The evening world. Newspaper, September 19, 1908, Page 7

TIMELY COMMENT 30,0 000 PEOPLE WITNESS BATTLE BETWEEN LEADING TEAMS GEO, WIL TIL Grom LATEST REPORTS AND NEWS OF ALL BRANCHES OF SPORT [nose EDGREN THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 19v.. st aagbal ‘CRO WDING: AROUND THIKD TRAVERS MEETS BEHR | IN GOLF PINAL TO-DAY for a rty-Hole lic links, rather than more amateur c b accomplishing good City have been known 3 he healthful sport of slusively a rich man's was {ntroduced in this coun Fr Four not far distant at champion- the more famous ontes as ¢ teen years ago. at least, have dee close automobile ra as a a title struggles over thousand or more per: FE women, hot footing it or eight | miles to “root” at Intervals for some | favoeite {8 an (nnovation in the metro- | politan district. Chicagoans have raised lange galleries for several sensons, but) the whirlwind finishes of the 1908 title | gtrnggie have always been lacking he- | fore to put the crowd on edge | Max Behr, of Morristown, the former Yale star and bro! tennis expert, who for two ye been runner-up in the New champlonship, wil) to-day D. Travers, present title holder an and exe metropolitan champion, at thir holes in the fin urally, Tr 1 strong fav Behr pected to lose Herreshoff. Behr took a ever, of all the slips made ful opponent, who has ted as the most powerful d country, Traver: Is a Youth, ravers, who h: vajority, is an what a youngster « Je for the game er of Karl Behr, = has was to as scarcely Is exce vight sort of who has held worth while vu Cou! though not ntch dese avers's sis and a cou it may ¢ rally to the tam ters seven, f how the 4 AA SD Riger. ning | won close to $500,000, [Brooklyn Handicap, |Derby, the Great Trial, lion, Futurity, &e. This s has won few stakes of importance, A EDITED BY NO TROUBLE FOR — GIANTS TO BEAT | THE STRONG CLUBS as Been the Weaker Teams in Na- tional League That Has Given Most Trouble to McGraw’s Men This Year. BY BOZEMAN BULGER. “Now bring on your Cubs" Being an extract from the outburst of Arthur Devlin when he picked up his glove after New York had made six runs and cinched the last game of the double-header with Pittsburg, that aptly illustrates the \the fleld Is large, 1s probably the most | fident of winning general feeling of the Giants Giants glory in a chance to fight th the class of the League they bring o jin them. ‘ | If it didn’t sound so much ke “I told you so” I would remind you of the fact that these columns on yester- day made the pat aesertion that New York could beat Pittsburg easter than they did Brooklyn. Against Brooklyn they are Inclined to loaf. When pitted against foemen worthy of their stee! they unbuckle their broadsides, The brilllancy which js dimmed while toying with the fallenders comes out with a bright pollsh when somebody of class MAYER SURE HE CAN — BEAT FRANK KRAMER ee certainly riding In fino form now, and | \t merican cycle fans are all ready | hamplon | to go broke on his chances, Henri Mayer, the sprinting of Germany, wants to bet any part of — knocks the chip off thelr shdulder, and $2,000 ve b NE a pene K emt BROOKLYN RESERVES bids them go to the mat. When he races the latter In a mate th won th race at Madison Square Garden next | THIRTY-FOUR PLAYERS. oe Geer bes ap hates Tuesday night, Sept, 2% Mayer, while One of the Pitsburg players told Mc- President Charley Ebbets, of the Brooklyn National League Club, gave out his list of reserved players for 1900 Jast night. There are thirty-four of including Manager Patsey Dono- They are as follows: not a great rider !n open events where BG G8 Eee) ICO) that the New Yorkers would breese in. A. Chicago player told him out Weat some time ago that Philadelphia would be the club that ‘be Giants would have 98: | to deat. Nothing leas than a miracle can beat the Giants now. They are thirty-eight points in the lead. Taking it on the other basis of calculation, that means that they are six games ahead of Pitts- burg and five and one-half games ahead match racer In the world, went to Europe two | them, Mayer In the open van, wonderful When Kramer | years ago he beat races, but when he was finally matched : against. the German in a match event pail 4 rp oe the forelgner won, Mayer was #0 con-|G. Hunter, Jy A. Kruger. . icuatus, 3. Tanck. %s, that he bet 