The evening world. Newspaper, April 8, 1922, Page 7

THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1922, hs ry - —e —_ ORMER CHAMPION LEARNED «=. «= PLAYING JOKES, WAS HIS HOBBY RNG TRICKS IN PRACTICE <3 WTH LIONS AND MULES, °°" itz Had Unique Character, for When Training for Bouts He &4 and Jeffries Were Warm Pals and Stunts, Performed by ¢ Freckled Bob Would Outdo the Kids. ¢ Naess » One om BOB'S voKeS WAS POTTING A oar | INTs THE BED OF A MITER TH GEFTES _ y/ camp. =) die’d duck, but he had to sit at the wheel. Bob and the Mayor got down behind the seat and stayed out of range. The back of Eddie's car was so full of dents it looked like a pep- per can. “After a while Eddie got four or five shot in the back of his neck and stopped the car, and Jim came up and called it quits. “Mad? No; of course not. Those fellows were always kidding each other. Kind of rough, maybe, but they never got sore. They thought it was a great joke. It was a big laugh to them when it was over. They kind of had Bob scared, though. By Robert Edgren. CK JEFFRIES was in a reminis- cent mood the other evening, and Bob Fitzsimmons was his subject. ‘im and I surely liked old Bob, id Jack. “He was the greatest hter of his weight t ever lived, id he was full of jokes. ‘One after- on when Bob was helping’Jim train &t Harbin Springs for his second Corbett, Bob and Jim deer hunt. A couple hours later Bob came back alone. met him as he was hiking into camp asked him what he was back for, id if he got a decr. “'No/ said Hob, ‘But look ‘ere. "I noticed that Bob looked fat SOMEBODY PuT A LOT OF Decoys IN BOBS Room For & Jone» + BoB LAID IN BED AND SHOT “THEM To PIECES, Se Gut A STRANGER. © Leok FoR Goupmsh INTHE Poow ar anon 2 SECRET OF FITZSIMMONS’S GREAT PUNCHING CAME FROM ANIMALS RHEUMATIC TWINGE MADE YOU WINCE! SE Sloan's fre for rheumatism, go, over-worked italia, backache, stiff joints, and for sprains and strains, It penetrates without rubbing. The very first time you use Sloan’s Liniment ‘you will wonder never used it before. The o warmth and quick relief from pain will delightfully surprise you For forty y van's the world’s pain and ache lininent has been making and keeping thousands of friends. Ask your neighbor. Keep Sloan's handy, and at the first sign of an ache or pain, use it, At all druggists + T0c, 81.40, BN He thought it was a real gun fight. “Bob told me that he learned all his fighting tricks by studying ani- mals. He used to have lions and bears. He said the big cats were the best boxers in the world. BOB AND HIS PET LION. “Bob would step around and spar at the lion and get the lon to strike at him and watch his movements Then he'd try to time hig blows the same way. A cat will stand up and spar and feint before jt claws at you. efor pund the middle. Ho pulled back nie 2 coat and stuck his hand into the ning of his shirt and felt around, a in a minute pulled it out again h a grip arcund the neck of the gest bull snako T ever saw. He Ned the snake out yard oy yard ave been twelve feet long. iowae that long. He had around his waist eee. ‘urt you,’ said Rob. 'B | 1 was ‘iking along be- hd Jim when 1 saw this snake scoot ‘ON REcoRD. SS EREES REPORM ¢& ox os ee of the City League—A Rec-]® «rand average of over 194. bowling! followed; ‘There was a card room aol hla Hlephast Bowling ere the guests had card games go- lg. It was always crowded. A lot people were playing when Bob fhe in. Money and chips were all ver the place. ‘Bob strolled around to the middle bfthe room and all of a sudden pulled he snake out and waved it across the stables. SCRAMBLING THE GAMBLING. There were wild yells and shrieks nd people tumbled over each other ‘o get out through the door. In halt minute the place was emptied, tne ables and chairs were upset, and chips and money wero scattered round on the floor. “All those games were scrambled. 