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TITE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1919 WILLARD TO PIT« AGIST Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1913, International News Serrlca. By George McManus Dv W. W. Naughton S AN * FRANCISCO, May ' The j things most talked about in j connection with the coming heavyweight contest are Jess Wil lard’s size and Gunboat Smith’s knockout punch. Size is Willard’s main characteristic, while the “wal lop” is what Smith is known by. Wil lard s size is, of course, something definite, while the wallop is largely a menace, but it is agreed on ail sides that if the two collide and size is subdued by the punch Gunboat will be hailed as a second giant kil ler. You have to look the fellow Wil lard over carefully to grasp how big he is. When he stepped on the scales at Seal Rock House a few days ago he weighed 233 pounds in the nude. Ad Wolgast who was present, and whose eyes through con stant training are inclined to focus on the 133 notch, remarked: “He’s a hundred pounds over weight.” 234 Pounds of Fighting Brawn. Just imagine 234 pounds of fight ing brawn, for that’s what it is. Jess is flatstomached and has well-turned legs and broad shoulders. He is as symmetrically built a ring athlete as anyone would wish to see, and in this respect he differs from other sky scrapers, who have infested the fight ing platform from time to time. He stands six feet five inches, and his disposition to tower caused an amusing incident at his quarters a few days ago. Jess lay on his back on the floor, going through certain extension motions. An assistant held his feet down while he rose to a sit ting posture several times. Then the assistant changed off to the other end of the giant and anchored the shoulders while Jess flourished his shaft like legs in the air. “My gracious,” said a visitor, “he’s so long he has to exercise in sec tions.” A Difference of Fifty Pounds. There is a difference of fifty pounds in the weight of Willard and Smith, and this surely is a big handicap to overcome. The disparity seems strange in view of the manner in which the boxers in other classes split hairs over a few ounces, but it is a fact nevertheless. Jim Buckley, manager of Gunboat is inclined to be jocular over Wil- lard’s size. Jim is a believer in the old slogan: “The bigger they are the harder they fall.” But Jim would feel surer of his ground were it not for the manner in which Willard out- boxed the present white champion of the world, Luther McCarty, last Au gust in New York. "rwEtFiHvr tuin<j IN morning -! '0 io Nov IF IT 'WASN'T *30 LATE! HOW Bio i Know me VAS* WORMN-fOf. "I MWVAAWS-l’ Thought me ONE OF The party- • Boy *>uut ufA, 'K SL6EPTT—i «jjirr COLUMN* MERCER DEFEATS FLORIDA IN OPENING BATTLE, 3-1 MACON, GA., May . . —Mercer took the first game from Florida yesterday afternoon by the score of 3 to 1. It was a good game, steady and fast, but no spectacular playing. Mercer scored early. In the first, with two men down, Gibson walked, stole second and on Rice’s hot liner to short, which got through to center, scored. In the fourth Grace walked, went to third on the catcher’s wild peg to first and came home on Farmer’s single. Again in the eighth Roddenbery sin- | gled, Cochran was hit by a pitched ball, advancing ltoddenbery to third and on Wills' neat sacrifice Roddenbery scored the third and last tally for Mercer. Florida scored Its only run in the sixth. Pulliam walked, went to second on Henderson’s grounder and scored on Price’s long drive to center. Both pitchers worked well, both allowing only three hits apiece. TIGERS SELL MULLIN TO WASHINGTON BALL CLUB DETROIT, May ..—Pitcher George Miillin, .in point of service the oldest j member of the Detroit baseball ciub, j was sold last night to the Washington j Americans for $2,500. Mullin joined Detroit in 1902, and three times helped to pitch Detroit into j the American League championship, i His showing this spring has not been | satisfactory. Muilin said he still could pitch as good ball as he ever did. N rematching Joe Thomas and Charlie White,” said promoter D. J. Tortorich, of the Orleans Club of New Orleans, In a recent interview, “I have only submitted to public sentiment. While I knew that the match was one of the best I could have signed up, and while I earnestly thought thut Thomas deserved another chance, it was the great demand which the fans made for a return bout that prompted me to bring the boys together again. Their previous scrap was one of the most sensational seen in New Orleans, not. even excepting the Cross-Mandot light. “When the fans saw Joe Thomas go down eight times in the second round, keep getting up until the hell rang and then go through seven more rounds of the most gruelling battle seen here in many years, they decided then that