The evening world. Newspaper, February 6, 1917, Page 12

— +--+ +--+ - <= ee eee ee ee 12 WHITMAN OPPOSES BOXING CONTROLLED BY PROMOTERS Their Only Interest in Sport Is to Make Money by Exploiting Bru- tality—Repeal of Frawley Law Won't Eliminate Bouts, Says Governor, Who Favors the Amateur Variety as Is Seen in, Regular Athletic Clubs. | Copyrient, 1017. by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Kvening World.) b6 sald Gov, Whitman, “i'm opposed to boxing. 1 don't like Y the way it is conducted under the present law. [ am tn favor of having the Frawley law repealed. I have given my views @m the subject to tho Legislature, and T don't sce any reason for ad There the Governor stopped us Sy 4 suddenly as he had begun. Appar+ Fe y there Was nothing more to be . °@ Bl “But, Governor,” I argued, “Tt think you used to take quite a little} interest tn boxing yourself.” | “Certainly,” he agreed. “Don't mis: ) understand me. I think boxing ts a! well-—not with @ great deal of cktil, perhaps, but well enough to enjoy it. No doubt at this minute tn the gyin nasium at Amberst there are boys bostng—Jots of them. That's tae hind of boxing | like, But boxing as wo have it in this State under the Frawley law is an ehtirely different thing. I don't think boxMg will ever die out In Amere! I wouldn't tlhe to soe it die out, But the kind of boxing that t* carried on for the profit of a few promoters should be stopped, and will he stopped if my wishes are observed. “I don't know whether the fault is the fault of the pr boxers, or of the ape moters or of the tators, but I'm convinced that boxing has a brutal- fzing influence, Perhaps the spectators Ike to see brutal bouts, I know | that all sorts of men attend boxing bouts, but you can't deny that there @lways is a brutal element at the ringside. ‘The taste for brutality grows. | Boxing as we have it | 8 State is a brutal sport. Don't you thinic The Governor wes interviewing me. said L “The spectators liked to clove contests between well] ey prefer ski ” matched men, but to mere slugging in any mateh: japort?) Do th don't like to see one-sided fights, sport or for the y “Hum,” sald the Governor Incredu-| (he he wioney, Pte Jously, “I don't agree with you. Alike that of Hob Witesinmone. when few days ago a boy was killed in the} he knew he lad registered a solar ring. And they took bim out and the! plexus poke. show went right alc They didn't yen stop the show, Can you im-| baseball for the money, to atively different,’ id the € '- agine anything more brutal than! ornors waving of tie atcuumene ua opposed (o boxing as we have It un- t know he had] der the preseat law, because it {4 brutal and becaui control of promot think they care ng been fatally injured “Ho died right there,” said the Ge erno yet the show went on, And at the|plolting brutality, It was supposed legal inv no Wis ex-| that the Frawley law would eliminate onerated, been @xam-) lement of brutality, and it hasn't ined by a physician. All the legal Perhaps some day there may requirements had been complied with. her boxing law that will put A blow had been struck and a death port under proper control, but 1 had come from it, and no one wi t know how ft can be done, and responsible, Under the law no one|l don't expect to see it done, Was to blame. I'm against that kind} "If the Frawley law ts repealed, of a law.” will that eliminate boxing in this “Accidents come in every kind of "1 asked @gtive competition,” I argued, “Scores t at all," said the Governor. of men are Killed every year In base-| “Phere always will be amateur box. 1 and football and other sports.|ing in athletic clubs. ‘The kind of Men have been carried dying from] boxing I'm opposed to Is tho kind that the football fleld, and the games have| exists for the profit of a few pro- gone right on'-— moters, You look over the names of “An entirely different thing,” In-| some of the men supporting It and terrupted the Governor, “An entirely] you'll find the sam es Identified Gifferent thing, That wasn't 4 tat- ter of making money. No promoter Are You go- made a profit out of it, ‘The trouble! ing in for with boxing is mainly in the men| ut at this moment the Governor's Who promote boxing houts. ‘They dol secretary announced the next visitor. it for the money, don't they? It's all My time w Fistic News son After considerable dickering, the de-|fiftem rounds at the American 8, ©, of Bi tails for the bout between Billy Mii more, Abd, the sensational St. Paul Mght heavy-| Jott smith the om k Hasouws middlewelght, is welght, and