The evening world. Newspaper, August 31, 1912, Page 6

, —_>— When Managers of Fighters Talk About $10,000 Side Bets, Gently Inform Them That You Have a Cracked Lip. Copyright, 1012. by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), ALK js the cheapest thing in the world. The cheapest line of talk is delivered by the man who makes con tional side-bets. This fellow never puts up any real money He doesn't have to. He can imagine himself betting thousands, and exist im @ dream of bilss. If he happened to make a real $10 bet and lost it he'd have a remorseful streak that would Jast until he raised enough money to eat again at regular intervals. Funny, the figure most commonly mentioned by the imaginary side-bet bug ts $10,000, He thinks that ten thou- egnd is a neat figure. It has @ round, full, swelling sound. And then nobody will ever think of trying to take up & ten-thousand-dollar betting proposition. If the dreamer off: dollars some one might accept. The ‘“ten-thousand-dollar’ wager is particularly popular among managers of boxers. The rolling syllables carry ‘With them a tone of prosperity. In the old days mana to “make a fi by wearing diamonds. They don't wear diamonds any more, It's just as effective to bluff about making ig det and not nearly as expensi metimes these gentlemen get to- | her in some public place and banter challenge each other until | you a thousand dollars says the other fellow, a wrangle over Checks Gat as recki the stekeholde: ‘ “ hews that the Gubs had again nosed out | fans are going to be treated to another iy ano. hey Me Just) the Cardinals gloom In the Gants’ club- | of those stirring southpaw duels, Thi Dore the stakeholder ever try to cash | Rowse was thick enough to cut with a] inst time they met Marquard won hi dani cnounl? OF coueas met” Me 1en't | 90m nincteenth straight game, Rucker was | 20 foollsh. He shows them around a| The champlons are not noarly so sure] “outlucked” in that game, and it has! Mitle and then hands thee back ta ine| of their round as they were two days] »iuck in his crop ever since. He has or tears then the waste paper can tion, It really doesn't qatter which, A couple of million of those checks might be worth some- thing as soiled paper pulp, to make wrapping paper of. i O° E of the funniest things I know of ds the meeting of two managers of boxers at a newspaper office, They come in ostensibly to talk over a match, so that the sporting editor will become | ‘ interested ond put something about It | 1 JUNIORS HOLD GAMES TO-DAY ago. THE EVENING WORLD, “SATURDAY, AvGausT 31, |__ BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK vd a ee INTERNATIONAL RACE EXCITING Giants Really Worried By Experience With the Inconsiderate Dodgers —w hac a telling effect on the result, as there was @ runner on base and only McGraw Men out. Fletcher was hit @ minute to wager ten| Ebbets Says Shouldn’t Can't BY BOZ FRESH of the G champs ‘one|the speed clutch and xprint for life if they expect to escape the claws of the oming Cubs, A defeat after having hal a four run lead was enough wormwood for a pen- nant winning club to eat in one after- noon, but when, right on top of It, came nettle, The game with Brooktyr beating in the second h sit Gp and think, has just oc they have lost three games out of the |; ur ast four and trews the Cubs have ahead. The fact of games behind is not «0 apparent York pitching st peen counting |in that department we have fust begun From now on they Chief's hard have been full Incidentally, Cut Fisher at short are vall for the Dodi wallop the baxes Win Flag if They Beat Brooklyn. at ying wonderfu' » past brillant work of .nose two young. sters, Brooklyn EMAN BUIGER. yelp is heard at the hee Hants and once more the} have got to throw away long enough to realize tha’ two clubs come together, 1” Hill Dablen declare that X will be on the firing line for the Dodg. ers, are on thelr scare in the first nd the unexpected made