The evening world. Newspaper, December 7, 1916, Page 16

| | | a Tex O'Rourke, Who Trained Wil- lard for the Fight in Havana, | Says Jess Must Weigh About 348 Pounds Now. i Coors Now York Evening Words °° HERE is one chance that Willard might be beaten by @ fast boxer, although {t Je almost in-| @onceivable that he could be knocked out in a limited round contest. Jess has grown vory fat, Tex O'Rourke, who trained Jess for the fight In Havana and got him into the splendid condition that enabled | him to whip Johnson, saw Willard a short time ago in Los Angeles. “Jean weighed about 285 pounds) sehen he began training for Johnson,’ said O'Rourke yesterday. “I watched @¥ery detail of his training carefully ie noticed that with every inch he yk off his waist during the training riod he lost seven pounds. “In Los Angeles he looked just Mout nine inches larger around the waist than he was when he weighed 285 pounds, If the proportion of| pounds to the inch holds good must weigh about 348 pounds now, * en we were joshing about Will- 'e weight they offered to bet me I couldn't produce any one who had him get on the scales and welgh 800 pounds, Of course I couldn't, ¥ dy sees ys. Nobody jes. I haven’ Id train down again and get Into! good fighting condition, but it would | —— THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, DEOEMBER 7, 1016,” EST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK THE NEW BOXING by The Prees Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) Sup A Hoss: HANG A’ wRieuDiy’ Discussion with THe R&FerRee. GETTING Freapy, PUTTING THe Gloves on You DEUBeRATELy USED Your, HAN 4 Don'T Deny ct Set You Down For © Years! QUALIFYING FoR a Jon on THe Bexine Commission. If Willard Attempts to Hold Him Up Tex Will Sign Darcy to Box Carpentier ici," sei ee isemtifiniici! However, Rickard Declares That! He Has Jess’s Word That) He'll Box the Frenchman, and He Is Confident the Match’ Will Be Staged at Madison Carpentier Prefers Staying account. When you see him in the At Front to Boxing Willard circus Ife aac. bie. that We takes Comm om ‘OMMISBION ON CHARGES. PARIS, Deo, 7.—Georges Carpentier, the French heavyweight cham. The elephants, hippos and other 4 pion, saya ho has not yet signed to box Jess Willard or anybody. In tact, || f"' oes mean a lot of hard work, and the fnducement will have to amoung to something to drive him to it. Hevhas at f\ made a lot of money, has had all the Plbasures of his position for a couple of years and hasn't the incentive that fade him work like a Trojan for| months when he had a chance to} fight Johnson.” | " Georges Carpentier. That would | e@tabout the same weight. } A match between Will pentier would be as one-sided as the} ‘Willard-Moran bout, which was little B more than a joke because of Willard's ay Warn Abbott. enormous physical advantages. Car- ime is drawing near when | pentier is smaller tha of course a much more skilful boxer. ton must again tackle the ‘Willard refused to fight Dillon on the i Ne ing amateur problem, und that he didn’t “want to look Ve @ Shculous in the ring pitted against trouble that bobbed up at tho lust ca @ man #0 much smaller, | meeting of the association, «Tom Jones, interviewed in Chicago, nearly caused a split between the . East and West representativ ith | Temains unsolved, » & Mberal percentage of the receipts” seems certain that if the "Old Guard” | for his end. jin the court game Contrast this to the action of Car- over any hard and ler, who has volunteered to turn coming meeting of the association, it | ntire share of the receipts over to, will encounter such bitter opposition und for wounded soldiers. that the project will probably drop of * Funny that Willard ts “pleased” to its own weight, be matched with Carpentier, and) According to present indications, aid of “looking ridiculous” In the the Philadelphia votes will be 21 to 6 Hd with Dillon, who is just about against any radic fald that Willard would be pleased to fight Carpentier, but he must h rantes of at least $50,000, ze of the French champion, Carpentier says he'd prefer to stay at the front with the French Flying Corps, However, if arrangements are made he'd be glad to help swell the 5 fund for the relief of the wounded French soldiers. supremacy of the white race both at No definite proposition for a bout be’ hae been recelved here. , Square Garden. a Tennis Amateur To Be Decided Shortly -- | ES PARCY ts the man to tight Governing Body May Lose