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| RAISED WARm Cin crare Dinner to Coffroth To-Morrow Shows There Is No Jealousy Among Local Boxing Pro- moters, by ‘The Prem Publishing Co, ‘ork Evening World.) "UST to prove there ts no jealousy mong the loca) boxing promot- ers, a dinner is to be given to, Jimmy Coffroth from San Francisco} to-morrow night. Billy Gibson ts to be the host and the dinner will be) held at the Criterion, 149th Street and Third Avenue. Every one of impr ance in the pugilistic world is ex- Pected to be on hand, and If a good time is not had by all it won't be Gibson's fault. Coffroth is in New York on a big job and if he doesn't succeed in it nobody can. HERE in a possibility that horse racing will do a little extra bit in the Sport Carnival ‘Week, plans for which are already ‘ander way. There may be a racing day included in the programme, and from our way of thinking nothing would be more financially successful. ‘What do you suppose the gate re- ceipts would be, for instance, if the muoh talked of match race between Billy Kelly and Eternal could be put on at either Yonkers or Aqueduct? Puney CeVEUay SEES “MOE i, IN FOOTBALL EVERY PLANER IS @ wate 'W THE COLLEGE ON WHOSE TEAM H@ PLAS NS< HE PLANS FoR His COLLEGE, . THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1918. Fro FRom FROM FRem PiTTsBUA, From Brook) THE AVERAGE BIG LEAGUE TEAM OF ANY CITY 15 COMPOSED OF GUYS FROM EVERY WHERE And why shouldn't it be put on at a New York track invtead of Laurel or some other distant point? Of course nothing even tentative has been done in the matter, but {t's a good lead for the commitice to foll OU have to hand it to Jimmy} Johnson. He is the champion | optimist of ihe sporting world. Jimmy is promoting this year's ane nual aix-day race, which i» scheduled to start on Dec. 1, and insists, quoting : 4 various reasons, why it should be a Decided to Cut Out Foolish big financial success. He says bi-| and Expensive Southern and cycle riding is this year enjoying one I, of the biggest years and this moans Western Sojourns, more bike racing fans. Johnson has hopes of getting over some of our famous cycle riding allies for the race to give it the best international flavor it ever had. BORGIA ™ v's unbeaten foot- ball eleven may play the un- beaten Pittsburgh or the Penn rylvanta teams in New York, Phila- a Owners and Players Alike Have | By Eugh S. Fullerton. Coprnent 11%, by ‘tne Urew Huptaming Co, (The vening World), NE of the biggest jokes of base- ball will be eliminated to a great degree when the gamo 18 resumed, and one of the most fruitful suurces of publicity will be cut down, to the essentials, The spring training delphia, Washington or Pittsburgh trip aa an institu. during the week of Ndv. 11 for the tion practically will Moldiers’ War Fund, The only ob- cease to be. No} stacle that stands in the way of this longer will teams be taken on long, expensive junkets South and West to 4 “train” for the sea- The blue ribbon gridiron clash is possible objection by military officials to an absence by the Tech athletes of more than forty-cight hours from its own campus. It would require three days son, owners of Tech to make the round trip and and players alike play the game. “4 shave reached this “Lam going to Washington Wednes- | & conclusion. The day and make an effort to get the War} reasons are several, Department's permission for Tech| BZ... The thing has been players to absent themselves from [PEGS verdone and the college for three days," declared Y. F.| smaller cities are weary of half hearte Freeman, general manager of the Tri- angle Distributing Corporation of this city. Freeman is a Tech graduate and the officia! spokesman for Tech tn its ed exhibitions by try-out bushers, The expenses will bo heavier than ever before and long junkete would) coat too much. But even greater than | Spring Training Trips To Be Done Away With When Game ‘Comes Back’ pitcher, He had everything in the world except brains, Bert Briggs was with the team that spring, and the team was at Galveston, stopping at the best hotel in the city. The first night the team was there some of the society people of the city were giving an exclusive dinner and dance, Bri «ently inauired of “Doc” whether he was going to the party. Doc