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Watural Fighting Weight and | Feel Just About Right.” De- @ares Jess Willard, Who Now Strips at About 252 or 253. omer, 3014 yy Ter Fite Sie York Tiverdng We Jr WILLARD is nearly ready gli ghing Oo for his bout with Moran, The big champion has reduced his veight ten pounds and now stripe at Deut 953 or he ringside weight that will satiety itm best, “Z don't fee) that I'm carrying any xtra weight now,” Jess told me last cht “In Havana my real ringside selght was 239 pounds, I don't know nything about the announcement pat I weighed 247. It wasn't correct. ‘tut at 889 1 was trained down very n@ I have developed my arms and houlders « lot since then, by boxing all the time, and I'l naturally woigh nore in good condition, I don't oare| © be Ughter than I am now, because think I'm stronger at this weight Tam trained down aturel fighting welght and I foel ist about righ! +9 er,” Jess went on. “I come pretty near working slong my we ideas. I'm not like Carl Morris, Vhen Cart was fighting down there 1 O&mhoma an ofl millionaire took €p and hired an old time fighter » tain him. Nobody knew any-/ ‘img about fighting down there. ‘ike, the trainer, would put his neues in his vest and shout orders ““Carl,’ he'd say, ‘Spunoh the Vunch It harder!’ A minute inter ‘earl, jump the eee? He was put- ing paces like @ rained ‘oxi: M ‘to good condition and T don't Ike to t any eet training eched' TIEN Reich came to box with me I had no arrangement to take him on. I understand {a tutention was to try to ‘show me p'—to ‘slp something over.’ I'm not vorvied about anything Uke that, but * that's his idea let him ¢ry i in arnest. I'm perfectly willing to ac- »mmodate him in the ring any time, do my training as training, and don't ‘ix fighting in with tt. If I did some- hing might happen thet would in- srfere with the Moran bout. I don’t itend to let anything interf Then Reich wanted $ dnt get much after the Havana ght use we didn't make any voney. This time J intend td hem much better. Th ve, and {f there's any « sparring partner they're the ones who'll get sf Y ILLARD has developed himeetf @ great deal with all the box. ing of the past year. When he ewan boxing his arms and neck were nall in proportion to his bulk. To- ay bis upper arms measure 17% \ches, his neck 17% inches, and his \lves 17% inches, He ts built in sefect proportion to hie height. a wears his belt now in the ume notch he did on the day of the eht in Havana,” said Tom Jones. right, Jess?” RICKARD 1s a” novelty among promoters. When Wenck of the Boxing Commission was usy badgering Rickard with all sorts f absurd demands he told Rickard @ must deposit the Moran-Wilard noneys with the commission, then vat he must turn !t over to a stake. older “satisfactory” to the comm: on. He told Hickard the boxers ould be paid only on the commis- 9} order, Beaty mptly stated that he tn- ended to carry on his business in his wn Wa) LETS ace ig to his agreoments already mu fe had absoly nfidence In the mmesty of thoir intentions. If that fen’! satisfactory to the commission @ would not y Moran and Villard th but would de- agit anot to satisfy public would be the omm iss ed to “protect Kurd, and Mr. Ricki © didn’t ne rot the nterests of Te f etorted that ‘on. Probab 9 think hov man of R usiness acun nanship. Som f humo “D int plexus in abo veventh rour “2 &m Trained Down Now to My. 488, which is close to ‘BH always been my owa train-| | arranged 1 | 1 on March 1 | THE EVENTING WORTD, TUESDAY, MAROH tf _ BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK | Bronx Palace Bowlers Beat | Leaders of The Evening World Tournament Clashed in a Well Contested Match. STANDING OF THE TEAMS IN THE WORLD TOURNEY. SCHEDULE TO-NIGHT. Broadway Arcade at Metropolitan. Eureka at Grand Central. 