The evening world. Newspaper, June 21, 1919, Page 6

THE EVENING WORLD, ES AS WORLD CHAMPION, BEST UNUKE WILLARD, GLORED IN SUPERHUMAN. FATS Who Ever Held the He avyweight Title Could Compare Ex-Bollermaker Physically—He Was More Powerful Jess Though Five inches Shorter, and in His Prime and the Greatest Heavyweight in History of Ring. By Robert Edgren. . 1010. ‘by the Preas Publishing Oo. (The New York Mvening Work). @ vivid, recollection of Jim Jeffries at the time he knécked out , Fitssimmons and became heavyweight champion of the world. | Physically, no man who ever held the title could compare with him. He was @ more powerful man than Willard, although only 6 feet 2 inches tall, while Willard towers half a Head over that. Jeffries and Willard are | of entirely different types. Willard is | a tremendous man. His bulk is in proportion to his 6 feet 7 inches of height. He {js symmetrical and smoothly muscled. He is strong in| proportion to his size .and has no| weak points, But Willard is easy- He isn't driven by ambition or love of athletic supremacy. An oll ‘would mean more to him than the world’s championship if the oil well more money. Jeffries was entirely unlike Willarg. From his schoo] days he tm feats of strength and endurance. He has always been filled with endless supply of energy. He does things that are hard to| he likes to drive throygh difficulties. There isn't an indolent arc blovd in him. It's Jeffs notion that he can do anything any man @id—and then add something to it—and he’s always ready to try. ‘yan who had it in. a crouching position with his left arm stuck out straight in front like a beam—a position that no iter without Joffries's iron endur- ®& few minutes. Ryan thought that Jeffries didn’t amount to naveb, as Jeff never “cut loose” while boxing with Tommy. A few days wepe tee camp and wi to see him box. Jeffries explained that he was taking a rest to avoid becoming stale, ping ac- AGE IN NEW YORK HARVARDVE WHEN JEFF WAS CHAMPION Coprright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, ‘Wiens 4 Wid PRG Jerpmins was TE AGT POWERFUL AA WHO EVER. HELD THE HEAVYWEIGHT “TITLE, And Crowd Wades Its Way Through Inches of Water e Storm at Jamaica Changed Day Into Night Just Before Sixth Event. By Vincent Treanor. AY was turned into night just before the last race uf Jamaica * yesterday, A storm which had been threatening all afternoon finally broke and the transformation from sunshine to deepest gloom was a matter of only a few minutes. Rain came down as if dumped from bil- fons of buckets, lightning and thun. der fovlowed and then the bdlackn of night set in, The track, which five minutes before looked like a@ wondrous circle of brown ribbon, was converted into a huge quag- mire with the home getretch barely visible from the grandstand, The infield and backstretch were out of iiies Hae BrSs: g Jim Jeffries was a natural athlete. Walter bam Bae) of the greatest athletic coac! watched Jeffries train at Harbin ee E knee leverage of a sprinter, and that even though Jott "was 235-pound man and a mountain of muscle he had no doubt he could train him to run a hundred yards in ten seconds flat. A Joke on Fitz. At Harbin I saw Jeff start off on & two days’ deer hunt with Bob Fitasimmons, The second day Jef- fries came Jaugbi into camp car- @ 200-pou buck over his i in : Heb BES, ig! JAMAICA SELECTIONS. Firat Raco— Plaudit, Ov ‘There, Ticklish. {the Sea Ne ee ~'? athira Hiace—Man = a 7 War, Lady Fe “Bitce—Nattiralat, Lantus, Race — ‘Thunder- — Orestes, Day, Pride of France. Fou Natural Fifth storm, Cirrus, Sixth Race—! India, Somewhere in == the skin hunting in the darkness for the layers. Horses and jockeys lost no time lining up at the barrier, and they were sent away quickly in the drenching rain. Colors couldn't be distinguished, and when the seeds went around the post turn they were completely out of vision, “Wonder who's in front?” some one asked. ‘Where are they now,” in- quired others. No one knew. After little more than a minute and a half one horse hove in sight in the final sixteenth. He was half a dozén oulders. He had played a great Joke on Bob; had taken him hiking over the mountains until Fits was #0 footsore he could hardly hold the re and then had shot a deer and beaten Fits back to camp, car- rying the deer on his shoulders, Fitz wt led in hours later, complaining bitterly of