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es |RITCHIE FUOLS THE “KNO III a | THE EVENING WORLD, CKERS”’ Ritchie’s Great Showing Against Cross Was a Crusher for the “Knockers’ Chorus” — Work for the Boxing Commission. Coprright, 191%. by The Powe Publishing Ox (The New York World) T* city is still comment Wilite has taken us by storm He busaing with Willie Ritchie enne here accompanied by a knocker chorus from Vancouver, circulated in- Gustriously by the agents of Freddy Welsh. ile had nothing to show us but a very unusually pleasant face and Manner, and a record which inoluded & championship-winning victory over Woigas: and a quick knockout of Mex- fean Joo Rivers, The knockers’ chorus chanted “accidental champion dally, and Informed us that Kitchio was yel- Jow, that he wan afraid to fight any Good man, and that be had won his championship through an accidental foul delivered by Wolgast at a time when Wolgast was beating Ritchie to nlp. or en we were aware that all accounts of the Wolgast-Ritchie Mant told how Ritchie whipped Wolgast from thy start and bad him nearly out when ‘Wolgast fouled him repeatedly with the apparent intention of losing that way rather than take the knockout, We had even wWolgast foul K. 0. Brown delib- erately when Brown stung him hard, and knew that Wolgast was inclined when in trouble “san, the knocking hurt Ritchie among those who didn't know him personally. But to-day all the belittling statements @irected against Ritchie are so many oomerangs, coming back to rap the heads of the knockers. For everyone who saw Ritchie whip Cross went ground telling everybody else: “There's Ritehie is the best lightweight seen in Magnates Ins Demand of Players’ Fraternity for Change in the Waiver Clause Will Likely Meet With Defeat — What It Means, BY BOZEMAN BULGER. HE one clause of the demands of I the Players’ Fraternity that ta the certain to meet with denial by ational Commisaton ts that affect- ing the present system of securing walv- era on players in tho big league. While the present walver system, on ra to be eminently fair to this part of the country in many a long Hoth magnate and player, there is a @ay. McFarland has no part in this} @tatement, for not even the wildest atretch of imagination can figure McFar- land as a lightweight. Packey ts alm- Ply & middleweight fighting !ightweighis, & Wonderfully clever boxer and a de- Nghtful fellow, but a man always mak- ing matches with those far below his lass, and #0 taking no riske, FTER the Ritchie-Cross bout Dan A Morgan, manager of a string of fighters that includes Jack Brit- ton, came around to me at the ringside and sald enthusiastically: “There's a real champion, Let them say what they Uke, no one else ever mtuck to Cross the way he did. McFarland and Britton @idn't mix with him like Ritchie, When the slugsing got too hot they went away, I wouldn't let Britton stay in and mix with Cross. But Ritchie never took a back step. He beat Cross at his ow: Game, outslugged him. That boy ha: More class than any other champion Gince Joe Gans was at his bes! E Ritchie seemed to know exactly what was in Leach's mind, And @ny one who can figure out Leachie's @ctions in advance is a champion among Guemers. Fitchie told me before the Aight that he knew all about his oppo- Pent’e trickiness and hitting ability, end that he would be careful all the + I'm going to show you that | nt,” he sald. The Vancouver | was rankling In his mind. He fatended to show New Yorkers that ho could fight, and that he was able and filling to fight. And he did, Ritchie and Cross proved that thi Gre real Nghtweights, At 9 o'clock the Weighed, stripped, Ritchie 14%, Crosa 344. Aw the articles simply demanded 3% pounds, it ts evident that elther can make the welght ona! They were Both in Arst class condition wnd neither Wooked in the least drawn. JOMMY MURPHY, who ts matched with Ritchie now, will have his chance at last at the likhtweight | title, He has been waiting for this for | wevera! years, Tommy's friends hope hat he has not been forced to walt too Johg. I would not place much impor. tance, however, upon the way Murphy Was outclassed by Packey MoWarland There Is no questioning the fact that MoFarland was a much bigger man And right here ls a Boxing Commission shu if At is still taking as ei fm the sport as at the start. | Packey McFariand’s weight on the might he fought Murphy at the Gardth was announced aa 140 pounds stripped, Murphy's weight wa» announced 1a