The evening world. Newspaper, November 9, 1917, Page 20

EE Pe Billy Gibson Thinks Coffey Will Knock Out Bill Brennan at the Harlem S. C. To-Night. Cxprnae r ag Oe. ire. y 18 is the eve for Coftey end K. O. Brennen to enter tain T Cof Hrennae party is the bent heavy weigh! cord edblainabie just now heay weights above ' now clans ore scarce, Jim Huckley w feforee, When questioned about t Porsibie cutcome of the fight Man Corwer ay See 0 May ager Billy Gibson assumed an a dark mystery and whisper 1 can only toll you one thing: t have @ sure hunch that it won't go the ten rounds When questioned further Willi admitted that Coffey is y the fin est shape b ver saw in bis life,” ind that he has been knocking Harry Wills, the gigantic negro hea A “out from under his hat" © rf for a week past Just how this feat was pertorgred, with Wiiles har pre Welker Cockran, Who ts After sumably jeft in the dr William (sited. to capiaine However, Willie Hoppe’s ‘Titles, Under- 3 gathered from what he sald and) goes Strict Cousse of Athletic the way he said it that he expe to see Coifey knock Brennan over! Stunts in Order to Be in Condi- into Westchester County, if not fur | 4 ther. tion to Play. Brennan also has a manag It ia -_ almont waste to relate whut | & cighter's manag: ya about «| ELKER COCKRAN, the nine- fighter—before they quarrel—but | teen-vear-old billiard star, who Brennan's manager publicly expects pia tiga aap to see Brennan put Coffey in plan d be eau bch rice about a round. Ho admits as much, lon of Wille Hoppe's titles, under- Coyly, of course, and hesitatingly, goes 4 course of athletle training as but he admits it just the same severe a8 moat athletes. Delicate Knowing now what the two man-/oytion with the cue demands perfect agers expect you can make your own, bets. To me M appears that Coffey |t¢smwork of nerves with eyenight, is going and Brennan is coming, and| and a lot of work for young Mr. if Brennan lands one on Jim's prog- | Cockran, natheous Jaw Jim may go 8 whee| Billard fans who watch a bie match course Jim may upset this dope by \/itlle know the preparation and train- Janding first. It's an awkward habit Ing necessary for champions before that he used to have, although he they can be at the top of their game, hasn't shown evidence of it In @ long wryig Hoppe was a total abstainer — and spent houra every day in a gym- RANCIS CHARLES MO-RAN nasium and on the golf links while will be at the ringside. Francis getting ready for bis championship Charles resenta the advances matches. ef an er. He hopes Coffey will Cockran ts following clonely after nd a wallop, He hopes Coffey wil! ioppe both in playing skill and Knock Brennan “kickin’” You aee. If sonal hablte. Welker, though at an part of Coffey’s friende—or supposed friends—for a chance for Coffey to Prove that the two knockouts deliv- ered by Moran in the Moran-Coffey fights were mere flukes, And if there in anything on this earth that does » i— tickle Moran it is @ chance to awii PIMLICO RACE TRACK, Nov. 9. his right hand and stand back to let |Omar Khayyam onoe more proved bis the Roscommon giant fall. greatness in winning the rich Pimlico Autumn Handicap for three-year-olds at one mile and # quarter, The son of Marco won by @ nose on HIB battle is being advertiaed “for the champtonship of Ire- jand,’ Coffey saw Ireland tn his youth. T don't know what part of ve aud, giving from twenty to thirty ae eee erom County Horace Pounds to everything in the race, broke wovina. However that may be, among the track regard tor the distance, His the belts distributed during the eve- time Was 3,05 2+ ning will be a amon eit.” hhey fo say that Coffey t# putting up the| » William | Dow $350 for the belt. If Brennan belts pe. him and takes the belt, the hardest and Roy Johnson in the Snooker pool tour- Billiard Academy winn at Jac Jovi’ F “STAR, GAGLLO" HELL Thin 6: “Mint! | WES 0 The Tecnerg , 19-Year-Old Billiard Star Trains Hard for Big Matches | sowing a fow wild on THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 -_BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK MORAN WILL OFFEY TO-NIGHT ia partiou- larly