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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08
PLUNGERS BROKE UP BETTING

Turf plungers had more to do with
the crusade against track betting 8han
anybody else" said a veteran turfman
the other day. In spite of the repeated
warnings from the racing governors. the
plungers went right ahead with their
spectacular methods at the track attract
end of sensationalism. They were not
willing to bet moderately and carefully.
but they just let their gambling passions
have free rein. Some of these .plungers
bet as much as $4,000 on single race
and did not hide the fact, either, in case
they won.
with plunging an impossibility now.
where are all the men who used to bet
thousands Of dollars every day? Pitts
burg Phil and Riley Grammar are dead,
poor fellows! Both were high rollers in
their time, but they did not care for the
spotlight. Pittsburg Phil usually kept his
ring operations a secret, but the book
makers when they trimmed him let the
cat out of the bag.
"Davy Johnson is still with us at the
track, but he Is practically broke. john
son never knew the value of money. He
has won and lost dozen fortunes on the
turf. One day last fall at Belmont Park
Johnson won So, 600 beating six races. In
a week he did not have a button, and
from that time to this he has had pretty
hard shedding. The most remarkable
thing about johnson is his ability to dig
up a new bank roll. Just how he does 1t
nobody knows, but he can get hold of
real coin when others cannot. Two years
ago johnson came out of winter quarters
with 100000. some Of which he made in
Wall street. He began his old plunging
tactics at the track. and inside of two
months he was cleaned out.
Boots Durnell Ruled Oh.
Boots Durnell was recently ruled of
the Seattle race track. Just think OF
that! Only a year ago last summer
Durnell was flying high around here. He
had John W. Gates behind him, and be-
tween them they came near cornerins
the racing and betting game. It was
Gates plunging. his 5000, $4,000 and
$4,000 wagers that enabled the reformers
to get after the race track betting with
the big stick. He was asked to quit, too,
by the Jockey Club people, but he paid
no heed until he wound up spectacular
campaign at Brighton Beach by winning
more than 500 900 from his old enemies,
the bookmakers. Gates did not have
dollar invested on the tracks. SO what
did he care for the turf? Durnell was
finally ruled off as a sort Of rebuke to
his millionaire hacker.
John A. Drake was another plunger
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WHOOPING COUGH
SAVES ELBERFELD

Kid Elberfeld and Silk OLoughlin
just love one another-not
Elberfeld generally lost four innings in
games umpired by silk although lie
sometimes managed. to struggle through
seven.
During the final series of the season
Between st. Louis and New York late iii
September. Elberfeld got into an arsu-
ment with silk that resulted in his
Punishment Indefinite suspension fol-
lowed, and it continued to the end of tie
ason. In fact, Kid went into winter
confinement with the sentence standing.
By way of explanation it might be wise
to state that several weeks before the
close Of the season Elberfeld paid a
visit to his family in Tennessee. lie
found one of his children suffering from
whooping cough. Elberfeld had never
been afflicted with the malady, and when
he joined his teammates "a few days
later he discovered that he had a bad
cough.
He consulted a physician, and was in
formed that he was 'whooper." While
coaching. the kid" often had to do his
cough stunt. and when he put it on he
had Jennings skinned u mile. 1t caused
him to be the butt of all kinds of jokes
by the players.
On the return to New York. Owner Far
rell of the team asked what he had done
10 OLoughlin.
mot u thing, replied the kid"
'He must have had some reason for
chasing YOU" was Farrells come back.
Honestly, l haven't the least idea re-
piled the Kid, unless he feared the rest
OF the team might catch the whooping
cough from me and he decided to get rid
or me-
Coming from Elberfeld, it was SO ric-l
that Farrell allowed him to get away vita
it.
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CORBETT GETTING MAULED.
Taking Strenuous Exercise at John
sons Roadhouse to Put Him
self in Condition.

