The evening world. Newspaper, June 10, 1911, Page 9

aay. POLO CUP STAYS IN THIS co PAAseUS ‘OW ERAgMUS. ‘eee QT A wti66LE ON You AND CMPTY aus TwESe WASTE \ BAsvers TR THA GAME TODAY 7 BELIEVE ME ~ i'm GETTIN FREBLE 9) MINDED WHEN | { Stim THINK UP A UNT TA GET c \ or mS Swharonoe, iin UNTRY LOOEY THE FAN NE Sm =HOW 001 GET, a “ WAAL AH WISHT Mi wu2 dacn! with the ighters Charley i Figh McCoy's Notable Victory Over City Brought Back to America ‘Title Held by Dempsey and Made Kid Most Talked Of Fighter. 54 -KID McCOY. Copretatt, by The Prem Poblisbing Co, The Rew on Word) ee URING this year (1897) Kid McCoy reached the height of his middle- wolght career. He was the most jcalked of fighter {n America and every ‘One was anxious to see him try conclu: sions With Hod Vitzsimmons for t! middleweight championship. McCoy challenged Fitzsimmons repeated!y and even went so far as to back up his challengo with a $4,000 forfelt. Bu: Yitasimmona, having won tho heavy- weight crown from Jim Corbett in ( fon City, had no desire to re-enter the middleweight ranks and ¢sclined to a cept McCoy's offers. Fitzsimmons being out of the vockon- Ing, tho next most likely man to meot McCoy was Dan Creedon. Creedon had tho miidleweisht champion of He was also the midd! weight champion of the Pacifle Coast having won that title from Alec Gre gains, and was the Jast man to fight of the world. AJl this made him tt leal opponent for McCoy, and the fu: P-began to yell for a match between the Y Australian and the Hoosier. Creedon !s- sued a challenge to fight any man for the middleweight championship of the worl, and McCoy lost no time in ac- cepting the challenge. The match was scheduled to place before the Puritan Athletic Club | Long Island City, of which Dick ‘ook was the backer, on Dec, 17, 1897, ‘A putse of $5,000 was guaranteed to the fighters, with a gate receipt privilege and was to be divided 7% por cent. to the winner and 25 per cent. to the loser. The interest among the sportingly in- | RAlined all over the country was Rous, The middleweight championship uf the world was the prise to be fought for by an American boy and an Auswas Man man. While Creedon wan very pop- war in America, nevertheless he was a foreigner, and American patriotism rushed to the standard of its native born, Lot of Interest in Fight. The night of the Sight was @ cold one, There was snow on the ground and many fans came to the clubhouse in sleighs. The betting was heavy and it has been estimated that more than $100,000 changed hands on the result. ‘The odds were generally about 10 to 71-2 bon dicCoy, although there were a num- ber of bets at even money. big hotels and sporting places in w York large wagers were recorded, and at the ringside there were bets of as high as $2,000, ‘The contestants were examined before known physician, who pronounced both of them -tn perfect physical condition and ptated thet they were as fine a pair of ethletes as he had ever though McCoy was trained a little finer than Creedon. The men had weighed in et a New York hote! in the afternoon and their weights were given 165% for McCoy and 167 for Creedon, Austin of New York was the ref- ®° MoCoy was seconded by Doc yne and Tommy West, and Creedon ad Tommy Tracy, Joe Choynski, Bonnie Murphy gnd Bennie Falk, When Men stood up in the ring McCoy wered over Cyeadon by four inche: Australian wae the typical Johnny Maghter, short and stocky, with im- cheat, huge shoulders ‘and tong, | the contrar. in Me almost ick arms. On jooked very slender, fact, thin. From head to toe there was not | the sil t sign of color in his skin, while Creedon was a clear ruddy pink. ust before the fight started it was an- ounced for MoCoy that if he won he would challenge Fitzsimmons for the heavyweight title since the lanky ustralian would not meet him for the Dan Creedon at Long Island|' mors | Around thé the fight by Dr. John H. Girdner, a well- | | great force, but those close to the ring could t they had was not long before C | Bet winded, but he waded in with bull- 4 tence und carried the fight to all througa. The clever Kid i away out of danger, leaped in ume, ‘oy’s movements and blows that Crecdon seemed slow ant y by comparison. In the sixth fused round Creedon was con- ‘oy's foot work and stabs had him rattled landed rd lefts in the stomach and Creedon grinned and suid “Good boy.” Just before