The evening world. Newspaper, January 14, 1909, Page 20

_ penn ee ee lle THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1909, nner _ [RerReie| THE BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK [rosewrecenen) e nena pao IF TRAINING AGREES WITH JEFFRIES, THEN JOHNSON FIGHTS | } ’ ' | —_+—_ National Sporting Club Hangs: Up $25,000 Purse for Battle + Between Colored Pugilists.: Jeff in Hard Training fo ana amit Toe Bren , if Sa rei | SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14—Sam Theatrical Engagements— | 3. AND HE FINDS “TH ; ford, the Boston colored fighten, May Listen to Call of the OLD WALLOP WORMING see) ae meet Jack Johnson in a battle tor | 4 ve \beavy welght champlonship title of “Ly, . Ring and Go After John- | dey i | world in London, Bagtand, on May 8h ze nN son, | =: AND THE ©18 RoaD = FooTusnts Sep Worden Osatauangeret | See arent ase ——~ = = * ford, received a cablegram from Los Angeles, Jan. 14. MUSCLES SWELL + tee fe Aue of the National &| ITH his $3,000 a woek the TBeaaldnacrataiigithaiTtiereuwned atrical contract in hand, | | cttered a purse of $35,000 for the Might =} big Jim Jeffries 1s actually 7 m The fight on May 2 will settle for] fo hard training. Jim is proud of| (6) r 0 (4 ean time the colored supremacy’ pangford next to Johnson, the chame| his personal appearance. He wouldn't ’ | | Blom seems to be the best of the cole4 think of going on the stage to doa | MM A an at Na ti al A. Cc, Jored fighters, With the argument beet doxing stunt unless he could show up | O an ion tween them settled {t will be up to @./ a | | Charley Harvey, manager of Moran, white man to reclatm the title. Maybe}! There's great excitement in Los last night, and both men accepted the | PRET SEAS can } do haere POLLOCK. {nd has just started training for a worlds Coaat over inducements he offered, ‘They will meet | i anes angiSiilSlone) ie) coks | | OMMY MURPHY, the local lght-| to-day and agree on the weight ques- round theatrical engagement, that {#} Jeff's training, Jim has so persis | le welght, and Owen Moran, the|tion. There will be no hitch on the| ‘Re present plans go through will lana! tently refused to take up even a the | | clever English featherweight, have | Weight, as they admitted after their him in London about July 1, Thas’ gtrical date that his change of heart! | been matched to meet for ten rounds | consultation last night that everything oe Perea Nears oe the battle bes important things, even !f Jim's pres- 6 ; . at ? . | \ - ight of Jan, 29, Johnny White . | seen In a long time. | tnpertant things, oven ft Ym Teeigecond Chapter of Champion Light night of Jaa. Johnny White man HERMAN OUTPOINTS weeks of the $3,000 money and let it weight’s Story of His Career Tells ‘ | Johnny Oliver, manager of Murphy, and | on/{thougt, Abe Ane bral teen to fake FOY IN SIX ROUNDS, go at that. the out tis’ elnched tt wit be° deciaed The Fatrmont A. C, which was In the first place Jeff's training $ , af for, ida at the Fairmont A. C.,! an re, sure to make him feel so good that he'll of Livel Incident at Home | eg 3: Si) cently granted a permanent injunctiom( o by Judge Seabury, of the Supreme Cou feel Ike fighting. The hard thing In Yy | that the bout had ged eA preme Jeft's matches has always been the al restraining the police from interfer { task of getting the blg fellow started. _ TO BE STRI ICK . Ol IT BY | A Tern eataeeene ea pentneneutey t Once in training he works like @ horse, | The Lite Battles and Career of Battling