The evening world. Newspaper, October 19, 1907, Page 6

ID BY EXPERTS UNG CORBETT OF SPORTS Scere THE EVENING WORLD, |: BEST SPORT SATURDAY. OCTO ee eS Se BER 19, 19:07 NG PAGE IN NEW YORK 2 Gat @eAT a ES ~ ALWAY “Had Many Admirers Be- , the: Level ~ in Series” on _J Haye Known S FOUGHT ‘YOUNG CORBETT. TH “Champions is» only _yeaterday—that —Corbett and Terry Mc- Govern / fought at Hartford. Looking back over the long Hst of!- fights {n my memory, some stand out so clearly in detail that it Is _hard..to_realize: they..wers fought). And in all the list none stands out clearer than that one on the dull Thanksgiving Day in the old Con-| necticut town elx years ago. , Young Corbett came out of the West heralded as a new and husky fighter. None of Terry McGovern's admirers, of course, thought that the unknown Denver lad would have a ‘Brooklyn dol. Terry McGovern and Sam Harris thought} than all the rest. In fact, Sam brought Young Cosbett on, paid his ng expenses and gave him a good share of the purse. Terry had fed up the feather-wolghts in tho East so thoroughly that there were ‘A week or so before the battle I went] to “Hartford: to eee Young Corbett @nd to get-a line on his ability. little Denverite had taken off the r_affat that surrounded his torial section when he arri ‘with Chariie Sieger, the Perhae Corbett showed off a t day for my benef ved. He was ooking him—oold der flush on the chin, th a right-han TER the training we went to cafe for lunch, Corbett ate a ie expected to do, he! said, “although Foes yr Bete told me wit hi [Dizon and a lot more. I'll. whip—Mc- fight. In fact. although he has been credited with it, he never was rixht- fully feather-weight champion, for he never was a feather-welght. He fought McGovern at-1% pounds. The feather- weight LIMIT is 122. Corbett didn't L-claim=any,tittte -himself,—ac~frst. Ti be known as the min who whipped MoGovern. That's glory enough for me," he sald. OUNG CORBETT went right_on Y fighting. But he mixed up with stage life, Ike all successful fighters. Ho began to drink more wine than water. He began to elip back al= most as swiftly as he had come up, Ho beat Kid Broad and Joe Bernstein, and fought a lot of ‘decisionless alx ‘round—bouts. Then he fougnt Eddie anion in Ban Francisco, Corbett didn't yal trata _hard-enpual phat fight —Han- ‘ion, a promising youngster, outfought bhim-for-twenty rounds, knocking him: down and nearly out in the eighteenth. Hanion-was given dent. J jenow =1-will <Yeaw him Lox tren /and he's made for me. t and I know just what to do fight: He hasn't a chance on entertaining a feclitg "YT looked over this young. He might have ‘ hers—b: ped hi, dhac was a different propo- neon the club- “packed _to_the rein T couldn't help y ing. inded on Hing, (pon , and take your licking. ——Mrovern came quitkly enough, ‘yXtthe ring Terry stripped first, and, mfling and laughing, talked with nnd the “ropes: Cars sti ly-in_his corner, looked | 54° Ses LE SK EN® 3 fan for s while, then stood and STE RET ISE tert his thick sweater slowly over his head. SOR jong-dresen—Ab-h! went up from tapacked=ringalde-ea—he 10nd Un Mripped to the waist. and ahowod the |rounds, Corbett's fighting career Was man_that | over, He became a punching bag for No|the men who couldn't have. whipped is friends uro! Serawd for the first-time "erry MoGovern was” . Uru fighter than Young ; ht ke a champion, nelth ever—pulled on {giving nor asking for quarter. S23) Corbett was that day { trical as an) fought the beat ——==xwtove. =— ancient Greck From the small. shoes (> Qhe trim, straight lexs, to the broad |medicine. Hanlon beat him in jhe was alty rounds. Auretia—ttorrera knock otaaath out in fiy FYxhtin; phoulders and sturdy. “tnodel, His blue eyes werp oc! face tanned to 4 dusky fe. ‘them ayer and hon te CRE: been meeting, “mi aitted-Perry trom his vagely again while the Westerner, cold as blow for blow. "The first round was an even At the enil of it the crowd celtement. raised () Bantam Champion wild with roof with a Toir were failing the Denver tad Uehtly pushed 1 head back with-his