the gong sounded McCoy landed a solar plexus and followed |t up with a right-handed back-hand smash on the jaw that made the Australian see stars for a moment. In the eighth round McCoy drew first blood with a hard right uppercut under the right eye. Creedon kept wading in trying for « solar plexus. but his blows always lunded as the Kid was moving away and did no damage. In the ninth round Creedon began to c nt Crees Dan missed a would have ot e. This was following a cilnch. McCoy overbalanced and as he fell forward Creedon shot his right to the Jaw, but the blow missed Vital spot and McCoy was saved, force of the punch was so great, however, that threw the Kid back against the ropes, McCoy Was tie Master. the tenth round on MeCoy was guarded himself well that Creedon that for a blow tide od flowing fre ym it. In the | eleventh rou went down from a left aw but was up on } Ho watted until the en and then rushed at McCoy fir . The belt | ved him from: further dama: ©) the twelfth round Creedon pursued t ppery Kid all over the ring trying | to land a good biow Creedon was | bleeding profusely from the cut under | while Me did not show od hot x hard blow ) looked as tf tt created havoc, but the Kid jumped « and backward as it landed and Its force was lost. The thirteenth round Ft{!] cool and collected. ht his mar ve, Cr found the itd He was afte that chat title and was fight ng a care Creedon was now trying des to stave off defeat, and rushed McC 1 around the ring | Dan in chasing his opponent around the! ring. and mouth in qulcie on the eve, stomach succession. Creedon clinched — and pushed MeCoy into a corner. MeCov jthen rushed and shoved Creedon back |to the centre of the ring, where he landed a right uppercut to the stomach, MeCoy uppercut Creedon on the jaw with a hard left and, like a flash Vahtning. shot over his rizht in r hook to the other side of the jaw. Dan went down with his body all drawn up He rolled over on his in the alr. He finally stratehtened him- self out and got on his knee but was very grogey. Ina few seconds, however, his brain cleared and he grinned at the Kid, Creedon waited until the count of nine and then rused at MeCoy, A fow seconds later the bell sounded, Creedon went back to his corner smiling and try- ling to persuade his friends that he still \had a chance, but it was plain that he | was wofully outclassed and that delay [ing the Minish would simply be to unnee- essarily punish a good man, So Tommy Tracy, Creedon's foster brother and chief second, threw in the sponge a Dan sat in his corner, thus acknowl edging defeat, —Creedon protested strongly and was held in his corner with diMeulty, Ho wanted to whip all of his seconds and was qifleted by Joe Choynski with great dimeulty After Referee Austin had proctatmed MoCoy as the winner and hailed him as the middleweight champion of the world, the Kid walked over to Cree- don's covner and shook hands with him. Dan smiled and said: “You're all right, cCoy; you're @ good man.” ‘This is the way that tne miaat we championship of A the possession of a uauive | | ‘eight NAME wu'e dOHNSON- AN’ MA MIDDLE NAME the | In trying to land a lucky blow, Ho» was] putting and blowing, but was still the amgressor, if sure of the victory, jumped in | hard jabs, gradually wearing the Austrailan down, The fourteenth round | was much the same as the preceding one, except that McCoy showed more aggressivences and took turns with | Creefon came out of his corner for the | |atteenth round seemingly much re. | freshed. He rushed McCoy, who landed Ld ae Mas ov-1eot vy! CALLAHAN POPULAR PLAYER. As an evidence of the remark- able popularity | of Jimmy Calla- han, he has been in New York four days with the White Sox and has yet to | buy his own din- ner. He has been | the guest of the Friars, the Vaudeville Com- edy Club, Frank Fogarty, Paul Armstrong, the Elks and two of his friends in the priesthood. Orr his first ap- pearance at the Hilltop he was {presented with a wagon load of floral tributes, He is the first visiting ball player to have been so honored on a New York diamond, Callahan has that indescrib- able faculty of | making friends, oN mh =| 1 FEEL AN IDEA TRYIN TA GET INTA My DOMe- _THE EVENING WORDED, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1911. STRAMGOAT PILLS Well, He May Not Always Be Dignified, but—— et. ue of missiasten. | a, ANT