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1 . 1 P-TO-DATE D NEWSY [ANG REWaY | AN BEST SPORTING PAGE s » R , co. Some of Our Most Prominent Citizens in Sports Have So- Called Unlucky Thirteeri Let- ters in Their Names. coor, Wa, its > ‘8 "18" an unlucky number? Here are @ few pretty lucky men who have thirteen letters in their names: Jack McAuliffe, Adolph Wolgast, Willi Ritchto, George La- Vigne, Joseph Walcott, Johnnie Cou- ‘ Jon, James Jeffries, Abraham Attell, James J. Corbett, James Coffroth, { Thomas McCarey, William Gibson, Or ville Wright, Henjamin Schibe, Patric Powers, Michael Donlin, William Dah Jen, William Keeler, Mordecal Brown, James Callahan, Charlies Bender, lark Grimth, Walter Johnson, Edward Bweeney, George Stovall, Robert ; Beecher, Charles Herzog, Timothy Jordan, James Sheckard, Edward Col- ins, Charles Wagner. And, on the other hani—Chariio Murphy! OM ANDREWS of Milwaukeo bas published a rather remark- able book on the history of the ring, with detailed records of famous fighting men away back to ‘Daniel Mendoza, who was champion of Engian( about 1788. A descendant of Mendoza, by the way, ts living a more prosaic life than his famous an- cestor, keeping a tailor shop in New York. It would be quito Interesting 1 to know what has become of the dea- cendants of some other great fighting men of early days. In how many sy o_o does the spirit of battle die oul \ ISSATISFACTION with the A. D A. U. am at present conducted is spreading to all classes of j Stbletes. The recent disqualification ef amateur swimmers in the Now York Athletic Club because they Competed against amateurs in the Naval Academy at Annapolis (where the United States government doesn’t allow its Middies to be registered Broo Feos Ana WRINMLING ‘THEIR Brows nen THODE DIVIDENDS. aaa. il Leeinpeansntanst pp anteeneti, NING WORLD, TUESDAY, MAROH 31, 1914. Te L caren A Bia owe Luu we ro ow GET INTo CONDITION . Broo a Bus i ane = IMPROVING . IN NEW YORK BRADLEY'S LEGs SLOWLY Klyns Look Strongest of Federals In Field, but They Need Pitcher Seaton pence Lineup of Washington Park Team Shows More Big | Leaguers Than Any Other Club in Gilmore's Organi- zation, but Pitching Department Needs Bolster- Owens, formerly of the White Sox and the Washington Club, and Hilde- brand, late of the St. Louls Cardinals, Watson also has a chance. Big Charmelie, the pitcher described by Steve Evans as being #o big that in his pockets, ts taking baseball neriously for the first time in his life and ought to prove valuable. he has to stoop down to put his hands, __. EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN 4 “We Brookuwn ing—Bradley Says He Has Two ‘‘Finds.”’ This is the eleventh of a series of special articles by Bozeman Bul- ger, The Evening World's Baseball Expert, who has toured the the man for whom Billy Smith, the, minor league manager, swapped A}} Demaree to Mobile. | The Brooklyn team ts training on| the grounds of the University of le BiG CHppre ices i3 SoTAUL Feos Witt Go Yo Law To Set SEATON, | fane with a (The Evening World's Bantam From the West Gene Ganhon of Milwaukee Easily Outpointed in Ten- Round Bout at National Sporting Club. and “controlied" by the A. A. U.) Is Ukely to lead to serious consequences. The powers in control of A. A. matters have a firm grip on amateur Sport, and it will be a hard grip to break. But it will not be at all sur- prising if open opposition develops Within a week. Ut is a generally and freely dis- By John Pollock. NOTHER fighter from the West suffered defeat in a ten-round bout at the National Sporting Club show last night. He was Gene Gannon, the bantamweight, of Mil- waukee, who wan outpointed py Frankie Burns, the Jersey City boxer. Burne took the lead from the start, and in the first few rounds punished to meet Pat O'Keefe of Ireland for twenty rounds at the National Sport- ing Club of London on Monday, April 20. O'Keefe holds the Lord Lonsdale middleweight championship belt. Jack Britton, who defeated Leo Kelly, the crack lightweight of Ht. Louis, in an eight-round bout in that city last night, was matched to-day to meet Joe Bedell, the Brooklyn