The evening world. Newspaper, April 11, 1912, Page 14

44m EVENING WORLD, zmUmevar, AruiL 1a, iva. BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK (nceSi*ee ROBERT EDGREN : EVERYBODY'S DOIN’ IT!--WHAT? WHY, GOING TO THE BALL GAMES! DEVIN HLA Famous bofeter 3 Has Bee | With Team Since He Came From Newark in 1904, UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY EnPtd To Fore Few oe VERDANT marne rueee | Wer’ fala Marne’ our) AND SLUNG A SLANT TWAT Drove Tie DooGeRs BATTY, BY ALEX SULLIVAN. RTHUR DEVLIN has been A leased by the Glants—the alty of growing old. The crack third baseman, who hal been, playing for the New York tes: ever since he was bought from Newerl; of the International League back {i 19M. has been secured by the Bosto Nationals, Sort rom. Tue Basetare. Poets Now ! —_—_ ap in Smith May Cause Mike Gib- “~~ bons Trouble in Bout at the National To-Night. Biowmnie, M2, by The Pree J (The New York IKE GIBBONG is a reat fighter. Judging from hi Uttle doubt that to get away with Jeff Snith ti ni Bey y at the National. Yet Jeff is just ort of a fellow to upret dope and had and soul in the : the oth val, It ate trouble. He ix about five pounds JE tY ~ 3 ; Doe. nthe time of his arrival jer than Githone (or so reports from we fi Tn | P| yh that made a ‘noise ‘training camps have it), but he ts » Aey, ENV) Ys; — a question of would be let McGraw has so much blood ¢ season that he is up Vinet a et!ff proposition ty retain the onising recrults and at the same. within the twenty-five player ager ublishing Co, ever & hae th Ms whole ty da team better lin ants. He has he fuss toat attracted the fans’ @tten- tion to Aine~he tet his playing do all the | [sume jump wh { was put diteut It w what } was ling talking he ‘packs a wallop.” his peice qualities the one may cause mourning the ‘bbone clan is the wallop, ° SHOWS | jae no reepecter of persons or of g . ' ° i if he has no more than hia usual ey bs nest of trouble with Smith, will be asked to fight Bob Mohn. And if he ‘Pdate Smith it’s a fairly good guess that ‘be no one else around here for SRST tet Gibbons and Moha would i“ mae @ good Nght. Moha Is the hea’ Qt the two, but Gidvons 1; leat 2 @ hitter, Is faster, ranger and lever. Moha can devour more it. And they say one of his stomach appetite ally made good from the Joined the locals. He base and eovered. that a veteran. that Arthur showed 1 ball player he was, ‘for it vis wonderful field- and hard hitting won the National it the world’s cham Athletic as well. MEASLES AND ier to Play |Roxing Commission Orders rane in Finai; Empire to Hold Receipts“: other was vad. Johnny elp: and Nt- Tommy Houck » the principals 1: LOU ee a this affair, and, although the former |‘, and he apparently had lost some won, Houck gave Dundes pleniy-ol peanis. 90) Sy eran Lett edl Lon all the Way, Dundee deopped nie | pably fell off 1A his work that Mani pan twice, but Houck, the game little | McGraw started looking around for ® fellow that he ts, was right back on his | substitute for him and hit upon a good feet trying to put over a punch th. he swapped Arthur Bridweil could produce sleep. When the fin © Ch Herzog and benched Deviin. eng rung Houck was still on the job,! Arthur Pletcher was put at short in ghting wi the frame willl spirit | Bridwell's place. tat he displayed in every previous} When the Glants ound, Springs In February aah them, and it was Milwauves.'s PRO eal Tout Pera: vate 04 pointing Fe die siti Ks at, the Mad on u 3 ‘ue & over dis. D tance ‘eens to tke "oy League plon shin +|—— () |Hoppe Detends Titie To-Nighi In the ballroom of the Hotei Astor] The final match tn the National Atma- to-night Wille Hoppe, 182 billiard] teur Court Tennis Championship tourns- champion, will defend his title against | ment will be played at the Racquet and Calvin Demarest, who held that title] Tennis Club to-day, Vane Pennell of two years «so. They will play 500] England meeting Joshua Crane of Bos- pointe. Demarest has been practising| ton to determine who will: play Jay at George Slosson's rooms and has been| Gould, the present champion, for the showing up in fine