The evening world. Newspaper, April 22, 1915, Page 14

: a TRB EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, APRIL 99, 1918. UP-TO-DATE Yearever] BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK WILLARD FILED ME | ~ SCENES AND PLAYERS IN POLO TOURNAMENT AT LAKEWOOD FOUGHT TOO CAUTIOUSLY, | WHEN HE BOXED MORRIS ; eS Gigantic Frameof Oklahoma Man Had ||| Champion Guessing, and He Jumped Back After Each Punch He Started —Admits It Was Bad Show. 7 Vil.—WILLARD’S RING BATTLES AND RISE TO CHAMPION. | SHIP SERIES. | Preee Publishing Co (The New Turk bveuing Words é : — oe BY ROBERT EVGREN. \ ae i EFORE coming Hest to fgbt again Jose Willard bought « bungalow | | B im the outskirts of Los Angeles, Cal, and wade It « permanent ree! dence for bis family. “I did that,” said Joss, “becnuse (le climate was . the Anest | found anywhere ip the country, aud | weuted the children w | Grow up in it The people aren't apy better than tn Kav Jens hax \ \ eiways been careful to disclaim aay biat of disloyalty tv Lis home country : . The Willard-Morrie fight was regarded as almost a white hope cham RENOVATED YANKS incipient Ploneaip. Surely Willard and Morris were tho beeflost and tallent pair Mayor Mitchel Will Help Copyrighs, i016, by 1 : ; that ever met in o ring. Willard weighed about 246 pounds and stood b © feet 6 in bis sooks; Morrie was only an incl shorter and undvubtedly Weighed Sfteen to twenty pounds more, Willard looked trim, Morrie wan a Monstrous piece of beef, massive and unsymmetrical : As the rivairy between the two giauts hud been growing for Donovan's Pennant Chasers 4 time, undoubtedly this might have been # great fight but for one thing Ope Polo Gr { go f When Morris saw tho biggest man he'd ovor faced in his life he became pen at Polo Grounds. bay | q the most cautious man in the wide world, And when Willard glimpsed) BLOSISInG, mcrae = ; the gigantic frame of Morris be was wo filled with awe that ho jumped ene oes ‘ eves Use dad HE Giants having fled accom | ™ . . away about eight feet after each punch that he started. It was evident : y j : ~~ ae I tho river to recoup their loa from the beginning that neither had any inte: hankering to mix it. The EVENING WORLLI fortunes, Polo Grounds art Much advertised “fight” went ten rounds without a knockdown or a ieee ~ TAT ERE urned over to the renovated Yauid single exeiting moment. And when {t was over the disgusted spectators ee es ibd HEADPIN TOURNEY the day, and from the number of @wore that both Willard and Morris were yellow all the way through, SaaS ee i BROHEA) SCOURS) OFNGER) AUK Gna = - = Helmer, 80 Denn ‘y Sparrow has wstored ia th¢ RY i “ . . jubliouse, under i n at JESS ADMITS BOUT WITH MORRIS WAS BAD. Ballplayers to Continue Fight, 4 1 O08 i atannhs Son teat raga (Gece te te aa ance? cecean As far as the Hight went Willard had @ little the better of it, for he ’ . 7 mS. PERKINS. Ma Mri 72," TS) Abte noire Washi Chub wi epent some of the time trying to draw Morris out of his defense. He did But Won t Strike, Says Fultz ae eras be hero with Walter Jobnaon Kid 6 ght a little bit, and Morris didn’t Might at all, Willard, ax usual, had no —— ‘ ‘ Hive Ae Bia aasend Holo anteue @mcuses or explanations to make after the fight, except a plain statement E turning down of the Players’ Fraternity by the National Com- [| P ls S ll ¢ |) perchance, he 1 to pl that he “know it wes rotten,’ but couldn't holp it. Every fighter has an mission, as was announced exclusively yesterday in The Evening oto eason tin u wing gl lh dio Sig gh —— off night some time—and this was Willard'’s, It was by far the poorest ex-|[ first leant etched ra el Fh rindabe valet leamtenera | A running the show thelr exh sit Bibition r made in the ring, and was directly responsible for bis ||| Dave Fults. Pre nity, was & At Lakewood Will Develop lack of New York backing when he fought Johnson for the title in Cuba, |] what, " ; 4 