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a To was a todgh fight between | jad taken M 7a) + THE EVENING WORLD, _ aeEvisien| BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK SATURDAY, ~ TRICKERY VS. THE PUNCH! COULD THE OLD TIMERS MATCH CLEVERNESS NOW? —— Veterans Recall How Pete Trolan Won Over Patsy Doody in Their Fight in Brook- lyn—Many Other Queer Incidents of the Ring Related. Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Company (The New York World). T would be easy to write a book about the queer things that have hap- pened in the ring—queer things of all sorts, tragic, comic and Just queer Old-timers remember Patsy Doody and Pote Trolan, although even in the ancient days they were hardly in the championship class. Not cham- R pions, but they could fight. es , One night these two fought In Brooklyn. The game was somewhat uncouth In those days, It was con; MN sidered just as commendable to win by trickery as by fair fighting. Doody <P Ww Ad and Trolan were mixing merrily . when Doody suddenly stopped and sald: “Hey, Pete, your trunks are ent coming off.” ‘Trolan looked down, i and instantly Patsy slipped one over to his jaw and dropped him fat on his back. For a moment it looked eo ha ” like a knockout, but Pete got up, 7 y fighting mad. He rushed Patsy across the ring and knocked him thiough the ropes. Patsy fell outside with a loud thud. He stood up and looked through the ropes at the raging Trolan “Come in—hurry up—come in!" yelled) Jan, 10, 189. McCoy was a marvell Trolan, dancing about and waving his us boxer with a puneh out of all proportion filets. to his welght. Sharkey was twenty “No,” said Doody. “I'm through for] pounds heavier, bullt lke a sawed-off to-night. Hercules. When the fight began it And he stayed out. looked as if the siighter man could hardly have a ch MAT was a funny one when Peter | musky sailor's rushes I Maher fought Joe Goddard, the! put he did stand them off. Sharkey Barrier Champion. Goddard was | gaq been training under Tommy Ryan's 4 great block of a man who could take} tuition, and Tommy Iyan wanted to an impossible amount of punishment. | show how much he had t ught him, He Peter landed his dreaded wallop often, rkey to be clever and box, That but the Barrier Champton simply leaned for MeCoy. But the foxy Kid in against the punches and kept coming. to the conelusion, after a little Eeaiiies could bays knesked him back that he must knock Sharkey out on his heels once ne might imve floored |°I0,y was one bundle of nerves, His him, but Peter lost heart when his “wal- | nerve strength was tremendous. | ‘The lop” didn’t work. Goddard was a sight; | spectators around the ring could see Me- _ Cut te pieces, eyes blackened, covered | Coy gathering himself for one territic with blood, Maher didn't have a scratch ch, In a moment the chance came At last Goddard pushed in against | and” MoCoy put every ou f strength Peter’ wallop and got to close quarters, | Ad Vitality he had into one effort. He Peter leaned over and covered his face [{70V8 his right upward to Sharkey’ chin, The impact of the blow fairly NUH crossed arms, Goddard, exasper- | iifted the Sallor from his feet and turned ated, lifted his huge arm and brought | him over in the alr so thut the back of 7 fhe, aide of his fist down, hammer | iis head was the first thing that struck | fashion, on the back of Peter's neok. | the floor, Peter's knees caved in and he #lid gently | Sharkey, very badly dazed, managed 16 the Moor, taking care to rest his head 0 Sit up and take the count, while Mc- gently on fis right glove. Johnny Eck- iCoy millngly watted, confident Md hart atarted the count. Peter didn’t wtlr. yey aid, “and gathering ‘imselt agai | fohmny reached “nine” and stopped a] foe eine enone oy put all the moment. Peter, thinking the count over, | force he had flattening ited bis head and looked at Jonny: dow, This, time si dBW, Aeeing Johnny's hand raised to mark | \soKed p ' Bad thoiher second Peter Jet his head Mo? hat vagten hits, avail of yack on the glove and closed his eyes. | hie strength in « vain effort, When Ba peed eee of tho Barrier! saw Sharkey rise he knew that he was . beaten, Sharkey, a 3} » to stand off the A man without nerve: «most deadly punch, | Mysterious