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eg EI an at A A ALES I ate ees | | } Coffey’s Chance to Avenge Knockout He Received From Moran Comes To-Night at the Garden. Coverite, 1916, by The Prem Pubiiching On, (The New York Brening World.) to-night’s the night! Wi wee been watting for it a dong time, and here it ie. Jim Coffey is to have his chance to avenge ‘the knockout he received from Frank Moran. The fight will be held at the Garden, and judging by the advance _@emand for tickets old Madison Square will be packed as tight as ever in its history. There's some difference of opinion about the probable outcome of the ' fight. The psychological element is ‘ atrong in this one. Coffey, with youth, Peight, reach, weight, skill, all in his favor, will go up against @ cool, 4 Nberate antagonist who can hit, and against the invisible handicap of a former defeat. Coffey always ie « nervous starter. the beginning of his fights he te keyed up. Every nerve is taut, fights so fast in the first round Yt often the second finds him half usted. It's as if some one had wn & spark into the powder, ex- ing the whole magazine, And if je his usual state in the ring i it be when he goes in full thought that the man before had knocked him out, and ts to do it again if the slightest is offered him to land a single ing blow? y has been coached to fight a fight, to stand away and take <j PONTE ETE seersetereess panei AE | risk of a counter, holding ‘ack when he is tempted to rush tn, ng carefully his vulnerable body ww from Moran's las! rights. can he do it? That's the ques- does ‘he'll have @ first-class “* to win. the first fight Coffey outclassed until Moran away his and speed with @ drive into and then beat him down with 4 But Moran hed a fightt not merely a splendid physi for fighting. He could meas- own ability to resist, and it slowly, and wait the chance he did, with a desperate ‘Coffey could only fight breath- , at the limit of his speed, until loran’s soggy right glove stopped Coffey showed an tmmense tm- Usprevement with Gunboat Smith. He fought the dangerous Gunner care- fully, stood away, hit fast, but pro- ‘Dimeelf, and when he found ent Ing struck suddenty sent in knockout punch. Can he do the same with Moran, tn “xpite of the Invisible handicap? A ATLOR GRANDE fs with us. The a) Sailor has been doing some v4 pretty good fighting in the ii 4 E, i 8. i i “A West and has on his record Hist (genuine) the names of nearly all the ‘famous middleweihts in the country and a goodly number of heavies. Grande is American born, of Italian i In Homes. Clube, Restaurants &Hotels IMPORTED Ginger Ale| of the few rit 8 properly qua! ified by the word Est copes In Ewaiiecen® | UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY suidag when be can land] Aah fic Ws Vets dd PrRanK’S Jan Fon. Tus Mert ACORN “TH VOUS LAA HAD Been Case -vaneeeey St. Nicholas Inn Wins Three Straight Games From Broadway Arcade Schilling’s Sharpshoo ters in Their Best Form, and asa Result | of Their Victories Go Into Fourth Place in the Standing of the Teams in Evening World Three-Man Bowling Tourney. THE WORLD TOURNEY. P.O, 7 SCHEDULE TO-NIGHT Bergman Bros. at Metropolitan. St, Nicholas Inn champion- hip aspirants in The Evening ‘World amateur tourney worked their way into fourth place last night descent. He was brought up in Val- ojo, California, where Tom Sharkey started his fighting career. Whren he was old enough to enlist he went into the United States navy and served four years. He was barber on a bat- tleship, and alternated shaving his mates and knocking them out in the training quarters, He began fighting on shore and as a starter knocked out Walter Coffey in four rounds, He has beaten Sailor Petroske; Otto Berg, Jack Lester, Tom M Mahon (twenty and ten rounds) and many others, Grande modestly admits that he lost, deo! Bob McAllister were too clever for me,” s: “T'a only been fighting about a year “They —__—_—_~ STANDING OF THE TEAMS IN tons by a shade to Jimmy | pai Grande. Ah by defeating Louis Stein's Broadway Arcade trio in all three sessions at the Coffey academy. Schilting’s sharpshooters showed their best form in this series, The first game was a nip and tuck affair until the very last frame, when | Doc” Hamlin e#truck out, winning this session for the Bt. Nicks by the close margin of 12 pins. After drop- ping this close, hard-fought game the Arcade bowlers completely lost heart and could not get into their regular stride throughout the entire series, The St Nicks tm games Drogressed and won out in the second session by 33 pins. Erdmann was largely responsible for this vic. try with his 211 score, Joe Sabby sub- atituted for Stuckenbrock in