The evening world. Newspaper, February 24, 1916, Page 12

i } = b S UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY COLUMN Willard or His Manager Might Have Selected Better Training : Quarters, Conrriett, 1918, by The Prem Pubiiahing On (Tie Now York Evening Worl.) ‘ESS WILLARD, who is due in town from Chicago to-morrow, 2% ‘eto do his training at the Plo- Neer A.C. Why he or his manager, Tom Jones, should seiect the Pioneer A. C. for training quarters is a mys- tery, unless they pian to commer- Clalize the training stunts, At that we have it semi-officially that it is going to cost 50 cents a person to see big Jess hit the bag and shadow box (Tom Jones never did overlook any- thing). Dhe Pioneer A. C. is perhaps Jess adapted as a training quarters for a champion than any place we can imagine, Tom O'Rourke used a darkened room there a few years ago &, inetiliing some boxing skill into thick cranium of Al Palser, At the time O'Rourke had the idea of Reeping the big fellow under cov jut there evidently is no desire keep Willard hidden trom public soru- SoPhere in Ifttle of the necessary ven- the As a dancing » the erdam Opera fe most desirable, but as a quarters for a big fistic hs a yeeten| Because of ex. ‘his collision with Frank Moran. populace he might have the historic West Side A.C,| This Year’s Show. further north in West Street, Here he would 0 bathe and every. to @ fighter in train- track, a well equipped i bey! to be caught in a fi 93? il fl i AT market stump if one will stop to fig- ure it out, | | i few years ago Morgan and Unter- meyer and Hunter made collie-rais- ing @ fad, Dozens of men started big collie kennels, The collie was the king of dogdom, He commanded a gilt-edged price, More and more Dita, and beat iiving. “There was'a fortune in him, , a for % thet the debona’ Monsieur | "Thien, vail wt once, the _ bottom had visions of @ cham- | dropped out of the collie market. It Sr career for the boy, Daniel| dropped clean out. And more good Hylit ill uth Hud the quickest and surest way|men went broke than I like to re- @uccess was to annex the laurels} member. Public fancy ripped the paged Gibbons. Dan lied Mike and | crown off the collie’s pointed head items seas vene|Old Fashioned Dogs Rare if Wiflard wanted an ideal piace 'to| "ler and Majestic Newfound- | ir groin and still be within reach of the} land Almost Out of Style at ump in the | market as in | stanc Copper cor- | dog. EY * ‘He is ducking beating, oF ro di 1 a » or words to teat effect, shout@l the loquacious As @ matter of fact Mike was fight finally took place. In the middle of the first round Mike feinted to sailor knots, crossed his right and they swept Ahearn up. In his corner McKetrick was seen to keel over. It took more than a nine ring him back. Mike had scored a double knockout and a McKetrick’s fame as a ring prophet i @id off into the musty past. While we were writing the fore- ing We received a submarine mes- @age to the effect that Ahearn is sick, in fact he 2 not been himself for 4 some time. We ure inclined to charge a - i e ‘ ee ont ge BPP S- VALUABLE COUPON IN EACH PACKAGE yell Myers Tobucce & jevi ‘deep in jt down on the police- | most criminal skull. You used to see with him. a mighty stretch of the Garden given Aa the day of the fight approached | over to collies. One little corner, over yonder, hokds al] that are exhibited | in this year's show, “Go still further back, when I was younger, the huge black Newfound- land was king. You'll look a long while in the Garden, this year, with- out finding a Newfoundland. One or two of them used to be entered, year after year, up to now. But the word ‘Newfoundland’ 1 the 1916 catalogue'’s index. the once fashionable pug—there are only two pugs in all the present show. “Young Croker gave the bulldog a boom here in America, But that boom seems dying out. I don't won- is losing some of his old-time popu- And I could go down the list whose laurels have fallen or are slip- (Note—Danicl: Please don't write, that Jim Coffey has been han- tells of an incident in Philadelphia when the big Irishman fought Levin- way to the rounding Coffey | (He had b enthusiastic seconds.) one of the Irishman ky afterward.” } “Well, TF only hit you once in the} uid it is the first eve in Six round {time 1 ever hand towel,” sooner or later be ui der, The fox-terrier, too, | believe, cite a dozen more favorites his indisposition to Mike Gibbons. but go and dig up another Jeanette.) AN MORGAN till maintains dicapped by his friends, Dan sky Tt was a merry battle, and all that In the excitement of the drens- jing room afterward a little Irishman ently just off the ship, forced bis it of the crowd sur- im, how am Tas towel swinger? | “Why, you nearly blinded me in the} second round when you hit me with the end of the towel," sald Coffey, “and sure | could hardly tind Levin- THE EVENING WORLD, Freak Ideas Of Breeding for ‘“‘Points’’ SGompuncher condition mae The Collie, Bulldog, the Fox Ter- of a little wh favor. Yes, it’ @ dog-market slump. “There scoems to me a good reason for the queer fluctuations, For in- the collie wae once the ideal His brow was wide and it was Mer,” eaid the Old Dog Man at Madi-| Chock full of brain, The nose wi fon Square Garden last night. “It's j@ market that fluctuates as euddenly| pened? When he became king, aa @ pet Wall Street stock. Only was bred and interbred, for so-called cre's a logical reaso ‘points.’ One of these ‘points' was a besiege a for the 408) ose aa long as from here to Bixth Avenue. Another ‘point’ was an ab- surdly narrow head; and another “Take the collie, for instance. A/was a low brow that was in direct only moderately long; and it had an uncanny power of scent. What =~ 0 line with the hose. The brain was all bred out of him through the nose, angle, shaped more Ike a toothpick than anything else, He lost his al- most human intelligence and his mir- aculous sense of sinell, He became fa pilly toy. “People who paid a record price for a@ collie, thinking they were getting the cleverest dog on earth, often found they weren't getting anything of the sort, And they stopped buying him. Without buyers any market will collapse. (Understand, I'm not maligning the collie, Sanely bred, he is a marvel. But, crazily bred, he is just a freak. And crazy breeding has set in, too, violently.) “I's the same with the bulldog He has been fancifully bred until he can't bite normally and until his forelegs and jaws are monstrosities, The pointer is getting a thinner skin every year, and it looks as if eas for rough fleld work at this rate. “The police dog—German sheep dog, war has press agented him. So have the movies and the police experi- ments, Wait till the fanciers begin breeding him for weird ‘pointa,’ and see what becomes of him, I'm sorry far him, in advance thing: Whatever the professional that the average buy that will be his chu loasly extracted for the sake of ‘points. ood. Jet him by his de ¢ like a normal and com- unionable animal and less like a show freak, YALE WINS HOCKEY NEW HAVEN » 24 ” test th howed Hitle rese te nockey game Yale defeated the Princ ton aeven last night 6 to 3. ‘This vietory wins th the Blue, the Tigers having y 1 first game in New York hn the two contests | Jthe game wh Vey could not main = ares About Coffey recalis|tain, and in the second hale the. play | the fuet that the bijy Irishman | had de tte inore then | J Tens. test to see who could bat the puck is stra, rous of fighting | around the Jack Dion, All him. Dillon has funny idous about| TO BE HELO IN NEW YORK.| (Coffey, too. He Is one man that ho r , eae | |doesn’t want to tight, and he doesn't |give any reason for Jder such conditions vould rt together, Hilly Gibson, | # fe ws had the time} J young trying to eon. | array gained fightin that man Dillon.” tim to jet the Dillon, but Coffey al-| ways says, “William, | want to fight | \iw« bs een ARMY-NAVY FOOTBALL GAME athletic asso It he annual se be played on the F Grounds, ‘ Ping off. Meanwhile the griffon, the moyede, the sealyhain terrier, the ‘ish wolfhound, and a lot of other breeds (that most people never heard ago) have come into pitifully easy for a Professional fancier to get caught in Hie head became a crazily acute ‘f you prefer—is on the rise now, The “Here's the answer to the whole fanciers may believe, the fact remains wants a dow his guard, his recreation. And the average buyer won't keep on purchasing dogs from whom these qualities have been paln- Of course, there are two or three grand exceptions—xouthport Sample, Prince. von Weisenau, Runnymede King, &e.—to this rule of the folly of! breeding for arbitrary points, But, as a rule, you'll find my theory holds “If the breeder wants the publle to keep on buying his particular breed, A for points that will make SERIES FROM TIGERS. at the start of {but twenty-fi Federal League Stars Spoil Chance of Youngsters Break- ing in New York Clubs. By Bozeman Bulger. HE budding recruit who usually bursts into full flower about this time, only to wither and drop when the ball season gets down to cases, hasan unusually tough spring ahead of him, and the chances are that few of him will even sprout. And, to make it even worse, the ball clubs overloaded last fall, being uncertain as to the future of the Federal League. The Giants, for in stance, have enough outteldera to equip two or three clubs, while in- fielders and pitchers will be so com- mon around Marlin that a cowboy can be excused for tying his horse to one, The Yanks’ crop of recruits even exceeds that of the Giants, Within another month a emall army of these spring phenoma will be on their way back to the minors, never to be heard from again. Going over a list of names at the office of the Giants yesterday we dis- covered 200 players who had come up only to be sent back during the last len years, and not 4 man among the researchers—inany of them vet- ins of many yeurs—could remem- ber what had become of a single one of that Most of them work up until they get thelr