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pees Why McAllister, “Flying Cop,” Is Reigning Sensation of & »\, Sport World. N Bob McAllister, the twenty-two- ‘ | year-old New York policeman, the sport world has a brand new sen- sation to enthuse over. Already his marvellous sprinting performances, 100 yards indoors in 9 4-5 seconds, and 150 in 143-5, have injected an interest in track running such as the one-time popular sport hasn't known in twenty years. Unheard of in ath- jetties five months ago, he has since competed in eleven races and has won ten of them. If he were a product of a college, carefully nursed along and developed by highly paid coaches, as most of the stars are these days, there would he little of the remarkable about Mc- Allister, but ‘Mac'’ has enjoyed no such advantages. He just flashed from nowhere across the athletic firmament undiscovered by the sharps until he had “arrived Under conditions such as prevailed in the best of circles not so many years ago, McAllister might have won Mimself the prestige and education that go with a university course through his ability to win intercol- legiate championships. As it is, he 1s just a plain, ordinary ha. . working vop, a detective in the Fourth Inspec- tion District, leading an irregular fe and with duties that forbid his jollowing the simplest of training methods. Only last week he was ‘fon the job’? so continuously that he didn’t get home for forty-eight hours. We even had to pass up an armory meet lust Saturday night because he couldn't get off, W have done with a McAllister, @ natural runner who runs “just because he loves it?" And how would the young cop thrive under the villing of Prof. Mike, the track lerrning such as only the veteran trainer could impart, the education in the principles of leaving the mark, the importance of hitting the tape. the carriage af the arms, striding motion and a dozen and one other HAT would old Mike Murphy things which Mike perfected in suer Kil- speed men as Wefers, Vommy Burke, patrick, Maxey Long and othe rchants who enjoyed the e: efits of his e f athletics In addftion to .these consider the PAT MDONALD CHAMPION ATHLETE, RETIRES FROM ROM GAME Quits Because use He Is Get- ting Too Old to Monkey Around. One large pair of No, 12 champion- ship shoes is walting around to be filled. Pat McDonald, one of the “whales of the New York Police Department has hung up his sixteen- pound shot "to give the young fe! lows a chance." “Athletics are for the youngsters. I'm getting too old to monkey around. I'm quitting before some of the kids make me ashamed of myself,"’ he said to-day. McDonald is now an imposing ser- geant in the traffic section. He has added inches to his waistline and twenty pounds to his frame since he laid off the indoor game this winter. In his uniform he looks big enough to push a dozen motor trucks out of a jam. Having been a prominent figure in all the late Olympics, Pat was asked if he wouldn't feel kind of restless in 1924 when the American team is getting ready to sail, “No, I've got too nice a home to live a couple of weeks in a cattle boat and sleep all summer on a bunk that I couldn't get half of myself in. ‘That's fun and a part of the game for the kids, but no more of it for me,’* he answered. America dominated events for years, but the showing made by the Finns and Swedes in Antwerp last year showed that the the weight ’N EVERYTHING “THE ONIN SAFE WAY NOW TO “whales'’ needed successors. To Secure —_— Some of Fabulous Amounts Demanded in Startling Holdout of Stars. By Bozeman Bulger. ESPITE their smiling assurance D that everything will come out all right, baseball magnates are now faced with the most alarming hold-out situation that has confronted the major league in a decade. Secret meetings of owners have been held im New York and other cities in an effort to combat what is believed to be a secret organization of play formed on the lines of the old Players’ Fraternity, which was broken up several years ago. It is understood that the magnates have rather positive information that such an organization exists. The fact effect on the young cop of expert| that there are now fifty players in rubbers, a training table, quarters ap-| the American and National Leagues proaching the pi ‘Travers | that have refused to sign their con- Island affords, the