The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-22
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DpORT NOTED

Joe Beckett, the English heavy
weight who startled the British ring
fans the other day by knocking out
Bombardier Wells, their idol, in the
fifth round, is slated to take on Frank
Goddard, another star heavyweight, in
the early summer. The date has not
been set as yet.
Both Beckett and Goddard have had
unusual careers. Each one has knock
ed out British champion, but has
never been awarded the title of cham
pion for his prowess.
Beckett's knockout of Wells did not
give Joe the championship because the
fight wasn't held under the auspices
of the National Sporting club.
Goddard stopped Dick Smith, the
light heavyweight champion of Eng
land, in the seventh round, but be-
cause Goddard weighed 1S1 pounds he
was not awarded the championship.
1t is believed that the winner of
the Beckett-Goddard fight will be
matched with Georges Carpenter, the
French heavyweight champion, later
in the summer.
Ray Fisher, the veteran player OF
the Yankee aggregation in point Of
service, is going to wear a different
uniform this season. He was released
to the Cincinnati club a few days
ago.
Fisher joined the Gotham club in
1919 under George Stallings, and sew
eral times since then has show signs
of becoming one of the great hurting
stars of the game, but could not keep
up the pace for any length of time. |
His best season was in 1915, when |
he won eighteen games and lost but
eleven
Of course it must be said in justice
to Ray that had he been with a first
class ball club all those years he
probably would have had better
record below his name.
Fisher hung up one of the oldest
little records in baseball in 1918, ac-
cording to statisticians. He lost five
games in a row and the scores were
6-5, Sd, 4-3, 80, 2-1 and 10. The |
scores show how as Fisher improved /
in each game his teammates batted
in fewer runs for him.
Fisher was one Of the big league
stars who profited by the Federal
league war He obtained juicy con- |
tract with the Yankees when the out |
law moguls were signing up the or
ganized baseball stars.
George Uhle, rookie hurler with the |
Cleveland Indians in training at New
Orleans, may not burn up the league
this year. but it can be said he set
fire to things early in his big league
career.
A few days after his arrival at the
training camp he crawled into bed one
night with lighted cigaret in his
mouth and set fire to the bed, falling
asleep before the cigaret did. Uhle
stated that it was very unusual for
him to forget his cigaret that way,
but Joe Wood, who had been his room
mate up to that night, said I take no
chances" and got Manager Foil to
shift him to another room.
Ted Lewis already has felt the
effect of his failure to retain the vel
terweight title. He was booked TO
box Willie Mclaughlin fifteen rounds
in Tulsa, Okla, March 81. Since
Lewis lost the title to Jack Britton at
Canton, o, recently the Tulsa promo
tiers have called off negotiations with
him and have signed Britton to meet
Mclaughlin, Pennsylvania boy.
Charley Schmidt catcher for the
Detroit Tigers for nine years, will
manage the Sioux City Western league
club this summer and probably will
do most of the catching for his outfit.