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a _ Local Sport Followers Will Ask “Mayor Gaynor To-Day for Per- “milesion to Conduct Sunday « Might Boxing Benefit at Madi- 2:80n Square Garden for Flood Sufferers. : Mee ber York ‘rh bai TE above wire was received by Billy Gibson late last night, from : the Governor of Ohio, Mr, Gib- ;@on is chairman of a New York com- jee which will raise funds hero for flood sufferers, Barly in the day he had telegraphed Governor of Ohio as follows: Povernor Cox, Columbus, Onto. At the suggestion of the New York Btate Athletic Commission it ts pro- to conduct an entertainment Consisting of boxing exhibitions, the is to be devoted to the reltef @f the flood sufferers in Ohio and Setters ‘The largest buflding in iter New York will be engaged fer the purpose. Kindly say if thie with your approval and the monfy should be rent. Grenter ew York sportemen are anxious to do their duty. BILLY GIBBON, Chairman. a GIMILAR message was sent to the Governor of Indiana. It te @ well-known fact that egort followers are quick to rempond to te call of the unfortunate. Yesterday the State Athietic Commission disounsed possibility of running a «reat box- eft, the funds to be turned over oe people in Ohio and Indiana who are handling the flood situation. MK Frank 8. O'Netl, for the commis- dof daked Billy Gideon to act as chair man of the deneft committee. Gibson's enews ability to handle large af- of thi ort made him the man for THe jor. je accepted and went to work at once. We should be atie to raise $20,000— perhaps more,” said Giteon this morn- fag. “Sporting people always have been ere] in matters like this. We'll live up te our reputation. I know that every saan interested in sport will give what hp can. *% have already tried to get Madivon @quare Garden for the show. The cir- will be there for a week and a half and the day after they leave Ruf- falo Bill opens I have talked It over with the Garden people, and the only night on which {t would be possible to get the arena and fix the seats the way we have them for boxing shows wii! be Sunday night. “ewe will call upon Mayor Gaynor to- day and put the whole thing up to him. 1€.4¢ 18 possible to vary from the usual jay rule because of this extraordin- amy occasion we will ha’ ir show at thg Garden. It seems this should be a thme when the pressing need of hun- Grede of thousands of homeless suffe: emp should be considered before the ter of the law that was made by legisla. tere who had only the usual run of events in mind when they voted on It. $1 we cannot run our benefit on Sun- a ht we'll have to go to Sul- 1. try to induce the State to allow the une of one of the big armories, would be next best to the Garden “1 @m sending post-haste for the most famous ex-champions and present day champions, and the bem known boxers Mee country. I'll arrange, too, for meetings between two or three pairs of i) matched men. There wil! be ex- i 8 and contests, and probably n® one will ever have an opportunity in to see such @ gathering of famous) ters in one arena, The show ttncl( be worth whatever gate money is Ranged. “Besides that we will have a s agetion sale of boxes, and will ac weatever contributions come in. T treasurer of the committee running the Nenedt will be some well known and le New Yorker. All money received Will be forwarded at once to the officials in Ohio and Indiana.” —_> GOODWIN IN BIKE RACE AGAINST VAN DEN DRIES. UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY te,.to whom your share of | 1 wisn Tuev'D wor ovr ABouT.¢97 THE EVENING WORLD, OUR BUG GALLERY—THE “FIGHT BUG” Copyright, 1918, by The Press Pubiishing Oo. (The New York Wortd). Sue FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1918. _ BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK Gay, 1? Trev a ase one wr SHows J'4 Gai To ‘srany aS thy) PINE Fe FOR, amusemen) Bantams and Feathers Furnish the In Amateur Tournament —. the “Met” Amateur Semi- Finals at N. Y. A. C. ANY of our fistio luminaries M awoke to-day knowing what !t/ciass, Basll was 4s to go through a hard fight. Best Milling was a iitthe of everything. was getting the worst of it, when, in PI of Fi the second, round one of his lenty Action and Fun in eo of many in the basement!” O1, of, how Abe heeded that advice. He let fly a right swing that caught the youth with the funny name flush in the stomach. It was Abdie's bout. Pat Basil and Eugene Headland, both of the Bt. Bartholomew club, had some- ther rugged slugger and Headland a boxer who knew something Discolored mapa and tired mus@les tell] about defensive work. Headland un- the story of how keenly fought were| Overed @ new wrinkle of the Tango in thing interesting to show in thi the A. A. U, champlonship eem!