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UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY FIRST AND ONLY FIGHT SCAR — SPOILED PLANS TO MAKE | -FITZSIMIMONS A MINISTER Greatest Champion Ring pion Ring Ever I Knew Really Be- t gan Interesting Career When He Was Fif- t teen Years Old, Years Before He Ar- rived Here From Australia. to the so-called “white hopes.” The T ak more about @o much fightin Corbett was the cleverest of the bi And Fitasimmons was as tri he met the great “Nonpareil,” plonship of the world. Dempsey’e defeat was sure, Jack me out; I'll nev ing to Dempsey’s second moment Fitzsimmons forgot that he title and a fortune. He saw only th upon modern boxing ever published. HE story of Bob Fitssimmons' Fitz on Present Day Fighters, Starts New Evening World Series Bod Fitasimmons, the greatest fighter that ever stepped into a ring, is writing a series of articles on our present day boxers, paying clone attention aperting pages of The Evening World next Thursday little risk of being criticized when I say that no living boxer knows fine points of the sport than Bob Fitzsimmons. marvellous fighting brain as well as the mighty left fat ¢ “freckled thunderbolt” that won him the heavyweight championship of the world when he faced Jim Corbett at Carson at noon, March 17, 1897, Bob Fitzsimmons was a genuine middleweight that day. 14 pounds stripped, Never since the boxing glove wa: force and skill been combined with thi ‘whipped him, wore him down and knocked him out in fourteen rounds be- cause his fighting brain was better than Corbett'’s and because clean living hed \ aires him endless stamina and courage and self confidence. sportaman as ever lived. Almost a novice, In a few rounds he had the mastery freckled Bob held, back pleaded with Dempsey to resign the unequal contest. quit.” said the champion. nd the referee, reluctantly forced the fight and slipped over the finishing blow. Then, picking Dempsey up in his arms, he carried Jack to his corner, with tears streaming down hin face. career of a famous champion and a game man, Bob Fitssimmons's series of articles will be the most interesting comment first of these will be published on the It was Hob's used to call the He weighed invented has alight weight. and Fitssimmons ig men of hin tim Dempsey, for the middiewelght cham- Then, when his blows and “You'll have to knock And Fitesimmons, after appeal- For the bad just won a world's championship @ pathos of the defeat that ended the start as a boxer has never been told. It is generally known that he was a horseshoer in Australia and that he came to America an unknown and leaped almost at once into fer the ministry,” said Bob. “Until I ‘ana Gang in the choir twice a week, “We were living in New Zealand, @bout 1,500 miles across the sea from ye ————EE Y Australia. One day my mother sent me to buy @ box of snuff at a chemist shop : Rear our home. On the way 1 passed @n open field where two football teams ‘were playing. I walked slowly, watch- 1 could I was , Very curious to know how it would feel, while I was wishing somebody i ‘oked {t over the fence and it rolled : Fight to my feet. Bo I kicked it back as hard as I could. Second later the captain of one e teams, a big fellow over six feet leaped the fence and ran straight Before I had any idea what t to do he struck me a terrific beg the nose, smashing it and cut- Bash across the bridge that is aay sear I carry to-day after hun- of ring battles, The biow knocked senseless. I was unconscious for hours and a half, and the blood elit 8 e ge Ey peeet 'y near dyiog. to. The coin I 1 remembered that 1 had started for some snuff, but I had nothing to buy it with, so I staggered home in the dark famine hand “Ww t that I had a bloody nose. My training for the ministry hadn't tn- cluded fighting. that I must not fight. ae “*Tou've been fighting, ce — my mother. have yout ceeded to give ine the worst whipping I : ever had in my life. Then she sent me to bed, Me “Next morning she came to my room. § i closed Whe titi if Me and told m i lt Friday afternoon, 0 school ii gitF don Sun time I w Bet Monday 1 was made to go » never went to either a school (peend me HEN 1 slipped in through the! door my mother only saw And without another turned and took a stout whip! "0 *R0 had swelled