'N one of the best contested matches I of The Evening World three- amateur tournament, Thuin's White Elephant tric, the leaders in the big event, were handed a triple defeat by Brenner's Bronx Palace Dowlers on the latter's home stripe last night Each of the Palace three came through in separate sessions with an 'Y | exceptionally high score, which in each case meant a victory. In the opening game, Al Miller was reepon- sible for the White Elephants’ first defeat. Beginning in the third frame he rolled eight consecutive strikes 269 score, giving his team a total @ new high team score. Rupprecht gave the championship aspirants their second set! in the middle string by finishing a good game with a double header for a 241 Jack Dilton, the logitimate light heavy- weight champion, who has already knocked out many of the big heavy- weights, and also won newspaper dect- . others, will go against an- other one of these big fellows in a ten- round bout at the Broadway Sporting Club of Brooklyn to-night, The fighter he will try to conquer 1 Gunboat Smith, the California heavyweight, who won a twenty-round decision over Champion Jess Willard in San Francisco on May 20, 1918 Smith has not fought since he was knocked out by Jim Coffey, but as he has had a good rest he feels conf- dent of beating Dillon in this match, Scotty Montieth manager of Johny Dundes, dorlared to-day that he bad received an offer of « $10,000 puree from the manager of the Italian A. ©, of New Haven, Gonn,, for @ twenty-round battle between Dundee and Benny Leonard, to be ‘ou baster Monday night, end that be ac Trundee left (or Lakewood to-day, where rest up for two weeks, fought uted it be w Lf Harsy Vollok {9 as willime to let Fredaio Wels figot Benny Leonard as he claime he ts, « wateh between thew two good Lightwelghts can be twentyfour hour, Jimmy Johnston « bout between them in the Ganlen 4 {t i» now up to Pollok to dgu *, a8 Bully Gtbeon has already done so. phampion hee just arrived tn Albert Bavloud of France, title of ng. | wouldn't jer t resin. ‘That was one pime 4 @ deance to laugh at : ae the gions Jack Connors & ten-round bout é show of the dalace White Elephants Three Straight eoore, putting this ipa ed of the who oa me or work for the io ieadica acavicd started with w five-tiner a ne closing session, placing his jae te front in the afth aturted on # tear fore Mive-tinee and with Hupprecht’s strong finish the Palave team totaled bea, the mean time Soott tn tered @ double header for the championship, The See ae a9) Brovilyn Grand Central trio were entertained at the Hunts Point acadomy in The Evening World tourney last Tiga the former winning the first, while the Hunts Pointers took the second and third sessions, The visitora grabbed their only BELL SAVES ROBIDEAU FROM KNOCKOUT BY LEONARD IN SIXTH A BOXING COMMISSIONER’S BUSY DAY the Press Publishing Co, (‘The New York Hvening World.) “Witcard must Teen at 3 AM. “THAT WouLd Give The Ke MAKMEN @ Gwe L Giants’ Infield Troubles Centred on Third Base | and Unlucky Hans Lobert Speedy Ex-Phillie Can Make McGraw’s Prob- lem Easy by a Successful ‘Come Back”— Brainerd and Babbington Ambitious and Ready to Fill In. By Bozeman Bulger. MARLIN, March 24. HE euccess of the Giant infteld depends mainly upon Hans Lobert, There will be no chango at first base, second base or shortstop. MERKLE, DOYLE! AND FLETCHER ARH AS BURP OF THEIR POSITIONS AS M’GRAW IS OF MANAGING THR TPAM. In fact, ft would be diMoult to find « stronger hitting and fietiing combination than those three tm either league. Fletcher outhfts the shortstops. Morkle outhit all the first basemen in the country with the exception of Luderus and Daubert, and he was just « point or eo behind Daubert. Doylo, as you know, led the National League hitters, bringing the batting championship 1 EVERY THURSDAY OR CAUL OFF The Bout to New York for the first time. Philadelphia Star Star Is Badly Beaten by New York's Sen- sational Lightweight Boxer. ees to The reniog Weaay PHILADELPHIA, March 4. bell saved Sammy Robideau, the local Lightweight sorapper, from being knocked out by) Benny Leonart, the sensational glove wielder from Gotham, in the sixth round of their bout at the Olympia A. A. last night ‘The finish of the fight was eensa- tional. <A wicked left to the jaw floored Sam for the count. He got up with a glassy look