The evening world. Newspaper, January 6, 1906, Page 6

a . > Bothner-Alex. Swanson world’s cham- _ Beld within ‘the past couple of years re FoR AUTO MAT + pion, and Swanson has ali Harlem at | = Benny Yanger. the Chicago ” THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6. 1906. PORTING NEWS AND COMMENT # # & rox EDITED BY ERT EDGREN: ) NAME REFEREE Several, Including Tom Jen- kins, Suggested to Judge Bothner-Swanson Bout, | The referee will be selected to-day to judge the merita of the George ehip wrestling match, which ts to be eld at Grand Central Palace, Lex- dngton avenue and Forty-\hind street, “next Friday night. Besides the fact that the match !s for the lightweight championship, considerable money will probably be wagered upon its ow.come, a the Pastime Athletic boys are en- thustastic supporters of the little cham- men have been mentioned ee judges for the oontest, am them | being Tim Hurst, Johnny O'Brien and um Jenkins, The latter is now wrest- ng instructor at Weet Point, but can juanage to get away for a@ nigh: to - Otflolate. This will be the first matoh in which Bothner has taken part for a long time in which he will hava an oppor: tunity to show his real worth, as h ill only be giving away <wo dr three ds, while all of his other matches hiuve seen him me:ting weiterwelghts, He asi Swanson are to scale at 139 be & memorable one. ett P ale at the Grand Central Palade best @ Grand Central Pal: Wedoesday afternoon. aaa ———__ Yanger and McGarry Matched. 1 lightweight, end Andy MoGarry, Mths Tigged local fighter, were matohed last Might to try conclusions in @ three- round bout at the next stax of the 3, will come off on it This bout at. as Bure and’ simple, whe at the tap of the bell to CHARACTER STUDY OF THREE OF OUR GREATEST FIGHTERS Battling Nelson . . br Champion « 7 le isnt brilliant, but he gets there. Jiramy Brixt: Th fighting attitude 25 diplomat ic. Oieecie Dero MSGovern Savage fi ghti ing expression. $¢ NELSON | MGOVERN BRITT fown their opponent fs ible, ‘They will battle “at wy FIGHTERS HAD Western Sport Who Has Seen Some Local Bouts Compares Them Twenty Yeas Ago. nose or his lip and toss it away & was bothering him and hang- t= ag Sy age joe water after the shock i Hl i ops with the other fellow? question was suggested by the | t F of fighters in three-round | , Deuts of to-<iay and the gameness dis- Played and the fighters of twenty years HAT would the avemge fighter of 7 They | were as even! relght, and general to-day do if ene es his meres © Coulee hares etsken ona fer = nas ‘They are the! = Wh, words and flowery phrases. vat were to cut Piece of his.| tram Crosoy wis an instructor of the | deferd a championship. i at Britt Thinks of Nelson. | “erry gat looking ar Britt with dull |the auspices or the United Bow"fag Atl % Pupil of the Dalys. They got into the} Battling Nelson is light-weight cham-| . | fats, icesans % what he fetuly thinks of in some impossible foreign | starting Mond: 1 z shred? Would he jump out | 5 Nf, pitched open (Air, about! pion without @ question, He won the| jis 8° Just | language. nday evening, Jan, 2? or would he rey Sp io clock and stripped. weighing in at a | e t in and proceed to ex-| “in came the referee. ney kot she first gong. division, amd, as he falied to defend the = The Plugger | The Slugger | The Diplomat (oo D |Character Studies of Great Trio of Fighters, Any One of ; TO BE GAME | ~ Whom is Fit to Defend Title of Light-Weight Cham- |EVENING WORLD'S TOURNEY: IN RING CONTESTS OF OLD! . Pion —Which Is Best ?