The evening world. Newspaper, May 29, 1917, Page 6

' | $e: WELSH IN NINTH ROUND | | The new world’s lightweight ch 7, 1896, which places him just over real name {s Benjamin Leiner and five brothers and three sisters, two Billy Gibson, Welsh—by a knockout. have resulted in knockouts. Ritchie Mitchell. 133 pounds ring side. (Continued from First Page.) J feel just the same now as before 1 was champion, Somehow, now that I've got it, the title doesn't teem #0 big. “I intended to enlist in the aviation corps, but my mother worried so much about it—so | think I'll enlist in the Coast De- a STORY OF THE FIGHT; HOW THE LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE CHANGED HANDS. {n spite of the wild storm the Man- battan A. C. was well filled when the fight began, There were preliminaries nd many introductions, and when Jimmy Dunn, a former boxer, who had gone blind, was brought into the ring to appeal for ald, the spectators re- eponded so generously that in a few minutes over $500 had been collected for him, Carl Morris, Johnny Kil- bane, Johnny Dundee and others were presented to the impatiently waiting fight fans, and it was 10.30 when Benny Leonard, and a few minutes later, Champion Welsh came tn. Sergt, Kid MeCoy, in uniform, finished an appeal for volunteers for his National Guard regiment. The Kid woro a holster and @ big elx-shooter, which created quite an impression, At last the ring was cleared. The bell banged. And Freddy Welsh, re versing all precedent, hit Benny Leonard on the nose, Freddy started out to make @ rushing fight of it ap- parently, But in @ moment Leonard retaliated with a right hander that shook him and aroused some of his latent caution, WELSH IN DISTRESS EARLY IN FIGHT. From that time on it was a fight. Before long Leonard, with sharp, snappy blows, had Welsh in distress. Hut so well did the champion cover his condition during the rounds and in his corner, that Benny never felt quite sure of it. During the rests Marry Pollok, handling Welsh, glanced across the ring and emiled. And when each round began Welsh came out and reached for Benny's dower ribs with long reaching lefts, Leonard changed his tactics from moment to moment. Now he would rush and hit furiously, then he would dance and spar and look for openings that Welsh seldom left. ‘The champion looked worrled as barly as the second round. He had sawpled several hard smashes. And be knew that Benny had knocked out his last four opponents in a row. Prestige, for once, wasn't with the Ghampion. It was with the contend- tr, Welsh felt it. Time and again fhe was driven back from his attempts to take the aggressive, and forced to hbiock with all his skill, He did very little holding. When there was a clinch, even for an instant, Referee MoPartiand deftly parted the two men. ‘As the fight went on Welsh began to depsud more and more upon his blocking. He gave a wonderful ex- hibition of defense. Leonard tried and tried, and could find no hole large enough to drive a glove through. ‘Welsh even laughed, at times, as he escaped a swishing glove by half an inch. But it was hardly what one snight call a spontaneous expression of glee. It was only part of the Welsh ring propaganda, THUMBNAIL SKETCH OF LEONARD fighting at the Fairmont Club, which is conducted by his manager, His first fight ended as did last night's battle with He stopped Mickey Finnigan in three rounds in his first experience inside the squared circle. He started his K. Vackey Hommey here, then he jumped to Milwaukee, wh Then he put to sleep Charlie Kid Thomas in Philly, and Eddie Shannon in Brooklyn. He is five feet three inches and weighs THE jampion was born In this city April the twenty-one-year-old mark. His he is of Hebrew descent. He has of whom are married, He started His last five O. streak by fights stopping re he K, Od, everything. Many blows were caught TmeS on forearm or elbow, but a few went Lost through, and these had Freddy reel- | r Ing a little and looking in serious COVERING “TACTICS trouble when the