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BEST SPORTING PAGE IN WILLIE RITCHIE IS TRY Copyright, 1915, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) 7 ILLUS RITCHIE has been doing E HAS SEEN Kt “TRAINING Line Freddie Welsh Easily Outclasses Anderson in Fast Six-Round Bout Hogsier’s Reputed Punch Never in Evidence Against the Champion in Contest at} '", Grand Rapids—Results of Other Ring Battles, THIS. se oe ne world's lightweight the champion to his toes. ‘The closin round saw Jimmy pass Wi several times, but only one punc! anything back of it. Welsh fought safe all the way, go- Into clinch frequently, been doped as the jor of a dangerous sleep pro- but Freddie never ga’ opening and from the start the Hoosier boy seemed a victim of stage ‘elsh looked like a sure enough champion in the ‘ond, third and fourth rounds, when he was fast as a big advantage in reach bothered Anderson always, In the semi-windup Johnny Wol- brother of the former champion, outpointed by Ernie Morgan, oj Fifty Thousand Seats reacting, ub has thee mina tnt the Manet Cana, (Rpecial b6 The Brenig World.) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb. 1 REDDIE WELSH, champion of the world, easily outclassed Jimmy Anderson, of; W! 1 polis, in a fast six-round bout| this city. The champion had the Hoosier boy waving bis arms in/Hirsch of Chicago Just did manage ay ten roundsa.with Johnny Ertle St. ae night, but got the beaing of Paul boy nent Polo Grounds Seating Capacity KENOSHA, Wis. tied up in a clinch during every minute of the fightin; Welsh used a right jab and hook poonstantly. However, he seemed to/with a ri have little power back of the junges and Anderson was in fine condition! Hirsch decided it wi when the gong rang on the sixth ses-/run than to mix with the St. Paul boy sion, The Indianapolis boy never <9 looked dangerous until the two clos- Hirsch to his knees aw in the firat imal around the After the secona ould be safer to — Agreement Signed at Conference To-Day. ring in the second. mphis lightweight, ihade over Tommy it night in @ fast herman and Gury put up a stiff argument, and mes the going was rocky xle lad. The first round was even, d it was only by hard that Joe had the edge in the secon sixth, seventh, ninth and tenth rounds, Tho frat, third and fifth were even, aiugrus of dersey CH batiored Fal eof a Moore of Philadelphia tl er rounds before the Olympic A. C. last 4 7 aH F i OMMITTERS from West Point} and ‘Annapolis mot at the of- fices of the New York Baseball Club this afternoon and signed an agreement to have the annual Army- Navy football game played on the Polo Grounds this year. It was the Army's turn to decide where the two Government schools would stage their gridiron battle this rounds. In the fifth Anderson landed swing to ‘Welsh’s"jaw, that brought | ‘@ Johnson Can’t Escape, Says U. S, Attorney CHICAGO, Feb. 19.—Jack Johnson, i ? z E y : i i I i j E i ; i a i fis j i i E ING TO DANCE HIS WAY BACK TO HIS TITLE - NATIONAL CLF HANDICAPS TOBE ANNOUNCED SOON Necessary Data Already Fur- nished by the Various Clabs Upon Which Ratings of the Players Will Be Based, It is probable that the natio: handicaps will be announced next month, as the Bxeoutl mittee of the United States sociation has been provided the necessary data by the vé@rious clubs upon which to base their rat~ Inga, There has been considerable specu- lation as regards the possible position of Francis Oulmet, the national ama- teur ttle holder, It is of course un- derstood that he will be at scratch, International League ir ta hx semen Decides to Give Feds _{iesreruneiis ren, owen te alone in the place, Recently the Mas- A Fight Lo a Fimigh | oinceine site aries ne an: ial we precedented handicap of plus three, @ radical step which is not likely to be smu achigl hope | flowed by the national body. >, : . . ior leaguers have ven up ho; james . Tyng, Cl rman ie Each Club in Circuit Hasjot any ‘assistance trom Organised | Handicap Conunittes of the Metros Puitid ks Pak Ub a Sunt Baseball, which is to aay, the major! polltan Golf Association. announced 1B. rom now on they wi! last night that forty-eig! out ol Agreed to Put Up a surety thelr own battles. On saveral oceas[nevent clubs in the association had sions International League magnates replied to his letter asking for hai \- Bond of $10,000 as a Guar-) as weit as A’ oo data for the local roster. It Is be- Th Will |G pitas bata ei [ata Cres high up| vig ae Fved Prcomgel Byron Fon | |g rganize, po! that if they | will get in line quickly and permit o ; antee at It ! 