The evening world. Newspaper, November 25, 1908, Page 6

=a 7 THE EVENING WORLD, WED UP TO DAT AND NEWS E Y BURNS’S W INNINGS ON HIS AUSTRALIA TRIP NET $50,00 Heavyweight Champion, Who Shae) os Johnson on Dec 26, at Sydney, | Now Drawing $625 a Week for Theatrical Engagements. 3 i ($2,500) tion. A MONG other things Tommy Burns writes from Australia, Ss an and transportation for three. for a poor kid starting out with nothing. “This fellow McIntosh, the promot think he is the greatest promoter the world has ever known. Pictures and transportation {t's costing hi er, {s a fine fellow and honest. I With purses, im £8,100. That’s about $40,500. ‘Johnson,” writes Burns, “will be here bout Oct. $1. He says he is going to stop me in twelve rounds of the twenty rounds. I put up £2,000 ($10,000) and I Buess he won't cover it. That's the kind of easy money I like. 1 won't bet much on the result, unless 1 get some good odds, but, believe me, I'll fight for my Ufe to beat this black man and that 10- per-cent. cartoonist in New York, and I'm sure 1 have it figured out so I'll win. It's the ambition of my life to whip Johnson.” In mentioning the division of the purse, Burns says: “Johnson has a ¢lause in his articles, club not to let on but what he is getting 40 per cent. of the purse.” HE real division of the purse and | expense money in this new El Dorado 1s like this: Johnson is to get in cash for his end of the purse £1,000. For the pictures he ts to get) £100. This money, in cash, was de- posited in the office of the Sydney Ref- eree. Johnson also got return trip tickets from England for three, with ex- penses, amounting to £400 all told. Burns's end is £6,000 in cash, win, lose or draw. This is about §30,000. Be- sides that he gets a moving picture ¢lm, valued at £30), and transportation for two to London, £260. This makes Burns's end altogether £6,600, or $33,000, The £6,000 for Burns's end of the purse has been deposited with Johnson's end at the Referee office. Other interesting details tell that spec- ulators bought the Australian rights for the pictures for £4,060, or $20,000. The stadium built for the fight cost £2,000 to erect, and the land it is on cost £2,000— $20,000 for the arena. del of no! of re ga Pa., eff P CORNELL LOOKS EASY FOR STRONG “PENN.” ELEVEN ENNSYLVANIA looks to have a cinch in the annual game with Cornell at Franklin Field, Phila- Iphia, on Thanksgiving Day, Bven the most ardent admirers of the Ithaca team admit that they have little chance beating the Quakers, but this did t prevent the team from getting one the greatest ovations a team ever ceived on leaving Ithaca for the me. Three thousand students pa- raded for an hour before time for the team to thelr lungs out for every member of the squad of made up the party. To-day the squad will be at Wayne, take the train, and cheered twenty-nine men who Just outside of Philadelphia, where the only work will consist of a short signal practice. About fifteen hundred students delphia to-day to make a last desperate | will leave Ithaca for Phila- ‘ort to cheer the Big Red team to victory. Pennsylvania 1s reported to be in the best of condition, and the players and coaches are not speculating on a vic- tory but on how large a score they can in a letter dated Oct. 9 and} just arrived in the Australian mail, interesting paragraph about the money the champion is making. ‘Things are surely coming easy for Tomay. | He says: “I am writing this on the train, going| sixty miles an hour, on my way to fill a theatrical engagement—four nights for £500, This | will make a total of a ttle over £10,000 ($50,000) I have earned in Australia up to| the date of the Johnson fight, and does not! include the moving pictures or transporta- So you see, Bob, this is pretty good NESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1908. THE BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN Lots ofr Koapworn, C shave f Papke Fails to Show Up Well in Training Stunis, but He Is Ready for Gruelling Fray. | BY LEN EDGREN. Shannon's Villa, San Rafael, Cal., Nov. 25. ILLY PAPKE, world’s champion middleweight, is ready for his re- turn battle with Stanley Ketchel to-morrow. 