lightweight, for ten rounds in the main go at the Broadway Sporting | | Club of Brooklyn on next Tuesday night. Two boxing shows are on the card| for to-night. At the Brown Gymna- sium A, A. Young Weinert, the light | heavyweight of Newark will tackle johnny Howard of Bayonne, N. J in the star bout of ten rounds. At th ree, pena Club of Brooklyn loom = wi sway) unches wil! Hddie Wallace. wk: “e Brigands are go full of busin: efforts to straighten out sore and kinky muscles so as| He was to have played with th to be ready to biff that baseball two weeks from now the brows of these Brooklyn Feds are wrinkled in deep thought trying to figure out ways and means by which) standing, jumped to the Feds. Mr, Ward can declare a dividend at the end of the/ |, season. Main reason: has declared each plate. make—not “they.” WITH SEATON TEAM WOULD BE LEAGUE'S STRONGEST. Right now the Brooklyn Revolu- tionists (name by request) have an outfeld and an infleld superior to that of the Chicago Feds and their league training camps. The idea of the Bulger tour is te furnish By Bozeman Bulger. jaseball Expert on Tour cf the Training Camps.) Copyright, 1914, by the Press Publ M ishing Co. (The New York World.) Columbia, 8. C., March 31. R. WARD, the dough man, would be a mighty proud baker if he knew what was going on down here, The members of the Brooklyn ess that they hurt. Aside from their The owner of the Doughnuts, Gin- gerbreads, Ladyfingere, or whatever they may be called,|trout fishing. member of the team a stockholder, and the nomination has been accepted with loud ac- claim, Bill Bradley needs no outside help, He has an|emplioyer. Several of the players de- advisor at every station from right field, around the diamond, to the home| © These Brooklyn Feds now speak of deals that “we” are going to| was sufficient whether the that calibre and know it. “How could any one expect us to lave a strong major league club in a mont! asked Bill Bradley. “ are working against a gigantic system and, I believe, will win out in the jong run, but to organize a powerful baseball machine takes time. We] or play on Sunday. South Carolina and has lost much necessary afternoon practice on ac- count of the many college baseball games. They do not appear to be in as good physical condition as Tinker’s team, but it must be remembered that they haven't had the same advan- tages. Bill Bradley's legs apparently are not any too good, but he always rounds to slowly. If Bill is unabi play third base regularly he doesn’t need to worry. Young Mr. Westerzill is about the niftiest third sacker thaj has come out of the minora in man a day. At short Gagnier is a wonder. Brooklyn Dodgers this year on a count of his good showing at New: but, as a result of some misunde: Danny Murphy, after years with 6 Athletics, seems to be well satis- fied with his lot. He is working awful hard to get in condition, Dur- ing the off hours he and Gagnier go The Brooklyn players are very much impressed with the generosity and fair dealing of Mr, Ward, their dan advance in salary from him, ng that his name to a contract Teague broke up or not. The Wards will not ian a player under contract to the big league despite President Gil- more’s declaration of war. Neither will he permit his team to practiee The Feds will remain in Columbia until they go to Pittsburgh for the opening of the season, April 14, —$—$<—<s—_— “HAS To STOOP DowN “To PUT HS HANDS Im HO Pocecerrs “ The Highlander Rooters Peerless Leader Says His) Team Will Finish in Good Position in First Division— News From Other Camps. Richmond, Va., March 31. HERE Is a ring of ¢onfidence in all that Manager Chance auys ican League representatives that will cavort thia season on the Polo Grounds, When the so-called Peer- he didn't have much in the shape of a nucleus for a real ball team, and he told the fans that they must wait. about the future of the Amer- less Leader asumed charge last year At present, however, Chance talks Cross May Settle Down | In Los Angeles Lote of tears were shed yesterday afternoon at the Pennsylvania Ter- minal station when Leach Cross and his family took the 2.06 train for