The evening world. Newspaper, August 20, 1907, Page 8

Saas SR THE EN ie WORLD, Tose ewyvyvs “HU BN UP TO ae a G PAGE IN NEW YORK. > EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN, WORLD'S GREATEST BATTLE OF GIANTS. oo ‘IN METROPOLITAN Bees Mena Match With the Weights Will Be Greatest Contest of Skill and Brawn Ever Seen. rs CHARUE AURPHY | YEAR! ON * ee | CURING this. we those Inter-} D ested in| gs athletic -are’) For holding their breaths Saturday sill see one of the gre: contests of skill and brawn that: ever came off here In little old New York | —or anywhere else, for that matter. | Just ten yeurs ago the great John | Flanagan came here from the auld! ky, broad-shoul- dered, curly haired tellow, with a | Quist smile and & broguo cut with an axe and a great knack of} hurling weights. John’s first feat here was the | “breaking of the world's record with | the 16-pound hammer. I remember a {t very well, for I was John’s first , Mictim.’ I had the best record at that time, with 147 feet 5%4 inches. John's * Gret competition in America was in games held at the old Knickerbocker A +C,-grounds-at Bergen Point, aud he made 150 fest _2-inehes-a-new—worhts— 4 Fecord, 2 But that was only a starter for John! from Boston, {n 1859. t GFlanagan. Year after year he added three hours and slaniseatntnens tastea| _feet or even yards to his record. Only | be carried frome aye Hott men had to F once did any other athlete break in. and | Bare knuckles, cape OR Ati resses, that was mhen McCracken, of Penn- | Sylvania, made his 187 feet. Flanagan Rheat Joba ten feat in the St. Loule games nt the World's Fair, and later : = “threw 172 feet 19% inches, only an Inch} Action in Disqualifying Polly % Be bores ie ex crayon a | Officials at eae behind the record. theca: wasiass )° But Plaw is one of it just now and a Prim and the Oak Grove But th absolu as do) st of “Weat-| ATT M’GRATH, of the N.Y. A. M C., was unneard of two years ACHGORRB xt the Empire City ago. He Js a natural athlete R aes none | sa rac days are seeing the jeand arrived at championship form So eee ety ee ealde “without long practice in competition. | : ‘3 hi Flanagan started him in tratning throe naan yan annie he _Prompt dls. | Ger four,years ago, and McGrath-quletly | 779) Seation | of M rim for the Kept {t up, It was not untii fhe was-tn{ foullne of Long Wool served to Flanagan's class that he came out to bab ulate cides Age nothing _ compete, And then he almost tmme-|/°7TiiS | zidlaa apenas be G@iately threw 170 fect. McGrath is a ated at the track, and the prompt consistent performs ‘ag this | “CHOn taken after Ute bed looking ride eummer he has thrown ove 70 feet, ee call for acrie very ‘sand twice over Flanngan's record, al- nest explanation Much Is heard in the neither more thoae of m mone: and the gation into r ride cannot be construed othe: 4s an effort to give the pu eanest of racing. And it hot be fergotten that an Investig: preceded; the recent invitat Broadway Alec’! Smith to r tall and: from the most prominent of E: Lin sctadalltta| go iiough some trifing flaw in the welx The public give Oak