The evening world. Newspaper, December 30, 1905, Page 6

THE WORLD OW that Jack O'Brien is back tn ‘the East, valet and all, there will be numerous challenges. A lot of fellows want to make money by fight ing O'Brien, He is a drawing card Sports all over the country wil! clam to seo the fighter who finished up p old Bob Fitzsimmons. Jack O'Brie knows this, Hence it's q hundred ‘one shot no man will get him in the rig for many months to come, There is too much money to be made out of his reputation since defeating Pitz O'Brie wif! take no chances of having any ob goure or semi-obscure fighter put 4 blo on his escutcheon during the harvest time. O'Brien is using the same es outeheon that K complained about to Jim Corbett As Corbett claimed not to have seen McCoy's ercutcheon probibly O'Brien is the ma who grabbed !t while Mr. MeCoy was getting married, Anyway, Jack O Brie is at home to-day a hero. HE footbal] reformers have got T down to business, Some bright professor discovered that to get the rules changed he should go to th fellows who know something about the game, And they did it, The pub) needn't be alarmed, ‘The football writers will have plenty to do next fall. The en-vard rule has been tried and failed Wanker Ci amp, will have to try @ new one, It would be awful if they let the old American game run along wouldn't | ‘usua HE bowling fan is a new quantity T There must be a whole lot to this alley gume when you get fell to talking an hour on what kind ¢ line an alley leaves on the balls used by ifferent stars. Experts say t 110,000 bowlers 1% New York alone We have long had baseball bugs," te ht ‘bugs’ and race track re the nest is the bowling “bus. May he live long and prosper ANY peouliar. queries come to a M newspaper office, but here Is a record breaker: A man calling himeelf “X. Y. Z." would like to know how many barrels of beer were con- sumed in Atlantic Garden on the night of the settlement of Franco-Prus- @ian war, a Jack Goodman Back In Ring. Jack Goodman, one of the most promising Doxers ever turned out by the Avonia A, C and who stopp fighting for a w te back in the f advice of his mother game and will a) Rary bouta to t Murphy contest New Year's afternoon Bert Keyes and Jo! Youngsters, in three-round bout MURPHY AND TUCKER AT WEIGHT FOR MONDAY’S GO. Local Rivals Have Been Traine | ing Hard, and Good Bout Is Expected. BY JOHN POLLOCK, k” Tucker and ‘Tommy Murphy, m boxer, who a the two her-weights In this vicinity, are both down to weight for their three round bout, which fs to be fought the arena ot Hudson A. C,, at One dred and Tenth street and Broad- on New Y ternoon, Both iave been training hard for the And as a result they both tipped ne scales at 18 pounds last night | Not in some has there been such local interest taken in @ bout as tn this encouster. Both have a large fol lowing which as a rule bets largely. The boys will box at 196 pounds, wetgii- 1 be thelr seoond encounter, thelr |previous bout having been fought tn | Philadelphia last Washington's Birth day afternoon. In that battle Tucker Was severoly handicapped by the low welght, but as til be strong this | time at 1% pounds he expects to give Murpliy a better e seconded by Jimmy E fornia Hght-welght champlor phy will be handled by tt. the Ci “CHICK” TUCKER, ato P - he Jeannette Has Many Offers, STEIN FOR “UNCLE JOHN.” |heavy-weight, defeated Sam Langton | in eight rounds at Portland, Me., being besieged with fight offers. The Ask any of the women bowlers out T) matchmaker of the Unity A. C., of Harlem way who Is the most popular man among their alley acquaintances nd they will all say ‘Uncle John Snee Mr. Schilling was transferred rom the Whit a nant, at Broad way and Thirty-t street, to Thum’s Lenox Academy, at Lenox avenue and One Hundred