Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-13

Moe Smith, of Patsy Kline,
called us on the phone from New York
TODAY and said that he is trying to
get Tom O'Rourke to stage a bout be-
tween Patsy and Joe Coster! Smith
thinks hat the Brooklyn boy will be
easy for Kline. incidentally, Moe said
he would stop in later and explain IN
detail how Frankie Conley knocked out
the Newark fayorite. He declared h a
Patsy had all the better of the early
part of the fight and that he was a 3 to
1 favorite.
900
1t looks as if Frank Kramer is bigger
than the N. C. A. When the national
body accused the rider of teaming he
admitted it and then calmly asked,
What are you going to do about it,"
Kramer made a big bluff and seems
to have gotten away with 1t clean.
900
All the golf world Is talking today
of the splendid showing made by
George Duncan on the Deal course yes
terday. What makes his score moro
remarkable was the condition of the
course. 1t was soggy and far from
favorable. There Is 10 telling what
this high-class player will do on a
course that is keen for the finest points
in the great game.
Because scrappy John McGraw, boss
of the Giants, is a firm believer in
playing the hunch." he stands to win
the National League pennant this year,
When Fred Merkle's thinker slipped
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the Cubs in 1908 and the episode tran
spired that cost the Giants the flag,
the fans howled for the Youngsters re-
lease with a vim that in ninety-nipe
cases out of a hundred would have put
the rollers under him. Manager John,
though, had a bunch that Merkle would
make good. He hung on to him. This
season Merkle has developed into one of
the most reliable f1rst-sackers in the
league.
Fred Snodgrass was labeled as a false
alarm by the fans in the same year.
They demanded his release, too. But
McGraw played another bunch and
stood pat. Snodgrass has become IN
of the classiest gardeners in the circuit
But sthe biggest bunch of all that
sprouted and flourished within Nc
Graw's Uranium was the one that hao
TO do with RUDE Marquard. When
Magnate Brush dug down in his jeans
and handed Indianapolis 81 900 for the
rube, everybody figured he'd make
awfully good. first shot out of the 20
He didn't, though. Instead, he was
awfully, awfuily bad. THE eleven
thousand-dolar lemon,'' they called
him, and the goldbrick."
A Roman mob scene was a s~issifed
and frivolous affair compared to those
in the tumultuous times when the rube
to his press notices.
The cant" cried the populace. THE
hook, the hook"
1t never feazed McGraw. He had q
bunch that Marquard would deliver
sometime.' and now Marouard has. He
is by long odds the best southpaw in
the National League this year, and his
grand slabbing has brought his pur-
chase price back to the club owners
many times over.
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The director of athletics at Princeton
w. w. Roper, will spring a new stunt
this fall, He will have for his guidance
an advisory committee of famous Tiger
football men of the past. representing
the best brains Princeton can muster
They are: Walter Foulke, Langdon
Lea, Hector Cowan and Knox Taylor
Roper being the fifth member. All OF
these men were stars in their day, who
have kept in sympathetic touch with
the developments of the modern game
However, they are not to assume the
active coaching. This will be done
largely by a group of more recent
graduates who have played the new
game. Roper himself will, in all proba.
bility, do much of the active work, as
he did last year. but the duties of the
graduate committee will be of an ad.
visory nature. They will map out the
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