The evening world. Newspaper, April 30, 1917, Page 10

If Kilbane Can Stop Welsh in McGraw, Who Rates Brook- Ten Rounds He Wil Be Per- lyns High on Account of forming Something of a Mir-| Their Pitching Staff. aole, \ Coomrians. 1877 ¥, Ryblithing Oo. lew Yor! World.) over their two defeats at Phil- OHNNY KILBANE repeats that he adelphia, begin their first long intends to stop Freddy Welsh istay at home this afternoon, fully ‘when they meet to-morrow eve. ajng in less than ten rounds, He. not) may show his pean for the next four only intends to, but expects to, This/weeks, Fans who have bet their may serve as warning to Freddy to/dough on what they think is to be fight one of his justly famous fade- away battles. Johnny is much sraaiier than Welsh, is just about as fast on his t and packs a large calfore punch, It's the heavy artillery, according to Johnny, that the feather- weight champion will depend upon. “T can catch Welsh, and I can knock him kicking when I catch him,” says Kilbane confidently. To date no Information regarding « ‘he Welsh plan of battle has been al- lowed to trickle through the censer at the Welsh camp. Perhaps Fred- erick, who needs a little new reputa- fon to help along his “health farm” stand and fight as he r with Benny | In that case the bout will be quite interesting enough to fill any one’s dull evening. ILBANE says that he intends to retire from the ring, win, lose or draw to-morrow night. If he wins there won't be a chance that he'll retire, First he will want a whack at the big slice of money he could earn as combination feather and lightweight champion and con- queror of the Pnglish title holder. Then, when he had been monologuing and bagpunching his way around the country for six months or so at thou- sands of dollars a week there'd be such a clamor for a Leonard-Kiibane meeti that Johnny really couldn't refuse commodate the public. But all that, of course, depends upon his putting the “crusher” on the el sive Freddy. Others just as good Kilbane have tried to perform this acrobatic feat and have failed, Wras is @ peculiar boxer. He > can fight when he wants to— or go through some motions that give @ first-class impression of fighting—and he can stall like a trainp at a free lunch counter. He isn't dangerous. He doesn't knock out his opponents, having a vegetable punch But he ts amazingly filled with en- durance, has lots of speed, and can hold an opponent's arms about two- thirds of the time without being “called” by the referee, Also he can jab a bit, and can get away from a counter as deftly as any of ‘em, Welsh isn't one of the great cham- pions, by miles, but he can hang to a title ke a Scotchman to his last shilling. Fast, Freddy {s, and clever. He has lasted longer, as a first-class light woight, than any of the others who started with him years ago. He lasts because he doesn’t get in the way of every wandering punch. If Kilbane in get him in ten rounds thefeather- eight king will be performing som thing of a miracle. UNNY how tho Western States produce great jumpers. Satur- day at the Pennsylvania Relay Meet Charles Larsen of the Brigham Young University broke the tnter- collegiate high jumping record by clearing 6 feet 5% inches. The bar was put to 6 fect 7% inch « him & chance at Eddie Beeson’s alifornia). record, and) Larsen missed by a small fraction of an inch. Beside Larsen the West has pro duced in recent years all the high jumping champions, Alma Richards, George Horine and Eddie Beeson. ARSEN jumps in the Beeson style, clearing the bar with his back to it and fairly laying out at full length in the air as he goes over. He turns and lands on bis feet. For years the Sweeney Ae of jumping was considered the mnly possible way to clear a height, the jumper going over feet first and wriggling around to face the ba while crossing. When Horine o: ‘THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1917. DODGERS THE CLUB GANTS HAVE T “BEAT OUT FOR FLA That's the Opinion of Manager By Bozeman Bulger. HE Giants, somewhat provoked prepared to fight off any invader that (be new chaoypion may now have a) noe personally to see their money