The evening world. Newspaper, February 29, 1916, Page 14

' i eee st ‘ ’ brews, ‘Witard isn’t Training as Much for Moran Johnson. Ceomeight, 1818, br The Prom Publishive Oo (The New York Svening World. ILLARD ‘* going through ordinary training routine, Jor- ging in the city instead of out én the open cotintry, boxing and ex-| ‘erctsing daily in a stuffy boxing club) before a ores of spectators, He Yaan’t done a pteat deal of work, and while in good condition hasn't ex- erted himself as he did before the Jobneon fight. Then be put in at least three months of solid, hard grind in warm Southern training camps. A month before he fought Jémmson he waa tit to fight a hun- dred rounds any day. To-day, cham- pion, putting confidence in his own strength and skill, and not consider- ing Moran by any means @s danger- ous as the negro, he's simply getting ‘ato trim for the amount of work be expects to do. Moran's case is different. He bas the world to gain, and, like Willard before the Johnson fight, he's work- ing with dogged persistence and en- thustastio hope. He’ at Saratoga, working dally ‘wintry northern gale. He's t yeni~ ng, bardening himself, hoplag to in- his naturally great stamina wot b he will be able to take Willard's crushing blows without wincing and send back drives equally hard until & me unt becomes @ test of endur- “Moran ie fighting for something be wants. And if he fails to get it he'll no ali except that the giant Witlard ts what Johnson found him— @ superman. GANS said to me once: “A man can fight a lot better for something he wants than to | an Bang onto something he's afraid of dosing.” Joe was arguing that a champion ‘defending a title against a good stghter is always at « disadvantage. ‘thora‘e on something in the argument, Tai te hola a ever worked as ohampionship as he sion has refused to sanction a bout between Freddy Welsh and Ford Munger, The Commission alleges that Munger hasn't sufficient class to make a showing against Welsh. ‘This is all very heartless and un- feeling on the part of the Wisconsin Commissioners. If they had a proper cpaeigeration for the well known in- oli of Champion Freddie they ouldn't interfere with his “picking Instead, they'd help him along and earn his eternal gratitude by se- Yecting an even more acceptable op- ponent than Munger. They could find one in any asylum for blind cripples. AMERICA FIRST! \ ‘Dhere's some discussion over the jority of English or American clubs. Don't see why any time should be wasted on this question. American products never stay long out of the lead, A few years ago European au- tomodiles outclassed the American in mechanical excellence and in appear- ance. To-day American cars are the best in the world—and the cheapest, Biectric lighting, the self-starter and many other improvements were in use on nearly every make of car in this eountry while still practically un- known abroad, Not long ago the best marine racing engines and boats were made abroad. But not to-day, Our American boats hold all the records, It's the same way in other | Bo ‘why should there be any discussion over a mere detail like a golf club? WILLARD kept the Sabbath by cutting out his paid admission training stunts, Don't remember that Jess did much Sunday resting in Havana. I've been reading a story in whioh a Siu-jiteu expert claimed that any good jiteu man could have defeated Jack Johnson at bis best. 1 don’t doubt it. Johnson was al- ways vulnerable to a kick on the abans. ‘HICH reminds me of a stu jitsu tale told me years ago by Tom Sharkey—when Tom was eull the tndia rubber sailor who could be knocked down but couldn't be burt 1 asked Tom if he'd © ‘licked.’ I was—onee,” said Tom “L was in the navy, on the cruiser Philadelphia, We touched at Naga- saki, and a few of us got leave to go ashore, We were wild to get off the ship and rough-house @ bit. As soon as we wore on the wharf we called a lot of rickshaw men and climbed im for a ride through the town, When we were in our rickshaws wo bi jumping up and down and yelling. jumped up and down in mine and | stepped right through it and came down on the ground. | thought it was @ great joke and 1 jumped on the wreck and boliered for the other fellows to look. The little rickshaw at came running around jabbering me, ‘G’wan,' I says, ‘or I'll hit eeu a rap! I ‘showed him my fist, he came up close end gave mo ap impudent look, an’ just as I was going to crack him onc for luck he imped in and nailed me with his ‘That's al! I knew about it. He e out cold. My mates came r been ae va walt He Did for, Jess Wiwars TRaqune < “Cap” Anson Can’t See How Present-Day Players | Excel the Old-Timers: Te pen Still, the rin. Yetoran Ad- mits He’s a Victim to the Spit Ball, a Modern Device. By Bozeman Bulger. MONG those who witnessed the yarture of the last of the Yanks for Macon yesterday was Capt. Adrian Anson, the daddy of All the sluggers and still spry of foot in his late fifties, He is in New York for a brief visit. The “Cap” was very much interest- ed in Ray Fisher, eager to learn all about his record. When he was through there came the old question, one that is always asked when an old- Umer sees a youngster: “How do you think the bail players | & of to-day compare with the boys back in the eighties?” Some one asked of ‘ “Are they better to- “I was always the belief,” thi Captain answered, “that ball players are born and not made according to get rules, Therefore, a ball player had just as much chance being born in 1885 as in 1915, Really, I can’t see reat deal of differe: , ‘Hut don't you think there has been 4 big improvement in the gume it~ self?” “Where?” parried the veteran, “The rules are practically the same. The diamond, the bases, the ball and thu bat are exactly the same, The gloves they wear now makes fielding even easier. “Believe me,” he added with em- phasis, “it was just as hard to bit a curve ball in 1885 as it is now. We had a few gerat hitters then just like you have now, Yes and we had just many weak ones. euThe only new thing in baseball that I know of is the spitball. In the old days they used to pitch age thing like it, but not #o perfectly and not with such @ sharp break. ” The spitbail is really built on @ new prin: CARTER LEADS FIRST GOLF ROUND AT PINEHURST. PNEHURST, N. C., Feb, 29.—Philip Carter, the young interacholastic oham- pion, led by eight strokes at the end of the first day's qualifying round tn the annual spring golf tournament here. Carter, playing Course No. 3, turned in @ score of 76, which was 41 out and 35 in. The number of entrants was a record golf field for any meet ever held in the United States, 269 golfers return- ing home with card: BOSTON IS HOCKEY FAVORITE. With the Boston A. A. on the heels of the St, Nicks In the Amateur Hockey League race, and having @ chance to win the 1916 tit! hockey followers are taking great Interest in aig game between the Hub seven and the Hockey Club at the St. Nicholas Rink, The Unicorn team will have to win the game in the race for key honors. lub aggregation rules favorite fo the contest, but close students of the game ure of the poinion that the Hockey Club will put up & great fight Poly Prep Loses “Doubleheader.” Poly Prep's basketball teams lost both ends of a “doubleheader” from Brooklyn Prep on the latter's court yesterday, when the first and second teams of ‘Brooklyn defeated the same teams from Poly. The scores were 32 Sand 27 to 26 respectively running, and the Japs rushed ‘em in a mob and they dragged me back to the boat. The Japs fought with poles and clubs and a lot of us had bloody heads before it was over. The boys pulled my wrecked rickshaw apart and used the pleces to fight with, Yes, that Was one time I was licked.” J TU-JITSU was laughed at all over this country a few years ago when a West Point football player tackled and roughed up an alleged “expert” who wanted to teach Jiu-Jitsu to the cadets, But that wasn't a fair test. In the first place the Japanese, who didn't have a clear understanding of Eng- lish, expected merely to go through the movements and demonstrate his manner of defense. He didn't expect a football rush, He wasn't at liberty in any case to use the most important part of ftu-jiteu—the crippling tricks, | A football player rushing a jlu-fitsu man in jiteu ar ably wit football n delivering n the ground, prob- © foot hooked around the an's ankle and the other ek Just be ow his knee. cap. This is one of the favorite leg- breaking tricks. A jitsu r k on the ground’ Is i approach as i to sep the “rou, could “mix it u a real fight would find the| HALF MILLION RISK ON BOSTON BRAVES BOSTON, Mass. Feb. 20.