The evening world. Newspaper, April 10, 1920, Page 6

ae eee 5 me $e (fas the eight! "doors were closed because the house | i BENNY LEONARD NOW EARNS $168,000 A YEAR Manager Gibson, Discussing Cightweight Champion’s Career, Attributes $482,000 in Gate Money for 1919 Fights to Present Popularity of Boxing—“Successful Ring Stars of To-Day Are Cleanest Livin 9 Men in Any Profession.” By Robert Edgren. Coprrignt, 1920, by The Prom Publishing Co, (The New York Bening World.) Ta 1919," said Billy Gibson, manager of Benny Leonard, “Benny earned $168,000 in the ring, and the gate money paid in at his differe: totalled $482,000.” #ee them in an eight-round bout. queried the lightweight champion's "And can you imagine Britt, Erne, Lavigne and that bunch would earn ‘Mf they were in the game now? It ‘would make me dizzy to try to figure manager. what Gans, Nelson, a" “Leonard's most profitable bout was with Willie Ritchie at the New- ark Sporteman's Club. ‘The gate was $54,000 amd Benny's end was $22,000. The great fight Ritchie put itchie, for Willie surely put it over and Benny had a narrow ea- taking the count. Benny ter all the time and || e's going to last longer than other lightweight champion we @ver had. For one thing, boxers Bowadays are the cleanest living men fm any profession, because they real- t success depends on being. in fret class shipe all the time. There isn’t a preacher in America who can boast that he's cleaner, physically and morally, than Benny Leonard. Any success Benny has in the ring orn was a it | Dundee. “Fve. wondered "when 18 going to begin to stip. He show any sign of it yet. I sat at the ringside that nigttt and Watched Dundee, and I had to ad- Mire the little Italian for his find fighting spirit. I never saw a gamer, finer exhibition than he put up. This h bout between them, ‘and the hardest. Du carried along as fast as he could go. je gate was $33,000. When the! fight there were 10,000 people outside who couldn't get in when the ‘was filled. The pressure. of the crowd broke the doors in, and about thousand people rushed in and in the fisles. They were crazy the bout, Yet there was no disorder, BEATS WORLD SERIES STUFF. ‘ “Twenty-eight thousand paid Mission to the ball park in Phila- delphia to see Leonard and Patsy Cline, Imagine that—28,000 people at “now how about”—— out with me and You'n be sur- Benny's a born actor! ‘ou ought to see him in one of those scenes where he knocks out half a dozen burglars or brigands or what- ever they are. He's GREAT. None of these professional mov: to it any smoother than Benny does, Charlie Chaplin thinks he’s a WO) DER.” That's what they all say. But 1 think Benny will be worth |1ooking o¥er at that. I'm curious to see if he can knock out as many bandits in an eight hour working day as Jack Dempsey IN RING nt bouts up | y in San Francisco made that fight. Everybody was anxious I was sure Benny would win in eight | At the same time I'm not denying that Ritchie had the best of it in| Francisco fight. Benny is lucky in the ring. He was lacky that first has been lucky all along. Som his tuck will break, but he's p evant ssi diag hoitie Amram “Oh, yes,” said Gibson, “T was just going to ask you if you won't come e Benny doing his stars go FOUNEG ON FORA PURSE or FWE Douwars . LRONARD MAKES Metter So PAST WHEN IN THE Ee To WIS Mcome Tax, RAW HE CARRIES A PAD ALONG HE MADE A CHAMPION OUT OF BENNY LEONARD. Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Ivening World.) WHo Aas GoDeD BENNY LR pNARDS PROGRESS From HIS miesT 95, pyeser To EARNING? oF TAR HAD TO ADMIRE P@NTING SI Extra Courses and Others Ma- terially Altered: to Handle Record Play Expected. By William Abbott. Baltusrol and Montclair Links Show Improvements For Coming Golf Season tough course, plans to make the Jinks even stiffer’ with additional traps, | which will be in place in about a | month. The Suburban Club, at Elizabeth, N. J. will build a new club house and increase its present nine holes to a yegulation championship — links. however, accom- Coperight, 1908, by ‘The team that trains in Cuba holdouts. . You can guess which one stays on t Hoover first and Edwards second DUNDEE MRE, LIVE WIRES By Neal R. O’Hara. ‘Press Publishing Ca (The New York Brening World) Unrest among the National League teams Is attributed to the Reds. 2 8 Yanks have McGraw for a pitcher and Giants have one for a manager. (68.000, A ‘ear... next spring won’t be troubled with he bench tho most. shows the Michigan Democrats voted But Says BEY GA NATURAL -Biormis Wole AcToR. — HE KNocns ThE NEE 45 To TH MANHER Bom. North and South Tennis Matches Under Double Headway To-Day|"”.