The evening world. Newspaper, January 16, 1909, Page 6

STORIES OF SFORTS TOLD BY EXPERTS JAMES M'SHERRY MAKES DEBUT AS o COMING CHAMPION —_——_——-+ ¢+e-____—. ‘The Evening World's Jury of Experts Sit in Judgment and Declare That He Is a Promising Heavyweight. IN the presence of a jury of experts selected by James J, MacSherry made his debut yesterday as a candidate for the world’s heavy weight honors. Jim Stewart, of Brooklyn, who served as the trial horse, fought four rounds with MacSherry at the National Athletic Club, and at the end agreed with the members of the ury that MacSherry is of championship calibre, James MacSherry, twenty-seven years old, a native of New York, | arrived in Manhattan a week ago. He came from Cornell University, where he had been boxing instructor for two years. For four years | Previous to that time he had been instructor at Yale, He had literally fought his way through school and came to New York to finish off his " | §udies with the law firm of Daniel O'Reilly and James Sullivan, prepara- tory to hanging out his shingle. ” MacSherry had no Idea of entering the ‘ professional fighting game when he, came to New York. For several years | he had resisted the temptation to fix tor glory and gold. He had battled Tom Shevlin, Yale's old football star, to a | Mandstili in many a hair-raising go, and had been advised by Sheviin to go { into the fighting business for all {t was The Evening World, opponent, exchanged blow for blow, blocked neatly, shifted with Mentalng ease and was In and out like a shadow. MacSherry Warming Up. During the four rounds Stewart hit him hard and often, but never feazed him. Several thmes MacSherry wa. caught flush on the jaw, but he ke) boring in. At the end he seemed to | Warming up to his work and getting rr fas Wort: nd the great giant, Lee Talbot, | "Well, you are ail right," said Stew. Se weight: : stood be | Att, after it was over. I'wish I could Qf weight-throwing fame, had stood be- | ft ¢ ul : pox with you every d fore him in several tively matches und | Paty "man T ever taxed with rte eee @avised him to try his mettle against | to . it and not cpl Usually | ghe best in the world pull my" pui in training, sb a eer Th passing be known that Jim His Debut an Accident, + a MacSherry’s debut in New York w | | Stewart 1s 100 per cent. better than ever, | He has developed into a slugger. “This boy can be developed | +n accident of chance, Ie met several | great fighter,” said Johnny att | Ve@gperts and was {induced to try his| could enter ‘the ring to-day and’ beat oat YOM) all the Burkes and Thomases. in the | . 1B Ho is a fighter of K i none condition.” he sald. “It 1 le, and will soon be able ‘Make good in the trial I will go the 1 an argumnt. Uy say AEN n is that lie has been teaching Merit; But if I fai! you must all pulling his punches it. let them go. He h: “The Evening World selected John J. at left hand—in fact, he best left ii = nh osince George Dixon's time. White, the famous referee; Har is left to the body in. the Tuthill, physical director of the Na- e Dixon fought his way tional Athletic Club; James DeFores Trainer and manager of many we! He needs three k with tot known fighters, and Johnny Mack, the well-known sportsman, to sit in judg.) NUS, mh hen eed te Tuthil, | ment on MacSherry. Throughout tlhe, arming Sanding) off) and out students, He will soon! four learn to do the fighting himself and put rounds they watched the new ; on eve of ex. (all lis steam into his punches WaPAD A(R CHON) WIL che Keet ey8/ObIOX 1)" ieimy De Boras abd Jonny Mack perience. agreed that M. erry looked like a Before the first round Stewart was | comer, told to go after MacSherry. He weighed T will do tote better the next time," sald MacShe "T know just where I made the mistake, It will take a little time to get used to trying to knock the ather fellow down, The trouble with me |to-day was that I put the maximum | put th in the effort and the blows fell! Mil pounds, against MacSherr: br he was told to send ‘em in with all | eam, When they were dressing for the encounter and laughing and talk- ing of the coming go, MacSherry sald to a man rais bp Stewart: "Now give it to me. You will iis “strength end energy do me a@ favor. I want to see if I can ing