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—__$B6B BYBHia’ WUbLL, Wevneouns —s wae (SME BVBNING WORLD, WRUNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1016. esis at mar] BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK 1) WAS MARRIED IT’S A LONG WAY TO LOS ANGELES, BUT WILLARD’S HEART’S RIGHT THERE ) | AND HAD A FAMILY WHEN HE DECIDED 10 ENTER RING — — see -=- | The Most Remarkable World's , Champion We Have Ever Had it Comes From Parents of Long American Lineage. ‘ : 1—WILLARD’S RING BATTLES AND RISE TO CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES. ‘ Gaperight, 1916, by The Frees Publishing Co (The New York been ce W vid) : BY ROBERT EDGREN. BOS WILLARD be the mort remarkable world's oh hed. He wasn't « fighting man by education He wae just # plain ail - American citizen, married, with a family and & good business, her WILLARD'S RESIDENCE at LOS ANGELES... @eddenly decided that he'd enter the ring purpose of whip Ping Jack Johnson and taxing wack the title that was ont at He When Jess Willard came to that decision om of July 4 3000, he had never seen a boxing glove. The only fighters he'@ ever heard @f wore Jeffries, Fitzsimmons, Corbett and John L. Hullivan He didn't Rmew that ring battles were fought with gloves He didnt know ther: Were fighters outside the heavyweight clase On the afternoon of that July 4 —but I'm getting ahead of my tory We'll start « little nearer the bexinning Jems Williard waa born in Pottawatomie County, near Topeka, Kan Qwenty-cight yoare ago. All the rumors that Jens im thirty-two, thirty hres WMirty-cight, &c., have been neatly mpeared by Jens himaelf, who told thie very day that he's twenty-cieht, ly, and that he'd like to imect fase to face any one who han 4 notion to contradiot hin atatemont ‘Willard’s purenta were Americans of good, long American linenge In Peet, Jens has no knowledge of any foreign etrain up to a couple of hundred | - — or no back. Hila mother @ native of Kentucky; hin father from | ‘They went Weat on the old Emigrant Trail and rettied in Kansas “when it was necessary to carry a rifle with the plough and be ready at any Magnates Are Optimistic | fon we ‘illard’s Battles in Ring | Tes 1 Seah Pr and Rise to Championship anced WILLARDS WIFE and FOUR CHILDREN... and The Dvening Worlds sertes on Je ‘2500 FANS GREET PEE WS | GHANTSIN OPENING, PICHEDE AT Poo rouns, ser — THE BATTING ORDER. Washington. Mayor Mitchel Tossed First Moeller, rf to the championship, starting today, will tell of Ineident shed, and tnelude of the glant ex-cowboy, hitherto unpubl of the mort talked of man in America by Robert Edgren, th sporting collection ever tthe present time, Ay writte articles should prove the moot interesting printed Moment for an Indian attack. Willard’e father died just two montha before Dig Jess was born. Thin was « «reat pity, It deprived Joss of a lot of Beater Narr ant arid Meguher @ he wmnne orm '| §=— A’ Big Leagues Open ee wee Up Belts te Reson reservation. All hie boyhood wan Their Season To-Day = eal @pent among the Indians, who took a great fancy to him, taught him aii f , | ; _ @eete ef tricks in hunting, fishing and handling horses. He was « sort of a , , ' Ball That Starts Ga jade oa Gyper in his knowledge of horsefiesh, and there's nothing the Indians ad-|Harry Hempstead, President of ete mir Craw, Dresente ehyline-up | 9 | me Pipes 1b five as much as a follow they can't beat in a hores trade. At thirteen years thren yonrs. Behind the out wih be Against Dodgers, Peekinpaugh, 9 @f age Jess went to work herding cattle for an old Indian on the reserva-| Giants, Very Cheerful Over| tarry smith, at third wiltbe tage | — % | bas Bere: Boone, $b. tem, and at the same time began trading In ponies. It waen't | Lobert, whose contract the Glante -— = Sweeney, c. Re gettied upon cattle raising and horse trading as the white man’ Outlook of Baseball Year) have sought for several summers; in nson, p. Warhop, p. fm that particular part of the country. {he cutnela will be Jim ‘Thorpe, who BATTING ORDER. | Umpires—Evans and Muilaney At this time Jess wasn't tall. Ho was fat, very brond and chunky.