The evening world. Newspaper, September 19, 1908, Page 6

_THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1908. STORIES OF SPORTS TOLD BY EXPERTS | BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK UP TO DATE, NEWSY AND WELL babel ilteln NELSON IN CLASS BY HIMSELF AMONG THE LIGHTWEIGHT Such Is Opinion of Billy Rodenbach, Who Has Worked With and Trained the Battling Dane—Has Won- derful Endurance {LLY RODENBACH, ex-ama B teur champior some ib s A i Edn teresting thin about Bat uling Nels Rodenbach — thinks Cc “MN the Dane absolutely Invinelble p , ' LS LP among the lightweights, Rodenbach S05 E re WIOD* anown a3 a (orrifie hilier when fa tho Lee: He had a left hook as lard as any that Ketehel or i’ evar swung over. “T trained Billy, vemin became fa: on ihe coa: sai BILLY DELANEY 1S NOW ABE AT euTERE MANAGER be made revaral offers to engage In alx y | i was before he wiry arte was a tough, youngster, weishing about 180 pounds, son had a peculiar way of holdin his head down, no matter how hard he was hit, and aise matchmaker boring in all the time. ['ve .anded upper BY Jou Pou POLLOCK, Helltsehave Je on stous te ‘ nee ceraeas ea BE ATTELL, the fe -welght | Ail 3 é ulgan, | Cutt on tus sn wited him fairly from his feet, but they didn’t thro his A euamipleniscl the world’ Rabies oh ila ‘i io | pais. is r na cen. deaw back an inch. cured Billy Dei the Well-| tive'to meet “Young Erne” for six rounds at ‘He always wanted me to slug him, and | was willing to oblige. {known manager of fighters, of Califor- | his club the early part of next month. to | fter hi: n rest, he! SOR Gay use: him instead of a punching mai, and got a lot of practice out of it, But, 4 t look after his Interests In the) psp, sturdy Quaker se 4 *\tuture, and Billy has already !ssued a J never really cut loose with the slam uatil hi Maser came to me one day hallenge in San F to match ne! and s Billy, T want you to find out Pe aang Ne a ey: how much this fellow can really take. He's got me guessing. There seems to be something peculiar about that Kid, I'm | teen-round bout, and will wager $5,000 that Attell beats him. Attell made a io move Ty Delaney for his beginning to think he can't be knocked wise move In securing Delaney fo! ut.” manager, Abe is in bad with the fight ou | ters out on the coast, and, as G47 CAN hit about as hard as anybody | if with my lett, That day 1 took a good opening and hooked Nelson iney ts the only pel flush on the Jaw as hard as ¥ could hit. ry. One of the best fights of next week should | | be ine six round go between Fighting Dick tron, and “Young Loughrey," the Phi mid light-weight foun and, ae they keep continually fenting “they | i ww aS ne 4 ili scrap. Nelson hes, n straighten out he placed himeelt under hii t. Attell ought to get many guod fignts now, as Delaney 1s well thought | Pita | fin California. imeraid @ hard sig I expected to see him drop. Fle wob- of in California. [Fo eo Hee ie wean oF bled a little, and came right back at me. | Nelson, the ligh walght champion, Neeuestaye ta Lotter yen? aie He just said, ‘Gee! That was a good gg former, manager. | Vairmont A. c, *Welnenuay nig ed iim again on the jaw, | fight Packey Mo A rape Geena ti Eh every ounce I had Into the | fie cia, in Sih, FFanctacy, | ity Neus axe it we n didn't go down. He wob- | FIGURES TO PROV rifight. before any cup | Vi2Mt,, san catched last nl ¢ py do: j= o ¢ A he Baidmore pu, bled a lite again, and spread his feet. | EIT. do with, nor rounds | ain event at the the is the ‘man: | iyrwn tum AL AL next an to wet any | nich That was another good one,’ he said, and came tearing Into me agatn, 1 said | to myself then that no Nghtwetght liv- | {ng could male any impression on, him, Nelson is hardly human. He hasn't any | spots, He never gets arm weary, | an't hit hard, but he hits fast, and | hits all the time, and never gets tired Here ts the grand fielding average by positions in the major and class A leagues: shape again to put mare getting Into condithent tort The | When Joe Gans es in Baltimare he pout. PUKE POWEEM WORLD CHAMPIONS HOLD F Onis Nanen nd basemen ‘8 J basemen . You can’t top hts punches or get away | punched him