The evening world. Newspaper, February 24, 1909, Page 12

Seecceneemn nist ARIA 385i THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1909, »} UP TO DATE i AND NEWSY | KELLY AND THOMAS. BOUT WILL BE ONE WORTH WATCHING Both Men Have Championship As- pirations, and Stanley Ketchel Is Only Man in Their Way at Present. when Joe Thomas and Hugo Kelly meet the Fairmont Thursday night. These are res ' class, Champion Ketohel {!s the only | man who has been able to take thelr | numbers, They have both made/| many good fights among the cham- pions and near-champions. Thomas and Kelly, nominally mid- dleweights, will be near the Iight heavyweight class this time. And unless all the aligns fail they'll put up | the best heavyweight argument seen | around this camp for some time. | Joe Thomas ‘s an interesting fel- tow. The Californian is a big, good natured fellow, always smiling and peeasant, but always. ready with a wallop when in the ring. He {s very G@ever in « smooth, easy way. For a long time on the Coast they thought Themas invincible, But he had the usual nearchampion’s luck. A better IP won't be any -rdinary occasion TINCT SAR AERP POET RR Sh Se NRL THE BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN WHEN THE NEAR-CHAMPIONS oil Loons AS UF THIS ON@ WOULD BE THE REAL TANGLE . | | Defeat Yale in Final Game of | Season and Hold Un- | broken Record. ‘Columbia Makes Clean Sweep in Basketball Yale started off last night as Uf they) | were going to break Columbia's record, and for the first ten minutes of play the lead. Then Columbia woke and scored goals jn such rapid # sion that at the end of the half the Score was 18 to 6 in their favor, The second half was slow, both team« «een. ing to to be third. q@an showed up and defeated him when he least expected a reverse. was Ketobel. However, as Ketchel hes done the same to all others, this @oean't argue against Thomas's ability Hugo Kelly is another classy fellow. He is an Italian. He ia clever, well built and able to hit. Kelly came here in good shape, and has just | been rounding to at Brown's Gymnesium. Thomas, for two solid months, has been working hard up in Stratford, at Capt. Bend’s. He bas taken off a lot of superfluous welght, and looks fit and fine The hard work he has gone through 1s guarantee enough of dis in- tentlons, Ob, yes, It'll be # scrap, IMMY JOHNSON ¢ about Driscoll. tells some stories The Uttle Bnglish wonder met Leach Cross at a lainmam bath after thelr fight Leach stood for a long time looking Driscoll over. “I thought I could beat you,” said Cross, “and you're such a little fellow that I can't see now why I didn’t do {t. I knew how to do It. “You knew how?’ asked Driscoll, puzzled. "Then why—" “Oh, 1 knew all right” broke tn Lea “Johnny Loftus told me. He said I wasn't to fight you too fast or too slow and I'd win "How were you to fight m asked Driscoll. L is head. “Well,” Johnny up, but Ww." RISCOLL told Jimmy after the D Attell fight that Abe was losing strength in the ninth and tenth rounds. He said that up to the ninth Abe was strong and fresh. Then he be- | came tired. In the ninth and tenth} rounds he came out strong and slowed | Up after a minute of fighting. Driscoll | sald that {n shoving around with Attell | he oould feel the tired periods coming ou and Abe slowing up. \ ‘Asked how the otler Mgbters he had | meet compared with Attell, Driscoll sald: | ike chalk and cheese, sir." Did Jem mean to intimate that Able; was the cheese? “yw: does Attell) wait unti] Dris- coll ts on the ocean for a two mouths’ trip to England and, then come out with euch a loud chal-| lenge?” asks Charlie Harvey. here, and Abe has fafled twice w Abe hasn't beaten Moran yet. doesn't he fight Moran now and take his| time waiting for Drisool!? Jem will fight | Rim when he comes vack, and this time | he won't have ten other fights scattered along through the few weeks b ore FO with Attell. He'll train e: 1 Fee ttelk and he'll win sure. [| asu’t shown half he knows about fight- ing yet.” HLAVE had a great number of letters | commending the article in this column that told why Marathon running and