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Show If RESTORE BOXII GIE ON THE COAST Jan Francisco Business Men Favor Plan; Talk of Finish Between Welsh and White. By T. S. ANDREWS. fecial to The Tribune. , MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 16. The : wing fans and their friends in C'ah-i C'ah-i -oruia intend to make another effort to ! .rinp about legalized boxing on the pacific coast. Since the- law for twen-n-round contests was repealed two rears ago there has been a howl from acv quarters for real boxing, j It is evident that the law would never i ve been repealed had it not been ; for the wrangling among some of the ' h -romoters out there, i 1 Quite a number of the business men 1 -: San Francisco have taken the mat-1 mat-1 :er in hand and they are going about :t in a busineyslike' manner. They irsDt to establish boxing on a comnus- ;ion basis, as in Wisconsin and New : York, and they intend to bring it up 1 !t the next session of the legislature. Tbcv are not overanxious for twentv-i twentv-i round battles, Hut will endeavor to put i trough a bill calling for either ten or v -nelve round contests, as in tho east. ytme of the coast people interested in he movement have been writing to laker H. Liginger, chairman of the '' Xisconsjn commission, for information r -yarding the working of the measure ifBadgerdom. They have been given ill the information 'desired and no 1 :oubt they are gathering the same kind i data from the various states where oring is legalized. i The Pacific coast boasted for a long ime of being the real home of boxing, ' :ut it seems to have shifted to the ". :ist. If the game on the coast is :!aoed in proper hands there -is no rciubt that limited-round contests will e permitted. The people there are ::heral-minded and do not want to . prevent pre-vent a sport that is enjoyed by thou--suds. It was the way in which it was r candled that caused so much dissatisfac-' dissatisfac-' ion out there. Under the commission " rule there will be no chance for a lot 1 if petty squabbles, and it is likely that 'he eame on the coast will be benefited in tee end, even though it has been ' barred for the last two years. Milburn Saylor Recovers. Ray Bronson, at one time welter- weight champion, but who has been nloting Milburn Saylor, the Hoosier !! lightweight, the past few years, is of n 'iie opinion that his contender for i Fwldie Welsh's title has recovered en-!! en-!! :rely from the. severe attack of pueu-, pueu-, -cnia he suffered last spring. At that : ne Saylor was coming along with i . '.lid strides and had been beating all ''"".;( lightweights in sight. He has al-" al-" mys contended that he defeated Fred-lie Fred-lie Welsh decisively at Winnipeg, " rhen the decision was given against 'j.m on an alleged foul, but, of course, : matters little, for the referee's (legion (le-gion was taken officially. Saylor was taken ill and was said to be inpoor 'ocdition when he met Charlie White 'nd suffered a knockout at his hands. ?Ms was followed by a severe case of i. neumonia, but he has recovered en-v- ":rol- and during the summer season ''. it in most of his time roughing it in country. Bronson is sure that he i,. ; back iD proper form and he gave him ill trvout last week in which Saylor 'opped a young fellow in two rounds - i Ohio. Now die is going to 6tart all '.er in a chase for the lightweight title, though he is getting along near the " writy-eight-year mark. It is the in-fa in-fa 'ntio'n or Bronson to give him a few "ore trial bouts and if he shows proper 'irm to then seek a match over the r.j route for the title. Bronson is also handling Jaek Mc-arrcra, Mc-arrcra, the Philadelphia middleweight, ho has boxed practically every high-ass high-ass middleweight in the country, lie never succeeded in getting into the I money, but he has fought the best ; the land and has always made an "client showing. Under the new anagement it is possible that be may ike on renewed energy and climb into lp bandwagon. Bronson is thinking 'nousiy of taking both boys over to iistralia for another tour" of that '"intry after the first of the year. Kay ' made two trips to the Antipodes :1 understands conditions there thor-?lly. thor-?lly. "arcy Beats Clabby. hile Les Darcy, the Australian ;;mpion, defeated Jimmv Clabby of ;Jmmond, Ind., for the third time at "dney last week, still he was not able 1 put the clever American away for 'e count. Heports reached here some 'ie ago that Clabby was not in the ' of shape and that a postponement icht be necessary, but he went through "'k the battlo at the Sydney stadium, "ducted bv Snowy Balder, and put up eood contest, fiespite his defeat. 