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ue __ THB BVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8 BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YO WILLARD CHARGED CUBANS | FORTY CENTS TO SEE HIM G18 SPARRING PARTNERS EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN MAKING WILLIE RITCHIE A “REEL” CHAMPION FUL TER by The Pewee Pumiioning Oe The Mo Tork Mrening Wart) 5 \% are ml . f Wee, iN me 4 "rom count , Mike tS P Olas BONS (Mane ie ®, \ SEE LOG eT hr / caaoi NOL Tuas Ti — ano He ; ; “Te y | Fe @S You, Champion Gathere d Enough Money Sat wine cars pn \ in Admissions to His Camp to a weuws eS WRAL a . = Pay Training Expenses— ; “ul Was Kept Busy. Curley ep y oO | : MAHONEY HERO THE _M—-WILLARO'S RING BATTLES AND RISE TO THE CHAM- GANG * SEEN THINGS? ( PIONSHIP SERIES, Peta ' BY KOBERT EDGREN. | Paarewe | Copyright, 1916, by The Frees Mubdaning Co (Tie New York Kveuing World) NYouRe & MEN JESS WILLAKD arrived in Havana he went lu Waeloing at, fi W the Miramar The court of the hotel made « foe arene, aud o ring | s '? platform wae bull to the middle of it Forty coats wae charge: © eee the training, and as crowds came dally to see the big white 1 a Work the receipts paid ali tratuing bills, Johoson, working at the! THEN He “Medium,” a wooden open-alr fighting arene # couple of miles out along wing— | @e ocean front, out as much as Willard with a 20 cent charge jy The crowd went to see Johnson, at Willard’s place nearly all of the | sPectators were white and from the more prosperous wnnen With everything golng in full swing the fight headquarters furnished | | w Aes BROTHER. ; There Was Fraxee sal’ bas BILL JOH" rw (nN 7 f MU PERT ieGs G7itha Ghul, ie Abanslal ene, Weil, brouRhl tom NOW YOrR| WASLT GOING LOU, SLAMMING PicruRES- LEACHES Cot of the bunch, yancial man . brought from New Yor TO MAKE HIM ON THE BoTTOoM ITS & FINE Cross - j @ purpowe, handled all the money. Well Was amartyr He even misaed | ANN MISTAKES Business! OH, HE | cosine the fat He bal had time to sleep Jnck Curley, elwaye burried ~ HE Wasnt 4 fh: OF HIS Coce ee ae URS oe. j } wort and dripping perspiration from every pore, was all over the! bore : . \ City of Havana, dipping into politics, jumping on pass hunters, calling on! — anda! hiss agra : the Mayor and officials, visiting the track where the ring was to be bullt,| Ing enormous meals in the cafes, ashing « roll of hundred-dotiar bile. | Fy ; Mi 66 M 99 | ’ 1 ‘BEN ROSENTHAL DIDN'T OVERLOOK ANY CHANCES. Ritchie Wins the Title | Leading Gentlemen Jockeys ec. coun sane Meite, Like a Bere | ™ Rhateias Bunt ib Rove @ame fellow who once gained a certain degree of fame by flattening a bul- | 3 sensions, he kel Jeanette several times with right and left hooke. e e ° | ” ni ave Rio Day | tlond Be , Poxhall p. ‘ 7 e " Met on Billy Elmer's suspender buckle and beating all downstairs records | in First Try at Movies Amateurs Will Have Big Day {alia Wit rngchans| Young, Wagive ' ckage fronts, w:tbout the when Elmer's wifo chased him with an Indian club. Rosenthal was the | Lal at Hewlett Bay Park Wille Psscon’ tue thee, on in 1 4 . newspaper advertisement, are now @entre of every loud discussion at the quarters. He bellowed orders at ie b John, Harry aud | each worth 3<c cath, and cm abapstla @very one, told the reporters what to think, and was nearly as busy, and/American Champion the Star of Play, in Which H " on Saturday. Sh teraee art een tention ie | aa ATU EERE Wany thousand times as noisy, as Weil. Moreover, his name was on the me é bs ¢ be Hab to Knook uy piers ty Kennedy, Ny yr . eS, | M'VEY AND JEANETTE Youd green stationery used by the promoters, as secretary, out Sweetheart’s Long Lost Brother to Win Championship whe pC leche Ce Biurniey, IN TWELVE-ROUND DRAW. ~ “1 don't know how he got in,” said Curley wtien I asked him | F The annual hunter and pony races) "ie Cedarhurst Cup, a ateeplech ee He just wished himselt on us, He hung around the office until one and