The evening world. Newspaper, December 24, 1915, Page 4

THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 191 UP-TO-DATE _BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK AND NEWSY WITH COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON Copyright, 1916, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN CROSS AND HOMIMEY BOX A FAST DRAW BEFORE SLIM CROWD In a battle that was viciously fought from the firey crang of the bell until , 1t rang at the end of the tenth en " Packey Hommey, the game rugged e¢ast side fighter, earned a draw with Leach Cross in the wind- up of the show held by the Hariem Sporting Club last night, a ‘This waa tho second time they fought, = pmeg O to te ert ae 4 ft thi pall crowd that turn: o Ward Plans Long Siege ot bee the battle, tore into Tet hanged blow for blow with bim. a Preparation for His Bout With c eral times he jarred Leach with bis snappy right and lefts to the jaw and inside right-hand npnercuts, Fulton and Has Located His First Training Quarters in Chicago. ZL | hy Curries Wow Year hvening Wesahes Je WILLARD, preparing for his “The Dollar-Fifty Hats. With The Three-Dollar Look."’ om Benny Lonard — — ! : Somaom “To Sree baleen asin id oa { ‘When he'll go to New Orleans. Wil- ferd eays that he intends to go ° 7 5 THERS bi th oan rd roar apap Captain et uston Says Jess eae 7 bg esi = Hop Wi Hats they se 1. % m, dust a0 be did before the Oght with 0 Sign to Box Coffey-Moran Winner make our own Siete tort cas shies ss Good Federal Players ss ae mtn ow raren || Hats. ‘That's a big sane Dest possible condition, and he intends pressing business, Among the things he hopes to accomplish before ing which you get. to defend it in the same manner. leaving town to-day ts to sign to meet the winner of the Coffey- Moran bout, which takes place at the Garden Jan. 7, Willard says that he wants to box here on March 17, and that he'll sign articles if Jimmy Johnston agrees to his terms, It was late last night when Willard and tis manager, Tom Jones, arrived. They declared that they are obliged to leave to-day for Chicago, as they have some important engagements there to-morrow. Willard enys he intends to make the Windy City his home in the future, and that as soon ag he can make the necessary arrangements he'll bring hia family on from Los Angeles. am tired of theatrical work,” said Jees, “and just as soon ith Fulton I'll take on all the other con h, Dillon or anybody can have a chance, providing a fair price is me for my vices. “I!] meet all comers during the next two years, after which Vl retire, 1 think that Fulton will give me tougher opposition than the general public anticipates, but | expect to knock him out inside of twelve rounds.” i i 4 i i Won 't Exceed a Dozen Few of the 175 Independents Really Good Enough to Be Sought by Major Leagues, According to Magnates Re-| turning From Cincinnati, So It’s Not Hard to Understand Why Feds Failed to Draw Patronage, Every style that high priced hatters show we show at our price of $1.50. a pyinc Hass Fifty Stores in New York and Principal Cities Sard championship possibility, he's a big | fellow and might be dangerous if Wil- lard lacked speed, strength, bitting | bility, skill and a few more of the qualities that made him Jobnson's MITATION may be the sincerest form of flattery, but n't al~ , gj . form of tauiery, but it unit ol-| White Elephants Beat St. Nicks; ter from Walter Brooxs, who doesn't care for imitations: Mr, Kobert Edgren: I want th ue and boxing tans to know that By Bozeman Bulger. te clase of the players involved. Grand Centrals Defeat Mets.| yyy, 130,05 :107 5 ib tie in ne League has been turned Hempstead, Capt. Huston an4/ American and National Languse, ase —_—~— other baseball magnates comes |te New York City clubs will play | . ‘The | who was to fight, but instead it waa Tourney. players will not exceed a dozen. the ” ‘i i ey |i bring! he fact that, | SUmdey baseball there. ! te $2 Hate reduced to $7.50 sey “oe Naltor Brooks” that! These Games Prove Most In TeAne 16 rina prvi aoa dose dared This sale is ca intormer Sarnoff * , Si Me the original Walter etots, as yca| teresting Rolled to Date in Tag |S ths Zoseret League of mater ienmve M ke d M l Si H ’ Wi ll K Pr ho N ae EST EESS bj ol ecord, al- 7 ro, .RK ROV\ though the Sharkey Club nad wy’ pte: | The Evening World Three-Man [ Ball Cape, Moston saya the oot veal 4A ASHE arvel Says es We nNoWn, |PARKROWALLEYS ture posted as the “Walter Brooks” { } my picture for advertising the fight 0 he could draw my friends. 