1 him he could keep it chained on the flat roof. “Bob put it up there and next morning he found the lion dead. It had dragged its chain across a power wire until it wore the insulation off, and the lion was electrocuted. Bob never got over feeling bad about that. He liked that lion and never would have another one. “He got a bear next, and said he learned more boxing from the way the bear cuffed blows aside. He said you couldn't hit that bear. “A bear naturally slaps at anything thrust at him and ‘he’s quick as light- ning with his paws, I've heard you can throw a hatchet at a bear and he'll slap it away before it reaches his head. Rob used that bear slap (ORG Onn “TUME “TRAT ney, all of which will bowl to-night. UEFF HAD Bom BiereD. Fre ma which are members of the Elizabeth ests, fraternal orders, church s0- early and will wind up about mid- in Europe nearly two months studying golf and tennis conditions over there in behalf of the National Golf and Tennis Club, which will be lon't know how they ever straighten-|to turn blows, and then developed a The New York Athletic Club is an On " _ over 200. High single game record See inom ay tountor that followed alae edna] bullt at Glen Héad, Long Island, this summer, arrived on the Aquitania, | ili New York Athletic Clb TM) ig gather thelr share of medals, and|is credited to Hilly Heine with 268 “Bob had a favorite trick. In the] same motion. It was one of his beat| She brings the good news that Cecil Leitch, women’s golf champion hee 3 , Lo os it is possible that high team and indl- lotel yard vans a pool and a fountain. | punch abroad, and her sister, Edith, are to return to this country to participate Re on the rowing ee and regain} viduat records may be made, as the| A match has been arranged’ Billie ob would art down on his knees and A MULE AS A SPARRING in this year’s American and Canadian championships. Miss Hollins |‘"° Prominent position it once 00) y,oy4 trom Ellzabeth have been piling | Cordes, a leading alley owner in the fare into the pool, and then move says cupied in that sport. Apparently the}, nig totals in the varlous leagues | Hast, between Leo Lucke of Brooklyn PARTNER, “When he was training for the first fight with O'Brien Bob got a small mule and trained with it every day. O’Brien was fast on his feet and Fitz wanted to work up a little more speed avoiding, blows. “He'd tease the mule, and the mute would watch him until it thought he was in range and then whirl like a flash and kick at him with both heels, Bob would sidestep one way or the other, just far enough to make the mule miss, and stay in close enough fround a little and stare some more. ome new arrival who didn't know "s tricks would come over to see t he looking at “Pretty soon he'd ask Rob what he as looking at, and Bob would get up ‘Why, there’s the funnies’ tle goldfish down there I ever saw.’ 2'Then the stranger would get down his hands and knees and look in here Bob pointed, 1 Hob would ve him a little shove so he'd take a wader into the pool, Rob would run officials of that organization have awakened to the fact that they were allowing one of the greatest amateur Last night's bowling was preduc- competitive sports im existence to]tive of some yery Interesting sport. | py “I had a very pleasant trip abroad, and while | am sorry that | will not be able to play in the British ladies’ championship this year, yet | am willing to forego that in order to devote my time to the new club. All with whom | talked to on the other side were greatly interested in the project. “When I reached England, Mi during the past few months, lag behind many games that are by |Great crowds of bowling fans lined the | ferent occasion: a Leitch was just recovering the use | far less interesting to the spectator] #lleys from the time the first team | was the victor. However, of her arm, which was injured in our match here last fall, and we |and less beneficial to the participant, played together two or three times. The Prince's course at Sandwich, In order to bring rowing out of the|night. Among the medal winners wer where the championship will be played thte year, is one of the finest i . | ever saw, and for that reason | would like to be able to play it in the tournament.’ mitted to slump, the New York A. ©. and Telephone Company, who regis- tered 106; Still and Miller of the As- _ _ _. |is now availing itself of the services|toria No. 4 team of I “One day Bob was showing some- hoff, who in 1910 won the single DUCK SHOOTING AT HOME. body how he did it, and as he turned Se ee EE. Fifty-One Teams From Elizabeth z or ‘Pree “nar eee Bowl To-Night in Headpin Tourney ™ : .| twelve men have knocked down 168,- All These Entries Are Members] o19 pins in their 864 games to date— Some morrow night as follows: 17.45 P. M.. \ ord for One Organization. The contestants will pair up to- | into the brush, and) poh said he lea ei — ators ys. Damman, B, Spinella dived in after ‘im and got "IM.