Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-29
THE SPORTING WORLD
The RiaItO

second baseman and the star of tht
Texas league, is on his way to oak
land to Join the Commuters. He will
be a material strength to the club ano
should help the cellar champs to make
an improved showing in the final weeks
Of the season.
Dispatches from Butte give the In
formation that Jockey Aubuchon, wei
known in Los Angeles, has been ruled
off the turf for life. According to the
dispatches, Aubuchon was charged by
the stewards with fixing races, COM
bining with other jockeys to pull horses
and to interfere with contenders. Do
tile, which he rode In race August 49,
also was put under the ban for incon-
sistency, after winning the race. Au-
buchon will not be q severe loss to the
turf. He is famous for being chicken
hearted and has had so many falls In
races that he really Is afraid to make
much OF an effort with his mounts until
he turns in the straightaway for home,
where there is no danger of being
bumped. He once was one Of the great
riders of the day, but numerous acct-
dents destroyed his usefulness as q
jockey.
Papa" Jud Smith left last evening
on the Owl for San Francisco to join
the Angel band. He did not go north
with the team, but as a little lady has
appeared at his home to keep his wife
company in his absence Jud has de-
cided to get back on the base lines.
She arrived Wednesday and is boss Of
the neighborhood.
Dispatches from New York quote
George Rose as saying that he is $780,
600 winner on the metropolitan season.
This enormous sum has been won by
him, he says, since Governor Hughes
signed the anti-betting bill In New
York and is the result Of memory
wagers, all done on credit, and he
further says that he would be $4,000
richer had all his patrons paid their
markers, but evidently their memory
maker of the day, and frequently has
won $4,000 and $4,000 in a single sea-
son at New York, but few will accept
as literally true the story that he is
S150000 winner. There may be that
much money in the world, but the
average man has no evidence of it.
Tickets for the Ketchel-Papke scrap
Labor day will be placed on sale at
noon today. Baron Long says that the
advance orders placed with Pitcher
anu JULIET tlCk6L Sdl6SIuen nave
gone beyond the 500 mark already, while
orders have been received thus early
from Covina, San Pedro, Riverside, San
Bernardino and other southern cities,
while San Diego has sent in a bundle
of requests for reservations. Undoubt-
eddy, unless all signs fail, the house
will set a new record for the south, and
it is to be hoped 1t will outdrAw the
Frisco scrap, as then the northern pro-
moters will not be able to urge fighters
to break their contracts to fight there
because they will draw more money
than in Los Angeles"
Sparring partners, once so numerous
in this part of the world, are remark
ably scarce these days. Kaufman and
Flynn could not box in training be-
cause they could engage no sparring
partners. Ketchel is UP against the
same proposition, and 1t seems that he
is to have q hard time getting scrap
pers who are willing to rough 1t with
him. There are several big boys around
Los Angeles who would make good
sparring partners, but none of them
seem to want the job with the rough
Papke was more fortunate,
He has four good sparring partners and
is looking for others, as he wants to
work his head off. Bad Bill Aldridge,
Jack Wade, Martin and Jim Tremble
are working with him and they put up
workouts. Ketchel will ex-
tend a most cordial welcome to any
husky who shows up for the job at the
South Side Athletic club gym.