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‘a 4 French-Canadian by birth. become naturalized and had joined vhe United States Marine Corps While he was in this branc of the Government xervice he picked up a good deal of box- ing knowledge, and after he left it met and defeated lot of good men. Al- though La Blanche was not a top notch- er at the time, he was considered a clev- er boxer and a game fighter and was looked upon as a comer, There was a ood dea! of talking and red tape before the math was arranged, and challenges flew back and forth thick and fast. Finally articles were signed for a finish fight which was scheduled for Feb. 7, 1886. ‘The middleweight champtonship of the world was at stake and the mem- hers of the New York Athletic Club sub- vorlbed a purse of $1,000, and the men bet $10,000 a side. However, Inspector Byrnes of the New York Police Department got wind of the affair and notified the parties con- serned that the fight could not be held \ date was COLUMBIA EIGHT ROWS ON SEVERN THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, NO WOMAN 13 Goin’ TA LOCK THA COORS INSURRECTORS IF 1M HOUNDED TO «7! Inside lije Ring Great Charley Whilé. ————. (Great Referee Describes Demp- sey’s First Fight with La} Blanche, the Marine, and His) Oft-Interrupted Fight in Which | He Beat Johnny Reagan in Forty-Five Rounds. NO. 31—JACK*DFMPSEY. Covrrieht, 1041, by The Press Ptah (The'New York World). ne C% FTER Jaok Dempeey | ie Fogerty, the fans, still continuing their search for a man who could etop | Dempsey, picked on George La Blan 48 the man to do what the other had failed to accomplish. La Blanche was He had n New York City. vstponed until March So the battle was 4 and on that held in the clubhouse of a famous yachting’ cluy at Larchmont, which was outside of the city limits and free from police Interference, The bout attracted a great ‘deal of attention amone the sporting tr and the clubmen and a big wealthy and influential men and to see the fun, were on The mem*ers of ye Racquet Club and the New York \thletic Club travelled to the scene up he Sound in a chartered tugboat, while Yempsey, La Blanche and their parties. gether with the less favored sports, vent up by train from Grand Central station. The Racquet Club claimed the ‘onor of naming the referee and picked Tim O'Neil, their boxing Instructor, for the poaition. Dempsey welghed tn at ‘48 pounds, while La Blanche tipped the sale at 185. Temysev's seconds were Gus Tuthill and Tom Cleary, Tom Bogue “€ Boston and Patey Shepard, the old “nglish ghtwelsht, performed the me duties for La Blanche. Another orize held up to the contestants in this attle was the famous championship ‘elt of which I have already spoken, Nip and Tuck in Early Rounds. La Blanche took the aggressive and landed the first blow, holding his ad- vantage during the first two rounds. In the third round Dempsey had a Shade the best of it. The fight se sawed through the rounds clear up to the tenth, the advantage be! most of the time with Dempsey, La Blane fought hard and at times made tre- mendous spurts, but the beating Jack was administering was slowly wearing him down, La Blanche frequently foule', e-pecially in the breakaways. In the eleventh round La Blanche made a fina! spurt and gave Jack a severe beating, but the effort spelled defeat for him. From that time on Dempsey took a commanding lead ood hammered the Marine unmercifully. In the thirteenth round Dempsey walked out of his corner and knocked % Blinche down with @ right-hand low, He did it again, and th third time tre blow landed La Blanch vi own for keeps. Although he sensible, he was unable to ri the decision, with the purse and the famous belt, went to Dempsey. The men used small gloves, whih was very much to Dempsey's liking. This fight firmly established Dempsey’s right to the title of middleweight champlon- ehip of the world and made him the ye gad defender of the shamplon ahip bel All aang 1887 Dempsey had been iz iving ce! lenges from Johnnie Raa- Ban, @ local boxer, Reagan was raised and lHved tn the Corlears Hook district. He was a pupil of Prof, Mike Donovan and was an unusually clever boxer. Files Pung around the Bowery and was @ * fi I Fighters great favorite with te frequenters of that thoroughfare, jongan had the backing of the Sicteats ook sports, Undertakers Wodld Have Been Busy Had Doyle Hit Safely in the Ninth. BY BOZEMAN BULGER. FTER the riotous proceedings with the Cubs the overworked fan may now sit back ip an easy and the affair developed considerable | | cal interest, the Bowery crowd backing | Files, while the Corlears Hook bunch | pinned their faith on Reagan, The bout | was pulled off on the sandy beach of + plonlc grove somewhere up the Sound. | The match worried along for forty rounds, at the end of which time