Nelson, the Ltghtwelght Champion of the World. ene Lone, former manager. of the ear enn ane vel attracted neve f ‘and seems to enjoy the prospect of (Copyright, 1908, by Battling Nelson.) | ton to have his brain make up for the PALA deftrieg a hia) manager, ton me ae) vate all iter eate i scrapping. But he alwi put off the BY BATTLING NELSON. ¢ | weakness of his arm. | eoslony eet ae = haa aeninens he i, horough y a oye he could, and si jamond| “tn my optnion,” says MeGraw, “se- | TON | Sunt that Jett wiltansetiy | “Cyclone. Billy Therm ain bout. ae ne ae esa matches | FFT Was the early taste of heavy, hard outdoor work which served to Hero of Thousand Diamon}c) Paint exyacrinloni ners sec bemtianies | OUURY Corcoran, Jim Me | rereane Tara Mele Sai pugist, outpointed Hate "Tos of Cale petipanad fs canta te preferred en) J build up and make a strong, sturdy “kid” of me. Though not very] Battles Will No Longer | msn tor one of the better parounmene Guire, George Davis and Bill Nie i i ee Ine Vroy, was are eunse ocean er mo} of hunting or fishing to the t 01 jand @ job as man- (3 tour, Mango, who disappointed the club offle all, 1 was stockily built for a youngster, and when.I quit the Ham- y 1 AirOr mn gles p pol N BN Pear dss tas actlauss. mond Conaiy Te af really seine tha 's work. 4 Wear Giant Uniform, tease Seer iin seamat O Copgnin nso Have Cone. : ton best Foleo Hop ina sa-round He'll Hear the Applau f es lee kee J pout ( y of the smaller leagues, He — Jeff 1s training now. In a few days In 1897 1 engaged in one bout at home with Ole Olson, and off py, pozestAN BULGER, |W! baseball from the ground up, and St, Louls, Still they would all Ike to | on _ i fie will be before the public again, He'll de at the ti had d the tati MAD LGER, Chapa inraeillfancigutotlthetioldiares lett | fee him get a good place. Jack Dunn | {oF tem rounds, The ttle oil be tought AMUSEMENTS, course I won it. The Swede at the time had gaine reputation in ; z It eetraverake : on the night of March 17, rapke i¢ at flot Foes USSU OU stand in the glare of the footlights and - GE, the old-time champion, has to win in that company.” ould fake & ten Gul by taking the | Sirings at present, where he is tra! hear the great roar of applause thet al-| Hegewisch and vicinity as being the best kid scraper going. We had a A baded fone nists moten alan bie WEneoiges lab Sar ep ee ROE a) on of all cham- string, This greatest of all title . . where he : U 0 | i Lint eee aeiae ter his eahipt. | OOYS’ athletic club in Hegewisch called the White House Club, which Was | oigers has met all comers since Adam| The talk of McGinnity going to St lGeanttoresnigiing over ememeeven fe 8 t | | tion bout with a sparring partner, Jeft| organized immediately after my decisive victory over Wallace's Un- mes thrown out of the ( a den ot Lat 8 Wy ace ae cat Cer Ita CHUN ore thn Shan er) aE its | “11 sllp in, and as yet he fails to show a solitar her {s not good enough for a Win- | pager th a : Mt att) will feel the old thrill, Hel slip 1% !enown, Ole Olson questioned my right to pose as the champion of |r ee Mate cscutoheon, ‘This time | ing ball club, how, In the name of | Stun" Have been great i ane GRANO CENTRAL ewift, agile, catlike (if you can Imagine ‘a 250-pound cat), and look with narrow f eyes for an opening. He'll parry the] The town was, as it {s now, populated ;the middle part of July, a sadder and 4 id Bi r . Hegewisch, and a battle was arranged between us. it was Joe McGinnity, the hero of a| common sense, could