El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-09
SprtS and SportSmen

ship but if such is the case he will b.
the first champion on record who wa:
not Just a little afflicted with thu
swell head and if he is not watched
very closely Rubin may surprise hin
in some of the things that The knows
| and no one can tell him anything.
| The Quaker was an astute philoSo-
| pher who wishing to get hunk with
dog which annoyed him said: ri
not beat thee. but I'll give thee bad
name" and then cried mad dog" the
dog was Immediately killed.
Kid Mccoy is one of the best fighters
| the ring has ever known; in fact, he Is
la phenomenon in skill, and yet he finds
himself like the dog denounced by the
Quaker. bearing a bad name. He can
| find no one at present willing to take
him on and give him a match. Nc
Coy may be guiltless of the charge of
laying down in his fight with Corbett,
and Jeffries and FitZSimmonS who wit
messed the fight il the interest OF two
New York newspapers both said that
Corbett won on his merits, but in a
few days the story got abroad that
Mccoy had laid down and then few
sporting scribes made mountain out
of mole hill and Mccoy finds that he
IldS lew ITlenuS III the TluS lOudy- ne
has taken his wife whom he recently
married for the second time and gone
to Europe and it may be that when he
comes back in the spring that he will
be able to get a match with some OF
the big fellows again.
Maher it seems has backed out of
his fight with Sharkey, and the sailor
boy who has already been training is
now anxious to get fight with almost
any one of the boy fellows, Fitzsim-
mons and Jeffries preferred.
Tim Hegarty. the indicated Aus
tralan. is on his way to this country
to meet Terry McGovern for the feath-
erweight championship of the world.
Terry will accommodate him and the
chances are ten to one that he will sail
back to his far away home with the
title which he now aspires still rest
ing peaceably in America.
A. A. Spalding may be the next pres
ident of the National League. at least
there is we'll founded rumor to that
effect. 1t is generally known that all
has not gone well between "UncIe
Nick" Young and several of the mag
mates for several years and it is now
,tdteu IlldI he VIII nOI De T6eleCleu
hat Mr.. Spalding will be elected to the |
place in his stead. Mr.. Spalding is ex-
president of the Chicago base ball club |
md while acting in that capacity won |
great name for himself and he will |
,e welcomed at the head of the major |
eague. He is just the man to handle
UGH men as Freedman. Sodom. and
Brush. and it is the general belief that
he accepts the position a great deal
f the quarreling that has been going
n for years will be stopped.
Patsy Donovan is one of the members
} be tempted by National League I
Iub's offer. He has been selected by
t. Louis to manage and captain that &;
Tub this year. but despite the fact that
ne salary offered is the highest he has
yer had the opportunity to make, he
as declined. owing to the agreement
hitch exists among the players not
D sign contracts until their alleged
rievances have been remedied by the
Iational League.
the National League last year. says
nat he is loyal to the Players Protec-
We association and will not sign a
)ntract until the order gives the word +,
nd that also means that he will not
gn a contract until there is a big
iise in his salary.
Harry Steinfeldt, so well and favor
bly, known here as one of the greatest
lird basemen who ever played in the
,uthwest and later as the crack player q
the Cincinnati National league team
n the past three years, has signed y
)ntrQct f0 c9nfain and n1ov third ho 4 u
i the Los Angeles team for the COM
g year. That is a hard blow to his "
ncinnati admirers as there are many a
them, but it has leaked out that Z
AIRY was to be sold to some other II
ub and he got wind of the fact. and n
hen the offer was made to him in S
1s Angeles where he has been spend a
g the winter he jumped at the op- Il
and will play OF the Pacific b
asst this year. His salary will be C;
900 with a good little plum as cap tt
in and altogether it will figure up 81
ore than he was getting at Cincin- 81
I'll. Harry is a good. clean ball I'll
aver and Los Angeles is lucky to get al
oh man to captain her team for h.
knows the game from the very start 81
the finish and the youngsters who 81
ay under him will find him a great
lder in
W
Hamburg, tie greatest race horse r.
oDably that ever graced the Amer in
In turf. which was sold to Hon. w. -,
Whitney for the snug sum of $780, ~
}. is tie most talked-of horse in the
uine world today. A bit of history ~
sarding this animal is not amiss at
2 present time. Like all horses that
2 great the stable hands tell many
'ries of their pets and favorites. says
writer in the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Often great attachment springs up
tween the thoroughbred and its st