The evening world. Newspaper, January 12, 1921, Page 22

pos ae iS. Ss ITCHELLS, THER QUIS TOBE WITH HIS FOUR SONS __ AT BOUT FOR CHAMPIONSHIP HIS. ENGINE { pe Lacked Then. Richie Trained to Minute, With the Punch of a Middleweight, Is All Set to Dethrone Leonard—Had Benny Closely Pressed When They Met Before, but “Knocks Wood” as He Says. He Has Since Acquired the Necessary Punch Which He By Vincent Treanor. ae fighting Mitchell famity is in Wew York. Four of ‘om, Jack, Richie, Pinky, Billy and thetr dad, “Al,” a travelling engineer on the Milwau- 4 kee ling They have come hére for one big purpose all the way from | (Milwaukee, to knock out Benny Leonaid at Madison Square Garden lriday ( and take the Nghtweight title bavic | with thom, Wat's “wore, some 400 | “eports,” they must be sports, are coming | from the Far West to encourage Richle In! hia attempt to turn the trick. The “old man" quit his engine ‘to vee the fireworks. y do it? Benny Leonard laughs at the idea, yet we saw this same Richio Mitchell about four years ago carry Benny along at the fastest clip le had ever been carried, only to suddenly make a wrong move and night thi Mind himself, nine seconds inter, a’ crumpled, bewildered ‘heap on the floor. We regarded Benny hs a lucky ‘Winner of that bout, and New Yorkers who gat around the ringside with ‘us Were glad when it was all over. Later that game evening when we talked it _Over with Leonard we concluded that Mt wasn't all luck. Leonard, sic al! 6 night before the vatile, out of ta and plainly not himself whe he" entered the ring, foupd early ia the contest that ‘he had 1 call on his sete ins well as bis fete to, win and ag pa ar etn ie ace ia the itehell bit worst possible spot for him to land @ punch co the nature of Leonard's illness night . before, All of us from the east were worried, Benny didn't dash in to annihilate Mitchell. He just boxed and boxed, With every particle of ring knowledge che As he sald afterwards ‘bis hope lay in trapping Mitchell into Making a mistake. Mitchell, forging Ahead finally did what Leonard bad Deen trying to get him to do. He let this right go. 'y stopped ia and deat him to it and therein lies the + story of Mitchell's first defeat, a very serious setback to him at the time, for he had just previously “outpoint- home none of that mean advantage stuff About Hich plained the brother manager. Ho always has a kindly fecling for the other fellow.” Richie then boxed a round with Johnny Drummie, the good Jersey City lightweight, and any one with half an eye could see that the Mil- waukeo youth was like a dog chained | up in his desire to let his punches go good and hard, and at the sume time heed the instructions of “sg slow—siow now” from Manager Bill every time he wanted to cut Joose. Finally Richie took Brother Pinkie on, und what a fine picture they mado in action. "Pinkie, although only twenty, is a hi taller than Richie, and there ts a strong family resemblance between them. ‘They boxed protgily but, having gone through the same stunt go often, the “class” of their mixup was lost on the crowd, Pinkie” seemed to know Richle'a every move, and Richie anticipated everything Pinkie bad. Not knowing one from the other, gne might have Picked Pinkie out at first glance as the lightweight contender. ness. A+ closer inspection of their work, however, showed Richie the “seasoned” boxer of the pair Manager Billy at our elbow again talking in the managerial -strain: _ ed” the then champion Freddy Welsh the featherweight “title holde nny Kilbane. He sat Johnny in the last round, ) a a ao UT, as Richie, says, that's all past and gone. Yesterday afternoon ‘after he had finished a most Impressive Workout at his quarters, 116th Street ‘and Lenox Avenue, he told us: “Per-, haps its all for the best. Things had been coming too eusy for me then, At that I don't think I could have hurt Leonard that night with any-| thing 1 had. I'd been married only |. titec days and should have been on my honeymoon.” This very modest- jy. “Now it's different. I've learned how to punch since. J think I ean ‘sock’ better now. T have a good Then, as if we might think | he was beooming unduly boastful, he added: “I hope so, but I must knock Wood.” Leaning over to his rubbing | Pdoard he lifted the blanket covering | from it and tapped the wood “tat-jdence and {t never