New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 18, 1914, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1914. Latest, Best and Most Accurate Sporting News of the Day. Al McCoy Suddenly Finds Himself Popular Scrapper After Sending George Chip to Sleep He Finds all the Would-be’s in New York and Other Cities Seeking If.it hadn't been for that Al Mc- [Coy-George Chip surprise party over in Brooklyn last week no one would imagine that New York is still on the pugilistic map. Hardly a ring star ls seen about here nowadays—Cali- fornia and middle west promoters [must have them all signed up or something. Jim Coffroth and Tom [McCarey have a number of stars cor- ralled in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Unless Billy Gibson or the McMahon Brothers, the big town's foremost promoters, hurry and grab few stars Gotham rans will have to turn to baseball for their enter- ainmoent. There are any number of sn-called boxing clubs in Greater [New York, but the matchmakers of ost of them seem to think that it is unnecessary to dig up a boxer or it'vo of importance, or a new face, oc- jcasiorally. They stage bouts between the same old boxers week after week nd then complain about business jbeing . bad. Let's lock over the programs the >atifornia clubs are working on. First \wve have the Freddy Welch-Leach [Cross bout on April 28—a bang up atiraction—-at McCarey's Los Angeles uh ‘0 weeks later McCarey will el Joe Rivers.and Ad Wolgast in a ftwerty round contest, and on June 9 a match for the bantamweight hampionship between Johnny Coulon, the holder, and Kid Williams, of [Baltimore, the recognized legitimate allenger. Then on the Fourth of uly both McCarey and Coffroth will jhave star attractions at their clubs, Coffroth plans to stage the Gunboat mith-Jess Willard match on the big Jholidays — providing Tom -Jones jmakes good his promise to produce he Gunboat's end of $7,500 and take hances on getting anything for Wil- flard. And on the same day McCarey igures on holding a genuine world’s ‘hampionship lightweight match be- tween Willie Ritchie and Freddy Velch to entertain Los Angeles trons of the sport. Those are the pretentious and am- [bitious programs the hustling Cali- [fornia promoters are working on. Vish we had a few such live ones about here. Leach Cross will try to pull an im- pressive come back on April 28 when he boxes Welch. Leach’s plan is to im for Freddy's jaw with that dead- right as often as he can get in tion, with the hope that at least will connect and bring the Brit- her to the floor for the count of ten. nd any old way one figures the bout it's Leachie’s only chance. If he es to box Welch he will look like a oy who never had the gloves on be- lore. Fred made Joe Rivers appear raw beginner and Rivers outboxed TOSS not so very long ago. Yes, ch will have to pull an “Al Mc- loy” or be retired to the rear for good and all. On recent form he dly can be considered in the run- ing any longer, and 1t will require mething sensational to restore him o good standing. McCoy Is Popular. Challenging Al McCoy is the reg- lar thing for middleweights these ys. , Two weeks ago Al wasn’t ¥en a tumble. Chip just took him to try his mended hand out. Now le other aspirants for the title reck- m McCoy as their own particular | rey. But it is hardly likely that any f the top-notchers will get an early rack at old Jack Dougherty’s. ‘champion.” Jack hasn’t had any- hing so close to a title in his stable n fifteen years or more. 1 think datty Matthews was the last bona- fide champion the veteran trainer haperoned. And he isn’t going to ake any chances of losing out this ime—even if it is only a ‘“near” title —at least not until he gets all the asy dough in sight. Jack told me he other day that I am not the only ‘actor’—and that I will have to fig- ire McCoy as a “rival” from now on. Cell, I am glad for Jack’s sake that cCoy put that lucky punch over. Keither Dougherty nor McCoy attempt 0 deny that it was of the “lucky” jariety. It was very lucky for both b them, and unlucky for Jimmy Dime d his New Castle scrapper. if McCoy proves an attraction he ¢ill be kept on the stage as long as he can draw, and there will be abso- ODCAL BALL TOSSER LEAVES FOR LYNN ‘Merkie” Jacobson Is First Choice for Center Fielder on New England League Team, “Merkie” Jacobson, another of New jtain’s products in the baseball orld, left yesterday for Lynn, g, where he will join that team the New England league, playing first exhibition game of the sea- lon today. Jacobson has developed apidly during the past few years, un- id today