The evening world. Newspaper, December 30, 1913, Page 10

10 THE EVENING WORLD, %U UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY ESDAY, DEULMBER 30, 1913, ss Five Years From Now the Federal League, if Suc- cessful, Will be Yelling “Outlaw!” as Lustily as the Rest of Them if Some New Organization Tries to Cut a Slice of the Rich Baseball Pie. Copyright, 1913, by The Prees PubHahing Co. (The New York World). HE NATIONAL AND AMBRICAN LEAGUE MAGNATES are shrieking “Outlawe!" whenever the Federal League ‘# mentioned. To plain, ordi- Mary outsiders and baseball fans this sounds like a good Joke. The National and the American Leagues have no patent on the game of Baseball. Yet they seem to have an impression that the sew organization ts armed with a sawed-off shotgun and a dark Iantern, ike another Black Bart or Jeme Jam If the Federal League im muccessful tt will make ite own place in the bane- ball world, and there are fans enough to support It. T ruppose the Federal League, five years from now, will be yell Outlaw!" ag justily ae the ret of them, when some new tries to cut a slice of the rich ba ball pie. organization THE SIGNING OF TINKET at there in real money behind the new Ie courts when “organized baxeball’ m ates try) to prevent the fight of ball sto the lates! attraction. If it does nothing elee, {t will clear up the talk and will decide once and for all time the rleht of ball clubs to make chattels of bail players, shifting them about or virtually black- Hating them at will. salary of $12,000 4 season shown th Thin promises a good Neht in the So Jess Willard knocked Rodel out in the ninth round. We will mow heave a concerted sigh of relief. Each day will not bring out a new account of how the terrible Boer beat poor little Jess up some- where out West. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTA? off in San Francinco on New Year'e Day, when Gunboa: Smith and Arthur Pelky meet to settle the American heavyweight championshi: Smith and Pelky are the best of the white hopes, on past performances, akthough there's little doubt that Willard. if he keeps up last night's pi can give either of them a very rough time. Gundoat Smith, through defeating Langford, lard, Rodel and many others, bas extabiivhed hi« position as chief of the heavyr Weights. Pelky'’s wole claim to prominence reste on the unfortunate meeting with McCarty at Calgary, If MoCarty was champion, as he claimed at the time, his honors would technically descend upon Pelky. Aside from that, Pelky has been training under the direction of Tommy Burns for nearly a year. Burns reports that the big fellow has become * Other Jeffries, “% think the Dreadzought will sink the Guatwoat,” writes Burns. “He fo im grasa shape anda weighs 806 pounds. Me hite short, doesn't nse aay swings, can stand off and box or go in and fight with a cronch. & Qm cure the Gunner will get an awful surprise Mew Year's afternoon. ‘We expect to go to New York after the fight, and maybe to Burope.” Accounts from Pelky's camp aay that Frisco sporting men have found him unexpectedly cle nd effectiv But the Gunner is no second-rater among fighting men. He has an awkward knack of making good. Like others who fought thel* way up he has suffered a defeat or two, but not recently, One of the fighta omitted from Smith's published “record” {# that with Denver Jack Geye t Taft, Cal, Aug. 16, 1911, Geyer knocked Gunboat down three times, knocking him out cold tn the ninth round. After Referee Levinson had counted Smith out Geyer lifted the Gunner from the floor and carried him to hin corner, where, attll out, he fell from his chair. Geyer han done some other good fighting. Aug. 9, 1912, he Teceived a decision over Frank Moran in San Francisco, in a four-round bout. At was slugging all the way, and Referee McCullough decided in favor of Geyer. heavyweight fights of the year c Wolls, Stewart, Savage, Wil- QUNBOAT SMITH'S MANAGER Gunboat will go to Paria, There he will look fi then @ match with Langford, unloss Johnson ci Taking Carpentier first in a wise mov ‘a that In 9 of a victory