The evening world. Newspaper, December 19, 1912, Page 22

Sew ST OT in a a en ee z= Sate ame Soldier Kearns Scores Freak Knockout Over One-Round Davis. Ooprriaht pals m. ‘The Prem fyitiching Co, he New York Worl “O%. ROUND” DAVIS came | down here from Buffalo to show New York the genuine One-round stuff, and he did it. In the first round of their battle at the Fair- mont last night Soldier Kearns reached down near the floor with his left hand and, dringing it up with @ swish, placed + hie glove carefully but with Davia crumpled. Ag he sunk the soldier slammed him with « right on the wishbone. Davis turned half @ back somersault and Mt the floor on his shoulder blades, He rolled right over backward and, giving a con- Vulsive flop, straightened out with his shing ‘cross the ropes in Kearns's corner. ‘Phere “One Round" Davis lay for tet seconds, carefully counted by the referee. At about six he began to ‘wriggle & little. But the “ten” had Sounded before he had dtecovered what Was the matter with his sense of bal- ance, had pulled his feet from the ropes and wabbled to an upright position. Davis staggered around the edge of the ring. He was a second or two too late, and in any case would hardly have been in shape to push his chin Against any more of tho soldier's wal- lope. “One Round” Davis had been well ad- vertised, but only a falr crowd turned oUt to see him. Little old N. Y. is just { ptienl when theso “coming are brought to the big cliy Im the lobby of the club I met Com- miestoner O'Neil. “This fellow from Buffalo can fight,” said the Commis- sioner. So thought a number of men around the ring who had seen Davis up State. And, to teil the truth, he did look Pretty classy until Kearns reached him, pine came into the ring first and t him walt there for five min- we give him time to lose his nerve tle. Then Davis swaggered into the ing aud carelessly strolled over to sake hands, paying little attention to Kearns and nodding pleasantly around the ring | side to his acquaintances. Mr. vie might have been a veteran and @ cham- pion, as far as looks went. K actually built like the sailor in his best Gays, with the advan- tage of a little more height and 20 pounds of hard meat. He looked ruged enough to beat anybody. When Kearns stood up and stripped off his bathrobe 1 eaw Mr. Davis, across the ring, bob hig bead and jift his eyebrows. Kearns, stripped, in some sight, Ae soon as the fight started Kearns began to rush tn, Davis, light on hie foot, alx feet tall and weil built, moved easily and looked good, Davie weighed 1% pounds, and it was all fighting weight. Davis shot over a right that looked as fas as a streak of lightning, end missed by « hair, The rin Gaeped. “Next one'll life the head off," confided « man on my It looked that way. But Kearns just bulled in and oI away, A swinging left chip the ehin, and he hugged for « mom before he would break out of a clinch, | Davie drove @ heavy right to Kearns's eas, They mixed. Then Soldier Kearns started that ewinging left and landed | it, and it was over, “One Round" Davis can keep his name He has| earned it. | main event both ended with the striking of foul blows, In the semi-final Tommy Ma Joe | White. Maloney was of the scrap, when he swung a low left and struck White a terrific foul blow White fell unconscious and tt was five | minutes or more before he could be EARNS {s @ larger Tom Sharkey— 4iB two bouts preceding the helped from the ring, ‘Maloney, of course, was disqualtfied. At least he should have been, ‘hough no an- Referee Joh. Jon didn't count over White, ua hie did over Wuent last week | when Smith had knocked Wuest Sowa ls and nearly out w al blow ‘The bout before tho semi-final ended | fn the same way. Onl time was the boxer who was being weil whipped who delivered the foul blow It was apparently unintentional, a clumay ow swing, and the reciplen fell flat on his face, completely out. He Was so badly hurt that it was ten min- | © utes or so before he could be revived, and then, while being helped from the ring, he collapsed again and fell through the ropes into the hands of people out- elde the ring. UP-TO-DATE AND pl ak authorities it 4 Bina! Ban! Dans ON THE POINT TORNED A FLIP — To Introduction of Boxing In O Our Public Schools Sport Now Ranks \ Ranks With Base- ball and Has Class of 500, and injurious, five hu: before all th teaching th naments for inauguration “lentd Mr. Allen, of