over night and tight and my nose was a mn my mother saw for the how badly I was hurt she @rry she wan she had , and I told her how it all ‘Then whe sent for a doctor. Saturday y my and did It open Were still closed, so for the first hor as lut out of going to chureh, to me t church, but I'd lie on the yy and listen to the hymns, the singii world-wide fame as middleweight champion. But Fitzsimmons was twenty- seven years old when he came here. He must have had some history in Australia before coming to America, World's champions aren't made in a few months. It takes years of fight- ing and hard work to get where Fitzsimmons was when he beat Dempeey and later on Corbett, and then Gardner, taking the middle- weight, heavyweight and light heavy- | ! weight world championships in suc- cession, Yesterday Bob sat down and told me the story of his start, and here it fs: “My mother began by training me was cleven years old I went to church and to Bible class twice on Sundays. But for a bor of snuff and a kicked football I would have been a minister could tell what it was when they asked me at home. HE trouble was that all this time I could only think of the man who had beaten ma Week after ‘Week the desire for revenge grew. But T was a slim little fellow, only eleven, and I knew I'd have no chance to fi {fT met him. Brooding over it put an {dea into mY mind. I'd work and grow as strong as I could, and learn how to fight, so that I'd be ready when I was big enough to tackle him.” “I went to my brother's Diacksmith shop and induced him to give me two old leather aprons. I cut these up into Patterns for boxing gloves. never geen any, but I'd heard about them. I sewed the gloves with string and stuffed them with leather clippings and cotton, and then got the other boys of the neigiborhood together and boxed with them every day. “In & couple of years I could outbox any of them easily, and I was gro tall. sleep 1 Every night before 1 went thought sailors were. So I made up my mind or two, I had fixed it up with the o morning, when up came a storm in the night and wrecked vessels, driving them high on the shore. T’'d often been warned |I save up the sea and got a fob as a lings a {carriage painter at seven months I painter ing triping, But that wasn't mal pod from its nail on the wall and pro- | another job as a striker An Parson & Andrewa's foundr: ' sledge. awinging a day and got fred, first ring fighta, Ruler I won them all with knockouts, wan as a painter, then nwer, as a paper. hoer for my brother, that Job five years “AN this thme I I stuck t yea on him. ving} It to of what I'd do to r when I grew al We were right by the ara about what great fighters to run away and be a nallor for a year cap | tain of @ bark called the Isabella Rid- {tey, and was about to akip out the’ next terrible the | Inabella Ridley and nine or ten other @ very steady hand for ing me strong fast enough, and I got heavy This was great work, but after I threw a hot tire over the rT} MILB 1 was working there W fifteen yearn old, I had my to = finish ain and | W{th bare knuckles, London Prixe Ring My next job after leaving the foundry I could do three men's work, Next I went to work aw a forgot about the seheol There the scholars laughed at football captain, By the time I wal Smo eo much that T ran home, and I enteen 1 concluded 1 could whip him, Or & and the next two years I apent all of my church afterward. My mother used to spare time travelling around to football tohes looking for him, But he had ppeared, and to this day I've never| hi bnocked me out of being © mine! -ak EVENING WvusLD, BATURDAY, MAY 17, 1918. BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN | | Tae MINISTRY = FoR Two VEARS HE SANG IN OA cur HOR. | Bop was inTENDED FOR. LAUGHED at ME So mucH Ran HOME “If You Model del Your Game on That of a First Class Player or Players Your Improvement Will Be Painfully Slow, Yet That Is Surest Method,” De- clares “Grand Old Man of Game.” “Walter J." maid John M. Ward to Travia yesterday afternoon at the Oak- land Golf Club, “as we have been aul- ficiently humbled by each being retired, 3 down and 2 to go, by the young fry. I can't see what excuse we have for re- heey to-morrow, just for the han- . Suppose, therefore, we go to Fox Hille and get a line out for