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| @ral made much of. i ‘ } sersation. LONG about ghunks. Despite hid lack of size and Poundage he is said to possess un- fanny ski!) and a knockout wallop of Which a lightweight might boast. Wilée came to this country a few months ago duly heralded. He was dined, patted on the back and in gen- He looked all that hed been said of him. Then | Without even considering the import- _ @moe of a change of climate, which _ he had undergone, or perhaps with ap inflated idea of his own ability, Mharkey. As usval, he gave away a lot of weight. Sharkey not only wtayed witn the little Englishman; Wut some reports said he beat the fyweight. However, no one with a knowledge of ring affairs could take nie bout seriously as a reflection on the visitor. GHT fans hereabouts have waited patiently for a glimpse of the Young man fm action and to-night they get their opportunity over in c _ the Fourth Regiment Armory tn Jersey City. Wilde will be pitted against Mickey Russell, a local pro- duct whose chief claim to fame is that he is fearless, rugged and hard _ te burt. Berides he 1s Irish, and as a rule Trishmen take particular delight in fighting Englishmen, Wilde, how- ever, if he is half as good as Eng- lish critics have proclaimed him, ' should win handily, If he dosen't, | then we must believe that he has lyn, who has a rival boxing # a, that of Senator Walker at , didn make much of a hit sving before the Judiciary Com- ) Mites and “knocking” the Walker Measure at its public hearing. In doing 0, he did more to block the legalization of the sport than the two _. reformers, Messrs. Canon Chase and _ George W. West, who objected to the DIR on Khe hackneyed “prize fight” = Ross would have done well to wtayed away from th % wanted 19 Tertend: to have kept ifews to fhe Walker th, iiie action. in keeping with to gee a boxing statute books again. nsideration to Cam it be that Ross ‘atker and wants the tethering boxing’? Snow hfaptesirt it may not 2 Walker bit point out the pos mbRity that a compromise may be reached limiting bouts to only elght rounds. ‘This would be a joke. Batter > no ation on tfle subject than th: ding for eight round contesta: would simply be a reversion to ‘gen round idea was welcomed sim- ly because it was calculated that © wenld put-an end to the twocates | \ affairs with their return engage- ments, at which most of us have ¢ 4 segte tired of looking, 34 je fear, as some one expronse: that the fifteen round init eats nermit a Canpentier-Dempaey fight ‘ere, shoukin't interfere with legal ising the sport in the State. What of % if Dempsey and Cazpentier aid o ten 4, 0 t here? Is not New %@ a boxing contest or a theatrical oe? interest of boxing at heart are SWopsibility of. m round boxing bouts here, they ich will ena’ th Wwelve round affaira here th lally speaking, as the other side of the riv lew Yorkers wouldn't make the to Jersey City, Newark and other Ints to ste short bouts with others ever a longer youte right in their own Wack yard. Acco man Sullivan of just introduced a bili ingly, Assembly - New York Gets First Glimpse at Wilde, English Boxing 10:30 to-night we'll know just how good this mite of an English fighting ‘Man, Jimmy Wilde, is. For some years past we in America have been Jed to regard him as @ marvel of Marvels among ring fighters, without eer having seen him, because of the Mecounts of his ability which have Teached these shores. Weighing in the neighborhood of 100 pounds, he | Nas whipped nearly everything in | giving away weight in At, — nance eT . ° 7 5 vie WORLD won EBBRUARY 19, 1920. ORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK URBDAY, F me THOUGHTS ON THE BOXING BILL -_ - Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Hvening World) | was | through CERTAINLY? wHart (Ss IT? ONE fe Bis AH WAS SLIGHTLY CONFUSED AT ALBANY Ne STEROAY Y/ YW; Z PS PICTURE OF CROWD GOING TO JEASEY CITY AND NEWARK IF THE BLL 6Om S THe Wrestling Match for Life Only One of Many