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i w Y n 1 f J i or b II I Why lack Johnson Should Defeat Stanley Ketchel Ian I By TOMMY CLARK Kotchela ono great chanco to land winners ovcry fall The tough part eyes of tho of defeat on Johnson would bo to land a of It is that fourteen managers followor body disappointed aro aro now focused on tfv hard swings on tho negro Thore can b e but one I j pennant is tho sort of punch to make Iho In each league and odd us THE coming bout for tho blond man slow and tho one to may seem It ¬ down the team which cham- turn guards Is Just tho trick but Johnson nosed out for tho flag beaten a few I pionship botwce tho himself so welt and boxes so cleverly thousandths in the Stanley Kclchtl who- percentage column tltlo holder and that It would be a difficult task to hit drops away back out of sight a rejoicing or whllo tho is now under tho sobrlquct 1 Im down below If Kctchcl can pcno winner goes on bo In Into the post season i the Michigan Hurricane to held rate tho negros wonderful defense In with banners flying Oct 12 With both men tho first few rounds and land a few Take for Instance In tho best physical ehapo possible the tho case of the I tolling smashes he will weaken tho beloved Pirates In 100S bout should result In a contest worth sleep pro ¬ Those old t negro und be able to land a boys were going miles to sco In many sections never worse than fourth at ducer In his fight with Kaufman any stage of the game Kctchcl Is picked as the man to restoro Johnson showed that his body la hla and that for ¬ only one short week tho tltlo to the white race thereby re- ¬ when they fell most vulncrabh point and It will prob- back Into third place again lieving Jim Jeffries of tho trouble of ably bo Ketchels main object of at ¬ In July ring to tight tho and August the Pirates led the league coming back Into tho tack and In In the whipping batting ¬ Colored man Then attain other There arc any number of fight fol- ¬ bling scram quarters tho opinion Is thatKctchcl la finish the Pirates floundered in lowers who believe that Johnson has- seven points behind too small for Johnson and tho hitter a of yellow and that If properly tho Cubs beaten difficulty In streak a whisker with a fighting will experlenco little pummeled about tho body he will quit up chance to stowing1 away the Michigan boy Any- ¬ win to their last game That Is ono reason why Ketchol will Did anybody way the question will bo definitely some followers when ho stands- outside of Plttsburg havo hear anything about answered when tho pair clash up against tho black The other rea ¬ the Pirates when the end of the season Before his fight with Papko there son that the match will attract atten- ¬ rolled around were many who gave Ketchel a mighty very Not on your ambrotypc was tion Is because of the audacity- Chicago It all good chanco of beating Johnson They of tho Michigan fighter who fears no and the Cubs and figured him a good ring general and a quite evidently thinks he tho Giants Tho Pirates were right one and will there or man with so remarkable a punch that thereabouts all the way ¬ bo the winner- ning Johnson would not bo ablo to stand the fight looks an ab- ¬ with the front bunch from Hug To tho writer fall to against him Those samo fight fans solute gift for Johnson Ho Is too big a pennant raising and tin best however when they looked at Papkc man for Ketchel has too many pounds they got was tho Peary eye and the and Kctchel shook their heads when- the advantage of his opponent and too overlook it was suggested to them that Kctchcl much strength to hold him off Ho Is Baseball Is one of the few sports would stand a good chance against tho far moro clover than tho where all the glory goes to the winner negro champion whose rushing style of tight Of course baseball Is business No Even admitting that ho Injured his Ing ought to suit Johnson to a dot manager would care for a pennant likely It If hands he would as hurt those It Is quite true that Johnson tights meant the loss of money The men eanio hands against Johnson Stanley In spurts but Kelchel can be calcu ¬ who own clubs are anxious to secure didnt have tho punch to tow away lated upon to mako Jack fight all tho winning teams because a Battling recently team winning Nelson let alone time It may not be a contest that will means a lot of money In the courso Billy Papko or Johnson The cxcrclso- any length of tlmo but It will of tho season last for and a lot more In the sea ¬ of moving around tho ring in tho first surely have plenty of action whllo It sons to come One pennant three rounds bcforo Fapke had marked a will keep does go along baseball community In good humor him tired the Michigan boy so that It Of Ketchel It can be truthfully said for four or five years must either be admitted he was One reason a that that ho knows no fear Ho Is game to ball team is always trying Is woefully out of condition or gono back core for this gameness Is