The evening world. Newspaper, December 19, 1908, Page 16

THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1908. LATEST REPORTS AND TIMELY COMMENT STRENUOUS HOCKEY GETS BIG BOOM IN OPENING GAMES tAmateur League Games Excite En- thusiasts, and Winter Promises to Bring Records on the Ice. BY BOZEMAN BULGER. time—and it \ upon 4 ndered into Forty-second street asserting in loud acclaim that games in America could test the physical and mental herve of young men who had not yet grown hard in the face and soft in the bod In other words he laid down the flat proposition that foot- ball and pugilism were only two sports that could noi be played by O~ 5 nly two *) the mer ax a A iittle bit | this ¢ honor of b The fab) is hold wins it three but he Moreo 1 successio: the othe will be to deciae Guided to Hockey Game. a Captain of the Cres SSG go—a sport-loving man NEWS OF ALL BRANCHES OF SPORT HOCKEY TEAMS ARE GETTING BUSY A ‘ ie i TAYLOR eh s i ae ES | NMA wos : . ; t Bsr ined C. club, a BE ok yi ne SR ERS) LAREN RAN ee tant g the sagszsgenre UG ARENSE GER GS) vm his former teammates. ‘ HREesete, Boe) Ports MELESSEE@® 22850373 © money said but waited for the referer Zing!” a litthe hard rubber called a puck, went sé head of the Football y and t _ Baske with long sticks; League Made Lie of ates, and at | man, and he sat Five or six brawr Wen attired in nothing more than woollen Fives from Seven High Schools skin tight shot after t the other i Square there was a crash. t skaters, going at : 3 Den creed) ivore\ aenclsMieiing) tieadl| | | @Densjochedulelio- Night, over heels on the unyielding fee, while ‘ere: = the others were frantically frailing at the poor little puck with the har¢ HE high school boys will usher wood stic ™ of the blows | in the league basketball season missed the puck and landed on the to-night, when three important shins of opponents. |Rames will be played. As there are | seven Started Puck Agoing. | ne fellow, quicker than the! at his der the hard! teams in the Jeague, o will be forced to be idle every day contests. It Finally, others, stick was first expected rubber dosent it whizzing toward aj eight or possibly, nine teams would net at the other end of the square,|comprise the league this winter, but There a quick-lim athlete allowed} With the dropping out of Morris and the to} squarely in the|Erasmus, both! of which schools were chest. and ther at waiting to rub sented last year, only seven teams the sore spot, shot it back at the man left. However, an excellent season nS allalh Ahelanallicacrolling s like @ certainty, as nearly all the Across the ice tley dashed’ on akates|teams are well storked with veterans maa wenaaTilnyor OV was tripped slid |ifom the squads of last season, and as forty fect wiong the rail on his nose, but [all the league contests are to be held CARY eT before Feb, 1 there is no chance of all an was winning five losing out through the } graduation of its players at that time. | To-night's games will be Townsend Har- exclaimed |ris Hall, the champions for two seasons, | against. Commerce; Be High, of | | Rrooklyn, vs. Stuyvesant, and Clinton |vs. Eastern District. The Flushing team will not have a league opponent. Much depends upon the outcome of ‘Townsend Harris-Commerca game, tobe to get as tt shot in sizzling puck boxes, the little too elo: Let's move t fellows. ads and could be heard all —— over the arena In a few minutes the Football and!New York Players Can Rees Pugilistic Man got the idea of the game. | | He was yelling at the top of lis voce} gt Least .305 at the Bat and and pleading with black-tighted fellows ms a. || golv’olap It in the noi Field the Ball With Any in Since that day the Football and Pugi- Histic man has never missed a practice. Hockey a Strenuous Game. This Uttle incident is related for the | sole purpose of showing that the game of hockey 1s some cat-o-nin Is when \{t comes to making an impression. It fs getting more strenuous every se Phe present campaign has the World. Giants to have an outfield that could | average .205 with the stick, wouldn't | it? ‘That sounds almost like a dream, | lbut McGraw {s making arrangements for just such a trio, If Herzog can [ would look pretty sweet for