The evening world., 1910-12-08
Cubans Making Great Progress
b Baseball, and II viii Soon
Be a Joke to Call Winner Of
National : American Series
Worlds Champions.

nut IT8re are otnef oountrtoU
ea the map. Down In Cuba they havs
tAtBn to tho good American sains of
BASEBALL. Just to show that they AREN'T
sioss. tho Havana baseball Club took on
tAe Detroit aggregation and cleaned up.
whaling four games on, Of six.
.LAsA year tho Aimendarss beat the
petroits. winning ave sanes out Of six.
psaros,. the Cuban pitcher. In the Sec
on1 game Of the series, shut out Detroit
IN IN slovsn inning Game without = bit,
The Cuban fans rave Psdroso . present
Of e>oo.
10 add to this record. tho Havana team
hes Just played the fret Game OF . six.
game series with the famous Athletics.
Chief Benler pitched. and the Cubans
won BY "a That's playing some bsse-
ball for Q lean belonging to an island
down In the Sea Of tho Antilles.
In mother year or % II will be q joxs
70 call the wilmer Of the Natlonai-Amsr.
lean League S,ries worlds champions
These Cubans will have to be invited 20
take part before there can be any real
worlds champions in baseball.
~ERHAPS Jack johnson needs 10
x-ray has brain. but he's still
tntTc WIKI tue pTtss hktut
stunts. It's . dull day when Jack
caa't crowbar his way into print. That
va . funny one he pulled OF In Chi
cage Just now-invdting a lot Of people
to meet Booker T. Washington at din
nor At his homo. ana then iinding that
Booker +. had silently folded his tent
and stolen away from there on the
Twentieth Century Limited without
waiting to taste TIE johnson turkey.
Thsy say Jack got on his little speech
in honor Of the sbAent guest anyway.
h told Of his new great ambition to
FOLLOW In Booker +. Washington's foot
upsps and b. an ~edudator."
jack evidently thinks he can beat
speed records In artthmetic.
Or perhaps HEN give anatomical lee
lures and teach the budding youth OF
his race how to land scientifically upon
the angle of the jawbone.
Seriously. Booker 7. Washington did
not hurt himself by sidesteppinE John
son and his turk. He Is q great man
doing q great mans work. and II Is In
a line quite different from Jack John
sons speciality. Booker T. Washington
Is devoting his life TO lifting men up.
Johnson's great ambition - to put
ts9m down.
@ACKEY MFARLAND IN coming
here 20 box with Abe Atteil. but
n haze of mystery surrounds the
when and where of It. At first Billy
Gibson OF the Fairmont announced that
he had secured the match for his club.
Then there was a lack OF further In
formation. and II leaked out that an
other enterprising promoter was also
bidding for the event.
This seems somewhat unfortunate In
the present state OF things. Promoters
can't AFFORD 10. start quarrels. The man
who originated the idea OF matching
Mcfarland and Attell should get the
bout
- AM LANGFoRD is known by the
peaceful title, Boston Tar Baby
There's nothing very ferocIous
about that. Joe Walcott wasn't any
better than Langford as a hghter-per-
haps not ever In the same class. Yet
we all remember the time when Joe
vas so famous that lie had half a dozen
titles. They used to call him the Clan,
Killer and the Black Demon
In spite OF his comic opera nickname
y i<hhBlo2o ~ JUST - mum VI u bldNn
Demon as laughing Joe Walcott eve,
Was. sam Is even a little more so. II,
doesn't laugh much when he's hghting
Langford made Morris H~arrls-usuall,
a very game nghter-drop to his knee
In Boston Tuesday night and refuse {,
get up until the ten count was over
Lots OF lighters seem to be afraid o
Langford. Some OF those who aren'
afraid admit that they don care mucl
about fighting him. Jim Barry ha
fought Sam several times. He's a bar,
citizen himself. but he told me a few
weeks ago that he wouldn't take San
on again as long as he could get an.
n else. said fighting sam was TO
much of a strain on the constitution, O
words TO that effect.
Kstchel wasn't. afraid OF him, q
course. Ketchel never feared anything
Johnson may not be afraid of him, an
doesn't need to be: but he'd. let a lot {
money slip by before he'd fght IN
Tar Baby" Joe Jeanette doesn't fea
sam. Joe IS an iron man-ths,'s N
reason. In their last fight jeanette d,
l~ibsrately held his guard high and II
vIted Sam TO hit him In the stomach
sam did-twice-with all his might. ID
you sprain your wrist" asked Joe.
Al Kaufman was willing to AL
Langford. II was Sam himself WI
showed frlgld pedals when they wei
matched. But there aren't many MOI
on the list. Sam Is leaving for EN-
and shortly, and the local heav,
weights and near heavywelghts vs.
heave q high OF relief. Let him go ov,
and slaughter the English heavies.
T0-NGHT'S GO MEANS MUCH