The evening world. Newspaper, January 23, 1911, Page 10

None of the Champion or Near With Demon Rum. ‘Goprright, 1011, by The Prem Publishing Oo (The New York World). HSE are tough days for the Demon Rum. I remember wher @ ring champion who didn't spend all of his winnings “buying booze” was called @ tightwad and couldn't even treed on the coattails of popularity. og L, Sullivan, who went on @ bender and threw hundred-dollar bills around inal every fight, was the hero of his yom and other fighters tried to be like Now it fs all different. The fighter ‘who Grinks is regarded as a prospective —"bilm,” and the only fighter who has BSeme respect of the pudlic is the fellow who takes care of iis money, dresses Seatly and would rather take @ jolt on red ohin Poa put one down his throat. all of the champions and ions in every class. Jimmy ¥ cleverest of all the “paper i — never drinks @ drop and never Frankie Burns, who seems to @ Barve the best claim on the American ™ weight title, and Johnny Coulon, knew taste of the liquor, Both Began early to their money Belp their folks along. Every one them for 1. Among the lightweights Knockout Tommy Murphy and Packey nd never touched a drink of Uquor, or smoked. All of these have deen industrious and saving, to-day they are independent and have @ good start in life even if gave up fighting. They certainly popular, even if they never tried the L, stunt, John L., by the way, "t taken @ drink in several years, 4s more popular than in the old ing he was seldom seen sober. Nelson has always side- G@teston*ion, and the defeat Sears ‘bf honest fighti heal il is robbed hima of publlc exteam. the sare through all classes — the boxers wi are always clean liv- B end clean m'nded are lookel up to ‘the public. It is the same with ath- 4 of all ki used to say @rinking athlete: “He's a won. he can go out soused and beat ©W the other fellows sober.” Now they “He's @ fool; he'll be a dead one men half as good as he is now Werk up to the beac 86. yim DRISCOLL fs not a kicker or @ B.C ietter writer. So the following 45.57 letter, sent to Charlio Harvey by 27.Gim after his fight with Welsh, will Mterest every one who had the good BTwortune to see Driscoll when he was 8C.2n America: acs Cardiff, Wales, Jan. & i i e 2 jew lines hoping to find you ‘the very best of health ™e at present. Now, regard to that fight with felsh, I cannot think who Feport to the American unless it was that old fox you know that white hatred feow who wr: all his paper him, for jure as I am yy, Charlie, I was beating hen Bettinson disqualified jas doing everything that Myself and seconds were very round about his head work. Also his hitting but Bet- x oe him doing it th iE fF ind tt Z 8 e = eee e 4 43 h round untt! the walking into him with driving him all around had him turnin, lot the stronger eee 228, e i i with him and got mine and pushed his back ond ing his face with both, had his hands under my’ kept backing and pulling Of course it looked as ‘img then. He is a clevor » Welsh, but I am con- &® coward, and I con- cent. of the people who that he Is too. Bet. ted next day that I ‘have won in another two or rounds, but my honest opinion it I would not | won tf T had him out, which I looked like ‘any round from the reventh aid before, I was faster, and was p uiftt “1 Stent is low, Charlie, t ‘it Moran ever fi Twill go size and had him hiding tt like All the people around Wales thought he could not get licked thelr opinion. imaisned to fight Robson on and feel « 1 will ick me fair play. the mine days before the fight to get abscess away, 80 you see Ih. “ad luck In training, 0 im—~ I honestly believe 1 wou Bim down before the ter thing to say, but t 4 hat and the way he me say it. Heaps of y if 1 wet about him did in the elwhth, hi Champion Fighters Nowa-| days on Speaking Terms) UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY THE EVENING WORLD, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK HARD DAYS FOR OLD DEMON RUM. Harlem Boxer es Ricieie Taken I While Training at. Fishkill Landing. (Special to ‘The Evening World.) FISHKILL LANDING, N. Y., Jan. 23. —Tommy Murphy of New York, who hae deen training here for his fight with Knockout Brown, echeduled at the Empire Athletic Club, Manhattan, on Rowe to Train Here for Whitney Murphy Forced to Call Off Match W With Knockout Brown and J. R. Keene Jimmy Rowe, the well known turf- man, is not going to France after all to train the horses of Herman B, Duryea. Inatead (and the announcement seems almost too hard to believe, but it ing to stay in this country and train the horses in both the stables of James R. Keene and Harry Payne Whitney. ement {s one of the ever sprung in the It ts almost Just as much of a surprise as when the