| poy used te tikes liek aroubd To-night is Elizabeth night in The Heine, Koster vs, Rothermel; 9 bme on! I'm going to 'ave ae country with him, Down in San J \ Evening World Headpin Tournament|P. M., Riddell vs. Filer, Cook vs. "Bob pushed the snake inside Hi) Antonio once they wouldn't let him — at the White Blephant Bowling|Tieten, P. Spinola ys. Romer hit again and started for the hotel. |i ove the tion in tho hotel and told Freddie Pump has declared his in ability to finish the tournament, and have outdone all past efforts in the} Billy Rothermel will take his place, way of team entries, having sub-/takjng up the points accredited to ea Pump. The flreworks of the evening me Ne OR Nad ~ Sat Borland itty sone steams 1 tne Oar ll probably be furnished by Sena- tore and Damman. Senatore holds en This wonderful entry stands out as a] thing place with $32.24 points, while . Pe LEARNED BoxinG =~ record as far as entries from a gingle|Damman 1s in fourth position with Sh yrer— By STopviINgd BEARS 4ND league are concerned. These teama, | 830.98 points to his credit. It bo- LIONS IN ACTION, hooves Damman to defeat Senatoro = — — — to hold his position, and, likewise, City League, are drawn from business |genatore must defeat Damman to stay Marion Hollins, Wo:nen’sChampion, Bill Mehrhoff Need REARS ae oe ee eee |e en saan reat eaten rite ° = 345.10 points is closely followed by Returns After Two Months Abroad| May Bring A.C. |:''e.0n rc, Pes wh art idan" only eve points away “Cook iso holds the le: for the st nine Marion Hollins, national golf champion of the U. 8. A., who has been R wi FE night, game eoriss, Laving rolled 4000 Inet O ing to ore The Blizabeth boys feel confident | Sunday, while Riddell maintains high that thelr pin topplers will be able} !Mdividual average with a mark a little and Charlie Trucks of Philadelphia. The contest will be twenty games, home and home, total pin fall to count, for a purse of $1,000. Lucke cks have met before on three dif- i each time Trucks it is took the drives at 7 o'clock until the | thought by many that the tables will last team had finished bowling at mid-|be turned when these two hook yp again, a& Lucke’s average of 6 lethargy Into which it had been per-]Cowhan of the American Telegraph Jagainst Hilly Knox, a bowling partner Cuticura Talcum Is of Trucks, in a recent match at the Casino alleys in| Philadelphia a kid and stay out of camp an = = Island, Who | cates that Leo has at last found the Bur or so, and come in looking inno-|t0 punch the mule on the flank be- * of Bill Mehrhoff, one of the best]rolled 103 and 104 respectiv Fl eccoveietCMcKMA hetie Anved, nt and not knowing anything about] fore it could draw back for another E t L Ch rowing coaches in the country, Mehr. |Gerriets of the Whitestone No. 1, 106; et dia d kick astern League amptons ee ya Joe Cull and Joe Clark of the Cosmo- place at Billie Cordes'’s Grand Centra and 215 indi- Soothing For Baby’s Skin After a bath with warm wa- ‘The first leg of the match will be at] | ter and Cuticura Soap there is the Casino alleys in Philadelphia on} | nothing more cooling and re- . politan Bowling Club of Brooklyn, 9 Play Brooklyn Dodger FUVE| su11s championsuip of the wortd and] who rolled 113 and 109; 1. Wormser, |APME ZL, and the final hale will ti —— ® ake! | freshing for baby’s tender skin oat and put it in Hen Berry's room.| him the mule kicked again srnen he Only , Lit METROPOLITAN LEAGUE | Nest! Boat Club, has been given] <iimerman of the Park View, Jersey |! both cities at 8 P.M, vg Dept LDP: Madan 48, Mase," sold ovary Bie tied it up und ta ied tt in the bed Lapa ieee se Sap pee nly One Metropolitan atANDING complete charge of the senior and|city, who bowled an even 100; Disque, | Another match game has been ar- | | WgeBCuticura Soap shaves without mug. s head on the pillow, There ~ a + : 2 Ol oe ‘|ranged by Daye Erwich of the Park i junior crews and js bei: elied upon | Hudsons of Jersey City, 105, and Ha- | 7808 y ark as a Mell) when Hen: lehted ‘up: and ee atl ros and knocking Bop} League Game Scheduled Won: Lonts, Average, |" . ae pay bene ei > a i] vens of the same teani, 101 tow alleys between Willie Russo of aw that goat. He moyed to another Libis y Lee ; . for Local Courts Brooklyn ..,..+6. 11 7 611 }10: put Me men over ane: ot) the Sterling alleys of Brooklyn and oy foci pranta) Bob didn't let any one know he MacDowall ...... 12 g¢ suofin the many meets the N.Y. A.C} some very remarkable bowling was}. Fiedler of Park Row. The match D aR “A little later somebody tried to put deel atte pained orien, are had To-Morrow, Dodwere ,; 10 ‘ a [will compete in done in the Interboro Individual]! to be best eight out of fifteen games Se ee eee eee PHOTROAIL lee wae teaming —— Visitation ....... 