The evening world. Newspaper, December 17, 1910, Page 8

APRA NET RPE A D.C i EAN NN AREA. ATRL wezome,s| BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK - NOBODY WILL BOX POWELL HERE, SO | HELL RETURN HOME Californian Quit Frisco, Where He Was Making Big Money, to Come to New York, and, Although . He Made Good, Can’t Get Matches. ————————eeEESEaEPa9R2PEEEOEOoOoOOOON POWELL TO RETURN ' TO CALIFORNIA ABE ATTELL BETWEEN TWO FIRES | i PN ID you ever hear the bitter wai! of a manager who can’t keep his staff busy? I met Charile Harvey a couple of nights ago. Oharles had a face a yard long. “What's the matter?” says I . Fairnn int. | Annan CSN yan "Geel But THIS 1s A Lonesone Town!” “Worrted to death,” says Charite. “Christmas is near—cheer up,” @ays I. “Nix om the Obristmas cheer,” says! Charles. “I'm losing one of the best Httle fighters on the map.” “Who? Why? When?” “Powell,” says Charlie mourntally.| “Powell is going back to Calffornin It's @ shame, but they're all afraid! to box him. Here I saw Powell out in California, where he was cleaning up four or five hundred a week box- ing four-round bouts, and I talked New York to him and got him to] come along to the big town with me. He makes good—too good! He shows ‘Champi ion Mile Walker — that he’s a real fighter and mot a piece of cheese, and what's the result? 4 Show His Prowess ‘Nobody'll go near him any more. Knockout Brown and Tommy Murphy | wouldn't box him for a farm. Goodman runs for his life every time he| y NoT A WoRD cvT OF JOHNSON FOR 2 DAYS “* Jac MUST HAVE A DINOLATED JAW, Winged Foot Hockey Team Shows Great Speed on Ice Baseeaur meetines Able oven oo hears Powell's name. California where they have some live out there when he came East, and this last Young just $116. Rotten, huh?” Lew Powell also has a few remarks to make. "I wolghed 181 pounds when I fought Otto the first time, and half « pound more the second,” he says. “Goodinan would weigh 138 at catch ts. Goodman promised to sign up with me right away if I beat Otto, He and Sammy Kelly sat at the ring side and watched me fight, and in a few rounds they changed their minds about it, They rushed out and made an tmagi- nary mateh with Burns instead.” ci I who handles the smatiest boxer in New York, Young Goldman, who stands 4 feet 11 inches und weighs U8 pounds. “This is terrible, “What's terrible? “The boxing business. Look at this kid here—oan he fight? Say, you ought to see him! He gives weight to all of ‘em and knocks 'em cold. When hi fought Dougherty'’s Goldman he gave him such a licking that Dougherty said he'd never match another boy with him. ‘You're too tough for any of ‘em,’ says Dougherty. He goes and knooks out Young Britt of Baltimore in two rounds. He fights Phillie MoGovern three times, He fights Young Wagner and puts him down for nine seconds—firet time he's ever knocked down. He deate Tommy Carey and Kid Ghetto and Edéle Gard- ner, and mixes with Willie Beecher, and then he knocks out Dave Dillon In four SS eC ee to put up a a! y Carel ‘of ‘Tom y Houck or Phil Mc- * put in Goldman,” T can fight, Rot what I represent myself be ‘willing to lose the money.” Carey has sent me @ ticket “benefit” at the Long Acre on the bist. A ling on the card explains along comes Eddie Maas, says Maas. They're all scared, and he says he's going back to} TT sroens anoth.r faker wandering had just returned from Australia, and he| ones. wd He turned down a $900 offer | Otto Aight netted bim|George Goulding to Appear that Carey “broke his arm while train-| in Two-Mile Handicap at ing Willie Lew Tough on Tommy Irish-American Games. Carey-but please, Tommy, when did Willie Lewis train? | Haven't heard a word out of Jack! Johnson for two days. Jack must have lockjaw, THLETIC enthuslasts have deen A looking forward to the time when "Oi | they would be given a chance to {®ee George Goulding, the champton | walker, In action, and they will be given the opportunity when he appears in a around, Yesterda; the office boy came in and announced that Ru- dolp Unholz was waiting without, “Rudie" had explained that he wanted to seo some one mighty badly, for he | the Irish<American A. C, in