Girl's Heart and Hand—Fairmont A, C. in Bronx Is) of the Rockaway Hunting Club, to be | gop ear-clda and upward, at two| BOSTON, April hold at Howlett Bay Park on Satur-|iniies, is the only day afternoon, have attracted forty- 4 wane el) — seven entries, This is #ix more than] fe Welgats they r . ey jows: Roland I petary. . He must have written it in the copy on the way over. Willie Ritchie of San Fra ous Mike, one of his sparring parte| Were received lagt year and sets a] Wing, 148; Hiatus, 145 Another curiosity was Jack Robinson, always pounding @ typewriter) won the world’s light eight cham-| # Way ayia bis deadly right. Me aud new high mark for these annual) and tasninon Pa end grinding out press stuff. Curley said Robinson came down with Bat! pionship at the Wairmont A. C ofl thin punore” Afrai’ to let loose with amateur meets, Among thoss who] Will start at 4 o'clock » opened a Aight club, and one day appeared in headquarters with |the Hronx yesterday afternoon. True.) sumbling clique, which ts backing AV® Rominated one ur more bores) os and Schay of Jordan Valley, put to { @ typewriter and went to work. A bill for the typewriter was the first, it was only title, like that we spirits the injured boxer for these races keh tlags tea inert oO. ured the the by holding unt!l parted by the r ‘ : sped ‘ hie MoKa: , E. J. Hogan, Dr. BE. B. Ackerman! Reno : ARG Hie Bivea nin foe site. dia teh £0 ifatimation the promoters had that their staf was enlarged | winien amen | On the night of the championship Henry W. Warner, RG. Hadley,!q thirty daya” 1 Heb Bel hed een Then there was Klegin, on the stationery as “Director ," wan. | tured In the heavy rete: (eet, the place iw jan Willie's William H, Henry, Allan Pinkerton, | close of ru Cm et ks nina @ering around apparently with nothing to direct, and looking mournful, DUE Bevertheless Ab Was a Utle | awe t is present disguised ink, C, Thomas, Philip Stevenson, A. | of clinching. In the ninth Je ? (This will pr ly give Harry Bole] boy's clothing. ¢ you beat this? Ludiow Krai , Thomas Pursehouse, entally butted MeVey in the ren in the minstrel clothes he affected in honor of Jack Johnson, Klegin the rest of t ; » | Whe do you sup : i. D. Bamberg lok, manager of Freddie Welsh, new do you sup opponent} a, ©. Blume,” Mo L amberger, ‘was just beginning to realize that somewhers along the line he had been | roca for poking ¢un at Willle and | ene Nes ne beter ae 1 it--the | Thomas F. White, Foxhall P. Keene, spot a target. The bad eye! ™ Went on! Jor Jeane e bik ed and | weights, battled for twelve rounds at the re as fol-| Auas A. A. last night and Referee Young | fe Shon | Donahue called it a draw. tt was not a + al¥. | pad one at that, thouxh some of tie fans | joved MeVey had won, Many tmes it ked as if Jeanette was going to be » floor, but he save day, to get rid of him, I asked bim to take some copy over to the printers. Scene of Willie's Triumph as a “Screen” Performer. ‘When the printing came back the letter-heads had his name on as sec- a b be te nette ac- ft eye bout Jeanette made mpion of the! ¢! a, has been ve and. will be that injui Quietly and effectively sidetracked by the original promoters, He wrote|pwil probably style bin w “screon" | kuow of this discovery, oe Wi” [John Harper Bonnell, Whitney Ker- | put inte the stul at once. A recur~ bothered MeVey. and while he did not dol THU MS Ruling and Rolland Acagems, 38 0 probably sty is Very. | nochan, cho Ste Ss. Pag of the leg trouble which neces. | su fective work at eo ous MS alleys, SS tables, dist ‘way. notices now and then, and planned to lease the new Cuban opera} champion from now on.) ete is up agalnut it, Ho's between | Mrs. Payne Whitney, Mrs. Charles ted his retirement wie for a scheme he had of running a big fight there with grand opera) Willie has been busy for over nthe theca » decp pide sea, He | C Rumsey, Mra. AC. Blume, Mrs, Jast season, Is respo mn the rounds. week as tho hero of the moving ple-l the