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ET —————_— - eo | CIE ie THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY FEBRUARY _ BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK‘: EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN ZBYStKO BUTTNG LiKe A BILLY Goat, Knockout Brown Stands Nearer the Lightweight Title To-Day Than Any Other Fighter in| the Country Except McFar- land, Who'd Rank Highest if He Could Make 133 Pounds Ring Side. Once coon STE F course Knockout Brown isn't the world’s lightweight champion, even though he completely out- classed Ad Wolgast and gave him a fierce beating. The only thing that saves Wolgast's title from annexation «@ the fact that the referee in that Phila Geiphia ring couldn't give « decision But lite K. O. stands nearer to the ZOYs2IO FEELING SoRe title than any other lightweight on iho Htrete yee nce the professor, map at present, unless it be Packey | pny enthusiastically. “Your own fathe' MeFariand. If Mciariang can reatly do| POP” Doesn't Believe in Base-| wouldn't know y ne STS nO er ORO He staken abo 5 - ae Te was mist about that. Half. himself justice at 183 pounds rin, ; ball Trickery, Although Once) Way between the barber shop and % ZB FE Ss wht ’ tw came face o nan, and I saw at once by Wane of his clas, MeFarland has| He Had His Hair Dyed to Act) tno}: rplexed and horrified look on his erything thi rn ham- ., | Pace. th lon’ eaual to any of the old-timers, | @8@ “Ringer,” but His Father“ ‘There is some doubt that he can make the urself? he demanded between a iat the rinexide and hold his atrenezn, | Balked His Scheme, Phe sie hen te ‘ 000, GR REA BOUT N J [A ww take the title away from any legitimate decided. "C home as quick as you holder. McFarland has shown that he CHAPTER V can. Don't let the grass grow under ean weigh in at 183% a few hours before | EVINy uy tt Bey | err coat Wee the eerale Russian Falls to Se to Score agi Reeser at uastiaes vs te cae tant S know how T huve gained the repu-| Hair Dye Causes Him Worry. ; eee eres ue te. the leat tation of being a believer in base- |, There was nothing to do Sut do, and T Fall in Battle of Giants | two or three hours makes a lot of W T don't deny that | It. Afterward the old gentleman read difference. McFarland 1s after a match me a lecture that I have never forgo:ten. pyaike of ouching entre ball trickery. with Wolgast, on Wolgast’s own terms, | 1 Ave !n my past career resorted t0/ t15 manner was most dignified and at the Garden. It Ho can whip Wolgast over ang dis. | c's!” little innocent detices to make} kindly, but his words struck home with it Fey matters interesting, but 1 decline to} lots of force. He pointed out to me that }t wn to the mat. tae so. T think, oan Brown, More.|%24 for the various Kinds of akull-|my conduct was dishonest and.would be ae ever there is no question about Brown’ been ascribed to me from away back. made me so jhamed of myself that I sbility to make the 133 pounds ring-| On one occasion, however, I must| "ave b pretty! careful ever since to the wrestling game when he not. 7 side any time and without trouble. plead guilty to the charge of having/[&ht shy of shady transactions, I| only defeated George Hackenschmidt’s| } ‘The title lies between Wolgast, Brown,| made the attempt to deceive, and it Couldn't help feeling sad over the $0 that! plans to throw him Murphy and Moran—and MoFarland if| wes no fault of mine that I failed to oars Rita Weaua ta teer ‘nt. Wolgast can-|turn the trick. It was shortly after I . v ger vey gpl Olea Ph “ver a| had signed with the Forest Citys, and|D8d failed. Getting rid of that hair dye roe vee if 1 had been detected in my attempt| 8nd keepli longer route now. From the fact that it mig! have been rather a ‘sortous | PUbiic property we Manager Tom Jones flatly refused to) handicap to my professional ca.cer. At, matters Hack, with all hie skill and strength, | consider @ first-class offer from Tom! that time rivairy ran high between the! I shail never