The evening world. Newspaper, January 28, 1916, Page 14

UP-TO-DATE "AND NEWSY Chicago Used to “Fall” for| Wrestling, Now New York's the Rube Town. Com Rite Varn trenes Woks ENCE the last big hippodrome—/| the Goteh-Hackenschm'dt affair —Chicago hasn't “fallen” for wrestling. New York haw become the “rube town.” Wresijing promoters who once waxed fat and sleek through Chicagoans with alleged “mat contests” that were neatly and effectivety framed up in advance of anes for betting and city would be much anthorities. But P tn 6yracuse a boxing club hold- ing bouts in a theatre held one between “One Round Davis” and “Salinas Jack” Burns. Tt has been a well-known fact for years thet Burns was unable to take @ tap on the chin without collapsing. Poor old Burns had been hit there 60 many times (and perhaps there were other reasons too) that the wires were down between his brain and his legs. was tap-wobble-flop with him whenever he fought. He went to Eng- jand, was knocked out by everybody ao i, ang came back here oniy vo ‘out of sight for a year or two, Was resurrected for “One Round Davis.” It seems impossible club can have been unaware of Poor old Burna got up (he always dowg & few times r “cont was Burns made an affidavit to the effect that bi 't fought for Pea, Tae, Deceaas he was utterly fight, and that everyones knew Boxing Commissioners started Danie! cine Frank Gilhooiey. George Mogridg: Alexander . gmx YvEnrNa woRtp FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1916. BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK A fa How Yanks’ Owners Have Spent Eighth of Million for New Players Federal Federal League Federal League Indianapolis . juffals Des Moin + Kansas Ci ichmond for comparatively small eums, but it is believed that the club really has paid nearly an eighth of a million for new men. Tw A wResTUER ~ Ld CHawenae YouTe a ¢ FINISH MAN FoR. League.. c { iT PURSE. i S888888 | asoanenmee 3 s lights Oe as ai tthe ODN eee iT HARVEY’S Sopyright, 1916, by the Press Publishing HUNCHES Co, (The New York Evening World.) Fin iT WT ME MANAGER, Magnates Worried Over Fed League Lawsuits’ « cnc Ban Johnson Intimates That Organized Baseball Won't Proceed With Peace Plans Unless Court Cases Are With- drawn. By Bozeman Bulger. HOUGH everything in baseball may appear to be lovely and peaceful, so far as the fan |i concerned, there is in the minds of the magnates a vague but growing apprehension over wliat the Feds are going to do about those lawsuits, It wag understood to be one of the terms of the peace agreement that vestigation.” They started it—that was all. The Weatigation subsided gently, and it be re- Mean- to run intention of fighung One Round Davis. Was anything done to the club that put him into the ring in @ crippled condition and took the pubilo’s money for it? Dear, dear, no! There is talk about ing Weinert with Willard And why not? Weinert has a VERY influential manager. HARLI® WEINERT is about tne utterly unfit to box even best of all the heavyweight Commission's wise boxers in this part of the coun- meney. Wenok, Chair-|try. He certainly excels them all, Jack Burns (physically |with the possible exception of Levin- ftaly fromm” boxing “in {#ky, in @kill. And no's more effective for having @ inte the|tban Levinsky, for he's extremely crippled condition with the | “cockey” and aggressive. Weinert has plenty of stamina, He can come back and fight after being hurt. He ten't easily dazed, He clever in defense when badly hurt, He gave an excellent example of tais in his recent fight with Dillon, who whipped him thoroughly, but was un- able to stop him. In the fifth round little Dillon, who was forcing the ting, landed a fierce punch in feinert's stomach, doubling him up and weakening him #o that he was forced to stay on the defensive. Dillon rushed Weinert through the last five rounds and had him nearly ready to drop several times, but couldn't quite et in the finisher. Charlie used the lg! of a master in pulling through that fimht. | I'd like to see Weinert fight Cof- \fey. But there's little chance of that, lif you want to know why, ask Coffey, ‘Weinert ie anxious to fight him, match- ib acoused of having Public's money for putting event in which one con- in Homes.Clubs, urants & Hotels of the few things i fied by the word BEST-——— ConseSin ceatenen® Incidentally, there are two men who aren't mentioned even in a whisper | monopoly of challenging Willard, | They are Dillon and Weinert, | Bither