next week metropolitan championsh!p 1'll go, ‘said Travia, Doubtless the veterans will carry a gallery at Staten Island unless it rains. Ward is probably about the je of ‘Travis, now in his fifty-first year, yet no one ever calls the former baseball star “the old man.” Just how the uth stuck to the Australian le a mystery. He never had it until he played with ‘Travers and it scems reasonable to sup- pose spectators adopted the nickname to disting: Detween the two, because ‘on the links or over the telephone there 1s constant confusion in their names. Some think it is @ contraction of “grand British or world’s tith distance of that premier honor. rx, nuch, for instance, as Walter Fairbanks, whose hair je snow white, but no one else is in auch constant ev! dence as Travis. It 1p ueually hard to get @ bet against Travis, for he is conalderod ‘“atill worth two or three youngsters,” neason in and out, although his quest of titles for sev- eral yeara has not been succensful, Every observer knows ‘that Travis is good for half a dosen years to come as ‘® campaigner, although the day has Panned when he could gather several important distinctions In the same year, because the average of play haw lifted was no amull achievement for Travin to walk away Thursday with gold medal score from a atellar field of ‘one hundred men after having won chiet prize at Lakewood, the only other northern event In which he has partic! pated thie season, Tt wax none the lens gratifying to him that this week's per- formance was over the Oakland links, on the wooded steps of which he devel- oped his game, between 19% and 1901, when he moved to Garden City, At that time, however, Oakland had only a nine hole’ course, Travis did not take up the game un- tl comparatively late in Ife and then more to prove that golfers are made, not born, than for any innate Iking for the sport PEWTER TROPHY GREATLY PLEASED TRAVIS. Seventeen y ‘* ABO there was no such volume of golfing information ob- tainable an at present, so he wax able to digest practically everything written on the subject, and by constant prace tle was able to correct his faults, a plan which he still prescribes as »| earnestly as he did a dozen years ago. “T think I was better off as the result! of enforced groping at fundamental he sald a couple of da: & reminiscent mood. about all the others combined, not ex- cepting St. George's Vase from England, Inasmuch as he had won about every a igo has singe been taken knocked him out of fighter, $40,000 old man,” given him for winning the/some reserve fo since no other | natural American has ‘ever come within hailing |Press, for thereby in the end you witl ‘There are many older players who are |> equence by 190%, It ts no and if I'd ever found him I'd have; forced with new players, expects to baing a football player. But I don't hold the @rudge any more. He punched me from poverty in- | oom ts to @ bunch of fortu But for him T'a] | ne have been I'd never | tar teeing the with @ haan 0 heceeehoer | MALEAM: Talestbviith: trator * *™: “we Steven mea im Bow on The Nose Some Tips for Beginners Given by Veteran Golf Expert, Walter J. Travis off his appreciation, When I asked him yesterday if his notions regarding clubs and advice to tyros had under- gone important change the Inst ten Years, he answered negatively, How- he did admit that the long hand- led clubs he championed so stoutly halt a dozen years ago would in many han‘ls | sacrifice direction for the sake of dis- | tance, For a long time he looked upo: ny criticism of his elongated handles s_rank heresy, ‘When asked for a few tips for begin- ners he said: “The average professional lacks the faculty of imparting instruc- tion; yet it is not unwise to occasion- ally employ a profesisonal coach for the snke of inculcating style. The dan- gor lies in wanting to attain a certain end, and adopting the easiest way to get there. Consequently one must often unlearn and start afresh on correct principles, If you model your game on that of a first-class player or players, your improvement will be painfully slow, yet that is the surest method. “All good players work on the same basic principles, no matter how much thelr mannerisms may obscure that fact. The laws of motion unchangeable, fo a ball hit in the e way will al- ways follow