The evening world. Newspaper, March 9, 1918, Page 8

least SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK MOST RING CHAMPIONS WON BOB FITZSIMMONS THE EXCEPTION TO “YOUTH WILL BE SERVED” AXIOM Record Crowd Gibson’s Benefit Will Net Sol- oe | diers Something Like | $2,000. Fitzsimmons Only Exception to Axiom That Youth Will Be Served, He Being 34 When He Acquired Heavyweight Crown —MoAuliffe, Ketchel, Melody, Ritchie, Dixon, McGovern and Others Only Boys When Supreme in Their Respective Classes—Jeffries and John L. Youngest of Heavies, { LAST Quite BATTLE AT 1. | All records for boxing attendances in the Bronx were smashed to smithereens last night when approx!- mately 7,000 boxing fans crowded levery nook and corner of the Second Field Ar Armory, at 166th — | Street and Fulton Avenue, to witnes: the boxing bouts staged for the bene- fit of the boys of that armory by the popular Bronx promoter, Billy Gib son. Oonrright, 1018, by the Pree Publishing Co. (The New York Brening World ‘OUTH will be served in the ring. Of all the acores of champions in the various classes few were much over twenty yearn of age when they won their honors. Nearly all had been fighting successfully most many as enjoyed the STAnLey Wetcwer was evening's ente nent were turned MIDDLEWEIGHT Champion at Zo. away and the big doors of the ar Tou Ls Suan mory were ordered closed at 9 o'clock : " | Deapite the huge crowd, which faile > re pets fully in their prime when WAS Colayapict to see Henny Leonard, the light- they became champions, AT 24 welght champion of the world; Willle Rob Fitesimmons furnishes the Jeckson, Battling Levinaky, Johnuy . | Dundee, Joe Lynch, Lew Tendler, only exception to the rule. Youth | Dave Astey and numerous other box never seemed to have much to do! é he \9 |ing stata in action, there was no! 7 —_ é e rt with Bob's fighting. ile won the| Was HN ero cue No admission was charged, but world’s middleweight championship Cer, NTAM (WRIGHT \there were voluntary contributions when he was twenty-eight, the! ‘ Jwhich had force workin night counting th forth by vtlr peeches by on's entire olerical te after mid- mo! brought ing and vigorous ¢ Humphreys «and . Who acted as masters hoavywelght at the age of thirty-| four, and the light-heavywelght when| A veteran of forty, He fought hia! Tant (ght in the ring when he was ty-one years of age + Willard, p Fulton’s Own Story, Backed endl > hag made quite « tlon fot bi elt in Philadel sent champ By Affidavits, Shows H reer ee tet sash Soha tothe | y avits, Shows How |... '-"w ssa when he was twenty-eight, Johnson! Spartanburg. It is f Wie fait thirty when he took tommy H 0 Fi d Wi ll d 06 wk 1 with which Burns into camp, down in Australia, and Burns was twenty-five when he van ynce oored l ar te and a ic parapher. @efeated Marvin Hart and claimed the heavyweight title MPofrice’s retirement. James J. Jeffries was younger than @———— Most of the heavyweight champions | rave — he jumped to the front. He | jry only twenty-fou Knocked Boo F lads soon to cross the because of ey 2 ard wa not meeting all was Supposed (O Be Gare ee ee eaten that he reac Exhibition, but Soon De-| ox Bim. 1 had had several tights, touched my glove, in » centre of “i [Dut was still green, In fact, 1 had|the ring, I knew a’ storm was coming veloped Into Real Fight, and! been knocked “out by Al Palzer the land that he would iry to knock me ed out and een champion—so far as abil | goes—many years nooner, Lrne when be) was twenty-four when he beat the E Vas O previous year.) 1 was twenty-threo |out. taal out great Lavigne twenty-five rou ‘as 4 po7 years old Rochester friends tepped him slowly, f eleven rounds at Inland. |% decision. Lavigne wan the sate ae ‘n Be Ad sti pres, Se.S | wae any, ctneten, ae Jeffries didn't do much fixhting bo-|ngo when he succeeded Jack Mev at the Time, Too lard and asked him fore taking the tive, He way such allitte, who had retired ; : spar powerful bik feilow that be ham- Deg hoot i amin it, He crowee imered his way to the top withouc|At Nineteen McAuliffe 1 his regular é ‘ maT h abruptly. He hud ard and smashed me te way 1 Tos Gans HB doubt that ex tor three! tParsing partners paid to do that, bie ‘avy blows in the mouth, and fnd the skill he had: consiste Tack SMAAUHIPA. wanton 00! the WHEN HE