The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-01

fistic starr xave Z. good account Of
fhefnseiyes there were really No eensa-
tional overthrows Or changes IN the
leaders. Another much noted fact =
there were no fake fights and In those
leases where bouts turned out disap-
pointing 1t can be traced. to star
meeting q dub
In. the heavyweight class the sensa-
ton of the last season was the Sanor
Fritts- Al Reich bout in which Reich
put over clean knockout in the tenth
round. q
In the middleweight class. nothing
noteworthy Of mention happened except
| that Mike Gibbons did not lose any OF
his. color. Although George Chip was
| knocked out by Al Mccoy in April by
a fluke punch the fight was far too
tame and short to create much at
tention.
In the featherweight class Champion
Kilbane knocked his knees together
while he awaited some promoter to Of
fer him r match.
| In the bantamweight class Champion
Williams continued to be the only only
| The Mcvey-Johnson. Gibbons-Max-
well, and Gibbons-DOnovan bouts were
the only ones Gfscrediting to the fight
game last season.
| The honor of putting up the best fight
in which the spectators received their
| full moneys worth goes to Leach Cross
and Gilbert Gallant. The fight between
these two lightweights was hard and
fairly full to overlooking with spectacu-
lar features.
| The worst fiasco Of the past twelve
months was between Al Mccoy and
Billy Murray, of California. During
this bout in June, Mccoy turned his
back on the willing although inexper-
fenced Californian and refused to fight.
Murray was awarded the fight by popu-
| lar Onfpinr1 o1fhnlrUH the affair would
have put to disgrace the rankest anna
teur.
January II will mark the opening of
the 1915 basket ball season. when the
College of Emporia will meet Red
MarkIey's Quaker players from Friends,
in the Mason Gymnasium at the Col
lege. The college goal flippers will take
up their practice again Tuesday after
noon. and Coach Granger will give them
stiff practice for the first game.-Em-
poria Gazette.
They can't stay away from baseball
1t has been discovered that Robert q.
Allen, who recently purchased the
Little Rock, Ark, team is Bob Allen
manager of the Detroit Tigers in 1897,
come to baseball life again after q
was one of the greatest shortstops the
game ever knew.
| San Francisco won more shutOut
games during 1914 than any other
Coast league club, but the Seals made
up for this performance by losing
| more than any other club. Twenty
| six shutout victories were credited tc
the Seals; twenty-nine shutout defeats
were charged to them. Oakland and
San Francisco figured in more shut
| out games than any other two clubs,
the Seals and Oaks played a total OF
sixteen shutOut games during the year
Oakland winning nine and San Fran
cisco winning seven. Every club in
| the league won at least one shutout
game from each other club. Los An
geles lost the fewest shutout and Oak.
land won the smallest number.
| Mickey Finn, who managed the
Memphis Southern league tenn in 1914
is responsible for this yarn: cit otter
gets foggy during the games in Mo
bile. One opening day one of these
clouds hung over the park, and one
Of my outfielders hit q terrific drive
into the sky. Everybody lost sight OF
the ball, and the outffelders claimed
that it did not drop in the grounds
| On the outfield fences several bust.
ness houses had signs painted, Hi
this and get a suit of Clothes 'Knoch
it over here and get a quart OF red
rye Bump this fence and get a dozer
Never-Wear-Out sox,' etc. The out.
fielder, not knowing what section hi.
drive had gone, went to all the stores
and collected a suit of clothes, two
bottles Of booze, the socks, a hat an6
a pound Of coffee"
Chicago. Jan. 1.-The biennia
American championship checker
tournament will be held in Chicago, il
was announced today, under the au.
spices of the American Checker asso.
citation. Play will open on January
IL. Sixty contenders from all part:
of the country are expected to com.
pete.