just as hard on the stom: |to play? Position ts the hardest zone a mee ach and the kidneys, and “he didn’t feel | any é c eavily because of his i : Many argniments have arisen in this | case, bulk and the clumsy brogans he, wore, battered his fest to a Pulp. The dlood |Fose and welled out over hig shoe tops, | Still he ran on doggedly, leaving a | bloody trail behind. Blinded with si: | halt dead with heat and exiiaustion, A campaign throt Baal of 1W7 of the Natlornn the'recoras | Majority of Best Best Athlete on! Earth to Compete in Na- : |New tana te Are Expected whose gymnasium Southern, American Association, East- tional Championships. to Be Established in Many Events, LACK COOPER, In Kid McCoy is training azaln, 88y8j ern and’ Pacific Cp acitic Coast. le J that te Kid has ail of hts ancient |that the third baseman has the ‘hari est place, because of che Nee liners and t iron Why." says Jack, “the Kid hasn't) ‘The records show: that on ge a or ami On bloody stumps, he tottered Jest his eye ut all, You know ie hae opportunttion to handle the palh yess on until ag last his friends dragged him | done @ little t every now and Bhovetop ines ae sse8 S, the RAVERS ISLAND, historle spot In from the road and forced him into an|Tecord ‘ast week be isn't worrying, al- then Just to keep in shape. He hasn't | misses Peo are nen American eilese willy ee (al autoimor le, where he we; 1 though he ta a ‘ittle fellow and on pin shape: ( [ ’ : , pt and fought bu a forgotten any of his old foxiness, He recan The pitcher ae ontiot tne wonderful competing of cham |iike a madman to escape from ene, sales about 23) when trained to can hit a good hard punch and he can oning, because he really does not Bane In the national game to-day. get back Into the race, Connolly didn’ suffering from figure as'a fielder, and put It on the bullseye Just as well as |of course, pecunge andy the outfielders, ever. He's going after a few good|cinches compared with fights just for fun. Like all the men | 4nd ret jen on top in the fighting |the position where Won y thinks he can come back made In proportion to and be just as good as he ever was. knee injured wi pole-vaulting record, discus, but won't tin won't throw un a breaking the Irish js entered fo row. That Is, ss he goes out with and then he'd hardly able to beat such doughty “biscuit” They have been comigg in by train and! give that Irishman's name, ou: the boat, by trolley, by automobile, afoot! was John Daly, and horseback. They from north | mile race to-day, nd south and east and west, and from There Is Ralph Rone, the California o7",l¢8 1, 8 sling. positions are the infielders who runs In the fiv nd to reason that ¢most errors are the chances {s Chicago, which 1s somewhat centrally giant. Rose made a new record for put- located on our athle:le map. Some are ] in a to suppose the hardest to play T don't see wh. e shouldn't. He takes | age ie basa that the aver- ‘ : in the major and | {rom jump of the shoving the tron weight out 49 feet 10% | nay is ee i ri He Mes ngareaearaeieee as ood as the aver- y {nchos. It 1s rumored among the ath- tr Pie here Melba Wt he itd | caves amed, which tn “an tne letic wise ones that the man-mountain min Blanolaaniehtr @ never did | above the i cave i ‘SC | they were busy competing in the Olym-|can put a foot or two farther w & beaten up like the other fellows. | made 2,032 errors third baseman | they wer P er whenever lils fir chanc blo games and chasing the elusive mug ht will be at the National | nance: plo games ma i; through countries within a record now and then for the fun of it EE tans vai ae De AAR chances Dreuey {COURSE Lhe AC, and the club managers are buty vere imteiareritandon stead of throwing all the power of now looking for a good man to pu as the best third | fecords will be smashed to-day when his huge bulk Into every effort, Look nst him, Take lt from me, the 1058 ee ae for fitty fect or better to-day, lean up a lot of these would- _— ecenampiony yan m ; e ig 'PITCHES TWO GAMES Firaeeale iplons."" Galaxy of Hammer-Throwers to see halt a dozen of the And thet glittering galaxy of hammer- Here caHanioin cate oe world's best marks rubbed out