The evening world. Newspaper, April 15, 1914, Page 14

With Three of Its Four Teams Opening With Victories, New York Seems Well Planted on the Baseball Map This Year. rine, us Yao a ITH three winners out of a possible four, Greater New York seems to be on the base- map. Of course the Brookfeds @e any team when they open the new Dall park. From the scores in the Federal League to date it looks very es if the newcomers are play- ing nt mejor league ball. "Was @ queer port of an opening two championship teama, losing by 10—1 and Athletics by 3. bgibor apel gdlgihtoel rob Lo la A poor start bri e weed 8 finish. of the most interesting |, tings about yesterday's game fn the Polo Grounds, to me, w: Highiaadere were well in the lead ané eurgly winning and the Athictics were nruffing everything and hitting Into the sky. “Good boy, ohamp™” “Mey, Frank, you're Ie Chance; you're the there this fe. @ heart!” all along the lin ‘As I Soe lo ol fey: you've got ome nt it was last year! ‘weren't calling him “Frank” this JRETTY cold weather for base- ball. A whole lot of peopl & whole lot of remarks to the effect that the First of May was just about the time to start a base- ball in this climate, ‘Tell that to the magnates. Seventy a. York ee, rate cay. Seventy thousand bring quite a neat little of money to the various box of-| ACK DOUGHERTY wires us this fmportant piece of sporting news from Pittsburgh: “McCoy pack- fag the house at every performance. DOUGHERTY.” Beugherty fails to tell whether MeCey is “knocking ‘em off their ecats” or not. Battling Nelson, Jim Cepbett, Young Corbett, Jack O’Brien ané the other real actors never ying us with this it McCoy is “springing a yet? He ought to be to say something “with a punch | Question: who's 0 the guy who put the coy in Moc : ACK JOHNBON is to have a new trial, the Court of Appeals bav- fm~ reversed the decision of the lower court, under which Johnson ‘was sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000 and apend a year In jail. | Johnson is not a sweet canted violet in matters of morality, ‘very few people ever believed that he was rightfully convicted on the charge brought against him. He was te @ certain extent the victim of pop- wler clamor. He did other things | that ‘jess far from estimable, and Wished bim an overburdening at of good luck when he was it at has bee: d up- He was a big, une: jucated living trom hand to mouth for y aomed about the boxing clubs to fake and frame opie in eraer to get any bouts at all came the chance with Tommy | Base Seni wywelght ttle, for didn’t make make him fak beat Buras, then cr given a net Jeffries, who was agal out of a six-year retirement him. The outcome of all this | '@ great fortune tossed into John- hands. In a few months he be- jeatend of a wandering pugilist, a '@ champion with over a Spnemrmeg dollars tee ihe bens, | as power to ing autos as he Nremendously fattering” eetenaee arth areas ‘wonder that all this turne tae walettores negro's head, and that ae made @ fool of himself in ware Better men than Johnson e the game thing, and ee Sree ine tenth of the at- deat was entred on his esca- @oubdtful that Johnson will re- to this country to stand trial even thongh he may feel eure eeaetial. Until he escaped to was constantly in the of those who took his money on every sort of a pretense. Burope, he is living the easy fan make aa much money xing or showing as he ever Amaricg. thousand basebal! the ball into the left field bieachery, and Nnreokign bent scoring @ pal ahead of him, Next time | Philadelphians watched the * al tekonen fosen's deserve be blame THE EVE NING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK — AT THE HIGHLANDER OPENING fy, (wee ATHLETICO COULDN'T SUESS WHAT. (OUNG MR, ASHALE HAD ON THE Garr. Copyright, 1914, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York 1914. EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN DILLON GIVEN DECISION OVER BAT LEVINSKY Indianapolis Boxer Lands Telling Punches in 12-Round Bout at Butte, Many (Syeolal to The Krening World.) BUTTE, Mont. April 15, — Jack Dillon of Indianapolis was given a de» cision over Battling Levinsky of New York after twelve of the fastest rounds Northwest fight fans have ever witnessed. Dillon continuously kept after Levinsky, a although the late ter slowed him up, the Indianapolin lad showed bulldog tenacity. His attitude Marquard Is Hammered All Over Lot by Phillies Magee Leads C Charge Against Giants’ Southpaw in Open- ing Game at Philadelphia. EL! baled aid rit 15.