the Garden jon Fob. 4. Hing did a great deal of record breaking in Canada before he broke the world’s record for the mile walk. When BE. J. Webb, the Englishman, who is holder of @ number of world's records, had a tale of woe that he must deliver to the press. Iudie had had a tough time | in Australia, In his last fight he got | ® broken jaw, and then Jimmie Britt | | and other heartiess scoundrels trimmed | heard of Goulding he Jumped over for a him of all his money, He was “broke | Ak Gilat ween howe enced 40 7 6 Lan at the newcomer, Gouldipg had meal. Knowing that the real Rudie Unhols} fought in Australia only three or four weeks ago, while {t is a six-weeks' trip from Sydney to New York, I went out to sce “Unhols with some curiosity. He rose and extended the glad hand, “Hello, Bob," said he, effusively. back agatn. “Who ere yout I asked, “What!” he exclaimed.“ remember Rudolph Unhols?" “You aren't Unholr.”’ “Bure 1 am," insisted the viaitor. Rudie Unholz, When I got {seconds for the mile, and the Britither loouldn't realize it was possible, but when the two met in a match race a couple of weeks ago Goulding defeated the great Ei walker with ease. Sam Liebgold and Tim Carroll will be pitted against Goulding at the L.-A. A. C's games, Sam is getting old at the game, and it is noticewle that he 1s not as spry ab he was 4 few seasons ago. Carroll was only a yard behind the Pa timer in the three-mile indoor chame plonships, and he ts coming along at a great pace. Both men will recelve falr handicaps over Goulding, and the race is eure to be one of the best exhibitions of walking ever held here. “rm my jaw broken it changed me a lot, yes. Lots of people don't know me now, but I'm Rudolph Unholz.” ‘As “Rudie's” halr had changed from dead diack to ligne yellow, and his eyes from black to ight brown, I suggested that {t must have been an awful punch, And he tried to make a touch anyway. Can you beat it?" With Jim Rosenberger running in hig present form the Thirteenth Reg!-| ment's athletic team expects to gather in a’ Dunch of pofnts during the re- mainder of the indoor season. In eet, JACK GOODMAN TO MEET ATTELL AT N NATIONAL CLUB NEXT WEEK West Sider Will Hav Will Have to Fight His Hardest to Make a | Good Showing. | BY JOHN POLLOCK. | GOODMAN, the clever light- weight of the west site, has been matched to meet Abe Attell in a ten-round bout at tho next #tag of the| National Sporting Club Friday night. | Immediately after the bout between! Goodman and Kid Burns had been de- clared off last night, Tom O'Rourke hunted up Sammy Kelly, manager of Goodman, and made him an offer to matoh Jack against Attell. Aw was willing, the bout was quickly ranged. Goodman will have to fight harder than he has ever done before in order to make a good showing with Abe. A match was consummated to-day be. tween Tommy Murphy and Knockout Bro They will come together fen-round bout at the Empire A. ©. of Harlem on the night of Jan. 6. This will be the second time they have fought. ia his chances. Kelly in al weight who has made a big impression \with the Nght fans of Baltimore as a result of his good fighting, will meet Dick Nelson of Brooklyn in a fifteen: round bout at the Armory A, A. of Baltimore on Monday evening, Dec, 2. ‘They fought a great ten-round battle at Rockaway last summer and ought to repoat that contest. BOXING STAGS TO-NIGHT. At Sharkey A. Key A. Cy ten four- round bouts between amateurs will be put on. At Long Acre A. C., six bouts between fairly good boxers will de staged, At National A. C., Brooklyn, Joe Hollis will meet Charley Reynolds in the main bout of six Sam Langford is not going over to England to fight until the socond week rounds. K, O, Smith will box in February. When Joe Woodman, Murty Allen in the semi-final. manager of Langford, heard that ‘Tommy Burns, the ex-heavyweight champion, had been injured in a rail- roud wreck at Seattle he tmmediatels changed his mind about taking Lang: ford to England on Jan, 7 and will not start until a month later. the clever English fighter, at Cardiff, Wales, on Tuesday night. In @ letter to a friend here Driscoll says he !s| in fine trim and