Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-21

| ANY one who figures that Charles Fran
| els Moran has surrendered his destiny to
| fate after the Willard affair is founder
ing down an offside hyway. The big Irish
man still believes down in the pit of his
red heart that he will yet be champion of
the world, for he Is confident that within
| another year increasing weight VIII force
| Willard from the ring.
"In the first place." says Frank, will
| lard doesn't care about the game. In the
second place. he put on more than 15
| pounds in year that even hard train
ing couldn't take away. BY another year
| he will be beyond training down for any
2O-round fight. The combination will be
enough to count him out of it. In the
meanwhile / am planning to clean up the
rest of the field SO decislvely that there
will be no sort of doubt as to the Big
Fellows logical successor. l start with
Jack Dillon next month, and after that
the next one ready can take his turn until
the traffic Is cleared"
They Come-They Go
Ten years ago. when Larry Lajoie was
managing the Cleveland Club, we took a
spring training trip with the hard hitting
Frenchman. This week we spent the bet
ter part of an evening with Larry, talking
over the old days and the old bunch.
II Is only in such "reminiscences that
this game. OF the big squad that Larry
had that season, eight of whom were 800
hitters, one man remains today. Tuck
Turner Is the last of the old Maps. Addie
Joss is dead. Dusty Rhoades owns a
movie house out West. Bill Bernhard is
umpiring in the Southern League Bill
Bradley has faded back to the minors.
so has George Stovall. Mig Clarke is
with Memphis. Frick has dropped out of
the game, and 50 has Earl Moore. La
joie and Turner alone are left in the major
leagues. Ten years in other industries
is brief span. In baseball 1t is longer
than most careers.
Pat and the Phils
The fact that a number of eminent
experts have counted Pat Moran and his
Philles out of the flag race is bothering
Patrick about as much as If some one
had asked him for the loan of match
Pat remembers we'll enough last season.
when he was doomed, in the dope. to finish
a rickety fifth. So, being picked to finish
third or fourth isn't scrambling up his
sleep this April morning.
All the dope now extant can't make Pat
believe he hasn't much better ball club
than he had a year ago. Grover the
Great looks as puissant as of old. Mayer
and Demaree are In fine shape And with
warm Gather on Pat expects fine work
from less n citizen than Charles Albert
Bender the renowned Chippewa Chief.
The Chief is in rare shape and is will
ing to sign from four to six affidavits
that his arm was never better. And IL
Charles Albert. of the Chippewas, has
another of his oldtime years the Phillies
will bear all the inspection you may have
to give them.
The golfer stood on the ancient green,
The sdddest sight haze eper seen,
For the only tOOrds that left his bean
We're: boy, hand me a nibHck."
I folIot0ed the 0olJ-r IN his play,
fOIlot0ed from pit to pit all day,
But the only t1Ords heard him say
We're: "Boy, hand me a nibHck."
Sr-Harvard shut out the Red Sox,
to o. If Columbia beaSS Harvard at their
next meeting, wouldn this victory make
the Columbia team Mid champions?
MORNINGSIDE.
II am going to give Benny Leonard a