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Evening sentinel, Tuesday, April 6, 1915 · page 9

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.The oldest heavyweight champion
the; World dyer knew—Jack Johnson
,wnuld hold that distinction today if
hIeThs‘d beaten Jess Willard in Havana

' yesterdiy. As things turned out, he

emctlytied, the rewrd held by Bob-

IFltssimmons, tiedI It to a- day. Fits was
born at__ llelsten, Connwaii county, in
Ildngland on June 4,1862.He was prev
Cicely 37 years and 5 days of age when
Jettries hooked him out In the el-
ev'enth round at Coney Island on June
9, 1099.. Johnson 'was :born at Galves-
ton. Tax... on. March 31, 1878, and
knocked ohtnby Willard in the 26th
round at Havana yesterday, which
was April 5, 1916, making his age ex-

4 .1 actiy 3‘1 years and 5 days.

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BROWNS WELLS, Miss, April 5,4.

4 Artie autumn is the first IBrookfed
player tolhav‘e a tilt with Manager Mae

gee; The former Cub himself broke

. 4 "his contract with the club today, when
he turned' over his uniform to Manag-

Inergbtagee, after having been lined 810

for smoking a cigarette. Just what will

‘ xpe the final outcome of the rupture Is

‘smblematical.

{$1M «Helm his contract when

be thrilled even the uniform, but he

will deter it; ilpglfdecislon until he
neg m misilt with Robert In. Ward.I
W dieters Holman' a con-1
It is, cold, calls for $7,-
. d‘fia still two years
wins, null and. void the young man-
age)“ realizes thfitbhe would he wepk-I;
ening his teatii,‘ considerably. in any},
event 'Hofman says that he is through},
and Instead of accompanying the club
to; .jlrooklyn tomorrow, he says. he
will go to his home in Akron, Ohio.
The Eaial Twenty--
'srxih Round
Havana, April e—Round 25—'
Johnson rose slowly from his
' chair‘and Willard met him more
thsnvtwo-thirds of the way a-
crosathe ring. Willard stabbed
a long left into‘the negro’sIfsce,

' .firendinrhi; head bobbing back.
“.‘Beroi-‘e on. camellia could re-'4
,cover his position, Willard

swung a smashing right, which
Janded full on Johnson‘s st0m-
‘ Each. Johnson was flung against
the ropes by the force of the
I blow and he clinched on the re.

' bound:

The cowboy tried to tear
loose, but the black held grlrn-
ly, with eyes closed and legs
shaking. Just before the referee

: broke them, Johnson inoked o~V- 4*

' "Willsrd's shoulder towards the

‘ box where his wife had been.
. i " eyes showing a dazed, tired, puz-
'sled> eitpresslon.

As soon as Welsh had broken
the. clinch Jose rushed again...
‘Johnson was slow in guarding .
and his strong, youthful option. _
enthooked a swingingdeftfto
Ithebody. The fading champions
legs 'quivened and .agsln the
towering giant fainted for his’
body. Johnson. dropped his '4
guard and Willard won the tit-I
tie with. a quick hard swing to
the exact lpoint of the“ jaw};

‘ forcing the negro into. Willard's.
corner, where the finish came; 4

The neg‘ro's knees folded up"
under. him and he saith slowly 4-
to the floor and rolled on his
back partly under the ropes.

Welsh waved Willard IsaekI’
and began to count. Up and.

I . down went Welsh’s hand, but
‘ 4 Johnson 'novaIr I‘movsd. .HisI ey4
4 were glassy; only the whites be-

ing visible. 4 4 .

