The evening world. Newspaper, October 16, 1911, Page 12

DESPITE LONG SERVICE UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY Giants’ Star Pitcher Demonstrates That Even Though His Arm Might Not Be as Good as Ever, His Experience and Knowledge More Than Balance Score, the Polo Grounds Saturday af He Cie MATHEWSON, when hi edge of perfect condition. @ stepped up to face the Athletics at ternoon, was an athlete on the very had trained himself to the moment fer the great test. And he settled most decisively the whisper that he has Gaturday, and Meyers was responsible for it. In 1905 he shut out the Athletics in three straight games. In all the post-season series played by the Giants Matty has lost only a single @olitary game, and that was against Boston. @omething of a record! Wis the game was wong on I noticed @ curious thing. In three different places in the bleachers almost directly behind the pitcher from the batte position mirrors were flashed. sun, luckily, wae partly ebecured by a haze, and the flashes were geldom bright enough to annoy the bat- ters. The flashes came cnly when the Giants were at bat, and when Chief Myers was up the mirrore were partiou- Jariy busy. Once, when the eun came out while Meyers was at bat, there were @everal flashes, and ali three mirrors ‘The' big Indian paid no ettention to the annoyance. Probably some Quaker fans were trying to help out their team end incidentally win a bet or two Hope they were well stung! Trickery ef this @ort has no place in sport. HEY say Bender has @ wooden faco--that he never emiles, The man who originated that idea must be wearing binders, Gmile? Why, Bender, even in the pinches, used a grin @ foot wide. Espetially when he was Ridaing Snodgrass after having twice mafied- him with the ball did the dig Indian smile and smile, “Look out for your bean,” quoth Ben- “Get ready to duck,” retorted Saed- thing in connection with the game? It was the strange allenco of the crowd. One would expect 10 eco the baseball fans half mad with en- thesiasm on such an occasion. But the enthusiasm wasn't there, Or if it wae thére it was bottled up. Perhaps « @f the fans ¢elt like @ friend of mine ‘whom I, met on the way out after the game. ‘ “Hello! says 1. eays be D’ you know the most striking “Bay, wasn't it ” MWesn't very nolsy,” saya lL. “Do any yelites?” “Well, no," saya he, “I felt ike it Bew and then, but just as I was about to ohirp I thought of my check sent to the ball club and never returned and the Degun to “go back.” Today, although he has pitched successful ball for eleven years, he is at his best.. If Matty’s arm was ever better—which it may have been —his increased experience and his absolute tnowledge of the game more than even the score. His con- trol 1s a marvel. That fadeaway te & veritable aerial hump. And when, emiling and delfberate, he tossed the first ball, he knew that bo was still the “class.” Others come and go, but Matty ts till with ue year after year. When- ever the big test comes he fs rendy for {t. He makes good. In two ‘world’s series only one un has been scored on Matty. That was on geate I didn’t get and what the epecu- Jators stung me for, and I choked up.” HE came gentieman went on to remark that he had made a search for somebody who DTD get ticl after fn @ check, “Asked about Afteen of the boys, and INCH there ten't much in the prea ent baseball aljuation to congratu- late the New York Baseball Club upon, barring the winning of o came end @ fattening of the tenk account, let me mention the two things that do Geserve @ kindly mention, Wirst, the policing of the approaches to Grounds was perfect. The city did right thing, Cer once. A block from the entrance the crowd had to pass in- epection and abow its tickets. Result, 0 Jamming at the gates, quick action and plenty of it for those holding paste- boards, No ewirling crush caused by Fra trantio charge Of the tloketiees; 20 ing women Qo one walked the Lag Lcled ‘The ofher thing ts the great new grand stand, @ thing of beauty and a Joy forever—or as long as the stucco, eilt and blue paint Inst. It’ nificent and very strikingly Diece of concrete work. Quite a con- trast to the old wooden fire trap, And by the way, talking of fire traps, 414 you ever notice the length of time taken to empty one of these