The evening world. Newspaper, January 25, 1909, Page 10

— eee eee eee eee eaamnanananant J UP TO DATE {AND NEWSY {sYoung Corbett Has Money, and Is in a Town Where ee He Can't Gamble It Away | —Ain’t That Tough Luck? | f ‘nto his pocket. @ place open in the town Corbett ,@lways streaks it for a faro layout If there's anything | e peatter a fight. wYleft when daylight comes along he | goes to the race-track, Now, here he Vis left down in New Orleans with “nothing to show for all of his hard training but a piece of money. Tough luck, according to Young Corbett's hts. What's money but something to nd in a burry, anyhow Then there's the Marathon mixup. One @ay Shrobb runs a Phenomenal trial over twenty miles of road, Next day Longboat gallops through mud at a YFWoord-cracking pace. Next day has a sore toe and es over for a Postponement. It looks funny. course, Shrubb really has a sore toe d if ha has he'd be fooilsh to run inst the Indian, But when the race comes off don’t for: get that Shrubb can run, It fs a laugh me when I hear those solemn state- Stnents trom the Shrubb camp to the ef- fect that Shrubb fy nervous about the g fistance-that he hasn't run so far be: ~ fore and fears he can't do it. 1am of swthe opinion that the Marathon will be merely a breather for the great little S2Englishman, who holds such a bunch o} x world's records. And that opinion | Catrongen since the receipt of the follow- ing letter; “Mr. R. Edgren, Evening World ¥V. “Dear Sir—I have been much_inter- ested in the reports that Mr. Shrubb may not be able to finish a Marathor Bo that you may not have a wrong opiniys of his ability, Jet me inform y I hi {shed strong and fres 0 go on for a few miles more had there for dc Unless y since I las an has not Bhrubb will have no trouble whatever ®lwith the Marathon running in this | country, Very sincerely yours NGLISHIMAD le on the face of New York sport !f the -boxing bill in Phila- For years we had hla every now and Gehen to enjoy a boxing bout. Over we Qiment, all the enthusiasts, on an early train, We sat throu! se from first preliminary “and came back to New Y “milk train.” many a threatened an pq @elphia should pass “Teo go to Philadel | street at Hard Ines In those day's the game ‘s on velvet | BWouldn't we have the la complacent Philadelp tlon reversed? oh, woul ACK JOH - rled an Englis ac) there's nothing In “that the barmaids of London, as a Glass, would discover any aversion to eabe * “big smoke.” ‘But T understand other a here in A sore Ina y York Jeaving for Engl fot & while, Snglish Jt has been said t “be very foolish to fight he might as well be maki in the Engl als.” 4s Oh, I don't know. Johnson has fought {so many “terri Sand Langford and the r that it should Without chance of lehampion “German Oak to Wrestle Three Men in One Night : Ernest. Siegfried, the German Oak «awill be the star performer in a great Piestiing tourn nt at Madison Square Garden next Thursday night. He will tackle three men—Atlas, Carl Schwartz and “Butch” M Poses fH to ) Ne UNNY, Isn't it, what funny F things crop up in the day's news? There's Young Corbett down in New Orleans to-day with a lee piece of money about to drop And not a gambling | rubb | or | and f {quite able | legiate relay the programma, | to main eyenta| 43 The Life, Battles and Career of Rattiing Nelson, the gan wo tak tienda ek a ARs RS ane nessa eta THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1909. THE BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN Wace JOnNseon th SAID “Te HAVE TAREN an eNaiisH BARMAID AS MANAGER Form cite - AL SHR THAT LONG Face even (NV PHILADELPHIA BY jane DL POLLOCK, OE JEANNETTE, heavy weight of this country, made good in his first fight in Paris on Saturday night by knocking out Ben Yaylor, the English heavy weight, In the third round of what wag to have 600 ATHLETES WILL STRIVE FOR HONORS AT PASTIME A. C. M MEET ners will win the first prize, and will) have no trouble In defeating the Uni-| versity of Pennsylvania flyers. any | Intercollegiate Relay Race Will wing ones In athletics feel confiden' Be the Big Feature of that a new Indoor record will be cre-| ated for this distance, This race will Tue = Terriric Ture Has BEEN Found ovT WEST. | National and enn Cham- pions Will Compete in To-Night’s Games. take place early in the evening so that the Card. the college men who live out of town can return to their various institutions