The evening world. Newspaper, April 7, 1913, Page 14

ww THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1918. BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK “UP-TO-DATE AND_NEWSY EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN. MANY A GRANDMOTHER WILL KICK THE BUCKET ON THURSDAY Copyright, 1913, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). ' and will get it eveniusit, but it will take time.” 4 And, speaking of pitc. there jn ‘one man on the Giant staff appears Sia to have been overlooked. That is George Wiltee. The veteran left-nander has put on five pounds in weight and ful shape. The payers him wonderful year. (anon we ined a tendon in his ‘leg ow mn ae at Balt th firgt day and will reat vi ior a day or two. niet Meyers kinked ue Tua Wesrean oe. BaseBare le & ary mer YOU Ale, & muscle in bis back the eame ay and UNION FoR a ue ee TH city & tr both of them remaied in the hot Coume of ATLANTIC ot yo day without donning a uniform, Maye Ago will be ready for the Washi les when it breaks loose this noon, but Wiltse may not work again until the Giants reach New York. Tie regulare are looking forwasé:* with great e1 gmat to the arrival ef ‘morrow. Ti in the second game. The Colts Chattanooga yesterday and will yt ; in Washington late to- - dé Brace late to-night unless 4. exhivition game filvers and Cross, Who Meet “Here To-Morrow Night, Well , Matohed in Hitting Power. nages to pickup aay on the way. . be- tween Joe Rivers of Los Angelon and Leach Cross of this city Jooks very much like the star bout of ), month. Rivers and Cross are very close te championship. form. Rivers has fought nearly all of the best men in Nghtweight class, including Wol- and has made his mark. His re cent decisive knocking out of K. O. o : CuLY AN REM GiDe-SuoW? Done -wsiness Ts weer. GIANTS’ PENNANT CHANCES AS MPGRAW TALKS OF THEM out th ‘Little Dutchman, near knock; jim out, Rivers tened him five times, each time with @ clean punch. The iast of the series was @ genuine knockout wallop, and sP WHO WwouLD 1 FARCELS BEAR AND Be A S WEW MANAGERR wiLL WAVE NO SecraTs From ©, for the first time in his life took Tir Puss i luck breaks against us we will have me 0 count, lying at full length on hin “tus Yann. - That McGraw regards his pitching de- Pe be ls a ae a od beck, with his arms extended and tho Wp ie partment as of vital importance s —e—eeee—e eee of his gloves resting on the Aye More confident of winning flag than he has | Seer titeaate at aN oat tee if anything, too far ahead right now | ior the’ bic Georretown college man Neither Cubs nor Pirates will get jump on prior to the special ae ‘tame at Giants at start. Beliedes Cooper is the coming star of the National League outfielders. Thinks Thorpe has makings of great player and will give him a thorough trial. Back River. \ BY BOZEMAN BULGER. AMUSEMENTS. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN; ‘Twice Daily, 2.13 & 8.15, Door Open 1.1 tie t Brown has @ punch that'll knock out on. Bo Rivers read champion of i E i ih Eoagus.’ That is exactly what McGraw sald without exaggeration, and when he goes that far you may know that Claude Cooper is some ball player. “What about Thorpe?’ Stallings in- quired, 5 IM'QRAW TO GIVE THORPE A THOROUGH TRIAL. Mead eee home in him the makings GIANTS BEATEN — (CHANCE IS FORCED FIRST TIME BY | OUT OF GAME WASHINGTON TEAM) SPRAINED ANKLE young fellow has been at Practice but three days, and his arm was badly tied up. worked for fifteen minutes did he begin to put anything on the ball, and then his control uncertain. He was all through and ready for the bench before he thought to tell Coach Robinson that his best weapon was the spitball. This college pi r is almost as large as; I'm awful sorry that a report wi big Jeff Tesreau, Outside of Tesreau| CUlated to the effect that I wasn't goin there is not another pitcher in the| to keep him, because a thing Iike thi jonal or Anierican League anything! % liable to take the hear: out of an em- him in stature, athi im a thorough Leachie landed the punch the ninth round that put Mandot Marquard and Demaree. McGraw is ‘and nearly out and the following LEqE wat the beginning of the tenth next round, was able to turn the tile Of defeat to victory with a blow. He the asset of a champion—the punch. as doing well against Rivers landed the winning jolt in Mandot was doing wntil Cross landed in the tenth, Rivers matched in hitting will not be @ cinch it te all over, Cross and Rivers are tirely different types. Rivers sturally @ fighter, He fouxht hen he was a youngster grew up fighting, and