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' r.7f I V ' EVENING LEDGER-PHILADELP- HIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1917 gOXER HAS NO TIME EVEN TO THINK OF STALLING IN A RING MATCH OF ONLYSMINUTEg stander. "The Olanls have won .vT" ... ' ,:SIX-ROUN- D BOUTS ARE POPULAR A HANDY MAN AROUND THE HOUSE BASEBALL MAKING !JtlE?.ivonU0fnor0i,hte!, turn uiu iviiutt otu. " OOJ : No ono llkek Ito lose ,i WITH THE FAN BECAUSE OF SPEED FRANCE In anv . STRIDES IN there will frequently be more ' :;i losing mis autumn than In wlnnin,w' UNDER WHICH BOXERS ARE TAXED MAGAZINES UP IU' TT&:r ,Au. big score Is rthe number of ,. I' Th ,1 mC? fe Hm-h- ent Tho attic for r? te. Allied Soldiers Did Not each 1916 eleven to tho front. "7 "' American , $ew York Promoters to Emulate by Care for the Cutting Down May Sport at First P vtl Distance of Matches Be Scheme to Save the Game BIG CROWDS AT GAMES Hill "PHILADELPHIA'S Idea of llmltcd-roun- d boxlnc bouts Is about to bo tipliyjd by By GRANTLAND RICE promoters. Thnt a. d Is more Interesting the fan illl match for Weutenant Ororge Melville Tnylor, of the than one of longer duration goes without Raying. A fan who has seen a Phila- C'n.nndlan ovprcean rontlnirent. who ' a six-rou- nephew of Tresldent Ed Barrow, of the In- delphia show and then a progrnm of ten-rou- will bo convinced bouts tern ttlonnl l,i.iKUe, 18 another who luports ' without a doubt that tho shorter matches are faster and lnstl&ato moro en- a hlB European ndwince In basehall. "Tho Canadian tind Americans," ho Fays, "are thusiasm. Fistic followers thrlvo In action; they admire a pair of pugs full of the playing the gamo at every chance, and tho eld pep. In an elghteen-mlnut- set-t- o there Is no time for stalling; the boxer must crowds that watch theso gimes arc Increas- In these " ing each week. It Is taken for granted that uncertain days Ret under way right off the reel. It Is n case of Jumping Into tho lead at tho I I Bport lovers, ty of nil kinds of rlotho. I "ST55S trPrAf O I j Sav Josie- - BROUGirr after this war Is over European break-nec- THESE. Back- - I saw especially among tho English, will want a nt all kinds of nrico It ;. outset, and then to keep on top tho boxer must continue at a pace 1 U3WT - I ,U TfTVA teft TVft CTfA- SO MB. ARTICLE 5 JW game with plenty of snap and dash. Just iust plain cood sense in hm, until tho final gong clangs. In ten-rou- S TVfV -- care On tho contrary. a bout usually a g TiVam- - TVA iim-m- T what baseball offers. They dldut your clothes from an inst- j much for tho game at first, but they arc bo itution where pan pair of boxers flddlo nround. waiting for the other to lead, for five or six rounds, now, and vou ... tr ginning to pick up Its finer points your clothes cut and end by the time they get up speed all Interest In tho contest has gone by tho board. the general attitude Is shifting. Over thero made. they believe that It Is now only a matter iUUII, IVllltll diiuu It Do point to prove six-rou- game Is more Snlco Another that the Interesting for the of tlmo after tho war when we'll have a Clothes, fans Is the fact that the pastime Is going so well In Philadelphia. No real world series between winning American center In America has been enjoying more pugilistic success than this city. The and European teams." sport has been on a healthy basis for a long while, and wilt continue so. Every A Throw bacK' to Monday Suits or once In a while a howl for longer bouts Is started, but every promoter here will After the last world series game we were agree that six rounds Is the right distance and longer matches would rob tho fans talking with Eddie Collins nbout that fa- of a lot of action. Then, too, hhortcr bouts allow tho promoter to give tho public mous chase with 'Am Overcoats a wider variety of