forget my_ first experi-| was unable to secure even one of the O'Rourke for @ ten-round bout with| Des Moines and Clinton tean and|¢nce in my new position, I had been at| required falls, and the Pole gathered made immediately after the fight| both towns were worked up to a fever | %ockford only a day or so when I wa8! tn the long end of the purse, something tm Philadelphia, I imagine that he im't/ of excitement. For the time belng | fered to report at the ball ¢rounde for fat all anxious to eee his “cheese charp-| baseball had become the chief interest | Praction. FI dente dh epring and) The bout wae one of the best ever| 2ut Ma pion” punched full of holes again in the. e eeee enterpr ing Iowa cities. sity. I found.when I reached the grounde| seen in this city. Both men were in) ‘he leas: match game was on between these a I immediate future. uve, Every possible means. to| tat my ability as batsman was going| good condition and thoir display of _ . make ita nine more efficient was being | £0 De tested, and as T took my stand on| strength was marvelled at by ever Remember the good olf days with | resorted to by each club, including some, the Plate I shiveed as though I was| spectator in the house, Hacken Lavigne, Erne, Gans, Daly, Hawkins, | perhaps, that would) Seni na SOWA. With thal ae ue: Fe ween: all due to the cold, either; stage fright ee | MoFadden—oh, what's the use? Was Wesonile fcr past ‘of ity Dent {Aim one of the greatest athletes of duggery on the ball ground that have|resarded so by the public, In fact, he BYSZKO demonstrated the fact 4, that he has greatly improved at) broke away Period of one and a half hours, but !ng in again, aiso managed to do fully naif of d_ flopped ch together different) Garden. was some thn loose. jodern times, while Zbsyzko's smooth 7 ° forget, please, that I was only a big kid, | ™ 4 : Wolgast has “placed” himself desl- HE PROFESSOR SOQN @ stranger In a strange land, and that| ponderous muscles fairly seemed to roll | nitely with the followers of aport. When GoT GusY 1 was so anxtous to make a@ first good | and ripie away from Hack’s every grip. he Was being well whipped he lost con: impression that I was almost powerless.|No matter how firm a hold the Rus- | Facing me, with a sardonte look on! sian lon his weather beaten face, Was “Chero- kee” Fisher, a man of whom I had al- Ways stood ‘in the greatent awe, one of | PPeriness of an eel. tho best of the old time underhand| Perhaps Hackenschmidt was not : pitchers, In the stand were the direct- | tirely at his best. He has been tnavel- | 0? ors of the team, who were taking in| ling around the country for several | ;” with an eagle eye my every movement. | weeks, wrestling all comers, and there It was a (rylng position for a greenhorn, | ts nothing as tiresome as the road. and 1 could feel my knees knock to-| y19 looked somewhat grim as hi jgether. I remember I had some trouble in picking out a bat that sulted me. I oltenbed hciadabes srthiin) Papen She ON intl | Was wondering all the time whether or not I should be able to hit the ball tre! of himself to such an extent that he struck a vicious foul blow—several of them, for that matter, I never knew a real champion yet who would descend to fouling to save himself. might procure, those huge ry where n-| utes’ before ko mention a little thing that L has been in the back of my mind for a few days. Knockout Brown im to-day the most talked-of litte fighter in the country, with the possible excep- tion of Packey MoFarland. No, I don't think I'l even except McFarland. Everybody 1s talking about K, 0. Brown, And there is one man who deserves a world of credit for his work, Dann Morgan, Brown's manager, has made all the old line managers look Itke| shines, He took a green boy a few] months ago, a sturdy little fellow who | had an awkward style, coached and Inthe Greek, threw Pilakott, the Fi | ‘ls customary speed. n py letting a couple go by. Then one out into the right field, and a h squ ° y feet. ” Be ee fae platen tar erases eatte Will Be tor Ten Rounds| %« O'Brien, fully that everybody was satisfied and a 4 ‘ ‘| taught him, made his matches, and| |1 was informed that I would do, I didn't in This City in Four brought him right to the top in the most know ft att . ts . but ‘ yr et a amaz! 