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Battle Ground for Titles
Shifts to FOREIGN Soil

However. Mcintosh will not have
the heavyweight field or any Of the
other class without a fight. for France
is IN tho running and intends to get
the matches they want at any cost.
That they have gone ahead some 10
evidenced by their idea OF holding q
congress in March to decide upon
rules and weights for boxers In all
competitions.
Victor Breyer. who made boxing pop
ular IN France and who by the way has
the biggest club In that country. has
offered Langford n Jeanette 10000
for a inish fight and offered johnson
10000 for his end to meet the winner.
Al Lippe. WITH has Harry Lewis
signed with the Wagram Club Of Paris.
has offered a similar purse for Lang
ford and Jeanette and zoe Breyer one
better by offering johnson S35,0Oo to
meet tho winner and Johnson has de-
clared he will accept when the money
Is posted here. Lippe also wants Harry
Lewis md While Lewis to meet In q
finish contest at N pounds. which 10
the championship weight for welters In
Europe and Mcintosh says he will put
the winner Of that fight on with Papke.
BIZ Lang. who Is at present in Lon
don with Mcintosh. will In all PROBABLE
ity meet Sam McVea at Luna Park
Club on Dec. "a, the winner OF which
Will be stacked against either Langford
or Jeanette II this pair agree to &c
over and fight It out later on.
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IF ATHLETE HAS SPEED HE'S SURE
TO BE SUCCESSFUL, SAYS WEFERS

ten feet leeway after the finish. There
were a bunch of hatracks in the way
and / couldn't take any chances OF
dumping into them.
Baseball doesn't hurt an athlete
It's Just SO much healthy exercise"
said Wesers. "A man who is a good
athlete Is sure to make a good ball
player II he has the necessary nerve
to face the ball.
"At Travers Island there are several
GOOD ball players among the athletes.
Harry Gisslng Is a great player. He
IL fast on the bases BECAUSE he knows
how to run. His athletic training has
been so good that he Is able to throw
Q ball as far as the best of 'em. Jake
Hartranft IL another good player.
When Jerry Nahoney was playing on
the club team he was so good that he
received several offers from profess
sional teams" continued Wefers. Yer
ry was a Jumper OF no mean ability.
but he considered that baseball. football
Or any other branch of sport wouldn't
harm hts Jumping"
White a Good Base Runner.
Some of the ball players who have
been before the public during the. last
few reasons are considered as good men
on the track az on the diamond. There's
Harry White OF the Chicago Americans.
Some years ago he was considered one
| OF Georgetown's best sp. inters. and to-
day he Is a very accurate Judge OF base
| running. Arthur Devlin graduated from
the same college, and he Is one OF the
fastest men in the game. When he was
attending Georgetown he played hrst
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London and Paris Promoters
Offer Rich Inducements
to Americans.

TOR years America has been looked
upo wherever boxing has been
q In vogue as the home OF worlds
champions and the battle-ground where
cha mpionship contests were fought.
While the game Is as popular here as
ever. a change seems to be coming.
Americans may retain the titles, but
they will probably have to do battle
for their titles In foreign lands.
Hugh y. Mcintosh, the Australian
promoter. has opened n successfully
promoted n club in London. He
created new interest IN the manly art
throughout England by announcing
that he would hold q tournament with
the idea of discovering a white mans
hope" He developed an English boxer
named Bombardier Wells. who, how
ever, seems to he a failure. So Nc
lntosh now has shifted his plans. He
banked on Tommy Burns, figuring he
wAs good enough to whip either Lang
ford or Jeanette. Then he planned TO
stack him against johnson In q battle
for the title. Now word comes direct
from Mcintosh that Tommy Burns has
quit the ring for all time. so Mcintosh
ID looking elsewhere for material and
Is negotiating with Joe Woodman fol
Langford and Dan McKetrick for Jean.
nette.
Mcintosh wants Jeanette and Lang
ford to hEht twenty-five rounds. thu
winner 10 meet Johnson. He says tina
he can get johnson to meet the win
ner. In his letter. In which ne tell,
of Burns's retirement from the game
he adds that he hopes Jeannette ant
Langford will battle to a finish. anc
ventures to predict that Jeanette
will win over the route, as he saw
them night several months & in Bos
ton. He say that he will have Bill!
Papke. Jimmy Clabby and Ray Bron
son in London the first week in Feb
ruary. and will be ready to sign then
against any men of their weight II
! the world.
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Ability to Sprint Would Great
. ly Help Diamond Artists
Base Running.

