The evening world. Newspaper, December 21, 1907, Page 6

UP TO DATE, NEWSY | AND WELL WRITTEN oI * THE EVENING WORLD, 5410KYA1, DECEMBER 21, 1907. |: BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK = e SFORIES OF SPORTS TOLD BY EXPERTS RYAN WAS ONCE ~_RING’S GREATEST MIDDLE WEIGHT / When Champion ‘He: Was One of the _ Cleverest and Roughest Fighters. | inthe World. TOMMY RYAN WAS ONCE KING OF THE MIDDLE-WEIGHTS Series ““Champions on’ J] Have Known” \ ea Kip HCY 15 ot oe 3 J SToop KID . ca Brie ony may. «= FRYAN AND lonmy West Tommy e —¥OMMY RYAN’S Aghting record THAT EvER_ FOUGHT THE Lo Ss l fs long and impressive. A (FOCLED RANT scrRae Sit RECORD 6 CARTER On WIS HEAD ’ few years ago he was the greatest of the’ mlddlewelghts. He didn't confine his attentions entirely, to that claes. Sometimes he fought | and whipped heavier men. | Ryan, a3 middleweight champion, | gi | Was One-o/ the cleverest an we ssf same time the roughest sete ts ; Be NA Salle Giewhie eed eS the world. ~ He lasted for many Keag i | Like a Second Martin mihg pool, gridiron and court, be be | ‘Teams and Won Track years, and whipped most of the good i ; 5 kan to make his presence felt in the ma . middlewetghts’ of his-time. At last & Sheridan. |New, York Interscholastic League. It | Title Himsetf—— physical disability put him out of the == vine hal tec aba —- | fighting. He began to “frame” his |cels at one particular sport, but this bouts. The public quickdy detected ude for | ‘doy showed a wonderful ap! : zr the trick: and he lost his popularity ie Course Is Being Lengthened’ fn far Tess time that {t took to win St. This ts the faker's usual finish, deat pages a See oee eae Egy 2h But, leaving out his last few performances in the ring, Tommy Ryan eecevuuie ronineioe so eGR Catan |e Along With Other SHANLEY A WONDER AMONG & VEN TRACK FOR bimeeif twenty times. At the age of fourteen he was captain of the Suntor | Dasketban team. Then, on track, basoball field, awim- | OY ATHLETES { | | | CHOOLBOY athletics have pro- S duced many coming stars of the| track and field, but tn Tom Shan-| ley De La Salle Institute has a young- | ster who promises to develop into a eeo- ond Martin Sheridan, Shanley is the dream of winnmg the tnterscholastic or Columbia Grammar. The De La) ? dle weights, Health Lesson No. 2—By an Expert. I training trip ofthe: Gtants: wil spectinen of manhood. in fact tie erit-|th@ elub-houve, whore he just made the é Ties | be the struggle between Yor fen have adjudged him so perfect that |Weleht. Gibbons, ungusplotous, imme- R Was a wonder. “Kid” McCoy was th Sead over him in foxinens. And ‘Kid’ BicCoy te deeper than a well and more Gevious than a gopher’s hole. | Tommy Ryan, the tat 5 | : OMMY RYA ee enter , the latter said: Fs 2 RAND-NEW Sheepshead Ba I wheat be inet eapouLoee tea Yes, I did beat West, but tt was junble to any track and eae team in the iB reer Bhenley seronucourtni( placa tht a aoe ie belie ante tearned how it felt to be out-/ {he touxhest fignt I ever had. He cotttril Corbett er ar the hammer throw the onlookers. rubbed | next season's ri tricked. He bad a great fighting reo | ord: Tommy was remarkably clever, | and bad a knack of landing the knock- ut punch He was born in 1570, stood § feet 7% inches, and was w built for fighting in all except one point. OM-| timers usdi to say that To: 's. arms | fought My This wast Sinith and Tommy Ryan Biiy smite a draw. of seven ‘ae with improved inti twenty rounds draws, won ac | Judeme © only man he ever met that had a Kave me such a beai ; Set over it for years © et 1 didn't iy Tepeating that remark to pearly beat me to death. both butting toward tho ond and fght- ing for all we were worth. Final wot both of his eyes closed up tight, and still