The evening world. Newspaper, August 4, 1917, Page 6

LEONARD'S KNOCKOUT RECORD BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK QUALITIES OF ALL PREVIOUS CHAMPIONS + Pubtbing Oo (The Nee Tort Prening Wong) BEATS THAT OF OLD TIMERS =2%*# comms Lightweight Champion Has Put Away Three Title Holders in Wineteen Rounds of Fighting—Former Pugilistc Stars Per- formed as Champions Should, but None of Them, Not Even Gans, Had Benny's Finishing Touch. TO-DAY’S THE DAY! De your “bit” for the bore of New York State who are going te the front to fight for YOU! Contribute to the fund thet © eupply them with be slowes, baseballs, bate, fooummile, a - Help to make them fit to show that Am ne are Me fim fighting men im the world Contribute @ thousst dollars if you can. Contribute $100 Contribute $10. Contribute $1. Contribute any unt There will be # wee for every dollar turned in to the ARMY ATHLETIC FUND, care of THE NEW YORK EVENING WORLD Coperictt, UIT by the Pree Pubheeg Ge, (Tie Kee Tort Brening Word), ITH every ring contest Beany Leonard is proving himeelf th greatest of ali lightweight champions. No other holder of the Utle ever showed such # remarkable winning streak. Leonard! has won eight of his last nine fights he 7 with Knockouts, Old time cham-! pions had twenty or twenty-five SF rounds, or @ fight to » finish, in which to show their wares. Benny Leonard has been meeting the best Mghtweights of the day and knock- ing them all out within ten rounds. It makes no difference to him whether they rush and slug, or try to! stall, He has entirely exploded the | old theory that a clever boxer can | save himself from being knocked out | {f he ts content to remain entirely on | the defensive, Freddy Welsh was the most skilful of all stallers. He had mado a studied science of the art of getting the money without taking risks. He was remarkably clever at running, and blocking, and ducking, and holding--all the time-killing devices. Yet Leonard scientifically destroyed Freddy's speed in eight rounds of constant hammering, and then overwhelmed him and knocked him out in the ninth. @hortly before winning the cham- pionship from Welsh, Benny fought Ritchie Mitchell, regarded in the Weatern States as the best light-|a bit of success, He kn pretend to defend the title, Jimmy Britt claimed it and fought with quite eked out Kid Mitohell out in the seventh round, |*¢Ve" rounds. Beat Sieger, Fitageraid, The first tmportant match after | son and Jabez White of England, ail winning the championship was with|in twenty or twenty-five round bouts Johnny Kilbane. Clevelanders thought | 0M decisioi Kilbane a sure winner, They hadn't|Ne!#0n In eighteen rounds, but came back and beat the Hattler in twenty seen Leonard in action and could im-| rounds wgain. Gans stopped Britt in champion in skill, speed and hard! Hard fighter as he was, Britt never hitting. Kilbano was a lightweight touched Leonard's quick Knockout when he met 4, performances, ets er seae pesca Hpac flew Neither did Battling Nelson, who knocked out Ga in seventeco weight limit. But he didn't have @ rounds, again in twenty-one rounds; chance to even make a close fight knocked out Canole in eighteen, Han- of it In the first round Kilbane !0n In nineteen, Hyland in twenty- tried to fight and slip over his noted three and Young Corbett in ten and | rules for such contest right hand punch, Lenoard hooked 4Kain in nino rounds, Nelson had him in the body, driving the blow up Scores of fights between these, and inst the edge of the ribs—an old Many were no-declsion bouts or | Calibre here yesterday. McCoy trick—and sent a jolting draws, tlons provide that rigdt haider over to his mouth, It; WOLGAST WAS NO K._ 0,|tered in this race may be claimed by | SPECIALIST. ANY ONE Ad Wolgast was a corking little | FORE the race for his entered price, plus the value of the race to the win- ner and as much more as the claimer | any horse #0 INELIGIBLE This rule is in- was this blow, near the end of the Found, that made Leonard's