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ee ee , Brain Rather Musoll Than ever Freddy Welsh j his hard hitting right fist, “I atudied Welsh in all hie fights for months,” Benny told me when | interviewed the cham- pion at his own fireside, after the bout. “I planned something to offset every move he uses, | didn't _know everything he had, (+ for when he felt he was being whipped he used tricks he hadn't shown before and he fooled me at first. But | studied him and let down a@ little for two or three rounds until | felt sure I could go right in and finish him.’ | wasn’t drawing it too fine, wmit- ing for the ninth round, because 1 knew 1 could get him round then, When I start took only a minute and fifteen seconds to finish the job. Of course, had worn him down with body blows before that and 1 know exactly what to do. He had lost just enough speed to make it easy to hit him by hitting fast- er than he could shift his guard, When | had him on the ropes after the fourth knockdown | kept hitting him with the right, The blows held him across the ropes so that he couldn't fall. As guard was down at last the Followers of Boxing in New York State Can Be Proud of Benny} Leonard, Their New Cham- pion, Who Won Title by His His world, owes his victory over to his brain more than to his supple muscles and ‘THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1917. : BEST SPOR TING PAGE IN NEW YORK HEADWORK MADE LEONARD WORLD'S CHAMPION (The New York Evening World.) Copyright, 1911, by the Preas Publisiing Co, é WHEN Weis OVERED CHIN AnD4 Bopy AND STAED, 3 LEONARD SHOT 4 v HARD RIGHT To HIS Omarriaat. 1917, Wy he Prem Pabilshing Ov Tear y (snocrwie iY ‘ (The New vening World). OWN . ENNY LBONARD, the new Wien Wersa Rien Ughtweignt champion of the To CLINCH BENNY KNOCKED HiS ARMS DeOwn AND Sit -STEPPRD. “Tite PUNCH THAT WORK WELOH Dowll +-- WHEN LEONARD couLDN'T GET THROUGH WELEH'S GUARD HE POUNDED AT WELSH'S Gloves To KEEP HIS GUARD HIGH - === - 5 = --5 555° AND THEN SUDDENLY WHIPPED « LEFT INTO THE BobY Batorne Weis COULD DROP HIS ARMS. ANOTHER THRONE ABDICATED + | | “The Giants Had the Phils Groggy in the Morning, and in the Afternoon They Slipped ’Em Mercy Shrapnel” —“The Yanks Dragged the Athletics Away From | Two Games Over in Philadelphia.” ate eae | By Arthur (‘‘Bugs’’) Baer. Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) i ae Phils abdicated from the throne yesterday, but not willingly. Like old Czar Nick, the Phils resigned by request. The Revolu- tlouary Party was headed by Premier McGrawowitch. The Glants | didn’t turn the Phils Into peasants without a struggle. They had to spill | them twice before they would stay put. We beat ‘em in the morning to work up au appetite for dinner, and we slapped them down in the aftes- | noon to get an appetite for supper. The Phils are lucky that we don eat more than two big meals a day, ‘ | The Mexican bandits have a neat litt! WELSH TRIED To HOLD LEONARD OFF WITH JABS. AT THE Boby .-. WHEN HE FOUND THEY DIDN'T RT BSNNY L@ANED AGAINST THEM q NAIL WELSH BEFORE HE CouLD | WITHDRAW OR. COVER. aaa, | WITH RIGHT HANDERS BENAY Ire WELSH HUNG ON THE ores Outi te WAS COMPLETELY OUT. metho of croaking the wounded which Is very stylish on the wrong side of thé Rio Grande. When the victim isn't ferrying the Styx swift enough to suit ‘em, they slip the | bouts. However, Benny isn't going| gloves with his lefthand and instant-| departing gent a little pill they call the mercy shot hat makes the to follow Welsh’s trail. victim leave faster than a mushroom arrives, Giants had Phils » 18|ly whipped the same hand down and . | hooked it into Welsh's body, just be- his” protecting elbows. Welsh bove Holiday Racegoers