The evening world. Newspaper, October 9, 1913, Page 16

16 WORLD’ Ss SERIES NOW EVEN ae oe bes sermon ae TBE BYERING WoRED BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK If Gunboat Smith Disposes of Carl Morris in Their Bout in the Garden To-Night Only Mo- ran Will Be Left to Dispute His Right to “White Hope” Honors. Coprright, 1919, by The Prow Publishing Co, ries the New York World), NIGHT Gunboat Smith | Morris are to meet in the Garden ring. Smith has the best claim At present upon the championship of the “white hopes,” and only Morris and Frank Moran are left of all the Star heavies to dispute his right to the hono-s. If he can dispose of the gigun- tle Oklahoman only Moran will be left ‘among white contenders to give him & battle. ‘There's a chance that Morris may be the winner, In this case he'll undoubt- edly be willing to take Moran on and Clear the situation with small delay, | Gunboat smith will enter the ring with prestige in his favor, He has met all of the other heavyweight stars of) the past two years, and has dimmed | their lights one by one. He fought Jim, , and etopped him with terrific at rendered him helpless. He hit Jim Savage just after Savage had made a reptuation by Kennedy in championship sty! Dattered Gavage to the can the slightest trouble. He fought Bom- bardier Wells, champion of England. Wells jabbed handily through one round. Gunboat knocked him out in the That second with his “occipital punch.” ga - his claim to ring honors a an international flavor, aitho Palzer had knocked Wells out befo the Englishman met Sr.ith, Gunboat’s showing was much better than Palzer's, howe: for Wells literally beat the to farmer to 4 pulp before Pulser outgamed him and knocked him out. 3°. made no impression whatever on Smith. UNBOAT SMITH has improved G steadily in boxing, although his main dependence is and always wit) be that ewinging punch. Ho in- tends to fight Langford in Boston meeting Morris—in fact, has alr signed up for the match. This shows plenty of confidence, Phygically, Morris will have a tremen- @ous advantage. He is four inches talier than the Gunner and outweighs him @fty pounds, or possibly a trifle More. Gunboat, in his most recent ring |ppearance, scaled 1&2 pounds stripped. Morrig weighed 25 on the night of his short engagement with Al Reich. Smith is long-armed, but Morris has @ reagh that is long in proportion to his height, When he last appeared in the ring In Madison Square Garden inet Jim Fiynn, Carl Morrie was a big, fat novice, He had won a f hts by virtue of having @ punch and a lot of bull atrength. Flynn battered him fearfully. Morris carries scars from that fight atill always will carry them. But al- though he was whipped, every man in the pavilion that night w away with vast respect for the defeated giant's courage. Morris never took a backward step, except onve in the eighth round, when he loat his balance for a second And took two Involuntary steps Ke ward to recover It The rest of the time he wae steadily boring in, bumping his Dattered face against Flynn's hooks and swings and trying his best to land, owed good moral courage ed in New York after that eating. Imagine what a strain it was on his He had come here heralded as the one white hope—the man being groomed to whip Johnson. On the day of the Jegries-Johneon fight @t Reno Carl Morris, hearing of the It, stepped from the of his en gine, threw off his coat, and announced that he would train and become a fighter, and never rest until he fought and whipped the negro. He had noth- ing but his great bulk and strength at that time. But he bad fought through @ couple of rough years of real war- WHAT RIVAL MANAGERS HAD TO SAY AFTER GAME. By JOHN M’GRAW. @ Kood game, a h the condi* o regulars is worry, but we're till In and we'll be in it to te en By CONNIE MACK, me from talking; you there Is really nothing to We float a hard-fought game, and you know it is not pleasant 10 talk about losing. We'll be at the Polo Grounds to-day, and the game can talk for iteelf, far. he had courage. He went into training. He came to New York with a ready made rep. And he was whipped. It is something of a humiliation for of Carl's size to be whipped by a man like Flynn, And here is where Carl's moral courage showed, for, instead of slipping quietly away to some remote corner of the U. 8., he stuck right he As soon as he was able to move began sparring at the New Polo, where he asked Leach Croassand some of the other little fellows to teach him how to box, For months he worked like a Trojan, Then he was given a bout with & much touted heavyweight from Morris knocked Geyer out quickly, then knocked out several oth- ers. Jim Stewart @ him two hard fights, but he had shown a marvellous improvement. He had taken off fifty Pounds of fat and beginning to show muscle, After leaving New York Morris toured the country, fighting every wher hasn't suffered a reverse, ¢ the one bou' Luther MoUarty, since, When