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: j ! Bale Putting Off Until Thursday Sale of Seats for Single Games of Post-Season Series Hasn’t Made a Hit With the } Fans. you wink ry get in on the ground floor for the post-season serien at the Polo Grounds you'll have to buy eats for all threo games scheduled. Bf it ts possible for you to eee but one game or maybe two, your mailed ap- : plleation containing a certified check OF @ money order will not be given con- Aeration until after those of the fans who want seats for tho entire local i nerica, Then seats will nave to be pur- | ahased at open sale. This 1s one of the rules laid down by the National Com- mission, and while it 1s fine for the two clubs concerned and calculated to {merease the gross receipts, it hasn't rmet with general favor among the fans who don’t relish taking the leaving i ‘There are thousands of fans who want | to eee the Glants and Athletics tn ac- don who will consider themselves lucky 4f they can tear themselves away from ‘usiness for one day. They couldn't afford three games, even if they had the time. Then there are others, Ike travelling men, who Possibly stay tm town for the series and who might ‘want to ace the first or maybe the sec- daa of the games. To tnese people the National Commission's rule seems un- | fair for various reasons, the most im- Portant of which ts that they will have to be content with the least desirable eee le. ager of Wolgast, to atir up interest in the appearance of Wolgast in a bout dere with K. 0. Brown or some other of the star lightwelghts he ls pursuing the } Tigtt course. Jones has been in town Bearly a week n He came all the way trom the West, certainly not on a Pleasure trip, but has done nothing but , demand fabulous purees for his cham- on in conferences with rival manag. and promoters, Gabfests are tiresome as a rule, but they get the names of those interested in the papers and that seems to be the main idea in the sporting world these Gays. Possibly when Jones thinks he * bes fulfilled his mission of advance man for the lightweight champion he will wind up affairs hurriedly and sign art!- les with Dan Morgan, the taciturn man- ager of Brown, ; ft ts the purpose of Tom Jones, man- | j O Manager Levy, who is aseootated ' with George McDonald in the man- agement of Matt Wells, has called of the match with Wolgast. This is really funny. A match between Wells and Wolgast has never béen arranged Gespite a report sent out to that effect. ‘Tom Jones was surprised when asked to | confirm the report. He vehemently de- | nied that even preliminary arrange: memts for a matoh had been agreed on ; and straightaway hunted up Messrs. Levy and McDonald, He gave both a vert) dressing down for issuing false feports and coupling Wolgast's name | with them, ATTLING NELSON 1s still an at- | B traction for local boxing fana, ap- parently, even though he has | passed nis title along to Ad Wolgast. | Hundreds went to Johuson's roadhouse Yesterday to see the Battler in training &nd seemed impressed with the style of the man who dethroned the great Joe Gans. Strange as It sounds, Nelson has never fought in New York, and it will be interesting to note just what kind of ® card he will prove. He drew @ record house over in Ph Gelphia when ho boxed Terry McG @ six-round bout Nelson's this week will be Willle Bee tough little local scrapper w among the unknowns when Nelson was enjoying hi elgn of popularity UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, OOTOBER 9; 1911. BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK THE STEP-BROTHERS ae EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN’ MATTY HAS CERTAIN CURVES FOR CERTAIN BATTERS THE "SNAP HITTER " SIMPLY FILLS A SWIFT STRAIGHT __. ‘PRINCETON LEADS BIG ELEVENSIN TOTAL OF POINTS Bub Tigers’ pee Have Been Made Against the Weakest of Teams. College football teams are getting right down to business as the bis) amen of the season loom up ahead. Each eleven has a well-organized schoo! of teachers In charge of the work, and the training table and rigid routine of diet, college work, team practice and sleep is in force, ‘The football student ts already com- paring scores for the first few games, and the total places Princeton at the head of the big #ix in the Eastern col- legen, with Yale