and ‘wens fifth streat, the dean of the bow) fraternity has catered largely to women’s clubs, with the result that the Lenox now quarters clubs for women nearly every afternoon fn the week Ar other Christmas presents received by “Uncle John" none were more highly prized than a mag- ented to him in a Jack Johnson, the champion cologed fighter, for twelve rounds, while the | Douglas A, C anxious tp e him me Gardner, the Nght heavy-weight not | fifteen rounds the early part month Sieger to Fight Martin, rerry Martin, the Quaker City wel- ter-welght, who has won five fights in| n New England, beating ich good fighters as Arthur Cote, Peter Sullivan, Harry Senter and Dave Desh. ler, was matched last night to meet Charley Blewer, the Hoboken fighter End A.C. of Lawrence, Mass, on Jan UL. Martin will probably not have things so eaey | at lock on Mon Tue | inter the ring at 4 o'ch Will Be Hard Fought. That the bout will be a bitterly con- | tested one goes without saying. This | ttle. Tucker will | 4 | a Erne. "The first bout will he put on M * | Since Joe Jeannette. the colored) | Lawrence, Mass, wants him to fight | of Chelsea, Mass. {| Geange | for twelve rommds before the West | SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, SPORTING NEWS AND COMMENT. « 1905. RICH YOUNG MAN WHO LOVES SPORT. Y led Chocee * A a rr ee of eacViancd Bat Francis. Slevin! Is Already a Record- Holder, Master Francis Slevin, ir, aged four ears, of No, 204 East Eighty-fourth street, New York City, Is the younges: baby athlete in the world, ‘Dis tile was won at the Asbury Park (N, J.) Baby Carnival on Aug. 31, 190, Mor than five hundred baby competitors from all over the United States took part { the contest. His rpresentation was ¢ sprinter getting off his mark in t stooped position fora race, He was only baby competitor from New York ¢ win a first prize, which was a sily loving cup. He als) wore the colors the New York Athleti¢ Club. Little Francis first cathe into prom! nence at the Yorkville Counct), Koig its of Columbum, games held Jay, %, where he competed in the twenty-live-yard midget race. The physical measurements of the baby athlete are; Height, 36 inches: weight ¥ pounds; reach, 4 inches; ¢ t,t mal, 24 inches; waist, 22 tnoh warm, § 1-2 thigh, 12 inene 6 inehes, neck, NO FIGHTS FOR CHICAGO, All Boxing Matches of Any Kind to Be Prohibited, CHICAGO, Dec, 39.All amateur box. ing matches, sparring contests and pug istle tournaments are prohibited ir hicago after last night. ‘This will ay Latest Feat Is ce donne Cham- pion Latham to Do His Best in Racquet Game. nificent stein, pr y Steger, as the lat cmnntigvaa heat apeech by the President of the |} ter 18 a glutton for pummhment Cynthias Club, composed prom “Young Corbett’ Training Hard. ei ed hati Led omen of Harlem, 4 r Realiztr own r areless of his owr women 0! a err sia Realizing that he has another chance life an by limb as the most impo Tohn'at se was In hie usund | (2 Make Sood and come hack into the | geished Sicilian bandit, a pamy TEpEy VAnce WHEN aalod But Vent, “Young Corbett" 1s training | o¢ we one of the g : apey Ne edglletcehtdng ndustriously for his twenty-roumd bat- most versatile athlet of his speech the veteran bow tle with the Mexican fighter, wi nost versatile athletes t that te that Joe to be decided before the Pacifi letle Club, of Low Angeles. Cal. on In two weeks Corbett expects be as strong at 133 pounds when he fights Herrera as he ever was for previous battle. Thum | Old Timers at Ringside, the stag of the COLLEGE WORLD SPLIT UP ie" aren teed George Gardner, Gua Ruhlin, ank Benny Matty Matthews, Jimm: Handler, J joe Bernstein. Tommy ( Fencing affairs of the college world @re all up in the air just now because of @ recent split in the Inter-Collegiate Fencing