The evening world. Newspaper, February 27, 1920, Page 22

The Passing of Kilbane as Featherweight Champion Is Not Far off. HE passing of Johnny Kilbane! We hate to think about tt, but ‘ Mt ip a wure thing that we will have to write that story unless John- fy realizes that the time is ripe for fim to retire with honors intact. Johnny has ruléd the roost among featherweights for eight years, but it temo sure thing that some compara- tively insignificant featherweight \s Mot going to rise up soon and put the Crusher on Johnny, which will rob him of shis title and make the story) of his ring explotts sorrowful to his Kids and. grandchildren. dobnny ts, or rather waa, one of the best Axhters that ever lived. He beat ‘Abe Attell When Abe was guing good. ‘Thore was no fuke to his victory, and he became featherweight champion on dis edie One of these days, judg: > lohnny's showin, "vatger 4 Newark eduaatag hampionship. ad, indeed, that Johnny doesn't this, Bent on the chase for mighty dollar, he won't too late. Just now matechmakers are offerin: bane the most inducing kind of fers. Why? Because they know hat if he sticks to the game pe ts go~ to bg knogiced out. They all want © be inkon the history-making sub- judiag a new chaspi ‘CH criticism has been stirred up over Kilbane’s claiming of ‘8 $1,000 forfeit because Was ‘three-quarters of a verweight. Why should he it? The conditions of the match Valger was to make 124 8 o'clock. He couldn't make i all why shouldn't Kilbane down to conditions? =~ is the kind of a fighter that t claim forfeits from any one, the Valger case ihe couldn't do He warned Valger of the of bed when couldn't h, Kilbane ing do but claim his $1,000. Valger of- red to have thé excess weight off; then trupbed R was after 3 ‘k, the official evening in conjunction with between Jim. Londos ‘and 2 Lendos recently Joe Btecber battlo of his life didn't flop two hours and minutes bed elapsed. about the sald: island, “At the last minute my office heard ot the French champion's icament and pulled him out of by rushing post-haste the necesuary $750 to his rescue. All this called for stories, and where ordinarily two inches of space ‘would have sufficed to announce Chevaiter's presence it wus worked Jato frovt-pege stories with pictures, both still and movies. 66QVHEVALIER t the dest wrestler In Hurape. He won the title at the Inter- ed games in Paris, and d the prize sans cash by Gon. 4. J. Pershing. He would not exchange (ho scroll for the largest purse Mered. In that tournament Harl Cad- dock was to appear. dock at the last m.nute refused to entor and re- jurned to his regiment along the Rhine. Caddock's excuse was ilness, Haused by au overdose of was Cheva- Mer, h.+ friends and some of Caddock's own buddies, claimed that Caddock felt that tho game was too hard and refused to wrestle. “Be this ag it may, Chevalier imme- diately after his discharge from the! army got jnto communication with jeor nneuy, the ntreal promo- ter, placed himself under his man- ot and came here in quest of nf the —champlonship addock lost the title, but tll thought of enough to make y over himself a first stepping Je match.” Rezime d Reception. Vincer tae aus Johany Lore, Comprny ik lth Kegim will hold @ reception and ball to-morrow evening armory, 6d Street and Coluni- y The proceeds will be dos toward, a fund tomet te Ith Rew was | ‘HE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, PERRUVARY 27, 1920. . |BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK odgers Start Procession Jonney KILGANE, HOLD After Successful Showing at Annapolis “Master” Coach Makes Sudden Decision to at Ithaca, By William Abbott. N rocketed after the Middies clean-cut victory over tho Cadets at the Polo Grounds last No- ing receipt of. news from Annapolts that Gilman Dobie, the master coach, haw pulled away from the sailors to Cornell's eleven. Dobie’s agreement with Annapolis had another year to run, and Navy cohorts nave been op- bie’s gudden withdrawal to Ithaca ot De Meee be ce Miciy calbow: \ecording to. word from Annapolis Dobie declined to sign another threo. year contract with the midshipmen. ment