'bby was the lighter of the two by veral pounds, but ho could not mix dh the husky Australian and had to "tent himself with fighting more of defensive battle. ('Tabby probably a better claim to the American iddleweight title for a time than any ;'er man, but he has gone back of and appears to be out of it as far any title is concerned now. Jimmy i j? had thirty-one bnttles over the uinr-( uinr-( '"n routesomething few of the filters of todav can show and of ,!e nineteen went the full limit, tho .'hers being won by him on knockouts. '- has met tho greatest middlewcights the world and many of tho light 'avyweights and he nover failed to lie the running. As a rule, he had to vfi away considerable poundage, as ho -"ally scaled around the 152 to 15-t '"rid mark, when he was in shape. Had been niore careful about his eondi-and eondi-and health he might have accom-herl accom-herl still greater feats in the ring. I I I? was about the nearest approach to v'l McCoy of any of the boxers of the is' decade. For Flyweight Title. , limmv Pnppas, the little Greek fly-f,Kht fly-f,Kht of Atlanta, Ga., has decided to 5ke a trip to England for the pur-of pur-of meeting Jimmv Wihle, tho won-'fully won-'fully clever English lad and world's; i 'T'fon flvweight. Pappas has made ''angcments to sail for London the n if this month, and he is going ex-3 ex-3 to meet Wildo in a title match, . f H AMP ATS WILL BE HEME THIS WEEK j . , 1 I I w ; 1 - .n-; - "A .Ik . . . - -aa, R - 4 . &- ;rA a - a i lpf -,,'A I AtrAA.: a,i -j:a . ,.a -' Ul CALLAMAN 6 -C- o. ABTRivj the weight to be 112 pounds at 3 o'clock. , Pappas has shared the honor of flyweight fly-weight champion of America with Zulu Kid of Brooklyn, N. Y., for they never met in a championship match, and it is a question which is really entitled to the honor. However, Pappas seems to have beaten Zulu Kid to the pole by making the trip to England and tackling tack-ling the boy who is admitted to be the world 's champion. Pappas will have to show wonderful form to beat Wilde, for the latter certainly cer-tainly has proved himself a marvel in the iing the past two years. Tho little lit-tle fellow can scale 102 pounds, but he has been meeting bovs up to 124 and even 128 pounds. The match between Wildo and Pappas -(yfll be watched with interest by the fns on. this side of the water. Opponents for Jess. The time is coming now when Jess Willard will be getting active for the fall season. Tho big fellow has been so busv with his circus perfoimance the past summer that he nas hail no time even to break into print regarding regard-ing his title in the boxing game. He has plenty of challengers and the chances are that when ho quits the circus in October or November he will bo ready tn talk business. Charlie Weinert, the eastern heavyweight, heavy-weight, has been a very consistent challenger siuce he placed himself under un-der tho wing of Harry Pollok. Jack TilIon and Battling Levinskv have also been chasing after a malch with the bie fellow, but, in my opinion, neither one of them is large enough to battle with Willard. Fred Fulton, the Minnesota Min-nesota giant, is really the Witmiate ehnllenger for the title, although it would not hurt him to mix up in a couple of matches first with men Iiko lim C'offev and Frank Mor.-in. 1 niton, after a summer's layolT, met and de- ifo'itcd Porkv Flynn at St. Paul the other night 'in a ten-round bout It Fulton takes care ot himselt and attends at-tends strictly to business he has a splendid splen-did chance'"!' becoming heavyweight champion. Fight to Finish. Vs an aftermath of the Welsh-White fich't lit Colorado Springs for the light-!