The evening world. Newspaper, January 14, 1914, Page 16

Paokey McFarland Consented to a Match With Gibbons to Show Public He Wasn't Al-| (| ¢ Ways Ploking Easy Opponents. forid). {VERY one is wondering hw Packey MeFariand feels about f - E i a & Fe : f show the public that he men emailer than ‘opponents. away with Mike he'll . Lendl pape eat He besn't elected an eas ty aid in the demonstration. eae ARRY LEWI6, who was sensel for a long time after being men rece w necked out by Joe Borrell some ago in Philadelphia, is slowly never te box again. He ascribes his col- Mapae to injuries received in an accident fm Lendon, when the cav in which he ‘Was fiding wae wrecked. Ie sued the! company and received a verdict and If that accident really did Harry's condition he would need Gemages to make up for all the a might op ch Rl boxing bout, Beginning Memorial Day, Meetings Will Be Held at Various ie wan ovens gntwaigh, then werear| Tracks, and Not Exclusively at Belmont Park, on at Least mi geod care of hie bealtn seat cont} — Four Days Each Week—Good Three-Year-Old Outlook. 024 allowed himself long rests Letween Matehes. so that in the normal run of fairs he should have been good for Rive on @ vie scale will be pros There will also be eoveral years more. vided for the Metropolitan tracks|Cuse last yea: omy this year. The class of racing/M™eectings at Onimiata students t football, {and methods for conducting the sport aA wi) be a dig improvement o 1918, when the thoroughbred pastime was quietly resumed in an experimental way on a three-day-a-week basis after an absence of three years in thin Stat Thies was learied from a rellabi to-d The stewards of the Jockey Club at thelr next meeting will make provis- fons for racing on an increased number of tracks, on consecutive days or posal- bly four days, @ week, and with greatly enlarged felis for nearly all of the season's leading stake events. Explaining plans for the coming sea- son The Even! World's informant sald that Jockey CluB stewards and particu- larly horse owners wi of racing's success this year. periment made last year |i the aport back on a modest scale w so gratifying that the turf authorit! confidently Lae gh that mething ‘They are beginning a fight to get we the game back again. Football barred at Columbia years ano, after eehsa: which the Columbia team ve ft psitad ely cone ‘ en Columbia had 64am tb the fleld New York was on the reate of for New York football peo- | was Yale-Columbia game, which oA being & battle than any game on the college schedule. 3 ley, from New Mex: who put the scrap end if Bill haa AG considered for a more compre: he ve e, which provides for the opening of the tracks at Gravesend, Empire City and Aqueduct, in addition te t Park. This, of course, te exclusive of the usual month's racing at Baratoga during August, Tt now a@ certainty that about all events wie fi ter ide mn leat Katries received for conditioned features, such se the Belmont, are al- most double the number of those of last year. ‘The Metropolitan season will open on or about Decoration Day and the pro- @ramme, according to present plans, will be run somewhat like thi The firat meeting to be held at Helmont Park, then a change of scmery to Gravesend, Fmoire City and Aqueduct. Beigisnd some time ago, and it was Ganounced that because of his broken gentracts there, and his generally un- desirable personality, he wouldn't be allowed to fight anywhere In England, ‘The Englishmen seem to be moved, more than by anything ¢ Rough and Hockey Club Defeats Wanderers | 2 to 1 in Slambang Affair at St. Nicholas Rink. elgily now that he has finally whipped | Jeanette in a twenty round fight. Lang. ford always bas been popular tend, where he has been regarded a knocked out Hague. rewarded the most dangero: ‘e Veloped in Bagland iy man rocked Langford down ones - Another siambang hockey match was | played Inst night at the St, Nichclas Rink in which the Hockey Club came out best ay far as the score was con- cerned 1, But it is figured by experts on pugiliem that the Wanderers and Hockey Club fought a good draw ‘The Wanderers scored their only goal in the first half, ‘They couldn't stop | jhe rush of the Hockey Club pla: the sec twice, Howard shot the winning goal a few minutes before time was called. Not only was the contest rough, rt and confi. dence and never amounted to much | To Meet Mor - ee PARIS. Jan. 14.