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EWSY THE EVENING WORLD, “BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK MONDAY, Wrestler George Hackenschmidt One of Most Interesting Ath- letes in World, Being Able to | Speak Seven Languages and Falk About Poetry, Philosophy and Literature. Omperia, 31913. by The Prows Po)aiehing Co the’ Now Pesk Wort) FORGE HACKENSCHMIDT, the wrestler, is ono of the most Inter- esting professional athletes in the wertd. Unitke most of the men in his line Of business he is very wel! educated and oan talk intelligently on any subject. Hask epenks seven languages and has @ working knowledge of a few mora While he takes a great interest in wrestling, of course, he seldom has any- thing to say about his performances on the mat. Ho Nkes better to talk about poetry and philosophy and literature. His fad is ancient history, Just before coming to America for the twenty- spemt ax months travelling through Egypt and Palestine. At one time Haakenechmidt seriously contemplated taking up preaching instead of wrestling, 80 he developed & peculiar interest the Holy Land, Also, as a mechanical Sraduate of @ great Russian school, he found it worth visit the ancient ruins along coast and study the archi- Gities so old that even their forgotten. We were talking experiences a fow days ago. ” eald Hackenschmidt, “‘T the ancient wall, the ail the world. ome of @s large as’ ordinary they had been brought and raised to a great jeats would be regunted even tovday, with all of Y, and no engineer will ble to learn how the work segaes i oT ae | rE ey see the city Just an it looked of years ago. It was won- wae just as if I had lived remembered it all. Along Were wonderful ruined cities, of pillars leading down right fea, and remains of immense @ll deserted. Through the Mo- hasummedan country I went alone except fow @ guide and half a dozen native I kept away from the cities welled through the wildest parte HH Hy, could eee the fanatical people glaring at me with the most intense hatred be- camee I was an unbdeliover, and there was always the risk of being killed, but T emfoyed it. All through Palestine I seapcped out the historical place ‘That was wonderful too. I have been travelling, when I could find time, for yess, 1 still have China and Japan to expipre. I think I shall visit them next, nd’ India, It is all very easy, 1 live well and sensibly wherever I go, with- out Coollsh waste, «o after my last trip 1 found that my expenses for six moaths had been less than the income from my capital. I can travel the rest of, my life, if 1 wish, and Idon't need to wrestle any more. I have all the money I care for, Before long, I think, T aha top. But first I wish to wrestle am@ Gefeat Gotch. After that I shall just train a Iittle to keep tn good heatth. Ie would be terrible to find mywell growing fat.” BACHIB CROSS says that he has “come back,” and that from now on he te going to do nome of the arestemt fighting ever seen around this 7 ‘now I had a slump for a whfte,” sai@ Leachie a couple of days ago. “It was my own fault’ Now I am back in stelet training again. I put the brakes om Pretty soon 1')] show what I can de, end then if Packey McFarland wants anether chance with me I'll give it to I don't see where Tommy Murphy those fellows come in to talk about fighting Wolgast and getting that cham. piomsbip and not think anything about whet chance I got. I'l) sow them.” ATIOLL wilt show what he can do to-night when h meots Phil MeGovern at the Van- dertiit A. C., in Brooklyn, In California Monte is regarded as a very clever ban- tam—one of the best. He ts a good, game fighter and is a pretty good second edition of Abie. If Able really strikes te, who {8 @ pounger brother, can take his place am4 keep the family name before the the stile one of these days, M } ‘There were one or two more of the figttiog Attels when Abe made his first Wig hit in the ring. Out in California thay stil! tell » story about Caesar At- tah whe had ambition but lacked the) fighting qualities of Abe and Monte, Cagsar trained under Abe's watolful eye umgit be was « fairly clever boxer, Then he Was sent along tho line to fight, In the first engagement Caesar did very wall until the other felow managed io ht fim an awful soak on the nose. to