The evening world. Newspaper, April 30, 1915, Page 18

eee OGRE SE BS ES as Tg eS a NSON UNTIL HE WAS SURE LANDING STRAIGHT RIGHT Neither Big Jess Nor Johnson Bet a Cent on Fight That Brought the Heavyweight Championship Back to White Race. BY ROBERT EDGREN. RiL—JESS WILLARD'S RING BATTLES AND RISE TO CHAM: | PIONSHIP. Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) IGHT up to April 6 Jess Willard continued to train He wae to Great condition from his two months or more of hard work, but he had plenty of strength, weight and stamina. He wasn't in the slightest danger of going sta He had youth and good spirits. I've often seem men hard-trained for big contests grow cranky and short-tempered ee their time drew near. Willard was ali smiling good nature on the day before the Johnson fight—just as he was when the fight wax months away When Willard could be induced to talk about the fight, which wasn't often who'd nay that he expected to be hammered for a while, but that he knew Jebason couldn't put him down—and in the end he'd knock Johnson out. He seamed to have that idea fixed tn his mind, Willard didn’t bet on himself. “J never made « bet on any of ba fights,” he told “Jones wanted to bet about a thousand dollars we taken in at the training bouts, I wouldn't do it. | told him if 1 ta Jokason, winning a bet wouldn't amount to anything, and if I didn't beat Jobnson, that thousand would be big money for us--we might need it to get home on.” WILLARD THREW NO PRELIMINARY BLUFFS. Willard’s and Johnson's actions were quite different before ihe fight. While Willard’s trainers and handlers were frankly telling every one they thought Johnson would never be able to hurt Jess and that Jess would knock Johnson out, Willard was quietly attending to business and throwiag no bluffs. And Johnson was playing to the crowd. A day or so before the fight he appeared suddenly in the fight headquarters, where many Americans were, and loudly offered to bet ten thousand dollars on himself, “Bee there,” said the sports, “Johnson is willing to back himself. It must be on the level.” But Johnson wasn't carrying any $10,000 to bet, or any other sum. He left the Plaza before any one could make him a betting Proposition, and so far as my information goes he didn't have a nickel on himself on April 6. Also, although he told everybody who visited him in Mavans that he expected to win easily, he failed 1) send that tip to friends of bis own race in New York and Chicago—the ones who always bet to the limatt ow him wherever he fought. I'll always suspect that Jack Johnson knew the time had come for hin to take that long ten-second count. Perhaps he was trying to bluff even bimeelf. It was a great day—that April 6. From early forenoon the population of the ancient city of Havana was in the streets, Except for the difference im the people, it might have been compared to the day of the Yale-Princeton game in New Haven. No flags, of course, but just people of every age and shade and color crowding the streets leading to the arena, ‘/aiting patiently om the bare chance of seeing the fighters going to battle, gathering every- where, because of the tense feeling in the air gencrated by the much talked ef clash of white and black. There is a race question in Cuba, where the blacks outnumber the whites. There was.a real fear that a Johnson victory might start trouble all over the island. At ler * #o the rumors ran WHEN THE MEN FINALLY ENTERED THE RING. ‘The ring was finished only when the fighters were ready to climb into ‘Willard and Johnson both came from their training quarters dressed in costume, rubbed down and ready. Their aut breurh? them. And at last they were in the ring. A pair of scal om unknown reason, was put into the ring and Willard and Johnson both weighed, step- 4 off without wailing for a close adjustment of the «‘shts, One figures was called to the press men, and a different set announced to crowd, The private figures were: Willard, 247 pounds; Johnson, and gloves were adjusted. Jonhuson vaiaved for ten wWautes c after Willard was ready. But at last the ell rang, the ing pleture m chines all clicked and Referee Weisn dexan slowly circling around near facing the fightera