The evening world. Newspaper, December 9, 1911, Page 6

LOTS OF BASEBALL HERE NEXT WEEK JUST THREE HOLDERS OF RING TITLES IN’ AMERICA Wolgast Undisputed Possessor of Lightweight Crown, Coulon Bantam-Weight Champion and Attell King of Feather-Weights. boxing champions in Am I lea to-day, Johnny Coulon, bantamweight; Abe Attell, feather “weight, and Ad Wolgast, light: weight. Of these Coulon and Attell obtained their tities by claiming them, and then fending th against § all-comers. Fortunately they have been successful for sev- eral years, and there can be no question that they have earned a right to call themselves champions. There's no flaw in the title to-day. With Wolgast it 1s a different af- fair. Wolgast is the only champion of the world in the ring (since John- | son's retirement) who earned his title by whipping the former holder, ‘Wolgast whipped Battling Nelson, who had defeated Joe Gans, who had defeated Frank Erne, wiw had deefated Kid Lavigne, who had won the championship of America and cinched his right to the world’s champton- ship by going to England and knocking out the famous Dick Burge, great- est lightweight known to England’s ring followers in many long years— perhaps in all the history of the game. There's no possible flaw in Wolgast’s ( or make a show of defending the honor Mitle. He ts of the direct descent from | against all challen, the old line of kings of the lightweight} An exception to this latter statement lass, When he stopped Battling Nelson | 1s Mike Gibbons, who certainly oan fm that gory ring at Port Richmond, | beat all of the welterweights with eas Cal., he won his title on the spot, and | judging by his recent fights. The on! there are only three ways in which he | doubt connected with Gibbo an lose it again. He can retire from |terwelght champion is his weight. He bry ring, or die, or > officially beaten | scaled 1461-2 pounds against Coffey, and a tattle whore hie opponent makes | he'll have to “show” in the matter of weight. Wolgast's enforced retiro- | NONE before ihe can take It upon hin. MNEs’ ¢ 2am taokths) oping 0 on fend the title he has claimed, weight champion. Papke inher- Operation, doesn't invalidate his right to = I {ted the title, perhaps, after Be called champion, according to our American custom. A ‘ ‘AG will come out and fight again as) i ‘ aon a the busiest | Ketchel’s death, as he was the most re- | RR ecgeadh ee andl ind | cont of former holders, But he lost to ‘Thompson in Australia, and since re- turing to America Thompson hasn't Uttle champion we've had in some tim With the possible exception of Battling shown anything worth mentioning in the line of fighting ability. Papke himself Nelson. Bat Nelson was a better cham- lont a decision to Bob Moha, a middi pion than Woilgast in one way. He Welght, in Boston. On this score Moh: HERE aro just three world's HERE {8 no recognized middle- ‘THE EVENING WORLD, Saw SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1911, ~ BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK | Jenny ‘Cevron . BANTAM CHAMPION WHO" CLAIMED” His TITLE Bike Fans to Have Their Inning When Get et Busy To-Morrow Night Many New Faces WIil Be Seen in Annual Grind at Madi- son Square Garden. T* annual six-day bicycle race, which for nearly twenty years has furnished New York with one week of unalloyed fun, insomnia and Indigestion, begins to-morrow night at Madison Square Garden with fifteen teams entered from all parts of the world. Asa curtain raiser, or an appetizer, as {t were, there will be a series of sprint races to-night in which the speed stars will endeavor to get the crowd accus- tomed to the whirr of the wheel, the toboggan caps and the begoggled faces that become #o weird and fantastic to- ward the latter end of the week. The main event Is a three-cornered Was 20 willing go fight that he always @ave his victims a second chance if wanted it, He fought Britt, Cor- bon fiain Gans each two or three timos,|°!