The evening world. Newspaper, February 8, 1909, Page 8

UP TO DATE AND NEWSY THE Now Let's Have the Four-| Cornered Marathon Race, | and Find Out Who Is the! Real Professional Cham- | pion. E about the big race between Shrubb and Longboat. Curf- ously enough, although Longboat won, nearly every one who was in the Garden thinks Shrubb would surely | collect if the race was run over again. He gained eight laps in eighteen miles | 80 easily, and ran s0 steadily up to| the actual moment of his breakdown, that with less anxiety to snow the Indian under he would probably have | no trouble in beating him over the/ Marathon distance, Had Shrubb beaten Longboat as badly as he seemed capable of beating him | when the race was three-quarters run there wouldn't have been any more pro- VERYBODY {s_ still talking fessional Marathons, The interest tn the game would have been Killed, because | there would have been no one to run Shrubb with a chance of winning, and races betwe second string men} wouldn't draw the crowd, As things stand now, there will probably be two or three more, The Marathon business has been a gold mine for the promoters. Powers and Pollock have a cinch on it. ‘They| are Marathon trust. They run off the meets and have the pick of the runners under their management That's avout Ther auc fas near a monopoly as the Meat Trust _Cuna {tself, Johnny Hayes, who struck for more money before the teh with Tl rando, is “out" with the promoters, and B ff I can't get a match until he squares him-| ullaio self. There are two races t! will draw @ crowd now, One is a return match between Shrubb and Longboat, and the Other is a race betwee Hayes, A four-cornered r Bhrubb, Longboat, Hayes would be the real candy, That would, A Buffalo fill the Garden at any prices. To t purse of the truth, two-man races are b |be held at tha accepted the oc ginning to second man so far who A out Dorando and 6 proposi their co le 1 out alone. $ tion in that for But with four m @ guarantee of a t only trouble will be fc of ‘two, and management, | that leaves i AYES was In poor condition when H he ran against Dorando. He trie to train himself for the race, a that was a mistake. He should hal & professional put him into tri had upset his dition, ard work could him right in. He been taki the hard work prescri he ran a Marathon t would no doubt ma force the other fell Dorando and on has Longboat, and 1 fh time, It y throug! D ; =) rando go so fa | Yard E Man N interesting phase thon business is t of crack ama’ ns. $7,500 tor Shrubb | and Longboat. oe: for a fifteen mile race to ce GREATEST SPRINT OF THE YEAR Hurdler Enters HE BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK ECHOES OF THE BiG RACE. OF at Sap WoRDs of TONE on PEN The saopesT Are Twese,® é — € eer v's ‘A long WET Au FROM HERG TO ENGLAND. daly yy on Sor tye MING youve HOHE 1 As 0 G ea KES!) 4 \\ Sy "IS LAWST Pony On SHRUBB, Y'HNOW s The HAS A BATTLING NELSON PAID HIS find It absolutely necessary to have some one to get them matches, the wise boy can do pretty well for himself un- less he gets into one of those places where the managers have the fight clubs sewed up. I have known of frame-ups where a fighter would not be permitted to appear unless he gave a manager & percentage of his earnings. There are many boys who are good fighters but are ignorant of tle ways of the world, and especially as to business methods, They absolutely need a man- ager, as they could never get a chance to make @ reputation unless he paved the way by getting good matches and seeing that they were not robbed out of thelr small purses. On the other hand, a boy who works himself up to the top manager, in the accepted me the word, when he becomes a ch as he can dictate , or less, to the club managers. All he needs {s a fellow to look after details, ee —— Title-Holders Need Some One to Look After the Many Details, Says the Champion. WANT A: Offers | The world, lif, battles and career of Ratt (Co) ing Nelson, the lightweight champion of 1908, by Battling Nelgon,) BY BATTLING NELSON. CHAPTER NII. y most successful year of fighting, as {t led me up to || the point where I could take » some say as to the | amount of money I was to ge n fights. I had finally boxed my way to the coveted heights where nestled such famous pugilists as Art Simms, Jack O'Neill, “Spider” Welsh, tin Canole, Eddie Hanlon, Aurelia Herrera, Young Corbett and Sir James Edward Britt—the latter palr Hanlon champions. CONSIDER 1904 m does 8 offered a ample 3, more ndicate h ity on Feb. as soon » but not The year 194 also brought me in touc gret that I didn't follow out /such as referees, &c, The last man I TEU) Ab) oe IevilHeae renulatemana thi policy to the letter. My faflure to had to look after my affairs