Association, The disruption came about through the efforts of Annapolis and West Point AM to exclude Boston Tech. and Princeton from membership in the associa which was composed of West I nnapolis, Cornell, Columbia, Harvard Yale and University of Pennsylvanla The result of this, which happene| at the meeting recentl: held at the New York A. C., was that Cornell, Columbia and Harvard withdrew from the 1 i body and formed one of their own ing it it the University Fene ne Ass MONKEYS, NOT MEN, STATED FOUTBAL How Would You Like to Buck | a Line Made Up of Gorillas? Monkeys, and not men, firet played football Football is the game primeval, pesthne of the chatterers in the tops before man dropped his tail Football is fundamental, primitive ob, warlike. With a cocoanut for a ball, man’s forefathers, their tails secure twisted @round the limbs of a tree, juggled and scratched and fought for supre ‘The monk that got away with We t secured a touolidc and drank the milk, In th» beginning gorillas were the best pla, For flerceness | ness in steruing when @napped, for secretly and ing thelr opponents, w eleven modern colle; men an equal number of these hereulean apes’ Imagine @ man trying to make an end fun on @ gorilla. Picture a deseendan tackling. for q of Adam making a plunge through the|t Une. Wouldn't his vitals be torn out in Nfty? ting that in punting the col- Yoge chap would have an advantage, wouldn't the Fc rilla hurdle the line wit one mighty leap and pounce upon th kicker ‘before he had time t th ball? Yale would forget al @onk and | 1 ever met a Deed to issue dead wagons of the yictina Darkest Africa Matchmakers After O'Brien. The different matchmakers of att qlube in Philadeyria will 5 try induce Philadelphia some of the hr Seuttered around the building were no ce Hopkins, Sam Bolen and others, into the ring and box a merry three rounds, as they are of the opinion that they hawe {t on the young iiiete who au ton Ti and Princeton accepted All that was left of the old assocta- tion—Yale, of P., West Point and dave Jabez White Coming to America, Nebtwelght champion of England, by Tom O Rourke @ days ago, White &ays tha ir ranks, but his, howeve to exclude Boston Tec: new body, and not before the disruption fg the old body insists The new ssoctation, firm tn tte in tentions, will go it alone and has al- Teady arranged for s competition to be fed at Birmingham on Jan & | pack up his trunk and depart fon in a held In t 9 and } It ably try tnd gee W expect P., AN: his Tuxedo A, ¢ hapolis a i over. PERSON SMASHES. SHEDKARD SENDS f come pile, which tntende’ ts \Bouts Best Ball for Chicago Fast Time of 26 3-5 | Cubs. Seconds. hat ft would be @ foolish t lay with the th ot lt refuse to pla | Windy ¢ 1 Peron Kept ue He Hird wk {t@ the contract which fad been sent to i W ovine ne of the four, him by the Chteago club, and, with a han 5 u k in “he Gur jrlce omplimentary note attached to it “HH tr \ Law |torwarded the contract to President wt tr d In the letter Sheckard says © str e te in fine condition eo-legged race Litors and the hove a chance agaln were Harry Sedley At the éravk — ; ast named palr got t | and took t Hl en Hillman yelled: “Now, Lawson er, away.” And away they went | inted as they well know how! — ;: Berkeley Club Entertaine ets MERLE OS y lerkeley Club, of Brook! (Bpecial to The Evening Wor' nied ea piers only : with AUGUSTA, Me. Dec, #.