bout resulta PE a ae Se te laren ee made tO) tra a , ‘ eifords and) Mrs. J, Marquette. | year, ~ One other thing bothered Klegin. H_ felt sick. One Cuban doctor) ture play entitied "The Man Who! Dis mind, “L Practically all of the leading gen- od shrieks fran-|tiemen riders in this vicinity, will) Headmast, a i “x corner. |have mounts in one or more of the! son for James starts one of Willie's | gix races which make up Saturday's stroyed yesterday at Harve de Grace been bribed by the | programme at the picturesque Hew- The horse was attacked with par ‘old bim he had scarlet fever, and then suid he had measios, and when he| Beat an Bolan” He rian Went gloomily to the hospital he was thrown out as a perfectly well man, | Osis in dreay susie ail one off Be couldn't understand it. sulle, In ate tke until ncenos and the dike until ye y liq is Willie , 0 r Oo é x sease *. ‘These were only a few of the people “Inside.” Another was a Cuban) wou the real chinan of the miey | » bs dead nember Mike? ihe Tne etacnie Naaatnuurineratners re aa he diceene racine ing gentleman named Col. d’Estramper, whose help was invaluable in mak-| Was stused the winning Was the sparring partner Willle| and flat races. Among the amateurs) terest in udmast to the Quincy agon, 4 4 Mampionship and the heart of te! knocked out in traming ave ra ihe nH Ppa titcay ‘dew all the necessary political arrangements. He too was in for “a por- panies young al f ne | O88 Of the wan valled “LE didn't who will don the pigskin are Ray-| Stable late @eatage of the profits.” I met him just before leaving Havana, and hi ‘Tom MoArdie Fa at =r sick!” or of t a « Cy told me that not only did he receive nothing, but there remained several v Ry the busiest man in the city] his feet to answer theca eant Hy fendred dollars to be paid which “for his honor,” he must raise in some| yesterday ™ ag when he Was) tho time the round ends it looks ike 5 out scouting for the "ea or ‘NOT a sure vietory for the manner and pay himself. seals Ane tolnd blenchers, a v for the Briton, GHANGING DATE KEPT THOUSANDS AWAY. ngalde Benin A, top row vot the metiione fe Bineilan en taete pleachers was a & halred moving ; : t | The biggest jar the promoters received In Havana was the changing Merura director Who shouted instrues Jand the Amer @f the date from Faster Sunday to Monday, April 5, In Cuba Easter Sun-| tions to the crowd and to the alate | was regarded merely as a holiday, On that day the fight would have A ee ie hy the. crow: @rawn thousands of people who could not go the next day, The Cubans) only like that which a typical F hed no objection to having a fight on Haster or any other Sunday, But in- My KATNCTIAN Man Rite winner last sea- zsimmons, was de- _—— A (SSS nality—Ornateness and Value ° iM Are Manifest in the New Blyn Styles for Spring Stocks full—Prices low and sales brisk—Blyn margins won't stand slow sales. ‘ Shoes at higher prices cannot give you more of style, of qual- Tov Rovmont, matovumkor of the Kater |f ity, of ease; or of satisfaction. ALC. told tho writer early today that it will * FISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP By John Pollock nmy Clabby anciney to-day, wher they will ns to look ‘How about the Swedes? yelled m, for he ts to get the chance t one of the Fairmont reculars MeCor, the middleweight champion, WILLIE NOW WANTS To Be| Muni Mite amt pos y night, REGULAR “MOVIE” ACTOR. | | i ‘ininl testes 1 Ager of the Broadway Sporting Club ee ee UNE PFOTOSMCS, | is 188 pounds at the rinmide, As Clabby bas und (erference came from the United States, The American Minister in Ha- jn Willie's landing of the tthe if Het: aRbealiig looks from | jeon ausions for some time to get a crack at E400 tage ‘hatte tena} Shoes at lower prices cannot vane received over 200 cublegrams of protest. He transferred them, with » this i ow Wille Mirko thet aces | ecays, Ne tell Bl) Sabheger, Lene en to a tommorrow EME between. || give you equal service. |] Half a century of