The evening world. Newspaper, May 11, 1912, Page 6

WOLVERTON WINS GAME FOR HIS MEN ~ MODERN BOXERS UNLIKE OLD-TIMERS WHO SPENT EARNINGS IN DISSIPATION Packey McFarland, Jim Jeffries, Bat Nelson and Tommy Burns Some Knights of the Padded Mitt Who Can Draw Checks for Nearly a Quarter of a Million. Coprright, 1912, by The Press Pubiisning Co. (The New York Wort). HE sums of money now being patd fighters for short boute with well- padded gloves would have been beyond the wildest dreams of the old-time champions, A couple of weeks ago we saw Packey MoFar- land getting $10,000 in cash for box- ing tenrounds with Matt Welle, who cleaned up a like eum himeclt, in- cluding his picture money. Tuesday night Johnny Kilbane will recetve $5,600 for boxing ten rounds with Frenkic Burns. Wolgast wants $16,000 for boxing ten rounds, and turns up his nose at anything elno. A mere $10,000 he regards as hardly worth the attention of a champion. Just compare that to the money the old-timers fought for. Charlie Mitehell fought Jack Burke at Ascot race track for the champiopship of England. The fight lasted an hour and seventeen minutes. The stake was $250 a aide. Jack McAuliffo fought seventeen desperate rounds with Jack Hopper, skin-tight gloves. for a purse of $200. The great John L. Sullivan, early in bis fighting time, fought Steve Taylor at Harry Hill's sporting resort here in New York, and received $50 for winning. Later, when Sullivan got $750 for knooking out John Flood in that historic fight on a barge up the Hudson, he showed the money around town with great pride. This was back in 1881, @hortly after that came the first big; !s that of the Cle company in his home puroes. Some of thechampions who are| town, Chicago, Ia which he haw invested Now dead and buried made fortunes tn | “bout 0, an THE EVENING we BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK - Big Fortunes Made in the Ring RLD, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1912. MODERN BOXERS | EARN FORTUNE Hilltops Owe Manager’ Pitcher Quinn Can Thank His |‘ Lucky Stars That Wolver- ton Batted for Him. ED, SWEENEY BACK WITH HIGHLANDERS THIS AFTERNOON. The akies are brightening forthe luckless Higtanders. The manage- ment threw the struggling players and the team’s fans into ecstasies to<iny Over Browns to Their HAS CLEARED OVER ® 00.000, SINCE HE STOPPED DRINKING. Victory s Hitin Ninth See 3 pte ey fy these freak plays did 1 | ‘con finan ¢ fellow about pitching maghiners = ey reeaeye feat Seen. Ml ENcRYBoDy ; nes Sonn HAS ‘os in Pare enn Dut everything be has rs ily SSSRoe Hid Seaen Away Ad Woig has lot of money. the ring and through theatrical exhib! lies to blow a little now and then, but he is a genuine farmer, and doean't ike to let the price of @ good horse or cow! 60 all in one iump. Terry McGovern had over $100,000 once. Whon ‘Terry lost his balance temporarily the bookmakers took advantage of his tions after their big fights. Peter Jack- tralia made, all, about ‘blew it all, and was at Jast sent back to Australia by public svoscription, a broken down wreck, to @ie there of consumption. Joe Gane Cleaned up about the same amount of money. Once, in a burst of confidence, | Joe told ma that he had gambled away} near as he could figure from hts He saved last three or four big fights, but noth- ing Itke the fortune he might have had, Dixon made $300,000, approximately, in the ring and on the stage. He died Without a dollar to his name, Wine and women! That got the old timers. NL. SULLIVAN was the great- eat money-getter in the history of the sport. John earned, one way na another, over a million dollars, | Me blew it all. Then, when an old man, | Giseretion came to him. He stopped) Grinking and began a very successful theatrical career, with his own show, Seltivan drew great houses everywhere for @ few years. To-day he has over! $100,000, and his letsure on @ farm vp in the Bay State. | Tommy Ryan is another farmer. Tommy admits that he can draw his check for $50,000. Perhaps he has more, - them that, counting in his farm prop- ; erty. ‘Two olf timers who made big money in the ring and threw it all away were) Deaver Ed Smith and Paddy Slavin. ‘When down and ou at last both went te Alaska, where they cleaned up com- fertable fortunes in excess of $190,000 each by pincer mining. Sem Jefiries made a fortune in the! rimg. When he was ‘champion, and shortly after ho beat Tom Sharkey the second time, Jeffries showed me a bank | in which he was