The evening world. Newspaper, April 5, 1915, Page 12

= os Willard S An bt wr gore on a8 the Pree eee every one © . i have eutied caretu teow ot He ee fT epee Beers, bul they wl Bot lure me know of bie oa ant | (tiak | keow my own caper ee Ge ent lee Wet te ee ee ome I then, end 1 kpow far mor He able te heey fleet revels Whest cepieying & fam Jenne . i+ O06 Gee. im ore thet hae been banéiy & ty met per wre! fore PMO BOLL hems oe to heat wt of ' teto tamny “we #! the fret em b my etreagth Johns punches about the body, bw will be my tarert aiweye 1 don't thin « “ fe the todewe snd | want te prove thie the ’ Wii try te knock hum out to the fire othe fret minute of the bout if ' ot enpect “Yankees Start for Home; - «Matcher Sprained Tendon Last » Week During Exhibition Game «+ —Team in Good Condition. ye, SAVANNAH. Oe April 8 The Tan-| Rees departed lee nie t h ay Mount ere the club will play day ork by the new storm that Baturday, wut ae fo play the It will be the fr Gams played by te Rocky Mount team ‘Pines it took « the Kichmeond fran- ehine of the Virginia Le Lesiic Nunamaker, was heft here in the care of @ physician. ‘Wanamaker eprained « tendon here last week, and as.it is yielding to treatmen' remained ever, and will catch up the club in Richmond, or join Deneven forces tn New York Donovan expressed himeetf a Planned with amp. pointing out that was bed oll over the Routh last week. Me exid be Kot warmer weather here tant) Spring when be trained with his Provi-| O@eoce Grays, bat the Yanks will In all) ‘Probability come back neat year BEAUMONT, Tex, April 6.—The nts iost to the local team by @ Pore of 6 to &. Careienanens cont the @ame, After getting five runs in the! ret threa innings the New York glue lor led. ‘aw used three pitchers—Per- four innings; Ritter, two, tt, oo two. Brant pitched the full innings for the je team and stronger than when he start- struck out ten, Thorpe going three times on strikes. CHICAGO, April 6.— "Walter Johneon not play a single game with the BEATS YALE AND WINS ~ ALEG ON SWIMMING TITLE. ‘The University of Pennsylvania won @ beg on the Intercolegiate swimming tte by defeating Yale “fiah" last night fg @ duel meet in the natatorium of tho ‘College of the City of New York. The ‘was 88 to 26. The Blue and Rea their the 100-yaré swim from Roesner, Yale st Hie time was im. 4-66, triumphed in the 390-yaré doing it tn Sm. 43 4-60. Gidn't exert himself muoh in won the 800- RS YP as TS a! ince te Ped fe it ana fo defea\ mith by 3 feet. An- event was the fancy by MaAleemen of Yale, now won and lost a meet, won one and Colum: e ! I ff ‘MILLAOSE A. A. MAY GET COLBY’S DISTANCE STi > Bara Wenz of Colby College, one of ‘the best schoolboy two-milera devel- oped recently, ie thinking of leaving college. was picked by the la { James B. Sulliven for his “All Bohol- Qstic’ team for two consecutive years. If Wens decides definitely to sever this copnection with Harvey C he says he will jotm the Mil sp year. ‘A. at the end of thie col Wens will bea valuable addition to Sessa atte Sat area Be Pai wears Sat for the wo miles 4.30 for male. In this year’s in eg - Nunamaker ue the big catcher, | ne landis at | waon iyi | CHARLOTTE cold weathe: heels, the Brave tte tear of MEMPHIF third and las lords tear | ter Helm vious games were more than ean the Am@rican Howtonianr ASHEVILLE, SC. Apr Marry Day Athiation wil a with elande . Catoher Keliey + to the Jackron DALLAS, Tox, April 6 Mi held the Datlag tearm to one lon Tamper hit. jana the White Box romped away with eany sents the game tn shall, Tex da NASTIVIT Tenn, April 5 Two ome run clouta by Cy Willlama early In the game and a vingle by the «reat Zim, which scored three rune in the ninth, gave the Cubs a win here, 7 a4 fashion, 7 to® Mar aining the Sox to TEXARKANA, April 5.—Joe Tink- or's Whales were ao itlad to get out of Lovisiana that they all but annihtil- ated the first team they ran into. The locals here were LOUISVILLE, Ky., April. 6.