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THE EVENING WORLD, UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY OLD LOVE FOR BASEBALL LED GOV. TENER 10 ACCEPT Bl LEAGUE PRESIDENCY To Keep the Game Clean Will\4 | Be Chief Aim of Pennsylvania’s|‘ Executive When He Takes Office. Baseball Needs No Doctor. If|% Everything Else Were as Healthy Physicians Would Go Out of Busi- nes Present-Day Players No Better Than Old-Timers, but Details Get) \, 541401000 More Attention These Days. © Umpires Should Rule Field, but Also Should Consider the Enjoy-|*,"'s9s himect pe beneorergy tes sii ial attend ini ‘MoGraw was the first of the men in BY BOZEMAN BULGER. the ranks to say that to me and I J OHN K. TENER, Gov- 4 Gov. Téner Tells His Baseball Ideas to The Evening World ernor,’ he said, ‘your election ts a reat uplift to baseball. It has shown that @ ball player oan be @ big man if he adapts himeelf. Your election has ever threatened to fine me. Tt was in a tilt with him that I came closest to being fined and put out of @ game. You know I wea never put out. “On the occasion I refer to I was pitching for Chicago and we won— we ways remember the games we won, Well, @ stage of the game came up where there was a man on second and’ one out and a heavy hitter at the bat. ¥ made up my mind to walk the heavy hitter so as to get at a weak hitter who had been easy up to that time. I had it all planned out and purposely minutes I can readily understand why tt offends him @0 to be cailed ‘Muggay.’ 1 think the newmmper men throughout have never forgotten it. After talking to him along that line for a few ernor of Pennsylvania and the new head of the National League, is @/the country did a pretty thing when ot ee heavy hitter. When the int, physically and mentally. they decided not to refer to him by that | We tter came up I thought I had gia He will Jan” the National | ®Pr'aet again. He is @.Olgger man tim struck out, bat Umpire Lynch than a lot of people think.” “By the way,"—he came out again with one of those unexpected question |—'do you remember George Woods, the old outflelder, who played on the team with Delehanty and Fogarty at Phila- delphig, and alao at New York?" I ‘The inst time I saw old George two years ago he waa almost working on the ea at the Polo Grounds waved him to first—a base on balls. I was angry all throug! “ "Why, that badl was over!’ I ex- claimed. “What do you mean by walk- ing him? I was hopping mad because my plans had gone wrong. ‘Mr. Lynoh, who always insisted upon being onlled ‘Mr.,’ threw off his mask and, with thaa cocky walk, came to- ward me. Mr, Tener,’ he id, pointing his finger at me, ‘If you repeat that ree mark it will cost you $0 and out of me you'll go!’ ‘ell'—and 1 caught myself just in i right, but'—— “I went right on pitching and won out. Since then I have,often thought how close 1 came to losing $0 and my reputation for not having been put out of # game. The Governor se and walked across the room, His every movement bespoke the athlete. Hie immense frame was carried as lightlf es if he had been « ‘dancer, ‘How do you manai 00d physical condi “Why, do you know," he replied with @ show of surprise, “there has not been @ year eince sas twenty years|{ aid that I haven't had on my uniform Playing baseball? 1 even played firat base in @ charity game last yeas—since 1 have been Governor. I figured, though, after I had passed fifty that it was time to stop, even though the thought of it gives me @ pang of regret. I @on't get sore either, I know how to keep myself in shape. I have taken up golf of late years and find it @ great @eme. 1 aleo play tennis. Still, the game that I love ts baseball, and I wish it were so that I could play it League, and while he is doing it he will build up a big thing to run. This was impressed upon me before 1 had talked to him ten minutes in the library of the Ex- ecutive Mansion at Harrisburg. The Governor stands six feet and four inches in his stocking fete When he took my hand in that big, pitching right of his my fingers felt lost—like a peanut in a sack, In his eye Is the same old love for the game that caused A. G. Spalding to select him as star pitcher for the tri 4 around the world back in 1888. The fifty years or more that hang lightly on the Gov. |" doing well now,” the Gov- aid, and 1 got another insigh: character of this big man. It seema that Connie Mack and gome of the ballplayers wrote to Gov. Tener, aaking if he