The evening world. Newspaper, April 25, 1916, Page 14

THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, APRIL 2€, 1916. BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK | Fulton Likely to Whip Reich if He Goes Safely Through First Round. Coprright. 106, by the Prem P ew York hvening W RED FULTON, the lengthy !n-| F dividual who hopes to make nls Eastern debut Friday evening | by polishing off Al Reich, is working | hard in Jess Willard’s old training Quarters, Fulton is well built for fighting and has the action of a Gigtter. While not as clever ae Retoh he has a knack of delivering wicked punches. Fulton ts 6% feet tal in ais boxing shoes. Trainer Tex O'Rourke, who measured him, tells me that he measured Jess Wil- lard in Havana and found Jess to/ j be just 6 feet 7 inches tall, but Juss ng Co, ) insists upon being called 6 feet 6 be- cause it pounds better, | Yesterday afternoon 1 saw Fulton! i box several rounds with Kendall aud 4 McKinnon. He had boxed ihree rounds with MoVey in the morning, thus making up a full day's work. He says he likes to box with McVey because the Lig black man hits #0 hard y-ith his short punches. Wulton is picking up the knack of that him- elf. In his boxing with Kendall and McKinnon, who were completely out- matched in size and strength, Fulton protected himeelf well and delivered his «punches § aoccurately—especially | with the left. Tom O'Rourke, who looked on, said that Fulton is the firet big man he ever saw who could use a left hook like a lightweight Lake Willard, he used @ long and ¢ fective jab. While not exactly Willard jab it was quite hard enough make life miserable for his spar- partni and he trick of wing swiftly hard straight wight hander. If he gete through the first round with Reich without run into trouble he's likely to put a in the Blumenthal entry. ton i# modest enough. He didn’t mention Willard during the course of em hour's interview, and didn’t say he could beat anybody. “How meny yh have you hea ence you started four years ago anked. “Thirty: “How many 4i4 you win with Inookouts?” “Thirty-four with knockouts, Feoollection. “But when I started 1 ‘wes knocked out pare | myself, by Al Fulton became serious. ef a lot of them here, but we never @ome to New York.” birthday this month, He started working os a plasterer at the age of twelve and worked without thinking of trying any other trade until] he was twenty. Then, just at/ there the height of the “white hope” called him the “White Hope” and In- sisted that he was a real fighter, He thought he'd try fighting, but he kept right on working at his pl 1. Je until fighting became and demanded all of his tim “T got my punch by — plaste «} Out sweeps of the arm gave me loose muscles that never tire, Often in a stretch, When 1 b nothing to hold t y urm out to guard or hi { ulton 8 story that he was onee kuock Harry Willis, the big black heavy ht. He met Wills on the street in New Orleans recently and cal: ed Wills, you're supposed to have knocked out! once,” said Fulton. “never saw you before,” said | Wills, “I knocked out a if the LS ——— — - g than you, aud ne must have been | {vat using your name, but it wasn't you." | They After that Fulton boxed a number of times with Wills in training, He ays he found it ver yinteresting, a Wills is the greatest fi he ever saw, and a very hard hitter. Mixing of Fulton's: # to be ho | Kansas Cyclone, of Pult it | be "hoped All Club has lost just three gam . and each of thoy has been lost to Walter Johnson, Ke BRITTON. by defeating Kid} No other pitcher has been able Reich will be him Friday ey out Towis in New claim to wel title has been without a prog fender since Honey Mellody's time Britt y clever boxer, and to de led Lewis can start over he'd better take a rest fi Johnston been fight often, bu nmy him too openir times - | IF defeat of Ted Lewin will! 1 7 probably put an unexpeeted| 5’ kink in that long promised veen Lewis and M by @ sco wen dou ) Ni Baseball To Dar. s0P MN teams me ica, Polo Growods, Adm We. Rave, turn this time, FRED FULTON’S FIGHTING MACHINERY Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). waent” voice run, | Yanks Think Griffith Endangers Senators’ meer recs.ct Pennant Chances by Overworking Johnson Teter, geet wee the only Sent 1) Although