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_—.— Australia May Be a Great Place for Boxers, but Jim Barry Doesn’t Think So. ‘Coprright. a. by The Pree Publishing Co, York World) IM BARRY, who recently returned from Australia, didn’t enjoy his visit very much, He isn't exactly enthu- Wc over the “big money” A boxers are supposed to get in ti tipodes. I notice, however, that Claoby and Thompson and Tommy Burns didn't dodge return trips to Australia. Writes Barry: “Just a word of advice to the American boxers. The only man getting any money in Australia is Hugh G, Melntosh. He gets both ends and the middie, T..ey regard him as @ king there and anything lie does or says is iaw with the natives. At present he has} Langford and McVey ued wise they cannot leave. “AS you perhaps know, for a colored man to enter Australia the promoter M™ust put up a bond of $1,000 for six Months, und as long as he cares to re Rew the bond the boxer must stay there. Hence the prolonged stay of Langford and McVey. Mcintosh told me himself that If he ever got Johnson back there he would keep him there as long as he Was able to draw a gate. I have posted Jack of his intention: a there is not @ chance of the ‘Bi there in an American bank and also signs tract that he can leave three fights are over, which will be with Langford, McVey and J te. Moln- tosh told me he was going to get Jean- notte. “My first fight was with Lang, whom 1 beat, I received for my end 2% per cent. $38. On the whole trip I re- cdived: First Aight—Lang. con- soon as his Second fight — Langford y rounds) ed Third Aght—Porky Flynn (twenty BY BOZEMAN BULGER. rounds) .. 1% | EX TRATHGY was hit squarely on Fourth nghi—Porky: Fiynn (wenty in S the eyebrow and knocked into « H cocked hat in the opening per- aR priate ame cawenty formance at the Polo Grounds and| there were ten thousand fans this - 1 a eer ree ogg| morning Guitevwiltiig to Selleve, thas the muccess of baseball is ite uncer- y. He owes a lot of | tainty and McIntosh won't let him} Contrary to all rules and regulations, ONTANA JACK SULLIVAN, as M chipper as ever, ts in town look- ing for a match with any of the good middlewelghts. do 158 pounds with pleasure. Sullivan fought a twenty-round draw ‘with McGoorty at Billings, Mont. “There ‘was about $6,000 bet that 1 wouldn't last fem rounds,” explains Jack in telling of that fight, “so 1 boxed the first ten care- fully just to stay and save my friends’ money, As soon as the tenth 1 went after McGoorty and ga bad beating through the last half of t fight. I'll concede that McGoorty 1s be ter now than he was then, but perhaps J’m @ little better myself. I'd lke to nave chance to try out with him again.” manager of ICHARD KLEGI R Han mid- his man's Dave Smith, prowess very modestly. Says he: UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY THAT DEAR AUSTRALIA AS DESCRIBED BY JIM BARRY Copyright, 1913, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). 4 are vs Does No Both McGraw and Dahlen Ex- hibit Craft, but With Un- expected Results. the pastine broke out in new places during the rough-and-tumble finish with the Dodgers, and before the final wallop landed “inside work” was flat on ite! back and panting like a Ilzard, Old Man! Strategy was not introduced until the ninth inning, and then the fun started, Every time the old fellow stepped out, whother at the instance of McGraw or Dahlen, he went wrong, Old Lady Luck backed him off the boards at every turn, ‘The first move was made by McGraw when, with a Brooklyn runner on third and two ut, he ordered Tesreau to ¢e- Mberately walk Muler so pitche:, To move promptly withdrew Pitcher Ra- d sent Tex Erwin to bat in his : Hoth moves went wrong. ng Miller, Tesreau got into ing habit and gave bases on balls to Menticand: Morea’ ana’ torent in the run he had planned to stop, Dahe len's move in withdrawing Ragon also developed into a bloomer, He sent the dlewelght, “The day after Smith meets MoGoorty you'll be writing that Australia has sent over the welght world's champton a's time, Why, Smith {s so fast he'd make a streak of Ughtning look like a rusty rail spiked down to the roadbed. [i's months since « sparring partner has suc. coeded in laying glove on him, And hit! Why, we can’t get sparring part- ners to stay in his camp more than one day. Every day a new crop. They can't stand his pace, McGoorty will think he has hold of a battery with both hands and somebody is shooting Ughtning through the wires.” If Smith can box half 8 well as Kiegin can talk the mbination should be Invin . serve Judgment on the boxing until we see it. RTHUR ,PBLKY has gone to A Canada for a rest. He boxed White with