The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1917, Page 12

(Ne ET NSA AS AGA EN i em SNe Ye) ene iam {f the Two Giants, Willard and Fulton, Meet in Ring the Bat-) tle Will Make History. Carr Is York RED FULTON Pree Pobligving Co. brening World) js an unusual fighting type. He doesn't care much for publicity. He dovsn't @6 around to the newspaper offices efter a fight. He has no hankering) for the footlights. His chief interest! lies tn the kind of fighting he can do to a ring. He enjoys fighting. Per- | haps that’s partly because of the way Be does bis work. He doesn't have to take much punching. He keeps the ether fellow too busy on the receiv- fag end. He has made very little money aa a boxer, But there tsn't another heavyweight tn the world with better prospects. Pd champion ever has a “cinch” nm any Utle, The tighter working up to the championship is developing every day. He js full of ambition, winning a championship he int fighting aggressively—he's try- to hold what he already has, And ite a different proposition, Jess Willard did a wonderful lot work in his preparation for the fight with Jack Johnson. He t nearly a year developing box- ‘skill and endurance, | doubt that even stoar of losing his title can make Willard work so hard again and get into euch splendid condi ilo: however, they sa: Champion js living the outting out the liquor th indulge in mega age training daily | at the Chicago A. A. and taking off the fat of the circus season, if Willard and Fulton meet the ree sulting battle will be history making. Never before in the history of the have two such giants—such wift and skilful giants—met to fight @ Utle and @ fortune, One thing I don’t inind saying, In Pid opinion, Fred Fulton, as he is to- would have made far quicker | Soi Ot onnaon than, Willatd did, Fratton has the one thing that always handicapped Willard in the ring. He fg a natural fighter, He is chuck full of ting spirit, fighting confidence and the desire to go right to work pe pole his job before the whistle Willard has the fighting ability, but he te a great, big, smiling, good- matured fellow, who is perfectly sat- fafied to take his time. He doesn't eare whether he wins decisively or not, as long as he holds a jead at the Qnish. Willard’s victory over John gon was a mathematical proposition, WITH GOTH UANDS Johnson had a certal tof n skill, strength and endur: wil By William Abbott. | had much greater strength and endurance, He had sufficient ski go along without | ous openings, an: land a heavy right or a swift jab. All he needed was patience to walt until Johnson's endurance gave out, and then hitting power to finish the black champion, He played a perfectly sate game. Fulton fighting Johnson would be a different matter, Fulton would) have gone right in to beat the black man down. Johnson's early strength | # | speed anc eav itting minh have enabled him to put over a wip. [from buing the Lest middieweigtt im punch. But after seeing Fulton|AMericu, MeCoy bas some claim on fiabt and work a few times I'm in-| the because years ayy he kavckea clined to think that in Willard’s place |@4t George Chip la a round, he would have given Johnson a ter- |. ! pretuwe chat tf Darcy Kooks Mo- Dlinois farmer, is making the old athletic record almanac look like @ joke book. It ls @ habit now for this Nleet-footed young man to smash a long-standing mark every time he starts, Tay increased his string of notable fewis at the N. Y. A. C. games J KAY, a twenty-two-year-old Coy out he'll bave 4 technical claim Upon the champidnsuip. Altoouga far : ; out ‘he'll be very uppish la bie Fide Deating and knocked bim oUt | Geiings with Mike-a mere “conten: for the title. But if Darcy wishes to prove to the American public that he is @ real fguter and a res! middle- welght championship posaibility, be'li have to go through Mike Gibbons be- fore any one will take his pretensions seriously. IKE GTRRONS its on the trall of Les Darcy, and Les refuses to talk fight with bim. Mike, Tom and their manager mer , Darcy in Chicago and proposed to sign an agreement for a match within | WERE ha hy a dob ce tae wo months, Darcy suggested that about