Danger. Met in Russia Zbyszko Ordered Shot as Austrian Spy, Heavyweight Champion Es- caped After Beating Aberg in Life-or-Death Battle in Petro- grad—Eider Zbyszko Plans Busy Mat Campaign Here. By William Abboit. WRESTLING matoh with death as the losers reward was just one of many harrowing experi- ences that Stanislaus Zbyszko, giant) among heavyweight wrestiers, en- countered during his five years’ stay fm Russian. The veteran mat cham- have | pion ts just back in this country with | Bothner's gym enovsh tales of axivenwre and thrill- ing escapes to Ol & book. The elder @byeako bad many close calls while eld aa an interned Austrian during the war, and later with the rampant Bolshevitel, but the narrowest escape of all was during a life and death vith Aberg in Petro- Tt was during the in Russia that Zoyezko was acheduled to appear in a wrestling tournament in Petrograd On learmng this, Aberg, according t« byexko, bired about 100 army de- he was an Many entreaties proved futile, Zbyszko asked to be allowed to meet Aberg before being shot, ‘This request was granted, be Ruswian giant was has-, tly summoned, Zbyszko was told he would be shot on the spot if he lost the matob, For two hours and forty minutes the two gladiators struggled with every hold and trick known to the ancient sport. Finally Stanisaus threw his opponent. Rushing to a corner of the Zbyexko scattered 1,000 rubles. Wile the frenzied soi- diers jd after the money Shyenke maxio his escape. bis meeting with Aberg in Petro rad Was easily the greatest match in Soyerkos long career. And Aberg contrary to reports received in the | United States that he was killed in ‘York entitled | the war, ei ar DEG bemied everatbiag, wheter: | erate teee es brings word that the Russian giant fleeing from the Bolshevik: the Ukraine only a few 1614 found the elder Zbyazko in Pet- asleep at theewitch, Scenting the | rograd. "He was. immodiataly | in- legalized twelve or! terned as ap Austrian anemy. them to compete | ficials, b, . It is realized t With ‘eight round bouts ‘there wat | siderable Nberty, bottom ~ soon fall out of the sport, far as it m County has raising tho of Jersey bouts from eight to We liberal months ago and by now should be VIER in Jersey thone who have the | s#fe in Turkey. The outbreak of the world war in on the job, framing } ath n | Brteon. Because of his wrestling fun ng friendship with high of- Zbysrko wax permitted con- |exhibition for the Czar shortly before |that monarch was captured by th Rolsheviki, troubles, The veteran's money was taken. In exchange he was given worthless Bol- ‘sheviki curren Were secure weighs about 260, was reduced to nea 200, while he wandered around seck- ing 41 escape into his native Poland. the way to Finally his opportunity came, Atd\ Stanislaus At no jtime, however, was he committed tc Once he gave an It wag only when the Keds overran the desolate country that Zbyseko's real troubles began, Almost every day brought on serious Food and clothing Zbysako, who usually bagk to Poland, and for a time helped to put’ that young nation on its feet. For a short period that part of tur- bulent Hurope was governed by the strangest combination of statesman- ip produced by the great wa Paderewski, the pianist, and Zbysak the wrestler. Poland now is quiet, says the re- turned mat champion. ‘She has a well organized army and is concentrating it on the Russian border to check the progress of Bolshevism. Apparently Poland is not dread- fully shy on foodstuffs. While in his native land @byssko's weight ehot up close to 275 pounds. After planting his huge brogans on American soil the mighty son of Po- land, as Joe Humphries would an- neunce, quickly started work to re- duce his bulging waist line, Jaunts on the road and dally workouts in George jum are expected to bring the giant's weight down to the jevel where he can compete in the catch-as-catch-can class, a form of wrestling Zbyarko hasn't attempted for a number of years. If advancing years and Jong absence from active competition are not too much of a handicap the elder Zbyszko hopes to challenge Joe Stecher for his world's championship, — BASKETBALL NOTES. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 19.—Yale wes lucky to win an extra period basketball game from Columbia last night. The score was 32 to 31. A goai from foul shot by Van Slyok just at the close of the five-minute extra period was enough to give the Elis the victory and keep them tn the running for the champlonship, — College Sevtiemant, claimants for the 116-pound ghamplorship of New York, made their recard ten wins against one jogs when they defeated the omck St George Five iby a 12-10 score. ‘The game wae featured by the great work of Wilt Steir for the winners, i Annunication Five have booked two games for Sunday and Monday m the firat date they hook up against the crack combination af Nat Tioman's while the hailday contest will be played against Robin's Dry Dock quihtotin The games will be staged at Bbilng's Casino, 156th Street and Third Avenue. Ironbound Creseents, winner ef last year's Ironbound championship — of Newark and contender for this season's tide, would Itke to book games with the Crescenta of Brooklyn and teams of like strength, » G, Kant, former member of the 13th Regimept Associa- tion af the city af churches, is manager af the Irenbounds. He can be reached at No, 44 Pacific Street, Newark, N, J. for to-morrow wil bring together Am- heret at Wesleyan; Amherst Agwies at Pratt; Connecticut Aggies Hampshire — State; Springteld; Trinity at Woree: Poly Bucknell at Temple: Ursinus at Cani- sum; Colgate at Worcester and West Virginia at Lafayette, games echeduled are: Columbia at Dart mouth; Rochester at Troy Poly} Col- at Brown; Union at Byracuse; Amherst Aggies at Stevens; ‘ufts at Boston nnecticut Aggies at Worcester Tech Buek Pittsburgh at Penngylvania State, the Wallace Catholic Cy part of next week, ‘1’ five Phy , Aided final game — between Unity an it. John’s for the nah & College basketball games scheduled at New artmouth at Saturday's | #t7eeta ave responsible for the postpone- | Cl New York University; Vinanova at Franklin and Marshall and Unity Council will hook Up against | Academy yoaterday. date, of the MAYBE WEE 6EE CAN TELL, THE NAY FIGHT FIEND. LIVE WIRES By Neal R. O’Hara. Govretght, i930, by Tho Prem Publishing Os. (The New York Rvening World.) Walker bill will be lucky if it gets by without a rider. 8 @ Phoney rumors of Reuther going to the Giants and Johnson to the Yanks show the scribes have gone in for moving pitchers, eee BABE RUTH INSURED FOR $160,000. MUST.BE A GREAT SATIS- FACTION FOR THE BABY TO KNOW HE'S WORTH THAT MUCH DEAD OR ALIVE. ee © On account of this being Leap Year we get an ertra six-day race this year, ate. 3 Jimmy Wilde is cleaning up like B. neo. for Tex, Brady for Curley and Cochran for Coffroth. © ee MAKE A FARCE OUT OF THE BIG NIGHT. 8 It the Governor of New Jersey is elected Presid King and call him Edward I. 8 @ French champion bantam i Maeterlinck, Johnny Drinkwater and Sir Oliver Lodge. will try to get in touch with La Dough. oe . Colle; will soon be graduatin see Lansing is still at the head of State affairs in Michigan. AY OLLIE, By Thornton Fisher COME HITHER, SPIRITS DO WE GET 12 08 1S ROUNDS IN THE Stare? SIROLVER Lor BE ABLE TO GET SOME INFO" WILDE WILL DRAW DOWN ABouT @ 4/0,000 TONIGHT FOR BATTLING RUSSELL WHO WILL GET THE EXERCISE Next move for the Yanks should be to insure their bats for $150,000. ee victory in all jum did with his Wild Man from Prohibition has put a lot of goif clubs in the hole, but not the 19th, o Bh te ‘Theatrical guys are displacing the fight promoters. Fox now batting IT LOOKS LIKE THE THRATRICAL BOYS WERE TRYING TO heir boxers with the degree of K. 0 ee Anyway. the storm made every New York street a great white way What Happens Every Day Columbia Tur Good Score. ‘The Columbia University rif completed the shooting of its first matoh in the present intercollegiate rifle season yesterday afterngon and finished with a higher score than any thus far this season. W. P. Schweitaer was high man, with 197 out of a pos- sible 200, while the team total was| are: Ice 970 out of possible 1,000. The re-| skating, sults of the matoh have been sent to Washington for examination. Olympic meet at April Breese Too Light for Ice Boat Race. RED BANK, N. J. Feb. 19.