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Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-22
AMATEURS ORGANIZING.


 The City League Looking Forward to
 Good Baseball Season.
 The teams which comprise the City Amateur league are already consider ing base ball plans for the coming sea son. A meeting of the league is to De held on the last Friday of this month. that was the date set by the board or directors at it's. last meeting. lt IS hardly possible that there will be ;sny changes. in regard. to- the teams that comprise the league. The same teams will probably remain in the league. They are the Washington Hill A. c., Brooklyn A. C., St Joseph, St Thomas Cadets. Pastime A. 0. and the Jeffer- sons.
 The league should take care this year to abolish some of the abuses which existed last year9and were detrl- mental to the best interests Com petent umpires should be appointed. The majority of the umpires last sea son were unusually poor. Their judg- ment was poor, their decisions poor. and they had no backbone. Often they had fayorites among the teams. Alp point no member of any of the organ iZations in the league an umpire. Fur. thermore the board of directors should see to it that the umpires receive cour- teoils treatment from the players. Many time last year when an um- pire made just and correct decision he was bullied and roughly handled by the captain and players of the team against which the decision was rem dered The umpire should be upheld. If he is incompetent ask for his resig- antion.
 When rules are made by the direc- tors they ought to be obeyed by the managers of the team. Last season rule was made prohibiting any state league player or player of any other professional league from playing in the Amateur league. Everybody knows how that rule was not obeyed. Many people would like to see the league strictly amateur. Keep out the professionals. They cost considerable money, as several teams in the league last year can attest. Manager should not make rules and then break them.
 There should be no cliques in the league this season, as there were last year. 1t is not for the best interests of the league to have such cliques. Whenever disputed game or ques- ton came before the meeting the vote was generally divided as follows: Brooklyn A. C., St Thomas Cadets, Pastime A. O., on one side, and the Washington Hill A. C., Jeffersons and St Joseph's on the other side There was more or less talk of games being thrown to the two leaders by the other teams. Every game should be above suspicion. Another important matter which should be decided upon in the affirmative is the roping of the field. Last year the crowds edged onto the side lines and the games were often delayed for q long time. There are a few other abuses which the board Of directors shouldd consider before the opening of the season of 1902.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-22


 ming tanks and there is so much in that it is not unlikely that before the outdoor swimming season beg1ns Champion Schaeffer will participate in many tank events. Miss Ethel Gold ing, the woman champion, too, had an enviable record last season, and she is to be reckoned in the list of excellent swimmers this year.
 It was not so long ago that Dr. Paul Neumann, the. Austrian soldier-stu- dent, was regarded as the American champion. But Sohaeffer, with good eastern record, defeated the doctor and laid claim to the championship because of this. Critics were slow in according +Schaeffer the title How eyer. he has broken enough records and won enough events both in tanks and in outdoor water to demonstrat te beyond doubt that he is the Aneri- can champion.
 When asked recently for his prog nostications for 1902 in the matter of swimming the champion remarked that he felt confident that there would be more swimming contests than ever this year. "The people turn out now to see swimming exhibi- tions," said he. ''The swimmer is not confined to appearances in warm weather and he does not have to break thin ice to contest. The big clubs have tanks that are suitable for races, and men who can do most of their swimming under water-or practically submerged most of the time-fnd the tank events very excit- ing and conducive to good sport"
 E. C.. WESTLAKE
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-22

nois state championship two-mile skating race from big field of ann atenrs. Langley was born in Toern- berg, Norway, and when but five years old joined the village squad of skaters. He is 34 years old now, and, as one enthusiastic member of the celebrated Sleipner Athletic club once said: s'It is hard to beat Lang ley in any kind of an athletic con test. He's Viking"
 Prominent as Langley has been for several years in skating champion- ships. he has never neglected his oc- cupation-that of helping to erect great steel skyscrapers. The eye and the nerve that are required to pre- serve the human body from destruc- fion in the web of steel trusses are what make him worthy opponent for any skater in the west.
 I recall the days when cycling was in it's merTies1 t1me- JS S-.4a 4-~-ss-~ was the terror of the young men who could not stand the hot pace As 8 member of the old Viking Cycling club Langley earned premier honcrs in many a wheel race Road races of ten~twenty- y-fye miles were to him as ordinary spins Tn the turner bnnd meets John Langley earned honors for his excellence in gymnasium work. As a sprinter in track events this iron worker proved the equal of any runner outside the intercollegi- ate ranks.
 zws years ago he went home. 1t
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-22

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Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-22
WITH THE WREsTLERs.
Interest Growing ill the Kelly ane
 Swanson Match.

