The evening world. Newspaper, January 18, 1908, Page 4

t h 4 STORIES CF SPORT TOLD BY EXPERTS JOE WALCOTT, THE BLACK DEMON, WAS GREAT CHAMPION While Only a Welter-Weight, Fought and Defeated Heavies Sharkey and Others Sidestepped Him, inSeries ‘‘Champions No. 1 6 on =IHave Known’ OE WALCOTT, the “Giant-Killer,” half high. Jeffries is taller by iuore than a foot. Walcott’s biceps are of the same measurement as Jet's. That gives an idea of the welter- weight ex-champion’s build and partly explains the fact that he could tight men of any weight. Walcott is a physical marvel. He is « black Jeffries pounded down a foot in height. He is a remarkably clever boxer. But for an injury he'd til be champion in his class. He ac- cideptally shot a bullet through the palm of his right hand, shattering the bones. Walcott is one of the funniest Uttle coons that ever fought with gloves. He tears in like a whirlwind. He {s as vicious as a wildcat. Yet sometimes he will stop in the middle of @ mix-up and laugh his head off at sone joke. Tommy West, when he had two ribs broken by Walcott in the first) Ray C» Ewry and Harry Hil | 5 c may round of a fifteen-round fight in Eng-| 0f the cleanest amateurs in ‘America, Mand, began “kidding” Joe. “Did you) felt the sting of notoriety attend ng vunded chargés brought t nso much that they have been, like Rose, contemplating a retirement ever live up in a tree?” asked West. | +), “That's where you belong—up in a tree! Ralp fwith a tai) on you, swinging from|from athletic competition. Branch’ to branch. Wwalsote began to| Bwry, Hillman and other great tose: Chuckle, and at trtervais throuxhout | {can athletes actually do retire, fen] the fight West joshed the “De: un-| be a sad. blow 10 the Ameren tev til Joe laughed ‘so hard he couldn't hit.| ¢ at goes to England in the spring. 11 | their various 1 4 Sea on heir various specialties they are the ALCOTT amateur | hest men inthe W lightweight boxer and wrestler of dolls He stands five feet an inch and a aes EVENING WORLD, BEST SPORTING PAGE : NEW YORK + Se THE GIANT- KILLER. SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 19U0- jUP TO DATE, NEWSY % | AND WELL WRITTEN Watcott HAS: Sanpom AND HRCKENSCHBIDT LooninG UKE A PAIR, oF CHEESES SANDWICHES. Were JUMPED RIGHT OFF THe FLOOR TosREACH CHOYNS rei, AAYSTERIOUS BILLY SMITH MADE JOE QuIT BY NIBBLING AT THE Te” * DEMON WAS VERY ANxIoUS JOGNEY CLUB'S BREEDING BUREAL POET TO FARMER This Will Be Discontinued if $ to the breeding bureau of the, DOS 1p: Under Present Svstem Service Jockey Club, which has in turn pl oy the stallions fon stud duty at advan SAINT eR eATeel eels Legislature Interferes UE CT Ey Coe Gee of Famous Racers Is Had looded mares. In every instance thus ed success has attended. and t has been animals of ex- strength, docility, size and! together with an adap ore wagon, plougit dof these half « longer and at Small Cost. Over 1, PATHERLAND, Ware, | With Sport. Oswemo Co, No Yd F horse racing In this State is to re ceive a set-back at the hands of the legislators and Governor hurt than the farm. 16, | TommyWest vse Te Ko" WatcaTT AND il MAKE HIM LAUGH UNTIL-HE Couron't: “Flat. if | 1 carriage, It is New England. He turned pro- fessional, and fell into the hands of! Tom O'Rourke. Tom also had Tom} Gharkey on his staff. There was some Jealousy between the fighters in the stable, and Walcott, who had knocked! out Joe Choynski, offered to fight) Sharkey. | Tie sailor sidestepped. Then Wal- eott challenged Corbett, who only | faughed, After that