10,00) HG" Dumley, We A. Maloney. H dem francs on his chances, Next Tuesday’s| B.C. Melang, i MoMilian, jrace Is to be run in heats, best two In| fe. iter, distances to be decided the | Sheehan aH elven ear scday Ledleae pe aetna Mele 2h Scanlon, George Starnagie, K, Wilhelm three, latter pi ‘(MILLER DROPS FROM $500,000 WINNER me ONE WINNING RACE IN A MONTH Miller, jockey, won $106,000 in purses, win- races alone estimated the same perlod this year won but one race, worth only $530, Dur- Jing the entire season last year Miller Including twenty |of the most valuable stakes, such as the Brooklyn ational Stal the Agon Year Has Made Big ids Bi cane IM Jold boy's earning capacity. Earning Capacity of Star | BY VINCENT TREANOR. IR a month previous to this date the During Mitler has |cutt last season and went out West to | the boy on these his old-time skill is painfully lacking. Won One Race In Month, ‘As an evidence of this ls that since Aug. 18 he has won but one race, and that | year’s tine on the turf has made @ won- |derful difference in the nineteen-year- And the ‘The answer {s Nature, RICH STAKES WON BY MILLER LAST SEASON. | cause of it all? Early last year Miller could ride at 2s) he haa one) thot and Gee 5 iy p one, on ac le la pounds, Later 16 was the beat he || Bkly Handicap, on Superman...§1890% | Deen second four times, and third twice. | cout h Nght the boy was |} 2rvklya Derby. on Peter Pan... 104731) During the same period last year PEERS 1 PACES Ah Oe The Tidal, on Peter Pan. 14,490 f gcarcely a day passed without at least under a $9,000) contract, It was stipu: |} National 9,002 || One winner for marvellous Walter, and ‘lated that one pound over that made the . 10,530 || he was rarely out of the money To be he won just twenty-one races, takes; was nec- third seventeen + 11,780, Invinetbia Handicap, on Ballot,. ¥625 Saratoga Hdp., on Running Water 8,300 | exact, some of them valuable ond sixteen times, an \contract null and void, and it was on this basis that Miller was figured to be | worth $412. an ounce. SSSR ES eI sduU alent Hotell @l were Various reasons may be advanced for Miller Went West Cae Ualen yn otell aiabe Milior's retrograde, “Hexperts do not at- | when Miller quit the Metropolitan ctr. |{ Groat Republic, on Batlot tribute It to his having grown heavy, but rather to his having grown tall. With his increased length he has lost |his natural seat in the saddie and his old-time skill. His legs are too long now. Rarely Gets a Mount. Miller 1s at the track every day, but rarely Is he seen in colors, He 1s pros- perous in appearance, for he has money, or, rather, his mother has it for him, The boy never handled it lof his earnings. His mother got It al ne U, 8, Hotel Stakes, touche ... |} saratoga Cup, on R ) ride on the Pacific Coast tracks, It was | predicted that his days as a star In the jockey world were numbered, He had Jenjoyed two years of top-rung success, ; more than most riders of the past, and {t was noticed he was growing taller lengthening out, as It were, A winter on the Coast didn’t tend to Water 6,050 25,075 8,420 Platbush, make him any lighter, He camo back | Bast looking as big as Abe Attell, the |teatherweight boxer, It didn't seem pos- | ord Niky other boys who have won Sport Lehigh, enough men out in the first practice tS) ands in PCCP AAA ALE AND Gleaned From All Quarters | had welght | who was & likely candidate Wimberley, a clever halfback | at Washington and Jefferson this year. | embered, too, Coach Dickinson, at this year !s over the| most up to date course in this country ; ; on which van sixty punkers and form two full elevens. sand traps > Ween installed within i a a year. Some of traps are big Charles Pike, 210 pow qmough for the cella of a ind an eleven-second man, sizable house, The 4 cham- tackle for Be eee ee rR THRIIER tor the |two years later a fresh pian oye te all mut the first othe] Two of Irish-American A. C, Point-Winrers at Olympic Games and Star /at Pennsylvania, is @ six, instead 0 hteen holes, as for H: vdler, for right tack'e, to succeed Ziegler. thirteen years preceeding Capt. The Distance Is New. tast season, will be used as fullback Until this week forty holes was the} Jongest contest for an amateur matoh ecision ever known tn the United total was reached Fairbanks, Call known ew h 