Fulton's left hand. they talk about it later, In New York has @ great left, but So Mike tried to induce Darey to ag to meet bim. Darcy said that wanted to fight Gibbons eventually, but not now. He was quite busy | enough now, thank you, and, any- way, would have to consult Mr. Grant | Hugh Browne, It was quite 1 to talk business with M at present—on, absolutely Seas brought an offer of « $60,000 purse frum Minnesota, That could’ be Aiscussed later, Bo there the long talked of Gibbon Darcy match rests, Darcy ts going|lard and Fulton b to fight Al McCoy, If he knocks Mo- | simmons closely | is just about uy good, Another thing ~Fulton’s jeft isn't just a “long left,’ ag it's usual! described, It's a cork- ing short left. He uses both right and left bands at short range in al most exactly the way Hob Fitasimino used his famous hooks. And he can reut with either right or left hand. ut is one of the moat ef- ever seen, It was an old Johnson, Wil @ all copied Fitz. — Yes— they are the first ciga- rette that ever did it. ' « ‘Tomorrow you'll get the facts about | esterfield ee A ITI FULTON, HAS THE “LONG Lae” OF cOuRSE...- Ad OPPONSNT SEES FULTON HOTLY LIKE TUS ~ STANDING CLOSS ‘ AND DELIVERING A FUSLLADE OF HOOKS Joie Ray Establishes New 1wo-Mile Indoor Record At the N. Y. A. C. Meet Twenty-Two-Year-Oid Illinois Farmer Covers Distance in 9 Min- utes 11 2-5 Seconds, Which Not Only Wipes Out George Bonhag’s Mark, but Comes Within Two Seconds of Alfred Shrubb’s Outdoor Figures—Joe Loomis Shares Honors With Ray as He Captures Four Events. A 2 aS Ae ta ceta N hon casa a THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1917. Ae ae eee ete SO MOTE ANN A CR a AE BT Hi ‘ in the Garden last night when be broke the two-mile indoor record nade by George Bohag in 1910, Ray, with @ sensational finish, set a new mark of 9m. 11 2-5s, for the distance. This i» wititn two seconds of the world’s outdvor record held by Shrubb, It's w pity the old-timers who be- Neved the former records unbreak- able can't see the latest athletic mar vel in action, Ray ts a short, hueky youth—180 pounds of muacle, nerve, speed and confidence. Hefore his record-break- Ing tight against time Ray etrotled | around the walting runners telling how he'd clip Shrubb's mark. feeling great,” said the Chicago tad, | “and I'll be very much disappointed it! 4 new record for both in and outdoors | Is not made.” Jole was too anxious | to show apeed. It Is a rare feat for| iny athlete to create new marks when in that frame of mi Ray's race last night was the tea-| ture of the N.Y. A.C, card, A blg| field started with the Chicago speed- ster, and it was especially dimcult for Ray to go his fastest clip While| passing the runners Kay, with his machine-like stride, cut out @ furious clip for the first lap. His time was so fast that many of the spectators quickly pulled out their watches to cateh the flying West- erner on his laps, Jole, a little tired after his opening burst speed, slowed down somewhat he was clocked in 4.85, This meant] he'd bave to cut loose tn the remuin- ing distance. The Chicago youth be- Ban to lengthen bis stride in the re-| maining laps. He was frequently compelled to turn out of his path be cause the other contestants refused to give Lim the right of way. Ray ua but twenty-five seconds to com- the final round, At the finish the little fellow socmed aly & fash 18 he darted around the tr Hat covered the lup in 2% seconds, « finish that scored his new record’ of W115, It was only last month at the Mul. rose games in the Garden that Ray reated a new world’s mark of 6 min et 43 sevondy for the one mile and if, Last summer he begun bis ‘ord breaking with the winning of the national five-miie championship. Ray was a printer for a few months in a Chicago newspaper office, b didn’t ike indoor work and 6 of parents’ farin at Ku —— @ he trains with the hor Angie Rater, (he Urour middleweight woo bas y to Ray in 2] nee eboring up in five form to bis beute to Cs meet |ube Inst tow mentue, bas bern secumt to mes! Ol oy st 10 | thigh Row, the Bridgeport middleweigat, in « ve n woo all | (ieen-round coutest at the Wet Bad a. C, of Toomta