get a look at Abe, ‘any more wallops,”” t dda, wot Ue, the land. There were places where I} fell flat and rolled his head and I ain't going to get hurt,” Caesar. “I get anough out of —— Luery Tins BAT THe OPENING Ray. HoH? Gee! wow Lucy, | JANUARY 80, 1911. THE BASEBALL BUG WE ALWAYS HAVE WITH US WOH FE WOULD SNow A AONTH = + Copyright, 191, by The Preas Publishing Co, (The New York World), o-49-00. You're Out, _ . en WoRse IT ty Now “2 THe BETTER BASEBALL WEATWER. WE LL Ger neeTr Summer / Oldest Club in America Now Planning to Restore Track and Field Games, in for athletics again, and they @ay that it will not be long be- fore they are again in the front ranke. ‘Things are beginning to hum at the old To New West Side A. C. ts going up there every minute. pete in the next champtonshtps. top of the wall I stood and| ‘The New West Side A. C. has always the culns, and I seemed io | encouraged boxing as well us track and Meld athletics, and there are a num- delight in going up to the clubhouse levery day to wateh the youngsters. Mfany of them put on the gloves and teach the boys the finer points of the game, Eventually there will be some new good men who will be able to up- hold the honors that were won by the older members of the organization. Even Herman Obertubdessing, who served ten years as president of the ww West Siders, ylves some of his time to coaching the new members, “Obie” ta trying to “come back.” He's jometal pper of the Metropolitan istrict of the A. A. U. pow, but he sti has the “bug” and he still can go some with the gloves. Mexican Expert NATIONAL BILLIARD LEAGUE STANDING we re el | “Wo +i 10 ‘M4 “Bo 0 8 +18 0 CR | | | Brooklyn Chicago Pittsburg Kansas City Philadelphia St, Louls New York . Boston his title of am: Mexico for four this city next week from Chicago, tional playing. Academy aga which is ¢ to beat as Garfunkle, Mannes, and Blumenthal, and the appear are Feb. 9, 10 and 11. ws no pet Grand Circuit In Meeting to tives of tracks in the Grand C! be changed, }NEW CLUB ORGANIZED FOR EAST SIDE FANS. Another new boxing «lub will open in this elty on next Monday night. ‘Phe up," yelled Abe, “You ain't} new club will te known as the Postenan A. C., and i# located et the comer of Grand and Oreherd streets, where the old Roman A, C., where no many great ring te buy me a peanut stand without | contests were staged, ured to be, A new ring and comfortable bleachors have| the referee ordered tt re-skated, WEST SIDERS HOPE | TO AGAIN CUT BIG ATHLETIC FIGURE aX, clubhouse and there's something doing | ber of the old time champions who take old m Pierre Maupome, who has defended mir Dillard player of years, will arrive in ‘Maupome now represents St. Louis tn the tonal Amateur Three Cushion Carrom Billard League, and when his! ceam plays heve it 1s raid that he will show Gothamites some really sensa- Mavpome will play in Doyle's Billiard t the New York team, pposed of such hard men Croll Change Dates, ‘There will be a meating of representas here this afternoon, and it i expected \imat the schedule recently announced, | which caused a second cirouit to be, | tormed because of a conflict betiveen Lexington, Ky., and Columbus, O,, will Jota the “pro’ jened to do many times, bad because he refused to skate over the half-mile final at the international outdoor championships held hore under the auspices of the r Skating Association It had been agreed to have @ time limit, and as Lamy, who At one time, about 1903, the New West Side A. C, had one of the best athletic teams tn the country. They had such men aa Joe Bromilow, MoDon- Gite, J.'H. Wright, the half- mtle champion who won his title at Travers Island when he ran in the junior championships, doing the distanc in the eptendid time of 1.68. In those days the club had some fifty men competing at every set of games. There was Eddie Green, W. 8. Hdwards, Chester Peabody, who was one of most natural sprinters we have ever had, J. Bohan, now running for: the Xavier A. C., who ran there from eight yards in the “hundred” in 9 2-6 seconds, and John Harty, a shot putter who A big bunch of | coum do 4 feet with the 16-pound shot. | youngsters are getting ready to com-| He was also heavyweight boxing cham- pion of the A, A. U. at one time. Oxcar Luders defeated Harry Hillman |in the hurdles, but the viotory was too much for tim, and shortly after the event he beat st for Paris, where he took to art. ‘Last year the club wasn't on tr or field to any considerable extent, but some new men showed abti- ity, and they are now coming along at a fast pace, ‘There's H. Egan, Gus Winker, a promising “quarter miler,” | who has been running for about a year; W. 8. Robertson, who broke his novice at tho Flatbus! when he did the “quarter” in onds; G. Neice, a high Jumper; C. rowe and J. J. Witilams, both promising distance runn “This club ganizat! Catedonians were an offshoot of this club, That was back In ‘1860,"" panted n “Obie” as Wwe departed. s the first athletic or- Charley White to Play New York | Under Knite in Biiliard Team| Albany Hospital’ ALBANY, Jan. rey W! e, Sergeant-at-Arms of the Democratic )State Committee, the warm personal and I political friend of Charles F. Murphy | and Incidentally recognized as the great- lest prise it referee this country has known in thirt t. Peter's Ho: he was ope ston Charley White, the sporting man, has yeurs, 1s seriously ill at pital in this city, where ated on to-day for gall | offlctated at nearly every big prize fight during the past quarter of a century, White, the pofitictan, has been at State and National therings for a similar Democratic period, Joe Coster, the Brooklyn feather- walght, will not be able to meet Tommy adelphia on Fob. 8 Joe was oper on for appendicitis in the Brooklyn 1os- pital Saturday night, Frankie Burns, the Jersey City ban been secured to fight some good banta instead. Edmund Lamy Suspended tor Ame Lamy got Canadian Amat Saturday law been (petal, gy Lemmy, retuand te ae |Graw to play a thr WATING HARVARD LAST CORNELL ONLY TEAM IN COLLEGE HOCKEY LEAGUE UNDEFEATED. College Hockey League add leads with a record of three v! tories and no defeats. Princeton cinched place at the end of the procession ‘0 Yale for the fourth defeat presented | 0 WORK ON THE BASEBALL | park of the Now York Americans will has finally secured @ strip of that must be {neluded tn the [Just been signed that gives him title to President Farrell wants to have his | Kingsbridge open on July 4, | thinks would be most ap- Registration Committee of Athletic Union at a meeting to-morrow night, and he will) have to answer to charges of competing for one club when belonging to another, and if he is found guilty he will be Ozanum Association claims that Ahigren was still a mem! m formed in America, and tue! about a quarter of a mililon dollars and will be the biggest and best in the coun- sLEVEN WILL next, it being me in six yours between the e Washingtonians take Play at Prin: the Seventy running in the ten-mile race advertised) as attached to the Irish- American A, C. LT OF THEIR VICTORY over the Columbia Football Club by a score of 3 to 1, the Clan McDonalds are race for the ip of thy New York Amateur Football Association, THE DETROIT got more dasses on balls than the American Huggins of the Reds was the leader in this respect In the National League, re- THE ORACK | celving 116 in 151 games, which is nine be tried by the more than the Detroiter played in, ALEXIS AHLGRE Swedish runne Abe Aitell and Pal Moore to Trade Punches Again Matched by | BOXING STAGS TO-NIGHT. At the Olymp! They Have Been Matched by | Armory A. A. of Boston for | Battle on Feb, 7. A. C. of Har- Hill, former amateur bantam champion, and Artie Mc- Govern will meet in the main bout of ten rounds, At Vanderbilt A. C., Clermont O'Toole in the big fistic carnival at Jack O'Brien's American A. C. of Phil- ated Attell will clash with Philly Me- Govern in @ ten-round bout. BY JOHN POLLOCK. the featherweight Leach Cross will book up with Young of Philadel- | phia, are going to fight again, will battle {n Boston, manager and matchmuker of | the Armory A. A. of that olty, having | yon sis figh signed them up round bout at Tuesday evening, the second ti having outpointed round bout at the Fairmont A. ©, a few Moore will get into shape N. J. while Attell will do bis work at one of the local boxing | Sauimy ‘Spith for ten rouuda at the Ragpire amweight, has ‘This | 4" ¢. in Manhattan Casino, 2 Frankle Madole, the Pittsburg Mghtweight, 1% fast developing into @ areat fighter, th” succeasion {0 1¢ Cleveland fighter, 1. in a twelve- | Franke met Phil Brock, if six-round bout bung on Satiday his will be! the’ » they have fought, At Rest of Season MONTREAL, Quebec, Jan, 30.