base on the college ball team and also
held a position on the football team.
Devlin liked football and he didn't be-
lieve that il slowed him up at all. Harry
Bay. who was with Cleveland, and WAL
lie Keller were fast men who were
natural athletes. and Josh Devore knows
how to run properly.
Last summer Lawson Robertson and
Harry Hillman, two of the best known
coaches of athletes In the country, wit
messed a number of games at Wash
lngton Park. They both claimed to be
surprised at the slowness on the bases
OF the Brooklyn players.
'"They could bat the ball and they
could catch II, but the way they ran
the bases was a joke" says Robertson.
They'd wallop the ball. throw tho bat
down and waddle to first. Every man
jack Of EN- swung his arms in circles.
Arm action Is half the effort necessary
to fast running, but not q single ous Of
the players that We saw know the frst
principles Of what IL probably the most
valuable science Of baseball"
Paul Pilgrim Is the only big coach
who believes that Q man must specialize
y he intends making good In athletics.
He says that It has been his experience
that a man can do only n stunt well.
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Fight for Trophy This Year
Promises to Be Hotter Than
Ever Before.

GsVVIE are spins to show more
M speed This season than We
w did last year. and that Is
cling some.'' remarked Acting Captain
Castleman of the New York A. C.'s
crack hockey team as he watched his
squad work out ON the ice at st. Nicho-
las Rink.
Last years Winged Foot team was
considered a remarkably fast one, and
Castleman's remark caused SOM sur
prise. Close observation. however. re-
veaied the fact that every man on the
team Is going at a fast clip; that they
are brim full Of the fighting spirit neces-
sary to form a winning "a And
talk about speed! Sheriff. was hardly u
fraction faster than IL the new nan
picked to hold down the position left
vacant when the great centre left the
New York A. C. n returned to the
Crescents. With the Brooklynites
strengthened n the Winged Footers
faster than ever there's going to be q
great fight between the two FOR the
trophy.
Ray Mallen Is the new man who liz
showing grand form at Sherrin's old
position. Mailen Is II short. strong fell
low. who has the knack OF playing hand
In hand with Castleman. Their team
work Is a revelation. Eventually Nal
len will be a better man on the team
| than was Sheriff." says the teams
coach. and Castleman fully agrees with
the gentleman.
Mallen comes from Canada, and that
IL almost a sure guarantee that ne
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Goulding to Appear
in Two-Mile Handicap at
Games.

A THI.ETIC enthusiasts have been
~ looking forward to the time when
4 = they would be given a chance TO
see George Gouldlng. the champion
walker. In action. and they will be given
the opportunity when he appears In a
handicap .wo-mllc event at the games OF
the Irish-American A. c. in the Garden
on Fob. 1.
Goulding did n great deal or record
breaking In canada before he broke the
worlds record for the mile walk. When
T.. ]. Webb. the Englishman. who Is
holder Of q number Of worlds records.
heard of Goulding he jumped over for a
trial at tho newcomer. Gouldipg had
established . record Of 8 minutes. rs 10
seconds for the mile, and the Britisher
couldn't realize II was possible. but
when the two met IN n match race a
couple Of weeks ago Goulding defeated
the great English walker with Ease.
Sam Liebgold and Tim Carroll will be
pitted against Goulding at the LA. A.
| C.'s games. Sam 10 getting old at the
! game, and 1t IL noticeable that he Is not
as spry as he was n few seasons ago.
| Carroll was only a yard behind the Pas
timer In tho three-mile Indoor chamI
| plonships. and he is coming along at a
great pace. Both men will receive fair
handicaps over Goulding. and the race
Is sure to be one of the best exhibitions
Of walking ever held here.
With Jim Rosenberger running iT
his present form tho Thirteenth Regi
ment's athletic team expects to gather
IN a bunch OF points during h re-
| mainder Of the indoor season. In fact
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Champion Mile Walker
to ShOW His PrOWeSS
Here on FebruQyu f

