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10 IHB cmAMiOTTE MliWS, SEPTEMBER lO, 1911 The Wolgast-McFailand Bout To Be Staged Handsome In Building (By OSCAR H. MORRIS.) Milwaukee, Wls., Sept. 9. It is not ypry often that the average follower 3f the bo\inR paine has an opportunity of wirnessinK a rin* contest in a build ing valued at 1500,000; also it is not very often that a handsome struc ture which is partly owned by the mu nicipality is utilized for the game of hit, and step away. Hov.ever, boxing fans froiu all parts of the country who will come to Mil waukee to witness the contest be tween Champion Ad Wolgast and Packey McFarland, will have the dis tinction of occupying seats in a build ing where Ex President Roosevelt ad- dresfed a throng of 10,000; where the National Dairy Show was held; w'here a choru* of 3.400 singers rent the air with their voices and where James J. .Teffries, while champion, gave an exhibition. That building where McFarland ami olgast will box ou Sept. I.t In this cltv is the auditorl»un the largest building of its kind in the state of Wisconsin. It w'as built with the hope that some day in the near future, there wotild l>e held in it a democratic of re publican national convention; it w'as built to accommodate large gatherings and conventions. It is located in the down town district- a half dozen blocks from principal streets of the city. And that structure which costs a trifle over a half million dollars -is ex pected to be the scene of cheering al so some sorix>w on the night of Sept. lu. The followers of that contest >^ill cheer and applaud their champion and do it with as much ease and sincerity as if the fight were held in a barp in the outskirts of the city. It should he made known that the Milwaukee Auditorium has been in ex istence only a few years and was built with 122.').000 which was furnished bj the city of Milwaukee, The city sold stock and hundreds of Milwaukeeans lay claim to a part owneishlp of that structure. The other $22.">,000 was raised by popular subscriptions. Throughout the country there are numerous buildings and places where boxing cotvtests are conducted but it is doubtful if any promoter of that si)ort In this country can boast of housing the fans as well as the club' which stages the bout here this month. The accompanying pictures show the Auditorium—exterior and interior. The cross shows where the elevated ring will be located. Around the ring will be. opera seats and in addition there are thousands of seats, in the gallery, on the stage and boxes running along side the entire four sides of the in terior of the building. Some high prices have been paid for seats at boxing matches but at the McFarland-Wolgast contest $10 is the highest price charged. And you can bet that every seat will be taken. In fact the progress of seat sale which has been in progress only a very short time, is evidience that the house will be Bold out. It is expected that about 10,000 per sons will witness the contest and ac cording to the fij^ures of the promo ters, the receipts will be about |46,000. ■ r,>> ' PHIL O. PAKMELEE Phil O. Parmellee, noted Wright avia tor, who Is the fourth to enter In the $50,000 croes-contlnent flight. He plans to start from Loe Angeles Sep tember 15, with New York as his destination. Bobby Wallace The Best Defensive Ball Player In Ban Johnsons Circh By W. 8. FARNSWORTH. digs deep into the dirt for the ball rnd New York, Sept. 9.—A few weeksdoes it get away from him. affo a baseball fan in Philadelnhia! specialty. Ai- ago a Daseoaii lan in i^ni‘aaeiphia g ^ ^ inch- wrote and asked me w'ho I thought,tall, he can go up in the air the the most finished infielder, second or'proverbial mile and free^te ro the pil- thixd baseman or shortstop—in the simply eats up Texas League American League. This fan ana his!”’™*? i half-deep fouls he can t«ar a’’ound friend had wagered, one selecting | back of third in ten seconds time. Collins, of the Athletics, while the j , And what an arm this veteran pos- other picked J.ord, of the WTiite Sox. loesses. He can peg ’em acrosc from Tt in n•rat+^7 harri f5n, o rr.or, Koo!