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* held there, | Rida 4 KOPP —— We Soon Ought to Know After To-Morrow if Willard Is Will- ing to Accept Some of the Very Remarkable Guarantees Offered Him to Fight Moran. 'O-MORROW the Curley option on Willard’s services is up, ac- curding to the statement that Curley’s contract called for the sign- ing of a Moran mateb before Feb. 1, In that case we'll soon know whether or not Willard ts willing to Accept sume of the very remarkable guaran:ers offered him for this bout Tex Rickard has raised his original offer to $65,000 for both Willard and Moran, agreeing to give Willard $35,000 and Moran $20,000. A few Months ago such a purse for a ten round decisioniess bout would have] been considered absolutely freakish. | In March or April the fight would have to be hold indoors, or at least under cover. Rickard has mentioned the possibility of holding it under a ¢ireus tent. He doesn't explain how] the Boxing Commission could rate a circus tent as a club house owned by the promoter or held under a ye lease. But the club house ideu become Jost in the shuffie, since bouts Dave been held in ball parks and on| race tracks and in the motordrome at | Brighton Beach. @ big tent idea has its good nearly broke him in two. never fought Fitzsimmons or Jeffries, torily, Stanley Ketchel and Joe | He had too much sense to mingle with t thirty-two them, Tom Sharkey was a great fighter, But he weighed only 185 pounds, and no| that kept him out of the running for) heavyweight points. Bouts have been held under tents in San Francisco very satisfac Thomas fought their gr round bout for the middiewetght championship in @ cirous tent. And it) was raining hard and a gule of wind was blowing at the time. There reason why a tent shouldn't * as good here. And if the promoters are | gving to give away $55,000 to the! fi ra they can find some use for the $7,000 they'd have to pay for Mad- {son Square Garden if the fleht was OWARD P. DREW tm lasting | H wonderfully well as a sprinter. | In the Millrose games he ran| in his best form. When Drew strained a leg muscle so badly several months ago that he was unable to run in the championships, it was thought he was ‘out of the game for Kood. RANK MORAN mentions Choyn- ski, Walcott, McCoy, Sharkey and Fitzsimmons to back an ar- gument that vize makes little differ- ence when heavyweights meet in the ring. Let's have a look at the perform. ances of the “awful examples:” Choynski never held a champion- ship because he was too small, Ho was extremely unfortunate tn welgh- ing about 16 pounds and being too wiry to train off enough to become a middleweight, He was a great boxer and a wonderful bitter. He fought a . draw with Jeffries when Big Jim was @ novice, At that time Choynski was at his best. He fought Jim Corbett several times, and was beaten be- cause he couldn't overcome Corbett's advantage in size and weight. Cor- hett scaled about 182 pounds. He fought Sharkey when the Sailor first came ashore, and was beaten because Sharkey (185 pounds) was too big and strong and rough for him, Choyn- ski knocked out a lot of first-class fighters, but lack of weight kept him | from figuring in the ct class or worrying the big fe Joe Walcott Was «a terror among the welterweights, but the name “giant killer” was given him because he knocked out Choynski (165 pounds: He wouldn't have been able to do anything at all with a man of Wil- lard’s size. Mysterious Billy Smith, Kid Carter and two or three other welter and middie weights and one Vghtweight (Kid Lavigne) whipped Walcott. Not one of these would have figured anywhere with Willard 1D M'COY was mieat fighter among middieweights. None better But he didn’t make a success of fighting good big men. He made « fot of trouble for Ruh'in, Maher, Jack McCormick and a few others, and went through a question- able affair with Jim Corbett. He tried fighting @ g004, tough heavyweight in ‘Tom Sharkey and was knocked out, Sharkey hit him in the body and Foor SUPPED IN ie , L Ger ) wy SAY YOURSELF You PLaYep & ovuT Joe - Listen — Tat “NINE” ‘You ‘2 COUNTED WAS Just A PRACTICE SWING, AN’ IT ONLY HIT THE BALL BECAUSE THE CoLD WIND MADE My EYES WATER So I COULDN'T SEE _THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JANUARY 381, 1916. Copyright, 1916, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Penrect SHot+ IF THe GROUND HADNT BEEN FROZEN IT WOULD HAVE LAID RIGHT AT THe cuP! LITTLE BUNK BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK WINTER GOLF IS THE KING OF ALIBI GAMES T Get vv Over, ACORDING To WINTER. . ete a CAN Set Don't 12 t He WL RIGHT UP ON. THIS NICE UNDER “THe WAS A BAG Rock EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN (T MADE MY” CLUB Bouke RIGHT UP ¢ PLAYERS’ SALARIES WILL BE CUT TO PAY BASEBALL WAR LOSSES. The player pays! The baseball magnates lost thousands of dol- lars because of thelr fight against the Federal League, and now that peace reigns ‘once more they are going to try to recoup thelr losses through cutting the salaries of the players. Word comes from Cin- cinnati that Garry Herrmann, President of the Cinein: Club and chairman of the National Commission, declares that no pitcher will be tendered a contract this seagon calling for more than $5,200. As pitchers are usually the highest priced diamond artists the players in the other positions will undoubtedly be working for very small salaries. Garry admits that there will be some twirlers get- ting over $3,200 this year, but they will be working under contracts that haven't yet expired. The sum named by the Cincin- nati president is that offered to Toney. From Herrmann’s talk, it was evident that the magnates have reached some sort of agree- e just | the White Elephants Blank Mets and Broadway Arcade Trio! Dé Same to Brooklyn Grand Jeffries: was » and in twenty-five roun is w York when Jeffries was The only thing Sharkey If he'd been as big 1 he'd have been the greatest champion ever known to the ring, for| lacked was size, SCHEDULE TO-NIGHT. Broadway Arcade at Bronx Palac! Bergman Brothers at Crotona. heavyweight I've ever seen, Hob Fitzsimmons was a wonderful | a marvel among fighting work gave the White Elephants their victories. They took t by 58 pins and the second and thi “offey “owle each by 58. Tooc! of the Tenn ph he knocked out Jim Coffey twice. Cowler and Stern of the Mets, both substi-|has done well around here since his tutes, rolled their best games for their |devut again was the greatest fighter of the: But he was handicapped by lack of! . He whipped ey, Rublin, Maher and all the n of hix time until Jon's size, weight Fitzsimmons Knowing all about Jeff, he though he could win back his title three straight to the Park Row tournament at the downtown al elves and came close to toppling the Park Rows out of first place. The dancing mas the opening Tocet 20% pulp for a rounds and was knocked out again. ; second Grht that no amount of skill In the world | come Jeff's great strengti | and endurance ers shot away in ssion and wer by 75 pins in the Afth fram champions rallied and but a few pins ng into the last in- ‘hing, but they could not have won if count — when | speed, nerve, strength and endurance Jeffries and Willard both are examples of big men who have all the best fighting qualities. ————_-.- NEW ORLEANS ENTRIES. Jan, 31.-——The game chance of grabbing this gamu Cordes's Brooklyn bowlers ran into a| Jack Britton is matehed for two more figh' number of bad breaks in the last | On next two frames and the Arcades breezed | Martin in the main event at the Clermont A. C In front, winning out by 26 points of Hrooklyn, while on Feb. burn and Hole both missed then, giv- ing this game to tee home team, second session, led all the way, and y at hand, both Blackburn Holo duplicated their the former game and the champions y with another victory, this time by but 10 pins, The third game vas easy picking fot the champions, vi by Stein shooters. The latter equalled | ton started traning for their previous record of a 619 total m the middl Ge Contral..4T0 462 WOU)B'way Ar'de.496 610 Fire cTAt Tas IS8Mtuckenb ATR 2B Borland :. 0188 173 tx8 sabi Vega ceils ab UR Selling; maiden ne rally ‘and. te pide and upward The White Elephants aiso retained big event by de- Metropolitans games at the Thum acad- urday night. jor pinning and better team 6 THIRD RACK sell theve-year-olda anit one eile and tw m The champion will give the visitor a] tomia, whase clowniel actions In bis bout with handicap of 100 ping in a series of ten| whitey Allm at the Fairmont A, ©. seventiy gar ie, Oh; Rather Hile: Tndolence, 106; Gelesta, 108; Ha: Opa ente ge dis PTH TACK Selling S toury ‘one mile and a By Vincent Treanor. ‘ THOUSAND Vie in Bitar Edgar T. Appleby, the Columbia Uni. the memories of old- Kel was the best backstop of his day, but he was one of those fellows who needed to be only balf right to retain hia popularity important series with the Anson asked him to “behave” ume being anyhow. Giants this series, Mike, 1] make you & prese for the Class B 18.2 balk line dropped into thint place youthtul wizards of the cue, who i sie Sue wae he Square Garden was crowded with mourners, Coffey wasn't feeling very | tens.” chipper himself. Turning over on his Despite the foregoing, several per-| Was no match for Anderson, who pun- , “If we beat We sald Anson, t of a fine silk eate new Class B amateur he tournament « Remnant Sale- Take advantage of the biggest clothes buying opportunity of the year 1 suit-ends left from the season's selling reduced, A wide range of attractive cloths that sold from $25 to $50 now, to measure, $18. Special Full Dress Suit, silk lined, $40; Tuxedo Suits, $35. Many winter overcoat reductions. Broadway ace Arnhe For the convenience of our u at 80 East 42d 8t.