The evening world. Newspaper, April 18, 1912, Page 12

ie Se EE i iy; forced the fighting, a picture of deapera.| tne flag will be clos cae Sie el RE, TAR Be ke i. 8 a UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY i Big Night for Cross Family, Leach Whipping Tommy Mur- phy and Phil Winning Over ‘ Young Hickey. Caprrignt, ipa. by kJ Press Publishing Co, ee York World), ve Murphy and orother Phil formed @ like office for Young itiche nr Ja @ much more aggressive Mxnter Leach. While the youngster war at Work in the semi-final Leach ‘the balcony jooking on. Young ! hada wicked punch. He landed it atten, and each time Phil Cross countered be- fore Hickey could pull away out of range and then went after him with ryeh. “Gie's a better fighter than you, eid 8 epectator to Leach. ‘He likes tt. , 1 tell him he'll be cutting paper dolls out in @ few years." “Murphy entered the ring first. Leachio wae rushing around through the dres: » Ing roome trying to find @ eponge, thet wistful article having been forgotten. He climbed through the ropes a minute or two late. Murphy looked him over with- out a smile. Becoming a long distance fighter has made Murphy a little dif- yi ferent. He looks fighter than he did a couple of years ago. His hair was cropped short, showing @ very Dumpy sort of a head. His battered face, fat nose, high cheek hones and aggrex sive jaw, with the hair crop, mage’ m Jook fine an old prize ring veteran, ind ‘Ap e00n as the bell rang he came out @ new way, crouched low lik bout to spring. He was anything but Bandsome. His appearance was formid. @dle enough to frighten anybody, tt ROM the ert Murphy was the @psressor, Cross met him coming fn, shot out @ sudden left or right Qn@ backed away.| Cross had better Satgment of distance and more speed ‘than Murphy. His blows landed cleanly, while many of Tommy's only i ged ‘oly sd ahevalr where Cross t. «the Gret roung they bumped hea: an clinch, with the result that Cross went to his corner with a lump over one J gd Tommy “ ® cut along the scalp; yt on the second and third rounds the Ggptist took more chances. Murphy wi reehing at him continually, and Cro: Sf) Was able to meet him with a heavy i thew and get away. hook that ianded on Tommy's nose three @ tour tim succession, causing him ‘te open hie mouth In distress, Murphy wae staggered by a ferce right. Still he Nae i bond giving ground all the time! Ale attack, stopped now and «hen - at Grive in a hard blow and allp away again. Murphy was hitting short. ‘Tt was all hard slugging through the ext two rounds. The wonder of it was! thet Murphy could stand up under the heavy amashes he stopped with his chin, He hasn't any “giass jaw.” That's sure, Cross Grove smash after smash straight abe} A rk, @nd every time one landed jurphy piynged in harder. He tried fighting, ‘his old special: ‘ ‘nim at that wame. Cross was hit- ting harder an@ more accurately Min Murphy at all ranges. Soveral times hi Tommy so badly that the Fiat bush her clinched. * a the seventh round Cross ‘beat! ie" Murphy to the ‘rop where he stood Qobbing his head and letting Leach Punch at i for five or six seconds. » Then he rallied and rushed again, only is "te be met with. a staggering right. Murphy wae tired and in distress. But ie fine condition showed, for he 1, Severed from the effect of each hard _9) Punch in a few seconds. ‘ 8 A Murphy, who must have fel 3 he could win now only w knockout, rushed continually, trying hii Veet to ening th one deciding -punch, ‘There were times when it looked as if he would suceeed, for he hammered Lgach until the latter bent double and eovered fin head with his hands, On these occasions Murphy, who had @ropped bis crouch, beat at the back of Leach’s neck until he straightened + vp again, ‘One