Is sure of getting tha | decision, His manager will bet $,00| ‘The proposed twelve-round bout be tween Sam Langford and Joe Jeannette Tommy Quill, the sturdy wetters!at the Armory A. A. of Boston Mas fal welght of Brockton, Mass, has just|ien through, Jeannette ts still suffar- 1 articles of agreement to meet| ing from @ heavy cold and his manager Bob Moha, the crack Milwaukee fighter,| has notified Matohmaker Pierce of the for ten rounds at a show to be helt in| Armory A. A. that tho snatch Is off for | Miwaukee on Monday, De Quill | good. “Jeannette amd his will surely give Moha a hard fight as| Meck ‘ick, will sail for Pa {Ge Is game and keeps fighting all the | Joe has four bouts, on Jan. 3% | time, Moha also fights “Dixie Kid" ten ot unde at Buffalo on Jan. 8 Joe Coster, the Brooklyn bantam: pahsa weight, and Jimmy Walsh of Boston Jack Dorman and Johnny Marto, the) Will box @ ten-round bout at the stag of sive lightwelghts, who pattle for} the Marat A. C. of Brooklyn on 10 unds at the O: It ought to be one’ of yin A. Here on February 4 + | handicap two-mile event at the games of | ablished @ record of 6 minutes, 251-6 | As Brown had the better of thelr pre-| Ha:iem on Monday night, are and fastest contests be | “phe local collegians have been work- vious go, it 8 certain that Murphy will] indust ‘ously for the bout. Marto is|tWeen little fellows ever witnessed in |ing hard under Coach Mellitzer's di- use every blow he knows to turn the} anxious to get back in the limelight | ‘at burg, as Coster 1s improving tn his | yection and are now in fine trim. When tables. ag id a8 A Victory over Dorman | "&hting, while Walsh is @ great ring | they defeated the Tiger five last we Will enable him to get on some good | 8eneral and a fast Aghter they displayed commendable form, and | ‘The twenty-round fight between Bill! pouts de t ig 00 feat as fhe! To In the last few days have materially Lang, champion of Australia, und Jack|can to beat Dorma iM GOORTY DEFEATS DILLON | improved tn thelr passing and tate Burns, the heavyweight of California, - sive game, | will tak e. 0 x Disk Xen and rising IN HOT TEN-ROUND BOUT, ¥e Esatth, who was out of the| in Lendon on Mond which is} the loeal fi; er, will b game last week on account of illnesa, Boxing Day in England, Hugh Me-| in the windup at Special to The Evening World.) WUl figure in the Jin he, Intosh, who Is bringing off the cotest, | 0 0 A. C. of Brooklyn on Ty DU LAC, Wis, De Fe nadie}, The Yate team is clever and fest and has made arragements to accommodate| day night. They will clash tn & ten=| sreGoorty of Oshkosh : has a tower of strength in Capt. Fine 4000 ppectators. Both men are in strict} round bout at catchweights, ‘Phis is) SOOTY ef Oshkosh won a clea lnessy, who made the all-Kastern team training for the battle, one fight in which Kennedy. will have, Victory over Jack Dillon of Indianapolla, | \agt year. They can be counted upon to go some, for Nelson ts ane of those ) advantage in eight of the| to mate N. ¥. to win, @atior Burke has not quit the ring, and@| boring tn fellows who never stops nds fous The Oshkosh boy furthermo:e Tom O'Rourke {s still his| swinging away with both hands | 1 the tigh from the start and manager. Tom has just olinched match for the ex-tar with Jim Savage, the New Jersey middleweight, who can heavyweights of and Jewey smith, | nis rival bleeding before the first Coach Lawson Robertson ¢iaims that he has a squad of men who'll again ‘be able to win the M. A. I. cham- pionship. They will have the sérvices of Billy Kramer, the five mile national cham- pion, and Billy's going in fine shape. Jim Sullivan, who ts the present holder of the three mile Canadian champion- ship, 4s the latest addition to the Thir- teenth's team and, judging by the way | he was running during the first of last summer, he will be able to show his jheels to a lot of the good ones before the winter ts over. Bert Dewar and Hugh Hirshon will be quarter-milers on the second string, while Walter Raleigh and Franklin | Fisher will attend to the bike riding. George Bonh; 8 taken up light ex- ercises ard will start training after the firat of the coming