Coach Lawson Robertson claims that
he has q squad of men who'll again
be able to win the NJ. A. l.. cham
p~ionship.
They will have the services Of Billy
Kramer. the five mile national cham
p4on. and Billy's going in 1ns shape.
Jim Sullivan. who Is the present holder
OF the three mile Canadian champion
ship, Is the latest addition to the Thir-
teenth's team and, judging by the way
no was running during the first of last
summer. he will be able to show his
heels TO a lot OF the good n before
the winter Is over.
Bert Dewar and Hugh Hirshon will be
Quarter-m!lers on the second string,
while Walter Raleigh and Franklin
Fisher will attend to the bike riding.
George Bonhag has taken up light ex-
~erctses ard will start training after the
first Of the coming year. lie Is billed to
meet his clubmates, Tom Collins and
Jack Monument. in a scratch two-mile
run at the indoor meet Of the La. A. c.
on Feb. I.
Joe Hardmeyer. the overworked cap
tain Of the Th!rteenth's rack team. has
gone into training at the armory He
expects to be a member OF the Flatbush
A. C.'s relay team later on in the sea-
son.
The companies OF the Fourteenth Regl-
ment nre going 10 put forth their host
efrorts to win tho point trophy. Mike
Spring Is training the athletes, and It is
said that he has improved many of
them.
Jake Frank. who has asked for his re-
lease from the Mohaw k A. c., says that
he does not intend joining the la. A..
C.. but that he intends putting the shot
for a little club up in the Bronx.
ira like to join the indoor yacht club
these days" says Mike Ryan. the Mara
thoner. IT'S too cold for comfort down
on the pier where I work"
Hans Holmer sails for the other side
tonight. He Is IN grand condition for
the big PRO" Marathon In scotland on
New Years Day. n several OF his
friends are sending over money to be
placed on him to win the famous Pow.
der Hall race.
The Xavier A. A. has set the evenins
Of Jan. 7 for Its indoor meet. and It will
be held at the Twenty-second Regiment.
With the exception Of a 70-yard dash
and q 44O-yard run for ~novicos, the
events will all be handicap affairs.
Johnny Hayes says that he will give
up tho running game within a shor,
time and take to commercial pursuits.
The Columbia second basketball team
consisting OF Mullin. Saunders. Rohn
Fairbairn and SHIRLEY. will raw tC
Jersey City tonight, where they viii
meet the High School team In an ex'
hibition game.
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NeWtown Basketball FIve
Look Like the Champions

except perhaps Eastern District. and
1T the rate Eastern District ID paaytns
now they will have to Improve more
than 10 per cent. to beat Newtown.
Newtown has mastered team work
and has beaten Stuyvesant and Com
merce. W OF the strongest teams in
the tourney. Commerce has beaten
Eastern District. SO II looks As II New
town will make the trip through the
season with a clean slate.
Newtown meets Richmond Hill to-day,
and as Stuyvesant downed Richmond
and Newtown beat Stuyvesant the WIN
ner can easily be picked. Stuyvssant
VIII meet Eastern District tonight al
the Seventy-hrst Regiment Armory In
connection with their meet. 1t depends
upon tho showing Eastern District
makes tonight what chance they vii.
stand with Nswtown on Jan. Z.
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AND LAWRENCE
WILL MEET NEXT WEEK,

