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—— oer eee ee RST AMERICAN CHAMPION WAS BIGGER Defeat of Tipton Slasher by Charles Freeman Among First of American Invasions of English Prize Ring—Stories of Some Experiences on Foreign Soil. £ Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). ETWEEN the years 1700 and 1800 the British first ruled the world, British seamen fought in every their warlike country than all B count of the battle: “The Black astoni ordinary power of hitting, but by his Was far greater than any ono had’ @iven him credit for. Many persons Were of the opinion that he would have won had it not been for the ring having been broken in, at the nine teeth round, when he held Cribb on the ropes, At this time Molineaux got one of his fingers broken. After the men Were carried to thelr corners Cribb was so much exhausted that he could hardly rise from his second’s knee at the call of ‘time,’ which was uttered loudly by Sir Thomas Apreece; Joe Word, his second, by a little manoeuv- ring, occupled the attention of the Black's seconds, and so managed to prolong the period sufficiently to enable the champion to recover a little, and thus, in the end, he managed to pull through.” In u second fight Cribb won in nine- teen minutes ten seconds. This was all London prize ring fighting, with bare knuckles, Molineaux was much wor- ried by the hostility of the crowd, which pressed in against the ring. FIRST AMERICAN CHAMPION WAS BIGGER THAN WILLARD. In 1842 Bill Perry, famous as “The Tipton Slasher,” was champion of England. Ben Caunt, who had held the title. visited America and brought ‘k with him Charles Freeman of New York, known as the “American Giant.” Freeman was a circus acro- but who had taken up fighting. He was 6 feet 101-2 inches tall and weighed 260 pounds. First of Ameri- can champions, he was @ bigger man than Jess Willard. Freeman fought the Tipton Slasher twico. Dec. 14, 1614, they fought all afternoon until darkness stopped the fight. Six days later {t was resumed, and in the thir ty-eighth round the Slasher fell un- conscious. Freeman stayed in Lon- don for three years, hitting the high spots, then died of consumption. Ben Caunt paid his burial expenses, The Rame of the first American to whip an English champion is almost forgotten, although John C. Heenan ‘erected @ mone over his grave in 1869, after hi fight with Sayers. . Tom Sayers was one of the cleverest champions England ever had. Never weighing over 168 pounds, and usually twenty pounds less than that in first- class fighting condition, he whipped all the ring giants of his time. He was a shifty boxer, who dodged and retreated often, but was a terrific counter hitter when pressed. John C. Heenan, the “Benecia Boy,” sent over a challenge from this country in 1859, and quickly followed. THE CROWD SAVED SAVERS FROM A KNOCKOUT, The match was fought for the world's championship at Farnborough, out in the country. Heenan was twen- ty-six years old, Sayers thirty-four, leenan was five inches taller and twenty-five pounds heavier than the English champion. It was a long, terrific fight. In nearly every round Sayers was ihrown or knocked down, After two hours and six minutes, in the thirty-seventh ound, some more | of that jusily celebfated “British falr jay” was shown. Sayers was being pay whipped, and the reteree left! the rin The men fought seven rounds more. Then, with Sayers practically out, the crowd tore down the ropes and stakes and rushed into the ring Heenan was robbed of the official verdict, 48 none was given, Sayers refused to meet him again and retire Duplicate “championship belts" were presented to both Heenan aud Sayers, but as the donors fajled to pay for Heenan's u sherltf seized it before Heenan started back to America. In this country Heenan was greeted as champion, and his right to the title was never questioned, SULLIVAN COULON’T FIND OPPONENT IN ENGLAND, John L, Sullivan invaded England to fight Jem Smith, ten British cham- pion, Smith refused to consider Sul- livan's challenge. Sullivan showed be- fore the Prince of Wales, and offered | to knock out Smith, who