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William Muldoon Will Cover Big Fight for Georgian-American
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¥, William Muldoon, the most famous figure in the sporting world to
* day, will cover the Willard-Dempsey flght for The Atlanta Georgian and
Sunday American.
Billy Muldoon, the maker of champions, John L Suliivan’s trainer,
the man who coached Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root and many multi
millionaires, who has seen every championship hattle of note in the past
haif century, will give all his rich experience to a story of the fight for
the readers of The Georgian and Sunday American sport pages
The signing of Billy Muldoon to cover the fight is the biggest an
nouncement The Georgian and American yet has made in connection
with its program of sports. Muldoon will size up the battlers physically
and scientifically and report just how the decision went and why. His
unbtased accounts, reflecting the experience of every previous champion
ship ring fight of note, will afford readers of The Georgian and Ameri
can sporting pages a real treat,
Muldoon has advised The Georgian and American that he will reach
Toledo June 27 He will furnish an important article Sunday morning,
June 29, and shorter articles each day thereafter, including his account
“u!’ the battle June &:
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A Review of His Career
By CHARLES SHONESY,
M an Interview With Colonel E. C, Bruffey, Veteran Atlanta Sporting
Authority.
William (“Billy™ Maldoon, who,
will cover the Willard-Dempsey flght‘
for The Georgian and American, is
the most noted personage in the world
of sports today. His career has been
eventfui and it dates well back to the
nineteenth century, as he was a pro
:::.slom.l wrestler in the' early eight
( Just who he is in the world of sports
is well known among the old-timers,
He was a wrestler of note, a broad
swordsman of ruthless ability and a
trainer that ranked above all. Then
he has been associated with promi
nent men, men who were famous in
’dl branches of athletics for the past
ntury, and many latter-day million- |
aires who went in for athleties.
Muldoon began his athletic career
at the St. John's Military Academy,
near Washington. He played baseball
in the school for a number of years,
and it was there that he accumulated
the major part of his education. Tim|
Murnane also started at St. John's,
and incidentally at the same time and
on the same baseball team. |
After finishing at St. John's he came
back to his home in Savannah and
played semipro ball there for & num-
Dber of years,and was signed and played
for a number of years with the Boston
team. Then he was given the job
of sporting editor on, I believe, The
Gilobe. He served in this capacity for
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Then another famous athlete was
started from this same school and at
the same time. Mike Donovan, known
everywhere, w‘a(a the third of the
stars, Mike is known also in political
, circles, as he was the man who taught
| Roosevelt the art of pugilism. He
tser\'ed with Muldoon also when they
! cpmblned to make or unmake a cham
pion, |
' But getting back to Muldoon. When
in the pink of condition he weighed
around 220 pounds. Usually he was
tnearer the two-fifty mark than any-‘
where else. He was of the powerful
type—large head, bull neck, broad
shoulders, deep chest, enormous lower‘
limbs—in fine, a well-proportioned
‘ frame. |
' He was a professional wrestler and
broadswordsman. The wrestling then
twas much as it is now. The broad
| sword fighting has long since passed
| into the sporting discards. Then two
| men mgt in a ring, with heavy awurds.j
i but as A precaution to keep from muti- |
{lating the opponent, they split iron!
| pipes an welded the pipes on the edges
of the heavy sword. This may have
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Muldoon and CaptAin Duncan Ross
once met in Atlanta at the old Con
cordia Hall across from where the
Bijou Theater now stands. This was
back in the “eighties.” The first eve
ning's entertainment consisted in two
out of three falls in wrestling. The
program was all in ;avor with the|
huge Muldoon. He won the two sally
and consequently the match. Tt next
three nights they induwiged in broad
sword contests. Then, to complete
the circu, they had another mat
match, and the finals were split. Both
won a fall and the third was a draw,
MANAGED SULLIVAN,
When John L. Sullivan returned
from KEurope in 1889 he was sick and
in the throes of typheid fever. Hej
alto had the match with Jake Kil
rain to get rid of, Mike Dom)vnn,‘
who had discovered the mighty John
L.. left John and took up the roins'
of thé oncoming Corbett., Muldoon |
then took charge of Sullivan, and !m\kl
him to his training quarters in Mis- |
sissipp! to train for the bout with Kil- l
rain.