®' ^cep field to first On a dead line pretty narci to nnd a man whohaSj—. •. ,, „ v.,* , land it matters little what position he anything on either of these two. }g when he makes his heave. He is But, on the last trip of the Ne'v 'lightening fast in getting the ball away York Yankees through the west, I o.. him too. Hal Chase, the Yankees’ manager ten thought of my Philadelphia base ball brothers and took especial inter est in watching the inflelders of the Tigers, Naps, White Sox, Browns and Yankees. And I came to the conclu sion that Bobby Wallace, Manager- ind great first baseman says Wallfce is the best infield throwev in the lea gue. A few w’eeks ago a benefit game w^as played in Clevelan:! for the w’idow of the late Addie Joss. An all-star team played the Cleveland team. The all-star infield was made up as fol- captain-shortstop of the Browns, is'lows: Chase, first base; Collins, sec without any doubt the best defensive ^ond base; ^\'allace, shortstop; Baker, no one knows it nin' h an excellent judge of a ‘ him the Is belir-ve tjji, Player Qj'.“ proper marerial and r ^ sure he would put St. Louis the American League map. But just the same, 1 i will be his last year as mana:r«r nf .v Browns. On my last visit in ^hi r rjd Mound City. I was given some J' sWe information w'hich was tn tii! feet that Clark GrifRrh. cx-learior i the New' York Americana manager of the Cincinnati •T. ^’al. THE WOLGAST-MTARLAND FIGHT Where t*ie Wolgcst r/cFnrland fight vvill take place and pictures cf the tv/o principals, '( .it ;..r,Lurc nhows ex terior and interior of the Milwaukee coliseum At right Packey McFarland; at left Ed. Wolgast. Sports Approve 'No Decision” a By W. W. NAUGHTON. Francisco. Cal., Sept. !.—The rerenrl' appointed boxins; coinmis- •irn^rs of New ^ork have d'H-ided not to mIIow decibinns rendered iti con nection wjtti the glove contest held und^r fh»> P'rawU--, law. As far as can be Va»'n*‘d, this (l»-t«-nnlnatiun on the part of rhe Kt^ntleirien In authority meets with th** a[it>rov;il ol' the nia- jori'y of *h»» «por*init n)«n. S'»me or rli.- .|>o)»lng wi iif ir appear to 'hlni- thHi no «!«*•)iiiftans no h^tflng ') jt IT hiirti til how they flrure i* o"*. rua' caiinut lie ti ii** sHiiit* extf'jit as "1(i f'..- - iif,« ;f i>i(iiiK w«*re al-^'*»*d IS , ..lit' iij ii». i-,M‘n, l»ui that wa«rer i!n ,v»i’ i,«. hitiK-lcln-d i.- tirely d'f h no’ to that >ium‘iuu fo; xamblinK wnli ii rof/i*^(| in, the human la •• i. n«l r v.111 !,• ; enough to flnl h‘j[in‘ ui»ii (>f Ing one tmx#- a/.i i ^t ari«>^i r, , If no V#>ldict ji; r fioui *1:' ringside, h or III iant*» U)»-n to wlioi boxing without i|!ai ion ; . as vki/I 1 and iininterewiinK '>'■ iH'in-’ witjiout bof»k riia-^rf o/ (,ojl I»ox*ik, will surely contriv** lo hai k th»-ii opin ions. even thounh It iax>-s ili#-ii luge nuity to do so. One way of Retting around the difTI culty will be to Induce Hfune Hponing man of grood Htsndlng ami nound Juilg- ment to act aH an unotllcial He c^n ait unc»ncerned, apparently, amoDK the throng of Hpectatora. He will not have to wear a tux«»do or split th« combatanta out of the clinch, but when it is all over he an give a de cision that will cause thousands of dollars to change hands. And that is only one way. There is never a law or rule yet that some •mart individual could not devise some way of circumventln*;. Nay. brothers of the sporting press, betting on glove contests has not been etopppd by an” means. Wonder how existing champions will view this system of “no declslonp.” At first glance it looks as though it •hould suit them for where no verdicts are handed down it is hard to nee how titles can change hands. But while the new order may hamper affairs— seeing that all bouts hejd under the Frawley law at least will be no decis- ions—It does not follow that any champion Avould be able to retain his Ijrestige and his money making abili ties if public opinion decides that some other I'eliow has outboxod him. It will be interesting to w-atch how' the no-decisions system works out. In the face of if. it looks as though clev er boxers will be able to do a lot of slap.stick work and get away with it. A good deal, of course, will depend u|;on the astuteness of the referees. Kven if there are no decisions and conse(iueutly no winners, ends to strive for, the men of the ring should not i)e allowed to play fast and loose with the jiubiic. billy Paiike is Jio doubt chewing the tiuJ of retleciion. It has dawned Oii him hy this time that ho is in the in- bad club of every critic in the land. 'Pile chances are that when he flghls ii»- will tir as lie never tried before f’:tple has been called the charripion :iini riuier and tiiere is nu getting a> from tlie fact that hia record is inixlure of good and bad perform- u 'Pile strange part of it is that i'ajilie has furnished wretched fights and bensational fights when (.•ppos?d lo file same man. ^ When he knocked Ketchell out ^t Angeles, the sporting world was a.stounded. He nailed the Michigan assassin in the first round and then took his tlnve about defeating him. What Ketchell did in later fights is a matter of ring bistory. With Hugo Kelly, Papke fought sov- eral contests which made It appear as tiiough there w-asn’t a thing to choose between them. In San Francisco one ‘Ime Papke laid Kelly low with two ;)unches, and those who saw the bout wondered how Kelly ever managed to wade through twenty rounds wita the Thunderbolt. 