The evening world. Newspaper, March 25, 1913, Page 16

} ( t UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY Meavyweight Crop Biggest if Not Best the Ring Has Known i i ! i EE s s z z : i On i : F fought é FORA SS be to be the Jeffries of next year, ing Johnson. Weighs 28 etripped. G mons in hitting ability. Perhaps he is destined It te quite possible that even now he'd have & good fighting chance against the fad. Ho is ix feet three and UNBOAT SMITH ts another un- known of a few months ago. Smith has come to the front in Great strides. He is almost a Fitssim- No doubt he is fully as good a fighter as Fitzsimmons ta was at his age. Even the great Fitssim- ‘mons fought his way to the top slowly, meeting top-notch middieweights and heavyweights for years before he finally ‘wrested the heavyweight title from Jim Corbett. Smith weighs twenty pounds more than Fitzsimmons at his best. His And there's Jesse Willard, a etanding six fect ax, splendidiy built in Preportion, strong, wiry and young. Wii- lar6 has great reach and terrific Power. He is a novice in form, ern “hopes.” Another giant is Fred McKay, giant, hitting but he te learning fast. Hie size makes him ene of the most formidette of the mod- fas tall as Willard. McKay is not get- ting as early a start as the which counts against him, but ®@ great wallop. others, bas A modern Tom Sharkey may be found in Soldier Kearns, who would been @ first-class “hope” before thi other “phenoms” of the year appeare: y to the have top, Kearns is boxing every day, try- ing to add skill to his great strength. He has a punch too. He {s a professional r7 the ring may claim him for good but in the Rear future, He at least looks like @ “hope.” F Jim Stewart, Carl Morris, Jim Savage, Tom Kennedy and sev- eral others who were in the lime- Ught a few months ogo ittle te heard to-day. The first two are fighting out West. Palzer, beaten by MvCarty, is in Paris. Another big fellow who will watohing uw Jim Coffey, Giant. Within a week, knocked out two other ambitious the recently, bear Dublin he heavy- weights, Arthur Pelkey and Jack Mo- Farland. Coffey is a powerful young- ster, growing every day, over alx feet tall, weighing over 2) wide, loose shoulders, long arma, Pounds, with strong ody and light legs. He has speed and is becoming very clover, To-morrow night he meets Rodel, a ‘hope’ " trom South Africa. When it's over there may be one less hope, but the survivor will De good enough to list with the Mo- Cartys, Smiths and all the rest. Besides these newcomers in the heavy- weight ranks there are scores of others all over the country, big farmers, cow punchers, miners, sailors, jum! fronworkers, and perhaps some one of along and upset all the 8 Of the other ambitious ones. think the prediction is coming truc, ‘these will come fighte few ta the following strain: N.Y: bermet HVE had some letters trom who claimed to be un- Fecognised champions, but very Takes Giants THE EVEN Ten Innings To Beat Houston Because Matty “‘Lob Texans Make Their Only Runs During Six Innings Giants’ Star Stays in Box. Dodgers _Beat a Augusta, Ga., March 3. Dodgers is now a matter of bit tory. After frequent postponements the two clubs finally got together, and the ‘doys from Brooklyn won in a romp by & acore of 7 to 1. Cobb, the only Tiger holdout, was the ‘whole show for the losers. He covered firat and captained the locals. He got two of the five hits made oy his side. Nap Rucker, the Dodgers’ star twirler, Pitched the first four innings and only allowed two hits and held his opponents scoreless. Mobile Frank Allen, Dahlen's young southpaw, was the hero of the game, ‘The southpaw twirled the first five in- nings, and during the time be occupled the box he fanned eleven of the All- rwians. ‘2 team made was Regotiated in the first inning. It was) made off Allen, before the southpaw had settled down to work. After Ferris had who played third for the All- hit @ sharp grounder to hortstop booted the ball and both players were safe. As Cobb walked to the plate the 8s Them Over’’ he! had @ wonderfully quick break it. ‘This youngster is showing up better in every game works in and Coach Robinson predi that he will make Great