—Al-| ‘wrestling though George W. Bray's ice yacht| 15-26 Daisy, defending the third class ice ne yacht championship of America, had| fitting: Rug.) "S: ned more than a lap over James (modern), A O'Brien's Jack Frost before half of| (eatch-as-cate the twenty-mile course had been cov- ered, the breeae was so light and tho| A ice so soft that the time limit ex- pired before the race could be fin- ished. Consequently it was put over till to-day. Aug. 1 ;, pent: dectahion, Aug, Aus. Notre Dame Not te Piny Harvard, | ~ CAMBRIDGR, Mass, Feb. 19.—~The renget for Oct. 9, has been cancelled at the request of Notre Dame, No rea- @on was given for making the request. Snow #8 e Balk Walkers, The snow and ice which decorate the| York bantam, and to Col y Island walk was pu nth 11 Sy Be | Ly Brooklyn Poly at_ Weat | yesterday Memori meh's clever baxi: i at|many heel-and-too athletes entered for| Wolfe looking bad, the last three Princeton; this walking classic were notified yes-| rounds Lynch cul joose and for a time Hamilton at V |terday by the American Walkers’ Club] it looked like Wolfe might take a at Washington and Jefferson; Wesleyan | Of the postponement count. such they ‘will be remat | aera remate | Three Men tm Billiard Tie. ad | Joseph R. Beardsley added another! steeh victory to his unbroken Nat in the Joe Stecher, the nations) Class B 182 balk tine cham-| champion, and Jim Londos, Blonahip —al Brooklyn Billiard anima ¥ & score of 200 points to 1 fatter had player defeated Merritt P. Ma h iment Armor; EVENING WORLD'S OWN SPORT HISTORY. team | SCHEDULE OF EVENTS AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES. ‘The dates of the events for the Antwerp as an nounced in the offical programme, hockey, 1 15-23; boxing, (Graeco-Roman fencing, Aug. 1 fen 3; swimmi soccer football, rugby football, ‘ug. 30-Sept. ‘The track i9 to be 440-yards in etrcumference and will not have a m20-yards straightaway, ‘The tennis matches are to be played on composition courts with a foun- @ation of brick dust and cla; Mathews as a leader for the title, each Harvard-Notre Dame football game er. | D@Ving won three games end lost none, Lynch and Wolf tn Good Bout. QOLEVELAND, Feb. packed house at Gray's Armory here last night, Joe Lynch, the classy New 19.—Bofore ao eveland’s best bantam, fought ene of ment of another outdoor athletic event. | the greatest ten-round fights ever seen ‘The annual Washington's Birthday City| here. Both boys stood in the centre of i K| ering and never stopped punching. Here for Londes Mate. The former Boston | title holder, will wind up training this afternoon for their bout at the Tlst Reg- {g-morrow evening. | The satablished a lead in, the ehampien artived In town yesterday an¢ carly innings, By his victory, Beardaiey spent » few houre working out in Wins Golf Prize At Pinehurst PINEHURST, N. C., Feb. 19—The &ross scbre prize in the Tin Whistle round robin here was won by Parker W. Whittemore, Brookline, with medal of 35, 39, 74, over the No. 2 course. He defeated all three of his competitors by a margin of 5 and 4, First net four was ‘won by S. ¥. Ramage, Wanango, with three wins to BR TR ‘Nterrit Brookline, had an easy . B. , Brookline, an three matters in the second net four. C. B. Fownes, Oak. mont, took the third net four. | C. Hudson, North Fork, won two of hi: matches by one hole. only, the other by 3 and 2 in the fourth net four. BOSTON, Feb. 19.