The evening world. Newspaper, May 19, 1917, Page 4

a EEE ~ DEVELOPED IN NEW YORK This Was Before Days When Petty Politlos Killed Sport Which Is Recognized of Greater Value by Our Own Government and That of Allies to Fit Men for Battle Lines and Navy —Famous Fights Which Go Down in Boxing’s Glorious Past Coperight, 1917, by the Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), jOXING in New York State will soon point to its glorious past. At present—perhaps only for a short time—it is under a cloud. Yet it may be years before another Frawley law is enacted eo that the sport can go on again under proper conditions. 4 ‘Twice the State Legislature voted ° down bills designed to repeal the Frawley law. The legislators then were voting according to their con- science, for they knew that boxing is @ great sport, of great service to the State at the present time. They know that the Governments of the Allies and the United States Govern- ment find boxing the best of all sports to develop the fighting men who go to the front along the battle lines and in the navy. They knew thet an attack upon boxing at this time was not a pairt- otlc measure. That it was a sham “moral issue,” known by every one to be a sham “moral {asue,” and that there was no public demand for the killing of the sport. ‘They knew that the fault with box-¢@——————$——$________ ing in New York State didn’t lie in Br the Frawley law, but in the fact that | most“ uakamne ace famous when, al- unfit men had been appointed to en-|Iish Champion Pediar Palmer in lees force the law; that one or two of/than three full minutes of fighting, these unfit officials had turned the|*®4 shortly afterward when ho lew to their own private purposes, knocked out the great featherweight '/champion, George Dixon, and suc- and had caused disrepute to fail upon | ceeded to’ his title? it by thelr actions, They knew that| Gans, Dixon, W boxing was to be killed because these |Jeanette, Johnson—aix of the most unwise appointments had “a political |'M4rkable nego boxers since the k” time of Molyneux, all became famous home ot those who voted at last to through their performances in New ing, but explained that they | ‘ork rings. ull believed boxing should continue,| Jim Corbett eat be and that they were voting againat|one of the most ossiiesns ad their conscience and belief “to sup-| backs” ever seen at a arg BY ype must have equirme: In their seats when Marty | Jeffrie: Pp ya Pe 0 MoCue made his short speech against |polnied ‘the plant ant tye a the bill that was, to assassinate the|out when aw i aes sport. Marty uo Was once & well known professional boxer. |For many is years he has been a prominent mem- ‘ ber of the State Assembly. We ot the cate | But_the bill was passed, and so +? gid-timers has forgotten New York will go back to the club- the feat of Bob Fitasimmons, who Member days, Nolding boxing bogta| knocked out Sharkey and Huhlin a under the fly-by-night conditions thut | {°w Ay apart, and offered to fight were, wiped out by the Frawley law. Wires ta, ghey a eae of tho| sports—has been the distinguishing * ones ¥, there was | Anglo-Saxon sport for hundreds of Waetecen ni 1a aycreat, Hlehtweignt y e iv tithe; M ne and isn't to be extinguished Forbes, Maher, Ryan, Weil hin A great number of States have box. | Leon, Smith, Matthews, and scores of ing lawe ane boxing commissions ows ~~ - famous—all developed now, and although New York has 1» New York, gone back to the dark ages box! A glorious past! will go on under proper legal restric- Yes, it would be a pity to think tions in a score of cities, and the that it ts all over, And perhaps, when country will get the benefit of it the time comes that politica inn't me- in a ring when, under the Horton law, he fought Jim med only minutes away. THE EVENING WoRLD T SPORTING PAGE IN FAMOUS RING BATTLES NEW YORK SAW Copyright, 1917, by the Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Brentng World), BES One OF THE GREATEST CHAMPIONSHIP BATTLES » CH UHICA FIT2Z.5/MMONS FOUGHT HEROICALLY To DeFeNd HIS TITLE , BUT WAS OVERCOME BY THE STRENGTH OF YOUNG JIM JerrRries. “By Slipping the Tigers a Vegetarian Diet the Yanks Managed to Play Into a Tie With the Red Sox for First Place’—“An Automatic Victory Is Registered for the Phils Every Time Alexander Is Nominated on the Quaker Ticket”—“Against the Giants’ Fashionable Display of Early Summer Baseball Styles the Pitts- burghettes Looked Stupider Than a Clerk Trying to Sell a Set of Spurs to a Sailor.” Icott, Langford, | IN PUBLIC EYE HUSTON RESIGNS FROM AMERICAN LEAGUE ORDER TO ENTER ARMY decision in his favor | Famous John L. Sullivan fought in| DETROIT, Me Huston, one of the owners of the y 19.