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A LL WON LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE Leonard Is First Hebrew and First New Yorker to Lead oC There Have Been Champions of Irish, French, Swiss, Danish, German, English and Negro Extraction— Days of Irish or Irish-American Superiority Long Since Passed. Ceprright, 1917. by the Pree Publishing Oo. (The New York Bvening World ENNY LEONARD, lightweight champion of the world by virtue of hav- ing knocked out Freddy Welsh, is the first Hebrew to hold that title. ‘There have been other champions of Hebrew blood since the time of Mendoza, Abe Attell, featherweight ~ v) 7 champion, was a corking fighter and e one of the best boxers in the world eo at any weight. There have been «reat Hebrew fighters in all classes, but no lightweight champions before Benny. Which suggests that no race or nationality has been overwhelmingly in the lead among the lightweights. SATURDAY, JUNE rns Sa TING PAGE IN NEW YORK MONOPOLIZED LIGHTWEIGHT HONORS Publishing Co. (The New York Bvening World). eM nabs THE EVENING WORLD, BEST SPOR NO RACE HAS TAT wee ae Copyright, 1917, by The Pre ‘The days when everyone thought the Irish were vastly superior to all others passed long ago, Jack McAuliffe was Irish, or Irish-American, when he held the lightweight title. But after McAullffe’s retirement the next to work up to the top of the class as a ‘tle fellow named Lavigne, and known the world over as “Kid” Lavigne. ae Kid began fighting among the lumber camps in Michigan. He fought Saginaw, his home town, and then began to work his way down into uloago and a few other Middle Western citios before going toward the ast. In New York he startled the fight fans of that day and was soon warded as the best lightweight in America. Lavigne went to England en and fought Dick Burge. This Burge had been English lightweight ‘ampion, but had grown out of the class. Lavigne and Burge were billed + the National Sporting Club as contenders for the world’s lightweight tle, Burge was actually a middleweight hen he entered the ring, and he ro-|jost the lightweight title to Freddy sed to Weigh in, Lavigne was within| Welsh in Engiand. Welsh (whose S pounds. Lavigne knocked Burge| tight name is Fred Thomas) is a it after @ desperate fight, establish- ms, S ena k ee ae eee ampion when he took the decision © & clear claim to the lightweight | on pointe over Ritchie, Welsh loft more. Lavigne was an American of| ngiand during the war, shortly be- ‘ench parentase. After Lavigne/fore conscription began, and re- ‘mé Frank Erne, who won the light-| turned to the United Stites, where | bight title from the Saginaw Kid on| Ne, Nad boxed for three or four years ‘ints in a twenty-five-round batue, | POfore. me was of Swiss parentage and|FIRST HEBREW CHAMPION— rth, brought up in America, He was| FIRST N. Y. CHAMPION, TOO, Wonderfully clever boxer anda! Lenny Leonard, who knocked sat-class fighter, too, eet ut i es rounds @ few days Brme lost the title to Joe Gans,| SF Is an American of Hebrew par- se, born and brought up in Ni ist what tribe Gans descended trom| York, He Is New York's first cham flon’t know. He had the features of] pion, Like Ritchie, Leonard has vol. 4 Arab, but he was of cleun-strain Pateored, for eave service in the Dlood, Lik: thoroughbred | War. js right name is Benny Be Gans thowed bresdinu: ie | Leiner. ‘The name “Leonard” was ‘ag an American negro, and perhaps| he result of @ natural mistake. Wameestors were African chief Whon Benny, in his firat fugnt, told LL THE WAY FROM AFRICA 70 | toe announcer his name, the official DENMARK. happened to win in sensational style ing Nelson took the title away| the name stuck to him, Joe Gans. Nelson was of Danish| There was one other who had a ood, descended from many genera-| fairly good claim to the lightweight yns of sea fighters and from the| title—Jimmy Britt of San Francisco. eaded Northmen who raided Eng-| Britt waa born in Frisco, of Irish- France and the countries of the| American parentage. He claimed the rranean centuries ago. Bat was| title when Gans, having out. born fighting man, gifted with| grown the class temporarily, was endurance, recuperating | fighting welters and refusing to make iwer and nelf confidence. He fought|the lehtweicht mit, Britt fought ans a fierce forty-two-round battle| several desperate