New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 17, 1915, Page 9

“ROMANCES OF THE SQUARED CIRCLE” Jack Gully NSI\waorm 84 Pugilist While in Prison. “Dang it, Jack, something must be done for 'ce. Ye are too good a 158 to stay in this hole. Be of good | deer, and I'll come back to see ’ee | 1 tomorrow.” The speaker was a man of medium | height, but with a magnificent devel- opment of shoulders and chest. jwas clothed in the height of fashion. nd a little bevond it, and his sartor- | 4]l embellishments bespoke the sport- ng ‘man. while his grace and ease of lcarriage and his wolf-built physique proclaimed the athlete. H He addressed a youngster of about | wenty, six feet in height, and weigh- | ng about 200 pounds. The Dboy's | hirt sleeves were rolled up, disclos- | ing muscular arms, and as he walked | about, talking with his companion, | the observer could see that he, too, | man of physical prowess. | t now there were tears in the | s of the boy, and as T friend | shook his hand and said “Good-by, i ad,” a flood of gratitude welled up in his heart. Ht heart a gate clang | and turned away to seat himself upon | a bench, where he sat with his face | buried in his hands, brooding over the past. The scene of this meeting was the acquet court of King’'s Bench Prison, dpylarly called Mahshalsea, and to e prisoners known as “Tenterden.” he boy was one of the inmates of | at prison, famed in the early days f the nineteenth century, of which e write, as a place of confinement jor debtor: Jack Guily had Dbeen onvicted of owing a small sum, and. eing unahble to pay, had been thrown nté that place where, as Dickens Wrote, ‘“the inmates suffer with dry ot. Young Gully had not yet freached that stage. for he had known he interior of King's Bench but a ew months, and his carefree youth o far had triumphed over the ener- rating idleness and a squalor of the hai He played racquets with other oungsters, like himself the victims bf the heartless system which made ebt & crime, and so kept in good phy- pical condition. There were times, however, when he youthful giant, looking about him t thé aged and sodden victims of hu- nan greed, was plunged into the fepths of despondency. He saw him- elf gradually yeilding to the in- duous influences of the prison’s owing old before his time, and owly but surely tottering toward pdtper’s grave. It was not a pleas- mt prospect, and it was small wonder at tears rolled down his checks hen “Hen” Pearce visited him in the ison yard and held forth the pro- se of release from the confining Blls of Marschalsea. arce, a Bristolian who, like young 1y, had been a butcher, was now jne & the greatest puglilists of the 3 He had known Gully’s father, ne'erdowell who had ran a ‘“‘pub” [n Bristol, and had been befriended v the elder Gully, now long since ead. When he heard of the im- isonment of the son of his benefac- or, Pearce, the generouds and warm- earted “‘Game Chicken” of the ring, ost no time in getting to King's Bench,. Pearce saw in the imprisoned youth jhe raw material of a great pugilist, nd his judgment was justified when put on the gloves with Gully. The d had had no professional experience 5 a fighting man, but he handled him- f with an easy grace which showed natural aptitude for the game, Doddering old men and brawny | ung “ones, of all classes and con- ions in life, but all now sunk in a mmon misery, gathered about and cered at the exhibition of the man- art given by Gully and his friend. me of those who witnessed the im. romptu bout had been ‘great men their time, and there were among em~ former army officers, scholars renown, and men who had achieved me in many lines, but wha had llen upon evil times and were now ending the wrecked remains of their | ves behind the high walls which shut | King’s Bench from the outer orld, and made it a ‘little city by it- Y ith streets lined with shops of, ous kinds, through which hawk- s from the outside were permit- d to pass and vend their ways. Many the inmates had been. there for or twenty years, and would re- | ain there until death brought re- ase. Something of this filpd the nd of Jack Gully as he talkdd with friend Pearce. “I«can never get out of this place,” ijd the boy, “until somebody pavs y debts, and I have no friends to that. Look around you at these ay and-tottering old foggies who have ient the best part of their lives