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| NT EE EE TIT ET TT TT TE TT 5 a Se . = et & ON ae ORR Ny Ne SATURDAY, MAi 1911. THE EVENING WUKLD, TWO OF GIAN STAR MEN HURT TS’ INTERNATIONAL TOURNEY PROVES FIASCO a BOXING American Boxers Revolt Because English Am- | ateur Champions Are Saved for To-Night, While Cops Put on | Obituary Touches. | | Copyright, 1911, by The Press Pubfishing Co, (The New York World). ERRY England is rocking with M humor on the other side of th five champt to New York hold a great international boring tou! and that Canadian and Pnglish champions were to be invited to take part in the festivities. A few days ago the English champions arrived, accom- panied by the secretary of the A. B. A., ing at Woodlawn Inn, Crowds of cur- fous people travelled into the wilds of the Bronx to see them, and came home telling of thelr prowess. They wei likely Jot. ‘Then the Canadians arrived, and the American champions were all here. Excitement wae running riot in the iend, Ol yot! But there were to I the A A OU. the meet and issued the siting boxers. The Pastime mirth to-day or there's no sense of| 6 pond. For England sent a team of | to box the champions of the United) States and Canada. And what fol- lowed at Madison Square Garden last | night—ff {t hadn’t been #o pathetic— | was quite the funniest flasco of the season. “Bah Jove!” exclaimed the English | champions, sitting 1n a row half way back from the ring. “Look—look— look! There's a dig Bobbie climbing up! It’s @ dloomer—a bdloomin'| bloomer!" And a “bloomer” it was, from start to finish A month or #0 ago it was given out that the Pastime A. C., one of the oldest and most respected of New York’s amateur athletic chibs, was to rnament in Madison Square Garden, and quietly went on with their train- fice. Tim was game; he didn't look up at the galleries. And Tim doesn't carry much of a thatch on his roof at that. | He would have been « ghining mark for @ soda bottle. | N the floor tn one corner of the ting stood a big cop with en anxious, rolling eye. A little tur- card—to the vit ‘affair, and famous old Pastime athlete, also had at least lent ite Loewe ecoaghentined] cast a doubtful took at the brass but- although Danny McKetrtok, Tim Ruts and leaning over to Sam Bea, the and Young Sammy Smith °| well known starter, whispered: “Sam, sinews of war, pad traveling yet ‘would you mind holding the watoh « and the costs of training, poered out minute? I want to go out and get a gain In bales for the printing of tickets, | gua of water.” “Sure,” ead Sam, posters, general advertising, &0+ 0°) siding into the timekeeper‘ char, keo., not forgetting for @ moment ¢ the| Somebody had forgotten the gong, and in advance for two nights’ lease there wasn’t even a cowbell in the Garden. buliding. Also gloves had been over- aercat night the great moment arrived. | iooned hot @ pair hed been unearthed Acgprding to ther arrangement made on i Abstner side, the English boxers were toe matched against champions only, in individual matches, not to fight thelr way through the mazes of a tournament. Some twenty-five trials were to be con- tested on Friday night, nd the winners were to box the Englishmen and the Canadians to-night. 80 they came Gown to the Garden to look on and see what manner of men they were to meet. Right here there was @ hitch, The American champfons, hearing that they were not to be tossed in with the Eng- lishmen at once, all wemt on strike and refused to box at all “What!” they exclaimed, “Fight a lot of other guys and take a chance of being Heked first! Nit!" ‘They were merely exercising the privilege of champions, They wanted to pick their opponents. In the Garden all was contusion, ‘The officiate argued and argued until they were ced in the faco— almost apoplectic, At lest Tim Hurst settied the matter, in & way. “Offer ‘em special prises,” he