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UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY i, (a PLAYERS GOOD IN FIELD, BUTCAN'T BAT; Matty, Just Home From Cub Tells About Giants’ Trip South, —— light Between Cross and Brown Pre rises to Be a Corker—) Sam Wallach Leads Man-! =, agers as Letter Writer. COMISKEY SELECTS 20 GREAT BALLPLAYERS 7) twenty greatest bel! that ever lived: Ewing, y Comiskey'* are Bddie Harry Lord, Wille Ty Cobb, Fred Keesler, Tom Me- Carthy of the olf Boston team, La- rae. 1, saftahing oJ Phe Neo Pont E |} sole, Charile Radbourne, Providence MAT fight to-night patesen Leach |] Pitcher; Bobby Carruthers, St. Louis Cross and K. 0. Brown should|| Browns: Chrirty Mathewson, Clark tbe 8 corker. Sam Wallach, who| QOrMth and Ed Walsh @8 manager for Leach, writes: “As @e Leach te concerned, he ts mal orteg the ht (13% pounds at 6 very Tl admit that Brown ts the man if he wine Right now, TN say that I can't eee Brown fight asa winner, If nothing idige, Brown Is surely game and aggres- BY BO EWAN BULGER. A batt ol CCORDING to Christy Mathewson's idea a combination of Cuban throwing arma and American im eyes would make the ideal bal for champtona of the world. had @ great time down tn Ia jaive, but Leach has new snap in hie] va: said the Ginnte’ star pitene are sts crvan upon his arrival from Cut. “And more effective ae/1 was very much Interested and fer es knocking out Ie concerned. They |surprined at the style of hail u b more power of concentration. ! tend that Brown t* going mainly the native players nines They are won me marvellous throwers, The! Nene appears to be tn hittin when Wh ‘le remembered that they hav not had the opportunity to develop tik the bie league teams in ae ca ee ability of these Cubans Ie we have sixteen major pier ta clubs playing all summer, and there ar: hweareds of minor league clubs playin At the same time, Naturally that give the American player n xrpat advantage In experience and observation over thea Cubans, who only have five or #ix goo teams, [f the Cuba’ a reguia schedule with major league clube thes ‘ould turn out aome wonderful teams. "I wan fairly successful againet them fee Leach's body, becaure, as Morgan @¥oted, ‘Leach doesn't Ike tt frankly admit that Leach 4. it anywhere, but anybody that dors he's most dangerous when he's Put Leach in the ring with a a SA ita bound to be a good Leach figured in more ts than any other boxer iy as port med in New York? I'm glad the weight is to be 123 at 4 00 ‘thet If Leach wine-and I'm confident ‘RU win decisively—Morgan can't claim —¥ Leach had weig Siadly consent to spending most of thelr time in fgurin: out apeed. 1 us them with succ “The crowds down there. continued the big pitcher, “are very enthusiastic and ft is really @ pleasure to see thoir Intenae loyalty for the home pia: They do not understand the fine of the Kame as well as the funn in| America, but wh k in knowl. they make up tn noise. ewRON Was Accompanied by Mra. Mathewson. They will go go Pennayl- vania to spend the holidays. JAM WALLAC } Wome totter toro Manager—eh? Mor- may talk, but give him @ pen and him argue it out with Gam, 1 string @ chan © of pace on] + ro Moreau, having -ehores, accompanied hy Millage, his manager, and Reel Ancinell, intends taking the wertd's middleweight title back to sunny Treace. SULLIVAN NAMES HIS ALL-AMERICAN cam for 111 and thereby paves the way Tis welectiona THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1911. BEST SPORTING -PAGE.