mitts dangling from the gymnasuim wemecnuse the gloves are tig and soft ;, ent \the boys hardly ever hurt themeelves, although the mill at times. covered that the made 1! youn In fact, ers of come down here BOYS TAUGH AT went on to protect them: we'll ha gym to- *, ue, A hundred welght, while the boys Idea of good 4 }into the student Phen for threo Process during ¢ “In Ma teats are tlelpate in the y for # medal pr Injuries of this sort are very seldom seem in final event. where the boxers know how to dress for their bouts. The men hurt are usually novices. Boxing Commission, to protect those ow enough to protect them- 1 mako @ rule that no ve allowed to engage In a mniest unless provided with an effective armor to stop foul blows, re should de enforced. Then the stro | featherweight, Ughtwelght ana midd welght division The nights some of the best boxing pou you'll ever want some hard fig’ veloped and he hero as any sti duces ten't @ continued the arly @ year at Poly Prep. and now the sport ranks with base- students met with failure yesterday, ball, football and athletics, In the opin- | when the principal of one of th fon of Physical Instructor Claude Allen, involved warned bis boys some spirited exercise, ‘Whole classes are taught to box,” the school's ins:ructor, nouncement of the face was made vy |plalning how the students are instructed n entire clase down in th ny and divide the boys into One {s called gray and the other boy will take on one about his own the boxing master calls time ammer and tongs. roach, who hae ever ex- you think that boxing is barbarous just take @ trip over lo Brooklyn one of these days end | mee 01 dents engage in sparring cont: you'll quickly realise that ft is one of the greatest sports in t! city’s youths. They a part of the curriculdm of the Brook- lyn echoot, and the idea has already reached. the High School of Commerce, and in the opinion of public school, only a question of time hools in the city will be indred Poly Prep. atu- nd ‘world for the ve made box! It-defense, oxing tour- | of of boxing was one of pointing ling ta pretty etrerucus ars experimenting it wae dis: boys enjoyed boxing as well as any other aport, and we conse- it one of the regular been in vogue hi ed one complaint t wae about a cted with nose + Ae ‘hing unusual many of the boys to and don the gloves for T TO BOX A CLASS A TIME, selves. “For tnatanc d and twenty-tive-pound shake hands, for the portamanship is dritied 8 ore anything else, rounds they go at It The winner ts de- » very aeldom ort of elimination wimming co’ early boxing tournament esented by the neeat in the banta meet, and for never to mee take place. After tng the best man is de- is just as mush of a ‘ar the gridiron or dia- boy to my knowledge Wuert'er You HAVE (T, Soupier ? —— THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK RR EEN BE LTT I a IT aT a 1912. EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN ONE ROUND OF ONE-ROUND DAVIS Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). uf $ pnw a ALL rer think that thelr boxing ability is to be used only as @ means of self-defense, 200 BOYS AT ONE TIME ENGAGED IN BOXING. “I try to foster the epirit of boxing the boys," went on Mr. Allen, Jesgons there have been some very fi fighters developed, but for personal rea- gone I can't a their names, but if a igh iSchool of Commerce have followed the exampte of Poly Prep in holding boxing tournaments and it is belleved that other sohools in the city will shortly follow the lead of the Brook- lyn institutions, An attempt to introduce dual boxing exhibitions among local high school schonis inst pare ticlpating in the scheduled meeting. The exhibitions were to have been given in the gymnasium of the De Witt Clinton High School by representatives of the Citaton squad and these of Stuyvesant 86d 1g& permission, even AND Toort THe “TEN” Hooren, OVER “THE Ropes une This. Poly Prep Leads the Way |\(McGraw to Begin Making Plans Brown, ae and McCarron E His seco! making his plans for the epring training trip. He has a week off from his Vaudeville engagement and will have a chance to get things in shape. He will take between thirty-five amd forty players with him, It hae been Gefinitely decided that the Giants will go to Marlin as usual. Groundkeeper Murphy leaves for Texas the latter part of the week to get the grounds in shape. The contract for the Marlin grounds, which