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\ a ae a ee _ PGHTERS' TRAINING FADS NOW! BES INCLUDE TENNIS AND GOLF Wilde Ritchie Finds Links’ Game Splendid Conditioner for Work of Ring—Mike Gibbons Prefers Wielding Racquet—Old-Tim- ers Went in for Handball but Fitz Liked to Work With Wild + Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). ILLIE RITCHIE is one fighter who doesn't do all of his training im @ gymnasium. Willie doesn't care a great deal for training with the implements of his REI! COL ‘Walking on turf makes them Imber. trade. His favorite training exercise ta) Rolf. Willie Ritchie {sn't an old man. He laughs at the idea that golf is ‘an old man's game.” ‘I like to play golf while training for a fight,” Ritchie told me a short) time ago. “Tt is the best all around exercise I know of and it doesn’t tie up & fellow's muscles. Golf makes you loose and Iimber. It furnishes a lot of good work for the lega and the wind, with all the hill climbing and the walking about. The walking is done under the best possible cond: tions, on soft, epringy turf. Walking on atone sidewalks or hard macadam- ized road atiffens an athlete's legs. There is just enough exercise in swinging a club to keep your body movements free, which is important in boxing. Velops the forearms and keops the shoulders loot I've noticed that all Professiona] golf players have fine thick forearms. A fighter needs a #004 forearm to go behind his punch. That's why caulkers, blacksmiths, car- penters, sailors and ironworkers have turned out sé many gvod fighters, Men who handle tools get strong hands and wrists and forearms. Handling golf clubs has the same effect. GOLF DEVELOPS AN EN TEM- ER FOR FIGHTERS, "One of the advantages of golf is that it develops an even temper, and that’s the most important thing a fighter can take into the rin, It you lose your temper in playing golf, or get rattled or burried after mak- ing a poor shot, down goes your game. You practice mental balance all the time. You figure on being cool and deliberate. In the ring the cool and deliberate fighter, who never rattled when he makes a false move but Is steady in the recovery, like a golf player, has a great advantage over a fellow who loses his mental boise when things don’t go right. "Golf helps accufacy in hitting. You get a habit of concentrating on your target, just as you do in a fight. “Another fine thing about the game fe that it takes you away from all excitement. I like nothing better than to spond the day before a fight playing a slow, comfortable game of wolf. It calms my nerves and takes! my mind off the fight. I get inter-| ested in the game and forget all) about the fight. The change of scene | from the training camp, with the crowds of visitors always talking! about the fight and asking questions, | restful. And the smell of the green| arase and the trees and flowers gets me away from the odor of liniments! and rubdowns and sweaty clothes, that you always find around any Symnasium, “Golf is w fine thing to start train. ing with, for in a few weeks of play one can take off extra weight and begin to harden down into condition | almost without noticing that any| real work has beep done. 1: isn't @ grind.” Ritchie began playing golf when he was fret world’s lightweight cham- pion, He was visiting a friend in California and was persuaded to try # turn on the links. » RITCHIE THOUGHT GOLF A JOKE WHEN HE FIRST TRIED IT. “I thought is was a joke when I started,” Ritohie told me, “but before 1 had gone oround the cighteen holes I had lost my temper and had an ‘awful grouch, and all because 1, an athlete, couldn't knock that ball whera 1 wanted to, It taught ine a lesson, and after that I steadied down. I've * combined a golf style with my fight~ ing atyle, wolf you always try to advance steadily without getting off the course, going to your objective | point directly as possible. When [ ght I always go straight at my op- | ponent, and keep on going straight| at him as ae the fight lastw, 1 “ never to a into Uhe rough. 