last word In cinder cts is very strong proof. Never paths on which to get in shi ‘And| since the old brotherhood has there yet without all these McAllister elec- | been such « solid front of opposition. trifies students of running with per-| This demand for more money is formances approaching, if not yet) Ol confined to any one club or any actually equalling, those of the much|one league. It 1s general and in- vaunted Churley P: Coust sprinter and 4 dock, the Pacitic| vord-holder, who ent | Of the fifty players holding out de- | haus years of experience behind him, | mands have n made for salaries — ranging from $10,000 to $30,000. The ERTS who have seen MeAl-| latter is said to be the figure de- E lister in his recent races pre-|manded by Habe Ruth, Reports have dict @ great car they are all picking fl v for him, but ws in his style, had it that he fs asking $50,000, but the exact figure is said to be $30,000, He has no “form, some say, he| With some extra trimmings in the Jeaves the start badly and he ‘climbs’ | way of bonuses. at the end, All of which is terrible| Eddie Roush of the Cincinnati Club | in @ nevice who wins pulled up three-year contract at on boards with rubler soled shoes, ar, President Garry Herr- 100 yards in 9 4-5 seconds mann of the Cincinnati Club, who is Pete He n, the old distance|in New York on a rather mysterious | u six-day man, thinks] visit, says that he will not get it, ! e"' tv too nervous, Pete saw him| Garry says the future of the game is ut the 13th Regiment Armory in| at stake and that be will stick for the Lrookiyn, Washington's Dirthday,| good of the sport, and didn't like the way he pranced| Carl Mays wants upward of $11,000, | | up and down the armory floor long| it is understood, and Insists that the before the race, stopping at the prize| Yanks can show no written contract table to Jook over what he was about} which binds him for three years. He to win, does not deny that he gave a verbal We have always liked the nervous] assurance to that effect sign. Once in u while we have run| Even Aaron Ward, comparatively across phiegmutic beings who havela new comer, demands $10,000 and, excelled in com ition, but in man|so far, he has shown no indication or beast it has been the exception|of relenting. Of the Giants, Douglas rather than the rule. Nervousness! and Barnes are determined to g portends speed where it is joked for. in ‘the neighborhood of $10,000 or refuse A trace of nervousness, where {t|to play. doesn't reach the point of fractious-| No one club is getting the worst of Me oft yesirable in a race horse.|this, A few players from every club Han O" War had it sticking out for what they call Quiet but playful, he became all! higher wa The fact that not one action the minute the suddie was put| has budged, despite the approach of on. With u jockey on his back, he} the training, would indicate that they couldn't get through the paddock have some sort of an understanding and onto the track quick enough, andor agreement. ‘The 1 believe at the post he lunged and lunged| nother Players’ Fraternity until the burrier was sprung . arisen in secret, How to a If MeAllister has a tendency to be-! problem SRBC E e come nervous in «nticipation of a) what the average {2 contest, he Is just a human Man O'| eno geriousnen of the altwnton nae War, Barring accidents he should) pose he takes » look back a few ereste some interesting history for| y i posterity during the anxiously awaited!” yn the whole history of baseball it outdoor season, | would be difficult to name are than —_—_ | five players who ever held out and KB have refrained from men-| stuck to it. An old manager and a tioning anything ubout the| magnate were asked last night 10 talked of match between|name five that they could remember Harry Wills, the Negro fighter, and Jack Dempsey because we believe it an impossible attraction. Jack Kearns and Paddy Mullins should quit stringing the public und them- welves about it. There isn't « State im the Union that would stand for euch a fight. Jand they were unable to do so. One of the most prominent hold- outs that I remember was Mike Don- lin when he went on the stage, ‘way back around 1908, anu refused to sign & contract unless the $8,000, That, by the way, was con- sidered an enormous salary in those ¢ Giants paid him '» Club Owners Believe Men Have