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re | (THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, MKROW 2¥, r920. oe a BiG SPORTSMEN APPEAR = (BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK ‘iiwsa “AS AMATEUR BOYING CAINS SOME MILLIONAIRE DEVOTEES OF BOXING ~ | RETURNS TO TE AT Copyright, 1820, by : Press Publishing Co. (The Now York Evening World : , AGAINST JOHN Ol FAVOR IN MANY LANDS E Londos to Give Demetral yous Chance to Even Series on the Same Card. Be America, Australia, France, Canada and Other Countries Now ‘Boast Millionaire Devotees of Amateur Boxing Which Years Ago Had General Popularity Only in England. ee anislaus Zbyszko will get a chan |to prove whether or not he is t same old terror of the mat when j Meets John Olin to-night in the 7 Regiment Armory at 34th Street andy Park Avenue. / By Robert Edgren. It has been ‘some yeare since t eo gai Coprricht, 1990, by The Prose Publishing Co. (The New York Rrening World) Jonce mighty Pole bas met a man d CENTURY or @o ago the “boxing amateur” was peculiar to Ings Olin’s ability, and time was whet? land, many of whose kings and most noted statesmen were keen even the immort 3 had hh [| toNowers of the sport. But boxing has spread all over the world, * hands full to his championsh dnd a lst of the well-known men in the United Stites, Canada, England, E MR. BIDDLE USED To >; pe ¢ fron the elitohes of thls fellow wn > France and Australia who like to Poe Geen ae” : } MUR ap ees ae 14] have a ringside seat would look like biggie i ane fren Go oul? toe Jim Londos too will appear.’ Hoe | an international directory. * ti >” ihe wali wi laa bg d a val ie Just now each country has one wT ee seven yeare the champion of all the noted amateur whose name is known Greeks. the world over, In America Anthony J. Drexel Bid- dle is becoming quite a figure in news of boxing events. Major Biddle is a real “amateur” in the old sense of the word. He is enthusiastic over everything connected with boxing, takes pride in having some practical knowledge of the sport himself, and is Berore we was 4 ‘Tommy Milton Wins Auto Race; LOS ANGELES, Cal, Mareh 29. smmy Milton, driving fifty mil nding much time trying to have boxing recognized and legalized all x War Neko Victor Biter, | the one mile and x quarter Los @ver the country. Hoe is head of the Army, Navy and Civilian Board of s . Ee ae z OF CRANCE Was ALWAY peedway in 36 aminutes and Boxing Control, and of the new Inter-@—————————_—_______ “ . blldpyiey *CLEAN UP ar | oflne GE OS 00 1b W eerted 6 Mational Sporting Club of New York, | professionals: ‘ ; P ERICA. j onal sport. For a long time 4 AN ALL-AROUND SPorT erp get . } Which will probably in time become }he managed Longboat, the famous ifs, average for the fifty mites wa @s famous as the National Sporting | Canadian Indian runne and was one 20,000 Fans at Newark Bike Races.| Carpentier Impressen Jim Corbett. Mion Jed te way aoross the Club of London. Ob) Okbadaa AuivoHiHas in: naiauy About 20,000 spectators witnessed| Jim Corbett, ex-heavyweight box-| [ule wih nosal iedaie Paton out hd Years ago Mr, Biddle developed al sport. When the war came Tom MR EUGENE Coney THE : the opening of the bicycle season at/ing champion, after boxing with | sec Th ' . Famous r | RENE Macdihiy with the greatest] Flanagan and Ms frend. Mr Green ENGLISH SPORTSMAN, UPSET ACC ENGLISA the Velodrome in Newark yesterday | Georges Carpentier. the’ Buiropean | init : tnt H fingmaster the sport has everjof Toronto, organized the Canadian pe ROR ten, We Rerencep Bouts a saw ditt Kramer start él 08 | {he latter was viaitir pacientes Wade ‘ i . 