The evening world. Newspaper, December 20, 1905, Page 14

SSeS Sr BA Counter Right on the Point ~ for O'Brien’s Verbal Jab at Fitzsimmons’s Reputation. DELPHIA JACK O'BRIEN'S in Is as nimble as his legs. His verbal slJostepping is in a ss wih the kind he executes fn his ‘Aghting shoes. Take a glance over this statement by the wily Queker, and ttle further and learn the fact ’ “D haye never referred to my Philadelptla teh with Fiterimmons before, but now I @% going to give my aide of it. Fitesim- mona hae claimed that I crossed him in fact is that he ae 1.4 ephalng say anos "Sad said that it Fite was worktn ng Into shape. 1 though ld my manager that it immons was trying to je aatd he 4 not understand itd 1 “yh to re Pie os i tte 4 ‘on sailermtanting a to Wy the In to an exhibition held on me, and I coul! tm. the fing wearitg hand Enree-aoerters of an, lsh | thie, an tae t hot ee wR ty tey to bul to the manner in. which ere tapdaged, and to ‘remove the Inyers of he had put on bie knuckles, fle T managed to get close enouzh ak Dim what-he Intended to, do, te Rigi: As eaah ot ua to j he ean, or t¢ this a more Fite replied thet I wou'd have look out for myself that be Intended to it he could, ‘cr Lh oe ht that even thong 1 va rounds w man, ‘and salle hy For four he did not land a ve blo kept hitth nim "at mda | ean 10 Tire in-at the fintsh,’* t happened that I lived a fow books from Fitesimmons's place at Benson- burst that summer, and I went over) Fito seo Bob early every morning. " When the mateh wos first made Fitz , engaged Bob Armstrong and started Araining, He worked hard, ran on the Toad. and was rapidly getting into shape ) Poitadedphia, had suid that ve would not allow the fight to go on, and that the managers bad been compelled to drop it. Fitz, in disgust, stopped his tradning | fthat day. He begdm goings down to)" » Dreamland every night, where he would Stay until 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, | ‘Arinking wine with the magnates, This was not like Fitzsimmons, who is usual- (Aly temperate, but his disappointment Cover losing the match with O'Brien weeméd to upset him. Morning after ing I saw Fitzsimmons, and each it was @ case of the “cold, gray of the morning after’ with sim. ies grew bleary and his face) ated. ife was in anything but fight- again, but that the Mayor would not w it to be anythihg but a boxing exibition, and that if there was any 1 fighting both men would be arrested. | Tite Was Te, Dut he agreeu WO go on under those conditions, it wasn't & “take,” for it was announced in all of | tho papers thal it would be merely an xnibitian of fast boxing—not @ fight. (‘Phat killed the crowd, Pernapy three- jarters of the seats were yacant whon oe eventtul atlernoon came ing. ‘There | met Mr, and Mrs, Witesimmons, and for a Couple of hours before the fight we sat in chairs; ‘on the lawn before the ball players’ | dressing quarters, its, who had been doing his Dreamland stunt-up to the nigit before, didn’t expect to fight even men. Jack O'Brien dim easily, but he didn't come near, Half an hour or so before time for the main event a man came over and poke to Fhasimmons. Fitz jumped up, id there Was an excited argument, 1 ed bin what was (he mutter. He “oat fellow sayé the opposition has been withdrawn end there won't, be any interferente, It is to be a fight,” " “What are you going to"do wbout it?" hed. "What can I do?" exclaimed Fitz. “Hos trloked me into coming down here without training, I'll go In and try to ne ik Nig, bloody ‘ead off. That's ail nan," ) O'Brien’s nimble brain Just exact- ly reversed the situation when re Aad hin troubles to the San Francisco newspaper men. WENT to Philadelphia in the morn- there is the true story, Jack ment ts the one In wh! $0 fool Mim inty leaving at @ Knockout early in the figh Bite did eli O'Brien woul