Revived Fraternity Big Increases ADVANCE GUARD OF DODGERS NOW ON WAY TO SOUTHERN CAMP. The Brooklyn Robins are the first Greater New York baseball team to head southward for spring training. The advance guard of Manager Robinson's crew sailed | on the steamer Arapahoe yester- | day bound for Jacksonville, Fla. | Among the valuable cargo shipped by Squire Ebbets were Dutch Ruether, Clarence Mitchell and Chuck Ward. Several of the play- era took their families along with | | them. days, -The club would not give It, and Donlin stayed out all season. In fact he never had a real good yea after that, Several wealthy fans, mostly theatrical people, offered to | make up the difference in Donlin'’s salary, and so wrote John T. Brush. | ‘The Glant owner was offended at this } and some ill/feeling was engendered that lasted until his death. Joe Harris of the Cleveland Club held out last year, ‘That is, he de- | clined to sign any contract at all, | preferring to play with an indepen. dent club, He has been reinstated, Without violating any confidence it may be said that when Stuffy McInnis | was traded to the Cleveland Club, his | salary demands were so high that the Red Sox had to agree to pay part of it so that the trade could go through, That kind of thing has happened in several of the trades made this win- ter, | If the ballplayers are not orgun- ized into a definite body they most certainly have definite understanding of some kind, The most irritating element of all is that made up of players who have signed two and three year contracts and now want those contracts de- stroyed and new o} made jiving them larger salaries. There is litte excuse for them and their cases will be turned over to Judge Landis, ‘Those who have not signed ts, but are held under the re- clause, have @ perfect right not to sign. But in doing so they will haye to quit baseball into some other line of endeavor, They Will be declared ineligible at the be- ginning of the season, No club is permitted to play a man who has signed a contract. Though these thin, not gen- erally printed it is well known that several players have gone so far a. to tear up their contracts and mail the torn bits back to the owners with out comment, Others have done even more offensive things that that With a list of forty players in the spring and twenty-five during the regulur season, the magn say con- | that to pay salaries like $10,000 would mean financial ruin. ‘They couldn't do it and live unless they happened to win the pennant and the Word's Series. The demands on the two New York clubs, for instance, if ir ed, would send their salary lists up to $225 000, | which would be out of the question, } With the clubs going South tn a couple of days baseball is in a serious situation, Unless one side or the other gives way something is going to break, ae A Fordham Prep Five Wins, Fordham Prep's basketball 1 ted the Cuthedral | score of $0 to 2u in the winner's court ¥ yed oa terday Aiisrnoce THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY RY 24, 1922,” SECRET ORGANIZATION OF BALL PLAYERS BEHIND HOLDOUTS Copyright, 19: Liet A WRESTLING REFEREE ENTER~ THE RIN@ UNDER THE PRESENT RULES. FE A 93 (The New York Evening World) by Preas Publishing Co. By ‘Thornton F isher BENNY |S Saas GOING TO BO li, HIS STURF ON THE SUBWAY CIRCUIT BEFORE HE TACKLES CHARLEY WHITE . IN THE MEANTIME « CERTAIN WILLING YOUNG PERSON with EXCELLENT REFERENCES '5 STILL CUT CFA LOPPING HIM WITH GENUINE PIN FALL THIS TIME o JOB IN HIS TRACE SPEGIAL TRACK FOR N.Y... GANES AT 220 ARMORY Use of Spike Shoes Means Record-Breaking Per- formances. A special board track with banked turns will be used at the New York A. ©. games at the 22d Regiment Armory to-morrow night, This means that the ath tes will be allowed to use spikes and the use of spikes means that the time for all events will be much faster than would be possible on the board floor with rubber soled shoes. ‘The track was constructed especially for the intercollegiate meet to be held bere in March. Many of the university track men entered for the March meet will compete in the New York A. C. games to-morrow night and it is safe to predict that the fans will see some of the best running of the indoor season, College stars from Yale, Princeton, Penn State, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Fordham, New