The fight took place July 8 and Sul
livan won in the seventy-fifth round,i
So his venture with the Great John
1.. was successful, '
Later he hooked up with Corbett
and trained the mighty bank clerk for
his bout with Sullivan, in which Cor- |
hlott won the world's heavyweight ti-|
tle.
Later he took up another old nmrl
and one of the greatest boxers of all
time. This boxer also bore the same
name of the challenger in the com- |
ing battle, He trained Jack Denfhsey ™
&o old Jack, for his bout with Cor- |
tt,
“Billy® Muldoon is as famous a
sporting man and authority as there
{8 in the world today., His great ex
perlience and his wide knowledge on
all affalrs pertaining to sports, and
his education, whieh exceeds that of
most boxers and sporting men, make
him the greatest authority that will
be at the ringeide. He has made and !
unmade champlons, he has worked|
them all, and especially the grand old |
men who knocked them cold three m'l
four a week. He is now getting old, |
nearly 80, and yet he Is spry and
is keeping up with the affairs in the
world of sports with all the keenness
of vouth, '
His account of the fray, which w’"i
be the largest fight ever held in the |
world, will be the best story ever|
turned In from any fight. It will
surpass the story of Sullivan, on the
Corbett-FMtzeimmons bout In Carson
('ity, It will be the most wonderful
story ever written about a fight. The
technique will be perfeet, the moves
ments will be watched by a trained
eye, and they will be handled in the
masterful style of “Billy.”
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FEATURES IN MAJORS
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Gavvy Cravath is lhowlnfi the way
to the batters with the splendid av
erage of .431. Ivy Olson leads the run
scorers with 30 tallies, and also banged
iout the most hits, 56 to date. Ross
Young,and Carson Bigbee stole the most
bases, each plifering 13 sacks.
Cecil Causey i 8 wany ahead of the
pitchers. The Giants young star has |
won his first eight games in a rowi
| without a los this season.
Eddie Roush went on a batting ram
page that endured 13 straight games
until June 8, when Burleigh Grimes
applied the brakes and stopped hlm.|
During his stretch of hitting Eddle‘
clouted 22 hits in 48 trials for the big |
mark of .4568. Roush has failed to hit
in but one of his last 25 consecutive
games, after a streak lasting eleven
4gam.l; he went hitless on Put Moran's
day in Philadeliphia, May 26, before
‘Gone Packard, and began his 13-game
| streak the very next contest,
Cy Williameg has hit safely o 11
lutrnlght games, when Phil Douglas
| stopped him on June 11. During his
lstrenk Cy laced 19 hits in 48 attempts
|for a mark of 396, In the same nm 3
another Philly busted a streak. Fre
lLullorun had run up g stretch of elght
games for a dozen hits in 256 tries
for .480.
Benny Kauff guit to Walter Reuther
on June 11 after getting his ihts seven
'(nmes. in which he smashed out 12 hits
in 28 tries for .429. :
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_CSTANDING OF THE CLUBS, -
Seuthern In‘ua.