form, while Hoppe | DP: sion of the title on ‘Saturday. » been getting accustomed to playing| Pennell. who ts the former champion of ‘Dema-| Great Britafn, was successful ag tton was euch |!2 his match with Plerre Lorillard his friends are| defesting him after five gruelling five- making the prediction that he will! set matches. Crane captured his match make Hoppe play his best in order to RRislc chon (conaderante,. these h of his fame In Bos- or Doeviln, was the greatest third tn the game, and the opinions of and experts were about evenly at vided wos only toward the end of the sea- i0 that Artie ted to ety Value of Recent Ruling Proven in Case of Bout Between Walsh and Coster. POLLOCK Boxing Commissic: appointed by Gov, Dix the passage of the James 1, Sullivan, who Was then chairman, suggested a rule that the clubs be ordered to hold the © reecipts intact until twenty-four, hours after each show. He figured that thir would save the pubile from being busczed by any fake bouts. Tt wasn til the Iogan-Crosa| Deen, sucomsful flanco recently, when the public parted] teu rund toute. when the pu Di ter d bout with thousands of dollars to see an ex- Uition which Referee Charlle White Stopped in less than @ round, that the on adopted Sullivan's ideas. The first demonstration of the value re iateeauced to the House to! egnotion boxing bouts some idea of having Johnsons Lojoie, Cobb, Wagner and Meyers Troublesome to AA}, Pitchers, But None of Them Had Anything on Tommy Dowd, as Far as Young Was Concerned. OUNG ERNE boxes Knockout Brown here next Monday night. Afterward he is to be matched ia Jack O'Brien, When ‘pout ts over, why not match Phila. ah delphia Jack O’Brien and Knockout) Browa? How about prenlingd Morgan? RAN M'KETRICK, manager of Wil- ‘tod Lewis (again), goes about went to Martin Deviin was with ought that MoG@raw substitute fer Merkle of him. lin gone there fs not a man in either the Giants’ Infleld or outfield who was a member of the club when they won the world's championship im ness Copyright, 1912, ty The [vem Publishing Co (The ‘New York World), | SSE SIRS aroused 4 hoary yo of the between Pennell an: 'rane, as the ad- CHAPTER V. CHARLESTON WINNERS. 66 W HO do you regard as the greatest of all batters?” I asked Cy a Harty a six ro: on Fat tee mirers of each man feel confident of | | wiot Vr Young. FIRST RACE.—Three-year-oids; purse ver oa of mith te ory. “Now, that is not an easy question to answer,” he replted. | Sum hay a rare rier] Coleman Siops Lewis in Eighth' Tommy Coleman, James, 1% (Koerner), § to 5, 4 to 6 and ‘As they stand now I don’t think there is any doubt about Cobb being the |2 to 5, won; Charley Brown, 103 (Tur- + pad Dan, “Willie ie going| STeatést. When we look at the recorda that opinion becomes more certain. | Patina Tn are to met $2,500 with| He has everything that a batter should have. If he has a weakness I don’t | . third. ‘Time, 1.45, Sadie Shapiro, He {s fast on his feet and is a great outfielder. He comes pretty s shtown, Gagnant, Dr. R. L. Swaren- near being the perfect ball player.” Stelcliff and Mad River also ran. “ COND RACE—Four-year-olds; set!- Mghter of Philadetphia, won another “Of course there are other great hit-! wonderful hitters, I don't hesitate to eay Youlters, If you will remember, Capt. An-|that Tommy Dowd ds the one man that ing; purse $200; five and a half furlongs, ' battle in this vicinity by stopping Billy —Smirk, 110 (Koerner), 4 to 1, § to 6 and Lewis of Newark in the eighth round 4nd} eon was a wonderful hitter and he had/#ve me the most trouble. And the Gil Boag, mansger of the A idison A, C. Boaz offered Couly the clever colored ne tier wil never forget how coally|a record tor many years th could handle him then. pest b aos pry taken a drink pretty good, i wa Teer ‘how rotten he}a eclence as Cobb, be here, when he gets over tojfast men in comparison. at has never been equalled, don’t think, though, | he had the Anson was no a} But you must} he can always fight ike thejremember that speed did not play as * important a part in baseball in those | © fhought = month ago you said) days as it does now. Cobb