The evening world. Newspaper, August 15, 1908, Page 5

~~ oh ry mi ve | | | ole | oo. ie) i THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1908 5 LATEST REPORTS AND timeLv comment” NEWS OF ALL BRANCHES OF SPORT POLO PLAYERS ARE. SQUADRON A TROOPERS PLAYING POLO AT VAN CORTLANDT © i EDITED BY | ROBERT EDGREN HARD AT WORK FOR | COMING CONTESTS Van Cortlandt Park Will Be Scene of Senior and Junior Events During Week of Aug. 29, With Many Teams Entered. If you are a lover of polo it is not necessary any more to be a millionaire and belong to one of the swell country clubs to either witness or take an active part in the sport. landt Park on any Monday, Wednesday lo way. uadron A troop that is mak will see the real thing in the p It is Si park on the northern boundary of readine of the country. Van Cortlandt Is a pleasant place to[ >On, AN. but what spend an aft additional 8 attraction polo contest by the troopers of Squad- spirited ponies, and all) : or price, the practhe Monday, Wednes- ternoons of With the fon A on Without mon and match games 07 day and Friday week has lined the grounds about polo fleld with crowds of fans who take @ deep Interest in ev Cups for Trophies. Interest In Squadron A polo has been | mtmulated by the offering of cups each month, which are played for by t troopers, From the thirty players four teams were organized for the July tourney, and a splendid competition in match games followed. It requires not @ little skill in horsemanship and science in handling the mallet used in driving the ball, and not a little strength, to become a successful polo player, but the troops make up a team | not to be overlooked. Practice for Big Games. The national champlonships—juntor end senlor—ewhigh are to be held at Van | Cortlandt Par during the week of) Aug. 2%-Sept. 6. are attracting a great} eal of attention, and the practice now taken by the troopers should put them fm fine trim for the coming contests. Unfortunately the eenlor event for which the prise is a cup presented by William Waldorf Astor through the Tuxedo Club, did not fill. This was due to the absence of several viayers on teams which were thought to have @ chance to win. Tha team of the Rockaway Hunting Club, which holds the championship won last year on the Onwatensia fiald in Chicago, has lost its strongest player fm Foxhall Keene, and some of the) members thought It useless to go up against the Meadow Brooks, the only entry, on even terms, for no handicape are given tn this event. Other players who are now in the Rhode {sland ournevs have other ¢ nis fle lowing "hese contesta ard were una to enter. for the championship games which will be held Aug. 29 to Sept. 5, and which will bring together all the best players in this section | Just take a ride up to Van Cort- or Friday afternoon and you the game popular in the The troop is getting in f the city. put ever, the committee w We , \ TOWAS WILL RD “BARR The brought h the strong N A will aye n Cortlandt Bat a oe Troopers on Thelr Muscle, > . ‘ pring poo] English Championship and Squatvon “ae ~j ., nurniments Sportsman Challenge Cup, real tg Aso At % the troop We eaten Besides $1,000 Wager, Hinge tong Meadow Brooks goals. The troopers then deca a vint al n Cortlandt I es Ba jan on Result, poines F sania g : in the drills, ar Trew lots fc Crate EIN each mount so that there ay choice. August Belmont and hig ¢ also lost to the troopers by a 8 to 6 goals tn a very exciting o In the “Rockaway troopers were defen Way Hunt team, Hunt Cup, but detaat ed | Philadelphia Co @ Blizzard Cup. tourney the troopers w ew Haven, 11 to 8 1+ finals for the Monmouth turn beat Meadow Brook, goals, for the Rumsen cup. r The five teams of the troopers are} made up as follows: | SETCHEL AND PAPKE IN AMERICAN ATHLETES “i a7 ee ee _ SU RPRISE SEN Garin nae Meets Thomas in sea. HO se tate pT ably be arranged In @ oh will pri et hunderbolt Clash- a 0 al wees al atta ot rt ankle Nell, the ex- irst team- Hunt. Louls Neti rn 4k . n, and Jimmy Walsh, J.C. Cowden, Walter McClure. |work as in the circle, and Is es With Burke Here. By Second te Naa ANS seaiblle ;, Spencer, Jr, Howard Cram, H. H. — a twelve- has already nut between thent pete POLLOCK. attruct w bie, crowd of eM fate in ney would