The evening world. Newspaper, March 14, 1919, Page 18

THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, ha | COLUMN Jack Welch, Who Refereed Wil- | lard-Johnson Bout, Says Ne- gro Tried to Bet $10,000 on| Hirtéelf. Coprrift. 1018. by the Pram Putting Oo, Othe "New Fodcrenine World.) do with the Johnson-Willard fight in Havana four years ago, which the negro now claims was | @ fake, jaugh at tho idea that the battle was framed. Tho latest prin- cipal to be heard from is Jack Welch of San Hrancisco, who refereed the | affair, Weich declare a that the fight! Was Won on its merits, “Johnson was in poor condition for the bout,” says Welch, “and was gradually woM down and squarely beaten. I know that Johnson tried to wager $10,000 on himself the night before the bout, but succeeded tn placing only $2,600." Tom Jones and Jack Curley, who handled and managed Willard after he won the title, only to be deserted by Jess after his contract with them expired, and who naturally are very bitter against the champion, are joudest in cheir denial that the bout was faked. All the sporting writers were at the ringside emphati- ally assert that the fight was fought on its merits, While Johnson is making his dis- closures in Cuba, United States Dis- trict Attorney Clyne is declaring in ed States he will be thrown im jail at once. “There's a sentence hanging over his head and he can't evade it,” says Clyne. “Government officials will ar- rest him the minute he lands.” jan lightweight who had to can- cel his bout in Milwaukee last Monday night, may not be able to box for some time, He has just art rivel home suffering from mastoidt- tis, a8 @ result of a cold, It Is thought that it will be necessary to operate o. him to remove @ bone at the back of his ear, He has a high fever and may have to be removed to the hos= pital to for ev have to call them all off. yea DUNDEE, the little Ital- bantam, who was in action with the A. E. F, in France and who recently defeated England's bantam champion, Tommy Noble, is now training hard for bis coming bout with Jimmy Wilde, Europe's most seny. ‘ional little boxg, Such a good judge as Willie Lewi who has seen Jiminy hox several times, says tha! he thinks Lynch will knock out Wilde. Willic, who is now In the restaurant business, thinks uhat Wilde Is ¢ - rated and with the weight he is « ing away he thinks that Joe ts likely to score # K. O. Inside of twenty J° LYNCH, the crack west side 8 Joe Lynoh's letter to the ust a few lines to let you know Tash in the best of health, may be great count but you can give me litte old time. At present I am at Windsor, getting in shape for my coming fieht When you want to stop pain and do the job quickly and surely—get the original improvement on the old fashioned mustard plaster—Begy's Musta thé kind that contains real mustard, It cannot blister and there are no disagree: Able fumes to irritate the nose and eyes. * "Just rub it on for any ache or pain it penetrates quickly and relieves almost instantly by gently stimulat- ing the circulation and diffusing all ation and congestion, ys in the allow | box—be sure 1. those who had anything to! day. Johnny was signed up | ‘al important bouts and wily land w York any |June I was not sure of myself, but BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK ANOTHER MEMBER FOR THE ALIBI CLUB New York Eve ALIBI CLUB CHARTER JOHNSON OUR NEW 6 } WAS one OF TE MOST ARTISTIC FAKERS (T WONT BE LONG BEFORE ouR LIL @LuB HAS & WAITING LIST Johnson Fairly Whipped By Willard in Havana The following is an extract from a story written by Robert Edgren, who sat at the ringside in Havana the day Willard knocked Johnson out which indicates’ that the battle was anytaing but the fake Johnson now claims it was: BY ROBERT EDGREN. OR nearly twenty rounds he hammered with every blow he knew, no, and the twentieth found Willard fresh and strong and Johnson winded, army-weary and utterly discouraged, Waen the knockout came John- won had degenerated, in twenty-six rounds, froin a great, burly black ‘could hardly carry him around the ring. 1 stood close to him when he was helped down from the platform ten minutes Jater, His