of the hatdest blows of the eve- ning was landed ©; Tommy's ehin in the ninth. Murphy, as usual, was rush- and Cros, as usual, was landing the cleaner and the harder blows. + Murphy yan in, and Leach hooked nim on the chin with @ ieft. Murphy f ¢Unehed for a few seconds and while clinching shook his head from side to mt" the .end of the fight n side to clear his brain, The last round Uke the others. Cross held his advan- Wage to the end. Murphy tried in des- Peration, only to run full iit Into heavy My) counters. If it hadn't beon for Murphy's venes# there would ght, for Cross mode a cor mit Of it and took few chan: pestilence eatin De Oro Defeats Irv Altred De Oro defeated J. 4n & practice pocket billiard game at the Willis Billiard Academy ms @ slugging bee 4 HE pd family wan in form laet ¢ leach whipped Tonmy! ; President He used a left! INTERESTING MOMENTS IN CROSS-MURPHY CONTEST. sans (OF gaat 9 Duncues mane MUeOUY wapert | International Copyright, 1912, by The Pre League _Opens Season To-Day Saincw Predicts ‘That This Will Be the Most Successful Year Yet for His! Organization. } HE opening of the International | League season, scheduled for to- Gay, marks an important epoch in the history of this growing organ- {matlor ‘The league is a step nearer equal footing with the National and American, having been advanced from Clase A to the new Class AA; it has a |new according te reports tted through President Edward G, Barrow, all of the clubs of the whilom Eastern League are uniformly’) stronger than last year, ! "This {s going to be a banner year,” aaid President Barrow as he etarted for rovidence to attend the opening there, t is @oing to be a record breaker both financially and ag regards the pla: standard, In-my opinion the race for than for many | , and T look for a nip-and-tuck rom start to fifish, The club lthat were weak last year ha wreaily strengthened, and there | years tnetance these ori jnew capital eae In'thepe cities al ay th fans in thege cities alr. and indi of bis leaguets ha: made it highly probable that ‘their support will be amply rewarded. ‘The interest of New York and vicinity INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE ‘"~ GAMES CARDED TO-DAY. Toronto at Jersey City. Buffalo at Newark. Providence, at Baltimore. Mes chiefly in the Nowark and Jersey city clubs Th rt at season, but the managers of both are confident tHat things will be different this year, In common with ¢he other teama of the circuit, because of later training trips, Newark and Jersey City aid not encounter the uniformly bad weather that has #o handicapped the big league. teams, jewark, next to the bottom last fall, Is probas!y the more formidable of the two nearly local outft Manager Mc- Ginnity pulled off a couple of good trades during the winter months, which should make the team much stronger. ‘The hole at third base has been plugged getting Zimmermann back from Brookish has also contributed to the strengthening of the catching staff by INK |sending Bergen |The mi mainiy through ¢ the former also been built tion but he is quite eatied to stand pai with the team as it fs now made-up. He will not, of course, turn down a: thing that looks particularly promising, and fs confident the club will this year make @ much better showing than last, To-day's opening game are scheduled Jersey City, Providence Cree ana Dooin on Hospital List ‘Two of the best ball players in the country are now on {he hospital list. Birdie Cree, considered by many the est all-around player on the Hilltop m, {8 confined to hie room from an ack of fever that the doctors are nding: herd work tb @iagnose, It ts red that he won't be able to play toe two weeks at least. Charlie Doolh, the hustling manager of the Phillies, 1 laid up