The evening world. Newspaper, February 23, 1922, Page 22

| | | | | { | | | { i mee neerA NER ee ARE (BABE RUTH REPORTS TO YAN Reviving Interest in Light wa... Heavyweight Class. OM GIBBONS and Harry Greb, battling in New York March 12, Will help toward a settlement of the ownership of the American light heavyweight title. % Funny, but the light heavyweight class never has been taken very seri- ously by the public, although some of the best fighters we've ever had have been light heavyweights—too big for the middleweight and giving a tremen- dous welght handicap to the big men of the ring. ‘The light heavyweight class should be one of the thost Interesting. A bout between big men looks good when the men are evenly matched The 175 pounders look like heavy- weights, and !t isn't hard to find a mumber of men in that class who could meet each other on even terms. Ip the heavyweights the champion a)- most Invariably stands out so far in advance of all contenders, through bulk or ability, that he has a lonely time of it I've seen histories of the Ught heavyweight class printed lately, all inaccurate. The class originated at Fort Erie, July 4, 1903. At that time dim Jeffries was heavyweight cham- jon, and as much in a class by him- if as Dempsey {s to-day. Smaller en had no chance to fight Jeffries. Of the men around 175 pounds, who id have been considered good eavyweights before Jeffries'a time, *George Gardner and Jack Root were about the best. Gardner and Root were matched to fight at Fort Erte. ‘They had fought twice before, Gard- ner winning once on a foul and once with a seventeen-round knockout. But Root was a great fighter for all that After losing to Gardner the second time he beat the wonderful blond Viking, Kid Carter; beat Mar- vin Hart and beat Kid McCoy, de- cision, in ten rounds. ‘This earned Root another chance to fight Gardner and there was so much interest in the bout that the pro- moters thought up the scheme of making it a new championship af- fair—the ight heavyweight. The idea was well liked by the public at that time, Gardner knocked Root out in twelve rounds. HOW FITZ WON AND LOST TITLE. Gardner was built like Bob Fitz- simmons, but bigger and stronger. He held the light heavyweight champiot ship only until the following Nov. 2 when Fitzsimmons beat him in twenty rounds. This was Bob Fitzsimmons’s third world's title, as he had been, middleweight and heavyweight cham- pion. Fitzsimmons, over forty years of axe. lost the title to Jack O'Brien in 1905, collapsing in his corner through exhaustion and being unable to come out for the thirteenth round. May 8, 1907, O’Brien was beaten tn twenty rounds by Tommy Burns. That about finished the light heavy- weight class, as Burns didn’t care for anything less than heavyweight honors, and went after the big title. Burns travelled to England, Ireland and Australia, after knocking out Australian champion Bill Squires in California, and became heavyweight champion by virtue of whipping the champions of different countries, Others have tried to resurrect the | light heayywelght title. Jack Dillon was undoubtedly as great a light heavyweight as ever claimed and de- fended it, until his health broke down. Levinsky beat him and was advertised as light heavyweight cham- pion until he lost the world title to Carpentier and the American title to Gene Tunney. Harry Greb is one of the best box, ers in his class. He can make the middleweight limit of 160 pounds and Nad a forfeit posted to make this weight for Johnny Wilson when Wil- gon crawled out of the match. He lights heavyweights as cheerfully as| lighter men and dorsn't care how big MEW DICER. [A FREE TICKET IS EXPENSIVE Copgrtgit, 1978, (New York Evening Worlt) by Preas Pubiteiing Ov. LD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY KEES FOR SPRING TRAINING By Thornton Fisher |H(MF RIN KING ROUND-1S WITH WATER— AND SPRAYED WITH RESIN READY TD SIGN FOR 1922 SEASIN Denies Rumors There 1s Mis- understanding Between Him and Yankee Owners, HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Feb, 23,-- Babe Ruth, home run king of organ- ized baseball, set all rumors to the effect that he would not consider doing any training unless he received @ substantial increase in salary from the Yankee owners, aside when he reported here for the spring labor. The Babe, who appeared in excellent physical condition, was accompanied by Waite Hoyt. Ruth credited his condition to ths stage work he has been doing for the past months. He weighed at least fifteen pounds less than he did on the spring training trip last year and claimed he was ready and anxious to wet im there and burt the ‘‘olo* apple. The Babe further stated there ‘was no misunderstanding between him and Cols. Ruppert and Huston. ‘“‘I ‘am still unsigned,” said Ruth, “but in view of the fact the Colonels asked me to come to New York for a little talk, I believe everything will turn out all right. I did not go to the big city because I figured it a useless trip, The Colonels will be in New Orleans in a few days and I can see | them there, “tm all ready for the season to start. It starts a month later for me, but I want to be in the best of shave when I go in."