The evening world. Newspaper, March 29, 1915, Page 12

~ — “EM GONG 10 ———— T_T - TACK JOHNSON, “AND THEN ULL NEVER FIGHT AGAIN” a ted “Nothing on Eart Title From Me h Could Buy That .” Declares Cham- pion, “but if Willard Can Beat I'll Congratulate Him and a Sportsma By Robert Edgren. 1918, by Oopyrish T © Frees Pub HE big Government Micie.e ing op interest in the Johnsom-Willard fight ordering boxes and bos peate The ving Co. (The New Yors Kvening We HAVANA, Mar from President Menocal down, are tak Virtting the fighters, vance sale has gone better than any one expected It has even become something of « society event for hundreds of prominent Cubans have announced their tntention of bring tag their families to see the Unusual spectacle Women ha wone to all of : the fights vere When Battling Nelsou beat Jim Freyor in twenty-five : furtous rounde Thureda) night, about 10 per cent. of the epectaters were welldressed women wh @rested the favorite matadors. That Neleon fight, by the w @eo digzest surprine of the season. The old Battier started after bis man Qt top spee!, fought like a fury every @econd of the hooked and jammed in blows, took everything—- and Freyer is & good bomer with @ Wicked punch--and won tn very much hia old style, In the reet after the twenty-third round Neleon turned to @ newspaper writer near hie corner eed asked: “What do the boys think of me now?" Showing that he had his mind on every angle of the game. As for myself I'll admit that when Neleon started I expected to eee him biow up in three or four rounde—so furious was the pace. Round after round the wonder grew that anything human could show euch indifference to punishment, and give eo muah more punishment in return. The weights given out were Freyer, 146 pounds; Nelson, 132, The finish was fe of the funniest ever aeen any- prere, Sam Lewis w referee. At 4 end he held both fighter’s hands up at arm's length, then Jumped out of the ring. Hearing the loud whoop of disapproval, he hopped right In @gain and explained loudly that he had given the sion to Nelson, and that he was only “trying to push Freyer'a hand down,” Freyer having held it up himself, Baniel’s oxplination didn't exactly fit in with what we all thought we saw in the ring. However, it's of his- torical interest aa the only case on record in which a referee changed & Geciaton. Nelson's natural love for fighting It might be mentioned that his share of the purse could hardly have ex- at most. Havana te all ones. Welsh’s proposition to fight very good twenty-five round bouts, fob for a microbe, _ On “forty-five rounds or more." Tha’ im, It will bo a finioh fight. If + a finish fight, and if it does @o forty more as he pleases. ‘the eun, which makes the eweat pou! taking off much weight. of Cuba.” “i'm A glance at the boxes was reminineut of the days ) in the bull ring at Kegla across the bay, thousands of fluttering Jest as an instance of Battling oeeded three or four hundred dollars ripped up over the big fight, but inn't digging down into its jeans for the smaller | Nelson ten rounds here is absurd. fiuch a match, after two or threes ‘wouldn't draw enough money, even in Spanish atlver, to make a watch Tho big fight fe to be announced (doean't: go forty-five rounda {tl be ‘five the referee can omer as many ‘Jack Johnson has been working in out of him in streams. But he jan't He eats ‘whatever he wante and as much as he wants, and cooks everything ‘¢dimeelf. Johnson te an expert cook. Chicken, pork chops and hot biscuits are Bis favorite standbys. He claims jte be the “champion biscuit maker win this fight,” sald Johnson when | saw him, “and then uy @ farm in Franc out four | toon miles out of Paris, as soon as| the ware over, and then I'll eettie down, | have lote of real friends there, They like me and | like them. Vl raise my ewn chickens and hoge and fodder, and live happy ae the only real retired heavyweight cham- pion of the world. Nothing on earth feould buy that title from me; but if Willard can beat me I'll congratulate him and be @ oporteman. | won't grudge him anything he can take me, but he'll have to take ‘t think it's possible for it, Defeat alwaye comes te a champion some time. That's why | won't fight MoVey or Lang! elee when thie fight 1g chances encug! Johnson has made a great hit in Havana. He is a remarkably shrewd fallow, and his golden smile ia per- petual even under the most trying cireumstagees, Two Cubans who had evidently ween drinking something stronger than tea climbed into