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3 26 Soe RMA | se bavemeC st Sere PNT ars 4 ee rf... | BEST SPOR PAG SIDELIGHTS AT TOLEDO - - =. - neta RIAA 07 INR ater * IS ORL PO 5 RMN A BER Oe ET ea nee - oi it att JUWE 24,1919. RTING PAGE-IN NEW YORK Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Brehing World.) |Americans Off To Good Lead In Big Games june 24.—1 a te eee aoe om oven as. ne start on the first day of the interallled | games held in the Pershing Stadium. | An International crowd of %,000 pere agha watched the contests, R. Simpsom of Columbia, Mo. record holder | im the high and low hurdles, and a ; Irish-American Athlete Glue Now 'rork. champion hammer thrower, unfurled the Stars and ‘ipes at the opening of ee wit! vie “Xthletes from the British Donilnions shared the honors of the day with the | Americans by winning two of the four | principal races, | In the first 100-metrei a | Teschner, Lawrence. Mas ‘ . and C. . Pad wd -, all ow their Sh ¥* Private J, Howard, Canada, am | e °. | rag A of ew Zealand captured their heats In the same event. The D by th inters was not ¢: passa wen Junior Golfers Begin Play 3/8 Rite GS ! clear. KRAANG 1m Hi6 © In the baseball game W. B. Fullers A a at aig leben oe For Metropolitan Honors; 3 20:38’ Antics If Dempsey can carry him f y ‘League team. shut out the Canadian, R ING TELEv0 Sto 1 much to the delight of 5 1 along at a fast clip for |. tyes e r 8 American, soldiers in, the bleachers. 4 iy: Sein hla own ‘enerione,” : C lleg Meet Al. Lares eee piss Mess th f own trom ‘his own exertions.” 0 ee 80 ~ a apectator at the ‘ames. 4 tart 5 ‘ - ‘ . Fi Su eswar saree | ts ; __yalube. he secret of the Kens GERMANS LIKE BASEBALL | ‘expert, who has just returned | Former Championships at Si- system, ia that the ball ls gf ©. Set RY | ey ols sob inte wanoy and Intercollegiates | markable accuracy. | Man SAYS K. OF C, SECRETARY. i wi appear to fall @! | at Merion Links cup, but this “follow” epin affords’ Now that tho summer ts really with . . the necessary momentum to get up to “4 and TOMRE men's fancies “are. enc, | the cup. Bait, itis only natural that the, A: Paddy Doyle, the Deal Club pro, Dall. it Js only natural tat . , eR By William Abbott. | saye'uér. Kendall. im the beat purer gar,,lade in Germany are whaling the ‘Sy E young golfer is in his glory|he ever saw, which is going con- j0th Field Artillery moved up to Kru! to-day. Up on the Siwanoy | *iderable, Knights of Columbus Recretary Davi t least 7 bhatt 3 — Hennebery of Joliet, Il. ed alo | stared ego citan ‘Clymolanehip, open to] 72, ™8ke a hele 19 a singte shot we Thi ant ough ang & magatin | Oo sotarned ilies WAT Rowy To SER | Metropol ya Ope the ambition of all golfers. Count. of fae wiher’ prtarhernnin’ of Ameria : AF ov Pau TeX lads nineteen years and under, gets|iess players will spend a lifetime most popular &: Secretary Heni Panidhter Kian WLEGIVE KM A under way. This ig a two-day meet. reg oR * eet ae ay berry says the Germans now like he i achleve this distinction, r, W. O. game, and never miss a contest. “It rather, to put it in Dayo ap qThe cheven prizes offered for various | smith of Fox Hills, however, thinks wil help them to become a gcoulne (ve. = ewer) competitions will attract a big field of thls feat is quite comonplace. |repudliq” he saya bryo champions, the future Outmets| It may be dificult for others, but | + " py \ ee of the game it's quite easy when you know how to| WILCOX ALSO ENTERS quiver, a = do the trick. @ doctor jas pre- under him after a round ”) = The intercollegiate mect also storts| scribed a certain stroke that bas 100-MILE DERBY JULY 4 ‘work in the ring, Willard, u x |to-day at Merion. Golf has become de-| netted two of these one-shot holes bas cous 4nd wince has x |cldedly more poplar with the rab rah bight dles Bed beer) Now vent} One of the first entries for the 1082 ee pliminated from his 7 & ec |boys, and most « the leading inatt- “TOY anole at Fox Hills in 29| le Auto Derby and sprint races that it has done him no 5 = lutions of higher learning will enter Sala nat Seuta ph hie He has shown in his FIGHT F. ni ede Rep teg peli is formidable, but if Demp- Cf aah mae Hed ess many to how to keep up ent. He cer- repeated about town until the tal two or| had knocked Dempsey down and had Dempsey’s ears the challenger of Willard grew sulky. care of himself Monday and fight his best, down, do it," said Dempsey, « The