nd, Harvard third, Penneytvania fourth, Dartmouth fifth and Cornell #ixth. The first three have #o far kept their goal line from being crossed by foreign foot or turf kicked | ball, but the last three have each three points against them from field goals. ‘The big scores that Princeton has run up have been made against teams that fare rated somewhat weaker than those that have faced Yale, while Harvard hi J only two games to three for ‘er Tho total points of the larger colleges to date ds as follows: Princeton, 10 ; Harvard, 23 to « to 3; Darmouth, 75 to 8; Cornell, 66 to foe SWEDES SHOULD CUT BIG FIGURE IN OLYMPIC MEET At Least That Is What Ernie| Hjertberg, Who's Training Foreigners, Believes. If the Swedish athletes who aro to take part in the Olympic games at Stockholm, Sweden, next July do not win the majority of events they in, then the most # rised man at the big meet will be Ernest W. Iertberg, the well known trainer who Is getting start these athletes in condition, In a letter | to his friend, Erte J. Hillstrom, Hyjert+ berg says that he never saw any men improve a0 fast, take such excellent care of themselves and also obey instru ike the Swedish athletes. Hjertberg urther states that the forelgners’s heart and souls are in r work, as th want to Win as many events as poss. blo announces that in a co things in the irhtwelght ple of weeks to ow ivistor son ways ho may tr arrange a match for Packey w Wells, but } @@ yet has dono pn | It. It tsn't likely tha } any business deall ai st ' doesn't beliey i fs anxious to mingle with Packey since | he learned ¢ Chicago lad made ' 3% pounds for Milwaukee maten ‘ } that fell thr nd did it without a sawing off qi - | (winoine UP THE SEASON. \\¢ One ticket to Parad er who can tell Glants and they can get 106,000 1 all parks every du Instead of b« fn the wo: Bugs Raymond the Gu. ., cago, Yesterda the box Pighty-f aslons raw the Browns *! er the Tigers in the jun gles in St. Louis. The first score was 2 to 2 and tne secoad was Fyto ur pald a one aa oo mma Y McFarland will be in town | alfred p in 1 minute 1 better than the for John Daly, the champion billiard pla, ef, Will defend his title Ina match w De Oro at which will last for BASKETBALL LI! LEAGUE NOw. CATSKILL, Oct. 9 Jay with president, a Mosars. The cite Metal rete are TY rat and Le sin the ne STANDING OF THE CLUBS. we ponat LEAGUB, GAMES SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY, | THE “HAY MAIER” HITTER OAEANS NIS Bacte On A SWIFT sTra(ent ONE | THE SHORT-GRIP OF | ‘THE “CNAP-NITTER"- HE CAN | MIT THE FAST STRAIGHT BALL | SO"“MATTY* FEEDS Him THE’ “FADEAWAY" “MATTY” Was A STice TRY*OUT every MORNING With Ro INSOM Million in Bets Besides World s Title SOME OF MATTY’S RULES: FOR TRAINING. Take full nine hours of sleep. Never allow anything to worry you. ‘Toke @ work-out of forty-five minutes every morning. ‘Try out every curve util certain they ero under perfect control and then test your speta. Take a thorough rub down and message after vach work-out to prevent muscles from gotting sti. Don't imagine that everything depends upon the pitcher. batters and base runners win the games, FOR FIGURING UNFAMILIAR BATTERS. Never give a suap-hitter a fast ball over the heart of the plats. When a batter “chokes” his bat pitch btm a curve or keep the fast ones on the corner away from him, If a batter stands in the far corner of the hox and entches his Giants’ Mainstay Realizes Big Job Once More; His Arm Is as Good as Ever, and He Says It Won't Ee His Fault If Athletics Win Out. BY BOZEMAN BUIGER, HILE the town ¢ madly on {ts rush for tickets and clubs are maelstroms of ba | while cafes, saloons | W argument, and while special trains | | by the hundreds are being started on their long Journey to New York, | there 4s a quiet-mannered, blond-hatred athlete on the upper end of the tsiand | calmly preparing himself for the event which for a week will make him the most talked of man in the world, This young fellow, Christy Mathewson by name, million dollars in wagers that rests heavily on his that all this hullabaloo will bo finally almed at him. He knows that he will! y the spot on which five million thoughts are centred i} Try and imagine yor in that spot. Then try and feel the responsibility | | that rests up Would it ma The realizes the welght of a vod right