-—Jack Jonson, the coi- 7 red henvywWeight pugilist. and Frank Moran, the Pittsburgh heavyweight, to- the game, Kinsella, the Wand point, who had been put off the ice| after he nad knocked down R. O, Filis of the St, Nick ficial, The the will be preferred against him. is found guilty the chances are) 1. be barred from playing in the; struck World to be fought on or before the i Grind Pris race during the firet of this year. Kinsella at tas tide linge aster ve th Racing on Bigger Scale Planned for Next Season ' By Jockey Club Stewards’ * NAY, Jan Pr77 TNDooR. “TANGO COSTUME, ! Re WEATHER STUFF” 'reee Publishing Company. (The New i World.) s i ‘COL Copyright, 1914, by ¢ “Th Pageze Ter out = HE SHOULD woerey ! 1 See =t Roses D,.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY EST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW “ORGANIZED BASEBalL TAREATENS oy “ | Tried to Interest Capital- | ists, but Latter Failed | Could Exist. } Cauronmia Lowes iE failure of the Fed Ca I to put a team In New York or Brooklyn this year, it now de- | veiops, waa due to the very plain and simple fact that the promoters could . ~ meeting at Syra- ‘This plan of holding ferent tracks will be sreatly appreciated by turf goers whi became weary of journeying down to Belmont Park last season for all the racing previous to the Saratoga meeting. Not only wilt conditions be immensely ‘ere Petition it 1s a foregone conclusion that er will ee to winners, rry Payne Wht WS led all other stables in the event of prize money won. colors earned @ total of 855,088 for the year. Pennant, winner of the Futurity at Sartoga, headed the list of individual winners with the t®ly sum of 816,980, Hockey Game Resembles_ . Tumble Fight the oMcia’ er put of test. Aumond had two trips ti to the sid a stone ard were also put off for rough 5 ling, These were the offen: een cl pai aoe age Layrnd Lig) the sec- ; Or gee Aumond aw Howard @ bit later, ee ee awil ——_— RITCHIE-MURPHY 8. lie for nd period, the latter scoring | ro), » | taken place Jan. 33, Murphy ‘but | AKFeed to powtpone the bout to Jan. it nad @ rough conclusion when, after | Ritchie Injured his leg while training, a N ws, the referee had &|the intercluy trapehooters’ tournament Fiat the New ¥\ Jan. 31. better thin year but the standard of racing Itself will he elevated. ™many horsemen who were acepti~| cal of the movement in 1913 to restore sport, but since it has proved euc-! cessful these sam come convinced that the sport can be made safe and popular. Now they are/ rushing forward this year with valuable whaistance. | This realization of racin, here han effectively stopped the exodus of the horses of the bigger stables to! winter tracks. thoroughbreds, ¢! stables, at pegs thelr strings up all winter _— and give all Las was disappoints: natural condition after Nine’ iT Fiyh : Night Stick, Flying Fairy, Prince Eu- Bene and Rock View constituted Pencil: cally the entire list of capable three- year-olds. This condition will be re- versed this year. An active racing cam- paign last year produced m: fine two-year-olds and the outlook for an excellent crop of three-year-olds this year ie hi b horsemen have be- stability The number of our ne of OWners of big J now {is alm Thone owners prefer to reat ention to Metropolitan racing. year the crop of three-year-olds which was only a Period of in- Covk-of-the-Walk, — Buskin, 'y A 'Y promising, © com- be much more nourishing ‘The Whitney He waa not the only play- iF roughness in the con- 1 fe nes, and Young and How- th : ja paw, but they did not see “tow: Fortunately, th ing did not hit the son of ° Yale Tr it hed Probably would | aken @ Bob McAllist sleep. MATCH POSTPONED, AN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 4.