if By Bozeman Bulger. RICKARD wants to be put right about this international) boxing match between Cham-| pion Jess Willard and Georges Car-| the Frenchman, benefit of The Evening World read- ers hoe desired these thing under- Miss Elisabeth Marbury, who is prominently con- utante hippos and the frail nected with French war relief work in New York, has been authorized, || Thinoceroses turned emerald with says Francols Descamps, Carpentier’s manager, (o act for him in any negotiations in the United States, Carpentier, who is in Paris on a few day by the Associated Press representative to-day. He appeared to be in ]| promoters should stage the contest in Carpentior said he was not thinking at present about [| three rings, nis would give the boxing, but his pugilistic business was always in the hands of Descamps, || hippodromy flavor to the contest ao his teacher from the age of fourteen and his manager during all his box- Incorporated into tennis law. the Pittsburgh and Washington dele- | gates are known to be opposed to any now changes in the oode. West 1s solid against an_tronciad It was the firm stand of the Californians at the last meet- ing that nearly precipitated a breach in the nation: A line-up of the New York forces shows that about 60 per cent. are in favor of passing a new rule, England is fatrly strong for new leg- islation on the subject, but without the support of burgh and Washington nothing can be done tn the matter of endangering ur status of players like Maurice McLoughlin and Tom Bundy, who began the minute they announced ; their intention of entering the sport- ing goods business, So unexpectedly bitter has been the opposition to any new r excellent condition, be an corking match, as the} It Hopes to Dig Up Any French and Austrasian champions are! “Quimets” Among Racquet- ana car-| Wielders. The next’ women's national plonship tournament will be held over the links of the Shawnee Country Club. In accordance with m request recelved | some time ago from the Executive Fommittes of the United States Golf Association, the women, through rep- localities of have been finding out which club would be their most popu- lar choice, and M Boston and Miss Smereue sul “There is no doubt in my mind but that the big match will be pulled off and that it will rai to $50,000 for the benefit of the widowe Flying, he added, had in no way slowed him up, and life at the front had been excellent training for him. M. Descamps asmerted that in an exhibition Carpentier gavo at the || mingie with Jess 1s over a telephone. Trocadero the pugilist was faster than ever. He added that the reap- || It Willard ever leans on tho French- | pearance of Carpentier in the ring before the end of tho war depended || M2" "hey will have to pour Georges first, on the French military authorities, and second, on the propositions |! Mt, saucer that might be received. Moran, but the National Tennis Associa- the country, have not received Carpen- Philadelphia, Fanny Osgood of fon Hollins, Sec- gned @ contract with Jess en's Motropolit or the big match, but they want to! going to talk to them about a boxing help Carpentier make that mon the widows and orphans, They want any publicity at first, because] back and talk to some ignorant] day, and I'm game won't know whet persons would try to connect their| say sor i dls i names with boxing, but they havo found out thateven the boxing people! where he liked the Job, and} motive and they are working with us.|when it comes to talking straight| Will be sorry that he left a sociable They declare that they will pentier, and th tirely in thelr hands. for them that 1 am going right ahead RE IN THE RID the did discover that Jess was. tie! for dn't} running out they said I could come; Hurcpean gets an eyeful of Je: “The question of securing the consent of the French Govern- ment for Carpentier to come over ht ie none of my bus- That is purely the businese and concern of the good women who have in charge the war rel know is that Mise Marbury and the others agree to get Carpentier here and | am to look after the erday and made econd choice Was the Shennecossett Club of New ey Club at Garden City was third in favor, Miss Osgood lly only one selection, and t was Shawnee, but as the constitue At this time it rule at ine! dical rule on | President of the U. 5; sald privately to friends et Car | business.” matter js left en- I am so strong Ww legislation being passed at the forth- coming meeting, n