Grove hearty | tracks. at gf the hammer or the measurement of | support on the strength of previous ce : {ta handle kept the record from b good races, * mare pos the biy rings $s eo great that a wai been ewtabliened. Betting a ting way With a warning. allowed, : That 9 far this season the veteran cham- much’ “ able money’ CUBS MANAGER, 1S CNE oF THE EVENTS OF THE BROADWAY, How THE | moon parced that. The record travelled s up through the fifties and sixties and | _Xe ; Mnally rested where it is to-day, 172 | L aa, feand Guat nae feet 11% Inches, Al Plaw, of California, “egy ervesun rgs hi has been Flanagan's nearest rival. Plaw fellow soma + ago eraided f° Tne aovdt wat} Determined to Keep Up the |starboud, ana prominence of | Manager Elrod will give first comers firs Methods of | cal! for vacancies, Fe GANS ‘ WoRRIED Sene of Boss PUPILS ARE MUCK A x HIS MONEY, =~ LARGER THAN p i JEFFRIES. BoB FITZSiMnedsS 16 Swin |” To BE TEACHING THE PLAINFIELD Cops How To Port op THEIR MTT: & -~NoT A Boms No ROMENT OF H BROOKLYN -- -- JUST MATT MCGRATH TRAINING “To MEET FLANAGAN (IN THE METROPOUTAN CHAMPIONSHIPS 2 ay be a grand old name. but as on ne Doyles when it} een I Mere grate thar the| FORT ERIE ENTRIES. | CROKER’S ORBY SCRATCHED. renesuae cake tates SRS IN ST. LEGER STAKES, and then broke ja! to keep | | BY BOZEMAN Si OS Lo DOYLI w, J i that name before? seo—just where have he ts the is mali * and| FORT PRTE. Ont, Aug. 20.—The en-| in the pl This young | tries for to-morrow's taces follow { the al map of] FIRST RACE—lix turloney; three-yoar-olda Erin. stanyped e from. the | and firey, Bopha i |b nom. it Larry woul have !-| shore line of his brow to the Adam‘a| trone. 1d : 1 The name of Doyle runs the onkers COurse|iilustrious paxes of buseba!l history carrying bright lights to 1 continually bobs vp and | chin | pea we were talking about when Larry |, @ port andl prea to think if Nickered When doings of the Doyles bexan | La d and 30 will antic Stakes there Ja no pro: again be tar: fi itime to-come c the | x condition of winning the St? a ytppearcd with —sieriing a — ———— = = ri vost ote iy : mete mickee | inte took the rr ; | thea Tes WI waive the Tat URI] == The—modera Dorie teeming Bigst regi hee. rdcd_an exrention= i Pes Inquiryathier Starters ithe | wegeee tune uerteoa conten tees | Standard of Racing. ; j Pepe tr i satisfaction of the public. a Seite Exeltement, 110; AMUSEMENTS. 4 falled to add lustre to The on: iey’' is be- pinto two og much like can to the league. hus ‘twas ithe nume of Doyle made the 10,000 fans hold to t with three men : was up to hy timer ites KEITH & PROCTOR’S TPeinke Miles, 106; Ri Hialton, 108, Pitas 308: a yrmy yirtn AVE . in the song wa: "the ox ruse if you by iit: allot Be: PIFTH RAC i—Pive furlongs; sailing 4 tn geme from the Cubs. If { 2eareld,, fillies —Dropaliicay «90-8 POSTMAN arisia’'o7 5 Foebe t0. Tet : Ren Apter y 1a 120,28 Ay Wan. fs Hawt $ ; sey. tren ‘eT. Phone joey d began tot PM a Casey. He ha xa SIXTH 1520 Maries Sherman & De Forrest in — te re tn thin glo land—Bay, | Withesen, set kipoaes, Malley & Austi. tough fellow, W1io | 108; ‘The Globe, 108. Carelers, 100) Bast Tid; ‘at the Bat’ beat us to it?) tApprentice allowance ball, b he | rs the snakes out of membered that the m Dooley was a split-cff Phone 136 Stuyv.