—The Bos- Mee EP Se RATS, bree, neared tor 9 total of $500,000 against ident of a7 nature, except etoh Se may cover on the ba The policy is # blanket sent, con “Te tenn. reseed that, in o8Giiien, ov very member of it players tnearea” individually egeinst wcel- it of any kind. ciple. That is practically the only new thing. In the old days we bunted and stole bases just as you do now, 4nd runnere were blocked away from the plate in exactly the eame man- ner.” But about salaries?” “Yes, there's been a change there,” the “Cap” admitted with a laug! “What an ordinary ball player get nowadays would have been a stars salary some years ago. At that, | al- ways got pretty good money. “Ell tell you another important change in the methods of baseball, and that is in the number of players carried. In the old days we rarely ever had over fourteen players. That was considered the limit, Until they cut down the Hmit last year it wi customary for ail the clubs in the major ball league during the past ten years to carry twice that many. Even now they have from thirty-five to forty playerd practicing in the trat ing camp, I don't know whether that is a good thing or not. When we car- ried a few men each of them felt that he was expected to do his part. They all worked harder because they had to, Nowadays If a player doesn't feel exactly right there are two or three on the bench waiting and anxious to take his place.” ‘Do you think you could hit the spitball if it was pitched to you now?” Joe Wood asked. “No, I don't,” he admitted. “A few years a when Jack Chesbrough was in his prime with the spitter Clarke Griffith bet me a hat that Jack could strike me out. The argumeat arose over my disbelief in the spit- ball. I really did think It simply a jot of newspaper talk then. Well, we went out and tried it and Jack did strike me out. Notwithstanding the troubles that have befallen him Capt. Anson looks as hale and strong as a man ten years younger than himself, Hu has just returned from Philadelphia, where he went @ few days ago on the sorrowful mission of burying his wife. was sug- Kolehmainen ted the ath- letes of tho Irtsh-American A. C. Inst year in the point scoring contest. The dist runner covered 106 points, Patrick Ryan, the giant weight thrower, finished second on the list, whfle Jack Eller, tho veteran sprinter and hurdler, was third with During tho year the wearers of the Winged Fist tallied 1,274 pointe, ‘The club announced its committee for the ensuing year Inst night. Ter- ence Farley was appointed Chairman of the Athletic Committee, which is composed of W. Jones, Anthony J. Barrett, John F. Conway, Congressm Murray’ Hulbert, Joseph ‘8, Hynes an John J, MeHugh, NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 20.—The Grand Jury adjourned yesterday with- out returning @ true bill against the Fair Sresnes HG} officials for per- mitting, as violations of the Locke law, winter prohibits bookmaking and pool selling on horse races. The Grand Jury has been investigating the officers of the Racing Association, layers oe official stakeholders for several aye. Anew, athletic league came inte ex, istence last ay It was organized at fhe Trinity Club of Brooklyn and will be known as the Long Island Athletic League, ry Newcomb of the Long Tsland A. C. presided at the meett and after formulating plans for the new league called a meeting for next wees when @ constitution and by-laws will drawn up. mong the clubs that will belong to Trinity Club, » Loughlin Lyceum, Anthony, Smart Set, . Presentation’ A. C., Central %., College Point ¥, ., Good Counsel and the Maplewood of Bt Knights Royal A. C Congregational A. ¢ A Cg. g M A A St, Agnes A. Etna A. C legates to the annual convention of the A. to be held hi SP saturday. “pisliialnaty lo the door inte: late ames, inay be asked to vote upon the proposition of ‘ding the forty-first championship meet in Newark, ‘Since 1904 the yearly track and field games have been held at either Philadelphia or Cambridge At (he coming convention Harvard AS Crammon “THe USUAL GYMNASIUM with DUPREME CONFIDENCE. |had enough good material at hand out Copyright, 10) \o Pong ! feaas Tim