The sylvan A. C. of Harlem will put
on the best bout II has yet staged NEXT
wednesday night. when Harry Ferns
and Charley Lawrence clash In the
main event OF ten rounds. This pair
met some time ago at the now defunut
Lehigh A.. G. and put up he best box
ing exhibition seen at that club, Ever
since then they nave been trying to In
duce some club to put them on. but
were unsuccessful until Manager Baker
of the sylvan A. C. agreed to stage
the contest.
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Winged Foot Hockey Team
Shows Great Speed on Ice
in Training for Battle

knows hockey. lie played on the team
that won the intermediate championship
last year and was a star at centre.
Another corking find for the New York
A.. G. team Is Bob" Mayor. who also
halls from Canadian soil. Mayor Is ons
OF the largest men playing the game OF
hockey. lie Is fully six feet tall. weighs
about 100 pounds and Is a powerfully de.
veloped man. Pla ying on the defensive,
there Is hardly a play that he cannot
break up. lie plunges through the line
Of defense like a huge grizzly BEAR
Mayor has done a lot OF rowing n IL
considered one of the best oarsmei.
Canad has produced during the last
few years. At hockey he played with
the Victorias OF Montreal.
White. Broadfoot and Mayor are night
Ing II out for positions at poiut and
cover point. 1t would be hard 10 mi
three more capable players, and the two
positions mentioned are going TO be BET
ter taken care OF than ever.
Although a captain OF the New York
A. C.'s hockey team has not yet been
elected. IL Is a certainty that Castleman
will hold dow the position this season.
He Is strengthening every man on the
team. and when he And that Mallen
will work to order and not try to be the
whole show there's going to be some
neat OuclSlNt WOTk uoit vi tuc posS VA
the Winged Foot aggregation. -.
TIL. New York A. {. hockey squd has five
doctors playing with il. They are: DIS. Miils.
pcnnworihy, Sims. White sud Barry.
Coach lie suSur Of Columbia ays that he had
a il7c quad al work a short time ago, but that
a. many of tile mel have flinked In uheir studies
hey Lave boon compelled to give w hockey
practice.
Stevens and Hepburn are the two rincipsl
players who have peen rtiled tnelizible by the
athletic committee Al Columbia. Both men came
here from Canada, but II ~ ruled that tiey tn'ist
, attend the Institution q full year before they can
play on the team.
Dr, Berry las been with the Winsed-footea
fnr three ycars. lie has increased his sisd 70 a
great extent, and is now considered one u tho
last men VI the squad.
The opening game of the champ.ons,tp sere'
viii take place at tho st. Nicholas Rink. Jan.
<. and viii be between the Hockey Club Of New
York and the y. Y. A.. e. team.
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New York A. c. Trainer Says
Ball Players Don't Know
How to Run.

