Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-07

anybody 1 know in the baseball business
He has been on the unlucky side of the
hedge for a long time, and almost every
body in baseball will be glad to note the
good work of his team in the pennant race.
He has a much better team now than he
had during the first half of the season.
While do not expect to see them land
near the top, am in hopes that they will
make tolerably good showing.
As matters appear to me at present 1t
looks as if the race for the second contest
will again be between Brooklyn and Boston.
1t is too soon to figure in anything like
definite wav yet, but they are at present
very strong team. Cincinnati is feeling
the loss of Mullane. and the officials of that
club ought to recognize that fact.
There is little to say about the local team.
Pitchers are what they need, and if they
were all right in that department they
would be as good as anybody. Nor is there
anything special to note about any of the
other teams except that St. Louis looks
weaker than ever.
Nc uliffe and Myer in Training.
As the first week in September begins to
draw nigh the interest in the big battles of
that time gets greater and greater. So tar
We have bad comparatively little to say
about the proposed battle between Jack
McAuliffe and Billy Myer. 1t has not been
ssfe to say much, because nowadays Nc
Aulitfe is not a very sure quantity In train
ing, and in fact it is not very safe to say
much about the expected contest yet.
But since McAulitfe has landed near the
battle ground the battle between him and
Myer has become a prominent theme OF
conversation. Who is going to win it? is
the cry that is becoming general. Now
that is question that is very difficult to
answer, particularly at present, and any
body could be excused whose judgment was
wrong on the matter. 1 do not hesitate to
say that am somewhat inclined to favor
McAuliffe's chances. 1 am told by man
who knows that six DAYS ago McAuliffe was
a trife below 144 pounds and had not been
distressed in getting down to weight The
men are only limied to 1873 pounds, so that
McAuliffe can get to weight without any
trouble and certainly without any fear OF
weakening.
Believing then that McAuliffe will enter
the ring in good condition 1 do not expect
that Myer will defeat him. have always
estimated McAuliffe as the best glove
fighter at his weight that we have had in
this country. Hyams was q clever man tor
two or three rounds and McAuliffe frankly
admitted that to me himself, but after the
two or three rounds Hyams could no more
hold McAuliffe than he could fly. When
compared with Austin Gibbon, who has
height and reach McAuliffe is a phenome-
non and Gibbon outtaxed and outtought
Andy Bowen and Bowen defeated Myer.
But do not place much on Bowen's defeat
of Myer. However, in my judgment Nc
Auliffe is a much cleverer man than Myer
and knows more about fighting,
About McAuliffr's Staying Qualities.
The most serious question to face in try
ing to name the winner in the McAuliffe
an0 Myer battle is that OF the formers stay
ing qualities. A large number of people
strongly argue that McAaliffe is not a
staver, but l cannot agree with that con-
clusion. We all know that j. F. Carroll is
a stayer, or at least was year or two ago.
McAuliffe out-stayed him in a battle that
was we'll and hard fought. There was no
doubt about the severity of the contest, and
for McAuliffe to win it proved beyond
doubt that he could stay and fight hard for
more than an hour. Whatever may be said
against the McAuliffe and Carney contest
nobody will deny that the former displayed
staying qualities there.
McAuliffe is a slayer if he gets into
proper condition, and thus the very i'm
portant question of condition comes to the
'front.' We have to face the same problem
in the Sullivan and Corbett contest. Like
Sullivan, McAulife has dissipated fear
fully, although his carousals have not been
continued so long as those of the big cham
pion. Still, if reports are true, McAuliffe
will be all right .
True, he has met Myer before, and very
fine traces they made of it. Nothing can be
proven from that affair except thst some
people made lots of money over it Money
making by few scheming persons was the
only aim of that alleged contest, and 1t is
not worth appealing to as guide of any
kind. But one. OF McAuiiffe's best points
is his ability to avoid defeat if he cannot
win. In this respect he is very much like
Mitchell This is an excellent quality, and
McAulife is better at it than anybody in
his class.
Myer is good man and vigorous fight
er. He has learned much since he met
McAuliffe in their well-known drawn battle.
Myers battle with Carroll showed that he
does not SO much depend on his cyclonic
methods as he used to. This is better for
him. He defeated Carroll simply by allow
ing the latter TO do the fighting, and had he
not done so Myer would have been defeated.
At one stage OF this battle Myer was nearly
settled, and had Carroll been q younger
man he would certainly have been the win
ner. 1t is quite likely that Myer may
adopt the same tactics against McAuliffe as
he did against Carroll, but McAuliffe is a
wonderful leader off and his leads may
regardless OF what tactics Myer uses, ex-
pect that McAuliffe will outgeneral him.
The o ympic .lub's Other Events.
There is apparently little hope of man
being secured to face Fitzsimmons during
the "big" week at New Orleans The
Olympic Club have about given up all hope
OF getting an opponent for him until the
Hall and Pritchard contest is over. When
that is decided an attempt will be made to
have the winner meet Fitzsimmons tor
big purse at New Orleans. 1t may be that
Pritchard will be the winner, and if he is
contest between he and FitZsimmons will
be one OF the most important of modern
times
The battle between Dixon and Skelly has
been substituted for that which was e1-
pected to take place between Fitzsimmons
and somebody else. Of course this feather
weight contest will not in any sense or form
rank with a contest in which Fitzsimmons
would be principal, but it is the best the
club could do under the circumstances
The club set out with the intention of hav-
ing three leading events in one week and
the officials want to keep their programme
good.
While the contest between Dixon and
Skelly will not be as important as the
others it will be very attractive one.
Eastern authorities claim that Skelly is
wonderful little fellow and will make
Dixon fight his very best. This may be
true, but DiNon's very best may be much
too good for Skelly. 1 venture to say it
will. Skelly will simply have to be won-
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Everything is going along smoothly for
the chief of all events the Sullivan and