get @ good ride, As 4b acrimonious starter, McGraw and his men take on Uncle Wilvert Atgoingon's crowd from Brooklyn, this being We Doagers debut in our midst for the season. It will be no picnic for any party concerned, excepting, perhaps, tne fans, Mr. Kan joves to seo the fur tly, and were is ample indication that be will be accom- mouated. Uncie Wilbert 1s intensely sore over the reports disseminated bereabous to the elect that oi boys are chee champions, and McGraw is equally Gispieused§ with Kovvie's asseruon that the one club cut out to Mrook- iyn’s Measure is the Giants, “We muy never win another cham- plonabip,” says Kuvvie, ut well have w whale of @ Jc of fun licking those Giants,” uw, Ww make this more impressive, joUraw candidly declares that Brook lyn is the club he wili Dave to beat to win the pennant. He does not feur the Phillies, even after suifering two lickings in succession. “The Phillies baven't @ great ball club, and neither have the Braves,” but every club in this jeague bas got to gO gome to beat those Brookiyn pitohers. Kobbie's club may be weak 1D some spots, but it Is not in the box. When the Giants are through pick- ing on Uncle Wilbert they take on the Phillies, after which they will square off for the Westerners, in- cluded will be @ shot at those Car- dinals who seem to be making a buin out of every baseball prophet in the country, None of us gave St, Louis better than fifth place in the early picking and here they are wresiling with the supposedly un- |beatable Glants for first piace. And | they won't turn Jose either, | In the meantime the Yanks have packed up their bats and rifles ang have gone to Washington, In their midst is a disappointed young trouper, Ray Caldwell by name. Ray is quite a pitcher at times but it seems to be his luck to ge in there and pitch rings around opposition only to have his own club fall to make a run. That's what happened Saturday, Mr. Caldwell pitohed @ wonderful |game and held the surprising Ath letics to 4& it? As the old mountineer down at Chattanooga remarked after ne of thé close games last spring, “there wasn't nary one of our boys who could make ary one,” With no runs to back him Ray admits that he can not get very far his Panama record to the contrar notwithstanding y | made a new world’s record in do- ability isn't a matter of geography. came much exeited over a fourteen record. far above the world’ athlete's per= e WAs certified duly by offt- ¢ d th sors of the uni- versity he attended. But Japan was just taking up track athletic sports, 1 Mocluls didn't know that a pole! can't shift his upper hand Japanese ch pion was r climbing t dropping down on the other side of the crossbar, He must have come of a long line of ex- cellent acrobats, at that | | JPSS WILLARD ts in town with | the circus. The nimble press agent assures us that Jess in. East with the new manner of jump-|tends to fight at least two more ring ing that he had studied out on the|batties before he retires Stanford field n critics Iaughed| Just at present L can't see where at him and ‘sai was Impossible | Jess is Kuing to get the material to that he had beaten Sweeney's record, | fill the opposite corner | Yet Horine did beat {t, two or three times, and then Heeson of the Uni-| After glancing over the other heavy- versity of California beat Horine in| welmhts we feel justitied in asking: the Pacific Coast Championships and{"What d'ya m y—flight | ANNOUNCEMENT | Rumors circulated have led some of th there is a scarcity of | by unscrupulous dealers 1¢ public to believe that | | AND Ginger Ale in this country. Thi s is entirely unfounded. Continuously since the war began and at present there are amp le stocks in the hands of E. & J. Burke, Ltd. Sole « ents for CANTRELL & COCHRANE, Ltd. DUBLIN & BELFAST Matty Confident That the Great Indian Athlete, Jim Thorpe, Will Make Good as a Big Leaguer, Now That He Is Being Used as a Regular on Cincinnati Club. IM THORPE 1s probably the man of Thorpe’ greatest all around athlete in| Only once In a while, he ty under quite feels he must make good then or he may never have an- opportunity. presses, as we say