The evening world. Newspaper, January 12, 1909, Page 12

Ww UUUUNUNUUUNUUUUUNUNNUUUUUUUTIEEY UP TO DATE AND NEWSY SPOIL-SPORTS TRYING TO KILL CALIFORNIA GAME Reformers Are Busily Engaged in Doping Out Laws That Will Put Racing and Boxing Clubs ' Out of Business. San Francisco, January 42. F California had a Gov. Hughes just now there’d be deep pur- ple gloom hanging over the Golden Gate. At Sacramento the State Legislature is in session, and the “reformers” are busy doping out bills designed to kill both horse racing*and boxing at one fell) swoop. Fortunately for the sport- loving Californians the “spoil. | sport” party hasn't shown over- whelming strength yet. Even the fact that Tom Williams, the mil- lionaire racing promoter, is negoti- ~ THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1909. THE BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN COAST PROMOTERS ARE BUSY THESE DAYS CoFFRotH «3 TRYING To SIGN RALPH Rose To FIGHT JSonnson | * Cou. DAN BuRNS OF MEMCO AND ARCADIA WHO 1% IN SACRAMENTO DIRECTING JHE FIGHT AGAINST THE ANTI: RACING BILLY Dorando Wins Easily , | When § Smallwood Ouits Dorando ran well at all times, and seemed to have plenty of strength at the finish. This puts another angle ating for a track in the city of Mexico hasn't caused much worry. Williams, Col. Dan Burns and other famous Western sports are | at the capitol, standing around behind pillars and holding mysterious confabs with the lawmakers, | IMMY COFFROTH, the tig boxing | | id emi ie ‘boy ant nent « | Sammy Strang jaunts the aces where jegisiators ‘Introduces the Marathon Shirt most do congregate, and where he ts | Sammy Strang shucked off his coat there sounds an enaiess popping of corks and a glug-glug-glugsing of bubd- Preparatory to a game of billiards. His shirt was a flannel creation In fble-julce down thirsty throats, Also | James has a busy glad ‘and for every- | ody, and a smile that Is serene as sum- | mer sunshine. His pockets bulge with dark gray. “What kind of a shirt 8 that?” asked Charley Atherton, as he looked on the garment rather admiringly, fight passes—and other things, He Is {@s prolific of cigars as a Havana mil- | “Oh, that's a Marathon,” replied Sammy. Nonaire on a toot. € Jim expects to down the “anti-fight” faction without putting up his hands. “A Marathon?” “Yes, a Marathon. It can be worn a week without showing signa of dis- yPerhaps he {s a little over confident. | The sporting resorts are humming with Tumors of possible reverses. Every- | body 1s wondering what sort of a tip| {t was that made Jim Jeffries, down in | Los Anveles, suddenly throw his box: tress. ing club on the market to be sold, | This 1s meant as tip to haber. {| are! franchise, gloves, buckets and | dashers. | to the highest ‘bidder, If {t were not for another possible explana- | tion the sports would worry, It may be —just possibly—that the great champion has some secret thought of changing —————_. — ° ° | his mind, and, planning far In advance, Ketchel Will fi lg ht he may be craftily unloading all of his | encumbrances in order to be foot loose when the time comes to go after some of those Australian stacks of gold. T ts known that Jeffries has taken I up light training again—a thing that he has neglected for months. He! has signed a theatrical contract, and If Jeff gives in to the extent of appearing | before the publid with the good old mit- | tens on his hands no one knows what Getting Champion in Ring ambition may seize upon him, | With Langford. There's another point in the game. Coffroth has been trying to sign Ralph | |Coffroth Passes pases Up Hope of “Philadelphia Jack” to the indoor racing game, as it looks s if Dorando can go the route when e ts In good condition, Record Time in Marathen at St. Louis. a h Italian Sree Comes Near tof | Jimmy /corrrotH 1s" seeina” WHE LEGISLATORS ABouvT THE “ ANTIP FIGHT” MOVEMENT. N Jee. our. Se Murphy’s $10,000 Bluff Called by Commission jfound he was getting in bad with his |players by holdingsout the $10,000 and id he would be glad to pay it if it | Were not that the