Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-04

DpaIISLIe, dlOlIt GOIOiC0 otNO @
laid claim to the worlds heavyweight
title.
His claim will hardly be taken
seriously and yet it may help to bring
Johnson from under cover. 1t has been
nearly a year and a half since the
colored champion engaged in a fight
and it has always been an unwritten
law that a champion must get busy
at least once a year. Johnson's stay
in Europe, together with the fact that
there appears to be but one man in his
class who can give him a battle, Sam
Langford. has had a detrimental effect
on the fight game and it would help
to boom the sport if Johnson really
retired.
Jeannette explains his stand in the
following:
II believe 1 am right in claiming the
big title because Johnson fused to
box me in Paris and turned down an
offer from Tom O'Rourke to meet me
in a ten-round bout in Brooklyn. sam
Langford deliberately ran out or a
twenty-round bout with me in San
Francisco and sailed for Australia In
search of easier game. I'll admit that
the public prefers u white man as
champion and / honestly believe that
if a white man held the title the box
ing game would receive a boom all over
the world"
Rubber Knapp, C~leveland's mid
get, out powerful pitcher, is the Amer
lean Leagues wild man. He walked
1856 batsmen, hit a dozen and
fourteen wild pitches. He won .6Oo
per cent. of his games, too, and such
men as Hughey Jennings, Mike kahoe
and Connie Mack say he is bound to
be the twirling sensation in another
year.
900
SILK O'Loughlin says Ty Cobb Us the
hardest man in the American League
for an umpire to please. COBB, SILK
says, gets into more close plays than
any other player. He takes big
chances, generally has to be tagged.
and gives the baseman only a foot to
touch him.
esrhev say Cobb spikes more play
ers than any one else said SILK. II
that is true it's because he has more
chances to spike basemen. He has ten
chances to spike basemen where most
PLAYERS nave one.
Il have been on top of many plays
/ Mtlltil AObp ~ N1AANA @@
never saw him cut any one intention
ally. Ty is always going away from
the baseman. If the man with the
bah is in front of the base Ty goes
behind it. and if the baseman is be-
hind the base Ty goes in front"
Silk says he doesn't mind having a
decision disputed if the player who
kicks is q hustler.
st wouldn't give a snap for a player
who wouldn't kick if he honestly
thought he was right, silk said. I'm
pires have to stand the brunt of the
kicks, but if the player is one of the
kind who is always thinking of win
ming. and makes his kick and walks
away. | don't mind it. The kicks that
hurt come from players who 7 wrong
and want to alibi themselves and get
the umpire in bad with the fans
600
Alonzo stagg. coach of the Chicago
University team, is not in favor of
changing the football rules to make
scoring easier. stagg, after having
his team numerically walloped by
Minnesota. beat Wisconsin in the fnal
game of the season, though Wisconsin
had fought Minnesota to a tie. Hence
Amos Alonzo Stage is happy and
thinks the rules are all right. He beat
the Badgers on a trick play, a develop
ment of the new game.
900
since the Frawley boxing law went
into effect last spring the New York
State treasury has been enriched $40,
600. This is the sum paid over to the
State comptroller by the various box
ing clubs. 1t represents a ; per cent.
tax on the admissions.
1t will be seen from this sum just
how popular boxing is in the State.
II means that $780, 900 has been spent
by New York fight fans to see glove
contests. From this amount one car
nudge how many persons have seer
the contests. In many of the bouts
the admission ranged from so cents
to SIS. In the short time h boxing
law has been on the statute books g
conservative estimate places the at
tendance at bouts at 100, 600 persons.
The boxing commissioners. at theil
last meeting, decided it was a VIC
lation of the new boxing statute fol
any man to box on the stage of a the
atre with gloves, no matter how limited
the number of rounds. This order
, came in reply to the police authorize
of Buffalo. who wished to know
whether it was within the law fol
fighters who have turned actors fol-
the time being to carry on impromptt
: bouts with their sparring partners
This new order will prevent such actors
as One Round Hogan, Abe Attell and
Knockout Brown. who have been ex'
hibiting their skill on the stage, from
continuing their acts.
Walter Camp, jr., of Yale, and Baker
of Princeton, are two football starr
of 1911. and what is more, their fathers
were stars before them.
Walter Camp. sr., and the. father o
Baker played football at the same time
Back in 1881, thirty years ago, "olt
man Camp and old man" Baker wer'
stars Of the day for Talc ori 49,