and tried to ‘weather the storm. Leonard was on top of him Itke a wildoat, flinging away with both hands and hunting for an opening, A right clipped Sammy and he sprawled forward and only saved himself from falling on his face by bracing himeelf with his ne with ease, and the home team | hand. {id likewise in the second string with a 618 total, The closing game proved the only interesting session for the evening here, with both teams in the running until the tenth frame, when Enright duplicated his miss of the previous inning, while Breaketone registered @ double header for the Hunts Pointers’ second victory. Tha score: Grand |Hunte Point Fistic News and Gossip ly John Pollock. George “Keockout’ Brown, the whe mada a bis bis do een ite BE8 Manding off Les Daray, the champion of that country, i @ twentyroind bout a Byduey, several wekn ago, won @ battle at the same place 6 few nights ego. He got the decision over Write Holk, formerly of California, in « twenty- Found bout on potats, Harry Gattle of Portobestar bes teen matched by hie manager, Jimmy Howart, to fight Battling Koplin ten rounds at Syracuse, N.Y, on March 43, Frankie Wagner at the New Polo A, A. on March 24, and Jimmy O'Hagan, the Albany wal Gerweight, in 4 ten-round go at the Kuicker. booker A. C. of Albany, N. Y., om the night of April « If Andre Andermoo’s right band, which be broke fo his fight with Jaak Keating at tho Cleamont A. O. of Brooklyn teu daye ago, is well enough for him to box with by Marah 8 he will be put against Al, Kelch, the young looal bess weight, in the bout at the apening bo: @ow of the which will stage Champion Freddie Welsh end Phil end Leo Benz of Montana and At middleweight champion, course of waning for Will be fought at the Broadway Sporting Club of Brooklyn on Tuenday evening, March 21 Without © mark to sbow that he had been in * battle Benny Leonard, the crack jocal light weight, returmed today frum Vhiladelphia, whore Bloom houre Benny will go to Grupp be will rwume he @ with mus O'inen at the Harlem sporting Club op nb Jolin Retaler programme of bouts tc Sporting Club en March tea, the Hoboken lightweight ft aiowing in his Voute wit rer Ma ‘i ' * om At on March 37, and ‘Deny Brooks Mase, 20 Avs, 7, | Queensberry A. C. "| wetght, has made another change in his | ‘The olang of the gong was a wel- come rescue to Sammy. He was being beaten badly and would certainly have been knocked out if the con- test was another half minute longer, After the bout Billy Gibson, man. ager of Leonam, claimed that the timekeeper cut the round twenty seo- onds, ny YOUNG HARRIMAN STROKE OF YALE’S VARSITY CREW. |‘ NEW HAVEN, Conn, Marsh 14.— Roland Herri:nan, son of the late E. H. Harriman, will be the new stroke of the Yale crew when the boat goes out of the harbor to-day. Harriman will take the place of Tony Morse, who was graduated last Juna In the race with Columbia on the har- bor last fall, Capt. Seth Low 24 stroked the varsity, filling the place, because no new stroke could be do- veloped tn the short time afforded and because of his great knowledge of watermanship, which fits him for any place in the boat. The need of him further up as one of the quartet of strongest and most experienced oarsmen Yale has ever had has caused his removal to the other side of the boat, and he will be starboard stroke at No. 7, where he rowed as freshman tn 19) aa Sash Britton Whips Brennan, BUFFALO, N. Y., March 14—Jack Britton showed wonderful class when he defeated K. O. Brennan at the here last night. Brennan had twelve pounds advantage, but Britton offset that with his wonder- ful speed and cleverness. He kept his Jeft hand in Brennan's face all through the battle and at times he outslugged him, Brennan mado a rushing battle, He gent in & namber hard FF nd left-hand swings, sor of which ry led, but as Britton ‘was going away. they had little effect, It was a fast battle all the way and the boys received an ovation on leaving the ring, - > Wallace Outpotnts Taylon Eddie Wallace, the Brooklyn feather- easily defeated Kid Taytor in ten rounds at the Milltary Athletto Club of Brooklyn last night, Wallace was too r for Taylor and easily avoided his and ed an ¢ tive left-hand , every_round of Jace gcored the only knockdown in the sixth round, Coffey Wins Over Marto, HENECTDAY, N. Y., March 14.