what a losing because tho teats hits tho man in the box in tho game pulled him through against Billy Papkc office before the slump strikes any ¬ When ono sizes up the dope on tho when last they mot where else- KctchclPapko ami tho JohnsonKauf- ¬ Ketchel has asked his chance and man battles tho two last contests tho now ho Is to have It men engaged In ono finds that the DETROITS MINUS CAPTAIN negro will on form have an easy time Baseball Gambling Again gambling fcpcctor of It Although in his bout with Papko That which has for American so long haunted tho Imaginations League Champions Believe Kotchel was a ten to six favorite- of I it was figured by dopes leIs that tho the baseball magnates has at last suc ¬ Position Real Hoodoo- ceeded in getting a tlmo at bat Tho A hoodoo as Michigan Hurrlcano would dispose of KEACHIE MOLL WISCONSINS SENSATIONAL KICKER AND big as threatening and the Illinois Thunderbolt In jig time first up Mr Spector rapped the nerv- ¬ as effective as any magnates In baseball hats But tho result was Just the opposite ous for a safe one and from QUARTERBACK- hovered abovo tho and perhaps if tho latter had been a his start It appears that he may have- captaincy of the Great things arc expected ¬ Detroit Americans little more aggressive the decision a promising future In the big leagues of Keachlo Moll Wisconsins sensational quarter- for seasons It has back and drop kicker this season year grappled every 1 would have been given to him Kotchel This plague on all good sports has Last rheumatism had Moll In poor man who stepped Into shape tho first part of the campaign but under the care a specialist ho the position gave aa an excuse for his poor show ¬ put tho club on of has and not one of them picked up wonderfully and during practice has been making somo long kicks has ing that he injured his hand in tho tho defensive and the net result of his been able to escape from this hoodoos early part of the contest While such reentry into baseball Is that tho chief- clutches was case the Michigan boy of police of como tho had Boston has declined to In from outside tho parks If any It will be in But It may be And the men who have ample lime to dispose of Papke as ho dorso tho application of tho whero The handbooks of many cities captained National well to remember that oral betting Is a Detroits team for several years did not Inure Ills mauler until the sev- ¬ league club for a renewal of Its li- ¬ carry a considerable dally bank roll have sort of side door to tho lid and In been stars There were enth round cense to play games on tho Boston devoted to baseball Some day this California they havo locked portal Ed Barrows On the capital player and tho other hand Johnsons show- grounds may become so ponderous as to swing- In question and thrown away the key Glcaaon one of the Ing In ¬ best there were his ten ipund battle with Kauf Reason gambling Is permitted on a baleful Influence over some not too Racing Is a game for Smith a star and man was a revelation to tho fight the rich and Bobble Lowe a corking fans tho premises To support his state ¬ moral umpire or over a wretch of a the advent of men who mako a living- good Inllekler The big colored man just toyed with ment tho Bill Coughlin kit his that aforementioned specter- pitcher That attempt to bribe the um It takes ¬ best Is still 1 the California Hercules throughout tho at from It the right to bo con- figure In Is on the Job the chief states that not plro at New York last year Is proof sidered a truo sport When poor mind and some of his work contest Had ho fought with tho tiger ¬ POP COREY CANDIDATE FOR QUARTER ON YALE ELEVEN the on the Infield only havo his men seen It but havo enough that this Is no moro bugbear owner who depended on will survive a long time ish frenzy that used to mark tho ef- ¬ his three or In the memory oven arrested some of Us followers pitcher or umpire be ¬ of Detroit fans of such black demons as Joe THIS SEASON- Whenever some four skates for his hay hostlers fees was for Bill forts Tho attitude of ho chief leaves tho comes too well acquainted with tho and his own ono of the best men who over Walcott perhaps ho would have put his Pop Corey son of tho prcsldcnt of the steel Is bread and butter came played trust a likely candidate for Boston National league club very much- handling It Is Im ¬ third Then thoro was titian out In about two o three rounds- man thousand not Into existence tho beginning of t- h Herman quarterback tho Yale eleven this season Last year Corey took part In In tho air and It docs not yet know be Schaefer last of the To go back possible that something could after end of racing started Is self evi ¬ sextet of men who further and look over several games on handled the team In good shape what It Is going to do about playing- It woro forced to six round ¬ the manner of Jack OBriens fights dent that poor owners retire Johnsons battle with Phil- off its home games and cheap Coughlln it