credited with @ balance of $10,000. Afterward he greatly increased that. Jeffries both made and Jost money after leaving the ring, but] om the whole he prospered. He wan} ‘worth a quarter of a million tn prop-j| erty before he fouxht Johnson, and hw ded over $100,000 at Reno and during the few months he spent on the road be fore fighting. For that matter, Jeffries ever had to fight. Hts father moved from Ohio to Los Angeles when Jin ‘wee in knee pants and bought a 1@-ucre Panohe that is now right in the heart of the residential part of town, Eighty @ocres of that, in city lots, is #till In the Pomwession of the family, Jim and his brother Jack own the finest cafe on the Pedific coast, ani it’s a veritable mint. He bas a fine city house and a magnifi- | eet ranche a few miles out of town. | Probably Jeffries ‘s the righest fighter |” OF exAighter in the world, He never) tale anybody how much property he! ewns or how large his income ts. ATTLING NELSON, tn spite of| rumors to the contrary, is @ ri man. Vake mining schemes never get much of Bats money. He may be | lané-poor, for has invested great} | gems in property, But 1 know of one @ecasion on which Mat ineisted upon Reving 2 mutual acquaintance of ours G@eoompany him to a sate osit vault, Where Bat brought ou « and dis Played neyotladle securities to tae value OF 6120.0. Peckey McFarland can draw a big eek. Packey's savings aggregate no feme than $200,000. He hus invested his M@emey well, iu apariment-house prop- Ze etock In big compa that good dividends, His Lag hd stock ahealhe | & spender, plight and practically stole forty or fifty thousand from him in a few weeks, ;They let Terry bet ‘on the finger.” When he lost the: led. “When ho won they or tha simple method. Hurris stopped it Mnally by aoing to the bookies and threatening to expose them to the news- papers tf they took Terry's wagers, and by making Terry hand control of what money he had left. To-day Terry 1s fairly well fixed. Ho owns property that Will keep him the rest of hts life, ISIMY BRITT is a wealthy fighter, He Invested his money as fast as he could got it, and now owns at feast a block of San Francisco apart- ment houses, & cagy fellow with his coin. Thomas| | doesn't draw any big cheoke for exhtble ; fon purposes, but he could if he wanted to, Gus Ruhlin, who died recently, lef! his widow a comfortable fortune. Fits. simmons lost over $200,000 in Wal street when he was champion. He had! “friends” down there who gave him| “Upa, and Fits was a trusting sort of & fellow when not playing his own |®ame. To-day he has a dig, fine farm jat Dunellen, paid for, and not muoh else, Champion Jack Johnson ts something with his money as some people think, | Lawyers have trimmed the edges of Jack's bank roll pretty successfully, for he's alwaye in court and some sort. He throws away a few thousands on racing cars. But he makes money easily, and up to date his Income has run steadily beyond his ex- Penditures. 1 imagine Johnson wouldn't have much trouble in raising $100,000, Jack Munroe has been a money-maker since he stopped racing, He's Mayor trouble of |of Blk City up in the Cobalt region, and writes that he expects to well out his mines in a couple of years more and wo to Paris with a million or 80, Mun- roe has a hankering for Parts, OMMY BURNS Money-maker, On tie Puropean and Australian trip, when cham. pion of the world, he mi ©. fvery fight he had was tine | fo. him, for he did some heavy betting until the affair with Johnson came aioug. On that one occasion he was | satistied with his for- tunately for hin nounted to $30,000. Bur at ¢ xary, up in Alberta. He ts worth e ily a couple of hundred thousand, pite of that, was a great In he ts now training hard Kain and living in hope of getting an- jcther flight with the big black who took | Hw title away. when thoy piled rtun up usually did so leaving the ring, ‘There are a mumber of instances, Iike | | thet of ed Price, where ex-fighters inade fortunes varying from $100,000 to $25,000 n business. Hut to-day the money paid ar "dn the ring ts #0 attr big that the fighters don't need to go | into any other business to make their fortunes. A succesful professional bo: an earn as much as @ big co: poration lawyer, ‘Thines have changed. A few years ago the fighters were dodg- ing from State to State hunting for places to fight in for # few dollars, ‘To-day they travel tn state tn drawings room cars, live at the best hotels and are in demand in nearly