The evening world. Newspaper, April 23, 1917, Page 12

| med | Au! This 1s The cre! HUSTLE ALONG, Feuers! If Jim Coffey Can Stand Up Against the Rejuvenated Carl Morris To-Night He Wil De- serve New Consideration. Omri, Rew Vor resting Worlds IM COFFEY and Car! Morris box | J to-night at the Manhattan Casino, | It may be @ very good scrap. “They met years ago and put up a hard ght. If Jim Coffey can stand up against the rejuvenated Morris he will de- serve new consideration. In the Ful- ton fight Morris stepped into the ring $m the best physical condition he has | fever shown, The usual belt line fat | had al) disappeared and he looked tit | to fight for a world title, He looked real rival even for big Jess Willard, Qud the way he fought showed that he had learned something since his for-| mer appearance in New York, He went right into Fulton with McGovern ag- gressiveness, never stepped back or | stopped for breath, and beat the more | clever big man by forcing a pace he| couldn't carry. | Coffey, like Fulton, has shown a| THE EVENING WORLD, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK MONDAY, APRIL 283 THE BEGINNING AND END OF A PERFECT DAY Re Gows AT Terme WALLoP I @ot & FLAT WHEE Copyright, 1017, by The Press Publishing Co (The New York Hvening World). TT AAD « SWE Tings Bercna TLL Play AMG lamentable lack of ring enduranc A few cracks on the chin seem to! set him adrift. For two or three! rounds he is as dangerous as any heavyweight But eventually he blows up. He did it twice while gshting Moran. Each time he had ran nearly out, and each time he toppled when the red warrior threw over his “Mary Ann” in a desperate one thing tn Morris's favor.) Naval Reserve Officers Want| wobble about a bit when he's clouted| Organization Being Formed by on the chin, He fairly cats up pun- Evening World Quickly En- rolled in Their Service. ishment. In that he's like Moran, A battle between Moran and Morris would be a conflict between two im- movable bodies, bgt hag Mnghope beat Coffey, in spite | the motorman’s mor oxing. But i'm pot picking on, ‘spoitamen who want to be with mind you. 1 just think Morris ts the | the firat to serve Uncle Sam to real fighter of the two, Throw ‘em lenroll In the Sporting Legion now Both, into the ring with Punch of /being formed by ‘The Evening World, and Morris would come out at the | Te lists, which show responses trom end battered but still willing, - They |CVery, branch, of ‘sport, can only bx might carry James out. it has beon |p opens few days longer. done in hie case, and it hasn't been | qian ys eet cation and then ace Gone yor to our ald: ‘tetnaan’},been | questing prompt action, and they soon Hope Cart y ¢|will have thelr wish gratified, But more insistent, howover, aro the Naval Reserve officers, who want the legion quickly enrolled in thetr a vice, This branch of the navy Is very short of men, Ten thousand are needed for thé Third District, wirich extends from New London, Conn.,, to Barnegat Bay. Thoso who volunteer will be chiefly used on the dozens of fleet submarine chasers that are beiny put In commission to help the reg ular warships protect New York, Al- ready many patrol boats ure guard ing the coast from raiding underseas craft, and their number will be greatly Increased as soon as men are uvailabie Whatever fighting Uncie Sam may be compelled to do the navy undoubt- edly will be first to get In che first wallop. The fleet is our first line of defense and is respons bie for the safety of the coast. Sportsmen, who at all times are half trained to be soldiers, naturally want to be where the excitement is keenest. This has been the rule of the thou morning. sands of athletes who have con- Morris hus an advantage over Cof- | tributed no largely to the war's deeds fey. Ho fought through the Philip- |of pine war, getting into the army when he was