Call- fornia. The reason for the tears was that the crowd that the Fighting Denti was mostly composed of Leach’s tradespeople. They're all afraid bony if he makes a hit on the Coast this time he'll never return Loge | that cus. will mean the loss of « very tomer. The famous east sider has been telling everybody lately that he is dead in love with the climate and other things on the Coast, and ‘that maybe he'll never see uc again. He has often declared of late that or later he'll pick out a nice for himeeif in the vicinity of Los An- geles and settle down for life, for- getting the padded mitt and the forceps. Cross had plenty of company on his long ‘ald to the far Southwest. Of course, his guiding star, bis brother jand legal adviser, Sam, was very jmuch in evidence. Then there was Leach’s pretty wife and his daughter Roxana, and Patsy Cline, Harle: ightweight, who'll act as Leach's sparring partner in his com! agement with the English light. weight champion, Freddie Welsh, at | Vernon on April 28. | 0 | 150,000 PERSONS ARE _. | PLAYING BASKETBALL. — Dr. James Naismith, of Kansas Uni- versity, who invented the game of bas- ketball, says in the annual report te the A.A. U. that 150,000 persons én this country ‘are now playing | the Basketball was introduced in 1891. Gymn Champ! ips. The gymnastic championships of the Metropolitan Association of the A. A. U, Will be held to-night at the New York | Turn Verein, More than one hundred entries have been received for the dif- ferent events. at home ty know that I expect Highlanders to finish well wp in first division. The teams that e beating us so easily last year will have their trouble this year. “The team is fielding much faster than last year, and while the batting {3 not as heavy as it should be, we are hitting at @ much better |fewr last weason. We'll furnish a e | the pitching Mn Chance has ordered his men to cut out poker playing. Not that he means to stop gambling altogether. He knows he can’t prevent this, but he ) will not permit men sitting up late at night playing the game. The Highlanders will leave here this afternoon and arrive in Baltimore for a good night's rest before tackling the Orioles to-morow. we Call for Giants, HOUSTON, Tex., March 31.—Man- ager McGraw will keep his Glants here until to-night. This 2 another game Is scheduled with the 4 local club, but McGraw demands bet- 5 4 fidence he displayed | cussed opini "| the Milwaukee lad severely about the} Jack Blackburn, the colored boxer, | outfeld ix superior to that of any In| “wwny, ve. with the same con: tae hesulte. dio coaueee tee Jota that the Ae Ae, naatour ath-l stomach, Deginning with the Afth (Bas finally secured a bout. He bas| the lengue, What they want is pitch-| tang American, League. Clue durine| JOE FOX KEEPS UP in the old days when he made pre-|5 to 3 yesterday entitniy ten coer tee Ronn ttn original "Mane Ate + oo ronad, iar hope using a straight ee one 2 ey nage ers, and particularly, one pitcher—|the war time,” he aald by way of |l- WINNING STREAK, | dictions for the Chicago Cubs. comtare The Giants didn’t hit hard ‘ “Caled tid sel gee Ra vid [ier ol ab. (in ibe, sighth nd | the Quaker City scraper, for ax) tom Seaton. Speaker Bradley and lurtration, the | only | two major During a lull yesterday caused by | 4nd |t was necessary to send Stock to + | jean athictes. Rather it hus become] 4nd while he managed to get in nore|edelphia, Saturday night, This witl| every member of the houge are #0) sf Eng “Jack Mccarthy, ‘We kept) WILKES-BARRE, Pa. March rain, Chance talked about the pros-|in runs to stall off a defeat. It wat & clique-controlled organization for| Stfective blows on Burns, the latter|be Blackburn's firet battle in over] incensed over Seaton’s desire to play | plugging away until we develéped a! Young Joc Fox of England gave Tom-| pects for the coming season. He|McGraw's plan to work Tesreaw th. i rae ba ing of, American amateur eee ve Lersbp yl An oven with Chicago and Tinker's evident de- teem ond that is just what I expect |my O'Toole of Plymouth a severe beat-| pointed out the good qualities and full, Dine, Innings, The big aa ’ je sperts, for various purposes | 7 lo in LJ La ‘ell give the ten-! id bout ttention t the weak | The competing athleten themselves | SUrn ioc SURE Ctto and Johnny Marto, the | sire to have him Coie eet ieee he Frookiyn fana same good hasaball. Wie wax forced to carry the Ah Lea ° sek |nings. He will be weed often durin) | { | Rave little or nothing to say in the]. 