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— 7 _THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, MARCH LA 26, 1912. = BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK SPH eDa ROBERT EDGREN THAT GIBBONS-DENNING AFFAIR TO-NIGHT Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). Outfielder “Who W Went. Hitless Through World’s Series Last Fall Batting Ball for Keeps in South. EVEN WHEN: Grrogay, BoTH DENUNG AND GIBBons AR INVARUBLY Pourre,. ° BY BOZEMAN BULGER. On train enroute from Texarkana to Moerldian, Miss., March 3, ‘HE hundreds of New York fans whe sew Jack Murray go through the Wortt's Series without get- ting @ hit and then wondered !f Mo Graw would érop him from the team in 113 may be surprised to know that this red-headed young Irtshman is right now the White Hope of the Giants. After looking over the bright galazy of fence busters for the spring we and that the name of Jack Murray leads them all. This morning he is the toast of the team and the pride of MoGraw. Never in his Iife hag Red played such | t havoo with spring pitchers, In the past two days he has combed the opposing twirlers for eight olean hits, four of which were for extra bases. In t! game at Texarkena he stood at bat in Texas and smashed a drive so far into Arkansas that the bruised and bat- tered ball never came back. The Texas Police chased the boy who captured it but could go no fur ther without a requisition, \ Several of the players were discussing Murray's failure to hit in the big series as we were pulling out of Texarkana this morning, and for the first time Mc- Wie Lewis WILL Be THERE WIWING HE CouLo SEND GIBBONS A ®oms, Tocnight’s Bout at Fairmont .C. May Make or Break Reputation for Each Man. A a Says mine e ¥ SAN “Tange ALL THE Puncies DENNING CAN HAND me’ TACTICS May Wonmy DENNING & UTTLE. Covytiatt, 1012. by The Pre rtillahing Oo, (The New York HAT will be a Aube n sy murs between Mike Gibbons and Jack Denning at the Fatrmont to- It will be ® reputation maker or breaker for each of them. And both ake Jack (whisper it low) sald to have dewigns upon that dear Varls, This rumor I judge to be truc, from the amount of boosting each re- elves just at present in the Parisian sporting sheets. Rilly Gibson, who {# a diplomat, , ‘yopbestes victory for both. Or as Billy ate it, he’ “can't see how either can change next ie an off-day a a wil ‘Thi noght, travelling. |Nortolk Meeting Looks Promising DENNING HAS DEVELOPED HEAVY PUNCH IN CACH HAND, Reds Cance! Saturda Game With Highlanders. ‘There will be no game between the Higiianders and the Reds at Cincinnat! Saturday, and it is doubtful if any of the series of three games arranged between the two clubs will be played. The New Yorks will stay at their training c at Atlenta, Ga, until their series with Indianapolis starts, April A strong effort to make the Norfolk track the natura! successor of the la- mented Bennings course will be made Prominent A. A. U. athletes will also foe on hand to compete in two specia) partment. Hats 90 easily that he has @ sort of ba] ant!-racing bills, thereby giving t is, if the Cincinnati eertes events, the 6)-yard and the two-mil : song." Fe, \. SA | during the race meeting that opens is abandoned. President Hermann of the Redland Club wived President preci discussed that much mooted #ub-| handicaps. Another feature will be a# “It's this way,” sald BIN Inst night. a, \ */)| there April & ‘This will be partly bee Farrell of the New York Americans last night calling off Saturday's - tug of war between Squads A and C of “Gibbona is a bashful, retiring sort of AN, 3 cause of action by the residents of Nor- Kame on account of wet grounds. The Cincinnati magnate says tl M’GRAW NEVER INTENDED TO| the traMic division of the Police De- i « fellow, but he has Won his recent G. Me \ foik, who petitioned the Legislature not new grounds are in such poor shape that nothing but rowing could LET MURRAY GO. oy be done on them and he didn't see how they can be made fit t> play on “While he didn’t get a hit,” sald Me- pera TIO % fotion that