careful to dodge temptations that Usually come to any one #0 Mr. Cockran has never deserted hin high seat on the water wagon, and he's Always been a firm believer in the old axiom that early to bed and early to rise makes a inan healthy, wise and « champion billiardiat, This is how Maurice Daly, the vet- eran billiard critic, compares Hoppe and his logical successor: “Hoppe was the youngest champion we ever have had, and there may never be another world's champion at eighteen years of age. In my opinion he was better at nineteen than Cdéckran now is, But it must not be overlooked that while Hoppe has played billiards from the time he was able to hold a Cockran has played, only six ‘ockran is © goon layer who has the qualities aml habits that con- tribute toward making champions Like Hoppe he does not touch liquor, in modest and without a trace of an d head. He is a good general of attractive style. Keen of ption and prompt of execution, while gcoupriee the table he ts in action all the time, and a very inter- osting player to watch.” Cockran plans a busy campaign the post, but he picked up 180 *s thie winter, After finishing several matches up State, the youthful wiz. ard will return to this city next week for a series of hard matche: it night. Downs beat Ray Potter by core of 100 to 87 and Johnson de- ited Goorge Lovejoy by 100 to 70, Willard, Botsford captured the Co- lumbia University lawn tennis cham- pi in singles by defeating 8. 1. freshman, by supertor nei NEW AVE: Conn, Nov. 9—An “informal” soocer team has been or- anized at Yale and mes with rinceton, Haverford and other col- are being arranged. The will be played here to-mor- the University of Pennayl- vania. belt of the evening will be the belt | landed on Coffey’s money belt. Re-| minds me of the occasion, out in San Francisoo, when San Berger, pride of the Olympic Club, was to meet our | Billy Rodenbach for the amateur it Ayaeisnt Nhampionahip. Herger| Marty McCue, who boxed many of i took a look at the stara from 1894 to 1900, but who ahe prises for that competition, Ile t* now one of the city's most success- @ecideA that he wanted a better prize ful politicians, having just been re- tor licking the East champion. $0 lected to the State Assembly from the he donated $250 to be added to the pweltth Manhatian District, ts already value of the cup that wae to pe ring framing «new boxing bill which he the winner e eotee te coved into the ring with «| Will present at the next seasion of the wide, pleasant smile, He was think | Legislature, boxinn tan heirloom tha pr [tn Yomarded boxing ee ea be in the Berger family, bany and he believes that (he indorse- And then little Billy Rodenbach|ment Uncle Sam ts giving boxing in the #watted him full sore and took the |imiiitary campa will assure the enact- referee's decision and the cup with tt. | ment of a measure to repl Don't y any diamond belts tol). paw. which die ne fight for, Jamen; they're & hoodoo. midnight . , » managers of} N’es: all of the managers off boxing clubs and of boxers have Hagbtweigh! champion, will ever rec done w great lot of work for the sineg abit) bas confined him in « ganitarium in entertainment of soldiers 1 iho VATI~ \Qiigunee tor soreral months, as the litle fahter ous camps. The oxeoptions are (OW. pay grown weaker every day. Acconiing to his Capt, Rice of the Aviation Camp at Lewin Ad now cnly weighs AO pounds Mineola has been interested t= god bis hair is rapidly (arming gray, The wbyal ting up some shows for the boys in.) aitending 4d cla bo haa {ttle tralning there. ance to recurer “These boys have had very little - ‘ done for them,” Capt. Fice told ine a) Jack Dillon, who me few days ago. ey Geserve MOrE rounds at th Fistic News Pato and Gossip ae Jan. 1. MeCue| ‘arthur boat friend In Al- ee jetor at McArthur, while Gibions ie the cetvili the Frew | ring tomorrow aight Thursday at | Brooklyn, where he fiekt in the clever Mabtwetght of Columbus, O., who ts some fighter, He has matebed Downey to mest Young Denny of New Orleans for twelve rounds at Columbus, ©., 00 Nov, 12, Word has fast reached here from Waco, Tex., to the