The evening world. Newspaper, January 11, 1912, Page 12

UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY ‘RR EVENING WO EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN 1913." EW YORK EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN JOHNSON BARRED FROM BOXING IN TEN-ROUND BOUT IiERE COMMISSIONER O'NEIL ISSUES HIS ULTIMATUM ———-—- 4. Says He'd Resign His Position if Promoters In- sisted on Allowing Colored Man to Box Here, and That wes Put End to All Bouts. BY ROBERT EDGREN. mission, allow Jack Johnson to take part in any boxing con-| Uy": no circumstances will 1, an a member of the Athletic Com- test in New York State!” As Commissioner Frank O'Neil snapped out this ultimatum last night! Be pulled m his hat brim and thru Be meant every word ofit. “The Athiet!c Commission wan created to contro! this #port, and we're| geting to control it. I've thought thin Eve come to the conclusion that it is against public policy and expediency | 1 won't let him box here, and that’s final. “I bave no comment to make on Johnson as an individual, Perhape! te have Johnaon box bere ft te bis misfortune that dissension a ving. Boxing had gone along smoot st out his Jaw in a way that showed Jobneon matter over carefully, and lways follows his appearance in the bly in England for three hundred ‘pears when Johnson's match with Wells created #o much eriticiam that for a time there was talk of suppressing the sport entirely. weed, objects to having him appear there again, Australia, 1 California docan't want Bim. Even Nevada, where the law provides that finish fights may be held, ‘te @eveloping opposition to the pro-| \pesed match between dohne no and Vigna, And why ‘Ther ort fm @ one-sided cont In my opinion matching Johnson and a much #matier man like Fiyan would be equivalent to Flynn famtly to send ‘ONBIL SAY6 WE DON’T WANT ANY RENO HERE. “We haven't any iteno tn New York | and we don't want one, We don't want jest that might bring up oven jowed the Heno af. falg, and we won't allow such contests te be hela.” “$f the promoters insist, Mr. O'Neil," 1 asked, “how can you legally refuse to { obviously on idee that te detrimental to the public ‘The game is going along eplen Bow. In fact, I don't think tha was ever in @ more popular and Condition than it ts In this Ve-day. We have removed the ob- features and promoted good, fairty conducted sport. There iH] HH Jack Dillon Signed for — GOOD THING TO KEE were one or two unfortunate fore the commission }) re the Iaw and the rules ‘The ere conform @ result the game wing tn popularity every day, The © Apprectate good, clean sport, and thats Just what we have suceeded in You, sir, and that's what to Rive them ae long as the law kives us the power to regulate and control the game,’ JOHN. 5ON FROM BOXING HERE. ‘That ends all talk of having Johnson box here, Perhaps it's just as well, it prevent much tire- some criticism by those who are un- friendly to the Kame. It may be un- fortunate for Johnaon—aimost @ calem- ity—that he can't come and collect $16,090 of #0 in good New York mm It may be something ef a ai ment to a few of us who would like to see him tn action because he's the cloverest heavyweight boxer in the world, But on the whole, it's a good thing. If Johnson were to box @ white man —fuat as he boxed with many white men here before he won the champion- ehip from Burns in Austraila, and wound up all arguments over it with Joftries in Reno—everyone would regard the match as @ champtonahtp affair, ven if Johnson made an exhibition of 1t as he qd with Aallor Burke in Bridgeport, the promotors would be well roasted for putting on #0 unequal con ‘There aro two or three white heavyweights who may be good enough to give Johnson an even fight in another year—but they can't @o it to-day. Let Jack go to Parle and fight Bam McVey. Parle—yet. Two Bouts in This City [ is Middleweight’s Pirst Engagement Against MeGoorty-Coffey Winner. | BY JOHN POLLOCK. DILLON, the crack middle- Weight of Indianapolis, wlio took | Part in twenty-seven fights last) and