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PURYYIH SY
l8 SillYl BflYY
Jimmy Would ,l’lleet Any 'lY45-
Pounder in the Great Big
and Wide World
Stilt iiiHYIRS. lilll
ARE AYYRABYIYE
Kelly Promises to be Weller-
weiohi Champion
Below stands "The Fighting Plumb
01‘." the llllgtllst about whom this 111‘-
Iirle is written. lie looks just like
tiiler
“Above Stands Kelly. He looks good
null is an good‘un he looks if his rec-
ord counts for anything, Y‘
1.1 the boxing game .linnm Kelly,
of Port Chester, has hungl 1;: to his
Mill on many Victmlos 1111 some of the
old indiun chiefs. in the years ago
when lndlan wuro were progressing
in this country, had seams of their
V victims. Kelly is known {is the “light-
ing plumber" and ho is 11 peach. Like
the kick of a latter-day automobile is
Kelly's punch, and he is as calmly're
reptlve of blows as a sea sponge, Kel.
fy has the brown. the nerve and the
speedy punch. His feet work with
the precision of a dependable stem-
winder and his eye is steady
present Jimmy is in the “plnkocon-
Iiisli'
Not satisfied with the thumbs he
has won Kolly seeks further tributes.
life would like to meet same of the
l-oys about here who hare some lib
tie ring reputation For instance
he would relish: a tunnel with Jeff
lilohert). Dodo Mailer. Bunny Ford,
«or even our old friend Raver Benito
min Jimmy is not a quibbler and
his pounds will not phone him in the
least. .
For that matter Kelly at this time
million the announcement that ho
would like to meet any dill-pound
fighter in this machine world. This
”is no small challenge when one di-
gesta it. and it this back of it the
proud of what ban been sold. about
.llmin 1 ’He welcomeacontesta is the
O
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At‘
renow- at the seashore who cried.
‘(lome one, come all"
I Kelly (by way of information) 77011
the championship of the Boutthhen.
ho defeated Harry Ferret: at. Jackson-
ville, -Fla..,in 1908, and when. in L909.
he took the award from Jeff Doherty,
he clamped his title to Champion of
\‘ew, England, 1 ‘
A scrap book with headlines on
some or the- articles. an follows:
‘Kelly The Winner in Great Fight"
‘Fightlng Plumber Beats ,Plllllldel‘
pl1lun;" "Kelly Stops, Farrah"; “Kelly
Makes Good Showtngfll and ever so.
in by others,- wns viewed by the Sen-
t oi sporting editor with consider-
able interest yesterday.
I Jimmy looks good for the world‘s
welterweight championship ore his
career has ended.
SHlllil'Illt llllll’llllll S
! BliYi R Dilllilii llllY
r
Victor had Bid Advantage in
| Weight wmcn Mina It Easy
lor Him to Take 6 Rounds
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,' WATERBURY, Feb. 20.——Joe Shag-
rue outpointed Johnny Dundee in a
twelve-round boot in the Auditorium
here. last night. this being their sec-
ond meeting in,a few weeks, another
Vhout having been staged in New York.
l luridee was handicapped in weight,
tipping the scales at 1.23 pounds rlng<
side, while Shugrue was over 130
pounds. The conditions called for 125
ringside. :Shugrne won six of the
moods. Dundee only taking one of the
other six, live being even
. Shugrue was the aggressor through
practically the entire bout. Dundee
ope: idhig much of his time in prancing
about the ring. His blows had much
mote steam than Shugrue‘s, but the
latter. on top of his man all the time,
lauded much more frequently. Dun-
dee‘s bent showing came in the third
round, when he clipped Sliugrue with
'11 right and left to the face several
times in succession. Toward the end
of the bout Dundee opened an old cut
over Shugrue-‘e left eye. and had it.
bleeding freely toward the finish.
I In the first bout of the evening be-
tween Kjd Lewis, of Watgbury. and
"Knockout Pelitz. of New London. was
stopped in six rounds, being awarded
to Lewis on a foul, when IPnlltz hitt1i111
away below the belt. Lewis had had
the best. of the bout up to that time.
the hell at the end of the third and
fourth stanzas saving Palitz from it
knockout, Both were tired but by the
filth round and were staggering about
the ring when the light was stopped.
