The evening world. Newspaper, March 11, 1905, Page 6

ENING mented unfavorably Texas’ McCormack, a “box- Was first heard of when old Bullivan knocked him out ormack’s manager, aggrieved, ight-page letter of vindica- quests to publish, &c, paragraph should restore to that high position in the @Ateem which he held until rude- down by John L.'s right We quote verbatim: at the Springs McCormack is hown for only a short time ago sucker off big Ferguson of on, ‘but lost the decision through ness of referee Mulligan, round of the bout I men- gon and McCormack clinched to the ropes Ferguson bit aok and Mac pushed him over | and then kicked him on the Now if Col, Mulligan as they “had stepped in close enough f talking to tsiders he fave seen {t all myself and the ringside showed him shoulder as soon as he decision and then he sald mixed up and was a little Cormack only got $100.” ‘That was careless! oy First, @ sucker” \of Mr. ‘and then Mr, Ferguson up- ‘the ancient theorles of tho J men to the effect that suck- bite. Then }r, McCormack Ferguson on the head, and hdred dollars for It, The to state how much Mr, pg for biting Mr, McCor- bably $100 or 100 days. He ts another interesting detall— gh the “careless” referee got vf 4 bout between two such Bo Ave rounds, JENTLEMAN who has 90 littl peot for his bwn statemen’ he refrains from signing to the letter writes me a mmy W The Durdteb!| fon ie Ahat Tommy 1s preju- really West's Laden a not hils judgment,” he Be grisea tom’ to pick Nel- bable winner.” mind reader, I don't workings of Mr, West's upon one somewhere in the wilds of WORLD heii SeEK JEFFORDS KEPT HARRIS MOVING (Special to ‘The Evening World.) | PHILADELPHIA, March 11, — Jim | Jeffords, the California giant, displayed the best form he has yet shown since he made his debut in the Eastern prize- ring at the Kensington A, C, last night, when he stood off Morris Harris, the colored cyclone, who has been cleaning ‘it up for all of his oponents during the past to months, Jeffords, it was thought, would prove another victim, but Jim fooled the wire ones, and the way he worked was a revelation, He had speed and cleverness, and evaded the wild rusheg of -his black opponent with comparative ease, Jim, however, had due respect for the hitting ability of the black man, and {t was not until the fifth round that he rajxed It up. | The final round was practically a rep- etition of the fifth round, and at the close both men had bellows to mend | and were badly damaged about the | face. Jeffords appeared ) have Mat alts the best of it, but a would doing both gn futise, WILLIE FITZ AND. O'KEEFETO.NIGHT Two good light-welghts are bilted to swap blows In the ring in Philadelphia to-nbght, The pugllists are Wille Fitz- gerald, of South Brooklyn, and Jack | O'Keefe, the clever and aggressive light- | welght, of Ohicago, The men will come together in a aix-round bout before the} |Nuitlonal A, C, These fighters have! been anxious to meet for some time, and the chances are their battle wil! be one of the best ever witnessed in the told The winner of the oon- Both ny fine shape for jeradd and O'Keefe he etka tect Ab M AN ah ROLLER META TARTAR IN KNOX (Special to The Evening World.) ALTOONA, Pa., March IL<In six rounds of the most terrific fighting ever seen in this city between little men, Jack Roller, of New York, found more than his mateh in Charley Knox, the colored fighter, of Altoona, Roller failed to display his old-time form, and for three rounds was used as a chop- ping-block for the colored fighter, Had @ decision been given, it would have mone to Kno: “ig BIX-TOU! } Pigilininesy Biliy Char! Scranton, Reeder, of tone, was the big event, wi allt the fae of It. 0, between a Jimmy i} diced or not, he named nape writer was much out of Pas he might have. ‘A certain ‘wise lot ) the effect that he was m