was present, | in two rounds or forfeit his share of the purse offered. Smith declined. | Sullivan's claim to the world's cham- plonship was based partly on this! event, and partly on his victories over | Ryan and Kilrain. ‘One of the greatest fights ever held in England was between Dick Burge, | English “lightweight champion” and Kid Lavigne, for the world's cham- Pionship. Lavigne weighed lose than 183 pounds. The lowest weight Burge would agree to make was 145 pounds. This was announced the day before the fight. Mr. Bettinson of the Na+ tional Sporting Club told Lavigne he was at liberty to call off the match, “Oh, V'l fight him,” said Lavigne, Much relieved, Mr. Betthison nur: | t any rate Lavigne should Not risk his tith d maid he'd an- | Bounce that as Burge would not make Weight no title was at stake, “Forget it,” said Lavigne, “If he ean lick me let bim call himself cham- A AN When the time came to fight Burge refused to weigh in at all, Probably bee ecalod over 150 pounds He looked acquaintance with the science, which ete Jin 1910 to fight Freddy Welsh, Eng- \final round by defeating Mra, THAN WILLARD port, making a greater reputation for the high admirals on the sea and the noble generals on land. Then, a lite more than a hundred years ago, the} American boxing invasion began, and! for the first time the tight little! island began to go down for the count. Curtously enough, one of the first American fighters to go after an Eng:' lish champlonship was a negro, Tom Molineaux. The American negro was little known in England when he challenged Tom Cribb, the English champion. He was a magnificently built black man, muscled like Sam MeVey, weighing about 200 pounds. Cribb was of about the same weight. | In this first international fight “Eng: lish fair play” was prominently dis- played. To quote from an ancient ac- shed every one, not only by his extra- . alant beside the cheruble little Lavigne. The Englishmen thought it would be @ slaughter for the small American. Many of those around the ring offered to bet with Sam Fitz- patrick, Lavigne's manager. Betting was done “on the finger,” with no money posted, and Sam, who thought he betting in dollars, accepted bet. pounds, amounting to about five times the purse Lavigne was to wet 1f he won. Fortunately Lavigne fave Burge a terrific beating and nocked him out in the seventeenth round, Kid McCoy and Jack O'Brien used England as a happy hunting ground for several years, golng over th alternately and whipping all the Ei Msh heavyweights. Harry Harris, now a New York theatrical man, went to Ensland several years ago and whipped the best featherweights, winding up with Pedlar Palmer. HOW AN AMERICAN LOST A TITLE IN ENGLAND. One American fighter—and a good one—was whipped and lost his worl championship in England. Frankio Neil won his title by knocking out tiv famous Harry Forbes in California Neil had a wonderfully hard left hand body hook that usually won hia fight He went to England for a pleasu trip, thinking the English boxers wouldn't give him any trouble. But Jem Howker, bantam champion of England, was remarkably clever Uttle fighter. He outpointed Nell in a twenty-round bout became world's champion. The title stayed in England for several years. English neavywelghta have had a hard time with American invaders. England developed a very promising giant of a man, calied Iron Hague. He looked like a coming contender for the world title until 5am Langford | « went over diter him. Hague knocked Sam flat on his back in the first round, but Sam came back and knocked Hague out in the fourth, beating him so badly thai he never re- overed confidence afterward, Gunner Moir was another English champion. ‘Tommy Burns went over after him. Burns beat the Gunner as he plonsed and knocked him out in the tenth round, Next English champion of note w: fo the Bombardier Welts, a great boxer, Ho draw. rm took the lead in t He Will beat a speedy trick in| Simon Healy, the Cassatt trainer, Knocked out all English rivals. and | Arst ave maiizas and gecried ( have his| James Butler's Comely, too, Comely| Wat agreeably’ surprised