— » Mohawk Indian, de- arto of New York City last night. Coffey rness throughout Marto at will been have fighting to distodge one or all of those boys from their jobs, but to offer them encouragement would be fooltah. There tent @ chance. The whole infield problem t cen- tred at thint base, and it 1# up to Lo- bert to make tt easy of solution or Dut MoGraw in one of the woret di- lemmas he has encountered. Present indications point to Lobert’s coming through with @ good year, but he was ever an unlucky ball player and tn- jury may overtake him et any time. Only the other day he took hie first real turn at third, only to be hit equarely tn the middle of the forehead with @ batted ball that bounded from the Teutonic dome over the left feld | fence near the foul fine. On the Lo- | pert features there is now @ protuber- ‘ance the shape and size of a hen's egg. Ten minutes later he wae hit on his pet corn by a carelessly thrown bat. “Tt'w all right ‘slong es they bounce ‘em off my bean,” Lobert yelled to McGraw, “but make those recruits keep ‘em off my feet. T'll need these ‘dogs’ ” LOBERT 16 FAST, BUT HAS AL- WAYS BEEN UNLUCKY. wtar just @ year ago, had a disap- give his best efforta to the club. For several years McGraw had been angling for Hans on account of his in the all-American baseball meet at Cincinnati he won the first prize on eprinting around the bases— but when he finally landed the young man from Philadelphia accidents fel! thick and fast, and Eddie Grant, a ubstitute, had to play thin a big part of the season. To bogin with, Big Bill Ritter broke one of Lobert’s ribs with a pitched ball in practice, and then Alexander of the Phillies cracked two more tn a game, Then, to add to his misfortunes, a slide into thir base put one of Lobert's anides out of commisston, Though slightly overweight Hans is in full possession of his health this spring and 1s making @ valtant try to recompense McGraw for the money |patd for him a year ago tn addition |to which the Philltes also got Mitton Stock and Al Demaree. Notwithstanding his prestige, Lobert realizes that he must fight for his Job this spring, and there are two young jmon hereabouts who are making bim hustie, One {s Tom Hunter, a semt- pro from around Wheeling; the other 1s Fred Brainard, thé utility inflelder of last season, There {s stil! another candidate in Shopner, the amateur from Pittsburgh, but his chances are extremely slim, Shepner has in him the makings of an excellent ball play- er, but he fa entirely too green and tn. experienced for big league work as yet. bring him around. It can be safely said that McGraw will dispose of Shepner as soon as tho weeding process begins, but he will keep a string on him, There is much prom. ise there for the future. Fted Brainard ts coming so fast that the slightest break in the infleld will lgive him his chance, Once he gets going {t will be diffloult to oust him. 1 has grown considerably since spring and 1s now @ rangy six- Me Golan very uch of the Arius Dap There ere ambitious Spay a Ca Lobert, brought to New York as a | ,, |A couple of years in the minors may |‘ Tn type, Me hite well beautiful throw to first. doubt as to Brainard's being kept with the team as first string utility man. If Lobert slips be will go to third, BABBINGTON AND HUNTER PROMISING YOUNGSTERS, Babbington, who came to the <!ub/ a an outfielder and who is the best of all the young hitters, is aleo being wiven @ chanoe in the infleld. He ts not so fast as Brainard, but ts a trifle stronger at the bat. But for what looked like @ weak arm last summer Babbington would have been @ regular outfielder by now. Fearing that arm on long throws, MoGraw thinks the young man will have a better chance in the infield, and is giving him every opportunity to make good, Hunter looks to be @ real find, even though be came cheap, He