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AMARILLO DAILY NEWS, SUNDAY, MARCH 16,191:
PAGE
CARL MORRIS TO
FIGHT STEWART
SAPULPA FANS AGOG OVER
FAST BOUT MONDAY
NIGHT. y
Spreial to Daily News.
SAPULPA, Okla., March 15.-
. Boxing fans who revel in some good
and fast going have only to remem-
ber the principals who will appear
in the exhibition to be given at Sa-
pulpa on St. Patrick’s day next Mon-
day night. This bout took place at
• Madison Square Garden on the night
of February 12, 1912, and was con-
ceded to be one of the best exhibi-
tions of boxing which the fans of
America’s metropolis had witnessed
in many years. -
Interest in the forthcoming match
is becoming greater each day now
that both men and their trainers are
on the ground and working hard all
the time.
The usual confidence of the prin-
cipals and their backers is being as-
serted daily and the chances are that
those gathered about the ringside
will witness even a better bout than
did those at the bout in New York
city a year ago. A special train will
be run to Sapulpa from Tulsa and
delegations of fans from all of the
larger cities of Oklahoma have sig-
nified their intention of being on
hand. Muskogee, Bartlesville and
even southern Kansas towns will be
represented and a large delegation
of Oklahoma City cattlemen will be
there, seat reservations having been
made by them.
In commenting . on the Madison
Square exhibition the New York
Evening World of February 13,
1912, had the following to say:
"Carl Morris and Jim Stewart
fought the hardest and fastest ten
rounds last night that I’ve seen
fought between heavyweights since
the great old days of the Horton law.
And on turning the battle over in
my mind even hours after the clang
of the last gong. I’m unable to pick
a winner. The fighting on both
sides was so fierce and the Oklaho-
ma giant’s confident and constant
aggression was so much, offset by
Jim Stewart’s heavy hitting and re-
markable cleverness that it would
be an unfair thing to claim a victory
for either one. Let me call it a
draw and add that I’d walk from
here to Philadelphia in a blizzard to
see another like it.”
epoo*eeth*atur***e
+ MsruAta NOTES.
++++*****+******+*
It is* said that Buddy Ryan has
the call for the center field position
with the Cleveland Naps.
Young Orr, who is out for an in-
field position with Connie Mack’s
Athletics, is playing a wonderful
game in the practices of the former
world’s champions.
Pitcher Cyril Slapnicka, the only
Russian grand duke in baseball, and
formerly a heaver with the White
Sox, has signed with the Milwaukee
club.
Jacob C. Morse, the veteran Bos-
ton baseball scribe, has tendered his
resignation as secretary of the New
England League after fifteen years
of continuous service.
Manager Bill Dahlen, of the
Brooklyn Superbas, believes he has
copped a real star in Leo Callahan,
the youngster who played with El-
mira last season.
As he is owner, president, man.
ager, captain, utility player and
pinch hitter of theBaltimore team,
Jack Dunn may relinquish the cap-
taincy and appoint Freddy Parent
the field general.
Word from the Giants’ training
camp at Marlin, Texas, has it that
Manager McGraw inteds to make
an outfielder of Jim Thorpe, as the
Indian has shown some pretty nifty
batting.
George (Dummy) Kihm, the for-
mer Columbus player, who has been
When asked if he intended to do
any training in order to reduce his
weight, Umpire Tommy Connolly re-
plied that umpires could worry off
any over-weight they might be bur-
dened with in the first three games
of the season.
A “new comers’ infield is being
tried out by Manager Evers, of the
Cubs. McDonald, formerly of Bos-
ton, is covering first, Berghammer, a
recruit, second, Corridon, the former
Detroit Tiger, short, and Phelan, the
ex-Red, third.
GAME WITH NORMALS
POSTPONED FOR WEEK
The game which was scheduled to
occur at Canyon yesterday afternoon
between the Normals and the. Amaril-
lo High School was deferred until
... Saturday of this week, on account of
the unfavoring weather conditions
prevailing.
Manager Morgan’s boys will buck-
le down to preliminary business dur-
ing the week, and will zo to Canyon
fully prepared to make the big Nor-
mat fellows eat out of their hands.
FARMER BURNS WORKING STRANGLE HOLD
This Hold Is Barred Nowadays.