—Rain g the second Giants and Phillies ba . next to impossi (Spmcial to The Breuing Works.) PHILADELPHIA, April 16.—That championship teams seldom hit their atride in the opening game of the nea- gon was forcibly demonstrated by the Feault of yesterday's games. Here are the Giants and Athletics, conceded the pennants in their respective leagues by the critica, yet the Phillies made MocGraw’s champions look like lot players. Rube Marquard certainly got a hammering yesterday. He was belted thirteen times, including two home runs, a triple and two doubles. Every one of thé licks an clear as o whistle. It acems strange, but Mar- quard can seldom win a game tn Philadelphia. Invariably the Phillies knock him flat, and a ring leader is generally Sherwood Magee, now cap- tain of the team, It was Magee who really crushed the Giants, Second time up he lashed up, with two on base, he auplicated the oe. smash, only the second and longer. Tho last time he Magee singled and fetched in nother run. In all, he was directly responsible for the scoring of six of the Phillies’ ten runs. Two new Giants made their debut in New York vestments. They were Bob Bescher und Third Baseman Stock, Bescher played a swift game on the field and batted out a double in the eighth, while Stock also looked good on the defense, but failed to con- Rect with the mighty Alexander, It was George Burns who starred for the Metropolitans. Four times he walked to the plate and he hit safely three times and walked the other, \ giving him an average of 1.000, which le a mighty good start for the young man. Fred Snodgrass took a big part in Practice, but at the last minute Mc- Graw decided to bench the veteran id let Stock cover the bag. Tt ta Ky to see that Mike Donlin has won Wilbert Robinson's old coaching post- tion, Mike was coaching from the third base line and at the same time conversing with ITans Lobert about things they saw on the trip around the world, AN MEENAN TO PLAY ON COLUMBIA'S NINE. Baseball at Columbia was given a big boost when Dan Meenan, captain of this year’s championship basketball team, reported with the baseball squad at yes- terday’ practice. Although Meenan has been suffering from a dislocated ulder and was compelled to carry injured member in a bra: to side gunn, the basketball sn, his physicians feel that he will able to swing 4 bat to the advantuge t year, and his presence with th ad will be a noticeable addition. pethe Holy “Crona-Columbin game. will be played on South Field this afternoon. of two men closely. They were Bobby Byrne and Herbert Murphy, who are filling the places of Knabe and Doo- Jan respectively. They feel certain that Byrne is going to make them forget about Knabe, With Murphy it Ina different story, he nowhere in Mike Doolan's class ball player and it is easy to see that the “hilles face a tremendous handicap, or no team can prosper with an Incompetent shortstop. The Parapecenian Bunca Neebap “out More So “ey COULDNT stu Hh key Sn Trimming the World’s Champions Gives Highlanders Needed Confidence and|STANDING OF THE CLUBS Opening Day Victory Makes Outlook Bright for Chance Owner Farrell—How M The second game between the H and jigh- landers thietics at the Pe lo Greunds jay was postponed on ac- count of rain. By Bozeman Bulger. SED may be a good thing in a World's Series, but when Connie Mack sent “Bullet Joe” Bush to the front by way of opening the sea- fon he evidently forgot that the Highlanders had never been in a World's Series. That kind of stuff had no fears for them. Those “bul- ete” that tore holes through the heavy artillery of the Giants on the lamentable occasion of last wero flattened out by the Yanks as fast as they zipped up to the plate. Mighty few of them reached