The Alaska citizen., 1911-07-31

roasting Papke The Illinois Thun-
dcrhult is nothing more nor less than
sluEger: in fact. We over here
have never claimed anything else
for him When il comes To the
finer art OF The tistic game We admit
he is absolutely at sea In England,
which country has been the cradle
OF pugilsm" and has given To The
world probably more champions than
have ever fought under the flag OF
this or any other country. they are
educated TO the art OF boxing Slug
sing with them is of but secondary
importance That's why Billy papke
is being so numerically panned by
the sporting writer's OF the world 5
metropolis.
The inconsistency. however. OF this
argument is the fact that Papke
won. and won by knockout, e
which there was no doubt. for even
the minutes rest between the ninth
and tenth rounds was not sufficient
to allow the handlers of the British
champion to revive him. Yet they
tell of what a wonderful amount OF
science sullivan is possessed and
how Papke missed him with his
swings. not by an inch or foot. but
by feet" If sullivan was so Won
derfully clever. why. then. did not
his science avail him sufficiently TO
stand OF Papke and keep from being
knocked cut himself?
We all know that Young Critic.
when he came to America from Aus
tralia. could not knock a setting
hen OF her nest" and yet he was so
scientific that no man in the world
any where near his weight could
hit him hard enough to rock his
head Here was a case where science
al least thwarted defeat whenever
the occasion required il.
We admit that our champions of
today from the lightweight division
to the heayyweights. so far as the
paletaces are concerned, are sorry
lot Take Johnson and l.angtord oHf
of the calculations and only Jim
Flynn would receive consideration.
The trouble seems to be that the
masters are dead What would Kid
Lavigne or Joe Cans or pal Hawkins
have done to the bunch now posing
as lightweights? One night in the
same ring. one after the other would
have told the story What would the
present bunch of welters have look
ed like in front OF Tommy Ryan.
Kid Mccoy, Tommy Tracy or Mys-
FERROUS Billy Smith? Wouldn't Dan
Creedon. Billy Carter or Tommy
West have trimmed the middle
weights? While in the light heavy
weight division Sam l.angford. the
present premier of that class, has
il on Joe Choynski. Maher. and that
crowd. In the heavyweight crew Jim
Ieffries. when he was right, Corbett
or Sharkey could have defeated
Johnson
Fighters that have everything
are not produced any more, England
has been accustomed 10 men like
Jem Mace. Tom Savers and Tom
King of the old school and Charlle
Mitchell and Jack Burke OF the new
school. OF course, the modern sladl-
ators don't compare with them. re
ter Jackson of Australia was another
of this class. while in this country
Jack McAulffe was the bright star
of that department.
The queer part OF it all is that
our "sluggers" keep on winning,
while their scientific men go under,
Not until they produce man able
to withstand the Cnslaughts OF the
Yankees viii We agree with ihem
that any of our fighters are poor
excuses. If they are. then 1t speaks
80 much the worse for England
chamUiOns Let all the credit that
goes with the victory be gwen 10
Papke. who won with something 10
spare.
After analyZing The Dox scores OF
the games in which Walter Johnson
officiated 50 far this year we 90 not
blame him for asking $1,000 to pitch
bali for that NIB. The other day
in Philadelphia Johnson held the
Athletics to five hits and stu lost
his game The Mack team gathered
six runs. all on errors, and won
Wouldn't you. il you were star
pitcher and worked hard to win, only
TO see your teammates making errors
galore and lose games you should
have won. feel that the club You
were working for owed you some
thing? Seven thousand is not enough
he should ask for 10000 next sea
son.
Take Johnson and place him with
the Detroit team and it's doubtful
if he would lose half dozen
games all season. With Washington
he seems lucky to win if he filings
a "no-hit" game. That is certainly
hard lines on so game and grand