Billy Smith ond jand was on his feet again as strong Tommy Ryan. Ryan was the|as ever, Realization of he fact that he olaverest middleweight in the country. | couldn't knock Sharkey out aff Smith was the toughest fighter. In| MoCoy's high strung nervous syst thelr Warious engagements neither had|He was like a man with a double been able to land a knockout. In this| relied shotgun who had fired both low particular fight I refer to Smith knocke ‘Tommy Ryan out in the eleventh round. It was a queer knockout, Tommy fell rke chased Tommy Ryan Geross the ropes and with the last glim-| from the sallor's corner and ordered mer of consclousness threw his arms| Sharkey to “cut that boxing out and over them and held on. There he hung. | fight.” Sharkey tore into MeCoy and For a moment confusion held sway. | gave hin @ fearful mauling. MeCoy, The referee didn't know wii to| sneering and dancing, stalled with Count or not, ag Tommy wasn't on the! lls wonderful ski, but he couldn't keep | floor. Smith started to knock him off away and he couldn't gather force the ropes as one might knock an over-|enough to deliver another knock down vipe apple from a tree, Thon Toutuy's| At last Sharkey cornered him on the friends and two or three policemen| ropes and shif in the made jumped into the ring. Much confusion | famous years later oy Kete aud long wrangling ‘ommy hung | his fist into MoCop’s mise jimply on the ropes for twenty-five! nearly broke him in two. MeCoy was | seconds. Only two minutes of the round| counted out. T had passed, but the bell was rung and counted a hundred Tommy's seconds dragged hip to bis — corner and revived him. He had sa) J teed 4c ox with Jim Cor- bett at Coney Imand, Corbett out- ted hi easily until in’ the third round Jeffries was told boxing and fight, for he was f{ tore in, threw Corbett vio- tly against the ropes, and as he re bounded jammed his great left flat against Corbett's Jaw and knocked him cold. It was one of the most unex- pected knockouts on record, minutes’ rest, and at the end of that} the ring was cleared and the ee ordered that the fight go on, In elghteenth Ryan knocked Smith out, The referee called it a “draw.” Geet of the psychological find | interesting “dope” in the fight between Kid McCoy and Tom Sharkey. Both were at their best the Young Donohue En titled To Victory Over Kid Burns not win by the great margin it was ex | pected he would, which was probably Boston Boy the Aggressor,|eoause be was not in the beat of con- be dition, Burns made him fight hard, and Lands the Oftener and Is | Justice to the tocal voy It must de admitted that he put up a splendid : ona bate, when you take into considera: Better Ring General. thon the fact that Donohue had weight on him, and besides had many more years of experience. SA Had Burns gone right In and slugged F*s the rst time in several years) with Donohue instead of trying to out- Young Donohue, the fast and) sox nim there might have been a dif- clever welterweight of Roxbury, | ferent result, ‘Mhis was proved in the Mass., appeared in a bout in this vicin-| fourth and fifth rounds, when Burns ity and managed to outpoint his oppo-| tore at Donohue and managed to land nent, The fighter whom he bested was] many hard left Jabs to his face, stiff Kid Burns, the promising west side | left hooks and righ: upperouts to his Nghtwelght, who will evntualiy develop | *tomach and many ‘short inside right , | swings to his jaw. Some of the wallops beri a good men if he te handled POD*| Burns landed on Donohue's Jaw shook him up badly, but by covering up quick. Donohue and Burns met in the wind- | jy ne managed to recover. up of ten rounds at the reopening stag | In the opening round Burns landed a of the Madison A. ©. in Suluer’s Har-| stiff left swing into Donohue's groin lom River Park, and Donohue was en-| which made the latter sink to h JANUARY 21, oe ATG Perer. MAHER Loorep uP, THe Droprep uy | HEAD ofs wis) Glove McGRAW LINES UP SEVEN NEW PITCHERS TO WIN 1911 PENNANT scciiliainn Veleran Robinson Will Go to Marlinto Help Develop and fighting sobriquet He fas with + team of the Ltn sue for the past two years, and setting’ that organization Last season he pitched thir. Coach the Youngsters. on twenty-seven, He Was so