The Alaska citizen., 1913-05-19

there was no cortcs; for the women
on the board floors
II was a big season all the way
through in tennis. and The fact that
California took everything from the
interscholastic championship 10 the
national event. helped rather than
hampered the sport. for the laurels
had remained too long in one see
ton of the country.
TRoTTING.
Not since 1892. when the advent
+ The pneumatic sulky revolutiouizel
the records of trotting, have so many
important performances occurred in
one sason as in 1912. The ycar
yas made remarkable by Uhlan's
wonderful feat of beating undc~
normal eondit oRs the best time ever
made by any other trotter with the
nd of windshield. by his mile in
2.e3 Ii hooked to the pole with
Lewis Forrest. and by Airedale's
mile in 2:15 ga at 1 year old These
are 3 of the greatest performances
in the history of the trotting horse.
and scarcely less notable is the feat
of Manrico. the 3-year-old colt that
won the Kentucky Futurity. trottins
he sixth heat in 2:n7 II.
The PAGERS 800. shattered many
important records. notably those for
i-year-olds and for double teams
BOXING.
Every recognized champion OF the
ing had fall in the year 1912 N
one defeated Jack" Johnson. it :
true. but his personal actions have
made him so obnoxious to the sport
loving public and society in general
that he has been barred from boxing
n practically every corner of tho
earth. His one battle of the year.
against little Jim" Flynn. was not
! very impressive performance. AMI
It - III " INiftdt t4lR Hli'-t- u iItSSt=
bility that one OF the big men vile
have been coming along fast recent
~ might be able to beat him if h
should be permitted 10 box again.
There is not the same zest now in
The pursuit of a white hope that
there was year aeo. BY the time
another year rolls around the negro
champion Will be forgotten as
fighter and il is quite likely that
there will be a white man leader
of the heavyweight division lust
who that will be is hard to forcten.
but Luther MeCarty and al" Pal
GER should come pretty close to set
Ting the dispute.
McCarty became the sensation OF
the white heavyweiehts when he
knocked out Jim FLYNN. That feat
put him right at the top round of TIL
ladder. and the man who beats hiw
n the next twelve months will come
t#foNt ~ having INT tll'tl!i tttVll9i4ltt
conceded to him
Abe" Attell after a long career
as the title holder among the feath-
erweights. at last went down to de-
feat johnny" Kilbane. who took
the honors from him, is one Of
the poorest excuses for a real fight
er who ever held title He was
barely able to outpoint Attell. al
though the latter. as ultimate events
proved, was al through as a ringster
"Ad" Wolgast. commonly known in
pugilistie circles as the Cheese
champion" was sent into the dis
card by willie" Richie, who last
year was preliminary fighter Be
cause Richie won on a foul his title
to lightweight champion does not
carry much glory with it. and boxing
enthusiasts will have to see him in
action with men like "Packey" Mac
Farland, Jack" Britton, Joe" Rivers
and Joe" Mandot before they are
willing to pass final judgement on
him as a real champion
While Johnny" Coulon, recogn'z-
ed as the bantam champion, managed
to hold onto his title, it was only
through the fact that decisions are
not legal in New York state kid"
Williams. of Baltimore. gave him
sound and decisive thrashing at Madi-
son Square Garden in ten rounds
and proved to the spectators that he
was in every way superior to coulon
AS for the middleweight and vel
terweight classes. 1912 did not de-
velop a champion. There were sever
al boxers with claims for the middle
weight honorss but one stood out
clearly above the groups of con-
tenders. Eddie" McGoorty, of Osk-
kosh. Wis. with knockout victories
over the British and Australian cham
pions and popular decision on
points over mike" Gibbons comes
as close as any one to being the
leader.
PARIS POLICE USE HAND CAN
NON AND SHIELD.