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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-07

Z ACK JOHNSON, the champion
heavyweight, has announced so
- often that he will do the Patti
act that the people who follow sports
are accustomed to it. Jack has stated
at different times that he would retire
after his fight with Jim Fiynn Snd
then again he stated tha- ne Wodlo
never figr- again afte- Labor day
q DESPITE these announcements he
signed I'D a contract with Hugh L.
Mcintosh, of Australia, to meet sam
Iangford and Sam McVea in the Anti
DOdes within six months after signing
articles and Jack has given the Aus
tralian to understand that he is READY
to depart for the land Of the kangaroo
as soon as the stipulated SlOUuO IS
posted in Chicago as guarantee InaI
the matches will be all right. Mr.. Nc
Intosh has cabIed the money over here
to a national bank, but now Lii Arthur
wants the coin posted with an lndl-
vidual in Chicago If the deal goes
through it will be because MI mem
tosh has met every demand from the
present champion
1t was the same Hugh Mcintosh who
gave Johnson a chance to get to the
front and become worlds champion
for he put up a purse Of $4,000 with
another $4,000 for expenses to bring
Tommy Burns and Johnson together
when all other promoters SHE'D at the
demands of the fighters Had It not
DeEn
pion might never have known the
sweets of championship popularity ana
il is only natural that Lii Arthur
should show some favor to the man
who practically made him, but II re-
mains to be seen whether Jack VIII
carry out his agreement with the Aus
tralian, the same as Mcintosh did with
him.
johnson says that the reason he IN
do 70 1r-n lie
York commission has barred him from
meeting a white man in that city,
which is true, but what is the differ-
ence to Jack as long as he gets Dig
money for meeting a colOred MANI
He has been offered as high as $4,000
to meet Joe Jeanette in 4 ten round
bout in the big city which is certain
" pretty soft 1t is JohnsOn's privi-
lege to retire whenever he pleases, but
If he caters to the public favor ne
will find that he will have to tote fair
with the public.
There are several legitimate chal-
1engers for JOhnsOn's crown, two OF
them negroes, in fact three negro men,
while there are two white men coming
along who will soon have the right to
ask a match Of the champiOn,-Al Pal
ger and BOmbardier Wells Still John
son has the right to retire when he
sees fit, but should he do so now 1t
will always be said that he had a fear
of meeting some Of the heavyWeights
above named And stiu if Johnson felt
that he is slipping back he would be
wise to quit now, but those who know
him we'll do not share the belief that
ne is going back to any extent.
Trying Ont White Hopes.
The white hopes are being given
thorough try-out in New York and 1t
will be no fault Of the promoters II
some star is not developed from the
the number. Al Palzer, one of the real
hopes, came from among the raw ones
of Tom O'ROurke's stable, while such
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-07
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EHE CUB REPORTER

e UGH has been said and more
MI written about the attitude OF
4NA the British toward the United
States team wh1cn won the first honors
at Stockholm during the Olympic
games. Coming at the time it did
when England had made miserable
showing, the criticisms of the Ameri-
can team came with a bit of bad grace.
one British sportsman went to the
extreme of saying that Kolehmainen'
the. the wonderful Finn athlete, would
be running under the AMERICAN col
ors at the next Olympic meeting in
Berlin. Charges of rank professional
ism have been made, but not proved
against the American team. Lavish
OUTLAWS of money for training has also
been charged against the home team, II
this can be considered a charge.
The fact remains that England has
been forced TO swallow bitter pill
or two in the success of the American
teams abroad. The winning Of the
United states team at London during
the last Olympic contest was rubbing
its in after the St Louis contest, and
to have the Yankees come back and
take the 1912 hOnors was more than
the British pride would stand and they
are doing what all poor sportsmen 90,
protest In the same breath they put
the o. K. stamp on American metnods
by proclaiminS with much noise lhal
the British team must be trained as
well as any team in the world tor the
Berlin meet and that no money must
be spared to make the British team
fit The same lack of consistency Is
noticeable in the loud protests MADE
against the admission of the lndlan ana
Hawaiian competitors under the shield
of the United States The British
papers are demanding that the next
British Olympic team shall include the
best athletes from the entire empire
Yet there is grain or two OF truth
in the criticisms of our English couS-
ms. despite the malice which is back
of it We do take our sports a bit too
seriously and make them work In
stead of play. We may produce pet
ter athletes than the English, but they
have US dashed to the mast on the num-
Der of athletes which the countries
produce in comparison to population.
IN England everyone plays cricket
or some outdoor game. In America
S,999,9S2 people sit in the grand STANDS
and bleachers and watch IS men play
ball.
Kid Mccoy whose monaker is Nor
man Selby since he has quit coming
back, has been in no end of trouble
over in Belgium where he has been
doing the high roller act. He was ar
rested by the police on the charge OF
being implicated in a big diamond rob
berry case. He was placed in jail under
a prohibitive bond and later released
upon a bond of SIS, 900. which was fur
nished by himself and friends. Now it
looks as If it was a case of mistaken
identity or clever press agenting, for
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-07
ROasts Jack JohnsOn's Sailing and Predicts
White Champion In A Short Time
By Tom S. Andrews

