The evening world. Newspaper, June 23, 1911, Page 12

| | Si Ea Sn OLR AN Re NE eM UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY __THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JUNE 238, 1911 BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK | JIMMY CLABBY WINS, BUT HIS SHOWING DIS DSAPPONTS Jeff Smith, Comparatively a dimenlives 0 Movs in Ring Experience, Proves Dangerous and Tricky in Battle at National Sporting Club. Copyright, 11, by The Press Publidhing Co. (The New York Wortd) IMMY CLABBY outboxed Jeff Smith et the National last night, winning with a comfortable point margin. wonderfully clever and original in method, end with Smith always dangerous and fairly tricky. Yet somehow or J constantly on the aggressiv It was a hard fight, with Clabby other Clavby's end of it was a dis appointment. The crowd hed expected too mach of bim and too little of Sinith, who is a comparative novice tn ring ex- perience. Smith did much better than had deen expected—Olabby not as well. ‘There wasnt @ knockdown in the whole ten rounds, which made it ecem @ little tame to those who viewed the elam-bang battle be tween Jim Smith and Morris Harris @ week ago, There wasn’t even @ moment when ft looked as if either man might be in serious denger. There -were 0 staggerings and wobdlings and weavings—no grogsy mo- vuents. It was all fast boxing. Clabby is « emailer edition of the okitime Kid MoCoy. He fs built like McCoy, with slender limbs and thin even had McCoy's half-sneering smile. of @ champion. Smith, equere shoul- dered, broad backed, more heavily muscled, black haired, oval faced and round jawed, looked stronger and more able to take punishment than the slim Westerner. He was able to heed Punighment, for as soon as fight started Clabby began ations ing it. He jabbed sharply and avoided Smith's rushes by simply dropping Md hands and walking out of the way. judgment of time and distance on begetifully perfect. In olinches he nt @ “loop” punch that shot ish the smallest holes in Smith's defense and kept his head bobbing and down. He uses a “one-two punch,’ driving in the left lightly and following with ja hard right-hander. He varied hie attack from head to body and back again as Jeff ehifted big defense, and he giwaye found « spot to Jand ao pur on. At boxing be had all the Dest of it. ven at that Smeh was clever, He wasn't out of the fighting by @ long In some rounds he fairly out- after’ being hit hard. 'N the fourth round there was a long mixup, and when it was over Clabby emerged with a cut under his right eye and a smear of red on his face. It was impossible, fighting as they were head to head half the time, to tell whether « blow or a but did the dam- age, but Jeff had landed several, siash- ing left hooks, and it was prabebly one of these. Clabby's eye died freely in the next round, and he fought waspishly, giving Sm.ch many “a hard rap. There was no knockdown force in his blows, howev Smith slugged back and had lttle the Worst of it. Clabby received another cut. In the next round @mith’s mouth and nose bi Htte. As the fight went along Smith got over being ‘ibuffaloed” and fought sarder, Clatsby stood and slugged with him, blocking most of Smith's blows with ease, ducking under others, pulling back to let some go by, and always walking in siowiy and forcing the lodal fighter around the ring. ‘The last round was fast, and at the end Clabby had a good lead, Stith was tiring and growing slower. But the local boy's showing was first class all the way. Fitz has the automobile bug. Two days ago while running along one of the roads up-State he met with an accident, ‘The machine ran off the road end turned turtle, “I just grabbed Mrs. Fit: in telling the story, ' of the ma nine feet from the spot where we began to turn over, Next thing I know things were whirling around and 1 dreamed that I had been fighting Johnson for the world’s championship. I had him groggy @nd was just shifting to slip in a solar for & knockout when he on me and the lights we: chest and found it was the automobile, A a@ixty-horse auto lying across your ribs isn't 4 joke, believe 1 wrigs! and the auto slid @ litte and rested across my stomach, My stomach pretty thin, #o it didn’t hurt much, but the engine was still running and some- thing was boring hole in my leg. Then some people caine along and pulled me out. ‘Hey, where do 1 come in? said a voice, That was the chauffeur. They pulled him. out