The Washington times., 1917-01-17
THAYER'S
Sporting Gossip

Lord Byron, National League um-
pire, is a candidate for q one-man
quartet.
Tonight Joe Turner, washington's
cleverest wrestler and claimant of
the worlds middleweight champion
ship, Is to tackle Mike Yokel, of Salt
Lake City, Utah, for the title at the
the level, II should be a hummer.
Turner is q wise old head when it
comes to making q living at his own
game, and many who know him best
say that, though he lost twice to Yo-
kel in the West, he never exerted his
cal skill. In that case, Turner should
emerge tonight a winner.
Australians are planning to give
Les Darcy a house-one brick at 3
time.
Les Darcy's stage experiences will
never I'LL q very large volume, but
they should teach him one thing, any
way-that the American public can
not be kidded forever, What has
Darcy ever done to be entitled to
thousands for doing nothing? He
has whipped some mediocre Austria
lian boxers and some Americans who
quit here because the going was too
almighty rough. Meeting such an
tagonists, he has become champion OF
the antipodes. But that means moth
ing here. He'll have to go out and
beat up such chaps as Jack Dillon,
Mike Gibbons, and Billy Miske before
he will achieve any reputation here.
The sooner he begins the better 1t
will be for his purse.
II the players stick to Fultz, they
will earn the title Of bonehead."
Suppose the players do strike. which
side will win? Allow that the big
league clubs close their parks, as they
threaten they will do. taxes will run
on and those players now under con-
tract will have to be paid il they report
and obey orders. Also the magnates
can find the money to pay the taxes
and pay their loyal players. But what
will the striking players do? There1l
be no checks due on the first and fif-
teenth for them. In other words, il
will be once more a battle of the bank
rolls. Few will agree that the players
have an edge in such a contest And
when they surrender. the carnage in
salaries will be truly frightful.
Pete Herman is bantam champion in
New Orleans. Johnny Ertle is champion
I'm St. Paul Hook 'em up.
Manager Griffith, who is wise old
owl in many things, absolutely re-
fuses 10 grow excited over the i'm
pending war between player and mag
nate Can it be that his experience Is
telling him something? No club in either
bip league is more generous with its
nlavers than is the Washington club.
The Griffmen have no grounds for COM
pIaIninr in any way. II they do go out
on strike WIN bhCb iioeSi hAeS H'SeH' SAi
tbcv will be throwing down a manager
who has gone out Of his way to make
them comfortable season after season.
Tbere are some OF us who guess that
Grif has been tipped.
The only real amateurs are those who
never win anything.
Now the golfers Of New England,
beaten at the annual meeting Of the
II G. A., are contemplating an out
law golf association. II Francis Ouimet
consents to become a member Of the
now association, 1t will have big
drawing card right at the beginning.
II all those who now or in the future
are barred by the executive committee
Of the u. s. G. A. become affiliated with
the new association, the old one may
have TO pass in its checks. The West,
together with New England. believes
that IL has been Disseminated against
nv the u. S. G. A. II all the disgrun-
tied will work together 1t may be but
n matter of time when the outlaws will
! be the l.. S. C. A.. with the old COM
mittee driven from sight