effective amount of runs scored ny ‘The largest amount of runs made any one game was five. nd they say he ndows amount of speed. among the pitchers is « pennant fo Jenkins is a t has added seven boys is likely tall and is built a Tesreau pitched for Shreve- st season, and while he vas with 1 division club he managed MoGraw saw win 15 games work whtle the Giants during the tely put in a soen with what « fin Hendricks Another Big Fellow. QUEER HAPPENINGS IN THE RING Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Company (The New York World), Tere Trew ConseTT Kaas? THe Rowas AND MNOCKED HIM OUT AS HE Bouncto Bac. < THE FLOOR, “Tommy RYAN WAS KNOCKED out MYSTERIOUS BILLY SMITH AND HUNG of THE Ropes Form 257 SECONDS, Afternoon in Preparation — | Ms: Indoor Meet. HEN you hear those Pastime a you can rest assured that they! two y are in hard Water the better they Seem to | and now that the stars are preparing for the big indoor games they ar be seen swimming in the East River every afternoo: Roy Dorland, the great sprinter and hurdier, was taking a dip MASCOY KNOCKED SHARKEY Down $0 HARD THAT THE Back oF Toms HEAD “iT big league managers have to scrape to t is Hendricks, who comes from Vreeland, ricks pitched @ game for the and while he showed f togbe very green at the big ntry ane the bunch out of | sian Rudolph, Jenkips, | wo Shontz, Rustenhaven, Naglo| rful curves and his control was erage of left handers. yed dn @ league, in the semi-protes- | jsional organizations around Chicago. He jx also more than six feet tall, tefthanders in ruts 1s Rustenhaven, ‘Tesre: and Hendricks. The only twirler in this lot who has| Worked all summt above the a ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL OF GARDEN is Club of the City defeated the High School of Com- Texas League, and it was due to his pitching is also known as the * ans for the [bunch of ne who has had conside ence, but last year he dropped out of Joined the Cheyenne In- For them he pitched remarkable He Won forty-fve games, lost four Rustenhaven looks like © ne is noted for his rity among southpaws. |the fold and umes as some of the Texas League, wed to win nineteen, ants late last season, bu! did not get a chance to show work in ag 1 pitchers in THE y prove as good as The one thing but the scout League at Join Daly's Billiard Agademy Kansas City defeated New York, 50 to eighty-six innings. J. Gilesple | Hildreth, played the extire game for Kansas City, while I. Latehford and J, Stone repre- | sented. Harry Payne Wh: ented Now York, 1 is his size, Will prove one of th It t# well known that | pitchers ever made good ‘Their physteal build ‘agle pitched ball for Elmira, and McGraw is entitled to a chance, Tn addition to these seve} Rudolph a New York Boy. The one pitcher who showed Me more than any of the other youn fa Rudolph, purchased fre Rudolph ts a New Y collegiate athlete teams ar and he was with ronto but’a shor w gravbed him. n, only Drucke, Marquard, Ray- ‘Torrey. This gives Me- | Almanac wson says that Rudolph | Graw a string after’and that is why he was so anxious Wilbert Robinson to assist hint has some wonder one no hit and no run He pitched @ the Giants in the fall toward the olde of the season Much is also expected wf Jenkins, who p IARRIM. HELPS men and eight Irish-Ameri bearers, > to Marlin and M r } AMHERST WON OVER THE WEST ‘ow feels very hopeful over the pro Point seven on the tee at the soldiers’ grounds by a score of 2 to 0. ; East Side Youngsters Gather | Around Knockout Brown to Assist in Training. ee ecom te went tediously through the he reached the Mere on the wall of the cast In the opera, and to it Brown pointed a finger of pride. In the background of the photograph shrinking figure in lace and rut- at, Brown admitted, was him- was playing the part of But- ip, he sald, and but for the fact that jhe played it left handed he would have ‘been one of the greatest lady imper- rsonatora in ome far-off | #Prov and upon inquiry concernt pecullar sobrique’ hanger-on, told me that O'Conner got the name of Soxy because he had gone without socks longer than any other boy on the east side. Refore he had finished talking, Adam brother, walked into New York Will y BY ROZEMAN BULG Brown's mother and the root affords