in ring toxe. Every spectator in the house ¢ that there was a difference i» VERY moment during the fight dme. I can knock thing that © welghts very much greater than the four or ‘ive pounds this would indicale., f guessed McFarland's weight to be 15 pounds \atripped, Murphys 1M. 1 don't believe the difference wan less than thia AND AT TH! RITCHLE-CRORS FIGHT MURPHY #\1b M'RAI LAND DID NOT WEIGH IN IT FELT TO ME AS LF OE WEIGHED 1 POUNDS." If McFarland could avold weighing in, and still have 4 weight announced. what does the Boxing Commission with all Ate rules amount t On the night McFarland boxed Dufty upstate quite recently, McFarland’s Welght was announced as 1373-4 pounds, He was not woixhed in and his weight Was over 145 pounds At this weight Tommy Ryan often defended his middie- weigh: champlouship! “Joker” in it that haa sent many a ble leaguer to the minors when he might have had several more years in fast company. It is to kill this “Joker* that the pla; have made their demand. When the watver rule was adopted @ few years ago It sald very plainly that before a club could send a player to the minora {t would be necessary to ur@ walvers from every other club in the league. If any club re- fused to watve and ciaimed the player he became the property of that club, after @ payment of $1,500 had been made, The latter provision made it Impossible for dickering under cover, and the magnates changed the rule so that !f another club claimed tho Player the club which he orl nally belonged could withdraw the re- 8 for waivers and keep the man. Right there is the “Joker” that the Fraternity trying to smash, It killed the whole object of the rule, For instance: If Chicago should ask waivers on Smith and the Lows club should refuse to watve, the Chicago elu Wid withdraw the requests and keep Sinith until a more propitious tim: to get rid of him. A little later on the Chicago olub could talk the matter over with St, Louis, “Now If you will waive on Smith,” they could say, “we will waive on @ man for you.” St. Louis finally consents and the player in skidded to the mii when he might have had another year or two in fast company. ‘The National Commission is certain to turn down the demand for @ chase in —_—— ‘New York Baseball Club Has) 4,000 Seats to Dispose Of and Late Comers Will Have Money Refunded, The New York Baseball Club began refunding | that jan 1 money to-day to hundreds sent in their applications for y-Navy football Uekets, Both Weat int and Annapolis have ordered Y Ucket allotted to them, whton means that the club officials will have |but & scant 4,000 seats to dispose of, Acvordinsly only those that managed | (© rush thelr applications in early will |be wile io secure tickets for the big fooitli battle Nov, 29 on the Polo Grounds. ‘Lo give New Yorkers the opportunity of seeing the Army-Navy game the baseball club officials offered practl- cally seuting capaclty of th Polo Grounds to the two Government Institutions, both the cadets and mid dies were given 2.0N Uckels to divide With the uf Winding Gat they could apply for 4,000 additional ewok beturs Nov. %& Because of (heir greater nur ver Ue alors Were granted the privi- lege of securing 2,000 mure than the cadets, The total allotment to bot West Point and Annapolis, if taken, would amount to 36,600, leaving only 4,000 for the club to sell. Hut the interest in the historic gridiron battle betWeen Uncle Sam's embryo gen- rain and admiraly is so keen that both ‘West Point and Annapolis notified the THE STRAIGHT PU Guamrion RiTcHie BEAT LEACH CROSS WITH & STRAIGHT LEFT - OFFSETTING Leacn's TERRIFIC RIGHT SWING WITH AND THEN WHIPPING ovER ist on Rule Which Permits Them to Skid Players to Minors this rule, and Ita reasons will be: The rule as it now stands ¢ ves the clubs @ chance to enforce discipline. In other words if a player begins to ask for more money or get stubborn in other ways he can be brought to his senses b. application of the waiver rule A thr.at to send him to the minors may stimulate his work all around, This has worked suoceastully in the cases of several players and the mag- nates do not want the rule changed. At the same time the play: think It un- Just to them because it permits the club ‘owners to keep them in the big} gue or send them to the minors at will. This, the players say, absolutely kills the original {ntent of the rule, which waa \o give players ® cance to etay in the league as long as possible, The players want the rule, with slight