1 saw him put oa the finishing touches to-day. His smile, as usual, never came off, even in a strenuous tryout with Al Kaufmann. Billy is sure he will win again from Ketchel, and he told me why. To show the comparative drawing |pile up. This fact shows how confident| Papke, who has so determinedly|/at San Rafael, and h e . added to his powers of Champion Tommy Burns and ReyaarS. Dee a tora auakertown say | drawn the color line, thus barring that! staff of trainers a party of color. the negro challenger the gate receipts |in sight, even at long odds, on the me. | ack bugaboo, Sambo Langford, has Said party happens to be a lively Che Bau tanare ey Bout aren sults pa the ieazag and mighty lttle on | Overlooked drawing about him any such| Young French poodle /dog. She w ate Burns e . large the score will Paha ase as uaa Sea uLr sel AEDS Gren, r e will be. protective line at his training quarter: eyed to the Thunderbolt by a fellow ture rights, ‘ohemian on Friday, the When Johnson was in Australia a while ago he fought Lang. The gate at that fight was £500, or $4,000. When Burns recently fought Lang {n the same city, in bad weather, the gate was £4400, or $22, ‘Tommy s fought Squires and | Lang within eight days, appearing be- fore crowds, in the aggregate, that paid $90,500 to see him fignt. When Johnson fought Lang the purse was £500 ($2,000) and was cut £350 to the winner and £150 to the loser. ‘There's no doubt that Australia hi eut under us as the boxer's paradi Jim Stewart Signs Up For or Two BY JOHN POLLOCK. Imagine what Promoter McIntosh hus | T0! STEWART, the local heavy-welght laid out on this world's championship pugilist, who has been unable to fight. First, purses and Seer trans- fight for several weeks on account we taking only these bic expenses the | he Fecelved in a bout with John Wille, promoter has had to lay out $00,00 be- | the Chicago heavy-welght, in Philadel- Tore a ticket has been sold at the gate | pha, bean sian v0 fig! or a blow struck in the ring. Where is) Pll eh eine “Up dor. Fire Agbte Se et sus who is, goin to. Mende | bY his manager, Jimmy De Forest. His things on this scale in Amer! first will be with John Wille for alx of ourae, u ay Som pack Paps rounds at the West End A. C., of West good money to it his second will be with Jim Pendergast, range ans Hemall hand wil pitt} the New England promising heavy- interesting. It reads lke this A. C., of Lawrénce, Mass., on the night The World's Championship of Dec If Stewart wins both these Tommy Burns (World # Champion) | pouts he will get a chance to fight some Jack Johnson (Colored Champion) _| of the big fellows on the Coust. ill meet | aeece a eee Absolute World's nampionship | 4.273 Fi Beriand, the, Chleago. Mebe Rusheutte ydney, ath, ‘08, £1, and 10s, Ge Director and Selt Defense Ltd. Pr 26. 6 Hugh D. McIntosh, Bctentific Boxing Challis House, Sydney short dis: ee a RB EMEIAY HERE FOR BOUT | eee and Navy T cams Eugene Tremblay, the MNghtweight bine, FR a Mewes | Coy 18 ELECTED CAPTAIN | rimmage expecta to decisively defeat George | OF YALE’S 1909 TEAM. 3 Bothner, the American champion, in bili _— > The Navy team will leave Annapolis their wrestling match next Friday night hi |for Philadelphia Friday morning. The at Prospect Hall, Brooklyn, arrived in| ward Harris Coy, tor two Years! weyOTH the Army and Nayy teams squad will consist of thirty-three men, town this morning, Tremblay appeared |*2 back on the Yale ‘varsity, will ead have had their last workouts for including the substitutes and coaches. te be in excellent condition, and ue Bulldog eleven next season. The the annual clash on Frankiln Tad Jones, of Yale, is helping the Navy Bothner is also in fine fettle the match Sfeeter part Of this season Coy was) Field, Philadelphia, Saturday, and, @e- in their final workouts, and will be on Bhould prove a most exciting one, The | acting captain in the absence of Capt.|cording to repo + py the the field on Saturday. contest will go to @ finish | Burch, owing to injuries. |rival coaches, both are in good conu-| Pullen continues to show splendid ee Coy was not elected without opposi-|tion for the fray. Both elevens had form for the Army, and in the practice SMITH BEATS CORBETT. tion, as hen Philbin received | scrimmage practice yesterday, and came ‘ecrinmages gets through the line und Masts ‘ humber as in she secret ba through it without suffering injuries to /1~ down the field on every punt. For a The ne « the fir any of the ‘varsity players. The Navy fear of injury yesterday he wae taken PH .ADELPHIA, Nov. %.