chance and then quit, Oceasionaily a nervy youn ster goes back, only to work his way to the big league again, but he is @ rare apecimen, The absorption of the Federal Leagues by Organized Baseball has put a disheartening erimp into the chances of the young blood this year, and the recruit that makes good will have to be of ext nary ability, will be no ‘ond ‘Ty Cobbs" time. ‘They must be firsts. Thorpe first call, stranger? fact that young Sharman is said to be one of the fastest outfelders that having , too, in face of the ever was drafted from the minors, With the Yanks it is just as bad if not worse, After having scoured the for new and having score of youngsters the own 1 into the Federal on the polished product Magee, Maisel, High, Githooley, Cook and Hartsell for the outfield what is going to be done about Hendrys, Miller and a few more of that class? Already the Yanks have two men for every place in. the infield, and still Bil Donovan has a half dozen °o jore boys from the minor leagucs inst hope of getting a per- nis must turn loose fifteen the regular season starts, » not permitted to carry » men, What will be come of these young athletes no one seems to know, as the minor leagues are also filled up a demise of the Fe other more spring case & Year ago. Many will have to drop out of their] profession forever To win out THURSDAY, FE BRUARY 24, 1916, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK NEW MATERIAL FOR THE GIANTS ° Copyright, 1916, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) RALPH E SHARMAN’ Giants Have Little Room For Recruits This Year\\' '\:).. 22° (3° $$$ $____, WAGNER, 42 TO-DAY, SCORED 3,245' HITS IN 19-YEAR CAREER ] scribe my feelings. At first glance| } to-day Hans Wagner was born at Mans- 1 thought ran through my mind, I a birthday celebra- | recalled th of Pitts- |) that fellow Pirates’ J) the orig wonderful shortstop with a bun dead at the Judge Landis, the Bail tion the Stove of presents, League-Organized life-long friend Wagner, and President Tener the National League will tell the Dutchman how of mates sh re Roth! of on, Roth!" and L ‘hurried gh to the curb line, I placed} he » hands to my mout nd shouted thousands of fan Win it, Arthur; win iit" He simply big | smiled ‘and t tho:git he hadnt! fp heard me. But me later he With but two exception&—1915 In_ his ‘You know now that it's all over long career on the diamond Wag- ]! Arthur cannot realize that it's all games, | true, He was the last runner to en- nd scored |j ter the race and had it not been for cked out 3,245 hits And yet there is not one of that army, condition, mind you of aspirants who does not feel con- fident of holding his job! ‘The life of a recruit is not a bad of |@ night, Fistic News and Gossip paused a sensation in pus- knocking out the good welterweight of | AL « hooked for an-| 2 Jimmy Murphy Philadelphia, a y, has just been Hilly Gib- | Le oppanent will be ky Kan-| wie w. nat the] in a ts, for instance, With | A. C. of] Brock ff, -ROUMOM | Cuareic Ny, om shange hee. 8) Ditlon and Battling Le i Broaiway Spting | vocapted the club's ® an extra haleony installed in the = fonts nmodate 2,000 more Billy Roohe, the well-known im any bouts at the loca least two months. re two hundred for a job this against odds like that requires @ genuine Spartan spirit. WOSE RODRIQVEZ oinad) THE Minors 8% Pie Made This Invalid WA.GOLE™ wens — > Ng {Mother of Arthur Roth Tells| w#eeseeses seeessennes How Athletics Built Up Boy} : They Didn’t Expect to Live—| : Trained at Night After Hard Day’s Work. . Arthur Roth, the Bronx boy who became famous this week by showing his mud covered heels to a field of thirty-five veteran runners in the Bronx Marathon, blames his mother better let me tell you all about it.” | We did | “You ask me how I felt when I | saw hur leading the field at the finish, Well now, 1 just can't de- 1 saw his mud covered running} . trunks and legs and the drawn look in his face, Then for just an instant story | haw read about] , ran what is called rathon and dropped Well, while this picture was in my mind I took another look at Arthur, Ile was trodding along at an even Suddenly | d some of his had and nov stied that he Ts helped him finish |his club mates he never would have lentered the race, He began training | 966064440460. e \enly last week, He's always in good | *60009*O0dee “But training for a twenty-five-mile] tance to fifteen, then to twenty, Sunday night he ran over nea and cake like a regular kid. sted up on Mi By John Pollock. » Ue day of the race, he ate : inner, with all the vege- local light- Although Billy Gibson has accepted the terme nmings, that would have for Benny Leon. Madison Square offered nim by Jimam: tint w ela going to see the matched to fight Ad Wolga surmised I'd be n March 6 almo | » the: | 80 s00n after this bout will | am twreight, nds ‘and his second | Fections, Finally one of them Milburn ‘Young’ rat | Lene Crows, at a show t w, O, on the night of March 1911, when Arthur was