variations, put pack in its original form. ‘They are of the opinion that the waiver clause should not be used In the nature of a punishment to be held over the heads of members of the teams, ‘The National Commission ts disposed to be very generous with the Players’ Fraternity !n most of Its demands, and it Is practically certain that all of them will be granted with the possible ex- n of the walver rule, Everybody seems to be unanimous in agreeing that @ player who has been in the league for ten yeara shall be given his un- conditional release when his big league days are about ended. This ts nothing more than a fair reward for long and faithful services, The New York Club did this for Joe MoGinnity and players have been simt- larly honored by other clubs. The winter baseball writers have been dealt another heavy blow by Ty Cobb's teclaration that he is perfectly satis- fled with his contract, Last winter his hold-out furnished many columns of copy. Hugh Jennings says there are two rea- sons why he cannot become the man- ager of the Brooklyn Club next season. contract to manage tae Tigers for 1914, | and there is no use of mentioning the | other,”” Chief Meyers has cinched his claim to being the leading brave of the Mission tribe by winning a game with a home run right in the presence of his own | People, And he did it in the last half of the ninth, too, Little Room for Public At Army and Navy Game club people that they would take every ticket allowed them, and even then sorry that they couldn't land more, Gon- sequently the basevall officiala have [started out on the unwelcome task of notifying hundreds of applicants that thelr requests can not be honored. The decision of the two Government Schools to taku their full allotment of seals came ewhat a8 @& surprise. When the cadets and middies played thelr annual game on Franklin Field they were given approximately 16,000 tickets by the University of Pennaylyan- President Harry Herpstead of the lants Just doubled this arrangement to bring the game here, but notwithatand- ing the tremendous interest in the game it n't thought that both schools need nearly 36,00) tickets to eat- isfy their dema The big seating capacity of the Polo Grounds now ix not large enough to ac- commodate the thousands who are anxious to see the cadets and middies clash on (he gridiron, —— | Pimlico Selections. First Race—Fascinating, Northern- or, Orotund, $eound Race—Myastlo Light, J, walt, Golden. Think Race -Cadeau, Flying Fairy, Huskin Fourth — Race Shannon Madeline L,, Mo, Fifth Race—Genesta, Royal Mea wage, Perthshire. Bity Bixth Race-lonnte Eloise, y Race—Jacqueling, Tay a River, ndenbeer, Little Bp. Reventh Pay, Goldy, DO CTE SAL 1B ye ale ' oh Ea are ( NCH BEATS THE SWING © fo} Copyright, 1913, by The Preas Publishing Co. (The New York World). BUT WHENEVER CRoss “THOUGHT HE HAD “THE JAB BLOCKED. ROCHE woud “THROW A SHORT Hook AROUND LEACH'S GUARD Kilbane Finally Agrees to Give Attell a Chance Championship Will Be at Stake When They Meet Next Washington Birthday. By John Pollock. A‘ ATTELL, after nearly two years of patient waiting, is finally to get a chance to win back the laurels he lost to Johnny Kitbane on Washington's Birthday, 1912, at Vernon, Cal. Kilbane to-day consented to the return engagement after monthe of dickering, They will meet again before Jimmy Coffroth's club in ‘Frisco on Feb. 2 noxt, Attell is strongly conti- dent of turning the tables on Kilbane this time, “I can beat anybody that {s afraid of me," said Attell to-day, “And I know that Kilbane ts afraid of me. I want to win back that title. I feel lost with- out it, and belleve me, I'll do everything In my power to succeed.” Herman Moss, who |e now looking after Attell's ring interests, made a trip to Cleveland and another to Philadel- Dhia before Kilbane or his manager Jimmy Dunn, could be pinned down to anything looking toward a match. Moss finally convinced Kitbane In Philadelphia Monday night, after Johnny had put Eddie O'Keefe to sleep in Jig time, thac Attell was really entitled to another chance at his old title. When Kilbane consented a wire was quickly sent to Coffroth and the terms which the little rivals will meet on were soon agreed on, Willie Ritchie, the lightwelht chi pion, wit] he tendered a dinner by Billy Gibson at the Criterion Cade, One Hun- dred and Forty-ninth street and Third avenue, at 7 o'clock to-morrow might, at which all the sporting editors and writ- ers will attend. Ritchle will leave