aver Pelky a match with Carp n be Induced to fight. “Just now,” says honcat Bill Brown, “Levinaky looks like the Moses to Icad the White Hopes out of the House of Bondage, which they have occupied ever since Jeffries succumbed to Johnson.” Some flowery language, ch? A CORRESPONDENT FROM IRELAND wishes to know tf Fitzsimmons rates af an Englishman just because he was born In Cornwall Fitzsimmons was born in Helston, Cornwall, But he ts of Iriah blood, His father, James Fitzsimmons, was born in Ireland, where he wan a riding and fencing master before going to lve in Hngland, aimme an Irteh girl, and marrieg James Fitzsimmona in Ireland, Leach Cross Is Favorite Over Anderson at 10 to 8 Robert's mother, Mary Bits. | | Federals Need a Million To Put Team in Brooklyn, Now Says Dodger Official ——<¢——_____ sion and Cites Obstacles in Way of New Baseball League. League ‘Mhe threat of the new Mede to place a baseball club tn Hrooklyn tn) brought MoKeever, he able te give the Dodgers ar & competiti Me Mok Long Ish ments to th there the iny er rather tought nl ofte the best ind Ww organization, hut lors would find land on! at iw very high price, The Dodger offi cial didn’t believe that the ou could ever induce fans to fors: Gianta and Dodgers thip to see cheap baseball Mr. McKeever concluded with the re mark that New York was always # customed to the ve and in everything mat opmeltion to the Dodgers: quick retort from Hdward J | Vice-President of the Brooklyn Club, | thin afternoon | In an interview with an Evening World reporter McKeever said that the Brooklyn Club just now was more con cerned over whether the Dodgers would finish ahead of the Giants next year than in the plans of the Federal League to locate in Brooklyn. The Dodger magnate advanced fig: age ke the tn and the sport on @ small scale Copyright, 1915, Vice-President McKeever Not Worried About Proposed Inva- nd take that long | fans could never be made to see the diamond BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK SPLASH! by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Stor! THe NATIONAL LEAGUE Ww We PROTECT \Ts INTERESTS! EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN WILLARD SCORES —, EASY KNOCKOUT AGAINST ROBEL > Boer Eliminated from List of Aspirants for Heavyweight Title in Ninth Round. (Special to The Rvening World HLAVEN, Dee. %.—Jesn Wie the heavyweight cowpuncher from Kansas. knocked out George Re- dei in the ninth rousd a scheduled twenty: 1 bout. Twenty-five hun dred persone saw the Boor eliminated from the list aspirants for the heavyweight ring title Rodel never liad a char despl the fact tt reed the fighting all but the kd a ie Was ui to overs the vantage Willard had in, weight, Willard stood at head and shoulders above his nent ere Was not mach toe way of ur t when Willard blows with his Hfth round he floored Rodel, th staying down for a count of nin Soon after the of the mixth Willard was warned « referee for using his elbow, In the seventh and also in the eighth round he sent Ro- del to the mat Rodel war about edt toed wearil t nth and it was over. There few exchanges and then Jess the sleep watlop. ta Draw. was my start to fine of Mizabeth a teneror whieh fast and interesting ft ish, Johny std" Abbort and Tommy Matoney, the Weat side fighter, battled to a draw in the wind- § up at the Natlona rite Club show es for fighter y and nother ten-round Johnny Webber nd with nde HEYDLER LOATH TO BELIEVE | REPURT OF TINKER’S JUMP Heydler of the Jump to the Mere je wha about the report « oat for Harristurg a conference with President Tener to-tay “The part which relates to the club paying Tinker $12,000 a year for three years has a atri fe ring to it, and until I or Knew that Tinker had reported I would hi st Clubs in the two major leagues which are well best cities to draw from, would find it burdensome to pay such sal- aries, and I cannot understand how the Federal League, yet in an uncer- tain state and composed of mostly minor league citi conld pay such figure. The fact that Tinker would positively receive $10,000 for