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————EEE— UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY ———y Jim Coffey Meets Jess Willard) and Is Amazed at the Cham pion’s Size. Geprright, 1916, by The Prem Publishing Ce, (The New York Brening World.) 88 WILLARD had finished train- ing yesterday and was getting his rub when he was told that Jim Coffey was downstairs and would like fo nee him. “Bring him right up,” eaid Joss, A moment later Billy Gibson ap- eared. trailed by his Irish warrior, “Hello, Jim,” said Joss, pleasantly. ‘Hello, Jc You luck.” Cottey stood @hampion over, looking while Willard con Versed with Gibson and Bill Brown. There was no envy in Coffey's clear blue eye—rather a gleam of admira- he tion. Standing beside looked like @ tall, slim the others, Coffey wa side the six and 4 h ard’s height bulk. And Coffey loomed Uke a giant! Willard ks dwarfed ard? There was a little talk and Jim ye and full as He Coffey politely strolled out. He had an ey they say at the Russian ballet. had sized Willard up carefully. $f he tried to pick out that everyone's trying to find in the eas giant he told nobody about it. W HEN Coffey had gone Manager Tom Jones popped in, having been busy counting the quar- ters in the box office. “Is Coffey here?" asked Jones. “He was, but he's went,” Jones was assured. “Too bad—I'd like to ask him to ome and box with Jess,” said Jones, “Would you let him? “Sure, I'd let any of the good ones box Jess. “T’d like to get ‘em. Reich was to tart with him Monday, but } up to-day with his manager and he couldn't do it because he has a fight on. I told him Jess would be careful, but he couldn't see It. I'll bet of the good ones will box with It's all right till they get a tamp at him close up—then good night.’ ILLARD cut out his road work yesterday, but worked a little harder indoors. He has taken ‘off & little weight He says he likes working in the well-heated ball on Forty-fourth Street as it makes bim perspire freely. He boxed two rounds each with Hemple, Monahan and Williams. The latter, a big, wide- shouldered, loosely built lumber camp blond, is beginning to look like a war victim. A few weeks with Jess cer- tainly would play havoc with his beauty. After boxing Jess wrestled around the ring with “Strangler” Lewis, who afterward said the champ was one of the strongest men he ever tried to tie a knot in. The “Strangler” is po pul- Pag refant himself, javing finished with the “common fodder” Joss tossed the medicine ball @bout for a few minutes, He did not, however, use his stomach as a back- Stop for the line drives sent his way. He went through the work as if it were merely purt of the exhibition of little interest to him. said gi But FEW minutes © bending, twist- I Just come up to wish the huge it feet of Will- 4 the 260 pounds of his over What will the contrast be when Moran faces Will- “weak MANAGER Rasius — RIGHT BAG KY, SUM MUCH OBLUGED To MEET YoU — YOS De MANAGER. , (ST Yo! , Boss? Teaching Facts About} pegara Famous Trainer pions. Boys to Take a Personal Pride in Work Moakley’s Cornell Secret Now Has 558 Boys in Training Squad. ls Running as the Finest Athletic Diversion. THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MAROH 4, 1916 ~ BEST SPORTIN Tec. TH! MANAG His Teams Won 14 Cross-Country Titles in 17 Years, Makes the Best Runners Out of the} Plugger Type. | Makes Personal Appeal to Youths to Im- prove Their Athletic Condition. Produced John Paul Jones, Scott, Galla- gher, Munson and Other Great Cham- Believes in the Largest Number of Students Taking Up Athletics for the Best Results, OHNNY MOAKLEY of Cornell, father of record smashers and J of runners in collegiate history, Is In town. He is here heading the Cornell runners who will try for honors i the intercollegiate games at Madison Square Garden to-night, The veteran trainer has been saying nothing and sawing wood for a few months back, and his work {s likely to show to- night when his Cornell runners leave the Garden burdened with trophies. Jack, however, did