The evening world. Newspaper, September 13, 1915, Page 8

| _. Hard and Clean Hitting Gave! Gibbons Victory Over MoFar- | fand—Mike Showed Most Speed. | Poqge fpyoiituns Ce ane Rew Fork World IKE GIBBONS deserved the verdict over Packey MeFar- Jand Saturday evening, It * qwould be absurd to say that either Man was “whipped,” for both were Perfectiy fresh at the finial a Reither took enough punishment in ‘the ten rounds to cause any damage More serious than @ flushed face and or two, Mike had a ekin- scratch @ quarter of an inch ie left eye—wo slight that be no trace of it in three There wasn't anpther mark on Packey had a ‘few red spots is face an hour after the Might, or two high on the side of & slightly puffed left ear ch swollen bank account. he was uncha: land made a wonderfully it of it, avoiding or block- iy all of Mike's punches and fine show of aggressiveness But his hitting was entire- fective except for a few body When MoeFarland last in New York—the Britton closed his hands and pelted | e - safe ze § F I as A »: all over the ring for ten rounds, him a general smeari a , 'y satisfactory to all the : th A of his blow: with probably because in Mike and have Hi *§ 2 | H i i ae i? Fad '9FARLAND gave a remarkable exhibition of boxing—espe- ctally remarkable for a man eeeeaaeemaesenasseessaaan OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF FIGHT RECEIPTS. The State Athletic Commission at 2 A. M. Bunday out the following official statement of the attendance and receipte of the Packey McFarland-Mike Gibbons contest at the Ocean A. ©, of Brighton Beach on Saturday night: Groms receipts seen 8,069 Total attendance about. 32,000 McFarland \ End of purse, 17,600 From moving received pictures...... 1,200 Gain } End of purse, 15,000 From movi received sn 4,076 at $2... | ’ seecetesess SOMMR 000 free tickets for press and other courtesies. of gross receipts at basssioresesaced $4,358.18 Had About as Much Effect on Him as a Sham- poo—Was Weak at Weight. By Mike Gibbons. T was a nice battle, 1 must give Packey McFar- I land credit for doing better than I thought he could. But I don’t think there is any doubt in any one’s mind that I beat him all the way. If he ien't satisfied with to-night’s result I'd be perfectly to be 160 pounds next time. © shaken by the blows, invaria- . responded with a rush and a of fighting a bim be as strong and confident as ever. point of Gibbons excelled. pe. , always a possibility that Bike migh! land a -nockout, He was ones into jey’s bod: 1d bor Bear htoees i col int of his head, TBBONS fought In streaks, eome- times rushing and hitting hara and fast, sometimes staying back and blocking Packey’s leads. He looked badly drawn from the drying out. His body was eo thin that there ‘Was a deep hollow where his stomach should have been. Half an hour after i wg’ told me that even that without breakfast and take off Revet or oo ot weight, having welghe: pounds when he got up and that dar tise dave he baa Tait weak and from the strain of drying out. never make 147 again for any Baht. no matter what purse might be IBBONS may have been burned to a cinder—but he had his wkiil and enough of @ punch io make him dangerous. At blocking blows he was Packey’s equal, Mo- Parland's gloves were usually picked off by Mike before they reached their At infighting he was fully y's equal, and while his work ‘Was less showy than Pack: it was 50 per cent, more effective. Ps M'FARLAND’S $= share of the money for this fight 917,500 he received as his end of the puree. Mw A_ couple of days before the fight Packey discovered that some one was totals $18,700, instead of the! his He certainly has a good defense, It is a won- derful defense. Time and again I'd start a right for him that I thought would surely get him; but head, and I'll bet those punches made his head swim, O° course, I didn’t put him out. He was pretty badly shaken up several times, but he's a wise fellow, and he was able to stall and hang on until he got his head clear again. I don’t blame him for that. He was there to do the best he could and go the distance. Not one of his punches hurt me or even shook me. In fact, it was @ pleasure to be there swapping punches whb him after the torture I have been going through making the weight. In all my experience I have never put in such a siege of training a8 1) Upon my word, I felt that I was) had