0 oder of | Fatrio pclatio a 3 STEAD OF FROM & SE: - nis twenty-first season as a profes-|'PS, bs Beebe iA | ° / known, Bob Fitzsimmons, holder of| Patriotic Awsociation, to raise money We DID WAS AS A FANG cre Ue s Che, Fi sional bicycle. rider, by winning a|, EL Want it distincdy understood that) Old Neckties Made New rt the middle, light-heavy apd heavy-|to give Canadian troops athletic sup AMERICAN Boxers . . Bow Firzsimmons GAVE MR BipdLE special one-mile invitation race from See Ch ie COHN De ama here at per Dozen. Send Old Neekti 4 Weight world championships. In 1901] ples, then enlisted a regiment. of Ldlibion Alston pil baictanstne Se ete ee ee eee e erage wine but Carpentier showed such wonder: | barrel Feet. te Dew. 0 OVA N NECKTIE. RE NGG he published a book for Mitzsimmons,|Canadian athletes. Mr, finished in that order. ful form during Publishing being one of ts special-|came Colonel, und Tom Fl an arring With him that I am con- | tee, Av Br. igs publishes at Jost Captain in the regiment. Later oe GE@MNES, int George Burns, vinwed he ill prove & worthy. Ob: | TUM Ravina ann BILTiA one religious paper/and innumerable | Was put in entire charge of the ath- ] | EF hew great a fighter Dempsev is. ACADEMY. Biway & 1st aga Wom inser tat be tans prarjinaiieimiarne'rinenscen| L2A00€ Best Left Fielder | By Neal R. O’Hara. 4t can be seen that he had a lot of |nd originated the “Flana Copyright, 1920, ky The Press Publishing Co, (Tas New York Brenas Weel) reer be he brief period 1 was State St. Brooklyn. NV. E fespect for Fitzsimmons and his|f army sports that was adopted by ) . Graft. About that time Mr. Biddle|the English Government, and lar uy Now Playing League Ball ig Became so interested in boxing that followed by the United Slate + Tie induced Bob to visit him for a] Flanagan seldom misses a champion »-| Local Team’s Crack Outergardener Rated Ahead of All Rivals— time on his country estate near Phil-|#!P ring Might. He went to I ing camps of Dempsey and Willard at Carpentier’s arrival was a lot more anspicious than a French leave will ever be. Adelphia and act as coach and|®"d to Havana, and visited the tra “Tony,” as his society friends 5 knew RIG prams A very fair boxer |Tledo, although he didn't have time Shoeless Joe Jackson Tops American League Players— Pa eas finider Fitz’s teaching. Ho took up|‘? Walt for the fight a tow days later Wheat Has Slipped, but Still Shows Much Class. Yanks have discovered that there are worse things than being Trolley Dod- Heaths as other men in his class took|C@P!in Fiangan ig likoly to have| gers. Flivvers, for instance. meee i much to do, as an amateur sports er Mer ealt, olo and riding to hounds, on in any future boxing in Canadn By Hugh S. Fullerton. THE LEFT FIELDERS, ‘Tip to Mr. Wilson: When George Washington tried a third term on he ‘As he was of a famous old family.) ngiand's most famous sportsman, HE oustanding features of the AMERICAN LEAGUE, Broadway, he only ran two weeks. | listed in all the Blue Books, some |in the woxing line, Is Hugeno Corti, u I dope on the left flelders, the chicago eR el 4,008 ere ete + People thought Anthony J. had wealthy Englishman of well known first of the outfleld studies, 18) Detroit . 887 196 1,083 Harvard track athletes that are studying form in front of mirrors are i Peculiar tastes. But that didn't worry amily, member of the National Sport-|the remarkably close rating of the|Cleveland . 890 1,082! 50 years behind the girls. i ae d A. J, at all. He spent all of his spare ing Club and many other clubs and n League teams in position pO Ce ny 7'on6| nyu) ea. Te thmé boxing and took delight in show- referee of nearly all the international {Value and the ragged inequalities | Puiudelphia 855 Lost Daw SOT es well A Sed Ae NG Ch cue aes) Eee eae cme noe ft DI A 6 1 D hey ri show oN al League. St. Loui 851 1,024 ing his society friends that they ring battles in which Americans have |Siown in the National League. St. Louis. 024 P ‘i i PF aian't know how to put up thelr taken part in the past twenty ts.{ Of course, the'super-cxcellence of {Boston .......... 