ordered. Gome of the strikers began to relent, M B things were ) happen- ing outside, Tickets coulin’t be e0ld at the Garden box office, and all would-be spectators were told to go to the Bartholdi Hotel, several blocks A. G. By 9 o'clock the Pastime hed a membership of fully 1,800. It was a banner night in the club‘ existence. Back at the Gerden the crowd was coming slowly, not in dense masses, as at the bike rece, but in @ thin, intermit- tent line, The fret bout was to have gone on at 7.80. But at that hour only the bickering boxers were in sight, with a few officials and ‘Tim Hurst, the Jat moaning softly as he fooked at empty boxes. A Prunty, known simply es “Pet in contrast to “Sil tongued Joe’ Humphreys and “Human Megaphon: Charlie Harvey, climbed into the ring and made his first painful announoe- ment. Peter explained that the Eng- Hishmen woulé not go on until Saturday night, and gave the reasons. Ho @ald, too, that Friday night coupons would be honored on Saturday night, and that the © nime-thirty Announcer Peter owing to unfortunate circumstances-- the strike-only five bouts would be| staged, and not bouts between cham- pions at that. members groaned. under his breath, The fifteen hundred So did Peter, but It takes @ game man to announce, som Peter eft the and two small boxers who were sitting in corners looked up at the gal- levies uneasily, ready to dodge soda| r bott But none were thrown. | tied soda was being sold on the) premises. Tim Hurst, with a sad, dis- | trait, bereaved ad left hy Tim RESULTS OF YES? H 6, 8. lew York. rooklyn, Bt, at Bost Cliteago at Philade) es 4 AN AN ANARCHIST The New PASTIME AC. wi IRON DOWARs | joo Coot BEERS 11's ENOUGH To MAKE A IN THE EYE OF THE SPORTING PUBLIC. Copyright, 1911, by the Press Pubtishing Co, (The New York Wort IT'S A Broomer ? Wot A VERY, Very FUNNY PLACE HAMERICA 18, Dont v'tniow? ) Captain HATES Got Tue ONLY DECISION. \ > WERE Geeeens WERE A SoRA 0" ~N - “<ggeibaon * PooR“Tm WURST NEARLY DRoePED we (HE Savi The Cops, ERY, tT. fs Tue Gate REceIPTS Were” for __saven _ “Te ENGLISH CHAMPIONS t MUCH AMUSED. BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK DEFE BRITTON WILL MEET Clever Boxers to Clash at the Twentieth Century Club on June 2. BY JOHN POLLOCK. | ACK BRITTON, the Chicago iight- | J weight, who caused a sensation In | this city by the marvellous showing he made tn his bout with Johnny Marto at the Twentieth Century A, ©, was matched to-day to meet a more classy fighter than Marto. The scrapper Is Young Gammy Smith, the crack Phila- elphia boxer, who recently returned from San Fraricisco, where he fought Johnny McCarthy, the California light- weight, a twenty-round draw. | and Smith will meet tn a ten-round bout | at a atag of the Twentieth Century A. ( on the night of June 2 They will box at \ 135 pounde, weigh in at 3 P. M. VICTORY OVER PIRATES COSTL WILTSE AND DEVORE BADLY HURT 2% Glants’ Crack Southpaw Breaks Finger While Josh’s Leg Is Spiked. BY BOZEMAN BULGER. ‘HOUGH the Buccaneers were made to walk the plank im one of the fleresst combats of the year, the siege ie not over, It was a valiant victory, but a costly one in the way of casualties, The Giants lost fetlow|two of their sturdiest warriors dy boute| wounds end another for trying Cork Centre Ball Has Nothing on Gas Core Pellet Used in the Days of the Willow Swamp League By Boxeman Bulger. KING about cork centre balls causing trouble, you fel- | 66 lows make me tired," re marked Mike O'Toole, at one time a famous player in tho Wilow Swamp |TUm bat; ho dealt tt @ frightful blow. League. “You time of Bwat M ould have lived in the kan, when new balis to “ghow up" the umpire, Wiltse left the Game with a broken finger after stop- viol Uner from Fred Clarke’ Dat, and Josh Devore in laid up with a severe spike wound in hia left leg. Bridwell was given the can for at- tempting to show Umpire Bason