New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 6, 1915, Page 8

faia L. a fever of ex- ‘moil. It was following the s and rascals | 1d_had flocked For a time nical, and crim e legally con- made little or no | tide of corruption 6h had inundated | ft of this condition | e organization of ! bh ‘meted out a ktice to the crooks. | 851, the Vigilante ed in 1856 follow- | h James King, the rancisco Bulletin | James Casey, the Times. King had ° ! resort for pugi | ing men, and among the frequenters the past lives of jsco’'s leading men, | of his paper had | colors in the Casey. The men nd Casey, shouting pulled his pistol p. The Bulletin | but he was more than the revolver draw he received | which inflicted a | few days, proved ent the Vigilantes lob. Within a few | jd at his command | ed men. When | rounded the jail | ff to give up Casey bler named Cora. | tried, convicted, | self-constituted lantes. and Cora only es at San Fran- hg fury. The re- il and caught in its jeat and little tres- city’s lawless law. the headquarters as filled to over- h against whom Behind their bar- d bags the Vigil- d Ends Life. d before this rude e” SullivanNonce it, and latterly a politician in the Gate. He was ac- | iwledge of the bal- h had been pre- | isto. elections. in Fort Gunny tic knight, now hnd hard living to g former self, w: fefused to give hi ion they sought. eath he persisted tude, and at last, on, he plunged a | fand bled to death. pf ‘“‘Yankee' Sulli- t in a life drama ent and thrilling of the Vigilantes ut a native of Lon- he emigrated to up the profession en in its infancy Atlantic. In News e by whipping fho was afterward " Burke when that gilist visited Amer- le was about thirty returned to his na- s then fighting as . indeed, was nev- veight limit when in hallenged Hammer pm, to do battle for championship, and same ring in which en Caunt were to ocious battle, but “Yankee’ was de- er this battle Sul- New York and in Division street. real name was was very popular jorts of the Ameri- them that son of Jacob Hyer, b pugilist. Tom then ouse in Park Row. ee”” returned from d a challenge to fAmerica, expecting it. Instead, Sulli , George McChees puntry’’ McCloskey, nd dared Tom to . Tom refused, but PCloskey in the ring, Albany. After 101 was defeated. raged by the defeal ent to Hyer’s bar, . He got it, and af- umble battle Sulli- battered by his big d to give in. Sullivan continued mpionship, and in THE n Bowlers Alleys i battled with 3 1842 he fought William Bell for a championship belt put up by ' Col Hiram Johnson, a famous sport: in of that day. The battle was staged on Hart 1nd, then a popular I ts, and Sullivan won in eighteen rounds. “Yankee” held the belt until 1849. when he was challenged by Tom Hyer. They fought on the snow-covered ground in Kent county, Maryland, and in seventeen minutes Sullivan was o | badly beaten that he had to be car- ried to a hospital in Baltimore. [For several days it was thought he would die, and Hyer was held in jail uniil “Yankee” had recovered. Loes on Technicality. After that Sullivan opened a bar in Chatham street, New York. It was a resort of hard-fighting, hard-drink- was John Morissey. an from Tipperary, who was just breaking in- to the fighting game. A match was made between Morrissey and Sullivan, but the former caught the “gold fev- er” and left for California. They did not meet until 1853, and Sullivan had all the best of it, but Morrissey was given the decision on a technicality because “Yankec' left the ring to Bct' a drink. Morrissey, who had previous- | ly whipped George Thompon in Cal- | ifornia, then claimed the title. Sulli- | van did not stay to dispute his claim but determined to scek pastures new | in the California metropoli | In California Sullivan was chal- lenged by John C. Heenan, a young- ster from Troy, N. Y., who was em- ployed in the Benicia workshops of a steamship company. Sullivan was then past forty while Heenan, a giant in stature, was only about half his age, and “Yankce” wisely re- fused to fight the man who afterward Tom Sayers in England | for the championship of the world. | In San Francisco Sullivan gave way to.dissipation, and entered into the crooked and dissolute political activi- ties of the gang which then ruled the city. His tragic death was in no small part responsible for the revulsion of feeling which soon led to the passing of the Vigilantes. Although only a middleweight, he fought many heavy- | weights, and proved himself one of the gamest and most scientific boxers: of that early period of American pu- gilism. ¢ NTW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1915. ’s Cigar Signalizes Calling Off of Heavyweight Bout at Juarez Principals in ““Tippy” Fay’s Boxing C_ard’on March 1 6 HUSTON SEES MACK; “JIMMY” BOWLING | HERALD LEAGU Submarines. 