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[NIONS on the probable result 3 of @ championship contest, as ' @xpressed by good judges of Me and fighters, never have bec | Widely different as they are on Wiliard-Dempsey affair at To- ©, July 4 Men whose judg- | We have reason to respect are ~~ # St odds on the coming battle, with ‘&nd con arguments to sway one in Willard’s direction and then y's. ‘instance, Jack Curley, who Was responsible for Willard) Bry chance to win the titi the Havana battle, Dempeey is @ sure thing. He much use for Willard at tha’ that isn’t the reason he ing Dempsey to win. He be- \t Jack is the natural fighte: much speed for big Jess anu we him so flabbergasted early never will get his bear- Meanwhile, as Curle: Me ond y will be in the big fellow with punches rare ewift trom more angles than ever knew of. A couple of ad limit that Curley puts "quite plausible until we nan Moss, who has followea | ings of pugtiiem for years paey as good id Moss, quisically Why I think it’s to take money ce think Willlard too big too big, too strong and too burt, and besides, I don't Dempsey is as great a fighter Jot of people seem to think. He have knocked out a lot of sec man is in for the shock of his paeep as much about fighting man Ca the sporting x SKELLY, who is one of the foremost of candidates for the b of refereeing the Willard-Demp- fine ture the day is gone by the third man in the ring at an it battle should jump between cipals, tear them apart from and in loud tones and com- give the crowd the impression could lick the both of them day before bréak: 8k ots She referee should be @ mn and have the Teopect ot oti He shouldn't place on either man, but should @ thorough understanding be- bout that his word must be and that at the order from to preet the fighters should imé disentang! themselves chaches, referées, according to yes pl to play to the cro’ led good contests by ‘aioe: time, Few of ration.the one- rule book. ‘s name is among those sent Rickard and Dempsey and by the Army, Navy and Board of Poxing Control, Pet which the important tric will agree on. ade ~ NS will find an enlarged and wenated Empire City plant month, when the mid-summer ting of eighteen days will be following that of the Queens Jockey Club at Aqueduct. An ters and painters are in the woik of eulargement, tion and preservation, pron ceca to the club hous ty ing 80 sa ly ler has decided 10 further and enlarge ihe ii, are abapin than iF Lge sy omer and materi- to the uty of the club alterations to the club house re designed tc give to the patrons of the sport afford an ynudually fine view entire action of the race. The ment and extensions of greater | poutherly side will bs built extending over of 200 feet to enable specta- have ai unobstructed view of over the heads of those jin- them. Alon; ag wn coer g without discomfort. to the structural altera- ‘and “improvements & contract He teers that the Same! 2 Tesch when it opens for will be in an almost juat bean awarded for painti club house a City. | ly meetin linely new attire. Ni martiey Tronnces ; N. J, Khe N Erne of a ene of New hu pty A.C. ha the and balconies on the three of the club house will almost je the accomnmodations. Along continuous step- the en- r jt of these steps a cement will be laid so that in inclement the races can be viewed from , RET pee eae 2s i _ 2 Re porsche a ‘TALK aBoUT SPORTING EVENTS — Nou Saip im} EDGREN HAS STRONG TIP THAT TOLEDO OFFICIAL WILL REFEREE BiG HGHT |Ollie Pecord, an Old-Timer, Likely to Be Chosen to Act as Third Man in Ring at Willard-Dempsey Bout July 4th. VENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1919. Copyright, 1919, by The Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) By Thornton Fisher Billy McCarney Picks Dempsey By Robert Edgren. by The Prose Publishing Co. (The New York Brening World), TOLEDO, O., June 17. HAVE a strong tip that Ollie Pecord,'a local referee, will handle the big fight in the ring. When I arrived in Toledo I heard a rumor that Pecord would be selected by the Toledo Boxing Commission at the last moment and put in to referee the bout, in spite of any other wish expressed by the boxers or any one else concerned, It is @ fact that the local rules covering boxing bouts in Toledo provide that the oficial referee of the Boxing Com- mission must be the third man in the ring. The commission has only one oficial referee, and he is Pecord, Ollie Pecord is an old-timer at the game. He has handled boxers as man- ager or referee for a quarter.of a century. He is a powerfully bullt fellow, always fit, and has a good local reputation for fairness and ability. It whispered now that no matter what claims may be advanced