he is one of the best out- jelders in the class B circuit. He broke into the game about elght ‘ears ago, playing in.the old church league. Although but a kid he was good player and as he grew older e grew better. Two 'years ago he ‘reated a - sensation in the factory league, where he played with the Flanley Works team. Last spring he Matches. lutely no chance for George Chip, Mike Gibboéns, Jimmy Murray, or any other middleweight, to get a match with the ‘‘one punch champion” be- fore next fall, if then. But if the act, flops, McCoy will be back on the job shortly. And, according to Man- ager Dougherty, Chip will get first chance. Personally I think it absurd to hai McCoy as champion. ‘Where did he earn the honors, and how? Chip was never champion. boosters advanced the claim him on the strength of the victories over Frank Klaus, and as the latter had defeated Billy Papke, to whom the title automatically reverted on Ketchel’s death, on that line of reck- oning there is nothing élse to do but to hand over the laurels to McCoy. But if anyone will take the trouble to look the matter up he will find that Cyclone Johnny Thompson, Bob Moha and Frank Mantell had all beaten Klaus to Mr. Papke, Why wasn't Thompson, who was the first to earn a decision from ‘Papke after Ketchel's death, recognized as champion? Ana if not Thompson why not Moha, or Mantell? Why wait until Klaus turned the trick before proclaiming 2 new champion? And how about Eddie McGoorty and Mike Gibbons? Likewise Jimmy Clabby and the latest California “phenom,” Jimmy Murray? These boys have just as much right to the title, it seems to me, as McCoy— and if Al meets anyone of them he may find the claim a more valid one than his own. However, it is not with possibilities that we must deai, but with the cold dope. And there is no argument that will make the Brooklynite a champion in my eyes, or in those of any intelligent fight fan. McCoy may prove his.championship rights some day, although I doubt it very much, but until he does so he will have no more claim to the honérs than any of those I have mentioned. McGuigan Stubs Toe. No matter how foxy a manager hap- pens to be there are times when he pulls a “bloomer.” Jack McGuigan, who runs things for Leo Houck, took his fighter away out to California only to have him stopped by Billy Mur- ray, the young Sacramento novice. It was Leo’s first try at a long match, and McGuigan eagerly accepted the bout with Murray, then unknown out- side of California. It would be a safe way to try Houck over the derby distance. Everyone knows what hap- pened. Jimmy Dime made the same mis- take with George Chip, only in the latter instance the element of luck probably entered into the result. A few weeks before Chip met his Wa- terloo, McCoy and Young Jo& Chip boxed ten rounds at the same club, and young Chip won the populer de- cision. Jack Dougherty asked for a return match, which was granted. However, just about this time George Chip, who had been on the shelf with a broken hand, was looking for a bout to try out his injured maulie before tackling any of the classy men in the divislon. So it was arranged that George would ‘‘sub” for little brother. Both the club and McCoy and his man- ager were more than willing. 1t meant a good house for the promoters, and it offered McCoy a chance to get more for his end if a loser than he could get for winning over an oppo- nent of less renown. Also there wags that long chance of putting one across and leaping into fame with one swipe. And that’s just what happened. Mc- Coy, considered a third rater, landed the lucky punch and down went Chip. This is one of the many reasons why boxing has a firm grip on the affec- tions of the sport loving public. There is always an element of uncertainty about a boxing match, no matter how one-sided it may_look on the dope. A clever boxer ma$ be matched with a ' fighter of little skill, but tremendous punch; the match may look all in the cléver one’s favor. Still thers is al- ways the chance of the slugger get- ting a haymaker across and spilling | the dope. The “soft things” are not always | as soft as they seem to be. 1If an one doubts this statement let him terview Messrs. McGuigan and Dime on the subject. JAS. J. CORBETT. signed up with the Calais team of the Maine-New Brunswick league and in sixty games hit for an average of .314 and fielded his position in the outer garden with an average of .950. From Calais he went to the Port- land team in the New England league and then hooked up with the Lynn team. This club retained his ser- vices and he reports