The evening world. Newspaper, March 18, 1911, Page 6

sabia ti eS kas ‘aha ak “Vi el ‘ _8 THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1611," AD WOLGAST STOPS MEMSIC IN NINTH BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK EDITED BY een EDGREN Ne VFARL AND ONLY BOXER | FRANK ERNE—THE M’'FARLAND OF HORTON LAW DAYS HELD OWN WITH OLD-TIMERS eC Impossible to Tell How Packey Would Have Fared Against Frank Erne, Whose Style He Resembles Greatly, Although Latter Was the Harder Hitter. JaeBed Tovan Ach SITEULY | Out IN 7 RounDs “TRAINED DOWN To 126 POUNDS, | | WEAK AND Em, FR ERNE KNOCKED OUT rowed Ale al ba DAL HAWIINS IN A FURIOUS MIKU Masia SOA iats wa vanes tcl HILE EVEN A SHADOW OF HIS STRENGTH Champion Con Walsh — | ue Hopes to Outdo Flanagan Sn asians MSFADDEN BY | | __in Throwing the “56”, 8 | Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). | CKBY M'FARLAND {9 a mod-! P ern Frank Brne. As for Frank | rhe, we might say that he was | Sek Frain Bene (in ™ury Rime, the Packey McFarland of the Horton | mace THE GREAT Joe GANS Quy law days. | WN I2 Rounds Packey is vindloating the modern | boxer, He is marveliously' clever, and | yet the most aggressive of all Mght: | weight fighters. He 1s the only one in his class to-day who could have held his own with the best of ten yeasr ago. It {s impossible to tell how a McFarland would fare with a Frank Erne. They were much alike, We have a better Ine on the true merit of Frank Hrne because we know all about the great men he fought. McFarland hasn't yet had such opponents. Packey {s lightning fast of foot. So was Erne. Packey wins most of his Aghts by outpotnting his men. Yet when | when the count was over they carried ke wants to he can pyt over a knock-|him out. That Oght showed Erne as « ut punch, as Jack Goodman learned | mixer, not long ago, So could Erne. I bellove| Going East, Frank fought Elbows Mc- Frank was a harder hitter than Packey. |Fadden, outpointing him in twenty-five ‘The men he stopped were greater than rounds, McFadden was @ dangerous any of the men stopped by MoFarland. /féllow, Once he knocked out Joe Gans. Still, any comparison is hardly fair, for] You can see the class of the men Ere was delighted w mn Walsh, with one hand, topped McDonald's good throw by | Mr. Walsh charming! on the other side, one of which !llus- most every day, Every little town had | | | world’s records to his already|@ays Con. “Picking up some. friends! Leo Houck, the rai ot te at Wenewiay ont ave the nthe Sabb | Bani "A. Ac and ‘ieft_ $00) “Ant m ped will undoubtedly fill the position in the| "eave the weights on the Sabbath Gets Bout. Great Irish Athlete | Tells How] foot, ana sie ioudiy exciatmed: ‘Isnt | ‘ . trates the great interest taken in on Native Soil. athletics in Ireland : | {ts champion weight thrower and they Found bout, and beat Tanke, ‘Thompson aye he C™ WALSH, the great welght-| all wanted to see what could be done SiH ko after Klaus, Hugo Kelly, Leo Houck a thrower, ; 7 m is for’ Pari ng list of athletic achtevements when| fom Denver, who were touring the! 4, aR. tama hed sud an s city ‘Tues Ne hurled the fiftyeshepe nd welene| country, Tewent to the ite town of| CUTE McFarland, So Quaker | itis ¢,pxd mistertane in they tae aoe re in care of a clerk at ¢ of the Turkish: “We arrived early that Sunday morns | ‘Atier the conte ek told Hou athletic world that was left vacant! ing and prepared to go to mass. As we | Bis‘motey to'a' stranger bY He Started in Game Valsh tells many stories of his travel “After leaving Westport I competed who added some three| by their men ‘when wp against swe” | TOM ©? Rouks Uh Unable to Se-| te yen . | iddleweight of Lancaster, Pa, Las y for the New York A. G. last season,|DFomore, where I was schedufed to