from some port of stomach trouble, and the doctors fear that it is A cane of appendicitis. It will be re membered that thie crack catcher was absent most of last season because of a broken leg it Proaident Robes te rushing along the work on the now Hrooklyn ball park eo fast that he anya A nroably be able fo throw it open’ to the for abe fra: tae om April 27, the anniversary ye unite ot Lowe “tata y Melpiyre of Brats ag’ rida’ iy he White bas tawtoas ot Wal tie" gern who. hea bee batting powision down thé eduled yesterday be- tween” Princeton and Dartmouth a Princeton and and Wesleyan a New #aven were postponed on ac- Charges Are Made A telegraphed complaint, in which Mt Was-stated that formal charges against Referee Dan Tone would follow, was received by the State Hoxing Commission At tho meeting this afternoon, The mes- sage came from Eddie Keevin, manager of Jiramy Walsh, whose grievance is the Stopping of the Coster-Waish bout la week in the eighth round, Keevin gerts there was no Ju tion for the action Tone took, Frank Wil! & compla'nt against the Brooklyn Reach Club because of ths failure of the clud to put on the bout in which he was scheduled to meet K. O. Exgers Monday night, and for which he had been prom- 1 13 percent. of the gate, Willams says he was told he would find the ex: planation “in the stars” when he eked | what was the ma The tneldent wilt be investigated nO Next meeting. Southern League’ Re At Chaitansoga—Mempbila At Montgomery -Mon gomery, 4 (fret game): Montgomery, 2) New Orleana, 2 | of rain. STANDING OF ATIONAL LEAGUE, Wo Ciun, ny Kd Carl Irving | Brookiyn Boston a} ra tn i} Biraingham, THE CLUBS, AMPRICAN Lean, Wee Bo iti Hnitartel) er Against Dan Tone|* | ms, A negro boxer, entered IN HUB MARATHON Lawson Robertson Thinks Mike Ryan Will Finish First in To-Morrow’s Race. (Special to The Erening World), ‘ BOSTON, April 18.—The annual Mara- thon from Ashland, Mass, to this city will be held to-morrow noon, and tt {s predicted that this will prove the most sauce Athletic Association, under whos’ au year's event is tho most interesting any previous, because it is the official tryout for candidates for the Am Olympic team, which will compe' Stockholm this summer, William De Mai ord for the cour year, Js not in this coming Marathon, ar he thought It would injure his chane of winning abroad, if he, competed, he received permis: to stey out, and, the American team without entering. There are quite @ few New Yorkers entered, and it would not de surprising {f one of them captured. the handsome silver cup that will be presented to the Mike Ryan of the A. C, ‘has trained so hard and faithfully for this event that Coa ‘gon Robertson of the I. A. A. C., ul \ der whose direction he trained, declares in the race are J. J. the I, A. A. C., Harry Smith and J, Ruggexio of the Pastime A, C. ‘ 4 Galvt: eee Golfers Object | Reynolds Huet ice of Course Meets With Strenuous Op- position by Players. OCAL golfers who have been in the i b! t ying on the public at Van Cortlandt Park, arms over the announcement that | the entire oighteen-hole circuit will be | rearranged and that the present No. 7 tee will be made tho first, the idea be- ing to make the seventh and eighth holes into one. Dy combining these two 1f would necessitate the abandonment | of the seventh sreen, which has cost the city much money to butld, The claim that thelr objection this scheme {ts that the extreme nar- {Towness of the fairway at that point would make {t dangerous for the plays | ®, who would be Hable to get with the ball from pulled drives and | 0 | second shota while they would be com- | ing back to the present home hole. The | golfers have alrcady lodged a complaint to | k ek ae Publishing Co. (The New. York World). Mvaeuy