here. | aybe 1 will be like them some day and bent and wrinkled and | in spirits and health.” John Gully's forebodings were Fappily never realized. When he ft the prison the “Game Chicken” ent directly to some of his wealthy | jends, and besought them to go to | o assistance of the youngster from istol. Fletcher Reid, Berkeley gray oken Bu aven and Major Mellish, three of | e most noted patrons of boxing of at period, were interested in Pearc Je,*snd the next day the “Chicken d his three friends drove up in a hndsome coach to the gates of Mar- alsea. Pearce and Gully again put the gloves, and the boy made such showing that the wealthy sports- en agreed that Gully must not be asted on King’s Brench Prison. It was not long until the necessary pcial preliminaries had been sat- attorily arranged, and young Gully forth a free man. The men put up the money for his igsisted that Gully should L Pearce, and, although the boy no desire to meet his henefactor, that Gully conquered, although he | il young and hale and hearty. and Tt is a far cry from April to October and much might happen in the in- terim, which is another way of say- ing that one shouldn’t pick pennant contenders or winners at the outset of the campaign. In the American league, if cne is to take cognizance of the writings of “‘experts,” the teams | which have the brightest chances are | Boston, Chisago, Washington, Detroit | and, of course, the Athletic If it were possible for these teams to go ahead and play out their s('h»dult-si without suffering mishaps it would be hard to choose between them, but! there is always the element of luck to take into eamsideration. A team that looks like ‘“‘ready in April may fade from the horizon by | June becanse of the injury or ind position of one or more of its ph_\'ex:s. For that reason picking tinners in April is a hazardous undertaking and one in which only managers and perts can | managers of the teams mentioned, re- | i Griffith, | | Jennings and Mack, have stated their i “unprejudiced” opinion “nonpartis settl lis concerned, until spe the perts, wait doubts afford to ‘indulge. Carrigan, Rawland, and tt n” views of it as far as who has now final curtain, settled. M the will be ex- [he his, with the ex- Ir. Fan only to when all | consented to the match. -five rounds Gully fought ferociously, but in the,end he was won high praise from the victor. Three years later Gully fought Bob Gregson for the championship of Eng- land, and won with ease. Ha\'m;‘ reached the highest pinnacle of pug- | ilism, Gully retired from the ring, | although he was then only twenty- five years of age. For a brief time the retired and undefeated champion was the boni face of a popular London “pub,” but he soon turned his attention ta the turf, where he was destined to shine as brightly as he had in the ring. He amassed a fortune as a book- maker, and invested in colliery prop- erties which became very profitable, and made the ex-bruiser one of the wealthiest men in England. TIn 1846 he won the Derby with Pyrrhus the First and the classic Oaks with Men- dicant, and in 1854 he again won the Derby with Andover. Gully was the first and only pug- ilist in the British parliament, as he was elected to that body in 1832. He retained his seat only two seasons, when he resigned and quit politics. He sold off his stud in 1855, and spent the remaining vears of his ad- venturaus and romantic life at Cork- ing Hall, near Durham. He died in 1863, at the age of eighty. Gully was twice married, and was the father of | a round dozen children. In ‘E“Zli\nd today there aré many people who boast descent from this humble son of a publican who became a butcher, a convict, a champion pugilist, a pub- lican, a bookmaker, a Derby winner, a member of parliament and a multi- millionaire mine owner. Sportography BY “GRAVY.” JOTINNY KILBANE., 26 TOMOR- ROW, ASPIRF TO WEAR TRIPLE CROWN. Johny Kilbane, the Cleveland Irish- American who now wears the feath- erweight crown upon his dome of thought, will celebrate his twenty- h birthday tomorrow. Johnny |'ne might travel far in the pugilis world, but he is sadly lacking in am- bition. All Johnny wants, pugilistic- ally speaking, is to win the bantam- i since. Maybe he could—and maybe Johnny is just spoofin’. In addition to h that held by William Johnny also wants the lightweight crown which Freddie Welsh has found such a 