19 other ten-round contests loca! ightweights, were secured to-day | doesn’ uJ and I am quite sure that they will:O'Toole was not able to keep out po {the firat two weaka of the season, © affairs of the A. U. Older men,| Young Prummie of Jersey City easily |by Tom O'Rourke to battle for ten| belougs, they would prefer to see him|atick with us and see the Federal |harm's way. The Englishman used There are not many weak spot: until the weather gets warm en many of whom never were athietes,| WON from Yor Cardell of Newark, | rounds in the windup at the National| jump back to the big league. Sounds| League grow as did the American,” |left Jab, a straight left and a right up-| eaid Chance. “I know just how 1}to work Matty regularly. are in power, and Mike Masie of Staten Island de- | Sporting Club show on Monday night. “dog in the manger” stuff, but|.The Weakness of the Brooklyn |Percut that tanded almost every tme| stand and can plug up the weak ‘The athletes Aviad are "0 untor. feated Johnny Hedell. {Rie Bites, ioe went mae Hentwel at, ie te Mie Se thee a " Feds is in pitchers, Their twirlera do| sey ted cor a knockout, ‘put | Places 4s the emergencies arise. 1 ‘Te-“drrow. under nN . Ne a i don't want people to get the !mpret sion that I am going to win the pen- nant this year, but I do want every not compare with those of Joe Tink-|O'Toole made a game stand and,’ while er or Mordecai Brown, ‘Their he was badly beaten he was on his feet strength in the Infleld and outfield, at the finish. however, helpa to even things up, The personne! of the team for the, opening of the weason at Pittaburzh | tunate | control look almost enviousiy upon] Champion Johnny Kilbane, who ! those in the Intercollegiate as-| has been ill, will be ready to Aght Soclation. There the athletes them-|4xain in two weeks, His manager, gelves have representation, Pure} Jimmy Dunn, intenda to sign him up amateuriam is the absolute rule in| to box Johnny Dundeo at the Olym- WASHINGTON, March 31,—'The Dodgers enjoyed a holiday yesterday, Congressman Griffin escorted the members of the team through the different departments. The Dodgers boxes Jimmy Murray in the other Knowing their visitor had been tn two mills, the camp of the Chifeds I was yanked bafore the investigating committee and given a rigid cross-examination Tom McMahon, th ‘Pittaburgh Bearcat,” had his lip split in his bout One inatance of | this was in the cane of McAleenan, the N. Y, A. C. swimmer who was nded with the others by the A, after the Annapolis trip, Aleenan'’s right toe compete in i} Intercollegiate championships after. Ward was unquestioned, The developoments in this matter j are likely to be interesting, sus ia ST. LOUIS writer, dilating upon the prowess of one Leo Kelly, hap this to say: “In addition to being the best light- weight in the Middle West, Kelly is ) the beat ‘ground man’ in this section. Where everything goes from hitting to scratching, gouging, hair pulling, choking and butting, Kelly is the king of this district, This is one rea- gon why the high brows in his divi- sien do not care to associate with bim in the ring. ‘He's too rough, you know.’ Kelly likes to fight. He be- | lteves the public pays ite good hard dough to see action, and Shou be Thu wil bout there with Jack Dillon April 14, Dan his bouts but the one with Dillon, the ng fighter, William Murray of Castilian Council Scores 106 and leaves here jay for Butte, Mont., where he art training for hia ten-round Morgan says that Levinsky {s the | still weak from hin attack of castritis, and on that account he called off all American already defeated three different champions of Franca in bouts in Paris, has been matched maker of the club. K. of C. Bowlers Compete In Evening World Tourney tens instead. Young Brown