superior- i arent at ce, "phe day ‘after ihe fight Kilbane fighter. He stopped Nelson in forty asked a New York friend what the Tunds, the referee intervening to save New York eporting writers had to! the old Battler from a eure knockout about the fight. |when he was entirely helpless. After | Wishes y," said the friend; “they just| Winning the tile Wolgast fought six] claimed start In the race,” ‘all wrong,” laughed Kil-|in the Mitchell, Welsh, Kilbane claas, | ‘ended to make selling events what as knocked out in the first! Many of his ‘fights went over ten| they are meant to be and td provent round, After that I was out on my rounds. He lost to Hitchie in sixteen, | rich owners from starting horses at a | price far below their re round.” Joe Itivers, shortly after winning the| Well, yesterday there ‘and knocking him out| horses in the claiming event which inds. Coming to New| didn't BELONG say you were knocked out in the |No-decision bouts, all of which went thin’ round.” the limit. His opponents were hardly “They'r bane. “I teet, and only stalling, 1 don't re-| Wille Ritchie started out like a member anything but the first) champion, fighting his toughest riv: In the second and third rounds Kil- | championshi bane alternated attemp{s to jump|in eleven r away or hold with desperate efforts| York he gave Leach Cross a beating, to get home one hard right-hand) but the fight went ten rounds. Rit- | Company. chic fought only a few championship | M¢Dowell of Kc Leonard outfooted and canght him,| battles before losing the title on althem, so was B. R. blow, And when he was most evasive and battered him down with blow: that travelled faster and far more ac- eurately than any that the Cleve- lander could start. decision to Welsh. He put on weight rapidly, which caused him to lose his . KO while he fought well several after losing to Welsh, once giv- in New York, he left the ring after a . . “AUP hey THREE CHAMPIONS, short career.” Ho is now training in | 10ser and hereatier Koaoher will eat In nineteen rounds Leonard knocked | the United States Aviation Corps, m ; out American Lightweight Champion| Welsh was the poorest of all cham- a ee Free are ote Freddy Welsh and World's Feathor-|early part of hia career, but had no| the owners scratched weight Champion Johnny Kilbane, opportunity to test himself against | former t ree champions in a little over|the title holders until he met Ritehte, | Wasn't solng to Mal ‘ i three months, all inside of nine| This fight was hold in England, with | Ported good one, for $1,000, his entered . who credited selling price, plus $676, the value to glish fashton for all) the ee oy ‘ d lem fighting ability than the tithe|of Freddy's dancing and tapping and| Probably couldn't buy this Peep o’ holders! ‘That ix something of a|gave little eredit to Ritehle for his| Day record for any fighter In any class, | steadily aggressive attempts to make | “#crate! Jack McAuilffe, the old time cham-|it a real fight. After winning the| Chance, and perhaps the same md- pion, who retired with the title, had/title, twenty-round decision, Welsh | ves actuated Virginia Yell's owner, no risk of losing It. He boxed | and cision bouts, and Instead of | \Wo, Butcher Boy and Hellemere, fights ended in a draw, Some were|knocking his men out within the A part of the rule of this claiming t time limit, as Leonard does, he| mee caused y, which was broken| danced and ran and held and stood | Btue up by McAuiiffe's friends when Car-| strictly on the defensive. This pre- | Butcher Boy were announced as early ney was having the better of the mill-| served the title and gained a lot of | withdrawals, m| went up with Ritchte Mitchell, World's Champion |ulons. He fought well during the | Hé rounds, and five more knockouts de-|an English refe: livered to ringmen of only a@ Iittle| “points” in the Fi no fighting record that could com-| took pare with 1 onard’s. Many of his) only no very long—th. with Jem Carr ongest being 74 rounds| #h ink. money In