-IN. NEW --YORK. . Copyright, 191, ty The Press Pubttehing Co, (The New York World). neyo AGAIN, LEACH er FOR BUSI THINK OF THE POOR PEOPLE WHO ARE SUFFERING ON THE EAST SIDE WHILE CROSS 1% FIGHTING, BOXING SHOWS TO-NIGHT. Wille, in "Defeating Morris, Demonstrates Superiority of Old School. at “pmpire A. Cu A. Casino— Cc. Cross Brown, ten rounds. At Sharkey A. C.—Jimmy Carroll ve. K. Manhattan vs. Knockout TEAMS FOR 1911 0. Eger, At Long Acre A. A.—Joe Shepherd ve. ten rounds, ten rounds. and 1 found 10 my aurprine that they 1° | James 1 tuuvan, Becretary Tre BY JOHN POLLOCK. Maauaratleee not ik o ob on, srer of the Amateur Athietic Union, ha: " Sone Mall. They Wave Bean | innounced his AllsAmerioam: Athletic has beah tn che Gtae for ever At-|f peteeuem the weet HB NE of the olfetime fighters who O weight, will meet Young Cashman teen years donned the glover or ten rounds at the Brown Gym- it he did to Much discussion by other experts, asium A. A, next Tuesday night. © us follows: again last night, and wi | ! iT he hard Yard. Rax—tiwven Hur. en, tes, [one of the proven ey sey aurprise Kanu Selena] ook ce (hw ast sider)” - R, Craig, Universtiy ‘of lten-round bout waa not only @ surpr! it Morris's right ear with one of ans, Boge tof Kiaus, wotitied — evant tue —D, B Amami Cotieas [tO the spectators, but clearly demon-| Phil Morris's right ear with one of) iis! Kiss’ litany today. Stops Marone: Bo Vint Run—vi. "W,'Wheipard Trancamer: | xtrated that the ghtera of the mew! in’ three etraight. left-hand Jabs to ch time, he we Pe Accidental Foul Stops Maroney. : Uy domes, Come, Unive, [wchool 4o not Gompare with those of the | Andy's face which Drought the claret sear tn scton seals on a orang ibe} .1n the, third round .of, the ten-round Toole Wait, (prvell University | of. wodlnie! from his nose and mouth. At infighting i tore been |atar bout at the Mount Vernon Sporting veg Yaad Mirae-a, ACh, ‘The old-timer who outclassed the new | Wille again showed his class. Often . to meet | Club Inst night between Young Sam NBG Vant Hunted, Jo aller, trah-Amercan fighter was John Wille, the Chicago|he jolted Morris with short inside Johnny Marto, the stuniy local lightweight, tn 8) Langford of Mount Vernon and Joe Ma- nine Broad Jump—A, Le Gutieron, Bim |neavy weight. Wille hag a long list o: | Punches which jarred the latter cons.d- th rk erably, When the final bell rang the battles to his credit, some wins and 4 7 ning, Higrdump—H, 2. Grumpelt, New paki ‘nany defeats, Old fight fang o' | ectators gave Wille great ovation, vat A. Gartner, Yale Untveratty. | *! i 11 the time — laine, + | New York will probaly rccal Mike Gibbons has socepted an offer of #1,200 ‘Fhe French fighter has a great record Rumors of Big Deal. | 4 Sigeaine Hah gig HAN ads, Now ot hen he was usedeas the trial hore: | trom « menager of @ theeire ot Bt. Maul, Min fm hie own country, tort: There are rumors of @ *hree-cornered |. Standing Brod Jump—Ray ©, Kwry, New| ™ 01d | to give spesring exhibitions nest week, Mike thigty-Gve won with knocko: deal by which Stovall at Cleveland ‘a eee for all new-comera during the good will come back to New York immediately after eal to be clever, yet a rushing, mixing ho Athtotton. Morlarity to | Aci™ SMMing Jume-—Dan Healer, Pastime} ayy when we had real fighters. Las: fAghter, who sticks to his work in Bat Nelsen style. Although unscarred, he ouplo of outfielders of Cleveland ta one inst Andy Morris 0. ning Hop, ‘8 Step and Jump—Deo Abearne, Ammerian y night he went ¢ Ln Boston, a fighter of ¢! new acheol, in Wvvene! Ne re lash Uke fighter. Hie face 19 the tace| Vf {Ne outfelders mentioned, Connie | itammer The —M,” J “\uirat, “New “tori | the main bout at the Brown Gym-| '® three ae e ter, with high eek bo: le very much afraid that Siufty |" nasium, BAdie Murphy, the goal welterweight fighter lee ne Saleh