ie now regarded by the fight) Orition of the West as the most likely wandidate for the middleweight title, hag Just been signed by Hilly Gibson for we bouts in this city, All arrangemente | fer his appearance here were completed over the jung ance telephone, Dil- toate arst fight will be on Feb. 6 againat | the winner of the e Mo ‘Walter Coffey ten-round bout, which takes place on Jan. 30. Ad MoCay ts Agiting tn fine form tm Paris, He wou his thind battle tn guccemion io thal | bay that OO), with & privilege of “i atu seem, aad th pounds "at ‘the sug: A Gyo ts woth fae Stes | Tn tat ty, McKettck, manager of Jack Denning weiter ehataiian ee imaibiity of Mike 7 oh with Denaing that Mek ‘ Bate wien however, there will MoWarta eel i ne rty-|| BOXING SHOWS TO-NIGHT. At National Sporting Club—Matty Baldwin of Horton ve, Pal Moore of Philadelphia, ten rounds. At Fordon A. C.-Young Cashman va, Jack Dorman, ten rounds At Malvern A, C.—Joe Coster va, Kid Ghetto, ten rounds, Mate! Jack Goodman ve, Young Erne of Philadeipiia, ten rounds, at Na- Sporting Club on Feb, 1. Batting 1 va Willie How. ard ap American A, A. of Brook lyn, Jan, | Piteaborah i Pasurday, niet. apd, hia senond ity PINT AMtock for Uetve sviunda® at Cheval h Johawon te a0 coetident that Jack Wt Tentherwelght lefent Abe Atel z ie feat harwe he aired that he. well Cock White 0 OS i hoon refined a vunastowa, O., faa, BL. Tommy Murphy | tt Fr se th Hedett, on which, that Lewis arent atlag tof J . fhe kutpey pri: Siitehes 4 Swimming rh, Capt Ovlman Iuaatiatels after fe fast | swan 3 ‘il lay © game With de s under- | They haven't barred him tn] 5, “}to be the 1 “| commission from aj \— ‘THE GLOBE TROTTER McGraw Decides Faust Is Not Mascot but Jinx HILLTOP BALL TEAM’S COMPLETE SCHEDULE OF SPRING CONTESTS. Therefore Charlie Will Not Be With the Giants Next Season. BY ALEX, SULLIVAN. We the Giants go to their camp @t Marlin @pringe next month they will be without thelr maa- cot, Charley Faust. Manager MoGraw has decided, after careful consideration, Jinx, and therefore he will MoGraw has already waived claim on this freakiest of freak bi ie 4 better hurry t summer, wh n varitted in from Marion, Kan., ¢ ley has been on the payroll of the Gants, Mo just forced himself ‘upor the club, and he ehowed n r team and he travelled all over the country with them, of notoriety out man in the public e} uch an attraction that he bunch of money for appearing Charley had an ido and it Was funny to see the way he weed to warm up when any of the Giant pitchers were golng bad in the he can piteh, State Examiner Wouldn’t Aliow (Special to The Breuiug World.) PITTSBURGH, Jan, U.—Jack Dillon of Indianapolis sad Bob Moha, billed as the Milwau! met in @ six-round mill at Dur Garden, but there was ‘The municipal physical exam: tner of fight candid turned Mola down on as he could get him on the ae to confirm what ed. ‘The bout his eyes been touted as certain rest approach to a cham Plonslip Cwht between middowelghts ever pulled off here, To offeet public comment over his evident neglect to train, the excuse is offered by Mona's managers that hie band, which was hurt at the time he fought Hilly Papke lust October, Is not yet in shape, Dil lon te in fine condition and was keenly Aisappoint Tracey in Danger Or Being | Barrea Marry Tracey, the Peuladetphta Agnter, | will probably be barred by the boxing poaring in boute in | thts State for the next #ix months. ‘Tracey refused to go on with “Red Daw, @ local fighter, in the matn bout at the Bharhey A. C., dos the fact that Commissioner O'Nell ordered him todo so, Tracey was orginally matobed to meet Harry Thomas, the English voxer, ‘When Jim Buckley of Moha Box Dilion' | this threat, 1 ‘Cave Man," were to | pothing | At Atlanta—March &% and 2%. At Cincinnati—March 3, 3, April 1. At Indianapolis—April and é At Dayton—April 6. At Colum bus—April 6 and 7. At Toledo—April & a’ sortes Kames with tho Ath- letics. He never gave up hope till the series was over that he would be u-ed against the world's champions, and he was