The evening world., 1914-02-23


Of anything it's very pleasant 10 be
well paid for being put out. And II
Murphy hadn't been given good
business proposition he'd have had
Abe other owners In the courts and
hot water generally all summer.
A ND the Feds. Here q week or
~ two ago they were pretty we'll
content to pick up . player
hero and there. m unobtrusively m
possible. Now they're planning .
meeting for tho purpose Of discussing
ways and means os Furnishing players
who jump TO organised baseball"
and OF Furnishing organized baseball
Itseif when II tries TO nab y player
Whp has signed q Federas contract.
When they reach this staes II begins
70 look N II the newcomers arc going
to cut some dash In baseball affairs.
Now. instead Of having Federals try
ing TO buy over ''organissd baseball
players BY Offering salaries that
would have been record breakers .
yeer ago. we have Somers Of the Maps
oeering to pay Cy Falksnberg an
annual salary Of $4,000 TOR three
goors. and to provide all expenses
VIII Jump his Federal League CON.
tract and come back Into IL folA,
Would 'orgaAtsed bassball" owners
~ willing TO pay out money a. Law
lehly n this if they expected the
ce1eral League 10 10 to pieces? I?
What q chance! They'd just wait
for tho playerU 10 come hack ON
their marrow bones and beg for their
cANk MORAN. In Paris, says
~ that he considers himsslf Q
sure winner over JoAaoea whou
ny meet In April.
rOn ths day Js6iriss lest at Reno"
ays Moran. II made up my mind
that Id never rest until ! had q
chance to win the champ pionship back
from Johnson. I've worked intslli-
eeutiy from that day to this. studied
svesy style OF boxing. picked up what
Noy I feel sure I can vhip the nesro.
49, I'm going TO do IT,"
Amorlcano In Paris seem 70 thinl
Noran has q good chance. They ~
theer judgment on knowledge OF the
v4v johnson lives--a mode OF life
Nfoerly unlike the model, laSa doVu
- the laws made for athletes IN an
elent Greece: In those days each
o,ympsc contestant went before the
lSeests and took y solemn oath thai
~ one year he would not breai
t5alning In any Of the ways prohib.
Mod One year Of hard athletic train.
~. every day. without indulgooCo ol
~ Kind. perfected the athIote fol
~ great test. II there's cay inaul.
0ooco that johnson has ovoylooko<
6oes going TO Paris the local scribes
NDvo failed to make . note Of II.
YACK 0EYER. who once knocked
eut Oanbost Smith. and who bsa'
Carl Boris In the West. not {,
sneetion Q number Of others. In her,
See>ging for trouble. Osyer In ono O
~ smaller heavywsights. and he ha,
TIT peculiar adjunct to boxing scion
U0cally described ~ - kick." Pease
eu1ly inclined hopes arc advised l.
6onp out OF his way.
srw s'sd I'm sst." ssys chsrii
Tkat mskss,t Il unanimous.
Eddie McGoorty is heavy weigh,
kght t-heavyweight and mtddlewsigh
e6ampion OF Australia Wonder u h
couldn't get down into the welter clas,
too. by cutting OF the me"
ETWEEN basketball and ic
II hockey there has been plenty {
good bare fist. London Priz
Rlns fghting this winter. A there
y rumor around that the l.eEislatuI
has nothing much TO do Just now an
may take flyer at investigating
boxing. the Boxing Commission. As
why shouldn't II look over some Of n
rousher sports?
Frank Moran. who certainly hs
been In some hard ring lights. m
who has played football ON sever
hiS teams, told me few months II
that one football game was hard
'han half dozen fights Let Il
i.egisiatrre put In some Of its waste
IT rather its spare--tiIAe studying foo
han. and then let US all apply for
molly -codcIe license before chess a.
checkers fall Under the han.