The evening world. Newspaper, October 14, 1918, Page 12

rear eee rt ee EN a NN e-em a MN a bie ie Ne Hard to Believe That Battling Nelson Is Down and Out Financially. Cavrright, 1918, by The Frew Publishing Co, (The New York Brenig Word.) ATTLING NELSON, sick, down and out and broke, So says a story from Chicago. Seems un- Believable to any one who knew Nel- fom when he was lightweight cham- pion and amassing 4 fortuna Bat may be sick, bu. we can't understand how he could be broke. . He never squandered any money in those days and ne didn't drink. He never lived ostentatfiously. Why he'd object to paying 10 cents for a cup of vof- fee, and no tuilor ever got rich nak- ing fancy or expensive clothes for the Battler, Starting out in life as a waiter, Nel- son learned quickly the value of » dollar, and this knowledge never left him for a minute. He always was o good money getter. He was pald plenty for the ring fights, he earned more on the stage and he exacted everything coming to him on the story of his life, printed serially and in book form. No dollar ever got away from Fat He says he now is owed more \han $250,000. Maybe he is, but this i doubr- *ful. There is just one mistake Nolson made, which may have cost him money. He “fell” for ail kinds of “in vestments.” Tho old oil stock np- pealed to him and he liked to dabble in real estate. His ambition was to own all of Hegewisch, in Illinois, his birthplace. He wanted to be Mayor of the town. In short, Nelson be roona "ubitoatatte Senate es TWO Weeks at Empire City Racing Season and Wyoming are among the originai forty-four nominations for the event. The Scarsdale Handicap for all ages, at a mile and seventy yards, is the in portant event on Wednesday. time of its closing the Sc tracted forty-one nominations. doing that. Evidently he has lost. If the truth were known the “Durabie! ° Dane” is now “land poor” and with-! 0 ind out ready cai The properties ‘n mncentoneme which he speculated didn’t pan out It is regrettable that to-day he finds irimeelé fi iy eri in body after having put such a grea: | Many Good Horses Will Com- pete in Ten Stakes on ring career behind him. His presen: condition only goes to show that needed a Billy Nolan in and out of tho ring, more especially some one to look | after his business dealings. Archie Zimmer on a train just back frem the Laurel race meeting. Talking horse, Archi had some original things to say abolit the beginning of the end. handicapping and the weighing of cer-. weeks of the autumn meeting at the jain horses, For instance, Arcnie says Empire City Track, ushered in this it Js not right to pack weight on one afternoon, winds up the sport around horse and put a feather on another in r ing. So far the same race just because the for-, New York until next spr mer is fast. He believes the size and| the racing has been of the highest weight of a horse should be consid- standard ered. For instance, as Archie ex- everything considered, the most suc- cessful of any since 1910. weighs 190 pounds and the other 130. Ten stakes feature the twelve days They are very evenly matched as to at Yonkers, and as some of the best of | speed. Give them each a bundle to) horses then running in America ure) eligible for these events, good contrasts | (hace |uralist, Roamer, ( Tassel and Tom McTaggart, same day a selling handicap at six| riongs will bring out a fleld of all- aged sprinters, plained, take two men who can each Tun 100 yards in 10 seconds, one carry in @ race. Who'll win?) Why, | the dig fellow, of course, because h is stronger and better able to handio Should be seen, The Kingsbridge the extra bundle. The old axiom that | Highweight Handicap for thre weight brings them all. together is. lds and up, at the “about six furlongs being overplayed, according to Zlin-| Toute is this, th mer, Many a good little horse is) ete fairly L Se fee tuee maitin, ‘Dea’ No-morrow he ‘or Sel Meee che bla, ares ji horse JUS” stakes at one milo brings out some year-olds and up Noor, Hank O'Day, Turf, because the big horse is the ronger of the two. Archie laughed when he good berms th thought of the possibility of making WT weight classes for horses, as is done Everest, Whimay, Minto II. I in pugilism. Have featherweights Choice, Salvestra, Nightstick, GOING AROUND WITH A LADY ASSURE You, MR. Boees THIS |S very FLATTERING TO ME To BE PERHITTED TO PLAY vente By Thornton Fisher @?