at Annapolis, but frankly said be could receive more advantageous terms at Cornell. In view of this decision him a release on his old contract. Dobie will succeed “Speedy” at Cornell. Rush went to Ithaca last pointing season, Rush was anxious to retire and Cornell, after looking the situation over, decided on Dobie as the ment. ‘The Middies have not decided on a successor to Dobie, but it is no secret years at Pennsylvania, is being consid- ered for the job. Folwell is free to gu to Annapolis as Penn several weeks Georgia Tech to coach the Quakers, Dobie's career as a football coach has been one long string of successes. not suffer a defeat over a period of twee cme. to. the Naval Academy. in from the University of Washin| fFames wince coming Tas ring of victories was 18 by the Great Lak ing eleven. The midshi TS Nay. With the ‘bat in 0 pia. Ke Sopones territory a Great Lakes ° Zim and Chase Retirement from basebal of both Hetnie Zimmerman and Hal Chase vanguard of the Giant youngsters begun to arrive for thelr spring training trip. for wayward conduct last summer Manager MoGraw sild Heinle would never play another game in a ( be a regular as long as his legs held out. Tt wes reported that both men would be waived out of the major pasent nea Take Speedy Rush’s Place AVY football stock, which sky- vember, takes a decided slump follow- sign a thré@-year contract to coach timistic over gridiron prospecta. Do- A He had no complaint over his treat- the Navy authorities reluctantly guve year from Princeton and had a disap- logical man for the coaching assign: that Bob Folwell, coach for several ago brought John Heisman up from His teams out on the Pactfic Coast did jer a three-year contract, and has giminute ° to Quit Game was reported here to-day as the carly When Zimmerman was suspended uniform, but Chase was expected to leagues. EE ee BRAZIL TO SEND TEAM TO THE OLYMPIC GAMES. RIO JANEIRO, Feb, 27.—The Bras-| fifan Sports Confederation and the Olymple Committeo have reanived to ation of sixty athletes to games at Antwerp thie! J have spewed a credit the spurts wre WHO RETAINS HIS TITLE BY A HAIRS |Navy Football Prospects Slump as Dobie Resigns |% Cornell Teams \G THE SETTING OF KILBANE’S SUN Copyright, 1920, by the Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World). ° man recovered thy ball une fumble anc was off with a clear field. Suddenly # substitute player rusbed out from the side lines au ie a flying tackle. winging the runner do it the ref- vree was wide awake the r ne last fall, but wn. pu a blaze of glory when (he midshipmen beat the army seam from Weat Point for the frat Uae in several years. HAMILTON, N. Y., Fob. 27.—Jamen T. Laird of Montpeler, Vt, Captain- lect and star halfback of the Colgate tvotball team of 1919, has been de- clared a professional and debarred from further participation in sports here. Laird, in company with several men from Syracuse and Colgate, played in professional game at Buffalo on the day following the Syracuse-Colgate game, Appearing before the Colgate Ath- letic Advisory Board, Laird admitted having played part of the game. He wos romney joclared a professlona! as since left Colgate. will bi particularly as Gill nd Anderson will be graduated next June. Roy D. Wooster, 1931, of Bingtam- ton, automatically succeeds Laird as Captain according to an announce- ment made to-day by the Colgate thletic oMclals. wed un| Meadowhrook’s Postponement For aiexnr MEARS JOHNNY HAS BEEN BOSS FEATHER- WEIGHTS F ME IT AS DOVETFUL IF HE WOULD LAST IN A AS ROUND BOUT AEAINST A FAST YouNGSTER. Veteran Golfers Hlonor Travis PALM BEACH, Fia., Feb. 27.