The Alaska citizen., 1915-01-11
OF A SPORTING NATURE

Pittsburgh will have commission to govern boxing.
 Glen Warner may leave Carlisle to coach the University of Pittsburs next year
 Ralph Stroud, formerly of Detroit. will be McGraw's addition to the fingers squad next season.
 Both Boston teams will train al the same place Are they conspirins to corner the pennent market?
 Barrett, husky captain and quarter back ot the Cornell 1914 fOotbau eleven mas scored the greatest mum Der of points made by any one man last year. having made ten touch downs, seventeen goals and four field goals
 Robbers bound and gagged John ny" Heating. prize fight promoter, at Kenosha. Wis. robbed him and then made a kick because he had little more than S2000 on his per son al the time.
 Jimmy Clabby no sooner won a fight than he grabbed chance to go into vaudeville He has signed
 t1, lights for three months. He is ex- hibiting in California, but will work his way east.
 The entire Clemson. N. C.. footbal team was placed under arrest upon their return home from Richmond where they played Virginia Military institute The Carolinians had failed to get a permit from the faculty be- fore leaving for the trip, and the college officials brought about the arrests.
 Frankie Burns says he doesn't be lieve Champion Williams can make the bantam weight any more, and that if he fails to do so he Burnsl will claim the title He asserts he can whip any bantam in the business. He will next try his fists on Johnny Coulon. He put Kid Hermann out of business in New Orleans recently.
 r J. McCarey, who has been pro noting fights on the Pacific coast for number of years, has been in vitsd to 90 tC New Orleans, where build one Of the greatest arenas Of build one of the greates arenas of the world in which to hold all the important matches that will be fought in this part of the States. McCarey is one of the most successful pro motors of this decade.
 Whatever the newspapers have to say about the Cubs and their prob ale future, President Thomas is nov arranging for their spring train ing trip. They will train at Tampa, and will leave the Windy City March l, two weeks later than usual. They will end the ante season schedule at Memphis, April IL Exhibition contests will be played at Atlanta and Birmingham.
 At Appleton, Wis, Calvin Demar- est defeated George Sutton 300 to 207 in 8 Billiard Players league match. Averages and high runs were: Demarest 20. l01; Sutton 21, 65
 IL is not probable, after all, that the number of foreign cars to be exhibited at the Automobile Salon in New York this month will be greatly reduced. This important ex- position, which starts the auto dis play season in New York, and is closely followed by the big automo- bile show at Grand Central Palace, is being prepared on more elabor- ate scale than ever,
 The Pacific Coast league will re duce expenses in 1915 by going back 10 the single umpire system, a sav ing of S10000 on the season.
 C. K. c. Billings, owner of Uhlan, 1:58. will fight in the courts the eX orbitant assessment on his stock in Virginia. unless the tax board comes down few pegs.
 Eddie Plank has been passed up by the Federal league. Charles Weeghman, president of the Chicago Feds, said that the veteran twirler of the Athletics wanted too much money to jump to the Independents. It is likely that Plank will be with the Yankees next season.
 Miller Higgins, manager of the Cardinals, says that he will put out the long string of exhibition games next spring so that his men can re- main at the training camp until a week before the championship season opens.
 With the kindest of motives and in behalf of the poor umpire of a baseball game, Steven H. Willis has invented a base which will give an alarm or signal when runner reaches or touches it, thus avoiding the dispute which now commonly lakes place between the runner, the umpire and other members of the team as to whether or not the run ner reaches first base before the baseman caught the ball. This is ac- complshed by having the base plate or bag hinged and raised at one edge by spring. When the runner touches the base it is depressed, making an electrical contact which