The evening world. Newspaper, March 11, 1922, Page 7

64 | Successful Years Have Contributed Their Wisdom to Our Preparations for the Coming Spring Season "THE story of Macy’s is an important chapter in the history of modern mercantile methods. Macy’s has been serving the public of this city for 64 years. It is the oldest department store now in existence. It was the first of the great modern CHAMPION WITH THE WALLOP GETS ALL THE POPULARITY Secret of the Knockout Lies in the Snap, Not the Weight of De- livery—Why Fitzsimmons, Sullivan, ‘Gans and Later Day Leonard and Present Titleh older Dempsey Climbed to Fame —thampions Without “the Kick” Seldom Make a Hit. India cabled a challenge to the United States for the Davie Cu aocordin, an announcement made by the United States Lawn Tennis Aseootation This ie the ninth challenge received for the 1622 tourna mont. ‘ The members of the Naval Academy basketball team have elected Warren 8. Parr of Kansas captain for next year, Joseph G, Kirkwood, the Australian open golf champien, is on his way te this country to prepare for the Nerth and South amateur oham- pienship tournament, Pat Boyle of St. Loui jeld of fifty players with rd of 148 at the end of the firet day’ y for the Florida open golf champion ship at Jacksonville. Official sanction to boxing matches in school buildings has been given by the Cleveland Board of Education. Joseph Wright, coach of the University of Pennsylvania orew, signed a three-year contract with that institution, dating from next duly. By Robert Edgren. ‘The Passaic High School basketball team scored another victory, ¢¢]73 the champion with the punch who gets all the popularity,” said] defeatin ichpieatongt all wat ts rer ele Cen Oren Reece Freddy Welsh a few nights ago as he watched Rocky Kansas being Harry Herbert, feotball and lacrosse star of Syracuse University, rubbed down after losing a fifteen-round decision to Benny Leonard.) who had’ hie neck fractured in a football game last fall, will not take “Leonard is making a great record,” Welsh went on. “He always has the puich. After winning the title from me he went right along winning! other fights with knockouts. He hasn't needed decisions. In the decision fights le has fought he has stopped Welling and Ritchie Mitchell and has outpolited Rocky Kansas, But he flattened Kansas in the eleventh round, and it's something to put that human battering ram o nthe floor. I never made « hit with the crowd that Benny makes, and only because I didn’t have the ‘kick.’” Welm said a lot there in a few words. Looking ba¢k over the long list of champions in the different weight classes, it's easy to see how the posession of a K. O. punch com- mandedrespect and popularity. The crowd Ikes aclion—plenty of it—ex- cltemen — thrills. And there is nothingthat p:ts a thrill into a box- ing conest like the possibility of a decisivepunch that may slip over at the mos unexpected moment. John I Sullivan was world famous because ¢ won his fights with crash- ing knocouts. There are few deci- sions in ohn L's record. Jim Cor- bett waspopular for a while, after eating fullivan and knocking out Charlie Mtchell. But he never had a real K. \. punch, and it wasn’t long before haier hitters took his place in public steem. Tom Sarkey had nothing strength end a punch. He knocked jut Gus Rublin with the first bloy struck. He knocked out “said McCe after McCoy had dropped him twic He was always danger- ous. The were just two men he couldn't hock down, IT’S TH SNAP THAT COUNTS. One wi Bob Fitzsimmons, who was too afty to get in the way of ey’swings, and who was the hardest Iter in the world at his weight—rhaps the hardest at any weight. | other was Jim Jeffries, Sharkey t Jeffries often enough, but he eddn’t make an impression on Jeff's ‘emendous frame. In his prime, Jeties was the strongest man ever seenn a ring, and no fighter living imiis Ume could hit hard enough tapset him. Jeffrieshad a great punch. He often helit back, being afraid of injuring 5 opponents if he used all his hittinpower. But when he need- ed the pch he could deliver it. There a peculiar thing about “) punchingower. The weight of the blow cous for nothing. The sn with which it is delivered gives it © stunning effect. When tzsimmons was training at Carson tight Corbett for the heavy- weight th, I boxed with him one da: and hadseveral samples of Bob's terrific @y blows. The punches I slanded . Fitz didn’t worry him much. After xing we had a discussion about hing power and went down ‘own tory it out on a punching machinewith a registeting dial. I Was mo.a@ shot putter and weight throwerhan a boxer, and this is where Blipped one over on Fitz- simmon * Bob 3 the pad on the punching machingome mighty swats, and the needle tw up and registered about 400 povis. When my turn came I had siz up the working style of the machin and instead of driving my fist int with a snappy boxer's blow 1 lunge with a shot-putting drive, registeag approximately 800 pounds, or twicthe punch delivered by Fitz- simmo bd , PUZZLE TO FITZ. Fitz ouldn’t understand it at all. He coun’t believe that any one could hit haer than he did, so he kept on pound the machine for nearly an hour. ‘inally Fitz had a bright idea. “Lo ‘ere,” he exclaimed, “you can’t 8 ‘itting ‘arder than [ am. ‘When ‘it it I ‘it it so ‘ard the needle Ylies «e around so quick we don’t ‘see it,nd then it goes slower for four ‘undrepounds more. I'm ‘itting once arounthe dial—that's twelve ‘undred pouné—and four 'undred more—six- | teen ndred pounds.” | AndFitz stuck to his claim. The | tact as that his 400-pound hit was | a blo and my 800-pound hit was a shov) My hit would have upset a | manvithout hurting him much—but | ¥itzmmone's hit would have jarred @ mses out cf any man it landed *om, ‘aturally, Fitzsimmons never hit as hed a blow at a moving target as he @ at the padded cushion on the macne. | Dapsey has earned a place among | the orld’s greatest hitters by estat- lish the cleanest knockout record | eveheld by a champion, His punch hasarned him tame, | Lok at the lightweights. Benny \ Lecard is the most popular cham- | plorthe class ever had—and he near- ) ly ways wins with a punch, Jue | Gar was a great lightweight cham- | pio because he could get up from a knd&down, and even when reeling \ spa over a winning knockout blow. | Helid that twice with Dal Hawkins, THE LITTLE FELLOWS. @ns was @ marvellous counter hite. Mtling Nelson was a popular ohmpion because he won his fights visthe K. O. route, but it took Nel- nyears to work his way into real larity, becausy te took so long towvin. Bome of his battles went ovr forty rounds. His other quali- ties, stubborn courage, aggreasive- ness and self-confidence, gave him popularity he couldn’t win with the moro espectacular punch, Johnny Kilbane could hit when he wanted to. He liked the clever stuff, the dancing, looking around, smiling, kidding. He lost most of his popular- ity at one time by fooling too much— showing off to a tiresome extent, con- tenting himself with clever work. But when he realized that the pub- lic was beginning to count him a hi been without a punch, he took on a match with tho most dangerous hitter in his class, George Chaney of Balti- more, and knocked him out in three rounds. Kilbane’s popularity came back with a bound land had a crowd loved fighter ever known in the bantam and featherweight classes, MeGovern fought like a fury eve! step of every fight and had a K. O, punch as sudden and decisive as a rifle shot. George Dixon was another great hitter, and “Little Chocolate’ was the idol of his day. The greatest and most popular middleweights were Kid McCoy, Tom- my Ryan, Stanley Ketch Billy “Thunderbolt"’ Papke, Frank Klaus, Sam Langford and Mike Gibbons—all men with speed and a punch, BOB WAS HUMANE, Of the welters, Mysterious Billy Smith, Joe Walcott, Honey Mellody, all great hitters, were the men in the class whose names made lasting Places in fight history. The present champion, Jack Britton, has been a great puncher, but is reaching the point where he likes to win by out- boxing his opponents. Lob Fitzsimmons spent years study- ing the effect of different blows. Bob had a theory of his own about the knockout. “I ‘ate to ‘urt any one,'’,Bob used to tell me, “'so I always look for a chance to land a clean knockout. No ‘arm in that—not even a ‘eadache when you wake up."