wentan ee Pane% | Metnnos will not be able to play vo | af abhor san fre Distance—P, J, Moon /N8’ though, Morris has been Going some | of Boston, who haa beam tring, fora Ione it of quiet determination ana| Call REXt Reason an account of tiie ine | 4 Pigue—Martin Sheridan, Irlah-Americay | eae ghiing during the last Afteen| '°, st on ® mate tome fury he re Pitohed ball. Innes, if neces man, and the elved from being hit by a it fe willing to lose Me. |< ¥, to get a first bnae- chances are that he wi!) alow the ines, strong but Hilo weit is email get Stovall. Harry Davis, the new m r of Cleveland. has Indicated «= willins transfer Stovall, as he is heavy in proportion. afrald tt miaht not he thoronehty mate BS muscles are smooth, yet he c AW gat Isfactory for Stovall to work as @ Diaver after having been manaxer. “The American Leawue wanty to keep {te part of the peace agreament and can do #0 only with the Natione! League as a friendly rival" RUTT ANA STO! WIN GERMAN SIX-DAY RACE. FRANKFORT, Germany, Dec. “Tensitile Hun—I, Lewis Scott, South Paterson - Mie 440-Yan} Hun PD eo Yard Run oT Mile ty Two Miie Hy ito. erety WASHINGTON, some thee local fichter a one of the clube in this Acinity without success, has 0, Snedigar, Olymple Club, San Fran Run—Qeorge V. Bonhag, Iriah.Amer months he was made to look like a novice. Wille not only outpointed and outgeneraled Morris, but he nearly put him away In the first two rounds. In those two sessions Wille dropped his younger opponent with short snappy left hand hooks to the point of the jaw. Had Me been in good shape the chances are. t he would have fin- ished Morris then and the: He was plainly out of condition, though, and did not take the chance of tiring him- nelf out by following up an advantage. In only one round of the ten did Mor- ris have the better of Wihe. This was in the seventh session when he mpped in some hard right hand uppercute into Wille's stomach and also belted him hard on the kidneys at close quarters. Aigned articles uf greoment calling for s freround butt «ith Isr) Sohler, the Cleveland fighter, place Lie fore the Broadway A, C, of Clevslasd “on Nos Year's afternoon, te—W, J, Kramer, Long teland “F.C, ‘Thomrean, Princeton, N, Log Angeles” A kets 1OA COLLAGE TRA Kuve, We Niloda, Coivertty of a, Hun RC, Billy Pake hae changed his mind about going Oratg, University of College, jecnity ot P Jones Comell University. T. Berna, Cornell Caiver. ‘ant Hurdle—O, A, Chisholm, Yale Uni wes for him’ quit. i lated to meet “One ten round bout at a local Bight, is certainly picking up hese, dave. aed down Hrooklyn ay night fc Hirooklya. 98 y night for ie a out at the Brooklyn to Be Invaded. anions: Dec, ¥.—Aceording to it of business Announcement } ar bel Tn the other rounds Wille put ft all [ pe . Walter Mutt and Johann stol, the bi-|fersected for the establishment of a mea | over. Morrin, ianding hard with a Soe le cee The aah who created such @ fivor-| outlaw” baseball league to have clubs| punches that went straight to the ‘chow last Gatuedge Signi Itt on in Amertea two years | in Brooklyn, ‘ark, Paterson, Read- | mark. Wille! o boxing was 6 treet, Be promoters ™ ie Soe swe to ed the winners of vie {ing Washington, Baltimore and Rich-| judgment of distance was it effort, he ngs international six-day race which ended | mond. he rarely missed, In the third Wille | fe almost certala thet four of five more clubs wil; " peat Harry Lewis for tho weiter ehamplonship of France, “Charpentier,” he eald, ‘in the real white hope, He ts the coming heavyweight nplo to-ntent cord, The Frenoh team, Mique! and © finished second, while the ¢ They had 2119 miles to their Noe an the world, without @ doubt, Now he te] American team, composed of Stide and teen yeare old. He began boxing | Walthour, was third tw years ago, and then he was a] Rutt and Stol captured the MMx-day akiany little chap in knickerbookera |race at Kerlin last March, covering a with thin arms and lege and narrow chest, Moreay trained and (aught him Charpentier is growing very fast. When he fought Young Jorephs he had « hard struggic to make the weight, and when that Mght was over he decided to Ie the welterweight class go. He became | ® middleweight, Now I doubt that he ©an do 168 pounds, for he is growing the of an inch a month in hel and te developing w he attains his full sta: distance of 2118 miles. _— Hank O'Day I in Harne: CINCINNATI Dee. D-H “Hank” O'Day, former National Lev » ball tea rrived in Cincin onference Presi nry jorday sald and na in welght te eae | ston woukt im that ever fought Pre ce Is apparently tra wetting on the} | ow York Evening World, a, Mr And also to foreman Bulger. with the Orting writers and artists fe bind a m ly fine page you pre- weight.” y to meet them. all Qe fast as th “amd I'm con ome to me," ed that J sald Rat, n been my champicnship form and ready for A nun the long route, 1 want to win buck that the manner the title fair and square, and 1 am sure it Wan ar ieuute 1 will.” ningw. the exposure o ur We'll buve a good ioe on Hat after Ung events of nll the Hogan affair Vriday night vit a very high 4 f eMoiency | fairness and true lov Amer! 9 can't always be tvoting our own can athletica on the part of yourself isaaant to hare some other tele aa ia the low toot fur us the future, th New York, Dec Will continue to g Mr, Robert Edgren, Sporting avsistanta and gen: New York Evening World. trust that the pace m ‘aly 18, 1911. Manager Pulitzer ing World will en a Merry, Merry Building, City. | Xmas and @ thrice Happy New Year Dear Sir-—Aliow me to thank you heart- Yours truly, ily for the very able manner in wich | ‘Vee conduct the sporting page of the) THOMAS P CONNOR, 240 Crotona Ave., New York, N, ¥; The New Way To Drink Get it From The Bottle That Can’t be Refilled Step into the next saloon you me&t and ask the man for a little old “Wilson” from the new bottle. Pour yourself a drink—and then think this over. Here's a whiskey that is just as g ure ae cin be—put into a bottle that nothing can be put back into—so it must be always the same, always good, A guaranteed drink, in fact. And that's more than the highest priced whiskey in the world can be if it comes in the ordinary bottle. Wilson Whiske N THE SPORTING OBSERVATION TOWER—BY GEORGE M’MANUS. HERE'S A NICE HAVE FOR FIVE DOLLARS! LEACH CROSS THINKS HE CAN KNOCK BROWN'S TEETH OUT. ( GOOD CHANCE tile gapterment, sad way be matched to fight Haat nian, Buck” Crouse, MMittaburgh | light-midule- sles, tor ton towato ai the Foirmeat G | Sportsmansh 'Developer of I of Basketball Cham- | pions Believes She’s Training You CAN | Boys to Be Good Citizens. RAINING boys to become good “7 citizens {s the aim of Miss Nancy B. Kirkman, the only woman ath- \Iletic cone in Manhattan, and in carry- she has produced prove the fastest public school basketball team fn Manhattan. Her charge ts the basketball Sve of Public Schoal No. 171, @ quintet which is now, in the finals of the borough championship and has but one game between it he Manhattan title. Miss Kirkm & product of Ala- bama, She has the brown an, brunettg beauty that Indicate Southern origin, but she has nothing of Southern indolence. She goes in for athletic: with all her heart. For several years she has heen a teacher in school No. |i71. Previous to tha’ a student at the Normal Colleg {tained distinction by