New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-06
Revivalist, on His "Day
OFF, Talks About Fight
and Visits the Banks.
SCENTS FRAME-UP
IN HAVANA BOUT
Wants TO Come to New York
Where People Are Filled with
"Pepperino and Tabasco."

From Sis1 Correspondent o. Tie Tribune
Paterson, y. J., April D. Billy Sun
day was amazed when he heard Jess
Willard had knocked out Jack Johnson
He laid the ncgro's defeat chiefly to
that hellish, iniquitous booze that
makes a mans brain mud puddle"
Il bet you that rotten Paris had a
lot TO do with it, A man can't hit that
r.m-soaked God-forsaken, d,vil-loving
trail without feeling il. Johnson hit
the high spots. He went SO fast there
YOU couldn't see his dust" he said this
afternoon.
Other members Of Sundays entour-
age, among them Jack Cardiff, the ex-
prizetighter, and George Sunday scent
ed a frame-up. and Billy had his sus-
picions along this line, toe.
"Wil!ards a sloppy fighter and John
sons so crooked he hasn't slept
straight IN bed for twenty years. said
the stocky little Cardiff. The big
smoke refereed two fights ] had. One
was with Tim Callahan. m Plymouth,
Penn. Il oughter gone twenty rounds.
/ had Callahan'S ear almost torn of
and ] didn't have a mark on me. But
couldn't win johnson had been
handed $1,000 ana was Gue share of
the gate money. He wouldn't let me
win. That nlCGer's strong. Every time
he'd break us he'd pinch the muscles in
my neck. and | couldn't wear collar
for two days afterward.'
In the morning Billy Sunday SAID
fsrrr
tar" out of Willard. Fred Seibert, the
tabernacle caretaker. who used 20 be a
, broncho buster before he joined sun
days forces and wrote a hymn. Ride
the Gospel Locomotive and Jesus Pay
the Fare was equally positive. Cardlh,
who fought 297 ring battles and now
stoutiy declares IF anybody knocks
my Jesus I'M bat his map Off picked
Johnson without question.
Wants To Come Here.
So the conversation on Sunday
"day of" naturally centred on the
champion ship fight al Havana, when
Sunday was seen al the House OF Many
Windows tn $ afternoon. Il swung from
that 20 Sundays baseball career, and
veercd at last TO New York City.
"Id like to 60 to New York he
said. Reckon. though, they'd have 20
roof over a place as big as block 50
they could hold EN- all. New York peo-
pie arc full of pepperno and tabasco.
They'd get me in q hurry. City people
are always like that"
He was lounging in a chair, with a
gray silk bathrobe thrown around him,
loose slippers on his feet, his hair dis
Ecveled, a new beard on his face
just as ne says he goes about the house
in Winona Lake. Ma was sitting op-
rositc. She prompted him constantly
with Now, tell them, papa" and Eyes,
and you remember" and you ought to
say Ma" seems influential in the
Sunday household.
The man VINO "drivCs the faith Of
God in with a sledge hammer" was
willing to reminisce. He said he was
the first man that ever ran after fly
ball in baseball. Before that, when a
fy went over your head, good night" y
he declared, evidently without fear Of
contradiction. lie also had a story Of
how he got some trotting horses into
nv stride" This was when he used to
run with horses to show them off to
prospective purchasers.
81 could do 100 yards in fat time. |
ran a block with the horses without