coukl do something for old George; that he was in hard luck and that any faults he might Rave were due “ase tanta. annot dim that. alia one a need of baseball, according to Gov. Tener, is continued health. “You asked me that question,” he said, “as if you had brought a patient te yw doctor. The trouble is you have no case. The patient is a strong, healthy, civic institution. It needs no doctor. If there were any symptoms of disease, 1 might be willing to suggest a remedy, but if everybody was as healthy as baseball the physicians would haye to shut up shop.” | The governor laughed heartily at the implied suggestion that he would be called upon to do some doctoring. Hanging his immense frame over an easy, leather chair he lighted @ Pitteburgh stogie and through the smoke could be seen that twinkle in his eye that made him enough followers to t become the Governor of one of the greatest States in the Uniop. GOVERNOR TO KEEP BASEBALL CLEAN. “No,” he said. “I will not assume the role of a doctor wher I take charge of the National League. It will be my purpose to see that the game is kept sanitary and avoid the little things that, if left alone, might bring nger at $900 @ year, “He stuck #0 close to businébe,” Mr. Tener explained, “that I loaned him money to get his goods out of storage and to bring his wife on. He didn’t know where his mother was. Ina few weeks I got him @ promotion to @ Job that paki $1,100 a year, George rented @ house—rent is cheap here, you know— and he had enough ground to start a rden. Seeing that he Intended to atick to his job and work hard, I tater got him an appointment as epecial marshal to the Public Service Board. That Job pays $2,000 a year. Soon George brought his. mother on, and he now has one of the prettietat ttle places in Harris- nor, dolignied to find how well he was doin; ‘He has a nicely furnished cottage end a on disease.” ‘et me show oa + oe en tuo deevola “By the way,” he asked, sudden it. There are two things of which I am|you my Over in that corner e vernor ‘one of ie ol. thought struck him. “What has become | very proud. One is that I wae in pro-|there I'll get sixty bushels of gotatoes. timers who beleve that baseball has improved, “1 don't think individual play has im- proved a great deal,” he explained. “But to-day much more attention is Paid to detatis, In the ald daye we pitchers never thought of pitching King Kelley a high ball, but if we falled it was not conaidered a crime. To-day slip like that is looked upom as * jous break. he best catcher I ever pitohed to,” he eaid, “was Buck Bwing.” They have never produced a better ene.” —_.—_— feselonal baseball and another is that I am an Elk. I can never countenance im- pressions of contempt about those two inatitutions from any one. “I would like to explain, though, that T would not have agreed to accept the | hi presidency had I not been assured that my friend Brown of Loutsville coula not be elected. He te a delightful personality and I think @ lot of him, but when tae owners “ured me that he could not be elected 1 ed to serve. “When do yo uexpect to taki of that big fellow James, who started out so well for Boston last epring? ‘When I firet saw him work I thought Sure he was going to be a second Mathewson.” He was assured that James was still On the job. “Well, if he gete going in the epri again Mr. Gaffney and George Stallings oug’t to make it hot for @ lot of clubs next eeason.' ‘From that I imagine you think Matty I have enough vegetables for My own use and some to sell beskles.’ ‘And you ought to see him to-day,” exclaimed the Governor with real pride, is @houlders are thrown back and with the pride of And, mind you, all that waa brought about by the Ddallplayers calling my attention to a famous former ster that was down ‘ane out." PLAVERS AND UMPIRES wit GET FAIR DEAL. argo?” Quite a pitcher, Tecked him, ' to wend and set f Bl Parpagpalied a erent she ™ Weil,” and he amiled, “It te certain | The Governor mania § Prats ast 8 fi ' Hae "Pit 8 Breat man. that 1 can't take ch: 1 Tam oom | the greatest credits to our game, In it} te Snares. 26 & ad better not elected. Again, I am atill Governor of Pennsylvania and will be until 1916, Na- turally, I cannot afford to neglect any of my duties in this high office, I will give no time to baseball that interferes with my duties here. If they want me to act WOULD NEVER LET MATTY RE-/ in an advisory capacity I will do #0 while TIRE FROM BASEBALL. John Heydler looks after the details, He “Retire,” and the Governor arose, his| is very able man and I belleve the a: eix feet tour making him look like a| fairs of the league could be left perfectly giant, ‘He must not retire. Mathewson | safe In his handa.” has got to stay in the National League.