them Another thing that red to the Giants is that awful QUEER GIANTS. Brooklyn fellows The during that period of d heen sailing steadily | b they had a chance for the flag them. rand but for the break of luck on would Second and ‘+ just now, and the great showing of Dahlen's team during ‘0 days can be attributed to Evidently they haven't been in| |the Giants ere supposed to win when e Glants are in for tough sledding this afternoon, as President Ebbets and | p Rucker Marquard will oppose him for the | Gants, and it begins to look as if the been yearning for @ chance to get even, DODGERS SEEM ANXIOUS TO. 1 are putting | forth extraordinary efforts to give the ants a trimming, and they appear to! as anxious to beat the Champs as if! aus hal sur | fev NP acenautvatunres n't you Want to see the Glants win dcurtainty of the New| te Pennant?” some one asked Ebbet Te Walle we have] after yesterday's game. on the Cubs being weak} “Sure I do," he replied, “But if they | can’t beat a team Ike ours T don't think in the paper. The managers may have to realize that McGraw's staff is far they can ex + to beat the Red Sox had a drink together Just before they | from being at top form, ‘The only] for the world’s championship, We all entered the office, but they always ar-|twirler In yesterday's caine who showed | Want to Kee New York win out as long | rive separately. When the second ono| anything, ike effectiveness war Lew | 4s Brooklyn, can't, but if they get the | comes in the first glares at him, and| Ames, Wiltse and Crandall were te anor we are going to see that they { then the new arrival glares back. In| Tit ae critical momen’, While discussing baseball in genera), & minute they are telling each other | hit ‘a batter and force! in a rum that) Kbbets admitied that the Meleever how quickly. their respective fighters can “hang {t on that dub of yours.” Then they teil how much money they -_ eeered big > $e Past year. DODGER GAME. that the new grounds would be opened t'@ a point of pride with managers an before the end of the season. earned, or their fighters have earned, | Cioarhas safely for the rest of the con-| Perey Williams, the well-known theat- more money 4n six months (han teat. It ‘another of thowe hitting | vical man, who has Just retired from Gans, or Frank Erne, or Jim Jeffries, | {0 Keep the fans on the anx-| (hat business, was negotlating for the i or some other real fighter, earned tn | fy from start to finish, The) purchase of the Brooklyn club. ap many years, As they tell of thelr! Giants pummelled the ball hard, but) “I have heard that rumor,” sald Eb. } various matehes they dilate upon the | vere unlucky. As a matter of fact, | bets, “but t 1s absolutely no truth heavy betting they've done, “Why.” | \eoGraw's men smashed out more line| in it, Mr. Willlams has never even digs 1 says to Ad, “lot's bet your end of the | Grives than did Brooklyn, but at least'| cussed the matter with me,” } purse and $10,000 or so on the side. It's) aix of them went straight at the flelders, ae a pipe you'll lick this guy." 80 WelOne, by Chief Meyers, that looked Ike] The Giants will spring an innovation this after, | clear $45,000 on that one.” \ wure three Dagger, wperred by | 2%" before the game. This wil be" dome’ etery After that the two mana; ran, and Herzog, wit om second, f the aeason, ‘The Ser. | to banter cach other. s doubled up befor: could get Hand. has been engaged and 1 f “Bay, & team of mules couldn’ KV to the bag. ‘The Chief was ex. | crt ot opeuita slays fond fee Vil er thie is \ your man in the ring with min mely unlucky both of dis times at] stunt that is new to the gime, Looks Wke a good lenow it,” says one. bat, On his first trip he hit a I'ner at} ides, “Forget tt. My man's the champ and| Fisher that went ike a bullet. It was ha te 4 Pye + ea you got to come to my terms if you|so hot tha: the ball bounded uway from SAH sonttn tt oo ieee tin’ bee ic fight him. I'll fight you winner