The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1916, Page 8

=e j UP-TO-DAT 4 Rid, co Jess Willard’s Chicago Cold Whioh Caused Postponement| of Moran Fight Til March 25} Cost Him $10,000. Came IR, Wok brcclne Word 88 WILLARD begins training to- day at the Pioneer A. C. In West Forty-fourth Street. The big ehampion wanted to get down to this business yesterday right after his ar- rival from Chicago, but Tom Jones, tiie manager, thought « shopping tour and @ rest would be more beneficial after the long train trips If Willard has any fear of losing ‘oles laurels to Frank Moran he doesn't show it. On the contrary, he is cheer- . fat aver the coming affair. He ridi- @ules the idea that it was a case of old feet which caused a postpone- ment of the bout from the origina: Gate, Maroh 8, to March 26. An attack of neuralgia, which set- tied in his eyes, made training pain- ful, he says, and incidentally cost him some $10,000 in theatrical con- | figuring on| tracts. Manager Jones, the original March 8 date, had signed him up for stage appearances which | ‘would have filled in the time up to| March 25. Those, of course, had to] be cancelled when the contest was * put back. Willard to-day shows no trace of the $10,000 cold. Instead he has the oe of a thoroughly healthy quant His face is ruddy and his Dissipation abparently ein his life since he ped into pugilistic fame by beat- ing Zeck Johnson. He seoms, to possess: @ strength of two or three “men. After Tex Rickard had looked “him over carefully for the first time, he remarked that he impressed him more favorably than Jeffries ever did in his championship days. PAPER clippings from New Orleans bear out Scotty Mon- teith’s statement that Johnny Dundee got much the worst of it whi Referee Tommy Burns gav Joe Mandot the decision over him in a twenty-round bout there last Mon- | day night. The Times-Picayune says: “It seemed as if some mistake fad «ebeen made when Burns's decision ‘Was announced. There was hardly wound, in the big arena, but the de- cision went just the same. Dundeo Bad won and lost. Mandot had lost ‘and won.” The New Orleans Item commented like this: “The decision mre Mandot a new lease of pugilis- ie life, but was palpably unfair to Dundee, It was probabiy the first “time in Mandot's long career that he _ has received a decision in a local ring to which he was not entitled.’ . E SHUGRUE, the Jersey City lightweight, is reported matched with Joe Mandot for a twenty- wound bout at Now Orleans March 22. wo years ago Shugrue ranked mong the best of the country’s light- weights. He was without a doubt of ©hampionship calibre, ‘ust as he was at the height of his career a peculiar @ffliction of the eyes almost left him blind. He tried to continue boxing, but “kis efforts resembled those of a blind man. He put himself under the care of eye e#pecialists, had healing relics appiica nd resorted to almost every- ing without effecting a cure. T day Baan is slightly improved and erfainly in no condition to meet any- ee in a ring contest. The match me Mandot should be prohibited. Shugrue enjoyed « vig following, and @ isn't likely that any of his friends ‘would care to see him risk what fine honors he has won tn the ring, in eapacitated as he is now Spry MATILEW SON aounts nis abi 1 Piace among the bis ke pitel The one-time king of them all gone Bouth for experimental pur poses. | He evidently doesn't behieve In sticking to the game if he can i Bver the ‘goods, He says that Binds hi he | AND NEWSY ae aa a E ee RRR __ a SHE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 86, 1916. Matty Goes South Early, | Hoping His Veteran Realizes Good Pitch- ing Will Win for His Team ; and Is Anxious to Do His Share. By Bozeman Bulger. CCORDING to Christy Mathew- son the one thing needed to bring the Giants of 1916 close to @ pennant Is pitching. contribute his @hare he feels that it will be a nip and tuck fight between the Braves, Cubs, Dodgers and Giants If he is able to right down to the finish, The Old ster does not think #0 well of the Phill despite the fact that he re- wards Alexander tho greatest pitcher in the world Matty's decision to go to Marlin