for San Francisco on Saturday to prepare for his twenty-round battle with Tommy Murphy on Dee, 10. The State Athletic Commission at its regular weekly meoting yesterday ruled that Jess Willard cannot meet Carl Mor- ris at the Garden A. C. on Dec. 2, as he is under suspension for his fallure to live up to his contract With the Queens- Coffroth and the terms un which the rivals will meet were soon agreed Frank Burton Would Have Liked| to Teach the Youngster, but, Gathered Only Nineteen When Champion Ran Out the Game. Take it from Frank Barton, Willie Hoppe is some villiard player, Barton met Hoppe in an exhibition 18.2 balkline match at Thum's Billiard Academy, and when the men put up their cues for the evening the score stood $00 to 19 in favor of the champion, Barton is @ billiard teacher. He is oon- skiered one of the best players in this city, but last night he didn't have any- ting to teach the clever Willie, The Jatter wanted ¢o do all the teaching and Barton might just as well have not taken his cue in hand at all, so badly lhigh run of 117, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1913. BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK YALE TRYIN GET N.Y.A.C. COACH ; TO © oO Cross usen HooKs MARK THAN STRAIGHT PUNCHES, AND SWINGS WHICH TAKE LONGER “To REACH THE THE ANSWER (S SIMPLE - A Goov STRAIGHT PUNCHER WILL o) BEAT A Good SwINGING FIGHTER. New Plays Coach Haughton Decides on Big © \ Shake-Up—Bob Cowen Sent Rist Back to Substitute Team and | Storer Returns to Tackle. (Sper tal to The CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 12.—The maiden ving World) Gibson will try and get the Com- 0 lift the ban on Willard. Jim Flynn, the Pueblo heavyweight, Is trying to induce Car Morris to meet Garden A. C, some time next think I am entitied to a yout with Morris," said Flynn to-day, “for | defeated him at Madison Square Garden last year,” 8 and Eddie McMahon, the popular 1 boxing promoters, are to open ti Olymple A. C, of Harlem with a show on Monday night. They have matched }“One Round" Hogan and Frankle tass|reaims of the ei to meet in the main hout and Willie Schaffer and Battling Larry Doyle to clash In the semi-tinal. Both bouts will be dor ten rounds, Phil Cross, the rugged welterweight and brother of Leach Cross, and Frankie Madden, the east side fighter, have been secured to meet in a round bout at the Atlantic Garden A. show on next Tuesday night. Kid Williams of Baltimore and Eadie Campi, the champion bantamweight of California, have been signed fight for Tom McCarey, the tight er of Los Angeles, Cal, in a twony-round contest at the Pacific A. C. of Vernon, Cal., on Dec. 13, Johnny Coulén, the bantam champlon, will meet the winner, Battling Levinsky is matched up for three fights, He meets Solticr Delaney for ten rounds at the Sharkey A. C, on next Saturday night; Tim Logan, the Philadelphia “heavy for ten rounds at the Brown Gymnasium A, A. next Tuenday night, and Soldier Kearns of Brooklyn at the Irving A, C, of Brooklyn on Nov, 2, Another important match was ar- nged to-day. Jack Britton of Chica: and Mike Glover of Boston signed arti- cles of agreement calling for them to exchange punches In a ten-roundt cout at the Irving A. C, of Brooklyn on Thanksgiving Day afternoon. Knock- out Brown and Young Lustig will battle for ten rounds at the same show, ‘Two bexing shows will he held in Brooklyn to-night, At the Vanderbilt A. C. George Ashe of Philadelphia will swap punches with Jack Driscoll in the main hout of ten rounds. At the Cathe: dral A, ©, the semi-final bouts of an amateur boxing tournament will be held will take place on Friday night. All the best amatear Doxera in this vicinity will compete, Hoppe Showed Teacher How to Play Billiards at the Hotel Astor next Monday night It only took Hoppe five innings to run out the necessary 3X) He had a His average w. Barton had four innings at the table and his score was 19, with an average of 44-19. He had a high run of 9. The marvellous billiardist still holds two titles, the 18.1 and the 182 cham plonships, and if he continues to play be man in his present trim tt wil day before he |s dethrone: than anxious to win over holla the record for the high & m vk being ale, ssoppe has already twice, the last time ning by forty points, Students of the game con- alder the Chicagoan Hoppe's most dan- gerous rival, Rarton was troubled with stage fright In last night's match, He was conscious of the fact that he was playing the