sure that if he were allowed to Diteh the New Yorks would win. And that's the way tt goes in the big leagues—as soon as @ player has ex- hausted his usefulness he 1s not want- ed—and that is why Charley Faust ts going to be dropped from the roster, Umpire Tom Connolly, Manager Jimmy Callahan of the White Sox and Joe Jackson, a Washington baseball writer, have been named as the Committee on for the American Leag Yard, the Boston National presi- Roger Bresnahan, the St. Loulx dent; manager, and Umpire Hob Emalie com: aimmilar committee 1 League. It ts expected they 1 come together in the near future and discuss changes tn the rules, for th Hugh McBreen, former treasurer of the Boston Americans, has paid over $15,000 for @ haaf interest in thé Jersey City team of the International League. Tan Johnson hae ed Feb, the date for the annual schedule meet- ing of the American League in Chicago, 1 as ‘Thomas's injury and told him that he had secured “Red” Daw as eubstitute he declined to fight. Buckley then tele- phoned to Commisstoner O'Neil, stating the facts, ‘The latter told Tracey that he would have to go on with Daw or be suspended for six months, Despite acey refused to box. Daw then went on with Mike Carroll and beated hi Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). Weight First Time Champion Tips Beam at 229 Pounds With His Fight- ing Togs On. Chicago, Jan. 11, At the first time since his victory F's Jim Jeffries at Reno, July 4, 1910, Jack Johnson stepped on the scales in public to-day, and with about three pounds of fighting togs on, tipped {the beam at 2-pounds. 1 The colored fighter boxed six rounds —three with Walter Monahan and three with Marty Cutler, and it wae the opin- | ton of Jack Curley, the manager of Jim Fly when the black boxer finished his day's exhibition, that he looked as good as ever, Johneon' doesn't mean to give anybody @ chance to catch him napping. When- ever he enters the ring again he means to'be in just as good condition as poe- sible, and if he should happen to lose it will not be because he isn't At, but | because he has met a superior punoher. When the champion arrived im the gymnasium he was as mad as a Maroh hare—and that {s some mad. It was al) on account of Jim Corbett, who is get- ting Johnson's goat by the signed stories ho has been allowing to appear in the local preas. The latest yarn, to the effect that Johnson faked with both Kaufman and Ketchel, has made John- son's blood bod, and he vows that eens, he sees “Gentleman Jim” he is going to hit him plumb on the nose, Jack Curley doesn't feel disposed to plilow Flynn to appear in New a soe ‘against Al Palzer, as echeduled, Feb. 15, and the reason he gives ts his biaeodined to the Boxing Commission rullng that boxers must break clean. —_————— LONDON, Jan. 11.—Bombardier Wella, the English heavyweight fighter, who waa to have fought Jeck Johneon sev- eral monthe ago, hae cancelled passage which he hed engaged on the stpam- stp Olympla for New Yor, and ac- cepted an offer for @ series of exhibi- tions here. "White Hepe Knocked Vat. — Billy LaGrave, the Quaker City fighter who won the “white hope tournament the National A. C. of that clty, was knocked out in the third round by Ray Simon at thé Long Acre A. sho lotee ef mote hove eniers Hoy Deriand the Nations 80-yere Thomas was unable to go on| * | because of badly injured right hand. wimuning meet (he Columbia Water Pole team tified Trace. umbia Wal Ravereyer. Sirs Shaw, Mrs. Muntingto: ue Johnson. and numerous others energy and equal suc an to cuilect=Mr Char and Mise Hanna ie Senif, Blumenthal tor Clark, dra Elkins te weldsidetcon aBterlhe een sech pechage of Sepa TF elont’ vorwre Sheraeore aie fells Senge i tries, of Persian carpet ine are Molen ong Soleo, Limoges enameta. rock sold ernamente, iquinise gn coptotere. oe) | BOWERY & Al Kaufman Ridicules Johnson's ‘Fake” Story, Al Kaufman, the big Frisco heavy- weight, who was knocked out re- cently here by Al Palser at the National Sporting Club, ridicules the story that came from Chicago