Andy Morris and others have served TO
act as stepping stones for the others
and now comes Luther McCarty and
Jess Willard. the Texas cowboy, who
is touted as better than all the hopes
McCarty is being guided Dy Billy NC
Carney and If the genial Billy IS TO De
taken seriously he has a world heater,
only Lutte needs more experience before
launching out against the real top
nOtchers. Jess Willard was given
tryout against big fellow named
Pelky, said to be some pumpkins down
east, and Jess simply annihilated him
Now Jess comes in for his share OF
attention
With Porky Flynn back from Aus
tralia there will be another one added
to the list, and the chances are that
POrky can keep most Of them very
busy, with the exception OF lombard
Ter Wells, who gave the Boston boy a
whipping over the twenty round route
in London over a year ago. Perky can
best get TO the select circle by taking
on McCarty, willard and Palzer, but
from the looks of things he viii have
quite a task before him Wells is to
return to New York in the fall and
will be ready to meet all the heavy
weights Of class. or take on the win
ners of the elimination tourney to be
started by Billy Gibson
\ White Heavy Ghamp.
By the time they get through and
a final is arranged there will be a
real white heavyweight champion And
by the way Jim Flynn should be n
Guided in the list Of heavies, especially
in the semi-finals and finafs while
Jim Barry, the Chicago heavyweight,
should be given a hearing. too. Let
them all fight it out among themselves
and some good tough fights viii be
the result, with some real material IN
sight for the future In the meantime
the negro heavyweights might ar
range a sort OF elimination tourney
among themselves. there being sam
LangfOrd, sam McVea- Joe Jeanette
and Cleve Hawkins. 1t may be posi-
bic to bring about a match between the
winners OF the two Journeys, providing
promoters can be found who Will match
the negro men with the whites. and
the winner of the big final would be
pretty near having a lOOk-in at the
big noise But handling a lot Of heavy
weight stars is like engaging a bunch
Of opera singers-each one wants to
be the dictator
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-07
A Little Sport ALittle Gossip

