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Soute recent comments on this subject by our London correspondent are te- inforced in the following article from The tigerver: -
BRUTE BASEBALL?
STRONGEST MAN IN BIG LEAGUES: RIVALS HERCULES.
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BY CHRISTY WALSH.]
Who is the strongest man in baseball! That's one question that really ought to be answered without an argument.
Most of the sporting writers, cumzuurtat » Many people say that Eddie Collas is ing on the recent decisive defeat or Jack the smartest man in the game to-day. Bloomfeld by Tom (ibbons, bemoun the fact that there seems no early prospect. But you can always 1 ad argument' or of Britain regaining the World's Cham that one. Many say that Walter John- pionship in the houryweight class. Then, in his prime, was baseball's swiftest are right. There is no prospect under pitcher. But you can get into a regular present conditions, and there never will debate on that one, too. The records b. till those conditions change radicully. shew that Ty Cobb, at his best, was the What justification there was. for any king of all base-stealers, but friends of belief that Bloomfield could beat Gibboys, Max Carey and other speed boys will put and what fragment of hope there up an argument against the mightly Ty. have been for believing that held successfully meet Detapsex and why the championship, it is now more thaver. difficult to discover. He would not fist thirty seconds with Dempsey, and it is doubtful whether he would stand up for hve rounds to any one of half-a de en other American hogers less experied than Gibbons
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But any baseball jury would surely hand the strong-man verdict to Lawrence Hackenschmidt Miller of the Chicago Cubs. Outside af Samson and Hercules no one in the history of baseball has done the things that Hack has done. And ne far as
and Herk" are con Sam serned, neither ans is recognized in National League records. In fact. Sam son wasn't recognized by anybody after Dalilah up and bobled his hair.
SICKSAMED AFTER FAMOUS WEESTLER;"
But Hack Miller, nicknamed in honour
cultured wrestlers, has done strong stunts that make the Ringling Brothers' strong nan look like a week-old baby. If Hack could only shove a hall through the in Geld of the Giants like he can shove a pike through four inches of hardwood, Frankie Frisch would have to go back to the scoreboard for his bunts.
This is not intended to be a personal criticism of Bloomfield. From popular purport of bis reened before he was beaten Fat Wembley, it might be imagined wit
b was a hero, not a fighter, while of Mr. Hackenschmidt, one of our woșt on the pher handl. Ciklona's digim 40 | tame would seem to rest, not on his ring rreurd, but upon his capacity to emume unlimited quantities of les cream. That is just what is wrong with the Press publicity about 18ose fighting men The general publie gets na real idea of the pugilistic experience of contestants, and consequently it rarely whlerstands why,
Hack's dad was also a man of mighty of two men, assumed to be reasonably sinew. In fact, to hear hun tell it, Hack well-matched for a fight, one frog such only a weakling in comparison. Dad an easy victim to the other, if the jublic | was a playmate of John L. Sullivan, anıl knew that some man had fought scores # one evasion, they were walking down of times, and hat unes and beaten dozens the street and found a wagon full of of boxers equally well-tried in ging saft.ement had run over a little boy. People after years of schooling in a very tough were trying to lift the wagon off the little arena, while the other had practically no fellow's foot. The two giants volunteered experience bat-ver, it would not take their services immediately, but while John such a fight as that between Gilboat and [ 14, was removing his coat Hack's dad pull- Bloomfield seriously. But thin the gateed couple of telegraph poles out of the receipts would suffer as a consequence, ground and pried the wager. up. and it is only after the event that the truth comes out. The present fashion is
IS FAST FOR HIS WEIGHT; SWIPED SIX PASES,
So it's no wonder that Back Miller of for, newspapers to out do the sporting the Cubs, is a husky citizen. He weighs press in the manufacture of pseudover 20 pounds and gets around fast, ing lumpions who never live t
for such a hefty framework. The Cubs. Cexpectations but who know everything are one of the fastest-moving clubs in
alan the art of coming back."
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either major league, and the surroundings make it tougher for Back than if he play- Britain will have no chance of wingnged somewhere else. And yet it is sur- the world's chatapionship from American rising to learn that the big boy swiped It isn't many.hut holders util bey heavy-weights not "alyx bases last year. change their style of losing, but get the at least it is as many as these boys rapering that makes a fighter got: Holke. Melonis. Mokan. Tierney, Stoneal, Tobin, Sewell, Witt, Jurige or ought to be. Look back over the list Gerber, and nobody calls any of that British claimants during the past filter crowd flatfooted. years and see what a pathetic figure they have each cut in the ring. Bombardier Welis-as pretty a boxer as ever donned the gloves: aflicted with what his apolo gists termed an unfortunate tempera- mental defect, which, interpreted, means that he had no fighting spirit. "Jo Beckett-with less of the "temperamental men to have sufficient punch to deferr," and less of boxing scirne. And play a better all-round game.
