The evening world. Newspaper, May 9, 1919, Page 26

Veda SOMEBODY WILL FALL TO-NIGHT Copyright, 198, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) “56, and Still an Athlete. Farmer Burns a Marvel. Referee for Big Fight. Fighters Must Pick Man. Edgren May Be Named. ARMER BURNS, the old-time wrestler, is in New York again after an absence of fifteen years, and he is amazed at the ehanges time has wrought in the big city even in that comparatively short me, “Gee, what a place. I would hardly LALe (Bees everything with one Pi Ie at 42d Street and rhe Farmer, whoes wrestling’ of. ploits are well known to those of « -omeneration ago, is a wonderful ¢: “ample of a well preserved athlete even at sity” eight, with forty-five of active competition behind im. His muscles are as hard and “& Steel-like as they were when he was 7 fn his prime, And h ‘with the best of them yet. Burns trained and developed some BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK t men in his day and he takes a t of pride in taiking about, thera. took hold of Frank Gotch’ when Frank was a half developed farmer ‘Jad and, even now carries his picture around with him showing Frank with Dis first pair of long tight~ on, He as other photos with him, among them those of Dan McLeod, “Strangler” Lewis of the old days, the original Turk and Tom Beall, the see little wrestler ever known, handled each picture reve: ently as he recited incidents in the careers of them all, Farmer also has an unusual picture of himself taken, as he : eays, the day they tried to £ hang him, The picture shows him ith @ rope around his neck with Mfect dangling seven feet off ‘was « herd stunt,” he said, , “but I proved that my neck muscles were strong enough to me ht peters us, He took it ne atu slag ‘ ‘ ZBY HAS SiDE-STEPPED PLESTINA (THEY Say) SHALL I THIS THROW GUN ZBNSZKo Now OR PLAY - WATR a ie ‘5 ACCOROING TO HACRADDEN THIS PLESTINA PERSON eoULD THROW AN ELEPHANT” yes & Major General Alexander Commends 77th Champions One of Best Boxing Bills Ever Seen Heteabouts Staged by K. of C. and Boxers’ Loy- alty League. By Alex. Sullivan. SE heroes of the Argonne just love fighting. They can’t get enough of it, judging by the fe | manner they appreciated the big box- ing show put om in Madison Square pe- |Garden last night. True, this fight for many famous He boasts of the fact that his proteges have rer been after completing a course at ig here all the way ihe to referee the match to-n! Bi b in the week, for (om bia money. to be the | impression that i? eu lt the Willard-Dempsey aa E Ea ra] pnd and the sport, and would be satis. t fore they went over the top ing was of the padded mitt variety, Quite different from the brand they tasted while facing the Germans and chasing them back toward the Rhine, but at that they enjoyed every min- ute of the sport. The immense amphitheatre was crowded to the doors by members of the famous Seventy-seventh Division. About 7,000 heroes in all were pres- ent and at times they became more excited over the hot exchange of punches than they ever did just be iD France. The bis boxing show was put on —_---—— | He could not have any objection to Jack Skelly, who has been talked| of for the job, and we know positively | that nelther Dempsey, nor Kearns has. Skelly cercaisiy, is competent to fill the position with credit to himself factory to the rank and file of fight! followers, | EN thero is Matt Hinkel of| Cleveland. He, too, is a good man, thoroughly honest and) capable, but there is opposition of a re reonal character to him right in ledo, where the fight is to be held. It is said that President Thacher of} the Toledo Athletic Club doesn't like) him. Ed Cochrane of Kansas City is a possibility. Willard, it is said, leans toward him, it being understood that be is one of the few men in the coun- try Jess trusts implicitly. Jack Welsh of Ban yreneere 0 also a candidato. He refereed the Willard-Johnson fight. Ds aad and bis work was satis- vile these men are the most prom- inent of those spoken of in connec- tion with the refreship, it wouldn't be mnepsising | if the fighters agreed on some one else entirely—for instance, Bob Kdgren, the well known news- paper writer and authorfty on fignt matters, whose articles have been a feature of The Evening World's sport- ing pages for 'merman, {holder, all made good with a venge- through the efforts of Jimmy Twy- ford and Mike Hogan of the Knights of Columbus and Dan Morgan = his Meutenants of the Boxe: alty League, It was one of the beat bills ever put on hereabouts, One of the features of the evening was the introduction of Mike Donald- son, one of the Sixty-ninth’s heroes, the only boxer of the United States to win distingtion on the other side. He has received three decorations, the D. 8. the Medaille Militaire and the Croix de Guerre, and he also has been recommended for the Con- &ressional Medal, Mike, who was for five years an altar boy in Haverstraw for the now famous Father Duffy, enlisted the day after war was declared, joined the Sixty-ninth and was with them during all those trying di before the Germans