crowds at the training Several thousands gathered at elastic exerciser u few minutes, then J roll | minute’Mr, Tate was an extremely as he could and took quite a hammering, He left the abil. his A ip ere thing I noticed abo (Copyright, 19: “wvmowei|Graphic Description of a Thrilling Training Bout in Which Chal- him, 1 knew nearly every blow he was about to strike, so that the lenger Knocks Out Bill Tate, His Giant Sparring Partner. busy By Robert Edgren, ; by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) TOLEDO, O., June 24, have had a demonstration, of the hitting ability Jack Denpsey bas deen holding in reserve for the big fight. When Dempsey renewed his boxing on Saturday big Bill Tate grew peevish over being bit | ‘On & body already sore from Sam Langfora's blows and retaliated by shoot- Tate tried to ing @ terrific right hand punch over on Dempsey's jaw. The punch threw ¢xtehded glov Jack back on bis heels for a moment, and some of t ‘he was within an inch or two of belng floored, On Sunday Tate landed heavy right handers repeatedly, ‘him up well, although Dempsey renew the mixing, Sunday ni, stopping Dempsey’s rushes and shaking his feet. His 238 pounds went always dashed in against the blows to | there hy no doubt about it, Big Bill was “knocked kicking.” Or rather | jhe was knocked down so hard t! jdn’'t kick, wriggle, squirm or try the story of” what ‘Tate had done in the boxing was|t he} “gl Ae rn grew into @ sensational rumor that Tate ‘shown him up.” When this came to He told Tate to take “It you think you can put me “for I'm sure going after you,” Quarters have been growing day by day. Dempsey's in the afternoon, Jack pulled the opie inte, the ring, From the first He “picked ‘em off” ay well ring without his ‘usual smile, and the Jamaica Kid took his place, Four minutes later De- ‘u my min@ swayed to cover the result and my finger was ready to press the button when his blow landed, Tate must have seen these blows start- ing, but they travelled with such terrific speed that no matter stepped back or threw his arms out to block his effort whs in vain. Dempsey swung a grazing left and, as his body swayed widely to the ‘The Deal right, whipped back again with a right hook, straightening up on his toes| > coaxed into the cup. The Deal to reach the dusky giant's Jaw, The glove landed cleanly. The sound of it| Sar fai, & tivaue | utter, whew was not noticeable, but Tate fell straight backward, struck t! his feet. Dempsey walked away, unconcerned. He nelther smi scowled, For him it was all in the day’s work. Tate took a rest, came up to one knee, and wien he recovered rose to renew the battle, turned, walked back toward Tate and fairly leaped remembered, But there was another blow. Like a flash of light De right swept over to Tate's chin. over backward and to the floor. ‘0 roll over and get up. Again the camera clicked as Tate fell. ) CriSine Css joor partly on his haunches and flopped out at full length on his back. If it had been in @ fight Jimmy Deforest, acting as referee, would have begun to count. Instead, Jimmy rushed in, waved Jack back and tried to help big Tate to escape, to hold out his long arms and hold Jack off with e. But, lunging in, Dempsey hit him a crushing left in the spectators thought P°4Y. That, so Tate said half an hotir afterward, was the last thing he The big black fighter was fairly lifted from This time In the picture I snapped on the small fraction of a second after the jteams, Princeton, with a rare aggre- |gation of club swingers, appears to | have the best chance. A. L. Walker, the Metropolitan champtonship finalist, who will represent Columbia, should come near copping individual honors at Merion, camera Percy Kendall ts not only the best putter of the Deal Club but has orig. inal ideas how the little ball should how he yards to a hillside green. Dr. Smith ¥il! be dechied & the Sheepshead Bay sunk a whale of a spoon shot. The| Speedway on July sixteenth is 169 yards, and this time |! an iron wallop dropped the ball icto| of the waiting cup. * 4 was Ralpb De Jma, America's premier in the spore De Paima's first query by Boyd, the Fox Hilt hggidegg Fo ‘om Boyd, the Fox 8 pro- | wis, > Wh feanional, ways he'd Tike to take a few! tig cnas ine cuter of the tinner of te lessons from Dr, Smith how: to make | ‘°" | $50,000 Indianapolis classic was on the ~, way, he was greatly pleased. “That ia 4 he said. “Ever since Wilcox beat me