his | automobile yesterday. One insisted upon tapping Johnson's chin, looking at bis teeth and fecling of his nose to eee if it had been broken. Johnaon emiled and smiled, and spoke softly, jand at lest got rid of them moat | diplomatieall | “What's ti use of getting sore over a little thing like that?” he waid. | Willer training work is barder | than Johnson's, He is ax careful as possible in his sparring, seldom using | | his right uppercut or straight driving right on bis sparring partne: He doesn’t try to bandle them roughly, and when one reels Willard ie always ready to clinch and bold him up until he's steady enough to go on. But he bas an awful “kick” in his left hand. He hit Jim Savage on the c so hard that he o snapped Jim's shoulder out when Jim's bead flew back. Sav ge was on the hospital lst for a couple of days. “L was trying to shoot in a right,” said Jim next day, “and all I know is that he pailed me av 1 started it, 1| remember he was watching me clo: jy, but I didn't know he waa trying to nali me with the left. My whole spine is sore from that punch and my right arm {» atill numb. He must have | almost knocked my head off, Every time Willard lands one it nearly breaks my back. Nobody elae ever hit mo like that. I'm going to stop fight: ing and go to work. There's no use in trying to be a heavywelght fighter | when this fellow’s around, He out- t | classes us all too far.” t Savage says that Willard can take any blow on the ohin, “Any je ever knocks unch on th -| man w with @ ik hi a Jess thinks whele lot mere than moet fighters. “You may oatch him with @ left hook, or something like tha but ie] e serene, time. He know: hew to use that blow, hard te hit.” 5 ae vage predicts that Willard will win in twenty rounds of lees, and insiete that he isn't favering Wil- lard because ef being in camp. Richard Kegin, the tmpresari stared Havana last week ey rene bing @ boxing show with acts of grand opera between bouts, and who is “di- rector-genora;” of the big fight on the letter heads and bill b Vl never fight anybody again. Thiel The doctors way that Missin iat on? ie positively the last one. I'm geing| parently down with scarlet fever, in his absence Jack Curley does all the work, while Tom Jones does ail the talking. track. The whole grandstand be used. The ring will be pitohed on und, ORGS. the afternoon’ Jack Johnson isn't "brok: best make and materi: | to: adoos, welcome better and r, tered in the grandstand. How: ‘The fight arena is at the new race la to the track, elevated four feet from the It will be surrounded by Immediately after the ficht, which will start at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, the track will be cleared for “ He has just ordered twenty suits of clothes, and as many rder Rain and oold weather have the training hard. Tho Aghtare bots warmer , which has come at last. It will be no Joke {f it rains on the day of the big fight. The promoters are planning to have the ring covered and hold the fight regurdiess of weather condi- tions. Most of the people will be shel- re weather prophets say the big rainfall ie over and clear weathep can be ox- peoted. ~— =~ CRARLE® WANN BASE ODD AILMENT ROBS WHITE OF AGGRESSIVENESS Chicago Lightweight’s Spinal Injury Makes Him Assume Erect Posture When Boxing. By Vincent Treanor. HARLEY WHITE, the Chicago lghtweight, has been severely eriticteed following all his bouts here for a seeming lack of aggreasive- ness. Some critics have gone eo far | aw to question hia gameness, others have put him down as a ring poser, because of bis stand up straight atyle and an unwillingness to mix it with an opponent, when a victory for him seemed only a question of another well directed punch. Nor hes hi preference for long range fighting met with general favor. White sticks to lending and countering methods, Hie store of ring tactics apparently has no place for the chest to head and whang away variety sometimes called infighting, White's atyle ts all his own, but it now develops that there ie @ reason, and # good one; for it all. White couldn't fight any different if he tried because of a peoullur physical ailment that has proved puzzling to all the physicians, osteopatha and massage artista the fighter and his manager have consulted, N Inj to the bane of the spine, A following ® knockdown in the ring, forces White to hold himeelf erect at all times. Bending over, even for the shortest periods, causes him excruciating pain and naturally preventa the use of the crouch in