The Alaska citizen., 1914-11-23

cess in the paid ranks, Recently the Naplander came east and took part in several bouts in New York. His record Is fourteen straight vic tories He Is under the manage ment of NJ. J. Hinkel of Cleveland, who is schooling him for much big ger game.
 Fred Daly. the former Yale cap tain. now coaching at Williams, has some excellent material to work with this year. If this is true, it is tan tamount to saying that Williams has strong team. as the men under hi1 ha.e every confidence in Daly as a football builder.
 Harvard has a track wonder on its football team named Wilcox. He is sophomore, This spring he turned quarter In 4S 45 seconds. being the sensation of the track team sea son Imagine a 4S-second man run ming down the field for a touch down Wilcox Is quarterback.
 IL Is probable that as result of the postponement of the lnternation- al yacht races at San Francisco next year from April to August, larger number of Eastern entries will be made. In fact the change will bene- fit American clubs intending to en- ter. and permit several boats 10 par ticipate The foreign clubs for whose benefit the earlier date has been chosen. are more or less eliminated from consideration by the European war.
 Jack Keogh, the everbusy man at Pennsylvania university and Gale Nutty. the manager of last years football team. have revived the move ment to build memorial to the late Mike Murphy. Already several Of the alumni have expressed their willingness to aid financially In the plan. which is to build a training house and an alumni club at the plot of ground to the south of the gymnasium, just outside the south entrance to Franklin field Provost Smith has given his hearty approval to the movement and declared that he will give 1t his earnest support
 A few short years ago all the ball 
 life out of Bill Klem, Today they rank him as the best umpire In either league. Time certainly works wonders.
 The baseball players have, in many instances completed their plans for the winter, and business as well as pleasure figures in these arrange
 jS ip O after his chicken interests on his poultry farm at Paulding, O. Ralph Cutting is at Warren, N. H., and intends to spend a great deal of his time hunting. McGraw says he will spend his entire time in Cleveland Jimmy Jones is a native of the Blue Grass state and intends to remain in the south during the cold months.
 Only two of the Al games that have been played in the worlds series. have been errorless by both teams Boston and Cleveland in 1892 and the Cubs and Tigers in 1908 provided the flawless displays. The Athletics have played errorless ball on four occasions.
 Tony ROSS ana Ddn DdHey, lHe Newcastle. Pa, heayyweights, who have been bitter enemies for some time, did the unwise thing recently in a newspaper office in Newcastle. They happened to meet there and instead of waiting until they could get money for scrapping in the ring, tackled each other like a pair Of bulldogs. They wrecked the office and the police had to be called in to stop the fight. They got no money for mussing each other up, either, and in addition a lot of people saw them at their best without paying cent.
 Some out of town promoters are giving 1t to New York managers hot and heavy because of the all star bouts that the metropolitan clubs have been staging. It IS claimed that 10-round mills between stars have done great deal or harm. Frequenters of clubs that Of fer such high class amusement With out very extra inducements get so accustomed to seeing the best that contest has to be almost of cham pionship importance to attract them Some movement may be started ln the near future to more satisfactor' fly adjust things.
 Those interested in indoor track and field meets will have new fea ture in intercollegiate competition to attend in January. The I. A. A. Is planning a set of indoor games to be held at Madison Square Garden in which all the events to be com peted for will be contested by teams instead of individuals. The runs will all be relay events and in the field each college will be represented by teams of jumpers, weight throw CTS, and vaulters instead of depend ing upon one or two stars to capture the points.
 We'll, as the echoes still ring through the sporting world of the worlds series, no one can say thai justice was not done the players from the standpoint of press work There were 225 newspapermen 1T the press boxes each day, also 5s telegraph operators. Canada was re presented by II baseball writers which shows that our northern neigh bor is as interested in the nationa game as much as we are ourselves
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