* ~ LIVE WIRES By Neal R. O’ Hara. Copyright, 1982, (The New York Prening World) by Prem Publishing Company. Jack Dempsey doesn’t have to autograph the @mys he knocks over the ropes, 8. On account of having new uniforms, the A’s won't slide any bases this season. That is, provided they get on base. eo 8 In the baseball season the first rookie. six months are the hardest for the Anyway, Landis can't say that gray hairs. baseball problems gave him those s 8 Statistics: elght-ounce flask can open. An eight-ounce glove can close more eyes than an A baseball expert can predict t thie year without specifying in wh hat Chicago won't win tne pennant ich league. 8 e@ Jack Johnson {s stilt in the pu blic eye. Like a cinder Greenleaf Takes First Block of Titular Match Ralph Greenleaf, world's pocket bill- lards title-holder, drew first blood in |the match for the championship of the world from Tom Hueston, challenger jand former title-holder, by winning the |opening block by a score of 158 balls to 89, at the Strand BilMard Academy last night. The match, which is for 450 points, will be continued to-night, and the final block of 150 will be played to- |morrow night. The champion was slightly nervous at the beginning of the match, but soon |gained composure and played up to | his usual form, He displayed rare skili {on several occasions. Hueston was cool jand deliberate throughout, but he falled |to excel in spite of iis absolute con- fidence. Greenleaf made high runs of 47 and 40, while the best Hueston was able to do were runs of 23 and 16, Italy Challenges for Davis Cup) ‘The fourth challenge to be recelved by the United States Lawn Tennis As- | sociation for next summer's Davis Cup contests has come from Italy. This ts the first time that Italy has entered the competition and much interest will doubtless be aroused among the lawn tennis playing nations of the world by this acquisition to the competitors for the famous international trophy. Beppe Croce, as President the | Federazione Itallana del for- warded the challenge to Julian S. My- rick, President of the United States Lawn Tennis Association, in a letter | dated at Genoa on Feb. 8. The nations | whose challenges already are on record are British Isles, Czecho-Slovakia, France and Ital of ‘Tennis, Charley White the Chicago battler , and Willie Jackson who fought a hard fifteen round bout at the Garden last Friday night, each received the nice sum of $10,000. As Jackson got a bad cut over his eye in that contest he will be unable to fight Joe Reno, the Trenton lightweight, in an eight round go at the National A. C. of {Philadelphia on Saturday night At the Fifteenth Regiment Armory to- morrow night, Danny Edwards, the crack Uttle colored bantamweight of California, will be seen in action. He boxes Terry Martin in the main go of fifteen rounds. Billy Roche, who has not refereed bout in some time, will officiate again, Eddie Mead, who has been away on a trip |with Joe Lynch, the fornier bantamwelght fe |champion, to New Orleans and Hot Springs, NEW YORK PLAYERS WIN RACQUETS PRELIMINARIES. BOSTON, Mass., Feb, 23.—New York | players won every game in the prelim- | Inaries of the national racquets cham- pionship tournament at the Tennis and Racquets Club. In the feature match, five vets, defeated which went to itching of Boston, 10—15, 8, 15-9, they come. He has outfought Bren- nan and other good heavyweights and as knocked the ambition out of many would-be contenders forthe heavy- weight champions eb was anxious to box Carpentier when the Frenchman first came to this country and his backers wisely turned Greb down and selected old bat Levinsky as a victim, It might have been a different story with Greb tn the ring Greb isn't extremely clever and lie isn't @ knocker-out, but he piles in ind fights all over his man in a way that upsets eleverness and makes it hard to use a punch when fighting him, He has worked with Jack Dempsey im training quarters and is yull of the idea that he can take any- thing that Jack swings, and outfight the heavyweight champion in the mixing. Gibbons has renewed hi knockout campaign this year. ® clever, heady fighter, long Jeft that isn't to be ov: some time he has ign quent challenges. these two hustling will be full of action and very $1 will provide'a setback to the bitions of one of them » ACoprrignt, 1623, by