and new heaving taiont, Flanagan, McGrath and M HUTINUGHERIDAN: bbsk fran WITHOUT ONE HiT, chalked dow neir places. A Tabot! There's a trio of unbeatable pate BES number of the athletes already hold champtons, w Simon Gililes hovering den and a lot of other lores 2 has u game | le on. ot the University of world's records, and are prepared to within « fev Inches of the bunch, Hov- fod Martin tock | his hoad IBllenine tree better them, eit thee ‘Gti Hea" at that 4 ie firet: @ notch or two. Jed boost- Ta lant week. | James B, Connolly recently wrote Metropoitan, ralbot being third” with ing was the pole-vau Martin studied tL le, of splendid y called “A Marathon Win ‘abo’ McDonald, at y kname ou: | something League, W ner." One ef story was a the mysteries of pi training for the al! he characters In man, who c auMing = w na shar causes he only crea between devol i Hovawved J4DOn | nardness, The road was good for the lghter men, but the dig Irishman, ting the sixteen-pound shot last week, | he cares to, blit that he just tickles the who carries the welghs pounds and a At I pit ath anata ton and ien't an inch over 6 feet $ in Just yea, Bo ha entered ville, a & terrifa pace and led for some twenty’ | nis stockingy, threatena to ecltpae John 1g compo? ilor ‘ ty The wun ginred down on tho! Flanag the fif 2 ord of 11 feet 4 inche i i ring tho last few we ners wit! ring heat, Under| added more than a foot to tne loot to the word | Brampton performance anywhere the twintin eens, thous the road was baked to @ bricklike jheavers as Horr and Dearborn. Smithson Missing from durdies. Smithson, world’s record hurdler, 1s {n Oregon with Dan Kely and two or three other web-foot Olymp!c cham- pions, so Garrels, Eiler, Hiliman and a few other good will be eft to Cy nt it out wth 0 only a few See 2 new world's record “of ft in the high hurdles a ful bunch of talent. But to-day’s ev will a‘! be fought out by champions ere 1s Sheppard, of cou » of Dartmouth, established ving won the cream of th norevents at the mile and the ha the quarter-mile, famous Carpenter is entered against | im, Carpenter is the gentleman who | ngland so_ terribly by running Halswelle off his feet In London. Taylor, the dusky Philadelphia. flyer, | | promises to smoke up the track here, too. Sheppard Is also in the half-mile, pitted against the champione of Can: jada, Boston, Maryland and other plac we have often heard about, » There will be other good men in the events at Travers Island, and fast runners and agile jumpers’ and husky welght-throwers. It wi! be “the big | show of the season—better in point of performances, than even the Olympian | ips at London. GET YOUR RAH! RAH! READY, FOR LHe CUEEERACH TL’ eve CH RATEE of ate EERE EEE DONLIN BETTER THAN HANS IS WAGNER ON TEAM | bined. It 1s not the ordinary wallop at wins pennants, It 1s the wpllop tis walloped when It counts. Those @ kind of wallops that Mike Dome lin makes. When a wallop will turn the trick for Pittsburg Wagner often blows. aseball , when worth than a question as to yer or Mike Donlin days of Whether Hans W je better hitter. Va Which is the better winner? That ts) ho question, a: would be Interest: | Donlin Is the Gamer. ne man could be guilty of tale Be ee Pacores and see | ing credit away from the wonderfel mihen ends Wagner will Dutchman, for he is @ most remarkable probably lead the league in hitting, At os ioiaver, But wnen it comes to game least, It looks that way now, But ia hess in a crisis Donlin seems to have club will not lead the league In Win- 11°C) un Wagner hits along ac bees | hing, the same gait every day. He ts of @ The Giants have won more games ON! sHegmatic temperament and goes along Donlin’a hitting than the Pirates have! casing things On the other hag@ on Weenens hitting and flelding oem" | Doniin has all the fire and nervous wevreet nergy of his Celtic ancestors, apd ta es of trouble he bubbles all over {with the fire of combat. He deeriy loves to be in a position where some thing whispers In his ear: “Mike here lis where you have got to snow your Irish, Thie ig the time for the Kerry wallop.” Mike then puts his whole soul into bis swing, and many a game beg neen