1" NO ifs loom up in the National
league race. If the Cubs ian sue
coed a little better with the
PhiIlies in Philadelphia than they
did in Chicago, and if the other west
ern clubs can win a game or two at
New York there may still be some
thing doing in the way of a battle for
the Lynch pennant- By trimming
MathewsOn and Marquard in successive
days the Cubs have again given the
Giants and their followers quite a
jolt. Those who are pulling for a real
tusseI in the old league are hoping the
Phillies are littel easies on the Chance
aggregation than they were in Phila-
delphia-
When the entries for the Vanderbilt
cup rac.s u be held in Milwaukee in
September close nearly every nation
Of Importance in the automobile world
will be represented by bcth drivers and
cars Already three important nations
are ACCOMPLISHMENTS, Italy and
Germany
Adrian c Arson has issued a pre-
dictiOn that the Giants viii win the
National league pennanL 1t sure
takes the old boys to pun the clair
NOyance stuff
It is reported that Alfred Lutte, well
terweight champion Of Germany, IS
coming to this country to engage some
of our Welters. If the financial picking
looks good He recently sOjourned a
while in England, and found the So
jcurning to his liking, as he cleaned
all the fighters in his class. He is
quick on his feet is a splendid al
round scrapper, and is sure TO give
z good account of himself if he comes
to the United States.
Charlie Doom believes that his team
win go up higher in the National
league race and has picked out second
place for the Quakers.
Jack JOhnson's latest announcement
that he is through with the fighting
game and viii leave the championship
to be fought out between McVey, Jean
nette and Langford, produced a quick
response from Dan McKettrick, man
ager of Jeanette. The little managers
declaration is as follows: 1T is not
customary in America to claim a pu-
gilistic championship, nor am I seek
ing to establish a precedent, but L sin
ceHely believe / am justified in claim
ing the worlds heavyweight title for
Joe Jeanette"
Clarence Rowland announces that
the Dubuque Three Eye league team
would finish the season if the gate
receipts were satisfactory. otherwise
the team VIII quit in the future.
Harry Wolyerton says Ty Cobb is
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-07

disgraceful affair at Aqua Prieta Sun
day when the crowd started a rough
house and attempted to take some
American prisoners away from the
guards, shows the pleasant possibili-
ties of this mode of passing a quiet
Sunday afternoon The fight game
does not seem to thrive well on for
eign, especially Mexican soil, and the
old saying that the definition of the
word sports ends with the bridges,
holds true.
Memories Of the ord Cactus league
days are waited westward by the news
reports of a pitchers battle down In
the Central Texas league, where a
number of old Cactus stars are shin
ing. Kane and Wingo Anderson mixed
it for ten rounds, Kane pitching for
Marshall and WingO for Longview-
Kane won his game in the tenth with
a timely hit by Duck GoWen, another
Cactus sprout, who is playing with
Marshall also These two pitchers met
in FL Paso for a wonderful exhibit
ton of pitching, when the league was
going good and it sounds like old times
to hear of Kane using his splitter and
Anderson his wonderful break ball
with that powerful left wing.
Kolehmainen, the great Finn athlete.
is going to renounce the amateur class
and become a professional As Such
he will appear in the United States
in exhibition contests with American
sprinters-
Hughie Fullerton. discoverer OF in
side baseball and the great baseball
writer of the game, has retired from
daily work and will devote his time
to magazine and feature work he
is the third of the great sport writer's
to take up the literary labOrs. Char
les Van Loan and Allen Sangree are
now writing baseball fiction for the
Magazine reading fans
Hughie Jennings has been busy la-e-
II picking possible American league
winners Hughie is due to be picked
himself at the end Of the present sea
son, as he is to be sent back to the
minors for a new manager.
Los Angeles looks good to have the
coast league championship fight right
at home, as Vernon and Los Angeles,
both Los Angeles teams, are leading
the league.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-07
English Criticism Of American Athletes
Appears To Be A Case Of Sour Grapes
Cousins A the Water Do Not Like Way Olympic
Honors; Mccoy in Trouble Abroad
Bv NORMAN

Mccoy has been offered his hber-
ty and an apology for being
detained. AS the inventor of the CORK
screw blow, Mccoy acquired certain
amount of fame and fortune wnlIe ne
was in the fighting game. He then re-
tired to apply his knowledge to the
booze business and matrimonial ven
lures on the side He was originally
an indianapolis, Ind. product but New
York has been his temporary residing
place between trips abroad. He re-
ceived a good scare in Ostend and is
ready to come back to New York
and take his chances with the
system in control of affairs there
rather than the tweed cap, sherlock
Holmes, Scotland Yard crowd.
Oldtown has awakened Up there in
the thumb of Maine. where fishing and
fishing are the principal occupations,
the natives have come alive for once.
It was the return of the Penobscot
indian, SockaIexis from the Olympic
games in Stockholm, which has brought
the OldtOWners out of their lethargy
for a day. Andrew, the running IN
dian, arrived in oldtown to the tune
Of Behold, the conquering hero
comes" Although Socksie got only
fourth place in the Marathon race, he
was the hero up Maine way Andrew
is an educated indian, wears shoes and
shirts and eats with his fork. He was
whisked from the station in a motor
car and seooted to the ferry, where his
tribesmen of the. Penobscot herd were
waiting for him A pleasant time was
had by all present.
Border fighting. like border rustling,
is none too conducive to the true
sporting spirit While two good
matches were staged in the Juarez bull
ring since the advent of the fight game
across the river. there have been few
Of decided brunette complexion This
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-07
zoe JEANETTE is the heavy
weight champion of the world!"
Tara, Zumi Zuml

