The evening world. Newspaper, April 5, 1916, Page 12

ST eS rr Ridyrers | COLUMN ail Kid McCoy Thinks Willard the| Greatest Champion We Ever Had. Coy 6. by the Press Pubtiishing Oo The New York Brening World ORMAN SELBY, better known as Kid McCoy, thinks Willard the greatest champion we ever had. He saw Willard {n the Moran out, and while in Havana twice looked ove the moving pletures of the Willard-Johnson fight “Jeffries at his best matched @gainst Willard trained down wouldn't be able to jay @ glove on him,” said McCoy. “Willard te a boxer. And if Jeffries did hit him tt Wouldn't hurt him. Moran never im- Proved on his first style of fighting. When he's hit on the nose he sets himself to take another blow, Wil- lard was a little tired at the end of the tenth round, because he wasn't tn condition. But Moran was in condi- tion, and he was so tired he couldn't when I spoke to him. He have the slightest chance against Willard. He might as well have wasted his strength pushing against a wall.” ye DUNDEE'S manager # that if Billy Gibson will trans fer his offer to make a $10,000 wide bet in a Leonard-Welsh bout to @ Leonerd-Dundee bout, Dundee will ise the money and take him up within two days. Of course, he adds, the bout would have to be twonty founds to # decision, in Colorado or jome other place where twenty-round oute can be fought. P tm Ottawa, Canada, there may be a ghance for « few cham- Plonship fights, twenty rounds to finish. Sam Rosenthal, of No. Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Canada, srites that the Sportsman’s Patriotic tion hae been doing good work a ‘winter raising money for the gol- @lere at the front and those now training in Canada. He thinks more funds could be raii by putting on and suggests that arrangements with wineky, Benn; mnard tio artists of like ability. “I mention these names,” he writes, “because I understand most of them, @nd particularily Ted Lewis, are strong sympathizers with the cause of the allies.” ILLY GIBSON, after the Leon- ard-Weish bout last Friday night, immediately offered ‘Welsh's manager @ guarantee of $15,- | 000 for his end to have Welsh fight, Leonard in @ twenty-round bout with | promptly turned | own. ‘Weilsh's manager has no intention of losing his meal ticket right away. And Welsh without the lNghtweight championship title wouldn't be worth two hoots in Honduras as a ring at- traction. Freddy's shrinking style jen't popular, Welsh will probably dodge a long bout with Leonard until his shoes are worn out. He knows Leonard can beat him at any distance from one round to a finivh. Hence Frederick will cling to the title as Jong as he can make any money with it, and meet Leonard again only when he is ready to lose it and draw down| his last big pur: NOWY BAKER of Australia writes that the Australians are in real nved of @ few good Amer- foan boxers. “Despite the prevailing Buropean trouble, business carries on wonder- fully well out here,” he says. “In my world it 1s even better than ever, de- spite the fact that something over 350,000 are now serving their country, We are in need of some good boxers from your country, We want them in all Givisions. We nt some real topnotchers to oppose our world’s champion, Les Darcy. There ts plenty ot room for good, game, clean-living All we want t to do Is play the game, and if they do that they can go out of the country well satis- fled and without a kick, “Darcy, as you know, is still on top, and i personally do not know any one to beat him. He is joining the Australian Aviation Corps, but of course will still have plenty of time to fight, and after the war will, I fee) sure, pay you a visit. K. O. Brown of THE BVENING WOKLD, w VNEDBDAL, Arkin 56, 1916 BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK | HONEST - EDISON AN IDES Line This # . a \ Tu ever pe BiG ENOL T Lien Jess > Wirrarn! Bill Donovan If Weather Keeps Him From Working Them Against Rob- ins in Brooklyn, Yanks’ Man- ager Says He'll Put Them Through Paces in Armory By Bozeman Bulger. AIN or no rain, Bill Donovan ‘8 he is going to try out the best he has in the shop to-day, Dot necessarily to beat Brooklyn, but Just to see how strong he 4s for open- ing the