talent, and instead of watching six boxers perform tho fans "It's a funny thing," remarked Eddie, Sold Direct From "but, as It happens, I played my first pro- Set the benefit of at least ten boxers. New York's six-rou- gamo is to bo intro- fessional gamo with ltclnlo about ten years Factory FI037 duced by Dan MeKotrlck and Harry Pollok. They haven't decided on a definite ngo, In a little Now York town Wo wore date, although they are positie of going through with tho plan. The first d both just stalling out about that time I I was jhow Is expected Denny Krcd Welsh. Kranklo Callahan, thought about this later, and while to have Leonard. glad enough to win, I was soiry to sco that and $14.50 Soldier Bartneld and Jim Coffey paired off In dllferent bouts. made Heinle the goat " lt fate of the scries "How did yoUfeel?" wo asked Collins, Values "when you saw tho way was open to tho $18 tb $22.50 Is due to die In New York next month. It may bo that plate?" Elsewhere BOXING "I felt," he remarked, Just about profit-padde- to save game tho metropolis. "that or somo other d Pollok are scheming tho for GUNNING NOTES that moment I could beat a rlflo ball tho By shrinking the bouts four rounds, thereby Increasing action, they may. The pheasant and squirrel season opens In of the way. When you running mnko? Here you buy direct SCRAPS ABOUT SCRAPPERS State tomorrow. rest are -- this championship from the factory floor. No try to convince Governor Whitman that tho critics of "stalling and fakes" 11. fifty feet for a and J30.000 the By LOUIS JAFFE" you run- padded profits. Just yours New Jersey gunners sport chances are are going to do all the would subside. sitting back Olympla Monday night At that. Wagond may have tomorrow at your legs you do nnd ours. No Middleman. fans now are facing gun tha vvestmont Field Club. The card Is a ttrn. ning will let If I could BOXING to come think he is a rapldjlrlng until tho gram or nity targets, Lewis class system to sprinted I sprint- m Tinnnti T.pnnm-i- l Tnkinn in Ton Much Territoru waiting for a boxer final shot puts him down and out. govern. have as fast as felt like through with tho ability to win from Benny ing at that minute I don't believe a grey- 1 SALSBURG caught me J. because Benny Leonard hit Jim Coffey, tho heavyweight, hard enough on Leonard. After the New York phenom Ylncent Rngglo, of the White Circle, doesn't hunters, are In th mountains scout- - hound could have I can say this JUST began knocking oft his opponents with con- belieo In thanwlng his name for boxing pur-pos- Ing for a shot at Mr Uruln. The season opened for Zlm, I neyor ran faster In my life before, chin to make big Irishman's knees sag. Billy Gibson Is dreaming of a lie la open for competition In the .Monaa SONS & CO. the sistency the public wanted to see a boxer class. last yet I don't hlnk I gained an Inch the en- most wonderful New York . Leonard and Now " S. E. Cor. triple titular honor for the who could stay the limit with Benny. The big southern trapshootlng classic Is listed tire route 9th and boxing In gymnasium, and according to Gib's dope Benny he has made himself a flxturo on the Torotnr Stevens, weighing 105 pounds, Is here for January 21 to 20 at Tinehurst. S. C. "You are mlstakan," writes a morose by Coffey do a lot of the that from Cincinnati. The newcomer throws the Sansom Streets toppled to floor. For this reason pinnacle of the lightweight throne, the fan to Joe Hilly SECOND n.OOR Half niock let one fly and the heavyweight almost the class down Ilradlv, nines, Mike Gibbons, believing that wants to see a boxer with sufilclent ndian Russell, Joo Dillon and Rattling Murray. l'rom Chestnut fct. Gibson is willing to let Leonard box Ted Lewis and to the champion. Johnny Tillman ri'llf HAMNC, AfiKNTS' three-cornere- defeat OKDKKS ACCKI'TKU Victories