The evening world. Newspaper, February 21, 1905, Page 6

| SPORTS. EDITED BY” TUCKER MEETS {MURPHY TO- MORROW ; “IN MANY RINGS. | -| ROBERT EDGREN WEIGHT CAUSES, NELSON TROUBLE Is Now Six and a Half Pounds Above the Figure at Which He Is to Meet. Young Core NING wait bett. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb, 21.—Young OConbett and Battling Nelson are making the hamest fight of thelr lives aguinst too much weight, and the latter has fou tt necessary to begin dleting hime elf so as to get within the 190 pounds within a week. He tipped the scales last night at 1361-2 and to smake off ix and one-half pounds in seven dager mo is by no means an easy task, Corbett has been 6; trained down and it will not be neces sary for him to cut down his food om to visit the “‘#weat-box."” His trainers say he will be down to the 130 mark two days before the battle, Great crowds are viaiting the training Grounds of the uwo fighters daily, mut hundrede of them find it impossible to got a took alt either Corbett op Nelson, The tew who have been ale lowed to get a view of Cothett aay, HIS will be the best week the fighting game has seen for some time. There will be two great battles between little men tn Philadelphia, The first, to-morrow afternoon, will be between Chick Tucker and Tommy Murphy. The other, Friday ‘will bring out Abe Attell and that he was shape ip Hanlon. and that Neleon wilt | tary & much mone Ban Francisco, a week from to- diMoult tesk in disposing of the Young Corbett and Battling Nel- Jad this time than he ia ia te pies ht again, Both of these little fel- lane ‘Corbet fully Mint Weare 80 well known to sporting men ‘wit! go into oblivion, wtale if he At is almost useless to comment on he will have an ae tor a fespective merits, As a matter of ura that ee tt, 1; they seem to be very evenly 1 the hee relight, hmoulty 2 wetting \ Battling Nelson is ut his best, and the prevailing odds now Paha! : @8 good a record as Corbett, @ practical knockout of that or himself in ten rounds, Young t has been working with might in to get back to his ancient ened wet Corbett HANDICAP FOR TENNIS SPURS ‘The semi-final counde were regdhed | yesterday in the tennis tournament i nrogress for the indoor championship @t the Seventh Regiment Armory, The: day was @ poor one for indoor tennis, however, as the light was dim and the players became go numbed from’ cold that {t was impossible ¢or them to alsow truo: form. Wylle Cameron Grant, the presend champion; R. H. Palmer and B. 7, to 8 with Nelson the favorite. money in’ this Tucker-Murphy affair !s the ne fight for New Yorkers just /Murphy is’ a good little: fighter, isH't enough cleverness to amount ng, but he lkes the game, il inde a show. of him, yet in a @ less clever, opponent he good. Ho has a falr ‘punch, GRIFFITH'S METHOD OF eeecee:| FOOLING BUNT HITIERS an land it effectively, Then i vie willing and anxious tb get _ TUCKER IS ONLY 5 FEET TAILL—MURPHY IS 4 INCHES BIGGER, | it; He kes to mix matters, |} TOMMY FIGHT i HNER “CHICK” TUCKER SMALLEST MAN IN EIGHT GAME TO-DAY i; Avonia A, ©, Featherweight Who Meets Murphy To-Morrow Afternoon Is Only Five Feet Tall ik Highlanders’ Manager Will Try to Teach His, Din tomas ety Staff of Youngsters How to Do It. M feason Tommy Murphy is Qs he is in the ring he MURPHY TUCKER {s another of the same He Ukes @ walloping, and hand one out, He is a ne follow, and’ at tere he sends them in so it Is hard for even @ clever seep out of danger. m One of a fighting game- in’ boxing. clev 8 be ia per- BY BOZEMAN 0, BULGER. When the Highlanders’ pitching sta: arrives In Montgomery, Ala., on Mare 1, Clark Griffith proposes