signing with Brooklyn makes the report of his jnmp appear all the more improbable to me, hecause no ball player would turn Gown such large bonus for an uncertain proposition. It is, of course, possible that the Federal League banked all that money to Tinker’s credit, but I can- not bel ‘@ it National Federal Lewe ue to say e he left k i REED AS SI ‘English Athletic Standard | Higher Than Ours, Opinion Of College Professor i = Jeristocratte and against the ideals of the nation. Studentsa are chosen for ures and cited experiences of the —-— Assertion Meets Prompt An athietien in the cotlegen not. because Uvery Hirsch and Renny Teonara, | Brooklyn Club to show how tropraaeal WAN FEDERAL TEAM | S A £ Col ee the OR ; ee mays ane they 7 A he plans of the outiaw organiza- a " swer 4 vention of Col- are physically fitted iclpation in ‘ = Reo] frankie, Madden and Joe Iytand and | are the plane IN PROVIDENCE Too, sWer it Convention the amex vould not be limited. Sam Wallach Expects the Re-| Young Tack and Young Franks will | tlon to start a baseball plant in New ' : only the healthy.”* clash in tén rounds bouts. | York untess it is ready to mpend about legiate Association, W. FP. Garceion of Bates College ar ceipts of the Bout to enn — W.00 an a starter and be atrong | 4p, (Spetal ng ork) lawered Dr. I'eabody to the effect that obnny Howard, the stunty fighter of enough to withstand major league eppo- | Dec. 20 a » oth et tha " Bayon re SG m Fellx Ro Wende » former own & Keneral participation tn athletica ts Exceed $15,000, Boys sted N cnele caren mas Up s Huan ans Poth the Dodkers and the | eee eeiden ae | The eighth annual convention of the eneouraged by all of the collegea in res “ro. 0 » Moni ‘ork Cl 2n, | 4 f rR Milwaukee, was matched today to Ney eke ee what the Federal {®9" the Kastor Leuxue pennant, R Atiletic Awsoeit: America and asserted that Dr, Pea- | meet Jack Driacoll, tie Brooklyn Hight League expecta to do in Brooklyn,” said | 2% I atriving to #ecure a Pedy tayrint (the Hotel AA OR AR RPE ASU ee baal By John Pollock. heavyweight, in a ten-round bout at| My. McKeever. “I see in the papers a Lveue t Anchen far this city, Mia: an manele rie aaron “Bi: oe sal ’ here as iy EACH CROSS, who in to meet} the Irving A of Brooklyn on Satur-| pe sort that the Federals plan to loc wirpd Hremaens Cisne . f Harvard University, in] Hewing this discussion Prof. George Hud Anderson, the crack Low! day evening, Jan. 16 down in Brighton Beach. 1 think that |SPAInt the aime for a meeting in New (Hriges, dewn of Harve eee lay aise at the Unlvarsity Gf Wiaee te Angeles lightweight, fur the ser * We only a decoy. They could only draw] YOrk when the matter can be discured /rne chulr, who, after calling the con: | sl Priest nas ond tine in a twenty round bout at] Resause Jack 1 of Indianapolis 8 y 5 at length ' Jer, aaked for iie reading => read a paper on he Tf n of Vernon, Cal. on Thursday afternoon, | could not make the weight to moet {Con there during the hottest two)” col Wondeischaefer told an Evening | ention ty omier: ask a [Intercollegiate Sport," and Dr. James fe the favorite in the betting at odd®| Jinny Clabby of Milwaukeo in a twen-| summer months, People could net bel Wind man hie plane Pi onl hi LY Mf the roll, Delegates from almost all! Nainmith of the University of Kensae « ed up Kis bom t un » Pacific . tired to take e long » ial Ices 4 | t colleges: nd versities in lowed with a very eloquent and com- of Wto S Leach fiished up his } ty-round tat the Pacific ALC ¢ i) ke the trip to Brig For the last el@ht years the Providence (of th rs in) joquent and {ng stunts for the contest tuday and | Vernon, Cal, on Jan 15, Tom MoCarey, | ton much be Decaration Day, and team has been occupying the erllar [Ar nied to the roll ehensive review on the history of tipped the scales at 1% pounds, which matchmaker of the club, called off the| surely not after Labor Day. porition in the International League.) ‘1 following accreatted and visit- | basketbal fa one pound the requt b a will try to. fnduce | bial BoE ies, ' we sing) The