10 stood the aft the losers would be|the announcement of the list within elped financially, But so far no help|the next few weeks, comm Through the Season. has come. Moreover, they oxpect|mesting will, be held shortly to go none, over the list tentatively There is no doubt that these minor| Incidentally, the Exeou it~ By Bozeman Bulger. the majors in the fight with the Feds, | within the next few days, one o! but they realize they must stand it|matters to be considered being the For A rmy-] Vav Game ITH or without the ald of} for their existence as well as for the|Junior metropolitan championship. Organized Baseball the Inter- eed ot what seer Bd Pog \iigett PALM BEACH, Fia., Feb. 16.—With Qeeenessssseeessesieeeees t je same time ey feel that as ne i 8, : national League has decided) iC) yay ‘they must stand the brunt |® fleld of forty women golt 12,600 tickets for each the Army and |‘? sive the Feds a fight to a finish. | oe tne agnt the big league ought to| mK two runners up in th Navy, and a guarantee of a certain As a further assurance that there} kick in with some of that big emer- pcbpinebeers ly will begin to-da; sum of money for the use of the two| Will be no quitting, each club has| gency fund. Miss 1. BB. Hyde, South i to Be Increased for Annual! cims of the service, Agreed to put up a surety bond of i RE aint tamara ‘ ‘ After agreeing on the nite of the P$10.000 as a guarantee that It will go| ord Sag ine t My ag ea h ine Gridiron Battle on Nov. 27] 1915 game the committees fixed Nov,| through the season, meting all ite! shagevcalied at tho new offices ct the | thal chicago, the national runner) Wp 27 as the date for the encounter. contractural obligations, Yanks yesterday and had a long talk japon : with Bill Donovan. Marty has not Nothing was done about the 1916/ A club may be placed in the Bronx, | HN tht tener but he will see Dono: Contest as it will be the Navy's turn | OF !t may not; but the future of the) vay again to-day and it is believed that Golf Champions to select the grounds, which prob- | /eague does not depend upon the suc-| they can aie at aac eantory fi I; - | cess of that project. If it is found| agreement. It reporte low A Ti ably be Franklin Field in Philadel proj he | weexs that McHale would jump mong hose um phia. inadvisable or impossible to get the | Heel “Fas but he denies having Lieut, Fairchild represented An-| consent of the New York clube of the done anything more than discum tho) Ponehit March 4 | napolis at the meeting, while « dee-| Ba, lenguey 2, place, & club, onthe | matter casually. gation conalating of Col. C. D. Wilcox, | along with Jorsey City in the liné-up.! he Yanks have signed another| 3 Major E. J. Timberlake, Capt. D, L.| The Jersey City franchise, whether pitcher who may or may not shove; Plans are now being perfected to Sultan and Lieut. Charles B. Me allowed to remain at home or be| Christy Mathewson or Walter John-|have a large number of Amertean - came from West Point, transferred to the Bronx, will be|son out of the spotlight, but he is| sporting champions appear In a - taken over by'a stock company with| with us just the same. His name is/eft entertainment at the Seventy- sufficient working cash to Insure a| paul Lewis, and he comes from Ho-| first Regiment Armory on the night of chase through the 140 games. boken. Mr. Lewis a claim to fame! March 4 to aid deserving unemployed At the Broadway Sporting Club of! #eason will start April 27 with Rich-| in that he struck out nineteen batters | of New York City. The list of speete Brooklyn the main event between Joe| Mond in the place of Baltimore. Jack| of the Waghington Americas League| wil] include football, baseball, golf, (Twin) McCarthy and “Wild” Dunn will continue as owner and| team in an exhibition game last sum-/tennis, polo, fencing, wrestling, * 3 and the Cadets quickly manager. mer. If he should follow along these|ing, athletics, motor cycling selected the Polo Grounds. The two | Xe" terminated in the opening The idea of cutting the outlaw rid- | jines during the coming.season, Don- | swimming. sion. McCarthy