battles with Nol- Goldtield. Gans was forced to train| son, in the last of which he beat the wn and weigh in with fighting tox’ Dane badly in twenty rounds, short- pounds ringside for that ly before Nelson knocked out Gans ght, he was nearer the welter- | an@ became champion. eight class when he began to take Benny Learn, Te First HEBREW LIGHTWEIGHT GHAMPION . Pe ahaa ALEX SMITH-NICHOLS VS. TRAVERS-KIRKBY AT WYKAGYL TO-MORROW, A golf foursome that should fur- nish all the thrills of m bitter links battle will be staged to-morrow at the Wykagyl Club at New Rochelle between Alex Smith and Gil Nichols, 1 of star professionals, and Jerry Travers and Oswald Kirkby, probably the Amateur combination that could be raised in the East. be 36 holes, the first round starting at 10 o'clock. BIG LEAGUE GOSSIP Christy Mathewson, Former Star of Giants and Manager of Cincigmati Reda Slowing Up in Baseball Discussed by Matty—Greatest Stars of Big Leagues Have Best Years From Twenty-five to Twen- ty-Seven—Players Never Admit They Are Slowing Up, but Managers Usually Notice It. The match will made it “Leonard,” and as Benny | kindly to the hilly Wykagyl expects to club his way around to- @ new record and ine ther decision over letes should for fighting Is a| form—more Now he will send out his scouts to the bushes and tag thos: the examiners think fit and able to take their places in |The age—twenty-one through thirty —has caused much discussion, some folks claiming that older men should identally earn a Wykagyl pro. ‘The match will be for the benefit American Red Cross. attors will be taxed $1 Leagues have their best years from twenty-five to euty-seven. Ty Cobb celebrated his ‘The tourna- golfers will take the opportunity to- of seeing a rattling good mateh and helping along a worthy aker Was at top speed in 1916, Just than Ty at his height and younger recommended nineteen twenty-seven, ‘Tho records f weight the strain injured him and as responsible for his collapso a uple of years later, At Goldfield : But when he MF Neloun ‘in’ San Francisco, next W8 jon Pollock and Gossi ne, he was worn down and knocked c {tf seventeen rounds, Nelaon| The Pioneer Sporting Club and the ve Gans a return battle two months | rairmont A. C, : fer and knocked him out In twenty | are the clubs in Manha @ rounds. son was invincible |t@m which will conduct shows to-night. ile bis stamina lasted, but in the| Bartley Madden of the weet side, who he cracked, like all the others, Wolgast, who succeeded Nelson by recently knocked out Joe Cox, will box sating him In forty rounds at Port} Bil Brennan, the Chicago knockout lehmond, Cal, was of Germ par- lartiat, in the n event at the Forty- . He was the first champion Of} fourth Street Club, and Joo Mooney and | blood, Wolgast, was dark-| johnny ge - x ‘adk-haired, sullen and savage in the . 0 he Freee eee fenting whirlwind, |{Wo well-kngwn slugging artists, Willle Meat Witte champion until he had | Beecher of ‘the oast aldo and Johnny Mperation for appendicitis, which | Harvey of Harlem, who recently knocked femed to affect his lighting when he/out Mexican Joe Rivers, will meet jgan again months later. olgast| There'll also be two six-round bouts newed his career by fighting four) between Bill Curley and Young Greenoy, Bes” Geary tiatene, wna | ste lene Glivey end Jack Beecher med ary Steffens, w Socata Might under the name of “Wille itehie.” Ritchie had much the be ¥ of the four-round fight and gave ‘olgast a severe beating, To even @ score, Ad met Ritchie in w long | ght, Ritchie hammered Wolgast une dased and realizing impending d " : it the “Fighting “Dutchman” re- Key pe aie Na Ges erties to bes imtad to tactics of the submarine | Mm st Clersund July 4. but Benny won't sign, fihe hit Ritchie low repeatediy | {Mush offered & guarantes 000, until xd lost the fight by being dinquall am givee him permission, 1d for fouling. There is some German blood tn Itohie too. He, however, is 4 native detphia will box at the Harlem 9; «from Mo ing Club owe y night, Leonard ia now in (hat ho will be allowed to t fistle engagements before going to the fil a few Although many manager of clube in various J ecctiona of the countey tried for te I Merican and an enthusiastic patriot. |" mr tosiyse ike Gidbone, the Ut. Pes ast now he is on the Pacific Coasts | oirce good batiler in his class i fi Megs taining for