tantly shot the right over to the tp of Terry's chin, Grasled to the ropes andjslowly pili! BY JOHN POLLOCK. back WEN MORAN the tex! and his oyas were O bantam-welght — champlo Corbett ft hand and for a moment. - himaelt up war toward the rin turned up toward the ceiling. waited. | yay, t b an erry jurned, saw his rival, and made |eor son iis welght and for him with a hu amashed him once as ho cam ropes madly PARA hero MoGovern Seaway at him with both hands for hair @ minute, while Corbett covered un ax the could unill the chance came ty! Where the majo that have come to Amorica: have away. tt fooked then ox if Corbett must b caped and, still backed away tow following | tho. orbett, letting the blow pasa, |chan if ihe lads wore boxing With & sivage | distance. Both boys ico. Terry fell Mat on his bac A The fight was over later McGovern, wae draxxed to bis corner. im was feather ity in years Udidn't galn (he litle in this Moran ta expected to beat O'Toole uncon-|be one of the most that have bten witnessed in the Quaker — =< matched with McGovern for, tho ses- ond trial. He beat Terry that ttme in eleven florcely fought rounds, Then followed a dozen or more of Uttle fAghts—mere pot bollera—after, which. Corbett-met Hanlon again. This time Corbett-wae-in shape and he gaye the game little ‘Frisco boy such a beat- ing in’ sixteen rounds that he never ‘Daye Sullivan—in- eleven rounds, — And then, at the hetsht-of hls. career, considered “an invincible champion among the little men, he fought Jimmy. short fights Corbett went. back to San Francisco and) fought-attling Nelson. rounds. Corbett. had thought It tm- possible for “anyone to knock him out, He got avteturn match with Nelson. trained long and falttifully this tlm or two before, But ev he could {matches with. —and Tought to: or bo kndcked out. He took Hyland knocked him out in Nye. Co: ; d Whee hing-tack to New York and—going In Terry MoGavarn and Corbett met to js enths.of hard training to mit jphake lands each sized the other up |) eas—dleaperate attempt to He acwars FousuT UKE A CHAMPION 5 WHETHER HE WON-—— OR LosTa, Baseball Records Wihelm, Birmingham Club, Southern naecl- {ive innings without allowing a run. Haag nner rooklyn A. C. and Bast ind teams at C! EF y e Inning game—the longest on_record. Euan bene Pfeffer, Boston, and Maddox, Pittsbur; ¢einnat! and Brooklyn without a hit. 5 Total attendance In major leagues was 6,136,557, of which the ational 2,737,793... sooo circled the bases in 14 seconds flat. With slider to was 161-5 ecomis. “Phelan, of Providehce, beat a bunt to first in 3 seconds flat. Michael Mitchell, Cincinnat!, made a fungo hit of, 413 feet 8 1-2 &, respectively shut out Cin- fought well, afterward. Corbett beat | _American | 398,764, and ‘second ana Uitte bases “his ti Britt and Jost. This was the besinning | OF Corbett'n downfall. Discoureged. he} fell into didatpation. lie loat his stam-| {na and—Aghting skill. He put on many | pounds of fat.. After a few Indifferent | Sheldon LaJeune, Springfield, Central League, mad: i 3 feet 10 3-4 inches, yey made-# throw of 398 al WALKED AWAY meue On THE E CONQUEROR OF TERRIBLE TERRY M’GOVERN. © AFTER THE FIRST KNOCK DOWN s Meet Tt : LeT TERRY CLIMB. bad repute. Happlly it hasn't. — what called “form reversals." It wouldn't be fair to the owners and+ trainers of the majorityof the horses sponsible for the inconalatent pesform-| ances, In most cases they are not. Horses sometimes fool thelr own peoole, cent {s staked on'hix chances. however;.the-backbone- concerned In that. They bet on the horse past performances. And when the pub- {lc loses on what looks a reasonably ‘gure winner, there ts bound to be an loxpression of dissatisfaction. | Mttss—Crawford won a good race on | Oct. 14, which on her previous perform- Jance she couldn't be sten a chance of winning, She had Been decisively | }eaten_by-the horse ane_won from in her] {cnc just before that, There may {best of her sex’ and age Is plunged on ORM reversals are to be expected In a season of racing. “always_occur,-und-the racing offictals-elther