The evening world. Newspaper, February 22, 1918, Page 10

10 Death of Billy Madden, John L.’s Old Manager, Robs the Ring of Another Picturesque Figure. manager of John L. Sullivan, “S died at § oc a White Plains Hospita Madden had been in poor he for several years, but shdwed nos of breaking down anti! after the leath of John L, When the man he had made a world's champion passed| away Billy Maddon felt very old. Hol wae John L, Sullivan's senior by five| years, He could hardly picture him-| self surviving the wonderful athlete | who had crashed through the fistic} world like a comet under hie direc tion, and he became moody and silent. A few days ago he went to consult with his old friend, Billy Muldoon, also a friend of Sullivan's) in tho old da He wan expecting to undergo an operation, and wished to have Muldoon’s advice about it and about a course of living after- | ward. While at Muldoon’s Madden! became very weak, so weak that he! was removed to White Plains Hos- pital, where ho alipped quietly out - | by The Prem Pytiinviog On, | yw York Trewing World.) LLY MADDEN, fymous old-time | ie last night into the “Great Adventure” alone. He leaves a wife and one son, Billy Madden was a boxer when he first fell in with Sul- livan, and he showed the great John L. many tricks of the game. At tho height of Sullivan's carcer he and| Madden foll out, and the feeling be tween them was very bitter—so bit ter, in fact, that Madden satled for | Ireland to try to find a heavyweight | fighter to whip John L, It was in pursult of the same am- bition that Billy Madden organized series of boxing tournaments tn several fargo English cities, Having yen born in Liverpool, he had a yotlon that ngland might contain 1 fighting man fit to meet even Bul van, In these tournaments Madden | jeveloped a number of giants who night have reached with sufficient coachi f, but one night ow entered and knocked ono of the santa out, Another night he pol- shed off another ginnt, and in a few] nights the little fellow was the sole survivor of the series of tournaments. He was the famous Charlie Mitch & More weltefweight, put a lad with | & Hon's courage and astonishing nat- ural skill, M van. with Sullivan's class 3 as became Mitch sure Chariie ¢ So he took # his new aap! ADDN tia over 80 using- 1 that he felt uld whip Sulll- ip for America ant for heavy- weight honors, Word was sent to America. When the steamer docked in New York reporters and sporting men flocked aboard to seo Madden's man. When they found Madden and “« small, smooth faced you gster | standing with him, they } all | wound for Madden's fighter, and| when Madden introduced Mitchell} they laughed in his face However, Mitchell fought Ly hard n Madison Squar den, and for a| few minutes showed gill that amazed | the spectators, He caught Sullivan | balance and knocked him down, Sullivan, flattened for the first time in his life, bounded up with a roar of rage and hurled himself on the little fellow like an avalanche Mitchell was rourhed around tho ring and thrown against and through ¢ ropes until the polles stopped the bout. Afterward might Sullivan to a draw Jon ule: Franoc prize ring hanti Madden's ambit ring man who could whip Sullivan never realfzed, but he did put an awful dent in John L.'s reputation with little Mitchell, ILLY MADDEN and John I hever were fully reconclled, Mad den brought out other heavy weights after livan had lost the heavywelght crown. He managed Gu. p, the Akron Giant, for sevora Avays living t hilo Ruhlin fol ywed i rofersion, and separating aly When Iunitr and left he rin open in Brooklyn. fadden hoped to m Gus world" den never could fill his t In tho fight at th Sharkey knocked Hu nearly out 8 returned: te dle » panic Madden quietly toll 1 end fent him i structions to avetd St at stop away Ruhitn f the quiet ‘s of the old » men of Le who are left wi ine ring miss bie, ‘ BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK ities LOGUERN SLARTING A LEFT SWING. very good | —————______ ‘Terrible Terry ’ McGovern THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1918. OveRN~ McG ~ 2 McGovern Made 1 Nearly $1 00, 000 Before He Wa: 21 Years Old McGovern Great Champion, | WITH BIG VICTORY IN BILLIARD MEET Young Star Easily Defeats George Moon in National Class B 18.2 Balkline Championship, an Rice, ran out the former Columbia his string of compe. titions with a a ive victory yea- in the national Clase B, 182 balkline billiard championship at the New York Athletic Club. He defeated George T, Moon jr, the President of the National Association of Amateur Billiard Players, by the score of 200 points to 97, Rice hae won three games and lost one, Rice used hia cue for more slossly terday fe lied caroma than In any of his frevious matches, His trio of high runs—41, 82 and 31—were all counted through deft. manipulation on the rails, and he finished with an avera) of 614-31, Moon, who uniform! landed badiy on the second object ball fell to an average of 37-30, while his top rin was Moon did better in the night game, tn which he defeated David. Weiner, the Wastington Heights champion, The acore was 200 points to 18% Hie averags was 6, The contest was the fast of Welner'a sorion, hie tally for the tournament bing one victory and three defeats, Rice a played In his persevering. methodical style. His judaement es te leneed Was flawless and he made exoel- lent use of the cushions to maintaln pos sitions, and the high run of 41 which he put together on his eixteenth tura at of the best perform- the table was on: Jancea of the tournament Moon'a. start of the nicht game jagninst Welner was a dreary affair. At nd. of ten innings he had only sey- n buttons on his string, Then be found his stroke for double fizures of rare brilllancy. He passed to the lead the nineteenth Inning with « pretty of 13 and was never headed. final matches of the tournament ed to-day, Moon meets White. the holder of the nehip tle, {a the afternoon 4 o'clock. Waite meets Mathews, the Brovklyn tuste: The at P. in the night game, APTERNOON GAS Tp to the time McGovern lost first fight with Young 10, 4, Corbett at Hartford, Thanksgiving Day, 1991, McGovern, ording ; J 5 0 Panes the final Count | Sse ee oved to Fight and Had cats I Ki Ci t Hi it l twenty-one at the time, too. e S Began fighting April 17, 1897; won 67 battles St IK, ke t. n Kings County Hospita wh Abe 1, Long String of Knockouts ee Theatrical engagements at $500 > = : = . a The part in ixty-three contests and in Umpiring baseball games .. : ait any Heap | Ut the finish came hin never tet } Once Fistest 0 of Them All, tition to bis knockouts won Werhiditing Of hisaslfesss: Je Fought at Time When) tor a secona is Death Ends Career of For- ae Ae seh ener = Great Little Men Were plo els SALE VS hs eat esd 4 fi deglared the winner ove 1 500 ; wn to McGovern in ¢ Ag at mer Champion. iicrhatnth ater twenty-five founds of | es Common in Ring. it he aia Tervy know « JOCKEY BUTWELL PLACED aan viatt Hing ; , —— it erford, Gans's wan Bae mtn EAE Cenanccrorersa nets foetaey {oo Ui salen ty eae aN IN THE NEXT DRAFT CALL serevern figinm, and one most tpleal of bls BY ROBERT EDGREN. capone Gareace mera eight champion and !dol pt the pugi-| prowess, waa his battle with Pedla in ‘ fight we » Gans was to c listic world, died at 9.30 o'clock t ty, on Sept, 12, 1899, A little champion ne y, iE Hieheadn put '< ip eae hs se > . ings Co , sai gatheved at the open air ° ‘ pees ar ABIES SME OM season, He has morning*at Kings County Hosp! POLE ON SA LNHCR Ae SEB ADEE OIE ‘ fouRhe arian single tdea that he was thers to by hin Diatelee Acute indigestion was the tinmedi t ‘ the men came to- Raieane Erne, 1 