endeavor to find the eastest fve Committee of arrangements nehman was already here. proved ones of the out the Execu oe ! uu! way, and pointing hin moral with a HOULD think. tough, that even cick. “it was Just a little argument " a Piss that he was making—with a kick to pleased” for $50,000, “with ait. He only kicked Pollok once, ac- ” — \cording to report, Especially so as Carpentier, and not | "FE" Was necessary, for the first one A put friend Pollok down and out Willard, would be the great attrac: |" Having so ably demonstrated his : fitness to uphold the honor of the State In public office, Moral percentage of the recetpts, ‘Ben in the match ; SB the State Athletic Commission | qescrves & 3 Seginning to take an Interest in| from Gy ; the French art of 1a savate? Ac-| ability I Wenck gave an expert demonstration | of la savate during his row with the simple statement that Wenck kicked Pollok “in the Grand| The Schedule Committee of the Ama- on.” In the police court | teur Hockey Li } { Central St Wenck explained that tt was merely the st a “friendly fight.” There was no} | Weense, no gate money and no State | sea tax—just a friendly kick, that's all, Wenck had no brutal desire to hurt | .™ friend Pollok. He was merely |pritey onstrating with him in a friendly | i Tupete & Froe Trirl of Pyramid Pile Treate | “y)340" ©* ment Will Answer the Question |eeserae | ORs, NEW elected wai fo) te { | “Hello! Send Me a Box of Pyramid” | *™= Your case is no worse than were remarkable Pyramid Pile Treatment ; nd Who have since written us let- era bubbling over With Joy” and e by mailing ObON, OF git @ Blo box trom al ist mow, hast ould the national association will convene is this to-morrow. an comprehensive rule that will be able to all factions, ‘The solution to all the trouble will be the finding of an equitable subst!- tution for the prevailing rule regard- ing the amateur status connected with sporting goods houses and the proper handling of travelling expenses for tournament players be no difference be- een Willard and myself as to the amount he is to recetve for the match, ‘Phat 18 practically agreed upon and Frenchman C n glad you asked that, tee yesterday also went s0 a to suggest the date for ae he re- | Yankee: irned ' yesterday “There has been a mistaken | Fren ' time in tssut idea that Carpentier weighs only 160|% % ni ‘ontradicting t pounds, and for that reason might | § not be @ good match for Willard. a matter of fact, Carpentier weighs |treatment of Injured players, Fultz has! AN ’ Toscana that will be vouched for by | titet tie cases ot Dleny Wance and Ras | ANr Wr HIM A FEW At No further kindly CHICAGO, Dec. 7.—A call for the!1 know that he will not break his meeting of the Western " Association, to be held In Chicago Jan, | Word. influence should) him to attempta hold-up I will | go right ahead and sign Les Darcy or No jsome other prominent fighter to meet) who Carpentier 18 bound | have not seen him for four yes “And McCoy tells me that ( tler has a pretty good chance ing Willard at that. He sa, 20, has been Issued, Officers are to be | cause ; | others | K ial pitchers, as incidents | sete And Miniothign Those | Where the disability clause of the play-| h ‘ecently, sIgin Suis 160 pounds {ers contract worked ngninst the weltarel A blow on one of Jess's chins won't : of Fred Wenck ttle friendly His kicking ; ould KA recognized, * not at least take him oj gerding to report, Chairman Fred) Go ienission, where hi not appreciated? champlonship. have to do to clear awny the amateur tournament and Olympic Cup compe- tangle, but It's going to be a the Frenchman, to be the big drawing card. “I have the word of Carpentier and | ‘his manager that they will come here | he quite a fight. land box for the benefit of the widows | and orphans of France, on Pal Moore of Memphia and Frankie Burne of | they will not break their and gare| not received Carpentier’ » of them hart tattion has been sined to bot | tract for the simple reason that there Ul at the Vioneer Boor’ | has not been time enough for it to b next Toewlay night. In the other feature | veach here. harlie Simpwon, featherweight champion of Australia, will box Tomtny Tobey of Paterson, | what exercised|ton opened the basketball season hero y ‘statement to the effect rday by defeating Manhattan Col-| and Sam McVey may hold one gor mads $160,000 \ rs H word. Lhave | {Pat Willstss last year, and for that | Just before tho finish, when the Tigers 1 