| That Starts With Dodgers at) tong before. Mecraw eit eden New York Hrooklyn | (Suecial to The venting World.) i | But Be lived among the Indian youngsters like an Indian. He learned how veatigate, This appearance of Trotne ; Bt esas WASHINGTON, D. Gy Apri 16— * fun fast, shoot straight, ride any kind of a horse and ewim like « seal.| Polo Grounds and Yankees at! in not necessurily permanent, bec b. “Hight : 1 - Tose of the other boys living nearby could beat him in a hundred-yard , over, ae thero are a halt dozen other| YESS |, ADO NEE NAI ARTE Cupaee | ue) Beene @riat. He kept that eprinting ability even when he was of age, when he Washington, outfelders ready to jump in and fight; WILLARD.."« herd this afternoon in the presence of had grown to 6 feet 6 inches and weighed 28§ pounds in hin clothes. This J for a job. In the box, sooner or later, | %, a crowd cf notables. President Wilson (Was his height and weight on that July 4 rred to above, when he de- pT will appear “Poll” Perritt, a refuges | + re. ond members of the Cabinet occupied ; eléed that he'd go out and camp on Johneon’s trail. | Hage ue yeceeal League and one of) Cutshaw, 2b, the box of honor. The President made | ‘As Jess grew up he turned his attention more and more to horees. By Bozeman Bulger. Balt, The bulk of the cheed cies | MeCarty ¢ a perfect, throw when Re tomsed out Finally horse trading took up moat of his time. He married, and goon had} While the Giants and Brooklyn are|of the Giants is In Porritt and Lo- ! Tho Highlanders’ pitching staff haa & family in the old ranch houne. tapping the new season at the Polo| bert. They were the men McGraw | Special to Phe Hrening World.) suffered « serious relapse in the past All this time Jess never had a ningle thought about becoming a fighter. We Gidn't really know there was auch a thing in real life. Hin family, hie) |: i horses, his cattle, his farm were enough for him. Ho waa a fine, handsome,| |" ceremonies at Washington, Man fellow, with the best friends in the world all around him, and he waa sat-| #8" Donovan intimated before leav- with life, He never dreamed the time would come when he'd be! !ne to begin his first campaign as @ @areliing day and night just to let the deliriously applauding population| manager in a big leugue that Ray @@ the world look at him. He took a trip of a few miles now and then! Caldwell would be his pitehing entry FISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP By John Pollock POLO GROUNDS, New York,| few days. King Cole was left. in 1 11.—The baseball ld was pried Now York to undarg an operation by the Giants and Dodgers to- ying COaye RAG OCEREINE ta thoes in the presence of 25,000 fans. up with the grippe, and Ray band played “Tipperary” and wife ng dangerously {Il ; iid Baviter* as De Is threatened with nervous < 4 im. | Wanted to bolster up what he re- | Grounds the Yanks go through sim- | ite fo bolster aM | BROOKLYN CLUB HAS A NEW THIRD BASEMAN, The Brooklyn Club © and q ye ident altzy regarded fe sarring te buy horses or cattle, or to well them, and conaldered himself a traveller. | against the Senators und he feared | conside at the Bt. coluinns, and every : Mok ry pete Sa Denia Ana then, when he had a growing family preasing him—as families are that Walter Johnson had the assign- they oa ain lait got a satisfactory personal good but Cole and . taptincs to—he pate the big move that was to change the history of the) ment for the opposition, Ar ete JUiee, pecdna nce, | O'Mare yuid not, Charley Harvey, the focal lightweight who eave | ovation, Mayor Mitchel arrived early Ire Will _bo_misse: WErid in the matter of biack or white fistic supremacy With these first ball honors and the | for general pastiming, ence ae be! Ce actin hes