Buddy Foulkes, the Waterbury ne-
gro, outpolnted Joe «Mooney. of New
York, in the most interesting bout.ol,’
the evening, iioth boys showed much
clever s. but Ib‘aulkes was the mas.
tor of the situation all the while. Moon-
ey winning but one round of the ten.
The bouts wore witnessed by the
largest. crowd that ‘ever attended a
boxing. carnival in this“ place. the
auditorium being jammed with more
than 3,500 spectators.
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SPEAKER REFU’BES
'ro HOOK up vk'r
Will Not Sign With Boston or Outlaws
_ Until Home.
B08W1N.F9b..20.—~Efforts of Mana-
ger Callahan, of the Chicago Ameri-
cans. to have Tris flanker Sign Vs con.
tract with the Boston Americans for
next season have been unsuccesuful.
according to a cshlegrom received
from Paris today by President Month.
of the Red 8011. Callahan was Wiel-
1y empowered by the Boston team to
sign Speaker to forestall advances bv
Federal Magus agents, but Speaker
told him. the cablogmn raid. that he
would not sign with Boston. or with the
Federals until after ‘liib. return to All”
country 113111 the world tour. '
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Brooklyn Feds’ Backer Hopes to
1 Land Manager BYoiore tin Ro—
turns , From Chicago
CHIC AGO, Feb. 30 .éitobert B. Word,
backer of the Brooklyn Federal iLeug-
no club, appeared in Chicago yester-
day intent on obtaining the signature
of 1111151815111 to'a contract to manage
his team. It is expected that part of
the $25,000 check glvén to President
Gilmore to land a manager of the
Brooklyn club will be transferred to
18qu today. R. B. Ward is accompan-
nled by his son. Robert ‘8. Ward. 31‘.
Y "i run decidedly pleased with the
outlookfor the Federal League and l
propose to give Brooklyn Just as good
a bull club as money will obtain.”1sald
the New Yorker. “I was delighted
when I heard Mr. Gilmore had signed
Tom Seaton. for l have seen him Inch
and knbw he is a great ball player.
I hope there are others of the some
calibre I can get
"i came here on business connecldYtYl
with my bakeries, but i also hope to
sign Jake eStahl as my manager below
~I‘ return. i understand Mr. Gilmore
has arranged to have me meet Mr.
Stalil and we will come to terms, ,1
believe.
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IIIIIKs RELEASE onrr ,
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Birdie Cree. Yankee left divider.
was released yesterday to the clam.
mow club of‘ the international
iiieanne. Cree was a member of the
Highland forces for some time but in
view of the fact that the Sunbiu'y
athlete has slumped in his work
since he broke l1istrist in 1912. Main
nger Chance figured that he would
let him go. Cree has been slated to
go for some time and when the You-
kees scoured Jimmy Walsh. Blrdie‘u
fate was practically sealed. Chance
will not miss (tree. us he has (lilhooley
and Channel for the outfield besides
Walsh. The release of Cree. it is
understood, had some bearing on the
purchase of Watch, bought by IFrank
Farrell from Baltimore for $5,000.
Cree until last year was one of the
m
Yankee favorites; but fell into dis-f
favor with the fans because of his
slump in batting. Up to lost your
Cree had been a good consistent .300
hitter; but last year slowed up con-
sidernbly.
Cree recently was approached by
Federal league agents, but refused to
go over to the outlaws.
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BROOKLYN FEDS BAG ANOTHER.
Pitcher Frank Bmltuprl-‘ormerly. of
White Sex. Shiftuhom Buffalo.
Frank Smith. who'bsed to pitch for
the Chicago White 801:, became a
member of the Brooklyn club of the
Federal «lasagna yesterday.
signed with the league Is a whole on
the original understanding that :ho
would be with the Buffalo team. but
this arrangement was changed when.
he buttressed a. preference to play in
Brooklyn.
The once formidable piano mover
was transferred to the Brooklyn‘s by
the league officials and he signed :11
It is under-1
stood that he will keep 310815.000 ad‘- 1
contract here yesterday. .
vance money given him by the techno
and that the Brooklyn club will out
an equal amount in the generoltrcssn
. Ill—AIM”!
cry to pay for his transfer.