take ali| the shortstop only to fall Un te ha nd ae for the ary next weak, Ten amas with @ $10,000 side bet.” (He says “L'il| of Cutshaw and cause the death of the | ate te, be played in nix days, ane is \ fight,” but he doesn't mean that at all—| Indian at first. That was the ualucktest | Ove" tnnaut wluaer, hat Wil” bee the ‘big he means that his boxer will fight), and most freakish play of the game, It punch “Nix,” says the other, “I'm a business: ecaiore:! man, This ls business with me, Cut out that winner take all stuff and make it “You've been howling for a mi i and you got cold feet,” accuses the first manager. Then they bicker and quarre! and et a Mittle uncomplimentary, and finally grow so noisy that they attract all the and then the second one} You're on, I'll take that ay trom you, but it'll vil meet you to-night and post forfeits. | You better save enough to get home on-take It from me.” Then the second manager goes cut, t lingers a few minutes and e sporting writer how his fighte will “make a bum out of that guy, and then he goes out, I never followed | any of these managers, but I have no doubt the first to leave waits for the | ts other fellow downstairs, and they go ten thousand be like stealing candy from a kid. lendly drink together and ant edition of thi about the big tide beta and all the reat of it # for real side wagers, they're out | of date. They belong to the age of the dodo, I believe that John L. Sullivan and some of those old-timers used make real side bets, or thei to) backers % To-day there are no backers a¥d are no side wagers, except in and. Over on the other side be ting on bouts and furnishing “stakes' to be fought for are part of the game, | 4 relic of the “good vld days" of James when every gentleman had his nd bet real thousands (of | wad thowe dave ultimately pre the game. GIANTS UNLUCKY he was turned loose! wasn't the cheapest thing in the! ed the Anisiing touch to | brothers ‘ooklyn club, secured some stock in th He said that the finance: Largest Entry List on Record where they can sit down | Championsh p IN SECOND | of the team are in excellent shape and e 8 Copyright, 1912 vy The Prose Publishing Co. (The New York W TALK IS CHEAP DILATORY YANKS MAY CAUSE LOSS OF CUP IN MOTOR BO cil i ' ptten tak Have to Chr, Third Harmsworth ve Defender To-Day.™ Aring ‘Lt Give ‘em Us CHANCE , There is strong probability ! Harmsworth Cup going back to © land. This is the day of the cont between the American and English mo: ; tor boats, and at 10 o'clock this morn ing but one Yankee boat had been se- lected to defend the trophy. This was the Ankle Deep, owned by | Couny Mankowski, No others were #o- lected because of the dilatory tactics pursued by the owners of the other American candidates. They have spent thousands of wollars building boats for the races but their tardiness has greatly hampered the committee in selecting the boats to compete for America. In every case they failed to be prompt in ap- pearing for the trials which were ex- pected to determine the best craft on \ this side the water. Another trial was scheduled for this morning and {t was hoped that two ad- }altional boats would quality. The Pe- ter Pan and Baby Reliance IV. seemed the most promising contenders but the chances of these last entries were not | looked upon as goud because they would have less than four hours for cooling down and overhauling before forced to go against the British challengers. WHAT D' yuH Tunn I's MADE Toronto Fighting Hard To Keep Rochester From Fourth Straight Flag -__ Ign National 1 president, who on Thursday nigh “iii and soa of the club's ated on for appendicité the Holy Family Hospit!y the main stumbling blocks in the way i ,. lof the Bi 1 of Brooklyn, was reported today to pe on ¢! International League Race This] consecutive ag. “Kelley, lke Gunes act teat trying to make be “able ball club out of the Reds, and by care ful mantpulation of his pitchers hag |driven his