1- | uable possession. Kilbane say e | is going to “hound” the Welshman until he gets a whack at him and then-—good night for Freddie! But Freddie did quite a bit of “hounding” himself, it will he remembered, before he cornered Willie Ritchie in a ring. Hounding is one of the best things Freddie does, Kilbane is by no means the first fighter to have to go out of his class to get matches. Joe Walcott, while welterweight champion, fought mid- dleweights and heavyweights, and if the white heavyweight crop had been no better than it is now he migat have won the title, although he was | only five feet and one and a half | inches tall. Bob Fitzsimmons cleaned | up the best heavies while still able | to make the middleweight limit. As | a general proposition. however, a good big man can whip a good little one, and in going after the light- weight title Johnny will have hard sledding. . | Kilbane was born in Cleveland, of | Irish parents, and was a switch- tender and railroad clerk before he took up the fighting game. He made his bow in the ring in 1907, and he has been fighting pretty steadily ever There have been occasions when Johnny was very disappointing as a ring performer, but when he trains properly and does his best he is a marvel. His younger brother, Tommy Kilbane, has made a fair showing in the ring, but he lacks the class displayed by his champlon brother, own title and | Superbas 25 Years Oid, The Brooklyn club will celcbrate tomorrow its twenty-fifth birthday, as it was on April 18, 1890, that the Dodgers played their first game in the National league. losing to Boston | by a score of 15 to 9. This was a | bad start, but the Brooklynites copped the pennant their first year out, *“Bill” McGunnigle was the pilot of the first Brooklyn club, which was under the: presidency of Charles H. | Byrne. “Bob” Carruthers, Tom | Lovett and W. H, Terry constituted the twirling staff, and Clark, Daly and | Bushong alternated behind the bat.! Foutz. Colling, Pinkney, Smith, Don- | ovan, O'Brien, Burns and Corkhill | completed the roster, Brooklyn | weight and lightweight honers in ad- dition to those he now holds. That's all—absolutely all. The shrinking | violet is a brazen thing compared | with the modest Johnny. Kilbane ! declared, after whaipping. Kid Wil- liams in Philadelphia, at 122 pounds, just a month ago, that he stood ready to make 116 pounds ringside for an- other bout with the bantam cham- pion. Johnny says he weighed 120 1-4 pounds in the Philadelphia rookus, and that he could easily take off four and a quarter pounds and stil] be good. And yet not so very long ago it was asserted that Johnny was dui- arce was so friendly and ins(smnt‘ growing the featherweight limit. didn’t win another pennant until 1899, : when Ned Hanlon's great team copped | the rag, and repeated the following | vear, Since that time the Superbas have never finished better than sec- ond, and have usually finished in the second division. WILLARD DISAPPOINTS FANS Coes to White Plains to Box, But Gate Receipts Were Too Small, White Plains, N, Y April 17 Expecting to see Jess Willard, the world’'s champion prizefighter, box | the | four rounds at the Westcnester A. C., on South Lexington avenue last night, sout 300 fight fans. paid their money, when Tony Jones. motored up to the build- | ing and looked over the s tul ack again in the limousine for New | York. Willard accompan slim rned right around and ied by crowd, | started Jess had been guaranteed $750, he says, for his exhibition, but there was not that much money in und when the the guarantee — house, as not turned over to him before he entered the ring, at all. he decided not to enter it The crowd sat through two prelimi- naries, them. on, the “sports” became furious and‘ demanded their money back, which by | way, but took but little int erest in When the announcement was nmiade that Willard had refused to go they did not get. Finally one by one they left the building, ex- jressing anything but complimentary thoughts of the world’s champion. [ BOWLING . Corbin. Carlson Gorman Fitzpat: Puppel Stanley Gunterman ... MeConr rick Stanley Work 1 68 n Dickman Wately Olson Osland Al e Huck Facey Knott Wright rnest Special Clark Sandbe 3each Blanchard Blanchart L106 S5 Britain Machine 90 S 85 101 1 81 New 130 111 Series O. U, A, Reds-. 147 142 . 