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ak ee — VBLD, WEDNKODAY WAX 6, 101 Under 145 Pounds Ring Side. Coppright. 1916, by The Vreae Pobushing Co, fhe New York Evening Word ‘ACK BRITTO: ifter years of try- ing, has bec me a world’s cham pion at last. When Jack beat Kid Lewis in New Orleans he an- nexed the welterweight title, In all the history of the ring no ther fighter ever stuck to his pur- pose more doggedly. Success has come to him late—but not too late. When other men who started the climb with him are down and out, Jack Britton ts just coming to the noonday of his destiny, Other champions have burst into the limelight in a single night, their fame and fortune made by one un- expected punch well placed. Perhaps some of them have bad @ litue luck in the matter, but it isn't luck in Britton's case Hig story is unique in the annals of fistlana. “Matty Mat- thews had hande still horny from driving his truck when he chipped Mysterious Billy Smith on the chin and became weltegwaight champion, Rube Ferns was an unknown when Matthews went dawn before him. 1s had hardly fitted the crown to his head when Joe Waloott knocked it off. Honey Mellody became fa- mous in a night when he whipped the doughty black champion, whose term of usefulness in the ring had already passed because @ bullet had shit- tered his right hand. Aocoidents all— more or less—or at least puppets of the great god Luck! But with Britton it wee different. Jack Britton was a bantamweight when he etarted title hunting. In after class he neared champion- ship form—olim’ the place where he could no longer be overlooked by the existing champion—and then grew too » True, there were long de- @s. he aie on fighting for ve years, an ve years Jong time in the padded rin; crack at the championship he missed sometimes because hi 1@ too good, and the champions dogged and wri They Bri er trying. P haps he felt that some time he'd jam af ‘way through opposition and reach AY Britton, fresh from his victory over Kid Lewis at New Orleans, was telling me ell about it. . “One of the first hard fights I hed was with Ray Bronson in New Or- leans,” said Jack. “I had been fight- ing all over the Middle West and through the Southern States. But I was lucky when I got a hundred dol- lare for a fight in those days, From the time I started, at seventeen, I had @ tough row to hoe. Nearly always I had to give away weight, Down there in New Orleans I was offered @ bout with Bronson, wno was very popular, Ray was a welterweight. I welghed 128 pounds. 1 took the match without much hope of winning. I needed the money tog much to worry over being beaten by a bigger man, 1 had fought fellows like Young Loughrey, Mississippi, Tommy Love, Leo Houck, Rouse O'Brien, Billy Glover, Joe Sieger, Kid Broad and that tough bunch. But 1 wasn't get- ting anything worth mentioning. I was lucky when I ate regularly. “When my fight with Bronson started the crowd hooted and hissed. I guces it didn't look like a yery good match. But I fought my best, and some people in New Orleans still re- member that fight. Every time I go there people come to see me and tell me I ehould have had the decision. “That was my real start, I had a od year, fighting Kid Farmer, Bert Key Young | Saylor, | Tommy Harry Stone and a few “Then came my first really big fight and my first chance to break imo the championstip crowd. 1 fought Packey McFarland in Mem- phis, eight rounds, They called it a draw. | know | e Packey the hard- est fight he had in a long tine. It was years before 1 could get him again: 1 wen out after him. Danny Morgan became my and for the first time I be etting real money for fighting. ht all over the country, from San Francisco to New Y I wanted the lightweight championship in those days. 1 went after it hard. But the chat wouldn't have anything to do me, | Wax on the outside looking tn Ad Wolgast) was champion, | He couldn't see me, Ritetie won his title, Ritenie had taken a four-round 4 cision over me in San Francisco, but as champion he didn't give me a tumble, Wels won from @ 1 camped on We it Was no une sion tig nyway into But tha a ttle | LL the time I owas growing|to tien it “A Io It w ard for me |iny of to fight a¥ a Nehtweight. 