The Alaska citizen., 1911-01-30

hls mother, along with all the Irish stew he can tai. made Pal Moore look Hke a has-oeen. Moore has been getting his so frequently Of lac that some. hing must be wrong with him or he has been OVerrated.
 Dan McGaun. the ex-Giant ball play CT. whO killed himself recently. was one bail pia!er who set aside great deal ot money. McGann left prop Try worth $4o.0Jo. Dan's was the fourth violent death in his i'm mediate family. A sister took poi son when she was 2J years of age, and d brother shot himself about four MoH.hs ago. Another brother Was accI4euriy shot and killed. Dan was a ST at friend of Chick Stahl, who took CarbOlic acid at West Baden three years ago.
 Mahmout's offer to throw Zbysz- ko twice in al hour has given strength to the rumor that when ZD,s-ko beat MahmOut there was some hing doing" he following is ne $ ory that is now going the rounds concerning this match: That there was anything 'phony about the Zbyszko- MaAmout match will probabl! come as surprise to the Wrestling fans. I he story. however, is that before the time for the bout a threat was made that the Coliseum would not be opened un- less the Pole should come out the victor. There was some 'nagging from the side lines during the match. and as it turned out Zbysz- ko vas returned the winner The match seemed for all the world as belng fought on its merits, but 1t was apparent to the spectators that MahmOut Was thrown in an unguard- ed moment when some body ad- dressed remark to him from out side the ring. This was repeated and two falls went to the credit of the Pole"
 Hoping to be the next lightweight champion, owen Moran talks well. "lll not run over to England and let Welsh and Driscoll have a chance first" says owen. No, indeed. I'll stay right here and satisfy the Amer ican public by letting their choices fight for the honor" Owen has the right idea and just now it sounds fine Once he got the title in his vest pocket and vaudeville offers in his satchel he might change his mind and keep the crowd chas- ing him. a la Wolgast. He could hardly equal Wolgast's record for evasion. but money and more in sight does dim the edge of risking visible assets.
 \ hg-Hl,aIl al five years, according to some fol lowers of the game. One of them goes still further and says there are two extraordinary players developed during this space of time. and that one of them always is a pitcher. As this man is connected with one of the National league clubs, and does not care 10 have his name divulged, We will call him Mr. Short.
 My point is easily taken, and to my way of thinking, easily prov ed" said Mir. Short. These last five years both men have gone to and been developed in the American league. One of them is Walter Johnson, of Washington, that mar velous pitcher and perhaps the great est of this and former years. The 
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 The half decade from 1900 to 1905 brought out Pitcher Ed Walsh, of the White SoX, and Second Base man Johnny Evers, of the Cubs. would like to include Pitchers Mat hewson. of the Giants, and Joss, of the Maps, in the list, but really be- lieve that Ed Walsh tops above ba r1,h behind him that the other two fel- lows have. It takes a lot of pitch ing to win a game for the Sox, es- pecially this past year.
 To return to Johnson. He never was h ard of until Joe Cantillon got him at Washington only couple of years ago. Straight from the deserts of Idaho he lugged Wal ter and Johnson has been star ever since. He has not got what behind him, but his winning aver age is close to 300 and he has worked in big lot of games, too.
 Cobb, Speaker, Lajoie and the other magnificent batters of the American league find him hard proposition to face. Pat Dougherty, OI tue oCA, W uO IS ltdlIS d fine slugger, cannot do anything but Whiff when he gets up against Johnson.
 Lots of time he doesn't need many curves. His straight fast ball is enough to baffle most of the bat ters. The last series with the Sox in Washington, when he first went against them, don't think he threw fifteen curve balls the whole game. But when he has to he can put on every kind of a dress that a ball can stand.
 There is no need of telling of the merits of Ty Cobb. He has figured in countless column base ball stories. It's cold day when some kind of layout can't be woven around Tyrus."
 During the discussion several took exception to Shorts remarks. They claimed that he was unfair. That if he counted in only two players every five years that would make about fourteen players of that cali Der since the National league open ed
 That's not the point" continued Short. T wanted to figure in the real, top-notch, amazing stars. They don't come any faster than that. Before Walsh and Evers, in that generation from 1895 to 1900, I would include Lajoie, of Cleveland, and Wagner of Pittsburg. Others