The evening world. Newspaper, January 29, 1914, Page 14

AS GOOD HEADWORK THAT HELPED MATTHEWS 70 WIN TITLE FROM BILLY SMITH When Matty Had Mysterious One Frantic With Rage He Uncorked Wallop That Produced Sleep. ‘This is the tenth of a series by Robert Edgren on fights and fighters of the past and present, including stories that have never found their way into print. The series will be continued on these pages at least twice a week. M of the greatest fighters of his day, is now earning a good li * for himself and his wife and six children as awtage carpenter. No doubt Matty is e very good workmen in his line, but no one who ever saw him fight will forget what a master mechanic he was with the gloves. Matty won his spurs in the days when the land was full of great fighting men—the old, twenty-round decision days, when fighting was fighting and the “hippodrome” was so upusual that it attracted a great of attention. A man niust have been something of a fighter to knock out Stanton Abbott, Otto Sieloff, Jack Bennett, Kid McPartland, Owen Ziegler, Mysterious Billy Smith and the rest of the great ones who fell before Matty’s attack. This story, never told betore, is the tale of the winning of the welter- 4 Weight championship, when Matthews knocked out the almost invincible Mysterious Billy Smith. I. is one of the best examples I know of the _ telumph of “mind over matter,” when backed by es right punch Properly | alivered. In 1898 Matty Matthews fought and | the sivushoad fighter’s rushes. Smith Copyright, 1014, by The Prom Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), ATTY MATTHEWS, once world’s champion welterweight and one se to welterweight champion Billy ait, Somewhere in the fight Mat- was laughing at him as they went to their corners. ' “T oan you about thct,” sald Dunn id T’ve learned something,” said Matty, “He won't get that right over again.” twenty-five rounds and MATTHEW! REFUSED TO “FALL” lose the decision and some FOR SMITH'S OLD TALK. of his well known beauty.| That was a fight, for Mysterious called him “Handsome Matty” | Billy Bmith was a workman. ad He was a champion ike those days. champion, and Matty took many “Whea he couldn't get me, with — clout, Still cool, steady, “d vase cl 7) ig the story, “I knew that I And at last Smith's viclous noting ve him if I ever got another chapce,! began to break through his veneer never foit more sure of anything | of trained self-control, In the clinches ‘thews broke his right arm. Seeing "els advantage, Smith fought furl- ously, but Matty, cool, steady and @urageous, parioaly naged to stick out the f y's an toed vtec: dt amin Beevty shina t2 do - le half the battle. IRCHAGED HIB R JACK DOUGHERTY. Barly in his career Matty was man- pee by Charlie White, and a little Sy Jack Dougherty. Gett!-; ttle money under our old friend Matty proposed buying up his ing. was trying to @ Matthews lose his head and come in fighting wildly, which would teave him open for a knockout punch, But Matthews only said FROM to weaken he was the stronger/of the two, and he knew that we time had come, “Billy, oe veg Pet nay been say- to me.” t's all ‘ail ih ‘thee the game,” growled Bmithe “St's not in the game,” retorted | Matty. “It's in your own mind. You'd never think the things you've said to if they weren't true about In touting. at riot an us’ Billy rage, , came right with ail body behind it, Smith ‘ard, knocked out for full minutes, brag Matty was champion of the worl winner. can use that “sald Smith. | Said, “Billy, IT beat you with your "aw, cre Steers ca a pth to own stuff, and I didn’t say a word to retorted you that I need to be aal any dof.” ba “I'm going to For moment Smith jent. oe Then he said: “Matty, youre right, ith fairly frothed with You're a better man than Tam and over the table at his seconds restrained him. T hope you'll hold the championship WILLING TO MAKE & long thn And he held out his hand. “WINNBR TAKE ALL.” Caught in the Sport Net ie take all.” ’ fou're on,” sald Roche, “Winner all sults us.” But when Dunn out the articles, wrote ansad- paragraph, signed his name passed Bees) et to Bache the ‘® manager began think better of it: * [ae ey Bill to Kill Racing in