vs. John- ny Martin, Howard Morrow va. Jack Curfew and Tommy Flanagan va, Kd- die Cook. A match was arranged to-day be- tween Johnny Lore and Knockout Brown, the local fighters. They will meet for ten rounds before the Mon- treal (Can) A. C. on the night of | Apri 11, Walter Burke, manager of Lore, has been appointed match- TO-NIGHT'’S GAMES IN HEADPIN TOURNEY. March S1—Hemanon (4 Mogul (2 teame), Wileimet, Weatfleld (6 teams), Borger Maau- facturing Company, Queens, L. I. (3 Tuesday, teams) jever mind the bull,” suggested Hofman, of the Ways and Means Committee. “What did he say about coming over here?” “He sald that he had a contract which him the privilege of play- ing with any club that he chose, He also told Arthur Wilson that.” “Did you see the contract?” asked er Bradley. did not, but all the players are the Impression that he has ping paper. Tinker himself thinks ome lying, I think,” commented a young member. “Why does Seaton want to stay there, anyhow?" “He told me that he preferred to be on @ team with Ad Brennan, his pal. ‘They both have their wives with them, and it makes @ nice friendly he rennan got to do with ‘He is the man who got Seaton to sign « Federal League contract. Brennan jumped the Phillies and Lf Ig 4 wand E: Outfield—Coo: i ‘ " and Evans, jofman and Anderson ae alternates. Catchers—Owens, Hildebrand, Con- nolly and Watson, Pitchere—Maxwell, LaFitte, Chap- pelle, Peters, Watkins, Mario ers and probably Seaton. T claim Tom. It will be noticed that. Brooklyn has ® larger sprinkling of former big leaguers thin any team in the Fed- eral League, Every member of the infleld and outfleld, as given above, has been In the ha leagues. Moyers was with Boston, Griggs with Cleve- land, Jim Delehanty with Detroit, Gagnier with Newark and Brooklyn, Bradley with Cleveland and Wetser- Ct from the Glants, ers Bte m the Cardinals and World's Tourists, Danny Murphy from the Athletics and Hofman from the Cubs and Pirates. Shaw has played on many big league clubs and at one time was a member of the Giants, He was noted; for his speed, Anderson comes from the New 01 ‘To the Sporting Kditor: Will you kindly let me know the jnationality of Alfred Shrubb and what country does he run for? 4 Alfred Shrubb is an Englishman. Whon he competed Shrubb rep! sented English Club. At present is ining Harvard's cross-coun- | try runners. | ‘Po tiw Sporting PAitor: Where can I obtain a permit for a baseball field in Van Cortlandt Park? | Apply to the Park Commissioner of the Bronx. To the Sporting Editor: Which auit wins when there are more than one royal flush in a poker game?” J, H. DIECKMAN. The four royal flushes are of value. : ‘To the Sporting Editor: A bets B that Jim Coffey, the heavyweight who recently fought . = t President Wilson, and they were the colleges. The Intercollegiate A. A.| pia A. A. of Philadelphia, Dunn aaya| with Jess Willard at Youngstown, O.,| as to what I had heard. will be: Ueriniy gresioas Sreaiinat a A. A. no euch absurd rul he will also send Kilbane against | last Friday night and his called off]. « Ss rt i A d 7 , pe Hat when Cater Gait sales of] Fe cmy Murphy, fohnny Grimthesod | ie; bout wih Goorge Medel ae (| “eaton, winhed to be remembered) Firat base—Myere ar Griggs | Spo UCFICS ANSWEPEG | | tore ct prsrnatt and tots the men ne peter Ps * Sirens enoush to| Joe Rivers, the lightweighta, ies A. oe meseay night, to SL ol 7m, an Shortstop—Gagnier, e | Ss summer. The Dodgers xh get in entirely free fro: . A. U, inter- hes or jatchms ir nner Ww! u J ference oF control. | te ot| Battling Lavineky ae Third. base —B or Westerzill, Levinsky, is not an Irishman, Who wins? “LOUIE.” B wins. Sporting Faitor How can I learn the method of Maying billiards? I have the book of rules for the game but do not know how to proceed with it. ROLAND I, JONES. You are losing time. Go to any billiard parlor and play the game and you'll learn more than you will by reading booke of rules. ‘To the Sporting FAitor: When is Larry English going to fight George Chip? CONSTANT READER, They are not matched, game against the Washingtons th! afternoon, after which they leave for Brooklyn. They will be at practice to-morrow at Ebbets Field, Utility Man for Brookfeds, COLUMBIA, March 31.