year. Le is billed to j meet his clubmates, Tom Collins and {Jack Monument, In a scratch two-mile run at the indoor meet of the L-A. A. C. | on Feb, 4 | Joe Hardmeyer, the overworked cap- tain of the Thirteenth’s track team, has sone into training at the armory. He expects to be a member of the Flatbush | A. C's relay team later on in the sea- son, ‘The compantes of the Fourteenth Resi- ment are going to put forth their bost efforts to win the point trophy. Mik | Spring ts trotning the athletes, and it is ~— that he has improved many of therm, Jake Frank, who has asked for his re- lease from the Mohawk A. says that he does not intend joining the I.-A. A. C., but that he intends putting the shot | for a little club up in the Bronx, “T'a Uke to Join the indoor yacht club these days," says Mike Ryan, the Mara- thoner, “It's too cold for comfort down on the pler where I work." Hans Holmer sails for the other side to-night, He is in grand condition for the big “pro” Marathon tn Scotland on New Year's Day, and several of his friends are sending over money to be placed on him to win the famous Pow- der Hall race. ‘The Xavier A. A. has set the evening of Jan, 7 for {ts indoor meet, and it will be held at the Twenty-second Regiment. | With tho exception of a 70-yard dash and a 44-yard run for novices, the events will all be handicap affairs, Johnny Hayes ra that he will give up the running game within a short time and take to commercial purautts. ‘The Columbia second basketball team, consisting of Mullin, Saunders, Rohn, Fairbairn and shfbley, will travel to Jersey City to-night, where they will meet the High School team in an ex- hibition game, Strong Old Eli Five Plays N. Y.U. F 1 Be wim ermer, WERE ToTHER DEAR CHARMER away « Battle Ground London ik ate Paris Promoters Offer Rich Inducemenis to Americans. OR years America has been looked upon wherever boxing thas been in Vogue as the home of world's champtons and the battle-ground where championship contests were fought. While the game ds as popular here as ever, a change seems to be coming, Americans may retain the titles, but they will probably have to do battle for their titles In foreign lands. ‘Hugh D. McIntosh, the Australian promoter, has opened and successfully promoted a club in London, He created new fnterest in the manly art throughout England by announcing that he would hold a tournament with the {dea of discovering @ “white man's hope.” He developed an English boxer named Bombardier Wells,, who, how. ever, seems to ‘be @ failure, So Mo- Intosh now has shifted his plans. He banked on Tommy Burns, figuring he Wag food enough to whip elther Lang- stack him against Johnson in a battle for the title, Now word comes direct from MelIntosh that Tommy Burns ha! quit the ring for all time, so MoIntosh | la looking elsewhere for material and | is negotiating with Joe Woodman for Langford and Dan McKetrick tor Jean- nette. McInt6sh wants Jeannette and Lang- ford to fight twenty-five rounds, the winner to meet Johnson, He says that he can get Johnson to meet the win- ner, In his letter, in which he tells of Burns's retirement from the game, he adds that he hopes Jeannette and Langford will battle to a finish, and ventures to predict that Jeannette will win over the royte, as he saw them fight several months ago in Bos- ton. He saya that he will have Billy Papke, Jimmy Clabby and Ray Bron- son in London the first week in Feb- rvary, and will be ready to sign them against any men of their weight in the world. Cornell to Make Bow in Swimming Here To-Night New York University meets Yale to- night at the University Heights gyms nasium in thelr second contest of the year, Next to the Columbia game this is the Violet five's moat important con-| test ‘Special to The Bvening World.) PHILADELPHI A had @ shade on Dec, 11.