from under t I got my leg bandaged and I’ My father sent me his old can go and it'll come in handy for Bay, wasn't I lucky to on Mrs, Fitz. t & good hea: Guess that old medicin as good stuff. ghs 199 pounds and he never fat” more like champion in his fe. AMMY. LANGFORD te being well milled by some of the Western aporting writera because of his re- cent “fight” with Tony Capon at Win- n pew. The Winnipeg Tribune remark: “Tony's idea was to rounds with the Tar B: ‘weight and prowess are considered it was up to Langford to carry the | both Owen Moran and Ad Wolgast, are ‘body and well developed arms. He He came out with all the confidence 414 @ little boxing. But none of the rough stuff for Bam'l IL, Samuel evt- ently imagined that he was sup- posed to picnic, and he carefully avoided overstepping pink tea eti- quette. Welsh 2-1.Favorite Over Baldwin; CLasey MAD A PEW-NARIATIONS orem Looe- Tue -Looe Punce JIMMY CLABBY’S CLEVERNESS BEATS JEFF SMITH Copyright, 91, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Wortd), Riedna Important Fight in San Francisco -_—>— Eddie Hanlon to Referee To- Night's Twenty-Round Con- test on Coast. BY JOHN POLLOCK, HERD will be a fight in Frisco to- Right which has aroused consid- erable interest among the follow- ora of pugiliem all over the country. The men who will figure in thie tm- portant gcrap are Freddie Welsh, the €X-lightweight champion of England, and Matty Baldwin of Boston, one of the greatest fighters for his weight ever turned out in New England. They will come together in a twenty-round bout before the Metropolitan A. C. and Welsh to recetve a guarantee of $2,600 and a large percentage of the gross receipts, Welsh ts the favorite in the betting at odds of 2 to 1. Eddie Hanlon will referee the contest, Willie Lewis, the lucal middleweight, and Kid Henry, the middleweight of been matched to meet in a ten-round bout before the Knickerboc! bany, N. ¥., on the night of July 11, Dan McMahon, manager of the club, came here to-day and secured the con- sent of Dan McKetrick, manager of Lewis, to the match. Lewis is to re- ceive (00 and 60 per cent, of the gross receipts. Frankie Burne, the California light: welght, and Frankie Conley, the We ern featherweight, who have fought of the opinion that Wolgast will defeat Moran when the palr meet in thelr twenty-round bout in San Francisco on the afternoon of July 4. Both Burns and Conley claim that Wolgast 18 too etiff a pungher for Moran in @ bout of this duration. Eugene Corrt, the premier referee of England, has been elected to referee tho twenty-round bout between Billy Papke, the American midMewelght, and Marcel Moreau, the champion middleweight of France, which takes place in Parls to- morrow night. Papke demanded that Corrt be the third man in the ring, and as Hugh MeIntosh, promoter of ¢! OCAL Jawn tennis enthusiasts are much tnterested in the annual in- ter-city match between the lead- ing lawn tennis playera of Philadelphia 4nd a team of the Metropolitan Lawn Tennis League, which takes place on ‘the courts of the Crescent A. C, at Bay Ridge on Saturday, July & Th cons! of ten matches in ain) five in doubles, the event were completed at a consul- tation between Otto H. Hinck of the Montclair Athletio Club and Walter L, Pate of the Brooklyn Lawn Tennis Club, respectively president and secre- ‘ry of the Metropolitan organization, and John H. Whittaker, representing the Pitiadelphia Interclud Lawn Tennis Association, ‘Two college teams have just elected captains for thelr teams for 1012, Leslie Douglas Olute Tad been named to guide the Cornell nine, while Kenneth Nadi, the star shortstop of the Broyp University team, will handle that team, Holden of Yale defeated Johnson of Amherst New Wngland champloushiy lawn tennis milling, Sam did this for five 'y moderately, and then his enthusiasm oozed. He con- at at eat Conn. Mokten furaianed & great aurprise by taki v0 ela, dot are nnd to take | take i. wanthewer had no fouhio tn Seating Che pmol cain as BOXING STAGS TO-NIGHT. At Twentieth Century A. C. Young Sammy Smith of Philadelphia will meet Eddie Murphy of Boston in the Kid Burne én the star bout of ten rounds, Matches Arranged. Sam Langford an@ Jack Vitsger- ald of Philadelphia have been matched to meet in a ten-round bout @t the National Sporting Club nest Thursday night. Satlor Burke and Ted Nelson have been secured to fight ten rounds at the Twentieth Century A. C. on Fri- Gay evening, June 