said he was ifthe others were. Briggs helpe nim dress, Tho result was marvel- ious. He had turned up a laydown collar, wore «a flowing string tle, a colored shirt, a pair of light trousers, patent leather shoes with white tops, a salmon pink vest and @ dress coat, which Briggs borrowed from one of the negro walters, Thus attired he strolled into the ballroom and in- uired of several gentlemen where the rest of the gang were. HERE have been so many Elmer Foster yarns told that maybe ois ton't new. It concerns Foster's first spring training with the Chicago club, then managed by Anson, Per- aaps the newer generation bas for- gotten Foster, but no one who ever -ried to live with him ever will forget nim, He was one of the greatest bail players that ever lived, as fast as ‘obb and as daring and resourceful, only he never took bis baseball svriousiy and was too busy having fun, Of course no one knew what a dev- astating force had been signed. Foster's home is and was at Minne- football affairs. these, the next generation of profes.) haha, now inside Minneapolis, The On Monday W. W. Roper, Secretary |SlOMal ball players will bo workers Chicago (cam was at Mempbis, when y W. W. Roper, Seoretary | prey will work all winter Instead of | 4 te am arrived (collect), ad- General of the Sports Committee,! striving to live on the cheers savet| dressed to Anson, It read which Js engaged in an effort to raise| up from the preceding season, Thoy| “Am starting at 9 o'clock to join Over $170,000,000 for the Soldiers’| Wil! Not have time to spend five or six| the team. In fine condition and ready Camp Fund during the week of Nov,| Week leltering in’ the South, and] for play. Expect to have the best sea- P Ga during the week of Nov.) further, they will report to their] son of my life 1-18, wired the Geor lotic Association in At quested that Tech make efforts to ar- Tange @ Kame to be played during the ch Ath- teams in better condition than they usually have been at the start of @ season, It is possible that the battery men and some of the pitchers will be sent somewhere for a couple of weeks, week of Nov, 11, with Pennsylvania! but the spring barnstorming era ts oF any Other aggregation jt might | ended for a long time. care to tackle. The Tech authorities ve — immediately wired Itoper tua. it had UT what a lot of fum will be, appointed Freeman « committee o: missed. Tho spring training one to act for it in arranging such a|ttip always has been productive of ba sith bi |fun, 1 have made twenty-five pil- play any team anywhere aa . 0 Gor the Boidlere Suna Towbere | grimages with ball clubs through the ment will sanction absence of oue| South and West and there was more pluyers from home campus,” the mes. | JOY and uproar in those trips than sage added, during all the seasons, The other ~ season we trained amid the snow For the second time within a week | bunks in Chicago. A. J. Goldsborough, who has charge| , 10 the spring the teams alwayn have i 4 }with them the “nuts and peculiar of Andrew Miller's of thor. | characte that the scouts have a oughbreds, announces thar champion| habit of discovering, Sometimes 1 Roamer has be red. ner | Suspect those fellows dig up “bugs” eays he bas sent him » quar. | mcrely for their advertising value or ters, and that if he doe improvement next year 4 have ntrics to se the minor league manag all their ec ow big a way of selling keep him permanently the big leagues. Last Thursday Goldsb« We had one back in the early part practically the same thing f this century who beat almost all days later he ran his cham records, He joined the club with two stake race at Empire City trunks, one partly filled with clothes gelding finished second, The and the other containing six one gal did not deny that he had annc bottles of “strength medicine,” bis pet's retirement. He # {which his mother had concocted, It and Mr. Miller had changed their) Was ade of boneset, hops, mullein, minds because Jockey Schuttinger| tincture of iron, garlic afoetida, told them that he had dor » and he onders | sulphur and rot gut whisk in an exercise gallop on Saturday | was to drink half a pint of it a day morning. | 1 become the strongest man in —_—_—s baseball, I took one swig of it on his | recommendation and got so strong 4 BARNEY ADAIR IS GIVEN |threw him out of the room and ‘ roomed alone, RAW DECISION IN HUB "tit Scilew was suspicioun He . | reached the practice grounds at Vicks- BOSTON, Oct. 28.