- be of grem interest and wi undoubtedl: draw a ‘large crowd. i Smith In Good Form. Take Your Pick ATTRACTS STAR BOWLERS BY ROBERT EDGREN, “The second time I fought him 1} as Nelson is dogged and sullen, Britt Wi the smoke of battle ber! ‘rained like a good Z I thought | Snape like a wolf. Nelson growls and Cleared away this spring we may|I would win sure. I hammered him | fimes wwolf will sat ant Wora beides {Hampionship Trophy Will * Ught-welght chem-| fro mthe belt to the eyes, but he wore | to death. Sometimes the bulldog gets Poy : Jmnmy Smith's excellent average of 220 1-6 with Those of pion. Betuing era older of/me down again. I don't believe chere Nis grip, and that settles it. Go to Winning Team in five games wae the feature of the second 5? ‘ho can, Tefry Knows Fighti That's All. the title, le to meet Terry MoGovern,|{s a lightwelcht in the world who can ry ighting—That's 5 A and a iitle Inter Jimmy Brkt. It wikt|whip Nelson, I can hit harder than | |,Terry McGovern is unlike elther of Head-Pin Competi be great fighting right down the line |any of the others, and I couldn't phase ‘aueon'e weey, is just a fighter. He @ a3| tdm."' ow a thing on earth aside These three, although their styles ar from the fighting gumse. Last ; matched in| different as any three different methods) Corbett was talking straight from | When Britt and Nelson had a wordy Are you in The Evening World's free appearance «S| of fighting can be, are al] fit to hold and ion. dispute, Terry sat and looked on. Britt | head-pi tieibenFtl ween her seaasehen, y ed on. ead-pin tournament for the champion- | Was oratorically declaiming, using long yship trophy, which will be held under tic Club, Sharp was 8 greatest littie men in the game. Jimmy Eritt told me a’ couple of to think Jim was |Clubs at Thum'’s White Elephant, in’ the : ; He w : ‘some elson. Suid Jimmy: “Bab, there's | broke in with a remark about Dardaged | ‘The query is one of interest among nothing to k. This fellow is tae tough-| hands and five-ounce gloves. All at | the bowling clubs of Greater New York, jest enan in the world. I nit ini hard | Q0ey, Terry was alive Bohne Tor ake: [and some Idew of the interest attracted enovgh and often enough to whip a| His eyes sparkled. Here was a thing | bY @ brief announcement on the bulletin jDeavy-weight. He landed on me cften, | he knew all about. He was interested. |board at the White Elephant may be teo. I bave an awful lot of stamina, | Lf Britt talk as much as he pleased re about such u nis ~ Sten rea title at che light-weight limit, he lost It/tut ne wore me down. There's junt one | mental ana dasic SuneE as tee funda- was Greek. J entry blanks had been received from He is now fighting as a welter-welsht,| thing that will lick him, le ost go | monwealth.’ thee y the printer twenty-five clubs had sent i @nd makes no pretense of being able ty) on taxi, nent: | poundages’ and | “five-ounce gloves" applica sec rates e 138 ring side, in fight ing the ings he texes without | sounded like good, sensible English to. in written Mieation to the retary mak: pounds, ring InB/ suddenly getting a glase jaw. ‘Then he | Terry. ‘|at Thum’'s, where all entries are made. 9 In Superba League. tor title by fairly defeating all of the best men in his class, Joe Gans was a light- welght, and @ great one, but long ago he graduated into the welter-welght Crosby cut Sharp learned from the fact that before the looked 1 “These fellows nowadays,” sald alcrowd to condition. will go quick, and I ‘Terry doesn't know anything else, but| Parttcul Jeade in th a b 3 a ‘ quick, an wart to be on else, but Particulars of the tournament are in the team estan feet ain iartesenuanent. “orem eo fone, sini. DET An th nere | Neleon is the Original Rubber Man./tana to get him when that tlme|Drop himeinge’s “ROW ow to tient: lccntained in the following notice from juperba tourmament at 12D- ink that the man wao gets the better |'"Sahe “mob lewtned where Nelson ts @ wonderful fighting machine |comas.” home, ‘alert, ready tov fight instantly, | ‘he secretary: Brooklyn. Moore, of the Grand Con, ]f-R in the last round hes won the “ ‘ He hits a bard blow, but he hasn't @| Go here we have Nelson. He is alrieniite Tomine to plan a battle.