The evening world. Newspaper, April 7, 1914, Page 14

"SMF EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1914. UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY Six Months of Horse Racing in Reno During the Panama Ex- Position in San Francisco. Cert IS, Ved vesing Wont s ENO, Nev,, famous as the great finiah fight centre a few years ago, will probably be the Mecca @f racing men next summer. ‘Wealthy Nevada men are behind Whe project to hold a six months’ Wacing meet at Reno during the Pan- @ma Exposition in San Francisco, Although Reno is quite a distance fem the coast metropolis, and in @mother State, this is a reasonable MANAGERS SHOULD BE VE BEST SPORTING PAGE IN WOULD You MIND PLAYING FIELD, fe NEW YORK ‘ROBERT EDGREN. EDITED BY RY CAREFUL WHEN THEY SPEAK TO BALL PLAYERS Copyright, 1914, by The Presa Publishing Co. (The New York World). Cleveland Has Little Chance This Year Because of Fed Raid and Injury to Star|::: Turner. Outfleid—Jaockeen, BROOKLYNS-YANKS a base, On the next pitched ball he made @ clever steal of second, Boone made a pretty sacrifice, Reulbach tossing him out at first. Egan made @ pretty left-hand stop of Walsh's apparently safe-hit and retired him at first, Maisel crossing the plate, Williams also banged a grounder to Egan, who lost no time in wetting the ball to Daubert, retiring th OnE iw." ig the aide. ton ve a fly to Channell. Cut. Gave tno “rad bounder into Me- le" ant and was out firat. Daubert's re although be got the ball to Peckinpaugh rr time to catch Daubert as he slid into the bag, Umpire Bmalie declared Dau- bert safe. The Highlanders kicked at the decision, Wheat singled out of Boone's reach sendi Daubert over with the ticing run. Wheat was caught napping on McHale's quick throw to Williams. ONE RUN. SECOND INNING.—Cook raieed @ high fly to left centre which Dalton gathered in. ‘Channell walked but was easily caught trying to steal on Miller’s perfect t! to . Egan id Daubert took care of Peckin- paugh’s grounder. NO RUNS. Smith laced @ hot grounder to Mat sel who retired him at first. . Egan elammed a low line fly which Peckinpaugh grabbed a At; irmingham and raney, with the ho of Lelb get- ‘on the job before the end of the cf nth Smith, mm was Pitchere—Q: Lacmtpahge Mitchell, | strikes. Mfatset pasted one of Wace ler, igerma: ‘ollamere, | bach’s straight ones to deep cents James, leche ouon Bittings | {°F three, bases. Boone was unable Catchere—Ca: je Ingelto help htm any, for he soaked and Bassler. bounder to Gmith, who got, the ee eet maa aR, over to Daubert in plenty of time to MARSANS RETURNS TO REDS; | “spose of him. No RUNS. APOLOGIZES AND PAYS FINE. beyond Walsifs reach in deep left, Reulbach é ficed, McHale to Williams. Ouban Outficlder Had Threatened te Quit, Saying Herseg Had followed with a sacrifice fly Unsulted Him. nell, Miller beating Channel! in to the plate. Cutshaw So to Boone, who ve Aprit f--Armando|feech Arse, ‘Daubert slammed OIN' ATI, O., 1 J e Mareans after threatening to return to to Walsh. ONE RUN. his home in Cuba and asking Federal League owners for a job, was ready to- ay to return to the Reds. The Cuban outfielder apologised to Manager Hersog for walking off the field in Louisville to centre scoring Walsh. Stengel last Friday when he thought Hersog him and 4 to aft Peckinpaugh’s sacrifice fly, Cook soor Wpoyites tng. e nell was oot Hi for being from the club three dave, “Y*Y | Milier to socond. TWO Rona WARD GOES AFTER SEATON. Breekiyn Feds’ Vice-President Starts for New Orleans To-Day. ‘Walter Ward of the Brooklyn Fed- eral League team left this city to-day for New Orleans to meet Manager Bill Bradley. Between them it is hoped to wettie the Pitcher Tom Seaton case. Beaton was assigned Bod the Brookfeds league President Gilmore, SA a Bink fiat team now in‘the Southr® inches from the ground. NO RI THIRD INNING.—Sweency's line fly was cleverly captured @eheme. The ride from San Fran- @iace to Reno by rail is short. California has just completed a cent automobile road from Francisco to Lake Tahoe, in t Nevada Mountains, near the border, From Lake Tahoe to is only about eighteen or twenty = . The Log 9 Ly eo yo — . 