fight and to win with a knockout as) &* in cause of his jut his old-tim er Torry landed « fusillade of ga! M au t rn and: Wie 2 y ithe fleht was ove er Gar M ) iv ‘ ig “sh ey a Wale vitality had w ur nd he |) Kad out H ns 1 , aia : ; - , ‘ im * Gardne Ilo allt beat hin all over r und tr pet aen ad Jong been in a weak condi- hil shi : waning: ¢ ; second round ae 1 down uncer tion. plonsiiiy, Jan 9 1900, . atein; K : usitlade of blows, ¢ po Terry—once the T re nat He Whaat Booch , _ FA T Kout was genains, | State Ve Me € the hdéspital ‘Pu r H wan Tee busiewt In the ring. He wy MeGov 4 da knockout planned ns finals ¥, 3 OA, came unconscious last night and tee) was f \Imost continuously 4 ‘ies a never cme off. ling contest, w 5 been tn mained so to the end, His w as] ond whit besides Dix Osear hs sd etry: MoGinvern’ won {8 esd for poveral ka, will be ith } ‘ ut Ho a Gardner, Frank Erne, Joo Gans, Kid £ ¢ 4 4 5 ¢ sib mie Oy ' I iroad, ‘ddie Lenny and ‘Tomn y ° : p in Brooklyn ed of C. A leaves a son, Joseph, nineteen yoors | whit The Ficht Wi shell in [me and tet M mo twely bs rea hier ‘ vs a ay Dn TnRE Rin Cheenti t0| The Fight With Mitchell in jiyyee without mo out of, vent Wual to appear fs i final oncentanta, MoGovern waa of tho fe | Young Corbett in a sen Madison Square Garden, "x, Position pe Sergid gets Brooklyn fighting under | Park, A Munhattanh ing typo of fighter and inauy in Hartford, Conn, on wiving ; _ ‘Though the gentleman did not MoGovern was a fighter right from | jf 00 7 felting : and. Ce i “ tls Day, 101, ‘Terry went ring} and How a Knockdown |lleve t could d he was the first timo he entered a ring, Ho (1° Morton law, we Tying |twent ond old-timers + tho ring never sav | a four to one favor nna é RU bet, I would have put up th psi help is on bouts almost nightly. There were |reprmcntarive Myth indie his equal. Hoe used to rush at his|was crowded with # Came About. it Jeaet. T helave tt would nave t 2 utaide of the equared | nienty of chances for an aapir Meee tit wt ‘and cone man at the tap of the gong and, in| prominent fight ‘tt lS ie ap pla. eitenell to have otn way tho quietest Uttle fellow | younceter to fight, ‘Terry started tinite tintil the contests are decided. } tj the country, ho a 4 ting you me day's ve it : . ee a his prime, usually bad ST asnad Caer ane ies Copyright ‘ 5 ee how W I had my feet YOU could a day's travel, But an amateur, but he made go battereds up "before th tter r y a ay ew Y braced Ico h ar the sound of the 4, yea m down with unrelent- mn r tern cor fer CHALICE uri When Tf tn wars She. Nesacia tha NOL. Braduated into t praves= | ing tury re his guard to fatters, w othe fight was He 1] Phe tight was flerce will aries aula and he became the very | sional class almost Immediately tare er nea hecmaai tine raee thirty knock to hia credit, ant] int Young Corbett put over : b firet Agbier to arrive in this} Ty g per f fury, His attack KNOCKED OUT MANY MASTERS! suum until ut last Little Chocolate five of shea rod inthe fratjeut puned In) the nacond 'y I country. ne ) WAS tmmediately and v v 1 nd Irresistible. THe be OF RING GAME. [could no longer rise. McGovern was round. Only one man eve t Se ihe A -Peally cles boxer was| bull at a red flag. Kan at once fighting at full speed.) By knocking out such tanst 1 workl's champion i SLE aeae pet after r Charlie Mitchell. 