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RIITCHIE NOT MUCH OVER
WEIGHT. . »
311v mnuorsoo, mil. to. «uni.
Weight Champion Willie Ritchie lump-
ed 'on the sealed at the Olymbld Glob
after a couple of heino- 511155511511
with Bob muster murder and 1
wellhed 14bit parade atrium
"That's great." 5st Iltltchle. ‘1‘”ch Y W
.1 an ideal was a couple of pouhds he» mm ””33“ the 33m Will W 1 W
the boxers and the club management...
lilo had .
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Wills Iii BAITER
PMWIDENQE, Feb. 20.——Young Dy-
son. aplenty/eight champion of abode
island, gave Mickey Bovine one of
the worst "lint-tings" last night over
administered at the Marlovlllo A. (3..
in a contest featured by the most‘
spcclncmar and interesting work of
the season. By agreement between
the decision was left to three news
paper writers and the verdict was
unanimous. Adamatter of fact, no
other decision could have been ren-
dared. and any competent referee
would have given the Portuguese but”
tier the award. Y
Despite the met that Dyson won in
u gallop the lighting harp waged a
formic battle, and earned the plaudits
of a big mowd by the marvelous‘ stun»
inn and sameness displayed in the
face of the heavy canuouading that.
started in the first. round and con-
tinued almost without cessation
through the fifteenth.
The terrific punching which he took,
however, never boomed to team Mic-
key until about the middle of the ho
teonth. when a fierce driveto the
mid- section. delivered with awful
force, brought I. look of agony into
his face. ’
Mickey grasped for breath and tried
to clincb"1but1IDyson shook him off
with a stiff right to the head and a.
heavy left to the neck. It looked on
if Mickey was on the point, of con:
lapstng, but he staggered tlwugh to
the gong the most badly beaten man
at. the club this season with the ex-
ception of Jack Fitzgerald. Hob
Mohn's victim
in only one round was Dyson on the
verge or being shopped. and. this was
the! Iilfthioin which Mickey‘ scored a
knockdown that was a beauty and as
clean-cut as a cameo. After about
two Yknlnutee of heavy work in this
canto, Dyson cut lose one of his long
riglp swings, the blow landing won
the tome: of a pliedriver, under the
left. shoulder. Mickey Woe to his
knees but was up- 411.; a :llily. He
brought his right out of the collar on
a beautimlly timed blow that caught-
Dyson under the Jan.
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cnoss ouvPom'rs HARVEY. '
But Go“ Bad Boatlnp in on. Round
--Tony- Ron flattened Again.
NEW YORK. Feb. 20.~~Phll Cross
Youtpolnted Johnny ilsrvoy to :1 tea
round bout at the Empire A. 1C. last
night. Heavy blown to the stomach
accentuated by hard hooks to the head
gave Cross the bctter ol‘ every round
but the fifth and eighth. in both of
these Iliurery worked fast and lhndeu
often The eighth was an obpeclully
had round for Cross He took .1 had
beating- arouud the head and when the
bell rang was groggy. ‘
Tony Ross show ed that he plays no
favorites by getting beaten by Jimmy
Coffey. the Dublin giant. Cdffe'y‘ knock.
ed him 5.11.11. the sixth round of the
final bout with a sand old fashioned
mu; build pollinatiue to the law. The
irishmo'n use been giving the I'talinnl.
a nice title trimming all through the
miter rounds.
011539111111 Hogan. of Gen Francisco.
blade in. pneumonia in s. New York
ring in (the opening ten round bout.
m1 1th by n shade to Johnny Soho.
monitor, 31111911115105. la. Hogan 1le
ed up to his VVYqut'atloa as a one round-
1 hp 511le one round came at, the
no... end of the battle. ItY man. the,
‘ the Pacific coast
boldness outlive: 1i.
, finish 'Honan Bond.
hood popping around"lilie o}
on k on the, ocean and when the bell
ms the to ad's Vicinity hardly who
will,» him. in the other rounds
Iwo l1
' Worst
”MAE W 19th1
,for his
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IIIIIIIIIr-IIIIII
Brooklyn Mogul Talks on Eve at
Departure tor Trial of ‘
Murphy
no
“Whatevdr action is taken in “the
case Of Charles Webb Murphy. at'CinA
dunno. 'on 121-111”,th be final and
unanimous." said Chartered-I.t Ebbetn
yesterday afternoon. “Further? than
that l have absolutely nothing to say."