every State tn the Union, as well as in Australia, Eng- land, France, Germany, India and other places ecattered about the globe, Tom Sharkey has been| but not nearly so lavish | with the announcement that “Ed” Sweeney, the holdout catcher, had signed @ contract and had apeeded from Chicago 4n order to be on the Hilltop to-day to help drag the lowly Highlanders out of lant place. Mai ager Wolverton was elated over t! aigning of the etar backatap, bellev- Nese ts, Star, Unknown dng that his charges will now begin a rh. Swi y's troubl i i] ee the ume. Sweeney's trouble }/ Athletically Until Two Weeks Ago, Is Now Regard- ~ ed a Second Tom Burke. L ture of Tad Meredith, the Mercersburg schoolboy, who Just now has the athletic world by the ears. Note his powerful, thick set legs, particularly around the knec sation he was to recelve. Bi 7EMAN bULGER, | PACK QUINN awoke this morning, | took a hurried glance at the sport- ing page and thanked his stars that | he had Harry Wolverton for # manager. | Four thousand fane, just as thankful, | mre congratulating the big spit-baller on having escaped from what would have deen the hardest luck blow of the year. With Quinn on the verge of defeat, OOK at the accompanying ple after having pitched one of the most remarkable games of the year, Wolver- ton took the big chance, threw himself lin the breach and saved the day. Only three hits had been scored off the Big Pole in nine innini nd he had given but two bases op balls and nicked one Datter. Despite that beautiful work two | rune had been scored by the Browns and up to the last half of the ninth the Highlanders had made but one. Wolverton stood on the coaching lines and began to realise what a calamity | it would be for Quinn if defeat should be the reward for such an effort. He thereupon called Wolter from the bench and sent him in to bat for Fisher, who bad replaced @treet. The result was a long Grive to céntre that Shotton cap- tured after a long run. The fans were leaving their seats, Again Wolverton looked towerd the bench, but not another pinch hitter was Joints, Study those peculiarly shaved Tuscles, twisted in oddly, the fiat sur- face on the outer side of the calves from the ankle up, and you have tho secret of this youngster’s meteoric speed. Practically unknown and un- heard of athletically up to two weeks ago, Meredith to-day etamis out as the speed marvel of the present time, and yet he’s not fully developed, but half cooked, half baked, as it were, The coming Olympic meet at Stock. | holm may hold worlds of tame for this husky nineteen-year-old lad. | ‘Dhe athletic world got its first reaal @impee of Meredith at the Pennsyl- vania relay meet the latter part of inet Tmonth on historic Franklin fied. He had attracted but ordinary attention Previous to that. Meredith ran on the Mercersburg team in the Preparatory School mile that day, doing the final quarter in 494-5 seconds, Conmidering that the track wae deep in mud and that the youngyter hadn't extended him- self, the performance wes voted remark. able, This race established the inter- scholastic record for Merersburg, Ex- | perte who have ecen all the fast quarter- milers from Tommy Burke's time down looked on im wonder. Moredith im- mediately was voted another Tommy Burke, and for the firet time he saw his name printed in af the big papers. TWO REMARKABLE PERFORM. ANCES IN PRINCETON, Iast Saturday Meredith was agas: Keen in competition at the Princeto ‘meet. What he did made evrybody ait up and take notice again. Ho breezed home an easy winner in the quarter in 491-6 seconde, the fastest time for.the istance ever made on the Princeton track, He came right ‘back half an hour later and ran “a ‘thaif” in 1.65 fat. John Paul Jones, the Cornel! novice, holds the interco! jate record tor a half, which {s Just'one fifth of a second faster, marched to the plate, Two weeks ago the fans saw Wolverton do that same thing and strike out. With that thought in mind, many of them laughed as the) manager came wp thts time, MANAGER WOLVERTON MAKES TWO-BAGGER, In just two shakes of a sheep's tall that laugh had been turned into a wild @hout of glee. Wolverton had caught a fast bal] squarely on the nose and had sent it whistling into left centre for two bases, That was the entering wedge and the Browns took a straight shoot up in the alr. Zinn, who had reached first every tme he came to bat, Iaced @ long drive to- ward right centre. Frank Laporte made @ run for it and had