the same course. To actu- ally duplicate a stroke, however, is #0 difficult as to be almost impossible, It is human nature to alwaya strive for the unattainable in golf, as in other things. Every player wishes to repaat the fine strokes that even the veriest tyro occasionally puts to his credit. KEEP YOUR HEAD STILL” AD- "I shoul! way keep your head stil!,|4n the main bout of the two ten-round rather than keep your eye on the ball. Tf the head remains rigid the eyes may |of the Garden A. C, in Madison Square although Gi tendency to jerk. Practice keeping your | outpointed his man, and besides hit shadow, Retain him when and where he pleased, Mc- keep with!n Carron fought back hard and was still don't | battling hard when the final bell almost be closed, unless one has a! head still in the sun’ Mmitations, In short, lose more than can be gained, eyes on the place where the was before you struck. aa noon as the sphere ly hit, team until your arms are on thelr up- rd jour "No one can rank high who ts not a master of lofted approaches, no department which requires such a| high degree of skill and the exercise of | such sound judgment as approaching. Mere strength and direction must be supplemented with delicacy and crimination not called for elsewhere ex- cept in the approach putt, which ts! really an offshoot, Approaching Is the largent single élement in winning a n Wonal championship, “It Is better to be an adept in putting than in driving, The simpler the means to get the ball into the hole the better. There in lean risk to rin up an approach | than to pitch It, To state the case epi- gramatically: Don't look up too soon In your short game; don't hit too soon in your long game, Generally speaking, better results follow from @ripping your club firmly, but not too tightly. Tight- ness aacrifices delic in putting only the shoubters shoutd | enter into the stroke. As puttl tars ly mental, by humoring yoursolt 4 toward desired results, Every thot should be pla the following one, By playing out trouble don’t. put yourself in a wor place. In medal play avoid undue risks; in match play be governed largely by your opponent's score. + "Get as much politary practice aa you can on out-of-the-way holes instead of playing complete rounds. However, do not drive more than half a dozen balls scutively, for muscles tire easily, Stop practising a couple of days before a tourney or championship, Play often against a somewhat stronger opponent Make the club sult vou Instead of mak- yed with reference to ft {\clubs and those having wobbly shafts.” ——— YONKERS AND ST. GEORGE IN BIG FOOTBALL MATCH. Tino! attemoon Yonkers ‘association two teams have battled before wien Yonkers took her adversary (mto camp, thereby winning 1 ‘ean Amateur Assoclation Cup, Mt, au the wey back to-day and there's boun Thing dolng every ‘secon, The victoriou ayers In addition to the foot § camaall walking exhibit mark, Cap, feee Don't ease up| dis- | Copyright, 1913, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). * EVERY NIGHT-= 1 TuouawT oF WHAT I'D Do “To “RAT FooTBau PLAYER WHEN T GOT ALITTLE BIGGER: ee ITZ SIMMONS AS HE 1S Topay °Gor & Yop as STRIKER IN & FOUNDRY | PIN & CouPLe oF Years T SPENT “TWO YEARS Tee ee ee MUNTING For THE FOCTBAM. PLAYS! easy ® INJURED HIM Sit Yew YEARS Rerore —_ UT NEVER. OUND HIM . ‘BOB FITZSIMMONS TELLS WHAT MADE HIM A FIGHTER “MUathwng NATH Club, y. Ly Wiule’phie 18 Z Krookbyn, 18 Chleagor 1B fs New York, | STANDING OF THE CLUB; L LEAGUE, Club Ww. i ai, ib Hy tr vy 8 ShGs| Pittsburgh 12 17 “4h Watton : 500 Cincinnatl 8 10.206) C aap RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S GAMES" 7; Pittsburgh, 4. m0, 4. psc) atl game pontponed. Ral GAMES SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY New ¥ | New York at Chicago, iti Pla at Clatland, ington at Detroit St. Paul Boxer ie wake His Best Showing Yet at Madison Square Garden. By John Pollock. M* GIBBONS, the clever mid- dleweight real effort out an opponent, but failed. The figh Mike really tried Jack McCarron of Allentown, ia known as the $50,000 beauty, because Philadelphia Jack O'brien hi him $10,000 a year for five years to battle under his management. But, when one sto} teed to ever qucceeded in take the count. Gibbons and Me contests put on al Garden, and It is