The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-31
LATEST SPORTING GOSSIP

fourteen rounds TO knock out Kid Broad.
or rather this length of time 10 make
Broud quit at San Francisco on last
Friday night. has again brought Up the
question Of what kind Of a fight would
take place If Haulon and Herrera met.
1t will be remembered that Herrera
Knocked Broad out in four rounds at
Butte last summer, and now it takes the
pride Of Csiifornia over three times as
long to turn the trick. It Is just possible
that some Of the inside details Of that
Butte fight have never been published.
which might explain why things occurred
as they did.
Dave Sullivan says ne never vas 50
happy in his life as now. owing to the
fact that he IS 20 meet Young CoVbett.
i've been after him a long time adds
Dsvey. Its the chance I've been looking
for
Dawes zlee after Corbett gets through
with him will be an interesting thing TO
gee
In his fight with seiger at Oakland
last Wednesday evening jack CordeH did
not begin to make the showing he did re-
Gently against AureliO Herrera When
Cordell got a decision over Herrera he
was touted. as a coming wonder, but his
poor showing against Seiger on Wednes-
day gave him ql.ite q. set back.
They are evidently getting busy up at
Butte preparing for the baseball season
when IL opens Walter WilmOt is now =
part owner in the Butte club. and II IS
said has o good sized block Of stock. VIII
mot has writtep TO the members OF the
old team who have been notified when
to appear for practice. He has the Work
of selecting a team well in hand and a
good strong club is promised. Pisgy
Ward has asked for his release, saying
that he preferred playing nearer home.
and that he had splendid offer from the
Scranton pa CLUB Doubtless Wtlmot
Will give Ward his release il he insists.
"Strikeout pitching feats," says Ben
Donnellv, a rabid tan on football. base
ball and boxing are always talked OF
for years and are not fCTgOtten till long
after the fellows who made the records
have vanished from tho game marx
Baldwin ana Toad Ramsay hole big rec
ords under the old distance and old rules.
I guess Noodles Hahn, Who t2nneo our
sixteen OF the B0stOns in 1902. has the bun
under the new rules and the foul strike
code. OF course. under the fou!-strlke
there viii be many more victims via the
third-strike route than formerly.
The most remarka BILE strihe-out rec
ord / ever remember. whether amateur CT
professional. was made in 1889 by Ames,
the Princeton Pi5eneT. ne IVES one %,
the big college stars OF that era, q 81
ived-stilI Ives--iu Chicago. During MS
summer vacations Arnes wcEtd niteh Tor
amateur and profcssi1ual teams, and
IVES a holy terror tn these little fellow E.
Tn those DAYS there was Com1ercidi
league in that town. which played some
awfully fast bah. and Ames wss pitching
5 for the .TenEey-fsTahams one of tie best
: teams in the Commercial The teams
used to wander all over Illinois, Indiana
{ and Wisconsin on off days. 3nG u SO
+ CHANGED one day that the Jenney-tire-
hams tackled little rube team. which
! proved 20 be the goods.
THE game went fifteen innings. Durlns
those fifteen innings Ames struck eu'
/ thirty-three Of the hsyseeds. and yet was
I beaten. something like , to 2 ] tninh
/ that record, thiTtv-three striks-Outs viii
: live as the high-water mark for either
amateur or professional bslL
+ Wrestling matches when they are
wrestling matches and not mere hippo
/ dromes. arc OF TIE finest % sports oe-9rs
+ tho public today. It is almost ImpCssi 5is
I 10 conceive OF any snort that can sGua
IN evenly arranged match between two
! we'll deVeioDed athletes well Versed ia
/ wrestling lore. These events. however
are few and far between. Is greater
( percentage OF wrestling bouts ere hippo
! dromes pure and simule. However II ap
pears as ii ono really blood match De-
tween tire top nUtChers was pulled Uft ~
! Bpiiiugham Wash. last "wednesday
night. when Tom jenkins and Frani
( Gotch met for the world Champion NIP
! GotCh Won. as was expected by ali tnps'
I posted ia the wrestling game, aud III 40
! Ing so gave jenkins one OF the hdfuts
( beatfuas be ever had iu his lie. Fo'
! years jenkins and Mcleod. together VIII
I numerous Terrible Turks. have beef
( coming me eastern fuU-lt- anu ttt
4 worlds cham sionships have changed
/ hands whenever II was 50 the interest q
I the gate receipts TO pave 1t do sc. Gotef
/ has been trying 20 break up his com
/ binatiCn for some time. but could not in
/ fuce the eastern wTestlers TO give him Z
! chance However. at last Jenkins con
scented. and met his Waterloo last W eo
nesday nlsht. it IS claimed that Gotcl
/ Is square wrestler and II is nOped so
/ the best interests Of the game That n
! viii continue remain as such.
TAKE two teams evenly matched, an.
( the team that doesn't wrangie or spliit
ter at the other players or the umpir,
viii win the most games. saws Conni'
I Mack. According To the old Baltinor'
ard Cleveland style. sou nad % kiri
! I'D a great fuss 10 win. But thOs'
1 teams. with their strength would havs
won twice as lnagfE games had they 81
still on the bench. The Boston Amerl
| can league team is @ quiet one. = al
WAYS IN the game. and winnins without