The evening world. Newspaper, December 14, 1907, Page 6

STORIES OF SPORTS _ TOLD BY EXPERTS AITCHELL CAME _ NEARBEINGTHE . ~ WORLD'S CHAMPION ‘Star Boxer of England Was Only: a’ _ Middle-Weight When He Fought | the Great John L a Draw . © in France, “Champions | I Have Known OHN L. SULLIVAN always spoke of Charlie Mitchell as “the box- ing champion of England.” He was that, at Jeast, and by fight- ing three hours and eleven minutes with John L. himself a desperate bat-} “Ue at Chantilly, France, he came dangerously near acquiring a world's ttle, The result of that fight, stopped by the refereé when the men were unable to do unthing but walk around each other, was o draw. } Mitchell was the lnst great fighter turned out on English soil. There may be great’ fighters in Britain in the future, but, compared to Mitchell, m if . ¢ all-of the English scrappers of the present generation look like counterfeits, FE ¥ lie Mjtchell was only a light middle-weight. He £ a) leben he weighed on!y 150 pounds 4nd Sullivan weighed ieheiscuuat are But tn spite of his lightness he was ay — a ere: great: Aanter, even amonc heavy | Mitchell was fick and unfit to stand on | eights, In addition to his cleverness,| xi) him'ir he didn't non threatened to! BAitowel} had) a knockout waltop in| only: 442 pounds, Gorter ruse ane ed ther Rand. and knocked him out ie Tuanediatanh n HEN Charlie first came to this FTER that Charlie Mitchel! re-| country he was brought over to tired from the ring. He had whip Sullivan. John L. fell out ‘with Billy Madden, his manager Madden, to met even, went to Engiand to look for some fighter to trim the fellow. Madden came back with Mitchell, an unknown fighter on: this side of the ‘and at once Issued a challenge to Plenty of money and for gambling on horses. He faniptas| a large sum by “Squire” Abingdon, | Binoe that ime “Wotdbell : travelling about, living well ing life. He is a pleasant ‘el to. If you saw him to-day think ‘him the same 1 who met Corbett and enjo: low to talk | you'd never! a K2-pound niger | “He ta But although he ts (nes ‘old he is strong and healthy as a young- shell is a living ref that athletes die you of i came off at Madison! It was a four-rounds ring Bullivan logmed above itohell like a giant, His forty of advantage in welght made lik» an easy winner, { toheil Ww: urprise. As soon t etarted he let Sullivan rush met him with stiff deft-handers. the oustom of the ring lays, and Mitchell's cleverness Mit. “In the first round Sul! ‘or threw Mitchell down se es, But toward the end of the und Mitchell popped a right-hander er to Bulliven's) jaw and knocked at. John L. got up ina rage rushing ‘again. Once he Mitchell through the ropes so at the English fighter landed fo. ne aese, of the platform and strained i ITOHELL was matohed with Sul- Mvan again. They were to have Men June 99, 188. fought at Madison Square Gar- On the night of that fight Mitchel! McGraw Has Filled Two Places. That Needed al Strengthening Most. aot BY BOZEMAN BULGER. HE most far-reaching baseball deal inaugurated in year, gives we inte the ring ready for action. to the New York’ Giants what i pM di Breat shape. Sullivan clam-)tey have jong needed, and makes x ae prongti th fopes and. stand |them @ strong probability as a pennant tri B mumbling speech vio the apec- | *iNher of the nex? rave in the National League. WHb it may seem & bad ¢ trim re, waying that he wasn't |i nent Dee nd olimbed out aga: ood shape. They fought with myny | nectar ra Basing monetary basis, nockdowns untill the thirty-nifnth eund. when We war stopped anil des tt figures about even. Fans mant bear | jared a raw, Mitch a imiddle- ry y was he mar-.