shattered by (hat consequent wal lop. That ty the kind of ball MoGraw likes, and that fe why Mike Donlin s9 much more popular than Wagner, even if the latter is generally conceded 9 de the greatest hitter the game bas er known, Yesterday's game furnished a striking ntrast between the two great men of nond. Repeatedly Wagner wee when @ hit meant rung, but W caved in, It was a weak or a fly to ule outfeld, On ame vecasion he hit head-on inte @ play and ruined a beau 8. P. Gillis, d the middie of the first game 1 came Up With an Opportunity to ts. Did he flinch? Well, That high-atrung ‘Mick!’ ked a swing which started here near the tops of his shoes smashed the ball into the right= ners for a home run and won ne game. It as the hardest drive the Polo Grounds. It get= safe between himpelg ore two rung, up, Wagner tg tal abhity, but, Doan dof wonderful’ ability and of a fighting cock besides, > you think you had rather P when the outlook {s AEH HGHLANDERS LOOK LIKE GOOD MEN (Spectal to The Eventng World.) DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 18—~Acting as though they were within a half a game of the pennant, the Highlanders were a joyous lot last evening. “J told you we would knock them down," said | Elberfeld, “and maybe we will win ape |other game from them Saturday, while 1 am sure that Wilson will beat them Sunday.’ The playing of the new man, Gard- ner, from Hartford, was one of the features of the afternoon, This eybd started off like @ genuine ball player, EGR DEFEATS He showed judgment, and was willing Martin has so many world, American CHEW | ; vf THE F [BAI SEA SON ayn to be directed, With all of {t he Englsli, Irish, Seottish and Swedlah rec: | | ING GUM BALL NO L MCV RIDIN EL Gee Ee Riera cave tant Real i keep attacks Of | |{# not misused in football this year, | with Yale's back fleld. Wheaton, the | he knocked down an almost certain be aa MA TCH FOR MR. MILLIGAN. | Speaking on this aubject, Coach Stuma, | best drop-kicker for the Ells, has re-| base hit by Cobb he actually got @ 3 Ketchet ' HIS ts the opening day of the foot- who ts one of the oldest and beat | ported and {# in excellent condition. | hand from the fans, who are not partial ' he did m L sais val Doseman Bulger. 4 t T ball season, which promises this, known, w All the old men, including Coy, Philbin! Charley Sieger, the Hoboken ight-|to seeing thelr {dol hauled abont {n F ofc eel is i rg roan Bulk 1 World Sporting | fidence. : Selmi year to be the greatest over knOWN | “Beptect Game,” Bays Stagg and Daly, aro back, and Cooney and} weight, gave “Kid” Stein, the Quaker) such unceremontous fashion, 1 fee ts 5 ae ete ah Sear rlond’ Bulger oil have followed Up the plaie aeestl cate caaRETUO EAS HR [in vie ulstory. of the Sridiron Kame | Hoochal will be at Its highest point | Brides will report next week. City fighter, an awful beating in tholr | goog after the ball right when at bat. e vil ra the. te ee, su ft have 3 at as the firet ball was thrown. ptick hig f |TWO games are scheduled, Carlisle, | tila year, ‘The pewpte all over the | alx-round bout at the stag of the Tucker | anq tt was the opinion of everybody that (CW vel in al a is b ts peal bat {nte the tub of water and lett remain |among the first of the big elevens in| country are more interested In athletics | Harvard, with a squad of nearly sev-/ A.C, Inst “night, the referee stopping | ne has made the team if he can carry and Ms ver seen Papke, f a here until (wo airikes tad been called on f | point of playing strength, meeting Con- jand exhibitions of all kinds than they |enty men, has about the brightest! the contest after ono minute of fighting te pace, ora dininalt fs A CY LS EEE ved ue im. domething evbaaiy wreely [[RAY Halle wd Pennaylvania Btate, | avy over bean before, Kootball le par-| hopes of any team thls aeason, and If/jn the alxth round, to prevent Stely| Cree was distinctly * raat taking into consideration the tac at ee to wive up hope thar usually *eely F) teain that has been a source of trouble I eNtaniy Bevan thie great Interest | Coach Houghton t# not interfered with | trom being knocked out. letting this fellow L\4 He | his jet eye was closed in