#/m_ might be recognized. fut there these being the toughest men on his, “fe Frank Klaus, who claims the title list. Perhaps Wolgast will do the same|“"4 Who has whipped ood middle- after a while. Up to date he's been nen all over the country, and Buck boot laimanta, and} Crouse, whose claim looks at legst as ey igo Tad wood as that of Klaus. It will take a ries of battles to decide which ts the best man among the claimants. to give him credit for his work, he purely bas shown that he’ the. best ‘world over the long route. $9 the The Wght heavyweight championship “Nh has died out. Tommy Burne won that Couton— dis Pr eomeny Comlobenc one title from Jack O'Brien, but Tommy toured the world, became heavyweight champion by right of conquest, lost to putes his right to be called chaim- pion in his class, although he came Jack Johnson, and retired from the ring without taking the trouble to do any- fato the ttle in a roundabout way. Wrankte Net!, years ago, took the bantam championship from Harry Forbes in Sin} ting with his ght heavyweight ¥ Francisco, Neil, later on, went to Ens-|Pangford and Jeanctte Ariarda fas ti temd, expecting to pick up some cosy! both are over the recognized weight, honey, and was trimmed by Joe Bowker! Jack Johnson's retirement has left fm his first fight. Neil sr. sent up some, the heavyweight title without a real frightful shrieks of agony over the do-| holder, If Johnson fights again he'll be izion,. but that made no differenca,| TecoRnized ax champlon until he is de- feated. But he may not fight again. Bowker won the decmion, and no doubt} 7 l nay % "')tn that case McVey and Langford, fe way entitled to it. Bowker didn't! pening in Australla, will come as near Peas the title along legitimately. He} out of the class and began fight-| Bey Sos uersieh . He lost several bat fies by the knockout ‘route, came to batting for the heavyweight champlon- ship ax any one else. None of the pres- t “hopes” are in running. match race between Kramer of Amer- jea, Lorenz of Europe, and Clark of Australia. Then there will be @ five- mile motor paced race for the cham- pionship between Elmer Collins and Jimmy Moran. In addition, there will be pursuit races and short distance sprints for the amateurs. ‘To familiarize the throng with their diet for the week srrangements have been completed to generate the same old familiar odor of brotied hot dogs in the basement, and the song shouterr, whistlers and the demonstrators of new fangled candies, oils for the muscles and piano attachments will have @ pre- Uiminary try-out in the centre of the ring. ‘These elaborate arrangements ought to put everytning in ship-shaps for the big gun that will be fired one minute after midnight to-morrow. The minute Tom Foley fires the pistol that will start the pedallers on thelr long grind the crowd should he ready to get comfortable and do with- out sleep for a week. In February Madison Square Garden will be demolished, and the ho: dog of the basement will have had his day. This does not mean, however, that no ' | @ Boer, 6-Day Riders | will be run. The manage- it iiss already made arrangements to have the next six-day race at the big coliseum to be erected Forty- seventh street_and Lexington avenue. | ADNWouGast - FIFTEEN TEAMS ENTERED IN BIG RACE. The mere fact that this is the fare- well race under old conditions should) add materially to the recelpts, as the average bicycle fan would never for- sive himself f, in later years, he could not sit back In a chair and talk of THE ONE CHAMPION OF THe PRESENT DAY WHO WON His TITLE BY WHIPPING AN UNDISPUTED CHAMPION OF THE Word, : ae t last one in the Gard There are to be fifteen teams in the big spin, and they come from all quar- ters of the globe. Among the riders) there 1s probably more rivalry and real| anxiety over success than has ever at-| tended a six-day race, ‘his is brought} about by the fact that all of the cyclists are to figure in a percentage