New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 5, 1918, Page 18

RIS SPEAKER’S CLOUTING BRINGS DEFEAT TO GIANTS—Y. M. C. A. CHAMPIONS TO PLAY GOLDENRODS ON THEIR OWA TATE SENATE VOTES IN FAVOR OF SUNDAY BASEBALL — NEW INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE CIRCUIT IS COMPLETED — SHUBE] 0 L.as’]&elflmll 4 JamesJ.Corbeit ight 1918, By King Features Syndicate, Inc.) ! itor's Note: This is the 39th | of a series of articles which | rbett is writing on “John L. As | w Him.” It relates many fore unpublished incidents in e of the great nstalment will appear warrior. Th tomor- | jk in my corner after the end of th round, I looked over at John studied his condition closely I whispered to Billy Delaney, hiner 1, it's time now for me to 80 | d end the fight.” Eht you are, Jim,” replied De- | ory was within my grasp. John plendid endurance powers had pned under nineteen rounds of | pg and I felt certain that in two or three more rounds I | win for myself the heavyweight | bionship of the world under is of Queensbury rules the bell banged for the 20th I hustled out from iy corner ushed at John L. The champion y went on the defensive. Back- m to the ropes, I began a bom- hent of his head and body. | right in succession land- | ainst his face tollowed by two | to the stomach and then two to the head. Each blow landed | t a return and the crowd in | ouse sensed that the end was | I might have stepped back | and successfully measured the | pion for a final blow. But it plan to devote the 20th | only to reducing John L. to a where victory would be certain 21st er 2 volley of blows, John L. d around the ropes and eventu- to the center of the ring. There ded a left to the face and two to the stomach. KEach punch adding to his grogginess; each g him a little weaker. Using pft and right, I landed on the and head and was beating a b on the stomach as the bell the round. u've got him now, Jim,' Delaney. “knd the fight in the round.” whis- | .« .o t then William A 7 ger, turned around to the news- - boys and said m hasn’'t put his full strength 1 blow as yet He can win in round that he chooses and T the 21st round is the one he is ng.” ¢ .. e gong banged the call for the round and I jumped from my PAVOR SUNDAY BALL | York State Senate Passes the basure, 26-20—Bill Now Before sembly—OCities Must Take Option. ‘ i bany, April 4.—The battle against i ay baseball in this state last night conceded lost by those who have fighting the Lawson-Kiernan bill. i yesterday pd the Sunday baseball bill by a | of 26 to 20. It will proceed ta | ssembly, where it is expected to ! by a far greater majority. That | broor Whitman will sign it is taken | ranted ! e law will have a local option | e whereby each community will | [de for itself whether it wants | day baseball or mnot. The legis- | be bodies of practically every ci he state, New York and Buffalo | ng them, r support of Sunday baseball. Tho | is of primary importance to W ik with its three major league basc clubs, which now will be able to } Sunday games. th embly follows the lead .f senate in passing the Lawson bi result will be not only the playing najor league championship games Sunday at the Polo grounds and etts field in New York City and oklyn, respectively, but will enable hundreds of semi-professional ns throughout the state to ente their patrons on Sunday ns without resorting to the of charging for score g brought to court for violating | Blue law he p ge of the bill and its ag val by the governor will be an nt of rejoicing for the thousands workingmen who are prevented | Im seeing ball games on week days he n of the te i afternoon the senate | " pDroY asure is regarded as a not for the masses of people ars, have been steadily fling themselves of their right to ic entertainment and recreation the seventh da | INNESOTA CAPTAIN ENLISTS, rge Hauser Football and Track Enters Naval Office School. | | dinneapolis, April 5—George Haus- | captain of the 1917 University of | nnesota football team and star | t-putter, will enter the naval offi- | & material training school at cago, it was announced yesterday. ¢ is the fourth Minnesota star to the school, the others hmm:l BaGillen, basisetball champion; { i | Corbett was waiting for. i the me place. already have indicated | { Stallings yesterday. corner and met John L. ne wearily came out from Every ineldc the fight is burned indelibly in my brain ose few minutes stand out as the most momentous of my ca- yeor. They were lived more than 23 vears ago vet not one detail has gone from my memory. 