The evening world. Newspaper, March 3, 1906, Page 6

UP TO DATE ‘Fear re R. J. O'CONNOR writes as fol- lows Mr. Bigren: Referring to your article in yester- day's Evening World you state that Lewis easily outpointed McGarry, but Quite a few of my friends, all disinter- ested spectators, who saw the bout, do not agree with you, ana think the least McGarry should have had was a draw, From your account it appears that Me- Garry landed very few blows. I have geen quite a few bouts, and if Lewis ever got Iiis be got it Wednesday night. 5 J. O'CONNOR. Thank you. Mr. O'Connor. for an honest criticlam. I have no dowdt that you think McGarry had the best of the fight. I can understand that aaaily, for McGarry'’s sturdy manner of forcing his way in against the terrific punching that Lewis gave him and his clean-cut Bampness made as great an impression on me as {t did on you. If {t were a mat- ter of sentiment I would gladly nave! written that he deserved a draw, instead of the fact that he tried hard, but was outpointed (not whipped) by a very much more clever boxer. Lewis blocked THE WORLD: SPORTING NEWS AND COMMENT SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1906. es SF & Maia Eres BY ROBERT EDGREN: THE “LITTLE MANAGER” IS CUTTING OUT AN AWFUL PACE FOR OUR GIANTS. almost all of MocGarry's blows, and seldom missed when he started a punch himself, He landed several blows to every one of McGarry's. He landed them cleanly, while most of Amby's were wild hooks and swings. I have seen Lewis and MoGarry in the ring only a few times—three each, I think—and naturally have no personal faclination to favor either. One thing Ewill say, that if McGarry had Lewis's @overness, or Lewls had McGarry's gameness. there would probably be a new welter-weigit champion of the world, ACK O'BRIEN, of Philndelvhia, dropped in on us yesterday. Jack wanted to announce that he is will- Ing to make a match and to fight Jef- fries at Any time. He has no desire to] neg Jeff and make it unpleasant for t if he really warts to stay tn reiremen: But {{ Jeffries does care to come out and fight somebody again—why, Jack jO'Brien is anxious to be firat on tho /giouna. belleve I can whip Jeffries.” sali ‘O'Brien, “Of course there's a big dif- ference In welght, but w does that amount to? Speed and s are the things. I'd rather have my own per- sonal style of f ting than a hundred pounds or 80 more of Jeff's weight.’ I faster than Jim Corbett in their last fight, Jack answered that it made no difference, “I am faster and a better fighter than Corbett ever w it @ll I need do to prove to Jeffries that he will find a worthy opponent in me 13 to go and whip Corbett or Ruhlin or any other one or two men in the country it will be easy, I could beat Corbett easily If he would fight me. I will not hesitate to make a match with Rublin providing only that they can show me where Ruhlin will draw enough money to make {t worth while. I'm afraid the match with Ryan for the midile- weight title is off. ‘Tommy knows I can deat him, and he will sidestep and keep out of sight as long as I try to get on with him, There's no use in wasting more time on that. I always told you! that Hart was*%a dub. I could have} whipped him easily. Burns got ahead| of me there whilo I was busy on the road, I have beaten Burns, and I don't consider him in my class, even though| he did beat Hart.” | Cals bray © the sugestion that Jeffries was HEN you don't think there ts] any one in slight just now who can dispute your claim to the -weight title?" I asked )"" O'Brien gad, here isn't. Al Kaufmann ls probably the best heavy: weight in the country, next to myseit, end I gave him an awful beating. 