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Show II Wolgast Taking Chances ' I ' ; On Losing Champion ship. . i Manager Is Arranging Enough Fights to Keep Ad Busy 1 Until New Year's. I Bg W W. Naughton ';' ' :.;' 1 x-'-kK-FBtoOISCO, Oct. 32. Tn the j (L waiter of drumming up fiphtinj; 1 i! dates for Lightweight Champion 1 "" Aa Wolgast, Manager Tom Joues is running amuck. And it stands to ; reason ha is doing so with the full I knowledge and consent; of his fighter. It mav be that Jones will keop faith with Jim Ooffroth in the matter of. bringing TFolgast to San Francisco for a Thanksgiving day contest tho writer "believes he will but there is no shutting shut-ting one's eve to the fact that Jones is angling for bids from every promoter jn the country. If a man is to bo judged by his acts, Jones would have Wolgast boxing every week between now aud. Thanksgiving and ever' week between Thanksgiving day and ftew Year 's. , At anv rate, he soems disposed to Bign for "any place where Hhe inducements induce-ments are satisfactory." andf this without civlng a thonght to the possibilities pos-sibilities of defeat or accident that attach at-tach to anv single engagement. Whv this recklessness? What does it all mean.7 Ts it, as some suggestt that Wolgast Wol-gast feels the appendicitis operation has done for him as a champion and tBafc he intends to bunch hi? fight and go on Taking in purses until detent rails a halt? &9t is it, us other-; suggest, the ol- faith in his own invincibility ..mounts to a craze that he believes he could defend-his title k successfully every day in the yenr if given an on-noTf-nnitv? I In either case, Wolgast-'s methods are not those of a level-headed champion nor Joues 'b tactics those of an astuto manager, and it requires very simple linos of reasoning to show why. Takes Big Bisk. A world's championship is the greatest great-est asset any man who follows fisticuffs fisti-cuffs for a living can posses. What jb jnore, there is no gainsaying that accident acci-dent or luck frequently centers largely large-ly into the attainment of a championship champion-ship degree, . Tbia is provpu by the surprises that changes'-of championship have caused from time to time. The bout which brings about the dethronement of a Tiing of the ringr often shows that the one who is deposed has retrograded wopfullv and would have been, .an C8sy mark for any one of a half dozen huskies that could be named. But that's neither bere nor there. The winner was the one lucky enough to secure the match and tho winner has become champion. And if be follows fol-lows in the ways of champions who have Cone before he will nurse hit; title. He "knows what it means in the way of commanding theatrical dates and big Threes for fights to come. He knows that evorv man of his weight in toe same is after his scalp and he will not risk the prestige he has gamed unnecessarily. unnec-essarily. Ho knows that engagements whether of the ring or the. stage-are stage-are his whenever he gets ready to accent ac-cent them, and that there is no need io burrv in anv direction. He can tur-. nisb plausible 'excuses, such as needing a rest and the like when pestered jron challenges, and above all he likes the distinction which attaches to wearing the laurels. ' Unless he is a freak he will use every artillce calculated to keep him atop of the hcap'-t'6r a long j time. Prior to last November, when Wolgast Wol-gast was seized with appendicitis at Los Angeles, he was the .same as any other champion. I To laid off :. whole yenr once uecniiie ho injured- his arm in a fight. Thou, if he told the truth, he inoroly accepted fcbort bout engagements engage-ments for "the purpose of finding if his newly mended wing vouhl stand the brunt of longer ia;:tches. Whou isHsncd with this puint bo took up his Oamp! jiihip iluti.j ar;ain. Ho fought .1. intervals, but showod no undue haf.tc in making matches, lie kept Freddie Welsh at arm's longth for quite a while, but finally agreod to meet him in the VeTnon ring". It was on tho eve of the affair in question that Wolgast Wol-gast wb taken down with appendicitis. appendi-citis. Here is something, by the way, which indicates tbftt it is "over-confidenco that ails Wolgast