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UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY REI pmt Attell Goes Through Ten Fast and Cleverly Boxed Rounds With Walsh. Doppright, 1918, by The Prees Publishing Ce. {ihe Now Tern World), BE ATTELL went through his @econd “‘come-tack” bout last fight. Jimmy Walsh of Boston es his opponent. THe Forty-fourth @treet Club held a fairly good crowd in @pite of the rival attraction down on ry. Abie showed that bis “fighting aut” ent through ten and cleverly boxed rounds and to show as many varietics and defense es the taw al- one or two specieities that @#e not encouraged by the rules of the to the fifth round Abe had no @évantages. Welsh was in better’ physi- @a} ahape, hie muscles well rounded and ie arm thet enabled him to the punch time and again, Able's head bobbing with @treight Jefte, which Abe returned in hi to sticking his eyes, first the the Walsh pro- to Referee Sammy Kelly. Abe Persistently used the thumb until W: was unable to eee. Watsh turned ‘Back and covered up with crossed arms, calling “Cut that eut—you're Minding me” Then he backed away, and At- f Fs : the ring during the rest of the HbA ill E yar "i rE i z i brit veges ae z 7H fit uate rete rEkE z Leia Hf § 4 put @ mark on me and pieces.” Abie explained and a number of abrasions that be got them through with Rivers. (who, by the way, didn’t show: f & il 4 Teo ov Tue American Secrs, ws Jaca MAuurres THE EVENING ‘WORLD, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1918 AT THE FLOOD BENEFIT TO-NIGHT Copyright, 1913, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). LISTEN ,Wow, GungpoaT ~ Wo HOSPITAL Joa Rivers ann Avon. Tra Tuc PAws onin WiE@aery owe AL UGA TRST REVIEW OF GIANTS SHOWS TEAM 1S PRIMED FOR JUMP ON ALL OPPONENTS Players’ Mid-Season’s Form on Way North Is Revelation Compared to Other Clubs—Burns In Left, Shafer at Short, and Demaree and Goulait as Regular Pitchers Season’s Only Changes. Bozeman Bulger, the Evening World’s baseball expert, to- day furnishes the first real line of the year on the Giants and their pennant winning possibilities. Passing up the monoto- nous grind at Marlin and other training camps, Bulger started an Inspection of the local teams after they had reached playing form. He has already analyzed the chances of the Highlanders and Brooktyns, and to-day begins a series on the Giants, which he will continue each day until the team arrives home. Oon’t miss his stories. T BY BOZEMAN BULGER. hape for a world's series, 1H club that gets the Jump on the Giants this epring will bave to be in After eccing ¢! and the Boston Braves, the physical condition of McGraw’s team te a| if revelation. They are hitting the ball, running the bases and throwing with the snap of a clud fn the midst of a hard campaign. No player pulle up at a base for fear of hurting @ leg, and tho shirking of @ throw to protect a favored arm is an unknown trick in the equad that has just torn into the Virginia League, Not a game hes been lost en the exhibition tour, and MoGraw is driv- ing his men harder every minute, If they get into a town at 8 o'clock in the morning they are on the Giamond at 10. And in those morning games there ts |" Norfolk, Va., April 4 Highlanders, the Dodgers for @ reguiar turn at the otart, and right alongside of him will be Leon Ames. Wiltse is rapidly coming around end looks good, but his arm is not quite eo etrong yet as that of Mathewson, “Big Jeff’ and Ames. Rube Marquard ts taking hie work by slow degrees, but ought to be able to be in shape to regularly by the end of April. He he will but {t te doubtful if MoGraw will take @ chance on him until he ts thoroughly hardened. The Rube has worked in sev- eral games for a few innings and has shown mi f his old-time form, but it will take Wot of sunny weather to give him necessary strength for g: ing full nine innings. is arm is not sore but weak. It must be remembered api ni change pace and full tilt from start @ game, but gos: to finish. DEMAREE WILL PROBABLY BE MADE A REGULAR PITCHER. says it, enome! a ster with the’ Ue. Emoke, shoves