New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1918, Page 8

the 2 Ryan consen under Marqu O+ R and the bout was put.: city on January 19th It attracted a big crowd the fact that the police decl would stop the fight. It was feared that the old enmity betaveen the two men would bring about “a brutal ex- hibition”. The two fighters the ring at the appointed time and went into action. but the first round hardly was under way before authovities jumped in and stopped further milling. In June Jobn met . Jack **The Irish Lad”’, in a contest 1n Chicago which attracted a crowd of 12,000, Burke, a fast and shifty per- former, felt certain that he could stop Salliv Many of hi of the same Delief end of Sullivan woulc But Burke proved be no for the b champion who rushed him continual and bombarded him through ever one of the five rounds with heavy right hand smashes. It was only the wanderful defensive work of Burke which saved him from going down and out. Then tation w bout between John Dominick McCalffrey, along in tacular hion in the vear previous. McCaffrey, in addi- tien to having a reputation for being a heavy hitter, was fast and had demonstrated his ability to stand up wonderfully under merciless punish- ment. Although the country at large recognized the mighty power of Sulli- van there were a few who figured that ey in splendid condition mi. good chance with John L. Sixteen thousand persons witnessed the Sullivan-McCaffrey battle, whicl was put on in Chester Park, Cin- cinnati. John L., whose normal fight- Ing weight was around 196 pounds in ork despite red the) Burke, friends, of the ere n took 2 Iat th W the bets match s started for a 1. Sullivan and who had come a entered | the | hort | made that iy | I | | the b : i those days, went into the ring beam- | ing 210. McCaffrey, through the early GN GIANTS' CONTRACTS; PECKINP TRACK MEN PREPARING AUGH FOR COMING SEASON--SELECTION "TO CAPTAIN YANKEES—M 0 cINNIS TO PLAY TH IRD BASE, ANNOUNCES MAN- | F THE SEVERN PLEASES NAVY ROWING O in jabbing ut eventual- g of John the rop ad McCaf- ould seng . the head of igh the third rific hitting of the ginger “several times {LS;I_;;bogy Is Aliv;a;ysifl' GENVJINE CAZILLUS - 1IN Go0D CoNDITION THts } An- | 00 - k went down. | I fecling between | %, partisans » fredsfor-all fights dience during the rounds. Some of ds insisted that John tics not ‘entirely in Marquis of Queens- the & McCaffrey’s brother, who | fhe as his second, got into an ent in the center of the ring 5 rthur Chambers, one of Sul- Mivan’s attendants. That was between rounds. = Their heated verbal clash which followed provoked a fist fight and the men furnished a side the main attraction by going to it They slugged away at each other and roughed around but before they were really able to get down to “business” other ring officials jumped in and proceedings. any different stories concerning the finish of that some of them of nsational Most historians have it that it W halted when a series I N have been told fight; nature. the conte of free audience and gan “gun play.” that referee Tom some of the crowd be- It has been recorded Tate, ¢ Toledo, jumped out of the Ting and didn’t an- | decision until two da Jater. But all such stories are wrong. The bout was scheduled to six rounds—and it did. At its conclusio ate, moving over to the ropes, a nounced to the crowd: “I award the decision to Sullivan.’ There was so much noise at the timc t only a few persons in the ring- side seats heard Tate.. Then Billy Muldoon, acting as master of monies, jumped into the ring and told Tate to Teiterate his decision. But bedlam still reigned in the crowd and only a few persons heard Tate, using his hands a megaphone, shout: “T award the decision to Sullivan. He had a decided advantage all through the fight.” After making the second announce- ent Tate jumped out of the ring and t back to the city. Some of the men had not heard his to the commotion and some stories appeared jaunce his th as newspaper ruling owing next day which stated ruling. When such articles brought to his attention the truth of the assertions to please the newspapers, own handwriting: “Sullivan won the fight on poin (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) were ate denied and NEW YORK PLAYERS SIGN CONTRACTS Fletcher and Perritt With Giants; | Peck to Captain Yankees March 4.