—Don't |e surprised now ff you hear of Ea- |mund Lamy, champion amateur out- door skater of the world, entering the professional ranks, He has been sus- pended for the rest of the season by the Internagional Skating Union of 4, and as he is Hable to chate under his inability to skate slmon-pure ematour races it 1s likely that he will ranks, ag he hes threat- at Allenhurst, Cat Morris, the henvyweight of Oklahoma, bas iets’ what the fighters, tall a Same Style ws EN! wealthy Gi man and manager of Morris, for the ¢ Wad with “the figiiter Moris, and he is 6 sure that Jihuer that he intends to engage Joe Choynaki ‘and Bob Armstrong to train him, Jeatherweigiit champlonsht)) lever Pinglish boxers, | ‘They will box, twenty | pounds for a purse of $6 ‘and a diamoud belt offered’ by | Ake Sil tothe vi 18 Years at This Addri REMEY’S DANCING SCHOOL, KIGHTH AVE, (54th St.). achottischie’ and ; lessons any hour, day or even- FREE BOOKLET. Means Something, Philly MoGorern at stag in Clermont will journey dawnt meet Young Britt, beet form now" he ‘ rick meet Phi ing, without appotntn won the race, didn't do as stipulated, which OF BAL Good Eyes Essential to Be- come Expert at Fither the Bat or With the Cue. BY BOZEMAN BULGER. HAT practically every great hit- I ter in baseball has been en ex- pert pool or bililiant player is a rather interesting fact that came to light last night while Jack Doyle was! trying to get Hal Chase and John Mo- ushion billiard the teams went South for match befor | "pring practice. Chase and McGraw are both experts jwith the cue, and !t was while they were being discussed Pop Anson call) attention to the fact that ail of t Great hitters were good with the ivories, Anson {s a greater expert than either McGraw or Chase at billiards, and it js also true that he was probably the heaviest hitter that baseball has ever had. Whether this aptitude for bililards ts ‘5 good eye at the bat or whether his good eye at the bat due to the ball play is due to billiards, 1s an open question, The records seem to bear out the for- | mer. All of them became good billfard after having made 4 reputation in baseball. The same keen- the clubrooms of the Irish-American | peggy of sight is required in both. “There is no doubt,” explained An- ut that good eyes are required to become expert at elther baseball or ) billiards, and when I was manager of} champion, is still at the head of the ys encouraged my players to try and become poo! or bill- | Chess fard players, #0 as to develop thelr eye! progress tn tt sight. I know it helped me and 1 be-j lead slightly by defeating R. T. Black} Neve st helps others. A man must have of Brooklyn in the eighth round at the good eyesight to be a good hitter, and | Manhattan Chess Ciub, {f he has good sight it 1s comparatively | ‘or him to become expert with or pool play fon, * the old Colts I alw easy the ivort Hitters Are Brilliant Players. The (dea struck the crowd as being so novel that the records were Brought in and they show that with the possible exception of Willle Keeler and Hans | Wagner all of the hitters have been billiard players. Johnny Kling of the Cubs was at one time champion pool player of the world. Anson says the! keen eyesight that helped him to win that championship also helped him to be a great catcher. + Ha! Chase has been Verage of more than .340 for THE WEW THEATRE Ss3ic'%" [seen 8h. To-n be mier) so Tues. se PANethances of Vanity Falr, with MARIE PEST Guest Artist, . ca’e_ Foremost Thenires_and_ a + ‘way 4 BLD, ALY’S Sie yer sate 2.18 WM. FAVERSHAM IN THE FAUN tah 2a “OVER NIGHT CASINO Trip dice Lana tk \ y MARRIAGE ALA CARTE CONOR Elliott's tras"Wet nad Bate 3 HERALD $0 Bove : Faas HERALD SQ Stats? Wea,” sat.'2:13, 9 Van Studditord "teres 6 dy The, TIRE. ofB's, Eve.b 15, UTAMCOLLIER '* Py Haneed LYRIC", Ha eh PE THE DEEP PURPLE ,épaooe Nagin oF. Ra, . fie 5, "cet BABY MINE MAJESTIC Saw Woah 2 kegrags MAY DOW EAST Ka! WEST END Jui So Wor Sind aa MAY IRWIN 4¢ $1 .EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN LETS See- I Can work AIGHTS NEXT SUMMER FoR Hy, A ween. THat Gweés me 4, A DAY FOR Bat Gants, Sé CENTS FoR GRoceRies, 27 CENTS FoR RENT, 17 CENTS FoR CLotHes, IF CENTS FOR. THE BUTCHER, STAKE MY WIFE To; THE OTHER. 