the ring. For months he has been unable to jean far enough forward to tie hie own shoes. In hie recent bout with Cross, White tried to lean in and mix at close quarters, but rallies of this kind, which were few and far between, didn't last more than thirty seconds. The pain in hie spine compelled White to withdraw then and depend on the straight-up jabbing atyle, which always played havoo with Cross. At this kind of work White bad little trouble outpointing Cross, and at least half a dozen times he landed eight punches on Leach in auccession with- out @ return, Worrled over the myeterious atl- ment that fall to respond to any kind of treatment, White and hip manager, Nate Lewis, have about de- cided to’ vialt Bonesctter Reese, the Weatern specialist, in the hope of re- lief. Right now the Chicago boy te almost @ orlppla Only @ super- natural nerve has kept him going recently. FTMR watching Jack Britton outclass Ted Lewte, the clever English boxer, in a masterful way last week one can't help won- dering why he doesn't figure in bouts with the @o-called high class light- weights. Outside of Packey MoFar- land, there ten't a classier boxer among the lUght or weiter weights Britton comes pretty near to know- ing everything worth while in the many experts can outpoint any light- weight in the business to-day, For some reason or other he gets fow chances against the stars of his own clase, and often has been Ned to box men pounds heavier. Doxing art, and in the opinion of TEE EVENING “BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW COACH ANDY COAKLEY MAY MERNSTEIN SHORT sToP Yanks Best 0 far, compared with the first time, tion games three days at a oun, the Yank: the fray that has been crop of Ugbtw Jack is too to er the present’ t! By Bozeman Bulger. XN—BIG LEAGUE _ PENNANT HOPES SERIES. thing you may be certain: they are tn the best physical condition of any club In either league that T have seen Up to the present this tour has included eight training camps. As Browne and the Cleveland Club the Yanks are like a champion in mid- season facing a group of players who have just donned thelr uniforms for This can be accounted for in the weather with which Savan. nab has been blessed and the regu larity with which Bill Donovan has kept his mon at the grind. They have had no trips out of town for exhibi disturb the routine. In the other camps bad weather hi kept the athletes indoors for two and games have iuterrupted when they really had a chance to get in three or four hours of practice under @ warm If fielding can be counted for much should be tn the thick of ‘om the tunately, no amount of fielding can offset the effect of a two-base wallop by aome club made up of sore-armed and clumsy fielders. THE ONLY PROMISING WALLOP ARTIST ON TEAM, The Yanks haven't a sore arm on the olub and can field, but with an abundance of sore arms and no par- | tloular ability in the fielding line, as | yet, the others have the wallop. is nothing to indicate that Bill van'a gang is going to hit. | “Why can't, they hit? “Well, they never ha answer available, and for a long time good basis on which to make predic- Hone. ‘ The one glimmer of hope in Done y ORLD, MORDAY, M S$ DEVELOPING FOS AROn 8 ee INTERCOLLEGIATE Y (SNAPSHOTS BY EVENING WORLD PHOTOGRAPHER uo o- KE bay JAMES O'NEALE CAPT. and PITCHFR anor « namite when covrrtght, 1918. by The Prem Viigitea Ce Hooked it was aeen that rote | Wort looked promising. President Navin he New Frenne Wor The [fOURHt hard before releasing bis AVA ATE is MIC? cluteh on Pipp, and when I saw him revised and reownered Yanks|in Gulfport he and Hughie Jennings may not be the best ball club in| Were still bemoaning their lows, Since the American League, but of one|Georse Burns, the firet baseman, ie out witu appendicitis pert and Capt, and then some. ‘Though an excellen no better at that tric! Mullen, but the extra lopa will land him just the same. with the Savannah the Tigers, the was largely tory. nary big fellow, and hook alide so that he time and exhibition |to the batters. were about the tnfleld. to “Lwant to show you Tn about two minu | shooting around the | let. not yet tn | was a revelation fast, but accurate. little fellow playing jsome rea sent, ‘This young fe start, bul, unfor- foreign tongue, laughing. far to his right There | TION OF THE YEAR. aaee °Carram~!"" tie granted, half finish- ay ak ing the word, atu dived with a back- te the only | Ward flip. one of those etrous stunts- and came up with the ball, That