The evening world. Newspaper, February 27, 1909, Page 6

STORIES OF SPORTS TOLD BY EXPERTS SHORT ON BOXING, — LONG ON WALLOPS | AT THE NATIONAL nd Battling Hurley and Charlie Griffin Pound Each Other All Over the Ring for Ten Rounds, with Honors Even. 5; HERE wasn't much sclence in ° the Battling Hurley - Griffin n 2 e fight at the green satin- trimmed club last night. In fact there wasn't any at all. There wasn't any boxing In the ten rounds. But there was a world of fighting! | Neither of the scrappers figured out | anything new. There wasn't a single feint in the fight. There wasn't al sidestep in the fight. There wasn't | even one tricky stunt pulled off. It | two mechanical figures were wound | up and set face to faco and then} someone pulled the lever and started | their arms swinging they'd swing | and swing until the clockwork Tan | down. That's exactly the way Grif-| fin and Hurley fought—only ten rounds wasn't a long enough time to let the | clockwork run down. When it was all over both appeared able to go on at| the same pace indefinitely. When there isn’t any boxing skill to base a decision on and both fighters | Punch at the same pace with no apparent effect, and neither is weak or| tired or hurt, what can anyon, | SMAP oF THE FIGNT IN ANY OF THE 40 RouNps ST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK ys HURLEY THOUGHT, GRIFFIN: WAS A, GUIDES HE GRIFFIN GEFTING FROM PUNISHMENT - but a dray? Hurley d Griffin they didn’t > 7h utr JIMMY BRITT HAD CHANCE TO KNOCK ME OUT AT NELSO t sald, Nelson two fighters got together now and t throw aside thelr skill and slug, the crowd rises on its hind legs an. howls enthuslastically. That's exactly what ’ Griffin and Hurley did, only instead of ee and then they started at the first bell few changes, such as a master boxer of the Frank Erne type might introduce, | Weighing In Put Champion In would sult me better, but the crowd Uked it. The crowd began yelling in B ome eiayaat rotnarenal (oresehteyelanse ad and Decision Went Gidn't pplay any favorite, but whooped ed at half second intefvals from start to finish. | Like Two Game Roosters. When the first bell rang the two little ry and Battles of Battling Nelson, the Champion Laght-Well roosters flew at each other. Instantly mtaiboe) by) Battling Nelson) fists binged and banged. For three BY BATTLING NELSON, The Life $! rounds they didn't cut loose with the : i weight behind the wallops. Then, in . Chapter XXII the fourth, both went at it for keeps. HORTLY after my unsatisfactory affair with Joe Gans 1 They walloped and walloped and wal- take in abr . . that aitat Ned amuepananeseaiend| pudaned | a trip abroad, Can you beat that for a fellow They leaned together with their) before had been riding on the trucks of a tr. heads on each other's shoulders and] at 4 cheap res 5 eae we oa Raa thelr feet away back, and punched like | | cheap restaurant? But you never can tell. I rigged myself up in at two Jap wrestlers, and all the time| Swell layout of clothes and booked passage on the steamer Majes.ic they kept punching. Griffin, with his | Finally | set sai! Tuvan eeriatl Rav TEiTS shaved head as hard and shiny as a y 1 set sail from New York and arrived in Liverpool a W punching and butting. Being shorter,| I was met by a committee of Eng- went after the next best fighter he could get under Hurley's chin with|lish sports and escorted to London.) able. ‘ his forehead and shove hun off balance.| ‘There I put up at the Hotel Cecil. 1] Couldn't Get Gans to Sign. Whenever he did so Hurley flailed and| had a great time for a couple of days} 1 found flailed away at Griffin's back and kid-/and then accepted an engagement at| mee 7 neys. Griffin played most for the head,}one of the big music -halls at therefore Hurley for the body, castle on the Tyne, I showed In con-|tefore Buckley Got Punched, Junction with the Gans-Nelson pic-|on Ju They had thelr turns—even turns—at | tures and proved as big a drawing card »,\¥ momentary weakness, but each came| over there as I had in the United jimit, th: back immediately, fighting harder than | States. it before, They slugged so hard all the| I was tendered a time that Referee Buckley had to pull| Hon, Louis Zo! them apart at the bell. At the end of one round it took Buckley and all the seconds—Hurley had t and Griffin four—to separate them, and then both managed to get In a parting wallop! over Buckley's stioulders, Twice Buck- ley's face stopped a wild swing, and the little square-shouldered referee's eyes beamed with joy. He looked as if he would ik a hand In t pallyhoo him ‘The end of the fight found them both bard,at it, and sorry to quit. Answers to Queries, “0. ALR. ereise to "in T've notice), atural gift it Impossible to get a th the n at the ¢ 1 felt pretty good that Slept in the King's Suite. hester [ hit the wants te h sani sult Was ve set the extra steak of me. I felt good the steamship Lu evening of March 2 exactly the “y{bor of the great and only > land with a snep, ea | town ‘ | I was met at the docks by a throng 0 M. asks baik if aloft