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Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24
FOR
GRIDIRON DAYS
Indications Are Favorable to Extraor.
dinary Activities Among South
ern Football Teams Throueh-
out Fall Season

At a meeting of the Rangers football
club Thursday night Steve Bloomer,
formerly of Derby county, was signed.
1t also was decided to purchase new
shirts for the club, and pleasing pat
tern has been selected. New balls now
are being imported and will be the best
obtainable in Scotland.
William McCubbin, who is going to
the state fair at Sacramento to exhibit
his horse, Mirror, will use the oppor-
tunity to arrange games with the local
teams in that part of the country. AT
the present time the Rangers have very
good prospects ahead of them and
doubtless will have a fine schedule of
games when arrangements have been
completed. Anyone ambitious to try
his skill at football should put in an
application for membership with Sec
retary d. Shepherd at 213 South Main
street. The dues are 50 initiation fee
and rs cents a month.
The prospect for a good season Of
soccer football In Los Angeles is ex-
cellent. The football teams already Or
ganized are the Los Angeles and the
Rangers. Those in contemplation are
the U. s. C. and Los Angeles hign
school. A movement Is on foot to
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teur union and already plans are being
formulated to secure a charter from
this amateur organization.
At a meeting held i'm San Francisco
the California Football association made
successful application for membership.
Capt Tom Higgins of the Rangers has
written to the northern universities for
football dates, and no doubt for the
first time the north and south will
clash in an annual soccer contest.
There is a prospect that Coach Walter
Hempel of st. Vincent's college will
develop a team to pass away the idle
moments of the junior athletes. w. w.
Tritt, chairman Of the grammar school
athletic committee, is very favorably
impressed with soccer and may recon-
mend it at the annual meeting of the
athletic boards of the grammar and
high schools. From the present OUT
look a spirited argument will be in
dulged in, as some prefer the Rugby
game, while others are in favor of
soccer. Rugby is a favorite game in
Southern California and has been played
steadily by Redlands, Long Beach, Po-
mona and Polytechnic high school. One
of the classiest games that ever was
played on a Southern California field
was between the Polytechnic and Red
lands teams for the championship of
Southern California, in which the latter
won by small margin.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24

Consequently, everyone is trying to get
as much speed out of his animal as
possible in the hope of beating his
own mule. 1t is worth going some
distance to see. Geers, Myron, Nc
Henry, Scott, Hudson, Lou Mcdonald
and the late Jack Curry, who was an
adept at the game, team" their hy-
brids. A kicking strap half the size
of belt in a sawmill not only -
fashionable but Is a necessary ad-
junct to the harness.
carIokin's Fast Mile
Will Durfee's Carlokin went a fast
mile in the Oakland Baron 2:13 stake
at Poughkeepsie last week, which
Hamburg Belle won in 2:05 la. Sec
retary Balm and President Rupert
must have CREASED their track this year
to make it so slick, for heretofore II
was one of the slowest tracks on the
circuit. The great Cresceus was All
in" to do it in 2:06 AZ in his last ex-
hibition over it, though it was espe-
cially prepared for him. However, II
is one of the incest tracks in the east
to train a horse on, as it Is safe, never
bakes and has lots of shade, excellent
stabling and good country roads to JOB
on. Durfee has an entry, Coronado
2:O9 Ia, in the $50,000 American Irot-
ting Derby at ReadyilIe this week me
$4,000 first money will do to open
nice bank account in Los Angeles anu
he will only have lfty or sixty otnef
horses to beat to get 1t.
Fast Time at Chico
The state record was lowered py
Berta Mac in the 2:14 trot, when sne
tramped the second heat in 2;0S nas'
with Nogi second and Ted Hays getu-
ing, Richie Baron, third. Ihen sne
same day the coast record 1or 9iA
heat pacing race, was lowered py Soiii aa
B. Conway, in which f. ID. Waro was
second with the LOS Angeles mar, vS,
Maelade. He also won with Emlly
IN Ine 2:2O stake. Emily undoupleuly
is on her good behavior ana nnaAans
up for the first race at Santa nose'
where she got the flag In the nrst Iea.. ass..
Since 1905 there seems to nave peeh
a scarcity of stations obtaining rec
ords Of 2.1O or better, In 19O0 tnere
were eight and in each succeeding year
hut this one less to enter the charnleu
circle. This fact, and the increasing
demand in Europe for sucn stanions,
began to create a fear that IN d lew
years we would be snort OF tne pssL M
horses to breed TO, put aiIsauy snis
=, Car1olrIn 2.08 Ia; Colonel Osborne,
a:O8 IA and Fleming Boy, 2:O1 l-z' ana
there still are nearly three months Tor
others to take records. sterling NC
Kinnev almost can be counted as this
-rea =, : ,,roduet as he started the sea-
son with a mark of 2:09 IA, which he
has lowered to 2:06 ga. Two OF these,
carIoIsin and Sterling Mckinney. are
hv the great Mckinney, 2;ll la, ana
Colonel Osborne goes directly IN the
male line to Alcyone' the sire OF NC
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24