iDard came right out to meet Johnson, and |. neress his fret jab. He showed no fear or awe of th was cautious, well balanced, always In porition to {f he missed Blow=-but he carried the fight to his man from the And it had rot fr enal Jong before Johnson showed that the great height and ‘ong reach of & moment had shot black champion, He challenger troubled him. Willard's jab often flicked over against John- eon's nose or eyes, making him blink in the sunshine, It was lard to get johnson, annoyed by the jab, leaned back and pored, waiting, as he Lapa other fighters. And each time Willard forced Johnson to rush in and fight, In the mixups, where Johnson has always had his own way because of the great streneth of hin thiek arms, the black champlos fo the firat time in his life found himself baffled. Willard matched him in strength. When Johnson tried to pull Willard’s arms down and “le on him" Willard jet bis arms go and, Jumping up a few Inches, threw his whole weight on Johason until the black man managed to wriggle away from beneath that 247 pounds. After that John didn't try to use his weight. And in the wrestling about—his favorite stunt-—the black champion had none the best hold Willard close—too close to use a body puneli, Willard Jonnson held him and smiled at the crowd. Willard kept nm lost tis smile and broke away. Another old stunt of om punching. his had gone wrons. flo it came around that Johnson had to depend upon fighting. And he eurely did fight for fifteen rounds or sc, A score of times he rushed Wil lerd to the ropes and whaled away furiously, big Jess contenting himself with blocking through the flurries. Johnson sinashed many a bard one into his body—many a blow that might have brought down any other man, Only once Willard showed a sign of distress. A fleree punch struck squarely in the pit. His face twisted, but in a second he was tearing back at John son, At the end of the nineteenth round, in which Johnson wrestled a good deal, Willard returned to his corner eked J “Does he seem tired, Je em THE EVENING WORLD EST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK Pp Lifting Lid on Racing | _Will Be Society Event | Meeting of the the Remkaway Hunt Club at Hewlett’s Park To- Morrow Attracts the Real Amateur Enthusiasts of the Sport. | A country race course with ite high hurdle jumps and flat, many well known thoroughbreds tethered in @ realistic little paddock, a small, rustic grand stand holding smartly attired society visitors, the presence of a few other visitors with whom one can lay a couple of wagers, these form the setting for the opening of the amateur hunt season at Hewlett Vark to-morrow There will be ven of the leading racers « pers in train- ing, ‘The jockeys will all be amateur FRIDAY, APRIL 30, SOCIETY STARTS RACING BALL A-ROLLING WHO SAID "THEYRE OFF‘? riders and Foxhall will be in first me the ntered in of James B, have been nee the days awm for amateur racing nen owners, but women will be int to-morrow. ‘The women nominations in events are Mra, Marquette Whittendale Mra, = Jeffo Payne Whitney, Mra, C, and Mrs, A. C. Blume. be keen rivalry between who have the various Mrs, Karl » Mrs. Rumaey Cc, ‘There should them, as each will no doubt have great confi- dence in her entry. Naturally with so much competition on turf there is bound to be spec- ulation on the different races. Maybe d. It is practi- cally e a horse race without ers wanting to back their judgment against some one else with something substantial. The system that will be employed no doubt will be to pay or receive after each race, though it may be possible to pass the amount of the wager to r_the odda layer with the written order, Gilmore Calls Feds Together | to Plan Fight on Kauff Case Club Owners Hurriedly Sum- moned to Meeting at Wal- dorf To-Morrow. Fe special juls will hold a the Waldorf to morrow to consider a war of repr! for oral League o! meeting at the er Kauff from the] relative to the Kauff incident you are against organized baseball kidnapping of Play Brookfeds by the New York Giant President Gilmore issued a summons to the club owners to-day. Mike Gibbons, who has made good im every bat He that he has fought in this vicinity, will be | soon again in action here on the night of May 26, | Me was sigued up today by Jimmy Jobnstor to | » Houck, the ads at the Bt, Nicholas Rink 4, C. mo oa staf battle in to go au that Gil early sin mn The official statement of the gram receipts at the Federal A. ©, show last Where was $4,142 takew in at finoint Champion Kilbane ree The Long ae the One Hundred and ‘Phirty fifth fog Club will hold boxing abows to-night at on Grand Sire et Spor “LT could throw him over the ropes," said Willard "I ean now any time.” beat him JSHNSON DID LITTLE FIGHTING AFTER 23D ROUND. After the twenty-third round Johnson did no more fighting. He blocked and stalled, He looked so fir gone that it seemed impossible he could buve changed so mucb in a few rounds. And Willard held back, vefused to hurry. But in the twenty-sixth he went teariirg in turned to him before leaving his corner and said "1 don't believe he's stalling—I'm going after him.” Willard sank a terrible right in Jonson's body, Johnson only partly pulled away with the punch. He nearly sat down. Then came the cireling around Willard’s corner, where Johnson, back to the ropes, dropped hin guard as Willard feinted low, und fell like « log when Willard's right crashed on his jaw, Jim Savage had been motioning across the ring to me for three rounds to keep my eye on Willard’s right, Afterward he sald Jess was say- ing that one straight right for the knockout blow—only waiting for the time to come when he could surely land it. Throughout the fight he had used his right almost entirely for the body. Since Willard returned to the States he has been challenged by many disappointed “white hopes.” It’s funny, Their oceupation’s gone. There's no longer such # thing as a “White Hope.” Instead, there's a White Champion, ,— til mome new wonder comes along the title will rest aecure in Wil- ras hands. There's not another white heavyweight in the world to-day who'd have even a chayce to beat him. te ame Jim Savage says Willard a cM gia asset! which evenly mateled fighters will appear, At the Acre Club Teidy Jacobs vs, Willie Andrews a bout aud Barney aun shine 9 Wy in ten-round bouts Hive tier ixround outa will also be etagmd, At Tone Mundrad and ‘Thirty-fifth Street Clip Marty Cross ra, Kiddie Maker, Freddie Haas +. | Young and Frankie Brow ve, Mickey | Duan wl bos Battling Leviusky, who bas been taid up with an injured aud for sever! weeks, hae been mate wneet Torry Kellar, the California beay for ten rounds at Akeva, O,, \May 17. Levinsky is also booked to figh hurried] Will not be permied o play in he Na- FISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP By John Pollock According to an announcement made at the Federals’ headquarters to-day the independents will start a big war to take star players from the other side if the Nationals do not show the same spirit as was displayed by Robert B. Ward tn the Marquard case In the meantime President John K. Tener of the National Leagues wired Mr. Ward as follows “Answe & your wire of yesterday Av! d that the player in question tional League at this time.’ lyn bantamwvight tories to hie credit. Jones hase big string of vic Carl Morrin, who is at prownt at hs home, in Oxiadoma, notified ts manager, Billy MeCarney, the has received several offers for bouts et Kansas City, Oklahoma and Milwaukee, Me Comey says he would sooner have Morris meet the er of the Jim Coffey-Al Reich bout, and that ares food chanoe of matching Cart with Iteioh Mf the Intier wine over Colfer, the loval lightweight who has wo showing up well Im all the boute he has a engaged iu, would like to meet either Johnny ane Frankie Conifry or Faldie Wallace in a tep-round go at one of the local clubs Kid Williams, the bantamwetght champion, has ¢ of those six-round a pe an! will get pals VAN CLUSE IS WINNER OF THE 1,000 GUINEAS. NEWMARK The t England, April 30. )0 Guineas Stakes for three-year- old fillies, run over the Rowley mile course here to-day, was won by V: Cluse, Silver ‘Tag was second al Bright was third, “Fifteen “horses | started athe betting was 6 to 2 against Van 4 inet Silver Tag and 10 of Alba on at the Capitel Oily A.C. lie Welsh Ad Wolgast bout» Kink in Milwaukee on May May 20, tyemed woth