if Ae coud.” ' f Another thing that might indicate vho waa really the jobber In t lait js the fact that after the fight Bauer hospitably invited Fitz to take get him nner at ifs house, which he would andy have done had Fitz really tricked him do ® beating. Fitz refused flatly | rik t0ok the next train i to New en REFEREE. ‘when word came that Mayor Weaver, of | 5, could have seen | ise The one veracious part of the state- n O'Brien tals b how he asked Fitz at the beginning of the bout Moh was wll lo be a exhiditi No doubt be did that to keep rom being on “BHARKEY AND RUHLIN WILL | 5, BA Th ae OT te nel RRR NE Fn a SPORTING, NEWS AND COMMENT + + # Sp a ER ee = are Prem 8 yee i TIE WORLD: "WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1905. EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN. a OBnen would like to Jab Fitz to siccp wrthoit going near him - BOWLERS READY Big Louisville Tournament in March Approaches, than ever before. before the national tournament, at Louls- by trod history of bowl! erica. mae mone them © home series of twenty-one games, total Pringle a Anohtou and Heissenbuttel's cademy. me) Koster is not satisfied with the result of hie recent maten with Jimmy Watt and another serles of twenty-one @ames, wtal pins to count, will be ar- ed ut the Attion and at the Non- fsyurg two bring Charky Starr phomether on vie fast ‘ley a and, this conte If aivwaged would be worth, , as both men have rolied 5 A mixed toach match was made )ie:enda: Koster and Mrs. Lesier, who will 2 | roll a home-and-home afternoon sen’. with Barmy Hunter and Mre, Kessel at the Non- re an] Broadway ‘one Brooklyn, at te be pe ks Kalb avenue branches of the Borden milk ‘rust have organized five- * fge of 208 for thirteen games, Allen's aver- age being 220. The contest will draw # record-breaking crowd, as it has excited reat interest among bowlers. Johnay Nelaon, of the Universal, and Harry Cohn yeaterday made a match of tem mx In eleven ganye, total pins to be rolled at the Fulton Palace alleys Friday s, with a returm series at th ever Yerwal on Jan 425 on cach series Good Contests This Week. bowlers of Greater New York will plenty of hard bowling days of the week and the ide will be thoroughly enjoyed, that Md, mo far a8 @ real bowler can enjoy Tom * phuregay ight the intorweate teame of Brogklyn and Newark will open the season in Brooklyn, playing at the Gran! Central alleys. The Newarks have entere! the league for tho firet tUme ¢hia year and the team has already won five out of the six Ramos played, with an average team record of over 1,000, ‘tn Brooklyn the Newark combination will strike the hardest proposition of the Season and a great series of games 19 prom- Friday John Cammann takes his New York team, lod by John Voorhele, to Philadelphia for th scheduled seriea ‘In the astern las Vith good playing the looal team Ure & much strosger commanding alton in the league, which it may hold the end of the sesson, Protest Was Dismissed, The protest of the Manhattan Chah thal Mins Littlefield wns hot clizible to pn with the Monarchs in the recent, fiv: y oham- Pionahip at the Harlem © al Dove dismissed by the Boari of Governors of he tournament ater hearing was shown that Mise Lito“ the star bowlers of Geeater 4 member ot th Moparchs before the tourn The. protest ‘alk among owlere Rolled a Clos In the Eastern firemen the Harlom (role last nig ond Harlem Circles put “ mt created a grvat Club Prize Bowling, Tt te experted that is crowd srectat he club, and valuable prises have een red for high moores Mm by men and women: GOSSIP OF THE ALLEYS, A home and home Interest te being a nd partner a to be rolled An at the Am; Watt's Albion, in Man ‘ nme of considerable anges between Jimmy Jimmy Watt and total ping kiyD, and Br Billy Linden haw taken as 8 part hin new alley venture at “Brontwar” ant