—Larry Conley. the| burg, looked around — cautiously Boston referee, rendered scratched a hole in the sand and worst decisions ever given buried his @lamond ring. ‘Then be night when he awarded Sia filled his p lighted {t and started Ye Gecieion ee Rerpey Adair of > prac Pretty soon Chance y ler he latte 1 ¢ pg 9 yelled at him to get back of the bat talire ten roun’s. O'Brien Was hanging 40d warm up the pitchers who were ‘on and could hardly keep on his fect at end of the contest. | in the other ten-rounter Walter, L us ik Welterweight, boxed pitching to ba stuck rs. He adjusted his pipe through the wires and went to work, That finished bis . the Ne \< eague cares Dae of the best bouts ever seen in. Hos- | Nie Major league career ton with Walter Butler of Revere, Mass. re Hoth men toe to toe for the enti accumulated another one aie decision of a draw ah” . Et ag RT RR bumed “Doe,” who had ‘been le barber aud who cates +) a eee tts Se = An hour later came another collect telegram saying: “Have reached Hudson, train on time and having a pleasant ride. Have ri morning papers and see that the team looks good, Tell the substitute centre fielder to play the position until 1 arrive." A couple of hours later came an- other telegram Have just eaten luncheon with ex- Ment appetite. Feeling in fine trim, rain on time and will make connec- | tions at Chicng Once an hour the collect telegrams rolled in upon Anson, who was storm- jing and raging. Every time the train | stopped Foster bulletined Angon the jcondition of hi his plans for strove franti health, his appetite, the ly to head him off, He \wired from Chicago, Champaign, FE | Gingham, Cairo and half a dozen other points between Chicago and Memphis, giving the telegrams to the porter b fore Koing to bed, with orders to send jone at each stop, and he arrived in | Memphis, and before Anson could | start scolding Foster rebuked him for not having the cab to meet bim at | the station as requested, ROBABLY the strangest training camp any team ever chose was l.udson, N. M,, where the Chicago team, then under Tommy Burns, trained in 1898, Hudson consists of one of the finest hot springs in the world, a wide-porched, one-story ho- t led (and rightly) Casa del Con- and it is five miles from the jrailroad and twenty-five from Silver ' City, It ts set down in the valley of |the Mibres, with semi-desert grazins |land stretching for miles, and Cook's Peak, one of the finest single moun- |tains in America, overtowering it |The team made une effort to play bail land gave up, and yet, after three | weeks of horseback riding, hunting, |mountain climbing and with only |tosming the ball as practice, it was the best conditioned team 1 ever suw open @ season, | | was determined to rope one. Ho, Geer! So THATS THE MUNICIPAL BUILDING! OH, Gee! = © 4 » >) a, oe Be YOWN He's SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT IS WHEN HE'S SIGNED UP WITH IT'S TEAM. Twyford and Jack McAuliffe Arrange Shows ‘‘Over There’’ Woe are going to put on the biggost international boxing shows possivie for the pleasure of our boys who are fighting to insure world democracy for the rest of time, “Jack has taken over a lot of fight films, through special permission se- cured by William J, Mulligan and By Alex, Sullivan. William P, Larkin, the K. C. chiefs. HAT little fighting Irish lad, Jia | Besides he will tell them many of the Twytord, hatle from|stories that won him applause in vaudeville for years, Brooklyn, where he made &/" “When the boys are demobilizing «ood reputation staging boxing and /aproad we will strive to keep their ether sporting entertainments, Ix minds occupied with not only boxing | shows, but sets of games. Lee, Li an pg ideas apa Pe Jimmy has been waiting for weeks shows for the Knights of Colum now concluding arrangements for ius Jimmy is going across as a K. of C trip abroad and now that he has ais secretary and he is very proud of th: | passports and everything set for his overseas uniform he is wearing, with | sailing he is as happy as a lark, “[ think it is one of the bigi its K. C, in black letters on a red shield, | declared