Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-17
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REALTO GOSSIP
By Jay Davidson

/ San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Spok-
ane. Butte. salt Lake City, Denver
and one or two of the other large
cities in the Rocky mountain ana IA
cific coast territory would be an IN
stant success and would attract horses
of the highest class. Even Pa
/ cihc coast circuit could not fail to be
! a financial success and it is source
! of great wonder that it has not been
organized long ago.
Freddie welsh and Ian Hague are
| preparing to make an extended fight
| ing tour of the United States this year.
Welsh of curse, already is assured of
a big success and Hague undoubtedly
would enjoy a profitable season here
if he proves to be as good as Welsh
believes him to be. But Tom Thomas,
the middeweight champion of Eng
land, is the fighter on that side of the
pond that Americans most want to
see, always excluding Welsh, of course.
Thomas is said to be some fighter and
has proved it in his career on the
other side. Whether he classes with
American middleweights remains to
be seen, but he would be welcome to
try his hand here if he so desired.
Al Kaufman and Philadelphia
Jack O'Brien are to travel the six
round no-decision route Wednesday
night before the National club of the
sleepy city. O'Brien is going back
and Kaufman has been standing still
for many months, so the result might
be doubtful if it was not for the
we'll known speed and cleverness of
O'Brien and the brief route they will
travel Kaufman is no six-round
fighter and has little chance to win
unless O'Brien has gone to pieces.
Sacramento will be strengthened
this season by two pitchers that the
club gets from the Boston Americans.
Kripp will endeaVOr to have his SEN
ators in the running at all times dur
ing the playing season and, as Cal
Ewing says the Seals will be materl-
ally stronger than they were last sea-
son, it looks like the Coast league
pennant race will be a corker from
start to finish. Hen Berry and Cap
Dillon promise another pennant win
ming team for Los Angeles, while Hap
Hogan is aggregating a team that will
be materially stronger than last year
Altogether it looks like a big season
anda more evenly balanced race than
ever before in Coast league history.
Criger the new pitcher that Berry
has signed for the Angels, is a brother
of the famous Lou Criger, battery
partner with old Cy Young for many
years. Criger, the pitcher, was the
leading twirler of the South Atlantic
league last season, winning twenty-five
in twenty-nine games that he pitched.
He was secured from the Jackson
vile, Fla, team.
The one match in billiards these
days is about arranged. Willie Hoppe
and Calvin Demarest, the youngsters
in billiards, will play for the world
championship at balk line at Eddie
Graney's parlors in Frisco in the
spring and this match will attract the
attention of the world. Demarest IS
said to be unbeatable, while Hoppe
never has been extended to any eX-
tent. 1t will be a battle of young
giants of the green cloth and as they
will play for a $4,000 side bet and the
championship trophy that Graney will
present to the winners 1t VIII De De
worth seeing. Cline, De ORC and
Morningstar also will play at Frisco
during the spring and summer.
schilling rode four winners last
Thursday at Emeryville and seems to
be getting back to his great form OF
last winter. He had been out of the
saddle for so long previous to the
Juarez meeting that he lost some of
his cunning, but a few weeks work
put him right again and he will be
hard to beat from now on. He re-
turned Saturday to Juarez with Bed
well, for whom he will ride until the
metropolitan season opens, when he
will report to Sam Hildreth. He should
have the best season of his career
next summer, as Hildreth has stable
that ranks no worse than second best
in the country, if not the best.
Complaints are being made by horse
men and the public at Jacksonville
that Curly Brown is out OF form at the
barrier. If Brown only knew it, he has
the greatest starter in the business
working as paddock judge at his meet
ing. William NJ. Murray has no peer
in the business, Mars Cassidy, Dick
Dwyer and Jake Hoffman not barred.