—Wi- Ritchi+ was compelled aguin to ank & postponement of his mateh with nmy Murphy, ‘The fight was to 4 jerclab Shoo ine organigationa will take part in wht a. not raise the money, It wasn't a ques tion of keeping out of this territory until the experiment. had been tried else- where, and it wasn't due to any con- sideration for the local magnates, ‘The Federal Leaguers thrashed the financial istrict thoroughly and tackled several of the ble theatrical men uptown. York capitalists, {t In aald, we unanimous in failing to “see” the propo- | sition that the v! ing promoters could ; not raise $0,000, This infor comer direct from & man whom thé Feds approacred on the eubdject—a man who is noted for his willingness to In t in anything that looks good, ME didn't see how « fourth club 'n Greater New York could possibly thrive against #0 much opporition, and whea 1 asked the promoters to give on other investors they not (onde to tell the truth, T don’t think they any. “4 was told that the new league hud plenty of money for a Chicago tran- chise and T am not surpris what. T sincerely believe the Federal Leagu Jap Billiardist Beaten; Says Cold Weather Did It ng. He also made runs! Yamada Must Win Next Three! ‘me afrin Blooks—Cutler Gives Brilliant), 7! malina thr cores | Exhibition at New Style Balk W. H. Page Re-elected President of N.Y. A.C. ILLIAM H. PAGE elected W President of the York Athletic Oi | Fs #3 : ‘the seventh in 6. 24, 2 ant score was: Cutler, 200; points right off the reel. This was his best run. He twice made runs of % and » one of 19 and one of 1 Yamad made a run of 43 in the third inniny Line Game. ok Cutler thirty-five innings to run ( Se 1x 500 points, Whereas Yamada only de 47 in thirty-four innings, ' hen the match opened Yamada wan a big favorite, some fans betting 2 to 1 that he would win, Before they started playing yesterday the Jap was still ar WW to 8, and even now there are fany Who are willing to bet even money that he will win the series. SPORT James A. Tyng, the new chairman of the handicap committee of the Metro- politan Golf Association, will cat) a meeting early in ary to arrange aljowances to goifers who are ent.tied to a handicap of nine strokes or leas, fami player, will have to win te next three blocks from Albert In their five-day contest at Academy in order to win the first public 14.1 balkline match played anywhere in the wor! The Jap has played in hard luck @0 far, and he is in hopes that there will be a change in his favor to-day, Yamada blames tho cold weather for hie defea in the two blocks decided so far, and Juat a8 soon as it gets warmer he is con- dent that his playing will improv ‘ou would not think It,” sald Yamada in his pigeon English, “but the cokl weather has a deadening effect on the balis, Th worles become so chilled that dt is impossible to give them the deft touches that will enable a player to make long run Nursing ls my strong point in playing, and if the meroury will only take # jump you'll see that I am master.” two days’ playing has been y Cutler only won b, a score of 100 to 476, while yesterday ini margin wae 50 to 47. Yamada's friends say that just as soon as he develops a line nurse that he will © unbeatable in the new game. Line nursing Was Where George Sutton used to be king, and Yamada is trying hard to follow in his footsteps aud become adept in this branch of the game. utler'’s fine work in the ent match i the talk of the billiard fans of \the town. He has never shown such great ability at the open game as againat the Liliputian from the Orient, At times he seems to have an uncanny mastery over the balls, and he makes them run around the table as though they Were aa much aubfect to his con- trol as nis hands and f In the ninth inning of the afternoon game Cuilor made a run of 76 trying to Ket the ballsAogether. One fan present paid, “Al will run a dundred before he | K*: YAMADA, the Japanese bi The full Mat of entries for the wres- ‘ling tourney to-night at Madison Square Garden ani their natlonall- tien is as