to-da’ things © sporting man can do,” he or a. fellow to pro- “ “ 1, Jack Mes | Mote contests, espectally boxing, that Fao Rew mp gtaes Em ney ne will take the boys’ minds off the serl- Aullife, the only retired undefeated | oy business of fighting, when iley champion in the history of boxing, | get a furlough. As evérybody admits suiled as a K. of C, secretary abouc a) the morale of the men Is a big factor Jimmy Ready to Sail Abroad as Knights of Columbus Secretary. whe week ago, but I understand the v PORE Pg ten 9 gr lotr gre ening that ho sailed on has been quarans | tia jack McAuliffe and I have nad tined somewhere and I wouldn't be|}fany interesting chats planning surprised if I beat him over. |shows that will make our boys “1 intend to work with McAuliffe. | happy.” te, ea Golf Balls Will Dig leaguers, There was a roping und riding contest, and some of the finest’ bronco riding I ever saw. ‘ Lange was mounted on a bronco, Cost $1 25 With his tremendous frame was clad in ° ) borrowed cowboy clothing, — with | sheepskin “chaps,” and he was swing- | ing the lariat with the best of them, During the height of the riding ex- hibition a drove of burros trotted across the plains, and Lange put spurs to his horse, and, with his rope swinging, descended upon the little animals, which started to flee. Lanze He rode full tilt, with the rope swishing tho alr, and, when almost on top of the fleeing burros, he threw the rope. ‘The horse rushed onward, but sud- denly stopped, turned a complete somersault, and Lange went forty feet through the air before he hit the dirt, He had missed the burro and lassoed a fence post . re) XE of the most eventful training |" camps I ever visited was at) by Selma, Ala. one of the prettiest an Sales Limited CHICAGO, Oct, 23.—The price of golf balls is to be advanced soon and the output for the coming year is to be limited by the Government to 40 per cent. of the production in 1918, according to agents of manufacturers here. It is said that leading makes now selling at $1 each will be ad- vanced to $1.25 and those of a lower grade will be increased accordingly. fhe local manager of one manu- facturer said to-day that he had been | notified by his company to take no more orders for future delivery at present prices, while another manu- turer's agent said he had already en notified of the advance. pt BE MN odie ~S YOU®-7. Zier 2A? AMES COFFROTH will be direc- | }f .eral acceptance to these requests, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK DIGGING UP OLD JOHN P. BASEBALL - - - - Copyright, 1918, by the Preas Publishing Co. (The New York Evening Wor!d). A GAME BETWEEN THE BOILER FOUNDRY AND THE GAS WORKS (S ALWANS MORE INTERESTING THE FIRST TIME PLANER SEES THE Jim Coffroth Directing Country-Wide Series of Championships Boxing Madison Square Garden Show Will Be Only One of Many Conducted for United War Fund. By William Abbott, tor-genc 1 of all boxing shows held throug! ut the country during the week of Nov. 11-13 in con- | junction with the drive of the United War Workers for $170,500,000. He will be a national vmoter for the 8 jal patriotic occasion, not just merely running a snow in the Garaen, but directing boxing .arnivais where- ever a ring ¢ be erected. Sunny Jim, a few hours after hig arrival from ‘San Francisco, veame « otham boxing circles and there Quickly sprung up plans for a coun- try-W..0 series tor hows the en- tire proceeds of which will be do- voted to the canpaign of the Unite “ar Workers, waich comprises seven different war organization. In Coffroth the glove Ptces will @ unified command. Sunny nes will invite boxing promoters of all big cities to form committees and ho.d thelr own entertainments during the week of the big financial pu: is expected there will be a and that boxing will rise up en masse to do 3 patrt tic bit in a cause that President Wilson asked all sport fac- tions to lend their assistance to 80 that American soldiers and sailors | may be equipped with necessary ath- letic_ paras hernalia, A_N v York committee, consistin; of Charles J, : srvey and Billy Gib- son, hos already been selected. Both Harvey and Gibson have rolled up thair gleeves — 1 gone to work ar- ranging a rip-roaring show for Madl- jmuch their e Square Garden. The available WAR CLOUD