The evening world. Newspaper, January 10, 1914, Page 6

UP-TO-DATE ' D NEWSY _YATTELL WAS MESSENGER BOY > WHEN HE STARTED CAREER THAT BROUGHT HIM TITLE & . ~ World's Noted Featherweight Cham- pion, Who Made Debut in Frisco in 1900, Had Real Knockout Punch in Those Days. . & , fe the fifth of a series by Robert Edgren on fights and fighters of a and present, including stories chat have never found their way into ’ eeries will be continued on these pages at least twice a week. Copyright, 194, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). ATTELL has passed by as a fighter, but the memory of Abe’ wondertul fighting and boxing cleverness will stay with us for a erweight. But they think of Able as & past master in boxing ekill—a fel- low who could outpoint, but who never showed a knockout punch. Yet Attell, when he began fighting, was one of the quickest finishers I've ever seen. In bis Sret year of fight- ing he won every fight with a clean knockout, and only one went five rounds, That was with Eddie Han- lon, afterward one of the greatest Take a glance at Abie’s recordr for began by knocking out Kid Lennett in two succession, came the others: Kid Dodson, two Joe Hill, | £ i i if ! { Buffalo Costello over eighty on thelr chairs near ‘was & power in polities “south of ing always had something te do with the Being “strong,” Aleo could run a ee tf 7 ity 4 & i & 5 F 3 2 Between the saloon and fighters stripped for action. opened into the arena; on the ether into the rear of the them and going.” The fighter who failed te spend a ie money at the bar wasn't overiy gopelar with Alec ter of cere- | works on the waterfront and has been clipe clanen| berate trap 1 Alec was all | oyeq) muscular, wity, dark-okinaed boy slipped in and, taking the opposite cor- er, looked across the ring at the tow- with a Qzed and menacing ite Hi if ] Hi rid i it ; Hf [ the tow-headed one was named in Attell's printed Het of victins or not is of no importance. Prot phe gd ceremonies Seat make no part of ring his- ‘tory, My Gret vivid recollection ts of the tow-head rising at the throwing out his ‘cheat and look of jung hi what became of the tow-heat's Attell's landed—landed with ole, om the tow-head’s jaw. And he went down so hard that it sounded as if some one had tossed @ mack of sand Into the ring from the gallery. Greg- gains turned around, pushed Attell back nd began to count. Ae tow-head didn't get up when the ten was over Alec Feached for the Ducket and threw the water on him, which rough and ready ‘at ald” treatment brought him to in time to eee Attell hop through ti ropes and start grinning for the dress- ing room. "Bay, ® Waiting crowd. We found a way Qarrow, twisting entrance that to @ dark hail that was a veritanie Greggains recognized Britt us senate where our loxe the ropes and protruded ‘the ring, which was on the floor around, I was surprised to ‘what manner of men were packed Groggains's backroom club. Thore e for the office of Mayor Gan Francisco, with two or three known officeholders. ‘on official business, but m ast to gee a bunch of real fights. There an Mumber of business men, some em in silk hate. And behind, on bleachers, was a crowd of of the district, The Und xc lights hung « heavy, remarked Billy Britt, gasing the disappearing At- you he was a champ?’ $< CUP RACES STIMULATE MOTOR BOAT INDUSTRY. ingly af Ndn't I tell The Cororer ‘That the international cup race is year is a big boom to motoring on water ie bent proven by the interest displayed in the motor boat show te be held in Madison Square Garden starting Gatur- day, Jan. 81. Every boat and engine builder in the country is busily engaged in the shops to ineure @ complete show- ing of the various types for the annual exhibition. The cup races are stimulat- ing boat owners to equip their vessels for deep sea sailing. Government esti- mates show that 3,000 motos oats along the Atlantic Coast ply the ocean in the wake of the cup racers. The record ‘Dreaking fleet that will follow in the wake of the, yachts will conclusively show the wenderful improvement made since the fh eermnesionel race tea bluish I oouldn't see any windows. ‘were only the two doors—the nar- je exit to th ind atifiing. GAING’S, IN