official season next Wednes. day “I am going to pitch Fisher and Keating this afternoon,” he ya, “and if the weather should keep mo from working them in Brooklyn, 1 will work them just the same. On a showdown I will take them to the armory in Sixty-seventh Street and put them through the same paces, “The workout of my players Is of more importance to me right now," declared Wild William, “than the mere winning of an exhibition game, “It i9 my purpose to use Fisher at the beginning of the regular season, and it is very necessary that he get @ good workout before the bi vent." As an evidence of the interest New York ts taking in the future of the Yanks, three different athletic soot eties called up yesterday at noon and offered Manager Donovan the use of thelr gymnasiums in the event that a game would not be possible tn Brooklyn. Donovan would have ac- cepted the kindly offer of the Y, M C. A. If it had been possible to get the equipment from Wbbeta Field All of the bats, the uniforms, the alls and the gloves had been’ sent over there, and when the game was finally declared off 1t was too late to get them In time for a practt “At that," says Donovan, I think the boys need a day's res. It won't hurt them at all “By the way," he added, “this spring has been a remarkable one so far as baseball practice 1s concerned We went South the last week tn Feb- ruary and during all that time we did not lose a single day from prac Chicago and Gilmore are making good out here. Brown has had three fights and drew something like $7,000." tica on the fleld at Macon, On the way home we had a day or two of wet, sloppy weather, but, even so, it was never so bad that could not FOURTEEN YEARS OLD we 14 years old. its exquisite bouquet won No wonder for it the name YORK OFFICE 80 BROADWAY TEL BRYANT 482 OUSTULERS Lovisvicie AY JUST KIDS Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). om PORN, wets NEVER. HAD to Pitch Fisher and Keating, Rain or Shine, To-Day PIRATES TRYING TO SECURE ROBERTSON | FROM THE GIANTS. A deal whereby Davy Robert- son, the Giant outfielder, 1s to be- |] come @ member of the Pittsburgh club is in the making, according to well founded information from the Pirates’ camp at Memphis, Himmy Callahan has broached « |] proposition to John McGraw, and |] and Callahan yesterday bed the |] manager of the Giants on the long distance telephone, It all depends on what Pittsburgh has to offer in exchange for the Glant gardener. Roberteon has thus far failed to |] report to the Giants and there are all sorts of stories afloat. Rob- ertson declines to be @ bench warmer, as he will have to be, now that McGraw has acquired Kauft and Roush. Robertson has n- terested a friend, a former major || leaguer who fe now managing a |] club in the Virginia League. This |] friend bes written Callahan, as well as President Dreyfuss, and there may be something doing, get in our day's work, “If our olul are not in shape the managers will have no alibi. The weather in the South hes been so universally good that nobody can kick, Not @ man on my club hes a sore arm and I am told that the same condition exists on every club in both clrouits.”” Wilbert Robinson, manager of the Badgers, ie quite in accord with th leader of the Yanks, His olub ts in excellent shape and the players are cagerly awaiting a chance at the Yanks, The game to-day furnishes the only chance for them to get even for last spring's defeats and if rain stops thet there will be great dis- “The weather I saw to-day,” sald Robby last night, ‘is the worst I have seen since we left Brooklyn tn Feb- ruary “I don't know yet whom I will pitch,” he said In answer to a request for the line-up, “It will depend entirely lupon the weather. If it 1s @ cold day | will not use my veterans. You can vot on that. IT am ayxious, though, try out Marquard and Cheney, and ro is any Kind of a chance I will them.” ease Spicer Wins Billiard Tit The English amateur billard cham- plonship title changed hands last night when Samuel Spicer defeated John O'Neill at Doyle's billiard room by. @ 0 to 144, making the total for nights’ play Spe , 600, O'Neill, play the best ame making frequent breaks of t billiard tour. aker, the ne \c defeated W, . to whom hé conceded. a f sixty balls, by a score of 1 ‘o-night R. Gilman will play C, Leonard, _ —__—\! COLLEGE BASEBALL SEASON OPENS TO-DAY. mbta vs, C, °..N. ¥., at South \d Fordham vs. Dartmguth, at Ford- bam Philadelphia va. Villanova, at Lafayette, at Annap abigh vs, Albright, at South q ees (ition, manager of Coffey, vid that be hep ot A BICYCLE ANDA BAG tt GET RicH AND Buy OF Ma~R KNEE pied AND A ~ FISH Powe Goins To SCH. Bene Tine -- s Three National 1 BOSTON, April 6.