The evening world. Newspaper, December 2, 1918, Page 12

Should There Be a Color Line in Pugilism? Let’s Hear From Our Readers on the Subject. Hit, 918, by The Prem Publidhing Oe, ‘te New York Bw World.) BOULD there be any color line in Puglitsm In suggesting the sub- ject as an argument for sport World followers, we have no desire to t occurrence at Madi- when a last min- ‘We attempt was made to substitute Jee Jeannetto for Joe Bonds as an Sppenent for Jack Dempsey. Very ech to the contrary. We were not %@ eympathy with that idea at all, “Past incident was only the ult of Glemp made by well meaning folk who Véew the future of boxing through smoked glasses But forgetting that particular hap- Peming for the tino being the sub- WO te well worthy of discussion. Has @ Ggdter, & pugilist rather, white though he be, a right to say he won't eet another fighter in combat who Iappens to be black? We invite let- ters on the subject; not, however, from @ansgers, or others who are finan. Glally interested in the ring doings of who may be concerned, but the general public. iy we have no decided opin- fom to express, but it has always been idea that any white man who re- to fight a negro did so through of being defeated and not on so- called principle. What does principle t to among fighters? As our Bat Masterson might say, “Wot a tinker’s dam.” Little Johnny Mack, who managed meny a noted fighter in his day, used wry that fighters are like bulldogs, @ man who owned a white tor- would be ridiculed in the dog world if he refused to match he aguinast a Ddiack or a.brindle have been many good fighters history who, instead of side- thelr black ring rivals, wel- bd poerieaity of putting up against them. Kid eter instance, jumped at the of fi bting Joe Walcott AND BEAT HIM. Frank Erne fought, be was beaten in turn by Joo Everybody fought George It was the biggest feather the late Terry ™ overn's cap io z a night he knocked out “Little te” at the Broadway A. white man fought Sam Lan, until Jate years; in fact, a little boy named Muane licked him vvely some years ago, without test fear or dread of his Wallops. At the time Langford led as a terror among the hts. Then there was Sandy m, the Boston heavyweight. especial delight in beating negroes. ‘We know that John L. wouldn't a negro, He got away with eversion to such scraps on the of principle. Peter Jackson was at the top ‘of his form just then Peter was some fighter. Our old Jack Skelly, however, reminds that Sullivan had no scruples it fighting black n if they “easy.” Jack looked etance when John with old George Godfrey of Boston aad even got in the ring with him, A fast minute inix-up, however, pre- veated the bou' TEN we come to think of it this @olor line business seems confined to the champions and near champions of the heavyweight division. L. was mutched black man, why ame rule apply to the , Rant it because there ix a good black Peavyweight on the fistic, ‘ horizon in ta ahape of Harry Wills? Jim Buck- ley told us, not so long ago, that Wills could beat the best two white heavy- weights in the sane ring. Jim was manager of Wills and may have been overenthusiastic. From what we ‘now of Wills he's not a superman, He bas a chin and tt can hit, Fe ‘nia sako we'd hate to see Jack Demp- wey fand on it, but that's getting awa: from the subject, ¥ © show thore is a difference of opinion on the color line subject even among close students of the box- @ame it is only necessary to quote offroth, who was in the . "a Negro champion of the various classes of pugtliom and sec what will become of Vee sport, Interest in it would soon @ie out completely ILLIE ROTHWELL (Young Corbett of the old days) thinks Bob Edgren gave him the worst of it im Bis last Saturday's article on Eddie jon, the Frisco lightweight of years Corbett says Edgren made web of Hanion's twenty-round draw with bim the time when Hanlon was novice, but act that after that be (CorbetU/ stopped Manion in sizteen rounds. “although | got a draw with Han- Jea ip our first bat says Corbett, “E admitted then and repeat it now that Eddie was best that night, but t best