834 1 1017 Ruth's batting average makes it took like Frazee’s becn profiteering. OUR GOLF su ITs \ hands. He invited boxers to his coun- Jougene Corri was a clever boxer |G Burns in almost every depart- atts alrelaree sheng, We hope the New York Assembly that gave Broadway daylight sav- ny OUR BU SINESS SUITS | oe try place, had training quarters for himself, He made fine boxers and|Mment of offensive and defensive play |New york. 901 1,118 ing will now give it a return of 2.75 per cent. 6 : them there and put on some lively athletes of his boys. Beyond the army |and the weakness of a number of|St. Louis. 800194 1,084 eae OUR Top COA’ I SS private tournaments in which he often age himself, he gave his time during [ther clubs in the circuit tends to] Pittsburgh rooklyn ... took part, his favorite opponent being the war to all sorts of war athletic | St? le the fig Philadelphia * “that well known Philadelphian, Jack activities. Two of his sons were in THE MORE THE LANDLORD GETS THE LESSEE PAYS. oa 893 180 1,075 854-1868 1,040 es ences at The thing, however, which strikes|Cincinnati .. 858 178 1,036 Prohibition candidates should not be good mixers. 4 O'Brien. I think it was about this the service, his oldest in the British |me hardest is the equality of strength |Chicago . 845 1,029 key aed AY time that the society bug bit O'Brien Army, and his second bi Bageralanawa cin’ the: American” Leawus Boston .... The dollar haircut means more followers of Bryan—that is, of Bryan's (eo) h and he took to wearing evening Corr jr, saw three years of uctive|Jackson, never a great ball player, | == 0 ee ——= | style of coiffure. a s oe , j 4 clothes «nd silk bathrobes and s8Y!N& service at sex, was torpedoed three }excepting in hitting power, showed|one would expect. Duncan evidently . | > | “my gracious’ and “dear mo" instead times and was killed when the trans-| better baseball during the early part|is not as strong as he looked to » Jackson and Mitchell Meet PI of expressing himself in his natural port Dwinsk was sunk by a gub-|vf last season than he ever has|in the World's Series and Moran ap- | | : language. marine 700 miles off the American|pPlayeé—I mean outside of his hit-| pears to have made a wise move in In Ten-Round Bout To-Ni ht Golf coats and knickers all ready to wear--the |) . PT. TOM FLANAGAN PUT BOX: | Coast. Gene jr. went into the fighting| ting, ‘There were times when he | securing capable understudies for the ' g genuine English cloth. GAPT. ING ON THE MAP. wt thirteen and was only sixteen when | Played really intelligent ball, although | job, Duncan, however, may improve Matchmaker Abrams expects to see a big crowd turn | ii . £ y \ ht O'Brien a great BO died. It would be hard to find a| toward the finish of the season his | steadily with experience and come to Pande Sa lecindicniasear selte| ca Mine lhe coatat Business suits of the good reliable fabrics. t i Mr. Biddle agen nd sometimes | 20re heroic career than this boy had,| Werk slumped back again. He was] his full power later. Advance Sale Indicates a Sell-} tows Bogash, the Bridgeport welterwelsht, is Son topcoats Arter aalicslined Mie iaises society by anv: aring in2ncidentally, b the war he was|#purred during the early season by| Zack Wheat has slipped somewhat,| ut for Important Light- | Pon con, to-nlam, sect MoNulty at Ube areua idl a a j > hha ‘corner in regulation sec- | PUblic schools champion in both box- | criticism, and instead of breaking | but still shows a lot of class among eight Battle At New Haven April 2. Hugh Clements of altens| Every garment just as correct in cut, as absolute in ee oe ry and evm shirt, and 126 and swimming under it he was stirred to better} the left fielders, chiefly because of weignt battle, M the Armory A A. of Bridtevor, Coun Amn! ctte, as satisfactory in wear, as if you paid $100 A "8 wi sp : ing ough I antic is | hi c ‘ ' - 