The evening world. Newspaper, December 7, 1917, Page 24

Eee, BEST No Other Champion Has Ever Knocked Out as Many Oppo- nents as Benny Leonard. Ome Mc York bre Fee | ENNY LEONARD is “making good" the popular belief that be fe the best lightweight cham- pion that ever held the title No other champion ever went along winning fight after fight with knock- outs, when he had bis ttle safe and Bothing much to gain by taking risks, Nigbt before last Henny knocked eut Gene Delmont in eight rounde, While a few nights before he had) knocked out Sallor Kirke jn Denver| in a round, Leonard's knockout ree. oTd makes the clean-up iat of other champions look like last years price of sugar. Other champions have stalled, Leonard never stalls, Home ott@r ehampiona faked, either for betting Purposes or to make it easier to got matches. Leonard couldn't be in- duced to fake. He doesn’t take ‘the lightest interest in the gambling end of the eport--if there is a gambling end any more. He tan't saving any EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, DEO SPORTING PAGE AMBITIONS 1, OF the Prem Pevtioning Commeeer (The Hew Tore Prentne Wor) “KID” AO ORO ee ni Parr epponents for a second match. That's « heeat. jenny takes pride in winning eve: pout and winning It as quickly and decisively as he can. | “When I can't win like a cnam- | Dion,” he told mea little while ago, | “I will be ready to step aside and let | the next felio’ my pine." | HIRES one younxeter who wi!l| soon be regarded as the chicf contender for Renny's title, He ta Patsy Cline, While Leonard was knocking out Delmont in Bt. Paul Patey Cline was knocking out Jimmy | Paul in @ minute and a half up in| Rhode Inland. | eating Jimmy Paul wasn’ @reat feat, although he is 6 evo | rugged boy. But knocking him out! in a minute and a half is something gise again. Benny Leonard's atten- Sen j@ respectfully directed to tho - | T Col. Boruff of San Francisco, | Cal, the other day, Col. Horurt ie the gentleman who drove a ball from the Los Angeles Country Club to Sen Bernadino by slicing tt tte a fiivver that was passing the Coun- try Club grounds. I must admit a Blight mistake In the account of this feat. 1 said the drive was about thirty miles, Col. Boruff objects strenuously to having his performance heltttied in any way. He says the distance from the Country Club to Ban Bernardino is sixty miles, But I'm afraid Col, Boruff will not be able to claim the world’s record drive after all, Moet Dr, Joho Breen of Ballusrol and the N. ¥. A. C, laat night. Breen said that the record elongs in the Bust, “ Stowart of the N. Y. A. C. was ut Travers Isiand one da; sald Dr. Breen, “arguing with Gianini about the distance it was possible to drive a (af ball, Gianint sald that he could drive from the middle of the ‘rack infield at Travers to Hunters Asiand Inn, across Travers Island In- let. A wager was fixed up, Gianint and Stewart each to drive one ball, Gtanini topped his drive into the water. m Stewart stepped up and took & terrific swing at his ball, In- stead of golng toward Hunters Inland Inn the bali was sliced sharply to thi right and disap; r the tops of the trees in the general direction ¥ name every golf that bali came in @ small box, without a word of writing In explana tien But the postmark on the box was ‘Bangor, Me.” 1 cluim that'thia solid and substantial proof that Kam Stewart's drive broke Col Joruff's world’s recor N° chatlenges from Charlie White the Chicago lightweight, have appeared in print for some tin This is because Charile White become an army camp boxing tn @tructor, and he takes his work seri ously. Like B. Levinsky at Camp Devens, White intends to let his private ring ambition rest until after the war and to put every ounce of energy he > 1 training ay conditioning the men under bis charge A Drunkard’s Plea. He Was Released From the Bondage of Alcoholic Slavery Leading Druggis graves. Ye ompletely fe the prescription that suved me. Une Brepered toscum powder twice » 4 fotfes. ten or any liquid, Alniost eve fhing bad been tried on 4 tre #0 don't experi eam powders, thet pointed. Since oforlers ta fe ot inon Galch arueeists ars mn ubave prescripll Army Champion Is Defeated by Strangler Lewis) irre st Seti per eat, tar | the ost twonty-tour Wears TWO MORE GOLFERS ENLIST IN THE ARMY The golf world is doing ita bi for Uncle Ham al) right W. White of Flushing, for many Waldorf-Astoria Hotel recommendations of the commiiter hot be taken until the thirty-elghth mii of the national tion, which will be held on Friday Myrick, Acting Prealdent of tho assoctation, that a restoration of the championships, nts and the ranking of layers is to bo recommended at this College of the of New York on w-morrow header in soccer and bas- Action upon the of ita last ina on in ite gucceasful sem basketball squad comes College kymnasium for t! to @l week's grind. This estimate of the|forced to retire be f world’s catch-as-catch-| Government's Fr can wrestling eontests ton Theatre last night Strangler Lewls| 99 gor the mix duys and nights of the}|Ce"t Madona was ready and willing} pinned Soldier Leavitt, t pion's, shoulders to the ma utes and 7 seconds with an arm and| sig Government Joe Rogers and Jolin Ger-laucted trom this, aa the public are acle put up a little longer fight before | . cimgeed for the war tax. the former won with a body sclssors.