BY Associated Press
SYDNEY, N. S. W., Aug. "a.
Tommy Burns, the American
heavyweight, won from Bill
Squires in the thirteenth round.
SYDNEY, N. S. W., Aug. "a
(Monday), $40 p. m.-Pender-
gast, the lightweight champion
of the American feet, this after
noon defeated Raft of Sydney in
the fifth round of what was
scheduled to be a 10-round fight.
SYDNEY, N. S. w, Aug. 23.--
Tommy Burns, the American heavy
weight champion, will meet Bill
Squires tomorrow night for the third
time. The local syndicate which is
managing the fight to be held here, and
those to be held In Melbourne, has
booked passages for Burns and Squires
back to England, so elaborate have
been its preparations.
The syndicate has about $4,000 at
stake covering the fight between Burns
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24
BIG PARTY TO
MEET KETCHELL
NINETEEN AUTOS ALREADY
ASSURED
PLAN RECEPTION AT cAHUENGA
PASS TAVERN
Champion Leaves Santa Barbara This
Morning and Local Delegation
Will Greet Him at Road
House at 2 O'Clock

Two Of the greatest fighters in the
world will arrive in Los Angeles be-
fore midnight, being Stanley Ketchell,
mfidleweight champion of the world,
and Bill Papke, his most formidable
rival. Great reception plans have been
made by the Jeffries Athletic club for
extending a welcome 10 the scrappers.
An automobile reception committee will
meet Ketchell and his party at Ca
huenga Pass tavern this afternoon ana
the entire party probably will meet
Papke upon his arrival.
Ketchell and party are coming from
San Francisco in an automobile,
White Steamer and arrived in Santa
Barbara last evening. Baron Long lost
his usual Sunday rest by staying in his
office until o'clock to hear from
OConnor, manager Of the champion, by
long distance telephone, SO that ar
rangements could be made for meeting
the party.
Immediately after talking with
O'Connor the doll-faced kid jumped
into an auto and drove out to the
tavern to arrange for the reception of
the pugilistic notables and announced
the plans as follows: All those who
expect to drive out in their autos are
requested TO IOTIH III llie III rum Va
Jeffries' cafe not later than ! o'clock,
when start will be made for the tavern.
Ketchell and party will arrive at the
tavern at about a'clock, if they
have no serious accidents. A short stop
will be made at the tavern for lunch
before returning to Los Angeles.
Already nineteen automobile owners
have signified an intention of being in
the receiving line when the champion
= at ha and Long
issues an invitation to all others to
Join who may be so disposed. Quite g.
large number of sportsmen who are
not fortunate enough to own an auto
mobile will attend, and arrangements
will be made for them to ride with one
of the auto parties. 1t is expected that
the local delegation of Welcome to our
city" fellows will number at least loo
persons. Those who will furnish cars
are Bob Golmer, Jack Doyle, Tom
Mack, Jack Ripper, Harry Burt (3l,
Henry Harrison (2), White garage (S),
Billy Ruess ~, Eddie Maier, Jim Nor
ley, Glenn Edmonds. Mamma Wood
i'll and A. B. Cohen.
The last telegram received from
Papke was dated at Omaha, but it did
rot state which route the Papke party
will take from that city, although II
said that they would arrive here at
o'clock tonight. Further telegraphic In
formation is expected by the club to-
day.
Manager O'Connor, speaking from
Santa Barbara for the Ketchell party,
said that they had enjoyed the ride to
that city and had seen so much that
they almost were ready to believe the
tales of the sunny cline of Southern
California and had become most
anxious to arrive in Los Angeles that
they might give this climate business a
thorough test. In the party are
Ketchell and Manager O'Connor, his
son Joe, who is Ketchelrs trainer, and
the chauffeur.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24
BY JAY DAVIDSON