he be of help to aj Old Baltimore, days, and McGraw has | fiitloiten cles thousand diamond battles, who made aj losing club? A pitcher who !s wantng | greatest pitchers that ever lived. He = tie foc the belt, but old Age set himesit {can often make good for two or three | twice helped New York to win a pen- | ai ublak, the Aut, pean clinched, etwewn t come his way, or take them | mostly by Swedes and Danes, and there |much wiser little tad. My two great t Ba eae then hell drive over one of | were Tis van equal number of each | victories, as I called them, over the Un-| for the rush, and at the first bow MORAL an COM ee Ot ea Ca AS arating tho Gtants the ehamptoneliiy. of | Mill come torothee 10° SALOWE the old body smashes, His opponent [residing there at the time of the fight. |known and the champion of Hegewisch, int down for the co eer es one, A losing club; how= | the world é; He eR Mee i DANCE will crumple up, fall forward, and Ile jThe Swedes naturally took Olson's part, | Olson, had caused the fighting bee to get SOG LOUD ED ELE AEE Ye pen eta Dace cre trol let feria ieten Sony oaTe meee tne | sree Form ip a oie cantata anon CONTEST prone on the canvas floor, and Jeff, in}and, of course, the sterling Danes all | busy in my bonnet. I secured a position! Joe went Dan McGann an belie Good pitchers can Up- | Freee yquet of bre aU ti the battle ought to be a hummer : prone on the canvas floor: and Jey'the Laupported me, We fought for @ purse |in a meat market in Huron at $16 per| went Tommy Corcoran, and thus it has toi bad batters, and good batters can | electrified the baseball public some |= —=| crowd and listen again to the adulation | o¢ s3 my end being put up by the club| month, and worked steadily until Christ-| gone since baseball beca An £ natte Hear id t Fain aURliCHerseaT| pares Haat ROAD YE rine A Path jcomesnet AMUSEMENTS, that comes to the conqueror. In that mag Day. I demanded §20 a month, and|necessity. The sca | moment Jeff will come to himself. He'll | members. It was on a Sunday after- Th c rs who are wintering around New| sion. He was supposed to have a con: . Thange his mind at last, and on the in-|noon, and I will never forget the day. When It was refused me T qu! heroes that ever lived can be found dan- re of a unanimous opinion that ‘stitution like dron, But Age finally got EMPIRE £rey.,go%n at. eve. fant determine ‘to put himself back Ihe rivalry of the two factions was in-| Bat Becomes a Cowboy. ging from the belt of this same o! is no chance of McGinnity going to him. MAUDE ADAMS "2 R Wit AT aera jannelongs on ithe Pedestal Fe) tenge, and many good-sized bets Wer?) yiere T met up Poy | champion. — K: eeryed forthe Worle Champion made on the affair. with a coyboy " The loss of Joe McCinnity 1s one of CRITERION "<3 aah the hardest blows that ever | big league circles. Everybody Can Jeffries Resist? and he took me j That's the way Californians figure it | Olsen Gets a Licking. out to one of the @ut. Jeff may not have the slightest in- | Olson, like the Unknown, had ft on me| big ranches close {ention—now-—of fighting again. But can | poth in height, reach and weight, but,|DY, where I be- he resist the awakening of his own In- stincts when the time comes to declare Next Week Gelase BLANCHE E BATES. ev ALLE uw it Last Week at This Thentree” entre, i ‘ Individual Stars Shine in WM. CLLETE la SAMSON Une hied al )Lcereal! Basketball Games| oan Fe : a regul despite this, I felt confident I could best | Cowboy. ayy himself? him that day wild ambition of laativeae fie antl ‘There'd bea fortune tn it tor Jett. too, | -———-—_-——>_ nthe opening |™mine had been Rashard isi hed ith teature of the P. S.A. 1P.08 ment, to, stack tise abetore “meet ng. neva tis an sera | ny oer me onee Buffalo Bill, and Graw to the bat boy. It was has been ue iotinabe Be a gply be payed toon stot Re" ce of the Fritzi Se 2.16," HACKETT’ VHEATRE W421 St Eve Bae langerous man like Johnson Jeffries short worl .