over this pair would earn for the New Yorker tho crown Is anxious to get the chance. "Let Hanlon VMe Ramsey, whose real name Is Frederick me In the ring with SUber, is with tho military police company at rA Open Sat. Evgs. UNTIL of champion. or McGulgan throw t'amp lancoca. AUKunia. ui. noma iy 0 O'CLOCK boxer, Benny Leonard and he will be up against bnxed as a pro. ami In the last few If Benny should be able to do everything Gibson claims for the peted annually In tho rollco Carnival bouts, Pyramids as one his first teal fight since ho became famous To Leonard would take his place alongside of tho Sphinx and the via his punch " This is the senti- SUITS or $ .80 wonders of the world. Never has there been a lightweight who aspired ment of Tillman "I'll admit that my last Tommy Ilnurk, retired , will lead of the and the grand mirch of the eighth annual ball of to such heights. There Is no getting away from the fact that Leonard Is a sen- bout with Leonard wns u marathon tho Combination Club of Philadelphia next Fri- lightweight crop. Yet coverlng-u- p exhibition on my part But I day night. Tho proceeds of the affair will be sational and brilliant boxer, far too great for tho present thing. I was on my feet for tho benefit of Corporal Nate Mllgram, who OVERCOATS Order will succeeded In one lost both legs while with tho Third Regiment good as he Is, the champion Is taking In Just a little too much territory. It at the finish Leonard was putting every- 11 Johnny Kllbane forgets what the to Bleep In Phllly then, and It was the be a long time before the public or Leonard or one Jimmy Fryer Is the hero of the Fighting stay the limit. In Twenty-slxt- title-hold- ambition of a boxer to h Md. Besides See 7 llghtwplght er did to the featherweight king here shortly after both had at Camp Meade, Our Big Windows that I succeeded. Now that the fans want hawng knitted a sweater for himself, Jlmmv Is beaten Fred Welsh. Leonard gave Kllbane the worst beating of his career. some Leonard, all I can tho feature boxer of his commnv. The righting to see one win from Twentj-siM- alto hits a bisketball team. say is that I am willing to try. and Benny will he was In a hard bout handy In know that Charlcv Cross, local boxer, second and Reduced $30, $25 $20 was Just ns good In his class as Leonard was the when It Is oer. I'll be out to win this man around a club. Is among tho draftees at from and KIL3ANE Benny is to t'amp Charley Is in charee of boxing in division, and the latter won. It was tho ancient story of a time, and not to stay. If Meade of gloe the opportunity, his barraiks and writes that a lot big man against a good little man. There Is no reason to believe knock me out. he'll have action goes on dally. good for I, too. will try my best to slip one of things should he go up against " that Leonard would reverse the order over. I thank you Jack Welnsleln, Benny Leonard's Philadel- a heavier opponent. Lewis is clever and is one of the hardest punchers phia leading rooter, left for New York this CO e Brit- MORAN & morning to see the champion tackle Jack PETER opposing tho eldently would bo in the game, and Benny would be taking a long chanco In TILLMAN ton tonight. Welnstcln's pockets were bulging try to smash Gibbons victim of Leonard's if rather conspicuously, and 'tis said he has a Briton. Then it would be laughable to see Leonard champ, largo to drop on Benny. MERCHANT TAILORS failed. he were to open up against the bank roll on the Jaw. The best of the mlddlcwcights have tried It and yet one never can tell Tillman was picked easy for Charley White. Ha Iloxlng bouts were the feature of the William against the Patton Artisans' Iidge last night. Kddle P;lpr S. E. Cor. 9th and Arch Sts. Weight Favors Leonard Against Britton Tonight opened up In both bouts was opposed to Franklo