Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-11-09

camp. With worlds champion
ship team" Speaker said, ten games
ought to pay all our training ex-
penses and l do not care to play
more than ten, as I can get better
results by sticking to regular prac-
tice." Cincinnati has asked for two
modated.
Horse racing in Cuba seems to be
an entirely different game since Gu
bans have become stockholders in the
proposition started by II. d. Brown.
Last spring Brown disposed of his
minority holdings to Lorenzo Quesa
da, A. G. Harrison, Jr, j. N. Allyen
and J. u. Horter native Cubans, and
now they are working harder to add
to the popularity of the game than
any of the Americans worked before.
The new stockholders are all wealthy
men. and they are also prominent So
cially. They have already launched
program to have certain day each
week declared n holiday 50 that all
persons in Havana may attend the
meeting.
Larry Doyle. OF the New York Gil
ents, will not buck the snow for long
this winter. He has practically COM
pleted arrangements to spend the
winter in Cuba.
Bob Roper, the Chicago heavy
weight. must be getting along pref
ty fast Captain Bob is the storm
center OF a dispute among flock Of
managers. all of whom are anxious to
guide his fistic destiny. sure sign
that he is above the ordinary. Char
ley Cutler. the wrestler, claims to
have contract with the fighter ex-
tending over period OF five years,
Roper disputes this and says that
Cutler has no right to discuss his af-
fairs with promoters. 1t seems that
Cutler has threatened to institute in
junction proceedings If Roper ap-
pears under any other management,
and Roper complains that this makes
It difficult for him to obtain matches.
1t was Cutler who grabbed big Jess
Willard when the giant was roaming
loose looking for manager Tom
O'Rourke and various other local
managers Of fighters all passed up
Willard at that time and he finally
drifted to Cutler. When Tom Jones
decided that he could make a cham
pion out of Willard. Cutler allowed
the big fellow to get away from him
without putting up much OF fight.
Cutler evidently does not intend to
make any more mistakes of that
kind.
Louis Mann, actor and fan, has a
ball. which he submits to baseball
men and the world at large. Mr..
Manns plan calls for commission
OF five men. which he would desig-.
nate as the supreme council Of AEi-
erican Association of Baseball Clubs
and he names as desirable members
OF the commission or council: Will
liam Howard Taft; Edgar L. Mars
ton, banker. of Cleveland; Hon. JUL /
ius Kahn. congressman Of San Fran
cisco, author Of he draft law; Judge
kenesaw Mountain Lands Of the
United States circuit court, Chicago;
Rollo Wells, former mayor Of ST..
Louis. AS assistant to the council Mr.
Mann places in nomination the name
OF William Fl. Edwards, collector Of
internal revenue for this district. The
plan calls for salary Of $4,000 per
for the assistant to the
~ snyt xxn 10 70 q
his time to the work of the council.
The other members would be asked
to serve without compensation be-
You'd a nominal honorarium and cx-
penses for each meeting. Meetings
would be held twice monthly during
the baseball season and once q
month during the off season. Full
details of the plan and the scope Of
authority of the council could be de-
termined by the Associated clubs"
says Mr.. Mann.
Pete Herman, the bantam cham
pion. has arrived in New York look
ing for matches. Herman says he has
been matched by the International
Sporting Club to meet Joe Lynch in
a battle for the title. No date has
been set for the bout as yet because
the International has not decided up
on a battle-ground. Herman also ex-
poets to meet Jimmy Wilde before
the I. s. c., provided the little Eng
lishman comes this way again. If
Wilde does not return to America
Herman declares that he will go
abroad and meet him in England.
Herman broke off one match with
Wilde that was scheduled to be held
in England.
F, Johnny Coulon, the diminitive
Chicagoan, who held the bantam
weight championship for years, will
engage in two contests in France
next month. meeting the pick Of the
French bantams.l Coulon sailed from
New York on Nov. 2. It is Coulon's
second trip abroad within year.
Not many American tennis en-
thusiasts will be able to accompany
the American Davis cup tennis team
to Australia for the big matches. but
those who can not go may have their
appetite for the court game partially
satiated by viewing motion pictures
of the play. Arrangements have been
made to have most Of the contests
photographed. Moving pictures of
tennis matches have never been per-
-fectly satisfactory in the past, but
Australia movie experts believe they
can make the films and present much
of the interest of the sport.
Christy Mathewson, former star
hurler for the New York Giants, now
patient at a SaOafori,1n in the