adelphia Jack OBrien and tho lat arranged horses could not compete aboveboard was predicted would last days of John L Sullivan Thero seems to bo considerable mys- ¬ for tens two contests with Ketchel James J To como down to the facts Kotchela Baseball has so many safeguards against rich men several years more His career of ono Corbett and oven to tho period of tery about tho matter Now If who maintained splendid would think that tho Michigan boy later chances of victory against the colored tho thrown about It that the chance of uny splendid stables for love of horses ball playing In the major James J Jeffries there was no talk of man nro very slim Johnson may facts had occurred at tho Boston and league came to a would have a splendid chance oC not such condition prevailing Is slight of tho gamo Right there termination He sud ¬ matching mlddlowclghta ¬ American League park one un- ¬ the serpent knocking out tho negro No against heavy be good enough to defeat Jim Jeffries could In history entered tho denly lost hit abllily to field stock weights While Fltzshnmona was a derstand But why should There have been times the racing Eden Sinco that and hit should bo taken In Johnsons fight with when the tlmo comes but ho was good anybody of tho game when such things wore time It has been a game The same can bo sold of mlddlcwclgnt by weight ho was so rc- enough to play with want to bet on the National leaguo of matching Ho was Sohaefer OBilcn for tho negro only fooled with Kaufman and his done but not for a long tlmo now wits and arranging at his best laal year He show t markablo a man In many ways and showing was j conditions so Quaker City man Had ho tried such as to mako him a club meantlmo poor Boston that bets could be ed better speed hitting he had rowed his worth bo thoroughly cinch In the doesnt won if purses could ability and In hurd OBrien would not have lusted almost with Kctchcl Imagine any ono risking a heavy flno know whether It will have a homo or not side ball playing than in any that there was no questioning his right In tho first place Kctchcl Is too by rushing to get a bet year other tnoro than three rounds Kotchcls far down on tho I not when It gets back from the present He was so good that when It battles with Jack sur In tho lighter classes such as Joe small and far too open fighter to over Boston Doves came to choosing I tour a man to 1111 fight fans In Walcott among the welters and Joe hopo to make a stand against tho tow ¬ tho prised tho tho first among Ugh I forgot that sore lip again FANS LIKE ONLY WINNERS shoes of Bill Coughlln tho name scrap in New York OBriens clever ¬ Gans tho lightweights there ering block Unless he develops a new Poor Outlook Fo Racing In California- of are Instances men going Tho Boston chief seems to loso sight- Schaefer stood out before all ness somewhat puzzled Kctchel for of out of their style ho will never get within striking of And others ¬ tho fact that tho gambling Is In A prominent western bookmaker and Must Capture this year there was rounds in the few sec classes and sustaining their reputa distance of Johnson and In tho Tom Bunting to Please as much ¬ nine but last event splto of baseball club be- ¬ ference lit tions It Is more difficult however ho one owners not part track owner recently announced Followers of Gamo between the Schaefer of 190S a onds of tho contest ho laid the Quaker that starts of his wild shifts cause of thom Where ten men and the Schaefer t boy low and lu the second go ho also among the heavier fighters and misses his doom Is sealed bet a that there would be racing at Los Tho time has of today as there Is V t then a baseball game 10000 never think of approached when all between noontime administered tho sleep producer in Kotchel has accomplished little of and there for Johnson has shown that Angeles and San Francisco the coming the managers In all leagues and dusk Schaefer t It a mighty hnrd hearted chief tin will mot the tale of his predecessor1- three tilt Fltzslmmons sort Ito looks to be- ho seldom overlooks an opportunity Its winter For ono who Is an expert at begin to talk about they t that would stop the sport of 10000 be- ¬ what will do Hughcy Jennings Johnson has every advantage over- a gcnulno middleweight and gives no While Kotchela chances appear very games of chanceso called because tho next season This next season will not appoint n t sling of pulling on weight cause ho couldnt arrest tho ten stuff successor to Schaefer Tho KcLchol in tho coming scrapheight much above slim however ono has to admit that public has little this bookmaker Is Is older than MelhuHdah but we Tiger lead ¬ reach and over forty pounds In weight the 170 pound mark lie Is middle- ¬ tho Michigan boy will probably Whore tho Trouble Lies acutely credulous or perhaps only all er would have a hard Joh finding 3 weight mako Its for it Every season wo listen to the man who would a 4i There aro few boxers who can glvo champion beyond a