know that Over a printed that Willard in the —_—_e ome conruston as. to details. Some |AMATEUR HOCKEY LEAGUE Behind, “Dire contentea themarivn ADOPTS ITS SCHEDULE. Jim Buckley has taken over the Cler- Mont Rink of Prooklyn, and with Dick matchmaker has started @ Jomey City within forty eight how signed con-|reason would want a mint of money | the: ‘safe lead. ex Rickard, niner Brooke of Lan has arranged what looks Ike m big at 18, with Frank Moran | and Gunboat Smith as principals tn a Moran and the Gunner a in| hind Capt, Haas and Parmele starred | ray Mar told me a fow Saye sf oon, for, Princeton, ‘while Howlleae wes tee | ota loss 20 per cent. that went to the pro- mainstay of the Manhattan five. moters who are in with him he made but jue held a meeting at Nicholas Rink 1 adopted the following schedule for the ction for 1 “You may rest assured that the accent fight will be held at Madison Square ieorge Munroe, the relired bantamwelght, writes | Garden, I am pretty well assured of ng it no matter who buys in the erty at the coming auction sale, ‘The let | At the present I have no other plac id, pink this match will be for boxing, because it sald the| Jimmy Wentgan and his Tl : mates of “He wants to fight | norchester Club of Roston will not ne SPORTING. “Cleb, Becek. ; ten-round bout are old rivals, rounds in San Franciaco in 1912. after this Smith won decision over Jess Willard, also on thi Moran has been tn train- Hawkins's road house for but the latter “ran out" of the match, according to Ike Dorgan, Moran-Smith bout is the first of a series of big ‘Since Mike MoPigue won the decision over Al logem of Buffalo several props taiddlewsighte have refined to box him es is Hugh Roms of Bridgeport, who tuned down | jn min: moe McTigue at New Haven toinor | ped | I cannot announ ecause Willard ve a talk with his manager, and I one | also preferred for him to do so. yhat the fight fans have @ real|iieve me, there won't be a bit of dif- | ——— ficulty about getting the big fellow. | Willard is a square, straightforward fellow, and when he tells me a thing Tbelleve ft. I've knocked around quite a lot and know real people when 1| a twenty-round to firat| ternoon, and they will he miased ate ar eG Te tod nohe, Miran ee Bates pe Be- ican ve, Crescent a AUTOMOBILES. Fret Gilmore, son of Harry Gilmore, once ree- ognized Ititwelght champion, has arrived tn town the Mohawk Ta Seturday night, and necently returned on of Australia, chance to do some real g stricken people of Europe pretty well co clears up inany of the con: mors about the big fight, but it did Rickard from cturesque observations has in mind, Fred Fulton, N Hes F Wyeay : 14 4 weaseadey | ABitay, ten | mockes ub" ai, Bk en nat @ .. Feb from a succewmful in as never boxed im the Bust and ls anxious make good here, jnfiisbolae va, the Hockey tho old Clermont fight club, Jack Curley, a member of the New Polo Ciub, /On, the big pre Al | people and n DAs arranged @ good programme for ‘The money taken the Knights of Co town little real informa- know nothing about the fight, but asserted to al fight unless it was sanctioned by both Jurley and Tom Jones, ‘he funniest thing of this whole “was Sam him of the | thinks that the shifting of thi we from Friday to Satur r Department, felighted to hi in will be tuned over to cause the French peop! jof tmaginat Vulwar will ayvaer in the | Way’ Fiyon of Long Ialand his Carpentier ne has been flying an aero- Marino and Henny ier tew-round baut ‘ootball Notes Young Brown, | enemy — who hae met Ch MeCracken's face out to find th: ant alde light welght (Tie) Gates of the 1kS-poand division Joliuny Dudes and Benny 1» now booked to box Rockey Kan nf Johnny O'Leary at Roches: | {00 ‘people t to make something and the women ur are generous enough he will come over here sught some man On the first back all excited, | u know,’ he sald, ‘there nen up_there head racken | And, belleve me, those i and that] Miss Morgan and some oth Marbury J ers whose namics | could | . family and the parcel delivery car that will ; ae enlprn CARBONE KNOCKS OUT oe ROGERS IN ONE ROUND, | <= are A rap about boxing GRAND ANNUAL POULTRY SHOW DECEMBER 5 TO 9 ALL DAY AND EVENING GRAND CENTRAL PALACE Lexington Avenue and 46th Street Prize Winning Poultry from all over the United Sta Pi Ducks, Geese, Turkeys, TW9 MAMMOTH CAT SHOWS ‘nanelist TWO DAYS MORE" TUESDAY TO SATURDAY Ae MORE, ins! SSOCIATION middleweight, | Rogers of Bu Aosnbstiture, | BALTIMORE, Md. Dec