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ROCKY MOUNT. N". C., April 6.—
Donovan's Yankecs‘ scorched ,Rockye
Mount by a score of 5 to little after:
noon and they feel halfIIashamedI for
doing It. Not that the mountaineers
should he'despised. The club trans-
ferred here from Richmond is a pretty
sizable aggregation any way one looks .
at it. But Rocky Mount showed moreH
enthusiasm, enterprise and money
than Wild Bill's fleddlnss has seen in
all the other-exhibition games of the
spring combined. . ' ' '

‘lt was winter weatherI‘Ifor North
Carolina, 'though the sun felt hot‘aiier
‘a couple of’days'of frost. When the
team detrained this foreseen snow
Istill lay inches deep In the shade. 24
“hours earlier the new ball field was
Lcovered with seven inches of snow.
A large force of laborers toiled all
Easter Sunday to remove the sup

 

cations of kerosene "burning help dry
out the Inn-e held. ‘

New York’s tbp end of the hating
order hit well and got enough runs;
quite handily, Cree and Pipp each hit 1
home runs. Theserrtcame together In}
the fifthand broken]! the cottage
meat: Cree cracked the baseball over
‘the right. lance wttlvtwo 0n and one
out Pipp'swterrlilc blow found a spot
4' where the fence was much further out
hand bounded. over” from the topple
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NEW ORLEANS, ApIii 6.—~'i‘he N.
Y. Giants sufiered another defeat to-
Iday The New Orleans Pelicans beat
i them and beat them badly. The score
{was 6 'to i. The Giants played poor
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cd minor league ball, very minor.
There was istquustorkjat the bat
.and rsaplngduability to do anything
with the pitch of Blgby and Smith
whentmen were on bases. They stood

fooled them and caught them unalert
and were just as Inefficient before
the pitching of Smith.
, '.H N. Hempstead the Giant's presII
i, dent, saw the advance happenings To-
‘morrow the Giants will tackle the
rude Pelicans in Gulfport.
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section of the New York ‘Americans inII
lcharge of Duke Farrell and including
Jack Wat-hop, IRo‘y Hartse‘il and Marty
McHale defeated the Virginia League'
iteam at Suffolk, VIII, twenty. turtles
isodthweiit of here, this afternoon and
I came into Norfolk, where they will be
joined by the Yankee regulars tomor-
row. The game at Suffolk completed
the spring schedule for the Yankee
.irookies. The‘ score was, New York, 7;
‘Suffolk, 3
i Nine complete innings were played
and _McHale and Warhop did .the pitch-
1 i'ng, with Schfert- behind the bat, Me-
I Halo was hit for a home run with one
ion in the second inning. but that was
i all the scoring done on him during the
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ILJOS ANGEL-ES SEEKS THE 1916
* « OLYMPICS.

as is the latest city to shy Its hat In
the ring for the Olympic games In
1916. lit is generally believed now that
Berlin will abandon any attempt to
' _hold the world’s greatest athletic meet
and it seems obvious that the con-
: tests should be held in a neutral coun-
try,
1 duos Ange lips that it could-
"Irina-nigh prlifc why lib large attendance-
~. as either Philadelphia or New York.
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son' home here, yedterdai'. sitting the
result of the heavyweight champion-
ship light in Havana. -.Mra Tiny John-
son, die foriner champion s aged moth-
er, refused to believe the neh‘s. ‘

in. "lily son. licked. knocked out? No,
sires."

umber of her household cable herI
son at Havana, as followf;

knpckout’ Who won? Send” news In
once'

one. evidently desiring to play a Joke
"bli the‘ may? telephoned the news

but liaison Io

! Filmé'rs K. Robeson.

Mellon victory with a sensational

{in till-1mm M’- mxmctI

chamolymb In .3 A, (1.1. tor I
I- today over“. Rogrt fiaéter M‘EWee I

multiple-«Walter Mont ot the

of the National club and Hamilton K.

llton of the National Dr. Gardner, theI 0
Rhode Island champion, will meet Dr.‘

Cole of Chesterfield in the second di- 3:
vision final. 4 i:

ing show to be staged at thegArtn'oI-y}I
in Br.idseport on April! 22. has sign- *9.
ed up Battling Kunz of South Norwaik
4 NORWLKI April 5.-—T-he secondI'IandnBud Palmer of zBridgepo'fit. for “I MoOONNBLL TO CHlOIAGO' FEDS I;