the Aviation Corps, He ot bation in bis clams tm © lied ft business in Chicago shortly after Deginning of the war to enlist in s home Btate, Ritchie Was a fighting champion fter_ winning the he went to ew York and took on Leach Cross, ho was known then as the most wmerous of al puneed that he w eachie—and he 4 eachle at his own Geors: Castle, Pa, for boing show to b ers, He An-| 156 pounds, weig een Id slug with | terug the ring He beat ~ me. Rit —_—_—_—_—_—_—_—X_ MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS |) National League. \ American League, W.L. P.C.)Clubs W.L PAC.) Clubs W.L. PC.) Clubs, Phils .....25 14 .64)/Cincinnadl 21 27 438 | Bosion.,,.29 14 .074| Detrolt New York 24 Brookiyn..15 21 417 | Chicago, 81 15 .674|44. Lous, Cileago...28 19 596 Boston. on 9 New York 24 19 O68) Wash'ton. 17 25 Pi Leols.. 4 “646| Pitta’gh...15 28.340 || Cleveland 25 24 6101 )*alla.. RESULTS OF GAMES YESTERDAY, Dew York, 7; Cleveland, 4 ewok, 7; Horton, 4, Chicago, 11; Washingion, 4 © Louie, 11) Philadelphia, 2, i GAMES TO-DAY. ew York at Chicago Cleveland ai New Tork, Brooklyn at Cincinnati. Detrolt at Boston, Boston ot Pittsburgh. ‘Chicago at Washingion, Philadeiphis at St. Louis, Dt. Loale at Philadeiphia, records run consistently along this line. jturf with his Spaidings at each c! SUSPEND M'GRAW. FOR USING FISTS ON UMPIRE BYRON seven, he seems to slow up— perhaps not perceptibly, perhapy not end for weeting Joo Welling at the Bt ©, on Thurwtay night, y his manager war aigued up to-day Sootty Monteith, his record over club on the ni a batter, he will find i out so many hits or ho {# not beati he seeured a koockout over him in the firvt can’t get my start the way I the mated to-day after Jimmy Jobn- | Ae Jack Dillon in a i | fight with Ump By League Acts Quickly After Cincinnati Fight. take and get himself, and, when bh on June 20 at the ub of Brooklyn, ¢ would try to ale th Nattling Lavinaky, does begin to | reeives hia speed is lacking | nd one to find It] John J. McGraw, manager of the Benny Leovert and Jounny Nelson of Phila | y time in signin Waeatington making arrangements to enlist, It a! great old gud couldn't step as fast He found he had Giants, when | with Umpire Byron yesterday The trouble between making god in bouts in Hoxton and other In Maswaclanetin which he use nis means } with Cincinaat! rtstop patrol more | made @ questionable decicion on Rob- jants' manager protested [delphian was in bad shape at times,|the |Dufty could not register a knockdown. | joys’ Club. tnd | Yehemently half of the interfered with York short- ninth Chase » could take | ke a wild throw erate K. O, Lew Willlams in the ahan In the clubhouse ihisaieranen ft 1} 1 Ue at | will tackle Kid Raymon: other prelim varies will and [ would have shortstop from the game, | anwhile, was watching he argument through the gates lead- | When Byron hie! Jonny Dunder, who recetved 81.000 for ie und it was with reg IT hate to see| ing to the clubhouse, run was scored he and said sarcastically you can walk on now; the game is over.” n McGraw Is neve your orders. to talk with with Kakdie Kid Mt wate of O'Dowd, | my players, Byron then said he | TUN oUt of Haltimor with Hergy in hear you were were run out of Balt- * replied the umptre McGraw then struck Byron in the| night Young Reotor of Jer A free-for-all fight followed | fant te and club attendants | 1b when the tween players — arrived om the scene, Fieanre ERNE Was oF SWISS Descent. Kid Laniene's PARENTS WERE FRENCH . “Yesterday at the Polo Grounds the Walking Drummers fy) ovens, pur what it ‘The Giants-Reds Con-|'t makes up in Displayed Their Samples” — test Was Different From the Yanks’ Spasm; the ‘,,..,. Game Was a Chinning Regatta.” By Arthur (Bugs’’) Baer. Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). WADE 70 OROER DAY FOR THE SUBURBAN "AT BELMONT PAK |Track Fast Instead of Heavy Going Expected—The Finn Is Favorite. SUBURBAN FIELD. Th entries, weights and prob- abl® jockeys follow: The Finn, 5..... Stromboli, 6.. *Ropts, 6. *Ed Cramp, 5. Spur, 4... Pickens ...129 .Batwell ...126 Loftus .....12% Buxton ....119 O'Brien ...118 Rorrow, & «Robinson ..115 Chicklet, 5... Keogh .....118 Daddy's Choice, 4..A. Collins... 99 Air Man, 4.. -McAtee .... 