The evening world. Newspaper, April 12, 1913, Page 6

BVENING WORLD, RDAY, APRIL 12, 1913. . EST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK . HE WEEK IN BASEBALL Copyright, 1913, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY _———_$ EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN , [SHH COULDNT: ys PUT RODEL AWAY Although Gunboat Smith, the Caliier ° Hey You Geer! WHADO'vuH Mean By wiviere. Tue Bae Go ITHIN A&A FOOT OF vou AN’ NOT REACHING 1 was vest WONDERING Ww To MARR are’ STRAWBERRY BLONDE AT THe LUNCH Cou Avec, are vou aie tee Caawy OF ane RAD To see IP CONT MAKE Tuiy Foo. Twin Es i i : i — Johnson Won't Fight (Patzer and x (a Paris. V Gappetaht, 2013, by THe Pree Pudliming Co. (The New ors World). % BALZER and Jack Johason wil) ‘Bot fight in Paris. Probably no- é ‘Dody tm this country ever thought Gey would. The notion was confined <@ the French promoter who was trying “Qe eteige the match and to Palser and iy manager. fenve, the Paris promoter, has ef assurances from Johnson negro ex-champion would be Palser had signed and John- lgned. Palser was on the Johnson wasn't. There teh. Week after week led Johnson, Once in « ved assurance thet all by wadle, collect, That was receive. The longed for word Johnson had sailed from America never delivered. Finally, when even M. Vienne came to conclusion that Johnson was either or ati the Frenchman de- that he'd call the match off. His tolls by that time had eaten up all Prospective profit. He notif ‘Rourke, masager of Palser, an: Hp i#*t Hi Hi and sail@ for America. never will fight again; that's to one shot. He may etall something—but he'll never fight. OM FLANAGAN, who managed Johneon at Reno and has ooca- sionally advised him ever since, at i HIE Fras s France, When ‘The referee cau- ened him fouling, Papke ‘butted again and again until he was dis- authorities took i | he should have been competition there until bis was up. But the a i under suspended in New York must be allowed to box. jer, they know More about : fn i emit! ie! who completely duffaloed him and made him show the white feather, Shortly ‘afterward Jeff went to France. He 's reign regarded class, next to K! ‘With the confidence that comes with winning a long string of ring battles, Jet may come here and stir up @ lot Of trouble in his class. Hope he doer. . HA very good imitation of it. , Lewis, ie the first clever boxer to Go to Paris from these shores, ix still fmmensely popular in France. 1 t school in Paris. He fome other business, too, HH @ five-year contract salary to become joxing the public s On Bie French prory than ih i the old piun ——»—. a shook the dust of Paris from | _ aun 8 'H has returned to Amer- je up the midd ’| “Pro” Runners Won't Know Where 0 open a bie ree ' ya Eg Leade Manager George Stallings May Be Kidding, but He Says the Braves Will Capture the Pennant if They Don’t Get Over-Confident. BY BOZEMAN BULGER. ANS und elements having wept for F twenty-four hours, it is now fit and proper that pastiming at the Polo Grounds should resume, and on & ew footing. Everything is set and ready, The league leaders {rom Boston are atill @ thinking war business, flourishing their tomahawk and ready again to sink It into the bean of our tallend Giqnts. An important engage- ment ip imminent. “ot Secren” ‘explained George Btall- inge in a patronising tone, “it isn't like we were fighting # club that's up in the Giants are @ pretty good ‘eral games yet before nant clinched, and I don to get in the habit of taking @ team like the Giants ¢oo lightly, even if they are in the cellar, (Business of two fans throwing up their hands and walking out of e manager.) After the above conservative statement and then he ree full of owls. t or two, but I'm hoping {t will come around go that he can pitch NEW HANDICAP SYSTEM FOR CELTIC PARK RACE. They Are At Until They Toe the Mark To-Morrow, A brand-new system of handicapping Harvey Cohn, Ted Crooks, nd Tom Longboat ters, but these sti don't know what thelr handicaps, ‘They won't even know until they face the line and are sent away at intervals, vent loafing. For instance, Queal may’ start first, perhaps, to be followed by Kolehmainen PeRuaes rie BE) DereReNT ore agwane From Boston Ready for Second Game With Tailend Giants The idea of the new acheme js to pre- BAseeacc.. —_ “Tose Heavy wi Aware sARe Some e! tanters UTHER MART TURNS DOWN OFFER OF BOUT WT MORAN Pittsburgh Club Considers Lu- HIGHLANDERS MOST UNFORTUNATE CLUB iN BASEBALL HISTORY. ‘The Highiandere are certainty tne || ther’s Demand for $2,000 ‘most unfortunate team in the his- tory of the 411 Every one Guarantee Exorbitant, knows how much they suffered from BY JOHN POLLOOK. TILLY M'CARNDY, manager of Luther MoCarty, is etill demani- ing big money for hi iter’ vices. He was offered h Frank Moran for six rounds, to tak place at the American A. C. of Pitts- burgh, but as he wanted s guarantce of 92,000, with the privilege of % per of the gross receipts, the club team is in first class shape the opener in Boston. He wasn't right Thuraday.” Get that dog from under the table, Larry, Yes, George mist have been terribly out up about that. To make. good he says he will pitch Tyler th: who 4 Sa Widser, on, tbe, night of ca Mo ye) to mabe some easy money, ‘weight, who gare Joe Son PS, hts ae : : were not at all distressed | If lore wins be sygateeed to . 