only fifteen, because of his eat bulk, And after that he fired a ocomotive and later became an en- eer, Morris has be accustomed to hard fighting and hard work, What IME is getting short for patriotic iM COFFEY, trained in the right way from the start, might have Uecome another Peter Maher, Aud another Peter Maher could clean pa net fortune in these easy days— @ thing the real original Peter never did. Cut out the bowling alleys, the ate nights, the easy living, and send James out to chop down big trees for @ @ouple of years, working twelve or fourteen hours a day for day's wages, and earning his pay, and he might toughen up into a wonder, Billy Gib- eon tried that stunt with Coffey. He sent him out to the country to chop trees and climb hills, But just how many trees Coffey chopped I don't huow, 1 dare say he didn't crowd himself, and he slept in @ soft bed at At and didn't beat the sun up in rtainly if our sportsmen want ac- tion no better opportunity 1s offered than hunting U boats with the mos- quito fleet, Service with the Naval Reserve ts only for the duration of the war, and Sporting Legion Lists Can Only Be Kept Open | _A Few Days Longer duty around home waters. It is the wish of the Naval Reserve officers—and {t should also be the wish of every patriotic athlete—that the iegion will reach sufficient size to be @ convincing proof of the willing- ness of New York sportsmen to an swer their country's call, Members who have already enrolled could furnish great aid In the short time that remains 1f they would in- terest their friends in tho legion Tink how the number would shoot uy if every member could induce a fricnd to enroll. VP esident Wilson ts preparing to mol.jize hundreds of thousands of citizen” to the national service, Our sportsmen by enrolling in the legion would prove thelr readiness to do their bit before being called, ery sportsman who wants to thing for Old Glory consider tunities the legion the Sporting Legion fill out mpanying blank and Don't delay any longer, Join to-day, Plenty of notice will he given when the legion ts to be cailed LATEST NAMES ENROLLED those who enlist from New York are reasonably sure of performing their little he has to do in the ring is al- @ joke beside the stunts he pulled off before he took up boxing. ENNY LEONARD Is In @ position where Freddy Welsh can no jonger ignore his challenge for @ real championship fight, Welsh must meet Leonard or admit that he wants to save his title by refusing to, INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. OF THE CLUBS. PC.) Clube Wee PC. ‘857| Moatrea: 2 3 .400 800} Richmond 2 4 333 STANDING Cre HL Raldmore. Newark 1 i ie defend it. Probably Welsh will fall || Previeer, 2 2 .500| Toromte,, 2 4 .333 back upon the ancient trick of d Mocheser 3 4.429] Buffalo.. 1 3.250 manding an impossible purse for a RESULTS YESTERDAY. long fight with a referee's decision at- Newark, 10; Montreal, & tached. It seems the custom, tn these | Dudas. a; Proriicaes, 6 commercial days, to regand the “rivk- | ash ili wees dng” of « title as a foolish proceeding. | Baltimore, 16; Rochester, 10. “\ hat!” exclaima the champic “risk | GAMES TO-DAY, MY title: Well, give me enough Montreal mt Newark. on and own a couple # and I'll consider your Jescend to talk it over Uunaio at Providence, Toronto at Kichmond. money to retin of steam yac offer and ¢ with my manager Rochester at Baltimore, ANNOUNCEMENT Rumors circulated by unscrupulous dealers have led some of the public to believe that ! : ' there is a scarcity of D Ginger Ale in this country. This is entirely unfounded. Centinuous!y since the war began and at present there are ample stocks in the hands of E. & J. Burke, Ltd. Sole agente for CANTRELL & COCHRANE, Ltd. DUBLIN & BELFAST IN SPORTING LEGION. Kilbane to Retire From Ring After Bout Here With Welsh CLEVELAND, O., April 23.