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: { i } i $ H ' } MORAN EARNS UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY MAT WITH JESS WILLARD BY AGAIN STOPPING COFFEY Frank Fights Like a Champion, Dropping Jim Six Times Before, Latter’s Manager Tosses in Sponge —Record Crowd Sees Fight. Copyright, 1916, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) | RANK MORAN will got that snuch-talked-of match with Jess Willard. Frank has earned it. Solgront CerZOMN Eigen! @arden to hold the crowd back and Last night in the Garden he outclassed big} Jim Coffey again, overcame superior size and weight by sheer! @éetermination, fought his fight like a champion, weathered the hard! knocks and gave harder ones, and beat Coffey into utter helplesi ens in the ninth round. To save his big Irish lad from a sixth and final knockdown Billy Gibson himself sent the sponge hurtling into the ring when Coffey hung sprawling on the ropes. —~ It was one of the most spec- | tacular fights ever seen in New York City. Not a thing was missing to make it the affair of the season. Every seat in the Garden was sold. Four hours before fight time lines began to form at all entrances, Long before 8 o'clock a dense crowd was jammed in front of the ticket gates, struggling to get in. Scores ot policemen were rushed to the preserve order. But it was a good- natured crowd. Even after 9 o'clock, when thousands were still wedged in tight and it was impossible for a later arrival to get within a hundred feet of the gates, there was no disturbance. The nightsticks were shown and not used, and the would-be spectators cheerfully joshed the officers ~ and then tried to brush them aside with flying wedg Tustde the ecene was no lees re- markable. The Garden was packed from cellar to skylights, Good order was preserved, and people who had tickets got their seats. Around the Hing were hundreds of notable citt- wens from all over the country. When tho two boxers entered the ring, wrapped in their bathrobes and ready for action, each received @ tre- mendous cheer from hia friends !n ringside and galleries, Coffey \was introduced first and the Coffeyites roared until the rafters shook. Then came Moran, and the sorrel-top tu- mult completely drowned out the Cof- fey roar, Moran, it seemed, was even more popular—or had a greater ‘ gellowing. Perhaps that is because of his former victory. ‘The weights were announced and oth men stripped. Coffey was 206% pounds, and a splendid athlete in ap- pearance. Moran weighed 196%. He ‘was in much better shape than when he fought Coffey before, The fat had all disappeared, He was muscular, cool, confident and smilinj The eres met and shook hands in a mndly way, ¢hen separated and went to their corners, HE fight began. At once Cof- fey showed his plan of battle, He tapped lightly with ex- tended left and carefully watched an’s right. Moran went after him rately, and before the end of the round staggered Jim for a mo- ment with a hard left hook, Coffey tried to uppercut him, and Moran Jaughed. The confidence was all his. But in the second round, and the third, Coffey hit Moran often, and ‘it him hard, His confidence was growirig, but he never lost his cau- Von. Moran drove a hard right into hls body, leaving a red patch on his ribs. Coffey came back and shook Frank With a flerce right on the jaw. Through the fifth round Coffey out- fought Moran. The sorrel-topped war- rior had @ marvellous appetite for punches. They struck home with a resounding thud, and they were well ed. ut instead of tottering, ran grinned and walked in. dn the sixth Moran changed his _sigle, Instead of walking in with his arms half down, poised to take what ‘came and deliver a terrific counter) when the chance offered, he crossed Wis arms over his face, bent forward and pushed in steadily to get close. ‘Vhis worried Coifey, and for the first time he began to faiter and make alae moves that left him open to ate tack. In the seventh Coffey sank several @uvage blows into Moran's stumuch, Frank's face twisted. He became lower. He looked