The Alaska citizen., 1916-05-01
OF A SPORTING NATURE
FRANK GOTCH WILL
SOON BE HAS BEEN

FRANK GoTcH WILL
 SOON BE HAS BEEN "
 SAN FRANCISCO Mar 2o Local sportne writers have about co'ae to the conclusion that Frank Ga'rh the wrestler has been getting lot of good advertising at the expense of promoters and newspapers.
 Harry Foley who attempt~, to promote thc handicap match brr-o,u Gotch and Aa Santeu on Wa+Ela= tons birthday went To Los Angeles to talk with tho wrestler N,Aug reporting that Gotch Was in mod which made ur-ot.at.oas impos-i ble. the most significant fact is that Foley says that the mvau does not impress ham physically as being able to endure tho strain of wrestling as be onca was abla. Fo- ley is considered one ot the hest judges of physical condition on the Pacific coast having trained r4ny boxer. including Willie RtcLIe. Who d.d not lose 3 fight wht1r .,a. der his direction
 Foley said. "Goteh is showing is year- watched hIus closely. and I think that even Gotch realizes trat he is slipping He played a couple of handball games and slowed up considerably in The second PHt Wand the Olympic club boxing com missioner. who was there, shared my opinion that he is all old n.an as an athlete"
 Foley expresses the opinion ,uat in the event that Gotch and StoChor are matched the latter will vii. BALL PLAYERS MUST
 STOP LOAFlNG NOW.
 Barney Dreyfuss. who owns the Pirates, believes that 1916 will be basebalrs greatest year Drcy luss gives as reason the doing away of the Federal league. Barney ad- mits that it was a cruel war and that the National and American leagues suffered a lot more than they are willing to admit and that all that saved certain club owners was the fact that the last race was SC close
 Discipline will be the watcnvord from now on" says Dreyfuss. In stead of the players making Us work for them, it is going tc be turn about and they are going to do little laboring for the mana gers You know the Federal league made every star in baseball do a certain amount of loafing. Thoren be precious little of that now. Thrse fellows will have to come doWr to earth and do some real ball playing or beat it to the minors at minor league salaries.
 "Of course, this doesn't apply to the real artists in big league base ball, Fellows like Cobb, Washer Lewis, Johnson, Alexander and many others have been hard at work all the time doing thelr best. We know that they will continue to do so. It is just this, The men who are stars and are doing star work will get star salaries. The others will have to be content with wages unless they go at top speed all the time.
 Do you know that the Federal league took $3,00O,OOO away from the National and American lea2 les last year? Well, they did. In 1915 the salary list of the Pirates was some $44,O00 in excess of the sal aries of 1910. On top of this h" fans got tired of the eternal wang ling in the three-cornered war and they stayed home and attended strictly to their knitting. Can yon blame them? Some clubs in the National league supported salary list of $115,000 during the past year
 Tt cost me nearly $1, 400 a day to run my club during the 154 playing days of the season. We have al ways treated the men in the best possible way. On the road they stop at the best hotel in the town and they travel on the best trains. It is essential that the men be given the best of attention, as they are valuable to the sport and to us. It follows that if We treat a player this way that he will remain in the best of shape. Without his being in tip top condition he becomes a losing investment Watch 1916 in baseball It will be a hummer ROOSEVELT STANDS UP
 FOR BOXING GAME.
 Former President Theodore ROose- welt is heartily in favor of the re cent adoption of boxing at Harvard;