he can beat anybody In = Virginia the distinction of being the before late next week. ‘hts is surely a beautiful spring—NOT. Graw, was quite well satisfied with i “gt ll Sadie eth age A i ition. Snip Wate” were racing hae nen at his work, for he hit them all hard and || CHARLESTON SELECTIONS. ‘ t and survived, and partly be- on the nose. phibe tobe irchdsr§ cating, makes a men hard to beat, 1 ) those behind the track belleve the Hts gHivee a veepheio flv Bhas rated ; Coat mean’ that Ske hay « big head, ae Qu IN Tut Dean pants Saves, tBoee Basted the Leek ealiere! tie F ; hia drives shoot straight a some felder. First Race—Polly Worth, Auto @ ftimt feels Hike © champion. A WEY AWAIT “TONIGHT'S RESULT Ll Pi kk Wi l Be Si never had any idea of letting him go. |] Run, Nick Akin. ror Debalag, wey. Tee poste wnt F é WITH SHUDDERING EAGSANESS, Leona hint te tic art il e scene of In offticlwing Murray for his lack ‘Second Race—Three Links, Em- . vim as I do before long, He's been Horsemen Ip all parts of the country 0 77 G T t. she eae! cuae Lee g hay elves Perse CIGAR MARTI aay SG 4 much underestimated fighter. 1 ex-|— erg Tr | Are SRNR More aRelene FOCstne varias me mpic Game fLryouts|: many a winning ron with bis long |] Any Port. 2 , , ject’ to see htm give Gibbons all sorts / : Tee SEMI Ih tana mower iter coleeiree tunning broad jump, putting the weight, | smashe: Fourth Race—Gold Mine, Gagnam bi ut trouble.” ac e c ar an 8 mote Of the phdtinent: Gwnste. Wil Oe best hand; running high jump, and 400| ‘This spring Murray has made a con-|{ Country Boy. 3 — seen on the course. Among the prom!-| Athletes Who Will Represent metres flat race on t! rst day; hurdle | siderable change in his batting, and the Fitth Race—Queen Bee, Jenny an CAN Serine, # bout to any Will e nent stables to be represented are those Peg bes Pig rowing the discus, toed wp aed be yeh hit the mar! Geddes, James Dockery. i ene Who has an : eaten est hand; pole vault, throwing the| Instead of long, wild swings which he|| Sixth Race—Console, Montgomery, ‘ one who hae a illing to Box Wells): s*ixoimcn:tones rs] gmerica in Pentathlon and |i", hig BSE te] amet ae, ltemings, whan he | Ah ae } Mike and Jack are Chesterticia ee te middle, best hand; 1,600 metres flat race, | down the fences, Murray has adopted ring, both of ‘em. Kach has a habit of apologizing.a® soon as possible after administering the knockout, and each on the following day. ‘The events ai to be run in the above mentioned or- der, the short, choppy stroke that made hief Myers one of the best hitters In the league. Murray has deen using Decathlon to‘Compete. BOXING SHOWS TO-NIGHT. At Fairmont A. C.—Jack Denning Dodgers at Last Weight and Division of Purse PAaces the final punch with scientific @ccuracy unaccompanied by malice. Plici eaig and ing are both good of the moderh boxer. Neither feed A\'bed habit to Ms name. They @en't drink, amoke, chew, or use any esrion more violent than "“gdod- Only Things Standing in Way of Match Here. BY JOHN POLLOCK. vs. Mike Gibbons of St. Paul, rounds, At Brown Gymnaswm A. ten A.—Young Rettly ve, Kid Black, ten rounds. jen Arranged. Mi Young Steger vs, Pinkey Burns, ten rounds, Brown Gymnasium A. Get Real Workout LOUISVILLE, len of the Dodgers thinks he ‘s the luckiest man on Well, tt {3 just S's more ‘dates for tryouts cor ath Mereh %.—Bill Dah- earth. Why? you ask. Celtic Park tryouts for the ‘Pentathlo: because the eun stayed letes who hope to become members of the American team which goes to the Stockhotm Olympiad this sum- mer have been arranged. On May i8 at At a meeting of the Board of Direc- tors of the Irish-American Athletic Club it was unanimously voted to urge Presl- dent Taft to appoint James EB, Sullivan American Commissioner to the Olympic games. After adopting a method where. by the club could most forcibly impress upon the President the desirability of n that chop stroke all spring now and that accounts for the fact that he is far ahead of his teammates in the num- ‘er of safe hits Next to Murray the surprising hitter of the team