The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1913, Page 16

iu: bE “where real Place at the Garden, March 7.) Is Copyright, 19 {The New York World) N a little over a week, March 1, Packey McFarland and Jack Britton are actually going to box—unexpect- 4 circumstances nots preventing. We @tea't making any positive statements Ghent this fight until the boy: ring. thematical experts might Ja Ctting week trying to figure out the rape Of the printers’ ink spread over of perfectly good white paper— the past couple of years—an- McFariand-Britton engage- out. it seems itkely Promoters have both fighters ink, in their own handwrit- @ notary public, under oath, he official seal on the foot of the even witnesses, red sealing @ red ridbon outeide. There by The Pres Publishing ( that the long looked for match may be Pulled off at last—to the great relief of @U parties concerned, including the pal- pitating pubic. And, yes indeed! This will. be some ecrep-4f, es 1 sald before, Packey "¢ break a leg or Britton fall down March 7. be eome scrap! Ite the | wipe out the memory of i i i i HN other expe it things up. just cted to do, we'll all be TPackey end Jack fetl to i this way: Boxers who meet MeFariand are usually very much in @we of him before the bout begins. They go out and fight about half as Well ab they might inet some other with less reputation. If they Bappen to be pretty good men they do @ Yet of running around and covering Up, and then all we eee ls McFarland @ fine exhibition of dancing. Britton is a different sort of a at is clever enough and fa te at’ im one ring, neither willing to be wp." nether having the slight- trace of a yellow streak in hie ition, and it's sure to be some- better than a dancing competition, if McFarland and Britton do fall Uke MoGoorty and Gibbons and © aumber of other clever fellows too Well matched and in deadly fear of @0@ other, it'll be about time to turn owe “star” attractions and go to sce The fittle bouts at the email clubs, action ts guaranteed at vey dow. ERMUDA," says Frank Qhance, “has as good a climate for training purposes as Southern w i to New York ball teams, It's @ short trip, whereas Ca‘ifornia ts a away by rall; a tresome, 3g : f ; @ nice short ride, surely, Had card from Leachie Cross a ago, post-marked Bermuda. eald Bermuda was lovely. In was thinking of staying there jt feast until somebody bridge or subway across to the e hj i x LL the laghtweights are talking @bout fighting Mexican Joe Riv. 4. In these optimistic dayw no- pays any attention to the old “Never cross rivers until you reets are full mud, professional ball piay- starting their training for the pummer basevall on @ellege football men are beginning zee the fall football season. And @eme people have an idea that pro- @thletes work harder than MEBRE'S one thing Rube Marquard @annot be accused of, even if he ose refuse to come to terms with T can state positively, did ip Jeff's training camp at Reno, 8 expense, secretly bet his money Johnson and then go into Jaf. @erner end act as one of Jeff's 4)8IG STABLES HAVE ENOUGH UP-TO-DATE LAND NEwSY Caliternis, and it offers one dig ad-|!! al that we have so much the f THAT "THonPE Trorpe ~Trorpe” Ate THe Time * Gems My Gear, THAN HEAVEN HE'S IN CHANGED MY. MIND = Dve - OUTSMOKING! p Brand New Kind of Racing to Start on Local Tracks Shortly There Will Be Betting, Too, but in Modified Form, Without Sug- gestion of Bookmaking and Its Evils. 'T ts n hereabouts. agree, at a meeting within a week, just It ts order of things, The racing public, however, can't ex- Dect to see the thoroughbreds run un- Ger tho old conditions—far from it. It ie the plan of the Jockey Club, by the racing associations, to give the sport a brand new birth. The start, Necessarily, will be on a emall scale As soon as racegoers become educated to the new conditions the sport wilh be steadily extended to ot tracks. CO-OPERATION OF A88OCIA- TIONS THE PLAN NOW, The future success of the sport of Ieinge will be in the hands of a few owners, men who are to eusiain Anancial joss. The races will be mostly in the nature of sweepstakes, with per- haps one vig feature stake @or each meeting. As the sport grows the num- ber of rich etakes will be increased, One feature stake race, the classic Futurity, may be retained. Although it te oti) unsettled, this