sure! c 7 team—Willfam Baylis, Henry title Holt, David Lannon, George Peabody. | qe match Fourth team—R. ©. Lee, R. Giider,|, 2" ™* George Gilder, Thomas Le Boutillier, | tions which 1 Per ts will be fe One will tak put up an in a aml AAC, aS. sday night Team—A, W; Cc. Ely,| tor thr row lace In this Duncan Bulkley, Louis Montant * were — tin 8: nelaco. The _ AMUSEMENTS. we fteld at the park x4i0 feet and : ss I Bur her comes off in San Franc : dan Tt is only | Tow mateh in J ada The Track and Field Ghamplonship! principals in the local scrap are Billy Atop anne fon of | latte! ded by. § i won . t t ai > | Pap nd lor B who clash in Theatre days, fe ante our We time, although seemir a h handicap, with 6 fee non ; : ACH TIS OD rae ea Papke's pearance J} Sat, Downstairs In Theatre, ated as many af the tronpers eas PmOAE 2 to hold the National tndividual in q contest here, and a big crowd of | LIBERTY HEAD RE Want dd ah offices, } ' it, d downtown sup which he od only a third vies rsonal round champtons twice won and p and hampionship {n conjunction on land to see him! fight fans will t games | cut w and body, The ‘Travel ling Salesman, By Jamies Poroes, author The Chorus Lady. ib UA 2 yee jt. HARRIS" MINSTHEES with was too far for n Walsh with the Irish-American A. C. loose his terri rerouty are ane eat ( with the veek of Sept we best teams was two agan may other batt! ferine eetee with Bartow S. Weeks, TY 3 in the m In New of these events, how- ‘Will be competitors for the cups, Tow nship Ci Ittee, Pp, Will be Stanley Ketchel GONG EVANS R100 Honey Boys, — ——- Neweast y. City, on 29, ‘The welght ch and JARDIN de PARIS Aton, theEN. Ys, See a aeket BeteA y will battle for twenty AKGFELD, JRYS, NEW REVUE, ALDERMANIC TEAMS ARE rene each contestant five min- | fore Jack 3 club in , OLLIES OF 1908, coming aystem of the Amateur | after PREPARING FOR CLASH cs A man with set features and of ath- Yetic frame was studying the secrets of hydraulle A twitching of his museul would have be trayed the fact to the ordinary ob- server that he was a ball player of re- nown, A closer view Into those deter- mined features showed that he was none other than Herma manager, captain and pitcher of epublican Aldermante Ball h is to meet the Democrats in deadly combat at the Polo Grounds on Sept. 3, What was he doing—did you ask? Alierman Beyer, dear reader, was per- fecting what he claims to be the Breatest curve ever invented by ni ero pitchers for the complete demo. of Democratic batters, A private de- tective had told him of the “Brush Ball” which 4s to be used by "“Skirty” MoDonald, of the Democratic forces, said ball being covered with whiskers #0 aa to resamble Gov, Hughes. No Re- PubMcan would dare hit at that ball before the next election, and it was up fo Alderman Beyer, the Republican , pitcher, to invent something equally dis- watrous to the Democrats. That ts why he was studying hydraulic pressure, As ® reporter broke into his study the Great pitcher leaped to his teet, cry ing Mureka! I have solved it!’ |e Remarkable Discovery, ‘The discovery of Pitcher Beyer {s Geally remarkable. While he begged and pleaded that it be kapt secret, an bnewerving sense of duty compels the publication of the dotalls, This ball ts bo arranged that when it leaves the Ptaher’s hands It {8 filled with com pressed water. One of the stitches ts bo be #0 loosened that It will give w. bnder hydraullo pressure fust before it | hes the plate, and the Democratic tter will be sprayed with pure cold water. Up to the present time Alder- nan Beyer says no Democrat has ever beom accused of “hitting up water,” And he figures that the sight of the pold, weak stuff will so unnerve them they cannot even swing the bat fe offers as proof that history does tot ord the fact, that a Demo: ¢ derman ever ‘‘out loose" on water, ‘his curve ought to prove effective. ‘While the Glants have been fighting ir way toward the pennant Alder- Bee Ks ‘aneg@h, captain of the Demo- ningy Mot been Idle. Ho ton will be used mate! —— lub There Will Be Some Exciting Doings : Nails |h efng damaged by a subn swiftly has He pected that ne 1s now able to announce the entire bat in a match against W. A vena OLCOTT h Alderman Beyer cee moan e on th with Jo << When This Pair