76 86 70 80 90 87 236 253 Dreadnaughts. 5 84 T4 73 77 75 226 232 Allies. il 83 95 85— 247 79— 229 78— 255 731 242 3 80— 78— 220 93— 245 704 239 McAllister Edwards 246 ‘Wallen Pouzzner ..... O’Brien e 258 249 245 265 Zeppelins. 66 67 80 Bachom . Smith ... Moran .. 12— 11— T6— FACTORY LEAGUE, North and Judd. 95 78 102— 78— 87 69 79 89 A. Blanchard Bauer Olson . . T. Blanchard . EoTERAS L O 425 P. and F. Fitzpatrick Gorman Carlson Schaefer Puppel .. 420 Corbin. 82 77 89 80 258 261 251 245 283 431 1288 Stanley Works No. McKeon 88 English 83 Dickman .. 96 F. Anderson 84 Screen 93 444 Machine. 82 96— 442 247 261 267 263 New Britain 92 76 Earnest Talmadge Facey T. Wright E. Anderson Knotts .... 270 76 261 270 315 194 108 105 114— 89— 476 469 1386 LEAGUE. Morse Egan Myers Parker ‘Walther 188 173 520 178— 500 157— 440 1569— 449 170— 550 837 2459 I 0. 0. 166 39 164 170 164 803 O. U. A. M. LEAGUE. Stars. 164 141 153— 502 157— 453 193— 501 146— 517 181— 481 C. Walker Robinson ... G. Zwick ..... Miner ........ T. Walker .... 830 2454 Sandstrom .... Bottomly ..... 156 136 199— 519 121— 398 Peterson /.. Schade Rockwell Bull Holtman Jones Allies Dreadnoughts Submarin Zeppelins 275, Edwards O'Brien Vance Pouzzner Moran Ellis Wallen Bachom Drago .. McEvoy White Sox. Chant 128 158 113— 399 [Professional Men Tyler 184 199 192—*575 /s 183— 445 ’ 808 *2336 109 153 802 726 Blues. 121 120 120 1565 166 359 364 120 171— 460 175— 482 132— 259 2044 108— 116— 130 128 134 141 127 682 660 —* New records. HERALD LEAGU. ‘Won Lost P.C. 8 .619 9 9 16 High Single—Edwards, High Three—Edwards, High, team string—Dreadnoughts, o .12 5 High Team Total—Allies, 778. Individual Averages. McAliister Smith SOX REGULARS WIN. Angeles Batters Force Rcb From Mound. Russell Los Angeleg, Cal, March 6. Chicago Americans defeated the Angeles Coast leaguers day, the score being 3 to Angeles batters, however, managed to chase Reb Russell, the big Sox pitcher, from the box, by scoring two runs in the second. Rowland sent Johnson in then and he and Scott, who suc- ceeded him, held the Coast leaguers runless. Score: ==lLhe Los gain yester- The Los Los Angeles Russell, Johnson, Scott and § Mayer; Chech, Ryan and Brooks. BODIE WAS THERE. “Fence Buster” Shows Up White Sox Pitchers. San Irancisco, Cal, March 6.-—Th San Francisco club of the Pac Coast league defeated the Chicago American team No. 2 vesterday 15 to 2. Heillman and Bodie each made a home run for the Seals Bodie's drive sent in two men ahead of him. Score: San Francisco. . Chicago .. TAYLOR sides pasting him.all over the ring he dropped Mr. Marino for a count of nine in the final round. The bell saved him from a knockout. In their coming fight Taylor will wade right in to Marino. He won't mind his left He'll just send that right over and then it will be curtains for Chick Ken- ney’'s champ. Please publish. “SILVEY BURNS, Ma my Taylor.’ Silvey Burns, the manager of Jim- my Taylor, the aggressive New York bantamweight, who is to meet Young Marino in the main bout of fifteen rounds in this city on the 16th of the month was very much peeved when he read an account of what Chick Kenny, manager of Marino, said that his protege would do to Taylor. Sil- vey was hot under the collar when he noted it in the columns of the Herald. After this Silvey sat down at his old Remington and banged away at the keys like mad. This is what Silvey wrote: ger of Jim- Young Marino started working in a gym in New York with Johnny Dun- dee, the crack lightweight. Both boy: are training for bouts, Marino for his go with Taylor and Dundee for his “Sporting Editor, proposed bout with Joe Mandot sched- “New Britain Herald. “Dear Sir: “Mr. Chick Kenny, manager of Marino, must be in some kind of a trance when he says that his boy will whip Taylor when they meet in Tur- ner hall on the 16th. Why Marino couldn’t lick Taylor in a thousand vears. What Jimmy will do to him is a shame. “In their last bout I admit, that Ma- rino closed Taylor's right optic with stiff left hand jabs but that was the only damage he did in the entire ten rounds. Taylor carried the fighting to Marino from the opening bell and be- three weeks. Marino and Dundee boxed four fast rounds and kept the spectators in an uproar with their fancy boxing, and foot work. The boys skipped around and fought at a very fast pace. Dun- dee trying to imitate Taylor, kept rushing but Marino used his good left hand jab overtime. All he would do was to meet Dundee coming in and stab his head back. After the workout, Chick Kenny, Marino's manager, declared that he surely expects his boy to stop Taylor when they meet. Injury to His Right Eye May Force Joe Shugrue to Retire ,c Batteries—Fanning and Walsh, Cicotte and Kuhn, Baldwin. YALE CREW ON RIVER. New Haven, Conn., March 6.