famous race will ture of the Sheepshead Bay track. It Is the present plan to minimize the betting feature es much as possible, but it fs @dmitted that betting is @ necas- aity if for no a sort of & barometer fhether one bets or not, known recing of to know the preferen Di that with the game on again that bet- tors will be permigted to run rampaat in their desire to back thelr oholoes, On he contrary, the epectacular speculation will in a great measure be wiped out. It 1s doubtful if even the latitude that Paul Shane took, and on whoso arrest and trial hinged the sport's future, will ‘de permitted. But personal detting of the oral variety cannot and will not be stopped. Professionals, however, whoee sole business at the track was to lay and play, will not be tolerated, “Racing must re-grow as it were,” said the official quoted above, “and it will grow under the new, healthful oon- ditions, It will grow as a aporting spec- facie; @rOW am baseball hus grown, with the bugaboo of arrests for betting en- tively remoy on the subject of the Jockey the info; d out the dit. powers and all courses, grants Licenses and ex elses authority over th when such action seems racing associations bodies owning the tra are made up of agociatio ft ie nothing untisunt. for never to go neur a race tracks involve a big ou in rea! estate values many officers Gone in for the commercial end. Continuin, take place at a few trnoks, hoad Bay will never see another run- ning. Officers of the Coney Island Jockey discouraged over tho kitting of racing and have of- Tt is be Neved that a handsome bid has been made for the celebrated track and that it may shortly be eold for building pur- Club have become fered their property for sale. Pores. ton of nder the Wow AND We'tt wave A RESTS almost a certainty thet horse racing will be resumed in New York some time after May 2. But for the ¢act that the Jockey Club has sanctioned Meetings In the Bouth lasting until then the aport might have started earlier The whole matter is up to the racing associations and it is for them to Uy understood, however, to Aqueduct, with its fine long str Belmont Park, will go the honor of holding the first meeting under a brand new sage McKay Wins Bout} ie racing authority eal | ven wai that the revival of racing would only|T It {9 pos- sible that the famous course at Bheepa- 7 THE EVENING WORLD, aetenentenenemsiaienhtbannedbanmetineemna ae ademnaee eaten EST _FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1018. SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK IT’S WORSE THAN THE MEASLES! Your’ Parer,sin, See THORPE KNOCKED ouT A Home RUN _ \ Yesterbay- 7 MARGIN -~ 0. Yopine, Me Home 6 Sanivit a WHAT DID. An Thomee € Do Tovay ? ~ Copyright, 1913, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). WHEN THORPE HE 7’ ing Some: TOMARLIN ‘Mvset F. SEE THAT *GuY After May 20 tract. Tilly Shafer, highly of the epeedy Californian. | | Shafer could because he ts independently wealthy. fal until where the first meeting will be held. *|MGRAW HAS PICKED LINEUP FOR GAMES the meeting will be extended to Belmont Park, and then possibly io Saratoga, R. Wilson, own oF the Sarstoga Seeks now at Aiken, , and his intention: @bout reopening hia course haven't been learned as ye! Many thoroughbreds are no European tracks, but there are o ficient number remaining in country to give a good shi , John E. Madden ae ‘the James R. Keene estate will have to bear the brunt of ¢ backs at the tart, Without the toad 0 race for considerable lone will be felt by the horse owners, ‘Dut it Is Delteved that these turf own- ers would gladly shoulder vicissitudes in order to get racing back. Conse- quently, the future runnings will be] MARLIN, Tex., Feb. 28.