—At the first meet- ing of the’ new officers and Executive Committee of the Massachusetts Golf Association, F.C. Newton was named as Captain ‘of the State team, succeed- ing Francis Ouimet, who declined the honor for the coming season. Ouimet, however, is given a place on the State ‘Team Committee. When metropolitan golfers assemble jat a nearby links for the very first Hourbon | tournament of the 1920 s undoubtedly clash for the {naugyral |honors over the Garden City Golf Ci jon they will ub course, The popular Long Island olub on hie way here to join Jimmy Wilde, | has made urgent request to the Metro- Monsieur Le Doux |? olitan Golf Association that the pri- rity date be assigned for the three- day inviation meet. ep 1 West Has Big Lead Over Skating Races « Chicago Girl BrooklinePlayer Marsans, Ruth and Lewis; That’s How Yank Outfield Will Probably Line Up Cuban Outfielder Who Deserted Club Two Years Ago Intends to Report for Practice and Is Already in Wonderful Condi- tion. , By Alex. Sullivan. and brighter to the owners of the Yankee Club. Now that their internal trowbles with the head of the American League are over, their attention 1s chiefly centrede in the probable line-up of the boys when they start the ball a-rolling in April. Messrs Huston and Ruppert are to- day wearing pleasant gmiles—or at Jeast smiles more pleasant than usual because of the good news that Wal- ly Pipp, the crack first baseman, fbrought back with him from his honeymoon trip to Cuba. ‘Wally told his employers that“Ar- mando Marsans, the clever but tem- peramental outfielder, who deserted field, intended to report at Jackson~ ville for practice next.month. He will be in great condition, too, because he is now playing daily with one of the jocal teams fm the popular little island. Marsans came here from the Browns in 1917 in the trade that sent Lee Magee away. He was going jong at a great galt, both in fielding bevett the bat, for several weeks until a is leg. He failed to be on 4 OT cucwise seagon when the East in Makes Two World’s Records for 100 and 220 Yard Dashes. (Special to The Prenine Wortd LAKE PLACID, N. ¥. Feb. 19 HE international skating races have developed a keen rivalry between East and West. The West captured the lead with Everitt McGowan of St. points by winning both the one mile and half-mile events, Roy McWhort- er of Chicago and Charles Jewtraw of Lake Placid are tied for second with 20 points each, with J, Moore, former metropolitan champion, and M Paul getting 60 Good- man, Western Canadian champion, tied for third with 10 points each. for the Easterners to overcome, but the rooters of this section are counts ing heavily on Moore, Jewtraw, Leitch and Murphy to bring first honors ift the winter sport this way. While Moore did not get better than one third place in yesterday's races, the Eastern contingent haye high hopes for better results from him in to-day's and to-morrow’'s events, Jewtraw, present holder of the Fastern title, is by no means out of the hunt and still remains the local favorite. Sentiment, of course, plays a large part in Jewtraw’s favoritism here because he is a Lake Placid boy. Up to the present time M. Good- man of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Western Canadian champion, has been the only Canadian to win a place, taking third in the one-mile event, nosing out Joe Moore. Russell Wheeler, Montreal, has been unable to reach the finals in any event. Sergt. Ray Smith, the Camden (N, J.) heavyweight, who sprang into the pugilistic limelight in ons night by decisively outpointing Bob Martin, the heavyweight champion of the A. E. F,, in a ten-round bougat Cleve- land a few weeks ago, is matched for 4 return battle with Martin at Akron, O., on March 17. They will battle for twelve rounds for @ large percent- ‘age of the gross receipts, Smith is aiso matched to fight Johnny O'Con- nor, a Brooklyn heavyweight, for twelve rounds at Akron, ©. next Monday night, for & peekponement, ' round event of the aftemoon’s show against no leas formidable © foo than Jackie Clarke, the Allentown middleweight, While he has been keep- Fdidie Wallace, the Byooklm lightweight, who is «till in Autralia, evidently dees pot chink that Liew Edwards, the Ausirelian