Ray. Frankle McOtrty and won both. Al Nelson sparred wbi Chicago knockout artist boxed Eddie McCloskey and CANNOT be said that Benny Leonard Is launching himself Into tho welter- It would be wcirth while giving Till- with Bobby Remolds. Eddlo O'Keefe rcfereed dogged bouts. Evenings r:weight class when he meets at New York tonight. Britton has man another chance, and If he all tho Open Monday and Saturday Until 0 o'clock It as before, then the Minneapolis man was scheduled to box In the 142-pou- division and ranks, with Ted Lewis, IMdle O'Keefe been showing great form in the should be exiled from Philadelphia for semi to tho Leonard-Brltto- n bout In New York of mob. But Britton is not boxing as a tonight. tonight, hut because of a torn ligament In his as the best the all time. right hand, suffered while sparring, he was He has agreed to weigh In at 139 pounds, and while the weight may have a ten- forced to call off tho bout. It should be a big advantage for Leonard. Like Ledger Decisions dency to handicap Britton, Evening Young Illades, a newcomer here, will box In Leonard, Britton Is a clever boxer and a hard puncher, too. But unlike Leonard. S0CT1IEIIN A, C. Knockout At Wasner the semi at the Olympla Monday night Ho will drew with rrnnkie miliums. IMdle Daley meet Johnny Mahoney In the other bouts Pete Britton never was arrested for knocking out any one. It will be the heavier Untiling Mlneer. Jllke Warner won fremi boxes Young Medway. Tommy Hogan Dick Loitiin, Tommv llllsnw MonPMl Al y Howell Young rlemtng "plan to win from Leonard on points, while Benny's main purpose in meet- knocked out VIIUo takes on Eddie Segal and Buck man's Mnnn. Ilnttilne Martin meets Jack Lester. ing Britton is to win by a knockout. NEV' YORK Will Antler outpointed Henny Leonard will Jcnock out Britton If he can reach Jack's chin, and that Is Vnlicrr, llurhej llrelln drew with I rankle Ilroun, .Toe. Inch on from Mickey Dnnn. A Broad & nolnbrldg exactly where the matter of weight come3 In. Just as soon as Britton slows up ATIANTIC CITY Wllle Hnml won from UL,irVlrl . Hnrrv Kxtwards, Mgr. .loo O'Ueefe. liny Ilelmont defeated Kocco Ford, J. Up ram-Mn- o MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23 Where be him like after Collins, English. heat Cieorse Ilootiev. Sam Drive will after Zimmerman with reversed .lack Hantaan Leonard outfought Joe Tuale, Joe Mark outpointed Young Ilnrk Fleming xs. Jack Lester Y Leonard might not succeed In laying Britton low with one punch, but If Benny Hassan, Jim WlMin won from Snmuel Tommj Hogan is. Eddie Segal John Murray Tommy Howell vs. loung Medway I welterweight Is to Roblnxon, Wallace defeated I'ete once gets the drop on Jack the bound hear the birdies chirp. tilbtton. Young Mohoney tb. lnung Illades You Sidri in tho event because of tho This course, is all supposition Britton weakens vs. Eddie Wagond See This, of Benny Leonard Eddie McAndrew Is another boxer who de-l- Vireight. an encore with Champion Leonard Adm., 25c Dal. Res.. BOo & 75c. Arena Res., $1 and Johnny Tillman ro to tho post tomorrow nlttht at the National riub A tctorv for MrAndrews would eliminate Tillman, and It A. C. JJH for Leonard over Britton no doubt would lead to con- may put the Manayunk man In line for a NATIONAL ;,",?,'&,. KNOCKOUT a Mike Krtle boxps EVENING. OCTOBER 30TH , match with Leonard Muckel SAXL'ltnW A test between the lightweight champion and Lewis. Ted-Kid- through Riley In the semi to tho s Johnny Tillman vs. Eddie McAndrcws eet-t- The other matches will be between Al Mike vs. Riley his talkative manager, Jimmy Johnston, has been hot on Leonard's trail Waner and Younsr Lawrence. Terry McCue Krtle Muckle and PattllnB Mack and Johnny Vlirgl and Eddie 8 OTHER HIGH CLASS CONTESTS 3 for a match at 135 pounds, weigh In at 3 o'clock In the afternoon of the