of these would in all proba- bility prove altogether too tough for LEBB Billy Gibnon’s catimate of Coffey's increasing toughness staying in the | mountains, chopping down big trees,” says Gibson hands from the axe enough hard work. He's like a big, \soft boy. In a few months he'll be jas hard as a blacksmith.” When 1 |suggested trying to get Moran agaiu, |Jim whispered to me: “Say nothing |wadt about elght months.” Then he jwent back to chop down another tree, Always say— RKE'S B UINNESS. ” Even th gt py teehee by-E.AJ.BURKE ff 7 7. — =J Un $18 He never did bargains. $50-—to measure, $: | Many winter overcoat reducti Broadway np,|6& 9th St. For the conrenience of our uplown patri by the heavies who'd like to have a| between Fifth and Madison Avex St. ‘Nick Regulars Beat Bronx Central Bowlers — Assisted by Him Score of 246, Win Last Ga melsbach’s High | Koster’s Team me, Their Only; Victory in Evening World! Tourney. SCHEDULE Hunts Point at Metropolitan, Broadway Arcade at Eureka. ie W the &St trimmed t TO-NIGHT,. ITH the regular team on deck, Nicholas Inn Kouter trioj Bronx | he i Central bowlers in two of the three] games scheduled at the Coffey acad- emy in The Eveni: tourney last night the opentng sesio way. the lead-off men In the second eixth frame. two innings, time by but 6 pins. | Himmelsbach’s soc ord week for the away from home. tain otanding The Broadwa: "\ ples scheduled for to-night was origi- “He has corns on his|nally slated for Jan, 17, but due to \alterations at the that time the games were postponed The |by mutual consent to this date, | scores: Bronx Centra! Tome! Hines Nockler 10 Wien scueee matchable Values Semi-annually and then only for a short time is it possible to secure similar All suit-ends are duced--even those that sold at $25 to now 18. ons. ‘ons we will o The St. Nicks set a good pace in ‘The difference in the scores of in the home team’s favor. rolled on am equal The 8t forged to the front, and although the Bronx Contrals braced up in the last with Nockler etriking out, the home trio again won out, this The Bronx Centrals continued their rally from the middle affair and, as- by Himmelebach’s high score 6, they got their only victory for | the night in the last game by 87 pins ja bronze medal and makes this a rec- their former positions ng World amateur n, leading all the decided this game session both trios basis until the Nicks then pre also gives him 220 or over scores Both teams main- in the Arcade-Bureka se- latter academy at STANDING OF THE TEAMS IN THE WORLD TOURNEY. 1 WS Wiuite, Jalephan oi Vare Row w te Opes wn ou oon nor} 44 Sesser Sion’ Broadway Yuka LEAGUE SCORES. American National Tourney—Cresent, 1,004, \», Lyceum, 871; Crescent, S61, vis Penny (forfeit); Lyceum, 974, | vs, Pennay (forfeit). Bank Clerksa—Columbla, 667, vs, Han: over, 829; City ; City, 859, va. Columbia, 5 ite Insurance—-Prudenti: Company, No. 1, 916, 987, 9 ity and Casualty Insurance Company. 903, 765, 92 Fire Insurance — Hillard Insurance Company, 5, $47, 741, ve. Federal In- surance Company, 691, 786, 784. Wntries are now for an individual tournament which Manager Harry Schit- Mng will conduct at the St. Nicholas Inn ruary ‘The Coffey academy will also stage a series of match gamos toanorrow night between C, Robinson and J. Harvey, GINE You A Bows To Row over. INP MiNUTEs * academy, beginning the middle of Feb-| ~ A Wore AND the Federal League was to withdraw) immediately all the lawsuits pend-} | iu in which the trust question was held vgainst Organized Baseball, | ‘Dhough the Feds evade ail in-;and Mort Henderson, aren ee ‘ ust pare, me only oe ia ie en | quiries along that line by saying | Maske! Marvel, has met them all from Ere eae » he Bucce, in rolling there is no particular reason for|Gotch down. Stecher over on his side, but that was | haste, the fact remains that no pub- |e notice has been given of the sult before Judge Landis having been) discussed at all. | Besides this there are several suits awaiting trial in the State courts. ‘They have not been withdrawn, ac- cording to lawyers who have been | Watching for such announcementa, It is known that President John- son of the American League pri- vately expressed his impatience in ‘no uncertain terms. He practically | intimates that anized Baseball | will not proceed with the peace plans! |untess there is something doing in| the way of knocking out lawsuits. = | One of the prominent stockholders of the Baltimore Federal