bruised legs and biistered feet, to Jeff's uproarious amusement. Fitasimmony had put his feet out of commission, anywa, by wearing No, 6 patent leather shoes, and oe wasn't a mountain-bred man like nder | Jeffries. A few days afterward Jeffries was bitten on the leg by a bea: <7 i | several deep holes in his calf, 1 don't think I ever saw an other man so indifferent to pain a: Jeffries was. Fitzsimmons, who was longing to get even for the joke Jef. fries had played on him in moun- tains, persuaded Jeff that the wound should be sewed up. Jeff sut in a made him the greatest|/ hammock for the operation, which ght in ‘all the history’ of | Fits formed with a sail needie ‘When in hi ‘ime /Jjm| threaded with white cotton stri ay My a Jettries has unusually. thick skin, and while Fits sewed away, finding a came to the cam; lot of difficulty in pushing the needle through Jeff's hide, Jeffries leaned back in the hammock and laughed as Of lif it was the funniest thing in the world, Next day, finding the wound badly swollen and showing si; of infection, Jeffries stuck a knife into it and made a clean cut through Bob's needlework. He refused to let I ty sight ‘entirely even to those with the strongest of fleld glasses. The brick lawn with its many de- pressions became a series of puddles inches deep. The layers and players were sent scurrying to shelter and the wind-blown torrents forced the occupants of the grandstand far back to the rear of the structure, where they stood huddled in fright- ee4 roups. The rain poured into @ oll enad oe FB ee BED g3ee ail a ul td i BER i i E 5 é H j rie ge Hi & z F g and use, too, and soon the prom- ; je in back ranning stream of water. All who could sought shelter in the restau- rant and cafe, where they stood or sat in darkness until lights were turned on, Others crowded the hall- ways and stairs, 6 clubhouse chef neither nor electricity in his kitchen and to work by the light of a few candles. There seemed to be no le.up to the storm in sight and the sixth race had to be run, Many thought it would be called off because of the unusual conditions, but it w t. The saddiing bell sounded and thi bugle. blew and soon through th gato with rain-soaked jockeys looking like spectres in the night. One of the horses was *h~ Oneck table's Thunderclap and he pro- vided the hunch of hunches. Hun- feds ran right owt from under cover to bet. on him and were soaked to power, his driving energy, endurance, coupled with as- au and bis grim Corbett ip to act rn 6 was ng fight in 1897, was a cham} boxer, and Jef. fresh the ry) shop and with only a Sante Sehing him. The first Corbett jarred 1 of the boxes was a| th lengths in front of a second one, who was leading a third by about the ssme distance. Two others straggled after them. Probably for the first timo on any track the ‘tators weren't sure which of t quintet was the first home. Any number might have been hung up for the winner. Finally the slightost clearing disclosed to those only fifty feet away with field glasses that No. 1 had won. He wus the fa. vorite, Lucullite, ridden by Johnny Loftus. There was @ long wait before number ef the second horse was the stewa: hoisted, indicating that the nud-black- ened Crimper finished secoid. No, 10 was sent up for the third horse, the hunch horse, Thunderclap. and the crowd moaned, for there was no show price.on him. The worst was yet to come for the crowd, From the stand to the trains was « miniature river, as much as three inches deep in spots. Those who navigated the river to the track gate were confronted by a lake there which had to be crossed, it being the only exit from the course aside from that used for automobiler The water was almost knee deep an it took a brave soul to ford ¢ Before the storm. a poor day's sport had peen provided, even though tnree favorites, including the odds on Peter Piper, were beaten, it be bandaged, but put on some old overalls and went on another deer bunt, “Let the blood run and the sun and alr get at it. Thi the way the In- ;dians do.” growled Jeff when Billy | Delaney begged him to let a doctor come to camp and fix him up. The treatment might have killed any other man, Jeff's leg swelled and never came near championship form He tried to “box” with Corbett un ti) after the twenty-third round Ma: ager Billy Brady leaped into the co. ner and told Jeffries that he was los ing