New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 25, 1914, Page 13

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1914, Latest, Best and Most Accurate Sporting News of the Gibbons is Out to Clinch His Middleweight Laurels ' Accord{ng to Corbett He Is the Logical Champion of That Class and Accords That Honor to St. Paul “Phantom.” New York, April 25.—Mike Gib- bdns has again declared himself in githe race for the middleweight title, “8kcording to reports from St. Paul, f‘phantom’s” home town. Mike his campaign next Tuesday at the Broadway Sporting Club “—the same place, by the way, where feorge Chip met his Waterloo—with ohnny Howard, the Jersey middle or ight heavy as his opponent. Gibbons is said to be worrying now because Al McCoy refuses to acknow- ledge receipt of his .communications requesting a match at the earliest con- venience of the Brooklyn man. Mike bad Al in the ring with him several months ago and, though he did not put the k. o. over, those who 'saw the mill agreed that it was only through kindness on his part that McCoy stayed the limit. Gibbons must realize now that he has been altogether too shy in press- ing: his championship claims. I have centended right along that Gibbons on all form outclasses the rest of the © aspiring bunch of middleweights, and Mike probably feels that way about it himself just about this time. Mc- Coy’s knockout of Chip was the con- vincer. This will not be the first time Gib- bons has “declared” himself in on the championship thing. Mike has several times intimated that he was going right after the title, but somehow or other he never got very far. Eddie McGoorty '1s the only man Mike has boxed in recent years who appeared to have anything like a chance with the St. Paul expert, and considering his remarkable fighting ability Mike's re- tiring disposition where the question of the title is concerned has always been a mystery to ring followers, the majority of whom regard him as the class of the division. ‘While. Howard is considered a wecorid rater, so was Al McCoy, and - it should be remembered that Johnny ' recently earned the popular verdict in, a ten round bout with Bob Moha. Howard is not especially clever; in fact, if he had been boxing a decade ago he would not be mentioned in the same breath with the middle- weight stars of that day, but barring Gibbons, McAllister and McGoorty he compares favorably with the rest of the middleweights in that respect. It is to be hoped that Gibbons will profit by his experience and assume a more aggressive attitude in the future, As a championship possibility he ap- pears to fill the bill and would un- questionably prove a titleholder the public would respect and have confl- dence in—which it certainly has not in the McCoys, Chips, Mohas and the rest. Mike is a clever, two handed fighter and represents the highest standard of ring craft as it is under- stood today. Those who are attempting to pick ! flaws in Willle Ritchie’s claim to the lightweight title just because the champion did not stop Tommy Murphy are taking the wrong stand. If ever a boxer was completely outclassed it was Murphy in the bout last week. That he stayed the limit is a tribute to Tommy's gameness and powers of endurance. From reporty of the battle which have been sent me by eye witnesses, men who know the game backwards, I gather that Tommy gave one of the greatest exhibitions of gameness ever seen in the ring. 3 Tommy Murphy has been in the game a long tirhe and is no easy mark for any lightweight—champion or near-champion. He took a terrible lacing from Ritchie and only his ex- perience coupled with his never-say- dic spirit enabled him to assimilate the punishment for twenty rounds. A less experienced fighter would probably have succumbed long before the limit, } ~ But Tommy knows every angle of the > game and when the gaff came too / gteadily he would stall and rest, and experienced fighters know what a few seconds respite, grabbed here and there, means in a long bout to a man on the receiving end. Murphy is entitled to praise for his exhibition of gameness and endurance, and Ritchie for his splendid victory. Murphy was fit to fight his best the other night. Whether he will ever be able to come back after the beating he took is doubtful. He is about thirty years of age, and that is get- e AL Sl P Y i O eSO TIGERS VS. SOUTHINGTON. The Tigers will open their baseball season tomorrow afternoon when they journey to Southington and play the gstrong team which represents that town in the Valley league at 3 o’clock. The Tigers have been great- ly strengthened this year by the sign- ing up of “Slats” Johnson, the crack first baseman of the East Ends and Independents, “Bill” Berry, the speedy outfielder of the same team, and Stingle of the champion Russell & Erwin team. Team and rooters will leave the triangle on the 1:32 trolley. The line-up will be: John son, 1b; Maxwell, 