The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1915, Page 16

UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY. plieaee a Tom McCarey, the Famous Box- ing Promoter, to Conduct Twenty- Round Bouts to a De- cision at New Haven. Gores, Wie: Yok erenaa Wont . OM M'CAREY, the famous Los Angeles boxing promoter who ‘went eastward to New Orleans ‘when long fights were prohibited by ‘a new boxing law, will soon be running twenty-round bouts with- im easy reach of New York City, ‘MoCarey has made a partnership bp roy res with Harmon Bronson of New Haven. They will hold twen- -round bouts, and decisions will be MoCarey is one of the best men in the United States for the position hold. He always used his in- | > ™ week makes Leachie’s “sore excuse look as funny as some ain's best jokes. Dally 4% in iz ‘assured that i at wi = cf 3 “Pee Got 'Em Fooled Now!" | pBtjenmae bene 1915 ‘Pass mellow ; agedia weed. Dictiling Co- tow York” Belsinon pen ‘ if WHO CAN FOLLOW THE IN “| Jack Johnson Posts Forfeit To Fight Willard in Havana itintelpetinats Cowboy's Manager, However, Says He Will Not Consent to Transfer Bout to Cuba. HAVANA, Feb. 2¢.—Jack Johnson put lt Aa il mail I it = jt niiil nly ity tl isdersi i 1 ; iit GLANCE aver the nimble press agent's work during the past i : j ef 3 i t iy fit a | ae He g Leach said the best condition of his i : i i 5 SEEL a Ik oy i i s bet j & { i i : ; i #2| Ei ir ef to Return to Play for Mack Is Latest Report PHILADELPHIA, Franklin Baker, the Maryland “home run manufacturer,” will again be seen guarding third base for the Athletics, He will be the Mack custodian of the “hot” corner, as he has been for th past six years, a at American League champions will not| Hast White Plaine, will put on another abow|sary property before starting. It is be without hie services very long, | tt Monday night. the r if Baker may not put in his appearance = Prmoter, a manager, The cant ie: Jobuny | fore warm weather, at the Jacksonville training camp. He may not even break into the opening | Monty of Portchester, American League contest here on| ‘ty April 14 with the Boston Red Sox, but he will be back before the pen- nant race has grown more than two Hight was wn on the Baker situation to-day By one close in the councils of Connie Baker Incidentally the from the non-refillable ‘Why doa’t you?"* ia Connie Mack Baker when he announced that the “Home Run King” had retired. He pointed ‘out Baker had quit in past years, without ‘ime Connie THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1915. EST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK Sopyright, 1915, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) Jest awe va A COUPLE OF THOUSAND ‘Te @o To Sourn AMERICA AND START “TRAINING UN’ “THAT'S. CURLEY - An's TRAININ HARD “The ONLY SPorT * TRICATE WINDINGS OF A FIGHTER’S MIND? C tus Bune Saace carr Form WHAT WENT ON Wieobes Hae ) A CHANCS To FIGHT WELSH! WHY, Tim BETTER “Wa EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN weeks or more to | that he'll Sf get back in ble old t EL PASO, Tox., Feb. 2%.—Until| Jack Curley arrives in Havana and vitinrd. Ment ir it . "hi must remain “up in the air." Hotere | This Is the Only Thing Left levine ere, Caney, endeavored to pu rong a front ible 1 i fai: Bhs fees‘ deviopennds watch bars | Undone in the Affairs of the rac y wrec! the fight plans, | tit ls now evident there in little; Local Clubs, basis for his belief that the engage- ment will be staged at Jua: Friends of Curley here to-day de- clared they did not believe Johnson had flatly refused to come to Juare: It 1s admitted, however, that Hi —_—— OW that the last Giant has left jal car has been Promoters are after the fight here and a apec Jotmson mentioned ie ae lity of ordered to take the Yanks & transfer in a message to Curley.