—Kid Pants, people, hold thelr annual follific.tion [Of Boston, knocked out Arthur Cote, of tls evenir n Hill, where ths | Biddeford, last night in the ninth round awo bin ballrooms ave been dvcoraud of what was scheduled for a fifteen- for. ie moeanion. pwe ne Chestras round contest at the Augusta A. C and their friends trom ‘mi bing’ any at Cote had evidently underestimated the enjoyment Panta and during the first few rounds — — c, Hoxing Bouts, Club, of East New wwekly ahow at the sub Empire A jing back for 4 later onslaught to study out damaging blows, land of sports. Thats young Jay ¢ baad Jin a feld ‘to him, wh match at There was certainly a great array of wood Peter Latham, the world # champ play his best. 2 ment of Gre boxing at the different clubs these court. polo field or tragk WORLD'S RECORD ON HS CONTRACT Goes 220 Yards in a Sack in|Says, Too, that He Will Play Jimmy Sheckard, the fast outfielder, recently made a bluff not to play Brooklyr for him an Pioraon's former | team, sat down and affixed his signature|given up hopes of ever seeing and expects © | to play the best ball of his career next the Biddefont boy seemed to be hold- | man Pantz was the aggressor throughout Bradford. etrects the contest and kept Cote so busy on | J be a barrel fight and | the dofense that he had but little time I Melteod within And the boy ts but beventeen years « age. He gave an exhibition of his prowess compar orgian Cou week, he forced At birth the boy was a slim, weak lad, and his father resolved that only an on en All of these boxers are ready to step boy r life would make a vi n of the youngster It did he has taken to outdoor work as 4 *%* does to water. [Every spare mo- ife is spe on tennis 4y When Jay and his brother Kingdon firet donned thetr short trousers no her and voted |, [" & letter received from Jabes White, the | €xPense waa spared to make Georgian Court a perfect Travers Island, Their came about after the formation of the as som aa hie bout with Bab Russel. which | m r, George Gould, made arran; 8 to have “Bob” Nichol coach his boys. The West could p the Gould stab Hae Lots of Nerve, palr are ranked with the ayers in the United State FIGHTERS ADRIFT WA SABO Start Hunting and Have Narrow Escape. SAN FRAN teen hours Willie tagerald, the ore, were lost on the bosom of next season because he was not oon-| the den Tinirsday. There wis a per- sulted {n regard to the deal by Charley | sis rumor about town Thursd Ebbits, has pulled in his horns and is night that the palr of Iight-welg now as meek as a lamb. Jimmy, after |scrappers had perished at sea. The | thinking the matter alizing|hausted and bedraggled pair turned at Crolls at 3 o'clock yesterday mor afer @ searching party had ate again, At 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon the | nia, vs. Darling, Corne! MDONALD BREAKS TWO MOR CORDS tour skater ‘who won honors abroad ‘for New York Athletic Club, world’s records for the fighters went forth In search of game They hired a sailboat and intended to flont dov the bay until the came to & wooded spot near the race track, When the pi launched on thelr erufse they discov- ered that they were drifting out to] sta before a stiff gale, The pu uglliabs set to with might and main to reguln land, but the wind was stronger than | thelr efforts, and it looked. as if the were doomed men, For hours th easly about the bay, terror- P floated ain striken and i for help, but none came, Finally turn of the tite carried: them ashore near thelr training quarters. ene JENKINS AND M' LEOD DRAW. Former Wings $100 for ; itavibe Fit- teen Minut Without a Fall, CLEVELAND, 0, Dec, 3).