Maryaind Causes Suspension of Work at] Havre De Grace Track. he said, “rememver one thing, Pi adeed that advice uver that he'd find oe him.to cut out ‘Williams yesterday at An- napolis introduced @ measure that aims to kill horse racing in the State of M |. The bill, if passed, will oe eaiine law that creates a racing commigsion. It is probable now that work on the new stand at Havre De Grace will be suspended until the Legislatyre acts on this nieasure, re- celved "or the the Brooklyn < College | ath- tetic t Saturday at, the Fourteenth it Armory. A. T. Moyer, I - American A. C,, will lower | start start from soratch in the sprints. IE Sa a eects THE BVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, \NUARY 28; THE PUNCH THAT WON A TITLE FOR MATTY Ket lel ttn as Bb send (The New York World). Cost Big Leagues $100,000 In Salary Increases to Save Stars From Federals No Matter What Becomes of Gilmore’s Organization, It Will Always Have a Tender Spot in Hearts of Ball Players — Globe-Trotting Sox and Giants Are Signed. By Bozeman Bulger. HE Federal League may blow up and it may drop into the clase- ifcation of an outlaw minor league, but there will always be a) tender spot for it in the hearts of the players. According to the statements given out by the magnates of “organized baseball,” the aggregate increase in| “°° salaries to the boys who have stuck | to the big show and sent in their | contracts is upward of $100,000, In addition to this twenty players, who are rapidly nearing the end of their careers, have been given three-year contracts. And still the magnates advise the players that the Federal League is a dangerous thing for them to even think about! The increase in salaries has not! been limited to re or drawing cards by any ) The smaller fry are the ones who have beeri bene- fited. For instance, Jesh Devore, whe has been shunted around the league for a year or two, got increase of §750 and a contract three years with the Phillids. Heinie and he also got Even Roy Hartzell, of the oldest of te veterans, who xpected to be jed, got an increase | from the Highlanders for which he wrote he was duly thankful, Jil! Fischer, the Brooklyn catche: also treated to something of uh little more for 1914. it, too! have been dealt with @imilarly, Up to the present writing nothing has been heard from Beals Becker, but if he doesn’t get as much as Josh} Devore, Charlie Dooin and Mr, Baker of the Phillies are in’ for a busy eummer, HARLEY DOOIN and Hughey Jennings have discovgred that ‘ the Feds have a ver# unpleas- ant way of smoking out the big leaguers who had been listening to the~tempter. As soon as Charley made his defi and advised ball play- w. to steer away from the new league the Feds give out a letter signed by Dootn in which he offered to sign for $7,009 und bring four pla with hin The magnates ire not sore about Charley having tried 19 get more money, but that line bout “bringing the others with | him" 1090999000000: | League championship race will clash to-night at the St. Nicholas Rink. ‘This game will serve to whet the ap- petites of hockey enthusiasts for the Strugsie between Yale and Princeton, | which takes place on Saturday night In yesterday afternoon's gamé the rey balkline tournament in t Idle Hour Billiard Academy, Bro nell (140) beat Day (140) by the sce of 140 to 127. In the evening ga Strong (135) beat Parker (110) 155 to 94. Low and Brownell now have @ rec- ord of three games won and none lost George H. Brooke, head coach the University of Pennaylyant, ball team, was operate! upon day for appendicitis at the U niversity nt Hospital at Philadelphia. Mr. Brooke is in no danger, xecord ing to the physicians. by of After playing two extra periods of thy; minutes, De Witt Clinton High Behoo’ | makes it pretty hard for Dooin to| — get a smile out of Baker, Tommy Ratty rises to remark that, notwithstanding the high cost of liv. | ing, the Giants and White Sox, at! Marty DRove IN ANOTHER, RIGHT WITH ALL The FORcea OF WS Bony BEHIND (Toe SMITH FeLL STRAIGHT Forwarp WATER SOCCER LATEST SUBSTITUTE FOR POLO. the coming dinner, ought to be able ie get a good supply of plain, home ooking for ten dollars a plate. He | shoyld