and the crowd just how far the arbiter had missed @ strike, Using @ dat for an in. Aicator, he lifted it high about hts head and—sowile! The deed was done There ythe da: really caused trouble, Them were tae days." “Go on, Pall tt," members of the party “Well, we had been looking for lively ball for a jong time, when some inventor ade one with an 4 for a centre e the ball very Ught and re silent 1 he figured that no batte could hit the ball and enough to cau an explosion, But he had reckoned | without his host “One day at Catfish Shoals, Swat | Milligan came to the bat with the Of course, y er could keep # ered and he liked, On in those days a ba Ne ER "hs 5 i howte 4. Vale 4, GAMES SCHEDULED VOR TO-DAY. New Yors at St Philadelnbia Rowton at Chi Washington at Cleveland, Louts, Detroit. 1 ou know that | te @ chance of Bridwell being suepend- 4, Dut to offset any possitte charge of criminal Intent he beat it from the first chance at the new ball, made up his mind to hang up a record. After two strikes had been called, he | S¢ing at such frightful speed that tt] got one tn the groove with his home | There was @ slight desulttory explosion nd the cover of the ball was seen to ip. Out of it projected about a yard n the air as the ball sped ike @ bul- let toward centre field. “The centre flelder made a leap for the whizzing ball, but missed it, and Ahearn-Goodman Winner Will Get Chance at Weils The Young $ to winr Ab “r of the Jack Gooe n ten-round battle Twent whieh n Cen, nk next 4 1 ds to be given a chance to Matt Wells for the ighiwelgit championship of England ‘A week ago Goodman, was matched with dnglish champion who Freddie W of the Britisher should succeed in beating the west si boy he will take Goodman's place for the English tide and the Lerd Lonsdale belt. Ahearn and Goodman fought @ ter- riffle ten-round bout in Brooklyn several | twirl weeks ago, and the opinion wes very | will eventy divided as to the outcome, | of the yarn, ‘This being wet and heavy | foot, suggested several| With glue, whipped and slapped around | Into right Beld | quette t HANS WAGNER MAKES STAR STOP OF SEASON. Next to the marvellous base- Funning of the Giants the glit- tering feature of that second bat- tle on the Hilltop was the won- erful fielding of Hans Wagner and Bridwell On one occasion Deviin wae on second when Chief Meyers = whacked grounder between and third. It looked ithe @ certain hit, when the big Dutchman sud- dently slung himself toward third and came up with the ball in time to nail Deviin at third. Deviin war so startied that he didn't know what to do and be- gan talking to himself as he flut- tered up and down the base path. ‘That was the etar stop of the year, Sreeneward in a hurry as soon as he was given the rouse. Fortunately for Bridwem, hie bat was not long enough to show just how far Eason 4id mias that strike or he mizht have been sent up for life A player may got away with bad language, even profanity, but when he tosses his cap in the air, holds up his bat or hurls his glove to the ground in disgus A | |Bridwell May Draw Suspen- | _ Slon for Kick on One of | Umpire’s Decisions. | | that fe an affront to the umperial dig- | nity that can not be countenanced. _— | The chances are that Josh Devore will be out of the pastime for several days, and his injury was received in one of the prettiest base running etunte of the season, Josh was on third when Snodgrass bumped a bouncer to Pitcher Steele. Instead of sticking to the bi Josh sneaked up until he had a | of some ten feet, and when S| hurfed the ball to firat he shot forward as {f slung from a catapult and skidded safely across the plate. As Josh sitd| under Gibson he upset the big catcher, who came down on that speedy pair of legs with his spikes. ‘The jagged ateel tore an ugly place in Josh's leg and he had to be rusted away to a doctor so| to prevent a possibility