\,. + SPRLN Big Tournament at Pinehurst Speeded Up Because of Post- ponement Caused by Rain. PINEHURST, N. C., April 10. AIN that fell all day and made mud pies of the courts put a crimp in the annual North and suth championship .lawn tennis tournament at the Pinehurst Country Club. Unless there should se a con- tinuance of moisture to-day, the tour- nament will be pushed then under double headway, both women's singles and men's doubles being scheduled. From, what has been noted of the players’ work in the first two rounds of the men’s singles, it looks though William T. Tilden 2d, the defending champion, will eliminate sets to- Oni et Won’t. haw Compete Abroad — In Big Tourneys Francis Ouimet didn't play his fire® round over the course where the next national amateur championship will ‘be played, because his partner, Arthur Holton, failed to show up. The Wood= Jand headliner was all primed for a | day of golf at the Engineers’ Country \Club at Roslyn. @uimet arrived | Thursday night from Pinehurst, where | he Won the North and South amateue | title and launched what many golfers | are inclined to believe ie his great |comeback. It is practically definite | that Ouimet will not go abroad. | PLNEHURST, N. C., April 10.—The Silver Foils closed their golfing scasom with a match play against \bogey im | two classes. Mr: A. Magoony | handicap 17, Oakmont, won Class A with 3 up. In Class B there was a | tie at 3 up between Mrs. A. M, I | (24), Manchester V, and Mrs. B. We Alexander (19), Santa Barbara, Cal. | | ‘The Clarke House boxing team, under the leadersh i training e | plonships to be conducted by the City, 1A. GC. at their club r on April | > | ‘the Cutting brothers, C. Suydam Fuiton, will “meet in ‘the final ro |magch of the national amateur court tennis championship tourney at the Racquet and Tennis Club this afternoons » ‘The victor will meet Jay Gould, the title holder, in the challenge round match on next Monday match between the brothers for the club ttle recently Suydam Was the victor after @ Uaree-hour struggle. Court Tennis Final i nd Fletcher Box Draw, April 10.—« Us contender nweight titles sensational Ho= slashing rounds eree Jake Didier said fight seen here in ten pplauded the boys Another. April 10,—Gene *. champion, who has les so regularly thag he looms up as a strong dhamplonship. possibility, scored another win here last hight ov ck Clifford of Brooklyn tm Banos , Mass., April 10—Al Soldier Burke a trou nd bout before 8 A. C. of Chicopee ste | Benedict ga the forme? national junior title| jiy'in a twelve-roi holder has been very erratic on all| members of the At his volleying and overhead play. | !4sU 0 ages is too crafty a player to be overcome by such tactics and is quite pable of working an upset iff Throckmortom does not pull himself together. In the lower brackets the feature | match is the meeting between Carl- ton Shaefer of Philadelphia and Sam- uel Hardy, formerly of California, but now of New York. Both are court veterans and back court players and both have won national honors in the doubles. Steadiness is the main asset of Hardy and his opponent of to- day, 80 everything points to a pro- tracted struggle for the victory. Har- dy hag had the benefit of more prac- tice this winter and this may prove the deciding factor R. B. Bidwell of Boston ands. Howard Voshell of New York will meet to-day in the st bracket, and all signs point to a Voshell tri- umph. The former national indoor champion is entirely too accurete a Say cope like cpt pers the That's how you pronounce “ED. PINAUD” ' It is better to say a namecorrectly, but the main thing is to get the Don’t accept imitations cf ED. PINAUD’S HAIR TONIC The gqriginal French Eau de tive enemy of dandruff, will give you sal tion with safety. Ralph Baggs in straight : day. The champion appears in fine ISTER GOLFER won't have to | Tbs: cannot «be for food and drink, in the order named. vr year, lished t volleyer and too deadly overhead for bout! It sounds more like plished for anol a one of Bidwell, and the match, while it may | big football gumes. | get acquainted with many new! Englewood may change a green or , i wee! ich man's game, | trim right now, volleying most