started rol: rd —and was with them until the armis- tice was signed, whereupon he was among the army of occupation. Old Mike, of whom the boxing world \s so proud, felt like a cham- pion when he stepped through the ropes—and the crowd treated him like one. ie was just mustered out yesterday ard as he sat in his ring- | side box seat he certainly demon- strated that he enjoyed the 5 Major Gen. Robert Alexander and his staff were close to the ring, and after the show he remarked that he Was pleased with the good show that was given, particularly go because of the bouts put up by three of the divi- sion’s men, One of the division's champions, Knockout Brennan, didn't put in an appearance, and he will receive a severe reprimand to-day if he doesn’t have a good excuse for his} failure to show up. Frank Gargano, lightweight cham- pion of the 77th; Frankie Hufnagel, thelr feather star, and Eddie Zim- the bantamweight title ance. Gargano was shaded by Johnny Clinton, a New York lightweight that has been doing well in Eastern rings | this season, Gargano was as aggres sive as could be, but his opponent was the superior ring general apd boxer, and won out because of these qualities, Marty Collins, a local youngster, gave a good exhibition against Zim- merman, but the latter defeated him by @ narrow margin, Hufnagel and Tim Healey, the Brooklyn boxer, furnished three lively rounds, with honors fairly even, Upon the concluston of the show the three champions of the division were called to Gen. Alexander's box and commended by him for their boxing, Jack Britton, the wetterweight champion, who never fails to do his bit for the soldiers, boxed both Jack McAuliffe, the retired star, and Jim Montgomery, the Irish boy, Smoke Kelley and Battling Levin- sky amused the large crowd by their oda carryings-on while boxing, ampion Benny Leonard {s suffers ing from a cold in his eyes and could but he refereed a bout be- nmy Shea and Tommy Gerathy of the 77th, Tommy Rowan and Sailor Volk ‘ought a draw, as did Hughie and fony Murphy, In @ wrestling bout Sailor Sanderson defeated Youn; Munday in fifty minutes, * oe FIRST INTERCOLLEGIATE BOXING MEET TO-NIGHT STATE COLLE May f4) Stute Om, Fenny een training steadily under the ‘direction afc oach Harlow, and they are in excellent shape for the meet, ‘This wil be the first intercollegiate box. ing meet ever staged in the Kast, and the followers of the sport at Penn State hope to see such competition continued. ‘a, May 9%-—Willie Meehan, the heavyweight sensation from the Hast, shaded Harry Greb here last night. ‘The fans were well pleased with contest. Meehan was a bit slow in ay baat Se ie ‘Tho promoters ate analows to have them me wie © = *en-- MACFADDEN SevsS ZENS2KO IS & JOKE Dodgers Winning Many Baseball Games Because Theit ManagerIs‘Human’ uu “Rotund Robby” Has Men on Their Toes, Rushing the Attack and Putting Up a Desperate and Brilliant De- fensive Game. By Hugh S. Fullerton. i, 1919. by The Press wmtthe New You kvealne Wort hs (0-DAY civil war in the Metro- Politan district begina, Brook- lyn, leading the league by vir- tue of playing the best bajl, will tackle the arrogant Giants on the Brooklyn lot, with the Robins inspired by a glittering victory over Philadel- phia yesterday and the Giants some- what humbled in spirit through being licked in the final game by the Braves, led by Nehf, who might have been and who may yet be a Giant, The beginning of the interborough clashes is in the nature of a feud, for this season there is considerable bit- terness between the players of the Brooklyn team and one of the lead- ers of the Giants, and the old love affair between McGraw and Robinson is @ thing of the past. That Brooklyn team is in earnest about this pennant race and all friendship has ceased. , They realise that they may have the Giants to whip later in the year if they are to sustain their pennant aspirations and that they have a shade the better of the argument just now. In other words, they are not overlooking any set-ups or passing up the chance to jump on any cripples. Wanting to find out, prior to the ad- ‘vent of the Giants, how those Brook- lyns have been winning so many ball games I went across the bridge yes- terday and discovered the secret in about two minutes. It is because they are playing the game on their toes, rushing the attack and putting up a desperate and brilliant defensive game. Without desiring to make odious comparisons I think that the game that the Phils put up against Robby’s men would have beaten the Giants, In fact the Phils were in tough luck to lose at all. They were beaten by the breaks of the game, especially in the seventh Inning. The Brooklyns won because of Tommy Griflith’s two long drives, one @ crash against the fence, the other a drive over the top, ‘Those two runs were all they could amass although it required great fielding by tho crippled Phils to hold them. Pfeffer pitched his fourth straight victory and he was, in a way, lucky to win, He was not as steady in the sixth and seventh innings as he was during the remainder of the game and every time he tried