ine he natural instinct. a Kalk fe $2 ish Fil "~~ Fea 23a E e bi “i Hl ae Hi Cross it was @ different story. Cress wasn’ nau © rugued youngster like Rivers. He was silm and wiry and pervous. He studied a profession and Greduated from his school, Almost by @ecident he began to box in ym and by accident found ald hard and ‘ast. He tried boxing in ring, and vamediately began to some local fame along the Kast where several small clubs were found the money dentietry . has worked in his office right of an important fight, former meeting resul! even bout, with Cross making a aggressive fight and Rivers hime ans taking a slight lead 1 rou ho Macon makes a much t against any one on the ip, thinks that he knows arent Rivers now, and that he'll be ol = og om over” before the scxpreme A like opinion of hi Faces on ti ‘on the outside of the ring can Logg own favorite and then sit ' to look at what should be the Nghtwelght bout of tho year. UTHER M'CARTY was ‘out of the ring when he troduced ust. bet the NM ‘bout at the Garden, Yet McCarty Assured of his drawing power that $15,000 for his end in a ten- one considers the fact that MoFeriand, a really great received a record price for his met England, in the ras $10,000, wecarty good joke, They Couldn’t Hit Johnson, |Warhop Too Has to Quit Early While Senators Landed Hard on Tesreau. NINGS, © 2 0 O-2-4-3 30 0 0-8-0 pe ae Ny BATTING ORDER. Washington, Moeller, rf. Foster, 3b, Ainemith, o. Shanks, If. MeBride, ss, Fee, D. Johnson, p. Umpire—Mr. Altrock. AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK, Wash- ington, D. C., April 1.—he day was raw afternoon, and the players expected wome trouble in fielding, Walter John- son warmed up as pitcher for Washing- ton and Demaree, the cartoonist twirler, took the mound for New York, with Mathewson and rquard in waiting. With Lame Arm. Score Tied in Fifth. SCORE BY INNINGS. Hilltops . ° 2 Brooklyns THE BATTING ORDER. fyb if New York, Daniels, rf. Sweeney, ¢. Derrick, oe. ; Emale behing the plaie and Hurat on bases. (Special to The Fivening World.) and uncomfortable as the Giants and| 28BETS FIMLD, BROOKLYN, N-Y,, Genators played their opening gamo this' APF 7%—When the Dodgers and the New York American League Club yers walked out on the diamond here to-day they were confronted with the kind of weather that would have been great for football players, but entirely too cold for baseball. When Manager Chance appeared on On account of the chilly weather the the fleld he wore a headgear which cov- crowd numbered leas than 2,000, eighteen straight, big League game and they lost it, ered the top of his head and also the Up to this game the Giants had won| left side of his face below the ears. He ‘This was their first | intends to use this during batting prace tice so as to save himself from injury The Giants started off at bat, Snod-| fom pitched balls, to Merkle to Shafer to Merkle, Foster Grasse out, MoBride to Gandil, Shafer , | fanned. Burns out, Johnson to Gandil, ios Dan eltenes mireheny 19: Re Moeller beat out a nicely placed bunt. | called out on bases. Hartsell holeted a Moeller was caught napping, Demaree| fly to Red Smith, NO RUNS, In the first inning Daniels hit the son, who Wolter was threw him out at frst. After Warhop had tossed up three fanned, Milan also fanned. NO RUNB, | Pails and two strikes he complained to In the second MoBride made a great|™aneser Ohance that his arm was too stop and throw of Doyle's Py Fores fore to continue pitching any further, second and threw him out. popped to Gandil. RUNS, Shafer and Merkle rotired Gandil. Morgan walked. Ainsmith fouled to Her- 20g. Wilson's good peg to Doyle nipped Morgan atealing. NO RUNS. Herzog made the first hit off Johnson in the third, @ single into short right Wilson fanned, Heraog stole seco Herzog was run down on Der @rounder to Foster, Forter to Mora: to Johnson, Demaree taking second o: the play. Snodgrass filed to Milan, Th as nothing doing on eltner aide | in the fifth, although Murray did get in a single, Scoring began in the last half of on sixth, when the Senators got three runs. Tesreau began pitching in this inning, Milan watked, Gandil singled to centre, Milan stopping at second, Morgan walked, filling the bases. Ainsmith to Merkle, Shafer made a bounder and touched second, onion out Morgan, Milan scoring on the play. On an at- tempted double steal, Wilson shot the Merkle fanned, NO; piece | pall to Teareau, who mufted It, and Gendii got home. Morgan got home "| Stengel missed, thus strikd: and Chance let him retire from the Murray! came and put Ray Fisher im the