the decision. Then he rushed out and knocked Corbett cold, knock ing him against the ropes and slam- i him with everything. Two ‘ree days later young Jeff had his awe of the champion beginning to reach out for @ long left hand and drive deavy its for his body. always a “kick” in that rally left-handed, Tight to the jaw, and leaped rough it ae he did with the | some that tm is opin at the ‘ot his form Fitssinmon: hg | turned black, and when he reached jcamp again he was limping and ex- hausted, but grimly silent, But a couple of weeks later he was in fight- ing trim, good enough to play with | Sorbosty tes him stay ten rounds to tease Fitzsimmons, whom he had knocked out in nine a few months before, and to knock Corbett out with @ couple of punches when he really ted after him, , : have said little about Jeffries's it until the af more BoE the rod it into « ring with As champion he was willing ming bim on the chin as he rebound- ed. He hit Corbett so hard in the second fight that Corbett complained of his bent-in ribs for months afte: ward. He let Fitssimmons break his hands pounding him on the jaw, took a tertihe, beating in the greatest fight the wonderful old champion up, and knocked Fitasimmo: at with one blow in the body when his chance came, He knocked out Gus Rublin, the Akron Giant, in five rounds, and Ruhlin was a pretty good man, for he had knocked Sharkey out the year before. His last fight ‘defore roting for lack of opponents was with J; Munroe, then a good ch heavyweight. Jeffriep pesara- ta 3 ters hit Munroe on the jaw and failed to put him down. Jeffries had been out of the ring and out of training six years when he was persuaded to try to “come back” and whip Johnson at Reno, In spite of this handicap he might have won, Jeffries himself was never offered @ single “alibi” for his sh ing in this fight, but I believe there is no possible doubt that he was drugged te make a Johnson victory certain, After Jeffries came Tommy Burns, a dauntiess, fast, aggressive small heavyweight, who worked out his right to the title by beating the best men in America, England, Irel.od, He lost it to tralia. %4 for Jack Johnson, he was a fighter of wonderful physique for the game, cool headed, crafty, a wonderful boxer and as hard a@ hitter as any when he cared to hit, Johnson lacked someth: in courage at the made him per- AT CORSOL JEFFRIES, A NOVICE Than, PUNCHED So HARI War, CounDeeT Rio, SMIKING™ WITH Him . Race Is Run in Darkness - \N\SS 7|NDERSIEIN VS. MRS. WIGHTMAN FOR TENNS TLE Boston Girl Reaches’ Finals of National Tourney by Elim- inating Miss Bjurstedt. PHILADELPHIA, June 21—Miss Molla Bjurstedt, for four years cham- pion, went down to defeat in the mi-final round of the fifty-second annual women's tennis tournament at the Philadelphia Cricket Club. She was defeated by Miss Marion Zinde: stein of the Longwood Cricket Club by a score of 4—6, 6—1, 6—2. Miss Zinderstein will meet Mra George Wightman of the same club in the final round for the singles title to-day, Although thé wictor played « game seldom surpassed on the club couruw here, in justice to the vanquished cham- pion, it must be stated that her form was far below “her heretofore high standard. Miss Bjurstedt was injured six weeks ago and is far from her usual physical condition, “I shall come back, undoubtedly shail we Rate eet were after Rehed ‘the. ba eg Donaldson and Har: Brune si out to decide. the. Brooklyn junior tennis championship title yester- day in the final round of this di the tour t pour of rain h drove the to shelter. Further play for the day was impossible, It is expected finals in the men's “al championship doubles this afternoon, and to play the finals of these divisions ‘Othe tenals champl hi nnis champlonship of the high schools in Gri New York willbe on the courts of the West Side Tennis Club when the De- Witt Clinton team pi. T preliminary matches ed under the ausp! of the Public dehoois Athletic Lea; bringing together the ory | CJ t Wy gt, school. ne doubles and three singles match are scheduled, ee pel ee Russell Scores Knockout, Mickey Russell knocked out Paul Ritchie in the fourth round of a sched- uled eight-round bout last night at the Bayonne A. C, counter blov7s, He refused to meet dangerous riv; of his own color, and when he fought Willard at last in Havana he thought he was matched with a raw farner who would be