in his bout with Young Fitzatmmons at the Brown Bu tivca a arma tea Sch tow stranger b YW-MoParland had been thrown among |had to fight. when big John Flanagan sailed away to, turned into the street in which the litle mistave nga A such warriors as Gans, McFadden, Haw-| Hs next battle wae with Lavigne for take up the quiet life of an Ivish land-| church was situated you can imagine BY JOHN POLLOCK. Billy (Hon te, snare kins, Lavigne and the rest of that} the ightweight championship, Erne ‘l: ME OFFSET LAVIGNE'S TERRIFIC RUSHED Nord. Although it ts somewhat unlikely | our surprise when we gaw both siles | miNG URMRLE 48 aestal oneey ah “ (of gt Seca te bunch, he might - .ve fought them Just |turned clever again, and won easily in = WITH SUCH SIL THAT HE Won THe that Walsh will be able to better Flan-| of the narrow thoroughfare ined “with B Winkss a ae Brains ws ‘. ie Glens Falla, Ne a ax Erne did, ‘The cleverness of the two|twenty rounds It was eight months CHAMPIONSHIP IN 20 ROUNDS |agan’s hammer-throwing records, Con! Natives. It was embarrassing because the former English. lightweigh; | orert seat (6, tusk toer'ks ie hard to compare, for Mc¥arland |iater that he beat Gans in twelve} —————— matin feels confident he will get the distance] Mt¥ stared so hand at us. | the fe nglish Lightwelght | troutie “in” beating ste seems to be absolutely @ master boxer | rounds, record for throwing the "56" before the| gO, tle post in ampion, in @ ten-round bout at the | gmeralship should help fest had posted an| National § Ne ; MEUiy. Sent 0p inene was ton pends 060. ees coming outdoor season is concluded. ppd xara Moon wats, | ite sins a eheueaage abled : ° . = RANK ERNE might hai n Born in Ireland, where all good! Shnouncer fthrowes of the world, he club, to-day comp GC tf b N his prime Erne made the great Joe F fighting still if rete nae welght-throwers come from, Walsh is| Cnamplon welght throwor o| arrangements with Jimmy De Forest! COLUMOIQ ine Of 22 Games cane Schedule of the Columbia bdase- ail record for throwing the ‘6' over a b ool in his native vi O'Rourke made a wise selection. ce| ‘and he backed away from the mixing, |to wonder how he would make out Memsic had floored Wolgast cleanly, | at the recent indoor meet of the Now| iA sonool im hls nates jit has been boxing in fine form and =| | | f Tevat the games. thie after: | I Gans quit in twelve rounda A @ mistake. Terry McGovern, chockablock full of dnteresting little) Nil compete At the Rind why the| for Pal Moore, the fast little I crushing righthander that landef on | featherweight champion, was at the yarns of hls career as an athlete, Haif| Ceowa had formed,” sald Walsh in tell- | welght of Philadelphia, to tackle hi Has Schedule Ja eye bilnded him #0 badly that ha|height of his f nd 4n hour before he made lia successful] (ro Ut hig experiences | aecchavanOW 46:tas hula by ihe e1ib On) Joe's eye « ia fame, and when he had Jattempt at establishing a new world’s Yhen Walsh was a your attend-| the night of April 6, In securing Moore thought the eye had been knocked out, | cleaned up in his own clase people began When Wa | | covered up, and, turning to the referee, | with such a master of ring craft as The little champion leaped to his feet | York A. C., Walsh gathered his oppo-| ing weights in the front yard |recent victory over Young Sammy xclaimed that he had enough. It} Frank Bre. After much talk @ matoh| Ch H i | non e {nents about him in the dressing room| {tuo house. He waa soon a member | Smith shows him to be capable of giv- Bali's tack ot courage On the pert of |was aigued us tien eile nae | Champion deed in First} none the worse for nie experience ex- | Ment avout him in the dressing room station hoses, He ras toon & meber | Brith ehows him to he capable Of sie, m has been completed by i Gans. It was common eense. He}ty ve persuaded to make 128 pounda, 4 d Se aoa eee eee | tee lo woset: them time was the champion of them all. | pattie, ager MsKeown, ‘Twenty-two femes wll couldn't see—and to keep on would 40 | although 133 was ell he could go com.