CHICAGO.
nell, a pitcher whom the Chicago Na-_
urinals released recently to the 'Ksn-
saIs City club of the American Asso-
elation; has islgned' it one year cone,
tract with the Chicago Federals, it.
was anounced today. liloConnell- deg.
éennui to region to Kansas City. He
came to Chicago from the Buffalo in-
ternatinnalsI last season by‘ draft;

batting (it schwert. Ian'di the holding of '

Les memes. Ara-II I‘I—Los Angel I

Imp IlIn, $9193; 44 4 I
‘ '4 ‘4, ”by boil. ~qu
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:CHICAGO, April 6. ~When newspap-
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Before a reply was' received. some

of a Johnson victory, which was met
with cheers.

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PINEHURST, N. C, April 6—40qu
. the nineteen-
yearoid lad who followed up a qualir

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match play won over Jesse Guiiford-
New Hampshire State cha‘dlpioh. woof;
bust ll'l's'ncls Onim‘et'tn WW;

urn. “Hunter put former international .

mining in “the first” round or matchI.
play. 4
Robeson's opponent“ to. than i
Topplingi of Greenvjich. wt or ofithe
IUnlted title from Hamilton K. Kerr of,“
Ekwonak in 1913 and who won to.
day from 3.1-1. Sullivan. Jr.. of the
Woodland Golf club, also by 2 up and
1 to play;

fin the consolation J. C. Parrish, ir.

300;“

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Kerr went forward on the default of

Max Behr of Baitrusroi and L. A. Ham: ”

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KUNZ WILL MEET PALMER APRIL;
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--P. Rdtosch, matchmaker of the box-l

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eight-round bent and it wIillf be thel
curtain raiser of thesshow. Kuns model
qIIpite. .81,- impression with the local
fans in his battle with Harry Williams
of. m Haydn last month and the2
matchmaker is of the opiniopI that he
and Palmer Will put“ up a bout that
will please everyone who sees it.

Beach is- now trying to sign up Ai-lI
Ketchel and Young McAuiil‘fe for the
semi final best. it Roach can get
those two to sign articles of agree-i
ment and also induce Sammy Robb"
Ideas to attach hIsIJohn Hencock to
a contract calling for a fifteen round
bout with Walter Mohr, he‘ will have
one of the beat cards ever Arranged
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orrenskumao sour; '
. Just as soon as, John 'Welsemantel‘
of the‘IBroadway Sporting club, Brook» '
Iy‘I‘I heard that wumm ihaeznmnxm
Johnson, he sent thegfelowing cable to l
Tom Jones: I
Will give Willard $20, 000 for ion '
.round bout with Charley Weinert out.
Labor Day at Ebbets Field. Can seat
more than 30. 000. weinert matched
with Gunboat smith.-
After sending the message Wins 4
mental enthusiastically. declared that
he was ready to bid for the someone: ’I
'the new champion and that he would
be at the depot..vllieu.»tho shaming
and Tomloassian-Ived, Shé_ latter M.
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knockcduoutI John L. Sulliv’an, errounds.

January 25, weigh-At Jacksonville, Fla,
knocked out Charley Mitcl’IellI,

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Viarch l7. 1897-At Carson City, Nev" Bel) FiiZS'ImmoIIs

knocked out J. J. Corbett, 14 rounds. I

ries knocked out Bob Fitzsmtme‘ns, 11 rounds. . _
Nevcmber 3, 18997—1“ Coney Island, N. Y. J J. Joll-
ric: won from Thomas J. Slim-Icky, challenger 25 rounds.

knocked out Bob Fitzsimmons, challenges. 8 rounds
August i4, 1903—AtSau Francnsco, (3.11., J. J. Jefl’rics be 7
knocked out]. J. Cerbett, challenger, 10 rounds.
August 26,1904——At San , Francisco, Ca J J. chftries
knocked out Jack Monroe '
July 3, 1905+]. J. Jellries haying previously announced
his refinement, officiated he re‘ierIél: at I‘R‘eno, Nev. and de-
4’ elated. Marathi Hprt champion When the latter knocked out
II'IJack Root,12roltnds. ‘ ’ ‘ " .
-. light-nag 23i redo—A r“ LosII 1* Angnles “Cal :1 .l‘omva-. .

