THE WEATHER CLOTTDT TO-NIGHT AND TO-MOKBOW OktaU«« Ktcport, Pas* • okt a " ,^" ed vol. 77—NO. 104. WILLARD WON; KNOCKOUT Cowboy Takes Heavy weight Champion ship From the Negro, Jack Johnson, in the 2 6th Round, of a Fierce Pugilistic En counter in Havana MOVIE MEN HAVE MACHINES ON JOB Cuban Troops of In fantry and Cavalry On the Scene to Guard Against Any Appar ent Disorder—Great Excitement at 11 O'clock When It Is Discovered That No Gong Is Provided For the Starting and Stopping of Rounds By Associated Fress, Ringside, April 5 Jess Willard, the Kansas cowboy, is the new heavy weight champion pugilist of the world. He knocked out Jack Johnson, the black champion, in the 2«th round of their championship bout here to-day. II was Johnson's light all the way until the wind-up. The knockout was a terrific right swing to Johnson's jaw. Ringside,.l^a,Vjui3,\ffiil 5. —Johnson entered the ring at I.la p. m. At 1.11 (1.40 New York time) Johuson made liis appearance, beiug applauded by the enthusiastic Cubans. One minute later lie crawled through the ropes, clad in a gray bathrobe and wearing his usual golden smile. The negro's first move was to ascertain where his wife was lo cated. The attendance is estimated at about 15,000. Only a few of the S2O seats arc- still vacant. The sun began to lieat down hotly and all danger of rain geems past. Willard entered the ring at 1.20 P- ro tting Side, Havana, April 5. —In the challenger's corner were the following seconds: Tom Jones, Willard's manager; Tex. O'Rourke, Jim Savage, Walter !Monahan. Johnson, seconded by Tom Flanagan, George Munroe, McVey, Dave Mills, Bob Armstrong and Colin Bell. The two pugilists shook hands for the movies. The ring gradually cleared of all except Referee Jack Welsh, sec onds and principals. Johnson objected to a woman spec tator in the press ringside stand and she retired to an adjacent qjox. The negro stripping bathrobe, showed him self clad in bright blue trunks and 110 belt. Willard wore dark blue trunks and an American flag as a belt. Both pugilists got on the scales in the ring. Willard's weight was 23-8; Johnson's 225. The negro appeared considerably heavier. At 1.28 the ling was ordered clear ed. The pugilists then shook hands. Time was called at 1.53 New York time. ROUND ONE Johnson feinted and landed his left on Willard's jaw. Repeated upper cuts with rights to jaw. Willard was very nervous. Johuson was laughing. Wiilard drove two lefts to the body. Johnson drove right to Willard's body. ROUND TWO Johnson easily blocked Willard's lead, feinting and scoring right and left to jaw. Willard replied with a thrashing right to the negro's body. Johnsou then hooked a left to the stomach. Johnsou then landed three lefts to the body. Willard laughed. Johnson then drove Willard to the ropes with a tattoo of left to the face. BOUND THBEE After much feinting Willard missed a right swing and both laughed. John son rushed and scored a left on the ■body and a right to the jaw. Johnson landed the left 011 body. Willard ask ed if that is the way you do it. BOUND FOUB Willard lunged inaffectually. John son lauuhed at his clumsy effort. John son landed a left to the ribs and swung his right and left to the bodv and his left to Willard's face. Wil lard's lips bleeding. Willard scored a left to Johnson's nose. BOUND FIVE Johnson hooked left and right to Willard's face. The referee ordered the lighters to break from a clinch. John son smashed hard to Willard's ribs and drove three blows to the cow boy's stomach. Johnson rushed Wil lard to the ropes, scoring punches to the head and to the body. Willard was badly distressed. Willard was rattled and boxed like an amateur. BOUND SIX The negro was calm at the opening of this round. He beat Willard to the ropes with lefts. On the break John sou landed smashing 'blows on tho Sl)e Mat- JtAjgjfe Snftcpcnbcnt THE GIANTS WHO BATTLE TO-DAY FOR HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP JACK JOHNSOM. JESS WILLARD • jaw. The negro rubbed Willard's cut lip at every opportunity. The negro lauded three crashing blows to Wil lard's unprotected body. At the bell Johnson was hammering hard at Wil lard's body. The cowboy's left cheelt was cut. BOUND SEVEN Johnson was using every chance to force the fighting. He rushed Willard to the ropes, slugging with both bands repeatedly. Willard's long left tem porarily blinded the negro's left