The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1918, Page 14

ete epee -demleir i wie fun lta Wiltard Must Fight Fulton or Retire From the Ring. Comrrisht, 1918, by The Prow Pybilahing Co, Whe New York Evening World.) iS WILLARD can’t refuse to fight Fred Fulton unless he is ready to announce his permanent retirement from the ring and give up ail claim to the heavyweight cham- Dionship. The offer of $100,000 as @ purse for a Willard-Fulton fight from Dominick ‘Tortorich of New Orleans has Willard tn @ corner. Tortorich is a reputable promoter. He has promoted scores of ring ba tles in New Orleans. He fs known all over tne country as the chief pro- moter of boxing in the South. New Orleans is one of the few places where twenty-round championship bouts can be held. Willard cannot object to the clause in Tortorich’s offer which provides that the bout must bo of twenty rounds to a decision. He met Johu- son for the championship In a f five-round bout to a decision, Twenty rounds is really short for a heavy- weight championship bout Sullivan lost to Corbett in @ finish fight. Fitzsimmons knocked out Cor- bett in a finish fight. Jeffries knocked out Fitzsimmons in a bout scheduled for twenty-five rounds. Johnson knocked out Jeffries in a forty-five-round fight. — Willard Whocked out Johnson in a forty-five round fight. All were decision fights, With all this precedent Willard was only laughed at when he proposed a few months ago to meet Fulton in Philadelphia six rounds and no de cision, HB biggest purse ever offered for a fight was Tex Rickard's $101,000 for tho Jeffries-John- aon affair, And that was in peace times, when thousands would travel from great distances to see the battle, Moreover, there was a tremendous sentimental interest in the attempted come-back of Jeffries, greatest of all our champions, who h been suaded by his friends to return to the ring after six yours’ retirement and try to dethrone the first black heavy- weight king. There is no such sentimental in- terest in any Willard fight. Except! for Willard’s unpopularity, ed by his refusal to defend his title and purely financial view of everything connected with holding the champlon- ship, nobody would care much whether he is champion or not. It seems like & joke to offer a $100,000 purse to see him hold or lose a championship, HIB real interest in a Fulton- Willard match Js in Fred Ful- ton. This new contender for championship honors looks more like an old-time champion than any other we've seen, He is remarkably like Fitzsimmons in many fighting ways, and is six inches taller and fifty pounds heavier than the great Cor- nishman. We Fitzsimmons would have done with the other heavies if he'd been a real heavyweight. Now we have a chance to see. It is the long, lean, wiry, broad-shouldered and long-armed atural athlete again, matched against the beefy, brawny giant of the ring. And there js some little curtostty about how long Willard will last. OMMY MURPHY says that a Nttle talk 18 sometimes a great help in winning a fight “There was one time I was fight- ing Johnny I Tommy Frayne was a hard bitter He caught me with an awful right on the chin, and for a moment I was 0 dazed 1 couldn't see. I Just clinched and said to him will you Johnny?" “I don't know why I said that; it gust popped “Frayne se ym med to few days later other about the ght **Do you know,’ said Frayne, ‘you got my goat. T hit you aquare on the jaw with everything 1 had, and you leaned over and said something about giving your regards to the boys in Frisco, You didn't feel the hard est p no us trying to knock you out ones ankle Burns ‘Tommy "Ho could hit, too. Ho hit me right-hand w Mnoeked tn through the re the ri could have gone ufter me and fin ished me right there But as 1 came back I said: on, Franke work fast. Use rahe! Ana that got B He didn't press for a nent knocked him at round,”’ 667 DON'T Know that the re story of the way Terry Me Govern 1 me ever been told li-meant adv Everyboays Wearing BARKER SILK COLLARS 3nG@ BVENILNG WUD, | ty | Pittsburgh Seven Again Outclasses Wanderers A new idol was crowned by the crowd Up Winning Streak, Scoring Their Twen- A by hin team, | and fed