team ahead of the Rochesters | and he means to keep them there till | the curtain falls, The Maple Leaf Club ts practically \ composed of all former major league | players and they are sure to maintain Year Closest in History of the Organization. ee Saturlay Ce ic hs __THE GIRL FROM MONTMARTRE BY ALEX SULLIVAN. Jack Johnson Passes Up Table Showing Big League Experience the Auatralian fight promoter, that ie | HART of Chicako dnd “Jett Smith'of Bayonne, Ny J \Indian Thorpe RO rattonal be monopoly on Inter- national League pennants must i cease, This club has captured the ‘last three championships and there is & concerted effort to prevent it from capturing this year's. Manager John Ganzel, who was found thelr nerve in the exciting dash under the wire. Less than two hundred points separate } the Torontos, who are first, from the! Providence Grays, who are last. [hist hows how evenly matched the clubs are and it would not be surprising to ses them drawn even closer together before Of Toronto and Rochester Players MATINEES “ONLY. LD BRIAN i REN ToRomTo. ROCEESTEE. wanting when he tried to put over | the final games, BonALD Rul BRET pots | Ziarer. Position. weuGit | winner in the major leagues at Cincin- es EMPARE ¥Si.<% ow, Y odgers . oe it \—! Wt be ” ten spe] a is ln ld aint |“PARMING” SYSTEM || JohnDrew is responsible for the Rochester pen- GIVEN K. O. PUNCH. nant trust, and he is determined to fight ——-~ f to the bitter end any and all attempts! The National Baseball Commission har to keep lim from winning his fourth | Just dealt the “farming” system a bitter ite | stralight championship. | blow. Hereafter any player sent back ER. Bway & HNC to the minors after the draftng season closes on Aug. 16, may be redrafted by other major league clubs or minor leagues of higher classification than the one in whose service he after Aug. 2, A player drafted by a major league chub cannot be released at any time within @ year his selection, as had the most remarkable cess with the Broncos that has ever fallen to the lot of any International League leader. And it hasn't been be- |} cause he has had the same machine ine tact all the time, for year after year the Highlanders and other clubs have robbed him of all his b players. FOUR BRONCO STARS WITH HIGHLANDERS. Ganze BOERS 185 c ROBT "HO GLOBE sats ae Bes THE ROSE MAIi) S:*pe'tya neta AMUSEMENTS. At the present time there™are four HIPPODROME * - sa weber TMIL® ¥ Bi in the cast of the Highlander: & a4 ery 108 WEDEFS Aiatines Big Australian Offer? 22.22 260 oman tenn cet UY SSeS RAINL VG APRTAN Hl as any players on the team. At any UNDER MANY’ I AC OPERA on to mach welght within the last ten months that | Ore thay are as clever players ax any J ——~ manatee | Af "f 1 if r ; Coy hls Cat ae cenez iat clans and | Crithe newcomers. Pitcher George Mc- AY SS oe ‘The PASSINt HOUSE Will Retire Despite McIntosh’s Manager of MeMavon, iy “unig oro | Connell, Shortstop MoMillan, Outfielder | Sea Mal. Labor fray, SHOW of 191 i ‘aa I Atl 80 Ate z 2 trees 4 an eo ren Ed Lelivelt and Second Baseman Simmons onda, & Te clEh | Mares Wises of Oh Bid of $50,000 for Two Se celts Ce eae maInE: Wearywciahin: appear. | tiie men who\ promise to be big face 48th th ST. THEATRE ue NEXT | anne ate tors in Manager Wolverton’s plans for a | The dunt F. of Bway, Phone 178 Bryant. ). 8.15, = bampion Johnny eis uraniges, Jimmy Fights. Dian and Cet Bela ie de’ TIMMY | Dennant contender next season. |] Puitip Barthciomae’s Comedy of Youth WEEK | weight of Cleveland, are due in town to. | ‘This 18 cnly a sample of the way in day, Kilbane will probably take a which the majors have stripped Ganzel | itt E t ; | HUMES Sete ao tems ers ore | Little Miss Brown| Easiest Way BY JOHN POLLOCK, champion, is another prominent. boxer who is ex. /all this he manages to put a team on che SPECIAL MAT. vv ay v t boxer who is ex Bri J t T T Is now an assured fact that Jack | petel to get here fom Celifornia