FATHE strangle hold is a discarded
i relic ct the early ages of
A wrestling. It is rightfully barred
from championship matches, but
still may bo an effective means of de-
Tense in handling a bully or saving
one’s life in a personal encounter with
a robber or murderer.
"I won my first professional match
at catch-as-catch-can wrestling with
the strangle hold because I didn’t
know any better," relates Gotch.
“That was be fore I had met either
McLeod ci Farmer Burns. It was in
the match with. Marshall Green, the
chicken picker, who n we wrestled in
overalls in the old opera house in
Humboldt in 1829. It was a rough and
ready battle and both tried for the
strangle hold. I was quicker than
Green and won three straight falls in
about an hour of hard work, taking all
three with strangle holds.
“The strangle hold was a common
grip in those days. One professional,
Evan Lewis, probably developed the
hold to its highest efficiency. He made
a world-wide reputation for winning
matches with it and was known far
and wide as ‘Strangler’ Lewis.
4 “It is the most dangerous grip in
wrestling, and yet the old timers used
to employ it quite often. In my match
with Tom Jenkins at Bellingham,
Wash., when .I won the American |
championship, he put a strangle hold
on me after I had won the first fall.
His powerful arma and great strength
made it difficult for me to extricate
myself..
"Maddened over the loss of the first
fall and the peril of losing the cham-
pionship, which he had held for six
years, Jenkins charged at me furious,
ly in the second bout and in a mix-up
worked himself behind me. He slip-
ped his left-forearm under my chin
and bore the weight of his right arm
against the top of my head, tightening
his grip and completing a strangle
hold, from which it would have been
impossible for a weak man to escape.
“There is only one way in which
to break this hold, and one cannot
linger, as delay may prove fatal.
That is to employ both hands in
grasping the aggressor’s left member
and below the elbow, and thus lessen-
ing the heavy pre ssure on the Adam’s
apple. If one possesses great strength
it is possible to break the hold. I em
ployed this method in escaping from
Jenkins. He was too weak to hold
me. It was his last hope of retaining
the championship, and he tried it too
late to succeed.
"Although: the strangle hold is
barred nowadays, it is used more or
less in many matches. Wrestlers get
it when attempting to obtain other
holds, sometimes by mistake. It
weakens an opponent, and if continued
might prove fatal. Jenkins was warn-
ed against the hold in nearly every
match with me. Sometimes he secur-
ed the grip unintentionally.
“Farmer Burns i one wrestler who
| was practically immune from the stran.
| cis hold. This was due to the wonder
| ful development of the muscles of his
| neck. The "Farm dofe ted Stran
| gler Lewis for the American champion
| ship in 1803. Lewis bumped into tron-
| ble when he tried to choke that old
chap into submission.
(C p: right, 1013, by Jone ph D. Bowles:
WOOD AFTER ANOTHER FLAG
STAMPS MERKEL
NDER
BASEBALL SEASON
OPENED FRID
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Baltimore is to have a running club.
Trinity college may tato up
crosse.
The New York: Athletic club en:
202 members.
‘ The San Mateo Polo club, or (
fornia, will construct 767 49 (
house. . 03......
Manager McGraw wants to
“Smoky Joe,” Pitching Hero of 1912
Season, Will Try to Beat Last
Year’s Record.
Joe Wood, the pitching star of the
Boston R d So: 1: it year, will have a
great deal to say as to whether or not
the Red Sox will be able to capture
another pennant. Connie Mack, of
the Athletles, is determined that his
team will be in the fight from the
start this year and will not allow the
Sox to slip anything over on him like
they did last season.
Joe Wood was the hero par excel-
lence’ of the Boston tribe in 1912.
Before the season started he was
known as a fairly good performer
with the gloves. When the season
ended he was the most-talked-of ball
lr player in the country. Joe hung-up
• A-record in the box that made the
three consecutive National leagu
ponnants.
India is likely to be represented by
a team of athletes at the 1916 Olympic
games in Berlin.
Hereafter all of the meetings of th
Internation-Lleagu 90
the Hotel Imperial, in
Manager McCreedto
team of the Pae e en
he won’t have a capte
Manager McGraw 1
Burns has tho best cl
rookies to land a r
berth. * .
bo held in
York.
als team
egular outGeld
Manager Joe Birmingham says
Blanding, his right-1
prove, he will use
hittor.