don't try or are pow: erless In preventing them. The “no scandal” policy which Mr. Bel-} |mont and his jockey club. associates: insist-on~in governing the sport lin this State serves as a shield to those responsble for form upsets, Upto this month_the racing, taken all-in all, has-been remarkably clean, but the fag end of the season !s uncovering coups that savor of sharp practices, and, indeed, crookedness. Thia stato of affairs, if it con:} tinued throughout the racing year, would put the ‘gentlemen's apoct” in! Pte slau areat racalisPrerious| In another column {s printed a lst of It came to light afterward that certain bookmakers quoted odds which almost! knew she wouldn trainer are con. 2 which’ doesn't | 1.33 Oct. % carrying 116, at 2 to Saeed at 4 to 1, wins cxmiy_at a mile flemned by the publi ‘numed-theretn -to-say that they-are-re~} know which 4 “eald, bet heavily oa the Ally: y says = ° ve under him, and a> on. The officiate ap |Parently have taken no wotlon, and the YOLATU Az tae hing to-do-bur-forgetme formance" Salyolatie's leet two-races. were-wide= ene bad and tho other a The officials ap- qi—tistances—are—numercus—where—en) Pus has—noti ow>er has backed his horse heavily, and/ out, onty to eée Tittm win when note) 7 oad. pereup.-onte ts Becher owin-in-a RNhop ete Ree OUS >’) explanation In requested by | the oMcialx, and again the pudlic swal: carrying 18 p> Lene the dose, maces on Oct. § comes home the wrying 103 pounds. Fs : 2, carrvink winner, with the price Aa ‘race. BE OLOULEL WTS: in his last pre- fotsherre Tete teu ithat seems to Nays the best chance on| easiest kind of of 5 to 1 against him. celing race, he-had finishe a was why the public put its noney on ol WOOD, 112 pivods, wine Rerobat and low it "alL-kinds of vagie | f Oo LO one matt cumors were heard in odnnection with! this particular race. Among them was (ey one which had it that Faust wy teal goods In'the race. Faust tan away atter that towas-pot-cuntt!-then: hat lengths. the company. carrrtme110—pounds. Le wild rash. tp hedge ea by two lenetas at #0 to} Oct 8 TRAE thie: Temiaced tf tiniehes = fowrs-= money was bet These rumors may 10 to l. Gold Lady, admitted ta be one of the|must have been some foundation for ubdlic rre the chief sufferers, “What little chunce they_have of beating \by the public to win on ‘Thursday. she rina a miserable last, Again the pub- the game, when horses are run hon- th» to 5, ran Aifth-(umeed at por): Mo has a roar coming, particularly as! estly, la more than offset by practices! {4 rmeacko wins at one and three- \ttendance in. Big Leagues Exceeded ~ 6,000,000---Pitchers and Players Made New Marks. Corbett fought a alx-round Se Nodes vas ater wan badly ben fry Sherer a ecpe n xwifily, at- | Bookmakers bartenders hay tnxtcad’ of bnok- | taken away thi y nds of dollars! record: ink Bway Uke the other fishters he had him wth a rush ay | Young Corbett m: } tracting. To Corbett. fatighionvon the levelMe be interested In rev; aking ‘rosults ‘of soason eyer-krown {nt Tirgs as the lotaipopsiation of Masda- ater City com-| Southern League, pitched ina double--be continued. ge in | header against Shreveport and shut out istendim—eyer drew such a’ wd! the 0} ing batsme! thout a in. | Ba. thi sand wien one. Sonsiders: that Wilhelm, wis former-Nattonst akvos Koalteredall, over| Leaguer, bed béen_on the job’_some, ew aa many If not-moretitme, for in previouk daya. “with the chusetts and duy he probably hasn't an much—imoney | 2m mich a meeting, ae ye maak that {to bis name az he used lo. throw away pa a peal toot #% week. -Hut—he —has~ friends, sor it Inothe first piace-one Indication that) {he greatest= season ever i the-country a. Will Meet the Pride of Penn- sylvania for Six Rounds, England, and one ot U across ‘thew ngage ih gnother Intern intry to-night, He will n y O'Toole, the ttle champ! {na six-round /% A. G, of Philadelp! lon. but} the National h the contest will be one ren Th | more fast fikhting In Whose the xr are ~claver the bout ou! Pitter Ten ham BASEBALL SEASON JUST GLOSED SMASHED ALL RE jthrough the