The evening world. Newspaper, February 25, 1914, Page 12

re, UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY FOOTBALL TACKLE, NOT PUNCH PUTJEFFRES DOWN AT BUTTE Jack Munroe Resorted to Gridiron Tactics at! Time Jeffries Was Wabbly From | Drinking Wine. UNTOLD TALES OF THE RING Being the Rea! Inside of the Munroe-Jeffries Affair Eleven Years Ago. j ‘This 1e the sixteenth of a series by Robert Kdgren on fights and || @ghtere of the past and preseat, including stories that have never found @heir way into print. The series will be continued om these pages at feast iwice a week. Copyright, 1814, by The Prese Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). | E* = years ago Jim Jeffries was absolutely invincible. Physically he was a throw-back to the time of the cavemen. Mis strength aud nerve force wan out ef all proportion to that of other ie tase. “! Federals s could play with any other fighter in ESOMN one bad ever knocked him down or even #o much as staggered bim. Mven Fitssimmons, the mightieet hitter, had only smashed the bones; of bis hands on Jeff's face, cutting end bruising bim badly but 20 weakening damage. His recent fight with Jim Corbett bad been a jok Having bean coached in the fin points of boxing for several month by Fitesimmons, who joined Jet training camp out of a Sporteman- | , Uke destre to seo what t! i aiant contd | do if some of Hob's skill were added ste his native strength and speed, Jeffries played with the former cham-|ing By Bozeman Bulger. was no news to Secretary th Christy Mathewson to “spton. ite was taster, and bo culbosed Corbeti. Corbett's bardest punch-!age the Brooklyn team this season, es, when Jeff let them land, only made him smile. In the tenth roung,| Reports from los Angeles say amt the great Giant er a fabulous offer to jump or- joe the charges made by the Feds and i having played a joke on Fits by allowing Corbett to stay a round longer |the “outlawa” made @han Bob did, Jeffries ‘ran over and Knocked Corbett out with a punch, ! Pitch @riving in another as he fell, just to make sure of the job. wal After that there wasn't a man on Loy vit ase ed to jub cart! wanted t t Jeffries, uel under his arm and vey ie econ ware Nenaay Chance | Went Into him with a good old foot d baseball. spring training. The secretar TEE EVENI eure Jon . MINER , HNOCKE . CHAMPION JEFFRIES Down ROUND - RT HAND HOOK OVER HEART Jerr Toon Count OF 9 DECISION . Foster of the Glunts to-day that ederal League was negotta According to Foster, Matty is due iP at Marlin this afternoon to start |” pir, y Offer to Matty No Surprise, but They Will Not Get Him, Says Foster, | Giante’ Star Twirler Has Practically Job for Life With New York, Still Los Angeles Report Quotes Pitcher as Saying de- | NG WORLD, MONROE THREW JEFFRIES FOR A “KNOCK’ DOWN” Copyright, 1914, by The Press Puttishing Co. (The New York World). Mont unroe » A = SECOND - MUNROE'S | | | So far Organized Maseball has taken bas remained silent. Now the 0. 1.) roposes to set public right, if the pic is willing the Major League magnates | i show that the Federal League WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 -’ BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK © Old-Timers Were Better Men At Everything, Says John L. 1914, EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN en Lf fet Frigid Weather ° For * the Giants MARLIN, Tex., ob. 25.—TRe Giants’ recruits took up football ang handball as their training exercisg yesterday, ‘The weather wasvo cOMb natives wore earmuffs the the heaviest wraps they could vover im the old cedar chests up the attic, and even then were af to face the frigid blaste, | They, ideri i wouldn't have come out at all bat He's Considering Bid to Manage Brooklyn Feds. Te anvelection tor. Clis:-sia (aba Gam “8 . y voter in Murlin conscientiously |that some plain facta will be Riven! C “ “ asts his ballot, although there seamed John /t© the public concerning the Federal jamal . The Famous “kxocxpown — to bo some sort of an election every |League—facts that will tend to show MUNROE UPSET JEFFRIES WITH A other day Z \the newcomers themselves guilty of Foot Bart. . ald RHPeA: : é the things which they BRAVES WILL OUTBID FEDS; ileal ia | FOR SPEAKER, SAYS LANNIN: will be with the Red’ So: the confident declarat Lannin, Salary will decide Lannip intimated, and the Boston Club Will wo further in that Whe than any | | HOSTON, Mass, Feb, ball tackle and put my shoulder intoloiured that Matty had telegraphed Mmoters, while denounctng the roserve | \ [rederal club : te beat him. his ribs. r t GAFSd) URS ae . clause of the Orguntaed Haseball con. | oo Bo it startled the whble, country |he tripped on iis own fect and were | lia Intention of renewing hin con- ttracts, have a similar. clause. ta. 01 | | Moving pictures have come to sta They | | CHARLESTON ENTRIES. when, four months after Jeffries had over against tho ropee and fell to one} tract for another term of yeurs. But |their own contracts: th o| © | dnstruct people. i | v . 