| “The tournament ie open to all or- th higty individual rage fight or ‘s enti-led to a decision. torches | genuine knockout punch. His greds/hent puncher, but not ‘a quick fnisher. |doesn't know what he Wilton qe |samized bowling clubs and governed by | M6. The to date of the first “St's gameness in a fight that wins, Ting: | specialty is wearing his man down, tir- fees oe fate 9 from ffteon to | tigtt degina, but until it ls over he never |Fules of the New York Bowling Avso- Tota: fog him until he is nearly helpless, and) herring sot eit Can, take a fearful | hesitates for a moment.” He Is the|ciation. Only one five-men team from Pina. any real %-karat fighter on his feet) the bell sounds for the end of the is lkely to come back in the round and score a knockout. y of Skin-Tight Gloves. ing has happened time and {t {8 @ question in my mind of the fellows fighting to-day we stood the gaff in the days tight gloves. Skin-tight gloves marked a man and cut him to nbbons. the end of three such rounds as are ly fought now @ man's own mother would have a hard time recog- fizing him. “Real game men are scare. Out in Bt Louis there is a bartender who ‘sed to be named Eddie Kelly. He was the eon of Tom Kelly, middle-weight champion of the world. Kelly wears his | moustache long to hide a scar where iis : i i ul i: «i “ally fought Dan Daly, a, coming weight class, for or founda Kaly's father was time He his lip is gone, lost in a fight.) from them, thet th ks apart of ip pe Rraty lire ry ey ‘were #0 si (snd pgp fh an caida Rae todey | The bate (Wes, ne round twenty snes, and €o have eiven ekin-tight 4 decision on any round as to who had fwere many. Kelly's face i ce the | the better of it would have caused @|you are #0 weak @ tap would put you |ilgence. He knows that he can outbox ribbons. ard the middle of the , 1 iy |Flot. It was Sharp's gameneas that |700 07° 5° TiS calmited endurance. | ttvan of that tovdraw t ut he is a bu t a plece of his lip was hunging Sarees, Dal; whipped until he was knock- 1 of lip hang- wet othernie the boy. Ts whipped out his knife wad cut feoe and threw it away, Jt ‘of Wp or anything of it was @ plece of it. "t worry the boy and he con- ears wor te NOY ADS it Jooked Mke he would win. Kelly that man wasn't out until he was Daly won the fight. Another Flerce Fight. “Take the fight of Sburp and Crosby sNameoki, Iil., in 189. or perhaps Shar inter, "They went for seventy-four ¢ ‘seventy-six rounds and for the last Ses wo it was anybod: fight, We Pay High Cash Prices for Furniture, Pianos, Books, &c., atid Buy the Entire Contents of Houses, Apartments & Offices. Who Are We? ‘Look tn the ** PURCHASE and EXCHANGE "’ Columns of TO- ~MORROW’S SUNDAY WORLD 3, " y has hammered him in|"? sont see of these latter ‘When you arg dog-tired from bis rough- ‘particular spot so many times | one. fepsing “with pillows ave {he will 8 leoe of pulp. : ing and bullying he ts tresh end he | piiricane. finish for two or three jlehtwolght title has known in enuny | Gunes are promieed for 4] lig. & Cellow who never pa ark can Sad whole | cops you out. rounds. He {s as nervous and peevish | yacrs”” fo Thee, in Y | molten ae, ell a magn bomisry a ee ‘Team. uy fi y ru then sending over the final emash, Nel-|new round. fe wind by aggrasivels [lifer ma" (8 @ Ang I ever saw in my! 4 club can participate, and will play | Grama Genta eon is an indlaruboer man. It is ‘n- oohaa | and plunging without letting | Terry Is as aggressive as Nelson. But/one game, The feam making the high- Brees be deep seated, Iike w bear's, for a blow! Red courage and confidence “and pe. |down and Win in clghtean’ oF tweety | FoPhy donated by The Evening World. that would jar any ordinary man into tlence. rounds. He wants to win galloping. He|Each bowler making a score of 100 or unconsciousness hes no effect on him a |, Then take Britt. Here ts a different |sends the first blow over for a Knock. |more will reotive a handsome fob with atl, al-edtceted tree eine tds iS |aonaing, them Geren fant Re,keePs on | a silver medal. Entries must be sent " |, shrewe rasiness: