The Washington times., 1910-06-04
FORNAN TO Join
NATIONALS HERE
Has Been Coaching School
Team-Jack JohnSon'S
s. Good Showing.
By THOMAS S. RICE.

Bill Forman the young pitcher who
drifted into washington last year from
the wiIds of Pennsylvania, and went
right to work for the Nationals, is ex-
pected TO join the Washington club
about July l when 1t is playing in this
city.
Forman is not the son Of old Frank
Foreman, who used TO pitch for BaIti-
more in the palmy days of the Orioles.
He is a horse OF another color. Bill
showed considerable signs of promise
last fall and McAleer expected him to
Join the team at Norfolf this year When
the squad left he sent a telegram say
ing II was impossible TO get here, then
he later sent word that he would not
Join the club at all, as he had accepted
a position with a college 1t now de-
velops that instead of having a job as
professor, as was supposed, he has been
coaching AT the Indiana Normal College.
Washington needs pitchers badly
enough. and If Forman displays any
ability In practice he will probably get
an early trial. for his work as baseball
coach should have put him in excellent
condition.
Clarke Griffith and Bill Burns. to-
gether at Cincinnati on the same team.
That does not spell peace or sweet har-
mOny.
II is Just one month from today that
James ]. Jeffries and Jack Johnson
mingle in strife at San Francisco TO de-
termine the heavyweight boxing cham
pionship of the world. AS the fight ap-
proaches the opinion that Johnson will,
or could, win grows rapidly. He boxed
at the Dreamland rink, San Francisco,
last night, and his work made a highly
favorable impression on the critics His
boxing was Of the fiat-footed, defensive
style he is almost sure to use against
Jeffries; he had an almost impregnable
defense, and he forced the two men he
met to carry the fight 10 him all the
time. His uppercut and a snappy right
were the principal features of his Often
sive boxing. and he had plenty Of wind
and stamina, say the reports. Jeffries
also made a favorable impression when
he boxed in public few days ago, but
the enthusiasm aroused by that exhibit
ton has TO a large extent been offset by
the appearance Of the negro, both physi-
cally and in sparring.
man signing with Washington and
signing an agreement TO play baseball
nowhere else.
Battling Nelson has conceived a crouch
against Jeffries and against the white
mans prospects In the coming fight
with Johnson He has aired his views
more or less openly for long time, and
they are well worth considering. Whe-
Their he is right about how little Jeffries
trained for MunrOe five years ago Is
hard to say Some Of the best two
handed fence-tumpers that ever wrote
have discussed that fight as OF their
own knowledge, sometimes saying he
trained hard and was easy 10 handle
In the preliminary work. sometimes say
ing he was as ugly as a bear with a
sore head and made no serious effort to
get INTO shape Tor an opponent whom he
had boxed with in Butte, Mont, and
whose ability he despised-
The summary Of Mike Murphy, that
Jeffries cam 0t return to his old form,
is about the best that has yet ap-
peared.
Examinations of Jeffries by phvsi-
clans who find nothing organicalIy
wrong with him, are interesting, but
are OF comparatively little value No
body has thought that he had any
thing more the matter with him than
All abnormally healthy athlete at his
age should have. But no physician
ever lived who could go over Jeffries
make. the usual examination. and learn
whether the white man will be tired
by actual work in the ring. Jeffries
himself cannot tell when that deadly
WEAKNESS will come over him in the
arms, and make his gloves feel like
Iney weigh ton: when that peculiar
shakiness will come TO the knees, and
make him feel like an old man op-
pressed with the burden of ages.
When either of these symptoms de-
Velops he will find the burden of the
white race more than he can carry. II
he is not careful.
Before the storm bursts il would he
well TO remember that the outbreak of
those Wesleyan students who so meanly
miSconduCted themselves yesterday was
not necessarily due to the fact that thew
had drinkables along. Some weeks ago
students In q big female college were
scared for life with acids BY their
felloW-students and so seriously hurt
that there was talk of criminal prose-
cution.
II must have grieved the reformers
who noticed that while in London Colo
mel Roosevelt was entertained BY Lord
LonsdaleI the foremost advocate of box
ing IN England and the man who has
, offered the handsome belts emblenatic
Of the British championships. Much
muttering in their boards and weeping
INTO their side whisksrs will undoubtedly
arise among the truly good when they
think that the man who was once Presf-
dent Of these United States actually
partook or the hospitality OF a man who
openly approves OF teaching men to
use their fists instead Of a knife. But
we imagine the colonel will bear up
Drayeiy under the singing reproaches
OF the bewhiskered and the female agi-
tators.