pitcher for MoGraw. Goulait te etfll @ ffttle nervous with runners on the bases, but he will get over that in & Iittle while. Ty’? Cobb’s Team crowd cheered him for fully a minute, The Detroit “holdout” reaponded with a ling single to left and Gion crossed There was a misunderstanding before the game as to whether Rucker would Pitch for Cobb's side. Dahlen left it to “Nap” to decide and the southpaw con- sented to pitch the first four innings. As Rucker went to the box ithe erowd applauded him. stration followed when Na Moran swing at the first ball across the plate. and Moran miesed it by nearly a foot. Ruoher pitched effectively and held his team mates to two hits in the four innings ‘that he officiated in the box. The one run scored by Cobb's team in the first gave the All-Georgians tho lead until the sixth chapter. In this inning the Dodgers jolted the bali hard and slammed out four runi k Ragon t for the Dodgers and allowed the All-Georgians only two hits, Leo Callahan, Buck Wheat and Short- stop Fischer were the batting stars, Mahan made a double and followed this with & triple againat the right field fence. Wheat and Fischer each got triples, Chase and Chance in Game. Hamilton, Bermuda, AL CHASE'S and he'N get into the game at second base for the Highlanders against the Skeeters to-day. In his workout yesterday he moved about with his old-time agility and declared that he was in fine physical form. Manager Chance's lumbago, thanks to Trainer Barrett's massaging, has entire- ly disappeared and {t is likely that he also will take up his duties at frst bat Against the International Leaguers, hance gave his'team one of the hardest work-outs since the Broadway Boye invaded the island. In the morn- ing the Hilltops had several hours of batting practice, with the pitchers taking turns in the box. A seven-in- ning contest between the Regulars and the Yannignns was staged in the after- noon before a large gathering. The first team carried off. the honors by the count of 2 runs to 0, One bright feature of the game was the mid-season twirling of the Big City. Mr. Edgren, I am tn + @ hurry to come to New York. But can I make money at all? The “Knockemn ung on me once, Have boxed me ike Battling Hurley, Sammy Trott, Billy Wagner, Johnny Creeley, Kid Hohan, etc, The price we get jn the Wert ranges from one to three centuries, Could a boy like me pick over any money in N. Y.? Very respectfully you DICK Coy, Pittebure. On Coy's letter head ts the line a World Beater But Worth a Chane Judging by his letter he deserves to get the elongated southpaw secured by the Highlanders from the Savannah Club of the Southern League last #eason, Schults pitched the full seven innings and hold the second string of players to four scattered hits. Chance was elated over the perform. ance of the southpaw, Schultz had tremendous speed in to-day's contest and his fast-breaking curves had the Yannigans nearly breaking thelr backs trying to connect with the ball safely. The Regulars found Ford's Spitters for eight singles. Russ held the first team blanked until the fourth chapter: In this ine ning three hits and an out produced the first run of the con est Two singles and a sacrifice hit gave the requlars their last run in the next ine ning. —>——_—. Britons Coming Here tor Big Meer LONDON, Mareh %, tein that the invitati ford and Cambridge by Yale and Han vard to visit America this year and pete In a dual track and tleld mect will be accepted, It is sald on the bas: of authority that the Oxford and Cam. bridge committees are tn favor of their. athletes making the trip to the States, ani that when they consider the Americ ~It ts almost cer- xtended to Ox. of the trip. Alse Nelson, the Cambridge A, C., will company the combinad team, English athletes pelleve that while the Americans are able to put excep. tionally strong men on the fleld. Oxford and Cambridge have rarely, if ever, had the chance of sending such good repro. sentatives for all ten events on the pro- «ramme, and the fifth meeting of the four universities will consguently be epecially mcereating. EVERYBODY'S HUNTING FOR A WHITE ING WORLD, TUESDAY, MARCH 25, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK. 