The evening world. Newspaper, April 19, 1915, Page 10

WILLARD FIRST SHOWED CHAMPIONSHIP CALIBRE IN FGHT WITH CARTY Jess Stopped Smiling in This Battle When Luther Stung Him With a Right, and Satisfied the Critics That He Wasn't a Clown. 1V.—WILLAAD’S RING BATTLES AND RISE TO CHAMPION: | SHIP SERIES, Coprviats| 016, by The Presse Publishing Oo. (The New Yoru Brening World) GRE! ALLY i be eppeared in Now York He was aiwaye present aud ready to be intro duced on fight nighis, aud he introduced. ‘The tall, lan cowbey, with bis perpetual smile, beonwe one of the features of every show.) He gave every one & good laugi, for he hadn't done any fighting yet in or) near New York, and be was generally regarded as « joke The best part of ft was Chat Jess socomed to appreciate the joke bimeulf He always emiled nad emiled. There was nothing whatever about bim w eugi SAAB, EBeept, perhaps, bis long arms and large, strong bands , Long before Willard appeared in the Mast one Arthur Pelky came out of Chteopes, Mass., and fougbt in a so-called white hope tournament at Tom O'Rourke's club. Pelky fought well, and it was the general opinion of the, Spectators that he should have been declared winner, Al Palser, who was under O'Rourke's management, received that honor, Pelky, however, was well remembered when he camo back to New York for more fights after clesaing up well in New England, where he beat soldier K in five) rownés. He wes « dig, powerful fellow, rewinding one somewhat of Jim Jcdfrtes. Billy Heckler persuaded come ove or other that Willard would be a good trial bores for Pelky, and the two were matched to fight In Madison Square Garden. This was in July, 1012, less than three years before Joss Willard ‘wes destined to knock ow Jeck Johnson and win the championship of the i Provably nine-tenths of the spectators that night were sure Pelky would Walp the lanky, emiling cowpuncher and send him West again. The only ene Whe coemed to think differently was Willard. Big Jess came into the tag es unconcerned as & postman about to deliver a letter. He sat in a cormer and looked all around over the crowd to find hie friends, and smiled q@miled. When be etood up and stripped for action there was a sense tiem of surprise. He eurely stripped well. Years of work and of riding |. He was entirely | symmetrical—set overdeveloped in any part. He was loose jointed and easy in movement. He was clean cut, yot showed little muscle anywhore. His arme were notably Jong and slender, but he had good forearms and big wriets end hands. Jese Wore a Smile Throughout the Fight. Bren as be came up to mest Pelky big Jess turned to emtle at the crowd, Apparently he thought he was just about to amuse them. Pelky, lean jawed and grim, broad beamed and burly, started the fight in bis usual rushing etyle, And to the astonishment of the crowd Jess just jabbed him away end laughed. Joss wasn’ worried in the least. He might havo been a clown ine circus. He held Pelky off with ease, and, turning, sent his smile wan- dering over the house. Through the ten rounds be outclassed Pelky entirely, landed many jabs and. few hard rights, and camo through an casy winner. Ase dieckened glove contest it would have been great. ‘Mhat fight gave Willard a local reputation, but not a very dig one. hese good jad,” people sald, “but he’s too good natured to be a fighter.” ‘Wiard’s real ehance to do something came ehortly after the Pelky fight. Luther McCarty came to town, fresh from knocking out Carl Morris fa the Middle West. MoCarty was touted as a coming heavyweight oham- pion, a challenger for Johnson, best by far of the “white hopes.” Apparently he was the best. He surely thought so himself. He took ‘Witlard on at the fret suggestion, merely remarking in Bob Fitesimmone' the “He Century i mark. m i BVYENING WORLD, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK + ABS a MONDAY, APRIL 38, 100, EDITED BY [noSee Besar WILLARD NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY IN FIRST APPEARANCE IN NEW YORK (a = Rap8: Sauer More Than Two Hundred mame’ Starters in Century Run AR MY UCTIONS JEbe was —— em © @000 Vore, Aw Janwen Peevey Jaw Tues vo aan at tue © FoOwWD Proves Cycling Isn’t Dead Record Entry List, Including | Veterans of Qame, Compete in Annual | Event for Prizes and Place in| the Pan-Paoiflo Race. NY ene who thinks that outdoor bioycie riding is a thing of the past head better not voice bis opinion to Pete Wollenechaiger. Prto would get up on “his bigh horse” for fair and maybe tell the one making the assertion that it is be, not the cycle game, that ie ‘dead.’ Probably you never heard of Pete! Well, thoro ten't a biko riding en- thustast that dvesn’t know him, and they all look upon him as one of the Gootors that saved the life of the game when the auto and ite annual improvements made the bike take a back seat. The ono-bundred-mile run ef the Road Club Association yesterday was the nineteenth annual event of its kind conducted by the organisation, yet Pete hasn't missed a aingle century. Pete used to be a walker and runner. matches were in vogue many years ago Pete was one of the kingpins a game. hobby, “I attribu ATTRIBUTES GOOD HEALTH TO CYCLING. “But bike riding has always been my well eaid Pete, who is now past tho two-score-and-ten-yoar | my great health | to the fact that 1 am etill keeping up my pursuit of the sport. “I wouldn't give my Dike for all of the best autos in the world, Outdoor When walking When opinien that it was an impessibility, Hut eines then five men have avoom- plisued the feat. besides Segal, jan ‘Thompaen, Vred Lilethal, arr aod Capt, Steppello are the men whe did thie great endurance stun! for whivh they all bave received gu About two hundred aad forty riders wok part in the run yesterday, which was the opening of the outdoor cycle racing season, About one bi ‘od jeasure, or slow riders, left Colum- us Cirole at 7.80, the same time an equal number leaving Bedford Reat, Brooklyn, bound for East Islip, where dinner was served. The fast division left Columbus Circle at 8.30 and there were forty starters ip this section. Most of them overtook the slow riders 4n\1 finished at Columbus Circle many miles abead of them. the starters was Edwin Jensen, who holds the interclub championship, whioh he won by defeating James oa at Grant City, Staten Island, last Oo- tober, He made a new record tn a ten-mile unpaced race, covering the wiui- Ralph Aiatance in 26.96 against the f figures of , held Joneph Kopaky. One hundred and seventy-seven finished within tho it of twelve hours. The eighteen riders who qualified for the Pan-Pacific endurance run are: Ed- win Jensen, C.R.C A.; Wiliam Locke, Cc. R. C. of America; I. Taub, CR. C, 4 C. Hanseg, Yonk- . M. A.; Julius Schmidt, K. Hart. T. Helsig, H. Hubbard, all of Geo: Ste; Seigel, Sylvan Beige! “ dwell, all of the tnguist, O. ¥ &, nquiat, O, . | A; Gua Nagle and Walter Grenda of | Newark. FISTIC NEWS By John the C. R. C, of Amerto: ello, G. H. Bat | Carmen, PScaery Svenas ME MIGHT at eveKk a Be wve ! Wisaro's vPpeRcUr NBARLY PUT LUTWER, away Whitney’s Crack 3-Year-Olds To Race in Classics in South Regret and Prince Henry will Be Shipped to Louisville on May 1. Marry Payne Whitney will ship his| unbeaten filly Regret to Louisville on! May 1, Regret will be prepared for the Derby and Kentucky Oaks, the leading classics of the South. Prince Henry and Sun Glase are also entered. Borrow and Harmonicon are others in the etring to be shipped to Louls- ville, Phosphor and Sharpshooter, who are to carry the colors of 8. L. Par- wona in the Kentucky Derby, were hipped South on Saturday. Trainer ‘William Karrick was in charge of the horees. Other ho§ses that started urdey from Sscopshea@ Bay are BSoottish Loud the propery L. Parsons, and Forecast, Hig! Chair and Briardale of the Oneck Btable. Just before shipping time Karrick AND GOSSIP Pollock worked Phosphor and Sharpehooter @ mile in 1.48 2-5. This showed that the Derbdy candidates are ready to race, Coquette, the smart race mare that was purchased late in the season last year Al. Koenigs' will race in the colors of Mattie rbett. Koe- nigeberg, having been ruled off, was compelled to dispose of the horse. Last season she was considered one of the best two-year-olds, She is a Lge, beat of Celt and was developed