doubt but a better showing against tho colored Tho menace of baseball gambling the old caso of tho wish fathering tho same old undertake to fill the ¬ line of promise and everv posltlon h away be con Papko a on In ¬ gone forty pounds and still cast shadow the tlllo man than did Kaufman Kctcho Is a- docs not lie In tho picayunish specula- thought season we believe after what has + before sidered possible winners Bob last go not so much because of what the manager So Hughoy will bo manager FIt their far more aggressive lighter tions of grand stand occupants viewpoint orig- ¬ I and than tho or This bookmakers says to the attend Simmons did this It is tro but that his superior work as because Kelchcl big lumbering Californian and ho Is bleacherltes These are too slight bo In says If duties of captain A hoodoo ox I to inates the belief he that Wo sixteen DUO miserably luc teams in iho big exception proved the rule In tho failed more willing to take chances considered Tho real trouble is to oral betting Is a success In Now York leagues its and the only way to squelch It is and sixteen managers prom lo remove all I I opportunities I woman on tho concert stage today I will tho Pacific coast which last for I to work and study pianist hard having In polio Bill foil This wonderful who last year two months view tho acceptance of an offer down and Ilughcy Some Features of New Musical Season was heard only In tho west mado such- from bounced him In a hurry one of tho leading opera houses In Eu- ¬ Last year a great success In that section of tho Tho most sensational success achiev- rope Germany Schaefer was tho cap country Thus another of our American rata of tell that tho great orchestras and ed by a singer oluco the famous Anita the Tigers and the ¬ girls will bo added to tho already long able most valu r societies of the cast aro now eager to Rio left these shores his fallen to the list of prIma man on tho team barring Cobb The Damrosch a Blauvelt and Other Tours have her services and her engagement donnas which rule tho and Crawford fL lot of Miss Florenco Hinkle a young European opera houses- This year ho got a poor bl has just been announced by the New singer start and j of twentyone during the pas Jennings fired LL Indications point to an Ameri- ¬ this country during the entire season preparation as she could get in you him before 1 the few Yolk Symphony orchestra with which two years Going to Now York from could say Jack Johnson can musical season of unusual lit Is qulto piobablo that Mme BlauI hours on the whllo en will Claude I train roulo sho play twice under Walter Philadelphia her ¬ Rossman helped velt will sing In every largo city from native city absolute- I win two champion fin Interest Tho announcements Damrosch and by the Plttsburg or ¬ ly unknown she was praised by aver y ships for Jennings He of the plans well coast to coast Tho Beautiful Myrtle Elvyn slumped with of known chestra with which she plays twice ono who heard her Her fame spread tho stick this year nnd Jennings rocallats as well as instrumentalists Godowsky the famous pianist who under Emil Paur practically dumped Mme Alico throughout tho whole of the him overboard In a jiffy ind of managers ore now coming Lakin was obliged to leave America In order- She will also bo heard in Boston United States Sho has received SENTIMENT John their England offers hCOSTLY McGraw Is ¬ will to another fel send America this to find genulno recognition In Europe Philadelphia HarrIsburg Reading managers In low soot orLh They emphatically demonstrate season ono from both Europe and I sec tvhcro McAleera are but I notlco that he can of her greatest singers In Is today the most famous teacher In Canton 0 and many points In friend day slip a ten c that the season now opening will at tho person other America but she has maintained her boosting him for sticking to his old notco to a fading quicker f of Mme Alice Lakin tho Europe To be ono of his pupils Is tho cast before startinG her tour on mental equilibrium and than star aln the highest of standards has continued war horses said a baseball fan tho any man In tho game John tt Walter Damrosch the director of makes no distinction between friend I and foo tho New York Symphony Dan McGann George Browne orchestra Prank Bowerman AHI celebrate his twentyfifth annl a Sandow Merles and j helped roraary as conductor of organiza ¬ win a worlds ha championship for McGraw Ion by making a commcmoratlvo Two years In 1905 tour of the principal cities of the east later McGraw got rid of 7 the whole bunch Hid middle west This tour will take t Theres nothing place In ¬ in this gratitude January and the entire or- gag on tho ball chestra of a hundred men will travel in field Every boy must lfr stand up and fight for Its own special train composed of manager himself Tho IJ sleeping dining observation and bag that stands by his friends es ¬ f iKagc cars- pecially the ones who aro slowing up Reception committees