THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Ae - THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1094. Rn LATEST LOCAL LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT | STARTED AS A FARCE Of the Right Men to Hold the Title Only Ketchel and Levinsky Stand Out. Writing regarding = the career of Mike McTigue .as light-heavyweight champion, W. J. Chipman says: The light-heavyweight division be- gan as a joke, and most of. the cham- plons have kept) the slate clean, When old Bob Fitzsimmons was matched to meet George Gardner at Ban Francisco in 1903, the promot- ers" agreed that something must be . done- The boys must have an excuse Tor fighting, so they dug up the . "light-heavyweight" title, the jest of a promoter, to encourage the cus- tomers. JFitz outpointed Gardner in twenty , rounds on November 25th, 1903, and promptly forgot .the 'light-heavy- weight title. Philadelphia Jack O'Brien grasped it eagerly after knocking old Bob out in thirteen rounds at San Francisco on Decem- ber 20th, 1905. The Philadelphian avoided trouble until Stanley Ket- chel came up from nowhere to devas- tate heavies and middleweights, After 'being saved by the goed old bell at the Pioneer Sporting Club, O'Brien went down before the rush ..0f the Michigan Assassin in Phila- delphia on June 9th, 1909. The bout lasted three rounds. , Ketchel lived and died without realizing or caring that he was light-heavyweight cham- pion of the world. After Ketchel's violent death on October 15th, 1910, the 175-pound championship lapsed. The procedure 'that was followed in regard to Ket- chel's middleweight title reverting it to the last previous holder, . was im- possible. Jack O'Brien's aging shoulders were too feeble to support the mantle, and the championship became vacant, the only ring title that ever went unclaimed over any * considerable perfod in modern times. Jack Dillon rescued the champion- ~ SPORTING & the storeroom on May 28th, 1812. Dillon, w strong middle- 'weight, was deprived by cirenm- stances of a chance at the champion- ship in that division in the turmoil that followed Ketchél"s death. He needed a' title, however, and recall- ed the example set by Fitzsimmons. Meéting"the aged-"Hugo Kelly in In- dianapolls on May 28th, 1912, Dil- lon advertised the scrap as a "battle, for the light-heavywelght champion- ship." The Indianapolis giant killer mow- ed Kelly down in three rounds and went away with the title. Like other champions in the class, Dillon had a bad memory, The need of the mo- ment having been taken care of, the crown was promptly forgotten, Dumb Dan Morgan, breakmg a long silence of fifteen minutes in 1916, let it be known that his man, Battling Levinsky, was fighting Jack Dillon for the light-heavyweight championship of the world, nothing less. Dillon and .Levinsky met sev- eral times in 1916, though it is open toMquestion whether any fighting took place in some of the bouts. On October 24th, 1916, however, no business arrangements were made ship from outpointed Dillon in twelve rounds. 'Did Morgan claim the title? Did he ever miss? If the light-heavy- weight ballyhoo had been drowned out by the uproar in earlier years, it more than made up lost ground be- tween 1916 and 1920, with. Dumb L.Danyell's strident voice behind it. Times were getting dull again when Georges Carpentier was rising through the ballyhoo for a bout with Dempsey. It was necessary that Car- pentier be something more than a mere 176-pound French prizefighter; so they sent for Bat _.and Daniel. Gorgeous Georges, sad, dreamy, wist- ful, knocked out 'the gallant Battler in the Jersey City ball park on the evening of October 12th, 1920. After winning several impromptu affairs with waiters and gendarmes along the Paris boulevards, Siki un- wisely signed to meet Michael Mc- Tigue in Dublin on March _ 17th, 1928. It seems that early training in. 