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; : ba Hi naman THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1917. RYAN KNOCKED ‘EM ALL QU BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK TOMMY RYAN’S FAMOUS FIGHTS Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Byening World.) IN HIS MIDDLEWEIGHT DAYS Retired Champion Wants to Re-Enter Ring at 46 to Fight Darcy —Ten Years Ago He Might Have Beaten Australian Sensa- tlon—Some of His Famous Battles Which Ended in Knock- outs—Is Sure He Can “Come Back.” Gopyriht, 1917, by the Pros Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). T ons RYAN, world’s middle-weight champion, wants to enter the ring again and fight Les Darcy. Ten years for the Australian champion. Ryan was the greatest fighting middle weight in his class, barring only the invincible Robert Fitzsimmons Unitke Fitssimmons, Tommy stayed in bis own olags and didn’t mingle with the heavyweights, But he was only & fost 7% inches tall, and never became as heavy as freckled Bob. Today he'd be called a “wolter- weight.” Ryan combined in « remarkable degree science, speed and pure fight: ing ability. He was utterly with- out fear, and th wasn't @ slugger in the ring that he wouldn't meet and beat at his own game. As for the clever fellows, MoCoy was the aly one who ever had anything on Tommy. McCoy was the only one who ever knocked Ryan out in all his hundreds of fights. It is useless to montion the entire list of Ryan's knockout victims, Tt # too long, and it contains the names of nearly all the prominent middleweights of his time. To-day, when he wants to “Come em back” and fizht Darcy, Ryan ts over ‘ forty-six years old. He fought bis Settee ant Son atht at thee wath first ring fight thirty years ago. At| knockouts, all Within nine rounds. that time fighting was a desperate ne ke aan Naan the Himte proposition. Tommy began under Lon- poet aad aan aeals don Prize Ring rules, but quickly Wihik Roe meee shortly afterward turned to the gloves. He fought some | ye very long fights. In 1888 he knocked out Dick England tn thirty-three rounds. In 1889 he fought a fifty- seven-round draw with Jimmy Mur- phy and knocked out Shaughnessy in forty-six rounds. In 1891 he knocked out the famous Danny Needham In eoventy-six rounds, and that was his last long fight Among the most famous of his vic- tims were Jack Dempsey, beaten in three rounds, 1895; George Green, Mysterious Billy Smith, Tommy Tra. eey, Billy MoCarthy, Tommy W Jack Bonner, Jack Moffatt, Tim Mur- phy, Jimmy Handler and Kid Carter. RYAN COULD BOX AND 8LUG WITH ANY OF THEM. ‘As I said, Tommy Ryan was al- ways ready to slug with sluggers. He fought Tommy West at Loule- ville, Ky. tn 1901. This was a des- Perate fight—the bloodiest that was ever fought with gioves West was considered Ryan's most dangerous rival. And he was dangerous. He) kpocked Ryan down half a dosen/ times and nearly had him out. But Ryan was as game as any man liv- tng. He went Into a mixup after each knockdown. In one rally he Dutted West, closing both of West's eyes. After that West was com- Delled to use one hand to open an eye wo that he could see to hit with Be ay rans eee Ae | antrlactatn tar et etetrnee ant ewtiog was carried on at a terrific! Tony Ryan, retired unnoteored ace both mon bleeding badly and) champion, couldn't resist the tamp- | Feeling all over the ring until, in the/ tation to come out once more and see Seventeenth round, West was unable/ if me 88 fighting att Bal ran ie to pce Ryan at all. While he was his . @ ol groping about trying to find the beck taving Mines eat dation inne champion, and Ryan was trying des-! ing boxers, and is convinced that he} Derately to,put him out, the referee could fight through ten rounds aa of- | . fectively as when he was. middio. | fe nmt Menaes the Aight and declared | Coli onamolod of the wera, | WAS ONE CHAMPION WHO RETIRED UNDEFEATED, Ryan wa: ring marvel right up t the time he stopped fighting in 19 tnd retired without losing his midd' weight title, He js one undefea vhamplon who didn't come back to the inevitable trimming. But {t secins he wants to take the risk now, after being out of the ring for nine years. If tt was the old Tommy Ryan, Les Darey would tn all probability enlist in the British army without waiting to fight four or five mes in America. 