The evening world. Newspaper, February 21, 1916, Page 8

es Willard-Moran Bout Can't Be Held in Garden if Another Postponement Is Necessary. UA, by Press Publishing Co, Cowes, ES Hoek Breas Word) EX RICKARD, the daredevil promoter of the Willard-Moran bout, who js paying nearly $100,000 to stage an indoor bout fn this city, which is more than three mes what it has cost to promote aay similar contest, will undoubtedly be “on pins and needics” until the men enter the ring—if they ever do. ‘The latest thing to cause Tex pitation, or a thing that would cause the ordinary promoter palpitation of the heart, is a report from Chicago that Jess Willard has had a relapse and that he may have to ask for an- other postponement of the big battle, If another postponement is neces- sary it is a sure thing that the bout Won't be held in Madison Square G@arden—at least not this spring—as March 2% is the iast open date in tho big dmphitheatre until well along to- ‘ward summer, Of course, he might be able to secure some other club In Greater Now York, but none that serve the purpose as well as the Garden. ‘The advices from Chicago say that Wittard suffered a relay » Saturday ‘and was ordered back to bed by his Physicians. They don’t think his ill- ness is serious, but they believe he should keep under the covers until he has entirely recovered. According to this | would be al- Most impossible for him to be able to start training so as to be in per- fect condition by March 25—and it is a cinch that he wants to be in abso- Intely perfect condit!.. whe» he faces ‘Moran—or any other heavyweight. Zeck Curley, associated with Tom Jones in the management of Willard, Geclares that he has . dno word ding Will....'s illness. The way "There will probably be a: ..: dozen reports und denials to the effect that the big match is off Lofr-» it takes Dame Rumor Is a very busy when @ big boxing match |s especially one involving the fortune that this one docs. My lagt word from Jones Saturday was tat he would bring Willard here in thee or four days, and I have no repson to believe otherwise.” wondering what will happen when big Jess Willard meets comparatively little Frank Moran brings all sorts of stories to the fore. Mike Donovan, for exam- ple, remembers the giant jumberman ‘who tried to stay four rounds on the stage with John L. Sullivan in his palmy days and thereby carn $1,000. “He was so big and active,” says Mike, “that 1 was frightened. I had ‘to cut the gloves open to get them on his bands. | left him in my dressing room and ran to tell John. I warned him that this was the biggest man 1 ever saw that was any good—é feet 6, 260 pounds, hard as nails, quick as a eat, and, above all, a Scotchman after To I begged John to be careful, All he said was: ‘Bring him on. The yr they are the harder they fall, t happened?” I asked, “Oh,” said Mike, “as the giant stepped in John’s right clipped bim on the jaw. He fell into the wings and held on to « piece of scenery to keep from dropping to the floor. John peeled him off, led him to tho centre the eee and let pis, stn’. Then gave him a tap w! @ right and him, It took John and two ,Of us to carry the giant to his ‘ich proves nothing as to Willard ve. Moran, does any one ask? No, not Senctly—excent that it is not necessary to be as bic as a man to knock him out, In other words, the match is not necesarly so one-sided as it looks to some folks. ¥ Pat UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY Home-Run Baker Ambitious To Lead His League at Bat And Aid Yanks Win Flag. Famous Third Baseman Declares That He'll! Hit Better for New York Than He Did for) Athletics; That There’s No Truth in Re- port That He Has a Weak Leg, and That the Year’s Layoff Won’t Affect His Work. BEST By Bozeman Bulger. CCORDING to Home Run Baker the only thing that can keep him from hitting over .300 for the Yanks is luck. Ho thinks he will hit better for New York than he did for Philadeiph new ambition—wants because he has a to lead the fa, league and help win another pennant. “To begin wil that this talk hitting close to continued, “an think I will tak uniform, ‘This get on another and it is quite weak is all tommyrot,” he sald. was never in better physical shape, and the fact that I went