Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 81, Hammond, Lake County, 22 September 1911 — Page 11

Friday, Sept. 22, 1911,

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PACKEY MTARLAHD JtHD MATT WELLS SIGH Packey and British Champ Matched for Ten Rounds at 135 Pounds at 5 o' Clock.

Packey McFarland and Matt Wells are matehed. These crack 135-pound-ers, each of whom has high hopes of some day fighting Ad Wolgast for the lightweight championship, are to battle ten rounds In Madison Square Garden. New York, the night of October 19. The weight is to be 133 pounds at 5 o'clock In the afternoon. The match was closed yesterday over the long distance phohe,, Emil Thiry. Packey's manager, at this end, authoring Billy Gibson, promoter of the Fairmount A. C, In Gotham, to sign for him. Harry Pollock Is the promoter who gets the bout, Gibson simply acting for Thiry. Manager George McDonald signed the papers for-Wells in New York immediately after the telephone conversation and Gibson did likewise for McFarland. There will be ho other bouts

staged by the Madison Square Garden club until Packey and Wells get together and they are expected to draw a bigger crowd than the one which saw the British champion trim Gotham's K. O. Brown. The bout really will be an elimination contest in a way. For if cither Packey or Wells wins in a decisive fashion the victory will be sought by clubs all over the country for a fight with Champion Wolgast and Wolgaet's demand of J25.000 for his end probably ill be met by some enterprising promoter. Wells has shaded Brown and Abe Attell In the past few weeks in New York and is a big favorite there now. But he is not a bigger idol than Packey, who won the admiration of the eastern fans by the easy manner In which he handled Owen Moran, Tommy Murphy and others. -

BAT NELSON TELLS THE STORY OF HIS FIGHT

The sporting editor of The Times has received from Battling Nelson the story of his fight at Boston last week: BY BATT1.1 ! XKL.SO. Greatrnt of All Champion. Lst night at the Armory A. A. I think I proved to all present that I am still to be reckoned with among the head liners in the lightweight class, by disposing of Billy Nixon in ten rounds. It was the first real tryout I ever had before a Hub crowd and I tried my best to please, and if the conversations overheard, after the bout, was any criterion my good, honest efforts proved successful. , Nixon proved a very rugged scrapper, who may be heard of later when he gains more experience. Myself and Nixon, as well as Jack Sheehan, the referee, understood very well the rules

we were to box under and before the

contest we three agreed that there should be no holding, butting or wrestling.

It was made plain to Nixon that it

he resorted to any foul work I would not squeal, but instead would give him a dose of his own medicine, which I did.

At that I do not think I got half

rough enough for the way he tried to

act. Mion Fouled Hat.

He deliberately got several strangle

holds around my neck and tried his ut

most to throw me to the mat, which to

my way of sizing up things looked lik

anything but the actions of a game

fighter. He held at times and used a

sort of loop-the-loop uppercut with his

forearm. He tried to butt and on sev

eral occasions succeeded, but when he

came head on Into a collision I put the

old "Okum Nut" down to meet him as

he was tearing in, and think that was what made him hesitate before trying It too often. Nixon's foul tactics may have been those of a losing fighter who wanted to be disqualified on a foul. In preference to taking the count. All through the bout Billy showed that he, was a

very rugged, hard-hitting fellow

GimewH Questioned.

I don't like to question his sameness, but many tftlngs 'happened last night that would reflect on a thoroughly game fighter; namely after Sheehan gave the verdict to me and when Nixon was carried to his corner. 1. helped to carry him myself and offere dto shake carry him myself and ottered to shake also bawled like child. Again up In the Armory business office I wanted to bury the hatchet and forget about the past and he. said he didn't like me and further more, he never had any use for me or my friendship and In the usual "bowery slang" denouncing me for all times. I said, "Well If. you feel that way about it, I don't think it will injure my 'cast iron feelings very much."- And believe me. It will not worry me if I never hear of Billy Nixon again. Rat Made Good. I promised Bostonians that I would do my best last night to win and they would surely see a scrap, regardless of the distance or who was the winner. The spectators of the scrap are the judges as to whether I made good my statements or not. Bostonians hav treated me Immensely and I always have tried to please them in return, and if they care to see more of me they can for the asking.

score board shows that the Giants are

losing. But without that stimulus of hope the Cobs and Phillies furnished some exciting entertainment" at the West Side park yesterday afternoon, dividing the honors. The visitors took the first without a struggle, 4 to 0, and the lingering champions gobbled the second, 9 to 2. Both games were completed and protests are quite out of the' question. There would have been enough daylight le?t for them to have played the last two Innings of Wednesday's second game, too. if such a thing were possible. Nbthing was gained and nothing lost on the day's work, for the Giants divided with St. Louis, too, so

the Cubs are stilt' seven games back.