his brother Larry a pass that Local Rink. Ing the eyes of th ers refuse to be stopped. the Wanderers Nicholas Rink last night, score this time being 6 to 3 the twentieth straight victory for the his convoy and score once after « thrilling ixeag race down the rink In which the entire opposition gave valiant several other ud tripped and 1 in the game. amo into his own last ellow acored all th ‘The first of these anged around, As in the previous meeting of the were better boy all doubt. They held the lead throu; out, and with the exception of a thrilling minutes in the sec flamo-haired went off on a wild rampage and scored two goals within home rooters had no ohance to cheor When the time came, made the most vints for his The second was a lifting shot fr Inst second of play of a pass from Tom his general piay was the same may f their oppor! 'The Wanderers went into the gam determined to check the mad careers of the coming champions. ter tore in to ki play was furlow the gaine the tam- In talking of heroes, Pat Fuller, the who plays goal be forgotten. Irives In the He fended some sizzling course of the the applause of th Pirates net off by with the pace pors of the playes Rulding their opponents at bay. While the Wanderera were watching Drury. mon and Joe Me rink, and the latte rmick went . the point of the Pitts was put out of the game for disputing the dectsion of the ref- 4 to a tripping penalty. It was quite the thing for players to ice Unconscious too. eres in rege. be carried off the Turk Smith wet the atyle. few minutes he crash Drury waa stunned, returned to the ve often wondered what| gamo played for » boards and tin long Into the al first half because of a di his leg, received In a New Jerseyites Say They Won " Allow New Yorkers to ‘Butt In’’ | telephone today to meet Akron, ©., lightweight| Moran in Madison Square Garden two years ago. Frequently he has been | the long distens Johnny Griffiths, the Hurley Bill First Boxit | ure to Pass Les Across Rive ‘ayne down South,” sald | soldier camp tn o fights in the South By John Pollock. my regards to Tommy White nmy Coffroth and all the boys in Frisco when you go back, and stalling in f Boston at Milmw: is ten-round bout agers and boxers are jubilant | use the boxing bill has passed in New J et up right Hdge affixes his signature there, and I pulled myself together and went after him. L met him a| and we joshed each | York boxing followers think that this wed in this State army, ia in g out the country I had, and I knew it was to Jump acre that they w there was a fight with| open clubs there, we reports already nd nearly out of and if he'd known it he Jersey calls The Hurley B nd bent between ed by the Governor, taking on weight the weight for hie Jersey City bantasn, st I remember {has been the cust Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publiehing 4mUDOUAL, £2 vwUAME BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW BRINGING HIM DOWN YOR! » (The New York Bvening Wo Jack Ashton, the Providence f Why Former Champion Re-| fused to Meet Mitchell in Jockey Club GivesOut Da tes To-Day Three-Day-a- Week Report Denied| Racing will go on as usual this extended ont Park in September. There «inn some time in May and rumor circulated to-day that the sport of the war to three days a week Secretary A. Mel, Earlocker this metropolitan cireuit atens to come sram to The E I WILLARD ¢ suys so in a tel years since he won the championship from | In that time hi from the ad ng he received for | to the white race Willard has only mafe one de te) offered bouts, but he has sideestepped them all, naming prohibitive guar- | antees as the price of his service Now, however, Fred Fulton has in the ring, stor Tom MoMa | had beaten Jess, and knocked out Frank Moran ie ant | Willard couldn't ac Downey, | that a promoter can pmplish in ten between evenly match d giants. Jess has to » Labor Day, before the club offering telegram received te-day George Moore, a former champion, who represents New York City in the Interstate = Three-Cushion Billiard League, battled for seventy-four in nings with Charles Ry Akron's league entrant, at Thum’s Aca last night, and won by the s to 41, Moore was