9 10 174] Brooks, Crabtree, Duryea, Schopp]Champlonship last scheduled series, | £% @ purse of $200 and will be rolled ecnams wanting. to go duck ‘hunting, and he}ing and s Rin ceuew Onglant) Gal We A ‘ Out of twelve players contesting, | at the Park Row Academy to-morrow, Diad a shotgun in lis room, Some one] tard and in fine shape, got the date uM rigina! eltics mee ne] Knights ... 8g 0} 4ia4]und Cooper of the senior crew are elve players contesting, ot a lot of decoy ducks and nailed hem on the rafters over Bob's bed. changed. O'Brien didn't know it, but] Brooklyn Dodgers to-morrow evening | powers . 416] giving promise of a great showing seven of them bowled over 1,800 for} APril 9, at 7 P.M. Everybody is wel- e h rave Fi 0 : thelr nine ame! “d inella and fe had bin with no ceiling and or tinted te Bayo aian Avs reapaos Hall) Brookiyp. »S1nSe He | jas en they meet in their first com- is Cook Car the 1 $00 ! ‘ «| Charged. Keep you fit hingled root overhead fought O'Brien, broken ribs and all, | coitice emerged victors over the fast lor st. Anthony meet the Brookljn}petition on Decoration Day on the}Scores of over 200 wei 1| A. special three-game, totut-pins- | MBA Yinumimmitinnnnmanminl Ml “When Hob was in bed somebody] rather than ask for a postponement, || BFooklyn quintet in two out ot three! Dodgers at Prospect Hall, Brooklyn.| Harlem. Vor the time being they} sixty out of the 103 games showing] to-count match has been arranged for | =————$————————r Bob's room ent later his ung-bang-bang room. We rushed in to what was the matter, and there egan to contests, the Dodgers are anxious to| Meehan will act as referee take the water three times a week|totals above the doub isplay their wares against the na- Benny Borgeman of- Powers the supervision of Couch Mehr-|mark, Still more phenome Brothers is the present holder of the | hot the grand average of the entire bow!-Jum team of men, The me tional title holders. individual High Rearing kemnrs in the to Brooklyn Dodgers are in the third| Metropolitan League. His total num. |*(*"ford Trac! eOm. tavitec fraction under 200—19963, ‘The ous handicap. “Bob Titzsimmons was a character, Jim always liked Bob. Bob was rough and game and a wonderfut boxer and hitter, and he gave Jim two in {he Poggenburg Club tournament at the National Recreation Billiard Acad- emy, Brooklyn. As a Class B player Rice was playing for 175 points, whereas already by winning tho title of the}tred on the game because Brooklyn |.) Witt, {Med the, tavitatton p Eastern League and by conquering | will have to lose the game in order : us - Holyoke, the championship team of |givo the Dodgers the chance to A ucHioak Saute Canes tniSviua Brooklyns, the Interstate League. that team and MacDowall Up Indoor Season, n League, representing the Metros final indoor track and fleid meet ‘ Smoke and Chew by virtue of its honor position, also} If Dodgers win to-morrow and t “Just for fun Eddie picked up a hotgun and blazed away. Jim got Malf a dozen shot in the back of his They're in him still. Jim “el defeat Brooklyn in the, last regula ho season will be held to-night | a Bes Gray, @ Class C entrant, would have | bowed before the Celtics re 5 : . : pumped about twenty feet right uP] My vised to go but 125 pointa to win,| Brooklyns have one «uno more to}#ame there will be a three-corners 1 Regiment Armory on Washink Such ¢ Juality for only n the air, came down and started| on." spore was 110 for Rice to 92"for| play, Dave Soden's team has an op-|t@ 1m the Metropolitan League : hts, under the direction of the nization of th: for Eddie on the run. Five Cents seems almost too “Eddie and the Mayor and Fitzsim- Gray. portunity to win the honors in the|frst honors. Brooklyn, MacDowali fayor JS _ Renae Longue and the Dodgers will fight it out ta ar imons dashed for Eddie's car and lit] Fred fulton Scores Knockout, iclaer ih the last contest the title. | age good to be true, It is true fut across ree ene soe Ly his GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., April ers must win both of their r - _—_ - ‘ tuner because 162 years’ knowl- hotgun and piled into his big Loco- | Fred Fulton, heavyweight of Rochester,| games to tle the MacDowall team, vomen May Join Roscoe 4. \ ed as the ee. . jobile and went after them. Eddie's] stinn,, scored a technical knockout over| which js now accond on the stand.