m HE difference in weight that ex.
lists at this time in favor OF Al
Il Kaufrnann is responsible In q
large degree for the long odds laid
against the chances of Jim Flynn in
their fight tomorrow night at Nc
Carey's club. Few fans realize, how
ever, the vast difference that really
exists in their weights. After work.
ing ont over a more extended route
than he usually tackles Kaufman
tipped the beam at 1ss pounds, while
Flynn weighed 166. or thirty-three
pounds less.
This is a great handicap for any
fighter, but it does not seem to have
any effect whatever upon Flynn. When
he was told the exact figures last night
and informed that he is shortender
at 10 to 6, he authorized the statement
that he is ready to bet any part OF
$1,000 that Kaufman does not stop
him in the ten rounds allotted for their
individual supremacy test tomorrow
night. He added. also, that he is go
ing into the ring with all confidence
in his ability to trim the native son
most decisively.
There is no getting around the fact
that no gamer fighter ever stepped
into any ring than Jim Flynn. He has
proved his gameness upon numerous
occasions, and never in all his ring
career has shown the least suspicion
of the yellow. He seldom has been so
fortunate as to get on match with
fighter at his own weight and says
that it has come to be such a common
thing for him to give away from ten
to forty pounds in weight that a lit
tie thing like thirty-three pounds will
not worry him at all.
His Gameness Proved
His gameness was given the severest
test possible in his fight with Battling
johnson last time they met 1t seemed
like cinch that johnson would knock
out the fighting fireman at one stage
of the fight, but Jim rallied and came
back and won the fight, putting up the
gamest sort Of an exhibition and maxi
ing the greatest uphill fight ever wit
messed in a local ring. Johnson held
a weight advantage over him similar
to that which Kaufman will have to-
morrow night.
In addition to being game, as must
be conceded in favor of any man who
Will tackle a job against the odds Of
weight, height and reach, he also has
a punch that has been forced into the
respect of every fighter who has ex-
perienced its effect. Tommy Burns
testifies that he took more severe pun
ishment in his fight with Flynn than
in any fight ne ever had. 1t is because
Flynn is so game, has such a punch
and is such a willing rough-house
mixer in the ring that he has earned
the great popularity he enjoys in Los
Angeles and wherever, he has fought.
Few fighters can claim any greater
popularity.
Today Ends Training
This will be the last day of work at
both camps. Kaufman will box six
or eight rounds, In addition to doing
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24
MULES RACE AT
MATINEE MEET
LOCAL HARNESS MEN PLAN
NOVEL FEATURE
Local Horses Make Excellent Showing
at Chico and on Grand Circuit.
Durfee Has Entry In Trot-
ting Derby
BY DAN PATCH