5 pose building a fine auto- Eee Moed from eno to Lake T'te Have vo completing the connection San Francisco. When that is Gone it will be leas than an hour's Fide from the lake to the track. The racetrack itself in to be built mile (agreed ¢ Re Loss of Falkenberg, Mainstay of Pitching Depart- ment, Was First Serious Blow to Team, and Then Came Mishap to Best Infielder, Who Suf- fers Fracture of Leg. Thie le the elxteenth of a series ef epecial articles by Bozeman Bulger, The Evening World’s Baseball Expert, who hee toured the big league training camps. The Idea of the Bulger tour Is to furnish fans with @ line on the playing strength and season's prospects of teame of the big clrouits, in ition te the eutlook of the local elube.. By Bozeman Bulger. ANAGER JOE BIRMINGHAM and his Naps went Gouth late in Feb- ruary—earlier than any other team—filled with the hope of being able to add to their epurt of last season and oust those Athletics out of a pennant. It oan not be sald that they are so optimistic now. Trouble after trouble has crowded on Joe until about the best he expects, ‘way down in his heart, is a fighting chance, To begin with, his best pitcher of last year, Fatken- erg, is lost to the Feds. The next catastrophe—and it {s a real one—was Chapman, his star infleliga-eut- fering a broken leg that may lay him out for the whole season. On top of that, Vean Gregg, the phe nomena! left-hander, is laid up with cold in his arm, the crack outfielder, may be out for a month or more with a trips from the Golden Ga’ California, once the greatest racing ite in the Union, has no more ra Californians who followed the in the old days would have no to going across the Nevgda . to see it aguin. Tahoe itself would furnish a crowd. The lake is the finest in and in the past few all around it, except where the fete Ritchie Can Get $15,000 Guarantee to Box Welsh sides the water, has been sol: oe who has taken several high dives, plots. Thousands of summ Tom McCarey Ready to Talk C and tent nouses have be ‘Up, and now that the automob’ met Gnished Tahoe will be the | om the National A. C, of Montreal, ‘anada, on April 36, Business if Briton Defeats Cross and Champion Whips » ere and most populous summer re- Leo Houck of Lancaster, Pa., who Murphy. bounced to Reulbach who pulled Dam bert off the bag by a wide throw, ing the batter his base on the ot Channell came thro with a | Why Killifer Jumped Back to Phillies) s4 iso, bad knee. CHICAGO, April 7.—An offer of an On top of all this Joe Birmingham—a game fellow—ie shooting the increase in salary of $666 @ year was! “pep” to his squad in unbroken doses, and has forced them to the point the reason why William Killifer, the| where they really think they have an even chance witn Washington in baseball catcher, jumped back to thé/ scoomplishing the downfall of the Champs. Philadelphia National League Clubs) a+ the jast minute Joe saved|mingham denies this, however. after having signed Federal League! pitchers Kahler and Blanding from] &<cl contract, according to a statement to-|the Feds, or his hurling department day by James A. Gilmore, President | would have beep a total wreck, As it of the Federal League. ia he bas four men—Gre; Blanding, Stengel drove straight to Maisel, who nailed first. NO RUNS. petal ah NORFOLK ENTRIES. 4 NORFOLK, Va., April The ea- tries for to-morrow's races are as follows: meeting of the International Boxing Union, held in Geneva, Switzerland, is probably taken “@6 seriously in France and Belgium 9 it is lightly in the reat of the world. ‘The International Union's decision Jack Johnson and Sam Langford tentative claims to the world's wy welt championship, and that on the whole coast. hasn't fought since he was beaten by Billy Murray, the crack California middleweight, in San Francisco two Months ago, will don the mitts again on April 11 and go against George Chip in a twelve-round bout at Youngstown, O, available substitutes ) Canadian T well known to New York fans Tri la Slated f are ideaaeny THIRD WACE Te Kid Black and Young Wagner, the; The diff f $666 and the break-| Mitchell and Steen—pretty well able| Jack Lelivelt and Jack Knight, for-| MONTRMAL, April 7—It was an-| geri, the ani hnson boxes Langford by By John Pollock. fe. * difference of $466 and the ell ani pI mer! the Boll aff? fi 5 the {itle will revert to the fa- OM M'CAREY, the