The evening world. Newspaper, November 2, 1922, Page 24

- wen oneareseepenneeeees womens ne ans cease Speen nenpene mest erent me 5) THEZEVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1922.” BOXING BOARD CASTS SUSPICION UPON WHAT PROVES GREAT BOUT yt MICKEY WALKER CAPTURES THE PASSING OF THE GAME BRITTON - .. - By Thornton Fisher |/{ THE SMILING COUNTENANCE oF THE Hew WELTE @HAMPION HICKEN WALKER: BEFORE AND AFTER } THE GAME VETERAN © VETERAN JACK BRITTON v niente conte g WAS FLOORED FOR Before Men Start Battling Commission Calls ] : ; Sa in THE (204 ; Yy yy : , All Bets Off, but Elizabeth Boy Outclasses y Yj J cena. Opponent in Bout in Which the Champion 7 Displays Remarkable Gameness. A mail Ld By Ed Van Every, |" “Ts WINNER, Mickey Walker, and our new welterwelght cham- “Big Three” Gives Outsiders Chance to Learn They Are Playing Football—Also to Travel. pion,” announced Joe Humphreys, and he waved his hand toward the corner of the ring in which a smiling. but anxious- faced tawny haired Irish boy from Elizabeth, N. J., stood expectantly, his hands clutching nervously at the ropes. With the words that crowned him the new fighting king of his division and conqueror of Jack Britton, a Soup STIFE LERTS To THE great roar rang through the auditorium of Madison Square Garden, a tor- BOON starred JACK DOWN TO rent of cheers hailed the new champion, Smiling Mickey Walker. DEFEAT AT THE HaNps OF Over in the opposite corner of the ring sat the old champion, Jack is 16 NEARS YOUNGER. Britton, weary and spent, a trickle of blood on his lips and showing all of OPPONENT ./ his thirty-eight years, after fifteen rounds of desperate, futile battling. For the moment the old king was forgotten, only the smiling face of the new king was in the eyes of the capacity crowd. Only one did not forget the man who had gone down to defeat fighting as only a champion could. Joe Humphreys, who has been in at the change of most every title in the last twenty years, walked to Britton’s corner, leaned over and whispered a few words in the ear of the bowed head of the fighter and then brought Jack to the centre of the ring. Joe turned to the crowd, held up his hand for silence. “Gentlemen,” he said, “J Yale, Princeton and Harvard, have ing entered into a triangular agrees ment barring long trips for thelr football teams, are still not opposed to letting the teams play matches willl fa es. providing the other fellows do the travelling, T umes must take place during the regular football season. It is very nice for the Big Three to show st charitable spirit, There 1 hundred other colleges with football teams in the United States, and how could they ever know whethe ey were playing real foote ball or not unless some of them could, on rare oecasion, hike castward and mingle with the moguls of the grid« iron? * \ eae SAY THAT IN HS PRIME. ERE THE PRUNING KA Hee iF af CUT HIM Down, pares Nor A SPRYER MAN WAS FOUND BY THE CRIER ON HIS ROUND THROUGH THE TOWN — FROM HOLHES “LAST LEAC” istant coll ure Sey . Lo MASTER. ck Britton, the ex-champion, the gamest Z eerrros Last fighter in the world.” It was a great fight, 2 champlon-@——<—$—<$_$__ Ship fight—a battling little Irish boy with youth and fire and fighting in- stinct ripping his way to victory with flerce body blows and smashing his drives to the head and winning over a veteran with all the wisdom of more than five hundred ring battles at his command and backed by the heart of a champion—but also with the weight of years, the wear and tear of twenty years of fighting, to take its toll. A suspicious complexion was placed on the evening's business when the announcer made a statement that the New York State Athletic Commis- sion wished it to be known that all bets in the fight were declared off. Rumors also drifted about the ring- + aide that the betting odds had shifted at the last hour from the champion to the challenger. Why the odds in the wagering should change, also the Boxing Commission's authority for faking cognizance of the betting, was not explained. It has been known, fo be sure, that Britton has not looked at his best during his past few days of training during which a young pugilist from the South named Lawlor, has been giving far more than he received. But any suspicion that attached to the fight last night at the start must surely have been ‘wiped out as the fight wore along. Jack did some work with his left until he was staggered by a left hook. Mickey went after him viciously and Iiritton seemed almost on the verge of being beaten down from this at tack, but he lashed out a vicious counter at the bell, BRITTON CRUELLY BEATEN AROUND THE KIDNEYS, Walker nailed Britton with a right uppercut almost at the start of the seventh, and while Jack tried to clip the Jersey boy with short hooks there was no stopping Mickey and he pounded Jack cruelly about the kid- neys. He almost fought Britton off his feet again in this session, but as Jack backed about the ring he man- aged to put some desperate blows to the head. The eighth was a painful three minutes for the champion, He was trying hard to make a stand, but the pounding to the body that Walker was administering almost bent him double. A terrific left swing to the stomach almost lifted Jack from his feet, and below his ribs appeared big pink welts from the continued kidney attack being administered Britton seemed to put a do or die effort into his work in the ninth and managed to stab his man away for a time, but Walker soon got close GREAT RALLY WHEN WITH DNING DESPERATION He FLEW (NTO WALIKE INTENT JPON PUTTING HIM OUT BUT HE FAILED - ; JAekK Stood’ UP WHEN (T SEEMED THAT THE BODY COULD NO LONGER BEAR THE PUNISHMENT Story of How Title Changed He vost Hands Told Round by Round HIS TITLE STANDING FIRST ROUND. right to the stomach that had Jack ‘ é bending low. A left hook almost i rushed together quickly and is uP aie i a ts ay or the | SPilled Britton and he took a fierce ‘Walker succes n getting over the | pounding about the body. Walker's first blow—a right to the face. Walker | round. seemed very fast and Britton was EIGHTH ROUND. short with his left and was backed] Britton jumped in with a left but about the ring. A left hook to the|Walker rushed him and forced Jo burn of § New York tr ic | sis to the boc They 6x¢ seemed to be able to 14,000 FANS PAY hook almost turned him completely |to the head but Walker sp fainted’ agains ‘Ten SEE around, Jack put over a good'right|long left to the jaw that almost|smashed in the ¢alls. $54,750 TO at the close of the round but the|topped Britton. Another left to the but he fought back BOUT IN GARDEN J honors belonged to the Jersey boy in| POdy stung Jac the opening session, BEATEN From ALLAR Ones. TO POST THE END Was RINBUOE ANTICIPATED EARLY, SPEISSENS INJURED IN SIX DAY RACE SPILL CHICAGO, Noy, 2.—Alfredo Speis- sens, the Belgian six-day bicycle race star, was taken to a hospital to-day suffering from a possible frac ture received when he went down in one of four spills which marked the furious riding caused by t. Louis and Dave Lands of ing to regain a lost lap nd again breast the leaders in the day race here, Spelssens Jaw staggered Britton and a right {t? “linch following two right smashes |conscious thirty minutes THE GLO HUMAN) FRAME COULD STAND UP ONW WITH EFPORT UNDER THE AVALAN e440 OF BLOWS- THE SPIRIT was WRUNG GUr THE FLESH WAS Weak. ntersectional foot: were wipe the unfortunates outside the “Big Thr might drift away frem football entirely, and after i few years might be discovered play ing something akin to tag or tiddlede winks under the delusion that they, were following the great American game! But now that the Big Three has dev cided to let distant outsiders travel and have a game now and then if the schedule can be conveniently are ranged, no doubt football will cons tinue to exist, even in the outlying districts. Barring the members of the Big Three from playing outside the regu lar season mi: » aimed at the inters sectional yed in California Y Day during recent years. Th ames have been in< tensely interesting, but always close enough to make defeat possible for ors, even if they were in the If ull chance for Oregon by a small slugging Bill Steers, the “at Oregon back, who was half the team in scoring strength, early in the first quarter, injuring him so badly that he was not only put out of the gume but practically out of football, PLAYERS WOULD LIKE TRIP, Pennsylvania was beaten with ease by the Coast champions and Ohia , conference champion and @ tnnereut at the belt Waiters weuns |Mtekey Walker, Tho’ No Talker, ; ra ti creat team, was overwhelmed by Calla with his furious stride and for a time ., ROUND