for any well known referee from some other part of the country, the commission will an- nounce within a day or'two that Pecord is the man, under the franchise of the Toledo A. C., with the aid of Mr, Ad Thacher, M MeDaniels and two or three other prominent members of the local organis: sion, In fact, it was the Toledo A. C. that enabled Tex Rickard to come into Toledo with the boxers and the big money backing necessary to build an Cops right, sporting event in the history of the modern world. It would be quite nat- ural, under the circumstances, that the Toledo Boxing Commission would take pride in Naving the great event controlled in the ring by a Toledo official, Among the interesting arrivals yesterday was Major Cushman A. Rice, noted as commander of twenty squadrons of American airmenduringsix months | of the most desperate fighting of the wa a sportsman and a follower of| boxing. Major Rice visited both camps and saw both men work, He saw Willard in Havana, went to France to see Johnson and, Moran, to Australia for Burns and Johnson, and to see Les Darey fight; to England for Welsh and Ritchie, His other casual entertainments consisted of taking part in half a dozen wars and in annual trips to Manchuria’ and other remote places to hunt tigers, elephants and other big game, Major Rice was impressed with Dempsey's condition, and was inclined to think that Willard will have @ hard time reaching his Havana form, with only two weeks more of training. | Toledo Rapidly Filling With Old- Timers. ‘The town is rapidly filling with old timers, Jimmy Guilder came in from New York ytsterday especially to see what condition the men are in, Jimmy was a great boxer in hts time, about twenty years ago, and is as good a Judge of boxers as I know, It is his opinion that although Willard might be thinner, the fat he carries won't hurt his fighting a twelve-round engage- ment if he is “all right inside.” Jimmy, however, thinks that Dempsey ts big enough to knock out any man if he lands on the right spot, ’ Jack Dewpsey rested his eye again and wit not box urti) Satur- day, Then he is to go through ten days of hard boxing to fit him for the fight. Jimmy De Forest is a cunning old veteran and one of the cleverest trainers in the profession, Dempsey was in shape to fight weeks ago—as perfectly trained as any man can be. The only thing he had to avoid was the possibility of overtraining, and De Forest and Jack Kearns have taxen care of that, The accident to Dempaey’s eye last week made it easier to keep Jack from working too hard, The cut eyebrow ts neatly healed and all that is necessary now is to allow time enough for the skin to harden, Jack's Monday workout was light. He didn't box, but contented him- self with two rounds of shadow boxing and a little light bag punching. ‘There was a shower just before he went out and the ring was wet acd slippery. ‘Dempsey Says He'll Be Right When He Starts, ‘The big crowd that visited the camp seemed satisfied to see Jack in any “I don't need much work now. I would be ready to go into the ring to- morrow, I'm not in the least worried over this bout and tt wouldn't make any difference to me if it, was to-morrow or in two weeks from now, I'll be right when I start and J think it will be short. I'm as confident of winning as ! ever wae in my life.” Willard hasn't done any road work for four days because of the intense heat. To-day’s thunderstorm cleared the alr and made it much cooler. Jess boxed his usual eight rounds, but changed his programme a little, taking on Hempel, Heinen and Monahan in rotation instead of having two or three rounds with each. This gave the sparring partners time for a needed rest. ‘They all find it hard to stand up against the champion's bulk even when he stops hitting and orders them to punch him in the body while he holds. his hands down, Jess didn't step on the scales to-day. To me he looked softer chan in the past few days, His stomach was thick and there was a shaking layer of fat along his belt and across his loins, If Willard expects to get down to the greyhound condition he showed on the day of the big fight in Havana he will have to do a lot of heavy work in the next two weeks and dry out well at the finish of it. While he has taken off about twelve pounds in the pound a day in the next two week: he hasn't the rugged look he had’ when he won the championship. He is big as a barn, Hin muscles are well rounded. He is fast as a streak with bis hands, but he does little footwork }in is boxing. He doesn't jump around the ring as he did at Havana, His whole plan of action is to make the other fellow come to him, block or ayold all the punches he can, and occestonally shoot over a swift, straight