in golf, and doe not show his best. the United States—footpall ngle tally, but what of player, runner, and welght tonser | principally, besides carrying an A-1 line of accessories~but he never proved good enough as a Big Leag' to warrant McGraw using him reg- ularly. Bench warming Irritated Jim ex- | tensively, and he asked to be sent to some minor league club where he could get a@ Iittle action and not rust ing it |up. McGraw obliged for three rea- Aw I've remarked before, athletic sons, feeling he could keep a | strong combination tn the outfield HICH reminds me that ten or| bY having Jim in some minor league fifteen years ago Japan be- | or on the bench, “He's naturally a great athlete and | pole vaulter who cleared thirteen or! a good ball player,” gaid McGraw to me one day last year in discussing Phorpe, “but as augaie Kooga, Who Was on the Chicagy Vribuue before he died, once said: “Phe heruvit is be ain't bitun!” Thorpe, & man the master of e other branch of sport he enter Was naturally netted because he could not wear the Big League spaugles of @ regular, and L unger- stand recently be even discusses quitting baseball (or good and enter- y ing the oil business in Oklahowa City, McGraw was avout ready to cut loose irom hin again, ‘Then a week ago Hddle Rousch, who had been playing the best aii tho Keds at bat, was torpedoed with out warning and just limped into port, With Eddie gone, my outfield looked as if some one t it with a vacuum cl has a lame arm, and Lv d manicured ner ‘as up it, so 1 wired McGraw for Thorpe Mac sold him to me. Now Jim is going to have his chance to make good as a regular, and I think tt Jain him, He type of player who will ke that plue ging at a weakness until he has overcome tt—and he knows his bat- ting has kept him out of the regular order Thorpe has al qualities of a real sticker a nic posi n at the plate, and the ability to gwing from elther side. He stands up well to all kinds of pitch ing and de wi through a fast one In the neighbor hood of his neck. McGraw used Thorpe only In oc- casional § montly f 4 the ib. NATIONAL LEAGUE, Clubs, WL Clubs Web. PO, N. York, ‘ Cineta't Mi Louls 96 600 | Phila... 6 6.4 Chicago. 97.663] Pitue ¥. 6; MH, Moule, 611 Innings Chicago at 9. St. Louis. Piteburgh at Cinelnnatl, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YOR YOU’RE GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME 1917, by the Press Publishiag Co, (The Now York Byening World) LEGION’S BLANK OF ENROLLMENT New York S; reli ion, Enrolled by 7! ay cee Bvening World: I hereby enroll myself as a member of the New York Sporting Legion, subject to call for enlistment in the service of Uncle Sam. WEICHT ...<..... HEIGHT ........ BIG LEAGUE GOSSIP y Christy Mathewson, Former Star of Giante and Manager of Cincinnati Reds type gets his chance ADDRESS ......csccscccscsoces Remarks: Syndicate, inc ) Fistic News and Gossip By John Pollock (Fill out abov> blank and mail to Sporting Legion Editor, Evening World, Pulitzer Building, 63 Park Row.) Leonard, has arranged to have his sta Mghtwetght meet the winner of the Kil bane-Welsh bout, which takes place to the Manhattan jy met both men, but X. JUSEVL, No, 19 Bigelow v,, Wood | No. 04 Cassie 8 BROOK, LAWKENCE, BENDER, OHARLDS, No, 143 E, Fourteenth St FREDERICK J, MIGUIRE BINS “OMVHON EDWAN ful Improveme sensational knockout of Richie as manifested by Noy 487 Woot Thirty No, 4184 Bar that he will n 8. 4 Bemes Av. stop either champlon. the Jocal welterweight, been out of the ring for several weeks, will be @ as he boxe Walter Lav ide at the Pioneer Sporting Chub | Cl O'Brien at the joa O'SHAUGHN baa 8 EDWARD L,, Room 200, No, 101 the local Ygbtwetght, and Jimmy ting Club to-night ing between thee toys THEODORE, No, 110 Lefterta |” “Why delay Pier 8¢. North River, Vier 36 North River, oO f his Big League days and leading No, 94 Charles St, is the thint a a ce Sty | Jobony Gilbert meeting Young Silent Martin tfith | Pioneer Sporting ‘ainst Jim Savage of Orange, New Jermy, and Al Reich have it out in @ ten RYAN, THOMAS HEE RORERE tne were $25 for a Suit to Order ‘<8 th nw oo ow (A Stonishing 36, Now River, Wier 26. North Rat teanpts have been mas Will be the mene to-night fet a fast banteamweight scrap, # not stick a foot in the| wt pail when a twirler hops the peusational Jemey Faggors of the went side St, i) Sty, Tuckahoe, HIN. No. 4 Chart WRY. No. 04 (Paw Boating Ohb of 8 OF a8 a pinch-hitter, | the days when Jim | last M 1e hasn't had to show lately, When a MAJOR LEAGUE RESULTS AMERICAN LEAGUE. labs W. LBC, t due to lack of | XD) 80 Moftan Bt England Calle Of Racing, 0.474 of the Jockey the Government, 710 aK Boston... 