in Indianapolis use of motor trouble I have been anxious to race him just to prove that my Packard can beat his noted Peugeot, and besides, I wi to prove that I am @ better ockey4 - than “Howdy.” these remarkable shots. Don't forget the three-day Apa- wamis invitation tournament that starts on Thursday. . ‘This mect is al- ways popular with players, and the field this year promises to be the largest that ever shot down the big and not on the bottom like most led nor The world's heavyweight champion- ship fight on the afternoon of July 4 has evidently aroused the match- makers of clubs all over the country. In nearly every city where bouts a permitted to be held there will be a show staged at either some park or baseball grounds. The cities where these scraps will be contested are Canton, O., Baltimore, Denver, Col., at him. mpsey’s | blow struck home T find a lasting detail of Dempsey in knocking out action, | T7¢nton, N. J., Montreal, Can, Kan (It sh Jack with his legs spread like those of g man making | Proaching mashie shot, in what is called an “open stance.” | He is | deing of his drove the bl ing flatly toward the falling Tate, with his feet, instead of} many in line like those of the schoo!-taught boxer, squarely across the line advance. He was set for that punch, and as he struck his right leg upward with full force, throwing his weight over to the left with low, His right arm, just swept past Tate's chin, is bent, proving that ‘he blow was a hook and not a swing. His left arm is bent and pulled an ap- | 528 City, Tulsa, Okla., Binghamton, | N. ¥., Philadelphia, Atlantic City and towns throughout Pennsyl-’ vania, The most important bougs are those between Mike Gibbons anQ Jeff Smith at Kansas City and Jaek Brit- ton and Johnny Griffiths at Canton, O. ( Fistic News som Poon and Gossip ) rock on the first faigway made -fa- mous by Harold Hite, nad lot of mieeee panes if the: test. There alwa: rivalry between Ttalian American, EScieeErs Reiser Joba, bas booked op fights for his club at Tulsa, Ola, Onicago will take on Earl Purveyor, the dantamweight of Tulsa, for twenty rounds for the bantam title on Labor Day night, Merman is to receive $6,500 for his end, Joo Leonard, the featherweight of Brooklyn, who recently outpointed Dick Loadman of Bul- falo In @ ten-round bobt at Binghamton, N. Y., le pfacticnlly matchéd to mest Young Michaels of Syracuse in @ ten-round bout before the Weat Side A. ©. of Binghamton, N, Y., which expects to bold the contest at a ball park there, Chester Rone, the boxing promoter of Binghamton, is putting on the show, pose “ | back, just as he pulled it back to give force to the blow. It is the left arm Pog tyregnepieg resid Hee ehtar chm peey aida't need Tate any more action of a shotputter or a lacus thrower—the same action that once made Tato led with lefts and shot over right oy i J “asl Slam! bang! ; Martin Sheridan a marvel in these two events, At the same time Dempsey’s Dompscy off. Weaving froni aide te Nee df dided Vain attempt to hold |teft was poised for a left hook delivered in the same way, with the full the attdok, langing-from seemingly intone Sg mage ae trides to jawing and tho tull welght of the body behind It, tering ram blows into Tate's body, allpplius, evading Shontenne andre It 1s characteristic of Dempsey that he is always balanced to deliver ducking under Tate's lefta and bobbing up fairly uoder tear bus: bl red Punch after punch, without actually setting himself for any one of them. arms to drive terrific blows to body "and jaw, Dempsey was a | Blrygagl In studying Dempsey here at Toledo I have discovered that he uses these fighter, « fighter we who follow the training had mot seen before at Toleds, | OWS In the manner of Ketohel, who borrowed his style of hitting from tho st Paris are Ddeing héld to-day, of the semifinals in cach clam are to receive two pointe, be held later the winners will be paired off anti ‘The boxing events in the Inter-Allled meet ‘The winner In the final, bouts which are to narrows down to the two best fighters in it each class, who will finally battle for the cham- pionships, K, O\ Loughlin, the promising welterweight of we! Getting Dempsey’s shts into his midsection is an- 3 oqtioely. and maybe peey can't dix these punches in n 9 er hg either Emo to the jaw! seem to favor a right or a left. One hand is as good as the and apparently carries as much power. Guido ‘nays Dempsey in plenty bie