-/The Tigers:amasned a total of thirty hite fm the Saturday and Sunday games here, winning both contests. Jen- Rings'n pitchers are still going bad, with the exception of Covaleskio. NEW MOTORCYCLE RECORD IN 300-MILE ROAD RACE. VENICE, Cal, April 4—By winning the 200-mile Venice Grand Prix me cycle race to-day, Otto Walker of Onk- land, Cal., established what was said to be a new world’s record of sizty-eight and ninety-seven hundredthe miles an hour average for the distance travelled. Hie time was 4 hours 24 minutes 171-5 seconds. The track was a three-mile macadam boulevard. Lesiio Panthurat of Milwaukee fin- fahed fifteen and three-fifth seconds behind the winner. Carl Goudy of Chicago was third. There wore thirty- eeven entries, ‘The prospects of Jimmy Clebby of Milwaukee to terme on the weight question, Tommy Walsh, Who Hendies Moiiootty's affair, wants the weight to be 188 pounds, weigh in fire howe before the battle, while Taeney Lichtenstein, manager of Glabby, imelete on 168 pounds ringnide, Having an idea thet Meekey MoFarland and ‘Dut this time the Boston Tar Baby Oe! Delaney, the Cleveland featherweigh', is says be te going to Kuock out bis heavier op. Nl Die services ere in gmat dei 4 ponent, ‘I've mat Hem three times and he West, Delaney won ova Hrs basn't Knocked me off my feet yet.’ declared nine on Monday might, and is Jobnesn, ‘ead 1 quem be ain't going to do it 10% Roger O' Maney, the Toledo feather now." ji Mt Manduaky, O. April B; Pateey Bran oe 1 of the heavy enowetorm en Be! ri nae ot Be, ass, Oa 14, aod Alivio Miller at might, the Irving A.C. of Brooklm amd the | "8" ee Queensboro A, O. of Long Island City were com: | More ie the later from Dan MoKetrick Palled to poswpooe thelr boxing whows until neat er Wartfield, 1 here Gatariey wight, The mein bout et the Irving wadlic and weiter A. ©. wa) be K. ©. Brown and Hi Bloom and actin! mow claline the tar go at the Quesasderry, Chick Simler of | world's welterweight shammmonshi)) end glands reaty tou and Jimmy Dufty, to defend tt against all Mike Gibbons — mae pariatently maintain be oan mane | wine 14h e and fs (tia Niuwelf on tie letter heads as Ghe “welterwelgbt sbampion 8 Returdey with dis] Gibbons Muff is tere calle! Martfiedd y for Uri city aod wil! ‘fight Som for thy th ud Make © side sipke of Bee 0% GONE fet 45,000 we ee neh,” on Sick List FISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP w John Pollock + | will meet Fret MoKay, the Winnipeg gi | a a THE SVEWTING WORLD, MONDAY. APBIL 5, 1916.° Willard blocking with his righ Johnson Says He BY JACK HAVANA, April b=I've got t must show bin early in th . My wuccena di rd that he tn th biow to beat @ man, «i It in much easier to tax the spirit of punches to the body and head. but if L succeed in what I intend do any man vertest novic One of the Big Surprises to Be Oldring at Third Base and Reguarly in the Outfield. By Bozeman Bulger. XV. BIG LEAGUE PENNANT HOPES’ SERI Jacksonville, Fla, April 6. HE aurprise that has been ex- T pected—and promised—from the camp of the Athletics has come and it is a real one, Tho hole left vacant at third base by the voluntary defeating Moward, fighta Harry Lenny of Baltt- more at Wi . D. ©, om newt Briday night, ‘The retums of the Johnaon-Willard champion ship fight will be received at the Fatrmont A, 0, in the Bronz today, Coffey will move his trein- t tem to the club and with Joe Jeanette as © partner will tHlugtrate the fight blew for blow ‘There will be two other bo ‘The Olympic &. ©. of Harlem and the Long Aote A. ©, on Grand Street will stage boxing shows thie evening, ‘The Olympic card ie; Billy Frtsimmone ve, Bushy Graham, Roboy Hanson ve. Vrankie Daly and Jack Bennett ve, Battling Jobneon, At the Long Acre, Frankie Brown ve Young Rese, Young Lappe vs. ‘Tey Miller and Charley Yook vw. Joo Banrd. Young Merino, the east effe bantam, will mest Al Shubert of New Belford, Moss, tn a twelve roumd bout at Lawrence, Mase, ‘Thurwdey night, Avérit Four ten-round ponte will be contested at & apevia) thow of the Olympic A. ©, neat Thursday night, In the feature eventa Fighting Bin" Ketohel, who recently fought Batting Levinaky, t, and Fohuny Martin will tackle Anthony MoGowan, Young O'leary, the New York featherweight, 1s tm ood shape again after fourtem weeks’ layol! With @ dislocated shoukler and ts bookel for three Me mevia Jimmy Tylor at the Wedera) Avril 10, Tominy O'Toole at Wilkow Barre 14, and Jimmy Murray on April 17. Lom Durlecher, who fe now the manager of Teo Rouck, the Penns eet p for another ver Ni a Knoohout’ Brown, the €hi vr fn an igt-round ‘bout ata hel al Atants Ga, on the wight of Out of Willard in Order to Win pitest that he ‘is largely 1 1 can see no reason to change t and hooking