Show TET X RICKARD TO REFEREE BIG FIGHT 0 aa A y r 0 er TEX RICK RICKARD rl IT ir WILL only be a few days more now until we will know who Is the greatest fighter in the world jim jeffries lef fries and jack johnson will step nto the arena on july 4 providing af f course the churches do not manage to prevent it and there will be a bat tie ile tor for which thousands are going to travel many miles to see they have selected tex rickard is referee one thing that may be said in tex s favor is that he has the requisite nerve to be the third man in the ring with the great white slid black gladiators that referee job Is going to be some work tex is going to have his hands full from the tep V u the first bell lots of people th alp g when he was first selected that I 1 it was only duly a temporary arrangement and the fighters would get together and pick an experienced man but tex Jec declared lared he intended to serve and both scrappers said he would suit them rickard first came into prominence in the pug world when he pulled off the first gans Gan nelson sNelson battle he ile has been lots of big fights and knows the game fairly well of course course he is not a S ler a charlie white or an eddie smith but he always has his wits about him and he should be able to make the big fellows behave it Is a tact fact that the b g men are usually aas ter to control in the ring than the lit tie tle fellows so after all tex may not have such a time of it as some ex hect when the baseball fans get together and talk about old times it is seldom that somebody does not bring in the name of amos rusie ruste once the star of the new york G ants I 1 ke he christy mathewson is now ward jackson one of cleveland s veteran bugs told this one rusie like many another star t twinkle any too brightly when he first appeared in the baseball sky sk he had been loaned or farmed out to the burlington la IA team for the final ses s senes es of games in the old interstate league between the burlington ani davenport nines the davenport team teams s star battery of that year was rhines and harrington afterward with cincinnati well anyway rusie rusle did his best to earn his money manager chamber lain of burlington had paid tor for his bis services and after losing one game 2 to 1 and winning another 1 to 0 came back to indianapolis on this day I 1 am talking about well when it came time tor for diac tise we we ei playing louisville that day there was nobody to warm arm up rusie rusle dick buckley was engaged with the other pitchers big amos wandered about the park disconsolate ly occasionally hurling the ball against the fence or grand stand and tetrie retrieving leving ving it himself finally rusie rusle walked over to the stand and looking up to the first row of seats shouted come down here pop I 1 want to warm up A big red whiskered man got up tip from his seat took off his coat hun hunn it on the back of his chair and jump ing over the rail into the diamond said all right amos my boy let em come in fast then amos s father his whiskers streaming in the wind pulled on a fielder fielders s glove and scorning mask and pad stood back there by the stand and warmed up his son warmed up the mighty rusie who within a year or two was destined to become one of the most remarkable pitchers in all the history of the game amos didn dian t spare his father he fed him out curves and In shoots high balls and low balls fast ones and easers not even forgetting the jump ball that was destined to make him famous and you should have seen the old man he never sidestepped side stepped a thing shoot em in me boy he would say put something on em amos you re working fine today that s the way straight across and fast well sir it was a wonderful sight that middle aged man in street clothes and with his flowing whiskers of flery fiery red standing out there on that blis bits field ignoring the taunts and jeers of the crowd warming u up his beloved boy amos who even then was vms a giant and a hurricane pitcher fen when the time tor for the game began husie rusle s father climbed back over the rail amos went into the box with buckley behind the bat and louisville was beaten 3 to 0 when the last one of the visitors had been retired rusie s father jumped back into the field took amos by the arm and walked with him to the dressin dressing groom room it was a sentimental spectacle the solicitude of the gi gibat eat pitchers pitcher s father for his boy and his pride in the young hercules work poor amos had he only stuck by his good old father and ignored the al lebed friends who got him to traveling in the broad road that leads to early retirement not to say disgrace he might be in the major league today as famous and as popular as is old cy young earning 8 or 10 a year instead of digging ditches as he be Is tor for 1 75 a day for the first time since the days in cincinnati when tony us used e to t 0 witch arms and rest one by twirling with t other there s an ambidextrous twirler in major league company his ills name is charles ariene and he Is a member of connie mack s philadelphia athletics ariene first attracted attention as a ball player while pitching for santa clara college the institution which produced hal chase the vond wonderful erful first sacker of the new york high landers then he broke into the pa cefic coast league and a year ago pitched a d gan gane e for san jose against the chicago white sox in which said sox looked like a deck of deuce spots they secured six scattered hits off the youth who switches arms while pitching whenever the opposing team threat ens with a batting rally frione just uses the other arm and it is said that this plan works as effectively as put ting a new nev pitcher in the box w th the additional advantage that the old one can be reinstated as there is no rule in baseball that a pitcher can t change back to the arm he had been 11 using ing that ariene appears to have a good brand of goods is evidenced bj b th tact fact that manager connie mack looked him over for several weeks on spring training trip and then branded him with a you 11 do ariene iq 1 still with the athletics he is the only ambidextrous in the major leagues and possibly in all leagues cajole Is hitting the ball harder this spring than he has in several years and the prediction Is made that the big frenchman will lead the league this year lajoie Is said to be much lighter than he has been in recent years and with the worry of handling the team shifted to jim mcguir s shoulders he is playing much better ball what Is more mcguire Is not allowing lajoie to play the hit and run game as persistently as he used to thus handicapping his hitting for on most occasions he had to hit at a bad ball now lajoie just waits fol what be he wants and wallops and he be la Is getting hits bits in bunches |