The evening world. Newspaper, March 2, 1904, Page 8

PLACKE, HOLLAND vi Se Tall. Giant from Holland Would Like to Meet Winner of| the Jim Jeffries-Jack Munroe Match—Has Had)! Twenty-eight Battles and Won Every One of; Them—Big Fellow Over Six Feet JEFFRIES WIbLbkING TO GIVE PbACKE A FIGHT. “Jeffries will gladly accommodate Placke with a fight, but he will have to wait until after the Munroe battle, and the winner will then meet him. In the mean time Placke must agree not to meet any one between now and then.” —BILLY DELANEY, Manager Jim Jeffries. f BV KNOCKOUT. SS‘ of pigknickles and sauerkraut! Are we to have a Dutch heavy-weight champion of the world? Herr Henri J. Placke, ponderous as the Colossus of Rhodes; broader chested than even our champion of champions, the mighty boiler- maker; a-paw on him that would dwarf the world-famed “mitt” that ¢arved John \., Sullivan’s way to fame and fortune, is with us hot on the war-path after the laurels that don Jim Jeffries’s brow. 5 Placke came at once to The Evening World office, issued a challenge to Jeffries and was posed before an Evening World camera. CHALLENGES GALORE. He was dumped off the steamship Rotterdam onto Father Knicker- bocker's shores with the ghosts of our Dutch forefathers lined up to do him homage. Placke is the heavyweight- champion of Holland, according to a busy Press agent who ie placarding the highways and byways in the van of the “sauerkraut champion.” Y Tf size makes champions Mr. Placke {s certainly “there. He looks More a wrestler tKan a fighter with the exception of his legs, which are the legs of a fighter. CAN GET A FIGHT. Placke can undoubtedly be acoommodated with a fight, but he will have to wait until after the Jeffres-Munroe battle, next May, and then fight the winner, eS Both Jeffries and Munroe say, they will be only to> ‘ Dutch championship in their records, ay In the meantime both men stipulate that Placke keep away from tie other heavy-weights, who will no doubt be hankering after the Holland wy-weight title, 'ORN IN NEW ZEALAND. Plecke was born in New Zealand on Feb. 18, 1870. F® otands 6 feet § 1-3 inches in his stocking fest arid weighs 250 pounds, Sealdes being the ahempion heavy-weight pugilist of Holland-he is also a long-distance swim- mer. He first begen fighting when he was eighteen years old. He boxed @ number of pugilists in New Zealand and beat them all. ‘The firet pattie! which he had was in 1888, when he met young Graham and defeated him | te eleven rounds. ‘Then he tackled Harry Woods and bested him in four rounds. A few! teonths later he met Billy Delaney and imocked him out tm legs than one Found. All of these contests took place in New Zealand. In the following | year Placke met William Fisher, eon of the Mayor of Wellington, and beat him in one'round. WENT TO AUSTRALIA, j After this battle Placke sailed for Sydney, Australia, where he re- f@ained for a couple of years. While in that country Placke fought Dick Barker and put him away in eleven rounds. Placke ‘then went to San Fran-/! cisco, where he beat Starlight, the colored heavy-weight of Australia, in one round. Placke did no more fighting unt!) 1897, when he fought an unknown fm Holland and beat him in three rounds, Placke has not engaged in a bat- te since that time. i Placke a t Blaen ays he has fought twenty-eight battles, and has won every one TIME” SAVED PARR | IN JENKINS BOUT bd (Spacta] to The Evening World. | Buss: March 2.—Like a : Jenkins threw Parr one fall in twenty minutes and thirty seconds and had the Britisher at his mercy in the last two | minutes of their match, in wi | ponderous neck-twister trom ‘Choveleng | lion roaring his challenge through the forest Tom Jenkins, the Amer- fean champion, was a loser in one sense ef the word and a winner in another when he stepped from the ring here last night after his handicap match with Jim Parr, the plucky Englishman. Wrestling would have sent Jenkins on Bull's most skilful mat artists, NEW ORLEANS ENTRIES. NEW ORLEANS. March 3.—The on. Hes for to-morrow's races are as fol. lows | HANLON TOO FAST - FOR “AID DECKER “gingerncigy Pa, March 2.—Ed- First Race—Mile ard seventy yarv yurne. st oh | Holeetic Seotch Thistie second: Race die Hanlon, the Pacific Coast champion, made his debut tn the| Merry Sp tte oS ae East last night at the National A 5 where he fought George Decker, one «| p,Plird Race—One mile: selling a ¥ Hanlon proved that he |s! Rarnacie mer in-which he fought last night wi ‘Fevelation to the prize-ring. followe: 101 y 101 Ik was only Deckeria| ,»ifvufh Race—atiie and seventy yards: that kept him {rom Mh Carter vs. 07 Burning Ginae 0 |. 