such remarkable gameness and lighting spirit deserved another chance. Thomas wanted it. So did his manager, Joe Golden. White and his manager said Thomas deserved another bout, and so there was nothing else for me to do.” Thomas has been working out at the Orleans Club arena for the past three days. He eoes through ten rounds of shadow boxing, does a lot of bag punching, rope skipping and boxing every day now, and will prob ably Increase his boxing soon to six rounds. Joe Thomas says he is going to win back all his lost prestige in this scrap, and he knows that the only way to do it is to defeat the boy who stopped him. Joe contends that White should have been able to put him down for the count, he being in the condition which he was “If I get him like that,” said Joe, “I am going to think it mighty strange if he keeps on his feet. I cannot hut believe that White got over a lucky punch and I am hoping that nothing like that ever happens to me again. In saying this, I do not mean to be little White at all, for I am sure he is a great boxer and will show even more than he did in our last fight, his hand having been hurt and there being so little call for any scientific boxing." Late dispatches from Chicago say that White is hard at work there. White is so confident of winning that both he and his manager admit that it is the money they are getting out of it that makes them accept another bout. The Chicago scrapper is con fident he will repeat, and says he will compel Thomas to listen to the count of ten this time. White claims that his hurt right hand kept him frem putting Thomas out in the first bout, but that the hand is as good as ever now and he will be able to put over the winning punch with it instead of with his left. KINKY HAIR STRAIGHT SOFT AND SILKY U MPIRE Bill Brennen, of the Na tional League staff, is a dyed-in- the-wool fight fan, and has a bunch of good stories gathered around the circuit. * Bill hails from St. Paul, the home of Mike Gibbons, the sensational middleweight. Gibbons, being Irish, naturally aroused sentiment in his EXELENTO never fails to do what it claims. It stops falling HAIR, cleans DANDRUFF at once, and just feede the SCALP and ROOTS of the HAIR, and makes HAIR grow so fast that It is a wonder. Every package is guaranteed. Plain talk: Don’t fool yourself by using some preparation -which claims to straighten your HAIR. Kinky HAIR can not be made straight. YOU have to have HAIR before you can straighten it. When you use EXEL ENTO QUININE POMADE, it will promote the growth of the HAIR very fast, and you will soon have nice, long HAIR, which will be long, straight, soft and silks’. PRICE—25 CENTS, by all druggists or by mail on receipt of stamps or coin. EXELENTO MEDICINE COMPANY, ATLANTA. GA. AGENTS wanted everywhere. Write for particulars to-day. SPALDINGS ATHLETIC STORE OUT TO-DAY Spalding’s official LAWN TENNIS ANNUAL FOR 1913 Contains records, reviews, direc* tory of players, ranking, fixtures for 1913, revised constitution and official rules. Pictures of leading players. For sale by all dealers In sporting goods and newsdealers. PRICE 10 CENTS. A.efSPALOING &BR0S 74 North Broad Street, Atlanta, Ga. favor among the boys who keep tab on St. Patrick’s Day and the cham pions who wear the green. Feeling ran so high last winter in St. Paul that two tads got their blood up and agreed to meet in a finish fight. It wai dark, when the ring was pitched, and Pat. being a great favorite everybody wanted to go behind him in his comer. By some hook or crook one of Pat’s seconds mistook his antagon ist’s comer for that of Pat and he kept shouting \wrds of encourage ment to beat the band. “Knock his block off,” said he “May the devil take him." He kept this up until suddenly he realized that he was behind the wrong man. Then he cried: “Go long wid ye; you’re no fighter; I kin whip ye meself.” Pat’s oppo nent could stand no such talk, and walloped the excited second on the jaw, knocking him out. When he came to the fight was over and the crowd on its way home. At a late hour the misguided handler arrived In town. He would not admit that it was Pat’s enemy who had whipped him, and, going over to Pat, whis pered in his ear, “Phat in the wurlu did I do to offend John L. Sullivan that he should hit me. I didn’t even know he was in the crowd.” BOXING News of the Ring Game LAMB SETS NEW DISCUS RECORD IN COLLEGE MEET NEW ORLEANS, May £..