The evening world. Newspaper, May 26, 1914, Page 14

veniam d Favors Boxing Tourna- Ment as Part of Next Olympic 7 Games in Berlin, j Serres Sit, YT Beales Wetttes INGLAND wants boxing in the next Olympic Games. Boxing was included on the programme the Olympics were held in Lon- siz years ago. At that time our friend, Snowy Baker of Aus- an amateur with the gloves, one of the competitors. reason for England's coming in favor of having boxing in- as an Olympic sport is easy to England needs to develop some to uphold tottering fistic toa. English professionals in the classes don't amount to much. ips by training amateurs for Olympic meets some good bi may be developed. The rea England develops so few go0d WSvyweights now is that as soon one of these hard hitting and, ve brulsers gets a little ‘tion be finds that he can an easy living with a road- “pub.” Until recently there "4 much money in fighting in 4. Most of the English boxers turned to inn keept Ita life than that of the ring, and can boss all the “‘alf and ‘aif’ want rithout hav: Sosy ih hinge cam custom Prevented many lr gerripee peavywoighte from yt He cetuly Sood mea. Bar- rand ting don't mix any bard water, a the Sitar ee SECOND thought along the game line. Possibly bas discovered in amateur box- ‘one athletic event in which she hope to beat the Americans, as boxing 1sn't high): in this country, nti boxers same to this country Te Dis: On Loose Leavy Ritchie Defends Title Were the victors in boxing contests in London last night. At the Na- tional Sporting Club Young Ahearn of Brooklyn knocked out Private Betis if the hore round and Pat O'Keefe of Ireland defeated Jim Bullivan of England in a twenty- Sana teas ae ante ul im vage range, is Day got the decision over Patrick Curran in twenty rounds. Sailor Fred Fritts, the Brooklyn heavyweight, who clashes with Al. Reich in the main go at the Stadium A. C, Thursday night, {s so sure that he is going to check Reich's present They'll Meet in a met 10 Teatout Bout at Milwaukee's Spa- cious Auditorium. —_——— By John roliock. ILWAUKEE will be the scene of another championship fis- tic battle to-night, Willle Ritchie of San Francisco, the limb weight champion, being called upon THE BUGLE BLOWS AGAIN TO-DAY Y WAS THER® Because Can Recomp Bets - Gilmore of Feds Against White To-Night ig down in the sult of Garry Herrmann of the ‘Reds Johnson, the Federal League is going to attack the major leagues more flercely than @ clause is held invalid, President Gil- more says that hie organization is going to try to sign up every player in the American or National League who has that clause embodied in his contract. | EVENING WORLD,. TURSDAY, MAY 6, 1914. ~ BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK Copyright, 1914, by The Presse Publishing Co. (The New York World). ays Many Stars Will Soon Jump Jus@s soon as a decision is handed jainst Pitcher Chief If the ten-days’ After a secret meeting of the Fed- to defend his title against Charley ‘Whit real wood boxer of Chicago, in a ten-round bout at the spacious Auditorium. The fact th: ‘nite bas &@ popular newspaper decision over Ad Wolgast, who gave Ritchie a ter- rific ten-round fight in the same city only @ short time ago, has been re- le interest be- ap, and it is receipts will Ithough White t deal in his 2 tol eral League magnates at the Wal dorf-Astoria, President Gilmore ea! “can nemo thirty-seven players of the National and American Leagues whose contracts embrace the ten winning streak that he has asked his manager, Amy Mack, to sign bim up for a battle with Jim Coffey. Jack Denning and Young Mike novan meet in the first go. Rhos.” and made a very + ‘ JOHNSON hae informed ‘ noter Jim Coffroth of Call- ‘fornia that he has been “playing a Be ene on the Moran match, it he is in as good fighti @eadition ar ever. a Bumber of Southern friends of hag gerd to in a ‘are of the same opinion. tell you,” said one of them a fat or two ago, “a big Zulu like n isn't like any other man. Although Red Watson, the Callfor- nia lightweight, has decisions over Ad Wolgast and Johnny Gallant, the fight fans of San Franciaco do not think he has a chance of defeating Leach Cross in their bout at Jim Cof- froth's open-air arena in that city on Friday night, and are offering odds of 10 to 7 om Leach to beat him, say further that the majority of these men in all probability will be with us before two weeks. One of them is Ty Cobb. There a dozen others almost as highly regarded in the profession who have given us their solemn promises that y will jump if the ten days’ cl is held poised Cobb will play eventually in bettors ate offering odds, of Three clubs hold toxing shows to- days’ option of release clauses. I can} own a lot of them, and the: ‘grow old or lose their strengt! n. on doesn’t affect them at vn a ed they carry it far enough to ordinary human Leryn I rJounson will be good as |,,be'e Arty, no matter how ‘be be Tha pretty strong opinion. » But we have had some husky » dark battlers of unknown age