not say this, for one more modest is rarely found, “I have a good bunch of boys. 1 like them and I like the work they have been showing,” was his com- ment on to-night’s event, “but I don't know what the others have and J cant make any predictions.” Moakley always talks that way, Ho say# about the same thing before every collegiate cross-country run, and when his team comes in frst be ine 6 general exercising {ly bas a word to say, These stunts finished the day's work- | &f@s4-country teams he has developed out. Willard and “Kewpie” Ertle | "ave Won first honors in fourteen were introduced to the crowd, stand yours of the seventoon Jack Moukloy fug sive vy side, This seeneu to] has been the coach of track teams at amuse Jes: ‘ Corn His teams have taken the The big fellow rolled himself in alyonors iz ntercolle 3 quilt in the dressing room and the|POhers 12 six Intercollegiate track perspiration rolled down his face in| ™aet streams: Seutt, Galagher and Munson, the There's hothing gBrouchy about] great distance runners, were brought Willard. While waiting for bis rup-| °° i A GR anacian atin down he talked ebeertully with Hua pit o TY tant ane olan Brown, The fact that JI has his for th bali teain, and wholly une health farm near Garrison stocked | Mt for it, when he took him up and with registered Jersey castle inter-| 840 bin a great runner, Maguinn terested Jess a lot more than anything) De bandied in prep school be @nybody had to say about the fight, his conuition or the number of quar- ters contributed by the large downstairs. Jess discoursed at length upon the various qualities of Jerseys, Dlack cattle, Texas long horns, &c “I'm in better shaps J was three weeks b fore the Havana ceowal training went to Cornell, Truby, Verne: nd Isied we the products of his s 558 students now traning 1 for places on the various track teams, and bis only de. sire Is that even more would come right now than Ut, No, I'm not afraid of missing tat fight,” he said, when Bill switched @nt in all that crowd," he said tn reply back’ to Nght talk. “I'll take off a| to a question, “want to get ry Hittle more weight and Harden up a) M4by 4s possible out. T'm with the Httie, and I'll be just right. Tbe Bagishman who said it was better heavier than J was in Havana becaus, %& have them all out working than T've been boxing for a year and I'v hi © few stars out being fin grown bre My arms are bigger| trained while several hundred sat in and I've filled out. It's good fighting ¢ 1 stands 1 sincked cigare stuff. if 1 still carr u little fat at) & watching e re my Waist just remember that I always 1 running as the greatest dia, T never trained all that off. [t's @thlotic diversion, because it brings naturel for me to revi i} compl muscular ¢ dination it F THE WHITE ELEPHANT BOWLING & BILLIARD ACADEMY JOSEPH THEM. PF 2 BOWLING ALLEYS 35 BILLIARD TABLES RESTAURANT 1241-125! Broadway, Cor 3ist St., N.Y Bergman Bros. Bowling Alleys LEN C X AVE.-—11€th Street one by 26 Billiard Tables 10 Rowling Alleys: EVERYTHING POU Billiards WS Bowling Prices and Terms .o Sui. REPAIRS BY EXPERT MECHANICS, ‘Whe Brunswic’ Falke-Collendar Co, w West $24 St. Near Broadway, means the quick response of the mus cles to the brain, and | regard it as the basis of all training,” he sald, “As to how stars are dev ped or how I train them, all 1 can say i to repeat |the words of President Wilson, | help the boys to find themselves, “You know the speed of most Kreat runners is in their courage, their hearts, not in their | Many, many boys built a iz lines of speed fail to become because. they lack the found the ureate eloped from the pluggers, ft who don't seem to be ‘ehamplo: first, but their determination carries them SPORTING. roe: ADMISSION 50) CENTS Sette Club, KG TP Jack T the greatest a!l-around developer}, through. Many of the most promis: ing prove to ve mere flashes in the pan, while the fellow plugging along ecomes the reat champion, “Tho plugger, being a plugger, to think the thing out winie. the cashing athlete Just goes