champion, and his playing suffered as A conrequence, The truth of this state- ment was exemplified after the match was over, when Barton met a clever player by the name of Hal Frye and played Demarest only did the youthful star defeat him. Hoppe took on the match to help him Get in condition for hie defense of the 16.2 Ute against his closest rival, Calvio Demarest ef Chicago, whieh taives ptace defeated him 160 to 6, making a high run of 127 and atill having the cue in hia hand when he ran out the number of points agread on. Barton looked as ood tm this match as Hoppe did im the effort of the reorganized Harvard foot bail eleven at scrimmaging will be the most important happening of to-day's ;&rand reunion of the Crimson gridiron i #. Dissatisfied with some of the per- { fo: who attended to the bagsing of ‘the Tiger last Saturday, Coach Haugh- {ton decided yester that a sh wae be ive and as & result severa | sharp shooters to-uay attempting | their deadly work from some other jcover than they did in the Frincetoa j jungle. | Boo Cowen, who to all appearances, | seemed to have an option on left guard for the big games, has been rudely nked from his varsity pedestal to the stitutes, ly to was made prima: ‘er an opportunity to withdraw grace- en ) fully from right end, where he has be more or less a fixture since his in Jsion of that corner three weeks ago. Storer returned to his old assignment Many Shifts Due To-Day On Harvard Varsity Team; for Yale Game at left tackle, Gilman giving way to Hiteheock at the other tackle and bim- self supplanting Cowen. HARDWICK SENT BACK TO END | POSITION, The most important move of the re- adjustrent was the placing of Hard- |Wick at right end, Hardwick, easily the best defensive piayer on the eleven, will have sufficient opportunity to onstrate hia splendid running, deadly tackling and all-around defensive play at the right outskirt, Bradlee, an able man on the defense aiso and possessed of great strength, j*ill take the position at left halfback cated by Hardwick, Harvard is con- |tentea to take the Hrown game day at its real valuation and cx {auently the Crimson players’ attack will show little that it has not already placed on pu view this fall, FORMATIONS THAT WILL PUZZLE BLUE TEAM. The conches are now 4riliing the team thoroughly on formations intended for the Yale game. Some of these, according to eye Witnesses, are apt to prove extremely puzgling to the Blue, and in certain cases the New Haven tacklers are very apt to have a hard time determining just who of the Harvard backs ts lugging the ball, As fr ls, the Harvard attac @ pecullar manner tn carrying the ball this the hide being \nandied in such @ manner that an opp ¥.ng tackler jfinds it extremely difficult to determine Just whom to pounce upon. ee e e e 'Princetons in Practice | a ed Eli Dummy Team Battles Fifty ‘ Minutes Against Tiger Regu- lars, but Fails to Cross Line. \ (Special to The Evening World.) PRINCETON, Nov. 12—If Princeton can solve the Yale offensive plays and check them @s successfully In the game Saturday as she does in practice the Elis lends Princeton's season, ‘The Tigers Were able to stop Harvard's advance jin the Harvard game as compictely as they stopped the dummy Harvard team’ Progress in practice last week, This looks encouraging for Princeton, Team B, the Yale dummy, fought the regulars for fifty minutes yesterday and wavered back and forth acroas the field, but were unable to get near enough to the goal line to threaten to score, Yale showed her whole set of plays and Worked Chew very weil cousidering the short time she has had to practise them in, The blue jerseyed players tried for- Ward passes a good share of the time, mixed up with straight line plays and open ficid running. To make the for- ward passes they had Boland, who was noted at Lafayette for his wonderful ability with the forward pai For a Ine plunger and particularly as @ skin 1 ayer there halfback Kirb Hut in spite of » olton, an ine the Eli ‘ong material spite of the el! punter in the backtleld and in Seize the opportunity to get more than double value, $60. $35, Broadway & Ninth Street | Will not score in the great contest waich | $27.50 tees dat Week The special materials that have created a furor among our value-sceking customers will be gone by Saturday, Overcoats, Satin-Lined, $27.50 Suits, Silk-Lined, (to meamre) $27.50 Ordinarily sold by us tor $40, and elsewhere as high as Special Silk-Lined Full Dress Suit, $40; Tuxedo