eye. Johnson came back with a series of swings to the body. It w-as a very clean flight so far. BOUND EIGHT Willard was gaining confidence and tried his hand at forcing the pace. Johnso.u accepted his challenge. The pugilists battered each other across tht- ring, the having the better of it. Willard lauded on Johuaou's mouth. Then Johnson up per cut Wil lard over the heart. Willard bounded off the ropes and landed a left to the jaw. The round ended with the negro swinging blows to Willard's head. BOUND NINE Willard assumed the aggressive. Johnson started one of the cow boy's ears bleeding, but the cham pion lauded frequently, but bis blows ajpeared to lack their old-time power. Amidst feinting the crowd shouted: "Kill the black bear." Johnson im mediately started a rally by driving three hard swings to Willard's mouth. A left by Willard started the negro's mouth bleeding. The latter clubbed the white man to the ropes. BOUND TEN Johnson was slow in coming from his corner. Willard scored two lefts to the .face. Jess was blocking better as his nervousness wore off. Johnson swung a left to Willard's ribs and sent half a dozen blows vo Willard's body and jaw. The negro knocked Willard to the ropes with rights to the stomach. A hard right staggered Willard. BOUND ELEVEN The crowd derided Johnsou who was fighting and answering their sallies at the same time. Willard drove a left to th 6 negro's mouth and took a right hook to the body in return. Johnsou smashed the cowboy with a left to the jaw. Jess blocked several swings. Johnson then tried to rattle Willard by talking. Thelatter angrily replied in time. Johnson then tapped the giant's shoulder at the end of the round. It was a slow round. BOUND TWELVE The negro opened with a left to the body and right to the jaw. In a clinch he smashed Willard three times with his left. Johnson then drove rights to the body and a left to the head. His blows apparently had no effect on Willard. Johnson drove Willard to a corner with a swing to the head. Willard's ear and cheek were bleeding. He walked spry ly to his corner at the bell. ROUND THIRTEEN Willard's body now was red from the effects of the negro's punishment. Johnson ducked linder Willard'e leads. Willjrd drove Johnson into a corner and landed a straight left to Johnson's face. The negro got a left hook to the jaw in return. He next hooked his left to Willard's body, repeating his blows a minute later. The champion landed right and left to the head when the bell rang. ROUND FOURTEEN The round opened with Willard rushing and missing a right uppercut. The challenger was the aggrensor and tried to force the flighting Johnson slammed Willard 011 the mouth with a left on the body. Jess laughed. Wil lard drove a hard right tp Johnson's ear. Johnson smashed hard at the bell. ROUND FIFTEEN The crowd kidded Johnson who rushed Willard to the ropes and scored five bard swings, remarking "What a grand old man." Jess grinned at the remark and also at the blows. The bell found both pugilists fighting in the center of the ring. ROUND SIXTEEN Johnson missed a left to the head and they clinched. The challenger blocked the negro's rushimg. Amid much fighting the blackmail said "Willard is a good kid," and then rushed Jess to the ropes, scoring two hard punches to the body. The negro drove terrific swings to Willard's side. The challenger was a trifle unsteady HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1915—12 PAGES. in going to his corner at the end of the round. BOUND SEVENTEEN Johnson hooked a left to Willard's jaw and a right uppercut to the same place. Willard landed a right to John son 's body and a left to the head. Wil lard again scored a right to the body anil blocked the negro's return. Jack drove Willard to a corner and landed two swings to the head. Johnson again hooked a right to the body and followed it up with two punches to the head. BOUND EIGHTEEN After playing a tattoo on Willard's chest and stomach, the negro drove toward the corner where the negro smashed him twice on the jaw. Wil lard 's leads were easily picked off by the champion. After several tries Jess la.nded a straight left to Johnson's face and a right swing to jatv. At the bell Johnson landed a punch to the bodv and another to the jaw. BOUND NINETEEN Both meji slowed up, Willard took the aggressive. Johnson stood in the middle of the ring and blocked Wil lard's blows. During the first minute not a single hard punch was landed and Johnson seemed unable to block Willard's early lead. Both then start ed a rally, landed two lefts to the body and a riig'ht to the jaw. BOUND TWENTY Willard opened the round with two light blows to the negro's face. The latter laughed and said, "Lead again, kid." Willard did and smiled also. The crowd around the ring yelled, "Hurry up, we want to see the races.'