|Maymgnd & Om A. Inman & Co, on 180 10 | W {ct-Attdeney. J He remembered that It was pon it Bresnahan was AMUSEMENTS. Pesos no. | Ada hohert taney cakes ts of Chris- plate with the slack of| « : pee acc at eawerag ave New York| his trousers, and eyery man in the 2 et ito himself the Dy 2 crowd Was try ing to be the first on thet ¥ remembered that It was Daily Mat 10-26 | "Reddy*’ Doyl: i oroke al s “Re ddy » je who broke all record: HARLEM tin the safe-cracking pustness some] to me. T steps. GARRICK EUSATRE, 31h 9 TO-NIGHT AT 4.20. PRINCE KARE pion as relied to est SieGrarh the field, Bur he harder th Wis a sure thing ¢ @But ax for p > two big me EMeGratn’ “couple or fi record will go ing winners between th ; Dae tsa harder matter. | Australian Summoned From|" : o put him away, : ‘ Brown Gets Good Card, Billy G' = date, but the match fi nt throwing with ran’ dest will Camp to Meet \Winner of | 4 match was arraneed last niet estimation of : es Brown for hia Schreck-Kaufmann Go. Gy mor says that John Flanagan « Shas been dolsg wonderr in his quiet | training place. And up to date Jonn (Bpectat to has ‘i im, ed when preased to| BAN FRAN Mt by some new comer, Squtres 1s to In ylc Flanagan and Mc- | the ring. Grath are enurely diftercat. Flanagan! ¢om. ys ‘moves with great speed and puts a ter- | a i \e rifle effort into the throw from the mo-) over the Australian w (ment he begins t ng from 1u: =BMetireti: haging 2 fe and Hnishes with a sudden application of al) his amazing strength and speed Just before the hammer leaves his hands. who has won every } coming this elt natn World.) 20, Aug. 1910 another chance tn | re et him int ka. ‘The Atistrallan Ing to return and FRE are two interesting spectmens| in. dcautman sald he was wil the victor of | Jimmy Cof- x Bo Dear Bagren: Bids for the ght MeCaray wire! here rE ‘ | 1S BROOKDALE inet ttlmant” fend.” | oobi. \—One mile in 1491-5, gal: | TO-pay-| PEKIN STOCK @. ie HUSBAKD D R Ef A M [ A N D f a sa re aia Aneuaetru aitaentalioal| Meccuers “be iaduced to ‘come, went | ae ox tit beth infos Sinietets Toren SERS arta Dee) 7 * Seared au inne: SRR RTE Baliltea save he ts tired of the lumber } = For! srenaeepeercalde:| ever 90. Kon: cal no BRADEN—One mile in 218 + 5, wale) [ TAB Gta RANE rc He By. Ad. 250. toons had pushed William out to the Jeff Getting the Hook, « 40 Keep Movi back si rep its ican i buried him there lit brome and and! rt looks now as if Jim Jettrina will] (O80, Pheer R mad. Squirea| never again get the chance to ret+ Heliwether fo a sensitive guy: Hut) erce in Cal a. For some *e * breed of humor out i 5 000 ‘for | Mnow. What he felt. “No ‘wonder, he| time “Jex" has been | gatting 31.000 for Went into the wood officiating as referee, but those good was conn for some years ree year olds; s| days are now a , portsman, Sydney. Australia, und | Save Are ON Alleged American pugiists pour oui like ny Britt. the $0 inany cockroaches from the stuke-| who has always bec bs Flos h pantry, of 1 - t put they 2 X A Jimmy refused to . Kame, and Bil} 8 low to referbe me barrier again. i ip battle aes & ca Tegan a + claiming that ome on the top of your soribtyitn e « Jeffries 6 j and send a Cbo-e-0 ou i Ing Joftrten 0 reac where the kangar ke. E do a Br r TAMPS F DWE eld out Ben Selig. manager | seve a * "New York, Aug. 15, ling . 