the catcher. In just two innings this bullet shooting young gent had run flat out of am- munition, the Hilltops had copped a ball game and the season had started with a New York team at the top of the column, next to pure reading matter, And this is as it should be, Among the players there was much surprive when Conle Mack, contrary to the usual custom, sent « speed merchant to the fore instead of a curve artist, but there were no loud laments. In the early spring all teams are weak on curves, but can hit speed. And if anybody doubts that theory there ample proof at th After “Bullet Joe’ from the mound, Connto sent a tall left-hander, Boardman by name, to the rescue, but the guns of the Yanks had been warmed up by this time, and it was of no avail, Boardman's looping curve got by pretty well, but when he lost control and found him- self in a hole where he had to shoot fast ones over, the Chancemen shot them right back at him. Aw in all, it was a very happy day for Frank Farrell, The Highlanders are off to a good start, and the glory of trimming the world’s champs has given them confidence in abundance, While “Bullet Joe" and Lefty Board- man were Aitempting to check the hitting of the Chancemen. Marty McHale was making the champs bite the dust with surprising regularity By judicious use of a curve ball and a bluff spitter he kept them hitless for five Innings. And when any pitcher keeps those Athletic fence- busters under his thumb for five in- PI Cornell began spring football prac- tice at Ithaca with twenty-eight men jon the fleld, It is expected that fifty ted, | Will be out before the end of the | week. On account of the fact that Coach Sharpe is busy with the base ball team, Capt. Jack O'Hearn will have charge of the practice, There will be no attempt at scrimmage, but 4& great deal of time will be spent in practising the forward pase, handling punta and in general limbering up jexerciaes, Among the members of i are team to report besides are Collier, Mallory, Phil- Byes ‘and Bhelton. Andy Reller, CorneN's crack sprint- er, has resumed hia studies at the university and it is hoped that he will come out for the track team within a few weeks, [eller has returned from bis bome in St. Louis, where he went for an operation for mas- tolditte in February, Reller will run her in the 300-yard dash thia apring, it 18 not expected that he will take part in more than one dual meet, He will eave hia atrength for the in- tercollegiates, Hannes Kolehmainen, the Finnlah long diatance runner, announced yes- terday that he will sail for Finland early next month, His last appear- ance in America this season will be in @ special three-coinered, three- mile acratch race against Harry Smith and William Kramer at Celtic Park, on May 3. Chip Defeats Brown, AKRON, decision over George Knockout" Brown of Chicago after a twelve-round cored in feature- fight Inst night. @t 160 pounds. tesa. The men wel The fight was 8 two hours of! O., April 15.-George Chip of Pittsburgh was given the newspaper arty McHale Kept Ath- letics Hitless for Five Innings. , THE SAME OLD STORY. “Walter Jobnson | ‘pitches against His | ge and whitewashes them, Not a hit was made off the Senators’ star until the sixth inning. Ty Cobb of Tigers siams out triple and later scores run in thir- teenth innii that causea the Browns’ down! # you know he ia going some. This young man who spends his off time fag tenor songs promises to be a big help Chance this season. The cold wenethe ehperently gave him No concern ai jo pitched baseball of the finished variety until the last man had been retired in the ninth. Among the twenty thousand shiver- ing fans the Highlanders made a most faverable impression, The faces of most of them were new to the N York public, but if the work of yes- terday keeps up the newneas will not Jast long. Evidently thay bit, and hitting quickly gains the affection of old friend fan. The new Highlanders are not un- usually fast on the bases, but Chance keeps them running every minu' they tore around those bases was enough even to irritate such a wonderful pegger as Schang. Mind you, Ed Sweeney got two