to teach h @ rule are lost on the ordinary roote young pitchers, and a few of the old ones, wome tricks of the trade that as When 4he, young. pitcher, sees an ex- it the batter {s almost at the pitcher's mere: | Gril Chesbro and other famoi h|Mitohers claim phat the spit-pall is the is| most difficult of all to bunt, as “broaks'’ so suddenly that the éye ca’ not tollow its inclination, Nothing ‘‘ratties" a pltoher ag much as the Inauguration of a series of bunis on the’ part’ of his opponents, he fears that he may fail to field the\slow t 3| ROBERT WILL BE PICKED BY IN THURSDAY'S EVENING “Chick” Tucker, the Avonia A. C. feather-weight who 1s to fight “’Tom- my" Murphy, in a 'six-round bout be- ! fore the National A. C. to-morrow af- ‘ternoon, is the smallest fighter in the EDGREN fers of fighters in the world, will. be Tucker's chief adviser. A epecial train which will take the New Yorkers to the mill, leaves the Pennsyivania Rallroad station in Jer: sey oy at 1 Py) M. Dewhurst gained thelr places in tio singles; while in the doubles Grant and Dewhurst won because of the de- fault of Frederick C, Anderson and 8, 6. H. Pendergast, of the Kings County Club entry, a SQUADRON SHOOTS WELL, WORLD. pert bunter come to the bat and knows |ring towday, He stands only five feet hit ball, and that he might throw 1t behind the Harlem fighter, reasonably well that such Js ‘his DUI! wide, alt Ohi al’? i high. ‘Joe Walcott, who for a long Squaviron A defeated the Seventy : rad Pa isi pose, he will be in a: holo unless he Fea fa thin and fe iter tO fovate| OMMY MURPHY and “Chick Tucker, of the Avonia ils ay pribers Lae the. ahonteat, first Regiment in their revolver. mately ' » harder ve 4 \ rr ons. th pro 7 . | yesterday by 11 points, ‘The Squad. knows the things which GrMth pro- | [or Rat reag proposes to round b 4 fi on este! ry po if : vive his pitchers thorougnly’ trained, A.C, six-round bout to-morrow afterno ness, 1s 5 feet 1) : total of end reste, ar a poses to Simpart to his twirling staff. /as'to know what to do under auch try | C., fight in a PURUBE A tne DBMSHE 4 Seventy Ast Sor, abiberyns «. A walst high ball whether straight or curving elther way ja easy to “put down," as bunting is known to base- hall. players, The reason for this is obvious. ‘The successful bunter holds his dat on a horizontal level and when the ball comes at the same height at which the bat. 1s held it is compara- tively easy to give it a dead stroke, by holding the bat loosely in the hands. Without momentum behind it the ball will spin around on the ground some- where between the first and thixd base line and the home plate, ‘A drop ball unless it has phenomenal specd is algo easily bunted, de the bat- ter oan follow the curve with a eye. A high incurve which clips the corner Ing circumstances, First of all, however, the pltonen| must Jearn to know the batter's pure pore when he comes to the plate, The standing of the esta 4s to score, and the situation +h uch to do with de- signing what the sbaiter will do, but seventy-five per cent, of Be batters | “give thomselves away" by the manner in which they hold the "oat A foul) Up disconcerts the batter more than| the piicher, as dis “play’ has been exposed, Frequently the batter then Attempts to drive the ball out, and in his discomfiture often stirkes out, The expression of a plicher "pitoning | with his head" arose from the more {n« telligent pitchers studying t viduality of batters more th thelr own work, This Is regarded as the se-| cret of a pitcher's success, | ere Was at one time a successful | pitcher named Schmitt who had no ap-| inches, in Philadelphia. The Avonia A. C. is