The evening world. Newspaper, April 10, 1915, Page 8

THE EVENING WORLD, BATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1915. BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK FEATURES OF BIG FIGHT AS SHOWN BY oo AND CROWD CHEERING NEW CHAMPION ON WAY HERE . ort Béoren, Th Werld s Gpertiny Editor, whe wes the fret Americar ++ ot the ecane of the big chempenet wing the frat expert te figure cut thet Willerd had @ etreng chence te bring the title beck te the white rece + EO oo UOHNGON AT THE ———_ WHER ENSON FELL END OF ist . — - —— ce THE BoD BLO IN THE 26TH THAT REALLY WHIPPEDS latinas JOHNSON GREATEST ACTOR EVER LIVED IF WILLARD DIDNT WIN ON LEVEL chal abd rhe greta oach at Both Giants and Yankees Jess Wore Down Colored Fighter and | tir. tinea ite wife: aeune tn ° ° Whipped Him Fairly and Square: icici cev"urats| Picked to Finish Season “S ' ly, Declares Edgren in Resume oft tin'fin avons "gitciyag be In the First Division % came slower was “very tired. He was stalling Trip Upon Arrival Home. Ri Weareonas te aint ornee he to see iin knocked out, They took | This Is Result of Poll of the] pete tem and that they must hustle, her from the box, but just as she fe Giknté are fat. from’ bein ‘a : ‘ far from being in By Robert Edgren freee Se ne end came, and she saw} Players of Fourteen Base- championship form. ‘Phe bad weather 4 5 ~ | has interfered with training work, the Copyright, 1915, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World).| That end was inevitable, For two ball. Camps | pitchers suffering moat. Not one. « HAVE just returned from Havana with Jess Willard, champion of the| Tounts Jolinson’s strength was Kono, aL SATS: them has that “zip” on his fast ball é . a} and he wax lasting on his skill alone. j that makes it hard to hit. Mec world, and as time will show, one of the greatest champions we ever| In Bie Sar aee as se end of the sae j bad xo many athletes on his ha had. twenty-fifth, Willard looked across at By B {that tt was difficult for him te con- Jot , who was pittt! ith ope lozeman Bulger. : : ‘Thousands of columns have been written about the wonderful fight ta| con” # sitting with open i] fh centrate his attention on those who COMING HOME THROUGH FLORIDA... mouth and dejected air, no longer Which the Kansas cowboy whipped the powerful and cunning black man,| *miling even for @ bluf. " “T don't believe he's stalling, ers in fourteen baseball) of MeGraw's club that it has bee who ae Seiad slain A SDIDG i to ibe faa ape when Jess} yous. I’) get him now." camps visited during tho| beaten w acrien of games peranen toppled jm itn) 6 resin dust to lie ere uni \s friends came to carry HNGON NEARLY KNOCKED vs the following fav- jeaguers. New Orleans ave them Rigi eway. But now that the lapso of a fow dayn has cleared the perspective| °° last month shows fo 6 quite a trimming and they also got {¢ seems to me there are many points known to the insiders which will CARBFUL poll of the play-| Will make the fight for the pennant iF A This is the first spring in the history * mal DOWN BY BODY PUNCH. orites for first division honors in the| the worst of {t at Beaumont. They ° ° ° ° In the first hh Willard ‘ “ , ‘a have the material, however, and a . Anterest those who only saw the battle through ‘he uewspapers, teruiho rant. nee, Macca Mat National and American Leagues week of warm weather may turn the Ritchie Outpoints Griffiths; EVENING WORLD'S —Gi bi es ot thin Fothen § arrived in Cube It was with |the title, and as tons aa live Tcan| feat”, kiocking him down. Ths! »lstlenal-Giante, Braves, Cubs | trick that will get thom off to @ good| Wa E D With Welsh HEADPIN TOURNEY @ Getarmination to run down any |qiways