when Sua then iny A t going, but Christie was able to e hav tte | God galloped home c a. | WIth Jack Johnsons Welle fin eet | Sebae back. didn’t have uny the better of the| sie Aud bolieved him forte wae rain Al Palrer. He gave Palzer an awful beating for two rounde--a beating he never recovered from—iut became ex- hausted and was knocked out in the third. Afterward Frank Moran knocked out Wells in England, but as Wells had been knocked out twice then by little Georges Carpentier of Franco tho feat wasn't startling. ENGLAND'S LITTLE MEN FIGHT WELL, England hasn't been able to produce any world beating heavyweights in a great many years. But some of her small men have been very good, Packey McFarland went to England lish Nghtwelght champion. McFarland beat Welsh in every round of the twenty, but the referee declared the bout a “draw.” The decision was so evidently unfair that even the con- servative London sporting writers commented freely upon it and said McFarland won, Wille Ritchie, Mghtweight cham- pion, fought Welsh in England. Ritchie was a plunging, aggressive boxer, He went after Welsh steadily for twenty rounds, but the English- man was given the decision on points, and the world’s championship weat with it, This was the second time in the history of the sport that an Amer: toan invader lost a title on English soil. —_——-—— | WOMEN’S TENNIS FINALS. Mies Molla Bjurstedt, present holder of tho title, will meet Miss Guthrie of Pittsburg for the women's Metropolitan singles tennix champion- ship at the West Side Tennis Club courts at Forest Hills, L. 1, this after- noon. | Raymon, who as Miss Louise Ham. | Mo id was a Metropolitan champion, in | Cul of the best women’s tennis matches | Me ever seen in this section, two sets to! one at 46, 6—4, 6. margin of | only two games and nine points sep- arated the contestants upon the com pletion of the three sets, the champion} |leading at 16 to 14 to #9 on points. | =z Fz Gamen To-Day, The athletes of the public high schoots| { of this city will invade Brooklyn to-day,| when they compete in the an:, and field games of the Public § Athletic League to be hell at the Brook lym Athletic Field, Avenue und Kast Seventeenth Street. In addition to th novice events there will be tarce relay championsiips contested, A large nuine bor of entries have been rec and atietic officials predict spirited compe- Utlon in every event Harry Pierce, Welght with the heavy punches, scored another knockout last night by stopping Tommy Howan, also of Brooklyn, in the sixth round of the star bout at the Van- rbiit A. C. of Brooklyn, knocking out J. Club of N diowelght champion of the cond round, ikht of the Speedway A. ark, in the firat round, and secured the dke's decision at the end of the third round in & bout with Adolph Kaufman of the Trinity A. C. of Brooklyn was given an ovation as he left ring. Tho finals will be decided to- night. CLEVELAND, O., May 2 he was outclassed in the early rounds, Gus Christie of Milwaukee kept plugging away in his ten-round bout with Young Ahearn of New York and fought his way At Young Caniell and J on even terms for ten rounds, iy Hear) Crawtond, Detrait Young, Detrot ‘ on jer Martha | Veach Hareaiis, Barty Ameri Mewrd The Norwemian irl reached the | fulsuers aed Co Edward | femsn!, ist fey Yer Ma Hag! &ames and at Y8 | Huth. Homo Se Seger, A W 1al¢ Tom MouINEAUX , AN AMERICAN NEGRO, Fouat Criss, iN 1842 « LES FREEMAN AMERICAN GUANT® KNOCKED OUT THE FAMOUS *TIPTON SLASHER AND BECAME FIRST AMERICAN CHAMPION OF THE WORLD, ing for the fi Pierce lan condition. international amateur Palace Hail anders of Ori ohn Hoffma: Brown's Far. have oF Washingtos nue, W aan ington Lois. s St, Louis, .) Thorton verse dae, Dew York. BY cain Be ew Yor Cleveland’ the Brooklyn Shortly Kowan made two rounds on him su effectively that he soon had Rowan in a weukoned beginning of the sixth sexsto landed several heavy wallop: Jaw wagering him axain John Gadd! of the St. Bartholomew A, 168-pound champion, accomplished quite a feat last might at che international amateur box- ing tournament, which i being held at in Newark, N. J., by the Cy ns, the amateur mid- outh, in the ny ahi C. of New: Rockaway A. @, lohnny Mack fought American League Batting Averages. lght- Although Races Like Star in First Outing. By Vincent Treanor. discuss probable stars of A believing that it will take a ¥ | from now on. y- Louis Feustel’s Four-Year-Old LTHOUGH it's a bit early to racing season, one can't help good horse to beat Louis Feustel's He Will ‘This wonderfully im- proved son of Heno and Naughty Lady made his first appearance of the year yesterday in tho Nevada TEE BVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 90, 1916. 