeyanee, Mike expreesed Oeclded aversion to engaging In- bouts of longer duration than ten or twelve rounds. Paid Mike: "I fall to see any reason why I should fight McOoorty. Clabby or any one els twenty rounds. I sincerely bellere I ,4-ould defeat them Just as hsndily In the longer bout, but In my entire ring career I have never engaged ' in a bout of twenty rounds. The lotigest was twelve rounds." But a few weeks make a world or difference, and now Gibbons If firm In his resolve to take on anybody who disputes his claim to the title over a distance of twenty rounds or more. He I bent on proving to the boxing public that he Is a reel champion, and as such is willing to give his contemporaries a fair chance, no' favors shown and a thorough beating promised to all. Gibbons has shown his superiority over alt rivals In short bouts, and ha is anx ious to disprove the contention that ha cannot fight up to hi standard in twenty-round bout tlovana right Nest Week. If plana do not again miscarry, Jack Johnson and Jess Wlllard will go through their maneuvers for forty-five rounds at Havana, Cuba, next Sunday morning, be ginning at 11 a. m. The heavyweight championship is Involved. However, there Is still noma doubt expressed Ms to whether the bout will be permitted by the isisnd authorities. Nevertheless, despite reports and coun ter report that the match will never be fought. Johnson and Wlllard have been going through the training routine for several weeks. In anticipation of a gruell ing battle. , . Wlllard must be commended for hi In dulgence In the entire affair. Ha haa plodded along for months with a view of tackling the maduro marvel. Just for the chance of winning the championship. No less than four or five time the bout haa been In the uncertain stage, yet Wlllard showed no signs of discouragement and trained hard In the fee of seeming re versals. ' And may be ha will be rewarded for his painstaking work. The fact that ha can go along for months, bearing up under tne severe training strain, shows that the cowpuncher la composed of more than mere bone and muscle, ' and that some- wnere'aooui ms person a eourageous heart Is concealed. Wlllard haa too often, and' too readily, been accused of having a compoelUon of saffron in his vertebrae, but It must be admitted that be has shown a little heart by keeping up under the training siege, As yet he hasn t seen even a penny for the battle, and the chances are that . If he and Johnson do not draw as well as expected that Is. of course, If the match takes place Jeaa will not visualise a cent for -all his labors. Hut he-figures that a chance Is a chance, and he la irking It voluntarily. In the hope 4hat be will make the most of the opportunity TINKER TO QUIT BASE BALL Not Managing, but the Playing End, for Joe Says The Two Labors Are Too Hard. FINDS MAN TO TAKE HIS PLACE Br F-HASK. O. MT.XKR. Joe Tinker plans to retire from the playing end of base ball at the close of the 1915 season poo.lbly sooner. "The rule about 'you can't do two things at once and do them well' applies to baae bait a well as to anything else," says Tinker. ,-I have discovered that In my two and one-half years as playing manager. "When a man plays base hall he should think of nothing else but the game be fore him. He should have his mind riveted on what he himself Is to do. Nothing should dlrtract him. But there Is a lot of distraction when that player Is trying to manage his club at the same time. "1 found that out when 1 managed Cincinnati In lfflS. and again last year when I managed the Chicago Whales. Instead of paying attention to my Job of shortstop and paying attention to that alone I had to pay attention to what the other eight men were doing. "I think a ball club should be man aged by a bench manager, to Insure Its success. The cases of Oeorge Stalling, John MoOraw, Connie Mack and Hughle Jennings show what results come from having a bench manager. "A manager on the bench haa It all over a playing manager when It comes to directing the team. A bench manager sees everything and sees it from the viewpoint of a spectator. A playing mannger doesn't see everything because he Is occupied to a certain extent with Ms own playing Job. 