1 could tell the | story of the finish of that fight in my own way, but it seems to me that the rest thing to do is to quote from the unblased newspaper accounts of that contest d here they are: ROUND TWENTY-ONE illivan came out of his corner slowly and as the two men got into close quarters Corbett feinted with a left as if it was intended for the stomach. The champion was tricked into dropping his guard to protect the stomach and this was the chance The Cali« fornian put his whole force into a right hander that crashed full against the jaw of the champion. It was the first really hard punch that Corbett had attempted to land throughout the fight. pact of the blow, but, by splendid courage, kept to his fect. Realizing that the end of Sullivan was only minute or so away, Corbett, like panther, was on Sullivan. The Cali- fornian began to rain a shower of blows upon the head and body of the dazed and beaten champlon. “Under the Corbett attack, Sulli- van, sroggy and staggering, dropped his guard. Corbett shot a left to the fac following with three more to Steadying himself, the Californian put the whole weight of his body into a right hander which landed flush on the jaw of Sullivan. The champion reeled, at- tempted feebly to regain his balance —and then fell full on his face to the | allivan lay on the eree Duffy had counted off seven Then, weak and blood be- smeared, he made a pitiful effort to | arise. Supported his hands he got as far as his knees. In attempting to get to an upright position he top- pled forward and lay there. had stepped back and was waiting | to resume the attack if John L. again got to his feet. But it was an un- necessary precaution. The champion who had reigned for ten vears was dethroned. “Corbett, the ‘Kid from California’, had accomplished what no fighter over a ten year period had Leen able to perform. He had beaten the mighty John L. Sullivan without receiving even a scratch and through 21 rounds of fighting had not been | hit more than one real blow.” (To Be Continued Tomorrow) HERZOG ON FENCE. Kees Haughton, But Still Fails to Sign Contract, Columbia, §. C., April 5-—After another conference between Charley Herzog and Percy Haughton of the Boston club yesterday, the announce- ment was given out that the pair | again had falled to reach an agree- | ment, Haughton left for the North | immediately afterward. There 1s a tip that Herzog has accepted terms with the elub and awaits a new form contract to be sent from Boston. omitted. The Boston olub refused to extend the contract and could not under the rules of the National Com- | mission tender him a contract with | {P€ third Liberty the ten day clause out of it. They offered Charley a $3,500 bonus for this season and that is the-bait which said to have landed Herzog. Bunny Hearne, the Toronto pitcher bought by the Braves, reported to Bunny still likes to refer to the twenty inning score- less tie between Toronto and Jersey City several years ago in which he worked the full twenty innings. CARDINALS GET KELLY. Catcher Who Figured in Famous O'Toole Deal Up Again, St. Louis, April 5.—William Kelly, catcher, who went to the Pittsburgh Nationals several years azo in the tamous deal for Marty O'Toole, has signed a contract to play with the St. Louis Americans this season. Kelly was O’'Toole’s battery mat when he s purchased by Pit Last season Kelly was with the Toronto club of the International ague. When that league disband- Kelly became a free agent. burgh. FLYNN-DEMPSEY BOUT OFF. St. Louls, Mo., April 5.—The eight round boxing contest between Jack Dempsey and “Porky” Flynn, heavy- weights, scheduled for next Monday night, has been eancelled following an announcement by Chief of Police Young that the promoters would be arrested if the fight were staged MII/TON STOCK JOINS PHILLIES, St. Petersburg, Fla., April 5—Mil- ton Stock, the Philadelphia Nationals’ infielder and one of the three remain- ing holdouts on the squad, joined the team at the training camp here yes. terday. No word has been re- ceived from Niehoff or Whitted. SPEAKER'S HITTING of that final mmml Sullivan reeled under the im- | John L. | floor until | Corbett | other | i got five Herzog demanded an extension of | Victory for the Yankees over the Bos- his contract with the ten day clause | HELPS INDIANS WIN Tris Uses Bludgeon With Eliect Against Giants | | Dallas, Tex.. April 5.