The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-09-06
BY DAN MccARTY.

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crease it to ninety-five or one hundred
feet. an additional stride, and there
will be so many men thrown out on
hard drives that the game will become
undressing
| Tom O'Rourke, who has handled
many noted lighters, admits the pu-
| gilistic road Just nov is choked up
| with rocks and thorns However,, now
| that Tom is no longer a manager of
| fighters, he thinks seriously Of starting
| boxing club in New York.
| O'Rourke halls from Boston, where
he owned a saloon when he assumed
/ the management of the late George
! Dixon. He developed Joe Walcott, the
Giant Killer. who was the worlds well
| terweight champion when ne stopped
Joe Choynski. Tom Sharl1ey, too, was
| made over into a star fighter by
O'Rourke who will always believe that
| the sailor should have received a draw
| in his memorable twenty-five round
battle with Jeffries at Coney Island
The pale hued hopes are all hope
| less. One after another, they have
climbed into the limelight, made us
think for brief day that they really
amounted to something, and then
| dropped back into oblivion. Perhaps
it's too much to say that they've all
dropped into oblivion, but here's the
| list. Look it over: Con Comiskey,
Tom Kennedy. Al Palzer, Luther Nc
Carly, Carl Morris. Bombardier Wells,
| Jess Willard, Arthur Pelky. Among
| these only two-Palzer and Wells
| look at all good now. And neither one
| of them has the stuff that a champion
should be made of.
It's getting so the come backs" in
big league baseball are doing better
work than the regulars who have never
had any ups and downs. We men
| toned few in these columns the
other day. Now we rise to remark
| that Washington owes it's present po-
sition in the American league race to
| the good work CT castoffs. Moeller,
Foster and Gandil were all in fast
company before Washington secured
them from the minors, and every
| mothers son of them has made him
self a. hero in the capital this season.
When the last session of the Cali
| fornia legislature passed the Otis
Walker anti-betting bill, horse racing
in that state languished, sickened and
died. Now an effort is being made to
| revive the sport, and a referendum
vote on bettiYk will be held in No
vember. The gument is being made
to California piers that under the
Paris mutual stem of bettin1sar of
the objection3 features surr bdins
gambling on horse races will b mi
n3ted.
A Queensberry guerilla, they call
Packey Mcfarland. Handicapped by
natural weight that is prohibitive 10
his engaging in championship contests,
the hero of the Chicago Tstockyards
grabs at every match offered him be-
tween the slight and: welterweight
| limits.
Packey's climb up the pugilistic lad
der has been little short of marvellous
Since he started boxing. eight years
| ago. the best that an opponent has
| been able to get with him has been
draw decision. In nine cases out of
ten, Mcfarland has either knocked out
his man or finished so far ahead that
there could be no question concerning
| the decision.
i All .. IIGiCH loIlllOH, CWIl6T OI the 81.
Louis Cardinals. has got tired of hear
| ing Roger Bresnahan called manager,
end it is believed will reduce aim to
/ the ranks soon, substituting Miller
| IIuggins in his place.
Mrs. Britton isn't pleased with the
idea of her manager being tied UP with
/ the New York Giants, his old team,
| OH a world tour, which is to start right
after the worlds series. Then, too, she
thinks he has not been doing such
good work since his unsuccessful eff
/ fort to buy the team CT her.
/
| Charley Graham. manager of the
| Sacramento team in the Pacific coast
| league, wants $4,000 which he claims
the Chicago White Sox agreed to pay
| tie Tacoma club in the Northwestern
| hague for the services of Pitcher Ben
Hunt. Graham makes the claim that
Hunt is the property of the Sacra-
RI ento club. The matter is before the
national commission Tor adjustment.
Charley Hall, the Boston Red Sox's
| Mexican pitcher, has nickname, the
ike of which has never been known In
baseball, They call him Sea Lion.
Polo enthusiasts of the southwest
have made arrangements for a big
polo tournament at Oklahoma City,
CHE, the latter part of September.
Three of the leading pclo teams Of the
southwest will participate, AMI the
| championship of that section of the
country will be at stake. The tpur-
rament will be especially interesting
| because of the desire of the Lazy G.
ranch team of Truscott, Texas, to de-
feat the we'll hardened and well sea-
soned soldiers of Fort Sill, Okla. The
latter is one of the strongest teams
| in tho southwest