within a few | fold that Is up at the front all the rings Joy to Lown Mats. Wed., Thurs., Fri Jone mu boslitysly enogunce his wei time. A In the EveningSun m7 retirement from the ring next Mon-! The anni The International League race this (HAM ERS Ib IN'S day, ‘The big champion once for alt) again. withi year Ia probably. the most even in the] ACTON DAVIES Says {| AND settled this question in Chicago to-day | gral, off hig moe history of the organization, and al-|] “If a clever and fresh and as ortzinal by notifying Tom Andrews, the mort | ee alent a mown acre though there have been reports ema- |} 0251" months before the American pub- can representative of Hugh Melntosh, | Billy Pavke, Leo Houck of Lancaster, nat from Jersey City and Newark je had a chi arvels Jin f seeing It thi Aa " of i It the Bit an Mot WENT that their clubs have not been pi ing, | of it would have been banged into the RUT. BALN’ THE arty has positively decided to quit the ring, |, Harlem Tommy Tomphing was no mateh tor ter | It i8 a good bet that no money ts being | public ears, bie advance royalties would nek Ph ihe’ Kearns ines cf and on that account he ts compelled to eee of iin ta imsan hot Ae Abe Obsmnns | tose have been paid, and finally when tt]||Corili & Willette Phina és Picks Pass up MeIntosh's offer of $60,000 for | evens ‘one of tle ‘fen ‘soarnns Hompainy we The International League is for the|] reached here It would have been fairly || E\nimals, Orvom two fights in Australia with Sam Lang | {0° ies t G most part composed of men who have || badly acted, but the public would have i ford and Sam MeVey, the colored heavy: | ast the hywhere from one to ten years’ |] been expected to awallow It whole, simply ( vat 21g welghts, Andrews was ready to post | Red Ames put 4 all Ore Matting Lars Ryan ce in the major leagues and the |] because It came from Py NES? |THE GREYHOUND half the money with Al Tlerney of Chi- 1p tie main bogt of + at the brand of diamond sport exhibited in ‘of cold fact ther 7 cago if Johnson had accepted the offer. | the contenu brn heen omit many cases is even better than the} jo a6 this ane le tm. Te Ps Ba a test a Wo trate a Alled big fellows. } APLISS i» biSAAEL es Exteaeas, ‘Tom MeMahon, tie Pittsinrg fighter, dasa taken § Soored fig, nt a ie bet Joe Kelley and ils Toronto team are or * secens| ACADEMY 8 osc TO> NIGHT <1 THE GIRL FROM BRIGHTON , Chapple and Hasha to Race “t pHEMT CAST £ REAUTY ORORUR OF with regurd to'm farce, in's whole NDI < N a For Junior Ch shptonsiine to Participate at For Motorcycle Championship Uae pte Ware | Chap |, HLTA EARN a a gd 8 ; heh silans and comes out Hike eo Littlest Rebel —_ » Ci R. B. Gifford, T. R, Plant, a orker will be that he weighs twenty. x powder. Bw Oo ana't, Cart Tac a LA, AL. Meet. |... contest of Three Next | tnitset tet chao” De Ian ese | MOLUMBLA Lk, URLESQUE “Bai Almost Every Metropolitan} Anotner pretty race shouta aavaie || First Contest of Three Next} m tornight’s race Jimmy Baxter, tne! pool sate fencin Matt arstone y CRACKER JACKS, in the three mile with Harry Smith, uns fos a Tershant agiand, will i Sheretore, we, want ve put these 1S 4 aie eb Y Gist ait ae : "i ‘0 ain national p “4 . sa. ith Success, Club Will Be Represented |attcnes, W 4. norton, unattacned, 7. | muna gamer at Celtic Pask'on Mosase | PueSday — Night Over Jini "Maten with citer eats sa et Bip beat RooreanveN fia a 1, unattached, W. Schreiber, j afternoon nt bracts Sie cai ine i “Eddie Hasha will meet the foreigner rcbitatileg Mie, Brown! te, genuinely RDE o in Meet To-Day 1 Nae aon (Merman oF) ThreeMile Distance, titrate aac | aay ie Ws aI A et aceite M Jordan, Xavier ‘A, he 0, Cid lip tha tnteraattng te ge ean ete on Labor Day night Baxter will ride ‘Eittte Mies Brows'—ne motter what fg Broadway & 524 5 bong, New York A. C., M.D, Huyaman. | Geof th if, PIRSreraiAe MSTADE against a big field in the Suburban ty fresh A. SRSSIONS DAILY, BAND CONCERTS, J. MH. Dennehy, I. 