National Commission Hand Over Rewards Prom- | « aster a heavy fine on him for so doing. ised to His Players. \ Chicago Cubs’ President Mus Johnson Gets Busy. This was brought to the attention of Ban Johnson, a member of the Na- ORANDO PIETRI won out !n the D Marathon race from Percy all- wood at St, Louls last night, The SIEGFRIED, THE GERMAN OAK, HARLIE 3} C Commis President a ( the Ch cya nst It. "RPHY'S $10,000 blu} tional Commission, also President of the alled by the Natlonal| \ meric dhe got busy with the talkative | ry sident of the Na+ igo Cubs 18 UP! tional League and also a member of Tt will cost Mr. Murphy just/the Commission, with the result that Itallan runner carried hissopponent off ~# to make good on his money en have agreed to make an his feet in the first six miles of the GES Al L HE WO RI ny but what It will cost the Ch rule Habeas and race, and forced him to quit at the ib in the All-Ce that has up $10,000 with end of twelve miles and elght laps. Do- i : A up Oy 1 be far more than that. mission, ten rando kept on and completed the full IR nner tle CTE Be ‘Cabs will be 4 factor Marathon distance of twer if ules Oy * Niau, he If Murphy does not eaeiianalinisinecratailattentes oreigner en to Meet Al him IGiant Gauienalteal Has Never Been) their good work tast sea ‘ Int with good grace eee ‘ uld - prove they won the I as Cubs would be a dis- onds, twelve seconds slow ne} Comers in N rut ° ad: + Mah: | bun, } ; ted ( 1 next season world’s record for the indoor distance. | ts in Match to Be Held to as ; Defeated and Threw Mah ag all «Ne Yorkers kn ee Smallwood made a sorry showing at Madison Ss Mahmout all there at the same ti ‘ ' ' ir. discovered that hey against the Italian, and the crowd square Garden. | | costs no mout in Eleven Minutes. bie to a heavy fine if he pald ay AMUSEMENTS, which numbered about 4,000 got tired of aay ap 8 HW ue team H pp DROME Daily Ban ’ the one-sided contest early {n the game. BY BOZFMAN pV orebiecpocke 7 ed POUSORIEIT Is Gere rae hee toate HS Cae is, 5c. to. 81. Dorando, though, was cheered by his mines aN RUIGER, | American wr See area ree reate inet good |rie a8 forty, He had: pro °|{ snorting | Bird Hallet. | Battle in’ countrymen, who were out in force, as Veal ie ullar whirring sound H Is certain to come nis way, for fi i but Days New Cireus. Niclen_ he reeled off mile after mile alone cite I ae nae Raver aeeraay byt Vea ont Dae eee ire Marine Elliott's AO": Smallwood had quit. Dc ces armen ceca ay ng fect s ners. Oe ee, Mein to beat the mark he set in tho Madison | Of New York wrestlers as they beat it A few @ Italians had the sorry. So were his ix ne to the tall and uncut, er hand in. this town on Accannt of that $10,000. But there was the rule CASINO : Square Garden race against Johnny! 43. any German you meet Dorando, but i's all German| Now comes the Nation) Gomme Hayes when he made the distance in| yi tei; orm frost and he of « Over in Hoboken a crowd of ten) > mes the Natlonal Co || EDDIE FOV" 2 hours 44 minutes 2 2-5 seconds, but ; Will tell you that Ernest Slegfried ts in| he will arrange a match and bet any thousand met Siegfried at the pler and Which says that Murphy can e THE BLUE MOUSE maeasstitiovitwalvarsecsady J j town. Henge the hasty retreat. If you) amount of money that he will win. ging societies have been serenad- | m¢ to his pl It all came out! a HER rte onds, never. since he face |don't get all the satisfaction you want| The great ¢ n wrestler is the " Glewfried” graduated from |'n thls way: M ru into the firnean, Eve wore at Jout of this story there are 2,000 Ger-! of a very father and has never tg University and went into Chicago spape e when he| mans in Hoboken who can give you de-|had to work for a living. He ts worth as a mem es Of the First —— | tails from early in the morning “until ney and) he 6 comm ed by the Crown ! ney and he proposes to ite lives at While AMUSEMENTS, the bluecoats rap on the back door at | . showing the world that he e army the blg German had many ~sseeen~. EN See | night. Is the best wrestler that ever happened 