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UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY -__—-— Boxing Now a Source of Real Pleasure and Gov. Dix Should | Reconsider Intention of Ask- fing for Law’s Repeal. Caprrigh, 1912, ty The Press Publishing Os, (The New York World) WE HE tip has gone out that Gov.) Dix will ask the Legislature] to repeal the Frawley Box- , ing’ law. It seems imposible that the Gov- erner bas made any personal Inves- tigation into the results gained by that law. He must be relying upon others for the information that lies! behind his opposition. These others lask knowledge of the subject or they belong to the small but unfor- tunately energetic class which {a against all sport “on principle.” There was a time in this country when fist fighting, under the old Leadon Prize Ring Rules, was @ bestial and brutal thing. The au- thorities, in that day, quite properly made every effort to stamp out the game, which was only an instrument of thugs and thi and pickpock- oe. Later, when Queensberry Rules ‘were followed and gloves were used fm place of naked fists, there was a vast improvement. But even then, far some time, the influence of the M4 London Prise Ring days was felt, The firet reformation came with Jack Dempsey, Charlie Mitchell, Bob Fitesimmons, Jack McAuliffe and Jim Corbett, all very clever boxers. Cor- dett’s defeat of Jobn L. Bullivan opened the eyes of the followers of dozing. For the first time they caw that oki! was greater than mere brute |, pes tae, gurenath. All bonere tried to become pd ytesecghad ri ites ape es sa Gerag ahh and there was very little concerted Urs Lenten Prine Risg Ruee| on”, oe ttle men paying hee he Hockey Winners —— Victors at St. Nicholas Rink Over Hockey Club Not Yet at Top Form. ‘The Wanéerere ushered m the Ama- tour Hockey League tournament last nigh et @&. Nicholas Rink with a de- Gidive victory over the Hockey Club team by the score of 7 goalie to 1. The Wenterers’ reedvent into the league waa watched very closely by students Of the game and members of opponing teame, and while they swept by the Hockey Club seven very easily, rtili thetr style of play te causing no un- easiness to supporters of the Crescent end New York A. ©. teams. Neither More attention to their own Individual Dractically all Aghts were to @lefforts, Iarmon soored the first goal finish, We have had « few fi after five eninutes of play, being fol- ish Aghts with stoves, but not @ very | towed by Hulger and McGrath who great number. ‘Twenty rounds is @ rea-| sored in very easy fashion. Hunn @enadle length, even for championship | aged another just before the finst paar In Senet sae ie hie weasion ended, In the mecond porlat, almost eure winning the Hockey Club's play improved and tend. It is no strain on @ well trained they kept the puck nearly always in aad tyelcally Mt boxer to go through | Wanderer territory, McK. twenty rounds, The fow accidents that | thelr only tally after a have happened in the ring might easily | down the length of the rink, Th have happened in any other game where Men match strength and skill, Foot- ball and even baseball are more danger- ous than boxing. Note the number of broken ones in football, and the aaa heads and “spikings” in base- For several years before the advent of the Frawley law there was no super- viatem of boxing contests in New York @ate. During that time I myself caw many things that should not have been alloweéd—many contests that developed inte unwarrantable exhibitions, pretty emai cut or a black eve is only a thing UT whet has been the effect of |? De Joked a the law that the Governor now wishes to have repealed? ‘The answer is simple, Every one who @ for the matter of a “knockout © never } an an tneve Goth teal exceptions ly game tal thing. A clean knockout doesn’! Cea te ene an sbeolutely clean sport. {nurt, even, It's a mere incident to . eliminated the brutality seen | neaithy poxer—ex the Ry Unaupervised exhibitions, and | sie on his finance Mt hee developed a taste for eixil! boxers how the knock and cleverness, The effect has been| “on” they say, “Suat Ike molng to fething ebort of amasing. See « hua- and waking up again; didn ved bouts, and you will note that the me a headache.” I've» 014 ugly spirit of antagoniem no longer playere knocked dh exieta in the ring, Boxers meet and only to Ket up shake ae before their bouts with a ne brought to and walle. y box clean, never trying to|go right along with the play Kemem take unfair advantag fe ws Smith of Columbia in the last Whether honors are even or there te @| game with Yalo? He must have been net uit” a dosen times that A boxer can't be knocked out y at least more than econda, very anxious (0 go on 1) ee will let him. ‘Tough luck, old uth ‘The epectators expec { some such | MERICANS don't want to beown on the part of the boxers It hay A @ race of mollycoddies. We drov come & part of the game. The surly | the British out a hundred brute t# no longer tn demand club. A certain chivuirous desire ter fatr play runs through everything. Bru- tality and the love of it are things of the past. ther | thirty-flve years ago and whi ters, Unfortunately, now that the c try ie thickly settled, very few of [nave any opportunity to live the lf | of the hunteman and the ploneer, Ont a wmall percentage of Amerteans to-da | now anything about handling a rifle Put us tn the wilderness and n DON'T think that thix has boc legis: It ustom and man. example can do wo fut Under the Frawley law the Boxing| of ten would be lost and helpless. | ijeretotore erlcana have been con- Commission hay m certain rules, | Boxers and athletes, with trained eye leone to buy anivne and buy very license knows th and nerve and muscle, would fare better ) Americ, dies, but now the foreigners ure to enforc Hew will cost alm | than the others have q d to enter the United States Me Mcense, All the elements of rough | Amerten ni fe mibutitute for the foi, und Demarest @ Co. Quinby & fighting have been prohibited, Fighting | old frontier Mite, We cam find it only oy ang in clinches tx no longer allowed, When | in the rougher sports, like football a © boxer I» out nd is in danger |boxing and hockey and water polo, Poot of being inju must stop: ball and boxing are best of all. Ever the contest ot men aro! tan @hould know hew lo box, for self evenly matched th le no such di I've seen hundreds of hard econtem tween well traine and sktiful boxers) While skilled art where neither has shown the silghtest | from the ringside we can Ket the spi effest of the punishment half an hour | of it, afterward. among, boxera, as| We who KNOW the game ‘brudse tbo wi tuink defense, and no one of boxing without a make @ stu loaet wn practice Lie ;jenterprise is credited to the unceasing and as @ rule he t# up again in w and | @gain a hundred years ago becauve we | | Were hardy men, frontiersmen and hun- une s out looking on ven that BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK f FBRAIZErIGATING - NAHE. The OL> GAME THAT GAVE Boxiva,A HARD THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JAN JANUARY JARY 3, | 1912. PDI ae tas. 6 A nar Be Facts About the Brooklyn Club’s New Ball Park. Lecation—Bounded on the east Sullivan by Bedford avenue, street on the south, on the west, and street on the north. Size-47 feet on Bedford ave- nue, 478 feet on Bullivan street, 637 feet on Cedar place, and 40 feet on Montgomery street. Home Dodgers 4 ie Have » New Home Next Season With Capac- ity of 30,000, Baseball fans in Brooklyn are elated to-day over the announcement of Charles H. Ebbets, Prealdent of the National League club, that the Trolley Dodgers are to bave an ‘m- mense concrete stadium to cost at least $750,000, and possibly, before completed, $1,000,000, ‘The atool-ribbed structure will be Just east of Prospect Park on the plot sur- rounded by Bedford avenue, Sullivan street, Cedar place and Montgomery street, It ts almost tn the centre of the borough, in the Flatbush section, and ts by fifteen elevated and surtace ptiations for the plot had cy OF two yeara, ermancnt baseball and athletic Will accommodate 20,000 spectators, nd will rank with the best parks in the country, \.ork ia to begin at once ind tt ds expected the Brooklyn elub will leave Washington Park for ite new on Flag Day, June 14. The success