the and there a crowds of athis "P| make good as an outfielder the 800 or there frailing at each other's shins |} iter outQeld ie a certainty. every afternoon and night. The idea at present is to send the if taken a inan 9f nerve and muscle |Gisnis gut to batile with en outfield to play hockey and the Amateur | mage up of Donlin, Herzog and Murray. Hockey League is made up of men of dust that calibre. The first big surprise of came with Princeton, As college boys haye little cha There is not a man in that cluster who can not run 100 yards in less than 11 |seconds. That means that they are like clectricity on the bases. But that is not the main thing. It is hitting that wins the year rule the e against Schoolboys Ready for » the day chosen for all the league that | Give Giants Fastest Trio in the World GIRARO HOLTOIF saRatoca(S KENNETH DAVTON WaNDERE iF He Mista jewines into the pl “FRANKIE” Showing Against Local Man |" for Four Rounds. | MADDEN wel who has been winni n the las story to tight by knocking out Mik k Boston 1 id of what was to nd comtes: at t! A. ¢ The bl u Mik a short whie Madden sen y over on his jaw{? just after he had knocked all the out of him with a volley of ér the st len had Only Members Present. tball ‘Season | pinyea at ——_ SOME OF THE ATHLETIC It—In Race With Longboat |: Neneeainy an ee is Often Done | Roe is 9 CHAMPION SHRUBB | OUT! TRUNS HORSES - time: ainless ic | awrutimmer stm tal MEETS /ON/SHEDUEE}) ie Will Have to Beat the\tsr «vase ah ti Indian Early. eh a hwo a is well. fixed ver, pines ED SHRUBB, the great Eng- who begins training In his Marathon Jan is proba toon den, the world has ever H 1p to fifteen, and even twenty miles. He has never attempts ha | twenty-six miles and 3S yards, and he the will make a ft Regiment | String r Veterans. A. C. i(road sh margin t yine him is Murray, ‘Herzog ‘and Donlin in Outfield ee several occ she has run against as many as three men who worked in re- lays, and yet he has not been defeated. ch of his opponents would stop at| five miles and a fresh runner would take | ‘his place. Notwithstanding these va rlous severe test, Shsubb seems to be invincible. Tt was a favorite pastime of his and, incidentally, # profitable one to beat horses in ten-mile races at the count fairs. On an ordinary race track aj strong horse would be hitched to a light buggy with two men in the seat. Shrubb would run alongside the bugsy. and on avery occasion the horse would tire. Up to this time Shrubb has not] heen beaten by elvher horse or man in distance races Shrubb is not alte | gether sure of his} Amateurs the lad ag . Athletes Busy Training | _ tor Many Indoor Meets SACRED CONCERT Vill in Great Run on Track Engage on New MADDEN PUTS KNOCKOUT OVER "ie. 38" ON YOUNG GLOVER Hub Lightweight Makes Good| udder Dhue eee TY EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN AMUSEMENTS. At Dally Mate2 sharp. 0 OM Hest seats SL. Bye AU, 00. 10 $1.00 KUNG HRDEAND | BATTER ne skins. THE BLUE MAJESTIC 3, DE WOLF HOPPER. CASINO #8, j LULU GLASER in VA Re WM. FAVE R HAM, Hinaco s,| ‘OTHINS | ni ea Coment “MOUSE toi uy, (Clrde aE ith ve Par and Gl END THE WITCHING HOUR JOHN DREW dack Straw HUDSON 10" Hay ga ETHEL BARRYMORE ! 2% pee CRITERION Sri. diy Si ey ape turday at WM. 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Matinees Wed. wh “Madden with ter: stom on hi ae BETTY, Huber's = * Museum. | PS PRINCESS RAUAH i = CEOPAIR DAE } fine heen a ape ae “ot Murphy Hit Hard a fit ow ot In Ticket Decision athle \ will ” i pete In these games to-night at th ' (eesHRi Rs TANT OMT Arms a 10170) EET Mo || TOY SHOW { AAP ATOM rate PLR and MADISON HOLIDAY | a record list of entries. ‘There wil QUAR 1 ers ALC. thon This will hold aM wi for the swimmer in the Amateur plonships at the of New York The Naviers will hold th and the Brook: tio big Athiette College ir mer | indo mei Around High Athletic News and Gossip School Circuit Young, the former Manual miler and of the dar ia now the amateur teams around New York me ; ae 1 *resc St. Nichols mame: Hl The Roys' High Schoo! track team will be) Erasmus, and ht 4 peo senate. Srovsenias Bhs Nik holas, the!” Last season Donlin hit .834, Herzog wee Contestant for honors thie