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V’V" v’'' iijip1 ¥ iSjjf ' : - -- RULINGS ALWAYS r ifcA ''' - (' 0 sp- - i : - - T- - ' v i liis‘ battles by knockouts in a few rounds his victims in these short ’ ’ mills have not been the real topnotchcrs with the possible exception of Eddie 'McGoorty' who many believe laid down to Darcy in one combat at least 'V 'tx'i In looking over the Australian’s ring record: I find that Gus Christie Fred Dyer1 Frank Loughery Frits Holland Billy Murray Jimmy Clabby George Brown and some others stayed twenty rounds with Darcy and tho latter was only given the verdict on points after some' rather close milling V So it is quite likely indeed that such men as Mike Gibbons Jack Dillon Billy Miske and Battling Levinsky might give Darcy a hard race for a bout where the verdict is left to the varipopular decision in a ous sporting scribes at the ringside who so frequently disagree upon a winner of a closely contested battle V-- ten-rou- -- nd Xo Defeat In Ten Hounds When Mike Gibbons Is out to win in fine form and at proper weight he is most liable to outbox and outgeneral any man within ten or fifteen pounds of hie class He Is undoubtedly the champion of the world when he desires to cut loose and disand skill How play his brilliant speedhard he would fare in a gruelling marathon mill Is another question Gibbons may1 not hve the youthful for a stamina and endurance of Darcy I rounds imagIn ten long battle: but ine he would outclass the Australian in science and speed This may l rather problematical on my part ac-as I have never seen Darcy In fistic my tion but nevertheless this is men of both opinion from all I know bout between However a or other of the Gibbons and any Darcy be topliners I have mentioned a would treat to very interesting and quite all followers of the ring Even such a short bout would give us a good line on the formidable Australian Golf Gafne Growing on Pacific Coast 4j- : - I - ’ L ' pro-fessioi- ial T -- '-'di - ?is 2ss : i this - condition as?- 1 54 TT? the “Znln Kid” ' : v ! r ma waof I I us? eliminating still more marked comes bo- : cSiw“lI 2-4- 60 4-3- 57 total 5-4- 6-2- 20 3240 168-1- 1 total 08 8-8- 20 80 9S8-f- ‘OSl-f- T il 8-3- 50 9-1- 40 12-4- 10 11-3- 95 10-1- 60 ‘181--91 18-4- 05 7-5- 70 8094 WVI contestants but in h®lr I ieageneij whereas with college nines 1 Young a Zulu KidM- has won title to ' i ar’e alway or have bee for the judgment for the best interests of thi the flyweightof the I championship ?p°rt teir last few years : three or four men on world Wilde" is th® slated1 to cross the 5m nornltitahlv I ach nlne at tall end of the batting Who are not counted upon to do Atlantic to i'5'5f®ther If rom conclusions with some try “it the of American other I Professional Eager to Hit ' v first real professional athlete was the " twenty-on- e i t ' flyweights contests last year Pretty-easA professional seems eager to come English footman Country gentlemen money for a boxer in England for sport matched their I Up to have h!s chance at hitting and in soft bouts foot groups at running races and this I the college ball player1 seems more or ak Sc 4e became so much the vogue that Instead I I wonder if Al McCoy is kidding us ‘of hiring serving xnen-fotheir ability I less relieved when he has gotten by -I about TT- t meeting Les Darcy? Maybe he c In their position they were picked for his turn at the bat and has only his I sees CrOt a I razee Otart is big loser’s end In the dim dis- their qualities as runners and fielding to think of Now naturally In Harry tances up looming 1 soon quite a necessary part of a gentle-- baseball the attack Is Just as Important V ' Illinois Peoria in man’s retinue was the possession of alas the defense In fact Judging from This chatter about pitting Darcy Is I profeslonal standpoints even more lm-nsprinting servant Professionalism ' Jess Willard In my I Hotel against necessarily democratic and never portent and If college baseball la to Is absolutely silly Besides theopinion giganwas There is no