The evening world. Newspaper, January 14, 1913, Page 14

Wew Tommy Burns Just Missed His Ambition to Become Man- ager of Another Champion. Coprright, io by The Presa Publishing Oo. (The New York World) HIB jaa short but thrilling tale, Tt relates how Tommy Burns, former heavyweight champion of the World, just minced realizing his am- Clon to become manager of another @ampion and, incidentally, to add an- @ther fortune to the quarter million he Bas cleared in the ring and real estate. In the fairy tales, you know, the good @atry gives you a wish, guarantee! to @ome tru Sometimes you wish for the fight thing; sometimes you miss it and tak ries of swift kicks at yourself yeare afterward when you got wiser. Tommy is now taking the kicks, Tommy Burns lives and handles vari- @@s ventures of a business sort in Cal- @ary, Alberta, Canada, a bustling boom town of the great Northwest. Ho aettied ft Alberta and opened a “clothing em- Gerium,” intest New York etylen assured te all buyers, shortly after returning Australia, where Jack Johnson fad torn the championship wreath from * bleeding brow, low, Tommy never 414 forgive the Wack giant for imposing his 210 pounds pon Tommy's mere 165 and pounding fim into an ox-champion. He longed @er a chance to dethrone Johneon, but Wealized that his own inferiority in etght and weight made this fmpoesible task. Johnson, too, refused ever to meet Burns again. @urned his desires to the discovery of @ome other fellow who could do the ick. ‘Up in the Northwest he found « two- Geted Sua Lenter—Jack Lester. Lester very good to Tomm: Burne, % eount: of Tommy himeelf in foa- @eres and build, but about two sis: Qarger. He promptly declared himself ‘a manager, and settled down to | @e rather diMcult job of making him @ great fighter. Lester wae tough, Lester was game and willing, and more @r less intolligent. He became a fairly Good heavyweight. But opponents were @carce in the Northwest. Tommy de- elded that Lester neoded hard fighting @gainst near-champione, 80 he sent him to Austratia to work his way up to the There Lester whipped a local @hamp or two, and then was pitted ageinet Sam McVey, Just to accustom Bimecit to hitting at a dark target. UST about this time, two years ago way to Calgary, pos- @ibly by the break beam route, in @earch of Tommy Burns. He thought be'd like to be @ heavyweight champion, en¢ he had heard that there were no ore eclentific fighters in the world than Tommy Burns. About right, too. MoCarty—that was his name—landed Calgary, got a bath and a clean et and collar, and approached Tommy, whom he found standing before Bile clothing emporium thinking over Lester's chance in Australia, fn about two seconds—a way he has— McCarty told Tommy Burns what he ‘wanted. Burns looked him over carefully. “Gee, but you're a big kid!” said he MoCarty had explained that he was enly eighteen. With an eye to business, Tommy ti phoned &# local newspaper and had a ‘Writer and a photographer sent down, pronto! ‘The result was printed on this page. alse the clothing emporiun UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY an almost | 80 Tommy | because he was an almost exact ; the picture fommy Burns, THE EVEN pu a | ‘ PE guTER- Prcase , PLEASE, AR Bums, Listen To Mme fees { Heydler Says Meeting of Joint Schedule Committees Was Smoothest He Ever At- tended. 'LARING that the National D League and American Lengue clubs will have few conflicting dates this year, John A, Heydler, Sec- retary of the National Lengue, returned from Aitken, 8. C. he attended the meeting of the Schedule Committee of the two major leagues. Secretary Heydler said that the meeting was the smoothest schedule meeting he had ever been present at and that the games for both leagues had been arranged #ntisfactorily, The season will open on April 10 and close on Oct. 6, which will make the opening of the word's series earlier than will be presented to the two leagues for their joint meeting Heb, 11. thelr approval at in thie olty op Manager McGraw wae sAmirere ih Cincago last peech, in which 1$iqtiasters ta ‘seatining nDy that the Cube will be stronger therefore more formidable foes, “ont Daschall pchestule: Maseh Irish-American A. —_—— It Takes Hockey Club Extra Period to Beat Winged Fistites, a Substl- tute Player Shooting Winning Point. [ showed remarkable !mprovement in Ite second