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———_— Ritchie's Ultimatum to English Promoters Who Want Him to Box Welsh Proves that He Is etaged in England would surely bring together more people than ever saw a Gght before on Albion's Isle, Such a fight, in England, would be peculiarly favored at the present time. England is longing with a long- img unutterabie for something to. re- American Boxers Making | Big Money in Australia Letter Received From Al Lippe Tells of Huge Receipts he departs. He will meet Jack Black- burn, the colored fighter, in @ six- round bout before the National A. C. of Philadelphia to-ni; IN THE RUN OF THE NEWS Copyright, 1914, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). EAE EDWARD RAY—If Chick Evans could be certain of holing his short putts he would be one of the favorites for the amateur cham- He played superbly in his one match yesterday, beating @ most dangerous young competitor in Carl Bretherton. dom seen more accomplished putting than that of Lockwood, who fering from @ boil on his neck, this preventing him from pionship. his head when driving. I have sel- Yanks’ Lack Reason for ROBERT EDGREN Fon & MILLION of Punch Their Loss Of Many Ball Games' i es HIGH SCORES THE RULE IN QUALIFYING ROUND! ry 4 ’ ) OF ‘MET’ GOLF TOURNE > eka | Harold Downey's 79, Lowest of Early Starters in 36+ a Hole Play. : 1 to ‘The Kvening World.) ENGLEWOOD COUNTRY ENGLEWOOD, N. J., May 20.—U * tain putting spoiled many ‘ Scores in the first qualifying round #, the sixteenth annual Mel a | golf champlonshtp series to-day. scores were the rule. Player player turned In cards that showed the terrors the hard green® for many of the leading golfers ta, Metropolitan district, Harold D of Apawamis led the first seventy-five morning round finishers with a 19 cara, Walter J. Travis and O:wald Kittay formed the feature match. The twp stars got off to a late start and theme was a big gallery. age Perfect golfing weather and & b course were the conditions whes first pair teed-off at 8 o'clock. AS four-minute intervals other pairs were sent off. The ti:ning méthed was the first ever used by the Meteo Politan Association because of the ecord fleld of 181 players who entered this year’s tournament. Contestants to-day were compelled to go twies around in a 36-hole medal competi-« tion to qualify for the champlonship proper. Morning scores: Harold Downey, Apawamis, 41-38— 7. EE. M. Mendel, New York Gelf Club, 46-45—01, J. J. Radel, Forest Hills, 60-49—99. Sleepy Hollow, Gaines, Wykagyl, Stillman, Nation = ) { f | |, 44-46-90. Hy was Johnny McGann, who is arranging | lifting the bouts for the, Atlas A. A. of Bos- hA ton, to-day signed up Bob Moha, the, hard hitting middleweight of Milwau- ; HIGHLANDERS RELEASE REYNOLDS TO SKEETERS 'RANCIS OUIMET—I felt that I had a good sporting chance of getting through the second round to-day, but I refused to look upon the match in the light of a certainty. The two great matches to-day Whitney, Nassau, 45-42—87. Albro, Scarsdale, 51-42—100, Locals Had Just as Many Men a. Split Up There. ili * si97' RMF f Hi f EE. e il f pei i li : i ii i i Hf & i ; He i B FE a ay Fy ify 3? i ; > i i | i i i 3 vs H E i re if ze Ei i H i [ H ae i is ! i; E 5, By John Pollock. HAT the American fighters who ‘went to Australia made no mis- take is evident from a letter re- jet | The ae if rit i WESLEYAN’S GOOD CHANCE FOR TENNIS HONORS. BOSTON, May 90.—Wesleyan, with two men left in the singles and one team in the doubles, eccupied a strong tT Sreneeros yraet bag Mike Ryan Is Suspended. Mike Ryan, the distance runner of the Irish-American Athletic Club, who has » to meet reel of Chi ne a Next show of that club Puesday night. hes Billy Murray, the weight, will be well un for he only weighed 153 poun: day. The weight is to be 158 pounds at the ring side and each fighter has ponted a forfelt of $600 to make it.