disgrace to it un-- 1 improve it must begin at that end tic champion would not make himself less It is disguised Nor Is there any I If ’’Chick” Evans succeeds In ridiculous by entering the ring with so the "CuW to bat then he cer-temoral credit in being an ama-lln- g I Peoria 111 Jan 6 —Harry Frasee small V V' 'ii an opponent as the Australian The fact Is simply: There are two talnly should be In line as a most and the new owner of the Boston Red Sox ' W Uf at ' Flnehurat last January JC j r g( Ccirri Bv Peter P “ classes one makes money or a living desirable college coach! i daily' attendance averaged: more than world’s champion baseball dub got his The California boxing promoters are T trjTa" J out of sport which then becomes a EN years ago this month' Leonard 1000 'persona There 'will'be twice as start to fame much the same as did working hard to pass a bill through business while the other does not I this time and t examine Witli6utDef targets thrown'3more Into nd legislature this winter to legalize veryeat Coacliing £Tufts Inaugurated the f- midwinter many There eh’ould be no quarrel between the vv lyiiywe certainly Lannin late owner of thIthe fjgtlc ’i' J i be there will xrifiYiy Joseph spectators sport out there no Is two and there ground for onel1® trapshooting tournament at the because there will be' more class to the club It was in this city years and i m Demand vls J® 1??ar an unless there be trespassing and dis- - I PinehuTst (s c events " As an added' attraction Frank A bill will be Introduced in a short valuable that rs ago that Frasee as a hoy worked II years gulsed trespassing at that As Adams I wisdoms Is the future alone state York New S formerthe holding of box- the can tell Wright and paved the “way: for " Lindsay Gordon says: in the old Peoria hotel a a bellhop I Ing bouts and wrestling I of "Plum Atlantic and matches under For lnstanee Frank I Fackanthall 'Fred champion ti EATTLE' Wash jan fiHardly trapshooting tournament of the Witter City N J will shoot f or the ' I the I v of the state athletic com-ish" Columbia the °f MmodtSird?y Pli®n i' no chrnn cherfaculty nursed tation that quarrel they "They I ®®lss!on similar to bad: tee £ word gone forth" that r'i season I mlttee on student v ! that In thisamateur championship trophy Wright was I no feud organizations ex- cUyjjJJ the ! Kof patrons ’The JPlnehurst GHmour7 tournament first Y is Dobie hero wasrn't from! I state' Plum N: a the S proposes that clubs be reeleven it the scholastic hails i Buffalo ae° Yar to were ability and hate strangers spite They ®ulred ® Pay a fee ranging from 10 thirty-thre- e men who made up J years' of football' coachingwithoutv ablg one vNoone'expectedVltwoald present champion' ‘ He i defeated E L bow?velndldn-- t lasterif ong In kindly spirit they took their stand I ££ the Columbia football squad1 and he Ind went ove£ II to 100 F®arly tor a license depending a-- 1 defeat eachyearVuptll Bartlett of Baltimore for the title at the Frasee Jumped had? quit the? University bebutlthasigrown that on the x ®f the town in which the attracts was ' ’ from discovered the nowlt orig-Plum trapshooters every Westy Hogan's shoot: startling t fact that in :of 'Washington Brotbers and sons might learn rthan’ “tol state In the uAion tHerush and ®®aaaI '” a Powers of s Criada There iii Hurwn at rate squad— ' porttaJ that j Henry any How a hi? should uphold the snorts I football jv was at least one lnally 'challenged by Powera could not i!o bm“ex f Ch °f from squad the centers carried off I MVQX land representative Atlantic of City local theatres of JJow a bMid1 to tE?Saf2eIPt" habitue him the Canadian provinces shoot at PinehurstWright asked to be made season commenced Five tentative' every state-arid his best with a strong I the cholastic honors a&d the half bftcks “ pushed ambition and Just naturally 130 " And strike event shooters This rear “ the in is last up Itt brought rather offers i one specifie: havej been 're- v allrand allowed to year:ojne right hand him along unUl he finally landed a That