Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-13
Gossip of the Ratio

II ARON LONG yesterday received a
IL wire from L. E. Jones, manager
~ of Billy Papke, in which came the
information that Papke repudiates his
word of honor agreement to fight Hugo
Kelly here October IA unless Long
would make a guarantee of $4,000 for
his share, win, lose or draw. Long, in
stead of replying to this WIRE imme-
diately telegraphed to Hugo Kelly that
the match was off and that he would
try to get another opponent for him.
1t seems that fighters word of honor
always is better when they are in the
high private ranks and need the money
than when they happen Chat is the
proper word) to cop a championship
and do not need the cash. Papke has
dropped terribly in public estimation
since he has so deliberately broken
faith with the Jeffries club and should
he want to fight here again he will
find that he is not Nthe popular card
that he would have been had he gone
ahead and lived up to his contract like
man. Again, it is appropriate to OBJ
serve that if the fight promoters will
get together and organize a national
commission, similar to that in the
baseball world, for the purpose of pro-
tecting themselves against these ire
sponsible, contract-jumping fighters,
they will put a lot of self-esteeming
pugilistic buns on the hog train in a
hurry and keep the others in line at all
times.
Jack (Twin) Sullivan comes to the
front and offers to take Papke's place
in the match with Kelly, and he may
be given the opportunity. Jack is so
anxious to fight that he will be easy
70 TOLL IN raOar riding terms and he
and Kelly have fought so evenly in all
their battles it would not be a bad
match at all. Inasmuch as the club
has the date open and the. prospect is
rather poor for filing it with good
card, Sullivan-Kelly match would
not be, at all bad. Make them go
twenty-five rounds, however, as this
distance is longer than they ever have
fought. and it should be sufficient for
them to settle the question of who's
who between them.
The race meeting at the Meadows,
Seattle, closed yesterday and the horse
men are deserving the northwestern
track at a rapid rate, say the dis
patches. Many of them will go to the
brush for a brief campaign before
shipping south, but quite bunch of
them shipped away from the Meadows
track during the week and are arrlV-
ing every day at Santa Anita. Quite
a large number are expected to arrive
Monday and throughout the week, in
Guiding the coast division of Sam Hill
dreth's stable, j. ]. Walsh and others
equally as strong Most of the horses
will be given good rests for month
at least before being put into training.
Sam Hildreth will have one of the
strongest and classiest strings of thor
lit to n c
when he ships his eastern division to
Santa Anita. He will have Uncle,
Meelick and King James as stars of
the 3-year-old division and Tony
Faust, Rapid Water and Montgomery
in the older divisions and a large num-
ber of promising yearlings that ne
picked up at sales at New York this
summer, netting nearly $4,000 which
should pay the expenses of the stable
across the Rockies and then some.
The pennant races in both big
leagues have progressed to the nome
stretch period. With about three
weeks left for playing, New York
seems to have the National flag
cinched. but in the American league,
Capt. Comiskey's White Sox are go
| ing at a heartbreaking pace and seem
to be the ones Hughey jennings
| Tigers must beat for the rag. The Sox
are putting up a great uphill fight,
and by twice defeating Detroit in the
last two days, both in extra-inning
contests, the SoX have shown their
class and staying powers. st: Louis
practically is out of the running, al
| though only a few games behind the
leader Detroit At this time good
guess would be New York in the Ma
tional and White Sox in the American.
| Tom Stevens returned yesterday
| from San Francisco, and says that the
outlook for continuous baseball in Los
Angeles next season is. not as bright
as it was few days ago. Hen Berry
and Cal Ewing have gone to Portland