9. Johnny Marto and Kid Burns meet for ten rounds at the Brown Gym- nastum A. A. stag on July %, contest, and Moreau had no objections to Corri he was promptly accepted. Young Saylor, the promising light- weight of Indianapolis, who has won many fights so far this year, has just been matched to meet Grover Hayes, the former Chicago fighter, for ten Harvard and Yale Crews Have Hard Practice Rows NBW LONDON, Conn, June @. Coach Wray gave Harvard's two eights @ strenuous try-out of five miles, The two crews were taken upstream ae far a9 Allen's Point and returned, a dis- tance of five miles. The crews main- tained a stroke of % both ways. Yale's eights rowed a mile upstream and for three-quarters of a mile on the homeward journey both crewe were sent along at racing speed, the freshmen put- ting the stroke up to 87. The first var- sity four that will go againet Harvard will probably be made up as follows: Bow, Ives; No. % Oldenburg; No. 3, Mason; stroke, Howe, and coxswain, ‘Wood, Philadelphia to Play New York Tennis Team ‘On the links of the Apawamis Club Walter J. ‘Travie of Garden City led Oswald Kirkby of nglewood, hie closest rival, in the thirty-alz-hole Gualityigg round of the Invitation tourpament Dy & core of 148 to. 168, "Tvavie Wi nate, inlah “& few mlnutes ahead of beary main- storm, while Kirkby got drenched, sonder boats made . practically Ms @ clean sweep of the race. of the varie He samerioan yacht any winnie rer, anoth Yankee boat finished ahead. of the Gerinan Sew hind “LAD oe ‘second a “itt” ‘ae “Cina, “abe ther Auierican boat, Morton F, Plant's now schooner yacht Elena dashed across the finish line off Glen Cove, winner in her class in the New York Club's in of eleven seconds. Boat for her opponent, E,W ‘ol over the 28\4 anile ade ectual tiie, but she wae obliged the Clark yacht 2’ minutes 48 secouds, a rolite, ours by 3 minutes, OS asc: to allow he defeated Another of the famous lawn pth wi i ee Man, connie, planes, made his bow in the metrepaitta champiouahip {iene oninatiaa we urmamen a S2°CS il artnet Nathdaiel We Nils ie ths drat i ae med ha ¥° Ae ty Nate “es as made au excellent. beginning thous ‘eu nee eal ae wot, wl the ‘rin ‘caused al Be topped tor at Ls Briton ‘is haat Been Guaranteed $2,500 for His End of the Purse. rounds at @ show to be brought off at Indtanapotie on the afternoon of July 4 They will heve it out at the big baseball perk fn thet city. Frank Klaus, the crack middleweight fighter of Pitteburg, who made a bg impreasion with the California fight fans by the easy way in which he stopped Montana Dan Sullivan in three rounds at Oakland, Cal, last week, has been signed up for another fight out there. He will meet Vic Hansen, the California middleweight, in a twenty-round bout at Coalings, Cal, on July 4 Phil Brook, the lightweight of Cleve- land, who und t an operation for his eyes in Cleveland & few weeks ago, 1s out of the hompital and ia ready to fight. An effort will be made Ina fow Gays to arrange @ ten-round bout oe tween Brock and Knockout Brown, to take place just outside of Cleveland within three weeks J. E. Sullivan Will Referee College Races ‘The intercollegiate swimming cham- plonships, which will be held on Satur- day, July 8 as one of the features of the big four-day swimming carnival at Bheepshead Bay, will be refereed | by James EB. Sullivan, president of the Metropolitan Association of the Ama- | teur Athletic Union. He will also of- ficiate at the A. A. U. races which will be held on the same day, while B. F. Haubold of the N. Y. A. C. will be ref-| eree of the A. A. U. races on Sunday, | July % The timing will be done by members of the New York Timers’ sociation, ny local semi-profeasional baseball teams to engage prominent fighters to umpire their games. Knockout Brown and Joe Jeanotte, the colored heavyweight, have jobs for Bunday. Jeunette will umpire the second game of the double-header at Olympic Field between the Lincoln Giants and Philadelphia Professionals, while Brown will render the base de- cisions in the game between the Utica team and the New York Colored Giants at Saratoga Park, Brook!, pettuhe BE d Athletics Only Some Mand Just waudng away fron JEFF'S Ruenes 10 Points Behind Tiger’s Team Now @ig Chtef Bender of the Athletics 1s | on the warpath. Hoe didn't like the | manner tn which Umpire in was ren- | Gering decisions at Philadelphia, eo in the eixth inning he became real riled, and to show the savage