—-A phase of last night's annual dinner of the Old Guard Society of Palm Benc! egifers was the genuine affection dis played for Walter J. Travis by mor than one hundred prominent golf: rs attending from/‘all parts of the coun- try. Travis had resigned as Presi‘ent on account of ill health. Col. J. Ernest Smith, Wilmington Country Club, wao replaced him, offered a resotudon pasted unanimously with cheers, mak- ing Mr, Travis “honorary President of the society for life.” The resulu- tion asserted that by voice and pen he has upheld the true ideals of .he game and had been the greatest ex- ponent of the actual play “and that the special office be created in ex- pression of his services to this society and in testimony of ‘he high esteem in which we hold him, as a man, a friend and as ‘golf's Grana Old ma. Helps P. O. Clerks’ Meet Pa So en Entry of All Stars Now As- sured for Mailmen’s Ath- letic Carnival. By Richard Freyer. HILE the indoor athletic season for 1919-20 bas not many more weeks to run before “taps” 1s sounded, several important meets are scheduled before its close. The most important of these are the memorial games of New York Post Office Clerks’ Association (of which good old Tommy Slevin is President), to be held at the 69th Regiment Arm- ory, Satuxlay evening, March 6. The Meadowbrook games were scheduled to be held at Philadelphia on the samo date, but the Quaker authorities have postponed their games indefinitely, and the clerks will benefit by securing the entries of star athletes who figured on performing in the home of William Penn, ‘The committee in charge of the mail. men's carnival has already succeeded in getting signatures to the entry blanks of a majority of the leading track and field stars of the East Some record breaking performances are anticipated, and as the entire p™- ceeds of (he meet are added to a fund used to help out the post office boy» who bunk up against misfortune, a record crowd is expected. ents will Include a 60-yard novice, @ handicap, 600-yard handi cap, one mile novice, one mile hance) cap walk, two mile handicap run, medley relay handicap of one mie. open to ur Athlete Union athletes, Special events will comprise the Post-Office Clerks’ 1,000-yard | vitation scratch, in which Jack Bei lars, Mike Devaney and, ,Anatol: Bolm will start, one mile senior A. A U, metropol.tan championship and two mile “old boys'" walk handicap, closed to members of the Walkers’ Club of America who have passed the forty mark. Two attractions, the Ma- r McKenna 00-yard handicap and Bergt, Joyce Kilmer, one mile inte company relay, are closed to 69th members. Two other events, the 65 yard handicap and 1,000-yard handl- éap, are closed to post office employees. The Metropolian half-mile cham- Mike Yokel, middleweight champion wrestler from Salt Lake City, will meet Cyclone Heese, of ja, 8, ©. In bs # Gymnasium, t, this evening. w & pretminary contest Martin Panama and Gene Bruce pionship race will be the star event at the games of the Morningside Ath- letic. Club, at Armo! the 224 Regiment ry, to-morrow night. Several of runners, including Jack Sellars, tomer Baker, Sid Leslie, Mike De- vaney and Arthur Reilly are ex- pected to toe the mark. An excel- lent list of track and field events is alse on the programme, -— New York Chapter, Knights of Col- umbus, will make its initial bow as promoters when {ts athletic games and reception will be held at the 22d Regiment Armory April 10. The headline event will be the “Casey” 600 yard invitation scratch race tu a special trophy to be competed for each year until the same individual has won the event three times, Seven contests, including a 100 yard, 800 yard, 3-4 mile, two mile,"16 pound shot put, running high gimp and two mile bicycle race, all handicaps, are open to . A. U. representatives, while five events will be closed to K. of C. members, Entries close April 3, with R. W. Kennedy, No. 15 John Street, City. Samaciar Athle'ig Association has engaged Bernie We¥ers to coach tmek team. Berste has the boys working out at the Twenty-second teximent Armory and expects some gteat things from them when the club holds its annual games on Saturday vening, March 16, the above ar- | cll in- An all-star nvitation, 800-yard invitation and two-mile bike race, all seratch events —will be offarod the fans. The New York Athletic star, Murchison, has one log on the 300-yard race trophy ind will endeavor to garner the honors for this event, A two mile relay race between Yale ynd Cornell will probably be con- tested for at the games of Frank B. Whitney Post 200, American Legton, t the Ist Reimont Armory, Newark March 19. Yale