STARTED wits @ NEW CROUCH But IT DioNT AST. @T Times LE ACHE “Covered ue MANY NEWYORKERS|Zas Vegas, N.M., Location of f the Johnson-Flynn Bout : Passage of of. Prize | Fight Bill ‘Hastens Announcement of the Battleground. BY JOHN POLLOCK. RUE 10 his promise that he would make known before Saturday the} lovation of the battleground for| the heavyw. between Jack Johnson and Jim Flynn on July 4, Jack Curley of Chicago, the moter of the fight, made the declara- tlon to-day that t off at Ias Vegas, N. M. Curley made the announcement upon recieying word from Las Vegas that the House at Santa Fe, N. M., had passed the Tripp prise fight bill by a vote of 2 to 17. The measure permits the holding of forty-five round fights and was rushed through so that the Johnson-Fiynn bat- tle could be staged there. Johnson ana Flynn ere scheduled to fight twenty ‘ounds, and the champion {s to receive 2 guarantee of $31,100. By, fring both Tach Crowe and Tommy Mur guarantees “for their” ten Dou ‘The two cause’ the loss a customer hummer, | _Rattiing Nelson te ton_{e_ through with the fighting to Changes In Van an Cortlandt Park "Links € trom for both the members of Hing B- viaiting ti eo the? oni bie sah mae ea Ag jeago will not play the- Cor: petri bona BLESS WINS GOLF TROPHY. Senor golfers, Afty-five years old or ‘ore, had possession of the Country Club of Lakewood Links yesterday, com. jpeting for the J, F, Shantey memorial |trephy and a cup presented by the club, J. F, Bless, the dean of the tournament, whose home organisation is the Forest Hil Field Club, wonthe trophy with « card of 100, 18, 82, Gross score honors went to C, R, ld lett of Wykagyl, with 87, Quite’ a larg try hed been received, but the rain majority indoors, t ecores were; z SESS reSy Ww. t a, Reval dion 108 with the she metrovoliian reve ¢ taking part in the ‘ater | he Toeal calle be represented Untrenity, Catlege ot the City of New York and Columbia, Thies te t Fre time that a meet of thie kind and if it ts @ succem it is 1 feature, T, Muha of) Fearing ot Benton Jona! champlonshiy | Phitadelyhie day, in court tennis ¢ Gould and Muha won the nd H, Cutting of 7 0-8, C4, 4, 02, enthasan of Boston, enten at jo the feet | orate wt ack Temes Wray ot’ tee Fart rowin, Ham! by the teams Brownell, itt Barber, if << RACING SELECTIONS. NORFOLK, First Race—! Wh Belle, Roseburg II, st Hecond Race — Knight Decel, Chilton Tranoe, ‘ad Race—Magasine, Hoffman, Fourth Race—Bard of Hope, ¢ coup, Reybourn, Wh Race—Carrol, Anavri, Napa Nick, Aixth Race—Dorothy T., Fred Atui- holland, Tasteful, me . CHARLESTON, Firat Ra TMppy, Claque, Lucky Wieb Second Raco—Strike Out, J, Nunal- ty, Dominteii Third Paes: Loahtel, Jack Parker, Marijor! Fourth Hace Commongr's Touch, Pardner, Dipper, arith itace- —Jennte Wells, H. Lou. Party “ro mi sixth Race-Lady McGee, Bertis, 101 at champtonship battle | mill will be brought | SEz2582 55883: BOXING: ‘SHOWS TO-NIGHT. || At National Spor Sport Baldwin vs, Johuny Loughrey y Wille Beecher round bouts, Ing Club—Matty' Matto, Frank Battling Hurley and vs. Joe Bedell in ten Packey Hommey Chicago Tommy Mur; rounds, y phy, ten At Maspeth Bob Williams rounds, A: C., Maspeth, L, 1— vs. Jack Hanton, ten rs M tohes Ari Arranged. fenny Frankiin ve, Young coke vy. i] (en founds, Olympic a. C., sionday Dition vs. Frank Brown's A. A., Baturdes gy | urday ni gia, tha enncuncement Emad ths Bent in kt. Louis, fed in n fatten Sone the Uiatnment neha | ag tele months ia etre Site years old, was arrnoaed. ntnclay,,Dewreen’ Joe ra a 82 8 Tollowars en, him | Je, Matty Dai 3 aned "up tht anc rap Will be " tens prelt { gs ther expenses "helped to Olsmoje A, | matched combat @: @ iow wenio, Cal., on T Packer | McParland {9 town next | us 2 Hetantes tn Cathe foals sn bout