Talmer. Admission 25c Res 50c. 75c.Jl 00. contest. This bout, at the weight, also would favor Leonard. Yet Wnionrt says "To the parers you Burns & Mgrs. to title-hold- er Eddie read C,. Feener. victories In both bouts would add no laurels the lightweight would think I was Bolng up against tho whole fnmhria K,n,,ni.n Av A Somer,et prestige Is concerned. German army I m solng to nsht only ono man, FRIDAYt. EVENINO. OCT. 10T1I In so far as welterweight and all I can do Is mv best " referring to his Another One of Those Grand hhows much-abuse- d bout with Benny Leonard at tho BILLY KRAMER vs. JOE BOIUtKLL Willie Mcehan Has Good Press Agent in Mrs. E. C. Walcott VN SEVERAL occasions a female manager of boxers has loomed up, but at no the high-sig- n for "good gas" in time have they proved successful. Now another woman has broken Into the IT'S boxing llmeglare, this time as a press agent, and Mrs. Eugene Christopher Wal- merry motor-worl- d the sign cott appears to be able to put over a lot of good stuff for her husband. Mrs. mreeHtmdred popularized the "curb market" and Walcott Is the wife of Willie Meehan. the Frisco Fat Boy, and she Isn't backward 111 that In saying that her Willie Is the greatest fighter In the world. The afternoon banished all toll-gat- es on the road to before Meehan's bout last week with Jack Dillon, Mrs. Walcott handed out a MewCreations fine line of conversation that would have made any P. A. envious. Engine Efficiency. Furthermore, all of her conversation proved Interesting. She said that In fhe Meehan finished training for his contest with Dillon in New York and that Willie uui&iMt Talk abo'ut a tempest in a teapot! did his gym boxing with tome of the fastest boxers In the country. Meehan NewStandard Yai :&" Gasoline is a whole gang o' slipped the mittens on with and Benny Leonard several times for Atlantic workouts, and that alone was an honor, if nothing else. Mrs. Walcott says her tempests, but awaiting the magic spark husband's idea in boxing with smaller men Is for the purpose of getting up speed, Which In Itself Is a good Idea. ' that will translate it into terrific power, Speaking of future matches for Meehan, Mrs. Walcott said that nothing thatyour car or your truck may breeze would jilease her more than to see the Fat Boy box Carl Morris. Morris appeals "You've Got tho to the female P. A. as a huge Joke, and she said, smilingly, that it would be a lot of Goods, Atlantic" along the highways like a thing o' life. her Willie to box the Strapping Sapulpa Giant. And Mrs. Walcott SHOEforMEN fun for "Todiy.th tptriflc irarttT let li prte hasn't the least doubt that Willie would bo the winner. tictllr wortbl check on th The secret of Atlantic's success is in SES of gtsotlav, for extrnpU, for is a. matter of PER- ,u glVcn motor qulpmtnt. Ilitcmi "boiling-- f .3 tuoctprobftct maintaining the famous uniform that tho definition WALCOTT never attends any of the bouts In which Meehan par-- SONAL TASTE of the 300 j?rsy. of km Trns. new NEWARK y olio will hT to b bated on the per creations In y apecl-fle- point," jr cenlige that dlatlle oyer batween d ever anon. You your 1V1 tlci nates. She says she doesn t like' to watch any one throw punches Shoes, and set V one is bound to conform temperature, when tha dletlllation at the pudgy person. However, If Willie Is to be matched with Morris, to yours. Quality is a matter of VJW&. ta carried out under epedfted conditions, carbureter once per season no fussing JUS 1 Walcott says she would rather pass up a good drama to see the bout, FACT, which is vouched by tV Mrs. for .. Copirfont Tha geaollna tnuit not vaporls too V comedy In world. more than three million 1917 bu delicate believing It would prove the best the wearers v.riV Thm freely for two re aeon tt One, that It would or fiddling with that