See something he values groggy in the shrapnel. mon morning War is w nd in the afternoon they slipped ‘em the 1 erey GOLFERS RASE - OVER $100,000 Record Number of Pla: Crowd the Various Courses in Metropolitan District. Tt was a big day in the golf world, in fact, probably the biggest In the | history of the sport. Not omly was it a big day, athletically speaking, ‘\for the fine weather brought out large army of players, but finam it was one grand success. It is mated that over $100,000 was neatti jwith which the Metropolitan/@olt As- [sociation is to purchase a /fotilla of jambulances for the Red Gros, | ‘The banner performance Was Nassau Country Club at Gi ve. It is reported that over $5,000 was raised there. The cost of an am- |bulafice is about $1,600 and the elub [Proposes to send three to France. ‘Two members of the club are already in France, in the ambulance work, |Lewis Murdock and Bertram Buck- |nell, and a third, Harold Maxwell jr., {leaves for nee next week, Be jcause of having three men at the }front the club wants to send three ambulances, | All the courses in the metropolitan {district were crowded and some good were turned in pibsiaiy Sitcsaer en | BELMONT PARK ENTRIES. | BELMONT PARK, N. RST WACK. For two-y rales on, 5 Ballast, Mia; Ed carols and tp ut two tales. th: visa ah De iat ist) Saw Nandfea to if ih and womas ica I, 8 I aid, Leonard won the ed unable to avold that blow and The morning game was a good game for a morning. It is a good T G t y | h hb a thd question was whether he world's champlonship by using y wed It consta omen for our success in the war to see 5,000 New Yorkers able to get Wo rea oro ug re s Limed. Weather lear would slide down to the floor and his brain, Closely watching} again he beat mt Freddy's up in time to lamp a morning game. The Germans ha untidy t be counted out, or the referee every move made by both fighters, 1] Gouid drop his arma. The blow. w habit of f t. Over 35,000 fans smuggled B Pi = would step in to save him from w much of the “Inside stuff” that] ried Welsh, but he couldn't stop it| themselves into the works in the afternoon to lamp the Giants. The erjorma eimon ar. LOUISVILLE ENTRIES. injury. 1 stopped hitting him oh | jurhaps excaped the observation of] without leaving his chin open to at- game was terribly public. es 7 the chin lie avarabe onl0oker tack, Gradually the body punishment In both ballyhoos the Phils finished on the southern end of the scores. ——.—_ ; ouiavi Rr 7 dl erage oe - ., two! vay * dat times Giant a x el > e) could gz while 2 ee t OU ISVT HB, iy y 3 on Met te bane h The blow that srought Welsh down | sty fin legs ahake after a hard Blt | wore cathe wrage eine very clever, Wo bet they could sing while they Campfire Shows Wonderful) was fying torresteain hita from wine {ties for to-worrow't races are ae fol exactly the same way, hanging | —that took away his speed so that | had janded. This 1s usually the first : ning to h Pit. Lows . to vd so that Thad Ie This I ’ la aa td Piha aA ata 16 too far off. There was no Whit- | "Mier nace--claimine; $000; maldiael him on the ropes and finishing | ne fell victim to & knockdown punch] min of «boxers collapse patie Yanks dragged the Athiction away trom two games over tn Race in First Appearance of| ney representative in the Juvenite and yohliit f rsdn a Bas Be was @ brow in the pit of the stomac BS ntladel; Losing to the A's is getting tougher every day, Nothing Seg q oulli Ji y all br the best ae far s 1a) Nim Rimes, AOE That was about all the new cham-/It wasn't just one blow, but rather a HEN W und that BIE much resulted from the victory. ‘The Yanks are aii iy Gey ANotung| Season, and Lucullite Wins nt Interests are concerned that 1), Se Aare tt pion had to say for himself, He's al Bering of Hows delivered after Lean Buand was no longer perfec’ League. The A's were in the second division before the twin beatings.