covered five years, exptred last epring, and for @ while there was some doum as to whether the Giants would return there. better place and the people of Marlin are delighted. Three Bouts Arranged ready accepted three bouts for him. “Knockoyt" Brown, the Chicago mid- Gleweight, for te rounds at Kenosha, Wis, on the night of January 8 his fighter of Detroit, for ten rounds at the | Falrmont A, C. on Jan, 16, while ie | ane ae, thied will be with Jack MoCarron, - (NOC HIM Tuts WAY AND Swune it uP uine THs +» Dowie Zam! Bano * wy Big venting Game tor Local Hockey The curtain will be rung up en the local hockey season to-night when the Yale varsity seven meets the St. Paul's Bcheol team en the St. Nicholas rink. This contest is an annual event be- tween the two schools, Many ef the best eoflegiste puck chasers in the cast received their early training in the sport at St. Paul's, among which number are Hobey Baker, the versatile Princeten athlete. Most of the Ell squad are former St. Paul hockey players, Close on the heeis af the Yale-6t Paul's game comes the comtest between Princeton and Williams College to- morrow evening at the looal rink, Next Week for Giants’ Training Manager MoGraw will be back in New York next week and will begin w decided that he could not find a _For Eddie’ MeGoorty Syrorelat chet anon at “ess Se Sef a iy pe i — ae ae ie tl ee Will Be His Opponents in Order Named. oe would be on ealre Louis Savage ie oi BY JOHN POLLOCK. DIN M'GOORTY will be a very. busy fighter next month, ae his manager, Marty Forkins, has al- first battle will be with George nd with Freddie Hicks, the husky contest, the Cipmpia A. C. of Philadeb Phia and thi Garden A. C. of this city. were ID no way to be| Whichever club offers the best induce- | account competitive, Columbia Coach Uncovers Real Diving “Find.” Coach Alex Mefferta, Columbia aquatic coach, claims that he has dis- covered @ real diving “find” in the per- son of D. McConnell, a lanky eix foot youth who weighs 165 pounds and has a marked knack of poise and awishing into the water trom the spring board, McConnell 4i4 not take Giving as @ specialty until the opening of the wimming practice season et Columbia in October, but since that time he has @radually improved in form and style until he fe now ranked as the premier plunger on the team He has already perfected the four preacribed dives In aquatic competition, the front, back, front jack-knife, and back jack-knife, and has attain fair degree of proficiency with the ‘on and a half” front and the “one and halt’ back, McConnell {# also quite an| adept at the flying Dutchman and the| “oneand @ half" twisi Boxer “Given Life” By Commissioners For biting an opponent during @ bout EY last ity. im | men . jv normnced, ing, boute at any clud Ins on the shoulder soveral fourth round. Mf he ring by tho tho offense and tne caso the commission. teres paper cat' fer Riana a eg ite Will get it late in January. Riise cae ay ae THE LONG CONTINUED POPULARITY or UNTER BALTIMORE @s) RYE @s) EXTENDING OVER 50 YEARS, IS OP ITSELF CONVINCING PROOF THAT | THE PREFERENCE GIVEN TO IT BY THE PEOPLE IS POUNDED UPON ITs’ ° SUPERIOR QUALITY, ae ee EXCELLENCE Ea Ee | ial 2, Season To-Night Hempstead Unwilling To Talk Because He’s Not ot Yet **On to His Job’’ ‘trustee of the estate. He has had ton- siderable experience in the executive departments of big companies, and ts well Atted for his new duties. Though Giants’ New vr Proeient Aims to Please Fans and Will Fol- [ne nas spent much of his time in New York and Philadelphia, Mr. Hemp- low Brush Policies. stead’s home is in Indianapolis, where he Is interested in a big clothing con: cern. He ts one of those men who bubbling over with good nat and hi the knack of making one feel at ease the minute he begins talking. Behind a pair of large spectacles he has @ pair of blue eyes that ‘frequently twinkle with merriment. “By the wi BY BOZEMAN BULGER. OR « baseball man to say he te not exactly on to bis job, as yet, {s enough out of the ordinary to to get Into the prints, but that ts the frank admission of Harry Hempst the new president of tho Giants. fact that Mr. Hempstead wants to be sure of bis ground before he starts talk. ing ts @ pretty sure sign that the Giants going to be blessed with a worthy auoceseor to the late Mr. Brush. As ao |rule these new magnates begin making Fash statements before they know what's |@oing on\and