4 y relied to ac Mr, Edgren, Sporting Editor New = s is World ) | 4 1 you-Kindly inform elpacky” Figh anger. Sin arting column If Jou Geburn Packy” Fights Yanger no. Was aree-yeur-olds miles lst of BARATOGA RACE TRACK, Aug The entrice for t here aro as follows: BRU E TAci-—tro-year-atah: sality HORT shalt tuilonge. °°, 1 cyggiaas ethoun TS Kinglestone TH Taskicldater . morrow's races LORTZ VS. ALLEN TO- NIGHT, | tt earolds a y abOUt two Oe, Aliens round go with Harry Lyd A xitenry 0 aonant | | | i UM uges; han | windup of round pre x round ¢ four wascball, Polo Inariea, 7, Mo Glante va, Charies Edward sssveese ,. BILL LL SQUIRES GETS A MATCH %c.!28 “INDEXED Harry Lenny were to Glover to Box Nelson. r, the New I JS Gea} AT SARATOGA TRACK. AT EMPIRE TRACK. at he atag of ady y—Seven furlongs tn 1.30, | 4th St At oun as. 18 Capen Thurs! YONKERS—-MT. VERNON. (eee Ait ER aie eariones | te see Tite. Vit To-norrow—The Katonah Handicap! D, fs BOUNDING Bl } melodrama with wonderful ¢ffect®) and & Other Races, beginning at 2,80, Oranns ite ¢urlonga in BLS STROMA quarter milo in| RU HOW TO GET THERE. 116 BFANQU E ‘urlons 1m BELLE SPRE q m: GARDEN, Bowe! Bpecial trains lenve Grand Fal sation | Joe HH : 1.16 4 Fi 0.%, breezing. mite in ATLANTIC else 2 tha: Me Atberee | cua ay.) for Woodlawn and Mt, Veroon Joa Hayman vslonge in} _ sf NUTWOOD—A quarter mile In 7) Vaughne, Iman, Charibtte | Davie | 12.04, 12:40, 1.13) 1.00 2 Mf, Also Fogular aod, 0.95 24, versie Pe verte OFchestre | and Afiantloscops, =| ‘trains 12.00, 12.88, 1.86, 2.07, tM Prom xPiavigny FRANCIS WILSON"! : eure EE OLD. > Doyle! Meaning he looks good 7th Monih—7. ane Aug. 20 natn a | Thar | we} yi uaa'shi Morn | With Byron Dougiaes, TyMat i5.20c. (6 VandeCartain? @ 94 424 #1, Woof B'way | Bva. 6.15. Mats. ele, 148, Bryon: Wed. i Sat. 295 Li i THE LADY FROM LANE oy ave fought on that Ficiass jel orn Ti SCs Tye EaeFOV: in THY, (Mat, Put 215, BODE ORCHID, Eves. at KEMDOCKE: , 8-10 sharp, eiand Ushtwelght LWALLEACK'S 7 2,h20u ere te ane TIME re PLACK «© rire GIRL, @ touxn | own A. A. | SAVOY 24.8 ae MAN OF THE HOUR #:.¢ ~—-+-, EM SGA RAOR TRACK. Ni-Vr ty on z apart: t was Mgnt: | 7 RE ¥ RACE TRACK, Aug. best workouts here to-day “MANHATIAN BEACH. coe nen ee, | COMER, WALe-One mile i 1, eu | AERIAL GARDENS satan ueccee | POin's Fireworks 8.30 P.M, AMER—One mile me . Ane SPECTACLE, SHERIDAN'S RIDE ork, PAIN’S GARNIVAL ASI at or FIRE, snga in 2° WEXFORD — A quarter mile in GEO. M, COHAN In MOON Ei mss inj 0042-5, breezing JARDIN de PARISA5 COL, BOL—Half mile in 0.49 4-6, gal- ndily. I# in great 1g MISS DOYLE—Beven fi 28 ee oe praexinmspaue 1 . xf t Revue, . best. loping. LasTr4 TIMrs qT 2. bs WOKE MAN sie tutonge 182714 