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THE BVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, ‘Hackenschmidt Has Trained) Hard for His Big Wrestling : Matoh Labor Day Aganist ' @otch and Is Once More at ; His Best. Press Pubfishing Oo. | oman ott bt ree ame | ‘ BORGE HACKENScHMIDT! H passed through New York yee ' tertay on his way to Chicago. fiadk was #0 anxfous to reach the sdene of hit coming match with Frank | Goted that he didn’t linger long in our midat. Hack looks Wke the “Ruanian Lion | again. He soye that his long period of | raining in England, following the hard Tenree months of wrestling In this coun- fury under the management of Jack | fourtey, has brought him into his old booms tton. | © ats match will de the greatest eport- pe Wulr wince the Jeffrtes-Johnaon jMght at Reno, It will be held in Com- jiskey’s ball park in Chongo, and Jack Curley says that tnnga are being car ried through on such @ scale that the promoters have laid out $40,000 In ad- vanoe expenses before taling In « dol- ar on the seat sale. That sale will be \enermous—« recom breaker. The dig (ball park, It is expected, will be jammed with spectators. This is no ordinerg: wrestiing matoh. ‘The feeling between the two men and the history of their former engagement stve it “human toterest features not joften associated with champlonship »mpetitions. When Hackenschm#4t came to Amer- AUGUST 17, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK Te tala ic 1911; Copyright, 1911, by The Presse Publishing Co. aa ed (The New York World). Hace wk PasseD’-THROUGH Tee" Ne sternvay-ons Lo Wis WAY “TO CHICAGO «= =. STICK WITH THAT FRANK TWINKS Hid NEW AuscULAR, DEVELOPMENT WILL “THROW A. SEARe INTO Hai" HACKENSCYMIDT RETURNS TO THIS COUNTRY FOR GOTCH MATCH ate, Aus - Hac MAE A DENT WITH GoTen Tat Trey -Gourd HIDE THE™ MASONIC] TEMPLE IN EDITEO BY ROBERT EDGREN IN CricAGo — i x ALMOST AS STRONG AS RENO TALK « WAGNER'S INJURY MAY KILL PIRATES’ CHANCES OF WINNING PENNANT. Hans Wagner, who was Injured in the first inning of the came between the Dodgers and Pirates in Brooklyn yesterday by trip- Ding over second base just after making a single to right ‘eid, will be out of the game for prob- ably the remainder of the sea- son, “Doc” Scanion, the Dodg- ers surgeon-pitcher, had the X- ray put on Wagner's right ankle and discovered that he has a bad fracture of two bones. The ac- cident to the Dutchman is a se vere blow to the Pittsburg club, and will probably mean the kill- ing of their chances for the pen- as he was winning many by his heavy clouting. Wagner 1s at present the leading batsman in the Nationa! League, with an average of about .50. HACK WILL INSIST UPON | HAING GoTcH's NAILS TRIMMED | Berore THe Bout. | HACK HINTS THAT HE MAY BE" REAL Fussy” THis Trip. MATHEWSON HANGS UP RECORD _ fea to wrestle Gotch, April & 1908, he ‘didn't take the match very seriousiy. ite knew that Tom Jenkins had easily |defeated Gotch, and Hackeneohmidt had beaten Jenkin with ease on two oceasions, What he 4idn’t reakon on |Was the great improvement of Gotch juimaelf. For years Haokensohmidt had m defeating all rivals, handling them ‘as he pleased. His own shoulders had wever touched the mat. He considered ,Oimeelf absolutely invincible Ho he ‘ame along without taking the trouble ‘to train for the matoh in advance. The jonly thing he feared wes that Gotoh jtght get cold feet and withdraw. ‘In Chicago dt trained or @ few days at the Chicago A. A. He didn't get into good condition, TE match was,s gruelling affair. Gotoh, who had been trained for | months under the watchful eye of Farmer Burns and two or three other famous and foxy masters of the game, went in with the Intention of wearing Hackenschmidt down. He knew that jHack wasn't fit for a long contest, #0 he stalled and ran and managed to keep out of tho Lion's grip. For weeks—so Farmer Burns told me at Reno—th had rubbed cocoanut off into Fra {nide. Of] was rubbed tn Just before the mateh, and