The evening world. Newspaper, October 20, 1911, Page 18

THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1911 UP-TO- ick Johnson’s Sparring Part-| ner, Marty Cutler, Reports That the Champion Has Re- tired, So Is Looking for the} Title Himself. Gopreight, 1011, by The Pros Pubtinhing C9. (The' New York Worid ARTY CUTLER, « taree, rotund M person’ who has been travelling with Jack Johnson ae sparring partner, dropped In yesterday atternoen with some information. Martst a that Johnson is “all in," and that the champion has retired for all time, He'll play no return engagements tn the ring, ec ways Cutler. Marty wishes It to be understood that he trn't knocking Jack, ‘as the champion hasn't been living high, @utting loose, revelling under the arc Qghts and lingering where the grape is or yellow, with or without x on that rough stuff about “He's taking care of himself, running on the , boxing In shows, and trying to Beep in shape. But he isn't there more. Why, when we boxed, once, @plit his eye"— &c. “But, Marty continues, “Jack might be induced to fight again-if the purse was big enough—out !t would take a mighty big purse at that.” Being confident that Johnson is now @efunct as an active champion, Cutler would like to appear as a white hope, end he Is willing to stay right here in New York, out the local white hope erep for us, and stow it away in the 2 saw Cutler in his daily boxing stunts with Johnson In San Francisco and at Reno. At that time he was a rather gmail man for a heavyweight, fat, with ‘mo knowledge of boxing at all, consplcu- us only because of his willingness to Jet Johnson thump him on the nose— and keep on thumping until he was ured. ‘OU can’t beat the excuses these managers hand out. Three min- utes after Walter Coffey of Call- fornia had fattened Jack Denning the; ether night the loser passed me on his way back to the dressing room. Dene, ming didn't have snything to say. Hal DATE AND NEWSY MAKE HIM GAT WITH A TOOTH PICK TAKE HIM TO BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK. HOW TO PREVENT BAKER FROM KNOCKING HOMERS MOVE THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT OUT IN THE FIELD AND KEEP THE PLAYERS ON THE FENCE ANY HIRE AN diR SHID! | Baker, with 417, 417, Star Hitter of Series, Regardless of His Home Runs. BY ALEX. SULLIVAN. F ever a player In @ series of world's champtonship games stood head and/| shoulders over everybody el John Franklin Baker of the Athlett There have been heroes in past such as Babe Adams of the Pirates, || morrow, as he ought, then we will Christy Matheweon of the Giants, Jack |] have the Athletics three to two, The Bill Dineen of || Athletics came from behind ant Coombs of the Athletic the Boston Americans and Morde-al Brown of the Cube, but none of them! ever shone with such brilliancy as Baker | far, but my team: haa not been hit- hen in the three games played #0 Outside of the fact that he knocked the two home runs thet made ft possibie for} any time to hit the ball, and when his ¢lub to win the last two games they do there {s no pitcher who can played, he has the best batting of all, for in twelve times at the bat he hae banged out five bits for # percentage was looking arouno at the ring as if Denzing’s wake was bis Danny McKetrick. As they fer a moment, came to where I stood. you think happened?” “Why,” sald I, ‘Coffey dropped one ea Bin chin.” Pulling a large flat medicine bottle! from his hip pocket, Danny showed me the label. In big red letters it said, LEAD WASH. “Look at that," whispered Danny. “ater the first round 1 called back te the seconds for the brandy bottle, and this is what some one slipped to me. I put it up to Jack's mouth without looking at it, and he took a big swis. After that he wasn't any good. What had I better do about |! “Get a stomach pump and notify the Coroner,” 1 suggested, and Dan hustled| after bin fighter. However, 1 note that Denning ts live- Ay enough to challenge Coffey for a re- turn match. Perhaps he knew the dif- ference between brandy and lead wash (vuatever that mi DY WELSH doem't take Tom F Rourke's “knock” very seriously. O'Rourke has “reported him" to the Boxing Commission, alleging that Freddy hi broken his contract with @'Rourke and asking the commission to bar him from the game for a few months. Welsh received an offer from O'Rourke just before he lost his title to Matt Wells in England, By cable O'Rourke propored giving him $6,000 for Three matches, with the privilege of 3% per cent. gross, and tn case he fought either Woigast or McFarland a larger sum. He also forwarded transporta- tion. Welsh came here and Moore at the National, ‘easily. 