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a ee ee oe UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY FITZ MADE HIS BEST FlGhT WHEN HE LOST 10 JEFFRIES ——$_$_— — But Skill and Cunning of the Greatest of Ring Artists, Weighing Less Than 160 Pounds, Couldn’t Overcome Strength and Endurance of Young Giant. By Robert Edgren. Copyright, 1915, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Fvening World). No, 11—How Jim Jeffries, the y oung giant from the West, beat down the great Bob Fitzsimmons and won the champion- ship of the world in eleven rounds. HERE ‘s something almost Homeric about the history of the ring fit- teon or twenty years ago, THOSE were the days of real fightin: No ten-round decisionless tangoes then! It was twenty or twenty- five rounds, a decision or a knockout, And usually, when the giants of the wing met, it was the kneckout that determined the disposition of the winner's @nd of the purse and all the glory. Bob Fitzsimmons, champion of the world by virtue of having planted a @olar plexus punch in the midst of James J, Corbett at Carson, Nev., was the greatest fighter I ever saw in a ring. And there's no partioular reason why I should limit this statement to myself. Fitzsimmons was the greatest fighter any one has seen in the ring, in the memory of living man. Perhaps freckled Bob's equal existed among the ancients, but no other man in modern times ever combined #0 much skill, cunning and fighting force, ae, added wonder of it was that immons always was a middle- around th u Weight when fighting the best of the] his head dows ue it ciechine, oad ig ones. He was a middleweight! if Jeffries wanted to break clean or when he knocked out Corbett at Car-| hit in the breaks. son, He was a middleweight still|/ JEFF HURLED FITZ8SIMMONS ‘when he lost the title to Jeffries, Ho Was @ middleweight, later on, when he reed aay PARTITION, Performed that miracle of the ring —| growled Jeffries, opening bis mouth the “come-back”-—in which he knocked | for the first time, and putting his hand out the Akron Giant, Gue Rublin, and] against Bob's Cheat he pushed him tough Tom Sharkey within two weeks,|“Way so violently that Fitasimmons one in six and ‘he other in two] fae ep cy fs Sapialin) Parti. rounds. The wonder of it wasn't/tian hurriedly lok Fits away. And lessened, either, by the fact that Fitz-|who knows but that the byplay, t! simmons was then in his thirty-eighth boone ay og PRA ai ad year. Fitzsimmons weighed 158 4 glimpse of the tre- Pounds, Sharkey 186, Rublin 200.]pomething tardy with the anata end What other fighter, in any class, ever bia it been performed such feats? itzsimmone felt a new dread of FITZ HAD PLANNED TO RETIRE| flo wan one of he ig well hidden. UNDEFEATED. ever fought, He was afraid of noth- Fitzsimmons fought Jeffries nearly|ing living. He shook hands with Jeft two years and three months after meee Ned tte 4 ane pate winning the title from Corbett. In peculiar crouch, bending over a little ‘That tong interval he hadn't appeared at the hips and extending his left arm im the ring, put had gone through a|Straight out. Puzzied for a moment, series of theatrical engagements and Raaticne: away, then Aung himself in had planned to retire from the ring! Drushed Fits asides The eee ee ane ap undefeated champion, be hard to hit. But when he was offered a mateh In the you want to,” THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1915. A Pecuu PARTITION Harvard Plans to Play Allen at End in Battle Against Yale To-Morrow Moseley or Higginbotham Will | contiaont of winning and wilt spend Give Way to Young Husky Who Is Now Eligible—Other Football News. By William Abbott. ALE will surprise Harvard to- morrow when Parker Allen g008 to one of the end positions instead of either ginbotham. Until the last few days Allon was ineligible and contented himself by ripping things up on tho scrub, Ho passed off his scholastic conditions this week and became available for the varsity. Tom Shev- lin greeted the newcomer like a long lost friend. Allen is a husky gent and very fast, He is built on thé lines of @ Sheviin. Coach Tom gave him special instructions how to play his position and Allen won the place from the other candidates. ‘The rumor would not down yest day that Eddie Mahan would be ab- sent from the Harvard team to-mor- row. But is wasn't taken seriously. The Yale athletic officials addressed a note to Harvard recently diplomati- cally asking If Mr, Mahan's status The fighting grew faster, with Jeffries by Billy Brady, the foxy|*¢cond round Jeffries stepped in and suggested to Fitz ‘that this William suddenly jabbed. His left fist caught might be an easy way to get a nice/ Fitzsimmons on the point of the chin, piece of money, Jeffries being little| Fits’s feet few up and he sat down more than a big novice who could