'Til probably start the season playing at short but If that Kid Smith continues to show up as he has In the paat, I am going to shove him Into my shortstopptng Job before the season gets along very well. If he ran hold down the Job I'll be a bench manager from then on." mtth Is a Sensation. ' The Smith In question Is a 19-year-old kid that Tlrtker discovered In an occi dental way. tils first name Is James, and during these training camp days he Is assaying 100 per cent pure as a short stop. Smith played with the Puquesne uni versity team around Pittsburgh early In the 1914 summer. Iter he got a Job with a semi-pro team that played at St stary , u. when the team disbanded. he went back to Pittsburgh and looked up rtebel Oakes, manager -tif the Pitts burgh Federals. Would you object If I came out to your park and worked out with your boys?" smith asked. "Certainly not," answered Oakes. 'Come ahead." The next day. according to the story of Smith's discovery, the Chicago Federals landed In Pittsburgh for a series. Tlnkar took hla men out to the park. Smith was thera and worked out with the player Tinker saw Smith working around at the norl station and ha was amased at the speed and the cleverness of the youthful shortstopper. When Oakes arrived at the park Tinker sought hint out Who la that Hd?" asked Tinker. pointing to Smith. "Ha'a a town boy who wanted to work out with us and 1 told him It was o. K. with me." replied Oakes. "Have yeu algned him?" "No." , ' "Are you figuring on signing him?" asked Tinker. "No; I don't know anything about him," answered Oakes. "All right: I'll grab blm," said Tinker. And that same afternoon Smith affixed his signature vo a Chicago contract. "That boy may prove to be a bloomer." Tinker said to us. "but If he does I II be tha most mistaken man In the United States. That boy looks like en rt t V ery best ehortstopplng finds sine Wal ter Maranvllla hooked tin with th rave. Has fast, game to tha core, a flna thrower, a grand baaa runner, and a pretty fair hitter." STANDARD OIL TO HAVE , TEAM IN FIELD THIS YEAR The Standard Oil company will have a base ball club la the field this season, troilor the management of Harry Cress, and any class "A" clubs wlnTiIng Satur day games with the Standard Oil com psny club will be accommodated by tele phoning Harry Cross at Douglas 67 or Douglas S71L The following ! the line-up: Jones, t etcher: Hear man - Adams, pitchers I'rosa. first base; Goff, second base t ain-l;auin. shortatops; Verity, third twine; Byrne-Renntsnn, left fielders riegermann. center field; Kline, right Held. WRESTLED STECHEA, BUT DIDN'T HURT HIMSELF Roy fSfills. recruit catcher on tha tea Moines club. Is a wrestler. GIUls Is from luting, la., and is considered some pumpkins around those parts. To his im W mates on the Bolster club Gillla tells a brief, but funny, yarn of a bout with )oe Ftecher, peerless Nebraskaa. "You know," he said to labctl. wrestled Jo Stecher once." "Did he hurt your' queried tha boss. . "No, the wrestle didn't last that long,1 answered tha catching recruit. THORPEIAN ATHLETIC CLU3 STAR COMES BACK Harry t ats, formerly a crack athlete on it. Tlwrprkta AthleUa club teams. bas returned to Omaha front Petersburg, .Vt-lj.. and once mure wears the colors the Thorpeien club in athletic eoruprll in n rVbats is a base ball player and star pole naulter. Perritt, Schauer and Palmero, McGraw's New Pitching Trio The Hypodermic Needle Br the Hae-Reen. There's a time that I remember And Ahall think of till I die. In my days of youth end dreaming. When my hones w-re mounting high A dav of hope, ambition, Thoee dreams that uped to be Ol fame and all world's splendors, And a name from era to sea. A drram of laurel. wreathlngs, That told me I was right. Tl at I'd win my spurs in battle, Brt a victor In life's flfrht And the summer winds that whlepered, singing soft and singing low. Told me tales of wondrous making, As before all I would go. But time doth work Its wonders. And I look back to see That all my dream were fruitless . To me would never be. And I know that ail has vanished, With all my hopea to do. And I know it eeldom happens That youthful dreams come true. By r. S. Ttwr i , probably learning that great Indoor sport of throwing the calf's papa under the Instruction of the well known matador, Jack Curlev. Joe