NEW YORK. November 7.-Youne
Corbett has given himself job and he's
making good. Out at Johnson's road
house It's biff and bang on the stomach
from early morning until night. They are
trying to repair a champion. and the
champion is experimenting the job In
four more weeks the job will be COM
plete. and it is promised that Young
Corbett will be turned out as good as
new. Corbett never was more sincere in
his life. and he has never worked as hard
to take off the twenty or more pounds
of surplus flesh. His stomach still looks
like bit of upholstered furniture, but
If the trainers hammer at it for the next
four weeks something is bound to come
loose.
Il knew they would all give me the
laugh" said Corbett the other day, 80
l decided to hit it up for five weeks and
show them. II / fail they can't accuse
me of breaking faith. If | get Off the
weight l will simply go around to the
newspapers and let them put me on the
scales. II / can get down to weight l
can fight. ! need the money and / am
willing to work for it. / know more
about fighting than anything else, and
mere l am
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Near Champ Whips a Few
Second Raters in
Europe and Then Flees
to Australia to Avoid
Colored Man - Is Cor
nered and Has to
Scrap---Can He Whip
His Dusky Opponent?

December >. 1895, and Walcott was to
knock Lavigne out in fifteen rounds to
win. \ cut and dried trick of Fitzpat-
ricks. because he knew Walcotts best
weight was 145. and l3S was sure to sap
his vitality. For nine rounds Lavigns
kept pounding away at Walcotts body,
receiving a terrible beating In return
His left ear hung almost by a thread.
having been nearly severed by the right
hand swings of Walcott. Lavigne's abil-
ity to absorb punishment and his terrific
body blows. which repeatedly caught
Walcott under the heart. took all the fight
out of the negro. and from the twelfth to
the fifteenth round Tom O'Rourke had to
keep gun in Walcotts corner to keep
him from jumping out of the ring. La
vigne won the decision. and in October.
1897, he gave Walcott a great beating in
twelve rounds in San Francisco.
Fitzpatrick made Lavigne the light and
weller weight champion and while he had
the Saginaw Kid the latter was never
beaten. In 1889 Lavigne drifted away
from Fitzpatrick, and then his reverses
began. Fitzpatrick knows every artifice
of the ring. and If it is in, Johnson to
beat Burns the crafty manager is sure to
pull off the trick.
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Will Fight in Sydney This
Month for Worlds
Heavyweight Cham
pionship Winner to
Get $1,000 Mana
ger Fitzpatrick Evident
" Tricked Canadian
Into Making the Match.