remember, though, that the | Giants go direct from here §o Marlin, Tete where the fast will last for six | 3. Jimmy Burns, manager of me Young Benevolent Society Ball, Club of Sheepshead Bay, notifies us with a tone Of real pride that the Federals have not molested hin play- ers, “If the Fede should offer offer: thent” a raise,” he gays, “Jo Paige ‘amith | besa: backer, wilt t make up the differ- ence,” Out in St. Louis the Fede are in a! terrible fix and Charley Weeghman | will have te hurry over there with a bankroll right . ‘he Cit; Col. Hedges of the Browns aril that Stovall will not be permitted to remain with his club even if the Federal League should go under.| Stovall, it will be remembered, was| pended for spitting in an umpire's fare. “We will have no splitters un- leas they are pitch: " says the Colo- el, bul it the same time, sent peel @ contract just to keep in form, T is understood that the Milwaukee club is the only team of organ- ized baseball exempt from Fed- eral League ravages, When Cantillon gave the Feds a lease on Chicago property for a park he made the provision that his club was not to be tampered with and to that Mr. Gil- more and his associates readily agreed, The St. Louis Federal League club has about completed arrangements ww do its apring training in Okla- honia, An ‘advance agent went to that State a week ago to ggs about ; fixing up the grounds, called off the Players’ arate “strike” in the Fri |minor leagues, The magnates of the smallcr leagues decided to com- promise by giving Davy and the phyers what they wanted, contra in Au to America. The = aE aarti CHARLESTON ENTRIES.° e cniries for go-morrow's races are follows: Stale: dannt ed aa als | Jab HD RACK-Pure ¢900; three jal turlony iy Ton, Final, tae i ¥ 2; Bolly x Hen Prior, 116 $400. “hw. pols ATER soccer is the latest game to be added to the curriculum of aquatic sports, Tom Whitaker, swimming coach of the Missouri Athletic Club, is ponsor for the new game, which is picked to supersede water polo in the list of water athleticg sanc- tioned by the Amateur hietic Union. ‘The gante is played similar to the game of soccer football. There is 4 goal with a cross piece at each end of the taj and the ball in- stead of bet: kicked is thrown, through these goals. i] The ball is not allowed to be car- ried under water. This will at once obviate the objectionable fea- tures in polo, for it will forbid ducking and wrestling and other encounters, in which the partici- pants carried the ball out of sight of the spectaters. It requires considerable knack to throw the big leather ball which ia used in:the new game, and the water basketers and the old polo guard are having a busy time ac- quiring the art of the new water Highlanders to Get Players From Boston Club! ——— Frank Farrell, owner of the High- landers, and Joseph J, Lapnin of the Boston Red Sox have had another conference regarding @ deal for play- ers, The Highlanders need a good sec- ond baseman, now that Zeider ia lost to the team and the raid of the Fed- Hae) League has ‘weakened the pitch- ing department. Mr. Lannin prom- teed to give the Highlanders firat call on any surplus players that Boston will have, Dela Fiv 5 The fast basketball five of De ie wed th ‘Yo the Sporting Kaitor: A bets t there has not been a} ¥ g0-as-you-please race held in jadiaon Square Garden within tho lnnt ten years. B bets that there was id it being a failure wa: READER, the Sorting Editor: (1) Im Abe Attell matched to fight Johnny Kilbane? (2) Are there any major league pau players. wearing yoxlasses? (p) Did the 98 uphold the Boxing moraines parnn: ie? a "Did. Joe a) Fitssimnjons’ New York Bt Ly New York, and (3) dot ever fi Courts haven yet. (4) Mandot feug' renarret preliminary bout a yeare ago at the Fair- ic, | whom? (1)° Match ; jmont A, ‘at! away, 108; inesa, AN: Ptemior 10a; Smet: ‘Yo the Sporting Bair: What are the weds and qualif- ‘ontions a o, were con { secule @ sae or Setang te Ta we lighter a Batter and ap abil- te ride. rai no fe ko: cneept, ecibly, rese. ed islets ao es Eaiios: : baad * He Four Times ater ome a) Featherweight Champion to Keep After the Money While the {Getting 1s Good”—Nearing to Box