1 stick to the middle of the fairway.” Lest winter, after a season of box- “tng, Ritchie ‘went to Palm Beach, where be was out on the golf course at + every morning. On returning he played in New York a little and since then has been playing around Chicago and in some of the Middle ‘Western States. lie intonds to go to) South America this sum <i the Argentine, He isn’t at all wor. ried over the outcome of his bouts, ¢ but bas been making anxious inquiries avout the condition of the golf vay. down that w Givbons, who one of the} our middle-weight fighters, kes to do @ part of his training on Ube tennis courts. According to Mike, ennis is the finest game in the world, and the one best adapted to a boxer needs. Mike played a lot of tennis at mighten Beach during his preparation | for the ten-round bout with McFar- Janda. He profers it to handball, which | was the training standby of such old, time champions as Jim Corbett, Kid! McCoy, Tommy Ryan and Jim Jeffries, | “It's good for your legs, your wind, your forearm, your body, and your ye and oe of speed and dis- aid Mike at Brighton, no other game like tennis far me. | HANDBALL WAS A GREAT GAME POR THE OLD CHAMPIONS, | Jum Corbett always a tra.ped in . ' sing the club exercises and 4¢e- @——————_________ handball court. At Carson, while Preparing for the fight with Fits. simmons, he had @ large court bullt, and played dally with Al Hampton, champion of the Pacific Coast at that time. Corbett fancied himaelf as a handball player, and thought more of winning & game from the crack atatour than of winning fight. Jeffries played handball, but bis real ambition was to shine as a base. ball player. Like Terry McGovern, Jeffries sometimes thought he had miased his vocation, and that he would have been a better ball player than fighter. But, of course, wrent sport was hunting and fishing, nd nothing else compared with these in his estimation, or ever Played such @ part in his training periods. Terry McGovern used to travel with the Giants to their spring train- ing camps. He tried many times to induce John McGraw to give him a chance to break into baseball, but John knew a ball player when he saw one, and w satisfied to watch Terry in the ring. FITZSIMMONS LIKED TO TRAIN WITH ANIMALS, Bob Fitzsimmons never went in for sports to any extent, He liked to put the shot and used to challenge all husky looking visitors to his camp. His real inclination was to be an ani- mal tamer. He had pet Hons and bears. | ‘The young bear that nearly Dit Jeff's leg off at Harbin Springs when he was training for his second fNeht with Corbett became friendly with Fitzsimmons, who would sit be- side it on a log and let it dig into his pockets for lumps of sugar, Fitz- simmons used to box with his lions, slapping them and avoiding their at- tempts to claw him in return, Bob told me once that he learned nearly all of bis boxing craft from studying ters, lions and other members of the cat family, But I remember one time when he had a mule that he used to rough around with. Fitz thought it a great joke to tease the mule into Ing at him, rapidly, one kick af- ter another, and then step in close and see how lon he could aveid the flying hoofs, That was great practice for dodging punches. One day I saw the mule Kick Bob about twenty feet and break one of his rity He was trying to avoid the mule's kicks with the smallest poasible movement, and he didn't move quite far enough, He thought that a great Joke too, egg Pitcher Sallee Who Quit Cards Won’t Be Traded Harry Sallee, atar pitcher of tho St. Louls Club of the National League, has been indefintely suspended Miller Huggins, manager of the club, a: the result of an altercation here Thursday night Salle tore up his contract during the argument, Huggins said, and loft the elty. “Sallee has been disgruntled and Bit tistlec for some