York ‘University and Rutgers are entered. The nomination of such men as Ray Georgi, N. Y. A. €., Georse Reinacher of Yale, Victor Graeb of Columbia and William Kelly, Knights of St. Anthony, In the 300-yard handicap gives promise of high speed. George Meredith, brother of the fa- mous Ted, will represent. the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania in the 1,000-yard run to-morrow night. The entry. Ilat for,this event is so large that’ it is prdbable the field will have to be divided into two sections to avoid crowding and jostling on the turns. C. 8, Hillis, Yale; Al Doldern and Newton Brown of the N. ¥. A. C. are some of LIVE WIRES By Neal R. O’ Hara. A lot of second division infields look like a stonewall defense only because they're composed of solid rock. * 8 e Horseshoe pitching convention at St. can be a pitcher at the age of sixty-eight. 8 6 There is this to be said in favor of a wood alcohol drinking bout. is never a no-decision bout. Petersburg, Fla. proves a guy It oe 8 “Faculty Scores Pro Athletes."—Headline. “Amherst President Scores Gridiron System.”—Headline. This seems to be the time of year when the profs. lead the athletes in scoring. ee The college prexies are walloping paid coaches and paid fooball play- But nary a word is spoken against the paid admissions. oe A lot of athletes are now being fired from college magna cum press notices, ers, * 8 All ballplayers get sore arms the first week of training because they use 'em too much while reaching for food. WOMEN’S “MET” INDOOR TENNIS TOURNAMENT OPENS MONDAY NIGHT. Marie Wagner and Mrs. both former are Frederick Schmitz, national indoor champions, among the entrants in the metro- politan indoor tennis champion- ship for women, Monday night at the Seventh Regiment Tennis Club. Mrs. Ed- win A, Falk, the title-holder, will be absent owing to lack of prac- tice during the present season, leaving Miss Martha Bay- ard, a runner-up last y favorite of the tournament. present Miss Bayard is the high- of eral others who rank high sending in their entri which opens indoor as the At it rated entrant, but two more days remain before the final draw is made, and there is possibility Fans Need By Robert Boyd. HHAT is the trouble with the wrestling game to-day?” questioned a fan who ts an ardent follower of the sport. 6b The question was directed to a gray-baired old veteran who had been just as ardent a devotee of the sport years ago when Gotch, Hackenschmidt and Tom Jenkins were displaying their strength and skill on the mat. Is it the revised rules of Chairman William Muldoon of the State Athletic Commission that are now in vogue?" asked the younger man. quickly came from the vet- Yanks May Trade Ward | For Veach or Jacobson aa Star Young Second Baseman of American League Cham- pions on Market. generally voted that baseball was off. This brought a chuckle to Everet Scott and Wally Schang, who really have come to like golf better than their adopted profession, Wherefore there was a tremendous rush and scamper to get into knickers and| hoary Scotch stockings by these ad- dicts as well as by Ruth, Mays and The Yankees raised the red flag of the auctioneer in the baseball holdout war yesterday, following the lead of| Hoyt. to express his opinion on the dif- | the Giants In the case of Messrs, Barnes| If Al Wood, the Yankee trainer, | fria will make his first appearance) ferent dogs and his favorite and Douglas! will admit that golf is a proper train-| in a bout in this city to-night. This breed, Dempsey is an ardent Wearying of the stubbornness of Ar- Ee Hetil pied stars wall be ever 80/pattler is Hymle Gold, formerly tyes ee Coes ond one ot Ne “ ee i right, so far as perfect condition is = versions while ning is to oe ere aeea pin baad concerned, before the New Orleans|/mmy Duffy of Oakland Cal. we take one of the many he now | baseman, , grind begins. They've gone raving,| aS fought all the good fighters In| owns on the road for a run. 1922 salary, it became known that the! gran mad over the rare old Scottish| his class, including Champion Benny “For an outdoor dog I like a paying Colonels propose offering him to) pastime. Leonard, Gold will go against Lew| police dog," said Jack. ‘For an the Detroit Tigers for Bobby Veach, or Ruth continues his everlasting as-| Tendler. They will battle twelve indoor dog I