doubtful 4: Keep | before been hit 80 mar as Gibbons landed on him, Mike not only drove in Jabs, upper- | Keep up|cuts, hooks and swings, but he also| Kev soaked McCarron which are probab! pugilism. — Despii There is! McCarron was game and he kept rush- ing in, continually letting fly with right and left hand swings for Mike's stom- ach and jaw. FF gave another one ducking or sidest: Jack's swings, Motor Rigg Hs Gasoline will Reach again this dium-Motordrome fans on the night will return to ot four years, but t has «ripped the Ni that no effort w' }ing yourself sult the club, Avold heavy | horse racing at tho seaside this year. Arthur G. Chapple, the ship holder, whi ‘Thomas of Philadelphia on the opening | ot night in the feature mateh race, will be lusively at the New York track wera i year. On th Plenty ot nation at Caltio Park thie cave the John J. George and. stakes, with the game as contenders, will hold the boards, ‘Twenty-five men have been working out for a week, the appearan: were on the Brighton boards last year. of the St. George Invitation | This number will mean more than twice cane there will! ag many pilots as any other track in the country fe keeping on their salary list this season, Among those w pening might's mled clean on Gibbons, for the latter |hibitions of cleverness, and by elther Fans so Strong That It Will Occupy Spotlight Alone. of fifty epeed battles to decide the cham- Pionship of the world, on the same date for the first time in ‘swings to the jaw. Gibbons’ elev battles here. of St. Paul, made a last night to knock gon boxing Instructor of the New York Ath- of Prof. letic Club. to put to sleep was who guaran- to consider, no one| 08 Gibbons. making this tough nut cut loose and he Carron came togathi t the re-opening show was very weak. pans easily Jack Mi ENiting midgieweighe of Lap f MoCarron hi blows in a bout feven clubs will cfreenar vs. Jol with eome punches ly not in the bank of | ft te thi hetto, ° is punishment, Broo, Lol ee eit: Taberal A. Co, feat Maas Joe Black, ten. Fou ‘ew of these punches | —swndeat’* the, welterwel of his wonderful epping easily avoided 1 Tab"pounds at ie Mike Costello, Chi Thomas, Ray Ved! ig Has Gripped repute. Hagan ha ith Reggie Lyo be king at Brighton season when the Sta- opens Its doors for the of May 30 for a eeries One Hundred her race track haunts many years now—e | ae. ‘Bt. Louls, the fiabt a hard run f yiMERICAN LEAGUR, |, clut Gibbons Tries Hard, but Fails To Knoc nock Out Jack McCarron In several of the rounds Gibbons had McCarron in a weakened condition as result of short inside right hand miracte that | ‘When the} of uck, tl shore to-night: intic third A A. arti, Rig Biack. 7 rer guna "a" Nicholas 8: On i teal ite Ptenic To-Night. ‘To-night's the anes pes ee Manbattan Casino, core at tee manly art have made 4 thelr busts showing was the best he has made so far in this city, for he was r, fought harder, and also landed | this afternoon. more blows than he has in his other In the other ten-roun go Tom Gib- bons, a brother of Mike’ aged who in almoat the same atyle as his met Young Mike Danovan, the Mike Donovan, the aged Tom landed so frequently In the first three rounds that {t looked as if Donovan would surely be knocked out, To the surprise of the fight fans young Donovan fought better as each round progressed and in some of them managed to get in some stiff punches In the tenth and last round Gibbons threw so many punches into Young Mike's body, stom- ach arid jaw that it was he lasted the round out. bell rang ending the contest Donovan ri ee MeGoort' te Wevtrn fi fighter, fi es a aie bat ate, tor “iselre st May a, Ender Tei oy develop fnto'» grea bold ont Smit nO piien, ten ronda No Attempt Will Be Made to Install Horse e Racing at Brighton This Year from the 1913 season are Johnny Cox, je Davin, Hartley William Vander- bury, George Sparl and others of lesser In the lasts of the new men that will compete in the minor events throughout the Sees, George Mercier and Billy been showing the best form, of the amateur field the premier ‘Tho bang-tatin | somereente for, the oe Blenle of the Avoala ‘HERRESHOFF DEFEATS CHAMPION TRAVERS IN ‘OAKLAND GOLF TOURNEY Jersey Star Off Form and Loses Semi-Finals 3 Up | and 1 to Go, (Gpectat to The Evening World.) BAYSIDE, L. I. May 17.