The evening world. Newspaper, February 17, 1919, Page 12

i Cane eee Se Se 10 oe ee ent teeeperoeye 4 ee oe are THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1919, ; hanno | BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK PAPHDEPALMA JMIN BENNY LEONARD CLEANS UP IN Eat - - + By Thornton Fisher — LOWERS MORE Old Marks From Two to Twenty Miles Wiped Out Daytona Beach. teNOW WHY | Goon) \THEN cAue soni Goo au | \ {0 HS ‘Gowen ) DAYTONA, Fla, Feb. 17-Ralpb E a? > 19 Palma continue ecord-breake Boxing Fans Are Excited \ese x ihe Way. Rvety (oni dislance Foobtl PRETTY SOFT, \ on Daytona B ( Bie 6 smash befor - aviation mo} Most of the marks h save one went to onrush, driving hts red special twin six. " n he Je were held by foreign curs, and any om were of long standing, ) the intrepid Italian took particular joy in supplanting them with paces made by a car thoroughly America® in design and construction De Palma began adding to the Jaurels he won on Wednesday last, when he set a new mark for the mile, with a record for the two-mile, which he travelled tn j1 seconds, as against the established mark of ot seconds set by “Wild Bob" Burman ina German Blitzen Benz eight years ago. | A fresh three-mile record was @s- tablished ja iin, 19.048., and that was foliowed by a four-mile achievement of Im. 39.778, Then the Darraca ree- Jord for five miles, 2m. 34s, made by Homery thirteen years age, went by the board as streamline Packard covered the course in 2m. 4.58. —near- ly half a minute faster than the French car's time, As De Palma lengthened his course }to longer and longer distances the | superiority of his aviation motored beauty became more and more evi \dent. The ten miles was covered in 4 minutes 9 30-100 seconds, more than a whole minute faster than the record lof 5 minutes 14-40 secon set nine | years ago by Bruce Brown, driving a German enz, The twenty- mile was the victory of all Over Leonard-Ritchie Bout and Are Banking on a Knock- out—Rickard Leaves Town! for Two Weeks’ Trip. MT QENNY LEONARD vs. Willie | Riteble. According to the oris- imal date sent by Billy Gio Bon, they were scheduled to meet nex: Friday vight in San Vranciscv, but! Hater information put the date yuck Web. 2. ‘The contest—four rounds) OUT OW THE COAST LEONARD IS P hardly seems worthy of the name of KNOCKING THEM OUT FoR EXERCISE > eoalest—is on, anyway, and from a} AND LAUNORN MONEX FOR HIMSELF Frisco standpoint it looks like fire Works, Only goes to show how ti populace of some places, denied the Teal thing, will enthuse over cur jl Son ce york woud Baseball Training Trips . | Do More to Thaw Public et only the once over, but that’s « is allowed in the coast city, and the the bout must be disguised as an) rf s amateur, bo decision affair, lunny,! take Than Condition Players fighting as amateurs? And funnie ee @ J sounds the statement from Billy Giv-| hi gon, that the bout will draw a $25,000; They Are Largely Bunk, and) *kt) me to run up and get his pitche Gime et Be mney) Cost Money—Men Should | i yas tate im March, but the thur-| AND AFTER THAT FRET WITH RITCHIS EXT — | Report Ready to Play Ball, | when Trot out of the aecper. T had| FRIOAY A LOT OF CALIFORNIA MONEY Witt HE Frisco sports are talking of i na J Oa | te walk three miles out to the farm ig TAKE A TRIP TO WN, | fa knockout too, It may happen find him. J arrived in a £1 De Paima mad s minutes 3h vor, +100 seconds, as agai surman’s t that, but we cunnot aco it. uitchie) By Hugh S. Fullerton. ae coe oy and wan told Ne was ; 9 Se deen re of the aie ee ee training is almost upon|{n'the barn, ART tpproached “ HOOKS y. Willie Jackson Ib on n Way | new LEONARD BOXES tecondn mate, at Jachwonvi Fine HD | the bout seems a sort of a benefit to! us, the season in which Major/ barn the thud. thud of a ball being AND eight years ago *+ Rim, but at that he doesn't look the League clubs Pd ride down| caught in a mitt reached my ea ’ In getting ¢ twenty resond to ’Frisco for 4 Bouts) Si Quentin Pasow in nah Tani ea | c i c Stralighta Wy Q@way within four rounds, even by| sleeves, pitching to his sister, who was . ee FIGHTING THAT Bounced 1s JUST & LITTLE SIDE LINE FOR THE CHAMP AW BENNY, LEAVE) \+wo BITS IN THE | QUICK MI & MEDAL NATIVE SONS gre pped con- tensible ObJeCL catohin th a mitt mai Leonard. He has lived decently, sept Bes « ¥ PINEHURST, N. C,, Feb. 17 - _ ‘ourne, Outdoors in his army boxing occup being to get the wheat ‘sack and, stuffed Fat ee thes BY BILLY GIBSON. at aie trata. © pbverv tion and hasn't reached the age of ihe, nyere ito Dhiyes| Me snowed mo all his et Lad Who Has Knocked Out Four winner there le, whieh ; shad ‘ the figures . decrepit, Leonard, of course, nax tis | eal condition, but | # curve that looked lke Septemi s A ‘ty wants « Leonard-Jackson’ bout & ‘al, Feb. 17. | dell, Chair Ne Co! and ambition, but he hasn't) {isi Bln Gtileet: Bee | Reet. see pee ioue, WIM Svar veiling saps Men Leonard Couldn't Even \,).