turnstiles, the: pric patd— nee. +for baseball ts appalling. | Stx million at £0 cents each-te-well, It's too easy to figure, but at Umea even the fifty 1s mighty hard-for—some of the fang tO get. The Nationals got the a sure enowgh—winner before the last month of the schedule was reached, Other Records of the Year. Whilo the magnates were laying aside prvchases,-the-players thomecivee were: adding fame for themssives. noth Bown South —ta—base-P Meher: TWithelm, of the Birmingham wTH MORAN T fellows that he boxes /Fight Before National A. C—| Other News of the Big and Little Pugilists, to Fight Tony Ros: Jim. Barry hod by his manag he fia fought x wo battles wills with Jack Byack with tiearme Cole, est Postponed. The fitteon-rouind bout between TM Papics |e and Tony Caponi, the Itallan Cighter of Chi+ won scheduled to Morgan and Van Horn to Battle. 1m few good fightin McFarland Will Oniy Box Real Light.) ey McFarland had knocked out | create a record. for combinat Joo Galligan in the ninth round. before the| The muscles \developea by walking 4: ednesiny night his |‘ Harry Gilmore, of Chict ement that 1@ would Indianapolia’ A ‘o> | uttered 0, mad a they Jose no f fighter weikh In at Uh ckey Ix the next light. | “and 1 yeilh $i00u kinivat any fighter et t Won't Fight Colored Men, {rack yesterday the blg Calcaxo fighter told your Dovovans! es, the Ca GORD THETS getting aixth. SEVERANCE, at 10° 1, C Oct, 7—PERS! eaten oad and East bride four. your—tnenoy'a worth. Two No-Hit ‘Games. the Pittaburgs, Oct. 2 beaten wateen te wouldn't’ alow Our Boys’ ones. PAL PaRaUaEathallaltandancoltocn thet bnownraaituectrookimelrronconentcie emaaere ne Fearon that. the. race was one-sided | hit In x to the fact that Chicago seemed | Lend eee eee this being the forty-sixth time a big | —————— aguer had turned the trick alnce | Pfeffer, of Borton, was equally as simenious with his hits against —lermat! inva gamo_this season. All_kinds of recorde have beon clakned for base running, but this was the. Sret-eeason—mrben $0 ohtaln nuthanticated records has |really “been made; the baseball tat Ghee) being ae Ree 5 pest pinyere HH vee: Moh attracted preat Interests and witht #te att the bes rere ious idea of | Pamerot care who are busily en- 900 to 1.458) 7405 nary arrangements aerave of in= hn few-dottars-for corner Jota, and other) fold | Club, | ‘In this competition Mike Mitchell, of | Bt. Louis promoters fungo hit-of 413 Thoney.Ter- dake ‘ onto, beat a bunt to first in'3 1-5 seo- onds; —-Shaldon Le-Jeuns,: Central Leagues threw a. 10 1-2 inches, and Walter, Clement Jer | perts, ) circled the bases in 14 1-5 sec: | Champion: " ‘tienes rane made A recor: row hampion ai feet 1-2 Inch, and bhatt 4 Twitchell clatmed a record of 7 feet. centre felder In the field day games Cincinnat) | ieee Ut circled the bases in. 14 seconds | tournament will be /hold nd with. sildea’ to second anil |gqrair, In any event the ecaetigtet | jdoubdle-header on Sept. 14, he pitched 390 feet | liitty-nine consecutive innings without | allowing a run. And now talk about - Out in Clevalnnd, where they play vee busoball Vy cand)e-light and moonlight, | j the Brooklyn A, ©. and East End teams) pirtaburs. [Mtrugled through thirty Innings of “al that ————= world's mcord game, when, with 1] peore of 1 to 1, and with two men on ‘fat, the Dat slammed third the horsat.de Cyer the fence for @ Providence, home run. Brooklyn made elght hits‘to first In 3 seconds fiat. Tommy Leach, for deat a bunt PUBLG HIT HAO BY REGENT FORM REVERSALS AT that-nof one —in— 0 pay their admissio which, while they cannot be-s=t down. fs actually criminal—are far trom be- ie fair, ‘During Past Month Some Coups Have .ih.n.neiin Sins ure. Men who own Been Uncovered That Savor of Sharp | tctorstrnay. pis Wetted hs — Practices- “Policy Serves as a Shield. think thes, and not the’ public, are B 1 2g “N ” ent ed to the proceeds. All ners elmoat’s “No Scandal? |syzetcomsuntt tn prea. thers ar men, wh race horses for sport's sike. ‘We said thers” are a” few = Thousands of dollars have been won and lost on the tracks