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Show 11 'j 1 Sporting Life. Hit i if Ruby red Robert has shown that he Is still H I $ m on tllG PremIses wh his whirlwind punch, al- Hf 1 'i, M though the motor behind the same has porcepti- Kg J " m bly lost force. Poor old Robert appears to be HI i 3 H ready for the barn. That should be flie last bat- H ! m tie of the greatest of all fighters, and probably H I 1 lis w' e -or n's weac exhibition with Gardner has Hr l ' iff cured the public of any desire to see Fitz In ac- Hi '! il tlon aaIn- Hi '1 'a ' I'M Tll flgnt was a vast disappointment to sports Hi f! a lifi wno wero ' touting Gardner as a coming wonder. HI l t il He was a mere baue n tno nan(ls the wily Hi I ' Iw general, and his failure to develop any signs of H' i im having a punch or being any kind of a clever mail! ma-il! I m :m nipulator showed that he is not made of the metal Hi i ' t ; tliat constitutes champions. Had Fitz been in his Hi '!' ' ji form of wo years ag0 ,fc s QuIte apparent that wi " P tva Il(v would iave chopped the younger raaa into HiM ') li small fragments. He is probably doomed to go HlH !t ' i tlie same diPPy route in pugilism as Mr. Thomas Bflir W, Sharkey. wklli IIS Kftr' IJ9 Coach Holmes' smile looked like an obituary HI tH notice before the end of the game last week be- rf i 1 9 tween the 'Varsity and the Alumni eleven. While HP i 8 Christensen's bunch was entirely without "physi- H , i ' cal training and were naturally heavy, short- H ) fl winded and stale, they wero easily superior to the Hi' K i In present athletes of the 'Varsity and would in all &' Ik I l probability have made a touchdown and won the B ' i l I ff game had the play lasted a few more minutes . H Holmes men were pathetically weak in the line, j i m and nearly all the Alumni gains were made by I " I churning at the center, where they made holes like I J$ I 9 tne trail of an elephant at will. It was a melan- ! A 1 choly day for Holmes, and it should have been. jj 111 Probably next year he will not be so autocratic, ill Wt and will be willing to accept some assistance from D S Channing and other competent coaches whpse ser- m H i i m vices were proffered and brusquely declined. m i( ,, California sports claim that Jimmy, Britt's re- fit la cen decsve defeat of Martin Canole not only n? 3 4 'H makes him the lightweight champion but the II ' I In champion of the world in his class. This conten- ' if i i J 8 "Ion s Dased on tne argument that Joe Gans, the present holder of the title, has gone beyond the weight limit and is no longer in the light-weight class. fcV bx t Sports down around San Francisco, now the acknowledged pugilistic Mecca of the world, do not think very much of Herrera, and since his defeat a few days ago by Cordell, who but recently graduated from the amateur class, they are making mak-ing many jibes at the expense of the Montana sports who flourished the Mexican as the coming champion. Wituot wishing to rob Cordell of any iota of credit for what he did to Mexican Herrera, Her-rera, and the way he did it, says Cashman, it must be said that Aurelia, champion 128-pounder of Montana, and some other inland points, was a huge joke at Oakland Tuesday night. He has always been a one-punch fighter, and he conceals that in his right glove, but he alllowed an inexperienced inex-perienced boy, although one not without considerable consid-erable promise, to keep that right as docile as a kitten. When Herrera found out that Cordell had been told how to defend himself from that particular par-ticular wallop, he promptly retired into Mb shell and let Jack do most of the fighting. Once in xi while he would listen to Biddy Bishop's tearful remonstrances and make a spurt, but the old look of disgust soon returned. What a beautiful bunch of dubs those Montana opponents must have been to drop in one, two or three rounds before such a faint-hearted specimen as Herrera. The huge joke came in immediately after the conclusion of the affair, when Herrera blurted out: "I knew I would be robbed." He could not even grasp the idea that he, the great Herrera, had to actually fight in order to win. But Biddy knew, and he was not overly cautious about the way he ordered the Mexican not to make a fool of himself. Herrera to fight Hanlon? Oh, dear and, fudge! Eddie must needs be blindfolded if they ever meet. |