SPORTSMANSHIP
Two events have occurred recent
ly in the field of sports that deserve
attention, to-wit. the Collier-Manila
boxing1 match and the Ketchikan
Metlakatla baseball game.
Joe Collier had come to Ketchikan
a year ago and in the estimation of
practically everyone, he deserved the
decision but did not get it because
one of the judges thought a draw
decision would save a lot of hard
feelings.
Collier came again, this time fit
as a fiddle and ready to win a de
cisive victory. He and Manila enter
ed the ring and both fought with
caution. The first three rounds
showed Collier the stronger man and
the more skillfuj boxer. The fourth,
was even. The fifth round was furi
ous, Manila trying to get in his
famous right, but Collier ducking
and making Manila miss badly. Sud
denly Manila planted a hard right
in CoBier’s body forcing a crouch,
but Collier swung a hard left to
Manila’s heart and down dropped
Manila’s guard, then Collier swung
a beautiful right to the jaw and the
1 ili d’ o dropped to C»e canvas, flat
on his back like a roast duck, gloves
taking the place of legs.
Not a soul in the audience but
v l at was satisfied that Manila was
properly defeated. The entire hall
was on its feet yelling with jov.
Suddenly, somebody said “foul.” It
appears that after Manila was count
ed out, and the referee had raised
Collier’s hand up in token in victorv,
and as the Filipino was coming
back to consciousness, he began to
say the word “foul.” Two doctors
were called and they say that there
was evidence of a foul all right. But
those who were the nearest say the
blows that downed Manila were the
ones to the heart and to the jaw.
In each of the first three rounds,
Manila plainly fouled Collier, but
Collier would not claim a foul. There
is the difference. Walter Sharp was
the one who hollered the loudest for
Manila. A most singular thing is
that as soon as the doctors and the
judges gave the decision to Manila
on this so-called foul, Manila was on
his feet taking his congratulations.
The second incident was the base
ball game. There was a bad decision
at first so it appeared to us in the
bleachers, and the decision of the
bunt on the third strike by Buchert
should have been “out” no matter
what the Metlakatla umpire may
have thought about some other de
cision on the part of the Ketchikan
umpire. These decisions can be pass
sed over as they did not count in
the score.
In the last inning played, however,
with the bases full, the batter ground
ed to third base. Leask of Metla
katla raced home, and Harris on
third fielded quickly but threw wide
to home base. If the throw had
been perfect, Leask would have been
out on a forced run. But being wide,
the catcher in reaching for the ball
drew his foot off the base. So that
the umpire properly called the run
ner “safe.”
At once, all the Ketchikan rooters
were up in protest. They seemed to
blame the umpire because the catch
er did not have his foot on the base.
They said the decision was rotten,
instead of so describing the throw.
The bad thing about this business
was that the Ketchikan team quit.
Baseball is but a game after all.
However, it is also like life, and no
matter how rotten the decision may
seem to you, a good sportsman will
not quit; for after all, the throw
may have been rotten, and through
no fault of yours, you may have pull
ed your foot off the bag.
Walter Sharp was just below me,
and this time he joined with the
rooters and yelled “rotten!” Perhaps
it was no more rotten than the
treatment accorded Collier, when the
same Walter Sharp yelled with shin
ing eyes, “Fine.”
THE JUNE4U EMPIRE
People who read the Juneau Em
pire, the attacks therein on our
Delegate Dan Sutherland, and other
Republicans, should remember always
that the Empire is a .Democratic
sheet, that the editor is a southern
born Democrat and is one of the
choices of the Democratics to at
tend the National Convention of that
party.
John W. Troy’s business is to de
stroy the Republican party. This he
steadily strives to do by working
with men who are Democrats at
heart but Republicans by name.
John Troy came to power through
the instrumentality of Governor
Strong, and as soon as Troy got his
chance to kick his benefactor out, he
did so. Since those days the Demo
Republican machine has been hold
ing the nipple to Troy’s lips and
the Democratic editor is waxing fat.
This has gone on now for manv
years. The real animus back of the
attacks on the so-called Paul ticket
in the primaries is that this group
of Republicans are pledged to stop
this plunder of the public treasury.
During the entire period of con
trol of this bunch, the laboring men
and fishermen have suffered b\
treachery and misrepresentation. It
is time for the people to rule them
selves.
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