of the; te receipts. Heretofore they were given purses of @ fixed amount of money., The pedalling athletes two or three Yeats ago got together and in- sisted that they should ride for a cer- tain percentage of the receipts, accord- | ing to where they finished in the race. To this demand Mr. Pollok and Mr. Powers have finally acceded, and it 1s worth @ great deal more to win a six- day race now than ever before. | In addition to the old favorites who| have come here from year to year and| have picked up a following among the) fans, there are several new ones. In| these there 1s a particular interest be- cause some of them have arrived from Europe with championship ribbons at- tached to thelr belts, MANY CLEVER RIDERS AMONG THE NEW MEN. Probably the most prominent of the new riders 1g @ team made up of La- pize, a Frenchman, and Van Houtwart The former ts the road cham- pion of France, while the latter cleaned up everything tn the open road race for the championship of Belgium last summer. Van Hourwart also won the Bordeaux-Paris race held in France last uummer. Laplze wo days. These men are not experienced sider his chances of recovery poor. He six-day riders, and it 1s problematical Only recently went home when he was unab to come to an agreement with ee io how they will do on an tnclosed | ,q° Wolgast or Packey MoFarland for :. ® match, and was hardly off the boat In Annual Fifteen teams will start in the eix- riders. riders as they are tamd up: Kramer and Moran, America. tralia. Root and Hill, America. aes and Drobach, America, J. 1d M. Bedell, America. Pye and Collins, Australia and America, Cameron and Magin, Scotland and Germany, De Mara and Lawrence, Amerioa, Champion Wells Dying in London Word comes from London that Matt Wells, the English champion, who made such a deep impression with the local boxing fans by reason of his victories over Cross, Brown, Attell and others, fs dying from erysipel He is being Ainerica, was whipped by Al Delmont fm Boston and Tommy O'Toole in Phila- @elpbia, and went back to England on4 Oblivion. The bantamweigm title had no real @iaimant. Delmont was over the weight, wi mixing with featherweixhts ad Jigintwelghts, Johany Coulon, after) ings Murphy, ji 105-pound chums n BY VINCENT TREANOR. BE ATTELL was criticised for jumping out of his box seat dur- ing the ninth round of the recent K. 0. Brown and One-Round Hogan fight and advising Brown during the remainder of the bout. “Why shouldn't 1 advise Brown?" Attell asks, “I had $200 bet on him to win, I knew in the elgbth round that he couldn't win except by a knockout, so I thought I could advise him enough to get a draw and Save iny money." Attell 1s a wise guy n and out of the ring, but this time | e lost out anyhow, He may vse the advice on Hogan himself, now that hi is matched with the "One Round” celebrity, honesty and squareness, Instances on | Where he lived up to this reputat numerous, Some time ago Harry “wale Whitney, the millionaire, suddenly Wop” when he wanted to use it, how-| cided ta’ bring a tantly ot triads te ever, and has It to-day. Abe "claimed" |pout at Gibson's club, but when he made the featherweight championship When) application for a box everything had Terry McGovern had ceased defending it. | been sold out, Whitney and his friends Terry didn't lose that title to Young | Showed up at the club anyhow. There Corbett. The latter never held a cham- sores a Vg to he nee Boxes had sold h MeGov ‘or $% or $5 a seat. There was one un- een ech in theater, |occupted ut the time and Whitney of- dered double the regular price fe it Roon, while the class welght limit 18 122) Gi son explained the toe oo wand glaimed the pantam title and be- gan “defending” st at 115 pounds ring- @ide. After a while ne fought his way ‘Ante pudlic recognition all over the wuatry, and to tell the truth, he's a Perking little Ahter und worth looking Over Whenever he fights. BE ATTELL ts one of the wonders | A of