game in the Amateur League ser! The Winged Fistites HE Trish-Amorican A. C, seven also Luther | played so well that it took the Hockey McCarty, the “big kid," appeared in the} Club an extra period of twenty seconds mext issue of the paper. Luther, who to beat them 2 to 1. It was a substitute hhe@ never seen either his name or his| player at that—Brown by name—whe picture in print before, wai highly de- shi the goal that decided the contest. lighted. He bought twenty-five coples| The game was the fastest played at ef the paper and sent them to his|the rink this season, While it way fast friends at home. Then he went on|{: was also rough, In their eagerness Begotiating with Tommy Burns. ‘Tommy tried him out and was impressed with Bis ability—for « ig kid.” UT after thinking the thing Tommy came to the conc! that one “coming champion" Lester overboard, So he reluc. tantly let MoCarty go. Luther boxe once in Calgary, then Jett for the @gain, to trall the championship on his own account. Bhortly afterward Jearned by cable that Sa @ long and stub’ wally eliminated Xv. champion. But 't wasn't unt] New ¥ that he read the dérpatches from Angeles describing the way in me Lather MoCarty had watlope Al Palzer and won tie M ptonship deit." Tommy is stil! selling cloth ng t emporium in Caigar Louth with another manazer n est, had eft Lester ae a pows.l “s nigh wh arey mest few mont .s Fomm: Burns is wae @bout all he cared to have on his hands Bt one time. And of course he couldn't thro! a cham: to score both sides frequently violated the rules. For this several players wore Blue and White Players Will Go Through Hard Practice for Friday’s Game With Cornell. feeling the sting of defeat last week at the Inceton, the Columbia sketoering squad will take up of practico this week in mm for the might Couch Sharpe's adepts, a close margin of | mber ® by ble Coe hand this week to lend as- tiner they iuation of the Molgnis five just at preacy Mornty Few Conflicting Dates For Two Major Leagues Hens | that Wosh"’ Marked Improvement on Ice. Columbia’s Supporters Hope Five Duplicates 1912 Record\*: Cornell game here} a rs of the Blue! OP = aw the premier avketball map ach Kisber in coaching | will dupl points af the flaor tay poll out of the side CUBS’ CATCHING STAFF NOW BEST IN COUNTRY. GHICAGO, M., Ji Roger Breanahan hi tract to play with the Chicago Cubs for three years, President Murply may well feel proud of his good luck in securing the ex-St. Louis man- ager. With = Bresnahan, Jimmy Archer and young Cotter behind the bat, the Cubs have the greatest col- lection of backstop In the country. President Murphy made a wise move in signing Bresnahan, for in ca Johnny Evers fails to make good manager he can give Roger the job. Hreanahan, It is said, will receive a salary of $6,000 each year and, be- sides, get a bonus of $10,000 for a Mx- ing his signature to the contract. 14.—Now that migned @ co! Ferenth Regiment, N. 0. 8. Eo: Bist, Navy: th, Syracuse, dune 4 Urainas, The Nawe:k, team cf the, International, Teague to rou ot the pre a ei veil be nad pAward Barrow, presi- "National Commiaicn in Ue, teas, to th Is week, against the "dhe, total amount of the monthly payroll Indians wi!l run over Ue, amount uniees men are released, and ie mmo cv sions ‘other clubs in ‘the league.” Fretee mn, that. it will require ene paring of exiating jaries 16 carry twenty nen, Fear, the exend Dveaiiot of ihe track located at Sheepshend Bay this Jarl phin it summer was made evident by thelr ac- Bp ices | tion at the annual meeting of the ciud. Mo Before the members adjourned they tects woke anaeh elected the members who will serve tnia | f October, year and stand the brunt of the attacks de with James Lillis, President Wolverton, former manager of the High. # so-calll ors’ mill wot permit the M4 | wake caltsd'at the cificeorat the Glante: yecter: |Of the so-called Directors’ Liability ‘aw. Toten ty oe recently byes is reohreae wy hinagonst, "The men elected directors were Schuy- jew derwey Interaiate Ne, tho “Giants “ > ‘ y Zarmermale Lacaue. Hee 4,02 Beas Non yer ler L Parsons, W. K, Vanderbilt Jr, cave 0. fie, nem Will | ag te ‘will otaet for, the const go, Fel, to take Murold 1°, Vanderbilt, James W. Wad pptection a6 0 cline B circuit, rat ot the Wacramente a ‘wifle Cow | worth, George Peabody Wetmore, F. I ¥ it my Seer Par