New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 24, 1915, Page 8

en- Year- Old Phenom Displays His Wares in Boxing Bout Here Last Night--- Phillies Continue ward and Onward March to Pennant--Johnny Harvard BReaten--Trinity Wins in Thirteenth Inning NCES OF THE JOUARED CIRCLE” g, | Boy” and His Day -2t Baih. ) Mim on' the peepers, Sam! h the Bristol boy if up, lad, an' fight! 8 doing his best, in response louted advice of his friends, best far from good The unfortunate Sam was ld in the hands of the tall, FBristol boy.” and although i , he was tak- g and landing casional weak blow in re- ye was pe was the latter part of the ih century, the scene a bit of Just outside the grounds of downe fair at the English th. One of the attractions r in the “wicked city” was | booth, where Jack Firby, le Young Rufflan,” and other ite - boxers of the day dis- heir fistic prowess for the the Bath folk and tae e entertainment was varied les between local lads of pug- roclivities, Jem Belcher, a year old youngster from as one of those who volun- amuse the crowd. Sam young Bath cabinet-maker, n as his opponent. Belcher ndsome boy, nearly six feet but slim and graceful of owat was of about the same eight, and had quite a local h as a boxer, igh the boy from Bristol had jls in the crowd, most of those in the booth were admirers ‘abinet-maker. That didn't Jatter, however, and only a ids with gloves were neces- ‘ove that the Bristol butcaer the master of the situation. soon became angry, and, jthe gloves from his hands, ki \ye bloody butcher, ye may towelling with the gloves, ean’t do it with the raw Belcher was quite willing to he challenge, and the meeting to the near-by common, e lads, stripped to the waist, er each other with the bare was such a workmanlike )l Lowatt could not stand m, and the Bath youngster " with blood and taking a bbing when the sport was b! It's Sam, an’ he's all ng woman had been try- @t a glimpse of the cause of citement. After a time the frted so that her wish was ut it did not appear to give pleasure. She let out a and, turning to her com- ia stalwart young man in his nties, cried: | Bod! It's Sam, an' he's all Go and make him stop.” | bhap addressed as Bob was uch in love with the lovely ), and he was at that stage of Ip when the wish of his lady law. He shouldered his way the crowd, which parted anyone offering any objec- en the identity of the man ized, and made his way to the There he pushed Jem away m jand, taking the latter with orted the reluctant and pro- youth to the girl, The latter s sister, and what she said battered boy is no business of Men and boys who have had sters will be able to fill in the themselves, fem Belcher was not to be so heated of his prey. He fol- Bam and his captor, Bob Brit- il said to the latter: jl. if ye are afraid to let ver fight, will ye fight me yerself?" owd stood aghast, for Bob | was one of the most famous of the period, and, so all quite able to whip the Bris- with one hand. mighty Britton turned red with this challenge, and shouted: v, thou impident young wos- lve a good mind to give thee a thrashin'.” might have tried to put his into execution then and there, young woman intervened and him to take her away., Still Ing and muttering with rage, made off with the girl. Belcher owed to this incident ‘oduction to the prize ring, in he shone as one of the greatest He came of a fighting people, grandfather was no other than llack, the man who took the onship away from Broughton. time of his visit to the Lands- fair, young Jem was em- b as a delivery boy by his Ir-in-law, Bob Watson, a Bristol tson had been a fair in his day, and from the time vas able to stand he had re- instruction in the art of box- ‘om his brother-in-law. lissom, wiry, varmity lad who know what fear is,” Watson jbed his protege, and Jem soon that his brother-in-law was After Bob Britton escorted his ome, he returned to the falr, and he renewed his dispute with the elous boy from Bristol, The t of their hot words was that were matched to fight in the the battle to be pulled off at o Hanham, near Bristol, in the March of 1798, Of all the vast crowd of Bristol sports who journeyed to Hanham on the day set, not one expected young Jem to stand a chance. He was an urdeveloped stripling, and he was op- posed by a fully matured man, with many long battles under his belt. The story of that battle ranks as a ring classic. To their dving day those who saw the mill remembered how Britton rushed furiously. bent on an- rihilating, the youth with a single blow; how the young 'un cleverly dodged all the terrible smashes aimed at him by the big, sturdy veteran; how