bim later in ».xteen rounds. I pond Hanlon ofter that twenty out Ed Hols- » decision,” wants (he fact re- Pe stopped Hanlon Vhere you are, bull, enor corded at is fn sixteen rounds TOW that ex-President Taft has finally deolined to be Baseball's the magnates ~ oyereg Commission, fought his services, with a po sible idea of boosting their business, meouldn't be discouraged, They ry to get Col, t T. Ry and the: they ought to remember ¢} ry of the Treasury McAdoo Will goon be out of a job, THE RVENING WORLD, ALRIGHT SOM- LETS ' Go! 1S MORN HOLE Football Season Ends With the West Easily Overshadowing the East Coach Warner of Pittsburgh Claims His Team Was Jobhed at Cleveland and Seeks Re- turn Game. By Alex Sul ivan. ING FOOTBALL ts dead, but he died with his boots on, The Pittsburgh University - Cleve- land Reserve game, which ended in the latter's favor, 10 to 9, was the battle that brought the son to a close with a bang, Coach Warner and his men say that they were Jobbed, It was their first defeat in four years—and of course it was a terrible blow to be beaten by a naval team. Pittsburgh wants to play Cleveland again to prove to the world that they we robbed of the laurels tn this contest, They insist, though, that the game be decided this Ume at Pitts- burgh instead of Cleveland, and that Walter Camp, the famous Yale foot- ball authority, be allowed to select the officials, The Pittsburgh aggregation was jooked upon as practically invinelbie, especially after the way they mopped the flekt with Georgetown ‘Tech an eleven that hado't been peacen, either, cland was regarded as victim, ‘The defeat in this game deprives Pittsburgh of the right to claim the title Here's what Coach Warner has to about the result: hy Gardner, mnanager of the Sallors, telegraph Merri: man, head Mnesman, to his home in Beaver Falla Saturday morning, not to} come? “He was the only official that I had) confidence in, and [ am glad he paid no| attention to the telegram ; why did Re declare the # end just when 1 re’ i-yard line and 5 minutes ? them play 26 1 to allow the Ballors to score? a kept the time, claimed his whole thing looks crooked, ened ou! fishy enough’ to and I hope it will be straigh Director of Athletics Miller said Wigit ‘There Is no question but Were robbed of the game In th of outsiders, One of the most ¢ ing exhibitions of unfa wast tions of Ray Chapman, shortstop of tho Cleveland Americana, who in every way Possible harassed the head Linesman attempted cali wo to stop him from Clevelind men offsid The West has overshadowed the East on the gridiron this season, Michigan looms up as a ne of ils great Vietory a team that ‘dofouted, Rut- gers and Columbia, The Great Lakes Naval Training team defeated Rut gers and Annapolis, while Cle conquest of Pittsburgh further puts the “Wild and Woolly” country in front for the season, Syracuse scored a decisive over Rutgers at the Polo ¢ score being 21 to 0. The cam sided as the § New Hrunswic ‘, ¢ Coach Banfor: through t Tack of varie ty in their attack. Syracuse won largely through the all-around ability their forwards. They not only possess plenty of beef, but brain as well. Despite the handicaps under which the various colleges Inbored, lacking | the stars of last » the country's service, and also capable instructors, the season has been very successful and aucurs well for 1919, victory ounds, the though, Jack Dempsey, the Western heavy- welght and contender for the world's heavyweight titl, is now on his way to New Orleans, where he will try to 4d now laurels to his fistic record by scoring another quick knockout. Jack end bie manager, Jack Kearna, left Philadelphia on Saturday night for the Crescent Club, where Dempicy will hook up With Carl Morris, the giant Western heavyweight, in a 20-round bout at th Laulsinas Auditorium down M Yeo. After thus bout: Dempse Gelphiss where some more 6-round will probably stop Morris, not fought In a long t fy find Morris one » of the gamest men ho has ever fou Thattling Levinaky, whe (9 to take ou Jim fr au hearyweigut of Pushy, Col,, in jenn round boat to & decision a the ‘Twins Soetiog