Clubs, on, Lest, Pet
New Orleans .......... 27 17 B 4
Little Roek ............ 38 17 606
Birmingham ........... 24 21 L 5332
T O R | 23 489
BPEANTA ivoiipeoives B M 87
NABYUIS .. covcovooes 21 27 458
lomp‘m- Sibitrscisvivii BN 28 452
Chattanoogs ... ... el 25 432
National Lencue,
Clubs, ) - Won. Lost, Pet,
New York |...... .. ,t 13 683
Cinelnnati .............. 18 17 806
R Cirscasvisseseme BB 19 ASB
PIASDUIE oioo..oooivsie B 9 21 N 23
B IS b oocioieiiee BB 22 JARE
DPORRIVE . .. ccheenees B 26 AT
Philadelphia ............ 1 i JABS
Boston ... .. 1" 2% 333
American League,
Clubs, Won, Lost, Pt
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R . iicirscione B 15 6818
Cleveland, .............. 28 16 619
T ORI R | 20 512
Isss, s snssssise I 20 AT
g':tnlt bassnseoshsossans BB ‘l A 63
fndelphin . .......0000 18 1 JORB
Washington ............ 1b ) L 3786
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Tennis Enjoying Great
Popularity in England
From both hemispheres ‘comes word
that tennis this year is enjoying the
Sreatest popularity In its history, The
All-England lLawn Tennls Club an
nounces that the reserved seats for the
champlonship at Wimbledon are gone
The Glasgow News tells of a shortage
of tennis eourts both for club members
and players who use the park facilities
Many courts are heing bullt to meet the
need, but the shortage is expected to
incrense rather than lessen,
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AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Ty Cobb is leading the batters with
an average of .366; Geogre Sisler is
| showing the way to the run scorers
| with 31 tallies; Ty Cobb banged out
lthe most hits, 54, and Wheeler John
| ston leads the base-runners with 14
! stolen bases, =
I Herb Thornmmhlen tops the pitchers,
ithe Yankees' young star has won five
games In a rw without a loss,
Ray Chapman packed a terrific bat
ting streak through twelve consecutive
fiumps until June 8, when he ran afoul
i ollie Naylor, and busted his streak.
ihurlng his stretch of hitting Ray slam
| med out 18 hits in 45 tries for an even
400 and tallied 11 runs.
Bronkie, of Browns, had hit safely in
seven straight games when he was
stopped b% Jim Shaw, During his
streak of hitting he came through with
t:ln’ hits In 24 attempts for a mark of
Bob Shawkey, besides holding the
White Sox to one hit un June 8, stopped
Chick Crandall’'s batting, which had en
dured seven giraight fames and ylelded
a mark of .320,
Sam Vick had hit for .407 in six con
secutive games when he was halted
by Hub Lonard.
Bill Jacobson, besides uconng seven
runsg In fivt straight games, had hit
safely In sig games for a mark of .320,
}vhwn.Walter Johnson halted Bill on
une 8.
- YESTERDAY'S RESULTS,
Southern League.
~ Atlanta 15, Chattancaga 1.
Nashville b, Birmingham 4.
Little Rock 4, Npmphflu 3.
New Orleans 4. Maobile 1.
National League,
New York 1, Chicago 0,
Bt. Louis 2. Brooklyn 1.
' Cincinnat! 9. Boston 6 .
| Pittshurg 8, Philadelphia 1.
| American League,
New York 7, Bt. Lopis 3.
Cleveland 3. Boston 2.
Washington 7, Detroit &
- Chicago 8, Philadelphin 3.
| WHERE mm’ PLAY TODAY,
ern Lengue,
- Atianta at Chattanoogs.
| Birminghum at Nashville
New Orleans at Mobile
| Little Rock at Memphis
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| Nutiennl League.
Brooklyn at Bt. Louis,
New York at Chicago,
Hoston at Clocinnati,
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| Ameriean Lengue,
| Detroit at \\'uhtngmn,
Bt. Louis at New York.
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Naming 3 Best Riders
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Is Not an Easy Job
NEW YORK, June 141 t ig n Adiffieult
thing to select the three best riders of the
yonr, even thoush thera are just about
that many who stand out in the matter of
wmnlnfi mounts, Cuft Robinson s grouped
with the best on the turf, but one could
lmrlll‘( rank ClHff with finished horsemen
like unpg. Loftus, Lunsford Nutwaeil,
Troxler and peveral others
Robinson is indeed a brilliant prospeet,
but that's all It will require ut least
three or four yeurs of riding for Lim 10
gain the experience of the above-mentioned
quintet. Eante, Rodrigues, Thurber and
numberiess others are also spicndid Httie
artists, but they will require cvon more
time to develop than Robinson, who see¢mns
m & natural horseman and » sensihie
Cracker Has Pitched Four Over
time Contests—Averaged Over
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11 Frames a Game in 11 Games.
By CHARLES SHONESY.
