Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13

through, but the father will always
be ready to hit in the pinches.
G.
What Newark wants most of all is.
a reliable left-handed twirler, and, if
it's possible at all. know that young
Ebbets will bring Earl Yingling over
here. OF course, things may come up
that would prevent Yingling from
joining the Tigers. but, as have said
before, Newark will get the pitcher if
there is any show at all
| C
AS regards the relations between
the Newark Club and the Brooklyn
Club, Newark is going tor be treated
just as we'll as Brooklyn can afford
to treat her. When 1t comes to
players, it is to be presumed that the
| Tigers will not receive any men that
would be to the advantage of the
Superbas. Such proceedings would
not be good business methods. But
Brooklyn will, feel sure, do every
thing she can to make Newark a win
ner. and that is all the fans should
expect.
C
Harvard was no doubt rather sur
prised when Chicago refused to give
her game, but the Crimson eleven is
still hopeful of securing a game with
Michigan. 1t is an unexpected step
that Harvard is taking, after dropping
Dartmouth. But then when you are a
winner you are likely to do most any
thing-and Harvard has been very
chesty winner lately. A Harvard
Michigan game would be big affair
beyond a doubt. and it would outshine
the other big Eastern Western grid
iron battles. 1t would mean, too, that
we would be able to get a line on the
respective strength of the much
disputed zones in football. We say in
the East that we are best and the
West is twice as strong in Its deciara
ton. We may be able TO prove it
some day-the day that the best In the
West will play the best in the East
one year at the Polo Grounds and the
next year in Chicago.
@
1t looks as If the Richie Murphy
fight was off and it doesn't matter In
the least. The outcome could be only
ore thing-a victory for Ritchie, who
is a great little fighter, while Murphy,
who never was great, has about
reached the passe stage now. His
fight against Packey Mcfarland not
long ago was an awful exhibition, and
Richie is a much more desperate
fighter than Mcfarland. However,
Murphy seems to be about q million
per cent. better on the coast than he
and he might make respectable
showing against the champion. But
the contest is off. Both fighters are
demanding so much money that no
sane promoter would listen to them,
SO Jimmy Coffroth, who had charge
of the mill, has called off all negotia-
lions. Richie insists on $4,000 and
Murphy wants % per cent. straight,
whereas his agreement was a certain
per cent after the $4,000 for Ritchie's
end had been deducted. That's the
way matters stand and no fight is
likely.
IS. o. and Co." have something to
say about nationality, and admit they
are Italians and are proud of 1t. So
what more could those who have
been questioning them want? To
prove everything they say these now
famous correspondents write:
| Miss Same Bike Fanness," Mr..
"Junks," Miss Omitted States Fan
ness" and all intelligent correspond
ent of sport Topics will kindly take
notice to have a certificate and all
necessary credentials to prove they
are real, true Americans, for the sim
pie reason, from now on, q new cor
respondent, under the nom de plume
of Thorough American" will be do
ing some wonderful detective work
| to discover your nationality.
Mr.. Thorough American" after
very exhaustive molecular work, has
found out that S. o. and Co. are not
Americans but Italians. This dis
covery, it Is said, was made after
our manifested sympathies and our
roofing for the Italian rider. Fran
cesco Verri. So, Miss Same Bike
Fanness." be careful, for "Mr. Thor
ough American" in continuing his
wonderful discovery in matter of ma
tionality, might say that, for the
reason you are roofing for Nc
| Namara, you are an Australian.
In regard to our nationality, with
the kind permission of Mr. j.
p. NJ, we feel like saying that since
our first letter was published in
'Sport Topics" when we first started
our controversy on taking In pro-
fessional fencing. we showed the ed
itor of the sporting page, and all the
intelligent readers, we were Italians.
We think we proved at the time to
know enough of the Italian life to be
able to write book on the subject
of taking of certain Italian and
American fencers, who were trying to
! fool once more the good, old sporting
public. We did not care, at the
| time to fight who was trying to
fake, and we did not for a moment
stop to think the man we were fight
ing was an italian, an Irish, a Ger
| man or a Frenchman. In our criti-
cism we are not partial. What we
have said of Verri, that Is showing
to be a wonderful rider that can COM
pete with anyone, European or
| American, we would have said of
Walter Rutt, or Perchicot or any
OF her rider of fame.
This is what we call being thor
ough American an honest, intelli-
| gent, impartial, fair critic, and not
| a blind, partial admirer of the vir-