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TEXAS caowrgw wfl‘fénmo WILLARD In TRAINING.
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DOHAN OUTPOINT8 LENNY.
wow roan, m. Sir—Johnny DB-
has outpointed Harry Ilenny at the
Vanderbilt A. (3., Brooklyn. last night.
FUNK panics“
You only need write a postal or
phone to Samuel late, successor to
, Wm. Eftron, and you will get a ready
market for things whiCh you don't
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HAVANA, Feb, 27,—Judging from; ——————- h w mm ”on 499,
tack Johnson's actions and words to-
day the negro has not the slightest in-
tention of going to Juarez and fulfill-
rug his contract to box Jess Willard.
it the bout ever is held anywhere it
will be right here in Cubs, accordlns
to every indication.
Johnson is not very outhusisstic.
mcr the idea of meeting Willard at all.
Capt. Cushulan A. Rice, of Havana.
’ the Cuban sportsman who will become
president of the new National Sport.
ing Club, of Cuba, arrived in New
York last. night. When seen at the
, Army and Navy Club Capt. Rios said:
; “'l‘hings have stirred a bit since i
came away. Jack Johnson landed the
day I departed. lnnderstaud Curley
Will someone please step forward
and tall as why basketball isn't mom
popular with the rank and die of sport
lovers? asks the New Haven Journal-
Courier.
lt is a. mystery to us—and to many
thousands of others—why there is
His remarks yesterday indicate that has left Juarez for Cuba with the idea
any boxing he does will be with Joan of either getting Johnson out for
setts. hicVey. Mills. John Lester John- Juarez or of going in with the Cuban
sou, Battling Jim Johnson and others promoters on a JohnsonWiliard light.
of his own hue.
Jack Curley‘s cablegram, saying
mat he is on his way here to interview
the darkey. has failed to excite John-
son, who does not seem to care when
l‘urley arrives or whether he arrives
at all. He has been busy discussing
his stairs with the various local pro~
meters, who continue to remark that
:lohnson’s first boxing will be for
1 "Now,'let me say for myself as well
as every man of means on the island
that a bout between Jack Johnsonand
Jess Willard will not be tolerated for
a single moment.
"The race question is too delicate a
subject to ever allow a white man to,
battle with a negro. Our interests are‘
too valuable to allow the flames of
race feeling to be formed into a riot.
. MAX BLUMENTHAL A“'3'T'°Us- 1. battle ground for the pair I will
them. ll will leave for Cuba in a day or so
{and if I find that they propose topitch
- . 'rally all the werful interests at my
t-cts Pioneer Sporting Club and Piano command to 22m the proposition.
. , qh'mPion'h'P hm" , “We want boxing there. but never.
NE“ ‘ORK’ Feb. 27.—-Maxey 3111— will we tolerate mixed bouts, Two cot-f
2:23:22; who spends most 0' his time ored men can light it out to their
3 when A] Reich will ever be heart's content. so can the whites. but
heavyweight champion of ”1° worlo mixed—Well. even the President will
has taken over the much Ibis-managed
This is a picture“ of Jess Wi
bulltnt his training quarters, near Yslcta, Teas, for boxing in his 81mm“ 0t brain. “1031188! 0' “19
training for his fight with'Jack ohnson. As many as 2,000 per‘ eye and thoroughbred sameness Ire
sous have gone from‘Ei Peso to watch Willard box with his essential. it is a game for the M
thrcc sparring partners; Tom Joni-s, the manager, is seen just blooded lovers or athletic contests. ’01
outside the ring.
sucl_llttle public interest in a game
that provides as many thrills as tool-
ball. calls for more skill and practi-
ally as much endurance as price
Willard Ready for His Sparring Partners.
lard, the white hope, in the ring
fighting and which is almost as fast
and furious as hockey.
Weaklings cannot play basketball.
it is a game that calls for all there is
in the best conditioned athlete. it is
a game where nimbleasss of foot.
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jthey give it the go-by. Why is it?
fit l0 lflliil .
lilll Biflllt till
J. Franklin Baker. the Maryland
home run manufacturer. will again be
m Basketbali is a pretty game to
CHALMERB WITH GIANT; watch, especially when the game is
George Chalmers, once a star between two evenly matched teams.
pitcher with the Phlllies. has Sunni-And at times a tenth sums. But
at Marlin with chrsw. He 1;” been withsl it. is clean.
a free agent since the Pbillles re
Chalmers found mu in. arm I.“ use- tendancc at the games is always good.
less at the end of that season and be, But if two college teams staged I
Basketball is a great winter favor- _;
leased him “mitlonguy in 1913.100 in small college towns. The at- ..».