by orge Odom. Sam Hildreth is making good prog- ress with the horses of August Bel- mont at Sheepshead Bay. Flittergold ia one that will be ready for the open- ing day at Belmont Park. Hildreth is having trouble with Rock View, now five years old. He always caused trouble at the barrier. Yesterday he plunged and r for nearly half an hour before boy could get him away for @ trial. Bight bundred and fifty mares were nominated in the $21,000 Kentucky Futurity for foal of 1916, entries to which closed April 1, acoording to an announcement by the Kentuoky Trot- ting Horse Breeders’ Association esterday. Walnut Hall Farm of the fate L. V. Harkness of Lexington, Ky., heads the list, with eighty-two mares nominated. The Patchen Wilkes stock farm of Kentucky comes second, with eighty, and the Allen Farm of Pittsfield, Mass, ts third, with thirty. The Hudson River of 8. STUNG Jess Wit nano HONE MED Wee | McGraw Plans to School His Young Pitchers by Keeping Th jLeader of Giants Realizes Ho | Must Develop Staff of Strong | Boxmen, and That Is Why He) | Sent Ritter and Stroud Game to Relieve Matty, Who Isn’t Ready Yet. | By Bozeman Bulger. | HAT MoGraw intends to dig heavily and hurriedly Into his tore of recruits was proved Saturday when he relieved Mathow- son by Stroud and Ritter—two young twirlers absolutely new to New York. In days gone by McGraw, following hia established custom, would have kept those two fellowes on the bench for @ full season, giving them a chance to observe big league ways. The only previous exception to his rule was Al Demaree, who was vhucked right into the Hmelight at the start. And for one season he made good. The sudden debut of minor leag' talent into a game that wae yet young means that McGraw feels the neces- sity of taking @ quick inventory of hie atock of new material. ‘rom these recruits he must form a pitching staff this season, and nobody knows it any better than the manager of the! Giants. i Stroud proved himself a pitoher of! much experience and handled himself as a veteran should, though be did not electrify the fans as did Bill Rit- ter, the six-footer from Wilmington. If Stroud bad Ritter’s natural strength or Ritter had Stroud’s experience @ pitching machine would be formed that would be difficult to beat. Stroud has been in the big league bef but back rN was eent for more BU of the opinion thet the followem of Al been tating tm great farm for covesel eneiths, te tock Farm of Poughkeepale, N. Y and came to the Gianta from the words that “The bigger they are the ‘arder they fall.” you're sitting in the front seat of an|Relch, the lei Rearrweight, ead Jim Cofter, | to aut « guurentes of GTO, peckrthe with twenty-three, while G.| coast. Ritter te brand new. B auto, driving It, you may get a lot of |the “Dublin Giant,’ want to ove the men settle . Ritter's Totty Burs, whe K. G. Billings's Curles Nock Farm,| ‘The most valuable thing in Rit ‘That fight was tn the Garden too. good air and all that, but you don't |the much diesmerd question ee to which te the semen * awe with twent " rtoire is @ fast ball that 4 | better ‘Jimmy Johnston, matchmaker ot Mad- Seattle, Wash. will book up ™ in Virginia, is fifth wen! y. pitching repe! ire a Vor the Pelky fight Willard hed received $160, a quarter of which went er O87 Se ereee Bike Maine’ cites pela yon tts | the star bout of ten sounds ot the Long Acre —___ appears slow at the start. He bas 6 to bis manager. Now, fighting MoCarty, be was promised 6 per cent. of the|yuuail the air you want ives | {cllows to ment is « ten-round tut at the Garten | 0-0: thon Wwadat. Al Kale of Buvotire | E. H. S STUDENTS TO pat meee meiion Ge Sao gate. McCarty, as the conqueror of Morris and the real “oard,” drew down | you « chance to call into play the|om the aight of May 5. Reed, who sesiested | pounder, OLD WALK MAY 1, | ing in speed. As a result before the 38 ger cent. Hiuuales of your arme and lege, and |tie waning fe ¢ cota oth Dee For Ts tet tens aml Chemin tot to Hi *| hitter bee eet Bimself the ball aboots t ‘a whata must ave in or- though would bare an The Sait with MoCarty placed Willard right up among the bost of the | ata, Rant Aman must Devs 1m or |Line tn aocsing of tho Boston heareeunt, as | the cect tht. dekeay Kibase tas Mus! | ue veung mon of the evening high (CVT ue, & puller, Geveral ot tie “white hopes,” and sent McCarty out West Fo "|door, YOU can have your auto, Dut |*tared work again and will kee right ot it until | met Joo Mandot at New Oxteane on May 8 unless | AS ae ver's eat again. For, to the utter amaze-| 00 attics every iim.” the any of the battle, ‘Coffer will do. ha train |e Tesstves more than the guarentee of $2,000, | schools will take their ret hike through | pall Saturday after it wae vers mant of the ringsiders, tall, lanky, emiling Jees handled McCarty almost as|* William Lamphar is another rider ‘as | With © privilege of 80 per cont, of the grom se | Manhattan on May 1. The start will be mitt, Rees Mh Feogvered 0 . eamfiy es be had Pelky. who hasn't malased one of the Century catpte, we o promoters im the Gouth were made fem, Kingsbrias ac oe oe won ela fave Mol oneee = gM Ciub’e runs, He le & man over two otere midileweight, | “Hind as tty = Street, around Central Park, ts him to be a great pitcher and is Right-Hand Uppercut Slowed Up McCarty. pundred pounda, and he declares tbat |ast songs Cbio of Pitsburg bare tem boobdi | _Astber Hetty, who Bas put qinth Strmadium of the City Gol:|Peoing that the greatness will show et he wot Pore, vee al toe eile to men in e ten-tuund eout at a show to be | quently during the ge and back to the starting point. this season instead of being delayed @uite, of course, for MoCarty was a fighter with a lot of class, a| ‘t Walaticctess nna pe ae were | halt Ot, Mactnette, Wis,, om the night of April | by Joe Jeanette the usual year on account of inexperi- tall, well built, rangy, determined fellow who believed in himesif as thor-|¢ne only two men in. yesterday's TUN | in Guay tty ‘ra aanMyate sre? goede | Cenade,. ten dame, ago, oe * @ughty es Napoleon believed in hie destiny. MoCarty started the fight] who have not mipeed 6 cont. But motere made Jimmy » good offer for the contest | ring forever, Bosal ‘The tact that Stroud and Ritter with @ evdden rush tntended to eweep Willard right off his fest. And ae| {hore are some, ottare wht, Noid REST |e quickly soceyiad H__ Mas, Conate, ont Wate ei'the walue of the Manchester Cup, | Were started Saturday also would ine he eame tearing tn big Jess reached out six or seven feet with his long, | vain Segal, whoee participation tn the Frenk' Moran, who made e big linpression with will be ne which {s to be run off on May 28, from pisate Sint fe nest reap atm aer, Jean lett arm, pi Luther squarely on the nose, stopping him run yesterday was hia two hundred |‘? Puslish fight fans by huovking out Bom | to be held im the arnory $15,000 to $10,000, Ine ai des » me Boor ee ithe Just think of a man cover. [nti Wells e few weks ago in London, i | soconting to the deciaton of rk lard again with a series of swinging | yeare! Th og po My [vert of next month in London, IN. in order to hold this record | in London, prod Mews imtended to wipe him right out of existence, Some of these McCarty hg ty Shas) be officially checked. | joe Welling, the lightweight of Ohicagn, who | Walter Miche were to ba NO TES OF THE GOLF. LL KS landed. Gome big Jess avoided by leaning back eo far that his head was| Two y! o eae bg sree Moe des won soren battles with knock | young Brown and Wi — — om of range, and some he stopped by landing first. Round after round in the o e - C8 | cute end te credited ly the Westen fight extticos to battle ten rounds et til the to whether a man could if course at Forest | decided on the postponement unt MeCarty carried the fight to Willard. He deserved a world of oredit for| ‘iderave mundred iilen in aixty con: | sy "et ort ga oheaue Migsuetehtuna)mecns | atumiay eich bare term convelat to pons) The Pupxiyh, will be opened for| War ls over, but on the resumption of ais gameness and perseverance. secutive hours, It was the general) + Uitanavolis for teu rouida ot «new aud in| future ofl Aehtere siqued wp for bouts st the ctud | pay ‘on May 1, A number of changes she shamplonm iP Qneo be landed « hard