The evening world., 1917-01-30

The Nes York Evening VERDI
ON JONES is In town inoog.
Tom, you know. Is President
OF the Jess willard Syndicate
Ltd. Some one else may smoke up
the Willard championship matches.
hut when It comes to debating terms.
holding out for more money. &C.
Jones is the guy who puts the final
o. X. to tho papers. lie Is here only
for a day or two. SO the result Of his
secret mission may not develop until
after Fred Fulton makes good"
around here at the expense of a few
lyc,s heavyweights. when first seen
Jonss was busy as could be trying to
lacht. Grant Hugh Browne. 1t seems
r-t everybody with IA champion or a
prospective title holder Is doing the
~ NE thing nowadays. Browne is
beginning to show the strain OF the
promoting Job he has mapped out
for himself. SO far his chief com
piaint Is Indigestion. contracted. he
says. trying to pin "old Man Ru-
do.ph down to a match with Les
Darcy.
A S a hold-out. Grover Cleveland
~ Alexander. the Phlllies' star
pitcher. hasn't much on Pop
Rudolph. Alexander has been offered
5000 to pitch the Quakers into a
pennant next season. but he wants
Sic. 900. Rudolph. offered 5000 to
stake his middlewelght title In a bout
with Darcy. turned up his nose.
10000 was his figure. Promoter
Browne. when he heard this ulti-
matum. banged on his desk and
stamped around. He wouldn't be
held up by any one" he stammered.
Despite this show OF righteous wrath,
Browne raised Mccoy to $500. and
said that was as far as he would 20.
At a late hour last night Browne
showed signs of standing another tap.
Asked II he would give Mccoy the
10000. he replied: well. something
IN hat neighborhood."
rowne finally compromised. He de-
cided to give Mccoy $4,000 Nat and
$1,000 for training expenses. As Nc
Coy does practically all his training
IN a Brooklyn gym the m~iddleweight
champion considered he won on
points from the new Garden pro- ,
moter. n bout will be held on the
evening OF March 8.
Darcy will sign his set OF articles
a. soon as he receives them from
O'Sullivan, his manager. O'Sullivan
promised Browne thai Les would not
take the edge of the drawing power
Of his bout with Mccoy by appearing
IN a preliminary match with any
other fighter. Darcy's manager
ske that the weight he 100 at
O'Clock on the day OF the fight.
IF Benny Leonard doesn't get an
other crack at Freddy Welsh and
his lightweight title It won't be
the fault of Billy Gibson, his mana
ger. Leonard begins a sort of an
elimination tournament on his own
hook tonight which no hopes will
land him right on Freddy Welsh's
threshold. lie tackles phil Bloom,
more or less OF "a tough one, at the
Broadway Sporting Club In Brooklyn
Tonight. and II he weathers the
storm Will try to stop" frankie Cal
lahan at the Clermont Avenue Rink
Thursday night. II Will be seen that
Brooklyn is In for n lot of Leonard
hess WYNN %'biAab'l ilbNbll lObhh III
these two bouts as only warm-ups for
a far more important fight with
Welsh n he doesn't understand why
Grant Hugh Browne isn't up on his
hind legs matching up tho pair.
nENN has Just sprung a surprise
by dropping Robert Folwell as
head football coach. Right
along It was thought that everything
had been settled for bob to again
take up the reins on the gridiron at
Franklin Field next fall. There is a
lot OF mystery attached 10 his dis
charge. III. Goodspeod, Chairman of
the Faculty Committee. says that
Folwell was not let out because his
salary demand was excessive. lie
declines 10 stat~ just what was the
reason. Here Is what Folwell, who
Is indignant because OF the treatment
accorded him. says;
i have known for some time that
the Faculty Committee was opposed
TO r~e-engaging me AZ coach, but felt
that In some way the matter could be
adjusted. Now hat they have seen