ahead, Now the fellow who thinks it out, 1 find, invariably wing, When I sea a boy of ability 48 possible, I don't talk honor of the college or anything of that sort, I try to make him feel that even if he never gets anywhere the training Will stand him In good stead all his life, It is a practical appeal, and it kets faithful training and decp-root- ed determination. “Latel we have had a lot of criti« cism of athletes being injured by overtraining, Of course anything can be overdone, but few boys are in Jured by athletics under careful gus bervision, I believe in handling all the boys carefully and I always keep in mind the fact that they are in col- lege for an education, Athletics are secondary to that, but the two r can work well together, for a h body is bound to contain an and healthy brain.” Aside from the trainers at Corneil, Moakley admitted, the fact that tho original Cornell, who founded the coi- lege, placed thé buildings on a high hill ‘and made it necessary for the studenta to climb it, Is one of the most important factors in the atl letic success of the college. ‘The steep hill has brought many a trophy to Cornell, and ‘Trainer Moakley has often gratefully admitted its assist. ance in his training, T SAID To Give You A dovcar FoR MB, GORE I try to get as close to him | TRAVELLING WITH OUR BALL Copyright, 1914, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). G PAGE I ER 2, WAT 09. OT That CROWS IN THe MORNING AND Liat at ee] AND Quacns None ‘ Gwe tT UP— WHY, YA Pook, Boos — & Rooster AN' A MULE ANA ECR te co! —_>—. Three Games in Evening World Tourney. SCHEDULE TO-NIGHT. Bronx Palace at Park Row. TO-MORROW NIGHT. Park Row at White Elephant. on the Eureka alle session in the Evening teur tournament. way throughout the margin, The visitors reversed situation In the second string, ke in front and 40 pin difference. Landgraf's poor scoring, caused b Winners Take Two Out of| leer Bergman stars were enter- tained by the dancing masters 3 in the Grand Central Palace last night and were fortunate in taking the second and third games after losing the first World ama- The Eurekas grabbed their lone vic- tory in the opener after showing the set by a small ping nishing strong for a DUCK OF Course, + RN COUNT! ‘Bergmann Bowlers Find Eurekas Easy Victims e gave the tory in scores: Began Hergmans their second v: the closing session. py | phant Acad: In Garde edevihihieeadas Cornell’s Powerful Championship. etars in college ranks wi {championship games of. the 1. C. A. A. A. in the Garden to-n}, lone of tho largest teams en emore Wins Races pressively and Has Big Season Before Him. Im- JUARE! Bea Mexico, March 3.--Every during the Juarez meeting rare bargains are secured in t might be One of these Was secured this winter by W. J. Webor tn the bay gelding Waremore, The San Antonio turf man bought the youngster for the ull amount of $200 and a peres age of his first winning purse smart two-year-old has won his races in impressive style, and it med a certainty that he will score many brackets at the different courses where he will campaign after leaving is de termed “gift horses." | |reasons back. Previous te |frst appearance here the « ‘Tulsa, Okla., owing to his t being unable to fully Team Is Picked to Win the Indoor] #er ANY of the greatest athletic | strive for honors in the indoor A nt. With red and | with more than half of the stars who [captured the track and field cham- Two-Year-Old ‘Bought For Song’’ Proves Bargain of Juarez Meeting naking his jing was | not allowed to race out the meeting at b owner establish the Greatest College Athletes 11) pie Although Cor without a bard struggle in Moukley's best wen must dispose i] such champions as Ted Meredith Overton of Yale, Princeton and Huss th of Mic! gan, to say noiming the lights, and the newcomers in the o Billy Moore of chance to test Lae save for metue. to sulne becuuse their etoris in other events will be swallowed am compell Wilk be t int contests which Will be relays. am races, five rour Leld ever tue high