han taken’ Harvard Into camp twice this senson and they were achednled to meet Cornell at the Meadowbrook games, The call- ne off of the latter meet, however, aitered plans and. both the Yale management and committee in charce of the Lezion enmes are endeavoring » bring the two college teams to- ether, -_———__— Clark House Roxin ‘Tratning. The Clark House boxing team, un- der the supervision of trainer Jack Team Starts Schwartz, has started training for e championship t conducted in team ia compo, Brown, Sam i Housner, wi Levine nry Brown, Irving Jacobs, Irving Gold, Jack Houaner, ‘Teddy Emma and Arthur - the coun best middie distance on Monday night, BUT JOHNNY ST comects , THE NECESSARY worn Bece. oF MS BouTs finlsh what he started, ee It Cornell's looking for a football Sharpe. ° ‘Tee tefbulations will sume after the Olympic ‘ reer ee Managing a ball clud in St. Louis eighth place. You'll notice a hard-boiled egg is ee Braves again. ee Gii I wioleeet Saget Pals: sows ee inning gets credit for a home run, but ball back? for Half Hour’s —————— Fight Round Bout in Newark| Drew $18,800, of Which Benny’s Share was $3,150. By John Pollock. Johnny Kilbane had a very profit- vble evening on Wednesday night Reeldes getting a guarantee of $8,500 tor boxing Benny Valger 3¢ also took Valger’s forfeit of $1,000 for being! overweight, which made his end $1,500, According to the contract which Joe Jacobs, manager of Valger had with the cltb officials he was to guarantee Kilbane $8,500, the ‘club $4,000 for overhead expenses, was tc be paid for all complimentary tickets over 600 taken in (there being several hundred more than that number) and was to receive 50 per cont. over 2 ross receipts amounte fee on the tickets sold were 8 follows; 200 at $1, 1,654 at $2, 1,803 at $3. 1.974 at $5 and cash in the boves $4. Valger's end was $3,160, Chartey Murray, the fight promoter of Buffalo, who cae bere to ce the Kilteno-Valger pont, fest no time in signing up Kilbane for a tra rind bout at his Queensberry A, C, on Mar, 12, Kilbane will take on Herman Smith, the promis. ing Buffalo fighter, for ten rounds, He te to 16 ceive @ big guaranties for his services AM attendance records for a boxing show beld at Portland, Me, were broken at the Jaci Sharkey-Pal Moore fight at the Pine Tree A, ©, of that cy on Washington's Birthday afternoon, The grom receipts amowited to $9,009 which W the largust sum yet takeo in at a show in that city, Sharkey received $1,502.40 and Moore erew down $1,871.20, Willie Jackson, who fights Ralph Brady, the Syracuse lightweight, In an eight-round bout at tha Esxuin Sporting Cli of Paterwa, N. J., will engage in another bette to-night, He will take on Frankie Schoell, the Builalo lightweight, for en rounds at the Qaeens berry 4. ©. of Buffalo, Jackson i to teosive © qruarentes of 61,280, ‘ ING IN HIS RECENT TS AGAINST YOUNG LIVE WIRES By Neal R. O’Hara. Coprright, 1998, by The Pree Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) Connie Mack has opened the baseball season and we hope he can trials. oe shee the MeGraw-Stoneham split amounts to is 50-60 on the gate Bill Edwards lost his feotball trophies, but he still remains a collector. Cutbill {s @ great name for an amateur athlete ’ 6 6 <6 Hank Gowdy's going back to the trenches. He's signed with the Rule makers have cut down intentional passes and the magnates are working on the complimentary kind. er) Guy that slams the ball over the fence tn the last half of the final The bootleggers are still working the hidden ball trick. ee Kilbane Added $9,500 to Bankroll Work with Valger ha om gua of the o « By Thornton Fisher Pounican HA ASPIRATIONS 2 ) | i] . coach, Yale is willing to return Al . only means managing to keep owt of usually yellow inside. . . get the Rabbit's feet to fill Art what does the kid get that brings the Champion Mike O'Dowd, who ts practically matched to fight Angie Ratner, the Bron mid dleweight, for ten rounds at the big auditorium st St, Poul on March 17, was signed up lest tht to fight Jack McCarren, the Allentown. fighter, for six rounds at the Olympia A. A. kvia on Monday night, O'Dow! omeht