time,’ Huggins added. “He had not broken trainin however, There have been rumors for some time that he was to be pur- chased by the New York Club, and these reports added to his dissatisfac- tion with the St. Louts Club, “There was no foundation reports, al not for the the New York Club does tumper with players. There ts deal on in witch Sallee is in- and he will not sold or to any elub. Gi Mt. Geo Vield Club Games, The st. George's Field Club will hold s fourth annual outing and gumes to- morrow afternoon at al Hawkins's Road Hous Walker and Westchester Avenue. the p when will} 13.30 1 includes a soccer | place etition, an in id events, races ried and singie, and events for boys an ris, fetta Nall Morris Knocks Out Datiey. | TULSA, Okla., June 17.—Carl Morris, | the Sapulpa fireman, hung @ knockout fon the Jaw of Dan Dailey of Newcastle, Pa., in the first round lust night. The haymaker was 4 right u The bout was scheduled to Ko rounds, Carl weigi in at 241 pounds, while the Newcastle man weighed 236, | palaces“ William Guard to Umpire, | ‘The Dyckman F. C., the crack semt-| pro. of Washington Heights, wil | croas bats with the Manhatuns to-mor- row afiernoon at old Maroon Field, Broadway and Dyckman Street, Will: iam Guard, press representative of the Metropolitan Opera House, who in for- mer years played baseball, will umpire | the contest, i —-—._.-. uy with St, Louis, 3.15 Pat Admission 800 —aave, traded’ a M., tek com to the regular 0 k Glantet Polo Groun, is | the last trip into the enemy land th BATUBUAY, JUNE 17, T SPORTING PAGE IN FIGHTERS NOW USE GOLF Giants Conclude Disastrous Defense Of the Western Invasion To-Day Locals Have Won but Three Games From Entire Wild and Woolly Contingent, Dropping From a Fighting Chance at the Lead to a Weak Hold on Third Place. By Bozeman Bulger. 1TH a new player on the bench W and, maybe, in the line-up— 6,000 Elks in the upper stand (this happens to be Elks Duy) and Anderson, the Federal League spit- baller, all moistened up and ready, the Glants will to-day conclude the most disastrous defense of a Western invasion that has ever besieged our fair city, After that sensational winning streak our prospective champs came hgme for the big reception, only to! of | 1 throw a frostbile into the feet ardent fans who had expressed a willingness to wager the family plate that the old pennant would be ready for delivery at the Polo Grounds to- ward the first of August. Instes the Giants have won but three games agalnst the entire Western division and have dropped from a fighting chance at the lead to a weak hold on third place. Even that is getting more shaky day by day. ‘The only clubs they have defeated at home are Cincinnati, Chicago and St, Louis, and from those they won but one «ame each, The general results have been disnstrous The explanation of this astounding flop is beyond the ken of John Me Graw. He says the players worked like champlons on the road, but simply appeared helpless the minute they faced their own crowd, Much of this he attributes to a feeling of relaxation after the long Western grind and more to a payehological woation, The players have a no- tion they cannot hit on the Polo Grounds, and, once they think that way, It can't be done. 6 manager kene it to a “bad hole” in golf at a golfer’s home club, After he plays it two or three times badly tho golfer gets the notion that it Is his hocdoo hole—and it ir, The moving of tre screens at the back of th stand may have its effect, We s see. Aside from the mental side of it, the Glanta have been burdened with bad pitching, Neither An Benton pitehed good Vell worked beautifully, but he to run against that near no-i. pitched by Lavend Every player on (he team he welcomes the end of the Wes jon They dread the Wes hereabouts, despite the fact rs that on id not drop a single game. In p they say it ls & good policy to pound the loser, but with the Giants tt is the reverse, They want to hop on the winners. Not onlv has disaster over- taken the Giants, but it fell with a heavy thud on the Yanks now sojourning the West and drop- ping games as they go RN Donovan has suffered the worst d, | 1916. Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), Wie Rte PLAYS Gour WHILE TRAINING FoR, HIS FIGHTS. SCHEDULE FOR REGATTA AT POUGHKEEPSIE TO-DAY FIRST RACE. varsity eight - cared shells; two miles; 4 P. M.; for the ennedy Challenge Trophy, presented in 1 by Davidson Kennedy of Pennsylvania, to be held by the winner for one year. Present holder, Cornell. SECOND RACE. Freshmi eight -oared shells; two mil M.; for the Stewards’ Cup, presented in 1900 by Francis 8. Bangs of Columbia, to be held by the winner for one THIRD RACE. University elght-oarded shells; four miles: P. M.; for th allenge Cup, presented in 1898 by Dr. Louis L. Seaman of Cornell, to be held by the winner for one year. Present holder, Cor- nell, COURSE POSITIONS. .Columbia nnsylvania Syracuse Cornell rowed dow | Juntor No. No. No. All races with finish at line one mile of Poughkeepsie Bridge. sout! reverse of the season on this trip. No matter what he does things break against him, In Jour of the recent defeats the New York pitchers excelled their Opponents only to have the few hita made off them bunched. Though the rain stopped them from finishing the game the Yanks and Indians managed to go far enough to wet the money from that 14,000 crowd, a Friday record for Cleveland, by the way. Had they stopped one inning earlier rain checks would bave been good for Saturday \ Hecords of players wii have p Saihes. Aueluding Juve 14, aid way lave a aver G. AB OH iH, Ave sii, 4 Hi | Kestatiaon "Nev York iw tus, Clicage ae rookie dnieherst, r | Wi Hari Jeu, Kauft, New: York Merkié, New York dy) Roston », Pittaburah Moilwité, Cluciuuatt Mew MAJOR LEAGUE AVERAGES Compiled by Moreland News Bureau Matter cimpunace 43 | duite, New Yor i i ineinna % | femtunatt 1 Natlonal Recont af qu real reo} 104) 100 AIRMAS, ACABADO, ASH CAN, ALONE Ar ACA ES BORROW, anil, 3.47 NEW YORK | AND TENNIS IN TRAINING. mile, 1 five-eighths, 1.07, guts, Ms. a 5. LAST, five-eighth, 1.05 2-6, three-avarters, 119 2. 7 udie, 1.462 fiveveighths, 1.08, it, 49. 1.81, 2.08. five-eighth wns” . Gove is a Fie ING “To INING Wit SS “A FIGHTER A Goon ( ear) FOREARM To Go BRHIND His PuncH" STR, cy eA thie. Ey = RITCHIE H, nigceighth eyo. ais rit Mun LA fite a ‘ive-elghths, 1.05, Rage ee 1628, guage. 1.2125, RIGHT FORWARD, — tive eights lant contingent of fighters ans | Jack Kennedy, a heavyweight of Malt Lake city Raged to box in the fistlc carnival to be| hare been secured by Tom McArdle, matahnaser ac Batting Averages, | "eld at Buenos Ayres during July and} of Oe ported pat A C.. wo battle for ten rmnte Keone of, player who have played in fifteen | AUguat sailed to-day, ‘The boxers who| /1,'W" main erent at the club's on Satur wam Juding June 14, aud wo have au stor | departed were Sam Langford, 8am Mc-| fight Auserson after several pared egy cone to better, 8 Vey, Harry Wills and “Rough House" | declined to meet bem Bs fellow nas 18 nt Ware, the colored heavyweights; Ted y,, : a Bits pewee be B 4 | “Kid” Lewis and Alvert Badoud of| ine” ees Md ibe hae ot the tox. daghicin, chi H 4 a France; Bob Devere, the Kansas City Jian Barry, the rusyed Chicago flenion Myers, “Atle 6 rey heavywelxht; Mike Mazie of Staten|and Jack Keeting of Brooklm will coum to. Hateaaete sorte 8 a8 Island; Pat Bradley, who has fought | setter n the star bout of ten rounds, Tite witi | 3 Aunginmker, FH AZ 808 {battles in Australia, and Harry Condon | 's Bar? Sofita@* 8 eome time and be is Kot, Ch M 29 ‘Roz| of Brooklyn, Those who went with the — Ae : 1} BB] tienters were Jim Buckley, Joe Wood- |, Cherter Somme ies Someta he. ant o Hoblirael Host if Bt] man, George Lawrence, Charley John-| pioceer sporting Club on Wednemtay ee Pd Silers'st. La $ ‘TAg| ston, Bonny Murphy and trainers Dave! tenrund