Rattling Levinsky, the |enotior uniortumate fighter, After winning (hws whose o: clever Hebrew heavyweight of this efty, | bows iu jess tian tom 1. Smith had the mis. have been completed. They were booked | fortune to bmak a bor left band tn @ Up to-day to meet in a ten-round bout | bowl with JoeB y 1 wil pt the Capital City A. of 8! Paul, iy in aut of for wevera) weeks, Al Minn., on the night of Hr TAVin® | eee eee ad deft niguod up for shy 4 to receive @ guarantees of $1,500, iy tonleole wintc be Was ber fred with the option of 30 per cent, of the —- gros receipts and railroad tranaporta-| | bot belwoen gral weltarselahta wil be fought tor three. jat Gin Broadway Sporting Chub of Brooklyn te. $1 tesinn o leek 20 Mf Mike Gitbone, the St,|Kid Graven. the clot’ Siluenion rights mut Feud cract middleweigtit, means to do consideravie | will bs Uiwven’s first appoarance in’ a bout in Woging im the Kart im the fiture, for be wae) Jack Mood of Mitge matctiod uy to-day by his m Faitie Kane, | wo wide of Hed Mook ection ot St, Paul, to moot Harry we Viiladel- | will @ley box ten round. Hobie wilddioweight, for aix rounds at Lie Nationa’ A. €,, Potledelph st Matunday night, Mf Wil) receive e big Levoentage of the gram rmepite Al MeMurray, who looks after the invemsta of y Hansen, (Oday ened up Hanru to fight for bie end, tie th for a fi —- 5 bout at ot Ratth Champion Jobmay Kilbane cartsiely avta plenty eu west Monday night, Chick Neleon gud | money out of Miller leo cla he saie elon tiomal A, ©, of Johnny revelved $1,000 for boxing Jobony Ka) Pi vad May the rugged deat mute middie. the Pittsburgh ecreyper, ine six-round bout, The | 4 ; +98 ee ys af y Toland Olly bas Brom receipts of the sow amounted ty $2.0 Pr ‘0 clash tn the eter bout of ten oud Ray got 20 par cent., which made bis oud [Vunds at Quewnaboro A. ©. of Loug City ou wet a 0 taand 100, | y wig soya Marry Wills and Batt hasee, | Pateas Jobany Kilbave changrs bis mind there | ore bod Hating tlm Soha, te aot be slim chance of bis mecting some good 10- | wont calling them to mmt Ina techen eee weight in a bout im this vieinity, Dick Ourle Puture City a, ¢ Yui bwt taaleimsker of the Clenmaut A, C. of Brogkiyn Thle should Ue a gaat canny eee | Went all the way to Mhiladeljhia ow Batunlay ery tee both asa | pigut fas toe prrpoee of matching Kiltwme ta tox Figabie Callahan he Kraokiya ligutwy Wesatuzvns Birthday though with Jimmy Datty, the ring willing to make 19% pounds for Kilbane, Jobuny aitweight, They werw signed ty) lust nigat fumed dows the matab, to tnowt An nd Vout at the Man een {a ‘Terry Mortin, tie fast aud come Viitic bantam | Vufy has born veeking @ match with Leonard tor Weight of Provideney, I, 1, will be a busy boxer |wome monte and Milly Gibson, manag thie mouth, ae he ie elgned uup for two fights so | ard, bas granted Lim bla requowt, far, Tomorrow night he meets Frankie Brown of | _ | _ Milly Reddy of New Yusk and Young Britt New Holfonl, Mass nist be © of Leow. | Lawrence ROLLER SKATING | ee cee wev ose use soe IN ie AM Be New Aeomly ew GRAND CENTRAL PALACE |) iiss yiii te sseuseu tu the sents yy tet dail atating Bho palcn ar tay ecibiy meas Monday L lesall NG BUNDAYS, ™ George Mi who now ADMISSION, nclusine’ 25¢ |) ie Prat Geant cat Sea THUM'S RNase nici | i SPORTING. or >| uuider tie |THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1917. BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NE ee A sili Saieitenile W YORK GOV. WHITMAN DISCUSSES BOXIN3 SITUATION Copyright, 1917, by the Press Pubishing Co. (the New York Mvening World) ~ We Governorm useo te HANDLE THe GLOVES A UTNE PURELY FOR. EXEMCILE. fine sport and a healthful and intor-| "i asting exercise, I used to box fatrly | MERE ALWAYS 1S A BRUTAL BLEMBAT “Wey po @ FOR, Tie mMoNEY™ ‘Charles Ebbets Now Regarded All the Magnates i; | Fight talk between the Ka SENATOR DUNNIGAN INTRODUCES A NEW BOXING BILL AT ALBANY. ALBANY, Feb, 6--—The conti ation of the State Athletic Com. mission, which Gov. Whitman has asked the Leg'stature to abolish, Is called for In a bIL Sotroduced last night by Senator Duonigan of Luckiest of re contracts Brocklyn Club Has Only a Few | Players Signed for Season, so a War Period Would Prove Least Costly for the Squire of tld prefer to start tt with @ fifteen players AS WE Mave CT IN THIS STATE BRUTAL Spot * limit of something like so much objec The measure legislates out of office the present and provides for the appointment three new members, wiped out and only § fag all expenses for the compensation of a } ort of rim hu |e matter of money, isn't It? De you A hort of grim h out the | xing for} By Bozeman Bulger. war looming recognizing the worst off magnates in ments with t year is allow s Deen a sudden cessation of ‘But baseball magnates promote | have declined to sign 1917 c« If the sport haw to by An amendment to ihe present law which Senator Duanigan be. Heves will put an end to tly-by- clubs provides that feeling of ap-|tham ever do com it ia under the} y de- | Thero was no doubt about it,| sire is to make money through ox- | buildings licensed by the commis. sion for boxing exhibitions cannot be used for any other purpose. Rumor has it that the Ithode Island tleut Golf Assoctations may doin forces in the hope of mustering & Strong team to compete in the annual tition for the Lesley © this trophy has been playe Pennsylvania, and ft has b interested not to en- n a fourth contender, Barnes, professional at the Palma tudiion how Club, {able to be out again, following a run in with @ “ilivve Jim'a" left foot got Barnes engaged in his fest pl weeks last Friday and was ab for which he hi ince the autome- ork clubs are getting the worst declared Captain A week or #0 ing ourselves that w to take the sof a strike, overstocked, sare coming In daily | in whieh “Lon jelub owners would just as soon not Huston with Evening World ii |Racing Schedule Headpin Tourney Opens With Bang setts and New the wish of tho large tt by taking up @ record of bile ran into him Jim has sobriquet, whieh he appears unable to Is About Same A Last § Season The second annual midwinter Indoor stern Trade Golf id on the minia~ mbel’s this afternoon. | 8 will gather to be held ut the Building tournament of the Association will be h ture links at In the event baseball | 4 BELLEAIR HHIGH' 2 anyway, Wwe there should a“ call for an wolfers, defeated Alex national open champion, and his brother George in an exhibitio Carter would hav teur record for the course had he by {pin Tournament £ last night on Joe Thu hours enthuslastic ers kept up a curtain of fire around dpin trying to win one of the d silver wat on, the Baltuerol ring from a com- best ball by 1 up. to| can do now s Just sit back and wait, short meoting ies by the end o' to enlist ia ny, And you May rest assured thay {no major league magnate will » in thelr way.” Kicht professional teams began play | nd robin puttin. Nathan Schroede: New Jersey State Golf Assoclatt appointed F, Secretary-Treasurer, Deal was named Chatrm: nament Committee and ©. of Jolly Ballors didn't those fobs or three t The rchedule id lover Al taken up at The Jockey Wanamaker The four successful | James Hep- nt eet rday. ie Fn and Cyril, Walker: Gave: Hunter | jay rhoand Cy ken, Dave Hunter! hardest to land 4 Jack Muckie und George of the stew- John F. Kell who very | n of the Tour: 1rank In Ukely will return to his o the Army Engineers, has visions of a all regiment n you Imagine, nit would be tothe count class. All the ¢ Fotheringham. eagerly to be the first t what But The Lxecutive stood that the Ku at) ’ ntly purchased t “up of Lhe & Reynolds of Ex Before the openir of ground in the r, with meet ris County and William sked profesmlonal athletes of the to have a thoroughly up to date ior Baseball Briefs )| President of the ity and Saratoga Wes lo make That would be aptain of the iden of Athletic Notes Despite the fuct that armed guards are patrolling ail armories, no orders] Baseball Mayers’ Praternity, has Just have been issued cloving them to tn- door athletic ‘the history plication af John Dorsey: for t it is praoficable, ck and refused to f uly worth thinking wd of bowlers and spec approaching von Were appointed: recelved a letter from Max F* little outfielder of the hicago Cubs. have been received Mars Cassidy main bout at t) Woe to have been betwe & new con- miles from | day to Ko on with its preparations for | nite its annual games to be held in the Twenty-second Reghacnt Armory on Saturday night. Paddock and tract with the Chi coming season (Mitrot Judas Assistant Lo the Clerk of th Albert Burien essary to whi & fob bowlers to enter the p e Jockey Chib waa } Yank V5" | here the bull field into co | sion of Hil Donovan's troupe of athletes. Chureh House will have bis muc cussed hearing before tie where he will dition for the {nva- smeet will run for | While oui least tive we at the meet August Belmont, F. 4 Andrew Miller and Schuyler Ly Jack Sha Beats Coutlon PHILADELPHIA Duty, the crack Look knocked out Jimmy | beat Ts ght, |ten Andrews of thia) (ov fifth round at the Olyu here last night Ansociation