5, Jack Perry at Pitt 2 year, as ald » . re enthusiastically swinging the towel FAMOUS “AMATEURS” OF playing. rege ugh 1 ral Hels Ne a weep taal : wish to explain shy oo Pe » ‘ : nd carrying the bucket. This proved FRANCE AND AUSTRALIA. slump in Jackson's work during the, to those who are following the dope, By John Pollock. Our special at $50, because we sell direct from our j be te was’e real boxing! Victor Breve: coming season, it is !mpossible to|and who may be trying to apply the] One of the most important bouts be-| FAdie Mtzdmmone, who is fighting in his fact t At all ti "i ips Mr, Biddle wa r Breyer is one of the best) caiculate that in the prelimjnary | figures to their own calculations, that | best form now, was signed up on Satunlas by actory to you. ail our stores. | fan, He seconded O'Brien, by the known boxing authorities in France. figures, I give it merely as @ pre-|it i8 well, especially among the left | tween lixhtweights that hus been fought | ela, GAR MMAR; (6) Wk CA lah: way, in the great ten-round fight Years ago he was chiefly interested |," ‘ flelders, to study their Home lots. in the West in y will be the ten A for a Broadway & Sist St. © rounds at the McKinney Broadway & cK 8e » Sew Yor! aes diction, not based on tsures. A sunfield detract jot of r tie Jackso eA. C, ef Canton, 0., on Ap Delaney One Ay. hid against Ketchel in New York, in oe in bicycle racing and promoted many Stas lid ai ar rete WA SU ee me tel eer gatios round go between Willie Jackson, the, na St ones "a Lagees bin cad 30 East 42d St. eld National Athletic Club on race mects, including some six day i will find in figuring Nels, for in- | Tack local fighter, and Ritchie Mitchell! ig: Wawm Aetchmaker McKinney deckiod to 19 East 41st St. Street—the most sensational ten-| races in America, where he was a J “ Mis dare Daur is stance, that he will not rate as high | ot Alilwaukec, who is one of the stars! have him go agains Fitsimmons P.S—O, babes prey t round bout ever seen in the big city.) nearly as well known as in France, |% bit shocked to find Ne . as the Brooklyn fans want him rated,| of the West hey will clash at the 4 . S.—Opportunities knock—but never knock opportunity. é EF J ‘think that in those days many, Later he became interested jo, {far down the list, Lewis is not, of | because of the fact that he is to be | cream City A. C. of Milwaukee to-night, | lt teolw a if Jack Hanlon will eoon by daoned | Ns geet ? sted in de-| vo viese, quite us good as he was, He |#ssigned to the sunfeld job. Burns's | iff : Pore: | as matchmaker of the Olsmpla A. A, of Phila Arufjeim Thounhis. people were inclined to poke fun @t veloping boxing in France, In the bs if 1 gets | led over the others wouid be greater | °° much in| . is displayed In the) qeimua, Rumor has it that Harry Edwards, the Philadelphia society man who) war Victor Breyer went. through |!® SloW starting each spr and gets lif it were not for the hard sunfield at | Comtest that the advance sale of tickets | gener of the club, ia mot at all pleased with the \ preferred a boxing bout to a pink tea./ nearly four years of fighting, was|*iower every year, Besides, 1 have |t ; Poto Grounds on Saturday amounted to $18000, which| way in which Henlon tas been arrenging bouts | i s 7 . | gs 4h uff's heart is no! in the next artic e a ans that the house will be Out! tor tis (Kdwurde’s) club and for that reason | { But when the great war came along) wounded several times, was gassed |2% Wea that Duft's heart is not in| |] article we will figur ans te te eat ake aad ler centre flelders. by the time the fighters enter the ring. | Edwards intends to make the club's matches in | } | > be Mr. Biddle enlisted in the Uni and received decorations for heroic | '!" 