- Willard stabbed and pawed until he finally landed a swing on tihe negro's jaw. The negro immediately cut loose and they battled across the ring. The crowd went frantic when Willard drove a hard right and left to the negro's body at the bell. ROUND TWENTY-ONE After a minute of posing and feint ing. Johnson hooked his left to Wil lard 's ibodv and sent a right swing to the head. Willard replied with a straight left to the negro's face, John son rushed, but Willard protected him self well, and they fell into a clinch. .Johnson walked around the ring. Wil lard missed a right swing and they both laughed. Both were fightiug fierce at the bell. ROUND TWENTY-TWO The fight at this point had degene rated into a slow sparring and clinch ing battle. In a clinch Willard bat tered the negro's body With rights and lefts. Willard continued working for the negro's stomach. Jack grinned at the shrieking crowd. Nevertheless, Johnson was showing the effects of the p»ce. ROUND TWENTY-THREE Willard rurihed into a clinch. John son held 011 until forced to break by the referee. The challenger shot two lefts to the negro's face. They clinched again and wrestled about the ring. Jess added two more lefts to Jack's face and clinched. Up to this point Johnson bad not struck a blow in fclie round. ROUND TWENTY-FOUR The crowd yelled to the fighters to fight, but instead they clinc'hed. Wil lard laid his weight on Johnson at every opportunity in tlbc clinches. Johnson pushed Willard back in t'he same man ner as he did Jeffries at Reno. Johnson missed two weak swings. The prowd howled with disappointment. Willard then smashed Jotonson with a left to the face at the bell. ROUND TWENTY-FIVE Johnson's actions might 'have indi cated flint lie thought 'he could knock Willard out and was trying to geB, 1915, against thq German government on behalf of the owners and captain of t'he American sailing vessel WdMiam P. Frye for dam ages suffered by fhem on account of the destruction of'that vessel on the 'hig'h seas iby the German armed cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrick on January 28, 1915." LATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY Loss of another member of the allied fleet which is attacking the Dardanelles is reported from Athens, by way of Berlin. The British battleship Lord Nfc'son is said to have been stranded in the straits and then destroyed by the Turkish forts. A German submarine sank the Brit ish steamer Olivine off the Isle of Wight yesterday. The Russian vessel whose sinking was made known last night was identified to-day as the bark Harmes. The crews of both ships es caped. The French War Office announced that in the British raid on German positions in Belgium last month two German submarines were destroyed and the naval construction yards at Hobo ker damaged badly. It Is said that forty German workmen were killed and Blxty-two wounded. The German official statement says several attacks by Belgians and French Contlnurd on Sevrnth race. BOTH MARRIED TWICE BEFORE Couple Obtain License to Wed, Bach for the Third Time When Irvin M. Kissinger and Jen nie 0. Masterson, both of this city, obtained a marriage license at the Court House this morning, it was a case in which both were planning their third plunge into matrimony. Kissinger is 42 years old and his bride-to-be is three years his senior. His first wife died in November, 1899, and a di vorce separated him and his second on November 4, 1914. Mrs. Masterson lost both her former husbands by death, the first having died in September, 1890, and the sec ond in January, 1905. The only oth«r marriage license is sued to-day was obtained by George E. Wolf ' ~ Mesoinger, both of Williams town 100DEAT1T0LL1 STORM OR COAST Prins Maurits, With 49 Aboard. Believed to Have Foundered Off Cape Hatteras 15 PERISH WHEN TUG IS WRECKED Ten Men Drowned When Two Barges Are Founded to Pieces Off Cape Henlopen, Del.