¢¥rs. Stanwix Oopyrient, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). OH,| BEG HO-NONONONO- Your PARDON! THe HONOR. IS NONCHALANTLY GLAD YOU BID = 1 bm We toniaes MA HAA ~ semen VE HAD A PERFECTLY Lovey TIMG, 1 BEG Your PARDON- Programme. By Vincent Treanor. HE metropolitan racing season !s in the homestretch. To-day The two first day's Walker and Kammer Repeat Hills Golf Meet |An4rews & Company ON THE SCREEN OF SPORT Poi Perritt Won’t Be Story Teiling Champion of the Big Leauges When Willie Mitchell Returns Home and Relates His Experiences in France—What Happened to Cadore in Paris When He Caught a Fish. In Fox |They Will Battle Once More for the Staten Championship. Spindler, a ox Hills clubmate. Spindier. who a Year ago won the championship | of this organization, gave Kammer quite an argument for a while, but after the n Was reached the last named drew away and finally won on the sixteenth In the afternoon, Kammer pl along smovthly, take of his opponent, who had trouble with ikammer won by 7 and 6. In the mean time Walker had been showing his opponents little mercy, the NING true to form, A | aie’ Walker and August Kammer, Present and past title holder: won their way to the final round for | Columbia player defeating R. the Staten Island golf championship | on the links of the Naturalist, Corn sel and Star Master. Two-year-olds will furnish the at- traction on Thursday. Py Hugh S. Fullerton, were fighting th into the bushes “L had forgot dent until about a month late! MITCHELL, the big league flat to get into snake crawled away It is the Harts- alf furlongs, and among others eligible to go are Pur- Questionnaire, Ophelia, War Ve 4 Cirrus and Thuni Friday's programm up of overnight events, the feature of e the Highwelght Han- It ts a six-furlong Cc. Catlin ) and then a ane 16| STEAMBOATS. n all about the inet d round 7 and France, writes in- terestingly of experiences there. He has been through hard ex- periences and came back to Bordeaux, pitched several re- Fox Hulls Club | Staten d yesterday, Their victories give them |‘"® ‘une of 5 and 4 the right to compcte but finals to be pl kment, hoping nant, Hurricane, Os- id a rabbit jumped up and rac n of the Aj ; Batterson, Vice Chairma: | in the 36-hoe | Liberty Loan Committee in the metro-| TO Jitan district, 1s proud of the showing ade by the Fox Hills golfers. On Sa*- ribed by men on ark up to.4106.- Myre CAPE COD CANAL ‘and fast night it was stated that the will be made layed next Saturday, the meeting a County will | urtay $10,700 was subs Se brinae [th bringing the m: ran fp onto the emt which should ible, and the season, Lash Veap for all ages, decisive test, bring d first across th » these same pla Petham Bay Handicap ts a money event, for three- year-olds and up, at a mile and a six- | It has such good ones among | Jes as Matinee fa pecially with the Fox Hills c nocked uncenscious. but in the end Walker we ‘There I was, stretched across the unconscious reight train was coming down grade t looked as if Meet Concannon. The second match in the series of | ard and pocket billiard events to be played in the enlarged Idol, Daddy's | ter, Motor Cop, corge Smith, C academy of and Forty- s season, begins to-day. thick of the drive vk place in the second ninth Street, thi ng out of the handkerchief gaged. hip pocket, t and went up track Rainbow Selling Stakes, the New To- Handicap, the Bedford Selling 4 akes, the Ardsley Handjeap for two- | any story that Poll Perritt tells. Say, dx and the Yorktown Handl-| whe ay can come back feveler' cap. the closing feature of the year, || VCS this Is over I ca: ON CADOR Krooklyn team to get into act and stop Poll nothing but meet featheweights, li¢htweights race | against other: of their own we: | eet rece unio neuen | Qld Boys’ Pull An Oar Again beat the world and his own little Onico would find a place among the as notchers, jmmer’s reasoning may be sound fn some instances, but i wouldn't Lasi e had won 1d din all cases. ‘Thirty years after they Bor iota was a Rots the championship of the Harlem, the old race at Jamaica, in which one 1888 crew of the New York Athletic horse, Purchase, outlooked and out- | Club got together at Travers Island yesterday afternoon, Not satisfied was staggering at the end to beat With just a dinner in honor of the comparative pigmies. occasion, the nine got into @ shell and rowed several miles just to show that they were just as good as they ever were. with a ship rivetting tool in his) ‘phe shell was boated as follows: Bow, band and apparently at work in the pr. BE. W ddog Island shipyards. Jack, how- | ward Weinacht; ever, ls posed smiling and evidently | teh; No. 4, J. W. Spaulding Inglis; No, for