There will be a matinee harness meet
at Agricultural park September IL, not
September 8, as at first intended, and
added to the five trotting and pacing
races there will be a novelty in tne
form of a mule race. The entries for
the regular races close September 3
and all should fill well, for most of the
real race horses are out on circuits in
different parts of the country and this
will give the bona fide road horses a
chance that they would not otherwise
have.
1t is not exceptionally fast time but
close finishes that makes the interest In
a horse race. Those who saw race
at a county fair in Maryland twenty
or more years ago, between two un-
known horses, Daisy A. and Tobacco
Boy, never will forget it. The gelding
won in three straight heats, the fast
est being about 1888, but at no time
in the three heats was either one more
than a neck in the lead, and they al
ternated like the pendulum OF a clock
and both were op their tiptoes the en-
fire distance. The 5000 or 10000 people
present were as excited as II they had
heen watching a stake race like the
M &. M. at Detroit or the Charter Oak
at Hartford. AS for the mule race, it
will be on the plan of the similar event
at Lexington.
TransyImuIia at Lexington
After the Transylvania $4,000 stake
for trotters has been raced at Lexington
they have a race called the Transyl-
mulia, in which all the prominent grand
circuit drivers have a mount behind
some mule. hooked to a road cart, and
for which every "darlxy" for miles
around has been training his long
cared steed for weeks. The name of
the entry is emblazoned on a three
foot square of cotton and either at
tached to the seat and axle Of the cart
or to the back strap and shaft. Evan
geline and Maud Mud seem to be fav-
orite names. The winner always Is the
last mule to arrive at the wire, so no
one Is allowed to drive his own entry
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24

and Squires in Sydney, and between
Burns and Bill Lang in Melbourne.
For the fight tomorrow night Burns is
to be paid $4,000, win or lose, and
$250o for expenses. Squires is to be
paid $5259, win or lose, which includes
expenses. For the fight in Melbourne
with Lang, Burns is to receive an addi-
tiopal $4,000, win or lose. Lang is the
present heavyweight champion Of Aus
tralia, while Squires formerly held that
title.
Burns in an interview tonight said
that he was suffering from a slight
cold, but that he expected to win both
fights very easily. Squires, who al
ready has made but sorry showing
against Burns on two occasions, did
not hesitate to assert confidently that
he stood good chance of winning.
He is in good condition and has UNDER
gone some training. the conditions here
being more agreeable to him than in
any of the foreign countries where he
has fought.
There is not much betting on the
outcome of the Burns -Squires fight.
Burns generally is a warm favorite.
Pendergast, the lightweight champion
of the fleet, will meet Raff of Sydney
in a ten-round preliminary.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24

Kinney. while all but Carlokin trace
hack on the maternal side to Belmont
(64) and Fleming Boy is great grand
son of Tlectioneer (125), which speaks
pretty well for California breeding.
Durfee's Big Winnings
The Durfee horses won $S250 at De-
troit and s1100 at Kalamazoo. Add to
this the Peoria and Terre Haute Win
ninps and those at Buffalo, including
the bie end of the $4,000 stake that
Carlokin captured, and the stable Is
on Fasy street, very near the corner
of Comfort avenue. 500
The four new 2:04 PAGERS Of 1908 are
stallions-Copo de Orc, Minor Heir, The
Eel and Hedgewood Boy.
Tbis certainly is a trotting year.
lack Leyburn, 2:O4 IA; Margaret o,
S.0e ia: Amy Brooks, 2:05 IA; High
hall. 2:O3 "a; Sonoma Girl, 2:05 Id;
Hamburg Belle, 2:05 IA; Alceste
a.o7 IA: Sterling Mckinney, 2:06 ga;
Spanish Queen, 2:07 Ia; Fleming Boy,
o.07 Ia: Lillian r. 2:06 3-4; Angola,
200; wilkes Heart, 2:06 Ia; Carlokin,
2.O8 Ia: Berta Mac, 2:08; Zomalta,
2:0S IL, and others, galaxy of speed
that never has been equaled.
Levy Sc Miller are getting together
a racing stable and will start at Al
hunueroue, N. NJ, then go to El Paso
and Phoenix. They have leased Gold
Nut, 2:12 IL, trotting, and the black
stud. Bouton DOR, q PAGER with
trial of 2:08 IL, and bought a trotter
for the slow classes.
Sonoma Girl has worked the Derby
distance, one and one-quarter miles, at
a 2:08 3-5 gat.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24
SPORTING EVENTS THIS WEEK