an easy victim. I will say for Johnson that he showed game- ness enough in that last fight, wnen he found sure defeat before him at the ds of & younger, stronger and far beter conditioned fighter, Out. reqched, forced to change his etylo and take the aggressive because hi was an easy mark at long range and Willard would not come to him, John- son was gradually beaten down, and at last, almost unable to lift his hands, was knocked out and counted out like @ champion in a fair, stand-up fight, It Willard is go I hope he will take his beating gamely as Jubn- son did. At tho present writing, how- ever, it is extremely doubtful that Willard will be a mark even for Jack Dempsey's crushing blows. Only the form he shows in the last round of the training id will give @ real ling on the probable outcome of the fight, (The New York Evening World). , } ~ ROWING SERIES NOW. Golf World’s Latest Star Began Playing on Links When Only Five Years Old A. L. Walker of Staten Island, Twenty-One-Year-Old Sensation, May Not Take Part in National Amateur Tourney Because He Hasn’t Fully Recovered From “Flu” Attack. By William Abbott. L. WALKER stands out in @ group of young ‘golf, stars that have been developed the last few seasons. This twenty-on>- year-old Staten Island youth is apt to make one J. Bull raise his monocle in amazement when international tournaments are renewed. The old gent was surprised at the tender age of Oulmet when he took the measure of Vardon and Ray. Quite tow brilliant young golfers have sprung up since that time and Walker cap swing clubs with the best of this class. To start from the beginning, Walker started to play golf when he was five! lad years old. His parents lived near the Richmond County Country gClub on Staten Island, and the young man, with usual childlike curiosity, just had to\imitate the golfers to be seen on the adjacent links. A set of small clubs was quickly forthcoming and golf balls began popping against the ‘Walker home. In the years that followed young Walker spent most of his play time at golf, Hi: her, a professor at Columbia, 8 a combination of in- structor, trainer and chief rooter, , The Staten Island lad, tall and | equip! with a pair of vary busi- \Ress-Tlke shoulders for lang hitting, developed unusual skill with his golf clubs, At seventeen, against the suggestion of his parents, Walker competed in his first tournament, the Fox Hills Club meet, with its hun- dred odd players. The name A. L. Walker meant nothing to the com- peting field and gallery, but nev | theless the lowest score was finaliy | placed along the new entrant and ; the happy youngster wonrthe qualify- ing medal. Ever since Walker has developed rapidly. He has figured prominently in some of the big competitions, not- ably the recent Metropulitan Cham- pionship at Brooklawn, when Oswald Kirkby had to shoot at top speed to stand off the hard-playing youth finals, tournament, incidentally, any sinecure for the Staten Island crack. He lost four pounds the first day and dropped eight pounds during the four-day meet. Walker greatly admires Kirkby’ ability, On the day of the finals he thinks the strongest player in the country was matching his shot Walker was a victim of the influ- enza epidemic, His .strength isn't fully restored and because of this he doesn't expect to enter the national amateur championship in August and take a chance on the terrific heat in Pittswurgh, where the meet will be played. The lad's golf for the sea- son will consist of the intercollegiates and two or three club tournaments. BASEBALL. Shut out by Oscar Tuero, the fiery little Cuban they batted out of the box Thursday, until the ninth inning, the Giants scored two runs in that frame and took the lead, Then St. Louis tied the score and the game went into extra innings. The Giants put over two runs in the eleventh and won by a score of 4 to 2. The Brooklyn Robins has the satis- faction of driving Phil Douglas, one of the Cubs’ star burlers, to cover, but they couldn't win their third straight victory. They stopped short in the fifth. Bailey, a recruit, held them runless the rest of the way and the Bruins got to Sherrod Smith for the runs necessary to.win in the seventh, The score was 6 to 5, Ruth helped win his own game against St. Louis by a aoore of 3 to 1. ‘Detroit won a slugging match from the Athletics, 11 to 9, compiling fif- teen hits