follows; Aberg, Finn, Fris- tensky, Bohemian; Jurich, Russlan; | Mamutoft, Cossack; Schoentein, Amert- ‘can; Simard, Canadian; Hokuf, Ame tean; Krause, Bohemian; Barlettl, I fan; Haren, Russian-American; Alva Spantard; Henderson, American; Han- son, Norwegian; Samson, German; Jen- kins, American; Rogalski, Hungarian; |MeLoughiin, Irish; McGrath, Irieh- ‘American, Charlie White, .who has |refereed nearly every wrestling match of importance that has taken place in York, will be the third man in the Claude Allen, former champion pole ulter, Is assisting St, Jonn's College jand Seventy company fn arranging their Jaunual games at the Thirteenth Regi- \ment Armory, Brooklyn, on Washing- ton's Birthday. Entry blanks were sent today to every champion gin Greator terious visit to Johnny Ward. | to See How Four Clubs ot ni of which means that if the leagu: @ successful season we will have a club money in Chicago, where ——— FEDS FAIL TO GET BACKING TO START NEW YORK CLUB Murphy ie unpopular and where they can play Sunday ball.” ‘This throws a better light on that mya- ‘The ii era wanted him to handle the cluo, ays, wel team tn New York. that etopped them. All fas New York next year. If it looks ike @ good business proposition there will be plenty of investors. “L was very much surprised,” said the capitalist .who had been ap- Proached, ‘when the promoters showed me &@ prospectus of how much money they expected to make. But I know New York better than they. “IT am told that out in Indianapoiln the Federal Loaguers have been talk- ing so much about clearing $100,000 the first season that they are beginning to believe it themselves. ‘Well, anyway, Larry Mclean has got that bowus money from St, Louls and has the distinction of being tho firat | big league pla, to sign the new form of contract as agreed upon between the National Commission and the Players’ Fraternity at Cincinnati a few days ago, Larry happened to waik in John Fos- ter's office juat ag the bundle of blank contracts came in from the printer. Larry is vaudevilling hereabouts and nays he's “knocktn’ 'em gead.’ After a long winter's hunt Larry finally got the St, Louis magnates tn a} corner and forced a settlement of that bonus question. Whether Larry got his ful! $800 or not he would not say, “Wo agreed on a settlement that was satie- *aectared the big fellow. “And | ‘somehody stings me again I'll never make another holle tucked Now that Larry h Bowls 300 Score; | Last Ball Fails, To Hit Head Pin The hali of fame of bowling has ac- quired @ new member ‘in Frank An- drews, who managed to topple the pins for the perfect acore of 30 at the M: ropolitan Alleys in Washington Heights. Andrewa's feat puts him in a clase by himself as a “300 bowler,” for in the nth frame and on his last ball he secured his twelfth strike without hit. ting the headpin. The ball on his twelfth effort hit the 2 pin, left up the 1, 3 and 6, and in some way too quick for the eye to catch one of the toppling pleces of maple hit the 6 from behind, which in turn carired tie 3, and the 8 spilled the headpin, BRIEFS. Hirehon and Ollie De Crucey: The Young Mei Hebrew Association Athletic League wii have its fret ewim- ming championship In ¢ A. a Ninety #econd street ¥.M. H. natatorium on fat- urday evening, 31. The events to be contested for are 60-yard swim, 140- yard awim and plunge for distance. ‘The prizes will be liver cup to first, seoond and third in each event. Entries will close on Jan, 33, with B. Levine, Post-Ofice box Gil, New York City. ‘The Registration Committee of the A. A. U. has received word from Waiter . Trivett, Secretary of Ontarlo branch of the Amateur Athletic Union of Can- ada, that in future all American ath- letes registered in the Amateur Athletic Union of the United 8 compete in Canada mu in Canada and with their association before being allowed to compete in their territory. aura TOO FROSTY TO HOLD FLYNN-LOGAN BOUT. PROVIDENCE, R.'1., Jan. 14—The fifteen round bout carded for last night between Tom Logan and Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fireman, did not materialize. The promoters of the Rhode Island A. C, decided to call