swinging right on Willard's left cheekbone. A) === = aeeeee Sees | Detroit om April g9, will have to post @ fortett, have been made in the course, but Fed epot appeared, and for a round or two the big fellow’s eye looked puffy. NDICAP AIDS CRANE KAdio Campt of Californie, conqueror of side the entire eighteen holes of the new ’ eer eras colies rons oh ee crore tala wae tien ee TO DEFEAT JAY GOULD, [wrt wit icon n't tout ion vianty an! C the enti aot be ready uot next| MoHale’s Good Gasty, and es Luther came rushing in to follow hie advantage nearly lifted “Tneat Baturday might, Me will go against Bill year. ttm from his fect with a crushing right uppercut on the jaw. I piped Pitanmanons of Yonkere ot the Fairmont 4, 0., For this season there will be two the @lash of Luther's teeth otill. He shook his head and stayed up, but !t @ close call. From that time on MoCarty tried desperately, but fabbed and uppercut him until he was forced to finish the bout fmto clinches and holding desperately to save himself. It went rounds. At the end Willard was emiling and unmarked; McCarty ‘was bruised, cut, bleeding and undoubtedly glad that it was all over, In that fight Willard stlenced the critics who said ho was too much of @dlown to be a fighter. He showed that he could fight when he wanted to, ‘and that he would fight when stung. His only fault, it seemed, was that his good nature predominated and he fought hard only in spurts, letting ep as soon as he had his opponent in trouble. Perhaps it was that same mature that long afterward gave him the coolness tn the ring to fight Johnson as carefully as if taking part in a mefe training bout. My next story will tell how Jess once lost his smile for about two gesonds and what happened to the man who made him lose it. | YOUNG AHEARN WINS National A. C. Saturday night. Christie J failed to cut loose, and It, all PROM GUS CHRISTIE. |tnat Anonrn had to do was. to ate around, shooting straight lefts to the! PHILADELPHIA, «April 19. — Young! face now and then, mixing this up with | early ovtpoinied Gus Christie # right uppercut or a hook that ver Milwaukee io ax counde at the seldom failed tp Mind }1s suerk * ae Gould endeavored Crane odds of half thirty for a bisque in @ court tennis match at the Rao quet Club yesterday and was beaten three sets to one. ane score was 6-3, 6—4, 1-4, 6—3, in favor of Crane, and altogether the winner won only three games more In every way It was an interesting match, and when at the very top of might be able to give Crane the odds and a beating, Sut he would have to be at his best, than the loser, PHILADELPHIA, Aprit 19, — Jay to give Joshua MMs form the champlo' in the Herons, Fitauamone has besten Harlan Peteay Clie, Jobo P, Dunn, prem s@ent, announcer and matchwaher of the bout at the Broadway Sport ing Glad of Brooklya, ts now the managor of Al MeOey of Brovkiyn, Johnay eo tnformet ue at 2A, M, woolay, and asked that the public be Anformed of the fact, McCoy will probably get plenty of work now at the B. 6. ©., deapite the fact Chat he baw been defented many time there, Champion Johnny Kilbane, who te to fight Renny Leonant at the Federal A, ©, on April 24, n starting places, ono on Myrtle Ave- a d one at the club house on the Woodhaven wide. Caddy masters will be on duty at each, and all caddies must be engaged from them and reg- istered. The fees will be 60 cents om ordinary days, and 75 cente on Sat- urdays, Sundaye and holidays. Cameron B. Bux! one of the best MoD ee CE compete. im aba oan! Facifidps et the Panome-Pacitio Hx- EVERS MAY NOT PLAY BALL FOR TWO WEEKS. ‘TROY, N. ¥., April 19.—Jobnny Evers of the Boston Braves, who was injured in the game at Boston Saturday, arrived home yesterday. Evers suffered a se- vero sprain of the ankle, and it may ts to receive & guarantee of $1,200 and expenses from Qleveland and retum, Le uand, whe des jonah} Pealtion ‘at the Presidio. Charles BE. Evans jr. also plans to be two weeks before he oan return to the GAM) York. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. 