in poor stroke by 7 points, the score being 38 to 31 tr Ryder'y favor; but In the next fourteen Jinnings he nm 4 the fvories and scored nineteen points to his opponent three, Both players had a high run five, Ryder and Moore will meet again to-night in a league game Replies received at Columbla within sent out a week ago to the colleges and | relative to the universities of the Bi revival of the interce plonship tournament this year, indicat that there is a widespread feeling that emiate golf chan the matehe yuld be played in the spring instead in the early fall, nin the past, Ift tourney 18 arranged intercollegta there ts a chance, according to A Walker, ‘21, manager of the Columbia forces, ‘that Georgia Tech will send a team North for the competition, ould beat Benny two or three rounds.” Yew! season on the basketball co they defeated the Hichmond 1il High also imited to thirty minutes, tue Durable Dane, Jand their twenty-third triumph of rt when companion, ad- New York City in 1884. erpool on Nov. 6 by the Pres Pub fue New York Hrenivg W CHAPTER XXII. INCE I began the preparation of this book I have been asked to explain in detail several incidents in my checkered career which have| crowd on hand to little bit shy about enterin on hand to f me out of diff: § absolutely no truth in the Alf Greenfield and) Johnny Curran As I stepped from the tender the So great thi words used by terial for argument. It would be im- afternoon in denying Mr. Earlocker also sald the Jockey this afternoon and allot dates to the about all of my deeds and misdeed The} n as in many cases I did not rememt |having done such things and had to friends for news of my But there Is one ques- tien that I can answer and I will Various associations of the the horses from me to the hotel interfered and after consider- the they started to tak arriage and pu own doings stopped that JESS WILLARD TELEGRAPHS EVENING WORLD HE WILL FIGHT FULTON JULY 4 OR LABOR DAY ANY NUMBER OF ROUNDS FOR MOST MONEY SULLIVAN FROM A WINDOW. made a speech from the window | 1} PITTsRURGH, Feb, — 28.—Morris That is the question | that was sent me, to fight when called upon Was caught napping, as it were, and it I had gone in the ring that night I out without honors my shoulders. knocker-out fore I gave an ex- ion on the Wednesday night fol- g and was introduced with Jem , the champion of England. aeht have com being heaped 1 The truth ef the matter is that I the contest en led to bel out of retirement to the | ¢ yell, ening cause I had t has done nothing but re olden harvest that resulted “L thank you,” I said, “And all I've got to say is that here is one fellow me over here to dick,” point- looked at 1 was notified of this while in care of myself. inst Frankland drank more than I pleased at|me rather strangely as I said that, ‘To be plain spoken about it I I pleased | ing but 1 added “{ want to ck him just as badly as he wants to lick me.” |told me later that I should have s They didn't appear te get the word “lick” When the day of the fight arrived Rceornuaned Villlama would allow the mate ) and Gunboat Smith, two men who| middle of a bad fix. SULLIVAN REFUSED TO TAKE THE MONEY. to make good with the public in some manner, so | 1 appeared at the exhibition However, he |as 1 got in the ring the crowd knew 4th or| that 1 was in no condition to fight, jand my explanation waa entirely un- I made a short ta trip around |country, and one of the most Jesting places I visited There my rec enthusiastic dered a visitor. WOULDN'T FIGHT FOR THE KIL- RAIN PRIZE. You don't attach much tmportanc to the diamond belt in the pos: f Jake Kilrain?” was asked of me in was Cardiff ption was onc ten- prd to hang up a huge purs will be a bout w his hand now or says he stands ready to fight Fulton any number Willard’s | jecessa ssion immediatel¥ went to my rooms. nt me over my s JACKSONVILLE, Fla, je pute Robert Edgren, Sporting Editor of The Evening World: Am willing to box Fulton any number rounds for the club offering mo the most money, Would think July 4th or Labor Day best dates, JESS WILLARD. s only a dog “| From Piles pounds ($150), and if I win it I intend| no matter how long or how ¥ v York