stolen basen, one of which landed him tn home, In another round Frits Maisel stole both second and third. He might have stolen more had not the old diamond run alap out of bases. ning FE] ‘The fans fell hard for Holden, the new centre fielder. This young man, though a trifle slow of foot, rapped the ball for three clean bits and would have poled a corker his last time up but for a wonderful running catch by Strunk. He hit the ball equarely on the nose every time at bat. That circus catch kept him from finishing up the day with a pertect score, Williams, the new first baseman, got but one hit, but the loss of an- other was due to @ pecullar freak of luck. Maisel was on third and Walsh Williams gave the sign for a hit and run, Walsh start just as the big fellow hit the ball an awful crack. Barry started for second to take an expected throw to catch and gol there just in time to leap in the alr and intercept a line drive from the bat of Williams. If he had not started to cover the bag the catch would bave been impossible and Will: fame's smash would hav ne for two bases easily 2 The fielding of Maise! and Peckin- paugh was wonderful. Frank no longer need have any concern about that side of bis infleld. The Ameri- can League can show nothing better than this pair, Tt was Chance himself who, for- getting the new rules, knocked his club out one and probably a brace of runs. ut fortunately he didy't need them, and the fans en- jJoyed a laugh at the manager's ex- pense, With two men on bases be- ind him, Sweeney was caught in a chase between third and iiome, Sebane finaliy made a bad throw over Baker's head and Sweeney, who had slipped, acrambled back to third bag, with the assistance of Chance, who was on the cosehing tines. ‘Thi new rule says that when a base run- ner {es touched by tbe coacher he must be declared out. Chance bad forgotten and there was nothing left for Umpire Evans but to call Sweeney out. @ bases would have been full with only one,out and the next man wmalbed. a ‘ AFTER FIRST DAY'S PLAY. NATIONAL LEA LEAGUE, Be eles pee am ony: Tous’ 2 13 innings mts To-Day. ia at a York. Fi DERAL LEAG LEAGUE, ie Touts te to knockout Brown-Johnny Dundee gol Norton, the promising California) &¥n on the new Palmer memorial Tey 1a ae sip. Bf at the National Sporting Club to-morrow (pecs woignt, under his management,| stadium. ‘The surveyora were on hand no 8 en BO eeetien Poune O'Leary and Eddie|has signed up Norton to meet Jack| and a force of fifty men was set to pu © 1 (000| Harris of Brooklyn for a third ten-| Dillon of Indianapolis in a ten-round Ww he Srcavating, bt part Be} round bout bout before the Grand Avenue A. C.| we nai ‘he'd eaulte Veaterday Battling Leviaskec who toat a deo] of Xaneas City on the night of April! X ee an St yk, wht Brook! Hi 0. amin attling Levins! who lost a de- The contest was arranged in) scoured the col t, will put. forth sae Aesees 20 Nantes: lclaion to Jack Dillon in a twelve: | {aitte, Mont, last night after the Dil- | cour the communes, will put forth To-Day. round bout at Butte, Mont., last night, |lon-Levinsky battle, | ber, Biyeizn at Gomes has been matched to meet Soldier ifalo. at Baltimore. HEAD PIN TOURNEY. High Team Score. ‘The Gun, New York City High Individual Score, ‘A. H. Sehubert, Ploral Park, 1. 1 To-Night’s Schedule. 704, Custom House Bowling League will ve on the alleys with 16 teams, Last Night's Scores. ‘reuda No, ae es 70; sigcaes TW Rett 8 Preota, vata o1 Piachere 52h, ee Ne P Gehringer, Pe 4 noe. MS: Deer Me Mistacre, 78. Total, 44% a ela, 64: Ki 80; Beunecber, 31. To: on first in the fourth inning, when by ne Tk: Zimmerman, oi Bh acy M, Teral, 418. No ek Van der len MO: aos. 10 » 108: i 438, evrver the crowd on its feet several times, "y. . foie St: Roem nic Te Th Suecial to The Rrening World , through his fine work in left field, | PITTSBURGH, April 15.-"Well, We and jt surely does look as If McGraw Uatord (Pt J.) No. ‘Hover. 