Rea- | gan knocked Jack out. THE WATER wat uP To THEIR KNGOS | | Reagan then considered himself about the finest thing in the fighting line that had struck New York for a long time, So he redoubled lls efforts to secure a fight with Dempsey and finally a match was arranged. There was quite @ bit of feeling between the two men, due mostly to Reagan's constant efforts to belittle Dempsey and to the stories he circulated around about him. The match was for a finish fight with kid gloves under the old London prize ring rules, The stake was $1,000 @ side, the winner to succeed to the title of middleweight cleamplon of the world and to take the champlonship belt. This was the fight In which Dempsey dgfended| under London rules the title and belt he| had won under Queensbury rules. After two unsuccessful attempts the fight was finally pulled off on Dec. 13) on the beach of a picnit grove up the Sound, The night before the fight Demp- | sey, Reagan, the officials, the seconds |and about forty others travelled up the Sound to the battle ground on a tug. boat, taking with them the parapher- nalla for the ring. Fought Knee Ceep in Water. When the men began the battle Rea- gan started things going with a rush Dempsey sidestepped and Reagan, as he rushed past, stamped his foot’ down upon Dempsey’s, driving the spike through Jack's boot. Dempsey warned Reagan against such tactics and called feree's attention to A little made another rush at + raising his left leg up high as he did so. The spike of the toe of his shoe caught Dempsey just below the left knee and cut a gash about five inches Jong and almost half an inch deep. Jack almost fainted from the pain. His sec- onds claimed the fight on a foul, but Reagan protested violently that the af- fair was an accident, turning to Dempsey and saying that he did not Intend to |spike him. Dempsey’ replied, “All right, | we'll go on fighting, but don’t iry it again.” By the end of the fifth round the tide had risen until It was nearly to the men's heels; at the end of the sixth {t was ankle deep and by the time the seventh and elghth rounds Were finished the water was up to thelr knees, It was then agreed to change the ring, It was then taken up and moved about one hundred yards farther in from the water, Dampsey and Rea- san meanwhile going to the tuxboar to change their wet clothing. When the men returned to the ring, Reagan's seconds refused to let thelr man con- tinue fixhting unless the men fought on turf, claiming that the ground was too hard. Aw the London Prize Ring rules permit wrestling, they et to take the chance of Meagan being in- Jured in a fall, So the referee ordered the men to fight on turf, The ring was taken up again and all hands boaried the tugboat and steamed along up the Sound close in shore, until they found & spot where the turf was good. Al- though Dempsey’s leg had become ter- ribly swollen, he refused to call the fight off, and contented himeelf with having tha wound washed with whiskey and bandaged up. At twelve o'clock noon the men en- tered the ring for the third time and started the ninth round, From t ime on until the thirtieth round Demp- sey had all the best of it and Reagan barely managed to stall off the fa blow by frequent clinches and Dempsey meanwhile kept saying Reagan, ‘Why don't you etand up and fight?’ {the fleld to “You are a fine Sarl cushion and conservatively view the eit of the St. Lduls Cardinals without the dan |or swallowing his Adam's apple. Roger and his clan arrive to-day. The iturhp that stuck in the throat for several hours after that memor- able finish to the Cub-Giant series is gradually settling into its accustomed habitat, but in ..e mind there still clings @ trace of that terrible yearning that came over us for Larry Doyle to siam out @ hit wits the bases full that would have ripped the cuticle off Vasnington Heights, Can you imagine that would have happened? If that | wallop had injected iteeif into the rivt- |ous pastime f.at was going on all over it would have required the services of the entire Red Cross to care for the dead and wounded. Some of those who sufter from heart disease saw what was coming and quietly dis- appeared, but whem it wes all over there were many still holding on to the arms of their chairs and panting like a izard on a log. There may have been excitement in Mudville during the days of Casey, and! around Juarez and El Paso they may think they know something about the oid nervous tension, but in @ ball park there never wag @ duplicate of that scene on the 4.1ltop when the Giants, after two were out in the last half of the ninth, piled up three runs and had the bases full when Larry Doyle came forward with his war club. A two- bagger would have tied the score and Larry turned all the steam he had within him into his swing. He caught the