The evening world. Newspaper, June 27, 1919, Page 22

‘he met Johnson, “Now,” we are quotingyBootty Mon- telth, former manager of Johnny who says he Si sassy this sees about that reco: that he is a wonder? Believe me, is @ cinch to beat him, if MoMahon could, ever saw the day he was the fighter Dempsey is.” talked with that was impresst x a black eye. know. He has shown ‘WILLARD tras had thirty- two fights, all four, including him in his last fight before went on, “I'm afraid that Willard ‘will quit and give the sport of boxing He's not game, you WIT Lf Da Pe ng a: Sy Oe aS See ome EVENING _worup, FRIDAY, : JUNE 27, 1919. LEAR told. Bight- Of his other Jack Johnson. has seen Wil- ights, “what is rd to indicate HARDENING HIS STOMACH MUSCLES + MORAN THINKS WILLARD for Mo- & positiveness ive. “Why,” he that in other teicowetvat Who Who Fought Cham- pion the Last Time He Stepped in Ring Declares Jess Will Toy With Challenger July 4. pan emecee 4 matter ‘st favt, met wood & man vey in hia Gee, 'T hope he : By Robert Edgren. HIL® Dempsey and Willard are having it out in the ring @t Toledo to decide the id's heavyweight ly Wilcox and Ralph De Palma be deciding what practically ‘ts te the world’s driving bon- ‘They will clash in a match race Sheepshead Bay Speedway ‘and winner will be hail card for that day the “counter attrac- ‘Dempsey HE lessoi taugh ickly pee ane of the most thrilling ever held any- war that an athietic nation meant « victorious nation learned everywhere, by the tremendous interest tm sports, The fact that the Yanks, Practically unprepared, Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Bening World) TOLEDO, O,, June 27. RANK MORAN, who fougyt F Square Garden before a crowd that broke all records in the no- decision contest line, watched the big fellows work out yesterday afternoon, Frank can’t see any one but Jess Willard in the coming battle. When he had given Jack the once over and the up and down he announced his opinion briefly and in characteristic Moran manner: “If that guy's clever,” said Frank, “I'm another Abe Attell.” Frank's view of Willard on that famous occasion at the Garden was championship, ied as the fore- ered up. If he does this with Dempsey there will be nothing to it, Demp- sey’s punch will be Wasted on Willard’s arms. There is a certain psycho logical effect to be considered here, It’s the most discouraging thing io the world to hit at a fellow you cannot-reach. Willard either leans back rize |Adout @ yard out of range or he holds out his big arms and stops your g0es| punch. Dempsey’s going to get tired hitting at him,” Yesterday was a rather muggy day for training, and neither Willard nor Dempsey showed top speed at any time during the afternoon, There were showers in the morning, and at both camps the canvas covering of the ring was well soaked, so that water squirted out along the edges as the men steppeg about. Jess is stili handicapped by lack of big men who can take a punch. Yesterday's boxing consisted of ten rounds, which was merely a stroll hich | through an afternoon of light exercise for the champion. He had one new sparring partner, Soldier Allen, @ 170-pound boy, who did some heavy boxing in the army, Allen was game enough, but too light and too little skilled in the game to do Willard much good, Jess !et him punch a blocked everything easily, and returned no hard blows. He boxed two rounds with Chip, two with Scott, two with Monahan and three with Jack Hempel, Our old friend Jack is showing signs of weart- ness. Once he swung at Willard, missed, and fell to the floor, Monahan did the same thing, but perhaps the wet ring had something to do with fight, on it by the world nt into the strength has gone with it. They kept the champion hustling in the early and decided it in jig-time | goys of training, but now Willard has worn theM out, and they can no SEK the porctivs y tat t2¥* | longer hold a pace fast enough to make it interesting for him. Monahan e the best fighters. irperetore, it is not surprising that rimoath leads the moes that athletics will be just as pulsory as learnin, the big universit Hi, next fall. Und