—When Featherweight Champion Johnny Kilbane meets Lightweight Champion Freddie Welsh in New York City May 1 the Cleveland champion may be making his last ring appearance. Johrmy will leave to-morrow or Wednesday for New York to tratn for his bout with Welsh He said to-day there is @ possibility that he may retire after his bout with Weish, Hix futher and his wife this week expressed their desire that he discontinue boxing, The death of Luke Ginley is respon- sible for their attitude, Ginley, another featherwoight of the stable of Jimmy Dunn, Kil- bane’s manager, died last Thursday night after his bout preliminary to the Kilbane-Brock bout. Kilbane and Ginley were pals and worked out together often, Mrs. Kilbane also wa ‘ose friend of Ginley. Ginley’s death led Mrs. Kilbane to ask the champion to retire, and in response to her pleadings he is considering the me may not fight another bout after I meet Welsh,’ to-day. “My father and my wife want me to retire now. I have plenty of money. Of course, I would like to get some more, but money is not all there is if one’s folks are worrying every time one goes into a bout.” eoid Kilbane sation by stopping Ritchie Mitche!, | Jim Coffey bout to-night Freddie Welsh, | | the world's lightweight champion, will meet Johnny Kilbane, the featherwelght | | title holder, on May 1. On May 6 the} club will stage a monster fistic carniva: | for the Red Cross, Freddie Welsh has agree! to fight Johnny Dundee and turn month, while Jack Hanlon, Olympia A, A, of PYiladelphia ta ready to him up for aix rounds with some good | weight, Gitwon says he will probably accept ( Philadelphia offer, Kid Beebe of thin etty, Fistic News jorn Potock and Gossi the crack matchmaker of the z Never USED To Get Winped Cumpine THis LiTTLS PUTTING ‘EM OVER With “Bugs” Baer RABID RUDOLPH- Save | se OME people 3 like to go 4 & ow to a chess match 5 a because It feels ze £0 good to come | away. ! >, How Clark Grif- | fith is going to) | win the pennant is | jalnost aw much of |@ puzzle as how to make apple sauce without apples. to cova the Toons intone ona toe bbe It is impossible to i how tall Freddy Welsh is, He never lets Mim- self out. Mike Kahos tells about @ rook who VOUT WARD Former Star of Giants and | Reds Haven’t Monopolized the as Fred Mitchell Steamed R Broke His Leg. LL the casualties are not in Europe. Look at my Reds Heinie Groh is playing with @ sore hand—so sore he can hurdly grip amely sticking in the first trench, Bill McKechnie has a broken hand and will be a net loss for some time. It looked like a good year for Bill, too, He had been working hard in the spring training and had gotten away to a strong start until disabled. Tom Griffith has a bad arm which it will probably take some warm weather to smooth out. When my infield began to look as if It had matched itself against the Hindenburg line, I started seeking any man who might occupy a job with any promise of satisfaction, Brooklyn asked for walvers on Gus Getz, and we grabbed him. This young fellow played in only forty games with the Dodgers last season, and he hit .219, put I belleve he has possibilities, Because another big league club passes up a player does not convince me he is no Many a star has been turned back only to come up gain and make good, Jimmy Archer vTonce discarded ‘by Detroit and Willle Keeler was turned down w even timore, I have instructed my scouts inhabiting the bushes a good, strong, rutinizing, even if he return! The Manhattan A. C. has taken tl up and dowr Oa ee ecg Sat 4 | place of Madison Square Garden for the| Milwackes lightweight, in soven reumds last hag been uP € ig a hlpegitc ; or ry taalatna on experi: | OHNE 60 Min fibcle events. ‘The olen | commen Mat. 5s Gan, OY cvoe ve. | hae, hed MG ee DARBY recelred mas: » for Leon cn at no one else coul . ence handling automobiles or motor | Intends to promote only the igor We | moter Andrews of Milwaukee Is anxious to have - boats, | tractions, Fotlowing tho Carl Morris | peuny meet Johony Dundee for ten rounde next | The Reds have not monopolized the far. Fred Mitchell steamed r into a mess of It when fer broke his leg--not to mention the uncertain and weakened condition of Larry Doyle's underpinning, Vic Suler hag had tough luck fn He should be to-day one et first basemen playing tt hard luck vis end over to the fund, Dundee has |Petion, om howe rane at the koe! \mrnaarts ware, bit he made a serious mis- Previously enrolled, 631. been clamoring for a match with Welsh | !Tm0ly tee int earns Med bet $1,000 | take. ost players injure their i WHS, No, i72 Fifty-eights St. | and the champion saya here is Dundee's | ‘5 500 in New York that Leonard would get te | physical pe, it Is by not taking JAMES, No, 4% Nowrand Ar, chance to show hia patriotism and box | newspaper verdict, and busted out to Milwaukee |care of themselves and running ‘ for the fund, where he received odda at 10 to 7 on Leonard. |around—bad actors they are called in OK Ne. YE See Wee 8. — One of his beta out there was $500 to $1,500 Iie League lingo, and they are few et Allie Nack, Harlem's popular lightweight, bas | Leonard would score a knockout Altogether fn the game to-day, VALDEI J. No, 99 Bay View At. | teem signed for thre bouts to take Reeve won about $7,500 on Leovant’s victory Saler has always lived quietly and RY NS NG at83 Los Ay, | the next two Werke boxes Young Maxwell pest taken excellent care of himself, but PEROTA, DOMINICK nie ve Vanderbilt & night, On Saturday] ‘The Broadway 8, ©, of Brooklyn w he was a constant reader In bad lights pune SOHN J. Ne. 488 Lincele At at Ue Clermont C.. to will ave Leo | star toute to-morrow night, In the until he strained his eyes and this af- abi ta | nd May 2, at the Fair. | Johnny Dunde fected his batting. He took good care THENIN' WILLIAM, No 110 Caner s+ wmpete ageinst Joe Bteons. of his lamps all winter and expected TANRAHEK, JOUN No, 828 Wee Pity amy eiied for to come up to his capabilities this fourth Bt the | fine shape and he ex: w or he Is an earnest worker. — — | te busy trom pow un, yaa woked Hil Lirecnan and Joe has cracked a bone and will | ABSTON. 5.90 sean (awe at Mis gext boxing show for this niay night, | probably be out of the game most of Young Sold aud Lal the other erent will micet im the season. During the Federal League war when Murphy was still the owner of vers wag their we 0 eavyweight, and| the Cubs and John at the Sporting the prices off his pay-roll and ach Ly confid sooring 4 Saler as a victim, He di NATIONAL LEAGUE. AMERICAN LEAGUE, gern-tinal Radio Gorman of tin, Evers it Clube, Wee BC, | Club, We LPC, || Gabe We PO, | Clabes WL. BO. a foheny Dutty wil) omen ohn told 5 a .. 62 .160 | Cincla't, 66 500 ||Chleage.. 8 2 800 | St.Louis. 46 .400 an ctcnaee Pe cee > 727 +38 375) 2.750 | Wash... 86 375 : i e the trip to s 63 43 671 | Phils..., 86 .333 2 AAmother match between good bantammetsh 1 a big offer from the 565 bas 56 200 1 Domes. 87 000 El SM etmuned Moder te Carey ieeeetene red Evers, “and I had a RESULTS OF GAMES YESTERDAY. matchmaker of the Pioneer 8, C, ‘The little fal. |SWell time trying to cut his salary. bt. Louis, 4; Piitaburgh, 1. | Chicago, 3; ot Louis, 2 lows who will take part in it are Frankie Burns | finally ar ed for a compromise Ciacinnall, 7; Chicago, 4. Cleveland, 4; Dewolt, 3. of Jereny City and Joe Lyneh, the promiaing weet | #aved for worphy 0 Ay, Op InIAy the side boxer, ‘They will clash in a best first baseman in the National GAMES TO-DAY. Cais sae We ugrue,” Manet Ben Sek, | New York ot Reston, boaked to meet Al Shulert of New Bi | “Then as soon as Johnny got back, Philadelphia at Washington, Mam, @¢ Bridgeport, Coun, next Monday eve. | Murphy fired him ning, an _— | ‘The Giants © dusting ne | Packey Hommey. the game little mst aide tight. (through the league Ike a first class | ——| weight, was not dimouraged by being stopped by fleet through the Mexican Benny Leonard recently. He intends going along their present # t LEGION’S BLANK I hereby enroll mysel New York Sporting for enlistment in t AGE ........ WEIGHT MARRIED.... NAME ADDRESS ..... Remarks: (Fill out above blank and mail to Sporting Legion Editor, Evening 63 Park Row.) | meeting all comers, a0 as fo eam another oh against the bard hitting Hebrew, Mommey w box Pete Hartley rack Daniaty lightwel ° oot A.C, Swtusday nig bil Rilly Fivaim junsio Lewis of Philadelphia, OF ENROLLMENT New York & Enrolled by T jporzing Legion, he Evening World: Joo Rivers, the Mexican lightwetgh!, and Johno Harvey, the popular Harlem lightweight | wound up their training for thelr tenound | at the Pionesr Sparting f as a member of the Legion, subject to call he service of Uncle Sam. HEIGHT . -SINGLE. After this bout Rivers will go to Boston to bo: | Johnny Dundee one week from to-morrow night who looms up a one © bo Irie Pater Cin | Benny Leonard's most formidable rivals, wil Torry McGovern, the rugged Quaker boxer rounds at the Olywpla A, A. ona og Yonkers ara to-morrow night. Rivers sage his rwent bout with Jimmy Duffy of | the west side put him on edge for this engagement of Philadelphia to- the thi Ived but ot! “Setting the pa e all the way fa a x - ‘ 1 up for ‘ r as they | d (| y woud nthe “ine wean: | LS To ay V ery, V ery Low \ 0 ee ire it Wits nD AEDS Bh ik ot | You will agree that this is true. You will wonder the pitching staff, In a way, the at it when you see the exhaustive array of materials to [team looks too lucky—Ike a fellow | select from. x} who finda lots of four-leaf clovers, | ; i |completely surrounded by poison 1vy; | There are fabrics bought from selected mills—serges, McGraw 1s probably worrying. | unfinished worsteds, plain and fancy cheviots. There | ROLLER SKATING night, om iy GRAND, CERURNT PALACE, Gor, Waltman dectares @at he ts etitt ammtident | KAT Ave, fh Aan! Bireet Bntrance, that (he Frawley Boring Law wil! Topeaiad be- ADMISSION, ENCLUD, SKATES, 2%e, : fore the preeent semion of the Leglalattire Is con chiled. He adda that he has no intention of °S BOWLING AND Sires tae Tacaeth ic too Rosine Comminion acs | DERE M'S RONG AD AMAR intimates that there will July 1, The appropriation for the salaries of th Commimioners expires at that time, and the Go ernor says he dors that the prone incumbenta would care to serve without pay ‘The eard arranged for the Harlem for next Friday brings together clever colored lightweight, and Su World, Pulitzer Building, Leo J Deegan, of Denver, and Augie Hatner aud Young uie| commiasion after | | SPORTING. ot | MANHATTAN A.C, 32) (38 Canis MORRIS a2, TO-NIOWT. kiym, Tel, 6966 Bush Fatwarie (lanwen, Ad. 600 rere Lahn. Adin TUE GUT, Pioneer Sporting © Jebany Harvey ve. doe livers. adm, BIG LEAGUE GOSSIP Christy Mathewson, a bat or hold a thrown bail, but he is/ twice before he was taken on by Bal-| to give every man with possibilities | » $25 For a Suit to Order used to tip the waiters ten cents each meal, but out It out whem he found out that it was costing him seventy cents extra « day. LIL’ PEPPER. ee ee ees ne four bits, First thing they know fans will take the food experts’ advice and raise their own baseball in their backyard garde Hard Luck So Far, Says Matty, ight Into a Mess of It When Saier YEA BO. ‘The guys whe are trring to Mil New York Dot ing ary just™as Lopuiar ae & brass band meee © tout atreaun, St. Looey !s managing to get along all right without Hans Wagner. [tough job—the strain is great,” Mo- Graw has declared often. He must think he carries a strong enough ball club to move away fast vinskey Gas 01 and far, bullding up | margin