The Washington herald., 1907-02-10
NO CHANGES FOR GRIFFITH
Manager of Highlanders Says He
VIII Stand Pat on Club.
Willy Chieftain Declares Other Base
ball MHEBates Want 90 Trade
I Cent for $50.

New York. Feb. 9-Clarka Griffith. the
manager of the New York Americans,
who arrived from MOnata late Friday
night after stop over in Chicago, spent
the day at the clubs Office in the Flat
iron Building talking baseball.
Il shall make no changes in the team
he said, because I believe that new men
are not needed. You can say that no
deals viii be made at all In fact. I am
disguised over the way other club off,
Gals have acted IN taking over PROPOSE
tons involving An exchange of players.
They all want 20 give Up a cent piece
for a so gold piece. so that 1t is simply
out Of the question 70 waste time on deals
Of any sort.
I shall begin the season with eight
pitchers. When the season opens most OF
the pitching viii be done by Hogg. Clark
son, Doyle, and Brockett. as I want 10
go slow with Cheshire and Ortiz"
Griffith spoke in the highest terms OF
Brockett. Doyle. and Hogg. He would
not say anything about the ARRANGEMENTS
for the teams trip 20 Atlanta. as final
details had not been decided upon
The new law prohibiting bookmaking
on race tracks in Tennessee has iust
brought these interesting comments from
John Z. Madden:
This law does not make contests be
tween horses and the prizes illegal but it
is aimed at the bookmakers. No law
has ever been or ever Will be framed that
viii prevent one man 20 say to another
= bet you, and this privilege is enjoyed
by everybody To those bitterly opposed
to betting on horses. let them remember
II is after all extremely difficult 10 define
what Is and what is not gambling. Take.
for instance. Insurance? What is IL but
a gamble on house burning down.
life ending. or a ship SINKING
Ralph Rose. the giant shot-putter. who
has been a leading figure in athletics on
Eastern and Western college fields. is said
TO have been induced 10 enter the prize
ring. tt is stated that in the near future
Rose will meet Bob Ward. weH-knoWn
amateur heavyweight, before a club in
San Francisco. Rose has been training
with a sparrirg partner for some time,
and while still very much in the rough
It is said that he has shown signs Of de-
veloping into a fair boxer.
Tom Sharkey says that Willie Lewis.
the local pugilist will beat Honey Mel
lody. the welter-weight champion. wfer
they come together In a fifteen-rOund bout
at a Rhode Island club Monday night
Delegations of sporting men from this
city and Boston viii leave for Providence
Tomorrow noon 10 see the mill The
fight is attracting considerable attention.
and a large amount of money may change
hands on the result.
Hugo Kelly, who expects 10 fight Tom
my Ryan for the middle-weight champion
ship has drawn the color line. which will
bar Sam Langford from a match with
him Kelly says that Joe Thomas recently
agreed to make match at l56 pounds.
but at the last moment backed out
Thomas prefers to tackle the winner OF
the Lewis-Mellody fight.
Joe Cans has Cancelled his proposed fight
with Harry Lewis. articles for which
were agreed upon the other day. He gives
as a reason for this action that Lewis
would not accept . and . per cent
division of the purse. Meanwhile Lewis
has refused 10 meet Mike Twin Sulli-
van in ten-round bout at Denver on
February q, after signing the usual pa
pers. Lewis probably side-tracked SuIli-
van because he felt reasonably sure Of a
match with Cans.