the ring. He started in San) Fran negriy twelve years ago, Knocked out his opponents as fast @a'they could be tossed into a ring with im, went "Havt” as far as Salt Lake City, cleaned up there and afterward fought ali over the country, He became Wonderfully Clever, and for a long Une @ontented himself with winning points. He still had a knockout ILLY GIBSON enjoys an enviable ving wide. Attell has always been able for Mr. So-and who had promised to make 122 eusily, and even two oF to be on hand at Whitney, anxious three pounds less, But to show that he| to get the box, Jumped his offer to a was genuine as a cham he often | hundred dollars, | Mr. Gibson explained him ° o said Whitne “but Vl te So-and-So Isn't gave away weight and fought desperate | he. battles with such men as battling Nel- |" fon (who couldn't do anything with Able| you what I'll do, If Mr phy, Johnny Marto and Matt Among the featherweights Atoll ts preme. ney the box was his. om his roll and son sorted the $0, and handed Whitney 6 box ca 0, pion, Honey Mellody has some | things like this at other clubs sort of w claim to the title be- | eaure he whipped Joe Walcott and never | Jout the championship by losing a nant) AY A “at weight.” But Honey lost several) and the house was sold out early. fights and “went back” until people no| Hundreds of late comers offered $5, Wut fepger regarded him as champion, He| Were turned down by Gibson tn his de- ays he's in shape again—but they aul | sire to obey the law. Karller in th evening @ couple of so-called hustle Sank thas He'l) Rave in it In the | Gtfered to buy a bundle of doliar tcke Present the title ts being tagged | with the intention of selling none of| wide the sathanen for douvle fi T the Gibbons-Coffey gut Tuesday night the prices Were $1, #2 and fo six and fifteen rou M'DY | Here hy 8.36 I'M let you have. the box." | O'Toole, Freddy Welsh. (then | Fight thirty arrived and Mr, So- | @ feather), Owen Moran, Tommy Mur-|and-So hadn't appeared, so Gibson to Whitney ' © Little Stories of the Sport World. © Police were Instructed by Gibson to beat up anybody that resembled a apeculator, Gibson might have doubled the receipts if he were not #o particular about keep- ing within legal boundaries, the Poxing Commission, always has a story on tap. In the old days, gays Charley, Jim Kennedy's office wae the dally meeting place of a dozen or so of fight managers, promoters and Just sports, and what a p-nning society they formed. For instance, any da: would find twelve of us on hand discu ing current topics, The best of natu would prevail; In fact, we were the ret thing in the mutual admiration lin Finally some one, say Charley Horan, would rise and with “Well, boys, got to got up town,” move to the door and out. Then the other eleven would get busi What they wouldn't say about Horan! The “I Knew Him When Club" wasn't in it with them, Charley would be panned to a turn and then some, all nds taking a v crack at him, else always had to leave. the same dose as 1 behind him. Che hes HARVEY, secretary to soon el The roasts would be started afresh with as the each exit, and many one of us with important dates elsewhere just shifted from one foot to the, other, dreading to make a break, know- ing that by doing so we would merit @ worse panning than the preceding fel- low, Many a date was passed up just because we didn't dare leave and be Harry Btevens was one of the in those days, He used to erybody putting everybody fire dally, "Why this isn't he remarked one min’ roasting oven,”’ 1 on Kennedy's office was The Oven," roasted, | known as IKE GIBBONS has made himself popular in the boxing world and particularly among the profes: sional fight managers, At least six of them have offered to relleve of the Job of managing Mike Nave gone so far ay to tell | miuoh and Reddy ar fore they came Dast they were partners in business in St, Paul and are not | likely to be separated now before he showed signs