New-York tribune., 1911-12-06
TIMELY BITS OF SPORT
Italian Wrestler Has Big Task in
Facing Six Giants.
MURPHY OUT FOR LYNCH
Says He Will Vote for Re cleo
tion of Man Who Now Heads
the National League.

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wrestler. viii make his bow in the first big
match of the season at Madison Square
Garden tonight. While there will he no
Frank Gotch or Stanislaus Ibyszko pitted
against the athlete from Italy, he VIII
nevertheless havo a task on his hands thet.
should he prove the victor, will stamp MIN
as ono Of the most remarkable wrestlers
the world has ever known. lie is 10 meet
six giants, one after the other, with only
moments rest between bouts, and under
take - put them down within two hours
time
To any one of these six men whom ne
does not vanquish in twenty minutes he
VIII give $1,000. When the Italian MADE
the proposition to any half dozen men in
the world, barring Gotch and Ibyszko Jack
Herman, manager Of the Pole. agreed to
select the SIX opponents for Racevich un-
der the stipulation that he will have to pay
the men who are defeated for their time.
The men who will face the Italian cham
pjon are Fritz Mohl, 220 pounds; Yankee"
Rogers, 2lS pounds; John Lehner, 234
pounds: George Sentelle, 212 pounds Paul
Schmidt. 265 pounds. and Karl Delevuk, 2O9
pounds.
Charley White will act as referee and
Raicevich will take the mat against his
first opponent at $50 o'clock. Several pre-
liminary bouts will be put on also, the first
az $50 clock.
Charles Webb Murphy, owner OF the Chi
cago Cubs, is out with a statement that he
will vote for the recollection of Thomas ].
Lynch as president OF the National League
a; the annual meeting in this city next
week. So ends APPARENT the much talked
Of opposition to Mr.. Lynch, as Horace
.Fogel, president Of the Philadelphia club is
almost sure TO follow the lead OF the boss
cf the Cubs. Murphy is too shrewd and
farseeing TO rush blindly against stone
wall, and made the statement as denial
that he would support Joseph O'Bren for
rrerly president of the American Associa-
tiCn.
Twenty-sX exhibition games will be
played by the Superbas, according to the
itinerary of the spring training trip an
nounced by Charley Ebbets yesterday. In
addition. the second team will play four
games.
After leaving Hot Springs. Ark. where
the players will boil OUT Bill Dahen
will take his team to Memphis on March
10 for two games. The Superbas Will then
visit in turn Nashville, three games; Louis
vile, four games; Indianapolis, four games
Richmond Ind. two games; Springfield,
Ohio; Xenia, Ohio; Wheeling, W. Va, two
games; Washington, two games, and Bal
timore. The team will arrive in Newark
on April IL for game with the Indians,
and will alternate between that city and
Brooklyn for four games. the last being
scheduled at Washington Park on April Is.
The National League season opened on
April u last spring, but later start is
indicated next year, in view OF the fact
that Brooklyn has arranged for exhibition
games up TO April Is.
Charley Doom, manager of tho Philies
last season, values his services next year
at $4,000. Horace Fogel has other ideas on
the question, ana says mol" In a voice
that can he heard in every city in the
league. The end is not yet
Johnny King, the catcher, whose billiard
parlor in Kansas city was Quilted by fire
last week, is on his way to Boston, in an
effort he says, to buy the Rustlers, or at
least controlling interest. The tailenders
in the National League pennant race last
season are suddenly I'm great demand.
Charley Doom also has his eve on the
team, or so IT is said.
Word comes from Chicago that Charley
Comskey owner Of the White SoX, IS
cunning for George Stoyall, first baseman
and manager last season Of the Cleveland
Maps Comisliey says that Charley Hemp
hill. formerly Of the Yankees, will not
manage the Atlanta team, as he will be
needed in Chicago.
Byron Bancroft Johnson, president OF the
American League, is authority for lhe
statement that the annual meeting of the