wnte aud three prelininedae eal gota Reg ) 281] Milla and Alexander Goodman, ‘There |up te cant, In the ten reunion’ dons Mitans. Waal 8 Ba] were seventeen in the party, and Billy|'"Youna’” Cutie will take on Holby. Moone ced rey dor }L cE8:] Gibson, who arranked the bouts for the | Padie Nugrut of Nutley, N, J., will hoot up Crater, Detrot 13 <i] carnival, declared that the cost, includ-| "th Farmer Sulivan of Greenwich Village, Stellbauee, sthletics 42 SH} ing purses and travelling expenses, 18] Mike Glover of Uoston one of the best welter- A oe # } | $115,000. weights tumed bef in Mamachusette in year, $ et ing Albert Radoud, the welterweight champion of Ip good healts were responsiiie for Miko 44-282] Barope, at Hucnos Ayres te latter part of next | quitting the game, Glover etoot off Ted “iid” 43 “fia | month, Ted Lewis has made $49.00 out of the! Lewis for twelve rouude at the Ariaury A, Av 14 204 | unirty-nix battles which he bes fought in exactly | Boston on ‘Tuciay night. 4 | |one year under the management of Jimmy John- —— A or Trunk Fleming, who still claims the feath Morfior, Was been matehed to fight Charley "Kid" Thomas, the | pounds, was wigned up two-day to meet Eddie Wal (raney, Cleveland Philadelphia boxer, roamle at the National’! jace, the game little Hrooklmn light light weight, Young, Perrott of Marteville, N, ¥., on next Wedneslay | for ten rounds at the Cavadin 2 Ge af At ty and on Monday evening, June 26, he wil | stontreai, Can., ou Jue 21 Wellare. knocked fatinier watt elther Johnny O'Leary or Kid Kaiwas of | out Fleastog in tno rounds several necks ago Witt, at Hin, New | the for ten rounds at Roc! ler, NL Y Hats, Waghlugton main bouts to be stegal at the boxing ahow of the Pairmont A.C. of the Bronx to-night, Willie | American Longue Vitehers! Records, | Jackson and Teddy Jacobs and Johnny Piso of Hevonl of pitchers, ineluting June 44 New Orleans and Jack Saylen of this city will, Pie hae jp AS be Hits, Ave T bate in the to ten-round contests, while ia the | Kou St Toute + 1 seud-tinal of six rounds Jimny Towhie will take save facen Haryor Washun 7 Weilmdn, it + Billy Miske, the promising St, Paul middle. | weight, who Ras fought Jack Dilloa two bard ten- round ‘tattlea in the West, is anovier Wostera figbler who will display his fighting ability for the first time tn thie vicinity at the Clemaomt A Cuntingham Keating, New York Darenpurt. At lanies, 2! Renter ; st Tenis % Pen Kori 10 t tehe:! Cleveland 12 2B on Vateey Deleharp, Renny Teonant is hard at work for his battle wiih Vie Moran of New Oritae 1 Spbrting Club over him, Charley Leonant and Bolly Woods of Brooklyn clash in the semi-final of ten rounds ‘Three matches hi Duffy, the weat aide lightwaight, by his manager Willie Telly faces Johnny Harvey at the Olympi ©, of Brooklyn inst Jack Hubbard Viuladelphia ‘The Broadway Sport hold ite regular week Dutch Brandt of New Hedfon!, Mans be the principals Andre Anderson, the Harlem p opext Friday myht, Bonny atout 192 pounds when he ¢ fs aDKiIUS to score A noe Moran as dew arranged for Jimmy On Monday night, Juae 22, he Club; Joe W, at the Hover Sportiag Club, lmer at Hammel's July 11 ex: Mhursiay night, He w the Light heavy for ten rounds. Club of Brooklyn will boxing show turnight, yn and Al. Shubert of the fast bantamwotgtta, will | 1 go of ten rounda, od Dummy Buran, 0 len ronda, Frankie » sit rounds, Bi othe m Mart ang Muriay the Chicago heavy welght, | Fleming Lae been substituted Bantamweight» will have the call in the two | . — George M. Church and Dean} Mathey silpped and splashed around $ § the cous ofthe hnenuoie Athen || 91+9 9 NOWTOWN Stakes Association with such activ: y Pao terda, for Predilie Weiss Tennis Notes y as to win places in the Anal and championship round of the Met- ropol! former Princeton stara played and AR ih won under difficulties, for the rain | fs spoiled what otherwise might have been fine execution, Harold A. Thro A. Major