Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-19

behind the bat for the Tigers; Jeffries,
less Stovall of Cleveland. who will
arrive today; Walter Johnston of the
Washington Americans. and other dia-
mond and sporting stars, play In the
game, and 1t should attract fans In suf-
ficient numbers to net quite nice sum.
Manager McCarey received a tele-
gram last night from Jim Flynn, in
which the fighting fireman said that he
would arrive at o'clock tonight over
the Salt Lake. Flynn probably will
train at the East Side Athletic club,
his old quarters.
I.atonia will open It's gates today for
the final season of racing in Kentucky
this year. The management will at
tempt to install bookmakers In their
stands and defy the state racing COM
mission, which recently refused per-
mission for substituting bookmakers
for the pari-mutuel system. This will
mean a fight and o resort to courts,
where the judiciary of the state will
have an opportunity of passing upon
the constitutionality of the act Great
ing the commission and, incidentally,
the act which in a way legalizes betting
on races. This probably will mean the
end of racing in Kentucky. And yet
the persons interested in the success OF
the turf are yelling their heads or In
denunciation of the "long hairs" for
putting the sport on the bum. 1t the
"long hairs were as effective In TINS
regard as the friends CD of racing
there would be no more racing any
where. ANY time the courts or the
legislature of state has had an op-
portunity to pass upon the fate OF the
sport history records the death of the
game.
Eddie Konetchy. first baseman for
the st. Louis Cardinals, has been Sc
lected as manager for 1908, succeeding
Johnny McCloskey. Konetchy is the
Youngest manager OF a big league club
in the history of both big leagues, be-
ing only % years old. He has great
record in the game, having played pro-
fessional ball four years, participating
in 523 games, and never missed sched-
uled game in all that time. He Is a
crack player, and the Robson 5yndi-
cate that owns the cardinal franchise
will back his efforts at getting first
class team for 1903.
Howard Baker deserves consideration
by the two fight clubs doing business
in Los Angeles, and since his great
battle last Friday night with Willie
Fairbanks, in which Baker showed high
class, the rams are ueHlanulHS tndt ue
be given what is coming to him-a
first class main event engagement.
Baker is a clean fellow in every way.
a crackerjack and classy scrapper, and
is entitled to a chance to prove his
mettle In a bout with some \scrapper
who can make him extend himself. He
is an excellent drawing card and some-
body is overlooking bet in not putting
him on in the feature bout of an early
card.
Jimmy Britt proposes to try the Job
of tuning up the boxing game In
London and says he has a syndicate
of wealthy English sportsmen to back
him In q new fight club that will be
conducted along modern lines. That
probably accounts for the sudden trip
of Willus to England. With the smoke
stack kid on the job and doing the
persuading the Britts will get about all
the financial backing they want in
England. Willus could make a man
believe he was blind II given few
moments of earnest and silent audi
ence while he talked. Jimmy says
whites will fight whites and the blacks