the boy led the big fellow just such a dance as Corbett was afterward to lead Sullivan, wearing Britton out until at last the youth was able to dash in and deliver telling blows at will; how, after thirty-three minutes of fighting, Britton, battered, beaten. gushed, half-blind, was felled and stretched senseless with a blow full in his face. Such a battle! A mere boy whip- ping an experienced, able fighter in | the full vigor and prime of life. Such a thing was never seen before, prob- ably will never be seen again. The fighting blood of Jack Slack coursed in the veins of his grandson on that day, and would brook no denial. Jem Belcher was only nineteen, and the youngest champion in pugilistic ‘nistory, when he won the title by de- feating Andrew Gamble, the Irish champion. “The Napoleon of the Ring,"” as he came to be called be- cause of his great ability and his facial resemblance to the Corsican, defended his honors against all com- ers until 1803, when he was blinded in one eyve by a racquet ball. He fought three battles after that, once with Hen Pearce and twice with Tom Cribb, but the loss of an eye was too much of a handicap, and he was de- feated. MAHAN MISTREATED BY GEORGETOWN NINE Harvard Smothered Under Rain of Hils-Jrinily Wiss in 13th. Washington, April 24.—Harvard's colors trailed in the dust of George- town Field here yesterday, the Blue and Gray winning easily, 8 to 1. With Finnegan pitching airtight ball the Cambridge lads were lucky to avert a shutout, their only score coming in the eighth session after two were out as the result of a base on balis and two scratchy bingles. Finnegan allowed only five hits dur- ing the nine innings. The contest abounded in features, three double plays aiding to make the battle a short one. McCarthy of Georgetown was the batting hero, with a long home run to deep left in the third inning. Mahan was hit hard, with thirteen bingles going to the winners in eight innings. These included a home run, triple and double. Score: T he: Harvard .000000010—1 5 1 Ceorgetown ...10301003*—8 13 3 Batteries—Mahan and Waterman, Harte; Finnegan and Erwin. N. Carolina 4, Princeton 6. Princeton, April 24.—North Carolina fell an easy victim bhefore the Prince- ton baseball team, the Tigers pound. ing in eight runs, while Chaplin loos- ened only enough to allow the visitors four, Princeton played gaod ball, hitting everything that Williams and Currie had to offer, running the bases clever- ly and making only two misplays in the field. Score: Carolina..10001 Princeton 10002 Batteries—Williams, Woadall; Chaplin and 00, Currie Driggs. Trinity Wins in Thirteenth. Hartford, Conn., April —In a thirteen inning game on Trinity field Trinity defeated Bowdoin, 1 to 0. Trinity had three men on bases in the tenth inning, but was unable to score. Murry, Trinity's shortstop, hit for two bases in the last half of the thirteenth, advanced on an error and scored on a passed ball. Score: r. h .e. Bowdoin 0000000000000—0 5 3 Trinity T and and ) 0000000000001-—1 Batteries—Fraser, Péndleton Brewster; Baker, Carpentér Woolley. Lehigh Nine Wins Six Straight. South Bethlehem, Pa., April 24.— Lehigh made it six straight wins when the strong Villanova nine was de- feated 5 to 4 by a sensational rally in the ninth. Lehigh played the best ball and deserved to win. Score: r. h e Villanava 002100100—4 7 4 Lehigh 201000002—5 11 2 Batteries—Molyneaux and Regan; Sheppard, Anderson and Lees. New Ball Spells Disaster. New York, April 24.—An immacu- late baseball came to the rescue of Columbia in the tenth inning on South field yesterday at twilight and helped conquer Cornell by a score of 2 to 1. It was ushered in under praotest, but was opportune, as Don Beck, the Columbia southpaw, was fast tiring. It happened this way: With O’Neale on first through a pass, Watt fouled into the stands near first base. New York, April 24.—Up to the time of going to press we have been unable to distinguish any gnashing of teeth bitter wailing the vicinage of Pittsburg, the town where liebel Oakes and his hired men hold forth, over the absence rrom their rmidst of one Poll Perritt. Neither have we been able to discern any un- controllable grief in the camp of the Giants over his presence tinere. Early in the year Poll was rescued from the Pittsfeds by Johnny McGraw and was idded to the roster of the Giants. His acquisition was expected to bolster up the Giants in the pitching depart- or Trom threw Pitcher Captain Joe Umpire Dougherty Bryant a new ball Donovan of Cornell raised a protest He was waved aside. Bryant put all he had on the clean sphere, but it showed up like a searchlight in the haze and Watt banged it to cen- ter for a double, sending Buncke, who had been sent in to run for O'Neale, to third. Kid Benson then jolted the ball ta right fleld and Buncke scored. Score: 3 100000000 0— Columbia ..010Mm000001— Batteries-——Johnson, Bryant Clary; Beck and Lane. 4 h. e. Cornell 1 2 3 1 e 6 i an BOWLING | FACTORY LEAGUE Lander Falk Huclchuiohis W. Wright . Middleton .. J. Wright 78 102 86 87 — | conquering heroes? Sandstrom Foberg Swanson . Holtman ... Peplan 65 68 6 115 395 P. & F. Corbin. 