The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1909, Page 7

} LATEST REPORTS AND TIMELY COMMENT THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1909, Ply: it NEWS OF ALL BRANCHES OF SPORT EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN WHEN THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP PASSED FROM TOMMY BURNS TO JACK JOHNSON AT SYDNEY Photographic reproduction of the greatest crowd that ever witnessed a pr COOVRIGHT, KERRY, (20F- BOY ChAMPIONS IN LIMELIGHT C ATHLETIC WOR HE local schoolhe who for the a have BURNS- WJOPAFS ON. ye 1G227 LN SVYONEY been a bit ds their fivals on the track and fleld jer other Cities, have made giant strides durir the present indoor sea: and at pres- ent an all-star track team picked fror the various schools of New York could euccessf ‘ope with the repre tives of any city in the land records have been broken tp to date @nd In some cases thi rks set would | Ge credit to the best college athletes One of th performers | Of the 188- season dric A. Major, | the seventeen-year-old distance runne 1 Majo: ef Boys’ High School fe only a youngster h | has @ string ot| fourteen vi 8 cred! exs| tending ¢ when hi won his to the re cent Barna ur where he took| first place in both the mile and half- Mile events, | \ A Good Three-Miler. At the American Scholastic Cross 1 Country Championships, held at Phila- ® @elphia last fall, Major took secon tl place, and the next week he mr PECULTARE SITUATION TIT 73% = 3\" home with the P. S.A. T. three-mile ehamplonship at Celtic also the P. §. A. L. champion for 1909 at the mile and half-mile, his time for the latter being 2.08. In the last Park. He ts Bronx Open Handicap Run : Will Hat Have Big Field at Start flagged for the guidance of the runners, yand an Invitation has been sent out to} One of the finest courses in the Metro* ai) the clubs in the Metropolitan Asso- polltan Association has been laid out for oration whose teams will take part in th the annua! open handicap cross-country /open run to go over the course next run of the Northwastern Athletic Club, Sunday afternoon and become acquaint: | n ., ed with It 8 to be held from the clubhouse |°" Sart from the big eld that has PRULA. \ * be afternoon of Washington's Birth. |ready entered and will start from the «\ Tiny snestste different handicaps, ae struggle be- : a tween the clubs of the Bronx for the OLEARY * ye | Tt will be compored of a large part Of | district supremacy will be witnessed. j real cross-country hill and dale work, |All the clubs In the borough have en- of ‘smooth | tered their ful teams, re ; i t @ men will start from the spacious Boing over tho roads of Westchester. | o1ubhouse of the Northweaterns, the Tit- Already the, games committee of the/fany mansion, and the Iimit men will | club has gone over It many times, and 1¢ fine, uP in tye. Towa aoroags the: track | measures just eix miles, a proper dis. | {1 the Brounds, so no crowding ree a tiing on the marks will tance for a run of its kind. It will be “trac! il be kept a the ot Sam McVey and Joe Jeanneite, in Baitle To-Night, ——— and will besides have a bit COURSE FOR BROOKLYN MARATHON GIVES GOOD ROAD FOR RUNNERS. ! The course for the great Brooklyn | Marathon which will be run on the afternoon of Washington's Birthday, | next Monday, was lald out yesterday An important fight between hoavy- welghts will be fought at the Cirque de Parls to-night. The pugilists who will clash are Joe Jeannette and Sam Mo- , the colored fighters of this coun- run in the armory and a mile and a half along Proapect Park West and on Flatbush avenue the entire route {s With the exception of the distance to be| @7E> tore WAITING FOR BURNS To BECOUNTED OUT -fight and some views of interesting moments in the batile between Jack Johnson end Tommy Burns at Sydney, on Des. try. Theyewill battle for twenty rounds at catch welghts for 66 per cent. of the gross receipts, of which the winner will CEDRIC A. MAYOR lgatraonerteant) seven races Major has entered ho hag|. The winner will be offered a bout with taken six first places and one second| Jack Johnson at the National Sporting lace, three miles being the distance | Club of London for twenty rounds. This over macadam roads, Twenty-four while tle first 8% yards and the last | two miles will be run on the drill shed floor, e thte As lald out the course !® from the armory In which he makes the best time. Fourteenth to Prospeot Ps Ww : ought to be one of the best battles| > peat Parke agaordlnary aby a Munner ot ¢x-(Setween big men that as been fought] the Park Plass, past the Soldiers and| @YEVERAL new entries havo, been re- y Paul ear Sailors’ Arc! ti i for tT r. O'Leary is a youngster of|!n France in a long time, as both men Saee Ar pe ee Park rayi wine S ceived for t wus 8 rateh ot grieen years and hag just at arted his| have class and are shifty, clever boxers. a tirsate, lecwialbaah "AvésEs to: ari at Commerce Hi ‘gh School's i career, a ¢ indoor cham- 7 r r : et, to be held at the Sevent fonships O'Leary broke” the “High | Jeannette Was offered $3000 for his end.