Interest Growing ill the Kelly and
 Swanson Match.
 One week from tomorrow night will bring together on the mat John E. Kelly of this city and Alex Swanson of Yonkers. Everyone in this city who has followed the wrestling game knows for a fact that Kelly has inn proved one hundred per cent in his wrestling ill the past two years. Fro lessor Dwyer said that he did not be- lieye there was any man of his weight ill this country who could throw him and the professor ought to know what he was talking about. Kelly himself says that he fears no man of his weight and that he will wrestle George Bothner at an even division of the money. He is in better condition than he has been for any of his matches and he has been looking for Swanson for over q year. It has surprised many people why Swanson did not sooner take up Kelly's challenge, but the fact of the matter was that Swan son was playing a foxy game and he wanted to catch Kelly mapping. He believes he has him now right where he wants him. Kelly all along has held out for 13S pounds, but Swanson knew he could not get to that weight and be strong Consequently he held off until Kelly gave i'll and the weight was allowed to be 142 pounds at the ringside Swanson did not take very long to accept that weight, although he pretended to hold out for 142 pounds at three o'clock in the after noon. 1t is rumored that there are several people ill this city who were back of the scheme to catch Kelly and that they are smiling to-day to know how easily it was managed. Billy Lee, the manager of Swanson, wrote to-day to the stakeholder that he will bet any amount of money that Kelly will not even get q look in at the match. Swanson will win two straight falls and while they may not be won in jig time, they will be won neverthe- less. It remains to be seen how much of trap Kelly fell into and perhaps the Waterbury lad will do some of the trapping himself.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-22
RYAN WANTS TT EASY.

Tommy Ryan, who not long ago
 said he wanted to fight Sharkey, has
 made match with the former welter- weight champion, Rube Ferns, who was recently knocked out by Joe Wal colt. This is in line with Ryan's us- ual policy of picking easy marks. Ryan is fighting at 154 pounds nowadays, while Ferns is at his best at about 145, so that it can be seen what an advantage the former Syracuse boxer will have at the weights. If Ryan had really been anxious to show his prowess as a middlewaight he might have taken on Walcott who has been
 looking for q match with him ever since Ryan trimmed the Harlem Cof- fee Cooler down at Coney Island sew eral years ago. Walcott only month ago offered to fight Ryan, winner take all, but the latter lodged behind the "color 1ine'' excuse, which he has nev- CT failed to bring into play when Wal colt has set sail for him. But cutting Walcott out of it, Ryan has another chance to display his skill i'll fight with George Gardner of Lowell, who is considered by many experts to be the best middleweight in the world. When Gardner first came out there was some doubt as to his skill and gameness, but within the past year
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-22
sHARKEY POSTS FORFEIT.

Tom Sharkey posted $2,500 yester- day to bind his match with Jim lief fries, which was arranged several weeks ago. In company with his man. ager, Barney Reich, and Alvie King, Sharkey deposited a certified check at a downtown office. Similar amounts are to be posted on February 1 by Jeffries and Jim Kennedy, match maker of the Yosemite Athletic club of San Francisco. The entire sum will then be forwarded to Harry Cor bett, who has been chosen final stake holder. Sharkey said yesterday that he is willing to fight Peter Maher at Louisville, but does not think that he will be allowed, according to the ar ticles of agreement signed, before his mill with Jeffries.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-22