spirit was not completely dead within him, he threw the bell over the grand stand. thie offense he was promptly ruled off | the Geld, and Leonard, formerly of St. | Mary's College, Catifornia, took his place against the Senators, and made it the fourth straight victory for the home cluh, Ae the Tigers lost to the Naps, the world's champions are now within ten points of the Detrotts, eal casino ‘des brea ao 20, Cube, man, a pasiag is Pe RR ea fa aa ia Browns Woite fox fielent a SSa8 Soly 1, olitat oe cuthatted and outfielde! CTaear Oucreo-uNdeER, } erald was on second, with one out. | Sox were using all the dilatory tricks oF verrs Swines sia Young New York Outfielder Thinks There Are Two Out and Leaves Second Base. BY BOZEMAN BULGER, AD young Fitzgerald puffed out H his cheat and assumed @ bored Professional look as he slowly walked to the bench he would have ‘been credited with a very clever stunt. As it was the California youth became all flustered, ptoked up his glove in disgust and scampered out to the field with seven thousand fans giving bim the laugh for pulling what was gen- erally considered the most perfect piece of bone work that the season has af- forded. After hitting @ two-base shot Fits- Hartzell lifted an easy fly to Lewis, and Fitzgerald, thinking there were two out, ran toward the pli Lewis then tossed the ball to second and a double play which retired the side re- sulted. ‘That play, as stupid as it may seem, won the game for the Highlanders, and not a player had @ harsh word for the kid, It ocourreA jn the fourth inning. At that tima heavy clouds were hanging over the field, and the spectators were beginning to move back to get out of the rain. The Red known to the game to prolong the agony and have the game catied off before four and one-half innings had been played. Do you get it? If Fitzgerald had been allowed to remain on second Bos- ton would haye had to retire one more batter, and in doing so the pitcher could have taken up @ lot more time. As it happened Fitzgerald ran head-on in a double play and the side was re- tired. That few minutes saved enabled w York to win, as the rain began to fall in sheets the minute after they had retired three Red Sox batters in Soe pl incr dolore ONLY FOUR FULL GAMES SEPARATING FIRST FIVE NATIONAL LEAGUE CLUBS. It would take an unusually old baseball fan to remember when there was a race in the National League which was anywhere nearly as exciting as the one that is taking place this season. past decade seldom have more than three clubs had a look-in at this stage of the game, but this year there are five clubs and possibly eix that are etill in the running. So close is the National League race that there are only four full dinals, who are fifth, from the Cubs, who are in firat place. The St. Louis bunch is putting up a stiff article of ball, and rooters in the Mound City feel confident they will capture the pennant. The Giants are second, only a half game behind Chicago, while the Phillies, who are third, are only two and a half full games behind the top rung. The Pirates are only a half game behind the Slowtown- , while the Cardinals are just one full game behind the Smoketown crew. Stepping Dodgers Haven’t Beaten the New Yorks in Nine Attempts This Season, in full swing around New York nd Sysonby and other thorough- breds wore big stars, {t was no uncom- mon thing to have them go to the post as strong as 1 to % in the betting. Wonder what the bookmakers that wrote those odds would give on the I the days when horse racing was Grim Given ual Beating. PHILADELPHIA, June 2.—Joe G1 Giants, who are playing the Dodgers in the first of @ four-game series at Giants Regard Brooklyn’s STANDING OF THE CLUBS. the fifth, The Highlanders had ee' runs to their credit, and they In the games separating the Car- Stones to Lead NATIONAL LEAGUE, W. b BO.) Club, i 2. Bix innings, " Cinctnnath, LS at, ittaburE, Bettas at Cinctnnatt, the Reds and others, but to the Brooklyns They often tell about teams that are beaten just as scon as a certain pitcher goes to the rubber, but here 1s one club that {s beaten whenever they play the New Yorks, whether it is “Bugs” Raymond, {Louis Drucke or no matter who it is that is pitching, The Giants have been declaring all along that when they came back to thelr home grounds they would be in first place in the National League race, till a half game behind t coveted position, and are counting on the Brooklyn