Monda aL the { Welab, Welsh wante to be in tip top and he takes op the Duteh rengreryr os, Wolgast is (raining im Miiwauseo, dolog his work at Kyan's gym the Kegliah featherweight dently changed his mind about going b home in bugland, for wort reached here w-day from Philadelphia to the effec himself under the managom that he has placed + of Bobby Mor eduled | row of that city, who has other fighters under hie care, Benpy Murpliy, who is Dei faut in bandliog the latter taken Whe management of Order by the full name GUINNESS hook for the signs — We sell BURKES-GUINNESS Se Debut of Benny Kauff Caused Mix-up Between hibition.” “regular,” if you ike, but just the same it was some exhibition! ln seven innings the two clubs struck blows in anger amounting to twenty-eight hits and twenty-one runs to suy nothing of enough home runs to keep the batters supplied in sox and other prizes until it is too jute to wear low-quartered shoes. Af- ter both clubs had been to the mat for three hours the Braves came out neither here there-—it way an “exhibition, Maybe you didn't see the game and a lot of this jumble is over your head, So, let Us explain the situa- tion as it stands te date: By the assistance of “old King Brady” Kinsella, McGraw tore Benny Kauff, star of ‘the Federal League, right out of the Brookfed outfield and put him in centre field for the Giants. “Nothing doing,” quoth Jim Gaft- ney, as he leaned over the edge of the Braves’ dugout. “There is foul play h Kauft is not eligible to play nor against the world's champions, and unless he ix given the raus there will b pastiming to~ Saying which, Mr. Gaffney rushed to a telephone and got ex-Gov. Tener's office. In the mean time, Umpire Quigley ordered the game to proceed, but nary a Brave would move. The umps waited six minutes and then rave the game to New York, therein crossing Mr. Tener, who had figured it out the other way, but that comes in later, Seeing the bad deal that might be handed the public, President Hemp- stead of the Giants then did a very wise thing. Joining McGraw, he went to the umpire and suggested that the decision be allowed to stand as given and that a game be played without Kauff, call 1 what they would. This was perfectly satisfactory to all con- cerned, but would not have been so if the gang had known they were going XATONar LEAGUE, NATIONAL BPAGUE oe utdalinn rf LEAGUE fork, ota Our $25 Ma ‘Eclipse Any We have never offered such a variety. You have never seen a bigger or better assortment anywhere. The man who buys without first Broadway exclusively. Bottled b J.Burke. C& 9th St. That Gave Giants Game by/: Forfeit, and McGraw Over-| ruled Both, Calling It “an Ex- on top, but McGraw declares that is! STANDING OF THE CLUBS ti set vers GAMES GAMES SCHEDULED FOR "TODAY makes a mistake—a big mistake. Suits to Measure, $25 Samples and portfolio Arnheint whi ayed played is the regular Quigley declared the 1 explained Pil 1 1 impire forfeited,” “Who told you he div “He announced it publicly and gave no further instructions to the scorer’ jsut | first one Kilbane ‘I guess he acted hastily or got - sit iain batted up. wad Mr Tener, somewnat |1*Year-Old Harlem Boy Did] surprised My instructions were| We : ‘ By Bozeman Bulger. that Kauft was ineiigibie and could! Well Against Champion— | BGINS to look Lik Id t {not play; that if New York refused to! NS to loo old times} . . + 1 play without him, the was to ; again, doesn't it? forfelted to ; the way it{ Toss Won From Hommey. Honestly, it was the most fan | Stands.” paneer | . t ” ecessary fo the old-timers have bad since the) i nee eee rill ae Recesmary For} ; aya of the “Hey Harney” Dreytuss| +1y6 will have wo ask reinstatement | By Vincent Treanor. episode or when Umpire Johnatone| by the National Commission, be core NY stranger entering the Fed- | was barred froin the park—forfeited | he Jumped out of organized basebal eral A.C. last night after the ° a His caso is dentical with those of the wame, crowd on the field, rough talk players who jumped to the Callforiia principals in the main bout between owners and managers, and/and Tri-State Leagues a few years; had been introduced could make a everything. Yes, sir, the happy days | ago. good