is Bhafer, who is sure to be the utility inflelder for the coming von, Shafer has changed from a right! % WBE A CHAUFFEUR They carn Big Pay —or five-event contest—will take place, while at the same resort, on May 26 and %, the tryouts for the Decathlon— appointing Mr. Sullivan to represent this country, the club voted to help swell the yaad fund by the contribution ded to left ded hitter !n the last | TE three weeks and Is doing far better | Par from the short side of the plate Instead | eee! Gracious me!” Each married young, and each has a family at home ACKEY M'FARLAND has accept- ed the offer of the purse of; A. Saturna ight. Young Farrell vs. out long enough yesterday to enable his players to get @ good workout—the Joe Hopkins, investiga’ Adenight waiting for the first news of $16,000 made by the Nattonal|{ ten rounds, Ttberal A, C., 8. 1,9] frat in four days, In the moraing the| or ten-event contest—will be fun off. | of $1,000 of starboard, In batting left handed he | oF write for de. a mactes, and no doubt offer-| sporting Club for @ ten-round bout |} Saturday night. pitchers and catchers practiced in the| For the Pentathlon the events are | has hit well over .300 in all of the ex-| Now 1 8an be tog up invocations for a victory with|with Matt Wells, the English light: |] , ouns Ahearn ve, Frank Loughrey, {| yc, A. gym, while In the after-| running broad jump, throwing the jave- plazas nie games, and it now looks as 18! sa ail the innocent enthurtasm of infancy.| weight champion, and the only || te! founds, Royal A. C., Brooklyn, 1) noon, after being notified that Eclipse | iin, with javelin held in the mkidle, best ire e ve the regular infielders a to-morrow night. hand; 200 metres fint race; throwing the discus, best hand; 1,500 metres flat race, toe run in that omer, ‘Three tries are to be alowed in both jumping and natty, won ‘from ard battle to hold their jobs. McGraw, Mo jaura’e ‘victory aw the necessity of making a left| LIAB handed batter out of Shafer so that hej; could use his wonderful speed to ad. vantage In going to first on bunts, Any one daring to say that “popper” was @ rude young man, tn either Gib- bons's or Denni home, would straightway lose his reputation for ve- | Park waa in fairly good condition, the entire squad went out theta and worked like ‘Trojans. Charley Murphy, the president of the Cirbs, is here making preparations for the arrival of his | throwing. things that stand in the way of the match are the questions of weight and division of the money. It ie Ikoly that MoFarland will hold off for the big ae Mortier, holder mie de tine. champ weasiz’ by 400 Chae Disced him tu third post fest | mre L chool in the counti us will insure y School of Auto. FA uals, eto, maade turttee an ie bout wl "omat iat al Dilee,’ “and Wit peove ft ite ever meet ‘agal ual meet! ft the tnt rt ting, of the, atercollegiate imeers, Nelson, ‘56th ret, With these two! was a left handed hitter or n ad nok for Me Facity. “Th fact; I'm told that there| end of the gute, as ho figures ho 18 the | waning cst 4 doa wit be toe moar ot| team, which Jv due here Thuraday fer ‘The Decathlon competion, comprises t soond Soa ‘, 5 be is i " | baal Me atania Lehigh; Pennsyh i | Shafer, and he has conquered aren't two more model husbands and| drawing card. It 1s not ikely that je ae oe more importa the following events: 100 metres flat Glomnell and’ cay ‘Teeou ace Fete | ‘The Giants eretn great mood humor! iephant Poyrling Alors fa elther the MoMahon aay peubead ily douts at a ‘eal a ab rt this morning as they speed on to the) lor, ist St, war, Gibson will try to ow ol : on March 21 a1 st, and the car still rings with laugh- fiying, they are flawless, Poth a in“five if as tbey figure this sum is as big as aoe we See Be ia lie @ joe eyge -eod ter over the game at Texarkana, whe: AMUSEMF, clean, fair, sportamaniike boxers, It's| they care to offer. Demive toe Young W ce oe cadet on cae, eae a Histioca regatta’ ang | in they won by a score of 3% to 3 and NTs ~ i Tits they can't doth Win, So re ay ene ee ‘spect’ add rots