they like the talking so | wett that their ability ueualin ends right | there, "To asgume the head of a di {gation ifte the New York club is a ‘Digger undertaking than some would |!magine,” explained Mr. Hempstead. “I have been somewhat ramiliar with the financial end of the club for some time but one te placed in the position where he must say yes of no to the many Questions that arise it ts a different matter. I want to conduct the affairs of the Giants as nearly like Mr. Brush did es I can and in doing #0 I want to have baseball public with me. “There le @ multipitaity of di con- Reoted with the handling of the club that might not occur to one on the out- UJ sare mise ot sonar 0 one on the ont of these requires many weeks of work. Ag to the playing end of the ee the handling of players, none of wy business. That * entirely in the hand of Mi McGraw. There is no more compe man than he in that direction and I also will have the benefit of his advice in other thin; Mr. MoCutcheon, the secretary and myself, are gradually wae inty the affairs of the office and I hope that we will be able to please the New York fans.” GIANTS’ NEW PRI MODEST. This rather modest statement dy the new president of the Giants is in strik- ing contrast to the beginning of Charles Murphy as head of the Cuba Before Charley had been on the Job a week he " he said yesterday, “I notice that about half the people who come in hi carry canes. Is that the style In New York, or does it go with baseball job? It was explained to him that Manhat- tan Istand in the cane belt. y take me WON'T MAKE CHANGES IN THE POLO GROUNDS, “Do you anticipate making any changes in the Polo Grounds or the running of I asked. was his reply. “I would be foolish to attempt, within a few weeks, to {mprove upon plans that more ex- Perienced men have spent years in forming. I will be quite content to keep the affairs of the New York Ci going as smoothly and successfully as they did before I took charge." on yet?” I asked. ‘Now, “you'd be surprised if T showed you the number of letters that have been recelved from fans all over the city, explaining to me why they should be Hempstead was talking Mr. McCutcheon, the new secretary and treasurer of the club, came in. With the affairs of the Giants in the hands of these two men the fane of ied York om have no fear of get- ting t ir it MUSICAL, IDENT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK, JOSEF STRANSKY cowpr. ‘To-Night a O58 Scie TT thy Aft. PULITZER MEMORIAL eee I oe, Cam JORN AMUSEMENTS, ad, who ta forty years of @ son-in-law of Mr. Brush, and feene of the mon named in the will as — ————————S—_—_—_— AMUSEMENTS. s ~TO-NIGHT io. — THE CONSPIRACY “tis Serwine || 4° THE QUESTION WINTER roe SS eels Mattnces! RS. FISKE wf Annie Russell's rs 's le 30. Nay HINDLE Whices WILLIAM COLLIER s: “Have you had any requests for! say,” he said, with a laugh, | PHILHARMONIC) PLENTY OF MYSTERY SURROUNDING COMING OF FRANK CHANCE HERE President Lynch Says Reds Have Released Famous Lead- er—Herrmann Denies It. Much mystery surrounds the coming of Frank Chance to New York as man- ager of the Highlanders. Garry Herr- mann, in @ despatch with a Cincinoat! Gate line on it, is reported as sayiny that he hasn't freed the “Peerless Lead- er.” Furthermore he professes complet: ignorance of the deal. "On the other hand, although he 4tén': announce it in his latest bulletin, Pres! dent Thomas J. Lynch of the Nationa’ Teague declares that the Cinctnnat magnate has formally notified him that Chance has been given his uncondteiona, release, which would enable the loca! club to negotiate with him. * Moreover, President Farrel of the Hilltops says that Herrmann has re- leased Chance and that he has had en understanding with the famous player since last October that he would come to New York if he was successful tn breaking awey from the Nationa! a. It ts thought that the delay over the announcement that the Reds have made Chance a free agent is due to the fact that Herrmann wanted to be sure er for next season before getting A OF him, and as Joe Tinker signed his contract yesterday he is now ready to turn the Californian loose. Ty Cobb, of the Tigers, and the great eet hitter and all-around player in the amo now, ts in town looking for a Christmas present. He ts here to tn terview President Frank J. Navin, who # also a visitor. 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