TWO. reat team, was overw WALKER GAVE BRITTON ATER: Jaritton was hanging on. Terrible By Jotn Pollock. mtn dh the aeeviesor at tie Pee INTHIRONNE: A Sa Fi ht I fornia. W. and J., a great football TING. i 0 of e ver 14,! sht fans witnesse . ‘al mut a le o the jaw anc aggregation u year, as RIBLE BEA rigmt and left hooks were shot to the Over 14,000 fight f: it a Lis aoe ahah ‘ Walker put a left to t y and er isa orker t last’ year, was lucky, Britton took a terrible beating and] body and an uppercut to the head] the welterweight championship | Start and put over « straight right to] jolted the right to the body his ee ee rm enough to hold California to a scores , 7 seemed to make Britton despers Ic tie on a muddy field. needed all his marvelous ring science | made Britton gasp in pain, bout between Champion Jack | the head but missed a leit hook that [Seemed to eae deniers ; es : P e ee | teas uddy . . &nd fighting heart to save hin from] It looked like the finish of Britton] peittom and Mickey Walker of | almost sent him shooting through the }&mt he shet a ek ceghie teens Lad Who Captured Britton’s Rey frat Wow. of the fight, Tut} ‘The New Years Day games fats t least five occ [in the tenth. He was very tired as : eel ght to ead but wi e effect, Ruetea Ray ; spite « is bad start Micke ne only chance foi Meer aren tor ens count a alee te he came up, and the Qontinuous| Blizabeth, N. J., at Madison | ropes. Walker hooked a left to the] Walker keeping right after him with Crown Wins Ring came back strong and not only went] Western champions to meet. It is r H a eT et vi another | Smashes to the body that so hac the entire tw © rounds, n vefore | ine ple for Veste es the twelfth and was on his knees for] pounding about the heart, the stom-| Square Garden last night, of |Jaw and then followed with another pean iD pen a ae alee Renown, il ens bok i ; pein is, Due bet us my ie tae West FA toma to eo the count in the seventh as the bell}ach and the Kidneys affected him so! which 13,061 pald for tickets, The | that sent Britton staggering to the |i | tenn sore but duck uppercut Met aeay tom eee eae eee hac cinsea: inet nael r e t ‘on from rope, but Jac perc Oreceeereeetereeeres ea a ne champion. Jersey] Games can't be played Drought the end of the round. mie he nee med barely ale t8 stand. He gross receipts, including the Goy- | ropes, where he slipped to his knees. twice to the head while on the re- By Richard F Ren WaOlalinne HaLtleT renee Gleb thee: SHH HA MEM PR PEIN thi. Biitton's sliarpshooting left, one ot quickly beaten back, and h series ot] emHment tax of 10 per cent. | Jack was up immediately but ran|treat. This seemed to put Mickey 2 Paenere F reyet. had a prospective champion, ‘This coast the best football weather amounted to $54,750.30. The net receipts were $47,284,30, from fe which the fighters received thetr | €T’8 round. the most accurate in the business, a lefts and rights sent him to the Jeft that has held even Renny Leon-/ canvas. He was almost out and nes in January. went after Jack like a madman, 4 new welterweight champion, This year Walker has taken part in The Pacifie Coast football season into a flurry of body smashes. Walk-]into @ veritable fighting fury and he S MILING MICKEY WALKER, the| was last y right uppereut snapped Britton's head . a se ee i wo | isht fights previous to last night's} covers the same part of the fall ard, this left seemed lacking its) making a gallant effort to pull him-| Jnncen, The Btate drew dewa ROUND THREE. Hei. Wailers taupe: ep ROEA UNGRIY<ONP LYRIS ARO ammaln. Tin \Enya Soidign BATIANld two montis devoted: Wor totuAll Cio speed and accuracy. But against the] self together and bring himself to his 2,488.65, which was 5 per cent. Walker jabbed with left to head and last July 15, and his right name Is] tough battles “whirlwind attack of the Jersey boy| feet. The count had already reached ven the Britton left seemed futile.] seven and it looked liko the end. ot Right from the very first round] Britton, but the bell rang and saved TENTH ROUND. p at Philadelphia, but his t, so the Westerners need to go Britton fighting desperately stabbea| 218" Walker, He is tho son of ren cara Was indicated when he went] through just as much extra training al fast exchanges fol-| Walker off with snappy Jabs, but| TIsh parents and was born in