3EST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK F G It Will Take a Good Horse To Beat He Will ThisSeason thought Comely would win, She was as ready as could be and had held High Noon in a recent workout on the Empire Track. Congressman Loft, one of the most recent additions to the ranks of mil- Monaire owners, had the pleasure of seeing his gold and maroon striped silk borne to victory by Julialeon 4 Helmet-Frances filly. This was only the second starter in Mr. Loft's colors, too, bis first, Candyland, on the opening day running unplaced. the Julialeon performed like a classy filly and one which is likely to go on to further y She showed Handioop at Jamaica, and just she was barrier wise and was romped home. He ran the six fur- ea ps toes. oe ay ‘ de a pon Burlesque and Cocklesnell im- longs in 1.12, equalling the track | mediately, una they never could gain he} record, which was made by Dick/an inch on her. Sho finished with breezed the rest of the way. £:|have done any better under more | favorable conditions, Mr, MAJOR LEAGUE AVERAGES Compiled by Moreland News Bureau Watkin's Quadrille eleven years ago. He Will shouldered 118 pounds as tf it were a feather, ran behind the fast Etruscan for an elghth of a mile and break, but it is doubtful if she could Butler plenty to spare, Julialeon didn't run unbacked by any means. She was layed from as high as 15 to 1 down, and some one profited hand- somely by her performance, and mud, but the colt seemed per- fectly at home on the dry track, Last season at Aqueduct Sun God started in a race during a drenching rain- storm. As he led his field round the stretch turn the rain suddenly stopped and the skies cleared, As he went on to win and swept by the Judges a rainbow came out. Sun God was entered to be sold for $1,200 yess | terday, but Sandy McNaughton put | greater value on him by running National League Batting Averages. | bim up to $2,000, The usual extra played in ten} | Hecords of players who have played tn ten| $6 retained the colt for his stable, a, Ar saat Civ RoW av.) ph 1 thrill a R, *. ers andl Clubs, - Ave. © real thrill of yesterday's rac- a of SR acne 8% Bling camo in the fitth race, when a poner ison wy 351 | Monocacy and Devil jh came down i 2 aces. in ding-dong fashion, 7 4% 1 run lapped on each other FY # c all the wa: Monocacy Be d to have Devil Fish disposed Ue | of inside the last sixteenth, and Ball 3 8 stopped riding. Keough was busy on ¢ Devil Fish ant rouxed the colt to an 2 effort which sot iis head in front of 3 Monocacy, This made Ball go to a 1 Cet Yerkes, Ohicamn Hietcher, New ry chers’ we May 17. Hits, at 1 Br Record: drive arain on the Talbot gelding, and the crowd was on its toes as the pair battled it out to the wire. Monocacy just lasted to win by a nose, Stable had to walt a Po imable in a spot iked @ sure thing, As ts se, the connections had . As the race was run 1 to 5 would have been a good price, Naushon mi ht have made a race of it with My Donnie In the last event of the dav if he had got away from the post on equal ter Tom had no excuse t r him race He s elding: Jy and doing well and was meeting the poorest company he has yet run with, Naushon’s backers will have to wait for another day. Ave. rn Provid'ce 10 6 625! Torom t a RESULTS YESTERDAY. Richmond, 5; 0. Montreal (rain), TO-DAY. Buffalo, ure at Rochester Richmond ai Toremty diay. BLO MO NOY, 9 Wel Uauaile, Adal, OO maaet, WHEN THE C “TO Save AMERICAN CHAMPIONS WHO INVADED ENGLAND Copyright, 1916, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Mvoning