it fall of tts own ake it. If I can't 1 want to stop right ‘what T have to overs) id Put me out in a punch if you an. Sherry will begin Active training He will prob: be matches One of |e best men in the ring. he will fight any man in the seconds after the first round suf- ficed to demonstrate to the small au- dience that a fighter of merit had come to town. MacSherry tore Into his big BEST ™ THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1909, — SPORTING PAGE IN NEW 108 UP TO DATE, NEWSY AND WELL WRITTEN TICK 'S JUST Like Tice’ ™E Biscuits WiFIB USED TO “swDyiINe Law sure 1S THE Right DOPE Tor, TRAINING ” SAYS JANES, | ine Sileney Went Four ROUNDS Winn Tim Stuar TERDAY AND HARRY TUTHILL, JOHNNY WHITE SOHNNY MACIC Tae TmMy DeFowessr ALL AGREED tHat He Looced CLEVER, I Won't HoT iciD | Youss Now You STopP! ERB ASHFUL Gon a StRaPPaA) What Four Local Experts Think | of MacSherry’s Fighting Ability | SOHNNIE WHITE—This boy can be developed into a great fighter. Me conld enter the ring to-day and beat all the Burkes and Thomases in the game, Ke is a fighter of the Ketohel olasa and will soon be able to give him an argument. MABRY TUTHILL—Re needs work with tough men, He has a left up- || Pperout that carries a punch with it. He has been used to standing of and drawing out students. He will soon learn to do the fighting himself and put all his steam into the punches, STMMY DE FOREST—MacSherry looks like a comer to me. He has all the earmarks and I expect to hear from that boy before long, He handles himself well and has confidence. That’ big asset in & man like him, JOHNNY MAOX.—This fellow will bear watching. Me is better than ® lot of men who have been fighting professionally for years, The only in- experience he shows is that of always having trained other lads, but ho will soon overcome that and then look out, If that left punch of his ever lands on anybody the man who gets it will know something has hit him. Tarte « 3. flee Sherry. BATTLING NELSON TELLS HOW HE WON FIRST BIG BATTLE WITH A KNOCKO +-—____— dle Grec The manager also took look on the Jaw. “So you're \autts a ing to me all of a sudden, and he notitied me that I was to be Waited for Six Rounds and Let Da- head walter ay first 1 (ought this a cc mpliment ® ° . that had come as a res ye kota Champion Punish Him Un- nyc" cel | bit afraid of some ae Puts ay ed a fighter in cna vho coull ca mercifully, Then Got Busy. | anted a Agnter fn cnaree, rho could) the gongs is | caused me to get the head walter job He came back all are | as the fact that my face was 80) Ou what c up and I wasn't the be: and Career of Rat looking fellow in the world at b (Copy! The Job as head waiter permitted me M Farland Beats Hyland '& TO Bo yn wie ron As to stay behind a sereen a large part BY BATTLING NELSON, pef the tine peronde : ee bs 16 | The manager of the club came pra atetehed WAS up against a real classy fighter in Fredéte Green. He had around to see me early and mede on the floor, the Refer been bucking the padded arena for several years and was then feotdls, Rromise fo, fst id anasto gett n known as “the Champion of the Dakotas.” He was a shifty, 722% ie freeepte | on his Wind, ahd over he clever fellow, raw of bone and had h like a gorilla. J entered ¢ mown went, Soldier Willams, I THEY NOW LITTLE BRIGHT MUST WEIeH Allee. SAY NAT NIK LVE EYES HGRES ONS THat ALWwAYE MAKES YOU THINIC OP Gor To TAKE TEA WITH MYRTLE AT PouNDSs! JAMES TAUGHT THE RA!RA! Boys AT YALB HOW To USB THEIR Fins— OO! SEE THA Pre: GOLD Fi8H THEY peal ‘HOPPING HITHER, AN’ Ha hay oer THITHER AN’ Withae AN THE MOON 1S FuLu hay hes O PILSEN ER = OH! How Kooi Tw SAMA Fovous The ae it Hey 886 THING 9 om, Young Otto to Invade England's Prize Rings challenge ton Pi 1 aid pabiy be fight Nin for fifteen roads at (rasta: . After Battle W e With Le Leach Cross Next Week Local Light- | weight Goes Abroad, | BY JOHN POLLOCK. a Varrt OTTO," the Mghtweight n some time, and thought that he might geta roatch. with hin fighter with the terrific wal- greed to make a alde bet on the bate giand, where lop, le going to Eni r 7 ta) AI Kublak, the heavy weight of Btchiman, he has been promised ian LA RS OCEAN with the best men at his welght | [ Oe ai i mane i with | ¢ ton ale nt, Te at MN Nave tor his *ppe: jin that count He will {tht a (oe lel cppe: [his manager on ri |tlc, which leaves | © will only engage in one tnore battle be- ‘fore he starts for the other side, opponent be Leach Cross, the cle’ thonal few roun the feather weight champlom, Abe Attell boxer whom he will tackle In @ ten- | rho ts picking up considerable money these ro ni Wha Bialrmont AG. al days by boxing third-rate fighters has Just ie ound bout at ¢ fisted up for another pout sill meet Ray Bronson, ht, on noxt Thursday ni the Indtanapo! — | i + the Sharkey for twenty rounds at @ sho pi Otto Is Working at the Sharkey at Dayton, O., on tha night of Feb. 12, Theyt A.C, where he boxes six rounds ev 1 at 128 pounds, weigh in at the day with Battling Jack Nelson. Jimmy | "se sde, joven the uaker City trainer of Fi the sullmaukee, moiter « ‘ommy fougnt Jimmy Gardner two |pugilists, who has prepared Tommy I) be seen in @ bout at the | Murphy for all of his recent tmportant | of thie lt" inthe neat ot n made a mem [battles le handling Otto. ; anager Johnny White has des If Cross ef beat sald Otto y put bin on with the beat man at hie Vterday, “Twill have no excuse to offer, ht that can be secured at one of e 53 club's etags. quittlngs iy am tn eat condition and Intend to e im, fj 0 fro nd of | Erne" who recent! 1 | wade right into him from the sound Nannon, the cyclone Heng vat s is getting Into shape oadhouse, on upper Jerome ay {| fifteen Pound bout thi ug. Ina six-round bout at th a ing Club. of Prtiadelppta, Was P can also beat him in @ he hi Jonnny Loftus is {n charge of | ffteen-round bout th \his training, and ought to have the | Guigan, ‘manager of dentist on edge for the contest. As both) end of the bout. boys have a big following, the club- house should be taxed to its capacity. the American, midilewel Hen Johnny Ol | Incertainiy » Jem Drlecoil'a next, boat, wil Grover Hayes, the Quaker City Thay have been secured to {ha twelve round boy the Armory +e, i lands, who was knocked feet, but ny right went for the | {! i better in the a trond of both gouts than he waa In the earlier ones, Miah Mur- tay a e-ided to give him @ chance at a longer anc ! champion of the army! 1 nny nd ung nee, < Were. ditnitivavar fa string of. victor | U8 A following bouts have been arranged In Fierce 7 en-Kno d B licine unknown and unannounced, as it were, I didn’t even have a the'time he met me Returns Home and Fights. ne MDH DRE AUC emeleeae R trainer. \F i j ark, Will tackle a f 7 ‘ ought in Open Air After defeating several Northern un out From the top of th g in the first| 48 @iving in, began to ery frantt aly | é i P ' ciampions 1 decid: ad to return home and and at the Resenicriae oo !recuperative power all through the con- | found to {ts finish Green danced around | te Green to rush tn and Anish me. eames Dia an Sol ish x are, i Fi es a tet ood pou Ay Cat aday (Mant Jack Kaye ck kept - | ' Th 2 1 h. rol ? ed e pl b nelghborgao Chicago, d pe whter, will Chicago Lad Proves Far Too vest quit tBt Ms head at mest crit: me Tike shopper, pecking bad), a was In the sixth round of the fight club, Yourcan Ga ON VES TIRO Ne edn, haes eleahcloranune iud'a | Poiveta Corby eounda nthe a ag a teal times, and only In the tenth round | Jabs Into face repeatedly, and then i als AE) , & game sort of a 1 piregna tier us 8 battle, | hat heen cleaning, up every fighter tn erm i : ‘ Was he in the danger. Packy | dancing out of harm's way, My j fellow, and right there I didn't doubt ' . We ni the vic! when I arrived, and my ad-! Clever for Californian in | snovea across a terrife right full on| then was slow and awkward, but 1) the storles told about his many success. | SOR, And At. tesul Mose ta tango a (laraniimestyo erent Ph il Will Not Be oi on C the chin that sent Dick staggering half | felt from the start that he couldn't ful battles a knockouts, He boxer, but at success In North had reached home l ewis ontest at Los Angeles Way across the rine, and followed tt | knock me out, so as the fight pro- fs with me, andl| eHow, MKe myseite beiove me and T was greeted as the | with @ rush, swiigt sht and yi sec me. confiden » drew t 2 tt EBAY Sonne champion | Se RUM ile et oc Cara eee thee ee minee the Brooklyn 1909 Payroll when ti lad cline, Tae 4 in the fourth