5 Ryan stopped fighting because he had some stomach trouble and found that he couldn't take body punish- ment. He didn't need to very often, thanks to his ski But he stopped before he found a man able to inflict it In 1913 Jim Flynn fought Jack Johnson at Las Vegas. Tommy Ryan had coached Jeffries for the fight in which he won the world's heavy: weight title from Fitzsimmons. Ho ; was known to be a remarkable teacher of boxing. Flynn's manager sent for Ryan, and for a time Tommy stayed in Flynn's camp and worked with Flynn. Suddenly he left, not walting for the fight. Passing through New York Ryan told me that he found he could easily whip Flynn himself, that the fight was eure to be a “bloomer” and that he left because he didn’t care to be mixed up in it. Since that time Ryan has bad a gymnasium and a boxing club in Syracuse, his home town. Thore he has been living the life of @ capitalist, | aa he saved a large part of his ring: earnings, and had a family and a fine | home. prerently the “boxing bug’ passed him by. But then camo Les Ryan winner. Both West and Ryan “monmy asked me my advice. ave told me that this was the most’ “Tommy,” said I, “you've been out | desperate fight of their experience. of the ring for a long time—and you! ‘The Louisville club kept the red- @tained ring canvas for a souvenir, Ryan's fight at Fort Erie with Carter was 4 classic. Carter was ¢ of the best eights in country, and en’ careless about know they all think they can ‘come, back.’ dT know,” sald ‘Tommy, “but this | is different—I can do It."" the weight of He fought men like Gus Kublin and Mar-) vin Hart, first class bh ywelghts, Mt was shorty after he had beaten) the iamous Kid McCoy and knocked | out Joe Walcott, the Giant Killer, and Joe Choynski that he made the mid- dleweight match with Ryan, The fight was at 158 pounds ringside, and that was a low weight for Carter, | Who Usually “fourne at ‘about 1e| Newark Light Heavyweight eine condition, aichoust a inie| Couldn't Hold Off Tireless | jrawn, The weight was @ for * | Ryan, who never scaled above 164 St. Paul Slugger. pounds. In fact Kya sually : sught | at about 148 to 150 when he| mK was champion. He 160} By Vincent Treanor. mounds for thie fight, But that ILLY MISKE of St, Paul and didn't make any difference to Ryan, B Charley Weinert of Newark crowded @ lot of action into ten {rounds at the Harlem Sporting Club TOMMY OUTBOXED, THEN OUT- FOUGHT CARTER, The fight was a characteristic Ryan |iage night. They put up a fight Oe atthe beginning of the first | Worthy of the name, ‘The thousands round and kept it up round that packed the place at prices from round, fighting at t peed, rigs $2 to $10 got their money's worth. Miske was the winner practically all the way. He outboxed, outpointed and In the first round Ryan jump mf row Occa- outslugged the 187-pound Newarker, @onally he planted as although he was fourteen pounds Bander to drive the Kid back. He iighter, He invariably beat Weinert Be ews to sacks jund up to the |to the punch in a way that was dis- aixth concerting to the Newark boy, to say Here Tommy Ryan evidently de-/tho least. He also made him look sided that be had Carter® meusure, |neipiess at infighting, In sbort he timed Carter's left hand and crossed | forced him to fight his style and not Bim fairly on the point of the chin|the way Weinert wanted to go along, with a crashing right. Carter went | wniol down. Any one less enduring would | have stayed down, Carter got up and reeled away. Ryan went in headlong, mixing it aeregely, ee ma yooiee |Plunging in, wasting little time look- around and fought desperately. He landed heavy blows, but Tommy paid |!# fF openings, He 4» clever in hin Mo attention to therm down again, but r fat at the ‘ringside coul: fathering his forces for a del: fdockout blow. He feinted, ter over the heart to draw down, and as the blond warrior's chin was uncovered for an instant whip over @ right-hander that ended h is @ very good way of beating anybody, Miske is @ tireless sort, always are not fighter, game. showy, He is a two-handed and mills it aw if he likes the In a way he ts @ reminder of 1, but lacks the pid sleep & punch that Stanfy always into the ring with him. nert bounced hard punches off his j P/at times, and straight lefted him on the face hard and often, but if they affected Miske he never showed it. ‘ o this