Ray Roberts, Cracker twirler, has
the extra-inning record among
Southern League pitchers. He could |
easily put in a claim for overtime and
get away with it :
Not only has he hurled the lungestl
Southern L.eague game on record—his |
Friday performance against the
Lookouts and Rube Marshall, which
was locked in the twenty-third ses
sion-but he has stood the gaff of
three other contests that encroached
upon eternity
In the four extended battles he
worked 64 inning, an average of 16
frames per—and the best he got was
a couple of tie games; the others he‘
lost by one run margins.
It looks as if Roberts is the real
work horse of the league—the ‘lron
Man if you will-—and furthermore, he
is not paying a luxury tax on a rab
bit's foot. The breaks have been
against him. Every time he has start
ed, he has faced a foeman who was
pitching red-hot ball, or the Crack
ers happened to be taking a day off
of the hit column.
HIS CAREER.
Roberts was a lieutenant in Uncle
Sam's army before he attracted the
attention of the Atlanta bosses. He
was rated as the star hurler with the
Forty-fifth .Infantry while with tha.
unit at Camp Gordon Frank DeHaney,
also signed by the Crackers, and later
sold to Memphis, was his battery
mate.
Ray pitched several brilliant games
for the soldiers and lost some of them
aue to the poor backing of his team
mates—and the poor backing has)|
‘fimowed him into the pruieasiunul]
ring. |
Very few of his games have been
free hitting contests or filled with
an over abundance of tallles. With
any other hurler on the slab the
Crackers usually slam the pellet mth-‘
er hard and with some frequency, but‘
let the former lieutenant toe the ruh»‘
Ler and the Crackers look like a back
lot team More errors have been
\mudv behind him than any point man
of the Crackers 4"
| DRAW BAD START.
In his first game he looked like
a “has been” and, the rest of the
gang could hardly be complimented!
‘with calling them by that name. Sev- |
en errors were made in that game,
four by the Crackers and three by
'the 'Noogans. The Crackers got nlx!
safetles and the Lookouts connected
for thirteen; the score was 5-0 with
the Crackers on the shut-out end of
the figures,
\ In the next game he looked far bet
ter. Nashville won out in a seven
llnning game, 1-0, The locals tuund‘
three safeties and the Vols were good
tor six.
RELIEF WORK,
May 27 he went in in the seventh
inning after Adams had been pul
verized. The game was lost before
he started. Only one run was scored
off his delivery and that came in the
ninth. The score was Atlanta 7.‘
Memphis 4. |
Then came his sgtring of overtime
contests. He hooked up in a sixteen
inning game with New Orleans and
the best &ither could do was two lnl—‘
lies, The umps put the game away
after the sixteenth on account nf‘
darkness. On the first disastrous
road trip of the Crackers, Mobile won |
over Ray, 4-2, and the game stayed
within the time limit, |
' A twelve-inning affair with New
Orleans was his next start. He evi
dently has something against the l’ul!‘
as he has hurled two t-xtru-frum»‘
.Mf:urn against the Dobbs’ gang. The
game went to the Pels in the twelfth |
| with Roberts still hurling good ball,
' The gome was given the Pels by
Bratehi, who muffed a long fly to left,
letting in the winning tally. The
score In this was 6-5, The Pels were|
cqual to 14 safeties and the Crackers
accounted for -mly eight, ‘
LOST IN THIRTEENTH. |
Another extra-inning affair took
place at Little Rock when the
Crackers lost a 1-0 game in the thir
teenth frame This game was "bun‘
Idun to & bunching of hfts in the last
of the thirteenth Little Rock sue
ceeded in getting elght hits, while
the Crackers again were far off and
only got six ;
Then the affalr Priday that takes
the cake thus far in the Southern, He
engaged inn 2-2 tie game with Chat
tanoogn Rube Marshall was the ong
to stick out the fight, The game
went 23 innings and was finally
brought to a close by the umps for
lack of light The 'Noogans had the
game won Friday but for a boner by
Marshall, who pulled a Fred Merkel
stunt, a duplicate of the one that lost
for the Glant Both pitchers hurled
good ball and were getting stronge:
as the game lengthened and had the
sun been held up as in the days of
Joshua, there is no telling when the
game would have come to an end
HIS RECORD,
Ray. has worked In eleven games,
from three to twenty-three inning:
per game, having a total of 118 In
nings or an average of a fraction over
eleven linnings per game, Kighty-sev
en hits huve been garnered off Ray
in the 118 Innings,
Twenty-eight runs have been scored
off Ray In 11 games or an average
of two and wsix-elevenths runs per
game, Yes, its looks as If the fore
mer Heutenant is a hard luck pitcher
His averages per game have been ex
cellent and If the Jinx ever leaves the
ex-warrior off its culling list, he will
be the most effective hurler In the
Mouthern,
King of All Writers on
Sport Subjects Will
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Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
TOLEDO, June 14.—Tex Rickard is
l"(»u velvet” after the biggest gamble
| in pugilistic history,
| It was announced today that the
fzul\zlnu' ticket sale for the Willard
Dempsey fight on July 4, have gone
’bc—\nnd $400,000,
| The total expenses incurred by the
lprnnmter, including $127,5600 oto the
| fighters and about $105,000 for the
. arena approximate $325,000.
