Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-10

THAT surely is a bunch of hard
losers down at New York and to-
II day the entire sporting world Is
heaping condemnation upon their heads.
Mobbing a visiting team that has de-
feated the home team does not go as
an exhibition of good sportsmanship,
and the acts of the mob yesterday IN
attacking Chance and his crew rightly
is charged to the New York team be-
cause there was not ample police pro-
lection for the visitors. 1t was freely
predicted that there would be trouble
on the grounds in the event Chicago
would win, and surely McGraw and
Brush should have had the foresight
to guard against just such an occur
renee as really happened. The fact
that New York may be justified in the
contention that the team won the PEN
nant by taking the game September %
does not justify the acts of the frenz1ed
mob. The highest tribunal OF the Ma
tional league heard the appeal of both
clubs and called the game a tie, and
individual opinions regarding the JUS
tifcation for this act cannot set aside
the official findings of the board. Right
or wrong, 1t goes as the fortunes of the
game and Chance has proved that he
is a better general and has better
team than McGraw, so the result OF the
plaYoff probably represents the relative
abilities of the two teams. Good sports
manship, anyway, dictates that the
fans accept the result with good grace.
Little Lord Fauntelrop writes from
his Sierra Madre retreat to inform his
friends that he is improving and eX-
poets to be in Los Angeles again in
few days. The lord surely has had a
tough time of it with this attack OF
grippe, as it has been sticking around
with him like a poor relation and ne
is unable to shake 1t. Every time he
gets out and tries to kid himself into
the belief that he is convalescent he
has to return to the bedquilt treatment.
He is resting nicely under ton OF
heavy blankets and says he Is just get
ting a bit warm, after several days IN
effectual effort.
San Pedro fight bugs will be treated
to a good boxing show about October
23. It is intended to put on four ten
round bouts between good boys OF Los
Angeles and San Pedro and the pros
pective card shows up as most at
tractiVe one, even for the Los Angeles
fans. Matchmaker Henze Is trying to
arrange the following card and VII!
stage il October % If none of the local
clubs has q show that night: Young
Dougherty VS.. Kid Arcy, Kid Martin
VS.. Oyama, Kid Williams VS.. Young
English and Charlie Anslinger VS.
Chowder johnson. The seaside club
officials also say that they will give a
banquet at the halfway house tne
evening of the fight at which the Los
Angeles and San Pedro sporting writers
will be the guests.
Jefrries and Frank Wilson of the
Orpheum are great cronies and a few
evenings since, while entertaining each
other at the Saddlerock reminiscencing
they made a wager. jeff thought ne
could eat more Holsters than wilson
while the latter obstinately refused tc
believe it. They went after the lob
sters on a winner-take-all basis, the
loser to pay the bill. JEFF found the
pace too fast and the job too Dig, so ne
called 1t off after about an hours naro
work and asked for the check.
With the boxing game put on the
hNnk in Milwaukee, 1t begins to look
like Mr.. T. e. Jones and Billy Papke
had reaped their reward for their breach
of contract with the Jeffries Athletic
club. There Is no place open to them
now, as the Frisco clubs would not
want to take q chance at having a
good card spoiled for their ThanksglV-
ing date. and the local clubs are not
running after the match. This lesson
NAV teach the fighters the necessity
for keeping faith with the promoters.
Dick Cullen wants to meet any light
weight in the business and is here to
arrange matches. He talks right, say
ing that he is not particular whom ne