versities and sch try will take similar action, HE Yanks didn’t play, but they increased thei: American League rece, as the ite Sox and Clevelands ten, ‘The Brown: leago boys in @ gave the Tigers Clevelands, 1 to 0. Hellman’s hit in the even though Willard holds back his punches, at the big.fellow’s chin he turns away and waits for Willard to lead. Willard Satisfied With His Condition. Willard says that he is entirely satisfied with his condition, jaid out his own training programme. way and an- ie anything else ‘y at Hanover, joubtedly all the is in the coun- r lead he knows more about Jess Willard than any one else knows. months he has been dieting and training acconding to his own plan, anc in the were the thirteen-inning 1s defeated victory over | ihnat Johnson fought twenty-three rounds before showing any sign of ex- haustion. This being only a twelve-round bout, any slight falling off from his Havana form may not make any difference to Jess at all, only the little superfluous weight that he will need in the ring. If it is a hot day he will want to have something to sweat off so that he won't dry out too much. during the twelve rounds of boxing. Donovan thinks that Willard has rounded into very good condition for a man of his age, and | that any attempt to train harder and grow thinner might only weaken him. training. Jeff's last words were a warning to Willard not to watch the | eeales | “Don't try to train down,” said Jeffries, “Kat whatever you want ‘and don't try to take off weight. *You will lose some weight naturally wita ‘strength. If you have your strength and speed it won't make any differ- ence whether you are thin or not.” All this réminds us of “Phat Willie” Meeban, who is as round as a bg! end rolis arquad the ring on thin lege that look hardly fit to carry Hamad Bis TRAINERS Tow A WEAN MEDICINE BALL AGAINST HIS STOMACH WILL BEAT DEMPSEY EASILY). ‘ten rounds with Willard in Madison: much obscured by boxing gloves, but his impression today is interesting. | “I doubt if he is as strong now.” he went on. “That night he was like a| horse. When I was tossing Mary Ann at him he crossed his arms and cov-| lard had his ring covered with resin, but Dempsey’s wes a bit slippery. | it. Both Hempel and Monahan have lost a great deal of weight, and their makes spurts in which he shows speed, but can’t keep the aggressive long After a few flying swings He has He has trained under the direction of some clever handlers of fighters, and has come to the conclusion that For three it is a fact that he has taken off a lot of weight and now looks in fairly good shape. Although still @ little thick about the body, he is not by any means as thick as Jack Johnson was at Havana, and it must be remembered Coach Donovan, the famous college athlete coach, has studied Willard in his recent workouts and says that Willard isn’t fat, that is, he carries | Before Willard left California Jim Jeffries visited him and watched his the training, but if you take off weight purposely, you won't keep your Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Ox (The New Tork Brening World), . BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK HOW JESS WILLARD LOOKS TO-DAY By Robert Edgren his weight, and still has been quite able to take Dempsey’s hardest punches and carry the fight right to Jack in the last round every time they met. “Phat Willie’ has been Dempsey’s hoodoo in the ring. So perhaps a few extra pounds on Willard’s tummy won't do any harm. Willard says he wants a little extra flesh over his ribs to act as @ cushion. And asa matter of fact he seems to be covered with a thick mass of muscles across the stomach, Willard never cared anything about being hit in the body. The night before the Havana fight he told me he didn’t care how much Johnson hit bim in the stomach as long as he didn’t reach his jaw. In the fight Jess protected his body very little but leaned back and covered his jaw | with care every time Johnson rushed him. Crowd Bigger Than Ever at De mpsey’s Quarters. The stories about Jack Dempsey’s hard slugging this week and his knockouts’ of Big Bill Tate have aroused such