The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-14

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A pole ninety feet in height will sport
Pittsburg's first baseball pennant. The
pole will be of steel, and will be sunk
to depth of five feet in bed of con-
crete.
Among the championship favorites who
have been defeated were: Sullivan, when
he fought Corbett; Corbett, when he
fought Fitzsimmons; Fitzsimmons, when
he fought Jeffries.
Mason, the little featherweight who went
against McGoyern twice. in tow again
aud wants to match him against some
good los to 115 man.
Abe Attell and George Dixon are to
meet in St. Louis for the fourth time
Nov. %. Their first two meetings were
draws and Attell, was called the winner
of the third match.
Hahn holds the seasons strike-out rec
ord with sixteen and twelve respectively
in nineteen games. Tannehill, CheSbro,
Waddell and Hughes, of Chicago, come
next with eleven each.
Casper Leon is in Buffalo looking for
fights with some of the featherWeights.
He is likely to be matched with Johnny
O'Donnel, a promising Buffalo boy, be-
fore the Fort Erie club.
George Harper, the old slab man. who
is umpiring on the coast at the present
time, says that Matt Kilroy was the
greatest pitcher catching runners off af
nrSC base CnaL he ever Saw.
Jack Grady, the clever 1A-pounder
from Montreal, wants to meet any man
of his weight. His hard battles in Chi
eago with some of the best men there
stamps him as good one.
The New York Baseball club is not go
of Chicagoans, including the Spalding
brothers, is to buy it out was denied by
President Andrew Freedman.
The heavy betting men of the country
are unit in offering to back JeHries to
defeat Rubin. They say that Jeffries is
cause he takes few chances,
Says the Washington Post: Joe Quinn
has played on nine Championship teams
one in st. Louis five in Boston and three
this regard is probably record
Kid Sayers, the featherweight, defeat
ed Spider Clarity, of Chicago, in three
rounds at ST. Louis Saturday night The
Chicago lad was not in the same class
with Sayers, the latter making him look
like a novice.
The Brooklyn club is looking for soft
berth for Pitcher Bill Kennedy. There is
every indication that he will be dropped
before another season rolls around, but
an effort will be made to place him adj
vantageously.
Jack .Dougherty, the Racine boxer, has
placed himself under the management
| of Charlie Newton. Dougherty has been
coming to the front of late and if ham
died carefully should make his mark with
| the best in his class.
Little Jack Horner, who, with ninety
| pounds on his back outsprinted such fly
ers as Burnie Bunton, Money Muss and
others, was trained especially for the
race by Jack Keene, owner of the grand
campaigner, Draw Lad.
Terry McGovern will close his theatri-
cal engagement for the time being next
Saturday night, and then journey to
Hartford, Conn, where he is scheduled
to meet ssYoung Corbett" on the after
noon of Thanksgiving day.
Dan Mcleod, the California wrestler,
has agreed to throw Ed Anterior, OF
Buffalo, five times in an hour for $3.50
a side and the gate receipts, the winner
to take all. The match is to be decided
| in Buffalo Friday night.
Dexter, of the Chicagos, has more field
ing averages than any other player in
| the league. He played more than fif-
teen games in the outfield, at third base
| and behind the bat. Quite number of
| players secured two averages.
1t is hard to make Jim Jeffries under
| stand that Bob Fitzsimmons has really
| retired from the ropGd arena and still
| harder to make him understand that
| James J. Corbett really wants to fight
him again for the championship.
| Joe Walcott will put up his first fight
| in the East in over a year at Whining
! ton. Del, on Nov. ID. He will meet
| Jack Bonner, the coal miner from Sum-
NIT Hill, Pa, in a fifteen-round battle be-
| fore the Wilmington Athletic club.
/ Tom Williams, the well known Aus
! tralian boxer, is out with a challenge to
meet any 145 or 150-pound man in the
country. He has been in harness num-
| Der of years, but thinks he can still hold
his end up with any of the welterweightS.
Now the American league, with the
downfall of Tammany, is counting upon
breaking into Gotham. Ban Johnson is
all agog over the chance of having New
York added to the circuit. and states that
every effort will be made to place a
club in that city.
Selee says he has no use for men who
will sign two contracts, and is in sympa-
thy with President Hart, of the Chicago
club, who is willing to pay for what play
ers he takes from the minor leagues, and
wants nothing but men with clean repu-
tations on the team.
Frank Selee says there is no truth in
the story going the rounds that he is
after Elberfeld of the Detroit club for
the reason that Elberfeld has signed for
next season, and he had not dropped to
the standard of a manager trying to get
players to jump contracts
President Shearer, of the Montreal
club, is on record as saying that unless
money could be raised his outfit would
retire from the Eastern league. The
Pat Powers organization certainly had a
troublesome six months the past season,
and more than one of the cities fell by
I the waySlde.
The Terre Haute Baseball association
has signed Leon Walters, the former
pitcher for Grand Rapids, to succeed
Krieg as manager next season. He was
second baSeman and captain last season,
and will continue at second it being the
purpose of the management to have q
playing manager instead of one on the
bench.
Frank Hahn, the crack southpaw of
the Cincinnati club, has signed a con-
tract to pitch for the Reds next season.
Hahn will receive one Of the highest sal
aries paid to a National league player
his contract calling for 1920. Hahn
is wanted badly by two American league
clubs, and this fact enabled him to
secure the princely salary he signed for.
Joe Cantillon, of Ban Johnsons staff
OF ur.pires, is organizing team of
American leaguers to spend December
in California. He is counting upon form
ing the following team: Sullivan, catch
er; Bernhard, Mercer and Callahan,
pitchers; Davis, first base; Lajoie, second
base; Bradley, third base; Irwin short
Barrett, center field, and Pickering, right
field.
Tom O'Rourke is out in an interview
with the statement there will be a reviv-
al of boxing in New York state early next
year, as he has Information" that the
legislature will pass bill legalizing linn
tied round contests. This announcement
has been made before, but this time it
is supposed to have foundation in fact,
coming as it does from the supposed-to-
be-Well-informed O'Rourke
President Ban Johnson, of the Ameri-
can league. returned to Chicago from De-