oeer Ay # yd Btu John M. Powers, C, Schum- Hirh toakty and ies camest atiena | bergn, F. T. Clarke, F. J. Griswold, F. by eial aturectone, “Wien Dern; H. Hitchcock, Thomas Hitchcock and a “They, Visite’ «tora! ‘ate, Ser Micoducet toa. busine ‘man ea the. ares Outtiaider the business man branded Devore a: In fame, an 0 ° The | banda of the proprietor | Travore had’ tie feoutie in Tien | ‘matiafaction af the business man over, C. Shows evar COUld ‘not “rote his. identit scot tn the anda ot the De cate. cea otis cs oth teams played lke Trojans without scoring, Then Britton took the puck | out of @ scrimmage near hissown net, dribbled it down the side of the rink and trom the ten yard mark snot the isc into the oage for the first tally of | ii, the game. There was no more: scoring in this) period and the hnif ended 1 to 0 In favor | de of the Hoakey Club. In the second period both teams chased the puck up and down the rink for fifteen mini Then Smith got the puck on ® rebound from Harman and scored for the Irish-Americans and tled the score. That was the only goal of the period and an extra period was necessary to decide the contest. Just before the whistle ended the sec- ond period MacKenzie, the Hockey Glud’e centre, turned on his ankle tn a was unable to play in the extra period and Brown was sent in to take his place, Brown showed that he knew much @bout the game, for he took the puck at the face off and dribbled !t down the rink and then shot the winning goal. To do this it took him just twenty seconds, the game has a Columbia team finished lower than second place in the Intercol- legiate Banketball League which was establisiied in 1900, ‘The Blue and White has ca red the championship laurels» times put of eleven seasons, Yate taking the honors thrice and Pennayl- vanwa twice, In fact, Cotumbla has never lont more than three games during A ringle season. So far the year 1913 has proven a de- elded jinx of the smoky, green-hued variety for the locals, With everything favorable for a successful season Danny Meenan, the star left forward and an important mainstay of the five, suffered to hip right foot which will in all probability keep him out of the HMne-up for the rest of the vear | ‘There t# plenty of good, husky material hand at present, but an almost | herculean task confronts Coach Fisher in turning out a first water team since such & disastrous start has been made. Th | nupporters at present ts that the locals fe the 1912 record thts which SPORTS Jockey Club's Action Action in Electing | racing meeting of some sort at the made against them under the provisions chief hope of the Blue and White | team 1 every one of the re-| {!! ING WORLD, TUESDAY, IT WAS A GOOD JOKE ON TOMMY BURNS Copyrimht, 19%, vy The Presa Publishing Co. (The New York World). ING “TOMMY BURNS IN Fee. an O00SAN “AND ALL | the American team whic | toe matches with the Board of Directors Shows | That Members Are Hopeful of Holding Meet at Sheepshead |» Bay Track This Sufnmer. HAT the stockholders and mem- bers of the Coney Island Jockey Club are hopeful of holding a Herbert C, Pell, While the membera, because of the re- cent decision in the Paul Shane case, are hopetui for the prospects of racing character will be made until the Ap- pellate Division of the Supreme Court, Scudder had ordered Shane released the | 6 waa carried to a higher court. This cision 19 expected any day, If the race tracks decide to reopen the meetings will be of short duration, not more than three or four days each week, | © de French, sportemen are) Praiice sa wot be belilud other nations in the | Games, wikich a ih Aud alten in the training an hletes in all trance! formed under the tleularty estrous that prea mien eam ion oF raucee then who . aud Ferner aiftiedt cxamtoation In'athtetion At fs probable that the annual power boat races |. te Bt Avuatine tind other Rlorita moat | i will Attract more enisiay than "tn | thie year, aa the Mth auniversary of the of Ponos de Leon will be and motor boat Aixtur vortant part of Hopkine. Boat (3 Bi. Ag races Wi Weilnentay, Oh aire will Ci ‘Abril 4. io and tein Northern ‘waters number of ve present, Unless he change bin the ntie City homer pen golf, cham))ion Hh not defend sul, DnHOr the Britiall een fo South nest month rida’ oven chainpdona this season, still no action of @ definite | hands down