through o pretty busy season with a club in a small independent league last year, ith, L want to tell you about my leg being “1 400, proves it.” “I always wanted to play In New York,” the famous home run hitter i for that reason I on new life in a new is a chance for me to club that is building, @ satisfaétion to start with one and go right through to a hamplonship. I don’t say that the Yanks will win @ pennant this year, but with the material they have hand they ought to come pretty clo ‘There are jook that fe mighty few players than Lee Magee and | Maisel, and you fellows musn't over- better ball Frits Pipp. I think he will make ane of the best first basemen tn the country. “There was about New York Clu talked with Cap ton that part troubl as in to dispose of up our disagre his suggestion years, and 1 am >» get r Frank Baker about hitting reason why @ one curve as ereeing will be my best se any quéstion terms with b. As soon as IT had ot, Huston at Wilming- of it’ was y. Tht getting the Athletics ne. Connie Mack fixed ment, and it was at that I signed for three neve to verything is fine and dandy going to Macon next ady for what I think a all his own says there is no should not hit as another, or hai He batter well whether the ball te low or high, “You know “I have never out why | don’ he sald with a laugh, been able to figure it t get a hit every time I swing hard at one, Not that I am any better hit er than anybody else, but I can’t understand why they don't go like a bullet, T think there ii to hitting. week without the time they w I've se You know, at that, § a good deal of luck n fellows go a hit, and all ball getting a on 4 line and with The luck was they were hitti the fielders 1 agi ny ng the ball stra tead of betwe Temperance is not total abstinence— it is moderation. The temperate man conserves his enerses—enjoys life—eats good food— drinks good Whiskey—all moderately. Healv-ays calls for ‘hat wonderfully mild and mellow Whiskey— Wilson— Real Wilson—That’s All! ‘The Whiskey for which we invented the Non-Refillable Bottle FREE CLUB RECIIES- drinks, Address Wilson, 311 Fifth Ave Free booklet of famous club recipes for ¥. That's All! the | / SPORTIN AUTOMOBILES Copyright, 1916, by the Press Publishing Co. OM (Le 1S A Bal NOWADAYS. YANKS START SOUTH. |]! Headed by Capt. Huston, half owner of team, and Manager Bill Donovan, the first flock of Yan- kees started South for the train- ing camp at Macon, Ga. yester- day, The list of players that went: Ray Keating, Ray Caldwell, Lesile Nunamaker, Pius Schwert, George Mogridge, Cy Pieh, Jimmy Me- Govern, Gilman Gay, George Rup- |: pert, son of Col, Ruppert, owner of the team, At Washington the party will pick up Ford Meadows || ad Cif Markle, and at Baltimore oe Kelly and Allen Russell. Other batte en will join them t Macon the latter part of the week, and by March 1 the entire string of forty-six players will have reported, { guess it about breaks even, though. We get a lot of hits that are flukes— too short for the fielders and high ugh to miss the infield, “in my opinion, Bill Donovan is a mighty ‘good baseball man, and he n | Proved last year that he has the ex- |poutive ability to direct a club. ‘There Is nobody who knows more about in- side ball, If the young pitchers will listen, he can tell them a lot of stuff. 1 know he used to keep me guessing with that funny smile that comes over his face when he is about to itch a ball, “By the way,” the home said to Capt. Huston, * about this #0-call hurting me, 4 run hitter nm 1 think it will 1 eager to get games again, Another at I didn't lay off. The work at Delaware County League ough to ki yp me on edge, said before, 1 don't know r we are going to win a pen- nant or not, but the players are a enthusiastic, and that is half the fight. You can bot that we'll be giv. ing all the clubs a battle.’ Haker did not go South with the first squad, but will leave next week. He is making just one visit to New York before joining the club. Princeton Five Threatens to Overhaul Penn Pennsylvania moved near to the Intercollegiate Basketball League title by defeating Columbia last week, but the steady playing of the Princeton five and the re- turn of Cornell to the court, each of which scored victories in theglast six days, may interpose pte Sl stacies in the path of tho Quakers in tho final games of the series. Princeton beat Columbia early in the week and nosed out a victory over Dartmouth on Saturday, there- by jumping into second place. Cor- nell caine back to the floor for ite first game since Jan, 15 and repeated its early seuson triumph over Yale, |, Yale, by reason of its defout at the {hands of Cornell, dropped back to third place and,’ with a record of |four games won and three lost, al- ready seems well out of the running. Columbia lost its sixth game of the year when the Quakers defeated the {Blue and White, while Dartmouth, mes Jost out of seven 4 stop ahead of Co- mly a4 single place away lar inceton and Pennsylvania Boston Teams Out of Running HOCKEY LEAGUE STANDING. a 000 The defeat of Boston, which was pressing the St. Nicks hard for first place in the Amateur Hockey League race, by the Crescent A, C, Saturday night, practically put that team out of the running for the title, Earlier in the week Winsor’s pupils defeated the Harvard Club, the other Boston organization in the league, and bay- ring an, unexpected slump by the St, Nicks neither of the Hub teams has @ chance to annex the honors. Harvard's vietory over the St, Nicks on Saturday night In a hard fought game is taken in some quar- ters to mean that the Santa Claus team is not at its best. If this is true! the champions will have a hard fight on their hands to beat the Crescents in the St. Nicholas Rink on Friday night. When these two teams met in the first round of the series Hobey Baker and his team mates had to play an extra period to score over the New Mooners. The Crescents showed in their fame with the Boston A. A. that they are going great guns, and hockey followers look to see them put up a fine fight against the title ‘holders. The other game of the week in the local rink will be played on Wednes- day night, when the Union ard Knickerbocker Clubs will meet at the benefit carnival for the Belgian Re- Het Fund. Skating features also will be on the programme. The Hockey Club will go to Boston to-morrow night to play the Harvard Club team. State Athletic Commission De- cides to Keep Mixed Bouts | and Decisions Under Ban. | has jurisdiction over boxing in md The State Athletic Commission, which State, yesterday adopted a revised set of rules to govern the sport. Few WILLARD'S HEALTH 0.K,; FIGHT IS NOT IN DANGER CHICAGO, Feb. Denial that Jess Willard was so ill as to make his appearance in the ring with Frank Moran in Ne » York March 25 doubtful, was made to-day by Tom Jones, manager of the heavyweight champion “All this talk about Jess 1 olng too ill to train for the fight is wrong, said Jones. Willard was reported to be’ suffer- ing from the grippe. in ‘Vex Rickard, who 1s promoting the Willard-Moran bout, denied to-day the reports of & probable postponement of the contest on account of the con- dition of the heavyweight champion, Rickard said that he had been in com- munication over the telephone with Willard’s manager, ‘Tom Jones, at Chi- cago this morning. “Jones assured me," said Rickard, “that Willard ‘had not suffered a re- lapse, but on the contrary he was |}much better and had been able to | be out of doors yesterday. Jones oxi clash on Wednesday night, and this kame should Ko far in determining ithe ultimate standing of the Quak- ore. cts to have Willard here by the d of the week and L am positive there will be no hiteb » arrangements now made to have the men meet for ten younds in Magivon Beurem Garden, March 2, ARE al Boot Middleweig! Commission . Heavyweight 135 BASKETBALL STANDING. Y we Tem, Penn HE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1916 G PAGE IN NEW YORK - LONS For Hockey Title Park Rows Make Big Gain On White Runners-Up in The Evening’ World Amateur Tourney Whitewash Leaders. SCHEDULE TO-NIGHT. Bergman Bros. at Hunts Point. Bronx Central at Bronx Palace. Metropolitan at Crotona. HE Park Row champions, ners-up for first honors in Evening World three-man am- ateur tournament, able Saturday night by whitewash: ing the leaders, Thum's White Ele- phant trio, at Schirmer’s downtown academy. For the first few frames of the opening session it looked as if tho