The evening world. Newspaper, May 13, 1913, Page 14

—= Deut Between Willard and Smith Should Clear Up White Hope » Situation. another week Jess Willard and Gunboat Smith will meet in San Francisco, This 1s by far the most fmportant heavyweight bout on the ards. The McCarty-Pelky affair in Geigary may be tossed out. It'e ex GHiag about as much public interest ae @ strugzie between a prune and an ap- West. MoCarty outclasses Pelky tov —o te being called @ con- But Willard and smith will furnish @reworks, and the winner will surely Gave gomething interesting to say to @e evasive MoCarty. ‘Willard tes reversed tte usual cus- fom and is now in hard training at the Geel Rook House, where Johason began working ay Hed fight with Jeffries. San| Brancioco kporting men say they are} Weil satisfied with the Kansas giant's Su aw a Gunboat Smith can put Witlard off the championship train the reet of the Weute should %e easy for him. And if ‘Willard knocks out Smith an casily as tee did Kearns nolody can deny that he te the real “white hope,” TT manager of K. ©. Jack Britton, Young Ali &c., hands Mike Gibbon: elap as follows: « “Mltke Gibbons since he returned hore @& ap persistent in demanding contems ‘with third raters as he was before he made runaway match with Kddie fourth rate Stack him against a good man, like Young Ahearn @ MeGoorty, and he is as ferocious ea a dick tamd. If Mike Gibbons will Bay any attention to this fair and Vegical statement let him come on and @ign up with Young Ahearn who will either make him run for his fe or give the public thelr money's worth." Tt’e quite true Ghat Gibbons hasn't @hown any great desire to meet the toughest of the middiewsights. Kut why flag in poor littl: Ahearn wita Lillie MeGeorty, who really has beaten 1 few @eod men in that class. Ahearn—why, Packey Mc! halfway bstween Mght and welter limits, knocked Ahearn @t without any trouble in eight rounds. Abearn probadly would make Gibbons fen for his life—to catch bit But why talk of matching Anes cf wens. Mike Goesn't gant Ser crusity to child: IKE makes @ freeh tart Friday OM AS own, @meugh for Mike's first step up. Mike hap asked Gibson to get him matohes| Klaus, Dillon, MoGoorty, Clatby, other good ones. He admits that he @ miseradle showing age: 'y a few months ago, but that particular atyle again. of form that Gibbons the ow iff pee last round of that “ex- joa that he that he'll have to keep on real thing, or go West the money in boxing is in New York. In no other Angeles will the aght ‘% up for ringgide seats, seats, by the way, are ve At Carson le E H pei At Reno in New York they as high as; $90, for ten-round de- fights. Fifteen dollars for a nusual, $10 and 87 con- sidered nominal for an ordinartly fair AE Oompard that with the prices paid tor @my other kind of a sow that people 0 Just because they like it, and then out how great the interest in Boxing is in this Sta | 82H secret of San Langford's long sojourn in tralia is out, Gam bas been sulng Hugh G. Maintosh, the promoter, for %,' e um that Sam says McIntosh owes him ender the contract that took hir to Australia. This 9,0 | the balance of @@um guaranteed Sam for five matches, @@ig three of which were pulled off by the Australian promoter. Melatosh alleged in bis defense tuat | Qaing that instend of five matches tak-| place only three came off.” He eatd Because of this he had sustained » The Court grasted the com- ee made It returnable tn four rather hard to see how Sam could ; Prevented any other pugiliate from America for Australia, I imag- UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY I’ Mathewson te-Gay would have an ex- tra blue ribbon to add to ¢! that alrea@y covers one aide of his den. During hie declining years this vener- edie gentleman has turned ao many remarkable tricks and turned them often that he is making it hard for hie fellow writers to find something new on which to hang easy victory over the Cuds, however, hi le to Aight. | Mn rather extraordinary feat of not hat ing a ball called on him while pitching te the first el him, Bveryth'! game eleven ba! Clymer fouling off ten good strikes, Ole Uncle Christy would have also lowered Palle during & gam fa 2 1 I NLT AST * Twat 19 GROWING me wise Wizard Matty Gives Another Exhibition of His Remarkable Control Didn't have a ball called on trim while piteh- Ing te the fir eleven batters. Only had efeven balls called on him during entire game. Weuld have emashed hie recerd fer number of balle detivered in a game had It not been for Recerd of unusual feuling by Zimmerman and Clymer. Omly pitehed coventy-five baile during en- “Old Nan’’ tire game—the reserd held by himeecif being obmy-ceven. e Game enly lasted one hour and twenty min- Against th utes, notwithetanding time wasted while Evere Chi de Cubs wae put eff fleld and Gube changed pitchers. Miceed heart of plate but five times while pitching te firet twenty battere. Only three lone hits made by opponents. But fer Bhafer’e poor fielding on Zimmer- man’s eingle he would have scored shutout. Only one ether man got as far as second. By Bozeman Bulger. records were kept of the number of pitched balls that go over the Christy son to support it. in that Matty, on percentage, would Rimself in for a mice of profits, t back to the doings of the