exoessive training are not good for boys, This is a subject that should attract | attention not only from outsiders, but! from A. A. U, officials. The right sort) of training ‘s the mnest thing in the! world for any mistake to encou overdoing and extent that they'll effects of it all T the Fourteenth Regiment § A Gate Marathon a large number of automobiles accompanied the run- ‘S and were drawn up ar t the finish of the nm Hurley and Griffin Ready for Battle at National A. C. OT tn a long time hav. N 60 many good bouts b foug! i ec there been t are a the azers have used excellent r ing up the fighters, and, as a re- fast n the To-morrow night Hugo Kelly will meet Joe Thomas at the Fairmont A. C, for ued; on Fri Battl! sm Mash with Charley Grimn for ten rounds at the National A. C.; on March 2 “Young Corbett" will tackle Johnny Marto at the Fatrn ) M Mickey Gannon and Johnny Thompson battle at tlonal AC; Ma. take on Patsey Fairmont A boxes Jaber Wh! stag. This in the fighting line. Huse Kerry. OF CHICAGO. GIANTS BEGIN HARD WORK IN TEXAS CAMP KEEN TO LAND THE 1909 PENNANT FLAG, ing around this village, each of whom comes as the one best bet of his native Twenty-Seven Men Report to Mc-| ee Many Recrults Are Sore. Thea only trouble just now Is that the Graw, Who Sets a Fast Pace begs Gr (red Cat cea in Training. from the rheumatic patients about the corridora of the cause a young fellow is on a stick or crutch In alking about this town does not necessarily mean that. he Is afflicted with the rheumatism, It an even money abot that he Js an In- BY BOZEMAN BULGER. MARLIN, Tex., Feb. 24—If the plans of McGraw Ga not awry, th With his face blistered by practice winds from the dome of his head to Pel or tip of his nose, the Httle manager of the Giants down working |‘! morning and night to whip a crowd of new reer {nto a fine baseball product. As an advisory committes behind) d him he has Wilbert Robinson, tue fa- | bee mous catcher of the Baltimore Orioles, [into the g and Ariie Latham, one of the greatest | This ti rd basemen and unquestionably the | certain, greatest man on the coaching Ine the | for th gan 3 ever seen, J elapse befo: With these facts before us, it ts uit nothwit to you fans of Gotham to dust off your Itwenty-seven ye BAT NELSON DREW RE CORD GATE and. when the afternoon yesterday th arms gate. eGraw a can as to nolse p to of the new in, silent as t, and on the | r left field On the next try in the fence, ever IN SIX SIX-ROUND GO WITH M’GOVERN : the ring battling Ike, demons, being apparently much wear Immedta 7 d nelther ii a the worre for Famous ae at Philadelphia Brought in $23,994, of Which the Champion Re- ceived One-Half. y after (uy, e area ‘fght, with arey's club, well of the match ‘The life, battles and career of Bat fon, the lightweight champion of the world, April is, Was going f | dally sp: I (Copyright, 1908, by Battling Nelson.) — road at BY BATTLING NELSON, ful cal- Francisco San ad been str CHAPTER XX, A, M., o was ‘fs, battles and career have Y ita, batt M certainly been strewn with many pitfalle and thorny paths, as these pages will tontity After almost @ year's haggting to se cure the second Britt match, which was fought at Colma, Ca, Sopt. 9, 1906, be: ‘en drawn, b, and Ia 1 when mak ewed aa I stepped oft the Frisco side y ting about ing blocked by the Pritts on various oc- ; al at Los Angeles @ castons, my manager, Billy Notan, came d had beon started, to which very near throwing a bombshell into 1 ns to Why T Waa @o slow tr A ey ae the match. Alenster, McCarey had the and get sald. Nelson-Herrera fight. postponed for « While the Britta and the club pro- aa v weeks, Which wes acceptable to moters were fighting of @ referee, no other and [I act in our cot from the ringside, 3 ver the sel than Billy Notan £9, two blocks ging and argu- following the boxing car. ompany with "Megaphone" d papers on the atreat Angelos and swelled ing regurding the pe go Nola 181 more. to receive for noting In the capactt hit was booked for the last waek Hi ils thing went lo my manager © for the welgh After a lot of sawing I compromiaed ra_party tampered with Nolan, agreeing to ¢ tm 25 king It impossible to per cent. of all my net wir no as to keep peace in the fam My victory over Bri me the champions qui fame and fort ed up by several theatrical agents hh gave ited for three 1 to I was ft r e shook with | Tw ear. T stepped on and in a sixteen weoks’ tour of the evervh ! 