Fergus County argus., 1906-01-12
LATEST SPORTING
NEWS

Akron, Ohio, Jan. 8.-Capt. Lajoie
and Secretary Barnard of the Cleve.
land baseball club have tested a new
pneumatic baseball, put out by a To-
cal tire and rubber company. A pneu-
matte ball was given the baseball ex-
perts along with the others of the
standard makes, and for two hours
Lajoie and Barnard pitched and bat
ted all of them. and then they an
nounced that they could not tell
which was the pneumatic ball.
The ball is similar in construction
to pneumatic golf ball manufact.
ured by the same company, and the
same patents cover it. The company
will manufacture 100000 for next
season.
Charles w. Clark, son of the Mon
tana millionaire. is racing stable
of racers at Los Angeles, in charge
of w. D. Randall, and few days
ago his 2-year-old colt Chantilly ran
away from a big field, winning a
seven-furlong race by Is lengths in
1:26h.
"A pugilist should never marry an
actress, declared Tom Sharkey re-
Gently as he fondled locket contain.
ing a portrait of former trained
nurse-Mrs. Thomas Sharkey, "It
don't pay" he continued. "Such
wives usually come to a fighter for
the notoriety they can get If money
could mend the big hole in poor
Fftz's heart, I would willingly give
him half of all I have.''
The McGovern family has given
the ring another fighter. Last week
Phil McGovern, brother of Terry
and Hughey, made his appearance
in a three-round bout at New York
and knocked out his man in the last
round. Phil must have a stinging
punch for his opponent was 10 min
utes coming to his senses. Terry
used to put them out like this when
he was in his prime.
There is a good cnance that the
great horse Hermis will be seen on
the track again next season. Hermis
and Stalwart are wintering at Albert
Shields Bound Brook farm. 1t is said
that both will start training. if so,
Messrs. Thomas and Shields are to
be congratulated, for the forthcoming
season does not promise much in the
matter of 4-year-olds and upwards.
When Sysonby and Artful are men
toned no other 4-year-old seems
ableto do battle with them at equal
weights.
One of the best contributions
regarding the comparison of fighters
of today when paralleled with the
fighters in early days is the following
taken from conversation with
James w. Coffroth in San Francisco;
Unquestionably not any of the
early fighters were equals of the men
Of the modern school in point of ex
treme cleverness. Fourteen champions
of England and the world are record
ell before we come to man who can
be accepting as possessing even the
rudiments of the art of skillful box
ing. Mendoza, the Jew. was the first
man to assume the orthodox fighting
position Left hand and foot forward
right hand across the body, in use tC
the present day Yet Mendoza knew
nothing of the art of retreating and
fighting while going away. Boxing in
his day, 1890, was slow and unskillful
to a degree which would seem utter
stupidity today.
Spring, who followed Grip in 1924
must be taken as the cleverest pug
Hist from the inception of regulation
sparring and being to the days ol
Mace, 1860. Spring was the Jim Cor
bett of early fistiana. He was skill
ful but could not hit a bit. No doubt
he was comparatively clever. Tha
he could be called clever in the sense
that Corbett was clever is matter
Of grave doubt.
"Jem Ward, who followed Spring
was clever and hard hitter, but no
remarkable for the first named Qualit!
as Spring was. Nick Ward. Bendigo
Tass Parker, Perry, Broome and Say
ers were not clever. In Sayers' day
Nat Langham, a clever left-handet
middleweight, beat him by straigh
Jabbing with the left. Langham wa'
not clever beyond using this straigh
left and sticking to it.
"Mace was probably the first of tn
very clever boxers. Unquestionabl.
his skill compared very favorably will
that of Corbett. Ryan, Dempsey. Jack
son. Mccoy and other master tactic
ians of latter days. A straight hltte
with both hands. a cutting one, too,
man who never missed an opening AM
VINO was himself very hard to hit
Mace must be rated the first really cl
err fighter of the ring in latter-da,
acceptation of the term. The fact tina
he instructed the Australians how +
box and the men they sent to thi
country in the early '90's proves tha
Mace was a wonderfully clever mar
Jackson was the highest exponent O
ne Mace school of boxing. His styl
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