left or a hard counter with either hands His style of boxing has become more like Jack Johnson's, and, like Jack Johnson, he is inclined to flounder when he takes the aggressive. For all thet he hits like a kicking mule and looks a mighty dangerous man to run into, The chief question in the coming contest will be whether or not Dempsey can get past Willard’s long left and start ripning and tearing at.close quarters, If he can, it will be anybody's fight. if it becomes a question of endurance, and neither man is badly dazed in the frst few rounds, Dempsey’s chance to win is going to be very good indeed, In this case Dempsey is going to hit harder the fight goes along, and unless Willard changes condition in the next two weeks, Dempsey’s lean-muscled i is going to give him an advantage in endurance that will surely The bout is being run) arena and pay all of the tremendous preliminary expenses of the biggest | two weeks of work at Toledo and expects to take off weight at the rate of u To Win Inside of Six Rounds Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) TOLEDO, Ohio, June 17. Billy McCarney, formerly manager of Luther MoCarty and other noted boxers, is a Dempsey enthusiast. He says: “When Dempsey was to fight Fulton, | picked Dempsey to win in one round. A friend of mine offered to give me 10 to 1 that Demp- sey wouldn't win in a round. ! bet him $10 against a hundred. Walking jown the street | thought it over and figured | might as well put down hundred or #0, but | couldn't find him again. make a few more small wagers at the same odds. Dempsey knocked out Fulton in less than 15 seconds and | collected all my bets. | wasn't guessing. | knew how Fulton fights and how much punishment he could take, and knew ex+ | actly how Jack would walk in and hit. “| didn’t expect that Dempsey would have to land more than thri or four blows to settle it, and | was a bigger, tough and gamer man than Fulton. | think he may last six rounds, but | | pick Dempsey to win in six rounds or le Five Favorites Are Beaten In Mixed Up Jamaica Day JAMAICA SELECTIONS. ret Race—Phantom Fair, Tattle, King Albert. Second Race—-Night Stick, Ting-a- Ling, War Spirit. hird Race—Benevolent, Hubbub, ddy Dear. Fourth Race—Tippity Witchet, Mo- tor Cop, Lucullite. Outsiders Crop Up and Spoil Day’s Operations for Many Smart Players. By Vincent Treanor. AVORITE players put in a tough F afternoon at Jamaica yester- day, but thin doesn’t mean that the layers reaped anything approach- ing @ haivest. While the favorites were going by the board hot tips were also played and they didn’t al- ways justify the confidence reposed in them, All told, it was rather a mixed up day and ‘it was hard to tell whether the layer or the “lucky” players showed a balance on the right dale. Sixth R Apple, Ormb: —King Albert, | Sweet first turn, which gave him a lead he never relinquished, Johnny Loftus and Damrosch proved the winning combination in the fourth, the Garden City selling stakes, but everybody on the track wondered why, instead of taking the position, No. 2 that he drew, Johnny took Damrosch to the ex- side of the ledger when the after-|ireme outside and with his head noon's racing was over, pointed toward the rail had him The first race was a joke as a con- test, being scratched down to two horses, Oceanna and Heyday, The former was a 1 to ot. When the barrier went up she wasu't ready and Heyday was. The race was a pro- cession, with Heyday on top all the way. Terentia was the natural favorite in the second, but there were tips on My Friend and Ophelia and both a well as the favorite were well played. When the barrier went up Alphee, standing there perfectly still awaiting the barrier to spring up. Bad actors, as @ rule, are taken to the outside, but there was nothing the matter with Damrosch's post manners. Johnny jammed his way around the first turn, caught Frederick the Great on the backstretch and gal- loped the rest of the way. King Plaudit, regarded as a slake h vidently belongs among the selling platers. He was the hot favor- ite of the fifth, but was beaten by in John Sanford's colors, had her|Jack Stuart, o: which finished right foot forward. She went to the/lengths and lengths behind him at front and was never caught, Ophelia| Belmont Park. King Plaudit ran tried to run with her and this took all the run out of.her when it came to a drive through the stretch, My Friend finished out good and strong apd was second only because Ophelia, most of the way in front, followed by ‘alor, who was not so full of run as was in his last two outings when ie beat good horses. The race looked between them until the home turn quit, Terentia, who has been a dis-'|Was reached, where