Walcott challenged | Event a Feature of Brooklyr P. O. Clerks’ Meet Jeffries, who paid no attention to ilm.y But Walcott was sincere in his chal-| To-) ight. lenging. He was willing to take on) any fighter, of any weight. I asked) | Joe one day how he would reach Jef- HVENehundredientricsmnavembeent of the Brooklyn Post-Office Clerks’ in the stomach and they bend over so I ie can hit * W. Jeff is so big Association, at the Forty-seventh Regi- he couldn't hit me, and I'd just ne moryalnumibartwiichivdllisure come in under his arms and bust nu iiaratiletestastanorinatthell ‘ | Like other fighters of dusky hue, and st in events of this nature. some of lighter color, Joe would t entries the New York Ath- upon occasion, He boasts th: e Club and the Irish-American Ath- never been knocked out. Kid La 5 after being near! n to pi ¢ pach furnish t leaving Walcott's fearful she ota 4) to be divided among the the negro and made rious Billy Sm! im ns of the greater city, cott, bit hi ecial interest this big meet ts tne’ mysterious tached to the 1 aml race, for Balgn of inti ning World has donated whole head 0: Wistar Teepe ieee Fou, knock this contest e are you tl never cluding Guy Has- i & a Pushed to the limit @:. il sho! Walcott went back to the round and said t ain't t' fight thi e goin such a field of prising if d set up an the program loods that they can w s who breed strong and serviceable | -.. nimals heretofore bred by from the thoroughbred strain ire alone {s apart from the ed from the FOR EVENING WORLD PaIZES racing, and by which the 0 get a legislative blow >a large degree. mat breeding now « |there are 48 entries, some of the con- For sling of horses of char | will seriously be affected. Th |testants coming from Buffalo, Roches s sulted for longer be able, |ter, Syracuse, Albany and one from]| 7 Ona ‘ sit Jockey | xther b o1 ork among - | Boaton 700 Entries in Vari in Various Events fs Bee a eee eee ee a ee erarall t Somptroller Herman A. Metz h. Club nes pu betel ee Bu Bho) » 1 ena point trophye and for the firs Attest Popularity of soded ning districts {It will dle a natural death. At present) Himetinryearaithe smalier clubs by their 2 Scie n Long Island costs the farmer but $10 to mate a} vonderfully big entry have a chance : 0 ese mare witt ‘4 sara to beat out the Irish-American A.C Athletics. cpa oe OE Se ety and the New York A.C. It should be whowe pedigrees easton B great mest. ding records it Gotch Defeats Rogers. Bere sues eerie siting horses of to the fact SYRACUBL, N. ¥., Jan, 18—Frank Goteh, | Quant be even. more eat value to "sat a nominal Owners 1 not sold but | | American champion, took two straight falls] of th Entries cost. The former race ost_and Jam out of “Yan ee of note, and s. Telia ea * Rogers, challenger for the American heavy-weignt championship, in an | Broadway rae th their eare an interesting wrestling match before & large Dartmouth Tied. et withdraw the anir 4 i ; crowd here last night. es ich bh 4 th. he. 10, 1,100 It ve rd a cegoer would enjoy THE MUSK i Specials for Bench Show. pert cegget anonld en | New classes have been Shy Cate building up eq! progeny new specials offered for the 4 ie d value in upite bench shuw of the V i ete Malis ial a e (ae 8 aaaWiotien ng tur! struggles Clubrmy Bichias il ben held ata cele ceenin Djects herein Square Garden Fret € d celebrated ra ateatioanent to 14 NOLAN WANTS M’FARLAND _ TO MAKE SIDE BET OF $2,5 of tho isiastic mo No- eatei | months Melody. Nelson’s rae Pane | Wager Before Making Match | back and fight | Kk and knock as follows to hang pi vand chet by _Frontman—tIatus ereur Pe city 50; 40-yard «pur av cOr the club that | , Pune Oran | ere myself, an 5 A le for, | EE x ff you quit.’ gh jump, 20; 88)-yard With Packey. }soon ii Gta Baete |la ” “ TW iniivan ¢ vq lalgatt went out and ro ure also five relay, races, o Ieasiuleatdiivalanwitire ontilecosthnyator ound 1 to Meet aa YE. eh. 1 Peay preieatral 1 bring out nearly a dozen | reit and sign articles.’ \ Seen onic mals SRO Uk 1 200 men. 7 > ‘d | . «Donohue dany more ¥ FOL Gh Ta veteran tor BY JOHN POLLOCK. | Murphy Won't Fight for Six Weeks. | o¢ ‘és We Will Send Free, to Prove It rs in unif George Gardner to Fight Again Gardner, the ex-lleh heavy-weight | a hard fight with » Mus | an Diego, Cal, matched for an+ came dawn t ago and an: withdraw eni cause e f Wicd} by the accu sionalism, actising is’ p And larges’’ Was ser Pacific ( the A. A. U. £ been a day on ts 4 Ca hefore Roae \ proven d founded. £ Ralph Rose nees ae Will withdraw BOWLERS! See the CiT¥ EDITION of THE EVENING WORLD every day for the live news and gossip of the the centr em [Bie in, | again, has » the ring TUG-OF- Me CONTEST |, ‘ BLACKBURN DEFEATS BONNER a to wive the apec- NOLAN, who Is looking after | is the Most Effective Cure for Rheu- affairs of Battling Nelson y : the ma Yet Do | matic Pains, a Special Bottle 0 Dane t Packey MeFarland in a Oliver t the * aed has in Rood form ee | |the light.we mpionship of th A az] that Mur n. After wil come to | | world, but b signs the article nes for fully four w ty 9 get on some | Peeacrationiimweldayeniataniauletter)| Fe toe ay Gee MeFariand, in the a h \sienea C, N. Jackson, treasurer of the 4 arpains Harry Gilmore, man € houanrey | oe pannae: MeGarry Offered Bout with Canole.| ata gaint meeting of the Fxecutlve/o. U. a, C,, was received by Mr, Kirby KING OF nf McFarland, make a side bet of on Jan, 29. Amby McGarry, the Fron Ughtwelght, (and Advisory Committees of the Inter-| stating that his letter to Lord Desbor- with Martin Canole the Standard on Jan. 2. eet McGarry al take him on, Will he box ney meet they rounds. ‘The winner with Wille Pit collegiate Association of Amateur Ath-| ough had been forwarded to him and letes of America, held last night at the | tnat the matter therein would be con- Fifth Avenve Hotel, a challenge WS | sigered as soon as the next collegiate sent to England W if accepted, Wil! term pegan. Confident it will do for you what it hae result in a dual athletic meet between) a4r jcjrby submitted the communica- | done for others. Send a ost al hin rd’s the collegians gf America und those Of} tong to the members of the committees | Liniment Co., So. Framingham, Mas: Great Britain, last night with the result that a resolu- On Dec, 7, Gustavus T. Kirby sent 2} tion was unanimously passed furthering LINIMENT Ke oe Fitzgerald After Packey McFarland. jetter to Lord Desborough, chairman of/ tho efforts to get the universities to- ew tt from | twent the “Fighting Harp," the British Olympic Committee, sus-| gether, A formal challenge was also sion over Billy ¢ gesting a meet between an Americ: aeuaa) 1 n Thursday night, lege team and a team from the uni- versities and colleges of the countries the King of England has Farland , at B P.M. By Yale Defeats Tigers. EW HAVE. ( 1 showed himself to: over which Red by ne Yale | jaw perelever Chicas puglliat, Fitagerald Several days later Lord Desborousi wilh tr niiices Har Eman an aay ad turned his ‘ leur of MeFarlani. to uliow Pankey to box | Wrote