niacin Three “Double Centuries Overcome Brooklyn Trio in Evening World Tourney. on SCHEDULE TO-NIGHT. St. Nicholas Inn at Bergman Park Row at Crotona. | | \ { ITH each of their three eal timely coming through with a! “double century” in different games, the Bronx Palace trio had easy sailing for a clean sweep against the night at the Bronx Academy in The Evening World three-man amateur, tourney, In the first session Walsh registered '@ 205 score, whioh, with Rupprecht's! good tally, decided thie game in the Bronx boys’ favor. The visitors were by no means bowling badly, In the second string they totalled 643, but the home team with Rupprecht’s 229 piled up a 596 total, Cordes's Brooklyn bowlers started with a lead in the closing game, and} although they had a 30 pin advantage ; in the sixth frame, Strang this time | toppled the timbers for four straight strikes, putting the Bronx boys on an even basis with the visitors. Rup- t then made a mark on the $, 6, and 10 pin split, clinching the vic- tory for the Bronx Palace, Vega showed the best form for the Grand Yentral. The scores: LEAQUE ‘veel American National Tourney — Cres o 923, Castle Pont B16 inpire + Nmpire, 872, association to contests at the stadium on Field. Johns Hopkins Soldiers’ sity of Baltimore and Syracu: aity are both in the fleld for the officers of the 250th anniversary | celebration in Newark have intimated that they would by. pleased to act as hosts to the compe « collewlans, TOLEDO, O., Feb. 29.—With the rec. ord-breaking total’ of 766 five-man feamn ontorod in’ the annual tourney of the American Bowlin eu which opens here on Mare! have found it necessary to ektsnd the tournament to March 28, three days Jonger than originally’ p) 4 he tournament alleys ‘are completed and all is in readiness for the opening night, when Toledo teams Will roll the first gamos. Secretary A. natty, in Milwaukee, wilt return ‘here dn Wednesday to attend to the mailing gf schedule books off the press on Mon- NEW HAVEN, Feb. 2 29.—Guy Nickalls, Yale's crow coach, who has just arrived from a three months’ vacation in land, took charge t ment of Yale crows, of which to build a winning varsity crew, As soon as he gets the men) started on their preliminary, training | he intends to look over the Housatonic course on which Yale is to practise this spring, and on hts vordict, will probably depend the location of Yale crew quar- ters in the future. mely High Hitting Wins for Bronx Bowlers... Brooklyn Grand Central bowlers last | 737, ae haemae THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY FEBRUARY bY 29, 1916. 1916. _ BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK © (The New York Evening World.) HOW WILLARD AND MORAN COMPARE IN TRAINING by the Press Publishing Co. Moran wit Every Taina To Gain, 1S Worn EVEN HARDER any Wi Dap Fon Tue JOHNSon FIGHT, Rougning Tt Daw IN The WINTRY GALES At STANDING OF THE TEAMS IN THE WORLD TOURNEY. 8, wiv ‘gl “1 ow wn a on 19 S09 O11 600 690 Puta | Insurance Company No, 2, 781, Silk League—L. & 1. Stirn, 806, 8 £66, ve, William Iselin Company, 780, F. Miller, 164, the Nicholas Individual FY 146, 8, a Theiss, Miller, berth, "196 158, 2 187, 158: 410, va. Haberth. 2s, 164 $13, a — Baseball MARLIN, Tex., Feb. 29.—The Gtants, urged on by Boss McGraw, are putting in two practice sessions here every day o apry. They are the firet out for prac- tice and hurl the ball around in mid- season form, One of the most pleasing incidents in yesterday's drill was the “pep” shown by Matty. During the first practice period the veteran strolled out to the slab and pitched for fifteen minutes to the batters. He sald his sore shoulder didn't give any pain and that he was very much delighted after his first hard test. MACON, Ga,, Feb. The work of the pitchers featured the practice of! the Yankoo squad here yesterday, At Manager Donovan's suggestion seven- teen of the eighteen available twirlers in camp went out during the afternoon drill and shot a curtain of fire at the batsmen. Several of the more ambitious sharpshooters experimented with spit- ters, particularly Allen Russell, who) pegged away with @ side-arm spitter | That’ looked though it might fool | many, @ batter Nick Cullop, who was purchased from the Fed's bargain counter, cut loose with @ curve so deceptive that scarcely & ball was hit out of the infield. MANGAS CITY, >. 