go out and get all the money | Tele thie ronan, where he iried| _@ American—Red Sox, White Sox. | Ax’ they appear from tho grand | gner Larns Draw Wi els Possibility of a fake, for It seemed yy eine to he the cule neue] to block as Willard’ hurled himsei¢] Senators and Athletics or Yanks. | stand the Cubs are in the beat physi- —— s le that Johnson might throw | we t at eagerly in. Willard pit once or twice, Though the Giants got a majority eal con ion of any club that IT saw ight champion who retired unde- | the tour of th the Aight if he could get « couple of] f hat idea he harped felnted for the body and drew John-|of votes for honors in the old league, | in the tour of the oh ethoeate-sfehilig 65; Crete, 72 ious camps. |Mandot Defeats Pal Brown—| he, ten rounds. In the seventh he] Fignser uate Od Tota at Na : Ria dae, They are fast and throwing with as | ate rushed from his corner and caught|,SiT™y Hui No. te Flashing, Ly 1 Rundred thousand dollars for It, Mis] every day--"the only heavywelg eT te Pe see ae tea they were nothing ke as strong) much abandon as one would expect fae * Fs Welsh coming out, sending an uppor-| 42. Toul, a0. Baiada oe Ggbting time was nearly up, and] coamplon who retired undefeated ees Uhitaanae fore. gSttt8 | eavorites ax were the Red Sox in the| In midseason. The pitchers are ail] Rivers and Frankie Burns — | cut to the champion's face that stage] .,Cowry gee! Pas Chere was no prospect of anothor|WILEARD'S CAMP WAS ALL iit around and fell at full length,| American, 1 talked to fully 200 baii-| {7 food shape, Tut for a doubt about | gered him, oan fant ih Ente fy ea @maaipionship match if he whipped CONFIDENCE. flat on his back. His arms drew up| players, and of these less than five) jiyher holding down the. shortstop | Box a Draw. SUPERIOR, Wis. April 10.— Pal igre, LM aan “ep: 4 In Willard's camp, Savage, Hemp. | nd stiffened rigidly over hiv head) wore to 4 not think the Red| position satisfactorily, the Cubs ought | ‘arow ree of pum Vout B35 Willard. With another negro, atter}),,{" Yilland’s camp, avage, Hemp. | 1 Aconuclous posture of defense, | Were found who did not think posi F bs ought . rown, pride’ of the Minnesota Iron] Fyrts 4 o Nivinsman 6S Stomumner Fhe performance of Bam McVey and | mune punch could hurt Willard, wed | His" lege quivered like those of a| Sox had a virtual cinch on the pen-| fo Fut & Biller start than any club a _ | Range, was outfought and outboxed| Mp aie $4): peurisin, peas Jim Johnson in Cuba, he wouldn’t|that he'd surely take all. Johnwon) fee With a broken back. He was|nant. Even Connie Mack was of that ; PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 10.—Wil- [ Ser, by Joe Mandot of New Orleans in al nrdy. 00; Puce 68: Hdnbuch TS totals y xt to the Cubs the New York fast ten- t ben | 2h draw a $1,500 gate, and he knew it. Could give and wear him down and| out absolutely paralyzed by that) pelief, He had been explaining the] yanks are better physically equipped |e Ritehte, American lightweight | fore Papell Rr abd Gdn Ia Now York the promoters had | ck him out. "it may take Jens | bine. | fore a big crowd, with which he was| gy Feber No,2: Phmhtog. Ue J teenie rounder te - Atiorward Jess described to me his|#ehedule to some of the players. for the start than any of those I saw,|champlon, outpointed Johnny Grif-| favorite “Mandot maintained the lead | st Ps Ran ar tae cir « ds," they auld, “or It ad ) esked me to referce the bout. In|may take a round, but when He 2 Havana they delayed choosing a ref- |! i =! nson'll be lucky if he isn’t killed," | counter.” he su ‘ie ope: . ¥ ” and among bail pl ‘3 they are ex- ‘ore la in cle, ‘ gate intines cul tchell, 76: Sane Bs: , ie cuta| thouuhta at that moment. 