Elephants would be quite a hugo proposition for the champions to han- dle, but for the first few frames only, as the Park Rows let out as usual on their home alleys and ran away from the visitors, winning out In (h game by 93 pins, The second and third sessions were repetitions of the first affair, with tie downtown alleys, and they now have the dis- tinction of being the only team tu blank the leaders, ‘The scores: White Row 189 180 1 let 1 173 179 1 BOXING COMMISSION’S | NEW SCALE OF WEIGHTS. Paperweight . Bant: Featherweight ... Lightweight ... weight . fundamental changes were made, the chief ones being a new system of ticket control, so as to safeguard the State in its 7% percentage; a revision of the scale of boxing weights and a provision that all contracts between boxers and boxing clubs be executed triplicate and a copy deposited with the commission, in the new scale of weights, changes apparent in the featherweight, | yno hes gone out of his class and fought many htweight and welterweight classes. | jigneweights im the last eleven montis, has juct feathers are changed from 122/; pounds to 123, the INghtweights from |) to 133 weights pounds, 108 pounds, mits remain the same a: The rules prohibiting mixed bouts and decisions by the referee remain as formerly, but they were the sub- ject of much discussion by the mem- bers of the commission, Fred Wenck, the Chairman, convince his fellow Commissioners, John Franey and so-called “mixed” bouts, or contests between and oficial decisions by licensed ref- erees should be allowed, but Franey and Dwyer couldn't see it that way at all, pou from The paj white oe INHABITED ~-o ce | Few Radical Changes In New Boxing Rules GROWING . ‘ (The New York Evening World.) and oh ob ot ANO SPARSELY BBER < Wik ENABLE DEX TROUS ROBERT Copyriat With a Boomerat WELL JUST TO LIVEN Good oa hag 5 THE GAME UPA WITTLE) Vig ig THe 4M, we MUST ve TH ene NLL BET A COvPLE one THAT wave AM ACE Come, ON BOP ? ON THIS PAIR TELLS THE ‘pena « OR HLNE LET'S Ge The at, ht HES PULLIN FOR a FLUSH Elephant Team STANDING OF THE TEAMS IN THE WORLD TOURNEY. weight cet Ba orginal Hunts Point. Grand Central PEBEBEESE eT S Tro ran up considers | or! ft’ Carl Kletnert's formidable Crotonas journeyed to Cordes Grand Central academy and vanquished the Brooklyn Vega in icular being @ great deai off form due to a bad cold and was un- able to continue after the second game. Jim Soriano substituted in his place. Kleinert's shooters showed the way for casy victories in all three sesstons. crnie Miller finally “rolled a bronae medal seore in the closing session, mak- ing @ 243, the bigh acore for the evening. The scores: Nis punches. lack of experience. Francisco in thi Crotoua— [Grand Caotrat— the referee in the fifth round. sharpshooters‘ always in Mit Se Oe O0t ln #8 or The results of the star bouts at the front with wood to spare. There Is no| Mas .\10a ius ise ioc feta? tet 184] other boxing shows on Saurday night gainsaying the fact that the Park] Brew Jl i Vea vente ita ta (dua, = b. ows are invincible on their home High Miter, 243, At Broadway Sporing Club, Dutch defes Brand Freddy Sepp, one of the Park Row | fought a draw. champions, is matched to meet Leo Mareno at the Bergman Bros.’ acad- emy to-night, best six out of eleven games to count, aE] d | ‘By John Pollock. t in years have #0 many atars of the Ughtweight division been carded to fight in one might as there are this evening Five topnotchers will battle, and singu- larly, all of the bouts will be fought at jout-of-town clubs, Benny Leonard will } meet Jimmy Murphy for six rounds at the Olympia A. A. of Philadelphia, Johny Dundee faces Joe Mandot for A), Lippe, jelnnatt, Another tmportant contest also | booked for to-night is that betwoen Tod | iid" Lewis and Jimmy Duffy of Lock- port, welterweights, at the Queensberry A. C. of Buffalo, N, ¥. March 17, South to-night, Jack Curtey, manager of Fireman Jun Pyne, the game Pueblo hearywelght, announced to-day that the proposed ten-round go betwoen Jeck Dilon and Miynn has been arranged and thet the men will come together at the next show of the Manbattan A, C, of Harlem on March 7, Curley said he signed for Flynn and that Harry Pollok, matchmaker of the club, elready bad