rounc i oh ores meee Terrible Un- po aay eeicant is oan posal sma tg caren (Special to The Evening Wor't.) and In a few sec cove: nd the frst time in my short career that joWN, a8 Well as Ole Olson. Ab! hy round determined | made me go some d fe LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 1—Packy ants had euffered auch humiliation and you did tickle his ribs and erack my vere (ime her! AN there and, of nourse |fonght. He was fast om his feet, ahifty jrauirloy? dowry eustly by, MeL eat ae McFarland, of entail len ent i NU A eee. {nto h ; My, left) knock vmyireputalion ‘and amb on the order of Abe Attell, and for the had no intention of letting Heraog go SABO ona ce sion on \can bet I was angry. I grew a bit wild | Into jaw during this round a kid champian Into smithereer.s sree rounds I could not get inside HIL LBWIS, th aon” short: [If any other manager bur Lumley had yover “Fighting Dick" Hyland, o nto t ke 4 blow i" ei tand commenced to carry the fight to| 1 Was warming up to the real ida sete twee rd. He refused to mix things mor rah any ial vn N ! 5 " b CU Francisco, last night at the Pacific A. ( gi tw ri it ps h anders work now U fght- He was there with the a as the sorap was for stop of the Brooklyn National) made McGraw the same offer the ‘ RHE GR todadin Bt Ah } him. worker m into # ¢ an H At the end of the and stamina and him [four he fourtl, round opened with his League Club fora few sars, Will| chances are that little Mu: would have ne mo! {almost put him out with hody blows. the champion hanging on f fellow whom I had me e edge because of his clever-| winber of the Trolley Dodg- | asked him If ho was Joking. fighting seen at that resort for many After this round he was over cautious ly battered, thoug ‘4 1 din the fourth after I had| not be a mem 4 uae i hls 7 months. The Chicago lad lacked his ‘ F t eae vy Moug He really had the edge on me up tol? and then thelers this season. yo Lum-) It js certain now that Lewis will be Heat a f 1 sixth round of the battle, Just as Green ‘ the fighting, and ley 3 come to ston that let out, for it is learned from a reliable usual strength because « to a experience for me, this h had pefore. Lis cond} ils round poor 2 1 at ( ai make welght | {9 natural mark ! stapping and getting away businese of | Se¥enth round ites during the first; young McMillan, who played so well At) source that the club yicials do not Time and again Packy sent across |Green. 1 was tiring, as T could Manner, not mai but 1 gotehim and! snort during the last few weeks ct the| require his services any. Ini Lum- rights and lefts to Dick's head that i¢| not catch up with him at all. I changed to follow up hls rus) pacts jis defense Prati at AM aeason Inst year, Is good enough for Jey paid hie first vist to the Broollyn Should have ended matters Jiny tactics then and Inid back a while. | early rounds, and plante toe ave him a shade wren|that position again, and on that ac-| (lub headquarters yes'erday sinze he _Hyland showed gréat_gameness and’ "| phelcrowd, under the Impression that £ wind ino {up doth our hands for a draw| count he is trying hard to make a deal way appointed manageer of the club, He Ate eobl se teseneneaaat peeks poms 2h Wins Champions ip, stand the alt. y had “done el b ieuends in which he will get a gool ian for|tuoked In good shape, and said that pe On the other hand, 1 nalaaek 5 thts aay ted him tn Lew Lumley called on Johnuy Me+! was many pounrs 1 1 no hee JOHNNY HA YES WILL DEI EA 1 aggressive, and when the old bell tapped. fat mat The pu fight Wa8 Gray last night, and offered him Lewis) ocen for soveral years. After a short ‘ ON bell tapped thing under his ' but the Glants manager let | watk with President Bhoets Lumley ane T was out o co) " y , ” 1 af (for Herzog, Dut the } fh ; on him nee atleer Hy Ped GUSH! INGE CAE anaes oveniariett (roBexcon ined) | nounced that fifteen playars jave rent A | | 1 HE MA M Bateltor Eredute Water ie in thelr signed contracts for 149, ‘They THOREAEL PoE ’ E RAC E wre as follows +. tie ¢ ‘ t a Ulopeheine oe Charles A. Alperman, P. M, McElveen : = : . Nevevatameie as Hreiworld (a Thoxed and 3 led Herbert 1, Pattee, infleldera; erthery 5 ey : Sees Y hb ; A 7 ( 1 VA DL | Harry G, Lumley, Al W. Burch, Thomas Emie