accu-! produce spectacular tennis, looks to| “The smafiest sum Benny Leonard traps this season on courses|two, but nothing definite has been Since lockers have been abolished, golf is no longer a rich man’s game. rately and showing more steadiness |be all in for Voshell, The winners of ever boxed for $5, which I paid|around New York. ‘Therefore, rau- | decided upon, Paddy Doyle, club pro- REE, pve then wml the four mai mentioned will ad- — for his fi preliminary bout at) cous cheers from regiments of | fore ne is aoe As change the | California settled the last Presidential election, and it looks like it may . aa , vance to the semi-final round. ¢ e Fairmont A. C, He met Mickey | third green at Deal, but Finnegan, in 1912, and knocked Mickey out in the third round. After that boxed a hundred bouts for me at the Fairmont, working his ‘way up from the preliminary clasy to the main event. He made bimself ghampion by hard work, and that's She only way a boy can become ‘a “hampion in any ciass. There's no woyal road to ring success. “In the early days Benny used to! bo int from the ring as the| “powder puff fighter.” He couldn't) ‘Knook your hat off. Everybody liked to see him, because ho was such’ a fast little fellow, but he never got much fame out of it until he learned how to hit. Then one of the first things he did was to knock out Man- dot, and fram that time on Benny | always was there with a winning! punch. He changed his style, but) he didn't tose speed. One thing you'll) notice about Leonard—as long as! he's in the game he'll do his best | every time he steps into a ring. Old! champions used tg fight hard| e big bouts and get carciess joat when there wasn't much in it or when they thought they had a inch. But Leonard's ambition is to champion too, and had a lot to lose if some other boy dropped one over on bils chin. BOXING TO BE REAL “MAJOR SPORT” IN AMERICA. “Boxing is starting on the greatest Gibson, “and I have no doubt that it will be tegalized all over the coun- try within a year or two. It is tre- me! popular everywhere, and boys like Leonard have made it nop- war, The old days when a boxer was & sort of a rough. years ago. ‘model “neck were over ‘A champion to-day is a of decency and clean living | nor club swingers who in pas haven't had much luck cuttips their scores below ninety-five. In’ happier times, when every little thing wasn't 80 costly, golf clubs made it a general practice to readjust their playing con. ditions and surprise members as they sallied forth on the greensward for the first round. Now club committees, wrestling with reduced incomes and increased expenditures, have gone in strong for, economy, Many organizations were Anxious to make alterations on their links, but were promptly stymied in this direction when they figured sky- line prices for materials and $4.75 for unskilled labor that only a few years Ago received $1.50 a day, Sull, some clubs were brave enough to tackle the problem and have gone improvements The Montclair Country Club will make the biggest change in the met- ropolitan district, Under the super- vision of Donald Ross, the old 18-hole course will be completely made over and nine additional holes laid out. SuMcient ground has been secured to enlarge the new nine holes to a full- sized second course when the situa- tion requires this increased facility. Baltusrol, which started work in 1919 on a beoond course, will have the old links considerably «modified in shape for an early season, The sec- ond, or upper course, should be ready before autumn. The Canoe Brook Club at Summit, N. J., will start to construct a double course, but this will not be available before next year, ‘The Plainfield Country Club, like ts neighbor, Canoe Brook, will splurge and lay out a second eighteen-hole course. Donald Ross will design these links, but it wyJ-be another year before the ‘course if ready for play, Other course changes are only mi- ones. Wykagyl's three short abead with holes, which have congested play at ‘Boxing is one thing that seems|the crowded club, have been ‘altered be above politics. Why, in New| * . Exiwards, “Democrat, hasn't eyen changed the Republican Boxing Commission membership. The Boxing Commissioners oter there ave done good work. When boxing im again in New York, about of the finest club buitdings in ea Will be built especiully to boxing bouts in, with member- mace up of thousands of the known men in the