KuocteD oor WELK. KNocKED OUT ERNE. ever did actually drop Jees| “I didn’t quit, however, I got ¥ Inore than they expectad, Knack of hitting a hard, gest champions, He was ouly wince = sins i ——— | Willard tn an exhibition at Rochester, | of my iochester " to nee Tom) +: ond round I saw Tf had blow with elther right or left. Thone t who was the ax his mar ones to put m A r i ho pro Minn, March 14, 1915, cleared | bard, straight punches of Jet's y lightwelght champlonship r | away by the big boxer himself, who! ya im @ terror to er mon long began to def it with h fore he pretended to know anything | success t with wus now says he can easily produce half| Wi a dozen affidavits to prove that the! @bout boxing himself. Before Jack McAuliffe there w: Jim Corbett knocked out John L.Janother famous holder of the Nght- nd’ hamplon was knocked down | that exhtbition Ir ing with © real fight on my hands and waded ink I held my own with him ird I went to him. Willard habit of leaning back out of f face blows. Whon I led with my left he leaped back ao far that he had to step back to recover, But ¥ was on top of him in a hurry and throw over Joss awfully sore at I had gone over his bout, and f imagine way noked at me when into the ring that he mean @ullivan for the championship in|weight. } elght honors—Jack Dempaey. — He their fumous fight at Now Orleans} was recognized as Mahtwelant chaine when he was twenty-six, And Sulll-| pion at the age of twenty-two, havin van himself becamo recognized king ten such men as Jimmy Mitchel), the many re- { Viva tite ny right hand. He top r ed throughout | 2 s pled back a dig spruce tree, land of all the heavyweights at the age Fulljames, Henry Jace I fe j " on t down on a ne ithe 4 twenty-four, Suilivan and Jet- Keenan, Murray and bev: a he country ebout: his encounter with | chat pitched in| sounding plump WA mse Srl were youngest. of all heavy lee Datoeney here aCe Ins big Jess and the much-dehated | the middle n tent and thou- | “Of course | wae proud of my show well chumpions, Each was a nat-lrerweight, then middlowolght ch ‘ “Ede knockdown, took the opportunity re- | sands of per t of whom knew |{ng, but somehow nothing was ever ural fighyer, who didn't f it nec- pion. ble in winning i cently to air bis mind on the matter, |/@f ™M*, Were present, 1 didn’t even | pent out about it. IT had no man @esary to'work through ® lot of pre-)" Johnny Kilbane took the feather as a char his dui wultanta story: suet eoldish have @ second in my corner, while) ae Several weeks later I went Mminary uts with men of equal ht title from Attell at the age of position for tw on y i Willard had Walter Monahan beh the management of Mike Col or nearly eatin! fighting ability bom! ty-thres, The “aklddoo number r tasted dete Louis, where he has been showing in /tim. ‘Tom Jones, Will manag 11 told him about knocking fore winning the big titic ny to be a favorite among tight . t im a theatr Oo the cards were rs, Attell ecame champion at Ketchel Champion twenty. Terrible Terry McGovern Wheii Still a Boy. |wan featherweight king at nlnete Billy Papke knoc out Stanley n he knocked out. the great}Qld Champion Intended to} “L was working in Rochester, Minn., at the time Miller’a 101 Ranch Wild ‘est Show blew into town with Jess against ma had t ing,’ Mike sata, yewltnesses, Ha If adozen affidea s acheduled as an ex- a9 I shall show you in 1 ait Oe A ‘ ¢ 48, AD a wae designed ster business men #0 Dixon, Solly Smith took the att 3 rs Willard as t jeading feature. WI Willard. But from t Metchel for the middiewelght Ute ti, from Dixon fora while at nines Retire From Ring After when he was only twenty-two, and ¢o. Dixon wan, twenty a ate , ‘already veteran of many desperate = a twenty when he io i bet pillows to keep Fine bation Kotcuele thes cewboy QFMt wore the crown, having dereated Fight With Corbett. | Auitton and 'iimray Carroll wore just | who became champion by virtue ot Nuno Wallace in elytiteen rounds in ne 1 the point of going out and paying {) patural fighting ability, went to the 4399 4 England, for a purse off (oop by the De tug | the quarter to atop when the train Gop in @ rush. He was champion at $7,000 and the championship. B Nee York World) joved foward. Barly the next morn- | Sicake Gh twenty, having, moucked Murphy of Australia