—Sammy of New Haven io be pected Sain Of |i particular i aid to be in eplendid | ut of the scrimmage early, His place | @mith, of New York, shaded “Yc Yale since Walter Camp headed the| Was taken by Devere, but he does not iw 1 OUNG teams of 1sib-'7#, and his election is| Shape, while the Army 1s in better con ow speed or aggressiveness of ope carat of 8 Wet be he winds | immensely pop’ ere i ihe College | dition than at any time this season. ullen. The practice at West Point is Fred did fairly good work in several | Hf stends six feet in height and weighs from the other big games of the season | gimitted anywhere nea ¥ y 1% pounds, Will be the placing of Hyatt at quarter-|field, Coach Nelly plan Of the rounds, but at times bis work a et my in place of Wood,| velopment this fall,’ so {chow the stuff that he Used against i tow the Samy ie 8 ; |men Mat on edge for t vy Pas w Gannon when be met Ot pJorthall, to-morrem, pmeriesn ot the lattes pow running the second the fooling at West Point we ‘that tx. | , adeiphia | tle, in | ny Murphy that stances, sig 8 & $1x-roUli thirteenth, last, and in this silort time they have become inseparable. Missed Him at Train, Yesterday I accompanied Al Kaufmann jon his way from ‘Frisco to Papke's quarters. Al had ‘phoned up to him to (6X0) ig § | come down to the boat. Well, some- |how we m'ssed him, and took seats in jone of the forward cars of the train | which was to carry the Kautmann-Barry fight, rite Race at the Jeffries A. a WA of Los Angeles, | Fal, op Dec. $1. Kublak looks Mike a arom: | rong ayany ; us to Billy Shan- iH th improves in every fight —Papke's lace of pre; and» besides Is geme and can punch karte” | his P preparation for twenty-round championship battle with Stanley Ketchel to-morrow, The train pulled out, and was swiftly | Phe mos import Rival of flatic ba At Savannah, Ga, t ant fight of the big car- 3 4 for this) week piace to-nient Fhe fighters! wi th mn itare Bert Moving over the last stretch of a long They wil battie. tor twenty, langeitimere. | marsh. Al leaned over to me and said: bavannah Theatre, "and" a” hig” cr ‘Guess that boy Papke thought he'd pte been Sire terme erate tee. te run the eleven miles down to the boat. City, Will referee the contest. He's a terror for road work. Guess eaADuather boxing “club hax just that’s why he missed us.” ized in New Orles for the | Didn' Bs 0 ane fen ay i is called the } It Didn't Seem Possible, and «J officials have deci | So y J y Pia sine dee, 28 ete haved So this youngster, thts little fellow gen the he opening show Young Corbett beat the great Ketchel—big Ketchel! It seemed to me some mistake must have piace sapien, eet, Guittin, ‘the Aus- | been made in the reports of thetr r bout Al. Lippe Ja the {@mous battle in Los Angeles, In fact, entalive of the club, few ‘Frisco sports can realize, even Now that Sailor Burke bas finally suc. OW, that Ketchel lost. Papke ex- ceeded tn winning & battle, ne having been plained ft, though. round bout th Beever het aigne | “YOU see, Ketchel 19 wide and flat,’ sare that. Billy en, Shin he said. “I’m round and thick, I'm a ce ard and’ burl natural middleweight, and he's a cub ship bat. heavy, When Ketchel makes weight expect a in ie 1odks somewhat gaunt and rangy Alien while I stay chubby. ‘That's my ad Burke, Vantage. Just this morning | was three * KeTcneL ts wive aNd FLAT: I'm EATS _WHAT HE Unes. “SMILING BILL” TELLS EVENING WORLD HE WILL BEAT KETCHEL IN RETURN BATTLE |arinking any more water than neces- TRAINING STUNTS STi THAT SmiLe Bi PAPHE'S Pur ROM ure ) ROUND ANd THIGH", SAYS PAPKE » WS Stow RELATIVE TwicHNESS OF HETLH. AND PAP, +) G PAP DRINKS avaRTs oF MILK - THE WEIGHT s 2 EASY FOR Him, pounds underweight, and so I am drink-| with his trainers has a fascination for |48e lows of milk—quarts of Itmand eating | the student the vame | everything I want; while Ketchel, 80 cused for his or exhibition with Kauf- they say, is working night and day and/ mann. The French poodie had been cutting out