The citizen., 1911-09-22
SPORTING NEWS.
Baseball, Boxing, Horse Racing
and Other Sports.

The Wolgast- st-McPharland glove contest
has been postponed. This meet was for
the lightweight championship of the
world. McPharland was the favorite in
betting.
Ray Morgan, formerly of the Frederick
Baseball Club. has by his excellent field
ing and batting ngratiated himself into
the good wishes of the Washington fans.
Morgan is not only good ball PLAYER,
but gentlemen both on and of the field.
Mt. St. Mary's football team is getting
into condition under the management OF
Mike Thompson, the famous trainer OF
! the Georgetown University. The Fred
! erick y. NJ. c. A. has also called out its
candidates for foot ball. Capt. Markey
, will be the coach,
Carl Morris, the Oklahoma giant, is not
a real white hope and will not be the
/ man to win back the heavyweight crown
/ from lack Johnson. the worlds champion.
/ In Madison Square Garden Morris re-
ceived a terrific beating in ten rounds
from Jim Flynn of Pueblo, Colo.
An Associated Press cabegram from
Deal, England, says: After a lapse of
thirty-six years, Captain Matthew Webb's
| feat of swimming the English channel
was duplicated by William T. Burgess, a
native of Yorkshire, but now natural
| lied Frenchman. 1t was Burgess six
ieenth attempt, he having first essayed
the task in 1904. Burgess started from
South Foreland, Dover, at II.45 O'Clock
| Tuesday morning. He landed at lie
Chatelelet. little village two miles east
of Cape Grisnez, at g SO O'Clock Wednes-
| day morning, accomplishing the passage
! in twenty-five hours and thirty-five min
utes. 1t is estimated that Burgess, owing
to the serious sea course he was compelled
to take because of the battling tide, COW
cred sixty miles in crossing the twenty
mile channel.
Through the kind offices and heavy ex-
pense Col. f. Austin Baughman gave to
the fans of Frederick some fine after sea-
son baseball That his labols were ap-
preCiated those in attendance at the last
two games can readily testify too. There
was not money enough in the ticket box
to pay the umpire for his four davs serv-
ice Had the admission been five cents
with a glass of beer or a glass OF coca
| cola thrown in. no doubt ropes would
/ have had to be stretched to keep the at
/ tendance from overflowing the diamond
| The progressives of our city are many
that il they are sure of getting six per
cent on an investment Col Baughman
is baseball player, a lover of the sport
and always willing to go down in his
pocket to help along and give our city
good BALL What advertisement for a
town is better than good baseball club
None. Frederick was well advertised in
1905, 1909 and 1910 by its winning team.
This is our national game and every city
is proud ofits baseball club, but as usual,
when it strikes the pocket the progressive
citizen loses his ambition, and the grand
stand as we'll as the bleachers are desert
ed. The colonel has our sympathy, but
deserves 10 be commended for his untir-
ing efforts to give us at least look i'll at
the great national game before the season
of 1911 closed Nav his future efforts
meet with better encouragement.
Lynchburg and Lancaster both PLAYED
magnificent bali and the locals made
them play to win. The finest games ot
the season were presented as follows.
Lynch5urg Us Frederick, SO; Lynchburs
VS. Frederick So; Lancaster rs. Fred
erick. So, ten innings; Lancaster Us.
Frederick, SO. Umpire-McAtee