this year, and fillies of the year, rons tart in | horse race az @ 7 to 10 fayortte. t [| Oct. i7—TOURENNF. dnaten «head by | Oct. Hi, ran last. beaten tw Jonetha in fcur-horee Fact Oct. 16—BEDOUI t ote beaten strand -one-half-lenetbe} nt_one and cne-e'enth milan, Nevery dangers. Oct ‘quarter nile race, We never cam Inet in at pix and one-half furiones: 3 (9 } 10, beaten wx Jenxths In sam. Oct. 12-DORANTE wins Nursery Stakes! ta ordinary fleld 4} ML} at & to 1, by eeht FP Sopis D0 rx sintcanthmilet: Jengths. Previous start, | poate —MoCarter.A. at on 4 fivesixtesnih miles, Previous: slatt, Onl 3, had no epeed; finieid Amth peaton by thirteen Jenaths.- SBEARDADE—wine at ex furlongs ‘at 20 to 1. Prevtous stzrt.at 10 to 1. maths at five Oct. exes and prices of un-who play. tins tr je our hard earagg BY REASON-OF WHICH RACES ARE HARD TO BEAT. Oct -17=GOLD -LADY-—ona-0f--the best | Oct, 4 —DON-CEEOLY. at 13 0-1, sins 81 at mile sad one beaten sixteen teneths; 3J—WOOLSTONE ; fa-rice at BO to tenzths, finiehing ninth fn an “Handicap...caries Previous star! «at about six furloney fr Previous start. J neon fengths a3 aa fy |. wins all the way at five an tones. Pravlous » act ran fourth In seven-horee race. BE NANK Ola oarrying= 13S wins the Hindoo S'akes dj YAVECREST. at 39 to Lo yine at abou! s'—turloncs. Vrevious atart, 18, waa beaten aix- carrying 109 pounds at about alx fur- J_tn_the—_hotting, tart, at 5 to 1, Beot, 10-HIMALATA, fr pounds, wins easily at five eat_ener halrturonss as a 10 to l shot. Prev viows slart, Soot, 12, -af @ ite Ly beaten shout tn Jengths. auigte TOME QUEEXPEATSS pittlard. tournament uation bill Ate = as contestants, ts-thi Horgen, Tamrry | fhyes-cusnion, player: JOR | Htc (ome Keogh, Billy Catton, a Teiand wonde record | Int nolder, have Of | full of interest, poted In an indoor meet. He will have to do some good jump- Ing to beat the performers at the umplonships In Madison Square Gar- nh next week. come off at — inesday night, has bei walking 1s Sam TAobxold says "| great Influence ms to Its future, If George Donhag can cham: I from those needed moat by runny: Tee Celtic Park track thon for the well-filled eventa at the an-'that a similar meet to-morrow, ©. boys intend to make a. dix pplurge in this season's indoor meets. and Em pushing Pastime interests, [PCCM DOM or atrokes In sixty Jaye 1? nual Clan-na-Gai The Pastime A. pion high jumper, never com {met Bhortell a: al Charile Dieses’ which can be indulged in tii a late A in Ife, The judging in tho walk- champlonships ‘next. week will have] The New West Side A. C Intend to take Biosson is uy the ¢ross country ime in conjunction fF tournament ‘At j WIth one of the Hronx paver chasing cluts, alk and run In} jonship form he {s a wonder and will ‘9 progression. feel were In a 923 con- Aition after the ten mile chamolonaain last | saturday. ‘The u alt: | ater put up w plucky exhibition, H pecta to make a xcod showing { 3 reata wit be Gross country champlonshin pene | ese Smaorenteli| Reg youn + and ex: to cull all the ora for the New country efubs Intend to petition tre A, to hold the cross country ehamotonst: Noy. 20 or postpone i Ther say that Une {list verere: frost : * from |W ia 18 the farm, al | THE ATHLE hard practice « oF ONS t world’ championship cont ests a Miley | the writer that he had decided not to © ON LEAHY, the world's cham sixty da; the two em- contest for the two em fine has ever baen played. aiiierey be In shape to Bob Kennedy. of the Star A, C., was atinaw weld by Schacter. in Chi- Yeelerday nexotiating fer practice for the kame of Nov. laying | prises fot the ble annual road handicap of/Caro, tha two © ampions tne Lone Isiand Club, ood bijliards. d-tnch _palkiine, ie ph is New York this to kaka pikes 1 New Sismminee ‘Slosson, will make UP jen for bia Ciara} | Maurice Daty pas. B amateur 14.2 diliviard 2% polnts, Frank Keeney wi rt Mia annoal 14.2 | Clase B amateur toirnament at the Kalcser Booker roons Brooklyn, next month, eats} = ay. of Chicano, has de- WORT a Youn siyver marmed Clarence 2. io. will Samet, Ta the, ‘Nation