Washington Club Has “"Ebaa ou knock out any good men?’) Engaged in Only Ten Battles MAJOR LEAGUE RESULTS AND STANDING American League. Fe," waid he. “You never heard) Walter Has Twirled Four of Mee ree aren ranneta|) Teemu ung tices nroMD ee te ee eter | Gee ee Tea, ee {a dur countey, und they would have| Only Defeats Suffered by been good, tough men if they nad Local Club. N. teri. i Hees Detroit fleeutts of Games Yesterday. oj New ke, 2. jour 4; Brisdelphi, . jeveland, 8; St. Louis, 4, ULTON had his twenty-fourth By Bozeman Bulger. baths i) & ite Bee OMING from this particular end of tho circuit, it may sound little like sour grapes, but nevertheless, the American League he became locally famous in @ po-| that Clarke Griffith is endangering | euliar way. Hoe was “jumped” by 4) his chances for the pennant by over- gang of six men, and he knocked) taxing the strength of Walter John- them all out. Immediately his friends] son Already the Kansas Cyclone has done more work than the best seasoned pitcher would be expected stering |t0 do in table | games played by the son has pitched four "irae To-Day. Besten at New Yor! Philadel, craze, | throughout | Pions countered with Dutch Leonard @nd scored a shutout. That victory, by the way, restored to the Red Sox the leadersiup of the league and im- Pressed upon Connie Mack the fact that bis club belongs in the cellar. Red Sox without Tri Speaker are the attraction at the lo They take on the Yanks for the first time thie season, nators John- winning three, 8 opinion that the oie oan win again on their pitching staff writ only fair hitting behind it. Shorte: unable to play the count of a very w t part of the af ing around the di ceilings,” said Fulton, “Lifting the|twice in guccession by the Yanks, ‘Britton Defeats Lewis and Wins (Bpecial to The Prening World,) Jack Britton of Chicago won undis- puted claim to the welterweight championship of the world when he the new Louisiana Auditorium here last night. Britton clearly out- majority of rounds, and there could be no doubt as to the decision, The unanimous opinion of the newspaper writers at the ringside was that the Chicagoan had the ad- claim but four. Contrary to expectations Britton whole way, and time and ume again he forced Lewis about the ring with volley after volley of accurate left hooks and jabs and right upperouts, best condition and when the men weighed in at 145 pounds ringside the manager of each stated that no ex- cuses would be offered in the case of defeat. | Rosner Loses to Wilde in the 11th LONDON, April 256.—Jimmy Wilde, the English flywelght champion, de- feated Johnny Rosner of New York here last night in the eleventh round of their twenty-round bout, ‘A big crowd jammed the Stadium and went wild over Wilde, who has teoome a popular idol because of his boxing skill, ‘mud’ and putting at on with long) Grifith has used Johnson twice in one series—a proceeding almost un- plastering a fellow has to hold his|heard of except in @ final drive for farm out for ten minutes or more at] the pennant. n boxing it) 1¢ Johnson, pride of the American League and consequently of almost 's there's no truth in the}as much value to the other clubs as! 1 oOUllto Washington, can stand up under labor everything will But if overwork eend: preparato' Bosto: tions, is getting ‘aves for the first ‘ime this The hard luck that beset the Reds! right after Hal Chase joined the club wppears to have stuck, Thowe two topnotch stars of the light heavyweight class, Jack Dillon of Indl- anapolia, the present holder of the title, and Battling Levinsky, the clever and shitty Hebrew boxer of this city, will battle again to-night. will come together in a fifteon- bout for a decision at a show to be held by the American A. C. of Kansas City. the truck-horse sd] be fine and lovely, him over. in the spring should incapacitate him “Did you ever see me before?” he] ror the long summer's grind Grimth Schultz being touched up for pitcher who wears spectacies, walked away with another victory, m by rallies in the last two innings, Among a number of ball Thase is not popular, with all sincerity that he has “hoo- dooed Herzog's olub. No,” said Wills, after etving Ful-|W!ll have many opportunities to re- ton the once over. gret his folly. “Well, I'm Fred Pulton, the