ti, ott; Willard’s friends and Tom Jones, who had become his manager at the lo something to say to-day. He i f t t l C i "| lowing Koy to over the anawor of the Baseball Commission and will not discuss future \p y may, Bb is oNered free: f@me of the Gundoat Smith affair in California, explained everything by 1] action until he hae read carefully every word contained In the answer of [ nternationa Uu ayers f Witst, ins, Ritomem | 18 ee rotund gentieman who will be eaying Willard wes still extremely nervous over the “accident” to Bull|] the Sed nntes, _— ¢ £90, etn ee lll rf AY |seon on the right of Mayor Mitchet Young, a short time before, and that he didn't dare cut luose. Possibly “ven though we are turned down,” said Fultz last night. “it doesn't iql racing pony at the leading Deal|_ Monccan, Ny. L-ithter, OR: Sy | Wearing glasses and a broad that Is the true explanation of the most disappointing showing he ever || mean that we are going to give up the fight for our rights, But you can 'Southern Team, Which Has Big player ahd “ido 2 Off before he [S12 Thats 48; Nowa: jwill be Capt, "Tulingnast 1 | vould iy his mallet, ae: tis _ | " made in a ring. Lead for Gould Cups, Includes] °°: W. Hoping at No. 2 nas also ite RM lone | Per tt anere Arai But if Jess felt any compunctions over delivering a hard punch in the ‘ been prominent in many plays for {faond, to the plate Tie. gentienias Rodel and Morrin fights he noon lost them. His next exploit was a fight in Arthur Perkins, Who Com-) Aiken. Like Forkins, he is a spoedy | less rotund . we bile b Ruppert half, Bot® Jon the Mayor's lei but with the | ‘ rider and a hard hitter, BE. 8, Burke, Buffalo, in which he knocked One Round Davis cold in the second “1 MeG ti | i he Aiken No, 1, was the Bofal in nic te tnocked On Hoand Davis ca inte vecns ond | MCG QW Blames 21 Player | pares ravorabiy with eve: ain in titi ia he played ali winter, His work has Jess told me about that Davis fight as a good Joke, while we were | i | oy ‘ ts rong of arn lesee we tem'One Sent denn ‘ Rule for Latest Defeat =" Miurr. fea a. 0 age “1 didn’t want to fight Davis for nothing, and I wouldn't have taken him | aaa’ | nian ruehes | Mohemn, " es, Marthe : nother opening will be stag d at on if there'd been any other way out of {t. I was sore over his getting Hi d d O t b Ph Ul LAKEWOOD, N, J, Apri ot | fr her piay-! ui ‘ot bets Field, ia which the attraction Be ere tehs Ce Eh NEe Ga icstainmiiaie wera rare | ande ut oy uites. Tacimt ier ite soni tenets halderevie (oe 8 ot the mand ang tis flags ee ES attention are the Kandolphs, father | 9. 1. B. Randolph e.,! $9 | when most men| Court is proving to be the) would prefer the less strenuous sport series of the season. The) of golf, likes nothing better than to the Fra-|millionaire's magnifivent — 820-acre! mount one of his speedy ponies for aT. down by|estate on the Lake Drive, where the! ¢, isn't eatinfied with There will) local polo colony jety visitors and! one chukker, but goes through the en- It would| hundreds of nate s flock every after-| tire game, eight chukkers or periods. B L dd: Hnates entirely too noon to see some of the leading teams! ‘The most promising player in the rown ea 8 h v. WH! be the Giants and the Dodgers Both Robby and MeGraw have goné there to recoup thoir lose whi means, naturally, that one or thé other will have to do even more rev couping on the morrow. om and beat some other fellows, and they seemed to think more of him than they did before, I had the surprise of my life when we drew $8,500. Chalmers, the Pitcher Who Al-| My share of it was $1,700." : Ve This was about the largest sum of money Jess had ever seen in his lowed Giants Two Hits, Was Mife. He sailed into Davis, jabbed bim a few times, took a clout or two ana i shot over the finishing punch. oA i was Very genuinely knocked out. Turned Loose to Comply With J kewood polo tournament ROW) ind two sons. P. b in