Choice of black or white si | Smash Yale Formations! “Yale” attack the “Elis were unable to shove the Tigers back to the ser point. Princeton's best defense was the play- ing of Doolittle, who substituted for H. Baker during the scrimmage. Doolittle was the hardest plunger of the fleld and on the defense he was mighty quic at sensing the direction the Yale plays were golng and belng there to stop them. He pulled down several long for- ward passes which would have netted Yaie a good many yardi Streit did not enter the scrimmage at all, but Treckman took his place {tl enal drill. Borden also for Law during the scrimmage half. Borden's punting during th week has Placed him tn a strong post- |the Yale game. erratic but good enough times to warrant hopes that with more practice he may not atand much below Law him- self, signal drills of this year. weather and Hart The cold driving power com- last Thuraday. Hart had the Inemen as in any game when he blocking practic (Bsa Lant Gael The last Gaels season will be played at Celtic Park next Sunday, when Cork and Kildare will battle for the New York Btate championship, Each toam will have out its best players. There will also be a hurling game between Kilkenny and Tipperary, k waiscoat, Arnheim BY V.C(GANNIN OFFERED King force has) POSTION OF ROWING COACH OF YALE CREW New York A. C. Mentor, How- ever, Is Under Contract to Local Club. It_was reported last night that Hugene J. Giannini, the rowing mentor of the New York Athletic Cio, has been of- fered the p noas coach at Yale University. The ly tsiag that can Prevent Giannini ae epung tue vst to the contract he vita en Yu AC it is sald th he will ask for Nis release at (he next meeting of the. Athletic Committee Glannint is a very © oman for the position of rowin ttor, He was No, 6 in the famo * crew of the early #4, and he grand: est eight 1} con lia tion seen in Ameri tt le that m “Ohippl troke that Ginna 1 80 many victories since, and It the same st w hae wou use at Yale if he can e his release in New York. American Bowlers to Play Abroad A team of American bowlers qill compete in the national tournament tn Berlin next summer, according to an announcement m lay by the United Bowling Cl New Lork. Fifty men, all membe { the local In search of foreen trip In 19% was a su ‘The Americans carr! national team trophy ederioke Schwartie, who later rican champion in 198, won the individual) honors, © Inst ery way. the Inter= Ee SCHOOL HOCKEY LEAGUE ADOPTS SIX-MEN RULE. The Interscholastic 1H ey Teague at © meeting yesterday at Nerkeley School unanimously adopted the six men rule, Representatives from forace Mann School, who had been d to enter the organization, come In unless seven playe: © permitted on |the Ice. The teams, however, will be Permitted to carry substitu e schools have ente npe= tition for the champlon Loyola [School being a new ent The others to compete art Irving, Colle; and Berkeley ‘OMMERCIAL HIGH WINS AT SWIMMING MEET. The acholastic swimming cham was opened yesterday with a dual meet between the Commercial High and St, John's Prep swimming teams at the ter’s tank, Cotomercial won by a score of 30 to 22. The meet was featured by the swimming of Goodstein of the Com- mercial team. He was largely respoa- sible for the team’s ctory In the four lap relay race, swimming as anchor man. He later carricd off the honors, in the 50-yard dash, winning by ten? feet. Ho also finished second tn the plunge for distance, being beaten by Guerin of St. John's Prep. tate ionship tion gor substitute halfback, and there is a good chance that he may get Into His punting has been Before the scrimmage Eddie Hart put the team through ono of the snapplest | dined to make the men respond in fast work in marked contrast to the drili of Have You Seen the A “YUniversity Club? stnek to soft, hate thle Bethune ater canidenst tind ‘a Derby thats this exe edt WE want toreall witemtinn to th erly Clube Ht de llfferent from wl Derbies, ‘kamu im with the downward hend, Tee ee tin to you—wo sou had better be coming to us, You will fing it at Truly Warner Stores, nly price 2.tH). Equipped Complete 4ETZ '22' the practical miele | | cauiped, Lull eylinder water-cooled ine tor. hs Travele 0 Tales on 1 ullor miles on 2 wet of tires, Fad or eredit. Call or wr ote Salling Agency, 1599 organization, will ma the team, | Joseph Th 1 president gf of the body at years y will be at the head of the party. ; The trip will be the te one by American bowlers a tlaniio 4 \