would have been no laughing proposition! Carter, went |OWN peculiar way, but his ring tactics | ——— |Links Architects, Which Includes the Famous Star, Walter J. Travis, and Sporting Goods Salesmen, Including Ouimet, Automatically Declared Pro- fessionals at Meeting Here. I ciation meeting finished in an uproar at 2 o'clock this morning at the Astor when the dele- gates, dazed by oratory, voted to justain the strict amateur rule, in- cluding the clause barring golf architects, and against the reinstate- ment of Oulmet, Tewksbury and | Sullivan, New officers were elected and courses for the 1917 national championships selected. The ama- teur will be played at Or‘smont, near Pittsburgh; the open at Brae Burn, just outside Boston, and the women’s at Shawice, Pa, The meeting was the most remark- able in the association's history. Nearly 100 delegates from all over the United States were present, Early in the session they appeared to favor the reinstatement of Ouimet, but the association leaders finally railroaded thelr bills through with the ald of unlimited legal talent, Toward the finish most of the weary delegates were talked into a bunker and voted for @ pecullar resolution that few really understood, Aw a result of the meeting it 19 unlikely that Oulmet will ever be restored to the amateur ranks. To be reinstated the conquerer of Var- don and Ray must give up hiy spo ing goods business and thon take his chances of recelving a favorable ver- dict from the Executive Committee, The decision to retain the stringent amateur rule will have a far reach- (ng effect on other amateur sports, By William Abbott. HB annual U. S. Golf Associa- LK, yy J ——— Bow mocuweser CHAMPION “Tomy Ryan KNOCKED OUT Thw Grea: Ki>D Carrer, ,AFTER_ CART@R HAD ItocKED OuT Joe Warcort INT Reeonns ex2 ew eis EPL, | |The national tennis association, which contemplates similar action next month, was represented at the golf session, The session didn't get under way till 9.30, From the start there were outbursts of hostility to the assocla- tion officials. In the ensuing argu- ments the golf constitution was dragged all over the place, while the rival parties battled over the rules. After the election of officers, the case of Oulmet, Tewksbury and Sul- i was heard. W. M, Noble, rep- ting the Woodland Club, the home club of the three disqualified solfers, made an eloquent plea for their reinstatement, He reviewed | thelr careers as players and charged | that they had never been granted a fair trial. Noble stated that Oulmet's salary while he worked in a Boston | sporting goods store never exceeded $30 a week, Frank L. Woodward of Denver, the retiring President, replied for the Ex- ve Committees, which barred the New England golfers, Wood- that Oulmet had been! fair that the committee was thre ward sald given plenty of warning and treatment; reluctant to bar him, but was finally compelled to do so for the best in- terests of amateur golf. “To revoke the committee's decision,” said the | former President, “will lower the hich | standard of golf in this country and | adversely affect other bodies which are following our lead and clean- | | ing thelr own houses.” Woodward in- |troduced a damaging plece of evi- ‘dence, a letter trom Oulmet, in which | |the former holder of both national titles admitted his golf days were over, After Woodward's speech there was a steady bombardment of debates for early two hours over Ouimet, ama- | teurism and every other question the talkative delegates had to shoot at! Howard Perrin, the new President, | When the Woodland Club finished | its great fight for Ouimet, Tewksbury | jand Bullivan, the defense cut loose! with a battery of legal sharps, who argued so skilfully that the oppo- | }sition party was finally talked down | | to defeat. Yet the finish was so unsatistac- tory that fully a third of the dele- gates didn't know wi they were voting for in the final resolution, The loutcome of the mecting was a vic- Miske Made Weinert Fight His Way and So Beat Him Instead of wavering he would dive into Wetnert with a straight left, fol- jowed by @ right to the jaw that brought a pained expression to Wel- nert’s face, Once in close, he would cut loose punches of every variety which Weinert couldn't seem to avoid, Ail he could do was hold Miske arms and try to pull his head or body away from blows