FRISCO. it, if 1 remember right. ‘t matiafied. He escorted 17 FER BVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1914. EST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK - ATTELL “BREAKING INTO” PUGILISTIC SOCIETY Copyright, 1814, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). ATLL Owns ert Ly Ouimet Must Go West This Year to Defend His National Golf Title Midlothian Club, Near Chicago, Awarded the Big Open Tourna- ment—Ekwanok Club to Conduct Amateur Championship 8 —Women to Play at Wilmington. COURSES SELEI will the Ekwanok outskirts inks nishing @ wid for this tournament. TRAVERS never played over BRiti ‘The delegates unant: J ‘a bunker better than 414 the dele- te, the, uareuane amateur tournament to the Kkwan ee, hotwithstanding the claims of the layfleld Country Club of Cleveland and the Country Club of Detroit. Ekwanok, festling in {he shadows of the Green a @ates at the annual meeting of th inited States Golf Ageociation at the Waldorf inst night, when they awarded the three biggest golf tournaments with Such good judgment that all sections of the country will be able to see the Amer- foan players compete against the for- eign atars in the amateur, open and ‘women's championships. ‘The Ekwanok Country Club at Man-/ TU’ ine chester, Vt., will be the scene of the| ..varing the open championship, an- amateur meeting, regarded by many as Blum, was @ choice between the greatest golf competition in the| a4 Sata country. Homeward Club of Chicago was Asetnes | ‘The Westerners will eee the youthful | candidate up to three daye ago, when Francis Ovimet defend his open national|the Western club declined to hold the title against the English invasion on the| Pen event. The vote for Midlothian links of the Midlothian Country Cld at Biwe Island, 1. ‘The Now York djstrict will have the ‘women’s champlonstip, and {t fe a cer- tainty that Mise Gladys Ravenscroft of England, who won the American title at Wilmington last year, will cross ooean this year to defend her champion. hip. Mise Muriel Dodd, an famous|tengthy epeech told of the Prosperous | British star, will also visit the United) condition of the game in this country States to tent her golfing skill against | and of the cordial relations that existed! teur championship. her American aisters. between the governing bedies in Eng- ATED REGIMENT. TO-NIGHT. Columbia Five Beats i countr; weather of th mountain, for cone Sreatly appre: by the large num- ee Course about ber of Englishmen who will compete in; i and fairly hilly, short and course is women players. Meet time In October. the meeting, United States. The for the Chicago course, ‘The en's tourmament from the Chi ns ; leago|to an a Before awarding the three champion-|at the |i _.— Ithacans Put Up Surprisingly Rough Battie, Capt. Meenan Being Put Out of Commission and Babe Benson Knocked Out. had to It tates the college boys to apring sur Drises. Laat fall the college boys’ foot- ball eenson was chuck full of unexpected resulta, and if you oan judge by the opening game of the Intercollegiate Bas- ketball season there will he many aetar- tling happenings in this form of sport before spring time colle around. The first big wurprise in the college world for the year 1914 was sprung last night, when the Columbia five won a rough end hard fought battle from Cornell, the present champions. Because of the fact that the Ithacans brought down a team almost entirely composed of veterans, it was thought feating the Bios and White playera wo ing the an te who had shown Hitthe ise fe Uminary games, However, the played like the champions that the Cor- Reliians are credited with being, a: when time was called at che end of the second the score was 19 to 17 in favor of the home talent. In the opening paragraph {t ts stated that the game was & rough one—it cer- tainly wee—but on the part of Cornell alone. One of the most disgraceful weenes ever enacted in collegiate circles ‘was when Capt. G. Halstead of the vis- itore etruck Babe Beneon, right of the Columbia quintet, bitting Ld herd that MAKER OF BALL BATS FOR CHAMPION HITTERS, DEAD. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan, 10—Anérew Hillerich, who for years has made ball bats for Honus Wagner, “Ty" Cobb and other sluggers of the present and past generatior is dead at the age of weventy. ‘in the quaint office of uls factory on Preston atreet, Mr. Hillerich had @ ‘bat’ gallery in which were hung the sticks wielded by player prominence es with the name of each th t. He was the idol of the 11 boys of the town as he had for years made a special price concession pe eda Bh Rei Won't Mand for It. BERLIN, Jan, 10.—The Pruasian Gov- ernment to-day imeued a prohibition order against the holding of a six-dav bicycle race in the Exposition Hall in the west end of Berlin. The proximity of a church was given as one of the reasons for forbidding Several bicy- clists who had participated in the recent six-day race in New York had entered. 4a. Moult was 8 to 7 in (avor of on the Heights, Babe Benson, three goals trom the total of eleven of rolled up by the Blue G. Galstead, five, pDiayed a —————— Meekey Te-Night. “4 fouls. hockey night at #t. Nichol ton and Cornell line up for the face off. ‘The Tigers, led by Hobey Baker, themselves for another title, and Bumber on his back treasurer's report healthy cash balance along with the addition of twenty-three ‘clube to the wae decisive, forty out of the fifty-|association during the year. three delegates voicing their preference| The Executive Committ also played a grand game at ri pens eredited with three from every section of the CTED FOR BIG EVENTS HE amateur golf tournament ye held on the links of a beau: tiful mountainous country on of Maenohester, Vt. The of championship calibre, 6,300 yards long, with each hole fur- rariety of golf. Sev- enty-one considered fine acore. Course never had a national meet before. Champion Tyler of England and sev- erai other Britons are expected over Championship | wil he oinyed during first week of Club, mn national championship, where Francis Oulmet will defend his title, will be played on Midlothian course, twenty miles west of Chicago, Links 6,300 yards jong, over a roling coun- try. Par, 74, Record score made last year by Paul Hunter, with a Women's championship on linke of Nassau Country Club of Long Island. 6,100 yard: Hol ® favor! t to be held some land, France, Ireland, Scotland and the Champion Cornellians when Capt. Meenan of the winners was pushed hard on his weak shoulder thet he fell prone on the floor and he Teceive medical attendance, Meenan was eo badly injured that he had to be carried out of the gymnasium, ‘This incident happened in the second half, but in the firet half Meenan was also laid out, but he resumed playing after @ few minutes’ rest. boys took the fead as @ opened and they were never passed, although they were tied just @ few minutes before the final whistle It was Left Guard Dwyer first score of the game, ‘When the first half ended the score the locals. In the second half the visitors showed bettcr form than they displayed in thé opening period. They managed to creep up toa tle with the Blue and White through @ much disputed play. caged the ball just before or just when the whistle blew, calling a foul on Co- lumbla, After much argument it was decided that the ball had left Cross’s hands before the signal for @ foul was «iven and these two points and the one that was subsequently gained on the contemporary foul enabled the Ithacans to draw up to even terms with the boys the diminutive right guard for the victors, was the the game. Not only did he make five| ti baskets from six fouls, but he made wase points feld. Thi e nineteen and Whi the 00d, aggressive @. He scored four times out of seven tries Cross made three goals from the field and Brown two, & Each man bore a large and it showed @ report showed that notwithstanding the care Nassau Club easily won the wom-| taken to properly rank players entitled neo of six strokes on t dicap list, there were many mp , lent mater mast, at Gergen the| City that were not entirely qualifi United Gtates Golf Association, in a to compete and that henceforth only golfers with a ranking of five strokes or better will be eligible for It és planned to have the rankings ready by March 15, A CamADATE FoR. OFPCE™ oF MAvon— toorep on — Greeeans nap Wis OWN WAY oF Deana WIT “ourtrers. | Daubert Has Turned Down | Federals’ Offer, but He « Wishes New League Luck Brooklyn’s First Baseman Was Considering Fancy Bid From Pittsburgh, but Finally Declined It, and Tells Ebbete’s Partner So in Letter He Wrote To-Day. By Bozeman Bulger. Jake Daubert isn't going to quit the Brooklyn team for the Federal League after all. John B. Barbour, the Presl- dent of the Pittsburgh club of the new organization, made the Dodger first baseman a fancy offer and a three years’ contract and for a time Daubert |thought seriously of accepting. jAfter ih Nttle more reflettion he evidently | changed his mind, as is evidenced from |the following message he sent Vice President MoKeever of the Brooklyn Brooklyn, Jan. 10, 1914. ® satisfactory one.” other the same privilege. out of organized baseball. Chicago trying to dig up some league players for He saya ha spend “if he can get the players. and th! up fifty cents of his own money piece. . and it fe high time for the big something. crowds when they start to play. National and American think they need no advertising, they will. contract with the Brook- lyn club has two years more to run, and this in itself would bar him from accepting the $30,000 for three years that the Federal League is sald to have offered him. Then again his sign- ing with the new league would have been against the policy Iaid down by Ja Gilmore, the Ban Johnson of the Federals. That Gilmore wasn't in aympathy with any such proposition that Barbour of the Pitteburghs made to the Brooklyn first baseman is made evident by Gilmore's announcement in Chicago to-day to this effect: “My statement that no contract play- ern will be signed Dy the Federal League stands. I have no objection to my managere going after playere who are merely held by the reserve clause, but as to signing @ contract player like the Cincinnati basehtt? ego ail kinds of things were thunder i¢ I learn they have signed @ player who ts under contract I shell immedi- ately refuse to accept euch a contract. Ag oon as any manager learns that a player is under contract he must érop all negotiations with him.” From Pitteburgh comes that James Tilden (“Jimmy”) Sheck- ard, former Cub outfielder, will be the next manager of the Pirate team of the Federal League. President John B. Bartours remarks at the end of a conference with Sheckard were said to have indicated as much. “I cannot say what we have done,” jockey here this season, to his credit, and when he gets Cross ing overweight, SWIMMING RECORDS BROKEN BY SCHOOLBOY. Herbert V. Vollmer of Stuyvesant High School emashed two Public fichoola Athletic League records in a dual swimming meet held by his school and De Witt Clinton in the West Six- th street baths yesterday. He cracked the old neve, ot me reste, imming the furlong minut tec rc by six and three-fifths seconds, Mh the 100-yerd awim he gave Father Time another jolt, Vollmer covered the distance in 1 ute 8-6 seconds, bettering the old figures by 41-6 seconds. pn JACK O'BRIEN WINS FROM CHARLEY TURNER. PH Jan, 10. — Young Jack O’Brien, the local welterweight, won from Chaney Turner of the Falls of Schuylkin im six fast windup Ne From Federals. SPRINGFIELD, Jan. Walter Maranvilie, shortatop of tar of the Federals, Wanderer. CLEVELAND, ©., Jan. ‘The score was & to 4, oe Johnson Wine at Tennis. Phitippimes, Jan. EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN | | sald President Barbour, “ut we have talked with Sheckard and our talk was It ts understood, though, that there fa & case before the United States Si Dreme Court right now thet will ha on the numerous expected. The fasue is the validity of @ con- at gives one side the right to terminate it at pleasure and denies the ‘That is ex- actly the question that will arise in the baseball cases. Under Daubert’s con- tract—they are ell the same—the Brook- lyn club has the right to terminate the contract whenever it pleases, but Dau- bert cannot do so at any time Even after the contract has expire? he is held under the reesrve clause. I¢ the Supreme Court holds such @ contract invalid, it will knock the whole bottom In the meantime Otto Knabe is in big his Baltimore club. plenty of money to intimates that Ned Hanlon is putting up bis own dough to back the team brings the remark from Con- nie Mack that Hanlon wouldn't put anything less than a five-dollar gold ‘Whether Hanlon is putting up coin or not, it is @ cinch that somebody is, feague owners to get off their perch and start No matter what may happen this Federal League is getting & barrel of advertising and will draw The may going be done to that innocent itle fluke of @ single, tut the Federal League ap- Pears to have stepped in and stolen tts 90-Pound Lad Jockey Sensation Of Winter’s Racing at Jaure Neylon Tops the List of Race JUAREZ, Jan. 10.