86 90 406—121 Carlson .. Gorman Schaefer Johnson Osland .. Blanchard *New record. 0. U. A, M.—FINAL GAME, Stars. .. 176 212 .118 135 Tyler .. ..152 136 Chant ..100 129 92— G. Zwick ..., 131 126 168- 738 646—2061 522 389 404 221 425 Sandstrom Bottomley 135— 136— 116— 92— 384 124— 393 133— 121— 359 135— 450 149 144 96 112 173 Sandberg Beach Nettleton H. Zwick 674 605—1938 “Poll” Perritt’ Least of McGraw’s Worries s Poor Form is | | i eral { | ment, but up to the present time Poll has failed to show a thing. However, McGraw is confident that he made no mistake in signing Perritt, and he teels certain that his Federal league rescue will, with the coming of warm | weather, display the form that made | him such a valuable asse: to the St. | Louis Cardinals last season. Perritt, | when he is right, has an assortment of | curves and shoots which ne delivers with as near perfect control as any man in the business, and when he rounds into shape he will vindicate cGraw’s judgment ana wiil surely | take his place as one of the Giants' | pitching mainstays. “GRAVY.” ‘Spogography IS BASEBALL INTEREST WANING WELL, HURE ARE THE STATISTICS, Is interest in baseball on the wane? 1s the American national pastime | doomed to extinction? Was the dis- | astrous 1914 season ondy the beginning | of the finish? To lend an ear to the | wails of some of the magnates, cne | would think so. But, triend fan, | cheer up. There are statistics which end to prove that, by comparison, last | year was u lLanner season for base- | ball. i Twenty-six years ago today, on April the Glants s opened their s They were the cham- pions not only of the National league, | but of the world, having deteatcd the | St. Louis American association club | in the. previous world's series. One | ! would think, wouldn't one, that the | loyal fans in those “good old days” | would have turned out by thou:ands {and tens of thousands to acclaim the | They did —not | The bascball enthusiasm in New York | was so mild that the opening con- | test was transferred to Jersey City. | The official figures gave the atten- dance as a little over 3.000, but this was an exaggeration, and at that the | grand stand was pretty thoroughly papered.” | The Giants won the Natlonal league pennant in 1889, and Brooklyn copped the American association rag. The world's series between the two clubs created the wildest enthusiasm base- ball had ever known up to that time. New York and Brooklyn were then rival cities, and not horoughs of the | same town, and the people at the op- posite ends of the bridge were about as affectionate toward each other as | bulldogs and Thomas-cats. Yet the | total receipts for the nine games of the scries was only 628. At six of the games the receipts were los than $1,700, and one contest in New York brought in only $1.278. In the | 1913 world's series the New York re- | cepits averaged over $75.000 per game. During the 1889 season the | Glants played often in New Jersey and on Staten Island because they couldn’t get a crowd in Manhattan. | Now the poor, decrepit, doddering old game of baseball is represented In | the New York metropolitan district, | including adjacent cities in New Jer- sey. by five major league clubs and | two Class AA clubs with prospects of a sixth major league club next year. | Oh. those “good old days" of baze- | ball! Pish and three fudges! Al Kubiak's Birthday. | Al Kubiak, the big Polish heavy- count of all RILEY-WALTZ BOUT ' tenth those { hefore the cleverness of little Jimmy | peared to have fifteen pounds on the ! to the face and stomach | s weight who was nursing designs the heavy title a few vears ago, will be twenty-eight years old today. Al has been so thoroughly drubbed in the last year or two that he is no longer considered as even a “white hope.” Kubiak was born in Germany, of Polish parents, and started fighting in Tampa, Fla., in 1907. He won most of his early bouts by knockouts, and his height of six feet and one and a half inches made him look like good raw material for a first-class fighter. His first defeat came in 1909, When Sandy Ferguson, the Canadian, knock- ed him out. Since then the big Pole has been put to sleep by Joe Jeanette in Paris, by Sam Langford in New York, by Morris Harris in Philadel- phia, by Carl Morris in Fort Smith, Ark.. and has been defeated by sev- others. The Poles may be men with guns, but with their fists they have not been very successful, with one brilliant exception. Stanley on great fighting proper name, Charley Perilli He i boxed as an amateur under that name considered among the best business at his weight and in was the Andrews Beats Mundy. to the Herald.