what js] Boston and knocked out Johnny|for a New Year's Day game as the of the net receipts. The tickets Britton countered neatly to the same for the fight, including the Gov- | spot, Se ernment tax of 10 per cent., were | jowed, during which Ji A ‘ Griffith in twelve rounds and then| vi sae’ »ped | him. . lowed, during which Jack shot a good] soon tired and was subjected to an-| known‘ag the Keighry Hedge sectto: oollieg visiting team. atl en ante Bs pn oe epee Svers one. Sdoked tor @ kuoskout| SPM Ae sOUoWws ach toithe: ataroaoh anal tollowed siti Hee ae freeh Kanal d nee 8 - ry para cane bale to the same town and put] It's a cinch the football players a ie “ q hook 1 t i . ey say th a Pe y our ro! on't objec a a er triy oo a Jee him away but the jabs}in the eleventh, but though the body 2,000 at $1. - $2,000.00 a right overhand hook to the jaw.|hooked a left to the head after a Padtitgec clone tees erin eree HtOUR ronnda don't object to taking a winter trip Zid not stop. The left untulanced | W4s spent the fighting brain still was 1,984 at 2. +++ 8,968.00 Jack was fighting lke his old self now [clinch but was again driven back|known—hia father’s name was Mi-| got their Meet clin ror aes ering} to the Const. And the paying of + Walker for an instant but even while | keen and it was the heart of a cham- 3,427 at 3.. + +++ 10,281.00 but Walker again camo fast and}under a shower of lefts and rights. | chacl wes a tone little kid aronnal Sileken evan, Elimpse 0 Smiling transportation and training expenses * off balance he would shoot back un- | Pion that hod still to be broken, To 3,021 at 5.-,.. - 18,105.00 forced Britton about the ring. An|He went down to his knees and action and in his} for the travelling team out of the gate the street, r vaya randvlive t i iu expectedly with blows from every | the surprise of every one he stood in 2,629 at 7+ even round, ree ‘ets of his town, always ready] very first fight in this city he carried ed in a very bad way, the bell receipts, and allotting a part of the to meet trouble a little bit more than] off the welterweight crown. H ° : * angie. And from this flurry of coun-|the middle of the ring and actually ROUND FOUR. ringing at the count of seven. Walk-| pare way quiet, unassuming lad. His m meat rai he iauets) fas | ters a left to the jaw sent Britton | fought Ms flery youns opponent off. Walker nailed Britton with a left fer’s round Michael was a pin boy in a bowling|is Juck Bulger, former manager of | tecstonalions \ back on his heels and a right swing| He managed to stab Mickey off with " $49,773.00 hook and drove Jack back with letis ROUND ELEVEN, alley when he first got the notion off Charlie Weinert, who discovered him |< ft jurned him completely around. Tho} Straight lefts and fall inside of his With enavernment and rights to the head and body, Brit-] Britton looked tired but met Walker| being a professional fighter. His|and piloted him to the title. NEBRASKA HAS A GREAT TEAMs champion was plainly worried as he | PUnches. mu it was dust & fash, fax of ue per cent. een ton steadied and managed to catch | with desperate rights to the jaw. He|cousin, Joe Higgins, a former ama- ee ee It’s to be hoped that other colleges ‘walked to his corner, fata hide —— BP Rae OES SD AT WRGUROR: noses 8.7 " his’ man with snappy short hooks|managed to keep Walker off for a|teur boxer, took him in hand when SHIELDS TO TRAIN in the East do not follow the example BRITTON DROPPED BUT GETS oe Bea eASK GTROnG ee reer while en ihe otra it. Britt mn started | time with eft Jabs, but missed a | he was about seventeen Years 918 and th of the Big Three. Fortunavety (ag shoot o the left and seemed to}right and slipped to his knees. e| gave him his firs xing lessons. ALL college holds any monopoly o' + RIGHT U IN THE TWELFTH, z = have the range with his pet blow but] was so spent he could hardly stand,| Mickey learned so quickly that they i MER HORSES ball talent, and there will still be # Britton came out of his corner in! He ciune up very tired in the|champion. His attack plainly naa] Mickey countered viciously with a{but he fought back gamely and man-|claim he drove his cousin clean| wil! shields, who trained a alviston| {0 £hidiron combinations east of the the second in a businesslike manner. Jtweitth, did Britton. Ho had appar-|slackened and his punches