—Capt ference with Pr the league at Chicago, to-day, where he was ordered by War Department to report for trance into the ident Johnson « examination for engineer corps of the army, corps during thi can War, and has entis same service By Arthur (“‘Bugs’’) by The Press P Johnson of his intention to withdraw t New York Eve Boxing will go on, also, in the placed above right, boxing will come United Btates Navy and the United back into its own. States Army. Which is a fairly good rarily from the Americ recommendation for the sport NEW YORK IN “THE GOOD OLD DAYS.” | Now York has been the scene of many famous ring battles that will| be remembered when petty politicians who have tried to kill boxing are for- gotten, The Horton law days were the glorious days. Then New York had twenty and twenty-five round bouts, with decisions, The hard fighting in| the longer bouts, wi nowledge that one would les ring a win- ner or a loser, developed real men—the great it ringmen the world has seen, Them Before They Ran Into the Giants—McGraw Has Good | Take the great Fitzsimmons. He MT UL abit tue prea tent Team, but Conscription May Hurt His Chances. A nts fighter of any weight in his tim middleweight, he beat heavywcig! and won the his losing was no jess heroic than his winning. Fitzsimmons lost in his first real battle ufter winning the question pushod at mo) championship—two years after the|from all sides when back in my old Carson fight, for he had been fight-|ttaining quarters at the Polo Grounds. | mae, SORELY, Sor: youre end folt him-| To be frank, I thought more of th | entitled toa rest. When he|/\ fought young Jim Jeffries, a new | Giants and less of the Reda ufter we giant from the West, he expected to| finished our series of three games, of evince tint had Geen inion ta which we won none, but I still have the other big men Fitzsimmons had|f#!th In my bail team, MeGraw has knocked out He was an iron man,{one of the finest machines ever put reg Bager Reg plan gether, if he can hold it together in tnd terrific Sitting. He stuck to hin | tM® face of conscription and injuries plan. After a hard driven left had|until he co etch, Of struck Fitzsimmons on the throat,} course, Mac complained te of the knocking him down, the champion | woorne iseewarerniil Feslised that Re was in danger of de. | Wontner. I knew ho would. feat. m that moment on Mits-| “Brooklyn wouldn't hav siminons fought the most desperate lone game in ten fight ever put up by a losing cham-| yo pep ; plow, “There was no “atreak"'in Fata. | North, lared. "My elub was in Simmons, He fought with absolute|the best of condition, but it was the fairness to the end, carryir ing fight to the big Californian until the final blow dropped him for th ten-second count, 1 think the great est heavyweight In a hundred years | founded weath won that night. Jeffries, in his prime Notwith was a better fighter than the more gigantic Willard, for he was always Yeady to defend his title secord both before and a ing champion was far Willard’s, Men who have give lard hard fights never w classed with Jeffries 1 was New York that saw Jeffries leap | s down the eaten us n We first came hupo in the South and getting out of it back ti » con- on account of nition en they ran into the Ciieinnatt fairly fit. But give the Giants ack which punctured the s last season, and good night! hard luck just about ruined nkees in 1916, because Bill into fame. . E ee es The most desperate ring battle re-|Ponovan wouldn't have the same membered by old-timers was fought | bal in the game two weeks in at Maspeth, and in it Kid Lavy accession, No team can win. bal peat Joe Walevtt, vo as t ‘Black Demon" and later as “Giant Killer.” Looking at Wa record it seems impossible that white lightweight could have f whipped him in fifteen