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Show BOXING NOT THE MOST DANGEROUS OF SPORTS By TOMMY CLARK. TfvUNNY how somo pcopio become horrified when a boxer is hurt, but how Indifferent they aro when men are killed on tho football, baseball or ejele fields or when they aro killed by dozens on tho nutomobllo race tracks and In airships, etc In Franco it has been recorded the past two years that tho deaths from auto accidents and flights In the air havo been enormous, running up Into the hundreds, but the moment the first accident happened In a boxing match, which is one death in the sport slnco introduced into that country, there was at onco a howl about tho roughness of It. However, tho Jury that Investigated the affair found that tho man died, not from tho effects of a boxing match, but from heart trouble brought on by overexertion over-exertion It is hard sometimes to guard against men in that condition, even though they .ire examined by doctors. Compared to other sports, boxing Is mild and not half so dangerous, danger-ous, as records will prove. jVTANAGER HARRY WOLVERTON of tho New York Americans blames the lack of condition of his plajers for the poor start his team hac made In tho race. There Is undoubtedly undoubted-ly a lot to be attributed to condition, but Wolvcrton will find in time that this la not all thnt his team lacks. As it is now made up tho New York aggregation aggre-gation is about tho weakest in tho league. It has a minor league Infield, barring Chase, of course, whllo its outfield out-field is hardly to be compared with any in the league. The time will como whon hlB pitchers will ohow moro than thoy have, but as' a wholo the team docs not figure to bo very high in the second division. The failure of the New York team would mean a great loss to all the other clubs in the leaguo, for with the Giants playing play-ing high class ball all New York will cater to the National leaguers whllo the Highlanders' park is not going to bo crowded if tho team la 03 low In the race as it promises to be. rpHE captaincy of tho Philadelphia Athlotics is nothing more than an honorary position, and. although tho veteran centcrficlder Danny Murphy is tho field leader, it would not make a great deal of difference which one of tho players on tho team Connio Mack h.id given the Job. Just how important impor-tant a part the captain plas on that team was demonstrated last year, when Harry Davis, who had the title, spent most of his tlmo on tho bench from v. horo Mack, of course, rules matters. Davis" absence from tho field, however, how-ever, did not provo a handicap to the champions, who went right on winning pennants. The very fact that Danny Murphy, an outfielder, was appointed to succeed Davis shows how much of a figure tho captain cuts, for Murphy will hardly bo In a position to do much directing or suggesting from his position posi-tion in deep right field. But custom has mado It necessary to have a captain, and Connio Mack Is not the one to upset tradition Of courso It Is generally supposed that tho captain takes charge of the team on tho field, and yet when the fact la ro-membered ro-membered that Davis was on tho bench most of last season it would seem that tho Athletics ran looso during tho greater part of tho campaign. |