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Show How man; did yen tatckt Looki if th sky stripers are right where they belong. It it interesting in the extreme to lit by and litten to trt one sirl and then the other in this X.-C. A.-K. A.' M. sanction controversy. Ernie Pve nd Ivor Rednan don't like these weeping skies. Each has wMtponed almost a minr meets ' as have been run up to date, and they arent in a good natured mood at all. Demetral. the Greek wrestler, managed man-aged to throw two smaller men in nine tr minutes, but it took him so long at that that we were convinced that Qotrh 'a rrown will never be threatened by this foreigner. No wonder that the Halt Lake flint fans will not journey to aa Ogden fight. The small crowd of local followers returned re-turned shortlv before 3 o'clock from the Webster-Reagan bout. The train waa ran on tiTe this time, thanks to Harry rushing, but Jimmy Reagan argued ar-gued the fan out of about three hours of sleep this time. The eat is nut. Out of the forty or more unfortunates who had their pockets pock-ets picked in a recent match between Jimmv dabby and Knockout Brown at Hammond, Ind., was "Cvclone Johnny" John-ny" Thompson. . Tbey grabbed John ale's wallet and came near getting his vest also while the Sycamore farmer waa "getting his ayes full." Joe Clark, the local middle weight boxer, is laid up with an attack of rheumatism at Elv. Nev. Joe bad better bet-ter remain iu dear old Zion, On hi previous trip away from home he fell a, victim to an attack of pneumonia at Butte. Joe has been training Jack Carpenter, who recently knocked out Sailor Gordon at East Ely. Since then. Carpenter also knocked out Curley Roue, for many years a prim favorite in the Elv mining district. A ye ng man by the name of Johnson John-son waa the author of a noteworthy accomplishment ac-complishment last Monday ia a baseball base-ball game ia the Wisconsin-Illinois State league. He not onlv pitched a "no hit ' game against Vojid du Lac on that day. but permitted but twenty seven batters to face him. out of which only one aingle player reached first base. Thia feat is not merely note -worthy, but it ia indeed wonderful. Those who follow baseball closely will immediately recognise to the full wha't this young pitcher did. But the superficial super-ficial baseball enthusiast will hardly be able to get it. In the ordinary game of ball from thirty-five to forty time at bat are frequently reported, which means of course that a good many more men have faeed the pitcher because of the rule that times at bat are not charged for several reasons, but in theJ game in question it is a positive fact that but twentv-seven men faced the pitcher during the entire contest, and while he only strnck out five men he kept the opposing team without mak-iag mak-iag hit, and except for an error would not have permitted any one of his opponents op-ponents to reach first base. When one stops to consider what a pitcher must do in the course of one ball game, this performs ace is surelv remarkable, and the voting msn should have due credit for pulling off one of the unique atuats in baseball, The decisive defeat of Jim Sullivan, middle weight ehampion of England, by Billy Papke, the American, before Hugh Mcintosh 'a elub in London, brings the Illinois thunderbolt nearer the goal at which he has been striving that of world's ehampion middle weight. Sullivan held a clear title to the championship of Great Britain, having won it from Tom Thomas about seven months ago. Therefore, .Papke) is now the acknowledged champion of fjrmfii ritain. Th hitckin the world , title comes through the differences in weight, the American middle weight limit being 158 pounds, while the British weight is 10 pounds at 2 o'clock If Papke can make 158 pounds ringside, or even at 8 o'eoek, there will be no one here who will dja-pute dja-pute his right to the title, for since the death of Stanley Ketchel the critics crit-ics have nearly all recognized the Illinois bov as the next best to Ketchel. Ket-chel. They paid no attention to Sam Langford's claim to the championship for the reason that they knew Sara could not make the weight. There il another stumbling block for Papke now. Cvclone Johnny Thompson, who waa in "Australia at the same time Papke was there, holds a victory over the Yankee in a twentv-round battle at Sydnev, having made the weight of 158 pounds ringside easily. Papke was overweight at that time, but that was no fault of Thompson's. The only way for Papke to get a clear title now if to meet Thompsoa in a twenty-round contest at the American weight limit of 158 pounds, and if he can defeat the Sycamore boy then his claim is not to be disputed. Papke, in his fight with 8ullivan. showed his old time speed and strength and must have been in good shape, for he roughed it with the Briton from start to finish. His victorv was due to constant rushing and infighting, for when they were at long range Sullivan had all the better of it. According to the cable reports, Sullivan had the best of the first few rounds, using his left to good advantage advan-tage and punishing Papke severely with it. However, when thev got to close quarters Papke jolted the Briton . so hard the blowa began to alow up the ehampion of the other side, and in the ninth Billy delivered a wicked up-pereut up-pereut that put his opponent down for the eount of five, when the bell sounded sound-ed and gave him a renpit for a minute, min-ute, but when he came out of hia cor-'1 ner Referee Eugene Corri could see plainly that Sullivan was unable to proceed and awarded the battle, to . Papke on a knockout. . |