4 M. ghes, ” i a stncerapeed i Handie: ef event o: e F 1 Were ee rn eco tUahet | mente by the committee in charge {s HAT will probably prove one of | faniicar. the feature event of the day Bag Bi AY sis rey OUDiAR, the aes sad aig gy - 2" that Martin Sheridan, the famous atn- the greatest series of motor ° rs ed teed politan Association will be repre. lete who was recently operated on, ‘will races ever staged witt start | Sad] Hi | Pisin Peel tte Thain ees anh @ An the discus throw and will | Tuesday night at the Stadium-atotor- uliivan its Fatt ime mean euch © whole lot Show on eld Championships fe Metropolt- eat to break the recor drome at Brighton Heach, when Ar- 2 ines Tosday and Labor Day. | a tan Association, which will be held at Thorpe, the Carlisle Indian, whol thur, Chap expan hd backa ngtan _Matines To-day 8 oF aye TEE LEC ASE {. tan Annies wien wl et" SUNDAY BASEBALL GAMES, |) "72,2070" ,i0", Carlisi Indian, oe Lthur “Chapple. "the New “York wtar at Eng “STEEPLEGHASE vmmittee have passed at Stockholm stamped himself ME In InSTAPATTRE’ Chel tacos dean Bu t LSAT EE ACR! upon %@ entries, making this the large Seis BFEAteSt athlete of modern rimes, king, in the first of thelr three race anes 7 ilivan, the father of rom Bicauiboeia We Kit) Sther notable entered. If he apmears te Setles to decide the championship of amateur athletics in this country. and | f entries ever recely a apnea iSeries to decide the championship of amateur at th t a eat number of en \ ceive | owbie-header, ny conirval fieure of | America the United States Commissioner to the! NEW f Junior Metropolitan Championship, | Mil niet Tap Ot” mre te day and his every movement re| The, {nitlal battle wit be over the| recent Olympic games at Stockholm, has | BRIGHTON ne of the features of the ely watched nite distance, heat two heats inendured tie attacks made upon’ the | MAXINE ELL.OTES 4h a crack ‘Tren'on team of 7, . Bi oth Bri pten Beach be the Worvard dash between i wseatian Parks eae tive kgealain A special race at 80 vais has ‘ea And in ali prooa vility the world’s| sportsmansiip of the American athletes, |] Hvge, 8.0, Matt, Sat. £8 is aie | LY. AC. who represented hong Inaba Chis. and jay & Jarranged betwoen Abel Kiviat and Wid tition record of 1.5 for tie diss) Who recently scored such an overwhet Hatior bas & Wed. hs cuse University in the Intercol slate Sthicticn. “the. suel J Frick, Matt MeGrath and Pat MoDo SO CHUIy Dink aslo : oil Bing wioiaie ine 4 mr Fibh ln “PAMID LUPE” STHk é Sabed var 0 i af it 3 edo | wil vapple has yet to meet nth Internatio BROADWAY hic da eee eh an vax Chemplonshipa; 3 Fe Hs mount Vie Mer a “ : = ald will try for new records with the pacar eae race this season, an he 1, and h LEN {!"HANKYPANKY, stra‘ Millard stains @ Co. John & Mae ath, bry ant A. C. of Me dy ".. Who ¢ Cuban, Store sai having taken every man he has Mned if statement, giving what ho ween PAR OE =) y " it he club will have the regulation steel « Bs ior Wway Won the Olly of Bchensoiady champions | One GvuR WL BAER: Une. TaRRIA RT te ee een tare in aanpationsl yee vesion of tngian aT PLAMOUSE fe Hee! | PALISADES p: ship recently; Walter Conway, Irth. “) feiate will re ac st abou! toy have bent | BOUGHT AND PAID FOi. American A, C., who Was third ly last yogs the credit of taking ¥ ° dat py the Petition IA A oe TS year's junior, and J, ls Kirby of the ithe A A i d tsb seconds at thol press, but the 1 heer Wea 2 CUM bu} ni | Irish-American A. C. | Bet nd also beating the | London Times riled Sullivan so that ve Piablce “BUNTY PUL eat Kunin Probably the best race of the day will pick of the field in the West this year. | was forced to sit. down ai ive trast | be the one mile walk between “A. Vole| ng | Braine will be the deciding factor tn typewriter and write x tone defense o MO1UK RACES unattached; 1. Neundorfer, New Tor’ jee" tecs) seam ad bine: Seta Abit la aai Nu dene that Masa might bave om the New lacoss (he sea