7 up pretty mad and|gecreiary Foster #3 | ' — whipped Corbett, news flashed over | went after me and from that thne |SccreaTs Foster says that Mattys) Ti ty be then -pwinted out that The country is beginning to miss J. Pier- | halt, Baee oa mY the wires that an unknown miner in| en I just played football and roughed | for_lis services to the club in thir- |while the Federals have been mating JOHN L.’S | t M “ fi i | peifines a aa: Butte had knocked Jeffri¢s down and dag him and he didn’t have any-|teen years, practically holds a life|insinuations aguinst n- | pon organ as a Jinancier. | Arnarl, Mine had “received the decision” im a four: | PAM eT ota tis Kemmtre for tig|eontract with the Giunte Mathew. |Heate baschall.” thoy uve ine only| BELIEFS | Major leagues have no right to tar way of | oe found bout. fon began hin career with New York this charge will be based ‘on the ND Federal League. * \ ie Jack Munroe was the ieee se: “He knocked me down once with!and he will end it here, is the club's | fac that th Federas have decid 4 “og 2 ‘ 4a thing about Jack Mun-/a@ right and left the belly comi: wmition 5 |to pool all their players fees kaew anything / gubvet a tingh iy coming Bosition tn the matter. tal eaneis euenvanene SAYINGS | aig t have been champion yet if he had 0 he couldnt the reat of the me. When Ball | 5 came to me afterward he proyoxed ¢ | gol Kast under his management 4 one eae ree gan iD fortune. 5 le fixe Up and rent off all thi Reliance on one | telegrams telling how 1 knocked ‘ef? down aad told me to stick to the I did, for one. It just happened it 1 had played football with a Munroe onthe Olympic A. ball team, in San Francisco, him with the wae Maes cam tampered Almost every mem the teum has rece down re the outlaws, but Cate the new circuit. er of! from |im@ to the fans, but it will serve « ing er Wileon has | #00 purpo bean the only oné to acceptw job with | famous occasion | | gown wit! lineup jante from ” leaving Augeles for ;: cthrwent I knew fiat Munroe wore eT Ar by a Foderal | for copper! AXthough Muuroe never had a Laie and That he was no longer ant bance with Jeff, he did some reall; football. Then over tne iT? | ood fighting. Ie knocked out Peter ber and massacred w gigantic fcl- low from Buffalo who T O'Rourke Bed wae a as Je euccessor, an 6 whipped Tom Sharkey very brie od in aix rounds, putting Lim out of the ring for good. When he met Jeffriei in San Franciaco, Jeff was in pe, and wine cut no figure in his prop- oe. He knocke: ae out wo and J don't t! there’ the slightest doubt that he could have knooked out any other man if ti day, Jack Johneon included in the list, in the same apace of time. twirier as sayin “T have been offered « nike than | ever thought could b a baseball club, but there are so ure | considerations that enter int jack Mi in Staves i geen Je unroe win cl a Slenahip in the Olympic Club. He wha among umatou: on think over the mutter carefull: fries toughness on the football field "t doubt that hard reme! Bere g eats Meateied the ball’ down the action he would take, Levinsky an Frankie Callahan, the featherweight, } t Frankie Club Decided on Heavyweight Show When Dundee and Cross Failed to Agree. day night. other two tens. \ By John Pollock. | Scotty Montieth, manu; IALLING to clinch @ bout between | Dundee, sent a telegram Leach Cross and Johnny Dundee/etating that Dundee for March 9, Billy Gibson, man- | Kansas foug! ager of the Garden A. ©. signed up Jim Coffey, thi and have been rematched to box Dubltt! in three weeks. that night. The other contest which Gibeon is trying to arrange tn he- = ‘one|tween Fred ‘“Sallor’ Fritts of Hrook-| Wille Ritchie, who meets Ad Wol- ey ‘and Tom|sast for ten rounds at the Queer lyn, champion of the navy, “Bearcat” McMahon of Pittsburgh, The Crosa-Dundes bout was aba: 2, doned of the|row for Chicago, where be Aghtere couldn't ayree on the splitting] ish training for the contest. of the 65 per cent. of the receipts < i Gam Langford @ back from Paris. He arrived on the steamship Car- i if A report was « if viz - {ill of tuberculoms in California, tue ie po rg culated at the At- | nia, \ared peopl ean moms woe, openly wcouses Jack Johnaon ot ©. teat olgbt tha the | Athleds manager ahes that the gen- |eue Mediator, “but bu last bettie 6¢|retusing to make a match with Lang: | sociated with the Kramer brothers in /¢'ai sucription be stopped and that Ine q ven- well bates) ‘. 