| ‘Round of Vernon Fight an ‘Tho second round was Momsjo's also. | gainva'in London T deciten to seamen | . Anxious to try his strength aerate Tipu ioniae |Hometbanger tae ee no ood. fortably, He trained near New York ' , Ho kept leaping and plunging at Wol-| rip to Ireland. at the conelumion of the | eee eae nan atte’ for New oder HENCE Caltorna todas, | OME ames. Princeton and Manhat- When Frank beat George Dixon I | early in July, 1900, @ terribly hot sum- Pandemonium Reigns. ast as though ho desired to bear him| championships,” sald Con. “The main | ae Hie his love for foo took yey bere laren ae ee eae twenty rounds he showed marvellous} mer, \vith the heat and the drying out ‘ to the floor. Wolgast paid little atten-| {dea in making the trip was that sa Beas Celtic Park. In a game there ca France, 08, a Francisco, om the nigt | Year. fekiil with the gloves Dixon was &) Frank lost weight much too rapidly! Lis to receive $7,500 There will be a Southern trip in athletics tion to the onslaughts and took things | wanted to see my old home, and do a| he injured a knee, competed patel vening Wi oie Tru ke Gears ee | a wpnder. Later he won @ twenty-five- eng fell into @ burning fever. He tried | (Byectal to The 4.) easy. Little weight throwing against some of @ couple of times and then went to mvether be wine, tnsas ot Pte 8 | which the Columbia sine win mee ae Beem ticle orew weve. Then Frit |0 gion ‘tee on craae, ere eo San Francisco, Match 18 Wolgast Awakes in Third. my old schoolboy rivals ee AST cod MSs MntieGaigh' ta at te Tinwees | Joseph's Colles at Deitenter, eatin, feo was jut a youngster, wuidenly | ase was only o ctmdow of the meat D MOLGAST easily retained his! ane thind round found Wolgast awake, srtitted up to Westport, County rergot both the Indoor and the oUt] ve tenis, she ica] midi reg, Maryland College at Werner’ she umo' 4 twenty= eres championship honors at Vernon. | 119 brought the blood to Memalc's nose |MAyo, and there was matched to throw| qoor world’s records throwing the "5 » Teva, the local middloge - Coles v became famous by fighting @ "| Frank Erne. On the day of the fight | He outclassed George Memsio,| with a short arm Holt, and from that | the against a fellow named O'Mal-! ten height, and T've got the record fc Ba Nien fe. was accompanied by hie J University at W Wie ane Found draw with the bitherto invit-| ng mae! only 1b, Tis endurance bad elbie champion, George Lavigne. 1! oan pumed out. 1a the first vigne, @ lightwetght, had whipped even Joo Walcott, the Giant Killer, He was shedule March 2%, C. C, has been di al clubs dur DL meet, Gene who appears to have gone back, and|time on kept the claret running freely tWo/won all the way. The gate receipts | from tie Boh rounds of the fight ‘his great @kill and | reached the $20,000 mark. It was esti-| ‘The fourth, ley. He welghed the neighborhood) thowing the heavy weight over a bar, 00 pounds—"bout the size of ‘Babe'| says Walsh, “and if that charm holds and was considered unbeat-| good there's no reason why I shouldn an's nose, of fth and sixth rounds | Mebonalc t South Fiek South Field; ecord f Tie Wit ‘will, be for speod enabled him to make Terry look 4 al Were simply @ gradual wearing down of | #ble. I didn't wetgh over 180 pounds at] make dents in Flanagan’ fo e place on April 8 a; 6 St & terrific fighter. Hrne held him even {ikea novice But Frank's strength was |Mated that 7,00 witnessed the Aght. | erate under the