instance, tl weighed everything else. Ail carried wbout the same weight, still Purchase IST received a picture of Jack | Dempsey rigged out in overalis, was looking right at the camera when 2 photographer squeezed the bulo. however, The picture was taken 6 {ian' Gdvertine Jack as a bard working eee ene ae ae icDougall, q who had rowed No. yards and he isn't anything of the could have been present. bul he was U avoidably detained from the reunion, 80, igh, whe was substi- | omployee of Uncle Sam in the ship- kind. Accordingly the photo create: & false impression. As we under- fortunately, Froe wrbocker; No. Kn) stand It, Jack, some weeks ago, got tute on the crew, did hiv duty, . under cover when the Work or Fight| Law became op: himself a job with th “@ recruiter of labo: aome other fixiters are “doing their bit* the same way, Dempsey began his duties by making a trip across eountry, ending up in San Franciso, where he boxed four rounds with Merry Kir », who is a Licut Willie Meehan, the rol rl @5, Camp MS outpointes’. It would te lane Bit Thtantry. Replacement Tegiment, | he wa esting to know Just he Jack has recruited since he opti his Inecure job, {in eS fori HE Police Department isn't over- | to round out Its $50,000,000 quota on show is the latest plan. It ls to be held to-morrow night at the Mth Regiment Armory, Brooklyn, under the auspices of the 7th Precinct There will be no admission feo ny i charg The idea belng to gather open the midshipmen's seape together u big crowd of fight fans Seturoas nd then arouse their patriotism to two gam RACING SELECTIONS. the bond-buying point, Dan Morgan, is giving his services to the depart- ment, and judging by the programme has helped to arrange, the show ould be a corker. Dr,’ Muth, the *@icia! timekeeper at all the big bouts and around New York, is also in ted. Here is part of the bilj:| at Coffey vs. Joe Jeanette, J { it itton vs. Soldier Rartfield, Barticy ; len va Jack London, K. O. vs Zulu Kid, Frankie Callah soe, Welling end Harry Greb vs CAME mer ed stim oe {ins HARRY KINGMAN CAPTURES Lou Tendier and) CAMP GORDON BAT HONORS. | Spvial to The JOKDON, ATLA! Hall League waieh ner, (he official ave beech made public, Kingman fr member of the New York Am ft p the Lib®rty bond drive, A boxjug Middy Eleven to Opem Season Sat- urday, ANNAPOLIS, Oct, 1—A gam 1 yesterday was arranged en the eleyens of the N ni the Naval Pay Soh ated at Prinzeton, N. J. The ist 5 heen cuncel AT YONKERS, in. Ultima Thu «© = Stromboli, O'Day, Kashinir Fourth Mace—Quiney entry, tra, Out of the Way “ Fifth Race—Snapdragon Il, Paddy Dest {the truth, so you can imagine we ace | some things.” really ought With his imagination and the foundation of fact he could get over who at the time of to go over Fistic News ‘ and Gossip By John Pollock a caught @ fish over in and claims that he ought to have a like a tract and Baron em like an amateur na Watched the fellow piteh may have thought that! F She’ he had found his pla egal la matter of tact he missed it by not. starting in his youth to write His hunting and classics, but he does not limit himself | to that’ line, and if he young rookie aside and start telling tales he knew no limit. One of Poll's yarns ts worth while hunting down It was a@ bad di | and he had put little luck, killing only! six wild geese, a small bear, a dozen or: | two duck and a couple of wild turkey Disgusted with his bad luck, he starte-|| , homeward, determined to give up unt'l{ weighed four pounds. the weather settled and he could The road was heavy r there with the | and if he x H ther fish that is le pin life, but 43 |the ball player fishermen will not have With but few exceptions nearly every city in the West and East where boxing | Deen forced down on account of the rapid spread of Spanish influenza, The cities affected are | Philadelphia, Buffalo, Syracuse, flection. records for fishing in I wok a salmon trom the Seine in trout of Paris'several years ago, Seine embank- lined each fair afternoon Milwaukee, St. Paul, Chelsea, Maas., und many other | is not likely that the sport | 1 n for at least two hundreds of the le had been A gentleman’s idea in shop- ping is well understood in our Men’s Clothing Shop on the Fifth Floor. You have a shrewd notion of what you want before you get there—pattern, price, fit—every- thing—and you want above all gentlemen’s clothes. y for hunting ( him to their ‘@ and carry him in triumph t cafe for a cel ‘0, 3, Theodore Froeh No, 6, W. O. Joseph Cremins; No. 7, | fe smile lant one of the busy toller, Martin