4 game as it used to be, and ; (Copyright, 1920, by the Bell Syndicate, Ina) | Mitchell recently knocked out Lew the future, Biates Marines and saw service 10! action. that shows in his work vi steal Pa Pe anne meer mpage -—- aa France, winning a Major's commis-| ‘The Australian boxing king is| If we could be certain as to whether tame ‘city, and Jackson won a news. |, "hil Glassman evidentiy waiting for the open sion, Incldentally he introduced the Snowy Baker. Snowy—#o called be- | Connie Mack will keep bis trial line- Open Golf Meet paper verdict over Johnny Dundee in] in pefore be 8 bis good bettler, Lew Tendior, Marines under his direction to new cause of his light blond hair—was a| Up or make frequent shifts, it would | Jersey City. to fight Willie Jackson, The officials of the fighting methods based on his useful] famous amateur athlete, boxer, |be very probable that the Athletics To Start y | ‘o-Day | tee vexing bill calling for twetve-round outa in Goortanen's Ce of ewe tebe fs pet aes ring experience and the fighting tricks) swordsman and swimmer, He ¢om-|Wculd show more figure strength 5 alu week’ eh bah Glug celina’ is acauet simmons, | peted in the Olympic Games in Lon-|than they do. I have had to use At Pinehurst ne lees it wee to be for ax rounds at Senate at ‘Trenton, he had learned from fF O'Brien and others. When he cam back from the war he was more en- passed the bill by a thing Us that thero is enough votes} J; on in several events and was run-|combination figures in doping that @ tall park io “Philly,” ner-up in the heavyweight boxing |, championship. Baker's gymnasium m, and perhaps will be forced to Dillon the Tronx tantamweight ‘haa been local er and him win partiwolarly ores Roberts, an Al and of the Heights!men would change the team outlook | fourteen long holes. Hagen thad the | Prankio Conitrey went from New York to Canada to! Cesino outplayed the team of the In-| cntirely best drives on four of the other s¢ 4 oo Tennis Club b; it ‘mio business in ‘Toronto, He to. 1 in the series which fin yen | Moran, the New Orleans lig Charles aro bitter rivals, New Al MoOoy meets Geist abet: ‘atin etait. iieaieiabibiel holes. | Tellies’s 34-39-18. ras the | matched to met in & twelve-round bout to. de-| a eumising Joey boy when he tackles Hugh thusiastie than ever about boxing a5! ang boxing clubs all over Australia| mend them somewhat before the las PINEHURST, N. C., March nd it Gan sar pve hd bf vm oe by id samen ee an American sport. He has made| have put the Pacific continent on the| final calculat are made, Wash. |The open golf championship begins to- ; The Olres a c ¢ Vatereon Fi trying pis ed iu Geek wel te vip Ki a Jatt ee speeches im favor of boxing before| *thletic map. ington, of course, shows very stron day on the course here, Although | \° set pieces Ree ie tn Wielag” ett daa Bia ced a | — Griffith can handle Roth suc-|Champion Walter Hagen and Jim| : . sili State Legisiatures, has drawn up box and if G - | virtue w Herman ww | Kid) Prederichs, ibe Pennsylvania fighter, for ton img bills and intends to stick to it} $25,000 OFFER MADE FOR |cerstutly and get the best that is in Barnes will be the centre of interest, | wow, Hin bas made | be greaiet atereciion | Tounte ei Harriburg, Pa., oo Aceil 6 ; wniil woxing ts legalized all ovet the! CARPENTIER AND GREB | Bobby out of him, the chances are ay he Abia such other pros as | in the silk ¢ Hilly Murphy of Staten Island, who ts fast de i: Hi i ef fel - ronsal ¢ ons, ( Nichols, Eminet| nto real good featherweight, is signed started the rd of Washington ld st th will | cme i ie into @ real ¢ ‘ country. He star a 2 ie much increased Freneh and George McLean. Among | this wee 7. | up to fiekt Sammy: Waltz of Bridgeport fort = . Boxing Control and the new Inter-| With an offer of $25,000 for a ten-| the amatgure, Francis Oulmet is the | mor a Tartford, Conn., on Marek 50 and iter S a Vas | i: tational 8. C, of which he is Presi-l round bout between Georges Cam] These