New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 9, 1915, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1915. Willard Bout Were Scheduled for April 1?---Giants Pitching Staff Has Wilted S Given Being Passed Aside Jersey City h Welsh Instead of White—Sport ers Prescribe Differently. taln Herald.) —New York it trying to aker Jimmy jquare Garden 0 box Freddy how instead of a majority of decision over ven Freddy y engaged to local news- of victory to hed to lieves he e in naming s a new it the crowds | ing tired of ces time and be quite right | it that way. eason as it is press is face back to New Australia he fohnston and the same time jar at the Ga: ests with any pmaker would a match with make a big accepted the s fifteen per a liberal slice Ing powers in into consider- the popular was matched the Chicago ame within an Ritchie and jor ten rounds ed a corking brder to get club officials the sum of offered twenty tcepted. The | es about §12,- | $3,500, about | '08s. Shugrue he state's per- cted, Shugrue was sh in a return he same terms cent.—which lieve the little h doing so. He Yor and a more can al- to cross from oe puts the the showman audience. A of a sure fol- in these hard pbed “‘extreme- to my infor- up as the op- . White given tee of $3,600. Johnston fig- d to give the punt and let! like forty per am told he is loss to under- 1 if the match hs Shugrue and unt to $10,000, at would leave e club. Welsh lite $3,500, the es, employes, sellers, ticket junt for at least the big build- There would club owners. Ir the risk they ought to know er than anyone in why they ue, a big card nounced by ex- ite, in favor of vy White's man- d Johnson into t to see that he rvices, for it is Inces on record en a2 match for a winner. reliance in the ugrue was cer- Shugrue. may be‘a good at he has been ime being. He good battlo dmirers looked B no disposition pe way of credit oe appeared to ork. In fact, nces have not of, even in tho h he was the winner. to call atten- .demands. | boxers who could hit terrific punches Raw Deal Lad Should Have Been Giv- | | Shugrue as a championship | More than a year ago in | = tion to possibility. this column praise was given to Shug rue before other experts recognized | the boy's ability. But to my mind | Joe has not improved to any extent | the last year, and it begins to look as ! if there is something lacking that will | keep him from getting any higher in | the division than that of an spir- | ant.” i White just at present stacks up as | more promising. But Charley also is i minus that “something” a chamr»lon‘l must possess. Shugrue has aggres- stvencss without the punch, and White ; seems to have the wallop but lacks | the fighting instinct. Shugrue may have had too much of i it the past year, and White also for that matter. It is dangerous to rush these fellows too fast. It took Welsh ( many years to get to the top and with | the possible exception of Ritchie most champions of the class have had to g0 through a hard drilling sometimes extending over six or seven years of | the hardest kind of fighting before ! landing the title. | Of Charley White I can’t say, but| Shugrue is not fighting as well as he was a year ago, and if 1 had the boy in charge T would see to it that he took a vacation from the ring for a couple of months. Welsh Likes *“No-Decision” Bouts. | | By the way, Freddy Welsh, who was wont to dub Ritchie a ‘‘no-decision” | champion, is taking rather kindly to those affairs himself. It seems to me that it is time Frederick gave one of the boys a chance at hig title over a long route. While California is no longer in the field New Orleans is ther with both feet and Messrs. Tor- torich and McCarey, who have joined hands in the Crescent city, and anx- fous to book the champion over the twenty round distance. Both White and Shugrue say nothing of Willie Ritchie, have earned the right to battle Welsh for the title and by accepting offers to meet the champion in short no-de- cision contests they are playing right into Welsh’s hands. If they held out for longer bouts public opinion would soon force Freddy to accede to their As it is now this ten round no-decision thing is water on the champion’s wheel. to THE 1915 STYLE. The modern boxer swung his right, And then he swung his left; To miss his rival was his aim At stalling he was deft. But one false wallop struck his foe, Yes, straight between the eyes: Which caused him to express regret— Likewise apologize. Leslie’'s Weekly. “Joe Shugrue lacks just one thing,” according to Franke Erne as quoted in a local paper. "He doesn't hit hard, because while he's hitting he's throwing himself in. He has no e to hit from.” fost boxers strike from where they stand writes Dick Kain in a Philadelphia paper, “thus lessening the effects of their blows. Were they to step in with the punch it would be much harder, as it wauld be backed up by their weight, which would add tremendously to their hit- ting power."” Now what's a poor boxer to do. If followed Erne's advice he would for his punches, while if Mr. tip were taken he would be in every time he led. My is that what is a good one man may not be so another. I have known he