rounds that is just what Lavi« fight is as famous c the ring as the battie of Water the world’s military history What marvellous boxers competed in the old days in New York. There was Tom Sharkey, physically the most magnificent speciinen of a man, for hia inches, that ever fought with gloves. There Was the crafty Mot Jong, slender, smiling, who fough Uke a desperado and outside the ring was a figure in the society of the time. Extremes met when Sharkey and McCoy fought. Twice’ McCoy knocked Sharkey flat on lis back The amazed sailor rose, rushed, and wishing left doubled McCoy up ke a jackknife and ended the battle Where was there ever another auch fighter as Terry McGovern, born in an 1 that unsettled condition, ne Glants can be beaten—especially —————— — INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE, STANDING Of THE CLUBS. Cube WL PC Clube WEL Newark..15 6 714 Kochester.13 12 Paltimore.!7 9 .654 Buffalo... 9 16.360 Toromte...14 11 660 Montreal. # 16.333 Wrovid’ee. 14 11 560 Richmond 6 17 320 RESULTS VESTERDAY, Bon: 2; Balimore, 5, Providence, 11; Rochester, 4, Newark va, Teron, postponed, Monireai va, Klehmond, rain, GAMES TO-DAY. rk a Toromo, ‘Two games. Providence at Rochester Klchmond at Montreal, Baltimore at Buftale, anks are now, BIG LEAGUE GOSSIP y Christy Mathewson, Former Star of Giants and Ma ank Baker, syndicate as close as that. erything but the squeal were very wasteful *0™° jer of Cincinnati Reds. ixnting | Matty Likes the Reds, but He Thought a Great Deal More of | for eight innings until Baker hit a throw one on an ea scarce as neutral zones Jon the smiling end the Tigers’ the Atlantic, It doesn't look to me yweilght title, And] ¢¢ HAT do you think of the | by Cincinnati Club?” was the/if anything in the Natic ould win out Now for the *8 | is nominated on the Quaker ticket aseball ritual, is ws certain Cincinnati is a better dere an I figured it to be. club as five feago scored m: The Pirates | pitchers regulars out thin that very thin too, is in harness we needed him too, rest of those on the ff or snerless outfit 1 rush=/old story of a team getting in great | York—-Zimmerman, the best on ubt after the first inning. The game was one of contest was never in the bases Zim hit to Bunny Brief. home the ball displayed very pro-slippe: bloomed where none had blossomed before. in doubt was the weather for darkness play for November. ing out in front 4 few cases | MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE, Club, Ww, 454, Louts..16 17 459 NATIONAL LEAGUE. WoL, PLC, Clubs, an Cortlandt 1’ 19 18 419|| No York 7 682) brooklya, 12.636 Veirolt, i, house. Ad 12.638) Hey gh. OF GAMES YESTERDAY. Dew York, 7; Detroit, 3. Washington, 8; Chicago, 8; Kosten, Cleveland ys, Pai At a meeting of the Metropolitan GAMES TO-DAY. New York at Detroit, Boston at Chicago, Washington at St. Loute Whiladolphia at Cleveland, St, Louis #t Brooklyn, Chicago at Philadelphts, Cine!nnad at Boston, SAL Tom SHARKEY'S VICTORY OVER Kip McCoy, pr, Bill is ancient wy, y's baseball hero is tomorrow's dogmeat, ‘ica One is like a cinder. lipping the Tigers a vegetarian brilliant struggle through the last soes to Mogridge, while the Mogridge threw ‘em pa als made into graphophone finally got his nose in front and Nothing is being squandered by seemed to be time Alexander the customary a Keystone comedy. dropped oft clerk a left-handed was very rig came 4 helpless as a cat although the With a quorum on When Bunny tried to throw it sh sympathies and two runs After that the only thing There was no use of the Pirates playing ause the days are getting longer. We forget th They might as well core, but it was very unanimous w th PO toa. 12 16 429 40 18 357 41s 240 1 Louis, 2. delpbis. Kain ing World.) success will turn a young man’s head, Bill Donovan's knob should be buzzing around like a gyroscopic stabilizer. enough to realize that to-da There are two w other way is like the Y diet the Yanks managed to flap into a tie with the Red Sox for first place. | Most of the censure for yesterday's victory rest of the blame falls on Tigers at the bat, while Baker hit ‘em past them In the field. possible to get the best of pork packers, who utilized e Yanks would have had records and marketed at six bits a copy. the frugal New Yorkers, who are turning everything into runs, and runs pom “out of the clouds’ The score was closer than the spots on a carriage dog just in time, He Will had run @/in the Baltimore Country Club's ball further than Buck Weaver can & chances were as 7 to 8, with the Yanks The st the It's im- The Chicago the being evicted y have to eull early summer ying can of the neate itting NEW YOR Racing Has Big Opening At Jamaica With Betting Ot the Personal Variety Few Who Attempted to Vio- stretch turn, Starwort made up Ground like an advance guard, the ate Soverning .