World). Journ C. HERNAN HAD SAYERS HELPLESS ROND TORE DOWN “THE RING WIM FROM A KNOCKOUT. Yank-Tiger 1 CDAILY REVIEW OF BIG LEAGUE RACES ) : 6-Inning Tie Most Sensational Game Ever Playe Miraculous Catches and Crack Pitching Mark — Detroit’s First Appearance Here in Longest Battle Waged Up to Date in Big League Circles. By Bozeman Bulger. ANS of long standing have a complacent way of airing their views on baseball by: “Well, I don't care so much what club wins as long as I see a good ball game, What I love is good base- ball.” If that were true—which it isn't— the State militia would be necessary to save the Polo Grounds from a stampede to-day. The best game of baseball ever perpetrated in New York was the opening sixteen-inning drawn battle between the Yanks and Tigers. There were more sensational plays in that one pastime than either Detroit or New York has seen for the ‘past five years, it ranked second only to that memorable battle be- tween the Athletics and Tigers that ran seventeen innings to a dead heat away back in 1907, That, incident- ally, is regarded by veteran b vriters and pla: game ever played t It was not the length of the Tiger game, but its sensational fea- tures, that win it a place in the hall of fame. For instance: In less than ten playing time Boone | air and witn his left hand pulled | down a vicious slap from a De- troit bat that might have broken | up the game; Mullen, who had | just succeeded Pipp, caught one | with three fingers of his “meat” hand, again staving off trouble, and Magee, after a run of | thirt; ed on a crowded da\ | But that jus: a mple, There Jack Dillon, the legitimate light heavy- weight champion, and Mike Gibbons, the St. Paul middleweight, have been pt tically matched by Harry Pollok, mana- ger of the Washington Park Sporting Club of Brooklyn, to meet in a ten- round bout at a show to be held by the ub the latter part of next month, Dit- ton has already signed the articles of lagreement, and Gibbons has consented |to take him on. The only thing that may prevent the match {s the welght ques- tion, as Gibbons demands that Dillon make 164 pounds at the ringside, Billy | Newman of Harlem has been selected as stakeholder of the bout. Lewis, who made mich a great show 1 Ted [tan against Mike pond at the Gi \Toumeay night, was elamed up for an by is mauager, Jimmy Johnston, He | vill s against Exidie Moba, | Weight of Milwaukee m i iy a brother of Bob weight, and has wou tany hard te eid we W maker Tom MeArdie of the Fairmont A. y boxing show ontests «harley ‘will meet Augie Ratner outs for the clu ; tonight, In the two ten-roune {Yieouard, brother of Leo | Want Edwards of the Sil clash vith Pratki ! Walter Mohr and Harry Pierce, the rugged | nroomiyn fighters, were secured to-day to meet in | bilt A. ©. | the windup of ten rounds at the Van: of Brooklyn on next Friday night, 1 din New York | were dozens of them. On another occasion, when the Yanks threatened and had the bases full, the Tigers threw two runners out at the plat But it is not merely the great gam fan wants to see, His main to have the home club win. me across the field, for ex- lample, one of those fans who always |dates his “good seball” for art's sake only, was heard to remark: “It certainly was a great ball game, but I can't see that kind of stuff. Why, the Yanks had a dozen chances to cop and if they'd only taken ad- antage of them we'd been home in time for dinner, 1 don’t care how many innings they play, It doesn't get them anything if they don’t win,” And there you are, New York was not the only scene of memorable combat, how- ever, The Athletics and White Sor staged one down at Phila delphia that was a corker. Ina pitchers’ duet that ran eleven innings “Bullet Joe” Bush beat Cicotte by a score of 1 to 0. Though Bush yielded but three hits during the whole game neither side could score for ten innings. There appears to be no end of the phenomenal nts, and Western papers ly pros laiming McGraw's t » ‘coming champions, They say that New York has the most powerful offen- sive club that the National League has turned out for a decade, The victory over the C: making the ninth for the Gi corners when runs wi needed. :With two on in the eventful i disposed of St. Loui lead Davy Robertson smacked a home run just after a run had been scored from third on a double, McGraw, evidently, has adopted a new system of handling his pitchers, He takes no chances nowadays, but yanks @ twirler out the moment the other club even looks dangerous, Stroud started, but was succeeded by Terreau.