2 T. Wright, ss; Stingle, 3b; Berry, If; Brennegke, c Aetna ting along pretty well from an ath- letic standpoint. Leach Cress fought ten rounds with Ritchie at Square Garden last fall, and took a fierce lacing. But Leach has failed to accomplish very much since that time. And I reckon the future will prove that last week’s battle ex- hausted much of Murphy’s store of stamina and endurance. , Willie Ritchie has proved himself a real champion. Since winning the title he has defended -the honors in battles with four of the acknowl- edged best boys in the American light- weight division. Of all the other legi- timate lightweights there appgars to be only two who might make the champion extend himself. One is the veteran Jack Britton and the other Young Joe Shugrue at present-on the way to Australia. Freddy Welsh, terrific the English title- holder, might outpoint Ritchie, but 1| doubt very much if even his great skill would avail in a twenty-round bout with the champion. Joe Rivers’ vaunted strength and punching powers prdved: unequal to the task of humiliating Freddy Welsh. Leach Cross -believes that his wallop can accomplish what Rivers failed to do. Anyway next Tuesday night Freddy and Leach are to meet in a twenty-round bout, and even if Leach does lose he will drawn down a nice piece of change. And the probability is that he will have to be satisfied with the loser’s end. Rivers is a better boxer than Cross. He has several times proved that. Therefore it is a pretty safe gamble that Cross will be beaten by the Brit- ish champion.” At the same time the indications are that the bout will go the limit. Welsh has never been noted a knocker out, and it is not thought tbat his punches will dam- age Cross very much. But what will likely worry Leach will be ‘his in- ability to land a damaging punch on’ the little Englishman’s anatomy. Freddy is one of the finest boxers in the world, and ought to outpoint Cross in every round of the twenty. Bar- ring the always possible chance of a “lucky” punch, Cross does not appear to have a chance on earth to defeat Welsh. Another lightweight bout that will attract ¢onsiderable = attention from the fans the country over is that ar- ranged between Ad Wolgast and Joe Rivers for the latter part of next month. This match has been talked about ever since Ad won that ques- tionable verdict in thirteen rounds several yedrs ago, and McCarey's de- cision to stage the match at his Los Angeles club is approved by ring fol- lowers everywhere. While no championship hinges on this bout it should be an interesting exhibition for all that. Wolgast, try- ing hard to re-establish himself in the ranks of the top-notchers, will have to earn a decisive ictovry to satisfy the public that he was entitled to that famous decision by Referee Jack ‘Welsh in their former meeting. And it will be Rivers’ last chance at big money if he fails before the Michi- gan wild cat. Joe has been slipping in the estimation of fight fans" ever since Ritchie stopped him, and when Freddy Welsh made him leok lke a novice he passed out of the running for champlonship honors. In Buffalo the fans and critics are raving about a young featherweight called “Rocky Kansas.” He is al- ready regarded in the up-state me- tropolis as the ‘“coming” feather- weight champion. I have at hand a Jetter from a well known sporting man telling me of his wonderful fighting skill and predicting a brilllant future for the youngster. “Rocky” 1s a new one on me, but he must be the goods to make the Buffalonians go daffy over him. A clipping sent me tells how Kansas knocked Tommy Breanahan out in two rounds, and while I don’t know what Tommy’s rating was before he fell be- fore the onslaughts of the Buffalo boy, the feat, according to my worthy in- formant, entitles him to a match with Johnny Kilbane for the title. No doubt the champion will be pleased to accommodate the young as- pirant. That's Johnny’s long suit-— attending to inexperienced youngsters. JAS. J. CORBETT. J. Wright, rf; “Chief” Oberg or Chalmers, p. Larsen, c; N. B. H. S. TENNIS, Taft School Takes First Contest of Season. The New Britain High school tennis team lost their first match against the Taft school of Watertown, yesterday afternoon. The match was two sets out of three for one match of doubles, and three singles. The Taft boya showed their superior training at all stages, The score: Singles. Porter, N. B. Kissel, T. .... Maler, N, B, ..... Leftets, T. . Martin, N. B. .. Barney, T. ..... \ Doubles, n-Newell, N, B. frets, T. . Madison | finished. This syndicate ia composed " Of Course This Never, Never Happened to You ! TP ONER SON— UL T ONER DONT BE 'DREERED OF'\M GUINNEY - UE AT XO BEAR THE ADAMS NEWIPAPER, SERNICE COST HALF A MILLION 10 DEFEND THE CUP Mmcrcan Spartsmen Wil Be Forced to Spead That Amount. Some idea of the amount of money involved in the defense of the America’s cup in the coming