seconds had to help him through the ropes, and as he came slowly down the steps his legs shook #0 unde® him that it seemed as if he might fall but for the hands stretched out to steady him, As I wrote that night, if Johnson “laid Swinging awdesperately as a losing champion ¢ fighter“to a flabby, trembling old man, whose legs down” he did the finest piece of acting ever seen in any ring. I half expected to find the Havana fight a frame-up, knowing the previous records of some of the people prominently connected with It. 1 hadn't the slightest doubt that Johnson would geil out if he received enough money for it. He “framed” many a fight in the old days betore he was champion, Tuaere was every reason to suspect that an effort would be made to buy him. Yet when I talked with Johnson himself the day before the fight he told me flatly that there wasn't @ cha as’ no casa proposition had been made to him. ‘The fight itself, the entire lack of betting in Havana, the deep gloom in Johnson's quarters when I went there a few hours after the fight--maay other minor de- talls—convincingly argue that Johnson was fairly w pped. FRED, MEET HR JACIS MEMBER- MAKE Hitt ig sipaiEs DONT GET Ith Fee ee r Home: ) ag . us Biggest Show Yet Enjoyed Valger and Britton Furnish an Unusually Clever Exhibition for Uncle Sam’ 's Heroes. ‘Loyalty League. UF largest gathering of wound. tier bantarnwe ed heroes that has ever wit-\out three oppon ht, agre nls. ‘The first thelr way into the big amphitheatre the ag Gardner clunbed into the arena, with Wilde, I don’t think there |s | his third appearance Let any boxer who weighs 107 pounds out Joe Murdick it Lhe that can beat him, but you know the | wir) old say A good big man can ale |" pig ways beat'a good ite wan! 1 wilt] bo in great shape for the fight. 1 have learned several tricks about! Ronny Va.ger getting into condition here and I feel | or G sure 1 will take him. 1'll give @ #000 Treatncrveight, tit) account of myself, anyway. aE CALE eli) Tanke Brien, weighed 117% pounds—that was my!Zowie! Mow these two boys weight back home, Noble would not Yoffey even step on the scales, 1 think he weighea 180 pounds. As it was my first fight over four rounds e#iney last a hard right to the Jaw, soidier-patients were Following this bout Jim Roseomm nt, entere combat w » Jeannette, ck Sharke! after the first » is I felt fine and Kay nipping he has received since he aime cham- pion, “Augie Ratner, who won the mid- dleweight championship at the King’s Troph ourhey, Dee, 12, is with mo and it seems that all the men of his welmht ure afraid of fhim, He has slugied thre Bobby Doyl bantain of th the promising st wide, back home fr sw ot blows with ¢ rgie Brown, improved 100 per cent, since leaving |the featherweight ¢ on of the U. 8. A. and I think If Mikel west side. Duffy, who spent O'Dowd over geta in the ring with him he'll surely knock him out. I am ociine 118 pounds for Wilde. » fight with Brown ca the Nehtw mpion of way over from Newa' was no opponent handy to at any one of the bast hosp’ talling twenty-three bouts he ast side A Lacey and Robby Lippy and Preddie Walcott and Young son and Eddie Sum Sander Your ney and Joe Sterling, Young Albert Mendes, red Me *) Herman Bering. tained the wounded boys. first tima in public, writte Sullivan, composer of "Kis: a Job to the Gob and the Doug When I and Max Mm jman fl nis yet doughboye--and the Leiler vb: ver peat the words five times before they end, ro. rene At the Baso Hospital No. 8, Green- | hut's, last night for a boxing carnival | |under the auspices of the Boxers’ | A knockout featured the entertain- -_—_ {ment, Joe Leonard, Brooklyn's pre- 1 to knock one nossed @ boxing show jammed | Leonard picked on was Maxey Green, = —\who proved w Tartar, ‘Then Willie (nee de rd knocked second round then |treated to one of the most sclentith bouts seen in this vicinity in years y who twhot on the trai club olliciais to make up t pion Johnny hilbane for the Alterations so far outlined by New ‘Umbed. through York clubs will mean an expenditure | the d into’ fistic Jimmy Duffy made his first appear- ance in this’ country since arrivin overseas, when