yellow] Mombors of the New York club, just This time they and they insist Jreturned from \Washington, sa: went after the last pennant depended th lthat Johnson pitched out o jeve that Griff is making a Gritith fought six times, five of the bouts no- decision affairs, while the other, decided Mont, on April 14, 1914, was who was awarded the decision at the end of a twelve-round E4 Smith, the prominent ref- will officiate im that es to the long A little more of this and double-headers will be the jregular order of things this summer Instead of the exception. won by Dillon, are contributing stances mind, however, that may have in- hurd hitters aecins te be ahebhy | fluenced their’ concern over the ereo of Chicaso, As an evidence of what lUttle | capacity in to-night’s bate, avail is money in estimating the big league ability of a player, the Yanks have a lad, Urban Shocker, who cost them $750, been retained im preference to Dan Tipple, for whom Capt, Hus: ton and Col. Ruppert laid out Six other clubs did upward of $5,000 for Tipple None of them had ever heard of our Shocker, The New York After many unsuccessful attempts, Tom An: rows, the fight promoter of Milw nally succeed tn clinching @ Ritahie Mitebell, the arack lightweight of Mil Waukee, and harley White of Obicaga, They will west for ten rounds at the of Milwaukee on May @ at 185 pounds, weigh in ‘hite Feorive © guarantee of » me | But for thie d leans last night, | structive effect of the Cyclone has established the best known! they would now be leading the to beat them, Oream ity 4. C. erweight honors. The! league. $9,000 in cash, of the returning athletes the han~ In hia laat tilt | Little Johnny Coulon, the formar bantamwetght Harry Sparrow estimates that already more than $80,000 has struck out three postponement Harry Covaleskie of the Tigers @ got back, too, is running Johnson a close seo pitching truck horse. ings used the hig Pole again In a telegram received at this office early to jay Dam Morgen, manager of Jack Britton, how woltarweight champion, mye that after Britton had been awarded the decision over Ted Kid" Lewis at Now Orleans last nigh | \eoge tor Britton to tig From the way for his club s things have broke vest he issued a chal > seven inning in the eughth or ninth innings, w ume pon papery guarantee Benay Leouara (eee gma ha att ts, on May & Rosnor made a good stand in the early rounds, but was no match for hts apeedy copes as the bout pro- pened. $1,600 to box Moran,” says Milly Gibson, notified Retsler last night that if Moran shows up to the form which characterized his work with Charley White against Shamus O'Brien at the Harlem Sporting Club on May 2 1 will accep: the offer of $1,600, Leonard is not and will not be @ trial horse for any one, ‘This t# no reflec tion en Moran, but I want to ere if Moran can prove to be a worthy opponent for Leouard,” A report is being circulated that John Wein en offer of $20,000 to fight Jeck Dillon, Gibson ts trying to indu Dulty for the lightwotght ampiouship of the sec than be ever received, Jotinny Griffiths, the crack lightweight of Atro ,, and Willio Beecher, the gamo cast aide fietite will exchange wallops i1 on Thurelay night at a be brought off at Clerela: waye given Griffthe @ ha tho go. As Be, fant the John Retaler has just been awanded the State Athlettc Commission to hold shows during the summer mon Bhatton, Rockaway Heaoh, Joh Sporting C take an Negro Chink, and Battling Marsha sud will reforve the conteata Yack Kelsey and Harey ¢ been matched to box Welter Title NEW ORLEANS, La., April 25.—/ decisively defeated Ted “Kid” Lewis! of Englandin a twenty-round bout at} classed the Englishman in the great! vantage in at least twelve of tho) twenty rounds, while Lewis eould/| Both Lewis and Britton were in the| mantel has been removed as the manager of the Broadway Sporting Club, which holds ite shows at Bbbets Field in Brooklyn during the summer month, and that Tom ©'Rourke has been sub. atituted, O'Rourke recently make Frank Moran game the Timmy Duffy, the omnak west side lightweight, has been signed up by the management of tho Stadium A, ©. to appear in tho main event at that club one week from Saturday night, Billy Young Reilly to box tion, He ts cmfident of closing the match as| Rreat he i» offering