ZOE JEANETTE is the heavy
- weight champion of the world"
Tara Zumi Zum!
Now. if you don't believe this, ask
Dan McKetrick, who has cultivated
Jeanetted since the first day the cullud
genlmun slipped on padded mitt-
Dan has been threatening to claim
the title for Joseph for many days,
thinking that the awful warning would
scare Liz Artha into a match. Artha
didn't scare worth jitney, so in an
open letter TO the world Daniel clamps
his mitts on the title, and in the
future will proclaim jeanette heavy
weight champion of the world In fact,
he has ordered new letterheads with
that slight fact mentioned thereon,
where even a blind man could see it
McKetrick bases his claim on the
fact the jeanette really forced john
son into retirement. On these grounds
Dan says he's following the presidents
Of the ring and is entitled to his con-
tentiOn.
''There is no doubt that Jeanette
forced Johnson into retirement writes
NcKetrick. for when Brewer guaran-
teed johnson $4,000 (When the latter
said he would fight anybody for that
amounO Johnson came out with the
announcement of quitting the game.
Gibson, when in Chicago, offered John
son S2O 600 to box jeanette ten rounds
in the Garden Before the promoters
reached New York Johnson sent out
another retirement notice fearing that
Gibson would accept the latter's terms
jeanette now stands ready. to defend
the title. and if Tommy Burns is sin
eere IN his desire to return to the ring
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-07

worth 100000 to any major league
club Put 100000 on one side, Ty
Cooo on on the other and I'd take Cobb,
than several major league teams that
] might mention-but won't"
The amended anti-prize fight petition
rejected last Monday by the county
clerk at Los Angeles because of irregu-
Iarlties, has been presented TO that Of
Ilclal again. 1t bears 5000 names. The
provision of the proposed law would
make every one connected with a ring
about the training quarters guilty OF
felony and liable to Imprisonment in
the penitentiary. This would also in
ciude newspaper men who worked on
Billy Weart. one. of PEnadeIphia's
best known baseball critics. speaking
Of the Athletics, declares thai the
whole machine is off and the csmp is is
enveloped in gloom. He says the boys
cannot get going.
Bert Dingley, who won fame as a
member of the great racing team OF
the Chalmers Motor company when it
won the championship some years
ago, has finally decided to quit racing
for good and all
Tommy Buck, who was knocked out
by frankie Fleming in the last Is sec
Ol-uS o. LnelE ~ round IlghC at Madison
Square Garden, New York, on the night
OF July p, it has been reported, re-
ceived cOncussiOn of the brain from
that knockout punch. He is now at a
Philadelphia hospital, where he is in a
serious condition
The Studebaker corporation an
nounces that hereafter all the motor
cars built at their mammoth Detroit
plant will be known as Studebaker
cars A big battery of machine tools
is now engaged in turning out the
initial lot OF 10000 ''Studebaker''
script radiator name plates which will
place those at present in use, not only
on the cars now being marketed, but
also on all cars sold by the Studebakers
and their predecessors, the EMF COM
pany, which was merged into the
Studebaker corporation some time ago.
As soon as it is possible to supply the
monographs to Studebaker dealers all
cars now in use will be equipped with
them From some points of view we
regret the passing of the old EMF
80 and Flanders 90 radiator mono
grams" said Clement Studebaker jr.,
first vice president of the firm "A de-
sire for uniformity is, however, very
strong among our dealers They all
feel, too, that there is a marked ad-
vantage in the old trademark that has
been borne by the goods made by our
family for three generations"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-07

ADDITIONAL SPORT
ON NEXT PAGE 4
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-07
Hans Wagner Or Ty Cobb the Best?