early, thereby aligning himself with the recruits, is in keeping with the| mental qualities that made him greatest pitcher of his day—or for any other day, for that matter, Even with bis reputation to stand on he ta quite willing to do the extra work #0 as to ascertain if he has the makings of a come back, It was not required of Matty that he go to the camp this carly. Ile requested it. Others may | hang back and wait until the last) minute, but not the Master. [t 's an example that ambitious youngstors might consider with profit. “I have an idea that my arm ts go- ing to be all right he sald bj know,” he added with a smile, “you are thinking they all say that, but I really mi . 1 haven't felt w twinge in my shoulder muscle all win- ter and that is a very good indieation. |1 know also that to get in shape I will have to do it by degrees—slow degrees. By taking a ten days’ start on the other boys, though, I ought to have enough soreness out of me by| | the time th arrive to attempt some | it the batters. | y well know,” Matty | “T never do much throw- ek or two, and have al- | my other work very | no | continued, jug for a w ways gone at slowly. I think I will start this timo | by playing golf on the littie three hole | course they have laid out at Marlin. That will give me enough light exer- cise for a start. Later on I will play |some handball and that ought to give | me a tip-off on my shoulder. If there ! are no signs of the old soreness after a few games of handball, I will know that it has gone and I can start right in with my pitching. HOPES TO GET BY WITH A GOOD CURVE. know that I will never be able to put as much speed on the ball as I for- merly did, but with a good curve un- der control I can manage to get along. Last year was not the first bad sea- }son T ever ha Don't you remember |how badly things broke for me in [1906 or '07, after T7had that spell of sickness at Memphis? “Don't think I am trying to altbl myself,” he urged. “I am just as anxious to know if my arm {s going to be all right as you are. If it 1s not there, you can bet that I will be ready to quit.” The Giants have been improved in every department, and that is why Matty thinks there is a chance for the pennant if the bitah x is good. In his opinion Big Jeff ‘Tesreau will be one of the « test pitchers of the year, and he expects wonderful work from Rube Bently, the southpaw. “Ther is no reason why Perritt suld not come through this year,” said Matty ‘and we will expect some- thing of the youngsters. If I can only chip in my bit everything will be all right.” Mathewson misses Chief Meyers very much, but says he has become accustomed to seeing his friends go. There is not a man on the club now who was there when Matty came. He and McGraw are the only surviving members of the championship crew of 19 Matty was with the club before that, | | though—long before. 1 remember w his taking his bride with him on the spring trip in 1904, That was brought strongly to mind. yesterday when we start out with Mrs. Mathew- nine-year-old bo all those ars of association éwson and MeGraw never had a| real disagreement. In fact, McGraw says the Old Master ie the easiest player to handle that he ever had on @ ball club. Their only run-in was in Memphis, saw hin son and their in M in the spring of 1906. When all the players Were through with practice one day McGraw ordered each of them to take a run twice around the park before going in, All did so but Mathews who intimated that it necessary in his case and was nelined to sulk bus waited pa ently outside the rk gate nd one BOXING IS REVIVED | BY HARVARD STUDENTS. | | BOSTON, Feb After a na | around “No matter how much I train I'q Weak Arm Will Still Help Giants by one the players did their run and climbed to their seats, ready to start back to the hotel. Matty refused ¢o budge. The players begged him to ahead and do as he waa told, but fe held back, Several offered to run Finally McGraw with him, announced that the bus would wait right there with all the players until Matty did as ordered even if # took until midnight. He offered to run back to town, but not around the park, After an hour the ble fellow