Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-07
Los ANGELES HERALD: SATURDAY MORNING, NAY Z, 1910
THE HERALDS SPORTING PAGE
RialtO Gossip

there the odds on the big fight
tightened from 10 to 6 to 10 to Z, and
indications, according to this same
source of information, are that by the
middle of June, in all probability, the
odds will be at even money. That
will tickle the Los Angeles friends, of
Jeffries into a conniption fit or two.
Hen Berry and his brothers and Jack
| Kipper are waiting for even money
when they expect to unload, and this
| bunch alone will eat up about all the
Johnson money that can be found. If
the odds were at even money now, half
a million dollars of Johnson dough
could be covered here and throughout
the country. About 100000 Of local
money is waiting for even odds, and 1t
will not have to be hunted up. either,
as Hen Berry, Clarence Berry, Jack
Kipper John Brink, Art Pitcher and
dozens of other local sportsmen are
pining for some of that even money
stuff.
Eight of the Sacramento players be-
long to the Boston Americans and are
merely loaned to the Senatorial aggre-
cation. Hunt, the clever twirler who
gave the Angels trimming last week,
is one of them John l. Taylor has
been reported all along as being heavily
interested in the Sacramento club
which is being used in a way as a
farm for the Red Sox. There is moth
ing very wrong about all this, but the
Beaneaters may weaken the Capital
city outfit in the fall by calling in
some of these players at a time when
Sacramento may be proving a tough
proposition to handle in the Coast
league pennant chase.
Megaphone Cook writes from Frisco
to inform his Los Angeles friends
that spelling at Jack Johnson's training
camp will be his permanent job until
after the training period is ended.
Megaphone went north with the john
son party, after making arrangements
for the job while they were here for
the exhibition bout last week.
Private advices from Tommy Burns
are to the effect that he will arrive in
Frisco early in June, and that he will
come to Los Angeles for few weeks
visit with friends. He is coming back
home to see Jeffries wallop Johnson
and to close negotiations for the pro-
posed scrap with Sam Langford at
Frisco in September. Tommy gets a
$4,000 bonus, and the scrapperS will split
the $4,000 purse with a $4,000 losers
end,
That squabble between Johnson and
Berger over the selection of a referee
for the big fight may be lot Of adver-
tising stuff, and then again it may
mean that the deadlock is on the level
and that the promoters will have to
make the selection in accordance with
the articles of agreement governing
this detail. Johnson hardly will forfeit
his $4,000 by refusing to fight in the
event that Jack Welch is not chosen
to be the third man in the ring. Still,
there is no telling just how frightened
he may become before fight day. II
the scare is at all acute, any old eX-
cuse is apt to justify him in his own
mind in running out of the match.
So many home runs are being put
over the Vernon and Chutes fences this
season that it begins to look as if the
local magnateS would have to go out
side the city and lease a whole subdi
vision in order to put an end to it.
Williams smash yesterday, however,
would have been a homer on an unen-
closed lot, as last seen of the ball it
was still in the clouds, going in the
direction of Halley's comet as if it
intended becoming a counter sky at
traction.
Criger is an unlucky tWirler. AL
though he has been pitching almost
hitless ball right along, he seems to get
the worst of it every time old Luck
happens around to bestoW its faVors at
games in which he is the Angelic artil-
lerist. The explanation probably is
found in the failure of the Angels to
clout the ball and help him out. He
looks like a valuable member of the
pitching staff but is entitled to better
support at bat.
With frankie Conley keeping open
house for all bantam rivals these day 5,
Pal Moore accepting the invitation, Joe
Wagner begging for a chance to come
to Los Angeles to fight, and Digger
Stanley coming from England to whip
Conley, it begins to look like some
bantam entertaining at McCarey's YER
non fight house for the next few
months. Wagner is the lad who has
been going TO the front in skyrocket
fashion down east of late, and might
be given a chance with the winner of
the Conley- Moore scrap.
Kiddo Dalton has returned from Mar
icopa, where he knocked out Jimmy
Foley in the seventeenth round of
scheduled thirty-round scrap. He is
matched to take on Chick Hudson at
that place, the fight being scheduled for
thirty rounds. Kid goes to san Diego
to feferee the Young Rivers-Red Cor
bett fight, May IA, and then will go
back to Maricopa. Meanwhile, he says
THAT if there are any lightWeights
round here who want his game, they
should not be a bit bashful, but walk
to the front and say so. Nobody barred.
Kid has not lost a fight in eighteen
months in fact, not since he quit
lighting Cyclone Thompson. He says
that Frank Fields is managing the
Maricopa club and that the game is
booming there.
Pari-mutuels are quickly taking the
place of boOkmaking, and If it keeps
up like it has started there will be
nothing but mutuel machines with
which to make bets on races in another
season. Canada probably will fall In
line this season, as the management OF
several tracks in the Dominion have
been figuring upon the advisability of
doing away with bookmaking and sub
stituting the machines. AS a money
maker for the racing association and
the public generally, as well as for the
elevation and best interests of the sport
generally the machines look like a
good thing in a race with a dead one.
Metropolitan racing associations would
pull down more money in one days
commissions from the machines than
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