Is good ldria about making the tournament vwhich begins on will bp shot on January 15 p in the strange that the squad ran t directly And takes his stroke in return!” company as a blffcltlS8 apay a with the' celved burlesque tairUncoinpromislnig'K job by the llon8 Bhare tT H Incidown according to positions on the and vl5 on: concludes' ’ be will the? 20th 'January events at Plnehurst one The I C6n868a' man banner should 200 team in what a football man who did more little towns be Why than? Jhejblll trapshooters will dental with' those of last year the main who is second In MdTa'owIye:bvX as taxed much : as the and acceptt-oneoflarge citiesYon-asWill v them?: the events 'heiria the preliminary In college baseball of 1918 Colum- - I JoMideMiml monS ar® Sis this Should state? s?reS tournament PIriehurst The qn-and cash n is That dlfflcult 85000ln has earned thy He I 0®® questlontp handicaps bla and Tufts went to the head of the kers as New for as much theexample Doble In swer himself has various inhooters an be given to procure will anienviableinamaamong: traps not:glven he had list Columbia losing but one game and facka ' lie until enough trophies CTt ? Tork one who matter attend Those the tournament al- eVents In- the two handicaps events terest in “Maloney's Wedding Day" seriouS'Considerqtipnas H£rdl£! TUfts losing two Columbia had games JS?? tWa-S- Sr tl iieR for foot? he “he divided Inter classes and ' promoted himself shortly after- - I Is' carefree - for-th- e first time In f ways Zretumpt and j they will others theahootefd scheduled with Harvard but the Sf bingi vjjen Georges ' Carpentfer reaches eleven years andis thoroughly enVij withvthem! During ithe-- past Vthree based:Oi) trip scores inadey inthe first’ ward to fame when be became ('con- - these with weather interfered Just as it did with I an 0?r SiteS?? shores there will be some more years-thtournament grew faster thari BOO 'tergets- There- will be Joying the seneation- - i p the return game with Cornell TIUs In the boxing game And O OUT big I BtAtlltlCfl booming BtUfljT The the n management anticipated arid offer previously and Capaab9 a ColllinblAi1! VU mm— I “UncleJosh Simpkins Secretary and Jurther 1 referred to ? Car r led with tVal eal-- N yearthe clubhouse an wm Iand the wasn’tvlarge 'enough tains 1 By this system ev ery- s shooter running around the country compllshed by CornelL And conse- - tMetlc11wherea?raenrress?ng champion over Va co ns id e Is to accommodateunce of the theatS000which tain ln enture Those ary f J wln'a' to occasional p This trophy chance: gatherings so He has n hasa is'the or here month another to main end? what yearfiti:wiUbedifferentvAnew-club-househa- s tosky ably larger' amount than7 Dobie:rewho' win ‘In the Prei iminary haidicap rlcal productions finally landed him In never fallen down on any fistic enter- ys we too all after Are tlrmtin vrouXA Question the?-! greatly celved from been erectedV it ia jof brown acen®t eligible fortrophles In the University pfj liarvara ana Syracuse came Chicago where he opened a booking gw as yet stone rand ' solid logs3 0x8 O a( of office and the way to easy sailing at prise he has undertaken iSSS’VJ if- Washlnfetpnt but the ? dptles called next to Tufts each losing three games fefet sje f extensive ? Hlsltitle for arqXmore' into three i rooms eachVwith an trophies i wlllbe Siven for high aver- the same time One of his best known Then followed In order Lelilgh Navy SSn hot Jeff Smith 'may now get an opporwould vbe' t hat of 'director of ath- -: and 'Yor the rentire successes was "Isles of Spice” An- tunity open? fireplacecThe elubhouse’-isysitu4'tUrown Cornell Princeton Dartmouth L0oP? '600 fLhi every effort in tno & tn-f- 'IP letics :tar gets at I settle that old score with Les ages have toV11direct and ho would an oak grove about week’s : shooting Four Straps will be other was ‘The Time Place and the Darcy to'Jeff still claims he is the only £rstA hST letl° field?: And how will college ath- 100 yards from the former? quarters WV Pinehursttls' awaiting