4 hadn't been in ‘Frisco an hour before 1 was asked to fight Kaufmann, and 1| @coepted immediately. I never had) heard of him, but I knew that mo nine-| teen-year-old boy could possibly have a| chance with me because of bis lack of experience in the ring, no matter how strong he was, I cut Kaufmann up fearfully early In the fight. I begged him to stop, because 1 dkin't want to mark him for iife, But he was dead game, ‘Why, you can't hurt me,’ he eatd. ‘Why don’t you try to hit hart- T haven't started fighting yet. Wat while, I'll get you’ He kept on talk- fing, even when I had him bitnded and TAYLOR WON OVER WEISS AND MEIER The Tuxedo Pin Knight Rolled : in Poor Luck, Losing | Two Series. Itany mam ts bowling In hard luck tn the individual tourney at Thum's {t 3 Charles Meyer, of the Tuxedo Roseville team. In his elght games he missed only three spares, but had ten splits. It was a foregone conclusion that yer would beat Weiss, though It proved to be the other way. Meyer got the first two games, and everybody thought “This is the last game," but Weiss got all ms nerves together and won the next rare games, and by this won the series off (Meyer. Wetss's average was 1% 3-6; Meyer's, 184 4-6, In the second series Taylor had every- thing his way. Strike or spire was his bowling—no split or no missed spare for the three games in the series against Meyer, The latter had eix splits, and was unable to keep pace with Taylor's bowling, In the third series Taylor continued his excellent bowling, putting up a score of 2% to Welss's 171. The second game would have been Weiss's if he could have kept his nerve. ‘The same cause made him lose the third game, ‘Taylor won two series. THE SCORES. First Series. ry same 200, 169, 190, 170. Average, Welts—169, 178, 182, 203, 201, Average 185 8-6. Second Series. Taylor—2i4, 194, 224. Average, 2102-3, Meyer—1%, 171, 20. Average, 188 2-3. Third Series. Taylor—2%, 179, 162. Average, 188 2-3. ‘Wwlas—171, 171, 158. Average, 168 1-4 —$$<$<$—<_— Kaufmann May Meet Berger. It js just possible that Sam Berger and Al Kaufmann miay come together in a bout on the coast. Berger and Kaufmann are great friends, and repeated efforts to match them have failed for this reason, but now tt is euid both, with an to the coin, have cxpressed @ willingness to have it out’ in the ring. stop It. Kaufmann kicked eo han they let him go on, I knew he would try to make good. Sure enough, he tore at me like a mad bull. I just kept out of bis way all through the sixteenth and lot him fight himself clean out, He was limp a a rag when he came up for the last round, He tried to rush again. 1 saw that he was gone and looked him over, I was afraid to hit itm over the heart, so I waited for @ rush and hooked him neatly on the jaw. Thnt put him down and out. But he was 4 wame fellow, strong as @ bull, and he knew ao lot about the cama He tried everyth: op me, but he hadn't had enough practice and experience, po he @idn't work fant enough. But he'll be a great man yet It is a pity he fought me wo s00n, for I'm afraid he'll carry ~> “THEY A RE So TIRED Toray tTHey THINK !IT'SA PUSHBALL ; IT LooKS ABOUT THAT SIZE> Youngster is Born Lead- er, and His Ginger Is Contagious. BY BOZEMAN BULGER. MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 3.—“Liven her up, fellows. Let's get up a good sweat while we are going good.” Every player stopped to look. Som youngster had grown audacioug. A mc ment later McGraw yelled for a baseman. ‘There was a pause. Ever: body feared the drenching rain. In an other moment, however, a recruit h sprung to the bag and was mak! Uungs sizzle. “Hurry up, there!” While the old-timers amazement. “Another crack would do you good, he would sally at McGraw, who was handling the bat. Rank and position cut no figure with him, His heart was in the work. He was being soaked with rain, but heeded it not “That'll do for to-day,” finally or dered McGraw, as the players were scrambling for, shelter on the bench. “Twice around the bases and you can! catch the car." Nobody moved. That| Id, soaking rain had damp d thei ardor, Like drowned rats, they had no ginger. “It's got to be done, G “so comebody etart {t Like a flash the same youngst |on his feet dashing throu filled pa to fall tn cow. At Twice around out orders His snap he would yell, looked on in ed Me- real by the ond vim had ca Fitzgerald a Hustler. That man was ou erald, the catcher. He's worth his wetght In gold. He is a natural leader and bis ginger is contagious. Even the old-time play- ers catch It and keep moving This young catcher, though a baseval! bandit of immature years, has made the hit of the day. As to whether he can cateh or not nobody around these parts knows. MoGraw touched the spot, FITZGERALD THE REAL “BELL COW” WITH TH however, when he remarked last night hat "Any man who can show me that much ginger can get the coin, If he can’t do one thing he can surely do an- other."