5 lover boxer’ | { had him on the i eiary! Tatentins ‘5 etnie P cing? out suc nasvera a Of the next seventeen fighters who That was ght and they met again is var f tt 1 every Intention of beating 5 atuntaa, TAREE es, ‘Tia | tough ¢ litte men of thetr \turned th Francisco in 1003 with the ¢ 1 nm man w was fast on his yector Thorne an down in the first rou And tasper Leon, Patsy Haley ¢ went more Ke the he t ' feet and knew how to handie his fists | {ams, who 23 Sallecue auiont X Joe was ern was t|_ AtIGR GIAt Metres part In! with great rapidity. To many of our! spector, Jumped | ; er ee eet hin arene [ane Frank Ene, " A few fhehts with lessor RUM Of) ois echool flehters th Miteh stopped the proceedin was generally known as Maco's|famous, Sam Harris left his d then pion, but popularity Olthe ring, but mever did anything ae ene . aa ; silts a 5 y ju Maori. Jem Mace spent a long time wagon and beeatr y's manager. | train welgnt limit of the gay life of Broadway nutable as rvel, Ho fooled several of 6 training this man do, and they| Then camo the far tle ith ft sted only th » Gans, vic t 1 ation MeGovern@ecame ti] last December | them by his qu shifts and won 1 > ired that he waa just about right ae en she dares Hasse ni p siitwolst ghamplon, was . w ma visit to Camp Upton, but) many fights wit ott ver & n the et whon they | Pediar Palr a Ferry'a reputation: | | in. two. times was put n as Land until early this week w 1 y eineh, hailed an ntor “ lod in mber, 1582. | became . irelegs of hard training, In v ars ried in comparative! 1 con- | Deavy pun maint hat to give nee 7 re filled with talk almer came here to fight Dixon for Te athe in from a theatrical tour, ubsisted on a fp n k tion at his home, N 18th | he never h pun T was sittl le t new man who was coming|,, aia ‘ : worked Mehty for a week or so, and paid to him by Sam Har Street, Brooklyn. In the Ne hos-jat the ring eo -uikt n he| When Mitchell recovered ia r express purpose of “winning | te world's ¢ p. Foxy Har- |? Young Corbett at Hartford, and Ha who was hi ner man: yital with him when he died was was fighting Cleary, and Dick Malloy/@l kinds of bluffs and hogan to| the championship from the Boston |ris persuaded Rettinson, Pal- | young Corbett knocked him out with ager His brother Hughie, who uffering | tin ime : Fibrone uster around ring ou had |Glant rs manager, to take on young|a furlous right hand swing in two MeGovern was born in Brookl{n on | with Broken arn ma him and) ne pusiness interfering,” he ald t fs Is. Torry, heart-broken, could Mareh 18 " n fight MeGiovern is the A old | sald: the police: Ly t GARDEN WAS AGAIN Terry McGovern as a sort of appetizer) not understand it, He returned to when ho was olf ‘ 1 time fletic champion hina| “That'e a job f \Syou go, to. 3 ng room,"|CROWDEB TO DOORS. for the big fight to come, Terry and) firookiyn fur the fret time as a de- the xix pt his final defeat hort period, th . eae ‘i Mitohell won fights by | said Captain are @ lucky} Mace and his protege finajly ar-|Sam Harris bet every cent they had! tented fighter. by Young 1 k Fitzsimmons and John LL. reli aeate tantecaarece AY [individual that 1 in and pr 1 in New York, and Thad a@land Terry's end of the purse. ‘The! But ho didn't quit. Terry went a an ppcemoabeme STE | : - he | vented Sullivan fror ng you ce to look the Maori over. He] gut ca Terry | down to Louisville and whipped Dave old thmers who mot him habit| BIGGEST FIGHT HELD |Was certainly a strapping young fel-| /eNt €8 | Sullivan in fifteen rounds, Dave wan Ty of holding their hands very high. He| Up TO THAT TIME, ® He was over six feot tall and] knockec gland jn hed two weeks from the effect of John Pollock Qt OSSL would felnt so them| ‘That with Mit sa tha 1h proportion, ide was & larger 2 the heating b A and he never ruard 1 "\ wt eV t kir ha h Md | n fighting ! igh erry guard would a ‘ had rit was finally arranged for| : UDR hadn't After a couple attat w wre a mer, PUL them In Pee a Nay Thi ah ehtch eave tne importas|(® ther man ever ma a ring: | of othe ern went to Sa: Char d t Bora: Under the t im! Wor hlocka around ¢ igs : th Antipodes six months |[n quick success Terry kne 800 tp flirh sin, And Muffaio, | ' Ww > Wakely of New York 1 ar-|and bolstered y. We fought at) Fred Snyder, Billy Ttotche the pu uidered B UP ‘ rangements t