Goin’ BE NO WHITE-HOPES Fe AW LONG,KONG TIME - hind rat my doy! | Callahan, Champion ‘ ‘Come Back” of Them All, | Is Worth Fortune, but Plays Ball for Fun of It How White Sox Star Outfielder, Playing Again After Six Years’ Layoff, Quit Job as Plumber's Helper and Broke Into Baseball Seventeen Years Ago. BY BOZEMAN BULGER. HILE carrying a bathtub on the back of his neck and drawing $4.60 a W week for the same Jimmy Callahan sat down on the curbstone in the outskirts of Fitchburg, Mass, one hot afternoon and his youthful brow | Vegan to wrinkle with thought wa’ Across the street he saw a cluster of he had arrived at his di tination young Callahan, who ball players climbing into a bus. A newspaper near at hand informed the young | a plumber's apprentice that those fellows were getting $160 a month for busting ‘: a baseball in the eye and then had the rest of the day off, ra half hour Jimmy grappled with this problem and then with a sikh picked up his bathtub and moved on, By the time in those days was called “Nixy,” threw aown the bath. tub and threw up his job with the same motion of his hand. As a result of that desperate move on the part of Jimmy—though still a plumber at heart —he 1s to-day the owner of a ball park in Chicago, is a political leader of great popularity, is an actor—cracking good one, at that—during the off > months, has a stocking full of gold lald away In the safe, 1s back with the White Sox after a #ix years’ absence and is one of the leadtng hitters of the erican Lea With all that he is one of the most popular ball players ered an umpire. This ing back stuff is no wonderful thing,” explained Callahan taat night. “I never abused myself by drinking or excessive smoxing, and while I Was out of the big league T was playing ball once every week with the semt-pro teams around Chicago, When 1 started tn this year I didn’t have to take off weigit Callahan $s ply a born ball player and can't get away from ft. For years he wos a nd when his arm began to grow weak he proved his versaillity oy going to the oulfleld and becoming a star there. After #ix years’ absence ne is torday hitting .20. Jiminy Callahan has a very keen sense of humor, which accounts for his suc- cess as 4 monologist. He delights to tell of the day when he packed up his things | in Fitchburg and started for Philadelphia to become a big league pitcher. Tha was in 18M, seventeen years ago this month, After throwing up his Job of carry- ing bathtubs C sn played regularly with a team at Fitebburg and was known far and wide a pitcher. Finally Arthur Irwin, who was managing the Philadeipia club, heard of the youngster and offered him a Job. | NEWS ~ ae BRANCHES OF SPORT a or YA BREATHE BUT ONE WORD OF THIS FRASMUS AN! YOUR. FAMHLY'Li. Atk GE WEARIN CRAPE Great teorthieatitn Club Is Strengthened by Enrollment of Several Eastern Athletes. qr be ¢t strongest athletic club in the great Northwest, has decided to send seven crack athletes to the Na- tlonal Championships that will be held HE Seattle A. C,, which fs said to Jat Pittsburg on July 1, Ar tmpression seems to prevail throughout the West that the men who show best in the championships will have a greater chance of being remem- bered when tt comes time to pick out the athletes to represent the United States at the Olympic games in Sweden next year, Consequently all the Went- ern clubs Intend sending their star ath- letes to Pittsburg, ‘The Seattle A. C. has been greatly eral ern champion Martin, Phil- thene n Thomassen, | brock, © f the b Martin, form Cc, was 199 © T high Jump aro stb treet are still fresh in the memo- Sinking |Pittsburg faa Fears Brook- lyn’s Stonewall Infield and Her Fine Pitching Staff. Spectal to The Frening World.) When I got the offer,” laughed “IT got an old copy of the Police Gazette and began to study the pietu aked athletes so as to learn how tol train, I took two weeks for training, and, notwithstanding the fact that I was | already in perfect shape, I ran my fool head off up and | down the road like a prizefighter and then got my brother | to rub me down. After two weeks I was 89 weak I could | hardly play bal!, but I had followed directions and I felt Uke @ big leaguer.” The first thing Jimmy did before starting was to send on his photographs to Philadelphia, thinking the whole of shape to meet the “helping Dodgers In the series beginning It embered vill