effect that Packey McFarland of Chicago and Mike Gibbons ef 8t, Paul will box a ten-mund bout ov Thankagiving Day sod the proceeds of thie show will be tumed over to the soldiers at M Fort Riley, MeFerland is the boxing boxing instructotr at Fort Riley Notter, the east side middlewnight, wlio ot fought for some time, will reater be i the Broad: S.C, of | go againet Bolder Bar Ye main bout of ten rounds, In the temifinal of ein rounds Jobonie Dann of the west Side will meet Tommie Jord At the militery 2. next Monday night Freddie Reese will box Kddle Wallace and Jolnoy Krause will box Battling Young. while at the Vanderbilt next Wednesday y tects Battling Chu: far the new owner of the Minow and ale mavager of Fred | heavyweight. is trying 10 af. too. the Minness range detaile for a show at bie clo at which Fal ROOT FOR Correy HAS Dewy TRANING VITM HARRY WALLS, AND BILLY GIBSON Gave THE BiG Back STOPS MANY A Pouthoduer prominent In the public eye. Young PISS : 2 IN, Nov. 9.—The uncerta! tackling of the Princeton freshmen te | still bothering Fred Dawson. unexpected defeat at the nands of the Blair Academy schoolboys, the Prince Mnemen were getting their men cleanly, but @ sudden slump came Saturday and the exhibition of Daw- son's charges was nothing to boa The players have at top speed to eradicate this fault, but although some improvement has been the Tigers will have to raise their standard several note they ore to overcome the Crimson first BRENNAN’S Pose: >> HE WOULD MAKE 4 MUCK MORE HANDSOME CHAMPION “Wan Correy ... AMD STYLE OF Brew. IN ONG CHAPTER. Princeton Informal varsity ball team will close its season on Satur- with a game Wissahickon Red Cross Received $72,375.78 From Liberty Golf Tournaments The United States Golf Association announced to-day that the sum 2,375.78 had been collected from the Liberty Golf Tourns throughout the country last July 4 for the benefit of the Red Cross. The liberty Tournaments were staged by five districts, and they were played in every State except Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico and New York State led with seventy-tive clubs holding patriotio Beriacks, Cape May, will be played in the Princeton Stadium, The Fordham team resumed practice * scrimmage was on the football which the forward pass and some flank runs were practised, $.—The Cornell ™ sianal drill in down somew The Allegheny Country Club outside Pittsburgh collected $2,469 from riving to which the {ts tournament, whioh was the largest amount turned in by any club, were held mainly to show the readiness s to do their bit, The tournaments were held under the auspices of the United States Golf Association with the co-operation of the Ameri- All the entrance fees went to the Red Cross, of the various prixes, instead of receiving expensive trophies as in ted with souvenir medals and certific The Liberty Tournamen men how best te 8 some little attention ckle plays, wh! w Siknal drill in werlal can Red Cross. was pald toa fi former year nited States © ngton and Jefferson, under th ) of Sol Metz, tain and also one tin pach of Penn= to the effect that the contestants who Minors’ Meeting Next Week Will Attract Majors ting of the National Asso- clation to be held in Loutsville on next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thura- day is more than likely to be one of the liveliest gatherings in many years. Col, Ruppert and his chief of staff, Harry Sparrow, will head for Louls- ville on Sunday, They will take along a@ scout in the person of Joe Kelley, At Loulgville the party will be joined by Miller Huggins, who will break his own trail over from Cinolnnati, of the other owners, managers and scouts will be at the meeting and, following thin y dure, there will be much informal| Soldiers to Enjoy | Set of Games Thanksgiving Paul Pilgrim, director of athletics at » announces that the Mercury Foot will stand sponsor for a big set of athletic contests on Thanks giving Day among the Camp Upton at Yaphank. which promises to be one of the most impressive in the series that has been conducted by the club, will be held In the afternoon and will be