tired. There seemed to be little power behind his punches, and he used his rixbt hand #o seldom that a rumor went around the ring that it was broken, Moran ‘was the receiver now. Without a doubt he was very weary, But when @ofley became anxious and pressed hhim hard, Moran extended his left arm etraight in front and plainly poised his heavy hitting right, and ~“made a few little jigging steps and feinted until Coffey was glad to close with him and hold Moran's arms while Frank rested. ‘That's just what Moran was doing testing. He was fighting off the feeling and the effect of the jhard thumps. These were coming fuster, for as Moran grew slow Coffey waited for his leads and then caught him with flerce swinging upper-cuts that nearly lifted him from his feet. ran’s powers of assimiliation were ble. Staggering punches stagger him, He “ate them up,” as Joe Humphreys sald. IN. the eighth Coffey fought with confidence, and was warned from ‘this corner that he mustn't mix. ) Moeran emphasized the advice by clip- and mass plays, Loss of One Game Causes Bergman Stars to Lose | Lead in Bowling Tourney Mets Hang Up New Team High They Capture in Evening W: the Victory Puts Park Rows Night Will Put White Elephant: 8. ut 53 5 ———_, STANDING OF THE TEAMS IN THE WORLD TOURNEY. Pr, ". ot & Tie : | i" SCHEDULE TO-NIGHT. Eureka at White Elephant. Crotona at k How. LTHOUGH the Bergman stars carried off the honors in two of the three gamesin The Eve- ning World amateur tournéy at the Metropolitan Academy last night, they dropped out of the leading posl- tion into second place by the loms of the middle session, in which the Mets crashed up a anew high team score of ‘The opening game was a hatr- raiser, both trios gettt: uniform breaks with the result in doubt until the Jast ball had been shot down the runway. After Hreitenfeld, Berg- man's anchor, made his final tally the Lenox Avenue boys totalled 626, The Metropolitang in the mean time on his last frame, Fox rolled a strike, followed had 505 to their credit with Capt. me | THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8 | | \ BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK COFFEY’S FINISH - Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). Score of 599 in Only Session orld ‘Three - Man Carnival, but Back on Top—Clean Sweep To- 8s in Running. of the two remaining pins, giving the session to the Bergmans by one point amid a roar from the Herlem- ites that must have been heard at Lenox and One Hundred and Six- teenth. While Resenfeld, the mainstay of the Bergman team, rolled @ 202 score in the second game, his teammates fell down, and Capt, Fox with his 222 and good support carried this session by 81 pins for the Mets. In the third game the Bergmang turned the tables and walked away with their second victory of the night. With the Park Rows on top again the loss of but one game with the Crotonas to-night will put the Borg- mana in the lead. ‘The White Ele- phant trio will meet the Eurekas and a clean sweep for them means they will be in the running with the first two teams. The scores: Berman Bros Metropolitan 8 sas] "5 178 170! Pan ya 1 LEAGUE SCORES. | American National cey, 969, Tourney—-Chaim- #. National, 908; Fairwood, tional, 949; Fairwood, 997, ws, of C,--Brownson, 662, vs. Veronica, Brownson, 600, ¥: + Augustin: Veronica,’ 802, St. Augustine, nion Exchange, 778, in, 783, va, ase, vs. Union Exchange, 1, F. Dommert o Win: Iselin Cos tat, 0: ik League— 106, 819, 867 ve, ping him on the side of the jaw and staggering him and Coffey finished the round a little unsteady on his pins. As the bell rang for the ninth Willle Lewis, in Moran's corner, made a mo- tion with his left hand and called to Moran, "Now!" Moran drove bis left to Coffoy’s Jaw with a sweeping motion and Coffey was in trouble, The punch shook him badly. Moran, smiling, walked into him and landed blow after blow, His weariness had disappeared, Coffey returned jabs and hooks and upper- cuts, and Moran shed them like rain= drops. Moran was walking In stead. ly now. He plunged with body blows, and