Mr. mounts than leaned back in his
favorite easy chair and proceeded to
say many things. ‘For instance. he
said the National League board of
directors might decide to act‘ on the
charges against Murphy or the entire
league might be called upon to not. In
either case every club will he repre-
sented at the meeting, with IMurphy
himself. if he chooses to attend, the
only one there without a vote.
“We may decide to go over the evt~
dance in the case, but it doesn't seem
necessary. it is fresh in the memory
of all. lilorane b‘ogel will not bethere.
Some have reported that he would’be
a witness.
"Should the league decide to disband
in order to rid itself of Murphy the
money in the treasury will be split
into eight parts Murphy will get his
eighth and no more "
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BOXING NOTES.
\lstty McCue. the Racine boy who
looked like a coming featherweight-
champion a year ago. until ’l‘om tones
became his manager and made him a
lightwoight. had a real tryout o‘t Rn-
cln'e, Wis. the other night“ against
Jack White, of Chio'ago. who hast met
many of the stars of the featherweight
division and also others in the light-
weight. class. Matty is not quite up
to the lightweight notch yet. but may
take on weight in the next year He
nodded 130 for the White match and
is of about the same build as Ad Wol-
gust—short and stocky, with a punch
in either hand. He covers well and
is fast on his feet. but most of his
blows are of the swinging variety. al-
though not long ones A boxer with
‘11 good left Job. with some steam be
hind it. should be able to beat Matty;
but White, Who has .a splendid left.
did not seem to have any strength to
hie punches for MCCRO simply took
what he offered and waded into him.
For five rounds the White boy pcp- Y
pared Matty about the face, but with
no apparent damage. and then the
Il-lccine youth began to "find himself"
and he gave the Chicago lad a run
money. :He connected sev-
ere] times with inck's head and had
the latter holding to keep out of dun-
1w
it was Motty' 3 light, but only by a
slight margin. McCuc is not yet
ripe for any big lightweight match;
he and: nursing for another year
midst boys 01 his own weight. and
with a little additional beef may do-
volop into a first grade hid
330111 11511. the Milwaukee 111.1...
;,Wolxht (or middleweight whenever he
sets to the 158 pound notch) m boom-aim “initiated. dilation is said to
solo; at top speed of late and is due
for some pond matches it he only
sticks to his win-k. 'Bob boa thrown
Var/1w, many good contests by notL tali-
,ing good dare himself and he
several matches Idowb EinY'é
dildo in wollht and bid
and times. the,
3" “if“ i; .,
Drilled! am a
boil stone saving no. 5 is .50.:
11's for it will with on “industry
It thpldtterhnd creatoftwo or torso
Y1,Y aural-W ou-
flxdtll'l‘l’lON OF. MANLY M11. I
'Wbflb'fil
391', b)“ “WI know the WW!“ WA" not. ”1‘3“" M Mm w.“ m m pm
bother unit that can.
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m Timer
he
probsbly is aware of the font now die,
' Web on of them. no, Intestfi
hawk. detail of Jack Drlsooll In
Ybrooklyp loot week. He rm we or
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PAGYiVEY'YS WIFE
38ch T8 T0 GAI‘dE
The reason Pucksy McFarland has
thrown “Mike Gibbons over his uncul-
our for good and all in that hit: bride
tavboV objected to the prospective
bridegroom continuing as a. boxer
And dutifully the Chicagoan obeyed.
Queer that * such‘la. situation should
have arisen just when 91108er With
about mating Gibbons. 'There's ‘the
hrvvlvw career. Heretofore the. lady
hon said nothing to indicate that she
was opposed t01tl1e ind lighting for a
living.. McFarland neverwas serious
about mating Gibbons. There's the
case in a nutshell. ‘He did a lot of-
taIklng. but his sincerity always was
doubted. The writer never believed
the bout would take place. and said
as much. Especially after, Gibbons
had won so handsomely over 8th
McAllister‘wos it feared. that 3.1ch
land would have no part of the St
Paul marvel. That result settled the
McFarlandaGlbbons bout then and
there. Packey got cold feet. and
only awaited on opening to make his
exit. if it is true that he has ro-I
tired for good he leaves the ring with
a black work against his name.