he the nine months on the firing line, looked very good in his tors and pot up a hurri- State of New Jeracy, travelled all the rk, but as there clash with him he was unable to perform In all, 1 was the biggest night that the Loyalty Langue has expericnced | lowing boxers speared one another in the other bouts: Jack Kile of 1 Frankie TApne, W Brown and Sam Robin, Jack Co G and Billy Herman, Al Rergling 5,000 | medal sec tele a ' p bi sent, Nguratively—shook the lar ; 3 d : nhut Building with applause, So|and Goo 0 former great was the cheering that Porter |ticnal. tile holder. saiped the : Ray | and Friedngan were compelled to re» ly ‘ sna ree Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publis | Hope A Lot oF ecHEeAP é UNOE SIPABLES Unt La oi Reerneanarnes By Thornton Fisher ; IM AFRAID THENLE AccioaHt= \* ALY LET STRAIGHT FIGHTER T APPLICATION For HEHBeER ALIBI CLUB ANSWER. FULLY NAME-------<-s-°- DATE OF CONTEST---- LICKED BY WHot?- WHAT (S YOUR EXCUSE FOR BEING BEATEN? - --- How OFTEN HAVE YOU FAKED 2 ---+ ==> NOTE - ALL APPLICANTS MUST Have BEEN SOUNDLN THRASHED OR. MEMBER SHIP REFUSED. (Sem wos CE HAPPY GANS {Lc TELL DE YL WORLD Fave! AW JES NaTcHALLY LAID DOWN Fo MISTO WILLAD = (T WAS You canr BLAME Him SEVERAL NEARS AGO ae x WORKED AS A TORERDOR- for Many Local Golf Clubs, By William Abbott. this spring. Inwood, Great N Shackamaxon, Wykagyl—oh, what's the use, for all the local links will be materially touched up for what confidently believed will be a banner golf year, With the war over there's no hesi- over golf reconstruction, Clubs by 5 000 Men in Hospital aro handling this matter in t way. Extra revenue for the work is being raised by dipping into reserve funds, assessing members and issuing clul certificates, With gnaterials becoming more plentiful and labor conditions eastag* up many clubs als ready have wadertaken the job of| tanc making chan, arranging ho’ ps iu club houses, installing additional bunkers, mands the ever In bunkers and the lengthening practically su Years, for hardly any nivat cared to make linprovements du the war, With the end ‘of host came a general move on t org of many thousand dollars, larity. The organigataion had the crack west sido MANY members in ity fold that pl bantamweight who holds the news- |!) over the club's course any Satur- paper decisions over the Pete Her man, the bantamwelght champion, sis dD De dN th tent agitation for rel short holes. There | which bore results this week w President H, V. Gaines |bers held a s cided on seve cluy's) by- ws, It y the active © ar ship from tion of a policy of not filling heweomers except | Weocatinte thet gata ne. Gatohesan annual dues for 1920 and parreceding the eatah-at-eatch-oan | Wore ‘aed at $135." Encoming mcin- boy serv atael bers will be required to pay an initi weigh), popes corse ee of $150 and also purchase ) worth of club bonds. Extensive improvements — will made oa the Wykagyl course, layou’ of the short fourth, Atth sixth the arrangement 0 schedule — sc nounced will show ive campaigns the the lc er atte | Walter Ha ind | season When the ¢ al years Hagen, d mal champion jn 1914, 1s remarkable | Hur at the Afth bole and retained it to the | ty Barnes gave bim crtnattrr Ley! WITH HiMe Fistic News and Gossip By John Pollock Knights of C tournament at alleys last ni Course Changes Now Planned If the plans which Dava Mackey, the fight promoter of Newark, N. in view go through there w champlonships bouts at the show to be staged by him at the Ist Regiment Armory at Ni ark on March 31. y expects to have battle good oveted 115 mark which carried ta gold fob, by ¢ fob winners were ilarry Naylor T is hard to mention one golf club Around New York that will not make improvements on its course erasing SOL apuiuat | featherweight, n, bantamwejght. principals wer put the show back ye American bantamwelaht, rown « r to bis manager, elved from Joe to-day, fifteen rounds at the Club of London on Mareh SL and the f ho will sail for America, here om April 20, National aporting Ho expects to arrive Battling Reddy of this ctty ts His flest will be with Pig! 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