series to place them to the front, Manager McGraw counts on taking the entire four games from the Dodg- ers, while he is confident that the Pi- Bygghtyn this afternoon. The two clubs have met nine times this season and the Rave yet to win's game Giants may lose once te a while Fates will beat the Cubs once or twice more before they are through with _—— EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN LANO™S CUNLH AFTER BUNCH ‘im Tee @eow [FITZGERALD'S STUPID PLAY ENABLES HILL1OPS TO WIN — Red Sox Ha Gone, Nationals Now Here. ‘Those troublesome Red Sox have gone away from here, and Pleaged to announce that W: ington will be on our hands for the next four days, Tant will wind up the long series at home. ‘The Nationals, as the former Senators are called, had a hefty ‘ball club (n the spring, but the papers tell us that they have deen shot to pieces of late, and that the most vicious of them will now stand without h'tching. Tho only man that is feared ts Walter Johnson, the Big Swede, who is trying to earn $7,00 a yoar, but the Hilltops trimmed him on the last visi, and there ig no doubting the axiom that “What has been done can be done.” So let us up and at him, looking for any kind of an excuse to get the side out when Fitzgerald pulled the Rip Van Winkie. It 1 indeed a lucky kid that can pull @ bone and win a bal! game. Dr. Charlie Barry, the famous trainer of Williame College, who straightened up the kinks in the muscles of the Hilltop boys last @ummer, has rejoined the ciub and will at once begin work on the pitchers, He is one of the best muscle and bone specialiete in the country, and during the last two yeare he has practically taken the Place of Bone Setter Reese, the man toho fized up 40 many broken-down ball players out at Youngstown, 0. Mr. Pape of Boston hed a tough time of ft yesterday, He was bruised and battered until McHale hed to take his place, and the newcomer got just @ little bit more of the same It was after two batters had been retired in the firat inning that the Hilltop sharp- shooters went Pape, and what they did was a sufficiency. Five hits in @ row, one of which was a double and another a triple, shot him so full of holes that his riddled frame made @ porous plaster look airtight. Th came Mr. McHale. Then came another broadside. And so it went until the All the Eights On Hudson River Have Time Rows POUGHKEEPSIB, N. ¥., June 3.— The five big college crews who are to y had time rows, it being Cor- Z ‘8 and Columbia's first attempts at it. The crews did the best work since they have been here,.the wind and water being ideal. Pennsylvania rowed the first trial of the dey and thelr time pleased Coach Ellie Ward, Harry Vail did not let Wisconsin row with the tide@but ¢ook them to Krum Elbow and sent them downstream ‘against both tide and wind. The Badgers were picked up at the two-mile mark by the freshman crew and had « hard time holding the youngsters. For the first few minutes they succeeded, but the freshmen gradually pulled away at the bridge and were leading the big eight by two lengths. AMUSEMENTS. WIBTER GARDEN as 7 Fete ie NOE HANS, LA SAISON DES BALLETS MAL te HSS desir y Biway fe uve, RegtNa cle ST, Wes ni VW CAND opERAC D-NIGHT—"AIDA. cu ae YRIC, EVERYWOHAN mew AMSTERDAM Si. ra iere, ot hit ExBY = Se tie FINK CRE w “411 Columbus. [Permitted iN borrow, Bs Announces ee part in the big regatta here next | oeeijenini Fitzgerald's Out Hurries Game Along, Which Red Sox Try to Delay. rain mercifully spared the Speedboy! from further suffering. The New York management made th most popular move of the year whet they engaged Harry Gafr, ¢ card shouter, to announce th jes and the changes during the ani through @ huge megaphone. Harry ha: @ remarkable voice, and the names car be heard distinctly to the farthest cor: ners of the bieachers. When Harr) comes out with the megaphone thes: days he is almost as popular as the players that he announces. in the past when the umpires turned and an- nounced: “Mr. Umdedumpterry— wil now pitch for New York,” it got to be & joke Incidentally, this move on tat part of Frank Farrell is being taker up throughout the league. fugole and then let it get by him he eaw that the runner going to start for second. thing adout those dilato ry however, ts that no bali ol 908 qway with i. pitched nice ball and the club confidence in the way the batters wait the ball behind him. 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