1 hat had over ninety fights in my seven years of boxing, whioh I boxed all ‘HE most interesting games in The Hvening World three-man | === over the cogaey, and Ma hee ines tourney to date were rolled last ud tan all bet’ iepockied out. 7 am Billy Gibson's | might In the frst series the White) at the Métropolitan alleys between Elephant trio defeated the St. Nicholas | the Mots and their affiliated toam, the pS Tage Bd Inn bowlers in all three. sessions on| Grand Centrals. ‘The Brooklyn boys Gare an om asec at this will lithe latter's home strips. Although | grabbed two of the three games, with Bint ine bowing’ frank ny frlonda and | icrdmann rolied 204 tally, the Thum | Siddall’s “Never in doubt” ringing In gio the boxing fans who are always! team took thelr first game by 11 plns.| thelr ears, The first and third sos Paeran, ‘wil you pieces byw! jae: | Woodrow got a number of bad splits| sions were lukewarm affairs com- Pe ete p loan De go Kind | in thie eeasion. Scott's and Manz’s| pared with the middle fame, which Te eee ie tether & little considera. | strike outs in the last frame of tho| resulted in « tle after Vega, Siddall, ord in pou eo ea ae ew oe | second game put the White Klephanta| l'alk and Fox voy he enough | {5 the lead here with 15 pins, t to convince the public that I am only See ier NelS fate, play at’ | and Soott all shot thelr best scores| mark to keep in the running. ‘The e 5 Es second bronze medal score of the big | against the Grand Centrals 43. bett’s entry in the heavyweight | event with a 223, Scott of the White ‘There will be no tournament games division, is becoming a very| Elephants and Dauenhauer of the | until weeny night, when the Eurekas likely candidate chance Arcade are the only medai| are scheduled to meet the Hunts ky tithe. cst Sg bea’ uae far making a 220 4 better | Point team. The scores: 4 Se te maker: eter tally away from home. ‘Their high | Grad Osta 59, au4/ Reasywelght, Moroover, he as been | Scores ave the third game to the | paren ...48 Jo It Menele proving repiay as ie'gaina in ring | Tous tees with wood oO epare. he fonts Ht Ha TH Pe experience. His defeat of Dan Flyno ith wrote Ve . Mal Was a very good performance, i White a (6t, Moholas 00! Brand Conte he” Bas for a long Une been regarded as | Gute . @ ipses Bia —— one of the most discouraging heavy- | Sant +:--18) 1h} ban cree | J. Seon sf_the bgmting fame mel hts in the game, Asa trial boree | "Sign ‘score —soott, Erimann, 206, low Fore oat éying Nondithes hospi! P, ff, baal is £ unconscious and bucked ‘em all off, one after : ther. He has beaten mor ‘The other exciting series was rolled |at a Sooal tal. good heavyweights than any other fighter fn the ring and has received leas 0. fights?” asked a newspaper man of Flynn a day or two ago. Vhy,” replied Flynn, “I'm one of those twenty-four hour fighters. Most of my fights I get on twenty-four] Unless plane miacarry, all details for| The Fairmont 4. ©, of the Bronx will stage hours’ notice, filling in for some other ten-round fight between Freddie |* fellow who has flopped out. They [Weigh the world's Lyntwolgut cham. | ining at 8 P.M, ‘Thrwe toxround toute wil wire me: “Take first t in. Will use pion, and Benny Leonard, the sensa- be fought between the following fighters; Eddie Se eT ta train» Ty "| tionat looad lightweight, will be arranged | on, N. 2. in tie amie to-day, Harry Pollok, manager Of | Mike McCabe and Pete Hartiey va, Eddie leotrified the crowd by Feda to the St. Louls Browns ing off sensational spares when merger of the two clubs. This will =: also apply to Wilson and Fischer of HE wrestling championships at| Manhattan Opera House bad| In the third session Costa, Mans! their respective teams most needed a for the tournament and piled up a| Metropolitana won thelr only game in MM COWLER, who ts Jim Gor. | total of 615. William Beott made the| rolling off this tic, making 66 as! of the Cubs, will take the pick of his Ha the “outlaw” league failed to draw i only ones now in demand are Lee Magee, Benny Kauff, Davenport, Flack, Zwilling, Zetder, Johnson, To- and Hendrix. But Wo bin, Marsans, Arthur Wilson, Fischer | Sengation of Wrestling Tourney | masking?” asked the interviewer rather Umidly. The magnates have shown no eager-/ Declares That the Reason He. tie If,l# Rot #0, much to fool the pub- ness to get Mike