League Club, jleft in the lurch by the baseball Jarmistice, says that a bomb may be {exploded at any moment and that peace may not be 60 near as the fans \of the big towns are led to believe, | The Baltimore crowd applied for an injunction and were turned down or uivised to withdraw for the present, and they then made 1 move to hava a bill passed in Congress declarity |Organized Baseball a trust. Just | what the coming explosion ts to slg- |nify is a deep, dark mystery, but our | Baltimore friend assures us it is a certainty. Just what the Federal League pro- oters expect to gain by holding back. the dixmissal of their sults is hard to unders' as they have disrupted |their league and have gone right aheat disposing of thelr players to Orgunized Baseball cash BALTIMORE FEDS RAISE $50,000 TO PRESS SUIT AGAINST BASEBALL TRUST. BALTIMORE, Jan, 28.-By a unant- | mous vote, the stockholders of the Bal- timore Federal League Club empowered the Boam! of Directors of the organiza tion to raks $60,000 for the purpose of pressing the so-calle! anti-trust suit be- fore Judge K, M. Landis in Chicago and set in motion any other litlzation to sell or oth “4 | hold estate of the corporation in the ball ipark at York Road and Twenty-ninth ‘Street, Fistic News weeBy John the Milwaukee heavy- fling at the Fred Fulten, weight, will have his first twenty-round gaine at New Orleans to- night when he fights Porky Flynn of Boston. The promoters there are still figuring on matching Bulton against Joas Willard for @ championship bout in March if he makes @ good showing inst the veteran Hub boxer. ‘The Garon will be dark to-night ax Match Jimmy Johaston n't have muficieo: The place on March 6, the heat open date in tho big amphitheatre | ‘The Longacre A. A. will reopen to-night with 8 mod programme of bowls armnget by Moo re- $18 | Special Full Dress Suit, silk-lined, $40; Tuxedo Suit, $35. Arnheim pen on March Int a branch at | Sevars Suith, The final is between Battling Lerineky the clever Hebrew heayywoigh!, and the Zulu Kid, he ouher beats will Uring together Harry Pieme | and WOle Beecher Me mae and Al Thomas | and Ave Friedman and © Brown, Predilie Welsh, we it ohamyyi bas (won matched 1 Rivers at Milwan hee Feb, 15 Neat Monday night hie will open | neok’e vaudertile ngagemont 19 Detroit | Lew Rodie, Harry Po! ‘snow heavyweight, wil! ox Jim Coffey at Syracuse toonigit. Some prop said Pollo, “think the Roscommon ‘Giant is going to have w cakewalk with Bodie, bu welleve that be will mot only go the Mandi, Wut tu 11) be all Coffey can handle. 1t is spported that Charlie Weinor! had acon ference with Win former mansaar, tack Hi last night and it {a aaid that mm to Wis management, It ts Yearued that Wein: | amateur champion: iL Aiwala, the dierrwmant | ert aa greatly Lumpresped ihe other night with ! woo knocaed out Bowe Hoel leat Satuniay algut, r mune wean De oh 6 BLp00 Peek Beguer, ond 41 daw ond Gadion Biles, 4 suueeeeus and Gossip Pollockeum ann fyerenten out of « $2,860 house for his ght with Jim Savage, Bulgw say that be will gladly look after the Newark hoaryweight’s affairs again ‘and bury the hatchet if Chbertie aye the word, Because of the trot that Charile White refused to meet Matt Walle again, the Hippodrome 4. dad an oven date for next Tuesday night Matchmaker Miah Murray bas decided to put om an allstar cand, Harty Donabus, the crack Peorta Lightweight. will maet Mrankis Mack of Boston tn joo of the bouts and Sailor Grande and Leo Houck will elagh in the other, Herman Mose haa algued « contreot to manage yaright. He f Tim O'Connor, a big N Yorker, who has been working i munition tetany for some Une, He started train ing st Dal Hawkine’s rosdbouse to-day, O'Connor ls only (wenty yenrn old, weigh 200 pounda and ta fut a Leifle woder wx feet tall PAdie Morgan tas been signed up fer two! matches by his pew manager, Jack Bulger He) will box Frankle Ot National A, ©. of F at & weok later at the wame alub will box Patay Chine of this otty, ee | Jack Britton will son box ‘Ted Lewls again at oitine the agin’ Club of Cleveland or a Jum Shevlin’ club of Cincinnati, Loth being aoxious | to stage these clever men Batting Lerineky hae bean Wabed to box Jim her Jim Coftey or Je ab an early date, The following cart has beea arranged by Jimmy | the A. 6, for toanorre® Mulu Kid ve Dan McDonald, the ex WRESTLS ME For The ‘& CHAMPLONSMe 4. N casu§ Nebraska Farmer Boy Throws Marvel Twice By Strength of His Legs Joe Stecher Surprises