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With the exception of the Strib- ling disturbance in Columbus, Ga., last October 4th, peace and quiet has been the rule during thé reign of Mc- Tigue. CHESS TOIRNEY HAS EXCITING MOMENTS What World's © "Champlonship Contest Really Looks Like y to the Visitor. World of the International Congress; Louis Weitzenkorn has this to say: It was Robert Benchley who once | wrote that a man might kill two men on a train, put a chess board between them and they'd ride all the way to San Francisco before any- one discovered that the reason they hadn't moved was because they were dead. This remark {s funnier than it is true. There may be a long time be- tween moves--and in the chess tour- nament between the eleven. greatest chess players in the world, now rag- ing in the Japanese Room in thé Hotel Alamac, there are long waits between .moves, but there is plenty of movement. About the hardest thing in the world, to judge from "present contest, is the keeping of a chess player seated. A chess game is like a duel be- tween two men whose pistols are on the table in front of them, and both afraid to make a grab. The excite- ment is purely subjective. In each brain there is a red whirlpool of pos- sibilities. Each: man sits and his eyes stare for openings. To an on- looker.-there seems nothing but an outside calm, a heavy, portentous calm--all motion utterly suspended. It is in the subjective activity that { the resemblance to chess is strong- | est, | Chess has been compared to the | battle of armies. There are fortifica- | tions, cavalry, infantry, objectives | and ten - million strategies. The | player, the great players, such as the | eleven men in the Japanese Room of [the Alamac, Jose R. Capablanca; of | Cuba, world's champion; Dr. Eman- uel Lasker, of Germany, former world's champion; Richard Reti, of | Czecho-Slovakia; Alexander Alek- hine, of Russia; Dr. Savielly Tarta- kower, of Austria; Geza Maroczy, of Hungary; David Janowski, Franco- Pole; E. D. Bogoljubow, of the Uk- raine; F. D. Yates, former champion of England; Edward Lasker, of Chi- cago, and Frank Marshall, of New York City, United States champion-- all these men hold in their minds hundreds of thousands of combina- tions and permutations, the bewild- ering mass that makes up the game of chess. This is where the subjective blood- shed comes in. There is a sudden fall of silence in the touyhament room. The scraping of feet over the flowered Japanese carpet ceases. Voices fall to pianissimo. Ten of the giants walk to their chairs. Scraping. A soft chorus of "Ready!" 'All Ready?!" "Ready." Each man takes his seat beneath the coat of arms of his country, over which his name is painted. Bogol- jubow is under the sickle and ham- mer of the Soviets, Alekhine beneath the imperial eagles of the Czar, Frank Marshall's coat of arms looks | lke a barber's advertisement, but | ll | alas, it is the idea of the red and white mihus the blue in his shield. 'The last "All Ready" is whispered. The men who have the white pleces are entitled to the.first move--the attack. At the side of the tables are two-faced clocks; they look like alarm clocks--Siamese twin alarm clocks--for a bar connects them and when this bar is pushed one clock' stops and another starts, so that could expect was to escape from the | ring alive, Siki went, or was taken, | * Writing in the New York Sunday T now batting for Peterboro." what ? The baseball manager "We'll take the jump ball review, Greyhounds on their arrival. who had the job of "filling" it. "GETERAL REVIEWS | FROMTHE OUTSDE--LOOKING IN. | "The batteries for to-day are--for Kingston, Bennett and Rice---Legon Say, is this a junior league or a senior or The Kingston Amateur Baseball League--more famiMarly known as the City League--is busy just now looking out for the matter of sending a delegate to the meeting. of the O.B.A.A. in Toronto on Saturday. Up in Hamiltofi the other night they gave a boxing decision against Johnny Buff that even the home fans thought was a raw one. Whythe, formerly with Queen's, was the only judge to decide in Buft's favor ovér Lear, but he had) the entire crowd with him, "We finished seventh a year ago, We_ were the bunk--and I orter know; . But our pitchers are going great this spring, ° We're there with the punch and everything; We'll cop that pennant without a fuss," Howinelldoy heygetthatway ? Awrey will coach Hamilton and everything is shiny up there--the players are leaving Ottawa and everything is gloom--Montreal expects to see Flanagan as M. A.A A. coach and another hope is forthcoming--Argo- nauts will grab everything in sight as usual--and Queen's are saying noth- ing and too busy with exams. to think of rugby. There's the spring foot- Up at the Soo the Algoma Steel Corporation employees buflt a huge steel replica' of the Allan Cup weighing five tons and presented it to the Now some curious bird is trying to find out - NEWS TIMELY COMMENTS v Dr. Percy sayy to us, on opening day--" NOW IS 'THE TIME NATIONAL Base Ball Week Z % der, 2s 4 I] ee 7 BR ok ot CVE es wa ETS Ar 1011112 Sole Agency for Kingston SPALDING'S ATHLETIC GOODS ing World's Best Sporting