a right hand that had been cracked in @ collision with the top of Soldier Kearns's head the week before. That's why Pelky picked out the soft spots on White's anatomy for that right, and never changed his target, He fought Jess Willard, Kearns d White within two weeks. Going He's coming back in a few 8 for that postponed match with arty. T™ SHARKEY says that he's puazied, He doesn't know what to do about Bob Fitzeimmons's challenge. He ‘as been training hard for two weeks, has taken off fourteen pounds, and expects to box again, but his intention ts to take on Tommy Burns or one of the big heatyweights seen recently in New York. Sharkvy hi been sitting In ringside box at| every heavyweight tle of late, and} his cold id disapproving eye has fol-| lowed every movement of the big men. ha thim guys up when | was fighting,” says Tom, “1 can do it yet, and I'm going to train three months and do @ ‘come-back’ that'll make ‘em | al) ait up.” On Feb. 27 it will be just eight years ince Sharkey fought Jack Monro in Philadelphia. He hasn't been in the | rng snce, Ie Jullus Caeser in the, house? a Baseball, Polo Ordos, Ful rnd) SS tticn BNE, “hiss. SS oy gy ed sd “ = Peerless Rucker in to pitch the last inn- ing, and the Giants tore into him for two runs and the game, ANOTHER INSTANCE OF THE GAME'S UNCERTAINTY. Can one but wonder at the uncer- tainty of the pastime when we see an ordinary pitcher hold the champions safely for eight innings, only to have the game lost by one of the best pitch- ers in the world in one inning? ‘The one move that did count for Mc- Graw was the substitution of Josh De- vore as base runner for Meyers, It was Josh who slid into the plate, causing Miller to drop the ball and tying the score. After that it was rip! bang! zing! and the champs were one notch nearer Horseshoes!" screamed Holliday Ebbets ua the curtain | and, apparently considering that m to his ruffled feelings, fell, sufficient ba he kept It up until far tn the night. If {t will serve as solace to Charley Giants-Dodgers Opener Shows That Strategy t Always Win | He was taken from t! HERG'S A PENNY FoR Your SHARE OF THE” PURSE = DON'T SPEND 17 RASHLY 1M RIGTOUS AvsTRAUIAN GoLO 1S HARD To GET * Tie 2 Si HAVE “Te STAY Wolverton Sees Red Sox Next World’s Champions | Q Bamey Says MINTO WANTS “To GET UoHNSON “TD Go AUSTRALIA had KEEP HIK Here (ae. SUCH even d homer, There were two on bases and the game would have been sewed up right there. The real hurd luck exponent of that exciting affair, however, was Napoleon Rucker. The great left-hander walked | in when the iron was hot, and although he pitched but one inning he ts officially charged with the loss of the gam Brooklyn was one run in the lead when Rucker took hold and, under the rules, he must shouider the defeat. On the other hand, Tesreau ts cred- {ted with a victory in which he had no part after the battle got down to cases. game to allow Shafer ts not igure in that credit for the game. At that, a retiring pitcher ts en- titled, under the rules, to all the ru: made by his own side in an inning where he has piched the first half, And that's nothing but fair. Shafer to hit for him. pitcher and does not Ap intereted moectator the game. w ier the leading sportatan ot Cu nied by, Senor Martins, aloo et Jimines is the Cuban who pemu the jalan tae fall and ent 10 ‘ye ie eal | ee er nor dienes, mit i ir the ‘nf ‘He, sare it fee | the closely. wate age te he oF the Hele F base bal th Che the the Giants ts be) BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK Thinks Giants Will Win Pen-| nant, ‘but Will Lose to Boston Americans, Washington, D. C. Aug. 30. of the Highlanders, asked to giv M repiied: “Boston will win the American League | and will New York and Boston will play several interesting probably be ut Boston will win just as easily championship hands down, Ifkely tackle the Giants, games. clowe, as did the Athletics last fall. “There is no need to go into detail continued Wolverton. One or two will such thing. I simply belleve that Bos- ton will win for the r¢ is the better ball club. Catcher Homer Thompson, the former: than was in evidenc University of Georgia star, is ected to Join the Highlanders here to-day and will be given @ chance to show wha’ he can do before the club starts for the agit, 8 brother of Carl Thomp- son, t New Yorks at the close of his coll yoar lant June: The Highlanders are not discouragea because they were beaten by a ninetcen- ear-old achoolboy pitcher in the opener, and all are agreed that Joe Engel, the has the mak- the bes ball, any shown. me this season,” de- Simmons. t 1 ale whereof I speak, too, for I watched three sail over the plate