promoter of 1a Ce art ea meow ve ing of the Foderal League contract! to bold things in shape until the oth- y of the Highlanders. Then there! nounced to-day that the Canadian Lawn P “7 is Paulette—re - 3 lowfowho’ formempee tbe young fel: Tennis Association has selected Mont- | aks of heli Giants and later was sent to Mobile, | Fes! a# the place for both preliminary | Other promising looking infielders are | "4 final play in the Canadian Davis| Wood, understudying for Johnston, | Cup team trials, The provincial cham- and Dunlap, a fast young shortstop. '| plonships will probably be held earli The trouble with Leibold has caused | {an weal to make room, for the, cup Los Angeles, Cal, who has been trying to bring about a match between Willie Ritchie Freddie the champion of Eng: land, has finally heard from Ritch who telegraphed to him that he ts perfectly willing to fight Welsh in a twenty round battle at Vernon, Cal., on the afternoon of July 4, provided he is ‘anteed $15,000 for his end. wired Ritchie that if he dete Tommy Murphy in San Francisco on April 17 and Welsh won from Leach Croas at Vernon on April 28, he would give him that amount to box Welsh. nasium A. A. show to-night. Black is now under the management of Sammy Kelly, who will probably teach him led to the first decisive legal fight/ers catch up. Kahler was never @ between organised baseball and the| finished pitcher, but he has improved how (o be more aggremsive hte pari | new league, which has asked the, wonderfully, and the players express other ten-round. go Jimmy | Federal Court at Grand Rapids,|the opinion that he will be able to Powers will box Spider Hennessey, | Mich,, to enjoin Killifer from playing| take hie regular turn this season and with the Philadelphia club. win @ majority of hie games, Glimore said Killiter’s contract with | miMenen? hms held ad te tte Mare the Federal League called for the/man, Al Collamore, Abe Bowmal yment of $17,600 for three yearsa’| Nick Cullop and Lefty James, prom- aying. The contract Killifer later |!#ing youngsters. Out of that lot he it . signed with the Philadelphia olub|QUsDt to set at least one good twirler. called for the payment of $19,500 for|get the necessary contr: Aue a for a like period, a difference of a| big league work and was ly beat- soord to Gilmore. Lisol en by the Chattanooga club the other = —= |day on account of wildness, BP isles No: oii P wert : he preliminart ; bias : . bad tear in the Nap outfield whioh | {7i!*, ited between the Montreal, Ot- | Cixrit gyerrercian necessitate Teappearan: ch | Bean decided et ‘Eastern players’ the | one ee oy Be q Manager Birmingham as a regular. | ni will bring to Montreal the beat agg, is VOR 1 Joe still has hopes of Lelbold being Canada from Vancouver, Win- | situs 4 unk’? ee} able to round into form within a he end Hall Avoeemlicn; Srwsnen, Creek tent, month or so, but that is not certain. Of course Joe Jackson and Graney | are on the job, but there is a yawn- | ing hole in‘ centre with Latbold out. For this job there are Lelivelt and Birmingham himself. ‘The one hope of the Naps is in Vean be boxes and defeats Sam Lan, before Aug. 5. In thie country, Australia and Eng- Johnson will be recognized an as long as he is willing to it, and isn't defeated. If Moran Johnson out (not an absolute bility), or if Gunboat Smith him out, the conqueror of the til be hail Harry Forbes, the old-time bantam. eight of Chicago, who is now out of the fighting business, has been secured by Champion Johnny Coulon to hel box with him and also assist in getti him into the best of condition for his coming battle with Kid Williams for the bantamweight title on Jy 9. Coulon began light training in Chicag: to-day. @entation in thie country gauch weight, Of course Johnson should fight Zangtord or the man who beats John- @en should fight Langford. That settle all claims made by the mman. As Langford is growing very fat, and will probably be much @ year from now, he won't be the obstacle he might have been } headed years ago. His recent fights . Fapidl oh shown that he is going back y. TE International Boxing Union, Bo matter how Its decrees are with representation from all coun- tries that have boxing, and it should @ecide what boxers are entitled to be walled “champions.” CEP.TION-AL igh second; Paul Dayis, 108 (Waldron), 4 ‘ed him a trip around the|#étting the old ‘ciroult afire when he : ‘As things are now, © champion can| George Chip. the middleweight | of, Tusede defeated G. W. Wightman, | to 1.'8 to 6 and 7 16 10, third, hen “Lega are what worry him, | id start. Very likely the bulk of in Cigarettes, stall along for years without fighting | champion, will make his firat appear- | Boston A. A. 6—5, 6—5, 6—3. C. T.) Meyer, Phew, Tolson D'Or, Lady Ei ‘Turner will play third and Johnston | the catching will fall on his shoul- 10 f Y ail and still retain his grip on the | ance in & ‘bout in this vicinity. to. | Russell of the Boston ‘Tennis and Kav- | na, Malitine, Cherry Seed, Suspans; willbe at first, as usual, Johnston a for Sc. * Or he can do as Johnson has| might, meeting Al McCoy at the | quet Club defeated Fulton Cutting, New| Hugb Gray, Coming Coon also ran, gets better all the tim nd his team} Carisch and O'Neill are a ever since the Reno affair, ght | Broadway porting Club of Brook: | York Racquet and Tennis Club, 6—5, mates believe that before the weason | ported by ‘Dilings and ® poor second rater every couple of |lyn. Chip is one of those rushing, 6—3, ver he will be rated as one of the| very husky youngsters, Tokpecn bas fought Jim |slambane Aghtare with e terrific wal In the final match of the day's play ie me's greatest first basemen, He in agirminghamn saya hia club will line . >| up fo bance whatever ageinet hic, cad| the bout may be interesting. while it | Charles E, Sands, New York Racquet | Moy of Allentown won the decision over Rigi age: oF AH Men Rtnannan ak tS Hinfield—Johneton, Lajoie, Olson and Johnson, a bulky black man of | laste. and ‘Tennis Club, defeated Philip | Tommy, Ginty of this city, in, thelr ten- Mee ane have trained tong and own weight and size, but little Stockton, Boston Tennis and Racquet | A.C. last night, Moy took the leat iy faithfully, and it was believed by ' ._He bas ignored Langford, who| Tom Kennedy, who Ja signed up to! i, g's ¢ 2, 7-6, ‘The semi-final |the opening round und held it throughs many baseball men that they had oes ge ee wating tor Bie Dan ee He ron Fee oan a rteocs | cours will be played teccrerene out. overdone it and had gone stale. Bir- im McVey, who had a right | 4! 6 Fairmont A, ©. i to- 3 eee nMOS HE AN J ft challenge, and has ignored Jean-|evening. April 38 was engaged for pa a as ; although offered the $30,000 hi ( nds r, 4 = Smith, who chal! jim after eis @ decision over Langford in fg the poorest excuse for a cham- pion we ever had. Other cham- Plone fought to uphold their right to h jis although a great fighter, it all the men the promoters were willing to match against him, itil the crop ran out. Fitzsimmons to Jeffries in his first fight after ing the title from Corbett m. Corbett fought Charlie and Fitzsimmons, and had rounds with Sharkey. Sullivan he saw a purse in in lighter classes Dan Morgan, manager of Battling Levinsky, has decided to let Levin- aky fight Kid Kenneth, the California heavyweight, for twenty rounds at Vernon, Cal., on May 12, provided, of course Levinsky je successful in win- ning from Jack Dillon at Butte, Mont., on the night of April 14. Jack Britton and Patsey Drouillard, the welterweight, formerly of Chicago April 18, Drouillard was defeated re- cently by Johnny Dundee, but before this setback he won many fights in Canada, another bout to-day. His opponent in thia serap will be Fred McKay, KILBANE “STALLED” IN BOUT WITH DELMONT. Kilbane, featherweight champton, fought for the fact that there was no fighting em, Kilbane stalling. The cham- Raye ‘a flash of form in the fifth And seventh rounds, when he had the better of the hi boy, Delmont tried from the firat to finish to make it a fight, but Kilbane held the local boy off and clinched, LT, CLOSE CALL FOR WILLIAMS. teams), T. A. 1, Newark 0 jor ou thelr titles at short interva Bi OPIRIRD TONE S00 SOTGEys BS ROD Tin) Rig, BUR ieanary Wriaity, Young’ Men's $4 tSecrsial $35—Silk lined throughout. Samples pull 1 senerally much cheaper to Zt is to be hoped that the next} pHTLADELPHIA, April 7.