's latest coup 1 learned that the hit to the ri yer tie, eer y etme Gas Picssmonie’ marsh Tence was considered the proper caper Weeks’ Time. Vas i. pion" h My first game as a professional was ee ee og | —— einai played on the Hocktord grounds tn 187 : “4 are’ ou ppponer pein e equally entitled to It, were after Wo:-| day Be isa “4 ta in point was the! team of Cleveland, O., a strong organt- BY JOHN POLLOCK, t q waet day and night. offer to > play with the Clinton | pation that finished fourth that season OCKOUT BROWN, the” fatic\ i stented the bout, ‘The funny part is that Morgan got |‘, with a bait of #0 attached to the) oy the list for championship honors, daseation ef ‘ab city, and Atl the Wolgast match without the usual|'#!! of it, Twas only a boy, and the’ the Ath of Philadelphia, with K eee ss Nitendo chan: ina Tigater money looked as big as a mountain to| Wo, 5 ‘or the followin) , scheming, It followed naturally a cer-| ime. Tesidem I had no special afvection | Wom, twat to Play fer the prize. { (Pion, are going to fight again and the {i ! tain course of events that he arranged. for the Des Moines out, bearing in| ont mind telling you that whén Nat |acrap, which will be for ten rounds, | rust Gome time ago there was a terrible} mind the tough treatment we had bee? | gaine began 1 was frightened almost out | will take pla hard fo 6 flat fire accident in Philadephia and a score| given wien we recovered t trophy. | of my shoos. I had been informed at| Danny Morgan, manager of Brown,| Joe Woodmai of firemen were killed. The city was Without taking time to consider I agre eh e that owing to the non- |cnade this announcement early to-day, | jut seat word plunged in horror, Some one st a toe. ne eee tit woud | Arrival of our regular satsher < oe stating that he had agreed to let Brown | bat remen's benefit, big boxing 4 oF bay a " vould | be expected to Ml he Le ~ g p. The battle ny gh Me Greet frome Mt, ao dig boxing | never do to play ball with Clintons | Thad had Nttle experience. We | {ent Wolsast again ne beste wi night at which the best talent should ap- }in whi A. C. Anson, member of t Forest | Fla cs f) take pli in about four weeks, Be- pear, the proceeds to Ko to the fund, a Weta oa ae Ge | were beaten by & score er tat US $leore taking on Wolgest, Brown will Now the Philadelphia boxers, seeing a! up a name for the occa my red da fairly good game. meet “One Round" Hogan, the Call- Dig gate in prospect, held up the pro-| poll and long legs were too famillu tier that initial game T waa never | fornia lightweight, In a te nt bout | wilt moters of the benefit and refused to ap-| State baseball to pass nn an hasoball. I settled down to/ at the Madison A. C. on the | fa a pear unless paid more than they usually id be necessary for me t a steady game, and at the close of | Match having been clinched to-day, | as Ws wo \ 30 Bome one organ | Cason T led the team both in bat-| After the Wolgast fight, Brown will! 27) O0.N 7) ray felled " an moran p nights, ting and fielding, T learned more of the | take on ‘Tommy Murphy f ton rounds | isin out there tor stsera! month firemen. Immediately he jumped the Decides to Have His Hair Dyec, | °" ane ta TAR AGAEED TR ae teen Pe pe ene te eh AD eee ee een Oot lg daa | ever T did (ravetled all over the East_and. West, moters, and made a pr tion, Hd have to ind {t was more instructive to me than “PML bring Knockout Brown over fo T lett home Ana At, ras, mors lhe : nae Sox an exhibition, but he'll feht the v4 to me that T| try and aome of them Ww t ‘ aA mi Hien, ail | uated fo dest Poy you can & put agalnat n nervice to me r days, We him, and he won't take a not ¢ treated very we lub manaj travelling In expense: At