| BaggBALL TAUGHT HIM TO ‘When he {s through pitching he must be THINK AND ACT QUICKLY. fixed up with a franchise. We cannot afford to let a Mke that get out of | The Governor showed me another pio- ture in a book, In which could be the game. To keep baseball a success it must be represented by men of in seen pitching a game for the Spalding wenc> and dignity.” Club in 1888 in Egypt at the base of Right then and there I began to seo) the Pyramids, that John K. Tener was going to be a| “Has baseball been of any benefit to real president—a constructive leader, It| You In your public career &s Congrese- was hard to reconcile such a thought i | . with the way things have been run in the old league in the past. The mag- nates have not been given to sacrificing Personal financial interests for the suke tru, that he ie pretty well fixed finan- clally?” “He told me," I replied, “that in a few years he would be able to retire and go inte business.” Be Ready to Pitch in 1914} PHILADELPHIA, Nov. &% = Jack Coombs, the Athletic pitcher, will be one-sixteenth of an inch shorter in stature by reason of hie recent iliness. This fact was gleaned when an X-ray “But, mina taken ty Dr. Pancoast at the Univeralty .| of Pennsylvania showed that the spine had been restored to its normal condl- tion, Coombe will regain all of hie old Physical power, the doctore aay. He will again de the “Iron Man,” but he will be one-sixteenth of an inch leas in height than when he stood out on the hill end flashed his tremendous speed at the rival batemen in former years. Coombs can well afford that fraction of an inch, for he stood six feet one inch in dis stocking feet before bis tl- ness. nd is a# regular in hie habits as a clock.’ iY When Mr. Tener got started on the old timers it was dificult to bring him back to his plans for to-day. “1 suppose," wae suggested, “that you will be careful about backing up your umpires when you take charge of the league?” "Yea, indeed," he replied. you, I don't aay that an umpire fallible, He can make mistakes as ‘wail as the players and I believe in giving them both a fair deal. An umpire oc- & very peculiar position. He must game at a g00d clip and at the ame time he must bear In mind the en- tertainment of the public. The public whould always be considered, For in- stance, the epectators often do things that annoy the players. The umpire has to protect the players, but he also haa to be careful not to put too much restraint ‘on the spectators who are to explain, but it hi \c Tt has trainee #0 that I can meet situations thé® arinxe without fear or : Soeating the | sa body, But| nervousness, Things come up on the 7 aa He eat up to-day for the fret time, f {hinge ‘wit be djfferent. ‘under Jonn| Dall Meld that require quick deciaton | the 10 snjoy ‘the game: THA Wb C8 | od ue Wil GIAGUAMY be elven meee py will not only direct bue he | aNd execution. On the diamond a player [of the DiKKeR PI z <a must act quickly. Me figures on what |! 1 i eases acy canon when he thinks is right and acts, The eame situations come up frequently in the office of Governor, 1 act upon them In the same way.” “You know," went on the Governor, |" am proud of having been @ profes- sional baseball pla: nd T arp alno ed Governor shown that a man of the diamond can do other things. NEVER FORGOT M'GRAW'S | CONGRATULATIONS, “The one great feature in the succens of the American League,” and the Gov- @mmor sald this very cautiously, “is that | President Johnson has taken a personal hand in oonstructing the various parts 8908 to keep it on an even keel, In othr words, the American League President has run that Iwague, while in, tap Rational ihe jeague has sun tho President. but Mr. Tener didn’t aay that a It would mot have been politic. ““Gevernor,” I interrupted, in an effory bs pa him out of the fan talk, “why to take the jo! the player's aide of a controversy should be heard as well as the umpire’s. That fe also a serious proposition, Un! umpire is allowed to run the game in Caar-like fashion the players are likely to take advantage of him. But, remem. ber, they also have rights that are violated at times." “Tom Lynch must have deen @ great umpire in his day? I suggested while the Governor was insisting thet I be mated and try @ Pitteburgh stogie. ‘Who do you think,” he asked, “was jo certainly was,” he replied. “And the first man to bring thet Mea out} Lynch will go down in history as a among the baseball men? McGraw. 