was his desire to pit his, prowess on the ice with some of the acknowl- edged kings of the skates in Chris tiana, but he found that he would not have time to train properly for such a tremendous effort. Comfort ing himself with the minor attrac- tions of his native city, he entered the 5O0-meter and the 800-meter events and won them. It is need less to say that over in Norway his countrymen spend considerable time discussing the ability of Langley. In many respects Langley is like the fa- nous Johnny Johnson, the Minneapo- lis boy who gained honors in the cycling and skating world under the management of the famous Tom Eek. Both have the blood of Morse chief tains in their veins and each made his own ice skates.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-22

more than any other great player, used the faculty of talking during a match to unnerve his opponent. Yet there never was a man who played Carter who could object to the lat ter's remarks. In fact, have seen Carter playing with men like Ives, Cation, Gallagher, Maggioi, Sutton and Schaefer, when his rivals would have to turn aside from the table to laugh over some witty sally made by Carter.
 Garter travelled extensively" said one of his acquaintances, land espe- cially in Europe did he meet very polished people who regarded bill lizards as the greatest of all games for gentlemen. Some of the remarks which came like a constant flow of humor were made in tone loud enough for the spectators at the matches to hear, and many a time, even when losing, the wit of the born billiard player would throw the house into convulsions of laughter. Had he not sought the green cloth for his fame he had been a success on the stage. In Paris, when he and Vignaux were beating all corners at three cushions, Carter got the reputation for being the most versatile billiard list the French had ever known"
 In reply to a query I once asked him-immediately after his arrival home after his second foreign tour "How many matches have you played tn, Carter?" he said: Not as many as I should have played, more than 1 could win and many more than any other professional can name" The sobriquet, "Yon Know Me, Gene," ap- piled to Carter universally, originated with himself. No matter what the terms were for proposed match or how many offers he received, his in variable reply was: You know me, Gene"
 It is said of Carter-he told it to me-that on one of his provincial j trips in France he was invited to a chateau to play for an old Bourbon. Everything about the magnificent country home was elegant except the billiard tables. The worries were so old and warped that it was almost impossible to execute fine shot. The Frenchman did not realize this. Car ter's friends, two Americans, urged him to excuse himself. You'll only make bad showing" they said. 'sYou know me-" replied Carter, and, walk ing to the table, he swept up the an cient spheres and exclaimed, with flash of the courier of long ago: sMonsieur does me the great honor of asking me to perform some bill Hard shots on his table. The occasion is too great a one to use such plebe- ian globes as ivory--they are used ev- anywhere. I see some crystal globes on the chandeliers. They sparkle like the wit of the monsieur. If you will watch I will make them respond to the cue" Of course the Frenchman declared that it would be an injustice to the player to handicap himself by playing with cut crystal balls, and during the polite barley" Carter slipped set of accurately turned fvories on the table. He carried these balls for just such emergencies. The exhibition proceeded, and tip to the attendant after the play resulted in the reinstatement of the old worries and the sliding of the little box of true balls into Carter's overcoat. lou know me- was all Carter had to say to his American friends as they left the billiard room.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-22
FIGHTS IND FIGHTERS.
Bob Fitzsimmons Falls Down a
 Flight of Stairs.