's layoff on account of rain. Es tor Greate a Ws chill suffered by the players jay gave several of them stiff a backs and a day's rest was the very 4 ti best thing that to be hurt by it, Last year, remembered, i} 5 Hee ee ‘they have to stand etlll ting in & profuse perspiration on bases. “(Not that the Giants got overworled on: the bases Thursd are busy enough to field. On LT bench they can take to maokinawi walt give a a }0-horse power motor cycle and twenty- Ave pedal pushers will grind for honors ins special ten-mile contest. jaelic football, in the old, fresh-from- the-Ould-Sod atyle, between Mayo and Monaghan and « hurling match game between Limerick and Tipperary will wind up the day'’a sport, See MEREDITH MAKES RECORD Wrestling Champs To-Night. Stan Association wre the in| ROBERTSON SAYS KIVIAT WILL told him his terms bis Mall le be om, manages ng. re ae x EAS ars Mick too. Lawson Robertaon e, good eemi-fina) and fins) woe {a the Metropol. el will be jmnesium of the Mew York | Th Drew, Meredith, Kiviat and Kolehmainen Expected to Make Athletic History Dur- ing Outdoor Season. r and thousands of athletes will turn out to compete in the open. ‘The opening of the outdoor athletic sea- son is @ big occasion for the runners and weight throwers. Performing in- doors is all right, but it is out in the open that big records made and the coming season is expected to sizzle with the breaking of old marks. Abel Kiviat is anxious for the out- @oor season to open so that he can run against John Paul Jones in the mile, Hannes Kolehmainen wants to break @ bookful of Alf. Shrubb's rec- ords for long distance. Drew, the col- ored flyer; Meyers, Meredith, Pat Ryan and, tast but not least, Matt MeGrath, have all something they're just itch- ing to do in the open thie summer and the athietis fans are rooting for the outdoor season to open so that these stars can get busy. L*= the weather get « little warm- } BEAT JONES'S MARK. | The meeting of Kiviat and Jones looks to be the big battle. The fleet Irish-American runner smashed rec- ords right and left this winter, and he confident of beating the great John Paul Jones at his own game, the one-mile run, Many in this city think Long Island star can turn stands right up and seys Kiviet can defeat the Cornell flyer in the mile. Lawson can be excused for making that boasting prediction, for he’s Kiv- {at's trainer. Lawaon, however, is & big figure in the athletic world and his lot | word goes a long way. He figures the [impending battle like this. Jones's best time for the distance is the fastest the mile was Kiviat dia the mile in 4.15 3: unfavorable conditions. When Kiviat | made this mark last summer he was not running in his present form, and goodness knows what be can skim over the distance in now. Jones isn't a wee bit afraid of meas- Jones graduates from Cornell this "| spring, and he has announced his tntei tion of running for the Pittsburgh A. A., ot| Waving already secured a job in the | Smoky City. He says that any one who wants to run him anything from @ half to two miles after June 1 will be cheer- fully accommodated. Remember, Jones has done the mile one-fifth of second faster than Kiviat, but he's supposed to be backsliding while Abel ts steadily im- proving. Hannes Kolehmainen will also have a . | say about the making of new records. - | Ruaning in New York this winter, tl "| Flying Finn smashed all records trom three to Ave miles. Feeling particulanly 600d on one occasion he established two world's marks in one day. en. He promises to do something FOR 600-YARD RUN. James Edward Meredith of the Uni- "| versity of Pennsylvania established a new American indoor the Loughitn Derby, race, at the Lougblin L jthe Thirteenth — Regim Brooklyn, The “Penn flys his fleld and breasted the tape ten yards ahead of Homer Baker of the New York Athletic Club, Meredith travelled t' record time of 1m. 13 Bottle Sietanen tm the . poling ‘one- old rr held a few seconds later, and #0 on until all the field is y. Besides JOstON ‘ouu! S ‘ork b Arthur Chapple STANDING OF THE AGUE, r CLUBS. . AL Lt RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S GAMES, Nosion-New ors, Brooklya- hie, calttpe te Tad toa Ciaslasase taba | auiee postponed. Thin pies, F GAMES SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY, Irish-American a Non-Refillable From MainetoTexas You'll get the best whiekey you ever tasted, Wilson—Real