interna- t'onal yacht regatta off Sandy Hook in September may be gained from the assertion recently made by an au- thority who stated that twenty-two American yachtsmen will spend more than half a million dollars this sum-g mer in defending the trophy. In ad- dition to the expense of preparing for | the trial races it will cost $10,000 or; $15,000 more to bring the defender, through the cup races. Alexander Smith Cochran of New York will be under the heaviest out- 1ay since as sole owner it will require close to $200,000 to pay for the build- ing, fitting out and, sailing the Vanitie now rapidly nearing completion at Neponset. Six present and past flag officers of the New York Yacht club bhave given an unlimited order to the designer, builder and manager of the | Resolute, the Bristol production, and will probably be called upon to con- tribute between $35,000 and $40,000 each by the time the season |is of Vice Commodore George F. Baker, Jr., Rear Commodore J. P, Morgan, former Commodore Frederick G. Bourne, Cornelius Vanderbiit, Arthur Curtis James, and former Vice Com- modore Henry Walters. It is esti- mated that $200,000 will be required to bufld, outfit and campaign the Resolute during June, July and August. Of the fifteen yachtsmen who combined to build the Deflance at ath at an estimated expense of $100,- 000 eight are from Boston, six from New York and one from Philadelphia. The syndicate is composed of F. C. Fletcher, E, S. Webster, Eliot Wads- worth, Charles Hayden, F. E. Peabody, J. C. Cobb, Oliver Ames, and Henry Taggard of Boston; George M. Pyn- chon, George Lauder, George D. Bar- ron, James B. Ford, E. Trowbridge Hall, and Thomas C. Dunham of New York, and E. Walter Clark of Phila- delphia. The exact sums paid to the Herres- shoff company for the last five cup yachts, including the Constitution, have never been revealed, but other builders believe that they know them approximately. From such data it is estimated that the contract for the Resolute with two masts, two or three setg of sails, minor spars, and rigging complete, called for close to $150,000. It is thought that $75,000 will be necessary for her upkeep during the preliminary season from May 1 to August 22. The contract price for the Vanitie is placed at about $160,000 and it is expected that with her pro- fessional crew, and large tender, Mr. Cochran will have spent another $100,000 by the time that the com- mittee on challenge of the New York Yacht club renders its decisiop as to which vacht shall be intrusted the defense of the silver tankard. As the Defilance is of composite build, with stee] frames and a double | wooden skin, it is estimated that her building cost will be considerably less than either'of the two bronze yachts, probably in the neighborhood of $40,- 000 just before launching. Her masts and spars will cost $10,000, her sails $10,000, blocks $3,000 and rigging $1,000, with 96,000 more for inciden- tals, or a total cost of $70,000. As the yachts of several of the syndicates are 10 be used as tenders, the cost of run- ring the Deflance for the three months is placed at $30,000 or $100,- €00 for the season. With a challenger also of com- rosite construction it is expected that the fourth venture of Sir Thomas Lipton will be far less expensive than his three previous cup hunts, probably under $150,000, compared with a third of a million spent on each of the other challengers. For the first time since the Vigilant vanquished the Valkyrie in 1893, the ! cup defense yachts will have a fair | niarket value after the 1914 regatta is decided. They are not expected to de- teriorate more than forty per cent. compared with a loss of ninety-eight per cent. which the owners of the Re- Lance, the last cup defender, were forced to bear, her building cost being | nearly $300,0600 and her scrap price $6,000. Thus the value and availa- bility of this year's cup yachts for future work is regarded as one of the most encouraging features of the | new rule under which they have been BASEBALL CHALLENGE. The Clover A. C. baseball team of i Meriden would like to arrange ggmes with some New Britain teams averayg- ing eighteen or nineteen years. Ad dress F. G. Mayer, 85 Hobart stree: Meriden, Conn. P HENRY Y s E\GHT Q'C\LOCK. 4 ARE YOU GOWG o SCHOOL 2 WOODS FOR SUNDAY BASEBALL. Says Games Without Admission Are Not Contrary to Law. New York, April 25.