ty-wixth strect, Henry Harijens, for. a Third aventie and Ninety-fourth and © ainr bowler in the old Em Two well-known leavy-welght pugt-| | Msis will alternate as referee at a box- [dng sow to-niedt. The Agdtors who ‘ ake part in this unique event win! 4 Sharkey and Gus Rudlin, the} Yoh Giant. L fighters will officiate | dour boyte each of the elxat which O be decided before the Hchmond | uty AL Clan ith clubhouse, at Ger- | 1 tinal, Attpieion, State Island, | | jatolon Feiix Boehm has arrange: ¢ tolowing attractive bout for the | L@.cation:, Emergency Kel v8, Bert va Waish, gel, Al *, Owen » 0 Virion Pi Bud The alleys wilt be-open early in ee 6 Henry Lankenay won the bowlers’ raffle, Of @ fine gold watch at fhe Riverside Jtreny Senith is tsked. to bring back the | poltle of wing given as the high {individual 2-oour endurne nny Maes for the waa second the nt ohadd ad thirty selgnt jun and John Komer “inn . Pred Reed and A, Beaang meet in a neriew f teat five in nine games at the Moming One Hundred and Fifteenth street, to- night” There is a mde bet of $100 on the maatoh. . In « series of es won by Bekert and contest at the Colonial FOR BUSY SEASON Rehabs Special Interest in Contests as ‘After a considerable rest the match- game bowlers are again getting into form for turther ‘contests, and the clos- ing days of the old and opening of the new year will find the money bowlers in ine for more and harder contests! Special interest is attached to the re @ult of these events as the time shortens Hovoa for not only wili a great many of iy er iy ae stakes than ever yl rpooniod ay Smith, of ye yn, has several | ne uJ Sime ‘Watt and partner in a gon:e and | Broadway count, 10 There is a elde stake ot during the | of |club-room is one Me Ait | Dat ‘ te ‘SOME BLOWS FITZ AND O'BRIEN N EXPECT TO USE TO-NIGHT, + FARMER BURNS WINS FROM AL, CARLIN a Takes Two Falls Out of the Three, Using Great Head Work. q (Sprola) to The Evening World.) KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec, 2.—"Farmy er” ‘Burns took two out of three fal bis maton with Albet Carlson, "the ‘[ fible Swede,’ of Minnesota, last nig! The one fall credited to ne be looked jife a glit. nh show himself to be in Bu Ho A ms ‘The Mty-five pounds difference in w ight in Carléon's (avor appeared to be more of a handicap than an advan! Tne ‘nan from the North looked beefy rather and howe catebs than muscular, e's Burns won the 4s-cateh~ pont) for with a if Ne tn tourseeh Graeco-Roman from the ope Hires was pb ton minutes Bernd. who: Cahier plaeese ubrown,. “A. half’ son won the cai ® ‘ ut and the match for Burns in’ eleven minutes, HAVE OUR THOROUGHBREDS DEPRECIATED IN VALUE? pacity, Horsemen not only suffer, but 80 do breeders, and all because a parcel jot Western gamblers, with no love tor | the turf save the dollars it yields them, are dolag thelr best to cut one an- f vers throats and keep within the aw. | Salling Price Now Depends, Entirely Upon Their Earn- ing Capacity. | BY FRANK W. THORP. A MORSEMAN who lias recently returned from Kentucky states preciated In value to an appreciable Too Much Fighting. One could almost tseo racing banished | frow every State in tha West without | regret, if only to put am end to the | gating and brawling which are going on Mt Present. he'll break Corti+ John Condon sa: an and speud ali his money in the ate that the thoroughbred bas de- stars ihr acen a competition In |\, tem And Corrigan would just as tho individual cau ne lonship, uit in che | extent, and that a fair sort of novae | dear love to break Gondop. The ure there wil yd e we he dag eed can be purchased at a most reasonable |{s the plaything of these men, 70.iaeb tantth gainen prooably ror | figure ax compared with previous | have no seatlinent for racing, Corrie ors, There jis no doubt that this | frp Perpane