Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 119, Hammond, Lake County, 30 October 1913 — Page 3
Thursday, Oct. 30, 1913.
THE TIMES. PAGE THREE
CLABBY IS LOVER OF TENNIS AS
DEVELOPER
While training for a bout it is and has always been customary for a boxer to follow certain lines of exercise. Battling Nelson played on the cinder path, Stanley Ketchel will be remembered as a target practitioner. Kid McCoy rode horseback, Luther McCarty, who, up until the time of his death in the ring was champion, threw the lasso, and Jake Kilrain felled trees. Now it remained for Jimmy Clabby, whose work as a 'middleweight boxer has brought him fame from coast to coast, he having defeated Eddie McGoorty and Sailor Petroskey, two of .the best In his class, to spring the very latest thing in training for a boxing contest. It is tennis. Clabby insists there's . nothing better. "Some boxers laughed at me," said Clabby recently in conversation in Roth's barber shop on Hohman street, "believing that it is too soft and dandified a form of ex
ercise for a fighter, but believe me, if
they think it is soft, let them try It. In playing tennis, a boxer gets everything. It keys up his mind as well as his body. It makes the brain, eye.
hand and foot true and brings heart and lungs into full play. Every muscle in the body is exercised, but not hard- . ened. They become free and elastic with plenty of power. The back and shoulder musclt are given greater driving power, they are trued far better than by bag punching, the legs are given a spring and stride that make for good footwork, and the wind is well developed. It aids the punch. "Before I took up tennis," continued . Clabby, "I was considered a light hitter. Making strokes has straightened my wrist and forearm and added materially to my punching power. In my recent fight with Petroskey I nearly knocked the ex-sailor out. That should be sufficient recommendation for tennis as a means for training for
a fight."
Jimmy Clabby will leave for the
coast Saturday, November 8, where he
is to meet Frank Logan on Thanksgiving, day. James says Logan will
Imagine that all Frisco is throwing
gloves at him.
Eddie Clabby's victory over Jerry Murphy, the boy who defeated Jack Britton, haa placed him in the limelight as a star of the first magnitude. The prediction recently made that the Clabby family has a good chance of developing two champions seems possible to be fulfilled.
Nelson 171 168 195
Totals 854 Total pins, 2493. Metropolitans. (1) Ebert 177 Stanton 16S Fowler 145 McConnell 175 Snyder 18 Totals 833 Spartaaa. (1) Matson 170 Cox .....169 Sturm , 184 Anderson 150 Ward 12 Totals .' 815
812 827
TAD JONES
(2) 179 161 142 175 214
(3)
171 148
178 j 144 200
PRAISES
861 841
(2) 194 16 14S 139 184 766
(3)
142 126 176
121
200
765
BISHOP
Bowling Games.'
The Metropolitan's took the lead in the first session of the Hammond city bowling league at Cox's alleys Tuesday night by rolling up a score of 2535. They easily defeated the Spartans by 1S9 pins and although no sensational pin work was done the scores were favorable considering the first games of the season. The Monnetts came in second place by defeating the Conkeys with a score of 2493 pins. Tayor and Browns squad will face the Hop-
mans Thursday night. (1) (2) (3) Cenkej-a. Hand 177 145 175 Ramage 167 122 152 Griffin 117 137 167 Bradford ...,129 126 171
Fortz 173 157 189
Totals 755 687 854
Total pins, 2296. Moaetta. (1) (2) (3)
Farrell 202 202 169 Gill 142 127 185 Schillo 180 180 146 Geib 159 145 142
CHRISTIE IS LATEST
STAR0F MIDDLES
Zanders Says Gus Will Give
Dillon a Hot Fight Next Monday Night.
Gus Christie, the Milwaukee middleweight, looms up alongside George Chip, the man who knocked out Frank Klaus, as one of the most dangerous
of the rising men in the class. Gus has been fighting in the middles for some time, but with rather indifferent
success until lately. He is coming along like a stake horse now and Is slated for the acid test next Monday
night in his home city. On that even
ing he is scheduled for ten rounds with
the wily, hard-hitting Jack Dillon of
Indianapolis. If he wins that whirl he'll be as close to the championship as
anybody In the division, and that goes I enough class to be
enuine Union Label
TRADES fffflgfj COUNCIL 10 BDemand Bt On Vour Printing
for Chip and McGoorty.
We apoke for a few minutes yesterday with Ernie Zanders the Chicago middleweight, whom Christie whipped in four rounds early this week. Said
Zanders:
"Christie is improving with every fight because he is getting tougher.
stronger and more seasoned. He 8 a
much better puncher now, though not
the sort that stops a fellow with one smash. I fought him four months ago
in Madison and kept away from hi
damaging blows. But he got me this
last time, though I was rusty and not
ready for the mixup.
"Christie did 158 at 3 for me, so you know he's a real middleweight. He's a husky fellow with confidence, and he'll give Dillon an-, awful fight. You
know, he once was credited with a shade over McGoorty. Look out for
this Christie fellow. That's all I've got
to say." ,
Fresh from his victory over Billy
Kouts at Kacine, Wis., Tuesday night.
and flushed at the boost of Tom Jones,
former manager of ex-LiuhtwelEht
Champion Ad Wolgast, gave him, Joe Bishop of Robertsdale returned to his
home town with fifty loyal support
ers who accompanied him on his suc
cessful trip.
Bishop outb'oxed and outgeneraled
the Racine wonder. Koutz. and even
the latter's home papers, the Racine
papers, say that Bishop is "one of the
fastest boys seen in many months and that he won by a basketful of points."