—i:t on Barge Tam plco Believed Lost By Associated Press. Xew York, April 5. —Latest reports received here of the effects of the great storm which swept the Atlantic coast Friday and Saturday indicated that the toll of human life would reach nearly 100 persons. The steamer Prins Maurits, with 49 persons aboard, is believed to have foundered off Cape Hatteras. Fifteen of the crew of the tug Ed ward Luckenbach perished when the tug was wrecked off False Cape, Va. Ten men were drowned when two barges were pounded to pieces oft' Cape Henlopen, Del. Thirteen men aboard the barge Tam pico, which broke away from her tow, arc believed to have been lost. Dozens of barges, schooners and oth er craft went ashore at various points albug the coast, whose crews were res cued by other vessels or coast guards. Terrible Effects of the Storm Norfolk, April 5. —Every possible ef fort, both f rom land and from sea, was being made to-day to learn the fate of (he Royal Dutch West Indies Com- Contlnurd on Mnth I'nit'e. COT BMONTBS' SENTENCE FOR 'HILACKWELL Lewis, Who Hit Colored Political Lead er of Steelton Over the Eye With a Beer Bottle, Must Also Pay a Fine of $5 and Costs James Lewis, the colored man who swatted Peter S. Blackvvell, Steelton's picturesque negro politician, over the eye with a beer bottle because Black well attempted to "shove" him out of a Steelton club room, was this moraing sentenced in the Dauphin county court to pay a fine of $5 and the costs and to spend eight months in jail. Lewis said: '' He pushed me agin the corner of a table and made me mad, and I soaked him.'' Henry Davis got a month for con ducting a gambling joint where "penny poker" was played. It was the second time Davis had been charged witih gam bling. Samuel P. Baker, a Harrisburg Rail ways Company conductor, was paroled after confessing to "knocking down" trolley fares. Baker was caught after he had failed to register Jf'o-O fares. Charles Chane got a mouth for strik ing his wife 3 LIQUOR LICENSES DENIED Court Bejects Applications Made for Hotels in Middletown, Berrys burg and Paxtonia The applications for hotel liquor li censes made by Harry White, Ann Street hotel, Middletown; Harry F. Eck inger, Paxtonia Inn, Paxtonia, and William H. Bowman, St. Lawrence ho tel, Berrysburg, all were rejected in or ders filed at noon to-day by Judge Mc- Carrell. The Middletown and Berrysburg ho tels were licensed hostelries for years prior to March 1, last, while the Pax tonia Inn bar was closed following the then proprietor's withdrawal of his li cense application a year ago last Feb ruary. Kckinger has since purchased the inn. The court without tomnient disposed of the applications, which have been pending since the annual license court session which was held on February 19, last. No reason whatever is given in the court's order for not granting the licenses. When hearings were held on the li cense applications during 'he latter part of February it was charged that the proprietor of the Berrysburg hotel violated the liquor laws by selling liq uor and beer to persons of known in temperate habits and to minors. The Middletown hotel, of which White be came the proprietor early in February, succeeding John A. Haas, witnesses in court declared to be a disorderly placo when Haas was in charge. The question of necessity only was taken up on the Eckinger application and witnesses differed in their views on that point. 7 Perish, 10 Missing In Mine Horror By Associated Prcan. Greenville, 111., April 5. —Seven men are known to have perished iu an ex plosion in the mine of the Shoal Creek Coal Company near here to day. Ten are missing. The bodies of the aeven men have been recovered. lOJHGIH OPIUM That Is the Estimate of the Local Committee of the Anti-Liquor Forces THREE MEETINGS WILL BE HELD Scheduled For To-morrow at 10 A. M. and 8 P. M. in Chestnut Street Hall and 2.30 P. M. at Capitol— May Be Overflow Session Three local option meetings will be held in Harrisburg to-morrow, the first in the Chestnut Street Hall at 10 o'clock, the second at the C'a.pitol be fore the ljaw and Order Committee of the House at 2.30 o'clock to discuss the local option bill, aud the third at Chest nut Street Hall in the evening at 8 o'clock, the principal speaker at the lat ter to be Governor Brumbaugh. The speakers at all of the meetings will be decided on at a meeting of the State committee of arrangements to be held to-night Large delegations are coming from