of blood | poisoning. While Devore’s injury is a hard jolt to the team, Beals Becker Proved that he was equal to the emergency by taking his place and winning the game in the seventh, Becker came up with a man on sec- ond and he ripped a sistling shot through Firet Baseman Hunter that brought home the bacon, —_ Bugs Raymond proved the rv of the day when he came das! the front, and led the Giants to victory. With a Wa: On uit Way y in question this was @wat's|the gummy yarn stuck tight to his and he| shirtsieeve. In a hing o oment a most re- rkable rred, The ball was began whirling around the flelder and the yarn began to unwind as It whirled. Around and around the body of the flelder the ball kept going until there was nothing left but the cover, | and the flelder was bound hand and The gas finally blew the cover In the mean time Swat had skirted the for fifty-six rons “Coming to his er picked vied he it to hing Swat a next lap.” “We inquired a by~ stander. Out nothing! exclaimed O'Toole. “When he went to claim the decision he found out that te umpire had been asphyxiated and nover had seen the play. “After that we Invented the cork cen. Was ne out?” tre ball, and that Is what you fellows! n-}are hollering if pout to-da DODGERS IN SUNDAY GAME AGAINST MARQUETTE TEAM. Bi Dahlen and b hus ng Brooklyn National League team will play an ex- hibition game against the strong Mar- m at Marquette Oval, Tenth street and Second avenue, South Brook- lyn, to-morrow. The Marqueties have ured the services of several crack semi.professional players to help them out in making @ good showing against Dahlen Knetzer or Schardt will for the Dodgers. Daubert play first base ‘The game will start at $90 P, M, ~| Phillies man on third and two out our hero ‘twatned his guns and struck out Hans Wegner. There are many ball players who are honored with the name of “Red,” but when it was announced that “Red White” would pitch the last inning for the Pirates the fans had their beat laugh of the after- noon. Mr, White has a shock of red hair that looks Wke a fire scene én a@ melodrama, Red Murray, the first man up, cracked Red White for a double. On account of his excellent showing lin the last throe rounds against the Pirates, Bugs Raymond will probably get the assignment to fire the first gun against them this afternoo) | | Speaking of fashion plates, Rube | Marquard has set a new pace for diamond Beau Brummelis bi ing his monogram en YOUNG SA Britton | °6 Jack Welsh, the pormlar refers of Catiforis, has teen selected to Teleree te Tight weieh Dlonship fight tetween Ad Wolgast a Burns, the Californie kgutw Portrast cr ace 'at Jim Cuttroth's 0 Sen! = A GENTLEMAN erect Thro wey, NOR Me Re) Oe tei Prevent him from ineeting Biren)" Mt) OF LEISURE. se i a Tom MoCares, manager of the Pacitic A, C, he has Ad. Wol to 4 twenwounl bout SR MACE DAY aftemonn, that ‘Wolgast to fight 153 pounds, weigh In three hours before the fight And that Fmil ‘Tuery, manager has eccepted the weight terme ‘A match has been arranged the. west t amaker ws 1 As lms secured them teaqonnd bout at x at on June 5, Stove for ten rounds at We Young Abearn, the Bnglleh Uehtwetaht, a battles newt week. fi a ha tor wil] be ith Thursday wight, 0! reat hit with the 4 Piet lowers of the Lg MMY SMITH fought, at his club foun further states ‘McParland at | ‘ot Mevariand, | Henry’s Trial Sprint World’s Record wt His first will aia ft France ring food as Matched for | PPP RAPP PPP PD DPD PDD DPD PP PP PPPPPPPLPLL PLP LPDADLLDDLS HILLTOPS’ RALLY ATS BROWNS Equals to at by “*" Hot Weather Evidently Lim-! te bers Up Texas Runner— Gossip of Athletes. Philadelphia | phe deci arty Lents faa twenty round WINN HENRY, the Texas sprint> pout at Jew. Weeks Ago. Will ail for oon to re} ght! Rowe “on Fine i) with “iis manager, Lad Dur + OF 22 SOOT 60 FORSIN Tis MUSHY Jpeher, and the Loughrey hrathers, wise of