1918. HOPE, Copyright, #13, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), Giants Will Start Games Polo Grounds. Earlier at | First Six This Season Will Be- gin at 3.30 o’Clock, the , Remainder at 3.45. By Boxeman Bulger. F Gfteen minutes or a half hour ] means anything to fans in getting home to dinner the New York chap- ter of the great American order should breathe @ sigh of relief. The first six Bames at the Polo Grounds will begin at 390 this season. The Giants wili then take @ ehort trip. When they re- turn the games will begin at 3.45 and will continue that way until the fall, when they will again start at 3.30. There will be little need for the late change, however, as Mc ws team will be ploughing through the West dur- jng the latter part of Septenvber and early October, This arrangement about the time for opening has been submitted to the Highlanders, and they are satis- flea, ‘ All of last year the fans fumed and fretted about starting the games af 4 o'clock, but Mr. Brush hesitated about making a change in @ custom that had maintained for @ quarter of a century. He declined to start as early as 2 o'clock, though many of the fans voted for that hour, The new rule of starting at 3,30 in the spring and 3.45 during the summer is in the nature of a compromise, If it 1s successful we may yet get the games started at 3 o'clock, they do in Boston and Chicag BRITTON'S $2,300 OFF ON LEGAL VOYAGE When a fighter changes managers he sometimes gets into trouble, and Jack Britton realizes this fact now. Britton recently tried to box Packey McFarland at the Garden, and being defeated wasn’t bad enough, but his end of the gate re- celpts was attached for 0 by John Costello, who claimed the Chicago scrapper was in his deit for form managerial services, Then that $2,500 started on one of th taken by money, and coin goe# pi fur sometines. The first changing oc curred when Dan Morgan, who is Brit- ton’s present manager, assigned his clal over to Dr. Creamer, Under the attac ment proceedings the money went to the Sheriff, ‘Twenty-five hundred dollars ia a lot of ven for a sheriff to guard, Julius head police officer of the bout such coin in Brition, Morgan, sted by lawyers, and Costello, alsy represented by | tnio his offces yest much mooted contro’ longest tri Sherif! and a atitied he was La snd told he 1 to hin, Willian naker for the Garden Ath- lotic Club, enlighte the busy little Sherif and the jury how matches, and espectaily the Hritton-MeFarland bout, are consummated. After several more witnesses: heard, Sherif! Harburger in ordered that room wht wet on the a few ming delid- eradion, ordered the money to Britten, made Givson, match was w slarton tones be « They'll Fight at Kenosha, the Winner to Be Matched With Bill Papke. BY JOHN POLLOCK. FTER months of dickering @ match has been arranged be- tween Eddie McGoorty of Osh- kosh, Wis., and Jimmy Clabby, the fast and clever middleweight of Milwaukee, who has done some great fighting, both in this country and Australia, during the last eighteen months. The men will come together in a ten-round bout at & mow to be brought off at Kenosha, Wis, the early part of next month. The weight at which they will fight is 158 Pounds, welgh in at 6 P, M. The win- ner will be matched to fight Billy Papke for ten rounds at the same club the last week in April. jone Bice Game 13s bean owe (Nn NY Now Charley Qfurphy claims that the early start has helped his business wonde: fully, He wanted to’start this season at 2 o'clock, but the stook market crowd in Chicago raised such @ protest that he went back to his old hour. Jef Smith, the mildiewcizht of Bayonne, XN, J, who has not lost a fight since he went to Paris, bee been signed up for two more bouts over there by hie manager. Al Lippe, His first scrap will be Pith Adrian Hogan, the middleweight of for twenty rounie at the | fee Made aad ate Mac eame club y in * ioral . Boxing shows will be vermittal in the Nevada tn the future, for Gov, Oddie signed the bill allowing ten-round bout Ucense fee of $100. lefore affixing hi to this bill, the Governor signed the law which calla for finish figh arena is to be built at Heno, w Dortant