1 wad ive open A het ya mee ne ected to be {nthe Heat division tisht lfths of Akron, ©., here last night in} in clean blows struck in practically | aay“), auemon, 10e Coulter, “eo noe » he'll knock Johnson. cold. pum all in and so slow he couldn't] sald to me, c 2 i t aree for a week while urging me to De talk rane wii eoeept the position. his evident contiden every round except the ninth, when | sia. They say, however, that the ia fast six-round bout, Ritchie had y FRG eaceoe ler, 10; Maddock, 89: A's cami ana | fOr elther straight right “Hf 1 referee Vl not be influenced |to pick him to w Pi Brown tly had him gro 1 Guiting far: ad an opening| pions—-the Red Sox.” And, though be] white Sox, who trained in C. alitoenne every round with the exception of the| from a pescanton. of left eae BEY | eck, OO; Pusiman, ST; Veter, “Ol. "Tota! an Upper od, he every word of It.) are fit. | e f rou! Road-—Luhre, 56) Ret . Larned paand | cut. Twas tempted to use the upper. smiled, he meant ery third, which was even. — Ritchie uppercuts. 105 Bae ad-—Lunre, 6 ler, 8 Hoo! Ye ee any | cut and make sure of ft, but 1 was| "My team doesn't look good,” he ox- wit, Brooklyn Club, though blessed | weighed 139 pounds and Grimths 143 Weiman, to, Total, ¢ no s : her at Daytona, " y ; a eG In the fourth round Ritchie stung| KANSAS CITY, Mo. April 10.—Joe| High Team Score for Evening "World ty any consideration but my own mut ermara te one Johnson came Pinas a OR By od plete ‘and 1 feel that we haven't trained on, a ety heavy, naandy Hiidithe with a hard tieht é@ the| Rivets at koe Anaeiee Aor Hanne ‘Trophy, ” “ y impressed with his wonderful . “ J much chanc ground and suffered comparison hic ‘aggered the 01 oy, | Columbus * +80: Judgment,” 1 told them, “If 1 think ; Mike Gibbons picked Willard | When he foll T wasn't excited. Twas] swith, Perritt and Lobert tol with the Yanks, Their pitchers were | "ny By eae ye to mare iene Fought Sener iumaas ta at aiae Last Night's Fob Winner. = there's anything wrong I won't hesi- first, Mien told me he didn't belleve| expecting it and It seamed natural) strengthen the Giants,” Connie went| not working well at all, and the sand jselt |here last night. ‘There was no de-|Hy Dahlberg, Murray Hill, Fhubing, L. 1. tate to disqualify either man, stop! anybody could overcome Johnson's) !* phoula fo down T could have|on, “1 don't see how the Braves are) apparently had stiffened up the legs a Saad BAvEntARA, exception in’ the High Individual Score rae gas the fight or call ull bets off.” ntage In knowledge and experi-| made it much, aulcker, but for a) going to beat them. OF he “Detroit we TOLEDO, 0. April 10.—Billy Wag-| sixth, when Burns floored Rivers with World Gold Fob. od % The Detroit Tigers and the \ M “That sults us," said bot Marry | Hight up to the day of the fight go | Mtl! dangerous.” POPULARITY OF GIANTS AMONG], Tho Dattoll Tigers hourer shape | REF warned a draw with Champion a right to the jaw. wea olka Wee Frazee and Jack Curley, "There isn't! many vans : sa s RPRISING. a wae ee te Freddie Welsh last night in ten The decision of Referes Bates was| leo Suskind, Yc |many were undecided that there wan| , That Was as hard a knockout ax] | PROPHETS SURPRISING. | two weeks ayo than any of the £18 | rounds before the Toledo A. A. Up unpopular, the majority believing —9 impeme to be anything wrong and rien ing, There was nol St heon's arme lene anata tea _ Letaveuia§ ae ae Sasa Hrs ore ated’ thelr work | to the tenth he had a shade on the Burns had a lead of eight of the| Athletes Cam n in Streets on i eave it to yo such thing as “wise money" ae s arms, c p bo ‘ong baseball prophets on other | othe! errup f ; eye eatiefied to leave it to you” Ti vang, money” in Har) cuivered as ho was helped to his! clube was surprising. AS near as it} that it was really no training at all. |champlon, | {eh rounds, Rivers made a strong Sundays, declined because 1 wished to preserve | so and were still quivering wher |eould be brought down to figures, |qGERS ARE THE MOST DISAP- Sener outtought Weldh in six 6? Aniah, After conferring with high ctty offi UrtPof the Agne | he stumbled from the ring ten mins |gomething like ymoters| And it was a fight worth watching, | Utes late fo have me referee, however, con- | Johnson started out to make it short.|, TW9 hours after the fight T went vinced me that as far as they were| He fought like a fury when be found | Johnson's quarte concerned the match was on the at he couldn't stand off with Wil | ™ Soret {ta d, Big Joss, with his fast left and ae. s great reach, stung the champion | asine WILLARD WORKED LIKE A) ited lou dive ‘ilting mie head Ra | ing his lps, ae is Ad there wan nothing to do but| corn my amateur standing in sport, The | wateh keenly ever entire willingness of both 4 per cent, of them —— | clus during tho past week Frederick W ed MeGraw's team to win, All of POINTING CLUB. | Rubien, Eresigent of the Metropolitan i heir culoulations were based on the| As the players look at it, the most Union, yeaterday stated that be was i T never saw | added strength a posltion to assure athletic It was like a) phe players New York that M. One could} the Braves cannot posibly bh a8 | tigured aa th would be permitte ex-champion’s body had] much luck with their limited staff of | 4) tt they were conduc back, | ust been carried down to the iearse. | pitchers as they had beginning tn July = : very one spoke in whispers of kept | last ye dan if ha a mournful silence think t! waned Aaa |" Next morning [ sat with Johnson | with th of Perritt and Lobert.| disappointing club of all is of the opinion that | Beto shud they haa Been FISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP Ited Sox for tho pennant, But By John Pollock orge Burns, the star first baseman,| Ad Wolgast has accepted terms from the South | their ten.wund go at the St, Nichoke Rink 4, ( ar, In addition to that, they | was stricken With appendicitis, caus | site A, C, of Milwaukee to ment going South the HORSE FOR TWO WEEKS. le After that it was a matter of watch. | un ing the fighters. As far us Jess Wi ose and Aie Welsh | om the night of April 21 Crane to Agi Hhoeven| ing «a big shift in the infleld, and jo « tengound bout May 4. Wolgast agrees dd Ma-| Jennin Hosto: adit outtield w n oof Sherw n Johns ‘Tho ten-round contest betwen Gunboat smith g8 was completely at sea. He |to submit his right ation by the 1 lard was concerned, he worked lke a/ 4s he always has done, for a while, For first time in Jess laugh d Al Iteich, whic ted to be for BOSTON, April / 1 gee, ‘They all admit the hitting abll- | iy playing Kavanagh at first, or at] wis B Commission on or befor B | toe Pitueer Gooriite Chine wie cue Ot |g. Derby: in straight (horse every day during the twos! him, and waited too, It was al-| life he couldn't smile, After a long ity of Magee, but they doubt the | jeast he was ten days ago |18 amt to train fifteen daye so Chicago and Mil | gereet, te two’ works, hes been decks ty ume {in the ) weeks. } in Was ever more intent| Ways Johnson who had to bre ak} ellen Johnson sald, as if he'd beon atrengtt of Moran and Connelly even |” mye white Sox, with Eddie Collins | waukee, Wolgast’s damaged arm has jue bee | managers of the fightom couki bot oom oft tourt Tennis ‘I wpon conditioning himself to win u/kround rst, and the instant he| thinking