—Manager Mc- in the hands of a few and the emall/Graw has chosen the lineup for the fry that pestered their way at ings will be Pitchers That Will Be Used by Giants Will Be Drafted from Rookies. team that will face Dal and Sunday, The team will be made up to-Inorrow ebaence. etill another drop fan's cup of happiness, for it t@ reported that the new State Racing Commission Gov. Sulser will shortly appoint is favorable for the resumption of horse racing under modi- fled betting conditions. On reliable authority it is reported that the new board will consist of William E. Lewis, Charles Kohler and Montague Gerrans. wares In spite of the soggy condition of Em- men out on the field in the afternoon |: and the team which will meet Dallas| ,. ‘was turned lo against a mixed aggre- ation of col and won easily in five innings, 12 to With One Ha: ‘With hie right arm eo badly ingured that he was unable to use it, Fred Mo- Kay, the big heavyweight from Winnt- peg, Manitoba, managed to outpoint Ar thur Pelky of Chicopee, Mass., in a ten- round bout at the show of the Forty- fourth Street Sporting Club. MoKay waded into Pelky from the start and k for fifteen wafties, though the two vet erans were horribly supported. The losers made only three hits off Goulait, Bader and MeGraw. Five more members of the Highiander band which leaves for the Bermuda camp tovinorrow have drifted {iio (ow. They are George McConnell, Claude Derrick, the promising young ghortatop; Al Schulz, the crack left- put Jack Hogan of to sleep in the first round. Hogan wan completely outclassed by Mc- Cloakey, who dropped him three times with bard wallops on the jaw, ——_———_ Wing Billiard Gam: Williams. Seventeen men will be in the pa that leaves here for the mid-ocean training camp to-morrow. The list com- prises the following: Pitchers Ray Caidwell, Chester Hott, yy 26! George MoConnell, Petriok Green and Afbert Schulz: catcher ‘Wiliams, fret leom Barry, buse- Young, (ry Claude Martin, Douglass Hartt- erin rea, "ios than wiz times ™* | Derrick, Jack = ‘and Bit Bi ‘Bun. th, ee | shade Don't let thie opportunit: 200, cas, oslect. foes, the There are many attractive meet white West had so the ! | ‘The winnere banged Ames and Wiltee WITH DALLAS NINE j= erson Park yesterday MoGraw had his| \ handed twirter from’ Savannah. arn | gor Midkiff, the youngster who fintahed the | ?!! 'aeagon at third base, and Catcher Bob | wi Ine ut Schulz, exclusive Fi h that he sold for $50 to $60, and we will make it for $25. Shafer Accepts Giants’ Terms; Will Sign Three-Year Contract MARLIN, Tex., Feb. 28—Harry McCormick, the great is here with the squad, 1s now the only Glant who hasn’ who was used as a utility on, has at last come to terms with Manager McGraw, and whea he comes here next week from his home in Jos Angeles he will sign a three-years’ contract. This 1s proof positive that Manager Mac thinks Early in the winter Shafer said he would never play again because he wae tired of receiving “scented notes.” Later he declared that he would never play again because of the way his teammates abused Fred Snodgrass for his fatal muff in the deciding game with the Red Sox. to hold out until he got the contract he wanted He was the regular shortstop last mother died, and upon his return from the funeral Arthur Fletcher was in his shoes, and continued to fill them the rest of the season. Priest Birdie Daniels. Pitcher Buck 0’ Sox in Much unfavorable co tract, tue Tearing only Piictier’ Hay “Collins oui tn th Pitcher Or ‘Commission, th tood, Johnny the Bray: fielder barkie | Severoid for the ex.Cub, rained og Headpin Tourney pee ari and Ezra Midkiff, Cree, Just, he ie throug’: with the eational pastime Inch hitter, who ned his con- most of last infletd outfielters Harry Wolter and Bert whose ine" th series Last con. He Overall, “who big tt, ame two! jeruber of and win ‘ago when, a a Feeencly” waa Fetvatated ‘by ‘the National ‘Howtell | count for anything, tho man who 1s really entitled to sympathy !s the gent, * | probably Matty, who was acting ‘The Rede are confident of slgning Catcher | Danker for the ‘paresis’ game when the | wh speguncn in, Los Anaeee who te still on the: tatier will Melonald a ‘the reserve list of obanly eet In Catcher Hank to arrive at A of errs s| Bedeer “tety ree eit 2 ot gS Last Night's Scores. jolie’ No. hee Pe - nie pYoakere,, ton, noe 6, poy 00), Lauter pitcher; | 27; Exclusive Fifth Ave. Styles 2, Worth $50 to $60 at $25 Hp by. and patterns. We will deliver at your convenience. fate econd’ Frow No, 1—Muir, 43; Yen Doll, 84, eels No, 1-z Mult, 43; Ve a iacein Aet hi ve. tailor, any suiting Park Hire. Dunges, 433 lowe, 88; Vix, salen of, Sere tally : I. 1 sie, ee a a Woerth, | fas 71; Ostrander, 2 Ohinan M4: val, ‘Muller, me eae ‘Total, enzel, ‘No. 1—Mull eandou, 27; Gelale, 56; lye dition than they have been In years. Harry Wolter and Birdie Cree, wonderful salaries and new schemes. persons