1 tt ice otiue boxed McFarland twic LT don't know | to mee y what was the matter with me in ou Jack 1 New York fights, but he certainly had bic w ha my goat. ful boxer, and he was much heavier | develop nething Wke the whenever we met. He couldn't hurt) famous kacrew, me, but he had his gloves in-my face) “| snap it across and turn my hand all’ the time, His uppercute didn't to hit with the first two knuckle daze me, but they looked good, Helexplained Britton, “lt isn't pushed got all the credit there was in that! ou Ss BWePL UCrONs, fight. Later in Milwaukee [ didn't vy insky, whe wa do so badly. But Packey has grown into a middleweight, Any time he car make 145 pounds a ance at my w barred. Iter title, “I beat a lot of good welters and | wonder, all right, ¥ Jack Britton, Who Annexes a| Title After Twelve Years’ De-| termined Effort in Ring, Says He'll Give Any Boxer a Chance at Welter Crown Who'll Scale He was always a wonder- |}, less he can have He isn't Soe HA | Aw ) | WaT User, Copyright, 1916, by ‘To FiauT The si “BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK | BRITTON’S LEFT MADE HIM WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPION OF WORLD the Pre: Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) Tre BRITON LEFT “THAT MADE “HIN, CHAMPION OF THE WoRLD, WNGEERS. Youthful Jersey State Champion in Good Form for Three-Day Braves Hurdle Four Clubs and Land In First Place in National League Raceip —_s Giants’ Victory Over Dodgers Causes Latter to Drop Into Second Position, While in the American League the Yanks Hopped Back Into First Di- vision by and Cleveland Is Ready to A sume Lead Should Senators Slip a Cog. By Bozeman Bulger. IDED by the successful rear- muard action of the Giants egainst the Dodgers, George Staltings took a running jump over night and landed his Braves in first place, throwing the National League into another mad scramble. In his record-breaking vault Stallings hur- dled Phillies, Dodgers and Cubs. Brooklyn tumbled into second place after having enjoyed the leadership Umelight for a single day. The Phil- Mes, prohibitive favorites a week ago, will have to fight to-day to stick in the first division, But for the bad start of the Giants this would have been the merriest mix-up the old league has had for many years, It was almost as bad in the American, By trimming the Ath- letics the Yanks hopped back in the first division and the Red Sox have fallen from their high estate to @ tie for leadership of the second squad, Cleveland, de- apised of all clubs a month ago, now holds second place, and the slightest slip on the part of the ey | Kid middleweights, earned a decision over me in Boston, some Lewis That and my McFarland fight in Madison Square rden were the hardest fights I ev But 1 can say truthfully 1 wasn't hurt in eit | They were just hard fg! |marked in some of my but not in any of th had in the past five or s “I decided that the welterw title ought to belong to me a lot of me ho claimed it rough ones, th rs, were They say 1 made Soldier look pretty foo! d othe s mixed it well enough with Mike ¢ bons. At last came the chance with Kid Lewis in New Orleans for the le, This time T didn't have any rouble. He was alw dongeron hut L think 1 him « 1 the way. 1 Ww t 1 He pou n\ tening I've spent two 1} years trying to Jack I can't t never | short mi or a@ littl National League. Geb. WwW. Beston..7 4 PC. Cab. WwW. L. 036 7 200 St. Lo'ts.8 Giactn'al, 1183 Now roa. ar Phedoiy or Loala, 8 ‘Cincianats vs. Brooklyn at New York. t Pitteburgh ‘hicago at fh Senatora will send them to the head of the class. With Boehling in the box the Sen- ators held their own against the Red) Sox and now have @ very fair margin as leaders of the league. It was a hard fight between Boehling and Shore, the Red Sox growing danger- ous in the seventh inning with four runs in a wad. Boehling finally set- tled down, though, fand saved the day also the lead, The event of large import in’ America—meaning Gri New York—was the victorious charge of the Giants i Brooklyn, It ended their string of eight straight defeats and gave hope to New York fans of seeing | their_pets up there in the soram- ble. The team played as little like the club of last week as the club of last week did the old cham- pions. By some twi of ‘the wrist McGraw suddenly brought the boys out of thei tl real ol good to || The pitching exhibition of Big Jeft Tesreau was the prettiest hing of its | Kind seen at the Polo Grounds this season, re was not a weak spot 1 ance. But three of the gers hit safely, and those wallops it a time when the score could » affected. Big Jeff used his tter most of the afternoon, but oo- jeasionally tore through with a fast ball