marta it —tmrée tuclones In oak 2s | Uhrzise te FOLLIES OF 1907,]|___ THURSDAY, Al ae caRK L | ne ad alot of } brecaing, ry B® H a ape : int satiate Syree e t ONS. eke fe ens ' mosearotts: te] pp gaLVIDSERE—One mile anda quar-| EMERGE. A auerier mie in 63 +6 WINTYRE & HEATH’ || Bee Dolng better. t 30 i, (THE HAM TREE myer Beet! 101 RANCH Biggest Wild West Show on Earth, ter in 2.14, handtl 18 JIM GAFFE: 64 POTENT—A tor mile in’ 0.26 4-5, ‘our furlongs in bréesing: gues, In good trim. |g yy XICAS SILVER—A quarter ralle 02 us W Sersu ‘clever maiden. | 309 as CEA quarter mile in 0.% a preexing. A very. ‘in| ‘satuaoey, P ix furlongs us THONAS FLYER 7 od. 181 14, DOLLAR | ly. Ready 120 UBURT oven turtengs in | 4 nandiiy, Meedy 004 3, Falloving. i ee "DIME AS BIO ASA DOLLAR, Ready money. 5. 13 SIL. UP—A quarter mile in MAN ROULETTE { Shee vated ee yg WELLS alas e TEEPLECHASE ASE PARK j13 WELLS—A quarter mite tn a eae Reatrecdar iT OBE A quarter mile tn’ SMR 2 THE GAY TOREADORS | stuvr. HAK 35 ATTRACTIONS ron 25, preezing: 6, . DOSAIVE furlongs in 1.06 aoe HAPPYLAND “Sets2%*5 i : 1 126th. Lad BLA Leek auerter volte in GOTHAM White Galety Glels | res veusevitte, niga A | 3=Farees— Novelties, | sem i at TL APive furlongs 3 BROOKLYN AMUSEMENTS, | Sever 40 @00d. Row—seven furlengs in jy. Good work 2 Jeriisesix furlongs In | DT—One-querter in of speed. nga in| Chod work jong In 1.12, breez- iy, ee) ACCOUNT--Bty furlongs | nerrow, 250.7 PAE Sedubesd sunbsis 38 0 : Bi ercrsihl ie ue pani Mca iaat his beats | _actzuar, © turtongs tm O47 | tl miss “CONVICT 999, |COLU it ae Aone, furlongs , | ineaetrcal te By eae 50 wood es in| 5! MANURE MER—Stx furlongs tn 1.18, "Tex, AY ei ; ONIN sek Seer ibeety es ve ad breezing: 25, 8 Hipn class.) | | _ ara ZORRA—A quarter mile {n AND sive cite) in| — TST ZORRASA 9 THE COWBOY tie SQUAW |= SPORTING. i Rian ee Ot A quarter mile tn 0.5 4-5, | says . 1. A! ITT. Aides 8D AV. Bi | —aBEHS RE quarter milo tn 2! PASTOR § Sierbhe RACING AT hs ve furlongs in} ded Lacon ure | DD "iar Ono mile In 1.46 1-6, I: fora Hacer And esos | EMPIRE CITY TRACK. {orth et. 10 minutes tater, Al UL) RA neect with trotley direct to track, Subway ta) Nate furlongs Jn 1.0) | nnn The Maid & the Millionaire °c: in shen a eu bellehttut Aulsmobile, rides "fue HAMMERSTEIN’S | Astor ny t Not oh. i “i a mi} eae MON A Tacit MEN AND WOME In a $G--Six tyr 5 2 FLBMING--Six furlongs in 11 Uses Big @ for Lie PRAMIC! GLIC One onli. end TR 0 0 F Sea ay eh Alscharaes, tnd irritations or wi —One mile and a Toate cons ‘oreoring. In good == | - AMUSEMENTS. | Madison Square Roof Garden "4, sistant handily, good | Lis mrmbeanee, if GARD With bay . of 9 4COR8 2 =} vis AL! UGRRE, He 4 Tas, Painiess, a8 ok q rid furlongs in | EVEKY Aya AT ® aig Fev HERR ‘Arilo HalePanteer Trios, | 95 POOR 103 Hee eee ele ti) avin a? BAILY, Begin ea hinront. : r furle 49 HK 0 er i =a a driving. las speed. RR ch) Troupe, Collinas & | BLANEY Ea Grounds, To-day,| % MONFORT—One mile and «tur |” gatie oat Bi ire Poe Aol Ss. MILLER ne Chicago, Adi toe. ot | dong tn 105 3-5, pandily, Ie ebady.! 25%, @ Boe. note? ein Is