lost much | "ht to the head that seemed to got Jaged to get in a hard right uppercut. | through the old barn one day. At that] of the Wille Ihlven geeng this tan Mississippi that can claim to repres He was fighting with his head nowJently fought himself out in the pre-[of their sting. He had Britton stag-| Jack's goat. He waded into Walker | Britton’s round time Mickey weighed about 1201 1) take over the full atring from Gone ent masters football fairly well. , @nd his ringcraft stood him in good} vious round’ and Walker beat him|gering about during the next two] amd they kept up the mixing even ROUND TWELVE pounds. Sree ae ull string from Gene} If not, then there are some in the stead for the first minute. He caught]anout unmercifully all the way. An]rounds and holding on as well, but] after the bell, Walver’s round Walker drove Britton from corner| After Higgins decided that he} Wayland next year, according to the| Middle West that could go to the his man with several snappy inside | uppercut to the stomach, a short right] he managed to hold his feet. FIFTH ROUND. to corner with left and right smashes | COUldn’t teach Micke. thing new] statement of one in a position to know te Coast and demonstrate that no Mghts coming in but with no effect punch, dropped Jack to his haunches| ‘The last round found Walker mak | Britton made Mickey miss and then|to the head and body. A left to the| Be took him down to the Blizabeth Y.}at the headquarters of the Jockey Club,| Section has all the football experts @ the speed of the young Jersey boy. | where re took the cannt of nine and|ing a hard try for a knockout and] clipped hira with a left to the head. | jaw and a short right t® the body|™. ©. A. and he absorbed a little more] yesterday. thers are on he map. Steve A left hook sent Jack spinning across |then rove wearily to his feet and some-}it did not seem possible that Brit-| Walker caMe back with a right hook {sent Jack down for w count of nine.} 2! the mitt business, having plenty of] ‘rhis means that shielda will have Jix-| OROUTKE: Coach ef Missouri Univer the mng, where he bounded off and] how succeeded in sticking through the|ton, tired and staggering, could stay} to the body and a loft to mouth. |Britton was staggering about at the| boys to practice on, as the boxing law] terminator and calley’s Alley, «he yu after eeeing Nebraska teat his ‘went to the canvas. But he was up| round. up, but he did, though it was a try-[| Britton fought care‘ully and drove afbell. Walker's round had just gone over in Jersey and had| turity winner, among others, under ho % 46 fo 0, said: ah Sy vefore the count had been] The flerceness of the pace now be-]ing three minutes. He could hardly] right to the jaw and a left to th. body ROUND THIRTEEN caught on strong in Mickey's home] care. Puli N ie chad _ it could play wtartos gan to tell on Walker, It looked like| walk to his corner after shaking bands| and then managed (o shoot in three Britton surprised by meeting Mickey |W". Young Orsini floored Mickey gene weriand wae responsible for Hi va Aiea : ale Friday, and A fierce rag opetred the sixth and'he had punched himself out on the} with his conqueror jams without a return, Britt lett ithe Mott i the jaw. Mickey bom.|{? one of these Y. M. C. A. bouts and eee it ne aaa ay this : ent sturday, and win all three —— Jack Britton certainly went down | seemed in good worsing order and he|barded the body and Jack counterea| £® they matched the two to box at} tit tay SORRY SOUR A OINSR is. | . oye . fighting before the smiling Mickey} put it to the head several times be-|with lefts to the head, Walker|{%¢ Foresters’ Club, And that was (Copyright, 1922, by Robert Edgren.) Smiling Mickey Walker Tells ners = weal eine an fore Walker managed to come back|scemed to have tired himself punch-| ‘e kid's first ring fight p Friegm q icago . e with @ left to the stomach, ton'aling Britton, but forced Jac epout,| They went four slashing rounds UG f ? 