-ei"ht title, there is talk now of a for-tv-round contest or finish, fight between be-tween the two. The stipulation. ,n case I of a finish, bv Harry Pollok. manager 'of Welsh- is that the champion must 1 Aeive 'AiK0 for his end. He says tint if Welsh gets that amount lie will r; ',l,t White to a finish m private or any place they may suggest. It is nut an easy matter for anyone to' get a purse of that kind, especially for a private pri-vate match, and it is doubtful whether a finish light can be arranged in this country, or even in Cuba. It might possibly be pulled off somewhere in Mexico" with a limited attendance. However, the great stumbling block would be the raising of the necessary coin. It sounds well to have a linibh battle for tho title, but it seems that it would be more proper right now lor Champion Welsh to take ou other contenders con-tenders in the lightweight division, as he said he would, namelv, Johnny Dundee, Dun-dee, Richie Mitchell, Benny Leonard and Ever Hammer. These boys have all expressed a wdllingness to meet Welsh over the marathon route, ami Duudoe, Mitchell and Leonard are certainly cer-tainly entitled to a chance. Hammer also has backing for a big match. Mitchell has had a forfeit up for some time for a twenty-round battle with Welsh and has guaranteed to give him a side hot of $0011. Tho fans would like to have a little more action in the ring and less talk in the newspapers. There has been talk of matching Johnny Kilbane. the featherweight champion, with Weish for the tight-weight tight-weight title, but it seems that it would be more fair to give tho real lightweights light-weights a chnnce first, or let Kilbane fight some of the lightweight contenders conten-ders and prove that he belongs in the lightweight class .before tackling Welsh tor a championship match. No one disputes the fact that -luhnny Kilbane is the greatest featherweight in the world todav and one of the best ever produced, but, just the same, Richie Mitchell defeated Kilbane in a ten-round ten-round bout in Milwaukee and on tiint score alone would have the edge on him for a match with Welsh. Murray Is Through. Billy Murray, who was known on the Pacific coa-d as ' ' Figetine Billv,'' has no doubt seen his best davs as a fighter. After Billy made iiis trip east -with Jack Kearns two vears ago ?.nd battled around the middle west for a time, he went to Australia and fought a number of battles there, being defeated defeat-ed by Eddie McCoy and also bv Les Darey. After his return home, he had trouble with h s cyps niii for time it was reported th.it ho miirht Iom n ?'Zht. Ho rceovertM trifii to uc hack into tin ri n t; panic a era in. He ma le on- start and won. avav from l'risoo. but ln?r week ho triei ro romp Imck acainst Bob McAllister, tho co.i-st miiMlevyoiqht champion, nnrl lo-t ont. McAllister on in four rounds, that hcintr tho limit, hut it was enough to demonstrate tliiit .Billy waa a-bout Baseball of the Bygone Days Related by Jainca Wood, Captain and Manager of the Famous Chicago White . Stockings of 1870-71, to Frank G. Menke. IV. SOMEWHERE along about. Christmas Christ-mas in lSu'9 I noticed an advertisement advertise-ment in a New York paper which road something as follows: "Ball players wanted to form a team to represent Chicago and to defeat the Cincinnati Eed Stockings. " During the period of the late J60's and early '70 's there was keen rivalry through as a star middleweight. Another An-other coast fighter who made a comeback come-back at the same time was Willie Mee-han, Mee-han, who at one time was touted as the coming heavyweight cluunnion. Willie Wil-lie fought his old rival, Charlie Miller, and won easily. Nnvv the coast promoters pro-moters are goiijg to bring still another middleweight into the come-back elass Sailor I'etroskey who is to meet McAllister Mc-Allister in one ot the four-round bouts next Monday. The four-round L'ame is surely a life-saver for some of the boys since the marathon battles were stopped on the coast. Bob Moha Defiant. Now that Bob Moha, the Milwaukee eave-mau. has made good in New York, his manager, Patsy Callahan, is having a hard time trying to get sonic of the alleL'''d 5-:ars into the rintr with rugged Kobert. Thev have ail. been vtrv 'busv with prior engaizemenir . They have- mj chnr.iu to firing up the old gag abut weight, etc., as Bob can ir.ake a lower poundage than mo-t any of