The evening world. Newspaper, August 1, 1908, Page 4

STORIES OF SPORTS | TOLD BY EXPERTS | AAAS SNS ESS ES EST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1908, Q ane UP TO DATE, NEWSY LANE WELL WRITTEN WITH GRIFFIN WAS THE REAL ARTICLE Featherweights Mixed It in Fireworks Style for Six Rounds, with Honors Even at End. GRIFFIN Looweo ar MATTY with A HUNGRY tare, HH Fairmont A. ©. pulled off one of those real ones last night. The bogs fireworks were furnished by Charile Griffin, of Australia, and Matty Sald- win—bing, bang, boom—for ix rounds and @ grand galaxy of glitter- {ng etars all along the line. Brighton Beach on a fete night was a Quaker meeting deside that last round. | Griffin end Baldwin are the twin scrappera, They are matched Hke! a pair of bullets out of the same! mold. In height, reach, weight and bulld there was nothing to chodse between them. Baldwin had more halr and teeth; aside from that there wasn’t much to hang an Identification im when ae were mingled in a clinch. Just after the last of the prelims, Joseph Humphreys put out a tearful! Wea for charity In favor of Lew Ryall, a preliminary fighter who has been | Wercome by the gay life of Philadelphia. Young Corbett and Terry McGov- hen passed their lids and gathered ajyelping challenges to Tommy Burns for Qouple of hundred, the proceeds of the several months, and who “claims the |He Sn dae to Be Directing His Energies to Keep Mara- lection making a pile like a hay now Burns has gone to Aus- ck in the middie of the ring. tralla, Neus lumphreys counted up carefully. Ryall) By being unable to finish Taylor in thon from Winning, lained that he was thankful. The event came on. UST as soon as the bell rang Matty and Charles met in the mi the ring, and made a ew than eight rounds Johnson shows he n't iuproved such a much e fought Mexican Pete Everett BY VINCENT TREANOR. Special to The Evening Worl, SARATOGA, N, Y., Avg. 1 body Biot Pauerel yea snenele at { who lost a bet on Royal Tourist, in the! a preliminary sparring. Into a ag. In London, He Is & big, Delaware Handicap here yesterday may Ix-up they went, slugging away vi- ) 10 looks like @ ‘long- ting some cons. ath ‘in the fact that ously. Baldwin made a g¢ : VArde mpre | une fine: coc utaO une Uur ine ag ho Seek, COAL Ma cratic (IEG around the Royal Tourist could have won the race ht to have crumpled Griffin up. Bu Pi eaaliec aa the ese Wes: Tiny Bugsy to be dire all his energies fre Australian only laughed and slugged | back. The fightseurged afong round after xy Marathon trom winning, He are of Ma and Marathon 1 and Re Through the fourth and the fifth they fought like wildeats, slash for slas! Wen money and take your pic Sir losers 4 nong Will play Mise e Then, in the last round, the coMis. HoH. Burdick era Runyon, Park Mill, will A flerce spurt. Baldwin Howard and Mr W. H. ult twice on the Jaw, gone lame sudde handle by p they were through to be had, The chart gi race Was run. eld, saved ground all the ne grounds of the r 4 was won by Hug—to the bell Draw. That's as near as any trailed the ¢ Bear ay riot aia nestesia aiter winning in a way, and came away easily in the Idwin will have to fight a | FiUSead (OUblambe Tek mer lardc tiles onto Gea ceouenn nal intents “prepped” ute. than La to learn which 18 indefinitely postponed on sunt of for yesterday He was condi. a rain. tioned in severa! and when the AMERICAN ATHLETES WILL COMPETE IN IRISH GAMES meet nal You Weventh round I nearly gut—yes—our. Then I ge fown, unt der fight {s stopped limes I been worse, and w Gans hurt me, all md round, I'm Ime on der spine— det in der the time A mein ers com: nsh.ps agi 2 not Nght on der cine, Yes, nanner unt paralyzed my tM Opt alle, ti jor a mont A. A. notably ot and Ahearne, NHOLZ fights Dick Hyland Turs- treet futons day night at er Park 1 pr nine “outcome "of be a rough s from all Indi- Now York they are in i F cans dations, oH the Boer a mpete a 4 ! will ¥ m all Gaelle. meets Bin eixes are comp reed, They will c will @ teh barred from all Gaello meat- mixers, i Ae Inaedildlen anal iote aii ings, which are very n Tree Walle away oF co eyes e land at this time of fead in the next ral At the f Tou the first roun fin slammed s of a 3 bn Matty’s chin after the bell. ye Jie! aM end of the second Gritt mlesed a Hi Dlnib) aig) the) Unie) F eeancoy Pitney lope ics aving tad fall to versity Heights Club wiil be held the race, Is trained by Bild Gridin, todked on the ni of the jatter club for Whom Dugan does a lot of riding RB iRio arsine