eighteen, siclan said hletic,” and I This new wizard in the ‘eng! | morning as if le had enjoyed a peace- | lone early] ful holiday. He is a cable splic | and “Wid Burt Kenny the employ of the United E t and BAdie O'Keefe of Phil two ten-round battles, Jimmy Twyford, who arranges the bouts for the] work and then went through wa of the Clem or at “ for the next] coming holiday. Saturday} He trains on regularly, and “n 1B raham and Ruly De Foe of |ties up off City Island. He plays the nd Red MeDenakt and Young Howard, but doesn't ci much Pw the Bmokiyn lightweight who was | mui “He likes art,” wn with the g 1 compelled yout with Charley | to the trophy he rece | White, wiich was slated for the Clemmont 4, 0,| the distance from O of Brooks t eer lO stage the set on a four-foot pedestal, It John Weiss niel has completed his ts for the) big. show Chib of Brooklyn oa ain event Champion Bloom of Brooklyn, second in the ¢ he Victrola, for the piece of art. | Run Rings Round Men In Bronx, Marathon \°.::2: 3's ssc : | FACTS NOT WORTH KNOWING. he never drinks | race is somewhat different than ordi- {or smokes and I cannot recall when| nary training. Last week he began ihe hasn't slept at least eight hours| running about ten miles a night, few nights later he increased the dis- entire course of the Bronx County] earn a | hon. He never diets when he! trains; always eats plenty of good home cooking and likes mince day, and on nd tri 1 the appetite of a giant, Then he wrapped his running sult up and on March §, the chances of the contest! gtarted out. I didn't tell him | was ‘ but I guess he J . for 1 haven't Harry | yet missed an event he contested in, manager of Welsh, will not let him bor!” “When Arthur was young the folks in this neighborhood, where we have busy fighter nert| lived all our lives, never thought he vigned for wwo| Would live past his teens. He was delicate and sickly, I took him to 4 doctors, who gave vanous di- wnquercr of |e to have him join sore athletic ) at Colum-[club, That was in the carly part of seemed to brighten up when the phy- think he has been sick one day since, Larathon line went back to work Wednesday Light and Power Company. The before the race he put in a hard day's three mt A. C, of Brookiyn, today | hours’ over time to make up fer the battle are. Tommy | favorite pastime is motor boating on ‘ Howant of Kay | his eighteen-foot Mohawk, which r says his to ask|mother, And to prove it she points d for covering e Hundred and woll again, and his man-|Forty-fourth Street and Third Ave- ta to wot the consent of |nue to Drake Avenue, New Rochelle, » on une nigot |and back, It's @ white marble figure, offered as the second prise by the Pennant Athletic Club, but by ar- rangement with Hans Schuster of the Swedish-American A. C., who finished + Teddy Jacobs wii |changed the first p beantiful tant and doen, Consteat i Champion of Be nts 70 Roth, with the aid of his sister idokya, “Pisum Neve young Peco oF ig’ gupporte his widowed mother, ' EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN 66 HEY could | improve wres- tling by elim- inating the clinching.” The New Haven's young life seemed to be divided equally be+ tween collision and collusion. A champion pugilist risks his title just like a stevedore riske his knife on a piece of pie, The winner of the Mancot-Ditn- dee > “t won the privilege to bat- * tle Johnny Kilbane—which ain't a privilege. About June, training camp phenoms will be as numerous 49 sailings on the North German Lieyt We trust that Mr, Frank Baker doesn't put any over the fence while he is playing third, 'f Jess Willard loses to Moran hie manager can cut him up into a dozen good welterweights and three or four bantams. | Ps | Fame is ephemeral, You hear a word the reonl for Atrocity Committee will over- Will there be a howl from other camps when the Giants’ trainer puts hard ban 8 on sprained ankles? Following the general uplift In sport, wrestling is becoming more ay. Doe t angler” Lewis suggest lilies and gates ajar? i sthetic cach 1 will again abare the managemhip of land team with the Cleveland teain Owing to the number, of plebes who don't make good at training camps, this spring will new system of scoring inaugurated. They will cut out the earned runs and substitute the unearned meals. It doesn't require rigorous training to get into the punk of condition. Manager Donovan's fat boys will train on a mile race track, You can lamp some of the veter- ans taking it easy in the early part of the jog and then sprint- ing the last eleven inches. George the Third put tax our tea, but Americans have only themselves to blame for re- Nolving doors. With all the golf, baseball and tennis bugs working their vocal foundries to the limit, it is hard to figure out which is the wrong | side of the Atlantic. Between indoor and outdoor tennis the life of R. Lindley Mur- ray is ‘as dull and monotonous as the life of a Pomeranian equipped with two crews of fleas. 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