The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1911-05-06
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In Sports
What the wrestlers, Boxers and Base
Ball Artists Are Doing.

Several players have at various
times held the doubtful distinction
of being called the official boneheads
of organized baseball. John Ander-
son, Merkle and Pickering might he
mentioned among those who have
been branded by the fans as slow. of
cerebration and prone to do the
wrong thing at the wrong moment.
According to Johnny Evers, how
ever, Sherwood Magee is the undis-
puted granite top of all time. Johnnie
arrived in Waco, Tex, with the
Cubs while the Tigers were in Mo-
bile, and spent couple of hours
talking with them about the national
game and other things. They were
discussing the amount of punish
ment fighter could stand and the
futility of trying to iniure certain
black pugilists by hitting them on
the head, when Evers advanced the
belief that a blow with an ak
wouldn't bother Magee particle.
Physicians have found Sherwood
has triple thickness of skull that
would protect him if he fell out of a
twelve-story building and hit on the
top Of his head, F" said Evers I
had heard lot about his inability
to think, but considered the stories
told on him bits of fiction until one
day, playing against us, he made a
perfect bunt down the third base
line, and instead of running when
the pitcher tried for play on
runner on third calmly stood at the
plate until the Cubs, observing that
he hadn't sense enough to run,
threw him out at first. Had he run
after bunting there wouldn't have
been a chance to get him and, in
fact, nobody would have tried to
make a play at first. when Bates
and Magee were playing side by side
in the Phillies' outfield a stone
quarry didn't have anything on that
club. Each had an imaginary line
that he considered the limits of his
territory, and he wouldn't cross it
to save game of ball. If a line
drive or fly ball were hit couple of
of yards outside of Magees domain
and Sherwood could easily get it, he
would stand still and laugh at Bates
while he pursued it. Bates would
do the same thing if the play were
outside his district.
Packey Mcfarland breaking into
the press agent business, has issued
a long statement in which he COM
bats the right of Ad Wolgast or any
body else to set the lightweight limit
at 1873 pounds ringside. He explains
that there is nothing in any rule
book that sets the weight and asks
pertinently: What are the boxers
to be guided by-precedent? Then
he goes ahead and shows that Jack
McAuliffe defended the title at
weights ranging from 1876 to 1873,
that Kid Lavigne fought Dick Burge
of England for the lightweight cham
! pionship of the world at 1873 pounds
and that when the Kid lost the title
to Frank Erne at Buffalo the men
weighed in at 1876 at 8 O'Clock. He
also states that the championship
battle between Erne and Joe Cans
at Fort Erie was fought at 1856
pounds, the weighing in time being
7 o'clock. Packey argues that as
Nelson made Cans weigh in with
his shoes and fighting trunks on at
Goldfield. thus practically bringing
Joe down to 1917, it is just as legi-
innate to weigh in a pound and a
half over 1873 pounds. Packey winds
up by saying that he thinks a man
who makes an opponent reduce to a
weight that weakens him is taking
an unfair advantage and he is also
of the opinion that boxer should
always be willing to give or take two
pounds. Il have as good right so
far as the weight is concerned to
contest for the lightweight title as
any man in the world. Let us have
fair play in the matter of weight, "
saws Packev.