prefer a Pomeranian. to the St. Louis Browns for Bill Ja-|sault on anything that resembles a!rounds at Madison Square Garden. The Chesapeake Bay dog im- cobson—to the higher bidder, in elther| bull, His drives, yesterday, made the|In another twelve round go, Billy presses me because they are one cuse, best citizens of Hot Springs gape and | Defoe meets Babe Herman of Cali- of the two breeds that are truly Not only that, but It also was reported 3 drives. that at the recent Washington meeting | to his drive | gasp when he put his great sdoulders | forais test Leonard’s Great Rival | _ Boxes w Tendler Meets aon Cae Star Twelve-Round Boxing Contest. By John Pollock. Another star lightweight from Cal Jimmy Darey battles An: Oh! But ‘twas ever thus. They do!«Kid" Palmer of Tulsa and Clonie 4 secret deal was proposed that would | 4.1) as how ye cestus clouters Oe ~ ay Sip ae Johnny arecy oe have sent Carl Mays to the Washing-| ojden times had their gazelle-eved | Harlem. of New Orleans, ut Dominick Tortorich's ton Senators in exchange for Sam Rice,| admirers, and, what's more, there Open-air club in Mew Orleans Ib a tecsround outflelder extraordinary and base-run-|never was a village blacksmith who! cChamplon Benny Leonard ts slated to en-|no decision bout. It is sald that Leonard ner plenipotentiary, This deal wasu't|ended his days a bachelor, gage In another fight to-night, He will go| will receive # guarantee of 0 with an consummated because Clark Griffith option of accepting 45 per es of the gro feared public sentunent in Washington and the wrath of Ban Johnson, who hasn't forgiven Mays for the humilla- tion to tia American League President foltowing the famous lawsuit in 192, And it also developed that the pay- ing Colonels really haven't a three-year contract with Mays, as has been stated most firmly. He signed a one-year con- tract in 1921 and made a verbal agree- ment with Col. Huston, witnessed responsible pergot would 3 have to work it out.”— to Chicago, where “LT went home at the same figur and 1923,| passed me the picture That is the same as a written contract,| It cost me three trips before ‘your H the club officials declured yesterday,| Joie Ray, the great sprinter, ~ and the matter will be tuken Judge Landis if necessary, COLD WEATHER PREVENTS | YANKS FROM TRAINING, before “1 like Werd, who is @ nic he is trying to yet ahead too fa Boston lor two more years. which expired last fall. Carl Mays. That's the HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Feb. 24.— Practice was nipped in the bud for the Yankee players now here when the mercury dropped to 45 degrees, no figures for ball tossing, as even a sand lotter can tell you. Scott, Devormer, McNally and Schang had promised each other to report at the loreal grounds at 10) clock in the morning, but when| basebull beaks t out bedroom win dows to sniff the kind of day, it was “Watch Mike Brady when the another sixty eight last week course.”’—Manager Dap ond baseman of the Yankees. here, There ans in feotbalt where forward passa @ got a crick in the old soup bone. Baseball Commissioner Landis, spend a few days with the Yankees at their New Orleans camp, youngster and a fine player. yop “What They're Saying To-Day” ru who decided to Gue; 1 gallop a tazt, resident Ruppert of the Yankees, “When I left the Boston club for the Yankees I had @ contract with The Yankee club assumed that contract, only contract there was or 4s,” championships begin. “Canadians fecl a pride in their game equal to the pride of collegt- they miss the interference and your they make up for it by excelling tn kicking.” — Coach Shaughnessey of McGill University. In the two eight round con- Every time @ car uf Cutbill outrunning me flashed acroas my brain. lonor,’ but it couldn’t be helped.”— However, He played » and believe me, that ts some golf on this Healy of the Miami Country Club. “My statement still stands; $10,000 or nothing.”’