located in the || ; ; . | lke We rf h of Tucker's suc- lower part of the city, No. 173 Christopher street, and the |) Jo", aue to nis size, He ts hard Polo A. C., of which Murphy is the pride, is in Harlem; hence }/ 0 hs, parculariy, won ie ned there is a sectional rivalry over the product of each organiza- [Body punches ecem out ofthe question Tucker's ime adva 101 9 tion, This has led to betting on the result of the bout. Node- |! ciner way, tt enabies him to alight cisions are permitted, according to the Pennsylvania laws, and || vrder® taller onpoten’s guard and betting under such conditions is unsatisfactory unless a knook- |) Tucker hay a great punch for a chap lel | o: his inches; in fact he ts one of the out is scored, Then a decision is unneccessary. The followers of Murphy and Tucker are betting, anyway. They want a de- cision rendered, and many have requested that Robert Ed- gren. The Evening World's sporting editor and pugilistic ex- it} The rivalry between the and the. Avonia A. C, frame up. WILLIE LEWIS |= Joe Gans, the Mght-welght champion of the world, and Willie Lewis, New York's best light-weight, have been | matched to battle for the world's cham- | Plonship before the Eureka Athletic Club of Baltimore the second week in March. | Thia will be the first championship | contest that has been desided in the| Eadie Hanlon have fought be- fore, and they ‘have each other - eigedup, This will be a hot baty tle, Attell, for all his cleverness, hasn't that Terry MoGovern punch that put Hanlon RUPTURED gE. PEOPLE COME TO ME, Dr. Ge0.B.Wix. his" pyaten TRUSSES f treating rupt peepee! |stiffeat punchers in the profession. He has been fighting over six years and has | East since Terry McGovern and Young | the splendid record of twenty-six knocks | | Corbett fought at Hartford, The title outs to his credit. He has fought men lat stake this time will be in the lght- many pounds heavier than himself and |welght class, the men having agreed to has managed to win out by his terrific | welgh 133 pounds at 3 o'clock, y he lands it on the @ dull thud as the struck out, tter's | parent +4 ig . re Gans, who {8 at present on the Pacific ‘away Inst year, | of the phate at the height of the ba per Ne WOU a arity eee oxcent | ve it. Mr. Edgren will be at the ringside when the boys | °°": hate aring Corbett for ‘ away y shoulder is exceedingly diMoutt to bunt, | 77) Whe cLRTeTGe Nurity of his games, | ’ | Murphy Inches Bigger coast, where he Is preparing | Beat tun ot] 02 1% will bo a foul elpht vines oUt CE /an indexed ook in which every. gehe |[ begin their battle, He will watch every blow delivered and {| juni inenee Blager. bis eit with Saas scnaty sued a |] WILL NOT [RH ted : ree such fouls put the batter | known batter's name appeared,” When Fe A tale i ‘ ‘ Day i i Nit a Ree ices i | iinet] BOS aod if tio ball Is low enough to De Schmit noteed what i of s atl cer: | landed, and in the course of his artiole in Thursday's Evening J stands 8 er ¢ snoven. Ho ts 4 good Dw, Seika dion UY abi, he BubtuRe 2am ee Geeta | ly. 8 punisher, winging a ne would register 1 reat ' 4 |two-hande , cl] he champl had issued his def, | pend PI HALE ina Thvslelan to eons im, le wi ry down and nenrly out | called a strike without his swing! Bile knee han ooeeee Ae Aniladsi- 11 World will say who, in his opinion, is entitled to the honor that |!is capable of taking a beating, etter he, ol New Yorks wn, Urey CUE Yet star at, MF chin, His fet) | dey, and mitt, ibef ‘ i | Both fighters will be handled by two /1n the past year been fighting in cham- THEO. BRAABCH) 34 Central av., hard an base ’ fash arn rt fs He gp || 008 to the