with his left. Must Take Heart JOHNSON. jo take the Powrt out of Willard 1 fatally lacking in boting upon low soon L can prove te I never have de do upon one my tactios now. and atrength of a man by a series I don't think Willard lacks courag: ing It will be sufficient to discourage 00 Loss of Collins and Baker Won’t Siop Athletics in Pennant Race Handed Out by Connie Mack Is Lajoie, Hitting as of Old, at Sec- ond—Davies, a New Pitcher, Hits So Hard He May Play retirement of Home Run, Baker ts to}! be filled by Rube Oldring, a veteran of the Philadelphia outfleld, a dark horse whose name had not been even discussed by the general baseball public. Our hero of the Bronx, who upset one of the world’s serics games at the Polo Grounds with a home-run amash into the left field bleachers, has quietly slipped into the infleld job and it fits him like a glove, He in fully as fast as Bak n throw like @ shot and on the general averages ip not very fur behind in the hitting, At the same time there is a rumor afloat among the Athletic players | that a certain young man of home- | run fame is working out daily at his! farm in Trappe, Md. and may! listen to the call of the old pastime | within another week, If Baker should decide to return he will be in tip-top shape. Still, Connie Mack Is not| counting on it, He thinks Oldring will fll the bIN acceptably. If he should fail (here ia atill left Bill Kopf, who worked ae @ utility man in seve) eral games last season, Another candidate for the job is| McConnell, a Philadelphia semi-pro, but he will hardly do. He lacks ex- perience, Then there is another in- fielder, Sam Crane by name, fresh | from the Carolina League, Sam isa whirlwind at flelding but a little weak | with the atick, ‘The best of the young | fellowa, however, ia Henry Bostick, formerly of the Denver club, Henry 1s @ good hitter as well as a fielder and will undoubtedly be kept om the payroll, ONE OF STRONGEST STAFFS OF | | PITCHERS IN LEAGUE, It would be advisuble for those who | are laboring under the impression that the Athletics are all shot to | plocea and out of the race to readjust their calculations, Connie Mack never had @ ball club in hiy life that was not to be seriously consid d, and} | this one is no exception. Naturally, | the absence of two auch men as Kiddie Collins and Home Run Baker would weaken any team, to aay nothing of pitchers like Bender, Mlank ie mbes, Hut tho players do not j sider the depar' twirlers: , a and it we | He tn pitching ths | staff few clubs can boast ¢ as it stands. a stronger pitching staf than Shawkey, Bush, | Pennock, Breasier, Wyckoff and | Meyers, a newcomer from the Raleigh Club of the Carolina Leagye ‘The lest bangese of thle crowd are Johnson holding in manner that leaves hie sparring lutely powerless. This fri the way in their fight at Reno. Pennock and Bressler. ‘Noe latter is almost a replica of Eddie Plank. Of angular bulidy he uses a cross-fire de- livery that was taught him by Plank. With the eyes half closed a person in tho grandstand would almost swear that Eddie Plank was in the box, but for the announcement thut it was Bressler, Pennock was good last year, but is even better now. He hi been working to get control, and that all that ho has needed. The eame can be said of Wyckoff. In reviewing bis crop of pitching youngsters, Connie Mack has stum- bled on to what may be @ real find in baseball. A young fellow by the name of Davies showed as a right- handed pitcher and looked fatrly good from the start, but this Is not what attracted Connie Mack. In the first all cluding FE. E. centre fleld, and proved to be der out there. Right there the career of Davies as a pitcher ceased. He has been placed in the outfield, and tt would not be at all surprising If be | Wot the regular berth. “At that," says Harry Davis, “he ix so good os a pitcher that Connie may have to use him there in case any of the others fall down. The outfield for the championship season is at present made up of Eddie Murphy, Jimmy Walsh and Strunk, | Walsh and Davies are alternating in Jett and Connie i# still uncertain. He also has Shag Thompson, t¢ t versity of North Carolina star, who was with the club awhile last summer, | giving Strunk a battle for the r Job in centre. LAJOIE HAGN'T LOST HIS BAT- TING EYE. ‘The marvel of the readjusted ath- lotics 1a Napoleon