°* Benuy Leonard and his parity [the A. AWA. Fred Wagner, the y ed out anybody of note latoly. | CA aE ene, snen F cavticned. nim, be shot ‘ to San Quentin prison | TSavel et tne “Wruited ‘States: Drop, to Appear in Bouts,| ‘There was a farewell dinner given, Ade 4 trip t ‘ Starting One Week From)‘e Willie before he boarded the train] ycesterucon, eaGe Savers: ) cry it 6 o'clock and by the time the rat- ing to get the laughed. ‘He opened the training public thawed out | Son against the regulars and 1 titi he struck ent seventeen. Although he é) and interested fF | knew jittle about pitching, he was an|—Alex. Smith if ‘Transport ( al timin ‘There is one thing, however, which gives him a chance of putting the Crusher on Ritchie, That is the Jatter's talned two thousand inmates, ee ge, Of Doxing, | Wills wes | the opening of the| early season sensation in the league. [ot Wvkagy! Friday Night. tler pulled out of the Pennsylvania| DOxIR® Harry Pelsinger and WI Ae wn a ny oxer. | % b season, | Ha Won a mador t his ea the |f Z “i ei by ea un three rounds each. Th mF Be tn ote wide open, derying | X He majority o| games es Station there were several hundred | at ds B li Ul kind with little or no vulnerable spots | This year the! first season, ; lana In an By Alex. Sullivan | well-wishers on land to say au re-| Toere elotnere Ow ing A ey : oe | 4 The next spring he reported fat, Alt = yy Alex, Sullivan. | Seunay. there 3 with which a good punch might con- majority of the) icgfed during most of the training | mitch Augustus a i voir Y, the fan ay Sua his oraine chikeiare curtail) | Onur corned aoc nie uedt pai Witt Hai RLM is mighty proud of/"9 | ntence Gov By ha Tack If he steps into Leonard with the 5 imps ard half a dozen | nati, de fi th light wv d be ; y 5 ack arte cine be hurt acd c| yan $ ing their spring! games, and then one night @it in the jers ‘in WACKA no NSDL! tore he returns to this city he thinks! mmuted to life impr idea tha: vt eh and jaunts, some are rvom nearly crying and cu@iplaining | and Ste weight of that section, Who) that he “champion- | ™eAt. claimed the champion was The Me desire to swap rights, Benny may | “eopnect.” If he docs, it will be) Sng to train on their home! thet, me managers coil ee Mh oie sprang into pug “good night” Ritchie, for Benny can |srounds, others will take short trips pot weather pitcher. #4) At the Marine and Field Club about over night when h SEDO! , |thinty im ‘and fifteen OhaNe r ne ro t punch some when the opportunity |to look over the youngsters, The | played over the links Johnny Dundee in one round two! 3 to play fas ast lightweight they ever © prominence] ship. Willie points to knocked out; tive record ind o make thin sholder compara- the te that he ought sa’ interesting for the At Shannon's ye erday after- Pie os iiad Ritchic was an acci- {Pitchers who really need conditioniag (YREAT trips, though—those spring | nov so furio yours ago and whose recon of Jate) “Jackson has knocked out four men| 200” Benny showed his r dental lightweight champion. He won | Will start ahead of the others. Already training ones, Of about tweaty- | Wis in the still carries bis sleep} who had never been knocked out be-| to over one hundred fans wh | ree }owith hin fore—four men that Champion Leon-| elled all the way from 'Irisco ints with teams, the |the day. ‘Ine elu y and preparing their best conditioned team I ever saw was | ising younx pia uyed only two games of | hii? for the title from Ad Wolgast on a foul,|some of them are at Hot Springs five training under circumstances that the average | working oul ¢ referee might have overlooked, hte! n't even been able to crop ny Dundee, whom y whom is been playing and nanager, Frank © 1 bound for Interest