things show the difficulty of] most prominent onc who will enter | sound Mo [ban Smita, the rugged fighter of Buffalo, for = Ca 3 dent, has bought a $750,000 plot of) pentier and Harry ( Arihir Fe }doping weeks ahead of the start of thar , tee , ip ee ‘ nr ads at Burrhle if oo a yu = —— is see 0 t 83, rs of the calibre of Sa : hy can beat Smith be can get , 2 ground in the heart of New York] representing the Keystone Club of | the and explain why the fie Graham, Parser W, Whittemore and ee etree and is to erect a million-dollar! Pittsburgh Was lO see lures may have to undergo some’ radi- | Peank Junforth, s * ea =a 94 ¢ ipo ny \ ae ol ha i As soon as the professionals clear | %®* Johnny Martin, the Italian lightweight chad club house on it within a few months, | Deseatps, ma the n}eal changes before I compile the in-| git of the way the amatours willl ie 7 who gave faw Tendler a sti battle in — ect a yp] Champion, to J s 1 tues " . bos ta pie py. ft " ‘ thoally tated to It is planned to specialize in amateur} “| lividual values into team va have their own event, the North and | adel bia . ts practically mat f' 4 club would lke " | . - 4 Ak f e ion CG. 4 7 + BR boxing, molding tournaments that will] Vorbes leld. tu mx | it will surprise many to find those | HOWUH amateur championship, whieh | Grit I ree ata cep yar A new mild domestic blend 4 begin here on Wee od mise’ aad adelhia on April 17 Me ' : : bring out the champions in the Amer - lPirates. and Cardinals showing | Qontinue until Abel @ A, rial | One, ra bere ‘aiuady ‘secereed tem, Frank cigarette oval in shape g fean shipyards and other industrial Nardelli Athletic Clab, strength in another department, One] remain here for this’ tourney, and | 4" Ame Dav nay Omen, maichmaker of the National r es centres. The annual ball of the Raymond |eannot he hat think that thea both Herron and Bobbie Jonas may | ve) Os Serpe |G) yas mutemitted torms which Frank Bagley, Made by Py q In a different line, but no less a| Nar Athletle Associatio held }teamy are coming along to a point ae allt pail im eat nt oe cormibaring, 5 Wa ‘ * qportsmnan, is ‘Tom Flanagan of} !*t night in Hidgewood, “Br Alwhere they are actually dangerous Francis Oulmet gave a great exhi- | Das ioara || CUNO eliert, tte aera Weal, Wal Bie PHILIP Morris ao ©... t * (Canada, now inspector in the Do-|[*Paty alten ae elit seems as if the strength of these biti n of long and aoourale driving | ¢ with Joe | sonally upeaiind » ome me val ¢ INC. j ; # we e die n the oourse of 4 mateh played, in tai ted sisi ‘i pean 7 minion Police, Tom Flanagan is a| town, acro Heide. (Tho krand {teams in some positions has been! which Oulmet and “Walter: taser |< © have been | veatzen Park, Jordan, a Newark sensation, 20 for 50 4 : frother of John Flanagan, once| (erring ficion Alber Me) AM) discounted by weakness in others, | broke all even with Louis Teller of |jecns tet Twis ls MT ty q hasky wallop, mecte Al Roberts in one ei H hammer throwing champio: | 5 » po Bmeburn and George Me of | s m Hainer, the) eo. two main events at the Greenville arena, | fi s mpion and a —_ and that they are in the position | B n Be MeLaan of |oiper doing with Jackie Clarke at Paterson, N. i C— remarkable athlete, Tom was a| Hetghis Casino Wins on Courts. | evelopment of one or two] Get Neck. Oulmet outdrove , all| oy Wednesday nist fl and ss he is being spores by Welnery ihe ites athldte hanes whi tual Lawn tennis play where the development of one or (Wo! three professionals on seven of ‘the | nine of Hale Week vetcran Newarker is more than anmiows to ee e ennis playe eb met and Sasionian Studaneas mana ale ae aie ee Kept =p wm interest tm eumtour and ished malaga sed fails to show the strength dn left thet Hegen bed 14 and Molean Th \y quia as” curate in tae ttt Moran | War of Wipes weet wah a baw lat ot eh ao ; ftir é . —— vas — 5 — , 4