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TIIK ALLAJSIA
lilGUKtiiAN AM) M< \\ S.
WILLARD SLITS
TEN-ROUND ES
Gotham Crowd Hisses and Hoots
as Rival Heavyweights Put
Up Tame Bout.
SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT
Sure, the Judge Gave Him a Call
By Right Cross.
N EW YORK, Dec. 4.—Nearly 5(01
pounds of weight exhibited it
self in the ring at Madison J
Square Garden last night for the edi- |
floHtion of a few thousand callous j
;ind persevering students of the box-j
fight, who still hope that they will
see a real heavyweight engagement ;
in New York—some time.
The 500 pounds were divided into j
two equal sections which were called, ;
for the purpose of identification. Carl
Morris and Jess Willard. The latter
had one pound the best of the weight,
and triumphed in the great struggle
by about that much margin.
The weights were 234 1-2 against
235, which should teach Morris never
to go out of his class again.
It was a wonderful layout in lard, a
great study in still life, a gathering
of hams such as a New York fight
v rowd seldom has been permitted to
look upon. Yet that crowd was no*
pleased. They hissed and booed and
cussed thoughtfully throughout the
ten rounds. Even when the peaceful
mountains detached themselves from
their moorings and lurched in the
general direction of each other, there
was nothing like real enthusiasm,
though the ring shook ynder the lum
bering runs and there was a slight
swaying of iron posts and a splinter
ing of planks. And they putted and
wheezed and panted and pushed
blows at each other after the fashion
..f the late Ralph Rose breaking ihe
world’s record at putting the shot.
Even when they missed, as they did
nine times out of ten, there was no
earnest applause, the students at
the ringside appreciating but little
the skiil required to miss a 240-pound
man. Nor did they bufst into wild
yells of joy when Morris assiduously
butted Mr. Willard in the face. They
sort of seemed to expect it. Morris
has been a goat so long that he was
bound to pick up some of the habit,
of that interesting animal.
Crowd Hisses.
This was Morris* best blow—a hard
solid, skull-to-the-mouth. It was his
forward pass, his last desperate pla>
to win, when the battle was going
against him. Rut he didn’t get any
credit for it. The crowd hissed him
more than pver. Mr. Willard bad a
good punch, too. It was a right-
hand slam for the jaw, but it was ton
good for the league. He liked it \
much that he was loath to pass it out. j
Whenever he did, It mostly landed, •
but he always seemed sorry he had j
parted with it, and he was careful i
never to let it go twice in the same j
round. \
But for this reluctance to part with
his treasures and the fact that he ;
looks like the tenor in a “one-night j
stand” opera company, there is no
doubt that Mr. Willard would have
;i future ns a “white hope, if such |
can be said to have any future be-
\ ond “braking” on the, Chesapeake
and Ohio.’ As for Mr. Morris, his fu
ture is written in his somewhat cor-
rugated map. He is a born receiver
It was somewhere along after 10
o'clock when they were posted into
view under the electric lights with
many plaudits. Mr. Willard appeared
first. He stood 6 feet 6 inches and
was onlv reasonably fat around the
waistline. .Mr. Morris was several
Inches shorter, hut. being an erpeM-
enoed tight man. he made up for this
deficiency by packing m more weight
amidships.
Mr. Willard, who is of » ch , um ' n ;'
disposition, apparently, walked over
and slapped Mr. Morris on the shorn
der. offering his hand at the barn
time Mr. Mortis turned and gazja
at him with the air of am an who
finds a fat stranger “copping his sea,
in the Pullman, and instead of grip
ping the hand of fellowship he coldly
examined his bandages and turned
away. A quivering shudder swept
tiirough the assemblage. It look
like murder now.
Morris in Distress.
A minute later they were facmg
each other in battle array, with B'hy
Joh. the referee, bouncing around like
a button that has snapped off one of
their shoes. He would hke t^
to record that a battle began
Point, but to a stern p !" on £ ler w £
11"othing t’hat "resemh 1 ed hostU11ies m
ves, there was. In the fifth Mr- .
bird hit Morris the belt w th that rig.
we have mentioned, and Mr .
began to wabble, ^kserytnif
signs of distress Mr. Willardls«
ously refrained from battling ans
more the nonce.