Club of Tale, Okla. ou Dec, 16. is to roeive 30 per cent, of the grom receipts for bie end, Finn ie to tox for 2 per cent, of the rweipts, John Heisler, matchmaker of the club. eaves for ‘Dulas tomorrow (0 com. blele ol! errangumente fur the contest, Johony Dunder, whe fighting Italian bent. Weight will be & very Busy sorapper this wok, ae he is elated to emgage in two laymriant batties, To-morrow might be will go to Boston and hook up with Joe Welling of Obicago io « the Philadelpbie Lightw of ax rounds at the 2 lew Tendier or ‘crack Philadelphia weight fighter who wil be kept tag fighting for the west tow wed, ie manager, 1%) Glagaman, bas signed bin wp 0 far fot two boule and expects to arrange two more for hun wilhia a few dase, Gn Deo, 10 be morte Frankie Calihan, of Brsehion for twetr ruunds at the Armory A. x of Boston and on Dee, 16 be clanen with Bree Haswaner of Chi. cago at the Oympla A, A. of Philadelphia, Whe pew Uoxing eli just organised in Boston fs to be known as the Ceotesd A. ©, Johany MeGann, the well koown (gut promoter of that city, i the manager of the club, and thelr epen fing boxing shew will be held on nest’ Mondey nicht, The main rule madi be bwrlrergund ; affairs, and the refere is to render @ decision in every contest, The clubhouse aecommodtates 4,000 pemonn, Willie Ja Bacco of Heston in the eta Joo Boode, the Western bout, earywelght, ie to eland’s | ason, who are in! IF A MAN ISN’T A DUB HE FEELS LIKE ONE WAS OUT WIT’ o1o THE 122 MONDAY, DECEMBER in 1918, >. _____-__. ( Reaner | BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK Copy Meht, 1918, by The Press Publ whing Co. (The New York Evening World.) 'N HE MADE mH THE 282 HOLE \N Aa 'w HE MOST ANY REGULAR PLANER OUGHTA GO ROUND THIS COURSE IN FO easy! JUDGE LANDIS WOULD MAK ~ WONDERFUL BASEBALL HEAD Expert Hughey Fullerton sytch daca Famous Chicago Jurist for the Position Offered Taft, Declaring No One Knows the Game Better and No One in America Is Harder to ‘Bunk’. y BK fair sort of a ball player, and yet By Hugh S. hose couldn't get down to weight, ‘The Copreiait, 1018. by The misriog Oe | kids used to spell his name back- wards and refer to him as Too Fat Taft. He tried to make the college team en he went to Yale and tried hard, ing on his class team, and once on the varsity squad. HAT was @ great iden of Hemp- \ stead and Frazee to nominate former President Taft for head of the National Baseball Commission, There is nothing phi dies sinall about those gpd finest thing about baseball al- fellows, only they ways has been its complete are too modest,| democracy, and that feature of the and, besides, some | game is what makes it more of an ap- FY one misht nomf-] peal than ever to Americans, In the %} nate Roosevelt. armies all rank is forgotten when , Now that the} teams take the bali fleld and a colonel . < and a private are rated on their abil- ‘q Dale aes bile end ity to hit and throw. You can make bY Georse, or rest-| 4 snob of an American kid at dancing } dent Poincaire, or} school, in his classes, or anywhere & “Sroch, or Lloyd! else, but not on the bail fleld. i Ages s I ran across a delightful incident of ld George might take | this in St. Louis a few years ago. ’ the job, However. ‘There is a boy,down there who is Str that would not be! about thirteen now, who is motherless quite right, be-|@bd whose father is worth gre 4 riches. The kid was not strong cause they may want to do some use-| Very active. He was sent to an ex- ful work, It is even possible Mr.