150 Nettleton H. Zwi Sandstr Bottom Tyler G. Zwi Series ck rom 1y | Dummy even—Ilast match 3—20 Friday. | borough, | places i hold | old aviator, | she | tinental HARTFORD STITS FOR STOUT WOMEN A SPECIALTY aunty Topcoats Are the here. LIGHT COVERTS, semi-fitting $ BAL-MOOR, in plaids and tures, very natty and more than the Balmacaans—3$18. KNITTED COATS, k back silk lining—$15. Regulation stiyles in blacks and Ox- fords, silk lined and faced $11.98 to | $30 See please you in- season—and full erop is and us for a Topcoat—we can CHARLIE WEINERT 'ABBED. | and | Jersesy Heavyweight Boxer | Friend Assaulted in Newark. Newark, N. J., April 17.—Charlie Weinert, Jers heavyweight cham- | pion, who outpointed Gunboat Smith | i Brooklyn last week, was stabbed | sterday in a street row. His friend | and chum John Gaynor also was siabbed. Weinert's injuries are not| serious, but those of Gaynor may prove so. Two negroes, who have been ar- | vested, are charged with the assault. Weinert and Gaynor were passing the corner of Broad and New streets when the two negroes insulted two women in the company bf the white men. The latter resented this, and a fight was started that resulted in the stab- bing of the white men. TODAY IN PUGILISTIC ANNALS, 1879—Gunner Moir, former heavy- weight champion of England, barn in London. Like so many other mod- ern British pugilists, Moir got his | start as a boxer while in the ranks | of His Majesty’s fighting men. He started his professional career in 1903 by defeating Fred Barrett, but a lit- tle later he w knocked out by Charlie Wilson. That was his last | defeat in several years, and _after cleaning up the best heavyweights in | England he went to Australia in 1904 and defeated Peter Felix and _ Bill | Smith. ~ Upon his return to London | | the “Gunner” knocked out Jack Pal- | mer and Tiger Smith, but in 1907 he | was defeated by Tommy Burns, the Canadian, wha was then world’s cham- | pion. Moir retained his Engiish honors | {until 1909, when he was knocked | | out by “Iron” Hague, who, little later, fell an easy victim to Sam Lang- | ford. After his defeat b rns and | Hague, the “Gunner” temporarily re- | gained his lost laurels by knocking out Bombardier Wells, but in 1913 he was put away by Wells and retired | from the ring. i 1860—John C. Heenan and Tom | ers fought 42_round draw at Farn- | Eng. Iatty Matthews knacked out in 19th round at New | | 1900 Billy Smith | York 1902—Dave Sullivan and Austin | Rice fought 20-round draw at Water- | bury, Conn, | WOMEN MAY As Judges and Clerks of Elections in Chicago, IVE ays Jud Scully. April 17 to serve el Chicago, permitted clerks of -Women will as judges in Chicago, ac- cording to a ruling made by County | Judge Thomas F, Scully, who re- | versed his former decision which pro- | hibited them from serving. | “Women clevated the polling | by lending dignity to them.,” cully said. “The old days of filled polling places disap- | soon as women were al- | lowed to serve, Their presence also has prevented political squabbles.” The judge in his earlier decision pro- hibiting women from serving, ruled that clerks and judges must be house- or support the be and tions have Judge & smoke peared rs those family. who TRANS-CONTINENTAL FLIGHT, San Antorio, Tex., April 17.—Mrs, Catherine inson, nineteen year. innounced here yesterday would undertake trans-con- flight from New York to San Franc) She expects to start from w York about June 1, in a ninets horse power aeroplane. a | also ascended to higher levels. | Canadian RICHTER & CO.* MEIMBERS NEw yORK OTOOK EXCHAI Represented by E. W. KDpy, 50 shs Colt’s Arms 50 shs North & Judd 50 shs New Britain Mach 50 shs Stanley Works F. N. GILFILLAN - STOCKS BONDS INVESTMENTS 409-410 NATIONAL BANK BUILDIN 'Phone 1621. FINANCIAL NEWS PRICES. CONTINUE 10 | SOAR ON MARKET Gains Ranging from Three to Seven Peints Registered. New York, April 17.