11@ received his guaranteed $2,009. | ah waited two months | for another mateh, and, not getting 11, went to California, where he fought Matty Baldwin. Then he wrote After that W O'Rourke and was told to come back ©'Rourke offered him a match with Tommy Murphy, but refused to sive him ie $2,000 guarantee. Welsh turned the » ot “my aco aid Welsh yeaterdi law the coneder it, Put nission until he was pleased to put me on. Will show the commision that O'Rourke broke our agreement himself. I didn't accept the match with Murphy at his is Eddie Collins, man of the American Laague champions. siiti wondering how it happened. But in] Tan of the Amerie the second ba: than but has made four 364, Chief Bonder @ mark of 333, end slipping away from his beatea fighter] who has only been In one game, as has her Lapp. the Indian, 1s ted with Harry Davis at) \ “Say,” he whispered, mysteriously, | .20 @lancing over his shoulder, “what de) ATHLETICS’ OUTFIELD RANK! The entire outfield of the Athletics has| been a rank disappointment, the three batting for an of them only verage ing been to bat aix times and gotten his percentage .333, Chief Meyers, having connected safely throe times in ten chances for an even 300. Snodgrass ts third on the Het with .280,) While the averages of all the rest ef| the team are ridiculously low. For two championship nines the bat: | {Hag marks are suprisingly tow and tend Rude Marquard, to show what a gr: hibition of the lettca have an aver while .147 te the Dest that the Giants have done. In flelding the Athletics have laid it al! over the Giants Collins and Baker are the only mem: | bers of the Amertcan Lei have errors charged up against them, Eddie Collins, who ts regarded one of | ever 8 made three fr mado the only other Larned to Start for ___ Australia Monday {iat ise, the annenacament to the affect that, he team to the diamond, B ded in arranging his is affairs so that he can months, William A. Larned, the champion tennts consented to make the trip New Zealand with the American ten- m witch ty to compete country for the Davis Cup. be the captain of the team and wil @ New York for Vancouver on ance of O'Rourke cabled offer wasn't a contract, as that was be- ve the Frawley law came in, and contracts were illegal then in And as it antedated the in that Larned wil t urge any technicalities of that sort. J made an agreement with O'Rourke, and I've beon willing to keep !t. But he had no vight to expect me to wait indefinitely 1 team, Beale ©. Maurice F. MoLoughlin of © ers will sail from there | vaca sd to reach Wright of Boston and | fornia Christ Chureh, Be ATHLETICS HAVE IT ON GIANTS IN BOTH FIELDING AND BATTING Gla: ts Not Beaten, by Long Shot, Says Manager McGraw || PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 20.—We are if not beaten, by a long shot. Of |] course I should feel better If we had collected that 1 game. Frank Baker has made a lot of trowbie for ua with hia home runs, but otherwise we just about proved that we hi our own and 4 trife more, T haw helped «© lot. It gave Mat rest. If we win this game to-day and Matty wine in yw York to- overcame a one-gamé handicap, and I don't see why we cannot do the same, The series has deen close #0 ting as well as I expected, or as well ae th are able t They will start atop them. nd it ERAORS SO FAR. Fight erro: vore and Murray each, even if they lose. favest in @ self-playing plane. ‘York. Nas traded George Stovall to the Washington Shortmtop MaBride, and that American Gites to Cap | the manager of that sii vert scam. Tt won gn: erally expected that Harry Davis of the Ath! would be the manager of the Clerelands neat y tain Tennis Team in the | hit cone Sasch atre shat Toga wil, not ge i Davis Cup Matches, vare Garden eo Dee, and 27, On the former date the junior stare ay the vigit following. ‘Treaster of the James B. Sullivan, ur Athletic Union, f the champiwabite, held probably at tive As asian players, who have kept the Davis) ley won it from the United Kingdom in 1901. By George McManus. Baker BATTER. LET A NEW YORK BARGER SWAVE HIM. CENOUGH SAID) BATTER! BATTER! MAKES THE CAKE AND TAKES !T TOO, YOU KNOW, THIS QUAKER BAKER SWIPES THE LATTER BECAUSE HE MEEDSTHE DOUGH! (kt BE BACK vennimenenceeneney atte EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN of Cambridge clearly SLOWTOWN FANS WON'T STAND FOR ANY MORE SPIKING National Commission Warns McGraw and Fines Merkle for-Roasting Umpires. | strange as It baa Matty Is Best Hitter of McGraw | chances, most of them dimMeult, and has not misplayed on any one of them. It wae generally would be somo great base-r both teams when they met, on the part of the Giants, but thelr mic. |cess in this branch of the game Is har worth the mentioning, tolen one each for the 1 while Snodgrass, | Doyle have been the lucky one: Gepartment for the New Yorke ‘The CHants’ pitchers have shown won- | erful control, thought that there B’ fighting in his usual aggressive| the local fighter, succeeded in defe tng Phil Brock, the Cleveland light. | weight, in a ten-round bout at the Na-! | tlonal Sporting Club show. | PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2 The rumors about nk Baker hav the hospital =| blood poisoning gave the spiking inci- N= | dent a new lease on life, and now the jfana of this town—by the way, who that Philadelphia was ? [clare that if any one of the Athlet!: Brock in a contest Faddie Collins being the many years, and hi only member of their opponents to get |e free pass to first by either a base on) balls or a hit by pitched bail. ‘case, which happened in the opening con- { test, it is Wenerally believed that Matty |purposey! passed Collins, as there was & man on second at the time and two nd he figured that he could work Baker on outcury ‘Ten Glants have been given free trans- | portation to the first sack been given bases on dalle and Snodgrass | has been hit three times Twenty-six times New York batters have fanned, while the Athletic hitters have only succu Devore and Snods Gotham fan while Lord and Oldring have breesed nm