| winner will be challenged by! Mike esr aed Moba, Jack Dillon and George y Tommy Houck, formerly of Phila- delphia, but who now claims this city as his home, has been matched to meet George Chaney, the good little featherweight of Baltimore, in a fifteen-round bout before the Ameri- can A. C, in the Monumental Theatre in Baltimore on night. Those two old “has Jim blo, the Santas Sroman sf and Carl Morris of Oklahoma, again. They have been Clark and Kramer Race Again. All the arguments that have come up Qs @ result of Jackie Clark's victory over Frank Kramer at the Velodrome last Sunday will be settled when these riders meet in another match af the game track to-night. If Clark te re- turned the winner again Kramer and thé Kramer fans will have to take their hats off to “The Rocket. Pda Aen ~=tcis We Davis Cup Courts Yet. ‘The committee in charge of the inter- national tennis tournament for the Da- vis cup annowuced to-day it would with- hold selection of courts on which the sete will be played until after June 1. Clube in New York, Boston and Phila- Gelphia are bidding for the honor. Levineky W! Bast! ppear- ‘ance in the ring after a month's lay-off will be the ball a long way and playing his short approaches crisp!: “ Yo have slightly changed hie st; snes, firmly, Hi ten in the swii snap in . CHIC! Monday. The distribution is the lower. So far no two Americans have met, and they cannot do Although some of our chances greatly lessened by Travere's defeat, we are all fighting #o before to-morrow. hard and hopefully. TWO AMERICANS, EVANS AND WEBER, LEFT IN TOURNEY (Continued from First Page.) brilitant. The from Toledo ‘was not given much notice in the betting early in the tournament. He has played « steady and nervy game, overcoming obstacles that would have unnerved a veteran. Weber defeated A. Marriott by 2 up in the third round and will start again to-morrow morning in the fourth round. One of the surprises to-day was the defeat of John Ball, who’ bas been eight times British amateur obampion. He was knocked out of the contest in the third round by Capt. Hambro of the Royal St. George's Club. It required an extra hole to decide this match. Evans, pitted against Scott in his third round, played brilliantly through the greens and bis putting showed vast improvement. He was one up at the turn and from then on appeared to hold his British opponent safe. The play ended at the sixteenth hole when Evans was three up. Harold H. Hilton, the holder of the British amateur championship, beat Robert Harris of Acton, En, d, by 2 up and 1 to play. Harris was the runner up to Hilton last year. The defeat of the young American open champion proved as great a sensation as had that of Jerome D. Travers, American amateur cham- pion. It had been thought that Oulmet would have no difficulty in disposing of the comparatively un- known and youthful Tubbs, who ts a steady golfer, but never heretofore had succeeded in reaching anything lke championship form, REPORTED 960,000 BET LOST ON OUIMET AND TRAVERS. On the links reports were current to-day that a wager of $150,000 to $50,000 had been laid on Monday against either Travers or Ouimet carrying off the championship and had been eagerly taken by some one who favored the American chances, After his Jofeat Oulmet was the first to congratulate his opponent. As soon as thi roke had been played the American shook the Eng: lishman’s hand With great cordiality. Ouimet's weakness on the green proved his undoing In to-day’s match. He on several occasions the hole, but also occasion: roadway Sporting Clue of Brooks nd is trounle ip easlly de- ran it, Sometimes he missed easy putts, and ab tBo last bole aotumlly between Jack Graham and H. B. round, and Champion Hilton and Harris, who was runner-up to him last . ‘This will be their third roun LD HILTON—Evans pla: Han yiay'ot Chicago in 1018, as in the backward owing im at icago in |, as eo wi aw! ‘club much more vertically than are ing. K EVANS—The defeat of Fraser Hale leaves five of us stil! be yd for the Stars and Stripes—just half the number that started Taylor, in their second yed quite well yesterday, behee | an since I saw he is taking he used to, and there is a marked in the upper half and four in e British papers consider failed to get down a three-foot putt. | ‘The Englishman started badly by (Ten) Reach First as Browns, Yet None Scored, While Visi- tors Tallied Three Times. By Bozeman Bulger. LITTLE story, told in simple figures, best illustrates the predicament of the Highland- ors: Counting bases on balls, hits and the one error by the Browns, the Highlanders had ten men reach first base. Of those ten none scored and but two got as far as third. slicing his tee shot, but by good play on the green succeeded in halving the hole. At the second hole Ouim bunkered, but by making a good covery managed to halve that and/ also the third. The American was! again trapped at the fourth, where! he played his approach shot too strongly and got over the green, thus | giving his opponent the lead. The! next was