before going out to the ring evident traces of It had been sponged off with aloohol. After a few minute of hot work the sweat brought the olf from his pores and he became as slip- Dery asa seal. Hackenschmidt, jhe might, could not hold a erip American. When he try as on the ank's caught jwrist Frank broke the hold without any who trouble. And at in was a boxer as well as a wre Jabbed his fingers Into Hackensobm eyes, half blinding him, two } they tugged and struggled around the ring. Hackensohimidt, in resig that he was unable to se the way Gotch had ape hin Angers, but recognize any c As ® matter of fact, total exhaustion \was tho thing that beat th stan Lion teh had shown hin of ense. He ervals Goteh, claimed use of 1 him with “refusdd to Packey McFariand Decides Against Australian Trip (Rpectal to The Evening World). CHICAGO, Aug. 17.—Packey McFar- land sald to-day that he would not accept the offer of;Hugh McIntosh, the Australian promoftt, for a trip to the Antipodes in case he was a winner in his boxing match with Ad. Wolgast Sept. 15 in Milwaukee. McFarlund had been approached by representatives of MeIntosh with a Itheral offer to tour THAT SHOULD STAND FOR YEARS pene Ste In Fourth Inning “Big Six” Re-| tires Reds on Four Pitched| Balls, Including the Hit by Mitchell, would have beaten that but for an er- . ror on the part of Fletcher, which made During Entire Game Giants’ |it necessary to piten aifrerently to a {new batter. Then, !n the ninth, Josh Famous Pitcher Tosses but’ Devore tost_a ino drive tn the aun, and : t went for at Tit, whiten ne 92 Balls to Cincinnati Bats-|sttated tho pitching of a lot of men, new stuff to the mucceeding swatsman, Reds Retired on Four Baiis, In the fourth inning of this remark- able exhibition of pitching Mathewson retired the entire Cincinnat! side with four pitched balls, and that ts all the more remarkable as it was in that in- after the sixth inning he has to guess at the location of first base and take a chance on his throw. BY BOZEMAN BULGER. AKING the ro@ in his hand, Mntty, The question of the number of bal the master, administered his! ning that the first hit of th @ was) pitched in a game may not strike the the Eastern provinces of Great Britain Swenty-secqnd consecutive thrash-| inade, Mitchell hit the frat ball for @/average fan as being of much impor | and to meet all the lightweighte of that ing to the visiting Reds in tho opening {single and Downey forced him out on|tance or having mich barsinn on the ultimate result. But there 1s room for much thought there. The pitcher who can retire a side on the least number country. Packey said the offer wax |sood, but he liked his own country the best. Packey 1s confident of taking the title struggle at the Polo Grounds, and once |the third ball, and for all this wizard of the pitching mound has silenced questions Ike “Has then cracked at A and turned it Into a double play. appreciate this wisard-like work in '? or “Wi! ¥ of tosses ts the pitcher who will remain he gone back or “What 9 the matter! in, sox It should be remembered that | in tie game the longest. Say, for in. | SWAY from Wolgast and already 1s with Matty only four runners reached first for Cin-| stance, that {t requires 100 pounds of Planning a campaign for this winter Not satisfied with merely whipping the | cinnat! during the entire game. If the | ft orce for a pitcher t aati’ Tat laa Mat Andie We taee c hp ingetesaeed Ef { rive the ball over | which will eliminate several candidates js Into submission, Mathewson | flelding had been pe only one would | the plate with averigs speed. Bas : aoa tng to f th ts of the olden| Mike Mit ta clean single | 120 balls in a gamo uses up 12,000 pounda 11? S8¥8 he will take on Matt Wells, i to some of the experts ¢ in} but ah Me chase the English champion, !mmediatels a mung up one that stars of the |! the fifth inning, but tho hit made by |of energy, while the man whe con ae ong amplon, r Hf Pine I I , | Hates tn th was