Showed no signs of stiffening or softening muscles, There i “Parson Jones.” Down in Aus- the hardest hitting heavy- they have is Jerry Jerome, an Jerome lives “close to When he fights the govern- Age care of his winnings for Bes ives him an allowance to jose to ten any day without training, or ers Sonn te or shoot @ clay a 4 bart by a punch, and hy is something in the lite of ivilized man that makes him as long as he's kept away from gation, A few generations ago Johnaon’ although living on a nt continent. Johnson has in- d the strength and endurance developed through the centuries. how much of that is left after “civilized” life in a ques- ‘i know more about It after Tights Moran. Mike Gibbons is matched with “Willy Murray we'll see a real fight. Murray will go at Gibbons as hard hp he did at McCoy, and Gibbons will be shifty, but won't make a b: up of it. everything that has been shown @ither man in th y Gibbons More class as well as more ex- rhe than the youn Of course Murray in very snd Is 6 fairly hard bitter, tigh can't be discouraged. That's the ) thing that promises Murray a to win far os boxing Goes, Mike ts king the middie-weights. 'T Mike dosen't like p 4 punch, such if Murray can that Ritchie outpoints him. Stout will be the referee. Har % night—At Brown Gym A. A., Bill Kenny va. Al Benedict, and Young Foley va, Johnny Daly of Jersey City; Olympic A. C., Fighting Joe H: a va. Willie Rothwell, and Marty Far. rell va. Al Britton of Staten Island, Sporting Club, Brooklyn, Harry Bak ‘Word was received here to-day from Champion Willle Ritchie, stati: that he will eall for England on June 4 to get into condition for his twenty- round bout with Freddie Welsh in London on June 30, Ritchie saya he is to receive $40,000 and expenses and nm and Frankie Maas., have been matched to me ten rounds at the Irving A. C. Brooklyn on Friday night, the club holding their show then Willie Leonard, Schaeffer and Benny Special Delivery Hirach of Chicago Mack of peacsenent: or because Sat- all m McArdle, matchmaker of the| urday is a holiday. Young Gradwell fe] ea Falemo nt A. C., has clinched three| and die Moran box at the same accepted -round bouts for the next show | a i ter of the club on Saturday night. The fightera who will battle are Willie Beecher and Fred Halaband of Eng- land, Willie Warren and Milton Biller, that Eugene Corri will referee battle, Two Americans and an Irishman Freddie Welsh, the English cham- pion, who grabbed off over $2,000 by his popular newspaper decision over Joe Mandot at New Orleans last night, left that city immediately after STANDING OF THE CLUBS. eail ; alps ueAgue, mx | (ta es thai ‘i a at a # ct i w oh Sa " is 79 | Teeonto. RE re OF YESTERDAY'S GAMES. thai Boston, 2, INTERN TIONAL LEAGUE, Rochamter fs MontresBttorsing Game) Woonenter, 0) Montreal." 1 (Afteroon Gams) fain: Toronto tee” ‘SCHEDULED. "FOR TO-DAY. TONAL, EAGUE chicago ERIONY L-RAGUB, ‘on bie Yo rolls at Pit shire, ‘Louis at Baltimore, What? To Measure, $20? Yes, That’s Strictly True. Men who have seen Amheim clothes for the first time doubt the man who tells how little they cost; Men accused of paying from $50 to $70 for suits buy at Arnheim's, save money and are proud of it. Remem- ber, if the clothe; don’t suit you don't pay. That's the best guarantee. Call and see what a remarkable , establishment Arnheim's is. the contest for New York, where he will put on the finishing touches to hia training for his ten-round go with | Johnny Dundee at the Twyford A. Ul imer Park on Exiae “The Traveler” HE “Traveler’—a big stylish straw for the stylish big fellow. It’s a popular number with us. Ask any of the boys on the road, Same old three- dollar quality at $2. Suit to Measure, $20. Broadway @ Arnh e im 9th St 1See Fashion Show iu my windows | Mail order charges prepaid, Gee! I Pumeed aN’ Ber au me Scnoo. Boons On Reckwew ft wose £ GoTTa Pray Hoorey ! ‘ENGLISH POLO PONIES ARRIVE FOR BIG MATCH Thirty-seven of Them Look- ing Fit, Come on the sau. Minneapolis. A bunch of thirty-seven ponies, the | pick of Lord Wimborne's stables, hich are to be ridden by the Eng- \ish challengers, now on their way here, to win back the international polo trophy, reached here fit and ready on the Atlantic Transport | ¢; steamship Minneapolis last evening. They were in charge of James Faulkner, head stud groom for Lord Wimborne, formerly Lord Ashby St. Ledgers, and before that the Hon. Ivor Guest. With Faulkner were twenty- seven undergrooms and farriers. “They are very, very fresh,” said Faulkner, It was a very good voyage with the exception of last Saturday, an exceedingly rough day. were exercised two hours tevery day except Saturda: "Thoy have been playing in Madrid ‘for three months and they're a good- ish lot, though their build is not tre- mendous. This is a faster lot than last yea They've all winter and in London three weeks. There they were played until the day before sailing. These are all Irish, | | | with the exception of Twe: which is an Australian.” Polo