Kain's moving own belief system for good for from set positions, while others could not put any considerable heft to blows delivered in that way. Kach and every boxer should operate along the lines best suited to his individual style, | Boxing a Parlor Game. ‘A correspondent has sent me a clipping from a compilation by some statistician showing the number of deaths in different lines of sport dur. ing the past decade. It will be ob- served that boxing is a parlor game compared Wwith certain other popular forms of sport, taking a line from the number of fatalities: Baseball, 264; football, 106: auto racing, 113 boxing, 97, etc.. ete. Even tennis did not escape its toll in deaths. It is a matter of record that twa persons have succumbed to its strenuous pursuit, The most important match sched- uled during the present month is the Mike Gibbons-Jimmy Clabby affair at Milwaukee on the 21st. While {he Welsh-White bout naturally will at- tract considerable attention the prob- ability is that the standing of the men will not be any different when it is over, but with Gibbons and Clabby something out of the ordinary is likely to develop as a result of the intense rivalry between the men. JAS. J. CORBETT. HE Bowlers E Alleys fonal Men YALE CRUSHES WILLIAMS, New Haven, Jan. 9.—Yale proved too strong for Williams in the hockey game at the Arera last night and won a stirring game, 4 to 2. Captain Sweeney of Yale carried the puck down the rink and caged it single | stellar STAMFORD WARRIORS GO DOWN T0 DEFEAT by Score of 31 to 19. CALL OF FAME AND RICHES 1S STRONG This is Underiying Motive for Boys Enicring Boxng Gam. In a game replete with thrills and | featured by much spectacular play- ing, the New Britain High school basketball quintet vanquished the fast Stamford team last evening at the High school gymnasium. While the game was fast throughout there was a cansiderable delay in starting. Stam- ford wanted collegiate rules while New Britain claimed that since they were school teams A. U rules should be used entirely. It was de- cided to play A. A. U. rules the first half and collegiate rules the second half. New Britain outscored Stam- ford the first half by eight points and the half ended 18-10. In the sec- ond half New Britain was able to increase their lead, mainly through work by the New Britain guards. especially Ginsberg, who held his opponent scoreless, and the game ended 31-19. Kelly, the Stamford star, opened the scoring with a pretty basket from the front, but Anderson followed up with two foul skets and a floor goal from the side. and after that, New Britain was never headed. Stam- ford threatened to overcome the lo- cals’ lead in the middle of the sec- ond period, but Anderson again shat- tered their hopes with two fine field goals. Captain Brennan of Stam- ford kept Schade well covered and he was able to secure only one bas-| ket. | Dick Dillon refereed satisfactorily and kept the game under his control at all times, even though there were | frequent tendencies to rough it. There | were thirty-four fouls called. The | summary: N. B. H. Anderson Stamford High. . .Kelly, Palmer | Right Forward. Sehadelr (ol i S Collom Left Forward. Tuthill o .Cook Center. Ginsberg o Brennan (c.) Right Guard. Dudack Left Guard. | The score: N. B. H. S. 31, Stamford | 19; floor baskets, Anderson 4, Du- | dack 2, Schade, Tuthill, Kelly 2, Cook 2, Brennan, Rich; foul goals, Schade | none out of three; Anderson 13 out of | 1 Kelly 5 out of 12; referee, Dil-| lan: timer, Knight; time of halves, 20 minutes; 2 points awarded New Brit- ain, 2 points awarded Stamfard. WORTHIN: Impromptu Bouts Feature Basketball | Game Against Southington. | In a game, more exciting and holl,\'; contested than the score would indi- | cate, the Worthington basketball team | of Berlin lost to the Southington A.| C. last night in that town by the score of 24 to 12. "Phe Southington team was familiar with nooks and corners while the Worthingtons were handi- capped in this respect. Several min- fature pugilistic bouts greatly marred the game. Degnan and Lotz payed an excellent game for the Southington team while Gibney did fine work for the Wor- thingtons. Summary: Southington A. C Degnan Worthington A. C. .. Bunce Right forward. Moore, Left forward. Boyle McKeon Lawrence, Gibney Right guard. Boyle, Left guard. Scare—Southington A. C. 24, Wor- thington A. . 1 goals from floor, Degnan Lotz 6, Kane, Moore 2, Bunce Lawrence, Gibney; referee, Schuman; timer, Francis. Williams Lawrence JOHN L. GETS BE Finally Redeems Gift of Friends at Cost of $4,000. John s bought back the belt which was given him by the citizens of Boston following his vie- tory over Paddy Ryan for the heavy- weight championship of America in 1883. The belt has been in various hands since John l. first came into its pos- session, the old gladiator being com- pelled to rid himself of it on differ- ent occasions when he was Thard pressed for funds. Following its last sale, some years ago, Sullivan had been unable to trace it, and only recently heard of it as belonging to Tom Donnolly of Chi- cago. Donnolly relinquished his hold on it for the sum of $4,000. Boston 1. Sullivan NEW LIFE WANTED AT YALE. New Haven, Jan. 9.