—John J. of the New York last night Arthur Fletcher, Perritt, St. Louis, McGraw, Giants, that he had signed shortstop, Pol Mo., manager announced here and pitcher, who had objected to the terms named | in the them contracts originally sent to Recently Perritt had an- nounced that from baseball. McGram this season a task he seldom with hold-out he intended to retire is undertaking attempts in dealing ballplayers. He ally leaves this work to either Flempstead or John B. Foster, McGraw came here from Louisville, Ky., where he signed Schupp, youthful left hander, to a contr: last Saturday. It was reported that MeGraw would visit Robertson in Norfolk, Va. but as Rabertson is in the west, McGraw will prob- ably assign some one else the big fly clrser. Should MeGrs roun up safe to that stand in the way of Into the fold usu- Harry the now he ringing his men will 1918 ants g0 to he cam- be n were are regu- among likely round- these h rered stars Yankces McGraw Roger in While Fletcher, Yankee, came oz - Ruappert < di talkc went west to stem Peckinpavgh, the to sig th Col kindly Huggins visited t weelis. he invited for salary him in o get shoristop with R eiub Unable his a talk con d the compromise to call on | | fourth 7211 not let money | nit | bur whereby differenco between the amount first offered him and the amount he thought he was entitled to. Peckinpaugh is to get a special amount to act as captain of the club during the coming season. It now develops that the Yankees were cap- tainless during both the seasons of 1916 and 1917. Peck was captain of the club in both 1914 and 191 Two other Yankees to sign were iferbert Thormahlen, the massive oung left hander from Baltimore, and has been since 1915 rookie, ns for consent with the club off and on Thormahlen, who is a s in conference with Hug- two hours before he would to sign. A. B. C. TOURNEY Burns of Pittsburgh, Secures Wigh Total Score Yesterday \When Rolls 637. Cincinnati, March 5.—Bowling in the doubles and singles at the Amer- ican Bowling Congress tournament here vesterday produced no new lead- crs, the t to the top that any came being a tie for fourth place in the singles like tie for twenty doubles. Burns, of Pittsburgh, obtained high score for the day in the indi- vidual event by rolling 637, and thereby went into a tie for twenty- position, while M. Russell, of Chicago, by rolling 94 went into a tie for twenty- ih in the double Other than th 1. Studenroth, of Chicago, rolled 635 and A. Worley, of 1<okomo, Ind., 634 in the individual. J. Antic and J. Pape, of Pitts- h, were second hizgh during the 7 in the doubles, with 1,168, while J. Hu and W. Williams, of Pitts- Lurgh, totalled 1,158. a one and a and J. ni WHITE LOSES AT BILLIARDS. Detroit; Mich.,, March 5.—David McAndless, Jr, of Chicago, won the rnoon game from Charles White, of Brooklyn, 300 to 241, in the A national amateur 18.2 balkline billiard tournament here yesterday McAndie high runs were 40, 20 his average was 6.52 verage was 5.24 and his high Tuns were 19, 19 and 18. Both men plaved forty-six innings. White's rec- ord in the tournament now is two vic- tor; defeat McAndless’ two and defeats. and victories two sue to | that Tate had made no | just | ruled in his | it was agreed to split the | mer Miller, the outfrelder who | twenty- | ninth place in the | Dreyfuss | class | in | aking By Briggs | | PlckED P ARy GENUINE CAZiLLUS)( THIS MORNING 1N | AN oLD Boow SHOP - FoR TeEN — Yes - AND You PICKED UP SOomME - TriNG ELSE WITH T KeeP THaT RACKAGE AWAY FRoM ME - I'm NOT READY T Ore- S You MeAN | KNOW A FELLOW wHo BOUGHT A N | SECoND H#AND Book IHAT DED FROM THE DISEASE GERMS ! THAT WERE LURKING TS PAGES- | You ARE TAWING | THE SAME CHANCE for-all fights broke out in the | Don'T LET wHAT | say INFLUENCE You DICk- | onNLY SPEAK AS YouR FRIEND— Tme Boowx You BoUGHT- MAY BE ALL RIGHT- You MAY NOT CATCH A SINGLE DISEASE N T | TRACK TEAM PREPARI rainer Starts Keene Fitzpatrick | | Work For Coming Season With | Princcton Candidates. i Princeton, N. J., March 5.—P’rince- ton has not suffered such a great loss | of athletes in track in othe sports | because of enlistments for war vice, and the Tigers are anticipating a successful son on the field this | spring. A schedule is being arranged, and while it may be restricted some- what by financial considerations it will at least include a meet with Col- umbia, participation the Penn re- | lays, the usual interscholastic games { here some time in May and the Cale- | donian interclass games in con- junction with the interscholastic About eighty candidates are re- porting regularly to Coach Keene Fitzpatrick. The Tigers are prepar- | ing for the Meadowbrook games to be | held in Philadelphia next Friday and Saturday. Fitzpatrick is planning to enter about fifteen men, including some members of the freshman squad. | One of the features of the meet will | be a medley relay race between the Tiger cubs and the Yale freshmen, in which the first man runs a quarter of a mile, the second a half, the third three-quarters and the fourth a full mile. The return of Stewart a quarter miler, makes it seem likely that Princeton will have a varsity mile re- lay team to compete in the Penn relays this spring. Fitzpatrick a couple | of weeks ago held plan | te ses a in Stewart and Van Meter. The