and thinking and wanted to | with Cather and Gilbert for a shift, fT o'whole club in good |examect te » phyvician, who claims ho will be n vot come to satis. | and Racquet Club, J { as oa ne his mind of the thought th y e the last playe at second and a whole club in good |« ' s factory terme and Matchmaker Doeserick decide! | city, well known spc 7 yaohamnr fight. Jess nailed him with Mahle | relieve his mind of the thought that The Hraves were the last players 1| duane, ought to make a flying get- |able to fight mith it on tho abore to caucel the go. lo play or the eighth Rich Jonnson 1 wan't su. sure, {left and followed with @ furions rong | tortured him saw and the opinions previously col- 1 Ree aL sha asbia BRCATHRe 5 o polo play the ough : 4A o oe showed | for the body. Now ar He's an awfully big fellow, isn't) lected surprised them, pooh= ered aoe Joe Mandot, the Sou welght, receiv Hobby Moore, the promising local fe 2 ee Fire BAH Blip work he showed) and thon one of expect them to be @ contender shi fetter, an! the ttl for th form that astovished me, knocked the | te riehts went home, and before tong | © poohed the idea of theif not being able oor bunch of money for outpovntiog Vi Brown, | ryanne Nelaon dave tone sighed up ter box tee dlls. heads off ail his sparring partners| We could see Johnson wince « ‘He is,’ sald I. “Jack, do you re-|to win paul i‘ siden Dor danas ern fater, ina tenoround tout at SUT piode at te Thrown Gymnasium A. A. on Apel ' and worked quite a» hard as Willard, | The black cha in omade a member the last punch? Do you} "We are not depending entirely on], The Heds are picked for the frat Win, last night, doe received exactly At Ua eame club to-night the cand att | step Baa geared Se aa snea: Rut a few days afterward he was|derfully game tight. So did Wiltard, | KNOW Just where it hit your" | aiph, dunes ler," waid| division of aconUnt ¢ thee Mil as one thint of the gras racetpts ‘s Young Specks, Young MeDanalit Tiley of the. Inah=Amierican i ¢ eusy, Joking and stalling in| for Johns hth nerat oat Johnson nodded mournfully, With- | go Stallings, "We have eas, | strength 1 hd Alek i 7 win” Aoea a nt often, dat | ¥° tundy and Jimmy Wilitume vy, Warey P's Ral eens We is slog t Mating what’ bo| frequently awing blows into hin tet ying a word he raised his finger} Strand, Coercham, Crutcher and Davis the addition of Charlie Dooin, ivy i tou cf hew world’s record int great battle when wanted, and «pi 1 the left st ‘é {. Louts, ana ently entirely satia« [and reached his head with All good pitchers, Most of Them) Wingy, formerly with ned Grifflth, quite a {into aston yards low hurdle rice at the annual of his Jaw, Ad Wolgast has {ux mate the announcement | MOmes Of St John's Collexe in the ay smashes Lisplay bls punches i two back fr 8 conditio is did take| that would have floored a an inch n the point now Just right for a regular year.) a new man, (i ew against Kaldic . Paillac, ory, OF the Chl fregiment. Hie , Ee as Span: ie aig tke) t wid fave Moored any but the [wo or three tears Kuthered in the| In my opinion we have the atrongest | sligse They also h Tommy | rap to i Mu mil ep alan, Hai at homie at Calle, Sch eat wl cain Caveted distinc in 18 sevonds, Th: of the fight he looked nearly as good) 10 the eighth round Willard siowed | Corners of his eyes and rolled down | pit aaa See anon a tl mittee panel: 4 pr there will| event at the Fa Mike MoT holds a contract drawn up betwen Tom Jone ant | seconds, made by Joe Loomis, the Chi Fas at Reno. He explained time and! Johnpon up a tnoment with al py tuy away. © Wided them) van say What they please about my/ateady up the ent eam. Tho Cin-| Tex Kelly tn another ten