his hands in front of the ball. He haf misjudged the speed, however, and the talons apart and rolled bases while Daniels, who had run for Wolverton, raced over the pan with the run that tled the score, | | onktoum the Highlanders won the fimt, test and| Before the atartere Mned up for the only gaine eo he Biv t |, ame Su ioe from the aT Shey B70 half this day, Coach Curran of Mercers- ie re gerne for 0 mart y the tale Wolverton burg inetructed Meredith not to try for has. coprince’ Junta the Haat man ie out tn the Ninth, and thet | Te0ords. After paging man after man | idea ought to give them « big It ‘t wae more than Mederith could stand when some one shouted as he neared y, and f 0 wine siek ‘Lumifed ai | the quarter powt: “You've dono &6," ‘That Grawtont. the walloper, ate ‘in oP oft] was the last straw and the Mercergburg which means (rouble, ‘The liigh winds caused some wolrd f uring the earls" bast ache gue and eh the fel to. | thes atbete" Tabi 3.90 P. 6 adi Ba Ayer began to extend himeelt axpecting, as he eaye, to cover the distance in 1,58, To the great surprise of himself as well as the timers, however, he finished in 1.65, What makes this performance all the more remarkable ig the fact that ‘TAD’ PIER EDITEH: Mereditif ran this race but half an hour efter making his stupendous effort in the quarter. Am & resukt of these marks Medertth looms up as one of the most promising candidates for the Olympic team. PLAYED ON SCHOOL ELEVEN ‘LAST YEAR, TOO. Mederith doen't devote all hts time te the track, Last fall he played on the college fortbiil tean and tore things up in general on the gridiron, Of the track and field he ts an unas suming chap, very quiet and studious, It was some three years ago that Mederith first realized he possessed run- ning ability, Born at Chester Heights, Pa, he began participating in races while a student in Williamson's Trade School. At the time of his Gret race Meredith displayed a wonderful phy- eique. His father was a trainer and breeder of horses and the Jad manageu to work. in @ great amount of exercise at eubsequently stood him in good ‘At the trades school this youngster ran the quarter in fifty-six seconds, At the Princeton Interscholastle games, two years efter, Mederith won quarter-mile rece from «@ iarge field. Record-Breaking Easy for Schoolboy |= Meredith, Latest Running Sensation | Makes esis Be Sit Up by Winning Quarter and ‘Half Mile Races in Fast Time Within Half an Hour. Attention was not directed at thts schoolboy, however, until the Pennayi- vania Interacholastic games last spring. At thie mest Mederith ran the quarter in the remarkably good time of S12 Twenty minutes later he came out of the flelihouse and romped away ta the half-méle event in the time of 208, After ¢hte ri the boy was forced to leave echool for an entire year, amd in thet time he didn't take part in a single race. Last fall Medertth entered bps yr burg. During the winter he ran the school's relay team in various tadoor meets, From this time on the young- ster's development was rapid, as is| TA. indicated by hie performances es told above. ‘Concerning his chances Coach Curren of Mercersburg makes the fotlowing Dbyeical condition he fe never 1 in" after @ race. I think he coukt do muob better # be only had some one to push hin to the limit of his resources. He oan do the half mpile in LM mow, and & little later he shot improve on this. He can also deat 48.8 in the quarter mile. Ted will surely try for the American Olymple barrel Bo seen thet what paren really gapabie et Seane ean the foture can teil. Brachurst’s Hold Run To-Morrow Bradburst Fiela Club will hold am invi- tation road run to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. The race will start at the lub house, 36 West One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street, and the distance will be about elght miles, twice around the course on which the Bra@burst Classic was held recently, which race created a world's record for number of entries in @ handicap rac Billy Que: the professional, will pace the runners, whan should gtve good Practice for all cross country runners. —_—_—_——————SS ————— SAMPLES SENT |} If inconvenient to call we will send to your home sam- ples of materials. Suits or overcoats to order, $20 to $40. by Present-Day F =— Wolgast Back in Ring After Long Absen acai Lightweight Champion Tests His Strength in Bout With Willie Ritchie To-Day. 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