n rT as fast an hard ad Young Corbett, talking about Nelson |the ring. He is a politiotn os well'aa [as he cam He has a fearful puneht|to Joseph Thum, Wei Broadway, said this: “The Dane is the toughest,a plumber. Where Nelson, if called | Much more damaging than any other of|before jan. 15, as this tournament ts man in @@ world, He can't hit hera| Ubon fF a eposch, would flounder |the lttle fellows use. i ‘wor can't it ‘a through one or two sentences and sit Ter Is the Wildcat. limited to two weeks. and he is easy to reach. The finst time! down, Britt would stand vp carelessly ry je a Last year 205 clubs, or 1,025 bowlers, T fougtr him T thought it was the big-|and umake a first-class, off-hand taik, | .1f Britt, is g wolf and Nelson a bull-lwere represented in the tournament, Goeel Sent ios £ avec Sow. ray HARD owen |e ay Depew opulent. ver sntatel ove in the ring. | ‘the first fone ie thie being the largest number ever @n-| main thelr competition for the BO coretn Ae on his jaw with all my strength. Once | oer epew wouldn't be ashamed | f.'* 45 bang: “emash, tear.” He mever | tered in any similar event in the his- | the Riversigs alleys ‘Monday evening. I imocked him down with « swing thar) ~ Up- face, which is always |tory of bowling. On the last two nights caght to have killed him, and he jumpea| ,, Britt All Nerves and Bralns. kindly and smiling When he is not Aght-| sory clube participated in the contests, = without waiting for the count ana) wags’ Hut Wainy fighter, Although hel iif; eyes giare with Tage. As he sends [It is exproted that 400 teams will send his ps |in entry blanks for the coming tourna- came bulling imo me again. occasion, doesn't eat mashed potatoes| DOW, after blow whizzing along his lips “le te the only man T ever eaw who | With a Knife, and knows a finger bow! |(re drawn back In a sail and bis 6; | ment. could | Sine tapeiete ave oped nate te ere ‘ ‘The Algonquin and Fidelia teams tied ti a Keep me breaking ground. alt) oe ee ee te loi He is tatu.|if bia eves were popped wide open with plunges at yon right | rally quurreldome: “When 'he was simply | savage fury. Tuke Terry ten minutes |on a score of 617 for the champtonship @ ye business man in San Francisco, |@fter a fight, out In the dreesing-room, |trophy jawt year, the former winning peas, Before "he ever thought. of becoming | And you wouldn't know ‘him, “AM the u ‘fet Big Change These Days. & second, until he has you so/ring fighter, Britt couldn't go a week/| fighting mge is e. He is la ing, |in the roll off. One hundred and y ‘ds tired you can't hold your hands up, | without scrgooing on the street. “‘It'was|mnd the only indication of the feartui |fobs were given out to buwlers who That fight seo-sawed after the tenth he ewings one over. It tm’t that |“!Wars punch first and explain atter-/nervous strain he {s under while in| made scores of 100 or more. ‘Thea over, Xt ‘with him. the ring lies In a slight trembling of wiggote by Unis ho hits a hard biow, but by that thne| In the ring James uses all of his Stel. | the iT ae amich soon DAMEN SAT, lowout by eds. pes reat tri jugser, at mombe! Lat Bow! St the'rmen he pects; and he waives | anh Sine muggers Dieat thers oat ee | alicemeetaee Wiens ar tts Woite Bosnane fight out |lightweight chacpion when the mix-up | Sunda ed. evening when Joe 7 att and when|{s over, And whichever one wins out | Thum, president of the organ be as good a defender as the open “couse. , and sill Kinds of indie of nerve: the thne comes he can always make a cent con , reat is i Boel oe dh FU crenata te AS PUNCHING-OAG KENNY DEFEATS |NTERCITY FLAVOR RAPIDTHINKING, [eee oes Sees GRIM STILL LEADS; WILLIE CORNELL; TO THESE CONTESTS; ON BAL FIELD csserreneeslne ‘Welner_and teame meat Talmrevening ar Tolmer, Central ere: . Sontest, Cor which (wenty-five valuatle Dee | nue and Hart greet. Brooklyn, in: resuming crshnent, ‘Will add to the pleasure <6 the, Base ern Diststet, Young Mahoney Beat