OLYMPIC STARS IYN HARTFORD.
The thirteenth annual meet. or the
Second Division. ,Naval Militia, will bel'rou'nds, at La- Crease..Wis.1
held in Hartford. this evening, and
while all of the events will be won
watching. there are some of the events
talit no one should miss. The contest-
ants in them will be some of the
world's best known athletes and rec-
ord- holders and wheres or they appear
there will be a demonstration of speed. I
At. the meet; tonight watch the men
with these numbers pinned on them~
they are the stars;
(locum. w. Sheppard, VA. A
. C.
(,Y' kit—Hanna Ko'ielimainen. l. A
l
. A
5-San1 Schwartz, [. A; A. C.
285—413}. Stebbins, Georgetown.
386~Ted Meredith, VUnlverstt)
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,33Mrilon'l)11kes,flornell.
308~W. M. McClif‘injYYUuhei‘eltl 01'
Pa.
zoo—mob Eller, Georgetown.
8—«M. A. Devanoy. bong island A.
C.
Y ,7-«John Eke. Sweden:
22”; R. Rising, Williams.
99--ll. W. Cole. Amherst.
193—0.. A. Broom. Dartmouth.
Milk-W. IR. Granger, Dartmouth.
183—1“. R. Mamean, Dartmouth
,218-—Jol1n Sq11lrrell.Carllsle.
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WHY SEATQIN JUMPED. ,
CHYCM’K’. Feb 20.~R,otentlon by
the National League of the bonus con
tract system was partly responsible
for the Federal league's success Wed-
nesday lu slgning‘YV’l‘om Boston, of the
Phlladebxhla Natlmial League. team's
pitching utal‘f do, play with the Brook,
lyn, Federal. League club according to
VJoo. Tinker. manager of the Chicago
’Federols. V
The. Philadelphia contract. sent here
for his signature would make it neoeuv
sary for, him to win 60 per cent. of his
men this your 11nd to, take part in
at least. 85 was in order to can the
115115,qu Tinker. 1,
auction. creations to Tinker. said he
would rather accept a airtight Fedora!
league contract. that endpoints: on his
own no: and the 11:5an of this
roar-fin bhludciphiv. mm—
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' armour. crack out.
New mutton uniform this ma, 113411,
result f e. deal out. top by 01m
.11 Carey and union; dimiltou. you
the Planters. Waite will so in return
consideration. the mount. of whiehls
“notoisrnirrr
2119136: and heavy hitter, win wear a, 1 151
my With Godfl'ldccm MW” of '
for “more Maroon wand a mu _,
posedly is happy.'1‘hoYf'o' a
weight feels suie thdthe do
boy who wrested his'ci‘ovf'
and the rahnco being odor-db h
proposes to make the motto all}
it must make hitn so'r'e til"
Ritchie is to“ receive riotou
privilege of taking forty I:
have ben paid off. Ad “ya it
different if there should happen
'a third meeting. Vile .bh‘n
ning over the gluon mu:
kee and then 1will‘ oomef'd‘dd
the natural ord‘e‘r‘bf things‘itdt'
of twenty rounds: Here is 1w '
gent figures on getting even.
ding over Ritchie in Mllivauk will
give him a claim on a. bigger
tage of the money than be A!
ceivo in Milwaukee
SPORTING EVVEVNTam
Tonight. - . .
Bud Anderson vs. Red Wotd'ol.
rounds: at San Francisco. “ a t ,
Eddie Mobs vs. Joe Welling,
Saturday. 2.: . V
Opening of the annual Spawn
show in Madison Sduare Garden.
York
Annual bench show of Airedale ,
rte: club of New York New Y, '
city. ' 1 ,
Joe Mandot vs Johnny that b
10 rounds, at New Orleanii.
GROVER LAND .lVUMPS T0
LOUISVILLE, Ky" Feb. "303-49
Cleveland Imnd catcher or the Old.
15nd Naps, signed a Federal mu
contract here yesterday. ~
New York, New Have
: and Hartford .
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