captaining the co! Hlege basketball five in her sophomore, [Junior and ecnlor years. Consequentiy, ctl: ural thal te an og. teaching ¢ should become the | school's coach. in our sciool,” sald Miss Kirkman |to-day, “I have tried to Impress the YOUNG SOLSBERG DEFEATS DALY AT ROYALE A. C. Johnny Daly, the east sido bantam, | seems to be tn poor fighting form now, | for he was outpointed in another bout |iast night, this time Young Solsverg, | the promising Brooklyn boxer, defeat ing him In a ten-round bout before the Royale A. GC of Brooklyn. Both boys were possessed of clever- ness, and thelr inability to elude eaca other at the finer point of the game made the affair slow in spots. In six of the ten rounds Solsberg led by a fair margin, two went to Daly, and two resulted in even breaks. Solsberg worked @ good left Jab to Daly's face with accuracy, and before the end of thé third round had his right eye al- most closed. Daly's best showing was at clone range, but his chances were silm, for Solsberg, when in the clinches, | NESS. Surprised Fans C Chieet Scarred | Veteran for His Great bade. d 10 out of business shortly, as few of them are making money. he six-round boat petween Fiidle MoGourty kK middiews Oshiowwh, Heh yack roney of the Bronx, Maroney was accl- dentally hit low and had to stop. A physician made an examination in the ring and declared Maroney unfit to cone tinue. The blow was ,urely ac. idental, The Nght was Langford’s up until the time of the accident, Florrie Barnett referced. Bank, N. ely will work with hum, ‘vill, take pert in another battle Me will swap punches with nd, the crack miclewelght of Ca ata | ‘ wad bout | ‘ Wille Lewis fomgron aight Hanh Jett forthe batieground Age red that hie GAT IN THE MIDST of this season the large and well-known ime. porting tailor, S. Morris, 349353 Fiith Ave., EDITED BY /ROBERT EDGREN’ ‘First Woman Coach Says Placed Above Victory. fi | the finer points of the game and, | lresas City and J, Dankleman for Mew oe ip Should Be boys with the fact that winning ts not the primary cbject of spert. Of course, we all want to win, but I place eporte- manship anl good conduct far epeve victory, I think I have succeeded in this, for our boys are not only sportsmen, but have also gone te the front in their game. “This is not the firet year I have coached the basketball tearm, m, bat Ris the first time we have reached = finals, so 1 am correspondingly The other team in the finals = by the game between Nos. @2 and 68; I am sure our boys can the “How do I keep abreast of the pase in style of play? Well, I watch the and digest every word of the ball guldes. As often as possible I take be their comrade as well as their coueh. I don't know that my bo: championship will have to be di of that maton. cottege contests aa closel? as Dastet- the boys to the big games and try tional, but they take great interest iM follow out my Instructions. ine department of: iife, ie eee lutely erential to ruccess in baal nd I take no little pride in No, i's team and the showing it has mad is Kirkman was asked If It w fon to become the first of the race hletle coaches that may come ory perches on the banners of ewf- Wed sornfully. b she said. “I am not a eum fragist. I don't see any logic in women trying to run politics, but I think she can do a lot to improve our cittzenahtp couracing a healthy Interest, & That is my only subject* Kansas City Again Wias. KANSA #.—Kansae City defeated last night tn the National Amateur Three-Cushion Billiard League, 50 to 2, in seventy-feur innings. Arthur Davenport played for York. ona ‘atta ‘Marten Ra ek iter ~~ __ AMUSEMENTS. 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