Rtecher had better have a care. If hey find out he wrestles on the square he la likely to lose his card In tho Wrest lers' union. Kid Williams wants to fight Johnny Kllbane again. ToU have got to hand It to the KM, he's a game guy and a glut ton for punishment. How gerprlalna; , Franklin Baker says $10,000 a year sal ary would revive his Interest In base ball. That much coin would revive an Egyp tian mummy. Welsh is to fight Nelson and Kllbane to take on Abe Attell. Will somebody please tell us the kaiser has challenged Julius Caesar? MA RUN, Tex., March as. Jeff Tesreau Is expected to have the best year ha aver haa pitched, "Old Reliable Matty" Is of course a mainstay, and Rube Marquard says ha feels better than he ever did be fore. Counting that way, McOraw has three regulars on whom ha can depend. For his fourth first string pitcher, ho looks to Perritt Schauer or Palmero. The three seem to have an even chance to break In with the three regulars and make up the harmonious quartette, Per ritt did well with the Cardinals, Schauer showed some class In a few games In which ha played with tha Olanta last autumn, and Emlll&no Palmero haa been creating all kinds of records In tha fling ing art The winter has been a good one for the Cuban, who haa been playing ball In Havana. Of course Art From me will always be on the aide lines to go to the mound after tha pitcher bas been d nicked to make way for a pinch hitter. And of course there are a dosen mora recruitiee who are fighting for a regular Job In the box. However, the three whose) pictures are shown seem to be tha beet of the boiling, with Pol Perritt holding the edge on the other two. Oxford Athletes Are Now Fighting in the King's Army NEW HAVEN, Xtarch .-Of Oxford athletes who have enlisted la tha British rmy, Ouy 'Ntchalls writes In the Yale Alumni Weekly aa follows: "Of Oxford Rlues of 1913-11, I find that II members of last year's crew, includ ing tha coxswslns, accepted, commissions, every member of tha cricket eleven. every member of tha Rugby foot ball fifteen, and every member of the lawn tennis team haa followed suit. In the case of cross-country and golf the same Is true, except insofar as nationality Is bar to tha acceptance of commissions In the Kritlsh forces. Of one association foot ball player, one runner and one hockey player nothing can be heard. They , may possibly be serving. Every other member of these teams is serving. Nina of the swimmers are serving, three Fencing lllues, and four tennis, flvt lo c rouge, six gymnasts, one racquet, one Chess Blue anJ all tha riding men have aieo joined. Taking these aa a rair sam ple In both universities, one may safely aay that every undergraduate of Oxford, who not debarred by eyesight or some Physical Infirmity or rationality, la serv ing. There are, of course, a few, others left aiuh as scholars, exhibitioners or Bible clerks, who are bound by tha terms of their entr&nee Into Oxford not to leave befcra they have fulfilled their contract so to speak, and a small number of poorer students, a ho, for financial, family or perhaps religious reasons, do not feel PICKINGS 1N AUSTRALIA Bat Native Son Boxers Try Holdup Game and Remit in Kicks from Promoters. AMERICANS ENTER TEE FIELD SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.. March 27. 'Snowy" Baker's monthly letter from Australia tells of the , harvest being reaped by boxers In that part of tha world. Baksr says that boxers are treated better In Australia than anywhere else, hoi If bringing the leadera together la high enough, aa any promoter will, ad mit. Say the Australian letter: " Dave' Smith, who jvas thrice de feated by "Eddie" McOoorty last year, collected from tha Stadium management I1S.K00. Of this 16,000 waa received for ona tight with MoOoorty. In that cone' teat Smith lasted less than two minutes. never struck an effective blow, and waa knocked out so completely that ha had to be carried out of tha ring. 