was twenty we arrived in New Orleans, and out Joo Thomas in San Francisco. Ketchel war an unknown before he trainers hurrt # to make Ike Welr was twenty when he became champion, and CHAPTER XXX, 1 up to Mra p i r ements for Kid Wilite ne y " ne the i fought Thomas the first bout at |cnampton ap twenty-one count e wore utopping there again, Tt will be Maryavilic, Cal. He wan a Cowboy, twonty-one Frankie Neal knocked ew, start bore utd A with that whe ows fighting tn a ame n town Champion Harry Forbes at twent the wae noti 2 Fi hile, manila ons for | % pick up a little of the easy money | Hantam champign at the age of mine ke care o f ay tho station and they that was so plentiful then on the teen, when he ‘kiucked Sut. Pediar © that I did train hard for my tight i Fave : ‘Coast. He knocked out George Brown | p, “4 yndition. Mr, > Preuid Win three rounds in Sac the Landicrs of Joo Thoma he might do well enough for an op- ent away from the and |Olympic Club, was’ one of the first] John." ho said, ag he looked eritioa 1 might Ket re: Day over that $25,000 for where Corb er and won a lot of fights in a| with Corbett, and the statement le- sensational manner, He let the title| sued by Dr, Dudley Sargent vo to become a featherweight ree Dixon became — bantain champion at twenty, winning at 112 el gave Thomas a tough ty pounds. y, WABINE Abad | corp: rounds to w “draw” (they say be] OF all these ch tons really deserved the decision), and retained thor homers en, fn @ second match knocked Thomas | couple of years. out, repeating tho dose later to make way up to the ti ning me will prove it, I had| that the made up my mi fight would 1 ery fow|1 directed all my en w more than Al winning. | Tava a Wer | Phil Casey trained me for that abt, | gies toward New York and ee me and } ion at r it convincing = | Het of fiehts with other worthy rivals. |and he was selected by Charite J into the j Honey Meilody was twenty-twoland when they had reache 1 the top | ston, my principal backer, Jenne club when he won the welterweight title /it wasn't long before some other con by boating Joe Walcott. He was Fr ADpe slightly assisted by an accktent that) just er had happened the “Black Demon" a | skill or co year or 40 before. Walcott, attending | again nes without amazed. ents tor a “Honest John” ey put up at of th reeng, with in youth or ‘ition to oush them down the yo Califor. & ball In his section of Loston colored | —_ nin to take " wee op ce i $ . és is to be Cor- @ociety, took out a “gun” to show it! on he morning of Sept. & yar a Bee Pinna aud vocidentally puied iie| REVIEW OF LOCAL. SPORTS.|‘.ox tne train for New Orleans. We know he {9 a han 1 am, but Twi trigger with bis lef 1 sooner or later, I don eovering the muzzle w and while ee his right.| A whirlwind attack In the I had much difMeulty on tho way t two The result wasn't a great uid to the|minutew of play enabled the Poly Prep | Wore Aiayed several hours, 1 had} propos to wear myselt out Chasing “Demon's” pur ching power Howe er, | hockey representatives to defeat the | made angem ate for a baggaxe car) 1D and wait for him to fight. 1f lody was a corking walterwelght | Jamateu tac : ; in which 1 could work and keep In| he does the scratch the ref-| end might have whipped Walcott any- | Amica team by 8 goals to 1 in the | : ‘This cay was aldetracked | eree will hav a chance to remind governing mich con- “ 4 P. 8. A. L. championship reries at the | Condition way. He beat ao lot of other welters in p D reries at the ch| him of the rules championship style while he lasted, | Brooklyn Ice Palace just night, After |@t Buffalo, and we encountered much) Pim of the ru hb Walcott Was twenty-nine when be ipwon of the Jamaica team was| trouble and del ting another ocked out Rube Ferns for the ay in *nuily (ArrAD nad we|FISTIC CARNIVAL INCLUDED 1 from tho Ice near the clove of | Ths bene ilo at ae Mteny | THREE CHAMPIONSHIPS Welter championship, But for y eres Des Som Mthe aha’ tals IONSHIPS. meare heater aT te era paoneniie © for throwlag his stick, Poly | went on our \ i : New Orleans was jammed with Deron ot tee arenten ® fighting |®ered two goals in rapid succession, | W4# filed with YOM) visitors, Hotel rooms were selling at men in the world wivitus the Kame to them, Mrasmus re-| New York, and re wes