to barr woe easiost kind of a time in outpainting MoCarron, Dare DriscoM, manager of the Arena A, ©, of Jereey City, announced to-day that as sdou as Jon Weaver, manager of Jack Sharkey, ie ready to meet LN and talk over termd for a bout be- tween Sharkey and Frankie Burns, the popalar Sores City featherweight, that he will lose po time ia etaging the bout at his club, Drisooll uma these bere would ewvly drew 0 aite of $15,000, Frank De Rice, who has been promoting box shows at Portland, Me., for several yrars, has just secured a lease on the bascball park in his eiy for the pumse of holding open sit boring ebows during the summer months, De Rice says be woul! like to sign up Jack Sharkey and Frapke Bame for isis first outdoor show, Withe Ryan, the New Rrunewick fighter, wilt Probably be matched to fight some good Western 145-p0und battler in one of the three 10.round bouts at the Detroit Boring Club ef Detroit, Mich, @ the night of March 81, Ryan has wou, mx fights in succomion and Matchmaker Boots has decided to use bim at bis club, Gene Tunney, who has won all of his aince he returned to this country, today to meet Dan O'Dowd of rounds at the City A. ©. of Jemay ‘Thursday pight, Matchmaker Fitaperakt has de- cided to tar over what mofey he | tata i three ten-round comtests, Frankie Jerome, tho local fighter, and Kid, a@other youngster who wes sparring partner toe Janay Wakle when whe tonerntxnan rae tram tk tor bas Moot with Shotgun a City, have becg matched by Mulligaa, uw protioten of Walcroury, Goge,t to Meet ia’ one round’ Ounls te the inter Si? Ot Home Ball Players For Southern Quarters —— Faint Signs of Spring as Local Teams Prepare for Training Camps—Giants and Yankees Off To-Morrow—Babe Ruth Still in Boston. tng for the sunny South the winter league is about ready" to close up shop. The honor of being |the first home team to pull up stakes \for Southern training camps fell to |the Dodgers, Several of Uncle Wil- ‘burs hearties left yesterday for |Jacksonville, where the Brooklyn team will iron out the frozen joints in arms and legs. ‘The Giants and Yankees will get in motion to-morrow for their camps, the Yanks to Jacksonville and the Giants to their néw quarters at San Antonio, The Giants’ detachment will be in charge of Christy Mathow- son. While his men are departing ITH ball players actually leav- ) from here Manager John McGraw wil) sail from Havana and will be at San Antomlo t ume to receive his play- ers, Miller Huggins, reneralissimo of the Yankees, who is confined to his room because of a heuvy cold, gave out the names of his athletes who will leave here to-morrow for Jacksonville over the Pennsylvania and Seabvard Air Line. George H. (Babe) Ruth. home- run monarch and highest priced base- ball star of all time, is one of the Players scheduled to leave froin this city. Mreldentally, Ruth tn in Boston, and Huggins has ‘not received any word from his famed slugger talked with him in San Fr Cal, several weeks however, is perfect! the terms that the Yank fered h but an itching Palm for @ portioW of the money that Col Ruppert turned over to Harry Frazee for his services. uggins is not worrying in the e uth, It wouldn't be see the massive -form of Mr. drop into town this afternoon | He nas yet to affix his nature to « New York contract, ‘The other players who wilt a from here hha hert, Thormahien, de Vatalis, Walter Murphy, Benny Gei trainer of the team. Mogridge ie of the four piayers who is holdi out for more ey. the party | ing jodie, mallwood, § rand Al Wooda, rio J. At Philadeiphia wil be gugmentea by Bob Shawkey. piteher; Del Pratt, second baseman, and Bob Kice, a young Ihiladelphia third bage- tan recommended to cing by Shawkey, On arrivil y League, “ivory hunters” of the The other players will hase; Harry Ulemiller, y team of the International lew York Club. Col. Huston and Harry | the training camp. | i ving al DWink players wit U8 PILkEd MIP who will start ef purehased from. the and Joe Kelly, one the direct from thelr homes to the training camp. parrow, business manager of the Yankees, will greet the playere on their arrival @ Al