DOES By Thornton Fisher, HIS BEST 10 BEAT Atta BOY! SHow ‘EM WHAT THIS. SELLING FLATERS . a “Macomber Stake Colt Luck to Beat Matinee idol and Kashmir. YONKERS SELECTIONS, First sR = IF You KNEW Under Fire gain) Se THAT EACH PLAYER. aiStgond Race—Gex, Paddy Dear, WAS & HOME TOWN spits, ,Race—Motor Cop, Jone LAD There, HELLO, HARVARDS THIS 1S CoRNELL- WELL TRACE YoU TWO HALF- BACKS AND ONE TACKLE FoR YOUR FULL-BACcK<- ot the Wet Panne ee acrifth, Race—Madame Currie, Or Py Vincent Treanor. W AR CLOUD surely is a Sunday race horse. Some races runs make him rank among the best of stake horses anc others put him in a class one notch removed from the selling platers, He has beaten Roamer and other stars th season with app.rent ease, only to perform miserably against others not so good. Yesterday, forinstance, War Cloud had to give up every ounce la his system to beat such inferlor animals as Matinee Idol and Recount, Of course, it mus* be taken into con- sideration that he was carrying 130 pounds and giving away a lot of | weight. Still his race was far from what should hay. been expected from a horse of his reputation. Johnny Loftus was set down early in the season for not beating Johren on War Cloud, In the form War CloUu showed yesterday he bad ao license to beat anything like Hour. less, Loftus may be handicapped by! his riding instruction. It is common gossip around the race track that Walter Jennings, trainer of the Ma- comber horses, wants to see bis horses come from behind, There are some horses which can't be choked into a laying off the pace position, and War Cloud may be une of thosa At any rate, this Kind of racing bas r en him this season on occasions, when Loftus, left to bis own judge ment, might have won. be carefully studied, and it hth t little ‘ole Manhattan Will cop off one or two of the best ractions, There a1 perhaps fiv2 or six cham- ponahip battles that could be made eld wil Horse racing is funny, to say the least, —_Yester Columbine was | beaten by Snapdragon in 1.45 2-6, In That no one city’would hate a mo- | her previous start she won by @ length and a half over the same dis- Hope “Ort wl the high class scrap- | pers, the championship talent will be A pretty evenly atribated the tance in 1.43 Yesterday she was land. In the working out of thé plan | carrying more weight, but she didn’t Joss Pde one Peery wales, champions | appear to have any running in her will be brought to New York if he| 2? . 1 can be dragged from his Kansas! *¥stem. She wasn't away any too ranch, The mastodonic title holder! Well, and McAteoe evidently couldn't would come near being the best do anything with her, She quit badly drawing card that could be obtained | at the head of the stretch, ‘To make it and he would be reserved for this ; 5 town. On the other hand, Benny | »rief, Columbine ran a very bad rage, whieh isn’t easily explained. Leonard would undoubtedly be as - signed to Chicago. An attempt will be m to acura | the services of Geo Carpentier, the sensational French boxer and an The two black eagles—that's what they call Emil Herz and Joe Marrone the racetrack—thought they had jon aviator, and Jimmy Wilde, the En, lish flywelght title holder, but the |% geod thing in Manister Tol in the presence of these two foreign stars) fiith race, but camouflaged It by aay~ jing they w n't betting, Somebody will depend on how skilfully diplo- matic wires are manipulated, The arrival of James Coffroth added a little more motor power to the workings for the big sport dri The San Francico promoter was tm: | mediately ushered into a meeting of than@eateal comimittes: inc onatee ioe | affected for some time and right pow the athletic games. Different chair- |! &¢ op oF fort esterday's ce was a selling affair, so Joe Ven- men reported their opinion how | htc’ WASH BOlt sed pat individual sport would | 1s Was ditched. He couldn't run Bee BHAE to theca up as he bits been doing in her recent |bet_on Ma fool the Koh. took Koh-l-Noor out in the front, ut, the turn without losing an inch’ an, brought her home on the bit. Koh=f- noor is a bleeder, but she hasn't been ter Toi, but they didn’t Cornelius Sullivan predicted golt | **!t* vibe woul, earn $50,000, Fred Rubien, for - 9 amateur athletics, hit at a substan: | yarn, Te aa ene erate anne