}other famous men tended that he should win, howev consistent and effective team —= he | ate 5. Laat ‘| should have ‘a fight under his beit.” He and I certainly |0f the plains, and awn herent aken altogether, the teams do not De five ere probably the hei yn, nell onisth PREY Mrs. FISKE I Salvation Nell) greatly admired had to fight good i their personalities and hard to stalljand records. So oft his flerce rush-| Pere I was astride a horse now and aggregation among the a) e o OF MUS The team conaiata of | Thurs, ACADEMY, OF MUSIC. 34 St sidvtecna a set | WILTON NLACKAYE ‘ae WARFIELD wi i 6at.,2. Ey. ‘should not be expected to go in for the championship with his hands strange to the work. In four years even a cham- mote knowledge of inside ould have been gained by | = McGraw Sorry to Lose Him. ion can forget things that no training 1 nd wi 2 Par peerh RASIBEInERORGIREAA eating ee ceaaverayy Nine actually herding cattle The Job of baseball manager {s not an 4 week ot the leseiies senate aes nf and it they peep, UB ther pres. | Pven the8 b the negro Jeff will take no foolish Ch When winter set in I jumped the|easy one, especially for ho are eraiaaare En ghia, wzhoo}d to compete anioncatieibeet jaro 4 g on indly: wre lying om invdual ae ie JOE WEBER'S THRATEY Sn cane omn ty iha| oie a Ae ETHEL BARRYMORE aninrennation ate e‘chaps” and tossed the larlat aside and jraw realize [hilked over to Siilier, & Dale, Hered ee: |.oves nuzteem mates: MeGraw reste cured a job as waiter in the main hot chances through lack of preparation. fighting. At So the situation stands to-day. Jeff has y luston of t a Jearly last season that Mot ha¢ started. He has put his head out of the 01 ft was|of Role of retiremer me all the ¥ t _ was/of the town started on the togoggar whence New? York. school. “7 Hee rca and letherageaiwell ane soig pretty even at) There was a pretty nice boxing club|no major league ball niaver fas @ team bonsts crack | any yr h ame Ont «Benita Playing for- | 1 in W.8.Maugham's most successful comedy | | ASTOR: ar. esis, Wo. Hodge! [at Sioux Falls, 8. Dak., at the time and | ch a system docs not | plays baseball for his school ved, inal The ae of the greatest hea pulled oft weight scrapping that. Again in th es Figg was in BIS second round he continued to carr Ss fights were being held over there week- | Dut he held on, he @ football team and hoide ly, That clinging ambition to become a | the end of the season he still had hopes, the fight to me, and at times had|sreat boxer wouldn't down {n me and| but when the young fellows bobbed ¢ of centuries ago. me covering up to avoid punishment. on in May I jumped over to the} with their contracts WILLIE MANGO QUITS During these hard mix-ups, however, I] Despite the mai .