th ing them on t just that to Welnert, a with little chance to get ata great disudvanta In_ the very frst round Weinert sat Miske down on the second rope with a right to the jaw and for a minute or so it seemed possible he would win by a knockout. He al- Y' , however, and bout Weinert hting, some- = he should done earlier but Miske always outclassed ‘him at this particular style, A rally in the tenth, which me too late, made Weinert look good for a while, but then as in the preceding rounds he Jlet Miske take the lead away from | him, | It was conceded by everybody that Weinert's lay off hadn't done him Jany good, but tt’s doubtful tf he will ever beat Miske unless it be a one- punch affair, In other words, he would have to knock out the St. Paul man to win, | ‘The other ten-round bout between 1 m O'Hagan and Marty Cross was |won by O'Hagan. He outhoxed Crome jall the way and in the last round sat him down for a second or two with ja right delivered at close quarters. | Cross was dangerous, but | O'Hagan knew too much about ing for him. With a punch O'Har Imight develop into a fairly good man, but bis blows lack the old “kick,” CRESCENT HOCKEY TEAM EASILY BEAT ST. NICKS The Creacent A. C. completely out- played the St. Nicholas & C. in a one-sided hockey match at the New York Rink last night. The Santa Claus seven, greatly weakened by the lo of two of the best players, Ellis and Smith, who withdrew in the face of | the Impending charges of profession- {alism, stubbornly held the strong |"Moon Team." which t# made up | mostly of “Canucks” In check during the first half, but at the sound of |the bell for the second period the Brooklyn team “got going” and made four goals without giving thelr op- ponents one, ‘Tom McCarthy and Mickey Roach were the principal point makers for Crescent, each sco ing twice. It Was even said McCarthy was another H Baker, Morgan 1 le tally for the Bt. cup: Bt. Ncholas (1) Smart n Bermuth Morgan MeCarthy, Roach, Conway DesJardins Peabody Conklin BLE SRE YALE’S SWIMMING TEAM | BEATS C. C.N, Y.’S “FISH” | The swimming team of Yale easily | trounced the C. C, A. Y, “fish” last night when the squads of both teams competed in the Waghington Heights tank, ‘The score waa 48 to 6. The bull- dog team took each event with ease ‘and won the meet in good fashton. | Mayer, who wore the colors of Yale,| was the star performer of the occasion. won the 60 and 100-yard swims in century race he both Gould, 2 fe If length of the, but near the finish | nt forward with mo wbled bin te win, longer strokes, which ene | Clermont A. C. j battle, longo :punches, with Joe Tiplite and Charley U. S. Golf Association Votes to Sustain | Strict Amateur Rule at St ¢ ormy Session —— {Courses Selected for the Three National Events, the Amateur Tourney Going to Oakmont, the Open to the Brae Burn Club and the Women’s to Shawnee. tory for a drastic amateur rule, which has been made more binding by an amendment making professionals of course architects, This change was made especially to curb the activities of golfers like Walter J. Travis and Devereux Emmet. The settling of the troublesome amateur question was the first duty of the new officials, who were unani- mously elected as follows: President, Howard W. Perrin, Pine Valley Golf Club, Philadelphia, Pa.; Vice Presidents, Dr. Walter 8. Har- ban, Columbia Country Club, Chevy Chase, Md., and Lewis Crosby, the Country Club, Brookline, Mass.; Secretary, Howard F, Whitney, Nas. sau Country Club, Glen Cove, ai ‘Treasurer, Frederick S, Wheelor, Apawamis Club, Rye, N. ¥.; Execu- tive Committee, Robert A. Gardner, Hinsdale, Ill, Golf Club; Sterling Edmunds, St. Louis Country Club; Mortimer N. Buckner, Garden City, N. Y., Golf Club, and William P. | Stewart, “Audubon Golf Club, New Orleans, In his remarks upon the eve of re- tirement Woodward complimented the clubs holding membership in the association for thelr loyalty. He likened his stepping from office to returning once more to the peaceful quietness of a mere member of the golf club. He also suggested in a facetious way that his successor might find his path strewn with hazards. Ip taking oMce Perrin declared he appreciated the honor conferred on him and intended to do the best he could. ‘I want to be always falr,” sald Perrin in concluston, The award of the 1917 national fix- tures le without a