106;| gave them their money's worth,” sald jost a fine young ball player in him tune a Nanderlock, the officials of the local Federal! gi ll . did “cy” Smith Stops Cansidy, | eRe, 8? gh: figinien McKeon, 94, ua League to-day, after the | splen P 0 ni akon Bh Zain Ti: MORO, game put up by the Pittsburgh and cy smith, the rugged Hoboken MEN’S GOOD CLOTHES v Brooklyn teams yesterday had been jightweight. knocked out Bull Cassidy Pe i ‘es ony wite Ae” Bit’ |dincusned in baseball quarters. All in the eighth round of a ten round con- ’ bey ie up T BA, ts” Along it haa been aald that the quailty text at the Brown Gymnasium 4. A. 10 On 6.00 up Mok? aclin, With T0"" ved in the outlaw league show. Cassidy took the place of Young | gy ag Clothes of Best Kind. Troeable, 3! Fora! sin Wikhe. "19: Abe: | Of ball playe Gradwell of Newark, who sent word | Fit nad Work Perfect, sh would be againet it, but if they keep that he was too ill to meet Sinith. Per rae . Outen pene Gree: vork as in the opener here; | Bh Week Ob! Sumier’ 927 mith des "eee:, Bk UP Buch wor! _~ - - e atte ~ a = they are going to make good ; ROBINSON, 2 p+] No, 2, BrooklinFrer 87; Mover, a0 Robert Ward, the genial president = —- seen Wi; Wieltbers) OF Welt! BOT Total | TT rede, to-day told some| The World’s pstnpcctongoe y ERE Nahe od Hf) Glee AE of his Pittsburgh friends why he went | BILLIARDS AND BOWLING Tak MuMRt Tee into baseball |? Greatest Condiment oe 1 nee MON, Wiiea.84, "Rh, a “T wish you would say for me to all| mane 9 Last Night's F. va Winhers. my friends here that when | was ap- Known the world over, | eitan an ast Night's Fob Winners. proached by Mr, Gilmore and other ai! EXPERT Meenas He at Ds Teas (een. reel 108 | Smcials of the Federal League | was { PRS AAn ak a Baden vixtord Vy img |rather surprised, for I had never had & ry yo wom Pema {is |eny intention of mixin Up i bases SAUCE SP 2 See ball, but I thought it ine sp Oz aol bby BI RR yp @ and_a good, clean busine \ aus oe Poi : ioe liy known that any len aacet ln m acheduied to-day’ Between the Brook | sete not play ball on Sunday, | Pe pit lly Akt ng ie axa SPORTING. _ fede and Vittsfeds has been post- ana y shall stick to that turn of min ‘An Appetizer VER BROOK Mi poned on account of rain. |My club shail be n without @ single PO sp cy nal i» INSTRELS 1a | ahd? "ak, Maka Bes ” Wew ‘our Giants” MEGRAW pails THINKS THey Se CAANCE- Wolgast and Joe Rivers To Meet Again on May 22| Their First Bout Ended Unsatis- factorily in Thirteen Rounds, the Mexican Claiming That He Was Fouled. By John Pollock. FTER trying for some time to A bring about another mateh be- tween Ad Wolgast and Joe Rivers, the Mexican lightweight of California; Tom McCarey, the pre- mier promoter of Los Angeles, has finally succeeded in arranging a bout between the rugged little fighters. They will come together in a twenty- round battle at McCarey’s open air arena at Vernon, Cal., on the night of May 22. This will be their second meeting, Wolgast having stopped Riv- | ers in thirteen rounds at tho same club on July 4, 1912, There was a big howl over the decision in that con- test, many of Rivera's admirers claim- ing that Wolgast had fouled the Mex- ican and should have been disquali- fled. “GENTLEMAN BOXER” PARIS, Aprii PER paying Georges ( pentier $500 for the priv- ilege of fighting him George Mitchell, an English “gentleman boxer," to-day was satisfied he had the worth of his money, Car- pentier stopped him in 1 minute and 43 seconds. The Englishman was knocked down five times be- fore he quit. Mitchell, who standa 6 feet 3 inches, had a wager that he would stay longer with Carpentier than did Bombardier Wells. Wells lasted 68 seconds, Mitchell was reported to-day to have won a large wager by his staying with the Frenchman us lonw as he did. The fight was staged privately in the Latin Quarter. by Billy Gibson at the Fairmont A. ©. show on next Saturday night. In the! first Tom Dobson and Young Carpen- tier, middleweights, will clash, while in the maiz go Tom Kenne Coffey, the * y and conquer each other before the tenth round. Johnny Kilbane, the featherweight champion, and Bobby Reynolds of Philadelphia, who is boxing better right now than he has been for two years, have signed articles of agree- ment calling for them to meet in an eight-round decision