was picked up around Wheeling, where he had been setting the woods afire as a semi-pro. Hunter ts a talkative ball player—the kind so popular with New York fans. From the minute the first ball is pitched he sets up a chatter ‘Lk NOTIRY Tex THAT MUST PILG His LAUNDRY AST SWATH THE Commission: MIKE DONOVAN DOESN’T THINK JESS WILLARD CAN BE KNOCKED OUT. BY PROF. MIKE DONOVAN, Famous Middleweight, and emBow- ing Instructor of N. ¥. A. 0. tere m nee laan eee on o eH a ternoon ww Sone, Willard ternoon when | ea iad out. Why, Neil wile from ah wae hat | had read that Wi into consideration the fact that hi moat two weeks before him could not be im much better form. Willard sizes up as a e better men than | expect unches clean and hard with ‘cither and. He's as fi “ as a flash for a fe! of hi There him. withal a good . | do not believe that Frank Moran can hurt Willard. | do not think any boxer of the day can knook out Willerd in a ring en- He Is @ great big man. gagement. tute for Merkle, with a chance of getting In the outfield. Kelley le well over six feet tall and oan hit the ball like a att When it comes to throwi te almost in @ clase by himosif. Nobedy on the club, jular or reoruit,” has anything on him. It MoGraw was certain as ¢o the personnel of his outfield he could go about the formation of his infleld ma- n and ley both may have to take 4 crack at the outfeld, In aix weeks the team will heave to be cut down to ¢wenty-one men and eld would have a very good chance for the pennant, With so much excellent material at hand there would be Ht- tle trouble about a strong infeld. VOLMER SWIMS TO TITLE. Herbert Volimer of Columbla Uni- versity and the New York A. C. won the 600-yard metropolitan swimming of Rutgers College, but he had a nar- Tow squeak. Wheatley, inches behind was 6 Theodore York A. C., was the only other start- Part of the race and did not seem to try after that. He was beaten a full and keeps it going until the game is ver. “That boy i# a little green,” enid pointing season and was never able/MoGraw as we watched him in a practice game between the Regulars and Colts, “but be will certainly bear watching. He has the Taatines of a ballplayer. I haven't been able to tell much about his hitting against curve balls, but you can reat aasured that he will not get away without having had his chance. Rodriguez, the other infield oand!- date, i# seriously handicapped by his inability to speak English. He can- not get the necessary pep into his work or catch the spirit of a verbal fight between the practice teams. Ho does his work Carag but at times appears to be dazed. Rodriguez comes from the Almendares Club of Ha- vana, Cuba, and was selected person. ally by McGraw, who saw him work in several winter games. All the Cubans have good arms and Rodriguez 18 no exception. He seems to be lost, however, tn not being able to understand what ts being said. It seems a pity, because the young Cuban {ts ike @ flash when in action and many of the playera think him a sure comer. His friend Palmero acta as interpreter, but when ft ts re- called that this time last spring Pal- mero could not speak a word of Eng- lish that is not a very efficient ar- rangement. On exciting occasions both of them get mixed up and their arms fly around like those of a wind- mill, It 1s a saying in Cuba that when an excitable Spaniard loses one arm he stutters the rest of hig life, ‘An interesting young player 1s Mar- tin, formerly a shortstop at George- town University. Last year he got a chance witth the Boston Braves, but suffered a broken leg and had to Kive up. McGraw picked him up during he winter and is giving the boy an- other chan ‘arance Martin {s more of the ter type than the ball play but extremely stocky. wats! he lool ikea heavy- ill he is one of the shortest club in stature. Martin known in baseball as @ wonderful pair of hands.” He takes | very much in sner, and his | hands are so Dig and strong that he seldom makes a fumble He ts sup- posed to be a good hitter, but little an be judged of that igainst spring pitching. Kelley, the