an accident pure | th “but ninety-two pitches uses After the Milwaukee go and then wil! future can shoot at for years DE land si ball would have been |only 9,200 pounds os of nearly sive Jack Britton and Freddie W the entire game of nine Innings Matty }an easy catch for Josh Dev but 00) pounds of muscular energy, Now a chance. He intends to make t Pitched hut Alasiy-two balls. The sv- | wes a0 bilnded by the sun that he did |figure out what. that ditteronce of wear |winter ihe buslece ct hr Coo, and erage pitcher uses betweon 120 and 130, [not wee It until it tind fatien ne) Gnd tear on the arm will do'to.a pitcher | wat mest any and’ all aspirants at ive While thia is & record, in the major | 4m, incidentally, wae responsible for jin ten years and you have the answer, | Will Meet any and all mpirents: at: tt leagues, it does not outshine the le by Fletcher, Toward Ol Cy Young doin the game) ixhtwetght Umit, 138 at 3 o'clock. iy ee ; of the game the sun twenty ecause he tried to plteh | “UT reailze that “Ad" Wolgast can take Sneectists wee : und stand, and by {as fw that Is why ,@ lot of punishment and likes to mix { Pitcher of Los Angeles, who won n vic- | ghining throu open spaces hoe | Matty out his eleventh {and I am going to give him all the tory @ few days ago with but s tween the steel girders hitw (he telders | year practically as atrong as he was at|chance !n the world to show just how eight pltehed bails, Matty squarely in the eye, Fletcher says that [ihe start much he likes {t A PITCHING LESSON 3y Chnsty Mathewson. O'Toole Ready to Make His | Debut Against Dodgers ae dl \ | HRISTY MATHEWSON saya that the greatest wear and tear on the arm comes tn the effort to strike out an opposing batter. , . Y, Tt usually ARTY O'TOOLE, tho twirler for ; requires five or six and aometimes as many as ten pitched Ddalls to whom Barney Dreyfuss paid the | i atrike & man out, while he could be disposed of on a long fly with one St. Paul Club the enormous sum | my, thi for a player Pitched ball. “When I am going easy and the team ts not in danger,” says Matty, ‘I largest amount ever givon | is with the Pittsburg club and outlaste and ts ready to go In and pitch when always try to make the batter hit the first ball, Every time he hite at that first | lacke dt went back to TateA on ° one and is retired on @ fly or a grounder it saves my arm just that much. | vee toning bis ‘world's <! “O'Toole worked with the Pirates Even a hit oocagionaily ia better than to have to work the arm off trying to || Gotch, a hoartbroker a ah strike men ou that he could’ love.” | Dotgers at Washington Fark yesterday | On an average seven dalle are required to strike out a batter. This is due ig lg Aro yl bate Veua res the cantie ce MteaetOR, to the fact that they always let one or two go by for balla and several are hig kad a eMedia Manager Clarke expected to use him fouled off. At that rate a pitcher would have to pitch 189 balis 1f he struck e@ triumy otch was b u y m i * ener against Dahlen’s erowd, out the entire twenty-seven batters. On the other hand, ff the batters hit ule he a Rater ee er going through a | the first ball and none of hem fell safe the side could be disposed of for Hackenschmidt didn't train again} Warming vig nn Maat V4 nine full innings on but twenty-seven pitched balls, seriously ring Mis re complained that arm Wop & little Does that make tt clear why some pitchers stay In the game for twenty fan be rah ‘ Tt te likely monle ie toa years whtle others are thrown tnto the discand after two or three seasons? tt he ‘ar ¢]} arm is all right now a ole was plow in atch He promises to show what nd when in » Claus é 1 Nkely t é bout will last t fhe ten ; und be aL Bhe way. wy{ BY ENGLISH JOCKEY CLUB. | or artist of the A uy ng fanned 183 men in Yi Fornaa peveitas ; IWOHER "CY" YOUNG, who has | 4 ms Semen team, thereb: t been released unconditionally by | Navona + ‘ a to be a bait sha Acnerl As the and team, #1 a three it of four times