k<@PEED Is the thing that Is most
required in every line OF ath-
letlc sports. Civ a man speed.
De he baseball player Or runner foot
ball player or weight-thrower. and he
Is going to prove a winner" said Bsr-
ME Wefers. trainer OF the New York
A. c. crack team and one of the fastest
men the sprinting world has ever
known.
Take the game Of baseball-why. II
the players we're taught how TO sprint
properly they'd improve their base run
ming a thousand per cent. Running 10
one Of the sciences that Ia entirely
neglected by a large number OF men
who are playing on the diamond to-day.
Those who nave learned how to sprint
can show fine records or the bases.
When j attended Georgetown l want
III to play on the ball team because !
knew the exercise would help my run-
ming. but they decided that I might ac-
cidentally be hurt and that 1t was bet
ter for me to stick to the cinder path.
After leaving the college. I wrote to
my old Baltimore friend. Patsy Dono-
van, who was managing the st. Louis
team in 1901, and said that / would lks
a chance with the team. ! told MN
that thought ] could teach his players
something about getting down to nrst.
and he sent for me. I knew that BAH
players were hard trainers and clean
living fellows. al are most OF the ath'
| letes who 20 out to win championships
| The only trouble with them was that
! they specialized In everything but proper
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that Carey broke his arm while train
Ing Willie Lewis Tough on Tommy
C%arey-but please. Tommy. when did
Willie Lewis train7
Haven't heard a word gu of Jack
johnson for two days. Jack must have
lockJaw.
THERE's moth faker wandering
around. Yesterda, the office boy
came In n announced that Ru-
dolp Unholz was waiting without.
Rude" had explained that he wanted
to SEQ come one mighty badly. for he
had just returned from Australia, and he
a u tale Of woe that he must deliver to
the press. Rude had had a tough time
in Australia. In his las fight he got
. broken Jaw. and then Jimmie Britt
and other heaStless scoundrels trimmed
HIM OF all his money. He was "broks''
and didn't even have enough to buy a
meal.
Knowing hat the real Rude Unholz
fought in Australia only three on Jour
weeks ago. while It In a slx-weehs' trip
from Sydney to Now York. / went Out
to see "Unholx.' with some curiosity.
He rose and extended the glad hand.
Hello. Bob said he. effusively. I'm
back again."
wv no sfs your" l asked.
WHAT" he exclaimed. Don't you
remember Rudolph Unholz?'
"You aren't Unholz.'
Sure | am" insisted tho visitor. 'I'm
Rude Unholz. When ] got my Jaw
broken It changed ne a lot. yes. Lott
of people don't know mo now. but I'm
Rudolph Unholz."
Al 'Rudis's" hair had changed from
dead black to tight yellow. and his eyer
| rom black TO light brown. l suggested
that Il must have been an awful punch
And no tried TO make n touch anyway
Can you beat Ut"
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the clever English fighter. at Cardiff,
Wales, on Tuesday night. In a letter
to a friend here Driscoll says he Is
in fine trim and IL sure of getting the
decision. His manager viii bet 5000
on his chances.
Tommy Quill. the sturdy welter-
weight OF Brockton, Mass. has Just
signed articles OF agreement to meet
Bob Mona, the crack Milwaukee fighter.
for ten rounds at a show to be helu IN
Milwaukee on Monday. Dec. 20, Quill
will surely give Moha a hard fight ms
We Is game and keeps fighting all the
time. Mocha also fights Dixie KID ten
rounds at Buffalo on Jan. ..
!, Jack Dorinan and Johnny Mario. the
aggressive lightw Fights, who battle for
ten rounds II the Olympic a. c. OF
Harlem on Monday night, are working
lndust!ously for the bout. Mario Is
anxious TO get back In the limeligh'
again, and as a victory over Dormar
Will enable hin TO get on some gooc
bouts he intends to slug as fast as N,
can to beat Dorman.
Fighting Dick Nelson and Flghtlns
Kennedy the local nSntef, VIII be I'M
principals In the windup Mt the stal
OF the Reno A. c. OF Brooklyn on Tues
day night, They will clash IN a ten
round bout at catchweights. This 1
one fight in which Kennedy viii hav,
to go some. for Nelson Is one OF thos
boring IN fellows who never stops
swinging away with both hands.
Those two alleged heavyweights o
England, Ian Hague and Jewey Smith
engaged IN a twenty-round bout a
Sheffield, England, on Dec, 3. the ref
cree awarding the decision TO Hague o,
points. Hague had the better OF IA
fret nine rounds, after which Smit
forged to the front for the next sis
In the last Ave llasue again got IN
lead and won the verdict
Johnny Dohan. tito Brooklyn wel.e,
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M'G00RTY DEFEATS DILLON
IN HOT TEN.ROUND BOUT.
Special to The Evening world.l