ts, considered a pretty | he almost came up with it. From the ball loo Yun's search for the waliop is Walter Pipp, the six-footer, blown loose from the Detroit Tigers with baseball dy- offered to give back all that Col, Rup- Huston paid for Pipp In the practice gam: ball on the nose every time up, and responsible for the vic- Though angular gawky looking, Pipp is as fast as the ordi- 3 well as Tritr Matsel, Then, as the specta- ‘alt a minute, Colonel,” he yelled. condition, nm Peckinpaugh of excitement, yelled something In a the other players ARAGON THE FIELDING SENSA- where we stood it looked as if he was still standing op bis And it Fast and Accurate Fielding Is Offset by Weakness of the Team at Bat—Col. Ruppert, in Savannah, Is Well Pleased With Work | of Infielders and Is Particularly Impressed With the Playing | of Aragon, the Cuban Shortstop. he the Tigers hi t flelder, Pipp ie k than ts Charlie sting in his wal- the regular job club he hit the and has learned the can do it almost “I've got to have hitters,” says Donovan, “and there is no doubt but that 1 will give Pipp the chance at ithe start. It's my one hope In trying nothing absolutely (© |to build up some hitting atrength.” — | Col, Ruppert arrived in Savannah) and was present at the first practice that T saw. For an hour Donovan had the pitchers alternate In pitching turn away, he something.” tes that ball wae infleld like a bul-| After having seen the other clubs the throwing Tt was not only shortstop. For llow, in the heat ar when he cut asa string into Bueno) We noticed a wiry, was ab.) ‘The ball came with a victous bound | he “Muy COAKLEY cw Trained Team, but Donovan Must Develop Hitters ipp's mitt. the (ORK NO SOUTHERN TRAINING FOR THESE BALL PLAYERS CHAMPION TEAM THESE Oave aT whole gang yelled, having picked up that much Spanish in a month (that's probably al 1 they'll ever pick up, too), “Who is that little fellow?” Col. Ruppert, beaming with satisfac- ton at fret “Senor Aragon.” Donovan answered eg the diamond. dt”? “T should to one of "Can he hit?" from Donovan came over if that Cuban kid could bust id, “there wouldn't be inflelder in the world. many arms like that This means, of court will be carried as a utility man--he is too valuable a prospect to let slip for a while—and it also means that ‘Truesdale will have to fight quite a battle to draw a salary as a regular. Boone has been playing second and has heen hitting nistently that he will be given the firat trial. arm ovan will High eating one, nt as straight continued his head, but he ha: H ight of his new toys. he continue him left, Ro) and Bo our Dest You never “Ain't he @ y anybody was a bird who could throw a ball while stand- ing on his ear,” the Colonel remarked innocent bystanders. There was no reply In a few minutes he » that Aragon The infield, which: will be made up of Pipp, at first; Boone, at second; Peckinpaugh, at short, and Matsel, at third, does not strike one as a heavy hitting organization, but with the im- provement in Bgone and the chance of Pipp becoming a star with the atiok, there is hope. The wonderful fleiding ability of New York, Brookivn, will stage toss Maisel and Peckinpaugh offsets any ments this evening. The Olrmpic A, Knees that they may have at the © SN i) Irving Margolies rs Harry Specks, bat, | ars) Ml va, Waidle Segoe and Harry Nelonm ve, In another effort to build up his] ite Coot at ne ee ce mate hitting strength Donovan has rear- Ai ranged his outfield. The regular men Marto, the rugge! wes, side lightmeight, at the start of the season will he fought in eame time, wil) mest K, 0. High in left, Cree in centre and Cool | Brow, the local fighter, in « tensround bout’ at in right. Cree ia the only .800 hitter |® eneia! iow to be belt by the Bharkay A, 0. on the club, but Cock gave tndica-\on Wedoeday ereoing, Sprit 14. As bolb men tions last year of hitting pretty close to that mark once he got started In a good throwing It'is for that reason that Don- in for In case he Hartzell will Though His always there is no doubt asked well at 80 con- right, | where he has but a limited amount of ground to cover, was an understudy Cobb with Detroit last season, and the players of that club tell me that he fg as good a hitter as the Yanks have ever had In should fall down, be there to take his slowed up a little, Hart dependable, but that he can hit, ‘The pitching situation Is an inter- but that will have to be ROBERT coumen AND GOSSIP By John Pollock | Por the first time since the