| Test of the way. Johnny McTaggart late Law Governing Wager found the shortest way home and A : Sate — Ke-| when it came to the final drive out- ing Shown the Gate— Kee) ree ere enemies wessa s up to that stage. | 7 After winning the second race with | By Vincent Treanor. | Ambrose, Joe Marrone seemed eure ITH the excitement and con-|0f a double when his Sam McMeekin W fusion of opening day over,| gf an over” Precise on the back p * tech and went into a comfortable racing will now settle {n dts) lead, But on the way to the home stride and go on, in all probability, | turn Sam decided to take to the out- to a record-breaking season, Yea. | side and sig? Rdg Weble wie i i vent | came again after alt got him Jamaica everything went straightened out, but then it was too Sport of a high calibre) jate, Had he run true McMeekin the several thousands | would have come home by hims and all left the track after! Qo a Raila te lo thie hav ‘ourtship was pounds the best in nt feeling they had Put) the three-year-old sprint, fifth on the terday the police and the Pinkertons saw) stretch, gathered in the early pacer, to It that no public betting was car-| Polly J, and went on unchallenged ‘ onl to the finish line. ried on and none was, Several per- Mo on who attempted things the pr ent law specifically says they can’ id, were given the gate. Oral wager- ing between persons known to each other Was indulged in as it was last! way py open daylight. Right at th year, but no odds were printed on the| end, however, whe seemed to be flat. programmes and no money was|tening out, when Belmonts Lucullite | passed between bettors. All specu began eating up the ground behind | lation was done on a credit basis, sat- | } ne latter, didn't cn hie’ saoe ctory to the parties concerned, at thi Butwell wasn't ready when ho racing itself was all that could| the barrier was sprung and it took desired, with the Paumonok Han-| him some time to get the colt in his six-furlong sprint, the feat-| stride, Midway from the far turn Pret ne crease of meters uttey a | td the home stretch he was lengths by the narrowest of margins after a and lengths out of it, but when he began to run he made up ground fast With an_even break he might have beaten the Butler filly, but what's the use of injuring James B.'s pride James Butler's Empress graduated from the maiden class at the first asking like an apt scholar, She evi- dently lacks nothing in racing educa- tion. Off on her toes she showed thi sixteenth of a mile, during which any one of six seemed to have a chance | to gather the big share of the purse. | One hundred yards from the finish |‘? i rs the front runners formed a atraight | cr taking credit from Trainer Jack line across the track, The jockeys | VCCormack? were riding with hand and heel, and * —- were applying the whip, The | crowd Was in an uproar, He Will coming on to a wel carned victory when Kewessa came| BALTIMORE, Md., May 19 nnual golf tournament at Roland Park prac- and race and was creditably han- died by Johnny McTaggart after being the he latter began to stop. morenes "8 Wiad formance was noteworthy, too, when | Mio " Hi it Is considered that he came to the | wae gieh dae eae outside of all of them from behind |to play Cockran br when the race was practically over. | Warren and Dudley Clarke, tba, the semt-final round, the former. el 1 of the stretch, when the | i veo e. Pr ently Pokal alt consequenc ne second the first Kenneth The number of John Madden's Gil. |at 6 and 5 Mes was holated as having finished |}oung Ps won fr rrish jr., ol third in the Paumonok and immedi- 4. These ¢ utely the callers in the press stand | yyner hate began to rub their ey They had |thereby eliminating called Leochares. The judges, how- | brother playing brothe ever, soon rectified the mistake and the ‘number of Leochares replaced | | Even, though it was nly nam nixed four-ball match, Gil Nicholls, the that of Gillles, rel known professional whi yh well in the South a fe oks ago, Trainer Tom Healey Sent a runner | Kept up th Dane cement Oe to post when ae saddled R. J.