friends writers would a J. M. right-handed > 4m his lett do honers Hong with b el eWvalaioe Bat Went After £ get a Y beture we had xing thirty Deeeaananaanenmaal? O settee | Gossip cringe a athletes made a clean eee ‘ 4 p, Eller and Tose running four, bloc First—Don't Don't overeat. Dhyaical lador, two for any man’ in ‘0 improve your a eet 4 condition e slowly for! and | A big ef! {s being made t de! G. B hag, who careful not to fen Kole un art did not havea Cond . j the New Ii p week \1 : z Nasty Mortis Kane, No. $12 Tenth avenue s wants a wartner to run with hir ow s fi Bext six-day race, M anyone applies tc 21 W: stre mare were no mal f tea Heenan really nha craw to into the ring 19 ay from @ Knockout, and the ref de that as the fight was not finished it in traw Americans always In Mair decision. Duplicate | nigh : nm Heenan | twosntle race by a , not ald | Yale defeated Princeton *y Lede hits 5 vs stance, but made the tim , Rice Be could Sein Ht home Pilgrim, of ta New York he craw, I “ae ‘up hee Le ‘ow manager will the wip turning on the slugging switch now sec plumb in the pit of neh was followed w and héver varied the programme watt! Double Dose of Beefsteak After me the end of the bout. I’). admit that a seemed to realize my might di se fects of belng dist passed tl) by the round I a regular boxt: Is Rudolph was conte m one side of t with me In hot pt never stopped forcing the tried to be as Vicious as I gleefully at every punch, and they land- Against Him. knowing th > T bulled and 1 to the finish as best he could. ampton staller of the n t that he was set- Referee Charlle allowed to give a decis - after this I met Abe Attell | The |M | brawny man who shows little trace of | his age. | Sooner. general opinion of the crow eek later | for Millard ball, had an advantage in the| after a most delightful voyage. \clared Brit nas the last gong rang while T had t st in fighting ab ng Violently. | hardships. To-d Made Another Start, our pastime. Cam, matel and gave a very fair dectsion, ‘The last chnpter of Battling Nel- ('Svening World on Monday, THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1909, —— ., UP TO DATE, NEWSY AND WELL WRITTEN “TWAS BIFF BANG, SMASH AND WALLOP EVERY MINUTE OF THIS FIGHT. pia (a ho 7 ALL THE TIME» Moose, Bear and Caribou Still Abound in New Bruns- wick Wilds, In a OW would you like to 1 H country where the natives think | ing a big moose, | h spreading antlers, running about | no more of § in we do of a rabbit or a squirrel {r Up at the Sportsman's Show, which it the Garden last night, are three old hunters and guides who talk about mor black bears, cari- vou, deer, bob cats and lynz as we uss the election In Brook- opened ng details in hunting this big gan Not to them, They laugh- ngly tell you about having thelr log »s burglarized by big, black, ugly ars, Who sneak in when no one is about and eat up all thetr supplies. Adam Moore, Harry Allen and Ar- thur Pringle are the three guides who fs year have charge of the New swick exhibit at the Sportsman's sh They say they are here to in- terest American sportsmen In the hunting facilities of their Canadian province. These men make their lv- ing hunting and guiding non-residents who go into thelr country after game E in the open season, from Sept. 15 to | Of! Nov, 80. Exton was not| n under the| Hunting Methods Changed. “Hunting has changed considerably in the last decade or so,” said Adam e, the oldest of the guides, a big, “Years ago a man underwent many “There 1s more to shoot at now, too The moose are plentiful, and al- CAMERA INTERVIEWS BOWKER, ND WICKS, WORLDS BEAUTY English ae Thinks | in New York Could Make Attell Step Some. st here on a Ja the reader can fight here If I con't care who I p to hook up with I think I could make him step protested Joe, “I don't count e out in seven- ast minute took sick, 1 Club T had to fought him a ra ler, let us in- icks {8 in a class “Doc” Scanion Signs Contract With Brooklyn t of the game a contract tc | twirt for the held out for the long |areen, but es Pres | him a new offer last ately signed the papers, Seanion will sail fo: Jacksonville on bbets jr. Tho | Se out Tom Daly, Pitcher George Hunt John Hummel, 1 Baseman Lennox and Second Baseman Pattee, ‘Tim Jordan has, wot signed his| (he etusagest secck: Aiken contract, but Iw ex pected to do so be- fore the steamer sails. . word—so much cockne: ft takes a cam lor’ bless us, ra to get a line on him. » handsomer since, last Ing his last visit he sht a six-round beauty contest with Kid Broad. Alfie won. Here is Alfie: AL.WICKS. it will be noticed that Alfie the stump of an oak. “Sting. Hela et! now. Ht Bing | Bing? Bina $ Z la ecg 2\.p.2- Wen GrirFin's ede oe HAYMAER LANDED = i E FROM THE WILDS’ =: TELL THRILLERS ON BIG GAME ning up the trees tn Central Park? | y hunting {8 a luxurl- | are well fitted out | #@ | with up-to-date utensils, and spring j beds have taken the place of the blan- ket-covered ground or cot. most anybody can get one ff he fs je. Not too paricular as to the spread of of ‘her the