other infielder, is absolutely sure of a job, He is in the trials} length of the seventy-five foot pool. _—————— SIR THOMAS AFTER CUP. LONDON, March 14—SIr Thomas Ltp- ton, in a letter to the Bssex Yacht Club, says he hopes to compete next year for the America’s Cup. LApton tn 1918 built the yacht Shamrock TV. which was to have raced off Bandy Hook the follow- Ing, your with the American cup defense yacht Resolute. ‘The Shamrock IV. Hived in New York a after the outbreak of the war, but the races were postponed and the challenger waa housed ip a Brooklyn ebipyw ere :. oes: Ertle Only Shades Young Zulu Ita. Johnny Ertle, the St. Paul bantam- weight, shaded Young Zulu Kid, the clever bantam of Brooklyn, m1 a ten- round bout at the Clermont A. C. of Brooklyn last night, but in order to do 0 he had to fight the hardest battle he has so far engaged tn at any of the local clubs, The Brooklyn lad fought Ertle every inch of the journey and than he has been hit with since he came Fast. In the lust round Young Zulu Kid fought Ertle all around the ring, fotting fly with left and right-hand swings for his face and jaw. Ertle’s as perosaiveness entitled him to the hon- Young Zulu Ka Chrintie-George Chtp Bout a Draw. MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 14. — Gus Christie of Milwaukee and George Chip otf New Castle found the eight-round a draw at the Phoenix Athletic Club last night, Referee Billy Ha: no murmurs of dissent from the audt- . which had sat almost spellbound the two huskies fought Uke savages. Griffiths Shade COLUMBUS, ©., Ma 4.--Johnny Griffiths of Akron was given a shade over Willle Beecher of New York in a twelve-round bout here last night Grif fiths outpointed Beecher in the early |atages of the fight, but was forced to exert himself to keop, this advantage tn |the closing The |Griffiths, 146 14 Touhey Outpoints Jones, | Tommy Touhey, the Paterson feather- weight, outpointed Wille Jones of Brooklyn at the Olympic A. C. of Har- the real flash of the spring, Un- fortunately, though, he is not a shortstop or third baseman, Grane ight. The lads fought ike 8 from start to finish the most er. He lost several yards in the early | landed more left-hand Jabs in his face | Ertle Erte 117% pounds and | route too short to settle their middle- | weight dispute when they pulled up to} ack hoisted | of protruding p: both hands at the finish and there were | allt Lm: }send us coupon below velghts were: | Corsrtant. 1918, by Une Frew Pybliching Oo, (The New York Kreving World.) SD (CUOM Ard IS HUSH MONEY.” Bill Donovan anne wear their heavy t this your SUBMARINING A CANARD, When they say Willant’s clumey They fill us with mirth; Why, that bird oan unshoe In a eky Pullman berth. And to claim he lacks footwork Is remote from the truth; Why, that baby can turn In a@ telephone booth. Every hick leaguer aspires to Bust into fast company, but he should ge- member there are two kinds of fast company. Because the ice is off the dumb. waiter ts no eign that apring te here. Although sot masked, very jew of Ted Meredith's competitore ever abe hha face. Ike Dorgan has Moran's carefully mapped out. Frank will pre- ceed by knocking Jess down times in the first round and TRAINING CAMPS, No refugee from a baseball cogs centration camp has been able @® give @ coherent reason why call ‘em training camps. When ain't raining in @ training camp 1t fe enowing and when I's neither it’s a typographical erron The scenery in a training consists mostly of mashed toes and ohilblaina. The thing you oan train for is to the frost bite record. No inmate of a Southern training camp wae ever known to be killed in rush for work and all the hotels keepers wear their wallpaper veay loose, One of the Gtunt rookie hee « potsoned foot, They should etnias those rusty natle from the water buckets, Wilard’s manager is leading theep- popularity contest, with a matoh championship last night in the pool | Mr. du Pont’s laboratory a close escand. LEARN ONE THING EACH Ow Radium is selling at $37,000 @ gram. 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