vias, in pune a Ra vevantan willie Many who backed Royal Tourist and aay mala sdaiias’ ciuaht oft oalancal) Oienin 8 ‘A. S Runyon, Park had a “holler” to make afterward went|* Mae Coie tise OHitls ly E. H. Janes, University so far as to intimate that Dugan wanted laughed at him, but Matty was up in Hi Hy Burdick, Park 2ill,, will) to see) Beaucoup win, ‘Uld) earthing, to » University Heights, 'T. pring about his victory, and accordingly th Instant. it play W. H. , i? took Royal Tourist T Barowin’s ONe.BesT Stam. Hi Pocton WAsS “THERE, DUGAN’S RIDE HELPED KILLING ON BEAUCOUP | tignt spot showed he was tossed in| with ninety pounds on his back. He, had nothing much to beat but Royal Tourtst, Wedding Bel To ny h won firet start be mie Jp) moans that better than Afelt aie ‘Ie ‘about the. peat “tily of the season. Sho le @ krand looker, and won very Im: vely, Moavette, winner of the Mohawk s tne colt the writer called attention at week, He worked 14 miles in 1.89 for The tip on him wae 4 ‘and any of the natives who Gated to take i 0:2 on him protived, Tom Shaw tried to it $5,000 down at 1 to 2 on Moquette, but dns (mel better than 9 to 20, Shaw lost a $0,000. bet. on Inthe few, ite Staved'e cor Ranger heavily at the game time @ bundie on the ue Youne Mr. Nolan, the son of Albany's ex Mavor, 5 ae isn't a detting man, dut etty and Sir John Yohn n wager In the Del Handicap. The regulars at the Spa have come to ng agreement that Sherif Brad The Sheriff ba the'least 89 far the unanim ley {8 one ood fellow, Qothered the betters In Johnny Moi the second ra. ‘i n ytrleg fa,grake, DiArkie, win thew! horse 4! Heinthim: vantentay dt Queen nin at a a fant stepper, She was ——>— B, Bulger, Sporting Department, ivening World: I am just reminded of the fact that on one occasion an attempt was made to atrike ont Swat MIIli- gan with what was known aa the avurt ball. tattle? Can yon give the de- FRANK STEVENS, Madison Square, ry Mkely, Frank, that you n the spurt ball confounded tha squirt ball. It {a well known at a dastardly plot was once hatched up between Harold Hangover and Zeke Bender to humillate the great hitter with a rascally contrivance known as the orlg-| the “squirt” ball. The Incident to which vou undoubted- ly refer occurred one afternoon !n J when the Peerless Poison Oaks were to meet the Nettle Rashes in deadly com- bat at Bobbletown, Mo. Hangover at that time was twirling for the Nettle Rashes, and, hewing been repentediy folled by the intrepid Swat he made up his mind to settle the struegie for supremacy for onee and for all Several days preceding the great game Hangover and Render got thelr heads [together ai and began en Invention of de- ias an explanat An ILLY ELMER of the Papk spute be- eld was pulled » alaput Were gold on the street an Sains that a “bunch of helling co fround the club me of the club men out w he bought two $1 tickets At NU YOU KInaI Yi etame a koe gorilla.” Elmer was called gan 2 anoule nice 6. Ante, Bain bo gelzo the tickets held by Gaelic A. A Dee 2 the ensa mere wai “'gori! Re ke ‘i : I at present belong to a sm ub, but. Mae hori eteca Ss ui am destrous of joining one of the When the tickets taken in in . Peruse PSG OOER trom supposed membe “1 A, Ay A: formilated| 2° 5! wad born In Ireland Weisinel count ihowed can es i ; try! Apply secretary Irish-Amertean Teather valuelot tien) « rar ; Athletic Club, on Sixtleth atres Wokets to the value , between Third and Lexington ner €ays he m 1 ygeler ays he, ma avenues Ught at some date tn ar a the sauan} : To ktidly Inform me ACK JOHNSON, a colored AEC iN A whethe r the jockey, is a welght from this side, kne senta : aad H J Ben Taylc nig! “ ‘ Tt took Johnson etgnt s to 1 ra hiss the trick, Sam Me ed Ta Sar tor out in two rounds {n England i A 0k no notice lew months ago. ss r ) games, end | w the who has been ¢ ! 5 party jetes to take part In A Constant Reader. The f{irat. the second Jeff knocked Corbett out in ten rounds, In CLUBS. says Jake 's dead M J. CONGDON “Chick” Stahl mitted ide at West Baden, Ind, in the spring of 1907. He was then a member of the Boston team. Jake Stahl ts now a member of the Bon- The men were not re A Charlox ton team. lated, “A dete Bt Bob Fitselmmons has herate Queries Replied of 0 by Robert Edgren Kine 46 ity is through your paper Ais correct, P. G. Including the occasions Tle has. when he agreed to “knock out all comers,” 1o won the Marat the last Ol, Sherring won Inuian, won, Which one c ? R. M Longbont ran his first race at Hamilton, In Canada, after the