| fight, tad cshowni-himecit=to ‘bea lan, CRG ea Coase De SiMerrul nghter, jet at a valuation of ant there| lwere no three men, of thvse whom New | ND Mitchell Kent on Aghting a4 york traded, who could have brougnt aalicielorficpadl geen nea anal Ta cemount : ‘knocked out frank Felavie henna t Dit om ot pomerroan will apa, the ae {neavtest blow to New York, but thie ame to America again to fight Jim forbett, who had beaten Sullivan. They fought in the wild country near ncksonyille, The ring was surrounded. in the ond te y. thw and strong arm men, RUN! 11/4" Gicting oehind Four aces and some | shters and pickpockets. It wan one fellow. forcing the play if the toughest gangs ever assembled, shortstop, Bridwéll isa ereat tm: “SPRINTS FROM WINTER. TRACKS ta allayed by the presence of Fred Ten- they, one of the greatest first basemen mtort, in something the Watkins farm at Petersburg, I1!, and 3 are by Peter McCue and Nimrod. FA Trotter seems to hold the whip} wii, sitter, Guy, Burns, Knapp and | and as haying the best stable at Redtke all up in, a 82,000 diamond, the gift of Blalr Painthy fPittaburg, but his riding on the Coast te not of the 20 karet variety, [the coast, can win the next Brooklyn Wandican. ‘ ‘approbation, Dargin and De Reszke look| They are saying unkind things about “to wave a chance for the Dig end of thr]. Carman at Eineryville, where he ark Gaoney in some of the New Orleans racer | Cor a reso of forty stalls, and att 3 week or two removed his lores to ihe bara new Santa Anita. Uhe EmeryyMte. track, California. He | cart the other fimyy tt, mus ean nine horses, and Bam Hildreth |'the wasters horsemen “lke « return to Khinka that from amore them Peter | Gravesend, : 1) ifterling, the hest handicap horse OM) xtitior, the ‘marvellous’ one, now, sports HE EVENING WO RLD, SATURDA -z BEST. SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK «« 1 ‘h oak Cie busy F weight, for a Whe coming world. Ketchell has flattering 0: Coffroth, Al Gleason ha: the groas rece! 85 per cont. CHARLIE pattle for his mS SULLIVAN, | been made, a +] day night, Dec nounced, Th pout between Lp. Gand J vemi-wind-up W { M’GRAW {0 PLAY SECOND. CHARLIE MITCHELL, THE Ketchell, ffers for the fight. of Logs Angeles, Cal. Tt in likely t .. by the Delaware Athletic ie nd the procramme for Wedne ‘ohn Donen, of New York. BEST DOWN WITH RIGHT ON T CALIFORNIA CL Want to Match Montana Fight- Winner of Kelly-_ apke ‘Bout. BY JOHN POLLOCK. IGHT promoters of California are) trying to sign up “Young the Montana middle- battle with the winner of ten-round bout between Hugo Kelly, of Chicago, and Bill Papke, | ot Spring Vahey, Ill., on Dec. 3, for| the middle-weight champlonaship of the | Every matchmaker on the coast: Js anxious to bring off this battle, and three sammy, G ains and Jac! red). per. cent. hile Tom McCarey willing to giv! already received of! Ipta, at Cotfroth will get the club at Colma, Cal, as he has a big club house. WELL AS rie ooKED | New Club In Delaware. A x Final arrangements for the boxing tour- WHEE Ei naments to be xiren at the rink Ce to FIRST Foushy Rrandywme Springs Park at Wim! Beton 18 the opening night wind-up will be a ten-round ‘ommy Lowe, of Washingto: amy La re {il be & ken-round go between GIANTS LOOK LIKE PENNANT WINNERS McGann, Bowerman, Dahlen) ike this when they | and Ferguson Swapped for | ¥. DECEMBER'14, 1907. jUP TO DATE, NEWSY AND WELL WRITTEN EVER PRODUCED HE KNOCKED JOHN L. of} MAN ENGLAND A CLEAN —— AT CHANTILLY FRANCE, HE HE CHIN. In aA HEAVY RAIN STORM, Tommy Love, and the pre- Uminary’ will bea. etx-round bout