over early enough to enable the soldier athletes to partake of the turkey feast whicli Uncle Sam will give his soldiers, to him at No. which | ‘The Yountakah Country Club, lost ita home by fire, 1s the third within a period of three Weeks that has ret @ Firat the Oakland Golf nila fat Chub war at Bay Side week ago the lyn was destroyed under way to have Yountakah members make use of the ‘curses of neighboring the North Jersey b, Arcola Country | ck Golf Club, Upper Monte. |Country Club and Glen Ridge Country club houses and organizations, euch giving prize jonals in the open might be miti- ara footbail money to the profe Thore is every promise that the fight jevents during war th guntor cross-country championship fat Van Cortlandt Jark to-morrow after noon will be # hard one, t f known ability in the van Because of the larg. and the fact that many of tie fn Who Will run have never donned « jern course, there is much of the Missouri State championship. ‘This| Fordham ts organization put up three Liberty bon e 50, one $100 and on the prizes are surplus will go, to the ville and Indiana) the ful the searon w Jnion League they need considerable major league owners are apt to involve them: Union suit, taken those members of the American A ciation not included in the new cir- Wannamolsett Country vg for | Fla. Na Officials of th 2 r Providence, are Otherwine they | tain, however, will be run in close 4 Oswald |at Lawrenceville sc sid to-morrow. Victor Voteretsas, who was second | the benefit of » JACKIE CLARKE MAY BE TEAMED WITH SPENCER, tn his day thi riders, will by rind at Madison Square Istens to the Not propose to have his Job y Worth at Spartan! rrieka of rag reverberate f fo clubs which are loawle are strong! The clubs which | to be left out are voting in the negative at Into the new favor of the move, two of the best men in the race. in the coming speech to soothe thelr troubled spire | big race wa: Meadowbrook Clue of eloquent men in baseball will be on. Fred Puller of th adelphia and Dorchester Club, the promise to team that sacrifices draft, ‘They are all volur and Datvth, Mun. where | So Sit et ee ee oh SSA sae aah they have volunteered for 2 sorvica {Chi im the feature Vout | Sem Coote bd 0 as whose dangers begin at once. They > Mattling Btavley ta the second : Beet nave to wastefor the battlefields rind at Infianaiila, “After to-night's tout Dil! The sanual emetgur boring cbanoi to be kille Meeal have been killed Jos will hustle Hast end get tuto condition for bis | the Central A, A. U. have. been At Mineola, ay avery one knows Tt tus with Male \« wl fan't only the flyers. You know that 5. punn mans of dobanle Kilbane, the ihoke at Teast! two men have bean Milled sameraegit thampon, dur Iet for Cama Ha. | MOM : i y delng struck b: ‘opel ville, Ky,. where he will act oa nd bouts wil! be ot lers, in starting machines, and others Se ae ace’ une |g Tate car ten-round huts will be taped 4 have been crippled. The whole s« a morrow ig viee is dangerous, from the very start. Jy \ian, Yet there have been only afew vaude- Yo, genie ville shows for the thousands of men at Mineola, and no boxing shows, Champion Renuy Leo They are all interested in boxing More for Locie Sam vy engoain than in any other sport, [saw Jimmy rovpds of ove minute east, with ble brother Johnston while he was running hin at Trentoc, N. J. neat week, for the benefit of club, and he assured me he would the sldiew of Port Dix Bunoy will use ouly one Dring boxing show out for our band as the other is aiill in « plaster oust, camp. He said he would have his ter, Ted Kid Lewin, box an exh bition for us, and would bring a string of other boxers, We selected the fol- lowing Thursday night for the show, Just before the date I wrote Jonn~ sor ten rounds at ston twice to make sure there would {fieity night. De no slip. He didn’t answer, On the night of the show the boys who had ne P leave to go home for a day OF 1WO clude wich intend stayed to see the show, and there was tuts after the preent boat & big crowd in the hall. Johnston chariie Doseserick. manager « and his boxers didn't come. It was bas alreedy