for this fight. When I made the | staggering, and I was afraid people | Hed; | match I weighed 162 pounds atripped| Were pointing at me and talking| about me, So I went up to my room} After the first few days in training | ona posted, Speaking of resting, 1| I went right up to 165 stripped, and| was so worn down and nervous yes- ft seemed as if I'd never be able to|terday from the drying out that I come down again. It seamed ridicu-| Just lay there on my bed and cried, tous to think of getting myself down | ***. shed real toars. That was mere nervousness, But to 147 ringside, I worked like @ hore®| never again 147 for me! No matter at home, and I worked like a team) who it is, I'll never try that foolish of horses ever since I came Hast, Ij welght again, If Packey McFarland at 150 pounda ringsid I was gotting it off easily; but Be | Ounce ean, It wan the foolish welehe Meve me, it was the hardest job I/that bothered me to-night, not ever tackled. Packey. At that, I mui For the last two days I have been! credit’ for being stronger than course, I'd take a gargle now and Knit fellow. then when the punishment of drying} aut pot one of Packoy' ot one of Packey's blows hurt out became more than I could stand; | me, while | know a lot of mine hurt but something inside of me seemed| him. 1 must admit that I couldn't te he beneian, ‘Par ven's sake) Ket my right on him the way T want- 1 was, and the w: as if there was an ash heap drifting around, much supper: but I had grown up to! Nothing in that. was nothing for it but to sip a little orange juice and call that a break- fast. Then after I weighed in at 3 o'clock I came in and ate a good meal, and it made me dizzy, May be it was the heat, though I'm sure I'm acclimated all right. But when ered me, ——== $1,200 for bis hare of the picture coeded the recipts wor o} shows what a wood Judge of things | Wrepohed lowe in my back, 1,2 of @ wrench, Mike Gibbons left for St. Paul at| '™ # lot going to take moving pictures for the ‘beomoters. Being etalnentiy a busi. y ! worry about it. willing to take him on again—only it would have that was my mistake, 164 pounds stripp was in good shape. nearly every time he wriggled away from It or} blocked it. I got him pretty often in the body, and three or four times I caught him with a right to the agree to that. as much as I do. kill himself to make the weight. a big forfeit like that. $15,000, and I knew he'd do anything ® rather than let tt get away from him He agreed to the forfeit. Right there I knew I bad him, Jollied the boys a lot and pretended | W#5t# another match he can have it— and not one sive him | fh ed it. He knew where the danger send me down a drink!’ Inside I felt Fhe deemed hie bd on my shoulder and hid it there was | ; a caution, But for all the harm I got down to 145 yesterday, and| he did me he might as well have given * me a shampoo, Half the time he was thought I was all right. I didn't eat} sapping me with the open hand. Some might say he 147% pounds when I got on the| made the pace because he kept com- soales this morning. 1 had hoped to| {ng in and seeming to force it; but he . was only walking in; no ateam in hisj put in @ good breakfast; but there) punch, ‘That cut over my left oye was the result of a bump when we | opening. both led and ducked at the same mo- ment. I hear Packey thinks he did it | with a right follow after turning me with his left; but he's wrong, The| cut didn't bother me. The heat and t Nout of ‘doors Tt felt’ dissy, | {2 foolish weight are all that both- Getting down so fine is a great strain on the nerves, You feel it all/and shook me up a litt none ian, Packey reruned to sien @}over, My first idea in the ring was|I watched him more carefully, I ie ha sone . He finall rer to try and go the distance without | didn't give him many chances to use An agreement that he would arte) any thought of slamming him ag Ij his right, I kept working around to er Ccopt) would if I had been right. After his left, so that he couldn't shoot awhile I cut loose a right drive for! rights at me, privileres if the, ee ey ete 'tg| the body, He squirmed away from ‘i nothing it, and I felt as if something had under $50,000, Which A awhile and let the right «0 Packoy is. ‘The official figures for the| *BArr® § y in, ‘There was the spin him around any time, gate receipts were $58,000, He gets | “f* oh, “And at that Tmuk| how I happened to catch him over THE EVENING WORLD. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1015. BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK ND M’FARLAND REVIEW FIGHT FOR EVE GIBBONS LANDING RIGHT TO CHIN EARLY IN FIGHT COpyrienl, 1916, by the Presse Publisming Co. (The New Tork Evening Word) Gineans SENT SOME CLEAN PUNCHES ROUGH PACKEY'S GUARD, ‘1 Beat Him Allthe Way,” Declares Gibbons; | Packey Says: ‘‘Good Boxing Offset His Punch’’ Right on Chin in Opening Round and It Shook Him Up a Bit. By Packey McFarland. people said I was making a big mistake, I make a lot of mistakes, but a: as they're always mistakes in my favor, I don't The one mistake in the Gibbons match was Mike's welghing {n at 147 pounds, and I made it for Mike. The day we met in Chicago 1 knew that he weighed His face was lean and he He didn’t have much to take off. I proposed the weight, 145 pounds. Mike was willing to make 150. difference and make it 147, I induced Mike to ™®FARLAND::- Then to make sure he wouldn't forfeit and come in over weight I offered to put up $2,500 as a forfeit, and wanted Mike to do the same, W"= I took on the Gibbons match some 1 proposed to split the long Mike is fond of money—like McFarland, He hates money just about Now that the fight’s over, I know every move that Mike can make, and Va fight him again and beat him easily at the same weight—147 pounds, But I wouldn't fight Mike Gibbons at 160 pounds or more for any amount of money. 1 may make | mistakes, but as long as they're mis- takes in my own favor it’s all right. I'm not making any foolish mistakes, As a middleweight Mike can hit too hard. I haven't so much gray matter thought he w. oally |to spare that I'd be willing to let almost without a drop of water, Of] jiroity, Me on vent pot. weal Mike. ut me on the head when he has his full strength, The top of my head is sore now from the punches I stopped with it, Some of those punches would have made my brains rattle around like a pea in a pod tf 1 hadn't made that mistake for Mike in the matoh-making, 1 knew Mike had a great right cross, and I was satisfied his left hand didn't amoumt to much, I knew he was burned up through my mistake |in making him weigh 147 pounds, but I thought he might have one or two good kicks left if he found an So I went right after his body to slow bim up and take away auy punch he might have left. Those body blows hurt him, I could feel him wince whenever I got one in, But I got a sample of his right cross near the beginning of the fight, He landed hast on my chin le, After that After three or four rounds I knew there wasn't much chance of Mike's hurting me with aay kind of a punch, i was stronger than he was, TI could the eye with the punch that made « | small'cut there. I whirled him around 2.30 Sunday afternoon, Having plenty| ‘There 1s no doubt that Packey Is|and grazed him with my right while of money now for powder and shot,| Very showy with his fast footwork | he was of balance. Mike is going duck shooting, and tapping, But I had all the best! While the fight was going on I felt pw te Bon of it to-night on the blows actually myself growing stronger in compar!~ . FM. N. y. . delivered, and if we should ever meet son to Gibbons, I had some extra cate'ta Detach. Palo ovends, Aan: On AAGA at 160 pounds I know I'll put him out, weight to work om and a my That's I knew Mike wouldn't forfeit $2,500, if he had to half I knew he'd come in at 147 if he had up He didn't like the idea, but he was dazzled by that strength, because I didn't have ty{ Jeave any of it on the road, He wis weak from the weight in the Zrst place and my body punches Zidn't help him any. I pushed him ground, 1 could stand that kind of work better than he could, and when I wAs on top of him his right hand was 4ottled up anyway. Now that the fight is over I can see that it isn’t easy to “come back” after being out of the ring for a couple of years, and I'm glad I made that mis- speed by thinking faster than he could. I couldn't move as fast an 1 usually do, That was because I car- | ried too much weight. In my best | fichting condition I weigh just about | eight pounds less than I did Saturday ight. But I couldn’t get into my best condition without having two or three fights, Training doesn't do jt, Another thing, my Judgment of dis- tance was bad, probably because my | timing was thrown out by my hav ing less speed. I never missed #o many punches before, | My hitting wasn't as clean as I'd lke to have {t. Not having had fight in a long time I was used to the way! 1 box in the gymnasium when I'm careful not to hurt anybody, and tn exhibitions, Several times I've fallen into the habit of hitting with open gloves, and it's a hard habit to shake in the ring. I may go on now that I've started again, and if I do L ex- pe stronger than I ever was, My judg- ment is as good as ever and a few fights would give me all the speed I over had. I figure that I peat Gibbons. | offset his punch by outboxing him, He landed a good many solid ones on top of my head, with my help, and very few anywhere else, ex- cept on my gloves and arma, and he didn't hurt me at any time, He wasn't in danger of being knocked | out at.any time, but neither was I, and as the public regarded Gibbo: as the man likely to Jand a knoc! out, and just conceded me a poi ble chance to outpoint him in ten rounds, it seems I was the one to run true to form, Tf he wants {t Mike can have an- | other chance—at 147 pounds, happen to be in my own favor. If AIKE HAD BEEN MUCH Thea, “Twe MoSQuiTOS WOULD HAVED Conrieo nm away, Cobb Picks Red Sox to Play in W. Tiger Star Says That Majo League Races Have Simmered | Down to Three Possibilities | in Each Circuit. orld’s Series rito the closing days of the schedul makers stand on an even footing tn t just now, for they are their ac ign territory club and the most courage: By Ty Cobb. There is w consolation fe . HE major! were is slight consolation for De activities will ships have sim mered down three possivill-| tes in each cir-| cult. Boston, De} some one besides the Ti, ors must stop | Way the Natio Red Sox if any on ° The| the good little b that | reader, are nothing short of such a sensational | ping t they showed Jones back In 1908 can avail Tanderstand that tf Brookiyn fatl to land the pennant, a ship series for the (: New York is to be att three-cornered Yankees, Dodgers A series of nine games would d, in which each team would cago alone have the slight the Johnson bunting. - ; : Philadelphia, Boston and Brooklyn | St. Paul “Wizard” Says McFarland’s Punches|Chicago Idol Admits That He Got Sample of|have a corner on the pennant oppor-| it tunities of Tener's merry-go-round. leagues conditions are The fight has| games. Such a series would in no way world's champion- fandom has little series in which A three-corner- very much the same, been so close and trying for weeks that it has got on the nerves of the Luck this year, I belleve, will figure more prominent ly than ever before In deciding the final result, Of all the probable candidates for the world's champtonship the Boston |‘! Red Sox have a distinc playing the gr interest in a worl it a not represented, ed fight among Greater New Yor three major clubs should, very novelty of the affair, appeal to Gotham and Gowanus fandom, players engaged. that the attendance would be better Giants Yankees series of 1910, which drew almost as | as the world's championship be- n the Athlete: advantage in| «ih upon such js still very muc League race. in the Nattonal torlous, must win the flag aw home unless the fight carries down \o Wheoler Syndicate, Ine, Fistic News and Gossip Jim Coffey, the Irish hearywelglt, Way fighter for the next seven days, for in thet short space of time he will engage in two ten while Ferguson i getting twenty-five per cet.) PHILADELPHIA The managem of both f Donahue, the retired dgh! have selected Phil sion, to referee | the English fighter, the welterweight matched’ to-day by John Weimmantel to meet in|. 4 & tonround contest at the Broadway Sporting next Satuntay night das been taking good care of himself at Bye ‘and feels confident and Tet’ /and doubles open SAE Seah Ba, Me Conse: gear vee lof the Merion Cricket Club at Haver- will yap punches with in « t Cottey will go against Jack Dri coll of Brooklyn, at @ show to be brought off at ‘These bouts were arranged purpose of giving him a good workout before he mete Frank Moran, in Mad. fon Square Garden, on Oct companied by his manager, Billy Gibson, and hie ohiet handler and adviser, George Engel, left for Montreal to-day, Club of Brooklyo, t jariem will hold @ ‘Phree ten-round boute| singles last year was won by George M. ‘The Olymple A. GC, of boxing show