safety, but kept Welah fi Kid Lavtene was a game and clever) tiking a place among t ringster, but mony of his fights lasted| Who will be rem from 20 to rounds and were won| deeds in the ring, or lost on sions, His best per- | be Frank Erne won ee a ee THE RVENING WORLD, GATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1917. FIGHTIN Christy Mathewson, Former Star of Giants and Manager of Cinciqnati Reda Ball Players Called by the Draft Will Not Claim Exemption, Declares Matty. URING a bail one of the ¢ r ever has or club of a slump ts eat Jobs an Several “Near-Stake”’ Horses ‘‘Shown Up’’ by | Race at Spa ‘ames, including Aug Player and Club, Claiming weight in America, He knockea|!#vigne and Frank Erne In eight and |James Butler Loses Poacher, ——__—_, RACING SELECTIONS. Canole, Young Corbett Datting Net. | OUt Owners of Azalea, Blue| Paradise, Bit of Blarney and) He was knocked out by| Virginia Yell Withdraw Their) Entries When Claimers Get agine nothing superior to the feather|six rounds, Liritt breaking bia wrist.| BUSY. SARATOGA, Race — Verdant, Kawlings, Reston. . non River, Bet. K. Hully Boy, Bughouse, Happy Go Lucky, Fourth Race-—War Star, ——sir William Johnson, culogy, Onwa. By Vincent Treanor. SARATOGA, N, Y., Aug. 4. ONDITIONS claiming race, a selling event “sixth Rauce—-Shaste, Golden Glow, right to claim before starting tune Any horse not being in the being reported to the paddock judge as being present shall be ineligible to start.” man can see the “out” this for such Owners who try to “good” horse in among the cheap kind. News travels quickly on @ racecourse, as a rule, so that in this way to dodge claims was to be forced out officially by not having the entry in the paddock us “showed up” several fillies and colts of near stake These condl- “any horse en- his owner) BE- | case the easy are more ways than one of Killing a “kat.” Only two horses actually finished in Handicap Steeple- the winner, Elect, and Orme All the rest went down, but Archdale was remounted and finished {n time Royal Amber foreleg near shoulder when he went down and he had to be destroyed. the Lake Georke EN o ELSE = Fecwasek selling plater owned by Tom was one of Hradley's patr, Blue Paradise and Bit of Blarney; Dr, Jones's Virginia Yell and James Butler's Poac! NINETEEN ROUND8—K, o—|!"# Welsh a bad ten-round beating | (rat, ni As we have mentioned before, It probably pay well the McDowell horses at the Spa, Yes- terday the “Majah” won two races with Olive Wood (sald to be pounds Thursday winner, American Eagle) and Cheer Leader. He might have won a@ third event with Azalea if the “claimers” hadn't scared this one out. Mursins, New York: Butler, however, was the only Titan, Boston | won the Schuylerville Wis. Aualegas. + Handicap like the good horse he was fe this spring, and he didn't pull up Jame Before the race it was gos- wiped around that the Belmont geld- ing had not been training well, and this accounted for as good @ price as ng laid against his chances. e class of the race, and this, coupled with an unusually good ride by Butwell, enabled him to outgame Mr, Butler's Capra in the final strides. Shades of 4’Arkle, sistent 100 to 1 shot that ever ran. Johnny Moran, who owned this stud, 19 now providing 7 to 10 shots for “the That's what his Aileen O, was in the claiming race, and she won all as 7 to 10 shots should, but don't always. Bouts 0|tam, takes placo at the Fairmont A. ha, Wahington Py Risberg, Cldego. «+ Five thousand dollars i i 1 By 4 a 4 Fi Jonnwon, St, Tania 8% Tillis, Cleveland SaeFAZEVSaze American League Pitche Mteher and Club, Ga Blarney and} tiglam, Detrott Nv Azalea and Prices were laid against : oe ee-oor 3 » champions | 48 starters. nbered for their| this pair before it became known to waibly had Welsh | the spectators that they would not} n younger When he won the title | face the barrier formance was the knocking out of|he might have defended it better, but| The “nigwer in the woodpilo” sec- Dick Burge of England in 17 rounds, |h¢ Was going back fast and played| tion of he title from Lay-| the game without pride or ambition, | starters shall igne on decision in 20 rounds. Nearly |but Merely for the money there was | forty-five all of his important battles lasted|! it. fixed for the race and may be claimed 20 or 2% rounds and were won on the|, Benny Leonard, even If he stopped | from that time up to thirty minutes referee's decision. Tho only fairly| 0-day, would be ranked as the most | before the time of starting, when the Bill Kelsey, a fair sort of a jock has been engaged for the Spa season by Johnny Schorr, Coote, Chicago, Capt. Nick Housman, accompanted by Harry Smith, well known in the postal service, motored to the course accompanied by 225; 23 b, Willtama’ Otc Bohenectady, Kaghy, Merelan Johnny Walker and two 5 Shaw! Wawhington short one of importance on hia list|#ensational fighter who ever won and was with Dal Hawkins, which he won| defended the lightweight crown, He a eeeatont tat tonne | tells me that he will continue fightin |in exactly the same way as long as! SVEN ANS DIDN'T HAVE ‘he lasts, and that he expects to last | BCNNY’'S FINISHING TOUCH, \a long time. Leonard ts one cham- | Joo Gans had the greatest record of pion who, like the old-timers, finds | all the lightweight champions ante-|™O0re delight in “the game” than in dating Leonard, In 902 he knocked|'be, fame and money that come out Frank Erne in less than a minute | W!th It. of fighting in the first round, As} , G-piecmetyd champion he started a little knock- rthar Devitn at Dyckman Oval, out streak of his own, beating George| Arthur Devlin, former third baseman MoFadden in 8 rounds, Rufe Turner! of the Giants, will load his recently or in 15, Gus Gardn in 6 rounds, Jack | ganized ball team, Deviin's All Stars, Bennett in 2, and Kid MePartland in|in thelr debut in this elty to-morrow 5. Then he dropped buck to the de-|\at Dyckman Oval, near Dyckman Stre cisions again. He held the champion- | subway station, where they tackle the ship until 1908, when he lost it to) Kin Athletics. On Deviin's Battling Nelson in 17 rounds. ( of th wae ® AUULAVUL FeLvid Gueon't Cults "ke an pare to that of Benny Leonard. For a time, while he was champion, Gans went over the weight and fought el dal So welters, He found it hard to get dOWO —asehalt To-Iay. ft P, MN. Y. Ameri near the lightweight limit and didn’t cas wm, Dewolt, Vo Orde dam, be —Adry ft ve Chab ven | te | Tom Whi beat’ semi-pro player, a i SoA SaSeearTancenazar: erciieses eesti 18 % it 28 6 Ps id 2 a 3 2 2 16 iT Pit a Te A io : 2 5 SSteF asockaoaws MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS National League, Wk. PC. Clabes ew York.60 W 667 Brooklya..47 Chicago...50 50 500 tt howls, 62 46 531 | Heston, GO 519, hiie’gh, 2e232-S American League. W.L. B.C. Clabe merteregere cess: EN EE SS! ArsiestS—-Hemcetio ieee WSS aaneateoutauseeseomrop a ‘tom 42 57 1426 B34 D> home. a5 63 Dewels,...63 47 .530 Phile,,...35 cy 372 RESULTS OF GAMES YESTERDAY, Dewei, 10; New York, 5 Gleveland, 2; Boston, SaliSvss! asad? So ceacesbSHeon: Hot e-enaseswe 55) York, 10; Cincinnati, 2, ooo moe: H' Covdenkle, 1 Chicago, 2; Philadelphia, 0. boston, 5; Pitsburgh, 4 GAMFR TO. nay Dewou at New York. Colengo at Philadetpai (4, Louis at Washington, Gleveinnd a1 Boston, 4, Louis, 5; Washingwoa, 4 4 | New York at Cinelnnat, brooklyn at %, Louis Phitadetphia at Chicags, boston ot Piteburgh, ice ensnie ieee 4d hot have caught ue at a we time, because wo were particularly anxious to clean up at home, and w lost gumes through hard luck wher | the Glants were being beaten too and | we had a good chance to climb. However, 1 am not making exouses. jit ts all in baseball, Wh woing at our best a litt nh we were more than a ' ° | week » and tain loca timinte The attack| Week 4&9, 4nd certain local optimts MAJOR LEAGUE AVERAGES Compiled by Moreland News Bureau were talking about winning a pen |nant, I said that we might encounter such a slump as usually overtakes all ball clubs in @ season and have a hard fight to finish in the first divi- | sion, However, at that time, I did not really expect the setback #0 soon, | and honestly hoped, with the spirit and optimisin on the team, we might run through tue block to the finish | ayed in fifteen | without being caught by one. cis ther has sapped out a lot ot w Ave.