—Today's two ! heur session of the stock market was accompanied by a further upward whirl of prices. Virtually all the in- dustrial and equipment issues which are said to have recelved war con- tracts, added to recent gains, night advances ranging from to points. Almost the gole exception was American Locomotive, which fell back at the outset, and, though making partial recovery, failed to come within siriking distance of the previous day’'s high figure. United States Steel was the real feature by reason of its sctivity, It sold at 59 7-8, a new record for the current movement. Other speculative features, including Reading, St. Paul and Amalgamated The Bonds were firm. over- ciose was buoyant. Wall Street, 10:30 a. m,—The so- called war specialties were again con- spicuous in today’s early stock deal- ings. New York Air Brake rose 2 roints to the new high price of 98, wkile American Locomotive was in- clined to react, falling back 4 1-4 | points to 56 on opening sales of 1,800 shares. Baldwin Locomotive and Pressed Steel Car rose 3 to 5 points, and numerous other stocks in this particular class, including Bethlehem Steel, were higher by 1 to 2 points. Speculative favorites shared in the rise, Reading, St. Paul and U. 8. Steel gaining a point each. Trading was | very active, but without the wild ex- citement of the preceding session. New York Stock Exchange quota- tions funished by Richter & Co,, members of the New York Stock Ex- change. Represented by E. W. Eddy, National Bank building: April 17, High. Low. Ciose. Am Beet Sugar... 49 Am Copper 6% Alaska Gold 37% Am Car & Foun Co Am_Can Am Can Am Locomotive Am Smelting Am Sugar .. Am Tel & Tel... Anaconda Copper. AT 8 Fe Ry Co.. &0 BRT.... Beth Steel - = St S s o1 69 3 00 @ o =3 ot o e e & WS D & FS Pacific. . 1693 Central Leather Chesa & Ohio Chino Copper. . Chi Mil & St Paul Corn Products Co 1 Distillers Sec Frie 1st pfd.. neral Electric Great Nor pfd Interborough . Interborough pfd. Lehigh Valley Mex Petroleum Missouri Pacific. .. Y C & Hudson.. ev Cans eeee 1 NYNHG&H RR 6 N Y Ont & West., 2 Northern Pacific Norfolk & West Penn R R... . Pressed Steel Car.. SCoRmaL R Py LR rreer e Ray Cons Reading Rep Iron & S pfd 87 Southern Pacffic.. 92% Southern Railway. 187% Tenn Copper 33% Union Pacific .132 Ttah Copper 66% U 8 Rubber Co, , . 72% U S B8teel.... 59 % U S Steel pfd....109 Westinghouse Western Unlon 33 131% 6514 1% 57% 108% 8614 68% NUMBER OF BRITISE TROOPS KEPT SEC Estimaled Abaut T and 4 Milon arc it Fiel. London, Tuesday, April 6 (C spondence of the Associated P It is impossible even for memb parliament to find out how man diers Great Britain has 4n tral The question has been put in s | house of commons, and the wal fice has refused to answer fit, that the information would be so! uable to the enemy that it m main secret. Urge Compulsory System, Meanwhile the friends of collif tion, which include Lord Northel papers, are preaching of the n preparing for that form of ree o and In the daily papers are peals as that appearing today fi recruiting committee for Tam which says: “As all efforts now to obtain the enlistment of the hundreds of young, eligible, men in this town and district meet with suocess, the gow should start without delay some pulsory system.” This the government, still e uing its poster and newspaper vertising campaign, shows net slightest disposition to do, app satisfied with the present progi which, as Chancellor of the Exch; Lloyd George has said, has prod the largest volunteer army the ever saw. Two and Half Million, A prominent official speaking of situation is the authority for the ment the British troops so far into the field, including Canadian, Zeland, Australian and Indian —regulars, territorials, volunteers all—probably amount, to two a half million men, As the when the war started, told the F they could send but 120,000 m help them, this seems a large Whether it accurate or is d satisfactory by the government not be said, though It is signi that the advocates of conserl) seem utterly unable to move the thorities toward any form of pulsory service, fy INVESTIGATION DISCONTINU Washington, April 17.—The state commerce commission announced discontinuance of its vestigation to the rates and pi tices of the telephone and tele companies, The investigation, ried on intermittently for sev: vears, was begun on the commissig initiative. Many specific complaj lald before the commission have & settled and the understanding betw: the American Telephone and graph company and the of justice last year was sald y to have made further investigat | unnecessary. Connecticut Trust and Safe Deposit Co. A STRONG, R IABLE CORPORATION organized and qualified through years of efficient, trustworthy service, to act as Conservator, Guardian Executor or Administrator. CAPITAL $§750,000. SURPLUS $750,000 Connecticut Trust and Safe Deposit Co. M. H, WHAPLE! R e Pres't. HARTFORD, CONN,