and broad jump Vault and shot put—K balance of the prox Perhaps the &r nine sles battle | for, ( SA, Bom, AM Dis AYAW Gu -ROPeAN \ WARK over OOOO CCT STANDING OF THE TEAMS IN THE WORLD TOURNEY. an unusual number of bad breaks, ‘The 146 1 Games To-Night ®—~ 2¥ 42” Pollock hip title last spring on band,| over a year, Jeff Sn Corneil looms up as the logical win- 1 {8 the favorite, Mietory ts nut conceded to the Ithucans| which the University of Pennsylvania, Bing- ham and Wilicox of Harvard, Johony lesser lege rauss Who bauve not yet bad al,” yard dasa, a T-yard hurdie race and tue heid events, in- Gividual stars will have little cuanse 18. SIX Of the track | pole to make Up the of the N NEW YORK PLAYERS To Report at i Sl McGraw Expects Former Buffalo Pitcher to Be a Tower of Strength This Season. | MARLIN, Tex., March 4.—Frod An- | Jerson, who pitched for the Buffalo Feds last year, is now on the job for the Giants. Ho is the first of the outlaw stars purchased by the New {York club to show up here for prac: | | tice, Anderson breezed in eurly yes- terday morning and quickly got iD action on the ball field. The new- comer only indulged in a brief work- out, but his showing highly pleased Boss McGraw. Anderson had a workout with Sandie ndberg, the young Brooklyn boy who is attracting attention by his clever work, and, after throwing them up for a while, donned several sweat- |ers, a few sweat shirts and a macki- naw and ran around the park half a ;dozen times. Anderson 18 not much over playing weight, but Marlin was | swept by @ Norther this morning, and on the safe side. upon Anderson making himself in” the National ue this spring. With an inferior working behind him last year he jowed only sixty earned runs in some 240 innings and showed far beyond hi. club. So highly was the South Caro jan rated that when the difference: between the Feds and Organized Lase- hall were adjusted, McGraw advised his immediate pu chunp and Just can't get r the habit of pitching duets, ‘The * it formed on Polo Grounds rugh the last several years haa evi- nuy made slaves of the boys. To-da: hey divided the toil and glory of a vic aos (Ory over Lew M Webfeet by a {33 score of 6 to 4, Both cut loose with jm curves and speed seliom seen at this iy early day tn the season and were highly effective, To-nig series with the Bronx hauer pitched shut-out ball and Palace help the Park Rows to == = - creep uders, but @ great te mor row night num White Ele- | Fistic News |} and Gossip Cle'aing he ts tn the best condition | | for any fight that he has engaged tn for | th, the Bayonne | middleweight accon.panied by his man- AJ Lippe, left for St. Paul to-day, ¢ he ts slated to meet Mike Gib- bons in @ ten-round bout at the Capitol ;C A. C. on the might of March 17, e fact that Smith stopped Les Darcy, Australian middleweight champion, in five .rounds, has aroused considerable interest in the coming match, and Pro- | moter Dow figures that the gross re-| cet MM amount to over $20,000, U to Wednesday night the advance sale of Uckets for the fight amounted to $14,000, Of) uy ot} of his Ol} ay it Britton and Tod “1id" Lewls will meet in @ twenty-round bout in New Orleans for the welterweught championship of the world and a gold belt, Vromoter Tortorich wired Dan Morgan, manager of Britton, today that ho would give Britton the guarantee of 81,600, with ‘an option of one-third of the receipt, witch Mor. kao demanded, and that he intended to stage the | ali} up] of ats Jack Toland of Philadelphia, formerly of the battiewdp California, and recognized w wion of the United Btates nary, will Agalust Terry Mitohell, tho alambang fightor of ‘rvoniyn, im the star bout at the Broadway Sport one and a fifth miles. ‘This race wils| camaon of France and Begium, will claah with | y ien n Moore, t add | , . Pensylvania and Shelton of Cornell, | wing at the Pioneer 1. C. for his battie ENNIS Title | river serene ones seconds| 6, eats eonard ae salon Siuate' dares | or better fur the quarter mile. In the | nett Wetnemay hae been compalled t Wi :, six-lap team race of two and two eawhore, owing to © Kiet seritemd by dens From VEG he | wis Rc Neredien of Vennaytvunte| AN ie” oly, "eo Tokany. working | Bingham of Harvard, Overton of | there Dundee will brtaliy 3c, are Yale, Windnagel of Cornell, Coop of | Wat Mkle 4 ©, where be wsinet for other | PALM BEACH, Fla, March 4.