Pioneer Sporting Club in. Forty-fourth
s
:.treet.
Blumenthai said yesterday: ‘lt is
the best spot in town and should be as
successful as the Garden it the cards
are put on i have thought the whole
thing out and i will spend my own
money in giving the fans a run for
theirs. i expect to close the deal ii-
mtliy by tomorrow. i propose this as
my first card and if they don't pack
the place. then I'll say boxing is a
dead one. Here goes:
“Al Reich and Battling Leviusky,
Mike Gibbons and Al McCoy and Jack
ilrltton and Freddie Welsh."
frown on that.
“The Cuban negro doesn‘t want it.
sees .
guarding third In” I" the decided to remain idle for at least a game ill some lorclsn c“, °t ‘ mm.
Athletlcs.‘ lie will be the Mack eusv
iso why should we? He's a different;
sort of an individual from your negro'
of the South. Whites ‘and blacks.
fought side by side against Spain tori
their ideas of liberty. He‘s not die-l
franchised down there. He votes sud‘
he votes as often as he can, which is‘
not unlike a lot of voters i know. i
‘We want a wide open Havana, buti
we want it straight and clean. lwould
be one of the first to aid 3 propole
tion to build a Monte Carlo there..
That's us. Let the leisure class spendI
,their'money if they want to.
ithose who can't afford it.
todian oi' the “hot" corner as he has
been for the past six years.
‘ incidentally the American“ League
champions will not be without his
services very long. Baker may not put
in his appearance at the Jacksonville
training camp. He may not even
break into the opening American
League contest on April 14. with
the Boston Red Sox. but he will be
back before the pennant race has‘
grown more than two weeks old.
"You see, Baker has retired prsc-.
tically every spring before the star-ti
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of the Southern training trip," was!
year. [He was treated by s. 39“.;qu polltan nature it wouldn't draw oven
last summer and in August he was
able to pitbh to the Giant batters at
the Polo'dibundn. ' iii-“inn became
stronger with daily practice and in
the tell he seemed to have recovered,
both speed and curves. Chalmers said
yesterday that be was ready to show
‘a real ”come back" stunt!
FESTIVAL OF FUN“ TO
BE OBSERVED SUNDAY
Celebration Originating from Book of
Esther Marked by Deeds of
Charity.
at fifty cents a head.
in New York city and every other
town where boxing bouts are allowed
the "fans" will pay from $3 to 810
to watch a pslr of low brow pugs slam
~—or attempt to slam—each other for
30 minutes, but those same fellows
would not pay 60 cents to seescrowd
of college boys perform in a game
that gives as many thrills in live min-
utes as prize lighting does in sixty.
Of course in all the cities where
there are Y. Li. C. A's and similar
institutions. there are basketball
games between picked teams of those
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Runabout of unusual smsrtnoss and
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open car can be made in a minute
or two. so that the Coopelot is.
quickly adaptable to all conditions
of weather and driving. Ford ata-
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.local Distributor
ears BAKER WILL BE BROWN. 1 ‘We've got some wonderful clubs
fibers—greater than any you have in‘ Baker on the trips South, but-con.
St. Loue Lumberman Risks $400 on
, Home Ron's Transfer.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 27.—Frank Links.
wealthy lumberman and baseball fol-
.lowor, wagered 3400 even in a down-
town cafe yesterday afternoon that
Frank Baker will be playing with the
Browns by May 15. The bet is said to
be based on inside information receiv-
‘ed by a baseball man on a recent trip
to Trappe. Md.
Col. Hedges, of the Browns, has
. turned aside every direct question on
the Baker report, but never has denied
it. Every sport writer in St. Louis
continues to contend that the deal is
on. The report new is that'llaker will
return to the Mackmen and be part of
a big St. Louis-Philadelphia trade can
ly in the season.
KEEPS PLAYERS oer- HILLS.
Kelley Confinea Practice of New Yorke
to Indian“.
"HOT" SPRINGS. Ark» Feb. 21-100
Kelley kept the New York American
players all the mountains yesterday.
limiting the day's work to lflpld two
hours drill. at Malestic Park. Sweeney.
Nunamaker. War-hop. Keatina. Brown.
Cole and Caldwell have been hustling
hard for the New York coach. with
the result that they are rapidly sole.
tingin good trim. The hunting. and
batting "attics at the yard woolen
and the players got up the desired per-
spiration. At half put-3 o‘clock they
loaded into the Hotel new and
took their daily plunge into the not
water.