J. Asutim; stroke, Bugene J. | coxswain, Edward Froeman, ntral, department in the different cities seem the malady checked enough by that time to permit the people to attend boxing shows again. Renny Lemant, the world’s lehtwelgtht cham. arrived in town today from Camp Gonloo . Where he went through a two weeks’ coum of bayonet drilling mo that be could teach it to the sokiiers who are quarteral at Camp Upton, very boxer who is a civilian boxing inst rantor throughout the country ale Leonant declan the salmon | They carried with mud and at pull one boot from the de welght of the game which he c ra held him back, thus for a couple miles when he heard @ honking ip the air and observed a flight of wild Ordinarily they fly in Vv] would select of the V with th it and shoot so as to g®& them all. But! | this bunch str "I couldn't get ' “I kept bending backward up, and the wel, 3 oar in the iting and explaining nis wonderful feat, ‘adore is one of the best of the ball over his should at the different cag | bad to do the same thing, Chat the sadiere are experts in boxing aud bay Hans Wagner coming over ind thought little of | French soldiers began Cadore thought Jobe Teeister, who ie siting Jack Dempecy tr | ma he ia entitied to ae $100,000 which he cl manager of the hear tat both Demisy and Jack Kearns, man seer of Demjney, declare that Reimer har nothing | 4, ordon and assigned to the | ty do with Jeek, is now at Tulm, Okla, where is Uying to Dring aff a few fighte betwen ting lender of the Canton: | hearywegita, John is anzious to have Demyecy caing Word) PA, Oct. 14 rather around him. Croix de Guerre ‘s compared with catea- ing for them to lin game finally fhat I had to shoot them | from behind while ly and I only got four, day's luck Dever had.” ja small matt RACING TOMORROW at EMPIRE CITY TRACK (YONKERS & MOUNT VERNON) The LIBERTY BOND FORDHAM STAKES and 4 other classy contests, FIRST RACE AT 2. At $47.50 a complete showing of the finest English Covert Fall Coats met Carl Morris in bout the latter part of wext dust hav ae It was the worst Although the Spring A. C of West Hetoken, Tokd their bosing ehuw last Friday night vinied Kid Nortoth cf eight rounds decided uot Ww bold any mare en (ertaimmente uot the Spanish influensa, 4 stow did tot atirct the crowd the | Tylor, the dad for that reas Whey will mot atlemya to run any mare fur tho t base on the jentally his team won | was once in the Nationa:’ League a pitcher who could at and that was Jack Men’s Nettleton Shoes, $11.00 up. Dest & Co. Men’s Shop—Fifth Floor Entrance, 1 West 35th St. least tle Perritt, pitcher of the Chicago Cubs, er days of Ch aylor possessed tho | the imagination of a W yarns is worth p “Twas hunting AL of Toston, which te the elnb in Massachusetts, has sigoat » the owner of th one might a we st winter near Nel during the training happened to be er saw the farmer with & rewnt meting eluwion tat the spurt would be largely patron ined in the winter ant (ay low no Ume in en. caine to the con. a big club tryiny tender streak in my do not like to seo dumb things hur tace—-Osgeod, Sherman A., mies and De Race — Star Spangled, Let the snake alone. tess and never did you any hurt. “Instead of acting decently a rmer got mad, All trains stop Army and Navy Uniforms, readyto-vear. ine manne of Wales Wholesale coat, 637.50 upward, Went fide wokerweight during bis fistic carer but as Flyop is a bieter and manage to get bis tadtlers plenty of work when the fight game ffl ie with hap ioe a Bye, Tommie wo .0 4. M.to8 P.M. DAILY, except Ganda told me to min and started after I grabbed his clul Then we had a thence by trolleys from Woodlawn aeslie = the snake again, and he struck at me. t and finally I swung my right tc h Race—War Cry, Hurricane, 8) A Doubles Title |Won by Hartman Mrs. George B. Stanwix and Ingo Hartnfan won from Miss Marjorie Al. lison and Alex Mer in the Red Cross doubles final yesterday afternoon on the courts of the New York Lawn Tennis Club by the score of 14- 6—2, The match was carried over from a week ago when darkness forced a termination with the acore at 14-12, The pairs took the court yester- day, Mrs, Stanwix playing on the right on their side of the net. lier played left and Miss Allison right in the opposite territory, From the beginning the soft service of Mrs. Stanwix completely baffled fer, tho star of the Pelham Bay Naval Train- ing Station forces. He attempted passes down the alleys only to shoo! the ball outside court and overpla: all of his shots. 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