48 he took a beats 1} Telcle 02 Dainch-that would ha b ime sCount Bm Gut. 108 vee 10 eisterginger uz : Fifth Race—Mile and seventy yarde; nell- Ine ver mile... MM Golden Medium. 97 ’ a astener, am ern Neither One 104 tennis promises to be a more oo reat sport the coming season in “ea tipi a! Eversey than ever before in the ce—Six furlongs: selling. is .way victor over one of gonnny | tac WAYNE VS, REEDER. PITTSBURG,. Pa, March 2—Dave| Wayne, of Allegheny, has signed arti« cles to meet Jimmy Reeder. of Altoona Marah 2 at Greensburg, six rounds, the winner to get 75 per cent. PEACRE'S POSITION WHEN BOXING (ican toa wa mie se aus ue eees| | LRT ARM: SWING BGR HEAD: CHAMPION, HERE AFTER FIGHT WITH CHAMPION JIM JEFFRIES. Hl BIG L ‘ lg H OLD- ¥ few years, but when one Windy Clty man can “hold up” the ¥ magnates of two such powerful organizations as the American, and National Leagues, and get away with the trick, he certainly is entitled | to the big end League in the | point of view, chair of a Pul ments were © of C Tom Jenkins, the ed to meet in ‘ontest on or kins will positt h. will t to be th their last wrestled two a Frank 8) O'Ne! OLD 45 Years a ot me, + Tni . folly i nization oft a 18 Association, NF ranted anced. alse Bet ft 117 BAST 177! CHAMPIONS MEET NEXT WEEK ON MAT world 5a coin for the style ed in the fir fa ———— O'NEIL ON COMMITTEE. | captain of last Baseball t Dr. GREY Special DISEASES OF M Fe he: aw tn * all arranges champion hampion of $raceo-Roman grapplers, hay a mixed sty » Fania yt At a conference held to-day at the) P Fifth Avenue Hotel between mann, President of the Cinoinnati team of the National League, Joe Kelly tain o fthe Reds, and Ned Hanlon, man- ager of the Brooklyn team Mor- cape | n Ly a stages | aied by! ‘aay s. mare. Hours, 9-9: Sunday, OB. > MEDICINE which takes place the second week in March at Marlboro, ui When the a aie, of the Cincinnati team, to the| had a written elub, i the case at the price paid by Hi rs was not ann that the but tt is they will have to me to make 5 ter ie and will act as manager of the| everything will his year. Waabsiecoutt! HOW PLACKE SHAPES. UP IN FIGHTING TOGS. FLY-CASTING AT | * All day Monday the moguls who wear the insignia of the American of the Fifth Avenue Hotel and talked over the baseball situation from their Somewhere up New York State, reclining lelsorely in a cushioned James Hart, of Chicago. BERGEN AND POOLE SOLD |s:*." National League, was due in this city 6n Monday, but to midnight last night he had failed to make his appearance, a telegram from him bearing the announcement that he was snowbound, Without him the schedule committees could not act. The most important featuro of the day's proceedings, however, developed after the arrival of ¢ 7 verything will right itself during the nieeting of the two bodies. I expect, ern| however, that another meeting of the Peace Commission will be called. and that end of the two lexgues' sessions, he said: . ie Dn for the two) “After the schedules are adopted by the Joint committees of the two leagues YY “- IPTON i to be ratified by the two leagues as a body. “It will then bo up bff ‘HE L 2 | —_ Jolin McGraw, manager of the Giants, arrived in the clty yesterday and made Accustomed as they are to all kinds of weather, the lowering skies and br underfooting of yesterday did not inv terfere with those who ctowded the Sportemen’s Blow. The afternoon's fiy-casting contest was for accuracy, E, C. Leonard, the y aster, could only -make contest, which was won * nice, of New York, with 2-5. Brandreth, of Ossin- in ag second, with 962-5, and Mr. nard, of Central Valley, N. ¥., wae 96. champion fly a third in the by KB. Law! S REACH AND BIG HAN FAGUES HELD UP Vi BY ABSENCE OF HART UPS” in Chicago have been uncommon occurrences the last | of the purse and whatever glowy accompanies it. lapels of their waistcoats sat in session in one of the rooms Iman smoker, and looking wut of the car windows, his eyes ( who is one of the Committee on Rules and Schedule of the rry Herrman, chairman of the Peace Commission. put point blank to Mr, Herrman as to whether he h hin on the Sunday ball question or would decide juestion decision my derision, V | be satisfactorily arranged between the two leagues before the \ = g 4 e b nnouncement that he would play Roger Bresnahan at third base aN THREE MATCHES HOCKEY ning for his fight with Young Kelly, a strong Nght Nght “waterproof, durable and in ‘The Brooklyn Hockey Club 1s making thia year, and Harry McCormick, the new outfelder secured from the Jeruey City an) tean, would be played in centre garden. = -. 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