| a4, to Ocean avenue to Parkside avenue, | meet t but declined it. Tecord for the 10-yard high hur- Regiment Armory which bid \to Ocean Boulevard to Surf avenue, to West aie by a, full ee ae dis- SS | Thirtytirst street, The return will be along | fair to make the | ; pera eA Eat n 183-5, but as he knocked over | Surf avenue to Ocean Boulevard, to Parkside SChoolboy affair of the year marks In Gs the hb and low hurdle * West to Fourteenth etreet and the armory, | rin as well as J, Glibbert, Mo. events, as his sprinting ability anc Fourteenth et and Eighth avenue. | : nasen, the Pastime t hurding are bo mm frm) Oswado, N.Y. Feb, 2.—John J.) aS Brose eee see ake kite Rei > Hayes, winner of the Olympic Marathon New Riverside Umpire. I eosklenieeay Gute Atapalhon | Special Ra for Tourney, race at London last summer, was beaten & ' ]__ Billy, 1aichman, the new umpire in the|Lorg, of Riverside Leng at Sle & Lankenau’ the Mohawk A ‘The Transportation Committee appointed to] here last night {n a ten-mile relay race jeeoure reduced rates from the railroads for|by W. N. Queal, of Alexandria Bay, (ses to gain @ reputation equal to au's | these runners, the following }ehe N. B.A. tournament In Madison Square] N, Y., and John L, Sullivan, of Mar- | o¢ “Tim'’ Hurst. Billy has already won | Mike Regan, of the Olympic {frlslon next May has teen successful in tte] cetlus, N. Y. ‘The winner's time was | wide popularity by hie good judgment In| tte eee sae Aeroue OU peeat aier nas been obtaind, in addi.|‘5 minutes 2 seconds Hoth of Hayes's clos dectstoas, and his honesty and knowl. | (Hamplons i. Obermeyer and sth fom ere be 9 ro 7H ach of the three | competitors set @ fast pace, which hel edse of the ten-pin game is unquestioned, | z ie uae fe th rotary fursey. fala Rad weable to follow owing’ to trouble she Harlem bowlers quete Bily #8 an au- |b tek Manual iy wi an tain at ‘over former conditions, with his stomach. thority oa bowling. the gemes of the Knights of St, Anthony, At the Columbia r da: this ¥ a ant tf 3 mee Oe icholaatie world ‘next eeune abil oklynites tay carnival Jrdham ryvesant guar an can ata usr b a can impror miles will be run outside of the armory Commerce High Hae Good Entry For Ten-Mile Indoor Marathon! entered & olastic emant five will enter a came ast Satur. | South, and they tivemen ‘ner within the next few days, le relay | winners in th ringtin matic mile Felay| winners in the springtime is one 26 last, BIPMOCTING BURN DISADVAN: TAGE 227 FREACH. — HIBERNATING FANS WAKEN UP AS GIANTS SPEED TO SOUTH McGraw and His Youngsters Veteran O'Toole | leer Will clint Good.or : Will Soon Be at Work Solves Problem Go Broke When Ball | | in Texas. of Long Names Gets Into Play. | Mike O'Toole, the veteran ball? with, He may not be @ fancy flelden ; BY BOZEMAN BULGER, player, who doesn't know any too ae he v certainly cack the ball If f 90 vriting and jathewson will arrive a few days OR the past few years fhe fan has mu h about spelling, writing and} inter than the others, aa he must finiah | followed the groundhog. ‘This year, | 3th!ngs like chat, got a Job not long bls Job of training the Harvard students. | however, the groundhog went back | 2489 on the police force of St. Louis. pefore he dons the spangles. cGraw ) in hia hole and the fan changed his Soon after Mike had reported a We consented to such an arrangement. ¢ veman was wanted to shoot a He never lias any worry over Matty, mind. He {s out now stretching his | } Po ited to however, for the big fellow te always mbs, dusting out his thorax and get- | }orse that had broken Its leg. Mike} perfect condition, ting ready for the blg show |) Was assigned to the job. O'Toole Taylor WII! Be Missed, A cure for the fan {8 tmposafble, so §!umped on a car and got off at Sixth? | The one man that will be missed mort the next best thing to do is to try and} Street. Walking down a block or so} than all will be Luther Taylor. He wil} *) : JN Bat 1 join the Buftalo club in a few days and! | make his exittence as comfortable ua | $e fein the crippled horse ana wiih for the first time in ten years will, Tot +} | may lay within our power. In some re- | }tWo shots destroy he animal, put-4 | he with the Giants on the training tri spects the genue fan Is like the mor- | $%ng !t out of Its misery, Vee years he has been the life of these f |phine flend—ne has to take his dope $ Mike got out his notebook and pro- | parties. | eed, he a AE ia) ded to put down the name of the$| fun maker teat he hee aTqouS fOr may | regularly, At firat