8 play Btates, and when th. years ago by Walt fornia ¢' York, itv FE TEAS my LAP IN BIKE RACE ' Five teams are still bunched in the fix day two hour a night bicycle race fat Maulson Square Garden, while seven having a whole lot of fun to- | OME ses along the Harlem are in the final big regatta of day dual meet between the Nonpareil and Union Boat Clubs, two of the largest and oldest rowing organizations in the East. The races are being held on the Speedway course of three-quarters of a mile, beginning at the Rocks and ending at the Union's boat house. ‘The list of events include the singles, Sinere are a lap behind, Some sensa-| doubles, centipeies, four-oared glge, tional sprinting took placo. last nignt|eisht-oared shells and elght-oared as first one team and then another | barge race with women passengers, In which event the women. will receive souvenir gold hat pins. Valuable prizes have been offered in ail the other con- tests. There will be no classification of scullers and a crew may be made up of juniors, intermediates and sen- iors. Three entries from each club are alloweé in each race. would try and gain a lap, and finally Mayer and Anderson, McFarland and Downing, Clarke and Lawson, Mo-an and Keot, Collins and Logan and Kramer and Bedell had gained @ lap on the rect of the te Kramer and Bedell @ lap behind the laders, however, are still At the end Harlem R. C. of the tenth hour the leaders had made octopede of the stroked 240 miles and three laps. Jefeate! the Maitas, —_— ir Day at Washing n y the referee, LEWIS GONE BACK TO PARIS. |, ek oh 7 em p-we enter | > Oct. 10 for a Willle Lewis, th ddtie Chat 1 medals which who beat al ters ht In France| the Malts oa on Labor @ few months ago. is roe kK again to] Uo Way olf Pree and try and wa more Eng! (> fighters mance ts wee! durin eat will probably the club championship receives an & prize, Von Gaga, the German ouller, who made the season, which takes the form of a | pion, Philadelphia, ecullers are ‘in training for Frank B sional champlon Toronto Bay with| An Greer, America and Eddie Durnan, FINAL BIG REGATTA @ wood showing In the Middie States prorehia jar” Washington ain In | America until after freshmen. The big 6 Cooney, the Giant team. reported for practice ‘to the relief of the coa lee or not this fall, y Coach Yost Is back on the job at | Ann Arbor, and has eight of the old) team at work, including some promising ne is with Penn- sylvanta, at Ann Arbor, Noy. 14 centre of the Yale day, greatly es, Who did not | know whether he Intended to return to col Why ‘eact 96 to leh dali ty Rhoades, of the Cleveland olub, shut and arrange a date for the ¢ Boston vesterday without a hit, but _—_ @ run on @ base on balla, an error ce hit and a wild Coach Dally Picks Teaii, 5 nena Coach Daly, of Harvard, selected hie firet |. Jomneom of Washington. held the White dlaven yesterday, thourh not & man on it ta| SX % three bite yesterday, but lost his Rae ok NAT GoallioEr ORR i LNG kame by a score of 1 to 0. number of available candidates. The men| Cincinnat! made a seas record yester telected are as follows Houston, lett end; | gay at Boston, when they scored eleven runs | MeKay. lett left guand;| in the fourth x off Dorner and Linda Nouree, guard; Fore Browye: quarter: Smith an +] Xikenny and Longford and Meath and and Kennard, full back Wextord wil Gaalic clash tn footba’ NATIONAL LEAGUR Le Mitsdyre. Phila’ pbia. Pittsburg at STANDING OF THE CLUBS. RESULT GAMES New Brook New 'S OF YbSTERDAY! S GAMES, t xame, New York, 9; Decrui SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY. New York at Dotrott Washington at Ch Philadelphia at St Boston at Cleveland. AMERICAN LEAGUE, York 1, Firat 4 Be feago. na ame 8 sible that three months could make such|fame and. fortune on the race, Miller fa change in the boy's physical appear- | Wil! hardly ever want for anything. nee, but it did, and to-day Miller is} 7e,never had bad habits nor expensive Bunce) D : * | tastes, and was always under his moth- almost as big as the normal boy of|er’s eye. When other jockeys of less nineteen, ‘To-day he might ride at 110|e@rning capacity could be seen going i iWaveanartihat cd to and from the tracks In tooting autos, |pounds, and even at that figure get} 2-cent hack or the trolley car would mounts, but there 1. the old scramble |carry Miller and his mother home, emong trainers to get the boy's services|, Walter's growth must be disappoint this year, Last year Miller was re- ing to Mrs. Miller, In an Interv! with the writer last year, she saldshe didn't | garded as an almost sure thing rider, Every trainer whose horse had a chance believe Walter would ever get too jheavy or too tall to be successful as a wanted Miller to make victory more cer- tain, Now he gets few mounts, and even ‘Briefs matches at the ¥ on Su | several Athletic event eath's men's eames at | jay, ‘Phere will alwo be ‘The Amertcan League race {8 now almost 2 clote as cha Natlonal, Only twenty- ven points separate the first four clubs, With Detroit still ia the lead 10 polata atoud Of ‘Cleveland race rider. She based her belief on the fact that Walter was what {s known to mothers as a seven months’ baby, The New York players were not afraid of Pittsburg, not afraid of any club that digs spikes in the diamond for iis they are a'living, The é leaders, and when stacked against it all the championship form that is possible for Chicago or Pittsburg to games. They are not going to do games here, and the Cubs, beginning on McGraw eaid last night that he would Durham, but they are most too young “I am 4 Uttle afraid that the the Glant manager, “and I Telleve tt it their surround! y was by far the game In America, and that means the the question to handle that number of the Polo Grounds made {t possible. and the gates had to be locked as Game Begins Eary, Pittaburg., tt has not cooled the ardor Pra eet robability the police sold and there are no more to be had. have already sold a majority of thelr of Chicago. It seems practically tm- overcome that lead, even if they should wine nine-tonths of their rematatng that, for the Giants ure to be reckoned with, The Pirates have two more Tuesday, have four, Ames Pitchss To-Day. probably pitch Ames this afternoon, has a strong desire to use Marioaralen in the league to ne tackle the job right ht of these enormous crowds wi better to wait untit tne crowd thing out, and they get more ‘sooustomed to The throng yesterday largest bi that ever saw a ball world. There were more than 30, the grounds, Heretofore it was fie ot ple in any major league ball bat the addition of the new stan ua Even with these stands full-there was a golld bank of péople around the field, early as 2 o' It was unsafe to jam another fan Into the grounds, While the double victory of - day has taken much of the vim aeniee of the New York fan in the least, There 18 to be another crush this after> will to lock the gates again. Every reserved seat has been Even the speculators, who succeeded in getting hold of a number of them, Ui) at a profit. it has been decided to begin this af- ternoon's game at 8 o'clock inst $90, the usual hour, The oul way ie Prevent being caught in thé ja to et up there by 1 o'clock, Any can get @ seat at that time, even walt an hour and a he Glante gre not resting on thelr laurels by any means, and McGraw aaig last night that he would not draw comfortable breath until the Giants had won @ hundred games, That ought to absolutely cinch the pennant, and then the players can afford to From now on It will be fight and fight te the end. “he one ambition now fit the Giants is to make a clean sweep oi the Pittsburg and Chicago series, not only want to beat the oth clue but they yearn to feast on the two leading clubs as well. As to wi Pittsburg will pace this afternoon a mooted question, ‘They used five of thelr pitchers yesterday, and th men left on whom they can are Leifield and Willis, tt is provable that the Glants will have to face Let fleld this afternoon, but it is tyros ne means certain, Now that the pennant seems within reach, the Glants are beginning to fig- ure on their opponents {n the co fight. for the championship of the world. Detroit took a tumble day, while both Cleveland and chteago ‘won. The Giants would prefer to a Chicago or St. Louls win, ag it rou mean much more money to be divided jamong the players. Nelther Cleveland nor Detrolt draws large crowds, and |they could not handle an immense crowd, even if they did draw. AMUSEMENTS, AMUSEMENTS. eee AMUSEMENTS, EMPIRE E75 Mray 440m 1 | HIPPODRO/ 8th AY. teu W es Qltere JOHN. 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