4, . fight Carl Mortis retire on March 1 and that the Mc- | hinwelt. | pictures Rave come to stay eee. dane at Kenosha, Wis. on March 20. Mahon brothers will take their piace. | — them offer good, i f from Al Lippe, who te 1 ‘Camp! Finite ibe Amant | Ct rage there and that] Lo irom i 3 ik fernon, C1 ; £, f $5] ite @ Kaueas Dra: y salary pald by mi 0 matter that 1 am holding up my an-/| ewer until I have had a chance to Mathewson would not aay juat how }long tt would take him to decide what T the National League meeting A which Is to be held here March March 6 to complete the now famous Evers deal, it Is understood d Jim Coffey — To Box Again March 9 of uext montb or early in April. Brooklyn hi been secured to meet leming in the star) } bout at the Fairmont A. C. on Batu 1 Callahan wakes the pla of Willie Warren, who ts aick, John- ny Daly and Mike Rosen and Bull Canstdy and Joe Maroney meet in the of Johnny 9 the writer Young it muich a great ten-round | to-day | battle in Buffalo last night that they | ‘The cross receipts berry A. C. of Milwaukee on Mar will leave San Francisco to-mor- offictals have received Ritchie's sigued articles of agreement for the bout, | Toe weg nt will be 185 pounds at § ports from the Weat quote the star) ny the Giant,” and Batuing Levinsky to} amounted to $3,300, Dundee hustled meet in the main go of the heavy-| back to town to-day to keep his en- Weight show which will be staged on| sasement to-mor night with Pal | w at the National Sporting Ciub, | Connie Mack. fin- club ju Put strength where strength in needed This muy or may not be interest for the Feds in giving to reply and get some Let ‘er rip them a cl more publicit iE big league magnates have heen informed that the Feder- als intend to make a raid on all the reerults who do not make Good at the training camps this spring, The Fed promoters beliove they can get these youngsters to jump to the new league rather than pe it back to the minors. at won't cause us any trouife | use we won't lose anything,” said John Foster yesterday. “It will be!topica of the day. eusy enough to frame our agreements! with the minors so that when a player is bought no money will be paid until he is delivered and makes good, But what I want to know is: Whore is a Federal League youngater going when he doesn't make good? OW that it is Wilson hap jumped to the leds it is understood that he will be} assigned to the Brouklyn club, “Olaf” has sald that he would prefer to play in Chicago, but that was before ho knew that there was to be a Brook- lyn club and that he could get this close to his,old stamping grounds. Wilson wants @ chance to play regu- larly, and as McLean and Meyers are sure to do most of the catching for the Giants he thought it a good time to take the leap. jfor ten |bout. He say last he has seen. Secretary Ohl of the Athietics waa in town yesterday having in charge a bunch of recruita to be ship; to jacksonville on one of the Clyde line 5 ia consignment of ivory will go down and get the grounds in ey ory to the coming of ini wil the later ek. part of nex’ his sentiments. Secretary Obl sa signed his contrac that Eddie Plank t @ figure thor- oughly satisfactory to himaelt and to a quar \forty years old, or very close to it, Manager Mack expects bim to win ut least twenty games for the champions thie coming seanon. nice home Hi t Went Abini ONNIE MACK hae shown bim- | self to be & more sentimental Kia Willows who knocked out Ed- he bantam champion of | thick and so fast that John recently, has been aw Jatt tug neh Y,, Veb. 2h—Toung Kensas, featherweight champion of Buf-| McGraw be there. fale, and Johuiy, Dundes of New York | barreasing sounds te o draw at th fellow than ball playera in gen- | eral would have believed. Instead of |» jJoining in a public subscription for | in: peoprietoryt |the benetit of Rube Waddell, who a |¥t y deville U | Applications for aeute at ¢ White Sox banquet have come in x0 {that mak it ea Heydier HE IS RAIGi ramped, It looks nde ae paxa) F ii there would be nearty, 1,000 guests. Not only ts Sullt |. After all McGraw may not be able (to get to Marlin as early as he ex- pected. There is to be # dinner given in be. to Comtakey and Callaban in Ch! 0 ry, |immediately following the big affair here, and the comune instete that it’s @ rather om for the Giant It has been reported times since Jobn L. got aboard the n he has accumulated i of a million dollars. Even though Eddie ix} “Nothing could be further from the truth,” said the old veteran. and a fi don, got ten thousand dolla ve got a lot of mone: o yourthink 1 would try vau tunts if I had @ ton of dough”? 