is still growing in the Leonard Ritchie bout — Frie oy) Tetained the title only a short time {®fM# for the coming campaign, ‘There one which but who} battled five’ tin afaerward, comparatively speak is @ tremendous lot of bunk abont Pal, and those were jokes, up to the} apldly a is scheduled Young Erne and Ja night, and> Promoter Coffroth ‘until he met a craftier boxer, Freddy |these spring training trips, They do Week before the season opened. nak aitae and waren appear round bout Jackson knocked claims that for a four-round no- | <- Welsh, on his home soil, ‘London, |rittle good, cost a lot of money usu- WAS the time the Chicago Clud, then | fou as played in ine afte the pl native sons.” ds at the National Club) decision contest ! H where “points” counted more tian! y under Tom Burns, went down ito |n and Field Club, which ne Wake irain Beidaw file BAUACCRY BINA | ee net Leonard twice couldn't stop home green’ before ional, ‘Tedy beat Fd. Her Eggressivences. ally, and the average player gets back the desert to Hudson, N. M.. as : North after a month of “training” a stayed at a hotel five miles from the MBX Rickard will be in Chicago |few pounds lighter than .he was, not railroad. Tho players hunted, climbed | this afternoon, He left New quite in as good condition as he was pelenans rode, horses, roped ste Y 7 ternoo: 2.40 on te days after he started. Then the 2nd did everything except play bu pxerk yesterday afternoon at 240 on) sis atriko a week of bad weather and Dall. . They tried to play or c duced Fridi at the Leonard-Ritcbie bout m.! boxing. Were the best A two nien I a trip which will keep him away [roe inst a tos a reel! ‘ ia 5 } niitiun” ceased to exist at all against a team of cowboys but athe matel rae sie iH BEG “pig time” stuff for two weeks,| The worst feature of the spring sand storm broke up the game, 6 ait an ee | ie ie At least that’s what he told us ye terday at the Biltmore just prior his departure. Tex said he intend stay in the “Windy City,” the training, a understood now, is that it * Jes that of the cow pun ja a temptation to players to negisot 'pelated rotring spurs, » YALE MAKES “SWEEPING ; Clay Turner, the clever Indian} she fount thew fins in the Fa, moe their condition all winter on the the. they’ sild the bases they’ row | CHANGES IN ATHLETICS. Who’s Champion ee UU ee ; t back to Californie, wii) make another trip that there will be plenty of time <a . | they go South, The players, A | NEW HAVEN, b. 17.—The most Says Wi illard tured rf frac | Hast nea: month with his manager, Tonumy sim ought to report to their te The on’ a! game they played| sweeping j nal changes ever mad: ww! wi ks with two that appellation out there, for a | couple of days and then would hoi | t Ortega was bomes ck me a few Weeks mera) Bronthe the ex! for Texas, He will see Willard | 1 as at 8 ‘ 1 he iv foot it foi in condition to play ball. 1 Was at Silver City, which had fairl ae one time in the Yule athletic regim heavyweight the custom of spring training Sam with a fling in of local ama. |AL Ong time in the Sele utes ciginy ae = aes Wittard Lenten warily sc lenosurawes tha thing it is sup. ture. The first Silver City batter ap|Control ui athletics of the untyersity in 10, Feb, ts Na of Buffalo, N. ¥., was matehe Rickard is going to Texas to look (eae Worse than that: Mt @ ball straight back Denzer | inet. meot ng. held by that body | ¢ on Heavyweight, who —!%\to meet George Chip, the hu: mistice. Some and extreme the signing of the are 0 fast no one saw it until Dena who had stuck out a hand to save his life: opened hie fist and saw the over his ten-acre o!l property and between us he is just as much ; I 1 ‘ j Boe bly on his travels, but net) wiry for of New Cast Title on July 4 next, was here | ten pounds have become more or less neo. and will be necessary until it Pa. in the m | essary Jon tue afternoon of 4 ww interested in this as he is in the big fought 7 ran js in the bik dawns upon some elub owner that,| 4 . and the me | = BY FE ee en eee et icined | when he pays a man to play ball, tha: | ball atloking hen he act Sunday 1 promoter the above named club on the night of | *M* med fah's im "Pally" and should sive ter put the but in caps, Rickard | Minty bound to report ready to{% if that happened every day in th ted to ar-! starch 17, Aw Turn pies ‘ men’. Brown