occ fut” with hin knuckles. Modest for a ap wh has been box ing vince 1912, and has suffered only . & single defeat, that at the hands of nard, As he recalls that he again **nocks wood 2 y old are you,” we asked. “Lata see,” he thought; then ad- dressing ngated' brother Pinkle De avked: “Was it 24 or 25 T was last Ju nm not sure myself,” he added, “but don't make a May of me for « eur, Wl you” TI only know that when ety utd | boxed before we both - vt. 1 think I am a couple ‘of hs the older, but what's the dif- When & boxer gets (6 be 28 stays the None of them ever gets any older, “When you met Benny before what did he weigh? There's a crazy ri mor that he was over 140.’ ~ “No, nothing like that. If I remem- her correctly, we welmhed 133, half a pound of each oth We knew this to be right ween them weighed, but we wanted to bear’ what Richte would say in view of the 140 pounds story, that even Tex Rickard was boginning to believ Mitchell as he talks, and you can't help being impressed with his Straightforward manner, but now we gonverse with Brother Billy, He's she manager and he talks like all other managers the world over. “Isn't that baw hitting?" be asked ms Richie was boxing a round with dimmy . “Look at him. Ho's sing like a weltorweight.”* Just then johle slipped over a snappy inside Fight on Carroll's jaw and Jimmy for jhe moment saw stars. ‘The youngster was hurt. Richie walked into htm, id him around the waist and gave the boy the walk argund to let tis head clear before resuming boxing. “That's Richie for you," interjected Manager Billy. “e's the same way > in a regular pout. He always gives P the other fellbw plenty of chance to Tecover from & hard punch. Why I’ bet be walke@ around Joe Benjamin awenty secoids after flooring him to Joe collect his senses before he ocked him out in the ninth roun “ertor not do that witt? Leonard, c 4 marked. Pag fia, be bent #0 feat Pet © Lenard means much, but ome kid, Pinkie, eh? Hi ont from Richie. He doesn't lose any time when ho'a got a man going.” “Maybe you'll have the two brothers finally battling for the Mghtweicht honors,” We said. “Might It not be} better to make a welter of Pinkio| and let Richie go wlong mniong the Ughtweights s, that's what we intend to do, like to get a crac’ Lew Tondler with Pinkie, 1 howaver, makes no difference with | nile. Ho fehta at 183 pounds one night and then takes on weight next time out to meet the welterwoight Out home they call him the two-in- one champion,” N the dressing room, with both ready for thelr rubs, Pinkie seemed the more impressive of the two brothers from’ a pugiiistic stand- point. He carries an air of conf- knock wood.” He has an unmis- As you talk on th Richie you get|takable fighting spirit that will cither Lhe idea that 6 pltogether too | get him knocked out or send him bounding toward the top rung of his class. ‘Can Willie Jackson punch as hard av most poople think?" we asked Pinkie. “Sure he can, if you walk into his punches, but who's going to do that?” he aptly inquired. “They say I held Jackson and} treated him rather rough,” Pinkie went on. “Why wouldn't.1? I'd jook fine letting him sbove his hand under | my armpit and whale away, Oh, n not me, 1 handed him some of his own atuff, that’s all. Richie listened to his kid brother | (wk without an interrupting remark He plainly has cornered the modesty of the Mitchell family, W + eay for him that he's as fit as can be for Leonard. He can box, he can hit hard and he has everything that a man| with championship, — aspirations | should possess, His style ly effective rather than showy. There is nothing unusual about bis footwork and hie} system of offense and doténse has no particular newness, He crosses his at that vulnerable spot on the back of his glove: that is, all the blows | mittes, that his sparring partner could wend | ig Murray Street in that direction He has a good left and makes a jot of use of it. He is a good all “round hoxer, In short, and is sen- plon this time and not tho twenty- one-year-old contender be met four! from a proper factliti years ogo. He hus a head on Leonard has too. Looks a promimne bout between them, with the betting around town indicating that it go the Vimit, ne 1 wil Brother Jack, heretofore unmen- take if from Manager Billy, “he might have licked both Richie and Pinkie if he had. He's