most for the Slowtow' fore, as he seems to have lost his speed and wallop. vil @o right over the protecting ri In front of the grand stand and settle! as the men were clinched the greater | part of the thme and the referee had i ‘st blow of all that hit the gome trouble In trying tos the announce-| them, Murphy did his best work had been fined f excusable because it appened on the play in the first game ext to Baker the biggest man at the! When Snodgrass spiked him. GIANTS HAVE MADE EIGHT the matter then and there. ment that Fred Merk which will be deducted from hi . for saying unkind thin to Umpire Connolly in the last game at | the Polo Groun deen put out of @ game to his lite and | PP has a repatatie jeasy on umpires, “pheretore. ‘the am the elf e short, snappy left, which often sent his head back. are charged against the ew Yorkers, Herzog at third being ahe worst offender with three. Fletcher has tripped up twice, while Mekle, De- the other men harder than in the contest. They star! | slug at the clang of the bell, Brock lets | ting fly with both hands, cutting a gash | over Murphy's right eye, while Tor re, returned the compliment with short, of Swift wallops into his body and face. w York, | As Murphy had landed the cleaner and more effective blows he was entitled to the honors. Created consternation among the other | Fred admits that he was gui! nnolly with deliberation and that Connolly the base decisions over at { announcement What the Gianis Will Do With World Series Cash ‘The Giants are figuring on what they will do with their prize 's{] money, which will in @l) probability amount to as much as $2,500 fining Merkle York on Tuesday. t the impression from this that had abused the writers, such was not'the case. were entirely upon what he thought of Mathewson proposes to spend @ part of his hunting caribou and His comments moose up in the Cobalt mining etction ef Canada. Otte Crandall will pat his into ferming land near Wadina, Ind. Se the Beau Brummel of the team, !s going to get an automobile asd spend his winter burning up the roads around New Chief Meyers's coim will go into a California ranch near Biverside that he has bad in mind for « long time. Trea Merkle is going to spend his prise money for @ peach or- ‘They stand Athe| ebara out in Montana. Larry Doyle declares that he doesn't Know what he will js money, but he will mot buy mining stock. Josh Devore is going to buy @ hense for his mother near T, Maute, Ind, which be thinks he can get for about $3,500, Giants win, he ts going to spend the balance on diam COLLEGE PLAYER IS HURT, FOOTBALL TEAM DISBANDS. Although there have been numerous | changes in the footdal! | fort to make fatalities impossible, the wamo is still dangerous, (oval) will Me | son’ ‘8 record shows. players have been so badly Injured that they won't be able to play of the big colleges have} but wil remain whh “the | miffered in this rewpect However, the worst blow tis championshioe wi!l| fron sport f@ the announce wgi| from Elkins, W: Tules in an ef- GYPSY LOVE “Intellectual and aesthetic re- freshment, delightful melody, ingratiating harmony, insinu- ating orchestral effect.” York Tribune, Va,, to the effect that! heir inning, while the seniors wil! compete| the Davis College eleven of that place i because of the death alter E, Merriman, one of the play- the game at i convention of the Amateur THIS WEEK END won| Friday and Saturday finishes our special sale ed will be | ther two members of the | of 250 styles of fine Winter suitings and over- Edisen Phonograph Rec- ords of Sylva's own songs iypsy Love by Sylva herse.f now on sale at all Edison dealers. coatings at $20.00. We bought them at about half price and give them to you at the same. The style, quality and value of these materials hotaa tis teens Bae will surprise you. ARNHEIM, Broadway & | Ninth St. Tommy I M urphy Whips Phil Brock in Rather | __ Disappointing Bout’ BOXING SHOW TO-NIGHT. Boxers in ~ Clinches Most of | Time in Their Contest at \ National Sporting Club. BY JOHN POLLOCK. way and landing fast and often} with both hands, Tomm Murphy, This was the first appearance of this vielnity In showing was not! when ho appeared here be- wood | The bout was not up to expectations, es, upper-cutting Broek with Brock: on the other hand, hurt Mur- several times by punches to the stomaon, meeting Tommy with lefts land rights as he would wade into him, In the t round the y pr en fought fous round of right off to When row marvellous rec vlared for the € KUBELIK (THE WOULD '$ GREATES: Voter TEST snd hear them ts miekss of uch incomparable inatrame! 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Nelson's tactics were to take puni (Spectal to Tie Be AUGUSTA, Me., € ment and retallate occasronally, keeping after his man constantly, while Alger clung to the hit and get away game. He struck four blows to Nelson's one and made the old champion look ke an 4 amateur. ‘The Inst round was @ whirlwind affairy both men seemingly casting caution t® the winds and swapping smashes to the head and body. Alger set thé crowd wild just before the gong by rocking the Battler’s head with a right swing. = Stops Johnny Glover, PHILADELPHIA, Oct. %.—Tommy Coleman, the Frankford negro, sprung the pugilistic surprise of the season at the Broadway A. 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