The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-03-24
SPORT-O-GRAMS
BY ''TOSfNfIE.3'

ST ON I-A/-1NAWlC
| BY ''TosnnE-'
Pome of JOY.
Spring has come beyond a doubt.
''Hooray:'
The robins bring the old team out,
''Hooray!"
No more wrestling. football or sich.
Because our sport's dug for a switch;
Wen back baseball to the last ditch,
'Hooray,"
The hot stove league has long begun.
''Hooray!"
Discussing strike and hit and run.
''Hooray."
But soon the garne'n gin for fair
With the pill er-singing through the
air,
While the visiting fans all sit and
swear.
'Hooray."
Phenomenal billiard shots BY such
men. as Taherski Johnnie Layton.
Weston and others who have given
exhibitions here this winter, are all
we'll and good. but the limit -seerr TO
have been reached when bob" Har-
per played one of the worries in the
end satchel and made it on the table
next TO him.
The Butcher Boy" Chicago's bone
breaking wonder. at least showed good
! judgment, II not an oyera bundance of
, courage when he quit the match Fri
day night at the Central Athletic
association, after the first fall leaving
the field to 'Pinkie" Gardner, who
was doing the honors with him.
i II he had remained in the ring with
/ the New York boy. after all the dras-
( tic threats he had made against the
anatomy of the New Yorker, he prob
ably himself would have carried off a
few souvenirs of the scrap in like
manner.
What has become also OF the good
old games in Baltimore when the un-
pire had to be paid more money than
the rest OF the team and could only
save his skin by appearing on the field
IN a suit of arrnor? When the game
ended with a free-fo r-all fight that
i often kept a small army of doctors
! busy and a train OF ambuiancesT
Paragra phs From a Dead fangtIa ge
Bring us two darks waiter, and put
them on the game.'
"zeke" Smith, local rniddlewelght
wrestler and Billy Wooiseifer,
lightweight boxer, and 2eke's partner
in the Central Athletic association are
!, 81 he %bH hostte,rr- nf Jth<s rsAs4- L-tsIp
the strongest OF the amateurs just or
ganized.
I Joe Tsoehing, Richmond's star
southpaw, is through with the box
that lis, unless he RECEIVERS from the
bad nip that has been bothering him
for some time. He returned Friday
night from New Orleans, whore he
had been spending a week I'm training
with the Cleveland American league
1 club.
| His arm, ne states. Is still all right
hut the trouble in his hip will not
allow him to pitch. IT does not mean,
| however. that he Is through with
baseball. as he is still n good out
! fielder and a heavy slugger. which
may still give him chance with the
majors.
| What is the jiux that is following
| ''Pinkie" Gardner about everywhere
! he eoes@ He seldom gets in a fight
without having some kind of an acct
! dent happen to him There is no
! doubt but what Pink Is one of the
| unluctiest grnpplers that have entered
| the ring.
| Ribs. teeth, ears. arms and finally
/ hfse head have suffered FaSre tfrrsea
| than he can count. IT was only a
few weeks ago that Mike Yokei, one
of the leading middIeweight wrestlers
| in this country, threw Pinkie from
the ring out into the audience, busting
him up considerably and putting him
| in the hospital for quite while.
| Recnperating from his encounter
with Yokel in Atlantic City. he came
| TO 'Itientnoi1d Tor d bout with the focaY
middleweight, who Is also making
run for the middleweight champion
ship. only TO have Zeke almost crush
his skull in with his famous deadlock.
In Salt Lake City, Utah. last year,
Gardner was staging a hout with a
western grappier. when he had the
misfortune of being thrown out of
the ring, in the same manner as with
Yokel. and II was thought at the time
that his skull was fractured and that
the blow would kill him, but he, be-
cause Of his gameness, is back at 1t.
What is there to Jack yohnsons
association tnat ne laid down at the
fight in Havana for the heavyweight
cahm pionship. allowing the big farmer
Willard to gain the title. which he
has been able to retain since that time
by refusing to fight?'
Opinion az to the truth Of the for
mer black champions statement diff
fer. Some say that 1t is only Just a
pretense to get another chance in |
Americas sporting world. Willard
has been unusually quiet about the |,
affair, not affirming 1t or denying it. |
Probably he does not deem such a |
charge worthy of his notice.
AT any rate, the old sporting fan
says. "A man who fs low enough To