* The truth of the matter is, Fitzgerald very much the same disposition as the Glant chieftain himself. He Is Ulways on the go and wants to keep the others moving. As a rule audacity on he part of recruits 1s offensive. With Sitzgerald {t's different. They all inderstand that {t comes from the heart and that he {fs not intentionally fresh. Ie shows well as a first baseman, but | 1s a catcher has had no chance, He hews tobacco gracefully, however, and at will give him a good start. All od catchery are supposed to be to bacco eaters and must be able to squirt a stream ten feet. No man ever broke Into the big league successfully without a package of the weed to bulge out his hip pocket. Fitzgerald qualified the @rst day. Young Mathewson, or “Little Matty,” as the players have dubbed him, is also a favorite, but of an opposite ‘disposi- tion. He 1s intensely reticent. He abevs| to the letter, but never butts in, The kid takes advice without frowning, and no matter t kind of game is’ pro- Posed he plays out the string; he never/ shirks, Medicine Ball Idea Good The medicine ball incidentally ts the | talk of the hour, The scheme has sated McGraw t6 his sh c of ball t "he says, ms go stale just because seen | i on rainy da; BROOKLYN'S $ Patsy Donovan, manager of the Erooklyng, {s mapping out plans for the spring training tour of the Dodgers. The team will make the start Sou! March 12. Donovan will have twenty: men tn chi ‘Two weeks of pre ry work will be put in at Colum- After that a series of exhibi- mes will begin. the Bmokly 3 at Augusta a 1 ta Colt: games on March & re ngton for a gam Baltimote for a The men who hi : Brooklyn i Eriges, Pa Pipham and Gessler and Jords Carthy, Maloney, 8 and Donovan, ABOUT OTHER NINES. little second Dase-| Gus Dundon, the OUTHERN TRIP man of the Chicago White Sox, has relieved Manager Comiskey’s mind by sending in his signei contnict. 41 go to West They will do ipadgn, 11, The Chicago ¢ Sacen next Thu thelr training at Chi “Cap” Collins and his Boston Amert- cans are scampering around the field ut Hot Springs, Stanl's preliminary Work ts the thit of the team, Danny Shay will net return to the Louis Nationals. Shay says his vess ventures h ‘oved so Bu nnot afford to neg! m. even for the offer made him by Ue Robitons, If Shay care? to do so Ne could t to Louls and cap- nals, wife can- un the Car stand St. ‘Louls climate. Addie Joss, the Cloveland pitcher, at Hot Springs, says Criger !s from ere case of nerv- spinal troubles, and It looks doubtful if 6 much use to the Bostm Americans until the season fs well under From anotier comys a se way @ news that Criger may not have spinal trouble at all, but acute rheu- matism. The doctors have not been able to determine just what's the mat- ter with Lou. “BREA” CAREY WA JBBEDBY CARLTON The star bout at the Summit A. C. Inst night was the best burlesque on boxing that one would care to witness. Tom “Jabber” Carey and Will Carlton were the stars, and while it went the distance the crowd was kept in uproar over the attempts of Carey to practise half-nelsons, arm locks and grapevines on Carlton. ‘The men are light neavy-weights, end @ good stiff go was looked for. The bouts preceding the main affair had all been corkers, and a good wind-up of the evening’s sport was expected, When the men stepped to the centre Carlton jabbed the “Jabber” three times on the nose without @ return. Carey ted to being on the receiving end gbleciailed in with both bands, only to be sent back with a atiff left to the face, “the men stalled through the first two sessions, mi It appeared as if Carey Was winded from his own exertions, a8 he bad made an attempt to smash Duffy's sprinting records, He stulled and clinched through the entire final round, and Patsey Haley, who refereed, was aimost out at the end trying to break him. MYERS TO BOX SMITH. ‘The three-round bout between Sammy Smith and Lew Myens, both of Phua- delpia, which will be the gemi-windup at the Marlborough