Large Crowd in Garden by Easy Victory Over Hooded Wrestler, Scoring First Fall in 9 Minutes, 50 Seconds and the Second in 5 Minutes, 51 Seconds. OB STECHER, a giant Nebraskan farmer lad, whose arma and legs have the strength of steel, threw the Masked Marvel twice in a wrest- ling match last night in the Garden. The first fall came after 9 minutes 50 seconds of furious grappling, the sec- ond In 5 minutes 61 seconde. The Marvel was no match for his relentless opponent. Stecher, per- forming for the first time in New York, simply crushed ‘his man into submission. The defeated Marvel an- nounced from the ring that the twenty-three-year-via Westerner ira the greatest wrestler he ever tackled, Marvel seemed to stun the crowd. For weeks now the disguised wonder has been defeating some of the best wrestlers in the country, yet against Stecher he scemed only a novice Back on his Nebraska farm Stechor, for want of better exerciae, breaks eacks of oats with his legs. The result of the bout was never in doubt the minute the wrapped his limbs around the Mar- vel, Slowly and surely they squeezed out his strength like any one could crush an egg shell with his hand, Resuming after intermission, Stecher made a football dive and brought the Marvel to the mat. Then there was more body wedging, with the Marvel always getcing the worst of the mill- ing. as far as he got, The Nebraskan grabbed the Marvel by the neck and sent him spinning, Following up his The bout attracted an unexpectedly large crowd, In the arena boxes were many society buds and matrons, who, like the Roman eourt ladies in Nero's time, thoroughly enjoyed the sport of nena SINCLAIR LEAVES TO-DAY a handsome youth, his features clean Westerner lead, Stecher soon had his opponent in serious trouble, He gradually made | rR Res Teeny 'OLDING « Mexican to-a-strict asking Nick Altrock to Gedbeautifel. With ail that franchises juggling going on in Cleveland, now ts the aime for some bold fan to etep forth end demand in etentorian tones that Cleveland's ‘baseball franchise be transferred from winter to summer. Many a fighter who refuses to bow thirty minutes for 25,000 has done more for lease. FEEBLE FABLES. Once upon a time there was @ elty constructed around a bevy of tunnele on the. B. and O. Thie city was north of Mexico in fooa- tion only. In everything elee it wae south. The Rebid Rudolphe In thie town wanted to inhale champagne on @ olam broth in- come. In the original Greek, they desired « big league team on an illustrated lecture attendance. Therefore, when the Fede blew into town the laryngeal spasms made a circus calliope eound like 8 conversation between two mutes. The opening day was gratis, and every fan had the price of admie- sion. The next day they charged, and the deadheads took their trade elsewhere. The league was well done on both sides, Moral—A PIECE OF CHEESE 1S NO NOVELTY TO A MOUSE. What chances are there for poor old, sincere Fred Merkle? After lying buried for 2,000 yeans some scientist has jus unearthed Buddha's bones. QAAW CUVOURS TEN “The tempera. ture is the lowest the Marv shoulders touch the mat! 0, i | sladiator. vel, who still wore his|with a body and scissors hold and & thing in the West black hood, was first in the ring. He writ look, galnin r the fall in 6 min-| since they stopped pel endous ovation, "utes a . Beeee pollowed w few seconds later, Stecher at the finish wasn't even| publishing batting Seer as cordially welcomed. The| blowing, while the Marvel looked as if | svete” Wester sensation calmly walked to| he had been drawn through a sausage | | i. the middle of the ring and shook| machine, i 7 wARO hands with his opponen'. Stecher is em cut and his build one that would de- light @ sculptor, The Nebraskan weighed 203 and stood 6 feet 1 inch. The Marvel was shorter and a little stockier. Without any unnecessary fussing the heavies got busy. The Marvel, who always takes the aggressive, was forced on the defensive by Stecher, who was tiger-like in his movemen After several minutes of feinting Stecver grabbed the Marvel by the neck and down he went, Then the farmer boy really got busy. With his huge, powerful hands he soon ha his opponent in trouble, He quick! wrapped his long, purple clad leR4| Drice be lowered around the Marvi! with such pres-| Pent, sure that he winced with pain, The one big secret of Stecher's victory was the cruel strength of his legs, which were around the Marvel Uke a band. His lex holds were seldom