| “Ty point of attendance, the current |time they camo back’ on the track | The time of this bout was 15 minutes! Garaan race iv in an excellent way | they continually kept trying to regain Country Club of that town, will don the khaki at Camp Upton on interesting spectacle will draw 'nS-lan approxim: to the ticket diniripution of the A secretary of the Metropolitan Golf Columbia will open the season of the Association, commission as Virst Licutenant in the Ordnance gone to Washington, the present President of tho M. G. A. Jong been identified with golf and has for many years been a mem- the Lnglowood Country Hw plays a good game, : when Harold Hilton mnade his seo ond visit to this country Barnes had tho distinction army cham-| race, ‘These figures will represent | bination was made of E in 11 min- expects to find formidable as last year, Judging from jts of Manhattan tu 4, recently. received a dual iment and Water with the swimmers of City Coleg” at the City College pool Department, Play in thé annual metropolitan team matches will begin on Tuosday. tiled an in former tho Clase B players starting on De Witt Clinton swamped the High nmerce swimming t t Went 6th Street The Clinton boys got a. cv manding lead at the start by winr race and rolled up # Ralph Saacke wu: JasAes are we the Alexander the preliminary {easily the largest since the stx-day |G, Weart, one of the best known buse- trom| races wore started in tho Garden] ball writers in the country, died to-day weors of 41 to 12 individual star of the ‘The Mineola aviators and Fort Siccum battle for the football chainplor post league at Gi »rrow afternoon. yards sprint fated tho fintah mark tn the fifty ho would have won that contest uso he was leading by thre hip of the military The theatre was jammed the wrestlers grim of the Ne: Tho game will be played on the of defeating an!|tionately large but for the polle had passed the line and stony by permitting Bellows of, Commerce to take the event, § who gained fame in battled for over progress of a tournament on the National links, a0 to 0 tle at Englishman Plana for the seanon of 1918, tmportant changer tn legislation and the ways in which the game of the courts may best I be put to their final test ecutive Com tea National ¥, Ohio State's aty back for the Jast two reasons, amined for admin: Was no esca selected from thousands of applicants «in 19 minutes and for the responsible position of boxing of the big camps White will be be served w Instructor in one It means that Char! in entire charge of making boxers of And the Government ex- will have t of picking bundre aasistants and coaching them so that they can do the routine work under his direction. sharge of arranging tourna- | enia and competitions between com- nies and between regiments, and of | the matches are held It's no small mittes of the § ¢ for captain of the eleven next Lawa Tennis Agsociation to-day at the fall if he atayed In college. |faced Fred Pi ni, | p koff, the mighty Russia The pair struggled and rolled over thelont race, down and across, spite heroic efforts neith pects results. but de-! While the management's financial sponsibility could gain a Koller was the ag- Kressor most of the time, and on severas occasions seemed to be on the polnt of eee 3 pinning the Russian's shoulders to the| people call them paper—the Govern- | received President Tone: Frank Bagley has Just closed several | matches for his string of Hin new heavyweight, Madden, who recently sprang a sensi tion by Knocking out Jim Coffey, will box Battling Levinsky, the clever He-! heavy welt, Armory A. A Johnny Tillman, the St Pau! weiterwe! Andounced sever! weeks ag in Mhilafelpiia that be would tum over 5 per cent, to the Government of his winnings 8, |10 per cent, on all tickets, And every | reek champlon, battled to @ draW,/one had to come across, There was Period! no artful dodging, It was an awful Cyclone Burns and Demetrius Tofi under proper conditions. White is serious, determined He will make good, twelve-round bout twenty-minute without once even getting near # decl- Ivan Linow of a ‘Tex McDermott with a double arm-lock | in 18 minutes, Demetrius Tofalc kort of a fellow, {Ff training camp work ts being Jack McCarron, the