fights will be decided, piben, MoRetrick. mai ick coming, Dan claims that Herb the, Auaalfin hearyweight, never: fought Jeanett> -round draw Paris, and that Synnot this report in Bogan for the purvose of jen. she comes John Murphy has a large force of men at work on the Polo Grounds, and eays everything will be in perfect shape for the exhibition game with Yale one day before the season opens. The outfeld, which 1s built on top of a soggy spot, has Oeen raised @ foot and resodded. is gow lke @ billiard table in emooth- ness and color, The new clubhouse for the Highlanders !s almost ready for oc- cupancy. The interior fittings will be put in this week. The new clubhouse is built around a steel frame and will be one of the most modern around the | rounds, cirouit. After this season, when the Highlanders move to their own grounds, the new clubhouse will be used by the visiting teams in the National League. | L The old clubhouse set apart for visit- | \ State of has oper the im. er of Joe Jeanette, has a Leo Houck, the ruggal middleweight of Lan: caster, Pa, fighter who will be a) le, will first meet for six rounds at Thursday night, ‘alle ‘ou April 10 he will exchange Wwalkips with ors was never a thing of beauty and a| Jack Dillon of Indianapsiis st the sume ciuby Joy forever. It will be abandoned aft A heavyweight from Canada will make an at- this season. tempt to wake good in a bout in is city at the e New Polo A. show on ricki ight. He is Antoine Pollet, French-Cat ¥ 9 shows 80 as to have plenty of room for] slisvine ‘whieh “vei ‘credit "for toaregn morning practice McGraw and Chance | B2kouts. Pollet’ will meet Jack Tenbrook, the will get together as soon as they ai rive in town and arrange a schedule of hours, It is possible that the two teams will work together, but that may prove unsatisfactory in the long run. ‘The idea now is for one of the clubs to work from 9.30 until 11 o'clock and the other from 11 until 12,30, It ts AMUSEMENTS, NEW YORK IRE cy tinees Wed. Ma LIBERTY HALL = Jo KNICKERBOCKER, 1 Eres. Dypbrs Matinees W ‘ON likely, though, that many a private interleague series between the young | J in THE St INE aren, fellows of the two teams will be played| | LYCEUM 43th St., nr. bs'way, Matinces Thurs, H. B. WARN THE CONSP during the coming summer morning: THE Gugey BREAKER, Morgan, Creamer & Co. The Sheriff breathed easier after being relieved of the responsibility of guarding $2,500. The defendants won't get their hands| | CRITERIONG."3),& sf 3 on the money, however, for Lawyer ROBERT HILLIARD Goldsmith, representing Costello, an- nounced his intention of giving bond for the money and bringing the suit up in civil court, In about two weeks that much-travelled $2,500 will start on an- other jaunt, and it's no telling who will be its ultimate owner. Rat. ICH Gi ———___ TRAINING NOTES OF OTHER TEAMS. rrr E Mats. Wed. WHAT HAPPENED 1 _ With OLIVE WY BIG LEAGUES. MOBILE, Ala,, March The Detroit won the farewell game with the Mobile to 4, Dutuo pitched the firet five innings and Waa i Aid not allow the Gulls @ hit, Veach got two | | New Amsterdam \\,.$°43') 4", singles and a two-bagger. The Tigers left last ! ! alaht for Montgomery, where they will play t 0 $ ames with the Southern Lea ° J Sane elty, y Hiway & 40th mi, Evenings 8. GATETY Aine el dpc ta Sateat DURHAM, N. ©, March 25,-—Manager Dooin nominated himself to pinch hit for Dodge in the ninth inning and the two bagger which be clouted ed the Phillies to beat Durham.d to 4, Scott, ung vitoher, who has veen working for two month and had mideeavon spel and control, was fa “STOP THIEF” GLOBE | e by ORE, she Jui The Lady of the slipper, hart for the Quakers, Wild Hill Donovan, for. = = er for ‘the Detroit, umpired the rey) He ts man: ‘of the t vate" zumeerc Hammerstein’ s ;." HOT SPRINGS, Ark.” March 25.