halved. Tubbs then further | increased his lead by taking the | sixth. At the seventh Ouimet halved | with a fine long putt, and heartened | by this secured the eighth. The next | was halved and Tubbs thus led at the} turn by one. Of the next five holes Ouimet was able to secure only one and halve two and at the fourteenth was thre down with four to play. He showed remarkable coolness at this critical stage of the match. He halved the fifteenth and playing a fine tee shot won the eixteenth, At the seven- teenth Oulmet was on the green in re- | two, Mpped the hole for four and } went down in five, Tubbs at this time appeared nervous and could not do better than six. With the chance of making all square at the eigh- teenth, Oulmet got into the rough and Tubbs scored the hole and the victory. Outmet’a grit at the end of the match, when it looked as though af- tr series of misfortunes he might force the playing of an extra hole, evoked warm admiration from the large gallery and he was as heartily cheered ag was his conqueror. HERRESHOFF HAD EASY TIME| IN HI8 MATCH. Herreshoff, after a weak start in the second round, had little difficulty in dis- | posing of J. R. Platt by 4 up and 2 to The American girove a good ely weak on! the greens, going out. He managed, however, to make it all square at the | The moment the homeward journey si the American found the top of his game. His putting wa He ran down long putts several holes and was so superior all points that Platt was er al to extend him. Harold Weber completely out- classed K. M. Carlisle in the second round. He outdrove him, was better in his approaches and superior on the green, Weber made the outward jour- ney in 36 strokes, a brilliant score, and turned 6 up. In the early stages of the third round another American went over to the majority, as Arthur G. Lock- wood was beaten by Mr, Hayward of Ealing. H, Tubbs, the vanquisher of Oulmet, beat Mr. by three up and one to play in the third round. ——>——— isco heavy- a successful at the Olympic A. C., when out Al, Benedict of Jersey York error also put ten runners on the paths for the Browns. Of that num- ber the renovated team under Rickey scored three runs. Of the eight hits made by the Browns five were made when there were runners on the bases. During the entire game the High- landers made but one hit when there was @ chance to advance a runner. That, by Williams, came in the last inning, and even then it failed of a jacore, ‘To one well versed in baseball fig- ures the moral should be plain: No punch, no win! The life of a Highlander manager seems to be just one allment after another. Last year we mourned the lack of pitch This year we have the pitchers—an abundance of them— but the hitters appear to have gone away from here. Bert Daniels’ is rna- among the see sere Le cltaee te tants eye out West and Birdie Cree is said to be well above .300. Still, their departure occasions no feeling of deep regret. They couldn't do it here. ~ It seemed a shame to have a game ke Keating pitched sacrificed on the altar of tt jump. This big New Englander gave a performance that would have been a credit to a championship club. Notwithstanding the elght hits against him, Ray struck out nine men-—one each in- ing—and walked but two batters. His spltter was under perfect control. Holden is the first baseballer of the year to be thrown out on a base hit, but, at that, his ex- cuse slooked better on the fleld than in the bor acore. Holden was on first when Nunamaker poked a short hit into right fleld. Tt looked as if Gus Williams had a fighting chance to catch it and Holden pulled up between the b Instead of catching the ball, though, Williams nailed it on the first bounce, and by a beautiful throw got Holden at second. The tough part of it was that Nunamaker was robbed of a Ait, A safe wallop cannot be scored, when a runner is forced out, even though the bat- ter be blameless. Branch Hickey appears to bave dug up a wonder in Wares, his new short- stop. This young m in addition to sume wonderful fielding stunts, went to the bat three times and helped himself to a two-bagger two singles, He also scored two of those three run: at robbed many a good fan of his appetite for dinner. Though he alloved but five hits, Hamilton did not pitch his usual good game. At times the celebrated south- paw was as wild as war rumors and Offered the Highlanders any number jof opportunities to clean up. I fourth inning, for instance, he walked \three men and filled up the bases. | Even then he got away with it, Shan two rounds A righ! q ab wave | Go Ol6 Mas Mathewson bas Bung. -!