the fret rou. ih aint af determination beean to show IRF] oven ta the leaders in the champion bite b it hi to be|!n his plana an entirely new system | stein was outclassed from the start./as Cobb did when the Georg SIE Evie Ode 1 HEHE 8 Cerri H t And great was their Jo¥ 1 iy race, meeting Bellefonte at Haston hewn pinewegitiag pied ‘The | Will be tried, which will develop a team | gioger wated Into him and punished) @ Tiger, unions, arin twin : Lie handicap. Bur even if he is leaw un 1yenae Ua | Ps, 6 iB wil have eonfldence thia year | of the “so-in-and-win" sort, likely to him severely about the body, face and) io? “und ways that the New Yo fortunate in the next affatr his chance J bal) ade | . r rir eteysa? ‘he more affective than under "8,8 old jaw, In the fourth round 8h 1900" 'will be ght In it from the ju of winning than in the ed | With the season fairy launched to- that the football authorities know what) ¥aitimn among the coaclies are | dropped Btein with a body blow, and| Irwin also talks of trades wit battle » matier make shag! day, the big college elevens whioh are they are daing after the two years of Ree the 1 fieren ay ry Park 1 Wee ie Bok ep. he, gent, KR) down trolt, and It ould Not be surpris i No ms f agaivat the t ea GE a , i former centre: | w: tome , Bani never for a seh or [now in the process of organisation If | trial with the forward pass. The new | tein a ure ai Fred Fred ‘Daly, captain and | inree times more with short right hand | teegeome wort of, dicker, | Te that te More 4 i id enire field the hands of the coaches will soon be| game will come into ita own for the fifo al Andover last Your. ue tan ihe 186 bro would bee hit here, and nd An even effects w i ‘ a tree . ready to take the field Yale will get | frat time this year, wan Taain Page, Kelly, When the Attn round rr} st aloner Soul Aaa ape tre ey * x rt . - t} Li ely, le corne: ns, who uch » me whippe % a eenig * u busy on Wednesday, Sept. @, with Wes. ‘One great thing that ia going to Worl ‘eine rely pe’ Bee ate Ne ens oe Aa Hla wae Ine Syne made hia deuat ter De rt Papke neve € ' i - 4 ‘ “ leyan, and the same day Harvard! boom the sport is the fact ‘hat there jaroon team last year, have reported helpless Ne Aton fs the last round short, and handled himself wi Ketchel took atter ' 6 confederaies, hea in dark. | mond 12 t tackles Bowdoin, while Pennsylvania |can be ne ory of ‘injuries’ raised thie |to Couch Blagg, Roleree Tucker stopped the contest, | {hough he had only one chance. any er . Neve as ‘ ‘ “7 \ meets Ursinus, all on the home fields. | year. It has been preved beyond a ra. return Ponnay' vat hh _ oe was re abou But a ‘alter: Goals hee tosring w 4! 1 \ Cornel! is the lust of the big Mastern |doubt that the new style of Wen ac roureniel 1 fe, th ‘Wothal BOXING STAGS TO-NIGHT. + st a . me ss bllbd | feed s MeviCriey *“"T | colleges to get into training, the call greatly lessens the chance of injury to fang, y . brobabiy knocked & water 3 somewhat ne being sent out for frst practloe neat the players. The possibility of injuries | ¥Ow ere as yar pance om. 4 b. tha ch Meta | bof gests Rach ba special 1 created 8 West One i Monday. This, by the way, is the same|has long been @ source of oppositien en new ha a, At tho Sharkey A. 0. Blxty-Atth Ketehe! does succeed in whip Papke | amene tne “Hyenis:" tor suet, New York City date as in the West, and so particular |the part of many people, and now it is, Incudin street and Falla ol cae wine Parencn' atte «s : eee vee am glad ¢> kaow Mr Roseoverg, thar |!'4# Coach Btagg been to closely ob- in a way to be done away with fer ye map| tunes to Be mala crten on damiah deteated F 4 “Eve sabe. dina few whe adheres | Serve the rule that he has refused to . star | ange ute will precede 1 Wicks ital Une ee Ea Me inn teks Gh ansehen FER Ucaches Ave All Busy aN | oes eetf cea here A. Others. will be o The hackneyed statement ,gwiiich | Tad Jones, selected aa the All-Amert- ant show—six bouts between evidens seit com Das | Ne an 1 Minas \s \ativtenrenaip-lieenguanpiinisesssnnienistaiainrenieinesannsas Opens every season in eny ine Gf Apert can quarterback last year le wesking | ere ood boxer,