—Tris Speak- | e’s blg bludgeon proved too for the Gia much vesterday and the National league afternoon, champions for the first reverse in 1918 by the Cleveland were keeled ove Indians. The Indians played some | ball against the lads from Island and won the first contest of | the ten game training trip series by | a score of 4 to 1. ! ncidence, the Giants lost the first game of their exhibition serics to the Detroit Tige last year the same score. Speaker was the deciding factor He supplied the real dynamite to the Cleveland batting. The famous Texan Xnocked out two doubles, and drove in three of his team’'s four runs. Fred Anderson, supposedly the | most advanced of the Giant pitchers, | went six inhings against Fohl's men and was prodded pretty hard, es- pecially in the fifth, when the In- s knocked out two doubles and singl all clean line hit But a great catch by Burns in this By a strange co- | inning and a fine throw to the plate by Kauff, which nailed Speaker, the net Cleveland damage would have been much greater. Andy yielded | four doubles and six singles in six innings, and only the sharpest xund} of support prevented Cleveland from piling up a larger score. The score r. h. e Glants 000100000—1 6 1 Cleveland 10003000x—4 10 © Anderson, Sallce and Rariden and McCarty; Coveleskie, Lambeth and ' Neil. | Sox Trim Robins. Austin, Tex., April P Red Sox made a battir the ninth game with the Brooklyn Dodgers on the University field yes- terday, winning by a 10 to 4 score The series now stands'7 to 2 in Bo ton’s favor. The short fences were 11e for the American league Sharp- shooters and they bombarded the barrier with a concerted fire that | made the 1,500 students from the | aviation school, who were guests of the clubs, talk about a German at- | e The Red Sox poled out nineteen hits off Griner and Creney, Uncle | itubbie’'s pair of spitball aces. Hooper | Jammed Griner's first offering over the short left field fences for the circuit and tripled in the fourth with two men on. McInnis also poled one over the left field barrier in that in. ning. Wyckoff did the same with s pitching in the eighth. Dave | as the swatting king of the | The new Sox second baseman hits In five times at bat. They all were clean drives over the inficld, three to left field and two to | right. Hooper got a homer, a triple | and a single, and called it a day. The score: r. h.oe ! Boston 101411011—10 19 2 Prooklyn . 200000020— 4 13 1 Bush, Wyckoff and Mayer and hang; Griner, Cheney and Krueger. Yanks Still Winning. Orangeburg, S. C., April 5.—Eleven innings, and the fourth consecutive ionals, by a score of 3 to 2. tells only the half of this big- | day in the history of Orange- | a day in which the opening of | Loan campaign shared the interegt of the countrystde with the visit of the major league clubs and their real major league ex- | hibition. There are only 2,600 souls t1 Orangeburg, but the contest was watched by more than 3,500 persons. | The score: i New York 00000002001—3 10 1 Boston 00020000000—2 8 1 Russell, Mogridge and Hannah and | Ruel; Ragan, Hughes and Henry. White Sox Held to Omne Hit. Houston, Tex., April 5.—This com- munity bid farewell to the White Sox yesterday and with true South- | ern hospitality beat the world’s cham- pions, 6 to 0. The Sox got only one | hit, which was made in the fifth in- ning by Mel Wolfgang. The red- | headed pitcher horned Into the con- | test because Buck Weaver had been | called north yesterday by the death of his father. The Houston club took the four zame series, three to one, two of the victorles being by a 1 to 0 score. The game was decided on the mer- | its of batting alone. neither side mak- ing an error. Three triples and two doubles helped the Houstonians pile up their tallies. The score: | r. h e Chicago 000000000—0 1 0 Houston .. 10110102%—6 11 0 Taber, Willlams and Schalk; Smith- son, Glenn, Myatt and Noyes. Reds Break the Ice. Wichita Falls, Tex., April 5.—The Cincinnati Nationals after three stralght defeats came back at the De- trolt Tigers here yesterday afternoon and scored a 5 to 3 victory. The score: Detroit {A.) Cincinnati (N.) Hall, Kallio, Jones and Yelle; R ther, Eller and Wingo, Allen. A Handy Mor — THINKING OF NAOTHING IN PARTICULAR OH LUCE' Do You' KNOW WHERE MY FISHING RoOD 1S ? 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