under, Juni # Willard which calls for one-alt of all Jones re. | cago athlete and three-time national F See Sie His Avatar) of teaintiie was heavy rans In the body J understand Sam MeVey is quoted |outtielt. It worked all right last year|einnatt pitchers were good last Crore, an ie Ww | ceived, because be hed edranoat Jones 61,800 10 | (AMntty Jan gs, ‘this your. i dosigned to bring him into the ring ° ith Johns me out ys ttt vn Hy ind that is Keod enough for me ind ought (o be better ¢ ng with an also left release the champion from the management of with all his strength preserved, At] fre and furious. 4 and) to_the ¢ nant hnson aid | any Br be in fairly! Phillies, the Cardinals, the Pirates | i Charley Cutler of Chieago = = PF thirtyceight, ho said, he didn't want| rushed. He has regarded the Nftoenth, | daw. Sam is not exactly the best | Braves appear to be in tainly Phillies, the Cardinals the Virates| ag apie ditions and, Tle Motioty ave eer f to be trained down too much am he'd| #8 his lucky round ever since he t wuthority in the world straight 1 physical condition despite the) and the Dodgers do IY | seotinet t imate to them by ‘Snowy Young Brown, the lightwelght of the east side BVERYTHING y,. { he weak. He preferred to have his|Jeffrios at Reno, Hew rknock | Mehting. Ho f i sed pe et re hierar Wwe arte ta pep. me y Washington Club, though Waker, pebpldngucd stint hare Lf Maligaa dt tach doa lg ard yer ar s Bowl N . ength. And he med | Jess out int row is If Johnson fight his best to} ida M i 2 i eh the trip to toat countre and meet Jeff smith, the | nion, have heen qractically matched to meet in g j abeed nnd siren ne AR ne a ped | 88s Ouv insttint Four a asso Knock out, “and if, Witlarn " y devoted a lange part ine sh a 1 tito al na t at seat sty Pont f Wayonne N, 1, M1 Live, | te-round bout at the Duguene Genlen A.C. on thark, He was sure he had all his|and astmiling, a Tahnson” endl | didn’ mn down and whip im | Rae Being World's Champions, the| wants is a little luck, : | th, cablen that The wall ron Wart | the night of AAI Prices and Terms to Suit. old skill, and that skill would win.| blown, arin Weary and leg weary fairl Evan Slee nak teh obn \Hoston players feel that they have a| ‘The real weak club of the American | f Seer tank toca hae ‘he boxing game in Boston wil be resumed on | 'EPAIRS BY EXPERT MECHANICS. He detailed his plans. He would go| After that the tight went to Wile | te? yo Hreatent aetor (ne Aer) nicht to iat the public know it and| League appears to be Cleveland. ‘Thy a ‘estas night when Sam Langford and fam Mi. sphe Brqnewiek Balke the French island of Martinique| lard. Jonson's less and the top of | H¥e4 and | AA ler ieee atth fro | perhaps they have. Still, it ts this| joss of Lajole, Olsen and Blanding has | willy Mocwrney dvclavet today that Ne wae] yoo" who trained Jack Johnaon for his cham oto 35 West did St mediately ufter the fight, then re-| his head \assumed « curious gray | teakettle, Vil lab it go at tha | feeling of overconfidence that worries| weakened them considerably and 1 | wurpriesd at Carl Murriss yor showing in his gut wich Joe Wed, cone epee turn to France to buy a farm on|paiior, as \f al! the biood was con- Btalll ne. He would prefer that the|js said that Joe Jackson has not] bout with Jim Coffey, but that Carl will make « S Eervenns ee ot Ge Atlee Pry var] ot | THUMS brtig Fore ew why wy i = which he bad an option, “Pll have comtrated Mpout his hour,” Ha bes mer Vek Sanball Cis 08 WAS ute dK | Braves realize that © tough ght ta shown as good aa expected. foun better ooe when be tadtlee A Bech ta alge te'tabin, bin A Bane \ fe Rte ee enmntamncemammete cient: ana nn seal te yale mam a