Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-27
BRIEFS OF THE
SPORTING WORLD
BY ARTHUR e. DUNNING.

II . the SAME Ola story OF class CndI
was circulated when the White Half
Hose whaled the stuffing out of the
locals, although this time the Angelic
band is on the top of the rubbish pile.
More than half the away-from-home
series passed into history and Los An
geles still five points in the lead, and
looking better every day. Well, well,
well! Spring street has a Installation
Of Hen Berry's smile and his shining
front. Put on your gayest apparel, Oh
Hennery of ours. We will put up with
it all, even to the tarantula skin hat,
if only you will stick to your hopes and
predictions.
Who said we couldn't play ball? Who
dares to whisper that old Cap Dillon's
crew is not the classiest and gamest of
the Coast league aggregations? A long,
long silence. and then somebody whis-
pers, II didn't"
Those seven runs in the first inning
came just like rolling off a log. And
this was the team that made the An
gels look like bush leaguers in the
opening series of the season. Oh slush!
1t looks as If the locals had at last
been prodded into their real stride, and
methinks from now on there is good
prospect that Dillon will be able to
check up winner on a comfortable ma
jority of the distant games. All we
ask is that you come home within strik-
ing distance of the top o captain. We
know you'll do the rest.
Not day has passed in the last two
months that the press wires have not
been running over with a lot of trash
anent the dimly prospective Burns
Johnson meeting. Whether or not
Tommy is entitled to the, big guarantee
he is asking and whether or not he is
four flushing it makes little difference,
as long as the men fail continually to
get together. 1t would do the game
and these two fighters good If the
newspapers refused to handle any more
of the stuff they are peddling about
bitches and chickering's, until the sig
natures of both Burns and the black
man have been planted on articles and
the forfeits up for their meeting. This
Johnson Burns affair has come to a
point where it is becoming absolutely
tiresome to read of their disputes and
clubbing over petty points and such
a thing should not be allowed in a
clean healthy sport If that sport ex-
poets to keep its skirts uncontaminated.
Rudolph Unholz has not changed a
whit since he appeared In Los Angeles
before. Talk has been going the rounds
but l fail to see 1t. He is conscious
to the full that he will never be the
lightweight champion, but at the same
time he reiterates time and again that
no one else will be the champion of the
133-pound brigade as long as the Bal
timore master is in the business. His
tip, Keep away from Cans for five
wears" is a wise bunch for the other
lightweights.
Freddie Welsh all the way" says
Unholz II arrived in Milwaukee two
days after his battle with Packey Nc
Farland, when the latter was given
ten round decision over the English
man, and saw the marks on him
where Packey was forced to hit him
foul to win"
Likewise Unholz dopes Sullivan to
win from Charlie Dalton, and is sure
enough booster for Bill Papke: He
saw the Ketchell-Jack (Twin) Sullivan
go In San Francisco and he believes
that Papke is favored by the ten round
distance of the coming MILL
Mike Kutchos has gone under the
protecting wing of Jim Gaines, who
now Is in the business of managing
fighters for good. Kutchos is after a
match with Jimmy Walsh at the 115
pound limit. The fighting Greek harps
on flight men at my weight only I'M
til one is weary, but he does fight when
he gets into the ring, although he
hardly seems to figure with the BAN
tamweight champion. Still, the fact
remains that Kutchos has never been
knocked out, and he has met several
who had it on him pounds in weight.
It took three men to carry out I'm
holz' share of the Cans meeting. The
Boer fought under a $4,000 guarantee,
and carried off his share OF the gilt in
a wagon, in gold and silver, before the
audience had fairly been cleared from
the pavilion. The Dutch boy may be
awkward in the ring, but he is a fight
er and no fool. Rudolph says no one
knows lust what Cans got, but he
laughs at the story that he received
$4,000 for his end.
Another Patti farewell, but this one is
sprung on the turf instead of before the
footlights. Ed Corrigan, one of the
most prominent turf figures of the dec
ade, so press reports go, has sent his
last entry to the post. He has retired
entirely from all connection with rae
ing, and the betting ring will know
him no more. Well, maybe. and then
again. maybe not. Like the famous
prima donna, these turf men are prone
to think 1t over and come back for
more The sport draws them with a
resistless fascination, and 1t goes that
once a horseman always horseman-
also forever a horseman.
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