big stande? After Saturday's game J lngered o while, and looked the crowd over, Per- fect as the arrangements are, it took fully thirty minutes for the grandstands to clear, First tlie lower stands swept out over the fleld and marched across topping 10 dig their toes into the ground where the mighty Matty had been standing only a few minutes be- The clearing of the lower stand didn’t take long, but from the upper atand the solid columns poured down the chutes long after the fleld had been practically emptied. It's all right with the concrete atands to linger along half an hour, 1% you're not very hungry. But imagine having to take half an hour to empty the old wooden stand in event of fire. Mighty lucky the old stand burned down at night. Champion Ad Wolgast Coming Here on Friday Cadillac Boy to Train at Road House Near Philadelphia for Wells Bout. BY JOHN POLLOCK. HAMPION AD WOLGAST will ar- C rive here on Friday to pr-pare himself for bis coming interna- tional ten-round battle against Matt Wells, the English champion, which takes place at a local club on the night of Nov. 3. Tom Jones, manager of Wol- gast, received a telegram from the little champion to-day etating that he was glad he is matched with Wells and that he has decided to get into condition for the mill at a roadhouse just outside of Philadelphia where he trained for his battles with Knockout Brown “One-Round" Hogan. Wells will go to Rye Beach to-day and start working for the contest. Billy Papke, the middleweight champion, will ot git a chance to fight at the West Side A, C, @f Now Orleans unlem he comes down in lls’ de- mand for his services, Billy wav offerel a match With Eddie MoGoorty, the great Western sniddie- ‘weight, by the officials of the above named club, Wut ashe wired back that he must receive 49 per Gent, of We gross receipts negotiations bave boon Geopped Hr the prent, Jack Dillon, the Indi WAN oon come East for ee good mea in his clam, another important 7 of Osbikos's, at 8 show to be brougit the might of Nov, 1, It should and | 4 BOXING SHOWS TO-NIGHT. At Fordon A, C., Walter Coffey of California vi jack Denning for ten rounds. At East Avenue A. C., Maspeth, L. 1, Frank Hufnagle vs. Johnny Roth for ten rounds, At Brooklyn Beach A. C., South Brooklyn, Joe Bedell vs. “Cy” Smith for ten rounds, At Carlisle A. C., Ridgewood, Ray Hatfeld Hughey Haggerty for ten roun Matches Arrangp: Bert Keyes and Walter Little of Chicago will meet for ten rounds at the Sharkey A, C. on Wednesday night. . the prospects are that” Mike. wi io ‘that capacity. at the boxing shows to id by hh Popova ought to Ine, auc: te | cena aa i¢ points of Micensed referee by the State Moxing | THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1911. Py ‘The turning point of th fans, It took place in the by pitching over two strikes, nalled for the hit-and-run, first. Then there would hi Given Trophies The Giants were out in socloty last night, and they were all dressed up like champions; that is, they all wore thelr, @laddest of rags, Rube Marquard, who’ to ala to pitch to-day's game, being the only methber of them, though, that appeared in @ full-dress suit. This all happened at a benefit given the men at the New York ‘Theatre. Charley Faust, the Jing of the team, who thinks him- self as great @ ball player as any one in the country, and who only wants a chance like Matty got Saturday to Prove It, was decked out in his Sunday best. He was called upon for @ speech and, among other things, sald: “We're sure to win the pennant.” It hasn't yet been definitely learned whether or going to be given @ share of ate receipts. Manager McGraw presented with fa watch, @ diamond-studded fob and a diamond ring, The glint of the stone almost blinded J. (for Jinx) daust. Bach member of the club was given @ hand- some silver tfophy consisting of a stlver ball inscribed with the words, “Giants, Champions of 1913," suported by three crossed bats, The pennant was hoisted by Jim Corbett. Th were about twenty-three vaudeville acts on the pros gramme, A Dill will be Introduced tn the Nature whey It convenes again, to tax all professional | baseball clube on the gross receipts, Phe recent | gcandals ‘in connection with the sal eke tal the and e 0 for the world’s series between ‘Giants, t wa om” Auiletice, by