to them tomor- row. ‘While in the New England league during the latter part of last season Jacobson played in seventeen games, flelding his position accurately and hitting for .227. He is now the Tegular centerflelder and will retain that position unless some one of the new recruits beats him out, which 1s unlikely. - The New England league opens on April 29, Lynn playing with Fitch- burg at the latter's grounds. P. J. Flaherty, a former Boston National pitcher and who also pitched for Hart- ford in the old Connecticut league, 18 :lho mansger of the Lynn aggrega- on. NO MACK EMPLOYE SEES DIZZY CORNER Worid's Champions Again Beaten | by (ChaMGE'S CreN. GANTS OUTPLAYED BY PHALIES Lord and Collins Win for White Sox Braves | Beaten—Eleven Inning Battle Federal League, With Home ‘Runs—Evers’ in New York, April 18.—A two days pausé between rounds didn’t dull the | edge of the speed of the high step- ping New Yorks. Yesterday they continued the subjugation of the Ath- letics. They did it with as much positiveness and pepper as they had when they left off on the opening day. Yesterday they didm’t even let the champlons of creation score. The score was 4 to 0 in favor of the un- | afraid myrmidons of Chance and while fastening the shutout yoke to the un- willing but not necessarily rough netks of the champions they were heartless enough to allow no Mackmen to forage beyond second base. The score: r. h. e .. 000000000—0 3 0 New York 00002200*—4 7 2 Batteries—Brown, Wyckoff and Lapp; Caldwell and Sweeney. Philadelphia .. Boehling Blanks Red Sox. Boston, April 18.—Boehling held the Red Sox to two singles yesterday while Leonard was touched up for seven hits, consequently the Senators again shut out the locals, this time by a score of\l to 0. The score: r. ‘Washington 000000001 —1 Boston 000000000—0 Batteries—Boehling and Henry ILeonard and Carrigan, ‘Homers Win for White Sox. Chicago, April 18.—Home runs by Harry Lord and John Collins gave the ‘White Sox a 6 to § victory yesterday, making it four straight from the Naps. Collins’ homer won the game. In the ninth, with two gone and the score a tie, he drove the ball to the fence in left center and remembered to touch all the bases. The score: ~rohoe Cleveland 000031001—5 8 2 Chieago 001301001—6 11 2 Batteries — Hagerman, Collamore and Carisch; Faber, Russell and Schalk. Hamilton Back, Beats Tigers. Detroit, April 18.—Barl Hamilton after returning vesterday morning from his little flirt with the Federals, was sent to the mound for the St. “Jim” Johnson Getting in Ezapé to Tattoo —lHIGGINS FOULED BUT - ““Sam” Langford With Black and Blue Spotsi REFEREE GOES BLIND Louls Browns and beat the Tigers by a score of 2 to 1. ‘The score: r. h. e 000100010—2 7 0 100000000—1 6 2 Batteries—Hamilton and Crossin; Covaleski and Stanage. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Phillies Beat Giants. ! Philadelphia, April 18.—THéreé weére several good and substantia]l reasons , why the Giants lost to the Phillies, the second one played of the eeries, by thé score of 3 to 1. Jeft Tesreau pitched good ball, but there were overshadow- iing causes that led up to the Phillies’ victory. In the first place Joe Mayer .seemed to be just in the humor of pitehing and he was so ably supported {in the fleld. that on two occasions it | ‘was nothing more noér léss than high- way robbery for Cravath and Murphy | ! tc complete their star stunts. Besides these things Larry McLean dropped a \throw to the plate that cost a run and added to the downfall The score: r. h. New York ...... 000:00000—1 ! Philadelphia .... 00020001*—3 Batteries—Tesreau and Mayer and Killifér, Cubs Get Lead and Kéeép It. Cincinnati, April 18.—Two baggers in the first inning coupled with two bases on balls gave the Chicago Cubs three runs, a lead that the Cincinnati Reds could not over- come and the visitors won vesterday, ecore 6 to 5. Bach side used three pitchers. The score: three X h e Chicago 300210000—6 6 1 Cincinnati . . 002000210—5 10 2 'Batteries—Vaughn, Cheney, Laven- der and Archer; Ames, Davenport, Lear and Clarke and Gonralés. | Pirates Lone Sortie Enough. St. Louis, April 18.—Pittsburg won the last game of the series with the Cardinals, 2 to 0, thereby making it three out of four. Pérrit and Kan- tlehner staged a clever pitchers’ bat- tle, the only runs coming in the third inning, when Gibson's single, Kan- tlehner’s attempted sacrifice, 6n which he was safe, and Kelly’s single to center netted the Pirates two. The | score: r. Pittsbyrg 002000000—2 St. Louis ...000000000—0 Batteries—Kantlehner and son; Perrit and Snyder. Dodgers Beat Braves. Brooklyn, April 18.