7y Cobb the Best Batsman in League Chicago, aept. 9.—Detroit, with an average of .297 and Philadelphia with .293, are leading the American i^eague in club batting. Ty Cobb is the beat batsman in the American league, w'ith an average of .420. Also he is the best base stealer, run getter and heavy slugger. As a base stealer he averages. 57. while Cal lahan, of Chicago, with 39 is second. Cobb’s average as an extra base stealer is .616. .Toe .iackson’s of Cleve land. is second, with .607. In the National i.ieague Jackson, of Fkjston, formerly of Memphis, leads the batsmen with an average of .365, with Hans W'agner second, with ..SoO. Schulte, of Chicago, is the champion extra ba.se hitter. He has twent-y-four doubles, seventeen triples and tw'enty' one home runs to his ci’edit. Wagner of Pittsburg, is second. WARNED'AGAINST UIViPIRE. STEAMER RETURNS IN A LEAKING CONDITION Hamburg. Sept. 9.—The German steamer Hudiksvall. which collided with the Hamburg American liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria off Cuxhav- en this morning returned to this port late this afternoon in a leaking con dition. The stem of the Hudiksvall was stove in and veveral plates of the ocean greyhound w'ere smashed. The latter vessel proceeded to Cher bourg. New^York, Sept. 9.—Wliat is looked upon as a remarkable warning from one basi-pball magnat * to another, w'as received this afternoon by Manager John McGraw, of the Giants. What purports to be a telegram from F^ank Bancroft, business mana ger of the Cincinnati Red Legs, noti fied McGraw to make it his business to have Umpire O'Day barred from officiating at the Giants-Cubs settles, in Chicago, within the next tw'o w'eeks. ’The telegram read: ! '‘Have Brush request Lynch to keep I O’Day away from Chicago or your ! chance is hopeless. He robbed us shamefully yesterday.” The receipt of this message stirred up a great deal of excitement in the Giants ranks, and the matter is sure to be investigated. Bancroft is one of the oldest, best know'n and dependable offlicals con nected with the game. McGraw refused to comment on the news, but said he would put the ter squarely up to President Bush tomorrow. Friends of O’Day ridiculed the warn ing, as they pointed out that he was one of the best arbitrators in the Na tional I.ieague. Out for Rural Vote. Senator “Bob” Baylor, of Tennessee, has gotten his fiddle down and is sm^g out among the country people. The fiddle, combined with free seed, should certainly assure him the rural vote. WUmin^on Dispatch. [ n TO IIIBII il I muii Wake Forest, Sept. 9.~With the largest enrollment in the history of the school and with the brightest of prospects for winning teams in all branches of athletics the 77th session of Wake Forest College bids fair to eclipse all others in every respect. Not only have a large percentage -of the older classes returned hut this year’s freshman class is the large&t in the history of the college. Work w'ill be begun in earnest Monday and a total registration of over 425 is expected. The athletic situation is the brightest it has ever been and more candidates have signed up for the teams than In any previous year. An exceedingly large percentage of the old men are back and the freshmen class i& furnish ing more than ever before. Mr. Frank Thompson, formerly coach of A & M College in Raleigh, has been secured to coacli the football team and already has the team w'ork- ing hard on the field. The fact that Mr. 1 liompson has been secured w'ill be a roari.uring fact to those interested in 'Vskc Forest that the football team i»ili be. all that any one man can make it 0\'er 50 candidates have already re ported and more are going out daily. Co?.ch Thompson took the men out for the first time on Wednesday and has put ^hem through hard practice every day. The freshman class is especially showing up well on the gridiron. A isrge number are out practicing and an'ong them are to be found the stars ot the various liigh school teams over the state. Having had training before these men are taking hold rapidly, which has been the cause of the poor showing made by the team in previous year??. Daily battles between the first and second teams w'ill start in a shore while and by this time more can oe told as to the strength of the team. At ^ recent meeting of the trustees ot the college Mr. H. A. Jones was made professor of mathematics an{l has just returned from Chicago, where he has been taking a course during the past &ammer. Mr. Hubert Poteat was also elected to tlie chair of Latin, and Professor Pasclial was elected to the chair of Greek. Miss Louise Jiynde formerly of the University of Pennsyl vania has also been secured as libra rian for the present sess'ion. 