be| hard. A clean knockdown with a jab! sent home to California offhand after! And the champion a 2—1 shot! Fitz- Witzsimmons had whipped him. Brady| simmons jumped up, furious, and knew that Fitzsimmons owed some] rushed, swinging both hands, His re- large bills for theatrical poster print-|Cuperating powers always were as- ing and that his bank account wasn't |tounding. He seemed unhurt by the very fat. blow and the fall, So Fitasimmons took the match and| But Jeffries laughed at him. There's began training. Not that he regarded | something psychological in a laugh, fight very seriously, He thought, | Fitzsimmons lookea worried, Jeffries nearly every one else, that he|bexan forcing the fight, hurling Fitz eould knock Jeffries out. hen told Away when he charged, using his great of Jeff's gigantic strength, his iron| strength, brushing Fitz aside with the frame, his endurance, Fitzsimmons walking beam left. Both were landing and tossed off for the first | heavily, desperation Fitzsimmons -time that famous utterance of his: forced his way in and swung terrific “The bigger they are, the ‘arder they Sashes into Jeff's body, Any other fall.” And he believed it. man would have gone down, Jeffries The t was held in the Coney|&Tinned, In the fourth round he Island rting Club, which quite|°@ught Fitz with a staggering right ly was packed. Brady sug-| 0" the ear and drove smashes fhto his | Di ted to Julian that it might be a/ Pedy. Fitz was reeling. His face was|@ bloody, He was in dist: was a gamester! in and fought with hoy thing for Fitzsimmons to drop into Jeff's dressing room to settle any arguments about the rules before en- ress, Rut he He forced hie way every ounce of his tering the ring, and Fitssimmons, strength, Willing to take a look at bir victim| FITZ Dow det 4, fell for it. He wont to N FOR COUNT OF FIVE Jeff's dressing room and knocked on IN FIFTH, the door. In tho fifth round, aft Inside ything was ready for|some terrific wallops, Jolfrien kacoenk Fits. Brady intended to shake his| Fitzsimmons to his knees with a right confidence by showng him what he|drive into the body. Mitasimmons Was up against before the fight began. | took a five-second count before risine He bad coached Jeffries, When the! Furious fighting all the way, mii door was thrown open there lay big | both were slowing down a little. grow. Jeff, the most powerful man that ever fought in a roped ring, stretched out on & cot, stripped for action. Brady ways that he watched Bob closely, and that Bob's eyes fairly popped out as he took in the tremendous outline ‘ils foe. Jeftri close to Fits, towering over him and ing weary. Jeff's legs looked heavy, Fitz, laughing, began fighting with greater abandon, trying desperately to land a Knockout blow. But Jeff stuck out his great left and held him away. Many of Bob's blo landed in spite of the good defense, Jef. fries had a half-closed eye. His face king down with a scowl, but say-|was battered. Fitzsimmons was fight- @ word. There was a lit: ing like a new man after every ne ihe" or th i id ° of the rules, and Fitzsimmons,!val of rest. There the intention of making an im- to hfs endurance, Aasiney he: Deis lon on Joffries, slipped one arm But !n the tenth round, as Fitasim- Unbutton Our Door! After looking at reliable clothiers’ and tailors’ woolens from $30 to $45 we want you to know that $20 will bu that same suit or overcoat here. No| trouble to prove it. 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In many respects the! game should be the best one of the! local football eeason. N. Y, U. has had a successful season, while Colum- Moseley or Hig-| their last ounce of strength to gain @ victory. These are just the con- ditions that insure a battle with lots of action. Columbia is the logical favorite. The Blue and White has won all its games and the eleven, coached by Nelson Metcalfe, improved wonder- fully in every contest. N. Y. U,, though trounced by Wesleyan, made a good record, supporters will gladi in their pockets to make good the claim their team will beat Columbia. N. Y. U, in Cann will have the one r of the game. This youngster go deep down big at {8 culy a wonder, Hoe is the Violet's |one dependable point getter. From jhis halfback position Cann ‘plunges through the line like a bull or elips around end with the spead of a] sprinter, At scoring field goals he's, a second Brickley. N. Y. U. has several other first-class men, but her eleven individually doesn’t shape up | as strongly as Columbia’ The Blue and White is heavy and strong. The backfield with Capt. | Simons in his position ts an sven-| working combination, good at open football, especially the forward pass. ing attack, Quarterback Miller ia « clever team general and a fine open fivid runner. m for team Colun- bia seems to have the advantage and should win, but