—The prac- tice game yesterday of the Brookfeds developed that a prize utility man in the field. This is Halt, who was signed as a pitcher. He went fn to catch, relieving Watson, for the colts, and did very well. He has been pitching and playing both in the in- field and outfield. Manager Bradley has sent no tid- ings of bis success as a scout. He te looking for pitchers. There is no cause for worry in any department except the hurling corps, Heres an Oasis A Ca % 4 his pal to go with him, At] York State League, b | ; ” 1, Lot jand ‘1 le, lon, ‘Tinker thinks Seaton has tha Then there are an; - if would lke to feast on. His manager American. Int of & contract,” asked Bert Max-|era buch aa, Toby Therteore gay, | BEATING YOUNG M’AULIFFE. fe going 8 San Francisco to try to a —_—— well, hy is he trying to trade play- |C'on Holt, Morrissey, Mackart and yonee tt. ‘The bowlers of the Knights of Co- FOB WINNER LAST NIGHT, ers 80 to keep him?" That was|Chouinaird, all minor leaguers, to| PORT, Conn., March 31.— wi AZing, from the above, Lao Kelly |jumbus bad their inning last night in|} William Mooney, Castilian Coun- getting too deep and the witness had|draw from. ‘These youngsters” are | a nhc steat fights im this city wake, & mintake If be tries 10} the Evening World headpin tourna: | oils... 1096 [| to quit. fighting very hard for regular j in one “ the After due deliberation the com- mittee came to the conclusion that Seaton “was talking through hie hat » an extra Incentive being that they are in doubt as to what will become of them \f they do not make good. That ap- Frankio Fioming,_ ight, outpainted Young rounds here :ast night. rival to the ropes @ on’ Francisco. He should take his vividly | ment at thé White Klephant alleys. Istana talents to the cannibal| Several hundred Knights accompa- ; However, read the following |Bi#4 the bowlers. William Murray, of ‘Tand didn't have no such contract.” | pears to worry all the minor leagu Chick West and Gene }> from Bt, Louis and see what happen. | Castilian Couctl, was the only fob a aha al*ahh: 44:] And there you are. who have jumped, doriarty fought a tencrine ow. The @4 to Kelly when he met one of the|winner. He scored 106 pins, although | ,S%.,\iusleriae No, alge ass eras REVOLUTIONISTS NOT MAJOR| BRADLEY LIKES CATCHER CON. |teceived $6.4 for his en menses for Sermo’ tities there were many bowlers who came ‘Toll, SY Fleming, 02; . IR LEAGUE CALIBRE VET. NOLLEY, NEW YORK BOY. ack | close to the “charmed circle.” Leo Kone ot an Loulg| The Northorn of alent the bout going the limit|tains the lead for The Brooklyn Feds feel this tem- porary loss of Tom Seaton keenly. He wae their main drawing card and in Bradley thinks he a find In Holt, a young outfielder from Fon du Lac, it is hard to understand PHILA! PHIA, ch 81. — Kid Curley of Buffalo handed Foun, Jack Republican Club re igh team honors work, however, will be bis b ‘ O'Brien a beuting leat eight rounds. Britton was too|With a seore of 48s, Edward Duvels- oe Rinn j' | their opinion a drawing card is needed | how the big league scouts overlooked | Olympia A. C. Curley sent his opponent el t and at times|dorf, with a score of 111, is still in Rf A in the town where there is a chance} this fellow. He Is fast, can hit to the canvas in the firat foun and hed cove ‘and pussied by his|front for individual honors. The score x to get the money. ‘They'll go to law | throws like a shot, The old leaguers |!anded often with (etypae lett sab te i 9, Kelly's face | last night follows: 5 ve, 1 941, | about It, too, or get him, will have a tough time keeping him |e, head shrongnouel te ited Kid ‘of tne bose bloody, but ot GT, Roatan el: , i} ‘The fans of New York’and Brook-| out. Bradley is also pleased with the| reves, and Freddie Yelle defeated ly, but » i a, . 79, M A, OB: mn 422. | 1yn who expect Bradley’ lution- | work of Connolly, a New York boy, Graves, | an Mi one. 1B @; HW 4 0" 7. w:| iste to compare favorably with a! and believes he will make a om ica. t AN is % catcher. The bulk of the catoni lett, Frant