Wilson That's All! Feak'a Wits ‘8 nothing, according to Koleh- iN MARUN OR, WAIT ‘Tie Some HEIRESS Gets Records for 100 Yards, 1 and 2 Will Go Th worth while this summer, for he has tip you off at Alf. bout that purpos hrubb, thought long-dista: jo be runner of all uncomplim about the Finn. The littl declared recently that regular runner unless he could beat his time of 3-6 for two miles. That got to Hannes’s ears and there was a mad Finn. ‘Then up pope our old friend Lawson Roberteon again and says that Koleh- mainen can not only beat this record, but he's able to smash all marke up to ten miles that Shrubb ever made. Lawaon predicts that the Finn can do two miles in 9.06, whion ts considerable running. Naturally, when Kolehmain- en makes his initial outdoor appear- ance in America this summer someting fa kely to happen. MEREDITH HAS HIG EVE SHEPPARD'S OLD MARKS, ‘These stars won't moncgolise things oi thes cinder paths either, for Drew, the red Springfield High are is Prey iey La erent the world’s mark for the 100-y: lash, which is 93-fe, Atvah Meyers thinks the colored flyer must reckon with bim whea he does this, and the brushes between these two will furnish many exciting races, Ted Meredith, who did a lot of speedy running here this winter, has many of Mel Sheppard’s marks to shatter. The one record that the Pennsyivania youth is desirous of breaking is thi 04-6 for the @00, Meredith has been spoken of as having excellent chances of be- coming the country's premier middle distance runner, but the fans will sit back and watoh, ‘While the runners are running) Matt McGrath and Pat Ryan are going out for some of John Flanagan's old weight throwing records. Glatt stands good chances of establishing new marks for the 16-pound hammer and the 6 pound ehot. ‘Taking everything into consideration, MUSICAL, RN a gg eee OOOO ‘Ball, Wed, Rv.. Apr. 16, at Festival coe} COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PP eS tes Pe Recital ms THES is Year, Robertson Predicts reatset | Al Kaufman Wins For iT nia heavyweight, was entitled to the decision over George Rodel, the South African fighter, in thelr ten round tout at the Forty-fourth Street Sporting Ciub, he had to extend himeelf to limit. Smith floored Rodel six times with blows on the jaw and on the back of the neck, sth Rodel started off as if he was going to win without any trouble. He land@@ tre- quently in the first three rounds and had the better of these sessions by # good margin. In the fourth round Rodel blew up @> a result of several heavy amashes inthe stomach and over the heart. @musr floored him three times with heary deft and right swings to the Jaw, Rodel tale, ing the count of nine twice, while the third knockdown found him on one knee when the bell rang ending the round. ‘Smith was sent out in the sixth to fit» ish Rodel and he scored two more Knockdowns in this round by landing hard on the Boers jaw. Each time Rodel took the count of nine, and whep the large crowd of fight fans saw him get up they began to cheer him as loud- ly as they could for his romarkable gameness. >A ‘A few seconds after the beginning of the ninth round Rodel began to jab Gmith in the face, and as he repeated these blows the crowd rooted for Aim. ‘This encouraged him to such an extent that for the remainder of the round he ‘pumped left Jabs #0 fast into Smith's nose and mouth that when the bell rate the latter staggered to his corner, bleed. ing freely. ‘The mgn fought hard in the last round, both getting in many a heavy wallop Smith sent Rodel sprawling to the Boor with a right hand swing behind the ear, but he got up quickly and fought herd until the final bell, et em 22ND’S GAMES TO-NIGHT. Arrangements for the Ol4 Lang Syne meet of the Twenty-Second Reg- iment to-night at the oki Armory, Sixty-eighth street and Broadway, are completed. Many “cracks” of in- door and outdoor athletics will meas- ure strides. Charlie Clark, the star qprinter, wil) occupy the mark of honor in the 64-metre dash; other stars being hand! pro Miles Irish-American A. C. Trainer Looks for Big Battle Against Time Between Champion Jones and Kiviat. the coming outdoor season Oide fair of deing the greatest year in athletics the eame as this year’s indoor season was the greatest end most successful of all times. Over Jack Lester SAN @RANCIZCO, April 12.—Al Keuf- man was given the decision over Jeok|{' Lester at the end of a four-round fight here, The affair was a Donnybrook from jbell.to bell, with both slugging strong at the finish. There were no knock- downs. The consensus of opinton at the nngside was thet Lester, who is too close to the ground for a heavyweight, ‘would have won in a longer bout. Keuf- man, however, outslugged the man who brought euch large sapirations back from Australis to San Francisco. Les- ter's goose is cooked locally. 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