that |, Dot -evineky tas gone back’ a des will give some relaxation later along | APY Sees ORE Wey Sen in the year, It is true a ball battle | With Bat, won In April counts just as much in the standing of the clubs as in Sep-| Some folks wonder who is going to tember, but plunging in at top speed | win the pennant. Other folks wonder often weakens a machine for the days how the Duchess of Gainsborough when it needs its greatest punching | managed to keep her hat on et that power. angle. One eeason—1912, T think it was—| the Giants almost blew the pennant,| LETS GO. although it looked as 1f we had tt cinched about July 1, We carried a@ purtwiesntnr long lead then until the machine - s eat to ete up, and the Cub Washington got an even break et moved up within three games of us| the Polo Grounds. They lo’ by late August. McGraw called “a (royce, Grounds sora caucus in the club house, jit rained two. “We've been playing inside base-| ball—or trying to"—hoe sald, “and! every break has been against us, out there to-day and hit at anyth and run wild on the bases, P them the old taahioned poarek The George Stallings will be satisfied new atyle was a relief to the herrea, | Woeeret wee and we beat the Pirates about 12 to 1| °” ‘ that afternoon, It was like a tonic ora shot inthe arm. From that time 4 arted to draw away from the Cubs again and finished in front, Of| course, John McGraw continued his beral government for only a few days when he went back to the old absolute monarchy, In England a fight referee sti outside the ring, but the e.dienue g isn't always #0 considerate Show If interest in baseball is dying out, we guess those 25,000 fans went out to the Polo Grounds the other day to wonder what the barbers would do if all the people owned safety razors, Some followers of the game have ked me if I intended adopting the McGraw practice of getting an old catcher to act as Heutenant. I would ike to get a good old-timer for # Siorybodystalkin about Fhe FACTORY ,,/ i COLLAR SHOPS INC. 49 WESTIZ5 ST. member of my kitchen cabinet, but T [IR Lyi mber of my kitchen cabinet, t | Supplying ‘New Yor Prefer ‘him to be an infielder’ or an aa Brands of mens arry catchers to ch their pitchers and keep them up to the mark, I h Collars undertaken this work myself, as Fred Mitchell at with the Cubs, Mitch has Jimmy ‘ oO q Sheckard to act in the capacity of his aide, and it 19 a wise choice, Sheck is [iM R one of the smartest ball players ever also. offering” on spikes, and he never got too old fj 3: Berra to back up third base from. left field | Meadaepeggtauka able on the chafice of corraling a wild throw, He might make the Journey fifty times tn vain, but the fifty-first he was on the job and saved a run that saved a game that saved a pen- nant, which is tight ball playing. Dollar Shirt: alueon: Earth! John Evers started the season in the spangles, and they tell me ho is —, . Fe in fair physical shape, But Johnny | fi ° i Ke; ble {s taking chances in that raw Boston 2, MAemarka bie climate this season of the year. Re- member, John, you are about the only one of the old guard left, s0 you had better take care of yourself. If Evers can distribute anything Ike his old time form over the ball field this season, the Braves will make trouble |for the Giants, | (Copyright, 1917, by ‘LUSTRE:SILK’ WE GUARANTEE “Luatre-Sil rker Col- t any arket place found ‘The J. N, W. Syn _> RACING SELECTIONS. jeate, In ar Epa pp i are positively HAVRE DE GRACE. fUARAN not to turn yel- } First Race—Sincerity, Marmont, ny ONE “Tse Bikeee 2e Pp * Beware of “JUST AS GOOD" Race—-Frijolee, Handrun M. BARKER CO. Pegi pe winds Otto Floto. Kathryn Gray, Plu Tea Caddy, Top o' Anit Fifth Race—Umatilla, Ontco, Tip pity Witchet Sixth Race—Maxim's Cholece, Hill, Miss Krater Seventh Race bo, El Rey. 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