and walked back to the bench.” | ile George McConnell Is slated to pitch the second game of the New York- Benators series this afternoon, He Duds By huis ene Joe Hirst He Will Add $1,500 to His Bank Roll | BY JOUN POL? OCK. ACKEY M'FARLAND, whore fight- P Ing wing him lots of money, will grab off $1,500 more in Philadel; to-night by meeting Joo Hirst, t sturdy Quaker City lightweight, in a six-; round bout at the Olympla A. C., the newly organized boxing club in that city, This contest ts one of the two which Packey will teke part In before he goes against Champion Ad Woigast in & ten | round go at the Garden A. C. Sept. 2%, for which he ts to recelve $12,600. Me- Farland accepted the match with Hirst meets the champion, Hinmy Clabby, the middleweight of Milwaukee, Australia we will agree with him tn so far as two 1) make hls mnt jor about In are concerned, Dame Luck smiled | 0 Giants when Miller dropped. the | Mi Sian Seat Yorckay Fg al at the plate and allowed Devore siape for the Bate ore in the ninth, She was also with ia » when Moran, Northen and Cut-| At Lippe sho as Doma a uthorised by the her for a conference on | he Cirque de Paris, the big boxing ig high fly in that same | of F et tour American. fehters inning and jet it fall between them for | \ Buty @ single. But the deadly blows deliv. ered by Fletcher and Doyle in this cru. cial moment were absoultely without | goign th taint. Plein the Canadian teathiesweight.” While Col. Ebbets Is being solaced he! | osing smmieione: O'Neil, it might also remember that Brooklyn got | from oruree today,” will Ina an onler a mighty sweet smile from Luck in the | jin tp oe ee tyenlr (eet pure te al) third, when Northen clawed up tho) the mined Tightmelat fiaiter, from entering aay right fleld wath and puted down Larry |of their sows, | Smith is helne handed | thins ony Doyle's drive that looked good for «| wument, for ‘ismulting Dai’ BE Mring inepectore, ‘when the latter ordered: him STANDING OF THE CLUBS war TIONAL Lt LEAGUE, RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S GAMES Feuhioen on, 8; Phih few York, 1, Bow! my pha, 4, + Brooklyn, iat ell tengo. 10! Si, GAMES SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY New York at Washia Bbladelpiut at colons cleveland. Chicago Be edie at Betrolte Resear Y New ie | s0 as to get & 00d workout before he| © where be fo McFarland Has Workout At Philadelphia To-Night BOXING SHOWS TO- NIGHT. At Olymple A. > A. C.-Harlem Tommy Tompkins vs. Johnson, ten rounds, At Queensboro A. C., Long Island City—Bob Masse vs. Richle Jasper, ten rounds, At St. tcholag A. ©. Rink—Bat- tling Larry Ryan vs. Bob Ames, ten rounds, At Atlantic A. A., Rockaway Beach Joe Jeanette Griffo Jones, ten rounds, Matches Arranged. Jack Dorman vs. Kid Alberta, Tom- my Bergin ys. Fighting Kennedy, Jimmy Harris vs. Pete Doyle, ten round bouts, airmont A. C. to-mor- row night ——_—— SS coraer at the St, Nicholas Young Brown’ A, GC. Wednentay nig) anager of Willie Rit weight, Is cursing «bad red Fight eve ands’ brubed cheek which | cetved during the fant he re- altercation with Jim Coffroth promoter of San Francisco, which curred in one of the dressing rooms at the Ol)m. Ceci foun 4 Nolan, Coffroth Tne Wont Hoan’ jure one of Save Money By Buying 7 a Fall Suit Now Still some left- ends, sold regularly at $2: patterns—finished as you dictate, delivered when you say. Sale closes Saturday at you to call to-day. | HENDERSON'S, S| HURTIC oh ’ ry SEAMON’S ANAGER HARRY WOLVERTON his opinion as to the outcome of | the coming world’s series, unhesitatingly | “Tam not steeped | in American League prejudice or any be opposed by Bob Groom, a man who w son that theirs | Yorkers to beat, young pitcher who came to the ‘last year’ Suit to measure, $20. iCoat and Trousers, Gun AN’ FrguT = [ ‘aven'r AO Mr SHILLIN'S WORTH, ONtY WAY Boston, Excited, Will Send 250 Fans to See Labor Lay Games Here When Boston baseball fana get ex- cited the sky gets a job as the OM- clal Limit. Just now they are ex- clted—very much excited over the steady triumphant march of the Red Sox, so much “het up” in fact that they can hardly bear to allow the team to leave the town at all. Of course the Sox have to travel once \n @ while #0 the next best thing the fans can do Is to travel too. Accord. ingly Tom Davis, secretary of the New York Americans, has been aek' to reseve a block of 2 seats for ‘Boston Fans Willing to Bet $10,000 Britton Can Deteat McFarland —.—- dia@ not receive much publicity, While Beantown fans who will come to : out on the coast Britton didn’t set any New York Labor Day to see the || Sensational Defeat of Murphy] worlds afre, so he and bis whilom double-header betweeh the High- I sub manager, Jack Costello, decided to landers ané Boston.