—het side, he saw @ big, broad shouldered son of tears were rolling down the weather beaten face Big Jim Papert el ea HE State Athletlc Commission Mike promised to be good. He'd promise anything, but to make it stronger, Anson repeated his offer tc -$18 Pp, if you give Mike an umbrella, get with a straight handle. ing i home vuve ‘6 URLE $18 Hilly Gibson was talking. | Somewhere in a t it does some Mehters good | narked William teaches them (o know that they're not| invincible and makes them add care| and caution to get licked,” appearing at the Manhattan Opera on'at all, So they disguised an-| L@vinsky, Now suppose Sthor wrestler, I'ma man of elghteen | €20WS enuugh to last ten rounds, why Govern had been handed a walloping hofore he met Young Corbett that ‘Thanksgiving Day in Har ago, would he have torn in Wide open, presenting his chin to the Denver lad for one Not on your lif cool, caloulatin, healthy wallo) ment regarding new contracts, Eurekas Give Park Row.Team $58 Ee inpe gelaeiic eileen Scare in Even a od © Leaders Win Three Straight, but by Narrow Margins—} be reached. The day of high sal- g World Tourney |= STANDING OF a Willard | $55,000 m | Curley Gets an Extension Of Two Weeks to Sign Up r Willard Bout ‘Articles Signed by Champion. Supposed to Hold Good Only ‘ney Till To-Morrow—Rickard Still ,., Moran fo After Fight. “1 am part manager of Willard and, according to our agreement, neither he nor Jones can sign to anything unless | put my signa- ture to the papers too.” The fore ge im the lat Jack Curley on the big fight situation, jand Curley would have ev | derstand that the |Tex Rickard and his efforts to land| and Moran fight for the r he has offered It has been understood right along Ithat the articles to which Willard) Moran tied up and is still hoping he Willard at any two days ago Rick- from Jones sa ) couldn't do a until after Feb, Mie waie eye || Fistic News and Gossip Jack Curley, the bis fight promoter. declares that if Tom Cowler scores a knockout over Jack Dillon in their bout in Brooklyn to-morrow night he will be given the match with Champion Je Willard here instead of Frank Moran, It {8 Curley’s opinion that the boxer who stops Dillon will be acco! hing greater fistic feat than did Moran when © first session unboat Smith, He has diff {The scor knocked out Jack Temple and Tom Me- trop 3 White , iw He tea * Cost Fat 00) 48 38] Carty and arepped Betting Levinsky H m Tot see AM Wh i -second count in Boston Pal V7 142 Os cote 12550 1g igo | 20F & Hine-Hecon High scores—-Stern 214 Scott, Costa 201 In the other Dick Burge, the English fight promoter, stage two championsbip fighta at the Golders Saturday night sertes | Gree Hippodrome in London on Feb, 21, In in the World tourney, Louis Stein's of them Pat O’Keelo of Ireland, middie. trio surprised the @rooklyn Grand | rea. et purse of The first session was the only close | serg the night here, With # good | pout will be for twenty rounds, turday night he goes against 4 he will exchange In the second and third sessions the | blows with Willie "Knockout" Bre ting Brooklynites. were swamped | falo before the Queensberry A. 0, of Buffalo, the overwhelming totals of the | Both oomtesta are slated for ten Gres Brit scrape Sam Wallach, who is largely reeponsibie for the success of Leash and Marty Crom in the squared circle, bas just taken another fighter under his managerial wing, He is Teddy Jacobs, the prom 15S 191 213] ising east aide Dantamweight who has scored : many knockouts and won newspaper decisions over MePhee of Toronto, Canada, will| smbitious bantams. Jacobs's father mate his son Champion Jimmy ‘Smith’ in a | aut Moe Smith who bandied Bim go welt teh at the Bergman alleys to-night, | wile Meehan, the radar hearywoight of C ffair. The scores: total pins to count, ade a great hit wit fight fans, was almed up figured no one like the comparative} vol isn’t Mort Henderson that ts, his unknown Corbett could hurt him and] last name ia Henderson, but his first wet away with it. name is Fritz, I know Mort Hender- confess," added Billy remi- I've wresticd with him in Al- niscently, “L didn't think so, either, Pa,, and another thing, I've for L had bet a chunk on Terry, lay-| wrestled hundreds of fake matches jag 5 to 1." That's the only way I could ever make any money out