Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-03-23

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tween the American and National leagues
! is not at all improba bic; in fact there is
a strong probability that the war will
break ont again before the season is very
old, if not before the championship sea-
son opens This is the note sounded by
/ Henry killilea, owners of the Boston
| American league club, in an interview in
which he scores the National league mag
mates unmercifully and upholds the stand
taken by President Ban johnson regard
ing the Ridgewood case and schedule af-
! fair.
Charles Truitt, who last season pitched
such remarkable ball for the Nashville
Ind) club, has been signed By Manager
Tebeau for the Louisville team in the
American association at $50 a month.
Fob Unglaub is practicing at second
base for the New York Americans, and
the story is out that ne may take the
place of Jimmy Williams. Elberfeld a
short and Unglaub are said to be a whirI-
wind palr.-New York News.
Manager Louis Bacon Of the Troy club
has made President Johnson a PROPOSE
ton in writing for the WASHINGTON club
Manager Duffy of the Phillies is report
ed making efforts to sign Harry Pat
tee the star shOrtstOp Of the Brown un-
versity team.
1t is reported that Tom Williams. once
a Senator and last season with Indian
apolis. has signed q contract to pitch for
South Bend, in the Central league.
The Boston club. after declaring that
Abattichio would not be with the team
this year, has signed him again He
probably will be used as utility man.
1t is announced in Washington by
President Ban Johnson that Tom Lotus
will again handle the Senators the COM
ing season. The club has not been sold
try and get Isbell and Tannehill from
! COmiSkey.
| Tom Williams has not signed an
| Evansville contract owing to the fact
that he has not been released by the In
dianapolis club. The old pitcher will be
continued on the twirling staff if he
shows the form he did the season of 1902.
and from the reports from Hot Springs
he is likely to do this. Last fall Will
lams was loaned to the Evansville club
my Manager Watkins and he finished out
the season there. In all probability he
will go to Evansville if Indianapolis does
not want him.
Pitcher John MalarEey has been pur-
! chased from the Boston club by Column
bus. He was with the Eastern league
previously and has fine record.
The ST Paul club has secured ". 7.
Slagle. an outfielder, who played with
/ Spokane last year.
| Jack Eatoll the big German twirler,
has turned coach and for the next two
weeks will teach the youngsters at Pur-
due the art of pitching. He belongs to
| Minneapolis.
/ Indianapolis in all probability will get
! the services of Outtielder Schwartz. now
in training with the Cleveland American
I league club. Manager Phillips was after
! the man last winter, and he has a prom
Use of Manager Armour to let him have
the player. providing Cleveland does not
use him this year.
If Manager Kelley of ST. Paul can
| secure Phil Geier again this year. and
! there is some chance of his doing SO. he
will have an outfeld fully as good as last
| years. The infed is already strong
/ enough. even II Aubrey does not come.
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After twenty rounds of hard fighting
Marvin Hart of Louisville was given the
decision over Sandy Ferguson of Boston
! by Referee Pat Eardy last week at Hot
| Springs. The fight was before the Whit
| tington Park Athletic club and drew one
of the largest crowds of the season. Many
| thought Ferguson deserved draw. Hart.
however. forced the fighting all the time,
but he had much difficulty IL doing seri-
! Gus damage. On the other hand INergu,
son landed many left jabs to the face and
sent Hart to the floor in the seventh
round for the count of seven. In the lat
| ter part. however, Hart fought fiercely.
He landed many telling kidney blows with
few hard face and head swings and up
! per cuts. Ferguson was much the heav-
Ter and had the longest reach. but the
! difference Of the styles of lighting aided.
Hart weighed in at 1S5 and Ferguson
at 1877. The betting was two to one on
Hart.
John Flood, who fought John L. Sulli-
van nine rounds on a barge anchored in
the East river near He'll Gate. in 1880,
died suddenly at New York. Flood was
90 years old.
Jimmy Gardner of Lowell. Mass, broth
er of George, the light-heavy weight, was
given a well-merited decision over Mike
| Ward of Sarnia, Ont, at the conclusion
of their sixround bout at the Ninth
| Ward Guards Athletic club, Chicago.
| liSl week, OuIc1aSSlnS MS opponent III
every round but the first two. Ward
did good work in those rounds. but Gard
ner punished him at will and had him
groggy and bleeding from the third
round on.
| In the semi-fnal Adam Ryan of Phila-
delphia and Harry Griffin, a lightweight,
fought six rounds to draw In the
preliminaries Kid Taylor defeated Jimmy
OBoyle in six rounds; Curley Ulrich
won from Orville Thorne. and 'Missis-
sippi' stopped Johnny Martin in the
! fifth round.
James e. Sullivan, chief of the phys
ical culture department at st. Louis, an
nounces that in conjunction with the
| Olympic games he has arranged to hold
an interstate amateur boxing tournament.
to be held July s and 8. The following
weights will be contested: 105, 10. 125,
49,. 145, 1913 and the heavy weight di-
vision. Two men will be selected from
each class, making in all fourteen eligi-
BILE from each state The week of Sep