The University
•. doesn’t im
as a pinch
imagined
squad but
Cornell,3
x v onderful
Fred Merkle is the only big loague
player extant who made a bit this
winter. The rest were in vaudeville
and Fred bowled.
Nick Cullop, former New Orleans
southpaw now
Cleveland N I
second Marly
"Old C.’ Y
be property of the
T/
ig the daddy of the
slab artists, in his twventy*wo year
on the diamond- had
shut cut games
Ed Wihlania
cher R. Hy ltav
the Springgeld
league, by The
Here’s Jo h
standing of th
1 see vetily Ngh
redit.“’
liah, and Ar
club, of t
Tcianapolio
Dev ore’s dope
curb
Ohio
first division te
or the
mes for
1913; Now York, first; Pittsburg. seo-
ond: Cincinnati, third; Cube, fourth
Second baseini Robert Prysock has
purchased his release from the Zanes."
ville club and signed with the Macon
club, of the South Atlantic league
The Denver club, of the Western
lengne, has reinstated the suspended
outfielder, Joe Collins, and 1 reke ased
him to the Lincoln club, game league
and the Des Moines club has signed
Arnold Sheldon, the star halfback of
Sewanee college.
Ad TA
“Smoky Joe" Wood.
other box artists in. the American
league look sick. He won 35 games
during the season and lost but .5.
Eddie Plank, of he Athletics, was the
only (v. trier who came anyw here near
the mark det by Smoky Joe, the left-
hander, winning 20 and losing 6. Wal-
ter Johnson, the great pitcher of the
Washingtons, had 12 victorigs to his
credit and 12 defeats.
Wood will have no easy job on his
hands to beat his record of last year,
but he has every confidence that he
will be able to do it. He has been
ap ending the winter on his farm near
Parker’s Glen, Pa., and is anxiously
waiting the call for the Red Sox to
assemble for the spring training. ..
AW Married.
Only, two of the men on the Oak-
land Pacific Coast league champions
W o cat be classed no regulars are
unmarried They are BET Leard and
John Tiedemann and rpmor has it
that Leard will soon join the married
eclony,.
PRESIDENT LYNCH LAUDS
PLAYING OF FIRST
SACKER
FIRST CLASS ORGANIZA-
TION OF FAST
FELLOWS
The 1913 baseball season in Amn-
rillo will be formally opened next
Friday afternoon in Glenwood Park
when the newly organized Amarillo
A strange world, indeed, this little
sphere of ours, and stranger still that
portion of its inhabitants which ramps
and raves six months of the year over -. 4
our national pastime. Say one cold. Falls aggregation, pennant-winners
cruel word against "Rube" Marquard
to any citizen of Manhattan or en-
virons and then get ready for a punch
in the eye. Whisper a scandal against
the fair name of Fred Merkle if you
are contemplating suicide. Yet a brief
spell back the enthusiasts who now
worship at the shrine of this grand
pair were denying them with oaths
and curses.
We will deal just now with Merkle’s
case. . Here is a tribute paid him re-
cently by Tom Lynch, president of
the National league:
"Merkle," said Lynch, "I consider
one of the most wonderful men that
ever broke into baseball. He is a man
in every sense of the word. His heart
is as big as that of an ex. Otherwise
he wouldn’t be in major league com-
team
will go
against the Wichita
in the Texas-Oklahoma League for
1912.
Dick Lewis has pulled together a
first-class fighting organization of
fast fellows, who propose to whet
their appetites on the Wichita Falls
bunch in anticipation of a real gory
feast when the White Sox blow in
April 2. Lewis’s crowd will get to-
gether this afternoon for photization.
This advance step will be taken in
view of the fact that they intend to
corral the Panhandle pennant during
the present season.
Morris Browning, manager of
Glenwood Park, stated yesterday af-
ternoon that work would begin Mon-
day shaping the grounds, and get-
ting the grand stand and bleachers in
ship-shape for the season.
pany today. How many professional1 With a view of providing extra
baseball players, do you think, could
have stood the penning and the roast-
ing and the abuse heaped upon the
head of this young gentleman after he
failed to touch second base in that
memorable game in 19087 I’ll tell you.
Not one in ten; no, not one in fifty.