the mid- dle game for the Arcades, The last on was easy picking for the home trio, both Hamlin and Erdmann get- ting high scores. They also recorded a new high team score of 684 in the third game, When tho Bergman stars hook up “night they will have with the Mets to. to do some tall shooting to keep up and remain in thelr winning streak The Metropolitans can be re- front. Med upon to give a good account of themselves on thetr home alleys, The scores: Bway Arc, 406 490 478)8¢. Nok Inm.008 eg {6 {asl Wocdeow = br) iB 146 220) ee ee ee ee ees ES wa oe ASL HATE 8 _THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1916. _BEST SPORTING PAGE IN _NEW YORK ROBER TO-NIGHT’S QUARREL WILL INVOLVE MORE THAN THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF IRELAND Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), . ‘ Jim MAS Someta New" SAYS GIBSON. MAY Come IN AS & MASITED MARVEL. Moran SAYS Tee TARGET Loos AS BAY To HIT As iT DO vast THe. Cleveland Baseball Club May Be Sold Upon Arrival of Gwinner and Sinclair Edward W, Gwinner, President of the Pittsburgh Federal League team, in answer to a hurry call from James M. Gilmore, took a train for thia city at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Gwianer Is to meet his partner, C. M, Comstock, and Harry Sinclair here and with President Gilmore the purchase of the Cleveland Indians will be Macussed, Sinclair, who attended the meeting of the baseball magnates tn Cincinnati, is also due to-day, After the conference with Gilmore, Gwinner and Comstock he will accompany Gwinner and Comstock to Cleveland, where negotiations for securing control of the Cleve- Yand team will be taken up with the Bankers’ Comgnittee, which now controls the club because of a $350,000 mortgage, It Costs Just $3,000 To Join This Golf Club Blind Brook of Port Chester ine part ald and cell has i Will Be Most Exclusive Or- ‘Gntea durine 181k on ganization in World. at different dates during 1916 on each share, the balance being subject to call after Jan, 1, 1917, It is not an- tictpated, however, that it will be j necessary to call the whole $3,000 | Per share, therefore, becomes | Each member, jan owner of one one-hundred-and- |fiftieth part of the property and, as has been the case in similar golf clubs in the West, it Is likely to prove 4 profitable investment, INE a golf club exclusively for men, with @ membership Umit of 150, each member owning thirty shares par value $100 each, Such is the plan of the newly organized Blind EDITED BY T EDGREN Sorenson Wins InN. Y. A. C. Boxing Tourney William Sorenson, the veteran “pug.”* of Trinity Club, made his appearance As a heavyweight in the amateur boxing tourney of the New York A. C., tackling Gordon Molts of the People’s Palace of Jersey City, who had the advantage of heteht and forty pounds in welxht. Sor enson made his foe quit in the first round, John “Willard” Dolan of the Union Settlement, erstwhile crack middie dis- tance runner, made his debut as @ Wow! Lira wu 68 one wid Jo Ripe FoR THG TRoLLeY LADS © © Corray Puts tT ever? K.O. Brown Battered Dow In Ring Wherein He Won | From Two Title Holders' soon caught him on the jaw with @ heavy high swing and with several Little Dutchman Fought Cour- |more stiff punches had Brown in a |groggy condition. At the bell Brown ageously, but Finaliy Crum: | erereered to his corner, It was then ‘ that his toll realized he w: pled From Blows of Banty|member of the “has been” clags. While | Brown tried hard in the next few vic ivy, J ‘ounds he did t weak L is to Lewis, a Comparative Un=|eone ee crtent’ Aca ean was [Lewis cut lose the ropes w and drove Brown to th a heavy right on the HE K. O. now follows as well as|jaw. As quick as a flash he sent In prefixes K, O, Brown's namo. High and lef to the same spot and a as Brown finally sank to the floor. He ‘The popular local fighter was)... up quickly, and Lewis, seeing he | battered down by Banty Lewis, a) \i4 distress, let fly with both Newark youngster, in the seventh hands, each of his blows sending round of @ ten-round contest at the| Brown against the ropes. n a Hy this time Brown was so gromey | Ploneer Sporting ast night, y n gr | Pioneer Sporting Club last night, \that he could not raise hie ‘hands, | Brown fought valiantly, had all bis and after Lewis had almost anus an old time courage and gameness which | him through the ropes with his heavy made him so popular, but the st Ul bevtak Reap pk Mist rs jumped up on wasn't in his swinging southpaw. He | 1.1, "his cornen, acknowledaing deter couldn't avoid punishment and took |for his man. It was a humane act of enough of tt to beat any three men | Morgan's, for Brown was absolutely before he showed signs