El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-12
Puffs From the Fans Hop Pipe

December u. This bout has been sub
stituted for the Leach Cross Young
Shugrue contest, which was postponed
until December 1s-
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Joe Rivers has received an offer of
$1,000 from Dan McKettrick, a New
York promoter, to box Knockout
Brown. Of this city, in a 10 round bout
also received an offer from the Cleve-
land promoters to meet Brown in that
city in the early part of next year.
Johnny Coulon, bantamWeight cham
pion, has declared all bouts off and is
going to take q six weeks vacation by
the orders Of his physician. In taking
the six weeks off Coulon is losing
purses to the amount of $4,000
Eddie Murphy, Of Boston, and Packey
Mcfarland have started training for
their 10 round bout at Kenosha, Wis,
on December Is. Murphy declares that
he will give Mcfarland one solid
for any five Mcfarland can hand him
Eddie McGOorty has been matched
to meet Bill Mckinney, a Boston mid
dleweight, for a 10 round bout at Ke-
nOsha, Wis, on January y. Mckinney
gave McGOOrty one of the hardest bat
ties of his career several months ago.
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Harry Lord, the White SOX outfielder,
was the only player to make home
runs off Joe Wood and Walter johns
son last season
Willie Richie has announced his in
tention of giving Packey Mcfarland
the first try at the lightWeight title.
Richie is a former sparring partner
of Packey. Richie says that he will
allow Mcfarland to come in at 1875
ringside-
The Garden Athletic club, Of New
York, has opened negotiations for a
10 round bout between Freddie Welsh,
Englands lightweight champion, and
either Packey Mcfarland or Willie
Richie. Welsh and Mcfarland have
boxed three times, total OF So rounds.
Reports from New Haven indicate
that Pennsylvania is likely to replace
the Army team on Yale's football
scredule. It is known that Pennsyl-
vania football committee has been
hard at work to prevail upon Old Eli to
accept the Red and Blue as a gridiron
opponent.
A straw vote taken at the University
of Chicago on the conference question
as it pertains to Michigan reveals the
fact that the women students were
practically unanimous in favor of the
Wolverines return to the conference.
PRESIDENT NaElns OF the Detroit
Tigers, who opposed the Gordon
Tinker-C Chance deal when it first was
mentioned, has altered his attitude. lie
now states that if it viii help the
three cornered trade through he VIII
sell Corridor to Cincinnati for the
price he paid Kansas City, $4,000.
It was Detroit man, "Carnation"
Dan OLeary, who gave the late John
T.. Brush his start in baseball
About 25 years ago Dan was De-
troits left fielder, and afterwards he
managed the Indianapolis club.
John T. Brush was running a cloth
ing store in Indianapolis at that time,
and John could not see what anybody
saw in baseball Nearly everybody
who worked for John was q fan, and
that made John all the more bitter
against the game. He Grabbed" and
raved and Grabbed" some more when
ever one Of his clerks left the store
to go to the park
One day an intimate friend of John
induced him to attend the game on a
bet. The most excited man at this
contest was John T. Brush. He was
the biggest enthusiast in his store the
next day. incidentally he met
OLeary and Dan induced him to take
over the Indianapolis club. That's
where Mr.. Brush started. He climbed
until several years ago he became
recognized as the most powerful figure
in the National league.