day, Mathewson pitched ene of the neat- est games of his life. The Cubs might 88 well have gone up without their bate. ‘They did not ha hance, Three lone nite their portion. But for Tillle bed work in handling Heinie Zen ‘s hot single to centre in the seventh it would bave been an easy ehut- out. Being unaccustomed to the outfield Shafer @ In too close on the dail and it got by him, rolling to fence for a olr- oult of the bases. Throughout the game only two Cubd runners got as far es sec- ond ba: nd Zimmerman was one of them. The other was Al Bridwell when m batters that faced | He nicked the old gent for a two bagger ent ke is inning, He never Behind Mathewson the Giants played ‘ke real champlone and for the first thne in @ week they managed to get hite when hits were needed. At the it looked as if they were up against old luck, With the bases full and only one out in the fret inning Jack Qdurray couldn't get the ball out of the infleld and a runner was nailed at the wi By the way, in that inning the wendnt everybody by making 4 the detting rather long plate in a single s@ne, collection beadling In his joddling old he turned loose t amy During the were called on him. But for Heinte Zimmerman and Bill the world’s record, whioh ie held by himeelf, of pitching but sixty-seven balls in an entire gam gel magn’ better understood when it that ihe average pitcher throws 180 [qn gn It also explains | ter 4; why the game wee played in one neue #8 eons ae Wate ee ee and twenty mint ME i pull it in the fi @ long walt while Johnny Evers was | Ritcht iret inming. After Delng put out of the game for talking sassy to Umpire Orth end another de- lay caused dy the Cubs changing pitoh- At that it the fastest gam: ved on the P ads nea: all, ving move only delayed his newspaper publisher with head for ‘pusinese economy who sat in the press ‘box told us that !f all pitcher ad con- trol like Mathewson the pi would z fie ry F ¢ Xs Sucinatt a Tey boil WHEN wl e — ae ion of HIGHLANDERS PUT CRIMP —_—_—_—_—_——, MATTY HASN'T GIVEN. A PASS IN 47 INNINGS. Walter Jobneon, the star pitcher of the Senators, may be hanging up & new record for scoreless innings, but Christy Mathewson, the Giants’ star, ia breaking all previous marke for tightness in the matter of is- euing bases on balls. Gone fifty-two and two-thirds in- Ringe without being acored on, but Matty hae gone forty-seven innings without giving a pass. The only two free tickets he has issued this sea- eon heppened in the game against Boston on April 11. He has created the following receré since: - May Be They'll Have to Beat Reds While Phillies Lose to Pirates. ‘The Dodgers will lead the National (League parade if they win another vio- tory over the Reds today and the Pntl- Mes do the Srotherly | act and lose to the Pirates. Only Philadelphia's late rally yesterday prevented the Dodgers from belng in fi ‘The job of heading th he think the trick. The youngster will likely draw Benton and the third game of the eerles will probably simmer into a bat- tle of eouthpawe. Indian Johneon attempted te stop (Brooklyn's winning streak, bat ¢! Dodgere are no respecters of celebrities these days and the noted Redskin had to give way before a shower of base Bite in the seventh inning. Dissy catches by Stengel, Fisher, Gmith and Cutshaw did much to ald Nep Rucker in beating the fighting Reds, 4 to 8. IN NAPS’ PENNANT HOPES. May wouldn't bave tl four contests between the Naps and the World’e Champions were among the moet bitterly contested in the history of baseball in Cleveland. When « figh: {a on between two teame accidents are expected. But to think that the lowly Highlanders should be responsible for putting @ artmp in the Naps’ peanant chances seems hard to believe, Never- theless it fe true. Of course, it was not premediated, but fust the same the Naps are auinus the services of Napoleon La- Jole and Manager Joo Birmingham. Im Sunday's game Pitcher Klepfer hit Lajele with @ pitched ball in such a manner that the thump on his left hand nd the little @nger on his right hand were bromen. Larry worsed out in ow Dodgers’ Chance to Lead Decided To-Day AY, MAY EST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW BROOKLYN TOPS THE LEAGUE! Coppright, 1918, by The Presse Publishing Co. (The New York Wortd). “BShen SPORTING BRE The Princeton Tiger showed aquatic a@trength and skill by outrowing Har- vard and the University of Pennsylvania in 1-1 River Basin. the winners most of th , for their etart was @ poor one. Pennsylvania was overhauled at the half-way mai and Harvard ae the ehells swept under Harvard Bridge, one mile down the course. Then the Tigers gradually drew eway and they had to the good at the finieh, Pennsylvania finished Th Princeton, 10 minutes, 10 minutes, 34 secon G, ©. Caner of Piiiniciohia, ‘Mark’ won the Marv nections. Birmy was out to convert the smash into @ double and succeeded, but at the cost of his services to th am as a@ player for @ month and possibly weeks. tine Nap leader elid into the bag with considerable force. He hooked the tag with his right foot and the force of the as 90 great that the 2 his foot was in addition. “Birmy” gave way to Leibold to run for him and although he suffered ex- crucieting pain the Nap leader di- rected the attack from the side