Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-01-12
ONLY FEW WEEKS
 BEFORE BASEBALL With Little Rock in South ern League Again, Interest
 Keen in Pine Bluff.
EASY MONEY FOR JACK
Willard Is to Be in Ring With Black champion March 6-NilI Hot Springs Emulate New Orleans and
 Bring Back tine ponies.
(BY "OId Snorf"l


 It's only few weeks now. com paratNcly speaking, before the artists of the diamond, big and little, will DC starting preparations for the 1915 campaign.
 B4g leaguers will begin to hit spring training quarters in March, six weeks or so from today, and then the fans and fannies everywhere will get the real live dope on the wonderful dis coveries made by the ivory hunters. rms line of dope will rule the mar ket for six weeks thereafter, until the old head gets in shape, the old lamps are locating the elusive pill, the old joints get oiled up and the old pegs are carrying the old bodies around the paths once more in seas enable form. Then the phenoms will go into the discard, and once more the fans will begin to figure if Cobb or Speaker Or Jackson or Benny Kauff is hitting and stealing to 1914 form.
 'Tis always so. Each spring a thousand and one youngsters are due tc displace Mathewson, Baker and the other old reliables. Each summer
  ing down the job. Maybe they are on ether teams-as Lajoie will be this year, with his old love, the Philadel- phia American bunch, and as Eddie Collins will be with the White Sox-- but they are still doing their part, as of yorc.
 However, as "Wild Bill" Donovan said one time,
 "Tis better to have broken leg, Than never to have tried steal"
 Judge William NJ. Kavanaugh will be floating along in familiar waters again this summer, now that Little Rock is one more in Southern league company. Not many of the fans, per- haps, have stopped to think about 1t, but Judge Kavanaugh was paid a mighty pretty compliment--and one that was most certainly due him when he was retained as president of the Southern association after Little Rock was dropped cut of the circuit q couple or three years ago. He was the on'v man not living in a league town who ever acted as league exc cutive, in baseball of such nigh clasS.
 But the experts all admitted-as they still admit-that there are few men, and certainly none in the South ern country, who know the game as Judge Kavanaugh knows it, and who are nearly as capable as he is. His membership on the ruling body of minor league baseball proves he has the knowledge and ability. It is only natural that all of Arkansas should be glad Little Rock is back in the cir cuit-and Little Rock is going to lose a lot of friends, if the fans Of that burg do not support the club.
 Alex Heinemann, now president Of the New Orleans club, and whose baseball career started when nc owned the peanut-and-popcorn-and- coke-privilege in the Abner Powell Hart Newman days at cid Athletic park there, says the Pelicans will open the new season at Athletic park this year. The grounds used the past four or five years are too small, there is not enough seating capacity, hence the return to the more spacious field. New steel stands are to be erected at once.
 Jake Schaefer-not "The Wizard" but the son of the former master will be in Pine Bluff Saturday, to play a game of billiards. His is a name to conjure with, and if he has any of his daddys blood and spirit and determination, he is going to De up with the best of them before many years have past. Not many men or this generation, in this section of the country, had the pleasure of seeing "The Wizard" handle a cue Qr nurse the worries for long run. His rec ord is an open book, however. Lovers of the game wish the son well, for the fathers sake. Perhaps, after seeing and meeting the son, they Will wish him well, on his own account.
 less Willard is going to fight Jack Johnson at Juarez March 6. It may he that way-it may be only that He