of t Technically, on charges, althe qualified from ¢ | Heinle Wacner of the Bronx, for sugh he has been dis- | mpeting as an amas | teur for commercializing his athletic fame, and the hearing take tha form of Wagner will act the team as Will probably |W led attain | Atlantic City Ghe Nearby Resort ITH its famous Boardwalk, bracing air, unsurs passed hotels, sun parlors, unusual percentage of sunshine, and its quick, convenient train servici Atlantic City is the one great Winter and Spring pee within three hours of New York City. EXTRA SERVICE ACCOUNT LINCOLN’S BIRTHDAY Frederick W youth will be of Harlem on ‘Nestay evening, Pub. 43. { red on Saturday Lington that he would not part Voster for Derrill Pratt, the noand also to all members of lin Wa the Board of Manag defeated by Jack Sharkey, the More than 1,000 jonw! senior ind: HIGH TEAM SCORE. TO-NIGHT’S SCH | the Arm ah \*9 Beit ak Ly.Penna. Station, New York,2,16 P.M. Stad arrived Clubs Included or the s Involved In the deals. youth and thes e (han enough to off. set Coulon’s cleverness and ring gen- | 12, 0 (no coaches) 10 coaches), an’ Ly, Atlantic City 4.00 A \ ‘ard high hurd 18-pound sivot Hand broad Jumps anda meds {a bay or brown colt with a faint moon- tre of his forehead Jack Marry and Babe Ruth, the lett- anded pitcher of the world's champion will help coach th was sired b: hummer from start REGULAR THROUGH TRAINS TO ATLANTIC BTATION, NEW YORK, ; 1H. (1.20 P, ards |of Holy NTIC CITY 9.18 A.M. 2.39 P.M. wee 4.00 aches) PENNSYLVANIA JRAIL Aw a Jin the Bowta as tad ht ta he Se'se| Won tn the time of itm, 49 The Steel Car Rouie wil quit the | game for good. Keoeping the score as low efeuted Joe Hyland of the west side, | AGNATES | say they | aren't losing any sleep over the players’ strike, which makes it unanimous. | Most tmport- lant items of the week are that | Hoboy Baker is | buck on tho ice and there is @ ehanes {of a war with Germany, | America might as well bi they, way it is. Wrestlin: in Montana and a sixty-year: [Vern guy runs marathon | | As s00n as a heavy snowfall comes along the players’ fraternity will hold a banquet. Kid Herman he ain't going to jlet Johnny Coulon win back the bantam title, showing that respect for vid age Is on the wane in America Rabid Rudolph won't be the only ene to dash to the front when the enemy attacks us in the rear, ihe only kind of marathon @ sirty-veat-old gent should run ave | the kind that Rip Van Winkle pulled of Only vents some white} fatter, the ht. ‘They everyt Kole President Wilson puzzling o Pugilicts. Bo far there ain't been « ‘werd said about gate receipts. A RO, No reas y Cincinnatl should win next sea Y A cow's would too! up in front, When it comes to conscription of ldates fo dren flrs YOU SAID IT. Ifa fighter can't make good with his fists ho always has his shoulder blades to fall back on, ix of amateurs-— who dowt need the money and those who can't get it We don't know whether Mike Gil bons is a qreat fighter or not. We never saw him any place but im th ring. SHAKE ‘EM UP. Only qink safe from the A. A. WU is the solitaire bug. if war is declared and It is des | ead with the will have to eut| be| of! » is & doubt in| inind If it would be advisabl ao bad that the ans have to ( Fight Results ) Ue Kvocks Out Benedie K ennan, the Chicage Gelt, oidded a er knockout to his long Mat A.C. Brennan toppled t of Jersey y in the lecventh round of a one-sided bout, | Yoakum Ontpoints Bath ROCHESTER, N.Y, Feb, 6.—Stantey Youkum of De outpe! d Walter ro the Flower Qty ght in ten rounds, a awlward style had Butler at © only round Le carried was the Fav, ho Reroveo bat decision Was ody of muldiore in| ot favared at tho close of the Byltts T{Shubert she here last night. When Dut |the twelfth round ended. Bhibert's @ape porters exqweted a verdce: me ad sit a furions battle, nthe winth. ‘The Sf mnt set the pace Une scoring # kne referee hoisted Britt's glov Welling Outpoints Clin Jou Welling ‘Mieagoe had Mttle aiuaeineaa ng dehnny CE 1 the euat ald rounds of hagin nig Walling height. weluht and ? hal dn hia and Clinton Wag OD. how ong Young Ahearu Heats Gana, At the Military A. C. in Broa! Young Ahearn, the dancing maser, 1» Joo Gans af Brpokly le." Alwarn was too ele and piled up potuts beach round with his tong lef jab. Phere was no knockdowns WASIINGTON’ BIRTHDAY. wary 24 Ly, Penna, Station; 210 BOM, February 22, Ly, Atlantlc City February 25, La. Atlantie City 6.15 (no coaches), ‘ind 8.00 BM for New Yor 1.20and 530 P.M, ITY L M, Saturdays AVE PENNA, y) 4.04 8.40 P.M, Sundays,