of the negotiations for tht labor of Ebbets. LAST PARCEL OF LAND BOUGHT LAST FRIDAY. _Tt was not until lat Friday that the Latest Models at Auto Show E ON though this ts the very openest fenson for “please remét,"” no one has any excuse for being despon- because Imported automobiles are A turn around the exhibits Importers’ Automobile Salon tn grand ballroom of the Astor proves for nev before were European ara so generally inexpensive, It tually possible for one to get really Juxurloua Vebtele for a paltry $8.60, but If one must be apendthrifty, tt tw equally enieut to blow im some- dent kolng down, att | the thls, n { the first importers’ salon w York has been treated, the most notable, for the to wh ft} but it iw | Jnumber o Toons any fourteen of its predecessor: companies @ ojeara at the while at the present exhibit twenty European manufacturers Kiged in displaying the high opment of automobile making op ther side of the Atlantic, elyenr ui » | a ‘4 the BODY EXHIBITS FEATURE OF AUTO SHOW. °) Ineland, France, Italy, Switrerland y 4 nany are all represented by pre- ye exhibits and also, for the frat foretgn body builders are make for American patronage. the Holbrook thes Company are nl products for the frat | ehowing tn “a ert | ‘The body exhibits are quite the most | Prominent feature of the aa for y |there are shown some remarkable inno Yatons th this tine, Gunboat and tore pedo models there are plentiful, others completely defy description, This tt exhibitors Is Kreatly tn ex: | while | that Ebbets separate parcel agents have been buyi and, as stated, got the the almlessly, but one Howard ©. the men does not mean that they are ridiculous, but rather exhitit flights of imagination [shes the Americans have net a06 taken, advice refused Players when Biven needed rellet. r interfere with the manage- “Brook- Wanderers Easy \g 750,000 Ball Stadium Under Way for Brooklyn. decided to $750,000, was ited how the name Pylon it upon by opening the dictional man at the that sum nt of the club,” sald Ebbets, What’s the Use of Guessing About Your Drink? Ask For the Bottle That Guarantees Whiskey’s Goodness Aman, if he’s wise, is pretty sure that he gets a good whiskey when he takesa drink. But he can never know when he has to pour it from the ordinary bottle. Today there's noexcuse for his not knowing. The new bottle, with the new to; him. It contains the son Whiskey —i ever was one. la@t parce! of land was bought from the city of New York, and the territory required for the new baseball plant completed, and since that time Prest- Gent Ebbets has been under guard #0 that he wouldn't divulge the sec til the proper time arrived last night. Tt was over two years and a half ago build a row Park and contracted with @ real estate firm to secure the land. on the plot which consisted of thirty Ever since then the up the land st parcel from city last Friday afternoon. When Ebbetts conceived the idea he was forced to hide his hand lest land mpeculatora or owners “boo! and so formed the Pylon Company, in behal¢ of which the real estate agents did all their negotiating. TOTAL COST NOT LESS THAN They decided Pyle was head of the real estate firm which bought the land, The Brooklyn club expe ts to pi nome $760,000 before the played. 1 concrete and will Wbbets faced ruin, and yet against his $90,000 for two of his would have team faila to make a good showing it will be the fault of Manager Dah t un- out first game is e stands will be of steel and have improvements good old Wil- pure as the day it was bottled. A real drink if there Stop in the next place and see for yourself. Wilson Whiskey SOLD EVERYWHERE iatanlaseraics amectwwrumes some 66 wecene sme anmue Recee ses HS ee : ka ait plate to centre field bleachers, 42 feet. Grand Stand and Pavilion—Wul run from Bedford avenue, paral- Jel with Sullivan atreet, west to Cedar place, and north, parallel with Cedar place to Montgomery street, total frontage being 1,116 running feet. PEntrances—For grand stand pa- trons, in the southwest corner of field at the junction of Sullivan street and Cedar place, Battery Announcer—A patent phone arrangement in all stands for acore card