VER &) s, Ineludin GORD in due ume, teams of the Irish-American Athletic) 5 Be eRe allSRalen ‘ marath Club, New York Athletic Club, Past! atonalie Fifty Enter Marathon. | Athletic Club, Xavier Athletic: Assoc r ly all of the Metrop Mheveraaeiorilengid g is] Yon and Acorn Athlottc Association wi! champlons and all the Olympic cham- Fahacled (ih thevent all the local cracks, The New plons who reside {n this district, will adi vadenae u me lub has entered two y fone - TanGe Marathon race, neo ‘ace Mabe DATE Naina annual tie oor Mecuna | petncrent his the largest entry| Athletic. Club expects of the Pastime A. , at Madison Square have the help of Mey ever recely halt New Yorkers atch ire eas uroneven tame tied nterola trot less mn red men wl Face! between the ¢ Carlisle Indian School, the favor! Among the Individual stars that from Yale, Pennsylvania, Columbia ing Louls Tewanina, who made such a/sent in their entries and will st College of the City of } rk, Tho/femarkable showing in the Olympic) the different € are George V. Bon- ; athon in London last simmer. Ba- Aistance will be two miles, each man to Mie Tenuntua taere Wil be Tom Mor. Collins, run a half mile had | and Mike Ryan, two members of H. L. T Mike Murpay ha: ns ate 3 (ta y/ champion; Eckman, Cloughen, Keating, his Pennsylvania men in training for a Leroy Dorland, the 2) yard champion: time and expecta to make a cre time to win first|{n fact, !t !s the most representative able showing, wt Bernie Wefers bi gathering of champions we have had ar, Neves that his four Mercury Foot | run- race between! this y A Sore Toe. the colored light} ;/Rot believe tn training UBB AAS e Jeannette Puts Taylor Away | in Three Rounds deen a twenty-round battle at the Bow!- ing Palace A. C., the dig fight club of France. Taylor was outclassed from tha start and, after being floored five times, was finally put away with a right-hand on the jaw. Immediately after sned up b; Sam MeVey ored American heavy weight, f y rounds before the same club latter part of next month. Taylor sto elgh iv foams before Jack Johnson July Jem Driscoll, the clever English cbamplon. ts going back to his home at Cerditt, Wales, | on Feb. 20. Before he leaves he inten Jengage in three bouts, His most import be with Johnny Marto, the ruaee: Ugntweteht, whom he mets for ten owing one will ghtwelght, who! finally induced to get was rewarded for hi seared two knock BATTLING NELSON KNOCKED OUT ROSSER IN FWO SECONDS AND WON A $40 BET . Malachy Hogan, who officiated as) referee in the famous Martin Fi: Dal Hawkins fight at Carson City March 17, 187, which lasted less than a m te, also officiated in our fight. He makes affidavit to the effect that our contest was the shorter of the two. I received for the job $0, or an aver- age of $6 a second, | Presented with Gold Watch. The following day I was presented @ uice solid gold stop-watch by cLatchey for my two-second Rosser, “Art was a spectator, a It being very late evening when the fight took place fell asleep on the benches and some ¢ crowd suggested to him that he up 0 he could see the fight. ‘No, he said sleepily, “I had better sit down t fall off the bench in Si to $4, and Takes Down the Money in Shortest Fight. CHAPTER VII. Lightwele! (Copyright, by Battling BY BATTLING NE LSON. Sa rule | do not gamble on fights, but occasionally 1 make ex- ceptions, and I have always been fortunate in pick- ing winners. This is due largely to the fact that in the tights in which Battling Nelson has participated I have always bet on myself. jon of the World, 1908, Nels he As a beginner, however, | didn’t have enough money to risk on the re- hurt." ; not su that h | sult of the ring battles and | was very well satisfied to get the purse. SU Rater saTallbolay The greater part of my earnings was sent to my mother and I had very little pocket money that I could Elsa to lose. had licked ye at of the e following ¢ of $4 won from “Noisy Reiger.” nis day belng chided by the bunch around Hegewtcch because of the bet he ’ made when hie thought he had a cinch vat the bet was made and the That was by ysted it was up to me to figure bet that I ys and means to win that fight pne bet any moment. But i him to keep his after I Short! Johny Timade id put down a bet on m up my wor f the next time I began to look as if started if a good chance was offered 1 fellows were never going and I could k ther from fi to get