hard-hitt( done quietly all over the coun- and Augie Ratner middleweight of the Bronx, to meet in a ten-round bout at a boxing ahow to Tuesday night, and Greb of Pittsburgh A. C. of Mil- Bagley has also ed Willie Jackson, tho sensational Bronx Nehtweight, to box Frankle Cal- the Olympia A. A. one week |» from Monday night, with Renny Valger, bantam champion, gon in the semi-final. middiewsig't of the Greelan strong | E severe test to-|cta the pleasure was about gone be- | Fear. Duffy, however, wil night, for ho 1s going to tackle Strang onsidered the great- | the the Cream City were matched to-day who have disappeared from the ring to take it up, but they are having their influence in the making of fight- Battling Levinsky 1s almost tdol- ized by the soldiers at Ayer. Des Moines Mike Gibbons is working. hard and in extremely popular, Money | was needed to put up moro buildings for indoor training in the lowa bliz~ zards this winter, er Tom and two or three others, has spent bis apare time raising it next Thursday ni init gamenem, and beites are amen ap oust to be a hummer, ost Greek wrestler, and Is ulso kno*nlorger to eut down Uncle Sam's rake- to: DS One: $F :the: strongest * fe the eggs showed an unusual inter- | Rumor has it thal lle figures his powerful st will more than offset Lewis's expe the loral fighter. who bmke hls with Kid Coster, ¢ left hand in his batt A big stow will be held under ¢ f the Hallan Relief Another finish match bring to-| gether Joo Rogers, the American Apollo {frat time in the history of the raco ym that he wil b again in about two weeks. dood bantam at Bridgeport, Conn, Fund at New Haven to-night from whom he won the titie Gritfo and Jack MeAuliffe, Jobaoy Dundes, Jak In the other by which are lm! Webt Promoter Kanner of Denver, Col. ee Leavitt,| Great confusion marked the selling | round go between aod Stanley Youkun y¥ Kood success proud of these champion of U joxing fans cu Cully and several others to be fought at tu y national’ draw of thia duration almost a eure thing Gut 1 Glowon, manager of Leonard, will not accept the math. "| change making in pennies and nearly | jifevery one in line had at least one | | RACING SELECTIONS. NEW ORLEANS. and Sula Hovonpas will mee! grappler, Joo Malcowie | come together tn « ten-rourd bout at money will be turned ever to Gil Nicholls, who recently gave up| lobb professional Neck Golf Club to enter the talloring busincss is planning t and Fraukie Will Great| war tax inside, but eagle-eyed in- identity with as his home will continue ariey baa matched Augie Mat meet Prank Car round at Eme After @ successful season at Broc line, Louis Tellier, the popular Fr has arranged to pass the }at Dumbarton, Va |last night in company with George | Blawg, another Dn stopped the o: Tells How winter New York the Postman A. ruts in the old home of the Harlem Sporting plaa of boxing to. profeastonal, Harold 8, MacDonald, a member of Guarantee Results a Larry yap ee. nant and expects t for Camp George der will bo staged at the @how for the | da M4 a evening, The aie are Joe Malor onorary President and’ was pre by the club mene direct | big money winner for the week irre- 4 Baltimore wie soldlery a | Di! tery to) Mission int | was a furobus jwig in his bollew an.“ CAMERON'S WARNING KEPT 1 Game To-Night Yaglth Avenue and is expected the] gerics at } that hae! Third wand Arthur Nelderei-| No admiastou w [the gixth sprint last night. Cameron, 47. IN NEW YORK \The Big Money Winner In Six-Day Bike Race Is Good Old Uncle Sam | ic ri i Goullet h rack " | Public Is Paying Government Spaliet hurry onto the track pre i fF. Ye Just before Magin shot out in the | About $8,000 in W at Tax) int rusn of th jam, Cameron ga’ for Privilege of Seeing Pres-| the peculiar Comanche cry that al- ea 5 aq pa ways warns the riders and trainers | ent Grind in Garden, Which} that a "Jam" in coming. Cameron is training several of the teams and his | Is the Best Attended on)}watchtuiness last night saved them from being lapped, for the full riding Record. fores came on the track ready to run a a ullet and Magin. — ts by Oscar Exg and Pete Dro- HE Garden #ix-day bike race|bach featured the grind last night will be a small gold mine for| These cyclist teumed up when thelr Aes ons socnenene /barthers quit early yesterday, and al- . tie _ national’ Government: Ithough two lapa behind the. leaders Uncle Sam's war chest will be @%-|fane are betting even money that they t of about $8,009, | will get one of the laps back within Drobach was originally teamed with Eddio Root, but the ve ause of exbaus- enue {s based on|tion. Drobach was given four hours 1 attendance of 120,-]t0 find another partner, and ax Vin- levied on all tickets sold for the to retire from the pa time a new coin. and Dro- | grand