Goods for 48 Years, Treadgold Sport 88 PRINCESS ST. Goods Co PHONE 529, ~---- pion, Benny Leonard, dons the one over on Benny's 'chin. were drawn up again on Seminary Ridge, while across the battlefield of Gettysburg the ranks of Union blue waited. This is the subjective bloodi- ness of chess. The battlefleld is quiet. Not a motion, not a sign of the meta- phorical cannonades, charges and counter-charges that seethe behind those faces. Then, for the ignorant something imponderably small hap-1 pens A 'player of the white pieces pushes forward a little pawn and on the side lines the fans begin whis- pering of such things as "the Ruy Lopez," "the<King's Gambit," 'the Queen's Gambit" and "the French defense" and "the Sicilian defense." Moves come rapidly in the begin- ning and then one piece is placed and with a smile of satisfaction the player rises and begins to walk up and down, examining the other games around, slanting a glance at his own board and the pondering op- ponent to whom he knows he °has given a problem. 5 Young men, like stock boys in a JACKIE COdEAN, After receiving a few pointers from the lightweight cham- padded gloves and whips a fast women present. Not a skirt rustles among those onlookers, yet hundreds of women zttend prizefights. Twenty Pacers Expected To Enter Famous Derby Kalamazoo, Mich., April 1.--The $25,000 American Pacing Derby, the biggest pacing event ever raced in America, has attracted 43 nomina- tions of the best known 2:08 per- formers In the country, The Derby will be held over the Recreation Park track here July 24th, during the annual Grand Circuit meeting. At least 20 horses are expected to start. The 43 nominations are from 17 states and two Canadian prov- inces, and represent all the best known stables. Grand Circuit officials now believe the actual value of the race will ex- ceed $30,000. The money will be divided 70 per cent. 'to the winner, 20 per.cent, to secand place and 10 per cent. to the show horse. WANTED W. F. Gourdier 78 BROCK STREET TWEDDELL'S NEW SPRING STYLES Suits and Topcoats $20.00, $22.00. $25.00, $28.00 SPECIAL VALUE ! INDIGO BLUE $ERGE SUITS $25.00 TWEDDELL'S 131 Princess St.' The list of horses follows: Sensi Day, Princess Marion, Laura Wanda May, Sparkle, Trampalane, Black Beau, Alice Patchen, Toleda, Brook Volo, Ribbon Cane, La Palo- ma, Chesley H. Searcy, Hollywood Angus, Trampanew, - Derby Dillon, Glen P., The Great Chance, Valley Colonel Bidwell, Knap - Frisco, Brown Forbes, Kinney Silk, Sir Rob- ert Hall, Gilded Lady Second, Grey Volo, Prinéa Di Direct, Margaret Spang- ler, Gentry H., Liberty, Auto Pace, Braden K. Direct, Cecil Williams, brokerage house, list the plays on dummy boards . hung beside each table and the whole room can take ip any game at any stage at a glance. The whispering becomes continuous and the atmosphere is not unlike the room in which a corpse lies In state for a long time. There must be talk- ing and the talking is in cathedral secrecy. It is a motley crowd that sits and stands watching this very minimum of motion; a crowd that holds in its collective brain excitement that is actually terrific. A baseball game, a prize fight, are limited. A ball Is hit, caught, or missed, There are certain few tricks--'strategy." A prize- ring reduced to the ultimate is four fists flying at two bodies. But a chessboard, with sixty-four squares and thirty-two pieces upon them, can give up a series of differ- ent combinations that runs into hun- _ | dreds of millions. That crowd knows '| hundreds of these combinations, and the masters who play know thous-| ands--they have memorized them-- yet ore move throws the game into {an utter no , just as the soldier, Miring into the dawn, may kill Stone- wall Jackson and turn the destiny of a cause. 5 The crowd---Jesuit priests, Jewish intellectuals, mathem: Pete Greep, Dixie Direct, Iskander, Baron Worthy, Don M Hollywood Hilda, Carrie Abbott, Jay Brook, Lalla Forbes, Frank woe, and Miss Belwin. each player is timed and must make fifteen moves an hour. The "white" players start their clocks; the sil- ence is broken by the ticking. * STARTS WITH SERVICE, ENDS WITH SATISFACTION 'BOWARDS KEEPS COAL AND COAL KEEPS SOWARDS PHONE 155. Not a Woman There, Nothing happens. The duelists are staring at the boards. Two rows of white pieces face two rows of black. It seems to be nothing, but for the hushed, trembling chess fans it is as it the gray lines of the Danjederacy UPTOWN OFFICE: McGALL'S CIGAR STORE. 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