he would opea one eye by pushing hly left up against tt and thor wwing the right for my jaw. I won, We wer He surely wi Ryan began blocking all walling for ao! After the first round the mixing was hot, but Ryan's tof disthnce was ‘sp nice that t by do'beratoly BURNS SIGNS 10 FIGHT JACK PAL star of the year in Interscholastic ath-| \ietlc competitions, He graduated this | year and now at least five of the prom- awtern universities want him. getter Shanley would be val- ¢ football team that has Interscholastia foot- , captain of last se sb than acy other ent college fives, and cap- MER FEB. | m that was head) novl five and that defeated | | i | [Galle rooters almply journeyed to the Championship meet to cheer on the |qgritty captain. Only two other men lin addition to himself had been =| their eyes. When he secured fourth {n the half mile they tooked again. [Never before that day had the boy jtouched a discus. He secured third jp De La Salle began to xet up on Its feet and cheer. When he won third place in the hun- meseéitod eliorts However that may have | Put I don't think I ever got over the ack team that won the dred yard senior dash t gazed at been, he could hit anybody he ever met eae he gave me, I didn’t fee! right terecholastic track oham- each other in amazement, One leap, tt MoCoy) and’ his ws a| for a year or mora’* a 4 | if f he work of levectae that was Very effective. t Whether he feit the effects of that mseif having won [and he had jumped further than the nonce from ie Ms ee * AYRE fought a score or 40 of ring |Aght or not, Tommy: ityan "went on | seoure first place for | {furthest in the running broad jump. | thes: aya a : ina eort of-desultory sort of| winning, I aw him fight Kid c fn part ta the record of [De La si youngsters statd xradu-|tho stay-at-home trainers Way, without acquiring much at Fort Erie in 1x2. Kid ates and revered brothers, hugged | track “dally and the exe: peameroe foe oe oS fede tua ume was a person, fo seratdd each other, otal sno rren ts Iater Weir |p see ie wtrictly attended age vaults. en he me! nny eavy-weightd alike: He wa ne: age, piain won the stot put. | 7 aiidihe S Bam. Danny. at that tno was consid: |territte punchers and often dropper his | Seater trmaley ee only AR inal football game chat De La Salle | work is about all they xet now except ered some pumpkins. fight was|iman with a single wallop. hes een ae played wasvthe recent contest against |when the weatior rack are good, off in Minneap: ivan mas sick during the train ONCE MIDDCE WEIGHT KING ~ pounds. He entered De ra Balle Frinceton Preparatory | at Princeton. ang then the various mtrings are spocd- and welghed only pound: rh lavanes old, and@ the fol- With the ecore Tilgnt of the fight. Carter mae In8 ® A WONDER IN HIS.CLASS? - my elevencaeare Sie semay Ue With the *core second halt, the cen: | el over the course, 7) fongest : and in training down ran on the roada ad owing year ronnie. [tre passed the ball to little Shaniey.|the centre of att Ryan knocked Need so much that the soles of his feet wore : s prize, amons thar things, chinaing And "he. dodxed. straisht-armed and | shown. Conalderat 1° mag ceva gh round. All at onc®/raw, When he took his shoes off after We ee - opened a& oe prea ate ane. tached tot youngsters of the biz came * F410 the fight and stepped id for ninety-yerd run *% ‘ pee few unimportant lemon Oceasing room! he. ject bloods: tras field torte A moment Inter his kick|stabie: Jack Joyner has some £0:% | tied the score. Roller Had Cold Feet. (Bpectal to The Evening Wort.) BALTIMORE, Md, Des, 21—Jeck Roller, Improvements, BY VINCENT TREANOR. sive improvements 4 now under way. Wi Bay course will be am the world. The track Is be ened to a mile stables are b stand fs in ¢ the stars of the two-year-ol Juliue Fleischmann, the Cinci man, Is I!kely to urn to the turf, and If} dose Tom Feloh will’tn all probability train yang bad 4 big eta Bnally knocked the ded the Kid's best-neant blow, about elght rounds at the most. This i blelatring: i Wheat Friel Tela Espla Salant piearpoap aed ou: going. away from him. In the 5 ‘ fighter ts Jack Palmer, of Newcastie, |, Bees nel bal Bearman pec! fostbelperecees sony bad | blo savecal years ago Tom Welan Wooked ‘aft Bons of supreniacy for good. ixth ‘Tommy felnted Carter out and] Heavyweight Champion 0] £n«., whom te will meet ina twenty They Will Battle for a Side, | Manbons of toe Quaker OF. paseo a Ball 2 aribwea rainy nota Teabeat WAR iy Gasset eek ters oppedt sim with Sacrum Hg 2 t. round Bout at Wonderland, White: ’ a vee ead ites st aA ‘2 Fea recently, in Hexinucton Taoting over ie 080, {down Pe : : A Bile} et Srae e c at Durt octets | eee ae : over bey tn three rou in and again as Ryan awiiny ga] Meet Englishmanin Twenty | §stfor stao ‘ana a’pise ce int Pet, Bet of $2,500 and $5,000 | | 8H elRaeteeoumd pout which, nto ane | train foe, Mews leh andy Pater” nant Good Mghting arourid tue ecient erste da Ce seats Rounds at Wonderland Ler Mean rol, sea copranbr ave Purse. | just nigh, Burne was ea hand and eager, for Bay wee Be oo okie old Felnpalt nlite i 2 ofa { iS be es 4s ARON. 20) Uh yea * ing. uitus Fielechmann, Colsne, joo Lan bola fa tet. SoCo, It happened this wy was holding study he was, amching. ers ar cold T the mez Coy wrote Ryan yan might have been champion at{ll marked Tommy To-day he | great id F sim graduated’ Into wh: Ryan the welters. mwncs | ne among now, prewe: 1 arm in ‘ten roungs, wilch anid tha’ plc Tommy has, k= and waa kndeked ‘out jn ten rounds Harry Gilmore, manage tand, ot Packy M the Chicago Industrial A.C. of Phil if Laid Up With Broken Hand. will not be able to fight again eta the winner of the Kelly-Papke Ta the latter part of next pbysician has ordered him kvurn haa improved since then DE LA 8ALLE’'S STAR. ghting Kid-Wolgast and Jimmy Walsh. GIBBONS GAVE HIS & wimtlar bid for him. he could never and Henry M. Zeigler. During the con. iw for a trouble that affected hie | Yerwation that folloned Welan was. informed foam, wae, siping £0 snd made iC imptesible tor tim Big Bel dy Attell-Moran Fight. | BT Be Tell aetee, to leila” (or Piecacms armas EV pi eioetd ndure a blow near the waist Lne. , 7 ‘The first Mx bet to be mate on °the com: i mann the latter might retum Ww the turi F in ftyan's training fer Headey treet Lire BY JOHN POLLOOR. Iai teathorets leh Necharapisashiph iehte bala eae eae ee some’ day- Whercugon te noted trainer * Meer tcitenially: hci nts bac by a forfett of HEN 1% comes to getting the}tween Abe Attell and Owen Moran, a fern Sonu aa eeesy acer | Weeka No Longer a -|feeld! that noting could by more agreeable bag too, and dally fy alge. He four | a rotten take cy easy, Tome the ayia ialasiorncantirwed * sph pier ielias Freddle Weeks, the crack fighter of Crip- merciful beatings. Mc O'Brien in Philadeiptda. "another sia GES tt Frank “Dwyer, the noe Speaxing of Adam, the French maltion, : ! Tadpt, and one with diuso fit champton, it , Ron. now standing af the Milli Seceam Stud, for \ | whom Mr, Bishop paid $73,000 -while abroad pe | Two years may, Welst mays { Ly is the grandest loolnng Individual paw, bar tame. It would have 1 ever eet He ah vey and also put- < el sy ee) best he | been top bad 1 he had Preeti recites at t last Me vhia time Ay mest (ety max 2 Account | the Bishop enie. €9 00) on the up countr hting mide ish champion, |. Gilmore Names Terms for Battle, ead tearenelisy vex aton tana, CaP enin weight Weeks bag lost a ohance of| other aid @ would} not bave brought