recoipta of about $80,000, but|bach, Each team was a lap behind | share ts not do-|at the time, and the new team of Egg | nd Drobach was penalized another. Both Egg and Drobach took advan. | tage of their long rest, and from the | some of their lo: of breaking all records, The evening crowds have averaged about 12,000, Expert Is De while tho day attendance hus be90/ prILADELPIIAN Dee. fe william twenty-five years ago gt hia home in this. city Peath was) Bisa eularRe r- | due to typhoid pneumonia. Mr. Weart, | The money return would be PrOPF- | whe was forty-fice years old, was Secs | of retary of the Baseball Writers’ Asso- “ ing a populi o race management fixing a pop ty on sports. Iie had a personal ac- seule of prices. It bas been the 8¥%- | quaintance with almost every player a ices to) 4nd magnate in Major League Bane- tem In previous races for price jay | Dall, and spent the greater part ot his begin jumping along about Tuesday | career as a writer on this subject fol | in Independence, Ta year's grind have all been maintained | By Arthur Youcsdlt Fee ta back Int couldn't etey cured TOUGH WORLD In apite of aeveral atorma, Clark Griffith manages to hold on to the American League lead that thie ean elimination tournament he gteeday eoce oot three dave off for good behavior. Rpectator at But he had a relapse and went back. toot and Drobach are! who atts down In order to insure good v tion at the str-day race. agement requests to bring a bagful of atr GOOD SCHEME NDAT, BUT NOT GAUDY Balser has no sauawk coming. low-bridged by @ bridge ho bullt himeet?. Deadheads are gett! issued a com- grition are confise habitforming drugs, injured in @e bout with Fred Fulton. |GERS JUMPED, Wrestling tournament ts epollgd by the clinching, Only two rules in the catch-aae catch-can wreatling matches. Don’t amoke hop in the elevator and bury your own dead. LI'L PEPPER. squawk against tbe ton of America and was an author. | Dis leagues are entiing « Wrestling tournament was almost broken up when some scientific gent | r " Philadelphia news. tossed # cocoanut oe Wednesday. The tickets for this | Philadelphia newspapers, He waa born 4 r Wednesday Darwin wae right. into the arena. on the same levels, which may be the | on for the popularity of the pres- returns from the start of the FaC®) CINCINNATI, 0, Dec, 7,—August were not particularly encouraging be- | Herrmann, Chairman of the National cause of #0 many gratis tickets—show | Huseball Commission, said to-day he had “s telegram and ment was right on the job collecting |that he tn turn had wired Mr, ‘Toner thut he thought the joint meeting of the National and American Leagues should be held on the original date set, Dec. 13, CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Deo, 7.—The Harvard Athletic Association has de- shock for the veteran eggs, the tight- ste ho believed it an [slsed: wentlomen: w ‘thing, {140d to retain Hugh Duffy as base- unpardonable sin to pay for anything: | bail couch, aithousit the ema ven though they received free tick- | have only an intormal college ni amen, with whom he worked all » batteries will begin work on in the cage. ‘There are no old players In college. couse of the ten cents on the dollar vernment asked and got. In ve Yankees’ first b Waller Foe) ee Kees’ first baseman, dt est in the general admisston tickets, | Avfation Corps ef the National Inefonee ho 60-cent kind, There was only a|end yall ance, |nickel tax on these, and it was the nay that the don’t-pay fans condescended to accept such pleblan means of en- 1) trance to the Garden. jot tlekets for the early days of the! race, Tho ticket sellers were necessi- rily slowed up because of so much | Easiest to steer Does not skid OU want the sled with the grooved runners of [chrome nickel steel, that steer on snow or ice without skidding, |question to ask at the tleket window, with the result that the waiting line often extended several blocks, Those holding advance tickets tried to beat | tho waiting stunt by dashing Into the | thinking they could pay the |spectora shooed them out without | ceremony, | About Wednesday both the ticket | | sellers and t blic were getting used to the n ynditions and con- | sequently more progress was made. | | Yet it 19 estimated that nearly 16,000 people who came got tired waiting tn | and loft without seeing the race. he management must account to the Government for every ticket fa-| sued, whether sold or given away, A spy of the printing order 1s given, also a statement which must show the y sale as well as a record of all ticket stubs, ‘The Government in this way checks up. All of which makes Uncte Sam the and al ¥ | apec ch team wins. to-mor- Philadel | spective of which | i] hardware and department stores. 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