—The Yale 'varsity crew candidates as b after a shakeup by Coach Guy alls, were on the Quinnipiack river resterday afternoon. This is the ear- liest water practice for the candidates in many years. k- CO. E CHALLENGES, Company E has issued a challenge to Co. I for a game of indoor baseball for the championship of the city. Each team has won one game. ted JOE SHUGRUE Jersey City, March 6.—It was reported recently that Joe Shu- grue, the local lightweight, had gone blind in his right eye and that the other was becoming affected, as a result of which he had been com- performed. Shugrue is one of thes pelled to cancel his boxing dates, in- | best lightweights in the game today. cluding the bout with Joe Mandot, at | His most recent battle was with Grit- New Orleans. Dr. Pyle, a Jersey City | fiths at Akron, O. Picture shows him ispecialist who visited Shugrue at his l wrestling with a kangaroo, home the other day, is reported to have said the popular lightweight had strained a ligament in his right eye and tnat a cataract was forming over the left one. An operation will be e “YOUNG” MARINO uled to take place in New Orleans in | NO DEAL FOR BAKER Yankees’ Boss Says Matter W Not Ev.n Discussed. 6,—Twe handball Savannah, hwurs of and other at the Y. prised rges ao'clock the March baseball Ga indoor forms M. C the workout of exercise possible A. gymnasium of Bill i comi- | Donovan's At 0 the houy daily departure to the ball Savannah was the receiver gen for a heayy rainstorm which practice at Athletic park out of question, all hands were or- to the gymnasium, which s across the stre form the Yan- hotel. ‘Before the indoor work completed the rainfall ceased and in the afternoon the city enjoyed straw-hat weather. The most notable arrival. at camp was Capt. T. L. Huston; 0 had been in Jacksonvile for the pagf two days. The fact that the Yankees were bidding for the service of “Home Run” Baker and that the Athlefibe are training at the Florida dapitdl led to the belief that the captains journey might show some interesting developments. On his return Hustor declared that “he had seen Mack for only five minutes, dropping in for this brief visit on his way to the train which brought him back to Sa- | vannah. He added that Baker's name had not been mentioned during his talk with the leader of the chaw- | pions. here yvesterday in the morning. for park eral made the dered just ke was 80 Gaints Rgulars Beaten. Marlin, Texas, March 6.—The team that John McGraw shipped to Dallas last night for games today and Sunday with the Texas leaguers | there, was sent through a preparation yesterday in. the form of a inning joust with the veterans. | Dallas selections are all youngsters except Larry Doyle, who will do the captaining in Dallas, and who led his lads to a 5 to 4 victory. This victory | was pulled out by the youngsters, al though the score at one time was 4 to |0 against them The batting | was as follows First Team Snodgraes, center field; Lobert, third Murray, right field; Merkle, Fletcher, short stop; Mar- catcher; ant, third base, base; Kirmayer, Fromme, and Chalmers, pitchers. Second Team—Plex, left Prainard, short Thorpe field Doyle, second base; son, catcher; Kores, third Holke, first base; Smith Flanagan, Stroud and Press nine The 1 Sportograph y‘; BY “GRAVY." J What is the matter with the wrest- ling game? Why has it lost so much cf its old-time popularity? Th are questions in which many fans are in- terested. C. Sherman, who h: been writing sports for a quarter of a century and who is now the editor of the Nebraska State Journal and Lincoln Daily News, answers these questions by declaring that the | mat sport is the object of a conspiracy on the part of the boxing fraternity. Many will disdgree with Mr. Sher- man’'s vigorous statements, but his | letter, from which the following ex- tracts are tawen, makes mighty inter- esting reading. “I am not lugging a brief on behalf of the wrestlers, but I am frank to say that the grapplers never have had a square deal from the men who | mould opinion in the realm of sport 1 have had nearly twenty-five years of experience in newspaper work, during which I have ‘met up’ with dozens of fighteers, fight managers and pro- mcters, and wrestlers. My experience with the whole caboodle is that the wrestler is the only decent one of all, By a wrestler, T mean the smart ones who live cleanly and keep in con- | dition.. The fighter, nine times out of ten, is a double-crossing grafter and pugilist England ever had. Jem was cannot be trusted. 