antl-racing Dills were passed at Albany and laws made which stopped bookmaking at the track Keene and Whitney have been the bit- terest kind of Fivals, and it is a strange turn of affairs to have one trainer for thelr two stables, Not only in turfdom have these two men been at war, but on Wall street also they have fought each other tooth and nail. When Whit- ney's father, W. C., was alive, he, too, was a real rival of Keen Wednesday night, to-day called off the battle. He is suffering from the grippe and fever and says it would ‘be impos- sible for him to be in proper shape. Murphy held out to the last minute in the hope that he would be able to round into shape. He came in from the road to-day in @ weak cohdttion and immedi- ately notified tho Empire Club that he would be unable to appear. “I cannot afford to meet Brown un- less Tam right,” said Murphy. “I know my friends will back ‘me heavily, and I must protect them, I will have to ri for several weeks before I can train again.” isi areas: - at ie CARE: te wi TS NL art eT ‘ . THESE ARE ROL ce a MONDAY, JANUARY 323, Copyright, 1911, by The Press Pubtishing Co. (The New York World), COLUMBIA AND PENNSYL\ WNIA Strengthened their hold upon first and | second places respectively in the Inter- | collegiate Basketball League last week, the former by defeating Princeton and Cornell and the latter by defeating Yale. THE WINNERS OF THE OPENING round in the National Chess tourna- ment, now in progress in this city, are: Champion F. J. Marshall, R. T. Black, champion of the Brooklyn Chess Club; Charles Jaffe, Paul Johner and Oscar Crajes of Chicago, the Illinois State champion. Only one drawn game was recorded, and this was credited to A. F. Kerymborg of this city against Al- bert B. Hodges, the Staten Island player. LONG BEFORE KNOCKOUT BROWN ever thought of becoming a professional boxer he was a real fighter and he had @ great reputation on tne east side. He was ao superior to the other fellows in Beals Becker Tells How _He Outwitted a Grizzly Giants’ Outfelder Just as Fearless Facing Hungry Bears as Crack Pitchers. BY BOZEMAN BULGER. F therc is a fan in New York who I thinks that Beals Becker is shy on) the noodle they would do well to read tie following letter which c Ralloping through the mails yesterday: Dear B.-Tesreau, the big pitcher, and myself are out here in the Ozark Mountains and, belleve mi We are in some condition. I have climbed mountain c-ags and walked on an average of twenty miles a day for the last three weeks, and right now I feel that I could lick my weight in wild cats or automobile: @ came out here to shoot bear, and up to yesterday we had knocked Siagg Adopis Novel Rules to Govern Games CHICAGO, Jan, 2%.—The first 1911 ath- letic novelty in the West was sprung to-day by Coach A. A. Stagg of the University of Chicago, when he an- nounced new constitution designed to insure “safe and sane” intercollegiate track meets. It will get {te first tryout Saturday when the Chicago track men meet | Northwestern at Evanston, The chief | features are: umber of ts im ne nS) particl: 1 to four. “The hu # are to be natied. The 40-yard and the ss0-yard | shall start from opposite sides of bhe | track; the mile and two mile run shall start on the same side. 1f on the last | quarter mile the third or fourth man of one team shall be lapped he shall drop out. In the high jump the bar shall start at four feet six inches, be raised two inches at « time until five feet high, he ie M’FARLAND-ERNE BATTLE BIGGEST OF WEEK IN PHILLY. clubs from ay days anead night. The dig show of the week will be at the National A. C. on Wednesday, run | th Humphries Maps Out a Tough Job For Zbyszko Wrestlers representing various coun- tries throughout the world will figure in the big carnival at Grand Central Pal- ace next Thursday night. Joe Humph- ries, who arranged the bill, says it; will prove even or than the two carnivals which have preceded it. Zbyazko, who has been on the trail of both Hackenschmidt and Gotch, will, of course, be the star of the show, but this time Humphries ha. ped out a real tough job for hi To win, Zbysako must big with tusia, Country's Best High Jumper Has Quit This City Walter Thomassen, regarded the best hgh jumper in the country, has re- dow. three. All of them were black bears. but I came near getting & srizzly and that's what 1 am writing to tell you about. “One morning I left the camp about daylight and decided to take a walk for a mile or two before break- fast. I turned and was walking along the edge of a cliff without a @un when suddenly I saw a big griz- zly voming directly toward me. I was walking on a narrow ledge of rocks and it was so narrow that I could not turn around. The old ariazly was in the same