ty one of the busiest performe | yidgeport oD wight of Fev, ub ers who ever faced the starter, Joo | ou? foesn't think i worth while to com. Sing Conleete and to oy pele unless he's entered in at je, 1 on Meslng wr ante home fi in the 50, 69 and 7 yara|' dashes soomis raced the 70 yards 4 cousiat of t to 7 1-5 seconds, @ performance that | Goremor at an‘ eunusl edlery of $2,600 each equalled the worl {me for the {ire pill would perm mmission to license distance, Loomis, to his ver. {ine aptured this eve ng of the tw and Ly: arkable that the her events # With the exceptic Ray ars, ordinary, of Ray's two-mile | | ett jJured hand will be good and strong by At the mile|) S SHORT LEFT | > A PUNISHER © ‘Ths MIAUT HOOKS ONE F Hib HARDEST BLOWS. own, no more ganes will be played and inate barrivg of their stars. ley of protests last niglit a! Uheir team and the Crese so angered that he asked permission Irish took the game by default. eligible as an aimateur. pluyed two games in Pittsburgh applied to tion Promoter Grant Hugh Browne has di elded to use Henny Leonard, the clever local lightweight, in the main Bout to} be stayed in Madison Square Garden on | the night of March 12 0r 17, Billy Gio- gon, who looks after Benny's aztairs, an- | nounced to-day that he had agreed to} the terms offered him by Browne, and| that Bonay would e meet Charley | White of Chicago or Champton Breddy w n the etar bout of ten rounds on F one of these dates, Leonard's in- that time and Gibson expects him to win whether hia opponent i# White or Welsh. Ao effort is being ma bout between Jim to arrange @ ten-round y, the Dubiia giant, aod ut, to be decided at the to be beld by the Clermont non Wasbiugton's Birthday, avec to let Coffey box at that od it f eayerted Uiet his opponent will be secured witiln the west tory Johasy "Ue former bantamweight asp ion, been presented with @ dia muad aud 1 by the members ef bout with bis gaerring partmer at the club ont tof Jan, 19 last, ‘The gift was mug: feoted by Henry Otuman acd Matt Halpin, Chairman of thy New York A. , Athletic Com and the members unasimousiy tuted to Give Jobaay tho preset Frankie Bronu, the local bantam Jobaay Ertle hae refumd to lox aud who bas fougat Pete Hermann, the vow baptamveight champion, twice, way matched today to moet Terry Martin, the Providence beatam, for fifteso rounds en Ved, 17, veld at tho byorting Tom Cow Jend Joe Bonde, activive of lace at op Veo. the Walace Sporung Club on Mach o, wud A, ©, of Sobenectady, Comlor also meets Bob Dever at apd wrestuing win Nieense foe, ovide wat TM per cent, vm sud eRhivite enould go | Mavohmace | Joe Muavers, dim Cromicy Matched Yoaug| the mest ude lightweignt, 19 meet k, no other cords were estab. ned. Dummy Burne in th bportigg Club nest Monday nigat, star bout et the Yorkville ‘The som | ttugo Clements Viken we Leas Back AND BLOCKS HG LONG ARMS n | Algie Rather, the welterwelett of the outpointed Roddy McDonold in /ten rounds of boxing at the Broadway |Sporting Club in Brooklyn lest night. |The bout between Jimmy O'Hage Albany and Frank Carbone was call ‘ Bronx, off, Carbone reported at club one. Goutor refused to Niet bim box ALBAN Feb. Yoakum, the envi r lightweight, be fon . ten-round re. last_ni Britt Kastly Beate Loadman, 14. thelr twelve-round poxer, in hi A. A. last night. Armory = So Much Fighting Among Clubs That Amateur Hockey League Is Likely to Disband. The amateur Hockey League clubs are having a little war of their So much bitter feeling has been aroused that the chances are that The trouble started with what the Irish-American A. C. claims unjust and discrim- The Winged Fistites retaliated witn a vol- the game scheduled at the rink between which would have broken the tie for the league leadership, The Irish protested four Crescent players. Hallock, president of the league and manager of the Crescenta, |r it e the league disbanded. to withdraw from the league. The hockey fight culminated last night when the Governing Commit- tee refused to allow Wellington of the Irish-American team to compete on the ground that last yoar he had played with the Pittsburgh team, and that no player who played with or