wi fouat doesn’t want his o/] business mixed ’ lyear, and a fellow next marked ath oe as ae 7 rs ribs are he hut Burns figh's in St. Loule on | ing very fast be exp up with the fight proposition, Me through cts to be ready | Feb. 20 and could mot accept the mate, chs ; “What's the use m fellows | resents the idea that he is promotin h anythin conference to start training In about t t : » 1 rt tral In about ten days | the fight to advertise his ten-acr | JT can be don truth Is that Chicago went to ba foot and tho! mnie will bo his firs ri : 1 Wwinle io ta ed 2 olan \ off holdings, Tex suys he has nv ball player, if desired, cou | hit w ball out towutd. the bal the purpe This will be his first bout, although he Kouta ibe anitie. és erie # ‘sren Steck to sell, and neither has Willard. | condition himself ax weil, or better, 4] so far i! seemed a sure home Herm@nent coaches for the fresh ening Eh cher of ad, Woltast, in wie round, and |, Thre erica are giindaied for ie on | Instead, Tex's property looks #0 good |i ’i46 than anywhere else, and wach|! didn't think any outfielder in the| men athlet © teams urd declined eott {a two founds, will figure te | £48 ,cek, ner up Inthe rogram, to him’ that he Intends to keep t Fee OMOLL be It wenld neceeale| Mond coud KO out {Ar @ROURN to get| ; ,reaverwan to lhe malam of dual. /to. give uny Information as f to Ne Incet Bevan | orieiiuled fo, meet Bal Beabely, fo “hisseit.” We expect io jmuch tens r be thi waal jnear the ball. It was « Nome run.) Panter a. SANYOF) BAR “fohiect of t ‘ya return = hear from Tex from time to tim {tate keeping in condition all wintes.|but not for that reason. The 3| Papeeten, Willard ud no , " } for th he centre RA tke powar: Ke Ana “atumant rounds at Tulse, Oita. ‘The aim ough " weep the Willard-Dempsey pot a p would consis |tlelder was playing ou! against the| councils over athlete 5 ve fight eps battle at the] fifteen round draw at the same place praset H . hall a dozen or so or-|base of the mountain, and could not! demic ditteuttie would pe 2 eights. tornigh | weeks as - hibition ames to get the team work. {Come in far enough to ato; the revention for ‘al! South America if necessar 4 tke COTTY MONTEITH js just now ing together right, and a fast start, {before Dahlen had circled t Miah (en tor the atnieuc te battleground ; cmind | Fred Dres, th welterweight, end Paul sory Day for Soldiers. trying to develop a second Johnny | ‘The custom of spring training wa 2 r the squads being increased tne Wall (eyeing esanree sent Devie, whe new Kew Conn, is} | The Bo Loyalty Teague, in cone ‘ia F a inaugurated chiefly asx a barn-storm HE record spring training trip f bong decreased during th intone which is trying | home, bave bem 4 cured to moet unction with the Red © oon Dundee. Since losing the Beoteh var A i t i Cross, has every fundee. losing the "Ac hg stunt, the owner relying upon re probably was taken by the ¢ me in various ways. Al cf twelve rounds, toa de ht of the week booked with boxing Tbe” Montieth has centred HR GER ET AGMbINION RSVR TER ae Gee | cee tinea tee ie ak alae te ra permanent d yowait til the: be are beivsweiwit, eho bas| AA. of Boston to-morrow aight shows for the soldiers. The first whew gaanagerial ability on Matty Herbert, | penses and add a little to his revnue a0) to see who heavy weigh » few wooks, bas | figbting ndid form now doudess | takes place at the ist F nt Arinory . & New York buntam who at rhe smaller citles, however, grow] team went from Chicago to Waycross, | hampton,” Wil ke ee #8 | furnish one of the best scraps witneawed te Boston | $e9tle? Regiment: the ota athe ete | fas an amateur record behind hin weary xecing @& bunch of sube and was ch out of town. It] DAVE MACKAY T TO STAGE at 375 pounds ith bia clothes, Norioin 4 nerween mew of their weleht in a long toe York Cits \ of New D Before turning “pro” Herbert was trying to make good while the stare Jucksonville, then landed in’ Sa-| HANDBALL PLAYERS GOING 2°") "cveriag aud wil te ante to ges Mi amateur champion. He took part in! rat on the bench, and spring t vannul, played w few days, jumped ti | ANOTHER SET OF BOUTS. NT, | soba, bor ert to te prin Alda AR og 4 BB Biey tournaments and, ax Montieth besame an expensive junket tone thea to "Augunts Atlanta A TO NATIONAL TOURNAMENT, oir! bs: etmeia to oe ny 20s 7 Ya, fourht