the event GlrL1 ever man who ' letlc put tbe Australian down stand exchequers I s sale and Penn were even below the been his ambition' he recently and out : Darcy has It claims that Smith ’ v 4 400 mark in victories Yale winning! i0j declared to a friend1 who lives here to fouj n their mills In both lm Athi leticsto him jn ' f' 8 games and losing 15 and Penn win- He club 'j?' a baseball has always ohn is after us 6 games and losing IB' Y Harvard 7-been interested more or less in sports noYf mor® Philllps ing ®1®U6 statistical e was for- the defeated both Princeton and i' Yale and way saya he has never Bafcy by the ' give the ’ nameg in which he shows by to IV won Doble Willard World’s J been refuses' Yale Jess the while defeated Princeton that fact In the ring Jack Dillon floored I f- actual figures that nowadays no class S®yvlERIGAN?FORlt' of the collegethat has1 offered Mm I championship from Jack J is another fighter who claims to have heavyweight Deterioration of College Batting a from Harvard r graduating 5000: brit fromjnslde'sourees it IsB Johnson He invested: heavily in the J never hit the canvas Quite a feather In spite of the good work of Colum- - I Itself and that a class of areproduces Ptt-l- s outside the was thousand ®v®n strongerjfetharike Vdld V i9ieit ®S'UlfiotTheBeraldTBepuMlcriJ 'l - f promotion of the bout afterward say- learned that: it 'g if true bla and Tufts there has been a grow-- I men graduating today will be left with eificV 'coast college 'onf did It soicly to bring' the cham- - jn their caps he f Jamt q je ing' M school High Faysori few tho last descendants for that years lonly fifty 'two hundred a white man ing feeling Most :of the letters received f bjr$f backto his return ' to In- Bob since Moha pionshlp deterlor-hence! isDoble"-werThat years a line Amerthe college baseball has distinctly team the outplayed ( financed basketball Frazee' also the 'world 'tour dianapolis has been' matched up for along ated If one goes back ' twenty orj II serious statement to set ussufficiently to think-thirt- y Jeffries qrilrles- as-- to whether he y’wouldf and James J Frank Gotch many bouts I hope he will have betof here' the" fat gairie" a fFork tearitln ican years and makes a comparison of I Ing and searching for the causes Some arid If he would coh1’l next coach fall ago several years ter luck in the middle west than he had S sVWl the relative standing of prof essional I will at once Jump to the conclusion I hIgh7school gym last'nlght jv The final New Tork' around and college ball nines in those days it that athletic sporfs are ’Tresponsible! WINS CHURCH feltf OVER DobIe th 26 AmerIcan 22 Fork 8cpre'wfs Payson " Is certainly apparent that : either the But such a fact cannot be proven until I v time had'eome for him YANKEES SALARIES STAND ‘ todropt THROCKMORTON M professional game has Improved very II several other probabilities at least are I Out of Athletics and take up — somrii New York JaiL 6 The New York ' 'PPp fAmerlcan Fork paysonmuch or that the game played by the eliminated1 not the smallest of these l other’llne of orilrre-- s American league club which sent out I two rf- y ?t Hawkins the pressure of modern life and ( Its 1917 contracts collegians has gone back for the Jan H announced C J Hunt of M' Manila' (being and discovered Douglass Church hut today signed '-'i Greeric Shelley Throckmorton" American v participants that there had been no reduction tn the A occupy now positions very far removed its demands which put a distinct If Ballard "Hayisori "" ir from the other in the standpoint of premium in the Manila lawn tennis tournament- salary ot any player and that four of upon late marriage and the ‘ i skilL Oriental sin- - I the men had 'been granted increases (small TJimckmor- Nine of the leading players have conThere was a time when a college tracts which cover the 1917 season - siJsrsi ssi aT- - - s NEW SOX OWNER : 1 ' v-- h- A FORMER BELLHOP - high-skippi- ng ten-rou- t : ’ tl nd 1 ot teach-esped- - al ur J ? "' y Jv if I L — - : ' V y- -' v ' T Ns1 