terrific infighting of | tat time, and when I easily defeated | distance. I'm going after that reco WO we aa | onth Regi opposing akill to his flerce rushes. which was awarded to Wolgast tn the| Wotgast, The Bohemian. was weaken: | O'Malley at throwing the welght over al this season, and I'm algo thinking of] Charley Harvey, manager of Sara ed | pnb oy all gone by the third, and Terry rushed ts ay 3 , ‘ ‘e be AT: deo 4 th ‘ ‘nirl_-at the hammer record, in ‘from I th, . Joseph's, Bust afer that Frank added to hts | aii oe tus tect and best hine wo ninth round by Referee Hyton. It was! ing rapidly and ono eye was closed and {Dar the spectators all declared that 1| taking a whirl at the hammer record, Pic (fame by knocking out Dal Hawking. | one neve verted the vitatiey chat |@, clean cut victory, Memsic displaying | his novo broken. Me was fighting des-|muat have some charm hidden on my) too. I'm going to vey Tae early | 15, Catholle was the most dangerous Uxhtwelght |. ont fgg carey a x ne Siar: a Httle but gameness, Both mon welghed | perately, but seemed to know that he | Person SiR cHKA arrowed avente this eipoie aad Raat Lie ta, ta 18, Dart- lost in , ou fs i os a is | “When the competition had rowed ‘oot 0 an's ec in San . the world. He tad @ wonderful left | oa: tater he went to the other extreme | side the La didades LA peep a Atery sae nine pl Nh aha) down to Walsh and MoDonald that even- | New “Orleans, I'm sure to do better this | \/ A a ds ‘at the ringaide, Cornell hand. The Mow ho could deliver with | ing fought Rube Ferma, welterweight |, 2% the firat round Memalo seemed de-| jones in the seventh tng, a lady sitting in one of the je boxes time." “Hugh Metnionh, $4” coming, to th oo vania at Philad termined to throw e tethat tean left of ts would make K. O. Brown's dest crushor feel Uke @ tAP. liens, wile Erne was ‘a lght-|#t the head of Wolgast and win quickly | want me to. Had I better let him stay When Hawkine hit anybody, down he | weight, Jo hammered Ferns until his [Of #bandon hope, He Jabbed with his| ten rounds (o satisfy the crowd? En lish Polo Team Will Bo Whether classed among the 4Ud8] strength gave owt, and then Rupe | left as Wolgast ewong with his right,| Jn the ninth the men clinched, and as Jd the champions, He dropped Gans {reat nim down and out in the nlnth|TH@ glove of Memsic was caught under | they separated Wolgast amashed « rig or three times, and Joe never) round, Eight months later Erne met|Welgast'a arm. ‘The little champion | *7aieht into the face of Memsic. The | fmew where the punches came from. | Gang again, Still careless of weight, |clamped tho glove hard and tight and|srotrered for ton footy Atamnste wironnes % spattered for ten feet. Meisie dropped He Knocked Martin Flaherty out in @/ he allowed the black man to come in|Memale, in his struggles to release hie| ie aris and staggered. be thing he had Visine Jack aoa Je forthe teas} ve ah » he Ww nite ; Stn eit ited Malt eitgrnins to, Johneou, and. ge ut ; fyoctlites he had made bm fhe taht | Field; 13, Lafayette at Easton; May Fordham at Fordham; ®, Brown lence; June 3, Syracuse at South Field; 7, Lafayette at South Field; army at West Polnt; 13, Syracuse y “Lean finish this fellow any time you at Bay Ridge; 1 Field; 6, Yal champion, Ferns weighed the welter rev got at cs a result he jas d tee olinasn versonally and get tis fina wer Hard To Beat, Says Whitney? rere excrete Wom Mat. fights «ince the beginning of the oe oe pped | ar 195 pounds. a hard to beat, as the: a body of netake ‘parti another srap tonnight, m= rs ragioe i t 18 pounds, Gans's firet punch caught | hand, half threw Wolgast from his feet. | Wolgast leaped toward him and un- young army officers who have played a | tt Lee ert National Joe Hyland Det 4 