all parts of the State and it is esti mated by the optionists that at least ten thousand advocates of local option will be here from out of town. The delegations will be met in the morning by the Commonwealth band and es corted to t'he Chestnut Street Hall and also to Capitol Hill. In the event of the crowds being too big for the hall an open air meeting will be held, both morning and afternoon, in Market Square, the speakers to occupy an au tomobile. Tho first controversy on the saloon issue may come in the House to-night when Representative Glinti, of Venango, is expected to call up his resolution to probe into the expenditures by the liquor interest during the last political campaign. Governor Heads Option Speakers The Local Option Committee an nounced to-day the following speakers for the conferences: Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh; George E. Alter, former Speaker of the House, Pittsburgh; William McCoach, City Treasurer, Philadelphia; Judge J. M. Galbraith, Butler; Father J. J. Curran, Wilkes- Barre; Congressman S. H. Miller, Mer cer; Alba B. Johnson, president of Baldwin locomotive Works, Philadel phia; A. Mitchell Palmer, Judge of the Court of Claims, Washington, D. C.; Congressman W. D. B. Ainey, Montrose; George B. Heimensnyder, attorney, Sun burv; F. H. Rockwell, former member of the House, Wellsboro; Congressman Andrew 3. Brodbeck, Hanover; Con gressman Frank L. Dershem, Lewis burg; Congressman Robert K. Diefen derfer, Jenkintown; Congressman M. Clyde Kelley, Braddock; Congressman Fred E. Lewis, Allentown; Coagress- Conllniiril on Seventh I'ngr. FOES OF LOCAL OPTION HAVE 9-MILE PETITION They Plan Counter Demonstration Here To-morrow and Will Be Rep resented By Speakers Before Law and Order Committee of House A petition nine miles in length, containing 500,000 names, will be pre sented to the Houise Law and Order Committee to-morrow afternoon at the local option hearing before that com mittee, asking for the defeat of the Brumbaugh county unit local option bill. Dauphin county contributed 9,- 000 names to the petition, according to an officer in the State Wholesale Liquor Dealers' Association. This association which hits members in every county in Pennsylvania where liquor is sold, is planning a demonstra tion for this city to-morrow which it. hopes to make equal to that of local option supporters. Special trains will carry anti-local optionists from Philadelphia, Pitts burgh, Altoona and Wilkes-Barre. Two of these trains wi'll come from Phila delphia, leaving that city at 7.00 o'clock in the morning. No meeting of the anti-optionists it< planned for Harrisburg but the peti tion will be carried through the before it is presented to the committee and representatives of the association will appear before the committee to-morrow. The first delegation to arrive will ■be the Pittsburgh delegation, which ie expected here some time to-night. LARGE SWANS SEEN OX RIVER Sportsmen Aro Able to Get Within Fifty Yards of Flock The attention of many persons who happened to be strolling along the river bank o A. M.—A dispatch from Con stantinople says the following state ment ha£ been issued by the Turkish j war office "Our fleet yesterday sank two Rus sian ships, the Provident of 2,000 | tons and the Vastochuaja, of 1,500 ! tons, at Odessa. "Our batteries off Kum Kale sank an enemy mine •■weeper which attempt ed to approach the entrance to the Dar danelles." Neither the Provident nor Vastoch uaja are mentioned in the latest ship ping records. BSC BRITISH WARSHIP SUNK BY FIRE OniJRKISH GUNS Berlin, April 5, By Wireless to Say ville. —A report received in Berlin from Athens says the British battle ship Lord Nelson, stranded ineide the Dardanelles straits, has been destroy ed by the fire of the Turkish guns on shore. This information was given out to day by the Overseas News Agency. A council of war held by the Brit ish and French admirals, the Athens dispatch continues, decided to postpoue the attempt to force the Dardenelles on account of the insufficient strength of the landing expedition. This dispatch contains the first in timation of the lows of the Lord Nel son. Her name has not been mention ed in any of the dispatches concerning the Dardanelles operations. She was 410 feet long, displaced 16,500 tons and was built in 1906. She was armed with 4 12-inch, 10 9.2- . inch and 13 3-inch gims and carried 865 men.