1 4 How He Won Welter Title boxer, disposed off :zddie Fitzsimmons | round, Heeger enies with honors even, but a year later Maybe I ve Been Fighting in the sixth round of what was SIXTH ROUND Mickey was able to dispose of Orsini rr) . ; ; tenets fms i ROUND FOURTEEN. ie — “ L B Smiling Mickey Walker was more smiling than ever after his scheduled as sie sernieGnal last night) ritton's lett fol). short and Walker) walker kept up his Kidney bome| oe Touad Siauny MORTAR. Whe Too ong, Says ritton bout last night. His dressing rooms were crowded with friends riedman, = who Was regarded as a pretty good put a hard left to the stomach, Jack . , had an eight and | PUt 9 bal Leieen bardment but his blows seemed to] Eizaneth then, offered. to clean Jack Britton when interviewed in his dressing room immediately and newspaper men all anxious to greet the new welterweight king. a quarter-pound acvantage and was| buntere A with @ leit to the head but} have lost some of their stir A left} sickey up and got knocked out in after losing his welterweight crown, while he showed only slight Asked how he felt, he jumped from the rubbing table gayly and far the better boxer, Fitzsimmons | (2, another lett to the stomach. [to the face almost spilled Britton, but} Mt visible effect of his hard fight with Walker, admitted that he had * ehortied: ‘I haven't got a mark, look me over.” He certainly didn't Me COMTARCOUBLY, DUt was eure | Britton hooked over a right to the|gack managed to fight back on sheer] ‘Wo rounds. aoe Beant hurt considarabion? Ande. (ecen fe cite ce Eheter ean look like a boy who had been through a fifteen-round championship ¢ rey oa Q out- bead but Walker came hack Mickey's first imp 2 3 with a]gameness, but was soon being driven was an awful sight from the fourth | lft hook to the jaw that staggered {about with body punches, Walker's round on, Britton, Walker drove Britton hack | round, Jimmy Goodrich of Buffalo made| With hard blows to the head and body ok a bad beating and ; against ‘Tommy Speno, the star bat- mouth, a slight cut under his left eye and big red eplotches in the tler of the town. They went eight region of his kidneys, Jack seemed in pretty good shape, only very hard rounds. This launched Mickey's tired and downhearted. ring career in earnest and they started 1 was sure after the second round tnat ! could take Britto declared Walker. ‘So when | came back to my corner | asked Jack Bul er, my manager, if it wouldn't be all r.ght for me to go out after ROUND FIFTEEN. “He is a great young fighter and ‘i Britton lashed bac t % 4 hat j + ‘ his debut in a six-rounder and gave | "4 K With snappy They shook hands. Walker as|to stack him up against such sea- has a punch that jars and when he started to beat me about the J him. Bulger wouldn't hear of it. He pointed out to me where Brit- Red Cap Wilson a boxing lesson, | lefts while on the retreat, Walker's | usual pounded the body and his two-}soned battlers as Marty Summers, kidneys | felt it—these punches hurt me and slowed me. | don't ton was a mighty cagey boy and he insisted on my fighting carefully. Johnny Gannon and Rillie Mascott | Pound. 4 knew | was hurting him with body blows, and that's where | tri handed attack had Britton doubled} Johnny Summers, Charley Pitts, suppose | looked myself and | couldn't seem to get started in reg- te direct my attack. Did he hit me very often? 1 certainly don't SEVENTH ROUND over and staggering to the re Shamus O'Brien, George Ward, Mar- ular form—maybe | have been fighting too long.” went to a draw in the four-round a ta opener, An extra six-round bout pre-| Walker got ina reght uppercut and] Britton made a few attempts at coun-|cel ‘Thomas, Dave Shade, whom he Asked if he intende ek a return match with Walker in an Femember being in any trouble from any of his punches sented Farmer Sullivan and Andy|then shot a left to the j Britton|tering, but was almost too tired to] knocked out in eight rounds, and then attemps to wrest his title back again, Britton refused to express He was asked how it feels'to be a champion. O'Boyle in a rather tiresome affair, |Jabbed with the left but tor ehts life pis hands. Walker was punching] finally came his first chance at the himself on the matter. “1 haven't been agchampion very long, but it certainly fee) It was claimed that Sullivan broke and lefts to the kidney Walker himf about the be Walker's! champion, Jack Britton ‘ “don't know now. I'll have to think things over a day or ee, amiled. } his right hand in the gecond round, jabbed @ left 40 the Lead and sunk a row) Britton dropped Walker with almosy) Maybe I've been fighting too long,’ he said, shaking his head cadlgn . ' ' | ‘ Spe ain ail naa aaa ea ac a Ta