Alexander the Great pitched for the Phillies in the opening game and didn't give the West Siders a look-in. He has developed a habit of shutting out his opponents, and it seems incurable. Ed Retilbach opposed him and the Phillies lammed the ball and ran the bases with careless abandon, having things quite their own way.

PHILS TIKE FIRST; CUBS RETALIATE

BALL LEAGUES

I FOR ENGLAND J Should the plans of Charles King, president of the London City League he carried out, England will have organized baseball in 1912 with major and minor leagues. In London where a six club league has played a Saturday schedule from June through September the directors will increase to eight clubs and play under American rules. Contract will be respected and players j drafted and bought. A minor league will be established in Liverpool.

FAMOUS ENGLISH BOXER WHO WHIPPED ATTELL AND IS AFTER PACKEY M'F ARLAND.

CARL MORRIS

TO START ANEW

Mantling of I he t'lubn. W. L. Pet. New York S7 47 .649 CMi-ago 82 RU .5U4 Pittsburgh . 82 60 .5T7 Philadelphia 75 62 .347 Pt. Louis ...72 66 .322 Cincinnati 64 78 .451 Brooklyn ...55 SI .101 Boston 34 101 .252 lfrdaj' Kesult. Philadelphia, 4; Chicago. 0 (first game). "l Chicago, 9; Philadelphia, 2 (second game). New York. 3; St. Iouis, 2 (first game). St. Louis, 8; New York, 7 (second game). Pittsburgh, 4; Boston. 3. Cincinnati, 4; Brooklyn, 3 (first game, 15 innings). Brooklyn, 4; Cincinnati. 0 (second game, 5 innings, darkness). Game Today. Philadelphia at Chicago. New York at St. Louis. Boston at Pittsburgh. Brooklyn at Cincinnati. They've quit cheering now ,wlien the

New York. Sept. 22. "I'm not a down-an-outer." answered Carl Morris j in reply to the scores of queries ad-1 dressed to him as to what he intended doing, now that he had fallen as a hope. , "I intend beginning all oveagain, and I'll get to the top yet."' Morris . further asserted that he would return to his Oklahoma home and starf a training camp here. "I'm going u get two or three real big, scrappy fighters who know the gam and I'm going to settle down forta year learn-, ing it. "Flynn knows something about flgh'ing that I don't at all. He knows how to fight In and Judge his punches. That's what I'm going to learn, an! when I come tq New York again I'll

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YALE OFFERS FREE TICKETS TO PUPILS New Haven, Conn.. Sept. 22. Six thousand free tickets to the Yale football games have been donated by the university football association to stimulate scholarship in the .public schools. They will be distributed to the winners of leading scholarship rank in all the grammar and high schools of the city

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home. The Wesleyan bout to be played In midweek and the Princeton match which closes the season, are alone barred. Arrangements were made for the award at a conference today between the football officials and the New Haven board of education. No other American university football association has attempted the work of promotion of scholarship in public schools.

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MORRIS MAY BOX IN AUSTRALIA Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 22. Andy Morris, the Boston heavyweight, will in all probability take Jim Flynn's place in going to Australia, for Hugn Mcintosh, the Australian promoter, has made Andy an offer and Steve Mahoney of Boston expects to colse the deal for Morris. He sails October 4 with Jimmy Clabby. "

HOUCK SHADES FRANK MANTELL New York, Sept.? 22. Leo Houck of Philadelphia, who is a baseball player as well as a pugilist and has recently finished the season with one of the Trl-State league teams, had all the better of his ten-round bout with Frank Mantell at the National Sporting club last nighf. Houck probably will meet Frank Klaus next.

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