Robert looked ed Greb's fr Edgren) He is|!aa been aff a fine boxer swith a hard right hand punch and a For The bout between! payin ight heavyweights |, likely 1 of def ew York, na- Ww. champion, Morgan of New York defeated Mark of New York, 15—12, 15-6, G. Mortimer, New York, won from '. Frelinghuysen, New York, by de- he semi-finals will be played to-day Be thd oa |M’TIGUE BEATS FISHER IN UNINTERESTING BOUT Mike McTigue easily defeated Young | Fisher of Syracuse in « slow and unsat- jisfactory bout at the Pioneer athlete Club's big holiday exhibition yesterday afternoon, but he gained no great pres- in doing it. Mike sould have ed out his man in half a dozen Jrounds, but either his vaunte tise of a few weeks ago or Meher is one of the toughest boys ever seen in the ring. i DOWNEY BEATS CARBONE, CANTON, ©, Feb. 3%.—Rryar middlewelebt, defeated Prank rbone, Hayonne, No J, in w twelve round ore eht. Downey | mushed Carbo) round the ring for nine rounds, two stanzas were draws Heckscher of New York | | 1s due to arrive back in town on Monday. Joo's bad nose, which competied him to call {off four fights last month, is getting better, and Mead expects to algn him up for a fow bouts to be fought next month. Satlor Carrol! of Brooklyn, whe has fought many of the heavyweight battlers, will try his hand at the boxing game again. He has started training for bouts at Grupp'a eym- |nasium, and his manager, Samuel Anderson, expects to sign him up for a few bouts, Milly Mascott, the California tighter who has been doing #0 well in the bouts that he has so far fought in Philadelphia, will hook up with Young Ross, the Canadian | fighter, tn a ten round go at Toronte, Can- | ada, to-morrow night. Mascott is a clever |boxer and he will probably outpoint Ross, Midget Smith, who han entirety recovered from his threatened attack of pneumonia, is hard at Manny Seaman's gym- Harlem for his eight round go y Delmont, formerly of Newark y will clash in da at the Olym- of Philadelphia on Monday night The Trinity A. ©. of Trookiyn, where many fighters in that borough train for their contests, will hold an amateur bos. ing tournament in Its clubhouse, No. 107 Montague Street, on Tuesday The classes will be) 318, 128, 4 a ane pounds. Jack Jones, manager of Johnny Grittin, saya that tnstoad of the tatter being knocked out by Sid Huller, a reported in Tray the or nent, hie &! wrored @ knockout in rounds If Dave Rosenber Wins the deciato | Marty Croan when they ciash in un red |twelve-round bout at the Broadwa: | Won Ansoctation matched with in Newark te Walker i Bar round bout \ of Elixabeth, XJ { Brooblyu 4 Fistic News vaiccx and Gossip 2 their third meeting within two months. ‘They meet in | the feature bout of a show to be staged by the Broad A, C., of which Harry Blaufuss is the matchmaker. Lauls Gugliemini, the former amateur bantamweight champion, wil! engage in his first professional fight at the Pioneer Sport- ing Chib on next Tuesday night. He will go against George Daly, the good enst side bantamweight, in one of the three ten round bouts. ‘The match was clinched to-day. Two main bouts of twelve rounds, will de fought at the next show of the Ninth Coast Artillery Corps in its armory on West 14th Btreet on Saturday night. Pete Hayes will go against Frank Harley and Jimmy Foley will swap punches with Young Andy Ketchell. Matchmaker Jimmy Kolly will stage three twelve round bouts at the Rink Sporting Club of Brooklyn on Saturday night, Sammy Sieger meets Kid Sullivan in the windup. Hilly Levine will tackle Sonny Smith of East New York and Willle Haus- ner will battle Buck Josephs of the east side. Freddie Jacks, the English featherweight | who has been fighting in good form under tho management of” Joe” Woodman and George Lawrence, is algned up for two more fights, To-morrow night he meets Jimmy Goodrich of Buffalo for ten rounds at Toronto, Cans nd on March 6 he meets Harry ia Brown Philadsiphia for eight rounds at Readini Beotty Montioth, the new matchmaker of the Olympia A. A. of Philadelphia, has signed up Joe Tiplitz, the good Philadelphia * Coos the in the main go of eight rounds at the above club on Mon- day evening, March 6. A match was arranged to-day between Joo Sheppard, the English lightweight, and Pitts, the former Australian They will come together in a twelve round feature contest at the regular weekly boxing show of the Brighton Boxing Club ut the Btaten Island Collseum Monday night. ~—_- » Beats Baxter, Larry Regan of Diizabeth, N. 2, eas- ily defeated Billy Baxter of Brooklyn in an eight-round bout at the Union A C. in Elizabeth yesterday afternoon. Regan scored two knockdowns in the aizth round and one in the elgbth. a Lehigh Five Wins, BETHLEHEM, Vu, Feb. 23.