—A wres- ting match at the Empire Theatre here jast night between Tom Jenkins and Dan McLeod, with a time limit of half jan hour, was declared a draw, neither ing a fall. Jenkins, howe won fics because he remained fifteen minutes without being thrown, A nec: iput ithe bet hi A ond pondition of the contest was that fenkins was to receive $200 if he threw p game jand | indoors too muct |e | A month ago he read i in the newspa- racquet expert, Jay said not a word to any one 1 finished studytr very | rough as a bear in a gam Court knows ali YOUNG JAY GOULD DARE- aly SPORTSMAN : ply to the Chicago Athlete Assoolatio where weekly boxing entertainments have been given new IlMnois At letic Club, where monthly an t naments have bee d, a < organizations in the elty Mons surrounding the amateur tourna ta of the Hitnols Club for the two nights caused the new 1 whieh Chief of Police Colling a as 1 and meant the end ‘ poxing exhibitions | fal contests in (he of the Ilfnols Athie }for to-night cannot take pine e s Polo Player He. He Is Ranked! Among the Best in United States, Latham to come to Georgian! | Hut, my bay, what would the Eng: | to do here? 1 would be for even with che highest | t mean you, papa u Would make yourself the k of the rac world, 4 ed, and Latham came, The boy Phe family riends were all cyes for ng the preliminary prac- ) play began ‘The spectators rubbed heir eyes and looked agatu he boy was winning, The . two, three games, ne. Then he ran the ungster took o: am had pre to dito L Put Up Wonderful Game. Latham rallied sharply and made the ‘our all, After that the English- nan forged ahead, but the American vad Surprised even his own parents y the wonderful game he had put up. Fleet as a deer, wiry as a cat and yet dt ord! is gentle and meek y arrival at Georgian inswers his eall, and when {n distress turn to the slim, black-eyed boy for relief. Sush 1s Jay Gould, ene of the coun- try’s wealthiest and most expert ath- totes. nary times the be salamb. Ey | ~~ EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN., WORLD'S § YOUNGEST ATHLETE ee. FRANCIS SLEVIN, JR, ANSWERS TO QUERIES. New York, Dec. & Paitor F rd \ plea sporting oolumns The } World) if baseba | tryout, are judged by shetr 4 ossur te ) yers to have a va grammar-school gradu yecomne A fessional ball pla . ability) in the Who cannot & year Sir, Who ; . nthe six-day. bicy Garden, Hi ier and Wall MeFaria Wed \tiller and Waller. Kindly settle the following era the aix-day hicycle riders 0 to start in must pul up as 2 ce, B bets they t put only, Which ia correct HENRY DE MOTT. Riders do not pont a forfeit. DOLANDO. Dave sullivan (Srike Sullvanie HY ¥ ms ae was it with kt Consolidated Clab, Went ond stree Will you ‘kindly publish dn ner of rounds It Dear Bir: your column the number for the Cham: as took for James Sullivan In thelr b Stim tp in 1827 Al how m Any hour Jim Corbett and Jackson fought), Sullivan 21 rounds and J i NN CHESS TEAM I STILL LEADING | Willie Pissirsi abs and Joe Gans|Brown Is a Close Second, with Cornell in Third Pennayivenia Mitek PEs Deeb y halt a point tn the to per, anc loe Gans, of the Chicago National League team! Baltimc 43 ba Geom CF layed to-day in the follow!ng order Pennsylvania, ameryville | |Columbia's goal was eo: were fairly | less, ‘They Shouted | pose Mi f ‘Anth if Yale Sarony and ot ie ‘oR the Atal ‘hom ! nouncement was made that young M Donald had broken hoth his reeorc spect retore gave jheid in the Amat a Powers Controls Providence, Club, UV ADB AUbs, 2 a papete for the transfer of the maj rity Hock of the Providence Baseball lub, ° the Eastern League, from Col, Felix R, ¥ the time named. Two | delachator, of this city, to P. 1, Powers, thousand spectators saw the exhibition. ' New York, were signed to-day, (night. Timothy for which ot| pee #. bee COLUMBIA SEVEN ATS WILLIAMS Closest Hockey Game of the} Season at St. Nicholas Rink Last Night. The succeeded in carrying off the first in- tercollegiate game of the season at the St. Nicholas Rink last night. They had for thelr opponents the Williams Col- |lege seven, whom they defeated in a at} bitterlx contested game by the close | Iscore of 4 to 3 Although beaten, the Williams teqm certainly made the Blue and White team play the fastest game they have gone through tn a long time. In