to the effect that Jim Corbett and a Windy City theatrical man offered Jack Johnson $100,000 if he would lay down to him. “Johnson loves to’ see hie name in print,” says Kauf- man, “and he will go to any extreme in order to get publicity, However, I should think he would find eome Other way of getting dt than at the expense of others, I think this fake story of his is the biggest laugh of the new year.” O’Keele Stops Young O'Leary Edde O'Keefe, who hails from Phila- delphia and is one of the best bantam- weights in this country, punished Young O'Leary, the local bantamweight, 60 badly in @ contest at the Houston A. 0. that Referce Bam Lewis stopped the bout in the eighth round to save him from being knocked out. O'Leary had Ro chance from the moment the contest began until it was stopped. After O'Keefe had outpointed O’Legry in the first two rounds, he went after him and floored him in the third with wing on the jaw. Again in the be round he dropped him with a rij awing. After that O'Keefe landed at will, sending in jabs, upper-cuts and heavy right swings to the jaw. As O'Leary was in @ groggy condition in the eight hround Referee Lewis put an end to the contest by sending the lads to their corners. Bike Race Added Feature of Games The five-mile bicycle race will be en added attraction to the long let of events to be run off by the Millrese A. A. at its games in the Forty-seventh Regiment, Brooklyn, on Jan. 20. Ae result of the recent mix-up in the Sev. enty-first Regiment games and th valry now existing between all th floor riders, this should be the greatest bike rice seen Indoors this season. Van den ‘Dries, Townsend, Fisher, Goodwin, Brandeis and, in fact, all the noted riders of the National Cycle Association ‘will face the starter. The he miss-and-out race will be run in yle—the man riding ach quarter-mile will race until t rid |Harvard ’s Strongest t Man and Tiger Gridiron Star Figure i in Hockey Surprise Crimson Wins Game After Princeton Looks Certain Vic- tors at St. Nicholas Rink. NOTHER hockey surprise oc: A curred last night at St. Nicholas Rink. With Princeton chalking up two goals in the first five minutes of play, Beker performing in dazzling style and the situation apparently well in hand, Harvard scored ones fluky goal, | tled the score up in the thirty seconds of play r@naining in the first pertod, scored the only tally in the second halt on @ well earned shot and then kept off Princeton's desperate rushes for the re- mainder of the period. ‘The crowd was the largest and most brilliant of the season with the college ent atrongly predominating and a sprinkling of feminity sporting the colors of their favorites. ‘The interest of the spectators chiefly centred about “Hobe” Baker, the sen- sational rover of the Princeton seven, and Fred Huntington, Harvard's cham- pion strong man, centre on the football team and captain of the hockey squad, Baker performed all that could be ex- pected of him, often eluding the tackling planned against him and making bril- Mant dashes up and down the rink. Huntington loomed up imposingly on the ice, Although only five fect elght inches, his well knit figure and massive shoulders gave one a very good impres- .ton of his strength. He alo performed ceeditably, scoring the first and winning tallies for his team. Princeton's downfall was due to two causes. One was that they fed Baker the puck too often, No sooner had they procured the disc, than they shot {t to Baker to take it down, and Baker, always covered by two players, and , near the cage, by the whole Cea roof against this DOUBLE VALUE | in our remnant sale, with style and tailoring perfect. Having discounted the tariff reduction on Winter materials, we offer suits to measure for $18.00. ton, Elysian or Shetland cloth, with guaranteed silk satin. up to expectations. Overcoats made from Kersey, Mili- $25. Ov. lined Money back if not ARNHEIM, ®recwy.® AMUSEMENTS, j NEW YORW's LEADING THE ~— Eial “Barrymore Welence.” ébth St & faa 210. 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