"You cannot find many better first
basemen today than Merkle. Why?
Simply because he realized his mis-
facilities for fans of the city, spe-
cial cars with trailers will be operat-
ed on the street care line to Glen-
wood Park. A fifteen minute service
will be maintained, and all cars will
be held at the grounds at conclusion
of the game.
The game Friday afternoon will
be the first of a three-days series,
other games following on Saturday
and Sunday afternoons.
A new crack infielder has been
added to the Amarillo team in the
person of John Stricklin, a former
Texas Leaguer,
4
Fred Merkle.
Y —-*"- ‘
take and decided to live it down
deeds of worth. He didn’t sulk.
by
He
didn’t slouch. He held a high head
and kept a stir upper lip. And instead
of worrying over that one mistake,
as most fellows would have done, he
profited by his experience and let it
stand as a warning. His game Im
proved He was a far b tter first base
man in 1909 than in 1908; far better
still in 1910. 1 take off my hat to
Merkle He’s the proper stuff. He’ll
be better still in 1913."
Tom Lynch comes pretty near to
knowing-what heis hiking aboutlie
fore he ever expresses himself. It :
very doubtful if there is a first ba (
man in the gar more valuable than
Fred Merkle. There are flashier play
ers, Hal Chase and Jack Daubert po
aessing more natural advantages
that they throw left handed, app ar
bit more graceful, perhaps.
Yet it is doubtful if cither has an
thing on the Giant as a fielder. Merkle
is not showy But he is wonderfall.
sure and as expert i
Kps off mean bounde
great Chase. He co’
Ground as H2h 1
runner and a in. :
making pic
as even th
rs as muc
kilful a ha
dangerous 1561
He is a trifle less agile and carnct EC
to high for strong-arm pegs, nor 1
he so dexterous with he mitt hand
Yet Merkle is the only right-handed
first baseman who can break up a sac
nfice hit play almost
ftrer Chase or I ...
No one versed in b
that Merkle ratski
cunningly a
ball will deb,
ong the Dirs’
three of baseball’s first base guard
ans. That is an 1.
youngster that the
indeed, for 1
were trying
ish four shor
to hound back
ummers ago But . u he was un
fortunate: simply 11
unistances,” Had NT
Devlin or the great
first when Al Brid
the clean single that
the game little w
thought of the vet
The fact that it wa
the krockera a cha
victim of cir
Donlin, Arthur
latty been on
knocked out
W id have wor
ad have beer
n’s oversight
a recruit gave
Or i New
York had won the-pme as with-the
Cums, as they should Merkle’s lot
would not have been hard in 1909
* —
Detroit’s Ravis d infiold.
Hughie Jenningu s selected hi
0 infleld. He wi ay Sam Craw
ford at Erst. Louden t second. Bun)
at short and Morlartty at third.
SPECIAL RAIL RATES
FOR WHITE SOX GAME
Increasing inquiries from many
outside points, many of them at great
distance from Amarillo, give added
assurance that attendance on the
White Sox game here April 2 is go-
ing to fracture all former records in
the Panhandle.
Statement comes from Roswelll
that many interested fans are seek-
ing information with regard to spe-
ciairates, and that a large delesh
tion from that city intends to invade
Amarillo for the big exhibition per-
formance.
The railroads leading into Amaril-
lo have announced special rates of
one and a third for the game, and
this reduction has brought assurances
which have necessitated change and
elaboration of plans for grandstand
enlargement at Glenwood.
v
BENEFITS LOCAL PEOPLE
Amarillo people have discovered
that A SINGLE DOSE of simple
buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., as
componded in Adler-i-ka, the Ger-
man appendicitis remedy, relieves
gas on the stomach and constipation
AT ONCE. L. O. Thompson & Co.
WELSH ANXIOUS FOR
. BOUT WITH RITCHIE
Spertal to Daily—News.----------
‘ LONDON, March 15.— Freddie
Welsh, holder of the British light-
weight championship, sailed today
for New York. Prior to his depar.
ture he expressed a hope that he
will be able to arrange an early
match with Willie Ritchie, for the
world’s championship. Failing to
come to terms with the champion
the British title holder will take on
Ad Wolgast and other American
fighters of his class.
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Seats on Sale Monday 17th.
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NOTHING BUT A WONDERFUL MERIT
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