Athletic Club, show in the new headquanters at 332 to 344 ‘Weat Forty-fourth street next Monday night, 16 causing about as much talk as the wind-up between Tommy Sullivan b and Kid LL aus Lak be 4 ni Beo- be WINTER RACING SCANDALS Sport as Conducted in} South and West Is | Deplorable. BY FRANK W. THORP. The winter tracks are bringing recing into a disgraceful prominence. When | winter tracks are specified that at the Fair Grounds is excemed. There is no scandal at the Fair Grounds for the reason that everything goes there and no ome bats an eye. ‘The stewards never see any reason to question reversals of form and the game Is run to sult the bunch of bookmakers who are in con- trel, At Los Angelos, however, affairs are most disgraceful, and it fa a pity that they have a weak-kneed judge at that course, Serious charges have been pre- ferred against various turfmen, and yet the penalty meted out was suw- pension for one year. This savors of the trotting tracks, where drivers are fined $25 for pulling a horse. If Mo- Cafferty and Dumell were guilty of the charges preferred against them they should have been ruled off at unce, and not merely suspended. Men May, Be Barred Here. It {s doubtful if these two men will ever receive licenses from the Jockey Club In the East, This being the case, John W, Gates must dig up a now trainer, for Durnell wae his right-hand man and, put through many a good thing for the Crake-Gates confederacy leet year. On top of all the scandal at Los Angeles comes the story of an attempted jn Park for alleged frauds. It gecms a di:flcult matter to keep the winter gamo clean. The purses are small amd turt- men resort to all sorts of sharp prac- tices to increase their incomes. It 1s fA pleasure to note that of all the men involved in scandal at the winter tracks none can be claimed by the East. All are the product of the West. Sport in Disrepute. It is not to be wondered at that the various States of the South and West ve set the seal of disapproval on racing. The sport in that section will never improve so long as t-okmakers control the game and permit horsemen to do as ghey please, If racing Were conducted on these Mines In the East, ‘then no one would oppose the bill now before the Leg! luture at Albany. Racing ts cleaner here because there ts more money in eight 2 stakes and purses and horse- men do not have to connive and poheme and attempt sharp practices. Racing would be much cleaner hero if were was more energy displayed in the stewants’ stand, But fraud was discovered and uncovered the newapapers — would spread the fact before millions of read- eng. "Therefore, the Jockey Club prefers 9 dilet word of warnlag and no pub: icity. Of course, the "wisdom of’ the Jocksy, Club must be admitted in thee Sases, but It iw irritating to the player fo see reversals of form pass tniquca, tioned by any one in aarti re It seems ean inyttation for others to do ikewise, and it shakes the confidence ot the public. Racing on Sunday. Ni tate in the Union would permit et racing, ¢@xcept Toulsiane. It sharp practices took Louisiana’ a ng time to shake her shirts clear of the Loulstane Lot- tery. and in time no doubt sh free herself of the racing incubus, ir Grounds and City Park people could Kill the Sunday racing game by. quilasring, every, horse, horse a ckey whis took part Winey. donot dare. will McGraw Put His Men _ Through Practice in Rain. they have nothing to do but size each other up. When ii too wet | to play bali now all we have to do is | to get the medicine ball and every man) Keeps up a sweat.” | ‘This is an innovation in baseball, and you can take {t from me that every club In the country will be using it in another year. MeGraw's formula for the medicine| bail bringw every muscle into play. He! first makes the players stand erect and pass the ball. ‘hey are then required to stoop and pass it on the ground, bouncing {t to each other as they form a large circle. When their backs are tired he has them pass {t between their legs to the man behind them, and this brings the perspiration. ‘Then they must pass it over their heads, throw.ng the hands as far back of the head a# pos: Eble. E GIANTS ce Gi “4 i118} NELSON