against the Pittsburgh team was This action was taken despite the fact that last week the Boston Arena team, a member of the Amateur Hockey League, inst the same Pittsburgh team. The Irieh-American Club felt that the same stringent rules that havo been # players should be applied to all clubs im the league. The Irish-Americans protested McCarthy, Roach, Mitchell of the Crescent team on the ground that they receive money for playing: it protested the Boston Arena team for playing an exhibi- me in Pittsburgh aguinst the Pittsburgh team, and it protested the entire St. Nicholas and Hockey Club teams on the ground that these teams had competed under assumed names, these players being Cough- trey of the Hockey Club, who played under the name of Frederics, and O'Keefe of the same club who played under the name of George. \CFistic News som Por and Gossip ) Smith alm for teu roun Allie Nack, the Harlem lightweight, the Jacksoa-Walce bout, has been laid up witd a uad band f three months, but (s reported to be in for bis bout with Kelly able player to hit the ceiling in handbal played by ex Beach Club, The ceiling is the sky back wall is of the same m It seems that a torrid tem) three above zero {st, so he invented snowbind handb 14.—Stanley George Des Jardins and bas been | Matebed to meet Eddie Kelly at the Harlem | | Sporting Club Friday night in the eeml-final to| as it is nd his confreres on the roof of the New York Athletic end the thus Insuring more ventilation than comfa makes, New York's streets too stuffy for the famous novel- HIS RIGHT (S READY TO UPPERCUT WHEN HE FENDS OFF A SWING, HE USESA Six INCH OPPERCUT. sick peat By Bozeman Bulger. HIS lead of the National League in declating war op David Fultz and the Baseball Players’ Fra created quite a in big league circles last ut when it was announced, but we 1 at a loss to qnderstand the sensation ni are reason Goy. Tener and other National League club owners an nounced that such was to be their course more than a month ago. It may be that many of the more ex- perienced fol'swers of the pastime did not believe they bad the nerve. The surprising feature to the wind- up of the afternvon session, though, was the unexpected activity of John MeUraw In trying to have @ taik With wultz, looking toward @ peaceful ad- jJusiment of the differences. Me- Graw admits that he thought It @ good time to get things in shape, but while he was gone for a talk | With the President of the Fraternity |the National League repudiated the | Players’ organization for once and for all, And McGraw has a just hick | coming. There was considerable effect that Ban Johnson, fearing a |backdown by the National League. jhad telephoned from Chicago saying ) that if the Fraternity was recognized the American League would sever re- lations and renew the war of ten years ago, This rumor credited by old buseball men and it was flatly dented by magnates who attended the niceting. persisted, nevertneiess, So much attention was given to |the strike, supposed to be dead and |burted, that Mr. Tener's magnates talk to the {final wil) bring together Terry Miller and Hayy! did nothing in the way of shavug jthe players’ limit down jmen as had been expected, be done to-day. In the meantime another rensation has broken loose in the assertion of | many star players, such as Sherwood | Magee and Dick Rudolph, that they } lare ready to swear off from Fulus and are quite willing to name another man to represent the Fraternity, This declaration was made to Garry Here mann, Chairman of the tional Commission, n our opinion Fultz is merely try- Ing to earn the salary that he gets at $18 apiece from the players,” they said, “and we are done. You just suggest a good man, Garry, and w elect him! ‘The fact that the National 1 hay severed relations with the ternity would Indieate that they in BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK FRED FULTON ISN’T A “‘ONE-ARMED FIGHTER; ”” HE USES LEFT AND RIGHT EQUALLY WELL Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing 4 (The New York Evening World.) American League’s Threat | Forces Nationals to Sever | Relations With Fraternity| Star Players Such