at the bat, fann ob | has asked Manager Mal Chase for a af Hr Of this bunch three | lence — © to pitch for his club, Aatobere fad tub rabehere, HILL TOPS BUY ANOTHER ae eearatie ol Ts ees a hee hate wo jean ee, tw th For reversing his dev bye SLUGGING OUTFIELDER. BUM only aflowed Lintfy's crawl hits off fis den — | youngster of the New York American League | fave’ of them “comtng ane. bunch” 4 ev even yed this sea | alae errt mate sore at : Z Foes. -OF pana of | made oa ms 4 \ © oi Tie wit | three of them tf tho fenoe witht hs for two weeks, ee — | With ‘Ty Col out of the game, DANNY MAHER EXONERATED | tingiee to" his eollettion neptendey Prats withone a, the onl Attn one to to reach it five Tod rach first hase, " © fine -At a! Incident Aug. 17 wards Carver nHatole en “Danny? ‘ nen. | witatn | Bedok at Ha inet for nding rake | tn rane The stewards, almost | or tm» t ce . ‘ing @ nstances, exon " "i wi » erican Joakey of all blame. f2"xt"ghane’ ‘ peabos + |Big Programme NAPS PUT HILLTOPS OUT OF PENNANT RACE, SAYS MANAGER CHASE, STANDING OF THE CLUBS. ONAL LEAGUE, PC. Clue, O80| St. Louis. fivcignat Brookisn, Boston w. tf 39 25 New York 56 54 ius: AMERICAN LEAGUE, W. | Club, rr 86 53 (514 Loute RESULTS 0: YESTERDAY'S GAMES. Cincinnati at Pittsourg at (Spectal to The Evening World). Cleveland, Aug. 17. F we had only been as successful | against the Naps this season as we have been against the Tigers we, Instead of the Detroit bunch, would be disputing the right of leading the American League proce Athlet soltloquized Chase of the Hilltops to-da: “It makes the shivers chase up down my spinal column every t think of those games,” continued Chas “We should have won practically eve! one of the shows with the Naps. If wo only had, Just see where we would be in the percentage column! “We have taken the Naps’ measure exactly four times—once here In Cleve- 4, three times in New York. The Naps have trimmed us eleven times, Detrott, 8; Chicago, 1. ED FOR TO-DAY, w York at Cleveland, baton at St, Louls, ng seven verdicts on nds and four in New York." Yes, if the Highlanders could only Play those games over again and win of them they would be right on deck with the Mackmen and ‘Tigers. Manager Chase ts probably the most active of the field managers to be found in elther of the major leagues. Hal is never at rest, spend three minutes in the same place. Up and down and 1 around wan- rs, Dut always and ever he ta acquir- ing information that will be of value to him at some future time. their own It ts torture for him to! Russol! Ford is very sweet on Cleve- Innd. He recalis with pleasure the ri ception he received from the fans wh: he pitched here on Jose Day. ‘A good pitcher with a good team behind him would have nothing to complain of in this good old town,” eald Ford. Willie Beecher Whips ANOTHERKNOCKOUT VICTIM IS ADDED 10 BROWN'SLONGLIST Battling Downey Put Away tn Second Round of Scheduled Twelve-Round Bout. (Special to The Evening World) WEBSTER, Mass., Aug. 17.—Before & record-breaking crowd at the opening show of the Lakeside A. C. of Webster, Knockout Brown, the phenomenal light- weight of New York, scored another knockout by putting away Battling Downey of Adams in the second round of a scheduled twelve-round bout te @ dectsion. Knockout gave the local 1nd @ ther- ough beating, battering him from ene end of the ring to the other, sending’in terrific right and left hand smashes td the body and jaw. Almost every time K. 0. would land these blows It would Mft Downey clear off the floor. After the contest, Dan Morgan, mans arer of Brown, declared that after u brief rest of four days he would send his protege to Savin Rock, Conn, to begin active training for his bout with Matt Wells, the English lightweight champion, Aug, 20, at Madison Square Garden, New Yo i eee Battling Nelson Says He Wili Not Quit Fight Game (Special to The Evening World) 10, Aug. former lightwelxht ¢ In the city yesterday £ and took the first train where