ball on the no: wut he iifted it a of getting his hat crushed | (No Woman Is Going to Keep HIM From the Glants vs. Cubs.) MAY GIANTS READY TO TAME ST. LOUIS BEFORE PIRATES REACH NEW YORK No Chance for the Cubs To Get becker of Giants. Manager McGraw says there ts ab- solutely no chance of any club get- Beals Becker. He says there ls thing in the report that he is figur- Becker to Chicago for hat report is fool the face of It," said the Giant ‘Chance has plent; What he needs is only utility outt and I would be foolish to think getting rid of #0 valuable @ ma According to the report, Chance wanted to get Becker so that he could trade him off to some other club for @ pitcher. It stands to rea- son, therefore, that if Chance could make such @ trade that McGraw could. McGraw would like another cher, but Becker is needed badly as a twirler. Uttle too high, That eititude permitted Hofman to scamper to the fence and gobble up the ball just as it scraped the boards, ‘We won't see anything like that in the series with the lowly Cardinals, and it may be all for the best. If tt should happen again there wouldn't be enough hat stores jm New .ork to replace the | crippled and crushed top pieces. It wae a wonderful Anish, but ¥ the Giants had played basedall in ‘ Afth inning it wouldn't have been necessary. After two were out in that lamentable session siz base Mee and two weird throws by Wil- aon turned the Cubs into Beare. The five rune copped the bacon, While the Giants and the Cubs broke the most tn- iting series of the season, it s plain that neither of them is ready for a championship fight. Both clubs are af- filcted with the same troubles. We may | talk and talk of broken maciines, lack of team work and all that, but the real trouble looms up as big asa cloud. The Cubs and the Giants rely in need of pitchers. At present it seems t: Chance must depend upon Brown anh Melntyre, with Richie as a second Brown Works Invention to Stop Chicago Pitcher Catches the Giants’ Fastest Baserunner on Bunt to Third. By Bozeman Bulger. O catch T Uke Josh Devore going from sec ond to third when the batter bunts the ball 1s some feat. It it no Aiscredit to Devore, however, as Ty| Cobb ‘ell for the same play while play ing in the world’s championship seri against the Cubs three years ago. Mordeca! Brown, the wily old veterat though defeated in his first against the Glants,, showed a trace of his old-time form by working this play, 18 which, by the way, 1s his own Invention, poxing tournament under the auspices Devore was on second and Larry! ayy new West Side A.C. will hold {of the Pastime Athletic Club at Madison Doyle on first, with none out, There 18! enete weekly stag to-night at the club-|Square Garden, May 19 and 2, get in| but one play for the batter to make. 9 West Fifty-fourth street. {to-day on the St, Louls. A big welcome in @ case like that, and that is « buat, | In the bout Babe Cullen meets|has been planned for them, A sightsee- orhenae Battling Gallagher for ten round ing automobile decorated with fints But Reagan refused to stand up eA ee preliminaries carrying the Sons of St, G Dempsey knew it was only a matter ranged: A. A. U. con and members of the of time until his opponent would be|K, 0 Pastime A.C, will meet the visitors at | thoroughly beaten. In the forty-fifth | Fran d|the pier. ‘They will be driven up Broad- | round Reagan was all in and could only | Joe Kelly vs. Danny Mack, ey rounds |way and throughout the city on a sight- keep upon his feet by continual clinch- | e teeing expedition, ing, His seconds, seeing that the fight — — odd was hopeless, threw up the sponge to save their principal from # knockout Although the elapsed time of fight was from eight o'clock morning until nearly one in the after- noon, the actual fighting time was only one hour and five minutes, After the the fight was ended, Dempsey, in ‘order to | show that he was still good and fresh, ran all the way from the ring to the tugboat, while the vanquished Rea- gan had to be carried on board. After paying all of his expenses, Dempsey had $12 left to him from his winnings, ‘The next chapter will also deal with Dempecy's career. a fleet-footed youngster in the | Fleet Baserunners HOw "Tw ReG-BiNGER™ CROWN ILLS THE Sacaipce eur | #0 as to advance both runners. The bat- |ter knows that he must bunt toward | third, #0 as to draw the third baseman |!nto the diamond and leave the bag |uncovered. If the third baseman, who | happened to bo Jim Doyle in this case, left the bag, it was a cinch that De- vore would arrive safe, | Just before Snodgrass came up Brown, | knowing what was coming, walked over |and told Jimmy Doyle to’ s to his | base and not ‘come in for ball Brown then pitched a fast one to Snod- ere and he bunted it a little to the right of the pitcher. Aw he turned |the ball