The evening world. Newspaper, May 7, 1919, Page 22

_——— Willard in Good Condition Now and Should Be Fit for Hard Fight by Jul WIRE from Bob Bdgren effect- ually knocks out the idea that Jess Willard is just a big fat- tened athlete with litle chance to get ta fighting condition for Jack Demp- sey on July & Bob saw Willard work out at Los Angeles yesterday and says he ts not fat. Wagren, “Jess looks in good condition ‘nd should be fit for a hard fight by Bob promiaes to send along a detailed description later of just bow ‘Willard ebapes up after his long lay- fs the first authentic nows of ‘Willard’s present condition that has been printed and, coming from 90 good @ judge as Edgren, is of con- siderable importance to the sporting has been heard from ¢ Willard was fat and i Ro condition to undergo the rigor- ous training so necessary for 4 ¢ ip fight. He bad been drink- too, and straying far from the that competing ath mee should follow, according to sim- loesn't care anything about jonship and is just going fight for the big money there * said more of these stories. Message shows all this to be paseless and is reassuring to many may have been considering Whether or not to back the big cham~- pion tn the coming battle with the anrbitious PICTURE OF @ TOLEDO HOTEL KEEPER WHEN HE HEARD THE NEWS Instead, wires ‘world. Gossi time to time t mode of livin, ®& FULL NIGHTS SLEEP And, Rickard tells us, Jess doesn't care any more about his heavyweight title than he does about Never given to boast- ing, he even confided to Tex that he would beat Dempsey “No man Living can stay that long ded. bis right leg. + inside of ten THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1919, . BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK) PUTTING TOLEDO ON THE MAP __ . Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). = have it from Tex Rickard that wer since the match was made Willard has been .on- @itioning himmelf systematically. began dieting to get rid of loose fat and gradually worked himself into it gymnasium exercises preparatory the more strenuous training to| ther from this that Dempsey js in for a queer old time along about 3 o'clock in the afternoon STANDING OF THE CLUBS, NATIONAL LEAGUE, ENNSYLVANIA didn’t get the big fight simply because Legislators were late in intro- ducing a bill to legalize ten-round bouts, but after all, patrons of box- ing in tho Keystone State are to be benefitéd to some extent by having | the limit on thelr contests raised from eix to ten sessions. erty, the Tex Rickard of the State, is entitled to what credit goes with this. He interested himacif in the measure to heip out his friend Tex e latter found It troublesome to locate his fight elsewhere and now has assurances that it will pass and be signed anyway by Gov. Sproul. This means @ mew era in rs Pennsylvania, which will doubtless become the scene of many tmportan: GAMES YESTERDAY, New York, 6; Boston, 4, Brookiye, 11; Philadetphte, 9, Chicago, 7; Cinclenatt, 0, St. Louis, 2; Pittsburgh, 1, GAMES TO-DAY, Boston at New York. Philadelphia at Brosttye, Chieage at Cincianati. AMERICAN LEAGUE, Jimmy Dough- GAMES YESTERDAY. New York, 2 (10 tnolegy. jashington, 0, 8 the days pass the Kentucky Derby takes on the appear- ance of the most promising and most important contest in th@ history of the Blue Grass turf classic. A month ago It lookea aimost a match race between Billy Kelly and Eter- GAMES TO-DAY, Now York at Phitadeiphia, Washington at Boston. ‘Bt Louie at Cleveland, cry W.L. Po. | Detroit at Chicage, ‘Then along came Harry Payne Whitney's Vindex, with a perform- ance at Hayre de Grace that imme- diately entitled him to careful con- and now W. -old Sweep On through, in his first start of the sea- son, with an impressive victory over Rosebud, @ champion of the No wonder that {1 Downs is preparing for the big. gest attendance in its history, Billy Kelly, Vindex and Eternal have each won their starts in convincing fash- didn't beat anything | like an Old Rosebud, indications Sweep On should be very much in the picture as the great col- lection of equine kings comes whip- ping and driving through the stretch next Saturday, handicap division, handicappers ecratch their heads, nd that Church- ALKING about horse racing re- minds us that all signs point to one of the biggest seasons this | year that the sport has ever enjoyed. Maryland, the forerunner of the New York meetings, has never