Marathon nat Athens two yea ago. He did not go to Greece. Sherring, of Hamilton, won the! Greek Marathon, How many times have Battling Nel- son and Joe Gans fought? | CHARLES DEYO, Poughksepale, N.Y, Twice Kindly me know what teams ayeal at the Polo Grounds on Labor ay, 136, and who won, 8. NELSO, No. 2% East Nineteenth sttect Ginntn played two games with Dorton, winning both of them A man at bat hits a fly ball to first Asema younds off his z i second baseman catehes It. Is tha b Batter ts in Firat basemar Kets an assist and second baseman the pnt-ont, 8 that Batt ing Nelson would W » rounds w at on would, V B won, Did thea American League ever b a team in Baltimore? fought two hundred or more battles! Kem GLOVER GlV EDDIE CART = ABAD BEATING —_—>—. Eddle Carter, the Quaker City Nght- weight, was given an awful trouncing by Billy Glover, the Boston welter- welght, in the main bout of #ix rounds’ left at the stag of the Brown Gymnasium point A. A. at Rockaway Beach last night.| Jaw before the third round had gone As Harry Gcroggs was unable to meet twenty Glover, having had @ narrow escape snuffed out the championsh from drowning at Rooka a few tions of the Chicago middie-weight at jing picyele ra cy pace for twenty rounds, I burt Ketohel days ago, Carter was substituted. te the Coliseum it night. xt Sunday afternoon at the Clifton my body punches, but In my con- was no match for Glover, who landed It was a blow that came as unexpect- Stadium, the track on which Derosier ce became @ bit careless, In @ re when and where he pleased on him. edly to the crowd that was gathered! made a le In 56 seconds mounted on turn mateh I will justify my claim es In the first round Glover floored at the ring side ae It did to the man} a motorcycle Ketchel’s supertor, I would Mke to arter for the count with a punch on) who fen seconds later was defeated. The race W ll be a fifteen-mile affair meet him soon.” e jaw. In the second round Carter ‘The Ttallan, flushed with confidence between rman Anderson, the Da eres h said: “It wee en even put down twice, the bell saving at the showing he had made in the) champion, and Posd BK the speedy ght up to the time of the Rncckowt, from being put away. Carter took earlier stages of the contest, opened Newark rider. the riders anda had Kelly been a little mere Gare a brace in the third and fought well, the with a etraight lof : following 1 fi ful the fight would have conttwee® sor Glover cut loose again In the | shed viciously into Ketchel's face game machines, the Mouide) Kelly laa) eeoal Sots irth and landed some hard blows on or the fifth and drapped him four Nsted Seeing he had the battle won, Glov did not fight so hard in the sixth reel jast round, and Carter managed to last the round out by ¢linching BALDWIN’S BATILE BALDWIN AND GRIFFIN FIGHT 8 § Gren ATONET WoRTH PRICE ADMISSION « Joe HUMPHREYS COUNTING @ STACK oF, Lona Green IN THE RwWa | | | Glover went after Carter again As he left himself for one moment un-| WAS THE ‘REAL GOODS oF CHAMPION KETCHEL KNOCKS OUT HUGO KELLY IN THREE ROUNDS Droping tke a log to the floor, us head struck the,c ras with a the! the Chicagoan lay helpless for sev igeoeae » then tried vainly to rise to his | feet as the counting of Referee Ja ‘Welsh came dully to his ears. The jeffort was too much for one who received such @ 8 dropped back to the floor o: and made no move ay the where jar, Left heculaiy to Jaw Did { Trick in the Early Part of the Thiid. (Bpectal to The Bivening World.) Battle Was Even sey to the Final Punch—Kelly Wants Another Go. dd blow, a completed, and fis own ockou was SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1—With « s rushed to help bim to @ seat hook, Gelivered straight to the where he could be revived. of Hugo Kelly's unprotected REVIVAL OF OLD STYLE < said after the fight: ‘“Ketchels PACE FOLLOWING RACE. M ook to my jaw was @ dig sur I had the best of the first two and could have continued the Stanley Ketc conds, al tra nda, ival of the old being a perfect judge of distance, and a return match might shew im to better advantage.” FIRST ROUND—Ketahel opened with left, but missed. At close quarters guarded, Ketchel was quick to take | advantage, Shifting slightly, the! Michigan scrapper hooked left and) landed with a thud on Kelly's Jaw Struction to batsmen. With all his faults I am compelled to admit that Hangover was really a mechanical genius, Had he devoted his efforts to honest methods tmatead of the foul Banga for which he was actorious he ould have made