and that he would n hi If, even to the , All of these SEIGER MATCHED WITH GARDNER Charles Seiger and Jimmy Gardner, two of the best ligttweights in the East, wore matched this afternoon to meet for fifteen rounds at 188 pounds at 8 o'clock on March 2 before the Doug- las A. C. of Chelsea, Mass. Belger has “ae el the best men in the a and (8 made good, where pea: t Beattl ti with Jimmy Britt, diate to hold Corbett's ect of those who Nt | The exposure | g ton made Cor- | | and created a bor | Neleon, ‘West's story, orisi-, ‘The Bvening World, tundreds of papers and that VAN is down South @ Highlanders, They tell ‘about ‘Ted's ball-playing the batter was al- high or a low ball, ere was a firat base- d six feet, Tod himself: thren men on bases and Me tirn to bat, Whgn he noticed that he wore n'a breeches, The belt Gp under his armpitis, He he bat and called for a eourse the pitcher was 10 ge by the belt—two le belt for @ high one, At Mfow the pitcher/ slapped the Lie livan's head, giving him a PDalls, forcing in runner and eee, JE KING a and Frank Gotch for the American ‘catoh. h-can champtonship ne: aay, Qight at Mudison Square ; na la Match {aon the level It will do & lot of good. Wrestling tg an sport, But it {9 the eas. ‘all to taco in, Almost all big Ganine} Wall eos ey ‘aug! ft prope: | siton ae a and ork i be right sf ine tae a Snghe tra Britt oF te HOT SPRINGS ENTRIES, (Special to The Evening World.) HOT SPRING6, Ark., March 11.—The entries for the races on Monday are aa THE “SPIT” BALL, One we SPORTS EDITED BY JEFFORDS STANDS STANDS st OFF HARRIS, } ROBER pliioetimey ois ae FITZ AT IT AGAIN, THE ANTI: Boxing BILL IN CALIFORNIA, follows: aul Ma Pept, RAGE-—One and one: es; maiden two-year-old Lavenia True et vee HO BHCOND RACH-—Tares-quartere of a mile; nel Moret | Davia. ‘Lone Wolf... SeSssasegssese 3 3 Baikal Allan ieee FIFTH RACE Three: ightha of a mile; filllew;_ tw: matches are faked, ig Will go on In California, Now tening out of the Britt- tangle! YD BEATS LEONARD, ‘Boyd defeated W. Leonard F in the Interborough oan p billiard tournament in pro. Sat the Knickerbocker Academy, nard, though beaten, Fun ofa, the highest ‘In tne Mae ees ded (NAR La un 9 anata was ton He avers America 1 Emaline W Bitter Brown RY Lost ON A FOUL. BG! eaheenencmens AUKER, Wis, Maroh 11,—Young ‘ tedly hitting low during fight! *Ingral i *Approntice allowance, The NEw YORH AMATEURS GET our la ® oz, PiLtows, oo Sta Back on EARTH, HIGH LANDER'S NEW TwiRteR , SAOWS GRIFFITH A Mal cuRIOUS Curves. GIANTS START ~ ONE WEEK OF SPORTS. STARKELL , THE MISSOURI LEGISLATURE REFUSES To BE SHowN THE ADVANTAGES aor HORSE RACING ALAN SANGREE /One Vaungatee Who| Has Got It Down Fine and Is Bound| to Make’a Success! of It Is Starkeli,' Griffith’s Latest Find, from Idaho, | BY ALAN SANGREE (Sveolal to The Evening World.) MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 11,—Get | the tartar off your teeth, the lead out of your feet, the moth bails from your larynx! Baseball will be upon the North ere she Knows it. The whole fair land of Dixte 1s overrun with great teams of athletes that pump curves, hammer | leather and caper from spot to spot | that they may eke out an-honest living and entertain the citizens of earth's stellar republic, Napoleon Lajole at Atlanta, McGraw at Savannah, GriMth here, Detroit in | Augusta, Comiskey at New Orleans, and scores of minor league clubs, wh grind away ‘neath a scorching sun like men sacrificing themselves for a coun- | try or their religion, And what do you suppose is the-keynote, the cornerstone —what stands pre-eminent, isolated lke a wart on @ pretty nose? Why, the | ‘spit’ ball | All After “Spit” Ball. Imagine two Ines of ten men each facing each other, the spectators con- sisting of darky boys and some few energetic white persons, gazing with fatuous deilght at ten arms as they elrele, swing and filp to come down with thelr several motions and deliver the | “spit” ball, Ten catchers braced in the |SPongy turf, protected by generous wads of leather and horsehair, glint thelr eyes, molsten thelr palms, open | their lips and shout not “Banzai!” but “Spiel halt!’ And here she comes, a fast, reach. | ous orb well sallvated, rolling from two fingers and thumb in dazing speed until it pets within a couple of feet of its destination, when, ging! the trick Is | done, | “hat ball darts out or in, byt always | drops; drpps so abruptly that if he were /not expecting it the most experienced | pesky thing, A Serious, Living Thing. | Last year we heard something of this | most recent discovery in the, selence of jour national pastime, This season the | | Phrase “spit” ball will resound from | Oakland to Bunker Hill, from prohibi- | lyn Matne to wide-open New Orleans. |The fishermen of Gloucester and the [cotton pickers of Georgia will all mouth It.’ For, verily, the “spit” ball is a serious, living thing, | Seldom that our gneat game encoun- |ters.a discovery, \'They uesd to hire negro |convicts at Kimberley to sort out dia- CITY PARK ENTRIES. vening, Wortd ) NEW ORLEANS, Lin arch 11.—The | entries for Moaday are as follow | two-year-olds, Blaze Duchess. Peerless Qu Josie St. Cauibeen Big Bo D‘Artagnan Aye) RACE Four furlongs; ming: ear-olds, ple i ( i Dr Meclure Seni Gray Dal vss THIRD RAGES condivions as first, Mejodious Fsoaslo’ Mei Long Daye Leawina y Hands Mo iat SU asta ames H, Reed FOURTH RAC fe 50 up. TOROS ¢ Margarat ‘Tammany Hag Htnunaelay O'Dealen and ds and up tmok heavy, Werther cloudy ———— LADIES WIN AT BASKETBALL. The Indies’ ‘hasietball team of the Normal College played the team of Flushing High School to-day on Neu- tral Meld Pratt's Ingtitute, In Brook lyn, ie resulted in a victor: for’ Norms! liege by & score of 8 to. [tries for Monday's races are as fol- FIRST RACK—Six furlongs; purse,—For | lows: T EDGREN EVENING WORLD'S BASEBALL EXPER BIG LEAGUE PITCHERS ARE ALL AFTER THE “SPIT” ” BALL ne ) WHEN LAJOIE MET TERROR. tn all my experience | never was so taken In as when Chesbro handed me the first “spit” ball, | stepped up a little to meet it, looking foria curve. She began to drop, and | followed her down, but even then hit at least ten Inches above her.» The end of my bat dug In the earth, and | expect | looked pretty foolish for a min- ute, It didn't need tre laugh of the New York bunch to put me wise. The only suggestion | can dive for hitting the ball Is to step In and meet it before the break, NAPOLEON ‘LAJOIE, |monds from the dozen other stones that happen in the same earth, One day a bright lad noticed that diamonds stick to axle grease, and now bushels of peb- | bles tumble from the gravitator over @ board covered with grease, lvery- thing else gildes by, the diamonds stick. Machinery beats a human being, Of course we will never play jbaseball by wachinery, even though this Chicago stom specialist develops ball players from tadpoles, But the “aplt” ball comes near belng mechanical. If you are at all interested, young pitchers, put abouts & cents worth of good saliva on ‘your two fingers and just throw the ball all your might, ‘Nhe result will be a devil- ish deceptive drop, The only requisite then is to control that shoot. \s Difficult to Hit, Every baseball captain down here !s coaching his pitchers to imbibe this art, for the “spit” ball is difficult to hit. Coming through Atlanta I talked with Lajote, “In all my experience,” said he, “I | Was never so taken in as when Chesbro handed me the first “spilt” ball, 1 stepped up a little to meet it, looking for a curve, She began to drop, and rising | I followed her down; but even then hit at least ten inches above her. The end of my bat dug in the earth, and I expect I looked pretty