of the game rubbing board, Moran had juat| low sown), Curley ari Rachman beste Nisa for tha. {made a clean-up on those bouts an him for the wecond time) Te reaay night. Of course they paid Stecher his price, but the preliminary were pald in fives and J" COFFEY was stretehed on the! “And, Isten (this sounded like the nd his dressing room at Madison rin weeping his eyes out. Bix] and the Masked Marvel who wa thrown by Stecher are almost certain he Is one and the same man Sthop it, Quinn,” said hop it, save some of for my next fight. You know I —s gets many Ideas from boxing's and Rachman masked well wishers, but this one from Another man and fooled the} Dan Morgan ts the limit, a public It was a voice with| to Chairman Wenek, Morgan ided German accent, hidden| gestion Is that the commission bar phone booth and,» the Willard-Moran bout until Willard ited lo tip us off on something | shows that he knows something more ndalous the kod Marve than the lumbering antics he The Masked Marvel who hus been| itu: his ght here. aguinat Cc Morris, “Make him fight Battling says Morgan, “and if ho House,” went on the voice, “wouldn't Yours’ experience in the. wrestling | "en he can go right along.” business and I know what I'm talking c about. Yes, | am willing to forfeit $500 if Tean’t prove what lam saying| The fifth round in the Sporting is true.” Writers’ golf pool tournament wili start “Your name, please,” we said, this afternoon at Doyle's Forty-second “L won't tell you that yet, but you, Street Billiard om when Harry Cash- By John Pollock. today by Tom McArdle for another ten gram from Mial M Commision for a boxing show in tt contesta between Larry Williams of and Kid Ghetto, | * weight champion of Europe, will meet Jim Sul-| Central team by taking all the three | ivan, the ex-champion middleweight. for & games scheduled at the Broadway 000, while in the other Bombardier | Charley Wei Arcade. Wells, heavyweight champion of England, fights] any of tie tng fel Dick Smith for a $4,000 purse, Both | Ju Brennan of But. | Buck Crnse in DP appearance in a Broadway Sportin day night, He ls carded to go age nh @ six-round uo. Andre the othe of Boston and and Frank MeMahon was ond round by MeMahon was substi- ink Hagney, who refused draw, knocked out In the Bill Shanks tuted for I to fight Shanks, At Queensboro A. C.—Johnny Kraus At the came club next Satumtay might, Hie op. | ponent will lw ‘Wild Burt” Keony, the alam bang heavyweight of Harlem, All arrangements for the return battle between Charley White of Obicngo and Matt Wells, the leted, tale. are finally been ¢0d aX Wells, received matetunaker of the At A, of Boston touay, stating that Nate Lewio Lad pigued for White and the mea would fight Uwelve mounds on The Olymple A. C. of Harem, which was viel for several waeks te the State Athiet ente Not in the be baa » from Jou Weisanantel | Savage to fight Jack Dilion at the Broadwa ting Club aud from Button for Savage fight Al Ketch at tie Atty A. A, of that city, Jimmy Coffer the Mohawk Indivn who made erat in hin figits in Australia, but hag not | stich great ainiew since he returued here, eter opwwrtunity on Veiday night to art | hark into she lite Mo is webeduled to fiat Marry Donahue, i rigged and clever fighter of Peon, Ul, io one of the tew d bouts al the Harlem Sporting Club show, Sailor Grande, the slambang middleweight ‘alifornia, who is now fighting und gau’s panagement and who recently outpointed 1, will make hin firat Da Club ® u this vicinity at Little Packer Hom A, of Whiladi sons who saw the Masked Marvel of| ished him severely, flooring bim, in the Manhattan Opera House troupe/the third round for a count of nine seconds, When Kendali w in the fourth session, Ri not attempt to count over him lized that he was “out. The results of the main bouts shows on Saturday. nig ‘e as follows: At Broadw and defente At Clermont y ndier Burttlold C.-Dan MeDon. Aulu Kid" boxec n easily from “Young Al” Kale, SPORTING. )-¥ St.y Tel, Morn INNON of ngwide 81 his signature more than two hold good only arrangements out as far as his pro- | motion of th ‘I have a two-weeks’ extension of time from Jones, and before the expiration of that time things | may look a lot different than they st from! “1am going to run this fight, no matter what | have to do. can't make that too strong.” Curley’s satisfaction as to! min the*matter, Tex Rick- the fight and won't ybody, un- ment kills off jard is still after land Jones for urd received a W ing that he (Jone this that Rickard is basing his hopes of getting the fight hand, Jones wa round 6 mysterious r Rickard’s original Fulton in the Crescent Ci the decision e skies as a champion- discouraged over his defeat ty Jim