Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-13
ATHLETICS

son is the first negro scrapper in his
tory to get a scrap with heavy
weight champion for the title. Sulli-
van, Corbett, Fitzsimmons and Jeffrfes
drew the color line after they got the
championship and Burns did the same
thing until he was given a comfortable
fortune to give the big yellow streak
a look-in.
Hen Berry said yesterday that the big
barbecue which he proposes to give IN
honor of the winning Angels
to celebrate the victory of the club in
the Coast league pennant chase, has
been postponed from next Monday until
the following Thursday as the Elks
will have big doings Monday and quite
number of the antlered tribe are
counted upon as guests of the bald
headed baseball wonder of the twen-
tieth century. Just so long as the bar
becue is not postponed indefinitely 1t is
all right with a whole lot of us.
Charlie Bowman has been experience
ing some of the unlucky streaks that
are incidents in the life of a horse
man. His horses have just passed
through a siege of Illness at Latonia
and probably are on their way to the
coast now. Charlie is well known here
and at Emeryville, and It will be good
news that he will race Belmere and his
other good ones at the Santa Anita
course.
II. r. Baker and Nose Goldblatt have
changed their plans for the winter and
now intend shipping direct from La
tonia to the coast. They intended rae
ing at New Orleans until that bubble
burst Both probably will ship to
Santa Anita, and Goldblatt is a GER
tainty as an addition to the colony of
horsemen at the local track.
Fred Cook, one of the most extern
sive operators in the bookmaking line
in the middle west, will not leave for
the coast until about the day after
Thanksgiving. He Will race a portion
of his stable on the coast, but will not
have all his horses here.
Colonel Robert Northam, multi-mil-
lionaire and sportsman, stepped into
his automobile Wednesday and in
structed the chauffeur to drive him
into Los Angeles to permit him to wit
ness the big parade that is to be held
next Wednesday. He found, after ar
irving I'm Los Angeles, that he was
week ahead of time and was so in
discreet as to tell the story to some
friends. The way they "kidded" him
the remainder of the day was enough
to make anybody but the good-natured
colonel sore" He asked them what
they would have every time they start
ed to giggle, and finally drove back to
his home near Arcadia. He will return
next Wednesday.
Jack Ripper had a Crouch on yes
terday and when asked what allied him
said that he guessed he was about the
easiest looking individual in Los An
geles. Then he explained that, al
though 1t was only IL o'clock in the
forenoon, he had listened to four elo-
quent men with money-making ideas
that lacked only "a few thousand to
put them into operation and make
themselves immensely rich. One fellow
wanted only a measly thousand, but
the other fellows wanted from $4,000 to
$40, 000 The last named sum scared
Jack so much that he unloosened his
foot and could not stop 1t until 1t
landed on the departing form of the
hard-up gentleman. He is afraid TO
take a drink for fear that he may for
get himself and be trapped by some