bach practicanty | 202 Warmed up preparatory to pitch- ¥ees Takes His Family to Oklahoma. general bullaballoo out of the way the| BY Way of an appetizer to set them |k™ was bot 18 good euough shape to BOE | irl ro fught Prelo Welsh, the work's igut-/ NK the firet ball, He also xo the te toft right the bDodg beat the Ati leties yesterday and the Giants wrth season while! trimmed Yale twice, making ever ‘ue will have start thing even up. for twelve rounds ta the mame regulation ova on when he crossed| Wi field and another as he pitehed | the ball, , Jess took his family along and went to Oklahoma. It was a big treck, tonal League will huvo e¢ with an cight-mule freighting outfit. And Big Jesw was something of a| Upon hhing among freighters, with hia huaky and well tended mules, and his aix|the Americ on April 26 “Rab, o it wally 0 ae ‘erat io the Jovany Wiken, Samm and a half feet of real manhood, unspoiled by cities or the city knowledge } It is taken for granted that the | Jack Dougherty, hie weight, is confident that his Tho main grand stand was well) )j rm oi. sue was organ major portion of the baseball interest, |ieamed from a. reli warce that MoCoy went | er when they meet ae bina sdexy ry PB 4 menized | TUALGY DOLTIGD OF the Dasahall Int | My wigs, Wien | Gilet long before the teams got down ib Rs On July 4, 1910—we're coming to It now—Jean stood beside the rond rican coming to LAGI GIRREDOMNSE TENE BERERICNC techie en, tar see be never ef t.a}ta eases and tho bleachers took on dominie 20) that a a geross from a hotel in which was his temporary residence. With him were! 1 -4800. This Goce) Bolo Grounds, Dut many An eye will |celted him like ® kine hot eo. . “1 owe of the tougher boss of BL) 1h ty Gegroos, ‘The Gianta appeared by alllaleal three or four friends, and there was talk of Jeffries and Johnson, on that)! Lia Slaed i Nit spi SB ife'by degree ale $ edrini ie | be following that scoreboard to ascer: | aw P ition | fain Just haw the newly ownered and | Chara White, the Chivagy tihtwotent, te to nka will be dOlNe in" hnokyn on mat ‘fuslay mete This wul be Donovan, Capt Np seg phy Mc : May fighting in Reno for the world's heavyweight title. Naturally, there {in spotless white with trimmings of Was some expression of hope that Jeffries would annihilate the big black,| League until 1888 anks did | freshly man a4 nobody was worrying over any other outcome to the affair, not get into the Am nountil 190g, | &t Wasning 8 first anim st in that olty 5 ‘Whit |. Kuppert, who were TIE SPOROEROP It . ‘ational BU —— ° h M k |red and black instead of the custom: Reich Makes Viv Flalge Tals coanse was waprowed they were talking, rather idly perhaps, and without the intense! As long as we are going into history | Huston and land hie opponent will Ma ea the APOLO OATICL kave Frankie Calialia ° ° b to bring good luch and the former » a lot of boosters In their new | MV! Haber, who fought Johnny Dundee two Big Mistake iy ‘champs hustled through their prac- ae band batter, “They wil é . |tlee as if they expected tt. | "The Yanks may not be such a won. |! ht € at the Hey Boxing Flynn\ Utara warn enough! leval Brookiyn< (i Besides being 1 eo ites to start a noise of considerable Irving A. ©, of Hrookiyn and Gus Christie of |dimensions when the Dodgers ap Milwai 2 National A, 0, of Philadeiphis! Al. Reich, the young local heavy-| 3.4 with kobinson in the lead excitement felt nearer to telegraph offices, there were some arrivals at the| it aight be well to add that Brooklyn hotel. And then the news came to him, suddenly and unexpectedly, that| became a member ‘of the National | 4 Johneon had khocked Jeffries out in the fifteeth round, League in 1890, The is mty get! For a moment there was a dazed silence, then a short and expressive), {0 tis, bul as to that your de @zelamation or two. And then one of Willard's friends, turning to him and| “se opemue of the 1915 season has | Jeoking him over with a new