| his home c at ( ok W jr’ Starwort in the first| with Mrs, Frank Ha event of the season, Off padly and | Won over Mrs, W. A x fully a dozen lengths behind Billet |!shwoman who holda the ‘champi ship of the Women's Kaster Doux, the le in the run to the] Soclation, and David’ sl ay ot Tait t the finish of the round the ¢ eck pair stood 1 up. t nt-final NY posstbilit in the final. day over nearby links. At t Plan to Extend isis ee icine boepace® one-day tournament under the Their Schedule | i ociasen, and in he Garten tion everything is in readiness newspaper men who have been invited new Salisbury links. dent of the Inter- for ea oyeen to Play. M will be playe afternoon between the mar men of W ', Two Hundred and ‘Thirty eet and Broadway. The Inter borough Rapid allowed the oni A silver lovi KE. G. Barrow, Pr national League, has issued a a jal meeting of leagui Buffalo to-morrow. Many important matters are to be discussed sident Barrow sald “1 the Am n Association in- jsists on cancelling the inter-leag series arranged with our clubs, I ehall [recommend that we agree to do so, " Jand, furthermore, will advise our club | given to the winner. Ihettertos owners to extend the International |men, P, L. Back and «if { League's playing season for another |martied men, P. J. Evans and G month." ight; umpire, H, Frankel Company ha. fi CHICAGO, May 19.—Cancellation of SPORTING. ae “= TRACING clubs of the A rican Association ind. the International League was | ma with the consent of six club owners and Edward Barrow, Presi- lent of the Intern League, ac- cording to a statement to-day by » s J, Hickey, President of the American Association. Explaining Barrow's denial of the on, Hickey admitted that he unced the action before the yn, but declared quick cancel had an time agreed action Was necessary. ‘TI had agreed te seeret until Sunda said, “until after the m THE C AND FOUR OTHER GOOD Rac keep the matter President Hickey eling of the | new schedule so hurriedly I had to min. later, East N. call off the series at once, It couldn't | be helped ostrand’ Ave, ‘hrilling Victory. Fag to have the race well in hand | able afternoon, Of course,| card, He came from nowhere in the | —In the] and got up/first and second rounds of match play rried_ out by High Noon at {tally all of the favorites came through | ins friendly | « did so Internationals Fina inuriamenla tre onrted tov Mone TORR T Be Renita toate s| To=Nigh nis Lyneh. ve. Bb AT JAMAICA THE $1,500 SUFFOL § LARENDON LK STAKES International League club owners, but | semanas Be nc ‘hs Rw A TRAINS nO? RSE yecause we were obliged to draft a| rooklyn, at 12,80 P, M., and at frequent interraia so” Miatbuah Ave ADMISSION 83, LADY'S TICKET &1,50. piney LOCAL CLUBS HOLD SHOWS TO-NGHT _ Heavyweights Feature Card at Pioneer — Lightweights Are Headliners at Fairmont. — By John Pollock. Both the Pioneer and Fairmont Clubs have good cards for to-night. At the |Fortyfourth Street club heavyweights will provide excitement for the fans. Joo Cox, the big Missourian, will face Bartley Madden, the west side fighter. who has been rapidly forging to the front, and Bob Devere, who is creditet with a victory recently over Sam Lang- ford up-State, will box Jack Clifford the Greenpoint heavyweight, who ir the past few months has knocked out Jim Smith and Jim Healy, At the Fairmont Club an excellent programme of Ightweight battles has been at Tanged by Matchmaker McArdle. Fh Bloom of Brooklyn will face Frank! Conifrey, the Fighting Fireman, anc Barney. ‘Adair, ‘the promising. Harlem lightwelght, will take on Allie Nack, the clever Bronxite. Willie Jackson, conqueror of Johnny Dundes, After several weeks’ lay-off owing to {linem, retum to the ring to-night and face Rey the hard-hitting Californian, at the Rink, Jackson also boxes Tommy