it of because of the New York. The program@e cona:ats of five open evente—100, 440 and 1,00» yard runs, handicap; two-mile rum and pole vault, handicap. brings them together. Most of the shots were difficult cushion carroms which electrified the crowd, ‘The afternoon block of 20 points only took the Bostonian sixteen innings to Rochelle Yacht Club on The clubs that have enterod ma are: Manhasset Hay, Port Wash. ington, Hayside, Stamford and Indian © When Be ran out the nec Harbor Yacht Clubs, White Piains Gun | minutes’ rest on Clud, Greenwich Country Clud and had bumped imte Siwanoy Country Club, ‘The Pastime Athletic Club announces three feature events for thelr monster athletic carnival at the Seventy-frst Regiment Armory next Saturday eve ning, They are the “Metropolitan 600,” medley relay race and two-mile bicycle race. The following .middie-dlatance run out, four Innings less than Monday afternoon ion, “he high run, of jcouree, was Cutler's 1% in the ninth inning, but he also made a run of 45 lin the twelfth janing aad oth of sary 200 pointa, Yamada started off in the lead, mak- ink eleven points when he firat took up ais cus, His high run was 4%, made ip dred: Tom Halpin, Mel Sheppard, Muge eee: ity g cold weather. About 30) fans journeyed to the clubhouse and showed their dis- eatisfaction. — DETROIT REJECTS DATES FOR SKATIN' ° DETROIT, Mich., Jan, 14.—The dates awarded to Detroit by the International Skating Union of America havo been stare will meet in the special six hun- |g, the local YORK WONDERING ArrectT MK GIBBONS NEXT. If New League Proves jong delayed bonus the only thing to} keep the old league from going its w $2,600 for getting Pitcher Kppa Rixey, | box on Wi and the dough must be forthcoming of | non, Cal,, Sam Wallaci, man of the umps will get no sleep. Mites eS ager [a Unig Ce eeahe, sleep. In fact Bit! Leach, wilt sian articles for Leach to gets his money pretty, noon he wont us| meet Joe Axevedo for ten rounds at in physical shape to do his best um-| Oakland, ¢ or Charlie White of piring In April, \Ghicago before one of the big clubs In Rube Vickers, the Baltimore pitcher, that Ned Hanlon is turning loose some of his own money Oe ee Ned gore down in hie Jeane (BArrI¢d the Canadian Aghter, “for and digs up his own coin,” says the ty locas at van uve an a? ad Rube, “you can bet that there ts a mill- hey vattie at 14 podeda, jon in it" Charley Ebbets tays he had a great trip, but he didn’t really know how much |!etter to Dan Morgan says that Georke plensure he was having until he got Carpentier has refused to take @p Sam back, “If 1 had known about thie Tine | Langtord in a twenty-rouud’tight in ker deal and the Pederal League ~ Pare. Dan further states that Car (nees in general.” vaid the Squire of Plat- | pentier saw Lansiord fignt Jeanette and bush, “I would have dad jus month's | then declared that he didn't want ang.ef more worry.’ his game. “If they had Just called it the ‘Tris Speaker would have jumped in a | minute.” tising the running and standing broad jump for a month now, but so far no- body has given him a “rumble,” my I want to have an start on the young fellows, so as to be able to take them over the jumps wien they ari mont ty la a great To the Sporting Editor: Smith ever r cision? CONSTANT READER, | Is John Doyl me lyn Baseball Club, still a ball player in ‘Fhey never mot. Levineky recestly | 1h) National League, and where can he ald he'd like to battle with the Gam-! bh. jocated at this time of yoar? ~* ner. To the Sporting Bulitor: Brock, Benny Leonard, Billy Andrews, Battling Reddy, Jimmy Gray, Johnny Haney ‘They are all American born. | Sixth avenue, has one, pty To we irrrad the date of the Sulll 3 a ¢ Sullivan and Corbett fight; the date of the Je | COMMERCIAL DEFEATS tri James J. Corbett and of John L, Bulll- van? Ylend, tweaty-three rounds, May 11,; 1900, ana at San Francisco, tes rounds, Aug. 13, 1903, Corbett will be forty- Terry McGovern? Lghtweight MoGevers held the bantam weight titles at ene time. ‘To the diamon ‘To the out more than once. the Raitor Oe Sacks oF Jockey Miller e' Mr, Keene's horses? EDITED BY ..; ROBERT EDGREN LEVNSAY SHOWS UP PORKY FLYNN INTEN RUNES OF BOMNG / | Boston Heavyweight Was No Match for the Crusher of,’ i} White Hopes. By John Pollock. 