—One new Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Asso ciation record was broken here yester day when the preliminaries were held. Lamb, of Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical, hurled the discus 117 feet 5 Inches, excelling the old record held by Freeland, of Vanderbilt, who made 108 feet. Louisiana State University, Vanderbilt and Tulane showed strength In the sprints. Upton, of Louisiana State University, won both his qualify ing heats in the 100 and 220-yard dashes. Coleman and Smith, of Tulane, qualified. Stahlman, of Vanderbilt, won his trial heats in the 120 and 220-yard hurdle races. In the former events Burris, of Louisiana State University, made the fastest time in winning a heat. Owing to heavy rains during the morning the track was slow. The finals will be contested Saturday. it Horn* or at Sanitarium. Book on eubjed Free, DR B. M. WOOLLEY, 24-N. Vlcto* Sanitarium, Atlanta. Georgia. PULL OF SCABS What could be more piUful than the condi tion told of In thla letter from A. It. Avery, Waterloo, N. Y.: We have been using your Tetterlne. It's the beat on aarth for akin ailments. Mrs. 8. C. Hart was a light to tie. Her face waa a mass of scabs. Tetterlno has cured It. Cured by Tetterine Tetterlne cures ersema, ground ltch„ ring worm and all skin troubles. Its effect la magical. 50c at druggists, or by mall. 8HUPTRINE CO.. SAVANNAH. UA. After having refused to match Joe Rivers against .Tack Britton at the Gar den Athletic Club, New York, Joe Levy, manager of the Mexican, has signed his protege to meet Harry Trendall in an eight round bout at St. Louis on the night of May 28. * • • Jack Britton left New York for Ken osha, Wis., yesterday. Britton meets Eddie Murphy in the Wisconsin city Monday night in a ten round battle. They have agreed to weigh 135 pounds it 3 o’clock. Britton stopped Murphy in 11 rounds at Boston last year. * * * Patsy Brannigan and Matty McCue may meet for ten rounds at Milwaukee ae latter part of this month. * * * Matty McCue continues to stop them all. Jeff O’Connell fell before Matty’s mighty right hand wallop Tuesday night at Racine, lasting but ninety seconds. In that time O’Connell hit the canvas o less than five 'times. * * • Ed Smith, sporlng editor of the Chi cago American, and referee of the bout, says that McCue has the hardest right hand punch of any featherweight before the public today. This boy has stopped ten of his last opponents. He simply nts them and they stay down. * * * Buck Crouse and Blink McCloskey will don the gloves next Monday night in a scheduled six round scrap at Pitts burg. Crouse rules a 10 to 6 favorite. * * * Tom McCarey, the California boxing promoter, has decided to give a diamond studded belt, to become the property of the winner of the Kiaus-McGoorty championship match which “Uncle Tom” has planed for the latter part of June. * * • The two middleweights will meet in a six-round fray at Pittsburg, May 24. hut neither boy is expected to have a decided advantage over the short route. The scrap will simply add more interest to their long set-to. • • * Bennie Kaufman and Stanley Scully clashed in a six round bout yesterday. The result was a draw’. * * * Local fans are already trying to dope out a winner in the coming Flynn- Savage go, scheduled to take place at the Auditorium here June 9. Many of the fans are picking Savage, due to the latter’s decisive win over A1 Kubiak here some time ago. * * * However, Flynn will not lack for ad mirers. According to Jack Curley. Flynn’s manager, the Pueblo fireman is still in the running for the heavyweight title and is keeping himself in great shape by boxing with the big “hopes” in New York. * * * Tom Jones, manager of Jess Willard, and Jim Buckley, who acts in a likewise capacity for Gunboat Smith, are having a merry little battle on the coast try- i ing to select a referee for the Willard- Smith match on May 20. Jones refuses to stand for Griffin. Ray Bronson, whose press agent bills him as the welterweight cham pion, met defeat the other night in New Orleans at the hands of Young Denny, an unknown boxer. * • * Johnny Kilbane will pick up a little loose change early next month at Oak land, Ca. Johnny has consented to meet a boxer named Fox, a little foxy trick of Kilbane’s eh? ♦ * * While Billy Nolan Is manager of Wil lie Ritchie the champion’s title Is safe unless he happens to get knocked out by some third rater In a limited bout. * * • According to reports from Philadelphia Johnny Coulon did not display much championship form when he met Fran kie Bradley the other night. Most of the papers in the eastern city called the fight a draw * • * Gus Christie, the Milwaukee middle weight, and Ernie Zanders, who recently returned from Australia, will meet in a scheduled ten round fray at Madison, Wis., May 20. Young McCann and Ed die Ketchel will clash in the semi windup. • * * Luther McCarty Is down to hard work for his 10-round engagement with Ar thur Pelky at Calgary. Alberta, May 24. Pelky has been working with Tom my Burns for 10 days and already is showing improvement. Odds have shortened to 10 to 7 with McCarty the choice. Coulon Is “In”~Kilbane Says So ! Q O © © O O 0 Feather Champion Gets a Match By H. M. Walker L OS ANGELES, May —What one