} April 24.—Willie Young Mundy in ten rounds before the Long Acre A. A last night. Andrews forced the bat- tle and had Munday hanging on for the last five rounds. Andrews is one of Silvey Burns' proteges (Special | New York, drews whipped An- Baseball in a Nutshell | NKTT()N;}LEEAGI"JE.' Ketchel, although born in America, had Polish parents—and Stanlslaus ( Kiecal was some fighter, believe muh, Clarence! Send the ac- games to the Local baseball clubs: Saturday Hartford Globe.—advt. Results, Philadelphia 2, Boston 1, Cincinnati 2, Pittsburgh Chicago 8, St. Louis 4. Other games postponed; rain. Standing of the Clubs. Won Lost 0 g, o 1.000 700 Philadelphia Cincinnati Chicago Boston BEST ON THE CARD Ketch:'-oore Head Liner Fails 10 Picase Local Boxing Fans. Although Eddie Ketchel of Grand Rapids and Tommy Moore of Provi- dence were on the bill to furnish the star bout of “Tippy” Fay's show at Hanna's armory last night their ex- hibition was not one, two, three with the performance of Jimmy Riley of New York and' Sammy Waltz of Hart- ford in the semi-final. The “big" beut was a disappointment to the large crowd present. The semi-final was a revelation and when Waltz and Riley shook hands at tne end of the who had seen them mix were satisfied that they had witnessed a real bout. In the headliner, Moore seemed to lave Ketchel worried for a few Pittsburgh Brooklyn St. Louis New York New York Boston at Cincinnati Chicago at at Brookiyn. Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, St. Louis. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Yesterday's Results, Detroit 8, Cleveland 4. Chicago 4, St. Louis 3 Other games postponed: rain Standing of the Clubs, Won Lost Detroit o B Washington Boston Cleveland New York Chicago 8t. Louis Philadelphia Games Today. Washington at New York Philadelphia at Boston. Detroit at C'leveland rounds. The Providence lad had an awkward defense that was hard fathom. Without intending to do s he seemed to put up his guard just at the right tome and he had Ketchel disgusted. The Grand Rapids citizen almost wore his fists down to stumps on his opponent’s stomach with no apparent effect. If the bout was (o be judged on aggressiveness—it couldn’'t be judged on science or real boxing—Ketchel cops the laurel For the last five rounds Moore was satisfled to do a Charlie Chaplin all around the ring, turning only oc: sionally to take a whack at Ketchel 2w, In the third round Moore claimed to have been struck low by Ketchel Tut “Honest John Willis, the referee, woudl not allow the claim. However, in the following round Willis warned Ketchel not to hold around the neck, nopping into a clinch as if he intended to beat up hoth of the boxers. In this same round Moore claimed he had been fouled again and tne crowd ad- vised him to stop talking and fight. For ten rounds there was not much ccing. Moore succeeded in opening up a gash over Ketchel's left eye that bothered the Grand Rapids man. Juck James, Ketchel's —manager, claims the gash was caused by Moore’s head. Whatever the cause, it was effective. Moore uncorked a back- hand smash that had Ketchel guess- ing. Eddie became angry and in the cleventh started a bembardment that continued until the last gong. n these five rounds Moore did little cther than block and run away. Sammy Waltz, one of the cleverest boys in the state, was forced to bow Riley, a sixteen year old wonder from Giotham. Riley proved to be a| wizard. His footwark especially pleased tho crowd and the fans were with him from the star:. Wallz ap- Manhattan youngster but Riley didn't | let this bother him and gave as pretty an exhibition of scientific hitting as has ever been seen in this city. He | was aggressive from gong to gong and was willing to stand offt and swap | hlows with Hartford's representative while the crowd howled with delight. | In the last half minute of the bout Riley showed his admirers just what he was capable of and drove Waltz around the ring with heavy steamers Tt was the | general opinion that Silvy Burns' phenom was entitled to the decision. | In the preliminary Battling Cosmier stnged a