lightweight champion, would have a chanes with our cham. pion Menny Leonard for in bie letter to Mike MoUowan @ (aw days ago he cays thet Kawards bad beter stay away from Benny aa he surely would take bim if they ever meet, Charlie Beecher, the cast side featherweight, reports that he is in the best of condition for bis bout tomorrow nigit with Frankie Dixon of Brooklyn at the West Hoboken A, C., Paterson and Summit Avenues, West Hoboken, In Dixon Beecher j# mecting no novice but a boxer who knows afl the fine points of the game, Willie Grencer, the New England fiyweight chacpion, wi crom gloves with Young Sieger of Hoboken ‘The third eight. “| town Sportamen’s Club of Allentown, Pa, on the Bight of March & As both men are game battlors thay will most itkely furnish @ very interesting fight, ‘They will box et 165 pounds, Battling Rodtty, the New Kingland States featherweight champion, was signed up last night by bia manager, to box fitteen rounda to a de. cision with Kid Kester, before Johony Abrams's alub of Now Orleans, La, om Mamh 8, For thig battle Reddy will receives @ guarantoo with the privilege of accapting 80 per cent, off the grows HINGS are appearing brighter the chub two seasons ago because he'| | coud not play regularly in the out- Rochester at Goldsboro, N. C. jo ee- tablished two world’s records in the flat, respective! ss Johnsen breezed in an easy winner in the 320- yard dash, trailed by Miss Dunlap of ho beat Miss Elsie Muller rk by about two yards, In to her li This gives the West a large margin | This comes as rather a TO-NIGHT at‘Sacon's rexer Oftice, Normandio Hotel, Broad THUM “BOWLING AND boys went South to train, but showed up in time for the opening of the, regular season. He was not in th best of form and was benched in fa- vor of Elmér Miller. The Cuban be- came peeved and deserted the club. ‘The dark-skinned outflelder is sorry now that he left the team and if he comes back should inake a good run- ning mate for outflelders Duffy Lewis and Babe Ruth, At any rate hig presence with the club, providing, of couree, Manager Hugging forgives him, will make the problem of r- star leider for the ) easier to solve. At hin ans is good enough to travel in any company When Manager Huggins arrives here to-morrow for the purpose of trying to see to it that several hold- outs are » the team moves southward probably find the famous Babe Ruth on hand to greet hun. Babe is up in Boston and to-night Is being ten- dered a big reception there. Tt is reported that Manager Mo- Graw is coming here from Havana early next week so as to put through a deal or two before his lads start for their training camp. ‘The New International Leagme, at its meeting here, at which a sch of 154 games was adopted, refused to follow the lead of the major leagues and raise the price of tickets, The opening dates were egreed on a8 fol- lows: Akron in Jersey City, Toronto tm Reading, Buffalo in Beltimore end Rochester in Syracuse. Toronte will train at Columbus, Ga.; Buffalo Raleigh, Akron at Ifot Springs, Byra- cuse at Tarboro, N. C.; Jersey City at Lakewood and Baltimore amd surprise, as in past years Wheeler has always shown well. Wheeler ap- pears to be drawn a bit fine and may_. be overtrained. Harry Cody, another Canadien, from Toronto, qualified for the half- mile final, but fell after half the distance in the Miss Rose Johnson of Chi woman's championships, winning beth the 100 and 220 yard fast time of 5 seconds 1 Miss Johnsc to beat Miss inson of Tor Automobiles Will not stay 100°, efficient Guesswork Is Expensive It is the ability of the operator that counts and this can easily be gained SCHOOL Founded 1909 Mechanical Class Course, 66, Includes 24 Shop Lessons, ith Driving =” == 90, Day and evening classes marie, "Private eourees srtangea™ SEND FOR CATALOGUH 4 225W. 57th St., atB’ way Telephone Circle 5270. ne “A rub every day keeps dandruff away” ED. PINAUD’S HAIR TONIC WILDE vs. RUSSELL 1p ACADPMY. B'way & Sit ot THEIR ENGAGEMINT . delicious SOLID Mints