3| great credit to the game, He ie also a eee JOE BORRELL WINS BOUT AGAINST “BAT” RYAN, PHILADELPHIA, Nov, 2%—Joe Bor- rell, the Kensington middleweight claimant of the middleweight eham- pionahip, scored his second victory of the week when he had the better of Battling Larry Ryan of New York in a aix-round bout at the Nonpareil A. C, last night after the New Yorker had put up ® game fight. In the eemi- windup Johnny Duffy of Kensington drew with the tough Bull Oseaidy of Mew York tn a bout thet went the six rounds. iro td ing was in the, Waldort Hotel one day when Co prin baal. the Giant manager came up con-| “By the way,” Soest niga f fa be wits NS: La ee ee ee Wins Arrowhead. Challenge Cup session, giving leg on the Arrowhead Inn Challenge Cup thle afternoon in the coach-and-four race from the Inn to Madison Square Garden. the enty-seventh atreet and Fort Washing- ton avenue, a distance of seven miles, world’ the previous time by one and a balf minutes. Last year also he won the contest, him ownership of the cup. Taylor, who did not reach the Garden until thirteen minutes after the victor. This was due to two mishaps on the way Inn his near wheeler went down and three minutes were lost. Then going down the hill at Fort Washington ave- nue @ pole chain broke and the near leader reared and kicked so persistent- ‘matian, @ 10-to-1 shot, to-day won the SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK ohn ee HARVARD TAMED THE BULL DOG 1918, Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York World, N.Y. U. IN HIS COACH AND FOUR Ingram, aif for Keep Against G. F. Taylor, Who Had Bad Luck. Emil Gelig won the second, and pos- He made n from One Haindred and Sev- versity anc the same Army next in thirty-six and a half minutes, a recond for the distance, beating ev 0 that to-day's victory gave His competitor In the race was G. F. Ae Mr, Taylor was driving from Bel ly that five minutes were lost. ‘Those who saw Mr. Selig tooling his Time, 1082-5, Violet May, Mary W coach down Fifth avenue said that he| ren, Polly H., No Manager, Laura, Ri fave a remarkable exhibition of skill| igen gnd Billy Stuart also ran, in windiag in and out of the brisk traf- fle. ——— AMERICAN HORSE WINS HANDICAP IN ENGLAND. MANCHESTER, Enxland, Nov. 22.— L, Winan's American-bred horse, Dal second; even, and November Handicap. G. Edwardes’: Work Girl was second and H. C. Ri tan’e The Guller third. Sixteen ran, — —————. Re » Stew The football teams of Stevens and Rutgers clash in their annual contest to-day tn Hoboken. The rivairy between th two colleges is one of long standing, The first game was piayed in 1874, ————.——__ Gold Cap, also ran, atry Ree. COLUMBUS, 0., Nov, 2.—Wisconsin won the Big Nine Conference cross- country meet here to-day, Mlinols was @econd and Ohio State third, BOXING NOTES. Another one of the American fighters tha: Dan McKetrick took over to Paris has been defeated by a French battler, He is Otto Kohlei land welterweight. the champion welterweight of in @ Afteen round bout at the Wonde land Club of Paris on Nov. 8 and lost the deelsion on points, 11: Kettle 111; Batwa, Revmtation, the Brooklyn feaae latty McCue of been matched to mi und Bout at's show to be a night of Deo, 4 | Mes Brown Tim suaivan Atlantic C.—Johnny Martin ve. Dick rere A. C. of Brookl; Jahan vs. Joe Goldberg. C. of Brooklyn—K, O. lat Brandt, Queensboro A, City Young Brown. Twy- South Brooklyn—Young Coopey vs. Jack Graham. Liberal A. johnny Waltz va. Young Mitch Frankie Burns, the ofever bantam- Sir Denrah, Vanderbitt A. wetling rs ve. Dutch in | obtained, Tayi Oshkos! $4444404-004. NNAPOLIS, Mr., Nov. football season ended with this after- noon's game between New York Uni- + Tranaparency 100/' Flativuab, 100; Matin, “Mors 1 ie, et THIRD | RAC! seven furtongs 1 4 of Langden, SIXTH "RACE. M ‘Me Rump, pounds appre LAST VISITOR OF THE LINE UP. Naval Academy, ‘Position, ca the Naval Academy. line-up that wil Saturday old 143 (Tuckey), 1 to 2 third, Quarterm: —n NORFOLK ENTRIES, NORFOLK, Va., Nov. 2.