that had a real hop on it. came Among ballplayers it has long been said that Larry Dovle is the real thermometer of the ante, When; Larry hits the Giants play like quar- tor horses, When he slumps. they slump. Yesterday the —walloping captain took unto himself three clean smashes in a row and things immi diately perked up. The club managed id of B, to win, even without the Columbia Plays 15-Inning Tie With Penn Nine “VHA, May 3,—In one PHILAD of the longest ball gam on Franklin Bield, the. ¢ struggled With Penn's ball players for fifteen innings, but night fell before A decision could be reached, with the Beore at 2 all Pay liky Smith of the New York agerexation was the chief rival of Penn's twirler, ‘The Columbia piteher went to the reseue of his teammate, Beck, a southpaw, when the latter found “linself in hot water in. the eventh session, in whieh the Quak- ed the score ne the eight third in time of 3 ii on the he allowed rs only its, He was the four different ival to reach first . in real danger of de _ lay with BROOKLYN, 3.40 Polo Grounds, Adm, 50c,—Advt, , MAJOR LEAGUE RESULTS AND STANDING Results of Games Yes Championship, Starting To- Morrow, Which Has Attracted Over 100 Entries. VER one hundred entries are al- ready in for the three-day golf tournament of the At- lantio City Club which starta to- morrow. This spring meet of the Jersey club has always been popular with club swingers, and judging by the flow of entries the starting ficld this year will break all records for size and class, Many of the most prominent golf- ers in the Metropolitan district will -up on the Jersey links. In the number will be young Max Marston, who appears to have the best chance of winning the tournament. The youthful Jersey State champion h been practising diligently all winter with his half-iron shots until now his game is practically perfect, if it is possible for any golfer's game to be so finely developed. ‘ihe Atlantic New York at Philadelphia > wee = 66S a FEW YOMRS 21F BRITTON Grows Seue MORE> |Marston Has Best Chance Of Winning Golf Tourney . At Atlantic City Club an cighteen-hole qualifying test. Match play rounds will be run off day with the semi-final and dnal rounds Saturday. The tournament is open to all golf- ers who belong to clubs with mem- bership in the U. 8. Golf Association, All entries should be in the hands of the club secretary by this evening. Entries for the handicap round on Saturday should be in by early Satur- day morning. This amateur business {s being drawn so finely that Herbert Strong, Secretary of the Professionag Golfers’ Association, found it necessary to ask the United States Golf Association for a ruling on an amateur who might be invited to act as permanent secre- tary of the association. Strong feared that the mere association with pro- fessionals might force an amateur to surrender his simon-pure standing. The Hackensack Club will stage on May 13 an exhibition match that will come pretty near being the best that will be seen all season. It will be a foursome with Max Marston and Os- wald Kirkby, the Jersey wizards, on one side and Jerry Travers, open na- tional champion, and Phil Carter on the other. With these four sensa- tional birds lined up for business the City meet will be the first one of the season for Marston. The opening day wil be devoted to» Moran Wins, but Against O’Br Kauff, who went the whole afternoon without @ single blow. In working the arm-wearled Coval- eskte again Hughey Jennings evi- dently sent the pitcher to the well once too often, The Cleveland gang, crazed with the new expericnce of winning, Ut into the former Giant Killer and silenced him for the first}[m Other Bout at Harlem Club i I weeks, Incidentally, i Sion of the Indians, held the slug: Young Brown Easily Whips Sam Robideau. ging Tigers to four well scattered hits. Aside from the fact that he has landed in the lead the cause of George Stallings's continued chuckle is that he did the trick with Reulbach in the bor. The champions got nine hits, it is true, but they couldn't hive them, By John Pollock. IC MORAN, the New Orleans V Ughtweight, made his first ap- pearance in a bout in this city last night and his showing was dis- appointing. Moran met Shamus The real pitching exhibition of the/O’Brien, the Yonkers Nghtweight, in day must be charged to the account !a ten-round battle at the Harlem the Cubs in a hole from the moment | Sporting Club, When the bell rang at he stepped in the box. The