1K vacation of eight days 414 Bat- ting Levinsky a lot of good. P40 light heavyweight came _ Bac! strong last night at the National Spect- ing Club and administered an je trimming to “Porky” Flynn, Cae 9 tonian whom Tom O'Rourke te trying \to put back on the map with the ap- called “white hopes." site | Far ten rounds Levineky peppered Flynn with every kind of @ Blow oF \jab in the pugilistic calendar, Before | Levinsky the Boston battler appeared awkwaru and crude, aud in @ I Uy fight he would have stopped tl with the packing house name.» In fourth round Flynn managed to find Levinsky with a few swings, but te blowe did not Ian’ on any of the vital Peoece are iF THE COLD WILL WHO GENS spots, In the last round Levinaky |nanded Flynn @ real old-fashioned | thumping. SY —— aoe Eadie Reddy, manager of Mike Gtb- bons, says that It took him ang wait Thiery over two hours in Chioago to | bring about the match between Gibbons |and Packey McFarland, which ts to,De fought at the Garden A, C. next month. | Reddy claims that it looked as if the negotiations would fall through watit | he offered to have Mike weigh in at 165 Success This Year, Greater New York May Have Team in 1915. ng | Pounds at 4 P.M. that $2,900 that is coming to} il Rigier, Bill says the Phii- club, or somevody, owen hi Uniess Tom MoCarey can secure @ | | multable opponent for Leach Cros® to ington’s Birthday at Ver- Milwaukee, ougin his friends in California are pleading with Rud Anderson to retire ‘from the ring, Bud silt! thinks he 1 able to beat some of the topnotea Ught- weights and has 8) to meet Frank quite sure that # a tot of dough this on the report in the purchase o! a in at the ringside Dan MeKetrick, who ix in Paris, teie "|NEW YORK AWARDED 1 GRAND CIRCUIT DATES. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Jan. 16— {The stewards of the Grand Cireufty tn [session yesterday, deelded upon the \following schedule of racing for the coming season, Which will probably atart says Tommy Ratty y Cobb, Nap Rucker, Joe Jackson and Cy Seymour Ye he has been pri as upon July ‘ Christy Mathewson writes that he has| July 20, Cleveland; July 27, Detroit dut three weeks of golf at Loa| Driving Club: Aug. 3, Grand Rapids Angeles. ‘At end of that time” Aug. 10, Kalainazoo; Ang, aays Big Six “I'm going to pack up} burgh: Aux Buffalo; Aug. 31, little ear and hike out for Marlin. Fi tate extra two weeks’ cure w York Hartford (Connectic Detroit, (Michigan 21, Columbus (two weeks); Oct. 6, Lex- the latter part of the) ington (two 7 It was announced that the week of nly 6 has déen awarded to New York and the following week to Satem, Nv H. tks Wonder why web er. And still some Sport Queries Answered. | was paid separately for winnisg ana Did Batting Wwevinsky and Gunboat) josing mounts. a who got the de- To the Sporting bal if . formerly of the Bragk- Am Mo; he ie a scout. Molyoke, Maem * To the Sporting Editor: fs Where cab | tind an English billiard table in Brooklyn ‘ FREDERICK SHORT, Doa't khow of any is | Doyle, om Forty-second street, What is the nationality of Philip d Jack Brand HYMAN WAGNER. n@ Corbett fxht; also the age of | BROOKLYN SWIMMERS. 1 High School P.A.K, | The Cormercl Sullivan and Corbett, Sept. 7, 1u92.| ming team closed tts DP, 8, A. Ty! aud Gorbett (twice), Comey |#on yesterday with a victory over th Boys’ High School in the Fourth Avee nue Baths, Brooklyn, The score was 87 to 16. Commercial still has two more meets on its schedule and will close its season until thi dea! Moeither was is champion. and feather- reg Haditor: Does 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 straight flush tn beat four pictures in poker? H, SHAPIRO. ‘Fos; a straight Gush beate any four, Sporting Ratitor: ts B. that Joe Grim was knocked B, copped by Sam La BROOKLYN, N, Y. a If 50, please well Ye the salary of Jockey Miller. te Bult, . T. J, GREENBERG, ofa a ee an