—Lehigh defeated Seton Hall here last evening, 38 to 23, in a fast game of basketball. The accurate shooting of both teams! featured, with Lehigh easily having the edge on Seton F >. Army Hockey Game Off. POINT, N. Y¥., Feb. 23. el Decause of the poor condition of the ive op Stuart Rink. . Dithoefer, St. Loule Catche: ST. Martin (Pickles) Dilhoefer, the St. Louis Cardinal's catcher, died 1n @ hospital here to-day from typhoid fever, He had been fll for several weeks. born in Cleveland Oc Manager Wilhelm of the Phillies declared in a statement that Barnes and Douglas are not on the market and that it Is only propa- ganda on the part of the Giant owners to say that they are. Ed Konetchie, former star first baseman of the National League, it, has been signed to play with the Toledo Club of the in Association. Dave Keefe, the three-fingered pitcher, hae been signed by the Cleviand India ed Switzerland at soccer in thi petition at New York Oval by a score of 5 g beat the Continentals by 5 to 1. The manager of the New York Giants has left Havana on his ‘way to San Antonio for the spring training of his team. The Passaic High Schoo! won ite seventy-ninth consecutive Jame, when it defeated the Rutherford High, by a score of 54 to 21. defeated by St. Joseph's College of ia, used only second etring pla: regulars for the Army game. A bill providing the credite necessary for the promotion of the Olympic games, will be presented to President Poincare of France for hie approval to-day. Jim Barnes and Jock Hutchison won a brilliantly played game at San Antonio from Tom Lally and Clarence Mangham, Texas pros. Dave Danforth, the new pitcher of the St. Louis Browns, is hold- ing out for a cash bonus from the deal in which he wes traded for en players. Arthur Devlin, ‘former star third \baseman ef the New York Giants, will act as scout for the Boston Braves. The Wisconsin State Boxing Commi: n has euspended Lew Tendler of Ph Iphia for sixty days, A bill prohibiting the sale of tickets to boxing contests at @ price in excese of that printed on the ticket was introduced in the State Assembly at Albany. Assemblyman Hamill of New York is the sponsor. Tracy H. Lewis won the Lyon Memorial Cup at the Travere Island traps of the New York Athletic Club. He beat a field of fifty-seven gunners and had a total of 193 out of a possible 200. international com- je to 2, . Ireland Dies. Feb, 23.—William Ubyarke Throws Lattnen. LOUIS, Mo., zko, world’s champion, heavyweight seconds here last night. fall affair. He was . 13, 1894, CHICAGO, Feb. 23.—Stanislaus Zbys- wrestling defeated Armos Laitenen, Finn wrestler, in 1 hour 33 minutes 30 It was a one COLLEGE BASKETBALL LEAGUE STANDING. PC. ivania 800 Prineston 800 Dartmouth . 667 | Cornell 400 | Columb: 333 Yale . 000 |Tiger Win Over Eli Gives Them Tie for Lead | PRINCETON, N. J. Feb. 23—The Yale basketball team threw a scare into the Princeton Camp yesterday before the Tigers won by a score of 22 to 18. The victory puts the Tigers in a tte with Penn for first place in the Inter- collegiate league. Princeton, handi- capped by the loss of Capt. Wittmer, whe has been unable to take his place in the line-up for eeveral weeks, led at half time by a score of 11 to 9. How- ever, in the second half the Blue, main- ly through the individual efforts of | Batther, who tossed four baskets in all, | assumed the lead and held it until the last five minutes of play. Loeb and Klaess then contributed some fi work for Princeton and three field geele put the game on ico. te ae GENERAL PERSHING SEES PENN FIVE WIN GAME. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Feb. 33.—In the presence of General Pershing and more than two thousand other specta- tors who crowded every available inch of Weightman Hall, Penn defeated Penn State at basketball 23 to 16. —_————— MEN—WOMEN—Flesh reducing, body build- ing, Boxing. Prof. Meade, 100 W. ath. 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To-day, though the Her- ald Building has been con- verted into fine selling quar- ters, flooded with daylight the general design of the building, which is a replica of the charming Palazzo dd Consiglio or City Hall df Verona, remains ur- changed—a matter for com gratulation to the architec who has so skillfully retained a grace of art while remod: elling it to its new prosaic purpose. The blinking owls which for years stood along the eaves like solemn sentinela and the mellow bell on which the swinging sledges of the bronze Goliaths rang out the fleet- ing hours were fixtures the nowouier of tie od the ity o New York Herald—and of Now it’s birds of fashion who will alight to see pa \e- are equipped with new S| things to wear for men boys and we will be glad to serve you to the best of our ability at whichever of the “four corners” is most cone venient. '