won the New Jersey championship in the iawn tennis| doubles yesterday. Because of the rain, - which played such havoc. with the 4 % tournament 1 week on the courts TICKETS SALE TO-DAY, of the Morristown Mield Club, it was| DT bt Qn MUKAN arranged for Throckmorton and Major! WASHINGTON PARK, BROOKLYN, to meet G. Carlton Shafer and Wylie THURSDAY By. JUNE 20, ?. Grant on the courts of the Bronx=| sags squarw tev ere Ville Athlete Association, ‘The rawutt | atime mage valiny, Nor York was a slashing contest, with (ie score | \\i radway, New York’ o"™ at Tb, 64, 4-8, 75. | toa oer \Uautie ay —_—— Wastin 4thay, at Lost ! Kerwilyn, Mrs. H. Stewart Green won a« place AVHLETIC © in the final round of the special Taw FAIR! T at de sth * tennis tournament for women on the reer Adm, tur of the Ardsley Club, Ardaley-on- | Willie Jacknun yr. Leldy duod hae Hudson, terday. in the semi-fing! | ovante Plane ss. dus eee Mrs, Green defeated Miss Tua A. | MONE A. Coy TRL Clermont Tistown, Tf, 6—2. } Av. B' im Barry vs, duck Keating, itan lawn tennis singles, nm Wood won the conso singles. The! Kmorton and Cedric | With ‘‘Bugs’”’ Baer Victories Are as Scarce as 400-Pound Jockeys.” Leouatd's satin on July 4 ‘ — To-day's game at the Polo Grounds should be intensely interesting, as the management will announce the win |ner of the Poughkeepsie regatt Johnny Drindeo distributed 8.247 blows tant EEE Aud Uiey were ail divided among Beany jeonard, A judge will senience a bird ‘to Matteawan for muttering to himself, @nd then proceed to chatter Pekingese and Sanskrit to a golf ball that ain't Got any more eurs than a —— Being baseball hero is almost Permanent an occupation smoking @ panatela in one of Mr. du Pont's laboratories, Buzz pennant prospects to an Ath- letio fan and his face will register all the vivacions and animated expres- sion of a worm, Ae fighting why net 4 weight tile ATHLETIC AILMENTS. | PROMOTER'S This dread epidemic CHIN. fortunately is con: fined strictly to the eastern and west- ern hemispheres and is accompanie | by a chronic vacillation of the chin, | which waggle to {night. The fiercer it and fighting promot public suffers, In its advanced stages |It is accompanied by a vacuity of the idome and an utter disregard of old John Public's money. The only cure | is time and a pair of earmuffs. i baset remember that Terry hasn't travelled on half- ets tor quite a few months N veterans ‘Turner tick: ther. And George MeRride doesn't take his guardiaa along when he wants to buy an emergency collar, Also remember that Jake Dau- bert only wears short pants while on the field. And that Mike Doolan hasn't med hinself out to the Giants experience, fa | just to wet mor | And it's been several minutes since that infant. Bob Groom amused the family by putting his | toe in his mouth, If Pennsylvania rows to-day's re- gatta in fairly fast time the boys will t h the race just in time to start ining for next year’ aft VARSITY COXSWAINS. To-day is a great day at Pough- keepsie for varsity coxswains, who will mutter four miles into mega- phones all for the glory of Alma Mutter, A varsity coxewain is @ bird who rows a megaphone for four long miles and then faints gracefully if he thinks the movie cameras ar aimed at him. A varsity coxewain |considers it a foul to row below the |chin, While the other poor birds are rt lining pulling him up the river the varsity coxswain c! lthrough the young end of a me | phone and tells ‘em what awful burns they are. The varsity coxswain also reises the stroke, which gives him more work to do by proxy, It's a great life if you don't weaken, Next year will be a tough one for the rowing coaches, as Leap Year will be over and they will only have days to practice in Sey “THE WHITE ELEPHANT BOWLING & BILLIARD ACADEMY JOSEPH THUM, Proprietor, 22 BOWLING ALLEYS 35 BILLIARD TABLES RESTAURANT 1241-1251 Broadway, Cor. 3ist St., N.Y. 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