exceptional | Wa use of a long stick and a explains why the remarkable little left- hander i# training Tommy Murphy amony Knockout lande stomach the brotherly love asserted it- self, and the younger Brown stood off and\allowed himself to be hammered fighters, as a rul ment was 6o great that he as- hghters, & vale i place ‘where they are coterie of trainers and sports who sit on the verandah, buy woll-nourished | McGraw Puts Another Over on Hub, Trading Shafer for Dave Shean. though Manager Joon MeGraw of the Glants has another one on the Bos- When Adam had finished three rounds Soxy took Knockout on for three, and| the number of five-man teams that will they did this until he had gone seven full rounds without the slightest rest. When he was through Kn not even panting. He then went to the bag, and in a miuute tn trooped a gang of twenty youngsters who seated them- Ath street and ported by the late E. H, Harriman, has been Brown's club since and in that institulton Knockout utility inflelder Arvhar Shafer for Dave Shean, who can play elther 4 base or shortstop has been one of the most timely the Hub team, ne runs fn 1900 and last season, ifornian, and since join- ing the Glants has been batting 1,00 as a bench warmer, played and captained the Ford> ham nine in 198, and since that Ume has been buffeted about in American and Na- encouragingly. phat whispered Morgan. Not one of them wore long pants and | | many of them had holes in thelr stock- | They were the dangerous cha: members point became W near checkers and operas were * sMelent to ke | with Knockout Brown for kicking cans twenty-five grown fighters the street, It is understood that | checker boards have It is difficult to get talent for the comle operas, and Instead of going into the lunch room and calling for a three-cent riotous affair, but he would not admit | “Will you be ready for your battle Jon the th?" I asked the champion of wo he was the | knees. Referee Billy Joh helped Don Weedon “iduded the erester number | hue to his fect and figiting resume Donohue began to tire in the seventh, of lows and also displayed the better | wut yy good footwork managed to get 5 Wille Douche he aia tind from ores y ates potter of Ih bob etpenr args = | the club after he was through, “I dunno," he replied, "I always am | Initial visit to the metropol | ready when Morgan says mother told m give me $10 to spend { Irishmap. 211 doit, 409. going to have three ex-Glants in coming season, ‘They are himself on first, Shafer gathering & gang of friends thoy third and Horgog at short, up to the counter and ask in a loud tone: “What will you have to east’ im in olded ions are mady by James E. | and secretary of the A of Spaulding's Offi Just issued, On 8 team are seven N 1 Athletic livan's all York A. C. oF work by. run- his day he ran up the six flights of ‘Little Pe’ his r nnasium, and as a precaution one rll taken, Taasare 300-41) Send 50 Teams to catcher's breast protector, They went hammer and tongs, but whep @ wallop in Adam is Knockout Brown's gang, who were arrested last week mother licked him for that and my | to - -neecaenenstsansint 2 easnscereanenenmmene = We peercd out of the cl cod to-day. Vl take! st 1 Davis, another duck aid then Vil be with yo remarked Roy Emerging trom the Icy waters he shiv- | s he rushed Into the m dressing room, but he was soon | hy ang and ri d a wee bit THE WESTCHESTER RACING AS8- soctation has received a splendid list of merece {n a dual swimming meet, 40 to 22. entries for the stakes that were closed Panel Brennan of the victorious team captured three first places, lowering the schoothoy record b he won the fft seconds, early in the These fixtures com- prise the Juvenile, Ladies and Belmont, seconds when|to be run during the coming spring 1-5 | meeting at Belmont Park, and the Mi tron, botp filly and colt end, to be de- August Belmont, AL AMATEUR | Chairman of the Jockey Club, Three-Cushion Carrom Intercity Billiard | largest individual nominator, and ‘both distanees in practic a lot of races this year. J PASTIME ATHLETES TAKE ICY EAST RIVER BATHS I Jim Crow Swims Every ured by ld De nie Wrigh Sheppard in |that he was ng about in the rive sage training. ‘The coldd m and traini > it, | permit to when ve" has