1 have had more then only 16 old, while Britton less chance to do some observing, = v a veteran and a famous pugilist which has convinced me that the un- | Delcher had been engaged in an im- popularity of wrestling is due to a | promptu bout with a yvoungster of his conspiracy on the part of the fighters, own age, and had all the best of it the managers and the promoter: In when Britton interfered, as the beaten spite of this, 1 predict that wrestling lac was a brother of his sweetheart is- about to come back as a popular | Angered by Bob's action, the young- sport. ster challenged Bob to meet him in “Boxing has been styled the ‘manly the ring. Britton was at first amused. art of self defense.’ It is nothing of hut Jem was 80 much in earnest thal the sort. The ability to box won't Rob agreed to give the a “belly- save any man who is in a tight hole, full ¢ foightin.’ Vastly to the gur- and pitted against a rough-and- prise of everybody, Belcher showed tumble slugger. The real ‘art of self himself more than a match for the defense’ is wrestling. The wrestler is ring general, and gave him a superior to the boxer or fighter in thorough lacing By his victory Jem muscular prowe: in the ability to became famous, and graduated from put the other fellow out of business butcher’s boy Into a professional when the occasion demands. I can dig pugilist up a dozen or more wrestlers, of 1900—Cuban Wonder knocked whom could be pitted single-handed | Young Kenny in thirteenth round sgainst the fighter and put the latter | Grand Rapids, Mich on the bum in less time than it takes 1902—Patsy Sweeney knocked out to write this line. If there is a fighter ' Fugene Reardon in third round at anywhere who might he would Ncw Britain, Conn. like to be shown, you can bet your last 1902—Buddy R nickel that he would not risk a clelland fought on the outcome | Chicage “Most of the stuff in about ‘fake wrestling matches’ may be traced right back to the desire « writers to be flippant or because they | sre taking money from s nected with the fight “One hears a lot | ‘eentleman fighter.’ My belief is there is no such animal. The fizhter doesn't live whom I would willing to entertain in my home order Bescher left fiela base; first by hall econd Williams se sports field; right Robegts base; catcher; pitchers. stop; Bill James Only Macon, Ga., March 6 rival of Pitcher Strang ton National team’s contract for 1915 Pitcher William for spring training said that he had word from J: beholding out Absentee With the ar- all the Bos players under with the exceptipn of James, are herc Manager Stallings received no further nes, who is reported to for increaged salary, TODAY IN PUGILISTIC ANNAILS, 1879—Jem Belcher defeated Bob Eritton in thirty-three minutes at Hanham, Eng. This was the first ring battle of Jem Belcher, afterward champion and perhaps the greatest vears or lad old any out at say Jack Me- draw at an and cent six-round newspapers | | CULLOP FOR NEWARK, Nick pitcher nebody con- | who Fedehal Cullop, the was on the Ka |league club’s roster last year, ha turned over to the Newark club by Robert B. Ward, of the BrooKlyn Fed erals, Cullop went to Brooklyn in exchange for Bill Bradley, Bert Max- well and Al Shaw Powers also an- | whereas I know plenty of wrestlers nounced that he selected “‘Pgp- who would be welcome, The fighters pers” or “Peps” nickname ‘for are a mess of grafters. In truth, most [the New of them helong on the rockpile. | Gotch is a smart, level-headed fellow who never tasted liquor in his life Zbyszko is a graduate physician from { the Unjversity of Warsaw Compare sign that they were ‘framing’ in order the Sullivans, the Corbetts, the John- | to cinch the return dates. If Welsh sons and their ilk With Gotch and |and Shugrue were wrestlers and just | Zbyszko. It can't be done.” | us sincere and unimpeachable as any- Referring to the Welsh-Shugrue | bedy in the world, they would be ad- bouts, Mr. Sherman says Had the | vertised fakers by the same New wrestlers pulled this sort of stufr, | York writers who regularly boost the every sports writer in New York | boxers and wield their hammers on would be bawling fake at the top of | the wrestlers. This isn't fair The i his voice. If boxers meet twice or/ wrestler is entitled to an even break.” southpaw sas City zame. of guff heen about own the be had as a ark Federals. that's K., but if the wrestlers do the same thing It's a sure thrice all O as “‘h"