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TEN-RBURD GO
Gotham Crowd Hisses and Hoots'
as Rival Heavyweights Put
Up Tame Bout.
By Right Cross.
N EW YORK, Dec. 4.—Nearly 500
pounds of weight exhibited it
self in the ring at Madison
Square Garden last night for the edi
fication of a few thousand callous
und persevering students of the box-
fight, who still hope that they will
see a real heavyweight engagement
in New York—some time.
The 500 pounds were divided into
two equal section^ which were called,
for the purpose of identification, Carl
Morris and Jess Willard. The latter
bad 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
i ussed 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 puffed and
wheezed and panted and pushed
blows at each other after the fashion
-»f the late Ralph Rose breaking the
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
’he skill 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 'ip 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 j
against him. Rut he didn’t get any !
credit for it. The crowd hissed him |
more than ever. Mr. Willard had at
good punch', too. It was a right-:
hand slam for the jaw. but it was too i
good for the league. He liked it so I
much that he was loath to pass it oui. j
Whenever he did. if mostly landed,;
but he always seemed sorry lie had |
parted with it, and he was careful j
never to let it go twice in the same j
round.
But for this reluctance to part with. I
his treasures and the fact that he j
looks like the tenor in a “one-night '
stand" opera company, there is no
doubt that Mr. Willard would have
i future as a “white hope," if such
can be said to have any future be
yond "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 B inches and
was onlv reasonably fat around the
waistline. Mr. Morris was several
inches shorter, but. being an expev -
nnced fight man. he made up for this
deficiency by packing in more weight
amidships.
Mr. Willard, who is of a chummy
disposition, apparently, walked over
find slapped Mr. Morris on the ■hol
der. offering his hand at the same
time. Mr. Morris turned and gaz*a
at him with the air of a man who j
finds a fat stranger ■copping hi.. sea,
in the Pullman, and instead of grip
ping the hand of fellowship he coldly
examined his bandages and turned
Hwav. A quivering shudder twept
through the assemblage. It looked
like murder now.
Morris in Distress.
A minute later they were facing
each other in battle array, with Bil.y
.(oh. the referee, bouncing around like
a button that has snapped off one of
their shoes. He would like to
to record that a battle began
point, but to a stern chronicler ot
facts it is impossible. There
nothing that resembled hostilities in
I he Itrst round, nor m the second, nor
lhe third, nor the nor the
yes, there was. In the fifth^■ V,
lard hit Morris the belt with that ri&jn
we have mentioned, and Mr. -
began to wabble. Obser\ ing »
signs of distress, Mr. Wlilard gener
ously refrained from battling am
more the nonce. ,
In the sixth round this perform^
anee was repeated, with a fe
mings in the shape of uppercuts and
Mr. Morris gave even greater indi -
lions of discomfort. HI*
must have warned Mr. " lHard at
i lose of this round, for in the seventh
e landed only one or two r. ' *• *
these were high on the cheekbon .
where a fascinating promontory
unusual promontoriness began to ■ e-
After that Willard devoted himseir
to enlarging his work of art on
Morris’ cheekbone, and by the end
the tenth round half of his foeman
fare was as much out of shape a-
could be desired, all things consu
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Frank-Elberfeld-Castro Are Out
HIKE TO-!
All Players Should Be on Hand
for Big Game To-morrow
Morning.
Kilbane Asks $5,000
To Fight Dundee
NEW YORK. Dec. 4 -Johnny Kil-
t'ann, the featherweight champion, ha.
a chance to meet Johnny Dundee in a
ten-round bout before the Orleans _
let ic Club of New Orleans on Njw
Year's eve. but as Kilbane iem.inch'd
• 'too for tds'end. TOTtorieh Imm wit
ately decided to pass up the champion.