| 2"DDLETOWN, N. ¥., Apri! s | edge of what makes tobacco gine was missing and he couldn't] Homer Smith of Kalamazoo, Mich., in] ing, men of the Roscoe Athletle Assoelution ras ‘ ometiee Bid quality stands back of 1760, hake quite spced enough to get away, | the seventh round of a woheduled ten ; at Roscoe, Sullivan County, have | sligre Ani Nowion w d every time Jim got within long |Tound no-deelsion bout here last night, ‘o-night at Paterson t % meoting and voted to adait wor are «0 De ise’ he'd let. co the ‘ateoring wi Fulton outclassed his epnonent, knock: | Brothers meats the Visits! ia members of the uss intion, chai Ne A, atar t P. LORILLARD CO, 4 + ani ae nith down several times and then! ney will referee the gar em & year, half of the tet Aun A ‘ nd stand up for a moment and bang intentionally withholding the finishing Be? Wil refere z Eat, 1760 way with @ load of quail shot. Ed- punch, On Sunday, afternoon the Kaights century | to-night between a ladies’ team, - 4 — aes 1 was|tained by Mrs, Heins, and the Orphe- (OCEAN LINES ¢ reamBOATS rp Aven ing for the night, which was just a agreed to give the fair ones a gener- AD~ have || WHene To Go AND HOw To oeT TH Pee ann Tine and Oe ena cee tp a Bob lying in bed, innocent look: | honest as the day is long. Eo place on the, Metropolitan League|ler of points aggregate 198, covert FORD! theeaame. Gul : To $e28 2 Sean ne a just ‘walked up, |, “i guess that's one of the matn rea-| standing, but Brooklyn fans expect Visitation and ed Bure Oty pri! 8 —Cornell’ Untveraity has invited Di 7 7 eo 7 S N 6 . » Os : ‘ sons Jim liked him, I liked old Bob| that team to make a better showing s and Joe Brennan of th |AP o : 4 of ‘as stane th 9 St ti rae Guyane bed. peep de or| myself. wish the was around now.|than the Brooklyn Basketball Pive Broaklya Dedeera‘are ed sor second | 87 we we ares ns Rai Dah METROPOLITAN TiN room were covered with splintered | { Kind of miss having some guy walk Basis ee ee WERE OF ATO petnte RE TENOR BB TSP) Ay 19) RARER ___ Via Cape Cod Canal Sent vo and shingies. ‘The root| UP behind me when I don't expect iy | 20°: Joe Brennan and Johnny Beck-| visions powers Brothers anc |? BRED HR) SHB te Gro Ae At ode Connecting at Boston tor Portland, ( ry 41 could see] and nearly take my head off slapping} ™&n, a8 well as Friedman of theline Knights of St. Anthony close | meet The invitation came in a tele Rock!and, Bangor, Y armouth,N.S. Somebody lost a]Me on the back of the neck with the | Dodgers, will all have their chanoew t0|their seasons this week. pes OL BOT ne. PITY, Rtee ate Ny Now: York’ daltyiotuds - edge of his hand, That was Fitz's|™ke good impressions. 9. eG . raat Salle Na AR a eo apy 7 > P, M. ‘Telephone pel of decoys thet Hiei epes(eavonie trike’ But ae they tz’ | man-Beckman battle of last year,| The last game of the Metropolitan er, graduate manager of Stan } 0 He Jim Jeffries, Masop Har-|Know I'd stand for it from any one| When the Celtics played the Brooklyn | League will be played on April 16 te- |". ssage stated that the Stanford EASTERN STEAMSHIP LINES Talia Muior went quail hunt- (else, You'd stand for anything ti Whirlwinds, may be renewed again] tween the Brooklyn Dodgers and (he) ee i ee anne a ne ony! ng up the vail While they were] Fitz.” when the Celtics play the Dodgers. Brooklyn team at Arcadia Hall, With | ten or twelve athletes, would b ier UNKENE , % 4 . The Celtics will h the] victory to-morrow over the Knights) yo! quartered and given pple op OW, ‘ oll 1 ¢ nde n (Copyright, 1922, 1 Fe ample 0} L srt ay Ph aa ret aa COR ARNE: TUBS) By Babes Mgren) privilege of calling the} the Brooklyn Dodgers will make this for training, with the chance DYCKMAN ST. FERRY a Lae = champions of the country by winning |last Brooklyn-Dodgers conte rea a casual meet with Cornell May 2 2. 5 ards away.” Jim wan ataniing there] mice gcoree Rany Vietorr, _|SuAmplane ofthe cmunt:y Wy wining |sat, Brooklye:Dodgers contest th: «say aparalos tar te bi ee! Seventeen Sixt | test se with his back turned Jullan Rice, Nattonal amateur Class B| OV" the Dodgers moet important Kame in tho league inter, Interstate Park . team has virtually earned the right] All of the Dodgers’ hopes will be con k Inter, ntersta a c SHOOTING JEFFRIES JUST | 15.2 balkline champion, won easily from The Real Season far Miking Peres Frank L. 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