MoAllister. weight champion, plans to grab a big wad of money ott of his | fistic battles this year, | been signed up for four more fights | By John Pollock. ’ @OHNNY KILBANE, the feather. J for he has {by his manager, Jimmy Dunn. | Monday night he will take on Edcle | Moy of Allentown, Pa., in a return battle of six rounds at the Olympia | A. A. of Philadelphia; Feb, 7 he boxes | Kid Thomas at the National A. C. of Philadelphia; Feb. 11 he tackles Tommy Bresnahan of Omaba for ten rounds at the Ryan A. C. of Syracuse, N. ¥., and on Feb, 15 jhe will go against Jack White of Chicago for ten rounds in Milwaukee. Jack McGuigan, the fight promoter of Philadelphia, to-day closed a match between Battling Levinsky {and Tony Ross, the Italian heavy- weight of New Castle, Pa. They will battle six rounds at tho National A. C. on Saturday night. Levinsky ts oe atched to box Jim Flynn at Nar City A. C. of Troy, N. ¥., on mn Monday nigh! Jess and Eddie McMahon havo completed their card of bouts for the show of the Empire A. C. at the New Star Casino on Feb. Thore will be three Zen-round contests between the folloWing fighters: Freddie Hass and Johnny Harvey, Johnny Dundes ina ee Robideau of Philadelphia Tom “Bearcat” McMahon of itteburg and Battling Levinsky. Eddie Nearlig, the , the Chicago middle- | who has shown some class in | bouts in this vicinity, was {knock out Jim Coffey? (2) How old jim Levinsky? (3) Why doesn’t he wet @ chance at the baal Siac dod utle? D, ) (2) Twenty-two (3) Maybe he will soon. ‘Vo the Sporting Editor: (1) Is there any champipn and who Young Corbett any rel Corbett? ae Paperweight ho? (2) Ty tion to Mm M, 8. 0. lo rweight cham; ion In. enfe?, Pas) Alara ar an “a A bets that "Mahan was playing fullback for Harvard in le-Har- vard game, B beta that Brickley was playing fullback for Harvard in Yarle-Harvard- game, Which is right? ¥. B, B ie right. ‘To the Sporting Editor: Picase print the respective height of Dundee, Kilbane, Attell, Wolgast an Brown; also, where Long Island Oh is located, dues and initiation LARRY DOYLE. Kilbane ehes, on; So area EDITED BY io ROBERT EDGREN Johnny Kilbane to Battle in Two Weeks matched to-day to meet Bob McAllis- ter, the California fighter, for ten rounds at. the Fairmont A. C. show on Saturday night. Nearing was sub- stituted for Billy Grupp of St. Louls, eae has quit the e ring. ‘Charley “Young” Weinert, Newark middleweight, whose fighting in the squared circle in the last year has boosted his stock con- bly, will meet the best man he t fought to-ni; at the regu- lar weekly boxing show of the Na- tional Sporting Club. He will take on George Ashe of Philadelphia in the main go of ten rounds. Ashe is some fighter, the George McDonaldygnanager of Eng- lish fighters, who brought Sapper |O'Neill and Young Fox, the clever boxers, here, told the writer to-day that he has cabled to Kid Lewis, the legitimate featherweight champion of England, to sail at once for America. MeDonaid says he will try and match Lewis with Johnny Kilbane for the feAtherweight champloaship title. George Chip, who broke his right hand in his recent bout with Joe Bor- reil in Philadelphia, has been notified py his re jan not to think of box- ing ain for soveral weeks. After being informed of the doctor's an- nouncement, Jimmy Dime, manager of Chip, called off his proposed bouts with Johnny Howard :n this city and pe ranks at New Castle, Pa., ‘eb. 20, Scotty Monteith, who looks attbr the affairs of Johnny Dundee, saga that he intends to go after Johnny Kilbane for a fight with Dundee for featherweight title. “Dundeo Pa not take on any om 1 gald Montelth, ake the featherweight limit, 1 Intend to force Kilbane to meet him.” Having been ddvised by the friends of Joe “Young” Shugrue to give the game little Jersey City lightweight a rest, Tommy Lee, manager of Shu- has agreed to do so, and has called off his fight with Johnny Gri: fiths at Akron, O., on Feb. 2. Joe's “Buffalo” Costello, who twenty | Years ayo wan one of the great fight- ers of the prize ring, died yesterday at St. Joseph's Hospital in th tuberculosis, Costello was a top- notch middleweight and fought many |long battles, His most memorable [bout was“with Alec Greggains at Coney Island, the referee stopping the fight. after eighty ‘rounds had been fought and calling the bout a draw. Phil Cross, the local welterweight, intends to box a few more battles 4nd then quit the ring. Phil, who gays he can draw very well, both when he fights and also with the mn, intend@ to become an artist afer eaves the fistic prot m out-of-town papers to furnish them with cartoons, | Manager Birminghai —a TIMER IVES OUT FEDERAS’ UNEP: FOR CHICAGO TEAM ‘cael ; Signing of Beck ToDay Completes Joe's List of “Big League” Players. CHICAGO, Jan, 29.