| clusive school ih the bast and there aft may suffer from the delusion] he learned to play baseball, On his first vacation home he told his father that the next summer he waned to have @ team of his own, The father, xious to help the boy sain strength and activity, purchased @ piece of ground, levelled it, laid out a diamonc and built a miniature grand stand, right in one of the best residence dis- tricts of the city, and when the boy returned tor the summer vacation he told him to go ahead and organize hiv team, Two days later the tather Visited the field. He found two of his son's wealthy friends,» the janitoi’s boy, the boy from the grocery, the laundress's two boys, the son of a saloonkeeper and several others aot included tn the “set.” That evening that presiding at Yale is as important as settling the question whether Bunky Bill Barnes should repay $6.26 he borrowed from the Kalamazoo Club, or whether Slew Foot Skraxy! be longs to Ottumwa or Wappinger' Falls, Those fellows have good jobs. Why not give the National Commis- sion job to Bill Hohenzollern, who needs one? WEVER, Hempstead and Frazee are of the right track, Baseball needs a new head, and a big man who is big enough to rule and who is not concerned with baseball or interested may mao Yoong | entirely, the boy came home flushed aad the father talked it over, “Are you sure you want those fel- lows—for instance, the janitor’s boy?" he inquired, financially, Mr, Taft would fill the bill but ‘the question js not whether he is big enouga fur the job but is the job big enough for him’ His brother had rather an unpleas- ¢neage in another bout in hiladelyhia on Sat-lant experience a8 a club owner, but| “Sure,” said the boy, “Say, Dad, ning night, He wae tmaictinl today by AL | both William HL ‘Taft ald Charles aro] ¥ou ought to seo him hit.” ldpoe, manager of the National A. ©, af Phile- | still de d lovers of the game. by peer Geiphin to mest Jack Connors, te deary- | “Sredora} Judge eT andis}| LJOW many of our great men in olny tg final to te douany Dundee. t would make & wonderful head for or- national affairs have played ball t at the Natonal on next Betunlay night, ‘Mey will clas for ax rounds, Jock Britton curt taken @mat delight tn boring at evterta: 4 wtagel tor the wounded ‘Dues Mills and on Tounalay nigh J, Thin will be the seven at in two weeks, Merritt, N show be has boxed George Engol, manager of tie Oiympia A of Phiiedeiplua, told the writer club « A <iay that bie at the mpeaial boxing don ‘Vhavkagiving day Willy Mink? met {a He furter stated that Dom 0 toy while Miske for taking Jack's wi All details for the eit-rmund boot betworn ittle French fighter nd the lade Olmpia A, of IMuiladelphia on Dev. 9 datile for & pemeniage of the gram reveite, Valgor moviving 25 per cent, of the grow, bor at 133 pounds, weigh io at 9 P, An attempt was made to clinch » tout between Lew ‘Tendier of Phi Willie Jackwo of Ue city, but pothing came om of it, Matchmaker Engel of the Qlympia A. A, of TMiladelphia wanted Ge ean to clash at hin club on Chrisunas aftemoon, bat Pei) Glassman, manager of Tendler demanded « quarantee of $2,000 for bis man, Engel was com. Palled to cancel the negotiations M rounde b_tie two star bouts Tummy tackles a at of Philadel. (at a, | Koa are to | ganized baseball if ho would accept is hard to tell, but the majority of the position, No one knows the game them have, Senat.» Gorman, who for better, and No one in Ainerica is hard- 5 er to ‘hunk. ‘Phat is what is needed |many years was a leader in Congress, at the head of baseball—s bullproof|was a professional player at one leader 1 ot Sui e a : time; President McKinley, whose re- One cou choose half a dozen “big” «"|serve and dignity might have led to men in the Nation who would com- | #rve an 7 Preys +4 mand entire respect and briag order other beliefs, once told me that one of the proudest moments of his life was when he was put on the town team as chaos which exisis through anized ape a boy. Gen. Pershing was @ ball ut selecting & one player and played during his Meu- Commission should bo preceded by re- | PAZ" form legislation, Representatives of | nancy If further evidence of the democ- of baseball is needed it can be }both the major leagues, of th ich clase minors, of each closs of players | PCy 4 ‘ < 1 in the history of the life of should moot and enact Inwa and ordi! Abraham Lincoln, On the day that sald be vested Ih the fread we cat@ | Lincoln was nominated for President league and appoals to tho National | the United States in the Wigwam Ratnaiiaclanoen uhot ae eee at Chicago, the news was sent to Polenlason en snguie be Ab) 7 eet Springfield.” ‘The messenger bearing every trivial squabble would be car. | (he news rushed to deliver the mess seat age to Lincoln and found him in tt on eee eGale side yard with @ crowd of boys, play- ATURALLY there was a broad] !"