winner, Get Thursday's Evening World and see} wainown nancrs ot pus fonne| ova or, ish ir” ttn | Hah EAA tia Br i ne} caus a! e) ve i lt : Mike Jobn L. Sulll- PARR § BACKERS and the batter wine roary of tte Edgren’s verdict. jy Oliver will look atter Murphy, whtle| rite ‘aid’ not accomplish. in twenty try Tuthill, one of the greatest hand- | five, placed him at the top of the lad- Ha pool See ie hae among Eastern light-welghts, op wand | oats x imatter of condition, 1 = | mene gpegIALisn : Formerly Chemie, Electro 3 — | RT 2 Ny, tena READY M0 bt |] dicen Moura? oa‘ar tone Bal and ¢ i RS tof PM "tain i] TLLU! STRATED ook TREE, ’ Way of living, he over At. national wrestling match a speculative medium, the inter- at between ton boy was almost enough. ‘The Inat | Jer after fifteen rounds of fast Aghting | Stone, of New York, had the misfortune AIDS AUTOISTS |: gan Keep the shadow on|Frank Gotch, champion of America, and four rounds were a give and take period, |Jast night, Both men finished strong, | to run against a lad who has just dis- that are suffering froin four or f¥e tounds will | sim Parr, Hngland's title-holder, prom- (Special to The Evening World.) with honors even ‘on start to Anish Svdney led, andl covered that he possesses a righthand |/eny gbeolal cone ate tofnish him in tho|iseq the bigest thing in local sporting] PHILADELPHIA, Pa,, Feb. 21.~Tin- It not been for Deshler's cleverness ort ang who pines, to. experiment emer |Tany diseases, of, private tay cirslee since the’ racing season Sloped.) cenning was "Young Bene's’ whole SYD EY WINS WINS [Have gowe theviimit, "wt WOMA Never vith it dast night, Willie Sprackiin, of| WASHINGTON, Feb. 2,—Prosident feclal chat with me and Ia ‘the. ‘wonderful new record-| All Broadway is interested in the con-|stunt lagt night when he faced Kid Sul- | Mir Bay Windsor, was the puncher, In the! Roosevelt has signed the Platt-Goulden | Megteonn thet has cured ier from Georgetown, will be |test, which is to be decided at Sulzer’s jlivan, of Washington, | PRACKLIN PUNCH fourth round he knocked Stone through bill, which 48 an amendment to Section Thacher vealed i “Now York to-night, wWe|Harlom River Casino next Friday| Sullivan, who is an aggressor pure, | FROM DESHLER S thw ropes twice, Later ho repeated this 42, of the United States RRevinad EMule Rate tie ie i B oecial seventy-yard dash | night. bored into Erne like a driil, Erne an five times, He put Stone on the mat, |Siatutes, permitting ferries to transport A cure VAMCOCELE in ; Games, Twenty-seoond | ‘The task Gotch hna undertaken—to | relish It, and in onfer 9 avoid Sulll | ' rf | PUT STON STONE OUT andl when he was through in the elghth {automobiles using gasoline as a motive /SPRICTURI. In. 10. Any * aS Belts only'a short | throw Parr twice within an hour—ts|-van's dangerous half-arm swings and (Special to ‘The Evening Wor) | they had to carry Stone to his chair and|power, and allowing automobiles to ie CUtUIAK Jer stretching: pw le & new world's ad WEBSTER, Mass., Feb. 21.—In one LOOD POIs! ‘recor for| considered a severe one for the Ameri-| hooks he depended solely on his left i ost sele 01 help him from the ring, ‘The New move on and off the boat by their own ut mereury er_potaeh ed UD a iS eae college men expect to |* back of the fastest and most ntifle bow ‘iy 1 pe ut mercury, ee eae the famous Arthur | (cam, and Parr will have many backers) Time and time again he shot It intolever ween here Bred Svdney (Special to The Evening World Yorker outclassed Spracklin in the first |/DUwer TRE Aan SeRtT Tite Tbe k (Cnt HEAODER aka Kip H ondt tio the’ coming summer’ seat | ®t the tingeide ready to