Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-07

| major league company. Simply because
| Davis has been Mack's lieutenant fot
| several years does not prove nim TO be
! capable manager. lie has La the
| benefit of Mack's advice and leadership
/ in everything he has done S nee assuming
| the captaincy of the Athletics and II
would all be different We're he forced t.
stand alone and direct. Davis days as
! major league player are undoubtedly
! numbered. He can hardly continue to
hold his own much longer. but so long
as he is able to do so Connie Mack Is
sure to have his services.
| A few years ago college men in pro-
| fessional base ball were rare. The player
who broke into the professional game
/ from one of the big schools attracted a
lot of attention. Today they are numer-
Gus and each year finds the major league
/ clubs drawing more men from The college
/ ranks.
! To this fact may lie attributed the re-
markable Improvement in the general de-
/ pertinent Of the professional ball players
/ both and off the field The college
| player is accustomed To discipline. He
knows what order is and incidentally he
can be taught the fine points OF the game.
Not many years ago the ball players
were drawn from an entirely different
| class, with the result that il was no easy
matter to find hotels which would house
! them, and rowdyism on the field ran ram
/ pant.
Today ball team is about the best be-
| haved lot of men that travel together
| and there is no doubt that the improve
ment in the caliber of the men who play
ball has done much IL increase the games
popularity
Because of the long period that Ad
WolgaSt did not appear in the ring ii is
just likely that his ability a boxer and
fighter is being underestimate. and for
this reason there will be many fans at
the ringside in Philadelphia tomorrow
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Out Brown will give tie champion a good
argument
But Wolgast must be a fighter OF more
class than he has been given credit for
His victory over Battling Nelson stamped
him as a fighter, for while Nelson may not
have been at his hest when he met his
defeat he was far from being a hasbeen,
and Wolgast beat him at his OWN game.
On form Wolgast should not have ans
trouble with l.. O. Brown. though a six
round bout in which no decision is rem
dered is rather unsatisfactory way VI
getting good line on a fighter.
That some of the heavyweight wrestlers
who touring the country are no Clean
er in the their methods now than those
of years ago is being proven most
every day by the remarkable reversal of
form that these gladiators are displaying.
1t can be truthfully stated that wrestling
bouts among professionals are seldom on
the square. The fake match Is much more
pleasing to the spectators than a legiti-
mate contest. which does not allow the
spectacular work that does the prcarrang-
ed affair. That is probably why the
wrcstlers fake.
Gotch is perhaps one of the few who
has not been identified with any fakes.
Few Of the others can say muclf
One of the most remarkable reversals
of form was shown by Hackenschmidt re-
Gently. The Russian Lion failed to throw
Americas twice in an hour at Baltimore
II IF ha
this same pair met in Kansas City few
days later Hackenschmidt found 1t rather
an easy task TO put Americas shoulders
to the mat twice in an hour.