known such attendances as have been turning out this spring. On Saturday last the track at Pimlico seemed altogether too small to accommodate the crowd. Patrons were still entering the track as late as 4 o'clock, when more than been run off, while for a couple of miles from the track entrance the road was blocked by a stream of automobiles, Igside the course there was little comfort for half the card hi '¥ Benny Leonard and Jack Brit- ton come together tn their much talked of match, the meeting won't take place at the Newark Sports. ‘8 Club, where so many of Jer- important bouts have been held. Billy Gibson, manager of Leonard, is There was a sugges- tion of dissatisfaction in his tone as so informed us, off that place, MONROE was a well conducted ‘affalr as far as the public was con- cerned, it didn’t entirely meet with the approval of Gibson. Billy evinced no desire to state the nature of his complaint, simply ssying, “We won't have any more to meaning Dave Makay, the popular club's promoter, Something wrong, Griffiths No M BUFFALO, May 7.—Before a capacity crowd at the Velodrome A. C. last night Jack Britton, welterweight champion of jhowed the Buffalo fans that naster boxer and fighter of by the manner in which he beat Johnny Griffiths seven out of the ten Although Johnny came fast fans of the Bison City were convinced that Jack will surely beat Benny Leonard if the champions ever come together, ji. ———————— Greb Wins Over Indian ‘Terner. Harry Greb of Pittsburg ‘won the decision over Uiay Turner, an Indian of New York, in # round bout at the’ Com- STARCHED OR SOFT AFFORD WITH GOOD VALUE, COR- RECT STYLE AND UNCOMMONLY LONG SERVICE Poatody $ On, Jou the finish the BOSTON, May From present | one-quarter of those on hand had uny chance to! Speculate with the pari-mutuel ma- And the season in New York Js leas than ten days off. It seems that Leonard-Ritchie do with him,” for Britton. stir, @ new sensation, a new spirit among the players which has trans- close to 20,000 fang at the Polo Grunds yesterday to watch the Giants trounce a team, which has been a hapless ong New Spirit Displayed By Both the Patrons =& And Baseball Players Sunday Ball Has Aroused En- thusiasm as Shown at the Giants’ Victory Over Hap- less Braves. By Hugh S. Fullerton. ores, 101 os ore Wet ASEBALL redivivus. If you do not believe tt go to ® game There is a new interest, a new mitted itself to the fans, There were losing its ninth straight game Yet there was interest In every minute, a fighting spirit and a real contest, and the fans went away after the Giants had won, 6 to 4, feeling that they had their money’s worth, Which is more than they did last year, no matter what the score was, The attendance yesterday was due largely to the fact that the day was a whole or part holiday, but when such a crowd goes to a ball game it proves that there ts’ considerable In- terest in the sport, Further, it proves that Sunday baseball is # thing big- ger than the actual attendance on Sunday games. The playing of ball on Sunday is the biggest advertise- ment the game ever has had and has stirred the fans from the lethargy of the last two years and brought out @ new generation of patrons. ‘The game between the Giants and Braves yesterday was one of the most interesting I ever watched. It was a battle from start to finish, Stallings’s crew being determined to break their long run of defeats. They fought it out to the finish in the face of the clever and steady pitching of Jess Barnes. The Giants exposed the vital weak- ness of the Braves early in the game and styled their attack in that direc- tion. "fhe weakness of the Braves certainly is in the lack of condition of the pitchers, and in the hitting of the outfield. Yet the Glants, although outhitting the Braves almost two to one, had a hard time staving off the assaults of the desperate Braves, who Tushed the attack at every point, ran bases in a manner which made Barnes ang McCarty look bad, and really came within a few inches of captur- ing the geome, ‘The individual star was Rabbit Maranville, who Is just losing his sea legs and beginning to play the game the way ho used to do. He was the leader in the rushing attack, and he scored the first run by sheer speed and audacity. Later ho whaled a ter- rifie drive to centre, which was #0 near a home run that only the knoe of McCarthy, which blocked his foot way from the plate, kept him from tying the score and perhaps