contest at Wind- sor, Ont., on April 22, Mike Gibbons, who has not battled at any of the clubs in this vicinity in over three months, will be seen again in action on the night of April 28 at the Broadway Sporting Club of Brooklyn. He will have for an oppo- nent Johnny Howard of Bayonne, N, J. Gibbons is guaranteed $1,000 for his end. Champion Willie Ritchie is now a 10 to 6 favorite over Tommy Murp! for their twenty-round championshij fight which will be fought at Jim Coffroth’s club in San Franeisco on Friday night. Both fighters are in excellent condition and are within two pounds of the required weight, Johnny Dundee “and Young Brown, the eant side lightweight, will prob- ably be the principals in the main bout of ten rounds at the second box- ing show of the Stadium A. (. which will be put on in the St, Nicholas Rink on April 30. Jimmy Johnston “Harlem Tommy" Hopkins and Young Foley of the east side have been matched to meet in the semi-fnal bout match, Billy McCarney, who haw taken Al. Kearns, the Brooklyn heavyweight, tn the wind-up of ten rounds at the Broadway Sporting Club of Brooklyn on next Tuesday night. Levinsky left | Rntte to-day #0 aa to met into condi- tion for the battle. The gross receipts of the boxing show held by the Broadway Sporting Club of Brooklyn last night were pected, there beinj at the di ‘This is only $400 short of the receipts of the Levinsky-Sailor | lwo ten-round outs will be staged ' Fritts wa Fans Got Their Money’s Worth At Pittsburgh, Say Fed Owners' —_—— me, if there are any profits to be bad | from good ball haedys sed giving wel = n people the worth of their money e Invaders Play Good Ball, With Seaton Hero of Brookfeds’ will elevate the sport and kept it u First Victory $2,200 taken in to @ good, clean standard.” ‘Tom Seaton had cunning yesterday, and it is hard to figure where he will lose any of his games, provided there is a little stick- work behind him. Young Cooper, the former Giant, had ary Gy and the ‘will Dave @ change to preat with says that Dilly Gibson is after this) larger than even the management ex-| all his old-time! seomed to affect Lavinsky, who wae breathing hard early in the contest. He made some great rallies, however, and landed some telling smashes dur: ing the flerce mixups. Dillon's blows came like trip ham- mers and, although he missed many, those that found their mark were effective. His gauge of distance wae poor, TROY, N. April 15.—Knockout Sweeney of New York outfought Tommy Maloney, alse New York, In one of the fastest tet pund bouts seon here for some time, Sweeney, apparently outclassed in’ the first three rounds, improved steadily from the fourth round, earning the award, BOSTON, April 15.—As fast a bor as has been held in this city for long time was that between Mg | Baldwin of Charlestown and Jobe Dundee of New York at the Atlas’ A., and at the end of twelve roun, the referee declared it a dra Witt the record that Dundee had made Baldwin was looked on a sure loser, but the way he boxed against such o rapid worker as 1s his rival surprised his friends, PITTSBURGH, April 15. — Buck Crouse outpointed Gus Christe of Milwaukee here in a six-round bout at the Southern Club, The winner gets a fight next week with George Chip. The first round was even, but Crouse had a clear lead in the second, In | the third Christic had Crouse groggy, but he came back strong in the fourth and fifth, getting such a lead that ag even break in the last round did not take away victory from the local boy. — Rain Prevents Second Victory Over Braves Ba Wilbert Rbbinson'’s Dodgers, who fot off to a great start by severely trouncing the Boston Braves in the opening game of the National League season in Brooklyn, are not likely to have a chance to pat to-day owing to rain, In defeating the Dodgers surely looked lke team of balltossers. They ran ba: to perfection and took ever: in order to get a run. Besid ing the hit and run game suc they slammed out southpaw Tylei benders for eleven safe hits In the five Innings that he worked. Ne WORK BEGUN ON $300,000 PRINCETON, April 15.—Work has be- STADIUM AT PRINCETO wow TAT ee, ae