Uelween 4,000 to a great disappointment, we man- Jo aged to get up a few bouts between ; aged to got UP eo temnich was a poor | Willle Koller vas mot defeated by Jimmy Solty satisfaction. I hope some of the box~ 4! the Yorkie © 0 Monday we he 1 will gain do bis bit in a three-round bout, Billy Gidsoq announced today that he has signed wp Prank Moran, the husky Pittabureh vywelght, to meet the winner of tonight's bat tween Jim Coffey ant Mill Breonan, Moren together in the feature em 8, C, 00 next ing penagere will do something for sonoune! | wren! ‘moreing acon, I told Dick Curley about this, Dick | orit fd be. pues Band Ll onc done a lot of work for the enter- (yr woveres Cu it of the soldiers. He will take number Doxers who will| ‘Tom Jones, ihe former manager of Joos Willant teer to show the Mineola MIP | dannet keep 4 4 oc want ot | the colored lightweight, © ‘baa | Collins, Dyer, the antor-boxer, who sings a song fie his bouts, meete Johamy Kid Alber Latin (aoklee Frankie Brown end Lao Jonusoo ahes with Mel Coogan the Brooklyn boy, vow serving We Uuited states Joe, | 1B the wary, ‘addy Mullins, representing Mike O'Dowd and Pop Rudolph, bis eon. Middieweight Caampion A} MoCoy, today Matohmader Silvey Burne of the © cheeks for #1. pionadip mateli which Rink, Brooklyn, on day before the jas lade are in strict Crewing for the battle. middleweight chain, t Wednesday night, tne ‘Tree ten-rounders are on the card for the New |any David ole Club towight. Jimmy Bandy of the eas |!e&n Lew fide tackle Jimmy Cooney of Marlen; Ko. nus of Pitted lem, and Eddie Pletcher of le with Terry Miller of the same exction yy Yoakum, the well known De: hae been tistehed up for t bouts, Next ‘Twemlay night be boxes Kiddie Moy at Routh Bethlehem, Thureday wight Larry Maneon at Allentown, Pe. and Monday oigit Nov. 21, be dukes Stavley Willis at Meading, 1 east aide wut Jimmy Peppes, the crack Greek bantam was to box Billy Bevan of Wilke Beihiehem on Nor, 2. / ‘) manager, 1s nego’ erveral other ianvortamt matches for bie boaer, the good of the gaine ml tente will agrer they are not The maleon- with this ax long ao ones called upon to Abel Kiviat, who was director general of the athlete sports Carnival at Dongan Hills, 5. 1 urday, has sent @ notice to "put it Ie a wipe fact that since he recelved the n pedalling along he has been se Newark roads as of ‘Doctor Tells How To Strengthen Eyesight Greatly In One Week’s Time In Many Instances the | there handsome argu- Pret | ment. Harting! One of the chief interests that ma- organisation this Way Baltimore gets team little below @ big ue club in standing and (hin aay la for damages of $900,- orting Club certitied | It ts not unlikely that the Yankees im the Clermoat consider making some trades. Will have the ing of the Frawiey lam, Yon lon hand in case anything turns up Miller Hugging thinks to be easy to pull arum stuff in the Amer- ue he ix apt to recelve One Prescription You Can Mave! gives Filled and Leo at Home, Do you wear wl of eye strain or other eye wenknosien? you will be glad to know that ave: to Dr. Lewis thei Many Whose eyes were falling nay have had thetr eyes re. principle of this wonderful free presoriy One man says, after trying simost blind, could not see Now I oah rend everything with 4, and My eyes do not wator ou & vic ey ae Go to any active drug ne Bon-Opto tabi ‘of water and With thin Maula b ir times dally, ered sarouep the You should notice your a simple to trade an Americal biy right from. Ub er out of @ to make a deal with Will weet Matting Miler of Altogether this minor league meets em aiore |league action, It was Ike « miracle to me. lady who used | The atmosphere peomed hazy wiih or without league clubs in Detroit and 1H Boome clear ye print without The National annual fall meetin ime, and muititu tne for Louis | bave a new man- ager before that dal the trouble and es ¢yivania, ts deter equipped this year to ik the winning streak of Pittsburgh than any other eleven which Glen War- ner’s team has faced. Smith does the punting, and bis work ls erratic. to aay the least. One minute @ compares with the best, the