The evening world. Newspaper, March 22, 1917, Page 12

12 D¢u| BEST Jersey May Be Mecca of Boxers if Law Is Killed in New York State. ‘Copyright. 1817, by ‘The Pree Publishing Oo. (The New York Evening World.) HILE New York's boxing ts striving for its very existence | on the floor of the Legislature | fn Albany, the sport's patrons are| looking more or jess hopefully to- | ward Jersey's capital, where @ bill | legalizing six-round contests is being considered. This measure, introduced | by Assemblyman Hurley, was amend- | ed in the Trenton Senate yesterday after having passed the lower house. The amendment eliminated the clause providing for a salaried commi to govern the sport. It seems the Senators aren't satixfied that box- ing In the State would pay for itself | and there is no desire to expend any | of the 5| funds on it, If the amended bill passes, boxing will be governed by a non-salaried commis- sion for a limited period, after which the comin a may expect pay for its services, providing, of course, the State tax on bouts proves that the ame can be made self-supporting Boxing mes s have passed the Jersey lower house before, only to run against a snag in the Senate, The Hurley bill amended, however, is said tu stand a good chance of passing | this time, rts of the high schools of Greater New York, showing additional evidence of the popularity of the net game. A schedule of games has already been adopted which has met with the approval of the Public Schools Athletic League. Eighfen teams will meet in a cham- jonshfp tournament during the com- ing season, The tourney will be divided into two divisions, singles and doubles, and titles will be awarded in each section OME time ago we had occasion to visit a Harlem gymnasium to see some boxers Ko through their training paces and were treated to tof an unexpected knockout. Marty Cross was boxing a minute or #o with another youngster, when crash! the other lac NIS has been added to the diately the © fully. Marty had a knockout wailop! Now listen to tais from Sam Wallach, the Cross family’s box-fight wan. ager: A couple of days ago Ted Lewis met Leach und asked him to come up to the gym to work out a little with him. h pled and they put on the trainer holding the watch, Lewis starts right out with everything he has, and catches Leach with a hard right clip to the jaw, Leach soun saw Whal he Was up against, but was too Kame to pull off the gloves. In the second round Lewis continued the tactics, but Leach seemed able to hold up, de- spite the fact that the timekeepr was forgetful minded as to the time. In tho third, after the round had already gone « good de. the agreed t Leach with hard right hander on the jaw. Leach got up, but was badly dazed, and the thing was stopped. Lewis certainly knew full well that Leach was in no kind of shape and certainly gouldn’t be expected to be able to PU Up aby Kind of a Nent against A so much bigger ivan, in his prime and in constant training. But here's what proves the con- temptible intentions in Lewis's and hix manhe and nanship: When they got to dressing " os tleally asks I Lewis's ach if he'll t ’ y afternoon, And fds: “I suppose I lose a eh with Marty now.” nembering very distinctly Mart ster mentioned a faction expres 6, and the satis does the walloping. occur at the! s ~ CCIDENTS w P Most unexpected times, Sup. |p ) pose Packey Hommey should |rounds, Leonard's bout with Hom. | sire to pitch, He did so In a practl a K. O. on Renny Leonard's chin | mey is vegarded by Gibson. to-night | game and got away with ft, At tho hang o PYRA ta Free t nt the Bet at You Are Looking n't talk operation. If you can't wait for a free trial of mid Pile Treatment get a 5 @rug store ana get relief Mot near a store send coup: go in plain wri » bleed FREE SAMPLE COUPON PYRAMID DRUG COMPANY, 647 Pyramid Muiiding, Marshail, Mich, ndly send me a ‘ee sample of Pyramid Pile ‘Treatment, tn plain wrapper, Name ....+-.5 Street .. THE EVENING WOKLD, sHUKSDAY, MARCH 22, 1917, SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK PUTTING "EM OVER HOME RUN “TODAY ! = ao aS THERE ! “THAT'S THE EIGHTEENTH "VE POLED OUT (mM debunks ea Vs amu 'M SO FAST ON THE PATHS THE FANS wit ONLY SEE A CLOUD OF DUST WHEN 1 RUNS T PLAYERS THE FANS SELDOM SEE_ .- Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York ee THIS MAKES NINE BAGS "VE PURLOINED IN THIS GAME! ) THE FANS WILL GO wiLD tile NER ME aes vening World). MY EYES SHUT, WHAT \AT THE POLO GROUNDS? "M GOING UP NORTH NOW IF 1 CAN MAKE THESE WONDERFUL GRABS WITH WONT LDO IN A GAME. 1 CouLD SEE THE GAME MUCH BETTER \F 1 HAD A SEAT eM lee ‘ AUGUST a ttt oullar and the hat Lida Johnny Overton should have pretty With “‘kugs’’ Baer By VIC) —xnunaaneei (2A CUUDUBY WP | ¥ OU have ite sumnia bad wien you can't sleep at your desk. Banning sport on Sunday is no reason why you shouldn't be lowed to play golf on that day. Only trouble with managing the Reds {s that there are seven other managers in the league who can de the same thing. jm that military Grille came muscle bot used in playing bene Muscles are probably situated betweem the pictures pasted on his back so the other boys in the race could have some fun, Yea bo. Only way to beat a modern fighter is to ~~ -y @ feather in the ring. Tickle his shell and when his head Pops out bang Shame toe Jim Flynn still in the ring, but he should have saved his money when he was young. Many a baseball game has been lost by a run. 80 has many @ fight, YOU SAID IT. If Les Darcy can drop fighters the way he can drop managors, he’s a ‘ corker. Increasing the umpire’s salaries 4 won't improve their jobs any aé Harry Wolters, Old Yank, Latest Sensation Among Baseball’s*‘Come-Backs”’ © went Marty's right on 's chin and down he went F ‘4, { stole more than fifty bases, He was for the count and then some, Imme-| With Cubs —Joe Wood With] drartea by the Cubs and it looks us nily, all of whom Were on hand, gathered round Joy- | Wolters, After leaving the Yanks| thinks he knockout of an inexperienced young. 1 thereat, we can't help remarking that, tothe Cross family at least, it depends on who — Outfielder With Stallings Back Harry eventually got his leg mended and started in again—started at the in 1910 Is Making Good Again bottom, He was the sensation of the Coast League, and to prove his speed Cleveland, Hack Spencer With) wonder," Ke" 9? & pada . " iM Wolt h had ried Tigers and Matty With Reds] career in pasobail, ‘Some eleven years , | ago he Joined the Cardinals as a left- Also Threaten to Do Biy|nandea’ pitcher, He was sent back ; x to the minors and came up next with! Things Again. the Boston Red Sox. There he was la southpaw again, but his life was |intserable, He could not get going. | Stallings bought him for the Yanks, By Bozeman Bulger. |Intending to use him as @ substitute ate inflelder, But Wolters showed ITH at least four veterane—| chor streak and was one of the b boys who have walked the hot/ hitting outfielders in the business. sands of combat—on the Job] The case of Spencer tx almost as bromises to be the year|remarkable as that of Wolters, For En ae oes ye aN the yearl Tyo yours ncer, at one time a star eel meine cu red, His own peo- Look at Harry Wolters,! pie could not find him, He had hit} Cubs; Joe Wood, Cleveland; Hack|the downward trail and eventually Spencer, Tigers; Mathewson, Reds, | was picked up on the streets of Bal- like to have had|timore, a hobo, He was sent to the How would you like to have had! xt woods to atraighten up, and that quartet on one club ten years) aid go, Once free of the drink craze, ago? Spencer started to make good again, Of all this historic quartet the end pare he bd bac Lg yng ne moat spectacular is Harry Wolters,| best catcher (hal is It ts likely that New York fans have|° "You would probably remember him forgotten that he ever lived and] better by the name of “Pub” Spencer, Z| an but he has requested al his friends, fought in the livery of the Yanks in iow of the tot that he is on the Yes, stree, that bint you observe cut-| mtrateht road again, to drop that nick- ting up didves for the Cubs out in} name and call him “FH. Spencer Pasadena is none other than the Har-|{s of a wealthy family, but prefers Fy Wolters who formerly played tho|t0 make hin own lving . Re ts from the Cleveland camp outfield for the Yanks—way back !ingjeate that Joe Wood t* in as food yonder in 1910 and who broke his) shape as he ever was, The year out leg and had to retire of baseball, when he was suffering Boouts last year