box. Fisher made a good substitu ting one straight over the Cutshaw banged @ fast grounder to Der- rick, who quickly retired him on a fast throw to Chance, Meyers was also an easy victim on etrikes, missing three | Derrick. The latter's single 8, Press Publishing Co, Conese, 2018 ee Dat Ate Washington, April 7. AVING beaten every minor H league team in the country, the Giants are here to-day to test their strength against the real thing. To beat Washington they| must go the route. If they succeed New York ought to be able to trim most anything in the National League that is to be encountered in the first month of warfare. McGraw is just ab anxious to win| ¢! as the regular!) exhibition games championship affairs and the chances are that be will give Clark Griffith the best he has in the shop. This means that Tesreau, Matty and may- be Marquard will take a sbot®t the Senators. Goulait and Ames pitched yesterday in the game that gave the Giants a joke victory of 19 to 10 over the Orioles, and as George Wiltse is suffering from & strained tendon in his right leg the only pitchers left are Mathewson, Tesreau, _— heavy swings at Fisher's fast benders. NO RUNS. Chany jurned on his ankle running to first after hitting a single In the sec- ond and Sterrett had to run for him. Just’ betore the third inning it was announced that Manager Chance had sprung @ charley horse and that pitcher Warhop had sprained his arm, Stengel Ufted a high fly back of second which was good for two bases. Derrick col- Jared Cutan! high one. Meyer smashed a hot grounder toward right, which Chase made a great one-hand stop of, Wheat singled, sending Sten- gel over the plate. Wheat stole second. Daubert bounced one to Derrick, ai on the latter's wild throw to first Ji reached the bag wafely, while W! crossed ‘the plate, Smith filed to Wol- ter. TWO RUNS. The Hilitops tied the score in the fourtN on hite by Chase, Sterrett and scored Chase and Sterrett. The Dodgers went to the front again in the fourth, when Cutshaw's double scored B. Fisher and Miller. ‘Let $25 Do We have introduced satisfaction absolutely than you wodld more at other first-class ing. 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It is M’GRAW LETTING GIANTS PLAY UNDER WRAPS, “in tact," sald McGraw last night, ‘my team’ is a little too far ahead. tting them play under wraps. exerted themselves in If it comes to a t non the club, with ible’ *ereeption of the pitchers, ets is ‘ood right now of June, I Ay Ma such good she, A Finishing Touch To many a dish anda keen ap- petizer for every meal. LEA:PERRINS SAUCE ‘THE ORIGINAL WORCESTERSHIRE An Indispensable relish for all Sea Feeds and Chaliag Dish Cooking. Sold by Grocers Everywhere Di ME et Tht New UEPARTM PeerlessBieycle]|| se $25" lese tubii comely Lp jed. guieped | p one- fe Ran; bara and ery Our guarantee with each Bicycle A WEEK WILL PAY FOR THIS PEERLESS BICYCLE || If White can turn; Uke Thorpe. Into pitching skill w to keep him.” It is certain that McGraw will also keep both Demaree and Goulait, and bored im little chance of Schupp, the; hander, getting far away. ‘Schupp has th et wtull for a left. hander that I have seen in long time,” | gaid the Giant manag ‘He ie a lit-! tle too small and young right now for | regular big league work, but. believe me, he certainly has the goods. I would like to keep him if I.am “not too crowd- ed for space, but I wouldn't like to eay Lod yet Ader T intend to do, You can that immense po: he ought to mal wonder. White is not under contr: ith Giants, but McGraw will sign him whenever he is ready. He will sit on the vench during | !¢ the two mes with Washington, and besides learning something himself, will give MoGraw a chance to see what he jy has in the way of pitching wares prospects, M’GRAW REMARKABLY ENTHU- SIASTIC ABOUT COOPER. hing on which McGraw dotes, nd the keg on we Le 4 until he gets to New Yor! to put on exhibition, is Claude Cooper, before he succeeds oa a big leaguer he better control. See ae ————_———SE—E_—_—_——_—_—_—_—_—_—_———_————— Texas League. I have never seen him lastic, Last night the Giants’ tallings, manager et In Baltimore, Al SeVivats™ foeeDale | ay Bet frctnnes ure, aM ETB, Herd aes GEO ar fits ee nie THE POOR ee Gi Wn IS Thum ean nog Hie $180, eee Becca STUDENT Prin} Lak at Ha THE FIVE Real | RA ea TF ers EL RC way, WHAT! poate Male New Amsterdans' OH! OH! Oi DELPLINE THE orpRw rear ae FA th MAN ae an 2.13. PLAY. Comer ete FANNY’S FIRS OUBEL Ey a cee ihe « STAR MATINEE DAILY, 10-15-28¢ ACADEMY. OF MUSIC STOCK CO. ST. 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