progress at George Gould’®) though at aa age There was much talk yesterday | Georgia! ut a possible strike of ballplayers| premier @ result of (he demands roity having been turned ional Commission, t chukker, may have worried over the result of landing a hart one on Carl} New Limit Rule, ® year now theae|in the Hast play, reminds one of! Randolph famil is Wister, vesant High School and the DeWitt Morris, but he wasn't worrying any more, judging from results, He got avo bron kicking | Meadow Brook on’ the days of (tle a big, lanky youth of eighteen, “He Is “cc Vets’’ at Golf Sore night when tha teats teeak a) M ot allowing the strilce! t « player of the daredevil type, takes 0 A 4 over it quickly, too, for he fought Morris Dec. 3, Davis Dec, 12 and on to proceed when it threatened b FO a eae cal polo season, though de- Bead Ob chante ts @ Mar aider pill va the Fast Side Murish House, 9 Second Dec. 29 met Boer Rode! again. And when he fought tho Boer thi By Bozeman Bulger. It would have aaved them thonecrds | iaved by unsuigabie weather, has now | and knows the quine, Young Wister batt fae pe Ade ow 1a rool aR ee gh i! id Your con | reached its height, Bome of the most! should be international calibre within| The veteran amateurs opened the an nae thee bee wilt Rave In order check the from acoriig, A hand are now on thelr | vung players In the eoun-|q few years. | golt no: vester’ akewood, | "Black wnd Davis, although not quite so hasty, and John Foster aro doing con-| with pro “ ely hands | promising young play 2 ¥ golf season yesterday at Lakewood wing young pl: been here nearly two week#| ‘The tournament games, all handi- Gyiv” those acknowledging to fifty= yers waiting | try hay ‘was just as careless in swinging over the count producer as he'd been with Joss McGRAW, Harry Hempatead | of dollars In two and thre wing cup will be awarg siderable ghashing and grinding| for them to expire, ;yotting in readiness for the tourna-!cap contests, will be continued for| }to the \ he the: Whitlwind At 10) RIBUTE TO RO - r five years or more were eligible ond| tic Club. 'P Will also be. sever ow a ment. There are enough ponies quar-| nearly two weeks. Handsome cups au, Nal pe GHAMPION PAYS TRIBUTE DEL. Harte ep one ye ere A, atrlico an, the part of the ball tered in the private Gould stables to! have been offered, by, Mra, and Mr./ when the last pair of veterans hoied preliminary games ‘between local elubm Rode] merits some description. He oame here from Hngland, where! : ; equip a cavalry regiment. George Gould, P. H. $8. Randolph sr-| out on the home green it was found Ped: q yney Dreyfuss, who instituted this would 5 . | me ff } Federal is alleged he 4i@ eome good fighting. He insisted that he had fought | Barney rey tina a or 'y pleasing to the magnates, who) ,2* 8 Groat ensciaiora Spert,, And) dnd 4. Pareles, . that Henry W. Brown of the Phila} ctub w ‘ | rue, was not well thought of bere-|iivg iost money paying the mlarios; the polo fans have been trooping ou! ——-—__— y clud and. Charles | ™ through the Boer War in South Africa when a small boy. He wa Lg larios | jdelphia Coun rs j abouts during the night oe the | Chleag on who cannot be turned loose, (0 Mr, Gould's estate in record num N wr of Oakland were +i doubdtedly rugged enough to have come from good Boer ancestry. As a consequence of that rile Me-| players feel far more pettird bare fhe Spb me eee ig ne a pn LOSE. With Sark SG red Pua i could take @ great hammering and get up for more after many knock- | Graw had to let one, Chalmers, eseape | (NO possession of these two und three from Alken and Deal for cups pre- " ectively: hey will & contracts than if they should (on strike and have to look for and for that reason the tho om the Giant coop yesterday, and : ok to-day. sults of Yesterday's Games, sented by Mrs, George Gould. ‘ho aldo of Brookiawh, Southerners have won a commanding! John Reisie*, better known as