2 with wrestlers, and. in Ai SM EMPIRE Bray a ott at: Byes, $25, On t Fy ( i * was finally Induced to meet Hitzler al c Sa 13, nt iu Herr Siegfried !s sald to be the great-| He is six Bavaria. Hitzler, though a profes: | MAUDE ADAM in TRNAS UR re ea Mat, To Mw ions wre! ever hooked a half| ts a pity 1, was quickly thrown, and Sieg- WOMAN ows nea 7 x Nelson or ywered an ear on the| Ernest's has been throwing others since. JT HUDSQN {ost jfe" Boras al Lolige cutive tee & few bouts, and on that acco |mat. He has come to America to fur-|that he wi when he Rested Mebmauty (hearth ay i CEELE to put on'a show with only. Io In the main bout "Cyclone Billy will Lackle Willie go for ten ther the prestige of Germany and show mann us that the Kaiser has subjects who can rounds. Tt will t contest, as do things other than climb h both men are slambane ecnakrens, contest, ae do things other than climb aboard the permanent { water wagon. | ay Gi 4 erin Challenge Open to All. Pusat, “eho fou pospadian | To state the case plainly, Herr Steg. | imer Park last bition in} fried proposes to give an ex nignt to try M a great grows up. He measures sixty inches— five feet—in the chest, That {9 as far down as he could get in E h, but [he exp through an interpreter | that hi tmetr is Waist measure was ninety cen- | es, whatever that may be Has Never Beer Defeated, | Hore to meet Johnson at Colma. Rose BY TOHN POLLOCK. Acer RHIC trait) te Uatin vacrniicy ty cea is in Sacramento, He has just been AVING given up all hope of clinch- | Ete me eter: ; aS Eu Hoa adm tted to the bar and will soun be an pose to pay any man $00 who will face | bout. He is only twenty | practising law. ing a match between Stanley | | Ist condit! ; PW 1 found him the glant Ketchel and Sam Langtord, | 4° £97 the bout sal em snot Jimmy Coffroth, the fight promoter of | nett lan e Ha be You can't tempt California, has decided to try and pull | in ul "GleanedaRran From! me Into tt off a fight between Ketchel and “Phila- | lutely refused to. meet I } se — delphia Jack” O'Brien, to be fought at | diye with the nope of ohvent All Quarters $ y E B ! his open-air arena at Colma, Cal., on with some of the big fellows In the E pean oung TNE DECALS | Washington's Birthday afternoon, Cot. | mean yelee ! this respect Both tea . froth ‘s anxious to have the men battle | still they 4 Practtic 1 Mickey Gannon in for twenty-five rounds, and he wii wire n a flattering offer as soon as he receives word from Willus Britt, man| ager of Ketchel, if the latter will meet | the shifty Quaker City boxer, Fasi 6-icound Go y Gibson, manager of the Falrmont A. | announced last night that he had decided Erne," of this tween ‘Young non, of Pittsbur club on Thurs. which packed the n. 20, Washington Sporting Club to the doors Erne's showing was a big {n the first round he appe eeday nights, and jun Jim Buekiey, jon and did nc ake | peeopen.end dieingt mak Graney, the popular referee of San to fig But after f E has ae elected to judge the furious Erne, fr one of the t -house, at One paon, Kelly, manager of Keyes, mi ithe manager of th at ni ardt Oras should be Bat Nelson’s Life Story Begins In the EVENING WORLD TO-MORROW World’e champion lightweight fighter tolls all the secrete of remarkable career, ie we team he must pay | at heekey with both Croker May Give Cup ior Ocean feta at ‘ Millionaire’s S non 53} BOXING: STAGS TO-NIGHT. makes a serious to take on an- ta fighter conae ofter Two stags jto-night. At the Brown ¢ as put his frat tA, the contestants in the sta und or two was be Ben glass N 1 the stag of Johnny W ft F q Al has been scoring ital wae es }bouts w BHera ae | At the J eA. C. Sheridan, ¢ wailops on 1 the ——»> Pug’ Hurley and SAIS Gali eAbT Ge CU a0 | GLENS FALLS, N We Ge Hurley, of Glens § fi OF thee tae) colored, of ¢ Kon th draw before th n Ir ft as big as The negro twen blow took all the fight than the loca! boy, but t orced for a time, and when he ca: the fighting throughour. —[ were | to orner he told his manager ¢. sirons at the finish. Steple knocked out|he had injured his hand. He