In the sixth round this pet rf °r
ance was repealed, with a fe
mings in the shape of upper -
Mr, Morris gave even grater in -
lions of discomfort. HU
must have warned Mr. Millard «t
close of this round, for in the seventh
1 « landed only one or two right . •
these were high on the c ' 1 ' j
where a fascinating promontory oi
unusual promontorlness began to
"After that Willard devoted himself
lo enlarging his work o* art on •
Morris* cheekbone, and by the
the tenth round half of his ^
face was as much out of sh JP e j
•■ould be desired, all things co ■
wed.
Kilbane Asks $5,000
To Fight Dundee
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a chance to meet Johnny t'unde,
ton-round bout before the Orleans '
lettc Club of New Orleans .'ll V»
Vear's eve. but as Kilhane '.cnand 'U
• lien for tits'end, Tertnrlcb Jinn, '
ately decided to pass up the champion.
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BRINGING UP FATHER
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Johnny Dobbs to Manage Pels«*•“*£**,
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Frank-Elberfeld-Castro Are Out
All Players Should Be on Hand
for Big Game To-morrow
Morning.
Members of Lewie Haruage s All*
Stars, wno battle with the Seven
teenth Infantry football team at
Ponce DeLeon Saturday afternoon,
will begin to arrive in the city to-day.
and by to-morrow morning every
man that will participate in the big
battle should be on hand.
The Seventeenth Infantry eleven is
now a formidable aggregation. The>
showed a semblance of their real
form when they defeated the Elev
enth Cavalry Saturday.
With Lieutenant Devore, star tac
kle on the Army last season and at
present an officer at the local post
and coach of the eleven, playing with
them, the local soldier boys should
be even stronger than ever before.
It has always been the wish of
•football fans to see a really all-star
football team In action. This will be
their opportunity.
“I wonder how Newell, Morrison,
McWhorter and Hard age would play
in the same backfleld?” is a question
that one has often heard. Well, It
will bo answered Saturday afternoon,
f. i this quartet, the greatest quartet
-,! backfleld stars that ever played in
the South, will be seen in action on
this eleven. ,
In the line, Pitts, of Auburn, and
Poeb, of Tech, will divide the time at
center. At guards, Peacock. Qf Geor~
pi,, ; Hassloek, of Vanderbilt and
( heape, of Sewanee, will be seen. At
tackles Lamb and Meadows, of Au
burn. will hold forth. Tom Brown
NVil g booked, but he has been taken
sick, and will be unable to come. The
.same answers for Morgan, of V andy,
at center. .
At iht and*. Junks Gillum, the great
Sewanee end and Ideker; Majors, hie
and former Auburn star, and
\,,c*k Brown, of Vanderbilt, and
;-,,nklln of Georgia, rated as the
a ,.si defensive ends in the South,
will he seen.
By (V. S. Farnsworth.
C HARLEY FRANK is "deud" in
New Orleans, so is Kid idlber-
feld, and it looks very much
as though my genial friend, Count
Louis Castro, will not be asked to
fulfill his contract as coach and press
agent for the Pelicans next season.
Johnny Dobbs, who piloted a bushy-
iooking lot of warriors last season in i
a masterly style, is going to manage
the New Orleans outfit in 11114.
This is no guess. J have learned
from "those who know” that Dobbs,
when he signed with Charley Som
ers, owners of Cleveland, Toledo and
New Orleans clubs, that the story
he would go to Toledo w.ls all to the
bunk.
He signed to manage New Orleans.
But Somers hinted the Toledo angle
to throw off the wise ones until he
had found a loophole to shove the
chunky Frank through.
Tie has finally found a job for Ohol-
lv. Instead of managing the Pelicans
n’exi season he will support the title
of Southern representative of Charles
Somers, vice president of the Amer- I
lean League.
Uuite some title, eh?
* * •
T HE following dispatch from New
Orleans has let the cat out of
the bag:
New Orleans. La.. Dec. 4.—
Charles Frank will quit as man
ager of the New Orleans baseball
team on January 1. Instead of
piloting the Pelicans for another
season he will be Southern repre
sentative of Charles Somers, vice
president of the American League.
This information came from
Frank’s friends to-day. Frank
virtually admitted that his resig
nation will be tendered the board
of directors of the loc^.1 club at a
meeting to be called as soon as
the Somers contract making him
Southern representative is in his
hands.
Frank several days ago inti
mated that his quarrel with Hom
ers, beginning August 10, when
Johnny Dobbs signed a Somers
contract, would be thrashed out
in the courts.
The Pelican manager has hired
a lawyer here and will wait until
• Somers’ contract reaches New
Orleans before he calls together
the directors of the local club.