ayih Mat WW hedtul working out Emami min t 138-440, alysis Mest it neate $1, TSUN, EVG, FAREWELL ABUTTER AY ON THE nie! i re it sath ay raya 5 nae: aah BUNTY mre THE STRINGS LYRIC THE BIRD OF PARADISE | FY GEORGE DO IT, ¥ eer rats Get Rich Quick’ Mialingira ont VAUNCHING GOPFICERS 8 S TITANIC és; EDITED ROBE: BY als EDGREN THIS WAITE HOPE A GIANT; KS LIKE CARL CARL MORRIS liceman, Is a Terror in a Rough-and-Tumble Fight. In the person of a Canadian who can double up a quarter bet his teeth and fingers, C. H. Buckley, whose card reads “Once seen, never forgotten,” is quite eure he has the most likely White Hope now in cap- tivity, Buckley first gained fame as “The Man With the Diamond Shirt- Front" when several years ago he daz- aled Broadway with a costume that for @ time put Diamond Jim Brady in total eclips “hope” Buckley has unearthed jand brought to New York is Fred} | Mackay, formerly a Winnipeg potice- {man. McKay, who Is twenty-nin | years old, is a-veritatte ginnt in Jture.. le stands @ foet 6 and weighs about 200 pounds. His cheat measure- nent 18°50 inches, while his waist is 20 Inches, His discoverer speaks of him as a big edition of Bob Fitz on m- and so far as build goes tie de- scription fits rather well, 82 AM ches. MacKay, who to-day begins tvaining for some bouts in New York Jelubs at Coney Ivtaimt, is not unlike tl Moers in personality and speech. | He has had but ttle actual lence, but from the way he rece up half a dozen toughs !n brawl in Winntpex, xe should prove a whiriwt s learned some of the tri It was dn this {nciden: decided MacKay was a real Kley took care to explain that active uy \ | NTRODUCED Fred McKay, Win Winnipeg Po-| His reach is ng oxpert-! y was not one of the toughs, but, ng in his official capacity during’ the unpleasantness. that if, after a fair trial kK of ablifty he will cheers fully go back to the brass buttons, Sut of course lelleves he will m Me won't insist on Flynn, F other more prominent hopes giving him Je just now, but ie would Ike « * at Gunboat &nith, Satlor Buri or Soldier Delany. He is a personal friend of Bob Moha and expects Bob will help him train, At odd times performed ina’ nple development, teeth net,” ig al illantlh BROOKLYN HORSE SHOW TO BEGIN TO-NIGHT. ‘The twentieth annual horse show of Brooklyn opens to-night and will con. tinue until Saturday night at the Riding and Driving Club house, situated near the Prospect Park Plaza. The exhibition will be confined to to-night and to-mor- row night, but on Saturay there will be an evening show in he bends coins with his ‘absolutely without the aid of a There are forty-five classes on the pro- gramme. There is @ big variety among | the breeds of horses entered. Among thi list of competitors will be found thot oughbreds, hackneys, trotters, saad ‘horses, ponies, draught horses, hunte: and officers’ chargers. Among the lot [is a large number of the blue-ribbon | champions of the recent Horse Show In | Madison Square Hasse, | TEACHERS DELAY BANQUET. | Interborough Women's Associas tion Changes Dinner Date to May 11, nual banquet of the Inter- | borou Association of Women Teach- which was scheduled to take place evening at Waldorf As- 8 been postponed until May 11. tighteen hundred persons had been bidden to the banquet, among them ‘Cardinal Farley and Mayor Gaynor, ceptances that have been received jwill stand for the future date unless ¥ | notice, to the contrary Is received. a GIANTS’ OPENING OFF, The Giants opening game with Brook- vn scheduled ‘for this afternoon at the | Polo Grounds was postponed until to- I morrow on account of rain. the Arrow Collar makers await inspection at your dealers. $1.50 and $2.00 CLUETT, PEABODY & CO., TROY, N. Y. 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