There have been a number of stories
sent out from Australia relative to the
coming fight for the worlds heavyweight
championship at Sydney this month be-
tween Tommy Burns and Jack Johnson
says the Philadelphia Ledger. The latest
from Sam Fitzpatrick, who is handling
The big negro. would seem TO indicate
that Burns has weakened on his demand
of $4,000 win. lose or draw. In a letter
Fitzpatrick says that the men have sign
ed articles to box for purse of $50 900,
TO be divided on the basis of 81 900 to
lie winner and $4,000 to the loser. In
view of the fact that Burns before he
left England for Australia declared that
lie would not meet Johnson unless he
received $4,000. win. lose or draw. this
Information from Fitzpatrick appears to
he in the nature of surprise.
If the mill is on the level. and there
is no reason to believe that 1t will not
he decided its merits, a great fight
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should be the result Johnson. six feet
two inches tall and scaling at 200 pounds
fighting weight has been trying to make
match with Burns for two years. He
has always maintained that he could beat
Burns in limited round bout or to
finish. and has repeatedly offered to- stop
the so-called champion inside Of twenty
rounds or forfeit all share OF the purse
When Burns treated Jack O'Brien to the
double cross in Los Angeles and pro-
claimed himself champion of the world
Johnson got on his trail Immediately, but
was turned down cold. Burns said then
that he intended to draw the color line,
but as he got the merry laugh from
sporting men all over the country he
qualified his statement with the remark
that in due time he would take on the
burly negro pugilist
Pugilistic Lemons.
Burns then began the easy task Of
knocking out pugilistic lemons. He stop
ped Bill Squires in a few punches in Call
fornia, but that was after Johnson had
gone all the way to Australia to make
an unsuccessful attempt to get Squires
into the ring with him. When Johnson
returned to America and began to hurl
challenges thick and fast at Burns the
latter suddenly packed his trunks and
went to England. When he arrived on
the other side Burns said that he was the
undisputed champion of the world and
the English sporting fraternity went wild
over him. Gunner Moir. fourth rater,
was trotted out as Burns first victim at
the National Sporting Club OF London and
the Britisher was nothing more than a
punching bag. Then Burns whipped IT,
ger Smith, a mixed ale bruiser, in cou-
pie of waIlops. after which he went to
Dublin and took on Jem Roche. another
joke who couldn't fight at all. Burns all
music
halls and telling people he could beat any
man in the world.
In the midst of it all Jack Johnson and
Fitzpatrick arrived in England and issued
a challenge to fight Burns for the cham
pionship of the world. The National
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who went as far as he liked. When he
had racing stable he made things hum.
There was no limit either to his wagers.
One day at Gravesend two years ago
Drake beat seven races and won S11O,0W.
The last winner was II TO l shot on
which Drake cleaned up $50. 200.
Jesse Lewisohn. who lost $500 600 on
the races in 1906 and then won a great
part of it back last season. has not been
to the track this year. Nobody knows
whether he follows the horses or not.
Kid Weller, who in partnership with
the late Joe Clman ran The Big Store
book at Saratoga several years ago. has
quit the bookmaking business. and is now
interested in new razor. Weller says
that money is scarce and that oral bet
ting is joke.
Joe Yeager All In.
Then we have Whitley Langdon. an
other plunger who ran a shoestring into
a bankroll of leviathan proportions only
to blow it all back on the ponies. Lang
don won $4,000 in a single day several
years ago. but his luck did not stick. And
Joe Yeager. the boy plunger is all in, too.
Yeager hasn't been around here for a
long time. He went to the wall some
time ago. not long after Jockey Hide
brand became back number. That boy
was Yeager's ace. sure enough.
Charley Ellison is here with his horses.
but whatever big betting he may do is all
placed away from the track. Ellison has
hung on better than the average turf
operator and is rich man. Jack Nc
Ginnis is no longer a plunger. He hasn't
got the coin. and then again this oral
betting doesn't let fellow get much of
a wager down.
BILLY Dubois. once a high-rOller in the
clubhouse commission game. backed up
some time ago. They tell me he couldn't
collect nearly $4,000 in wagers owed to
him from last year by supposed respon-
sible patrons of the clubhouse. Just take
a look around the track these days and
you'll see many old faces. but you'll also
miss as many more. You'll find SOL
Lichtenstein there, also Tom Shaw, Billy
Conner. Orlando Jones. Joe Vendig.
Henry Harris. James Beatty, Billy Snow.
Frank Tyler and others who used to be
bookmakers. but they are practically idle.
They may take a few oral bets from
friends. but that is about all.
THE plungers have all gone and the
game is in chancery. But If the sport is
ever revived hope the Jockey Club will
treat future plungers with scant courtesy
1t would be far better if the Paris mutuel
machines were used and the bookmakers
or individual layers were abolished. In
France. where the Paris mutuel system is
in vogue. there are no plungers at all.
and betting is a secondary feature of the
racing"
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the same Squires. who took another nap.
Determined to follow Burns all over the
rick sailed for Australia not long ago
and proceeded to put 1t up to Burns in
such forceful manner that the latter
thought it best to make a match. AS a
$50, 900 purse was offered, Burns. scored
by the fight critics as a coward, conclud-
ed to meet johnson at Sydney rather than
put him OF until he reached California
where James Coffroth stands ready to
hang up a similar purse for this much
talked-of mill. But with the match to be
decided in Australia there is no chance of
seeing the great battle on American soil.
Who will carry the day? Burns is
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Sporting Club and other boxing organiza-
tions Immediately agreed to hang up
purses for the mill, but Burns said that
he would not think of fighting unless he
got $50, coo in cash before he entered the
ring. Johnson had him cornered, and
with public opinion behind him the negro
actually drove Burns out of England. 1t
did not take long for the leading British
authorities to hail Johnson as the real
champion and Burns as q counterfeit.
Johnson remained in England. beating
several minor pugilists. while Burns went
to Paris, where he TACKLED Squires again.
started for Australia, where he recently
had another desperate" encounter with
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HOW FAST WE GO.