reap ied on the money” will ‘of ten ‘Dero each game, for the purchase and construction of | Maseball grounds’ for" the x players, team composed of six of the ro x | the: tevetite bal joung amateur former Giants semi-proplaye All Stary in a ref he knows the fin the game aad heddes fought many battles ta bis ay. WHOLESALE eoateet, a both men ase clever, pO Le Coe il IS OUR NOTTO We thereby save you at least one-third on your clothes. Style and talloring perfect. We make everything on the premises. to measure from $20.00 to $50.00. suit $40.00, Tuxedo $35.00, made of imported drape, silk lined throughout. Portfolio of Fashion for the asking. ARNHEIM, °aair'3.¢ Sult or overcoat Full Dress Samples and “Tose PHILADELPHIA.” FANS Berone ---cco.c20200- AFTER. M’Graw Tells of Play That Made Victory Possible Last Saturday BY JOHN M’GRAW, Manager of the Giants. me was overlooked by aine-tenthe of the rth inning. with nobody out and Murray et bat. Bender quickly got Murray in a hole I was greatly in fear of @ double play, ao, standing at first base, I sig- As soon as Bender drew his arm back Snod- grass bolted for second. Murray swung hard at the ball and it went fast but toe late to get Snodgrass at second, eMthough Murray wae ad Snodgrass not got the good start to second there would have deen a certain double play, or at least Snodgrass would have been retired. been no opportunity for Snodgrass to score on Collins's fumble. I conser that this play won the game for the Giants. Giants, Dressed Up, |Queal Smashes Billy Qu champion other record by covering the course of ‘the Morris A. A., @ distance of a trifle over four miles and a half, in the fast time of 2im, 411-68. ‘The previous record for this journey wes 22m. 45s., made by Harry McGinn of the New York A, C. Queal took part in the weokly chase of ‘the Morris A, A. for amateurs for the purpose of Other cross-country stars who partict- Pated tn the run were John Daly, the former five-mile amateur champion of America, and Frankie Joyce of the Mo- hawk A. C., and Harry Hollawell Rath Se 'y Hollawell of the classed Queal said that if he had known the course better he would have cut off nother minute of the record. Runners of the Pa Harry Jensen, the Marathon King of the club, won the run of the Pennant ALC, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK CLASS BY HIMSELF WHEN IT COMES TO TAMING WHI Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). ‘The men who make it a busines tucked Nc he Da Te hapa ™ the honors. major portion of the purse. than @ percentai prospects of winning, phia boys’ chances of winning are poor. three out Sf the remaining six games to capture the world’s championship, while the Athletics will have to take four of the remaining stx to carry off The New Yorks have only to play at a .500 per cent. gait, while their Slowtown opponents have to go at a .667 clip to bring down the As the Giants have hardly lost a series to any club this season, and as they have in most every case played for better f .000 per cent., it will be seen how splendid are their Now Giants Have Only to Play at .500 Per Cent. Gait to Win Title of betting big money on baseball have been epending all the time since Saturday night trying to hedge be of the different complexion of the series. the Athletics heavily, but now that the Giants Most of the gamblers the first gai y ay thoy recognize that, mathematically speaking, the Philadel- ‘The New Yorks have only to win Yale Eleven to Tackle West Point, While Princeton Faces Annapolis, Snodgrass was on first base HB preliminary season for the dig college teams {s over and from now on they will be forced to Dut forth their best efforts in order to win, Yale will mect by far her toughest op- ponent #o far when she journoys to West Point Saturday. The Cri do not play the Soldiers this the followers of the gridiron game can't get ® good chance to compare the streagth of the two prominent Eastern colleges on this game. ‘The Tigers will have every position in thetr Mneup tested Saturday when the Navy ia met. It fs an odd coincidence that Uncle Sam's two pet teams should be up against those bitter rivals—the Bulldog and tho Tiger—on the same day. Penn faces the stiffest «ind of a propo- sition Saturday by encountering Brown, The Providence ‘boys are reputed