—New York successful contestants were Benny class, ordered, Tom Darcy of Boston is the 108. ot Kansas City won the honors amo: um GET Home=Run BAKER To Pray "A Ue a aa ee ee | || New York Boxers Carry Away (Bpertal to The Brening World.) from the Amateur Hoxing Championships held here last night. Morris in the 126-pound division, and Adolph Kaufman in the 158-pound Tho spectators disagreed with the judges in the verdict in the 115- pound olass, for the majority believed that Tony Vatlan of Boston was entitled to the decision in three rounds, though an extra session was eau of Montreal came through in the 145-pound divisio: of Boston won the medal in the 176-pound class, and Carlo Armstrong of Boston is the heavyweight champion, eee Gte cor! (© WE coute \ | | Titles in Boston carried away three national tities The Volger in the 115-pound class, W. ound champion ng the Thomas Murphy 186-pounders; Eugene Bros- Pat McCarthy DAN FLYNN MAKES WRETCHED SHOWING AGAINST WEINERT Boston Fighter Boxes So Ama- teurishly That Spectators Want Battle Stopped. AN “PORKY™ FLYNN, the Bos- ton heavyweight, who fights one battle Hke @ champion and the next like a dub, was handed beating by Charley “Young” Wein. the promis young heavywaight of wewark, N. J., in @ ten-round contest at the boxing show of the Broadw: Sporting Club of Brooklyn, riynl made such a poor showing that as early as the fifth round the specta- tors began to hiss him repeatedly, and on several oooasions they called to paseree Haukop to order him out of e ring. Whether it was the small attend- ance or the lack of condition that made Flynn box #0 poorly, there is no denying the fact that he fought much differently than he did in his two recent contests with Al Reich and Gunboat Smith, As for Weinert, &t must be said that he fought « clever, heady battle, soor- ing frequently with ena; leks to face short ite to he puffed up at the final bell. In only two rounds did Flynn put any kind of @ fight, these be! secon: and eighth sessions, hee Ss other, ng away with both hands, After the men had been bat- tling for one minute and fifteen seo. onds Weinert rushed Flynn to the ropes. Porky struck the top rope with such force that the iron rod hola. ing the rope broke and Flynn did a somereault out of the ring and onto the floor, with Weinert also falling heavily out of the ring and on top of him, For a few seconde it was feared both men had been badly hurt, but fortunately they both were uninjured, and, climbing back into the ring, were ready to continue the battle, but Ref. eres Haukop refused to let them box any further, FISTIC NEWS By John It begins to look mow as if Western heavyweight, will not fight this city, for last aight Bitly of the Stadium A, ©., signed up Andre Anderson, the Chicago hearywoight, tencound bout at that club on April 27, Ander | son's broken hand, which prevented hig trom 1) fighting Ketch at the club's opening show om | Marat 25, te wall again, | match the mea, which caused Gideon to When reveral of the newspaper writers arrived | at the Broadway Sporting Club, Scotty Montel manager of Charley Weinert, mid to chem: ‘'T will take §120 for Wetohart's share of eipt” Beotty was not fer out of the the re- wy on die gamble, for the gross receipts amounted $030 and Weinert boxed far @ percentage of it, Willie Ritchie, who hes been laid ap with @ damage! rib for some time, has md reed to take on ttle of ten rounds the next boxing Lewis ( « reture Garden a be held there the of May, Jimmy n. manager af the , declared to-day that he has got Rit nt to the math, ywelat, who ts tre! ng New # viaire battles, m i n & bout at the "i ¢ on April 18, Billy So Large Is the Army of Golfers Now That It !s