Lajole, now enter- ing his seventeenth year as a bi; leaguer. He is back on the club whic «avo him hie first etart, and a change appears to have worked wonders in him. Though a little slow ular of foot, Lajole is hitting the ball just | as hard as over, and there was never & time when he could not fleld with the best of them. There will be an addition to th catching staf in McAvoy of Balti more, McAvoy is one of the etars bought from Jack Duan when his club went bad financially in Baltimore, i the chances are that he will re- n with the Athletics, Besides him ro are Lapp and Schang and Ira ‘Thomas, known to tho players as the “consulting catcher.” Ire caught but little last season, and may not. work # a backstop at all this year, but Connie fixures that he can earn his salary helping to develop the others und by helping to keep the whole club on an'even keel. The Athletics for 1915 wil! line uy like this: First ba Second o— La} Third base—Oldring. ’ Shortstop—-Barry. left field—Walsh or Davies Centre field—Strunk or Thompson. Right field—Murphy. After one lool at that line-up and a further comparison with those of the other American League clubs Very | there can be no ground for the gon-\end of the eral assumption that the Athletica are not going to be in the race. Tf they are not well up in the fight from the start Connie Mack will be a very raueh sepr san And. surprise: are ngt Se with that tallew, rtner abso: that the colored man tired out Jef- i} Bowlers Start | Big Tournament The National Bowling Tournament Starts to-night at Grand Central Pal-| ace for prizes aggregating more tha $5,000. ‘The tournament will last two weeks, during which there will be competitions by %7 five-men teams, 240 two-men teums and 470 individual bowlers. The entries include representat! from all sections of the United States and Canada, In order to complete the lengthy schedule on time the bowlers | will compete in squads, and each will) run according to a time limit. The tournament will open with six teams of five men and a number of city officials will be on hand for the opening with the following officers of the National Bowling Association, in- Duggan, President; William Kirk, former President; W. H. Valentine, President of the New York Bowling Association, and James Wilson, Secretary of the organization. The National A. A. A., the Canadian and Strachan teanis, all of Montreal, the Vogt toam of Newark, and the Rockaways and Mohawks of New York will, take part in the opening event. The Tournament Committee has ar- ranged for the following distribution of the prize money: The first prize in the five-men-team events will be $200, In the two-men-team event, $125, and in the individual event, $85. In addition, seven cath prizes will be presented to the bowlers making the best averages. Eighteen gold medals will also be distributed among the teams and individuals making the best scores, and these will carry with them the title of champions for the coming ene MIKE DONOVAN WELL RECOMMENDED FOR BOXING BOARD J08. Mike Donovan has forwarded to |Goy, Whitman his application to be jmade a Boxing Commissioner, having lheard that the bil! to rethove the , present cemmis: nm amd replace it | with a body of tree experts is likely to become a:law. With the application Mike has sen & document that would be worth a |Sortune to autograph collectors, It) jis a most hearty indorsement from | he President and the governors of she New York Athjetic Club, as well! as all its living ex-Presiden |it bears the signatures c leaders in industry and the profes all praising him in the highest The Governor might search oll | world over to find a man who kn more about the boxing sume than| Mike, or who Ima had half as much perience, He fought | t battle at thirteen and we by beat ling a bully w | he wos only a Ittle fellow: , the ring at fifteen to join the Union Army and fight in it with credit to the ivil War, And he has earned his living with his fists ever since. Oh, yeaf Mike knows the game. And ror heing on the level---wel!,| no President of the United States” over Rad o fines, truer apnae of boner Will he have to do thi I have numerous friends who wan of winning. I have not received an dome imagine why he does not I have been notified by nd Larchmont that they with several thousand dollars whi for them on Johnson. I will place