| Juvenile Like CHMOD Doane seats caone ue anees wait modest little fellow. He doesn't| tense. For a long time Welsh man he tried a new stunt himself. Now they are a trifle more second dlvisionish mn, q starters,’ Rosie won the first. event \ ” boast about what he has done or what| aged to keep out of immediate danger |e bent low and reached for Lvon- ——--— Among Two-Year-Olds | J marvel, and unless all % he 1s going to do, by blocking with extreme cleverness |ard’s stomach with long lefts. He The Braves busted the Robins twice in the aqme lovality. Robby's | ns are wrong, she Will make 9700; ae Die fellowers of boxing in New oe ae real Bahl hg landed, and Benny didn't make any craft proved they could take two torpedoes and still float, The By Vincent Treanor (etetneats »w he is in a race, if they Tels Gg witette 1a ‘ » danger of “ope Sal j : . ever hook up. ronson, 104 Wa York State can be proud of their) His jaw was well cuarded and so was | Sreat effort to avoid the punches.| Boston bunch celebrated Decoration Day by hanging two wreaths WO probable thoroughbred ae a ina Oe new champion. Benny Leonard is [a body, bys, love, block. with nth hegre Wile Weir sabia er rorireg on the Brooklyn fans’ pennant masoleum. Losing tio games in one ‘ he die a ° isl an eh is Hot Witeenan@latiok unaw. no r 1 SO00F” Dene ; if ervice | forearms. nen the change joments ety, and every min- ' ; ; : " nO weresees bounds when Campfire ran past the 1 going to volunteer for army service! Taonard began to get thr Ute he could stall brought the end ot} day ts Manager Robinson's idea of poor tun mont Park by a bi AY| eite dn dtonL in themonoweee: tei pext week. He is anxious to have| guard by using superior sn the bout nearer, All he wanted was « apa nihil crowd yeate ‘They are Au Wap. la went our tothe pada the day come when he can wear the a shade faster than Welsh chanee to hear the last bell ring, with Ty Cobb Js slowing up. He bunted the other a A the oatohor Unelt tw roid I eth oled out und iniform and mu h behine he flag. | thing. So he hit two or thre the tithe still in his possess because \s - vd 23 sti ea Ree OMe y , eee Nokes a perculs ser . ee t ti Benny's patriotism is genuine, And|at Welsh's head. ‘There was there wan no referee's decision, | easily threw him out at second. Yea bo 1 won the season's first real PROG On af t stands out all the prominent-|a chance that Henny might sli Then 1 rd solved that trick, He — - r two-year-olds in a romp, and R,| When Campfire was fir y becaure, as new lightwel m-| through, which Welsh knew would bo” had felt Welsh’s Jabs and knew. there Yanks had to crawl fifteen innings to persuade A's to The Wilson jr.'a Campfire, last year's] to Trarher Tom Hreatey 1 pion of the world, becom: -| disastrous, 8 elsh brought his was no sting in them, So, when Welsh | Athletica a. tting absentminde \ Mint ae r aie ‘ously popular because he his} guard higher and held hix gloves jabhed. again he tly: senna bapa o star among the two-year-olds, Of } sittuaively. | t 0 out the Eng! loser to make the 0 4 amalle i bel , ° Wo victories, Campfire's was pernaps |Camptire first,” he ex; title by, knocking, out the English| gloser to make the openings smaller. | yy inst ‘the punch ‘and drove. a Boston continued thelr affable habit of gyping the Nationals out of {W9 Victories, Campfire’s was pernans| Campane Ih miei In @ few months by appearing on the| more. Ing brought Welsh's guard | {67 Yack Muth the le It was easier | baseball games, The Washington bunch almost won