Committee on Credentials, con- at which they will Mgnt. ¢ ted | Gh hip, who kuocked Gut Frane| TO CUT GTREET Tieeuats OLD | and the business men and fans are dis-!ing delegates from colleges belonging 2 hamimal baer gn Crseen isiaeen the weighing In time to be at the t Kiave, to take on Clabby for the mids WASHINGON P, * A ila ceaGuintion onnawornd sIRSu SU IPTOR: Tu al) MEM aiaia'§ wide, but Anderson held out for two} qleweight championship title. ‘The only place where they can pow- ‘a no denying that a winning lear poe Phillips, Amber Hecretar, . Nicholse } a : ap hours before entering tie ring. In aw a Jwitly build on here is old Wasiington Ve A HreAL aNNet to Worldwide lhc y A let pointed and the convention adjourned telegram to th's office to-day Sam Wal-) ‘The two English fighters who have| Park. The Brooklyn Clid vacated that AN Oe the ten amie : ee ntil jater in the day. hh, manager of Cross, ways that he! made go their firat bout in thin! piece of property because the eity will] Now thit ihe entire counters iv [ree 1 Wniveraltys It eee, pects the receipts of the figiit wisi ex | country O'Neil, a lightweight. ghortly cut Second street through the |r ayjins # POVOTE aP soihe ae ty (Marvel Brown Walvere! a Stacey Knocks Out M je HB, an the demand fort) ketR and Voir a bantamweight, will| middie the lot and becaume the A Sam Went i. storey and Te MeKenale, 4 | Arter Moottng Eddie Melroy” twice y He furhter stated he has | r tn ten-round con! fell Oe FKORY SG oH h y of New York: Director G. “ ow ices n i ofan afters for Leach to fight Ad oa th tal shen use Hey Fair, Brounda w inadequate to bands z leueiea to the new Bede: [eae nd 1%, A, Kiser, Columbia“! Reavy wallops to the oe Wolgart in iMiwaukee and Charley |mont A.C. on New Year's afternoon, croNde that came out to see the DB line seems ripe for Pro t [universities Prof Go He Lamson, Cone Stacey finally put him away in the White in Racine, Wis, after his battle LO'Noll meets Johnny Harvey of Harlem @re ply MA ¢ of busi fmeanstiecticut Agricultural College. Prof, feventh round at the Olympic A. ¢ with Anderson. fand Pox will swan punches with It the Feileral Longue backers areieiaus 4 hed and asked that T Jon iit telwer, Dartmonth College, Prof ¢./#how with a hard right awing in the | Terman of Pekin, Mm) sincere about opening a clud in the olf | yihy them in attempting tom z y Ueleat, Fae eee toe ai oc Maavaxs | BL Ok Uae 1. Minoay heal all the Champion Featherweight Johnny Kil- > | Washingte ark and want to ee te) Kedoral Lege franchise for Providence |\oryware College, Prot Co Wo Mays vetter of th raph ng from the mo dane will begin the new sea | JUAREZ ENTRIES. they must (ay 0 re the League is to have eee AS : Marshall Colles ment the iattle started. fn the sem! . 1,000, or poss 9 property cou Franklin and Mo \ t ing Eddie Moy, the promising light Hn, or possiuiy the propert u reater New York thie city seems the! pean to 1 2. Brisas, Harvard Unis tinal Billy derson defeated Young weight of Allentown, Pa, as his fist) ‘The Juarer entries for te-morrow's eased for about $3,000 a y OUT ogloal place for the tenth club, \cersite: Prof QA. Habbitt, Haverford Ritchte Ina fast bout of ten rounds opponent. They were matched to-day | races are an follows aye with the danger of having the] rw) nave plenty of money buck of our| einer: Itrat 1 Iowa State Red McConville punisited Manny Mur- to meet {n a aix-round bout before the) FIRST RACK Selling. teo vearoldi city cut a atrest through the lot. Even | |) Sake Bm eas Ane Nes ihe ' Aheveranibin, (ohy eo! badiv that ithe! referee atopned Olympic A. A, of Philadeiphia now Second street is drawn through the) |" ie necessary: anal leas Tonia Hopkins Universi Prof H.R. the bout in the fourth round to pre Monday night. Moy has fought some |donte 1 M Property on te gO ne: im + own kas soon as | hear from|jteiter, and President HS Drinker, vent Murphy from being knocked out good fights both in thie city and also at a. om - Mr MeKeever aa a9 alan ts n ident Giliore [vi [resident N. Mf yo Prof Heke in the Weet. 1 Sgetintet, (al: Seana celve how hard-headed bueiness men ar _ ea het & . thoranite, te _ vant ona furlong. Kal) Inia ould spend a large sum of money on ss, rn HAC ontverelt ews, managar of the Audis | man. 160i. star Nema, iO Daligst, 108; n undertaking with tie ‘ear of the) DEFIANCE DEFENDER’S NAME, |"'¢ Abahal ke paeeeene Tom Andr m er SL A FR oe | Rey. Brother Matt tov Br torlum A.C. of Milwauk be, Maraaaers, 1S: Gite WW otty cutting throug \ See at RAW ayal TTAAPARARY Bf secured a suostitute mentation, 112 OF ewe Cature, that even if the Fedora.) TROOMy Semdicate Mutlding Vane) Wiliam aud AU. Uilvaid Hanrahan a Brown to meet Ad W andi League in determined to locate in Wasi at Bath Mak Selection, ihe lee “ | round bout at the aly ‘ ‘let ington Park, whieh ls tae oily ava BATH Alin ‘One Miclipenancan tee sears afternoon, The ne site arog the rid: for w baw ye selected for the ht to Gratton & take Brown's patient Ld ede ae BM As iW possily ender of Idea { mond, the We who Menty Walbans ano nie fe ores s Cup next summer by al Amerioay 1 has fought eome good boutr in tae West ©) My t According 0 the and Now: Mork; Phiadelohia thleties thie year. 1H neweorner Met ext ' HOsEAA SHON RIOD 1 Pwo local clube will hold boxing Mase stands n ver Jwas selected after consideration of a|tors' ix th @hows to-night. At the Brown Gym) “MiP | for the F mrcnent Would net pet lumber that had been proposed an atidete Rasium A. A. Mike Honen and Young | war) ns | suugs mit the bullding of an inflammable | George Owen, the designer, is here {the endeavors Blegor and Young Vrummie and Young | Wi bee Wie ag 108, My wooden structure, ‘Then comes the lag | working on the iminary plans and | Carel will met in ten round bouts. At] haha NN tolion, a, {tem of hiring Players, and the Fed: | the first construction work will bel "The American system of attteth | YraZendtfeegte LAR the Atlantic Garden A.C, Special De Ali ins alisnause aswel, ‘Trach fash ‘als must engage the biggest cards to!etarted early next month, eaid. tho epeaker, “is demoralising and i L) | CHARLESTON WINNERS. FIRST RACE, olde; tive Selling; $0; tw and ao half furtouge. Ada, 93) ftol, 2to Land 4 to 6, first; | (MoTaggarty, Hanse 5 to 2 and & to 5 Jezail, Orange, Th ay, Veil nh » 2, second; en also ran D RACH and mares, selling, six furlongs. Laura, (Murphy), & to 1, 2 to Land even, tourg ad ‘wn $ . 1 to 4, second; Veneta § to 1, 6 to 5 and ime, 118 Mama Johnson, Mata, M Prinity, Helen M., | Hila Grand alae ran { Selling: handicap, $10 furlongs. -Deduetion, 14 1 to 6 and out, frst . 1 to 1, % to Verena Calla | to 2 and even, third 1s, Teady Rox alsy ran FOURTIT RAGE Lightning and Cracker ‘The Weat End Lan: 50m added agen, mile and seventy yards.-bryniimat (Me- Taggart!, 2) to 1, 4 to land even, fiat; Joe Deibolil, 13 (goose), 11 to 9 1 to 4 and out, second; Bob R., 16 (Buxton), to f and out, thint, Time, H. Adair, El Oro also ran. cone mermeere CHARLESTON ENTRIES. CHARLESTON, 8. Deo, 30.—The entries fur to-morrow's ruces ure as ws FIRAT RACE -Purw $100, getting: shree.reer- mx furlongs —xincision, 110; Herkely, Honches, 116; Mine Prim ty, 110; 11S; Beverstetn, 116, xCynomure, xtiagnant, 110; Cou Ciera, 118) Pike's 110; Gerrard, 110, IND RACE Pure §200, ling; three. r da and om, ix furlongs 118, Loni | Wola, 11S; Semi Quarer, 118; Firing Yankees, 11S, Kiva, 110, xToddling, 110. Daddy ip. 11 jer, 118; XVeA:home, jaw, Webdbver was floored six times bes tore he was fini ed out Mares Motntere sted, Arman D ham AINTH RACH A Velour You Can Be Proud to Wear When you buy your Velour Hat surely you want no other a etvie that vou can feel proud tow The new Vel the er made who wants = Brite ta wt Truly Wal rer $40: welling, all news: firbonae Lady Lightning, 118; | THIRD RAC fe and a ha! flavour all its Every drop of the Emeraid eer tar Cirr _ BUSHMILLS Bushmills has a_ delicate | this is because it is distilled in | the old fashioned Pot Still from home grown malted barley. ALEX DISHAW/)] eco ny a elt oe f my h acleet Sun het. Mull order charges vrenald: Trish Whiskey own, perhaps is the product Isle.