'I'he fountain which was presented Lo the college by the class of '11 has been installed and is certainly an or nament to the college campus. Wake Forest against bids fair to have one of the best basketball teams in the state. The record of the teams for the last few years is an enviable one and one that every one should be proud of. Only one college has made the team taste defeat on the local floor in the last five years, and that was the University of Virginia, which cleaned up everything in the state. All of last year’s men are back, besides Carrick and Cox, of the team of the year before. Practice will start next Monday and w'ith last year’s team as a nucleus there should be little in Wake Forest’s making a great rec ord. Coach Crozier, of the basketball team, lias been away all summer, tak ing a course in Harvard, and is very enthusiastic over the prospects of all the teams, especially the basketball situation. ‘\ou can expect a team that, for steady passing and all-around good playing w'ill not be matched in tae South,” is the way he put it in a talk to the athletic association last night. The record of the law class which went up before the supreme court last August is also something to be proud of. Eighty-one men took thei examina tion but onl^ about 70 of them passed, or this number Wake Forest sent up 33 or nearly half and of the 81, 31 passed. It will thus be seen that not only did Wake Forest send up a large part of them but a larger per cent passed than from any other law' school. Several visitors are on the hill and the classes will have elected their offi cers by Monday. The boys are being exainined by the school physicians be fore being allow ed to take part in any kind of athletics and a few are being ruled out on this account. Work w^ill begin Monday in earnest and the great est year in the history of the college i& looked forward to. fielder in Ban Johnson’s circuit. Here is a veteran, nearly 37 years old, who has done duty in fast com pany for eighteen years, but here is why he is still one of the greatest players that ever wore § glove. He is a student; he studies every batter and is always playing in the right spot. For one man you raay find him playing over near second, v.^hile for another he is almost in back of the third baseman. For sonie he plays d©ep, for others he is way in on the grass. He is the best man in the league taking a throw from the catcher and in getting it on the runner. It is al most impossible for a would-be pil ferer to hook a slide around him, as he rides with his man. He is the surest man on grounders but either direct at him or to eUher side, although he is better going after third base An infield with some arms! I asked Chase which one w^as the best throw er. In a flash he said Vv^'allace. “He is not only the hardest pegger but by far the most accurate And he throws a “light ball besides. It is a pleasure to catch his ,'ieaves.” If Wallace had mads good as mana ger of the Browns he would be the most talked of man in baseball this year. But he 'ailed simply because he wasn’t given the material to work with. No other man could have done any better with the St.' Louis club. They are w'ithout any doubt the poorest aggregation of ball tossers that ever held a berth in the Ameri can League. They couldn’t w’in an Eastern League or An^jerican Associa tion pennant. There is no reason why Wallace shouldn’t make a successful manager welts to his left than to bis righU He He is well acquaintei with basobaii— Lejigue club, has alroadv aorp? terms from Colonel Bob Hedger to cupy the managerial berth in St i n!'' next season. ' It has been known for some tin that this would be Griff s last year i Cincinnati, as things broke badh- fn him there. As for Wallace the'oii,' quality he is lacking in to be a manager is aggressivenesp. He do« not get out and fight enoD^h, Bobby, or rather Rhoderjri, lace—for that is his Christian name-, was born in Pittsburg. Pa., on Xover,-. her 4, 1874. He started piaving hj.' ball in Clarion in 1S93 and the folloV ing year was with Franklin, in fall of 1894 he was sold in cw land, joining that club in the fall o' 1895. He played third hase. Hp r?. mained there thrwighout the sea?om of 1S95, 1S96, 1897 and 1S9S. when w'ent to St. Louis. The Robisons owned both the Cleveland and S' Louisclubs broke at the time and mad« wholesale transfers. Bobby was the Cardinals in 1S99. 