—Raléigh Aitch- (Continued on Ninth Page.) { up a sweat? The top picture shows Jim Johnscn taking a few whacks at a big oak tree. Johnson is on top in the white sweater. The picture in the middle left shows him slipping aside from a stiff left which one of his sparrinz partners has aimed at his jaw and retaliating by countering with a left, The picture in the middle right shows Johnson about to let “Bob” Lee have a stinger on the face. The bottom picture was snapped as Johnson his camp finished one of their long runs to get an appetite for breakfast. “Come on, man, put some steam into dem punches. Gracious, Lawd, how d' you all expect a feller to get Hit 'er up Bob, ol' boy, hit ‘er up.” Jim Johnson was talking. Jim, it must be known, was given the popu- lar vérdict over Jack Johnson, the heavyweight champion of the world, when they met in Paris on December 14, 1913, but the referee awarded the bout to Jack. Jim and four other ebony-hued gents are down at P. S. McMahon's farm in Kensington, where he is training for his bout with Sam Lengford, the “'Boston Tar Baby,” in Boston on April 28, Even now he is prepared to step into the ring and give Sam the nicest little tarring and feathering he ever got in his young and innocent life. Johnson is working hard for the Langford bout and after he conquers Sam—he feels certain he will turn the trick—he will challenge Jack John- scn to another fight and means to just clout him all over Paris or whereve, the fight is held. ! Those assisting Johnson to get into trim are Bob Lee of Auetralia, his sparring partner: Bert Wherlin of Pennsylvania, Bill Watkins, the light- heavy champ of the south and Lucius | (Ja¢k) Johnson, his brother, Every day the camp is astir at o’'clock in the morning and then as an appetizer Jim and his staff hit the ccuntry roads for ten or fifteen miles Just to get the sleep out of their eves. A light breakfast is next on the pro- £ram and then the real work starts. Until 12 o'clock the whole crowd cuts and saws wood. If you don't believe it just slip down to the farm and see the forest land they have lail waste. One big oak tree that for- ! section has been made into a million toothpicks and a few cords of kind- Ing wood. Dinner is next, and such a dinner. Sirloin or porterhouse steaks are usually the piece de resistance. And, man, y'oughta see them steaks fly. A whole pile disappears like a snow- Grift under a hot sun. Plenty of meal. After the food has kind of got shaken down Jim puts on his gloves and calls for the first victim. Up hops Bob Lee and at it they go. like a shadow on his feet and his hands fly like flails. But only a few tlows land as Jim is even quicker in blocking. After Bob begins to feel a bit tired someone else takes up his job and so on until the whole crew has been eliminated. k| merely fas king of its kind in that | vegetables and no pastry finishes the Bob s | and Punching the bag, walks through the country and light gymnasium work complete the day. In the even- ing after supper the men move out onto the roads for‘a stroll—some men call it a journey. From & to 9 they engage in games of checkers or whist 2rd at 9 o'clock the camp slides in i between the sheets and is not heard frem until the sun comes up over Mount Lamentation in Middletown next morning. Johnson helieves Frank Moran, the Pittsburg heavvweight, has a good chance to regain the lost heavyweight faurels of the white e when he neets Jack Johnson in Paris. “That Moran person can hit hard, |vou know,” he told a Herald man. | “Yes, he sho has a powerful poke. And then Jack hasn't been lealing the life he should in Paris. He's not in the trim he was before he left this country.” Jim tips the scales at 210 pounds and it's all beef and bone, no fat. He confidently expects to take Langford's measure. P.S. McMahon, the theater and hotel man and gentleman farmer, will vouch for the fact that Jim has a stomach like the side of a brick house, P, can hit a few himself and he says his hands are nearly broken from beating a tattoo on Jim's middle I seetion BOULTES GETS ZIMMERMAN. Bridgeport, April 18.—Manager James Boultes 6f the Bridgeport club has secured another candidate second base in the person of Arthur Zimmerman, brother of the famous for slugger of the Chicago Cubs Zimmer- | man wants to get a trial in the out- field here and Manager Boultes thought that it would be worth while to give him a chance to show what he can do. Last season Zimmerman with the Savannah, Ga., South Atlantic league, where he per formed around the keystone sack in 109 games, batting .239 and fielding 976, BASEBALL CHALLENGE. The Greenwood A. C. challenges #ny | thirteen-year-old team in the city. Ad- played | team in the | dress Manager Charle: | 169 Greenwood street, Heinzmann, w Britain STILL CHAMP. 