changes. Coat—Between $650,000 and $750,000. Seating Capacity—About 30,000, Burns Wins Again At Brown’s Gym Kid Burns, the west ede lightweight, seems to have luck when he boxes at rown's Gymnasium, for he won an- other battle there last night, making his second victory in a week at that club. His victim this time was Young Kurtz of Newark, whom he defeated in a ten- round bout. For the first four rounds the battle was uninteresting, the men clinching and doing Uttle clean hitting. In the fifth round Kurts landed a might yjawing on Burns's left eye, cutting a wash under it from which the blood flowed, This riled Burns, and for the remainder of the bout he tore into Kurtz and got home many a heavy left jab to his face and short right hand swings to his Jaw. He uppercut Kurtz in the mouth with a terrfic right-hand swing too shifty and clever for him, jabbing him frequ and ripping in atiff blows in clinches. ly the James E. Sullivan, secretary of the American Olymple Committee, lyn fans are th 0 and of world, and. nothing ie tee mood foe |the National A. A. U., one of the most pay for| Srominent men in amateur sport in erin America, 1s dangerously il at the Hotel I'm Koing to give to them the dest | ireton, He took to hie bed New Year's baseball park in the land, and {f the|Day and the doctors fear he has pntu-| = monta or typhoid fever, They will be able to determine which to-day, , tella Ing, i the park In not ready then, wilt} {at Bome of the Intent plants have not, [12 the Sight, round, whloh cut Me lower | take place on the anniversary {One of the features «i be a garage! i the better of it, staggering Kurtz f the Battle of Long Island, The plans [Outside the park for the use of the | with right swings to the chin, for tho stadium have been ready for |PAatrons, rere hye yBemard York, of the law firm of| By clearly outpointing Young Shugrue - 01 Yo couns or HI of Jerse; ‘ity In seven rounds of a ten nnouncement of the news was madey ¥ is ia York, con ws} for Wubets, told | OF sey Rute dun eaten tee Groton lust night by President Ebbets at a] at the banquet last nigit of tho struggle | fo therwetght, won the honors in ther | dinner given by the Brooklyn Bi that Lbbets had made in order to reach | contest at the Royale A. C. of Brook- b to wporting writera of New York | the postion and standing he holds to-|jyn. Although Shugrue carried the fight Hrooklyn at tho Brooklyn Club,|day. He declared that at one time|to Coster, the latter we Boxne Attack of Panel Caps Climax in His Record of | Misfortunes Since Winning Ring Title. BY JOTIN POLLOCK. D WOLGAST, the ehtweight ring champton, 1s certainly a hard luck champion as well. the past year or so has been one round of hard luck. the breaking of his arm tn a battle with Jack Redmond at Milwaukee on June 10, 1910; his second was losing of @ new: paper decision to Knockout Brown in @ A BOXING HAS GREATLY iMPROVED SINCE PRIZE FIGHTING DAYS Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). = UNDER “THE FRAWLEY LAW = AS DIFFERENT FRom PRIZEFIGHTING AS SUNUGHT 1S FROM DARKVESS + 'AD WOLGAST IS REAL HARD LUCK CHAMPION ‘ a3 rounds at pion a woeks Later, His record for His first misfortune was BOXING SHOWS TO-NIGHT. At Sharkey A. C.—Jumbo Wells vs. Jack McFarland, ten rounds. At Long Acre A. C.—Young Retlly vs. Kid Herman, ten rounds, Matches Arranged. Young Dyson of Providence and Battling Mantell will meet for ten the Brown Gymnasium A. A. show next Tuesday night. race, for t tind ont He Wang eu of Be bo matched to fight Geonge Caryentier, the cham. of twenty rounds af Varis two alx-round bout at Philadelphia on Feb.