Doolin, Otto Knabe, Hal Chase, Rariden, Seaton, Hartley} Wears a Mask Is Not So or Crandall. ‘There would be no chance to get} Much to Fool the Public as the Crandall or Hartley, anyway, as both will be transterred from the St. Louis} Other Wrestlers. in the the Chifeds, Joe Tinker, as manager only begun when a big, broad- Fed team that won the pennant. shouldered stranger wearing a men- When {t is realized that only a dozen| “cing black mask walked into the) ‘out of 175 Fed players are really good | ™4nager's office. Ben Atwell, catch-| enough to be sought by the major|/"% @ glimpse of bis mysterious leagues it 1s easy to understand why | iitor, instinctively edged over to| the open safe, but the caller motioned | that wasn't his game. In a low, hina- patronage. ° Since Mr. Herrmann of Cincinnati |! volce he said bo wanted a chance ‘ermitted to buy Pitcher Mosely |‘ Wfestle in the tournament, The of the now defunct New ark team, the Manager, thinking he had some kind magnates have agreed not to make | of a bug to deal with, tried to humor ony een igs a the ed plxnrs | him, The disguised visitor was in- or the holidays, } 2 bare everybody ‘anance to look up| “stent and to appease him Atwell the records and make other investiga- | S@ve him @ chance, tions into the relative merits of the) “You will be the Masked Marvel,” playors for sale, said the manager, and he laughed be- Capt. Huston feels very confident of getting Lee Magee, but will take no! hind his band at the thought what an further steps toward closing the deal | sy time one of the thick Russians, until after the first week in January. | Turks or Finns would have with his The Yanks were thinking of Magee | stylishly dressed visitor. That night for the regular second baseman, but| the Masked Marvel went on In the experienced managers in the National | tournament and won his matoh. Since League are of the opinion that Magee|then he’s won eight bouts, tled two jy much better a an outfielder, and lost one to Strangler Lewis, the ‘There is no doubting a genoral dis-| result of a fluke hold. position on the part of baseball own-| Who the Masked Wonder ts no one as the other wrestlers,” replied | the Mysterious One tn a low volce, the first time he ever consented to talk for publication. “Who are you?” “That I can't answer just now,” he replied, “but L have wrestled some time. I know many New York sport- | Ing writers and a large number know m “Did you ever appoar in the movies” “Never, but I may before long.” Answering further questions the Masked Wonder said he was twenty- nine years old and weighed 210 pounds; that he had considerable ex- perience on the mat, especially at catch-as-catch-can, Throughout the chat the Marvel spoke perfect English, with not the slightest trace of foreign accent. His clothes were those of a fashionable club member. The Unknown Person, with his man- ager, Ed. Pollard, always comes to the Opera House in a big limousine Several times bis machine has been followed, but on each occasion the wonaee driver cleverly evaded pur- suit, As @ wrestler the Masked Marvel bas been the sensation of the tourna- ment, Equipped with great physical strength, wonderful endurance and a choice assortment of grips, holds and tricks, he has been able to handle all his opponents with the single excep- tion of Strangler Lew! who threw him with a wrist hold. Wednesday Bight in @ return matoh the Marvel yen) Lewis wrestled two hours to a raw. ‘The Marve! says there are a num- “! Know Many New York Sport-|* ing Editors and a Large Num- ber Know Me,” Says the! Wrestling Wonder in His First! Talk for Publication. who gladly exchanged thrust with one just a little harder, To-night the Marvel will meet Hel- mar Johnson in the feature bout of the Christmas Eve programme. 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He ts supposed to) winning the first pri though the ot very lovely performance, |for the match. Gibwom declared last | ducting « grmnasium on Bleecker Street, ayirio|ton and Rupert's way the money Is|be Francis X, Buahman, a moving| strain of mauling and throwing his ody | night that while he would like to heve| Bums and other managen of boxem on the ea |Feady to be turned over for the play- | ploture star; Mort Henderson, a well-| giant opponents every night Ja be- But how about horning in on @ per- Welsh box Leonard at 183 oF 186 | ude cond thet boxem to train there, ers. A winning team in New York| known amateur wrestler from Al-| ginning to tell on him. AT FAIRMONT AC centage of the money donated to poor he won object if Pollok makes ga Hey would moan thousands of dollars a|toona, Pa. and a prominent clubman|” 1, ali his matches the Wonder bas] ..A%,, 4 eid old Kid Lavigne? New York Btate pena, pBligentdg Vinmy Jobnaton, | Atother beerrweght trom Sen Preacieco te du | year to the other clubs in the league.