as Sherwood Magee and Dick Rudolph Tell Garry Herrmann, Chairman of the National League Commis- sion, That Their Organization Is Ready to Oust Dave Fultz and Elect Another Man to Represent Them. was not! gossip | \ to eighteen | That may | tend to lessen the number of players | the roof, Paine first "wournainent on each club. In other words, they eo yesterday when ‘Binghams Ciym|feel able to do without the men who freee met the Athletic Club outfit, Bing. are holding o' on tholr contracts | m's was represented by “Itip" and, under orders from the I'raternity, “Bugs” Baer, while Rodert Warwick, pS Fim Hanley, | hpehen 800, Rex Over the grapevine that extended debate, Jt was ah t contest tn eve: from the s meeting to the cate detail except the atmosphere, Baer downstalr: e came & sizzling re Ripley winning 21-—19 and 21—20, port late y afternoon to the admirers of Robert Warwick ‘would| effect that the Philadelphia National have had @ tough tme recognizing him ‘lub ts up in arms against as he galloped around the roof with 8 Weeghman of the Cubs and telclen on his The next contest varrel ta anid to he ached a takes place Si afternoon when nae ome Ripley and Baer meet Rex Beach and, stage of Intense bitt Soin Hanley, Visitors will please check | ime ago, it will be reme red, the their squirrels at the door, ‘Phillie owner declared that he eould W 71TH its famous percentage of sunshine, service, Atlantic City is resort within three hours ry 21--Leave ‘ar through A MMU MO BR MERY e The Steet Car Route sonly) Atlantic City passed hotels, spacious sun parlor Extra Service account Washington’s Birthday 5 to Atlantic City leave Penp Boardwalk, bracing air, unsur- unusual and its quick, convenient train the one greal Winter and Spring of New York City. 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Toe Fos Sicoardi 100, mt et Toelle p Ward, Macd 110, Mont Office Momes Peer! jar Hard work brings succe work and no play makes Jack a dull a boy.’? In other words, life is to be enjoyed as well as worked for—enjoyed moder- ately, And the successful man who en-= . joys life most, when he drinks, alwaye 4 calis for that drink of moderation— that wonderfully mild and mellow Whiskey — Wilson — Real Wilson— That’s All! A Tne Whiskey for which we invented the NON-REFILLABLE Bote JB RECIPES, Fre booklet of famous tb rips Adsieas Wilson. Ave. tT ate All Read theStory or ' WILLIAM ELLIOTT Oopn RABID RUDOLPH- SNe- B ETWELN th and Tris Speaker all the liners will be caughit. Flattened fight- ers counted electrical counting m does the work to Lait Loy Ume, No | Garden durin, wasn’ YEA bo, Just | 20 reason why we can't have The thermometer ain't any lower . than the baseball strike. When all he lot of It ina hie ankle. somebody in to LiL’ Tureatenet trouble with crimp to suorte, The New Cricane hae testoued their Loe boat regatts ot Mexico, ’ ‘Times have changed since the tolse beat the bare. | now they would get the gate from the | State td the betting public would let out @ terrii Even when we were lamping the | Second Reader we figured that that race was a frame-up. PUTTING 'EM OVER ” Baer Yak elaine Wataine yt, 1917 be New e U boats are out now by emoking w even a match there. because smoking ts barred te» fat head starts squawkiag ~~ succeeds in doing ts paging @ squirrel docan't make anu difference floht if a Wohtweight hurte ‘ The manager can put for him, i PEPPER. Durace If they tried that Athletic Commissjon. 4 the hare tried to lay down now ble bellow. of the strike. ANSWERS TO QUEERIES. 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Ne’ out that it is dangerous to try hes s# there is blood still in the eye| throw a moth on the American B | oo * ’ Gets us sore if anybody tosses @ Evening World’s moth on our parade, Headpin Tourney} since ino war startea there bas ee vip a big rush of Kelly poo! players ee SCORES. ,|__Before going to extremes, President ' noe, bs; OF : hag Hee: 8 Wilson is waiting for detailed reports sinking of the baseball player's It could be a whole bot You ought to be glad U boats © ‘Thr moth on him. } Lee 46th Fee tend From the Ploy Now Playing at the BO APE IOL AS METRE GRE TEE: THE