Members of Lewie Hurdage's Ail*
Stars, wio 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>
show'ed 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 Hardage would play
in the same backfleld?” is a question
that one has often heard. Well, it
will be answered Saturday afternoon.
f,,i- this quartet, the greatest quartet
of 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, pf Geor
gia; Hasslock, of Vanderbilt and
Cheape. of Sewanee, will he seen. At
tackles Lamb and Meadows, of Au
burn will hold forth. Tom Brown
was hooked, but he has been taken
si( k and will be unable to come. The
.same answers for Morgan, of Vandy,
at center.
At the end*, Jenks Giilem. the great
Sewanee end and kicker; Majors, his
equal and former Auburn star, and
Nuck Brown, of Vanderbilt, and
onklin, of Georgia, rated as the
greatest defensive ends in the South,
will be seen.
By W. S. Farnsworth.
C HARLEY FRANK is "dead” in
New Orleans, so is Kid Hlber-
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-
looking lot of warriors last season in
a masterly style, is going to manage
the New Orleans outfit in 1914.
This is no guess. I have learned
from “those who know" that Dobbs,
when he signed with Charley Som
ers, owners of Cleveland, Toledo and
New Orleans club-, that the story
he would go to Toledo wds 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.
He has finally found a job for Chol-
ly. instead of managing the Pelicans
next season he will support the title
of Southern representative of Charles
Somers, vice president of the Amer
ican League.
Quite some title, eh?
* * •
T HE following dispatch from New
Orleans has Jet the cat out of
the bag:
New Orleans. J,a.. 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
Franks 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 Som
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.
* * *
L ’l, WILLIE 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 players
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?" he
demanded.
“Sure it was," declared one of the
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. O., Dec. 4 —Par
ker I). Whitmore, of the Brookline
Country Club, led yesterday’s field of
64 players with a card of 81 in the
qualifying 1 round of tlie tenth annual
autumnal Country Club golf tourna
ment here.
Others who qualified for the first
flight w°re A. A. Stagg, Chicago; C.
L. Becker, Woodland; C. B. Hudson,
North Fork; H. V. Hegerman, Engle
wood: T. J. Moran, Metacomet; E. T.
Manson, Framingham; G. F. Brown.
Huntington Valley; F. R. Husey, Ha
vana; the Rev. T. A. Cheatham, Sal
isbury; S. A. Hennessee, Coopers-
town: B. L. Callagher, Montclair;
Dr, J. S. Brown, Montclair H S
Spaulding, Braeburb; R. C. Steese
Youngstown, and F. D. Wilkerson,
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
Oe resumed to-day,
THREE CUBS SIGN.
CHICAGO, Dec. 4. Locked away in
the safe of Charles W Murphy’s office
to-day arc the signed 11*14 contracts of
three Cubs. Frank Scbulfe was the
first to sign. Eddie rftack. 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. t Art Kauffman, of
New York, outpointed Buck Hayes, of
Cleveland, in an eighr-round bout at
Windsor last night.
READ BEATS SWEENEY.
WEBKTEH, MASK. Dee. 4 Jack
Head of Chicago, won the decision over
Knockout Sweeny, of New York, in a
fast ten-round bout at Lakeside Athletic
Club last ntght.
CHICAGO, Dee. 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.
Olnrke 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, couid not be learned.
Upon his arrival here last night Tin
ker admitted he had arranged to meet
Clarke next Sunday,
formal discussion of
Pittsburg team was
would take place.
According to Tinker he would play
shortstop and Wagner would go to first
base, his addition giving the Ifirates an
Infield of four MOO hitters.
but said an in-
his Joining the
ill he expected
Coach Wood Honored
By Boys’ High Team
Coach Wood, of the Boys’ 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 Oils year and also expressed
to him the nigh feeling in which th<
boys held him.
The coach responded. and, after
thanking the students for the gift,
promised to return next year and do his
best with the men that turn out for the
team.
Harrison Jones, an alumnus of the
Boys’ High School, gave u great talk
on the Junior Chamber of Commerce,
and enlisted all the students in this
work.
Sweaters with th*- B. II. S. monogram
were then presented to the members ot
the team, und as they were distributed,
Professor Dykes thanked and praised
every man for hts great playing this
year $
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