realized that he wna acting Iike @ stubborn kid, and with three other = ta accompanying him did his two Jape. I don't think that incident haa evae been told before, but McGraw says It i# the one and only time that Matty ped even came close to insubordina- tion | BUGS BAER’S SUGGESTIONS | BAER’S SUGGESTIONS TO FOOTBALL RULE MAKER WHO ARE NOW IN SESSION No hard ‘bandages, m_ clinches. ‘orwand pass to property. abbing an opponent's teeth with your ear to be a foul, No students allowed tickets. Play a field goal wil distance of to fumble er booting referee’ be s chin for ized twice pena field, wi eyes to be regarded as private okles « in hit with one hand Going out unless it be Yale players not bers on their back nents bi bounds to be itleg eipts. quire pum= Th Yale lor r oppo- players’ never ks anyway Phe shadow of the goal posts to —___—______4 Fistic News By John As a result of his knockout victory over Leach Cross in Cincinnat! on Mon- day night, Milburn “Young” Saylor, the| k Indianapolis fighter, is now being 1 1 the other f the lightweight division s after him to box Charley} Buttaio wants him for Jimmy Dufty ani New Orleans would like to have him battle Joe Mandot ylor has accepted terms to fight Charley White @ ten-round bout in Cincinnati on March 30. White has already defeated Saylor, | knocking him out tn one round at the | Armory A. A. of Boston on Nov. 16, 1915 weight in the f 1 ion and Wille > being arranged iy old white of two pounds tn sin the eon Jack B 1M maker Torn mont of Broax of dof ten-round bouts for the regular weekly box. ing vhow of the club to-night. Ln the star bout Harry Donahue of Peoria, Ill, wil clash with thre: BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK Jess Willard as He Is To-Day; Snapped for The Evening World Great Star Fails to Break Winners’ Defense When He Desperately Tries to Over- come 2-1 Lead. HE CRESCENT skaters went Hobey Baker in massed for- mations In a hockey game be- Nicks and the Brooklyn Nicholas Rink. The former Princeton cap- tain fairly outdid himaelf, but one Player oan’t check an entire team, and St. Nicks lost, two goals to one. It was one of the most thrilling Ae usual, ker was about the whole works for He phe- nomenal playing prevented the vic- ——— tween St. Club last night on the St. mes of the local season, the amateur league champions. scored the only goal and his ——$ _ and Gossip Pollock. Tommy Burke, the St, Louie mitdlewelght, who woo several ‘bouts at the local clubs last year, will against Johnny Howani, the hart hitueg of Bayonne, N, J., in the star bout at | hoodyn to-night, Billy hy Grabam of Gren McDonsid and Young Howard ten-round battles, ant Med also will clas in Mike Glover of Boston aud Jack Britton, who now makes this city hie bome, have been’ prac. tically matohed to meet in a twelve.und bout At the reopening Loxing show of the Armory A, A of Boston on the night of Apri 11, Britton’s recent newepaper verdict over Ted “Kid" Lewis Glover's deciwon over biin in Boston are re- sponsible (or them being brought togeiber, Benny Leonard is Jones” Kilbane an une), the wallopiny (eae rweugnt Ball it come Loge wd {a thelr” proposed “tifteca wound bout’ ‘at’ tha | Me og Baltcwune ou March Luati, anager of Kilbane, to-day,’ from Hot Springs, Unat h ; thelr academy Bronx Palace Bowlers No Match for Met Trio Billy Fox Active for Winni Team in The Evening Wi orld Meet. SCHEDULE TO-NIGHT. Hunts Point at Park Row. Crotona at White Elephant. HE Metropolitan trio, led Billy Fox, gathered all three sessions in The Evening World three-man amateur tournament Bronx Palace bowler Both teams rolled thet: in the first but the pinned the rs with a total of The Pal bowlers were behind the ond session, and going into the Jim’ Soria’ 174 108 last frame needed a strikeout by t High score—2 anchor, Rupprecht, to win. He got Jim Soriano substituted for En- | split, however, giving the home team|right, the jesting bowler from the their second game by thirty pins. South, after the first game. Enright last night from Bren- 571 tors from rolling up a larger “7 Baker repeatedly streaked down into the enemy's territory, but his allies failed to support him