antlers, The comparatively mild any kind for r New Swedish Star | Svanberg Has Made Enviable Record in Distance Events in His Own Country. BY VINCENT TREANOR. OHN F, SVANBH. Tunner who arrived In Now York | to challenge the Marathon cracks, {s the most remarkable athlete in the world, He trains on sweets—that {s, he does not diet at all. An hour before the Olympte Marathon !n London Svanberg sat down to a plum pudding spread. He started the race on a full stomach and in spite of an In- fured leg Gnished eighth. But John has cut it out, His manager and trainer, Erne Hjertberg, has him at work al-/ ready on @ plain American training diet, Hjertberg wants to match the Swede against anybody in this country just now for a race of from fifteen miles Last night Hjertberg sent a tele- | j gram to Buffalo challenging the win- = 08. Athens he ran second to the great ner of the Shrubb-Dorando rac flawtrey, of England, and followed this f looks Svanberg is @ runner all] with a ond to Sherring in. the i if ! ] | i e same size as} Maretho Hole nabou tb Svan g's best performance was Shrubb, the English wonder, but a lit-/ BYA0INS | akc November, Ue heavier. He has a good, sturdy palr) won a five-mile race in 24m. 31 2-58, of legs and a body that looks built for | Owing to technicalities this time was endurance. In athletics, however, looks are very often deceiving. A man may KLINE STOPS MOORE. { be built to run Iike a deer and more often he can't go fast enough to keep and when {t comes to records this| Reddy Moore, of Philadeiphia, ore chap Svanberg Is the goods. eee ee amnicltnd ‘Asan amateur he was the best ever} from the first tap of the ty developed in Northern Europe. He] right and left to the face 4 fan at the Olympic meet at London| until Moore was compelled to succ auamer and wee second to Yolent, and, in the five-mile, He was Go Aa YOU the'big fleld in the Marathon {INTERNATIONAL 6 DAY $PsA'se Stace, He was regarded as A dark horse. He seo ad had run the course five days before the race right to the Stadium games in two hours and only necessary to repeat this per- formance to win the world’s tamous event, but on the day of the contest he was attacked by cramps and finished eighth. jer the meet at Sheppherd’s Bush Svanberg met all the American stars th Joe nus Ing iter. Notre hitar janint itv REMINDED -US, OF THIS s+. \ wi | ' Don’t Have to Go to Africa to has | Bring Down the Big | Fellows winters have made,the average in | moose better than ever. The weather strangely affecta the growth of their [horns, Good weather means a fine | horn product Moose Are Plentiful, “The abundance of moose now {s due | to the law prohit the killing of any but bull mo nd these caa't be | shot at until they have two or more points on each horn. Then they are jabout two years old, “A moose will never fight or tree any body, despite the fact that they are wild. Sometimes they don't appear even r wild, but rather stupid, They fear @ , man a “The favorite method of the ordinary hunter ts to hunt the moose in canoes. They come to the water for drink, or are jattracted by the call of the female, re- “P| produced in up-to-date fashion by @ birch bark norn, Deer and caribou are killed the same way, “There ts a lot of fun tn bear hunting, or in stalking the bear, as it ts called, It's great to get them out on @ blueberry pete eating, and steal up on them. The | bear is naturally quick of scent and can ‘hear the faintest sound. You, therefore, can't be too alert for them.”” Bear a Cowardly Animal. Mr. Moore says there {# nothing in @ |bear to fear. hey are cowardly, and cent of a man fills them with terro ete {8 no closed season in bear ting,” he continued, "They can be |fired at any time, We kill them simply ¥ to protect our camps and provisions. ‘The best time to get them is in May and June and thro’ september. \" Phe bear usually goes Into dén when there 1s little left to eat in the forest, and, strange to say, lives on nothing un- | he comes out In the spring. The | young are n birtn to about Febru. ile feeding them literally t any sustenance of ths. “> Trains on Pudding —_—_— Here Are Some of Svanberg’s Records. 1,500 metres, which ts twenty yards less than a mile, In 4 minutes 11 sec~ onds. 5,000 metres (three miles 138 yards), minutes 13'4 seconds. 10,000 metres miles 376 yards), 31 minutes 39 seconds. 2,40 metres (twelve miies yards), 1 hour 6 minutes 12 seconds, 29,000 metres (elghteen miles thire ty-four yards), 1 hour 9 minutes 142-5 seconds. 26,000 metres (twenty-two miles 6 yards), 2 hours 15 minutes 5+ sec- onds. Resides these Svanberg has rec- ords of a mile in 4 minu ot ne onds, four miles in 19 minntes 50 2 seconds, five miles in 2) minutes % seconds and ten miles In 51 minutes 6S seconds. ! RG, the Swedish he not allowed himself warm. Thus it is that records] BALTIMORE, Md., Feb. %7.—Patsy and performances are all that count,| Kline, of Newark, decisively defeated i in the ‘ e Kus ’ s the aggressor 1 and used nd st ic bet third round Inst nigh: amusement ads, For particula thirty-two minutes. It was