—The entries for Monday are as follow! FIRST RACE—Two-year-olde: maidens: five furlongs, —Bigh 107; Sir Caledoro, Prieat, 107; Oi 107; Cooater, ‘Drum, 112, 104; itty Mollie, 107; Bille Hibbe, 1 11; ti ut —ladies' parve: all Goklea Prime, 92; Ringling, 1 Arome, 102: Cicero, 105; Cherokee Rose i. Urchin, too Reno, 110; aut "rhe D Buster, 100; Prince Floral, Chilton Queen, 114, 107 Three-year-olda one mile and ound, My’ Fellow, Newark Gets Walker. The Brooklyn Baseball Club to-day announced the release of Pitcher Fred Walker to Newark, When waivers are utility Inflelder from h, Wil also be turned o' Time, Hound Brook, Orderly Nat, Clan Alpine, Velsim and Racebrook also ran, THIRD RACE—Ocean View Handicap; aix furlongs.—Honey Bea, 101 6 Ww 1, 2 to 1 and 4 to 6, first; Ivabel, 107. McTargar, 4 to 11 to 6 nd , Fwood, 113 (Bux- , 4 to 1, 7 to 6 and 7 to 10, third. Time-1.14 1-6, Progressive, Yellow Eyes, r and Stentor In, mile and jena, “tady Ortmar, Harcourt, DNG-8 EAREABAA DE BGADAL FF 9444-46 86409446 4.046060O006OOO006 SEASON AT ANNAPOLIS. jew York, ‘The Midshipmen started the game with meet the It is a trmendous team, averaging about 187 pounds, How- the first string men remained in only long enough to warm-up and gave place to substitutes and second string men, some of whom are nearly up to the standard of the regulars, placid eae NORFOLK WINNERS, BURST RACE—Two-yea selling; five and a half furlongs.—El Mahdi, 111) (Ford), 12 to 1, 6 to 1 and & to 2 won; it, 105 (J, McTaggart), 16 to 1, 6 to 1 and 3 to 1, second; Mordecal, 108 (But- well), 5 to 2, even and 1 to 2, third. SECOND RACE—Rose Tree hurdles; handicap; three-year-old and up; about two miles.Melos, 148 (Kermath), 9 to 5, 4 to 6 and 1 to 2, first; Ragusa, 19 (Dupee), 91-2 to 1, 7 to 6 and 7 to 10, Syonsett, 18 to 5, 4.00, Magistrate, 107; Gallant jqholtgn, 10: Milky Emblem, |. Maytow, RACE—Threo year-olds and upward; jurton ga. is, J. 02; Clark, 107: Bouncing Tas, 108; Hester | Prvnne, mS; FIDLIS9IDHOS- 9S HTHORO ROOPGERIORED DOG, ©49690000008 O01 1 DOT50OOO4- 0d Dd.H24-Ho- 0 TODHOREEDIOD SELIG TOOLS TO VICTORY in| weather better suited for baseball, wy|with the Springfield Training School, EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN ALEX. WILSON ARMY ELEVEN AHEAD AT END OF FIRST HALF, 8-0 Springfield Training School Team Was Scored Upon for Safety and Touchdown. THE LINE UP. Hell] and Cornell were Joint favorites at even Wevand Mersiliat (Special t0 ‘The Evening World), WEST POINT, N. Y., Nov, %—In the Army eleven this afternoon in a game had Its tast workout in rreparation for the annual clash with the Middies next Saturday on the Polo Grounds, The eun had been at work for several hours be- fore game time, chasing away the heavy mist from Storm King Mountains, with the result that the day was better sulted for summer sports, Notwithstanding the heat the Weat Point coaches announced before the game that all the Army regulars would be in line with the exception of Half- back Blodget, who had an injured knee, but who will be In shape for the Navy battle, The heavy Springfield team arrived here early with @ trainload of rooters, and some 4,000 visitors crowded the Parade grounds while the cadets exe- cuted their drills, which postponed the game until 8 o'clock. At this time the Army mule was led on the @ridiron, and after a short, apirited Practice both teams quickly got into ac- tion, Springfeld had the cadets badly worrled at the outset. The Army kicked off and the visitors’ backs carried the ball to midfield on a series of end plays that never failed to gain, The Army fin- ally won the ball on an intercepted pase, but was unable to advance through the: line. Springfield showed unexpected strength and held the Army in oheck. After a short punting duel the cadets had the ball on the visitors’ 35-yard line and Woodruff, the cadets’ star kicker, was Med in, Woodruff’s placement went short, but Marko picked up Meyers, who caught the ball, and bodily car- ried him over his own goal line for a safety, Score, West Point 3, Spring- fleld 0. After @ kicking exochange the Cadets cut loose with @ savage attack and Hobbs and Hoge frequently tore through the New Englanders’ line for yards ata time. After a march of % yards Hobbe shot through tackle for atouc! down, to the great delight of the Cadets Merrilat missed an easy Boore: West Point, 8; Springfield, 0. Failing to penetrate the Army line Springfield began using many forward passes, Ijttle Prichard finally caught one and raced back through a broken fleld to the visitor's 20-yard line, After ;|@ few playa the