~ come East. Britton waited around town so long without getting any work that he en ent {t best to hunt up @ new ad- viser—so the first one he went to was Dan Morgan. The latter had been bet- ting on slow horses, it seems, and his bank roll was rather depleted, so he figured that another boxer added to his lst wouldn't do any harm. Hardly had Britton and Morgan agreed to team up than Morgan had Billy Gibson of the Garden A. C, on Gives Jack Prominent Posi- tion in Lightweight Ranks T Ughtweight circles this year was the knocking out of Eddie Mur-! Dhy, the clever Boston fighter, by Jack Britton of Chicago, and up the Hub | Way they are still discussing the Windy | City boy's ‘remarkable fiatic achievement and are eager to back him against an; body his weight in the world. According to Manager Danny Morgan, who is out to make a corner of all of the crack fighters In the world, Bos- tonlans are willing to back Britton to the extent of $10,000 to defeat Packey McFarland. Morgan declai he has | been authorized to guarantee McFar- tana %,000 for his end to meet Britton before the Pilgrim A. A. soit McLean, who is the manager of tty Baldwin, and also the match- has always been hard for the >} Wolverton di that unle: the Senators BY ALEX SULLIVAN. Hilltoppers will romp a HW’ bigedit~ ourpitée oprune 18 ay next two games, He smiled Ny t me, but watch us next year— {Just watch. Speedy Hasha Still Winning’ Eddie Hasha remains the speed king of the Brighton Stadium Motordrome. Starting from scratch, giving the ridere more than a lap handicap, tho Texas marvel won the Bradburst Handicap in | spectacular style, Mercler and Ayrault | fintshed second and third. George Lochnar captured the five-mile professional race, defeating Billy Wray, | maker 8, ie SHIRT, Asa OF She ahi Billy Shields and Herbert Ayrauit, | t*nks that Britton is one of the great- Ferdle Mercier had a winning streak |@st lghtweights since the days of Joe ir. the three-cornered professional match | G4n8 and belteves he Is the peer if not at three miles, winning in straight heats| the superior of Packey MoFarland. over George Hamilton ani Earle Eckel, | Before meeting Britton Murphy w. To-morrow night at tho Motordrome | Tesarded by Hub fans as good as the Jimmy Baxter, the English crack, will | best Hghtweights in the world. They ride hls first race In this country. The | think the same now, barring Jack Brit- event will be a match raco with Arthur | ton, whom they style “the nonparell.” Ne alone knocked out, before encountering Colors ang TACHOU IRD END leemed tO Ite wiothm wisn from the arse! |New Golt Record Over Lakes region, and when the Boston fans saw the easy manner in which he | Van Corilandt Course polished off Murphy—the lad they con- sidered well nigh invincible-they could ‘|hardly velleve their eyes, Both the professional and amateur records for] So great an impression has Britton the Van Cortlandt links weut by the boarla whem | made on Boston fandom that the Pll- Fimer W. Loring, playing against his clubmate, a Ely Larkin, of the New York Golf Gub, wos [STM A. A.—the only club conducting | Mis match by 7 up and 6 to play and went round | Douts in the Hub—is willing to put up fin the biggest purse ever offered by the | cig eres gaint et TO canatel sn Witt | organization to stage the match. D, Patterson of the Scottish-American | Britton fatled to make any: strong | Woke Cad, an nd te rg strokes better th "vy, |1mpression on, New York fight fans be- eid by GH Nichols ‘Wilmington, only once. uring the round was} fore gliding under the protecting wing Britton on with Eddie Smith, one of the best loca! Nghtweights. Britton ‘went into ‘the ring that night weak a: a kitten owing to stomach trouble, but @ defeated Smith to the queen's taste, although not displayin because he didn't poss to use it. After this bout Morgan sent Britton to the mountains to rest, with the result that he attained the condition which resulted in the sending to Slum- berland of Eddie Murphy—one of the Greatest surprises in modern ring an- ny real punch, the strength organ won't be happy now until Britton {s matched again with Packey McFarland, as he is sure that his charge can decisively defeat the stock- yards favori' Early this faring Murphy met McFar- land and the consensus of opinion in the West was that he easily earned a As Britton has also drawn with 'y and has knocked out Murphy it would be tntoresting to see how a Britton-McFarland cont: LOX PAYAMAS Give the same comtort ut nigh: that Lox ITON Underwear during the day. 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