Mr. Kirby that he had turn mary hum tn Philadeiphia. jletter over to the treasurers of the Ox- e ep one Noves. Elmer Arranges Bout for His Stag: | fers _and Cambridge universities fay a oa eanes Mellody Retires from the Ring. | Bhly manager of the Consolidated | = aon A druggist advertises: ‘You a Take ce 8] silly (Htoney") Mellody, who still claims | A. C., has engaged Jim Stewart, the heavy may need drug store goods at Mr lee Giecrirse 6 amplonship. title, al- weight, to mest Jack Fonbrook, another big GANZEL To MANAGE REDS. Bey ested ths hiteanees debi fighter, for ix rounds in the main bout at) may be at: hand—none is the club's next stag, Monday night.) CINCINNATI, Jan, 1&--John Ganzel, needed. Just step to the phone and tell us what is wanted. We will send it to you promptly.”’ Order hy art has show boxing improvement in ngelf under mana. is teaching many good ped him to beat Pred Bradley ten days ago. i Cross Boxes Young Nitchie To-Night. who played first base and was also cap- tain of the Cincinnatl National League Baseball Club last year, has been ap pointed manager of the Reds for the coming season. Garry Herrmann, presi- two rounds Blackburn slowed Bo down (Special next PHILADE iy with and right AVHIA n the J Biackts ts city, had no t | u Leach Cross, the east side Nght-welght, dent of the club, notified Ganzel by wire | Bonner was grogey the end of i zt it in apatite an ideal stimulant jt Tay BRS Aes Sereera A tee ad POOR RE NEL a Take his aevat ta tout tn Phijel: gat night of his appointment, Herr. Telephone el eeeeneterrsa e hea eimht, at the Industrial Box- | ¢! hed at every pia us ats, e ackle oung tried hard to secure Tommy fap peaeponed [aly Warrant 6," the Quaker City fighter, for six MAnn Leads b MEW YORK TELEPHONE 0O., last night a right-hand swing on munty in the semi-windup at the Leach, of the Pittsburg team, to bé Hesome regard for Bonner's r by th manager, but as Barney Dreyfuss took er i at long 3 CE TTS If Cross beats offense at a remark which Herrman some good bot had sed about him, he !mmediately as lackburn did very | Police Stop Fight. future. Nitolle is also billed to box "Young called off all negotiations for Leach | == = W blocking Bonner’« left (Special to Evening World.) PS ts he Brien'a new club jn Phila: ang Herrmann e the position to) fo in the e FORD, Mass, Jan. Oy ee Ganzel ar ed the big fellow BEDFORD. Mase, fan. 18 At the) Bernstein and Griffo to Box. | =e sever 1 vero t ea tetuntn Mobby Joe Bernatein and ‘Kid Gritfo, who put! Helmbach’s Prize Bowling. | Sreldie O'Brien, &P the fastest exhibition bout between box-| Louls Helmbach, official scorer for The this vic maker Joe Cain y, have been engaged Uy| Evening World's free head pin tournament nd prominently Identified aa a bowler for Black’ ers fice and T . risht ay niet MM Sof the Dry. Dock ure» t MH , erd ‘ th the c.ub's sta a 1'| many years, will conduct @ prize, « ook a count of six and ho was no soon- Out Hi sea Dosers Were put on tr acpurse the star bout. Willle Lewis, loca contest at the White Elephant for men and ; Sunday World Wants Work er up than he floored Blackourn with @ gr other considerations. they would, be’ vio meet Salior Brown, the| women on Sund: Jan, 19, and Jan, ' ‘ojright swing on the neck. Th Yop at, Abd Valable latter Ct the law. The Chie wes more surprised than hurt. Syould < In the law would be enforced. ht, will if added that the ‘Hrosklym inidaie. welgnt, tor oie rounds. Bewling | latter bout ‘teat one. 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