Dillon's we. ceptance, accepted terms to rounds at Now Orelea Johnny Kilbane, the featherweight champion, and Leo Johnson, Ghetto, een moured for another ene of these contests, His moneger, Jimmy Dunn, has accepted terms frum Dominick Tortoriob, the New Orleana fight Kilbsse to fight the winner of the The Olymple A, C, nds and the weiter- 142 pounds to 44 perweight limit is set main erent dot twenty rounds on March 12 feather All the other weight 2 | delpbis, 1 before ‘The following coutesta all ten-round bouts, night by hare been arranged for the Harlem Sporting Club | other bouty will also for Friday night: ‘Tex Kelly vs, Frankia. Notter, s Ray Parks vs, Harry Gattle, Young Fulton vs, Young Jimmjo Britt, and Kid Carter va, Frankie Lives. fon A match was arranged lest night by Tom MoAndie, matchmaker of the Fairont A, C., be- tween Young Brown, the east sido lightweight, and Harry Donatrue, the good lightweight of Peoria, I, ‘They Will box ten rounde at (he club's show next Saturday night, George Thompsoy, the Cali fomia bantamweight, and Mickey Dunn, and Frankie Daly and Kid Goodman also battle at the same show, as ‘With Jake ‘Young Ahearn, the Brooks boxer, and George Ghip of Pittsbiirgh reported as being in the best of condition for thelr ten-round battle at the spestal boxing show of the Broad- way Sporting Club of Brooklyn to-morrow after. houm, the indications are that they will furaish one of the fastest and hardest fougut bouts be tween middiemeighta witnessed in this vicinity in some Lime, strove diligently to the inte, Frank Dwyer, that onty ay and negro pugilists, to-night, ten rounds, At the samo 60 against Bull Thompson, ‘om, Lest, P.O, 857 067 BTL 500 287 143 Gunboat Smith, trip to Hot Sor Hagney, Jobe Meller wie weis encase Musso @Qov et oi ~ tik SUMP'M FOR LUCK. Willie Meehan — }»" Too Clever for Andre Anderson Willie Meehan, the chubb: of California, laurels to bis record in tho fisti¢ line on Saturday night by administering @ sound thrashing to Andre Anderson, the giant pugilist of Chicago, who hal previously made a big “rep” at the local clubs by winning four bouts in succession by quick knockouts. Although Anderson had an advan- tage of over fifteen pounds in weight and several inches in height, Meohan | st = was entirely too fast and clever for Scoree—Manasee, 285; Gevp, £11; Nel-| him, At the final bell Willie was en- nf ‘titled to the honors by a big margin, jas he had landed the cleaner and more effective blows and besides had avoi ed the majority of Anderson's punches fom Feet Sto lace Hight i tn big | bY clever blocking and ducking. event. While Mcehan scored The Crotonas were aided bj poor| with blows in Anderson's stomach, condition of the’ Grand Central teeer | face and jaw he had no foree behind Meehan's ring general- ship was the big factor in his victory, while Anderson's drawback was his In the other two contests, Eggers stopped Eddie Miller of San| sixth round and! Jack Reed out lassed Jimmy Kane #9 much that the bout was stopped by ed Jimmy Taylor and] Young Dominick and Harry Burke At Clermont ‘A. C. Terry Michell won from Italian Joe Gans and Billy De Foe of St. Paul easily outpointed ‘Wille Jones of Brooklyn. Fistic News and Gossi the Harlem Sporting Club to-night, at which three ten-tonnd battles will be decided. Frankie | t Brown tackles Young Benny, Charley Hooser will | | © against Eddie Hurley of Yorkville, Franks meets Young Brown and Mike MoT clashes with Young Hickey anager of Frande Brom clever east side bantammeight, has mate! to fight Young Beuny to-night 29, and Roy Moow cf St, Paul in the semifinal to the GibboneJeff Smith at Frankie Burne, the fast Jemey City bantam- woight, will take part in another fight in tho Ho will exchange wallops with Eddie Coulon, the New Orleans bantamweight, for eight rounds at Memphis, Tenn ht Pe during Mardi Gras woek, but that Herman refused to meet him, and matohm, tho American Sporting Club of Harlem. Fanged an alletar card of bouts for the special show to-morrow night, will battle are Red Allen and Cl Andy Williams and Banty Sharp, and Quy Ph AD four bouts will be for teu rounds, of Hay regular weekly boxing show Ad Wolgast, who is to fight Champion eddie Welsh teu rvunds before the Cream