of crumpling. | 88 and could not go any fvr- Brown looked physically perfect en-| “As Morgan worked over Brown the tering the ring. It 18 just possible | friends of Lewis were clamoring to he had an off night, as the best of |get into the ring and shake his hand, them have at times. \After three minutes of the wildest scrapper in this class. He tackle@ Bags ney Smallwood of the Paulist A. Cy @ boy much smaller and lighter than be Smallwood was game, but could not en- dure the punishinent and stopped in the ‘5° Volear of the Educational aut . ‘ol 0 eo jucation: le ance, who has the earmarks am ny gutpointed | William | A. ressier of the East Side House in the 116-pound class. iiMam Heeht of the East Si scored over EB. Sandler of WB. R. this division, do Fr con n |Harvard Makes Successful Bow In Hockey League BOSTON, Jan, 7.—The Harvaré Club hockey team easily defeated the Crescents of Brooklyn at the Boston Arena in its first contest in the Ania- teur Hockey League by the seore of 6 to 2 Team work figured heavily in Har- vard’s triumph, and her fast forwards played havoc with the visitors’ 4 fense, especially with Mart at goal, who was often pulled out of his net | heard on all sides that “Brown ts alljonly to see the dizzy little disk shot known. in. home for another Harvard marker. |. When the seventh round started Moose Hefferman and Conway were the stars in the Crescent lines up, but were slowed down by the ine ertness of the remainder of the comes bination, \ Masked Marvel Throws M’Grath ‘The “Masked Marvel” threw Jack Me- Grath, the heavyweight wrestler of Ire land, in 42m. and 37s., in their match at the Manhattan Opera House. The “Marvel turned the trick with a body, and arm hold. ‘The match was originally scheduled to go only (wonty minutes, but at the expired time McGrath stepped before the footlights and declared that he could nothin; The |kind of cheering Lewis's admirers Although he had previously beea| raised him on thelr shoulders any knocked out in bouts with Bud An-jcarried him to his dressing room, derson and Joe Rivers on the Coast,|while hundreds of other followers it was the first timo he had ever been | Yelled themselves hoarse over his vic~ < ory Feise meno Mogi ibd habe! ly (Then came the sad part. As Browa ; left the ring he was only given a faint- In the crowd that saw little Brown | pesrvee nee ‘4 his splowers, as nace , | those who gave it were downhearted Lather bay pacino dapebeetabdltaorad bags the complete dethronement of bad ects point |their blond hero, who will always be tro, hamptons, nad, Wolgast, the {remembered by the fight fans in this larvel” in a finieh mateh, Marvel” said McGrath could do fof the kind and the pair resumed wrestling. In the other matches Alexander Aberg and Anton Irsa and Dr. Roller and Hel- mar Johnson wrestled twenty minutes The Seotch of great age WA %-| country as one of the most Mkable | tell, the champion of all the feathe.-|ond games boxers in the history of weights, in that very ring. the sport. In Brown's bout with olgast the | to a dra 5 c WhITEe tas when I met Clabby.” Just to show that he didn’t fear anything, Grande fought Harry Willa, the gigantic negro who whipped Sam Langford a few days ago in New Orleans, It was a four-round bout. He lost the decision. But the fact that Frisco promoters were willing to America: litan, 1, n 107, |, va. Lenox, 9 Metropolitan, 891. K, of C.—Hrownson, 682, 7s, Castiliinn, Brook Club, to be located near Port Chester, N, Y. Hore ts the sto The general idea was to have a golf club with @ limited membership, for "|men only, with @ course ‘representing the last word in Hinks architecture, The Poningoe Land Company haa &Toss receipts were $19,600, and for bought the tract of land in Port| his go with Attell they amounted to Chester, N. ¥., known as the Catlin) nearly $12,000. While bis scrap with property, comprising 190 acres of) Wolgast took place on March 3, 1911, rolling meadow, rising gradually to a| and that with Attell on Jan. 18, 1913, higher eminence, on which the club/ they were at the time of his greatest house mands a view of Long Island Sound! § he that fol- for about twenty-five miles, The | lowers of the game have paid as high match a middleweight against Wills shows that they must have had a pretty good impression of Grande's fighting ability. Since coming East Grande hi fought no-decision bouts with Johnny Howard, Christie, Jack Dillon, Tom- my Coleman, and two each with George Chip, Buck Crouse and Leo Houck. Local papers reported him a winner in all but the Dillon bout, Grande says he'd like to start his New York campaign with Dillon, al- though he's perfectly willing to make 160 pounds for any of the others. T seems that Jim Savage, who has been “fined” $250 by the Boxing Commission for failing to appear to fight Charlie Weinert, didn’t have @ e@prained shoulder at all, He Jim's side of it: Mr. Robert Edgren, The Pyening World: I thought I had a sprained @houlder blade. 