Mr. Bésbop bought Adam from M. Blang {t was stipulated tn the contract that 4 fol fo any Frenchmen The chance to 0! d never t eset Ys 1 five weeks, x Tamons were in’ de : been the ¢ ‘ English heavywelgat ; - Or to any ote alsa linble to send tan to the Pxiccae monks co - , pachnmteP itty SMart pie Aad Sh MA 0 ointy by Anaren Stiller Fe Ge Dissop eps MeCoy, under cover, was = as elt u ails for the Dattle between Fredite & Pd ie plecapa anal ecili prenaini perma ten e er F the crack Migliah Maht welght, zy at the Mill Stream Stud.” horthy y Neary, of Miwnukee, bave finally SS on n hs tt ” nv bes been figured cut that @ this ? Tommy: 2 siphis: srv.to baile, ae 9 Ge) A cay & ce bens Tinatsied to $127 080, halt of which AgTO, | \ | ( t SN naEnd aut ananeanaies HE death of Austin Gibbons, for-| In the Bpaniwh-American war Gtb- Fea besn “paid 0) aye vaners ot ‘ean ‘ ] he may win the deciaioa “on ] mer Mght weight pusilist, seemed, |DONs was a volunteer an ores te Or er A Seton rene see ed von't 'p) BILL SQUIRES IN SIX H - lke the passing of other good |home in Paterson an apparently well | Siver soaiTS. from this source, Brighton le bigger ff t zck Skelly to Run Boxing Club. jolt has-beens, to have attracted about | an. AViile in Cuba the army physio- | Beach alone recelving $5.89), Vight ax you KID COY aN RON ; Point GElihe Noe ienooeine La ieae| ; me Skelly, tha retired featherweight, | the mame amount of attention, except |!4ns wished fe G@ecertain 2 yellow | jocxey Mountain, the Miller of New Ov- YAN got hat Iecter oles j Blackburn Meets Donovan Dec. among thosa who remembcred the|fever could be contracted from the | leans, got a ted tall yesterday, He wea | ( ets | ots enki} causes which medical men now eay|He of @ mvsquito, and Gfbbons offered ut 2 the cine! make the tose : soak tires bse! ie tight in | AE eaeehatan tab eas now says that his death was indirect ger and stopped train ¢ no has gone 2 ly due to the polson inoculated into of the fi ue 5 9 fy system. pot. Hisrevncys Another very ing story ef the . Hockey Games for Princeton. carly pring ring Ime been revived: in Much, like the batt and potato peeler of before, ie MoCoy, using all of his'¢le Knowledge, beat R to a palp. yan In many had a krack 3 He found bin open way in the. game styl SOmmy Burns, tt | Los ANGEL some of the oonae, HOW 1 phationged Al Kauftman. 0 team to | new rink has | QO -KEEP IN SHAPE Belng unable to secure a br Pa., to hold the ten- round bout petween Jack tve tts first | Smokar worthy after the holldayy, | yastenéd hia end, for Gt>bons praatical- RIVA Both Out for Position at F and It’s a Fight Between Youth and Experience, Hr rivelleat feature of the mnrt fand Experience, with Fred | Merkle and the veteran Py the contending f: ors. Tot men want the position of fir young of th t baseman dd Tenney as | L WHEN TRAINING BEGINS McGraw Says Youngster Will Develop Info One of Coun- try’s Greatest Stars. . Merkle (ns aX foot-tetl and a perfect ® noted sculptor {1 him to pose fo atatue to be mi of a representative of the diamond to be n conjunction with those of trying to eng other kinds of athletes being pluced on to undertake the test. His brother Gtobona'e! death, ami thet f of his memoratie: ght with Jack MoAulifte Septpimber, 1801, at the Granite A. C. ot Hoboken. The men met for a purse of $7,000, and the articles of agreement called for the weighing in at 1% pounds at 9 o'clock. The story of the weighing in and how MoAuliffe turned a clever trick mak interesting reaa- ing. = is Gibbons barely tipped the beam, while MoAuilffe, »when be came to the club- weak as the proverbial cat, bad steamed off twelve Pounds in the surkish baths within «, fow days and was practically oarried to flately went into the ring, while