winning the game. Outhit, outlucked and in all ways outpitched, the Braves kept fighting right to the last. They could not hit Barnes hard, and it ts doubtful whether they can hit any good pitcher hard, but they are playing too ball to be at the bottom of the jeague. They outran the Giants on the Dases, outguessed them at bat and scored far out of proportion to the number of hits they made, but neither Rudolph, Northrup or Demaree could stop the Giant batters. C. here last night —_—_———— a it against the sl of the Dodg- 7 9 attics : aer BP an, oom, wile drove, blicher after pitcher off the slab, overcame the lead and then pounded the way to victory. hooked up in a twenty-inning tle game, started to decide their feud yesterday, with disastrous remults to both. Grimes hung on In the face of disaster, while Oeschger was driven to cover and two other pitchers essayed in vain to stop the Robins, who in- creased their lead in the National League race because the Chicago Cubs administered a stinging defeat to the Reds. Vaughan stopped Mo- ran’s team dead and revealed the hid- den strength of the champions, who now are becoming dangerous, Oeschger and Grimes, who last week ‘The Boston Braves, according to their showing thus far, are not much of a ball club, but it is hard to ex. plain how such a good team can los nine straight ball games, The team ts fairly well constructed, the infield is fair, the outfield below average and not much on attack, the catching department is bad and the pitching is not yet starting to show its real form. Yesterday the Braves put op a prilliant and game fight against odds, Their pitchers could not stop the Giants, yet Boston scored well. They ran the bases better than the Giants aid, advanced better on batted balls, and took better gdvantage of their opportunities, The outfield is palpably weak, not s0 much on defensive as on offensive. Maranville has just commenced to show what a great player he is. He has been out of the navy only a short time and has been striving to play before losing his sea legs, In the last three days he has been coming around to form, and yester- day he led the attack all the way and shone well in defensive work. Herzog played desperate Dall, with bad tuck. He made one stop which seemed impossible, and his wonder- ful feat in siding at a base hit and blocking the ball turned out to be unfortunate, He made a great play which turned a single into a two-base hit. The Braves have a lot of talent on the bench, and’ when the pitching gets better they will be a hard club to beat, ‘There is a chance for a trade be- tween the Braves and the Giants, by which Davy Robertson may go to Boston in exchange for Nehf, Mc- Graw is in need of a good left handed pitcher and the Braves are in des- perate need of an outfielder who can help in the hitting, There are three clubs after Robertson, and the chances are that the one offering the best left handed pitcher will get his services, Our Yankees, after Dattering the world's champion Red Sox, slipped UP against the Athletics, It is odd how the dope works out, In doping the teame this season I figured the speed of Mack’s new team to beat the Yankees, and it would seem that the fleetness of foot was the only difference between the clubs yester- day, In other words, given anything like equal pitching, the fast young- sters of the Athletics will win etead- ily from the slow footed Yanks. Yesterday the Yanks held Scott Perry level, but they could not stave off the rushing speed of the youn, sters, who finally overcame Shawkey and plunged another stiletto into the heart of Huggins. Connecticut May Passe Boxing Law. HARTFORD, May 7.—A boxing bill which provides for a commission to supervise boxing bouts in this State, has been passed by the lower house of the General Assembly. It would al- low elght-round contests with eight- ounce gloves. It had previously been adopted by the Senate and now goes which set the fang wild, The Over in Hrookiya there wes @ geiie ‘ils, led by Jack Coombs, started off with ven-run lead and could not hold ; BOWLING AND THOM By Thornton Fisher) men's Metropottan Golf competed in two team fm The Long Island - Staten combination defeated Weste |sey beat North Jersey, 18 to % and the other at the Dnglowood SINC /894 bas Otho |women's association ts pi plements, a few substitutes hadi called upon at the last momen’ J. 8. 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