John) Charles ways prominent in senior gatlver! r ° shes? h lead due to their hard hitting and ne) (ie Barber,” whose chief vin In Iife has | yy, right. But he was a peculiar sort of o fighter, for all hie spurts of game-| uniform aii gave tho Glants one of | of a strike Is th farches: from shetr combination work. Arthur Perkins at won t nese. It was one of hie fighting principles that taking nine seconds on |e, Voret, ‘rimminrs of Mie seune minds. back performed like a Devereux Mil- evcaped, slipped into a Philadelphia Ne ercas award, ianklig ‘ue always been to be the manager of on round In 89. \ “al successful fighters, went throw There were more than thirty start he n at Newark. Year, This young man, considered @| Several of them when informed of| burn, which meana th ite a tor net bed ie Senter apaDk cae creme | ana Wee the floor was better then getting punched. So when he fought against a|has.beon for two yoars, with no one| the rumor merely laughed and in-| wards didn't get mar 008 (0 tA Oo ee a eT ee ae ee ee eeeeeeen itave remained over | Scenes Susmess==Sen—r ae ffering to give him a chance, has! quired if we thought them crazy. They | goals. Time and again Perkins, who» th, Lewis, the trainer of! ¢,.. ; ¥ hic gate be Jone counts so frequently that the spectators began to ques- | (fering t6 fie Mi Ost a brand| are not, ‘Not bya Jugfal Fone olutely fenriens, would polat his| Willie Hecsher’ who sohn broughe ail/ fo", the bie tournament, which wete| qisi yA Bowling and Billard Aeogemy, 28 wits lea Slat st, new, hand made pitching arm and the way from Californ ‘What makes the comeback of Chal- | Young Hrown of t given an opportunity to see if his arm | mn Wie, on Towaday ni ‘Willard, of course, i not to blame for the fact that he always had a 4s con ce'her Cealns ail the (oneainbanss” te that’s always bigger Rodel fought Willard and gave htm a hard scrap. The Boer pushed | N44 1 excellent chance of keeping turned from. the coast ene of the hardest fights he ever had. He tnsiste that Rodel ts one of | mers a tragedy to the Giants ie the By John Pollock was strong again, McGraw took him | was meetved by Dan Me! eapecte to. mate him with Johnny Hower! at | than the big mistakes ”% Juled for To-Day. t the Deal for- 3 2 ed in thelr bouts du: fehed him off in the ninth round. A year or so later Willard fought Rodel | everything, letting the Giants down ltoradd more weight to. John fm Atlanta and knocked him out tn six rounds. Willard describes that aa | With two lonely hits: and one ran both his flghters, Kid Wol ing, Feeling that Chalmers, @| wosted hia left der tn hie tem-round bowt . wet! founded. Woe epring. st pltcher, OUgnt, 40, tbe| wit Rat Wasen, tuo Calflorie tener, at Hed- | , NOT {Mat be las Gopped Tome Kid. Breed | John's that never makes | Wilken, the rugged local mitdionelght, is gotng mistakes, but the man while Andrews tof the re the Phillies up in the ra for a con. ago, took a sawing at Relaler in the ta and took hie beating, with many & knockdown, until Jeu ually pol-|idorabio anal, Yeaworday De Pavia tit dS hee e (————Soc—— 1) nt eo gamest men he ever met. As Rodel weighed about 190 pounds to Wil- | fact that MoGraw was t nly man- , the ehampion lightweight, wil! | round battle et the Olympia A, 4. of Philedeiphte |"T4.. onceeto of Philadelphia BIG n ain't the fell who would give him @ chance In light for severs! week, He dis | on the night of May 5, bi “ tu man al ot eller Jaré’s 266, and always gave him a Aght, Willard's statement ts probably | #°", Gee vical Ccteea eevee ned Pa eT athe ty ne pant | tremendous advantage in height and weight over the men he beat. The| South, pald all his expenses, showed | (rom Harry loliok bac ‘eat Reavyweight champion is not limited in weight or anrthing else. The beat | Nim ovary consideration and wished Cea tes the Federal A, Cy It che wear future | Deavyweight is the best heavyweight, whether he’ man of