Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-21


Philadelphia Jack O'Brien in a
= siX-round bout and then try to
figure out why. OBrien has gone en-
tirely to pieces or Kaufman has i'm
proved 500 per cent in the last six
months. Kaufman is the direct op-
posite to OBrien, being slow and awk-
ward, while O'Brien is speedy and
clever. 1t is impossible to believe that
Kaufman could have improved 50
much in such a short time, SO the
natural explanation of ii all is that
O'Brien has gone to the scrap heap.
He must be awful bad to permit Al to
make even a decent showing with him
in six rounds, so the natural conclu-
sion is that he must have gone back so
far that he no longer is to be consid-
cred in the first flight of boxers. The
passing OF O'Brien will not be re-
gretted, as he deliberately put himself
on the blink when he came to Los An
geles and tried to pull off one of his
many Philadelphia stunts. He has
been practically outlawed by boxing
clubs of good repute ever since.
Am in receipt of a Christmas card
from Tommy Burns. The greeting
comes from "Mr and Mrs. Noah
Brusso," which indicates that Burns
has dropped his ring name and taken
his real handle Tommy is a turfman
now, owning a small string Of horses
that are doing fairly well on the Aus
tralian turf. He may get back in the
fight game again when Ketchel gets
over there and If he whips the middle
weight champion, as he figures to do,
he may get that fight bee buzzng
again and come back to America. He
is wealthy now, however. and If his
business affairs continue to prosper
over there, he probably will stick with
them.
Congratulations are coming to Dick
Allen for his unexpected victory We'd
nesday night over Arthur Collins at
Downey. He gave the negro a good
thrashing and surprised his friends,
many of whom did not go to the fight
because they did not want to see him
whipped. Dick has the makings of a
good fighter in him and it is hoped he
will take things easy for awhile. not
overstepping himself in matchmaking.
The bunch that went to Downey to
the fights Wednesday night had a fine
time of 1t on the return trip. Their
automobile got lost and wound up in
all the bad spots to be found, which
kept them from getting back to the
Guy uIlllI dpOul lllul4lSlllt
George Hancock, daddy of indoor
baseball and now secretary of the
Pacific Athletic club, went to Aviation
camp yesterday in his new auto. Ow-
ing to It's novel style, Al Greenewald
and the bunch were much concerned
over his welfare, fearing that he would
get stuck in the sand or break down
the machine, and for a time they were
figuring on sending out a relief expe-
dition. George got along all right,
though, and Is very much puffed up
regarding the "class" of his auto,
since he has proved it to his own salts
faction.
The stewards Of the Jockey club have
reinstated Garnish, which was ruled
off three years ago because of a bad
race at New York, and Owner r. L.
Rogers also was reinstated. Garnish
was shipped to Ascot park Immediately
after the bad race and Rogers did not
know of the action of the stewards in
ruling him and his stable off until after
he arrived here. Garnish has run two
or three times in the last six months.
being entered as Homelight. With the
ban off, the once great horse can run
in his own name in future and IS he
is in fine fettle now, 1t will be well to
keep an eye on him.
Jockey Archibald is in bad agains at
Juarez, Starter Mars Cassidy having
suspended him for five days for mis-
behavior. He only recently idled out
long suspension for rough-riding and
ii seems that he cannot behave him
self long enough to keep in good con-
dition.
It IS announced that the Gans-Nel-
son fight films will be placed on ex-
hibition this morning for run of
week. They will be shown at the
Royal theater. In view of the prob