evening | ¢. ouse doo: he left the spring: dy to talk about | ar ts a very and he may take | he's working and most every d Richard Saratoga Association, who headed President of and Samuel C the list of win+ ning owners last season, are well repre- itney has made some nominations. James R. Keene ts | a moderately well represented. FOR THE FIRST TIMP IN THE of athletics all America and all]! ‘THIRTY-FIVE BOUTS WERE HELD chosen, and |1h the wrestling tourney for the Kilroe Robinson the bouts were well contested, middleweight A. U, and | some o: pectally © draws being recorded. an A.C. color| PAYNE WHT! Barger of this city AND MILTON 8. defeated C, Hutchins and Wendell Barrett Jr. of Boston four the match for the hampionship of t In the other Internal roubles, games to two equet doubles United States in Boston. itt match N. W. Cabot and B. H. Newberry Clark Jr. and ‘incke of New York in straight OT until well past midnight Sa’ MAN’S FAMOUS BOYS’ CLUB |: MAKE NEW CHAMPION Notwithstanding these changes | ave been wrought by Brown, he .1s still | proud of djs club, and before beginning ning yesterday, he insisted upon the visiting party, Danny Morgan, his manager, evidences his past triumphs. Assoc In view of the drastic ited States Association ht at its yearly gath- ering in the same city, which was not le confined (o a resolution in behalf of the |{sisted. Mr. Ward tried to have that Schenectady putter, there ts strong ind!- wthe ever expected windy drive against the national body will again be averted. The ultra radicals in the West have | ost. for weeks been talking about an Ameri-| joctation, for which the ap- ratic rulings and Ancient Club of St, held in Chicag: action of the PNGLAND IS last Saturday n. avinning trophy PRY DESIROUS OF international which Meadowbrook brourht here from the other side the year before the part of the Tord High |iast, Willfam A. Hazard of the National ecutioner in “The Mikado," which 1 also played left handed, to the discom fiture of the stage di Brown begt cation that Polo Association letter from t has just recetved @ » British association re- questing a match and stating that they ‘ould like it to be decided in August. elght miles around Tompkins | The matter will be taken up next week square and then, under the guldance| in tht city at a meeting of the Ameri- of Morgan, who is loath to talk of his can body, id without a rest began playing! THE PIRATES NOW HAVE EIGHT 1, His partner was Soxy O'Con-!nitchers in line for the coming season. latest to sign contracts are 4] Rabert Couchman, who twirled for Rock Island of the Three I League last year, a Californian, the] ‘rhe two and Bagi Bowling Tourney. The leading pin knights and officers to. see how much he could take, | of the organizations of Greater New York have made a canvass In regard to enter the bowling carnival to be held at Buffalo, opening Fet ckout Was) report that fifty five-man teams have decided to go to the tournament and, as it 1s quite early, they think they will be : “e Nr | able to Ket fifteen to twenty more five- selves about the place and looked eB They are going to do their best to tie or outdo the grand showing which was the best ever made by any one clty, and if New forward | with teams another record will be broken and New York State will have £00 /ve-man team man teams. made by Chi York wil sixty f /eeman it Vinit Here, ‘The Manhattan College quintet will meet the fast fve of Lehigh University this evening at Savage's court, Fifty- ninth street and Columbus circle, Pennsylvantans inténd to s but the local collegia that she was going to| wise developed a winning st a licked that! did fair to take the unbeat as $M IDLO camp, Western Golfers Planning to Rival the Young Chicago Experts, How-| Si ever, Have Stirred Up Some | 2engcetiy: seriously cut trouble, James E. Sullivan’s All America and College Athletic Teams for 1910, ALL AMERICA TEAM, 76-yard run, Robert Cioughen, Irish-American A, C. Ramedell, Untyersity of Pennsylvania; 28-yard run, R. ©, of Michiga #0-yard run, Harry run, Melvin W Cornell University; fiveemile rm ten-mile run, Bellans, New York A. C.; 12-yard hurdle, W. Catifornia; 22. broad jump, F Sheppanl, Irish-American A. C. George V. Win Bailey, New York A. ©, ard