SAYS Dane Explains His Confi-' dence in Result of Fight | with McGovern. Battling Nelson feels sure he will de- | teat Terry McGovern when they meet |1n Philadelphia this month. That the Dane is chockful of donfidence 1s if j H © | NS Selle ne re Ih a hi Hy HE WILL WIN fighting unless either he or I co dows to defeat. Now, while I have never seen Terry tn action, they tell me he will not back up or run away or resort to clinching or hugging to gain time. This is the main reason why I feel certain that there will be a knockout before the end of the sixth round, ‘True, T may not be termed what you would call @ six-round fighter. IT will admit that a long bout is more to my liking, as it should be to any one who claims to ba @ fighter, Still, you can take any of what 1 would call my three most important battles—with Corbett, Herrera and Jim- my Britt. In alt of these battles, with Jt was entirely too wet for the push-| shown by the following letter to The| no exception, if there was a decision to bail, and the big affair was kept in the Stable throughout the day. Champions Play Races. As the downpour of rain continued tipughout yesterday the afternoon pract as abolished ‘and the pony followers nied themselves to the Doul- room ver in Arkansas. All came off winners, Plunger Langdon, who is with them, | went over under protest, but managed to win $1,200 .¢ 80 on one race. He ad the ticket-markers jumping side~ Whee as his five-hundred-dollar bets rolled In as freely as you or I would put up five. McGraw was the real picker of the day, and quit winner sug'a to Wear good clothes all sum- mer even {f he fails to get his salary or loses his Job. ‘Dye players continue to drift In, and McGraw expects the full team In. by end of the week. Arthur Devlin 1 Dr, Archie Graham, the outfielder, paegiemtay, mdming, accom: ny Late Pitcher Wrigat, of Louls- isk kht Dan McGann shelbyville, Ky,, and 8 Much’ fervor as ved in MMs home town from mens Assoclation afters he t three-base hit at Philadel- fall. Dan has been over at Springs having a good time and ing in shape. He ts now fit as a was a star pitcher Loulstiie in the Americar armcts Yast season and looks the part We'll watch him for the next few Tet vou know. Ny icerecend MPGARRY FIGHTS MARTO TO-NIGHT Will Meet in Star Bout at Met- ropolitan A, C.—Phil Mc- Govern Boxes Engel. rat from ted wl made th Dhia Jnst Hot Amby MoGarry will engage in another contest to-night. He is ty box Johnny Marto three younds at the stag of th Metropolitan A. C., Lion Palace, One Hundred and Tenth street and Broad- way. ‘Tommy Sullivan was to have met Johnny Carrol, but the Lowell boxer ihas decided to meet Billy Burke at the National A. C,, of Philadelphia, to- night. Marto is a clever two-handed fighter whose style !s very much like that of McGarry, and they ehould furnish a rattling @pod bout, ‘There are seven other bouts on the card. Tommy Moran meets Mosy King, Johnny Moran boxes Willie Gibbs and Phil MoGovern, who bested Tommy Markey last night, will meet Harry Engel. 4 pee be st Hanry Forbes Busy. Harry Vorbes, the Chicago feather-weight champion, who has, been located here for ome time, hes some busy times ahead. He haa been matched to mest Tommy O'Toole, of Clnctonalt, ta that slty, March othe Walgnt to By a dangero Suntgaiee ia’ Mis home town.” Torben fs logke fhe torn (7 Racor cago Bobemian, clash, before 8 cub in Maurioe Rauch, Forbes. os Sunday World Wants Evening Worn: | Philadelphia, Pa, March 1, 1908. Friend Bob: I am now. located at Philadetphfa and will put in the remaining wo weeks of my trafning here. This 1s a fine place to train. I am within a half mile of Yom O'Rourke's new club and pass It) when doing my road work, The trip to Huntington did me the world of} good, and I feel ike a new man. I) | have been in the open alr on an averag of ten hours a day. My appetite has doubled, and as a consequence I am now five pounds heavier than when 1/ left New York and in shape to stand) the hardest kind of work that will be necessary to fix me for the bout next month, I have been asked many times what my plans were when I meet Terry. In answer I will say that I will be prepared to meet him any style