The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-01
By PRANK c. ssnHKn

are thinking OF adopting the 1Oru
Derby plan of electioneering.
My word-how effective it Is!
His Lordship, over In dear Lunnon
paused In the midst of burst Of or.
atory as to the why's and wherefores
of his candidacy, and said:
by the way, old dears, I have a
pair of race horse tips for you, by
tove Pm running couple of animals
at Liverpool on the morrow and
think both will jolly well win. Sierra
Leone is one of them-the other. is
Helene"
And that very next day both Of 'em
won.
Can you imagine the size Of the
crowd which turned out for the lords
next speech-and can you imagine
which way these fellows who played
his tips voted?
Jack Dempsey hasn't got an awful
lot on me in he matter of difficulty In
getting fights" remarks Tom Gibbons
Il want to fight Harry Greb and post.
ed a forfeit to guarantee my chal-
lenge. Greb hasn't accepted. I've
challenged Gene Tunney-but he won't
have any part of me I'd like to fight
this Floyd Johnson they talk so much
about, but Floyd keeps looking the
other way. And Bill Brennan doesn't
care to mix with me either.
I've polished off about everybody
else-which means that I'll shortly be
joining Dempsey in the idle class"
Ever since or Win Muldoon ruled
that newspaper men and other of the
hoi polloi would not be permitted to
converse with ring judges and ring
officials, the said newspaper men and
the additional hoi polloi has been able
to walk right past the whole New
York police force without being sub
jected to piercing glances.
The racing nags ara doing q come
back.
Once upon a time they whizzed
around ovals IN almost every state in
the union The rottenness and crook
edness crushed out the element OF
sport, whereupon, wise Legislators
kicked the props from under the game
and the horses raced no more, ex'
cept in isolated parts Of these United
States.
But six or seven years ago New
York horse lovers wiggled around the
rule which barred out the thorough
breds-and got away with it. Veal
after year other states did likewise
AS a net result, there's racing al
through the country and the prospects
are bright that within another two
years at least Is states will permit the
horses to chase each other for the edi
fication and entertainment of multi
tudes.
They race now in New York, Hi
nois, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ala
bama, Maryland, Ohio, Nevada and q
few other of the states. They're go
ing to resume in Missouri and in Cali
fornia as soon after New Years day
as weather conditions permit. And the
fact that those states are doing it is
certain to influence folks in other com
monwealths to have new legislation
enacted, or circumvent the old, so that
the horses can be restored to popular
favor.
The fall of the Roman Empire per
haps didn't excite the natives of thai
the disputed clout by Ty Cobb, which
clout decided whether or not the
mighty Georgian had-or had not
poled 'em for 400 in 1922.
The official scorer didn't give Cobt
a hit-which made his average 1895
for the year. The unofficial scorers
gave him a hit. That made it 400
When the dispute as to who was al
it's noisiest, Ban Johnson stepped tt
the fore. examined all the why's anC
wherefores and then declared:
"The play will go into the records
as hit for Cobb"
And so it has.
Explains Play.
No one had offered a better explana
tion for the whole affair or clarified
things better than did Bert Walker
sporting editor of the Detroit Times
who saw the questioned hit and play
and who stated the case this way:
The whole matter resolved itsel
into a question as to whether a blow
by Cobb on May 10 was to go as hi
for Cobb or an error by Everett Scott
shortstop of the Yankees.
"That whack over second base was
knocked down by Scott, but he FUN
bled the ball and could not get it tt
| first ahead of Tyrus. The officia
scorer first decided that it was a hit
then he changed his mind and charged
Scott with an error, later changing hi.
mind again. He fluctuated for a tins
and meanwhile the blow had gone GU
to the world as a hit. At length the
official scorer listed the things as al
error for Scott and no hit for Cobb.
TT was a close decision, but a vote
was taken in the press stand on thu
Polo Grounds and of the IL sport wri
tiers present, IL voted it hit. It la
ter developed that the official scorel
| had recorded 1t as an error. Presiden