would run away and leave An-} On the bases In the OM, days," went on the old , the main vhing In a n ability to nit the ball hard and} often, Any other fault that he might have hed was forgiven if he could only ball. Nowadays a player has of every James “Boys Clud | and everything out in the third on the Jaw. This an Relch’ knock: defor Jet it go at that. Srst put Fred tataion on low balls, ‘others on bigh ball got the tthe verdict on ‘the inaide or outside oe bv os ¢: Beating sof the Renner” ac : | hitter, would come pretty near leading the 3 ; |hitters, but that on President |thorn in the pite! | with Joe Tinker, “to ptich to him. rr 1 f hard one. Lajole ts 4 qo ta Cobb. With ‘batter like that facing me, the dest I can do is to try and infx him up Some ‘batters are Ke and not hit curve rner, But Cobb and Wagner have then some of them men like Lajole, no weakn' and the best that the pitcher can do is to try and outguess then of the Glants 1s anoth If he was a little fas tional League. . He hits any kind of ball well, and as yet I Nate been unable to find any particular weakness in him. “Now I am going to surprise you by x. |telling you that the toughest batter 1 ever had to deal with was Tommy Dowd. Tommy was not a great hitter, and that makes {t queer why he alw had something on me, I don't velleve he ever hit as good as .300, but for years he always managed to outguess ni It fs a queer thing about pitchers, that they always have some weak batter who always gives them trouble, They can get along fairly well with the heavy salle. ie alwi a s always had tro Joe is not one of heaviest hitters in the Netional League, but he can always hit Matty, He hee peculiar knack that none of us understand of belng able to out- guess Mathewson nearly every time, Just when Matty thinks he has hém crossed Tinker turns around and crosses him. It was the same thing when I faced Tommy Dowd. I tried every way towpitch to his weakness, but just when I thought I had him fooled ‘he would suddenly get the Indian sign on'me and wlam the ball safe. Se has broken en up many ¢ games against Mathewson hi hey can hit anything, | 4to , won; Dust, 112 (Steinhart), 8 to 1, 3 to 1 and even, second; Louls Des Cog- nets, 107 (Spellman), 90 to 1, 12 to 1 and 6 to 1, third. Time, 1091-6, Tippy, In- \funny part of it 1s that he didn't trouble lother pitchers that way, Ae the ball | play: of to-day he was my “When a batter 1s continually stacked \up againet a certain pitcher, which do spoke! ia Cee ig Aagance) cae, ma uu think improves the most?" I asked, 7 purse $400; one mfle.—James Docker athe nent words, which gets on ¢o the }igy ic cemmer), 1 to 2 and out, firs hats a funny kind of # question,” |Lady Lightning, 99 Inhant), 2 to observed Cy) as he scratched his head. pat, Pa % + byrne Dw don't know as I ever thought of |(vain), @ to 1, 8 40 2 and 1 to that. Since 1 come to think ft over, | 7 ; ADSMION And though, I don't believe either of them gets an The moment a bat- ter sees that @ pitcher is getting some- thing on him he awitches around so — - to get something on the pitcher, CHARLESTON, 8, . April 11.—The becomes a geme of guéms and in| entries for to-morrow's races are as fol- jong run I guess it would about | lows: 5 vine Ly a gd $300 eta cy $06; Sl sate yne-half furl rus, Brown also rai A CHARLESTON ENTRIES. 8 who have it| fo One of the good batters back in 192 went through a whole season without getting but one hit «ff Mathewson, T have | ana had them fail to get more than one or two off me all season, But that also breaks even. There are certain batters, | tut, Ban i; Hest aay Wish. te As I have mentioned, who alwaye have wi ON Minottock Holmes Ur, it “hid, it on the pitcher, a Reason of the Curve. “You muat alwaya remember,” Cy, “that luck te @ Big element In b ball, You aon batter ball’ after bell equarely on the eons only to see them go wtraignt fielder on a line, ‘That {9 notht ree-yearolde and 10, OS » 168; Ela + tour-yearolds If eet fs more up; sell than plan, hard tuck, Two out of three Biiteout le nes that a batter the nose It ought to ely | pereeys fail safe, Our | 114; ‘batter from hitting the ball solidly. That is one reason why curves are so advan- tageour, © try to put that fooling ny the ball so that the batter will rit or above it and drive it to 1d or Hf a fly to the outfeld, we mustn't let them crack the ball on tho nose. "In the old w eran pitch man could get by with terrific speed even if he didn't have | Jump on hie ball, jly got onto speed ani ant who ent one o a string,’ no matt he had on it, the batters would meet it squarely and rap him hard. Nowadays 8 batter must have a jump ball to do not me Lom fast b eo that it takes some kind of avhop as it neare the batter cannot get rather hard thing to explain that ‘hop,’ but those who have played basebatl Know what I mean.’ (To Be Continu In ToMorrow’s Evening World.) ——— MoCarren Wins From « “Sud.” as aa fo. April 11.—Hse Hatter. us tailed Ameri can A. nial cn Joe Mar of ONlahoma, ves subett ies i ass STS ‘sex tnewarte bra tas hy *Warner Uriswell! Slaimed, Tra NORFOLK Tati. ehOMFOLE, went on the vot- Va. April 1-—The entries for P | Gatton ‘Get Lous third, | ¢0 tuelined. Col. | a ten-round go at the Sha Lewis was no matoh for punched him all. around the the fourth round to the fintsh, man, Arrangements have, just been, © the Garden City Golf Club will be able to iis prescat aks a, signed calli for twenty-one. years, eta te ition of renewal thee twenty one for twenty-one more years, and ai years at the expiration of tha: tim nee Me SHIPPING NEWS. ALMANAC FOI O-DA Bun tlses,, 0.2 . 0.3 that the moi ‘0.03 INCOMING | DUE, TO ‘Jack fesse a jarbaso mae. Dade geet Brurswiek, fan erry, i ot Kinlane, Nao Nueces. Mi 3) Wedeaia, er Niaware. ont Sine a tai 4 ee jack | Qeeent It hi states, ‘Conenhagen, Ancor, MADISONSQ. GARDEN ce Dally; 2.16 & 8.18. joors open ene hour ve CIRGUS CLEOPATRA ‘A, :C, man, who ring from | Lewis cision, Corinth, Coletta, Western Belle, outweighed Coleman by fully ten pounds, but this big handicap did not stop Cole- on Links. Noted whershy txt tt fu focle flor sixty youre if the ul ie lease bas x. 3] Moon’ rises,, 8.08 Pf the new rule about recelpts was mado last night, when Commiseloner O'Nell ordered the managers of the im- Pire A, C. not to pay elther Joe Coster of Brooklyn or Jimmy Walsh of Bos- ton, who appeared fh the poor main bout of ten rounds, until after an mves- tigation. se two boxers went along for seven rounds and continually held on to each other, despite the warnings of Referee Dan ‘fone, In the elghth the crowd became so disgusted that the arbitrator stopped the contest, disquall- both men, ion has summoned Tone ve them to-day and notify them why he stopped the batile, and it would not be surprising if both Walsh and Coster were {aformed that they won't receive a cent for thelr bout and will be turned over to the State treasury, The first ten-round featherweight Dur SUNDAY EVENING, APRIL [Ted RAZZINI LEWIS whiter oe WINTER GARDEW Bisex a a 41 WHIRL OF SOCTE tT 7 CASINO. yuna Weal ae ‘iene B. Sotho Tig Mttocen Wt 5, ABUTTERELY ON THE WHEEL. Ao VAY THEA. Ga WEBER & fietos nkey Pelion @ Bunty Bulle amd Man Hae Bib OF fae | use em. Ee Bway ve BOXING SHOWS TO-NIGHT At onal Sporting Club ~. Jeff Smith of Bayonne, J, va. Mike Gibbons of St. Ps ten rounds, At Maspeth A. Maspeth, L. 1. Jim Stewart vs. Salldr White, ten Rounds. At Fordon A. C.—Mike Wagner vs. Jimmy Murray, ten rounds. % TO-NIGHT! TO- NIGHT! National thy | Club, MIKE GIBBD”"'S vs, JEFF SMITH Gibbons wl ct Young Shugrue vs. Young Cohen, ten rounds, Brown's Gymnasium A, rmerly | G2d st, A., Tuesday night. w Theatre | Phoue onl WALLACK’S 27, aT re i istAEL a iis eM we DICKENS FESTIVAL MORTIMER KAPHAN Rev, Dr, Rev, Dr. mann and Jose A (agen Wed THE QUAKER "EIR. CRITERION Gir ye LOUIS MANN mis 8th AVE. MinWed aie Otis isSkinner-Kismet THE MAN FROM COOK'S” ZIEGFELD) MOULIN KOUGE Fonnerly, New, York, Theatre, B’way 46, at nak WINSOME | wioow" r ; Matinee HENRY MILLER “BWAY and sith rs, p jatinees Wed, ‘Bat, R 6 GARDEN IDURBA R a THRA REMad., |BURIAL Today, 2.20 [ACADEMY Qi Ui 4, THE THIRD DECRES QLONIAL (s*..u3 & Bveaite CE IE FOV ice ‘etaria a | pica Py £37), Burlesque | a (9 UEENS 0 OF sian Garden,”