—'the agning of Fred Beck, formerly with severat National League teams and Inst year with the Buffalo Internationals, to-~ day rounded out, in Manage. Jq Tinker's opinion, a “big leasrue team” for the Chicago Federals, Beck prob- | ably will play first baso with Kading, last year with the local Federals, his understudy. ‘Tinker’s catchers, so far as given out, are Owens, Washingtom; Allen, a local player, and Mulvaney, Cincin- ‘aati, with Killifer stitl claimed, Hen- drix, Pittsbucgh; Brennan and Gam- nitz, Philadelphia; Packard, Cinein- nati, and Lange, a local man claimed by the Chicago Americans, will be the muin reliance among his pitcHers, Tinker, Back, Kading, Westerstll of St, Suscph and Zeider of the New York Americans compose the infleld, and Wickland, who Jumped from the Cincinnatt club list night, and Zwill- ing, clalined by the Boston Nationals, with several recruits, the outfield, resident Somers of the Cleveland Americans concluded a long visit here | to-day and returned to Cleveland, where he expected to confer with regarding de- fections among his Slayers, Sheep Dog Will Be Popular at Bench Show Entrion already received for ‘the thirty-eighth annual dog show of the Westminster Kegne} Club at the Grand Central Palage next month show that the smart foxhound and the big, intelligent German sheep dog will be the fastionable styles in canines this year, Entries close to- day for the annual exhibit, but.the number already in the hands of the committee give the foxhound and German sheep og the edge im popu- larity over his aristocratic brothers and sisters. American breeders evince great in- terest in the German sheep dogs. These animals, the feature of last season's show, have been bred ex- tensively here during the past year, and they have been entered im greas numbers for the coming exhibit. ‘Th foxhound, very popular with #o- clety, also promiges,to be a feature when the judging Of thousands of prize wirners starts, Like the sheep dog, the foxhounds have been entered, by the dozens, and the judges are in for @ strenucus time when they @t- tempt to welect the winners. —__>——__- CHARLESTON WINNERS. FIRST RACK—Selling; purse $200; year-olds and upwards five and a half furlongs.—Inferno Que. ue eae 3 to 1, 6 to 5 and 8 , 1d; Bertis, (Knight), % to 1, 10 to 1 and ¢ third. Time, 1.09 St, Light, Bello Chilton, Rosebury IV., Caraquet, Pimpernell, Richland, also ran. rer eee RACE—Bellin, i for three-year-olds and uy wardt five and a halt furlongs a (Sumter), 2 to 1, 4 to 6 and 2 ty ‘on; Votes, 104 Gaturphy), 7 to 27 7 i 6 and 8 to 5, second ort (Martin), 8 to 1, 3 to Tand aoe third, Time, 1.10, Little Ep, Reed, Tom Boy, Floral Crown, ey Bilicic, Corncracker, Cicero "THIRD RACE—Belling: purse 900; for three-year-olds and upward; and a halt turlonge-- Briar a (Buxton), 9 to won; Baty 117 (Byrne), 18 to 1,3 to.1 and'6 to 6, third. Time, 1.09. Prinee Chap, Fasces, Brave, Hearthstone, Colfax, also ran. FOURTH RACE— Selling; purse $200; for three-year-olds and up- ward; five and a half furlongs.—Wa- ter Lady, 2, (Smyth), 18 to's, even and 1 to 2, first; Luria,~105. (Right- mire), 2 to 1, even and 1 to 2, second; Right Easy, 118, 10 to 1, 4 to 1 and 8 to 5, third, ‘Time, 1.081-5..” Kiva, Loretta Dwyer, Americus, ili Stream and Skeets also ran. | pelt JOHNNY LORE LOSES. 3 DECISION TO “KID” KANSA: BU FFALO. Jan. 25: Kid" won @ decision over Johi Lere New York ine Iiveridane” bow the Quee ‘until the ‘siath Found, to hit more aceu- rately and with more frequency. Your Dollar one Than} Double Now 4 Is Worth gaged Sgiheiare 9 a dollar's purchasing to $50 remnants made into