The evening world. Newspaper, April 5, 1913, Page 6

> 5 gaee erie 8 mee ments Made for |, The Damall season wae given a fying to-day when Brooklyn fans began torn ng around Wbbete's Stadium hours Deawefore the mame between the Dodgers! ‘p% and Manianders was scheduled to tart Alchough the grand stand was nearty Old out daye ago, hundrede of rooters, | Wer@aking advantage of the warm day,| “went to Hrmoktyn's new park shortly ; «» after 9 o'clock this morning eager (0) Buy seats for the b'g inter-city game. | POT Col. Whdete was early on the job and lant at the mid-summer sun | “exclaimed that 25,000 fans would see the Rodi take @ fall out of the High: slanders jn the same manner that the natives defeated the invading High- 'fanders jn ‘76 on the ste of hin new dtadium. in Brooklyn the opening of the “49 $730,000 stadium is regarded as an toric event and it seemed as If every mand farnette for miles around .qwanted to be im on it, Years from now oe Mey @an teil thelr children and grand- «children of the big day n Ebbets peta was considered the last word In S-dmmseball parks where they eat and -gamatched the game, the first by the way in which Frank Chance, ex-lesder of Sethe famous Chicago Cubs, assumed con- trot of York team. YPANG FROM MANHATTAN 6TART ACROSS BRIDGE EARLY. “New York fans, anxious to see what pera Chance has accomplished with } te Highlanders, vegan the march across the bridge bright and early for the scene of battle. It was evident that @ big section of Gotham would be minus {ta baseball rooters. Brooklyn fane didn't seem to mind the Jong tramp out to the new Kbbete Stadium, located way out near Pros- pect Park. The Brighton Heach line, the most direct way, * jammed dur- jours, ‘The vari- soon felt what ity ie to transport a big basevall! mob. Brooklyn fans have always boasted the Dodgers could beat the Highland- ere, but they won't really know until Rome time this afternoon. It is the first series the two teams have ever played and fans on both ends of the bridge are anxious—Brooklyn rooters to wee what Bill Dahlen has accomplished with bis team, and New Yorkers to sec how the Highlanders have improved un- Ger the management of Chance. Dahlen av McGraw Must ae juard Wasn't U Up to Full} : Game in Trial Against Richmond. ———__ “BY BOZEMAN BULGER. BALTIMORE, April 5 — McGraw Pretty well sure of his fourth regular Pitcher. It is likely that he will depend A three for the frst two weeks, Ailing ‘Jue three etn, Ames and Tesreau, Th stil unhardene@d for the long grind of fanings, \s Rube Marquard, He/ be right in three weeks. “Wet McGraw sent him against Rich- fmaond for @ix full innings and at the Richard was pretty well winded. four rounds he looked like a man had just been lifted from a orid's series and sent in for a @allop. was untouchable. Rube's old epeod on tap apd we did not hesit: to ft. His control was practically per: t, In the entire aix innings h lked but one batter and that w. ©@ questionable decision by the! ing: \ a aizone | q iy al thet iy : inte er While in vaude: oul be ready when ee started. C4 eeayny mely stuck to the post a Wh shove @ 10t of stuff on the bell, but necessary strength was not there. uart’s face began to redden, and it could be seen that he was working gamenees alone, His epeecd gradu: slaekened, and he was tapped foi nite im the last two innings. Alto: wallops were mad @ him, and they counted in Uttle ‘9 getting for Richmond. The ground ‘the o ark at Richmond !s very h, and to field a ball cleanly re extraordinary dexterity, Most time it 's Imposstble to stop a tfleld. Onc: UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY “BASEBALL SEASON OPENS: FANS START FOR GAME $2 Tin ilandors and Brooklyns Line Up “at Ebbets’s New Stadium—Arrange- fe eonfident of th» outcome, while the| more confidence at the bat. = With Old-Time Twirlers , Because Rube Isn’t Ready | areer of twenty years with as much fHE EVENING WORLD, Tuan Geopness ‘73 Time To wawe Crowd of 25,000. ——__——,", HOW TEAMS LINE UP AT BROOKLYN TO-DAY. NEW YORE A.L. BROOELYE WL, Dante! Ste f. Peerlean Leader only nods his lead and anys The game ts scheduled for 8 o'clock. Long before that time Col, Ebbets has], arranged for Shannon's band to enter- tain the 2,000 fans he expects to be} present. Everything in in readinean for the struggle. The dium has been In- spected and re-inspected by thousands of fans and celebrities. The diamond in in good playing condition although the outer flold in sitll minus grass and somewhat heavy. \ The Highlanders had a three-hour! practice on the Polo Grounds yesterday after their arrival from Bermuda and every player was reported to be in tip top condition. Manager Chance sayn he'll pitch Caldwell*against the Dodgers to-day. He himeelf will cover fret and | wants to show any doubting Thom: that he's as good as when he wan a Cub, Hal Chane, despite a sore