97 556 | Brook’. 3 7 .300 RESULTS OF GAMES YESTERDAY euros, 3; Careaga, 0 oH Louis, 6; Cleveland, 5, Vik WHEL AM ver 100" Kast Bighty: ing foodstuffs to the raciug stables. first time since Diomede won the ribbon of the English turf in 1780 the Derby will not be run. te ROR RENAL BOT a, GAMES TO-DAY. York at Washington. This will be the 231 Atlantle Ay, Detrolt at Chieago. %. Loule at Cleveland, Y) | JOHN,” Mackery wien, 1 REPRESENTATIVES OF EVERY SPORT NOW IN LEI Greenwich Village Clubs Mak- ing Best Showing in Fight- ing Force Evening World Is Raising for Uncle Sam. Every branch of sport is repre- sented in the Sporting Legion, now being formed by The Evening World. Yot the hundreds who comprise the legion will quickly Jay aside their athletio rivalry in ¢agern to be with the first who are doing their bit for Uncle Sam. The chief purpose in forming the legion was to show the willingness of New York sportamen to serve their country. That goal has been achieved. Not only have our young sport en- thusiaste answered the legion call with a fine display of spirit, but en- tire clubs are striving to have their organizations represented when the legion members march this Saturday to enroll with the Naval Reserve, In to-day’s communications several from club committees. One says that by “a unanimous vote the following members of the James A. Slater Association are willing to ren der thelr service under the Sporting Legion.” Attached were the nam of eighty-one members who wished to join the legion. Another letter stated that the bosses of the Clyde and Mallory steamship nes wanted to enroll in the legion. So far clubs in Green- wich Village are best represented In the legion, Other clubs throughout the city are reminded that only a few days more remain tn which to enroll thelr organizations. ‘The most striking feature of th majority of legion enrollment ha: been the desire for quick action. It can not be justly said of the great number of New York sportamen, ac- cording to the response to the legion, from their patriotic duty and had to be conscripted, ably read “ready at any time for a call from Uncle Sam.” That call will come next Saturday mobilized at the Tweltth Regiment Armory, Columbus Ave- nue and Sixty-first Street, for a grand parade through the city and review by high city and naval offi- cials at the City Hall. So anxious are the Naval Re- serve officers to secure the services of our sportsmen that they hired « band, fife and drum corps and a big detail of uniform men to act as an honorary escort so that the sporting jon will have the proud distinc- tion of making one of the most strik- ing demonstrations of any sport unit in this or any other country that ever answered a call to national duty. All legion members will be fur- nished with a handsome silk badge to commemorate their decision to do their bit for the Naval Reserve. In addition all who are formally ac- cepted in the service will be supplied with beautiful service medals. All legion members will be notified by ry the legion will be enrolled in the Na- eportsmen wouldn't give most any- LATEST NAMES ENROLLED IN THE SPORTING LEGION. thing to be able to sink a U boat? PREVIOUSLY ENROLLED—1,014, help protect New York for enroll- the defense of the metropolis. lst in the } physical requirement As a special priv ze legton mi manded by Col, Reginald Foster, enrollments. Sporting Legion editor, ny longer? Yanks Be The squeeze pl Dodgers in Tenth. by Aragon ai to defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in the tenth Inning of an exhibition game In | Jersey City, the score being 2 to 1 