bootblacks. collar given by the F I refused to ing like $1,000 take the money on the grounds that was not entitled __| fused to take it y giving the money to charity This drinking question consideration that no man can be suc and we settled ali | It will give quick rellef, and @ eingl edly issued the ¢ nge, but the | ra were not had been in y wake up and discover ‘On the other hand if we look over much |many of our greatest men liked their — the fighting Kame The trials for the Inter-city relay A r Philadelphia | Tun sa Jobster liked his tipple, Henry Clay | take just on . Calhoun was fond of his ol ned toddy, Georga Washington annual indoor games f Philadelphi rmory of the was always the first sixty innings and was trailing | {ll be felt n the Quaker City on rinted Jefferson would Erasmus Hall nd Poly Prep will meet has played the drink t He knows how to do CAN'T REFORM THE WORLD IN| A MINUTE, never expect other drink as long as TI live, none of those hard fee man who does. drink and get away with it so much but Yours Truly b asmus Hall holds the Poly won at astics and the | quand interschol the last few daya to a questionnaire | Egon Erickson, formerly of the Irish: changed his cc ycan take a national chan ohn Jameson Three Star Whiskey Is sold to the trade at a price Which enables all | Church House the fixture should be restored and that| the Inventor of the body I think it an abridgment of| ning of Oct d liner Cephalonia boarded the Cun, and set sail for B miasion of mone wanted to get Charley Mitchell and ‘Tug Wilson, and in ad dition to that I was after Jeff Smith, who was then posing as the champion | dealers te $2.25 Per Bottle Making it the best whiskey value in the market today, h with Yussif Hus emiefinal to the big a if no fall has i St, Paul's School of Garden City! well-known ! man of Montreal, Accompanying us PITTSBURGH FANS ~ HONOR WAGNER BY ~ BANQUETING HIM | Many Old-Time Players Help | Hans to Celebrate His 44th | Birthday Anniversary. PITTSBURGH, Feb, 28, —'Three | hundred members of the Pittsburgh Stove League last night attended |banquet in honor of the forty-four | birthday anniversary of Honus Wag- |ner. Many old-time ball players, were gathered to do honor to the famous Dutchman, Including Clarence Row- land, Manager of the world’s cham- pions; Hugh Jennings, Lee Fohl and | A. R, Tierney, President of the Three |I League. Rowland was the first speaker of the evening and paid a neat tribute |to the veteran of more than twenty years, His announced topic was “How We Won the World's Champton- | stip of 1917." but he digressed from | the subject and sald very little about the past or present of the White Sox. Hugh Jennings talked on “How He "8 s of 1900,” and. f the Ume to recalling rs how Wagner alont pes of the Tiger In that series he batted about bases than the mbined, In ho stopped between the Detro the field, Hugh everything that was h | two foul lines, | Barney Dreyfuss was to have talked | but could 7 attend on account of aickness, Manager Bezdek of the Pirates and ex-Congressman J, Fran- cis Burke were the other speakers. were rece from, Ban John K. ‘Tener, Connie ohnny Evers and other fa- mous baseball men. Wagner auto graphed ) souvenir pro~ oe BIG BOXING SHOW PLANNED TO HELP BRONX SOLDIERS. One of the gre Ma week from Fri- nory, Ful- ton Av I 163d Street. No ade a fee be chargea, but thee n, a money to be ken” a para- hows y D, vd New Nationai know t h Fleld ¢ to nt “over js <partanburg, where tr tw 1 for five months: 14 uly. of soldiers Is composed of Bronx. b s the intention of the resid ft nto make it of the a Gibson. tat Bronx Ar- s the com- of the boxing 1 wrestlin ‘ " appea There he show s the big w 1 for the Alles In Madison Square Garden two years ago. waDE A. speech |CHAMPION WOOD HURT: M'LEAN TO CLAIM TITLE, ampion of the world t night { and was bdadiy® hurt w uting the first lap of the 220-yard dash ax roby MeLean Chicago. H © unable to skate | the ot ‘ st for the Amy Y th cago skater ‘ and clair honor Ut. Three events f nt and Me- to pro- 22-yard” Hing” the t quarter 1-5 and in the |cent box of Pyramid Pile Treatment, box often cures. 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