a great name for bim- seit during bis career in che fast Bwamp League. n@ upshot of the plotting was the vention of @ ball called the ;‘squirt’’ curve. ‘Ine ball was so constructed the Interior was hollow and would d a certain amount of water. By a certain pressure on one side and 3 gj of the ball in a peculiar man- aprings on the inside would expand and shoot out a stream water whep sixty feet from the srower, ‘Thus it was intended that yal] should shoot @ tiny stream o: the eyes of Milligan just e he landed his swing, The aud- 1 dousing of the famous batting oye er, it was figured, would make ss nis aim and would algo dilute glint which was go much | teared throughout the league One of Swat's secret tipped him off to the scheme and ha prepared himself accordingly. He knew ust how much water the ball would and {t was necessary fer him to n accurate time on {t so as to the plot. in Ww thi ha great game, which was fraught the bases ata terrifle excitement, began promptly | reached second the bal nge minute. Harold Hangover was n an ovation ag he took the slab he Nettle Rashes. A sardonic leer up his countenance, for he In- felt that his plans would suo-) “phe game ran along for seven gs—a dead heat. Then the Nettle es eth two runs over, and {n ths half of the nth the peerless \igan sauntere o the plate. When vation had aybsic “lhe calinty nis place at the bat and tapped amous home run bat on the rubber. was ready, vgover determined chances, and hurled the irt ball toward the famous hitter off the reel. Just as Hangover nd up he saw the steely glint. in port eye, and he perceptibly od. In a minute, however, his ad subsided, and Ne went right on w nis dastardly work. Just as the rascally piteher began to wind Milligan Was seen 10 ee: what looked like a bDiinder over tamo' qe «This angered eed. on Ras that he would | | “SQUIRT” BALL FAILED WHEN TRIED ON SWAT the | } |small spon With a nonch p chuckle Swat squeezed out the those losing streaks that come to all in Morry,'” I aald, trying to be aol and tossed the sponge aside, He was|time, But we'll run away from {t pretty “Yes, Norman," he answered, |now ready for the one grand coup. | so. dropped {ton purpose, If I haan | great invention had acted as a boomer- us | Hangover, a4 hep, | Swat had figured, service men Kelly did good execution to stomach with short-arm lefts and rights Kelly is downed by glancing right, but up before the count. Chtcagoan proved good judge af distance and ts better ‘el, oe king hat this sty) lof pace follows popular than h the Fide, wil voxer, He has good lead when round and strong to ¢ cv ones. He) ee eee) roaee full jchel is evidently Uieea 5 plead knockout, motor to anoth In addition to th! « tace here will be a five-mile motor race that will bring ft together such dare devils ay Derosler, > jisees many swings. Men Turville, Rud Mitchel! < all heads and fight for the body, mounted on seven-horse power machines Kelly doing more effective work. Kee and all starting from ‘ame mark. chel raises lump over Kelly's eye but In addition to these two big eventa there ts bleeding at mouth 11 be three bi races for ama- THIRD ROUND—Kelly pute Ss, @ quarter-mile open, a mile ) Ketchel's face, ane) leaving hi n n le handicap. The unguarde Ketchel Were Clifton station of the Frie Railroad ts left to Jaw. Kelly dropa and @gnt ‘er in twenty-five sesonds. only ten minutes ik from the trac! WHEN WE GET GOING THEN WATCH US, SAYS ELBERFELD although, to tell the truth, nester had a hard row to hoe, 8 e hitting everything and the persisted in going ware fielders not, just as It did when Bostom: peppering Cleveland In the leet series. The most consplouous signs of @ return to life on the part of oe Naps is the fact that ‘s again stinging the ball in i old style, said Willle Keeler, When the (Smectal to The Evening World.) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. L—If there {3 & bigger set of grouches In the United States than the Highlanders right now they can have the bonbons, The mem- bere of Norman Elberfela’s band will scarcely speak to each other as the re- was thought the peerless hitter was at- tempting to “kid” hi With @ ewisting sound the ball start- ed’ on its fateful career. True to fT |eutt of thelr present condition, “And hig follow is hitting the team nas @ Ree ap eines area {v's just the way I want them,” sald (ifferent appearance, and he been getting them regular for uy Atreain of water, Milligan gia hot | Elberfeld last night la e days. And they are the olde ne) angover Was petrified with| « 2 nd the m re {n {8 fashtoned long, Nghtning liners astonishment’ Again he hurled the bal] | “The state of mind the men a Cee eee LCi Letha a tiBu flsldgraneehon bound to start them golug before long, and I believe that when they begin to win we will climb rapid! 