—For four Meet To-Night The Columbia swimming team opens Its season to-night when they meet Cor- nell at the Morningside tank. New Interest has been aroused at Columbia in swimming, and the Blue and White team will be measurably} stronger than last year's aggregation, \"'This will be C the ewhnining we s they have never partickpated in this sport before. Especial interest ls connected with this meet, as this will be the first try out for the reconstructed poo! Following are the men entered for Columbia; 10-yard swim, F. Culman, \G. Deffaa ard swith, J. Pulleyn, G. vIn Dinkelsptel; 20-yard swim, E, H, Sutliff, S$, Rogow; plunge for distance, W. F. Peters, M. Barker, H. Kottech; fancy diving, R. C. Patterson, 8. Rogo Id... + FERNS AND LAWRENCE WILL MEET NEXT WEEK. ‘The Sylvan A. C. of Harlem fon the best bout it has yet at Wednesday night, when Harry Ferns and Charley Lawrence clash in the main event of ten rounds. This pair | met some time ago at the now defunct Lehigh A. C. and put up ihe best box- ‘ ne way until Johnny Kra ie ai a und bout ar} Att fray one Way until tha) PROF Moody in thelr six-round bout, coming too fast at him, Burke and) can | . Dition came in strong and} Wille iy ; fry bier Savage will box the main event of ten} > Hague on | "8 Y Worried throughout the{ but in the last two sessions Moody too! ruunds at the Olympic A. Cowf Newark | points, Hague had the of the ,Beriod. The sixth round saw MeGoorty | # dec! nde jeag ano ae yaya jh bee | cots parol sealed Ei ar wirarrotarredlt herrea td bees Uy fae. She orst GF the Bundle Li was knocked out, and wa 3 ) st fi gat got th t x Y % he fell his head struct the floor, ren: seg al eee eee Te ene ee a the racdict, en Et the) the sist ended. Tn the seventh, how | dering him aneansewus Ad the Beaeital ion ever, MeGoorty cut loose and Dillon) he was reported In @ critical condition RP Bnd ed stand the] from conouasion of the brain, Johnny Johnny Dohan, the Brooklyn weiter+ ACO the Oshkosh boy was kotting, [ate his opponent, was arrested, ing exhibition seen at that club. Ever |since then they have been trying to in- ee some club to put them on, but ere unsuccessful untll Manager Baker ‘of the Sylvan A. C. agr to stage the contest {don with McIntosh, will in all probabil- ford or Jeannette. Then he planned to) for Titles However, McIntosh will not have the heavyweight fleld or any of the other class without a fight, for France is tn the running and intends to get the matches they want at any cost. That they have gone ahead some is evidenced by their {dea of holding a congress in March to decide upon rules and wetghts for boxers in all competitions. Victor Breyer, who made boxing pop- ular in France and who by the way hus the biggest club in that country, has offered Langford and Jeannette $10,000 for @ finish fight and offered Johnson $20,000 for his end to meet the winner. Al Lippe, who has Harry Lewis signed with the Wagram Club of Paris, has offered a stmilar purse for Lang- ford and Jeannette and goes Breyer one better ‘by offering Johnson $35,000 to) meet the winner and Johnson has de- | clared he will accept when the money is posted here. Lippe also wants Harry Lewis and Willle Lewia to meet in a finish contest at 147 pounds, which te| the champlonship weight for welters in | Europe and McIntosh saya he will put the winner of that fight on with Papke. | BI Lang, who is at present in Lon’ ity meet Sam McVea at Luna Park Club on Dec. 4, the winner of which will be stacked st either Langford or Jeannette if this pair agree to go over and fight it out later on, in Training tor Battle —_———— Fight for Trophy This Year Promises to Be Hotter Than Ever Before. 66 E are going to show more | W speed this season than we _ Shits to Foreign Soil) did last year, and that ts ging some," remarked Acting Captain Castleman of the New York A. C.'s crack hockey team as he watched his squad work out 6n the ice at St. Nicho- las Rink, Last year's Winged Foot team was considered a remarkably fast one, and Castleman's remark caused some sur- Prise. Close observation, however, re- vealed the fact that every man on the team is going at a fast clip; that they are brim full of the fighting spirt neces- sary to form a winning team. And talk about speed! Sherritt wan hardly a! fraction faster than is the new man picked to hold down the position left vacant when the great centre left the New York A, C. and returned to the Crescents, With the Brooklyniten| Tie New York A. C. hockey squad