1 - - - - (I the-greates- s ed (I y ss - aefet f ae wh°Aths wade’ - clubhouse The second nine holes likewise will he curved out of the woods but will swing Into the present course at the fifth hole finishing on the present ninth furnished by John Distance Jnnor the Tsnlatln elub profes-atonal follows from the knockout blow on the jaw T s I as they did ln'thecase of Vagonhurat delivered Wilde One the ph'Othe of of profesjn following by practice ’ Brown and as they have done today Yn I that: the professional not only has I tographs above shows the Brooklyn the cases of McLaughlin and ’JJulmet Tewksbury v MBut It Is only fair the ruling body that i’ndthiSeM? of nd Darcy First la New York From all the present indications New York fans will have the first opportunity to witness Les Darcy Indisplay New his sterling pugilistic ability York City The fans of the metropolis will pay more money than those of any other city in this or any other combat country to see the Australian one of our high fistic stars Besides that able and classy pro- moter Tex Rickard who has so cleverly outwitted all opposition has the first call on the great Australian's services and it is Mr Rickard’s intenbout betion to stage a New York high-clatween Darcy and some American boxer at first in his usual magnanimous manner Some nits Around the Ring Jack Dillon haa only been in the cafe business about three weeks and weighed 174 pounds In his recent contest with Billy Mirke This Is about ten pounds more than Jack should scale to be In prime form A wet goods establishment is a bad place for In Jack any boxer to train afe ae afe It behooves Dillon to get Into fine fettle if he is selected as one of Les Darcy's opponents Jack has not been in the very pink of condition in his last few bouts It seems to me Is he I hope not slowing up a bit? se je $ Johnny Dundee earned 831008 in j- - - s&sru si claM ' Pushing therHMdf ten-rou- - - "d nd - most-Interestin- !L-a- ties for the Paeifie eoast golfer grow apace According to a Portland newspaper when the Improvements at 'the Portland Golf dub aad the Taulatla Country dob are completed Portland will be able to boast of three and perhaps four of the finest and most picturesque golf links lu the west At present the Country club Js the only Wmrlr course eighteen-hol- e from nine f Work on enlarging holes to eighteen already Is under way both at- the Taulatln and at the Portland club and hopes for the new municipal course have by no means been abandoned Plans are all drawn and actual work Is being done at the Portland links Plans also have been preTaolstln officials and pared by tbe these are now being gone over by Chandler Egan of Medford The new Taulatln course will be or approximately G294 yards long than Waver-le- y' nearly lOO yards longerwill bo S304 Tbe first nine and will embrace only tbe yards tour holes of the present first' After fourth hole the eourseb course will swing off to the west Into tho woods and skirt the Taulatln river The first nine will finish with a short m sable pitch of 140 yards over iter hazard : onto a terraced i Jnst to the northwest of the 1 1 ' ten-rou- Jan 8 —Facili- AN FRANCIS PO - - ‘ '' - - Facts Not Fancies “ v rBy Jack Shelly ‘ i '1 XM HIJ Eyljes Darcy the gTeat Australian middleweight has won many of - : W y- ’y-'-r Yale-Haryar- 1 - ' ' ' v By Wfdter'Camp : 71- r - ? N tho present excitement over eligibility rules and amateur ' standing1 it is well to trace back the history in college athletics of the introductionof rules of this character ' The very first goes back some forty-seve-n years when in 1869 Ilarvrixd sent a crew over to England to row Oxford! At that time there had been a tacit understanding between Yale and Harvard that graduates should not compete on tli crews It so chanced however' that Now Harvard wished to use two graduates in this race against Oxford d as the Oxford race Was to be rowed on "August 27 and the race on July 23 it was 'manifest that for the good of the Harvard crew the graduates who were to row in August should row