hig numer ae ie aext| could have gene further if the crowd ‘MADISONSQ GARDEN | : . Noung line, he crack Phitadelnhia Rater, and | py Owing tp, tees t meeting. to be ra ad not already got its money's worth, TWIOK DAILY & 8.15, f IBBONS, in my estimation, 1s a| Kneewost ran Sev, eat satis Instead etd ire to hold ‘ete tho nlght ou anrorah ot the Howes "uta ae ae GIANTS HIT BALL HARD IN 0 : a G wonder, He has an original style found gp ue a io Philedelphue iettd Fale te ep eh of the si will take Sallivan Defeats Cross, + Ben WN, donb AE, gis : red tela GAME AT TEXARKANA, a of Nuhting that 19 an offective as| hott f yt ee Cay" alan RL ORE ES By having the beter of six rounds of pell,” junior four wig. and “intermediate he RRDURGE were lad Gut wh 4 {hat of Bob Fitasimmons, When a man Gute ‘ay 43 Sith, ie rts oat thelr ten-round contest, Paddy Sullivan, omens In the New Yorkers wanmed up, and the right Ms wwelgh tna ated PI A D. i ng and shows us something | » shampiot te he at te : ‘Athletie_ Cl lature of Pate er say paeten ‘ wb, score of 1 ‘Clements floored | > esl of the ‘ott a Higa ame | ‘ A eae ‘aod Bobo" cash hod eahare te he Fecel t cash and re in the Tecelpe he winner, pi Gad oot a Rice x, a genius, And that's Gibbons, Map isn't a product of the boxing schools, Yet he ts wonderfully clever and effec- ive in his own way, His fights ‘are | pot fi waually short. He beats the mien who \tiet~ in the main bout at the rdon Rie. AMUSEMENTS. oe PHILA! iim Hard: Lgl RUPE, Pe., March 26,--Al | SLECPATRA Cojura , a Riot of Color, 1.250 Versons Px (Special to The Evening Wortd), Buck Wins Aw Al Bout. of Milwawee and Jim Bonner of fiumnatt Tit, faba eee decider th, Daily Mts, ata, Hast Se: All #¥e hard to knock out. ATLANTA, Ga,, March %—Wien Col.| ‘Tommy Buck, the Philadelphia borer, scored) Pa. es rake Lorek qousds to am | frind Thich ment te pee Rea Siteautoe wars | GREATEST | anu 3 “What Gibbons will do against a very Wolverton, the new leader of the High-| another victory’ by easily outpointing Knol . te ita nea ee ee gions exer ‘AROUND TH ‘icin | ‘SPECTACULAR pate ae Yast, clever and shifty fellow like Den- _|landers, starta to weed out the young) Remy, the local-fighter, im the ste boat of ten | that they had to ant how { japanese AL 4 we won't know until a few min- Fallakithonic Secitit PRODUCTION fornta, oarcful consideration. Martin looks to be the best of the new ¢wirlers, The trouble with most youngsters Now on Sale A: rookles who are striving to land a berth | {, aye Mike Glover Outp: Hiekey. R ‘ours fe egain seems ok | RT. lies after ten o'clock tonight. He in the big league, he will no doubt give oer te 1, Mt en Ma eae Gane a 3 pak ne fmam oh fer ee te geal HH Ld (OF ALL AGES syathte Bees’ |, me "Pan att ich young Martin, the pitcher from Call- rin ae and ot tee NONE decisively’ oubpointan ean ‘Hickeg of a a ESF nt a HASION Te kx % corals eorte Cone od Tin Wi? 25¢&50c? fan@ing a knockout. Hoe thinks that he Stone Kasily Whips Russell wasn't in very g00d shape that time, NEW ORLBANS, March 20.--Hatry Gtou Regal having regarded | Denning 2 a mere Eadie sae Katy east Ped yt tloket. le say ‘e “right” ‘Osbhosh, breaking into fast company seema to " —, ‘and that he'll wind stars wo ‘aulouly ES ore, sect 28 ‘4. be that they have not the proper con: Mernan-Howell Bout « Draw. Dennt posatble. has some such me in mind himself. He has been ining with Joe Jeanette, and ewap- ig hard punches with him. Any one iho can BWap with Jce is entitled to it and consideration. fidence of landing a big league job end go about their work as if it were just hire isd & cage of going back where they came nk Kile fighter dre he PEE from. Martin has not thet #pirit. When nia i, he gets the chance to show what he can ie taba ces Sa ie cme Attu | do he goes about it Ine Dusinese-\lke ne plters * Ufo bie! a a wi DNLPHIA, March 28.