Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-26
Rialto Gossip

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~ country and a thoroughbred
sportsman. has become addicted to the
motoring habit, and, as he owns his
own car and knows, in way, how to
drive it. he thoroughly enjoys his an
nual engagements in Los Angeles. A
few days ago he took his car out of
the garage and. after loading Jack
Ripper and Lon Hill into the tonneau,
he started in search of a ranch that
would measure up to the standard or
value and beauty owned by his good
friends. Frank Chance and Fred Schiff-
man, who are located near Glendora.
After driving all over the San Gabriel
valley and viewing three or four de-
sirable buys" according to the real
estate brokers, he thought it would be
fine and dandy to show his friends a
few gusts of speed. He showed 'er
on the high and started down Sylvan
drive, near Arcadia, like he had just
about missed dinner and was hungry.
After whisking around some right
angle corners at a reckless rate OF
speed and getting away with all his
anatomy intact, he decided to try some
real new stunts. such as driving head
long up to approaching wagons and
stopping with the headlights brushing
the whiskers of the frightened horses,
and making complete circles at street
crossings so that he would be going
the other way in a hurry without
slackening speed. His skill with the
driving gear was too much for Jacka
de Kip, and after risking his life a
dozen or more times, he really grew a
new gray hair and told Kolb to COM
NIT suicide, but please wait until after
he had alighted. as he was about to
overlook an engagement in town and
had to take a p f. car. Jack could not
be persuaded to do otherwise, and after
quitting the auto he rode peacefully
into the city on an electric thing that
stayed on steel rails He has finally
cured a headache of four days and
now passes Kolb on the street without
even recollecting anything about a
previous introduction. Hill nailed him
self to the floor and stuck on the job
until safely back in Los Angeles be-
fore venturing to express an opinion
of Kolb's speed merits. but his service
in tracking moonshiners in Georgia
probably gave him more nerve than
Kip ever picked up while forgetting to
ring up cash fares in Arizona. Kolb
says the afternoon was an exhilara-
rating experience, and, as he easily es-
capped all the Alhambra motor cops
who tried to chase him. eXhilaratlng
seems to be the proper word.
Billy Cannon thinks he has q future
world champion in sight in Dick Allen,
his friend, and figures that if Allen can
spend about two months in the Jeffries
camp at Rowardennan, the big L. A. A.
c. boy will come out a finished prod
uct. Billy has quit the fighting game
as an active participant but he still
holds his interest in his fighting friends.
and counts Allen as about the classiest
bit of fighting machinery that he ever
saw. He will bet the works, dial and
case on Dick any time the big boy
starts, and will talk any friends half
crazy who will listen to his ideas re-
garding the future of Allen.
Darktown will be on parade for the
next two days. because Jack Johnson.
its idol, is coming to town. Time was
when Johnson did not excite the black
boys in this old town quite so much,
but now that he is matched to fight
Jeffries he appeals to them about as
strongly as a good job does to a pie
eater. When the black four hundred
finishes its program of entertainment
for Johnson, Sam Langford will have
good cause to be bit sore. And John
son may be more in need Of some heavy
training to recover from the effects of
ii all.
Sam Langford and Stanley Ketchel
are scheduled to hook up in one of
those six-round no-decision affairs in
Philadelphia tonight, but according to
Joe Woodman, the law will be evaded
to the extent that no decision will be
required to transfer the title to the
black wonder. Sam figures that he
can stop Ketchel before six rounds are
gone and that he will come back here
next month as the undisputed middle
weight champion. A knockout removes
all chance for argument about the de-
cision and Sam figures to turn the
trick 1t looks like a bad match for
Ketchel.
Little Lord Fauntleroy. alias Charles
P. McHugh, and Jamesy Mccormick,
also Irish, are arranging to run an eX-
cursion steamer from San Pedro to
San Francisco for the Jeffries-Johnson
fight, and will be taking reservations
in few days Lord says that there
will be comfortable accommodations
for 450 persons, and that low rate, to
include meals and berth going, com
ing and while there, will be announced
soon. 1t is planned to depart from San
Pedro the Saturday preceding the fight
returning the following Tuesday after
the scrap. Leave it to the lord to hus-
tie. He Is the best ever, and is as re-
| naDle as tne day is long. Undoubtedly
he will have enough reservations to
test the capacity of the boat.
Paul Browning, the score card man
at all the baseball games, has hit upon
the good idea of buying a rubber
stamping outfit. so that he can stamp
into his score books the results of the
Sunday morning games for the infor-
nation of those fans who do not arise
early enough to attend. but who want
to know the score the first thing after
| arriving at the Chutes the same after
noon. Paul furnishes the runs, hits
and errors and the batteries, and he
avoids answering a lot of monotonous
questions thereby.
Roy and Kitty Brashear should quit
the 1910 baseball season with enough
hats and cigars to last them a lifetime,
unless they slump in their home run
business They might switch around
once in a while and put one of them
over that $3.50 diamond ring sign. After
while some enterprising real estate
agent will be offering a bungalow fully
| equipped for housekeeping for a home
run over his sign. This home run bus
mess is picking up right along and the
fans love to see the screamers sail out
! over the boards.