| When two wallops were pecled off Bir Jeff it was the gate for him and Poll Perritt finished up, Brooklyn on June 6, Jor Azevedo of California probably be his opponent, Mitch Brandt, the fast little fighter of Brook: Ayn, and Young Zulu Kid, who gave Johnny Ertle much a terrific battle for ten rounds at the Cler- mont A. C. a few weeks ago, will be the prin- cipaly in the at vt of ten rounds at the Broadway Sporting Club of Brooklyn to-night, Allie Nack and Young Gardner of the London A.C. will clash for tea rounds, ‘The bout between Johnny Kilbane, the feather. weight champion, and Eddie Wallace, the Brooklyn Lightweight, has finally been cline! They will come together in a ten-round go on Wednesday (Vitoria Day) evening at Soh Park, Montreal, Wallace ts to receive « guarantee of $1 Danny Morgan, manoger of Matt Wells, the clever English lghtweight, has clinched another mateh for his man, mout Jightweight, will be his ten-round battle at Roches . 4 ia ponent in & nthe night ondition wt ae of Juno 2. Wells is gettitig. into’ Westchester for the ‘The Stadium A, © to-night in {te elubho House, on West Thirty-fourth Street, cipals in the two main bouta of | be Joe Gooner Kid of Brookiva the Western igi Bill Brennan, the promising Chicago heavy. and Andre Anderson, the blond haired * of the samo city, have signed articles «ment calling for them to exchangy wallops in a ten-round go at the ALC. of By racuse, N. Y., on May Brennan also fights ‘Pony Ross at Rochester, N. ¥., on Monday night, se at the Manhattan Opera ‘The prin: yy Obarley” heavyweight Results of Games Yesterday. ntteburen, 4; jadelphia, 2. Games New York Louis Wrooklyn atc ti at Piltshureh Yerk,2; Dowel ills 1; Chie To-Day. | Detroit Frankie Mack, the Beach: | _ js another boxing how | 663 IANTS Are Like a Travelling Sales man Who Takes His Best Samples en tlie Road.” we It's a tough day for Pittaburgh, mates, when it he to depend on tennis for its notori Nay Rucker's slow ball is only slow going up. Lieut. Fay has jumped to tho Federals in Atlanta, Ho has signed an eight-year contract! te |. With five battle cruisers costin d th | $20,433,531 each to gu At- board, Pre nt Lannin ing Tris Speaker go reebooters is tho title but the idea could easily japted for our national pastime, Bat Levinsky's and Porky Flynn's nert rendezvous will be Chattanooga, It will be a one-night stand if Porky can make it last that long. The Mexican situation is almost as quiet as a millionaire turfman's rac- ing colors. y the Mutual Welfare im is playing more inside han any outfit in the You could tap the telephone wire all day without hearing— Freddy Welsh trying to make a date with Benny, Leonard, ee Hudson Maxim deploring warfare. eee Bill Donovan asking for wal Frank Baker, ‘gon Bill Bryan getting chummy with T. Roo: te | eee The Kaiser apole ing, oslinios Chattanooga is getting to be quite fight) managers, “Hand, MeNall gin al the maps and ma nooKa, A net for it Quatter- Lee Magee sure picked out a uni- versal alibi, Every ball park has a sun field and Lee can get indigestion tor cloudy days. | The Pirate pitchers can get the ball over the plate, but only half way. in New York as ag American habe Chihuahua Mike * onatomers her Lae ia Mike doesn't seem to be popular with the trade, due mostly to the fact that he refuses to knock the other fellow’s teeth out into the audience for souvenirs, Gibbons can’t verybody, If he tried to please the audience, that might make the other fellow in the ring sore. As Chief Meyers can beat out an Infield bunt Oscar Stanage should be able to beat out an outfield one, ANSWERS TO QUEERIES. 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