The evening world., 1911-04-29
'PARSON DAVIES !.
AND JOHN ROGERS
SEEK WHITE H0PE'
Two DID, School Sporting Men
Sail Abroad to Find
New Champion. :

Those two old weather beaten safts =
the sporting seas, "Parson' Dawes
and Yours Merrily" John r. RogssS.
sailed on the Caledonia to-day In Queoe
Of the White Hope" Believe JohnoV
Rogers. when they get back in JUys
Ja.l johnson viii have hanging W.
him Impending doom. No schooiboSA
off for a frolic. ever wore more OF 0e
imprint Of hilarious JOG than the pe1
from Broadway, VINO FOR half . cos
Jury have had part in sporting ~
theatrical events.
The "Parson." whose nameNChafeo
f.. Davics-was marked over the does
OF stateroom y, smtted from his y
to ,a.K before :he steamer let. q
II am going to Belfast TO see ~
sister" he said. 81 haven't seen her -
seven years. SIX years ago / started
20 SEE her ard in London ] fell wdth
a stroke OF paralysis and came rtoht
ho.le. The doctors worked on me .
long time. gave me a lot OF medicine
aud charged m a lot OF money. I
h,,n thrown doctors aside nov, n .
feel better.
Rogers Is going with me. Whses
IL he? / don't know. There u nas
oscar Hammersteln"-and he pointed -
a shining Id that decorated . Pc -
the room. Rogers 10 everywhsfe. -
can't keep still. You'll ind him some
where about the chip. telling
'noNdy' that he isn't telling 'good1S'-
ri nc back for the Elks' conveneoo
at Atlantic city. July 10. .
Too Many Boxing Clubs.
II think there will be some Improves
ment In the racing situation. but ~
will never be like It once was Racfno
is not coming back.
THE hghting clubs IN this town need
attention. There are too many OF them.
The license for a club ought to be 5000
a year. payable $1,000 a quarter. In ad-
vance. and nobody ought TO be allowed
10 hold fights unless he comes up With
the money ,or his license. Fighting -
New York is not In any good way. and
&; will have TO be improved. I think II
will be improved"
\ white hat. shaped like q pyramiA
after a hard evening with the boya q
old Egypt. flashed by. somewhere ~
tween the cabin and the GAnGpaane
Johnnie Rogers was caught.
Going to Europe? Yes: the Parsou
and I are COINS over to Belfast. and then
| am going to Dublin to see Richard
tional sporting GLIB. After that ! am
going to run over to Paris to see Nc
Intosh and then come back for the
Parson.
II am going to talk things over with
Mcintosh. and between us we are goinG
to find some way TO beat Johnson.
My middle name is Il. Don't Gel
t. A. Now. there's Leander Richard
soa-traNcllcd an the way over Il
Europe and back with me, and thsE
wrote Il A.
"Tatlta, tata. tatsts,a. ta-a-a-a.'
sang the ships bugle, and Rogers MAJ
70 Iu!, because his auditor was gon
How He Became "Parson."
.PaIson" Davies has been for man.
years one o. the mos; noted sporting
men IN ile country. lie got MS na;n'
from tao elder William II. Vanderbilt,
VINO. upon having nim pointed out on
day. remarked. lie ought TO hav
peen a preacher
He managed Ohm J." sullivan. Pete
Jacksor, Jim Hall and a lot OF othe
lighters. He backed joe Choynski, wa
allied with Jim torbett and had III
reputation o. being square.
Ills running mate. John r Roger
has been about As busy "a n theltrlH
MANAGER and promoter as Davies In
A. q fight promoter. lie married Min
ME Palmer. the actress, In Mt. Verne
in May. 1892. and they nad a ser es u
r divorce suits on both sides OF the Wa
! ter. lie named Sir William Rose as co
FL respondent I'm London and sued the NO
. nleman for 1000 pounds Tor alienatio!
( T-hcv were Hnnlly divorced in 1894. Ate
,cclve Years OF fighting they made N