world’s champion said of another: “I’ll tell you why Johnnie Coulon won’t fight any more. He realizes that he is all ‘in’—and he’s deathly afraid of being beaten out of the bantam weight championship.” So said little Johnnie Kilbane, the featherweight title holder, as we sat in a box at the baseball park last Friday afternoon. “Coulon and I traveled with the same show for several weeks just be fore I came to the coast. He laid awake nights fretting about his con dition. He knows that he is on the down grade and it’s worrying him to death. I don’t believe he will ever take, a chance against either Wil liams or Campi.” The Coulon of two years ago would have toyed, with boys like Campi, Williams and Ledoux. The Coulon of to-day should step into the open and either make a final fight in defense of the title or announce his retire ment. A world’s championship doesn’t look well in pickle. * * * ]\JO body punch ever hurt Kilbane more than the announcement that “Unk” Tom McCarey had matched Ad Wolgast and Johnnie Dundee for a scheduled twenty-round bout at Vernon on June 10. This was tipping the fact that the promoter was washing his hands of a return meeting between Kilbane and Dundee. Also it showed that of the two McCarey considered Dundee the best card. The remarkable situation, a cham pion being held to a draw with abso lutely no demand for a return match, is easily explained. The critical Cali fornia public refuses to enthuse over a boxer utterly lacking in aggressive ness and a decision punch. Frothy cleverness of the slap, run and squirm style cannot be cashed. * * • A 4 for personal popularity, no two ^ better liked men than the clean- living Kilbane and his honest helper, Jimmie Dunn, ever visited the sou thern rim of the coast. In the north a new featherweight star has developed. His name is Jimmie Fox. Kilbane has signed to box this boy before the Wheelmen’s club in Oakland on the night of June 4. The bout is for ten rounds, a fav orite route with the champion. A great crowd of the San Fran cisco sports will cross the bay for a first look at Attell’s successor. If Kilbane wdll cut loose and dispose of Fox inside the limit he will find himself a big card in that city. They will want to see more of Johnnie and this fact will bring Dun dee to the front as the only rival the title holder has in America. Here’s your chance, Johnnie boy, throw out the tango teasing and show " the punch.” • * • upHEROKEE" TOM JONES faces ^ the opportunity to set a world’s record as a “come back” manager of boxers. Up to the present Tom and “Billy” Nolan have made an even break of it. Nolan’s coin collecting pace as manager of the lightweight cham pion, Battling Nelson, w r as one never to be forgotten. He was out of the game a few’ years, but “came back” in time to land Willie Ritchie as champion. Jones handled Billy Papke as the middleweight title holder. Later he grabbed Ad Wolgast and sent him through to the lightweight champion ship as w r ell as a fortune of over $200,000. Tom is now managing Jess Wil lard, who boxes "Gunboat” Smith in San Francisco on May 2C LOCAL GOLFERS PLAY FOR .A. L. DUNN CUP SATURDAY The golfers of the Atlanta Athletic Club will qualify over the East Lake course Saturday afternoon to play for the handsome silver trophy offered by Albert L. Dunn. The players will qualify according to their gross scores and as many flights as fill will be played. Match play in the first flight will be from scratch, handicaps applying in all others. GIBBONS LACES M'CARRON IN TEN-ROUND SCRAP NEW YORK, May .—Mike Gibbons, the St. Paul middleweight, re-established himself in good standing with New’ York fight fans last night when he dealt out a skillful and thorough beating to Jack McCarron, of Philadelphia, in ten rounds at Madison Square Garden. Tom Gib bons won the other ten-round encounter from Young Mike Donovan. MIKE DONLIN WANTS TO PLAY IN GOTHAM AGAIN NEW YORK, May —Mike Don- line arrived in town yesterday, after a long vaudeville tour. He looked very tit and said that he had been playing ball in his leisure moments. “I think I could help the Giants in the outfield,” suid Michael with a con fident smile, “for I certainly can hit the ball and I’m not as slow as some people think. If McGraw wants me he can pay the Philadelphia Club $1,500 for my release. If not, I’ll look for a job somewhere else. But I’d like to wear a Giant uniform once more.” tobacco habit is,? .■ssrj! I prove your health, prolong your Ills. No more stomach trouble, do foul breath, no heart weak ness. Regain manly vigor, calm nerves, clear eyes and BUptrlor mental strength. Whether you ch-wv or anuike pipe, cigarettes, cigars, get my Interesting Tobacco Hook. Worth it* weight In gold. Mailed free. E. J. WOODS. 534 Sixth Ave.. 748 M.. New York. N.Y. 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