at Hot Springs. baseball WHALOW SWAMPS WERE NOT | pias stuff has got into the bowling game the delegates to the American Bowling Con- gress are asking for the elimination of the “load- ed ball” from any of the sanctioned tournaments. oes off upon reaching @ certain spot dee: Morwin' Boss’=' DID You READ WHAT SIM Dip To MATTY'S, FADEAWAY YESTERDAY ?, ee | CCORDING to a letter rom Frank Chance there will be no bad legs when the Highlanders come back here for the opening exhibition in Ebbet's Field. Frank points out es an Ulustration that his legs are in better con- ‘This will be glad tidings for Jack Lelivelt, The han ground at American League Park almost put them out of business. Arthur Deviin and Al Bridwell have stead- fastly claimed that thelr sudden fall from the Giants was due to the rocklike surface of the Hilltop diamond on the teft field side, putting their legs out of commission, In rmuga the Highlanders have taken the cricket grounds and there ts bare spot on the entire field. This field, by the way, ta twice an large It Is all springy turf similar to that at the Polo Grounds. ton the Hilltop. ‘Ag long as our legs are in shape,” AFRAID OF IT. Just to show that Swat Milligan’s considering @ resolution It ts understood thia ball and blows all the pins off the alley. NO. WE ALWAYS WIPED OFF | money?” was @ natural question, THE STATE. That hailstorm in Marlin must have @ bird, Naturally there is a feel- ing of regret about so many windows being broken, but, if past performances | lights went out. Did you ever make one of those next day settlements? j phoney JOSH KLEM SPEAKS Just for Marlin Josh formation that he had eolved the secret of bawling out an umpire without suffering suspension or fan have just read in the SuinaTe: Must risa le Whe Baer aay ex: Yep tas SAip, Twat’ INJUN'LE Mantel Tee BiaeesT HT IN HISTORY jn NOTES OF A PAID AMATEUR BY BOZEMAN BULGER. Springy Turf at Bermuda, Writes Chance, a Guarantee That High- landers Will Come Back With Sound Legs—More Important Than Arms in Spring. concludes Frank, “we needn't worry about | To arms. That is a secondary consideration.” BUT HOBSON'S RECORD STILL STANDS, Notwithstanding the fact that the Red f0x won the world’s championship last fall, the Boston writers are a little peeved over the fact that the other managers are wetting all the newspaper space for wonderful deeds of daring, The chance came yesterday, however, when they brought out the actual figures to show that Stahl shook hands with 1,42 ‘This, they claim, beats anything in the history of |e baader, schackets and agas-ponims. that hurts @ mi tainly ought to Bs and the best af tt 1s he wouldn't | GETTING AN’ EARLY START. after a fitteen-ball run. { aentially. taking home to my boy, months old to-day. EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN O'NEL SAYS STATE MIGHT PAY REFEREES Boxing Commissioner Sug- gests That to Sulzer’s Inquiry Committee. BY JOHN POLLOCR. | (ROMMISSIONER FRANK 8, O'NETL, iC i¢ chairman of the State Ath- lotic Commission, is in favor of the State paying the referees who of- ciate in bouts held in New York. O'Neil made this declaration to Chalrmaa Car!- isle of the Inquiry Commission after he had shown that the State had made $60,590.83 from boxing since the commis- sion was appointed in Sept. 191. This is the net profit after $9,415 had been de- ducted for the expenses of the commits: | «lon. | In figuring that the 8,000 annually al- lowed the commission for expenses, which Item includes the yearly salary j of $3,500 paid to Charles J. Harvey, the nission’s secretary, is ineufficie This amount,” explained O'Neil’, would enable the State to pay referees and employ enough inspectors. The ref- erees are now paid by the clubs, which miasioner's to perso exhibition in the State, Therefore in- With an allowance the Commissioners might receive a small salary too.” ‘8 are needed, 0 a year Charles Doemerick the enw ma Fortyfourth, Stveet Boorting, « ens amaker of the ha Won, of ireland lie Beecher ‘and. ack jersey City, “ind Tage omu of Bus. wk Bras ofS ore Matty Baldwin, wh> has n for a long time, will be a future, for be tae vewn signed e any fighting Phujgaetunia for 0ig rou of Philadelphia, “Om hook up, with ‘Cy Brows Gymnasium A. night Ine will a aay for A... 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