|Graw knew that McC wal sending in telling left upper-cuts, | tered since | Seleran yy | IN BOUT WITH HURLEY} eet oe centr could eee, fast|mined fo becomet ‘a Boxer ef world | care the Miron. Sten’ scot ||Lady Frederick. foo-yard: awit. boys as far as their |, juntor record for ¢ haowiedga of the fine points of the} oie aan a4 ante specie tormart bs SRST GDNIIP LATS RET? BIJOU 1U ~ Bgay, 30.8 Pst Euee TEE aa warn ant not Mea eee oes oe | AIPPODROME 2) ae ~FGENTLENAN FROM “Ai . school fporting Qird pallet ik ON Vie ork are bel ng Telled on ts the | ¢lud eee i pjority of the pointe | cult this seaton. aasems at. renown,’ a good berth hel sored oy the teams up to date have| rhe Commerce crew will be on the ma- Masts Elliott's Zeancrecray getting Ole's 8 goat | I called on the m ked valy nih Aces. lbeen @ by one man on each team. chines in a day or two now, and aa Coach By. a C he secon¢ alles he manager of the club| asked for waivern on his services. If | era behind the private school baa. | H Backus, who fi 6 Neat Mac, as Tie | Willie Mango, the promising local I was the seuressor Datars ue e ss 4 and asked him to he nobody claims Joe, then McGraw will be | ke: Wa hlesyy x are i contident | year, Is not yat realy ted the boys last | Sat., 2.30. iss etiotT WU CHAPERON, ifs lightweight, lasted not quite two rounds | round was up, and when the bell tingled| om for a bout e100 0 o good spot ool fives are bet! juad, the work under the direction | }ORTH St.Stat s ght, lasted not quite two rounds | felt my arms >| if position to place him in a g t | OFC Thomson and MeWililams, the two CASINO Shee 125 ) Daily, 28¢. IT Pellie Revue, others, ne! ve ere the “Iron Man’ ca before Battling Bill Hy be In a post- cyclone pugilist, Sharkey A. C. last night. not knocked out. He order to avold gett s, and then i, | whe Da ues eat 2. up for the third and final ote ARS i year’s champion eight HAMLET ss on top of my oppor I take a ch e with you. Be aro’ tind ; a Se rou if ALUE MOUSE here next Saturday night and I'll put} 2) a ditty, T handed tilm a series of bi ec hext fat, ais THE BLUE MOUSE ed [curing han shed MBO GS rg a ee McGovern and Manali | RESIGN FROM OFFICE. | | ie a i Yas, ALHAMBRA {Charlee peyamence .T Hiiners brick it it BH atlerupatiletialion tate Kh ‘ST De WOLF HOPPER Ths, ied ied Bakes “she a pe fist dnVaeinvoht natniedlover) 2eyinaH Quasentualplanioaand. Mid) i i e oulferer. Gl iain ummm eal TSR] Ma fateh, || Mat Dey a Bi foored him. } | elected secretary at the Now York |] DALY'S Gormtremen* WM. FAVERSHAM conn {oo MINSTRELS SPORT BRIEFS GLEANED sratasaetion th i FROM ALL QUARTERS, | Swedes and Danes ‘in Battle, it In an exhibition, and a number Athletic Club's meeting Tuesday night |] Tuono" * The Barber of Wew Orleans of lightweight mat artista, will also) when J. H. Haslin won out for presl- I 7 terthale' prov eae |dency over George T. Wilson, after the OLYMPIC areaiont tely soared te ERE on erainitentalla z. ae ‘Phone 7 : TE aaa Obi he aay phyain) fact, “alls the fst ess Joe Humphries will be! hardest fought election the club has bal *RENTZ anag | Du ee a is of the East, ey a vm ceremonies, and Johnny| ever known, has resigned his position THEATRE, W. 434 eerstined RENIZ 9 een! ting Nelson, worl welght ¢ ia and | arte d et 2 s, . pees ulng Naito sree vere Hatlets fame, and Pettl) after holding the ofce for several ty asia vtasta weetg "|| HURTI a eine id was toxged up| Don will appa j sa ed Hayes at Madi-| years, J, 8. Dickerson, elected to the ( agit én gh I wae|River Casino nex ae ng has gone over the| Board of Directors, has also tak-n the ‘eran LITTLE. b NEMO amateurs HASTINGS’ BIGS! “trom a place called | the occasion being 4 & nival ider the Italian socletles of benefit of the earth and nl ve tooth comb! same atep and withdrawn from the|| | any conaeauence