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I" L ve t SPORTS COLUMN.
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* This is the second of three columns
briefly outlining th a amazing growth al
the 'National ftoekey League, now 35
years old.
The National Hockey League, born m
1917, and now celebrating its thirty-fifth
birthday, became international for the first
time in the season of 1924-25 when it was only seven years old.
It was in that year that Boston Ervine entered the League, under
• the ownership of the late Charles P. Adams and Boston was des-
tined to become one of the greatest hockey centres in the world.
The same year, 1924-25, Montreal Maroons purchased a frau'
chise in the National League, giving Montreal two professional
teams for the first. time since the season of 1916-17, and creating
.one of the most bitter, and also most colorful rivalries in Canadian
sports history. ,
In 1925.26, two more United States teams appeared in the
League, Pittsburg Pirates and New York Americans. Pittsburg's
team was made up on a basis of the amateur Hornets, title-holders
of the United States the previous season, while Americans brought
the Hamilton franchise and team intact,
In 1926-27, major league hockey had lured in three more United '
States teams, representing two cities new to major hockey. The
powerful Rangers came into existence in New York; Detroit in -
interests, purchasing the Victoria teals of the defunct Pacific Coast
League, became a franchise -bolder, Chicago entered a strong team
in the major group by purchasing the Portland team of the Pacific
Coast League. It was in 1926 that the Pacific Coast League ex-
pired, as a major organization, throwing on the market a flood of
playing stars destined to write history in the N.H.L. notably kiddie
Shore, the Cook brothers, Dutton, Gardiner and Boucher. This
helped to make possible the new eastern teams, and brought into
eastern hockey a great array of new names, new faces, new figures
destined for stardom, and with tremendous customer -appeal.
The Pittsburg franchise was operated in Philadelphia for one
season, 1930-31, this bringing to a total of six, and the six greatest
cities in the United States, where major league hockey had been
played within the period from 1924, indicating the wild -fire fashion
in which the grip of the thrilling Canadian sport had taken hold.
St. Louis, entering the League in 1934, took over the Ottawa
players, but remained for only one season. Montreal Maroons
retired, then New York (or Brooklyn) Americans, leaving the
present six -team set-up.
Next: hockey's revolution.
!'aur camnenfs and suggesfians for this column will he welcomed
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Jersey Joe Walcott is still
balking about doing a come-
back which, when you consider
The amount of leather absorbed
at the hands of Rocky Mercian
host September, would seem to
put Jersey Joe well up toward
the top in the glutton-for-pun-
iebment league. Still, if you had
tad as many hungry mouths to
feed as Mr, Walcott, and had
collected so little dough for your
ring labors, maybe you—too—
would be loath to quit the only
trade you ever learned.
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Most every fight fan, of course.
.&cows more or less about Jersey
Jae. But just hogs many of you
Member—or have even heard
at the original Joe Walcott. We
'lever had the privilege of per-
stenally seeing hint in action, as
lie belongs to an era a bit too
her back for even us. But he
zeust have been really some-
thing—that tiny black tornado
teem the Barbadoes who once—
back in February, 1900—literally
slut a giant heavyweight, who
Outweighed him by many
"founds, down to his knees, It
was one of the most savage
battles ever fought—with gloves,
that it—as you can tell from this
description written by the ring -
:Ade reporter of the old Police
4iazette. Here it is:
No wonder there were looks
of astonishment upon the faces
of the patrons of the Broadway
Athletic Club as they watched
the progress of the bout between
"Joe" Walcott and '[Joe" Choyn-
ski. There was a little black ball
of humanity scarcely five feet
tall, walloping the life out of a
comparative giant, towering ten
inches above him and weighing
30 or 40 pounds heavier. Before
this battle began many of the
more humane inclined specta-
tors were loudly proclaiming
against the wisdom of the man-
agement in making what looked
like an unequal match. "Choyn-
ski will kill him," "Just cut him
to pieces," "Walcott won't last
five rounds,"' and remarks simi-
lar to this were heard on all
sides. The sentiments of the
spectators were reflected in the
betting, which was 5 to 1 in
Choynski's favor. •
Choynski had recently made
an impressive showing against
McCoy and had come to the
Metropolis with Peter Maher's
scalp dangling from his belt. No
wonder they said it was a one-
sided match, and so it was, but
the one-sidedness of it was in
the other direction. Walcott made
the big Californian look like an
amateur. The latter employed all
the resources known to modern
pugilistic science acquired by
experience and years of patient
study—for Choynski is a stu-
dent. He utilized all his favorite
blows, tried every trick that he
knew, but it availed him noth-
Who's Nuts—Not this squirrel, He might be "in the bag," but
he's cold sober, and wasting no time in putting away a goodly
,supply of nuts for the winter.
ing, for while his punches flew
wide of the mark, there was the
little black demon -like ' face
which he could see before him
in a tantalizing way when his
eyes were not filled with visions
of flying gloves, which beat a
tattoo upon his face, Time and
again the giant was beaten down.