Tuohey at Empire A, C, Monday night, #0 be is dispone of Rivers as quickly as pomible, semi-final Benny Volgar, the French bantam, face Mickey Dunn, ‘The fight fane of this city will have om portunity to see & good hearyweight sarap | Thursday night, when Gunboat Smith end Fiyun will don the mitts in the main bout of tew rounds at the Clermont A, C, of Brooklyn, The managers of bott: men signed articles of agreetment tod Besides the attractiv tween Teddy Jacobs and Dutch Brandt, wht will be fought at the Hrosdway 8. C, of Brooklyn to-night, Manager John Weismantel ts also offer- ing three other six-round contests, in which Billy Welton will meet Mike Shay, Young Montreal wild exchange punches with Bobby Hanson and Young Carr will go against Mike Russell, At the same club on Tuemlay night an interesting scrap ought to result between Mike O'Dowd of St, Paul and Billy Micke, as both are on edge for the contest ‘Ted Kid Lewis ta quite a tusy fighter, for im the next six dayw he is echeduled to fight three times, To-night fhe will go against Jack Britton for the tenth time, ‘They will battle at Toromte, On Tuesday evening be will clash with Joo Egan in Boston, while oa ‘Thumlay he will, exchange punches with Mike O'Dowd of St, Paul tm the star bout of ten rounds at (he opening show of the St, Ni Tink is rhe thy | deft Smith and Harry Grev ttaburgh ore both f thelr contest tonight at the Broadway Autitorium of Buffalo, N.Y, Mated naker Rill, Heveron has booked ‘Tomy Vinceot anit Elmer Doutie. crack featherwelghts, to bate | {nthe semi-final of six rounds, | | Jack Dillon evidently means to do considerable fighting In the jenpite his recent threat ened attack of ap itis, for he has fust signed up for another Tia ponent in this fo Will book up for fifteen rounda at the ‘Toledo A. A, of Toledo on Monday night. Ray Bronwn of Indianapolis, who has a loog string of fighter under his management, has added another battler to his list, He erg, ban O'Neil Tim O'Connell, en under his many | agement “Happy” Howard, is anxious to match is boy at one of the local clube with either Silent Martin, Mike O'Dowd, Bob MeAllister Battling Levinaky, —0°¢ i sayy that he fi [ie aiffitult’ to get a match tor his boy, as they | all seem to sidetrack hin, PLil Hemstein, manager of the Palace 8, 0., |liae arranged @ good card of bouts for the re | opening show of the alore clab on May 31, Im put of unde Joe Burman of Ciuj- 4 wares aguinst Frankie Kid Fironx bantam, In another ten * Nack, the furiner amateur cham it with Joe Stem of the Bronx At the Harlem § 0, at Hammele Station, Far Tockaway, on next Tuentay night, Frank | Wittams of this city will meet "Mute" rae ' r hout of ten rounds, while in tise Kid Rash will go against Joe Pati, | alm of this Willie Lewis, trainer of Frank Moran, who le aging Albert Badoud, the Europenm welterweight champion, intenda to keep thet borer busy ng the next fow weeks, Badoud ones Walter La’ the crack west side boxer, the Pioneer Spx x t Tuesday might n Saturday nigiit the beet opponent that can be seciied a: the Clermont Rink. Lewis has had numerous citer: of out-of-town bouta for | Badoud, but is awaiting mutcome of these toute here next week before signing for eny more Benny Leonard believes hie will knock out Fred: die Welsh and win the lightweight championship when they box at the Manhattan Casino on May ‘ored by the wire that D, J, Tortorich last riorioh follows: "Laon mpion on May 28, Am open to Leonard will meet Leonard wit be ling to meet al Harvard Star: AMBRID( f th Mass, May 19.—The latest Harvard unit of ambulance service, which will, sail on June 2 ance, nounced to day he sixteen’ men will de Harrie i, Dadmun, Captain at last year's football team L. er, and Paul Squibb, manager of the track team —— SBVEKYTIUING FOR Billiards FF Bowling Prices and Terms to Sult. REPAIRS BY EXPERT MECHANICS. 20 to AE Went i ate ce ee, De, EEO BS Wert B24 Bt._near Broadwar._ led SPORTING. & Gow's at RA. Cy 18 t.. Bd AY Frankie Conitre ey Adair, Adm 5 Clermont—W ill | Rus Alverss Mickey Munus, consuers To-Night, Palen Phil Blo Allle Nuck- AY S.Coy BK Lyn Hrandt tT YD TO-NKC Joe Cox orting Club, Adm. B06, ing Club, Adm, Bbo, MONDAY ND, ES, N nO P.M, LBS POM. Fron eached’ by’ trolley cn