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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 I.a^':",he Y V«rherwW K lu . hVi'nV^n. |as 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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J>tuP<D looic/m6 0OOB voo TT>lD TH0-S6 pezHE THAT Vou VueRE A TlVO&e - IF YOU -5AV ArvoTHerz- MJOP-O I'LL \ Bust you ifj the &•/&. &ET N\E' } LOOK-'' HE GET-S M.AD pifi-nr Aw/Ay BRINGING UP FATHER By GEORGE M’MANUS C bt ,> i lost amd I CAN'T SPEAK ^ENCH - Al ^ I COIN' To Do? ha: HA' ^ V AN AMERnc AN • >l Its LOCK 'Ll ask hini THE WAT’ ’ ~T 1= / / hey:: M BT <ollt - ive been hollerin' at too per TO ask Tou'se if youll T ell hie the TUAY to THE- ^jU^'AN ectel . r, % g I OB 5 NEW XOKHl U^Al 13 V w ANO :di0' MEMBERS OF Johnny Dobbs to Manage Pels«*•“*£**, V ® *r* T»‘I* 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. -A, Pamper your pocketbook. ft’s your best friend in time of need. And the Ford keeps the pocketbook satis fied. 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