Him Ail|Latter Started with a Rush, Quaker Boxers Will Be Instance Where Mike Kelly) ie, erat Meeting: pif es NR Over Ring, but Couldn't but Was Rounded Up at Pitted Against Locals at Shut Off a Sure Double |, smmere wut be a tango actentance of mics ge eee at = eat the Finish. Hudson A. C, Play. le; Monday tournament, r ten Bi when ¢he very. impu of} a split on the eleventh ball. what they insly be € ene” Ne Land Knockout. feamm to the national tournament Wolngarth and Bella, of N with rot ville in March wit! be fully discussed. © 4, | a, meton contset efth Geopge Hallér and i. (Special to The Evening World.) Seven boxers who for some time past| Joe Quinn, the baseball wit, hands |,/t seeins now, 3 ‘Tiedman Gotham East We ew. LAWRENCE, Mass, Jan. 6—At the] nave entertained the fstic followers of | this out: “One of the best cases of |e, a bowlers. dome st’ the. beat. bowers | 7% (vada MILWAUKEE, Wis. Jan. 5—Young | unity Athletle Club last night Frank! phiiadelphia, and who recently havo : " expect that the alley owners will contribuie | Bowlers contributing news maton Mahoney, the hardest-hi-ting fighter IN| ycSnny defeated Willle Cornell after| joined the local colony of boxers, win |TaPld-fire thinking I ever saw," saya | someting to thels expeneas, which they are | gna and “other, items of int gs whe the Middle Weat proved unequal t the /ewelye fast rounds of fighting. But forl bo ween In bouts to-night at the Hudson |Jo% “occurred In @ game at Roston. fear onrercntation ia a0 atroris thie matter | Se alt ng Tottowas Boring taltor, Bre ek oe PUN re eS eee Pee a Utth lack of coolness in the fifth.| atnletic (lub, Lion Palace, One Mun-|)%@ only Mike Kelly was on first and Wi Peta Suld bee iret on juogto ping, World, | Park ow, "OMY, Bale ngtice floor, ta sy nothing of scoring ‘he|®hen Kenny was unable to hold up his| ured and ‘Tenh strest and Broadway, |! {ellowed him at bat. I drove the ball | grom the interent shown by bowlers W ‘aatray, \ncomats: Gala the Mwropg ad. knockout which a dozen more famous | hands, Cornell could have brought the! gotowin« is the 1 in full as ar. |°CTo#® the diamond to the second base- | York ought io ae i tno tournament in | cree Be cer fighters have tried fo vain ta lacd bout to a victorious close. After this|rasged by Matsbmake: Joe Sullivan: | ‘({t" Gulck handing of the ball would é Grim «nly hit Mahoney once during ay seemed to gain strength until the} tarry Lenny va, Kid Wililans, Jack |°8Vve resulted in a double play. Kelly Three Straight for Stein. Pugliliste Will Dance, “ the entire elght mounds of the fight, when Cornell, by some) Dorman ys, Kid S*:in, Guy Zelgler vs, |"an back to first base and screamed | jie girst of the important contests in the | All the well-lmown sporting men ant while Matocey was hammering ait g, had his opponent hola-| Ha gones,” Kid Murphy va. Kid |to the second baseman to ‘Throw tt tate Loacue, which will be rolled in| pugilists in town at present have ac- nun ali around the ring, but was un-| ing on disube, Jack Goviknan va. Bert kexes, |iicre, throw it here! Kelly stood near | the sreater, city this winter, takes plage et at annual @ble (0 land a blow which would suf-] In the twelfth Kenny began bis usual Serta Wa Erankie Gheehan lithe first bag and when he heard the Monday evening, when the Gia » fice to put the Philadelphi ¢j hair-raising finish, He waded into Cor- ad i “! s ‘ Brooklyn and New York teams meet, a Pee bial 0 Philadelphian out of | ea end peter ginute.ot.the:round eee eee Yall hit the first baseman's glove he | Pre tening date in nony jusiness: Mahoney started it in the| ng Mapsed, by a right-crots on the Fights’ at Empire A. C. stepped on the bag. Umpire. Gaffney his fiveznen team ganar Fe ‘Tor frst round with a series of rents and | forehead he sent Cornell down, The Enipire A. C, will hold its week-| called me\out and Kelly sate. Pile Cpe raion 9 Lere , Wii lefts in the face and chin, but none. ly boxing