PRACTICAL other _ BUSINESS Suits at prices. Fancy patterns, but not fancy prices. ‘Luxurious suits, but not ex- _ travagant prices. "Special patterns, colors and fabrics for the professional man— for the business man and novel, ties galore for the man who wants something different. Suits made to your measure from $35 to $60. i ‘Dhey said Tate hit him at will, Tate had put him down. He'd show the world, Dempsey Displays Some Reserve Punching Power, Then, before they had been mixi: was ripping and tearing, going at se yer squatting almost to the ring floor as lefts | yard above him, He was turning h: In fact, erage 6-foot-11 man, jay he weighed 202 pounds after @ workout, # July and August, 8.30 to 5.30; 12 o'clock noon Saturdays ry oy a SRD mi 4 the wraps were off. looks massive to According to Guider, i ‘To pay Jess is unsafe: to pay more is extravagance. _ Uniforms ready to wear away at $25, made from Serge. , en TWO STORES af Broadway & Ninth Street 30 East 42d Street that makes big things Bacay. adhe —. is body ‘They said Tate outclassed him in boxing, They said Tate staggered him. They sald te, it happened. Dempsey Tate in vicious lunges, crouching low, he dived at the big man towerin; from si Nag to side. Watching Guestion ig about settied. Barri any changes in the programme, Ollie ‘ccord will be the official, and if Judges are agreed to they will prob- 4 Eigren and Jerk ely, ‘K. rd is competent and thoroughly ‘onest and dependable,” says Grin- der, “and the Toledo people want a home ttown man to get whatever honor is attached to refereving the | mplonship bout.” record will insist on a fair and square stand-up fight,” Guider says, ‘and Willard will not be permitted to hang on Dempsey and wear him down with his weight in, close: quarters.” The interest in the fight ig tre- mendous, according to Guider, To every man, woman and child it is the chief topic of interest in Toledo, and already the city is overrun with’ vist ters. A million dollar gate wouldn't Surprise him in the least. —_— Some fighters improve with age. Jack Britton the welterweight champion is one of them and Frankie Burns, the Jersey City bantam, ts al other, To-day Frankie is celebrating his thirtieth birthday and although he has been fighting eleven years at no time in bis long career was he any better than he is at present. Frank! chief misfortune that he never hi been able to win the bantam cham- plonship, He has fought three tim for the title, each in a twenty round bout. He lost the decision in close battles with Coulton and Herman and fought Kid Williams to a draw e gaged in Burns has endeared himself to the fight-golng public and is one of bos most popular fighters in the coun- ry. rankie is married and there are two little Burn# running around his City, great Fitzsimmons, Dempsey is a 200-pound man, hitting in the style of Fitzsimmons at close quarters, and comparable to Fitzsimmons in everything but the craft of the ring that Fitz learned in hundreds of battles all over the world. He is a 200-pound man hitting as Fitzsimmons hit weighing 158. If better than most eny man he hits on the chin, and that he can hit a man of any height lance, no one can deny that Dempsey “has a chance.” Jack boxed six rounds, second, for Defor to box one more with Malone, He showed a new stunt here, for he this finished the boxing for the day. Miske Is Afraid of Dempsey’s Punch. It showed Dempsey’s defense if he needs time to recover from Willard's heavy punches, Although naturally a fighter, he is not overlooking the fact that some time or other it may be necessary for him to stall danger, This is Dempsey's birthday. Albanese, Dempsey’s cook, who is world’s champion in his line and a rival for the honors, has made Jack a birthday cake two feet wide, three layers deep and decorated with twenty-four candles, There will b at the Dempsey camp, and much joy. If and giving his sparring staff a chance to recover, partners, and the bunch looked as if it needed a vacation, day the sparring partners were around the Secor, grinning wid lard looks the picture of health and fine physical form, him, Then Willard arrived, and by his tremendous proportions many to think he would at least be a mighty hard man to beat. G they think it. will be almost impossib! sa ll ML ices metas was convinced before that Jess Willard will have a battle on his hands July “4, I'm convinced of it sow. Willard has a huge advantage in height, reach