Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 151, Hammond, Lake County, 3 December 1913 — Page 3

Wednesday, Dec. 3, 1913.

THE TIMES. PAGE THREE Bride-to-Be of Packey McFarland. 1VIURR FIGHT II W YORK of nearly all dealers fF && (DCSBdfis Jess Says He Can Whip Big Men Easier Than Small Ones and Promises Surprise; Carl Is the Favorite.

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The engagement of Fackey McFarland, pugilist, and Miss Margaret Loughran, daughter of M. F. Loughrnn, retired Joliet real estate dealer, was announced yesterday by the parents of the girl after they had opposed the match for over a year because of McFarland's profession. Yesterday McFarland went to Joliet and won over the parents, who consentend to a formal announcement of the betrothal. The wedding will take place in the spring pending the recovery of Mr. Loughran, who is seriously ill.

The battle in Madison Square Garden, New York, tonight between the White Giants, Carl Morris and Jess Willard, may look like a barn dance mixup or a country store fracas to those old-timers who were accustomed to Idolizing heavyweights who were real glovemen, but the fans the country over are Interested just the same. The survivd of this elephantine swatfest will be entitled to meet the winner of the Gunboat Smith-Arthur Pelkey contest on the west coast January 1. The lone unwhlpped party after these two quarerls will be able to call himself the white heavyweight champion of the world. That is something, at any rate. Hence there ia general interest in this clash of the big white fellows. They are to go a scheduled ten

rounds without a decision at the end. But with two such strapping chaps whaling away at each other for dear life something is liable to drop. "We are inclined to expect a decisive victory one way or the other. Morris is the favorite with the New York bettors, and rightly so, because of "VVii lard's mediocre performances of latei The recent fight in Gotham between Morris and Gunboat Smith is fresh in the minds of boxing followers. In the fifth round the Gunboat, who was being worsted, dropped from a body punch and claimed a foul. After a squawk from Jim Buckley, Smith's manager and a powerful man In Man

hattan ring circles. Referee Billy Job allowed the claim of the fallen tar and disqualified Morris. The decision must have been a questionable one, for Morris stock was boomed by his surprising showing. So they sent for Willard to come east and take a chance with Carl. He's taking some chance, too. That's the way we figure it. It's possible Tom Jones has walked into a bad match. v Willard has an unique alibi among others to offer for his sorry fight against Boer Rodel, a fifty pounds lighter man, at Milwaukee recently. Besides claiming he was afraid to hit hard, -because, thinking of the "Bull"

Young tragedy, Willard now alleges that he fights better against big man than against little ; men. Kver hear

that one before? We did not.

What is more, AVillard's record bears

out his statement somewhat. Remem

ber that his greatest fight was a no-

decision victory over the late Luther

McCarthy in New York. McCarty was a big man, 210 pounds and some, and the best, at the time, of a bad lot of hopes. Soldier Kearns and Sailor

White, men whom the Kansas cow-

puncher knocked out in eastern rings.

were big husky fellows.

Morris no doubt Is the heaviest man Willard has yet tackled. But as Jess

evidently believes in the old ring saying, "The bigger they are the harder

they fall," It's possible he will furnish,

the boxing world with a surprise this

evening.

LANGFORD AFTER JACK JOHNSON New York, Dec. 3. Sam Langford, ," the negro pugilist, sailed for Europe today with a retinue of trainers. He

said he was going to try to force Jack Johnson to fight him in France. On the same vessel was Dr. Carl Hlrschman, the agent sent here by Austria to study athletic methods. He praised American training methods highly.

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FREDDIE WELS Is still hopeful of obtaining a match with Willie Ritchie. He says that he can do a lot of things to Ritchie, and though there are fight fans who believe that Welsh mave have

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delusions on the subject, the general consensus of opinion Is that a match between the Englishman and the Pacific coast wonder would prove Interesting boxing. Welsh made an excellent showing since he arrived from across the pond last spring, and perhaps his friends are not too insistent when they declare that Ritchie should give him a chance in the near future. WHAT WOULD fans do for gossip If the Federal league should take a notion to "retire" team buslnesa? " A SOUTH WIND blows us the Information that Horace Fogel Is lurkring in this vicinity engaged in the act of organising a eventh or tenth major league. If the number of major leagues ever gets up into big figures Horace will win, because he is an educated cuss. THE GIANTS will have a greit chance for spring practice next year. For the first time" since they began training at Marlin, another team is to be with them. The Toronto club of the International league has made arrangements with the Board of Trade of Marlin to have grounds built for them about a half mile from the park that is owned and used by the Giants. This will make It possible for some corking practice games on Saturday. In Marlin it Is no trouble to lay out a ball ground. The land is as level as a floor as far as the eye can reach. All that is needed are proper measurements and four: bases, and there you are.

GEORGE CARPENTIER of France the middleweight champion of Europe, will not be seen again in a fistic battle In Paris for nine months. He has been suspended for that length of time and also" fined $100 by the French boxing federation for having engaged In a bout with Max Abbat, who took the name of Jim Lancaster of England, in a bout at Geneva, Switzerland, a few weeks ago. and stopped for four months. The boxing federation ruled that Carpentier knew that his opponent was not Lancaster, and for that reason found him guilty.