19O0 and I90i jumping to the St. Louis .American League club in 1902, with Avhich h has played ever since. W’allace is a crack billiard play?, and devotes most of his spare time especially dui-ing the winter raomhs with the ivories. He is a qnie' rha- but a poor mixer. aithoughMvpii-iii^oij by all who really know him. He ■'•as married last spring to a Si. Ixium belle. BOBBY WALLACE THE BEST Bobby Wallace, great little shortetop-manager of the St. Louis Browns—a portrait and two action pictures slio# ing him In sensational plays. The upper one shows Wallace sliding home on catcher Ira Thomas, of the Attj letlcs. It has been said that Wallace lacs lacks aggressiveness. Exact fact is that he performs liesurely except when there is something immediately to be gained by strenuosity—and then he is there with a rush, as is shown in this fearless slide that won one of the few victories chalked up by the Browns this year. The lower picture illustrates his cat-like swj/tness in slapping the ball onto the runner. Ty Cobb Is the man sliding, on an attempted steal of second. It is an unusual spectacle to see Cobb slide head-first. He usually goes with his flying spikes in front of him, to intimidate the baseman. He doesn’t do that against St. Louis though He realizes that Wallace is one man he cannot frighten, and also that the llghtning-speed midget has the -est of him when he comes feet first, as he can’t watch him as well as with his face aimed forv/ard. In th's pjc^ ture, the dread Cobb is wriggling for ail he is worth to get out of reach of Wallace, but it is no use. ini little Scotchman is putting the ball to him for a well-earned put-out. Moie Wales Peoi-le Many A. B. Hepburn Named Director. Houston, Texas, Sept. 9.—A. B. Hepburn, president of the Chase National Bank, of New York, was to- ^ dirgctor and member of the executive committee of the to fill the vacancy caused by the death oi John W. Gates. Ix)ndon, Sept. 9,—Few^er people than ever, in proportion to the popu lation, are getting married in Eng land and Wales. In his quarterly re turn, issued yesterday, the registrar- general states that in the first three months of this year the marriages of 89,506 persons were registered, being equal to an annual rate of 10.0 per sons married per 1,000 of the esti mated population, against an average rate of 11.4 per 1,000 in the fii-st quarter of the ten years 1901-10. Of countries with populations exceeding 100,000 Buckinghamshire, with 7.2, had the lowest rate, and Northumber land, ,with 11.8, the highest. I^ndon’s rate was 11.5. The births dealt with in the report are those for the second quarter, of the year. They numbered 225,777, and were in the proportion of 25.0 an nually per 1,000 of the population. This is 3.0 per 1,000 beiow the mean birth rate in the ten preceding second quarters^ and, in the words of the report, which are becoming stereotyped, “it is the lowest birth rate recorded in any second quarter since the establishment of civil reg istration.” Sussex has the lowest birth rate, 18.6, and Durham the highest at 32.9. The death rate was 1..3 per 3,000 below the mean rate in the ten pre ceding second quarters. The natural increase of population last quarter by excess of births over deaths was 105,793, against 122,782, 111.987, and 119,161. in the second quarter of 1908, 1909 and 1910 respectively. While the natural increase of popu lation declines, emigration grows. In the three months ending .Tune 30, of the passengers stated to be of British nationality, the departures exceeded the arrival by 75,354 per sons, an increase of 6.4 per cent as compared with the corresponding pe riod of the previous year. WHITNEY WON TENNIS INTERCOLLEGIATE HONORS. Philadelphia, Sept. 9.—E. H. Whit ney, of Harvard, today won the inter collegiate lawn tennis championship in singles by defeating in the final round A. H. Man, .Tr., of Yale, on the courts of the Merion Cricket Club at Haverfqrd. The scores were 6-1, 6-2, '>2. Whitney’s win makes Harvard a with Pennsylvania, wath Fix each, for the champion'^hip troV- It takes seven points to gain nent possession. A really great man Is three signs—generosity in t!’* humanity in the execution and nioae*" tion in success.—Bismarck. MkpiriMi GOTCH-HACKENSCHMIDT MATCH During much of the brief time that Gotch and Hackenschmjdt the ring they were standing apparantly waiting for an open! the other down. Gotch almost Invariably fell on top of picture shows Hack, with hit back to the camera and Coton j -- ing over his shoulder. "J 'J Tre
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