The evening world. Newspaper, December 22, 1913, Page 14

£4, prow * ABson was manager and the team wae knewn as “Anson's Col MYSTERY ENTERS INTO TINKER CASE D Te Gunboat Will Do Well Enough for a Champion in America, Especially if He Disposes of Pelky. Copyright, 113, by The Press Pubttishing Co. (The New York World). AM LANGFORD, HAVING WHIPPED Joe Jeanctte in a twenty-round bout S im Parts, 1 now hatled as heavyweight champion ef the world—in Franca it omen back here and tries to work off that championship atuff remind Sam that he met a gentleman cemmonly referred to an or “Gunboat” Smith, in Noston town. Sam tan't champion of the world in Bonton. Smith ta, Tn Engiand, quite naturally, the only world's champion te Carpentier, the French boy who whips English Champion Bombardier Wells whenever he hasn't @ny real work on hand. G@undoet Smith will do well enongh for a champion around here in Amerion, at loast antl! sone one else shows that he can whtp the Gunner. @andoat has no rival, or will have none if he disposes of Pelky. Me has deaten Moran, Willard, Rodel, Wells, Biller and many others. Mis vioc- tory over Sam Langford was the greatest jar handed the dopesters in wyahe and yahs.” That lstie thing alone gives him every right in the world to te regarded ss champion of Amerion, Langford was the best black fighter in the country. Any man who can use Langford, Willard, Moran and that lot an 2 commutation meal ticket, 00a enongh for us. Down fn Australia they have Dave Amith all ribbed up as a champion be- cause Dave whipped Bill Lang, heavyweight champ of Auntralia, They think Dave will just take a turkey through the list of hopes, and are negotiating with Ganboat Smith to come to Australie to fight him for the title FRIENDS OF KID CARTER will be glad to hei atill very muoh on earth. A letter from the “Ki “Juat @ few lMnes to Jet you know I'm well and fine. I havea young fellow by ti class for the Y. M.C. A, and I think I have discovered a welterweight champion. I have him working out here on the quiet with Bod Dillon, my former trainer, and I don't want to say too muoh about him, but I Go Delieve he can outpoint Mike Gibbons in @ ten-round bout. Your old friend, KID CARTER, Former Middlewetght Bozer. that the great old-timer te GOV. TENTR saya that he intends te keep all of last years umpires. “Bright baseball men teM me the umpires are the beat in the business,” sald (ee Governor, “Such men as Fred Clarke, Miller Huggins and George Stallings - have told me that the offictate in the league last year were good, and Bo long as ngaged in the game on the field are satisfied that is some as- of the play in pretty near competent. Of course, I shall atm te become Setter acquainted with the umpires myself ami endeavor to pair them off in the best way.” Gov. Tener played golf all day Friday and Saturday ‘with Pop Anson at Harrisburg. Gov. Tener pitehed on the Chicago team when Anson fing @ little theatrical work in Pittsburgh this week, and the Governor ts eat im @ box at his performance to-night. In Australia they call Mpht-heavyweight borers “cruiser-cight" men. Thia has deen officially adopted by the boring authorities there. “Orutaer weight,” they explain, stands to the heavyweight in the same position as a cruiser to a datticahip.” To confusion we'd better cha: “Gundoat” &: “Bett Bmtth. Hee no cruiser ree SAYS THE @ON: “The New Yorker, Harry Stone, came to Aun- ,Malia to get a Pputation. Me has got it. In hia frat matoh he made a meas ‘of the once brilliant lightweight, Hock Keys. Now he has two victories over Jeknay Summers, the English welterweight champion, and Johany was well yeaten cash tima Stone ie extraordinarily fnst, with some unorthodox but Bening methods, showing amasing speed and egility, Me @ whote lot, and the English champion, while fighting with great resoure seeaty of ginger, could hardly get a sieve on him. Btone atar Hehtweight, sig tig came here without muah American toom, He ts to bo matched with ‘Matt a) COACH HAUGHTON OF HARVARD gays the forward pop pase is “an ineffective weapon fense.” THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1918. AN, M'SiEeu =~ ) WHERE Bomparvick ( Wes eez- Zere am T \ CHAMPION y Du MOND, ) INCONTE STABLE ‘) Tec Gunner's CLAIM Won'T Be IED IN) ONE Place, AY LEAST CARPENTIER. Tm werco’s Has one CHAMP = = CHAMPIONSHIP | Y Once, CINCHED. i] l - Manager Robinson of Dodgers Says Tinker’s Demands Are |President Ebbets Expected | Home To-Day and Maybe | He’ll Shd a Little Light on | the Mysterious Element That Has Entered Inio the Star| | Shortstop Case. | | | | The clement of mystery, without | chased by the Dodgers: “Frank Chance told me last summer that Tinker's release would cheap at $50,000 if we conld get him. Chance said that Tinker as a player and « field lientenant was invaluable to any club. Me declared Unreasonabl Chance Considers Tinker Worth $50,000, According to President Farrell of Yanks Here's what Frank Farrell, president of the New York American League Club, has to say about Joe Tinker, the Reds’ former manager, recently pur BEING A CHAMPION IS ALL A MATTER OF GEOGRAPHY Copyright, 1913, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). JEANETTE Flynn Faces Rodel and Coffey Clashes With Levinsky in By John Pollock. \ OCAL fight fans will hat portunity of @eeing four hopes” battle for supremacy in two ten-round bouts at the Garden A.C. | to-night. Billy Gibson, at first, was not tn favor of staging any more contests Detween heavyweights in the Garden, but as the four big fellows that he has secured for to-night's scraps have all put up game battles in their previous encounters at local clubs, he decided to pair them off and to match the winner of exch go for a fight on Jan, 12. fighters who will meet in the two con- tests this evening are Battling Levinsky ys, Jim Coffey, the Dublin Gi and Jim Flynn, the Pueblo Fireman, vs. George Rodel, the heavyweight cham- pion of South Afric A bout was clinched to-day between Jack Britton of Chicago and Joe Hurst ‘of Philadelphia, who re Mike Gibbons in a six-round go In Phila- Winners of To-Night’s Bouts to Meet on Jan. 12)***%e “White Hope” Show. if The) hi | ARCHWAY UNDERNEATH L.| MOTOR PARKWAY at East Williston. The Wheatley Hille Golf Club‘is the name of a club Just organized, and it will be located at Hast Williston, wong Island Twenty golfers formed the club and {t {# their intention to have @ playing membership limited to th hundreds, Considerable progress has ready been made on the new links, which, when completed, will consist of two distinct nine-hole courses, The el officers of the club are: Richard W. nd Turner, dent; George I. Lowden, SENTORY Secretary, and Hugh E. PLANT urer. The Board of Gove: NEVER STOPS W. Westlake, Eugene Van BLossomiING # | Wieon B. Brice and George Woolston The nine-hole links will be divided by the Long Island Motor though there will be no by pedestrians or vehicles, has heen made Jway by means neath, The land Is a combination of hillooks and levels, peculiarly adapted to golf, Playera who wish to cover only nine holes may take thelr choice, for the first and tenth tees are near the club- house: lkewise the ninth and eighteenth greens. The completed course will be Parkway, interruption Provision for crossing the park- of an archway under- Vardon and RF. , Rolf players the crack Engtteh are said to have carried ! back home with them close to $10,000, which th «i during their ate: here, The stars of the diamond he’ | also taken up the eport now, and Math- (ewson, Cilef Bender, Merkte and Cobb play the game every chance they get. Matty {s out on the links every day in ‘Lang, th champion. Australian heavyweight truth in the report circulated to the effect that elther Terry MoGovern or latter's cousin {s manager of Jack riscoll, the Brooklyn heavyweight. ‘opeland clai:ne that js his manager and that he has @ contract with him. The Country Club of Havana wil hola its secorm annual tournament on Feb. 10 and 15, and immediately following other meeting of the invitation vartety will be run off. Later tn the season there probably will be emailer toumna- ments. Joo “Young Shugrue, the Jersey City lightweight, been secured for two fights, His first will be with “Cy Smith of Hoboken for ten rounds at the Na- tlonal Sporting Club of West Forty- fourth street to-morrow night, while his econd will be with Willle Beecher for ten rounds at the opening show of the Collar City A. C. of Troy, N. ¥., on The new course at Ansley Park, At- Jan, 5. Janta, has been fininhed and it t@ ex- pected that many of the golfers who Bob Vernon, who ‘a a atanch friend | are tn the South will make an inapestion In the spring the links will Be ed over to the Ansley Park Geif At pfenent they are being weed as @ public affair. of Jim Jeffries, received a letter to-day from him in which he stated that he decided to Ko around the world, but not do any more fighting, He fur- ther announ ed that he has received a flattering offer from Hugh MeIntosi,| There ts a merry war going on tn the former fight promoter of Australin.,the West over the Western amateur to give boxing exhibitions at the lif-/ championship tournament for next year. ferent theatres there under hie marage- | Tt