Frank fat o “his ith the iirst/qrank on the chin and was @ clean|At the eame time he swung a terrific ily would have put in the finish: | Can{ain rere American Team} lens ume ls of India, fall have to fight ae Pe : = Ginty, pre nd Frank kn M1 about | knockout. ‘hat was the end of his|Teht against the head of Wo had not Referee Byton thrown | fh ase ot Cuneta amy moun Seca tS i gast. The cht tighter, | r 0 i ! dng fighter with terrific punch, anton, was give (eft and was watching and waiting at ff Ras re 4 swine cle ' re his arms around the little fellow and | an 4 - | "1 received a wire from Capt wh » Was given a bad beating see mut Prank got up in aight poo- (erent “EHtNS Gays, and he soon re- latter ewung clear from his feet and | pushed hit aside and waved him toward| Arrives From Abroad and | sararess Toya, who will be In cha Battling 1 nee Hyland iy @ ten-round Dvr wal 04 pelo et bate ; "mau heavily to the mat, Pande- | his corner, giving him the fight. lof the English team," says Whitney, California fn thee ar ts tone A. C, stag. Glaty oon, ‘There ts no danger of Pa fanl- nium broke loose, as it was thought rounds at Vernon April Talks Aby 5 nd he says several members of his | ot ere es ties | n y Hea pe ~ " Cc ’ t Fest shaje of iis cai ng for a few roun, changed from his usual style and | ing into the error that caused Frank dae Se Talks About Match, ‘team are on t Way from India’ bas been working two. Wee the battle and i Hyland % 4 ly, } hat than he bas been at had no imized continually. Erne's downfall. Pi and that his M1 arrive In | claims he is, mu Toe eae | han landing on him. In the slate Tm the seventh round there was @} ana 4, — avy cont Ir sony" Thompson, the middleweight | Iie ts Wack home from Australia. the. middiowaight title, decidon over Buly Papke inty twice with Again in the ed with Ginty's nd he took the count of nine, In kout Smith and Ike nposed apt ne’s Own Hussars; Fifth Ning's Dra 1 key won't dry out| t farce furry of fighting. Hawking waa] make 13 wien he has chance to fight | r er OW. Ss an ea IS | ARRY PAYNE WIITNEY, who) ‘Phe team \ ending. Guddenly Prne whipped the|for the lightweight title, but he will H will captain the American polo | Barrett, Fifteenti eft to his n and knocked Hawkins) Rever be spitting pounds with al team which will play the English | Capt: Les! Wy “ates orie sar tag Caan oinee an nde tet, == ee Headpin Tournament ‘ | gon 1 Sai [says he got, th hecias Su, Pankey Tenth | twenty-round bout in that count lohnny fought Tenth | t yl rds; fe the Interna real be , x fights in Australia, wingit by knockouts, to make the w a ** | Queen's Own Iussars; L el Ed- ave Smith, the A an, wenty: battled @ six-round dra followed to the 4 MA 008 AGUCK | creates than Wena wae tan vere shalt pe aly aes pchapeaa Brook, May 31, June 7. wards, Ninth GQueen'a Own Lancers Deve Smith, phe Australien, to 6 twenty ri the floor eo hard that his head bounced] hit I'm inclined to think that he'll la Bi; Inc Ss ae7, 9)" ved home and amit lens: for} Capt, Hardress Lloyd of the Hu wp end down. He didn't mov dibed end | i Sven) J io < ‘ . Las Mahe" ‘a Fob Winners, Lakewod to-morrow, where the mem-/| game Club. The three first named a ut Ae alld ae vening World's Big Sporting] c. 0. Mew. 1 {utherfond vers of the Meadow Brook Hunt Club| ere are now on thelr way from India, me di rier, ford wark), w begin practice at once for the 1S | and will join Lieut. Edwardes and Capt Sy, y : ; Nowaek Event Will Close Next eet match. ___ | Lloyd in England in the course of a artin Sheridan’s Riva «Mower Sh ena atta norms to Boss's SL ATV: ae , eAneh NITE Richard W. pat d American teams many of! for the United States Wednesday Night. wh . pininent men dn the world “The visiting team will probably go _ Plans to Break Record —— bs io arantng teed te ahaa . arranging where there w a number of m ble to ader in ‘The| High nore for prominent players in this country to “Pts will be my last attempt, World Cha enthusi meet the E slishmen in practice still running | matches, We realize that our British | | fy White He opponents will need practice, and walle 1 ‘ : , wo are anxious to retain’ the tnter- BARE OF ROR ATS, MEIER MOS A JNee aD ad of the championship of the world, we! che pin more than tat Monde by i dt |do not want to handicap our British eadpi Fred Thompson Says He Will Lower the All-Around Mark This Year, Sit Robt BURNETT é Gis ae | f the Broadway Arcade rivals by failing to provide them with ne It 18 thought now tha _ teams wor hy to compete against them | ive him first indi ‘in practice 140 ron t a Sa ears ago t Chi 0 ¢ t 1 ‘ CAPABI 000 FOR) WILLIAM C, KOWNES JR. OF THR | yi es i ait \e t 8 ofntock ! p | sere te 1 Sebastian, | lips of the Allegheny Country Club will to com aga 1t | éay nie At Pe atnek the h pans Ib! Spain, Russia and Vid t In the thirty-six-hole final in the | CHANCE TO SHOW CALIBRE. your NeW or sa wel 3 Seite ai et q trophy und the f Will be distributed. mar of led Be nual champlonshtp golf tournament! | epee wag ea “Tne « => | Haast Night's Scorew, third priz NK $100) Fra Pinehurst, N. C., to-day Tau Samy DUN Wil Bat aaainen Wish wet t U G1; Highbee, | Marshall, the erican champion, got phe taas chance to s' is calibre en he ees ™ | MKETRICK SAILS AWAY \° 1,874) fourth prize, $900, ANNAI I8 APTER TIE AUTO. | meets Bert Keyes In a ten-round con- anon at WITH TRIO OF FIGH | EN, lo race for the grand prize, and | test at the National Sporting Club next TERS, WON ‘THE INDI- ks as tho its efforts will be} Friday night. Sm ays he was stale A . — m srundace ational] sueceasful, This city was the scene} the night he met Pal Moore. He had| recia e 1 S q 3 nae ‘otat), ; mit at of the races in 1908 and 1010. | worked long and hard and lost all his} 4 1 on | Dohr | Joraacnole at this with wes cecond with | THE CUBS @CORED AN Basy vic. | seed and punching ability on the road. | \ ar & mark of 682, : tory over the Poticans in a game at | He has rested up since that contest and | "vf an | aia , the score being 6 to 2. | will be in prime condition to tackle the} ‘al T Ineness | Me THE LHHIGH WRESTLERS WO: - ugged Keyes, 1 the meet from Cornell a ith Bethi W YORK UNIVERSITY WILL Keyes's peculiar style assures a lively ‘ wis, Ww hem through a forfeit Ithacans | Lehigh in a dual gymnastic meet on, He {s always tearing in, will-| ek é , | Won the first three classes contested. | at South Bethlehem to-night ie) cate a cunah ant oedae falaee a s b meaties high won in the 1%5-pound class ee 3 i B y 1 a ei Allen "of Cornett was disqualified | COLUMBIA THE RTE 1 Eel lass pao bree aaa fr r rough work in the 158-pound class, | Tigers at fencing at Princeton by a “pt Nafbad dood Ps i 1 | Se Re Ore RErDa aha dara ot eis eolniateat ha mmy he is sure to provide the sort of bout the members of the National Club richly enjoy. broke with me é tb, So the they left the tlopr | jad 2 he Britt Beaten by Delmont, Sir Robert Burnett & Company y 632-634 West Thies Fourth St, New York. ed in training hg ater, Ho ts MIDSHIPMAN FPREDPRICK K.| BALTIMORE, March 18—Al Delmont, may v9 * . MIDs Ad 2DH | BALTIMORE, Marc wy nont, 8 of th onsequence | the wine {wider of Philadelphia has been elected | the crack Boston featherweight, scored | rainy deen Mm tee Tas y 4 diately hefo! ; t Which is set captain of the Annapolis wrestling a decisive victory over Young Britt of | arate! he will capture the, race st iat tue - ‘sla waining, ‘ H j ' team, Wis city in their Asteen-round battle. | fee gf ane Regiment armory what i Ai dS be ad