both games, but |" more impressive, He was making |turned to stage and taking on a series of short! high, Bemy struck at the guarding | \Wiiayh Welw. bent over that way, | then, Von Kluck was only twenty miles from Paris Nis fret th ar-old appearance 9 ner eee nance * ~ the season, meet among others, | ha too. —==== = | for ive up the Jab Robins couldn't scor ghteen innings. They are having an some of the fastest horses of the| Mascot for Campi . ambala has thickened an W H didn't do much clinching! @ftendance Irft on the bases every day, handicap division, According to tae} a jot since year, but he his was partly because ref- ieee scale he was in receipt of two pounds! same even-tempered horse. ving PERFECT MUN SIN ran MUGREUREA’ Geis ak Athletics and Robins were both slackers on rung, neither team from Stromboli and gave weish: to{huffles him, Johnny MeTaxs TTING business, and broke up every. at-| Been da) eversibing alse Inthe race, When iti hier i his madie one st | taint to HeldckG noon (ae. Breddv'e| i came to running, the Wilson colt| hie’ head it little Jockey's ests aaa iitnie Pa All the censure for the evening victory goes to Ferd Schupp, emphasized his greatness by running | reach and loo! down on him as — Cader’ kat’ beck ce] MMe Onenlnly Shaken a ionan Ten aren, The Biante warsell inks first \avery gtap of the wag in aithas final or MAYER Cur tke cleo Ga Tn because Leonard had a remedy for place by strafing Alexander, the pitching duke. That certainly is second ‘positio: 4 then standIng o7| We've got a big job on.” is y the clinching too. It was a simple| — getting two big lumps of sugar in your coffee. peer sine eat Peau al — : | Pi . 8 |remedy. ‘Every time Welsh dived 'n gamester, For awhile George Lotts| MONTREAL ENTRIES, | ‘Shift’ eo le lear ester. For awhile . ry with arms extended Leonard e There were fourteen big league yesterday, or rather, |® 4 peso ccal Gears mera smueed tabard. prota cts eames Ur the Hie Tekenae speedy Ally Jullal "47 | DORVAL RAGE ERAGE wowenmns, | Cee bed. ‘This not only broke up Welst's to Campfire, but when tt came to a| jw onVAl Ke iets You will do it more easily Jattempt to hold, but left him open AURRUSH OF ALGMIRET li &OOKr 0 | wa eatae ate ox: fl and quietly if the gear if . ep that Leonard was swift mstitt 4 ona J Ray Ns IAC 9500 cases contain in. delivering : fi F | ning of the ninth round, was studied | Mer ib ctalled nothing’ meat |well, Welsh was still ‘covering his| ‘The Clermont Club tn Brooklyn 1s the | Broo: jeeks ago, is well again and he goter it availed nothing against] ; | Jaw perfectly, and it was almost im- only club | “ater New York conduct: | ager to: Woes sno: thine Wa Satie | > sha. ci | esl in Mtn” detente, JO a th Granta Dew York conto i Gomorra im. | son MecTaart had to shake, ap | SiS Automobile ja flurry of hard hitting, beating the |!” ROR: SROW. SOUR GRABS 7 Niclous cracks of the wh re alll | RAD AcE |xuard down, Many of his blows stop: |Callahan, Brooklyn's foremost light- att ta, more thee ihely thet mpfire needed and he was far trom | var om awl in LUBRICANTS bed on Welsh's | glov but some | weight, will box Johnny Harvey, who Sadan (ha tee cae a higiaty at the finish, Stromboli | /tov No Dixon's are the cheapest in | yank inreven,. tals ade Walsh 'xnocked out Joe Rivers, the Mexican, In| and Carl Moris which ie dup a trifle lame after the snce, | the long run, They cost more, ho that even seat: i Overy his last ring engagement. ‘This sloulo | te tare 8 next Monday nigit, thy (and for a while Trainer alse but you only need to fill the tok him and drove him back, Ph. | Breve one of the hardest fought bouts of | Doran, manager of Moras, has alrend was worrled lest the aadicap cases once a year—very little guard left the side co” his head |the season, a both lads are of the sort | slo” MePartiand to inte P OWaVER: ae fey ; trouble, Leonard, who hits a ter: that enjoy slugging from bell to bell, set rainer's ars X ie rore dealer for, the ay 1 4 ' rifle ttt Saray : NEAL 4 Iked i th ia piven Dixon Lu ating Chart en hooked a hard. one without taking step backward, =F walked out of his Min or oh cm the tamnis aaaee be icaihe ae was put away for t rr RA JOSEPH DIXON CRUCIBLE CO, HY swelter ; and keep you comfortable? 