snap up | the Kid's face, and try as hard as i awarded the decision over Dave » Desh DETROIT, Mich, Feb. @—Jimme | pyuag ata cen daed co nuching, Ee | We nig bill iar the, teint of a SUA PARRENT it ever monoy is offered, a soe eae ts hd oteerese was In rather poor condition and was TOY. J | eer OG. one and enlarend, He ut veRECTY Parr has been training at Buffalo| could Sullivan could not get close| further handicapped by Sprackiints |movemont of the Automodile Club Ne ptr HN cured without tho als of a knife, ' since the match was made a few weekS| enough to do d E th I peaGhin HePPh ets 8) <PPhe S\ America. It will afford relief from the WRAKNDESES of any kind Suis 9 ago, and reports from there say that) @ ic Neat any EB A Peach, aes |past annoyance experienced by automo, pently in, 40° ta, 3) day COWS Kod is in better shape than ever before, led to jab and get away, | Dilist aving their ima gis When all others ie The Dig ‘ingiishiman weil i the| Sullivan was unable to show his true! ‘FORBES WINS IN or pusied on and off ferry-boats ane CARI TAKEN, ee, & ah y hoo OFT OY 1 Erne’ r oties, Sa cy ap! ITP if you cannot call it the Jamatoa Bay Yacnt| Bison City Tah i at worth owlng to Erne's evasive tactics | yt HW By wil to told Gunday at Houana's| MENS Ando” is yarnia here Ml i (and, while he was willng enovath, hv THE LAST ROUND; “AST OUTDOOR SKATING. DR, R. MACKENZIE, 4 yotch. still in the ¥ at, but will|could not avold the jabbing left, and i | | Sten ERS, \_340 Ww Hn St. New York, make the start for w ork ON laithoueh Erne landed the majority of What bably will be the last big Involve an Whanesday night, arriving here on wiper : hat probably ast big Of $5,000, and would make} Thursday night jthe blows he was a entitled to BMY) kg ot clock to-night Rear Admiral, spersed with the flags of all nations, al (Spectal to The othe Bvening World.) outdoor skating meet of the season will] “OLD DR. GRINDLe | 0 taal the site. Dredging, ———_ 1 Sreceh 2 BORO UE C1 Hla canlUre ts cseph Bs Copbians Wil8,/Nii temoun In OF Which is reflected In the big lagoon | INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb, 2h—Harry ‘take place Rriday night at, Beacon ¥ 6 YRARS 4. SPRCLALIGT IN hyd stiveway. cribs and a stand up and fight, Sullivan showed |J08ePh B. Costa deldent, will oor. ‘the prevailing color | Forbes, of Chicugo, and Paddy Noe, of! Rink, One Hundred and alxth iy slentitie Yreatment at)! 7 1 aaeatee ATHLETIC GAMES FOR BOYS. | ne was there to do business, but his | 00 ‘ res Lie Sot Bonk 3 We trent Pionee and Pib’sburg, met here last night ina ten- at permanently | opponent thought other Andie epee S Bow at xtadinon feellng Miike being on a sum-|?und bout. Forbes received the de- | fo Ronee nete EY CHAMPIONS MEET,| ‘he first annual games and reception| the boy from the capital ety goes the| aNd Sportsmen's Show at Madison » trip In the woods, cision in the last round, ‘The fight was | {ng Club utter from ‘ Soya’ Athletic r Fe Square Gamten, With him will be his “prom the contre of the main. floor | witsosue 00) people, who evidently one-mile novice, ht tracted, ner A f the Boys’ Athletic Assoctation of | credit witiussed by people, whi lently : compleime, ' Bt, Ignatius Loyola's Church” will be{ Tere Martin beat Johnny Dugan in staff, @ large number of army and hore Jy the bluvest Ingoon over erect | Wer, not Anpreased With, (i exhibition, Obe-mile handicap fore, throat ekey giants clash on tho tco to. | St. Isnatin Loyola's Church w © the semi-windup, . navy officials and more than @ score of od Indoors, containing 0 half'a mtll-| as throughout the several bouts ther¢ OV OH UN ISH Ck wen | Hi