June 9, I899——At Concy Island, N. Y.,

July 25, 1902~—-At San Francisco, CIaIL,

1. ‘I

Burns wonI from Marvin Hart, aoronnds

May 7, 1907-I—At Les Angele’s, Cal,

wo on from Jack O Brien, 20 rounds. 4 ,

out Bill Squires. i'round
Dcccmhcrfi,1908———At Sydney, Australia. Jack John—
son (colored) won from Tommy BttrnsI;“1II.1 rotinds.

_iny 4, 1997—+At Colma, Cal, Tommy

Optob'cr 16,19094At Colma,.’ I4

knocked out Stanley Ketchcl, 12 reunck

July 4, 1910———I\t Reno, New, Jack Johnson knocked

out 1. J. Jeffrics, t5 rounds. 4
July 4, 1912—-. \‘t Las Vegas, N. M. Jack .Johnson won
from Jim Flynn, 9 rounds. 33.7; l"- ._

June 27, 1914—4“ Paris I’rancc Jack

from Frank Moran, 20 rounds

1905:

ed, lia'Iprosihte‘d hlb ohlmplohclr
my Ie‘vimm’ Hart. ugh than ‘
lost to rolling: Burns on
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'3‘: «li‘Millaa Iotl. and} 4

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4 Jose Willard had to tightlo
yer. to win the title from Jack-"l
Johnson". yesterday than” any
other. heavyweight champion in
”the history of the ring. It tools.
:15th Corbin tisentyyone rounds
I amt: John L"; suIIIIm cerI-II
plant in nil-n lost to so'
4 .I‘-simmona1 in foertcen rilu‘ntls.
.Jlm Jeffrles stoppedii FitsI; “it
47.1w... roped: on July-II I§
The titl‘e‘
"4" before that day, however. I’ln;

Aphl 5, I915—-At Havana. Cuba, Jcs‘s Willard knocked' .3,
out Jack Johnson 26 rounds.

 

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.1 William Amult, the champion pool .
player (if Bridgeport and South Nor-

s 500~ball match with

.I Archer of Stamford this evening. The
nirst block of 125 balls will be played
in South ’Norwalk at Knorr's' hall The
second block will be played Thurs-
day evening in Stamford, and the

repeated dent week.

-‘Arch_er is ah expert with the one, and
will gliIre Ayrault a great battle, may-
4 be. Tile men are playing for a. purse

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LKS iN, BASEBALL‘ .
Eight lodges will be represented in
the Interstate Eiks’ Baseball league
‘i-seNew- -Yoi-it, Bronx, Queens, Brook-
a'rit, Paterson, Revenue and
tension; The season will open on -
May 1,5II ,and close August 22. Games
will :be played on Saturdays and Sun

4 A championship trophy hes been do»
Insted- Iby Spurting vBrotlIIertII Commis- ’
lsioner A.- Harry moored who is a
1 Imember of Jersey City W3?! will .
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NEW YORK, April, 6.-—Thi'Ua Cana-

‘ diam teams were in the lead when the

second day's session of the tourna-
Intent of the National Bowling Asst»
\Iciatlon opened today. As a result of
the first day's bowling, which ended
long after midnight, they occupied

first, second and third places in the

list of six iivemen teams 0f the 3
teams the Canadian took first, with
the score of 2,05; the Nationals of
Montreal-second, with 2.752. and the
Btmtchans third, with. a total at 2,643.

The diockaways‘of New York scor-

ed 2,618, the Vogts of Newark, 2.560,‘

and- the Mohawks of New York. 2,488.
More than. seven hundred bowlers are'
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