NEWS, VIEWS Mike Gibbons Rates Rivals as Handicappers Do Horse, With a Dope Book. IKE GIBBONS has originated a brand new system which makes boxing more of a business than ever. Mike keeps books on all his rivals, He ranks and handicaps men in his class in much the same way dopesters handicap race horses, He bases these handicaps on his personal knowledge of the men concerned or on newspaper reports of their best battles. ery bit of strength that o fighter is known to possess is jotted down in the dope book, along with his weaknesses, his temperament, habits, &c. on Eddie MeGoorty: Lazy trainer, Better at 162 than . Has dangerous left hook, Heavy right is good coming in or going out of clinches. ‘ Billy Murray is pur down like this: Most aggressive of them all. Generally feints twice and then aends two long lefts to head, Doesn't vary his style of attack, and that's his iain trouble, i, Jimmy Clabby is sized up in Mike's book In this style: Hardest man in Business to out- point, Has strong nervous strain that affects lis work. Is harder that MeGoor'y, because he has the K. O. on either side. He stalle a lot, and a clever opponent can atall with him. Commenting further, Mike says a really great boxer is one who can make his opponent do exactly what he doesn't want to do, Against an aggressive slugger an opponent should try to minimize his power by taking the forcing away from If you get him backing up, his fis lorce ting for sparring partner to risi Orting men of Marle led by Baron Wilkins, the well Fling ian of this city, Anatly got busy last night and wagered $2,800 on Jolinson to win, giving oddy of f Wilkin vening World reportcr that he 0 more ty bet, but that nds to hold off un won before Letting, as he has an idea that he ean get even money gy that tine, “L have already sent Johnson four cablegroms,’ said Wilkins, “the Innt one yesterday, asking him to advise me what to do in the betting as and would place it, even if we had to OF THE SPORT WORLD By Vincent Treanor. For instance, here's Mike's dope BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK (noSSEShc.] © Says Johnson's Stomach | SNAPSHOTS OF PRINCIPALS IN TO-DAY’S BATTLE AS THEY WENT THROUGH TRAINING STUNTS Will Be Target Throughout Fight BY JESS WILLARD t to bet th r money on his chances answer to any of them and [ cannot word, If Jack would only wire me hat in less than five hours we could ral of my colored friends In New will arrive at my place this morning h they will turn over to me to bet the money to the best advantage. AND GOSSIP covery in Alex Costica, boxer who recently arrived here. Cos tica comes here from Fngland, well recommended by Dick Burge and Ja cob Hyams. Although a raw novie ttle more than a year ago, the Rou- n boy has done wonders pugt- . He has knocked out some best men in Europe, amons them Albert Badoux, who put Young Ahearn to aleep in eighteen rounds during the latter's early experience abroad. He also has a knockout of the Dixie Kid in nine rounds to hix credit and a decision over Harry Demien. The latter has fought the great Carpentier a draw, Costica is only eighteen years old, weighs 146 pounds and has the build of an ideal boxer, according te O'Rou HE non-refillable b te a wonderful hence te. keep Carstairs Rye safe. But, by Jove, I’m glad t it ous of don’t’ have to drin @ non-refillable glass A Carstairs _ Rye is gone, If you are no’ doing well against a clever fellow at long range, do something that will make him! to you, so that y the crashing punch Lany wonder why Mike has auc- com n hang ov Is ceeded” E telephone bet! bu seeming indignation. “Who is this Comiskey that wants to bet $1,000 that Reich can at Jin Coffey?” the voice on the her end demanded “Tell him to call up 3442. Bryant and ask for Pat O'Hara. He'll get hus $1, 00 ore, covered, Coffe ¢ match as ever, but Comiskey inight jot tis phone number down for fu- ture reference. HERE probably judge of fighte: norid than Tom O'Rourke. The vet- eran who developed George Dixon, Joe Waicott and Tom Sharkey Nas made what he thinks is ancihe: great dis- sn't a better h are as far from a | Re sure vou get Carstairs Rye in the nea- refillable bottle—'‘a good bottle to keep From 1788 to the present day, there has been no change in the quality except to improve it, STEWART DISTILLING Co, | Men's sag Young Meu's) at about one-half 4