* After all, boxing is the art by which an unarmed man can defend himself and defense is best conducted by de- feating the attacking party—which can't be accomplished by dancing’ ind tapping lightly “for The punch is the best thing: in the game. (Copyright, 1922, by Robert Edgren.) active part in athletics, but will coach a high school 1 without compensation. rosse team Frank C. Newton of the Brookline Country Club defeated R. Woeld- In-a thirty-six-hole fin worth of New Yerk Ina J uriatns of the annual Six-Day Riders Preparing For Great Double Finish, Says Veteran Joe Fogler Two Races in One To-Night in Garden as Different Sets of Leaders Scramble Madly for Places, By Robert Boyd. 67 UDRE will be two races in T one,” remarked Joe Fogler, the veteran six-day rider, as he knocked the ashes off his cigarette and peered up at the gigantic score hoard on the 27th Street side of Mad ison Square Garden, “First ther will be the struggle between McNa- mara and Grenda and Brocco and Du Ruyter for first honors, and then there will be a fight waged between Goullet and Madden and Egg and Eaton for third money.” “Then you don't think any of the other teams will gan a lap on the McNamara and Grenda and Brocco and De Ruyter teams?" To which Joe slowly shook his head. Pogler is perhaps the most pictur- esque figure in the racing game to- day. In 1903, teamed with Eddte Root. he won his first six-day race. In 1911, with Jackie Clark, the Aus- tralian. he repeated. The following year, with Walter Rutt of Germany, he again captured first plac 18, with Alfred Goullet, he won the in. Since retiring from ac- tive riding Joe has been prominent in all races, having charge of the riders. “The six-day race ia not what it used to be years ago when Root, Walthour, Moran, Clark and McFar- land were riding.” said Joe, “The teams in those days were two-men combinations. They were well bal- anced, But look at the r day. Do you know why Gren ara, Brocco and De Ruy p ahead of the rest of the riders? hey're not better riders, but they're both two-men teams und they are the only two-men teams in the be Ruyter is o the great- est six-day riders w » had in many years. He's uot o sensational sprinter, bi al fighter, If the College Athletes Flock Here for Championship Games To-Night Over 500 Entries for Monster Meet at 22d Regiment Armory. Hf annual indoor championship meet of the Intercollegiate As- sociation of Amateur Athletes of America at the 22d Regiment Ar- mory to-night will undoubtedly prove the most interesting tournament of the present athletic season. The field is composed of the best material the universities of the East have at their disposal, and the array of stars on the entry lists shows promise of a gala performance. More than 500 are entered for the twelve events that are down for decision to- night, Dartmouth leading the other universities with a list of sixty-eight athletes. Cornell is second with six- ty-five, while Pennsylvania is third with fifty-three. The events will be closely watched by coaches who will try to get a line on the probable results of the Penn relay games, which will take place at Philadelphia May 28-29, as many of the stars who are to participate in to-night’s games will also compete in the Penn meet. The meet will per- haps also have a bearing upon the future selections of representatives for the Olympic Games at Paris. Much regret is being expressed at the failure to Include the popular 220- yard, 440-yard and half-mile runs, But it has been explained by the au- thorities that the reason for this omission is the fact that the outdoor season is soon to start, and it was feared that the strain of the heats in the middle distance runs would be harmful to the men who are now be- ginning to show up for the first out- door meet of the year, With such stars as J. A. LeConey, Alan Woodring, Victor Graeb, ; ton Miller and H. P. Lev. to be one of the most sparkling afta: of the evening Jack Moakiey, Cornell coach, will turn loose @ new + | success. American riders think they have a chance of gaining a lap on him they’re mistaken. Brocco’s not a great rider but he is a plugger. There's not a chance {n the world of Brocco out- sprinting the other fellows, and there's not a chance in the world of thelr catching him asleep either. “As