be re town would be Interested. He then packed his belong- tngs—cne shirt, two pair of socks, two collars and a base. yall glove-into a little blue kiester, Get that “kiester'? | Klester is composed of two paprer mache sides, Well, a like an old-fashioned t e. The clothes atner strap binds Je Kloster wan the pride of Callahan's heart, and with buoyant sal ‘oe train in Philadelpoia, By some strange misnap there was no Fapket to Meet Another | crowd at the depot jo meet the new pitener and Jimmy was keenly disa ed | He couldn't underdfand |t any more than he could th act that his pleture had not appeared in any of the newspapers, That he blamed on the mails, N g iis disappointment ay Vest he could and shouldering his Klester | Jimmy went the hotel id registered, which Was gulte an important Cormrality Foreign Title Holder ii jc vt sruic ves on st sc . : could see it plainly, Callahan then swelled out his « ‘and | wate, wey Saree Hirer shock to the poor clerk, Again there Was @ pang of disappoint: | |American to to Fight Marcel Mo= | inte? se been ser young man had never heard of him, and to add inguit to injury the| hie Kked him squarely in the eye and said reau, French Middleweight Haus wiih “It will be $3 In advance, a3 you have no baggage.” ks 4 bia me | ‘og bet This was another blow at Jimmy as well as his klester, but he paid his tast| Champion, in Two Weeks, | 4.,°,,,™" Tus! ais eas! LB three bucks, took the Focm and said nothing Pfeveasleai — Dutch Hartman, the old third baseman, took pity on me," says Callahan, Morena atom er ‘and Jed me to his boarding house. The house was full at the time and I had| | BY JOHN POLLOCK, | woing "to Les Angvies. cal. to room with Hartman, [ had left my kiester at the clubhouse and C began to! | ILLY PAPKE, the American mide elena’ foatnervein get astiamed of 1 saw that Hartman sad two nice sult cases. He left me B who knocked ou nit ow at the ta r slone for a wille |, being curious, I began to inapect the room, To my sur- h 4h middieweigit | three tats mid se J found that this ball player actually had talcum powder, halr tonic, tour hampton, in nine rounds in London on ‘tooth brushes, a patr of military hair brushes—though 1 didn't know what they Thursday were~and a whole lot of regular toilet articies."* \s “Fortunately,” relates Callahan, “Iarunan didn't see my baggage, and al wo he had gone | pulled out my 825 advance money which tue manager gave me and Wana Dae Wan several. goad ald the maid $1 to take that Klester and burn ¥ dullars of my ae 1 TARE OCB ITY ANG IB aad ta Bag 1 have to beat “Wy 1) funds I paid the first instalment on a diamond stud, and then I was @ big | want eon rieesthat Mk tendeSntaa jum A, A Tuesday leaguer.” | tas to Kid Tenry, the culiyd weviersslg’t of Albans, | Sdmmy forgot to way that he first appeared in a $4.8) blue serge mutt Just off fue MeIntosh N. x. who ie, Tomm* | the dummy, which blew oul of lupe In te firet big wind and he couldn't get the Cirauo de P. ton again, Jub ‘in ¢ N In due time Callahan got his first trial and he ploughed through the league place in two weeks, afte aig the emia th Y from the start wilt sail for this count jim, Deeak ‘the colored fighters erent winniay The ball playing part of my start In the league hasn't got much to do with ecidsr Gls‘ cater man ‘allan la easel ee a. it," says Callahan, "Phe only problem J tad to face was getting rid of that out-of-town fights, ‘He as aocepind a Joo ts athe kiester fiero The tentund” out betwee euoenut | ay ae sme The only reason for Callahan quitting the game alx years ago was that he which takes lace at the big base\all park in Al: bask Adetat! wanted to make money. Now that he has made it he says he wants to remain Hans oy Mota trent "Fane ps Wie Y5 | Logne susan 9 jon the diamond unili they cut the uniform from his back. | tupmed to | (ai? seine #, guaran of accepting: per cent, of ala, clout “i'm only thirty-seven years old at that," 7 says Callahan ‘arly yart of that old, do yout" Be ae inst Wimp 90 fou “You don't call will arrive vom Waste” the bas Ww aC trounelng the | oes on ¥ h place with the Giants, ‘The from the Hbbets side of the river also made good esterday, to the delight of the Idlers on MeGraw’s bench who watched the 0. ird results of the Dahlenttes’ larruping the Cubs while the Giant workmen were annexing th third straight from the disgusted Pirates ‘The Dablenites are here, flushed with AMUSEMENTS. sERTRUDE HOFFMANN LA an a att sae MOR N Wed. Eve. | at ARO, 2 faliet OF | 60 ON BAL BIE TH. PINAFORE way wat es ait Miatiee Foss A COUNTRY Gili. LYRIC * dad ot, vt et of Wiway, SAVAGE’ Dites EVERY WOMAN (Hor Pildrimate i Quest of Lov f wl the bien he coolest ry eS ras, ow theatre b i Hiway, Bris 18, iv 38th Streat Tag h | JOHN MASON © Aare chs within : ry" | NEW AMSTERDAM, ea af fet 28, law a Kriauger's Musical Oo: HE Pl NK LaDy” LIBERTY ™),. Mig eels, * MAISTIE MAGDUNALD Last 2 Times nthe SPAIN UAID “EXCUSE ME" fh, a es Nit fi Ne vt %. ‘he Wi LUES ates Heueusay Ske cs BERGE RE ble ees Mat, To-day..dun, Bre, DINING CONCERT, EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN strength: od by the enrollment of sev- athletes who have settled in Washington, and from bh, Malcolmson, Edwards and | Hamundson have been picked to stack their sitll againat that of the best ath- ly of the Cleveland A, ampion at the 100-yard| content with sending ten men to the and on April 20 he won the event! seniors,” n seconds flat at the Pennsylvania! son to-day. 1 ‘Thomassen’s performances at the by | LEER ERIN Hey! way NOT THA BALL FOR A CHANGE ?1!! Seattle A. C. to Send Seven Stars to Championships _At Pittsburg on July 1 ries of the local followers of athletics because of the splendid form he dis- Played when competing here under the colors of the New York A. C. Wearing the winged foot emblem Thomassen won the national championship at New Or- Jean: late of Notre Dame Col. Philbrock, lege, throws the discus 190 feet and puts the shot forty-five feet. B. Gish is champion all-around athlete of the Northwest and was the winner of the 40 dash at the A. A. U. championships two years ago, Maleomson defeated Harry Hillman at the low hurdles in the championships of 1909, and C. 8. Ed- mundson on that occasion beat Harry Gissing by fully ten yards in the haif mile, Edmundson running the distance fn 1.55 1-2 against a strong wind. It is said he can do the 00 in 1.10, just a little faster than the world's record held by Sheppard. W. Fdwards, the University of Penn- sylvania hurdler, who holds the world’s record for the high hurdles and te the [only man who has ever beaten Smithson in that kind of a race, has not displayed any fast time here in the East since he has been under the tutelage of Mike Murphy, Jack Eller defeated him easily N.Y. A. C. games. Bo you see the West is going to have & number of corking athletes to repre- sent it at the championships. “Now that we have some idea of the ‘olnas’ that will represent other parts of the country, we have decided there will be Ittle chance of winning the Nattion- and the Irish-American A. C. will be said Trainer Lawson Robert- It is also understood that the New York A, C. will send only the very pick of thelr men, Dodgers Take Shot at Pirate Sloop Western conquents and straining at the ast: to be sicked on the shot to pieces, rau and slumping Pirate sloop. | It’s kicking the enemy when he is down, but everything ix fair in love, war, iities and baseball. The Giants are Koing great guns, but they. may strike |a snax or two in St. Louls and Cin- cinnatl~hence the very great need for a little more of the helping hand frem the gallant Dodgers. Pittsburg, June 10. HE Pirate sloop | ned by a | ey How did your friend I dismayed and bewildered crew catch that horrible dis- and is cruising about in rudders case? Dowtt keow. Al lows fashion trying to steer clear of 4 second division «h The Giants your barber for the jumped avoard the old craft so h in| Sealed Sterilized Cup, the series here that the brulsed and Brush and Soap. Used once battered Clarkesonians are not in the | Costs but Se. extra. } iter Cal ie ARS lino “and [i _ ULLIAN RUSSELL, mn & O24 St. L eb a Pkae, | WiltoT AMEE: GACe ANDREW” MACK TAHA BRA, Enna E, Evans & Con, Avg 12h Mt Kirkamnith 8 Melk? Mat.Dally, 2c. twell, there. STEEPLECHASE Coney's Firevroot Funny Place, A ‘Tremendous Whirlwind of Merrimest, @ Iron Steamboats direot to Steepleahase Pk. AMUSEMENT PARK Ferry, Fireworks Thureday, | PALISADES. Ww. uy at rH Somat BRIGHTON ea Pa Beach & ‘wartehi ! oHincermeniies ivi ein, Comic Opera Co. | Mt.Tod’y, GPISHA, Tom'gt, MERRY WIDOW, wipow. ACADEMY or Sbchir'« OLUMBIA Ho dns f2 pas [er Lee al iat ‘aud BROOKLYN AMUSEMENTS, MPIRE HES | joadway ro bus aes the” Marlow Nov + | r] 1