arm, He reattzes | “HAY MAKER” HITTER HE 1S OEATH OW SLOW CURVES, THERE Fore *MATTY" serves Him THE Fasr STRAIGHT ones CANT SWING FAST ENOUGH TO HIT THEM, | ONAMERICAN Depends on Good R.ght Arm of “Matty GIANTS PLAYING ON GROUNDS OF BROOKLYN TEAM | — Last Week of the Schedule | Foolishly Arranged by Et bets and Murphy. The Giants begin their last week of the season with a game in Brooklyn this afternoon, They play there again to-morrow and then come to the Palo Grounds for three games in two days, which will wind up the season, While they are finishing out the schedule so foolishly arranged by Mr. Ebbets and Mr, Munphy the Athlettes Will have a full week's rest before go- into the big series. ‘The only reason for lengthening the tional League season until Oct. 12 was to get In what is known as the “Columbus day game! Mets and Murphy fnsisted upon this und to save any bad feelings the other members of the committee agreed to tt. Next season schedule of both gues will eng simultaneously tf sueh men as Garry Berrman, John T. Brush and others have anything to say, The games that are now being played are merely formalities. As a rule the race is over by this time, and after a team has won the pennant the players look upon the remaining contests as jokes, in fa he public looks upon them the. | same way When McGraw put Charley Faust tn THE LONG-GRIP OF THE AND HE ; to pitch the last Inning at the Polo | |Grounds on Saturday {t was the only | real fun the fans had during the chilly t was probably the fun- has ever been staged i the Boston players it just as much as ants and the fans, wbtable Faust Was that he to bat after he game was made no difference to umpires and players 1 the bases, and he He wen! out and *—LEAQUESEASON \Hi ghlanders Had Disappointing | Season, Only Finishing in The ¢ these la ts do not Intend to look upon last games sertously ‘They will mere Sixth Place. ‘ —e vu tous’ The American League season nt | esterday GRAND CIRCUIT STARS WILL RACE IN AUSTRIA. mar- 9.—Two of the ult performers xt year. John ANO, 2.02 1+ West ed in sixth 7 ween HM although ad and our al the maall, will pe raced In A un Madden has sold sop Vienna, the pre: us, an Ameri Leyburn, from the than cen sold to 1, Schler- ‘This welght of respohsibility has been }ably take a squint at them wht bat on the amall end for a big swing, pitch Lim all the singer and will also go to Austria ae on Matty before, It does not make him| are playing their exhibition a with | your command: seventh and the —— tremble, but 3 far from regarding it] the All-Stars of the American Leagu Most of the long owingers strike at a fast ball aftor it 19 too Inte. } AMUSEMENTS. ho a joke, “Certainly Ldo not lke the | Ut that ix not altogetier certain, At the Polo Grounds a left-harded batter should never be given 8 becn a disappointing = PUA ci hALUE Bos saubhe/denendence know." et added, “1 do not a EG CotetS corner, or he is lable to hit it over the short ne York (sanar ho oa Be a te dele Waving ia home tn Mt lfare te te cient” When o batter crowds the plate force him away by pitching the ton. 1,0 Dac Mate (ibe Nicholas place for bis usual 1 i ball close to his h by the pitching nN workout. "But what am I todo? There} SS esses 2 to the players ie no alternative, I've got to win or 1 shave often been asked how do I know r c t they didn’t fare \iose, and, naturally, the only thing for of |what to pitch to w batter that T ha pette H eon, befo: will admit cha Bate ; ‘5 me to do ts to pr wae | meyer keonp bes I Lae Reus SA When play the Athletics tn my ability will pe uen H | Phjadelphia next Monday the game wilt |1 have done all that T can 1 will feel “T had at least it Is not a thing ts be : 4 »© reproduced by the Compton electric that I have done right by the public, e and tip me off | ot the Ae cane tee aaa wevourd at the Polo nds, as will REPUBLIC {i ven if 1 should tone, fie e al batters |" Getting down to cases, the Glants' | be ¢ . ; pind SAY a beidesi2et| RETIRE WOMAN 2 AN jit. . xplained the great | ‘ Saanan wtown, The board 9 the entire een aie Nan aa ave other thane line ninuie ec NaN) ‘ bites a batter who ‘chokes’ his bat, that han ae bee y play being reproduced Just | BELASCO 78 otk on the club, and I would™be woil satts: |tion T knew that most letics tn cy which means go gfasp near the centre, 8 it occurs on the field of | BELASCO ret ‘ton Sat. |fled to do my share, but when the pub |though they meant w guossed {2 Would pitch a curve ball or a feat | Vnresents eA WEEK) {ie insiets upon mo taking the entire | wrong, only real ne one: O8..the. ouisign corner away fe onsibiiity upon my shoulders tt ts aj that T got came from Kid Gleason, the ue Pegi Me nay Fan agar AMUSEMENTS. 