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Show And Franki Con ley gut his, too. Carl Morris, the only way to leara ' how to light is to- fight. 'Herd's hoping that the skyscrapers coma home in the tlrat division. Philadelphia faus are saying "but what 'a the um if Detroit won't lose?" The way Knockout Brown goes at it doesn't constitute fighting.. It's juai plain awault and battery. Likewise it appears aa if the "whitemanshope" eolony hat gives the rest of the world a vacation. Pitcher's battles have begun in earn eat, but after all the good old hit and run ia the more enjoyable game. Flynn Morris bout arranged, "all except ex-cept the referee question." Which means it isn't arranged at all. Jfft report edjtobe training inParia Tto hunt bears in Alaska. And Jeff's better seven-eighths ia along, toot j this acaKon. Even his brother. Harry, could not have done any better, Kd had everything working iu tip top or der and the annual feeder for the saucer track racing game wa. therefore, there-fore, one of the moat auccewt'ul ever attempted. The riders and promoters were favored with weather and a coiirae that was never better, nor could it have been more ideai. The old record rec-ord was went why high by eleven of the riders, a fact which should giva thoie who did not see it something oa which to judge the keen competition: and the speed developed by the riders. When it ia takea into consideration that such crack amateurs as "Red" H rod beck, Fred McCarthy, J. V. Hern-Strom, Hern-Strom, Harvey Wilcox and many othera have taken several whirls at the old record and failed to lower it, the won 4 derful ride of tleorge Cos, winner of the time prize, will seem all the more remarkable, fox rode the distance in 41:31, n against the old record of 43:59, eetablinhed by Oeorge Tate in K; B. Hogan, winner tD and Tiding from "tbe"ftiie,mlinite mark . really made one of the best rides of the dav. Hocan. only a voiiugster. Pome of the arrihra in the virion leairues who are already busy picking pennant winnera had better wait until the miilxeaaon balloon, go up. It ia plainly evident that the cork renter ball ia' a whole lot more lively than aome of the yitcbera who are ban dling it. No namea mentioned. "Knockout" Brown got hut 4rt for rocking Tommy Murphy to aleep in forty aeconda the other nipht. IVrhape Brown will take hia time in the future. fu-ture. ' Matt Wells brought with him to America the five thousand pun' Lord Ionsdale gold belt and hia mother. Probably be will return to dear old Lunnon with both. hailing from Bountiful, aimplv tore away from thoae with him and ahead of him, and when once in front, set himself into a steady grind and held it throughout, winning handily. The observation train happened to move so that Hogan was in full view of the passengera during a greater portion of the trip, so that the writer had an ex- cellent opportunity to see the youngster young-ster perform. Hardy Downing, one of the wisest old heads in the bike game, happened to be on the train, and hasn't stopped talking about Hogan 'a grand ride and nerve yet. There wan but one objectionable feature to the entire race! and that was the usual presence of ivory-headed automobilo and motorcycle drivers, who insisted on throwing great . volumes of dust into tha lungs of the plugging riders. e Two ways suggest themselves for retaining1 re-taining1 the dinner hour at its old accustomed time. Either the halls may be made less active or the games may be started at high noon. Tt appears Oklahoma ia quite satis-field satis-field that the pugilistic championship of that state is enough of an honor to en able the hol.ler to tell the reat of the world to go somewhere else. Home fight promoters show less sense than a rabbit. Despite the fact that the game is in such a ahaky condition, bouts were held in several cities last Hun. lav and on Memorial day. The lack of diplomacy in aome people-particularly people-particularly such people is lamentable. The most atunine people on earth are damphoot fight promoters. National Cycling Champion Frank Kramer has a namesake among the newcomers new-comers in the local bicycle game, and while the youngster ia not expected to wrest the easterner's title from him this week or next, he looks mirhtv good, and as soon aa he gets over his "broncho "bron-cho busting" tactics, he should be one of the kingpins among the simon puree here thia summer. Matt Wells, the recent arrival from Knglanil. haa all the American press agents cheated. Instead of digging up any of that old "stuff" about stopping runaway horses and saving a woman 'a life or' saving a child from drowning, Matt springs one about being held up by three highwaymen and, of course. Matt wallops each of them and nips the game in the bnd. 8hades of Anrelio Herrera. The Mexican need to pull one like that on an average of once a month, or rather Biddy Bishop or Joe Wood did it for him. Listen to what Joe Norton has to tell tn about our old friend Floyd MaeFar land: Floyd MacFarland has announced an-nounced that he ia shout to take the most important step of hi career. Just when the ceremony ia to be performed is not known, but tbe prospective groom is getting ready for the function. MacFarland left last night at 9 o'clock for Buffalo. N. Y., the home of his 6ancee. whose name ia Misa Eleanot Omphaluis. He will dose the contract, seal the bargain and set the date in a very short space of time, for he is due back here tomorrow to ride. MacFarland MacFar-land had threatened to take the step for years, but he has onlv aroused sufficient nerve latelv. The girl haa been a good waiter and she. should make a good teammate. The old gentleman is very much tickled over hi love affair. 1 believe that this ia the seventeenth time that Mac's intended marriage haa been predicted, but if tru "the old mn" may rest assured that there ia many a well wish for him and hi future welfare wel-fare in thia old burg Ad Wolgast, conceited, but none the less as great a little light weight as has ever held the title, has again demonstrated dem-onstrated bis right to be called champion cham-pion bv making Frankie Burna, reputed re-puted leader of hia elan on the roast. quit in the seventeenth round of their scheduled twenty-round battle at 'Frisco Saturday afternoon. Burna put up a (treat fight, but it waa more in the nature of a defensive battle than anything elfe. It waa obvious from the start of the content that he was mttclaaaed. and although he fought as good a ftght aa ha knew how, he eould not hold off the mere i less fighting machine ma-chine who opposed him. Ad fought his .usual style battle. Jle waa the aggres-'aor aggres-'aor from the start, and plaved for the 'hodV most of the time. It waa the blows placed In that section nf Burns' makeup that slowed up the coast light weight and finally, under a rain of blows in the fifteenth and sixteenth, caused him to throw np tha sponge. Wolgaat to data has ant been a very nopular champion. The reason for this fact, however, ia not very difficult to fathom. Wolgaat ia about' as conceited a boxer as one would want to meet, and thia fact, coupled with hia lonjr retirement retire-ment when, although really injured, he failed to respond under the crossfire of moat every critic in the country, caused tbe general opinion of tha fans to swing against tha Cadillac boy. The champ is, however, alowly regaining, and, in fact, haa regained, all Jiia former for-mer prestige, and if ha beats that muehlv touted and lastly feared British contender. Owen Mo ran. ia the inter national scrap for the title oa July 4. ha will be' one of the moat popular boys tha light weight division haa had. Ed H eagre a deserves a whole lot of credit for the manner ia which he conducted tfc. Deeoratioa dajr road race |