between | Kid Peerless and Jimmy Livingstone. aa 5 Brought there if the sport fe patronieed. “| Fight Would Decide Middle- Waleott in Ring Again. z y 3 Joa Waleott, tre eapred fighter and ox-| Weight .Championship — agnin, He has been matched to meet Terry | Mart: for six rounds ai the next boxt: how we. Broadway AcC..of Philadelniia: | Although. Waleott 1s not the ame great | oj $ 7 1 fi fighter he waa di ‘the Horton law da: | orKeerte, the Irish champion, which will fie _edil oaghty to besabiactaretveatarain | come off at the star of the Long Jing himself at ‘the Long Acte A.C, and McFarlend in Demand, | feta confident of stopping the lad front over je mater, O'Keeffe la do Py Aeaaishin “Winn the ter, « if ing his work at East. He has been offered two matches in| Fifty-ninth street, and is also in good shape. ‘The bout ought to be a hummer, flor a purse of 08,000, and Langford’s Bold Defi. ian fore pureo that is | not eo big. Beth evenis will be no decision Jee Thee and of the best boxers in the country will welterweight champion, is going to fight! z : News of the Boxers. which will take place on Thursday night. tough dattls, - on Thursday night, — Lewis in cx Jimmy De Forest's gymnasium, on East Boston, one with Temmy Murphy, the Har- Bam Langford, the colored fighter, contests if they are oarriel through. It je who Is i matched to meeet Jim Barry,-the Chicago hot probable, however, that MoFarland «lll |heavywelaht, before the Pacific A.C, of accept either match, ae he js tied up with | 105 Angeles, on New Year's afternoon, theatrical engagements at present. and after | os att mnouncenrent out there: te 1 the weil have a battle with Battling Nelson | the effect that he will take on Joe Thoinai and Young Ketchell in the same ring, Fuarantee to stop both of them, each inside of ten rounds. Langford saw the Ketcheil- Thomas battle, and then made thia deciara ton. Q'Keeffe Starts Training. Mantel! to Box Lewis. Frank Mantell, of Providence, R. I. who has been claiming the we.terweight cham- | plonship since he knocked out Billy (‘*Honey”) Mollody in elghteeen rounds, has another match on his hands, He waa eeued up last Bight (0 mest Harry Lewis, the Quaker Clty welterweight, In a fitteen-round bout tu bor, Wilk main bout at Lewi the for six rounds in the tak of the Long Aer it A.C, & week from to-night, Is getung 1 { > " moasium, on Pifty-nint aur {Come to eat Lewis; as tne ‘latter fo a |Sypoamum., on Bast Fifty-ninth | stress crack: lam nicht that ff he did not beat be would) co back to Iretand bw in good ghape for the contest, as he {x anxioun to beat O'Keeffe. Murphy Handling Morgan. Teddy Murphy, the Chicago manager of pugilis who was the first man to bring Wagner and Belmont Sign. | Battling Nelson to the front, has been en | ac) details for the contest -pétweenh Jos | gaged by Jack Morgan, the crack welter-| wagner antvAl Delmont have fAnaliy been| welaht of Indianapolia to look after his In- feresta in the future, Morgan 1% one of the | #frapaed, and the boys will come together inost promising men turned out in some Ume, | In a fifteen-round battle and under “a handling should Ipiand A. C., of Thornton, Rol. on Thurs: rove. rapidly. joraan will fight day evening, Dec. 1V. ' Wagner recently mn elx rounds at Philadephia Fri. knocked out Bobby “Nekle, a good Hitt Bight. fighter, of Providence, in ten erouids, has become popular with the fight fans of Providence. O'BRIEN PUTS Herberts Coming East. George Herberts, the Callfornia welter- weight, who hes a long list of victories to his credit, will arrive in Boston in a few wbere he has been proinised several if he ia