interest in Toledo that ‘Thursday's crowd at Dempsey’s quarters was larger than on Sunday. At least 5,000 people tried to get into the canvas enclosure when Dempsey boxed at 3.30, This time Jack didn’t flatten any one, but he ripped through | Wjs training with the usual grim aggressiveness, even though he held back the punch soporific, He boxed six rounds, taking on his three sparring | partners alternately. He went after Tate and Jamaica hard and fast, Wi'- ‘here were no knockdowns. Jamaica slipped down twice, and Dempsey | skidded once himself, There was a little excitement when Dempsey cracked Jamaica on the chin so hard that the dusky boxer flew clear across the ring and into! the ropes, stepping on a straw hat that a spectator bad carelessly laid on the edge of the platform. Dempsey seemed most interested in his two rounds with Jack Malone, | who is as fast as @ streak and has a feather-duster punch, In these rounds Dempsey danced and ducked under blows, swayed his head and body far to one side to avoid leads, and came swinging back as if to land a heavy punch, but always pulled his hand short to miss. He didn't want to hit Malone, His whole desire was to be fast and evasive enough to avoid all blows aimed at him. Dempsey danced about all through the training. His legs are fast and tireless. His work here is a great contrast to Willard’s, for big Jess hardly moves from the spot he stands on. Jess apparently is boxing more and more in the style of Jack Johnson—making the other man come to him and then counter hitting. Dempsey is just the opposite in action, going around the ring in sudden and unexpected leaps, bobbing up and down continually and swaying from side to side in the peculiar style of attack that is his alone. Jack Kearns and Dempsey both count on that swaying, writhing, dodging attack to enable the challenger to get past Willard’s long arms and within fighting range. Kearns says Willard never will land a left on such a flying target. But Jess laughed when he heard of it, and asked if Dempsey was also proof against a right upper- cut) To the observer outside the ring it looks as if Jack might run into one or two of these when he drives in, crouching low. He doesn't block punches, but counts on evading them. Tex Taking a Chance, Too, Driving a Car. ‘Tex Rickard bought a steam car Wednesday night and spent yesterday |morning learning to drive it. As Tex has ruled that the fighters can’t | drive cars before the bout for fear of accident, some of the people around headquarters are wondering what might happen if Tex bumped into a truck oi lamppost himself, That would leave Ad Thatcher, President of the Toledo A. C. and local impresario in the fight line, to run the bout himself, Hither that, or pattner Flournoy would have a busy week. NATIONAL LEAGUE. AMERICAN palate £233 L133 21 611 | Washington 26 26,800 | Philadelphia. .1 8 YESTERDAY, 205 GAMES YESTERDAY, New York-Brockiye (rain). Phitadetphia-Boston (rain) | Mew York-Phitade Chicane, 2 (13 innings), 8 TO-DAY. Boston at New York (two games), | Washington at Philadelphia. | GAMES TO-DAY. Hew York at Berton, Phitadelphia at Breskiya, Glnelanat! at Pittvburyh, Bt, Louis at Chicago. Cirrus Improves Suddenly, Winning From Peter Piper Hildreth Colt Spoils Day for Talent—Muddy Track Gives Layers “Good Breaks.” By Vincent Treanor. ‘AM HILDRETH’S Cirrus came to life with @ suddenness that was almost shocking to racegoers at Aque- duct yesterday. He came from behind the fast going Peter Piper in the stretch of the Roseben Highweight handicap and nailing the fast but faint jhearted sprinter in the final sixteenth went on to win in comfortable fashion. Ordinarily there is nothing startliag in one horse beating another, but in this case Peter Piper was of the hot couldn't lose variety of favorites while Cirrus was more or less neglected in the betting. Everybody was prepared to see Peter Piper quit if hard pressed, but with George Starr scratched who was to do the pressing? Certainly not Cirrus, for in his last race, with only 115% pounds on his back, he was beaten eight lengths by Dominant and Irma Fran! He had no early