—Aaron Ward, sec- Here To-Night HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION PREFERS PAPERWEIGHT DOG When Jack Dempsey attended the Eastern Dog Show at Bos- ton, where he is playing a vaude- ville engagement, he was asked | ie an American dog, the other the Boston terrier. is dy receipts. This will be the have fought. nd time they The gross receipts of the matinee boxing show staged by Charley Doeaserick at the Pioneer Sporting Club on Wednesday after- | hoon figured up nd several hundred | persons were turned away for the want of | space. Mike McTigue and Young Fisher of | Syracuse battled in the main bout, Mo- Tigue getting the decision, Eact drew down the nice sum of $1,241.88. Champion Johnny Buff, holder of the ban- tamweight title, has finally been matched for a battle. He will go against Roy Moore, the St, Paul bantamweight, In ten round no-decision bout at show to be held at the ‘Fourth Regiment Armory in Jersey City on March 6. Johnny Drum- mie of Jersey City musts Bobby Michaels of New York in the other ten-round go. Frankle Jerome, the good little bantam- welght of Harlem, who has won many fights in the last thirteen months, scoring many knockouts, 1s matched for another fight. He will go against Sammy Nable in a twelve round feature bout at the Star Sporting Club of Harlem on Tuesday night, Jerome received $1,000 for beating Wi Willle Spencer at the Garden last Monday night, A match has been clinched between Harry London, the hard hitting bantamweight of Harlem, and Frankie Curry, the east aide lad who recently gave Abe Goldsi battle at in a atift Commonwealth Club, the others entered in the same race, New Wrestling Rules Bar Former Hippodrome Holds How Oldtimer Views Present Situation in Mat Sport Caused by Muldoon’s New Code—Both Wrestlers and Educating. eran in the throes of meditation, “It 1s not.” “The rules are all right. Most of the fans do not understand them and consequently after secing matches in which nothing but pin falls counted it is hard to get accustomed to the new rules enforced by the State board.” “But that is not the chief cause of the present day unsatisfactory situe ation in the wrestling game,” contin= ued the old timer. “The chief trouble les in the present day wrestlers.” “The present-day rules prove con- clusively that the American matmen do not know how to wrestle.” This means Lewis, Caddock, Stecher et al, “You see, they have been wrestling “ under the pin fall rules for the last few years, with hippodrome holds strengthening their offensive but weakening their powers of defense, “Take Lewis. What has he got?’ A headlock, yes. He has spent the best part of his years perfecting one hold, That's all he has. “Look at Caddock. He is known as the man with a thousand holds, with very few of them really perfected to any degree, “Then there's Joe Stecher. He has dne hold—the scissors. That's all. “Developing all these holds or spe-* clalizing with one, they have failed. to perfect the proper defensive which is essential when not clamping these grips. “A good offense in boxing, they say, is the best defense, but that does not hold good In the mat game. Defense is necessary while a wrestler is try- ing to make an opponent do what he does not want to do. “Under the old rules no defense was required, but under Muldoon's new code a wrestler who has no defenso is thrown by a rolling or flying fall while he might be applying his spe- cialty. That's how Stecher was thrown by the younger Zbyszko. Lewis met defeat at the hands of Stanislaus Zbyszko because he tried to apply his headlock. He just rolled over on his shoulder blades, assisted by his weak defense, He had just one thought in mind—the applying of his headlock."” “No,” continued the old man to the attentive youns listener. ‘The rules are all right.” “Do you think Caddock, Lewis or Stecher could beat either Gotch, Hackenschmidt or Jenkins? I should say not. In those days there was na specializing in hippodrome holds, The wrestlers build up their defens sive weaknesses as well as thelr of« fensive shortcomings. “Under the new rules, they are all right, it 1s only the revelation of tha lack of defensive skill of the Amer= ican wrestler that has brought about their present unpopularity. “Educate the present day matmen in defense, and under the present rules they would not throw tnem~ selves so easily, thinking only of their afrense, and the new rules would go i. “Under the old rules nothing but hippodrome holds and _offenstva strength counted. To-day, with the rules revised, wrestling is back to where it was in the days of the Stadium and the Coliseum and where both offense and defense counted.” Byerrthy Billiards Benting, k- Balke-Collender W Bud Be for nt v —Flesh reducing Ing, boxing, Prof, Meade, ig