* 0 *
L »L WTLLIE KEELER, looking as
young as he ever was. except
that his hair is turning gray as a
badger’s, told a funny story to a
bunch of scribes, fans and playera
the other night in a Broadway hang
out. It was on himself.
Wee Willie (Giant scout now, you
know, likes nothing better than to
chance in on a bunch of kids playing
a “lot game.” He did this not long
ago and witnessed a big row when the
long, skinny boy umpire handed out a
certain decision. The little captain of
the team fighting the ruling turned to
Willie Keeler as one seeking refuge in
the Court of Maturity.
“Wasn’t that a strike, mister?” lie
demanded.
“Sure it was.” declared one of tlie
greatest batters that ever happened.
“Aw,” said the other kid captain
fiercely, "what does that old boob
know about baseball anyway?”
Whitmore Leads All
In Pinehurst Tourney
PINEHURST, N. C M Dec. 4.—Par
ker D. Whitmore, of the Brookline
Country Club, led yesterday’s field of
b4 players with a card of 81 in the
qualifying round of the tenth annual
autumnal Country Club golf tourna
ment here.
Others who qualified for the first
flight \\ere A. A Stagg. Chicago; C.
L. Becker, Woodland; C. B. Hudson,
North Fork; H. V. Hegerman, Engle
wood; T. J. Moran, Metacomet; E. T.
Munson, Framingham; G. F. Brown.
Huntington Valley; F. B. Husey, Ha
vana; the Rev. T. A. Cheatham, Sal
isbury; S. A. Hennessee, Cooper*-
town; B. L. Gallagher, Montclair;
Dr, J. B. Brown, Montclair H. S.
Spaulding, Braeburti; R. C. Steese
Youngstown, and F. D. Wilkeraon,
Youngstown. W. L. Milliken, Indian
apolis, was forced into the second di
vision when beaten in playing off a
tie with I*. L. Gallagher. Play will
be resumed to-day.
CHICAGO, Dec. 4.—Fred Clarke, man
ager of the Pittsburg Nationals, will
confer here Sunday with Joe Tinker, de
posed Cincinnati leader, with a view tc
having Tinker Join the Pirates, accord
ing to a story published here yesterday.
Clffrke already has arranged with the
Cincinnati club for Tinker’s release, it is
said. Whether Tinker is to succeed
Wagner at shortstop, indicating the lat
ter’s possible retirement or transfer to
Cincinnati, could not b** learned.
Upon his arrival here last night Tin
ker admitted he had arranged to meet
Clarke next Sunday, but said an in
formal discussion of his joining the
Pittsburg team was all he expected
would take place
According to Tinker he would play
shortstop and Wagner would go to first
base, his addition giving the Ihrates an
Infield of four «>0 hitters.
Coach Wood Honored
By Boys' High Team
Coach Wood, of the Hoys' High
School team this year, was presented a
handsome after-dinner coffee set by the
student body at the meeting last night
Professor Dykes, in his presentation
speech, thanked Mr Wood for his help
to the team this year and also expressed
to Him the nigh feeling In which th«
boys held him.
Tfie coach responded. and, after
thanking the students for the gift,
promised to return next year and do his
best with the men lhat turn out for the
team.
Harrison Jones, an alumnus of the
Boys’ High School, gave a great talk
on the Junior Chamber of Commerce,
and enlisted all the students In this
work.
Sweaters with the B. II. S. monogram
were then presented to the members of
the team, and as they were distributed.
Professor Dykes thanked and praised
every man for his great playing this
year g
THREE CUBS SIGN.
CHICAGO, Dec. 4. Locked away 1n
th« safe of Charles W. Murphy’s office
to-day are the signed 1914 contracts of
three Cubs, Frank Schulte was the
first to sign. Eddie Stark, veteran
hurler, and Elmer Koestner. the big
Coast League pitcher, were the others.
Each of the contracts calls for one year.
KAUFFMAN OUTPOINTS HAYES.
DETROIT, Dec. 4. Art Kauffman, of
New York, outpointed Buck Hayea, of
Cleveland, in an 'dghf-round bout at
Windsor last night.
READ BEATS SWEENEY.
WEBSTER, MASS.. Dec. 4 Jack
Read of Chicago, won the decision over
Knockout Sweeny, of New York. In a
fast ten round bout at Lakeside Athletic
Club last night.
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What the Appendix Was Made For.
Why We Should All Walk Like Farmers.
Odd New Facts About Sleep.
Why Dirty Cities Are Bad for the Eyes.
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