all fattening foods, and not admitted to the gymnasium, and as soon as the two fighters be; pound- ing each other the dog was up tn arms, | howling and raving in the st YY Brip jof two brawny camp follower She |has become so attached to her owner that she is to his assistance. scaping from the men holding her, she made a wild dash jat “Big Al's’ green-tighted calves. Her French beard igeled a couple of times | as her teeth closed on Al's leg. A few | minutes later poor Al came down from z So's to make the weight.” Stripped for the gymnasium work, Papke and Kaufmann engaged in three-round bout. “Father Bill” De: laney, who brought out Jim Jeffries, Was an interested spectator among some odd hundred others of more or | less fame. Papke Isn't Thorough. In training Papke shows none of the thor c Oty jthe rafters as the dog was uncere- PUNCHOR thee pene Would expect. | He |moniously ehooed without the window. manner, iferent from’ the way iiey, pouBblen trying atoouts In'which ‘the old-timets did With Wind the same direction. {t 18 only used for exercise. He swings ng Proceeded, accompanied both arms, often connecting with the | P¥,,C°? barking from below the bag with the backs of ha Ranier the | high, open w Papke seemed much conce: minute's res tthe nd spent all of each the window trying to &. Will Part His Hair, “What do you think of my pompa- pour?” queeried Papke. "I'm going to slip one over on the public soon—been trying different hair-parts lately, and I may appear in the fing with Ketchel with my hair parted in the middle. Guess that'd make him some agitated, }T could tell him not to hit me except on the side where my hair was parted.” AMUSEMENTS. i NEW AMSTERDAM THEATRE N West of Kaw a same in his boxing with Kaufmann. He scrambles about Ike a crab in the bot: | tom of @ glass tauk, legs spread, head | ‘ down, with be arms flailing’ over- | hand at an unseen object. Certainly jsuch work neither improves a fighter's |boxing nor increases his knowledge of the game. Papke's work with Kaufmann con- veyed the impression that he is either careless and takes another victory over Ketchel as a certainty, that he will elther rely on his hard: -punching abil- ities, or that he has mapped out his exact style of milling and considers there 1s nothing more for him to learn of boxing by careful study while in training quarters, Ketchel the Opposite. 10, Mata, Wed. Thure, & triaceers Little Nemo However, many fighters, Joe Gana | Miia Come being one, do not show any too wel jin training. VPapke must be one. ot LIBERTY™ THEATE a Bt a "r Bway |these, according to his record, Ketchel, | iieimnic raceiona) on the other hand, 1s a thorough work- man, and to watch him study and plan offense and defense while he 1s boxing “via A WIRE ES $ h ‘To-Morrow & Si New York's GREATEST SENSATION, “Mme. Agugila Ferrau y hee them all beaten to a frazgle. ‘The Moat Famous Tragedienne ov MIMI AGUGLIA and, ber unrivalled com THOMERON'! | Y TWO CLUBS HOLD STAGS; MANGO AND O'LEARY WIN. The Dry Dock A, ©. and the Long Acre A. C., that have injnuctions which permit then to go ahead and run their weekly stags without any Interference fifan Lit fom the police, held their shows last The Tra At the Dry Dock club the principals | NEW “ORK in the main bout were "Young O'Leary," M., of this city, and Charley Harvey, the || ,COHA SS INNOCENGH clever Philadelphia lad. In the’ first | Nov. si Anna Held Hak IN OCR NCE round Harvey looked all over @ sure win- ner, but O'Leary cut loose after that, and chasing Harvey all over the ring managed to land enough on him in the JOE WEBER'S mea Mats. To-day, To-morrow & Si remaining fiye rounds to have the bet- | ANNIE RUS: EL In ter of the contest 5 At the Long Acre A.C. Frankle|f «4. 4 Mango, the west side pugilist, knocked AS SATONGE, out Jimmy Reed tn the fifth round, The opreuaie boys met in the main bout, and Mango : rh outclassed Reed from the first sound of | ASTOR kesh, Win, Hodge the gong. In the fifth round Mango |} x * : landed a swing into Reed's stomach jf “As, yet ‘he Nan trom One which dropped him to the floor, where RaW at he was counted out ; A GENTLEMAN FROM arava 1 fe Uiway at onn. #a0 Ni iis ‘Thanks’ g and 8 1H k MAN ‘Wito WALLAGK'S arbiiney “ror MARIE CAHILL 'n $$ N. Y. U. SOPHOMORES WIN. 