'No man should complain about pay ment of that kind," aaya Baker. "Yet a second contest was arranged between Smith and MoOoorty, and Bmlth actually received (3.030 for getting into the. ring with tha big American, for tha third time thalf first contest waa a ana-tnlnute affair. In New York, for which Smith received IC00. McOoorty knocked Smith out, yet tho Australian waa able to draw large sums for other contests during the yeaf with 'Jimmy'. Clabby and Dubourg, the Frenchman. "Boxing must be a sound gama la Aus tralia when men of this type ran con tinue to receive money from tha public. But tha boxera were not satisfied. Smith In particular held up tha Stadium au thorities for 3D per cent of tha gross re ceipts. Though the Stadium refused to pay It, some of tha Australians against whom ha waa matched agreed to forfeit I per cent of their shares la order to let Smith have his full third." This, according to Baker, caused a gen eral demand by ordinary boxera that 30 per cent be given all of them. A boxers' union eaa therefore formed. Every boxer of note In the country waa roped Into It and they filed a formal demand on Baker for SO per cent of tha gross. This would have meant that whenever two Austral ian were engaged tha promoter was left with a bare 4u per cent to cover all his expenses and obtain him a profit Nat urally Baker refused. "Mar men from America and Europe are quite eager to come to Australia for 26 per cent of the gate, and on these terms they actually receive more money than anywhere else In tha world." tha letter says. "It Is the Importation of star men that has made the gama here, and tha enterprise of the promoter In this respect b the explanation of Australian boxers receiving such enormous sums." TENNIS DATESARE CARDED Central States Tourney at St. Loo.ii, Western at Chicago and Missouri Valley at Kansas City. NO TOURNAMENT FOR OMAHA Bellevue Students , on Athletic Board 'The students ef Bellevue college, acting as tha athletic association. Tharsday after chapel elm-ted the new members of the athletio board. The association's constitution waa recently remodeled, and able to take up arms. These exist at both I sd to comply' with tha new regulations a untverittlrs. All these not of military girl and boy from each class were elected age are being trained for war at tha offi cers' training corps, established at both universities." Big Trap Shoot at Exeter m April A tee-day registered trap shoot will be held at Exeter. Neb., April It and U by the Exeter Oun club. One hundred tar gets will be shot . each day under tha Jack rabbit system, with the prise money spilt under tha Selfkeo system. Oeorge I Carter, the IJuootn profeMlonal, will act aa referee, while It. H. Hill will be scorer. C. Baker trapper and Lel tiross clerk. J. B. Kolts Is In charge of the shoot and expects a large number of trappers from Omaha and all other parts of the stste. t'haaee- fee Switrb. ' Treasurer Oeorge of the lndlanaiolis club dm'Uree that there I not a t-tmnce on eerth of tlie Indianapolis tiaui aud frautlnse being transferred. as members of tha board, to hold this office aa long aa they continue la school. Prof. P. W. Evens, faculty chairmen of tho Athletic " association, , presided, and the following students were , elected Senior, Marguerite Jack, Paul Ohman. Junior. Bemlct Mitchell, Barton Max well; sophemore, Qrace Walker. Charles Evaas; freehmaa.' Nora Mohr. Raymond Qllraore; academy. Jack Phelps. The new board held IU flirt meeting Tburs day aooa In the biology laboratory. . . LUXUS AND RAMBLERS TO PLAY BALL GAMErTODAY The Luxus will play tha Ramblers practice gama today at Twonty-fourtk and Vinton. Manager1 Iieaatson haa twi ty-eight players to try out aod la sura to get a winner. Work on the new Luxua grounds will begin next week. Any teams wishing practice g antes ran call John Denntson Tyler 3J The Luxua play the IVlum bus Ktste league team at Columbus April IT aud It. - NEW TORK, March Tl. Tha sohtdule of tournament datea officially sanctioned by the United States National Lawn Ten nis association for 1B1B-16. aa given out tonight by Robert, D. Wrenn, president Included the following: . ' , March 1 Tucson Tennis club, Tucson, Aria; state championship, May ft El Paso Country club, El Paso, Tex.; border states championship. June 7 Philadelphia Cricket club. Phil adelphia, Pa.; United States champion ship women's singles, doubles and mixed doubles. June 1Z Wanderers club, Chicago; city championship. ' June 14 Augusta Country club. Au gusta, CJv: championship of the southern Atlantic states. June 1 Panama-Paolflc exposition grounds, Han Francisco; , Paciflo coast tennis championship. June U Sana oouci country ciud, Greenville. 