28.—-"l've sola mm layers except one, and I'm through with baseball,” declared Harry Sinclair, former Federal League m sums I read of every day.’ ‘Sinclair declared the small amount he | Jost in Newark last, your was regained ih the sale of that club's players, Debts of other clubs in the league were Itke- Wise Mauidated, he declured, until he| came out with ‘a profit, Hal Chase, former, American Leagy star, was named by Sinclair as the ‘only player he has not disposed of NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 29..-Fred Tene | = Eddie Goodwin, one of the best flat floor bieycle riderw in the country and | holder 0 champion. hips Joined squad of athletes Regiment Armory sworn tn ox and will repre M. A. L. championships: tate A the Milltary Athletic Leagu Charley at the last Bacon's | Twenty-third night, He 1 ohey Outpoints Barns, Tuohey, the Paterson cht, had all the ‘ot y. Burns’ of ‘Tockaway in the star pout of ten rounde at the Olympic of Harlem last night, Tuohey was th Aggressor from start to finish and had Burns in divtress in several of the rounds, Jimmy Duffy of the west side outpointed Joe Malone of Harlem in the semi-final of ten rounds loons > the new maringer of the News International ue baseball team, | made a visit to this city. yesterday, Tenney inspected both the Federal League rounds and W enmarver ¢ Par! Ae Gecared he w undectded which e uid be more suitable for shy coming a ‘Tenney wala intendes to be a player-manage “ft am only! forty-four years old,” 4 sald, “and in pil T believe T can show that I have much bas cu vine ability left.” A the r , Win BUPFALO, Feb, 29.—-Benny ard of New York proved ty be a sen- sation when he all Rocky Kansas here last night in onard throughout, poking lefts into Kansas’ n he crashed over hi 1 boy wilted every tim: great exhibition of boxing. fought furiously Fight, the loc In the tenth round, a fast left upper- cut and right swing to the jaw 5 gered Kansas, but he fought back gamely under a fire and lefts, of more rights now. Tho young recruits are especially | nate, who was here, yesterday on his! way to Tulsa, Okla, “And the best part of it,” he continued, “In that I have madé money instead of losing the large but knocked out} amber ene abaaneemsentineiith 4 SARATOGA, ,, | Young Appleby Brothers In a Brilliant Match For | oe Francis 269 in the Opening Match of National Championship. HOSE two young cue wisards, Francis and Edward Appleby, were foreed to play against other last night in the opening round of the national Class A 18.2 balkline championship at the Arion |Club, After a beautifully played |match, Francis defeated his younger brother 400 points to 269. The win- ners average was 9 12-48 and his| high runs 43, 32 and 26, Before the start of the champion- ship President Reuscho of the Na- tional Association of Amateur Billiard Players called attention to the ad- vancement in the cue game when two Columbia University students like the Applebys are qualified to “|meet in the opening match to decide ee successor to Joseph Mayer, who a8 last year's title holder, \* The meeting of the two Applebys was all the more remarkable because such veterans as J, Ferdinand Pog- genburg, Morris D. Brown, Edward W. Gardner, Charles Heddon and Jacob Klinger were the other com- petitots for the national title. The winning of the bank for lead availed Edgar Appleby no advantago, ag Brother Francis began to collect /the caroms in large clusters. During the first few turns at the Fistic News o Jounny Kilbane, the featherweight champion, seems ¢0 take great delight in going out of his ciase and meeting | real good lghtweights, for he has just | been atgned by his manager, Jimmy | Dunn, to ewap punches with another one of the topnotchers of that division. He lis Johnny Dundoo, the fast and clever [local Italian pugilist. ‘They will come ‘together in @ a#ix-round go at @ apecial boxing show to be etaged hy the Olym- pia A. A. of Philadelphia on Wednesday evening, March 22, Dundee is to receive | one-third of the groas receipts for his end, Dundee !s also matched to battle Benny Leonam’ a ten-round bout in Madison Square Garden on March 8. ‘Tex