"HE old controversy about the rela-
tive merits of Hans Wagner and
Ty Cobb has broken loose again,
owing to sundry boostings which the
Flying Dutchman. of Pittsburg has
been receiving of late. over in Smoke.
town no one will admit that Cobb
ranks with Wagner as a help to a ball
club, while on the American league
circuit, all hands swear by the no
torious Tyrus. Both men are such
wonderful ball players and such ire
mendous assets to the teams which are
lucky enough to control their services,
that it seems unfair to either to put
the other ahead of him. OF course, at
the present time, Cobb is the more
valuable player, for he is 10 years or
more younger than Wagner and has
farther to go. There are also points
in which Cobb has the better of Wag-
ner, but they are not many. The Dutch
man is just as good a shOrtstop as
Cobb is an outfielder and first class
shortstOp is more valuable to 4 team
than a great Outfielder. This is look
ing at it simply from the fielding
standpoint At the bat Cobb is more
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-07
McKetrick Isn't Kidding
He Really Claims the Title
By Ed CurLey

he can fight Jeanette for the heavy =
weight championship"
Prince" Henry, the "Cherman''
teacher. The Prince" is a graduate
of Allentown CPa.) University and has
several parchments to back up his
claims Prince never set the rivers
afire by his scrapping ability, so let's
hops he's a better pedant. Henry
the ring who holds a diploma above
that of high school He is a grad
uate of the Allentown, Pa, Institute.
He is now training at Naperyille, Ill,
for his fight with Danny Goodman at
Aurora, III, on Aug. s, and is said to
have around him even a greater supply
OF books than dumb bells and boxing
gloves.
willie Lester, the Brooklyn weller
dead" so steadily that the members OF
his division SILVER when offered q
match with him. As Willie remarks:
1t looks as if Mike Gibbons and I
will have to fight middleweights to
get the price Of winter coal"
Luther McCarty has finished up his
strenuous training for his coming bout
with Jim Stewart and announces that
he is in fine shape and fit to fight for
a year; Billy Mccartney, the manager
OF Luther, goes farther and wishes to
say that his prOtege viii knock out
Stewart in much shorter time than it
took him to make Carl Morris do a
brodie.
That's great dope from that Camp.
but Stewart is filled with the same
brand of hop" and figures on beating
McCarty, even If it takes the entire
ten rounds The latter is pretty shifty,
While McCarty packs the wallop.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-07
FANS 60 MILO
WITH EXCITEMENT
WELL, Why SHOULDN'T
they 2

OTASR RESULTS
they SE1 THAE SKINNY
SHAKERS SIARFSA GEANCS
TRIMMED SHRIMP Flynn S
" HAteDiN6eaS % 70 ~.
We CAN AAROC4 b6eV6 Il
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-07

dangerous now than Wagner, but it is
doubtful whether his complete record,
when he is through with the big
league, will look any better than that
of the Flying Dutchman, who has put
in nearly 16 years of steady service
in the National league, and has been
a leader in his line through all those
years. Cobb is more sensational, moro
dashing and more in the limelight than
HOnus, but whether he is more real
help to ball team than Wagner was
five or six years ago, when he was
nearer CObb's age, is a question. They
deserve all the good things that can
be said about them. They stand so far
above the average mechanical and self
excusing player that they loom like
tremendous giants. seated on the noun
tain tops OF baseball fame.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-07
Us Boys

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FANS TRYING 10 SEAT It MO The HOME CRoONDe VIA
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-07

UGH has been said and more
MI written about the attitude OF
@'A the British toward the United
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-07

Clarence Rowland announces that
the Dubuque Three Eye league team
would finish the season if the gate
receipts were satisfactory. otherwise
the team VIII quit in the future.
Harry Wolverton says Ty Cobb is
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Orivcs OF a Terror.

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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-12-24
Rather Harsh,

The famous barytone had been Civ
ing his concert and the critic from the
country was asked:
d How was the timbre OF his voice!"
Well" said the critic, 1T seemed to
me to be full OF knot-holes. s."-Harper's
Weekly. -