® bal) grin going around when the mM" TAPT met the situation well. proposal to Put an ex-President in He was perfectly willing to help the job came out It is doubtfullin a purely judicial manner, but of whether the gentlemen who proposed ner President be chosen all knew picking an old time course could not accept the full duties (as understood in the past) of the Nationai Committ So far as the move to get Mr. Taft to lend his name and position to re- storing baseball goes, the move was were that they ball p Vormer President Taft has been a of baseball ever since he was|fine. But, 08 usual in baseball, we high to a duck, and one of the| must look deeper for causes. ‘hero Mamities of his boyhood, according] is a big feud on in “organized” base | to some of the around Cin- {ball Dreyfuss, Hempstead, Frazee Jcinnati, was when he wa. lared to}and perhaps Some others are very | be Loo fat to hold his job on the Byca- | much dissatisfied, The minority (at mores, which was @ team composed | present) is dete mined that Johnson, Herrmann and the old powers must 0, Johoson seems determined that fragee must get out, of youngsters down in the Pike Street district, then the exclusive residence ti, He Was a pretty seats i cnais Si te NES SiR- Parne Back on Fortune To Help French Army | Retrieve Its Wounded Tablet Form Easily: 7 Tommy Conners,’ Middleweight Title Contender, tinguished by white & So the | : aviators couldn't help but see ccna them, | Won Croix de Guerre for On Ost 49, wheneur rien came: |, MUNYON’S MARROWBONS Work as Ambulance Driver.| out tor a rest. I was decorated | TABLETS contain the necesary hypp- with the Croix de Guerre by a (Phosphites for rebuilding the system, By Bruce Copeland. - CON 8 every man who took part in the | easily absorbed form, which is very once a contender for the| ‘sire was hell, for Fritz used } 1 hi hatldiae Worie 1 tory asd middleweight boxing title, has| everything he had vefore retrenc, {complete upbuilding Tonic invalualile bead: Gh anibulacos “driver dh. ine| 188 to those recovering from Influensa, French Army for more than ta Iam sure that Uncle Sam and Grippe, Pneumonia, or all febrile als renc ¥ for more than two} ait sum inet eases which rob the constitution of Its years, the Lists, One day there came a ¢ bulance drivers, spending a short time at his home in part of the Anthracite on his champion of Panama, ranton and Wilkes-Barre promot~ ers eagerly clamored for his services, Bellevue, a capital, resting middleweight coal flelds, to meet “Phantom” 4 hae, ; request. Tommy always was an idol in the} %* soon, as you can, So long, Munyon's Laboratoties, Fift Hight years ago Conners was picked TOMMY O'CON. fourth and Columbia Avenue, Phil: Mike Gibbons when the n 3. , U. No. delphia—Advt. 3 frat came East. They| Conners’s Auto (Par B. fought ten rounds at the old Broad- way Sporting Club in Brooklyn, Gib ‘on points. the decision was so close that Mike refused to give bons winning chance, After a succession of victories on his native heath, in Rochester, Buf- i tho war. left at any x a or Gooner wont ta Panama ia i91e| ,, Inclosed in his tetter is a clipping Kid Norfolk, the negro light heavy- weight, was j ward climb then and was matched with Conners foi on the Isthmus, able stead, trunks and set out on retrieving the French wounded, Tommy neyer won a real picnship, but he acted go gallantly on battlefields that he won the French Croix de Guerre. pened, in his ewn words contained tn a letter just received: WITH THE COLORS, Mr. Bruce Copeland, | Sporting Department | ‘The Evening World, New York, U. 8, A Dear Old Pal Bruci time I heard from my friends at home was when papers you so kindly sent since we went into the attack at Champagne on Oct, the old Evening Werld again made me feel great. battle, it next to Verdun, for fought toe to toe for seven days in company with one of the American divisions on our own gained their objectives in quick have been cited for