Miller's batting average last year was How Bloomfield whose claims to fame atay sumarised as (a), a kornness fr301, which included 24 two-baggers, two three-baggers and 20 ofer the ad fence. hing: (b) the possession of a punch that never innds. and (c) a wonderful ganeness in taking a hammering that is Inevitable, and about which he knows little or nothing during the fray.
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Of course, the big question is, does Hack Miller's great physical power inprove Killifer says he frequently gives his bail his value as a ball-player? - Manager club the punch it needs in a pinch, but outside of that the lighter and swifter
His batting, averare. comparatively low. would it offset if Hack had mere distages wallops to his credit. You can't laugh off 20 home runs in anybody's league, be rause that's more than denge Kelly of The quality of these aspirants for the the Giants got last year and twice as world's championship was in, the case of many as the heavy-hitting Roh Meuse of the first 16 shown to be it when Cars the Yankees. But as compared with 41 pentier sust them. and in Bloomfeld's by y Williams, who is much liebter, case disappeared altogether after the first much thinner and surely not as strong round with Gibbons Carpentier's form, as Husky Hack, the big connmirum is: anyway, was obviously never any acci! How much power does a hatter need to
be a powerful bätter i rate gauge of British boxing quality, con siloring the comparatively poor showing.
the Frenclunan made when confronted by American boxers. To use an old expres sion of the ring, it would see that British heavies of the past decade or so *couldu't knock a chop off a gridiron.” The much-vaunted' quality of gangeness under punishment-applicable only in the ease of Bloomfield is at tive one. It does not win champion- ships: it only demonstrates the spirit of martyrdous fù the loss of dem.
is said by the eritirs that there is some- thing inexplicable about it. There is no- thine of the sort.
form of recreation. Then he must be
Certain things are wanted to develop British heavy-weight boxer into any- all he must be as keen on fighting as thing like championship clase. First of he is on 6shing or any other desirable It would be well for those who desire taught that his fights will be in the ring. and not in the gyndnasium. After a to know why Britain does not produce a
thorough course of tuition in modern real champion, or a real claimant to the methods of fighting, the British heavy- right to fight for the championship, 19 weight needa plenty of fighting. If he study the conditions that go to make cannot get it in England. he should American heavy-weight boxers what they endeavour to live for a year where he are. The first thing they will discover is will get all his quality justifies or his that no American boxer gets anywhere stodach will stand, and that is on the near championship class without first Pacific Coast of the United States-where fighting his way right up to it from the the champions come from. There he can very bottoni. He is veteran of the meet all classes of fighters, each one ring-o, matter how young he may berger to qualify by experience and record -long before he is ever heard of as to advance a stage nearer the champion Possible aspirant for a match with the
ship. While British boxers are satisfied champion. Men like Corbett, Fitzsito fight no more than half a dozen times mons. Jeffries, Burns, Fabuson, and before claiming the right to be consider- Dempsey, and others such as Sharkeyed for the championship: while they have Rublin, Brennan, Greb, and Gibbous, had no other qualification than a reputation to fight a dozen times a year, and for for possessing a punch and pluck, they year
a before they were heard of. Howmust be content to see the championship many contests has Bloomfield fought to elude them.
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make him a pretrader to the heavy- The firm of the fight brings out clearly weight belt. or justaty bis meeting with any hopes of success seasoned warrior the farical preteruse of Bloombeid to be like Gibbons How many fights, worth regarded as a first-class exponent. He is calling such, had Bombardier Wells not merely slow, he is grotesquely pon- or Jac" Beckett in the whole course of derous, and Gibbons never had any their respectivé cargersi
trouble to break through n' thoroughly unscientific defence. He dealt out punish- ment at leisure becazen. Bloomfield was To talk about deplorably defenceless.
GELLING THE PERLIŲ.
It may be true-in fact it is that fighters are horn, not made, but it is in the contest as a great fight" ix to The possible to tell whether a man is a born descend to superlative non-a fighter until he has demonstrated it by Tent aerves to show that columna of pre- successive battles in the ring. Yet the Paratory ecstatic exaggeration count for British heavy-weight, after four or five nothing when a tenth-rate boxer meets a real" fighter in carnest combat. How encounters with opponents whose quality
is palpably fio test of skill, or the fight-long the public will continue to be ing spirit, is presented in exaggerated gulled by deceptive artifices remains to terms to the public as a future cham the people who were present at the Wem- be seen. The fact that not one-third of pion. The public is induced to invest bley Exhibition considered it worth him with the mantle of Sayers, or Char while to patronise the boxing contest ley Mitchell; in him are reposed the bapes of the nation, and when the mantle speaks contempt. The squalid" squabble drops from his shoulders, and the hopes about finance may also be left, to sort are dissipated by a couple of punches, it itself out, but small tribute to the clean side of British sport will come to the (Continued on nezi calmn.)
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