-finals at | sotting away from Basit'e wild swings. the New York Athletic Club. There was action every second. Whem boxers in the bantam, feather, middle, commission vywelght classes were not bat- demons that kept uproar, ting funny stunt Tt waa the second night of the amateur tournament, and the scrappera in five divisions fought for places in the finals to-morrow evening. The amateurs were short of actence, but awfully long on aggressiveness and the way they tore into each pther would make many of the leading professionals sick at heart. Medals are given the winners and they deserve them If only for b houts were Mmited to three rounds Even tn that short time the scrappers invented new punches and dancing step» that mazed the fans. The heavies were reserved for the last and they proved a scream. Charite Tenz, a corpulent gentleman clad in a biack bathing sult, meant to do battle with Al Reich of the Irish-American Club, Mr, Renz should have known bet- ter, He atarted well by tapping his opponent several times on the face. SLAP ON NOSE DISPOSES OF BENX. Benx’s pleasing attack got the crowd, but Reich got him in the first round with @ slap on the nose, Renx w the most surprined man tn the how Only a aecond before he was all sm: but that eltp on the nose made him lke @ baby, and he turned his back on the scene of hostilities, Next bout, In comes John J. Garretson of the Avonta A. C. and G, Gruendler, Some- dody tipped Gruendier off that Garret. son was a copper, “Ha, ha, what do we amateurs for coppers?" de- clared Mr, Gruendler. And he didn't. The Avonia man had a new dumbwaiter punch, He had a habtt of working his hands up and down his atx foot tyo body, once In a while landing them ch Gruendler, The eame Mr. Gruendler meanwhile, wan stinving his big op- ponent ke a bee with short jabs, Gar- reteon Wan as hin tights, but he managed to get the referee's decision ‘Thina were entirely different when Willlam Spengler, 175<pound Met cham pion, began mixing ft with Ro M. Knox, | rhis young man had the cleverness of | y McFarland and quickly out- same class Shaw, a atudy in black and white, knocked) Weber out In the second round with a vicious left to the Jaw that he brought up where from the sub-cellar, ‘The unfortu was a pollcem from the spectators. “Get the wagon, get the wagon," ad- vised the crowd as the referee assisted the defeated would-be fighter to his feet, Weber looked aa if he needed | soem kind of a cony Pat Handy of the t you might know that ‘th that name—disposed of Victor , too, ea correct tmitation of a bull rusher nd he earned the award for aggressive- ness ‘The host milling of the night occurred among the feather and bantam weights h| Feathers Davidson and Chakepry put eh Lup @ strenuous Thetr seconds yelled ike maniace and goon had plenty of company. Abie Davidson was a slugger and Chakopty ery. All! put As Kreen at the game te Weber, because he » didn't get any solace Settlement— nin the middleweight class, Hardy By clever boxign he won the decision, but Basil 444 a lot of heavy club ewing. Bantame Levy and Well proved a couple of bearcats, These two youngatere ey were pulling! wem@ out with the idea of exterminat- big crowd in| img @ach other, and they nearly suc- rmual the little| ceeded, Standing toe to toe the: the real fighting, while| Changed punches until both w Tost out. Levy, the stronger, award. WEFT TESREAU 10 BE GIANTS’ MAINSTAY INBOX THIS SEASON _—— ] NDW ORLBANS, March %.