good hotels Brown went over and boxed, and he and Morgu id their own rattroad | 4 turn pale as « bridal suite on thelr travels, 1 ¢ ; . i nol ea ft P 4 4 ree Be gg ea twain time 3| basa Se Oe Bet OF ‘wom *! to be had at any price than 24 P, and the should b t wit of wy nea Title of to-morrowa chapter: “3@0| M“icGrane & Wemlinger, 259 to the Philadelphia Athlotios,” Philade 1 with retarovagreyin streaks here and there of what ap-| Jim ured to be a muddy green Knockout Brown “Cast your bread upon the water an 1d Ine, but Just ae true to-day as it was Ge yearsoun gt . wae ridiculous in the extreme, | egmpletely outclassed. ne dye had adhered to the up FEATURES OF HACKENSCHMIDT-ZBYSZKO WRESTLING MATCH — Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Company (The New York World). its in Seventh »- National Club. a j IN A WHILE HACK . / UFTED THE POLE AND S OS SWUNG HIM AROUND SOME GUESSING WHEN ZBYs2rro l_ AAGHIEA KE eee} STANDING OP PLAYERS IN BILLIARD TOURNEY. ome else! ~=LLACKENSCHMIDT IN aed the : low the huge Pole can r Succeeded in pro- but at last the Russtan ed Zbyszko by the arm him to the floor nold, AS Years at This Address Me no > FIRST AMATEUR ATHLETIC - KEMEY'S DANCH ¢ SchUUL, MEET OF CALEDONIANS. | ites) of struggiing Ha Kk a half-nelson ko immediately i drew back and it was noticed t twice within a) his left eye was entirely Hack took a body hol ‘ S| Zbyseko held the Russian's head in s the affair from becoming | $#stessive work in thelr bout at the! occ, under his right arm, champ, defeated John Manahan, & in the game be before Hack could shaks For several minutes Hack nt easily broke every one lke 4,000. |of them. Then Zbyszko took his turn, away from him without | of trouble. f an hour passed _and both men The big fellow temper and again butted Hack. | is pains he was lifted over Hack's Schmidt's clean-cut muscles prociaime* | head and hurled to the floor. he 8,000 spectators by his many mpts at procuring toeholds. in this he switched to Hack's) |neck, but tho Russlan‘a defense proved mystifying. minues to 0, ade a determined try as soon agai it stayed for several nts will Ml the bi ——___ Nelson Defeats Mercier. Rot THE COLUMBIA SV of Brooklyn w over Kid Mercier of Lawrence in twelve st fighting before the Unity Nelnon's landing a lucky | on their feet THERE ARF O the Ohio and Penn HROWS ar (aa gain Datiy Ma , it would have been declared a ANDREW MACKS si CHARLES F. flexible cotls would slip away with the| fall. His head eh ia dn to put the ex-champlon on his 1GeEr ne 4-QUIC P WAL INGFORD puple of times. ooo BOXING STAGS TO-NIGHT. 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Bie wo si | Ancith & Proctor's CHMIS LY aba kW 50, Chiet Myers, Rdward Ma ij y Mitchen, the sturdy Brooklyn cutant i A LO mtekial’ out’ Wille’ Coninn’ oe Broadway & tye had adhe e upper part Brooklyn in the fourth round at the of my forehead, and the whole effect Lens ore A. C, stag. Collins was 9 Ninth St. my ht” Wrench Novelty hy Pauly Mat 208 00 Vogarty, Mary COTTON PROVES EASY PICKING FOR BIG HARRIS Johnson’s Former Sparring Cotton, the colored Pitsburg and former Champion Jacky e his first ap at the National tub and was knocked out by big burly colored fighter of Philadeiphia tn the seventh rund contest. Cotton away wae righthand swing into the pit made him sink to stretch out at full eurance in a Patsey Haley spectators ettting ertaint looked as if He could have the ten seconds as he was afraid in in the body for good. s iu connection was the fact that home the fatal y grogay from the Jaw and tt English victory to his easily outpoint- east side fighter, at the Brooklyn In the first four A R00 an After Stone's which but also Sometbing, AMUSEMENTS, MANHAITA Sia ARAB Nt OPERA} HOUSE Welln and a 4 “Koners Vonies Frank Keenan 2 © VALESKA SURATT a co. YAY A. duwou | Uardues sine Ui to THe Bo . fe Veay So Lonte No Parker? Her Famous (MAN SHO Ce y 0 BSB. Wednesday Evers Sunday PY EIGEV e V dae Nee we dulion & BAILEY! _ SPORTING. ential at ia