1 guess not.” in 4 farmer and ynologist on the side but he is cat ‘2 moving picture and © at Brockton, Maas, | even hun: y Je theatre seats OF et eala Moston old- | Giants- and serve to instruct peopl | to learn. NG WON'T BE never tasted liquor. | Successful‘*white hope’’ must be big, strong, | brave fellow. He’s hard to find. OW 4@ man who made a million dollars through his prowess with his fista, squandered it in disvipation, then swore off al! driak and is now on the way tu another fortune, is the story of John f.. Sully years champion of the world. visit~-the first in five years, and he marvels at the many changes wrought in its architecture in that short time, the faces he used to know missing from the gay throng of Broadway 1. is now fifty-five years old, weighs about three hundred pounds and out. | side of a slight attack of the gout is in excellent health, John L. is well versed on all the Boxing, tae sport |which enabled him to earn thousands upon thousands of dollars, gets little attention from him now. Of course he reads the fight news ue printed in the daily papers, but he seldom attends a he refereed u battle rtain that Arthur | between Red Watson and a lad by the name of McPartland at San Francisco | some two years ago—and this is the | sould “T always like to see 2 good scrap, | the but mout of the fighters nowadays are) | “1 jokes, #0 what's the use of watching fighters to-day them?” is the excuse he gives for not | going oftener to matches. ! HOPES FEDERAL LEAGUE WILL |Not as good as thoy used to be, But MAKE GOOD. Politics and baseball are two things; dear to the heart of the best known man in the history of pugilism. He Is very much interested 1. tical affairs, while he 1+ in hopes that the Federal League makes good. “L always like to see @ kid get by,” je the manner in which he expresses Boston's po- | Rin were alive? at ness is pick- | so that I think I'll have to in- | he ta bringing up two fiitie lad of them is four and th and he says that both her egret that I ha T wasa’ ‘Whe: later. "t re various “I own m of seventy Mm the} value thelr services too % It moving Most of clean c.:tertainment, in a way ! ey bares, eye Broadway T won: Be sasan I. Loretta Dryer, Purse @200; Uuree-vear-olds amd wn Jr Htohinesg + John is paying this city a He also regrets to see so many of John.) up five times that sum | “For a long time, in fact years after Jef lost at Renon f A on the lookout for a white hope, was looking for a fellow with the same qualities that 1 possessed when! { Was champion, 1 wanted & brave “4 fellow that would wade in, ‘ont the first round—and a man that could punch and take one in return, Aftor looking over them L gave ft up as a bad job, I realized that if 1! have found a man to whip johnson I would make more money— ‘and easier money-—than | have got in ring, But he wasn't to be had.” Air Ha ; 14; Little Jane, nse, co JOHN L.SULLIVAN ‘TO-DAY and PHIRTY YEARS AGO nm you don't think that the, are anywhere near wood as the old timers?” Sullivan Auother thitiy thut wele iy ns of the major lea ri Leag remember that when the A League startod they had far le: ital than the F Philadeiphian they told him they i n that city, rank Houch elected @ moneyed man, preai- hough } | asked, is the object ‘ “Not only are the modern tightern| ‘ ‘ {mone of the men in any wall [none of thas y walk of life “Do you mean to kay that the New Haven Railroad would be in ii ent difficulties if J Plerpont T should say not. He could appoint a set of directors that would smooth matters out ina bout it at the time, being sic minute, If he didn't get them belin bed. In Toston they didn’t ha would make changes until he did,; any backing either until the Morgan, ‘in my mind, was the great: becaiue Interestud. Bo why should financier that ever lived, and the|the American League kick? How- country is just commencing to mies| ever, | an: to see Charlie Comin- him.” long head, FIGHTERS ARE PAID TOO MUCH Sara es THESE DAYS. “1 think tne p' fight game. fighters Ter m0 A Tureen of Soup Receives the final touch by adding one ‘Teaspoonful LEAsPERRINS’ SAUCE ‘aylora ae, that man has,” nine years the fifth of nex, month since John L. took a drin rouble is with the; °! Suess it's all destiny with tad promoters, vut the for. |1480 " he declar “A young fellow THE ORIGINAL WORCLSTERSHIAE The’ io, is plum nutty to touch the stuff, but . s8 upon them. | A beffect seasoning for Fisk, Kosgte, promoters cuit aiford to” pay two| Wis TE never had tasted the stuft—1 Chopa, Steaks, and Marebite,. | t they ask, dnd they| tink 1 might atill be champion, Judg- Sold by Grocers Everywhere around uniil they put on ay, me by the of false alasnis taat! r it, which diapt igueceeded ine to the title, if T had lett | hat two boxers are holdin, 7 F a Up he should go to the press aiding; money in the world--I'm cured. his case before th Beh boxing hogs ruled out of the game’ MUM'S BILLA untit they became more reasonable, ““AcADEMY. BROMUWay, AY ave SF" and wit at Price | ae ah | nts’ Fornshars, | Remar able i $20 Spring Offering 147 last sp:ing patterns-—-enough ma- terial for about 600 suits—-many $40 to $50 values—-made to measure, $20. Sale on second floor. 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