Hjertherg, His N gin ar brou nm Breezed After Eignteen Miles FE A | l IRE ot ] O- NIGH S ‘ARN Caiterson, John E, Hummel, Jultua i S41 e Wij hence eet! : 5 Sebring, outfleld~ iner, Says He Will Soor wotr erent | Kustus and James D. } Trainer, Sa) 1 ! as ers, Willain A. Bergen and Joseph Bh Be Read ' i ; i a ; Dunn, catchers, and George Napoleon 4 i Cler' 5} Rucker, Irving K. Wilhelm and George _ ; Brooklyn Post Office Cle K Jy H. Hunter, pitchers. Baleaet Sobel wt a Was Meet Bigg vest of Indoor Sea- Finlayson, the young twirler farmed tarive Ernie Hierther f of the Irish atatement t talks #0 posit Hi ton. There is § athlete in the mame Hjertberg many of ¢ star among Sheppani sthoolbos ner, and F atands to man t old halt fatr compare ner. Myertbors Inder that he is, « 3 k tt teh er testion, to get back to Johnny Mayes. | ' e Is and with umpets stomary Llare of tr and ake h et ut Lorando, 1 him tn E A shape. ‘ t get mnore than ti the Two weeks rk will have t great day e beat pr med the cha TWO BOXING STAGS. ON te son So Far — 1,000 Entries out to the Brockton Club last season, will probably be sent back to that olub CARD FOR TO NIGHT ail again, as ho did great work for that ‘ iA . Ing eal, lean. _—_ ' "| Received. “John Ganzel, manager Jf the Roches re qu at ter Club of the Eastern Lesage, held >t vamp in — a long consultation wita Foes inane, Eb r t at Carried iim ay HLT CS atc} Tbbete Er how vi nape 2 than 1,(60 athletes will dash end two Inflelders, but the heat te : \ aneuaee Crus and Crarupton as MM Mehee Rory Mau GEL could offer shim vas Pltetior Hal BA est Tw etty ond, hy for a kid had oh Me x . ’ tollins. oll, | whe pitched bu f digas main bou fonght. threa ‘battles, Tie i ae ment Armory tloor in Brooklyn musical treat furnished by the New Cohn, ‘Tom Collins, Beliarsy Deleoel \odgers last season. Ganzel sald he the st t eile pugilist, will tackle recta eet eoeite toonight at the carnival of the Brookl¥! ore Secttih Highlanders Fife and | the old champion, Johnny Josce: the Cee ee ea Detar RnOW, inne tei days Pa eh Feacn ROR HOlae al Ria in’h 8. Dost OMce Clerks, and etill there OF trim pand, ‘That's a lot of entertain-| present champton, seh uly Fred |(f ha wanted him or not. Tanager M Cay ea se along, ss iphrs ' nd Maloney, the Mar- | Lum! , purse back to mother at|aome misguided folk who Insist that) rant to crowd Into one night, but it's Re Pid aint Tata te tuil of (on Fed. 10. Ile Is, trying to tudes ven lathleticn ts dead, When 100 young Men | 61) on the programme. aeeting incidents from. start to finish, (Sebring, Pastorius, Scanion, Al Burch ; Liat evening and (Ble ,Of | pay tty cents each for the privilege of “rhe big athletic feature, of course, | “tie series of relay races carded | and Bil) Bergen t0 go along with him, 3 ee seng ea test aft for tenth that | y\j) be the ten-mile run for The Even-| promises to bring out tha stare of the vo that they can ta I showed up at the restaurant on| number of prizes, who Is he who can|ing World's medals, probably the rich-| metropolitan district, fn the Kemimgiy relay, ULE) eae ray that this isn’t an age of athletic! est ever offered for a similar race. | (very regiment In the greater city, and tha pa leaner dni ceratty booms? {there are ten in all, the Arst three | those include many A. A. A. champions. nearly every customer wan ane) The clerk's games are of course thé! joing solld gold, one dismond-studded | oe Faye the walter had knocked out Fred. | piggest of the indoor season thus far. and aeven bronze fobs, suitably In-| National Union Games ig, OF naoes meninges SUUIVSRIG EASE DOR peer s |there are fifteen separate evente sched: | scribed best distance men In the raely mate, up of per NE Sof eg eredronleri a au pa uted tn addition to a rast, sixty-tlree in all, attracted by the Tyan Connell held ity Dragetote, Lek Nae sion ‘The next chapter of Battling Sele} io) py the scottish and \ prizes, have sent tn thelr entries, and ington, SA oe cent ia LL ean ot Chloage, ta aitast Cai son's story aM appear ta The 4 muitary drill by censhieatalivia ot the | the race of the season should result, | alleys. pt the score, standing five-round bout. : Evening World on Monéay. With such men as Bonhag, Harvey ! gyery United States and British armies and a \