The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-01-24

|offer of $4,000 to meet One Round
Hogan in a twenty-round fight before
the Broadway A. c., in San Fran
cisco. Brown demanded $4,000.
johnson is After James j. Corbett.
Chicago.-Jack Johnson, the
heavyweight champion. is very an
|gry with James J. Corbett, ex-cham-
Hpion, who charged him with taking
with Stanley Ketchel.
Il am going after Corbett," said
johnson. why, / whipped Ketchel
so good it could not be a frame-up.
"Corbett wants to know if l have
made affidavits regarding his COM
ing to me and asking me to let him
stay six rounds and also about the
offer of 100000. Yes. have
made those affidavits, and have the
proof with which to back them.
You know what he will say when
he meets me. He will stretch out
his hand, and say, Hello, Johnson,
excuse me. l did not mean any Of
fense. That is as far as he will get,
and then you will see me start.
know that he came to see me one
Sunday morning, about IL o'clock
and asked me to fake for six rounds
if he really was comeback. Now
he is angry because / refused"
Ed. Konetchy, first baseman of the
Cardinals, has become a magnate.
He owns an indoor ball club in st.
Louis.
Hank ODay said he was licked
almost to death to suit umpiring
Hank says he wants some friends
before he dies.
Otto Seller, some drop kicker,
from George Huff's own school, has
Joined the Stagg party against sum-
mer base ball for the colleges.
OF the 16 managers in the major
leagues, IL are Irishmen. Most mag
mates want to combine the duties of
a policeman and manager in one.
When the Chinese have a national
and international league they will
also have another way of smuggling
their race into the land where base
ball originated.
British soldiers may have been
trained on the football fields OF Eton,
as a famous general once remarked,
but British suffragettes have been
trained in bargain sales.
Scout George Huff says the sum-
mer baseball ban is huge joke. He
thinks a person who advocates the
rule is either stupid or blind. Coach
Stagg can't "see" this at all.
Joe Choynski, the veteran heavy
weight pugilist, who is living in
Pittsburg, declares himself come
back, and wants to meet Buck
Grouse in a six-round bout to prove
it.
Veteran Abe Attell continues elm
mating aspirants and padding his
bank roll.
Suggestions for new names for
fdlub: New York Highlanders,
Wolves; Washington, Griffos; Cincin-
natl, Arbiters.
The threat of a baseball war has
passed by without any recourse to
The Hague tribunal or an appeal to
the powers.
Topeka is making improvements to
its plant, and will have a sodded dia-
mond this year. Dale Gear can't see
baseball on any other kind of a dia-
mond.
Baseball fans in Kansas are talk
ing of league for next year. that
will comprise the best town OF the
old Kansas State and Central Kan
sas circuits.
Willie Hoppe assuredly has estab-
lished himself as unique in the bill
lard game. There is no man in the
game to-day who can beat this young
wizard of the cue. He stands alone,
at the head of the class.
Manager Connie Mack OF the Phila-
delphia American Baseball club, an
nounced the sale of Catcher Living
stone to the Cleveland club of the
game league and of ''Topsy" Hartsel
outfielder, to the Toledo club of the
American association.
Cornell Runners May Go Abroad.
A movement is on foot among Cor.
nell undergraduates, and 1t is ex.
pected that the alumni will also Join
1t, to make an effort to send the Cor