|away from here Sunddy we might Willard and Tom Jones, his manager,|agree with Charley Ebbets that the to-day will remain here until some- thing definite is decided, according to 1915 baseballiseason Is in its infancy. but declare thay will, The only thing left undone is the resen' not consent to a transfer of the fight. | signing of Marty McHale, the sing- |ing spitballer, to a Ruppert-Huston ‘contract and that may be accom- | plished before nightfall. Bill Dono- van has made an engagement with McHale to meet him to-day and it | will be a question of Yes or No, Mc- Hale, who is singing on the stage, will have finished his theatrical contract Saturday night and can leave for the South with the team Sunday if he so desires. He he has not considered a jump to the Feds. “It would be rather difficult to dis- cuss what prospects the Giants ha for winning a pennant this yea said McGraw before getting on the team “because, as yet, I do not know how I will make up my club, With the exception of Lobert at third there will be little change in my infield and I have good material in the out~ field with Burns, Robertson, Snod- grass, Beschor, Murray and some of “\the youngsters to chose from. Of course Burns Is sure of his job be- cause 1 consider him the best all- around ballplayer in the National League. The others, however, wil have to fight it out, “If Schauer and Schupp, two of my young pitchers, are at all promising ot} we ought to be pretty well fixed » ©. of Brookiya will hold bouts this} in that department. I look for renin. The New Polo card is, Johnny Burt |gome good work out of Bill Ritter, man, and Billy Ryan vo, Tim O'Malley, At the| Tesreau ought lo have his best year, Vanderbilt A, ©, Harry Lenny ve, Johnny | and Matty can be relied upon at all Meme ‘vs, some good fighter, | times to win a majority of his games, peer oged hy ag ie stronger Asthur Pelky, tho heavyweight of Chicopee, | than he was js time it year, 'e Mam., who ve Coffey’ " will have to do without Demaree, but rest opponent In tte tnt at |FFQIIMO 18 likely to come through the Fairmont A, (, anes land have a real good year. * ioe oe pee amet night. Js et |" can aay very little about the flock of youngsters that are already i ! j i i : ge A i if i i I i HE 8 ig § : fe EF i if ye HE if Hi iH i E Hl Esrk int i a ike uE Fi i ul Fert Me Fg fi z i acek a fre eiete i at fF Hi al H Fe Hl Hi py [I 2 i of > a E = ES G im Weetchester for the battle, Colty te working out at the New Polo A, A. wih Bob Armatrong, | thorn. Jack Britton and Jov Btein, the Harlem welter. and Knockout Mrown of thie city bave bee | South with the regulars, Lari . ry is in- sened pe clash in ten-round bouts at the terested in some local affair which sooo of the One Hundred and Thirty. | does not come off for a few days, and given, but the Giant mani exactly like the idea, fn the card of the Jack bharkay. all arrangements made for the nece: — park." : i zee 3 7 serk BiG epee Set i echedu eg i self major league By Bozeman Bulger. | at Marlin as 1 have seen but little of . * A disappointment to McGraw was Fright, ‘and ““One-Hound’” Hagan of Califorsia} tno failure of Larry McLean to start fifth Street Sporting Chub, which will be beld| begged to be let off. Con: Bt wee re didn't night's alletar show,| It in likely that both Capt. Huston Harry Green meeting, | and Col. Ruppert will go South with Tomay Madden will|the Yanks, but they cannot do s0 hook up. ‘The twd other tans are Jimmy Murray | until they have inspected a number . Timmy Henith and Young Benny we, Young | of sites for the new ball park. They . have made up their minds to have grounds of their own, and they want intention to begin building be- “If we should win the pennant” (get that dog from under the table), says Capt. Huston, "we may be able to play the World's Series in our own are now asserting that an Interna- tional League Club can be made to pay in Jersey City. As long as they | think so President Barrow is willing | to turn over to them the franchise recently forfeited by the old owners and let them take a chance. The fact that the Feds have decided to locate in Newark does not mean that they have abandoned their in- tention to put a club in the Bronx or on Manhattan island, The Inq dianapolla ffanchise may be trans- ferred, though |t looks now as if this will be deferred unttl next Manager Bill Donovan of |Buffalo to Open Fed League Yankees Will Try to Sign eae"! Pitcher McHale To-Day Season in Brooklyn April 10 Invaders Plan to Start Pennant] *ithout pay. Other rules were dis- cussed, but no radical changes were made, The Federal League wiil open the! started like a farce, both boys toying season April 10, three days before the opening of the National League sea-| Welsh looked around and sm Fight Four Days Ahead of Organized Baseball. » BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 26.