to let down a bit and take things easy Coombs's clan crawled all over him. In the sixth, with men on first and second, Cy right and when Adams turned th: trying to score he alinoed and fell Db a My mye d head down, blun- dered along to second and Cea 4 Adams was crowded out at the after an extremely ragged runi own play in the seventh. Whitted’ and Baird's double made trouble loom and Sicking dropped a hit over second base which ordinarily would hav: scored both runners, but Olson made such @ desperate effort to reach the ball thet Baird was afraid to advance for fear of a Ley’ play and was not ble to score. The Dodgers had three welts from a tie or & defeat, yet they carned and deserved @ victory, The Brooklyn club has the finest spirit of any team I yet have seen in @ National League. Uncle Robbie is showing even unexpected capacity as a leader and the men are working their heads off for him. Lee Magee told me yesterday that Robby is the best fellow in the world and that he would smash a leg to win for him, I asked Ed Konetchy who the best manager in the world was and he yelled “Robb; They're just finding it out. The fact is that a manager who loves his men and is with them in everything has it all over a man- ager who knows to an inoh how a play should be made. Baseball is the most human game in the world and the most human manager is the best, whether he ever knows how many are out or not. That is the way the Brooklyn team is playing ball; its whole heart is in the game, The team will be much improved when Chuck Ward gets back and gives Robby a mobile infield, He, has plenty of material, but the third! base position does not look strong just now and this without any criti- cism of Malone intendéd. With Ward back Robby will have a combination that can shift in any direction and hit better than the present one can. Incidentally Pitcher John Milj returned yesterday. He came as a casualty and ts mp Mills. The club has no informaRon as to what his physical condition is or whether he is wounded or ill, but scouts were sent out last night to welcome him and find what can be done for him, ‘There was a lot of disappointment at the Polo Grounds. The Giants could not stave off the attacks of the desperate and oft defeated Braves, who finally won a game and broke their jinks of the season, It was Nehf, the pitcher, Oo Was cov- eted by McGraw, who turned the trick, although the Giants outhit their opponents, There was Uttle over, however, and George him, made to be mourned Dubuo pitched well ith, who succeeded nice impression, Fast Derby Work: by Vindex. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 9%—Vindex, Harry Payne Whitney's candidate fot to-«morrow's erty, worked a mite and Williams sent a sizzling single to NATIONAL LEAGUE. quarter in 4-5 and finished strong. He cooled out nicely, pS SS cach tt AMERICAN LEAGUE, Clap, Detrelt-nt, Lowle ¢retey GAMES TO-DAY, Washington at New York, Now PETE By ‘Thornton Fisher (Lt GeT A WEAD-LOc ON YA AND YOU FALL UNDERSTAND weve , USED TO THIS THAT SOMETHING ELS witt BE & SHock. Big Ed Pfeffer. Wins Fourth Game in Row Remenham Only Fifteen Men Face Him During the First Five Innings. By Richard Freyer. IG Ed Pfeffer, who pitches for the Brooklyn ball team, won his fourth straight game’ when, assisted by the other Dodger players, be defeated Philadelphia 2 to 1. The contest was one of the best and fast- est games played at Ebbets Field. Both teams played good ball, each deing guilty of but one misplay. For the first five innings Pfeffer did not allow a hit; but fifteen men faced his delivery. In the third stanza he sent the three visiting players back to the players’ dugout by way of the strikeout route. When contest and epilled the beans, Ca the second man up in this toning, hit a fly in back of first base, Both Konetchy and Griffith tried hard to male the catch, but the ball w: too far for one and out too far for the other. One more hit was made in this inning and three more in the seventh, Pfeffer has pitched a total of thirty six innings this season and has al- lowed four opposing players to cross the plate. A total of thirty-two hits Fistic News and Gossip By John Pollock ‘Ted Lewis, former welterweight champion, who has recovered from his long siege of !IIness, will take part in his first battle on May 23 at the American A. A, of Baltimore, He was matched to-day by his manager, Charley. Harvey, to meet Wille “Knockout” Loughlin of Allentown, Pa., in a fifteen round bout, to a de- cision. Frank O'Brien of Philadelphia will referee the bout. ‘The manager of Benny Valew did not make tmnch money by taking Valger to Cleveland and having him box Artie Root, at the Marotta A. ©, on Monday night, for as Valor was & pound overweight when they weighed in, the man- ager of Root very promptly claimed Vaigerts for- feit of $200, ‘The bout did not daw as much money as it was expected it would, ‘The ten round bout between Chamnton Johnny Kiltene and Frankie Brown, the local feather. Weight, which was booked for the Tuxajo A, 0. et Cleveland on May 14, has been postponed un- tM May 80 so as to