SPORTING EVENTS THIS WEEK
NEW YORK, Aug. g23.-The last Of
the Olympic games athletes will arrive
Friday morning and that afternoon
the team win visit Oyster Bay, where
President Roosevelt will receive its
members. Saturday a great demon
stration in their honor has been ar
ranged in New York. A monster
parade of ten divisions, comprising
athletic. military and civic bodies and
escorted by numerous bands. will
march from Forty-sixth street to the
city hall. After the parade a majority
of the Olympic winners will compete
in a series of athletic games at Celtic
park. 80. -
move to Readville, Mass, where, Tues
dav. the trotting Derby will be con-
tested for by q large field of high class
horses. The race is handicap and
the purse is worth $4,000, the largest
amount ever offered for single light
harness race.
The event Of the running turf VIII be
the twenty-flrst renewal Of the F'utur-
ity at sheephead Bay next Saturday.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24

be awarded and efforts will be begun
for putting in a team that will be
worthy representative of whatever
team is fortunate enough to be chosen
for the location of the club. Goin5s
says positively that he and his asso-
ciates are ready and willing to make
whatever showing the leagu. president
desires as a condition precedent to the
award of the franchise TO them. Berry
also says there is no room for doubling
that these men will pungle up the coin
and see the team through next season.
So it begins to look like business now,
for the first time.
Ewing is authority for the statement
that the franchise will be awarded only
for one year at the beginning, but adds
that If the club proves successful next
season the usual five year award will
be made. This is a precautionary step,
as Living says 1t would be poor policy
to give five-year franchise for an ex-
pertinent, as the club might prove as
big a frost as was the Fresno club, and
1t must draw sufficiently to pay visit
ing teams to play with it. This is a
cute way of putting the issue directly
UP to the fans and makes 1t obligatory
for the fans to prove the wisdom OF
the league directors In Lseding the cry
for continuous baseball in Los Angeles.
There is no doubt that the fans will
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24
AUTOMOBILE BREAKS
COAST MILE RECORD
San Jose Car Skins Over Distance at
Santa Rosa in Fifty-eight Seconds,
Reducing Former Mark.
Other Races Run

SANTA ROSA. Aug. 2S-Two thou
sand people witnessed the automobile
races here today. In one mile Ia tne
fvenfv-five-mfle free-for-all the
Comet, San Jose car beat the Pa
cihc coast record. going the mile In
5S seconds.
The Stoddard- Dayton car. driven by
Fred ]. Wiseman, won the twenty-five
mile race IN 29:44. its fastest mile
belng / minute seconds.
The Thor motorcycle went twenty"
i've miles In 27.18.
The Comet won the tsn-nile race
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24

for cars under $500 in 11:5, the fastest
mile being / minute 2 seconds. Buick
was second in 1873.
The ten mile race for cars over $2500
was won by the Steamers in liza, the
fastest mile being l minute 2 seconds
White second, Peerless third.
The Comet took the five-mile race
for cars of $25O0 and under in 5:41.
Buick second, 5:44. The Comet also
won the mile novelty race in 1855.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24