speed that day and very little of the late kind either, but all he had to beat to be third was Andrew and Bill McCloy. ‘The charts say Cirrus was given an easy ride, and that he would improve off that showing. True or not about the easy ride, there was a big improvement in his running yesterday, as forecasted. It cannot be said that the race was a@ medium of a killing, because there was no noticeable action on the Hil- dredth colt, the play being almost en- tirely for Peter Piper, hence the shock to the crowd. The change in track conditions gave the layers a chance to get back some of the losses’ sustained during the first three days of the meeting. St. Germain, the favorite in the opening event, failed to deliver, second being the best he could do behind Glenlight, @ 12 to 1 shot which won very easy. Of course, Belle of the Sea made good in the Steeplechase, as all Steeple- chase form indicated she would, but in the third Peter Piper put the play- ers back on their haunches when he succumbed to Cirrus’s rush, At that Peter ran a great race under his im- post of 138 pounds and shouldn't be condemned, It was in the fourth, however, that the layers got their real inning, Lion D'Or was a well played favorite, while Johnny Dundee's War Mark, a con- firmed mudder, carried the big money of the sharpshooters. Lion D'Or ran a very poor race for a favorite and finished outside the money. Youneed won all by himself and War Mark was second, in front of Daydue. N, K. Beal was considered “in” in the fifth and was backed down to favorite early in the oral market. Dave Gideon bet on it, and that was supposed to the real money, over y that knew of Gideon's bet followed Sasin wasn't neglec- ted. He had a lot of rooters as the field came down the stretch, and hundreds of slips were written out on Lord Herbert. Jack Goldsborough, who had Snapdragon and Ticket in the race, scratched the former. Few, howev took the trouble to notice this, but they had their eyes opened when Shuttinger came tearing down the stretoh on the outside to finally win by himself. class of the race, everybody agreed— afterward—and should have been the favorite, Wasn't he a 6 to & favorite in the Kentucky Derby ago, and doesn't he just love the going. that prevailed yesterday? two years Coll t fall, it EDDIE MAHAN TO COACH foudag’ Righane ene Tetnow “in Hae BOSTON COLLEGE ELEVEN, |i; f9°sulyord perten le a He acted as coach for the Univer- sity of Southern California eleven se met OM Abas Corts, Terece [Charice i, Briskier, another former c mot “the larvaed slayon, will| Crimson Captain, as as Boston College eva e footbal team 0. joslon " svach. BASEBALL TO-DAY; 2 enmes; first game 1.80 P.M, Americans anton Poly GrewsdeAdmisal < AQUEDUCT brea? (yt in First Race—Phantont }) Bryn hild, Betsinda, Second Race—Terentia, Fairy Wand, Davis Entry. Third Race—Questionnaire, Thun- derclap, Natural Bridge. Fourth Race— Recount, Orestes, Natural Bridge. Fifth Race—Star Class, Woodtrap, Nightstick. Sixth Race—Brookholt, Deve pee, Alias. v. = Sasin was winning the race from N. K. Beal when Ticket came along and “spilled the beans.” There were tips galore in the final event for maiden fillies, after the scratches were chalked up, but the real one was Violet Tip, Ral Parr’s Fair Play filly, which has chased in good ones in her last two starts. She won from Flying Flower, the closing favorite, catching her in the final six- teenth, to come on about her business. M. L. Schwartz's Ricochet; making her racing debut, was supposed to be the right one in the scramble and many who steered away from, Violet Tip and Flying Fiower, the form of the race, by the heavy play Ricochet attracted. We don't know what hap- pened to her. Lyke whipped her all the way from the head of the stretch, steered from the outside to the inside, until at the end she was about fourth from last. She may have lacked edu- cation, She certainly didn’t justify the confidence plac in-her by her backers. Tab her, Jack Barry and Strunk Return Tothe Athletics The Red Sox will have two new faces in their line-up to-morrow, for Harry Frazee, the club's owner, an- nounces that, just