—J. Neyion, who! behind and can use hie han has undergone his second suspension by the stewards of the! Jockey Club, Juares course, Cor rough nding during | fim into trouble the present meeting, 1s easily the st@r/ Then he will no doubt prove He was ey finished jockey. leading race winning rider up to Jan. lghtweight class ts J. here, with thirty-one winning mounts Tall cate one nin asersentl rd into the saddle to-day he will likely add to the record.. His weight of ninety pounds makes it possible for him to| tucky to join th ‘accept most any mount without carry- ‘Turns Down Two Bids Boston Braves, to-@ay deciared he had refused to sian Federal League con- tracts offered him by Managers Brown of St. Louis and Knabe of Philadelphia, Maranville said he was satisfied with Boston and had no intention of joining Wie in Cleveland. min-| the Wanderers, crack hookey team of ‘New York, eight minutes of overtime second game will be staged to-night, PAEY AND GEBONG AEE ON 145 PONS ATW ATE Match Clinched Between Two of the Greatest Boxers— To Clash Next Month, well ‘one of the shows to be held by the Gen A. C. the early part of next Freddie Welsh, the Engtish spematen. has a hard task to perform to-night. lg to meet Sam Robdideau, ue Quaker City lightweight, ino Dout at the National A. C. of phia, and in order to defeat him will have to battle in his best is a clever, Sapper O'Neil, who has Pression with the i has won both fights land, is signed up for two His first will be with Frankie 3 New England at the Garden A. C Monday night and his second with Houck at the Olympia A. A. of phia on Monday evening, Jan. 1% Eight clubs will hold shows t as follows: Fairmont A. C,, Brown vs. Johnny Schumacher; Ray Campbell vs. Jimmy derbiit A. C., Brooklyn, Mel Coogan va. Jimmy Burke; Dexter Park A. lyn, Red Smith; New York A. C., finals, Amateur Tournament; Atlantic Garden A. ©., Young Fulton vs. Charlie Parelli; West sant oa ‘Burnes va. Walter Neleon. Tom O’Rourke ts anxiously waiting to hear something from Jim Buckley in Frieco in reply to his wire asking @ match for Porky Flynn with Gunboat @mith. The pair met once before and, put up a nip and tuck battle. O'Rou evidently Agures Fiynn will sure Battling Levinsky in his next battls at} fhe National Sporting Club next Tues ay. He Joe Rivera has started training et @ Chicago gymnasium for his tea-round battle with Ad Wolgast at the in Milwaukee on the of If Rt for be a beats ere he wil promptly m meet ey in two weeks. : Young Mike Donovan, the gen. ‘White of Chicago before the weight of this city, has another on. He has been but In the mean time what has become of Two weeks |in search to i N g i “1 i 4 i Daubert, that {9 © different matter, Winners So Far and Looks ast “All managers of the Federal League pee enuat look to me for orders, mi . pess upon any contracts they sign; and ; ha nye) his Lerrowe : great jockey. He can ride Moreover he is & very aler barrier. Ver: avoid taking th for roug ‘One of Neylon‘s rivals here McDonald, he is riding #ix pounds heavier Neylon. When racing ends here winter MoDonald v ll go back to ble of E.R, Jey. ja here under call te #, Welr, trainer of Old Rosebud, WILLIAMS TO PLAY TIGERS ON or PRINORTON, N. J., Jan, 10, change has been made in the Princeten football echedule for 1914 The mew game will be with Williams Ge Rees | 0— the ‘The Met of teams whom the will meet, with the date of the has not be u made public, out it wae wid oMcially that the list practientiy will be the same as last year, with the ‘Harvard and Yale games at the end of the schedule. eing "Ts Baa —_—_ Svan TrIming cOWLine as TO.MGHT ‘The