hag five strengthened and the Winged Footers | 0 Vaving with it) They are ‘Mills, faster than ever there's going to be | 4 great fight between the two for the], a ie, aes ot Cee says ht te oat & trophy. MiP ale mes have flunked tn iel a Ray Mallen is the new man who Is! hare been compelled to give up y showing grand form at Sherrift's old! position, Mallen is « short, strong fel- | low, Who has the knack playing hand | in hand with Castleman. Their team- work 1s @ revelation, “Eventually Mal- jen will be @ better man on the team than was Sherriff,” says the team’s couch, and Castleman fully agrees with | the gentioman, fallen comes from Canada, and th 1s gimost a sure guarantes that “ne knows hockey. He played on the team that won the Intermediate championship last year and was a star at centre. Another corking find for the New York A. C. team is “Bob” Magor, who also hails from Canadian soll. Magor is one of the largest men playing the game of hockey. He ts fully six feet tall, weighs about 19 pounds and ts a powerfully de- veloped man. Playing on the defensive, there is hardly a play thet he cannot break up. He plunges through the Mne of defense like a huge grigsiy bear~ Magor has done a lot of rowing and |» considered one of the best Canada has produced durini few years. At hockey he played the Victorias of Montreal. White, Broadfoot and Magor are fight- ing {t out for pasitions at point and cover point. It would be hard three more capable players, and the two positions mentioned are going to de bet- ter taken care of than ever. Although a captain of the New York A. C.'s hockey team has not yet been elected, it is a certainty that Castleman will hold down the position this seagon. | He is strengthening every man on the team, and when nds that Mallen | will work to order not try to be the whole slow there's going to be some neat offensive work done on the part of |the Winged Foot aggregation. ‘ j practice. Stevons and Hepbura are the reinalps! rs who have peen ruled Volt or the athletic commitice st Coltan ‘men came di but it iy Maled thot they. San a jon a full year before they can {ph its, tg , Winaed Rosters lncreased hin sped to « find’ is mow ‘considered ooe ef the the agitad ne Ao the champioualin, eacies he holag Winky Jan, Hockey Club ot New tea Las been ' rs He he Hast 1 be eu York andthe ny ae. IF ATHLETE HAS SPEED HE'S SURE — TO BI BE SUCCESSFUL, SAYS WEFERS New ve A. C. Trainer Says were & bunch of hatracks in the ry Ball Players Don’t Know How to Run. required in every line of ath- letic sports. Give a man speed, be he baseball player or runner, foot- ball player or welght-thrower, and he {s going to prove a winner,” sald Ber- nie Wefers, trainer of the New York A. C. crack team and one of the fastest men the sprinting world has ever known, “Take the game of baseball—why, !f the players were taugnt how to sprint properly they'd improve thelr base run- ning a thousand per cent. Running ts one of the sciences that 1s entirely neglected by a large number of men who are playing on the diamond to-day, ‘Those who have learned how to sprint can show fine records on the bases. “When J attended Georgetown I want- ed to play on the ball team because T knew the exercise would help my run ning, but they decided that I might ac- cidentally be hurt and that it was bet- ter for me to stick to the cinder path, “After leaving the college, 1 wrote to my old Baltimore triend, ‘Patsy’ Dono- van, who was managing the St, Louls team in 1901, and sald that I would like a chance with the team. I told him that I thought I could teach his players something about getting down to first, and he seut for me. I knew that ball players were \hard trainers and clean living fellows, as are most of the ath- letes who go out to win championships. ‘The only trouble with them was that they specialized in everything but proper running, and I goon showed them how to gain speed on the bases, Sprintera Can Run Bases. “I found that # sp.dinter could easily | master cunning the bases and learn | how to ‘slide’ without losing any time. | They say that sprinters are so f that th can't stop when they going, and mos? of