Reilly more mousy to box Dutty ier ten round bont the will make Johnny stop some again in eto hold Ms ing boxing show om Friday ere. the lotng, May 12, ‘Tee Harlem Sporting Club will bold s show on Friday might at which two ten round boute between key McParland and | colored fighters will be held, Wille Langford ter Tortorkh has offered @ $16,000 purse for the bout, will hook up with Battling Gana, Kid MoPart Longer Courses Necessary As the Lively New Balls Are Revolutionizing Golt Tee Shots of 200 Yards Don’t Excite Any One, as the Modern Rubber Core Balls Are at Least Fifty Yards Faster Than Old Gutty Balls, and Are Making Long Drivers of Even Duffers, According to Gil Nicholls, “Met” Open Champion. HE new high speed golf balls}hole course of the West pap en I are making long drivers of even the duffers. Tee shots of 200 yards don’t excite any one now, because the mod yn rubber-core balls are at least fifty yards faster than |the old gutty balla, The new balls | are so lively that they've revolution- Was the aggressor practically the! izea the game. Courses must now be longer, And your average player, after he’s walloped off a long drive with one of the new fast balls, proudly imagines he’s a second Harry Vardon. Gil Nicholls, metropolitan open champion, says the lively balls are the greatest thing that ever happened to the old eport, because a long straight drive to the golfer is as sat- istying as @ home run wallop to a bait player. 0. modern fast balls the chief reason wh: stick to the game, Gil to-day, who the golf impro twenty year now for the average player, and even the beginner, to get off long drives, because the balls are so fi Only top one of these rub- core balls and it goes prob- A fair hit will and that's the thing for a oO ai most enco foiferra good driv "It was greatly different with the | old gutta-percha bal be a good player to get 175 yards with one of these bi this distance they right and with tremendous force, A long drive in those days was a rare ceeurrence for only the average | wolfe One had to Even to get ad to be hit just hen in 1902 Coburn Haskell began xperimenting = with = rupber-centre lls, From this time on the game gradually began to change, These faster balls gave the high-score play- ers more chan long distance tee shots the pneumatic ball was introduced recently, but it wasn't much of a success, It gave too mi ch advantage to the star golf- As a check on use it had to be hit exactly ors, right If the duffer merely topped It he only got about twenty-five yards for his effort. To prevent these dis- appointed players from leaving the ively balls came back to vogue, and faster than ever.” Gil ‘Nicholls belleves that maybe at some future time a ban will prob- ably be put on the speedy balls tf they are made any liveller, but for the present he thinks they are tho it Mttle benefactors that ever came in the old Scotch game, Old Gil predicts that the golfers wish to ‘hit ‘em a mile” may soon b come a reality tf they continue to put more speed into the balls, It As planned to open the new 18- Brainard Goes to Providence, PROVIDENCE, R. I, Apr Brainard of the Glants and Blackburn | of ———__— Eaolly Defeats Flyan, Jerce, the hard-hitting Brook weight, Who knocked out Frank! er last Week, scored another ea at the Military A.C. last nig Wet Jimmy Flynn of Long Islan Pierce knocked his opponent dow sand sent him. thr bell frequen Beach Club about May 1. Abo $200,000 has been expended on the club's links and the members say it's Pippin. Eric Edwards has been appointed olub professional, The Essex County Country Club announces its golf schedule to-day, which has been arranged up to July 4. The club season will open April 29 with an 18-hole medal play for classes A, B and C. For every Saturday thereafter some kind of a tournament has been arranged. The club cham- pionship starts on May 27 with 18-hole medal round. Three rownds of match play will bring the finals to June 24, oo WELSH BREAKS HAND IN BOUT WITH HAMMER, MILWAUKEE, Wis, April 25.— Freddie Welsh, lightweight champion boxer, who was defeated by Ever Ham-| -rou! nteat | nd cot ‘ard ball was very popular. mor of Chicago in @ te: here last night, {ts suffering fractured hand to-day, The champion Claims he fractured his hand during the second round and that the break js a repetition of @ previous fracture, PALIN Magee’s Injury Not So a. BOSTON, Mass., April 25.