96 Boots and Ed Crump coupled Macomber entry. By Vincent Treanor. Everything was in tiptop shape down at Belmont Park to-day for the thirty-first renewal of classic suburban H Instead of rain {and a heavy track, which had been expected, the weather man provided la perfect day. The track, which had been a bit slow, was as fast as the proverbial tning this morning overnight to face the barrier in the |historic stake, This is not the big- gest field that has ever etriven fo cks in size There is a pos- 4 starters, possibly nd pont’ good three-year- sibility too jola H S In races of such | yortance as the Suburban small fields are preferre’ by horsemen for reagon that the duce the chances of bad racing lly when | luck, which is always associated with he broke the mile record may be correct. That ts, just as correct as an overcrowded event, Often under Wreor exports who claim that George Bonhag walked ile a walking expert can be. From a skullpoint all alking is illegal. these conditio the best horse is The hoofing sharps assert that Bonhag walks heel and toe, when he should beaten for lack of racing room, amble toe and h There are as many different styles aa there are Smiths in the telephone book, Yesterday at the Polo Grounds the walking drummers displayed their samples, They didn’t sell anything, but the customers saw all the new styles. Bagby, Gould and Caldwell were in ankle excursions | ‘The Finn was the early favortte for the race, He is as good as can be from a condition standpoint. He wilder than a rumor with a busted rudder, and there were fourteén different Won his last start very ereditably walking exhibitions. and has since worked in a manner Graney was the first toe tourist off the mark. He walks with a sort of | highly pleasing to his trainer, Ex violin case action, Pedestrian High was the next to fill his sails and scud Heffner. his veteran and past mas- away. Having waited for four balls, he walked like a waiter, All that waster in the work of conditioning horses missing was a bowl of soup to stick his index thumb in, Hoofer Pipp got the next zone permit and his boots looked like a boat race as he picked ‘em up and set ‘em down carefully, Baker was the next ankler to beat the summed up The Finn's chances tike this barrier, and he rattled down the base lines with all the velocity of an| “Iam a hard man to please when it anchored houseboat, Frank's footwork entities him to qualify as an expert Comes to getting @ horse ready for a chess player, Frank turtle. He uses the w propulsion now so etyll Magee got the office and pirouetted along with a fancy drop stitch toe action Hughie High, the walking delegate, popped up 4 to first. That was too heats for the del from acratch and put out. Maisel shakes a mean Regal, but the other contestants had too wholesale a start on him. Frank Baker finished almost a boot length in front of him, which is some distance measured by Frank's dogs. All this walking was published in one Inning. There were se two of which were Hughie High, The walking experts present lu of the most intr! nped some the total list of entrie Chapman, Speaker, Hendryx and Ho walker of the old school, walking ard, Chapman is a very conservat ery close to th lasted to the terrace by a big league set of kicks, Hendryx and Howard arc more inclined to be radical pedalists of the elbows very useful in ac prating their speed, Boiling it down to capsule form, the baseball game was one of the finest walking tournaments ever run off at the Polo Works, It was an ankle clinic from soup to finish, The rest of the game was ag dull as a boarding house knife. The Yanks got seven runs in the first inning, but didn’t score after that. They had walked them- selves out The Giant-Reds contest wa game was a chinning r a, The players coagul mice around Which is an unfortunate co ‘on and wrote a | rhymes with ump, So does bump. John off Byron's Jaw and knocked him loose fro an encore, Giants lost the game and skidded out of firat place. Bernie Wefers Jr. in May ( Fight Results ) With an entry numbering ov the best metropolitan athl annual Duty Outpoints wey. Asaocl Jimmie Duffy, the crack west side lightweight, the Harlem after a two months’ rest, outpointing die Dorsey of Philadelphia, Duffy was the agere: the cleaner blows, Although the Phila-|Wefers jr. will start from acrateh ix * with Georgie Dernell of the 4 around the parison, Me! fon, which will be held at ‘eltic Park to-morrow afternoon, prom: w York Athletic Club will have fit: he weights were; Duffy, 134 pounds; — sent: He pees BLUE BONNET ENTRIES. Alberts Defeats Williams, Johnny Kid Alberts of Elizabeth de-) BLUE BONNET RACER TRACK MONTREAL, Can. Jun The en rles for Monday's races are as fol an- derbilt A. C. last night. In the oth bout Kid Tango knocks’ out Marty |low Wilson in the second round, — 1 Shannon Recetves Dec is PROVIDEN R. 1, June 9.