was originally acbedul-| died league down to six clubs was|ovan says he will be quite satisfied. | Those who have been invited : } i Joe used both fled to Burope | opponent and went at it hammer and tongs from the start. the negro pugilist, after being sentenced to a year in the his ol Federal penitentiary for violation of | ninth, committees this afternoon simply rati- fied West Point choice of grounds, : Fe i 5 f z Moore showed form only in one round, the ed to meet Jack Reynolds, but the lat-| knocked in the head by Jim McCaf- golf representatives are Fri ter reported sick and the management |fery and Samuel Lichtenheim, owners} Among those Feds who dared to|Quimet, amateur champlon; Je: The Navy's representative wasiof the club persuaded Kenny to take|°f Toronto and Montreal, who de-| brave the gathering at the Imperial b former amateur iH aD Shugrue came back s the Mann Act, will be extradited and] the tenth. ae 2g ian returned te-Chicago on a charge of conspiracy, according to a statement to-day by Charies F. Clyne, United States District Attorney. te The regent Supreme Court decision] was substituted for Wolgast. wever, was found ore is heavier than Mitchell, fommission rules forbid such Freddie Andrews was Nh ana took a beat. anxious to know what accommoda- |his place. Kenny walloped McCarthy tions the baseball club would provide, |on the Jaw several times, once with a President Harry Hempstead of the | left hook, Giants said that the club would in- crease the Polo Grounds seating SPyee hens to the corner and award-jance. In fact, Mr, McCaffery capacity to 60,000 for the spectular M}game and thn tthe same arranges ment of tickets that prevailed for the Army-Navy game in 1913 would hold jaow good for this season, last night in @ one sided These terms were in the form of | pried ut the game whith was all otis | range @ schedule, but the real busi-| League. Yes, and Jens looks as if he| ceeds of ihe menting wit be —_—_———— FISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP By John Pollock oe ek aa ene So Reach Springs acta eee! With Old Friends and ‘‘Colonial Days’’ E i] a? i t i MILWAUKEE, Feb. 16.—Complica- tions last night followed the refusal of Ad Wolgast to fight at popular prices, Fs g i | F i ref in E 5 s 5 38 i ' : dl Clyne as authority for the statement, | substitut “The offense for which Johnson waa tried,” District Attorney Clyne said, “te not extraditable, but con: lolate the United States law is, Pugilist is not returned through ir’ various plang, eit! r juares, Mexico, , arrested) apererey he wa iit £52 8 baer a Es ofa a BENNY LEONARD PROVES ion SENSATION IN PHILLY. | cont I f heavyweights, to meet in a £ ee? ELPHIA, Fob. 16. — Benny ‘Leonard, the lightweight of New York, the sensation of the apecial show tinal to the Willems: ialed the bij ene aa to the body, hook. The Phil 'W; counted out when The much mooted question as to which in the Al McCoy, the present middleweight | champion, or the New Al McCoy, also of Brook: yn, will’ be settled to-night at the Broadway ‘Sporting Club of Brooklyn, where they will clash in ® ten-round battle,’ Young Marino and Young Zulu Kid will meot in the other ten-rounder, Glen Coakley of Fort Wayne, Ind,, who fougiit few bouts im thts vic ern ing alx roun one In the main bout Kid Williams out- pointed Jimmy Murray. ——__. Catler Beate Lawrence: ‘The Cutler School hockey team, the interecholastic champions, defeated the Lawrenceville seven at the St. Nicholas by the score of 4 to 1. ter rover, @ brit. +» played S28 See bag A the Cute saved the trom. bein, . a'goal in the tivet patrick ia manager of Coakley, Kid Burs and Robby Moore, the weet side Mehtweights, will clesb in the main go of ten rounds at the Brown Gymnasium A. A, show this evening, Hoth men have been anxious for | more me to settle their differences In the roped arena, Ip the semi-final, Joe Terey of liza. beth, N. J., tackles Jerome ‘Spider’ Mennosses, ‘Champion Fredile Welsh ts to receire « guar anter of 95,000, with the option of accepting i Der cont. “of the gross receiyits, for his ten-round bout with Charley White of ‘Chicago, ‘which is! When you go to Proctor's Fifth) oi our eyes, for there, as the cur-;When we all used to lean over our| Qyer $100,000 Me: 2 Latest Medals —_ —_ afman Again Best Marksman, Weekly shoot of the Long Island on