bell rang. | HAD BENNY “Benny, Benny, this Is the sixth called a Leonard rooter despairing: GUESSING . two rounds later, when treddy was still blocking them. Leonard seemed - RENNIE AND MOTHER NINE LEONARD. The above picture, snapped to-day especially for The Evening World, shows Champion Leonard and his proud mother, “Ma taught me how to live the right way,” declares Benny. He gives his mother all the credit for his winning the lightwelght title. It has been the new champion’s custom to telephone his mother immedi ately after every fight. Mrs. Leonard, waiting at the family home on Lenox Avenye, heard from her son two minutes after the defeat of Welsh that he had won the world’s championship. Benny, as the picture shows, doesn't display the slightest trace of his title battle [ na EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, Copyrieht, 1917, by the Press Publish Co, MAY 29 LEONARD WINS TITLE FROM =BIEST SPOR TING PAGE IN NEW 1017. “a HOW BENNY LEONARD WON WORLD’S CHAMPIONSHIP (The New York Evening World), ae LOK, COMPLETELY ovT, HUNG SWAYING ON THE Sito . (1917 GOLF SEASON WILL BE ope OPENED TO-MORR | Most of the ¢ Clubs to Cont | to Red Cross Fund Money U ually Spent on Prizes | | | By William Abi HE crack of wood against golf balls will | to-morrow over many mil countryside as thousands of | formally open the 1917 season. club in the Metropolitan district arranged some sort of @ n to mark the occasion, And though devoting the day to play | the links, will not be unmindtul | war times. Most of the clubs cheerfully agreed to contribute to Red Cross the money that ord | would be used to purchase prises | the tournament winne! | No one but a golfer can fully clate the joy of opening 4 2 | senso of satisfaction that comes actually playing the game out in open after months of weary winter waiting. And to club members there comes the thrill of golfing over new holes, for at least two-thirds of golf clubs in the New York have made changes in thelr cot since the close of last season. Oakland Club, for instance, has over twelve holes. There also will be several new links opened for the first time to-morrow, | The Oak Ridge Club at Tuckahoe, Just iy outside New Rochelle, will form open fourteen holes of its course. club has scored almost a speedy course constraction, than C. W. Fox, one of the four ori English golf professionals who to this country nearly thirty ago. The Oak Ridge Club has expel bout $250,000 on its handsome qi house and hteen-hole course, |links follow the natural sweep of! rolling land and are ‘sumMiel | trapped to make even the best pl | watch their shots. | perhaps a fea course, Work on the course was gun last August. Fourteen holes hi been rushed and will be ready ¢ to-morrow. ‘The club alread] g membership, which inch many prominent New Yorkers, TAGGING ALI ALL ° THE BASES “Yanks Looked Like is ia Shas Black Horse in the Race, but It’s Turned Out to Be an Auto Race’—‘The National League Player Limit Seems to Be About Right. Three Seven-Handed Poker Games on Each Club.” By Arthur (‘‘Bugs’’) Baer. Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). | an was postponed Monday exc Monday, Knew the Itallans would make until the spaghetti crop was harvested. good if they could hold out The 1917 Miracle Man of baseball is the fan who can without inheriting pneumonia, ast Dine Innings to advise him. “You have him now," said Billy and gradually swayed over until [top rope supported the weight of In the fourth round Leonard brok Ais own home, He didn't go out to be letting down in the pace he had {floored him again. Thore was the carried. He ed almost discour-|kick of a mule in his blows now. NATIONAL COMMISH HAS BEANED THE BEAN BALL. aged, But ] 8 whipping a hard| Welsh took more time As he rose - punch around Freddy's guard now|fienny cjouted him down twice, so ‘ , and then, a hing . |that he fell into the ropes in Leonard's It didn't take the East long to unravel the Cubs! lead. These blows hurt y made Welsh | corner each time, one knee touching : k bena over, They were thé blows that|the floor, That Welsh was whipped Nationals, Tigers and Athletics are in the league just to make it an really won the fight. ‘now was shown by his act Only | even eight clubs. When the eighth round was over, |inatinet governed him, Craft, ean oy ig pie and Welsh was looking quite fresl | ning, for the first time in a long ring mecie ; : 21 tus iMY again, although bis knees had been | career, deserted him enureiy. Fb rose PIRATES SEEM TO HAVE Quit LIKE THE RUSSIAN ARMY shaking for a moment after a hard| without taking any count at all, body blow in the round befure, Leon- | forced himself up to meet the blows] — After having had a century plant at shortstop tt makes Pittsburgh ard went to bis corner and sat down, | that Leonard re ‘med upon him, Reel eak to have tv look at one-day bloomers, and Manager Billy Gibson jumped up| ing, he flung his arms over ibe ropes | ‘9% ¥e** %° ib the his Walter Johnson isn't putting half as much on the ball as the “Don't waste any more tim |body. His knees bent under him, He batters are. And Benny followed tnstr uctions, ree have nard, re- _ 7 ; he fg jabbed as Leonard cut AD Poymer pet i meres Been following Ump Klein's for a long while and can't him with a rush. Benny puic no him with crushing he blows ether he {s left or right heade tention to the jab. Welsh covered, | knocked Welsh furth the ropes, | figure whether 1 OF re . Laonand began hitting with both 59 that he hung there enurcly help- or ; naan’ ; hands, a knockout m every blow. He i ended, and limp. Uncle Sam proved that ho was willing to meet Germa alt way in drove Welsh all over the ring, for the nt handers Leonara had sent | peace and to go all the way in wa first time in actual 1 from an when Roteree Mc: - attack he couldn't oppose with either | Vartiand darted in to save the beaten Statistics to date show that the Giants have been in twenty-nine strength or #kill, In a moment Welsh | champ | oe and played eighteen of them was backed against the ropes. He | SENT BROTHER TO PHONE Hig) sames and Dias joie guarded as well as he could, but al Hares though hls chin was covered the (op | phe inst Ng Ala | Yanks looked like the black horse In the race, but it's turned out to of his head was exposed. At thatinoiny wew world's champlent over | Rpgerare: “bees moment Freddy needed a helmet, | °hnys Hew worden Y aa yee are RAP HAES. SLO. BUD 20, REAL HIE “pun and telephone to mother.” | So far as we can figure all that tho Braves’ pitchers are getting was knocked to his knees, [le took hour later Leonard was in| — on the ball is hickory and ash. to — joo! Unable to pick a flaw in the|part of the count a Junping up, " champion's guard, he began hitting | (ried to Ki Ue y fall would have been harder if they didn't happen to have a so fast that Welsh couldn't block fore he $i Ls "af onion Lauer's anne Oe 4 team like Digios to iand on A Hilly Gibson, Benny's manage 1 The Nationat League player limit scems to be about right. Three Does Your Husband Drink? afier ‘she Gghi that he approves of | geuen-handed poker ganice on each club Druggist Tells How to Cure “| war nit « hard boiled sige ‘erible blow. 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Aluert’ Ow : ee | andy r al boxer, In Mt Louls at Clneinnadt Detroit at Cleveland fin ¢ star bout at the Yorkville 8 Gy Chicago at Pittsbargh St, Louie at Chicago iy | harvested Looks like Connie Maok was determined to give the Red Sox 1760 yards handicap in a mile race. and | - ross. | Players don't get paid for training camp baseball, On this basts the kreat | Braves ain't ent 4 to salary for May MAJOR LEAGUE RESULTS National League. Club, Wile BC) Cluba, Wek Phile a ie ra Brookiyn..13 New York 18 11 ,621 Cincinnat 15 Chieago., 26.18 ‘Mt Loals, 17 ~~ American League, 1 P.C.\CubsW. LPC 688M, Loule, 15 22 405 18.667 Wasb'ton 13 21.382 13 .581|Deirolt.,.12 20 1375 18 .538| Phi ah 2 346 RESULTS OF GAMES YESTERDAY, Philadelphia (rain) ND. 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