tial sum. Bill Roper, Chairman of the meeting, then turned to Coffroth | ind asked what might be expected) 4 good race and was the fa: it going Fee OS ouy million,” calmly reo {Of anything In the race at the finish, plied Sunny Jim, who pleaded that he! j-rankie Robinson in becoming the be excused so that he could get busy| popular favorite among .he jockeys. ling race first on the card for . Incidentally War Zone showed on the big undertaking. And Coffroth| jie won ..o first to races in a row believes that glove sport will sur-|on Peter and Snapdragon, and in vrise every one with its earning| each insi nce it was his rare skill capacity, which won. He brought Peter ( Fistic News son Potocx and Gossip ) Admirers of boxing in this city and in New Jersey will again have the chance of witnessing the scrappers slug each other in bouts in Jersey City, | " WILLARD 1S WILLING quaintest little cities of the South where part of the romance of the o! South still lives, One game there was! TO HELP RAISE FUNDS. broken up and never finished. Two! QtTANATT, Tox, Oct. 2%—-"I shall teams were playing the second inning po very glad to do everything in m when one of the young sports of the , - cael dpideltch town, all het up with fighting liquor, DOWer to make the campaign a great cume over the bridge from the city success,” Joss Willard said last night sounding like the Americans going When shown an Associated Press de- toward Berlin. He had a gun in each Spatoch quoting a New York itele- hand and was banging away in all 8TAM requesting the heavyweight directions, reloading and advancing ehompion to give his pugilistic ser- as he “fired at wih.” He entered the Vices in a campaign to raise tunds gate unmolested, reloaded his re- for army welfare organizations. Be- Volvers and cut Joose. Players went ing without details of the plan, he under the stands, over the fences, and S4id, he could make no further state- in one minute that young man and 1 ment had the park to ourselves. He was | Willant is in Quanah looking after very courteous and explained to me Dis oll interests that he was just having fun and in- rere Vited me to join hin. Then ho re-|§1X FOOTBALL GAMES loaded and returned toward the city, firing as he went. He was arrested, FOR COLUMBIA TEAM and it developed that his une! re ad ee epee MeKt marnins be] Tho revised football schedule of the femorsetul, and requested ee, axa Columbia University calls for five home special favor, to come and testify Bames at South Field, with a sixth con- against him at the trial. His feelings test, the opposing team for which has would be hurt, he explained, (f I not yet been selected. didn’t come and testify what a'damn! ‘The schedule, aa sanctioned by Lieut. fool he had made of himself, Not 4 J. Duffy for the navy and Lieut. & desiring to hurt his lings, T went, © et” ch for the gry, la ins follows: ‘ At the end of the testimony both the pjersti Nove 8 Union: Nov. 16 Stevens: court and the prisoner thanked me, Nov, 23, New York University; Nov. 30, t ourt saying: jopen. “lt is very nice of you, sah, to tos- « a Ufy, but," he bowed and turned to his] 28 nen Here for Big Show. “Bud, I've got to tine you.| Coming from Pride's Crossing, Mass. you ton dollahs and costs, twenty-eight horses entered by Judge k you, uncle,” said the pris-lwiiiam H. Moore in the national horse suah deserve it for my d18-|ahow, beginning Nov. 11 at Madison Bill Lange was in his heyday then and in for anything, One day the team attempted to stage an exhibi- ~tion, and cowboys, miners and ranch- » be & ory Lor Milles wound come to Bee dhe of yolsell wits Wem again” ke OE DEB PUNT AP, OLF UGH: UNO TRAE | 5 ta Garden, arrived in New York « a nd were taken to his pri- Hywh they are, Bud,” said bis |¥ete stable in West 68th Street, ‘This uncle, drawing them from his pag the frat string of show horses, to he jew York for the . ets, “An' doan be makin’ a damn fool as the Armory A. A. there will hold its |tiret indoor boxing show of the season at Grand View Park, on Jersey City Heights, on Monday night. The sport has been shut down for several weeks on account of the Spanish influenza, and it was not until yesterday that the club ofMfeials received word from the Health Department that they could go ahead with their entertainment, Mickey