Feared That Even With the Additional Links the Congestion Won’t Be Re- lleved, golf courses costing $2,500,- 000 will be opened around N York during the coming sea- gon. Many others will be under con struction, but they won't be ready for the 1916 season. Myen with the in- creased facilities it te feared that the new clubs won't be able to relieve the 1e inks badly crowded in 1915 that many players were unable to get in a round To make matters worse, twenty-fou jachools during the winter have been busy preparing hundreds of recruits for the outdoor season, Of the eight new courses that will this year the $1,000,000 be opened Club at Long Beach easily takes ne The lub when oom- the former sand waste and brooks and lakes also made their appearance on ty, the Ke the Lido links most of the other new olubs are located on Long Island. The Inwood club, which broke ground this week for ‘a hand- some new clubhouse, will also have another 18-hole course thts year for {ts many membors, Not far from Inwood the new North organization with a fine Hempstead 18-hole course will start operations AND GOSSIP Pollock found an opponent tor Jtm as yet, within the next forty-eight boure, ‘The Ploneer porting Chi, on Went Forty. fourth Street, will stage another boxing #how to. night at which there will be two ten-round and three preliminary contests decided, In the two tens Val Moore, the crack bantamweight of Mem. hia, Tenn., will go against Renny MoCay, of Baltimore, and K. O. Eggers will ewap punches with Young ‘Hed’ Mol Ted Kid" Lewte bas been matched to fight Jake Abel, the Southern fighter, for eight rounds at Chattanooga, Teun,, on April 10; Juak Britton twenty Hounds at (New Orleans, either om April 20 oF 94, and some good welterweight to be so- lected for him for ten rounds at the Cleveland A, ©., of Gieveland, 0. April 26, After @ considerable layoff, owing to an sttack of boila, compelling the cancelling of several bouts, Marty Cross ts ready to fight again, His firet match will be with Jimmy Coffey, the Mohawk Indian, at the Harlem Bporting Club on April 14. Matchmaker McDonald, of the Olympic A. ©. of | Eight New Golf Courses, Costing $2,500,000, to Be | Opened Here This Season| MRS. W. A. GAVIN, EXPERT ENGLISH GOLFER, AGAIN HERE SEEKING TITLE, Mrs. W. A. Gavin, the expert English golfer, has just arrived in thie country again. Last Septem- ber she made @ good showing in the tournament for the women's national title at Onwentsia. She is soing to make another bid for the honors this year. Mra. Gavin would lke to arrange a special exhibition match with Mra, C, H. Vander- beck, the itle holder. Should such 4 meeting be brought about the foreign visitor would like to have it so arranged that a sum of money could be raised to go to- ward the fund for war sufferers, before many months, ‘The West Hampton club will have a brand new $200,000 course ready for use before the end of the summer. | play some food at Byracene wext week and should PUTTING With “Bugs” Baer by the Press Publiahing Oo York Evening World) Copyright, 1016 Pris’ Neve 6“ ‘OU take your law- yer’s advice, but the lawyer takes everything, else.” | You can't blame an umpire for hit- ting at a bad bawl. Now all the Dodgers have to do to clinch the pennant te win 104 games, One way to have the A. A. U. ad- Judge you a strict amateur is to com- pare yourself to Ty Cobb. A tow more errors for the B! column— | Rain. Rain. Rain, Rain Rain Fane give « player a traveling teg one fay an4 then holler for him to use ft the ext, What the rooks will miss most of ali are those 14-tnning dinnere. ‘The mythical All-American feothall team ts to | win easly No war in Holland. Wet grownds. Spring basball ie served ap with ell the verve and ginger of « etring of departed cat- tab, The country |e safe, Frank Baker's bum finger Ie only on hie three- bagger hand. ABSENCE OF RIOTING IN YOUNGSTOWN, 0, MUST BE THE LULL BEFORE THE) BASEBALL SEASON. | SAILING TO-DAY. CARPATHIA ....... ++ LIVERPOOL TUSCANIA . . GLASGOW SPRING PHENOM. .» BUSHES WAR I8 AWFUL. AFTER TURN- ING DOWN A FIFTY-THOUSAND OFFER LES DARCY WILL HAVE TO FIGHT FOR A JITNEY A DAY. | SQUIRREL FOOD. I met a squirrel with hungry brood Of Uttle ones to