Raw este ete kicked | ota ynent is true, The value of the/ about more or iess savagely as these | thoroughbred depends upon his earn- | men piesa, and the little microbes of ing capacity. ‘Therefore, when race | Horsemen clinging to it receive neither consideration «or money. tracks are closed in Ilinots, in Ten- Bar Them Out. nessee and in Mirsourl, then hundreds oa [ened to count, at at t's ‘goa on wenty-third street wait Am of thousands of dollars which had been |, The Jockay .Club could. do, @ Bhuoe ith ad ‘ia iieatnghan wl TAZSIMMOons expects to civeu away In purses and stakes at | tracks way turtman wns Was. al and home series at the these race tracks are laken away from | abetting in this yur fight at either of the tracks, doubt, keep ma from the tricks. But won't mix up in the affair, much as its members deplore the fight. If ther my Thode 4 bs B ‘) a we Wo earn only sho with either faction ust es Whaia Wal hetenianene’ ; win the Corrigan faction, who are at 940 a yeor..Not only ie the volume Aoremesinet the ulfalr mathe df money offered each year Ieesened by | least fanting tenn i eoumakers. and the closing of race tracks in the States | track owners who compose vg tat tnt mentioned, batt horsemen ate forced to, Jockey Club." Tt is only bo fact Corrigan, who hat been LM} other racing polnts, and the increased | |. 1 consequence, at wery turf brawl! o number of horses makea the game ft the “reform” mgvement ¥ of hors ts the head of ar bre Be treats it makes one look harder, and in thie, way also detract 1 saa aeaare sn unt Amociation. the thoroughbreds. Teans by racing a These Figures Talk, If a’ horse has a chance to earn $10,000 | @ year be iW certainly worth much more 7 'slow OBrien up with this famous blow of his et ashe aid “en Phil lade |e would, np di horsemen a |the Jockey ='FITZ HAS MUCH AT STAKE IN BATTLE, SAYS EDGREN, wealth and with It @ better chance to [O'Brien is naturally confident, tor he be- do all he may wish to do for those zsiromons gone bacl who will share his success or failure, | hau gained in esperiohee’ hinge Hie Fitz Has Most at Stake. Losing the Fight To-Night Would Mark Him as on the Downward Path, While O’Brien fen teens thas will roll «snatch contest of best three ve games 0 Broad wa But of the two, it seems to me, Fits- er ountry, and rook | al! jay afternoon at + ap oe ae a side alee and plecny of Can Afford to Lose. simmons has the most at stake. He has |2® ara th the two knock- ortunity for hetuing on the result. been champion of all the fighters in the 1s season as flukes. bs he ntght John Komter and Bert Alien 'e Fitesimmons, having fought such men will roll & match on * Grand Central al- world. He has beaten much better men Way ee neh ‘ (in, ts oe when MAUDE | Bis | lve, Brooklyn. whem Kower in a similar! BY ROBERT EDGREN, Youth and speed and confidence that) tan this Jack O'Brien can ever be. | ESI COMd, ENE Jin Corbet fe M Losing this fight would mark him 88) jooks upon Jack 0" rien as well on the downward path, and it js a omy vt te ey Bade free and apa others—who 0 be easy for hard thing fora man of his age to start) 22), ho has toppled over 3 7 anew. O'Brien {s fighting the best, man) giant he has ever met. If he loses he will Fitz's’ Age Worrles Dopesters, not be disgraced. He is young enough) itgsimmons's age 18 the one thing to keep right along in the game, and to/that |s worrying the dopesters, If. he work his way to the top eventually in| Siti & oom ay oe hard would be no spite of a defeat at this time. lay the wf ways LYCEUMS "2 THE LION AND 1 THE will be pittetd against him, Jack O'Brion wil! have more in his mind than the gain and glory of win. ning, too. Jack, whatev ise may be sald for or against him, has been a good man to his people. His father and mother and brothers and sisters have been well cared for by him. He