instrument of NEWARK Shoes. vVijy XrwarkShoa not b eaie, and eecoadly.lu lose In stor- ; ' age by araporatlon would be too treat. each time you put-i-n a new lot of gas. Fitzsimmons Reported Close to Death It is this STYLE, this QUAL- niorea Co. Hence, tha apeclflcailon may hare) to V ITY, and the COMFORT contain limitations of tha percentage die Is close to death In a hospital In Chicago that news that Bob Fltzslmmons la goes with every pair is A PART tJUInr over below a certain temperature, and over. of fighting men, Is coupled pcrhepa with proTleo that car But here's the point that deeply regretted the world Greatest all he the most oi every pair Uiat makes tain percentage, shall dtetll over below picturesque of his' kind. A freak In size, weight and appearance, he was the for a higher Standard of other fixed temperatures. In order that "new lot of gas" must be Atlantic, marvel of the roped arena arid his equal will never bo seen again, perhaps. Merit and Greater Value requisite amounts of low boiling constit- this than uents shall be present to Insure assy start- each and every time. Pull-u-p where on a top-hea- plan, principally because he made it a business to develop var ?, ing of en angina. Built Buy a oair tomorrow fighting tpp, Fltzslmmons was a ludicrous figure as he shifted about before X "Likewise, tha specification must con his and convince yourself i lis S tain prorlto that all must distil over you see the Atlantic Gasoline sign. If twice his size In weight. 1 wen who were almost that no one else can ,--. wf & below a certain maximum temperature. In fought years, In fact was In his prime at a time when athletes follow-- n give you order to axclude from tha gasoline tha your car could talk, it would ask for it ,'' He for what we heevler petroleum rflettllatee, euch aa his calling were supposed to bo home, poring over the old scrap book of do for $3-- 5 O. kerosene.' past deeds, Fltzslmmons in his day was a natural hitter, and ho made a study Qfflciat Press Statement 'mi vulnerable points and the art of reaching those particular spots by the shortest by Um S. Govt, Bureau of THE ATLANTIC REPINING COMPANY i route. Bob Fltzslmmons was always ueiier man an even money snoi wnue on his Standards, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh feet, wnetner ne was siuggeruit, unuc jiuuiomkicui u i.uvhj nimuus in ana out We're bacn preachlagind practicing tho sji world. am thlag for years. The boiling-poin- t fJakers of Atlantic Motor Oils Light, Jiledlum, front of the best heavyweight In the of Atlaatle Gesolloe la alwaye uniform It meet Uncle Sam'a Idaaa perfectly. Heavy and Polarlne HEN ha beat In New Orleans the first remark that W the sobbing Nonpareil made In his dressing room was, "That fellow's A devIL He can whip the world." And Fltz worked wonders with the gloves In threo classes. SiW Steim Ca B-- EXCLUSIVE ME.V HTOUK lit Market Ht. bet 4tn and 5th Sts. Lacing WOMEN'S U MEN'S STOKES Open Kvenlngi Ghastly Even to Think of Due Eddie Wagond 1221 ' Market St.. h l"!h ut lath at. 22SS N. Front St., near Dauphin St. ATLANTIC lty; police department doesn't step In and stop the bout Monday 2148 Kensington Ave., between York and 8922 Germantown Ave., nr. Chelten Ave. the Cumberland Sts. St South 60th St., near Market St. fats Pep In ntgfet between Benny Leonard and Eddie Wagond. Wagond may be a tough 27S1 Germantown Are , between Lehigh 2S1S Kcnalnlton Ave., near Hart Lane O V Your Nofor F ... .Ave and Somerset St. 1431 South St., betwssn Broad and loth I N E MUwt und is vory we) to believe that there is a slight possibility of Bddlo North Sth M.. near Cherry M. Sta it . GAS 47VU.I4 Ot.a DTCr 1tfl.BC. ble) NjjjbfcfH., UC Raw and Vint Sts, IWWW,.flRr' 0 w "" wumw f, jn n w giiasuy u BYSB Sf stTQskIVI TN 97 I . sjifftAei!"' thftt Is sure UM wW.' mm