allow Brown to fint meet Frankie Burns of Jersey City at Portland, \e,, on May 19, Ralph Brady will take on Kilbane May 14, the club officials getting Kilbane’s con Chaney, the hard hitting lightweight of Baltimore, will battle “Babe Dicato, the former Los An- cleo lightweight, for weve rounds, to & decision, in the star bout, Jory For, the English featherweight, is matched up for another fight in Philadelphia, where be bas made plenty of money out of bows during the last few montha, Fue opponent will be Frankie Brown, the New York featherweight, ‘They will some together n & six round bout at the National A .0, on Saturday evening, May 17, altiamory to-aight, fighter that be was cavera) years ago, the pros. that Smith will ouipoimt litm ‘enough has been made against him, He has, Mh Runs hy Maat panes fifteen men and given seven walks, Brooklyn scored their runs in the first and third innings, The opening stanza began with Olson beating out an infield hit. He was forced at second by Magee. Griffith then hit the right-fiald fence for two bases, sending Magee to third and across the plate when Wheat went out on & long rap to second. The other Brooklyn tally was chalked up when GriMth hit the first ball pitched over the right-fleld wall for a home run. A fi of “gobs” from the Bay Ridge station occupied the upper tier during the game, One of the sailors took objection to the way Umpire Rigler was calling the various deliv- ereles. “That bloke would make a good yeoman,” said one, “he has a sweet voice.” “Maybe he's a singer,” chirped an- “He is,” replied a gob. “Got a house once by singing a song. “How, brick by hrick?” answered one of the witty ones, other, Another time, when one of the Quakers occupied second, the coacher on third base was yelling: “We have to get him in, we have to get him in.” “Throw out a line,” yelled one of the sailors, “and pull him in.” Ability With Approach Club the Best Way to Make Low Golf Scores. By William Abbott. | mv most important golf ae what is it? Not driving, or coveries from bad lies, but # |Qpproach shot that goes true to the] |pin. Long distence driving is very | spectacular and very satisfying 2 |any one who can wallop the little péll far and straight, but it Is accurate | work with tron clubs that makes low, scores possible. bs | The general supremacy of sionals over amateurs is attri |mainly to superior skill with There are some amateurs, particul Evans, Oulmet, Kirkby, Travers | Lewis, who bave exceptionai ability with their approach clubs, but kill Is general with pros. The mashie is one of the first lube! @ young professional learns to play, and he never stops learning. He ts always striving to lay them dead and) not leave #0 1.uch to do when om the greens, a rule which invariably b low scores, William G, McAdoo, former 5 tary of the Treasury, has just bee: admitted to membership of the Hun: ington Club, Mr. McAdoo recentl: moved to Long Isiand from Los An« |geles and he lost little time seeking 4 place to swing his golf clubs. | More and more golf {a following the example of tennis officials in the en. couragement of young talent. The Fox Hills Club intends to help alon |this laudable work ‘by offering its course for the Interscholastic tourna season. May nd 20 have been tentativety | axea's ron the future Ouimets to show thelr prowess, Golf in Canada is briskly oo: back to pre-war conditions, courses are being doctored up and | quite a few new ones are under ¢o struction. Donald Ross, one of th best known links architects tn business, has started on a six trip through the Dominion. He pects to be consulting expert several courses that soon will be tal out. The Schoolmen's Golf which suspended activities dyring the war, will resume operations with the hold- ing of a “Victory Tournament” this Spring on the Mosholu Links. At the request of many members an innova~ tion will be tried in the way of fol- lowing up the medal by match play. The qualifying round will be run off during the following weeks. To the winner of the first eight (non-handi- cap) will go the club championship. Members may make reservations by getting in touch with Coello 64 Fifth Aven Sd Leonard to ( pebos Kanguree. Benny Laonard, Ngh' pom of the world, vs. Betting ine: Mickey, Kan garoo champion | of the land of the Antipodes, three-round ing exhibition will be the featured yent at the biggest war rally ever the Bronx to-morrow evening, at the Bronx International Exhibition Park, 177th Street, West Farms Road. The celebration is under the pices of t! Bronx Liberty Loan Committee. The ark authorities, through its President, 1. have tumed over the Rrounds to the Bronx committee for this ranted. A continuous show will be presented from ® until midnight. To.MoRROw wieHT TO-MORROW WIGHT Homecoming and Victory Dance Avonia A. C. MANHATTAN CASINO 185th Blreet_and 8th Avenue BOWLING AND ) BILLIARDS, THI RUM iingan mann p Troy TFailored SOFT COLLARS DO NOT WILT OR CRUSH AS EASILY AS THE ORDINARY KIND AND MEET ALL LAUNDRY CONDITIONS SATISFACTORILY THE STYLE ILLUSTRATED 18 Clustt, Peabody $ IN SEVERAL FABRICS MADE Co,, Ine., Kakere