Brown swung himself toward third and as he stooped the bunt struck him directly in the hand, Jimmy Doyle |had obeyed instructions and stuck to third, As @ result Brown shot the bal! straight to the bag and Devore was jcaught by five or six f This {s not a new play for the Cubs, |ut the fact that the other players | Know of it and then can’t beat tt makes its strength all the mor, arent. | SaTEane eee Went Side Stag To-night. | RATIONAL Lkauua, alsa, i, Sr itiberit, Pittsburg Cincinoatt at —_——e Cardinals Should Prove Much Easier Opponents Than Cubs on Hilltop To-Day. choice. At that Brown ts none too good and has taken several trimmings this spring. On the other hand, the Giants must put thelr faith in Wiltse and Matty. Raymond was going great tor a while, but it is problematical as to he will last. Ames is very there has been trouble évery time hi ted with one exception. He won hi a beautiful artide of ball, but since then he has been unsteady. Crandall has been a little to the bad on his last two starts and the work of Drucke will be uncertain for some time to come. As to Marquard—well, you cam figure that out for yourself, Jimmy Sheckara made one of the most phenomenal catches of hie career when he dived on Me face and caught Becker's liner that looked certain for @ emgle and ao STANDING OF THE CLUBS, way GAMES sou RNULED. yor “D6. DAY. run That Rave tied the ecore, That break of luck took the heart out of Ames, and soon there- after he went to pieces. Jimmy Sheckard claims that he is the unluckiest man in baseball. With all that shower of hits Jimmy wae the only Cub who 4X not ewat one safely. He made up for it, however, by his mar- vellous work in the out@eld. All he did was to keep the Giants from winning the gama Still, you know, @ ball player likes to see some figures opposite hiv name in that hit column, Fred Snodgrase played @ wonder- ful game at firet base. In fact, he covered the bag eo well that a stranger would never know that he was a substitute. Notice how noisy Fred (a getting? MoGraw tried hard to get away with e clever stunt when Doyle came to bet in the last halg of the ninth with the bases full. Umpire O'Day called a bad strike on Doyle and McGraw began to kick. He didn't care anything ebout the de- cision, but {t was & great chance to hold up the game before Brown, who had just come in the box, could get warmed up. McGraw kicked and Kicked until O'Day finally pulled his watoh, In the meantime Johnny Kling and Brown got on to joGrew's echeme began warming up on the side while the play- ers talked to the umpire Mike Donlin practieed at the Hittop yesterday morning. He has asked for reinstatement a Seotrasione! pares In organized baseball. that xranted MoGraw oan either tae hin H chance or trade him to some other club, The Gtante got bus one Mt off Richie up to the eighth inning. Then in the ninth after two were out they got together and drove him from the bow. Brown came to the rescue just in the wick of time. Fred Merkle may be out of the game {a sutfering tn- tense n from @ carbuncto on his| throwing arm, The club physiolan has advised him not to try and play again until he 1s perfectly well. In the mean- time Snoderass wil play firet bane and Becker will take care of centre fleld, Mathewson is scheduled to do the pitching this afternoon and he {s just right for the fray. Matty has taken things easy this spring and has bullt himseif up until he is just about right for @ long campaign. feces sve-: BIG WELCOME FOR ENGLISH AMATEUR BOXING STARS. ‘The five English amateur boxers who are to take part in the international AUEMUCAN LEAGUB, Club, L. 0C.) Cub, Net Ki © New York at Cleveland, at Detroit Bt Chicago, Toile *at ‘st, Cota, 18, 1911, NEWS OF ALL BRANCHES OF SPORT ‘oveican! Ranove TET Nowe! EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN YA COULON''T UMPIRE A GAME , A PING PONG | —, GOVERNOR GRAY POST FAVORITE IN KENTUCKY DERBY Pee ery Great Crowd Out to See An- nual Classic for Blue Grass Honors. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 18.—The Ken- tucky Derby, one f the greatest turf classics of America, will be run this afternoon before probably the lergest crowd that ever witnessed the race and under circumstances most favorable The weather te clear and the track hes i confingent of Kentucktane ‘To o large the annual running of the Derby, inau- in 18%, is about like cirous Gay,| cities, Many of them Probebly greater horses have faced the starter in the Kentucky Derby than will start thie noon, but not for years has eo evenly matched a fibid been entered. Ten horses are on the Programme, but not more than eight ‘will start. Favorites for the rece 'e shifted from day to day eo well bal- anced are the merits of the several thoroughbreds, The last pick of local turfmen is Gov. Gray and Capt. Jim Williams's