ordinary size| Chalmers te very grateful to Mo- |, to-morrow night, | Ie Bob Fitsstmmons or o gient like Willard. Willard deserves a good deal | Graw, and while overjoyed at Coming | he bani hitting Boston figh rt tt) A. A. of Beat ) Bext Tse aint. ef credit because right from the start he tried to become as ekiiful as | MEK rly remrea a in ME nasmong | and Volek will come rat on to New York je Chicago lightweight, | cetpta, excinuire of the Siae tax, the Boston fighter, have {1 D m ms tito mect te twelve: | _ RAldie Campi, who is now tn tine for a fight he makes. the man who aided him. Chalmers tomnd bout at a show to, tm staged tthe tie | MT i anmaniter.ieiaon, over Vnuhia i eons to learn how to handle himeelf like a champion and not rely on| wanted to play with the Giant, feel- SS A. A. of Bevten oo Tessas evening Mes 4 The Lcoued Be nemepiner deciston cankie . { Zs . " vu) ce erat, for Mumoy Ms 3 \strongth alone. If he hadn't developed a good defense anda straight, |! tnet CONN tite, a ee eeeres fama |carry the tghting to White fern betas, Bs 1c coming here " . x = ast been clinche e — | che to hie training for his ten-round plunging attack, he never would have had a chance with « ring general like | new limit rule stepped in, and as Mo-| 4),, wit figure in it are Sam MeVey and Joe] Benoy Leonean, who is (9 meet Champion | bout math Bills Fitminm: x tas ar Yonkers at the ight, Johnson. Graw already had the fatal twenty- | Jessete, They will come together ia a twelve | Jolnny Kilbane tn @ teo-rowst @ at the Kedersi | Fairmont A.C. on Sat one under contract he could not BOE) round # et the Atlas A. A. of Boston on Tum | 4 ©.. ov the Bowery, next ‘Thursday night, hes er Chalmers on the payroll, Without @) day night, ‘This will be the fist time they Dave | siaried io training at Miuly Gry, m|,_ Toe MeMshon, the contract Chalmers could not remain. | fought since their great battle tp Paris on April |in Harlem, Leech Crom, who tackle Iackey Tom MeCarty the MM — sivrals Boarea tana heay) weight THE He wis about to ko a berth in B| (7 1vG0, when Jeanette knocked out McVey 40 | pommey in the other matclied today U9 1 a tomronnd boy A pipeful of Kenturky's Burl: NATIONAL STANDING ba oLURS. tAinor league when the Phillies came| ue fortg.aiuin round . lacie eluag uo 1 aoe the Broadway Sin too of Mra 1 s pip fate ata 3 Burley de Luxe, weary '™. ll cn long and Manager Vat Moray offered een tnday eight, Tule will be McMahon's fir Ic ‘ The Smootheat Smoking Tobacco, will soothe regrets | al at Te ba Jimmy Johretor, matchmaker of the ‘st, Nicho. | pearance ine bowt at that club. MoMahon gave eg im on trial at & FensonAble | | Joe Mandot. ibe feat New Oriwne Mebwelait | igg Bink A. O., today complited his cari of | Carl Morrm & greet fight in Fitieburgh sever ‘In thie modern-day bascball, when | (or os eghtround beat at Memphis, Teun, on | {Wree ‘an.roond Doula fer we neni slow of the | weeks agp, enormous prices ure paid for young| May 17. After thie bowt ‘Tommy Weiss, managw “T!) oS Saturday night, The flabtery who will | J.) sessotte will be Rept bu players, can you imagine getting a| of Mandel, wil tr end Induce Hurry Pollok to pitoher who could turn out the Job! ig Irddie nee! Mandot in @ bout et Chalmers did for absolutely nothing? | New Ortesne j | Scout Kineelli who watched the 7 . ten rounds performance from the grandstand and! Louise p nada, on 3 junderstood the circumatances, wus! uesriy | able to take nourishment this morn- | weight © 5 aM Ing and will recover, but his tron cons | Philadeloia, ix to get apotoa utile nada 4 7 m io all that saved him, Willams, Shay dare bese docked to Maas oes: bona, Mulder os vung be Giro the man M0 | ide Bie, ak H —_ ar ei Rate. | of 4 SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY. for yesterday's mistakes, and aid a cheerful outlook for tomorrow, There are 10c tine and 5c metal-lined full of VELVET, “ fighting in the x,