The Daily Missoulian., 1914-05-15

=. y VI SoIIle uncanHy reason OF
other Fitz was always able to declare
before the bout began whether or not
ne would win by the kayo route and
ne seldom. If ever, failed to deliver
lie mad never been able to explain this
strange faculty and regarded it more
as an instinct than anything else. But
ne mad the greatest faith in these
lunches" and went in to battle as
sured of the outcome before the fight
had started.
The rumor regarding Christy
/ Mathewson is interesting. If Matty
should be made manager Of the Cardi-
nails to replace Miller Huggins, as has
been suggested, it would seem that
baseball interests in St. Louis would
boom. The Cardinal owners who have
sought to put this deal over--or have
! been reported to have done such--de-
j serve hearty applause. They are we'll
aware that nothing short of a Christy
| Mathewson would ever get the proper
| rise out of the apathetic bugs of st.
| Louis. Another thing. if Mathewson
should make the change-though many
agree that it seems extremely unlikely
there will be conjecture on many
| sides as to his fitness for a managerial
| job. He's wonderful pitcher and a
most brainy student Of the game, but
whether he has all the qualities that
make a successful chief is still a ques
ton. However, the whole affair is as
yet only in the wind and thus far there
is little cause for dismay. The idea
perhaps, had its birth in the faneiful
Uranium of a sport writer.
George Burns with the Tigers and
George Burns of the Giants are neither
kith nor kin. However, they both seem
to be Very capable little pill tossers.
Jennings says that Burns Will paint
the league red this season and Muggsy
says that Burns win make good with
him in nice shape. If jennings had
only said of Burns that he Gould set
the league afire.' there would be a
high-class wheeze in this by simply.
running the head: George Burns the,
League"
Jimmy Burke the veteran ball play
to be a proper pastime for old ladies
and cripples. It's most ladylike COM
pared to the game we played fifteen
years or more ago says Jimmy.
Players didn't shake hands when
they met then and there was more
fighting and real scrapping then than
now. The boys today probably work
just as hard, but after the game is
over they forgot all about it. 1t was
not SO when I was on the lot. We
carried grudges off the field and
would store Up real man little feud
fa a
more rough and tumble fighting then
A game was hardly considered the
real thing unless there was at least
one real good fist fight somewhere in
the nine innings. We used to scrap
50 much on the field and in the club
house and on the way home that no
one Thought anything of 1t. Today if
two players have aareai vicious rum
in there's a big piece in the paper
about it, The game is certainly get
ting to be a pastiife for feeble old
women. 5g5
All Jim Flynn needs is a few more
hot baths and he'll be fit to do a
little more white. hoping Jim does
not require so verw much to put him
In fine fettle for his chosen profesh
A hot bath or two after some strenu-
Gus combat and Lin is as good q
white hope as ever-ifs that's very
good
It must distress the lawyers un-
speakably this suing and one thing
another in baseball. The lawyers
probably feel that they dislike the
Feds Intensely. At present there is
s15O0oo being asked. for in different
damage suits that the Feds and or
gani2ed baseball are Wagng against
one another.
Harry Stone, the young American
fighter who went down to Australia
and garnered something like $4,000
in few fights, has a hacker now
who is willing to bet that Harry can
lick Freddy Welsh and this friend of
HarrN's is flashing $4,000 to prove that
he means What he says. This ought
to bring Il little action. Stone IS in
London at present
Pacley Mcfarland, it seems has
changed his mind about quitting the
ring for good after all He has done
this merely as a favor to his pal,
Billy Gibson, the Gotham fight pro-
moter While PaclSey does not plan
to become active at once, he will no
doubt be at it again next season. espe-