guess as to which of the prin- are here. 1 carried this information to Me-|cipals was the ch. f McGraw says the game that was | Graw Joh sh champion when really played was an exhibiti It's an exhibition game, just the |J°%2ny Kilbane and Benny Leonard | fair. George Stallings and F said McGraw. “Because the | got going. Kilbane showed all the! Tener say it was regular. Call it the first one, confidence usually associated with the | best man in his class, while his oppo- nent watched and waited to duck or in one afternoon. And there you are. “But about that reinsta block in rGraw. “If that is n As ie oriuas Lael it up with the con progressed Leonard aph to-night." gained some nerve, and up to the to the claim’ on Kauff, the sixth round held his own as well as Giants appear to have a pretty fair his fondest admirers title, Kauif signed @ contract during Soule empoct, the ‘training season, but Mr. Ward, Nearing the end, however, ring gen- of the Brookfeds, according to the| ¢lship, a superior knowledge oj ge of the | player, refuyed to'O. K. It, “Me said! tricks of the trade and experience the rulary was tuo much. Kaul to) played for nearly a@ month without | (4 and Kilbane got the honors by @ shade, In the tenth round, for in- stance, Kilbane tore into his opponent with careless abandon, which might | have been taken advantage of by a hervier boxer than Leonard. Inatead | he simply held and covered up to the | best of his ability, When he heard the final bell he doubtless was happy. ; He had gone the ten rounds and | wasn't hurt, Kilbane didn't furnish a very sat- Iwfactory bout, He did less stalling | than he has done in his New York | bouts heretofore however. It would be unfair to Leonard to say | that he didn’t baffle the champion at # contract and Wrote to Ward twice, asking that he be given one, Benny says Mr. Warc uld not O. K. the ntract he signed and kept putting m off about a new one. After giv- ing notice in writing twice Kauft, feeling himself a free agent, jumped to the Giants. It is truo that Kauff had a threo year's contract with the Indianapo- lis Club of the Federal League, but he and his attorneys say, that is not binding, for the simple reason that there is no longer an Indianapolis! Club. ut thats: | | me, be it regular or ex~ hibition, was a disastrous affair to the Giants. Not only were they swamped by the Boston batters, who shot Marquard as full of holes as a collender, but in the onslaught two, “mes He did this surely, and in of ‘New’ York's ‘best’ players ‘are |#@Veral instances blocked Kilbane's | Knocked out for some time, Fred| best leads in the coolest fashion im- Merkle, walle taking @ bad fall over | aginabie, tirst base to get out of the way ‘, Teatcht Sehenat, auteted a may vt For this reason he might be given arm, which also dislocated at tho|@ draw, if one could forget that Kil- shoulder, Ho will be out of the Fennel bane had been the aggressor in near- for a long time, and as Fred Snod- every round, As it was, Leon- grass also has a bad hand Fadia | ards reputation wasn’t hurt’ to any Grant hud to finish out the game yes-| appreciable extent. He did as well terday. j against Kilbane as any of the cham. A fow minutes later Hans Lobert | pion’s recent opponents, and consid- was spiked at third base, He may | ering that he is only a nineteen-year- be patched up so as to get in the|old boy, he is entitled to heaps of game, but he will carry a limp for | praise, onard could probably tour veral days. | the country and beat most every one his class. EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN Feds Want vil President More Speed Ma O- President Gil Vederal Lea ts con- advisabliily of offering Tener and the Umpire, bert atthe ‘ean whieh ee ‘ | Goan best record in reducing [National League President Re-|'0 serv us there shivering until dark | = Hy the pin + the aunt, ling versed Decision by Quigley: , Having turn in the ote the field and « Wow, drawing gam \Class and Experience Enabled to Shade Leonard couldn't help feeling that Leach could have v he desired. is show- ing against Ri recently ;a net Charle . ch fought against Hommey like a preliminary boy. 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