ankle, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK SATURDAY, ‘APRIL 5, 1913. I - ———— THE DULL DAYS ARE OVER Copyright, 1913, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World) Will cover second base with Derrick at short and Hartzell at third. Cree, Wol- ter and Daniels will form the outfield, and big Hd. Sweeney will watch out for any base atealers. Frank Chance alwaye deal of trouble with the Srookiyncie sed when he was manager of the Cuba. He hopes that tt will not follow him over to the new grouns in Brook!, ‘The fans in many 1d they look for another one this afternoon. It is going to be one of the big daya in Brooklyn. In ¢act, the opening game of the National League season will have nothing on the enthi siasm at Pbbets 1 th adgear which Frank Chance is going to wear at the bat ts ready he will wear {t in the game with the Dod- gers this afternoon. Doc Barrett, the trainer, has something new tn the way | of a headgear. Chance thinks It a good {dea for protection and will give nim{ Period of Popularity i | "Peri Heavyweights Start Season travelled all over the country the body. Once the body 1s in shape, ‘the arm comes around into pitching pasted naturally, It must be done by di At that Marquard is in better shape than [ had expected. H be there within « short time after the sea- | son begin: | Now that we are nearing the day of} the big start, the Giants are anxious to test their strength against a worthy foe, The games on the way up from New Orleans have been too easy to make them hustle, After getting a big lead they take things easy, a natural consequence of having nothing to fight for. Here in Baltimore the fighting will be harder and this ought to put ‘the Giants on nice edge for their games against Washinaton Monday and Tu Games vill be played here to- day and to-morrow, an arrangement having been made by which they can go outside the city limits of Baltimore and play on Sunday. The people of Richmond who had seen Brooklyn and Boston play for four days before thg arrival of the Giants looked at the Work of the New York Y in open-mouthed avtonishment. ‘ational League cnampe were in farted in of the world, There have been hundreds of cle have a punch are forgotten. An old by bis punch. The exceptions to this ‘Richmond people © flash! Among this year'e heavyweights the got on TY “finite” was {old to steal and they pulled every | inert Brominest are those who, ante trick known to McGraw's repertoire, the delayed pond to | oNt" ina ring contest Is a slight affair, varieties of the double event with| Ten seconds is a remarkably short time n third and first, Steven Grif-| when you see it ticked off on @ stop fin, the old inflelder, wno ts now man-| watch. A man doesn't have to be down auing the Richmond Club told me that} tong to be down ten seconds, The hard jad never seen & club during his fighting comes in where a man without a hard punch wins, In this oase, if he wine before the time limit and not on a “foul,” he must beat his man down gradually until he is helpless. This is what MoCarty did to Palser, MoCarty haen't a punoh, He is just a fairly hard hitter with plenty of endurance, Palzer wan tén times a badly beaten up as either Bombardier Wells or Fred Mc Kay or Jim Stewart or Jim Savage, to give a number of instances, after be- ing knocked cold by Gunboat Smith. None of the four men mentioned were marked, A short time after recovering from the knockout they wei ever, Yet any one seeli fist swishing over would @ hundred of MoCarty’s punches to one of Guyboat's. The speed thie time of year as shown by the Giants, "McGraw himself, nev: a club in shape like this before," he said. ‘They are better right now than several of the teams I @ seen will be in the middle of May “There is no doubt that the placing of Shafer at short has worked wonders, On the trip he has hit something like 0 and his fielding is as clean as Fletcher ever showed. It ts not over enthust jet that he will easily hit .900 during the season. If he does the New York Club will have an infield of .900 hitters, one of the few in captivity. The one man of the Giants who has been the sensation of the training trip js Larry Doyle, The fact that he wee always good and that there are| yo to talk about has kept him aut of the papers. A compilation ef] the score twon the trip shows that, Doyle has hit 061 In ten games. It| fe doubtful if any other batter ever ‘om all out @ even approached that, Doyle says,| Bob's {dea of @ "gentle knockout though, that he ought to be able to| was a sudden, stunning blow that ren- ‘it an he has been in training it Mar-| dered the other fellow instantly sense- leas. A knockout punch, being usually landed in the pit of the stomach, on the chin or over the eye tooth, or on the back of the neck, doesn't cut or) brulse or mark, except in very unusual | OR FITZSIMMONS used to way: B: never beat a man up~1 knoe work as a pitcher, how: here isn't @ man on the club @he won't bet you that he will pe feel ts first Sarge, at the and of the ae ight to see him t Fitzsimmons’s Type Always Live in Memory of Fans—Gunboat Smith May Prove a Second Lanky Bob, as He Possesses the K. O. Wallop. Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), HE man with the punch wins. I Years ago John L. Sullivan was the hero of the ring. West giants came to fight him. But Sullivan had the punch and knew how | He was a middleweight when he fought Jeffries. that none of the big men he fought ever hit him as hard as Fitzsimmons did. Place in Madison Square Garden Next Month. BY JOHN POLLOCK. NLESS present indications fail, a Match is almost sure to be ar- ranged within the next foriy-eight hours between Luther McCarty, the claimant of the white heavyweight FAME OF GREAT FGTERS MEASURED BY THE PU Only Enjoy a Limited n Ring While Men of John meeting all comers. Throughout the to land it. Nobody collected the sum! offered for any one who could stay| four rounds with: the mighty John L,| It wouldn't be very hard for any strong man to stick four rounds with some boxers who have become; famous through their cleverness, But} they aren’t the real champions, Bob Fitzsimmons was as near a real champion as any man that ever climbed between ropes. A middle- weight, Bob fought men from twenty- { five to a hundred pounds heavier than himself. He whipped them one after another because he had the punch. Fitzsimmons was a middleweight when he knocked out Jim Corbett and became heavyweight champion And Jeffries says ver heavyweights. Those who didn't time fighter’s fame can be measured Tule are few. can be described as entirely’ accidental and unexpected Ten or fifteen years ago Bob Fitz- simmons was the ideal heavyweight fighting man, He never danced around. No never wasted a motion. He didn't spar and tap, Every blow he started was Intended to have a certain effect. | If he missed it was usually to induce or force his into opponent position where he would get the next one on the right spot Other heavyweights lacked Pitzalm- mons's business-like way of fighting. At least some of their movements were wasted, Corbett could land fifty punches on his man's chin, and only eut and annoy him, One well caleu- lated Fitzsimmons wallop was as ef-| fective as the whole fitty When he was getting the worst of @ fight Fitzsimmons pattently worked his way and waited for a chance to drive his terrifle left or right hook home and things, all the ente tow ys Gunboat & comes nearest to the Fitzsimmons type. With a few years mi of experience he may} Lecome as good @ man as Fitzsimmons himself, Perhaps he'll even be be for he welghe twentyefive pounds now Gunvoat tries not to waste a panch.| Me works around until he sees an open-| | ing, and then he shoots something that} way with a world of determination luing, A alngle K. O. ecored agali JOE MAYER 1S NOW ($3,000 REALIZED FOR AMERICA'S AMATEUR BILLIARD tr CANN Joseph Mayer, the young Phila delphia player, succeeded in win: ning the national amateur 18.2 balkline billiard championship of America ‘at Philadelphia, Mayer came into possees- slon of thia important title by defeating Edward Gardner of the Arion Society of New York and a former holder of the title In the final wame by a ncore of 400 points to 267, Besides winning the tour- naument, Mayer accomplished the feat of going through the tourney without los- ing a single game. He also captured the high average prize with his figure of 224-18 and the high run prise with tally of 130, B’ Playing in sensational fashion, water sent out the varaty, crews, @ combination and two aren of the juniog ramity. ls too, il to Brown, of joar-eered sauind, has deed Jed home, 1 |, was elected captain of the Colin erday and M. Mase, of the same ol the water t Barrett ‘was Coluea year and second place in the Intercol ‘at He one 4h Soliege ranks nest year, idence in the janden, for the proteasio reat interewt in tie Queens Club, a Tacquet champtonalilp of wo iw Williams, the professional of Harrow Routes, who, holla a similar f ith ‘the Philadeiphia Racquet fal Tea ble Club. Today's mate on Pant of “uaree 04 with, tee, coool glazed ia _rhiladelnhie, next month, much expected to provide a nme higher in han any mince Peter Tatham tot George Standing, ‘the "New York asa sud PenmaSClub profesional, Tilt, the shea Club, won pocketed ha vionsMg. toureament the ‘Amateur Bitliant io a New Marne Snty fourtly street and Broadwas, ‘and thereby Ue ‘for the title, whom ni ¥. Ranolda, J. arf. Hyam. the uae held sided score je acore of 126 val york tet: tional M h ne. are. Fala hee and Art Iatter the rom Sue neatly ft his best, hitter. Like Fitzsimmons, Smith is a hard hitter with elther hand, Hie left is as ood as his right. He uses body and head punches, both effectively. He works arotnd more or less patiently until he is ready to try