Often he side-stepped and pranc-
ed out of a difficult predicament,
while the sn"i'taun-a ,at and
silently mediated. Such an awful
reversal of form was inexplic-
able.
When Choynski was beaten
down to his •knees three times
in the first round, some of the
would-be know-alls looked in a
significant manner at each other
as much as to say the affair had
a fakish look, but it was simply
an utter inability to comprehend
how a midget like Walcott could
fairly overcome such disadvan-
tages and best a giant opponent.
0
Choynski took the most un-
merciful punching that ever a
man took for money. What is
more probable is that Walcott's
smallness and compactness were
too much for Joseph. The negro,
who only comes to the other
man's chin when he stands erect,
enhanced the difference by,
crouching so that Choynski from
his height of nearly six feet had
to hit at a head hardly three feet
from the floor.
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When the men stripped in the
ring the discrepancy in size made
the big crowd of spectators laugh.
Walcott didn't look bigger than
a pint of beer at a political con-
vention. Choynski, long haired,
long legged, long armed, looked
ashamed.
As he got into the ring John
L. Sullivan breezily advised him
to "knock the lobster's head off."
When they came together in the
middle ofthe ring Choynski
towered over his dusky adversary
like a church over a rectory.
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Choynski was willing enough
to profit by John L's suggestion,
and attempted to do things, but
before a moment had elapsed af-
ter the bell rang he had all he
could do to keep his head on his
shoulders.
• 4.
Walcott bounded at the tall
white man like a cat at a tree.
Choynski swung madly and in-
effectively. Walcott, so small and
so s w i f t, launched himself
through the too wide meshes of
Choynski's defense and drove his
left square under "Joe's" chin.
Choynski toppled like a falling
woodpile. He took all the time the
law allowed on the floor. Three
times did Walcott knock him
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down in the first :ound, Each
time it seemed as if he could not
rise. a a
The house wrs in an uproar.
The men who had flaunted bills
and begged for a chance to bet
three to one, four to one and five
to one saw their favorite being
hammered all over the ring. He
was 041 the door, well-nigh out,
when the bell rang.
4 r 4
Choynski showed up to better
advantage in the second essay,
He was more cautious, Walcott
had more trouble reaching him,
and toward the end of the round
the white man succeded in land-
ing a couple of hard lefts, but
Walcott did not fall. Once or
twice it looked as if Walcott
would go down, but he stood
somehow, and before the round
was done he had Choynski pretty
tired.
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In the third round both men
were tired, but Walcott rallied
first, and staggered the tall Cali-
fornian with two hard lefts.
Choynski tried to be cautious,
and his reward was a punch in
the neck that hurt. As he was
going to his corner Walcott's
second tripped over the ropes and
fell in the ring, and the dusky
fighter picked him up, showing
that the pace had not injured
him seriously. N y
The fourth round was charac-
terized by hard punches on Wal-
cott's part and lively dodging
by his burly opponent. There was
punching in clinches and yells
of foul, but it was all fair enough
of its sort. Walcott woke up to
the fact that "Joe" had a stom-
ach and he drove his right into
it so hard that the Californian
doubled like a jackknife.
O 4 a
In the fiifth round Choynski
tried to crowd the darky with
worse luck than he had before
when he tried to avoid him.
Whenever they came together
the dusky demon hit him when
and where he pleased, while all
"Joe's" punches went over Wal-
' eon's head, under his arms and
everywhere the negro was not.
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Walcott started like a- whirl-
wind in the sixth round, but it
soon got clown to the same old
story. Choynski's friends gave
a faint cheer when Walcott went
down once, but it was a false
alarm. Walcott had merely trip-
ped. The round ended with
Choynski very near that bourne
from which no prize fighter re-
turns.
• r
The final round used Choyn-
ski up completely. Walcott had
hien at his mercy, knocking him
about like a boy beating a car-
pet.
He floored hint and walked
away in the most confident man-
ner. As soon as Choynski reach-
ed his feet Walcott sailed into
him again and down he went
once more. He struggled to reach
his feet and Referee White, real-
izing that it would be brutal to
permit Choynski to go further,
took hint by the arm and assisted
him to his feet, waving Walcott
to his corner and announcing him
as the winner.
The spectators were too dum-
founded over what had happen-
ed to even applaud the victor,
and an oppressive silence pre-
valed as Walcott stepped across
the ring to shake the hand of his
vanquished foe,
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