anything Is likely to happen in these days of surprises, With the big game with the Car- lisie Indians booked as the attraction to-morrow at Fordham Field, Coach Vaughn of Fordham kept his maroon team until dusk stopping forward passes and other Indian spectacular plays, Both the scrubs and the Prep School teams were used against the varsity. Both teams limited their play to the open style which has charac’ the red men’s play this season, ‘Time after time the com- bined scrub and Prep opposition had their attempts to reach the varsity | goal line frustrated at the very etart | of a play, That Fordham has recovered from its slump and has found its atride again was evident to the large crowd that watched the practice, The same spirit and determination that swept Holy Cross to defeat again strongly In evidence yeste: That | ay. the red men will find Fordham keyed | up to fight every inch of ground was | shown in every play. Fordham men | are now banking on certain victory, for with the Vaughn machine again | going at top speed and with Golden | and Cantwell back in the line-up they after a lapse of ten years, made strong comeback. Both teams are At Roxbury Harvard Graduate Treasurer Issues Statement Explaining Job Held by Player, « CAMBRIDGE, Mass,, Nov. 18—The Harvard athletic authorities were busy last night denying rumors of the disqualification of Mahan and mons rushed, Jeffries jabbed him on | the jaw again, lifted him from his | fost, and dropped him flat on his back. Fitz got up and tried to land @ terrific body swing, and again Jef- | fries knocked him down with the left. Tho blows looked like knockouts, but Up came Fits again, rushing as furiously as ever, but for the first time golng into a clinch to avoid the giant's blows, The end of the tenth found Fitasimmons looking a beaten man, Yet out he came for the eleventh fresh and smiling, no trace of blood on him, as confident as if just be- ginning to fight. He rushed in and swung on Jeff's jaw, and big Jet jammed a right into Bob's ribs th stopped him as if he'd run into «| wall, His legs trembling, Fitzsim- | mons rushed in again, Another fler drive into the body met him, He reeled—rushed again, Joffries's stiffly extended left caught him on the mouth and knocked him flat, Ref- cree Siler stepped over the prostrate champion to keep Jeffries away, but Jeffries was already stepping back, waiting quietly, Fitzsimmons got up. His blue eyes wore glazed, his legs shaking, but he was still every inch a champion. He moved in, tho left that had won him the championship poised for one des- erate last effort to defend it, And effries staggered him with a straight left, then whipped over the right Fitzsimmons fell flat on his face, In- |stinctively struggling, he rolled over |on his back, and there the last count found him. @-A1 Park Row, Néw York City, Opposite City Hall Park Mahan Wasn’t Athletic Coach IRISH A. A. C. NOT ENTERED Young Jim Jeffries was Champion of the World | figure that Carlisle cannot stop the Fordham attack, Tutoring School other members of the football team. Fred W. Moore, graduate treasurer of the Harvard A, A., made the following statement last night: “Mahan was employed as a coun- sellor at the Harvard Roxbury Tu- toring School in New London, @ school which was backed and owned by a Yale man, Tho nature of the employment was not that of athletic coach in any sense of the word, It was the same kind of @ job as Capt. Wilson of the Yale team had at the Yale Roxbury Tutoring Schoul, also at New London. In neither case can there be the slightest question of pay- ment for athletic services, As a ina ter of fact, Mahan has never received @ cent for bis work there, tnough be Was promised payment, ce even paid his oWn expenses to and from New London.” Mahan when pressed for a state- ment, said "I hear of sly, petty digs at my amateur standing, If any person be es he has any reason to think | am not what 1 claim to be, Jet him » out like a man and make a man's statement and not lake jabs at my reputation by innuendo or behind my bae ‘1 will captain the Harvard team against Yale, Enough said.” IN JUNIOR X-COUNTRY RUN. | ‘The Juntor Individual and team cross country championship of the Metropoll- tan Asoctation of the A. A, U. will be held over a six-milo course at Van Cortlandt Park to-morrow afternoon, starting at 8 o'clock. Kach club can enter elght men, but only five are al- lowed to score,’ A silver cup will be iven the team having the lowest score. ‘or the first time in years the Irish: American A. won't have @ team in the event n team, as follows Chureh Hou topher A. C., Swedish-/ Brooklyn A. A., New Yc | Cortlandt JEFFRIES WINNING CHAMPIONSHIP F Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New Yor’ Evening World). ia! ” AR CROUCH FLAT ON HIS Bac WITH A LEFT UAB PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 19,— The coach for the University of Pennsyl- vania crews to succeed Vivian Nick- alis, who resigned last summer and returned to England to fight for the allies, will be chosen at a meeting of the Committee on Rowing to be held at the University Club to-day. Rumor has it that Joe Wright, the Canadian oarsman and successful coach of boat club crews, is to get the post. Strength is lent to this report by the fact that John Townsend, Chairman of the Rowing Committee, is in Canada at present. Park Commissioner Thomas W. Whit- tle of the Bronx has granted the re- quest of the New York Gun Club for a site for trap shooting grounds at Van Park. The sportsmen will have two acres at the northeast corner of the parade grounds and will erect a large club nouse. Pat Powers started something when News of Sports Told in Shorts he said that five peace conferences | phenson. within a yeor were held at the solicita- tion of the head of the National Leagu John K. Tener denies this in the follow- ing statement: “I do not know whether or not Mr Powers was correctly quoted, but I will state that I never talked with him privately or publicly regarding an ad- Justment of the baseball conditions.” William H. Page, for three years Pres- {dent of the New York A. C., will not Accept a renomination. The candidat for office must be posted by the noml- nating committee by next Tuesday. Mr. Page says that the demands of his law practice and family compel him tot @ renomination ‘The Irish-American Athletic Club yes- terday announced that entries for ¢ indoor games at Madison Square den on Noy. 27 will close on Saturday. Among the entries elved are Ted Meredith of Philadelphia, LeRoy Campbell of Chic f Joe Higgins, Dave Caldwell, Tom Halp: Bill Barron of Boston; Hannes Koleh- mainen, Pat Ryan, Matt rath, Pat McDonald, Jack Ei lynn, Ar- thur Fogel, Eddie Renz and Frank Ste- Fourteen bowlers entered in The Eve- nig World elimination contests bowled scores high enough yesterday to tm- prove their averages. The scores fol- low: Bronx Central—Mang, 233, 226, Himmelsbach, 233, 216, 211, 20: mann, 234, 223, 216, va. Ruel, Peters, 218; Pelfer, 210, and Newbauer, 224, 207. Hunts Point—J, Pats, 232, 231, 212; H. Breakstone, 280, 222, 219, and Drescher, 210, 200. 214, va. Park Row—Johnny Hill, 242, 230. LEAGUE SCORES. American National Tourney—Onelda, 798, ve, Federal, 832; Oneida, 9 Hudson, 933; Federal, $18, vs. Hudson, 962, K. of C.—DeSoto, 798, vs. Castilian, 868; DeSoto, 658, vs. Nativity, 667; C: jativity, 750. Bank Clerks—Emigrant Industrial, 734, City, 881; Chase, 827, vs. City, 792; . $32, vs, Emigrant Industrial, 746. Crotona ' Three-Man—Van Nest,’ 649, vs, Mount Vernon, 632; Van Nest, 486, vs, Central, 658; Morris Park, 655, vs. Central, 558 Fire Insurance—Continental Insurance priced at $40 to 850. the unusual offering. are exceptionally attractive. Broadway ® 9th St. Holy « rose A. A. Ozganam Association, Family Lyceum of Jersey City, ‘otona—Tom Duncan, 222, 219, 208, | and “Doc” Brown, 246, 219. Bronx Palace—Rupprecht, 247, 233, 228. . | will get'the chance of Company, 773, 789, 807, vs. Columbia In- surance Company, 646, 682, 565. Silt League—H. 4.’ Cacsar Company, Tod, 814, 62, vs. Willlam Oppenhym, 753, 167, 797. Some of the entrants in The World tourney do not have their scores re- corded unless they roll 230 or ovs Freddy Sepp, at the Park Row, 1s one, The New York Central's best five | bowlers will meet the Oneida quintet at the Metropolitan to-night. Jack Brenner's alibi for not matching ‘the Bronx Palace team with the Hi Point five was that their Bender, was on the sick list. Howey renner now says ho tn willing to clo the match with elther three or five men teams. As Lowen tells us to-day that he is satisfied to arrange the series for the \Hunts Point for any date that suits |Brenner, the Bronx bowling follo elng an in © rival acad esting match between ¢) emles. oh A number of women's clubs are form~- ing at the Bureka in the Grand Central Palace, where the surroundings are most suitable for the fair bowlers. Al. Thetas has an average of to laate. Theiss has everybody sing what he would roll if he ever shed his cout and hat while bowling, F. W. Woodrow londa the St. Nicholas Inn elimination entrants with @ 225 av- erage for his best ten games. Delayed Shipment Foreign Fabrics Received Earlier in the season these materials would have been Due to late delivery we have been able to secure a low purchase price which is reflected in Suit, to Order, $25 to $30 | ‘There is quite an array of patterns, and the colorings “BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK fuse | above that, which Is 115 pounds, » Billy Leanix and| until we get back and make the sev- added, ‘is largely responsible for what might be called a decay in the boxing ne, At