—The annual meeting of the Federal League got under way this morning, when the managers and umpires went into session to discuss changes in the rules. The uve of the “emery ball" was prohibited by a rule adopted which provided that any offender would be fined $200 and suspended thirty days Catcher Marshall Hitter of the Giants’ Rookies pene has Infielder Brainerd and Pitcher Gipe Look Best of the Other Youngsters. MARLIN, Tex., Feb. 26. | Uae of tho Glants’ rookies are showing up so well in practice they have become especially prominent as probable regulars for the coming season, They are Catcher Pitcher Gipe. While it is somewhat early in tho training season to get an absolutely correct line on any of the recruits’ ability, still the above trio's work was’ such that it made a favorable impres- sion and stamped them as being worthy of Manager McGraw’s very Record Runof 300 Made by Inman in Handicap Match The greatest exhibition of English billiards ever witnessed in this country was given last night at Doyle's Forty-second Street Academy by Melbourne Inman, It was the third night of his handicap match with John Montgomery, whom he de- the total score thus far, Inman, 2,251; Montgomery, 449. Inman began the night's play with the balls at the top of tho table where he had left them the night before with an unfinished run of 23. He started alternating potting the red with simple cannons, On his thirty- sixth count he lost the white and then losing hazards off the red, accumulat- Marshall, Inflelder Brainerd and] ) Heaviest | i | careful consideration. Marshall has not only shown his ap- titude as a catcher by his speedy and/ accurate throwing, but his batting hai been heavier than any of the young- sters now in the training camp. le has shown such improvement day by day, handicapped by sore muscle: that much better work than he has yet done is practically assured, If Marshall comes up to expectations It will be the means of Catcher Johnso1 being sent to the minors, for Smith is sure to be retal! Brainerd is @ player who Is going to the Giants’ vet- t the Austin and Beaumont the Texas League and was) red the best in that position in that strong organization. Pitcher Gipe has rounded into form sooner than his fellow rookie pitche: on account of having played duri the winter in Southern California. Ye: terday he showed that he had great peed and control. two teams. In the first contest, which was played in Boston, the Hub ag- gregation gained the victory in a hard fought game. The Winged Fist players have con- tended that they snould have won that game, and they are out for re- venge this time. They believe they can follow the example of the Hockey Club and put the Bostonians to rout. Ruffalo will pinay at city's franchise to Newark. be on hand on Friday to fight our cause,” said Mr. Gates. tion will not Seley. he discussion of t OF the playing schedule, but will neces- nh sarily delay its adoption.” sdward Ebling of thig The Hockey Club is the only team in the league that has scored over the Boston A, A. aeemtadiiesenantts WATERBURY AND PELL TO feated by a score of 750 to 31, making] PLAY FOR RACQUET TITLE. In the tournament for the national amateur champlonship of racquets in the court of the Racquet and Tennis Club Lawrence Waterbury of New York, who holds the title, will meet Clarence C. Pell of Tuxedo in the de- cisive test to-morrow, In the matches yesterday, Pell was started a remarkable exhibition of|extended to the limit by Stanley G Mortim: another Tuxedo player, ing a total of 241 points off this ball] while Waterbury had no difficulty in this style of play. before missing a very difficult angle| disposing of his younger brother, J. shot, His total for this inning was|C. Waterbury. The last match waa| actually 300, which is the ‘Mighest| decided in straight games, mark ever reached in this country at} Although J, C. Waterbury had all kinds of speed, in fact more than the In the fifth Inning Inman made a|champlon, it was noticeable that run of 169 following with a well|there was a big difference in their where a minor league team has failed Mr. Ebbets, owner of the Newark In- the meantime, d:clares that | A. ———EEe READY FOR BIG MATCH joni) At eee ae t played 113, finally running out the service. Lawrence aiso placed tho game with an unfinished 18 in the ball so well that his brother found it tenth inning, giving him the best he has made on his American necessary to constantly reach for dif- ficult gets. Lawrence was always the master of the situation, —_— tour, ten. ‘The decision of the Federal League! The final block will be played to-| Pell's