-Jerome D. Travers, national champion, was de- feated by Fred Herreshoff in the semi- finals of the Oakland golf tournament Herreshoff, although handicapped by an injured ankle, put on @ wonderful game and won from ‘Travers 3 up and 1 to go. Herreshoft was 2 up on Travers at the end of the first nine holes. Card to turn: Herreshoff 3B 5446 4 8 5-8 soe 4 6B 365 6B ON 4344646 ‘Travers: In. Herreshoff won the first hole tn par 4343646 6 & to 4 by a fine long jyutt. The second and third were halved, the second rather poorly. The match was squared on the fourth by Herreshoff pulling his ball, which hit a tree and bounced back. At that he was down In par 4, but Travors drove to the green ana sent his ball in two putts, giving him a birdie, Travers lost the fifth by 5 to par 4 by a poor second, whioh left him short of the green. The alxth wan well halved. Herres- hoff won the seventh in # par 4 to 5, getting the green in 2, while Travers topped his drive, Herreshoff got a ‘| splendid $ to the regulation 4 on the C- | eighth, while ‘Travers, needing 5, was left 3 down, The latter drove with his iron, but his ball got a down-hill roll, Herreshoff lost the ninth 6 to par 4, the rough missing his putt, and so was © down at the turn. On the tenth Travers had a bad ie from tee and no away in reaching the green, How- ever, the hole was halved in par 4 by Herreshoft's missing his putt. ‘The eleventh and twelfth were halved | without inctdent. Herreshoff lost the thirteenth by his ball rimming the eup and so critical point, tually threw away the fourteenth, af~ ter Herreshoff had topped his drt Travers failed to get the green and however, took two putts, On the fifteenth Trav- ors laid hix approach dead in wonder- ful_style, after being in trouble, T was a regulation half, At the sixteenth Herreshoff w. awey over the green on his third, but by making a fine putt got a half in par 5, whieh left him dormle two. ‘Travers been short of green on the seven- teenth, settled his hash, for he lost the hole 5 to par 4, and the match, 3 up and 1 to go. Despite several remarkable hots Travers put up no such game as yester- day, Indicating that he 1s still soft and variable, all of which increases the gamble in next week's Mctropolitan Championship. White beat Webb one up. Cards White: Out 446345646 OT In 4453666 6 4m Webb: 5544644 wD 443645 6 +toum Webb at all three holes going out and halving the times was down, losing others, Then he got two of them back And was only one down ending the 16th, but could only halve the last three holes. White, oddly enough did not win a hole in his home course, coming home, although his 37 on the firet helt equalled par. Phillip Carter, Nassau, beat MoKim Hollins, Harvard, 2 and 1, Alfred Mor- rell, Hackensack beat James R, Hyde, South-Shore, 4 and 2 Donald MeKel- lar, Midland, beat Dr. Morris Carpen- ton, Oakland, 4 and 2 FD. Kore/< Ekwanok, beat G. Schepmos, Upp: Montelatr, 1 up. ee ROBINSON MAKES RECORD FOR INTERSCHOLASTIC “220” PHULADEUPHIA, May wv. — Hu School, of Pottstown, Pa., easily wom the twelfth senlor Middle States’ track and field champlonship meet to-day in a cold northeast rainstorm on Franklin Field, This school scored forty-eight points. Mercersburg was second with thirty points and the remaining cores were scattered among eleven other loos! and nearby achools. ‘A. 8. Robinson, the sensational young sprinter of Merceraburg Academy, broke the Middle States’ interscholastic record of 0.231-5 held by himselt im the 20-yard dash, covering the divtages in 2145 seconds, he motor racing game | ."\ghr off whonever ce Sekt jew York fans so strong fae pice, Woe 4 Pen a rR eae 1} ie AN be made to install | [5% en, ha to. might "ype Cee oe ae 12 champion: jue Young huge, Jonny Dundes Rnocknat 0 will meet Hartley | Rrown, Willesin, Jett Jim Garege,| west pocket. nk’ Klaus, ankle jurpe | andl he. aioe | Hou len . ‘Pian hand i gat Bea eric second night of cam- of te i McGraw Sweap- ioat field in the ‘The stamp of Whit ye unantt we, he nd next week will see ho will compete te t! comteewe Oo aie ae manage eens White te Referee Monday's Bout. was put on the Sbzasin Cazeaux wrestling match y EVER-LASTING-LY Fresh—no dried-up bottom half, EVER-LASTING-LY Fragrant—because it's Stag. EVER-LASTING-LY Convenient—slips into your