entire|the end of the tenth session Shamus afternoon netted Tinker's men just|wag still on his feet taking Moran's two lonely hits, and their shutout Tee neta blows and letting go swings and Jabs at his face and body, Out in St, Louis, by the way, the} While Moran was entitled to the fans have begun to cool down in their | honors, his fighting was so poor that excitement over the Browns. Thejeven his admirers admited that un- Cardinals are proving to be the bet-|less he can make a much better ter team, despite the great expecta-|showing he had better keop away tions over the merger of the Browns |from such fast lightweights as Benny and the Feds, When the Giants | Leonard, Johny Dundee, Phil Bloom passed through St. Louls on the way ]and Harry Donahue. Moran did not to Marlin last February the fans|Jook as though he had done much there were betting three to one that| training, for at times his judgment the Browns would finish first, second | of distance was very poor. ‘He often or third s, and the Giant play- missed with short right ewings for De ; “ he jaw and face by several inches. ofa Brnphed WOme'OF HRY: Meney 00. a oran w considerable time in the clinches, holding on td O'Brien when he could have dealt many ef- Bob Shawkey is very muoh ed with fife , morning. |¢ective body blows. Moran may be eon noe te arewhad [able to fight better, but he surely We oRY aa risat fought like a third rater against O'Brien. The other ten-round battle proved to be a fur better scrap. Young Brown, the rugged east side fighter, met Sammy Robideau of Philadel- phia and from the first clang of the bell until the contegt ended the men opportunity was not wi held the Athletics to and but two of those we until the ninth inning, when a single and two triples gave Con- nie Mack slight solace. * ”) + slugged each other continually, They say that Clark Gritfitn still| Brown, innding “so. feequentiy. on bursts out crying every time he looks |Ropideau that he had aim Brogwy in at the box scores and thinks of Joe Gedeon, Had ‘the Washington man- ager succeeded in his offorts to land Gedeon after the Yanks had signed many of the rounds, a big margin, Brown won by wn notified br the him the Senators would have been venos Aster, Argentine Repaibl easily the favorites for pennant | they intend to « al boxing shows there |honors. They look pretty gaod as! during the mont apd aekiog him 10 Vit is, |wend down fmm sixteen to eighteen top. “ | notchers of the prize rite to engage ih fifteen Herbert Hunter had more oppor: | twenty rund bouts at the different aboms, tunity to show what he could do at |is vow looking uy sme of the good seranper to third yesterday, and tho crowd went | make tie joume Phil Bloom will be one of away feeling sure that McGraw at | them jlast’ had picked up a new. star. 3 = é , | Hunter looks almost as good to the | 2m Coffer the Irish heavrwelght, who | Giants as Joe Gedeon does to the oy. “é Hes ee Jo the open ale Yanks. He has no fear of a gilding + on Memorial Day afternoon, tug today at the Now Volo A. A, Or the battle fotfey ts to get a big guarantee, with an option of 30 per cant, of the gross receijite, which tho club official declare will make tie end of Ue fabt between $5,000 and $9,000, base ranner and can block and tag | them as well as old and tried vet evans d ‘Tenney and Jim Price appear to be running away with that Inter- Charley Harvey, former Svertary of the 8t national Learue ra ‘erin Newark, Athletic Commission, is now signing up fight If they have good ching all well make @ trip to Australia, where tah and good, [f they don't that Newark part in several fights, Charley ty now manager | Rang can ko right ahead and “bust of Bildie Wallace, ver Bivoklyn light the old pill” just the same. | weight, who recomtly beat Frankie Fleming in two ien Disappointing match should be full of action. The Hackensack Club simply s all golfers to remember the date—May 13, | His Showing ronnda, Wallace has broden eway from bis for- mer manager, Clarence Gillespie, Jeff Smith, the Bayonne, N. J., middleweight, bas been matched for another fight by hie man. wveight of Kensington, Pa | fix-round battle at @ show » Reading, Pa., on the night | Borrell is one of ne, rush: | ith hustle | of Moy 14, tog fightors and will probably make io order to beat him, —_ i A match has been arranged between Phil Bloom of Brooklyn and Dick Stoo, the promising fighter of Cleveland, ‘They will have tt out in @ ten- round battle at