them. One otVthc Milwaukee clubs offered Mike Gibbons a match with Bob, but as vet Michael has not come to the scratch. Ano! her match Bobby would like is with Jack Billon, as he does not forget the time when Jack handed him a whippin g in M il w; wkeo mid he : hi nks 'ne is in a position now to hand it back to : he IToosier champion, I i;!d A. Square Garden. New York, v.o:;id op well filled should Moha and ili'lon clash there, for the New Yorkers like -Bi'-k and they have now taken a fam-v to the cave-man. It would be a hard battle, too, but it would be much better bet-ter over the marathon route. between. Chicago and Cincinnati in a commercial way. Chicago wasn't such a wonderfully large city then and it was doing everything possible to boom the town. And it was jealous of Cincinnati Cin-cinnati because of the great publicity Cincinnati had gained through the medium me-dium of its 1S60 hall team, which had won fifty -six of its fifty -seven games, the other resulting in a 17 to 17 tie with the Bnion team of Lansingburg. And so Chicago decided that, it must have a team to beat the Reds. Baseball Base-ball wasn 't played to any great extent in the Illinois metropolis prior to that time All the crack players were in the east. That is why the advertisement advertise-ment appeared in New York. I answered the ad and in due time got a reply. It happened that I was among the first to write. The Chicago people told me they, under advice from llarry Wright, desired me to organize a club to beat the Bed Stockings in 1S70. So I started to recruit my team. 1 figured the task would be easy, yet 1 found it t lie most dillicu It one of my life, (inly a few of the many basebail stars that I approached cared to join a team that had as its ultimate purpose the beating of the Reds in a three-game series. ,lJt can't be done,'' most of the players play-ers ansvered me. "Those Beds are unbeatable and we aren't going to waste all of next spring and summer practicing prac-ticing for it.' Biiia lly, p. f "or much persuasion, .-igneil up a number of nu n who were leal players, but only after i had ad-v;i ad-v;i need thr m money out of u:y own pocke.t. The C hiago people hadn 't sent me any funds'. Ju-t as soon as some of those players had squandered their firrt advance money in drinking or gambling they came for more, threatening threat-ening to jump their contracts if we didn't ''coue t hroutih. ? ' Finally, when my advances totalled beyond ?Igu;i and the piayers k'U't demanding mo.-;. J n".kr-d :i,y father to go to Cnb-r:::o and a -''e I" t:i : n t iie jinn ncial responsibility of the Ch.iengoaiis. Bathe- wired haA:: '"Go the limit: chi'agonn will make gon i all your ad a rices. ' ' When 1 got the menage I hurried to Troy, N. Y., with Tom Foley, the representative of tho Chicagoans, to get Fisher and Craver, who had played in 1869 wdth the Troy Havmakers. Both were terrific hitters and t needed them, but I knew they would come high, as salaries went in those days. However, we signed up both men, contracting Fisher for $800 and Craver for $2000. Then my team eleven men was complete. com-plete. Early in the spring of 1S70 wo arranged ar-ranged the details of our training trip to New Orleans. It was the second southern trip ever undertaken bv a ball club. Foley, who was a champion bil-liardist bil-liardist and one of the Chicago backers; and is still living in Chicago, accompanied accom-panied us south. During our first week in the Louisiana town we practiced among ourselves. Then we commenced to take on the teams in New Orleans. I began by scheduling the weakest first working up gradually to the hardest. We defeated the weaker teams in New Orleans and then we beat the strongest. In eacli succeeding game my club appeared stronger both in batting and in fielding. field-ing. Toward the end of our season in New- Orleans we played an all-star New Orleans nine and wo'n with rase. Then J marie tho proposition thai our regular nine should play a double team ot New Orleans men, givin g them eighteen players in the field. The game itself was rather amusing because the New Orleans captain had so many pv-ers pv-ers under his command and didn't know where to play them all. However, he put one man b-diind )he plafe to assist as-sist the catcher, four cMias in the outfield, out-field, giving him seven altogether, and the rest were sprinkled around the infield, in-field, making a total of eight in fielders. field-ers. ' Pi'tcd against snh a collection we won almost as caAly as we had in play, ing nine men. In our final game in New Orleans I allowed the rival team six ruts per inning to our three and once again we won. We worked our way ncth gradually, as the teams do today, playing all the crack southern teams en route and winning win-ning al (if our games by overwhelming scores. Wo b--at the 'Memphis team, champions of Tennessee. 