year, Inj lus wuaht, i nodarers, the Garetoans And th hit .300 and Murray cracked them out | tne qiorvard dash and the low hurdies | ark Athletio Clu at the rate of .282, Taking an average, O'Leary looks about a# strong as any An ¢ Fr wine fooled them, however, and completely | of those three we find an outfield that | oaeeevound the circuit, In the mile Ma . ithe ot routed the champion Crescents in the) cay nit 305. The beauty of it is that will be the representative of the Red and | jaa opening game of the season. The Cres. | 1) Hirer ere Meee stajor te better at a longer distance, r cents came right back, however, and| they are all getting better every proved in th s-country champion. ' ote trimined ‘the Princetoniang by a’ cloae| aon. Donlin's greatest ambition hi aig ‘ Vos th hota | Phe water ‘ t score last Tuesday niet was one o: Tayi 1v0-yard junior cham: | Weber, 1 M 1 < CEO ee an ie eat itary | been to lead the league tn batting, but | rhe Taylor, the IM a rie agued Weber, Burne. 3 of the spor for three times in succession he has} : : wren hamplonship games) missed 1t by @ narrow margin. Next Boye! Iligh'a est ean in cha field evente Ik) A new rule w bronce to eymnas © play arch, when the | Goulden, the high jumper and per. has been pul Mennant’ will Marchy when tel season he expects to land the coveted Gouden: a ; jtave something more to play for than | prike. edie not abiy | —— _— -{ It is not certain, however, that Her- ONeary will fu LAND HAS BETTER OF zog will play the outfield. He must — ———- first make good in that position. Other- [wei the Olympic i DALTON IN FAST GO.| wise seymour, the old reliable, wilt ANSWERS TO QUERIES. | testy tent ttt - | th = be kept on the job. Seymour fell off posit bai me (Special to lamentably In his hitting last season. DowhLingr, Te the @porting Halt “| Where 1 LOS ANGE Dec, 19. The best he could do was .267. This] wae aimost tempted A mays to BI bet you $10 to $1 on eharupion ti yland had quite . anager Was almo: pled O wWho wins, and how muc Bylapd had quite # is especially bad, as it will be remem |wur as the race was very close be would pando. Who WiKt winner? MUTUAL. ‘| Boston, Ma 1h, bbon. Dalton at the end of ten rounds of] bered that four years ago he led the] not take the chance Sy says he could 4 To t ere hard fighting last night before Me- National Jas, aegis W with the stick. By i#/have won for a certainty, fur he felt A pays B10, i o Roart ns © Carey's club, Hyland was unable to | * geondertul Held Jy na ina @hcetinn alien Kindly sta \ . a td seymour, rhe the way, has had @ pe- onsidered a . ‘ oad of De Mare (00,00 na stop the Kid, who fought back strong, | culiar career, ew man in the lea otwithstand- How far was Rutt ahead o! APA! Eyrope. t et fact he has at the end of the mile sprint in the #la-| ference about the 1 New York Club but in the clinches was no mateh for q janet} Myland. Viand was inclined to use rough tac- END plicit pra ties in several rounds, usl the heel Of his giove un the local boy's face, aie Wy Bate ah utdlider In the fenth they sluaged fren gong at the wea on League ¥, ® pitcher and phen n setting things At St, Louis for two years and fast’ season he hung up ap enviable ord. In stolen bases he was second les league and in total bases on hits come nest to Wagner. Murray made re base hits than any ian. in eat i oon rom the fact ‘and still he came a day race? It was so close the judges beai~ ain making @ decision. the Sporting Editor Are Dorando and Hayes profession- als A CONSTANT HEADER Pigte Need. aa, a Dorande won ty thirty races in E ¢ Bporting Ea state whi of an when going & wh wheels, CARNIVAL HACKETT 23 5AnE ao} Mrs. FISKE {I Salvation Net, Ev Meath Stun Bet a 'BLANCHE_ BATES nore ‘Veco /ORLORIAL I “iy me” DEVIL White and Mari Navighs Lake i SOrued SEAR Reds! suvey + Dee GARDEN THEATRE 73°. a Grand Hockey at Silver ThoLions: Mouse Mite Alinehter, ‘ ST. HIGHOLAS RINK, mae | a ee 3Y WIDOW sai “Hae | MUSICAL. IMIMARN KLEIN'S NEXT SUNS OrOn” | §p, | Re Ge KNOWLES | | ser iS r BLOOMFIELD ZEISLER =TROPOLITAN | OLLER RINK * i CIRCLE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSt ae a ora = BROOKLY MENTS, LPs ine tied Vaudeville wud Abve’ | Bp 20 Megins je urate *