1 realize across the plate, and again {t shot out the little stream, whieh went straigut for the bilmded eye. Again Swat did nee to get hold of them, nues his clif and the team playe the sort of a game it has against us, not budge. It waa with diMeulty thee : ay Hangover stifled a cry of Tage, The |more keenly than any one else what he re LanOl Fen son why tt should not be fupply of water had given, Out, and jhe team needs, and am doing my Boat UCN alinrarancdtatorsion G etill the ball had not succeeded. Milli | ing tt about, Until I can get the yforiarty, “O Detroit,” eald gan iad timed {t acourately, He now |t0 bring It about, Until lt wan oe ne had Hangover !n a hole. | right men in the right place I fear we Ki I waa wee Ine e Tigers pra Ld Reaching up to his aye he deliberately | git) nave to take our beatings. Mind, 1 runs Ike the Naps yesterday on rcnoved what the crowd thought was a ! petles of ercora After Slt fan \ don't admit that the team ls mot @ goored the ball came across to Moriarty. binder, and Jt was found to contain a ant “Et tt and good one, but Jt is experiencing one of at he dropped it, dropped it I'd have thrown {t and gives the alee Sova run," Middle Distance Races Feature of Newark’s Card amateur number and {t will be Faith trace’. between Scum Parley Stel, of Brooklyn, wh sing haa been the sensation of ¢! son Peter Drobeck, the hat The boys will be ove impression created by young As Swat set himself for the powerful | Billiard in his debut was not encourag- ewing he looked out across the field, and his eye fell on a smal! pool of water) just outside the park. He realized that the squirt ball, being hollow, could not be driven very far, and he decided on tha pool as a target Haroli Hangover again sent the in- Iquitous ball to the plate, but, just as the water Was ex- hausted and no stream ehot forth, With a mighty heave Sivat landed on the ball, ‘and with a punky, hollow sound !t atart- ed on a journey over the fence, ‘The rule was still in vogue that a hatter could keep running until the bali waa recovered, and Swat sterted around ——. More middle distance racing will be seen at the Newark Velodrome ¢ Clip, Just as he| meet on Sunday afternoon a N Boston plugger, M mi in the pool| several sprint events and variety will bysthe bis motors The other, sea te with @ loud aplash and the fleldera tore| pyle through the entire programme. race’ wil oe & m after i tn wild Durgult. The first man Amateurs will vie with the profes: ‘A iniss-and-out non-winner®’ event. to reach the edge of the pool aa Bill Stuboles, He made one reach for the ball and fell back stunned. It had taken on & new supply of water and shot him squarely in the eye, Other the stars have entered for the han cap. while the non-winners agarteme d_ motor-paced sionals for the honors and m D tiem will he big, too, racing will have a place equally as prominent as the contests w! ithout pace Into elders goon surrounded the pool and| This motor ed stunt has leaped | ny in turn was shot down Sethe tiny | instant pooularity hegenbout | and it promises to be the youte o} stream of water. As faat as the iniqui- Ne be fous ball would send forth a stream the| The feature professional race will bt irritations’ or pool would supply more water. It was, a twenty-five nile open, iafe-aistance of mucous Phopeless task. Harold Hengovers|carty wita it the middle-dis Palniées, and not aateiae championsiip for the 4 went or first of the biz contests ang. Ho was beaten at his own trick. te the mean time Milligan had mede| chasers have had for the year and upward of 20 runs, and before the poo’) an added inducement tt carrios prizes * finally dried wp and the ball was cap-|in the form of $1 for the leader at tured he had run the total up to 16 every half mile and $ for the leader emd the championship was cinched be. | ot every fv Minted the usual yond veradventure of doubt four purses the Kramer, That !s uy egurteghy! the bait to which | Fogler, Bardgett, I and ail the s | you refer, Frank, when you menticned|king-pin pedal pushers will compete stake. For the riders not winning % In tho the spurt ball b 4 will be one Salle conso- will have @ ZEMAN BULGER. ys feet, there 0 that every’ — bod: re a dates el ee BESS