The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-01

lav of this year. a few weeks ago. ir fact, he went twenty slashing rounds with a fellow named Bobby Waugh. down in Juarez.
 He certainly was the most won derful piece of machinery the game ever knew. and don't know but what I would have to call him the greatest of all fighters.
 That Merke Play.
 Hugh Fullerton. great friend of little Johnny Evers, who made every one sick with his constant talk about inside baseball" springs this:
 Henry O'Day. ex-manager of the
 'hic3Co Cubs. with no inc~n iderable lad taste, attempts to take from
 Johnny Evers. leader of the Boston Braves, credit for the famous Mer- kle play. which O'Day says made Evers reputation. O'Day declares credit for the play belongs to Hof- man. O'Day is wrong-I would no- deprive Artie of a bit of credit. as the facts will show.
 The play first came up in Pitts burg late in 1908 Evers was play ing second, ODay umpiring and Carey on first base. Carey forgot to run to second. Evers grabbed the ball ran to second held it up and screamed to ODay to call the put. ODay was at the water tank taking a drink. thinking the game ended and Pittsburg was given the victory
 Chicago protested the game, O'Day declaring he did not see the play and the protest was lost. Every
 .l"yer on the Cub team knew the play
 Three weeks after the Pittsbury play, Merkle made his famous bone" on the Polo grounds. Merkle was Ut first, a runner at third and a 1t went over second Merkle raced for the club house. ODay, umpir- ing with Emslie, remembered the
 ittsburg incident and ian down to yard second base.
 "Evers was on second base, yelling for the ball Holman ran to short
 ight center. grabbed the ball and started to throw. At that instant, someone, I believe it was Joe Me
 'AiAtl+lN' iJDNN JOhIluN I-ftIS try ing to drag him off the base. Hof- man held the ball an instant, not knowing where to throw because a New York coacher was holding Eyers
 He finally threw, evidently to Tinker who was running from short across to catch Umpire Emslie, anl was pointing towards Merkle going to the clubhouse. The ball hit Tinker. Jack Pfeister grabbed it and McGinnity and Tom Needham caped upon him and tried to get '"e ball
 "Evers was still screaming for the ball. Pfeister tried to throw, but tore the ball from him and threw it into the crowd back of shortstop. Into the crowd Stein feldt leaped, and commenced fight ing with the spectator who hal grabbed it. Floyd Kroh, who was not in the game, ran in and knocked he spectator down.
 ''Steinfeldt grabbed the ball, break ing through the thrcng, reached second base with two or three fel- lows hanging onto him and finally while being jerked backward, hand ad the ball to Evers. It is probable hat Evers, Tinker and Holman all saW the play, but the credit for it lies not in the play at New York, but the one at Pitt5burg, which Evers discovered"
 Baseball For Boxers.
 Jimmy Clabby, the ahiftv walter. weight, says baseball is fine train ing for a boxer. He practices with bali clubs whenever he can Base 3all keeps a fellow on his toes. and is great training for the eyes" said Clabby Batting makes a fellow real judge of distance. and that's important in a ring bout Baseball practice has done me as much good as anything else in my training for the bouts" Mrs. Thene Gives Football
 The student body of the Univer- 3ity of California has been offered md promptly accepted an offer of ln historic football, reminder of the day when the Blue and Golt! reached it's highest recorded point in the game of intercollegiate foot ball.
 Mrs. J. E. Thane, mother of Mrs. James R. Whipple, wrote to the student management from Niles, Cal fornia, to say that she would like Q present to the university the football used in the game against Stanford in 1899, when the Blue md Gold inflicted on the Cardinal the most severe defeat that any contest between the two has yet produced. California won, 30 to 0, and the ball passed into the keeping of Jim Whipple, captain of the team, and one of the best tackles that ever wore California's colors.
 Whipple died recently, the first of California's great 189S-99 team