'The sophomores of the New York Uni- versity defeated the freshmen team in a | well played game by @ score of 6 to 0, | Wheeler made the only touchdown ot | the e in the first five minutes of | | . Murrow, 20m the centre Of the field to the Byer | KEITH & PROCTOR’ s yard ine, :EMBNDOUS SHOW3S—ALL BTARB. 5TH AVE. 2 ne pier nate _ MUSICAL. Dan tad 2B ic! none ates al 1- & He ire . Gibson MANHATTA Pineraeee tee T, at & SAMSON “AND Die Ray lg, ak 8, (2a oN a oe ett |e WA Bon aap el oe } a ¥ vtec 3 Noss tr Froipe: otiere rn GIBBS SPOONER t Gynthy's Homes | near Tax. Ay | Daily Mat Wend ieee au ywded Every must be ex-| re than willing to come | RAUSTARK Pertormanos MARATHON RIVALS, _ HAYES--DORANDO, _ READYFOR CLASH Greatest feeereee at. of Any Athletic Event s win the Mara- hepherd’s Bush last | ID Johnny Hi thon race at | July on a fluke? Ushmen who saw the race believe he | in Years Shown in To-Night’s Big Race—Both Men in Splendid | Condition for Struggle. |the famous event that a re-running of” the race was not only expected but de- proud of Hayes, Partisan Eng-| sired America and Americans are but they would rather did. In thelr opinion Dorando is en-/see him defeaied a dozen times than jtitled to t honors, and this even see any ifs or doubt attached to this 2 ‘though he was practically carried over his gre: victory. To all this ts * | the fin Ire. [probably due the fact that even now | It {se this -eeling of doubt as to the / the Garden is almost sold out. so sport- — |running ability of Hayes and Dorando! ing event of revent years has ever had {as shown at the Olympic gumes that/a bigger advance sale, and there ts no makes to-night's ro-running of the race i method of proving the publie ° by Hayes and Dorando at Madison inierest In a match of any kind them | Square Garden an event of extraordin-| by Ucke. so/os. | ary Interest, | Both in Great Siape. | Had Hayes decisively beaten Dorando.| 5...) yrando are trained or vice versa, in England, a ed | eo the The AUCUREISAILT BS meeting wo! probably never have! /) 4 alisinneresaein been though: of. So many dramatic in- AED cident, SAILOR BURKE BEATS THOMAS IN HARD t BATTLE BOSTON, — Mas: Now Thomas, of San Francisco, Burke, of New York, met at the A. A. last night, and Burke was givin the decision at the end of the twelve rounds. Thomas ts far from being the boxer he was when he appeared in sea two years ago. He has lost | speed and steain, and the only thing he | displayed that reminded one of his old time form was his blocking Burke started off with dence, but when many rights and lefts for the were blocked he bec Thomas smashed a left hook .0 the face, jaw and body most of he time, an frequently crossed the right over to th however, attended the finish of great |jaw and face. When they got to “lose , quarters Burke would shoot right or | left {nto the wind or kidneys. For seyen rounds Thoma. had the better of the fight, and a few times he {nad Burke a bit shaky, After that Thomas began to tire, and Bu seemed to regain courage. He w after Th wind fashion, and while the Californian blocked som the ble he received some stiff o in the face, Jaw and body. Several times Thgmas rallied, was plain to see that he had shot his bolt. When in clinches Burke never failed to get in some stiff rights on body that made Thomas winc forced matters when he saw Thomas in a tired state, and, but it the latter did some counterin fh hands, there was not enough | steam in the blows to keep Burke back. | Thomas exercised all his cleverness to avold Burke’ too strong and Ko! iz too fast ONT EMPIRE yin. 445 3 | JOHN DREW in HUDSON 33? bare ETHEL BARRYMORE es CRITERION val vis ty St LYCEUM 2,5) BILLIE BURKE .Y A KNICKERBOCKER Biravft0s Mats. Thur LAST WEEK. The Girls of dottanerg SAVOY "1h: dhe a fiah THE SERVA\ ‘GARRICK $3, THARLES FROWMAST Manage? | “IT Was 10 LAUGH” ~MATINEFS TO-DAY. _ TO-MORROW & BATUIt ti HOUSE eof “An nasured WS COLLIER In his greates: wae The Patriot | Ti) “a hurran of tun equivocal a eRMAonloualy [HAMMERSTEIN 42 at. and Brg, 3-40 TS. +0 pe Mei he. ran n or, Olartoe Mayne, Vale Spele Pay wer: Gould? Janes Harel: an, O'Brien, Havel Sohn ‘and Hertha. ben. 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