3 Ga Tite e! a3 "4 1h and. B Boo Weta: POR aol See Vn RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S ES SCHEDULED FO) TO-DA’ York at Pbiladelp W " start West next week, Evans has been in that territory before. n golf championship of Eng- lan’ ee en declared off for thle year. The event was scheduled to be yed on the course of the Royal Batue Ports Club at Deal in June. ‘The six clubs governing the event— the Royal and Ancient, Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, Royal Liverpool, Royal St. Georges, Brest- wick and Royal Cinque Ports—have oBaeshall Erte arameas darter: #20 FM. ! Work Cheers The Yankees Pe, April 10.-— Their hopes revived by the ease with which they took Saturday's game from the Athletics, Bill Donovan's players arose this morning after a quiet Philadelphia Sunday with a good appetite. Marty MoHale’s performance on the mound Saturday was as good as his best of record. He had been suc- cessful against the Athletics in other sessions, and Marty incidentally gave the best pitching demonstration of any of the Yank boxmen who have been ‘in there’ so far this season, With Ray Caldwell back in the ranks of the Yanks’ pitching ataff, Bill Donovan is in better shape to continue the race. It is expected that “Slim” will be called on to pitch to- day, in} Season form, regardiess of what he em Under Fire who have been sildin the Glant bench f, year or more waiting tho call. “Shey are both in shape and anxious, but not more ao than is McGraw up and down The fact that Matty ts not in mid- ’ may or may not have had on the ball, was shown when he walked two bat- ters tn succession, a thing the olg- timers don't remember hia haviag done since the Brooklyn Bridge was opened for traffic. The oocasions are frequent when Matty had Kittle on the ball, but he was always able to get it over the plate and trust to luck. But on Saturday the Old Marster was ao- tually wild! His curve would pot break for him and his fast one would not buss. A queer break to the game that ave Cravath his home run and hiladelphia the bacon came in the third Inning. Matty had two atrikes on the Philly swatter when Cravath rolled @ little grounder toward third. Lobert could have fielded the baji, but saw it would roll foul eventually and Jet it go. Cravath, baving « new ife, then banged ball nd. It was not the home responsible for Matty's however. Those two bases on exit, balls in succession decided McGraw. The Philadelphia club seems as full of life as it always does in the spring and will probably get away to an- other flying start, but it cannot be regard a3 a serious contender for the pennant. [ff Alexander could itch all the time—yes. Lut he can't. . * Incidentally six or soven ballplayers, while talking shop yesterday, expres: od the unanimous opinion that Alex- ander is to-day the best pitcher im organized baseball. Those who went on the trip to Honolulu with him wil! take an affidavit to that fact. That crow of 25,000 that watched him mow down the Giants Saturday might alao be induced to vote with them. In Bancroft, the diminutive shor\- stop, the Phillies apparently have made one of the big finds of the yer, This little fellow fields beautifully, hita like he meant it and is about tho fastest piece of work that has skid- ded around our bases for @ long time. His speed completely fooled Fletoher on one occasion, and ho was across the bag before our Collinsville grocer had unooiled for his throw to first. Capt. Huston, fresh from a trip to Philadelphia, where he saw his pets trim the Athletios in easy style, is back in town an@ will watch the Giants to-day to see if they haveany- | thing on his Yanks. Up until the time he and Col. Ruppert bought | themselves a ball club the Captain had never sten the Now York Ameri- e play. don't know bow good we are yet," he said; “but if the Athletios and the + Senators, judging from the games I saw, have a chance for the pennant, then you can go and bet your si that the Yanks will be in the first @- + vision." HUERTA SEES GIANTS DEFEAT JERSEY CITY. Victoriano Huerta, the former Preai- dent of Mexico, wes tn Jersey City yea- terday and saw the Giants trim the Skeeters, 6 to 8. Few pgople in the atand recognised the former chief ef THUMS Bertegs, se, Arson