Ostdier Oscar Bunnie. the Detroit
catcher. toiled Pitcher Joan Dub"
here last night. He missed tub con-
nections at Benton. which maedhin
a layover of seven hours in that mirth-
iul Arkansas metropolis.
‘41an hasslithohmt
mammalian-anal.
New York. They've just completed
the Galliago Club there at a cost at
$5,000,000. They have- be greatest
dance floor in the world i that club.
4.800 couples being able to dance oni
it at one time. The Dependencies or i
Clerks Club of 24.000 members has a
dance floor that will accommodate 1.-
100 couples.
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.soiur: Mom: FEATURES AT mini-
? SAN'I‘ "015]! .AND IDCKWOOD'S
HAIIL.
5 war. the showing date or "Mistress
Nell“ only three tlnys away, the gen-
cratl public which has been closely
following the fine Caster Theatre fen-
tures is anxious‘ to know the plays
which are on the program to follow
the next appearance of Mary Pick-r
ford. 0! course there will be the big
~Mortday attraction. the four part Bio-
igraph “Judith of Bethune." which ‘00
i0“ will consider missing. because of
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the great success ”which it has been
{since its presentation by the Kiaw d:
Erlangor company, producers. Mary
Pickford will be looking for a royal
.Weicome on Tuesday when she pre~
sents “Mistress Nell" and there is no
question but what this little Bern-
hardt of the screen who is being i‘orc-
cd to make big strides by Marguerite
Clerk will be as popular as ever. For
the following attraction Hobart Boo-
worth and All-Star cast appear in
“Buckshot Johnz" then comes the
celebrated international star Csby
Doslys supported by Harry Pllcer in
"Her Triumph"; followed by John E.
Emerson in the famous sentimental
comedy. "the Bachelors Romance"
We have more room for comment
but after muss this stream we .
believe nothing more «is necessary.
The plays and players speak for them-
Inerves.
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an: Olympic Club basketball a... oi
Baa handset» won the m Ath-
letic Union basketball Win
iottbollnltedbtatoshltmhvdo-
testing Whittier College. of Southern
California, in the dual some of the
tournament by a score of 20 to 10.
tile has become tired; of
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Frank along. When fiBaker R lked
this year. Mack did not show‘liiiit the
wonderful amount of opening it had
world next" Sunday. The day is a
half holiday in the Jewish calendar.
services in the synagogues is lilo,
itod to the reading of the book of:
Esther on the story of which the cob.
membership of the organization. To
draw crowds even to those grass the
promoters usually have to. promise a
dance after the some as an additional
lure.
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' ' h reason‘that basketball
veers. for Connie gunmen. to all Probably t e
.. Norwalk lows will llttingly observe is not more popular is because so its
“ilzixyaxrd‘ugiifmgefitlfi in 'lhe' holiday. Rev. Suitessler will have,tle publicity is given to the stars 0!
men at . certain time“ but a: char” 0‘ the day’s services in the the game. Basketball as a game has
replied that be has quit as M d 10031313880001!» on south Main street. been given a. lot of publicity in years
done in former years '0, co 'se The festival commemorates the gone by. but little attention has been
Mack did not care to take this 1 ' victory of lliordecai overflamsn. the paid to the Individual stars o! the
final answer but be tired or coax! a grand “I!" of King ““96"“? when some. ' '
Frank along, m the [airmemmd “”‘the latter had given hlsfconsent to naseball' is popular because such
and simply announced what‘mB‘ ’g‘the wholesale destruction'ot Jews. men as Ty Cobb. Eddie Collins, T"!
.. mother. Kordecal’s ward.‘ who' had; Speaker. Larry Laloio and Joe Jack-
had told him. . .. . _. , ' .
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wanted to be coaxed again and n or
dreamed in“ MICK wbdld‘téll 9‘ W1 9‘0" Th3 flue, '” ‘9‘
public that Frank h execs m
quit the , game. Homes; M“ "d “3‘ “d no hi
Chances are bad Baker thought my “mm m . Mum h ‘ 0
would mnounce what he said, as
would have been mined might.
with the rest of the players-for the
South." -‘ .
threatened disaster and dllClOlOil‘. dull-e to gee the» men perform,
‘IThf individual prowess of Charles
punishments-ash“, Tacks new
'wiek. Harry tellers. Johnny ladl-
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tacit little historical importance to,
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