also in the crew in July and an exception was therefore made Up to this time there had been no we are now familiar!1 with" not in such as rules special printed eligibility “k in nor the' of ft FtNf other sports any rowing In 1880 at the time of the formation of the Intercollegiate Baseball association a rule waa introduced barring: professionals but Bown a member of a £' the proposed: new organization had Richmond and Brown " who BIT WALTER CAMP battery were playing professional ball and the A Just official le Jnst na official ' i rule was not pressed It was finally a policeman i not f however made of the association's part Ovcreonadonaacas of your stance rules after these men had graduated ar will the stroke spoil grip men for First Football ?Ed let Y' y'f A coach should pick his their courage lie can ' teach them Some years later came the first ln introduction of a rvile barring profes- - caution 'A sionals in football Up to that time good sportsman Is one who can take kls medicine without making there had seemed no need of this JWagonhurst of Princeton4 was under faces over it" A drive may be theIIer d’Oeuvre league nine and this (contract to aIssue before the the the putt Is the Coffee that ends but squarely 'brought ' the dinner satisfactorily Intercollegiate Football association That association then adopted the rule THE AMATEUR which has been the basis 'bf the phraseology of the rules adopted by Is doubt about the fame ' There almost every college association since Which surround Xeunders naz whereby a man is debarred from rephis llellespontlan game For university who resenting his college or or Record made to Hero pure' has received' any pay anything in For aay the kiss for prise' the nature of financial emolument for Has they been mined since assise part In or teaching any form of And the ruling bodies wise taking athletics Say Iand’s no amateur 1 develIt has been a 'old opment from the days when a man Over in London a few weeks ago could not only play for four or even on nine could' cope more years and as a graduate or something like the Wilde school man down to the pres- basis of equality with league - teams ffrovldence i of England knocked ont team were ent time when a man’s representation Infect when the were defeated I champion in college athletics is not only limited league champions they to three years but various other rules by Yale ' two years in succession “ Frankie MelfL ' - known as the on amateur standing also curb any Furthermore the: Yale nine In those II y? of Brooklyn tendenclea toward outside exploitation days played In one year thirteen games I Young Zulu ivid with won nln and alevm profeaalonal Ini XOTmir Rule Show Personal Bias the of them'’ The most noted of dlf N y The history of the working out of ference'seems to be In the point and hatting to have been a twenty- these rules shows exactly the same- here there le‘ certainly great room for II Dottle was ' now evi tendency In the past as that To deneed namely a feeling that any onJ who foiioir jfoth games theS U a P0?nd 8° restrictive rule la directed against oer- - I sensatiqn produced of great : concern I at the end Jof the eleventh7 to ability ot the college men to J Z' 5 LES SAYS HE HAS NEVER YET BEEN FLOORED EXHIBIT "PERSONAL BIAS I : f rl P 'T ' ' 1 V ? Gibbons Dillon Miskei and Levinsky Likely to Hold Their Own With the Young Australian ' in Short 'i 4 Decisionless Combats : Darcy Outpoints Many " ' Intercollegiate Baseball Association at Its Formation in 1880 Introduced Rule Barring Professionals ) Football Came Later '"?- Legislation - TEST OF & 11 f t V all-rou- nd - ' r-- ’ ! -- - “? i V -- " 1 take-his-plac- j ’ 11 participate mid-wixit- j n' eri w' - ’ - ' - " - te - ’ ' Presl-dentsGovern- ors i r - i -- '-- ?rv Usual-numb- ed er - i -- V r rtoViyitdl5?m di-Vid- s - -- ®’:1?91?-r:®We:81iroVwllIe!reat'Wrefci:- 5 “ y j r - ¥ - Aus-ow- 3h v PAYSM'FiyEJBS ut - largely?-responsibl- 1 r '1- - ' erericeS - t s ir- - Jf-Pa- yson’ e - ’ " - ! 1 t ' ar°6 tt The-linp-jup- - : :-- 6-- -T- “ ’ -g - |