City A, ¢ of Milwaukee on March G, is to receive a guar. | Antee of $2,000, with an option of 35 per cent Wolgast has beer | this chance to meet Welsh, as beat him, Me alao fights Pall Brook in Cleveland | Hddie Morgan, the fast English featherweight Will mako his reappearance in a bout in this city at the Pioneer A, C. show on Wednesday night Ho will meot Hed MoDonald of the west site for Ww Joo Auevedy will 4 Jimmy Dotty west side lightweight, will take on Kobby Moore, Wo has just returned i. where ho trained for » weeks to get into good shave, by hip manager, Jim Buckles, the Australian heavyweight \ rounds et the Staten Inland A, ©, next Saturday ig this summer, started Austrian bandage: NOW RIS SPE THAT TI THERE A ISING PL LEAGUE. hey i Three N. We kne cate Walte team has heavy- fresh adde COLLEC SEVE expect a frequently same ti poor m K. 0. FOR v This year hi the baseball this those Sw Young From experts Graw w poker teams south nny Ertle for We ten rounds et the Loug Aew A. A, show on Feb, —-- rounds at New Orleans, @24/ 05, Jabes White of Albany ton ds at the]! Louis Kreuter, the boy biillard Cross goes against Milburn | Knickerbocker A.C. of Adtany, N. ¥, on Feb, | phenom, sticks out from among other “Young” Saylor for ten rounds at Cin- a boy pheno Paul on wasn't int when it know w box score growers of Frankie says be ermann twenty or of bas ar that you ‘Phe fighters who | The philant park for the donate. ly O an will stage its | in Pittsbu |ber that | cludes the * | automobile. |him is a cycle car for each foot. 9 sontasted | ANSWERS TO QUEERIES. The Queery column will send its all- |star queer |players tal the | HONINE 147 W b tha for var ten EDITED BY PUTTING *EM OVER With “Bags” Baer RABID RUDOLPH- Shyro— * 66177 NOCKING Hunting Trouble two baseball parks to The Benny Leonard affair has sian surgeons FACTS NOT WORTH KNOWING. ‘OR PROMI ERS, NO MA HOW PR ING_A_ YOUN: AY INSISTS ON BEING, VERY OMISING YOUNG PLAYERS KE ‘EM. LARRY McLEAN WAS ONE OF THE MOST PROMISING OLD PLAYPRS IN THE WORKS, BUT HE BROKE TC ANY OF ‘EM, LIFE IS A salted away by the faculty because they failed to pas: a 8 spor for sou, ¥ pardi¢ing ais ainateas stand. _ The Interstate Commerce Commi sion will again have to cope with thi old evil of free transport issued to prominent indi one with two on. It looks as if the bowing solone will be able to prevent two scrap. pers from THE FOOTHAL! A NEW TRADE. When Sweden's athletes come to country, panies will never be able to shoot ocean with one of those old-fashioned smoothbore cables. Ottawa University claims the | hockey championship, which doesn’ seem to make New Orleans High School sore a bit. is the only béy phenom whose career Teams are going South already, wae Thanksgiving. Tadulated statisti the revolving doors are in bloom, | When they hold Hai LUCINTHA BEAN {| HARDLUIGH ZANE aging for) KNOTT 'THAIR, thinks an MAJOI . D, MISS TAQUE Tommy, EDGREN 1916, by The Press York Rrening Won as orld.) People Is ng.” fan will de fearfully unbapor 4 of three, he will bare only tay away from, something. Now the ns are claiming the Rus- are using hard %. 3 TOO MA AKER WILL TELL YOU SADDE TH OMISING MANAG RE MILLIONS OF AYERS IN THE LO. vu. xp J. rom towing the emerp aval Academy athletes were ination pap-, canned 'em be w that T would vind. r Camp. His All-American still to lose a game. 4ERS COULD RELATIONS ‘ORS HOLD. we AT oa never hear of an crs ion being 4 duals. Can't pitcher to let Baker whale stalling about the me that polo becumee @ ans game, 2 TIMENT IN 1 AFTER HAVING OLD AND GRAY PLAY- CARLISLH THE INDIAN WILL BE FORCED TO woos 3 days long, ss the telegraph com- edish narves across the only pitcher Ieft im hand re At oe livery | was ally among uns the way training camp it, Manager Me- about fourteen to train, figure a take ms like a sore thumb, Louis errupted by the Civil War. ms as if only . First thing will again be reading ¢ s of the best boy eorn Ohio. SS show clearly can't win pennants wren ropist who threw open his baseball Fon Christmas bye now offer Mlatial race track for former patrous Wagner di rgh the fans should remem- Honus's architecture pre- possibility of accepting an What they should give y eleven South to train, Tho ken will KNUTY, fou