and the Crescent defense around the goal checked all the wizard’s rushes ex- cept one shot that he lifted in the net. Hobey was a whirlwind in the second period as he attempted to even the score and his playing was #0 sensational that few of the speo- tators remained in their seats. The defense of the New Moon was splendid. Smart, their goal keeper, stopped shot after shot, and Brown and White, the two other members of the defonsive trio, broke up many an attack that seemed destined to carry the puck along for score. All in all, the Crescenta had the better team, and they doserve great credit for being the first league seven to beat the chanipions this season Hoffer: at , McCarthy, Conway and Smith, the Crescent forwards, out- did themselves against the cham- pions. The playing of Heffernan and McCarthy was especially brilliant. The former distinguished himself by racing with Baker several times and taking the puck away from the St, Nick star. He made the first goal of the gam scoring in a little over eight minut of play. Conway swooped down the ice with the puck, and when near the cage passed It to the former Canadian star, “Heffernan promptly caged the disc, and the Crescents had a one goal lead, Some sig, minutes tater Conway added anotMfer goal to the Crescent tally when he took a pi from Smith and neWed the rubber. Throughout this period the St. Nicks, led by the speedy Baker. made many a drive into Crescent territory, only to be thrown back. With the opening of the second period the champtons set sail for the, Crescents at a great rate. Evidentl they figured that the Brooklyn club men were bound to “crack,” as was| the case in the game between the two teams in the opening round of the league series. But Baker and his teammates soon learned their mis- take, for the Crescents gave just as | good as they received in the dashes up and down the ice in the early part of the half. Finally, after fourteen minutes of lightning-like play, Baker managed to score. He got the puck down behind his own net and serpentined a path | almost the length of the rink, This time Ellis was close up and the little St. Nick leader took the puck on a pass and promptly swept i> back across the ice to Baker, who drove it in for the lone St. Nick tally. Real Practice For Yankees MACON, Ga, Feb, 26.—With the a | rival tn camp of Charley Mullen, who is a candidate for the second base fob, | Manager Bill Donovan was able to give the Yankee squad {ts first real practice of the season. A wh the wind -had a northern tang, General Donovan 4 all hands out to the field y day afternoon and there was brisk in- field practising for over an hour, Before the fielding «rill the entire squad w lined ap at the plate and received les- sons in batting. Jeanette Knocks Out Green. MONTR Joe Jean- , the col elebrated urn to the ring by stopping Silas the Conadian heavyweight cham- six rounds at the Canadian A. C. it, Jeanette showed better than his r —$————— | STANDING OF THE TEAMS IN THE WORLD TOURNEY. |' ng be 4 18 O43 OT bar 2) BBS Gus Ba) 88k BD 405 Oe be: ¥ Lege 33.267 500 500 bt | ereeeerteeener erare “Dependable practi- cally w and third string: with his 222 nd scores: uy Dauenhsver. 4s 2 fi | EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN Crescent Skaters Stop Rushes of Hobey Baker And St. Nicks Lose Game PUTTING ’EM OVER With “Bugs” Baer. Corre SG York Wreaine Worlds RABID -RUDOLPH- Siv/e— * OST man- agers find that iron clad con- tracts get a trifle rusty.” “ Although discovered uy we gli atin Sime 1 ee o ook ape lod Having signed Manager Gattl- Cusazza for four yegrs the Metro- polltan Opera should soon have: one of the best outfields in the country. Xe "t atta Swie cold SI5, Steg, Seis stair exoert core tw The only player who looks to have «chance of beating Hane Wagner's record of 3,246 hits for nineteen Aa yet Ban Johnson haan’t de- nied the rumore that the American oee teams are training in the jouth, MOMMER, WHERE [8 POPPER? There are many thousands of tearful wives In the lands beyond the sea, There are widows weeping for deug tered live And homes that twill never be. f There are lasees crying and girles sad For those who'll