was lurley in the frst roun) Sty Troy three — A f° out for the seco Weens 6am and Clark started on again to and | | | Richard Croker {s sald to be figuring an ocean-golng yacht race. The will be if the plans go under same conditions as} lyn Yacht Club race for the st summer, the course be- esend’ Bay to Northeast », off Cape May, and re- g from Gra (Croker has not definitely presentation of the is ally believed that Yacht Club will be the recip RUCKER AND WILHELM SIGN WITH BROOKLYN, While Mr. f this|to have a talk with Ebbets about plans ven’ rounds | for the coming season. It 1s probable | a last Going Sailors ing a valuable cup as a trophy) 7 a Uilllardiat, rest fn @ well pla § yesterday by defeats 4 afternoon Demare ate Tom Gallagher by a score of 2 Ado} h Anderson, a Chicago me clase amateur : Royal Port Rush) eader in the mid- t hurst, Against ub will hold a beef. t Macomb's rate the com. rship of John Havens. Garry Herrmann the al Commission, President of the a ight. Herrmann fs a ¢ fs ato basedal ME ORY TIME AT N. YA, C. « € Roker, the southpa : eae MEETING ‘10: NIGHT. y Dodgers last season, mesa IY : rent In thelr signed con. There promises to be something doing buaing nt Ebbets for the com. to-night at the New York Athletic Has 1 They were receiv @ Club's annual meeting. It is the date club's hea n of the annual meeting of the club, Jan. 12—Tommy | Dodgers’ new manager-capiain, is ex- George T. Wilson is the regular nomi- Was given the| pected to arrive In town in a few days| nee for president, He will be opposed by James H. Haslin, who Is making his | run for the office on a platform that fight | that some deals may be pulled off| provides for more athletl from start to Anish, ey anne sur. | which will be of ereat benetit it to the 1 otel’” ‘methods, Taslin clans te ba Bed prised all by staying’ the init hubs members With high _- . ETHEL BARRY. OE ae tical strong man, Iam ambitious to Be a prize fighter,” Herr Siegfried said through | Expest CRITERION °.. Roeber, his interpreter, ‘ar Mat. Satur key {s going to train me.’ The , WM. GILLETTE in SAMSO! ‘man !s very fast for a Tree man, “We are not asking anything,” ex- ed Roeber, “All we want {8 for fellows who think they can stle to come out and give us a trial, a GARRICK fii. “iv: WM. COLLIER AWICKERBOCKER © v*» ay ee) [nla ADADARAR ANY ‘alph Av. Twice —Hushwick. na Two-Act pay them for their trouble.” Hi iY LADY WALL nee Fritzi Schelt pr 1 Putupean Sot aee MUSICAL, SAVON Aspe tam lire AYTON’S Matinee att METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE, | WILTON LACKAYE iii} LEAH KLESHNA A DI FIGARO ° 1LYCEUM | : Jan, 18: The House of a Thousand Candies LAST 11 NIGHTS 4 |BILLIE BURKE in HOVE WA: CHES AMUSEMENTS, ac AsTERo = THEATRE, W, Marathon Records Tom Longboat, the Onon- daga Indian, defeated Do- rando Pietri, of Italy, in the Laat 2 Weeks. ees Wed. “Little “NEMO RE, Biway & 4 E Mats, Wed & Sat Ireland 7 Famous Actor and Sin PE 4ith s THE KELAS Josern’ O'Mara 1," SHAWESAAT fa 8 | Madison Square Garden Dee. HEN ORE ESN wea Begiiig went Week Welns asco i hentre 19; Do you know the time? HELD’ wiss innoceNce he oN ee # vadon are Garlen NGe Linea wear azeey cere | IBFLASCOMN 88125, 1908? FREDER , a sats Wed 7 asia GEORGE l= Cc ok 9 cof iste Via Wireless ARL Blanche Bates, The Fighting Hop. a SUT USS tales GAIETY Re ene SE HACKETT HES LHW Bd eu *\and time of the : THE TRAVELING SALESMAN, Mrs, FISKE | Salvation Nel! | Mage States Champion- Thurs. Sat 8 aah ni t AC DEAD mM a ine S cae M hon? ith E15 ARFIELD ih The shiste St. Louis Marathon? be. 81.50, Mats. Wed. & Sat. 26 :-| Chicago Marathon? : Newark Marathon? Los Angeles Marathon? way THE QUEEN OF THe qiity ROUGE, Pree r UE WEBER'S "428" AN INTERNATIOXAL KAARIAGE Wii Vib, Bette ASTOR fia), (his Wm. Hodge} Montreal Marathon? in | ant kat’ ‘The Mag irom Home} _Yonkers Marathon? MARY JANE’S PA. BIJOU, "323584 2'32e4e@" | Toronto Marathon A GENTLEMAN FROM HSSiSSIPDI ind the many intercollegiate Feenat e aw | AMERICAN“: WC HALL 42 «|Y. M. C. 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