--New men are wanted for the Yale track team. The coaches will be in the cage every af- ternoon and will devote their entire time to the new men who are anxious to learn and to get in work during the winter months. The candidates will have entire use of the cage for over a month and the opportunity to do same valuable work. A schedule of indoor meets is being arranged for February and the early part of March. Relay teams and individual men will be sent on these trips as a for their work and to gain experience for the Harvard, Princeton and intercol- legiate meets ta be held later in reward handed in the most spectacular play of the game. Rich, Glllesp‘c] o | became the lightweight | Jack Skelly the | ional boxer a profes- Ask the average profe why he adopted fighting ¢ sion, and he’ll give yvou wide vari- ety of answers, but they simmer down to an ambition to achieve money and fame. And the prim v influence is that he was personally or vossibly a relative, of somc chap who had succeeded in the fistic pro- fession. brothers engaged in the practice the ‘“‘manly art,” and why boxers hail from certain par cities, or from the same munities. Away back in the beginning of the game in England certain towns were afflicted with the boxing bug, with the result that they supplied a large proportion of all the professional bruisers. At one time nearly half of the good fighting men England hailed from Bristol, and at other pe- riods other comparatively smali com- munities were the producing centers of pugilism. Many families in now, turned out brothers, and the Wards, the Robinsons, the Burns and others have gaiied permanent place in ring history. Jem Ward, the famous champion, and h brothers Nick and John, were a dis- tinguished fighting trio. They inher- ited their pugilistic talent from their mother, a woman of Amazonian pro- portions, who was feared by all the women in the neighborhood because of her ability with her fists. Jem Ward ranks among the great cham- pions of all time, and Nick, thirteen years Jem’s junior, had all the good pugilistic qualitie: plus an unfortu- nate yellow streak which prevented him from achieving the championship. Nick defeated Ben Caunt, the cham- pion, on a foul, but a little later he fought Caunt again, and, after receiv- ing a little punishment, went down without a blow. The influence of association roduction of pugilists was better illustrated than case of Palmer’s (‘ooperage in Brook- lyn, where Jack Dempsey, Jack Mec- Auliffe, Jack Skelly and Brookiyn Jimmy Carroll were employed as ap- prentices. That cooper's shop was turned into a pugilistic college, from which Dempsey graduated into the lightweight and afterward the middle- weight championship; Jack McAuliffe champion of undefeated; high place a of 50 s of great all com- of those da several Broomes the Turr as the a s in the never the world and retired attained to a among the featherweights, but was defeated by George Dixon in a battle for the title at New Orleans, and Brooklyn Jimmy Carroll became one of the best of the middleweights, and might have become champion except that he refused to fight his friend Dempsey for that honor. The Wallach family in New York affords another example of how scrap- ping runs in the blood. Although Leach Cross is the most distinguished of this pugnacious clan, no less than four of his brothers have tried their hands at the game. The fifth of the fighting Wallachs recently made his ring debut under the name of Marty Cros The White family of Chicago is an- other famous fighting clan, and., be- sides the Whites, includes Billy Wag- ner. who chose that name instead of ‘White when he entered upen his ring career. Charley, Jack, Al and Billy are of Hebrew descent and all were born in Liverpool, England, their real name being Anchowitz, illie Ritchie, the American light- welght champion, was reared in a section of San Francisco which has produced more prominent boxers than any other similar area on the world's map. The fighting bug is certainly some prevalent in that neighborhood, and every kid there entertains pugilis- tic ambitions. Frankie Burns, the Jersey City ban- tam, has been sponsible for start- ing a lot of youngsters in that city in the DIff game. Frankie used to do his training in a basement beneath a liquor store on Second street, and all the kids in the neighborhood got the bhoxing bee from watching Frankie perform. One of those kids was Joe Shugrue, who recently defeated Ired- die Welsh, tho lightweight champion of the world, in a bout at Madison Square Garden. Joe probably would never have thought of taking up boxing except for the craze gtarted in his neighborhood by the proximity of Frankie Burns. Many little villages have turned out many boxers, {ollowing the success of one native son in the ring. The little town of Spring Valley, 111, is an ex- ample. Billy Papke was started on his ring career in that village and since then several other born in Spring Valley have tered the ring, among them Toh Mahon, the “Pittsburg Bearcat" Goats Doig. Many ve. » the great Jem Mace | viisted New vand with & company | of barnstorming hoxe di- rect result the