in| poreg ine be present to ald) Tt: sata ¢ of far away Italy.) o¢ the board xing exhibitions and : THERTRE ACs, i Bay METROPOLITAN 233A a i 15, Last Mat. Sat., | at several oth FRE: LAST a Nante a sparen mente || HIRES] vig Wireless || ROLLER RINK were not in sympathy with the policy aimed the fn the er Whew! what | stegtried, the Ger 0 fo f* |wrestling stunts galore and the enter, of the new president, but no verifica-|1 GAIETY grata, sista were fat cad, ATLANTIC $2 Brareiteins Ad-| cently arrived with a cha it will be enlivened with « Food tion "could be ohtained. — Acrording. to Ev,8.15, Mata, Wed. & B Every Bye, 10, Bat. Pasian & : le ; Pe AR cons, arived Mh ener and who | cvishiond tie oval tn meh mx {ive ‘hgh ln the. ab councis there|| THE TRAVELING SALESMAN, Bit, adedartite : pti ve {9 offers. to thro un ors will endeavor to do an ts no chance of @ split In the organiza- Tada —aiEATRE, Bway 4 rT wT FORT ano ; LECT iwed tol within thirty minutes, will make his M t FTEATRE aie eee TZ || reinnd’s Famous Actor and Singer Famous, oftset cru rafts about this | —————— MUSICAL. Joseph O'Mara sPacirn ule up my = Public School Swimmers HETROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE MARTA NS ae Le wis woe Making . Many Good Records ~~ sms loncve a 45th 8 eld, “Sete aif SierBt Equillbrists, rt) h wher } n SS CEN a, i Deh ores, Thutaday e Danes name Tegewlsch, Iilnots, yse to him comes Frank Smith, of ans ‘fit A EA ly EER (te be Continue “foe! Eames 2 | eal ev oF Te toi \ secretary tresiin , ANE WAS AGB i arminagt | ra clece Onesiariia vlan al se doings et) thal ach at honors fa many A. is 0. tees ih Pally Mat | AMERICANS (35. HALL @ a MEmENtitraGcts a haty man. ihese dave ‘ Pair ‘ e elaon’s story aa aviAars 1 also swims [n the dashes. The FLORA PARKE 7 i ayy whe n if ay fromm home, of his eareer will appear in The hao ase bao : r der, for the h-yard awim, i ESSE ey. ry Mi, Balt atte Stay | 2 wii have Merlin Springs this | “Going away, ir F re bvening World on § he spo we a of Commerce, is working Syivaa, Kennedy 4 isy Harcourt, 10 others. : hi ‘ \ . ‘ 2 ving World on Satarday a erent ian in to get in shape to protect | Brown & Nevarro, M. Quick, Vit MEANEY'S ) MiG, BROWN. POTTER j Was fish not ! matied to Soe that thie season |e on title against Davis and Rogers, of ) 8 he Dance, Grace Haz- t ay. Hugewis z Peer Jim Barry on Way Here. , : ' © Townsend Harris Hall team, who LINC LN SeRciite » aS" : ald Hegewieeh Pe a y . aquatic sports among the are snowing excellent form and |) GARDEN THEATRE 2705 x | Biway.o0en at! Dally : Ra aha‘le aw prrittaelll Pepi | Kaufmana a| remarkable progress has ¢ will probably better Thomson's time. G. Eve.8.16. Mata, Wed a aes ; peer rerianer Samana. aL cio: Sess Leake Probably the star swimmer turned out ‘ Bast DIXEY made good’ my childish br telarapbed tc Salmman, the orack forward of the Bast- / mate © dish brag touday om New Yerrapbed to Jim Buckley | yy the Pubtic School Athletic League is| em District five, will earn « pomtion on the TI headed northward, he rity wish Pf ont erie that he s * bean to aay Be be ing at hie) 4 eae vikete Gas re arrive in New York ina weak, and James Reilly, now & member of the ‘rune against ‘Comme | MARY J, 0 e « ga * Bo: ul ud tke te take. pm, some, of the bi N fii. eoeaaile Mian rates te tind aia eel {S]j| New York A. ©. and one of the best | ston he pst five ve pasha a i fie, ‘ast seven ANE’S P, ak, about fy'uad gat Jima Btewart to sbort-distance men performing to-day, | ier toe ars 5,