| Ct Moris, the OMaboma hearrweight, who an won fc ttles it bee! 8, 1911; his third, another newspaper de- | fuataed for “another ecrmp, Bille Mewaaa, es cision against him by the local papers roman in a ten-round bout with Brown at the Natlonal Sporting Club on March 8, 1911; his fourth, round bout with Packey McFarland at Milwaukee biggest receipts of any fight of the year; his fifth, being stricken with appendicitis day before he was to have fought tl Freddie Welsh Thankegivi which is his present trouble, tack of pneumonia contracted while rid- ing in an automobile from Venice, to Vernon, “Dixie Kid," lan they fifteen rounds’ Garation tween Frankie Conley and Joe Rivers, nas been offered on Feb. 1 of our remnant sale. on J the prevention of his ten- “gia” Bi which would have drawn the| goon arrive here. fig dan, at Vernon, Cal, on iw ing Day; while his sixth, is an al Tier, che roel Cal, Cal., to witness the fight be- " the colored fighter, now in Ena. Tigh th “eonge ae | «One Reun i hag Bade hima gm Wil “battle Or twenty. rounds Huy Jack heavyweight, in show of the Olympic A, “c. at Toronto, Canada, jumps, e English fe another of 'sohany Tu Bulks. screppers ‘ice ni ne ‘hte fr him ‘that, to Pater in a twent3-r0u a fe mateh Carl with Palz; “and the only thing that Tom 0 to do is to consent to these t meet AN h_ wel eit han already im in thie ‘countey i Tang. the Cosadian jon te founds, it fovono, asain ss he or ten "rounda et A : Tt rattan 0 certain abi i ihe an de Balter that he has turned Bil yerman 8 © tified. ot afraid aald Dror eee, im O'Rourke bas: got fornia, whose recent the pair will devart on. the 4 fom the iran Mctajogs Nag refused johnson for a guarantee Grand Central fitiopal $5,000 for expenses for four ‘ermous fights will be of | (o1 loret wins he "will SECOND DAY Suits to measure $18.00, fod, Vey, tmenty round Hattie at ‘Sr Rater tosh flre! Johnson $25,000. an trousers $5.00, sacrificed now regardless of former prices. Style and tailoring up to our standard. st ie Gtinrtets Benelig 8 Mertietis and 8 other ings DAVID WARFIELD REPUBLIC DAVID BE! pan KINEMAOLOR yen. 10RD FBS Bally: 2ao"e # ACADEMY 10, 20¢ & 30c. Broadway & ARNHEIM » Ninth Street Wed a hoe il Loe Hi tcheock * ee ‘ To.Day (Pop) (Formerty | Casino §,.~.", Even Best, Music in, DALY’S,, Mista, Wed, Rat, 2 30 THE ‘WOMAN | ~ CORONATION |: Thee Daily, | THE CRISIS | HAsCO 7 METROPOLI AN OPERA | OUSE ark Time, Le Donne Curiow « uw, Valet AN PIANO USED, GEOKGE ‘RUBEN nell dS Vera era Violeta 4: EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN ‘4 {did not even seem worrled. May MLO WANS Le AMBIT 2 New Leader of Highlanders Is Back in Town o_o Harry Wolverton to Get Things in Shape for Ap- proaching Season, Harry Wolverton, the new manager of the Highland Will arrive in town to- | | \ | |day, ready to to get things Into shape {for the hing season. Manager Wolverto:. has sent the following mes | sage to each of his players With this gre wl a tearty bende ‘iy taking the Hig: | Sibes" ot 1812 | Arthur Irwin, scout for the Highland- ers, has departed for the South to com- ‘plete all arrangements for the spring | training stunts of the team at Atlanta, Ga, and also make arrangements for the trip North of the second team. James Gaffney and Join M. Ward, the n of the Boston National magnates some new club of- tor Will be elected Russell and some bo chosen for viee- new d piace of Tor Boston man will president. Joe O'Brien, secretary of the New York National League team, will Be | nore to-day prepared to go ahead with his new dutles in connection with the affairs of the club. Secretary O'Brien pen spending the holidays at his tho West lowe 1 | | afike Murphy, the famous athlete trainer of the University of | vante f ny of the League to ‘and also be in c |training of the players. The team will work out at Hot Springs. Columbus, Ga., will be the place where the Cincinnati club will go through thelr preliminary spring practice. Garry Herrmann, president of the club, made this announcement to-day, stating that he bad closed a deal for the use of the Columbus ball park. team will atart for Columbus on Feb. 28, and will stay there fifteen or twenty days, git shes Houck and Dyson Draw. PROVIDENCE, Jan. 3.—Youns Dysen of Providence and Tommy Houck of Philadelphia boxed a fast twenty-round draw at the Rhode Island A. C. The cleverness of Houck kept Dyson bug, but he at no time was on the run and Dyson's eye, ear and mouth were cut early in the ¢ bout, but the inju were superfelal and had little effect on his boxing. Houck's work was clever, but he Was able to land few telling blows. reas ete, Ele er ine | Alte AMUSEMENTS. oO! 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