8 t officials and. stake country I recetved 821,400, or $1,237.00 a tring Hreetly In | € a well under walght week F ‘ ke n. Wet 1 ended that Herrera w It wae at the ond of this tour that 1 lee eha stating that he found It got a chance to fight Terry MoGovern, I 1 " eating ent att m tw pter XXT, of the Battling Vel- stories will be published tn 1 Evening World of Friday. legiate basketball champlons as by their defeat of Yale Tat night by @ score of 10 to 11 the Morning- tide five finished the season with @ clean | record of victories, Columbia has played | all the best teams in the Hast, and has nad an easy time with practically all of} their opponents. Coen can surely claim the oa | Known. If he does not get a regular jJob as catcher be may be kept as @ jutlity batter, | Schaefer Looks Good. \ hastar, th rf Coast, {8 another hem all take notice, ke a ‘Trojan atl the ttn | Many Horses Being Worked ? mR, STANLEY METCHELL (S WAITING Joe HOMAS IN BIS DAILY SWIMMING ‘LOCAL TRACKS BEGIN TO STIR. tg Daily at the Sheepshead Bay Course, * BY VINCENT TREANOR. LTHOUGH no authoritative an- A Nouncements on the future of local racing have been made, Preparations for the early spring meet- {ngs are under way at the Sheepshead, Gravesend and Belmont Park Every fine day sees the horses qu tracks. Gi there exercising under saddle | strongest nt now, 8 Bay as many as seventy-five hi i} nal infleller, | Pusear ena any Me ie : i being prepared for the early campalgns, Wagner jn covering ground and throw-|as many more are being put through in thelr jogging work at G send, while immons, who came in with the party from New’ York yesterday, !s another |out further on Long Island, at Belmont |strong candidate for an Infleld Job. He| Park, several strings are getting daily is another slugger Summons, te well | work. over .200 In the New Englan: ague, ‘. In the outfleld Devore and O'Hara are| Billy Hogan, one of the cleve strong rivals, but Heller and Coca are just as good, With all this arra of talent fighting for their Jobs, Har McCormick and Cy Seymour dropped in to-day, and can hardly walt to don thelr spangles and mix It up in the Practice game. Th afternoon Joe McGinnity came} tn with us on a visit to McGraw. He | UP will leave to-morrow he says all he | Media 5, Hogan iwanted was an unconditional. release, | the Genedian etreult tis ye !so that he could do as lie liked abo getting another job had a long talk, but jKept secret, The "Ir jelined to stick i ness and not enter jill go from here to Ne York, |, The following pier es have reported Joe and M the outcome was Man" ts 1 foundry: bus!- for work: Eten heré—Marquardt, Dur- ham, Waller, Crand 1, Hi es, Cooper Ri Raymond; catchers — Snodgrass, pot, Schlel, Meyer, Robinson. and Bresnahan; flelders — Merkle, Fletcher Schaefer, § ons and La- tham; outflelders—B, yers, Devore, eats ee McCormick Seymour, Dreyfuss Hands To New Owners' | delphia to-day when the control jof the Natlonal League Club of that | city will pass from A. B, Potter and his | as#oclates into the hands of three of the | best known politicians in the Quaker | City and Billy Murray, the ex-Jerse} City manager, who has been the bos! 136 the Phillies on playing fleld for he by the men form- tng ‘the Palndnipnia a jthe close of the season just past has | been bought up to be turned over to MoNIchol Durham, except the com- | paratively Sow owned by Mr. Shetteling and laa wh | Dreyt 1ppo! | neighborhood of $50, Receipt That Cures |) Weak Men---Free |s 68 » held by Manager | y took qver the | te You Can Have It Free and Be | Strong and Vigorous, | and Sa n gy, e Unna'ural drat Filiew of youth. that has cured Who wishes at Vitality” and. viel! MMtallty and virility qulekly | — puid Bo Vihar have praecrip. 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