The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1915-06-21
OF A SPORTING NATURE

John Clabby has decided to take
another trip TO Australia where the
people think he is wonder
PouCher. the Yale miller. is sew
eral seconds faster than he was last
year He did i26 recently. and at
that the coaches slowed him down
in the last furlong.
Billy Gibson, manager of Jim Cot
fey. the Dublin Giant" will soon
post big forfeit and issue chal-
lenge TO Jess Willard for a bout
early next fall, Labor day prefer
red
Yale's track team looks to be
winner this year even without the
services of George Brown. The great
half-miler will not recover from his
operation for appendicitis in time to
do any training this year. How
ever. his illness will have necessitat-
ed his spending another year at
Yale. so that he will be available
another season when Yale may need
him more than now. Brown is
Yale's fastest half-miler He has
been clicked twice under l:55. and
has been under 157 on several oc-
casions Dave Caldwell of Cornell
did 1:53 3-5 to beat him by a foot
in the Stadium last May.
Judging from the results of Cali
fornia amateur boxing bouts, the
legislature may forbid them and
order the professional stunt restor-
ed to stop bloodshed.
Jimmy Johnston refers to Jimmy
Clabby and George Chip as ham
and-egg fighters.
Armando Marsans jumped to the
Feds from the Cincinnati club and
played seven games before he was
pose the courts decide that he be-
longs to the Cincinnati club. VIII
the National commission decide, as
it did in the Benny kauff case, that
Marsan3 is an undesirable and that
according to the commission law,
he cannot be reinstated for three
years? If the commission intends
to blacklist Marsans if it wins its
case why is it fighting for him?
With more to go on than Jim Cor
bett. Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim JEFF
fries, Willard is poor egg as
popular champion. Tom Jones may
know how to put champions over,
but he never made them popular.
but he should have been.
The Havana Daily Post scores
Jack Curley, the promoter of the
Willard-Johnson fight, for utterances
since his return to this country.
Curley took shot at certain Amer
leans who We're identified with him
in the boxing venture, which has met
with the disapproval of the Post.
1t says editorially: IF there is any
one entitled to the presidency of
the Ananias club the first letters
of his name are Jack Curley. The
repeated use of the presidents name
and the putting OF words in the
mouth of the president of the Re-
public as Curley did, ought to bar
him from the Island of Cuba from
now till Kingdom Come
One good ball player who daily
hits and fields we'll is Derrill Pratt,
with the ST Louis OF Chicago. Every
club in the American league could
find use for him.
Ed. Glassco, the all-round Windsor
sportsman, has shipped his string
of racers TO the Woodbine in Tor
onto. The Glassco stable includes
the popular winner, Marion Galety,
Polo Prince, and Lavana, Dick
Welles maiden. Stable connections
place great store in what Lavana
will do to her opponents at the
races this season. She is said to
be the fastest thing in the Glassco
stable and worth a bet the first time
she is started.
1t cost Harvard $4,000 man to
develop football players. Several
schools can tell Harvard how to get
them ready made and cheaper.
Josh Devore, the diminutive out
fielder who was so lucky in being
associated with worlds championship
splitups, is now on the payroll Of
the club at Chillicothe, Ohio. This
is, indeed some tumble from the
ranks of the Braves since last Oc-
tober
Ollie Kirmeyer, ball player, is
UNIQUE at least He refused to re-