bouts at the club-house, Ful-| “Had Kélly tun when the fall was hit ‘wo ‘on and Bradford streets, next Satur-}_ double have, y strong to put thi x bis oa Ty made pao meee World Wants day evening.” Nine big itis will be put belts ta |at Lenox A. C~ Of thi it a ‘ani | Fitasimmons defeated Jack Dempacy? MATHEWS DIDN'T HAVE THE STEAM New York Welter-Weight and Gene Bezenah, of Cincin- , nati, Fight a Draw. (Special to The Evening World.) CINCINNATI, ©. Jan. 6—Matty Mathews, of New York, and Bugene Bezenai, of this city. fought fifteen fast rounds to a ¢ at the Rivers view Park Athletic Club here Inst night. It was one of the best contests in this city for same ume. Mathe who, It was claimed, was a “has been,” showed that he had several fights in him. For the first three rounds the New York man outclassed Bex-nah, but the for- mer failed to land a knockour blow. In the fourth round Bezenah rushed Mathews to te and landed a hard uppers ‘ew Yorker's Jaw, knocking him down, He was up in a second, however, but went to his corner in a’ dazed condition after this round. From the fourih until the twelfth round the local man had the best of the fight, but again showed that he did not fave the pursh. ‘The decision Of Referee Col. Ike Brelish was re celved with se by the large ow actendun’e. Roeller in tie preliminary after fight ing two minutes of tl Roeller was out for ten m LIVELY BOXING AT THREELOGA CLUB McGarry Beats Lenny, and Jansen and Sweeney Rough It to a Draw. 2 Three of the local athletic clubs—the Hudson River A. C., the Sharkey A. C. amd the Polo A. A.—held their weekly stags last night. Good boxing was seen at each. Amber MxGerry and Herry Lenny furnished the star bout at the Hudson River Club, which ended slightly in favor of McGarry. In the other bouts Bob Adler, forme ematour middie. Weight champion, was Hoboken Tommy’ Murphy. Young Bey, beat Joe Dillon, Tommy ing and Harry Meilier drew, Young knocked out Tommy Mc- Gabe in the second round, and Mike Burns earned a decision’ over Bob Patsy Sweeney and George Jansen mixed {t in true rough-house style in the star bout the Sharkey A. G There were five other cute ‘were well contested. gatas eb LER al, | SCHUMAKER BEAT MURPHY, Last night at the New Polo A. @ Willie Schumaker, of the Avonia A ©, met Kid Murphy, and furnished the star bout of the evening. Schumaker was a little too clever for Murphy, and would have received the decision had one been given. George Kitson and Joe Farrerer furnished a hot bout, hav- ing the crowd standing on chairs, so fast were they fighting. The next sho will be Friday night, when Johany Bure dick meets Tommy Murphy, SPORT QUERIES. Sporting Waitor of The Evening World: Please let me know through your valuable columns or by ‘mall “whether an unchartered club hag the night to hold boxing exhibitions: for the public, OKKS, L. 8. 5 % West 20th St., Bayonhe, N. J. as Editor of The Evening World: you please answer In your sport. ing columns what Js the nationality of Benny Yanger, the pugilist? M. A. HILSON. porting Editor of The Evening World: Having made a bet with a frend of mine, bovh of us having agreed to have your decision, I should be much obliged to you if you let us know through your paper whether James Corbett was ever beaten by ‘Thomas Sharkey. If eo, Kcindly state When and where. JOHN FARRELL. Jim Corbett was beaten by Sharkey Hy city, im 1008, harkey so: jee! @ fou! This was the fight on which Ret: neat John Kelly ealled ali “Con” — Mo’ beoaus: ey = when Corbett Svorting Hattor of The Evening World: To decide a bet would you kh state in your paper the date thet Bo! j A says It was fourteen years ago or Over. B says it was i Which wins? Fits knocked Dempsey out in the thirteenth roand. They fought ia 1801, A wins, A Moorttage Baker. of he Brenian Wertd uso let me know how many tl Jack Dempsey and Jolnny itgagan fought. “STUPP.” OLD DR. GRINDLE, *® Y, A SP in arenes peculiar, tren core peony Loe RS sa ey.