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Show I LEACH CROSS NOW I HAS GOOD RECORD By Robert Edgren New York, April 4. Leach Cross J has reached the point ivhero he must 1 1 be recognized by the holder of the; championship No one has a better I , right than Leachie to challenge and 'claim a match with Willie Ritchie for! the lightweight champion of the I His tenth round victory over the I Clever Mandol gave him that right, even if the many good Hi round bouts I j he has fought In New York state are' to be overlooked Ritchie, the champion, was willing ; to recognize Mandot as a rival. He, acknowledged that the New Orleans boy was clever and rugged enough to ' give him a hard fight. Mexican Joe Rivers whose class I cannot be denied since his fights with Wolgast. Mandot, Cross and K. O. Brown, told me himself that he con- sldered Maudot a better and more ! dangerous fighter than WolgSSl ! KnockhiK out Mandot was something of a feat. Cross Is referred to now and then I as an old timer He has been fighting; : for a number of years, but he is at his best today Has Excellent Trait. Cross has a very excellent trait He always tries his best And his best, is something that no champion can , afford to sneer at He is a rugged I . and dangerous fighter. Light, swift ! footed tappers give him a lot of trou- I hie He finds it hard to catch them, while they can easily outpoint him as long as thev dodge his wal-1 wal-1 lops Cross has the one thing that makes champions a punch Glance over the ll6t of great light-! IghtB ross has fought in his time. They are Willie Fitzgerald, Packev McFarlnnd. K O Brown. One Round Hogan. Young Erne, Jim Driscoll., Fighting Dick Hyland, Mnttv Bald-j win, Tommv Murphv, Battling Hur-ley, Hur-ley, Willie Redmond. Joe Bedell. Matt Wells, Jack Redmond Bert Keyes, Young Jack O'Brien, Jack O'Brien a score of others. Cross Stopped Only Once And how many have stopped Cross? Why, just one. Fighting Dick Hyland stopped him In 41 rounds at Colma. I Cal., four years ago next June Added to that is the fact that the, , men who have fought him and those, who will not fight him admit that j I Cross is one of the most dangerousl lightweights one of the hardest hitters hit-ters in the trade. Cross will meet Rivers again soon. After that with the prestige of the Mandot fight ho should be able to 1 induce Ritchie to meet him in a 20 round California bout for the cbam-l pionship. It is a long time since a New York 1 1 boy has had a real crack at the tl-j He. SOME REAL RECORD DOPE FOR THE FANS TO REMEMBER For the benefit of baseball fans. I among whom many disputes are sure I to arise as to the best results in baseball, base-ball, the following records have been , compiled and compactly arranged for pasting purposes In the crown of one's' fedora The most important In the big show are: Pitching records Marquard of New ( York and Keefc of New York. 1 j straight. In American league Wood I of Boston and Johnsou of Washington. Washing-ton. 16 straight. Consecutive wins Providence fNa-j fNa-j tional league), 1884. 23; Boston (American (Am-erican league), 1906. 20. Consecutive defeats Pittsburg I (National league), 1890, 23; Boston 1 American league). 1906, 20 Stolen base record Harry Stovey, ' 1838, 156 steals. Greatest number of runs scored in a single season Hamilton of Phlla-' delphla, 1894. 196. Strikeout record Hugh Daly of Chicago, 1884, 20; for a season, Kll-roy Kll-roy of Baltimore. 1884, 506 Home run record Buck Freeman' of Washington. 1899, ?5. Record of victories Chicago Cubs,! 1906, 116 Greatest number of games pitched j Radbourne of Providence. 1884, 72 Record attendance New York. October Oc-tober 14. 1911, 38,281 Longest gaim- Boston vs. Athletics, 1904, 24 Inuings. (Continued on Page Seven.) I (Cont nued From Pag Two.) IchineseTeam I PLAYED BALL handful of fans gathered at Gienwood park yesterday afternoon and watched the all-Chinese team of1 Honolulu defeat nine players hastily gathered by ' Kitty" Knight to represent repre-sent Ogden. The game ended with the score 7 to 2 in favor of the Chines.., Chi-nes.., hut had the field been less muddy and the dav warmer the ac;-gregation ac;-gregation from the Pacific islands might have Increased their score It wa.. the -trancers demonstrated ' t It i i abilitv to slut; the ball and also ! showed that thev were acquainted With the tine points of the game. rhe Orientals secured thirteen hits from the pitchers introduced by Mr Knight, while the Ogdcu boys were able to secure but two hits from the slants that Luck Lee. a 19-year-old college bo; put over the rnliher Those fane who were sufficiently interested to attend ilie pame were given some real baseball in several Instances and none regretted that venturing forth on a cold day to see a warm game The score R.H E Chinese . . , 7 13 5 I Ogden ... ' 2 2 5 |