he chvoses. If he rushes and mixes {t from the start he will flad that he will have company all the way, and by the time we reach the sixth round one of us will have to tke the count, I don't want | |to mislead you, but one thing 1 will say that no man of my welght can stand toe to te and fight me and weather the | storm for elghteen minutes of steady |oIn Justice to Marvin Hart tt be given at the end of the first six mounds I know T had a long lead and must be entitled to the verdict were tt to be given at that time. In referring to the Britt contest I mean the last one, where the referee let us battle wichout Interfering with elther. My work while in Philadelphia will be done mostly in the open aif. My gymnasium work wil not be over forty minutes a day. Kid Abel and Eddie Kelly will be the chief sparring partners, end I will take on many others of the fast ones around Philadelphia, and, of course, Billy Nolan will be there to supervise ali of my work, Come over some afternoon and see Kelly and I mix ft, and {f you are not satiee fied with what sport you see I am mistaken. This Mttle 122-pounder hit harder and faster than any fellow I have ever the gloves om with, and I certainly have mtwed it the best of them. Now, in let me eay that I realize the that I have undertaken, and w! called on I will be Mt’ to fight Ufe. Respectfully, BATTLING NELSOM, i al “Marvellous Marvin” Hart, ‘Marvellous Marvin" Hart has come + for much eriticlam because of his bed ing against Tommy Burns tn their bout. One facetious scribe has this to must be fi E that he had only three months ta train and that he was greatly hy ths presence of Tommy Ryan.” t McGarry Had Slight Shade on Johnny Burns at the Sharkey A. C. Amby McGarry and Johnnie Burns boxed three fast rounds at the stag of the Sharkey A, C. in West Sixty-fifth street last night. Burns was more clever, but McGarry did most vf tho forcing. “Termble Terry's" youngest brother, Phil McGovern, met Tommy Markey in | ‘the second event, and McGovern made Markey look like a novice. The latter had an advantage in both helent and reach, but Phil's cleverness more than offset these, At the close of the bout Markey’ Was almost all in. In the other bouts Kid Palmer had the better of ailke Murray. Mosey Kin defeated Tommy Moran, Kid Stone an Pat Conway boxed a good draw, Jack Ritchie won trom Buck Olsen, and Tom- my Taylor drew with Jack Burke. es LANDERS AND ENGLISH DRAW HOT SPRINGS, Ark., March 3.—Fred Landers, of San Francisco, and Clarence English battled twenty rounds to a draw lest night before the new Hot Springs Athietio Club. The fight was fast and furious at all stages, but the men were in the pink of condition and went the route with ease. —~oe-—> CARSEY BEAT: ALLEN. PHILADELPHIA, March 3, — Frank Carsey, of Chicago, had the better of ind ‘oni | Uitte six Sounds ‘In @ slow’ Bait of to IN THE RING LAST NIGHT rounds with honors even, and the rereree had to stop the bout between Yi Jerry and Joe Bonner to save former. GOOD BOUTS CARDED FOR MORRISANIA A. C. At the regular weekly entertainment, Tuesday night of the Morrisania Athletic Chub, One| Hundred and Seventietn street and Third avenue, a well-known boxer from the Bronx ‘will adopt the nom de plume of “New York Jack” O'Brien and appear in a three-round bout with Austin Rice, It Is rumored that thts so-called unknown boxer is none other ‘than Jack Dorman, but his reat Identity will be a mystery: until ‘he appears in the ring. There will be seven other bouts on the progratnme Tues night. Art Edmunds and Tim O'Brien, Fred Lucas and Al Greenwood; Lou’ Fisher will clash with Terry Biwards, Terry Young and Dan Frazer, and “Battling Jack Neen has a grudge to settle with Jack —_——~>___ BURKE AT NAVARRE A, C. It 18 not often that the members o any club have the privilege of having among its members two men of the callbre of Sailor Burke and Mike Mo- Donough, and that js the good fortune of the Navarre A. C., which holds forth on Monday night, at its headquarters in American ‘Theatre Building. At its next entertainment these two husky men will endeavor to pleasp all the members who are present with an ex- hibition of the art of hit, stop and get awa)