—| Brown and Bent of M. L will prob. | ‘Dhis| George Myers Chureh, Tenafly, N, J, the holder of the tennis | ot Florida ended the ti |tully yesterday and thore possessor of tho Royal |Challenge Bowl, presented by y became Poinciana Mrs. ably run final laps | Tiger Five Defeats Yale | Pairmat A, C. of the Brona will ¢ ood card vf bouts to-night, McAmile bas amanged two good prvluninaries, In the | Tex Kelly of the Bronx fights | and Hide Campi, the bantam. pion of California, will ewap punches with game litle K, 0. aK9 Mate ton-roundt | maker fcraja and sam Fasers, , ‘ } y 2 ‘| 1 hi 7 i} "] here, Waremore is by First Chip, a| Henry M visgler, when ho defeated And Tie Penn Mackey Hommey, who has been doing scene good sire that with more favorable stud|!tving C. Wright, Boston, in three fighting in the last ix months, was matched for opportunities would have undoubtedly | #raiKDt binrttet iy Hapa ‘i | - ara | anouhw battle today by hi Hare Age RPE SIIBEF een | purch pla brillant tennis after! PRINCETO:! J., March 4.—Prince: | Lenny, tke opponent will be George Ohaney. Ue | prays a as xtra Rood stock HOPE. | rhe frat fow games, bid n work Pgh at way to a Ue for firat|crack Baltimore foatherweight, They will meot Firat Chip has only one other two- | being the decisive factor in his victory | ° with Pennsylvania in the intercol- | for twelve rounda at the Amer A. 0. of year-old to represent hin, ahe being jas it was well nigh perfect, Ho icilled | Pcs WER Uennsyivala tn Kaluimom on March 20 at cateh weighta, Hommey & chestnut filly out of Duchess of all Wright's attempts at’ tobs ins a | (aiate, baskewall league by wee is to figit Chaney twenty rounds, but Montebello, by r 4 full sister | manner whic trifled the crowd, | game, The gore was 24 to 19% rN r'9 manager would not age to it, | to the three-y Woodie Mont- and when th r sought to pass) Spectacular she rapid passing - komery, which recently graduated | him by his to the side fines and close Kuard ‘Acerding to Mike McNulty, manager of John from the maiden ranks here the | from back court Church cut them just tured the Phe Tis ny Drtle, the St, Paul bantamweight, Uttle | j first race she ever took part tn over the net to tr side for the varly lead, which Fetle has been offere! 82.250 to box Pete Hen | nt. In fact, Wright was helpless | ¥en Rain to the finish. Decayse | ian, the New Orleans bantamweight, a twelve. | Little Ja who has shown brite} before the fast x of his opponent, | Of, the shooting by Davies, who caged) Ooty saivem at New Bedford, Maas., on March | (iis season in a num- | though he did not ty form | "YY GAL a inainatay of ihe % TH WANVIG wage he le holding off for 82,600. | of races, lw the gelding Which was lof the day before eate ne all the points tn the The reomit mat between Ertle and Al &uurer t alluwod to race 16 & couple of Harold Throckmorton in the finals, pd | Ave, see halé and five dp the second, Aa the wate olig drew $4,700, Tes. IM to» Aste mac — HE'S EDWATED Anderson, First Fed Star ¢ ‘check to the Yanke EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN {PUTTING ’EM OVER With “Bags” Baer y " ning Co, tk Evening World.) LOU, [Te Poor. sime Doesn't trrow FORD WENT 0} AN! STopPeo tT LAST CHRISTMAS, danger “ 1e) N of the price of gasoline being sunk with. out warning.” Moran is « ug snow, |but he won't have to after the fight | A committes of Bunvpean experts on atrocttiés | will room pass through New York om thele way | to viait the basebadl | Having completed the round of tha jcarthly links the Duffer stood outeide the pearly club house, He recetved the stereotyped request for he card. 1 threw it away as usul” he whined. |"Down to the + -rteenth stoke-holel” Giant Camp, | eaddish glee |roated the custodian of the pearly ° ° turnstile aa the cherubie caddies UL in Practice irr ve cio tn peccveme as worked thr Sehupp was RoUKAK Contt over after three The twins were Doyle's Flatfeet tiona John J. Met “ Lite Napoleon br ter for ball pit single. line, and Mi buck to t oles when istic of his. Ray Kramer, a California boy, pitehed for Wendell's team for a while and ma 4 an impression. He has a lot of stuff . . the ball and has good control as well.