Coffey gasped. Dead game, the big Irish youngster tried to trade bluw for blow. ‘He's gone if he does that,” one of his seconds. Moran plunged in and whipped two right hand smashes to the side of Coffey’s head, The big man fell face down on the floor and came slowly to his knees, blinking and shaking his head to clear his tangled wits, He took a nine count, Referee Bill Brown calling the count plainly and pumping his arm up and down, Coffey rose unsteadily and crouched to avoid Moran's instant attack, Moran hit him twice on the side of the head and Jim fell to his knees, Another nine seconds were counted, He got sasped Up again and stood half bent over, trying to sway with the blows that were rained upon him. But another right, followed by a sweeping loft, sent him crashing down head first again Coffey was on his kneep and clear brained enough to listen the count, He got up. A right hander toppled him over again and he fell into the ropes, which held him up. Moran stepped back a little, Coffey struggled to his feet. Moran moved in. a. or some one in Cottey's corner, threw a sponge full of water over Coffey. Gibson was| on the edge of the platform, staring | anxiously at his man, almost climbing | into the ring, Moran knocked Coffey | over into the ropes. There he lay sprawling like a fly in a spider's web helpless but conscious. As he flound- ered around and got his feet under bim again, and started to reol over as if to fall to the floor, Gibson threw the sponge into the ring and leaped through the ropes. Referee Bill Brown waved Moran back, Gibson shook bir |hand and the two caught Coffey and helped him to his corner, The big |Irishman seemed to realize well jehough that the fight was over, but he made no protest Moran, grinning, walked to his cor- ner, Moraf's name was booming down from the galleries, Outside the waiting crowd caught the sound and Attendance (estimated) Total paid attendanc TOTAL RECEIPTS OF FIG 311 Box 655 Box 427 Floor 553 Seats at $5 2,086 Seats at $4 56 Seats at $3 2,250 Seats at $2 2,483 Seats at $1 Exchange: Cash found Total receipts ... WHAT THE Frank Moran, 35 per cent. of the gross receipt: Jim Coffey, 25 per cent. of the gross State tax, at 74g per cent. of gross.. $9,994.25 7,138.75 2,142.62 receipts Fistic News rT Although Jim Coffey, the Irish heavy- weight, was knocked out twice, both times by Frank Moran, in the three bat- tles that he has taken part in at Madi- son Square Garden.since Oct, 19, 1915, he has proved conclusively that he is a sre drawing card. TBe amount of money taken In om the three shows was $61,879, Coffey's end for these battles Was $16,769.16, When Billy Gibson, manager of Cof- fey, was asked after the bout if he thought Coffey would quit the ring he sald: "He certainly will not. He goes right back to Croton Lake to-day and will continue training for other battles. You know Coffey 1s only twenty-three yeare old, and he has plenty of time to improve in his tighting.”* Dan “Porky” Flynn, ‘ alate to ight Prod Fulton, the giant Werern bearywoight, In New Orleans on Jan, 28, will take part ip another sorap balore he goes s@ainet Pulton, ‘The scraper De will tackle is Jack Dillon, the Indianapolis suager, who has besten many heerywelghte, They will fight eight sounds at Memphis, Tenn, on dan, 10, Scotty Monteith, manager of Johnny Dundes, is no longer connevied with. the Pioneer Sporting Club on West Foryfourth Street, Gootty was associated with Charley Docserrick in conducting the club, but a be lost mouey he told Duomerick he would like to eel out bis interest, and Dove ecrick bought it, ‘The State Athletic Commission refimed to alter eciaiom in which they fined Jun Savage and Bouts at Harlem Club. In the star bout of rounds at the Harlem Sporting Club last night Frankie Notter had aj} the better of Joe Stein of Harlom.” Notter ear the decision on his aggressive tactics, While Stein frequ the bout with his holding ing. » Weights Were an Notter, 162; Steim, 161 bouts © scheduled, all to go ten rounds, but the Ume Himit of midnight made the management cut