them can't judge & siide at all, That rot. The faster 66S rea Is the thing that 1s moat Oe ee ee aE a TN 8 a man {s the more control he has over his movements, When I wae sprinting record form I could pull up| n feet of the wn Bee There way any chances of ten feet leeway after the finish. I couldn't take bumping into them. ‘Baseball doesn't hurt an athlet {t's just so much healthy exercise said Wefers. ‘A man who is @ good athlete is sure to make a good ball Player if he has the necessary nerve to face the ball. “At Travers Island there are several good ball players among the athletes. Harry Gissing Is a great player. He is fast on the bases because he knows how to run, His athletic training has been #0 good that he !s able to throw @ ball as far as the best of ‘em. Jake Hartranft 1s another good player. When Jerry Mahoney was playing on the club team ho was so good that he continued Wefers. ry was a jumper of no mean ability, but he considered that baseball, football or any other branch of sport wouldn't aarm his jumping." White a Good Base Runner. “Bome of the ball players who have been before the public during the, last few seasons are considered as good men on the track as on Harry White of the Chicago America: Some years considered on of Georgetown’ intérs, and tor day he is a very accurate judge of base- running. Arthur Devlin gradaated from the same college, and he is one of the fastest mef in the gdme. When he was attending Georgetown he played first Ability to Sprint Sprint Would Great- ly Help Diamond Artists’ Base Running. po Nay base on the college ball team and also held 4 position on the football team. Devin iked football and he didn't be- lieve that it slowed him up at all, Harry Bay, who was with Cleveland, and Wil- Me Keeler were fast men who were natural athletes, and Josh Devore knows thow to run property. Last summer Lawson Robestson and Harry Hitlm two of the best known coaches of athletes in the country, wit- nessed a number of games at Wash- Ington Park. They both claimed to be surprised at the slowness on the bases of the Brooklyn players. “They could bat the ball and they could catch it, but the way they ran the bases was a joke, Robertson. “They'd wallop the ball, throw the bat down and waddle to first. Every man jack of ‘em swung his arms in circles. Arm action is half the effort necessary but not @ single one of the players that we saw knew the first principles of what Is probably the most valuable ectence of basebal Paul Pilgrim is the pc big coach who believes that @ man must specialize 1f he Intends making good in athletics. He says tnat it has been his experience that a man can do only one stunt well. Newtown Basketball Five _ Look Like OR the first time in two years the Stuyvesant High School quin- tet has been moved out of first Place in the Public Schools Athlett League basketball tournament. The de- feat at the hands of Newtown last week | | came be a sudden blow to the “Dutch- t on the court that the team representing the Fifteenth street school has suffered in two and a half years. Newtown's team, composed of Johnson and Kelly fore wards, Plantero.h or Card as centre and Botlen and Levy guards, which !s being coached by Mr. Gibney, look like the coming champions of the tournament. F When I broke rd at Be Boston a as eneet T haa @aly about There is no team in the tournament that looks strong enough to stop them the Champ ions except perhaps Eastern plo at the rate Eastern District is D iaeging |now they will have to improve more her 10 Der cent, to beat Newtown, Newtown has mastered team work and has beaten Stuyvesant and Com- merce, two of the strongest teams in the tourney. Commerce has beaten | Bastern District, so it looks as if New- {town will make the trip through the season with a clean slate, Newtown meets Richmond Hill to-day, and as Stuyvesant downed Richmend and Newtown beat Stuyvesant the win- ner can easily be picked, Stuyvesant will meet Eastern District to-night at | the Seventy-frst Regiment Armory in vonnection with their meet. It depends Upon tho showing Eastern Distrivt makes to-night what chance they wil stand with Newtown on Jan. 7