says that be will never marry, but he has Robert Vitzsimmons makes to-night —no stage sight, but as hard a bat- tle as the Honest Blacksmith ever put up In atl of his hard fighting life, In New York some one will wait anx- fously for news from the ring side, and when Fits goes into the ring the knowl- if will be “A Fight for Love" that aati 4 WM, coLLi DALY’S rv 7 4 aie fi ‘y a edge of it will give him nerves of steel, ihm srt “a : he Mine mi mit pity nea Hat pe courage to battle doggedly to the finteh,| 4 home, and outside the savage environ- jelther of the men carries a Br: simmons's shoulde: it oy ttiemath wher he ie weak, determina. | ment of the ting he ts alwayw-thinking| thought of defeat. At least 90/80". no shrinking. but ‘no one knows VIOLA ae 0 ing D8 | tlon to win despite all the odds of of MM, Success tosmight will mean iit appears from thelr statemelit®~/ after round with the slander ale power ef Avevertocker "7 & | recuperation that has alle. im #0 man; close fights in the 7 However the battle fe ond, ‘one, thi eRe winner will know he has Hine ry Pied Hayes Pas y Yous Craraphine CITY PARK ENTRIES, (Special to The Evening World.) CITY PARK, NEW ORLEANS, Dee, 20. ‘The entries for toumorrow's races are as fot- | NAVARRE, C SHOW CHRISTMAS NIGHT Eight douts in aduition to a wrestling mutch between Young Hackensclmtdt and Fred Mohr is toe card arranged for Christmas night by the Navarre A. C. in thelr new club-rooma in the American Theatre Building, Forty ond street and Eighth avenue, AMU AMUSEMENTS AMMERSTEIN'S Sex: lite aie al al Bt iz Gee stale ating iwtbers of" is e4. AVRO Comte. *Lédwine *Eoonomist , Del Carina felaim sop SROORLYN AMUSEMENTS, CLERMONT A om (tee vs. BROOKLYN, ADMISSION, 25¢. Must wire Race—six ado hit frionss Josette THE CLANSMAN Is cow VHD. Laat wh, ARD BERNHARDT at, F Fri, iba “on preg FIRST RACE—Seven fur ‘Baxih .. D RACE—Pive and . halt furlongs, he} MeCaffrey Rosebor . Ann i Hain Devils The of the largest in the Father Talent *Apprentice allowance, poet te vc BETTE HOCKEY CLUB BEATS’ YALE. chty, Some of the boys who are biited to go throy rounds include Young Otty and 0, Howard Smith ap Mihara , Bob Adler and Jack Roller wp k Williams vs. Alf Greenwood, | he entertainment wilh begin at $3) Aexutieul i he , To Nhe fret eatoa ot, (a he ana py M. shanp THIRD RACE—One mile an ‘seventy New York Hockey. Club pPseror vale SHR ut ih ih yards; selling Maled *ivanh Baron last night at the St. Nicholas ‘Rink by a score of 4 tol, Yale played with dash and vigor,” but the great defensive work of Dr, McKensio and kept them from # Bo strong was (hi panies, had Esher. ~ MURPHY WAS GAME BUT TRIFLE LIGHT (Special to The Evening World.) PROVIDENCE, R. 1, Do, 20,-A1| Delrsont, of Medford, and Kid Murphy, of New York, soheduled for fifteen | rounds, drew a big crowd at the Rhode | Inland A. C,, at Thornton, last night, | Delmont got the decision over Murphy | ater twelve rounds of hard and clever unecessary FOURTH RACE four rime . to last Boal of the onga, haniteap; twoye Parisienne . Tinker . Garnish, Mint Boy. chance. im Ca Sivor o THE VERY BEST 4 . THE oa Is fHE DEWEY } _ Mat. To-day“PARISIAN ft +8 boxing. He fought with all the aggres- i siveness he has shown in hig | previous but had his work cut! HOLIDAY ‘PRES Out for him by the shifty little New Yorker, It was Murphy's first appear- jance bere, and he certalniy made good. [In the fitst toree founda he had Del: wont at sea Irving to land lls left jab! jand svopeeded in planting thee hard |righ on Del's head. Al cut loose in ‘fth and emashed Mur- ring, the New Yorker portunity, \ rattler, Munphy from the start. He hart on Del's fore~ ¢ Medfonl bay ecoyld fo up, Mui natled him with two terrific left wallops to the Jaw. final hig right and before Murphy omisted two awtul 8 in the Fr fallin, dren arn amas magi hi