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Show When Graveyards Yawn CjOME of our old tlmo pugilists, who long ago have been treated to reliable re-liable and supposedly permanent Interment, Inter-ment, Insist upon coming out of retirement retire-ment with challenges. They can't rest easy In their graves while the Incompetent Incom-petent "white hopes" of tho present duy are passing around the pie. Among those who have shaken off the shroud of oblivion may be mentioned men-tioned Tom Sharkey, who for breadth of back has a trllle on any deep sea taxlcab on Broadway; Tommy Burns, who for four years now has permitted tho world to forget that he was at best tho only original cheese champion of tho world; Robert Fltzslmmons. who has to -have a valet push his knuckles back Into place every tlmo he knocks for a waiter, and last, but not the least dead. Peter Maher, the first of the Irish champions, who has been out of the game so long he's evon forgotten how it feels to be knocked out. These men aro seriously challenging one another and the white hopes of the day. And, while the white hopes may profess to laugh and call the challengers challen-gers "dead ones," wo confess to believing believ-ing that It's really a grave matter. Of course these old gentlemen will never meet again In the roped arena, but Mr. Fltzslmmons never will forget tlie deal he received when he fought Mr Sharkey In Frisco sixteen years ago. Fltz landed a solar plexus blow and (he tattooed sailor tumbled to the lloor. One "Wyatt Earp. expert with a nix shooter, was tho referee, and with startling promptness ho declared Sharkey Shar-key the winner on a foul. Fltz declar-Jed declar-Jed that ho was the victim of highway I robbery. Four years later he proved It, when he flattened the muscular tar In two rounds at Coney Island, the Cor-nlshman Cor-nlshman displaying tho bitterest feeling feel-ing when ho refused to shake hands before or after the quick mllL If tho proposed ball players union will have for an object tho establishment establish-ment of a homo for those members of their profession who are down and out, besides doing things which will be of benefit to tho players, tho organization should meet with the approval of the club owners. But If tho playera figure on having representation on the national commission commis-sion ao that they can have a say In the disputen which frequently arise bc-twoon bc-twoon club ownors and players they uro suro to meet with Btubborn opposition. oppo-sition. To begin with, such rcpreuflnta-tlon rcpreuflnta-tlon would amount to nothing, for It 1 would bo but one vote to four. Further-, Further-, more, th rulings of the commission bo far as tho players' Interests ore concerned con-cerned havo always been fair und square. But a home tor old ball players could be established by the players. Every club In organized baseball could play one benefit game a year to establish the fund for such a homo and keep It In operation. That would bo a real and worthy cause, nnd club owners, players and patrons would be willing to support such a movement. Those who during the past few years havo tried to make it appear that It wan a toss-up between Ty Cobb of Detroit De-troit and Joo Jackson of Cleveland as to which waa the greater player havo done Tyrua an Injustice There Is no comparison In the pair Jackson Is a hard natural hitter, but that lets him out. He Is not tho fielder that Cobb Is and displays not nearly so much Intelligence Intel-ligence In his playing. Neither has ho the spirit that has the only Tyrus. and there Is nothing that Jackson can do which should be mentioned In tho same breath with any performance that Cobb might attempt. |