| starch, And the local optimists who! p, wi @ predicting @ pennant only ten finish in last place, This breed ts a funny bunch of birds. They will bo taking their toe holds to pan us right it wo keep going bad for another week, “Get out there and play straight baseball and hit at anything you like the looks of,” I told tho boys after our last defeat by tho Brooklyns. ‘To my mind that is the only way to a tonic. We won't finish last, but a slump is a terrible thing. Some of the big leaguers are wor- ried over what will happen to them as a result of the draft, and it 1s affecting their work. As far as I can find out, most of my regular players are all right, but the whole alr, and the large percentage of ex emptions may result in many more |men being called from baseball than was expected at the first drawing. What 1s worrying the big leaguers 1s that, even though they ha@ % legitimate claim for exemption, they don't want to exercise it. “Can you imagine,” said one of my ‘players to me the other day, “what a riding a guy would get if he was Jcalled and claimed exemption? He wouldn't have a chance," This ts largely true, T think the Daseball player would be roasted | harder for avoiding the draft than a man in any other profession, ‘There is little chance for any of them being turned down for physical reasons, #0 most of those who are called will co, Somehow the public seems to expect more of the athlete than of the ord!- | nary man—just as fit to carry a gun. The big leaguer can't stay home {f he ts sent for. (Copyright, 1917, by the Bell @yndicate, Ine.) restore confidence. It ought to act as| business still seems to be up in the| TAGGING ALL THE BASES fifty dollars a geome end plage es @ ~ i The scone tend very tow When the Robins oot through with Matty's team, the last seen of the Reds they were looking fer @ barre! to ge home in There's mn and the & non-wktd tr ed They are eo they look es tf they ce. They are st the next team hee to take two looks to see ‘em. Bo far « the pennant Is concerned, mx clubs and Pittbergh have about as much chance as one | apple in an orphan asylum The Reds happened to be in the Gants way yesterday and were stepped on | Whie ‘or the Reda. | They have heel marks on ‘em dated from 1869. Praves and Pirates are playing « ‘ if Columbus had known there ever was going to be a series like |that he would have dect, to let frome other guy get blamed for @is- | cove Americ Bo far as winning the pennant te concerned the Roding are exempt, | * | Cleveland made crumbs out of the ed fox, while the White Sox were tossing off the Athletics, Rowland #83 | days ago are now fearful we may babies are stepping out like per= turbed rabbits, Jake Daubert has bunting down to a actence. Ho's the only bird in the works who can bunt three baggers. Jake bunted a triple yesterday. It was one of those wholesale bunts that require three outfielders and a shortstop to carry it back to the | infield. TEN RUNS TO THREP AIN'T A BEATING. IT’S TWO BHATINGS, Compared to the game played by the Tanke | yenterday, Nat Willn's stage contume tn't maxed At all ‘The Yanks have become all unravetied, | Looks ike the bors are exenpt from baseball, Shame how Frank Baker hes lost his influence at the bat. At one time Frank was one of the mast prosperous batters in the tournament, Yank | fans might as well wait for next year, because they have to do # any~ way. | RED SOX'S SPURT HAS DB | VELOPED A FLATWHEEL, Funniest thing in the wortd te Vice President of the United asking for a vacation, Next thing 18 @ pitcher going thi motions of batting. The Reds pitcher who is a good batter, bat ain't a good pitcher, Fiver see a hokey waiting a