ne'er return, And children yearning for dear old ad, Ay! Many a heart doth yearn, But think of the sorrows on our own strand, And the million orphaned kiddoes, As the tenpins rumble throughout the land And we have the bowling widows! QUEERY COLUMN. Dear Sir: Is “Rabid Rudolph” a sure enough person? What inspired you to put him in the violent ward? Yours very truly, Jack Kutener, No. 870 Jennings Street, Bronx. Rabid Rudolph is certainly « eure enough person. We first observed him Bronx Zoo feeding bird- ions and raw beef to the He also had a can of con- densed milk to give to the kangaroos, but he said he noticed the poor things didn’t have any can opene: H indeavoring to secur a chiropodi the sna house and was really quite a rational chap, conversing well on any subject ave baseball. There he was a trifle He had played the sunfield 0 long in the subway that he was a bit short-circuited in the cupola. id to work for this column after we agreed that Frank could bunt further than anybody in the league. We reat there is going to be & tournament, hen we thought, chet ahuffieboart bed joined te rubber collar ang the surley talled pug Having about a dozen south- paws on his staff, Manager Dono- van is not Hable to get excited about American rights. As an insomnia cu the buttons on Mark on’s billiard run of 2,634 takes the place of the justly famous sheep jumping over the fence, shoving over We often wonder what @ golfer’s favorite game ta. They should have had an ump at the banquet to fine Hans Wagner for not talking, Otto Knabe believes that Thomas | Jefferson made a mistake in draftin [the Declaration. Otto thinks that a Americans should be free, but not ne agents THE WHITE ELEPHANT BOWLING & BILLIARD ACADEMY JOSEPH THUM, Proprietor, 22 BOWLING ALLEYS ! 35 BILLIARD TABLES RESTAURANT 1241-1251 Broadway, Cor. 3ist St., N.Y. —_—_—_—_—_—_——— Bergman Bros. Bowling Alleys LENCX AVE.—116th Street Bilifard Instruction and Extibitions by Prof, Koarlue Daily, |26 Billiard Tables 10 Bowling Alleys EVERYTHING FoR Billiards az" Bowling Prices and Terms .o Sul, REPAI S BY EXPERT MECHANICS, as SRE TM, seemed to be in no jesting mood last night. ‘The Mets again showed the way ip the closing session for their third and easy victory. Stern substituted for pitching arm pains, nog Most of last season, he will need | ttle else to convince him that his be eliminated. No goal post ai- lowed to cast a shadow more than ninety yards long. Itlor more Young Brown, the local battler, George Thomy than twenty-three years box. ‘of California end Micka Dunn and Frankie son of Califor ne Was revived at Harvard College home town, Dey joodinan eway punches in the other = Pitohing days are at end |inst night in the living room of tho Seating capacity of downed run- |] ey wes sare ° Falk and anchored handily. The |Unton, and @ glorious resurrection it| J DOr to be fixed by Interstate Com- aa ¢ ornell Five scores HE football rule makers finished cou merce Commission ‘That Jimmy Daffy, the crack welterweight of Breas Halpcem oo ggo| Metroaliing ae any the first day of their annuat| P™°Y* he crowd jammed every|] Players leaving game with bust- | Lockport, N. ¥., is « great idol with the fight “v | Wald ...305 180 oli Fox 1G Ia : y inch of the hall. |} ca ankles not allowed to run up ||ien of Buffalo, 'N, ¥., was again demonstrated weeps Cou Pr ET MR EUR TY tie te : Meeting with the conviction |/")\ Cy es Lb Ry teeta repay a wht ‘Ted | Havate 2166 170 16) Stara 195 180 A Whi canada “i d @ present gridiron game i f ampion = Johr GG COWR Side , Aig oie 5 a Soore—Mier, 20 ood isk be used. swan oe ppb e hats sa ip the an To cut down the number of the || lewis retum bate at the Queensbery A, ¢ Wi th Ci l © ng\ After taking two games from the g ey can ‘ani F Perfectly good sport and should: : pai lay Rig Four’ to seventy-six Jot that city, ‘The re-vipte amounted to $0,200, l OLUIMBDLA park Rowarwariicr in the wee, the be tampered with. A few got a Tra table rules to be more || witch was an unusually largo gate, Fach fighter facade Rrondway Arcades journey i abused. e@hanges will undoubtedly mm nner Oran strict ayers n te 1 to eat || received over $1,700 