and weight. He is :trong as an ox and can use his strength far ig men in hitting, He can take a blow that would upset almost any one else, and he never yet has felt the floor come up to meet him as he fell, But there is no shadow of a doubt that Dempsey can upset that man is far faster and more skilful than Dempsey. In sporting par- ‘Time was called and Tate didn't finish the t pulled him to a corner and leaned him against the ropes and held a bottle of emelling salts under his nose until his head came up. Dempsey went right on with Jock Malone, a clever little fellow, and this time Jack held his punches back, He boxed two rounds with Jamaica, and when Deforest told him that was enough begged to be allowed around the ring, bobbed almost to the ground and leaped lightly from side to side, avoiding blows and making no attack in return, Three minutes of He is to have a fine celebration. Jess Willard took a day of rest Monday, Jess says he was resting him- Jess hasn't felt | just cheerful since Heinen resigned, He doesn't want to lose any more sparring All day yester- enjoying the lay-off. Willard has been going through @ pretty steady grind of training, has reduced to very near the weight he intends to fight at, and is well satisfied that he will be in the best possible condition July 4, ‘Wil- A curious thing about this bout, public opinion has been swaying in favor of each man, Dempsey, first on the ground, had all the fans with ‘Willard improved in condition, speed, wind and endurance, Day by day he has shown greater skill and punching power, and now thousands who {couldn't see any one but Dempsey in the fight have shifted to the Willard | side of the fence, They thought Willard might be a hard man to beat; now for a smaller man to stand up under home at 144 Duncan Avenue, Jersey the punches that wreckéd Heinen and threaten to wreck any one else if the | Allentown, Pa., is matched for three more fights, On June 30 be meets Jock Malone of St. Paul for tan rounds at Milwaukee, July 2 Bryan Downey af Columns for fifteen rounds at & T never | of July 4 be will hook up with Leo Rowlands, the Milwaukee fighter, for six rounds at an in- door boxing show of the National 4, ©, of Phila- doipiata, Vic Moran, the New Orleans lightweight who was recently lonorably discharged from the is now in town and anxious to fight army, nt t uniess |eeain. He starts training today at Btillman’s ee eronwsium, Frankie Fleming, who still claime weigtit championstip title of Canada, himsetf to meet Frankie Brown, the featherweight, for ten rounds at @ boxing show to be brought off at Montreal, Can, on the aight of July 4.. Thay were matched reveral weeks ‘ago to box in the same city but Brown asked that the bout be put off until be got in proper condition, weaved decigion, st the Oriole baseball park at Balti: more on the afternoon of July 4, through | woitis Gilbert, the well known song writer and boxing fan who has just written his 1.000% song, declares that Billy Roche, who has refereed hundreds of decision bouts, should be considered for the position of refereeing the Willard. bout Dempaey ‘The officiate of the Armory A, A, of Bonton, who bare been ing, their ng shows *, a pp a ae Nick without e music tml ark at Columbus, O,, and on the afternooe | “ph, Baltimore, to clash in a fifteen-round bout, to a | 9 Paul Bitehier who was knocked ont by Mickey Russell in Bayonne, N, J,, last Friday night, is not Vie Bitebie, the promising Harlem bantam. weight, _— Greb Defeats Mike Gibbons. PITTSBURGH, June 24.—Herry Greb of Pittsburgh outpointed Mike Gibbons, St. Paul middleweight, in ten furious rounds last night at Forbes Field, ‘The first four rounds went to Gib- bons, but then Greb started to lei capturing all six remaining roun ere Was no knockdown, Both fight- gamely. ——>_ Daly ai Draw. PHILADELPHIA, June 24,—rankie Daly, Pittsburgh lightweight, handi- capped by many pounds, fought a close battle with Andy MoMahon, this city, at the Cambria Club last night. Lavender, Pittsburgh bantam, by vir- tue of knockdowns, defeated Johnny ,| Maloney, former amateur champion, ee New British Lightweight Cham- pi LONDON, Ju Bob Marriott won the British IMhtweight champlon- whip here last night when Johnny Summers, the title-holder, was disquali- fled for @ foul in the tenth round, \ ~—_- NEW INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE L. PO.) 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