tM though thelr 1 M arden and the litatey, Billy 8: Eddie nverite right ins ‘ange . r Aisa [bagi aae i Abs n or, if that be possible, | — i > swing on Terry's jaw. Corbett ts the igh 5 son Square Gar M tes chat meee} thin e one thit witnessed the fights] Corbett jr, Cha Mason, only man who ever whipped MeGov A three round bout M ‘At twen' eleht the | With Char Mit and “Tug |o'B and Marry I ern oay stray me a emat doretand, had be Jexhibition bes son Square | rd K. Fox put up the money |®mazing thing about AFTER HIS SECOND DEFEAT BY - ; + wis! | England espe Garden waa then: There wa Slade here T was told, and| fact that not one of th CORBETT. 1 ’ Boston Gia) Ot & Dox, DUL every att ae eitarin was Instrumental in hay long enough to hear ut broke ‘Terry's ‘ In that. tigh was Saal fava voat! ¢ rs M un him " ¥ we Itheend of the se ; it and AL muleone, I f tinuous 40¥ » have me defente i ae "4 ‘ ‘ : , i fur the fi me In my gontingaus sovl knows, how. well they suc jolever Har Forbes had fought ne ft » As that ko wa out en featherweight chan s 1 we wok Je us x u o ” | rm ba ios i D Apel for tho “it ite {columns of tint apers | thited a Senator | announcer that night intro-!¥ pound and a half ck. Run down throughout t) untry I think tt/ ling jo end « the combatants and the event|" 700 pac nd was affected, nite of few Toons m2 ond] would be ar title Was Mr. Charlee A ws ts fa to be a combat s name was nd bie handlere ae t dociaiona wre exeCtAL 10 Ie iezationd ip | NOUN BO AN ¢ a to explain) Mwrenes Jerome and In the latter-day pugilistic fashior pers im into the ring, Ps ° , it right here jubmen were t betwe L. Sullivan and the jses, Crowds n , shadow, unfit to take ' Ply t 2 gor HOW SULLIVAN Was whilo fistiana w a far-distant Now Zoe-|streets, ‘Tho clubs tought | a blow, Tevty faced Tommy Murphy, eral ar atident that, fe will be pemed io che Lag) As I was turnis way from him} Billy Edwards battle wa n in the ring ton the popular {dol of the hour ring, Then MeGovern'a class told, : sim I dectded to st no side, Ag T{4ver, “Only one thing can be aaid Me one ol tatowar | WHEN HE CHECKED CAREER OF | Pulling hinsclt together for 4 dying lid ao one Of 1 Nears about it. Mitchell is avery geod man, a Te APR Oe URE ae GEORGE DIXON. ‘he auadenty maawived Murphy weight, |" sod over the) jut he met ano W a his a i r a with one ' me Mee : ‘ut ay orher ane, and I was in tha@] uscr'all thew ‘Talila mi Hie corners| er: ten, years G nt hand Murphy rose a a " ¥ t er ¢ the n Ke At] Dixon d been th yh VE a Monday position Mitche a1 fell he contes! J Custek the TOU PRS acibh 4 a again Rua Te ane ‘a “only proves the old say that and I could see that the New) |. 4, champion o © corner of the ‘ ‘ N - A Rover &) ood ttle man cann @ good ander was out of wind 7 | ‘ the sponge, Nomntay | HY *xliig |chair, A noted an wes! et nan third round I knocked Slade| Dixon watched Terry fought Bat- t © ewitting me ab ay in the ty always ike to 1 repeatedly, and the last time] putation with as much n " a unds, ham. ; oe r & but the gen-| But Mitche! Fy SHS vealandor BP JA nm wa 1 W ms ae rk, and mot Young Corbett : anger) > Pollowin peared that such «| ont \ incase w in Denverite even sound fame i s 4 ree ! the crowd of f i Agnes iol ) § | slipped a cog. , ‘ ! I hunting for sOmMelo< i san wy ub = He w ’ Way to a sant ant Vo 3 ; said to| hanevay to New % i Great fight. «Dixon was) und one of the greatent ben a team Wille J P oI? Y can stand | To SIO As ouaciclogs. som Ms Il be printed perately with all the marvelteus seiil eno ace Harrie ga, given him um u tow taht, te j yh, can stand {n my usual # amous fighter, was sent tg find him {Il be printed » 1a 16 marvellous skill! der Sam ari " , « ee nz with atc sat a bind cae £ yd Th Fal im, CThe next chapter wil e nt hin command, But It was in vain. Muliann Savarn fay da Senet at