country. The when @ prominent banker or usiness man couldn't sit at the ring- at a dig Without risking is over, Now they even go the State Legislatures to urge After did for our boys in the during the war any one can taking an interest in the to Benny,” said |, |and are now ready. The Shackamaxon | Club at Westfield, N. J., will install a }large number of traps’ and bunkers 4s soon as weather permits. This | course, nearly 6,700 yards, is one of the longest in the Kast. A majority jf professionals who competed in a tournament last summer at Shacka- maxon thought the fairways were too open, and it was their opinion that greatly influenced the chub committ to plant some obstacles that would penalize the driver who. failed to bit straight. The Richmond County Conntry Club will make over two holes, eighth and ninth, When finished the new eighth will be a drive and full fron, and the ninth a drive and mashie. This improvement should put the pretty Staten Island links up with top notch courses. Hollywood, which already hae a po ‘Qroinds: fam Tbe, ‘aot tasty yeurs | the | in up to date » Greens Committe has been re- |Iuctant to make the alteration The national amateur championship will be held in September over the Engineers’ Course at Roslyn, This is lone of the toughest links in the Ba: |'There has been some discussion that the club might make over the pres- ent fourteenth hole, which is only 105 yards, This proved a bugbear for a Professional Golfers’. Championship last season. Although Jim Barnes played this goat getter correctly each time, others tmisplayed and called the short fourteenth unfair, ‘Dire club may possibly make a trivial change at this point before the amateurs lash for the premier title. ‘The Lido Club at Long Beach, which was built on a sand waste at & cost of $1,000,000, only to be aban- doned soon after its opening, will be | entire y renovated under the direction | of Peter Lees and put, in tip top con dition for play this season. Three On Club Medal Winners Tt was a big night In The Evening World headpin Wiing tournameat at Thum’s White Biephant alleys last night, Thirteen teams competed. No records were broken, but the enthu- siasm ran high from start to finish . ‘There were four medal winners, three from the Federal Club and one trom the Glue Pot ‘No, 2 Club. N. Kendal of the Federal Club rolled 109; C. J Cann of the Federal tallied 103, Oscar H. Wiltberg 103 and John Berger of the Glue Pot No. 2 109. No games are scheduled this evening, but on Monday next seventeen teams are to bowl William Openhym & Son have two teams entered; Swiss Club, two teams; Anthorian, one team; Bush- wick Club, two teams; Chestnut Club, one team; Hoe Club, two teams; Kirkman & Son, one team; Seaboard National Bank, two teams; Texaco Stars, two teams; Imperial Club, one team, and Nyperania, one team, > oe | Lincoln nin Open Season Morrow, coln Giants, ‘fo The L champions. newgrounds at the Catholic Pro- tectory to-morrow afternoon with the strong Federal Shipyard team. in world’s colored last year, in ‘yelone Joe Wi olored pitcher, will the box for the home team in t second game, The grounds are easily accessible to the 177th and ISim Street (Bronx) subway stations, and the open. ing game will be culled at 2). MM. sharp, —— tel, tax.-—Aavi. iennel Gieece Carpentier’s First Ring Appearance Scheduled for Pittsburgh May 3 ® From Then On He Is to Get | Femae’ i Toeedivtn ea ble’ wureccion. in that Sleinity, and. will open their season on | the | Wich’ Vitagte ieleflewes ght Y Bhipyard | tue hard hituog fretherwelt. and dos Mt in’ the oa settle the next one, trial, this month eee In estimating the strength of the teams. do the experts consider the cheese? era Palmer's candidacy was one Mic make. eee Dempsey*can show us how good his defense+is when his case comes to higan flivver that Henry Ford didn’t e $1,000 a Day From Jack Curley. By John Pollock. Georges Carpentier, the French heavyweight champion, who is undi contract to Jack Curley to give boxing exhibitions in the different cities for which he is to receive $1,000 a day for his services, will make his first appear- ance at the Duquesne Garden in Pitta- burgh on the night of May 8, He wiji box four rounds with his sparring partner. On the same card Eddie Fitz- simmons, the crack local lghtweigit, will meet Banty Sharpe, the Pittsburgh \ightweight, in the star bout of ten rounds, pin, the leghimate French Ught- who