seems that there are three applicants ment, and that he has accepted it. for the privilege—the Kent Country Clwb Grand Rapits; the Omaha Cor Young Drummie of Jersey City and {Club and the Mayfield Country Club, of Young Cardetl of Newark have been Cleveland, Theee three clubs will pre- matched to meet in the semi-final to the | sent their respective claims at the an- Bob Moha-Ray Kenney bout at Brown's nuai meeting of the Western Golf Aseo- Gym to-morrow night. jation in Chicago on Jan, 17 BEST SPORTING PACE IN NEW YORK | ' FOR NEW GOLF LINKS —_<— ‘ Wheatley Hills Club Building | Two Distinct 9-Hole Courses Four big Kastern teame played four big Western teams during the football | wh h no good baseball deal is complete, | that Tinker’s knowledge cf inside baseball had helped the Onbs to win phia. Jack McGuigan matched them — + the forward pase; the Western teama 414, The Western teama won every game, ‘West Point wae considered outclassed by the powerful Navy team, playing Eastern foothall, A couple of weeks’ coaching in the forward pass technique, and West Point beat the Navy team with case, ‘To us the forward pass looks like the solar plexus punch of football. JACK JOHMGON, HAVING “BROKEN HIS ARM" tn doxing ten rounds! with Jim Johneon, « large colored person with the most magnificent physique ta the wortd and a glass jaw, now announces that be won't fight Misto Moran im February, but he may possibly consider the convenience of a match in May ov June, or some time or other, Moran will provably aight Langterd and try to he Gas been training. The Sport Net se Jeanette, with whom y elgnatures requentl three-figure prices are pald in a practice that @ college of Harvard's high athletic should net permanently Lyceum, an athletic club of ‘Westchester, tnaugurated ‘@ross-country hd @ five-mile road run re, mecopolttan “eistick tr Gola. Harry Smith tthe i i H a2) | Hi fr z i ir i 8 ik i we | E r it | [ I Ft ; I t g : ii? i i i le i ! | ik i i li | : ! Gempesing of mate, The ¢wo Meats che won were by goed margins. The M. Anode Adicio Comb otaged two qrous-country vaces yesterOny over the Bronz Gills, One was o tananile , FBmi the other was at three and a quar 8 i ‘ 2: P f i i if Rete has entered into the Joa Tinker case, | When President Hbbets of the Dodgers returna to thia city to-day he may be able to shed a little light on the sub- |Jeot, but just at present the status of \the deal remains just as it did Saturday when Ebbets visited Garry Jferrmann, ipreaident of the Reds, at Cincinnati, paid him a check of $15,000 for the star jortatop and promised to #% him Pitcher Earl Yingling and Outfelder Herbert Moran. pBbdbeta was to have me? Tinker at Tndlanapolis yesterday, but instead sent hig new manager, Wilbert Robinson, When Tinker learned that the ed Brooklyn president wouldn't be on hand he didn't leave Chi However, Robby and Tinker had @ talk over the long distance phone, at the conclusion of which the Brooklyn leader declared the star shortstop's proposition for signing unreasonable, It 1s believed that Robby offered Tinker a throe-year contract at $5,000 a year, but Tinker couldn't see it for a minute. OF course, Tinker will get the promised bonus of $10,000 any way, soon as he signs @ Brooklyn contr mut it im sald thet he also wants 4 three-year contract at $7,800 a year, the came salary which he received es man- ager of the Reds last season. Jack Ooombs, the famous pitcher of the Athletics, is now on his way to hia Rome in West Kennebunk, Me., where he will rest until next June, when he wit join Ale team in Philadel pha. Coombs won't go South to the training camp in the apring, but will spend all the time on his farm regaining his Tost strength. Coombs lost a great deal of weight and a eiv- teenth of an inch in height dur- ing hia long atege of illness, but he eays he expects to be just as good as ever next season, Gov. Tener of Pennsylvania, the new President of the tional League, apent yesterday playing golf with Pop Anson on one of the courses in Pittaburgh. ‘Tener announced that he ts going to retain the old sta of umpires next year. Morton F. Plant is going to treat the ‘pall players of his New London, East- ern Aasesociation, team in dig league etyle next scason. He has arranged for them to train et Tampa, Fla, and among other things they will travel all the way to the camp and back in’ a private car, Some class for bush leaguer Manager Robinson of the Dodgere !s looking for a man to not in the eame capacity in whioh he worked for Mo- Graw of the Giants, What he wants is tant to eoach the youngeters, and be will try to escure Kid Gleason