Rickard, who ts promoting the ten-round | heavyweight champtonahtp fight between Jem Willard and Frank Moran in the Genlen on March 25, ennounced last might that $9,200 test in less than seven hours claimed thees were the $10 and $16 tickets, He | further stated that fow of the ing side box seats are lett, Sam Langford and Hamy Wills, the great col- | oved heavyweights, are to battle for the fourth | time, Joho Welesmantel to-day matched the men to fight tn rounds at the roadway Sporting Club of Brooklyn on next Tuesday might, As Langford recently knocked out Wills ta the niue | teent® round, the latter claims he will get even | with Sam thin time, Tho American Sporting Club, which holds Doxiug eutertainments at Bulzer’s Perk, One H | toni apiece fee OP ey Le | nue, will atuge another show to-night, The cant | of botits conslsta of three tens and three four round bouts, ‘The ten-rounders will ho between | Joe Avavedo and Andy Wi Eddie © | and Johany Allen, the bute and | Kline and Billy Rowe Danny Morgan, manager of Jack Heit send arian of agrenent cals fr 8 between Britton and Soldier Martfield at the Boadway Bromiag Club of Broklra on Mer Promoter Wainmnantel expecta to get the ais danny MeKetrick, manager of Bartfieid | Sto the article today Aa atconsequence of @ heavy fall of rain twenty-round battle between Tel "Kid" Lewis, | the Pnglish welterweight, and Harry Stone, tue clever Mahtweigt of New York, which was to uw bern held at ‘Tommy Burns's club at New Orieans last uislit, was postyotied until peat | Wednesday nigh’ Joe Mandot evidently dom't wan) any more of Jobnny Dundee's game | Heferee Hurna gave him the decision over Dundes at Now Orleans last Wook, Soot ager of Dundee, threw S500 ob the table romoter Tortorich’s office and offend to make Mandot @ present of it if Le would eign of agreement for another bout in April, | be dectinad to do, Jack Ty Philadelphia fighter, must have done some wonderful favor for Promoter Weindnenivl, for ho matched for snot bette the Broadway Sporting Club of Broklm on lee which Deteats Edgar 400 to| By John Pollock. for immediately after | Billiard Title table the contrast between the brothers was marked. Edgar Aspleky appeared a trifle impetuous. made a dismal failure of his draw shots. Another element that handl- capped him was his faulty judgment in continually driving both the red and white object balls, with the re- sult that he rarely displayed any- thing approaching close manipulation until his brother had distanced him. Francis, by his concentration on} Position manoeuvring, at the end of the first ten innings led by 123| to 30, During this period he de- lighted the crowd by his clever use of | English and the freedom and dazzling | brilliancy of his masse shots. He was inclined to use the bridge | and his right hand to the cue for the long shots. Edgar proved to be as versatile with his left hand as with his right, and rarely hesitated about the manner or the execution of a shot, There was a falling off in the ef-| fort of Francis as he passed into his third hundred points. He made amends toward the close, however, by a run of 46 on his twenty-eighth turn at the table. It was the high tally of the contest. Much of the time he drilled the spheres about for masterful single cushions. There were brief bits of eddying caroms in the corners and then breezy round the table drives. It furnished a glittering example of his dexterity. ‘The scores follow: and Gossip Saturday night. His opponant will be Terry Mitchell, Jean Oonstant of Franco and Frankie Diemeyer and Bahay McCoy and Nate Jackwon ‘meet in the other two ten-round bouts, ‘The Gropp A, ©, of Harlem will hold ite regular woekly boxing show to-night, Young Ful. ton ve, Frankie Dixon and Willie Kobier vw. Young Ketchell in ten-round boute, Kid Rows vs, Billy Tolowo for six rounds, Jotnay vs, Willie Campi and Tommy Courtney ve, Exitie Radin tn fowe-round battles, After several weeks of dickering a match has finally been clinched between Jack Dillon and Jig Flynn, the gamo bearyweight of Pueblo, Col, Harry Pollok, the new matchmaier of the Man- battan A. C. of Harlem, to-day comploted all ar Tengoments for the men to mest in @ ton-ruund bout at the boxing show of that club in Manhat- tan Canino on