reliability is your assurance of the quality and value of ro H naone, 4 ene ee | You get style, quality an ere A FULL MONEY’S WORTH cana whil'a Can ee AT BLYN STORES. ? tev phat ena vane o<Blyn Shoe agg Bide Lace Beate in Saieetal de ell | in Newark yg a @ drink.” ay home from a yt any terms Woiasmantel offered for @ letter, to President Menocal, aud Menocal wrote “requesting” that the ak in i tactory a) 28k8 on the old homeatead, he takes |e vue peuwoen Bim and MeCoy » othe , eve eture i | oy call her Mar. | "eart and giyes the Englishman. an Y owt ren Promoters change to some other date. Some very picturesque remarks tain young meh dia 4 Oye aera yy (AWA punching, In tho wixth round. | a yout was arranged im Boston tast night be | © $1,000 and Moniney doo flew about headquarters, but the date was changed, uorite in they Patt after comin out of a clineh, Wille] tween Charley White, the hant-bitting eit) Dick Peter, + While all this was going on Willard and Johnson tratned, Willard ee ena nat like slips over aright to the Jaw and his | weaut of Onicag, amt Pidie Murphy of Boo trained hard every day. Johnson Jonfed through his work in a way that. rate Went Ste ebtweight who Was attacked, But the ruf- Broppentive brother-in-law goes down | ton, who has a goal record of tore tn the puldn’ oO be looking | #84 0m roped arena, ‘They will eomme he made me question him closely. Ie asserted he was in as good shape ay NAne ouldn’t baw. teen al Witlle went into the work with great tarive rund contest before the AAA A As of ‘i ih ihe r uty iy 7 re © Gale ‘nesday ight jekgot wil he could attain, and that his object was to keep fit without “leaving hia in the offing but Willie Ritchie? W is bart Wand Rint ieeatip ethan ck a0 ie da iat fig wolg! . ips to the girl's rescue auc s Ja oat on mov- | be Ii J, weigh in a i ~~ “1 know just how much work I can do without going stale,” sata |e". ‘ novelty wears off Twill become tired | Maxey Blumenthal ls # ia big | op i if "sald LEAVE IT TO WILLIE TO BRING | or it, but, Judging by the Wavy Tete} | pnicae, Al, Reich, 1 aving to win from Coffer, | i Johnson. “I'm older now, and 1 can't stand the hard work 1 used to do. HER HAPPINESS, now. Twill {nue in the business | the “Dublin Gtent,”" in thelr tam rowwd gp 0 Epeew myselt better than any one sise dose.” | Of course this timely and brave ac: [even after T quit the ring. Tt ty hard | Median Savate arian on nant Watney : Disregarding the finish of the fight, the rushing and roughing done by Hon makes a tig hit with the girl, and Hore Pe harden than bonlng 1 ett Sas be egg Anis yightenat t wins approval Jehns0! venty a she lets Willie escort ber home. a} ha d_ seve offers to appear in| tis " n for twenty rounds showed that he had all the strength and stam (Way to her modest domicile Wille | other scenarios when T get through | betivg, "Relsh wil be io fine, cum 689 Broad Street Park | at first sight. Carstairs | Chil dren and Misses Yt ¥ v this one.” ai, * if jowos 1 ine be claimed. The fight and what Willard did before and in and after tt| learns that the girl is penniless, that] W Mee te Sneak to papas thle oat od Blew) Lhd or chapter, she has been obliged to secure a $000 le's oppone 6 picture ts| will uot have ue 5 will be told in another chap’ | mortgage on the old homestead to pay | Ms own brother, 4 The ftate Athictlc Commission bed no bust: | wk Among the interested» STANDING OF THE CLUBS ly, and Wille as @ rule isn’t easily i wee! i wari eo, ae A. 1 ouche st away he begins to plan| Billy Joh, the Fairmont's rej ry m Le eres ANEWIOAN LeAGuE: touched, | Hight away he be an) go, eer ie ular president of the cit, aod retart ree In the weet | 5. carling 0 F. sure you get Carstairs than for a license made by the Wall was no ; Fe tt Hilly Grupp and Rilly Kramer, twa} 4? Commissioner Jona Rye in the non-refillable TF 4 Berson, but be whew Mn tO TY | hoxors, wore Willlo's wecondar "| A. ©. of Hockaway Bech to C joes fobs bottle—" a good bottle to im) Pittsburg 1h ie: to raise the necessary money. 