Secretary Spencer Fish of the Piping Rock Club and, Basil Grant met Faulkner on the steamer. At 10 o'clock thia morning Major G. F. Hancock, Lord Wimborne’s, repre sentative, who arrived on the Maure- tania, will meet the ponies, which will be taken aboard the steamer Saga- To the Sporting Editor: In a game of pinochle, three or four people Playing: Firat man leads o king of diamonds; the second and third haven't any, so they are obliged to trump; the second man puts on the jack of clubs, which is trump. the third man, who holds the nd dix of trumps in his ha have to put on his ace, or, in oth oe ia he obliged HD go over the Jack |. H. WARD. ok only ‘To the Byorting Ectitor: A, B, and C are playing evens) 1,000 points. A is dealing. A ni a trick to win. C needs nty to to win. B finds he cannot win and is first play. A claims that B should play his aces first, then his highest trump. C says no. Who is right? ake *PINOCHLE FIENDS. of thie kind B eres oie “hie waess and then highest trump. the Sporting Kdior: row you kindly inform mo pnether ‘Tommy Murphy ever fot Ree and who won? Ww. Hy Qa. lurphy and Ritchie never met in the hl ing. ‘To the Sporting Filitor: ~~ |ODBERS BEATEN BECAUSE PIRATES BUNCH THEIR HTS Nap Rucker Pretty Steady 1. Box, Giving Only One Base on Balls. (Special to The Brentng World.) PITTSBURGH, May 26.—The Trolley Dodgers yesterday made a gallant stand against the Pirates on their first visit to the Smoky City. The fact that Rucker was guessed to pitch tor the Dodgers mude the odds even on the game among the bettors. Rucker behaved all right and bis sup. port was good, but the Pirates suc- ceeded in bunching their wallops to advantage. Nap gras in distress tn the first in- ning, when the first two men hit for singles and scored two runs, In three succeeding innings he was hit for two in eacb—in the fourth, sixth and ninth, and in each the Pirates scored a run, the last, in the ninth, being the winning run. Nap was pretty steady, giving only one tree ticket to frat. He hit old Hans Wagner, but it led to no sert- ouy consequences. By the way, talk: ing of Wagner, he hud @ sturmy see: sion in the fifth inning. Miller made @ single that carromed off his arm and made the limb useless, Immedi- ately after he caught a throw from Cooper which caught the runner a} second and made Hans take lively steps over the bag and fall down. While on the ground even Brook- lyn players gathered around “Wag" to lend any assistance necessary But the bulky player, lying on his back, refused all assistance, When next he went to bat he was hit tn the ribs by Rucker, which bent hin double, but never changed his good nature Nap made an apology and Hans accepted it by trotting to first -FRESTWICK Incident or soe he stay on third? ARTI EGAN. We. would call itan error, if it umpire must Please answer the following: Did Channell play with the New York Americans the last part of the sea- on of 19137 W. GERRIN. Yes. ‘To the Sporting Editor ‘Will you kindly ‘state to whom The Evening World gave the decision in the last fight between Battling Le- vinsky and Jim Coffey, and if George Dixon ever held the lightweight championship and, If s0, give detailer former manager of ican Leagu claims to fame were when he stepped into the ring of the Olympic Athletic Club Inst evening to been in Madrid | his become a Apply to automobi! that conduct racing teams. ‘To the Sporting Edkor: A man on second and third, The runner jumps back but in so doing he gets the path of the ball. bounds off into the outfield. runner on third then goes hom he allowed to go home on suo! Inform me how a young man can rh A.C. 8. janufacturere The throws the ball to the second to get the runner on second It hits him and meet Sam Langford, the Boston tar baby, they are nil now. He laated less | than four rounds and the fans were in| doubt as to whether it was a case of knockout or quitti: Van Zandt Jacobs &Co. 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Using Hutehi- ind Byera doubted the wisdom of eard @ bagful of clubs when a/|t Joe Mandot Gives}: Welsh Hard Bout NEW ORLEANS, May 26,—Freddie Welsh won bis ten round bout with JJoe Mandot by the margin cf a single round, after one of the hard- est and fastest contests ever seen in this city. One knockdown was scored, Welsh catching Mandot with o short left hook to the point of the jaw in the fifth round. Mandot was going} away when it happened, otherwise he | might not have gotten up. Mandot rad the beter of four rounds by a shade. One was even and five went e credit of ish. The advan' was decidedly marked in the Fetes credited to Welsh. It seems that almost every man who appreciates Style and Quality is wearing one of my hats. $Tes want you to get ac- quainted with ‘Cousin Jack!""—my new peg-top straw. It’s a swell mem- ber of the family. It’s good looking. It’s new. It’s becoming. It’s 82.00. See Fashion Show in my windows, Mail order charges prepaid. Tus 9 BILLIARD AND BOWL! 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