While: Shattered reputation as one of CF ets, to Ive been over in Pars in search ine fastest runners in the country. Knockout Brown will get into condition nephy at th fon-round bout with Tommy M tor nis | nd ged |to the P. 8. yhen he first appeared here and raced over the boards he was far from being in any sort of condition, and only those who had seen him run at New Orleans knew just how good he really Is when in shape. Last night Henry went down A. L. field in Brooklyn to foray’ ty Heda MeManon to "med {do a little light training. We met him leon sigedan'olght "Hunting [On the Brighton Elevated. found "* ry ” . "yi sland. inforet his hand If you've got the time to spare I ile kiaay | wish you would come down and watch call ‘arming box the eeimi-finel, ten-round hout between Jimmy ee and Mike Gibbons days or as Clabty of the Wemem fight | we taken place before the Milwaukee ‘last night, 31 reuse ‘whicr it will tale place the weather gos me run to-nig! said the Texan, “If you'll come along I'll run 1% yards nat time. The track has been fixed and the way I'm running. the why I will ble to show you some real sprinting. ‘We went along. And Henry's perform- ae, Rea ere vin ance was well worth the trip. A few Bie Mack" the’ grime ties Uehtning-like practice starts and he fae ten, rounits {a the windup atthe | announced that he was ready to make A. ag. on Acard battle at the sam: ib ago, although the Baglishmen won out. Young O'Leary, the Fast Side bentemweight and "Slims “ritin, “another good local f ive been matched (or meol ite ten-rounde po at the next ats the Colin A, ©. of Brook! on Monday wba has deleted many Kood nungeters ty have to his tastes to yt tad Leary at the finish. Some Team Those Dodgers, Theyve Wo Brooklyns Have Won Two From Cubs and Same Num- ber From the Reds. ILL baseball wonders ever ceare! The Dodgers, after being bat- tered here and there by the Glants, Cardinals and other clubs, have |} come back with both feet and hands | won four games in a row. might not be considered in the complished against some ordinary team, | but it has been done against the Cubs | and the Reds, two of the strongest the Nationa! League. ‘0 @gainst the Tige League knows, the veteran major league organt: yet Bill Dahlen’s charges them two games in succession. of the Amer tion, The Cincinnati boys, under the leader- ahip of Clarke Griffith, the foi land manager, had been pla: the West, and also had : lers of Be look like “also-ran: yet the Dodgers beat them succession! If the weather seems to be a tw! permits—and e that it won't, tainly is one poisonous design, | pein Now that the Cubs have knocked the down again and the Giants have taken a fall out of the Pirates, | the race is getting close enough for the | pennant pickers to get busy again, President Lynch says he ts going to see that his wmpires are respect- h He will get a lot more of respect for them by seeing that they give proper decisions than by blaming it on the pla enuaiaamadeeama | Two Hard Games for Colored Team neader will, be pla old, One Hundred and Phi street and h avenue, The Lincoln Giants, t Seventh morrow colored team, will first tackle town then go against Ironside Newark, who } Ling Giants’ great winning stre: last Sunday by beating them oy a score of 5 to 4 McClelland will twirl for the Lincoin Glan The University Heights Baseball Club will play the strong Kane A. C. team to-morrow at 3 P. M. Last Sunday the field wae opened to the pubilc, ume team beating the Hudson Guild cording to the man | boys from P | In keeping witt performed — by Brooklyns, |Rucker, than whom there is no bette | southpaw twirler in (he s of the weat! ain, | season, allowing only five hits and shut |ting ont his adversaries in | fashion, Now that Rucker, Barger, |the other star twirlers ar form, Manager Dahlen and | Ebbets are predicting a Presiden baby carriages and rubber