speculation in his eyes, eald: “I believe you| an unusual interest to baseball people | them a long way @aght to be a fighter. You're big enough to whip that nigger.” in that it portends much for the | ClUb ts a vas ; | Jean, who had never considered auch a thing before in Mis life, ran hie; future of the ame. Jumping plays | of ast summer on Saturday night, he tits also been signet up to] weight who has fought his way up| foot tit Aol teen ot \ mind back over the ponsibilities and decided in an tnatant, ers, quarrels the mamnates and) mans High ae an outfielder ans Meet Jotnay Howard of Bayonne, N. J.. for wn} tne pugilistic ladder to a position) | oo None O° Uhl Be te tke “Til tackle anything!" he sald TGA HOn 1 RENE me Renee ea tee etake the Haha eee la me A Oe TE RL whore ne ‘has, BROUREG 8 TOR OE ee ee eee eee eee prominent |f And he dtdn't tet tt go with the|*!! last summer that it proved one Jim Cottey, the “Dublin Giant,” has Berean ee ates | or idable, yf the most disastrous Mane rathor form spoken word either ent imme. ¢ ; ;made three serious mistakes in hia} po word either, He went tm one Fro mthe preliminary manoouvres | nnant for a thir a twelvermund bout at 0 banoball rea an a erious «in hi Mately and sold his trading outfit, tional instiuion L fe ad E ide figiter,| PIDs career, Mix first was when he n ( inary ' Corn Comes Off as and he took his family along and wont: 0, Won the for | angtor asy sane et a tout ni| Went aginst Curl Morris tn Madison | t was ovident that McGraw intend- i 4 show to be brought off at Columbus, O,, on the pane wi or Jeanette} ~ « c Square Garden, his second when he/ed to pitch Big Jett Tesrean, witt Easy as You Please! |‘ (uinoms City. There he went to Fy we ht dim Flynn, tye Pueblo fr behind the box, On the *]a gymnasium where fighters hung| {ho business © ——— ; at the ai There is not 6 chance now of Frat “Gets-It” Being Used by Millions! charg, @ third, wh Rrooklyn side both Pfeffer and Ttuck- | [y out, looked thom over, decided that shake their his Koing Against |or warmed up, but Robbie refused to STEWART DISTILLING CO. P mnust be a good many men he Prospect, but ‘Ht te the firet time that a real, sure-as- | ¢ fate corn’ cure hue ever been. diacavered Fohnwon, — Jos ud Whip, whether he ever succead- | empatead and ts of that type| Jeanette, the colored heavywelght, | mound teat in New Haven. | eaeral Ay C. Inet any MQRBTB-IT” is the new corn haved | In working up to Johnson or not, are very optimistic: finished boxing twelve rounds with | noon of July 5. While the promoter wer only had tw rounds ito his and took ina fight between Clarence HEMPSTEAD FEELS VERY) his old rival, Sam Langford, at the | ine te ste Wel the amount hie asked, ¢ y Galy: BAG bro rounds Ei roulew Sith fend to the matcu by declar'| maining six were Flynn's by a big English and Harry Brewer, This was CHEERFUL OVER OUTLOOK. Atlas A. A. last night he was declared i at Ald yealvaptacy ane ake mental trareten the first time he ever saw a fight in They say that people are \ so tred| the winner by Referee Jack Me-|imtiat cis ——_>——_ was averted to the satisfaction of all his Jif, other than some rough and Of Wa) talk oral that tumble affair on the range, The gloves |Ue¥ ! to get in| Guigan of Philadelphia, There was| 1) ma who took M, 0, Svoenes, Johan, FIVE MEETS SCHEDULED concerned, ‘The playera simply did the open air in the vay joons and{no question about the decision, for | giere, Dick Stoah, Jimmy” Fas FOR COLUMBIA FRESHMEN their usual practice and then played Young Abhea E sure you get Carstairs fillable Men who patronize hotels, clubs and cafes on the “Fifth Avenue” or “Broadway” of all big cities, are most loyal supporters, Gen- tlemen of the “old echool’’ and those of the new, call for Zar- and keep it in their ul years L Mae mn the Athieties 7 lnehed bet crack Indi the em ynn, the Boston fight-| commit himself to advance informa- Philadelphia New York Baltimore ‘Tener, Ban) RoOsTON, April 1M—When Joe deral A, last night. tion feature to the players| to the public was the ball. surprised him, ‘Tho ring was a new have wome wholesume recreation. | Jeanotte had tho hettor of eight of |labn amt Frankie Mack to Marana | idoa, . hummer, if you will remem- SOULGR “Laeteed cion, ‘i cain with hie, batter, ele | He didn’t understand the sctance of bers” said Marry Hea by way | (he Puts thse ane ae ay a I sie fight in Mataua and that they came! p¥ye dual meet on the schedule the sport, at that first glance, and | Of tluatration, “people were passing | usual, dis ppl 2 }of the Columbia freshman track team thought it was all strength and hard BY the baseball bulletin Boards to gee | (Aa cad | Arrangements | What happened in the war zone, Well, two Weeks ako they were passing up| the war bulletins to seo how the Dodgers and Yanks and the Giants|Newark, No J and New Orleans Were coming out in| pointed Gunboat Sm exhibition gamer, 1 feel very ch a wen tel «City Willard didn't : 7 Mayor Mitchell ha make a ripple. “White hopes” were « the game a boost Supe motets Whe ors the Werkt'e Grestens a drug in the market that week. Fy itohing out the frat bail Joo Welling, the yw cago, who has scored 0 ThE | been handled by Lamey 1 out- | Clabby, is now matehed hard pit- [batile OC his caren, | Hie California, in a ten ‘hitting. Hut he was moro than ever to. bec ntor. | went D. Hire Welnert Beate Smith Charley "You Columbia m of ova! Zira package fronts, without the HAST, 12.DANR, ¥ nigh hooks i 1" ‘vill heal, hk | Mewmpaper advertisment, arenow B/.. THASiiy cbiti a dingee, each worth %c cash, and Nrooklen Bridge) vant ain f SPRING SUITS AND TOF coats | SRO att see acer te nee! tie upstate fuebter hop chipped in to | round con “tthe Broadway porting Club of Brooklyn. ix afternoon | and, t'Clinton High School, 10, Stuyvesant tHich| Or aa the, ise 1s wufficien Pawline ’ come’ et once, sec Ate A ne heat wet ‘ 168.170 PARK ROW, NEW TORS. THUMS Bry 20g ————————ES=ESES by pitching Willard) was matched with Louls mind you, he is doing this at the jes 08 entirely new privciple. It is aj Fink, a heavyweight of some local uf Charloyhorse, as he already has prominen: He went into that @ore arm. battle kr nout flag: There w v\ ing than bis late mute te r that-—but ne about the tango, And fairly clever man, W will be told in our next ¢ Cwlen and Jack + ng Keteel of White Kron aud Harry Condon ears Wily Maxwell, the clever Philadelphia tiemser NY TAGGART SUSPECTED Howant of Bayonne, Xo J, at the Hroad im arin. and Soblier yo a brass band and all | hoisting of the pennant Tha detail will be attende to at think: | oh ee READ IT en Happened Hoxton, where the Braves netalment | ing about another championship. | ight the betting was 6 to Lthat | and would play "This os. ¢ ad “The Star Spangled Ban- cori t don't ‘stay put,’ ‘at corns with knives or ri So more bleeding oF danger of | biood No more lim; round for duys April 1h—After yeas} Day. corn pains. weclasi ih the other ten-rounder o>mDa it el lart race had been run at 1 ew She lawaet veiling jants have not had @ glorious | Bares Someguied {9 Joa Madden of tho west aide and Pote Merimus oN , Cockspur, a long shot, beating F biel corn, wart, callus or bunion. trip and are a little bebind | }gfAls Qt ieimor ot Berantom will clash i the main go at the heavily. backed, B, r Ani Convenience a: vrding to those who have |! quendore A. a, of Long Inland ity on pore by druggists: every. | AMHRICAN Libs closely——and doggedly— | Ay night Johnny Young atnl Mort Siete aad See Vale } Menta a aatia@ireet Ry Hi pgpiogtcn ut On paper they appear to Beat | 6 sige Navona Loum ithe aro Ruan tl Heber Fa itera ty “ng ul World's Want Directory | j York’ cit | one. per cent, stronger than wh Bari ie mba: oP § bs his horse in Ins ce, Mee | : i cat, iheir measure was taken by the! proouyu, Mune vy ta rt rode Paton yesterday, Cotabliened i READ IT es T { ae en IN