will arrive in this country weeks with Oharley Ledoux, the antamntight champion, has been u , Deschamps, for threo fi at the Arena A, ©. of Jomey City, His first opponent may be Willie Jackson, the crack local Ngbeweigte, on the might of May 10, While in the West, Dan Morgan, manger of ‘Battling lerinsky, the kegitimate light heary- welt champion, signed up Levinaky to fight ‘Tony Melchior, the hearywelght of Chicago, for & tev rund lout at John Wagier’s club at Keneste, Wis, on April 28, Meldhotr bas aircady won feveral fights in the West and i considered to bee very promising fghter, By outpointing Dutch Brandt in an elght-ropnd bout at Passate, N. J. on Thursday night, Frankie Burns, Use popular Jersey City featherwelght, won fourth batle in succession, Of these four vie- 7m were won by knockouta. Burns hey will be matehed by Joka Jennings fight A of derey City Uso middie of mext manth. ndher aiietar show of thre elghtround bas been arrange! for Greenville Scheutan Park neat ‘Ruwsiay ht, Micke amall of Jersey Cty J Cook, the bantam; Bouky Gica- jormer A! A. middis. and weiter’ cas. ‘Nmery Maloney, the Green and Tobany Haren, ado the Buffalo chad, wil moet oC | tam McArdle, who Is manager of Wille Meehan, | ume Cailiorala noarywelght, while Tilly Gitmo la tho West, annoanoed to-day that ‘he haa re- cwivod five offers for Meehan, ‘Tee clubs afer in frost, Kenauha, Wis New Orlesna: attoonet Pa Noware Noi, and’ bonne, Meanie “demons $1,000 Tor Mechan's services, Matchmaker Doyle of the Piainfeld a. G of M./ Nod, slened Willie Ryan of Ree Betwtin. "5.2% inset Suing Abensn’ of | pout ought to draw & big crowd. Joe Ke ” ‘ls tah y My, N.Y. r | ten rounds at! J@inwn April 23. | “As Joe Lynch, the West Side fighter, ts still too | sick to fight, Wiis manager, Budie Mead, has been compelled to call off his elght-round ‘bout with Charley, Beecher of this elty, which was billed to bo | (Ought fi the det Regiment’ Armory in Newark, \SeMom April 26, An effort sill be toade to secure & Hultabie opponent to mucet Beecher, George Knockout" Brows, the Greek middie- weight of Chicago, and Georse Crip of New Castle, Pa., have signed articler of agreement calling for | taem to clash in a twenty-round bout at the Tulane A. C. of New Orleans on April 19, Demt- Dae Torterick, the "wall known boxing promoter Of the South, “linched the uich by telegraph tO- day. George Ward of Elizabeth, N. J. whe made big Ait with the fient fans of Binghamton, N. ¥.. by stopping Harry Gatle in two rounds at Johnsen | Clty ‘& fow weeks ago, was matched to-day to | meet Joe 'Welsh of Philadelphia for ten rounds at | Johnson City en April 23. It ought ¢o be s great | beutle, as both men’ are fam, clever fetter, Matchmaker De Rice of the Pine Tree A. C., of Portland, Me, to-day signed up Joe Burman | of Cklcago to mevt Marty Collins of New York tp the main ge of telve reunda, two etx-round outa, | et Mls next bor ag entertainment en nest Wedner: j day might. The fight fans of that city like te In the following bracket Harold Throckmorton should defeat Fred C. Baggs, basing the prediction on their previeus tournament records. But som ttle fellows tn action, as Wey always make | & great, bout. | } John Jennings, mai ot the Armory 4. A. et Jereey City, should have © miecensful boxing peason at his open alr arena in Jersey City, | owing to the fact that allot tho managers of { notch fighters have agreed to allow their fighter to bax at his shows, Jennings will open bis out: | door season on April 19, Its main bouts will be for twelve rounds duration. Jobnoy Murray, the Harlem featherweight, who is doveloping Into this country, will Jobany ] Augie Mater, the. Bronx miktiowsyt, | Jackie Clarke, | | town, Da, were tel@hone today (0 rounds at a a! big auditorium | off Aen 18, ng distance it of ten "(0 be held by Jake Cary at the NY. ought (0 be & are ‘Jimmy Widle, the flyweizht champion of Europe, | waa booked up for another tetie to-day secured by Herman or aD Tagen, evan “ae Grem.oee, Eats coer, Pion * fae Se PRE Rey Wallies at ihe STARCHED semi-final unless there 1& more rain The women's sing! scheduled to be played through the first rounds, will be speeded up to and should be well on towa two lay the THUM BILLIARD BOWLING AND of ay & Bist st. AGADEM YOR SOFT IS A DEPENDABLE INDICATOR OF A SMART, SATISFACTORY - CCOLLAR- Cluett, Peabody &3 Co., Inc: Troy N.Y. Makers of Arrow Shirts and Gotham Underwear .