broken, In danger from the start, the Marv syuirmed to the ropes, where Stecher FOR HIS HOME AT TULSA. to care for his business interests there, He will stop off at St. Louis and in all probabilit ntorence with Heh the posed Cardinals. In ak deal Sinciair auid that he had. bean of fered the St. Louls club, but at @ price whieh he considered even more prohibi- tive than the one asked for the Giants. Sinclair declared he was ready to find will have @ final juyler P. to what he thinks is = ROBERTSON, GIANT FIELDER, John MeGraw and miss the services of big Dave Robert was compelled 4p release him. ‘This outfielder, next season, Da trick worked only once, The next South has suffered an i : Fan. ised. Bracke 4 of his at may ke time it was tried Btecher teraify | {iy (OR Cnet args Inet may keep dragged the Marvel to the centre of Harry Sinclair, after @ sage of illness confining him to his hotel for almost two ‘weeks, will leave for Tulea, Okla, to-day en route, Britton purchase of. the ing about such « purchasers for the Caniinala should the INJURES LEG DOWN SOUTH. the Giants may Mr. Haughton ts probably getting ready to inaugurate the graduate eys- tem of umpiring at Boston, Any ump who boots e decision will graduate. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. Queery Editor—What te all this guffie about Jess Willard refueing to fight for $60,0007 Iam not a fighter, but I will take a punch on the nose for that amount, Or even two pufiches, which would be $26,000 @ punch. If necessary, I would even give whole- @ale rates. Inform me when and ‘where I shall fight, as 1 am now train- ing for a few profitable punches on the nose. Yours, FULLER JUNK. Friend Fuller: Your letter to hand and contents duly noted. We have only a few shopworn $19,000 fights laying around at present. If you have Indeed, it ible A the ring. catching his man] be able to pity at ail this yen? Tho| NO oblections te starting in at the with a treacherous double-leg hold,| New York Club bas heard nothing di-| bottom, let us know. Before refu: Stecher squeezed with so much power | rectly from Dave, who has been a hi ard luck player for some time, He ruined that the Marvel's body quivered with pain, «| 8, promining pitching career by frac- 5 G » left sho 00" With a supreme effort the hooded] ball” Now his feared’ tea ee (oe wonder broke this viselike grip, but ce hine as an outfielder. Blecher, always the aggressor, pinned his shoulders to the mat at 9.50 with Tahn Knocks Oat Devin: & body scissors hold and an arm lock-| HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 28.— Bat- During the ten-minute intermission] ing Laha of Brooklyn knocked out the Marvel sat in his corner in ap-|-Tommy Devine of Lowell im the fourth 1 parent distress. Stecher, as fresh as| round of @ scheduled twelve-round when he began, retired to his dressing| here bofore the Oxford A. C. room. fioored his opponent three times The Westerners mastery of the! count. JAN 292 TO FEBS 1o A.M. TSO IOSCRmM. ADMISSION BO¢ BS Oo Take ing, remember that John D. wae a Poor boy for an instant. Editor Queeries—Dear Bir: Would you mind printing the 1918, 1914 and 1915 batting, flelding and pitching av- erages of the National League? Would you mind printing them tn large type, aa my eyes are weak? Thanking you in advance. I remain, IOTTA ERUST, Lotta, we would mind, Howard Drew ts a domon im the aev- enty yard dash, but toho knows what our lightweights could do if they were / not handicapped by the ropes? Plog Bodie might also drape © mack around hull and blowsm forth as the ‘wmahed eed? They say Jim Savege was knocked out standing up, which reMeves the monotony somewhat. Germany Schaefer should be the funniest man in baseball next @eason Unless Jimmy Callahan deci for eomebody, else ta hat ‘Trap @hooting te very popular winter, but Heine ZAmmenman thiriks ” the eummer ta enough to collect fines in, FACTS NOT WORTH KNOWING. Ty Cobb never aspired to be « wrestler or an aviator in hie youth, He le the only ambidex- trous runner in either leagus, running equally well o« either foot. He finde the best way to eteal a base ie to beat the throw, his aystem differing from Bher- wood Magee's, who belie: in heating the umpire or @ epecta- tor, He has never stolen first base in the American League, whioh leade partisans and rai road olerks to olaim the National League to be much fast Cobb has aleo never stolen wecond base with @ runner already on that otek, bub he a A young man yo i t 4