KID 1RENQALL Or 81. EOOlS
nY THE WAY, San Pedro will
II put on a classy fight card
~ next Friday night, when Leon
ard Lauder, the unbeaten local
lightweight. and Kid TrendaH, the
st. louis boy who came to Los An
geles to get a match with Packy Nc
Farland, are scheduled to step twenty
rounds. Now if anybody has an idea
this will not be fight it is tine to get
rid of 1t. Lauder never was so good
as he is now and he Is training as If
he expected to fight for world cham
pionship. Trendall showed remarkable
speed and punching ability in his only
local appearance, when he fought
draw with Bubbles Robinson recently
at McCarey's club. Trendall is a fast
fighter and a fierce walloper, while
Lauder is one of the fastest and clev-
crest local boys ever turned out of the
pelim ranks. He also can clug some.
This fight appears in prospect as one OF
the best matches that any club outside
of Los Angeles in this vicinity could
handle. The local sports who attended
the Montana Kid-Frank Picato fight
at San Pedro recently were SO royalty
treated by the management that 1t is
expected that fully 200 local sports
will attend. Special cars probably will
be chartered, so that the local delega-
tion can leave Los Angeles at 6 o'clock
and return after the fight. Two pre-
liminaries will precede the main event
and an interesting card is the result.
The San Pedro Athletic club manage
ment should be encouraged by local
fans in its efforts at furnishing good,
classy cards.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24
LURLINE, WINNER OF OCEAN
RACE, ARRIVES BACK HOME

= SAN PEDRO. Cal. July 2s.-The !
+ schooner yacht Luriine, Commo- !
y dore II. H Sinclair, winner OF 4
!. the ocean race from this port to Z
= Honolulu, arrived here tonight =
+ after an uneventful voyage Of !
+ twenty-one days. The yacht was =
> becalmed three days. =
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24
BURNS KNOCKS OUT SQUlRES
IN THE THIRTEENTH ROUND
HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION STOPS ANTIPoDEAN WONDER FOR
THIRD TIME IN TWO YEARS

Again Cracks That Egghe Jaw for Juicy Prize Of $4,000 Making
Third Time He Has Performed the Operation Many Diff
ferent CountriesSeems Have Become Habi-Bin Lang
Comes Next for $4,000 More-Also Gets $2500 Training
Expenses and Free Transportation
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24
Gossip of

FUy HERE is a growing sentiment IN
local turf circles that the direc-
n TORS of the Los Angeles Racing
association will make sweeping changes
in the official lineup at Santa ANITA
when they meet in october, and slAce
the publication in The Herald early in
June of the story to the eftect tnat
Lucky Baldwin was up in arms IN
campaign against Col. A. w. Hamilton
and would seek to have him replaced
bv Joe, Murphy as presiding judge, de-
velopments have been sufficient to in
dictate that there is more truth than
poetry in the story. In Action 10 the
practically open fight that Baldwin and
his friends are making upon Col. Ham
ilton. the refusal of those in an Off
cial position to deny that the change
will be made is considered most slgnl-
fcant. To add strength to the sus-
picion that Baldwin will make fight
in the directors meeting for the sub
stitution of Murphy for Hamilton, the
fact that Hamilton went to San Fran
cisco and Lake Tahoe more than a
week ago ION a purely bu9.ness mis-
sion" is regarded as confirmatory of
the rumors that the judge isstaking the
rumor most seriously.
Col. Hamilton was asked for his
opinion regarding the rumor, ana ne
said he had not heard anything Off
cially and did not regard 1t seriously,
but the fact that he has passed prac-
tically the entire summer in Los An
geles and now is at Baldwin's summer
resort in company with the president
of the association, indicates that he is
seeking to get definite line on his.
of holding the job. The fur
ther fact that Barney Schreiber is
known to be more favorably inclined
to the appointment of Murphy than for
Hamilton strengthens the suspicion
that hamilton is in fair way to lose
out. This probably will not mean that
Hamilton is to disappear from the Off
cial list, however, as the early plans
regarding the proposed sweep
ing changes contemplated placing the
judge in another official position, as
pointed out in The Herald story last
June. Yet, wherever the subject is
1t seems to be general opin-
ion that the judge will not be back in
the judges stand next winter He
probably will have an official position,
as he is a stockholder but it will be
elsewhere than in the stand. unless all
signs fail.