1 had fellows rubbing it, but it seemed they | couldn't do me any good. The night before my fight with Wein- ert was to be held I got real bad and it hurt me to breathe, so in the morning I got the doctor and told me I had pleurisy, I never tore the cold I got at the po- funeral, I am getting | up to-morrow, as I fee! much bet- | ter, I will start to work in a fow days for that Hungarian, as lowe htm something and want to pay it with good measure. Yours ain- cerely, JT™M BAVAG! 6 mend us to their f, Values “0 Every Man wants to be treated on the square. one-price tailoring policy wins friends. 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Gilmore, former President Sinclair, the Tulsa of! magnate, tn New York on Jan, 12 when they at- Federal League club owners go that they can file a petition to withdraw by the former so-called “outlaws” to dissolve the National Commission as decision from Judge Landis and, ac- cording to legal advice here to-day, season begins. Stockholders of the Baltimore, But Gissatisfied with the agreement en- tered into by organized baseball and been practically left out im the cold by the protocol, cipal stockholders of these three clubs |will decline to sign the petition in remunerated for the losses they tained while financing their respec. ROUBLE of @ most serious Jof the Federal League, and Harry 8 tempt to secure the signatures of all the baseball suit which was instituted 4 trust, This suit is now awaiting a will have to be withdrawn before the falo and Pittsburgh Clubs are wholly the Federal League, for they have The opinion prevails that the prin- |New York next week unless they are tive clubs In the last two seasons, The Army ba eball sch: edule: Mar: —29, Bt. John's Colley More Manhattan; 6, Amhers Hee Willtame: 16, Harvan ra dul | 22, Springfield ¥. M. C. ‘A. College | 26, Beton Hall; 39, Lehigh. May 3, Pennsylvania State; 6, ison town |10, University of Pittsburg; 13, Uni | versity of Buffalo; 17, Lafayette: 30, | Fordham; 24, Swarthmore; Navy | (at Annapollay: 30, Seventh Regiment, N. GN. ¥.; 81, Holy Crows. June—3, Byrecus Colgate, rk , | has scored three knockouts in the West since by fought here, i | eard te a0 follows a aimple club house, but one arranged In every way with special attention to the comfort of the members. The organization has now been completed with a land company called the Poningoe Land Company, Ine, which will own all the prop- erty and will lease it to a member- ship corporation called the Blind Brook Club, Inc, each member of which must own thirty shares, par value $100 each, in the land company property !» bounded on the west by Blind Brook, on the north by Harri- son avenue, on the east by King Street and on the south by the prop- erties of Richard Croker jr, and Irving Lehman. Donald Ross has examined the property, as has Findlay §, Douglas jand Mr. Raynor, engineer for Charles B Macdonald All were enthusiastic over Its natural advantages for a high class golf course of eighteen holes, FISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP By John Pollock It is almost a safe bet that decisions | Caroll ye, Young IAppy, and two bouts with will be permitted in boxing bouts in this | Pro boxers as the contestants State. This docs not mean that @ Ver-| 1.4 Gurley, the manager of Jos Avevedo, tas dict will be given in every bout, but! oon appnisted matchmaker of tho American only in the important contests. The | sporting Club, which conducts bouta in the Har members of the State Athletic Com-| lem River Casino. He moceeds Joe Lavina, the miasion, it 18 said, have been of the| Boston toy, who has been making matches for opinion for several weeks that decisions | ‘te club for the pest time montis, | Carley sare would be a good thing for the sport, he will stage bis fret show on Tuestay, Jan, 16, and at a pri meeting held a few days ago they voted to give decistons | ! trial, The commission will hold a meeting to-day, when it 1s expected arrived in town, ne South and Weat He has been fighting to Ho bas just signed @ five: soar contract with Daddy Donnelly, A fow ream ag Johnson wes regarded « wonder, Hoe crested they will make known thelr views. It <n. biggest kind of @ wurpetae when be easily de- will be the first time in fifteen years! fentei Abe Attell, the latter hokting the world’s that decisions have been rendered tn | fotherweight title at the time, boxing contests In this State, | Now