--The fourth y game of th relub series vetween the caam. ton Red Pittsburgh was won by the; he team by we son AT to 4 The Kel) when five men crowed she Dee Virates out ber of hits, Hearickson ted im batting, with tliree | ty, while Yerkes and. lanvrin each’ made to Hoffman, Miller and Wuson figured prominentiy fu batting for Pitteb ir) OLUMBIA "2, ‘ GINGER GIRLS "4, URRAY HILL Ama ny) Lousy » now. ogee Salevoa,. tie former pitcher, wha had @ trial with the Athietica, a mo wearing @ Louisville yuilorm, ” " it the cleverer, f ling | | At the show of th nair| Plahting Kennedy m '9| rounds and | | |LA NAPIERKOWSKA EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN Bume of PUGNAciTy, L RGAO IN THE CRYSTAL GLope west bon will After next Monday Maton wilt ¥ \yinge 1 fabons vers, in ten-round bout rrey Kelly od J & BRLANT FuTuRe HE 16 Tuers’s No money IN TeLKIWe DOTING PARENTS ThaiR SOWS Wie BE PRESIDENTS, Now -a& - OAYS McGoorty and Clabby Will Meet Next Month en ee ie . & 4 sar te Mette attention aS Shey will thald eho Wein Jackson Ys, @ | his varsity rece! Jess and Badie Mo- management of the 3 out to wer nen give thelt iting A. ay ot i Bi — and White five, perfor Hie i COLUMBIA WILL OPEN SEASON TO-MORROM St. John’s Nine Has Honor of Starting Ball a-Rolling on South Field. With the St. John's nine as opponents the Columbia baseball team will open. the 1918 season at 8 o'clock to-morrow on South Field, Coach Billy Lauder has not yet made definite selections for roster, so that several can- didates will have the opportunity of showing their ability. In the absence of Coach Billy Lauder yesterday afternoon, Capt. Ted Kiendl directed the practice, which consisted of a short five-inning contest between a picked varsity nine and the “scrub Sondy O'Neale, ast year's lanky right: nder, was in the box for the varsity and kept the three hits which he al- lowed well scattered. He received fair support from the infield while his out- field came through without a single. muff. Undergraduates and others who were onlookers at the p ‘tice on South Field yesterday had the chance of watching Danny nan, star basketball for ward and captain-elect of the } ‘or the varsity nine In left field. Meenan covered his territory well and pulled down several hard files. If ‘is hitting me to a reasonable standard, it is kel: that he will land a regular berth this season. Following the St. John's game to- morrow will come the C. C. N, Y. team on South Field Saturday afternoon and Colgate the following Tuesd: come Rutgers, April 5; Amhi April William a if $: Union, Ste *, April 16, and Harvard, hus the first n nearly half of the schedule, are to he yed at home, so that the locals will [have an excellent opportun'ty of devel *Voping good form for their out-of-town games. In all there are nineteen games Packey Hommey, the local fighter who ont- mnéadule lated Tommy Houck tak ten-tind home at ths | On the schedesi Fite" om Saparday ight, will meet it Sterapred t a bont of e Bron Gyenasium A.A. tonight, Hesiter ths | Rodel and Daly Be fp there Will be two ix and to fowr round com | YOUNGSTOWN, star id — frie, 3 When jo Welds, the English Nehtweight | twelve sors oa chumplons “strives fers from” 'Bnataneheeie | tretvesu:nd Tisdet Nada Naver Mie Beate cme gidermomming be will | Knack of taxing Dan miss ls eat bons by eotme have wi the Roglish lightweight, chamion- | freak motion of his eat t rk of bis Leas ship Delt be wog by defeating Matt Wells for, she ttle atthe '§ ae ting ti et : er ion “ , ; Flephant Bowling Alleys formation to Harr: Pollok by a wirelew niessage fore Rine Gow tasadee, Fight Results | BRISBANE, round draw, Langford won by a their fourth battle. SYDNEY, N. 8. W. mere of Sngland knocked Los Angeles in the nine! uled twenty-round bout, ‘The knovk knockdown that dazed Baling Larry Reo teo-round go to entitle him to the honom, The | In the other two men fought hand all te March %.—Sam knockout. out Frank mit follow he final bell MeVey and Sam Langford fought a twenty- In thelr previous match | Tt wai March 25,—Johuny Sum. atoo of round of a ached: ‘Summers was at all times | ele heavy lem, of thei ten-roued bouts, Joe Shears, the Englivi bantam. weight, defeatel Lon Stinger of Ihila le Bob Deery knockea out i round with a beavy right h inability to use bis rigit hand because of a Injury, McMahon showed once cay sending him to the flo jcajypedd Pashes Taylor in the f ( ‘ming on the jaw, | pit by recen! sn the eariy wit Davig im the stomach, ar, re USEMENTS. 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