lines until the last man was out, “Birmy” has decided ¢o use Buddy Ryan in centrefield and if the former Portland (Oregon) man fails to come through with # good brand of goods, 'Lelbotd wih receive @ chance. One cannot help admiring @ team that ahows fight and that's just what the New York Highlanders did yeaterday. When the Neps forged to the front tn the @fth tuning by ecoring three ruus, which gave two-run working margin, all of the 8,600 fans present naturally expected to wee the Hi landers satisfied with their lot and go through the formality of finishing th game, But they reckoned without the spirit that Frank Chance has injected into the Highlanders. Inatead of quit- ting they etarted the sixth inning with a chew of determination that was good to behold. What's more, they were not tiefled with only tying the ecore but rged tmto the lead by «ne run and reat thereafter, Frank Klaus He'll Meet McGoorty at Pitts- burgh May 24, and Dillon at Indianapolis May 29. By John Pollock. KLAUS, the oturdy Pitts . | team was beaten by one or two runs in all the gam: ,|and Imy the ball over the plate in| #ome folks this year who have Two Important Contests Lanne eeeetew 1 EDITED'BY ROBERT EDGREN EARS DRAW WI CHAMPION CL Philadelphia Bantam Stents Toe to Toe and Swage Punches With Tittehotiem, * Wiens Sacer es “Tee CURIE AU. BReoxuewtes wie canny Tham, Contr icares Resivencar. = At the beginning of the boyt ¢he agm- set @ fast pace, but Bradley atgse toe to toe and met every one of his ed- vances with atift Bradley had the ad and reach, In the semi-wind-up Her: this olty and Irlah Mahon of New You: went lx fast rounds to e draw. SEW MAYEN ct is the. tenth the to, the ne SSoing woke falc well shen was crons againet his jaw and he oma final, Frankie Bure of anty Lewis of crashed a down for tue Tn the ten-round Jersey City outpotnted or Ove, \ emcees, Ses Ie Qe te Sat m a uot ee New Orleans Atiete (J GUES, [tasters Sage re boeee AKRON, ©,, May oe At ie os Giants’ Slump, According to Manager, |ifi.i,Pte tect as Due to Poor Condition of Tesreau and Marquard. BY JOHN J. M’GRAW. Managor of the Giante. OW for « little talk about my own family, Many followers of the Giants were deeply worrted by the results of that Philadelphia series, It worried| me some, dut it did not show the club to be @ weak one mechanically, T and it was alwaye som Coolish mistake that did {t. A man cannot afford to pull many bonehead plays ‘om my team and expect to remain long. Then, the pitching for thé New York club al! epring hae not been as good a8 I would like to seeit, @ Tesreau has not yet been worked up| Quickly forgotten worlé'e champions to the proper point eo he can we have ever have hed, to my mind, Cast season they were dogged by tmarkably good luck. Already hard luck has set its teeth into the team. ‘They @re not thought yi American Leaguers|~ to whom I have talked te have ) | Ds) chance for the champtonship. 4 + & N in where he wants it. This map needs lote of exercise and hot weather. He can #0 to the box every other day and be better for it, Tesreau will win a lot of ball games this eeason, He came ‘back from the South in fine shape, but the bad weather at the beginning of the season permitted him to get out of tion, and he has not fully re- covered his form yet. MATTY IS OUT FOR A RECORD THIG YEAR. 1 Marquard hes laid up with tonsllitie, but 1s all right now, end I look for him to have one of the best years of his diamond d Mathew je the big fellow that will sur [Sse Nevertheless, 1t seems that the club still has eome fieht left in #. Accord- Ing to the press despatches, the Red Sox and Cleveland team got tnto a wrangle the other day, and there was @ rough and tumble battle, Now, I Not for these free-forall-Aighta, ur ! the brotherly love mantfested yer league games during the season. The more rivalry there ts between clubs an@ leagues, the more popular the game will be. Rivalry can exist beh al players beooming prise (Copyright, 1013, by Jona J. McGrew. en for some time declaring him teo old to play baseball. He is in iter shape to-day than he has been in two years and is eager to make @ record. He has as much stuff as he ever had, with the exception of the speed, and he has @ good deal of that left in his arm. All the Eastern clube of the League have surprised me, to eum up my opt ton of the race to date. They have di veloped unexpected strength, even Bus- ton and Brooklyn, Philadelphia ie Mable te be a dangerous contender for the pennant if Dooin can keep hie pitehing ataff steaming along as it te geing Bow. ‘This pected display of strength ie ‘ going to help the Giants to beat out the Pirates if the Pittsburgh team comes through as I expect !t will, When the East and West meet, it will not be soft pitching for the Westerners any more as it used to be. It ts more the other way around. The Pirates are not going to ¢atten ap when they invade the Hast or when the East tnvades the W: PED GOX OUT OF RACE NOW, IT ezeme. OH, MURIEL! I simply must tell you about those wonderful PEERLESS UNION SUITS. Edgar is as happy as a boy with them. He has fost all his grouchy ways. He says they fit perfectly and give him no trouble. Much cooler than two-piece garments. Best ever made for men. 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