hurdle,,G. P, Gardner, discus, ish-A ALL COLLEGIATE TEAM, 10-Yard rup, F, L, Ramsdel!, University of Pennsylvania; Craig, University of Michigan; 40-yard’ run, I. N, versity of Chicago; Ss0-yanl run, G. H yi hurdle, W. A. Edwards, Unive: K Gardner, Harvard Ualy College; two-mile run, jump, J. Wasser versit Stanford University vity; mile run, 8. Berna, University of Notre Da: of Pennsylvania; pole vault, raity, HARVARD ELEVEN’S TOUGH SCHEDULE | IN TRAINING y, Who represented the I. A. one time, have won mos between thoners in the country, and the rs who » Who ran second to Mei ships one & good runner when best in orde win @ mile scratch race at Trent is again full of enthusi- « every time the wea ) there is R. Stevenson, the sprint- Who Insists on doing cross-country training for been going five or six miles through the park three or four week and will be in fine Frank Brennan, R. Gog- Liebgold and Miles McHugh are all in training now, «1 most of them glory in a daily dip jin the tcy river. Goggins, indoor juntor quarter-mile ‘le champion, has had a good rest in in fine form, What the Pastimes expect to accomflish | holder of several M. A. I, records and this seakon. As he rubbed his lithe body|a couple of American titles, wil also free of “goose flesh” and to a heaithy| de in « glow, he remarked: E ‘ “I think most of the boys’ w! going well this season, and there's « reasop to believesthat we will capt more points than fell to us last year ape for the coming seagon, * from the City C. be | tese, are doing the quarter and half-mile jin proper early season style, wo. |1s one of the best quarter-milers In the club, noted for his strong finishes. Eddie Sweeney is back working out the’ “Harry Jensen !s going well at the proper stride for the half-mile run, and at the Pastime grounds Two Dolan: National Body ands and easterly beyond Pittsburg. co the threat” has been te cover tie entire American continent, setting up | thereby a rival to the United states While the competition en- gendered by such @ move would noi into the older body i: would result in endless confusion and Unquestionably the national associa- | tion's executive committee had largely in mind the need of molil st urday will the outcome be known|ecrais in the Drom Wnen PETE annual meeting of the drew up last week. By the insertion of fon, invariably | the one word “amendments” tn the reao- lution regarding St. Andrew's fules, any departure can be made from the an. John M, Ward, th Garden City delegate to the gatherinu, clent authority, word struck out, for he does |Amertean players are oe cena | to legislate for themsolve: was so late many delegates hy cate | tered and his motion wae wether t Tipe enougi but the hour consequently The National Committ to take three crack, of the Royal] resolution before tt wa ndrew's fur-| Vincible, but that, dik (Ver fine excuse, Two years ago] section on rules foe eae ane) the Western association so enlarged its territory as to take in the Sandwich I considered jn now ex prove outspoken enough to Levey ‘ept a few incendiary radicals, + 10-yard Tun, F, oO; Gissing, New York ry ares ; mile run, T. 8. Berna, Bonhag, Irish-American A, ©; i cross-country run, Fg, A. Edwards, University of Harvard University; nk C, Irons, Chicago A, A. running high jump, » New York A, C.; pole vault, Leland 8, standing high jump, Platt Adams, road jump, Ray C, Bwry, New York A, ¢ Healey, Pastime A. C.; running hop, st&p and American A, C.; shot put, Ralph Rose, Olympic Club, San hammer, John Flanagan, Irish-American A. C.; McDonald, Irish-American A, C.; 6-pound weight for hel New York A Bruno Brod deni College, Los An ‘cott, Stanford Unt- New York A. C.; standing three standing jumps, Dan Jump, Dan Ahearne, Irish- Weight for distance, Pat ght, Con Wi Martin J. Sheridan, Irish-Amerioan A, ¢ bao erican A. C.; all-around, I. C, Thompson, Ooo a: 22nyard run, Davenport, Uni- Whitley, Princeton Unions ty of California; 20-yard hurdle prnell University; running broad i running high jump, J. W. « §. Scott, Leland dr, University of Pennsylvania State College; putting 1é-pound shot, J, Horne: Michigan; throwing the hammer, Lee Talbott, cross-country run, T. P, Jones, Cornell Unb

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