rather than a deBiro to make a quick clean-up before his strength- wanes entirely. His friends wore wondering if he had recovered sufficiently to give hiB usual account of himself against Hivers and the little champion, through. hiH manager, was bargaining for. other matches while the .Rivers affair wan still unf ought. He wanted a date in San Brancisco for late in July and another for August, and yet another for Soptember. Ho would have got them ."too, if ho had. come through the Bivois match in shape to fill them. Mandot May Surprise. The Bivers affair laid Ad on the shelf for a while. He admitted he was in a bfld iray and announced that all dates were cancelled and that he was going to his Cadillac farm to build up. The farm -must have done wonders for him if the way Jones is scouring tho. -country for rinfc engagements at present is to be taken as an indica-ti6n. indica-ti6n. Unless the programme is changed one of Wolgast's battles will be with Joo Mandot at Now Orleans. To the average aver-age sporting man it seems as if Wolgast Wol-gast should refrain from signiug any-other any-other set of articles until tho 2sTow Orleans, Or-leans, matter is disposed of. Joe Bivers Biv-ers sent Wolgast to the farm for a few months, and then Jdandot came along and defeated Bivers signally. What assurance is there that Wolgast Wol-gast will not require another lay-off after af-ter tho Tow Orleans 20I Two Poses of Giants' ,-: . Great Young T wirier AL DEMABEE. Tho remarkable work, of Dcraaroe in his manor league debut is but an additional ad-ditional chapter-toxa series of wonderful wonder-ful pitching successes which that pliiy-er pliiy-er has had this year. Jt is doubtful if any record has ever been made in organized baseball such as Demarco has made this "ar. Pitchy for the light-hitting Mobile team of thr Southern league, Demarcc won twenty-five games and lost ten. In none of the defeats was ho hit bard, and ju onlv four games wore tho opponents op-ponents able io get more than three Tuns. Three of these four games he Inst and all his other defeats wore registered reg-istered when he held his opponents to three runs or loss. In lhirtv-fivo Boxer Who Will Soon Meet Geo. Carpentier BILLY PATKE, . l Bjj jgaJd Weaver" was not nuftornL ?roin c-on- tital 9B cusoion of U10 brain or a fractured skull. t, i it-' as waa flvut believed. I games he pitched eleven bhu touts, seven games in which ho allowed tho opponents oppon-ents only ono run, seven games in which they got only two Tuns, and five games which netted tho opposing team three runs. Once he allowed four runs, twice he was reached for five runs, and ouco for seven. Ho was not batted out of the box during the on-Hro on-Hro season, and finished every game he started with the exception of ono, whpn he was taken out in tho seventh inning to allow another batsman to hit for him. In tho fchirtj'-fivo games that De-maree De-maree pitched for the Mobile team to which he belonged ho avoragod about three and a half, runs per game, yet ho won twenty-fivo of these gamoB. Only fifty-eight runs were scored oiF his doliverv in 317 innings that ho pitohed. Hi6 opponents averaged less than two runs per game. Tn 317 innings he made only two wild pitches, and in 106 fiold-ing fiold-ing chances ho made only two errors. Demarec pitched seven extra-inning games during tho season and won all of them. Jn ouc game he hold Montgomery Montgom-ery to one ruu jn eighteen, innings and shuf, out Chatanooea on another occasion occa-sion foi fifteen minutes. In the eigh-tccn-iuning game against Montgomery Demarec fanned twenty batsmen. Demaree started, the Southern league soason with four successive shutouts and was not scored upon during the first forty-four inuingB that ho pitched. He worked for' eight innings of a thir-teou-irining scoreless tie against tho Giants during the spring trip, and al-lowod al-lowod three hits. He averaged seven strike-oulB and about one and onehalf bases on balls per 2amo during tho season. sea-son. Iu five camos he did not give a pass and in. fifteen others ho gave one pass per game, somo of theso contests going into extra innings. Twico in thivty-fivo games ho gave four pasaos, his limit, and all the others wore bolow that figure, |