feed. Fodder wae scarce; they had no food, And were in dire need. We me again but yesterday; The little ones were fat. He'd laid a raft of grub away | And wore @ high silk hat He paid they lamped a duffer's game, | The ball he'd wildly flail; The Uttle ones climbed up his frame ‘And tore him tooth and nail, They saw a drive lodge in a tres; The golfer climbed the itmb. The squirrele went on @ scoffing spree And made quick lunch of him, They piped a@ rabid golfer pray As he tooled a stymied He surely made a fine entre He was a toothsome nut. The Cherry Valley Club has taken over what wae the old Salisbury links at Garden City and the new organiza- tion contemplates such a Ci this year that it will have two 18-hole courses ready for psy: Then there ts the Bt Albans Coun- try Club at Jama! which will have 4e 18-hole course fit for play in a few weeks, Even before its links are ready the St Albans club has a membership thet now runs into the hundreds, ‘The Westchester section will have two new courses, the Quaker Ridge club that had a few of its holes in use toward the end of the 1915 season and a new olub at Port Chester, Sport Briefs Duke Kahanamoku arrived In town day morning. The swarthy- skinned young man, who has come all the way from Honolulu to take part in the national A. A. U. swimming championships, was hardly distin gulshable in the throng as he Off the Twentieth Century Lined accompanied by W. 1, A. A. U, Commissioner of Hawa: the kinds of aquatio records for year: afternoon he leave for Chi whore he ig to take part in a pedal race in the Illinois A. C, tank to-morrow night. From Chicago’ he will go. to Pittsburgh for the 100-yard champion- ship race there on Saturday night. ts In addition to Its scheduled race meet on Saturday, Apri) 29, the Rockaway Hunt Club will hold & second day of amateur thoroughbred racing on the fol- lowing Saturday, May 6, at Hewlett's Bay Park. ‘The latter date was orig- inally assigned to the Meadowbrook Steeplechase Assocation, which in the past held its meeting on the estate of arry Payne Whitney, but this organ: tzation has decided not to hold @ spring meeting this season, Three local players and one Boston man reached the sem{-final round in the hational court tennis champtonship tours nament in einglos at the Racquet and Tennis Club on West Forty-third Street esterday, They were Charles E, Sands, P ftney, C. 8. Cutting and and they will meet ane also is a where only last w title by defeating Cutting in the final round. There are those who rather fancy the Jast named to turn the tables on the veteran, who has not held the Flariam, has completet hiv card for Monday night, In the fimt ten-ronund Frankie Notter will moet Eddie Nugent of N N.d, and in the final bout Carey Phelan will tackle Toumy Houck of Philadelyhia, title since 1904) but If he plays in the same form he displayed yesterday, Cut ting will have to show an excepttonal brand of court tennis, nd| no one guessed that he was the hat| man fish who has been upsetting all| a. rhis| 2—Us The next nut on the bill of fare, Fit food for equirrel or wrench, Had tried to loft the ball in air And dug himeelf a trench. ‘They sew « nut alice in a creck, ‘With drowning grimly flirt. Although Ms head was very weak, He made e fine dessert. The joyful squirrels went on their way; Starvation was no jinx ‘They knew that almost any day A meal was on the links, ANSWERS TO QUEERIES. K. K. K.—Yes, it would be exceed- | ingly dtfMfoult for Slim Love to shad- ow box. Max—After waiting two hours you would naturally think that something hed detained her, R. A. T.—This 1s @ sporting col- umn, 80 We can't answer any wrest- Ming questions here, R A. A--A royal flush isn't es food as two pair and e gun. B, M.—A vacation of 30, 60 or 90 days ts always suspicious your own judgment about betting. It’s your dime, —_——>—_— cher Shades Phil Brock, CLEVELAND, 0©., April 6.—Willle! Beecher of Now York had a slight shade over Phil Brock of Cleveland in a ten-| | Found go here last night. Both. boys | were on the go hard from start to fintel Tt was one of the toughest mills seen |here in many 1 day. ae | BOWIE SELECTIONS. 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