New Ze were imbued with enthusiasm for the game which resulted in two world's | champions and several others who | were near-champions. Bob Fitzsim- mons was engaged in blacksmithing lin New Zealand when Mace toured the island, but, after whipping Mace's | best professional “ringer,” Bob decid- | ed that he wanted to hecome a pugil- ist. And he did “Australian Billy" en- Mec- and a an year. Murphy was another New Zealand acquainted, That's why you find so many | many fighting | in the famous | { many lads | Whitted and Hughes Will Go in Trade for Magee Philadelphia, Jan. Moran of the Phillies h: take George B. Whitted Hughes from the Bosto exchange for Sherwood Boston management offe | or several men, and Mor; choice. Hughes joined late in the season ship was decided. He comer. Whitted Braves by St. Louis last and won the few games he pitched after the champion- was traded kg Wiih Rebel. 9 Armande itfielder York former New Jan or pract Ame wisg Cincinnati Reds, i New York This the up i | | certain to wear a [ this Feds iform year b, who then ready t club as tied n, jumpe was by and is o sign a cor with the | offered i with president of | pulling the wter f Term him, Ban the American leagt strings to have the w Margans soon as o and Joh |.upon | n | be ed up so of the N taken out ational gone that ntative Huston, « New ¥ it case ha ar P A 1ptain of the rks, is in represc the talking s spending for the National 1 of 1 nal me at the he 1Imost Yorl over with the winter Havana whe first Cub el Re puttin - i ing 186 WHITTED G} | the i | from 1t initial | ner certa play club self w aves were at the bottom and at the top. YVhit first as A utility subbed for 55 e Maranville's b short, went Schmidt wanted a used sionally at third and the of the time he played in the outfield. He finally became a fixture center, as he batted equally 1t cither right left handed It was his three game of the world's Chief Bender to the club- it enabled Whitted to spring his usual joke: “They knew he was not ‘right’ when 1 made 1 hit." Stallings says that Whitted was lazy when he joined the Braves, but that he soon changed his disposition and became a valuable player the | the | tea was yer. | second, sionall when was rdinals were 7 " Havana gets him. aly n Il vee Marsa ' used at He took at teh vers d tender The fror 2 Hace ! to be to ocea- over first E res with John MOrrow in company several with a his of of organized baset will be ke nothing being e Graw to stay nd he will return ing Marsans to The majority the present raid possible rest contract 9.—Manager decided to and “Tom n Braves in Magee. The red a choice an made his | the Braves team we the in against pitching. the first that sent Louse, and 1 or uts pt quiet annot in any cases .until the men igned contracts, a of Ivy Wingo, the jomped from the Cardinals to I"cds and back again. Charley H the work in the Wingo said yesterday that his capture & Cardinal contract the fact ir catcher actually case like a to the June, when looks who did a several day = - = tore was made known t lad who caught the boxing fever, and | it eventually landed him tion of featherweight cha habitable globe. Dan C several other New Zeals attained wide fame and in the ring Australia similar experience at about period, and sent to America some of the best boxers the worl seen. Little Prince Edward “baby’” province of turned out many great including George Godfrey olate”; Joe Lannan, and several others. C The ulation of Nova Scotia gave us George | Dixon, Sam Langford and ers of lesser fame. There have twins” in ring noteworthy modern history, the top of the while Mike at welterweight leadership. clan has always been represented pugilism, and there have ring stars bearing that na other. Mike and and Tommy Kilbane, Attell—these are but hrothers who the boxing game. pugilists gaining eminen same profession are very Mike Donovan has attemy a great middleweight out but, up-to-date, the kid little of his father’s abil other ex-champions Gibb Abe a have Cas Tommy however, is afforded by much fighting men, Billy been several but instance plied by the Sullivans, Jack and Mike. The former climbed up pretty middleweight one time claimed have same stunt without success. pugilistic talent is seldom One notable instance of P ublic At least twenty roster of Federal league ht by organized chvious reasons it would te give the full of players of the of the Indianapolis are luded it However ' play will be tampered organized baseball has not some claim which to be recog the courts With excepti , Hal Chas and Heine Schulz r every player who jumped to the { pendents in the latter part of the will be approached. All belong to organized of the 1915 option clat contracts Jacob and Tom Hyer. Old Jacob wa in the posi- e victor in the first regular ring mpion of the | battle ever fought in America, nearl) reedon and |[a century ago, and his Tom inders came the first heavyweight champion { of America men now clubs baseball be imy list names, stripe Benny ¥ outfield son be- also money enjoyed a the same ' BOWLING .. U, in d has ever is sure the has 1sland, the anada, {in \. M. 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