But more astonishing evidence. The evidence is materials of which they’re the wear, fancy cheviots tweeds and styles and new weaves in coats at $25 too workmanship and quality. BROADWAY 4 N: that they preferred to shrink back | Be "The returned legion blanks invart- afternoon when all legion members | the Naval Reserve Headquarters , Lea when and where to report for the; Pitcher, cr is generally well kfown now, ments here in the Naval Reserve or |for the third district, which Includes No written test Is required to en- val Reserve, The ap- pitcant need only show the proper} A. WN KELPIEN m- bers who would prefer to serve on | land will be given the chance of forming thelr own companies in the| ROLLER SKATING | Twelfth New York Infantry, com- In the short time remaining pa-) ez. Aves ov triotic sportsmen who have failed to| 4tnantroy’ f th Rivers’ nay (do so are urged to hurry in their} To join the legion fill out the ac- companying blank and return to |Maisel enabled the New York Yankees @6PDLANTING Potatoes on golf links will be a good thing. Average golfer can plant . ‘em when he starts out and eat ‘em when he gets back.” Catchers want baserunners limited to one extra base for a throw over the Phil's trick right-feld wall. Pere act way dunt Uae il establish @ Even Yoa bo. ‘ ohare in Dogpiieny, ty, Bed Ses, pt £".,¢ (ie bends at their fast ball, Looks like the Giants will be stopped by seven National clubs, assisted slightly by No Mike Kahoe announces that he {picked up ) ball player North Dako’ He cl wild throw, @ very ti y fum! vicious bunt and a wonderful ap- potite. He is so fast that he rune ay urve and at the bat misses the hard as anybody. Mike also giclee that he a natural squawk would be a squawk on any field in the league. Glad to get that off our chest, They want Hans Wagner back tm Pitiusburgh, Cancelling Hans was ike cancelling the echedule, Fortunately for the rest of | clubs, the Phils’ right fleld wall hasn't got a travelling schedule, Lil’ pepper, ‘ , Nick SPAT LL LTS | the Kaiser's ‘parade, Nothing new for Kitty Bransfleld to ‘umpire a ball game. He used to de the | best umpiring firat baseman in the league. You chirped it. | Connte Mack has @ bunch of base- | ball players on his team this season. ‘The big league scouts are all looking them over. Xo yrouid never suspect by looking ot the frees page of any newspaper that the outdoor lacrosse feason ls bere, | American League managers enjoy their meals last season, used to have their choice of seven cc of dessert, including the Athe etics. You'd never know the old place cow. eal Sasa INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Avril 30.— President James C. McGill of the In- Waseball Cluv uf the Ameri- r] re pers to-day ere he had. tra ed (Cy) Falken! a tcher, to. the Philadelphia, -Ameriean League Club for John Nabors, another it Game, | The Maher Athletic Club opened tts val Reserve because this service ig! season vesterday at Maher Oval, Brook only for the length of the war and |there’s promise of exciting action while patrolling the coasts from enemy warships. What red-blooded lyn. and defeated the crack Eddie Ball Club, 15 to 2. The game was featured thi rifle hitting of “Butch” Sted» Run Dick" Freye: Furthermore, legion members will) SAVE the Mitdleman’s profit om BASE BALL UNIFORMS New York's Only Manafactater 1046 Boston Rond, — Phone, Melrose 2879 Sampien Submitted, tn the | TRAL PALACE, Hiroe’ ‘Pntrance, SKATES, | THUM?S oxpixe ax puss SPORTING. AAA \ HARRY Wi 10 Round YORKVILLE 8, ¢ e| Sanne Ottodimn TUESDAY Mike Meth ? Yes, Very! than the statement is the in the suits themselves. The made—the way they fit—and There are serges, unfinished worsted. Plain and Homespuns. There are staple unlimited color effects. Top Every garment is strictly guaranteed for style, fit, Samples on req.est. WE MAKE ARMY OFFICERS’ UNIFORMS, No.’ m " X 30.—The Stewarts Ay } 1 eof Club, at the Inst have cancelled all the 1917 racing fixtures which were to ha been run after the first spring meeting The step was taken with a view to sav- which are now divertea|P.S. 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