Healy's range at 00d Bco) 2? to be staged by the Cream City A. ©, of Mil Fauhee on, the night of Feb, 26, for HO pet cent, of the receipts, Imadgration lumecior McDonald of Dujytn,| colored chalk marks on white paper] Walk” and the bowing and curtaeying | {yo ¥atoon,"” — \ wo Jobony Drummie, the ikely looking lightweight of Jersey Olty, and Fraukic Conifrey have been secured to daitle In the main erent of tem i. Battling Labo and Johnny Russell wilt away blows im the other two ten-round comteste, yesterday was George Stovall, who| hol . Arnold were ready and willing to|has been picking off Organized Base- | holdet of the women's title Furthermore, they ex-|ballers here and there for some|and Miss Margaret Curtis, would| months. Stovall breezed right in, de-| champion. attend-|clared himself a member of the fan-| | The boxing stars will include is of| fest and found ready listeners among|Anthony Drexel Biddle, amat te the opinion that at the end of the|those who up to that fime had not] champion; John L. Sullhvany Ja orener season the Canadian citles will be|seen an agent from the camp of the]J., Corbett, Freddie Welsh, 0 CHiaton Rows to Stevens, better off than some of the American | “outlaws.” ’ Bopoeh Young Mike novan @pd Stevens Prep school's hockey team | towns. | % . : :s ned the Clinton High School seven Another oldtimer to line ap at the) ,,7nle is only, a Bae ee ‘ie and the Montana fighter dropped to the floor, Then the referee Ostensibly the object of the Inter-| rail was Jesse Burkett, at one time| toprol articular line of sport. The the aret | Balonnl Lamm meee ea 'G teeda of the meeting will be seat the best hitter in the National entire gam Jordan caged the puck|for a finish fight with the Federal! him were Willie Keeler, Tim Jordan twice, while Ford tallied once. League, Long sino. the Class AA‘ and Dick Rudolph. i Advance Guard, It’s a Pleasant Evening at Proctor’s Of the Yankees coring done by" either wide during. the |Heas on hand was the preparation | could still do it. Right mtong with ‘ HOT SPRINGS, Ark, Feb. 16.-~ Catcher Sweeney and Pitchers Keating. Warhop and Brown of the Highlanders have joined Catcher Nungmaker, who came South 4 week ago, at the Hotel Eastman. Scout Joe Kelley, who is to bo in charge of ii party during ite stay connecti« = due with his, wife % of Highlanders ran into bright and’ dest weather. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb, 15.—1 Tannedill ‘and Joe Lake will not be from ifooni b t hill has been sold to Los Angeles Lake has been given his un release. ALBANY, N. ¥., Feb. 16.—A Dill legalize Sunday professional baseball the State of New York was Introd last night by Assemblyman Mebi Erie. “Mighty per cent. of m: ailtuents ae working men, who ent never haye a chance to see sald M: of professional baseball,’ Elroy. —— Dohan Beats Demeyer, Johnny Dohan won eaally over Frankie Demeyer in the main bout at the Military A. C., Brooklyn, last night. pT A Bi slugging match ia from at good old Jimmy Thorn- ng us back to the times lortimer. | thing quaint, and there's @ Smell of; And, the: out lavender and roses in the air, and we| ton, human White sw 7 irl's shoulder us she sat at the piano Avenue Theatre the pleasant evening] {012 ‘settles up above, we seo again, |S jebeutier 48 ahe ans Bt the: biane bexina when a young arlist aweePs| wo imagine, beautiful “Pomander | voices, “My Sweatheart’s the Mun in| ) fastened to an casel, and when he lading 8 en remen: 1e She pretties ‘And, then, he gave us “When wel T P I ops aside there is a portrait of « ‘colonial Days."* Were Sweet Sixteen,” D pretty girl—always, It's a pretty girl;| And the grace and charm of it all] And out in the wings Bonnie Thorn- At Maerificed i cr a headed man—bald-headed| soothes you and once again you seo| ton tried to héip him out when dear Bitcane ee . men are easy to draw-sitting in one| the living people of Washington’s|old Jimmy tried to climb that high 1s 0.. a fount Vernon and Fairfax days, and|note—well, we wanted her out, and of the boxes, So we all laugh ati@ye'sans xouci dream life of the beaux | Jimmy tried to drag her, but all we them. nd belles that Howard Pyle loved to| could see was her red hair and the And then Whe orchestra plays some- back of her big Irish frieze ulster,

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