following Dad's trade a locomotive engineer. The Dad proud of. his fighting sons, but he conditions as to alleys belng planned doesn't let them way with any- | immediately before the opening of thing. ‘Mind you, Kid,’ he has often | the tournament and to furnish @ new told Richie, ‘you may beat everybody xct of pins for each five-men team In be Tort. but yt A md THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 192 LED BY DAD, COME EAST AFTER LEON |THE FIGHTING MITCHELLS Copyright, 1921, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Bvening World) RICHES SPARRING 7 PARTNERS HARMESSED rime! LIKE HORSES ARE FORCED TO TRAVEL AY A KILLIOG will Po mitcHe Le HASNT A POOR OPINION OF HIS agiLIT YY FO TRIM HIS TWO FIGHONG Sons RICHIE MITCHELL THE Fasr HARO HITTING CONTENDER WHO 60ES AFTER. LEONARDS crown FRIDAN NIGHT fuconton Pce. Sie BRITTON T0 DEFEND HIS TITLE AGAINST BOGASH IN JUNE | Welterweight Champion Guar-' anteed $25,000 for Battle to Decision at Bridgeport. National Control of Boxing To Open Uj a rs Several Only Need Governing Body, Such as Now Being Formed, to Reviye Game. Other States duct of contestants in and out the ring, but the measures which should be taken for the Protection and comfort of the public, and to establish rightful relations between tho: cially concerned in t this and other recognized au- and to prescribe and in foes and purs: By William Abbott. B idea of national control for} boxing appeals States that don’t even permit | As representatives from seventeen States met in tho of- International Club to continue the work of forming | to numerous} National should or should not porated or chartered, To agree upon a procedure by whieh information concerning the the fistic pastime. Jack Britton, world’s welterweight champion, is going to dofend his title, but it won't be in this city, U yesterday by his manager, | Dan Morgan, |regarded the foremost contender for |the bonors, in Bridgeport, probably iplinary measures of the sev- boxing authorities of the States may be communicated to each other and acted upon were recelyed from pressing approval of the new mave- and hopes that boxing would if administration counted out the sport for one re: the new association BLIND MICE SEE WoW xg HEN say g JACK, ANOTHER. BROTHER COULD CLEAN UP THE OUTEIT (FE HE ONCE STARTED LIVE WIRES» i By Neal R. O'Hara. Comrright, 1921, ty The Press Publishing Co. (TEs Mow York Brening Wesi@) Prex-Klect Harding’s Winter League lineup don’t look so good as two Mionths ago. Waivers bauve been asked on Root and Koox, and any minor league republic that needs a good Sec. of State can get a good bargain in either of those boys, The old fox bas about decided to let Charley Hughes cover the hot air corner. Hughes has been im fast company sitice 1916. Before that time he played on the bench. 8 6 Hoover, a snappy youngster from the Pacific Coast League, looks to have an outfield job cinched. The manager hasn't decided where to play him yet, but Hoov will be there at the finish. Jack Weeks! a promising Boston boy, is also sure to crash into the lineup. He will be either Secretany of the Gate Receipts or head of the cruising department. - a ee Will Hays, @ peppy player from the Midéie West, looks slated for some bush league outfit. Will was in the tentative lineup as chief of the complaint department, which means boss of the U. 8. mails. The scouts are shaking their heads at Will nowyand it looks like his delivery will never get a chance in the P. O. position. He may be farmed to some harmless outfit. s 8 Another rookie likely to get the can Is ® chap named Dangherty. ‘This vetéran was down on the books for boss lawyer, but he slowed during the winter campaign and seems hardly likely fo play on team. He may grab a job as ivory scout for Manager Harding in Dushes. * 28 e@ A bunch of other promising rookies that once looked’ good in hot stove dope are now schedwied for the minors, Harding goes on his training trip within a few days now. He opens the season March 4 gt Washington against a powerfal combination. i ‘The bout will be to a ref- ‘9 decision, over the iffteen round route, the wate on boxers who occasionally be decided later at a meeting of the the governing code a wallop | managers of the two men and the| Suspended in one they could keep right on in) rajse boxing to a higher plane. Enthusiasm