Donley of Newark and Johnny Drum- mie of Jersey City will clash In the star Ddout of eight round. Tiny Coffroth, the fight promoter of Califor- who bas arrived in this city to complete yr the holding of boxing shows in th different cities all over the country, the proceeds of which are to be turned over to the War De- partment, declared to-day that Willie Meehan, Cal fornia Beavywelght, 19 @ great card on tho Coast since he received the decision in Prisco over Jack Dempsey, Meehan, according to Coffroth, would sooner fight Dempsey than any otier flghte in the business, the Armory A. A. of He bas tis John Jennings, mansee Jersey City, ts laid up with the erie. Deen confined to bis bed for several days, now on the road to rewwer. Ho expects to be ‘able to get out Into the open alr azain in a few Gays, and may attend his opening show on Mon- day night, providing bis physician sanctions bis visit to the club, Word was received from Newport, BR. to tho effect that Doging will be at the big Rollo Rink there om Frid officials of the Rollo A. € ‘and they bave matched Mel Coogan of Bro Jpoaing instructor at the naval station there, to \mect Leo Jobusom, the colored lightweigh: in a twelve round bout to @ decison, John Relsier bas won fie first round of bis bout with Jeck Dempsey in the courts in the West, Joba is suing Dempsey for $100,000 which oo claims he fs entitied (o as @ result of Dempiky 1, oreaking © cunurect Which be bed with Rim, Zhe -I through the stretch in the first race with a great rush, and on Sn dragon he let, everything else race themselves into the ground and then came on with @ Onish which won case came gp tn © court at Milwaukee recently and | handily. the Judge, after Mstening to the testtmony of - Dempsey and bis manager, Jack Kearns, m “Steve” Lawler nearly won a race Dempsey post @ bond of $4,200 appe with Lady Mary in the two-year-old egal to-morrow, event which wound up the card yes- terday. She was well played, but ‘The big boxing show for tho wounded and gamed) wis off in a tangle and didn’t really American woldlers who aro now quartered at Otte | vot racing room until the stretch was ville, N. Yu, will be held there this afternooe, Then Taplin brought her ached, along fast, but the was third Billy Gibson, Danny Morgan aud Bill Brown best she could do ng the show and the boxers who will appear | pute ere Clay Turner, Jack Britton, Joe Je SS Sie Cor Va Venn Offers to Play Big Game. a ee Meany love: HILADELPHLIA, Oct, 23.—The Foote Med ill ~~ illdaash bull Coinmittee of the University of Gov, Lowden of Lilinola is + of the/Pennsylvania to-day suggested te w. rulers of the different States in the West who aro|W. Roper of Princeton that a football strong admirers of the boxing game, He atteaded camo be & boxing mhow held at the Great Lakes Training |nd either Princeton, Yalo or Harvard,. Station recently and when he announced trom tw: !and the receipts donated to the War fing where the boxers were appearing th tad | und Comn , of which Mr, Roper is Added $25,000 more Liberty bonds to bis subserip ret LAST 3 DAYS MPIRE CITY played between Pennsylvania ‘Tho postponed boxing show scheduled at tho! Hunts Point Palace ty the Bronx bas been def tely arranged to be beld on Thursday, Oct, dl. All the prominent stars which were to haw ap peared on the former date bave voluniwered to render thelr services on the newly arranged date, bo clowd to-day as another added attraction, (JONKERS & MT. VERNON) 1LOMOKROW The $1,500 Ardsley Handicap a Giants Must Return Money. | CINCINN Na- tional New York to return Kansas City Club $1,000- which ior cub had paid forthe sere f ald § other Sp.rites Contests Player Middleton, The - PIRST RACE AT 2. showed that Middleton had nev \e ported to or signed up With Kansas eebut had quit baseball, —— Hassell Wins at Lawn Tennis 5 "Pot, {reine tos r Lo t 3 hed via Leal Subway of Wei Hurts SUDWuy Lo Mott Ave, transfert vin Arthur A. Hassell won the singics champtonship of the Brooklyn Lawn Bong to Jor Ayes. Subwiy or Tennis Club in the tournament just J Sthland Bth Ave. "L" to Jerome A don the courts at Atlantic Ave- Brooklyn. In the final round 11 defeated H.C, Burr in straight eels at 61, 6-3, 6-4, ee by trolleys from Weee. 30. Ladi x War tase # Cnish nue, Noor interests, Walls ,