formidable and well balanced as this team Is, they do not approach in ability that of McNamara and Grenda, With the exception of this team they outrank all the others. Mo- Namara and Grenda are better sprin- ters than the two foreigners, conse- quently they are my selection to win. ‘Years ago when I was riding there pre not only two teams in the race as there is to-day, there were about seven or eight strong two-men teams. And a well-balanced team is alwa! a winner, “Goullet's winning the last Decem- ber race was all a mistake. There was an example of a one-man team winning with his sprinting In the last, hour alone. McNamara's collapse Prevented his holding the lead he had accumulated in points. “Look over the list of winners of the six-day races since 1906 and you will find that it was always t'vo-men teams that came out in front. “This year's race from a racing standpoint has not been a howling Financially it has been one of the greatest in the history of the game. Not as good as the last De- cember race which established a new record, “When the two teams with a lap advantage over the others are fight- ing for first place to-night Goullet and Mac.en and Egg and Eaton will have a battle of their own for third place. Of the two, I fancy that Goullet and Madden will defeat Egg and Eaton in the last hour. “My selections are: McNamara and Grenda, Brocco and DeRuyter, Goullet and Maddeh and Egg and Eaton. Goullet is the greatest six- day rider in the world to-day." Joe has picked winners before. He Predicted early in the race that Brocco and DeRuyter would gain a lap. S80 we think we will string along with the veteran's selections. iscovery in this sprint, one Lovejoy, who recently won the sprint in the dual mect betwe ‘or= nell and Penn State in the snappy time of 74-5 seconds. Penn State has a part rly strong line-up for the distance events with such men as "Blondy” Xomix and M. L. Shields, Romig and R. EB, Brown, the Cornell distance star, are expected to finish one, two in the two-mile run. Shields will compete in the 880-yard run. Fordham Five Has New Leader Ed McMahon, varsity centre for the last three years, waa unanimously elected Captain of the Pordlium basket- ball team for next season at @ spectal meeting of the letter m.. held in the Maroon athletic office yesterday after. noon, McMahon lives in Conn, Before con made quite a repu South Norwalt, {o Fordham ne fon playing on the Fistic News and Gossip By John Pollock Augie Ratner, who sprang a big surprise recently by knocking out Jack Delaney of Bridgeport in one round in Brooklyn, was signed up for an important bout to-day by his i1an- ager, Frank Bagley, He will go against that crack fighter of St, Paul, Jock Malone. They will battle for ten rounds at the Commercial A. C. of Bosten on March 24. If Young Bob Fitzstmm: J., can be Induced to gow, ney the men will clash Mfornia fighter, will ret bout under the manage. wry Neary at the National A. U hia to-nieht. He will go against Sallor Friedman, the sturdy lightweight of ‘They wilt battle elght rounds. ew the place of Phil Salvador of] | basketball five of the hich school in] that city. During the past season, McMahon was easily the leading scorer of the team with 191 points, a fraction less than 40 per cent, of the total tallied by the entire Maroon quintet this season, ‘The men who ‘ook part in t tion anc who will be awarded a varsity letter are Cavanaugh and Dunn, forwards; McMahon, centre; Healey, Crowley and Germain, guards; and Vin- Martin Ackerman, one of the contest- ants in the greater city amateur pocket billiard tournament at Doyle's, had a close call last night in his match with Vincent Connor. Ackerman won, 75 to 6%, after the loser, who had been trailing badly, hed evened the score at 65-all. Connor had a high run of 14 to ® high run of 12 for the winner In the national amateur snooker tour- nament, A! Thomas defeated Le’ 100 to #7, In @ three-cu: room tourpey, whic ht, the winners were: G. Bu Me . B. McDaniel and G. La Rue, Lew Tendier of Philadelphia will make first appearance in a bout in Brooklyn ht ets Johnny Sheppard of Eng round go at the Rink Sport: | | lan Joe Gans vs. Mike Car rier im the semi-final of twelve rounds, Jack