8. , C.; championship of. the Caroltnas,. June m Oklahoma uoir ana country oub, Oklahoma City, OkL; Oklahoma slate thiniilonahlp June 21 ivanhoa Tennis club. KaniSS City, Mo.; central west tennis tournament for women. June M-Pittsburgh Athletic association. PHtshursh. Pa.: clay court championship of tha I nlted states. 1 ' ' Juue 2 Chicago Beach Tennis ciud. Chicago; Invitation tournament. July St. Uoula Amatear Atnietic ciud, St Louis. Mo.; central states champion ship. July SIrfiinsville Country club, Louis ville, Ky. ; bMtate championship. July a Atlanta Athletic cluo,' Atlanta, Oa: championship of the south; sectional dcublea July central Iowa Tennis association, Toledo, la; central Iowa chamiiionaitip. July 10 Panama-PacUlo International exposition grounds. San Francisco; Pan- ama-Paclflo championship. July 12 Mempbis Tennis ojuo. Mempms, Tsnn., state championship of Tennessee. July ' 17 Wanderers' club, Chicago; Illi nois state championship. July l Indianapolis Tennis association Indianapolis, lnd,; Indiana state, cham pionship. ' July 1 country viuo oi oirminanam, Birmingham. Ala.; cotton states, cham pionship.. July 24 Deep Haven. Lake Mlnnetunka, Minn.; northwestern championship. July W lioniwuod cricket cluo, Boston, Longwood singles, Eastern doubles. - July M UrinneU C. C, urlniieii, la.; onen tournament. July Mr uurungion lennis ciuu, ouruui- ton. Ia., open tournament. July S Onwentsla rluo, Lae roreai. IU., western championships and sectional doubles. August t Beabright Lawn Tennis and Cricket olub, Heabright, N. J., Invitation tournament. ' August Detroit rennis ciuo. iseireu. Mich., MtchUan State chaniplonithip. Aua-ust Kansas City Athletic ciun. Kansas City. Mo.. Missouri Vauey tennis chainpionnhtp. ' . August 10 ana u cmwenisia ouo. ,i Forest, III., national sectional doublea. Aua-ust is Newport casino, sewporc, jv I., Invitation tournament. August is Town ciuo, miwauaee, wis., Wisconsin championship - August It riwlinoni Driving riuo, At lanta, Oa , I Georgia Mtate rhampionshlp. August is Iowa uwn Tennis associa tion.- Dcs-Moines, luwa stale champion ship. . , ( August IT Neoaestia Tennis ciuo, neo- deaha..Ka.i open tournament.' ' 1 Auguat St Aehevllle Country otuo, Asne- vllle, N. C annual tournament. ' Aua-ust Mt White Hear Yacht club. While Bear Ijihe, Mina., Minnesota ftate chunplnoanlp. August ao Kansas city Airuetic ciuo. Kansas' City, Mo.; women's Missouri Valley slnalna aad mixed doublea August West bide Tennis club, ror- eet Hills, U I ; national singles cham pionship, national challenge doubles and national InterscholastlQ .'tiamplonahl. Auxuat k tenver Country club. I Den ver. Colo!: Colorado Stale championship. Kouteniber 10 Panama-Pacific expoet- tloa (reunite, Han. Franetaco, CaL; Cali fornia fctate rhsmpiotiablp. . Hcptomlwr II Ohio I-awn Tennis asso ciation, .Cincinnati, O.; trUtale shain- ptonehlp. .,.:( wpifnn'rr i loua w w ni iri tjiuo, Boaloa, Muss.; wonmn i open tourna ment; singles, doubles and ; mixed doublea. . October crountry ciuo or Norfolk, Norfolk, Va; Virginia Mate ebampioa ship. January K. IMS Pinehurst Country club, Pinehurst, N. C; midwinter cham pionship. - . February 17, IS) Seventh Regiment Tennis club. New York; national indoor championship for men. 1 ' February Wis Paint JSeaeh Tennis club, I'alin Beach, Fl.; chareptonabip for Floibla. March Li, 1916 Seventh Regiment Ten nis club. New York; Indoor national championship for women. .. ' ' Brave Heldaat Resor4s. Ths Braves' hold-out second baaemaa. LAYIGNE WAS REAL CHAMP He Fought Hard and Long Battle and He Carried the Kick Which Fans Like to See. KNEW LITTLE OF THE TANGO NEW TORK. March T.-Grsjr-haIred sporting men who have seen all the big prise fights since .John L. Sullivan whipped Paddy Ryan la a hare knuckle scrap of 1882 will tell yon tliat the great est lightweight champion ef 'the world waa Oeorge Lavtgna, tha Eaginkw Kid. Freddie Welsh, tha present title holder. I a f aft-moving, ring .general., who has climbed to tha top by t scoring scientific points, but it; Welsh had been boxing In Lavlgnea time be would have been put to sleep aa' surely aa tha sun rises and seta. Willie , Ritchie, who lost the title to Welsh last year In London, would have met tha same fata at tha hands of tha wonderful Saginaw pugilist. 