of his present | ness. Battling Mantell ‘# the manager must be the boss and the most respected end of the combina- tion, but first he must teach the fighter to have absolute confidence in his honesty. “Give him a little the best of Battling Mantel! of this city easily de- the split," saye Morgan, “whenever it *#(ed Howard Smith of Elizabeth, New Jersey, at the American A. A. of Brook- lyn, having a big lead in every one of the ten rounds, This w. the second battle for Mentell in the lightweight having graduated recently from when he met Louls De the French champion. Man- tell was @ much improved boxer over any previous form he has displayed in the ring, and in the last three rounds had Smith on the verge of falling to |’ sleep several times. ps as BOYS IN BLEACHERS BEST JUDGES OF BALLPLAYERS, SAYS JIMMY CALLAHAN. CHICAGO, Dec. 9.—Jimmy Callahan’ dat will figure in next season's chas can be done, and be liberal in shoulder- ing the expense. Bawl the fighter out every now and then, and invent stories, with a view to testing his sincerity. Often,” continued Morgan, “I have ac-| cused Brown of clroulating stories about me just to hear him deny them, “Any fighter,” went on Morgan, ‘no matter how well he can fight, needs en- couragement. nts to be told he can fight, and coaxed along. Look at Jack Goodman. There's a great fighter, but he has never had any real en- couragement Why, if I had him a couple of years ago, we'd both be rich now.” It'a doubtful {f Morgan could | ever amass riches under any conditions, ‘an Andrew Carnegie on a emall scale as a philanthropist. old time," said Abe Attell last ‘ ‘I Meht, “I don't say that I could ¢or the American League pennant. go along the Maratnon route with him, |" rhe veteran player and new manager but in a ten-round bout I think my | iemiee anil ta cet ae one? | of Presideat Comiskey's White Sox, last |night put at rest rumors that he 1s to A don, manager of Walter Coffey, | be a”bench manager. “T’'ll go to the bench,” aid Callahan, during the preliminary bouts at the Fairmont A. C, Tuesday night and ‘when the boys in the bleachers be- hind me tell me to take off my uniform, “The bleacher boys are the barometer Ay of baseball and when they say you've casually inquired about Coffey's chances prayed your best game then Ike a good against Gibbons, Iter will flatten POE. Tn stand at third base like Hugh that guy in two rounds,” tersely re- plied Weedon. Now the other man, rarely known to bet, expyessed a dif- nt opinion and suggested a mall "I guess (ne bleacher sociable bet, say nh the outcome, “Lay me 8 to 6 and I'll take you,” sald Weedon, At that Weedon may be sport, t Ad Wolgast any 'D ike to WELL known attendant at local boxing bouts met George Wee- AGING fighters is a business all by itself these days, ‘The MeKetrick combine has suite of Broadway offi @ stenog- r, a clerk and an office boy, and all hands aye kept busy. Since joining forces with MeKetrick, Morgan, in ad ‘ition to being the champion money get- ter, has became a wonder at r The plval manager who isn't there with NA AN MORGAN, who has made such @ phenomenal financlal success Knockout Brown, has origina a ™ ol Nona, abet mnnesinn e Aodetaitd Morgan ia te dipouneing ala the snappy retost has Uttle chance a’ 4, match-making Morgan can talk minutes y time now, ‘oy wauens when, >» wadloper, a MITCHELL THE TAILOR FROM BOSTON re. ST, AND BROADWAY The 15 Teams Who Will Start and Stoll are absentees thin year. Lorenz and Saldow of Germany are nw Lorenz {8 regarded as the fastest sprinter in Eurone. Fogler and Clark, America and Aus-| Galvin and Wiley, Finds Smith Easy) Grind at Garden. ‘day race at midnight to-morrow. Rutt Here are the Thomas and Stein, America. Ireland and America. Ryan and Cavanagh, America. Palmer and Wells, Australia and New Zealand. Lapize and Van Houwaert, France and Belgium. Leon Georget and Brocco, and Italy. Lorenz and Saldow, Germany. France Moody Is Erne’s Latest