enough. I had hardly got through talking t the quick victory ing it out, It ¢ wicker than I ex over Rosser w! yung fellow named Danny Mc wanted to t i to hustle o e fight en h Philadelphia, > Pullman's fight and I r there and meet him. a draw and that was r came to losing a de- he town which loves my native lke Battling Nelson loves tha fastest fighting ves. ars In qt I had stopped party of m Willing to Take Ci auce. eds in staying ha rs we iieaditiea the. ; ; ens ng tm good expertence, Jibittons—one wit t ( biles and ery manner 1s long as I kept wipning arian a : ‘ tly willing to take a chance t A few days eveatter I was sitting on ‘and ath F ri a 7 hewitt & the front steps of our home in Hece- ty t wisch when a came along « ‘t (| tance. The bell had not, asked me if I wa 1" Nelson 1 be ee BB tt a terrific “Some call mo *Kid’ and some call me the tournament is to bring about to the 2 I replied. “I guess eithe: revival of ‘ Ith f sring ah ; S i New | : - ine FS S And you think you are some fighter, £ ae \ Tinock 5 , Pines e ask A sneering way. \ 8 2 ‘ hat's t about the size of it," I set a rat i 7 ed Ve answered, “You don't f 4 off seve . " n is! feated Tom Jenkir fered to b $i s $1, and turne n his back and : meet matt wou! tk t ain f e \ \ ' 4 hough bis 11, th Ps ; s : k kin + & my bo f 1 va t stick ‘income, He | M 1 1 r = Bt. '6 r ce W ‘ t " xalned 5 oR et nd hande 1e ” course I put k allenge 5 SiistegtbkiNew ‘York and ‘vicinity ia | at a him the #2. Of course I Dut | consciousness. This is te quickest agnt! Challenged cn Doorstep a eer of reunion. up my four, thinking he would try and on record. The fellow said his name was Pudden collected my bet, He is; far the most satisfactory | Burns, and I found that he was a zen of Hegewisch and worked at car shops. "Go and get s " T told him, “and then we'll t He reached right down !r his pocket and came out with a roll, There was nothing to it. I had an- other fight on my hands. In two hours the whole town was rranged to litve the mill In an empty: store not far from my home This fellow Pudden Bu to show me up right In my ho and I always have had a sneak that the Svedes didn't want to see a I all the glory. That fellow gave me a tough fight of {t, however, and stayed the full six though I mauled him all over the ring. At the end of tne yaat the referee gave me the de Pudden didn't kick. He si that I had won. I got s.3 this trick, and that entitled me to stay a few more days at home By this time my father had given up all idea of m op the fighting game and very one 'day he sald: "Go a veen de champeenship!” With that jon I finally made good urge me As a matter of fact I think start for the championship began week, I we ver Into Indiana a and was ed out of a decision when I x y Hurley at Hammond. The reforee 1 bout a draw and the affair near winding up In a free for all Lost Contidence in Officials, nfidence tn I and I decided to « country entirely up my bidding the folks good vouts dur- wes a ha few unger and| 1 myself rudely m ler the car Story No, 8 of the life ot patting OLYMPIC rinted tn edne aay. Nelson wiil be ning World of he Eve- Youne Conserr /s Hasane ORLEANS ( ht and left to the face, | 4 22: Sorbett was up and at again me Cee eee therestech rere AND At& THE Bere, SHOPS CLoseo | Sport Gossip | CORBETT KNOCKS DUT FERNS IN ——— FASTBATTLE (Spectal to The Brening Wortd> NEW ORLEANS, La, Jan. %.—'Young} Corbett’ returned to the eligible class’ of fighters yesterday afternoon by pute ting Harry Ferns, of New York, to sleep ‘lin the eleventh round of a scheduled twenty-five-round bout before the West | Side Athletlo Club, Four thoi sons cheered the victor when, wil right hook to the jaw and a lett to the body, he scored @ clean knockout ever his opponent. Corbett was troubled in only by id |round, the fourth, when Ferns, by ad- | ministering repeated body blows, rushed, | him to the ropes and floored him with & Ferns down, lavorceY TO REFEREE | MURPHY-MORAN BOUT. James Buckley, official referee of the | National Athletic Club, capitulated yes |terday and said he would officiate as third man {tn the ring when Tommy | Murphy and Owen Moran clash for ten rounds on Friday night. Buckley, who has a mind ot , for three days oO get him to ree learn d that all Feu! | SAMMY LANGForD 1S Going over To LondeN Soon— LowBRows! WHAT DIO THey EvEeR weiTe ? 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