Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-12-27
SPORTING GOSSIP

Bill Bernhard, of the Memphis
Club, regrets that he has no big
league affiliations. New Orleans ties
up to the Cleveland Maps and the
Philadelphia Athletics, Montgomery
to the st. Louis Browns, Mobile TO
the Cincinnati Reds and New York
Giants, Nashville to Brooklyn, At
lanta to the Washington Senator'S
and birmingham to the Chicago
White Sox. Bill fears he'll have hard
shedding recruiting from the big
league cast-offs while his rivals Will
be loading up.
Eddie McGoorty, the Oshkosh mid
dleweight, has cut out an ambitious
program. Besides his bouts already
scheduled in New York with Jack
McCarren and Freddie Hicks, Nc
Goortv saws he plans a European
invasion soon and will meet Bllly
Papke. Klaus and Carpenter in Paris
That Americas supremacy in base
hall will some day be challenged
seems now probable. In Cuba it is
now practically the leading sport.
In China, Japan and the Philippines
It is gaining rapidly in popularity
Now comes word that a French CLUB
is angling for Jean Dubuc, OF the
Detroit Tigers, and may induce him
to cross the water to play and also
to teach the game. Baseball mas sot
a pretty fair start in France, ana
in a few more years it is predlcted
that no American club Will be en-
titled to call itself worlds pennant
winner unless it has really beaten
the best that foreign lands have to
offer.
Tommy Murphy, once a prominent
candidate for the Lightweight cham
pionship, is in a Denver hospital and
NAV never fight again. He is suffer-
ing from a mental and physical
breakdown.
Another example of the gentleman
who believes In trying after he first
meets with a rebuff is Douglass Bo-
meisler, the Yale man whom nearly
everyone, qualified or unqualified to
pick, selected as an All-American end.
Bomeisler was turned down hard
when he first reported as candidate
for end at the Poly Prep School in
New York.
That Kohl Yamada, the Japanese
billiardlst now in America, is des-
tined some day to win the 1872 balk-
line billiard championship of the
world Is the opinion of many Ameri-
can cue experts. In the recent tour
nament in New York Yamada won
third honors, but since then he ap-
pears to have picked up many of the
finger points OF, the game. His de-
feat of Slosson and Morningstar in
Pittsburg during the past few days
| indicates how dangerous he is.
Maurice DAILY, who regards Yamada
as a candidate for championship hon
ors, says of him: He has a lot to
learn, but he will get a lot from OBJ
servation and experience. At present
he depends on his execution and
lacks system. When he becomes
more methodical he will be the player
most likely to have the edge on Willie
Hoppe for the championship HIS
temperament seems to be an idea
ono for a billiard player. If he is
susceptible of any emotion his inn
mobile countenance does not betray 1t
Apparently, all opponents look alike
to him"
George Slosson's opinion of the Jap
anese expert Is: "Wait until he gets
he knack of-nursing and nobody viii
have any advantage over him.
Yamada is drawing big crowds il
every city where he appears. Janu.
airy to IL he and Slosson will b'
In Chicago. The following week they
will be at Charley Peterson's room II
ST. Louis. Peterson wishes to ar
range some three-cushion games be
tween his protege, Pierre Maupome
the Mexican, and the visitors. st
Louis people consider Maupome
wonder at three cushions. and believ'
he will have no difficulty in beating
the Jap.
Yamada has good deal Of conf
dence in his ability eventually to bea
all comers. When informed recent
that he would not have chance t
play for the championship inside O
four months. he laughed as he said