come-back stunt and handily whipped Kid Douglas in six round Douglas opened strong but Cosmier had him hanging on by the end of the sixth. Taylor Sharkey. “Tippy" Fay announced that the principals in the main bout of his next ow would be Jimmy Tayior of New York and “Young” Sharkey of New York. A better match could not be imagined. Taylor recentiy outpointed “Young” Marino in a whirlwind fifteen round bout In Turner hall Sharkey appeared here during the winter against Buddy Faulke and | while the Waterburian won on points the New York slasher made him hustle “Tommy Moore” Is Perilli. “Tommy'" Moore, who boxed Willie Ketchel, won considerable distinction in this part of the country undegr his Vs, to | a- | | ers with | St. Louis at Chicago. .\ FEDERAL LEAGUE. | Yesterday's Results, Pittsburgh 5, St. Louls | Brooklyn's, Newark 5 | Baltimore 6, Buffalo 5 | Kansas City-Chicago: rain { Standing of the Clubs. Won Lost ! Newark Brooklyn | Cricago Pittsburgh | Kansas City Buffalo | 8t. Louis | Raltimore Games Today. Brooklyn at Newark. Baltimore at Buffalo. Pittsburgh at St, Loui: Chicago at Kansas City. The Pioneers will line up againat the Meriden team at the Ploneer grounds on Ellis street, Sunday after- noon at 3 o'clock and as good baseball is to be the rule the coming year with the Pioneers, a fast game can be ox- pected The Meriden team will bring i best lineup with them and will make the locals go to win. Johnson, Wink ler and Coogan will be used as pitch- McKeon ond Noonan on the Mangan will umpire. 1eceiving end. I | Strand’s | Rixey and |MORAN SICS HIS DOG ONTO BOSTON BRAVES * : )3 (e} Eemville Crew Succumbs to At Led by Eppa Rixe/. Philadelphia, April 24.—The bunched a single and two cor doubles on Dick Rudolph for runs of the game in the secont sterday, but these proved W for the Braves could nol score on Eppa Rixey until the njnth when they registered thefr tally on Maranville's long double and single It was the eighth straight victory for the Philadel- phians. Whitted, the converted Brave made three hits out of as many times at bat and Magee, the converted ¥ Philly, accomplished twp sensational one-handed catches. Score Phillied cutive thelr only inning lone 00000000-—1 02000000x—2 7 Rudolph and Whaling Killifer. Boston 0 Philadelphia 3 Batteries i Bombardment Opens Early. ¥ Louis, April 24—The Cubs won the rdinals, 8 to 4. Chicago went into the lead in the first inning on a triple by Good, followed by a slashing home run by Fisher. After this St. Louls was up in the air and the Cu tored at will. ‘Score r 8 St from 203010110 003001001 8 Plerce, Vaughn and Niehaus, Griner and Sny= Chicago 8t. Louis Batteries Bresnahan; der h 8 ) Dull Game in Pittsburg, April teated Pittsburg by the score of 2 to 1 in a long drawn out game. The visitors scored in the first inning op singles by Leach and Killifer and an out at first. Their second tally camg in the third inning on errors by Viox and Cooper and an out at first. Ths Pittsburg run counted in the eighth on Johnstgn's single, a pass to Hinch- man and Groh’s error. Score nokeville, incinnati de- r. h.e 6 i P} Cincinnati Pittsburg Batteries and Clark son 101000000— 00000001x—1 5 § Schneider. Dale, Bentoh Wingo: Cooper and Gibs AMERICAN LEAGUE, Sox Lucky to Have Fournier, Chicago, April 2 In a game fedts ured by Fournier's hitting the Chicago White Sox won the second session the series with St. Louis, 4 to 3. T Browns were in the lead 2 to 1 up fto | Collins | by 1%, eighth | them to one | men got bn easy i | the seventh, when the Sox . scored three on a base on balls to Eddie Fournier's triple and doubles: Collins and Schalk In the the got four hits off Wolfgang. Sox fielding held Score J. Browns but supert score. r 0020000103 10000030x—4 Loudermilk and g and Schalk h 8t. Louis N Chicago Batteries Cicotte, Woif Leary; Tigers Still on the Job, Cleveland, April 24.—The won from Cleveiand, 8 to 4 Tigers Jenning's street in the sixtk wild throws to second and first by Pitcher Coumbe gave them three runs. The Indians made a great rally in their half of the same round, threc doubles and a single netting three runs, but the Tiger's lead was too big. The Bengal erew salted the game in the ninth, scoring two runs against Harstad, a recruit twirler, Bcore inning, when e e. 1 3 811 0 Iarstade and r. h 6190020004 0002 Coumbe, Covaleski Cleveland Detroit Batteries and Egan; Baker, 20 Htoen —_— InEvery Way and All Ways Ideal Beverages. Connecticut’s Leading Brews. Are you enjoying them in Cafe, Home and Club? BREWED IN HARTFORD, CONN. Hubert Fischer Brewery On 1. Dehm, Schunarr, wp at Charles w. I otel 214 Belon Mctarthy. Keevers, J.