plant. One of the fatures of the gam that neither side made an erroi is one of the few times that t has been accomplished in this s bad umpiring and the cork-core ball, which Teoeive a good sala G tit rivania, | the ol rite esident aot te hei it gecond’ sitalght t Cube. Ter tad Jom their Bs ny to the tt ‘Chub. = Weeks a|Two timers held the watches. are the champions of ve Whipped merciless Bell and | in_pitehing | first. division | |berth for the Dodgers, which is almost as good as a pennant In the city of was stunt son of | mt baseman | 4 a try against the time, 1244 secs, Robert Cloughen’s world's record. Henry land Reynolds, a young sprinter of the |New York A, C., took their marks. At the pistol they were off the mark like a buile crack of pet the leavin ry n Four Straight 1, Players Magee, Doolan and Knabe of the | Phil ve been fin apince for @bjectn to Umpirs Doyles dee’ in Thursday's 4 Word now comes from Fvere, the great seconsl lis’ showing ses be able to rey team ree! Tals uy be ead news to the Giants, Virates aud other Shube, Toy th The Red Sox tne Waite sons bar it took’ thea twelve anings to do 60. Enst i pct nb, | Rochester. ‘orgnto mn tretdens Rathimare, ade the Rust- | | there “4 to wallop the | miracles being) Nap! puntry, comes |along and wins his first game of the t h ¢ | stovped the winning. sireax ot | | Five strides and Gwinn was in the lead A couple of feet. Down the trac went, straight as an engine running mn rails, At every stride he seemed tv \ increase his speed. It was about the | fastest sprinting ever soon. A fow yards | from the 130 post y pulled up to, ‘barely perceptible ¢ e. His time | 124-5 seconds. | ST find the warm weather Hmbers mv up a great deal,” said the Texan, “an now that it is getting almost es wart Jas tt ls at home I know I will un in record brealdng form this summer.” Martin Sheridan is again training a’ Celulc Park, and he 1s throwing the dis- cus in good form. Sheridan put om a immense lot of weight duning the “In- door” season, and he believeg the added poundage will come in handify this gum- Last night Gwinn Henry was not sure that he will start against Rosenberger. | Edwards, Dorland and Bill Keating in the “hundred special at tho Post Of- | fice Clerks! games at Celtic Park to- | morrow, but the probability is that his | wonderful trial at the “100° will en- courage him to try the WO yards to morrow. The gaines will bring ov | many of the athletes who have bee! | training for the national championsiips George | Bird, promising novice |eprinter of the Flatbush A. C., has a | elded to represent his club in the Junior the | National Championships at Pitteburg June 30, Being unduly well-to-do, Mr | Bird will pay all of his expenses out o his own fat bankroll, | When Billy \in the three- er was asked to ry ch race that w be one of the fea teat the Ma Men's games he readily consented, ‘Th games will take place at Celtic Par (June 18. Dan Ahearn gid his brother Tim ha been doing a lot of training at jumps during the last couple of we: and they will both give exhibitions « the Mott Haven A games to morrow. day« many of the N.Y. A. C, ath- letes practise at the P. 3. A. L. field c Walthers, the half-miler, ts doing |@ great deal of training down there, and he is again showing some of his former speed Yves, Heimer, St Wood, Crowley Jon Decoration Day. | is also tying to get Longboat to run the Indian again being in great form The bike riders will have a chance to | show what they can do on @ flat track | when they meet at the I A. AL C games on June 8. Mohrman, Fisher, Van den Dries and Townsend have al been training at the mark. The American Yachtsman discriminates by ord Gin Rickies, Fizzes and tails made from Si:Robt BURNETT s G3 London DRY Gin Since the year 1770 known for its Quality, Fineness and Flavor, Sir Robert Burnett & Compan: 632-634 W. 34th St. his ke. New York Ant 4