The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-03-10

TO "oid Fox" Griffith. Hear! heart
here's to Young Fox" Reselle!
Burbank and Russell need n lit
tie more seasoning" says q writer.
Well, lots of big league players
would be better with little more
pepper.
Anxious inquirer says: They are
making the eligibility rules In the
strict. s'posin' q felluh was a former
pro player. but hadn't played
pro ball for ten years. Sposin' he
was workin' at a regular job now and
wanted to play amacher bal. could
he?"
| Friend, he'd be lucky if no could
| play any old kind of ball, after be-
ing out of the game ten years.
There should not however, be much
| fuss about deciding the eligibility OF
q player in the amateur league. I'm
der "a strict Interpretation of the am
ateur rules a fellow who won e2.50
gold piece at Sunday school picnic
game would be a professional.
An amateur is one who plays the
not for the money he can grab.
| There is SO much said about base
ball these days that the shining lights
/ among the boxers have been almost
! overlooked of late. Yet they loom
large in athletic circles Just now.
Everyone is talking about Ad VOL
CAST and what poor lightweight
champion he is
Vas, Wolgast is not the greatest
lightweight that ever wore the crown,
but he ~ one of the wisest You
don't see him Tuning for match
with Packey Mcfarland at catch.
weights or taking owen Moran on in
ten round bouts. Mcfarland Is nat
uraily close TO Eve pounds heavier
than Wolgast. The champion can
make 1913 pounds ring-side. McFar-
land finds 1875 pounds at o'clock diff
ficult, which would bring him up
close TO 13s ring side He is bet
ter boxer than WolEast and fully as
hard a hitter.
Moran is the best hitter OF the three
and he IL almost as fast ~ McFar-
land. Anybody who can make 1872
pounds at Q o'clock for Abe Atteli
and go to draw with him twice,
twenty and twenty-three rounds. is a
great little man.
Moran does not like to make such
low weight, and the fact that he has
decided to stick to the lightweight
division IL as word to the wise
more than sufficient. Moran simply
feels that there IN more and easier
money In boxing the bigger boy than
eternally trying TO trim Abe Attell.
Those young American boxers who
/ n L. .,.T Ia
: have grown rapidly. Johnny Thomp-
son has become a. light heavyweight.
. Clabby has jumped from the welters
into the middleweigh division, and
| Ray Bronson--well, Ray Is lucky to
hold the beam down inside the well
: tef@eight limit. AS for Bill Pspke,
/ he is In The Jimmy -da-JefT class.
. All this was proven by pair of
honest scales. not poor ones, either.
in Australia. Thompson weighed 1sl
/ pounds. ounces: Clabby, 1874 Ia,
Bronson, 140 pounds. and papke re-
fused to weigh.
!, Apparently the coming boy among
the lightweights is Pal Moore. He Ia
lathy lad, has the stiffness of Erne
{ and a punch far better than his frail
, appearance indicates. He is young
vet. but he has an able instructor in
. Jimmy De Forrest, an oid-timer. who
was An the game when Jack Mckua
life was the master of this division.
Pal is hardly seasoned enough to beat
Owen Moran or Mcfarland In a dis
! lance bout but he is a great boy In
, the short distance affairs. and will
. bear watching.
, The National Club of London,
u where royalty sees boxing, has offered
, Packey Mcfarland $500 expenses and
! ..ta ~ n0O hxs hau o.
/ Matt Wells. the new English cham
. pion. Packey will probably accept.
What is more. he should bring back
that 5000 intact-except for the cut
his manager may take.
To be sure. there was a little furry
Of snow a day or two ago. but spring
is surely loafins around. The Penn
sylvania varsity crew is cut on the
schuyikill.
Rubinstein, the Russian. IL nov Sec
ond to Capablanca in the San Sebss-
tian chess tournament. Marshall. the
American champion, Is in fourth
place. Capablanca is performing won
ders, the same as other young mas
tiers in the past. Pilsbury and Mar
shall were Just as sensational play
ers the first time they tackled tho big
masters in international tournament
play.
Too bad about the Richmond bowl
era at Buffalo. Blair and whitman
had II all arranged to roll together
in the doubles before they left here,
but they got cold feet at the last
moment and spillings and Whitman
doubled up. also Blair and Williams.
When the quartet came to look over
the scores they found that had Blair
and Whitman rolled together they
would have led the two-men bowlers.
for this pair had put Up 1919 pins.
The leading two men team has
record score OF 1,249--a buffalo rec
ord score