before the de- parture of the Athletics, Jack Barry, sdécond baseman, and Amos Strunk, centre fielder, of the world’s cham- pions had been traded to Philadel- phia for Bobby Roth, rignt flelder, and Maurice Shannon, second base- man, No cash was involved in the trade, Mr, Frazee stated, Apparently he is seeking to improve the batting strength of the Red Sox, as Roth has been hitting .315, according to the | latest averages, against .268 for Strunk, and Shannon has a mark of 277, against .250 for Barry. On the other hand, Mack apparently | needs an experienced’ man in his infleld to steady Joo Dugan, the brilliant young shortstop, and Burrus, the colt firat base- man he’ means to’ put in George Burns's place in the near future. He will get this man in Barry, who can work at short or second, and who for Years was one of the main cogs of the Mack machine, On Lifetime averages Roth and Strunk figure about on a par. Strunk has been lo: in the big leagues and is old, while Roth Is twenty- 280 hitters, and Ticket looked the | Toroa THREE MORE. S.A. ATHLETES REACH FINALS IN PARIS cameos, Trio of Pershing’s Men Qualify in the High Hurdles and Sprints. PARIS, Friday, June 27, — Three more Americans qualified for the final events of the Interallied games in both the 110 metre high hurdles and the 208 metre dash. In each event two Americans won their heats in the semi-finals and one ran second. The hurdiers qualifying were Robert L Simpson of Chicago and Fred .W, Kelly, Los Angeles, who won their heats; and W. B. Ames, Oak Park, Il, who was second to Wilsoo of New Zealand. ‘The qualifying sprinters were Edward Teschner of Lawrence, Mass, and G, W. Paddock of Pasadena, Cal., who won their semi-final heats; and Marshall Haddock jr, Kansas City, who ran sec- ond to Howard of Canada. Teschner’s time wae 23 seconds flat, the best of American athletes took the first three places in the gre: throwing contests. Chaplain F.C. Thompson, Los An, yron ‘a throw of 74 9-10 metres, His brother, 8. C. Thompson, was see- tm with 73 1-10 metres. Dominick qv cavage, Luzerne, Pa., was third. ‘The soccer’ football ‘team represemi- ing the United States beat the dians in @ strong finish. Postponement of the 100 metre dash final Was protested by French journal- ists. It was explained, however, by Col, ‘att Johnson of the Games Committee having been done out of fairness. to winters, who wished to t The track was slow beca rain, The attendance was small. The first incident to mar. the good feeling that has prevailed ‘during the games occurred when a number of French enlisted men, contestants in th ames, were invited into the cove ftand'siands when rain began to fale When American military police told them to leave, the crowd protested. After much hooting by the crowd and shoving and pulling by the military, po~ lice, Col. Johnapn of the Games Com- ittee overruled the police, Order was tablis nd good feeling soon > PROHIBITION LEADER NOW * OUT To STOP BIG FIGHT, WASHINGTON, June 27.—Representa- tive Randall of California, who initiated the wartime Prohibition movemént, pow wants to prohibit prize fighting. He offered a resolution to-day in the House calling on, the Governor of Ohie to prevent the Willard-Dempsey bout Scheduled to take place on July 4 af Adis resolution reads as follows: metic ok thes Uniled Beareaeres sentativi e Unite; America that His Excellency, the ¢ ernor of Ohio, be requestes the power of his executive office to pi xent the threatened desecration of Nation's birthday by 9 prise te Scheduled to occur in Toledo. which Would dishonor the Nation throughoye @ world.” MARRIAGE BUREAU RECORDS SHOW WILLARD TO BE 37, LEAVENWORTH, Kan., June Jees Willard, champion heavyweight pugilist, js thirty-seven years poling’ to the records at the marriage license bureau here. In order to decide a wager regarding Willard’s age the clerk of the County Court to-day exhibited the license record book... which, showed that on icense 4 Je 27. Sunshine and Shadow “Showers today,” weather man. That isn't bad news for week- end vacations. Showers don't last. 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