Victim): Kddie McGoor! (Special to The Evening World.) that is showing Ms ei es PHILADELPHIA, Dec, 9,—Young BOW, has been matched to meet Ramsey, the Phila A dite tyro 9 pound, a ands in the delphi the Erne's victim last night was Wille] way of ey yund beut between Abe po peeved preven ¢ in « six-round bout at Moody of Port Richmond, and ho made | atte, tat fet fa icone | Wednentay ig fem isite tone Soo ake Erne fight the best he knew how to gain | Wertor, merager of Attell, wante ‘the icles 1 | Pritedeinbie a Sick O such shea ard ee the verdict after six hard rounds at the | De 138 Pounds a oe ie tite Philadephia st Nonpareil A. C. o*F. Sr. A hoodoo seme to be folowing ses Coxien, At the final bell both lads were in @! ne tozing commiulonere, made a ruling at {{2¢,bastamweight champion, for he hae had two hard mixup, and it appeared as if they | ther meeting which should be aed ba ari fang yng ed Oe eer ce sane did not hear the gong. One of Moody's | Walgnt ty the {allover of vaste colored | Was first matched to meet Cieorge Kitson ot Rene hot-headed seconds smashed Erne two | fehters he ‘permitted at say club in thls, Stale: Jahe. Wis. for ten rounds, wiich was ‘ttoppeds and or three times, but the latter had his bg 0 fear toute, ry motion Bow the new ‘Mayor of Johnstown, head about him and let it go with @ smile, A police officer escorted the hot-head out of the ring, and they all shook hands. The Iron Man won by a fairly large margin, In the third round Moody went down in a heap and took nine. Moody was tired in the last two rounds and Erne staggered him often with blows to the jaw and body, Eddie Palmer, the New Orleans crack, gave height, reach and a bunch of weight away to See Saw Kelly, and made the latter quit at the end of the fourth. BIG SIX-DAY RACE BEGINS TO-MORROW Ave Atel, FEATHERMEIGHT CHAMPION BY VIRTUE OF HAVING CLAIMED THe TITLE . Kennedy and Morris Matched to Swap Blows In Local Ring on Dec. 27 BOXING SHOWS TO-NIGHT. At Fairmont A. C.—Young Cash- man vs. Terry Young, ten Pounds, ‘ Charley White Has Been Se-| lected as the Referee of | This Contest. ten rounds. At Olyinplc A. C.—Phil Cross vs. Young Hickey, ten rounds. At Long Acre A. C.—Banty Lewis vs. Jimmy Ambrose, ten rounds. At Sharkey A. C.—Paddy Sullivan vs. Johnny Moran, ten rounds. At Gowanus A, C., South Brooke lyn—Sallor Burke vs. Young Her- man, ten round: At Liberal A. C., Staten Island— Young Fulton rounds, At National A. C,, Brooklyn—Bob Loughrey vs. Mike Mall rounds, At Standard A. C., Greenpoint— Jimmy Carroll vs. Patsey White, ten rounds, BY JOHN POLLOCK. FTER several days of negotiations A @ match has been arranged be- tween Tom Kennedy, the prom- Ising local heavyweight, and Carl Mor- ris, the Oklahoma heavyweight. They will meet in @ ten-round bout before the Empire A. C. in Manhattan Casino on the night of Dec, 27. Charley White has been selected to referee the contest. Three clubs were after the match, the Empire A. C., Fairmont A. C. and Na- tional Sporting Club. As the McMahon brothers made the men the. best offer) the managers of the fighters accepted it. Mortis fights Al, Williams, the W. heavyweight, a t ‘ound bout be: ~" the Cleveland (0.) A.C. on Tu Matches Arranged. Joe Coster and Willie Jones will, meet for ten rounds Irving A. C, of Brooklyn on Monday night. night. } end it looks as if four or five more vt iy Pee te Pest frstence within the next few seem rhe two clube that hare thrown uy tho sponge ape. the jLapos. pe. oe gvems A. C. and the Palm A, C., both of Pa ee Brooklyn. were igre to make say monty 4 oat of thetr we, nd decided to abut at, Pes | Witte Rents, the local fahter, and Bi Sa a. | Rie, MRL ing Med midloneight ot the esi " fet ae We were matched to-day to Packer MeFarlend,, the, 0 Mackey was | t one of the local clubs on a Tues ‘ignee atchet loway Wo meet Louna:iickey.~ the local ‘ee cuter, ine tenergund bo ae te Hight of Dee. 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