last two by leaving coll e to enlist compelled Fitzpatrick to change his plans. Princeton’s material is probably not quite as gaod as it would be in normal years. There are only about 750 undergraduates this year, as con- trasted with over 1,500 in normal and about 300 of the 0 are | MeINNIS AT THIRD | Manager Barrow of Red Sox Decides To Play “Stuffy” At Dizzy Corner, Boston, March 5—Jack MclInnis is to play third base for the Red Sox, according to a statement by Rdward Barrow, the manager, vesterday. Mec- Innis is to be tried at third in the South and if he fails there he may be tried at second Plans for the joint spring training trip of the Red Sox and Brooklyn were announced by Barrow. Three games are to be played, on March 17, 24, and 31, at Hot Springs, Ark., where the players are to train, and the teams will then go on the road. The ftliner- ary of the trip is as follows: April 1, Little Rock, Ark.; Aprll 2, Dalias, Tex.; April 3, Waco, Tex.: April 4. Austin Tex.; April 5, Houston, April 6 and 7, New Orleans La.; April 8, Mobile, Ala.; April 9, Birm- ingham, Ala.: April 10, Chattanoooga, Tenn. The advance guard of the local ctub leaves for the training camp Saturday. All of the Boston regulars have signed contracts, it was stated, with the exception of Agnew, catcher, ang Foster, pitcher. P ser- | for a relay | m formed of Capt. Barrett, Larkin, | | | | | { | | Rey N legalize rece prese At the of last and portune time to bring SHEL publican n Inopportunc” Ibany, N Sun any t ses ve re Brooklyn night cauct decided VI SUNDAY Bl TERILES PRAC —Jack Boston JOE LYNCH LOSE Pittsburgh, Pa., March Wimler of Pittsburgh, was given the newspaper decision over Joe Lynch of New York, in their ten round bout herc last night. Wimler forced the fighting throughout, and was given six of the rounds on points. GRIFFITHS TRIMS WELLING. Akron, O., March § fiths of Akron, easily outpointed Joe Welling of Chicago in fifteen bout here last night. BARRY'S Boston, B/ March 5. the Barry, Senators Decide This 1. navy yard am, formerly leader of the Tarch 5 called out candidates for day ball further ntion ion of the legislature, quest of Senator the republican for vesterday the itions o atte at ssion in baseball cage Bader and last year with the Red | 3 at Harvard Pennock, s Lawson senators | Shore, pitchers the question and Rico. catcher last year with dohnny: Grif that f 1 inop it the ston N Ltions | those who appeared. s, were among round TURKISH CIGARETTES ARE MADE ESPECIAELY FOR THE DISCRIMINATING AND EXPERIENCED SMOKER OF HIGH GRADE TURKISH CIGARETTES The blem!ing is exceptional G! KiSH AND HIGHEST RADE TUR| GARETIES IN THE WORLD MAKERS OF THE T EGYPTIAN G a REMENMBER—They no others | 1n th FFICIALS | [ NAVY OFFICIALS PLEASED | Sclection of the Severn for American Rowing \ssociat Regatta Meets Approval. | I wim | Any Md There when a New York of the Na¥al Rowing on. | was night repo ) o inform the \ead that sociation ved from na offici the Americ n re wi sed Griswold represented the § Midshipn W of An- Ameri- York of his the crew, who wpolis at the meeting of seiation N can Rowing i d offici bringing vy ss in > ke The course th of the on t Seve n nish may be No part any A row to- other’s ample splendid ns: crews fndi spectators« 1hove the Navak be infringed: oxpected to see. future: scen fr the om start to rowing tion to or gives of pos any crew. core of crew 1ot may r and The high banks and he Severn give a he racing a ti ons who 1modat h erc fo come as ve course is far it will the crov lemy, and not Ly contests, ] f cflicers both in the i navy and{ the N Corps will have: treat in store for them in the races. mem- crews, to The the Hyuntry sular in serve al Reserve Corps are many ind seasoned nee will add cvent re bers of noted and their enthusiasn I BAGEY INCR Cleveland, TASE. Ba of the vaseball in not. issured it MANDS Marct &- Amer writt Clevelal nd tearn ha Au joining an increase over | last home his um ista, Ga.. te intent the unles aryy learned here PAT SMITH TO FLY. March ‘Pat® Smith, former captain of the University ot Michigan football eleven, will fight from the air instead of in the mavy, Smith, who was at the Great Lgk Naval Training Station for seven months granted his honorabls discharge yesterday that he could transfer to the f FOR YAL New Haven, (hicago was s0 TS ATHLETES. March 5.—Members of the Yale track team, it is announced by the Athletic Couneil of the uni- versity, will be awarded the “Y" thig season. This the first team won- cerning which such an announcement has been made since the abandoning | of formal athletics at Yale on account | of the war CALLAHAN BEATS RITCHIE. Pa., March 5 Brooklyn beating is Frank awve Willie en rognds night. Ca Callahan of Ritchie a bad the Majestic 1an won o ! Wilkesbarre, | | in here pl last sed at e are like Murad.