—Kid wi |'t back at the telegraphic request o "that Packey McFarland, the|} Catholic Club, College Point @ on request. uy a well-establisied enterprise Wwyweight champion is an active of Balti defeated Louisiana | Counsel for both the Chicago Federals | | A say! ; Packer Morariend (het teams). than it Is to start an unestablished willing to defend the hon- | iam® of Baltimore oy “oe put | and the Philadelphia Nationale, who | Poxer and Wloyd Mac 4 —— ~ {] one. Gre, An international union, with) ie Kid was given the hardest fight {claimed they had moro authorities to| Suyy they ure not. ‘Who ts right? || FOB WINNERS LAST NIGHT. || Broadway | __ ‘Bower to declare champlonabips va-| the. Kent hal Yn thin citys cit war's | cite in behalf of thelr contentions. ‘The BANE, |] Hf Bighorn, Angonia.: +1. ty ; rn 4 || SEE WHAT WORLD ADS. OFFER Fefuse oF | battle from the start, both Willing | guthorities will be cited by mail, sald| They are net related. \I Henry Freund, Ail Stare, Col: 9th St - | TO-DAY! 1 re all tne Lime, mut cutlams ‘the Judge, and there will not be a fur- ‘0 the Ayorting Bditor: deca Maint cvsevss coer ae I ‘the dectalen tor bles. ther bearing tp court. MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 7.—Johnny | LORILLARD JR. IS WINNER IN COURT TENNIS TOURNEY. Larry Waterbary Deta: of Philadelphia Bee: Toi Attack. Im the national court tennis cham- pionshtp play at the New York Racquet T. Huhn of Philadelphia. Waterbury was suffering from tonsiliis and unable | to play. In the second round Pierre Lorilard jr, DELAYS RILLIFER DECISION AT COUNSELS’ REQUEST. Je & More Authorities | Are to Be Cited tn GRAND RAPIDS, Decision in the sult ball Case, Mich, April 7.— brought by the League club or any club except the Chicago Federals, will not be returned for several days, uccording to an an- |nouncement made by Judge Clarence |W. Sessions in the United States Court |here to-day. ‘The decision was expected to-di Judge Sessions explained that he had rf Fas AR NRA, ym WINNERS AT NORFOLK. FIRST RACE—Four Lady Capricious, 107 (Wi 1, 8 to 5 and 4 to 5, first; Louise May, 109 (Nicklaus), 5 to 1,9 to 5 and 4 to 5, second; Energetic, 106 (McIntyre), 8 to 5, 7 to 10 and 1 to 3, third, Tim 50 seconds. Miss Fissy, Flossie Leo, Rac furlongs.— and upward; selling; five and a half furlongs.—Elma, 101 (Murphy), 13 to 5, even and 1 to 2, first; La Sainrella, 101 (Alley), 20 to 1, 6 to 1 and 8 to 1, Sport ‘With Chapman out the infleld is! Greg naturally weakened to a certain ex- tent, but with Olson in there at short to fill up the gap it will not be so bad as one might think. Olson is a dron), 4 to| wonder as a utility man, and there is no reason why he shouldn't give a good account of himself as a regular, + Lajoie is playing just as good as ever, ‘He may have slowed up, but, like Honus Wagn he has taken on {fresh life this spring and is one of the youngest members of the party. and Tennis Club to-day the first round Dom Moran, Bagatelle and I. |phe other players worried conside In the catching department the Fegarded now, Is on the right et ie eo en nere Ih a tecreaed |of the tournament was completed when| MAY also ran,” ably last. week because Lajole didn't |Naps are unusually. well fixe track, There showld be such a body, | Hout at the Montreal (Can.) A.C. on | Lawrence Waterbury forfeited to W. H.| SECOND RACE Four-year-olds' get a hit out of eighteen times at bat, but Larry expressed satisfaction at the condition of affairs, because, as he explained with that dry grin, every time he falled to get a long Queries Answered To the Sporting Hditor A bets that Tommy Murphy and K. 0, Brown fought three times, 1 bets that they fought twice. Who and twice in 1911, To the Sporting Editor: When and where did Laach Cross and J Rivers have their last fight, and who won? ALBANY, ‘Wines Wag. sn ens 26 Mote Fels !and ts it known as the “Million dollar ball fleld"? G. A. O. President Charlie Ebbete claims that his park cost close to a million oe sc DULE FOR TO-NIGHT IN HEAD PIN TOURNEY. Holy Redeemer Mutual (7 teams), Adams A. ©., Hol (3 teams), O'Nelll-Adams (3 te: Prospect, Bronx (3 teams); Saturday Nights is. This southpaw star was in bad health nearly all of last season, which was @ sad disappointment, coming as it did on top of his won- dertul record of the year before. 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