Meets at Celtic Park There Is nothing left but to Umpire wand up’to date the have applicat U HAMM ERSTEIN’ 5 ROOF: 15, and Daily Mat, in Theatre (Ro f BIN). Gertrude Hofmann | aM Ney of Salome” T aft, othe i. K THIS THREAT oh NXT W'K WEBER'S PaUaee 30° PAID IN FULL *Wacten® v! fan | from Home, Alavnud UF ail MUSIC, 14l0 5), we Urving PL HENRIETTA CROSMAN Freateat triumph MISTRESS th SM. Mat Wed & 2 HORRISON ila BEAGH 8.3, Romany Opera re City Quartet. Vie Finly Cart teint ia. Adele Palmer, othe, GRAND rg onto 7 Williams a Wallet bandanan and, many | ma as a sign of ike colors to be | worn by the Ropubl a of death, gloom and oft times defeat Democrats Are Cocky. ky have become the Demo- crats hey have offered in case of defeat to allow the Republicans to. put thing ¢ Board of Alder- men th for the next six Y proposition the $ propose in case of detent nally during eight suc- gs of the board. cause of in Manatield, the English has been matched to meet ing fighter of Savar 4 Harry the Juntor single gig for h cup. : in So ¢ dozen vanced tA a long rangy outtiel “The Vision of Salome” Is 1. He is sald Land 10 other big acta, his feet. In fao “6 his feet. Two stags are © hea. at to the De | rhs that will hol . P ‘ who fsa h | SA CIMA AE CTIBRT ttle Willlama In kKALC, Acre A. C., on \ ai) next Wine - Fy sie ate GRAND ST, “°SiS0iNeR TO-DAY, 215, JOSEPH BANTLEY \n Deis JIM. Next W'k—The Riackma! of New York. AMUSEMENT PARK, PALISADES yp We Lott, Perry Theatre. Olymple Vaudeville Co. Free Acts, Paruehuie Jumo, Wild Weat, Bte um MHL QUESTION reate fy main Wy and Bil 1 for six rounds, eLoughlin will | not announce the regular bat- iladelphia r until the umpire is selected Charley May tong “might set int train teach t ul Bill found batt abe Kavanagh and Beyers beg | nnownee th ckets can he time within the nex Alermen {n the varl- Maybe there won't be a BB pee ATLANTIC abot loaereaira Sheridan Honored In Dublin. Bey alee, Wit WORLD Ber” CASINO’, vss of Musi DUBLIN, Aug. 15.—Two thousand mem- bers of the Gaelle Athletle Association met Martin Sheridan, of the [righ-Am Ietlc Club, New York, on his arrival toreh tiaht, othe Kl Crowded Month. artest ADM WF FRED AREE TWINS sar» HERALDS, tracts, ~ ves. $15, MATINEE TO-DAY, to his Fitca’s ng Co Is Hi ies aa way expretston, ot gratitude ya — GIRLS er DALY’s UN OF Sheridan for his support of the Gaelle At Robert. Ht kT HEN the Irlsh Volunteer ala (OT 1G foothal IE ; Mo are AND “ETRY Ole 0 etic Aawociation In its recent dispute with ass ) N the Irish Volunteers go out two ga 3 rotha , i F hls 7 LAG fe, 6.18, MATINER TO-DAY, waly’s “yn MILTON'S AIRSHIP, the Amateur Athletle Association Nemane ot? to-morrow to Celtic Park to have ing maton and several standard athletis tain, who wag sent hither © | uievert® W of Finay Mat ——>—__ Jot the susnension by. ( 1 of John g. thelr annual plentc, which n- tlon Tm ng the Democra: Hteopening Mo ug. 15 He was also ma \ bs i ¥ Dates for EU Ea DOME De See = Jcludes a dreas parade, assault at arms nd alry alde of the day conver JOHN ye a We ii i ti ‘The junior and senior fall championships Jathletic competition and d ey ¢ Colorado burro 28 plugetn SBA Aide Bt ft the Amateur AthIi6 Union will be bela Schoolboys’ Games. as EA RAN aia lin ar ee Hane aa 3 veltiaee of ie ein BI Nea CORA at ‘ will undoubtedly have the largest gath- Rocky M { the donkey ful and a persistent Roc! ky KEI i i] « on the xr ot the 3 rf , : ertr his popular organization Donnybrook. Col Charles J. Crowley M will be a brand-new 3 4 ra island Friday and Saturday, Sept ring that ¢ p hole (aes tetas . sytphe . qe and. 19. ‘The daton ware arracsee i nea fi aud ever called together, This will be due will ride Dy rook, who was shipped i NST dare eat Sth Av hesatpe Slbtree, CONEY ISLAND'S ving members of e ymple 4 1 list includes | is ey a he > C h ta 4 id ayo. ~ e - ry ane Tix. \ aca: & low oe eee (o get Into ehape for th | avn ar 7a HE al In great measure to the fine programme here by Richard ok m his ¢ iment enou! to last (25H St Hetty, ee Ge <a mace i CHAS E| FUNNY a iz Cn eet Dulted Beaten, TAS rk, eMC ee EI wea | arranged FOE WOT GAY) WAIGM: 1BolUd68) THUS ewtale neat Dubs, Ireland Major for a day. AOUVSNIRS "TO LADISA TUM, & FRI. | A LAUGH TN ZVERY BEOT, ete {*% .