was Willis iets ge ReGh taking (do #0 cost me over $0,000, and I am not | Britt, and I want to say right here that cure of myself. I y mentioning any names elther, Mr. Will- | he fs the best one I ever had. The manager usually exacts a large per cent, of the purse from the young fighter. I have known some of them to jet as high as 6 per cent. I think, prize ring. |} however, that 2% per cent. Is enoug! and s baggage as trainers or m e fellows are not strong for | thet trucks, I acted as my own retary and treasurer,’ and to this |W : As to Need of Managers. The need of a manager !s @ very !n- ing feature of the le { admit that some young fighters one fight. Takes Crack at Nolan. As I have said before, I pald Nolan| $0,000 In two years, and, well— Then I cut loose from him and went out on _10 INITIAT E CHAMPION ELLER lw ill Try sta New Marks at Games of Forty-seventh Regiment This Week. financially since. 130 of a fight after he reaches the position | of champion. He must '@ somebod to stay up nights and look out for any Joba that are about to be framed up. her fier, When a man Ss training he must not be worrled with anytning and it Is abso- vent Against y Cracks. nises to he t i jtely essential t 0 tharechaolboy wenden Boston jutely essential at he Ke his regular Beate onder ot Boston. No fighter oan hold a champlon- son hi hundred tn 9 4-5 sec- | ship and run about at nigat Fought Nine Battles in 1904, {the year, onds ne! of the Boston J MANAGER, BILLY NOLAN, $50,000 IN TWO YEARS ked out uy We p bad il next afternoon. d about him, @ first thing ne sald next morning t 10 o'clock, when he came out of ance, was, “Who took my wife Then he lapsed off Into uncon- sciousness again for several hours. __Kills the Milwaukee Hoodoo, 5, 194, marked my final appears with Jack O jiittle Western ‘tigh at that tim s ning up all the better cla of ightwelghts In the short six-rour Who ion with gne he oft tite reel called the jaw with ton my back, after him In a up and "MARATHON * PRomoTér. By the way, | n, | Artie Sims and the famous Jack O'Neill You know that {6 @ lot of money when ;greater fields to conquer, so I borrowed the fighter gets ag much as $25,000 for | Pe rare trom my my own hook. I have done much better | No fighter can look after the det ratte eget ; ae lation declares he will some] 1 participated in nine engagements : ne off another fitth. during 19H, fis Bue- rules Pi es the event Hy be} ed in five of of 0 $85 f votes of the athletic | Whlen were won rego at wit ribet h fought one ex M Tommy ‘ Einved t made by Wen- nder of the sprint events, and great | Markhain In the copper district of tt Tom Fy omag things are expected from him a | known as E T lost my first 2 prize for winning the four ml be smashed. In eens teavdiata wee Jian 1 Saturday night in the A. C, fact, two marks will probably be low- | AE are ete v Guth ers will r ment when Referees Bi n 3 thon prizes | ered, as ne will also be taken at NAY EEO OCTET) CUE Roaoh, the ‘Honest Bowery Boy ag games. Int ate Marathon prizes | ered, as the time will also the thampion of the Acorn A. A. | he Js called), gave a very bum deciston, | run in value from down, ai ad Brooklynmanduineldantalls The crowd present will bear witness of ted on t he race will also mark the Initiation | ' ly this fact, jal A. A. U. Other games prom n the ters advertise |@ cand idate for of Jack Eller, the champion hurdler, as | a }is the man Martin Sheridan says is the and Cloughan will have to fight out t the The following year, 1906, howev intercity champlonship. Any way you|I hooked James Edward into Snooze: look at {t the thirteen seconds of sprint | Ville, in eighteen rounds at Colma, Cal., eprinting honors, Eller the most valuable prizes ever off oH on Admission Day, winning the ‘white The A. A. U. has been marvellously | greatest athlete in the world. Ernie 's bound to provide more Interest and jightwelght champlonship of the world.’ quiet on this subject Hertberg, trainer of the Irish-American par pa Mke event of the! “Knocks Out the “Artful Dodger.” It would be Interesting to the general Athletic Club, and Sparrow Robertson, | oes a i tha ej 1 was feoling pretty good leaving g of athletic manager of the Forty-seventh | | with Keating, the Metropolitan chat (at fosaphy, Mow utter the fine trimming ul: Regiment, bell the peerless hurdier| Jack Eller, Champlon Hurdler. Bion at 100 and 22) yards, and Robert-| which I handed Clarence English, and n hold his own with any man in tha son driving the six or elght cracks to/{ rolled into Milwaukee several weeks Ce id Y ‘5 a tmtt spe 7 rand was matche to take on world at 12) 3, and they have In-} admirers will be on the firing line to) the Im of speed, there fs every proba- eeays Bimms, “The Artful Dodger,” us