funeral services fi who was Killed by a@ trat Will be held to-day enc ampion, mothe Weat or Tegewlseh, his n last Nelson has no definite plans for the immediate future, put ter resting with his family for two or three weeks will take on anything romising, He Will not retire from the rin “This lows was a great blow to me,” Jd Nelson, “and I have been asked If IT would quit fighting, I will not. It was through my ring earn’ 3 that J Was able to make my mo r comfort- oie in her jater years. Pug nis my profession and 1 will follow tt as long as I can earn money itn it. | "While my mother no doubt would have been glad If 1 had been in some | “Cy” Smith in Hard Bout Long Rest Benefited East Sider and He Puts Up Grand Battle. BY JOHN POLLOC FTER being out of the ring for several months, Willie Beecher, the east side lghtwelght, rot into the game at the Long Acre stag and defeated Smith, in the windup of A rack A. AL the Hoboken fighter, ten rounds, The men fought a bruis- ing battle, wading into each other from the start and were swinging away BOXING STAG TO-NIGHT. At the N Prank nal Sporting Club Klaus of Pittsburg and “Cyclone Johnny Thompson" >f Sycamore, Hl, Will come together in the main bout of ten rounda. Matches Arranged, Johnny Waltz of Jersey City and Ji Denning will meet in the main bout of ten rounds at the Long Acre A, A. stag on next Wednesday night, Battling Mantell and Young Brown will clash for ten rounds at the Long Acre A. A. on with both hands until the final bell| nemed bs Tom Jonce 0 the efert that he is 20 rang. The long lay off which Beecher |. + the Fig with Ad Wol- had certainly did him a great deal of| Ret, good, for he was strong and punched with greater force, He put up one of the dest fights of his career. Smith bored in continually, but each time that he would come rushing at him Beecher would meet him with short lefts and rights to the head, jaw and stomach, Beecher staggered Smith sev- eral times with his wallops to the jaw. Peckey MoFarlend is Ot the Eccentrics The games of the Eccentric Associa- tion of Firemen, L. U. No. 56, on Sun- day, {n Celtte Park, will bring out three great sporting features. These will be le football match between Cork the Ga and Kildare, the halt |For Outing Sunday fle spectal run, | which has been substituted for the [00- | yard spec chase handicap. The excitement over the struggle be- tween Cork and Kildare for the sea- son's championship ts intenae, It was hot game they played over there ast Sunday that the fenoe around the | park took fire. | All the fleetwings in the middle dis- \tance column will compete tn the halt- mile special, Sheppard, Kiviat and the rest of them entered. Big n Daly will probably be a heavy favorite In the two-mile steeple- altho rber of good ones ha are entered | Louth and Armagh will kick a game jot football, ‘Phere will be all sorta of competitions in the dancing line, prin- cipal of which will he a contest in Jigs, reels, hornpipes and Irish flings, A n of Si t ers is coming from Pittsburg too ete against a ploked team here, There will be a stiff con- test In Gaelle dancing, Including the famous Rinc-a-Padda Lim Healy, t ewly ted luterna. tonal ident of (oo Firemen, will be on Hand with the astern d the ML will be practica vf joy. gates Who were . ention, so the any "a continuous carnival | a}, and the two-mile steeple | Theyg teusround 5 ‘ ¢ time comes for my. fight Ww ta Micra 1 wl eh im the ring “a rm Wolgast me about Tule ame. that fe "hes ‘usver “One, Round” Hogan will be a very tighter, for a te weeks, an he is elened. up for three important battles, Hie first will be with ‘Tommy | lon niladelphia for the XN A. ©. of VhUadelphia A his second with To Malouey the first uh atieth Century A, | Moore for twelve rounds of Bowion either on Sept, round bout between Jc and and 1 Kline of Newark, i x bt, fought the, Pacis -C, of Los Angeles, Cal., on Au as been Peetvoned Minti Xa’ 20." 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