next Tuesday night. Uanlew the manager of Pred Fulton, the Weat em heavyweight, is willing to let him box om « percentage basis, the chances of the big fellow boxing at any of the local clube aro wry lim, Fulton, it w learned from « reliable source, on received $800 for his end for boxing Dan Flynn 4 twenty-round tout, at New Orlea ton’ waa offered $3,000 before he mot Miyano | box Charley Welnert at the Harlem Sporting Club and tamed tt down, ‘The State Boxing Commision af Wisconsin to. | day rulod that Battling Nelson was ‘too far goo to box Ad Wolgast, to whom he lost the light weight championship, ‘They had been matched to | box at Appleton, Wis,, April 12. Matt We in hands to-night 8, the fast Buglish boxer, bas a band He Akron Wella ia in excellent abape for the battle and get the popular newspaper veniict by out | Orienehe, nting | |SAM LANGFORD EASILY DEFEATS HAWKINS. 7 ively ten-round pout nm Langford of ton eastiy outpolnted | Cleve Hawkins of Canada In the main event at the boxing show of the Long Acre A. A. last night Battling Levinsky sprung a big sure prise by beating up Jack Driscoll, the| Brooklyn heavyweight, so badly that] Referee Barnett topped the bout at! the end of the third round to save! phta defeated Dute is ‘andt of Brook. | yt a Drumm cteats Cooma NEW Conn. {Johnny Drumm ne Jer | weight, was awarded the d Mel Coos the Brooklyn figh' Ro we the end of their twelve-round bout here last night. Drum- mie fought one of the best battles of his areer and surprised the large crowd of fans by fast footwork and Joouan Was substituted for Pete Hariley, who. could not go on on account of a bad cut over hia eye. EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN | fence. ‘in running out SeTQVERY tight- E er is the same weight in a battle over the telephone.” Add to the Jost arts of the Egy tians the boxing champion who usd to be popular, | Cy Pieh diapiaya eo acumen in eating ple for the movies at Macon Asn opens no pitcher is lasting to de \ The first Toronto shopkeeper who tries to slip Frank Truesdale a Cana: dian dime will be knocked for a thi dagger, AT GREAT EXPENSE THIS COLUMN SENT RABID RU- DOLPH NORTH TO FIGURE OUR PERCENTAGE FOR A PENNANT, RABID IS THE QNLY LEFT HANDED BASE. BALL WRITER IN THR WORKS, HIS ACCOUNT— POLO GROUNDS, Feb, 99.—After a careful survey of the ticket facilitias of the Polo Grounds we see no reason why New York shouldn't enjoy @ world series scalpe scandal this fall. Having three teams we have three chances of copping a pennant, i We also have the same number of chances of not securing a pe nt. However, drastic measures must be taken to secure winning to Polo Grounds, While thi Is excellent the base to ms at the ventilation paths will have be widened so the fat boys will not be called out for overlapping the baselines. Manager Donovan can ime prove his twirling staff by building the shower baths further away from hia pitchers, Although at present covered with ice, right fleld looks like a permanent fixture, We see no rea- son for shifting centre field over to left, but it would improve our bat- ting if both foul lines were painted on the roof of the grandstand. Th infleid must be rolled down smooth, as sone of Keating’s Inshoots bounce) very badly off the batters’ beans, The outfelders have the same trou- ble, many an easy bunt rolling to the If our batters show any speed the third strike the pennant is ours. Even allowing for @ complete reversal of dope, this Octo- ber should find our ball teams enjoy- infl beautiful autumn weather Artmr Pelky continues to get the vendious, Ho gained another adverse decision the other day Looks as if De Oro was gome around the country pulling Me blows. Reports from Dakota state that ferocious jack rabbits are chasing dulidogs around. Always he that in the spring, but wate ent the regular season opene. FACTS NOT WORTH KNOWING, ' The champion athiete who breaks hie own record Is in a peculiar posi- tion, Although he has shown up the former title-holder, he still hae a warm epot in‘his heart for his prede- sor, In fact, we never lamped a former champ who regarded his eu cessor with such admiration and re- spect as the champion who has just busted his own record. 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