tts decision, After Justice | jj DENDS, NEWSY PARAGRAPHS KINDS OF of whic ty ‘the tia Week twelve or {il be The Crescent which bay. GRP dinateur. The stewards there fides a who te Tor the work Twenty-eecond ‘onl series of roa hit compete in of Bt. were from that each of training and th Sh aimoat affaie at Palm Beach Comet Aefeated Dartmouth of, barketbar) w iy aveore of S010), “the aevtent wa even in the first. half ‘but in thevseceas wore out the ree, ihe ected toward the end. kat throwing enki ‘anne sea (rama gave a. good exhibition of" team work ant piarded@meloscly.” AL the end of the Tliwt half ore p.) 1S to 11 in favor of Carnell. Tie I a eoon ren ing five tore, and then’ Dart mont a, iin sepia ais ae ‘This, how. tren, browgit the Green's spurt to @ clove Coniell forged abead ra Cad nis heir ballots Your, cthall tent ct Jamaten Tigh Reh, rein auch had, ral Ca ‘he da: rely, Tack ‘at ‘the ‘beinaine een it an tina i obtain inet San maining at edule must. b aitate two victories each © vania and Dartinouth and one eae ue Bra jweton and Cornel, Yale having se- ‘he lengua, will nec: mes on the intercoleptate Th: a ‘or Pennayl-| whlch Chay tecetved on the’ fer ihe game, the tert in mee stsinst ta ao" * Today merbors of the New Tork Aeulette crit that he r fovited to take pi Jen! at this eariy yeason f Company F second and C ok 4 played tackle leat yew int Two CHAMPIONS ENTER FOR SUBURBAN QUARTER. Frank Riley, Chairman of the Athletic Committeo of the Knightsof St the six char hia best condi 120-128 Nassau St, OUT TO-DAY ALGARY C Mere mmo" Te Cauaary ALser GOSSIP rit ub basket Athletic DAK alwaya beet fast combinatt Grescent's ctusbare competitors. There will, be no. tavitation tourname Shinnecork Hills y next . reasnn is becw SeetTwontis ant tothe, cure an ust ‘oan of the 6 Regiment athletes bh any {How the Yale «au seventh Regiment on Jan, %. rr) | all team, alt flat fight soine heavyweight for ten rounds a'one uf | other at PI JANUARY 14, 1913 BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK Big Heavyweight Anxious to} Battle at Columbus, O., on March 17, His Birthday. BY JONN POLLOCK. UTHE M'CARTY, claimant of the iL white heavyweight championship title, {8 going to Nght again in two | months, despite the fact that his man- ager, Billy McCarney, has repeatedly sald that he won't permit McCarty to box any one until July 4. MoCarty be-! gan his season of theatrical engage- | ments with a boxing exhibition at Den- ver last night, and before he went to his dressing room he made the an- nouncement that he hag decided to 0. on March 17 and an- yurgh for alx rounds prob- ably on Feb, 2. MoCarty said his rea- son for wanting to fight at Columbus on Maroh 17 was because it is St. Pat- rick's Day, but also because !t ts his birthday, at Columbus, ‘There will be no more boring boute alierations yich dato a matel he is-day plerele, race opened the velodrom: A staat cv atarted, in. Soting ther Amer ur aod Woe and Root aud T lively, pace, 117 rey (re tullea). being ‘core ered inthe fimwt three hours an, Boil nes, Anthony, yerterday received the entry of two of mptons he has invited to the Suburban Quarter, which wil] be the feature of the Knimhts Anthony games at the Fort They Melvin Sheppard and Jim them had alr that he exp om for this a Ira 2 West Rosenberger, the two focal champtons With the entries came letters saying dy started to be in nto helteve Daven- 424 St | t their detween in Pitts! he hat umlee no irene tow them to Dring off these mizal ian mu BOX with each oid rs aust do the Sam Langton, the colored heavyweight who sy many fights in Australia ductog the lam yur months, is now on his way back to this ‘Sam, accompanied hy hie manag’ hie hdoago tle Leavy wel v patra ont tahoe J, Tortorish, the fight promoter af New Or- , hea fust made an enncancement to the ot. @ pike ol g5,000 OF between Johinay Couion, the aod Hrankie Burne, of treaty-round bout Dantamveight champion, jace just acrow the river boat ‘ive ‘weeks, “tony Netanager of Burus, bas already accept for ils tae n Jocat ht ea ft next, mont ubane tor tie ‘This Addrese Means Something |e” REMEY’S \!! Ballroom Dances Guaran- “teed in 5 Private io sons and 4 \ la Boo! ner ene SEH Tes Feteone Teese TRE fe REMEY SCHOGL for DANCING 915-017-010 Kighth Av., or, 54th L Private Lesion se mens ADIN UM i LYCEUM Ye 2k “e Brilsant Ont a [B,WARNER | 1 BLAcHnnos St. Patrick’s Day by Boxing JAN. 13 LUCKY DAY FOR BOXER FRANKIE BURNS. NPW ORLEANS, Jan. 14.