Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-12


put on by the Wabash A. c. tonight
Spot Davis of Kokomo stopped Jimmy
Watts of indianapolis in the third
round of the opening bout Jack
Watts, a local negro, knocked out Bill
Donovan of Indianapolis in the third
round.
Coach Pat Page rejoiced the Uni
versity of Chicago freshman football
athletes yesterday by handing out 30
numerals in recognition of work done
1 during the gridiron season. The act
ing director described the 1917 as the
I best in years and declared that Chi
cago would enter the 1915 season in
luck as a result of the new blood
| Those who received the numerals were
! Captain Carolon, Schafer, Agar. Lee
Wilkinson, Kendall. O'Connor. Patter-
son, Foster Gowens, Roddy. AIberts,
Jackson, SherIaw, Wacaser, Stutzman,
Hardinger, Trout, Windrow, Ayers and
I Fisher.
! Iowa City. Ia, Dec 12-George vii
lisms, Jr-. formerly of Iowa university
and lately a business man of Cedar
Rapids is dead in the latter city. aged
25 following an operation. He was
quarter back on the allIowa high
school eleven in 1908 and also held a
running board jump record.
Spike" Kelly, the Chicago welter-
weight. who will box 10 rounds with
Billy Walter at St. Joe, Mo, on Tues
day night. will leave for the battle
ground tomorrow. accompanied by his
manager. The winner of this contest
will receive a belt, emblematic of the
western welterweight championship.
Kelly will finish his local training at
Lewis today.
Joe Mandot and his manager. Tom
my Walsh. yesterday returned from
Windsor. where Mandot fought Patsy
DrouilIard Wednesday night. Accord
ing to Walsh, Drouillard held his fight
er on even terms for the first half Of
the mill. but Mandot landed more and
harder punches in the closing sessions. ,
Fight fans WIG saw the Tommy
Bresnahan-Matty McCue 10 round bout
at Racine. Wis, Wednesday night are
almost unanimous in their opinions
that Bresnahan was entitled 10 the
popular decision. They said Tommy
fought the Racine favorite at his own
game and had a decided margin at the
end of the tenth round.
Fred Gilmore. manager of Jack I
White. last night issued a challenge to +
Matty McCue. the Racine "knocker-l
out" White stopped Tommy Bresna-
han, the boy who was credited with
a draw with McCue Wednesday night.
IL is understood that Promoter Mulkern
of Milwaukee. is angling for the match.
Jess Willard. the Kansas heavy
weight, is slated to go ten rounds with
"One Round" Davis at Buffalo tonight
After this bout Willard will return To
Chicago to resume training for his
twenty round bout with George Rodel
at New Haven. Conn, on Dec -.
Mickey Sheridan has started train
ing at O'Connell's for his 10 round con
test with Harry Donahue, the Pekin,
Ill, lightweight, at Kansas City on
Dec. 10. The weight will be 1875 ponds
Detroit. Mich, Dec. l2-Pat Drouil-
lard, the Canadian lightweight lam
piOn, tickled an immense crowd of adj
mirers at the Windsor \. G. last night
by fighting Joe Mandot of New Or
leans an eight round draw. Both bows
fought desperately all the way. and
a, times each was staggering under
punishment.
Cambridge, Mass, Dec. 12-Har-
"a I'd n
we're disappointed when they learned
hat Chicago had declined the invita-
ion TO play in the stadium next wear.
The opinion was expressed that over
ures would be made to other leading
\ estern colleges for a game at Cam
bridge next fall.
New York. Dec. 12-Garry Herr
mann of Cincinnati informally put on
DOT a movement looking TO pension
ng. for several years at least. A. c.
Anson of Chicago, a pioneer in the
baseball world. Governor Tener said
lie was heartily in favor of the plan.
The Philadelphia and New York club
wners announced their sympathy
With the suggestion.
New Orleans, La, Dec. 12-Just as
he fans were settling themselves for
flashy flogging by Mike Gibbons OF
Wild Cat Ferns in their ten round
o decision contest last night, the ST.
'aul phantom" floored Ferns four
ines in quick succession with short
light crosses in the second round. and
fter the fourth knockdown Referee
lick Burk stopped the fight. declaring
ibbons the winner. 1t was technical
: a knockout victory.
1ftammatory rheumatism Quickly
Relieved.
Morton L Hill OF Lebanon Ind ,