gelding will go te the post the favorite, Round the Werld ruled the choice for several weeks, but recent performances have put her out of the money in the eyes of most handicapper Meridian is plaked by many, and Coleten ts oon- coded to have @ good chance, With this fielé, however, speculation on the winner ig useless, In the vernacular of the Kentucky colonel, “It will be o hoss race whoever wins,” Yale and Penn Meet on Water in Annual Battle. | Mase, May %&~To ee the twentieth century athietic repre- eentatives of EN Yale and William Penn im a test of strength and aquatic skill there Journeyed into this dity to- Gay several hundred close followers of college rowing for the versity race be- tween Yale and Pennsylvania, ‘The forenoon conditions for the race Indicated ideal weather and water for the afternoon evemt, which was fixed at 5 o'clock. The race offictuls met here during the forenoon, among them be- ing the referee, Robert F. Herrick, an old Harvard oareman, but now a staid Boston lawyer. Both crews had short apins in the forenoon, but these were merely to keep muscles limbered.— Pennaylvania, be- we of her veteran crew, was at first favorite over the green co CRITER oat FRANCIS WILSON {i LYCEUM St rit Sb Mrs, FISKE | FOLTES) siissteititn th BERGERE 7's SIC Ral v rou 0 to HUDSON 3; Wee au) WeEW AMSTERUAM, TH LIBERTY ¥ Hat. 2.1 Coniedy Te Luss PINK LADY at fh Wee Year's ¢ nT “EXC USE} N GMETY ay AUGHTER AT rie aWwou ey ihe THE CLOUDS” Ait i Crippled Hilltops Tackle Strong Naps In Opening Game _—— Gene Krapp Scheduled to pitch| Opening Game Against | New Yorks To-Day. (Special to The Evening World.) Cleveland, May 1% HE Hilltope arrived here this morn- Ing to engage Manager George Stovall's rejuvenated Nape in « four-gam> series. The New York players are jubilant over setting back the Tigers in two mes of the series just completed, ® though they did not relish the sudden reversal of conditions in the game at Detroit yesterday, when the sensational base running of Ty Cobb turned what appeared to be certain victory for them lato defeat. The Cleveland club seems well pre- pared to give Hal Chase's crewd « warm sertes. Gene Krapp, the Pacific Coast League graduate, who has sh: sensational form at times this will oppose the visitors to-day. Though one of the emaliest pitchers in the league, Krapp possesses in connection with Dunches of speed a epitter which Dall: players claim to be @ close rival to that with which D4 Walsh has mys- tiled opposing batsmen in recent years. The Cleveland club will enter the series handicapped by the absence of Lajole and his understudy, Art Griggs. Larry 19 suffering from @ sprained ten- don, while Grij tore @ musole in his back making a home run in the first wame of the series with Boston. Neal Ball will fill the breeoh, The game on Sunday, the first Sad bath day contest to be played here in twenty years, will cause a ghift in the New York lineup, because of Biniie Greve attitude toward playing on Sun- te Grew the have witnessed vastly, ing here that the Athletics end must reckon New York before ctasmning @ pennant. Another thing that has greatty ta- creased thé interest here is the Ler] improvement in the Cleveland the ate ‘et Jim McGuire trom the management the club and the appointment ot George Gtovall in his 2 The Naps seem to bave just started. ‘They are better, @ edrgyie4 to give the Highlanders a battle than they have been at any time since the season opened, Joe Jackson has won for bim- welt a solid place in the hearts of the Cleveland fans and hes stamped him- eclf the sensational player that the es AMUSEMENTS. o America’s Foremost Theatres and Wie Cavers Sezer ttt laces Pt a LYRIC "tions te: 8 LHL ed Aust THe Lint 0° LONDON 39th Siraal THEA. tt a By. 5. JOHN MASON ™ aici We WIN DALY'S Bee sSia: MR, MANTELL Best gras B18 LAST (Toda WEEK) CATSAK,. 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Wolter’s work at first base however, will be sorely missed, in sase his injury in the collision with Cobb continues to keep him out of It. agente Grew 20 enthusiast: press about. Letty ean gonad young sensation the Coast by the Cleve- ‘clue, we has in fact pitched bs Detter ball than La —, pit the club, will also face No He may appear st and Fred Blandi two other rorene the former from Toledo and the other from Ban forge hy will pitoh the other games of thi Owing to the substitution of the gun day LN there will be ne game here next Wednesday. AND ‘isi ‘pathy if ots PAYTON'S SWEET rY ona co, BELLAIRS, ral Me & Boe. ACADEMY Fie Wik oF THE AOU Next Week—THE Sauay DIVI . | j BELASLY at abdiibese bitte. & ee nyt “THE CONCERT” yon tit & Sua ow Afternapa, A cas Paty walhiach’s Last ‘Get-kic a Wa lingford | TLUMBA ehh - ku C poking BROOKLYN AMUSEMENTS, " rinks (ice alts ‘iar Concerts GR AND ORE RA How, »E sae 4 x