—Eday | jShannon of San Francisco received the d referee's decision over Mickey Donley | sa: x d si Ah ot Newark in twelve rounds here las ‘ wna night, Promoter Jack Doherty after | | Fi umn, OT: deity 8 Jthe bout matched Shannon to mee. 10. JWillie Jackson of New York for Eution for the twelve rounds here June Chip Outroughs K. 0. RACINE, Wis, June Brown was on his feet last os his Dalsimers off the ground as recklessly as a | big Iking beam method of walking, the popular means of Finn's condition just as he goes to h among grizzlies and ferryboats, Then Walker in and flatwheeled down gate in one Inning. Maisel started : alked #0 fast that he got to first base without being capper V« en entries, carpet and embossing the aerne i Speaker 1s a robust hiker, being bal- | }0rse The Finn will bave to Deat, am Langford type, finding their different from the Yanks spasm. This the eld day of the Mayo Men's reappeared in the ring of|ises to furnish some fine sport. Ath- porting Club last ntght/letics, bicycle racing, football and hurl-| fact, the fast trials are negotiated at od-|ing will make up the programme, ‘The| the expense of a horse's nervous ays. throughout and landed/teen men in the Mayo events, Bernie | turf wizar ce, and I say now that The post is all that could be desired ‘The other eight starters are not out of the race by any means, Handi- burgh has made a good job of assigning the weights and to. day's finish will doubtless furnish proof of that ‘The Finn. will have spirited conten- tion from Stromboli, Borrow, who 1s in ghter than Spur, a game, hon est horse who r has had any the n¢ e ground and lofty hoofing ever eyed in this neck o' the pest of racing luck, and the Macom woods, There were several more heats run off during the matinee, bringing ber pair, Bi up to fourteen, Among the other walkiata were t# and Ed Crump, Boots as CrAC last year and but his po nance in the Ker tucky Derby might be considered th On paper the Suburban promises « great race, and with a day made rder for it Belmont Park is likely tc hold the biggest crowd of the season when the bugler calls the horses to the post. John Madden had a two-year- | old on show in the paddock yesterda; land what a fine looker he ts, He an Ogden colt out of a Yankee mare He is @ rich chestnut in color and very much of a reminder of the good colt Sir Martin, which Madden some umps like! years ago sent to England. Speaking raw had a| of tw for the singing ump, Thump/opinion that the real stare of the omed his folded lunch hooks| juvenile divisl his hat. Byron didn’t ask for| Under colors aaney, all, have r-olds, Madden gave ae his had not been seen their eyes on the Futurity,” said Jobn, “1 won a few Futurities ‘in my time and I might like to win it again this year,” | Madden says it’s real good trainer who can be sure his horse will win his first start, To be thoroughly con. |vinced of this_a horse would have to show many fast trials before the vent, and sometimes, very often in ~|tem, After listening to this from tha 1, who could have played , | Hendrie yesterday? | SPORTING, {RACING | AT BEAUTI BELMONT PARK MONDAY THE SWISH HANDICAP } BELDAME HANDICAP 2 MILE STEEPLECHASE and THREE other Good Races BEGINNING AT SPECIA \ m0 PM, tat in cial Cure Stand & Ladies #1, | . | Sse aera ten rounds of the roughest kind o! fir 1 1 Nig Hot Sen ting against George Chip, the Thy Grven wert ¥ 104 Dyckman Oval, !)):'m0 so: , : SIXTH RAGE=Pume $000 asic; tirow-yoar: | oy ans, for castle miner, and although Chip won on | piXtH Mave " a eqn (ALM for \ points, he had to use everything tn turn 6 0 Hingis tock to overcome the Chicago battler. |) | TONIGHT i i | QuEENSHOK ¢ Rector and Burus Dox Draw, | san" wi har ca ot Richie Kean va, Dimi’ ines, At Brown's Far Rockaway Club last | “Mrvesrit, RAGE = eee aria Gua a y City and “i “ | hte Bek, dake he é han ankie 1 lifornia fought « rhe nd dr BASEBALL TO-D Aner, Ta Cvve, Polo ne | To-NaGH Clubs KO BILL Bry en an tots Tarte