aro now being will find himself out of a Job formed In each of the cities which Mi t Oamrosch will visit Banquets and re WHEN SHAW WAS A CRITIC Clyde zcpllons are to ho tendered him at Fitch took down ono of his fa- ¬ each point As this Is tho first time mous scrap books shortly before his Iho entlro orchestra has ever left New death York fora tour of this magnitude Before famo came to him ho said great Interest has been aroused all that great rival of mine George I flit country Bernard iovcr and tho coming of Shaw wrote theatrical criti ¬ tho organization Is awaited with great cisms for tho London Saturday Ro inlcrcsLI- vlow 1 In the spring of the year Mr Dam ¬ Now those were rosch criticisms indeed will make his annual festival Nobody could praise a good play so tour and this season ho will visit the beautifully as this Pacific coasL critic Nobody This tour will last for could roast a bad play so telling almost three months starting In April Listen Here Is a sample rand returning In June and every big And the playwright fcatlvnl In this country will read endeavor I am In a somewhat foolish posl have Lila ¬ Mr Damrosch and orches- Uon concerning a play tra aa Us principal attraction at the Opera Comlque whither I was bidden this day week For somo reason I was r Mmo Blauvclts Tour not supplied with u program so that 1 ti After spending a number of years never learned singing In opera tho name of the play abroad In Italy Gcr At tho end of tho many and Russia Mme Lillian second net the play Blau had advanced about as ns or velt tho celebrated American prima cllnary far an K dramatist would havo brought donna hns decided to spend the coming It five season in minutes after the first rising of her native country This lie curtain or say JnctVB will bo of great Interest to as far as Ibsen mu would have brought It slclans throughout America for Mmo ten years be f Blauvelt fore that event Taking advantage of has not sung In concert hero the for some time- second interval to stroll out Into = the Strand for a little un ¬ 4 It will be remembered that previous exercise I fortunately forgot ¬ to her departure for Europe Mme all about my busi Blauvclt ness and actually reached home entered tho high class comic- It before opera field the same time as occurred to me that I had not soon Mme famous contralto No singer In recent tho end of tho play Schumannnelnk made her venture In years has had Under these clr- that direction the sensational auccoss cumsiancos it would ID lImo Blauvelts sUe that has fallen to lhQ lot of become mo to COSH was so great this artist dogmatize on tho merits work- that she determined who Is not only tho possessor of a 4 lJj of the follow tho more serious study other day or Its performance I can only offer of her wonderful voice but of a musical na That kind of stun looks the management ltart In grand opera In Europo and was ture so nice in print my apologies of equally great that she can read at considered a great honor In Itself and sounds sweet to the What If It fortunate In making a great sight tames but car but had been ono of Fitchs success music which usually the to bo pronounced notice that the baseball man ¬ plays there as his favorite pupil ngers Would he have saved the clip ¬ She had already most accomplishes musician hours of Is distinction Indeed It seems lilting who win pennants never mix ping signed a contract for study to master Her wonderful suntimont or friendship tho coming season with the Imperial feat that this honor should fall upon an with thair Opera of learning th stupendous Bach B American girl Myrtle Elvyn baseball teams Take Hughey ACTORS t at St Petersburg Russia minor tunas on her way to tho Miss nlngs manager Jon REAL TAMES where WUB to open festival whose playing leaving Godowsky of tho Detroit ¬ she her season In to tako the place of since cans for Ameri Marie Doro was born Stuart Sine January But the another great liDS startled all Europe and America Instance Hughoy Is known came from announcement that singer suddenly taken 111 was so won ¬ as a good Purnsylvanla Her father sing Sho Is not only pos- ¬ fellow hut I the would In concert horn until derful that ninny the fortunate never notice that ho Is a lawyer December created such a musicians almost sessor of a tremendous talent for her hesltatea about tIrlllg men demand for doubt that ouch u thing was posslblo they look Ilko when Mlle Daale tho charming dancer her Rervlccs that oho decided chosen instrument but eho Is also girt they are going back owns thin her tocancel Yet Mme Larkin had never sang the cd with Bill Coughlin was quaint num of Petal kin Shu Russian contract and remain In work bcfoio sang great personal beauty In fact the captain of tho Is a Detroit girl and It with only such sho Is considered tho most beautiful first Tiger team that Jennings pennant won a Edgar Selwyn Is a brother of Mike 1 with One year later Sr- Simon

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