the second half the Williams team made the Columbla players use their best efforts in orter to gain the lead from them, and up to within a few minutes of the ending wf the game the antly in danger, Suniel | DINSMORE BEQUEATHED AUTO TO THE KAISER, From Europe has come the news that Clarence Gray Dinsmore, who repre- |sented the Automobile Club of America |abroad, before ils death in New York a few weeks ago, bequeathed his 90 horse-power Mercedes to the Emperor of Germany. On ote occasion Mr. Dinsmore offered to the Emperor, who wanted to 1 quick tmp, and’ after that time Dinsmore had special privileges at court ————_—. Starr Association Ball To-Night, The grand annual masquerade and enter- tainment of the Starr Assoviation will be dam Opera-House, Woot Yorty-fourth street and Eighth avenue, 4 Bullivan and sever fe henchmen Will ‘be in Attendance, incl ai Ing Leaders MeManus, Iowan, Curry and t aiag wif othe ‘edkewalk tnd the pri - ringing oy" a ‘olumbla College Hockey team + BOWLERS IN MATCH GAMES TO-NHT |Reddell and nd Cadien Will Meet Watt and Goggins in First of Series. At the Monarch Palace, Sixth ave nue and Twenty-sixth street, this eve [ning P. J. Riddell and Herman Cadieu will meet Jimmy Watt and J, Gogeine lin the first of a series of best five out lof nine games for a side stake of $100 The return series will be rile) w Watt's Albion, Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue, Sunday night. ‘This omtest is the ouicome of a challenge by Goggine to meet y left-handed bowler in the Greater City, which was accepted by Riddell, Cadleu and Watt nwo stars among the right-handed team contest which will be interesting as showing a comparison between left and right-handed exper s. Close Race in Tourney. ‘There | the American National Tournament af the White Blephant that is attracting much at tention, ‘The Romovilles ad with seventee clubs fighting for place honors are ae fol lowe Club, W. L, Club, Algonquin 6... 5 Spartan Columbia ‘ 6 Metrapolitan Corinthian ,., 6 Imperial Logan... 12 6 Bylvan ..,. The Metropoiitane have the high soore 8, Olozagm, Romvill we! f, YY mauin, are ted with 2h dividual soon, G. Williamson, tae hich initvidual avernas ¢ 1b | The tournament closes Thursday. Jan Ee Hyman Wins Pool Game, Arthur Hyman defeated Felix Oppenheim jast night at the Broadway Billiard Academy A aelipodbed bey penhelm toning, He had three ‘The Ww: be in to-night’s 1 he prank fan and Edward Hanns un pest x Pho lort bowlers. were later added, making 4] @ close race for wecond honors in| in the pool tournament for the amateur championship of Grenter New York by @ score of 100 points to 01, Hyman made a high run of 15 and had two sprigs iy Op- madi 9 tenth rounds, 8 the first six-day what TIMOTHY IMARY, Root and Dorlon in 104, me know what Piadelphia Jack JOSEPH BAKER ear Bir: Ny decide the fowing bet? A thet Joo Fogler, ‘ew wid Krobw last year, B ‘ skiie de kogler BETTOR nd, 1 must in some newspaper And as lam @ mms, T thought ten my friend. Himes have. ‘Terry Mo- Govern and Oscar Gardner fought?” Rf R A. FINKEL Twiee, On what date did Sharkey roe fight ther six reund bettle J. M'DONA nd Mui r February 27, 1904, Bir) A sive Philadelphia Joh sa Hebrew, B says Irion, Wil ni ome hoxin fit to do something should ke t> try Mo CHRE Srobuten Apply at any of the athletic claba in elty, SMOKE TALK Some people de- light inbig, black, clear Havana cigars. They gloryin a heavy smoke. Some day soon, their nerve: will go all to pleces. Why bring it on when you can get all the satisfaction, but none of the harm from the mild, fra- grant delightful domestic Rosert Burns Cicar OLD DR. GRINDLE, oo YEARS 4 h fihae 1atage IN Grind : ing, hereditary or oon! i mel rames won end only one defeat, Other Ee wlio: Tedder der “complains be I