succeastul in winning hia first . He has been matched to meet “Young Donobue,”” the New England Ught- weight, for ten rounds before.the Winni- aimmitt A. of Chelsea, Mass, tn two weeks, Baker to Box Dorsey. HE New York Giants will jook like thls and t (Soectal to The Evening World.) I show themselyds at the Polo Grounds next spring. Vy eedh Bridwill Harry Bauer, the California fewtbermelsht: | PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 14—Philadel- Catchers— Bresnahan, Needham, Curtis, Tenney, Needham, Bridwill, | nes ven practieatty matched to meet Bani | 1 sac ovmrien last night knocked WMtchers—Matthewson, Ames, Wiltse, McGinnity, Taylor and, perhaps Dorsey; they, bard hitting ittlen Hehter oF tome youngsters. ‘ fi ‘ i t mt Brooklyn, for six rounds at a stag to be held ;Gt Bill Heveron, of England, in the aera 1 | by the Bharkey A. C. on Christmas night. It larst round at the Industrial Boxing Foran tae En ed eenney er MOE: ss Jat this, and see if you don't agree with | Dorsey would take care of himself and train Becond Bu i $ m Broperiy he would eive any of the ght: )Club, It required only one gnute and Shortstop-Bridwall, Shannon. Tenney, Seymour, ; Nelghie a hard battle, ae he te clever, and “f ss Nate Third Base—Deviin. i e Donlin, Devitn, anan, Bridwell and | Pestge errible wallop with ether |ftty seconds for O'Brien to accomplls! 1 Dev ; 5 pitcher. It | take some tra: ey PAGE ed Apan non link Yo beat that! combination, English Boxer fe Ill, the trick, and he sent Heveron to. th: Centre Field—Seymour. The al pa moenens late ean Owing to a pevere sper of sicknes floor tour times before BIH was, forced Right F —Donlin, arin a vrectuas. who took George | Kendrick, the Iktle English bantam. to atay there. During the two minutes, Manager McGraw js himself responsible for the statement that he will play | Dovey. over ‘th imps so many Limes] de able to come to Uils country and meet i ‘ { second base next seaxon ‘ ; that the poor neWapiner was up in the] Al. Delmont, the New Ay a TIEN LET OG CeO TN RD alr. Pittwburg w Giants’ lea ng lst that w ie Ousiness, Look y any pitohe vas craz, These Giants Climbed Off Ferice When Trade Was Made Klerman, trainer ‘of steeplechaser#| gam Hildretti~ by Bt homes Hitchcock, Jr, is at New Orleans | Gatien-Turmoll, rupyired. a blood vessel In will enjoy a month's vacation’ there! ihe shoulder while training at | Oakland | ghia \gok-nx around for promising material | and had to bv destroyed Sein dehicm'to recruit the Hitcncock viable, Radtke {9 gaining welght tn California ay \ - . and now rides in atoeplechase Cori, Gov MN living and the > are adding to his 5 Behn F, Madden has shipped twenty horses, dernanie proportio Aalsiderss: from Sheepshead Bay to | *o™nle Proport! malate where they will be wintered to: | | mil Herz ts playing mi from the | round at Oakland, whhe J.C. Smuck and | Zvith slghteen now at the Waablngtan Jame Crooks, the Canadian turfmen, have & book at Los Angeles, ped Eleven <bank roll peared at Oiteit: bey: eu! fourteen horses! pmeryville winie thet 1 pened, end qeles trek. He has ten just inet number of are new of the Down and Out Cia, (, HROWNE SMT STs NIGHT FIBLUBH Ny Boston, and Bresnahan Stays in New York. To- Day. DItCESNAHAN catTcrE Days shey Were Kep in Suspense. Dahlen, Biowue and ucGaun Go to} for Tenney, and! action Heveron never Janded a pimch. fifteen rounds before” the. Winnlelmmy They were fairly eventy matched, phy- C., of Chelsea, Mass. on Dec. . Ken- drick's manager cabled to Steve Mahoney, ly ould see that John wasn't in g entor, yy sales —________ for him offered Swacina, Sheehan and