'I saw Lavlgne at his best win two of the moat sensational ring battles recorded In history. The Kid whipped Joe Wei cott In fifteen rounds at Maspeth after much blood had been spilled and later he knocked out Jack Everhardt In twenty- four rounds t a New York dub. though Kverhardt administered a terrific beating up to tha time ha received a powerful sleep wallop, on the point of the jaw. Lavlgne won those scraps because of his remarkable gameness and stamina. ' He was not a looking-glass boxer, such aa you frequently ' see nowadays, but rugged. ' willing, persistent slugger, who never knew the meaning of fear.' . . "Lavlgne was knocked down half doxen times by Waloott ia that memorable Maspeth affair. Ha waa literally cut to pleoea' In the first twelve rounds and the betting waa four to one that he would be atopped before tho and of tho fifteenth. round. The limit of the bout Waloott. it la true,, waa weakened by the weight he had to make, but ba era much heavier than Lavlgne when they entered tha ring. K It was In the thirteenth round that Lavlgne,-half blinded, continued his boring .tactics until bo caught tha Black Demon on the chin with a fearful upper- cut. Down want Waloott la a heap, but ho quickly Jumped up and clinched. In tha mat two . rounda Lavlgne had tho dangerous negro on tha verge of a knock out, and when tho fifteenth session ended the lightweight champion waa tho win ner according to the conditions of tha match. , Waloott having failed to put him away. If thla battle bad gone five rounda more Lavlgne would have been a decisive winner." reported to Manager btaillngs at Macon. MacGarthy Wilson Pave Fulti Is clamoring for peace, i Wood Wilson. So Safety First. Jules Ooux aaya he wlU not raoa at Indianapolis, preferring to atick to the war. J ulea evidently figures on cheating tha undertaker a couple of more years. Frank Bacon won a twenty-four-hour roller-skating race In New York. Barnum was all wrong, there is one born every second. MIDRAON FORM. The weather's pnt the practice on the bltak, Bat oar athletes are aoaae kamr, doth we think Toa shoald sea the form they ahow aad apeed, Whea they hit It for the dlnlaa room aad feed. We see that Prscmyst Is. back on the front page. Almost as Irrepressible, aa a wrestling promoter. ... . , , . Bad . weather has forced Wlllard and Johnson to train indoors. They are A New York scribe has discovsred Kid Lavlgne was the greatest of all light weight pugs. Next thing we know some body will discover, Omsr Khayhsm was the greatest stew bum In the world. "It Is queer," says an exchange, "that so many ball players seem to favor tho Germans." Queer? Oh, yes, with Schlleb ner, Krug, Wagner, Rudolph, Schmidt. Bchulte et al. Johnson's favorite blow haa lost Its atlng, says Jess Wlllard. Yep, Just like a brand new bumble bee. ,' Johnny Evers Is said to have a double chin he Is so fat. Good nlpht, say Bill Klero and others of his clan. Speaking of that floating Fed franchise reminds us of them . fatal words, "All dressed up and no place to go." Ban Johnson says base ball Is In -a critical condition and may drof over the brink. Who haa been putting Baa wise? ' - . The way things look now, the' well known hod carrier will soon look Hke a millionaire alongside tho festive athlete. How can Wild Bill Donovan expect to manage the Yanks if he can't even run his wife? The press agent for" the Wlllard-John-aon bout says. In speaking of Johnson's trainer, "Colin Bell Is a fast boxer." You remember Mr. Bell lasted about ona bell when ha met Bombardier Wells. Wa gVve you three guesses. Tou guessed It the first time, thera la no federal law against hop In Cuba BT BRANCH RICKEY. Our training was a great success. Both to rookies and to vets; I cured 'em all of smoking Those naaty clgarettea. And though they all are all bunged up. From playing In the rain, I put the blink on poker And the "shoot a dime" refrain. FOR FIRST TIME IN ELEVEN YEARS PHILLIPS SIGNS UP For the first time In eleven years Man ager Bill PhlUipa of tho Indianapolis Feds, has signed a contract with a ball club. 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