freight and letting tt rattle by as it is sliding out of his young |he gives a hop and natla the caboose, | Well, the National League almost ratled by Sherwood | but Sherry managed to leap on ‘etnnati, But he came near walking, An interesting ten-round bout which brings together Knockout Eggers, the fiard-hitting west side boxer, and Eddie O'Keefe, the speedy Philadelphia ban- to-night. Young Eddy, the clever Green- wich Mghtweight, and Jimmy Paul of Harlem meet in the semi-final, At the Foe of St. Paul and Young Rector of Jersey City clash in a return battle with Hughie Breslin, the Navy Yard feather- wetght, and Young Terry \itchell in the semi-final. Owing to the tntense teat during the inst few day wo few peapla tought ticknta for the boring show at the Armory A. A, of Hostan last Tumday night that the officia. called off the entertainment, The bomm who were to hare mat will clash at the wame club on next Tussity night, Irish Patsey Cine will take on Phinney Boyle, te Now Wogiand fighter, while Mary Purell of thie city wil go against Jimmy O'Hagan of Albany, ‘Jack DiDon has called off Me engamment with Bob Devers at Keoms City Aug. 0, and Hugh Walker, & wall-theughtof product ef the ity where the bout will take place, hae been substi tuted, Devers will be given the same $1,000 guar- Antes, with © 26 per cent. privilege, ae be was offered for @ battle with Dillon, Dever i also slated to box Battling Levinaky at the Military A. ©, of Brooklyn mext Monday night, Joo Mooney, the west side lightweight who re centty stood off Eddie Wallace of Brooklyn, al though taking on the bout at @ few hour’ notice, | hms bean matched to box Mike @mith of York- ville in the semifinal to the battle between Knockout Bill Brennan of Obicago and Bartley Madden of the west side, at the Pioneer Sporting Club next Tuesday night ‘The Breejwey 8. ©, of Brooklyn will stage an~ | other attractive card of boute for ite regular 4 0 Weekly show tonight, In the main go of round, Jack Citfor!, the husky Brooklyn heavy weight, will take on Gus Christie, the good Mil wauiheo light heavyweight, Clifford has been situted for Milly Mieke, who asked to be let out of the bout becaime of the Lutense heat, Cliffont bas already fougnt wunina: musa end vaca iu fon two bani ten-round battles, Lew Raymond, matchmaker of the Harlem 8, 0, of Hommel Statum, Hookeway Beach, today Clermont A. C. of Brooklyn Billy Do| sted up Phil Bieom, ‘the thet Brocktys Mght | Neleht to ment Jimmy Dutty of the wat ede in tho mar gv cf ten rounds at the chib's mast show on Tuesday might. As both man have bed © mat they ought to furniwh @ rattling bow, Ausrata, hae ben barret from boring im that ‘ountry forever, Jimmy recentiy boret Benny Palmer, the American fliter, at Syne, and te j the Uulnt rnund dropped to the floor from @ ew | tm tho monk, Ae Hill did not emt up ot he cout of tm, Pelmer was promptly declared the winner, After the conte, the officials of the | qlub ru'ed him ont of the figteing game - sey did not believe that he fought on the equare, Whether boring will be permitted te come | tack to Mfe at Hlutwon, Wie, will be decided | by the Beate Athictic Commimion ‘next Munday, | hon the board will hold an open hearing on | the application uf the Hudson Boxing Club sh nats INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE, . STANDING OF THE CLUBS, Clabes W.L. PLC, Clabes WL. Pa Prov'ence.60 89 .606 | Rochenter.50 54 .481 Newark...63 40 593 | Buffalo, 44 60.423 Toronto, ..68 43 .674 | Richmond.39 61.90 Baltimore 58 44 569 Montreal..38 64.873 RESULTS YESTERDAY, Baltimore, 6; Newark, 1 bultaio, 8; Rochestor, 2 ‘Toronto, 12; Montreal, 11, Vrovidence, 10; Kiehmond, 7, GAMES TO-Day. Newark at Daiimore ‘Two Games, Vrovidence at Kichmond, ‘Two Games. Monisea) at ‘Toronto, Two Games, Bulfaio at Kochester’ ‘Two Games. =~—~—_—_—_—_—_—___w __—_____ SPORTING, Dyckman Oval, | n’s AM Stare tw, NEG Pe . Foo va. Reviur, an ONT Is way Sp’ Chub, 1 Tonight Christte TONIGHT, Fairey Ye, Hale U'Keale i Wolly ally