AS the worlds activities broaden we
must go faster. The recent increase in
speed records makes one wonder if it
is possible for the future to excel them.
Mr. Charles H. Cochrane. however, makes
tonishing article Speed on the Land, on
the Sea, and in the Air." which appears
In the November Metropolitan Magazine.
For convenience In comparing speeds
made on land by various vehicles. as
we'll as by horses and men, the follow
ing table has been prepared:
Mile Records on Land.
Electric locomotive. ~ seconds, 1908.
Automobile, cSls seconds, 1906
Steam locomotive. 80 seconds, 1898.
Motor-paced cycle, 1 min. 6 1-5 Sec,
1904
Bicycle, unpaced, 1 min 40 2-5 Sec. 1904
Running horse, 1 min. 35la Sec, 1890.
Pacing horse, 1 min. 50 Sec, 1906.
Trotting horse, 1 min. ssh Sec, 1905.
Man skating. min. SO Sec, 1896.
Man running, min. 12si Sec. 1857.
Man walking, min. % sec. 1890.
It will be observed that the differ
ence between the locomotives and the
automobile is trifing. For 100 miles
the record of the steam locomotive is
much better than that Of the auto. How
ever. both the electric locomotive and
the auto may be expected to show fur
Their Improvement, as their development
Is incomplete. while their steam brother
has attained about the limit. 1t is also
interesting to note that a so-called auto
mobile locomotive has been constructed,
this being a railway locomotive designed
to use gas. after the fashion of gasoline
auto The horse racing and foot rae
ing records added to the table were all
made In recent years. Evidently we
breed better and train better than ever
before.
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fast. aggressive and a hard hitter. He
possesses science and Is a ring general
of conceded skill. His best fighting weight
is about TO pounds and he viii shape up
at least six inches shorter than johnson.
The negro Is said by expert judges OF
pugilism to be the cleverest big man in
the world today. He can punch. but
whether he Is dead game OF not under
grueling punishment remains to be seen.
Few negro fighters, as a rule. relish a
beating. and for that reason some wise
men think that Burns. with his rushing
tactics and heavy hitting. will take the
heart out Of Johnson. There are other
good judges, however, who insist that
Burns is overrated and that he never de-
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By Revere Rodgers.

paper on "How To Play Left Field" and
signed Sefbach's name to the story.
Another sporting writer on the same
paper got hold of the proof of the story
and scratched out part of the beginning,
substituting the following: always place
your back against the left field fence,
so they cannot knock the ball over your
head"
The copy was corrected. put in type.
and published. When AL read the por-
ton that was substituted for the original,
he hunted high and low for the author
with murder in his heart.
Waddell's Quick Retort.
When Rube Waddell was tending bar in
Camuen. N. j., few years ago Charley
White, the sporting writer. dropped In
to get something to eat. but something
or other had happened in the kitchen that
morning. and everything put on the table
was cold.
Look here. Rube," shouted Charley,
everything Is cold here
Just reach over on that table. Mr..
White" cried RUDE, land you will find
the pepper and mustard"
Johnny Evers' Debut in Base Ball.
John Evers. the peer OF all the second
sackers. got into professional base ball
in a queer manner. He was living in
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PITCHER WARRIOR HAS
A REAL IRISH NAME
4 deep. dark secret is out.

4 deep, DARK secret Is OUT.
Pitcher WARRIOR of the Highland
ers has another name and It's the
correct one.
The given name of the youthful
Yankee recruit is Flynn. and as the
Flynns have always done pretty
we'll in base ball, many will wonder
why he shifted.
Before going into minor league
ball Flynn was member OF the
Nebraska Indians. supposed to be
made up of real red men. The man
ager of the team could not inquire
FLYNN as an Indian, SO he gave the
name of Warhop 10 his pitcher.
lie has stuck 10 il ever since.
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Cornell Captain Elected.

ITHACA. N. Y. November THE cap
taincy of the Cornell University tennis
team has fallen to the lot of Karl e. Will
helm Of Buffalo. Wilhelm was defeated
by Bundy Of Yale at the intercollegiate
tennis tournament at Merton. Pa.
The election of Edward Heermans
Clark senior, as commodore of the Cor
nell University navy has been ratified by
the athletic council.
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Waddell's Quick Retort.
Hurst's Advice to Schaefer.