for a total of twenty-nine ! pases. Heilmann, Flagstead and Wal- ker hit the ball into the bleachers for home runs. Cincinnati won a close game from Philadelphia in the ninth inning by 5 to 4, In this inning Woodward walked two men with one out and was re- lieved by George Smith, off whom Rariden, @ pinch hitter, singled, scor- ing two runs, Harper was batted hard and Chi- cago won from Washington, 5 to 2. John Collins and Weaver hit home runs, the latter scoring a runner ahead of him, MISCELLANEOUS, mah Maas 3 About bigger game the youth shrugs his shoulders and believes there's still lots of time, A. L, Walker now weighs 154 pounds. With this weight he wallops a very long ba! x Hills yesterday he fully drove 350 yards on. the sloping sixth fairway. Again at the seventh his tee shot carried all the way to bunkers that are intended for poor second shots. Walker not only hits ‘em far, but gets direction, a knack that hundreds of competent club swingers would give anything to possess. At the short game the Staten Islander can hold his own with most amateurs and the same thing can be said of his putting. To reinforce his shot making the has an ideal golf temperament. He is not easily ruffied and is well stocked with nerve, which is often the deciding factor in close matches. With a little more experience the Richmond Club, which boasts A. L. Walker as a member, will be figur- ing in important championships or EVENING WORLD'S OWN SPORT HISTORY What Happens Every Day else the golf dope will be bunkered. Walker and Kammer Win In Fox Hills Tourney Despite Cloudburst. «The second round of match play in the Fox Hills invitation tournament yesterday afternoon ran into a rain- storm which made conditions prac- tically unplayable. are bears for punishment, but the rand of weather at Fox Hills turned the course into a swamp and the day 80 dark that the ball couldn't be seen ten yards away. Many matches were defaulted. Others were put off until to-day, There were some courageous souls, however, and they finished their arguments in spite of the weather man, After taking refuge in the clubhouse when the storm was at its height, August Kammer, winner of the qualifying medal, continued his match with €. Van Clief and pulled out with a 8 and @ victory, Van Clief were putting with niblicks because the greens were under water. A. L. Walker, who should oppose Kemmer in the final round, came ag | through with a 3 and 2 win over W. H, Gardner, The Staten Island youth was stroking beautifully until the skies opened up. The pair ap- proached the fourteenth hole at a time when heavy, menacing clouds shut off the light. Gardner drove, and after a ten-minute hunt his ball was found within a short appreacl, to the green. A dandy chip and a long putt accounted for a 3 on a par 4 hole. This flash only delayed the verdict that Walker won on the sixteenth, outs, Archie Hahn's long standing mark of 213-5 seconds for the b> metre dash was tied by Lieut. C. W. Paddock, University of California, while in the 200-metre low hurdles, Sylvester, University of Missouri, beat by @ small margin his cousin, Robert Simpson, of the same college, who holds the world's record for the 120-yard hurdles. In this event Syl- vester equalled the world's record of 243-6 seconds, In the annual meet of Public School No. 14, Manhattan, winner of the scholastic outdoor championship of New York, Class 8B3 won the point trophy with 20 points. Class 8Al was second with 18 points and Class 7B1 third with 16 points. The games were held at Crotona Park and 500 lads participated. 8ST. LOUIS, June 21.—Richard Bockenkamp of St. Louis defeated Lawrence Bromfield of Denver, 2 up and 1 to play, in the semi-finals of the Western amateur golf champion. | ship. In the other half Harry Legg of Minneapolis defeated Wolff of St. Louis, 5 up and 4 to play, eae JACK DEMPSEY TO JOIN | TOLEDO COUNCIL, K. OF Cc, Jack Dempsey, challenger of Jess Willard for the heavyweight champion- ship of the world, has announced his in- As u rule golfers | Toward |. the end of their go both Kammer and | x, ‘2 VETOES EAH Blue Loses Freshman and Sec- ond Varsity Races, but } Wins Big Event. June 11—Tale, by ~* eight race from her perennial rival, |Harvard, on the Thames by halt # |boat Jength, thereby giving her an’ even break for the annnal series at twenty-six victories apiece. The ‘Crimson, however, won the freshmen eight and second varsity eight events.’ ‘The varsity race, which was origt- nally scheduled to start at 6 P. My. was held off by rough water so long that it seemed as though the night shift would have to be called on to man the shells, and @ tremendova crowd which painted the summen green banks of the Thames with bril- lant blue and red, was forced to walt in patience for about two hours. It was 7.50 o'clock before the two shells reached the starting point, and the stirring struggle began. j The two crews were timed exactly, to a fifth of a second over the firat, three half-mile marks, and it was not until the Submarine Base was reached at two miles that Yale showed a fifth of a second advan. tage. With the piercing wall of the U-boat sirens in their ears the men in the Blue shell bent to their task and began to draw ahead. The Crim. son struggled desperately to hold the pace and spent itself in a tremendous | effort, which withered at the three- and alf-mile mark and left the New Haven eight a winner in 31 min« utes, 421-5 seconds, with Harvard at 21 minutes, 472-5 seconds. a, By John Pollock ‘ | If Lew Tendler, the crack tights weight of Philadelphia, expects to get’ & bout with Champion Benny Leon. . ard he will have to agree upon the | |weilght conditions named by Billy, « ‘Gibson, manager of Leonard. In Philadelphia last Monday night Gib-, \son declared that he was willing to let Leonard box Tendler, even for @ side bet of $10,000, but that he would! nhame the weight at which the boys | would battle. Tendler says he. has: backing for $10,000 to fight Leonard, * land besides: that, Harry Edwards, matchmaker of the Olympia A, A. of “Philly,” will offer a: purse of $30,000 for them to box for at his club, Gib-- son will probably ask that the weight’, for the bout be 135 pounds, weigh in<- at3oré P.M. On account of an injury, Tommy ‘Tudhey, the Paterson lightweight, has asked for ® postpone ment of bis elebt-round go with Wille Jecksom at the Lyceum A. C. of Paterson, N. J, meat Monday night, and the officials of the club here decided to stage the battle on the night of July 1, Danoy Bullivai will referee the contest, for eigit rounds io the tar bout et the regular weekly show on Monday evenings June 30, This pair have already fought good fights and are in strict training for the som, Jack Britton, who fights Jack Perry, the Pittsburgh lightweight, & wwelve-roand bout af an opm alr boxing show at Oumberland, MdJ training there, This te the to stage the Willard-Dempsey bout, but ernor of Maryland refused (o allow staged there, ‘The proposed out fetween Charley of Newark and Clay Turner, the sensational light-heavy welght, which has already considerable interest among the fight Jersey City and Newark, will most brought off at the Armory A. A, of Ji on Monday evening, July 7, Both fight 1 fast and clever and shoakl furnish « rattling battle, Frankie Burns, the Jersey City featherweight,’ who deciaively outpointed Battling Reddy tm thelr eight round bout at the Armory A. A.) of Jemey City oo last Monday night, ie mow af Portland, Me., where be is getting into eondi- tion tor big bout with Jabes White, the Albeny fighier at Troy, N. ¥., om June 30, ‘The lade axe to box six rounds, ' Jack Britton, wno risks his title by fighting Jobnoy Griffiths of Akroo, O,, « fifteen-found @ecision bout at an open air thow st Canton, . on the afternoon of July 4, before the Mo- Kinney A, C., is to receive ® guamntes of 62,000 with an option of accepting 85 per cent, of the groos receipts, It was in that city that Brittom Feguined the welter-weight champloaship title by stopping Ted "Kid" Lewia, ‘The next big open air show staged in Philadel~ pais will in all probability bring together in @ slz- found contest Joe Lynch, the international bentam sensation, and Champion Pete Herman. ‘These boys jrere to have boxed June 25 at Shibe Park, and as Promoter Glassman couldn't secure that date he called the show off, Two prominent Quaker Cliy tention of Joining the Knights of Colum- bus. Jack has long been an admirer of | the Knights of Coluinbus for the work | they have done and are doing for the! men in the service of Uncle Sam, He iw? knee to observe the bo» volet yf unci} of the K, of ¢ Wis yp ; : AQUEDUCT AND 2 leave Penn, Station, 884 St. anc BEGINS 500 ite aT! PLR FIRST RACE AT 2. also from Flatbush Av 0, and RACING MONDAY