next minute with the worst. If he could strike an average between his seventy= yard boomers and his twenty-yard fil vers he might develop into a second Bam Felton. From tackle to tackle, Washington and Jefferson welghs an even 1,000 pounds, From tackle to tackle, Pitta= burgb boasts 971 pounds, Combined these ten men Welgh just short of « ton, It will be a battle of giants, “Boots Guy, the nineteen-year-old contre, has just returned from the western front in France, where spent six months in the ambulan worvice, “Pat” Henry, as the undergraduates call him, weighs 238 pounds, but he as fast as the ends in getting down the field under punts. He broke a rib in the Penn State game, but has fully recovered, McCreixht and Ruble, two of back will be called to the ¢ forette the second draft. Byron Wimberly, last years Captain, and the. third brother who hes played on a W. and J, team, volunteered for servive, DUL was refused because of a bad knee, Military drill three afternoons a week has proved « serious handicap for Paul Murray to overcome in developing his football team at Union. The under= graduates are not complaining, however, over the defeats at the hands of C lumbia, Williams, Amherst and Spring: fi They accept @ handicap as a per condition for athletics tn ‘war time and are proud of the work tne players are doing. The football management at Union hag installed a number of 1,000-watt nix trogen lamps on the gridiron in tempt to make it possible to practi after drill, which does not end until 6. o'clock, The men, however, find these Playing conditions too unnatural to be of much real help. ‘et most frequently expres on the Union campun ia that. Cane Frank Monyhan could not have had bel ter support, for with it his play would have attracted wide attention Monyhan Welghs 140 pounds, but h been bearing the brunt of the work both on the attack and on the defense. Bernie Weffe the | For trainer, is authority for the anne ment that Gilro the Geo halfback, played through the game with Fordham on ilection Day “with & dislocated shoulder protected bya hoavy harness, This would. easily account for his falling below: the standard which he & year ago when he wan rated ‘one of th best backs in the Kast and led all others in scoring. hoping to 24 or for 29. If unsuce nd with the Cor+ a game for Nov giving Day on Nov [nell game on Ne John S Acousia of Jacks been clected Captain of the reshinen's football team at. Yale. plays centre and learned the PUTTING ’EM OVER a ee “With Prohibition Having Taken Effect on Nov, 4, All Washington Golf Courses Have Been Shortened to Eighteen Holes.” | By Arthur (“Bugs”) Baer. , CR AL eee, eae ‘Tammany nor the White Sox will nd a recount, | lao Flynn bas the most obliging fighters in the tournament, They are always willing to meet the flow halt way. {antoos ott aes ee etl | Football t# free from al: is thie year, but the players scom to be able to borrow busted noses and bi yw without paying excessive ra\ of interest, Jack Britton haen't yet —— how he missed the referee so often hie fight with Leonard, Mtoe eed eH has eeain ba ' U may ing rte Stee N'ned its ‘There will be new faces on the Penn team after the Dartmouth game, Same players but new faces, Showing that the world is almost safe for democracy, Harvard freah« men are allowed to wear their hats ie the same town as a sophomore. Being mostly lefthanded, Man- ager McGravw's pitching staff ts ex- empt from the draft. With prohibition having taken ef« fect on Nov. 1, all Washington goit courses have been shortened te eighteen hole: ITALIAN ARMY OUGHT TO COMB » FOR AIR PRETTY SOON. A six-day race always looks good on the seventh day, Bili Brennan is one customer who will get a little sugar with his Coffey, YEA BO. THE TWELFTH HOLE AT BAL- TUSROL 18 465 WORDS LONG, Jim Ten Eyck rowed a single sh from New York toAlbany, but saya he ain't going into the passenger game. army ia as Wile 4s & baseball park Weinert is injured again, has sprained another man- —e RACING SELECTIONS. PIMLICO, Race—Sister Marjorie, Midnight Sun. y ce—Gold Bond, Melo- \. 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