—Jeff Tes reau will undoubtedly be the Giant’ mainstay In the box and the man that will land them the National League pen- nant again, if the trick te turned again, A sample of what he will do to his op- Ponents this season was given !n the game with the Pelloane—the first that the New Yorkers have played in this "| city in several years, In the six innings that the big fellow ;| worked on the mound he yielded but two hite-one of them coming in the first and the other in the sixth—the inning that they scored the only two runs male off him, Warren, the firet_man up, got @ hit off Jeff, but the next fifteen men went out in order, In the sixth three men ot to base, two of them on passes and the thin! on a scratch, but he tried to eteal and Chief Meyer's great throw out him down, An error by Herzog and a ancnfice fly were responsible for the two runs Goulait, the pramiéng recrutt succeed- in the box, and two runs off him right off the reel, j He @ot by the elghth tn: right, but In the ninth the locals came near tying up the «ame, as they scored a |run and had two men on bases when wiait got hinself together and fanned to 5. The Gtanta reg- istered nine hits, #ix of them coming in the first two jnntngs. A Belmont “Notch” collar in white striped Madras, It’s an ARROW COLLAR Ue, 3 for 25c. GIANTS MANAGE TO USE REGULAR LINEUP FOR FIRST TIME THIS YEAR. NEW ORLHANS, March 2. —In their game here the Giants used thelr regular lineup—that ts, the line- up that Manager MoGraw intends to use this season—for the first time. @'ght injuries, failure to catch trains, and the like, have made it impos- @ all the men on the job at the same time before this. 6nod- Grane covered centre, sh: stop, Burns left field, Doyle second ‘vane, Murray right field, Merkle first ‘ase, Herzog third base, Myers and chere, and Tesreau and Goulait, pitchers, and they batted in the order named. The above in un- doudtedly the way the champions will line up in thetr first game of KNICKERBOCKER C CLUB SEVEN ee UNION. 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Six games were playnd between the Highlanders and the Skeeters, and al- though they started off rather poorly the former came back at a surprising wait and won majority of games, taking four agains two for their op- ponents. In the farewell game with the Skeet- was in the battle, but they will undoubt- edly be back on the obj today. Hal Chase was at second and he made two hits and fielded rather well, only mak- ing one miscue. Caldwell and Schuls were used in tho box by the New Yorks. Slim pitched ‘four Innings and not a run was made off him add only two hits. Schuls worked for the rest of the battle and in beallpeky Ghee the Mosquitoes scored thelr | only run, | Marty" MoNale,_a_former_Red_Sox ‘Marty "MoNale, a former Red Sox Youknan We “hat” more than 500,000 New Yorkers every year. Each of our Patrons saves anywhere from 50 cents to $1.50 on every hat he buys. Why not you? ere neither Cree nor Manager Chance|D!tched for the Skeeters and both were A Man Who Wears Arnheim Clothes Said: NOW wees NOW Bee B aes is EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN KIRKWOOD DEFEATED BY YOUNG DRISCOLL AT 44TH STREET CLUB George Kirkwood, the featherwetght boxer of St. Louis, seems to be going back as he lost another battle last night, this time being defeated by Young Driscoll, the clever fighter of Brooklyn, in the main go of a series of three ten-round contests at the For- ty-fourth Street Boxing Club, Driscoll was too fast and shifty for Kirkwood and as a consequence he had the better of seven rounds, He managed to land often and effectively on Kirkwood's body, face and jaw with his ewift ‘abe and swings. In the eomi-final Frankie Wieming of Canada, knocked ewt Jack O'Donnell of Brooklyn, io the third round with o heavy right han@ ewing on the jaw. O'Donnell was substituted for Tommy Buck of Philadelphia, who sent {t was impossible for him to meet } Fleming as he had injured his hand Dodgers on Their Way Home; "inthe ster anewund eu Bie Doyle, a fast little bantam Club P. lays Savannah To- Day mince rene ‘Booty SAVANNAH, Ge, March %.—The Dodgers are on their way home for the opening game of the season In New York, which will be played with the Highlanders one week from to-morrow. Deepite the ¢requent fallure to practise outdoors owing to wet weather, the players are in ood condition, and Manager Dahten te of tho opinion that the High- landers wMl have to hustle to beat them. The Dodgers are echeduled to Dlay the Newarks of the International League here to-day and tomor. row. Also @ Givision of the Dodgers and the Indians is billed to play in Charleston to-morrow. 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