! Present indications now are that
' the gate may total around $1,000,000,
i\\hlvh meang a ‘“‘clean-up” of about
$600,000 for Rickard and those asso
ciated with him in the promotion of
the clash.
| It was admitted here today that the
| list of referees being considered by
| ghe National Boxing Board has been
| rsceived, but “for certain reasons” it
' was decided not to mike the names,
. publie
| It is the belief here that Ollie Pe
| cord, of Toledo, will be the man to
| land the refereeing job, but that two
| judges also will officiate The ma
i)nril) vote of the trio probably will
Idow ide the contest in case it goes the
ifull route,
| . Jack Welsh, of San Francisco, who
| presided at the Willard-Johnson fight
may be one of the judges, the other
possibility is Jack 8. Kelly, of Yon
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Corbett Says Dempsey Is Only
Man Left to Fight Jess—Car
pentier Can Not Be Classed.
By JAMES J. CORBETT.
If Jess Willard should knock out
Jack Dempsey on July 4 it probably
means that Willard will become the
only retired heavyweight champion in
the modern history of the ring. For
then there'd be no<one left for Jess to
fight
The many bouts that have taken
place in the heavyweight ranks during
the past few years have seen the de
throning of many cld idols, the shate
tering of many *“hopes,” and the
downfall of more than a score of men
who once were reckoned as possible
conquerors of the pugilistic king,
Frank Moran has practically quit
the ring. Jim Flynn passed out of the
“major” division long ago. The
knockout defeat which Dempsey
handed to Carl Morris wrote “finis®
on the ambitions that Morris has
nursed since he became the first white
hope far back in 1910. Fulton never
again can be taken seriously. Weie
rert, Brennan, Coffey, Cowler, Lo
vinsky, Dillon—all have passed out
bevond the horizon that embraced
only top-noteh “heavies”
Georges Carpentier, of Framce, i»
the orly heavyweight in the world,
other than Jack Dempsey, who 18
reckoned by some to have a chanoe
with Willard. And it is unlikely that
Carpentier, at his very best, ever
would have given Willard more than
# mild workout. The French young
ster has been touted highly—but so
were hundreds of others. Carpentier
fought some good fights, but while at
his best he was whipped bv such men
as Biily Papke, Frank Klaus and Joe
Jeanette, who can not ever be classed
with Willard.
Carpentier is not quite 6 feet tall
and beams around 180. That's 2
inches shorter than Dempsey and 15
pounds lighter. . Surely if Dempsey is
supposed to be at a great disadvan
tage because of Willard’s bulk, Car
pentier would be more so. And Car.
pentier has been away from the ring
for nearly four years, during which
time he became “rusty”—and the rust
of inactivity rarely wears off a fistic
pertcrmer, 2
But even if there was a demand for
a Wiliard-Carpentier fight, in case
Willard whipped Dempsey, there isn’t
mne chance in 100 that the mateh
wouald be made. There are two big
reasons One is that Willard cer
tainly wouldn't journey to Kurope and
the other is that Carpentier won't
come to America. Carpentier is fear
fully afraid of the water and nothing
in the world eould induce him to
make an ocean voyage to these
shores.
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