beginning of the | mer ao imp championship will be fongat in | Londoo to-night, ‘The contest will be for the! | Englie Deavyweight title and will be between Bouberdier Wella, the present champion, and rank Moran, the American fighter, who lost « decision to Jack Johnson in & twenty round bout | ip Paris om June 27, 1914. Wells and Moran wil! | meet in a twenty-ound bout for @ guaranteed | | rarse of $1,500, of which the winner will receive | 82,500, | According to Jimmy Johnston, who staged the Loute which have been fought in Madieon Square Garten since Nov, 2, 1914, the grom receipis of the boxing shows la\e amounted to $103,000. Jimmy further stated (hat be expects to hold the ext whow in the Garten the early pert of May. Nate Lewle, manager of Ohariey White, the (hi Thomas tu “Pbtliy | unten mith and Battling Lavinaty, who | {tought © twenty round bout in New Orleans sev eral weeks ago, Smit getting the verdict, will battle again, ‘They were matched over the long. distance (clephone early today to meet in ao twelveccund go at the escend boxing show ef the Ades A, A, of Boston on Apri! 20, Al McCoy, the middleweight champtou, te matched to meet George Chip at the Broadway orting Club of Brooklyn on April 6, Silent Mar- Irving A. ©. of Brooklyn on April 10, Bush, « Brooklyn middleweight | Vandertilt A, ©, of Brooklyn on Ayell 16. three bouts ‘ill be for ten rounds, to held any show, A big cant has been arranged for @ week from to-night, Sam Langfont of Boston ater bout, Jobnny Kilbane, the featherweight champion, big show of the lroedway Sporting Otub of Brooklm tomorrow night, arrived in town today to finish hie training, Jonny Dundee and Frankie Callahan, who engage in the other teu- round batt down to weight, These tro bouts will com Man: ager Johny Weissmantel £3,500. Fred ‘Sailor’ Fritts, the Bearrweight of Broek. Jarineky are going to swap contest, This tne | they will have {t out at the Federal A, C. show on next Setwrday night, matchmaker Ton Hay mond having hooked them today by offering their manegers # got indunement, ’ “One Round Dare. the Buffalo heavyweight who ts to fight Jin ¢ y, the "Dublin Giant, at the special show of toe Falrmont 4, ©. in the Bron toaerrw night, has arrived to town and a in tine abape for the bout, He seme to think be will murely check Coffey's winning etreat, Bob McAllister of Califomia and Kid Weguer of Wiikew Barre meet in the seini final A. 0 of Mariom and the Military | are slugger the lout etould be @ lively one trom | start to finish, as a regular. Cook is not only a ‘ak. wate ite : natural hitter, but he is a pretty B Ariltee. male te Aen good base runner. Ho is not what \eit te eth Mily De A oR ae Ee might be called @ really good outs | weight, far ten sounds at Al ae eee | fielder, especially on baile hit over vest setisda, night and his second with Soldier Martfiold for ten rounds at the Buffalo soctal Club | fon April 16 A match has just been | Houck, the Pennayirgnis middiowelght, and Kid Wagner, the game fighter of Witten Barre, They i between Leo Ty EDITED BY PAUL PREDERICHS a°° BASE DAUBERTHURTIN GAME DODGERS LOSETOVANKEES Brooklyn ¢ ; Ankle in Unnecessary Slide HE Yankees won thelr first hig t Brooklyn, 5 to The Dodge at the| services of Jake carried off the field after injuring h right ankle in the fourth inning, Thi Deing holy week, the One Hundred ead| has only a slight sprain, however, and ‘Thirty -ffth Street Sporting Olud has decided notlexpecta to get back in the game within a week or tendays. He said it and Battling Jie Jonneon being engaged for the WAS a return of the old Injury which Jaid him up in Boston last fall. \y Daubert wi Lo meets Laddte Wallace In the main go at the |#ary slide. with Cutshaw on first and nono oul, when Wheat grounded to Boone, latter threw to first, looked for a play at third and elid already im perfect shape and jinto the bag. The Yankees took the lead early in the game and had things pretty much their own keep good whiskey good.” the purest, the finest whi in America, Skillfully blended and aged in wood, Call for Carstai (oil clash for ten rounds before the Kuntckerbocker A. ©. of Albany on April 7, Houck expecta to | te matched with K. 0. Brown of Chicago at Atianta, Ga, # week fe ung Fi Lightweiwht, in the fifth rad | teen @ tonsrmind tout, ‘The conten! wax fight jo Mootreal, Freddie Welsh outpointed Young Lustie of Wate city in the main bout of ten Cel » ee ‘ ed ( aptain Sprains to Third Base. 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