Here's a story that silk"
O'Loughlin tells on Tim Hurst.
One day last summer Tim was Of
ficiating in a game in which De-
troit was one Of the opposing
clubs. Detroits adversaries had a
man on first when the batter hit to
the third baseman. The latter
threw the runner out at first. but
Rossman took brief nap while the
first runner dashed for third. Ross
man woke up in time to just miss
getting the runner. Germany"
Schaefer made a great howl and
asked Hurst why he did not trim
his lamps.
Me lamps are all right re-
piled Hurst why don't you buy
an alarm clock for 6S cents and
give it to that gazabe you have on
first base?"
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Cannon to Fight Curley.

BUFFALO,. n. Y, November IA
bout that should be productive OF much
interest is the Eddie Gannon-Kid Cur
ley six-round go to be held here Novem-
Der IA Cannon is one of the best box
ers in this city. Curley has yet to be
beaten by any 112-pound man. Both
boxers are actively training.
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MANAGER JACK DUNN
HAS SWEET CONTRACT

Manager Jack Dunn of the cham
pion Baltimore club of the Eastern
League, is to work on the bonus
system next season.
1t will be based on a standing OF
fifth or better.
Should the Orioles finish fourth
Dunn will receive a bonus of $500.
If third place is reached 1000
above the basis will be paid to
..Dunnie." Second place will mean
an addition of SEQ. while IL he
wins the championship again he
will get check for 5000.
All this in addition to a juicy
salary.
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Pennsy Announces Track Schedule.

PHILADELPHIA. November MANA
ger Geyelin of the track team at the
University of Pennsylvania has an
nounced the fall schedule. a feature of
which Is a cross-country run with the
Carlisle Indians. to be held in Fair
mount Park November IA, the date of
the Penn-Michigan foot ball game No
vember p the intercollegiate cross-coun-
try championships will be held in Prince
ton.
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When They Hit Griffith.

One year when Griffith was pitching in
the National League something went
wrong with his arm and Clark was
given the yellow slip. He then signed
contract to pitch with the Spokane club
of the Pacific Coast League, and In a
game against the Seattle club Griff did
the twirling.
Things broke badly for him from the
start of the game. and the Seattle lads
hammered everything he tossed up.
Out in deep center field there was
clothier's sign which said the clothier
would give a suit of clothes to any play
er hitting the canvas sign.
Along about the fifth inning. after the
other fellows had made dozen or more
hits his attention was attracted by a
great roar from the crowd. Turning
around he saw the clothier desperately
tearing down his sign, and this Grin says
was the toughest roast he ever received
in his entire base ball career.
Jim Delehanty's Horse.
Jim Delehanty occasionally takes a fly
err at the ponies. and when Jim was re-
covering from his illness up in Cleveland
last summer he accompanied Dusty
Rhoades and Addie Joss out to the track
one afternoon ana plaCcO ocI oo"A "a
horse that subsequent events proved
had no chance in the running.
Addie Joss, who had left Del and
Rhoades for the time being. came up
lust as Jim was scratching his head in
perplexed manner, and cried out:
How did your horse make out DELI.
I'm just thinking about It,. replied
Delehanty; Il can't tell whether he is
last In the third race or nrst In the
fourth"
When Setback Got Mad.
AL Setback, prince of good fellows and
classy ball player. in his day. had one
bad falling. and that was his inability to
go back after a ball that was hit over
his head On account OF this weakness
AL would always play the deepest of any
fielder of his time. for he could come in
on a ball with the fieetness of deer.
One day when he was playing will, the
New York club back in 1880. one OF the
sporting writer's wrote an article for his
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Fitzpatrick Is Wily.

In Fitzpatrick the willy Burns is deal
ing with one of the craftiest Matchmakers
who ever was attached to theving. When
Joe Walcott was at his best Fitzpatrick
caught Tom ORourke. the negro's man.
ager, happy and matched Kid Lavigne
against the Barbados man killer at 1873
pounds. They fought at Maspeth. l.. l.,