157 to , and F o 1 ey w as v e ry angry b e c a u s-e we had permitted the foutherners to score their lone tally. Welcome in Chicago. At )a-t wo reached Chicago 3nf we got a v.-ild ovation. The town had gone 'rr.zv over ba-ball. Our wonderful showing in Now Orleans and our clean sweep through the south had caused the Chicagoans to feci that our chief j nw fn defeat the lied Stockings was a certainty. Our first real game in the north was against the crack Kockford, Til., team, the club on which Adria n Anson and (Continuea on Following Pasej mi poll , OF BYGONE DAYS (Continued From Preceding Page.) A. G. Spalding got thoir start. The Kockford people backed their team heavily in the betting that preceded that game but we swamped them. We scored fourteen runs in the first inning and after the fifth were so far ahead that I gave my boys orders to take it easy, and by that additional victory set Chicago further aflame with baseball enthusiasm. Then we started east to play out the schedule, which was so arranged that the Cincinnati series did not come until the end of the season. Our success continued. con-tinued. My boys were wonderful batters bat-ters and every additional contest they engaged in seemed to increase their hitting power. In those days ability to hit was the main asset of a player. In his batting power lay his baseball value. Not much attention was paid to perfecting a team in fielding. It was figured that fielding would come naturally, but that batting must be developed. During the latter part of May two of my players took sick while we were on tour and I had to send them home. Shortly afterward two others joined the hospital squad. I filled in with amateurs ama-teurs sent to me from Chicago, but 1 found quickly that they wouldn't do. So, along about June 4f when I found that my ailing quartette was not convalescing con-valescing very rapid hr, I canceled all our remaining June and July games and stayed in Chicago. Late in July, when all the players were back in shape, we resumed team playing practice. All during tho time the four boys were sick I kept the others oth-ers at batting practice for two hours a day and the expertness in the hitting line continued to increase. About August Au-gust 4 we resumed our schedule and played out the season, winning all of our games from the resumption in August Au-gust until the end. And then came the grand climax of the year the task for which we had been preparing ourselves; the battle with trie Cincinnati Red Stockings. As challengers we were compelled to play the first game of the series a best two out of three affair on the home diamond of the Reds; on the same field where they never had tasted defeat. Only once during tho two years, 186$ and' 1870, had the Reds been'beaten and that was suffered on foreign territory, the Atlantics of Brooklyn turning the trick in. ten innings, 8 to 7. It being necessary for the first game to be played in Cincinnati and the second sec-ond in Chicago, the place for the third, if a third was necessary, was to be determined de-termined by a flip of a coin, c When we went to Cincinnati for that first game even our most loyal root era were pessimistic. It was not that they lacked confidence in our abilitv, hut because they feared we would be "jobbed" by some Cincinnati umpire, or menaced so .by the rowdy crowds that we wouldn't play our real game because be-cause of fear of violence if wo should' win. But we did win, and the story of that game, together with the second in Chi- cago, which was witnessed by a crowd beyond oO.OOO, shall form the next chapter in this recital. |