4: Dison tor invesligation nt BO New Vr Mrs: Soon after Willie learns through the eo -— keep good whiskey good.’ RESULTS 0) | newspapers that Dan Dolan, the Amer- |, <aass=eemesememeses Pat O'Keofe of Ireland, wi) is the legitimate Men who patronize hotels, clubs and catty on the ela or Broadway” o' . 125 are Carstairs’ PMO ey porters, Gen- hite tlemen of the “old school” i Nu-Buck ATION AL. LAG Ube Ay an tean chainplon, 18 wil ad, hae bow {ean Set fnae tava threo rouade with [evente WORLD'S ) micileneleet, shemale Bate Oe Rod him. Wille not only stays but knocks HEADPIN TOURNEY | fighter, for twenty rounds Ue Menton ihe NS the champion out, and of course tine oight of May 10. 1 FOR TO-DAY mediately does the mortgage Ufting of his title by defeatig many Euglisl tgbtere Patent Colt Flat Last, mahogany Ru: Men' sia Calf Oxfords, extra broad shank NATIONAL LibAGUL. A stunt. ‘The girl wants te marry him 2 ~Teeliman 89, ater hie return from Australia cr Hee voRRHIL AS Leaguss telling his Mhat aho needa soaker, — those of the new, call for ¥ i Gun Metal | oe ee bind cocker oath mabe at Gt Lous” Pilewe ua mfort, for isn't she alone Maaatine t,o Gor, Hammond of Minnes'a, who slzned the mand feap is Ih hae Sizes Sisco a heals blind eyelet tosde alsa | , Wenge at Cinclnnath he had an only brother boxing bil which waa passed last week,» hich 81, toll, 2,00 5 to 8.,,,.1.28 P colt, ars and| 7 rmite ten-round to-ecisiou bouts In the three | a Pa lilete 2.2.80 Ble to 2) 1.50] Same Price og — - — Hone, amie Widge Skaamadts TO, Berar, | zo cities of the state -Stnneavod, Bt Paul STEWART DISTILLING CO. Ghiirecig endl hiaeen Eurnee’ot|| Shoes andi Oaterceltas wan, ef elt aN tht e 0 MEL SHEPPARD SUES letles. | The | Philadelphia New York Behinere White Canvas, White Nu-Buck,] every leather, with tops of leathe Patent Coit and Gun Metal, with silk tT aterm ctitehLor 92, Beattie lont | 1) *8icatght 68, Nellnon aT. adds otal’ | money ont | yap Seals ee TAB, Dougias of Man. | woowers, The tind | jo ord that binds, i} vesional after the| uncle shows up. FOR $25,000 DAMAGES, | #2. burn, Hi ulte a fisht fan too. & iit telly Willie he must win the world’ se iehtwelght title before he can hope to Melvin W. Sheppard yesterday brought | 4 , The ual fleld d marry the girl mand the New York Ath: liwid wt Celtic Park on, Mey ¥. eThe| THY EY to «reange the match. Fin 000 for Injuries re= | Cork. ‘men. have, plann fs Bho! uv the Briton, whe holds thie cay nile competing D. 10 lgramme of. football and athletio| ete’ honor, is induced to come to games in th events, In the star game Kilkenny | this, country [ cloth and buck; every width of toe ribbon bows. Low-priced Pumps that] from the very narrow to the ex- will prove durable and economical, treme wide. Eleven Biz Family Stores. Easy to Reach. New Styles for Spring WEST SIDE @TORD): BAST SIDE STORRS: M1 Ave, and 122d St, el Aver, Auch A BTU Stn Bi Ave, Wh & Bist ste, Bowery, near Broome a,” State: Me . Laicker 67 No. 2, Paterson , r Toland. -Mactes 81, Henat re BS, nt oe" Stoner A@, | Jimmy Clable. wi) fights Geonte Chip a te: | round bout at Marinette, Wis, to-night bas also been secured to fight wither Mike Gibbous oF Kaldie MeQoorty in st Orleans, May 30, Chip wit € 159 jounda, weigh in at B Willem Spengler of selved bj at the hin w Bh Fob Winner Last Night. ex Mali Onier Dey Union Settlement A, den. Sheppard's right leg broke through |and Cork will_mect. ‘This ." Thomas V. Wallace, ‘Prinl ae Brook: nd Co! new ame Willie starts preparations for the — 0 ms teu o cham. yn boards of the track and the injuries! he followed by another ‘ne waleh | firht, ane or Oe aging ae ag ha ig gg Stores: Ho tees frou bibs Karin nee euhzee eis ales which means so much to his — gaseball, Foto Grounds, today, 8.80 P, | 400 ant lle Ma2H oft, sung club, he so» future. In training he knocks uncom. mM. Bail L : : eA ee one ae sak ce aw Mr, hase i yA SE Cite ai ea, i 3 ’ - .