he emoke, shoves him aside McGraw is immensely pleased wi Goulait, not only (4 ir hard, earnest work: He be kept on the team, and it would not be at al! surprising to see him a regular. Inci- dentally, it might be interesting to Know that Goulait ts the only wn on the club whom the players believe can give Jim Thorpe a tough race for a hundred pitcher he Is remarkably fast. Josh Devore and Shafer, the speed ‘ready apprehensive about uh big Speaking of Jim Thorpe makes this ‘a good place to nail the rumor that he joing to be let out as soon as the sea- begins. McGraw has no intention of dropp: the big Indian. Chief Meyers, in leyalty to the red man race, is very Mmuoh disturbed and outraged over that report. He says that Thorpe has in him the makings of @ great player and that McGraw knows it. When asked about it McGraw merely smiled as if the thought was not worth cons!derin; “Thorpe has the most remarkabl beg) in baseball, Cincinnati. In the outfield he can go as far after fly datle ag any man in the world.” Players to a man agree with Meyers that it would be foolish to let @ man Iike Thorpe nd nobody can say that McGraw is a foolish person. ready to go in at the start, | is Thorpe is with the second team right now, but will join the regulars within the next day or two, Some of them ex- pect him at Richmond. If he does not report there he will tag on to the main show in time for either Baltimore or Washington. The one thing that has kept the Giants on thetr toes and fighting every minute at ecveral of them are not si of . The whole outfield 1s appre- | ve lest Claude Cooper, the Texas it, breaks in some day with « spurt is never headed. He ts also with the second team now, but will get into ‘New York in time to play with the regu- Cooper is the grent- several seasons, and not the slightest doubt of his | deing placed on the pay roll for the Giants as a permanent piece of property. ONLY TWO CHANGES IN TEAM FROM LAST VEAR. The only changes in the team from the championship combination of last year are George Burns in left fled and Shafer at short. McGraw has them in the regular line-up for three weeks now and will start the season that way. @hafer has taken on con- @iderable weight since last year, not fat but natural growth. He now looks heavier than Larry Doyte. a wonderful game against Norfolk yes- terday and the players say h been going at that clip even club left Marlin. The three years con- tract seems to have divested him of a lot of his boyish ways me much more bat both right and cording to whether thi southpaw or a starboani filnger. In Norfolk Shafer batted left-handed against a southpaw and in the first in- en and in the next three innings tore off more two baggers from there. ‘The boys do not nag at him as much as they did formerly, and the good-natured kidding has stopped the sensitive young Californian has im- proved wonderfully. They his goat, though, every time they start after him about those perfymed notes that he was supposed to have complained of. George Burns is working beaver to hold his regular Job in field and Josh Devore is laboring eq: y hard t> take it away from hi: Burns ts up at T every morning and is tho first man on the practice grounds. He eats very htly of lunch and ts back on the job We the afternoon An a aiider he te with- ‘| more action to the equare inch than there is in two regularly echeduled after- He stuck his thumb into my hardly see. in Los eles he the same thing and injured my eyes Ge Radly that for three weeks the doc- tere thought I'd go blind.” E were talking of the value of “presence of mind” in the ring, and somebody told the story of Cross in his recent fight with Manéot in New Orleans. When Mandot ‘Was nearly out after a series of knock: his manager started to t: into the ring. Hesltating, Qulled the towel beck and hung it on fhe ropes. Then he rushed excitedly the edge of the ring to shriek ad- wiee to his dazed ond bewtldered fighter. ‘The eyes of the manager, referee and the crowd were on Mandot. Nobody wed over the official pro: J around and Motioned to Ci the w ePrett; said