The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-05-19

see the New YOrk-ChlcagO game,
took a flying leap from the train at
125th street station after discovering
that the express he was on did not
stop there.
Sneven weighs 255 pounds and he
bowled along the platform for 40
yards and received q number of Sc
we're Commissions and a badly bruised
arm, but even this did not discourage
him or prevent him from seeing the
last three innings.
II wish I'd seen the other Innings,
but then a man can't have every
thing" said Sneven philosophically.
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Talk about your knocks" but the
| way the sporting editor of the Salt
Lake Telegram is handing it to
Charlie Reilly's bunch of ball tossers
| is q caution. Here is a sample:
"There is really no need of base
ball writer for the local bunch as
| things are going. All a newspaper
| has to do is to set up a story and
have it stereotyped and keep it
! standing as they say in newspaper
| Offices Just head it The same old
story or Lost, as usual or any
similar mention. 1t will be all to the
| good.
Saturday the Ogdenites only trim
med us to the tune of to l. They
| might have made it 200 to 1 so far as
| the efforts of the local team could
have stopped the massacre.
with yesterdays play the result
stood only s to 5, with us on the
| losing end, of course.
AS to feature plays. Every play
the ogden team made was good, and
every play the Salt Lake team ma -
was also good--but good and rotten.
There is a great distinction, and also
great difference.
I'VE are going down the line at a
merry clip. The top of the heap is so
far away from us that it isn't even
| in the sight of vision added and aided
with a pair of binoculars.
1--WE stand in the baseball league
| Just about in the same class as Jack
Munroe does in the fighting game.
| Why, a bunch of wooden Indians,
| with their war paint gone and minus
their tomahawks, could do no worse
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"Now that John l.. Sullivan is here
and we have had chance to look him
| over" says Billie Lavigne in the Sc
attic News, at becomes more appar-
! ent than ever that to indulge in all
| l.. intx To
Charlie Mitchell and the fine fight
| that he is still able to put up is tom
my rot. Sullivan looks like a well
preserved man of 65-and in every
| thing but years is that old--and to
| talk of his fighting anybody is ridicu-
lous. I did not see Mitchell when he
was here the other day, in fact have
never seen him in my life, but l
imagine he is not more able than is
John to put up fight.
| "Throughout his career, the great
est in the history of the ring, 1t has
been the proud boast of John and his
| friends that he has always been on
| the square. 1t is too late now for
him to give the public anything but a
|
not put up a decent fight for five min
| utes without months of training and
| for them to come out and give the
public an idea that they were going
| to knock the blocks off each other
would certainly not be giving the
( public a square deal. Sullivan's man
ager is one of the best press agents
in the business and the way he deals
out dope about how ferrocfously John
and the Englishman will fly at one
another when they meet, whether on
the street or in a hotel, is very pic
turesque but as a method of abstract
ing money from fight fans it is not
giving the fans square deal.
st looks as if the old men will
come together Why not be honest
with the public? Sullivan is a good
! drawing card as he is and there are
a lot of people anxious to see Nit
| chell. If it is announced that the two
| old dodgers are to meet and have a
| friendly bout of four or six rounds
| of short duration 1t would be all
! right, but If it is heralded abroad
that they are to give a bang-up ex-
hibition of boxing. and are going to
wipe out the jealouses and old scores
| that have accumulated during the
| past century or so it will simply be
robbing the public and putting an
other nail in the coffin of the fighting
| game.
John, you have always been on
the level; stay on the level. You
don't have to fake to be a drawing
card"