biz champlonship. The Oakmont Club, which will stage the amateur tournament, ts seven miles outside Pittsburgh and one of the leading courses in the Middle West. Heavyweights have been attracting all the attention this week, but to-night the Ughtweights will have their innings, a# three clubs in Greater New York have showa scheduled in which the boys of this clase will be the star performers. | The Fairmont A. C. has Irish Patsy | Cline and Carey Phelan, both of Har- lem, with Sammy Diamond and Abo Friedman in the semi-final At the sHarry Pierce and Frankie Callahan will meet in @ return with Vio Dahl and Tom Me- Carthy in the semi-final, At the Broad way Sporting Club Joo Welling of Chi- and Phil Bloom will exchange Kohler in the semi-final, ‘There were hundreds tured away at the Harlem Sporting Club last wight, ae all the tickets ware wid 4s carly as @ o'clook, Considering the largo crowd present chere was little comfwion, There was 4 cordon of police tm front of the entrance, while tneide @ hundred special police aw that onler wae preserved, aia Jow Witlant, the world’s heavyweight champion, has been offered $50,000 to g to London to box Georges Ourpentier at the Holbum Stadium. Jack Curley, one of Jems's manager, made this an- nowncement to-day, and added that be thought the big champion would Frankie Burns, the Jomey City fighter, who knocked out Pete Herman, the new bantunweigit champlonahip claimant, in twelve rounda, has beon offered $500 to box Dick Loadiman of Cleveland fiftean rounde tm Baltimore, but he answered that he would accept providing tmt the bout was ro duced to tea rounda, Bonny Leonard t* being of matches by bis manager will box Jimuny Dufty of te weat side at the ’ Jan, 24, and Kadie Wallace week from Monday night, Javed up for a number Bily Gibs in Malladetphia on Pride MoMahon has changed hie card for west ‘Thamday night at the Fawire A, ©. Inelead of Inia Vatsy Cline boxing Ad Wolgwst bo will tackle Kade Kelley of Harlem, with Kiddie WeSeea tae en AT LOVISVILLS © eva Won ss the New York district) ND WEST Rounbs, ANSTERIOUS Bit 6TH AND KNOCKED HIMOUT i Four, Reunps. BY JOHN K. TENER. (National League.) ‘This threatened strike ts a great Injustice. The National League players have absolutely no griev- ance, and we always have conceded them everything they have asked. As the public knows how weil the players are treated, I cannot see how they can hope to have any pub- lc sympathy. It seems to me such a strike would smack very much of conspiracy and might come within the definition of the Clayton act. ‘The National Commission ts the same to baseball as @ government to the people, and ft aims to give fair, honest government, and pro- tection to all, with no favorites. If it was within the power of the com- mission to grant the m requests the Fraternity what assurance have wo that a year from now new and greater demands would not be made? | According —— Former Member of That Organi- Men Kick Over Traces, De- claring They Have Little to Gain and Everything to Lose by a Hold-Out. | By Bozeman Bulger. is easy enough to understand $6 vhy a ball player would refuse to sign his contract and jump to the Federal League, where ho could get more money, but you ehow jme a professional pastimer who'll turn down his contract, when there 1s no argument about the amount, and jump to no salary at all—well, you show me that and I'll believe that story about George Washington never telling a lie, Yes, I'll even put my O. K. on Jonah and the whale.” These remarks coming as they do from a ball player who for many years Was a member of the Frater nity, gives your deponent a sort of a hunch that this coming strike, in 80 far as {t concerns the major leagues, |(THE MISKE-WEINERT RECEIPTS, $12,864.50, HOW TICKETS WERE SOLD, 310 | 235 630 Total .... WHAT FIGHTERS WERE PAID, Miske, guarant $2,000,00 w , guarantee and percentage . 