to have an unusually good eleven this sea- gon and the Harvard team, which won't play a real hard game until Oct. 2, will have this team to contend with on that occasion, Of all the teams in the “Big Five” the Harvard and Yale elevens are the only ones whoge goal line remains uncrossed by elther player or ball. Princeton, Cor- nell and Pennsylvania have all suffered the humiliation of being scored upon. ‘The Ithacana received the worst shock of this trio when Penn State defeated them, The Tigers were forced into a tle with Lehigh, Probably néver before has ed Another Record setting pace for them. C. Those men far out- the others. After the race e ne A. C. covered @ team this early in the season bri as much in th ree days as did Old } themselves with glory, three of them|sau. After the poor showing against romping home jn front in the cross-| Lehigh, {t wasn't thought that in the country runs which they took part in, | short intervening time before the Col- gate contest much could be done to bolster the team, but nevertheless on Sate in 20m, urday the Tigers showed {mprovement 2%; Harry Smith cap- tured the event of the sradhurst Field | in all departments of the game Club in 17m, 698. and George Hooley| In spite of the large score roiled up Anishea in front in the West Harlem | against Virginia Polytechnic the Bull- . CC run, dog played loose football, Yale dld lots Marguerita Sylva appears im Franz Lehar's operetta “Gypsy Love” at the Globe Theatre. To-Day Marguerita Sylva in her own songs from “Gypsy Love” on Edison Phonograph Records at all Bdison dealers. Never before has a great musical artiste made records ot her own songs from the opera in which she is the star, so that the records could go on sale simultaneously with the first performance of the production. — In two of the records Madame Sylva is assisted by Arthur Aibro and Carl Haydn, principal tenors in “Gypsy Love.” Louis F. Gottschalk, director of the “Gypsy Love” orchestra, conducted the orchestra which accompanied Sylva on these records, Madame Sylva makes records only for the Edison Phono- raph, which is only on of the many reasons why you should ne an Edison Phonograph. A list of the Sylva records at all Edison dealers or by writing THOMAS A. EDISON, Inc. Lakeside Ave., Orange, N. J. done at any time they' broke Strong Test for Bulldog and Tig this er on Saturda of fumbling, and the coache: de- termined to take drastic measures to wipe out this defect this week. For t reason secret practice will probably be cut out for the entire week. The Crimson players played better to- gether against Williams than they have son. ‘However, the playing rules many times and had heavy penalities put @n them, Their defense was excellent. ‘The injury to Capt. Bill Munk, the ROBE From PHILADELPHIA | Bovuut A TictreT FROM A SPECULATOR } MEYERS STEAMING HOME AT 40 HNots aN HOUR. . Vikings of Bayonne yesterday afternoon. The Vikings outweighed the mercurys by about two hundred ponuds. The score was 12-0, The Mercurys would Uke to hear from all teams averaging one hufdred pounds, Communicate with William Wheyhausen, No. 442 Fifteenth street, West New York, N. J. —_——__—_ Young Erne Defeats Jim Perry. (Special to Tho Evening World.) PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 16.— Young Erne's superior knowledge of the boxing game enabled him to defeat Jim Perry, the rugged Pittsburgh scrapper, in the windup at the National A_.C. AMUSEMENTS. crack tackle, 1s causing Corneil to 5 PULATRES, mourn more than did the loss of the LYCEUM i" at ARreb game to Penn State. His injured leg ‘Matinee ‘Thurs, & Nat. ¥.15 may necetatate his absonce from the |} Mice BILLIE BURKE gin tae line-up for the rest of the season, ss RUNAWAY —————_ ph he Laat dada sebalils New Lots Beat Rochester. EMPIRE Bri? 5 (5 EPs ee The New Lots A. C. of Brooktyn|| JOHN DREW ix A SINGLE MAN added one more victory to its long string by defeating Rochester, cham- plons of the Eastern League, to the tune of 3 to 2 at New Lots Oval yes- MoDonough's pitching and a one-handed catch of Burch's line drive winners were the terday. by Holmes for features of the game. the pine 1 Mercury Outweighed by Vikings. The Mercury football team of Union J. were defeated by the Hill, N. 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