fi quarter ended with the Cadets’ game steadily improv- ing. Score: West Point, 8; Spring- . | Meld, 0, SECOND PERIOD. Springfeld fooled the cadets with forward passes at the start of the sec- ond quarter; one of these flings was wood for thirty yards, The visitors wouldn't follow up ule advantage and lost the ball on the Army's 20-yard Hine, ‘The cadets, in back of @ formation, charged through the Springfield Une for large gains. Hobbs made a poor punt ‘Servi-| out of bounds at midfield. Springfield, ong. 105; ‘Tay Pas, 105; 108; Kila , 108; Charlee 'F, Grainger, ice allowance claimed, i. 11a; 11; atter a couple of short end rushes, tried a goal from the 86-yard line, but it fell short and Midburn carrted the ball back twenty yards for the Army. At this point the cadets made frequeht #u bstitutions to save the regulars for the Navy game, Aided by three penalties the New Englanders carried the ball to the Army's 6 yard line but lost ft on a fumble, Hobbe immediately punted out of danger and the second quarter to was acon over with the ‘ball in =n in Springfield's possession. Score frat alt, Weet Point, 3; Gpsingheld, 0. HARVARD MAN ALSO FINISHES FIRST IN CROSS-COUNTRY RUN Boyd of Crimson Wins Big College Event by Two Yards From Hoffmire of Cornell. Ten thousand spectators gathered near the starting point at Van Cortlandt Park this afternoon for the annual In+ tercollegiate cross-country run, Harvard money. Fourteen institutions entered ninety-five strong-limbed athletes in the Great event. Promptly at 3 o'clock Sam See, the starter, started the men off on their long- six-mile journey. C. Southworth of Harvarl set the pace for the fitat few hundred yards, At the end of the first quarter of mile, F. H. Blackman of Harvard snatched the lead from hix team-m In the next mile Blackman and @, Ty Safford of Yale took turns in showing the way. About the two-mile atone mark W. M. McCurdy of Pennsylvania attempted to Krab the lead with a wilf spurt, but failed. Blackman was in front at the end of the first lap (three miles), covering the distance {n 17 minutes 18 seconds. At his heels was his team-mate, R. St Boyd, and G. Stafford of Yale, L. C. Madiera and W, M. MoCurdy of Penn- sylvania, D. 8. Morrison of Princeton and J. 8. Moffmire of Cornel! were well bunched on the heela of St. Roy. balance of the field was well out, In the next half mile Boyd started to let out a notch. Ae he accelerated his epeed he went by Blackman, and simultaneously J, 8. Hoffmire of Cornell began to show his mettle. In the next furlong the Ithican pushed Blackman Into second position. Boyd led Hoftmire by ten yards up to the last mile and a quarter. Hoffmire tried hard to hold St. Boyd, but the strain told on htm, Boyd kept on travelling with his easy oving etrkle, always increasing the on his nearest rival. As he entered the lane that was lined by @ mass of humanity a quarter of a mile from tne finish he was loudly cheered. He smashed the tape two yards ahead of Hoffmire. H. 8. Litchfield of Brown, who finished about sixtieth, collapsed about thirty yards from the finish. He tried to crawl to the end but was unable te do @o, Some of the spectatora carried him to the dressing rooms, ee “ONE ROUND” DAVIS WINS VERDICT OVER GEYER. BUFFALO, Nov. 2%—"One Round’ Davis won the popular vrdict from Jack Geyer in @ ten-round battle at the Queensbery A. C. last night. Davis fought too efully or he might have dropped Geyer for the count. He drove the Denver man through the ropes in the seventh and had him down for a count of six another time. Geyer made a great rally in the ninth and tenth and had Davis holding, but it was the stand of a desperate man and the margin at the close. ee eaten JACK BRITTON STOPS GATES IN THE THIRD. WILKES-BARRD, Pa., Nov, 2.—Bat- ting Gates of Wilkes-Barre was Knocked out for the firet time of his ring In the third round of his battle with Jack Britton here tast Right. While hie head was against the rapes and his feet firmly on the floor of the ring, Britton caught him flush on the jaw with a left ewing, and while Gates was wobbling about the ring Britton ripped in a right upper, cut which ended ¢ ttl —_—e———. Cork and Kildare to Play for Title. ‘The two championships that were post- poned on last Sunday on account of the rain will be decided at Celtic Park to» morrow afternoon. Cork and Kildare will play for the Gaelio football title and Kilkenny and Tipperary will play for the hurling championship.