the Clermont A, ©. of Brooklyn on Saturday evening, May 18, Bloom is to re ceive & guarentee of $300, Stoch's manager, Leo Fiyon, taking © percentage of the gross receipts and guaranteeing Bloom thet sum, Johnny Lore, the west side welterweight, who recently returned from Canada, where he en- ged in many hard battles during the several onthe he waa there, is to fight Joe Honan, the sturdy fighter of Perth Amboy, N. J., {n a ten- round battle at the Totten Spxrting Club of Tot- tenville, 8... f May 8, Honan wing i bouts at that Danny Morgan, manager of Battling Lerinsky, and Jim Buckley, manager of Gunboat Smith, last night agreed to let thoir men meet in a alx round bout at the Olsmpla A, A. of Philadel ia, or an elght-round battle at the Future A. O, of St Louls, Toe matchmaker of both Clube are after the bout, and the one iéat offers the best inducement will get tly contest, | Bill Brennan, the Chicago Celt who knocked | out One-Round Davis in three rounds on Monday night, has been matched by the management of the Clermoot Rink, Brooklyn, to box Boer Rexel tomorrow night, Brennan is confident that he will stop the Boer ax quickly as de did Davis. | the Armory A | declared the winne: PUTTING ’EM OVER With “Bugs” Baer Omori, 1818 Yor™avecse Wars RABID RUDOLPH- Varo" 1 Z 66] T'S a toss up whether somnambulism is worse during the night or day.” The Giants look like a strong aB- gregation—physically. If Joe Gedeon ts the bloomer that Griff claims Joe must be @ century plant, t prev a team twenty-two left on the ba it of twenty-one at! m having Asaistant Attomay General Tod's request that the Americin Can Company bs diwolved as & {rust come too late to eave the vusliers {rom betug decorated. The Harvard, Wisconsin and Penn relay teams managed to de- feat Ted Meredith. Al Reich has parted from his o manager, which may lead to @ von- troversy to determine who gets the sponge. The baseball season will not be really here until Ty Cobb misses Frank Bak- er's leg and spikea the bag. Ie spite of Rud Kipling’s arbitrary muling, the West and Last meet next week If Nap Lajote can steal home, some of the younger players ought to be able to steal first All the bravery at Vercun pales into Class C stuff in comparison to the thirty men who dared to come out yesterday for Penn's football team. Tulsa, Okla, will pay to have Cari Morris and Jim Coffey fiaht at Tulsa. Any other city is willing to ay to have Carl and Jim fight at tulsa. ‘The Giants’ outfield ia the best ty the leagy with the possible exception of coming 1 for Catcher Henry of Washington! varied the monotony on Monday by clearing the bases with a two-base hit instead of a two-base throw. The way Mr. McGraw is shaking it LA doa might call it the batting dis- order. Yale’s second crew is faster than the| frat. 19. Yale races her firat crew in| the regattas every critic in the country will earn a “WHY?” The automobile foisted on Fred Merkle looks like a deep laid plot | hatched’ by the gasoline barons. | Generally, all accounts of games pitched by Walter Johnson are cipher messages. say this European-Mexican hash is cnt deep into President Wilson's baseball ANSWERS U. M.—The masked and gi audience, who when he got hom: eee Knutt—We can't tell who will win the pennant, but we can tell you who won't. TO QUEERIES. Masked Marvel un- the mask to the ve it to his little boy Bhugg—Players who soldier are not | tried by a military court, eee Kurius—Polo is a fairly cheap | game. You can get a pony for $1,000 and a couple of extra ponies when one gets punctured. The incidentals should be less than 90,000. Teague says alls Frank Takes the upper tartlio ome Fu Dornce out or hot course. fiel Fran’. is at the time PENNANT PROSPECTS. By Rabid Rudolph, Only Left-Handed Baseball Expert. With three teams, New York's chances of seeing a world series figure out 3 in 16. Boston's are 2 in 16. Cleveland's are only 1 in 16, but we'd rather see the Indians win, because we wouldn't have to travel over the New Haven. De- troit hasn't lost a game in the East yet, mainly because they haven't been in the East yet Washington is almost certain to finish where Walter Johnson does, At the present time all 16 teams look like pennant winners, but looking through a three-month telescope we see & robust, rollick~ ing, rotund figure blocking the small end. He has a “EB” on his uni- form. This may mean Brooklyn, Bincinnat!, Boston or Bittsburgh. 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