he ap peared again in New York Reich his old friends were am y the improvement he showed. That is why Carl Morris, once whipped by a Nght heavyweight and turned Into the laughing stock of a great city, is now reapected and reckoned the equal of any living heavywelght—so nearly the equal of the tnvincible Gunboat thai only a match could show which ts th better man, Gunboat Smith expects to win, of course. He is to fight Morris, he Langford, possibly Moran, and p to Paris after Johnson to-night’s fighters have grammes, Roth of mbitlous pro- Bri rat Makes New Record. LOUISVILLE, Oct, 9—J. M, Camden's Bringhurst, @ two-year-old gelding, es- tablished a new world’s running record for five and a half furlongs at the Churchi!! Downs track, going the dis- tance in 1.04 3-5, In the Philippines, and he felt that | Mike Gibbons Hooks Up With “Spike” Kelly at Kenosha. By John Pollock. M: GIBBONS, the sensational St. Paul middleweight, who is a big favorite with the local fans on laccount of his remarkable cleverness, will return to the ring to-night after an absence of over four months. He jwill take on “Spike” Kelly, a Chicago | Aebte: who is regarded as a promising A, C. of Kenosha, Gibbons ‘een getting Into condition at his home, he will stop his man, nd is bein, ie by Jack fat, the old-time fighters, ‘elsh, the Eng! nt champion, who is matche Vhite, the crack m weight of Ch Milwaukee on Harry Pollok. tle will be Milburn * Indianapolis. rounds at Winnipeg, Can., on Oct. 17, They will box A report was ciroui phia y: Edwards, the fight city, had intended s his co ne with the Olympla A. A. and that Jack Hanlon would supplant manager ited in Philadel Promoter of that 1865 said ¢ sport, Billy Newman, manager of Carl Mor. tls, the Oklahoma heavyweight, Clever St. Paul Paul Middleweight ’ for ten rounds in 20, has been sig ea His opponent In this Date "Young" Saylor of twelve day to the effect that Harry him as d matchmaker of the club. When Edwards was asked about it he Was not a particle of truth in the report, as he has no intention | of retiring from the club or quitting the | in 80 THE ONLY MATTY! Copyright, 191, by the Press Publishing Co. Returns _To Fistiana To-Night certain that Morris Is going to defeat Gunboat Smith to-night that he has a 0 that he gets the d on through the newspapers. Ne man made his bet after Morris had told him that he was in perfect shape, was sure of winning, and that if he lost he would have no excuse to offer. Bil! Brown has decided to only referee in the future the bouts which ‘are held at the Brown Gymnasium A. A, on Tuesday nights. For the shows on Sat- urday night George Munroe will om- ciate as the third man in the ring, Brown having come to the conclusion that he is too busy at his farm to ref. eree two shows @ week. At the olub on ‘Tuesday night Dave Kurtz will hook up with Johnny Howard of Bayonne, N, J, Willie Ritchie the lightweight cham. (The New York World.) pion, will begin training on Monday at Dal Hawkins's roadhouse in Westches- ter for his ten-round bout with Leach Cross, which will be held at Madison Square Garden on the night of Oct. 28. “T only need about two weeks In which to get into shape.” sald the champion to-day, “for I have been taking good care of myself and only need to im- prove my wind. Young McGowan, the featherweight of Bay Ridge, who shows improvement In ave y bout that he engages in, has been ched to meet Young Wagner, the local Itelan boxer, in one of the pt Wminary bouts at the show of the Irving of Brooklyn on Saturday nig srodawan i rking out at Bay Ridge and seems PHILADELPHIA, Kline of Oct, 9. — Patsy Newark defeated Bobhy Reynolds in a hard battle “at National A. C. terrific drubbing, the count in the second round, and his manager, Eddie Reddy, claims Kelly has been working out at a gymnasium in Chi- shown the tricks of Root and Jack Mof- You e ' ttach or detach nothing. Mere! Ni r turn the cnffa over. Ast Ji erence nappearance frou the Minn attached ati cue. 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Players ive 60 per cent. of balance left, inder. Tt also came to his a mBU REPAY: OPTOBER 9, 1013. see: orm Zim \ CUBS LOSE FIRST LEXINGTON, Ky. Oct. %—Frank Bogash Jr. lowered the world's record for the fifth heat when he won the | |Tennessee Stakes, the free-for-all ‘ing fe jthe taal mile in J and fourth ty Glower Direct, j back strong in the fifth ba WHITE SOX Flora Fina Made Game Effort to Win Long Race LOUISVILLE, Ky, Oct. 9. —Pandorina, the three-year-old filily owned by Mra. 1 1. A, Livingston of New Jersey, Won the four-mile Kentucky Endurance Stakes on Churchill Downs course in 4. Flora Fina w second and ince Eugene third. F | making up a quar ofa m Jaet mile, fei! new g on the track dl the finiwh. Pandorina the third mile | hundred f Flora Fina. tirance Stakes f whi hh 910,59 went to the (winner, $3,000 to the second and $1,500 to the Uilrd hore. 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