2,870.00 "oss, guarantee 500.00 O'Hagen, guarante \1 Total. eee |= - | McAndrews of Philadeh@la and Jimmy Dutty af the west side io the other tan, | Jack Dillon will aorire here Monday for his ten-eound bout with Billy Mixke at the Rroad. He is confident tat he will decisively defest the St. Paul mar this time, Jack Starkey, tho west side bantam, who boxes Jobony Coulon tm thie city on Jan, 2°, has beon matched to box Jaber White at the next Qa at the Albany club, Ray Devlin, the de boy who ban fort rotumed here after # long slay in Panama, whem fo claim he woo the lightweight title, will box Jiminy Bolly at the New Polo A, A, on Jan, 26, | cently stood off Pal Moure, will box man at Broadway Sporting Club Tuesday night a9 a semi-final to the Miske-Dillon bout, Young Getto, was wewoght chawnton [of Australia nineteen yeam aio, will second Charlie Simpaon, the present champion of that omntry, in bie retum battle with Tommy Tuobey, ne Paterson cham at thy Monser Sports Chub mest Tussday wight, What the Major League Presidents Think of Players’ Threat to Strike BY BAN JOHNSON. (American League.) CHICAGO, Jan. 13.—We never again shall listen to any proposal Dave Fults, the Players’ Fraternity leader, may offer. We invite him to carry out his bluff. I do not be- lieve the players are back of Fultz. I think he has been using a power to send out statements without au- thority from the players themselves. The American League will seo that Fults ts driven out of baseball. The American League has been fair with its players and will continue to treat them fairly without the ald of Mr. Fultz, John Henry, catcher of the Washington Club, a representative of the Players’ Fraternity, can either drop his aMilationsa with the Fraternity or quit the American League. Henry or any other player in the American League who refuses to sign a contract because of the Fraternity will be barred. We pro- pose to lay a strong hand on Henry Baseball Strike Would Be Death Knell of Fraternity, to One Player zation Predicts a “Bust” if|compiisned, or it « player could eee ung Nor. | and others like him. is going to be a “bust.” “If any direct good was to be ac- where he was to be financtally beae- fited in the future,” sald this player, | Whose name is withheld for very ob- vious reasons, “he might be per- suaded to give up his job, but it makes me laugh when I try to pic- ture two or three big leaguers that I know passing up even one pay day. Of course the game of baseball has {ts sentimental side to us fello who have followed it all our liv but, to be perfectly frank, a ball player bases his every move on |Auances. Many will not admit tt, but you know that to be true Just as well 49 Ido. Money ts the governing fac- tor. “There are many players in the| Fraternity who really do not know | What this strike is about, but as soon | Se they do you can bet they will | come trotting in with their contracts. The object of holding out on con- | tracts, already agreed upon, ts to force the big leagues to force the} National Commission to force the Na- tlonal Association of Minor League |Clubs to force the club owners in | those leagues to give the players bet- ter treatment in @ few matters that concerns them and them alone! Just get that, will you? “Now you know that’s getting a lit- tle too far from taw for the mind of the average big league ball player to comprehend, The plan contemplates |@ wonderful self-sacrifice, but it 1s too | visionary and far fetched for success, It's mighty hard to make a ball player | take to heart anything that does not jaffect his pocket directly, And in this |Cage he has no grievance at all, “Did you ever figure how much the | players would lose the first month if they persisted in not signing their | contracts?” | TL confessed failure along that tine, “Well, there are about 600 players in the two big leagues, and their salaries | will average about $600 a month, That means @ lo#s of $800,000 in one month, It does not mean that much loss to the magnates because they can permit |thelr parks to remain {dle another month without much extra cost and {they'll get the money baok anyway when the season does start, Now, who ts going to get hurt? “Honestly, I am alwaya anxtous to see the ballplayer succeed, but I sim ply cannot see this so-called strike, I am saying the that @ persistence in the move will merely mean the end of the Frater- nity." | The club owners and league off. jolals appear eager for the fray |that is brewing. Instead of deplor- ling tho strike, they aro anxious to |have it rettled for once and for all It 1s true that very few signed con. tracts have come in, but there have been several communications from the players, Most of these are from jreerults or recently drafted players, |and the tenor of all their letters ty a |request for bigger