foollsh for a minute, It didn’t need the laugh of that New York bunch to put me wise. T saw that Chesbro had something new, Jcaicher would be unable to grab the| and soon discovered what \t was, The only suggestion I can give for hitting the ball is to step In and meet it be- fore the break, There Js no reason why any boy should not become proficient | with this terror to batsmen, if he has | the speed, I am afraid that the ‘spit’ ball will hurt’a lot of good batting averages this year,” Starkell Found It Early, As an evidence of what youngsters 1 may do, it is only necessary to point | ing out Griffith's got Tdaho, yesterday turned out the finished prod- ew find, Starkell, Who Ise to the wonder ‘way off in He practised all winter, and CRESCENT CITY ENTRIES. * (Gpeclal to The Evening World.) NEW ORLEANS, March 11.—The en- FIRST RACE ‘Six furlongs; mel Whinpooryiit "| Dancing Nun ‘Juctra Ro: Barestti Old Hal Light Note Aurumaster Little Scout Katle Pow Ralnland Rawhide .. SBaggerly sOnyx I i Lady Wellx Prestonian *Diplomat oe Flying Chai Tambourine I | Hie Blaze Hisque *Girnelous ; SAYS Riahlanger. Are in. Rare Good Shape for First Game of Season, WhichThey Will Play Against Montgomery Team This Afternoon, = / | | uet with such skill that Griffith could not hold him. the “spit ball, Passing on from whieh may be done without any salle be observed and vitic ald, it should “made note on." as Capt, Cuttle used |to say, that the Highlanders have a phenomenal pitchers’ staff. Among tried |and foxy veterans, we must reckon with |GriMth himself, who, though a hero of nineteen successive seasons, 13 still un+ surpassed for craftiness, Next Is Al Orth, probably the handsomest pall |nlayer in harness, a Hercules in build and an expert of ten years’ standing, |Putmann is a let-hander, who was not in good shape last year, consequent. ly did not glisten In the ranks until the season's wane, when he pitched phenomenal ball against the White Sox and Bostons, besting the latter in a historic eleven-inning game, 1-0, | Putmann wears a Quaker hat, chows ‘a straw like a Rube, but has dry wit, d and keen brain, Hache wton played with Brooklyn, | went to Detrolt, purchased by |York, Jumped his contract: to join. the outlaw California League and is now back to his lawful employers, He is er of the southern no encomfum, ‘emple of Fame Walter Clark- of Harvard, Is to some extent an unknown quantity, He is clever and speedy, a bit too excitable and, in the opinion of th likely to become so famou son, but this again,is on Starkell Best of New Men, Starkell is the best of the new men Jand will doubtless be signed with three | catchers With this pitching staff and an extra Infleider, the Hig should be able to make a better record than last year, |when at one feld, Conroy, Fultz and Keeler ed. Yeas also a brilliant ne Chesbro holding a niche in along with MeGin gon, once the glot needs ger can play elther ¢ or short- Mop, while several of the pitchers can admirably take an ouhfield jot Unless Chicago, Pittsburg “and ‘Ins einnati have better teams than Iast year the American i contest will be more closely dis than the Na» Mona), for Cleveland, Boston and the White Sox » tremendously strong }teams, and the club that wins from them must indeed be ony This {afternoon will be a gla. occasion In | Montgomery, for Griffith's men play the local representatives of the Southern League with the following line-up: Conroy, %; Full, ef; Yeager, fa Williams, 2b! Anderson, 1f; MeGulre 1b: Orth, tt; Dum, ec? Clarkson, and Whitney, 'p Sid to rglate, Mr, Metcalf, the "Bronx Wonder," has’ been tried’ and’ found }wanting. He leads the League In play- rag time, but that lets him out, '¥ou rately find the jnotch ball-playver and rag-time virtuoso, |More rarely do you find a New. 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