gallantry by both armies. The day the Germans asked for an armistice their aviators were busy bombing ch freed in our advance, magine how sincere “Bruce, men cla they asa bert left. Our time, .They All Ska' the Danc ™S Toren YES SIR,IcvEss | IVE WCADDIED FOR. MOSTALL THE Dy BEST, PLANERS = His adventurous spirit, deep in a stout Celtic heart, made him) eager to take part in the hostilities long before his own country entered t r ROLLER SKATING St. Nicholas Rink, 66th St., near Broadway Skate Awhile Dance Awhile Tommy won a ma- jority of these batties and was ac- claimed champion, The Scranton boy earned money in the tropics and came home well heeled, There were no formid- opponents for him around Scran- ton, and he coyld have increased his bankrol!t with the least effort. he Jaid aside his gloves and ITHACA, N. ¥., Dec ~Toj gre . amazemen f ¢ ell men tn 108fba. TWAS OUT wit 5 [amt expecia 580 Interested int alli: A GUY YESTERDAY — aecning a OH GEE- HE DID THIS of the Un ° shane WHOLE COURSE -YES sin structure athletios = and adv s of intra. mural vb hurma expressiéns of diasatiefactio are particularly a@ffias- n€ to persons interested 1 Cornell ath. lotion, because the vs tem of intercollege | Sports in existence at Ithnca before the developed in the Ad's Wield, cup 1 jound | uce, the r Marua i Artisi, © nm Central An Brooklyn, t “AMP UPTON, N.Y. , a metnbers football team the ga N “AND 1 WAS UT WIT ANOTHER NAL LAS’ SUNDRY fe {the former E left halfbac ankle was broken # sustained a similar inju leg. They will be transferr tary hospital In New York ow. Homer Baker, the middle distarve run is to #eek honors othe itarve by his speed of foot, Baker has enter ne amateur boxing tournament to ti | conducted by the SS | Club on, Tuesday and. ‘Thursday_ eve i inge, Eddie Mayo will be in Baket x corner. ~ 6 _ Scientists Caution Against Liquid. - _ Hypophosphites | Assimilated Without Upsetting Stomach in her proposals. Every building containing civilians had been dis- | Scranton’s French Colonel for work during | and in addition edntain Iron and Man- the attack; but I am sure that | Bane se in their most assimilative and now that all “hi in | most essential element, namely: Blood. yerime have left until they Iron, Manganese and Hypophqs- give all that is due “him.” Only | phites are powerful upbuilding factars last night “he” bombed a little and blood makers MUNYON’S MARROWBONE TABLETS are especially preparpd \for this weakened condition and will not upset the stomach. Fach hottle contains one mogth's treatment Price, $1.20—sold by all druggists Care and Wiet chart sent free bn town near us and murdered a few old women and little children; so you see we must do a good job with “him, Well, old pal, il for am- Conners was then Iam waiting for your letter to come, but the mail | situation with our division is poor, | Tam with an attacking outfit and | we are always on the go, Send me some more Evening Worlds laurels of France (with the French Army). Conners says he has been keeping | his hand in while abroad, boxing sev- eral times in P is a at the front. He went six rounds with Laeners, the Belgian middleweight champion, and won, He also believes he has a good chance there and may remain after “Lost and Found” articles! Howe’ mi another Jos. ‘World Building, wil Tommy thirty days, ‘These Mi any of The W and Found” from the Stars and Stripes, stating that they are trying to match him with Georges Carpentier at an early a number of bouts | ate. : beginning his up- a lot of In- Readjustment Sale $5 to $15 Less on a Suit Having made thousands of Uni- forms and Overcoats for the Government and for officers of the Army and Navy, our con- tracts are now faithfully fulfilled. the task of cham- Here is how it hap- Nov. #, 1918. first I received the me During the war we had to pay exorbitant prices for ; strictly all wool fabrics suitable for our trade, and , in keeping with our standards. Now we are readjusting our entire stock and can give you pre-war prices based on the actual worth of the cloth, not what it cost us. 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