juced him to make the effort. All his! root for him. Mhility of an d's mark. T called him. I was not a full fledged lightweight, and wa, sting around 128 to 180 pounds. | Simms was In his THREE HIGHLANDERS SIGN 1909 CONTRACTS. | man Bef Willle Keeler, * hae signed the fon, American tein laa! fa, have oven» BY JOH beet me f 7 Abe Attell Will Fight “Jem Driscoll on f Feb. 18... ; Agrees to Take on E o~~ 4 D Hh lou BS Le ; Er of} v s ft . } i I Phitadely r t vey vs, "Unk" Russel x rou ; ‘ At West End A. ( adele} | Cha Harve George De ¥ Fite} lo complete gerald, Bix roun + | eonthaty cRthrvey | to this date, as 'FORTY-NINE RUNNERS IN MARATHON TO-NIGHT IN CLERMONT RINK, prime and was rated as the of all the boys fighting tn the Ci and Middle West States hooked up on tho night of Jan. 16, 1904, at the Milwaukee Athletic Club, ly stages of the me about IGHT the Marathor ng in Broo Avenue Rit ‘mont ateurs ig t Hatter a ph er Featherweight Champion ‘ ! Sei nebtier HI into, my” hide ali sh- | ad The ra @ few weeks pre- | ‘ ? f viously. I combed re Local his halr a few times In t rounie § came back hard N POLLOCK. fav enon! , ; ye h t ! & at me in the se = os rominent athletes ond op tt tee rf ‘ a } wig iresently stuff and 5 ’ and Bel-| busy, 1 turned the tables on hi ies erville, lore the close of the round and ham- w ¢ ara atch | ELOK 4 ‘ Harry | mered him all about the ring, forcing fi toe TeWitt, "Woodrut him to clinch on every. op In round three, ‘ the last, I knocked him nt The last time he was out Artie Simm: poor fellow with me at the train quarters on veral different lions and of ha ! course, he belng at that time one of : the cleverest as well us one of the : ; | mose popular In the country, figured angeme: f mes I surprised that he could outbox me. im, As the majority at. the i him i h ‘3 in i nost likely ag well as « ts anxlgus Wo | | | the gat, He | £2" lifty. He was a sple boxer, very fast on his feet ts work Ina short Was showy—much on the order of lie We the boy whom Ino er the greatest of shadow or “but- boxers. O'Neill would have prob- won the decision over me that night had he been content to have stood j off and boxed with me n 5 und, besides, § the tmosphe my alr- altitudes » TL leked Iphia later on. P Goes to Utah, With the scalps of Clarence English, under my belt I felt that I needed Utan on my w to the Bolden west, T lan was in need of @ arial ant WM nies In, mo ‘nnd URE Ree Hina tad sareneen Bact BLUE’: DREAM, Champion Lamy to Meet Local Skaters To-Night The best skaters in the United States and Canada wil in the Int to be held at ational champions e local rink. Saranac Lake skater tan off wi rs at teur cham ps at Montreal on Sat- usday, will compete to-night, and up a nst him will be Pht! Kearney and jon, the local cham the one-armed sk fo h in the aie and beat the Saranac arence Granger, and 0. B, Bt who pushed Lams event Saturday Lake man in the 22-yard race. Although the two local 1 he hard coursa with with whl ated as Para’ was evidenced Yn the dust on. Sat AMUSEMENTS, | HIPPODROME:. P H HIN w BAER Bird Pallet Le FA x y BvS ag, i) Eins Mt y, Mate 2 shar s + ay. Eva, 8.30, Mats, ii Se Sool tuliotis Moetoa MAUESTIC soca" STW Extra Matinee Lincoln's ay WEST £25.5.15. Mts Wed Fr sick and was un- ti I pene on the fr nd,| ‘ani 4 per. cent atl { is nil Beppe a fi The Spl er, us Ue as his name would tply, | END THE WOLF (\,¥) Extra Matinee Ln EMPIR a, Wed MAUDE ADAM CRITERION ©5232" WM. GILLETTE in | SAMSON Knickerbocker Mew isa combination LR ol] [ELS NS) JANIS “ao So Se THE THIRD DEGREE viewed, ; Finishes the Spider, In the sixteenth round I went to the steam turned on full to do or die, but try as i might, I ‘couldn't put the Spider to \the floor, I was sure enough beating |him to a pulp. In about the middle of the round, fearing I migit kill him, I re- fused to punish him any longer and appealed to the referee asking him to stop the fi At the sa: ne Wille fam Lynch, Chief of I jumped into the ring to stop the slaughter, and | to prevent What looked Ike the tion of one of the gamest ever put on a glove. IAke the gamester that Welsh is he| fought on as best he could, and when! Referee Willard Beam led him to his| corner he collapsed In his chalr as soon as he discovered he had lost the fight. The chief was just a little late to a rulna- | ard ters that complish hls purpose as has heen proved since, as Spider Welsh never fought a winning ff ough he made several attempts against inferior fighters, afterward Chapter XIV. of the Battling Nel- | as|son stories will appear tn ‘The Eye- aing World of Wednesday, ——>_—_ Hurley and Griffin Re-matched Battling 1 aml ( night. have been Johnny White to t a La Sonnambula (Mme. 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