~The thirteenth day of 193 was a lucky day for Frankie Burns, the Jersey City boy, He .ot only won the de- cision over Battling Reddy of New York tn a ten-round contest at the Royal Athletic Club, but at the con- clusion of the bout he recetved a tele- nm telling him that an eight-pound baby boy was born to his wfle in Brooklyn just about the time he was entering the ring here. Mother and child are doing well, so Frankle should not worry about the preserva- tion of the family name. The bout with Reddy was clean and close; neither boy was injured and no Knockdowns were recorded. And, by the way, Burns predicts that his helr will some day be bantam champion, n If he never ts. next Moods Packey MoFartand “has a bent ge vaent sR “ree ve will throw punches at for ten heen arranged betw: terre, punching Biillenelel te Carren, fet Big a This is contest, Aa punching w! ‘The feht, cud manazem of San‘ Francis galy wif anomy where for toute are fuss, et nt men, Are eae never stop hea once. ‘and Meck to, permit an man t ‘the sat their shown. on even. secon’, fourth ei une Boite an, aa the better work, oo t was Donovan's ith his opponent, AMUSEMENTS. fot. way, & Sat. ENA Tot scene Y LYRIC Qvarereiy Vie nae. RA “Hiway CRITERION YissieeWel 8 Hy ROBERT-HILLIARD andiiit nite. FULTON #2." ; Last < THE YELLOW JACKET Wr {St row at ¥ i Hubs ¥ ns Wad fesui, at 216.) i MRS. FISKE HARRIS Winter eae KELLARD as HAMLE eee at 818. 218 war Mat. Pop. Mals LE-STLON ry & Sione” lanis mM FUATHERS® AK Fel mer TLE WOM ASI AY aoe pall Evy Se MANHATTAN 9°. 0, 20st, WHIP’, Base Sat, Mat, THE WEST “END 2%, Messrs, Shubert Diesent 7OLUMBIA GIRLS ‘i URKAY Amateure iy (Seam, EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN = sting lhiwene rai men ‘tes Sokason fot BeSETHS After months of guise, c match hes finally & other Felgiter wh IR" are smears, to take Maloney bored Tommy see Thom's jephant ot Pout ah and Bi ‘Blet m. th Sang as a" the, firth, “adath ions, re tee wands that enabled bit to even ae DAD ¥ ne 39TH ST AE, Nit on oomsdy. THE WOMANOF IT isto fity 48TH ST.7™ Erte 18, Wood, WILLIAM CO OLLIER iy APyme || COLONIAL [Ghia RO: ba ote Os Moe 8, bases =. WAY DOWN EAST " 30 tre a SAM BERNARD eats . E i sie tae HINDLE HWAks CROSS-RIVERS BOUT LOOKS SEASONS SS) Champion Wilfe Wie Fete Wd Reckon With Winner: To-Night’s Scrap. ; Leach Cromp an@ Jee Rives to-night at the Empire. This ie the: important lightweight Dowt hetd dm York since the MoFarland-Wells hae beaten many of the dest ligt in the country. He fought Welgast & double knockdown, and the Ploked Wolgast up and held him og tie feet while he counted Rivew Rivers, and his friends, claim Wolgast was knocked out oy a Ga punch, and that Rivers was é¢oule® However that may be, the Memteng missed a title by the narrowest margin and those who saw him fight detlerd that he would surely defeat Wolgasl / if matched with him again, The Mexican, so-called, 19 @ | Son, born In Los Angeles, an@ ts | Spanish descent. He is another Awretin) Herrera in everything but his personal habits, Herrera drank a bottle of witty! key a day and fought like a wildest ef jlong as ho lasted. Rivers drinks | water—nothing else—and fight Herrera, Leach Cross, the New York doy, ty worthy opponent for the Mexican @¢ any other lightweight, Cross has maa good In many a hard fight. He hes of good fighting brain as well as two hands, with plenty of courage and durance on the side. His chances ag good as that of the famous Mex! The boy who looks best to-night probably have something to say Wille Ritchie, champton, painciaseiane <edenenen Cutler Defeats Irving. A Cutler School defeated Irving at basketball on Cutler's court : day by @ score of 17 to 7. The firet was exciting, Cutler leading, 5 to 1, in the second half the Irving went to pieces, Brunner of Cutler wat the star of the game. He scored fw field goals. nena } SEMI-ANNUAL REMNANT SALB $18 i $5 er seit ie Your chance to buy Vacker silt Oto oumniet OK Whitney. Re ghtlon carventer of made - to - measure $1 suits at less than one-half their worth, | Amus ee bdt2 BELASCO¥, #15. bar Mat Davia LIC Sst ie Wa t a GooB rite et ) Maurice BIJOUL ite a || STAR vit $e, hogs Gavetyfa:: BEAUTI Gayety ear a howe ‘Willtamaburg ROADWAY GIRI