the bill short, Young Ketchel and Eddie Sel- gel of Harlem fought ten fa: to a draw in the opening In the. semi-final Johnny Ri Oo Yorkville had a shad nm Mickey Dunn of Harlem. Mike Ertle, a brother of Johnny Ertle, claimant to the ban- tamweight crown, stopped Johnny Reilly in the first round. shouted to the city that Moran had won, Avonta 4 Big Night, ‘The Avonla Club, one of the oldest in the clty, will hold {te twenty- third annual geception and ball to- might ot Manhattan Casino, Ae has been the custom for many years past, all the prominent pugilists,” bull play: ers and other sporting celebrities who are in. town iL be present, ‘This affair has me sort of an annual reunion an the sporting fraternity and. thelr is, and it iM “one night in the when they all gather togeth er and “cast dull care aside,” By John Pollock and Gossip ‘The men will have to box thare before appear at any other club, The manager of fighters asked the commission to eet aside ruling, but they refused to do mo, Another fight promoter tn this State ts trring sign up Jem Willard for a ten-round battle, is Charley Murray, who conducts the Queensberry A, ©, of Buffalo. Charley arrived in town last night and declared that ho is willing to give Wil- Jard @ guarantee of $18,000 to box some heavy- weight the latter part of next month, ‘Three ten round bouta will be staged by Billy Giteon at the Fatrmont A. 0, of the Bronx to- night, In the windup Franke Daly of Staten Island will meet Young Marino, the local bam tam, Eggs Fs the other two serene, Tran Linow, the Roatan Comack, appearing in the wrestling the Manhat H ul i E HE the California heavyweight, for Fairmont A, 0, on Baturday evening, Jen, Pataey Brannigan of Pittebungh and’ Terry tin of Providence, R. I,, two of the gamest Litt bantemweighte in the busines, will clash in star bout of ten rounds at the regular weekly box- ng show of the Broadway Sporting Club of a & gif Hrannigan the fight of his life, and Kid Sullivan and Jimmy Duon and Pinky Hurna also moet, A match has been pructioally clinched between Joo Anovedo, the rugmed ihtweight of California, and Charley White, the hard hitting fighter of Chicago, Mish Mormy, matchmaker of the Ar. mory A. A. of Boston, has made « flattering | offer to the managers of the fighter to box twelve rounds at hie dub on Jan. 16, and they expect to sign the articles of agreement to-day, Miko Gibbons tntends to knock out Young | Anoarn aa quickly as ponsible when they meet in their ten round go at the Capitol Oity A, ©. of St. Paul on Jan, 18, Mike 49 peeved at the re- marks which be claime Dan MeKetriok, manager ‘of Ahearn, mate when he became ill, and be saya be will got rerengo on Ahearn, Mike funher {| mates MeKotrick refumd to make @ aide bet on | the resulta, _ | Packey Hommay, the load Mehtmelgtt, will soon | leave for the West for @ battle, He has been sued up to fight Billy Whalen, the Bt, Paul lightweight, for ton rounds at a show to bo staged at Minneapolis on the night of Jau, 25, Hommey ought to give Whalen « stiéf battle after the great showing be made ageing Leach Cros a few woeks “0. Sam Wallach ts trying bard to got Dominick ‘Tortorich to wlect Leach Cross as Freche Welsh's ‘oppevent for the twenty round go which Welsh te booked for et Tortorich’s club in New Orleans either on Feb, 20 of Marmb 4, Cross is now fe reas leh ced eyes” | cago EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN a-46s0e-~ Sinclair Not Interested In Cubs or Browns, Declares Jim Gilmore}: “There Will Be No Syndicate Ball in American or National Leagues,” Declares President of Defunct Federal League in Denying the Report That Oil Man Is Backing Bail and Weeghman. be HERE will be no syndl- cate baseball in either the American or National League, Mr, Sinclair has no finan- Jeial interest in either the St. Louis American League Club or the Chi- Nationals. He put through the two deals that resulted in Mr. Ball and Mr, Weeghman buying their way into organized baseball, but there his interest in the two clubs ended,” ‘Thus spoke James A. Gilmore upon his