TRICTURE. when the New York Athletic Cluy) held at the Bighth | ATO epee cht commodores from all over t mn gillont of water. There ts an Ist. Wore no startling, featurns voral |foure. love Thuraday with Ban 1, Aer, ae ‘sulting. from ne The following ° ie centre, ON, Wil surdy Heke were planted on 5 No f vet, ane econ! | VARE pithe Crescent Athletic Club teams on Mareh 1 % ntry, all of whom are deeply inter- phils f) LOHR CCL WIR omertann ty of his body and ne oes, Uie Huns red and Sixty-axth street and | Ooes Dr. Getndle wilt Bee clermom Avenuo Too Rink |Iist of ovents: EVANS D AWS fed in-oulfdeor enort nnd Inthe motor | 10 Ine tanks Mh a ! a ( F puniahed Toro! ttre eagea | Jerome avenue, Ho 10 him ‘for treat. it big game of the season, Tho) senior, closed—Sixty-yard ested In outdoor sport and In the Ne seen from ever rm ul Firden Hi gaat LASTS MOAR EK ORL nay i match ieee will COC ten me: nt WITH 0 B IEN. | ie ue See anil exhibition of Connecti Fee rie Betee |e 4 fow inconsequential scratches NO CLASH FOR BE NNETT CUP, s the music of Bavettas Mill- wed—Sixty-vard sowartdiVeh) boat, ie sounied that are decldedly pleturesqua, | and |! Nev's face; N Lt) n he | mr these bridged \ill go the ‘saue i a | Oar OR Ne ee (speola Nening World.) Wecusstully | eleven yeura, It) Thege at the dake dan island ati | IMP. KANTAKA IS DEAD. See ee “According tn 4 " RERS EASY WINNERS izes will consist of wold, sit KC Feb. 21—"Rousat' jis ¢ ater than any nitelte of It a row of exhibitors, On| _ TUNING Ok the Htomobl}e he ehyver and bron: edwis, ( m ( ¢ 0. ov a v ‘bre ving SAH URENG @ concert hail ¢ * sy tee, bhe re f te neue to Witlhan, G.) Hokine nt} wan a a i sad ne tet. tors, enitative the ballon yaad in the coneart hat Am) LEXINGTON, Ky. Feb Jamee| Comm ‘ rm Park avenve eon Mighty 4 a meire ftteen-round | cothering of guides, indiana ANd outs! AEDT OR OF OMNOT., SRNL 0 Ors, Pepner's Meadowthorpe Sind hag Brooklyn Skating Club proved eee ee ty forth eetmets ee draw ei The men were in loor lite advocates, snd. the. Garden| motor boat accessories and sportamen's | Per FAIR IRe ee (ites et Uso Hie @ for winn victim for the Wanderers’ = 1 1 a + pase well, Was never shown to such advantage aa Boise Gh PHAN Nani ae an extra Aieolincmen, Litany "ey feam at Cle ! ; {t-doas to-day ¥ Ch Seclusion. + te sf ec hee acre ue sido; O'Bric ' cheap and) "Wonderful. progress in preparing the , King Burieyeovn, | SRA cn rat of the Croscents, ani “Kia a tant for fistie t ht of it Garden for the bi Han Wy Hada be water free at Olle Witt On i ata th se . : 1 around the last fev d to-day it '9 the mator-bo: in - King hiskeyv King oe i ing eS" paleihonars, will be tendered a reception at iho stag ulmost at wit tay tour tound Te Tete, with motor boats in trips. bye the, Buster Brown, “white and wany 0 of the Wr SPORTING. 7 ‘raced up and) New Henry Hall this evening, Rose js ...0 ws a terrible lot of punishment the water, From the girders that hold shooting and fly-casting will belern and Weatern turf, Dhe shor 0 Wg ARRAN PN pag LG to pial wm Wandurers |oben to Ineet any of the boys ut his @etore he got started. From the sixth | the thousdnds of Inenndoncent Lights in|given on a larger scale than ever be- imparted to this eouniry ns 2 THE BULLETIN ‘World, Bldg. OND. 2 NO, 1288 ven Ere faie they |W eae ds 115 pounds and hay jto the eleventh round It was all Evang, | the roof hang the pennants of almost | fore, and of course will have thelr usual by P. Lorilla: at a cost, ot 95,000, ‘He N.Y. City, Bes 5 | Ril ‘end WA way he mauled the South Bos: ‘every yacht ‘lub in this country, inter-'jarge following. wos twenty: yearw A vteneniy, v r WO gad eee De