The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-20
What's Doing i'm the World of Sport
CAN'T RETIRE AND
KEEP0UT0 Of GAME
Headliners in Nearly All
Branches Of Sport Try
to "come Back"

Packey Mcfarland. the "stockyards
Champion says he was wearied OF
the tedium Of training and Is going to
retire from the ring.
II the Chicago boy makes good ~
promise, and does pass up h ring. the
padded posts. tho rosined canvas m
the stuffed gloves, he will have dem.
onstrated moro self-ednial than a lot
Of other sporting celebrities.
Mcfarland made money during
his career and has also a the wit to
save a goodly portion Of 1t. HIS weight
has precludcd him from becoming a
champion for he cannot do much bet
ter than make 1873 pounds, and De Mt
to show his best. Therefore he just
misses being a lightweight. Undoubt-
eddy. he would have held the light
weight title but for this few pounds
Of surplus avoirdupois.
In spite Of this condition, cFa
land has been a big card In The ring,
and has undoubtedly made more mon
ey than any man who was not a cham.
pion.
with an ample. stock Of cash. Fac:
kew is going to abjure he rigors OF
training and the boredom OF one-nfght
stands. and set up in business.
II he stays. retired. he will make a
new record. A lot of other stars have
come to the same resolve as Packey.
and often have been guided by much
the same motive. but the lure Of the
game in which they excelled has again
and again proved too strong to be re.
sisted, and the result has been that
once more they returned. to a sport to
which a farewell had been oidden.
Sometimes the return has been dis
astrous. Sometimes It has been sue
cessful.
Jim Jeffries furnishes a doleful case
OF the wrecking of a great reputation
nv an effort to come back and get n
dollars after the athletic proves of
his youth had passed.
The boilermaker quit the ring adj
mired as few fighters had ever been.
His marvellous record of victories In
a short time over Peter Jackson. Jim
Corbett. Rob Fitzsimmons. Tom Shar-
key and Gus Rubin rated him as the
greatest heavyweight the world had
even e When he stuck a couple
Of jolts into Jack Munro. the false
alarm miner. whose claim to fame
rested on an alleged knockdown he
scored against Jeffries in a bout at
Butte. tho boilermaker announced that
he was done with the ring game and
would settle down to his ease In his
bLSSS SNISeISS llOItlCs. hS a
paying cafe and saloon.
Jeffries resisted many efforts to get
him out of retirement. and It was
eight years before he siren call OF
dollars got so strong that he could not
ignore It. johnson had cleaned up all
of the white heavyweights. and 1t be-
came the belief Of the American sport
ing public that only one mar could
beat the negro. and that was Jetries.
- - ~k tho$
Jeffrins mad is still remembered. The
wre.rhed showing he made at Reno
did more than shatter his great repu.
tation. It.won him the contempt Of
thousands who saw the fight, because
It wascontended that the former
champion displayed distinct lack Of
courage, both before and. after n
bout.
R"'t!ins Nelson announced his re-
ti,er'e1t af'cr he dropped his title In
his hor:' with Wolgast, but the Dane
vas ~. ,h'" 20 stay away from the
'hap'n nr making money. and. per-
hans. "f proving that he lost to Ad on
a. fuke. and could reverse the deci.
sion in another bout.
Fitzsimmons thought he vas done
with the ring after his second bout
with Jim Jeffries. but he. too. was de-
coyed bach in 1908. and was a two
IOuuu marx lOT JACK JOuISOIS
Tommy Ryan. who had a long ca
reer. quit and returned two or three
times. so did his conqueror. Kid Nc
Coy. who figured in a bout within a
year.
Many star baseball players have
tried to quite the game. but the num-
Der. who nave succeeded is few. The
only. important pair that come to
memory are Bill Lange, Chicago's
great outfielder of the early nineties,
who left baseball when he was at the
height of his ability. and could have
commanded almost any salary. and
Fielder Jones. manager Of the Chicago
Americans. who headed the team that
won the worlds championship in
1906. ..~
Jones continued to direct the team
during the year of 1907. but announc-
ed that It was positively his last year,
and that in 1908 he would go into the
lumber business in the northwest.
Jones made good his promise. and
though this, was five years ago. he has
steadily remained outside the fold.
though he nearly always turns up in
time to see the games of tho worlds
series played.
Garland Stahl tried to get out OF
baseball in 1910. at which time he
was playing first base for the Boston
Americans and acting as captain Of
the team. -.