Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-06
The RiQItO
By Jay Davidson

while the events were of good class and
beyond reasonable doubt that Western racing circuit
cannot be made success until the western horseme1 men
patronze the meetings by racing their horses there
east there is good prospect for far circuit
but there not enough horses of good class on the
Readve and Detroit meetings on the
r a as the SeW york sae
pect worth mentioning at this time.
It is to be regretted that the local and
Southern California harness meetings in the past
was so poor that the meets abandoned. Every
troers on the coast that would make these meetings
who's haye the meetings in the
the public does not support them and financial loss is
of the climate and many eastern owners
wes woso orsand s that could aord to give
make 1t worth while.
Jack Johnson coming back to America disappont-
ed The % ne Tb 6a m straw %aa
the by schreck the match with Johnson in
e6onE when chre h n get
dtion for the match and called 1t off When Johnson p
taking Sam Langford and any one Of half half dozen
ford is so cruel in hitting opponents
@ snat at ha
than dd6 That at o S o win TaGt to
to make the big saffron jump over the ropes
Jim Barry who is to fight Battling johnson before
Mccaeys club the night Of September 27 left New York
middle of the week Barry and Johnson will be nearer
weight Flynn and Johnson, and since
Barry and Flynn fought to draw recently it looks like
the match h wG1d be & Gong good d fight a
totes about 2o7 pounds of meat and bones This will
be battle of giants Johnson is in training
now in perfect trim for the fight If all goes
well in the training period.
Another chance for Phil Brock to show his class and
that he was not in trim to fight his best battle
when he met Freddie Welsh few months will be
Champion before McCareys club September Is Brock
wanted a return match with Freddie since that
orabe day and of the greatest incentives to his best
be matched with Welsh This will be a popular price
the showings of both boys in battles
make it good card.
The st. Louis Browns defeated Detroit yesterday
making victories for McAeers band the league
half of the top and going like winners. would
be the boost for baseball in the big leagues if
the greatesf not actually the cities
in the country and The the fans turning out to
that if the Browns should the the Fulton Nevada
and Pennington institutions will be inadequate
commodate the happy bugs The name of the team, the
Browns once was magic in effect upon other teams in
the good old days of long but that Comis
key and Won der Abe winning pennants regularly
for ST. Louis.
Quite a large delegation southern sportsmen will
he at ringside when Battling Nelson and Joe Cans
have their lightweight championship argument Wednes
day afternoon. Jim Morley, Ellis Cohn, Hen Berry, AL
Greenewald. Tom Mccarey and quite large bunch of
others will be In the party They will leave Monday night
after the Ketchel-Papke scrap.
and pleasure trip, He will attend the meeting
league directors that will wind up the
attend the Nelson Cans fight and will meet his acon-
quering Angel band that returns to Gan Francisco
week to play the Anal two weeks of their last northern
trip He will be gone until September 20.