for a national govern-| ing body Is spteading like a prairie The pioneers in the movement | States is being made in the conastitation of the organiaution ts» be known as the Association of the Uni boxing is to be operated on one great scale Montana has a pet idea how {t| Ohio, too, has sev- Bogash is an Italian dy held Britton to a twelve- round draw, and he beliey added experie lust meeting, together i | {yat Britton, alr bound to be become succeeding month, he is sure t Britton is being guaranteed while Bogash is to get $10,000. promoters of the bout, which will be jheld in the big arena at Bridgeport, seating 16,000 people, will be Connie Lewis, a weil known bowler and alley owner, and George Dwyer, y Bogash used to work for Lewis as a@ pinboy, but during the past year or so has made rapid strides up the piigilistic ladder. —— “HIGHEST PRICED MAN” IN BASEBALL SPEAKER, SAYS CLEVELAND’S OWNER OLEVELAND, poaker is, without exeepti est paid man in baseball, decording to Dunn, President of the Cleve- land Basebadl Club. this announcement Jast night before he and Speaker left for Chicago to attend the joint meeting of the major leagues centralized administering | has alr these birds won't be able to asily in front of danger. Under the proposed regime the rule breaker if set down by the nation | tion will be all the way might just as well go buck two plumb- of the Grand Circuit bere re-elected just year’s officers and adopted a ached- ule for 1921 at the final business session of thelr two-day convention here. An open meeting also was held, at which a number of prominent horsemen from various purts of the Nation expressed opinions for bettering light barness race ce since their| with the fact shoyld be done, ig} New York and when once cranked model for various State committees. | delegates that initial meeting as- a xtrictet supervision over | urs to him to} and purses, re the ring game ok eye from the Indications already received considerable | progress was made at afternoon and) ins to draft a constitu- tions that the ring sport will’ shortly enjoy general popularity throughout the country. + 265 15; Poughkeepsiey ‘Aug. 23) Rendville, week of Aug. 29; Hartford, week of Sept. &; Syracuse, week of Sept. 12; Lexingtoo, weeks of Oct. 2 and @; Atlanta, week of Oot. 16. BOSTON, Jan. 12.—The Rochester Base- ball Club, which holds the International League franobise in Rochester, N. ¥. Was incorporated here to-day. Georg @ new agsociation Its object was put forth in the fol- lowing recommendations: To promote the conduct of pro- in the interest of Boxing legisiation similar to that fessional poxin: the public wel To formulate ruli tions which shail be standard in every State egal or public ix preposed in a bill Rep: Louls is preparing for introduction in t he announced contests would to ton rounds, Representati and a State Commission authorized. and acceptable Boston Nationals, was named as Presi- rules and regula- « tions to cover not only the con- Bowling Strikes ritx and Spares Willlam H. Ve Metropolitan mittee of the New York | wovlation, has and Judge Thomas H. Connelly of the Brighton District Court, as Clerk. Cap- ian O° War when he leaves Berlin, | Md., next Monday for his in the clue grass country of Kentucky, entine, Chairman of Tournament & any offer which will permit th playing centre ced with Dunn that he and managers in the yearly salary. follawing the end CHICAGO, Jan. 12—"Sid" Stewart, a pitcher of the Chicago White Sox, has Been sold to the Sioux City Club of the| Western League, it wes announced to- | Frank Frisch to Lend All Cotlesian |” Metropolitan district | nol ling of the “With the great enthu fested in the bowling game this sea- son und the success that the present to aubmit bids right arm rather blgh up og a pro-/ 1921 champto tector of his jaw and chin, and|of thie caught nearly every punch directed | lows letler With spectiieations dency of Neil Kennedy, in bullding up tie membership of the it is expected that the entry list wil Metropolitan Champlonsh\p Tournaments and the ‘fournament awaiting the receipt of proposals to mouth hockey team def lege of Amherst, N.S. by @ score of 6) to 2 im @ hard-played gaine. ltan Champtlons Frank Frisch, the famous Fordham player and star infielder of the Giants, will make his debut as 4 professional basketball player in this city on Sunday night when he appears with the, Al!