Savage ia realy to take ship possibi ulton match way out ws, His manager, Martin experts to start him going in two weeks, showing with the heavyweight Jones combination has every banked on Ful- jumping into the limeti ockout of Flynn. York with Mo er, Is still on come to pass. tranger things have happened in the Mor Brooklyn on Satur ainst Johnny Howagd Basouve, No J. in the sar event of tea the loral lightweight, | ®t champion Johnny Kilbane sion bout at the Olyanpi Anderson Scores Knockout In Fourth I Round Andre Anderson, the Chicago heavy- weight who was brought here recently | by Jimmy Johnston, made good on| Saturday night by knocking out) Wrank Kendall, a heavyweight California, in the fourth round of the ain bout at the show of the Fatr- mont A. C, of the Bronx, Kendall GRAND CENTRAL PALACE JAN 29 TO FEB S 10 AM.TO 10 SO P.M. ‘ADMISSION 50¢ dropped reree Joh did she porting Club—daek = OLYMPIC CLUB, cr} *EM OVER With “Bugs” Baer 1916, by the res Publishing Co, st New York Evening World.) F COURSE, when the James boys were in the mask in dustry they didn’t know, they could get more by wrestling. If Stecher’s scissors hold ts as good as they claim he will make one of finest sporting writers in the coum+ try. It ts not considered good farm to cheer at golf, as it may annoy the proprietor of the buffet. FEEBLE FABLES. There was, and is, a ball player whose name can be ascertained by looking in the book under the K's. He was convinced that, when it came to ball playing, he was lonelier than Robinson Crusoe before Friday was draft would meet himaglf each da: after electing officers, proceed to take a straw ballot to find out who was the greatest ground coverer in the league. He would nomi+ nate himself without a dissenting vote. Then he would accuse him- self of being the best batter in the works and the jury never turned | in a Scotch verdict of Not Proven. He would convict himself on cir- cumstantial evidence, and never complained that the jury was fixed. In his young life, one was @ quorum. bd Moral-—-NOBODY EVER GOT IN AN ARGUMENT TALKING TO HIMSELF, = ster et my three | ctitey, Siete aie Sibite, "Lakewood putier ol Meadowbre anc CypaUay~ | SUNG “What is the use of being the right-hand man to a left-handed man- ager?” went| Ed. Queeries Column—Dear Sir: Fulton fight Porky | Although I know this {s a baseball thut he would stick to Curley. /column, I want to ask you a question think | am going to about the Federal League. I am a time | Dall player in the big league, Tw [days ago I received an anonymo: letter offering me a big salary to jump to the Feds, They want to Sign me for five years at double the salary I am receiving now. Would you acept this offer? Yours per- plexedly, LYTLE BRANES, Pay no attention to anony communications. If you get the from a reputable agent of the Fede, accept at once. Queeries Editor—What is the best way wo play dominoes? ANN NOYES, & is mo best way to play Queeries Editor—l am an ardent golfer, but, » my habits are exemplar other day 1 went out back in 107, How can I better my game? Yours, GENERAL LEE TOPHAM, Go out in 1916 and don't come back. THAT'S THEIR AVERAGE, As Frank Baker says there ts only one chance in a million of playing with the Athletics, we guess the Yanks have lost out. Now that Fordham has followed Harvard tn taking up boring, we sure would like to see their foots ball clevens sign up for six rounds tn the stadiuin this fall. With several displayed at Auto Show. capable of crawling along about fifty miles an howr even Ty Cobb can’t object to ied @ truck on the basen Me 4, Connie Mack saya he tan't wo ng about the Athletics’ pite staff, Which makes tt unantmoree Possibly you have noticed ¢ these automubile experts Mee everything about a car ex ww ¢ one. ‘ bad With Mike Gibbons in shape, Rie opponents depart like a re opnene mushroom oP IN 1972, © great world: wid. peace had just boon signed et Kiet York, Kaiser Adelbert of Ge: many was embracing the Presic dent of Englan Her Pierrot, resident Raf France, was en- javoring to bum a d. cendant of William we " fumbli is limo epoch had been President F: roprano voice said: es a ents. the war is You are invited Guest at the Pola Greate ernoon, wh Mathewson will again. pion ¥ his Pa son in the National The murmur of dissent volume until it sounded the foar of many cataracts, The sembled diplomats bellowed imbled diplomats can, on is Jess Wi fight?” they shrieked ’"? 98NM— | If remarkable win for nothing else, down in hist that Yale didn't 1916 will clatter as the only year giv whoozus how year's eleven Rraduate i» of Inst You have to hand Cin credit, ‘That is ono baseball tome y town that doesn't bli ministration, "™* | 98 the Ade piri