a small dose yuMces | {cee D fun maker it he has undert t and he {s temporarily satisfed, but as | Qhorse, the owner, the cause of the} | engage Arile fatham to keep t | the disease grows he becomes worse and | faccident, the number of shots fired § | | oa ee rast ight basebal i | worse, and by the end of October he | {and then ho looked up to see the can take an amount of dope equal in Bares ot the street on which it oc- power to forty-eight grains, Just at | i curred. fikely to hear wand present we are giving him small doses. The street sign showed that the} | ing burstin “phenom or it may. These will be increased from time to | {accident had occurred on the corner ¢ |} bao amash, but {t will be 4 y time. | of Pestelozal and Kosclusko streets. } | no: so The Fan Is Waking Up. {$ Mike looked at this jumblo of let- pecs or | ters for a minute, His pencil$) | avees ST LIPREG ERSTE Na | wavered, He then put the book back | the ’ 0 | in his pocket, caught the horse by Bouth, and nothing tends to excite the| tg tait and dragged him to the next $| Brooklyn mate « good, move yasterds: fan more than tts ominous eound. But! } corner, they secured Cat ‘be patient, dear fan, for in another! marke of'% good eataher, put has month they will be burning up the grass @ real chance with @ in tha Polo Grounds and American a few trades that may tend to put the| | Meek Hayden, Recut der League Park with two-base shots, and | Highlanders up near the top. | hae Rearaiay: ay ‘ee Chicago Cube. returned to the world will be at peace—that un- McGraw le at Marlin. | tre at oft at ey Gay t! Cuitfornia, tl Chicago sticks her head above the| secraw is having the grounds at Mar- soak & Se [eres |\In put in major league shape, and by Gillett yest: ing Ul ‘Pho scribes who will administer to the | the time the boys arrive everything will ne whl toto eifest dpye,from the data MOT Ne Re vill ela Aina ternal and. wants of the fans are now on their way |), ready for some lively doings promise to pick @ win-| ‘phe first ten days at Marlin will be keep your eara to thi in few “aaye yo . ound, an SPORT BRIEFS, Dane, + + Ait poslrodms Inthe State PickiNg | spent in seeing what power Iles in the |the seven bouts, youngster do not explode before the sea-| pg sifting process will start within a |aix of the ¢ le woo In ‘mceton won the ¢ f our) new pitchers and the recrult inflelders | _columble i Say dave ni a while In the heav ise son {s ripe for action they will be won-| week, and those who show best will haves candidate, teen, Ca Columba | with Sanntvivania, the Tawa tice five most delightful sports, If that and thi8) wg tay claim to ¢ome great stunts. he Yale mat artiste at 3 work with the regular Yale by deta McGraw { already in Marlin ders. But, take'{t from me, they have, kept so as to wo wetnit some wis) are “Birds” on the Giants, crowd when G07 Chak iy Cae By Sixty-one compatit for the national sie are F 4 emplonaht. th # e urel tn addition to the regular old team on, 4¢ ert It seems to be unlikely | dour Wann, ten plone iD yanare were wit pie calnet which we have placal so much confle (tint ary of the oun eae Al be ble Gratgtr roe et Seventh Reciment Armory. , aud If the 5: te ‘i rye a At) eere ‘o the regular line up, a& This number establishes another rec ay nS his" Uppinent dence and coin in the paat there will be! to squeeze into the remiiar, lind tt, Og, Ae, i entry Year ago. Thode thirty bright young fellows with the bee the ‘up of ‘Tenney, Doyle, -Bridwell | ta eh od, K ane a Salle} of ambition buzzing In their reepective and Devlin. In the outfield it {a almost | on 7. and pave in Man. | " o efore these a8 hard. Out there they have Murray, fall to abpeur. stance fg |bonneta. It fag be moons before these | Bo our and Doniin Xie. saya that | — pratt only | fellows Ke helr pictures tn the papers, 7’ may not report at Marlin, but Me- »Cajyin Demarest woe, aa at 18.2 PCoarens, but they are always trying, and that | Graw, evidently, Is not worried, for he|{he TACeuierktt the afternoon be vulaaal confining | means that the old fellows will have to went away without making any further Y"p' "Matthews by a ers, ot #8 ‘agd > have | stle arrangements with his last year's cap: | qt fant he bested F Fr. Schedin, {3 38° b ustle. tain. DeVere and O'Hara are very | Western we reapectively ‘ mth ey prings, alling promising youngsters and it would not |10 508 and 1036-48 be at all surprising to sea them get an occasional chance in the outer garden, sits ara rey Bap Ao tgurnement. + but they will have to travel at fast | outer ard Fale Bist Ba | é to supersede the veterans, Besides ty " that, they have McCormick te ; 4 Tex., and ina few days Georg rd | will be in Haddock, Ga rge would be there now but for the fact that he has jowoayed over to Chicago to make yandicap poo clove