| %e%s Willard’s sparring pari Kramer Is one of those smart ball play- eridentiy do not believe that ers who knows what tu do and when to knock (# @ boost. fl Eddie Grant uid give hout as if ty bit more cor nounced that 1 for t he w up bi i ight they were twins, Promoters should take no chances ht lof Jess taking cold on that eventful Inight. They should have nice warm ropes around the ring and eteam- heated gate receipts. t on fd that It carried hi - old days with the Ori-| Since the Pittsfeds flivvered the Bilecdl Pirates ain't anybody to share their sorrows with, ing do tt. —--e COLD AND WINDS | AT YANKEE CAMP PUT CRIMP IN DRILL. MACON, Ga., March 4.—A series of | cold winds have put a temporary ’ training sched- Live plgwon aboot ls not allowed t= Burope, The Atlantic City baseball team re fuses to go East to train, FACTS NOT WORTH KNOWING, A newspaper decision ts a weird ule, All day yesterday a frigid! inst! We have yet to see one “norther” blew over the np that would replace a broken tooth and prac in a fighter'a facade ov remove the for their shortuess, bloom from @ cauliflowered ear, A Donovan was especially anxious to wet in @ series of stiff practices yes- terday because most of his veterans have reached that stage of soreness and stiffness wiere work 1s more de- After lunch con- hi erated somewhat and entire squad was ordered out, The practice lasted a trifle over an newspaper dectsion is highly ormm@ mental, but {t ain't anything to leave to the children, Even with paper at the present war prices {t would take a lot of newspaper decisions to make & pound. ZOOPOEM. hour and a half, or until the players eee hands were ao cold that they couldn't A 4 hold a thrown ball, Fearing to ea} When 3. Baer rhynies, each pose a warmed-up arm to the wind paragraph that drove across the park, Donovan as abandoned even the batting practice.| y, i: It was a pretty tiresome afternoon i ; Simple games of catch, shagging flies awkwan young in the outfield and bunt fielding prac: | riratte, Uce was all he would allow. \ PHIL ORME, » View applied tov admission to the a'r hil 0° sick ward jn the af bobbing EAU SHD me te up with a sore tliroat, A physi ene: tound a few white patches tn Cy's Ine like ratt throat and put him to bed, but it's} Each gilda a lesnake, expected that he will be up and about - again in a day or so tv Southern baseball field te a ond in the rough FORT he { al eevee Me OPS ancon.| ANSWERS TO QUEERIES, ery McKay ev Battling Levinsky, the or heavyweight, wea his #econd battle this} rew cked out a week by knocking out Jack Har lon the] Your: KNOTT pt Of et tentoundébout at the boii show | Nope. Never ACCIDENTLY. of the Fast New nate A. C. last night. A heavy left hook flush on the Jaw fn shed 7 ee Me ee a eee oe ne er mith’a| _ Editor: Who is this bird Hardteigh thud, Where he lay until ater the ref-|Zane who wan ats for the 600 tree ‘bad counted Aim out Ptebatee for he te Bug rand ba ceret to woe aa (next time W walks to Call t fen a tow wet hima at sension was Tea ef 29ad row, MAJOR ‘PY the KX. O. wallop. ph Quee Column: To am gind that STRANGLER LEWIS LAYS OUT |vour column bos been exposed by BIG JOB FOR HIMSELF, | tans Fh Ae ae bangs Leen wan Joars, Ini will use my tn tous any four men fluen vehind a of an hour or ; at cor Perens nt at Madison Sq den | BOSE f Ao to Sitka dog race, ANN NOYES, another Ato the night's « This department will pay absolute. Fier neers ee ly no attention to anonymous chid- Hussane, the Terrib ings. 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