some 800 or more bout # for condition, there is No reason tigomier oe w OHA | He vewary a ee ane Geaye coming out the winner, With, Wy a player should neglect himsnit| Shreveport, Little Rock, Memphis.) | oie Newark Sport th n| William Sackman and Edward Gro: | a1 Meco oh a foundation, Scotty thinks the | Physically all winter allow himaelf to} Nashville and opened the +e ’ spd the ex-eh ot and y should hold hia own with the| Ket how fat, and then + hin vi | was licke | eRDewelan’ Bhanpinn Benny Leonard bered fen ' lessionals at his weig' | tality by working, sweating and labor- Id Chic and Johnny Dundee. will stage another Journ to Di , A etaeas ta hae © blamed for thinking | INE to Ket ea < nite 1 lake TAlBee Le Na 1 pox Y The big tet | Xt hand VM | nanseen He's knocking at your door | ny of the good fighters season came from a fia ujority of them ¢ tris] the ; Mana - to-day to tell you that we've # were developed along Souer, “Minn. He sad! in uniforms to get their warm batis| Mate now \e same lines fr nd he didn't wan A’ the West Side A. ¢ f the) o’mstor long Pastimes a prospective tz s contract e very far or else dressed in half heated room, pear beats even for and the team started cach season near been na in't signed, its top condition probably will b: am was on) ‘The Chicago Cubs, after six weeks in =i", _|Knocked $5 to $20 A member of the New York A. C. writes to us to Hever, the Brooklyn lightwetaht | off the prices during our had to consider the honor of his « ee . the owner | California and the Southwest, were in ar i twat x Habtweiahs blic co was watched carefu snd wavordingly the youngster is em. {When they started. ‘The yeur they | foremost contenders for Twonard's title 11M Se dC: om Vom The writer : Ep ine ne ds 4, wasched uv d coordinaly the uneete eet at ample U1, in cold, | They wre Lew Tendier, the erwek nile 4 f the members of the club mere eediy dlspooiatad Your suit or overcoat t jarked on a ring carec ow JON | rg weather, they opened | aslep hii xe and oe elling of tie when it became known that Reese ran out cf the meee urn, Bia apllliy was discussed thes he ast? we 1, look back at eee aaa as hey apen' Chi ano A ck Bhurkey of New York may - ahaa ateh, a8 many of them came purposely to sec the made to your measure meetin, and only whe he e Beecher and some others like rol Ateve of arrison are the n ir ' Mme & ‘ om ment Committer, and then it wa art very properiy licked; | beuw {f the players can be taught ine JUTE TEE SLR A RRNA HE $08 Siitord.: he pak ere $35 and $40 suitings now $30 @ith the expectancy that ho would don't know Much about “Atou-| Minter, While the clubs are _ have hust. bee n $30 and $35 suitings now $25 in. teth's youngster, but he has had the ct ayy i ¢ Naval Officers Defeat Manhatian | x Fo at the ‘ iti . In those old days it wasn't consid. benefit of an education in the boxing | Methed curtailing iy RACING SELECTIONS, oe Neen tea ia enna on east FTURT AL” SOMEY Spring Suitings are now ready pense they seem foolish to rate sanitariuma to winter Mt off athlete The war has proved the ent matchmaker of (he club, arranged (he mi ne long distance telephone and be expects to olan , ie winner wiib Clay Turner, che Indian rt 1.0 paten Brand’, the Brooklyn feat rtm Wed good policy to enter anylody just iin. They wanted winne®, hence a @ development of such & fs Bam- has we L pined ix bound to he Bart t we understand ak uta in the pre The R © OMice NEW ORLE NS y Keily, Tim Murphy, Jack Skel 1 ran tidy, always showia: y of tra ball be Hone Dr Bother amateurs who made good “something” when the gong seemad yy p all player econd Race—-Mar Tom, Azulca “pros.” nat hin Patina hasta , antl aay an Warts | yc gage fine tian wo 0 madays no such consideration ix vty mot thusiastic about art iene ena H Bsa pperston\: Care, Hort: Wy pe OB: | Pe i ees Gant a enonowat a nintw Stne tex, Mindes in the early days been ‘In Hanovi eam ni 1 ¥. ide will go against Battling Labo, the rugged ioca, ae ba avi youngster has to do is to hit Incidentally Hervert’s name is Fits- Fa anus Aubin ea eAn “Fiith Hace eddy Dear, Bertin, | C, 4., Downey Shipbuilding five, and ‘ghter, im the wind-up of tem tounds, tres dt t er oor unsuspecting boob on tie herbert, but Scotty cut off the Fitz |ynhes wil Be OUFRE Te See Orort: |. 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