OXFORD TO SEND RELAY MEN TO U.S. Philadelphia, Pa.. Dec. 3. Oxford university will send a team from England to compete at the annual relay races under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania here next April. A letter was received today by Frank B. Ellis, graduate manager of the games, from Arnold A. S. Jackson, president of the Oxford University Athletic club, accepting an invitation to participate. While Mr. Jackson's letter states that it has not been decided in which events the Oxford athletes will compete, athletic authorites here believe

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sented in the four-mile championship relay event. There are three men on the Oxford

team capable of running the mile In less than 4:20. They are Tabor, form

erly of Brown; Jackson, the Englishman, who won the 150-meter race at the 1912 Olympic games; and Rudd, the South African half-mile champion.

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ILLINI WOULD MEET BADGERS Urbana, 111., Dee. 3. Illinois rooters today began an agitation to have football relations resumed with Wisconsin. The Badgers have not been played since 1908. Coach Zuppke, himself a Wisconsin graduate, inclines favorably to the idea of meeting the Cardinal eleven. The addition of the Badgers would mean six conference games for Illinois, "'v

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WINTER LEAGUERS HAVE CLEAR FIELD

Army Resumes War, Nomi- ' ations for Reds Manager Are in Order.

New York, Dec. 3. Mr. Merrillat of Vest Point, having established himself as a member of the All-American team, to the intense satisfaction of everybody concerned, especially Mr. Merrillat, and Harvard having been duly elected champions of Harvard, the football season of 1913 will adjourn sine die. The Army has resumed the war business up the Hudson. The Navy groat, which went "bleating" in its gentle, "goat-like" manner through the columns of the newspapers for a few mornings, in accordance with the wellknown customs of decent, respectable goats, has been returned to Annapolis. The tumult and the shouting has faded to a faint whisper. The captains and the kings, and also the majors and second lieutenants, and the queens, have departed. President Wilson has gone back to his ultimatums, harshly accused by the Navy of being a "Jinx." A heavy silence reigns, broken only bv the post-mortem . testimony of the experts, who- were not so surprised after all, now that they take a second thought, and by the low, hollow moans of Groundkeeper Harry Fabian, as he contemplates the sadly mussed up field at the Polo grounds and mutters: "How am I ever going to get that fixed up for the Fourth of July?" Even "Hurry-Up" Yost is hull down upon the horizon, headed due south, where he hibernates every winter, and when "Hurry-TJp" goes south the football season must be regarded as dead all over. "Hurry-Up" Yost is that fellow from Michigan who will be forgotten as hastily as possible in the east as the chap who had a mighty lot to do with whipping the Army into shape to whale the Navy. Some people who saw the game last Saturday were agitating a movement to prosecute the parties guilty of send-

SPORTING CALENDAR. WEDNESDAY.

Annual reliability run of

New York Motor dealers. THURSDAY. Cleveland, Ohio, dog show. SATURDAY. Annual meeting of the western intercollegiate " conference, the "big nine," at Chicago. Toledo, Ohio, motor show.

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ing out the advance reports of the stregnth of the. Navy, but as there Is no statute covering the matter It has been suggested that steps be taken to try the Middies on a charge of picking up weak and' helpless little colleges throughout the early fall.

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LEWIS RETURNS TOKENTUCKY Ed "Strangler" Lewis, the Kentucky wrestler, and Manager Jerry 'Walls left last night for Lexington, Ky., where the grappler will take a short rest before arranging any more bouts in Chicago. Walls said he might agree to allow Lewis to meet a few oppov nents in Lexington for the benefit of the home folks, but he is anxious to have Lewis take on weight. Lewis and his manager will return to Chicago after the holidays, and the grappler will be ready and willing to meet any opponents whom the matchmakers select.

Ban Says Stories From Ship "Signed" by Giant Manager Are Fakes.

The national commission has not abandoned its efforts to suppress the evil of publishing baseball articles alleged to have been written by ball

I players, according to President John-'

son of the American league, who yea-, terday branded as fakes articles recently published purporting to have come from Manager McGraw of the New York Giants aboard the steamer on which the world's tourists sailed for Japan last month. President Johnson declared the commission had the signed statement of Manager McGraw that his connection with baseball syndicate writers terminated when the Giants and White Sox boarded their steamer, and that if any articles purporting to be written by him at a later date than that were published they were ' unauthorized. Mr. Johnson further stated that a New York "syndicate had petitioned th.e national commission to allow it to use McGraw's name signed to artjjj.es concerning the world's- tour, butxgiat he absolutely was opposed to tM Reception of the public.

TALBOT NEXT ' YALE CAPTAIN New Haven, Conn., Dec. S. Nelson S. Talbott of I Day ton, O., last night was elected captain of the Yale football team for nj-xt year. Talbott, who will be graduated from the Sheffield Scientific school next year, has .played a strong game at left tackle on the varsity eleven! for the last two years. He is the first) football captain from the scientific school since 1903, when C. D. Rafferty lei the eleren. ,

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CAPTAIN MAY BE INELIGIBLE Lincoln, Neb., Dec 8. The eligibility of Quarter Back Max Towle to captain the Nebraska football team next fall, to which place he was tentatively elected a week ago, has been cailed into question. Dr. R. G. Clapp, physical director and secretary of the athletic board, has raised the point of Towle's eligibility. According to his information Towle played baseball in the university in 1911 and 1912, ; which would make him a three' year participant in university athletics,, although he has been on the football team only two years.