salaries than the contracts call for, | “The whole thing," said the owner | of one of the New York clubs, “strikes me as a scheme to get more money, | We have not heard a word from our regular players and do not expect to, | Their contracts, or most of them, | were signed last year, » things because I fear} PUTTING 'EM OVER With ‘‘Bugs”’ Baer LTHOUGH Pennsyl- vania has added hockey to their list of sports that doesnt make it one, Brooklyn car riders are again demanding heat. Brooklynites # to have cooled off some since the World Sertes, Welling Is one of the queerest eights in the world. weighs than 160 pounds. The Syracuse football team had @ successful season © they played the faculty. All of Jimmy Vior’s future wild throws will get into the papers dated Kansas City. A Ufttle fellow has no chance te make a varsity crew. Ap oareman has to be a giant from the eare down. Jo igh: Most lghtwetrhts are ightweighta in everything except the weight The present pocket billiard cham~ pion is Frank Taberski of Schenec- tady, which is an earful in any league. Tom Cowlor fights as well as he can. But he can't. YEA BO. National Commish ought to stop picking on Barney Dreyfuss Barney ain't no ukelele. Oulmet Is a professional because he sold golfing goods. A tennis player is: @ pro if he selis tennis goods, Accord~ ing to that a wrestler would be a pro- fessional if he sold cheese. When Plasterer Fulton meete Jess Willard, Fred wants to re- member that Jess ain't going to stand still like a side ceiling. LET'S GO, mehow or another, the baseball season at Yale always starts with very bright footbal! prospects. After watching Albert Badoux box i jcally we are convinced that about as scientific riot. The birde who received travelling bags for Christmas are still trying figure whether the gift is a com ment or a hint. Advice shouted by htera see. onda ts about as useful as ankles tm @ chess match, STUPID. President WQson may de able to ston the European war, but it looke @s tf hockey will co on forever. Many Stars in Irish-American Meet To-Night ‘The board saucer of the Seventy~ first Regiment Armory, Thirty-fourth | Street and Fourth Avenue, will burn with speed to-night when the fore. most International, Collegiate istic flyers of th seen In action, annual tr Irish-American A.C. On paper, the games look to be the best this season, Action and close competition ought to prevail in each event. Although tho 1,000-yard distance and the #00-yard run stand out eon- spievfously on the programme, the spectal scratch relay between the Bos. ton A. A. and Irish-American A, G. and the mile scratch relay between ning of the speediest team High and E upon as the feature events of the evening, In the former relay, police and post office employees will have it out. In the schoolboy race squads of De Witt Clinton, Poly , Brooklyn Prep, Evander Ghilde, East Orange, Dickinson, St. John's College and St, Benedict's Prep will compete for the “Burke” Trophy, Johnny Overton, Dave Caldwell ana Joe Higgins, who ts the present New England quarter-mile champion, will have to extend themselves to the ute most to beat Earl Eby, the crack of the University of Penn, In the 1,000-yard race for the McAleenan Trophy, in his practice trials for this distance has nearly equalled the world's record, He ought to cause much trouble for ttn > BATTLING LEVINSKY WINe, Battling Levinsky outelas “"Wert- Jim" Smith at th Ac. always willing o locating the elu the other comp d game, had sive Battler, d liked the The \- ~ MOTORISTS’ PROBLEMS SOLVED Robertson, America's foremost rt, Ne Claases: also ortvs rs to sult convenienoes Stewart Auto School 228 WHAT ATTH VET (at Broudway) KRVTUING FOR Blllards OY Bovilng “Certainly,” he said, {n answer to _ | at , at Proiiie Reve, the Hrovalyn bantam, who re/2P Induiry, “we would Ike to have the thing settled. While the New York clubs are not affected, it wouldn't do us any particular good if we were to begin the season with no clubs to play against us.” The upshot of the controversy has been a determination on part of the magnates to break up the Fraternity. If the strike goes on that will be ° only aim, ro firtces and Terms to Sult, PPAIRS BY EXPERT MECI si 5 West A 2 near Tro J nd wap. SPORTING, To-Nim yt, Palrmont &O. igg PSM VAST CLINE & ‘ Pa Ay, Sa ay Se CM, yA, Tel Dest Tuonday: Wily Miao "wa, / c