From the tap of the bell ( comparative centre of thi Dartmouth mater 48 sald to hin to the « In werious Op; f Frank « of the round ofball Captain, Bigger and Better Children, 25¢, Ever. Ae PIRE POULTRY A j Wanted iL | BUGS Discussing Bout Between ie I BAER Willard and Carpentier Says: Rickard May Stop That European Ballyhoo by Starting an Outlaw League Here. Tossing $50,000 Across the Atlantic Makes Washington and His Dollar Throw Across Pbtomac a Mendicant. Willard Is in Fine Shape—Financially—Worth About Quarter of Million in His Stocking Feet. \ | By Bugs Baer. Copy nt, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) | A $ a promoter of fights, Tex Rickard thinks in battleships where other promoters think In rowboats, Tex doesn't have any thought smaller than an elephant, Ho's one of those birds who builds a bungalow with a sixteen-story annex. Nobody ever caught Tex buying his Jewelry tn Woolworth's. ‘Tex's latest scheme Is more ambitious than @ freckled-faced office boy. The thump impresario In tends to stoo the ballyhoo in Europe by starting an outlaw league in this neck-o-the-woods, By teasiny Geor Carpentier with $50,000, Tex has succeeded in dragging one of the star scrappers out of the foreign embroglio. This only leaves about 678,281,992 performers left in the big shindig. These figures aren't authentic, They are the Ree publican returns. The Democratic count may reverse “ee = them as usual, But at fifty thousand a copy, Tex ts going to spend a spoonful of coin in buying up the entire European edition, ‘A $50,000 decoy duck {# some mallard, You sald tt. IF G, WAt NGTON COULD TOSS AN BYE ON THE FISTFUL OF COIN THAT IS HPAVING ACROSS THE ATLANTIC, HE WOULD BE ASHAMED TO ADMIT THAT HE ONLY CURVED ONE MEASLY LITTLE DOLLAR ACROSS THE POTOMAC, STILL, RICKARD COULDe EVEN MAKB JOHN D, LOOK LIKE A MENDICANT, r And the European end of the knuckle duet Is only peanut money when compared to the gravy that Jess Willard will soak up on his plece of disoult. In order to help the French sufferers, Tex will force about $76,000 on Jess. How giving $75,000 to Jess helps the French sufferers, we dunno, Others may cast thelr bread upon the waters, 4 4 but Willard believes in tossing bis upon the gravy. ent, Jess weighs about 800 pounds, bankside, He has made enough with the circus to have eggs for breakfast. And Jess ts alnost as fat as his bank ring with Carpentier, It will be hard four sparring partners to carry bie adow, iy any competition while Jess Jess demonstrated the ween Carpentier and Willard na and in the circus 200, ie envy whenever they almed a mean eye at Jess's superior weight. In order to make Willard feel at leave of absence, was seen }| home in his fight with Carpentier, the much coveted by the modern fighter. Carpentier will be greatly outnum bered when he steps into the ring, Jess is big enough to have three votes, The best way for Georges to nlier Will have a tough th Willard’s vulnerable all those wrinkles. hins are made of, and even JI ’ Valentine wouldn't know which @hin ” match? Still’ he added, 3 1 was the right combination, When the m4 again the next| duivering like « plate of gelatine, he er to fight or Blast. all the weight parked afound “T said #o, and MoCracken got to| his waist line, Joas's best blow should He says; be aclinch, After Georges has toted © got the men beat forty ways! J¢88 around the ring a few miles, he little war to come over to Amertoa — ut that ain't any knockout blow, eee Col, Jacob Ruppert, President of the! Willard will donate hie end ef 7 urse t6 charity, which b esa ome, THE BEST WAY DEFBA' = AS | tia lative to the New York Club's! WILLARD 18 TO DIViSE HIM ot a Fultz, Preal-| the Players’. Fraternity, has | TIME, j eee ‘ play ‘ nee rt explaine cause him any more inconventence pse and several other ses to show/ than a corn on one of @ cent! that the w York Club was Iberal| thousand legs, panes with injured players. PRINCETON J., Dec. 7.—Prince- ee If the fight ts a success fi a charitable standpoint, Sam 22—20, The game was close until| Sam Langford and Sam McVey, three baskets in succersion gave ahr t the end of the firat| Fred Fulton would Ii half Manhattnn was only two points be- | winner two mont t 8 after hen jt. yman would like to meet winner a few minutes after the battle, ¢ in the senior national Amateur Athletic |. T mlaht, Clermont Snort! Union cross-country championship race | ia. 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