4 CENTS To Biow ANY WAY SHE WANTS We Do our TA FIGURING. BILLIARDS HELPS TO MAKE HITTERS L PLAYERS When Mike Donlin was in the fight for batting honas of the National League he piayed in the amateur bil- liard tournament and was considered one of the best playe son 1s @ crack three-clshion player and so in Fred Merkle. Larry Lajole, the great hitter of the Cleveland club, 1s an expe:t pool player and has taken part in several amateur ye that his goo eye at pool and baseball is due to the fact that he has never allowed himself to read newspapers or books by lamp- In fact, Lajole says he has not read after dark for more than ten He thinks all bali players would be benefited eyes by actificial light. Cobb Challenges Chase. Ty Cobb thinks so well of his billiard he has ohallenged Hal game the first time Christy Mathew- tournaments. | playing that Chee to a mate! {sa crack pool Columbia student he was one of the ‘Dest players in the school. Willie Keeler never became a billiard because he did not care for and while a ivories_ Keeler reading bdooki have the reputation of being bookworms in ii Has Increased Lead in Chess Tourney Marsha tournament now He increased his O. Chajes of Chicago only drew in his game against W. G. Morris of this city, and consequently was forced into a tie nd place with C, Jaffe, winning his game forged ahead from A. B, Hedges. Jose R. Capablanca, the Cuban ohi pion, moved up into fourth place, an ee NEW YORK SEVEN INGAME AGAINST CANADA'S BEST Mercury Footers Likely to Be. | Beaten by Speedy Toronto University Team, ——— The biggest hockey game of the owas son will be played to-night at the @t, Nicholas Rink, when the Torento Umit+ | versity seven, considered the mightiest jn the Dominton of Canada, will meat. he New York Athletic Club's fast team. The Toronto team are rogarded the | est developed in Canada in years, amd f they don’t put a substitute seven om 18 {ce they should defeat the Merouwy ooters. However, the latter have prung many surprises in thetr nd even without the services of ‘astleman, who {s still out of the game because of injuries, they may win, ae |they have shown wonderful improve ment since the season began. The reason why it is thought tat the local players are in for a beating is because St. Michaels, also of Canada, easily whipped them, which team was for Toronto, ‘The Torontos algo recently defeated McGill University, who walloped the Crescent A. C. of thie city, leaders in the Amateur Hockey League. antec, KANSAS CYCLONE HERE TO MEET WEST SIDER. “Tom" O*Rourke, of the National Sporting Club, evidently realizes that new faces are nealod in bouts at the al clube, O'Rourke started in he right direction when he , imported Digger” Stanley to meet ‘Frankie’ Burns, and now he has brought a new man ow the West to entertain this club members. The newcomer ts “Phil Knight of, Kansas City. He ts a short and stund- fly built Mghtwelzht or the rushing imilar to “Batting Hurley ead Smith, "Rourke selected “Johnny” @farto to meet Knight. ‘They will clash on insday night at the National Spore- Uub. AMUSEMENTS. Matinees” ‘6b Mo. 15, 286 & toe cate, BOC. DOC GERTRUDE de cy Mas HAMMER S at ¢ to M1. Daily Mat., 25-508, MR. NAT GOODWIN scan ND ME FIVE SHILLINGS.” Ps BROS, & JAC S EE, THE THREE LEL H& OTHERS, COLONIAL | Valeska Surratt & Co. way & 6y st Emma Din iDatty, Biel baa! Moroes tata alps Mees Vote ey : Mat, Daily tells Mautign De LE Hie HITCH 15. ASTOR 2.3.43 yak TO-NIGHT AT 8.16 FIRST HOLBROOK BLINN” WALLACK’S 118.3 POMANDER WALK ICE HOCKEY Exsaze® \ \ ! EIHEL BAR crack billiard player as well as a wack batter since| hia boyhood. McGraw had a hitting| ven years, and he 1s now considered one of the best amateur billiard players in the country. Sherwood Magee ts very handy with the ivories and so is Frank Chance MISS BILLIE BURK Hat. at sho. turer in Anthony | THE PRLLOSOPHER IN GARRICK 275%: W'k, Seats Thurs, BLANCHE BA’ St. Bi ‘and Saturday at 2.20, in NOBODY'S Moe ee ait a 18 SKINNER'S SUGC Bepangovelis 80, By. 8, 20. Mt. We REMARKABLE PLAY.” Ina Abarbanell wit a MADAME SHERRY | NEW AMSTERDAM THEA‘ CO-DAY, Tues. 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