fix, and the Worst of it is that he was walking straight toward me. Neither he nor I could turn round, and to tell you the truth we were both scared. I tried throwing rocks, but that did no good. The grizzly kept on com- ing down the ledge. I knew that something was going to happen, but yell as I would I could not make Tesrcau hear me. he bear kept coming until he was within ten fsct of me and I looked him squarely in the eye. The next thing I knew I felt his hot breath on my face and saw his Jawa open. Then a bright thought struck me. ! felt just like a pinch hitter Who {x about to Ine out @ beauty, As the bear opened his jaws I vammed my rood right hand down his throat, caught him by the tail and by & dexterous Jo.k turned him around. That did the trick, as the bear then had to go the other way. IT ran back to the camp to tell Tes- reau, but we never saw anything more of the grizzly. “Tell th Looks like I am going to 300 this year. If it wasn't for the pitchers I would hit .700, Truly yours, BRALS BECKER.” “Big Hole, Ozark Mountains, Mo, ———y Players Say New Rules Will posed changes in the baseball rules,’ the declaration of Chicago players fol. tion. Coast, but it was thought that he would soon return to this city and appear in some of the big indoor meets. How- over, he liked it out ther ‘well that he decided against retu: here, with the result that the Seattle Athletic Club has enenared him. a allowing the oversiiding of sec: Jond and third bases in an attempted | and the suggested {nnovation ng three balls instead of four re fof a BU prominent players now { v Yor Ame: of Detroit, ington, Frank Roth, formerly ¢* Cincin. Spoil the Game CHICAGO, Jan. 23.—'Nix on the pro- is lowing the Invitation of President Mur- Phy of the Cubs to discuss the proposi- a y Herman Schaefer of Wash- | GOSSIP his vicinity in the hit and take game that eventually nobody would dare to tackle him single handed. And he was only 105 pounds at the time at that. It Was about two and a half years ago that the Incident recalled took pla He was then employed in a pencil fac- tory and had an argument with some co-workers. One night they waited for him and ten of them set upon him. But revenge rafkied tn his bosom and 4s soon as he recovered from the pun- Ishment he waited each night for the boys who had attacked him and wasn't contented until he met the entire ten in turn and handed each a thrashing that they all remember even .o this day. There is one young man in the ‘Tax Department of the city who'll tes- tify as to Brown's punching ability and his mighty left hand. SHERWOOD MAGEE OF THE Phill the National League, says that if Presi- dent Fogel of the Slowtown club, doesn't agree to his terms within a week he will sign to play with the Buffalo Germans, a crack basketball team. THE CRESCENTS three gafhes and not yet suffered defeat in the Amateur Mockey Leagu looks as though they were gol: the New York A. C. to the ch for a change. HAVE WON EDWARD PAYSON WESTON ISN'T the only walker in the county. There are others, and some of them, too, make the veteran's records look pale. and the champion batsman of 1911. EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN IT pont "now You - NEVER iNew You = NEVER HEARD OF You - Don'T LiKe YouR loons « AND WAVE NO BLISTERING DERE To MAKE YOUR. ACQUAINTANCE « CHASE eee y Coster and Beecher Start Off To-Night at the Vanderbilt Club. BY JOHN POLLOCK. HIS ts a big week in pugillatic T circles here, good fights carded to take plac two of them being international battle Most of the New York fans will jour- ney to Brooklyn to-night to see Joe | Coster Clark with Willie Beecher at the Vanderbilt Athletic Club. Sammy Kellar meet Young Shugrue of| Jersey City for ten rounds at the Olym- | pic A. C. stag to-night. On Fri night Digger Stanley will defend his title against Frankie Burns of Jersey City in a ten-round go at the National Sporting Club for the bantamwelght championship of the world, A match was arranged to-day between Jimmy Gainer, the crack New England fighter, and Frank Klaus, the Pittsburg middleweight. ' They will moet for twelve royods before the Armory A, The lat pedestrian to earn honors ts| A. of Boston on Jan, Tn their previous fight G. Stewart White of Chicago, who | tun He Girth Paleo "iia west Walked from his home city to Portland, | ought’ tobe 's corke?, Me., clipping nineteen hours off the rec: ord made by Weston, White left the «1 mg Howard, caro uae. He Windy City at 1.15 P.M to pote Miadelpiule, for si veached Portland y« ay at 11.45) rounds at Bp A. M. White is only twenty years oid, | gil ie oh mint bs ae it fal He welghed 180 pounds when he start- ed on h jaunt, and when he quit tipped the scales at 169 pounds. Ho wore out three pairs of