Jack Stuart appointment all season, was never in| moved up like Purchase did the day the hunt. Looks as if she has ker|he beat Billy Kelly and other gooa trainer, Hitly Karrick, badly fooled. [ones. Plaudit was still in front at % was the hot kind of a|the elghth pole but Jack Stuart was choice in the as one reg-|coming fast. Lyke went to the whip ular put it, the best favorite he had |on the favorite, but instead of rousing seen in a long while, She proved|him it seen to stop him. Jack just fast enough to chase home Quéen | Stuart came in to win, going away of the & owned by the astute|and in doing 80 pleased a coterie of “Buck” Forman, who won a similar | paddock sharps who knew before post race on Saturday with Mahoney. |time which one of the Martin horses Queen of the Sea got a very intelll-|to back. W. Martin owns Valor and gent ride from young Fator, whol\trains Jack Stuart. The latter was a profited by find! ne an in opening at the 7 to 1 chance. HOW “iii THEY “isicce’ STAND NATIONAL LEAG LEAGUE, Club, Ww. iL, PO. ary AO at Phitadelpn sati-Bestow (rain), GAMES TO-DAY. Now York at Chicago, GAMES TO-DAY., | st, Loots at New York. 4 eR bao pecoetceaa nia ue ae Fitth Race—Goaler, Wilfreda, Fern- | F d 2 1527 .387/ 24-21 ,633| Boston We 20 298| 90. beets. ee) GAMES VESTERDAY, 8 Chieage, 3, New Vork, 45 St, Louis, 3 (1limnings), suis, 2: wean, © (oalted Chicago, 5; Philadelphia, 1, Wally Pipp’s Had Crack First Baseman, Who Has Not Been Hitting Lately, Failed in Pinch, the Clevelands Would Have Passed Locals in League Race. By Bozeman Bulger. © elevate morale and add a touch of esprit, the Yank method of capturing that drawn-out game from the Browns could not have been done in @ more acceptable manner to M. Huggins and the Cols. Ruppert and Huston. Not only were the Cleveland In- dians, flushed with victory, reaching up with extended caws to grab us, but the White Sox, flushed in a sim- ilar manner, were reaching down with |@ sharp spiked foot te give our am- |bitious Yanks a kick in the forehead |—and, Walter Pipp was coming to bat with a man on second! Mind you, “Wallie” has been in the |throds of a sump so thick that you could cut it with a knife, One of his admirers even made the exaggerated announcement that Pipp hadn't made @ hit since the armistice. As a con- sequence his head has been very low for the last fortnight. As he came ep there in the eleventh inning with a game hanging in the balance and pecund Place endangered tt was still jow. Gallia, the former Senator, had been trifling with “Wallie” all day but he trifled just one time too long. He hooked one over that looked as Timely Hit In the Eleventh Prevents Yankees From Dropping): & low liner that whistled. over second, scorching the grass as it skipped into center. H. R. Baker had ample time to romp home from second, And there was the old ball game! The White Sox pulled up their threatening boot and the ae withdrew their claws. All well. Col, Hus' still wears the old pot~ boiling de: This last ‘game with the Browns was a corker, and though jt ran a full eleven innings it was getting better as it went. Bob Shawkey had his hands full in subduing Burke's gang while Gallia was going great guns. The Browns tied up the game in the eighth on a lucky three-sacker—the shortest long hit ever made on the Polo Grounds. With two on bases Billings swung a low liner toward the right field wall. It was so slow that Sam Vick miscalculated the rebound and had to chase down the ball, The run- ner got three bases on it and scored both men. If the ball had been bit hard it could have been held to a single. That was the luck of things and forced the athletes into extra hours. It is not often that a baseball crowd in this day and time sees a balk, but Gallia pulled one yesterday that cost his club a run. In the fifth inning, withytwo out, Sam Vick got a single. Gallia made a feint as if to throw to first and then stopped—a clean balk. Vick was allowed to walk to second and Peckinpaugh promptly rammed home a single and scored him, ‘The fact of Wallie Pipp making the winning hit was a source of great joy to his teammates last night. They are of the opinion that Jt will give him a new lease on life an that he will now begin knocking the cover off the ball. It takes @ turn lke that to put new heart into a good batter who has dropped into a slump, Frank Baker escaped the same way three weeks big as a beiloon, “Wallie” took a toe hold and—“Blooie!" He never hit a ball harder. It was BASEBALL. ‘ Beating the Cubs is getting to be a Giant habit, and extra inning games are beginning to be the rule and not the exceptio: The New York team made it seven straight for the season over the league champions, beating