im, But Bulltvan and Mitohell had |New York at first glance, it must be ‘ ‘ 4 lq pitcher, whom they would not name, | matchmaker ef the club, yealerdey, calling |) Jno Sith Heveron having « slixht given thelr share of the gate and|remembered that MoGraw filled. th ERICH FOV enna ere ane sald MeGraw last night, “is thal but Joe Kelley, couldn't see it, He Ga RO et 3 @ public paid for a wold brick, There 4 MoGraw led the won that Bridwel! ja comb I won't be able to use Merkie Ally convinced Mr. Dovey that New Lewis Working Hard jadvantage in wolght, while both had as no fight and there was uo mony |%%° YACSMt Kape—first bane and short- “Had B a tdie ot us often aa T want to; but I ean work |Vork's offer wax the real foods, and,| "ems TOrt ne Tare. Eau ied teainealtatat tor thereat turned to seat-hol.jera stop-and got’ rid of two men. that better at 4 first during the spring and LTOoi, ine _visurous proteat of Drey-| Wille Lewte ts training hanier than ever jevidently Sout, opie ath ahd “: i see how he pans out. He ts one of the | 752 through. ——} vet: _ { } | HB Chantilly tent war puller on | TOU have taken the toboggan any- | Hans Wa dee a ao oe te paniolayoeat rr [kus seawent CREOURD Te goon | cere for nie Sectend Boat with (Pat) The Englishmen was bewikiered |p the On the estate of Baron Rothscnitd, | ~*?: infleld that Mt Ela pobdtnitier puenenietaor arta nel NCmOrn Ear GOTMC A EMCCLUS OL na am I Aratounite pf) DoS ne Oi aeranny gn ture. Tt rained hara all dag | 2CO&nn, Bowerman, Dahlen, Fermic battars ‘will be steel toe Boston deat, and 1 now have a team | 1° Boston) Club: As 2 INJURED HAND FORCES ‘ip and out and around hie opponent, a é Sry - voN, hat will make’ anybody hustle to land aay when the fighters gv: into the ring |#00 and Browne for Tenney, Needham||hin aon y Poa oes acres ac | therpannent Hockey Introduced at Stevens, MANGO OUT OF THE RING. | teintins ume and again. After, more found it almost tmpokaibie to Walk {and Rridwell looks uneven, but It San't | ntee Yn nothing fancy about han, He], “Yes, Tam going to play aocond dase | 1° ey nae been Introduced at Mavens os ‘than half a minute of this kind of work sla eiedd Were Re capoventte ankles iN am conn eRe Pit One. rinnine Ibn awneni : Peat Galevenenat ro nomen tl A town has Hen organivad and] In the frat round of the wind-up at /O'Brien rushed in and planted his right fn mud. basis, and Boston wi!) begin to look fa 1h ‘feet mauare mt the south, nd vy|the new Polo A. C. last night Willie under Heveron’s heart, scoring © knock: But the Aght began in spite of that.| like a ball club, For a while, the for- says tie will take the naw | © be completed during | Mango injured his hand and was|down. The other three knockdowns fol- Mitchell, Hghter by forty pounds, used | mer tall-enders will igokvalmost Ike ALA te ARE it the firat ronedsied inter lunable to continue against Howard |iowed very fast, two from rwings on Hof dim cleverness, Sullivan was in |New York ton, Ma ie Players held’ e. bual-| wey h on geizabeth: N, J. Both boyal se jaw-and the final one resulting from eg ottT Sal Babe: Cullen anit [a right uppercut. i jeorge ey fo a fas Taw. Hi sgetting to hie feet, Lorts and Jim Wopking boxed: al four |... nat on hie fase trom wenkneas, drew, iJ and \ era St iat and after the fourth knockdown strove Ginger went four rounds to a draw, Griff Jones beat Meyer Stringer In four! to pull himself to a standing position by. means of the ropes. rounds and Clarence’ MoCormick and Betore the bout O'Brien Frank Murphy fovgbt a four-round draw, {oo much of @ Ting general for Cross. CROSS WAS EAS | Jack Goodmen. the clever