shoes and averaged rty-seven miles a day. He next pi poses to walk from Chicago to Frisco in the fall. ALEX AHLEGREN, THE SWEDISH runner, doesn’t care how tough the go- ing is, for he runs like @ deer whether over slushy, snowy or icy ground. In the weekly three and a half mile run of the Morningside A. C. he led a pack of twenty, doing the course in the fine time of 20m, 128, PHILADELPHIA, . Sammy Smith came back after two months’ rest and had a shade the bet- ter of Battling Hurley at.the National |A. C. Hurley showed his best form | The players are a unit in opposing the nati; Arthur Deviin of the Giants, Joe Tinker and King Cole of the Cubs. ‘The players believe the overslid! would give flest runners like Cobb, Colina and Speaker an advantage, TIES; ve in the third round and had the better of this period by a safe margin, but in the fourth round he began to go | back, and until the finish it was easy for Young Sam. right uppercut wi out of the running. Continued use of a what pzt Hurley Reduced from 50c. Rich, lustrous Silks—all this Season's stock, We want the room—you'll want the tles when you see them, We suggest that you make your selections early—they cannot remain long at the price, EXPLORER tion Collar, With Rouna Button Same Style as NOMA, Lut lower, % Sizes 2 for BB ets. ian Palla! Abe Attell will add $1,000 more to his bank roll to-night. Hie will grab off this hig ebunk & money by meeting Billy Allen in @ ten-round out. at a thot to he Mnught off . of Syracuse, N. rough ate that a record cro Sailor Burke will = ‘another chance at swing: ing the five-ounce mitts at an opponent to-mor- th for ten rounds at the ( row ‘ean Bead will ¢ ig? Kid Henry, the col- round, battle the be Atbens, Wie ay oti to "tight wae Jack O'Brien ts surely the hustling Hesides having matched t in’ van ty, Fair, fe Tempeet Quen’ art Ser Heatel ! winiem Comedy ’ WILLIAM COLL ER” HACKETT *4), The Fist Ble Maine Eliio Farinas Bast Fi || van 6.20. BA s. MINE CASINO Bitte, MARRIAGE n titi nh |TLYRIO rie ane sik Miser, THE DEEP rine MAJESTICY: vay & Ai Marines We as there are four! j At Oiympte |} Sammy Kellar ot | |] Bout of ten rounds, Avenue Rink, Brookly: At Maspeth A. C., of ten rounds, arts bee yon Saturda’ ENICKRRBOCKES, - ane fai Teh COR ‘THE BN! arth St MISS vou ‘ft CRITERION Wednesday Matine ay Matine: |] ELSIE’ JANIS 3M BLIOW vai in MLL & ey ears ERY Win and 10) Jon Wi en eo & SEAM sp a | WALLACK’S B73. POMANDER Wik ACADEMY Si champion Cyclo: Maui Adams » a) hn Wway BURKE BLANCHE Batis" t ld LENA ASHWELL Fay, 1) The Golden Cre Three Good Fights Carded at Local Clubs This Week BOXING STAGS TO-NIGHT. A. C. of Harlem England meet Young Shugrue {n the main At Vanderbilt A. C., Clermont n, Joe Cos. ter and Willie Beecher will clash in the star bout of ten rounds. Maspeth, L. I, Charley Goldman will box Eddie Connolly in the star bout to meet Harry Mansfield or Fran ious at aitferent shows, 4 Tirso, of the four American fighters who bare for severalemonths liave ket fads gen CANNOT ih BE SI or 'T i ee TEP ai | & Sat GARRIC path Pre ATS isn i in aris sie a a v Thi 1 withs aah ees Hers, SH mT RY ‘burs. a ree rate, | rae wie CONE” I KEPU._LI + ea i] NEW YOR athens i REBECCA oF SUNNYBROOK Ak NAUGHT ' v Mak! TTA menent At! Hates Ae ahiae: with ORVIEL | ht galway i Mate Wal & sat ay ie ee ta RrOntUNE alta ti Bi in JU will Ssiha a et Wp BARA NEWTOWN PLAYERS. WIN BASKETBALL LEAGUE HONORS Long Island High School Has Walkover In Public Schools Athletic League. Standing of Teams in Public Schools Athletic League. School, Newtown Eastern I Commer De Witt ¢ s eto ee cto totem Newtown High i# virtually the cham- pion basketball team in the Public Schools Athletic League. The Long |Island five has played nine games and Won all but one. town was practically handed the title last week when Friedland, the captain and star player of the Stuy- Vesant team, was disqualified and two games his team had won taken away from them. The Stuyvesant boys had been on even terms with Newtown, and it looked Like a tossup as to the winnel Newtown will play the Manual Train- et on Saturday, and it is their If dope doesn't go astray will just romp in with the a few games yet to Be of the games are poat- which was made nece: the Inability of the btain sultable courts when 18 Years at This Address Means Sometaing GO To REMEY’S To Learn to Dance private instruc: ua and. eve two-step, barn ‘dance and lanclers, a uaranteed in § ate iy rivate cand. 4 lessons (with auc), Positively no ‘eee? “i Tite vs ToL “Treniugs, 138, ae, BOs, zz Ube, ie We 50¢ we ay. Expnings HAMMERSTEIN'S “7 2 Ev. ie to #1. Dally Mat 20af0— ny Mat ER! ican” Nice a eins ans Nat C — MBRA Adeline tes 4 “) Chm. 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