them 4 to 3 in ten innings as hotly contested as were those on Sunday. It makes little difference to the Brooklyn Robins how many innings are played, the inevitable defeat en- sues, and the Cardinals accomplishea their end in five innings, rain falling and preventing a combat of regula- tion length, he score was 2 to 0. Cleveland made it two straight from Roston, scoring the only run of the game in the first inning, when Gra- ney led off with a single, was sacri- ficed to third and scored on Smith's single, Chicago hit Seibold hard and beat Philadelphia 5 to 1. Felsch and Jack- son bit home runs into the bieachers, \'The Athletics were easy for Will- tums, Boland allowed Washington only two hits and Detroit won, 3 to 1. One of the hits, however, was a home run drive over the right fleld wall. by Menosky, who batted for Harper in the eighth. Newark defeated Buffalo in the Iftrst game of the series, 2 to 1, | TENNIS. Miss Molla Bjurstedt, the present titleholder; Mrs, George Wightman of the Longwood Cricket Club, Miss Bleanor Goss of the West Side EVENING. WORLD'S OWN SPORT HISTORY. What Happens Every Day ago. A winning hit pulled him out of a slump that had had the whole club in mourning. Club, and Miss Marion Zinder- ein of Longwood Cricket Club, the “Big Four” in women's tennis circles, came through in fine style on the opening day cf the thirty-second an- nual women's national tournament at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, Ichaya Kumagae led off with two victories in the lawn tennis tourna- ment for the Brooklyn championship singles on the courts of the-Terrace Club of Flatbush, He had his strokes going like well olled machinery He began by outplaying young Gerald Donaldson jr. by the tally of 6—%, 6—2, Kumagae then faced Douglas Moorehead, the Southern player. They had some sharp rallies, but the Japan- ese won at 6—1, 6— MISCELLANEOUS. Grantland Rice led the field in the opening round of the press champion- ship tournament of the Newspaper Golf Club on the Englewood Club links, He had a card of 39—40—19, which, with his handicap of 5, gave him a 74, F. M, Gould tied with him for the net honors, as his handicap of 6 and a card of 40-—-40—80, also gave him a 74. Rice chose to take the gross prize, leaving the net to Gould, A. F. Poinsette was third with a 43—40—83, The Manchester Cup Handicap of the value of $12,500 was run off at Manchester, England, over a course of one and a half miles and won by W. de Pledge's By Jingo, ridden by Hulme, by four: lengths ahead of Horatio Rottomley’s Aynsley, with Ashworth in the pecdle. F, Hard Happy Man was t |, three-quarters Rength behind, Ten- of a BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK LENRDWHPS ‘SCANNING THE SPORTING HORIZON .-. JOHNNY DUNDEE IN HURRICANE BOUT Little Italian’s iy lh Makes Bout One of Best Ever Held in Philly. PHILADELPHIA, June 17,—Benny Leonard, lightweight champion of the world, outpointed Johnny Dundes tn @ hurricane six-round bout at Na~ tional League Ball Park here last night. At no instant did the bout lag, for Dundee was always trying and he forced Leonard to travel at a rapid galt continually in order to ceep out of harm's way. It was a great bout. A crowd of about 18.000 persons, ine cluding 1,000 women, packed the grand stands and clustered about the ring, Leonard received a great reception when he entered the ring. Dundee alse was noisily received. Dundee procecded to try to win with one punch in the sixth. Leonard cooly avoided most of his well meant wal- lop» and for the first two minutes contented himself with blocking and eluding. Throughout the last minuta, howe the pair fought at close ‘When both boys were weighed for the bout neither disturbed the beam at 135 pounds. a FRANKIE BURNS OUTPOINTS REDDY AT JERSEY CLUB. Before the largest crowd of fight fans that has witnessed an open-air boxing show af the Armory A. A. of Jereey City since the boxing a, wens Into effect in that Si the ensational feathe cig Mot Jespey City “outpointed Battling Heddy of New Yorx in the star bout of eight rounde last night. Burns was the aggressor from start to finish, and so fast did he land on Reddy that as early as the third round he had his left eye cut open from which the blood flowed freely. Reddy showed signs of weakening in the fourth round, and from that round to the finish of the contest Burns landed repeatedly in his face, body and jaw. Over 3,500 persons saw the contest. a NEW INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Games Yesterday, Rochester, 1; Jersey. City, ark, 4; ato, i. gt ervey City. Rochen cals at Newark, Toronto” at’ Baltimore Bingbamton ai Reading. 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