wometKing| a premium. It w m saible Matty M yowoven | talnod Ite lead by easily de ing Boye' | doing every minute from t e welt nme of the t sands of visitors when 1b ae WHY |pigh ta cihet kame. bs ctr NeweWG! Ali eata Lat the to get 4 nodut Th ate Smith n. Billy ls wo, by left Now York wi 4 i ' int ude three | + Smith was n o when he |° _ Jold picturesque Loulstana — city why . tho. biggest | beat Danny Needham for it in four-| Automobilists from many parte of AMoOnge those who wore with me al mat ever t ed in the hiss] wen rounds. Now Jersey will be the uests of the| the time were Pail Co Dan Mu pugilivm. streets around | Among the lightwelxt Benny | Middlesex County Automobile Club at| I © Gaxtoll j Ast whero the fighters were| Weonard knocked out Freddy Welvy |% smoker to be given at the club house | Phy, Jimmy Cart i tlagee were packed with len caly twonty Leonard did |/}, New Brunswick on Wednesday eve-|ton, ‘They stayed my aide i ull klnde of rumor lot of fighting he gatheret | throughout the trip. | und the English v Welsh was! The following achedule for the In tor. Poker game ran all day and night , the characters who arriv an old timer, f Jass, when he jc! basketball tournament at th was "Ong-Ryed ellow never missed nd it has never | on the train, and every now and then |! New it; 1013 | reports would spread over tho train Mook the champions m Witchte | IF on @ London decision, at twenty-eleht, a prix March . + March | 7 ot th 1 i *: | as to some big Jackpot that had just| been recorded that he ever bought @ Ritchie Got Vote 2: Maren ih va, 1020; 1984 ye: | been won one, | and Title Together, Kor tego ta28 ya 188s 1854 ve 1995] RICHBURG SPORTS ON HAND To} sn awfully good atory about u ‘One-hyed" Connelly th | Willie Ritchie won the title from —— GREET HIM. nn ly. Kel . |i on “Honest John’ Kelly, Kell -one, and Wolgant | Columbia's water polo ¢ 1 {at work in the baguage car, | often tells It himself 7 : Wolgast at twent ay ay SP 2 eal ight in ite mateb, ‘was & vetcran and had a fighting rec- inbie tank on Jand was in first class shapo when ri ky fh OFd as long us the Lincoln Highway | Heights. On the out = finally ‘ yt when he beat t Nelson in 40|teet hinges tho ju je Journey wae finally over, I was He was twenty-two, | pone Py for each tenia | ing Nelson wan twenty-six | §#MeH4 and lost one, and in addition t + the oiag when he knocked out Gana Bat he | tBlht'a battle each has ‘one more| 4%. (he pla maloon W was past his prime then, and alc f Jdition to the water|rain and the piace where 1 had so| fell out and ve REMEMBER— There are no others like Murad. in bed when we arrived at Richburs, | © where I whipped Kil back o| his glass eye Jon the floor, Home 6 und Columbia swime d reat neh + an, | DUGY picked it up and laid t he ready beginning to slip buck from hia |wuing teams will im fit Cotumble eta | pause trouble with the oitloora of tho | helt, BA AB OR tH phd Y greatest fighting form, Battling Nel- law {tia mane inakhinw 6 ¥ woke en Pig sia 7 gon claimed the ti when he was | J. Robinston Beard, formerly a promi twenty-three year later Jost |PeBt Polo player and gentieman ridur As» I peered out of ¢ window 1/"p and discovered that his ana eye and missing when Ke Hoe was be field ina flight that | and no smateur breeder of blue: | #aw that bundreds of oaning his to Gans at Go ne ry and dogs at now | gathered at the ion y caine in and banded Jasted through forty-two gruelling i one Daueknaw | gat red at U0 r f im his glass eye. rounds before Nelson wan disquall terrier Ridgewood Rocket from | Well, and I bad to atick my head out D dhat ta why,” Co. fied for fouling. Andrew McCrea’ of Philadelphia. tor | and shout “How d’ . Whee oat bin 2 LOM eal pally. | eo e : Joe Gans was an old timer—as far | $1. mt dog wan whelped up, 1 yelle ‘even hold out @ tehow's ave { } fas ring experience goes-—when he at \¢ ag sae y besides | jook at the place where I for 4 ' i} last knocked out Frank Erne in that | beat of ail tesede at the eae eg | Kilrain.”* \ ) confident of winning this 3 first round ao ‘ort Brie, He was| New Hedford Dog Shows, Ha hss also Just then a local quart wan fied th Corbett that it never oo-{) twenty-eight thon, Bgt he might’ been a successful aire te sing “Down on r i don'tlgurred to me until the day before I ple. had