Mr, Flint of Provi- “bi know of an inatance of nce of mind outside the ring that ts that. My friend Gov. Church of y I, was out fox hunting two acquaintances of his,* Up tn Island you can't hunt without a , and the law is strictly enforced. Tan across pe open and dropped hrodgh him. At that in- warden popped out of the joped down on Church and your license” yelled the wroer, Church turned and lit out Manos country on the dead run and the took after him like @ hound down a fox. Church ran about qile and then slowed down to let ‘warden catoh him. ‘I arrest you for hunting without a " puffed the warden, you can't do that; I hi protested Gov. Chur from an inside poe! you run for, then,” de warden, Ob,’ cald Church, ‘the other fellows any,’ oa il pulling noon affairs. For two yeare now McGraw has won .| the pennant by having his club reer to take the jump on opponent: etart of the season, and he hie plana that way again. The Giants 'g ready right now to step into jae regular campaign. Tes: . Mathew- son and Ames are primed and cocked he carly start. The fact is that Matty i@ going #0 good that he has amazed his teammates by pitching two You can’t keep fate Te Hats are just that mee $1.50 [RVING full ning-inning games and one of three innings in the last four days, He explains his rather extraordinary activity by saying that he te trying to work off @ bad cold that he contracted at Galveston, Tex. At any rate, Me- Graw is allowing the dig’ fellow to use his own judgment, and & he wants to pitch every day he can go as far as he likes, Tesreau been worked very hard of late, eo as to have him in shape Gay es STORES AT Manhattan Brooklyn 1 Pulton Strest 776 Mi 1768 Pitkin Jersey Oliy 107 Newark Ave. jen Av. ue HELLO, GEORGE! Bill has just put me wise to a good thing. PEERLESS UNION SUITS are the greatest I ever saw. They make all the other suits look like cheese cloth. Mieves had pachia sel ititD, Be le. new idea is the best ever. Great for comfort. ~ Ee ey On eale at Wanameker’s, B. 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M'GRAW'S ANKLE HURT FROM KICK BY SPARROW. \ In the game at Norfolk, MoGraw did but says he will be in shape to practice with the club to-morrow. The most remarkable thing about the Giants this spring ts their new violet trimmed uniforms. They are certainly @ poisonous looking lot. The mixture of violet and gray makes the players look as big as rea) Giants in their road uni- ready for their two Washington. Both the Giants and the Washingtons have heen trimming every- thing in eight this spring and the com- ing fight ought to be a corker, j AMUSEMENTS, . way 7 1,20, LIBERTY HALL wera JON MASOH iid Siar Vi NowAmsterdam ret east 31 Oli! OH! DELPHINE “STOP ie (Po at 2.80" i} Rd others. 7 land TO-NGHT’S BENEFIT FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS | WILL BE INTERESTING Modern and Old Time Boxing and Wrestling Champions Will Be Seen in Bouts. Everything is !n readiness for the big Boxing and wrestling carnival for the flood sufferers which will be held at the Twenty-second Regiment Armory to- | Right. The affair promises to surpass all previous events of tts kind, for not only will the present dey champions of the ring and mat meet in contests, Dut the old time stars of the aquared Circle will also give a helping hand by donning the mitts in exhibition bouts. Besides the great array of talent, the Twenty-second Regiment Band will play Popular airs throughout the evenin, At the Astor Theatre yesterday $1,000 ' was realised from the sale of boxes, which were auctioned off by J phreys. Near! ery sporting man in: town as well as many boxing clubs of | this State donated Iiberaly to the good ‘The program which opens | at 8 o'clock sharp, follows: ! Bob Fitzsimmons vs. Tom Sharkey, Kid MoCoy vs. Jack O’Brien, Tony | Biddle vs. Warren Barbour, Terry loGovern vs. Young Corbett, Joe { Rivers vs. Joe Kucera, Joe Bern- stein ve. Kid Kriffo, Sammy Kelly | vs. Billy Joh, Frank Erne vs. De Pentheau, George Munroe va, Patsy Haley, Jack Skelly vs. Dal Hawk Kid Broad ve. 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