noticed a remarka-| from a bad arm, appears to have done ble pl yn aw club out in Californial Joe a lot of good. If he can pitch and discovered him to be our old] anything like as good as Tris Speaker Wood will come pretty near leading those Tndlangs to @ pennant, ‘Three years ago Wood was regarded one of the best pitchers ne had ever known atty trying to do fg Hix discovered the the hitch in his to-night at the Fairmont A, C., all the championship hopes of Benny and Hilly Gibson would go up in smoke | Stranger things have happened tn the | ring. Willie Jackson Was a 10 to 1] ot over in Philadelphia when he | sh day nider and neck no longer othe Johnny Dundee away in two) hin nd !mmedtately expressed a d a4 just & Workout for Benny's coming | | jelash with Freddy W ‘ hard to wet tn sha " t he will be able to piteh quite a number of games for the Reds. rily, 1917 Is the comeback year, a — Whitewashed by Team of | Misfits HOT SPRINGS, Ark, March 2%. Five pitchers and some bush league 4 two of last season's sub- |stitute infielders whitewashed the Brooklyn Robing in an eight-inning gaine, 4 to 0. Wilbert Kobinson ordered the game 7,| to drill those new additions, Fabrique, 7, | Hick d Snyder in the signal Jeyotem. Walter (Duster) Malls and My Broke Culon college boy, as utility inflelder, Irish Patsy Cline, the clever Harlem who boxes Phil Bloom of | ###ld at the in the feature bout at the Fairmont A. C. on Saturday night, to-| The Wlerourin Sta day was signed up for another impor- He will box Leo Johnson, | le* Darcy to fight in Mil the crack colored Mghtweight, for the second time, Club on March 30, Harlem Sporting is opponent in this Brooklyn, who gare — Joe Steers, who haa not boxad for the past few ‘The bout will be for] weeks owing to an injured hand, train to-day, as hia manager, Phil Bernstein, bas | next Monday night, | matched him up for several bouts tuted for Willie Jackson, | box Young Fulton Sagomout with Frankle the Fairmout A, C.'s special abow to-night winner bas been promised @ match with Ch. wt brings together Benny Leonard and Packey Hommey Tel Kid Lewls, » tm less than ove round the Kron Mat Monday engage in two more battler Next Monday night he will hook uy of Milwaukee for fifteen rounds at the eensational little bantam | move ‘Brooklyn Club — \: to open a week at Lou Wende!}, manager of Yo Retive § KM M a Pitching hon \ eater dd, WW ) ors for the “irregulars.” The former al 44 eau voy {WN the four innings he was on the site and struck HIGH TEAM » Cheney, although te Hers, Buthe N. 3. D1 nly one man, allowed HIGH INDIVIDUAL M , 1 iar i FOB WINNERS John Kensler, tial, ( NJ who i a vnied, followed Lovie, trons iW oorge 4 ny and lined out Pitas ‘ 0 eee three on the bases, TO-NIGHT'S SCHEDULE Dick Giants’ Regulars Leave Marlin To-Morrow Night Marlin, Tex,, March 22. 'HE Giants’ Regulars meet the Houston Texas League Club to-day and to-morrow the Waco team comes for the fina) practice of the New York National League representatives here this season. The Giants leave here to-morrow night for San Antonio for games there Saturday and Sunday. They play in Waco Monday and Tuesday and then go to Dallas, where they remain until they begin the Northern trip with the Detroit Club, The personne! of the squad of regulars for the trip was given out In addition to the inflelds and outflelds, which were well known, Jim Thorpe will be carried as utility outfielder and Baird, the Louisiana Rariden and McCarty are the catchers. The following pitchers accompany the squad: Tesreau, Perritt, Ander- son, Benton, Schupp, Sallee, Middleton and Smith. jo ill mont that city, devided to deer all an Investigation of the y'Sull je, haw ailor Volk, at the Pa Joe Burman le on elas for hie ten-round en.