Mamaux, pitcher, “Chuck” Ward. third baseman, and Clarence Mitehe! southpaw, were the Brooklyn players to leave for the South. Accompanie by Harry He tman, the Brooklyn young- tier who ts now a flember of tie Buffalo Club, they sailed on the Clyde fine steamship Arapahoe for Jacksonville. Mamaux has been working out every day for the last week at one of the and will not need much . e he is able to cut with his Ward wil! have take things eas ly, as he recently an operation performed on his knee. The knee bothered Ward all last season and hampered him in his work, John Heydier, President of the Na- tonal League, expects to confer with Ban Johnson ‘again either in this elty jor Chicago, At tho next meeting the new Chairman of the National Commia- sion is almost sure to be named. It will be either “Big Bill” Edwards of this city or Harvey Woodruff of Chi- @ cago. Harry Davis, one of Connie Mack's Heutenants, has obtained # furlough from the Athletics so that he can coach the Willams College baseball team. Australian Champion Is Knocked Out First Time He Fights Here is lew Edwards Falls Before Ritchie Mitchell at Mil- waukee in Sixth Round. MILWAUKEE, Fob. 27.—Liew FA- wards, Australian lihtweight cham- pion, was sent to dreamland by Ritchie Mitchell in the sixth round of a gcheduled ten-round bout held here last night. Edwards took one of the hardest beatings passed out in a lo- cal ring in years. He was knocked down by Mitchell in the second, third and fourth rounds and finally for keeps in the sixth stanza, The bout of last night was Ed- ward's first appearance in an Ame can ring. He arrived from Australia a few weeks ago with intentions of going after Benny Leonard's title. In his native country Edwards had beaten all contenders and had also taken several @American _ pugilists, including Harlem Eddie Keily, Joe Mooney and Eddie Waiiace, the} Brooklyn lightweight, into camp. Mitchell, the Australian's con- queror, is by no means a Second rater, He came close to winning the lightwe'ght championship when Fred- die Welsh held the title by defeating Welsh by a wide margin. The bout was a no decision contest. After that Richie clearly outpointed Johnny Kiloane and at that time Johnnie was Yconsidered at his best. He subse- quently fought Benmy Leonard April 19, 1917, at Milwaukee and gave him a‘hard battle. As a matter of fact up to the time Benny ‘landed the Knockout, in the seventh round, MitcheM had much the better of the going. After this bout Leonard ad- Davis Cup Meet For NewZealand According to late advices from Aus- tralia, the challenge round in the Davis Cup international tennis matches of 1920 will be played in New Zealand and not in Australia, as in recent years. No reason is given for this change of | venue, but it is thought in this couns try that the shift has been made with the a may be. how lnderstanding between the two coloi regarding an alternating of the cup s ries from time to time. It ts too soon as yet to state what effect such a shift will have upon the Mans of the winning nation In the pre- liminary ‘rounds or ties of the Davis Cup series. It is more than one thou- sand miles from Australia to New Zea- land, the trip requiring some three days by eteamer, It is considered probable that should the United States win the right to chal- lenge Austral for the trophy during dea of developing greater nterest lawn tennis in New Zealand. It the prelimin next suiminer the team will sail direct from the Pacitic Coast to Australia, practise there for 4 period and then proceed to, New Zoa- vd for the chatter ge round Made to your mcasure, or a few suits or top- coats, custom tailored, ready to wear. Finest of English fabrics, the famous English patterns and the easy English hang. , that there is some) mitted Mitchell was about the beste nan he had ever mot. So it will be sepn that Edwards didn’t fall before a second rater. Sharkey § Conway. LOWELL, Mass, Feb, 27. Sharkey of New York, scored his second vietory In four days by knocking out Kimmy Coway in one round here last night. Who Said Income Tax? More outgo than inccme these days! 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