- Collegians against the New York. pro- fessiotrals at the Twelfth Regtment Ar- mory, Columbus Avenue ahd 624 Street. players on the All-Collegians wi! Joe Mooney of last year’ ion be Joe Mooney year's champ: Cam of ti of Manhattes, Col- rétha ow York, N. ¥ tton by a score of 69 to 45 in the ama- of the Metropol Bowling Clumpionship during sible enough to know that in facing | coming spring aud has authorized the Leonard he ts confronting a cham, | undersigned tournament committee to receive bids wiley owners who can offer which will insure that result, ALENTINE, Chairman.” shoulders, and be concedes that | ‘ invited to ad- dress the undersigned op or before EVENING WORLD’S OWN SPORT HISTORY. What Happens Every Day PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 12,—Stewrards e schedule adopted follows: wth Randall, weeks of July 4 and By Toledo, weeks of July 21 and } Muslamanso, week of July 185 syeeks of Jaly 25) Sent, 3 adel week of Ang, week of Smoke Up! Save Money! Stallings, former Manager of the ‘alter E. Hapgood, | Business ger of the Braves, at Treasurer, ital stock was plackd at $100,000, to which MOZART, mild Havana each of the officials siibsoribed one-third, foes priced ‘below our PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 12—There will | usual lowest-in-the-city be no ceremony in the departure of |}@ | prices. future home Americanos, box of 50, Neither will there be any unneces- | frills when the wonder horse ar- 1 Coronas, can of 50...$6.24 rive at ‘Lexington if Samuel D, Riddle | has his way. Prompt Service Smoke Shop One Step Off Broadway at 35th Street. Also Fifth Floor, 35th St. LANOVDER, N. H., Jan. 12—The Dart- | : ted Kimg's Col- | George La Rue dofeated George Bar- ARD’S TITLE . ° Benny V er Wine Decisten Over - By Thornton Fisher} “0. yc vescmen same team, Hoult! lege and Fiagoetei 1 any proposs! you desire bse to have considered, the proper conduct of this tournament @ minimum of six alleys tioned, never went in for boxing, but| will be required, which must be available to start the tournament at M, each evening, in the week Saturday and Sunday afternoons at 2 P. M. The usual tournament Al Roberts Knocks Out Grande tu Firth. Al Roberts, Billy Gideon's Pparding the’ tenrnamest the veur. ¢) paneey eee ria ergy te Te Scored hia vigtory ie thirty-two | fone. re wraner’s high run was 20 Ph A I! Fi crasrewres 2. -tece || qq yt, Physically Fit” beat aan On ee Seemin seesi "|| MADISON SQUARE GARDEN nae i NEW ORLEANS SELECTIONS. Fisch Reducug -B fy Building Riret_Rece—Scourgeman, Poultney, Boxing Miva Punishment Omer & ee PHILA. JACK O'BRIEN bow Girt, Carline 6. sm poe OE RT baa onl. Race— Mavournesn, ‘Trust | fameenMativon pee Cae aa Bullet | LEONARD Aron earned the Judges’ decision over Jimmy Fruzsettt, the New England obampion, who recently beat him, im @ fifteen> round bout before @ crowd of 3,500 af the Pioneer Sporting Club last night Valger outboxed and outpunched hie opponent in a mejority of the rounds, | but each Ume Fruszetti appeared om the verge of @ knockout he ralliod and forved Valger to bréak ground. In the | ten-round gemf-finel Frankie Olsen and | Joe Delayo fought a draw, Referee | Burchell rendering the derision after | the judges had disagreed, Stim Bren ‘nan, well khown {n Jersey rings, rete | ereed bis first bout In this State, and | made a hit by the way he bandied the main event. sd scnsesnentspilmanticasctins: Rifle Tourney Starte rday Night. | A tournament to decide the individual |tndoor rifle champlonsh!p af the Metro= | politan district will start next Saturday, | night at the 2d Naval Battalion Armory, Sad Street, Brooklyn, and continue for. ) ten consecutive Saturday nights. The committee in charge of arrangements t/ | made up of Tieut Commander Leom Dickinson, J. Vand Ghee andy. We Gane. Special will be awarded competitors making i higheat scores. 956 were 351 were $80.00, 719 were 719 were $90.00: 720 were $95.00. 78 were $100.00. $50. Note! Throygh an error in the Times and World yester- day, 2612 of the suits now $35 were listed as origin- ally $50. This was a mis- print, for noneof the suits in this Sale were origin- ally less than $60. Rocers Peet CoMPANY @ at 13th St. “Four at 34th St Convenient , Corners” * Fifth Ave. at Warren ~~ at 41st St.