| ™idie McDaniel. the boxing promoter of of Staten Inland at | Tolslo, O., haw wired Hary Pollok an offer of « » | $20,000 vane for Freddie Welat | Kilbane, MeDaniels mom that be hae Kilbano's ywent and that tn the event of Welsh refusing Renny Leonard detent Mantatian A, ©,, tha hie will make Lenoanl a proyosition to meet Kilbane, Welsh will not give a decisive anewer t with Leonard he mateh, and ol Wela on the a8th ~ uml after L scheduled to 0 rounds { Maclem, tne venting ) Witte b Dovie chasm ou 1 the mountains | place ageiust Lary Hansen at North N.Y. His Man aug at the Dioueer - Jack Dillon bas wird the New Orleans pro: Bronx middle: | round bout wit Bam McVey, the co! day. nigh ner, and Ref of that sity to be the called on to render the verdict, lticial referee of boxing boule (o be staged there, decided in favor of Gleason, -_———— to-day of @ new world’s record for the mile but for a weakness of being Jeasily surprised, The little Chicago) optionally sl flyer, while happy at beating Johnny Overton in their special race last night in the games of the Wana- maker Commercial Institute at the Garden, feels peeved because he al- lowed his most formidable rival to catch him napping at the start. Ray | the fully intended flashing to the lead and being chased so furiously by Overton that he'd have to break the) world’s mark of 4.16 to win. It 18| up Ray's habit to set pace, while it ts usually Overton's custom to lag be- hind in the early laps. As a surprise Overton reversed this | order in the special duel that was| to decide the season's supremacy for the mile, The tall Yale star, having the pole position, jumped to the lead at the crack of the starting pistol, trick that so amazed Kay that he didn't catch his real stride for two| Boxing Commimion has jon on the petitions tor | himeelf sends written and aworn affidavit of the farts, Meanwhile the action of Gor, will have no effect on the Wisconsin action, “T'N Knock out one of your local favorites when { meet Jimmy Duffy at the Hariem Sporting Club Champion Johnny Kilbane, who bolda the title | tomorrow night.” in the featherweight division declared Jow Rive but who te also |!n lightweight, to-day. “I'm. ev willing to take on any of the top-notch light. |Dettor then when I met Leach Cros hore, and as weights that will make 133 pounds ringsid f just been booked up by hie manager, Jimmy Dunn, for another contest, g will be Kddie Wallace Jobnny a terrific battle in Canada several months , Fewulting in a draw, twelve rounds and will be alaged at the Clore D, of Bridgaport, Conn, Kilbane bas been who was to have fought W who come boring in fon his chin that wil W at the Harlem 3, 0. A. ©, Agel 1, and | Hobby Lyons at the Falmoat A, ©, April 7, records would be er the finish, wouldn't forgive himself for start, for he figured his loafing cost lim a new mark | Both Ray and Overton plain! showed signs of their strenuous rac- ing. Overton, especially, didn’t seem at race last Saturday night in ladelphia wh ord of 4.16 fort me Jovan Kirk, manager of the New Polo A, A anged his card for to-morrow suing ten Jerry Murphy, foatherwelght bouors, will | arte, For th | Mronx will try conclusions | mendous final spurt and the little) Jwinny Clinton wl take Young Joo Dany in April Every Revolution joved heavy BEECHER’S BROTHER A PROMISING AMATEUR, r of Wille, pounds: All of the bouts were keenly ¢ So even did Robert Gleason minican Lyceum and Andy O'Boyle of the Bronxdale A.C.” fight » Unable to agre Outgeneraled at Start, | Ray Wins From Overton, \i0 cin sick" But Gets No New Mark + Chicago Flyer Given Surprise in Great Race in Garden as Yale Man Gets the Jump on Him and It Takes Him} gnc Two Laps to Get in His Stride, Which Is Too Late for] @"mthing thew can't lift If paid on their ability there would be a lot of pewterweights in the ring. Record-Breaking. By William Abbott. runner of the season, would | from the disappointment of not hav- undoubtedly be the possessor! }"& and Leslie tr Overton set such a slow pace, that it was rly seen no new) ated, Ray, after being more on the job at the be entirely recovered from his ade uw new ale . ga met every t toward the end his feer heavy with weariness and to respond to Ray's tre- of the Wheels brings your car nearer the scrap heap unless you have found the one way that wil offset friction. pixo N's GRAPHITE Automobile LUBRICANTS our transmissions and differen. nean more power to your car. chock depreciation caused by the deadly work of metal-to-metal contact. There's a Dixon lubricant for every part of your car, Ask your dealer forthe Dixon Lubricating JOSEPH DIXON CRUCIBLE CO, Jersey City, N. J. Established 1827 Golden spurs hurt the old mules Just as much as iron ones. 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