of the White Boz or Duke Farrel, tho veteran catcher, According to @ Chicago Inter elewer, Tinker thinks well of two world's championships and that if our club could get him we ‘would be strengthened at least 30 per cent. If it had been possible for me to bid for Tinker’s release I would have gonb higher than any other club owner. I consider that the Brooklyn cinb has made « splen- @id deal in landing Tinker and I have congratulted Ebbets ana the ‘MoKeovers for their liberality and enterprise. gers, and he believes that he twill prove successful. Tinker consid- ers Cutshaw @ crack second base- man, and he believes that he will be able to work with him so as to pull off as many double plave as he and Evers used to sonsum- mate in Chicago. c. W. Murphy ts advantage of’ Charlie Merzog's inexpo- rience ae @ manager. ‘The Cub Doss in scheduled to make a trip to Oimcinnatl to-lay for the purpose of prosing a trade with the #x-Giant infielder. Mur- phy wante to @lve Outfielder Leach and cash for Marsans, the Cuban outfielder. It's not Wkely that Herzle will fall for any mich trade, King Cole, once a Cub star, and draft- ed from Columbus by the New York Americans, was the “iron man" of the American Axsoclation laat season, He took part in forty-six games, winning twenty-three and losing eleven, He stood sixth in the pyrcentage column. In epite of the fact that the Federal outlaw league has declared that the reserve clatise Incorporated dn the ot ers’ contracts is illegal ahd ng to try to take Teams Battle 90 Minutes to | A. Tie at Soccer, Fighting every inch of tho way, the] Columbia Oval and New York Ceti poecer football alevens put up @ great oxhibition at Lenox Oval yesterd afternoon when tty battled ninety min utes to a tle game of one x01 each, The contest was a onshiyy x: ture In the New York State Le: series and was interesting from to finish. Both teame were on a par, and there was no advantage In the at tack or defense, cha Toth backfelda were exceptionally strong, and broke up, time and asain, any combination that had the appear: ance of bouring frult. In efenss ine qutvered for a moment, and in thin @hort time Blacksmith got through the line and tallied the frst point for the Columbia Oval agxrogn- tion, It wan a corking shot and won praise from hia team mates, The rest of the half aw the plemkin ahunted from ane end of the felt to the other, | nether equad maining ground, After the ten-minute Internivston the | @ame tooth-and-nall tactloa were re ported to, and after Aftern minutes’ play Landy at centro got through the Co- lumbia backfield, and with the aid of more fast pasging and criss-crossirg he managed to land the ball in the Co- Bop Ser the equalising tally, the first Ave |for A. 8. Coclir minutes of play, However, the Coltlo! punt sion of Wi who recently gus- — pended hin year for Bot putting o live up as fast a battle with Jack Britton as Ni Pete kD court, that organiza-|they expected, Packey McFarland now Comtraste teat ft ak eet teat the declares that” he will appeal to Gov. season, : Sent out for next) Johnson of Wisconsin to have his sus- | Ed Hanton, the famous man. ager, is expected to visit here this week in an effort to interest local capital in organizing a Federal League club in this city, Another deal is rep after having be was ead that wer to the Mound Gity, tis and ‘Plans Outlined — For Defense of America’s Cup BOSTON, Dec. 2&—The closing daya year find the American defense fourth 1 yy well on America's Cup defender lata down and two others about started, Yachtsmen hope that the p sistent rumor of a fourth boat will b t\come an actuality within the next few |] First RaceFlying Yankee, Gerard, weeks. c Beachy. The bont butlding at Rriatol, R. 1, ang nd Race—Prince Chap, Sher known as the flog oftcers’ yacnt, has |] '9ck Holmes, Molen the lead bolb for moulded, Work has Deon started al ponset on a shed tn which the yachi m designs by Wiltlam Gardner, It ts expected that the shed will be ready by tho last of the week, and thas the keel bully will be run by the first of jthe yeu * sheds used for th 1 for the Phila and Boston ayn # boat Which George Owen will Math boats wit probaoiy he tried out Ray, - | passenger on the steamxhip La Lorraine ‘n: tson will he sen- t rivalry apring- Dolgers and the five-game series len are confident y that insteat gate receipta on the basis that the winner the loser orty on yachting Ine | = ed with one In- her fin keel already an of New York will be ) boats Is expected over the long distance telephone to try conclusions in a six-round contest at a special show of the A. C, of jPhiladeiphia