variety of strokes, combined to place a club in Newark—Harrlson, | night. N. J., to be exact—made it posaldic | . {for the magnates to proceed to the forgting ‘at Miuftalo and make out a(t, A, A.C, HOCKEY SEVEN fe that has been prepared by | Mr. Ward. Organized baseball is anxious to see what a club calling it- do In a town! faving had some hard practice \arills this week, the Irish-American dians, in . hockey team will take the ice jowed more patience and he will dispose of his holdings at an/at the St, Nicholas Rink to-morrow p ROT AO night, confident of beating the Boston ‘The business men of Jorecy City A. & im the second game between the ‘ with intelligent ‘placing, won him the }four hands. Mortimer would nvt have gathered in a singe ace in thix game had it not, been for one scored by service in the third hand, caine t the AA. first game against Mortimer in oniy | 0 arise. Eddie O'Keefe, the Philadelphia light- | weight, had an easy time outpointing Willle Andrews of this city in the main bout Longacre A. gut Teddy would be made by Two Days More Great Remnant Sale On Saturday this great economy opportunity will end, Not again until next fail will such an exceptional chance $25 to $50 materials—suit ends left from the! season's selling--Cuit to measure, $18—Coat and Trous: $16. Broadway @® 9th St. made “The !njunc- WHITE OUTCASSED BY FREDDE WELSH =) H TORINO BOUT Lightweight Champion Didn't i Have to Extend Himself:to Defeat Chicagoan. (Special to The Evening World.) MILWAUKEE, Wis, Feb. % Freddie Welsh, the world’s light weight champion, last night @emon- strated that he has no peer, for he made Charlie White, the of Willie Ritchie in a local ring, like an amateur beside him. outboxed, outfought, outgene outlasted White. When White 4 beginning to reach the end of his. durance Welsh was just to show his form. The firat the battle was tame, but the lagt i a ripping exhibition of | Welsh can do ut long range, as |as in the short arm jolta, 3 Important: of ail |demonstration by the champion ti he can make 135 pounds withogt weakening himself. it was the Agst time for many a day that he oa | | signed to fight at the real Ughtweight |limit, but he made the figure in the an hour later thant] heduled, and then wi efend his title, far stronger the last time he met White here, 7 | Two months ago the avs : \dict was a draw between Welsh’ | White. To-night there was no \tion. Welsh was in far better ~ |tion than on his other visit, and the icago boy claimed to be just a ng. After the fight White claimed should have had the decision, bes, the fighting in the » rounds. ically every critic at the rings it Welsh's Sight, howe net y landed sotid blow during the fight. | throughout, and White {purely defensive battle, The fight \ jwith each other and until gan hissing in the th according to corridor gossip. : Brooklyn, and| blows landing all over White's ana- Auda c ees jtomy. Newark, providing tho transfer of the{ "White held the champion in the Kansas Ctty franchise is sustained} fourth and fi and then Welsh took will open at Baltimore on that date. Pending the decision of the court} in the Kansas Cit | the offensive threw his mitt all r White's ¢ : for the next oO three, havin t in every Newark dispute! period. In the ninth White tried for no definite announcement as to the! @ knockout, but We pred fix as the league officials, The club owners went into session at noon and sent out word that no announcement as to deliberations would be until late to-dey or to-night. Owing to the late arrival of Robert | B, Ward, President of. the Brooklyn Club, the meeting of the directors was Charles Weegman of Chi- cago was not expected until to-mor- | o¢ tho White Elephants last year, will ambitic body in th Davis to Captain: Athletics A gaint PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 26, — Hart Davis will captain the Athletics this and Ira Thomas, who was Captain. be given full charge of E. Gates, attorney for the Fed-| It, was expected that 1 r' again act as Captain thts eral League, characterized as as “ir-| though there. were reports. t rinerg regular, il] advised and unjust” the | hnd been friction betwoen Ira and soi of the players of the clu last seaaon. jaction of the Kansas City magnates} In discussing the change in th saps in holding up the transfer of that | ta! Mack said t “We will Y, j# | Captal asin tull charge satisfactory to igo announced thi ea new traing city: