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a2 T HE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1912. UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY I'~ Tanne A BY HYPNOTIC No.You enump, SUGGESTION BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK STEWART MAKES IT HOT FOR STORBECK AND THE SUN FOR EVERYBODY Copyright, 1912, by the Press PublightygpCo. (The New York World), EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN NAP RUCKER LIKELY TO PITCH AGAINST CINCINNATI REDS | Stewart Disposes of Storbeck With Very Little Trouble. Goprright, 1012, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World), IM STEWART disposed of Fred Btorbeck at the Garden last night with very little trouble. O'Rourk: a grimace, threw up th fhe South African in the sixth round was a big, husky fellow, with 004 intentions enough to pave—any old place, But he was slow and a little and he didn't know enough about to put him on the edge of Stew- Qrt’s class, He started with a &p" series of ewings, which Stewart Qvolded easily. Then Stewart slammed «@ few and Gtorbeck reeled. ‘Im the third round @tewart began tap- ping Storbeck sround and trying to pose him for a K. 0. with the right. He ain't quite succeed in putting on the finishing touch, but slammed in some midrif? wallops that could have been heard from here to the Transvaal. deck was weak but the a round, eateas! In the fifth he missed @ right swing and sat down hard. He rose in a few seconds, shaking his head and looking as if he felt a little chag- rined. After a little more roughing about Mtewart dropped the white African with @ heavy right on the chin. folled over and got up, legs first, looking around for Stewart between knees before he left the floor, and finally rising in @ peculiar defensive position that made James walk around him be- fore he could hit again. In & moment another right, on the eye, dropped the African, who was down, sticking to the canvas like glue, when the bell rang just as the count reached “st.” Gtorbeck started the sixth with a rally, forcing his way in on ing half @ dozen swings. Stewart paid| his winning streak, fans will have little punches, but boring pushed Storbeck sround with his left leave him in good position for a wight upper-cut. Three or four of these had the African staggering and ready to al O'Rourke tossed in the BO attention to ¢! fe figbting th enue of the heavy hammering there @ drop of blood” spitied. ling ten-round bout was be. Jack O'Brien and Youn, O'Brien won cleverly. as tricky as old Jack, and has « rd of speed and cleverness. His style ®oxing took the crowd at once, and tly for once the Gotham rooters Were with the Philadelphia visitor. {Half a dozen times during the bout it Woke4 a tf Drown, who was plunging ig and hitting hard, quick pu upset the slim youngste: Sarien gerved the decision. Brown brother, gan, who, it « holm at all, at all. Here it ts: | the Athletics to strike their stride, but he Red Sox have the #ame chance with Kilmailock, County ie etre he a decidedly The condition ‘Mr. Robert Ragren, New York: Dear Bob—I saw where it was re- I was to compete for coming Olympic I won poin' the Paris and London), form at the present time I would enly too glad to compete under the @tarry Banner. Please give this all the circulation you possibly can, as I want to refute Statements in the press that I am competing for England. yours, JOHN J. FLANAGAN, HOSE American flags, row, must look prett the winner on the Stadium wall at Stockholm, <snidt a thatherntey PLANT’S ELENA AGAIN LEADS E. Y. C. RACERS. BILLINGS COVE, Me. July %—In a 00d southwester Morton FP, @ivision schooner yacht Elena won r the Eastern Yacht Qlud’s annual cruise down the Matno coast. The run was from Fox Is! Thoroughfare over a 23% mile course id Light, isbing in 3 hours 2 minutes with the Irolita, owned by B. to Pui always slipped out of danger ama came back fighting a second later. | He ended with a two-round spurt of left no doubt that he de. 1s a much harer jen is more a boxer, although, like “Philadelphia Jack,’ fairly hard with his right when he {@ riven to it in the mixing. HAVE a ietter from John Flana- ms, isn't in Btocke games (St and if I wi ning up mpky of Philadelphia, s minutes 16 seconds and the by W. E. Iselin of York, third in 3 hours 9 minutes 12| captain will w seconds. tress, Muriel, owned by H. A. Morse of Hos- tom, scored its first victory in the four days of racing, heading the second di- vision in 3 hours 24 minutes 14 sec-| ‘The Avenger, owned by H. 8. Max- mall of New York, kept up !ts good the first division in 8 hours 23 minutes 4 in heading home ond jewart and land- schooners, crossing eave 40 42 minutns 49 ponge for| “cleans Stor- ive through STANDING OF AMBPRICAN LEAGU wh C, Club. ” w, at He vit # i ae 4 Tout es Phila Hf Naa Storbeck "it Tires. is bent Batre St Rae it. ‘at Cleveland at Washington, ‘Now that Rube Marquard has broken to worry about. It will be a great re- Nef to the dope diggers who can cease excavations until another twirler starts | ona The next man in line for) the bat f records is Lavender, who | hes been ‘pitching wonderful ball for the | bs. He ha or aix| have been | Before leaving town the) Giants were of the opinion that when! Marquard lost @ game he would be In ‘much better shape for the tough fights. | The constant strain of trying to break | records told heavily on the Rube, and| he had it on his mind day and night. | The anxiety as well as hard work ca ned | him to lose twelve pounds in wi and the Rube ot upholstered any | too well at the start, Twelve pounds off that frame of muscle | epretty big loss. ! rest Marquard chn start anew, and the chances are that he will furnish some! more records for calculation and re- search in the near future, | He ts , but Fans throughout the country are Just | Deginning to realize that the Athletics e@ on the verge of failure. The ex- pected spurt which was to have swept them dof the Red Sox has. not. hitter. he can and 1s now In the ead by a margin of aix or seven games. Washington is second, several games ahead of the Ath- letics, As the season Is just at the half way point, there Is plenty of time for # hax caused considerable worry, His 5 cannot be worked very often, and the youngsters have not delivered the goods, The trade betweer, New York and Washington tn which Jack Knight and Gabby Street figured appears to have been an even break after nll, Hoth man- | agere were severely criticised at the time, according to where the eritic lived | The deal comes to a rather unhappy end, however, when we see Jack Knight being let out of the big league for good tall, Judging both managers got the worst of It, if such a thing be possible, Sincerely three in a Reports from the International League would indicate that Louls Drucke may come back Into his own after all. Since leaving the Giants and getting ance to work often Drucke has gained strength, and they say that his curve all is a wonder, He will be a dix help r to his new manager, and If he continues to show tmprovement McGraw will have | him back in the fall, It 1s understood that McGraw an option on his ser- vices if Louls should recover from the injury that kept him out so long, lant’s first nd Larry Doyle, who Is In town recovers ing from an attack of ptomaine polson- the Elena fin- ing, will rejoin the Giants in two or 1 seconds, y Oy hree days. Larry ts badly needed on nnd homaetk | this Western trip, not so much for hia ours 4) Melding aa for his hitting, Little Groh Enchan-|ty a wonderful fielder, but as a hitter eW | does not ela with Doyle, The Giant rt for Chicago so ag to get in one of the games before the series i6 over. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. oi of the Clubs, € 0,806) Ty 3 (O84 Vistenpat's GAMES, 4 GAMES SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY A tec BE mB ‘day's Games. it ‘807 39 'B0 Toa Stewarr Kiocren Storsece A FEW TWISTERS LAST NIGHT AT THE ‘ "Youne Jak 19 AS Good & JUMPER, Ae obD Jace O'BRIEN: verton evidently mind to t up by the roots and THE CLUBS. NATIONAL taaaue, evidently feels that drastic situation and inclination to handle {t necessary to keep 2h at 16 y Satna Tame postponed” Rate York at Chicago. Cinclonatt ipa at it Beaton at Bt. Loukas "Feo games out of the game in t would probably be BALL GROUNDS Hilltops Have Little Hope of Doing Anything With 1 the Tigers To-Day| Wolgast and McFarland BY BOZEMAN JEMAN BULGER. Jaen beginning his second stand against I the Western invaders, Harry Wol r the old Highlander team to sult himself, The dispo: Gardner and the moving of Hal Chase from first to second base was @ rather drastic step, but the Hilltop It 1s possible that Wolverton will find game on account of his hitting, and that may force him to send Chase back to his old job at first. second baseman naturally. a good game at first while Hal was more the other sack. It is understood that Hartzel ts to resume hie work at third base and thag th hortstop position will be played by Martin or Stumpf. Martin has been doing nice work at short, and as long as he keeps up hi present gait will probably remain thei There is a strong belief that Wolver- ton intends to make an infielder out of Sterrett, the former Princeton catcher, If Wolverton keeps him playing first base, Simmons may have to resume his seat on the bench to make room for Chase at second. The whole situation {s very much tn the air, and ¢! players have little hope of being able to do anything with the Tigers, who open here this afternoon. The Detroit Club has been going very weil of late, and with an even break of luck Jennings ought to take a majority of the games with ease. During the preeent stay at home the Highlanders will play nineteen games, many double-headers being on the pro- gramme. has made up his plant a new one 1 of Earl manager he {s facing a has no time nor it with gloves. Simmons in the Simmons {s a He played he spring, but he valuable at | | ths RIVERS ON.FLOOR CLAIMING FOUL, WOCGAST IN AIR FALLING ON RIVERS, e The accompanying picture, the first to arrive in New York, shows the sensational finish in the thirteenth round of the Wolgast-Rivers fight held at Los Angeles on the Fourth, Wolgast was declared the winner on a foul, At the end both fighters were practically out. Rivers, the Mexican, is seen lying on the floor from a blow declared by his seconds to be foul, The light- welght champion toppled over his opponent and crashed to the floor, the result of a blow on the jaw delivered but a second before he landed the knockout punch on Rivers, Referee Jack Welch assisted Wolgast to his feet and declared him the winner after counting out Rivers. The refers decision caused a storm of pro- test, hundreds of Spectaiars yelling that Rivers had won. after thirtess rounds! made PHOTO OT WHITNEY, LCOSANGEIES of bitter milling, in which Rivers appeared to have the best of his opponent. The final round began with both boxers fighting head to head. Wolgast was very wild. Suddenly Wolgast crouched and sent in a terrific left directly over Rivers’s groin. At the same instant Rivers put his hand to Wolgast’s jaw and the champion went down and was practically out. Rivers fell, writhing in paix, and the referee began to count. Claims of foul were made in behalf of Rivers, which were ignored. Referee Welch picked Wolgast up from the floor and declared him the winner, His seconds had to carry him to his corner, ' Rivers was lying on the floor, but in a moment rose unaided, The crowd assumed a hostile attitude, and Welch, in, erent gurpiag, toward the ring, why, “WATER. on THE Brain Offered Purse of $32,500 Tom oye 86 of San Francisco! Anxious to Match Champion for Labor Day Afternoon. KY JOUN POLLOCK. ‘OM O'DAY, the fight promoter of; San Francisco, is the latest club Manager on the coast who is anx- fous to secure the services of Ad Wol- gast for a fight. He has just wired to Tom Jones, manager of Wolgast, ‘an! offer of a purse of $32,500 for a twenty-! round fight between the champion and Packey McFarland, to take place in the open air in Frisco on Labor Day after- noon. Wolgast has received two other offers from clubs in Sacramento, Cal. of a $20,000 purse to meet Rivers in return battle on that day. O'Day e: @ reply from Wolgast or his m: pe ager to-day. inact of the Garden A. jack Johnson in Chicago ask him hie terms to meet Joe Jeanette in a ten-roun bout af Madison Eguare Garden toe early part of It looks as if Gibeon is only wasting DS" tolls iw sending ‘this. telegram, ‘as the c., fas trendy. passed up poreral. Dig otters Janette, ‘Tae chances are that if Job id consent, to tight, Mok reper loch si enormous som for 08 wu be com) elled tO sidetra pag already eigued articles of agree- Fred Btorbeck, the hear hear South Africa, who made euc against: Jim’ Stewart in. juare Garden, received a 1244 per, cent. Stewart, no de iso recelved $623.23, ie Si aay wiotors, total receipte were $4, Bob Annes, Ad no_prought Le gp eg country. ni isatisted the ‘tattle wes in ufone k, Bod? weight champion of P miserable shoring phew, bladisos (or his grees receipts. vot the beck uk @ixth round, ous ‘The Pier, nothing erited armatron m Hf fouda't mat ng Oud par, Shave bt be days 1 would 0 ‘« fighter,” Johnny, Conlo Pa FIGHT IT OUT IN FRISCO ON SEPT. 8 canines Jim Coffroth Makes the Champion Flattering Offer to Appear Before His Club. (Special to The Evening World.) SAN FRANCISCO, Graney announced to-day that final ar angements had been made for round contest between Clarley Millor/ and Al Kaufman, peayweights, before The matching of the big fellows was brought about by a recent four-round g9/ in which Miller was given the dectsto.. Miller's ring work algo called attentton | to his possibilities, When he beat Sol-| dier Elder and followed it up by winning from Kaufman it made local fight fans wit up and take notice. Spider Kally even went so far as to say that Miller would have had a chance with Jack Johnson on Fourth of July last. Lightweight Champion Ad Wolgast and Joe Rivers of Los Angeles may straighten out the tangle caused by the outcome of their bout on July Fourth by coming together in @ return matoh in this city on Admission Day, Sept. 9. The dispute connected with the ending of the 8 bout is bound to force, the rival eights into another ri meeting, and Jimmy Coffroth seeks to he plum. making a flattering offer to Wolgast je confident that if he lands e cha pion Rivers will be only too glad of the opportunity to take“another shot at the championship, Coffroth quite naturally would not divulge the terms he offered, but it is known to run well up in the thousands. esteem LINCOLN GIANTS ARRANGE “SERIES WITH SMART SET. July %—Eddie|] stay 9—New York, 7; Philadelphia, his club on the evening of July 2 or a1. | Lort rounds. ten roui | Glion on | fra te | Uncte" vied: Jess and wi » Jor th & ten-round month Vernoo, Cal., round battle friende son when I April 1 Hits off Marquard, ger and Batting “eiddy At teen {ne bout with Frankie Bu; | City bantamweight, | folios: vith Wis: beoter thasren shied fore gus Te ord course, Rivers is ere Paatehed to fiant W t fight Wolgast at i wit ay Danny Me rahe tlever gould not put to back Complete L: BOXING SHOWS TO-NIGHT. Royale A. C., Bi hes Arran; inde, 500," at 15 pe rr the s! Mage Tia wat 0. ae Dac Eddie Mo’ Riters, the ei clo, content citer Angust July ®.—Al Labor Day, champion of the world for a $30,000 purse or Brooklyn — Harry Mel Coogan, ten rounds, Jamaica A. C., Jamatea, L. L— Jack Martin vs. Young Rudolph, ten wed. Pinky Burns, Brown Gymnasium A, A., to-morrow night. ill ae ues mide Pose is, the Jersey Chicags Berne When ‘Billy i providing, of it, in one lace here on tai Simasy" Cortes petite 1 ie JOHNSON WOULD FIGHT PALZER FOR $30,000 PURSE. CHICAGO, Balser, heavyweight Pugitist, 1s anxious to meet Jack Johneon in a ten. He talked with Johnson for an hour in regard to the mateh to-day while $f fouls from le home at Decorali, 1a., to New de ould t of iber for 8 fibleh fight of ony number meet Jonson in of ten-round bout betore"T sign, fora lone contests ald: Palver ‘iile ay onizatnt mo In shor ‘contest, hg = me away, me for a ten-round, back 1 will uy > witt Yona. Rube’s Victories 1—New York, Dent. ; Brooklyn, 3. Rucker, Bar- April 16—New York, 8; Boston, 2. Hits, 6 Tyler and Dickson. April %#—New York, 11; Philadel- phia, Schultz, | i |] Hits, 4. Hits, 8 1, Hits, Hits, 4. 4 Hits, Hits, 1. Ju Hits, 10. June Hits, Ames. THE Lox! 4 June 12~New York, |] Hits, 9 Richie and Brown. *June 17—New York, 6; Pittsburgh, Hite, 11, July &New York, 2; Brooklyn, 1, means. worn LOX-IT-ON| |): Hits, 7. Steele and Dell. 1—New York, 10; Chicago, . Richie, Cole and Maroney. May 16—New York, 4; Pittsburgh, 1. O'Toole. Alexander” and May 1-New York, 11; Philadelphia, 4 Hits, 10, Seaton and Schultz, |] May 7—New York, 6; 8t. Louis, 2 May 2—New York, 8; Cincinnati, 0. Hits, 6. Fromme and Smith, May %—New York, 6; Brooklyn, 8 Rawon_and Knetger. 9, Seaton Benton. 12 O'Toole. He tl—New York, Perdue. New York, 6; Cincinnat!, 2 8; Chicago, 2. tJune 19—New York, 6; Boston, 5, Boston, 2 New York, 2; Philadelphia, 2—New York, 8; Brown. Rucker. *Eleven innings. Pitched two and one-third innings; gcore tied when Marquard relieved TAB ON THE 1 OW TOTHL Boston, 4, Some men don’t know what “True - Summer Underwear - Comfort” They haven't SHIRT DRAWER ‘ting to go with it. Manager Bill Dahlen Declares Dodgers: Will Finish Fifth | With Ordinary Luck. (Special to The Evening World.) CINCINNATI, July 9.—W. Dahlen and his merry gang declared that they were heartbroken when the rain began te come down yesterday afternoon. Maybe The Rede surely were sore, for the vale orous fourth placers think they have things going just right at present and hate the idea of losing their i Still, the pitchers of both ovtite have a fine chance for @ healthy and this wt operate mainly in of Brook’ Rucker, beyond doubt, will be alvleto work to-day, and the Reds, as a rule, hit Rucker with rev sounding fury, right into the catoher’s hands, pretty well satised with this tai aid W. Dahien as his men threw pebbles at the flooding torrents that swept through the ball yard. “Last eea- son we had good pitching, ut no hit ‘This year the pitch- ing is just beginning to work right and will ultimately be just as strong as {in Hm We have the batters, though, and it something we were awfully shy len @ year ago. When the pitchers et to going as they should, and the batters keep pegging along, we are bound to rise. I'm not clatming everytht 1 told Mr. Ebbets a month ago not fo ex- pect too much. Just the same, on pres+ ent class we are strong enough to got fifth with ordinary luck, and fourth {f | things break the least bit In our favor. See how different our batting array fs from year ago. Look how this Northen and this Smith have helped, and Tooley is hitting far better than he used to It took some little while for our pitchers. , to get used to Miller in place of old Bill Bergen. Bill was a mighty fine catcher, on the square, but he was a drag and a handicap with his wretched batting. This Miller kid ts hitting them right on the nose, his throwing has de come as good as anybody's, ani he is mastering the fine points of backing up pitching.” eee PECK WILL TRY TO LOWER LOCAL STAR’S COLORS. wit! make to lower th ‘New York at the st Brighton Beach in the f programme to-morrow ui the fourth man to try to a hattan pilot and the batile between the twa should be filled with thrills Bix starters will line up in the free for ail called to the nest, od 1 on with the champion for another by , Joe Jacksoa, Dancers, Cov store's a “pbhone 2U0 {WINTER 6: GARDEN, PLAYHOUSE * 48th. Boot Wwe ca BOUGHT AND 4 PAB" dR UAT BUNTY PULL. TEST TINGS I Ziegfeld Moulin Rouge io (Formerly NY an », ‘Always off one} ih a The Rose Maid & Sth Ave, ry Aight ak he, 8 HOe. # MADISON SG. a RésReaiak en lpg WEST END ist 10, 20 & 30c RIE PA fe conven tu rary OLUMBI. 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