that Yea Darey, the Australian middle has been refused permision hy the Au wernment to leave that country, , the fight peomoter, of Australia, bas fust to Tom Andrews of Milwaukee, his Amer. | can representative, to try to get either Mike (ib: me or Young Ahearn to go to Australi 2 fight Darey during Easter week in @ twenty.round Charley White, the popular re ed to fuclge the twelve-round contest between the Englis) ling Levinsky and Tom Oowler, aryweight, which wil be foug! A, of Boston on next Tuesday night, 4 made a Ig hit with boxing fans of that ctty ‘ by hie good decidona tn bouts thers, and whon | battle for the middie-weight title, | Dan Morgan suggested bie name as referee for | Jimy Johnston ia still making matches for his thie bout the club officials quickly acctoted him, | at English welterweight, Ted ‘Kid The latest opponent that Jimmy has weured for Lewis to battle is Jimiay Duffy, the crack welter welght of Lockport, N, ¥. They wil come to gether in @ ten-round Dout before the Queensberry ©, of Buffalo, N, ¥., on Jan, 20, Lewis knocked out Duffy in one round in Boston « few rook ago, With fifteen-round bouts allowed to be held at ristown, Pa, the prospects are taat Freddie sh and Eddie McAndrews, the Quaker City fighter, will lash { one of these long ecreps on ho night of Feb, 1, "Pop" O'Brien of Phile- who 1% staging the shows, haa offered lah a guarantes of $4,000 for the bout, end . nis manager, has practically ec: ‘The bout between Matt W fighter, and Charley White of mory A, A. of Boston on Jan, 18 bas not et Leen clinched. Wells's manager is holding off for one-third of the receipts, while the club offeials are only willing to give him 2h per cent, of the grom, In their recent bout, which was won by Wells, the grow receiytn were $5,840, and Welle fot $633.50, White drew down 1,260 | Jeck Dillon, the Indianapolis ‘bearcat,”’ wil! | soon be eee fighting in this vieinity again, | Jeck has notified John Wolmmantel that he ts| ready to come bere and meet any heavyweight ‘that he can sours for him. He is willing t | take on the winner of the Jim Coffes-Frank Moran battle on Tussday evening, Jan. 2 Dilion > Homer Baker Quits New York A, ©. Homer Baker, the half-mile champion, who sported the colors of the New York A. C, for four years, has severed his connection with that club. Yesterday he turned tn his registration card to the A. ‘The Hartem Sporting Chub will stews ten ten | round boute at ite boxing show tonwht, Tho! Jon Stain vs, Frankie Nottar, | Mickey Donn ve Johnny Kumell, Young Hickey Artie Mike i jotmny ley eg ge gy tempt Jone ealltt; | A. U. and informed the A. A. U. offieials |v, Rddio Selgel, K, ©, Wagner ve, Batting |that he Intends to run unattached from Cramp, Poul Kdwarde ve, Charis Parebi, Willie a on, Leo Johnson, the crank colored lightwalght, maa | , Snowy Lewis, | | AS $15 to see him battle. Last night things were different. | Brown, who has been on the down | grade for some time, took on Lewis, ‘The tickets sold for $1, $2 and $3, and | the gross receipts were only $79. ‘The gate should have been more, but the fans realizing that Brown was not the fighting demon of a few years ago and that he was meeting a com- Parative unknown, spent the evening | elsewhere. | } When Brown, with his faithful] } manager, Dan Morgan, and his seo- jonds climbed through the ropes he was given an ovation almost as great as on the nights of his contests with Wolgast and Attell, At the clang of the bell Brown rushed out to the centre of the ring and squared off as he did in the olden days. After the first two min- utes of fighting it could be plainly seen that Brown was not the boy he was years ago, Instead of smashing Jaway at Lewis's stomach, Lewis Jabbed him frequently and kept him oft. When the second round started Brown again waded _1 Lewis most plac sell it | CONNIE MACK GIVES LAPP, CATCHER, TO WHITE SOX,! PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 7.—Connte Kk, manager of the Philadelphia Ath- tes, announced to-lay that he had| turned over Catcher Jack Lapp to the Chicago White Sox on condition that the ¥ club assumes the contract the phia Club now has with the | tt Lapp was still ‘am well suppl Ma world — | a first class catcher, with young catchers," anid Mack, “and 1 nm letting Lapp go simply to carry out my policy of building wp a new team young players, Lapp hasn't heard hows yet, but I feel sure he will be istied to go to Chicago as there will no cut in his salary,” They're Off: Remnant Sale—Sth Day $1 | Broadway ® 9th St. Auziliary Branch, 80 East 42d St, Suit ends reduced. domestic fabrics, Imported and Made to measure, $18. 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