and shifty] (i) a good, game baitle, Jooal lightweight, made tls reappear- ance In the ring last night efter an abeence of several conths and de feated Leach Croes, of the east alde, in ajetx-round bout at the stax of the Dry Dook A. @, which came off in ita clubhouse, jn Kast Tenth atreet, The} lads were to have boxed Just Monday night, buts the police made a raid on cho club. Fully one thousand club members) witnessed the bouts and went frantic! over the good showing of Goodman and Cross. With the exception of the frth round, ween Crom out loose and had A nhade the better of the boxing, he noyer had a chance, Three times dur ing the bout Goodman floored Cross with. left and right swings on the jaw, he dropping him twice in the second round and agein In the fourth round. Goodman would probably: have put Cross out inthe second rotind {f it had not been for the fact that the memn- bers became so boisterous after Good- man finored Crows the fret time that | tefarce Joe Cain was compelled to stop ‘the men from boxing until he cculd get sorder. Then he allowed them to con- tnup after, a deay of easily half a minute. is 8 Kala Ar aac peandee,| made a FOUGHT SULLIVAN 3 HOURS MINUTES Pat O'Keeffe, the Irish champion, who is | before the Rhode | Hevoron was very} CHARLT IS A HoT SPort aT THE TRACKS © Umpires Are Found In Rochester Town. When the bowlers go to Roches t or thelr annual tournament it ought not to be difmc find n for their or that ho! baseba belng as he followa; Francis J. O'Loughiin and William Sul) Wille fam Klem and Wiliam Carpenter, National; William Buckles, Tri- state; Will Shelber, South At lantic; William David and William tulligan, Em tate; Dan Pfen niger, Southern; Dai Fitesimmona, Cotton State; Maurice FL Danihy. Th James Flynn and Ted O'Hanton, eration, Frank Newhouse, Wisconsin State; Felix Lynch and Tom Robson, Canadian; Courn Joseph Leagues. Northern Copper © |REGIM ENT GAMES TO-NIGHT. is will compete for the tro- 1 in the 2.@-yard relay race } | ph Five team: off jopen to National Guard teams, at the | Midwinter Ati Carnt of the Twelfth Rogim at the armory, |Columbue avenue and Sixty-second [st this evening. In these teams fare all the best runners of the Twenty- second Engin: and Twenty-third and Thirteenth RF Other inte | gramine w! and obstacle on the pro- ard, one mile shotput, SS-yerd of open and ’ ng out VERON mised to be good be the 900. races, OUT HE | Speech in whica he p: Der in the future Sharkey alsa mavie some Ks. Tom told the Scrowd, watt: fated upon x speech, that he had Jost his voice since he was jbeaten in tila city by Jack Munroe | eer | Murphy Of Speedway for Winter. James \ Murphy, owner of the Speedway | pacing champion Don Derby apd Free Ad- Vice, will leave next week for Loa Angeleg Cal, where ne will pasa, the winter, During hia absence hie hdrees will be Josged over - the drive ‘and other owners will have. @ |ehance to develop worthy contenders for | Doc Derby's ‘crown. ———_—_——>___ Harlem A.C. Leanen Lofts, | the Harlem A. C. yerterday leased tiroueh [George Schaefer and C. J, Deane two lofie fn the Van Tine BullMding, at No, 12) Weat One Hundred and Twenty-fitth otreet, The club will establish new headavarters there Se Embryo Tenghers’ Team Wine. ‘The backet ball team of the New Yore | Training School for Teachers defeated Adel- | phi yesterday, 22 to 20, ‘The features were fine sbota by Molloy and Lteberman. Cricketers Smoke To-night, Local crleketers ¥1)l ineet at thy Connoe | politan Hotel to-night for the annual smoker | of the Metropolitan District Cricket League. 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