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The form-fittin 4 the garment. him down for the first 7 Having tried ‘al times to clinch « mated | &: Bide ids and Form-fitting knitted and loose-fitting woven garments h was badly du tid when he | Seasie Wiest, the feat cat Sick Om | vill go agalnnt Frenkie Kid Willla fast tablishe him 8 smone the att, got Up, after a few seconds, his guard | % Newer Coartlo Dessverick, mateh-| tri, fetter of the Brons, while ta ¢ +m not T EST of the two-year-olds, i ; fe Wan br He was knocked down| SSarui today iu slgsing up’ thie pelt Dee, Allie N o has teen doing wane oot fight-| although it ia a Wit early to claim | in the summer heat rete en inore (h quick succession. | sitck tended the metch ty making ihe fisbusre 6] i! eee ee oe ee et ayary thing its : 1.8 se the rth time he was! tiattering offer to tattle and as thelr menagere | dep, Henmn Lucia race that was remarkably when sheer, cool, non-chafing, wily teross the ropes in| wece perfectly willing they immediately signed | head iP tthe swerving which, uaually | Seritati ey Pt a by a hard right) sttictes calling for their protege to meet in b the bentamn free from swerving which usually non-irritating, perfect-fitting Munsing- | Bat auite out yet, and sited both Ge. mest Torcder' vgn’ * | la matched to box Ki marks races down the straightaway Tod ey Ee ‘ ‘ ss alia! close and ‘mmere | F fe Be o ma r i wear Union Suits will bring you relief Nat Nik taethodialip witht memes | sa acuies the ciclteauay op perniaetes | TMcntal eee |Keeping him hung there over the top| y, ¥.. and Sobller Hartfield, the plucky. rook. | Nattan, which takes rope Hy this time: Welatt wee ton] N.Y. eee ea tn ta | Cb toa med ——— Stee a eS ne nsclous and entirely without de-| squared ar im ine | the crack went aide boxer AGUE STANDING athletic garments come in conse, Leonard's rights were. still | ewey nedy be oi ee A woven fabrics of fine quality olng | when | Retore McDartland | the Bradway 8. 0. of Brvokin im the feature | Froslie Resse, the promising Tiron a > rs pede sa ae sip Sy th) stepped between and ht the un-| event. Gatthe hae not fough ome time and | weight, will prdably not be able to box 70 i A ely sized and carefully nsclous Welsh under the arms ‘o| he claims thet the rest will enable bit to fig: {or three weeks, as be hurt bis band in scoring an National League. American League. » nim from falling, Tt was the | veer than ever before, feat etors orer Res Wot 6k the Bede |] wit wc, |Cube W.l Pll LECiGuL’ w a . a nl sehde > | " m apenas hay ry - on 5 | Broo 17 433 ‘St. Louis. .15 23.3! knitted garments may be had in . that, We lah and his manag sips, geneeie: bigeron oo cater | merle. ee se " oe ae ot one ne ee A _ aeri 12 17 414 | Chicago. poten “2 i” fabrics so sheer and light they weigh but a few ounces to |in-a aportamaniixe fashion hot; fen ts tai inner es esias an ot emits mates Coleaga.. 28 16 1610 |Cincionat! 16 24 .400|| New York Phila,» 43 23 361 testing that Welsh is still champion | Daten. ©., for Lamis to mect Jack Britton ta a - Bt. Louis..19 16 .543 | Pitts'gh.,.12 25.224. 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