on New that he has been Peeling the ground tha’ ring by the com- \pension annulled was not given a hi ssion. Another foreign fighter has just rived in this coun He 1s Emil Dominick, whose right name {s Argasale Demetrie. He Austria, Is a welterweight here from Havre yester- day, Demetrie is twenty-seven years old and is flve feet ten inches in height. Jack Dillon of Indianapolis, who is one of the topnotch middieweights in the business and who has won many bat- tles this year, has signed articl agreement calling for him to meet Christie, the Western fighter, in @ ten- round bout at a ‘ox!ng show to be brought off at Indianapolis on the after- noon of New Year's Day, Young Fox, the bantamweight cham- pion of England, will make his flrat ap- Pearance in a bout in this country to- night, He will have for his opponent | Mooney, the fast little west side bantamweight. This go will be decided at Madison Square Garden and will be curtain ralser to the two ten-round bat- tles between the heavy weigh: nd George Rode! and y and Jim Coffey, Dave Smith, the Australian middle- welght champlon, who is matched to meet Eddie MeGoorty, the American middleweight, for twenty rounds at Sydney, Australia, on Boxing Day, Dec, %, ought to give the latter @ great bat- Ue, as he has won his last five fights In Aust RACING SELECTIONS. CHARLESTON. Third Race—Outlan, Mycenae, Fiel. Fourth Race—Tarts, Prince Her- 1] mia, Elle Bryson, ‘ Fi nem Race—Kiva, Deduction, Oak- and, Bixth Race--Mighael Angelo, Big Dipper, Patty Regan, t A ¢ JUAREZ, Firat Race — Violet May, Hintle, Switteure, Hovcond Race—Cordle F,, Forge, Thi Race — Eyewhite, Cunningham, @inm Fei 1 Fourth Little Mawrla4, Ormonde Velte England Is Seeking Revision Of Davis Tennis Cup Rules foot from the ground before the ser- . . | vice is delivered, provided such foot Wants New Service Rule, | is replaced on the ground behing the base line before either foot is placed’ Which Would Handicap the American Players. on the court. ‘The proposition has also beem sub- mitted to the American governing body |to hereafter designate the Davis Cup contests a the International Lawn {Tennla Championship, Furthermore, to place it directly under the supervision and government of the International Federation. Several of the leading players stated ee ee Cup, The oMcials of | yesterday that the contention of Henry according to tho official bulletin re i Maecenas pe telg celved from London yesterday, desire was being borne out in that Americans jaying surtace {Would be compelied to Join in with the on which the cup matches may prop- put the Davia Cup on tho si erly be decided, and to establish the | Wey pointed out. th a Abie nal onality of any player jteur rule would he iy name imber no matter how di competing cup term, to the majority of Bubjecta of vital interest to Amer- fcans, and in connection with the fu- jscussed England has undertaken the task of revising the international rules Coe ——a ee, Practically Ready. While the Yale football echedule will not be formally announced until after The Britons have undertaken the | New Year's, it wae learned to-day that d (all the games but one have been tenta- tively decided upon. ‘The echedule in- cludes University of Matne, Lehigh, hington end Jefferson, University of Virginia, Colgate, Brown, Princeton nociation. ers’ for offer the new rule t! tennis ar! they propose to for adoption @ beneld-in Paris next March in Parle ni , ‘Phe ‘service rule which the Engiish Pro} 1g an echo of the great matches at Wimbledon last July, in which the MOT! rapid start for the net on the part of Maurice FH. MoLoughiin, R. Norris Williams and Wallace F. Johnson wi deprecated, The adoption of t! would seriously Americans and also the Germa: ‘The rule as framed follows: The eerver ehall, before commenc- ing to serve, stand with both feet at rest on the ground behind (further from the net than) the base lin a within the Mmits of the imag ary continuation of the half court line and the aide lines, and from such position shall deliver the eer- vice; but the server may raise one ft the BICYCLES Order Tomorrow— Ready Xmas Eve A suit or overcoat that last week j sold for $40 to $50 can be bought 5 today for $25. Our finest im- $2 suit for Xmas, Combination Full Dress Suit and Tuxedo, silk lined, $62. Masaachusetts: with Fifth Race-ir Harry, nm. as their base, and it is thought possible |} sella. that the Bristol boat may come around Sixth Race—Dynamo, The Monk, the Cape for the preliminary race sea || Acumen, ‘oon in There is added pleasure to a new Ninth Street ported woolens have been reduced. Non 'seet A Oheim