Hanlon, who A. of Philadelphia for Taylor, is again Matchma:er of the club. Hanion will take the place of Scotty Montieth, who resigned | |i that position a few days ago. Mike McTigue has been signed up for an- ether dour, Loughran, the promising Philadelphia bat der, In a round go at Scranton, Pa, on next Friday night. Bar-y Bleger, the local box round feature bout to the go Smith and Joe Burman of Chica, Garden, “fonday, March 20. been substituted for Babe Herman of fornia. Jimmy Carroll will meet Mike Mc Cabe of Harlem tn the two eigh reuad bouts. All gO against Tommy | | department stores, as distinguished from the strictly dry goods stores of earlier days. It is not generally known how profound an influence this store has exerted upon the business practices of two generations. When it was founded, fixed prices were practically unknown, and each sale was the result of a process of haggling between seller and buyer. In those days the sharp trader and bred buyer profited at the expense of less cautious neighbors. No Discounts to a ‘‘Favored Few’’ There was a time when prices were marked in secret characters known only to employes of the vender, and the purchaser had no as- surance of the real value of the goods he intended to buy. To Rowland H. Macy, founder of this store, belongs the credit for the first depart- ure from the prevailing custom of his time. From the first day he opened his store, he determined that all his prices were to be plainly marked, and there were to be no prices but these. There were to be no discounts to a favored few. There was to be one price—and one price to all alike. We have never compromised with this principle and never intend to, al- though most stores,even now, give discounts to certain classes or groups. The Economy of Cash _ Macy sold only for cash, and as he bought for cash, the expense of conducting nis business was less than that of his competitors. It was not an idle boast—his claim that he could always undersell. It was based on fact—the fact that he could afford to do it, for it was good busincss to pass his economies on to his customers. Perhaps even he did not realize that he had introduced a plan that was destined to revolutionize the entire method of selling at retail. Inthe truest sense of the ohrase, ‘‘competition is the life of trade” at Macy’s. ‘Pointing With Pride—’’ The wisdom of the founder needs no better proof than the success of the busi- ness he established. Today it is generally conceded to be, in point, of sales, the largest department store in the East. Macy’s started on Sixth Avenue near Fourteenth Street, in a store 20 feet wide and about 60 feet deep. In the course of about 40 years it grew so as to cover the whole block on Sixth Avenue between Thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets, and ran back about 200 feet on each street. In 1902 it had outgrown all the space available in the locality, the center of pop- ulation had moved further north, and Macy’s moved to Thirty-fourth Street and Broadway. The building then erected, Macy’s present home, is about 200 feet wide on Broadway and about 400 feet deep. “Growing Pains’’ of a Great Store Recognition on the part of the public of the fundamental correctness of Macy policies, of the fairness of Macy dealing, of the satisfaction that goes with Macy service, has caused the Macy business to grow so fast that the present premises are too small. We are clearing the ground now for the construction of a 19-story addition adjoining our present building. Several old buildings that occupied the site have been demolished and excavations havé been begun. The addition will make our total space one half as big again as at present. In other words, whereas Macy’s now contains about 25 acres of space, it will in the the near future (it is hoped within two years) contain over 37 acres. With a successful past to buoy us and a bright future to inspire us, we are tackling the tasks of the moment with enthusiasm. Now, as for the past 64 years, we are prepared, at the opening of the Spring S: ason of 1922, to serve the public to the utmost of our capacity with Dependable Merchandise at Lowest -in-the-City Prices RH. & Go! HERALD SQUARE NEW YORK