to-night. Detween evenly matched fighters will be staged, Battling Lerinskr, who t wo fight Sandy For. fruson a twelveround bout at the 4 take about Gibbons's weight, Mike | of Boston o was very fast and I had to offset his) thirty per cout. of the gross receipts for his end, DING OF THE CLUBS, 4M DAY'S GAME! Nat ONAL LE. aay LEAGUB. Cin wi Chicago, 6; Boston, 8 GAMES SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY, Pittaburgh at Brook to be fighting in my best form | in a short time. I am bigger and| Fall Opening We now have on display a large assortment of imported and domestic woolens—new shades, new patterns—- fabrics the most fastidious will enjoy inspecting. Suits and Overcoats, $20 to $50 To measure only. Fashioned in the latest style. Tailored with Arnheim care and skill, equal values would cost elsewhere. Samples and Book of Style Suggestions on request Arnheim At least $5 to $15 less than ~~ Broadway It would be a big mistake for me CQ, 9th St. to let him weigh more, and I don't| like to make mistakes unless they NG WORLD YANKEES WON'T TRY OUT NEW MEN AGANST TIERS Manager Donovan to Use His Best Men to Avoid Stories About Favoritism, By Bozeman Bulger, F THESE Tigers will get thrown here and go on about their bus nese of beating the Hed Sox Wild William Donovaa to apr he'a been thinking up for twe w f more-and give the faos a reel id-fashioned run for thelr money Having 9 tiewlar interest in the peanant, Wid Wiliam propowes fo introduce as lis fret «pecialty what he 5 “Novkie Week” with nobi erults from hither you displaying r Wares to the New | York public regardiens of the cons quences, But he feels that be can't do this until the Tigers are out of Not so many d) Yanks atraigot, using in Uni Lannin will been done & grave injustice. Consequentiy Wtld race not one of the three | Will thinks himself in duty bound clubs involved hax shown much road to shoot the beat he has in the sho against Jennings, It isn't such & terrible best, at Chat, but it's all we have to offer and nobody could ask for anything fairer : ng ite weatward League raco goes merrily along to the finish with the Dodgers and Braves knocking each other down whi the Poillies, like y in the second ating the nuts and slip ra the shells. Only mera Ww while the losing and climbed back into ond plac ™n |Previous day the situat and it has been ge |way for a month. A® a consequence neither of them has budged an inch while the Phillies, running out in the open, have walked away It's pretty hard figure how a jteam playing like that Is going to Home, scouts, man sand other ex. perts to the contrary notwithstand- ing. Proceeding 4 If George Stallings does lose this pennant, which seems likely now, he Will be « bitterly disappointed man, The ambition of George's life has been to win a second pennant #0 as to prove to the doubting Thomases that the Braves are really a chain- plonship club, Stallings has felt the disposition on the part of ball pe © had a lucky. stre Aid not 1 din Cap n last r of the Braves made a speech in whieh he said the experts did not take his {club seriously, but that he would | make them eat their words this year. —— - INTERCOLLEGIATE LAWN TENNIS TOURNEY BEGINS. pt 1%. — The thirty-seventh annual tournament for |the intercollegiate lawn ‘tennis cham- |Plonship of the U “in singles the court day ¢ Weather condith Harvard, Yale, Pr of Pennsylvania ornell, Amherst, Haverford, Dartmouth and Williams are members of the Intercollegiate as- = tion and all have sent representa~ to the tournament, The intercollegiate championship in were perfect, on, University Church of Princeton, who deferted K Yorris Williams, Harvard. Church has rn xraduated from Princeton and Hiams again looms up ax a poralble winner of the title, The Intercollegiate 2zz ie in che mai9 | doubles championship is held by Will- Jao with Mike Me: jams and Richard Harte of Ha caeneeaiainasemnate ‘ard, —— , AUSTRIAN DERBY WON BY The Austrian Derby, run a course of 2,400 es for a stake of 122,000 ,500) was won by Anto: three lengths, r punt von econd and There wee SPORTING. BELMONT PARK TO-MORROW Last DAY $1,500 Nursery Handicap Shelter Island Handicap Corinthian Steeplechase and 3 Other Good Races AT 2.10 M enna, station, 4 San’ ave esos, Sa to BS at General Admission, 81 ‘and Mtand& Paddock #3; Ladies,#1,50 Ydrea uot aduitted to any part of the grounde ee ee