The Alaska citizen., 1915-08-23
SPORTING NOTES.


 for a 20.round bout between Jess Willard and Al Reich. to be pulled off al Denver on Labor Day.
 English golfers are mourning be. cause their Caddies have all enlisted and they have to hire girls 10 hunt the balls
 A race around Long Island for cruising motor boats will be the fea- ture of the Yacht Racing Associa- ton. Heretofore they have only raced around Staten Island This race will take place late in the sea son.
 Friends of Joe Rivers declare that he is about through aE lightweight. In the Dundee fight he came into the ring after q busy training spel weighing 139 pounds, although he did not look it Joe will find ! hard to make the limit again. In six months or year he will be lost to the circle of little men.
 Dan McKetrick sends a threat to the whole heavyweight division in behalf of Young Ahearn. As Gib- bons and Clabby have refused abso lutely to meet Ahearn, McKetrick has decided to send Jake out after Coffey Reach. Savage, Cowler, Mo ran. or any of the big fellows who think they can step some.
 Samuel Ouerbacher, the former in tercollegiaee swimming champion from the University of Pennsylvania, was a contender for the 100-yard Sackett cup race held recently in Philadelphia He is now wearing the colors of the Pittsburgh Athletic As sociation and teammates believe he is fast enough to give Humbert Vollmer and Walter Bamme, of the New York Athletic club, much to do 10 keep up with him in contem- plated contests.
 It is said that McGraw and Stall ings are trying hard 10 start q strike in the big Philadelphia base ball factory so the Phillies cant get balls, bats and gloves to continue their pennant drive
 Frankie Callahan. the rugged little Brooklyn featherweight, has a new manager. He recently placed him self under the management of Dan McKetrick, who looks after the in terests of Young Ahearn, the clever middleweight and Joe Jeanette. the veteran negro heavyweight.
 The secret of the poor showing of the Braves is out at last. It seems that George Stallings, in a fit of absent mindedness, bought a war extra with the lucky penny which enabled him to win a pen nant and a worlds series last sea son. An appeal to the newsboys of Boston to find and return the coin has been useless, and Stallings fears that the hope of the Braves is i'm prisoned in a slot machine.
 In the American Association re gently, eight games were played in single day, and yet there were but four victors. Every team played double header and not one of the bills was split-St. Paul, Minneapolis, Kansas City and Columbus taking two each.
 Having experienced bad weather at Athens, Ga, and San Antonio. Tex, the two places selected as training camps in 1914 and last March, the Cleveland Indians will train at New Orleans next spring.
 Ty Cobb has made fifty-four hom- CTS in nine years. At that rate he won't make his hundredth homer until 1924. But perhaps he will make some singles. doubles and triples in the meantime
 Dick" Kinsella, scout for the Gi- ants, now touring the Northwest, has announced that it is the inten- tion of John McGraw to take his team for a trip to that section next autumn, if sufficient interest is shown in their coming, Already games have been booked in several cities in Oregon and Washington.
 A demonstration of the economy of the motorcycle was recently made by John F. Hogg, of Los Angeles. Cal. With passenger on the tan dem seat of his two wheeler, MT. Hogg rode practically around the en- tire country of Los Angeles, total distance of 158.2 miles. The cost of the entire trip was just 40 cents, this amount being expended for fuel.
 New York promoters are in the field for a 1O-rOund battle between