1 care to assume.” yete of the Phillies. He | Way are usua ae f jlittie more than T care to assum |veter ) tthe Phillies.” He [WAY ore vet ob tho, plate. Tt is| Us avr FAN MATTY ALWAYS KNOWS WHAT tang he had 4 Aceh the {deal form of tin ‘Whey |W LY CEUM TO DO. ami aceu sw very quickly and apeed 1s ple for | the } , > traine et mi them. Puta fast one in the groove for pa Aaa ea HAUT LR OTR ad his them and they will KI it) Tt Js usually phat the worie 1 co in | ONEW. COMEDY, laa and without or¢ i! Hah tha safe to pitch a curve to nd of & Oe aes oF training. ar would" tattor tecanae if ho hits it the enancen team to win the | EMELRL Gait felt Ra His ‘rules of ‘training Are are that he will pop the ball up tn the {for | SOHN Dist bin ASingle Man Ing them to the letter. lMATTY EXPERT ON FINDING wai Y fe a Rood type of that fret PHODSON discon Matty's first rule 1s plenty of sleep. i : k nd of batter, | He retires about }2 o'block at night and| FLAWS IN STRANGE TEAM, | De rey geinmar! FRANK Mel CObONtaL {uer, oes es ‘% remains tn the hay for full nine houra,| Asa of fact, Mathewson doot | y FOr SW 4d Bi, Eves, “6 Con. The. Leading Lagy, Hix next rule 18 a thorough workout | most ¢ batters when | sat fed co AWE MARRS Wyse 8 Byes Sete! Bike, Meine hans ae once. a day. He secures Wilbert, Kobin- | th play, | would f A great run getting K n | ROSE STAHL yu LHAMBRA 2 a or Grove Hartley as & catcher and rat expert t way they make the pitchers ‘oc P , way 8 Ao the ate BY Ane smail end 60 aa t a eae ia KMCKERBOCKER Bo pores ete hee nite “ine, eran Aa 0, Ba | DONALDBRIAN ° fame With Just as much speed as I wa ae = ne sath (on it will usually. swing too late or | _AMUSEMENTS, — CRITERION 1 heave am. say WEARE EXCLUSIVELY TAILORS and the largest in the world. Every high class up-to-date woolen material made can be found HENRY Kil -| here, 100 styles of English worsteds and {[ pjajhouses$)!.c cheylots, sult to measure $25.00. The Shete tolimbue vt abba Yin) int land or Comly cloth, light in weight but warm, | of sth 8 lp LY bac AMERICAN LEAG plaid back or silk lined, overcoat to measure vita BLINN 1S ie BOS SS || fetes $30.00. Fuildresssuit $40.00. Tuxedo $35.00 MANHATTAN |, van te wa, Ricasl Wesley | silk lined and made of imported drape worsted. « “THE VIRGINIAN” 4 Winsig, Mat. Datly, ' Style and tailoring cannot be exceiled elsewhere. WATLACK'S G20 6, eat Burlesquers ‘ 3 “ian ARLASS 1s DISRAELT ny : POETS, Broadway J4 EMPIRE: ARNHEIM & Ninth St. i ea batter 1 ke that a 7 Phe PO Ay Deserved | access, —World. ; and he will kill it, Out In Chica Biny tevalar tuseatols ; ‘ the recent trip, Rube Marquard lost Als 4ith. ly Mats Rentorvts Pay’ ty i 12 tig Vs al one day and Frank Schulte hit "AROUND THE wort ab Wot IETF , : him for four successive hits. On his SERIES of COMPLETE uae SPROUT AL », ry; Matty |Bext eppearagce Maras eae Wintor Gardens.) fis , DARK cUseIA are Ae He eae IKE ea CUTaUAGKES GABY DesLYS | hevue OF evs, DEN eaeiaad ‘ y COM sist GAR Mat iste ju nfa- | MATTY. CLS COMEDY peinorrow Bun, MOVING P CERES & VAULUY Th milla ts very simple and yet] “Joe Tinker t@ another of those lo % Bun'y Pal Is the Strinzs T 5 1 very Ona 1. |" sail Matty. “Lut fo Way tt ths A A GEORGE BEB AN in KNIGHIS i Cohn wil nent vn ox nee Juat when t tuinie be || GERTRUDE fi ort in REWFLLION | ASTOR Esa .5e 9 | ‘aisles Sat ithe Er URAL rath at the frat all be |) Broadway stints te ‘ “DGAR SELWYS in THE HURIIG & SAMO * iiivectton g batter w from the ations | MMW, THELDS THE NEVER HOME Hew AM STERUAM Ha, He GIN GIRLS ee en mee the poattfon he takes in the box and hits me safely. He ioTH ST i aa avaae ahead © He Prenton hs iin mT AW | ‘ a Oa i Mate, ACAD mye Or MUst. = passes: -BY Dabsacat a a ee He. JULIAN ELTINGE | | in The Fascinating Widow.” |x GALEAY | jaicon sue v2 EOMUND BREESE. 5s! ina ein? His Bi Titty, Hwa, 4silat Mats, Wed cus & E Mr ead wa. ROLLER | Mo ropoiian Rink 43, sa | SKATING |" 3:2" Band Concer's