—In answer to many inquiries regarding Sunday baseball, Police Commissioner Woods ! gave out a statement yesterday in which he said: | “If any one who wishes to view a i game is freely admitted to the grounds | without being required or even in- | vited to purchase before entering a ! program or magazine or other sub- , stitute for ticket—under these cir- cumstances the playing of a game would not be in violation of the law.” The commissioner further said the police were not to make arrests, but to go to court if they found evidence of forced sales of tickets to games. ANNEX-TIGERS. The Annex will leave on the 12:37 to’clock train tomorrow for Rockville ! where they will meet Manager Mart- ley’s Tigers. Blanchard and Swanson will be on hand for the twirling y while Holleran will catch. The Annex will play all out of town ! games for a short period until their grounds are put in repair. i | | ! Heinie Zimmerman Can Fill Any Position in the Infield Heinle Zimmerman is one of the heavy hitters of the Chicago Nationals. He is a versatile player, fitting in well at either third or second base or at i form for the Cubs this year. N — S NS ‘\ SN == = i i BOWLING ! i v £ | i At the Aetna Alleys. The following are. the scores made last night in the two-man handicap tournament at the Aetna alleys: 96 103 81 97 124 85 88 82 92 83 | Peterson . | Brenneke ..... 181 191 163 189 207 .. 83 79 82 91 78 .. 101 97 97 89 95 184 176 179 180 173 Krause Jones .. 87 90 94 93. 91 455 84 86 81 88 73 412 171 176 175 181 164 867 Chapman Campbell Nelson . 90 87 83 87 Nygren ... 80 88 102 94 97 461 170 175 185 181 176 887 * At Nelson’s Alleys. The Nameless Bowling club com- pased of employes of the New Brit- ain Machine Co., held their last meet- ing of the season last night at Nel- son’s alleys. The interesting feature of i evening wag a contest between Mr. Ackerman, Mr. Schubert and Mr. Feiber, in which Mr. Schubert won by a small margin. MAHAN DRIVEN FROM MOUND. Georgetown Finds Whitney, Other Harvard Pitcher, Just as Easy. ‘Washington, , April 25.—Harvard suffered its first defeat on its south- ern trip when Georgetown defeated the Crimson here yesterday, 7 to 2 The locals drove Mahan from the box and then hammered Whitney, the total bombardment amounting to twelve hits. Fury and McCarthy each made four hits out of five times at bat. The score: ° h. e Harvard ....000020000—2 3 2 Georgetown 00\041020x—7 12 4 Batteries—Mahan, Whitney and Os- born; Feinle-and Weems, r. GIANTS AND YANKS IN DOUBLE' DEFEAT Phillics Toy With Former, Atbietics New York, April 26.—The Gilants made & triple play yesterday and the Phillies made a killing. The score was 1to 0 in New York's favor in triple | plays and 8 to 2 for the Phillles in - runs. There’s nothing rare bout winning all games. It's done” every day—March to October—and yet Phillles got much more satistaction out of the trend of events, such as they trended, than the Giants. There's some comfort in winning even if you can’t make a triple play. The score: r. h Philadelphia 600000210—8 16 6 New York ..010000100—2 7 2 Batteries-—Marshall and Killifer; Fromme, Marquard, Wiltse and Mec- Lean and Johnson. 79 426, the Brooklyn 8, Boston 1. r. h e Brooklyn ...022100300—8 10 0 Boston .....000000001—1 9 1 Batteries—Aitchison and Fisher; Cocreham, Perdue and Gowdy, Chicago 2, Oincinnati 1. r. h. e ..000100000—~1 8 0 Chicago .10000001%—2. 3 3 Batteries — Ames and Clark; Humphries, Cheney and Archer. St.. Tiouls 8, Pittsburg 1, r. h St. Louis ...0560020100—8 11 0 Pittsburg ...010000000—1 8 0 Batteries—Perrit and Snyder; Har- mon, Kantlehner, Conzelman and Gibson, Brenegan and Kafora, AMERICAN LEAGUE. Philadelphia 7, New York 6. Philadelphia, April 26,—A disas- { trous muff by S8econd Baseman Frank : Truesdale in the seventh inning gave ! Frank Chance's fighters their first de- feat in the seasom’s serles with the Athletics. Following this error the Mackmen tied up the score and then won out in the eleventh inning on & single, an out and a long smash to right by the ever deadly Frank Bak- er, the score being 7 to 6. The score: Cincinnati r. h.oe ..22002000000—6 8 1 ..10000230001—7 12 3 ‘Warhop and Bressler and New York Philadelphia Batteries—Keating, Sweeney; Wyckoft, Schang and Lapp. Boston 5, Washingfon 3. . r. 0030000025 ‘Washington 0001100013 Batteries—Collins and Carrigan; Engel, Ayres, Shaw ana Henry. St. Louis 6, Petroit 5. r St. Louls ....010013000001—& Detroit 0100040000008 Batteries—Dubuc and James and Crossin. % h un s FEDERAL LEAGUE. Brooklyn 2-2, Pitsburg 0-10. Pittsburg, April 26.—The Brook- lyn and Pittsburg Federal league teams split even in a double header . yesterday, the first game going to the visitors by a score of 2 to 0, while the Rebels walked away with the second, 10 to 2. . . The scores: First " £ ...000000101—2 Pittsburg ...0 000000000 Batteries—Maxwell and Owens; Adams, Walker and Berry. Second Game. Game. n. Brooklyn 5 r. h Brooklyn ..010100000— 2 & Pittsburg ..24000022 %10 11 Batteries—Somers, Juul and Land; Dickson and Berry. Baltimore 10, Buffalo 4. g r. h Buffalo ....000100210— 4 13 3 Baltimore .04021201°—10 16 2 Batteries—Porroy, Schlitzer, Hous- er and Lavigne; F. Smith and Jack- litsch. e 2 for them, FISCHERS ALES~LAGERS Try these brews just once, please—at OUR request. We believe you will find them so good that you will then prefer them—and ask by name. THE HUBERT FISCHER BREWERY, HARTFORD, CONN. Heinle is playing in great