least that is my |SCA1.E OF WEIGHTS DECIDED Arnheim - Bantamweigh EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN ROM FITZSIMMONS t Crown Doesn’t Belong to Ertle Or Williams, Says White Veteran Referee Declares There Never Has Been a Champion in His Class Since Danny Dougherty’s Time — Right Weight Is 105 Pounds. By Bozeman Bulger. HOSE who really desire an au- thoritative answer to the argu-| ment now raging to whether Johnny Ertle or Kid Williams ts en titled to the crown as bantamweight champion should consu: Charley White, the famous referee, whose word has been law in the prize ring for, lo, these many years. “Neither of them is the bantam- weight champion,” declares Mr. Whit “Moreover, the men they de- | fe 1 were not even bantamweights and there never has been a ban- tamweight champion since Danny Dougherty knocked out Steve Flanni- gan several years ago.” That, it seems, would practically ena all argument. But Mr. White doesn't cut us off with the flatfooted statement that thom ws no such thing | as a bantamweight champion, He) goes into detail and gives the reasons | therefore. “Practically every one of these so- alle? bantamweigots,” says Charley, ‘eo fig! ne at the featherweight limit, and some of them are even “This thing of men Oghting for a championship at a false welgbt,” he opinion. These boys in the various classes have been allowed to over- look the exact weight so often that the dividing lines are obliterated, and eral classes distinct and clear cut the me will never be so popular as it s in the old days of the Horton law." UPON IN 1888. Mr. White explained that the weights for the respective classes were decided upon by the Amateur Association in 1888 and adopted by the professionals, all being based upon the old London prize ring rules. Ac- cording to these rules the bantam- welght limit 1s 105 pounds, the feath- erweight limit 115 pounds, the light- and s0 on. “Now,” he explained, ere isn't a so-called bantamweight of prom!- nence to-day who can mako 105 pounds, and mov of tl difficulty in getting under 115, featherweight limit. The feather- weights on the other hand are fight- ing at 126 and 127 pounds, while 1 have known men to call themselves lightweights and fight at 140! Yes, and get away with it done to Improve the boxing game and make the sport more enjoyable is for the referees and club managers to_ insist upon a rigid adherence to the weights an jed for in the rules, If the rules are not to be enforced there | fg no use In having them.” Mr. White having made the state- ment that Danny Dougherty was the last bantamweight champion, he was asked as to the first one. The record books are not nearly so complete as Charlie White's brain, In that won- derful memory is recorded every de- It {s all wrong, | “\and the one best thing that can be | “The first bantamweight cham- pion,” he says, “was Tommy Kelley, better known as the Harlem Spider. He won the champlonahip at 106 pounds in 1888, He ts still ving in New York, and now tips the beam at 190—quite a growth! BARRY WON TITLE BY BEATING CASPAR LEON. “The next bantam champion was Jimmy Barry, who retired undefeated. He won it by defeating Caspar Leon, After that Barry took on weight, an@ when Leon asked for a return fight Barry insisted that he could not make Jess than 110 pounds, He thereupon proclaimed himself the 110-pound champion and bequeathed the ban- tamweight crown to Leon, or, rather, ft it open, Barry then went over to land to defend his claim as 110- pound champion and knocked out Walter Croot, who dropped dead {a the ring. This unfortunate accident so upset Barry that he was never the same boy again, “In the mean time, the bantam- weight title was claimed by Leon, Johnny Conner of Springfield, Jimmy Gurman of Paterson and Kid Madden of New York. Conners licked Gor- man in New Orleans for a $2,600 purse, and Leon licked Conners at Niagara, He also beat Madden later on and was clearly entitled to the championship, “Then began what was practi the end of the bantamwelght class, Caspar Leon fought Terry McGovera at 112 pounds and was knocked out, McGovern claiming the bantamweight title notwithstanding his weight, Afterward Terry won the feather weight title, but he still claimed the bantamwelght crown. He was Bo more entitled to it than are these boys to-day who are fighting at 14 and 115 pounds, “In the mean time, Danny Dougherty came along, fought at 105 pounds and licked all comers. He fought Steve Fiannigan for the bantamweight championship. I refereed that con- teat. which was the last fight for the title according to a strict interpreta- ton of the rules a “Danny Dougherty was, therett the last real champion. ‘There 1s BO use for Ertle and Williams to have all this argument about which should wear the crown. 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