—Joe etfecte "|| ASTOR a “A GREAT oe stce ory 4 et it ST. A ee ee THE a Beeb, ‘out betweea Billy Roberta Kid Case, of thie eit 900 North members of ie og x) SNCIDENTALLY (0 the above, rend | fait ai A nectine the hors foneht poe ha The weather is cold hore and shows | eed and were _ aye fone away Es r the trenveript ‘from Le Boxe, the | Boat "ibaa re ie Te a ee weer ung warmer, “Tie phaye | oor fous ate Sette ins Gibbs Easy for Frank’ TESIDE a i pee chief sporting paper of France, was era are hoping for at lebwt a couple of | fi ee eEMPIUG, ‘Tyan. Mar 3 ip fr a WHI THE pet * TH Mats’ Wed Wille Lewis on points, The time | g he she Brats Wilday, bat ihdlontions are. tha hey ates au extended. real, but felled HARRIS Xi. ieee of ee Baath iy AntiSS: Bi jo Lewis on polnts, tame, | gy ane ve Bi he Mi any ig or riday, low are they VELAND, March | 26.—Willle EE st i PaThOUse EY oy in, Wille was beaten, and stil! more | igs ‘ will not get thelr hope. ous ~~ Burs won aimed ovary’ one cf the cight THE KiK LITTLE jentlessly, when in the Sahn, "it ait om tant te sees | pened Deoeris Bisons, hd for cates route gaze ‘dibs led to end matters in the fit WORTH Sc “ver having simply pl fougi stoe’, tho reinurkaile gamenem "of Bivom aid has ex: | round, Me commenced, i a ; PARK @kFiry enn The Quaker Girl ch4¢ CRITERION Maciel Lig LOUIS MANN Wietle regal both hands, with but little rent J ak, landing repeatedly on the body and at a return. I the gas him out with a right kale Piura pe js surely proves a rottnds, A Mattlaleon in toth sieht i hi Raat the the gues rans ROCHESTER BOWLERS CREATE NEW WORLD'S FIVE-MEN TEAM RECORD. ‘stomac! no} = Willie ee xt gene: = Defeats Bedell| least draw with Jack Denning, who, we are | Advised, predominated over Mil Bons In thelr I Dver De Ponthies, . March 26,—dMatty (oY Louis De syunds, tos tall tell” tim Willie Beecher of this city outfought Joe Bedell of Brooklyn In a flercely con- ‘tested ten-round bout at the Irving A./ ere focal ring Chip and Howard ‘Box Draw. pout before the New Bedtfor! A. 0, Baldwin ad- ministered bard ‘puaishment io ‘une’ second round, m rocking [8 opponent with lett 0, March 28.--George Chip of Pitts rr 4 CAN guarantee to the French sports-| ¢, in Brooklyn last night. Beecher tional Bowling Tournament 3 fe a! wygh and ‘Jimmy Howand of New York fought « 5 ould either Denning or| scored the only knockdown of the con- re when the Grand Centrals of | twelretouad aren, Howerd showed signs 9 ‘the seventh but came back se at th finieh waa iN Mian two rounds ‘ nat ie away, but aes Wana ‘the telting iaitee | Rochester rolled 2,997 and took the lead for ithe American cham- pionship, ‘This beate the record ot held; Bonds of to Paris and meet Mar-| test when he dropped Bedeil In the math ce] Moreau the “worth” of the said round with a hard right croas to the Moreau will not be “singularly height- | jaw. Willie hud the better of all of the ered” when that combat is over. rounds except the eighth and ninth, In which Bedell made 4 determined stand | to hold his antagoriet und, tt ery q aces Mim Sint tegen ae bor ay Sal LIBERTY fis war, O"3a."a HENRY MILLER iii RAINBOW WAY ond GRD i, Br» oY OFFICER 666. 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B,C, indilvdual championship in Chicago last week; Major 'Ty- ser, 4 Vaughan, Otto Kal- lusch, whose 28 rolled in Buffalo at year is the highest indl- “Gibbons se woMtra aussi sclen-| ‘tiflgue que shabitude, et beaucoup plus agreasif.’ When Mike hears this | he'll provably go right over to Paris, OMMY BURNS offers to take that Flynn match off Jack Johnao: a oe date, $56 806, Basset [ deveribing Gibbeas, Le Boxe yays In the first two rounds both fought | hard, with Bedell doing most of th agaressive work, but Beecher landed | the more telling biows, In the third round Beecher cut loose and began to force matters. oie ie in { WY | Beginning with the ffih round the vidual score ever made in a na- RO! AR™ tates hands on condition that Jack affair developed into a slugging match, |} tional tournament, and. Fre style, material and tailoring will be embodied OBERT HILLIARD ST, i ahi fish: him if he whips Flynn nd Beecher proved the better at this Britt, How the record score was y J I's nr. 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