arrival here yesterday afternoon. Gilmore and Sinclair departed last night for Cleveland, where they will endeavor to purchase the Cleveland Club from Charles Somers for Ed- ward Gwinner. Gwinner was Presi- dent of the Pittsburgh Federals for two years, and for holding that office and financing the club it cost him somewhere in the neighborhood of $100,000. When the peace protocol was signed, sealed and delivered recently, Gwinner, ke the owners of the Bal- timore and Buffalo Clubs, was left out in the cold with nothing but a big list of ‘high salaried ball players to dispose of. Gwinner, after reading over the peace terms, demanded that he be allowed to buy into one of the big league clubs, a8 did Weeghman and Ball, Sinclair and Gilmore are trying to allay Gwinner’s wrath by buying the Indians for him. And it oot as if thoy will put through the eal. “Temporarily out of baseball,” was Gilmore's reply when asked if Sin- clair was going to continue in baseball, From this reply it was un- derstood that the oll magnate, the man who forced organized baseball to bring about peace, will eventually buy his way into the Giants or some other club, According to Gilmore, Sinclair has advanced no money to either Ball or ‘Weeghman to buy their way into or- ganized baseball. The players at the disposal of Mr. Sinclair will be sold later on. Gilmore admitted that the Feds ps.ic in Harrison had been turned over to the National and American Leagues. It is likely that the Giants and Yanks will play Sunday games at this park in the future. New York’s Schoolboy Athletes Start Indoor Season To-Night —>— DeWitt Clinton and St. John College Have Meets Scheduled. 1D you éver stop to think that D approximately 360,000 school- boys participated in official athletic games and events right here New York during the past year? Yes, this is exactly what happened according to the Public School Ath- letic League figures, Only recently more than 2,000 schoolboy athletes of the leading elementary schools of this city competed for prizes in the thir- teenth annual indoor championships of the P, 8, A. L, at Madison Square Garden, In these games four new records were established, To-night the schoolboys will open the New Year with two big indoor atbletic mecta, They are the eigh- teenth annual games of DeWitt Clin- ton High School and the Bastern ipterscholastic championships, held under the auspices of St. John’s Col- lege. ‘he Clinton meet will be held at the Sixty-ninth Regiment Armory, Lexington Avenue and Twenty-fifth Street, and many events are scheduled to be contested. During the last few years the Red and Black's indoor games have proved successes, but to-night’s meet is expected to sur- | pase all others. ‘The Clinton's orches- tra of fifty pieces will be on hand to furnish the music. Willie Gordon of Yonkers, who made many friends by his good run- ning in bis past races, is ploked by his host of admirers to hang up a new record in the 1,000-yard run to-night at the St, John’s College games at the Thirteenth Regiment Armory in Brooklyn. He was coached by Jimmy Lee, who As mainly responsible for the develdpment of this remarkable runner. Physical director McIntyre has been running around for a month to get some of the best schoolboy stars to take part in the St. John games, and he has been successful in getting 500 youngsters to participate. SVELITHING FOR Billiards FSH" Bowling Terms nalts eran seeimca SPORTING, “23D ANNUAL BALL.” AVONIA A. C. MANHATTAN CASINO 155TH NT, and STH AVE. TONG ve Oe A. ©, Penillfe Rack Wor Deve fioaae’ = Young Rosner vs. Scotty Welsh, TO- iN, of his ski! of the new million AMTONAL ENOR COUNTRY UR CARDED TO-DAY For Pirst Time in History-of Event No N. Y. A. & Team in It, American to finish in the Otymple Marathon at Stockholm, is laid ap with the grip, and the other members of the team are out of commission with the same ailment. ‘The absence of the New York A. C. team leaves only two teame—the Irish and Millrose—to fight out the battle for the team honors. 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