3 April 18.—Wiliie ! Ritchie is still lightweight champion | of the worid. He won a decision over “Harlem Tommy" Murphy last night in twenty rounds. Ritchie led in every round but Murphy's ability to take punishment saved him from be- ing put away. Local Boy Hit Whea He Was Dewn by Jack Kershaw. (Special to the Herald) Middletown, April 18.—If Referee “Billy" Glover of New York had not gone suddenly blind last night at the bouts at the Middletown A. A. “Bat- ting Eddie” Higgins of New Brituin would have been awarded his en- counter with Jack Kershaw of Hart- ford on a foul. As it was Glover stopped the bout in the second round as Higgins was in distress. The boys appeared well mated, al- though Kershaw looked to be better trained. In the opening round Ker- shaw landed on Higging' jaw and senter him to the floor dazed. Kersha! ctood over Higgins walting to give {him a wallop as he regained his feet. Higgins got to his knees and Kershaw was so anxious that he let him have | a razzle dazzle. The crowd yelled “Foul” and “Joe”’ Ryan, “Patsy” ., Bridget and “Honest John” Willis, | who were in Higgins' corner claimed | the bout on the foul. Glover ruled | that there was no foul and the bout | proceeded In the second, Kershaw gave Hig- gins a vicious clip on the jaw and sent him down. As soon as he rose lie was floored with another right to the Jaw. Pluckily he resumed his feet ! but before he could get on guard | Kershaw pianted his left into his wind and Higgins went down heavily. He wanted to resume the fight but Glover | stopped the bout. In the main go of the evening “Fighting Johnny” Burt of New York gave “"Eddie” O'Brien his first knock- out of his professional career. The fight went three rounds when Glover ruled O'Brien out, although he was on his feet. From the opening it was seen that { Burt was O'Brien’s superior, although | smaller of stature and with a shorter reach. Burt wak as full of tricks as a cigarette is full of tobacco and set the pace from the beginning. He soon had O'Brien bleeding from the nose and a cut on his lip. In the third he caught the New Haven boy a lallapalossa on the jaw and sent him to the floor. As O'Brien fell he struck his head heavily on the floor. This dazed him and although he was on his feet when Glover counted ten and wanted to continue Glover ruled that he had been knocked out. A pe- culiar feature was that Glover's “ten” and the bell for the end of the round . came simultaneously, entitling O'Brien ! to another round if he choose to go on Burt didn't even get up a sweat. In the opening round “Kid” Vin i cent and ‘‘Jack” Curley two Mid- dletown boys, slugged each other for six rounde. After the second both were winded and tired and for the rest of the distance they were sat- isfiled with pushing each other around the ring. As an added attraction a section of the bleachers on which about seventy- five fans were seated caved in and floored them all. A emall crowd saw the fights and it was reported that the matchmaker went $200 in the hole. BOWLING!| in the two man handicap bowling match at the Aetna allevs the scores last night were as follows: Jones 90 92 95 Fhergon 74 90 66 93 82 73—443 88—400 *164 182 161 175 161—843 7 pins handicap. Holtman 92 82 Wright 79 %4 171 178 *Won tie string. 20 86 88 85 P4-—446 84-—428 176 173 178874 EXHIBITION PLAYED. The New Britain squad was divided into teams yesterday morning and had a short workout. The regulars beat the recruits. “‘Paddy” Green pitched the full game for the regulars and allowed two hits. The winners se- cured only four hits from the rookies’ twirlers. The lineup was as follows: Regulare——-Nash 2b, Zeimer ss, Os- trich 3b, Browne rf, Sullivan 1b, Davis If, Bauer cf, Coffenberg ¢, Paddy Green p. Recruits—Burroughs se. Usbourfie 2h, Noyes 3b, Scineki 1b, Mundy rf, Peckett ¢f, Wilson If, Ripley ¢, 8mith p. TIGERS ARE READY. The Tigers will report for practice tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock at the Bast KEnd grounds and Manager Garnest asks all members to be pres- ent. The Tigers will open their sea- son A week from tomorrow against the Southington team of the Valley {league. The game will be played in Southington. New faces in the Tigers' lineup this vear are Stingle Berry, Johnson, Prennecke and Oberg. formerly of the E: Ends. Aetna Bowling Alleys 83 Church Street