The Big Fellow Was Not Badly Hurt
 Tommy Ryan Making Easy Match
 -Hanrahan Wins Another Fight
 ''Denver Ed'' Martin Comer-O Other
 Fighting News.
 Bob Fitzsimmons has discovered that the greed for gold is not what it is cracked up to be. His search for the $20,000 side bet which he al- leges he wants somebody to bet on him in fight with Champion Jeffries led him to hunt up his friend, Percy Will Hams, the proprietor of the Orpheum theater i'll Brooklyn.
 Entering the theater, Fitz took q twenty foot stairway at one step, land ed on his face and called everybody and everything but Jeffries and an am- bulance. Of course, if he had called Jeffries he might have needed the ann bulance, but instead of doing so he contented himself with calling the af- tarnoon extras.
 While Fitz was doing the stairway act Tom Sharkey, who is matched to fight Jeffries, was busy posting the for felt which will bind him to fight the champion on the coast about the 1st of April. Fitz having failed to secure the $2O,OOO backing-even by stepping down a twenty foot stairway on his face-thera is nothing for Jeffries to do but go ahead and fight Sharkey.
 There may be many men who be- lieve that .Fitz is a better fighter than Jeffries, but up to date none of them is willing to back his convictions to the extent of $20,000 And Fitz'S strong est friend may be wise in his genera ton, because on no form that he ever has shown has Fitz q chance of whip ping the young California giant, who now holds the championship of the world.
 Echoes of the fake. fight in which Sharl1ey and Maher were made to act the leading parts before the Industrial Athletic club i'll Philadelphia on Friday last were plentiful along Broadway yesterday Now, as on the day after the alleged contest, the impression is that the club and not the fighters, was to blame for the bunco scheme worked on the patrons of the bout.
 In Philadelphia there is talk of bar ring Manager Mcfarland of the In dustrial club from the fighting scheme in that city. There are those, how ever, who believe that Mcfarland was more sinned against than shining, and that in the Sharkey-Maher affair he was the victim of conspiracy matched by alleged reformers who lent themselves to the schemes of the man. agers of rival clubs. This explanation aside, Mcfarland had 1t in his power to prevent the disappointment and chagrin of the sports by declaring the bout off.
 T think Mcfarland could tell a good story if he wanted to talk" said New Yorker who is close to the fighting game yesterday. T think when you get down to the bottom facts" he continued, you will find that the police played a strong hand in the affair. If the police had not been mixed up ill the transaction the rival clubs would have had their own trouble in stopping the bout"
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-22
HANRAHAN WINS AGAIN.

Lancaster, Pa, Jan 22.-Joe Hanra- han of this city, who had already knocked out for men here this season all in the second round, last night knocked out Walt Link of McKees- port in what was to be a six round figh. Link had Hanrahan going in the first round, but Hanrahan mixed things up in the second and finished his man easily with a right swing to tne jaw. The fight took place i'll the presence of over thousand persons
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-22
SULLIVAN WHIPS M,MAHoN.

Jackson, Mich, Jan 2.-Tommy Sul- Iivan of Brooklyn won from Danny McMahon of Philadelphia before the Columbia Athletic club in the fifth round last night. In the first round McIahon forced the fighting and crowded Sullivan to the ropes several times. Sullivan kept his man going, knocking him down time and again. In the fourth round McMahon went down five times and took the count up to 9. Tn the fifth, after he had been knocked down twice, McMahon's sec onds threw up the sponge. In the preliminary bout Fred Vanuck of New York and Frank Hamel of Detroit fought eight rounds to a draw. 1,5O0 people witnessed the contests.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-22

Fridays meeting. MT Davenport's scheme of each club taking the home receipts, which was brought up at the last meeting, will be acted upon at the meeting Friday. Favorable action upon it will probably be taken, as the majority of the clubs have signified they are in favor of it. The only clubs likely to vote against it will very like ly be AIeriden and Waterbury.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-22

pect of premier honors remaining this year with B. Carroll Schaeffer. l. a $ t S e a S O n Schaeffer W O n e V e r y scratch. competition h e entered i n a n d stood practically without an equal. So many of the big athletic clubs are equipped with ens@o1O1a e xx1 : ,xa
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-22

worry among our B r i tish cousins.
 American l a W n t e Il Il $ players have begun this early to plan 8 lively season on British c 0 u r t s. They wish to give t h e Britishers 8 hard time defend ing the champion ship. With the D o o t e a III of America. ready to
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-22
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Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-22

shared only with "W izar d Jake" Schafer the repu- tation of being a gre t "showy player.' It has been nip and tuck among those who classed c a T t e r among their inti- mate friends in the arg Il m e n t over their respect i've abilities in this line. Carter,
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-22

a " e b W O r k O. g t e e l b e a m s ? Could any struc- fural iron worker attain prominence in t h e skating world? These two queries, asked by a well-known pa tron of skating races, were in spired by the re- cent success of John L a n gl e J,
 Uho won the Illi-
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-22
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he has fought his way to the top un. til at present he seems to have the call Ill his class. William Madden, who has seen Gardner fight, says that he has chance with any man in the pro- fession, barring Jeffries. Ryan is in Gardner's class, and if they come to- gether the result of the mill will be watched with interest.