The aforesaid Tom Jones, who made
a champion or Wolgast, was an Interested spectator at the Racine bouts, chiefly because he had recently offered a big sum for Matty McCue and want
ed to look over the youth who was defeated by Delaney in the main event.
After this battle Jones said he would not offer very much for McCue.
The lad Jones took a fancy to was
Joe Bishop. Jones grew enthusiastic over Bishop as he watched the Robertsdale boy step around the willing
Kouts. He was still wild over him at
the finish.
What Joaea Says of Bishop.
lie s a great boy," said he. "One
of the fastest I ever looked over. He
reminds me a whole lot of Eddie Campi, the sensational Los Angeles ban
tam."
"Which Is really some boost for Bish
op, rrom what we have heard of Cam-
pi. Bishop won a fight that had
a windup instead
of a semi-windup, and should not lack
for more work in Wisconsin rinirs
henceforth.
rFoimorrowr
SAM LANGFORD A
TERRJUO MORE
Naughton Declares 'Excess
Weight Has Impaired Hitting Powers.
Ten thousand persons, jammed into
the stockyards ampltheater, cheered J.
F. Sauer, junior national champion.
when be flashed over the tape victor In
the 600-yard run the big event on the
dairy show program. Sauer'a time
was 116. G, W. Alamo of the C. A. A.
won the pole vault.
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San Francisco, Oct. 30. The Sam
Langford who did for Jack Lester at
Taft the other day bore small resemblance to the compact, active Langford of a couple of years ago. When
he stepped into the oil fields' arena
Sam was as fat as a Christmas shoat
and sported a -John L. Sullivan wrin
kle oh the' back of his head. - i
Sam's work - was also unlike the
work he used to do. Remembering the
way Langford settled Jim Flynn and others with that right uppercut, it
was to wonder how Lester put up
with so many punches of that particular brand. There were two ways of explaining it. Either Sam was in
clined to be lenient with the Cle-elum hope, or Sam has lost some of his driving power.
Looking at the chunky negro In the
broad glare of the afternoon sun.
where there was a fair opportunity of
gauging his purposes from his actions.
the writer concluded that Sam was trying all right and that he was simply unable to deliver the goods in his old, accustomed style.
Sam knew that his failure to put
away Easy-to-Lana-on Lester decisively called for an explanation, and as
he passed out of the ring he told the members of the small group of field correspondents that he was bothered
with adipose tissue and found it hard
i to remove. Sam attributed his ro
tundity to the long season of Inactivi
ty he experienced In Australia, but said that he hoped to tone down his
proportions by rigorous training In the very near future.
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Fromme Is Easy for Cal's
Man, Who Beat Mc-
Grawites, 7 to 1.
with the stick, won yesterday's game for the White Sox from the New Tork Giants by a score of 7 to 1. This tied up the series again at six and six. crowd of 3,000 persons, chilly weather, with a light north breeze making it uncomfortable for both players and spectators.
McGraw named Fromme to oppose
Scott, and Hans lxDert gave mm a lead bl knocking a home run in the
flrst Inning. The Sox got it back In
the second when Daley aouDiea ana Schalk singled. In the third, the Sox
fell upon Fromme for three hits and errors by Myers and Magee assisted in piling up five more for the Chicagoans. Doubles by Speaker and Crawford netted the last run of the game for fh Box in the eighth inning. Scott held the Giants safe in practically every inning, allowing but six hits and striking out twelve. In the sixth, with three men on, he struck out Merkle and Doolan for the last two outs. The tourists go from here to Bonham, Tex., the home of "Tex" Russell.
STANDING OF TEAMS. W. I Pet.
White Sox 9 JlOO
Giants -500 Muskogee, Okla., Oct. 30. Effective
pitching by Jim Scott and the clever I h help of his team mates In the field and ' t
Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 30. Women will be given an opportunity to vote on the prize light question in Venice, the beach city near here, on November B. when an initiative petition for the pro-
inition of boxing contests is submit
ted at an election.
HERS GOLF STUDENT:
WANTS TO PLAY EVANS
John to Try Game on Missouri Links; If His Scores
Are Good He'll Challenge "Chick."
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Don't be surprised if you pick up a paper during the next few weeks and read that John J. Evers, king of keystone sackers, has challenged "Chick" Evans to play golf. No, Jawn is not a champion golfer now. He is sparring for a little time. When we called on the lord high mogul of the winter leasu yesterday (you know Jawn has
been duly elected president of that organization), he was a busy man. He had armed himself with a book on how to play golf and that was occupying the sole attention of tht Trojan. Between chapters Evers stopped long enough to inform us that he was leaving Chicago tonight for the golf links at Excelsior Springs, Mo.' He has never played golf, but that makes
no difference to Jawn. He's a fellow who generally delivers, so it is being freely predicted that after Jawn haa been on the links for a couple of weeks he will issue a defl to "Chick" Evans. Johnny admits that he is a novice of the greenest kind when it comes to pounding lhe little bait, but believes he will prove a good scholar. He reminded us that during his schooldays around Troy, N, Y., he was the cham-
pio nshinny player In his grade. He exhibited a bump on his bean as proof. "I was pretty good at shinny, and I believe golf originated from that game," said Evers. "Furthermore, I have a good eye, and, as you know, I have a healthy swing, and If I can just find a left-handed stick I promise to show the folks in Missouri and you know those folks have to be shown that I'm a regular golfer." .