MoAu- {nh his dressing-room was being fed with toast dipped Into beef tea. Minutes passed nti the impatience of the crowd caused’ Referee Jere Dunn to PB of Rya cele ieee Heat to action. You! snd both will have to work for it, Mc exe ltlon i ate Cle muni versity obs ena: Tarde sides wtnina nist ratactseer nen desperate : |sbenes ay Heel Ape Graw aays the man who wakes the b One of Merkle's greatest points," | MoAuliffe did appear, Afty-five minutes ‘ Tommy West By Prof. William Elmer. M bath MIModIy | showing will have the Ji loss of says MoGraw, “la his ability to throw | After welehing in, he fussed around the i claim that that way | andlanyi pers! liewoadiraligignvonpracioualconaition to bases, and maybe you think he can’t| rng, complalned of the canvas flooring ; ioc patel apa . does not get a reasonable |, site shoot a ball down there in a hurry. gloves, all the ume drinking all the ia Virwad | ies Cua te nora ied He whipped them into Dahlen and | beef tee he could. When “time” waa t oy Trea ceieee et f Tenney haa the adva Doyle ao nwiftly last fall that many | finally oalled for the opening round Mo- club aba very |12"0 2 oul Jin every purtleular wave Ss Perfect throws were dropped, He hits | Aullffe had sil his strength and began ub walls, tent tT nave asked to suggest a Went |iy ambition. The ald vl Die MERKLE ISTSASE [Wel to colt he wat Gn the bench {fo ushed nthe Paterson” Walter: penis has ayia Jne for tho busy New faced the fire of fourteen years and ts| ; beside me and he was continually auk- | through the ropes and theshalice sto ‘ In’ that up injurious | bo. A nay walk, wate, | noither xun-shy nor afraid. of his abtl- iy months to bring him out, for 1|inge questions about the fine points of | the fight. | McAuliffe then claimed tha: rae Ra RTS : frightful beat e, some | WALK ealy Aly he body needa |ity. And to tell the truth Merkle ja not va rely on ‘Tenney, He is al- pay, manatee So or wmiat kind be had broken his arm, 6 eo MEN AND % Founda, Knock Troubles |{aeTue or it will become stale “and | much afrotd at that, his! thanager saymMerkle will |he should run in for a bunt and when 5 an i sen jertorm ita functions, I would htt te almost @ pity to keep Merkle 59 through a lot. of training [he should whip it to second, fc. Ho} Harry Lewle Lost Money and Bout. ght Inxative, The docs ‘ fee Rte he ty a frat. baseman of big |#eemed ao intent on learning ‘the sume] parry . the Philadelpisia fighter, f ay Iedinector are travelling |OR the bench,iy) sald Manigen: Mocraw Ho has beon playing in, the |that I became. very much interested rien font teatro RaW a iN Gs ‘ 1 to-day yesterday afternoon, ‘for he has in him 1 ry hi entitled to the “booby priset in puxitiam. OT vatnl a ny, a cold pluni of course, mea rf Jedi da ‘ schools of Toledo and has dad but | in him and taveht him all that | could. fight Mantal}at the Standard | (ox et Painlees, and pot Pid neat Naas ab Ny manor woman, for that znat-|aii the elements of a grout dall-player coin major league ball. | You mark my word, there will be one of | He smned to flkht Mente fraileera | {THLEVANS OW(EM1022 00, gent or polscucas, 3 rt ' A Ment form of land he is wo anxtous to make mond inetocn, In the fine points | the | greatest ball-players in this coun~|\- 4 of Lamia box there boomuse he ran Lash K n add o) ake Mime RItthatohnan ean ne he fy ‘Y green and raw, . a oy th v it A.C preent in plain es ratings seayon “for let Ste Te Sra UT gota ee a oa ea Meclnrase tiat beh Rat comin, trom. ectiay soeans | tadtie A san aa tag Pee ed phEA YOU step out af the plunge every great deal better, ‘Try IL Twill make Merkle work nard in the, stow seeing #o determines (Jo enthusiastic in his praise, B. B. 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