FOND DU LAC. Wis, Dec. l7.-Eddie
McGoorty OF Oshkosh won a clear-c cut
victory over Jack Dillon OF Indianapolis.
having an advantage In eight OF the
ten rounds fought. The Oshkosh hoy
forced the lighting from the start and
had his rival bleeding before the hrst
round ended,
The battle was all one way until the
NTH, when Dillon came In strong and
had McGoorty worried throughout the
period. The sixth round saw MeGoorty
taking by far the worst OF the punch
Ing, and things looked dubious when
the sixth ended In tho seventh, how
ever. McGoorty cut loose and Dillon
showed he was unable to stand the
pace the Oshkosh boy was getting.
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OR the first time In two years
the S~tuyvesant High School ouin-
i tet has been moved out OF first
place In the Public Schools Athletic
League basketball tournament. The de-
feat at the hands Of Newtown last week
came as a sudden blow to the Dutch
men, as It was the first defeat on the
court that the representing the
Fifteenth street school has suffered In
two and a half years, Newtown's team,
composed Of Johnson and Kelly for
wards, Piantero n or Card as centre ana
Bollen and Levy guards. which Is being
coached by Mr.. GSbney. look like the
coming champions OF the tournament.
There 10 no team In the tournament
that looks strong enough to stop them
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JACK GOODMAN TO MEET ATTELL
AT NATIONAL CLUB NEXT WEEK

weight who a made q big impression
with the light fans OF Baltimore as a
OF his good fighting. win meet
Dick Nelson of Brooklyn In q fifteen.
round bout at the Armory A. A. OF
Baltimore on Monday evening. Dec. ~.
They fought a great ten-round battle AZ
Rockaway last summer and ought 10
repeat that contest.
Sam LAngford Is not going owe to
England to fight until TIE sccon week
In February. When Joe Woodman,
manager OF Langford. heard that
Tommy Burns. the ex-heavy weight
champion. had been injured IN a rail-
o wreck at Seattle he Immediately
changed his mind about taking Lang.
ford to England ON Jan. Z and will not
start until q month later.
The proposed twelve-round bout be.
tween Sam Langford and Joe Jeanette
at the Armory A. A. Of Boston HAS fal.
len through, Jeanette " still suffer.
ing from a heavy cold and his manager
has notified Matchmaker Pierce OF tho
Armory A. A. that the match Is off for
good. Jeanette and his manager. Dan
Nick etrick. will sail for Paris, where
Joe mas four bouts, on Jan. 3.
Joe Coster. the Brooklyn bantam.
weight, and Jimmy Walsh OF Boston
will box IA ten-round bout at the stag OF
the Marathon A. O.. OF Brooklyn on
Monday night. IL ought to be one OF
the clcvercst n fastest contests be.
tween little fellows ever witnessed In
that burg. as Coster Is improving In hi,
lighting, while Walsh Is a great rims
general and a fast fighter.
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Lew Powell also has a few remarks
10 make. Il weighed i3l pounds .
l fought Otto the frst time, and half .
pound more the second" he says.
Goodman would weigh 1873 at catch
weights. Goodman promised TO sign up
with me right away II / beat Otto. He
and Sammy Kelly sat at the ring side
and watched me fight. n In a few
rounds they changed their minds about
Il. They rushed out and made an imag!-
nary match with Burns Instead"
"HE% along comes Eddie Mas.
who handles the smallest boxer
in New York, Young Goldman.
who stands 4 feet IL inches and weighs
us pounds.
This is terrible" says Mas.
What's terrible?"
The boxing business. Look at this
kid here-oan he fightf Say. you ought
10 sec him. He gives weight TO all OF
EN- and knocks 'em cold. When he
fought Dougherty's Goldman he gave
him such a licking that Dougherty said
he'd never match another boy with HIM
You're too tough for any Of EN- says
Dougherty. He goes and knoosu out
Young Britt Of Baltimore In two rounds
He hghts Phillis McGovsrn three tines
lie Nights Young Wagner and puts him
down for nine s~econds-nrst time he's
ever knocked down. He boats Tommy
Carey and KID Ghetto and Eddie Gard
nor, and mixes with Willie Beechsr. ant
then he knocks out Dave Dillon In -four
rounds at the Long Acre. and hs'i
ready to out up Q side bet with Jimmy
Carroll OF Tommy Houck or Phil Nc
Govern"
Sure" put in Goldman" I can hght
and u I'm rot what l represent mysel!
10 b. I'm willing to lose tho money"
Tommy Carey la sent ne . ticke
to his 'bens6t'' At he Long Acre Of
IT, a1st. A line on tho card EXPLAIN