|who ‘ls competing In the present! snown relentiess aggressivencas in | tikm"% Bartie hasn't anything to be very proud of/* & bis! to arrive in New York to-day, He ta Loa Bodie, | Unfortunately, there has never been | tournament as the result of a large] (eoing after his man. This was par- | camp of in that. matchmaker of Madieon Square Garden, | |, © taches belght, Heusy | but one or two fairly good American | wager, To solve the mystery an thoularly noticsable in his maton with| aver aw : oo cin — Ja ready to put the bout on at maten| League teams in New York, despite| Evening World reporter visited the way Sporting Clue, Wiklyn Tel. 6800 Bush, Star Tournaments Open Games CLUBS AND PRIVATE PARTIES A FEATORR ‘Telephone 2576 Latervale, ———_—_=_—_——nnn Broadway Arcade Bowling All Se aredvene 13 Brunswick-Balke Alleys Tournaments Open Games PHONE 04 COLUMBUS, A wsaas Go pants ben's ‘Welsh, and Billy Gibson, who looks after | Pwnnayivania, 8 yoo Ld ight. F is eo et TLLY GIBSON writes me that he| don and the chances are that the oon- | hin wih all the tag dallowe mow boone ia iis the fact that Ban Johnson originally | Unknown Ono in bia dressing room | now ist pint. The J anrian craved Boe rea tes ee, Hy, Mae Daye 0.0 ed Grand = has been up at Croton Lake| ost will be staged on Jan. 28, vcinity, figured this as tho financial backbone | last night after the Marvel's matcn|# tartar. It was bie chief plan to} (4'xulfy. Suan Mathews rs. Young iinmo: Adm rand Central Bowling Academy ‘ tarted ars aap of the league. with’ Linow, a raw-boned Cossack | Vela face, “I don't caro who Piopger Sporting Cinb. 840 w. 44in o:.| 503 FULTON ST. 222,Hert«, visiting Jim Coffey, He # ‘There will be another important chamgowshi | Joe Levina, matchinahe of the American Spor-|" The National Leaguers also want the | from Ural Mountains. Before the in-| 1°) %, (ont nea eho infuriated Russian {ici 4858 Bryant. Saturday nights | : . Bad th for the lake to bring Coffey down to| pgm in Austmlia oo Sunday ia which one of | ing of Harlem, announced last vight at) Giants to have a good team, but from|terviewer sat the latest sensation, | Sie) Sieh tl peat to O! Kinley ve, Frankie O'Neill. @ other 16 Bowling Alleys 10 Billiard the Lavigne benefit, but found the| smerka’s bet middiowsights will try to wrest ~ mz ‘e eavam 0 match \anes Al Retoh, | past experiences they have a feeling dressed in & a Rear ye SONEOOR & OPPO- round boule. Popular prices, nal Ryton rt ustwalian middleweight tithe trom Les Darcy, young wyweight, om Ouwler, -¢ 4 ett: MU abl finely manicu oO —__——_— — —— vations ie for private en o ‘Thenn, caee ea. netn Oat be ned te ire ie sirion of tint country, Radke Motiooriy te ne | the clever English fighter who decisively defeated | (Hat McGrew te pockty wil ale {°| foane and @ Tow of snow white teeth —= Teh. MAIN i ‘AND bor, miles in a sleigh. He arrived too late | Xassee isd who will endesres le secamplisn wh witt ia] Den “Porky” Fiyna in @ tenvound go at the} \itting out a winner. showing through a black mask that , a « wenty rounds samme club on Wednesday night, If the Pune os *s . sovered his face and neck. Bronx Palace Bo: lemy eee Ootar bas, een Saying mn footy oles be stedien, Desey “Qoocted out | sundae tan wil baile on Jan, Rh Giscte will get Tenny: Kaul ot we “SMe. Marvel, what's the idea of i BE | 998 Wane — ) in the country, working gut of doors, MoGecns 6 ive monibe sap, tus BAdio med Be | a es ee aA of Harem wit tou «(PAW has In mind any other Fed The best doctor on earth is 6 UP-TO-DATE ALLEYS foing to bed early, and doing every. |e m ro nave ts de Aes ancines Dosing show tomorow aftemaca, The) Pavers he has given no indleation r Moderation. 4 BILLIARD TABLES fh long campaign, beginning with the| | ?m Fizn, ths feo trmmns: whe tes tors | Dons, K, Omit aad’ Bil iene seat Uttle too early yet to deen || Wrenn to Retire . TOURNAMENTS OPEN GAMES return match with Moran. If he ie ‘cdimbed into © ring, | Thomes and Mickey Paswell. 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