—Sherwood w back shortly, Magee was hit pitched ball trom Chiet Bender. At first it was believed he suffered a com- ound fracture, but i at has disclosed the hurt not #o seriaus. —————— YANKS EXPECT TO SIGN EDDIE MAHAN OF HARVARD. Eddie Mahan, considered one of the greatest halfbacks in the his- tory of football, and who has also ichieved considerable fame as a pitcher for Harvard, is likely to be signed to twirl for the Yankees after he graduates tn June, Col. Ruppert and Capt, Huston are willing to pay the crack Crimson athlete more money than he has heen offered by the Braves and hey have reason to believe that he will cast his lot with them, hoss between a varsity a world series foul line ump. ‘The gantiog. ‘ot Mtomer Tax as it Hower once found a clam in @ clam . have gone to Palm Beach for th judged a stric he accepted was in Mexican money. cided that !t is tmpossible for Orvill Bhoobe to have consumed $646.92 Magee, the Braves’ star outfielder, who thought out of the game for «| move to New York or Boston. month or six weeks when he injured hia lett, wrist recently, ta now, expected r examination | PUTTING’EM OVER With Miata Baer “Sor Re va es wT the fans like to see is a team of pinch hitters.” About time the Giants eta to get started. Apparently the U. 8. G. A, We opposed to professional amatowre. qikvean the ae penuante ut we ae ee Donoran’s handwriting, tek at, oto oot aoe Towa 220-yard record until they as- certain just how long 220 yarde te in Towa. ~s Keep plugging, but not quare re. ade ter neat a Saas Speaking of kaleidoscopto reers, Al Demaree is a pitcher ond made a single already this season, For sincere sinecures it's hoss and coxswain and SPORT “ALPHABET. I stands for me, Bug and nut too, Exactly the reason Why I stands for U. re claim with the freckles, Apparently Rabbit Maranvilte has decided not to go after the this season. nant ohamese ‘sumuner? Can it be that the Gianty Fishermen lost on ths ocean often dia of thirst, but a real Chicago fish- erman can pull the same stunt on fresh water. A. A. U. NOTES. Owing to the schedule being oon- fused, it is not certain whether Joe Goofus is an amateur or a profes- sional this mont Wilbur MeWhuffie has been ad- amateur, as the $10,000 The registration committee has @ worth of Pullman berths in going | trom Jersey City to Newark. Sam Dubb, the croquet champion, has been given the air, as he has opened up @ croquet garage in Nome, Alaska. Although a profe! U, has installed fonal, the A, A. ernon Gibber te |good standing, as Vernon ie etill an amateur at allbis Bill Squiff, the ski champion, hae been given the gate, the committee having conclusive evidence that Bill was financing a ski links in Panama. Baseball statisticians have been conspicuously negligent in failing to tabulate whether left or right handed umpires are hit the hardest. ANSWERS TO QUEERIES, \ X. X. X.—About the most important Position on a ball team {is tioket taker, Kewple—The first turnstile wae used in 1878. Until that time base- Z. A. P—Yale will numbers on her players’ backs which will e able the players to get thetr right ears back after eacl scrimmage, Phanny—Fans in Cincinnatt bave been waiting #3 years for a pennant when it would have been easier to Junko—There are no penalties parcheesi, as the game is enough one to start with, gafeitelan Oldjuneny, the i 'Amorice ant” announces nee fefeaha he, will do" all ae fering by cable, Yale's second crew ts faster than the varsity and has beew severely reprimanded, Rained Sunday, but the Easter bonnets can play a double-header next year. From ,now on, spring footbatt will attract as much attention ae an onion in Bermuda. -Asa purchased | Matimgariner. formerly | ity has reported %o| A contented mind, a well poised body, a full purse, are the lot of the moderate man, With him moderation in itself is a pleasure because of the happiness it atcher | breeds, And so he drinks moderately of a wonderfully mildand mellow Whiskey | —Wilson—Real Wilson—That ‘All! The Whiskey for which we incented the Nen-Refilleble Bottle FREE CLUB RECIPES—Free booklet of famous club recipes for wained drinks, Addiess Wilson, 31! Filth Ave, N.Y. That's AMD