for a fintshing punch, and then he lets It go as hard as he can. Usually one of his punches, well placed, is enough. That was Fitz- simmons's chief characteristic, In strong contrast to most of the other heavy- welghts of his time, he was known as & “one-punch winner.” Fitasiminons was cool, Ike Gunbo Fitz used to enjoy fighting. It w Joke to him to hit another fighter on the chin and knock him cut for five minutes, He did it quite humorously and with no malice, Gunboat hasn't as yet come to look upon his knockout wallopa as 80 many practical joke he may Ket a chuckle out of it while, When the novelty of knocking mien out has worn off. looks very much as If we were to e another Fitasimmons in Smith. at nothing is more uncertain than the him might change the whole mental attitude of Gunboat 4 take away his ‘and swing some: fortune won't the Fitasimmons apirit an well as the Pitasimmons punch, Hob never fought better and with more determination than in the bouts with Rublin after he had loat of Fitzsimmons when Fit: Gundoat looks like lund bis fist. He's all for effectiveness, ny simmons. In hij the champlonship to Jeffries, If there same sameness in Gundoat Smith fo40r' Turk. Luther MoCarty appeared in the ersten (ring with Al Norton, his sparring part. of s 2 artiste were raffled off. championship tit! d Gunboat Smith, the crack heavyweight of California, who has been knocking out his oppo- | nents in quick time at the local clubs. Billy MoCarney, manager of MoCarty, told the writer early to-day that he is willing to let Luther fight Smith, and that he Is to meet Billy Gibson at 3 P. M. to-day to arrange terms, If the men clash they will batle for ten rounds {at @ show to be brought off at the Gar- den A. C. the early part of next month, From a reliable source, 1t was learned that Gibson is willing to pay Smith guarantee of $12,500. Freddie Welsh, the lightweight champion of Ragland, bas ab last been sieved up for & battle fi waa matched tovtay by his FLOOD SUFFERERS BY BIG SPORTING BENEFIT Tos thousand dollars is the eum derived from the benefit for the flood sufferers held under the auspices of the State Athletic Commis. fon at the Twenty-seoond Regiment Armory. Many modern and old-time boxing and wrestling champions were seen in either exhibitions or as referees. There was Jack McAuliffe and Freddie Welsh. They boxed three short rounds, and “Brooklyn Jimmy Carroll” belie! the rumor that he was dead by referee- ing this bout. Kid MoCoy teok on Frank Moran, and Tom Sharkey egged them on, trying to make It a real battle, Tom was referee. Terry MoGovern and Young Corbett shaped up in three short rounds, Abe Attell refereeing, Bob Vernon acted as third man while George Munroe and Patsy Haley ex- changed wallops. Ernest Rovber wrestled Tom Jenkins and Billy Muldoon refereed. Peter Maher strove strenuously to put one over on Fred McKay without auccess, Warren Barbour refereeing, and Jack Britton and Young Otto, with Jim Buck- } ter, {2 if ley acting as arbiter, put up @ rattling go that was a real siazler. Joe Rivers, the little Mexican, eparrea three one-minute rounds with Adul, the ‘ hatewaght of Bridgeor, in @ ten-round bout at @ boxiug show to | in ‘ieee at Bridgeport, Coun., on the night of | A match has been" clinched between Jack Den ning, the middleweight af this city, and Johpn; Howard, the New Jersey fighter, who is fighting well now, ‘They will come together in a ten- found go, at the Hilluide 4. ©. of Newark, N, ht, Je je gettlig thy Sing Into con tthe bactle” Re itidn for Owing to the fact that George Carpentier, the French middieweigh:, hurt his hand during « er, the Ausuralian fighter, it in @ contest at Dieppe, Franco, his twenty-round pout with Frank Klaus, the American middleweight, has been pomponed wotil April 20. Carpeniier has grown so heary oy the Jast year frien coupelled Klaus it him at catohwe: When Jeff Smith, the American middleweight, returne from France next week it is certain that ner, Gunboat Smith was Introduced as EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN | McCarty and Smith | Likely | To Meet in Bout in This City Contest Will Probe Probably rakel™ me TopaAyY Sa edtt eceiatiersett semaine to ai gr po nee Se es ett Papp: at Gene Gilvay ve, ” phitly ‘McGovern vs, Mate Hert Alberts; at Irving “Ay G., M WNT “Tone: nt Libeeat ke ‘Btaten Isiand, Mike Mazie me. | wn, the east aide ae who nt Jack, Beittan, timore Ww mint Young, B detphia, ae wif tit bea Stn i Castries techni to Play Stroadebers. play the Stroudsburg elub at ith and Gravesend avenues, w York State Lat l= ox for the pe ering he. for the 1 Suburbal ‘The Suburbans ‘Suburban Oval, Si MeGarey, a former er, will be in the hen oe Wigs will we called, sar mss "TRB" sOtuine Prices an Terms Bult, MEPAIRS BY EXPERT MECHANICS BALE COLLENDE™: Bat BROMDWA thers nt Hogting at Mt. 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