Grand Forks daily herald., 1914-10-20
Sports From Every Corner OF Sportdom
Touring the Sporting
World 4 Few SIDE Lioht. Enroute

the ring: According to the reports,
ne and Brown stepped around for a
rev minutes. shying at each other,
TIL the police were requested to re-
move them.
Inasmuch as Brown received no
money. ne was not touched, but Dill
ION ana his manager were sloughed
on a charge Of obtaining money under
raise pretenses. If the charge sticks
in St. Louis slegal ring. some of
these fighters are going to change
their tactics.
Inc practice might be extended to
include the wrestling game. We've
seen few OF these Champions of Ev-
erywhere sprawling and pufinE
around 9. mat. endeavoring to make
cinch look like real labor. In some
cases. good. healthy push on the
send the alleged "champeen" sour
rying for the comfort and protection
OF the dressing room.
Connie Stays Behind.
Connie Mack is not with his touring
baseball players. Connie helped get
them together, and he was billed to
kick across the continent and the Pa
cific pond. with, them. but a change
in the official plans has kept him
at home.
OF course, Connie is in for a lot of
written criticism: They'll say that
the four-straight wallopings handed
him by Boston have cornered his an
CORA and so he's afraid to be out in
the open before the gaze of lot of
curious fans.
But that's not It, few days hence,
Connie Is to don the habiliments of
the dance hall and strut down the
aisle with his daughter on his arm
good society page English-and give
her away to Chicago lad. In short
Comics going to sign up son-in-law.
He says his daughter unearthed him
while doing a little scouting at COL
lege, and, he bats 800 with her, there
is nothing to do but withdraw the
boot and extend the fatherly paw.
My Word, What Change.
These be dour days for Harry
Moehler. Car of local billiard hall.
Harry could bite one of the ivory
spheroids in two and enjoy doing it.
billiard ball around the table and jab-
ber about baseball without getting
sore when he missed an easy carom.
Mention baseball to him now, and he
clouds up like the female half of a
honeymoon when she sees it twisting
his neck to lamp swell Venus that
Is gliding down the street, and he
loosens up with a line of talk that no
man would like to have his wife hear.
Cause? F.? The late worlds series.
Here is Harry's line of talk before
why you gazooks don't know what
you're talking about. The Braves
haven't a chance in the world. Say,
they'll be lucky If they get a single
score. This bunk about the Athletics
being through gives me the jittsies.
The Giants thought they'd do it, but
Sa,7,n1 Ghat happened Nd.s: them? Why there's
long orations abnht the 800, 900 In
field and up-to- be- minute statistics
to back them up.3 TsN
Mr.. Moehler's-.{ Curse of the Uni
verse today: Don't talk baseball to
me, you blooming Told-you-so Mutt.
The Athletics are gang of superan-
nuated corner lotters. The man that
said they knew inside baseball died
in the insane asylum last week. The
nett stiff that mentions the worlds Sc
ries to. me is going to get cracked
right on the bonnet. thought 1 knew
all about it. and now I'm broke. If
Marty O'Toole's sold for a nickel, I
couldn't buy the spit he puts on the
pill. And don't talk to me about these
sure-thtng cinches. Right this min
ute. l wouldn't bet penny on the
chances Of fleet of English dread
naughts in a cannon to cannon argu-
ment with the Irish row-boat navy.
Brr-r-r-r-r."