for his end Cornell swamped Columbia 36 to 15| Brooklyn last ni and whitewashed the playing code tefore th: elt weight cla Weatier ything they can't Litt The Broadwa; Club of Troow . i dippers ©) Cordes's Grand Central bowlers in A ‘ Ml head, 188 and 175 pound classes; W Press pr fe wyin~ Hl stage thee ton-round boule and. one in @ league championship basketball] the three scheduled games of The The rational use of good Whiske Ma finished to-day, but nothing radical /G. Cummings, 1i0-pound clans, and | pathy for F pects tt= Pl scrap at ils boxing a! buh. game last night, It was the worst| Evening World tourney at this acad- gs y will be attempted. Percy Haughton, |B. F. Canill, 14 pound class booed, All ital radios to be |] oc Mootana and silent Martin will be te prio: | ticking the Blue and White ever re. | emy. is its moderate use. No hitting# be retained. lentary pass eliminated, King to be confined to the football Piling up to be allowed in grand stands. No more hurdling the eligibility conte, Spiked shoes to be discouraged. Faces may be boulevards, but | fhe Harvard coach, wants an altera —- sealed before son starts, ctpale ip the main go, In the other two tens, - The Grand Centrals started with a Zion in the rule regarding inter ROBERT HEDLEY ENTER Headgears must be heavy || puwmy Burue meets Joh Mattbons and Mute |Colved on its home court. Adding in-| sight lead in the opening game, and “ence with the catcher of forward Ss enough to protect opponents’ feet || Heins tackles Young Douinick, The aix-round|Sult to injury, the Cornell team| would probably have won this ses- j and his suggestion may be RANKS OF TURF OWNERS, | Jr inary, [gaan tl be tetmemm Yous Gert end Tome {rushed ins substitute lineup before|sion had not Enright gone all to Men who use good Whiskey moder- corporated into the code, the game, and even then the Morning- The old argument came up about side people failed to make any head- Kalu, Barring accidents, Champion Freddie Welsh pieces by fouling and missing and thereby presenting the visitors with ately call for that mild and mellow mumbering Ue Daven at HP about! Rovert Hedley of Philadelphia te Fa Daring sacltente, CS Preale Weld |Wway, Neither team showed much | thie samo considerable conversation and. little | !#te#t addition to the ranks of racing |( STANDING OF TEAM bad Ad. Wolgnat will aiing punches oe en oer {spirit at the start, but the Cornoll five . \ There are aeveral prominent cart owsesn. lie har purchiead tron the|| oT AN AN BASKERBALL RACE. ||itaimerme get a Sam OY 4. 0. fant title tine once It got. thorougniy eee Whiskey — Wilson — Real Wilson— s Opposed to the idea ney Wi! | estate of the la H ae ———— | ate ‘ See bits Path Promote {Warmed up, Before Columbia really = ~ ' nably sawing cnoug 1 1 j | fisttere bare ested thele farfella with Promote }inew what happened the visitors ran KEMONT That’s All! a rule making it compul i lao (he < ast and Welal will tight at 128 / UP @ lead of six goals and were never | ns to lag thelr play Sag nye ar tat ioe | in danger during the remainder of the | longo Stagg of the University it bi ‘ contest, K Chicago came out strongly in favor |o f Seer | the elevor Rnglish boxer win tis ; , Of a rule for the numbering of play hag } Sane isin foe form since le placed isn ; The Whiskey for which we invented the Non-Refillable Bottle , ers. He declared that the football pub- the har tt 7 | the management of Dau Morgan, will 3 NP r | Me was entitled to some recognition id racerw as Thistledale, t COMA Os Bene Mab rheee of New York was Georae, Thampeon Micitey Bug FREE CLUB RECIPES—Free booklet of famous clvb recipes for ‘ Water he wit! take om Johnny Griffithe, the ark Akron ‘@nd that the proposed rule would not & knockout in is fight with Joe Chip ___Frenkle Daly va. Kid Conan. mixed drinks, Addrese Wileon, 311 Fifth Ave..N. Y. These AlN | y, Smoker and Terah, the last named materially interfere with the stratesy Ai t ee “4 Eaam, So euen sanet Cui ait. Wee |e Teenan oe Ope, Br aerert Niner of the Vieeroy's Cup at Mont- World Wants Work Wonders. ont sare tet the @ and om es make ceowwad “he Bout a Beat . rege es inh aeges : ; \ ! Oa CD Los