| Bases on balls, hits and a New i] .. Manager Frank Chance has just elected Catcher William Reynolds to the Order of the Tin Can. has released him to the City International League largely because of the purchase of Catcher Nunamaker from the Red Sox. Reynolds was obtained by Scout Arthur Irwin from Houston |] of the Texas League at the same ‘] time Harry Williams, the first |] baseman, was purchased from Galveston, He gained the reputa- |] ton of @ reliable slugging back- stop in the Lone Star State. He hit fairly well during the spring training, but soon proved himself far too slow on the bases to be of real value in fast company, W. Cox Meserol ‘Miller, eric Ws with a one strok Kirkb; Out . In. another one around the necks of the Cincinnati Reds. Out there, they say, when it is announced that the Old Gent is to pitch the scorers mark that game down as a defeat and go on about their regular business. In jthe last three years the defeats suf- | tered by Mathewson at the hands of the Reds could be counted on the| * fingers of your one hand—yes, on the carers of Mordecai Brown's one and, w. 86. 100. —81. G. 9. Ww. One more whaling like those In- dianapolis boys handed our Brook- feds and there will be a revival of teas old holler about the “too lively” all. Wilbgrt Robinson now wants to knéw what the public was laughing at when Schuyler Brit- ton said the Cardinals at last had a good tcam. So far the Dodgers, in St. Louis, have grown lean and lank from lack of nourishment. 46—90, races a FIRST and geldiny 10: Harry Williams broke out of his long batting slump in the ninth tn- ning yesterday with a two-bagwer that was a corker. Yes, and he did it just as the fans were begging Frank Chi to put a pinch hitter | v¢; in his pla es, | ‘The Browns wind up their engage- ni ment this afternoon and following] { them we have the Clevelands. The| | Naps have perked up considerably since their bad start and, with Vean Gregg in good pitching shape, should] & be a tough proposition for anybody, Seen Thorn! "aaa Athletics Relea: teher Houck. | @: PHILADELPHIA, } 20.--Pitcher | , Byron Houck of the "hiladelphia Ath- letics has been released to the Baltt- more club of the international League, but announced he would not — join | 4 He said | K from the Spokane \club. | —- -- FeD LEAGUE TO INVADE MILWAUKEE NEXT YEAR, MILWAUKEE, Wis. May 2,—Pres- ident A. I, Timme of the local club of the American Association to-day said he had been offered a large sum for his team by the Federal League, which, he said, is anxious to get into Milwaukee without a war Indianapolis, St. Louls and Kai City, according to the magnate, are wood on the Federal tree league want: and at th wi A Time did not name the price offered, but sald that It covered the franchise, players’ contracts and the park same time get | Polo Challengers Win Final Trial. | LONDON, May 20.—Lord Wimborne's jpolo team this afternoon beat the | Buckmaster four by 7 to 5 in the final trial, The Wimborne four hay» been laying a series of test matches, pre- \Iiminary to going to America. for the |international cup contest next month. Double DIN at Olympic Fieia. On Bunday at Olympic Field the Lin- coin Giants will play a double-heade: he will be with the Yat Pha ae Brscdseh ati oh Engle’ Lud Plerce jr., ntland Rice, J. W. Escher, Englewood, Aymar Embury,' En; 42-85. G. A. Graham, Ei Englewood, 49-50-99. C, Blake jr., Englewood, 60-48-08. slewood, 45-47-92. C, jewood, 44-44—88, ‘ood, 48-47-95. B. Reidmund, Englewood, 41-43-84. penny t Ei 40—82. Englew iter J. Travis, the Garden | veteran, played almost perfect on bis first round and led th 4 ot ate 74 score. ¢ under hi White, Ei Ww, sn 108, LAC dao Travis’ strength was on the greens dozens of other contestants miserable failures. Travis came - the home favorite, Travis's card: eneack, Rockaway, A. L. Morris, Rockaway, A, Morrell, : jaines, Engl Roy D. Webb, Engl E.Waldener, Wy! 443543 4 6 ee = W, P. Sayre, Englewood, J. Holburton, Hac! F. Ladd, yaa te al e rs wood, 50-40-88, —_—S PIMLICO ENTRIES, RACE TRACK, PIMLICO, May 20.—The entries for to-morrow’ "he (Governor, 108; Holida} Hl, 110; Mins c y Bryndor. 188; d-Merry Ta iss; One : ak 148; se v. 43-00," Englewood, 47-468, Englewood, lehel, Englewood, 47-1 german, Englewood, 52- Peters, Englewood, 52-47-99. \W. Englewood, 43- Englewood, Cc. 4 glewood, lewood,